Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 21, 1874, Page 2

CGOTHAM t A Truly-Benevolent HEnter. ' prise. Tho - Excursions for - tho- Benefit of tho Slck Poor Children, an! yaatrididn dihrtobsl! © l‘hngo‘ ;re‘;n‘mny gonaros aabh of Bondvolotico, bilt nona oah blatm to havoe dono moro good, ?lvhul moio blossednoes aud fforing, thau tho excuralon for reapito from s tho sick poor ohildron of Now York. Brotaw, The Anyasion thano st (rn!‘l#udé athe i ncit bLildl that | [ Shasitisa, and hoble GRASSHOPPERS, The damnaga d Vire ok Nobraska—1,cttor from EERG AN OO1EBT, " 17 1y ;“‘t(.e Omaha HH, oo this Stnto by’ thia_gassshop- How the Little- Ones- Enjoy and Are nl;rdutlln&xmli‘ \fllll_)ghmigopu‘l‘reflpy{ ot sucore e nning and 1. . i xtont, -Benefited by the. Sall. T vt haaion hng W, ekl xtoot, concenlmont. ‘For Hoarly twenty' yohts'out soila Scenes at. the -Beginning and . Ending of the Trip, in Nuw Yonw, Aug 15, 1674, Special Corresvondance of the Chicago Tribune, Among tho mauy benovolout ontorprises and and climnte, undurjiiago hayo produced an 1nbi cropi, ' TRy yeai tho'State Ly dentro; crops, except'iing lurgo and’bountitul; * Induirios pour in’ unon us it} facts of tho case, and, whilat it 18 imposniblo to ascertnin tha ‘Whole trith about t, wo foel ootind to m¥o such information to aur thoss, weoklripr it ' nbroad,’ a8 to the act by any in this altivude, iwon ‘succession of good thio grasshoppor pestilonce has flictod a grogt iajury upbn® certiin’ districts of ' gralhm, which (s ' yiog'the corn’ and” vegotablo in_tho ‘main cliatltablo inatitutlons that particularly. sbound | phaplo, - and' fo. - b in Now York, and of, which, an & peoplo, wo Now | a ‘shall ‘place tho ‘matter it it trilo lghit. i Yorlers may woll Lo proud, nothlug bns so ox- | It in cited interost and sympathy as tho experimout just instiwtted and carried into operation, of picnics and oxcursions for '810K AND FEEDLE YOOD CHILDREN and tholr parents, nlso sick and disabled. ,Tho first ono of - theae oxcursions took -place Inst yeok., There woro two during the wecl,, and the, intentlon is to lave two oach week dur- ing tho trying months of Auguatand Septomber, bon the mortality smong sick poor children 18 something frighiful. .%ho excursious woro planued by the Rey. Alvah Wiewall, dlaster of Bt. John's Guild ; but Lenovolont merchants, | : banliors, and ladies have contributed both timo ind monoy to nid tho obfeot s and about 83,000 in hand, sud donations conatantly coming in sure tho succesa of this now outerprise, Tho parge Chicago hins been, hired for tho soason, baving beon donated tho firgt trip, and tho idea is, to sail out into tho ocean, anchoriug opposita ' Tort Bchuyler, nud moving around in the fresh gon-breezo, until tho barge again lands her live ing froight at the differout docks, about & in the ovening. Sy i *Thero woro 700 sick and alling ones who took Lhe firat exoursion; and the fide, to many o lit- tlo sufferor, was its first trip forplensure. Tho ‘oxponges wero only about §135,—all the frosh milk, 1co, bread, tes, coffeo, and the cooking of Doth tho ronst and corned boef, boing gounor- ouely donated. Tho band of music also gavo their services ; and plenty of good, nourishing food, good butter, aud aweet nulk, contributed not a littlo to the benofit reccivod from tho fresh Dreozo and tho invigorating sail. It was A HAD AND TOUCHING SIGNT to seo tho feeblo littlo childran, snd man, over- worked mothers, waiting on tho pier for tho arrival of tho burgo, It formed a strik- jng contrast to tho wookly oxcursions of ‘paor children, bootblacks, newsboys, and that clagg of children, whero eack ono, although ragged, was sturdy, bronzed, and healthy, Horo werono hardy, shouting littlo ones, but pale, holptess, puny, deformed cbildren, lying motion- Iees, and almost unconscious, in their mothors' arms, their lips pale, their forms ehrunken and atlenuatod,—nimost, in truth, living skeletons; their ‘paiu-drawn features and’ strained oyes plajuly showing tholr suferings. All varietics of hip and epinal dleeases wero to be scon ; thero | were mnuy emaciated sufferera from cholera in-* fantuw, dipbtberia, and luck of nourishing food aud fresh air: and tho heavy beads hung liste lcan, tho pain-contracted limbs Inid motionloss, and the wan, heavy oyes looked neither in curi- otity uor iu interest at their surronndinga. ", Lut moro marvelous than fabled faivy trans- formations wag, tho chango to bo scen whoun the Rarge, aftor ity soven houcs’ eml, brought. back 1ho littlo rick ouey; back from salt soa air, nour- ishing, dehicato food, ibspiring musio, and the daligat of vow scenes, to tho noisome smoll, and dark confinos, nnd, sickly surroundings of the'fivo atory tenement, tho slumas dnd cellars, thay woro called their ¢ home.” Littlo feet, that hunc listless, now walked atound tho deelt in baby delight; Tittlo heavy beada looked wone qu an X deringly st ull that ‘was possiog Dy; xhin © Jittle handy ulnpiwd in timo to the music; —and ittlo wbrunken limbh cosayed (0 walk that had been nlmost use~ less £or long. Smileis and Inughter rippled over tho whito lips; and poer mothers, in turn, wn[nt and. Janghed at’ tho manifost improvemont in “thelr “gick ones.’ lven the dactors’ on board affirmedithat tho trip was* DETTER THAN MEDICINE 3 nud that to many n discased child tho change was of almost miraculous benefit. « Standing on the dock was & poor woman, clesu and caroworn, holding in her armns a baby so. like to deaih, in its uncon- scious, motionices . stupor and pallor, that I was forced to look sharply to,gce if life really existed in that limp, shranken form, in thoso «closed lida, and that drawn, get faco,” Yeb that snme baby ent up, crowed, aud elapped its hands 1n baby wonder, when the barge again landed at the T'wonty-third street wharf, . “An old colored woman,—a relic of Southorn pas: life,—with hugo turban, short etnil-skirt, aud snow-whito apron, brought her littio 2-yonr- old graudehild, Iving a8 if dead in ber arma, Tha Lftle girl was very protty, with litfo rings of lnir, and Inrge eyes of wonderful iutollis gence, She hud the hip-discase, and had not:waliked for many a long duy. ‘ler parents were gono to Australia on n ship 28 stoward and stewardess, the old grmd- wemme oxplaiued In quavering tones ; and tho icor Hiftle ono Lad run down o fest sineo tho Rm weuthor camo in. 8ho was given a ticket, and wort on bonrd {he bacgo with the litile sufe 1orer fu Jier arms, Whose lips were drawn in paiu- ful moantoge a avery movement of bor grand- aothoer, and whose face showed her pationt on~ ‘duranco of "the Pain tho offart to bo brought on board had caused ber, Great drops of suffering stood on her forehend, nnd her poor littlo flugers clutchod convulsively at hor grandmamma’s arm whenever eho was moved, over so gently. Dut, whon the barge coamo Lome' ogain, I looked in vain for anytruce of Jmm in the ,ilght 2-your-ald thot fecbly tottered around on tho deck, smiling in_her ald . grandnpmma's tearful fuce, and Ler hitheriolivid lips wenring no longor their pained oxpression, It was_more magical than magician's wand, and secmed . * IMYOSSINLE TO BELIEVE. A liitle erippled boy was brought oo bonrd, his hock archod aud diswn, his_emsolated Himbs uader bis chin liko o frog, his hoad sunk low be- tween his cwved shoulders;, Only Jhis great, wan oyes, and tremtiing, bony hands, proolaimed s, th 8O 801 80 fo Ey 05 bim “to bo buman, - Ho was tonderly propped up “omid cushions . and " pil- }owu. and wrapis rovided, of | which thoro was plénty on’ board, When, Le lLad taken hig pleasuut - enil, folt tho invigoratiog ellect of good food and pursair, nud tho delight= {ul musle ind rofresbed ind rosted him, for the first timo v mauvy .o year ho changed his own position ; and; wheu he landed, he exclamed, in Bappy, «. dstied tones, to's kind lady on tho dock who Inslted pityingly on him, “Oh{ I have beon 'so happy 1”—his thin, piping voico having the very ting in. it of polidonjoyment. Auothior helpless hmo enipple, earriod” from the bargo, #old to ber slstor.who came to meet hor, "Ohi' iv was all au nico, aud wo all folt so jolly!"—ayon tlicugh hor wosld:Iind been derkened by yeors of pai and lilxfl'urlnlr' ‘ 7 i The offect on alt the sick and ailing, iho feablo And eriprled, was almost indoscribaolo, so suarked was tho improvemont. Dr. /Thoms, ‘the oxcellont -phyaicidn on ‘bosrd, who Kuew of '],m'nuaqdeq'uunrly all of thowo poor suiforers, ‘aaid that overy one‘ot them could bo matorially hetiefited,’ if "not ‘pormunently enred, by 'just rknch trips ay theas, withqut the aid of any drfugs or modicies. * Pure -, diversion, chunge, ‘amugémont, nourishing food, and the enlh ‘breozo boruo frow tho open soa, wore a botter panacea than months of medical atteudanco in narrow, ill-ventilated, dark rooms, up five and bix pairs of dirty stairs, or in some dirty collar with the odor of deceying gurbage, U6 group Wi a; > DBIGIT, LIVELY, BMILING CHILDREN, Intorested Iy ull ubout them, scomod nol to bo ‘fho same puuy,.delicato sufferors that woven ours hotore woro carried on board, moro like & ot of corpses thun like living, breathtng chil- d busppy; could not spualk their thauks for T o el S5 Seuerlod, vicioa Hiess thimo Wi got up this‘exoursion for our littlo siok oucs 1" wag' ull tho expression they could trust them- to utter .ug. thoy rturnod away :«?t:::du thelr 'humblo " homos, “The oor ~ are” kind'“lo" tho' poor;” and, idonts of tho tonement-houses who “{fifl} :ltl‘;ur)?:n, .offers” of dresy, of shawl, of pil- ‘Jow, snd of -cloan gatmants Lo those who did go, "wore freoly mudo u‘m'l thfiukhdly uaggpua.- -Nor Samuel A, Yoply from Me, F'rancis Colt ted'¥ariou tho Btate, is A Dr. Georpa I, Mitler, Editer qf. ralued {n those States,, ing out und removing,, Insccta swarming. Missour] River’ you fully with Linulin, od sbell “dry weathor far more. 1 Ba; over it early, ouo-quarter to one-lalr arn‘{». 2 most by the grass. hopper raid will bao'the uow comers of tius last yeur, whoso crop consists chiefly of corn—tnucl ot it on sod: Buch.imfortunate sottlera will and, in iustances, must snffer for lnck of food -nu- Idsa" nssisted; that thoy will e Lolped i ‘cortain, for the sympathios of early eottlors in ya alive to such appouls to now'country are alwa; townstup, thelr benevalenco, county 8 will bo furnishod, and this s the best modo of ddug it. Stato aid s unealled for, and sive, nnd is entiroly unnocessary, . * great and sovoro noarly 8o groav uted, to food tha stack, although not. as sbundant as usual, will yot bo earefully cut and: socuroly’, stacked: Wig dry favorable for this crop in yeour- ing a goad quality of kny, which, of figolt, wil) wiuter in fair condition the cattle, horsos, aad shoep. Tho swiue of coutse require cora, and in many sections can be but poorly fatted, although tho farmors will feod such graiu s thoy hsvo, and make their own meat for. tho wiytor. has cowe ou troublos, and now st opinion, aud standpolnt, and venyations “with throngh tho Interfor of tl.ui tho Jocal oNlcers and county sgenty gratlon Burcau, who, as a olasy, aro very futelli gent and woll-postod 1mon, tcotiont, but cltor nbld'ta 1oot, and mn'{ nd truehiul statoinont of accondineo with this' line of policy that wo "priut, the following lottor " from At tictiols, of Coorgia,’ and 4 lottor in o, who, having vis- | rorlkmu of tho stricken’ districts of ] b give tho fatts thar wo | aro. ' Mr. Colton's articlo was writteh at,our ro- hnimpllulllr rollod upon'ss o fair the situation, * - A 10 tho tolegram to whicli’ Mr. Echols eally attention, it {5 an exaggeratod ‘statomont. river tior of counties whero sottloments nro most donso will raisé ‘a largo corn =8 woll’as whont, crop. A fow settlors, homebtendors, ave leaving the Ropublican Valley from necessity, but we. beliova they will rot “nguin. Ur. Lehols wiitos TLANTA, The @z, Aug. 7 Jthe Hertll Dear'8m: I bog your attontion to tho follow- ing Associnted Pross dispatoh, publisted :dn the papors throughoi ~the country to-doy: - 8r Joskvi, M, Aug, 0.—Tho.grasslioppors havo entiraly deairoyed the . corn’ orop sud Nobrasks,” Tt fa doubtful if thousami bughiols bo Uundreds of sgttlers ato sell- - Western Kanaas ‘eara sre’ oxpressod thatall tho corn west of tho I am nwaro that thoto Las boou great damago nowing thay you will stats dono tho corn erop, of Nebrasks, but s tho de- struction as coniploto as. iy reprosented abovo, snd avo thore * hundreds of 'ssttlers solling oap, sud romoving," as gtated in_ ilua’ telegramp yoit arg_in a pouition acquninting ihu fnets in tho easo, I would Hko to knosw if thoro is really sucha prospoct of stnrvation ns to'causo softlars £ leavo the Stato, aud justly to doter othors from moving in.: I will thaak you for a statement of tho sitiation, and feol nasured that Very Respeuttully yours, o only " facty, ; Bastuen A, Fowows, 3In. FRANCIS COLTON'S RTATEMENT AND VIEWS, ° Do Minnin: At the roquent of, yourself and other frionds, I will mako o’ fow brigf, hasty, statomouts regarding the, present condition of Nobraske as [ havo seen it during o trip through the Stato along the railrond, and mote partieu - larly’ from obbervations mado, fu , the; interior where I havo driven 250 milos ia wagons, ay bo dostroyed by tho grisshoppers. ! It would bo'usoless to’ disguiso tno fact that' the couutry hne stuTored #ovorcly by tho visita- tions of tho grasshoppors through large sections of tho Stato., But wo aro apt to forget that the crop” of Nebrasku'is largoly smnll geaih; which, for tho most part, was securod bofora tho grass- hopners came, Tho breadth of land sown to whoat and oats s ‘Tho hendi; Immensa, I was contivually strprised by tho extont covered by small grains.. What is still moro encou nying, 18 tho fack that the whoat is of such suporior quality and so welt secured, 'Tho harvest lias beon uninterrupted. by farmors have worked nights us woll harvestivg the erop. havo sayed tho time and labor of * binding and , 80 that tho great ocopo af ¢ountry sced- ina o Lurvostod o oxcutiont. condition, :Tho berry of the whont is bright and plump. as o rulo; i fact, thoto js scarceiv’ na excoption in all myobservations; and I have been eaverul to imt tho beads und eamplo & grest numbor of frelds in dilforont countios, 80 immeusoly abundant in vield, butaroof n "guod quality. I éanuof go into dotnil of sections aud countios, ‘general fact. il raing ; tho a3 days m ing machines The oats nro not ;, but the foregoing stateumodt ia th Now, a8 to tho corn crop, I am compoiled to Elumm\ ngon o Llus has boon, ackunowledgo ' that it isa failure—that is, wheu “compared with what it promised, for, in spite of the dry season, the coin y the grasshoppers i mnrvelous in wsizo of #inlks, unbrokon rows, aud B Such a drought as Nebrasl has oxperienced thiy year would haye caused an entire fuiliro of - all crops in Illinols, especially corn, which mnturos 80 muoli later than small” grain, and feels tho Tudeod' tilinols, - conld have produced no small grain with such a.dry I believo that the wsoil . of Nebraska will produce a crop with twico tho lackof molsturo or with double the floods of rain which Iilinois can endure, A y this ‘after careful obscrvations sineo. 1869 in'this State and with a nols for many years, which was untouched ess of enrs. kaowledge of Illi- That tha corn crop isa failure in Nobrsska otigh thoy strippe i this year In # Inrgo portion of tho State must bo allowed—stili thoro is ‘s bright side to this. ‘Ihero ia o largo pottion of ths oldest and most thickly sottled portion of Nebraska whero tho corn-crop Lins nut boen touched by grasshoppers, ‘and in thoro sections 'will yiold abundantly; whilo, in other portions, the gracshoppers passed ofore it was ilked out, d th fiolds bure, yob uent rains cud the rocuporative power of the , tho now leaves wero in- a fav- duys grown and the ears put out to & cansiderabls oxtont; and, al- by sub- much 8o that many fields will .produce . from Those who hinve sufferc el tholr loss . sovorely, Saction, would bs foeish and ‘oxpon: mauy and Whilo wo aclagwledge that tho calamity is ki Who ont crop is-suflicient it oathier is very Wlich wyll ho sol briug o Jarge amount of i individual enses, yet it is not. 88 Dany would bave us beliove, tho Btato ua g whole, the coudition 18 apything but discournging, :Nobraska .will furaish tu jmmens breadstuls for export, muvorative figuros, and maonoy into tise State this fail 1id wiutor, I=apetly distrib- “Whilo (e e On tho contrary, 0 surplug. of at re- RFasy orop, T'ho vonclugion drawn from thoso obsorvations ith nothing il xnended within hov bordors by Frupur logislation, y I spenk of thews mattors from From my Hest acquointance to old L. G, Bquior, the well-known has bool pronounved Lusauo, o hoalthful and produtivo Stats, r ud focilitios far beyoud Illinols at thrico inud tuy liave Lhoso fucilitios ntill - ndefluitely if only hier peopls will thielr 0wy iutorosts and onicourago capital to T 18 that thero in much moroin the outlook to be thankfui for thun to discourago, the best by far of oll the, Western Btates, in all that combines to make o great, rioh, agricultural Btate, A partial loss of orapy cannot chook her growth and dovolopmonif only for tho momont, huuy taint-hoartod ones will yiold to thew pres- ent troubles, but I nover'saw suoh a dotormined, courngeous poople anywhere. unbounded, und they descrve aud will have snc- coss fu tho future. fllinols passod through many and groater discouragemants in hor early Listory, to smeliorato. ber condision, and of hor scourgos of fevor aud ngue, ariy worme, blight, rust, and & hundred uther o stauds foromost awong the grons Statos of tho Wost, Nobraska in, celleuco, lasrailro her ago cromsiod Nebraska in Thoic pluck w 0r ox- N It o v healtnful, hon- an outsido yot with the strongest feolings of for the welfare nud sucosss of ¢ Btato. ed_the most favorablo improusion ardently attachod i mouwoulth, whosa futuro T ‘own fu & most hoartfolt doui dreii, "The mothers and fatliers, too, weve grate- _‘;Zi::xu Assuranco of rogmd, [ am s, - P, B, My statomonts aro corroboratod by con- and promiuent ‘eilizons Htato, as woll a4 with his boautiful I hava form- and bocomo this_young, strong Com. associato with my ivo ‘for Its wuccend, raspoctinlly \ Contoy, of tho Tmmi. nok anly in thelr own (brough the Htato ut g, 1.0, agchpologiat, eRerIeD- Gagt, A P Daller Kild, o' tho R of ltis Wife, by a Nogro.™ The Murderer Taken from Jall i)y n I!mlf of Men, and Ridaled with Bullets; ot . From the Savannah (@a.) Newsidug,17, - ! Our community, yoaterdny was puafully oxcit- ! oyor, tho aunoitncement that Capt, A: I Dute ler, o native of, this city,son of ouf well-known townawan, Qilbort Tutlor,:Esq,, and a.gontlo~ man- universally loved, und..ostoomed - for his many noble qualities, had been lalled in Augusta (whera ho had boon, residing for tho past several! years), on Baturday mght by a nogro. . 1.blr..Gilbort Butler, recoivod a dispatch on Sat- urday night announcing that his son had beon sehiot by o nogrq whilat getting off thio atreot-cars, aud that Lo wna supposad to bo mortally wound- ol . A. socond tologram, ,twelve, livugg Iater, brought tho - distroshing. news of tho eath-of :Capt. Butlor. B ¢ : " +* PARTICULARS OF,TIIY ORINE, 3 Tho Augusts papers give full accounts of tho flendish crime, vm’{ similar, though glightly dif- forlng in tho, datmls of . tho origin.,, Wa prosent bolow tho Chroniclo and, Sentinel’s roport of tho .ecourronco In falls ¥ “* Yostorday afltornoon, about 7 o'clock, .Capt. Dutler,-Agent of tho Bouth,Carolinn Rail- road—who, with bis wife and a cluld of: Afr, John Tarve, had beon to the cometory, and was roturning with them n a stroot-oar to his, rosi- | doncc—mu;; tha bell. at.the Intorsection of Broad and Marbnry strepts, for tho car—No, 15, dtivou by Mr. Tinio—to'stop. . The car, immedi- _ntoly hnltod, and Capt, Butlor walkad, to, tho roar platform, followed by, his wifo and ‘tho child, Ou rofohiing the platform ho. found =, mulatto nanied Gabrie| Murrell sitilig on, the step on tho ‘sido whara bie oxpucted to, ot Gut. . .Cupt. , Bute lor requestod the man to moyo, and pushoed eliglitly with his hond, "Tho mulatto &';n.u( aud ‘stood oh tho plitform .wlite Capt.. Buflor” de- ‘seanded to, tho ground and put ot his E Lia wifo 10’ hoip, hor ‘down...As o did’ this, Miohael Murrell, d'brothor of Gabriel,” violontly pushed Mrs, Butler down, while Gabriel, kiftsel?* row a pistol, . pointed it at Capt. Butler, apd pulled tho triggor.” Tho ‘weapou won discharged, aud Lha ball, spendiiig on’ ity terrible., migsion, ZBleuck Capt, . Bublor” Immodiatoly, aver ‘tho, lott templo’aud % PO 5, 25 ATLD TO THE, BRATY, # Capt. Latlor tugrworod back aud foll hoayily . to the earth, the l_»lgud pouring in torrouts froin ' the wound, AgobiZed boyoud eipression at see- Ang hor “hyusband ' wo “brutally’ ehot. down, , Mg, (Butlor gerpaniod kn the most, licartrondiing. ‘uer, and eallod; for Liolp. . Sovoral gontlginen and & numbar of .colored . poopls rushad Lo the shot to'réndor all posslbl pesistance, Moy, 1y~ amw, Rouletto,. Sturman, and Rayer, “togotlior Witlt bisres colorod men, pickad up Capt. Biitjor, who yak in conviilaidps, aud conveyed: lim to lis rogidoncoe at the cornor of Groeng and, Mar- buxy slrcets, whore ho wns scon waited upon by D . and A. B, Cawpbell, L, D, aad .DeSaussuro, Ford, Robert, Eye, and otheps, . 'Lho floudieli aesassin, s Goon 28 lig come mittod the foul deed, jumpod from the platform of the car ‘on tho sido upposite to that whera he was firist sitting, throw down'lus pistol,“ab. Allon &, Wholock 'eix-shooter, and’ ran’toyards tho northenst coruar, of Broad,and Mugbury stronts, with tho u{mulntlnu.‘ oyideutly, of, niskitg biy oscape. . But in this ho was disappoluted. ' At the timo the shooting occurred Policoman'\y..D, Tinloy was walking down the pavemant on the ‘Bouth nido of Broad stroet, a "short distance be- Jow Mabury, aud on hearing the Bhot” wuooled quickly aud'siiv the “mulatto runnivg. -Ho fm- ‘mediaicly gave chase, pulled ont lns pistol and ordered Atufrell to stop. ‘As, tho lattor puid no Liced to thus tha - latter fired. Tho. ball hassed betweon Murroll's ligs, elightly cuttmg them. The mul'atto then turned, muttored sote indig~ tinct.words, and put e right band in oue ot his pockots, inking that ho was aboutto draw n pistol, Mr. Tinloy cocled his own weapon and “lovelled ! it'at the mulatte’s breast. 'ifhu scoundrel thon throw up both " hands 83 & sign of surronder, and ' ! WAY TAKEN IN CIIARGE by Mr. Tinley. In the moantime Doliceman Joliu Sharp Liad rushed fnto the large crowd of negroes who had gathered from all quartors and seizod . Michaol dlurrell, -The foliow mesmod divcosed to ‘rosist, but the ofcer promptly brought his.club down with. force’ upon the head of tho mulatto, who than quiotly yielded, Chiof Obrigtinn, who bad resched .the spot, urderoa tho policomen to taka thoir. prisonera as rapidly 18 possible to tho guard-houso, Policomon Tin- Joy, Sharp, and Cotter' tmmediatoly moved down Brond strect with the prisonois uud burriod them to the City-Ilail, At tho coraer of Aonument nand Broad Gabriel Mutrell 'said to Policoman “Winloy, ¢If I got out of-this ‘scrapo it will make o Christinn.of mo.' Lhis was all e said on the route. Iheso.words wonld seom to amonnt to a confession of. guilt, aud was 8o looked upon, At tho guard-honse,: howevor, ‘Il)o:h usserted their invoconee.” "oy wore lacked up in a call, but, n rumor being in” circulation that & movement looking to the Jynoiting of at least one of ‘the prisonera wes on foot, it wod - doomed , nafest to tranefor them to thd jail for safe-lkeoping. ' They were aceordingly taken: down to that_ building and turnod over to 'Dufil’ut =Jailer A, B. Cramp, the Juiler, Mr. Bridgos, boing absent. '[ho pris- onors wero ptaced in soparate colls. and looked up. = Thera wasgreat excitomont fn Lhncommunlt( ‘when. tho roport of the outrage wes circulatod, and many of tio oldest and coolest hends” wero 1z favor of summary puuishwent for the scoun- drel who committed” thia ‘toruble act. A ‘large numbor ,of citizons assomblod around Capt, Butler's rosidonco, all ‘oxprossing tho * deepest coucern in 10gard to the‘ocourrenco, and hopes for the wounded man's rocovery = But ithicso hopes wora not destined'to bo fuliilled, | ‘DEAD, ‘* Shortly bofore 11 o'clock it bocamo evident that tho uircouscious man had but 'a- fow’ mo~ 1ments to live, and his wife was- therefure’ led iuto tho.room. Ovor that last end scoua, the heart-brokon ‘wifo' parting forever with' hLor husband; all unconcious’ of her proseucs, 'nro draw o veil, It:is to eacred for outside oves to gaze upohs.' At 11'o'clock ‘Capt. Butior quletly Lroathed hia last. IUDLIO FEELIXG, ‘! About 10 o'oluctk “it began to bo whispored tint tho two mon implicated in the uhooting would bo taken cut of tho Jail and hung.’ A short time aftorwards a Jarge body of men marched ta the jail, Pha botl at tho gntu’wnfl riug, and “upon the apposrance of Mr, Crump, ho wes com- minded to opon'the gate, - In tha - presence of such a formidablo force he-had- no slterria- tive but to obay. ‘The gate was according- 1y opeued and a'portion of tho crowd proceeded 1o the colls of the Murrells, took' them'ont and carried them off ' thie diroction of: Basaford's briokysrd, " Just'befors wo wont o pross last night it was roported that nothing hmad a8yob Loen done with'eithor of the men; a coutter biy- {ngg been sont back: to the city - for an imnportant wituess, 1 52 g Vs **The fmprossion soemed to bo that tho guilty Bul I K61t s I'ljtho. and 62 bk tall | fof, Wounda for foisr hourn ot for tho Btookion Tnsane 1o {1id " not got ovor oxamising Ini nftertho | ploblds N — THE ICELANDIC’ MILLENNIAL. Goy 'Times in 2o . ok ipo . M4 inl Coromonics—The Eirig of Deamarit de rhorshavi Ho 3 : pi_l’.t!oi porhapa hio had fonra of liydrd- Corresnondence .of the Tondon i3 Daly Hiws, At no poriod In the anuals of Iceland has Ita eApItAl Blidwd 80’ nnimased n look ' as to-day. Llagn ara lying from ’tho masthends of the fo- F{ruuuumuvh schoonora” and * frigates of | tlio vtk (Juty a0y Northern ' nations—Donmark, . Swoden, Nor- way," and ' “Germany, ~ boro to . hohor 'tno Teclanders with' tholr prodonco - at _ tho willeinty featival—and froui “the Govornmiont institutionsand storchouses® In the town,' Tho programmo to be piagod _bofore Tis Majosty, who Is expected to mirive on the .00th, from Coponhdgen, sliows that the descondants of tho Vilunga aro not lacklig fn loyalty; but aro roady, whon béeaslon occurs, Lo aceord o thelr sovo- roign a hearty roception. It in anticipated that the tifut vislt of ‘the King ‘will' bs to tug * Goy- nors,” for which ‘purpose. 200 Loraos have boon rotained for tho royal visttor and liw suito, and (overy Icolindor praya fi hia heart that the Groat Geysor may bo moved not only to sond forth low rumbling sounds, but a full stream of Uolling wa- tor lugh up ity thoair, Thisocours, nccordiug to the ovidaues of thio farmor who dwolla in tho noigh- borhood of, tho biot springs, about twico & weok. Bue failing' thd Groat” Goyser, tho wrath -of Burokr, & nolnh!mrh_lg hot Apring -6 “fow ynrds distan, may bo fuvokod by turniig into the Hoil {ng woll Llf u load of virl. After a lapso of ton or twdlve minntés & deop, gurgling, cavornous sound reaches the ears, and then Btrokr, ne if with-tho groatest possible indignation ut Ufihl}: fod _in “such a mauner, ‘shoots forth his tomporary buidon to ‘a hoight of 70 or'.80 fooe, “sloug " with - a jarze volumo of boiling fluid. Tbis coytinnos for fully ton minutos, tho .| desultory spitting Torth of wator . columns from the timo of lis commencomont 1o ita usunlly tol- orably trauguil condition Insting some twonty- V6 or -thirty’ minutes. Nnurn)}{ the groatest yolume of wator ‘¢omos with tho firat rush,; and should the sun happen. to be'shinmg upou ‘the wator columus &8 thoy rivo tho effuct 18 grand in {ho oxtreme.: - 7* ' W I'rom the Goyoors .the King will procoed to Thingyellir, whore tho anciont ** Althing ™ (Par- ltamont) usod to Lo held, and thero addrossea will bo preaénted by niunerous’ deputations, not only. by -tho otlicials representing “the diforeut fowns in all. piarts of ihe jsland, but also from tha vatfods universitios of Norway, Sweden, and Donmark, . About 10,000 people .will bd, proba- ‘bly " presont. And, considering ;that tho,wholo papuTnuou musters not more than 70,000 souls, this miy bo rogarded—eapochlly wlien o ro- ‘membor thore are no roads thmufihuunhu wholo of the country, and all {ravoling has to bo accom= plisbed o horsehack—ns a gront mark of loysl and national feoling. Tho assemblago, meat oa & barreri pluin, destituto of all domiciles save ‘one or two “baors " flnrms) in ‘tho mneighbors hood, and s litllo church ‘and parsonago, the formar atfording shelter, as .faraa thoy go, to travetera, who aro ‘glad to avail ' thoimsolves of the accommodation, the altornative * lLolng to sleep in the open air,” or' to crowd into a room, called the *guost ‘chixmber,” in ths parson's liouso,” whero, in s tiny antoroom, there is a bod scarcely big enunih for ono. ~ As traveling ‘in Tcaland caunot be made alono, the pariy, usually consisting of four or fivo, Wil 'a guide and a boy to drivo the pack of spare lorses forward, thess *‘guest cham- bors” aro seldom resorted Lo whon the mors commodious’ fleor of a church happoned to. bo noar. But the litte ounrch at Ihiugvollir has l béou rotained for the King and hi¥ suito; " and for tho- thousands who™ come 'thither to' be presont at tho coromonien 1o taka plnce on this timo-honored spot of the anclent Icelandio Par- linmeuts, it appears highly problomatical whother, unless tonta are provided, . a night. coveriig can Do obtained, ‘o . take tonts, baginage, provisions, a horso to ride upon, and a upars horso (by no means & luxury, but a shoor ‘nacessity, tho distance boing great us woll as tho chaeces of litulo f* contretemps ™ on the road), ropresents no slight item of oxpenditure, It mmet bs ronombered- that bt night the horses have to Lo takan for pasture some distauce, at n3.16 nsual, let loose or ivsccuraly *hobblad, #o that in the moruing it is by no means an un- commou thing to be deteined throa or four hours ariule o farmor’s boy .is gent to scour the conn- try for tho.nnssiug animal, Whon 5,000 or 10,000 Loraes in'the evonsng are lou looso on this asture land, porhaps & mila from tha tent, {’im surprise of the, travelor who rinea lato wight .equal that of tho gentleman to whom the ‘waitor'nt the cvoning party politoly explaing that- “ all tha heat Luts have been gono «this. hulf-bour,” ‘Tho possible differcncs ywith rogurd to tho Lorses nught bo, that maiy of thom bad taken ‘to *ronwmivg,” and thero was not even o bad horss loft. - 1t is not ensy ta pro- vido for inishaps in’ a "country totally dovoid of moaus of, communication, . aud it is” extromely dilticult. to extricata oneself * whon thoy oceur, A tour thropgn Icoland teaches tho practico of pationco in au extraordinary degreo, ¥ .The Xing, . alter loaving “Phugvolli, will ro- tarn t6 "Beykjavik, Mo grand bulls are to bo given at the capital—ono to t‘\u yisitors and tho othor tothio,uatives of Roykiavik. No sucli oc~ cnsion has ever been kuown for, the study.of tha Icclandic people—thoir customs, mannors, and costuines—as thieso millonary fostivitos. - I havo bt just returned from an oight days’ excursiun o Thivgvellr, Geyser, und Ilccla, aud have slept iu the cuurches four nights out’ of seven, Sor- vice appeara to,bo held about evory third Suu- duy ur summer, 'Cho parson meetd tho peoplo outside, 2nd consults thom a4 1o whether thera are enough to wako up a congregation. It thoy Hay * you " ‘Lo procoeds, Lo 'country iu tho ju- terior i of tho break-neck character. Tho farmhouses.contaln many creeping things, and tho chuiclies are’ the’ oniy xespeciable’ placea ‘rherein to lodgo. 1 poat you n. gofy of tho prineipal nowspapor of Uteykjayik.' 'Lhero are Lyo. This oue ap- Dpoirs ~ about . evory thrao weoks, and -is edited by Matthws Jochmusson, the poct of Icelaud, who baa troslated * Macbeth,” * Romeo aud Jitliet," * Othello," and ** Humlet ™ futo Ico- landie, The ‘firat-named only has boon pub- lished beouuro funds aro scarco. It was priuted by subscription, Wo must try aud gol him tho monue of priuting * Hamlet.” ¥ Tho King of Donmark at Thorshavn. Ahorshavn,. Faroe (July. 25), Correspondence of the Lonuon auter, After twenty-six _hours' tolerably noisy aud tossing phesago this port was reached ycuterdrq at -8 o'clock in the eveuing, o our astunishmout we found {hat the King ot Doumurk had slready arrived in the laryor of ‘Lhorshuya gowme six hows praviousiy, au oyent which we ned not looked for, us variois rumors from Copenbagon supplied tho membors of tue expedition wore rathor to the offect that the King wouid leavo just early enough to reach Tceland, without any Lalting, ou the 30th or 8lst of- July, Boon alter wo bad sottled down we wout ashoio to gathor nows, sud found thnt the King bud boen.rocoived both by the Gov- party would most cottainly bo hung: -Lho men compoelng the arowd wero cool aud dotermined, Thoy wera all armed. : = *Gabrlol Murroll, it is sald, was considorably under the- ufluouce of liquor at the time tha shaoting toolt placo, whilo Michael also scomod tohave takiou & drutk or two, 0 T . " RETRINUTION, **3 o'olook, 8. m,—Just as we sro going to Dpress we learn that:tho orowd docldod, upon the aworn tostimany of & witness who suw the dood committed, that Michael Murroll was tho Ruilty H"'"ly' and acoordingly hiot i to ploces, - Ga- riel Was placod i the Guard-louse," s o 1o A fionicey in Trouble. rrons the Virginiu (Neoy puterprise, Sam - Wiloozon, of tho s Lygwaes, bus o swall menagorio of monkoys, badyers,’ foxes, coyotes, and tho like. Iy uls bag u larje Now. foundland dog, on whose Lack Lo soniolimes places one of- hus pel monkoys when L in goin) tor n walk about tho town, the monjiey fastene to tha collar of the'dog by string, Aj g goneral thing the monkoy enjoys his ride, buy. wo s him n day or two since when ho would Willingly havo traded himselt off for somo Josa Privilegad speclmoy of s specion, 1lis canine stou), bului{ atlowed to ‘rosm tho sirests at will, sy anothor dog that ho thoughs be could whip, and forthwith went for' him Iiko--a' hairy Lurrieane, In a momont both ‘dogs were on their hind logs and gomfi for ieach othor like two snusaso- muchines, This *mndo tmes very lvoly for the monkoy, as the stranger: dog evidently consldored him 08 part and poreor of Lis- uutag- onlst, Suok wails of dospair ny that monkey ut- tered, such hideous faces as he mado we ‘noyer henrd or saw, 1o would climb: down the alde of tho dog ho boatrode oppoaite to whoro tho war.wan going un, aud tlience peop ovor oucasioually; liy Juws quivoring, visago ' distorted, andhis oyes starting from tholr sovkots with torror, Awtho dogs wore vonatantly changing. sidos, it mado tinies awtully livaly with the monkoy: Wihen ho iuumml to tho ground tho string lLeld bim, aud ho found himsslf trampled - widor. the ool of ernor aud the Corporation of Thorshuyn in the - cowno of -hd afternoon, and was wtayivg at tho Governor's house. A spocin! pier, snd & triumphsl #rch mado out of #neh verdant sbouts aud flowers as tho island could atford, had been cractod by the loyal citi- zonw, aud us 18 Majosty landed Lo wan firat ro- ceived by tho Qovernur, Fiusen,..with an ad- drexs ou bohult of the districe over which Lo pro- wides, aud aftorwards by auothor, just under the trinmpual arch, dolivored to him oxtompore. by the Mayor, blr, Itaaslofl, a genslomau gouerally raspectod and beloved . Thorshavi, A scono now chsned of bu unusuully tragical charactor. Just a8 the Mayor, who had buon sding for a long time in bonlth, hed finished his nddress, in sngularly eloquent snd devoted words, ho deopped down dosd ot tho fook of 1fin Slujosty. A gonoral copsteruation filled all present, but the-Kiug was porhnps the modt keonly moved of all presout, ‘Lo little pluce: of Uuorsliavn is by 10 mosna & dull.ono just ol this moment, Al- wast avery littlo coutage hus its improvised flag- atalt aud fag, the harbor swarms with boats and guly-diogsed oraft, and is impousible to " lmagiue that a placo of wsome Y00 o 1,000 inhabitauts could by any spoll hnve beon worked into the state uf vivacity which Lhors- havp preseutd to-day, 1tia vory iotoresting tself, It has the narzowent and crookedest streety ©f any town in Buropo, being built upon a rook Btretging out into the sew botwoen tiwo bays, aud almost overy streot is & shoop ui- cont or descont, besules bojng of suels 8 winding nature that oveu in Un shavn you may chinnco to loso vour way easi) At 11 g, 1y, to-day, being Hunday, there was di- vine gervico at ihe cathedral, If so'dignified a nune moy bo bostowed' upon a.buildiug of no #tylo and vory etight dimeuslons, T'hoe sorvico Avas coudnoted by tho learned snd amiublo Doan Alammorshnimd,” who 4 woll known 1 the Jitorary : world for his eritieal collections of -auclont Fnros Jays, 88 aleo for soyvoral works ullmn tho uutivo lauguage of his native lulanda. Whe uarvice was nttended friend and foe, and Lo was glad to fiot agaiy on tho back of kily steod and faca the baltle; The poor monkey was. in a'worso fix thau tho hoy Wha etood on the burning: deok, and bad not tho dogs boon lupnr_nvd Lio musb soon Linve boon rou« by Hia, Majesty Sing Ksistian, Lis son, 'rineo Waldemur, aud his suito, 'j'"’"“ whow may. bo woutloned the Minliterof Juawiie, .My, Khen; the. privato sovrotary, AMr. I'tapp§ und tho lutarpwwr. Mr, Andorseu, one of the more prowmivent awong tho living generation of poets yldnvik—Programme- rk, . T ing, s romar! ,Ifl'{ handa Ioplmd now ns young oy in 1802,'whon: I Lad Lo honot of botng intraducod té hIEI on tho occaslon'of the muriinge of Jitn Enjrllish soncin- law..-horo’ nover fvasa King of.' Denmark’ in thess wators beforo; nand, whatovdr mhy bo thought about tho importanca of tho ovonk, t is ond'which ovidontly interosts tho nalives, and poseibly may. bouefit ?"ml_ln future, A I_sm prilg, tho Kiog uives to tho oficials and llmqo{'ullaru §f tho placo n dinnor on, board his Trigale, tho Jylland. To-morrow niternoon he “ntenms away for Icoland, whora Ly may-bo ox< peoted on tho 80th, s ; s o A LAW:BREAKING J UDGE. . Tho Notorions fistead, Ilnying Noen Provehtell Bhooting'a Htan '1n’ the ‘Iinck, BEntorn o' Lidlliea? Car at tho ‘Xend of 1IBand of Infurtited Armeil Negroes. 2 , 5 ¥ Tenton, Ala,, lelter (4110.35) to the Montgomery. Ay L erbisers .On yantorday, s 'tho’train on thio Wastern reiiroad whs aboat leaving Solna fof “Montjdin.' ary, & numbor of dologatos to the Radicsl Cou- groaslonal, Npminatiug, Convention ontored tho tlrat-clags conch, .and look passago for Mot pomery. Amoug them were Judjro Dusteod” and 1 nogro (Shm, Lustood's sorvaut), ~Sam peatod himsell in tho Iagies® car, “Thoro wad with' thig dolegation, .1 suppouo, twenty nogroes and about iho snmo unmber of whites, No othor UORro offerod to enter thiy car, of claimod the priviloge until thd cqnductor ordered 8am’ into the noxt voach,’_ Mo did it without any indication of ‘pasd sion, e did it in 4 gontlemnny, dignified, oor- teous mannar, : Hum “rofused to leave, olalmed Xht to his noat, and w not movo until forced, nn d aetor when ho ate tompted to Jend him from thoconoh, ™ 7 Two" gentloman from - Towndes in the samo conoly, socing that o dificuley. would likely.en- suo, offored " thoir - services to Lho condustor, whon 8am bogan to abugs one.of them fu an im- pudent manver. Some waords passed beiwéen thow, whon *Sam disputed omphntically throe doveral “thnes # statement that the' gontloman mado. Tho third timo this was dono_ ho struck Snin o blow In tho mouth, which sottled his im- lmdgucu, and’ decided tho question of Lis privi- oo to o soat in the lndics' coash, until Busteod I} tod Btatos Dis- -in mat, =A8ye, Judge Buatecd, of the U trict Court,—rat up in tho reni-of thogentloman who dealt:the-blow and wau gtill 1gcing. the nogro, diew and cocked s repeater, ovidontly with the Intention of bravely qhqu(ing B man in tho back:" Ho was pravented from his mur- derous. dosizn :by the friond who offored to Ruuist o tho. conductor “fu .putting tho nogro whero be belongad, collariug and burling him bacle to his_ sgat. ‘This ‘eonduct on “tha port of Buisteed can”bo attestod by nurylyxuutlumnn on tho truin, Radieal or’othorwlso. -1le bicamo intousoly uexcited, sent into ‘tho noxticar, and inflamed tho negroos againat tho two e who }md taken tho couductor's part, re-entored, tho adien’ ear ot tho hoad of all thé noegro delogatos talking oxcitedly to thiem, and all (excopt Bus- toud .ot this timo) brandislung pistols, bowio- Jwives, and other doadly woapony, demandiug, ““Whoro are tho grand rascals, & Tho ;two gentlomon roso Lo their foot as the mob ontarad the conclt, unarmed, -excopt with small pockot- knivos. Tioy nssumed tho'dofensive, and de- torminod as'bost they cauld toprotect thom- solves agaiust tho first'of the mab who - should dara to lay hands upou them, 'I'he excitoment ou tho part of tho Itadiesl ueeroes and Dugteod at this timo was far more inlense thixn tho cir- cumstancos would juslify, - throatening wizhe dondly. yweapons, boisterois swesring, &c, As related above, tho two goutlemon were ontirely unarmed, oxcept with their common poclat- Xknives, and did nok usa or attompt to use, or in- dicate that thoy would use thow, until Bustaed, with cocked pistol, ran up ju tho resr of tho gen- tloman who .struck Sam, evidently with tha in- tention of shooting him in {he back. . Then did the other goutloman draw his knife, collar Bus- toed, and tell Lim if Lo attempted to shoot ha would cut Lis throat. .Up to this timo tho other party eugaged with Sam, who hiad also drawn o pistol, had no ides that Busteed was paying auy atteition to’ what way going om. | Wit two oxceptlous, tho white Radicals donounced Duateod's actions Dbitterly, slating that Lo wad ,unpardonably wrong, sud would not Lesitate to mako the statoment in a court of justioo or anywhore eldo. In fact, but for tho olforts of thexo gontlomon, a bloody acone would huvo followed the entranco of the nogroon, when thoy eamo into tho ladics' car. Your corrospond- ent cannot refrain from taking this occasion to call tho attantion of the public to tho part which Judge Busteed played in this nffair. I was told by & gontloman ou the traiv, who wasa Radical, that ha insisted that Judge Bustecd should not put his sorvant in this car; that there woro ac~ <commodations for biw outside of it, and that hig Ppresonee 1 a conch whero negroes bnd not been euaweq to travel, and whero they had at no pre- ious time been tolérated, mighy croate troublo, Teinonnrranes was in vain, Cte KUSCELLANEOUS, Bies Sallie Furward Austin, granddaughter of Walle! iforward, of Pounsylvauia, who was Becrolary of tho L'roanury from 1841 t0 1813, aud Ministor to Denmark from 1819 to 1851, has been appolnted 'to 'n clorkship in tho ‘Fronsury Dopartinent. ST Sa s —As Northumberland House, London, is to be torn down, tho Duke of Northumberland Lins. pur- chaged .tho house No, 2 Grosvenor placa fora tonu house, and in whick to place the furniture :;:uw in the otd houso, which i valued at $1,600,~ 4,000 taxen —Krupp, tho gunmaker, paya $ this year oo anincome of $1,680,000., Fhobonds on his recont great ten-imilhon foau and_are bo- ing rapidly taken on thd' German and English markets, -They aro for £100 each, running ten yoars with 4 er cenc runnal interest, overy bond to bo rodeomed at §110 when it falls due. —ITore iy another nico little job. A portion of the walls of thie now Contral Lunatic Asylum, at Columbas, 0., has been coudomned as unsafe and is to bo torn down that tho fonndations muy boput in deopor, Whis will coscthe Statean additional §50,000, bosidos groatly delaying tho, completion of tho building. .I¢ is botter, though,” to teat down an unflnished building than o have a finished aod occupied building fall down, —Tho largost baes of the prosent season was canght by- Mr, John Godfrey Miller' in the She- naudonl’last woek, It woiglied 4 pounds and 7 ounces. Fuhing partive from Winchestor, aro ot tho river nearly every day. Wo heard of n circumstance, out of the usual’ conras 6f fishing experience, ' that oceurrod somo daya ago. Mr, Gilbort iand a party at the i their bags when, upon oponing o fino larize fish, faucy their amazenient upon ‘finding o enake in uis entralls’ uossuring womo 18 inchos, ‘The bass is o vory voraclous feodor.— Winchester (Va) iveas. —Col.' Stoinbergor's romarkable correspond- once with the State Dopartinent on the inhabi- tauts of tho Nnvi;iulnr Islands, which was colo~ bratod by *Sunsot" Cox in his witty spocoh on tho ¥ folly and cost of diplomnoy,” s not the only docnimoutary evidenco of the acumen and Drillant litorary talont of our roving diplomats. ‘The annual roport on the commereinl relations botwoon tho United States and forolgn countries contditia somo find examples, aud the Associated Prous agont at Washington sonds a fow oxtraots, Among other things which a roprosentative of our (overnment is at paioa to inform’ tha State Department is that * the gonoral phase of char- acter that is mot with ‘among Mussulmen of all nstions s a wort of leopinass ‘and_lothargy which dotost active Inbor an ‘pnmlyzes tho phys- ical powors." :Somo of the facts obtained aro, howavor, of cousiderablo intorest, A —Tuo Rov. Dr.” Jamos Walkor, ox-Presidont of IIarvaid University, renched tho vonerable ago b 80 years Aug. 16. Ho was born in Bur- lington, Mass., in 1704, was gradustod in Har- vard in 1814, was orduined {mutnr ovor the Har- vard Congrogntional (Unitarian) Church Iu Chnrlostown,. Mugs,, In 1818, becamo Ausiataut Profoanor of Mdral Philosopliy at CamUridgo in 1890, and Prosident of larsurd University in 1858, Bince his 1otiromens in 1860, he s fived quiotly ab Cambridge, o constunt and earncat student, and nccuulonuflf' uppearing as o writor and preacher. Racontly his bodily infirmity has’ kept him much at liomo, but his mund has neser beon clearor and his convorsation never moro full of nhfe. Ie and the Iov, Dr, Dowe, who was 80 years old Marel 14, are tho pat archw of tho Unitarian denomination in Amorica. —It ia stated that the Roman Catholle Bishop of Montrenl has beon_condonined at tome upon all the polnts appealod by tho Sominary in its proceedings agaiuse the lnmpoou La Conedle Infernale,” wlose selo has beeun ordored to bo probibited, In this Comedio the. gontlomen of tho Beminary wore ropresonted ‘o falfon nugels in_pandomonium, while the DBlskop smilod seronely nloft in aradise with a choir of nangels enciroling his head,—Montreal dispateh in Toronto . Gllobe, —OutIu Novads, whoro gossip said votes for places of the highest honors wore bought in open market, thoro are preparations making for tranunctions of this shameful charnctor it tho noar futuro, The ureka Sentine! saya olubs aro organizing to soll their votos for o prica at tlio coining eleotlon, aud that ono club of fifty mombeis fn Viegiia Olty fs slrondy fu tho markot at the wholesalo prico of #7,600, —'he rocont strlke of tho malo u[l\ulnllvml in Dunbinm's woolou-inill st Pequonnack, Ct., was wn ot of galiantey, it sooms. The wages of BOmu 0f tho girls hod been roduced, bocauss thoy wora wastolu, which voxed the mon to that thoy not only strick, but wouldwy allow the “for oxcoptional .trix on hor funuy-bone, which looked liko & fo worle. Tho atrik atening | at orlo Hihd that tho Losson fy il out thels, rovolyers. Tho flyo ringléndors, iwho Waro{ at< Foated, v compromigud pnyln’g tho'cbata bf, Prosacutign, o o T e -A boquest of $160,000, intonded by Dr. L. . Jobnaon, who diod'in Now Bedford two yonra :;:&\ lxfi::‘}“}m&ut uh-rlfitulu lnn:lll.ul,{un for col- ‘pred paoplo.in that oity, Ling failed fu ivs purposo | from DgulsE Tact, Tl willon by, tho Doclor himaelf, provided that tho above boqueat slould be availablo on condition that -~ hig daugttor “should leavo no * hoirm,"-- He proba~ bly meant, o condition that ehe -loft 1o. ixswo, Although tho! daghter! diod! witliont -ohildrou, hor mother was ior logal ofr,” and. tha bull of tho property now gooa tothe lattor's ro- Intions. —Jolin MoCullough, Paimor, the managor, vistted Coney Ialun surf wag heavy, Cullongh off his (:ho tragedian, and Tarry ' aod” Uoorge I, Butler totako a surf hatli.- Tho and tho undortow took - Mr, Me- foob and plungéd hia head into tho sand. Ty, tho assfstanue of. Col. Butler, Mr, McGullonF]l fint himsolf right ond up,’ and ronchod tho beach nnd, nfiun arms of tho dis- trowsed Patmor nud the, Hon. Michaol Norton, ‘Tho managor tolographed to Mr. Dion Bouclenult, tho dotaily of tho acoldent and tho reacus, Thg distinguishod ?In_vwrlwht sont back tho woids : *God fs good to. the Irish.” Al & WHAT HAPPENED/1¥ WESTMINSTER. An Entortaining ‘Travesty of the Pere formances of the Modern English Reporeer, Under the titlo of * \\’gnt Happoned in West: minstor," the' Bondon Exafimer prints an bx- truordlunry story—jntpuded, wo imagino, to throw tldiculo ypon tho clnks of nowspaper’ roportors (not unkuowi tn this country), who, wheh facts fuil thom, fall back upon ‘fhio unbounded ro- sources of the imngination. It is in the form of a lettor to tho editor, and is signed “Jomima Dryatick.” Tho writer aud the creaturo whose goutest with n cat forms the thomo of tho narra~ tive aro thus desceibod: © * ¢ LT “Inmy capacity,.ns district visitor to tho Bocloty of Wealthy Habrowa' for. tho ' discovory and Invention of social abuses, I'am callod upon to visit many curions and. davgorous localities. In the courso of my investigations I hnve chanced upoh a hoary £nstern savage tn a baok room in Tlodt streot, add have haudod’ oyoer to Justico a dopraved newsboy. crying. ‘tho fall of Linvaa month boforo thnt “ovent occurrod; 1t hapened to e on o rocont afternoon to he walk- mithmugh Rilor stroot, Cholses, a slum jne Labited by low Trish ; nnd{ny attontion was ' ate tracted by & noisy group of -poople cougrogatod | on = littla plot of waato land near tho river-end of that thoroughfaro. The contral figuro wag a tall, gaunt, and feroclons-looking fomalo, with 1o 1grlzzfnd hair which Linng abont her serazgy neck and ovor-Lop lean but umuzenlar, shouldors lilio tho maue of a wild bonat," I "Tho writer discoverod 1n various. obsonrs but not altogethor novel ways, which aro fully de- scribed, that this woman. was about to ongage iu an unnatural kind of & combat, and flually ob- tained - pormigsion: to bo prosent. ~Tho _roninin-~ dnfinl' tho lettor wé quote cntire from the' Ga-' aelle s Y o *It mattera not how I enceoeded in gaining » promiso that 1 should seo for mysolf the natura of tle ‘ight,’ nor tho terriblo details of the onth that T was compolled to tako that I wonld nop botray the dramatis povsonm. At 8 o'clock the eamo . eveniog - tlisro happencd” to - bo innocontly lounging in tho neighborhood of & court ‘which~ "E“m’ off 0ld Pyo atreot, Weatminater, Mra, Cockowaxy and ono or two fomalo acquaintauces. 'lliods wero pregently casunlly joined- by & fomnle..figure, whose np- pearatico, I fear, was somewhat questionallo, but wluch, hovertholoss, mas that of tho respects oblo district visitor who migns this letter, Siren- nous offorts wero mado to confuse my perception of localities, I lad to follow my7 conductors up ono strect and down another; till th" cliags be- gan to grow somowhn: wearisomo. I was spun round and round, an indoflnits number of times, =t a spot whero four ctosg-ronda met, my normal position wne tompararily jnverted, and finglly I was blindfoldod and mosmorized, I camo to myself in what scomed tho front attio of a large but dilapidated houso, Asquare aren in tho contro of tho room was fenced in by ropes, on eithor aido of which. wore fwo- strong upright loldfasts. At tho uippor ‘ond Of tha room was a raised platform, which, when T flrst looked at it, was empty’; but tho other three sides, botwoen tho ropes and the wall, wero douyoly packod with sight-scors, These, with- out oxcaption, wero womon. Some of thom wora ‘almost- aa ‘unconth-'and debasod: look- a8 Furious. Poll hersolf, toozled ss to halr, dishoveled a8 to Losom, flery as to faco, coarso aud violout 83 to lunguage. Dut all were pot fomalo roughs. 1 recognized the wifo of & ‘woll-known metropolitan clorgyman, nccompanied by two portly dnmes, who looked o8 if thoy were the spouscs of church-wardons, and a Ot bottlo circulatod among the trlo with great fraquoncy. For mysolf, I was accommo- dated with a scat on tho lower step of 'the platform, between two other females, ono of whom hada black oye and smoked n short black pipo, the othor woro, o puco silk dress, rathor the worse for wear, and wns vociferating offers to back Furions P'oll at ovens for any- thing undor £5, Poll horsolt was insido tho inclosod spnco within -tha ropes. Slio was sjtting on a buckes, and swearing frecly ot things in goneral, whilo -sho combad oui straight her matted olf-locks. This done, she went down on hor knoca and felt all over thio in- clored space, as-if -she ware searching for a pin. ‘ Ain't she a downy-cld faggot.’ »aid my neighbor with the.-short pipe; ‘it wea a splint in the plunking thiat lost her tho last match,’ *Bosh,’ roplied she in the puco dress; *sno.funked it won she felt his talonts in hor throat—that's wot it wore.' “Whodo * talents,’ and, in the name of overything myatorious, shy should sho funk thom 7 ° It wns atill uncertain with mo, - though I |' w.ml::ominz to have some inkling of tho horrible truth, = o4 B “VTima!Timel ' wero now the cries from the DLack rows—* wot are wo a waitiu' for?’ ¢Wy, wo.can't begin without the awells, and il's tho Drinco o Wales garden party at Chiswick. wot 1onkos 'em lafe.” Just at this momorit about & dozon gaily-dressed Iadica omerged from a side- door,” and stepping on'the platform laughing and talking, - I was dumfoundered to racoguizo inthogroup the Duchess of—, tho Counteses of" —— and —, Ladien — —— and —, tho Hon. Mra. ——, and _ Mra, ——, wifo of tho Bishop' of ——. Furious Poll was honored with much notice on tho part of thesa ladies, eapccially of the Duchoas of ——, That proat Iady " actually kigsed hor, ill-looking and ro- pulsive as. sho. appoered, and, taking s biack ottle, and glaea’ out of “a roticulo, carried by a porson who I supposed was her companion, ahé flrst rofreshod horsolf with a bumper ‘and ' then handed: tho. roplénished glasa to Poll, with tho affable remark, * ave a glaws of max, Poli; jt's genuine stuff—my own Eartlwlar Llpglo.' p.§ fow whispored couflderices then passed betwoon the yirago and the - Duchoas, aud,"thesa ovor, tho Iatter took out'hor tinickeopor aud called ¢ flyo minutes to . tiwe’~—whoreupon ihero was n clapping of bands and the beotlo-brotwed Fue aious Toll procooded furthor to mystify ‘me, Bhe divested Lersolf of Ler upper clothing about tho throat aud shouldais, aud took off a brokoen and curiously solf-assertive ctinalino which’ had proviously been distendiug hor disty and ragged slirt, Thus partly stripped, sho aul:oure:.l an oxtraordivarily muscular fomale. Hor bony arms were covered with doop half-healed acratohes ; aid the orerture; now ona camo to oxamine her, physical -characteristics, 'had tha warka -of vaccination peeulintly ' woll- doveloped, a strawborry merk upon lor arm, " threo black syes, and a chicular elca- picco bitton out of a dirty applo and pat bueik again. Bhe now produced s latge bucklo with curioun serrated tongnos, whioh uho intorwoyo into lior loug black binir, ot tho samo {imo dis- pensing with two hairping and an imitation tortolsu-sholl comb with half the tooth broken away, Thon sho took from out of tho crown of lior battered bonnot: a_pill-box filled with what looked hke - dripping, which she banded to tho Duoticss who hud calloa *time,’ who took off the lid, amelt at It, and having sol- omuly prononnced it “all right,’ gave' it back to Pall; and that myaterious fomals, wmidat al- most breathless silonce, commencad to sunoiut hor faco and throat witl it, rubbing. it well in, “Sall Cockowaxy wou't bring in.Opodeldoa tili tho lagt miunit,” romarkad my neighbor with tho short pipo. 1stil mausged to refrain from do- manding of my companions who tho Opadotdos waw for, and what it all monnt ; but it is to this hour a wonrer to me how [ rosisted, *4 Within a minuts my curlosity was only too well satinfled, * All roady ?' asked tho Duclioss, who by this thno had™ also bogun to smoke o ghort Dblack pipe. ‘Ay, we'sm, 'avo b m a8 goon &3 yo like, m)lllmi Loli, and #oon thoro.was licard tho sound of sugry miow- ing, and tho door o‘runmn in camo Min, Cooko- wuxy with Opndeldoc, which to my slokoning Lorror, tnrned out to bo a huge black tom-éat, with floroo glariug oyos aud whiskers of porton- tione biintliness, ‘The momout Opodeldag caught ull,vht of Furious oll, ko sput at hor with flond- ish malovolouco, and archod his groat back as it for a sudden spring, while enad to tha dimeusions of » pillar letier-box, But Mrs, Cockowaxy had him fast by tho back Lin bushy tail thioke of the ncok, nnd with dextrous hands shocanght hig tafl In & olose bitoh with » stout lenther strap, whioh an asslscant wecured to ono of tho upright holdfasts, while another assstant fast- ouned round the othor holdfusy tho ond of the trap shicl, N by her frionds, to engago fight, Is Poll; last week sho did forn m o drawn batile with. six slept au honr or two, and safd,” I high and ' dizzy coino to Beerahoba, Upon goiug ta-the olitf. and looking down, it was dincovered that sovoral limbs had been brakon off under the brink . of the. previpico. woro dispatebied - to the fadt of ¢ reachivg tho bottom, discovered the manglod ond Dlackoned form on hig descont ho had lt.\vn tross and broko soveral large limby in fall. ng. decompozition had ot in, racogmizable, | wutel, which was found on hia. b 1o had walkod a distence of about 3 miles after leaving tho stablo, wistook tho road for tho road to Altamont, and in Lis ulmost iusonuible condition, wandered ot on thnt dizz, darknoss an collosted, and an Iujuoat held after an oxamina. tlon of the body an: ond & verdict vendored of from fulling over tho clif," it l:“m # coftin and taken to Altawont for intors mont, Napoloon 1iL, the Chnssopot, - cuoumbor 16,000,000 of wespons of Mons, tholr duty in the face of tho onemy, which have boon ]imufh (‘ll:ummln havo been Hor to tha Chassopot, 'T'h h 4 Tronoh inyontion, and the Soatmons, s boon wospon, - L hutig from the buoldle fn the tongus el Furiots Poll's baois binkr was ln[fgr- yoyon. Idinhiko gin neat, and onpecially do I fool it incompntitlo with tho poaition of a dis- trict visitorto guip it outof o bottla § yot, on ac. count of the suddan sonuntion of slckneas whick at this moment ovorcame mo, I vonturod to aak tho Duchess to hand mo down the bottlo, whioh .. ghe.. did . with Thero could Lo , no B! n‘:;::f‘ “.nnhg:g: deratnnding ne o), tho, gml‘flblnr tidountor which was about 1o "Ly hpen., 5 Virago lind ncked honietl, oe Hndl poric i y or bind “bédu baokad In, cambat with that frantio tom-cat.” ‘It was Furlous--Poll's own- ‘T'om onoe," oxplained the woman? witly theshprk, pino, *but ho banged it with p bropm dly’ il it turned and flew at hor throat; sudithiaiy thalr third reg'lar go in. §ho's a good| lin ta onkdy mbolori;tbfl&hu lind “gomo-oocks, « atd in the spring sha' drored a bm{‘ or lka a lull terrlnl: Tut ho's a rare un, 15 Ope: oldoo; ft's onp audong it ‘et an yot 1 his o 4 who'shall:* *"I'hoe conditions of tho hideous combat wors simple onoughs Both cat aud woman wora to be allowod leugth of rope enough, as {t was callod, £o got at onch othor ; but thoro waa not 8o much of 1} that elther could fail o ges out of tho othars rench should it bo prudont'to do sa, dra. Cocke owaxy Aot out & saucor with somo milk in it on hof side; whilo the Dachess, hantled Furlous Poll the Tottio, ‘with: the ‘advice *lo’ bottom'. §t) foc tifora “wad” wnothor ouo_ ahd:™Tfioh Poll todk of her suoes and stockings and fave tho - finmbing - rasp Mith small fllu' to -tho . jaggod . nnily, long', a8..a. leoj ard's talous, which garnished hor toes, for, in the w‘crdu of tho womau with the blacl pino, she mas ! freo to fight with all four faat.' ».Opodels Qoo conned for & momont upitting at hig' antag- omist in'ordor to spiy in his own foropawg, and Lie liill mlowa of frasitlo linpationce wérd abi lutely appalling. So Arenziod withi passion was ho that tenrs trickled Il‘um»hlu‘ble'odah'nh eavage oyea ;. but a tiis obullition of fooling might e terfera with hin” powers of vision, Dirsi.Cotko- WAXY Lm‘ldnrly #ponged - the brata's oyos ‘with Gco;l!:mldu I((l).hon- The Du;‘chmin then ealled’ ‘Lob B Ll 0 womau. and_ cab otlgr with ghnatly fry. FREAg 5 oo Xt was yory stranugs, but it iy trt - thongh at flrst 1 loathed the .pnaz:'éi:’ s luto slckicns, yot,-whother *0n- agcannt’ of-fla Duchoas, or of 'he gin, or of the diro yot on= thralliug fascination”of tha fight,’ T found my- rolt aa inlensely terested. fu it . fortunos aa any ono, andeven backed Furious Poll for thre bialt-orowns auatusk -my frond it (s black pipe, In tho. first round Opodeldop.fired bis forctlaws in Furlous Poll's noss aud hun on indomitably for n. fou. momonts, i ok with his .tooth . being evidently ber:oyes - but Poll, althourh “.ail but - blind, 1 caught tho- furious -beast.-by. one of its whiskers sid throw it off, tho whisker remaining in-lior TOSp, Tho betting rose-to -two-to..one -on Po ,the Duchoss offering what sho called - half & Yoint more,'* I-must mako short work of tho throa noxt rounds, shicli in somoof theirdotails wero inexpreauibly shocking. - But, at whatoyer vio- lenco to pood: taste, tho wtory of tho-fourth tound must bo told in datail. As it commenced, Poll,s whose faco and” ufiure woro reeking with iblood, caugnt .and * Lold ' Qpetioldos by one ear with her teeth, while ?.m, with florca; ‘keon talons, lacerated fhe- back.: ot~ her neck,. the carotid artery being .cloarly dilm park with bis tecth ; but with a swift suddon wrench Do hurled his follclawa rouad “to 'the woman's fce, and, to my inoxpressiblo horror, gouged tho vwrotched crontura's right'aye olonn ouk. g compauy.ovincod a ghastly” relish for:this hid- cous monsation ; in-the - excitomoent 'beldame hustled Duchgas for a good viow, and tho metro- politan clorgyman’s’ wifo, who a3 vbaoking Opodeldog, miowed.loudly in triumphant syme pathy with - that” flerce quadripod's _prow. ead, ” Buon * a8 ho -had pecured the eyo, :.Opodeldoc’ toro, bimsolt out ' of the grip of:tho woman'y teoth, jumped- to hia own coraer, and bogan to play with :Ee bloody morsol .28 if" it had,beed -a mousa. -But the Bishop's wife, with a glimmerof humanity—that beaven-born "~ attributo—breaking thronugh tha dventitious callousnesa that -had grown; ‘npon Lier, horo interposed, “Tako it from Lim," sh eried, roforring to Poll's oyo, “and hand’ 1t up horo; it can bo stuck in‘agaln when the fight ia ovor. With ono light out™Poll wouldn't bo.half the woman she i8,"™ Meanwhila Furious Polj Lerself had takon the misfortuno with Rmazing sang froid, Asking o bystauder : for a morse) of Dbrend sho deliborately. masticated |, it, and thon fllled np with the chewed mass the vaouum where th oye Liad been. . : ¢ “Timo" was called for what turned out to.bo tho last round. At.the word, Opodeldon rushod rampant to the encountor, although evidontly embarrassed by tho jmpossibility of - straighten= ing :biy ¢ail. " Furious Poll «who:had »clearlé in fourrounds;~ The wook braced Lersalf for a grand - conclusiv: offor sprang to moet him a8 if sho bad been a swifl elastic ball. ~Hor pack was ‘arched “corvesly and her lowor- limbs. were .gathored . up, 80 that ‘toes and fingors wero , closo togothor. Hor head,. ‘with' tha ons oya blazing in it, was lowored 'botwoon her arnis, Jjuat, as o tigor carriea his-licad when on the spring, 8he mot Opodeldoo with all the impetns of her surprising supploness; and-all the knifo. liko incisiveness, of her.terrible nails. ; And ag she struck him sho straightooed herself out a littlo, #o that when her flufur-nu(ln wero toaring at his throat hor'toe-nails Jaid opon his carcssy m a hideous longitudioal gasb. = One momoni wore and tho ghastly corpss of Opodeldoc lay ak the feot of the congueror, whoss victory-way greoled with loud ocolumatious, Tho Duchessgars or & big driok and kissod hor again ;- tho Bish- op's wifo acooped out.tho bread and inserted the oye,-with which Furious - Poll instantaneonsly winked a wiuk of good-natured triumph at Mrs. Cocliowaxv; and thon, putting on her crinoline, under whicli'sho tucked tho' carcass of ths cat, sho’ quiotly went-away, *What has sha taken tho cat for? ' T asked’ my noighbor. *Why, for hor an’ Bloggor's supper, to bs sure,’ was tho res ply. No commonta on. this plain, unvarnishod, and atrictly trathful arrative are needod.” FRIGHTFUL FALL. A Man Precipitated Two. Klundrcd - Feoets Becrsheba Sorinas, Grundy. County, Tenn. (Aug, I Carreaporitonce of ths’ Swstorit dgmner. " 1 I givo bolow tha' particulars, as woll a8 I could collect thom, of a frightful aceldent which oc curred about 8 miles-from . hero, reaulting In tha doath of: Mr, Itobert Sanders, the Clork and Mag- tor of 'Grundy County. - Mr. Sanders livos ot Al tamont, about 9 milos. from this placo, on the road to Traoy City, and on'last Thursday (Augost 8), rods ovor to ‘Beorshaba. ‘He put up his Lorse at tho livory stable, and was not scon much until about dusk. when he called for his horse, apd showed plainly that ho bad beon drinking during the ovening, as ha was (protty: drunk, About'10-o'clack that night bo again, roturned to tho stable and had bis; hiorso put up & sccond tima. o thon. laid dowh in tho stablo nnd . Abont, half-pase 12 g'clock ho went ont of the stabla’ from tha back way and eallod the proprietor of thio stable waut - t0.. 800+ you, .but..he loft soon aftor, and was seon no moro, The next doy Lis frionds, knowing his: coudition wheu ho loit, and hearinig nothiug of him, began & senrch for iim, fearing that some ncoidant had befallan Lim, . Thoy continued n fruitless gearch all.dny Friday and Saturday, pnd still hoaring no nowa of him, collocted - and organizod a party to cone tinuo . tho wenrch, but failed to gabany olue to Ina whereabouts until sbout 10" o'clock’‘this (sunlm’{ man in tho road that lends. out to Stone Door, n moruing, whon thoy found tyacks of a cliff thot ‘i visited by all. who thio'treos immodistaly. - I'wo boys o oliff, and on + of :Sundors lodged ~200 Jfoot .down. In pagsod through tho tops of a log -sbout 1o had remained 50 long uftor his fall that and bo was aimost yo- hik -porson a fluo gold cdy nuinjured, 1o bad on and It is supposcd that ha procipice, and walkod off in tha mot his doath, Tis romaina wore tho placo of tho accidont, ‘¢ nccidentn! death Iho romuing were The doconsed was a man about 50 yoars of age, and was given to occasional 8urges, and had on saveral oocnslons bel Lome whilo Intoxicated, fore wanderod off from —— The Chassepot Thrown Aslde, That groat fraud of tho rolgn aud full of is no longor to l’rcéllmhmnn.' The torn aro to ho'made into riflos nhnt‘ ':5.“1?';,“&11‘1(“5 T'wo riflen tosted by a committeo of the defoatod found much supe- Beaumons, » Duteh