Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 29, 1874, Page 3

THE . CHICAGO ‘DAILY TRIBUNE: § ATURDAY, UGUST ™ 29, 1874, .3. SUMMERING. Luka.Suporior- ~A Trip from Marquette to Duluth, Isls Royale, and : How It Camo to Belong to the United Btates, Silver Talet, s Fabulons Wealdh, aud tho Mystery that Surronnds It Nowpot-~-Tis Dnilikeness fo Saratoga ---0tean-louse Hops. i i‘rlnlly Church.--flalhlfig and ‘Sharks-== The Avenue --- Town and Counlry Club. e Snee&s M‘»(.he Sengon-‘at Graud Hovens: Reeont Arrivals from Chicago. LAKE SUPERIOR. Corvesvondence of T'ae Clicapo Tridune. Dururr, Aug. 20, 1874, o Duluth vio tho North Bhoro nnd Silvor Teland,” I8 now 80 Taro o’ anhouncomeut that whon I read it in Maquotto on “Monday last T Toat mo tima in sechiring psdago on. tho splendid steamer St. Paul, of Ward's Lake Superfor Line. Tohving Martinotto " the follombl ‘moming, tavored bv g clondicas sky nnd an wirnfiled ses, tho run to Houghton and Hancock wwas onjoya- Dy mags in ‘about eisght hours. x Altliongh nat Bo deprossod as tho iron trade, THE COPPLI INDUATRY 7. innot remarkably vigorous, Tho demand for tho product bas fallon oft somowbat ; Yot tho mininig stogls bavo bosn scarcely affected, and to ecuto Bome of the famous Oslumot and Hecls shiatos ivould bo found s costly as over, Only afow of tho many stamp-mills are rauning still, improvementa wero moticoablo -in both cities. Sovoral substantinl stono buildings are nholug constructod 1n Honghton, while tho nar- row-gaugo railroad from Hancool to the Calnmot Mino,—n distance of 1% milos,—and tho lively ‘Dusinoss it docs, giva to Hancook s motropolitan aapect, s ‘A5 {lio*doy wos fading ‘inte night, our boat steied down ‘tho copper-tolored Inke,-amid rugged acenory,—forast-covered hills towering on cach sido, and, 8 miles distunt, ontered Partage Lake Odnal. This cut'is withont locks, 1 100 oot wido, 22¢ milea long, hns & good depth of wator, and cost '$2,600,000. At its Lake Superlor oad o locomotive beadlight, porchod upon what resembled n primitivo pigoon-coop, lighted iis mtinto. the ‘lake. “With the prow of ofir vessol turnod’ norihwmd, and the ' Captain’s assurance that daylight would Lritig ue to Bilvor Talet, tho 100 or more oxcursionié:s turned lnto thoir betthe: - ISLE TOYALE first camo {usight. ‘Tho vast mineral doposits thara digeovored nttract to it fnc attention. It ia situatod within 30 miles of *the North Shora, and a nutural wonderment {8 how it came to bo iucluded within tho Unitod Btates, Tho nimplo fact Iu, that whon tho treaty defiuig the bound- ary-lino was made, tho Britleh Commissioner did not kiow ita value, whilo Eonjmmin Fraklin, fhe American Cowissioner, did. During lis ropidenco in P'ars ha Ambarsndor of tho United Btites, bo had diecoverad omong_tho Fronch avciiivas tho reports of Jesuit explorers, dating back to 1630, whicly' announcod tho oxistence of rich copper-dopiosits on thia islund. Keoing |° this fuformation to himselt, when tho trenty was Dewg drawn up, ho, withoit nssigning & réason fielsied upon this island boing “secured to tho United States, Tho Dritleh &id not deom it worth, whilo, to objeet. Franklin _then wroto homo thit he had secured “for the Ropublic all tho cappor_tha country wonld over noed. ‘He led Uhoa vo ides that rich depoghs of iho snme ‘ore would bo found throughout Koweenaw Poiut. Tho ‘Island in about 50 milex long by 10 in width. It surface 18 rugged, and iaviting only in midsummor. lts shores are indented with wumerons ‘bays-and inlots, capsble of flating the lurgest eraft. Near tho middlo of - the “island are “tvo lakes,—Desor and Biskawit. “fwenty yenrs ago, in tho oarly days of Liako Su- nerior mining, 1slo Royala received considernbla attention; but the ~South-Shoro discoverles eclipeed 1t nnd causod it ‘sbrndonmont. L'wo yoars oo éxplovations wore resumod, numerang fta uud Indisn digaings woro discovered, and ho velus proved ®o promigiug that, in 1875, & *strong mining company was formed, sud & larga force of miners sct to worlk, Tho Company soon mot with ‘still grenter en- courazewiont. A vain of silvor wae openad 1 the westorn end of the island, and, a8 it lics ou thio same rango as Silvor Inlok, it i5 bolioved thus gilver oro prodominatos. o xealizo this oxpee- totion, the' Company are now mainly dircnhng theirronources. - “Bat the fabulons reports nbout BILVER 10LAND— of pure ailver nuggots, lurgona 2 man's bead, found in its'matchless vein—ongronsed our curi- oslty und challonged our boliof, - How cama it'to bo 80 long nuknown, and whe first discoverod tho hidden treasuros 7 Totho Indians it was not unkuown, For mauy years they had oxhib- ited eilver apccimons fo tho citizens of Outona- ton, ou'tho South Shoro, but could not Lo in- ducad to roveal the location of the mina, Ex- lctl{ ‘how it wan aiscovored by white men is n mattor of dispute, 'Tho most romantic account statos bow a louely ‘boatman, in pushing lis boat neliore, grazed upon and found thoe glittor- {ngoro ;' that he reported’ Lis discovery to the Canadian Govornmont, and the Montresl Com- “pany, “which ‘owned tho islund, neitber or whom rowarded _him. Auother eays' ‘tho inquisiiivo cupidity of Parkor prompted lim to~ follow fortunato ~ Tudinne, in' " his light canoo, over tha lake io the island, "whoro, after stealthy search, he fouud tho treasure, roportod it t0.tho Montreal CD"IUHH'- {:alnnd nothing by “it, and died a poor man, Still another and more relioble story is, that one McFarlane, an ex- plorer, found the Krndons voin, picked up nlonE ‘the shora’and in-the wator:somo 827,00 wort! af silvor, aud - then reported ite existonce to Montrenl! Hut tho suporanuated company bardly uR reotnted thoir possossion. Thoy'sent out ane Msj. I'rug, & shrowd ‘Scotohmsan, with instrictions to work up_tho discovery. Dut tho teaults were o uunsatisfactory that whou, in 1870, an Amorican company offered $250,000 for the Jslet'and 100,000 acros in tho vioigity, tho tlontreal Company gladly accepted tho offor, Maj. Fruo way retainod in oharge of the worls, and with hun was “assoclated Maj. Bibley, of Detroit. - Naithier man was ablo to invest in tha snterprivo. Frue hed doveloped itaresources, and * 8lbley hiad induced onough capitalists to unite and ‘buy out tho CUanadian compauy. Within twaonty-two days after commencing operations the uow company mined and shipped to their emelting-works n Now Jorsey, about 100,000 worth ot are, Tho noxt year—1871—tha ship- ments aaiounted to 820,000, and in 1672 thoy ceathed $1,000,000. At proaont about 260 min= ors aro om!lluyoll, and wo wore told somne ore bad boon'mined which yiolded fully 918,000 to 1ho ton, whils, -in tho ‘sanio vein, oro was fonud which yielded only 3100 to €400 pey ton, AN AIL-OF MYBTERY surrotnds tho feland. Tho men seomed-afrald lo apeak about the trospure, '‘The most pmaist- st interviows would meot with littlo snccoss among them. Thly roticonco is oasily sccounted for. ‘Tho entire ‘sottlemunt, numboring ubout 1,000 sowls, sra depondent for ‘thofe Hyeli- hood upon the mining compony, whose regidont manager’ {8 &n absolite wmon- . trch, Thero is mo municipal or othor form of government, nor ayon a magiatrate. I'he au- thority of Maj, Fruo 1s unquestioned, -und his word I law, Tlio men aro commanded ‘not Lo diucloso anvihing regarding tho'siiver mino, aud thoy dnra not disoboy. 'I'ho’ Compans’s rensons for tiils course ave- obvions, or 'muy, at loust, ho surmisod, —Thoy aro g0 confidont of the oxist. ence df uilver and other preclous ores {n-various parts of the main land, aud have so many ex- lorers conatantly at work, ‘Pt thoy wish to ep out all compotition, ~ Already thoy have struck o good toad in Black fay, 81 miles north of Bilvor Ilat, *whero thoy have this yvar takon ‘out komo very rich silver:oro, 'Lho Blavk Iiay mine s not, -hawover, wholly in_possesslon of of tho Filver Islot Company,” ‘'Tho lattor em- braces - residonts of tho ketllemont, Capt. B. B. Ward nnd other Detrolt -citi- .>gons,| togother with -somo- :New York und Doston oopitalists, and o fow !Canadiaus, Tha Dlack Dy mina ia alko lorgelv in tholr pas- Aesslon. Pure Gnlonn load in found mixed suh tho nilvor in this mino, Atthough' ite oxistonc hina boon known for ovor two yonrs, it has not boon sufliciont)y worled to warrant & compotont opinion mfinnlm;: ita value, Among the thonsnnds of islands of varving slzo which cluater nlong the North 8horo, Silver Tolot sooms like i i Asieng r:lm:ex on the wurfneo, At no polnt wan it moro thnn §tack ahovo tio lovol of tho Inko, whilo its di- manclang were- lesn than 80 feot square, A leavy son wottld wash enttroly ovar (ho ariginal inland, rendering It a rock which marinors caro fully nvoided, Whon its mnrvelous 'valus was discovered, tho obstacles fu'the way of opening the veln scomed insnymonntablo, ‘Ihe erlh- work was topoetedly oartied awny, nnd, 80 late aa laat fall, come of the most exponsive con- stn‘mum\ war gwept away duding o sevore storm. The fnlet in sbhaut & nulo distant from tho main land, npon'which the settlement is located, Maro than 600 foet of crib-woil has beon thronn out in the form of a sguare, starting from tho utiddle of the {slet and tusining sowchonst. In- gida this rralnnunn, andaround tho riehest part of tho voin, u coffer-dara has 'boen conntruciod. A shiafs haa beon let -down to tho gixth Jovel,— about 400 foot,.—at Which depth good ore is now boing mined. “The operations of silver and copper mining are aimiler. Tho opening of the sluft raroly oxceeda 0 'feat &quare, Tho veins ara reached by what aro termed ‘‘lovels.” On Silver Inlot thay'nto nbolt 70 feet apart. After a voln hing bech followed as fur as thought prodt- able, tho shnft i sunk 10 feot deoper, whan the voin' bolow iy ‘renched, ' Tho wasto malerial tlirown out 'has been hised o'l in arowid tho {alaud, thue ; LATGELY TXCHEAGING FTS DINESSION: Upon this mado ground, and npot pltes driven in, numerous bnldinza havo boon orected, “Bomo of theso are uzed in cunncction with' the mine: tlie others are ocoupied - na''dwéllings. Loasoly 1ying uround the ialet avo piles of rocks taken eomn, underground, which -aro-sald to contafn Tmoro sflyer than i found in thio most profitablo milnes in Nevada and Colorado; ‘hut’ tho miters clnim thoy aro 5o nceustomed to meeting with muasses of pure pilver that thoy ean aiford to dis~ card tho baser sort, Yot, 80 atrict ia the sur- elllance thint no visitor fu ntlowed to*carry awuy any roek containing an atom ‘of silvor. * Neithor s 16 possiblo to buy s specinion from any -of: tha oflicers on Bhoro. “I'ie’ only way to obtain thom is by wtealth or speeial infuoago, . - Six nules weat of Hilver Iulet, THUNDER CALE {uts for out into the Water,end looms:up fally 1,860 foot above the lovel of the lake. This bold promontory presents a graud aspect,—tho most -sttiking on tho NortlySnore, - - 1t marky tho on= trauco to Thunder Bay, in which iinco Ardhur's fonding and -Fort Willism—both . cobeiderable mottlomonts—aro situated. Tn-some places Thunder Ospo riscs from tho wator almost, por- pendieniarly, prescnting o baealtio :appenrauce, winlo it 18 rendored moro awinl, from ith baving upon fe8 swmmit an exict volenno, ¥he Cana- dinn Govornment axe now locating o, ligbthouse nt ita highest point. From ils summit maguid- cont views nro obtalned of tho majestic sconery in tho vicinity. Islands, varving in longth® from 100 feot 1o halt thut oumber of miles, oro seon ge thickly strewod as aro tho Thousend Islunds of the 8t, Lawience. ~ Within & dozen miles norid they nre connted by bundreda, INDIAN TRIDES © atill rosm over the vast teriitory from Lanlko Su- perior to Hiidson's Dy on the north, Tho mountainous speakstheyrogard with espeolal von- oration and_wo, assaciaring with--{hen fabulous Jogends, - They belioved 1ho thundor-clouds woro E\ antio hirds, whoso ueats wore on: {ho-bighest ills, and whose crics wore heard slar off, ‘Fhe head thoy assumed resombled an eagle's, having on ou #ido & wiug and o paw, and ou tho other an arm and onofout. Tha ightning was supposed to fueno from the -benk through the paw, by whioh it waa launched forth i -flory dorts ovor tho country. . From thia supotstition tho locality “becamo invosted with the neme Thunder, Dounding dLunder Bay on tho south is- PIC.JELAND, | 80 named by the Eughsh aud French from its suppbsod yesemblance to sn mverted pio; but ~tho Indizns namo it after tho 'Wortoise, Itis 8 “milon long by G miles-wido, and in ono place] riros to an altitudo of B50 fect, Tho hiphost 'Ynint i6 - basaitic, resenibling - the Iudson River Palisades. ¢ Westward along tho sbore, the proepect is evor ploasing, - though a - triflo montonous, Thero ia tho sume rugged, mountainons elioto, covered with ngnlco. plue, birelt, balsam, - an codur treus. About 190 miles -northeast from uluth, . . . +TIE DOUNDSRY-LINE . is dofined by n small trout-stream, ealled Pigoon River, nhicticwnptios iuto & boautifal bay of tho game name.’ Qur vory obliging Uaptain, -Albert Stoware, ron iuto tha bny to tho mouth of tho river,—5 miles from the lnkc.—flim[‘)ly to euablo us fo viow tno grand soenery and tho insignitl- cantly-small boundary-me, Aajestio-hills, gov~ ored with thick folingoe, eneircle tho buy. About amile up'the xiver, water.falls 90 -feot iuto o chaum, tlen ‘ruahed ' through & gorgo lnto-tho bay. At this remarlable_apot ono whito man— Capt, Poarkor—dwoells, fuhing and huntivg in Dvitish or American territory, 8% his pleasnre. TPon -hours’ subssquout snil brought us to Duluth. JoW ATt S . NEWPORT. Correspondence of The Chicano T'ribune. Nawzor, Aug, 4, 167, * I find yon cannot comphment a Newporter moro highly than to discourso on the gradual disappenranco of hotols, and the cousequent ua- Iikonoss of Newport to, Baratoga. Whatever Snratogn has, Nowport wishes to bo without,— aiming only to crente nstylo of summor water- “mg-jilacos ‘whioh ehiall-havo & morked character af its own 3 aud, tho moro yon call-it exclusive or aristocratie, tho botter Nowport ‘likes it. ‘Whotber tho duy-rocoptions, 8o popular last.year and this, originated in this desiro to bo differout * from tho rost of the fashionable woild, orinthe laudible ambition to.take tho first lep in much-neseed roform,” I cannot sny. DBut they lavo almost entirely suporseded ovoning-par- tles 3" eroquet divides tho Lionors with the faver- ito waltz, auil nobody rebols at tho early hors. 'I;Im oo point whero Newport touchos Srato- 8 'TITE BATURDAY-EVENING HOP AT THE OUEAY TIOUSE. Thither all Newport goes uubidden, and over thousana peoplo throng_tho grand ‘hal acd il the grand parlor to overflowing, whilothoso of o morg rotiring disposition pace tho lous-frequent- ed pinzzus. A stranger may note with surpriso that comparaively fow of ibis brilliant gathor: ing join in tho dancing, But lob-mo whispor in your “car that It is not considored by -tha crema dola cremo quite * the thing” to trip tho light fantastic in o Latel-parlor. So the duncing I lolt to Newporters and peoplo who may bo stayiug at tho hotel ; while tho cholco spixitn sit-apart, or slowly promenado up und down tho hall, through “tho moving mass of peoplo, If our -eurlolis Etyangor is fortunate esough to got o ‘soat among these groups of peoplo’ who aro all ‘geyly chatting among themselves, ho will have a 1izio opportunity to observe the different types +of mon-and wonsen who come from -far-and near -to-this grout watering-placo, An usual, Now York contributos more peoplo than ‘all the -othor clties put together, Next como Philadelphia, Tostou, end Tultimors; whilo the -number’ from tho Western cities tu- - creasos from year Lo year, especinlly from Ch cago, Bt. Louis, and Cincinvuti, ~ Among. the “Jatter ‘aro tho Iou, Q. 11 Poudleton, formerly Demooratic ‘candidato for Vico-President, and hi_cliarming ‘wifa: and donghtoers.. 'As. muoh variety muy Lo soon in dreksod ay in facass but, ay's rile, few Indics dimplay. olaborate ‘or showy toilots, and thera are fower beautiful faces, Tlo present atylo of plastering tho buir in flab rings an tho forehead I8 as unbecoming as tho fashion of *“banglug” Jately in vogue, nud gives tho ‘faca anything but arefined orintellectunl exprog- sjou. ‘Dho mimber of foreignors in not 8o lnrgo ~this voar nu last, when tho Butish and Amarican + Mixod Commission” woresitting. Burrounded by ‘mowhoru of -the Diplomatio Corpa 1 the Turle juh Minigtor. 1o i » Groek, but his small binck eyos aud hookad noke give him the appasvance +af.a Jow, T'ho Fronch Minister w, to tha grief .of Nowport, & bachelor, for Nowvort misses the lively wife of his predecossor, the Marquise do Noailles. I'bis Jacly.was o great (favorite -in o~ oioty, and took a Iively .intorost in all pratty young dumsoly, Blie-was in tho habit of hoving @ ciroio of Ler favarites to dinner or -ten, whom alio callad her - guirlan or “gorland” of boanties, 'Tho fair Marquiso way acouatomod to suy that abo found in soviely ‘ne young goutlo- men at - all worthy: of theso chinming young ladies, and it wus dillienlt to convineo her that tho mot desirable youny nien in_Amotlca worg not to bo logked for af watoring-pluces, ‘Aftor tha Ocean Houue comey TUINITY GUURCH, . whero tho fashionablos drive Bunday umrmnf. sud fill the old square pews with a flutter of silic And lucos, Thin I probubly the: only .ehurch in tho United ‘Ntates sbll “surmounted by -tho - Coloninl crown, ‘Fho desk wlhora the Olerk onco #tood o reud thio responues is in tho middla of the brond aislo; -Lehind it vises tho resding- dogk; and over all towors the groat, ronid pulpit, with ity tremontous sounding-bonrd, Tho proachior pathors his robes wboub hin, aud mounts -tho long sturwsy to ithe spulpit, ‘whenco' he' coudemun itho fotlioy of tha world ; then, from Lishop Jlerkely's old organ, with tho crowa-and i wilves . an. top, peals farth the voluntary; ‘and then tho pagle drosrod congrogation flooka through the vard, with its mmu{‘ gravo-stonen, ont into tha nar- row, paved ntroet, whora tho disnlay of enrtingon ia enual to that on the drivo on woek-dnyn. llero tlm](vorlml footmen sit, with hauds, encased In yollow kids, cronsed upon tholr bronsts ; nrd-tho Btatoly conchmon laok down, from theit' holgzht of glory and braan’ buttons, with: hanghty di- dnin’ unon simple pedoatriang. Bunduy after noon_ thoto' in no driving,' rothe tho wholo pbpulation rambles ou tho clifa; groups of hap- py_people lotnge ahont \\ruu the geegt award 3 eid stray counles porch thomselves in niches nmong tho ro own ainonge tho bow keip, Darerootad nion gather bait for flsbing. Tha roon lawns—solt and briyght' es only Nowport awns con bo—oxtend to the very vergoof tho eliffa; nnd ‘bolow strotchen away tho-greab ox- praga of acaan, with tta vich sud ‘evor-cinnging colars, 1t 4 tho enstom of eorraspondenta to aay'ovory year thae bathing has gono ont of - fashion,~lio Himpln fact being that : TUF FASHIONABLE DATHING hins heou trauaforred ta'tha privata Lesel at tho ond of Bollovao avenue, “T'here tho cottngen Tnvo piit - a Inrgo numbor of * bathing-hongen, and the puvlio bouch is loft to_transient visitors and the ponplo of the town, Rumors ol sharks flont” i tho ait; bub although. dond sharks ars Hometimes thrown'up on tho benoh nfter n ptornt, tho creaturos seltom show themsclves wlien alive. 1 know o youth who gpontday nftor duy {n 1us enil-bont in thovain vetover-lingormg liopo of weoing ono: Tn former days (I rofor {o tho oldost tuhabitmic), whon Nuwport was 8o Jatgely engaged In tho slave trade, real “man- cating " ehorky wore sbundant, * Ou tho voyaga from Africa, (e poor ‘wrotéhes who died by tho way wero thrown oyerbonrd, and tho vesaels woro foilowed all ‘tho way fnto Newport Harbor by ravenous Guinea gharks. *A rehic of todo tragio dnys, in tho shapo of an_old, ruincd slavor, lics i tho quist watera of Dronton’s Cove,—n mera ghastly bulk. -Moro falr to tho eyonre the graca- tnl f'nchlu and gafl-boats with which this beauti- 1ul harbor i alwayo slive. Conspicuous amons thoso_just now 18 o beautifnl Buglish ynchi, owned by ‘o young Irish nobleman, tho Earl of Chatlovillo,—n stight, fair-inired youth, the last of his race, who 18 dying_of consmuption, Tor a'yoar Lo s been érnising anout in his flnoly- appointed yacht'n purwuiv of health: but, Al though ho'has beon hero n week, he iu too ill to coma nshora. 'Thio tolegraph hnn Teportod to yoit tho exporiments with tovpedocs 1 Lho harvor: in the presonca of tha Congressivual -Committoe, Theso experimonts oscited ‘much intorest, and wove cosdered very succossful, An old hull, ‘which'thoy filed to blow up, still lieain tho bay; but §t was found to bo thoroughly ghalton throug! ‘out,’and iu s ginkiug conditton, Tt i not the of- fect of nitro-glycerino to broak asunder, liie gun- powder, bat to shake sud yulverize. Ono of tho {itest houees on tha bordors of the Doy, whosa'sloping lnwna muka: tho _ehores so charming, 1s **Ocoan Terrace,” owned by dudgo Dickoy, tormérly of Oluengo, ' Tho- picturesquo old bouse'on the by whora the seenc of WGOINHOR'Y 1 MATONE 15 Inid, {8 now unceoupied sud gofug to decay, A friend of mine entered the open - cellar-doot* tho oificr day, pasged through the bouso by tho se- crot staityvuy describod fu tho novel, and_found the houss being dinmantied by vandals, old painted tiles plucked from the montel-pleces, find 5 goneral nepeet’of decay provailng. I6 {8 & shume s0*ino & pieco of Colonial architecture shonld not bo in better handa. “"No very strilung ‘cotlages aro bullding thin year. ~ Rocent additions to Mr. G, P.Wetniore's ros{donco matio it probably tho fineal couutry- yosidonee in Ameriea. Mr, Feating, of Now York, baa-also- comploted a rich cottngo of tho ‘nuost eostly dueription: On the‘Avenue, fower four-in-hands than usu- al a1o seen this year. — Ono -is drivon by Farr- Tman Rogers, of Plnladelphin ; another by Jamea Goxdon Bennett, Gne gontloman, Lowis Cuse, Jr,, formorly Minister to Rume, ts{onishes: the Avenuo with postilions. Qol. Waring's beauti~ ful tandem—the pricipal ornament of” the'Avo- nuo Iast year—lins now *disappeared, and :hns srobably been nold. But the displuy of cl‘ulnngcs Jiaprovos in real ' beanty nud vuluo with ovory aunner that goes by, IIK TOWH AND CODNATY CLOH - - i5 a revival of an-orgunization which was formed -Bavérn] yearsgo; butwas tomporarily Kuupeiid- -ed during tho absencs in Europo of somao of its \leading :members. It cousists of nenrly forty fomilies, whase werabiors meet about ouca & weok for an ndoor or ont-door meoung, for ench of which Bome scienlitic or litorary entortsin- ment is providod,. Seence 18 represonted in the Club by Prof. W._ D. Rogors, Irof. Josink P, Coolce; Miss Marin Mitchell, 3lr. Samuel Powel, anil ohois; Litorature by Mre. Howe, Mrs, Leonowens, Col. IHiggiuson, and tho Rav. Clavlos ‘I Brooks; At by La Tarze, Staigg, Cuarles C, :Perkiug, and Edward Pottor, -Some of..the most agrecablo- housos in_Newport aro openod for tho moetings of ‘tbo Club, -and the number prorent at: Lhe mootings {8 now ¥o large ‘s to’ threaten serions iucouveuioncs. At the ‘ozt meating, thero i to Lo o lecturo an Art by ‘Bly, C. C. Porliug ; and, tha week alter; thera ia 1to bo o pienie ot Paradise, with a botunicallectara by Prof. Baey. WSIOP FERREFIE, “tho Jenrned Fronchman, who lectured in Boston Arst winter, und who has lived for nevaral . yeues at the West, tud had . an eventtul aud- romsntic life n weuy - luuds, hes Dboou - proching in French at tho Unitaran Church, -od is now giving ‘n courso of loctures’ on -Lis travels .in the Enst. Ho bas hoon a Bomish - priest and Turkigh Doy, e woll as Dishiop of tho Graok Churek, Tho Bish- ‘op i & great mauy theories for tha. Imprava- ment of modern wociaty, ona of whicl iy, that American lodies sltould adopt for house-woar the {urkieh costume, and wear loose flowing robes of wilk thatican nover- bo oreosed, and diseard shoes.and stockings, Ilis peculiar idens ko will - probably .embody in-u lesture on drass-reforn berore the 4 WOMAN'S CLUB iv Doaton, next winter, # i ho lily-ponds hieva are without uumber, and T 2w, 0NC SIIBY Morning, $wo fair Nowport dan ~sels, whoara slwiys objeots of admiration at the “Oceun Houee hops, but were then paddling abaut .smong {ho lilios - small, lewky puut, rogard- lors aliko of lifo, limbs, wol droass, or the oves of the fashionablou rolling by i thoir csiriages. Amaong peoplo‘who heve nover beon in Now- port, the iden prevails thet it is s -scono of con- wtantexeitensent tud- confusion ; aud yet, i trath, an rtmosphove of DREANY REROSE ihaugs ovor the delightrul old sea-port. In many of thie stroots, un uabrakon quict rolghs; (ho air {8 sweot and soft, yot cool ;‘and all the dolights of the ceean. may be _cowbined with tho quict ploasures of a beputifal inland town, Ivds just tho pinse in which Clicago businces-men can draw « good long Lroath,—a thing they nover Lava tiwe to do at homa, ML P T g ‘GRAND AVEN, Correspondence of The Cyicaco LTribune Guanp JAVEN, Mich,, Aug, 27,187, The season at this resort has boen ono of tho most auccessful ‘over oxperienced. During the regatta and trolting races, in tho sccond aud third wooks of August, thovo was an immenso intltx of visitors, yery percoptibly adding t3 tuo alrondy-lively appearanco of tho -placo.. Tho Cutlor Ifouso alono ontertained over GO0 guests cach duy during that time, sud the other hotols in proportion. Many of tho invalids and othors Wwho have been sojonrning here ail swmner avo now taking their doparture, which scarcely yot hing boon nppreciably noticed, as thoir places aro bring rapidly takon by visitors who desie to ro- i during I HEIGIT OF TILE FRUIT ARASON, which is & prominent foature of this place. . 'Fhe following is o st of womo of tho promi- nent arrivals from Chicago at the Cutlor Runse durlug tha past week : i DI Byan, Jr,,Oharlen Read, M, O, Lowman, T, King, T 1 Farrostor ud wife, Misk Sturgeon aml’ servant, O, Furner, 1i. B, Wilkon, Mra. 0, ¥, Welling, Mra, 1, MeMillan, Grorgo 0. MeKay, €, 8. Uchner sud fully, & 1, Inghun, Geargs M, Moure, Nea Hice, “Mra, Lock s, T, J, Olatk, W, 1T, Hurlburty W, ‘Murt; ankd, G, T, Canyy, Ji T T, Tillott, M Hovritt, Wil Gralnm, L. I Dul- jock, 8, O, Wallice, G, Muntck, 1, Mariner, William J, Euglivh, Frea Doridl, Willum Grogg sud _wife, Ohrion’ H, Nows und wifo, Brs, Edmundy, W, O/ Titwall und’fandly, W.' 8, Powell gud’ Gathily, Miss Murray, Jolin Grint, 11, 5. Mitehell, M, ¥, Ab bay, Nwton B, Oths, 0. 1. Mévor, Honry Sweet, W funt Jauueey, T, 31} Krali, Mra,' J, W, Storoy, Mra, W, Covhruny M Priacott, Giit Mares,. Mie Tk 11, Karberg, "0, 1. Barton and wife, Mias Bartou, 31, 0. Page, A.J. Corrigan, Jo Ar hits, T, &, ‘Oifigian, O, Gutliris, o L ffoury and fumily, und wifo, * 5 A, Blone and wile, arlsh, Willain Lindloy and wifo, ol Georyze M, Kimberk,” Connt Otto Vor o L Bedoldund wid, 15, 3 Dupres, 3tios Mulosk, Mlss Yotoks, Sliss Nicholn Iy 14, T, Nart, J, 1 oin Sefandshuty, G, W, Sholdat Latuior, £, 8, Bifloy and wito, ¥. g, J."F Miealiall, M, R, Olurk, , Ul . Gaylord, 11, T Eatabrook” an fam™ 1,11, 3i}ior and dunghior; 1, L, Revd and Tamily, ally' 9,10, Huek, E.J. Jackaon, WA, Diranel, alay, o U, Blow, D, B, Lymen, K, Haycock, G W, Balcholler, & 'F. Mustoy, Miss Lo M. ; , 3, Kuppeutlsitior, 1. Libortaun, usioy Titdun, 3o M, Adums, Mrv, Houry Hayrs, §, W, Ose gond, Goorws Plgott, B, B, Rogerw, T, A, Jucknon” und Wifo, Cwrius Kibart mitl Wiks, W, J, Gulver’ and wifv, 0, 1t urray, Miw Bithurty S8, O, Winc, graliwan, O. Py Kectlop 1T Luslings, A, Dost sank Htauly, 1, Olindwick, 9, D, itchyl, 0, Goryeur, D, 1, Yorky A, 1t Mijor, O, 1, 4 Ai L Dureyy o Rov, Lobprt Coilyor sud THRSOR, s My andl wife, THE TENNESSEE TROUBLES, | Apprehiended Rising of- Blacks Against Whites, in Gibson County, “ ¥ v - Arrest of the Alleged Ring- leaders. f&sllmuny of Prisoners that the [nten- tion Was o Extirpate | - {he Whites. The Evenis ‘that Led to the Lynching of Sixteen g Negroes, Lvome the Memplin Appeat, Anp, 20, Hinco tnst Saturdny night yroat oxeitoment hins oxistod. among the oitizons of Ginson Station, located on the Louisvills Tallrosd, 6 milos northenst of Humboldt aud 83 milos from ibis “cify. Indieatious aro that tho ontiro nogro populatior of Gibson County intondod to Insugurate socret , hostilivos fot tho purposo of murdering.tho whites, who have boen very muoh alarmed for ‘thoir - porsonsl eafoty, nud oro still fourful of futura ill from.the ir ignotant yot ma- ficious foea, * 'THE FOLLOWING F30TS rolativo” to iho alair, of which wo sl presont- ly spoak, hava been. carefully ascortsinod, yeb liashly wiltton out, by an Appeal 'commissionor, Just roturned from tho town of ‘Glbson, or Plek~ ottavillo, tho ‘latter boiug its post-ofiico namo. Aboutflva’ weeks ngo ‘tho negroes gave o ‘big barbecuo 235 . miles from town, Soveral white men, " among them Juo Ialo, wont to the entorlalument to pur- chaso tho barbooud, tho. prico ‘msked Yelug 83, Ai it hind boen: half-enton perhups, lale guve ouly $2.60, whereupon Joshus Webb, colorad, becanio inconred becausa full price was not raccives. This led ton dillionlsy botweon Wobb and 1lte, tho Intter befug provonted by wwhito friends from ‘inflicting sorioud injaries upon the irate negro. ‘From thas ‘timo the no- groes have frequoutly mado threats of rovengo, tiid moo-than one rumor of tioting was eprend about, though not genotally boliaved. . Loyt Sat- urduy night about balf-past 11 a'clock, while i young men uamed 'Motroo Aorgan and Jamos Wakron wera ridug along tho road, abous 8 mitloa from town, tloy woro FIIED UPOK DY A CROWD OF NEGROLS Tha youug; men aboudoued {heir lorses, one of which was wounded, and took to tha woods, e nog1oes pursued, yelling and shouing, Wno young mon mannged to escapo, and returned #afely to town au Lour aftorward, "kl fiving by vhe neproes awoke the citizens of (hbgan, who forth #ith ee1zed thair weapons and niot togethor for tha purposo of defanding thomselves, a3 thoy suspeotod tho ‘fact that tho negroes wore sattempting to murder - tho- whito pooplo. An Informal maoting waa hold, and mon wone m gesich of Morgan nud Warren, who were believad to have hoon killad, this “Tear- boing mada all tho strougor as -thoy were not found uutll' wome tima alter tha ehoating waa Lioard, leu'{}x their ‘Lorses woro_caughs by thoso i goarch of the young men. Judging i¢ imprudent 10 -pursne tho negroos, thoy roturued totown, aud shortly aftorwird (the mizsting young : men cania i, - AL(r BITANEING neeeRary procattious agunst BUrplise, & party of cltizens, in command of ‘an ofiicor. of thio-law, procesdad 'to tho house of :a.nogro namod Bon* Wa.kor, who was soen with & finn thoday provious, Aunothor fact which mado thotr foars all tho strongor, was that only oné negra was in town Saturday efternoot, upon which days thore usually were u large number proscut. It wos.aoout 3.o'clock when tho ‘party -renched *Walkier's house, wwhers thoy - surprided and captured o mnegro nnmad Ben: Ballard. Tho privoner being led 2 short dstance, was nsked to mnke o full confes- wion of the shooting thut uight, thoveason of the orgauization among the nugrses, its purposes, and aims, This be did, the substance of Liscon- fousion being as foliows: The colored pooplo moe Saturdny night to orgamzo tempurarily, wwhich wa done by electivg - “WINSLEY BHIELUS CAFTATS, the object being to - protect. Col, -Webb, colored, from foared Ku-Klux outrsger, aud atter that to roturn to kill & nogro numed Burroll Botler, who Liad revoaled their pluvs to the.whites, Aftor firing upou tho white mon that night, thoy dis porsed and proceeded home, Whilo Sympathiz- g with the neiroos, Ballard professod to bave {nkon 1o part 1 tho nraassin-itke proceedings, o eaid thiut o -fow wights previous Dan Wil jams, Wow Coola, Jim Cooke, Tob Love, Diel Shaw, and Nolson Metiliog, tho lattor Loy Jeader, vislted Lisliouse and’ wanted bim to 4o to & nogro meoting, to bo Lold half & milo fram town, - MoGheo had buen to veo him thar morn- ing bofore, and ssid the objoct of thoir niectiug was to deviso aplsn for tho susassination of. Bur- roll Batler, the negro alludod to above, Lhoy wero to give hig wifo a slight whipping, enchi of tha thirty to bestow twonty-fiveilushes upon hor baro buck. Mo says hio rofused to ationd tho meoting or 0 partivipute, : favivg obteined the abovo facts, tha party at oneo procecded to arrost AleGlico, the rmglouds o1, Whio wau surprised in bod shortly after day- Tighit, #id was wiado captive. Alter proceeding « short distauco tho party told Nolson 1t way no ues to deny bty cumplicity in ov kuowledgo of tho atcemptod awsaseivation and the intonded outbrenk among tho negraesin thiat county, thcir purpodo_ belug -to -murder, 'Mhe prisonr thon udwitiod lus guilt, and s3id- that tha following- named negrogy wore 7B HEAD A D RING-LEADEDS . engagod fn tho attack tho uight boforo : Tom Shelton, Goorge Groou, Btove Brysnt, Bill Ivoy, Bob Love, Dan Williums, Dick ~Shaw, Jurrolt Burrow, Dug Jumison, Hays Pocbles, Loon Jor- dan, Cuarlio Boote, Needum MoKinnie, Albert Walliams, Tom Cook, Jimy Cook, Joun Noagan, Goorge Mess, Dob Baden, Felix Lipscomb, Goomgo Ticky, Gus Cummulgs, Georgs Greono, und Winslow Bhiclde. In adaition ta theso, sov~ eral other nogroey, whoso natues ho did not 1o« ollect, wera ougngod in tho alair. Tiey met and organizod b{xelecfin;; Winslow Shields Cap- taiu for thut night, with the nuderstanding that Jushun Webl was to bo elected the Colonel Wheu tho squad reached his bouse. 1o said thoy fired on Morgan and Warron without halting them, aud had 1o provocation savo their onmity toward tho white peopls. 'The prisonor's statos ment corroboiafed that of the othor negro, and thoy-both wero placed in 8 vacunt kouse [or sufo- eepivg. Nows of tho movement made by the negroos sproad mpidly {hronghout the couutry, aud tho oxeitomont becamio most -intonso, the citizons beiug gencrally slarmed and foaring the worst, g it Lien becumo known that the nogrocs voto well orgamized. Men- from all tho patts of tho nnun!l§ Nocked to Gibson, oo party haviug come from MMitan. THE EXPITEMENT AND MEETING OF CLITZENS. Pho exciloment bocamo all. tho moro goneral aud intenso a8 it was rumored tho negroos would Yikoly attuck the town that night; accordingly, & mooting wus beld,. Justice- Gunter presiding. ‘Thio woeting solocted Justico Paskor to the com= mund of -tho mon, but this genttoman suggested tho_proprioty of ausigning daj, I, O. Buroett to tho position, a5 ho waw.the chiof mugiutratg of tho lown. 1t wus tuon regolved ‘to uso all logal seasuros -for the mrost of tho gulity ne- 008 aud tho wppigssion of the riot. In ordor to nccowlish this, tho oficors of tho law sum- wpued oitizons und Ymcnudmlw tho country, whoro ihoy sirested the following nsmed ne- irous on tho chusgo of shooting with iutont to i)l ote,: (icorge Groone, Btovo Drysnt, Dan Walliaws, Bob Love, Dick Shayw, Dug' Jamison, 1!13’1! Pecblos, dnvrott Burrows, Alttod Wiliams, and Nck Loy, whom thoy convoyed to town aud placed under stvict guurd'to await trial the day tollowing : TRIRTY OR ¥ORTY JOILY TEAGAN BIOT. Totween 12 snd 2 o'clock Bunday a part of mon, wndor ehargo of Constablo Bldridgo, procooaed 4 miles wostof Glbson to srrost Johm Mengan, one of tho nefirnnu‘ungmguu in the ' shooting. Aftor Rougan bnd signided his willinguoss to surcendor, ho attemptod to oscape, sl o wud flvod upon, Phus did not top the nogro, who ruu fnto a donso woods, and has nob hoow ‘suen winco, although the party tracked him by the Diood half a mile, Bom thiuk Wongan escapod to tho United States bareoks at ll\mllmhltl wud thut Ivey ia also there, Others beliove, how- over, that the nogro bos diod -in_somo yemolo place in'tha woody, whoro ha jlod to oscapo iy ptsuions, 1o wad cortainly, woundoil sovoroly, 3 tho bload ulong tho grass'wasm grost quans titiew, 11'tato 16 not known, During tho night & squsd of BIASKED MEN rode 1nto town, and demanded the survendor of tho prikoners, ‘Vlis tho Town Mushal, 3. Ay Dungan, refused to do, ntating that be ntended to procogd aecording fo Juw, and buye the no- roes tried by tho conrts, - Despito the thronty af thio mystorious horsomen, the oflicor maiu~ talnod is tiem rosulve, and hold tho prisonors satoly guardods Afiur b while tho o e loft withons having-bffoctod the “rolonse of - the rigonors, Wwho renthined In o stono houss closo. y guarded, ' No attompt wes mado to kifl tho imprigonod negroes, and mo othor domand for thowr surrondor wad mado that night. ‘Noxt morulng (Monday) ANOTHER MEETING OF CITIZRNN wag hiold iu the Coilaga building for the purpose of ascertainliy what wea the trie pnbllo nonti- mont of ‘tho pooplo nupon the subject of the no- pro oteaze and 1ho probability of o rlot among thom: -Justies Arch Jordan, wito in Mayor of Mitan, proatdod ovor tho mooting, which, voing enlled to ordor, adopted resolutions depiocating Inwiossnoss, and algo rosolved that in tho mip- prossion of tho samo tho eltlzous shonld bo rog- lated by the eivl’ law and its authorities, - Afcor tho odjourmmont of tho maating, which wna Iargely nitended, tho nbovo namod Negroos soro wpraguod befora Justicos Jordan, Fly, and Hung upon the clinrgos nbova mentionnd, Justion Par- Ior declimng to sit, as lio had ahoady formed an opnion, TILLE NEGIOLY ADMITTED THEIR GUILT, and that they intondod to havo n gonorn! riot. Ono of tho prisonors, Jarrott Burrow, turned Btate’s ovidence, sud related & foarful story of thu-eauso, orlgiy, purposos, snd oxpeotations of au exicnsive oxganization among.the nogroos of (hbson County, 'I'ho statoment” of this negro, a8 well an that.of Nolson MeCihes, was lintoue {0 with broathioss auxioty by ovor 800 vorsons who wero crowdad in tho buildiug, auxious to lionr tho ovidonco of tho witiessos, 'Llie follow- jug w tiso subutatieo of NELSON M'OILE'S EVID) It was yumoral for some timo thae Presidont Cirant wonld back tho negroes in whatover convse thoy took against the whito men, Actiug upon thin beliof, tho colared poople hied detormined to oxtirpato the whites, 5o ns to own tho *laudy, toncincits, and -horeditaments,” and cultivato tholr vwn fand. In other words, thoy wanted 1o mako it @ negros’ country, to do which it was nooessaly to kil ut least the rnjority of wlito people. - Thoy hiod hot ngiced wpon any time for tho outbreak ond . nisossmation, thalr object Dolng to effect n thorough orgauization. ‘Thin menynro Jor the murder of tho whites wasagroed 10 by alt tho nogroon in tho county oxcopt one Burrell Bullor, of Gibson. Because of lis on- positivn, they iutended to muke him their frdt viotim. Thoy intendod to kil him thav ni for ho was too intimnio with tho whito ?na)flu. snd _would toll Mr. Mooro what hoy had on foot. Thoy intonded to give bis wifa n slight tiwasiwngg moroly—each of the thirty negroes who hiad fired at Morgan nnd War- rau boing authorized to inflict thirty lashos. Thero_were about thirly negroes in the orowd that fired abt Morgan and Warron, Satnrday, Aoy had boon to & meum)&, and tho attemptod muler was not fn aceordunco With uny pro- grammo, as no tima had been fixed, but onl?' a8 an oxperimont, to oo 1f thoy coutd Kill a whito man with impuuity, Whon thoy commenced on tho white poople, Joo Halo and Lis brother-in- Inwwould fimt ke kitlod, and thaen they would commonco on Yickettsvitlo (Gibson). "During the pioceedings, the diftleulty nt tho barbeeuc was nliuded to, and Metihae said *Joo Hale {4 o bad ono.” Talo—*" Nelson, what mmnlkes you think me the dickens ¥ McQlice—" Jos case you acted so eurious. Ef e, Palmor hadn't eus “F, rearod and beld you, you would hava killed Col. Webb no soover thau You had got to bia.” * EYIDENCE OF JARMETT JURRELL, This nogro corroboratod tho stafoment of Me- Ghoo, whow, o says, informed him thut they wero first to kil Hale, Pacrish, J. B, Moore, and Nuc Woods, * 1hale ws geltitg too d—d simatt, and if tho clib would stick up to him and back bim Lo would clean them at. Aftor Jast Saturdny night the megroos wors to meot threo tines o week until thoy Lind bocome woll drilled aud thoroughly organized. Bat it o Lhoir futention Lo fall Sfoors, Purslsh and n fow othors Buturdiy night, Ho was iu thocrowd that did tho shooting, but had nothing todo with it, ns he had loaned his gunto Gus Couner, Thoy met that uight at tho snilrond cnt, about 1 wle from town, to clect ofticers, The place af yonttozyous was {n o thicket nenr Moore's hiousa, Toy elected Wiuuluf' Shields Captaiu, with tho undorstanding that Josh ~Webb was ¢o ho mada Uonoralissimo of tho expedition. Tvorybody voted for these men, oxcopt witniesd, who did not partioipato in tho procoedings at ail, This was 300 or 400 yards frow the piace where tho negross waylald Morgan and Warien. Thoy expected to muota compaoy from Humboldt, under chargo of John Rogan, who, ‘howover, failed to come to limo. Thoir objoct fn organizing thoroughly wwas to slioot {nto tho Kn-Kiux, who, they undor- siood, wore raiding the country to porsoeuto the nogroes, MeGhoo went 10 his honse tho 18th of this month and tried to induce him to join tho bnod for_shooting Ku-Kjux and killing whito peopto. 1o refnsed to join thewn ; b roply to MeGhce's urpout appent boing : “ You een do 28 you can; Pl do s I plonsu.” COMMUITIED T0 TAIL. After hoarig tho ovidence $ho negroes wers bouud over by tho Justices, sud, in default of requirod bull, placed undor chargo of Jarwhul Dunpan, Constebles W. W. Souter and Spenco TXiridgo, with o guard of forty of fifty men, to bo escorted to tho Lrenton Jall, 10 milos dutant, ‘Pho negroos wero Lindly cared for and in no maynner waltreated whilo at Gibson, and had o fuir tral. Lho ofiiesrs and guatd dovarted at twoniy minntes past 4 o'clock for Lronton, the prisoners boing heavily chained, Di the day nenr 400 citizous from the conntry had Nock- ed'to tho town, but thoir ald fortunately was not required, 13 tho nogroes mado no demonstru~ tion. Tho route to Trenton was pursued without in~ terruption until the grard' and prisonors bad reached to within o mtlo or 5o of that town. 1t way already dark, whou n body of DIBDUISED MORKEMEN, WITIE DIAWS HEVOLVERS, suddonly camo out into the road. sud; hulting the escort, demanded tho surronder of tho pris- ouers, Conslablo Dungan told the unkuown party that ho was-an‘oflicer of tho law, and hat, us 1o hind-clinrge of thio privoners, he would nob surrouder them - to auy oua oxeept tha fnilor, Pho'masked mon again demandoed' tho releaso of the prisoners, upon tho sovaiest pen- altios, But- the oflicer could not be mtimi- dated, and finally, indeed, pursued lia way, tho disgmsed’ horsemon disapponring into ths wools quielly - and_mysteriously sx they had emerged.’ Upon ronching A'reuton, the negroes were rafoly lodgod fu the old juil, and usuficient guard rlwmx here Lo pravent their rescuc, ‘Lhe old Jail was soleoted us tho piuce of terporary Incarearution untilzoum coald bo_ propared it tho new jail, which aiready ks fourtcen in- mutes. EXPEOTED ATTACK UPON GINSON, - Monday ufternoon & report resshed Gibson thut o largo body of uogroes had met iu tho southeast part of the county, and only awaited night to atinok tho town to Teloasa tho privon- cra, whom thoy-did nob know Lad boen turted for Wrenton, - This caused additional excite- ment, 18 thore wore not sufliciont men fu town 'to dotend it against tho negroos should thoy mnko tho ssack, Lho fow . remainu- ing, howover, proourcd what arms thoy could und commonced. picket-duty, ‘The Appeal conmiesionor arrived by the Loniavillo train nt 11 o'clook that night, wnd, while en route for hesdquecters, beard Tnlf & dozen shota in rapnd succoanion in 'tho -neighborbood. of Joo Hale's. A scout wan sent ont, but could nob ascertain anything as to tho poraons who tired. Tha mght pavked by plowly onough, as thoro wero not over Lwolvo ordifteon mon strovg, even this mumber 1ot being fnily mmed, In fact, our garrison us to nombor was somowhat liko the -Mulligan Guardy, aud our guns pointed wheravor & nosa vng heard. 1t was conidontly belioved wo would be attacked before morning, and thin anticipation was strengthouod by tho Trequent firiog of tho guny within o circnit of & muo or ko from the town. Wo dotormined, Lowaver, to do tho bost wa could, and to stand ug long as we wero nble, denpita tho shortuoss of our pmmuuition. Finul- Iy, morniug dawned, and with it camo an ond to tha fearful beliof thut tho town would bo over- run by a mob of infuriated negroey. WuOH, A roport i in circulation to tho offect ihat a Pty of diguisod white. mon, last Wodnesdny nl{dli, rolo throujh the Twelfth Civil Distriet of Qibyon County, sud weized arms wheroves thoy foumt thom ninong the negroos, two of whom weio sovoroly whipped, Ouo of theso nogroos iv & mulatto nonied Ssm Sianghter, »ho hadused lucondiary Ianguage, und nndo severe threats againgt tho whites. "It is smd that soversl no- groen wont to Liont, Whipple, in command of 1ho Humboldt Barracks, and asked for woapons to dotend thomselves aguinat tho Ku-Kinx, 1f voport bo truo, this yoquoest was complied with, Among tho guns tuken from tho nograes’were overal 1niiold rilos, but whoro thoy canto from it nok kuowa, Yeatorday morning nows yeashed Qibson thnt tho whites and biacks had w fight that night nour Tavinia, 'Tho rosut was not asooriuined, though tho rumor caused somoosstomout, Leu Caoko, aua af the ring-londors, was killed, it Is waid, in tho flght, * Anothor ropost saya that Cooke was captuted, and was drownod whilo attampting ta make his saenpo by swimming the Middte Farkot Poor Rivor, 1l i cortainly o dead nogro, but tho mothod of hils death is not kuawn, WAL CILE PEOVLE BELIEVE, I'he poopls hiuliove, or rathior suspoot, that the nexgrooy buvo i gonesnd organization throughont 1ho unliro couly, fue o pigpada of vioting, apine, wnd murder, - Vor some tuapast strango nogioss have been porambulatiug Cibson Goun. ty, and it i thought thelv abjget was to orgamzo the lograoy, and. finally ducilo them to acbu of violonco: and dood of invdur, Fertaps thoro niny not b eauge for wmare foar, and yeb it s havd to toll undor exluting clroumatanacs. CLYNCH LAW. A Whito Lady Ounfvaged byvv’l‘hrcu Negroes, at DBrookhaven, i Misse Tho' Oriminals Arrestod, Tokon Out of Jail by the Poople, and Hung, From the New Orleans Times, 4 ug. 23, Tho usually qulct town of Brooihnven, Miss., was on Saturday last tho theatro of & ronl trag- ody, whoreof the antira population constituted tho audionco, and in which tho principal pos- formers foifolied thoir livos on the tightropo, The roadora of tho Times nro donbtless nob forgetful of tho fack that about » weok ugo wo published an nccount of ngross outrage com- mittad by throo nogroos on tho person of Mrs, Turuloy, o rospectubla whito iady, Living iv_ tho suburby of 1. ookhaven, and that on last Sunday \va alsa aunoitncad thelf capture and _oxecution. Ticookbaven, by Eho way, iy ons of tho most thriving businoss towns {n tho Stato of alissls- wipyl, located on tho lin of the Now Orlosts, 8t. Louis & Ohicago Rarlrond, 128 milos aistant from Now Orleans. TIE GRE, Tu tho outskirts of Birookhaven, distant about lalf & mile from tho depot, ina plam-looking ol comfortablo cottage, exhibiting i its wr= Youndings of woll-culavated flolds nud gardan, and linoy of stayncli-buils fonces, avidences of & thntty independenae, thero g lived for many youra the widow of tho late Col. Buruloy, of Co- Tia Catinty, aud hor four daughtors. “Au esti- mablo Indy, Whoso chnractor Iy giaeed by ail tho Uliristinn virtues, aud whoso 11fo was devoted to tho oducational advancemont of lor chuldron, ono of whom lms recently graduated at tho Whitworth Tuatitute, Mra. Burnley soughé in quiob retiremant to’ accompliuh tha objict sho ld in view {n removing tu Broolhuyou, viz. : to bostow nupon her dauglite:s, ont of o limitad fn- como, the boat education that thoState could offar, On_ Baturday night, the 16th inst., sbe retired with hor dnughtor, thoy boing the only ccoupeuts of the houxe, hor otbior daugutaer beiugs ou o visit to somo fricnds in tho conntsv, and at 8 o'clock in tho morning sho was vioieatly draggod. from ler bad by threo nogroes, and, iu spive of hor prayors and entientios, tribly outragad by two of them, who sccomplighed their ficudish pur- }m\m with o londed rovolver prassed to her hoad, n the strugglo the bed was broken, and a por- tion of its covoring falling on tho young Indy concealed her, and, being in that condition whon one 18_spoochless s well g8 poworloss, sho oxcaped. Tinying scarched tho hiouss in tho expeetation of seauring valuables, the uegroes took a trunk containing clothig and about 818 in curroncy, and doparted. As_poon ns relensod, or ns 00K a4 conscious, Mrs, Burnley jumpod out of ‘8 sido window aud sereamod for nueistauce. Ior criad wore henrd by some Iads in o aistant dwelling and tho noighbors aroused. TEGPUNSULT OF TIIE CROMINALS. By, this timo it wae daylight, and seurch for the demons was immedintely institutod. Mon iu squada of two and thrao scoured thu counery for miles without eceess, excopt in fnding tho ntod teunk in a fiold adjucent:to the Lower Natclvz rord, about 600 yards - from the cottago. Ior- tunately, Mrs, Burnley recognizod the volees of her assalants, and, baving mado aidavit ngeivst thom, tho Mnyor and Council woro at ouco ro- quosted by the citizens to.lssue handbills do- werptive of the porsonai apponrance of Antliony (Graut, Slina Jobuson, and Dick .Coaper, threo nogroes wio had beon tmplicated In ilio rob- borics ab the Liouscs of Mr, dennings, of Brooi- haven, and LI, Bimon, o. Mouticollo, Miss., cod who had borne thio hardest sort of ehaiacters for yous, and ta offer a vawmd of £200- for ticir sridat, ‘A mocting of the citizons was called, and it was resolvad to prosgento tho eozrch in tho mosc Vigorous mauucr, Voluutoers wero not wanting, atid tho conntry for hundrods of miles iu overy diroctton was overhauted, yot in vai. THE CALTUDE. It was fosred they Lad offectnally escaped, whon lo! on Friday last tue click of the olootric inscrmment broughat tho chieering intolligenco from Juckuon, Miss,, that tho burds wore in thut town, dn sustody of ‘Culdwelt, Macslial of Clin- ton, who would be Rappy 10 forward thom to Brookhavon on tha ree of tiwy H200 roward. “Lmodintely on the voeeipt of this dipated, ti0 good poople of Brookhavon placed Lho raqui- site umonnt intho-bauds of Bhodil A, U, Cos. witls instructtons to roturn the culprits to that town, Haud tha awount been £10,000, it would havo boou fustanly rawad ; for 0 tho credit of {18 negro portion of tho - populution be i said that tiroy weto in accord with tho whites in de- nouncinyg this heinous erime, and ready to add their mic to bring tuo otendons to justico. It soems that Caldwell know one of tno negroes aud captured bim m Clinton, whoraupon, by the Judicious application of hompon ropn abunt bis neck, ho wad inauced to reveal tho wheronbouty of lits companious, whioh provad to bs in Juck- son, Miss., at tho dowicil of somo fomsle frionda, oy were seenrod without rasistauca, Ou seiurdsy mornwmg, at hatf-past 5 o'clock, Bherilt Cux arrived with lus prigonors = ab Trookbaven, und placed tham in juil. This udding i lested in tho nortucast part of the town, aud i b square ono-story wooden utruc- turo containing four cells, twoon oach side of the narrow Possage-way, without windows or opening of ‘say kwd eave & large doorway in frout, wwich doubla dourd,—tho .inuor ono of Teavy wood, with tranwom for veutilation, and tho ontor ouo of cross-basred ivon, throe-quurtors of_au inch thiok. i “The fact of the prisonors’ arrival bacoming uown lutor in the moraiug, great oxeilewous caued, which, howover, gradusily ealed dowy, tirough'it was noticod thnt tho qutot looi of do- terwenation depicted on tho facos of londiug cit~ 1zens, aud whicl had usurped the first focling of excitemont, vy onnons of JOSPETALD MELLUros. Bas fittlo busiuces was tesusacted thug dug, THE EXPIATION, At 4 o'elock iu tho attornoou the bell of {he miarket-house tolled, aud, o3 if by common - sont, evary store iu Lho town was closed, and tho greut mess of tho pouple in one sirouy ourront Swept toward tho Juil. _'Diro koys ot the buildmg were demnnded from H. J. Libus, the juiler, buy refused. ‘Che stroug iron gate was tosrad, still tise door would nut opon. Kinatly tho koy was found in « deawer of tho Shori's ofiico, and tha building ontoiod. Mayor B, W, Millsaps and Ospt. Hoskin wero deputized to.mforin ' the primoners tiiet thoir eartuly pilgrimago was whout to teninate, Lut that tima wowd ho allowed the [or valigious cousolsuon, aad such stato- Tuonts as thoy inight wish to meke. Lhoy ao- ceprad tho proffer of religious consolation, sud Tevoived thesame from ministors of thoir cnoioo, and in the way of statoments tully and froely adwittod therr gailt 1 tuo many robboties with witich thoy Lad baon clwurged, thoir putticipation i tho Buraloy outrage, Jountion and Cooner ox- culputing Graat from tuo worst featuro of thig Dusiness, and thoy oven admitted hoving robood 1 bouso 1 Gnllatio, Misg., whilo escaniag from Brookhaven, in provf of . which stolen 8poous ‘wove found {u Johnson’s pockets, Lo tha right of tho jail thero 18 a gatews leading in o cotton tlatd s over the posts f thin gatewsy o beam wag luid, nnd from thut beaw o rops suspended. Authony Grant was tho firse brought out and placed iu's cart immodistely under the beaw, tho Topo-was adjusted to his nock, and, tho catt drawns away. Silks Johugon und Dick Cooper woca oxcoted in tho same monner, Thoy all died appareutly wdifforout to thow fato, anc hud but bttle to suy. Al weze men undor 80 yoars of nige, of modinm statars, excopt Graut, who was fuily 6 feos tall, and all wore lsck iucolor, Tuo oxerubion wos witnessod by ut loast 2,000 poople, whita aud gotored, und tho utmost ordor pre- vailod throughout tho solemu corouionics, . "Ll doparied three of tho worst-dyad villning (Lt have infostod thut portion of the Buste of Alissiusippl for many @ your. Wateh Your onrpotieA Now Pest, o the gucheater Union, Coneldorabla outo:y 1 boon made {u nelighbor- g villages conooruing the ravages of u ‘uow poat thit hss lately urivon, numely 1ho eurpot bug: Theso bugs aroe doseribod 8 ‘being avout twice {he size of the common chmes lectularias, o bed-bug, sud covered witl hatr, Thair color is o muday blaclk, "Tho first timo theso bugs wore heard from In this soction was at Dansviiio Inut yenr, whoro thoy did considoiable damage, ‘I'his yeur thoy havo increascd and oxtonded their torritory, forit sooms that thoy havo botoms o soiee of extrome annoyance in Brockport, A Iady who rosides n that villago informed o ro- portor of this papor yostorduy that toro s not & nu.;:ln house thnt hus esonpod thoir dopredntions, In hev house, sho aid, overy room was infestod with thoiwn, avd they lind - euton-lurgo holes. in every enrpot in tho howso, Their favorite mode of procudura Is to follow the seam of tae borrdy aud oat thoir way clear through, In womo in- sranvea the earpet iy boon auton through so clean that it lovks ue if 10 lind boon out with & vory sharp knifo, Lu othor rooms thov had enton largo patohod out of 1t, wonowully plokine oW th'eontra Of » bresdth, ' The lady roferrad (0 wuys 8o Lins trlod ovory wav to got ¥id o thou, but without avatl, Tobuaoowoours townk thom 1ivaller than ovor,.acdl aa_ for hug poieon, they rogard i as & Juxury, and grow faton it, s .l’UB]J[() JINSTRUCTION, tondont Bate Ciry ar from Supes . OIRQULAT—45, Deranzoiny oF PunLio InstnvorioN, BruISorteny, i, Aug, 9, m'u.} COLORED GUILDIEN IN TIE VULLIO KOHOOLS, ‘I'ho attention ot Heliool Dircctors and Doards of ‘Eduaation Is inviled to tho subjolned opinion léuct;nlly roudored by tho Supremo Court of thig iato : Jantes hase etal. v, Darid Sephenson et al, Jrom MeLuane—Upinion af the Conrt by Craty, "l was n bl it Obnncery Alod by uppollses apatnat appellants, in tho Clreuit Court of MeLean Couiity, "o canao s hear npon biil, hnawor, and oxhivits, and o deerce rendered that appellants, Diroctors of o Cortuli sehiool-distriot, bo muretisily cnjoinad. from occupyiug or uning i lnddiug namod 1 tuo biN; for (o yuarposo of cartying on & senool fur colored ‘cbile drent exclusively, ot (o expenso of the dlstrict, “Euo bill \ray orlyinally fiod foc tho Dunoso of re atrafning appellanty front eroeling 8 schooliouso 13 fost wida and 34 foot. long, for. tho exclusivy uso_of duestung four eoorad obfldren fn tho dlutict. L m‘rmo laul ujuniction wis acrved, tho buliding was com- ploted, 3 ‘Abbillocs then filed o supplomonial bill, in whick thoy charged that, after tha-completion of tho build: i, npraliants edpioyed s feucier, and bavo kopi gotoaln the Guldlng for.no athor purpose, inw ta teach two colored childges fn tho district, Toat ope peliania*avo . glven. tho teacher ‘s wurrant on tio "ownship Treamier 10 pay for hor servicen out of tho achiool-funds. 1t fn furthr alteged that ppollants will, unloss on- Jolncd, contiutio to occtipy tho bilding erected as & Heliool-lionso at tho public oxpense for no other pur- poso Ui 1o elucato to culored children sepirato vom tho other chiidren i tho distrist, Tt fu furiher alioged What, thora s nmpla soom i the nchoo.~bouso which was orecicd thFeo yoarn before, i hn o o, (o accomunotialo il o cilidsou fu o diatrict. . veral questlons of minor Importance Liavo beon rained by appellauts which it f4 ulmecossary to con- slifer, T polnt in $ho WL 1n thla caso Is, tust. appollants, i ordor 1o koop somo. four colored ehildron from ute touding tho samio school in tho distéict thatis pro. vided for otlicrs, orocted a small hous on thio sam 1ot whiera tho otler achool-louse atands, sud, at: tho ox« Tenao of fo tax-payers, propose to employ sn_addie tonal teachor to insicuct tho coloted clildren in this small bullding, separato and apatt from otler clildren i tho districs? aud thes facts oro substantlaly de mitted by tho duswer, Tihfs Will s filed by four tax-payerd of tho district, to prevent tho Directors from a mivappropriation of the publls fande in whicn, incommon with tho public, thoy havo s direct intetest, Tt is fnsisted by sppellants, fhat tho provislon of tho statuto that declires that tho Dircciors elall establish sud keop in opcration for b Jesss elx montbs in cack year, and longor If practicablo, o sufficlout number of #chools for tho accommodation of tho ehildren In tho district over the ngo of 0 and undor tha ago of B, and that thoy may adopt all Decessry Tules and ‘reguine tlonu gor tia wanagement aud govermumont of (ho Acuoty, gives thewn the power/nd fuily sustaius thoir nction fn this case, T freo achools of tho Sulo' ura ‘publio fustituifons, and in their munagement aud cop- irol tho law conteniplates that thuy should Lo g0 nign- sgod that all childron within tho district, between tho ng.of 8 and 21 years, regardless of raco or color, eliall Liovo cqual snd tho samo right to. participate 1 the benefits t bo deriyed thorefrom, Whilo tho Directors very roperly bave largo and alscretiouary powers In regard to tio munagement and coutrol of schools, in ordor to fucreaso thelr wsofule news, thoy bave 10 yower to mako clavs.distinctions, neithier oan they dlscriminato between acholara on e ouut of thelr color, Tace, or-goclal position, . If tho school-liouso wnd too mmail to sccommodate o1l the wcholarg n the district, {¢ would buvo beon ome inently proper for tue Dizactors - to. have oularged the bulidluig but thls thoy dld ot 860 prover £ do, and it J8 appnrent from thio record that thoerection of tho sniull hiouse ou tho smno lob whre tho_school-houss Hiood was not o nccount of tho incspacity of thu sichool-houso to wecommodate all the Kebolurs ju the district, but the sole and only objoct scems to have Deen 100 oxciudo th colored children i tho districe from particlpativg In the Louefita the other children recolved from thy free uchooly, Tad tho district coutalued colored children snfclent for onoacliool, aud white cildreu for unotiier, nnd i il Directors {n good fulth provided a kopurato room for each, witere wio facilities for ustruction were en- trely oqual, that wouldl liavo presented u guestion not e b5 il rocor, st o Sulclt o Oxyiesa opiniou, "Hut tho conduct of the Dircctora- in this case, in thio attempt to keep tnd- mplutuin o sehiool uolcly’ (0. It Blruo threo o four colared. children of the district, ‘whien they can Lo nccommodated- g tho school-ours with thy other seliolaza of tho district, cntt vuly bo res gardod o8 8 fraud o the- tax-payers of tha distriut, {tuy onw of whow have 8 tigbt (0 thterfcre to provent the pulitie funds from boing- sqnandored i suels u seckloss, wwanthorized munuer, "A% Wa ¥ 3w th euse, wo perceivo o error n o do< crea of tho Cireult Cotrt ; 1t will theroforo Lo amrmed, Dacreo atirined., ‘I'wo vory important principles aro cnunciated in tho foregoing apinion : Firsi—Lnat, wiile School Directors ‘und Bonrds of Lducation hovo lrgo an 1 digcretion= Bry powera iu the managemont nud control ‘ot their schools, they hive no powar to mako olass- distinctions, nor .to sdisermunato , bebween seholurs on account o) their color, race, or so- cial pasitiom, Second—1'w.b tho attempt to ‘keop and mamtain & soparato echool Eolely to justruct three -or four colored eluidvan, when thoy .can be accomduted in tho sehoal-honse with the other scholurs of tho disttict, can only bo regarded ns u frand upon tho tas-payors OF tho district, any ona of whom lits 6 7ight to_ intorforo to prevout. she puidic funds frow belug squandored iu such & rackless, unauthorizéd manaer. “L'lie opiniou of the Court is ropugnant to the practice, w tho caso of graded schools, of placing all the colored chitdren togotlor iu one room of such graded school, regnrdioss of thaeir respactive artalnments, whilo tho othor.acholaty aro useigued to dilforent rooms accordig to thoir respecitvo attanmonts; becsuse, by such courso, tho colored children loso ul) tho bouolits of the graded_system of chools, and do nok Tave oqual facihilos of fugtruction, “I'ho upinion applics to all_caves whatover, ex- copt whero o dutrick contuius colored childiou onough for ono schiool and whito children euougl for another, aud the Directors in good faith pro- vido = separate school for guch, mllkihfi the fucil- Itica for 1ustruction entiroly equal. 'Tle right of Piroctors to pursue such ‘& couree, insnch cir- euwatances, id noitbor sdirmod nor doniod by tho Court in this opimion. COUNTY TREASURERS A8 EX-OFFICIO COLLU0TORS, "Atiention is also invited to tho following opin- on of tho Attorney-Ueneral, BsaTt OF TLLINOIS, ATIORNEY-GENRRAL'S QbrIor, BEMINGEIMLD, Aug, 3, 187, A, Samle Esi., Sla's Atiorney for’ tord Covaty, "Puton, 10 Ditaw Sim: Your commuuleation of July 3¢ was ro- cetved, 1o which you stuto thut the salury of 1ho Preas uror of your county was fixed by thie Buard of Super~ v.g0rs 4t $909 per annum, but was not fixed as ol Ioctor, aud that the Troasurer cafms and bus retained i fues wa Collsctor, fu addition to tho wslary-allowed Litm up Connty Treasurer, You request my opiiou a3 ta whotlior this otlicer is outitledto his”salary ts ‘reaaures sud wlio (o o focs Totulucd by Lim es jounty Colleetor, O 6t tho_Tovenno Iaw of 13 pror vides thut tho Trewsurer of countice undo township Orgaptustion, oud the Sucrilts of countios nat wider towuthip organizition, eliall bo xc- alicio-Quuty Collgclors of t e 1672, p. 31, See. 14, ; e tuthts was dostgnod fo carry fnto offect Soc, 4 of Ast, 9 of tho Conatituition, which uilo It tho duty of tho' Gonural Atsombly to’ provide that n retirn uf upald taxen cr agiesuments shouid bo wado o some gonoral ofticer of tha county buving suthority to Te- Coivo State und county taxes, and which prouluits the Galo of reul eatate for uch tizos by auy otlier genersl officer, “Lha Storiils ud Troumrers in tholr rosgoct fvo. counties nre such genoral olicers who, by the Tevenuo uct of 1672, are nuthorized 1o reccivo Blud aid connty taxes, Tho effect of this provision is ty {imposo aduitional duties wpon these oiticers fn their Tespoetivo countice, and not {0 confor upon thoin ug aiitional oftico [Wood et al, th Cuok, 31 liL, 3T1L Huch Lelug tho case, they cun only redefva for thert sorvices the compentation Saed for thum by theit County Board. ¥ In purananco of Sec. 18, Art, 10, of ' tho Con- stitution, all fecs or allawancss recetved by thoin in excons of their componuation slall and musb e poid iuto the Covnty Treasary [lbid], 1t tho opposito construction should Kruvml. thoso provisions of tho Constitution which linic the compensation whiel may bo pmd to county oftl- cers would bo frittored nwny by the mero devico of allowmg oxtra componsation for ex-flicia sorvices, 'Tho County Doards oo pob only ros quirad to fix the comyiondation of theeo ofliceri, but ulso to make them ronsouablo allowancs for nocoasary olork-hire, stationery, fuel, . aud other oxpensed | Conatitution of 1870, Art. 10, S 10]." No hurdship noed thoroforo arlso from tronting this statuto na ‘conferring additional dutios n‘»uu the County' Treosurccs for, the graatoe his duties, tuo more liberal sliould Lo bie allowanco for elork-hire, otc. My conclusion, tharaforo, 18, that, when ‘tho County Hoard hini fixod the compengation uf tho County Lronsurar in pursuanco of Sec. 10, At 10, of tho Constitution, all foes rocoived orve- tadned by L over and above such compensa. t{on must bo paid (nto the County Treasury; oud {hat it is mwnterial whother elich foes ucoruo from dutics porformed ns County ‘Lronsurcr propor or a8 ex-ollicio County’ Collactor, ~Bimilar Viows woro expresscd in s opinloun from thig oltice puulishod iu the Cuicago Legal News, 1 au, vory respectfull YO sALE, Attorney-Genaral. |'wm§ of & icoctory” and Loy X of Beho - KL opinion will bo "'rossurers 1n the foroRoing "mr‘éujnfou whon 1t is sonmiored that th ollesr montioned fu the lattor of tho Attornoy General i chargod with the ocolletion of wnpuid ur dolinquont sohuol-tuxes, us well a8 of other tuxed. Connty Ruporintendonts of Beliools are ro- apeotfully rogiestod to forward, or caugo to Lo forwutdled, s copy of thls cweular to cuch Town- ghip Tronsmicr, Board of Divpetors, nud Doard of L2dueation, 1 their reupootiva coantion, EWTON BATEMAN, Buporinteudont of Pubilo Iustruction, Tespoctlve countien