Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 16, 1876, Page 2

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JULY 16, 1876—SIXTEEN PAGES.’ village; but it would zppesr that he attempted to cross the river about its centre, and failed. Finding the Indians too strong for him, he rc- treated, like Reno, to a butte; and here hisbody was found, surrounded by those of 130 of dis men. They lay as they Lad fought, side by side.” It seemed as though, being surrounded as they “were, they had shot their horses, and magde of the bodies of the an- imals & breastwork; for an irregular drile of dead horses were found, inside of which were the majority of the elain. But one man who ‘was with_the command is known to caped. This was a Crow scout, andl. be wounded. Some of the bodies were frightfully muf —t0o0 horrible, in fact. for descr] tion. This is attributed to the squaws. General iay on his side; his head on his hand; A SMILE ON HIS COUNTENAXNCE. He was shot twice through ths body, from side to side, and through the head. Singular to relate, his hair—of which he was so proud—was . untouched, nor his body mutilated. Perhaps this was owing to his having no distinctive mark, not even a uniform. But his brother Tom was cut to picces. * Close by these two was the third brother, Bost.ou{ and Calhoun, a_brother-indaw. The bodies of all were steipped. As soon a5 possible tho dead were buried; the wounded of Reno’s command Temoved to the mverTYeunwszons. ;-:c: %l;i ;r:; of the troops, under Terry, move« 0 that river, om which he can receive supplies and reinforcements. 2% ‘REGEPTION OF THE XEWS AT BUFORD AND BISMARCE. . The news of this disaster was brotizht to Buford by the steamer Far West, of the Coulson Line. sisknd on board upwards of forty wounded men; and, s may be supposed, the grief and metonishment that ensucd .defy description. The steamer did not more than touch at Buford &nd Stevenson, aad pi ed to Bismarck and Fért Lincoln, arriving at the former place at 1T p. m. of the 5th, The Town of Bismarck was astir. It nkub);gt the whxl?)e of »dn teamboat to wake everybody up anyhow; an :he news spread rapidly. Soon all the town was on the streets, and knots of men were discuss- ing the situation until daylight. Suchadisaster may brivg on thonghts of perils to the little communities on this frontier; therefore it was with intense interest that the probabilitics and poseibilities were discussed. One sentiment ‘prevailed over all others, Lowever, and that was sympathy for THE WIDOWED ONES'AT LINCOLN. Fort Lincoln—a post_recently built—lies on the south bank of the Missourd, 4 miles below Bismarck, and has been made one of the most extensive and important in the department. This was the residence of Gen. Custer, and here were collccted many of the wives, pow widows, of thc officers of his com- mand. Here is Mrs. Calbonn, who loses 3 husband, three brothers, and a pephew. She. was a Miss Custer. Like Queen ret of. old, the griefs of ail seem centered in her. . Custer, I understand, bears the loss with heroism; but, orufimma f.hg pntiglcgcs of a correspondent o not, under the ~efrcam- scek any Ve efinite forma such ny snb‘jzmn I _visited the -fort, but refrained from obtruding on such sorrow. The wounded are under the care of Dr. J. V. Middleton, who is doing all that experience .can dictate for their comfort. As I left, s en- tle shower was falling, and I thought that Na- ture was weeping. The zra:f was wety ‘with Nature's tear-drops, gglging, if anght inandmate c'er grieves, O'er ths unretarning brase, 5LD.L. WIAT TIEE INDIANS SAY. Dispatch to_St. Paul Pioneer-Press. ‘BIsMARCK, July 12.—A gentloman who js re- Yisble, just in from Standing Rock, says scveral Indians have come infrom Sitting Bull, cne of whom is wounded. They say there was nine * bands engaged, and of these the Uncpapas slone lost 160 killed and mmyh \roum(ized, B 1‘!“ cmeg were killed, among them "Crazy Horse Black “mb& Sitting Bull is third in rank and intluence, Black Moon being first and Crazy Horse second. ‘The Indian of whom our'repori- ‘er gained the information says there were so many Iudians engaged he could not count them, and tht they logt more than Custer. Some of the older chiefs realize the consequences that will follow this massacre, and are very much de- pressed; but the young fellows are very defiant. INCIDESTS OF RENO'S FIGHT. Letter 10 St. Pau? Pioneer- Presr. An enlisted man named Madden volunteered to procure water. This noble man succeeded in reaching the stream, filled his pail with “water, but when about 10 rods from the bank onhis re- turn to the intrenchments was shot in the ankle and the bone completely shattered. As he lay suffering agonics other ' yolunteers passed. him oun the same errand whieh had proved 50 disastrous to him, and from one of them he begged a carbine that he might e able to fight as long as he lived, and pell his Yife as dearly as possible. He lay on the ground firing at the Indiovs for some time, and _finally commenced to drag himself to- wards the intrenchments, which he succecd- ed in T after a1 two hours' struggle, over ground which but a short time previous he Lad crossed in less than five minutes. When he reached the intrenchments, although the whole command were laying down, Dr. Por- ter proceeded to smputate” Madden's leg, per- 1an; regardless of the target he was making of ‘himself for the Indians during the operation, which was performed successfully, and the men now lies in the hospital at Fort Lincoln, and is Tecovering as fast as could be expected. To Col. Benteen, more thau to any other man, 15 Que the credit of holding the position solong, Tor although every officer and soldier in the command lay on the ground behind the breast- warks, the gallsnt Benteen persisted in standing that he might the better watch the movements of the In and place his men in such posi- tions as would cover the cnemy in csses where they undertook to charge the defenses; and, al- though Col. Benteen took this stand during m:%;y andahalf of close fghting, he came out noharmed. —— e CUSTER. Edmuna C. Steaman, in New York Trifune, What! shall that sudden blade . Leap oot no more? To more thy hand be 1aid Cpon the aword-hilt, smiting soro¥- O for another such T charger's fein to clateh-— One tqual voice to summon victory, Sounding thy battle-cry, Brave daring of the soldiers' choice! Would there were one more voice! (? fignflln_t chargoe, too b&m‘ll ; jerce imperious gree lerce the clouds that in their darknoss hold Slaughter of man and steed! Now, stark and cold. Among thy fallen braves thou Jiest, ‘And even with thy blood deficst The wollish foe; But sh! thou liest low, And all our birGhday song i3 bushed icdeed! To Young lion of the plaiz, | Thou of the lawny mane], ‘Hotly the soldiers’ hearts shall beat, ‘Their mouths thy death rePu ‘Their vengeance seck the irall again ‘Where thy red doomsmen Buton the charge no more shall stream ey hair—po more thy saber gleam— ‘Mo more ring out thy batte-shonty Thy cry of victory | Not when a hero falls The cound & world appals: Yor while we plant his cross There isa glory, even in the joss; But when some craven beart k From honor dares to Eon, " ‘T'hen, then, the groan, the blanching cheek, And men in whispers speak, & War kith nor country dare reclaim R From the black depths his name. Thou, wild young warrlor, rest, /B3 il the prairic-winds caresaed! Swift was thy dying pang; Even s the war-cry nns ‘Thy deathless spirit mounted high - And sought Columbin's 8ky i~ ‘There, 10 the northward far, * Shines n new star, And from 1L birzes down =The Jight of 1hy renvwn! JoLy 1v, 1876, : i e Slielley's First-Born Child. Zondun Academy. The geath o 3. £ Exalle shoula by ass Without record in a Dterary journal. This Pad_v was lanthe Eliza Shelley, {h{: first-born of all Shelley’s children. She dicd on June 16, at Cliftan, being just 63 years of sze. The poet had six children altogether; Janthie ana Charles by his firet wife, Harrictt Westbrook; Wiltiam, Clars, Percy (the present Baronet), and an in. fant who died very early, by his second wife, Mary Godwin. -Save the eldest and the young- est, Ianthe and Percy, none of them reached ndalcseence; nnd now Percy nlone remains. The Eheliey family have hitberto professed reticence with rezard 10 some passages in Shelley's Jifo. te tiwre for a full disclosure was " not yet come"’; perhaps, asthe representatives of hisyace diinish in number, the time approaches. Bat no right-feeling sons would urge unscewnly . haste, distastetul to survivors. lanthe wag, of course, one of the two children of his first mar- riage taken away from Sheiley's custody in 1817 by deerce of tie Court of Chancery; she was tien 4 yesrs of age, was educated under the euperintendence of a tlergyman of tbe Church of England, and grew to womanhood, and even 1o advunced age, we belicve, in almost total ig- porapce of her father's doings. personal and poetical. While the civilized world has become, as it were, B chamber irradinted by Shelicy’s sun-like geniug, the once darkest corner of it to which no beam reached was octupled by Lis Joughter. = POLITICAL. The Republicans Occupied in Organizing for Victory. Demceratic Efforts to Get Their Forces Into Working - Order, Grand Ratification Meeting at South Bend Last Evening. Gen. Butler Decides that He wWill Not Run for Congress. CROW, 0, THE CROW, THE BEAUTIFUL CROW, * (Afr: 0, the Snow, the Beautiful Snow.) 0. the crow, the beautiful crow, Hov the quills stick as they downward gol Drearicst dict of all, that we've got To swallow; whether we like it or not; ‘hoking, o N ‘Worrying down, Forcing a smile that looks niore like & {rown; The unpitying Uards that o snickering by Ask if it's nice, with a wink of the eye, Of ail the tough things we have enten, they kuow ‘There is nothing £0 tough 2s the Tildenite crow! 0% Once I wae not fond of raven, bat now T prefer it to any bird roosting on bough, - Broiled prairic-chicken, or canvas-back ronst, Suibe, 8quab, epring chickes, or guall upon tonst, lurkey~ Buzzard, . ulture, owl, All are Tess sweet thanthia primest.of fow, Blacked, and roasted. bofled with care, Served on the platform we didu't preparo. O'er it for sauce pour abar'l or £o Of grecubacks, and then what ls sweeterthan erow? fiid Spread s the table, the guests they are met, Storey has come, thongh with signs of rogret, Watterson js as Amphibryon set, Waiter Dorsheimer, with revereace Jow, Asks **Raven broth, Sir, or puree de crom?™ Entrees— Crow hash: : Corbean rotf; row pot-pie; and crow salad ecc; c Wines—0ld Crow: and,tho Iedies fay, Y Pray, will yoo gom in 8 zame of crowquety™ A that are round or before us wo know Are variantes on the single theme—Crow, 0O, for alodze in some wilderness vast, Where Storcy and 1 conld avoid this repast! O, that my Jot with the Sioux bad been cast! That I were sitting, not as here forlorn, At the small end of the Little Big Horn, Scalping, “Shoating, Torturing Crows, Their 08 my implacable foes! - - * Happler far the Dakota's Jot,- “Though certainly starved and probably shot, Let the worst come 1o the worst, poor Lo Has only 1o kill, not to eat, his Crow! Wasz Mo Crxersyar, July, 1876, s OEOW, BILKD CROW. % (Air: Rome, Sicect Home.) T6 Conventions and Caucuses thongh we may go, Be it ever 20 nauscout, there's noting like Crow; The charos of this dict the pen fails to trace, But they cleurly arc shown by the crow-eater's face, il Crow, crow, good biled crow, Be it ever 8o nauscous, there's mothing like crow! A stranger to ofiice thesesixteen years past, T scek but a chance for to break my Jong fast; And the table is spread in the wilderness: Jo1 The refreshment i solid, not Hquid Old Crow1 Crow, crow, good biled crow; Be it ever fo nauscots, there's nothing Jike crow! 876, AL AL Eexsas Orry, Mo., July, THE REPUBLICANS, THIED WALD. A meeting of the Third Ward Republican Club was Beld lasi evening at*the club head- quarters, No. %0 Wabash ‘aveaue, Mr. A, J. Golloway in-the chair. The following auxillary campaiga committees -were appointed for the several precineta: First Precinci~Dr, T. A. Emmons, C. L. Lau- caster, A. N. Eddy, P. V. Fitzpatrick, Fred Crumbaugb. % Second—Al Bugh, James B, Galloway, Matson Hill, Samuc] Powell, Terrence O'Brien. Third—H, L. Montgowmery, T. E. Stacey, W. H. Jenkins, T. H. Patterson, E. F. Dexter, David Gill, J. H. Roberts, R- G. Waggener, 3. R. Casper, A. C. Recd, George Boyington. Tourth—E. T. Sumswalt, R. 5. Hughes, W. 0. Cole, Eugene Cary, B. Campbell, William Gibbs, C. O Huat, C. E. Willard, 8. R. Bart- letts Onmotion of Judge Carcy the initiation fec of §1was aboliched, aud the prerequisite for membershin 1pece—~Td connection with the " Tepublican party. The Club was then addressed by Judge Carey, who paid some. attention to the policy of the Democrats. From the specchies of Hassaurek and Farnsworth it was evident that the party did not care 1o discuss its history, but to make the issuc a purely personal one. Judge Carcy maintained that, even accepting this issue, the Repuolicans had nothing to fear. Gov. Hayes cowld well compare with Gov. Tilden. He stood unassailed nnd upassailable, whether in his military or civil career. Nothing could be brought against him. In his military 4 career he had carned well-deserved promotion b{ the peculiar fitness e bad shown as a sol- dier. his political career his adrancement had been equally rapid and safe. Thrice had “he been called upon to preside over the Govern- ment of the Sfate of Ohio, It had been urged arainst him that, beeanse he hed never been a ring-breaker, he did not possess the requisites for a preat office like tnat of President. It might be unfortunate that Hayeshad lived in an intelligent Republican State where rings were unknown; but most people woutd not think so, nor would this be urged against him by intelli~ vgj-v:nf. people as an evidence of inefliciency. Gov. lilden had always been & single man—whether from cowardice, or a regurd for posterity, the speaker would not say. Tilden bad disobeyed oue of the first laws of God, and thiere was cer~ tainly one woman he had defrauded of her rights. He might bave been square towards the men, but he had not done exactly the square thing towards the women. [Laughter.) Judge Carey then osed Tilden's record as a disciple of 1'ammany ¥all. This, he said, was the sciool in_which Be had learned his lessons in politics. Possibly good reformers were raised out of such schools, but the speaker preferred a man educated in_ the usual honorable way as Hayes had been educat- ¢ in the State of Oblo. Tliden did not ?pose Tammany until after she was_down, and had been exposed by the New York, Times and the Republicans” of New York. He did a 500‘1 work, but he wzs late in well-doing." But it 50 happened that Tiweed was sent to the Pen- itentfary by a Republican Judge and liberated by a Democratie Shertff. Tilden’s record as the canalaring reformer was confined to the ¢spen- diture of $200,000 for the conviction of one man. And even this had been heralded by Tilden himself asa grand work of reform. The speaker asserted that Tidden would be a 1aere puppet in the hands of the ]g;\rty hacks. The power, the home, of the Democralic party was at the South, and it would necessarfl,r be controlied by the ?nlicy of the South, which had always controlled and dictated the party policy, and would continue to do so. The Denorats at the South werc unrepentant still, while the action of the Federal Governmeut bad been most magnanimous, snd in the speaker's opinion, the men who sought to destroy the Government were not the men who could be safely trusted as its guardians. _[Applause.] After some brief remarks by Mr. W. O. Cole and others, the meeting adjourned. THIRTEENTH WARD, The Thirteenth Ward Republican Club held a lergely attended meeting 1sst evening in Benz's Hall, West Lake street, near Robey. J. P. Em- mett occupied the cheir. The question of re- organization of the Clnb was discussed at some length, and the ofilcers were requested to meet together to discuss the matter of tendering thielr resignations ot the next rcqular meeting of the Glub. After making a collection to pay the rent of the hall, the Club adjourned. AT REPUBLICAN READQUARTERSEY not much was doing yvesterday, The organize- tion of Hayes and Whecler Clubs throughout the Statc is being reported, and for the informa- tion of Democeratic candidates it is stated that there are 5,014 fully-organized Republican Clubs in Ilindis, which kive so far reported, and that nearly every one of these will organize 2 Hayes and Wheelér Club. ‘The membership lists of“all are very Inll, and represent ina grezt measure the flower and strength of the Republican party. The headquarters of the National Rey ugfimn Executive Committce of the West will bein this city, snd will probably be located in the hand- some parlors fitted up in the Grand Pacific Hotel by Col. Joln B. Drake. The State Central Commiftee mects in this city ot the Grand Pacific | Hotel, on tbe 194 iust, st 10 & m., whena lan for carrying on the il bg desiatd spon. NINTH WARD, ¥ . Thio Republicans of the Ninth Ward are mov- ing in the matter of forming 3 semi-military or- ganization for service during the Presidential campaign. A committee has been nrpolntvd to rcimru plan of orgapization, coroll men, and collect funds with whichto purchase uniforms, ¢te. The Committec is.composed of Maj. R, F. Wilson, James Stewart “flfi’nflfl‘)‘ J. 3. Get- man, W, 0. Ludlow, J., - cgely, J. L. Tren- nan, and E. H. Hinckley. Their report will be made at the next rc¥ulnr meeting of the Repub- Hean Ward Club, which will -be held Tucsday evening, the 25th fnst. Co A, Fourts Ward Haymakers, will mpan; ‘o ard_Ha, ers, wil meet Monday evening at the Hall: corner Soath Park avenue and Thirty-third street, at § o’clock sharp, for drill. Every member, of the Com- gm_\y aad those wishing to-join are réquested to e present. The State Campals lee Club have beeninvited and arc expected to be present, Durlng the evening a Committee, consisting of Mrs. Leander Stone, Mrs, Johni A. Logan, and, 2rs. Eqward C. Mitchell, on behalf of the Jadies of the ward, will present the Company with an elegunt silk flag. ~The' ladies of the ward are espacially nvited to be present. % campalgn in this State NOT IN BYMPATAY. 70 the Editor of The Trivune. CmicaGo, July 15~You state in this morn- ing’s TRIBUNE, that, among others, the assist- ants of the'North Side Adscssor were last night at the mecting ¢alled for the purpose of organ- iziug a Tilden Reform Club. Allow me to say’ that Mr. C. Dyer hod .two Gérman assistants, and I was one of them; but. your reporter was, imposed upon If he was told that I was present. at said meeting. My symflmmles are not withor for Tilden, or any other Uemocratic candidate. 1 belped, in 1855, to redeem Cook County from Democratic misrule, and you may fecl assured that Hayes and Whecler are my men. Respec- teully, CiarLES HAUSSNER. THE DEMOCRACY. . ORQANIZING FOR THE CAMPAIGN. The Democratic Central Committee met yes- terday afternoon in the ladies’ ordinary of the Palmer House. Several of the bright lights were there. J. R.Doolittle, Jr., John Mattocks, J. C. Richberg, Gen. Stiles, T.-A.Morea, Mike Evans, Tom Foley, Mike Bailey, and others, representing the two wings of the party—the’| respectable and the rag-and-tag-bnmmer ele- ment—were on hand. A Federal flag covered o portion of the marble floor, leaving the be- holder to wonder whether its humble position were of accident or design, The unterrified Reformers vigorously squirted tobacco-julce over the floor, snd consulted for the country’s good. The mecting was called to order at 8 o’clock by John Mattocks. A voluble Secretary rattled off the minutesof the last meeting, which were approved. When it came to resding the report of the Committee on Constitution, Mr. Mat. tocks resigned the chair in favor of Mr. 8. D, Baldwin. The Secretary then read the follow- ing report: % 3 ? We, the members of the Democratic City Central Committee, in order to form a more perfect or- ganization and promiotc the best intercats of tho Lty by laboring earncatly for fts suiccees, do or- uin and establish those regulstions as our ruld and guidance: This City Central Committcé shall consist of ono meinber from cach ward and two from the city at targe, to be elected annunlly st the regular city- elcction, holden in April of each year. The officers of_this Committee shall consist'of a President, Secretary, and Treasurer,: who shall hold their respective offices for the term of one year, Each member of the City Contral Committee, for his respective ward, sball appeint some one for active ward work, attend to the securing of speak- ers, renting halls, and eflecting a thoroniah canyass of the ward by making a complete registey of the voters in esch ward, and to stiend to other details meceasary for success, ‘This Commiittee of Five shall endeavor to hace monize existing difticulties in wards, and if their efforts prove unavailing, then an appesl shall be had to the Central Cowmittee of Twefity, whoso fl!flm" zhn;l e flua;.b city. lie members of the City. Central Committce <hell subdivide themselves for their respective di visjons—North, South, znd West—os -appointed for euch district by reapective wards, into wub- corunittees, for the purpoee of excrcising a super. visory action over the town elections. Fof the gurpnm of harmony, when elections far national, State, and county officcra are to be held, the City Central Commitice .will consult with the respective National, State, and County Commit- tees swhat may be best ta e dono to secnre naity of action and success for the Democratic party. * A 3. B, Vavghn introduced the Jolowing amendment: / That cach member of the Execative Committee appoint, with the advice and consent of his Ward Ciub, oré man_ for cach rgrcclncx. 85 & member of the Working Ward Committee. * Mr. Mattocks, the Chatrman of the Commit- tec which prepared thé report, suggested the insertion of a cluuse providing that each mem- ber of the Central Committe, for his respective ward, should appoint five men for active ward duty, to constitute the Ward Committee. He thought this addition would cover the case, and :iid 1t would probably have been inserted iu the original report, but that the latter had been hastily read over by the members of the Com- mittee. it : Scveral brethren spoke on the report and the amendment, and the general fec! ing was in favor_of adopting the rcport with Mr. Mat- tocks? addition, and in opposition to the amend- ment offered by Mr. Vaughn, which was finally voted down. The following amendmcent, offered by Mr. A, C. Storey, was adopied, after which the report of the Cqmmittee was adopted as a whole: Each member-at-large of the Executive Commit- tec shall appoint ten men from_the city at large, and ward members of the City Central Committee shall, for their respective wards, appoint five men, to constitute 8 Wurd and General Workiug Com: mittee. Mr. Mattocks announced that Rooms 22 and 23, the permanent headquarters at the Palmer, would be ready for occupancy Monday morning, aud would be open to all' Democerats until the end of the campaign, under the charge of the Becretary, Mr. Crowley. v On motion, the Committce then adjourned to Saturday at 4 p. m. AT TIE DEMOCRATIC EADQUARTERS yesterday not cven an “old liner” showed him- self. Tlie pall of defeat scems to hang over the dusty chairs and _cobwebbed walls. Even Miles Kehoe, the presiding zenius of young Demacra- cy, was not about. Perry H. Smith is said to he ‘ast,holding a consuliation with S. J. Tilden as to how much of that *“*bar'l of money ” will he expended in the West, and how much the rail- road interests and the wealthy “roclk-rooted” are expected to contribute to aid in carrying on the campaign. Some of the Democrats talk of running ex- Gov. Palmer for Governor on thelr ticket ln casethe Indepeundents don’t uwitqwith them. Koerner is acknowlcdged to be out of the ques- tion, because he was beaten foltyears ago, and caanat even carry hisown county. Asto Johu M. Palmer, many of the Democrats are doubtful of his loyalty to thefr cause. They seem to think that_the ex-Governor will not swallow . Tilden and Heudrleks, though great efforts have been made to make him 8o, but that he ywill finhll come out straight for Hnyos and Wheelon : A trouble likely to arise, and which will probably knock the” conlition of Democrats and Greenbackers in the head, is the fact that the Independents. do not waut to swallow Tilden. They can take in soft-money, Flencricks, but, a3 to Tidon, they think he is ' too liard ™ to take in with Perry H. Swmith, Tom Hoyne, Jobn Foysythe, Miles Kehoe, and the rest of the Democratic leaders. The Confcrence Committve meets in Spring- field on the 26th inst., and from all appearances it threatens to b a lively one, not calenlated to brinZ banmony to the Democratic party, as many of the honest money men are opposed to é :)f in ng‘d Sll:ll:r\h;g wlthmbhc mg~bn%v. Al- ogcther, things lool anything but bright in the Dcmomu% wigwam. THE L . AENTH WARD. § Great preparations had been made during the ln;t few days by the Democrats of the Tenth Ward to liold a grand ratification mecting last eveping and to form an immense Tilden Reform Club. “The old Aurora Turner-Hlall, No. 113 Milwaukee avenue, liad been fixed up in grand style, and & number of prominent speakers had Deen jnvited to address the {munense assem- blage which was expeeted. But up to § o'clock Do one had made his appearance exedpt Mess: J.C. Richbergand A. C. Storey. Bathof thomng carcfully-prepared epeechics in their coat pock- ets, and were burning to fling them at the crowd. of reformers. Alter waiting about ten minutes and no one else coming to sce wlint was going on, Ms. Storey thought that the reason for the slim turn-out was because he had advertised the meeting in the newspapers, while the reformers of the Tenth Ward could not_read at all, Mr. Richberg suggested getting a drummer to drum a crowd together, and Mr. Storey hunted around for one quite a while, bur did not stteeeed in finding one. He Ii-:kcd up, however, an Italian organ-grinder and gave him a nickel to grind a erowd together. Though the Iialian ground away as if for deer life for ncarly half an hour, yet he did not succeed in bringing oat any one, awd ziua.!ly e gave up the 10b in diszusi. At about 9 o'clock only half a dozen persons werc present. Some one -suggested to organize the meeting sny way, but several objected on the ground” that thérc wore not cugugh persana present to fill the offices. It was finally decided to postpone the organization of the ward club ‘¢ bar’l of money.” Frep beer and alunch expected to bring out a crowd. . THE ENGLISH OUTSIDER, - HOW THE CINCINNATI CONVENTION DIPRESSED THE LONDON TINES CORRESTONDENT. Bpecial Correspandence London 2imes... . Civemvyary, O., June 15.—It . may perhaps dnterest your readersto have some account of tlhic physiognomy of the contest at Cincinnati as it impresses an English outsider witnessing it for the first time. I was tempted over here by' the general expectation that the contest would- be unusnally warm; and, leaving Philadelphia at 7:20 on Monday morning, reached. Cinefonatiy at 5 yesterday -morning~nof bad' traveling,i considering that the distance Is nearJy 670 miles.| I found many of the nalives already up and. stirring, the Convention having thrown the town into quite a fever of excitement, and,, leaving myluggage at the railway station, set out in scarchof quarters. The hotels were all cramm- cd to suffocation, some of their rooms having two, three, and even us many as six occupants buty after & pratty long hunt, I hod the Iuck t {ind an unoccupicd room in a private boarding house. From the numerous attempts made .share it with mc] Tinfer that visitors are stil thronging into the place. . . . The Ameri- cans who crowd here have all of them, of course, a certain futerest—many of them 3 close per- sonal interest—in the result of the struggle.! But even to a foreign and unconcerned specta- tor the Convention is one of the most_interest- ing assemblies in the world. Its members have: no oflicial or Jegal status whatsoever. They are as purely & voluntary assocation ds if they ~ were Knights ‘Templars or 0da- Fellows. They pay their own cxpenses—no slight burden” for those-who come from dis- tant States or Territories,through which they must make a long aud weary pligrimage before they can even reach the nearest railrond. Yet the organization is as perfect, and the influence of this wmimic Parflament is as great, as if it had o place formally essigned to it in the _Constitution of the * realm. Whatever President it may nomingte is almost : certain to have the whole strength’of the party at his back as soon as the tug of war between Republican and Democrat begins. At this momnent Cincinnati {s occupied by half-a-dozen hostile camps, some of them waging internecine war with, the bitterest animosity. Yot the moment that one cmerges from the general conflict victorious, _all the rest, Yorgetting their feuds, il rouud bln ond belp him as Joyally In tho strug- gle against that common foc of all, the Demo- crab, as if they had never been aught bab its: humble follawvers or dear allies. i There is an amuslng variety in the attitude, and tactics of the yarious dulegutions. Some; come "stecped to the lips int*instructions,” others pericetly freeto do what they lke. Scie! are resolved to vote all the same way,—that ls, il a disagreement arises it is settied by the micority giving way to the majority and vot- infi for the majority’s man. Others agres to differ and split up, it_may. ba.kfur half-a-dozen In the New York delegation Mr. Curtis hos the moral courage to be in a proud minority of one, and to hold steadiastly to Bristow, as most of the best men are doing, thouih his sixty-nine collcagucs are all urF ing Wim to vote for Conkling. In the Gceorgia delegation, on the other hand, the votes urc so divided that, according toa eal- culation I have scem, out of twenty-two, ten are for Blaine, fiye for Bristow, five for Morton, und two for Conkling. I might have referred just now toanothicr distracting element. —the {rading, as it is called, for second places: : thus, it is siud that ss soon as Hayes’ men are - satistied that ke cannot be President, they will give their votes to any party which, m turn, will | Dack him for Vice-President. Other votes willl go for & seat in the Cabinet, and so on. In the snidst of «ll these uncertainties end inumerable contingencies, all these maneuvres and counter- ; maneuvres and Rupnt,\u.lly shifting tactics, one cannot wonder that, even without allowing for hopefulness or braggadocio, the most careful estimates should be wildly conmdlcmrg. My belief {5 that, until the voilng actually beging, the result is beyond prediction, however nueh appearatices may now be in faver of Blaine. 'he delegutions are forty-seven in’ number, and have their headquarters as nearly as poesi- ble tugether in the central part of the town. The large hotels are naturally the favorite strongholds, being almost completely taken up by the delegations, and, as the clict, one may almost, say the solé, business of politicians, re- porters, and loungers is to wander from dele- gation to delegation in the dusperate yet ever- renewed endeavor to flnd out how each -will vote, the staireaes and passages are so crowded that it {s not always easy to make ome’s way along them. -Nobody, however, is in the slight- est hurry. Copsidering the fmportance of the issues ‘ot stuke aud the strong feclings which one knows to be at work under acalm exterior, there {5 quite a marvelous ’bseace of all outward excitement. ~ Everybody £ooms to luve time to lnun%c on a chair, smoke, chew, or gossip with the latest comer. . The centre of aitraction is,-usually, 8 huge bowl of iced lemonade, to which anybody helgs himself without ceremony. ' Not very muchdrink of a stronger, kind is takeu, despite the proximity of bars und-the thirst engendered by the perpetual talking and the intense heat. Onec of the most striking features of the Convention {5 the order- 1y way in which it is carried on. Thanks to the bands and _ the parading, the streets are pretty nearly ail day full of noisc and movement. But there isnonc of thut riotous disorder which oné habitually associated till very recently with clectioneering in England. 1n the strects lnst night and to-pight, though I havs secn soveral politicians whit_ s eapheinistically called hap- Py, I have not seen one helpiessly or even uproariously drunken man. ‘o-day the Convention opened, but the pro- cecdings were mostly preliminary formalitics, about which not much need be said. The fighting begins to-morrow. The arrangements avere very good. I do not knoyw that I ever saw in 50 large #a assembly—numbering at a rou%h guess 4,000—everybody find his seat with so lit- He trouble or confusion. The building s a huge, oblong structure of wood, generally used for exhibitions and fairsp and, Vith its four large gallerics, capable of nccommodating some 5,000. On the floor in the body of the house sat the delegations, their glms marked off vith large lacards. : Behind them eit the alternates,—also ¥53 in number,—forming no part of the Conven- tion, but ready, In case of an emergeney, to supply cach the placcof a delegate. O raised platform sit the Committee; and toe gullerics are oceupicd by guests. In the gailery Tarthest {rom the platforin thereis, of cotrse, that seem- ngly insoparable_accompaninent of Americay politics, 2 band. The hallis gravefully decorated rith tri-color festoons, and the Sturs and Stripes aud spread eagle; but, in other respects, an ultra-Republican simplicity pervades” ft. . The platform is_the plafnest of £ Intforms, without carpet or adornment of any kind, and it is fully Kept in countenance by the plaln wooden tablcs and chairs. The delegates have no chance of adopting any of the favorite Awmcrican aiti- tudes, but must sit bolt ns)r:ght. closely packed. candidates, Thelr dress is of the simplest, cach man wear- |i ing what seems good in s own or his wife's eyes. They are, nsa body, very intellizent- lovking men, with faces more expressive of vigor and practical shrewdness than of enlture orrefinement. There are about thirty colored delesabes, conspicuous among the New-Yorkers being Irederick Douglnss, ‘The perfoct case and familiarity with Porlismentary forms with which delegate after delegate rese to address the House wus very striking, Still more strik- ing, perhaps, was the smoothness with which the procecolngs were carried on. Everybody scemed to know exactly what he had to do and did it. The Americans are so familiar with poiitical gatherings of this kind that they run them as if on weil-ofled wheels. MISCELLANEOUS. - SOUTH BEND. Spectal Dispatch to The Trivune, Sours Bexp, Ind,, July 15—The Republican party opened the campaign here to-night by a grand ratifiention meeting In the Court-House'| Square, in honor of the standard-bearers, | D: Iayes and Wheeler. A Jarge bonfire was Hut. fn the street, which furnished lght, and the Cornct Band furnished music for . the oceston. The meeting was addressed by the Hon. William H. Calkins, of ZLaporte, the nomince for Congress. He had not come to makea set eampaign speech, but he would name a few of the jssues to be dis- cussed in the campaign. national platforms of the Demoeratic party their various positions on the currenzy question from 1864 to the present thne, showing their - inconsisteney 35 a purfl.f' on that fssue. He then reviewed the personnel of the St. Louiz_Conveution in their deelaration for reform, and compared them to o Iot of Mormons declaring for the abolition of olygamy. Inregard to’ the Resumption act, Lle unqualifiedly dedlared himeelf in favor of its repeal, and claimed alt honor’ for the grecn- Dacks ‘a3 belonging to the Republican party, which were thi exclusive property, = The Major made a specch which was approved by Learty cheers. % He was followed by the Hone Schugler Col- fax, who came to join in the ratifichtion for Huyes and Wiieeler. It westhe grandest tiekes, morally, insellectually, geoxraphicaly, and p litically which ¢ ull bave becn nominated fn the Cincinnati Couvention. .M. Colfax atsome lengtn reviewed the issuces of the campaign, and partieularly pointed the infiuences in New York & wrhich weré -ip snpport of Tilden, and showed their corrupt tendereles. until * Unclc Sam'™ kad seat on some of that | After he had closed, & committce from the He rehearsed from the |: Hayes- and Wheeler Clab, -just_organized, re- m%:d thelr organization, with Mr. Colfax as resident, and a-full Jist of: oflicers, after which Judge Turner, who' supported Horace Greeley in 1§72, was called out, and pronounced in favor of Hayes and Wheeler. " pectat Diapoten b0 e Trivune al Die SeniNGELELD, 1Ty July 15.—Tho Young Men's Republican Club at a meeting to-night recon- sidered the vote heretofore passed censunng President Grant for the removal of Jewell, an Gov. Eeveridge for the remorval ‘of Fred T. Du- bols as Seeretary of the Railroad and Warchouse Cowmmission, 3 CANDIDATE, " ° ki 3 CINCINNATY, O., July 15,—The Register, an In- dependent paper of Chillicothe, 0., announces the Hon. L. G. Delano Indcpendent candidate for Cougress from that District. - TILDEX. A ALBANY, N. Y. July 15,—Gov. Tilden has re- turned from Saratogs, called by the pressure of official business. It will be seves fore he can devote any attention to his letter of acceptance. = i I OBN, BUTLER. Lowerz, July 15.—1It is understood that Gen. Butler hos abandoned the idea of runaing for Congress at the coming election. : MISSOURT DEMOCRACY. 87, Lovis, Mo.. Jply 15.—The Democracy held a primary election to-day for delegates to the State Convention to be held in Jefferson City on the 10th inst. The struggle was be- tween what is called the Tammany and anti- ‘Fammany men, the former favoring George G. Bust for Governor. The retorns are not all in vet, but the probabilities sccm $o be that the ‘Tammany dclegates are the most pumerous. CRIME. TIIE TRAIN ROBBERY. Dispalch to the Globe-Democrat, St Loutr. JerrrRsoN Crry, July 12.~—Concerning the Missouri Pacific cxpress robbery, Miss Peabody, an ex~Jefferson City lady, who was on the eap- tured train, gave the following interesting statement to the Jefferson City Z'ritunereportor: ¢4 After leaving Otterville," 8says Miss Peabody, 1 ywas dozing in a reclining chair~—probably fast failing aslecp: Suddenly the train was brought to 2 halt, and 2 moment later & man rushed harriedly through the car. I believe he was the express mesecnger, Some one asked him whnt was the mutter, *The train is being robbed, that's what's the matter,’ he hurriedly replied, and kept on. Then all was commiotion and confasion, Inclad- Ing_myself there were three ladiesin the ear. I confess that I wax_terribly frightencd and thonght Tehould faint, bnt"—and Miss Christine Jaughed at the remembrance, ‘‘Isnw that there was no one handy to catch or care for a person in a faint, ana conciuded to omit this part -of the programme. Meanwhile, shots were being fired on the outside, and we could hear numbers of men cursing and swearing, 1supposo the shots were fired for the purpose of Intimidation. I believe our car was next to tho.smoking-car. Dircctly the door was thrown open, and in atalked two of the robbera, The leader put his hand on the shoulder of 2 brakemsn aud sald, ‘Here, I want yom,’ and hustled him out. We thought they were goin; 10 shoot him, but, 1 suppose now, they want Nm to fdentify the expross messenger. It was rare fun—I mean it {6 amusing 1o Jook back at it 0w, nothing funny in it then—to sce the passcn- gers concenling their vuluables. Here yon would see & man with his boots off, cramming "his grocs bucks in his socks; several—Mr. Marshall, of Fi ton, among the rest—tossed their cash, wotches, etc., into & conlpbox; others were ug od tho backs of seata hunting . holes for _their pocket-books. Wherover anything could be concealed, something wae sure to find ita way. The conductor, excited and_ncrvous, hurrledly passed through, and tald all who had valusbdles to take carc of them. The most ludicrous incident 1 can now rctall was when s sanctimonfous look- ing individual, evidently scared aAlmost out of his wits, broke forth with the old familiur song, **I'm oing bomo to.di¢ mo more.” His guavering, gole ful voice echoed tbrongh the car with lugu- brious eficet. Some of the malo passengors were ungallant enough to interrupt him with the remark that be hud better be getting his money ot of the way instead of starting & camp-meeling. laving finished the hywn, be arose and gave in his expericnce. He stated that he had been a follower of the Lord for cver g0 many years;.that he wasa true and coneistont member. of the' Church; that he hud never wronzed a fellow being, but that if e was doomed to be murdered, he wanted his re- mains forwarded to his family in New York, snd to ‘write them thut he had dled trug to the faith and in the hope of 3 glorions resurrection. ** The tamult outside continned. We conld dfs- tinctly hear them pounding away a5 the Adams Expross safe, and their coarae 0aths and jmpreca- tions 8t being delayed. Occasionally. “shots were fired. The lcader of the robbers, a tall, fine- looking man, accompanied by ope Y his com- rudes, pasced through the car.” * You need not b Licini your money,’ said the leader, *we do not intend to disturb yon," IHe wore a red handker- chief over his face, with holea cut for his eyes and mouth. Below the handkerchief appesred his ‘beard, —very long, but probably false. His com- anion was a smaller and a rongher-looking man. Tiii nsk was simnply a white nandkerchist tiod over the lower portion of his face. The upper purt was plainly visible. He remarked that we must conefder. them an awinl sct of reprobates. The inquiry for arms showed three pistols in on- car. One of thesc was owned by o lady. Throughe out the whole affair she remained perfectly cool and collected, and refused {0 accommodate gen- tleman with the loan of her pisiol. When some one.#aid this was the work of the Jsmes boys, she langhingly remarked. that her mame was James, but sho hoped nonc of her Felatives weze engaged in sach disreputable busin: **The newsboy had a ol and made his way to the fronc platform. Looking up the bluf, he descried the figure of amanand fred. Inanin- stant the shot was returned. The ball pessed be- tween the plucky newsboy 3nd n gentloman who ‘was also on the platform, and both of them sought shelter without ccremony. Thinking that the robbors might fire through the windows, Tgot off the chairand ‘took a_position on the ficor. The sanctimonions New Yorker who was going away <o dfe no more, thinking, doubtless, that I waa cn- gaged in prayer, voftly approached and asked if T Was prepared to die? I was not in & hamor to on- tighten him upon the subject. "1 Ve were detfainea about an hour, when, the robliers having accomplished their purposc, gnve us pernoiksion to proceed. It was one of tho epl- sodes of my Tite ] ehail nover forget. » A. RAISED DRAFT. DuBUQUE, Is., July 15.-A weck ago a woman purchased a draft on New York for $385, raised it to $8,085, took it to Earlville, Delsware Coun- t{. obtained the money of ‘a bauker In that P ace, and vamooscd.. The draft was returned rom’ Now York protested, and the Eariville hanker is out the amount of the forgery. She gave her name s Sarah-Ann Smith. ALLEGED DEFALCATION. . Haveas, N. 8, July 15.—AM Brush, the Treasurer of the Inter-Colonial Rallway, has absconded. He fs eaid to be a-defaulter. SENTENCE COMMUTED. . ALpANY, July 15.~The Govérnor has ‘com- muted to imprisonment for life the sentence of Mrs. Wilhelmini, who was to bo hanged Fridsy next for the murder of her step-son. el i A THE WEATHER. ‘WasmiseroN, D. C., July 16—1s. m.~For the Upper Lake region, Upper Mississippi and Missouri Valleys, slowly rising temperature, easterly to southerly winds, falling barometer during” the da‘y, apd generally clear weather, %/“fip possibly local rains fo the Mias:.nfl allcy. 10CAL OBSERVATIONS. Ciiroago, July 15 ind. 1 Zn.1 Weather GENERAL OBSENFATION: €040, J' Statlons. | Bar| Thr.| Wind. _|Rain; Wrea, 05 78 ';Z' ., fresn.....|Falr lrr,‘fb B 0,100 I2lon/agt {247, csh Sait i20:84) b YanKkion. ... :20.93 . ——————— OBITUARY. Special Dispaich to ThesTridune. ANK ARBo, Mich., July 15.~Dr. R. 8. Smith, President of the Ann Arbor Savings Bank, died lost pight. He was a man_of considerable wenlth and prominence in the city, and had lived hiere twonty years. - 8 SUICIDE, Spectat Dispaich to The Tribune. DerroiT, Mich., July 15.—Miss Addie Hadsel), 22 years of age, 2 member of one of the leading familics of Pontinc, shot hereelf in the head to- silling her {nstantly. Ressons for the sub- unknown. E —— OCEAN STEAMSH!P NEWS. New Yors, July 15.—Arrived, steamer Matn, from Bremen. 3 7 " FAxrtizr PorsT, July 153“Arrived, stenmor Canadign, from Glasgow. - Liveneoor, July 15.—Steamship Assyria, from New York, hns arrived ous. - Bostox, Jaly 15.—Arrived,cteamships Dyrian end Marathon, from Liverpool, ay cide ‘weoks be- THE 6LD REBEL SPIRIT. | One Way of Reducing the Negro-Vote in the South. How Republicans Are Assassinate ed in South Carolina. A Foretasts of What Wonld Happen Were Tilden to Be Elected. ¥ Correspondence New Tork Timer. - Aucusts, Ga, July 9.—The murdet of né- groes last night was a sorry affair for this sec-: tlon of the South. Eight men ara lying dead this morning, another is barely alive, and two others are serionsly wounded. The circum- stances surrounding THE SO-OALLED “BATTLR" are’as follows: Augusts is a ¢ity of some 30,000 inhabitants, and stands on the left bauk of the Savannah River. Hambure, 8. C., a town of about 500 inhabitants, is situated on the right bank of the samse stream, and is directly opposite Augusta. The places are connected by one carriage and two railroad bridges. Fifty years ago Hamburg was a flourishing little city doing a large inland cotton trade, and looked upon as the commer- cial rival of its neighbor. The railroads, how- ever, wera its ruin. The cotton business all came to Augusts, and since that time Hamburg bas been going rapidly into decay. Most of the white residents have left since the War, and the town Is inhabited principally by colored people, who have exclusive control of the Municipal Government. OI course the col- ored men sre all stanch Republicans, and of course nine-tenth of thewhite people of the town and of Edgoficld County, In which Hambarg is situated, are equally as stanch Democrats. BAD BLOOD IAS EXISTED between the two races in Edgefield County, as elsewhere in Sonth Caroling, for several years, and it has at any time only needed a spark to produce an explosion. Two years ago, a dificul- ty occurred in another portion of the county; armed bands confronted each other, an a conflict was prevented only by the sclf up informed the whites state of aflairs. The Jatter, howorer S, T care to risk an asssuit, and contented selves with surrounding the premises 80 provent escapes. At9 o’docg a party “"h cmerged from the bullding andsuoe LT ran the gauntlet,—returning the fire 'h'“‘fild“ upon, and re:\chm%uzu WOOds 10 gafety. gy a negro attempted £0 jump a fence M)u ; the Luilding, but was secn, and fn ay fag of fell dead, his head being litorally - ot = nonxc&nmzb évrr}l: BULLETS, b name was James Cook, and . Marshal of the town, and & Teading me s e iy ‘his people. A second négTo was k Anong s place. ~A few mlnélgg lnw},‘,idu&‘:'fi ty was taken prisoner while ondeayo; e szmm h the cordon, and bronght tnrmm ters. He gave hlsnamenaJoin Thomss Fo safd hie was the First Lieutenant of 1o i pany. While standing among bis captors” 0 £el1 £ The GroNnd wHtbing o ang 0 the groun: thing inpa tally wounded. ' He was loft vgbcmmti:m B hour later it was determined to enter hy a* mory, and the whites, headed. by Gen:: Butle advanced to the assault. No resistance way g countered, and the house when entered leu:( doserted. A scarch for the inmates the commenced, and the building was fited. Walls were knockéd do roken open, tloors ripped np, and the' Whitey smarmed from roof to cellar. At none of the'besieged were found,” bat Ry ' while three or four were pl&ed up, then Jencrd search through the town mented. With a torch in one hand and a i in the other, squads marched from- house gy house, and scenes stmilar to those witnessed the Arfnory were enacted. In ope bouse'thy floor was torn up and several fugitives - i DRAGGED OUT OF THEIR HIDING-PLACKS) othors were found hid under the gteps. g erouching in the gardens, or Lalt burlel it sand. Each fugitive when found was. grented with a ycll, and marched to a tree, whey the other dprlsonem had been caney The moon and the torches gleamed on bright barrels, glittering bayonets, and g dctermined faces.” One man, evidently tivdy shooting, attempted to break the monotony incendiarism, and poured resin ofl ‘on a woodey building, intcnding to set it on fire. This | if successful, would probably have destro what little waslelt of the Elau:. Bat Batler interfered with this and saved ‘the tow, After awhile the scarch was finished, apdj was found that twenty-ninc prisoucss. had beey %mxed and a good many guns, D the L ca] fighting a young white man nawmed *o; € lentally; | some of his own A detachmen 3 AN timely appesrance of a dctachment of United Spmtcs iofantry. A few months since, & white man ‘and wife were robbed and murdered by negrocs near the Ab- beville line, and thewhitos,mmlx[ngthunmnea‘i incontinently put them to death. The colore men have control of the militia, and there are two or threce companies in the county, well armed with Wincliester rifies, furnished by the Btate Government. The whitcs have as strong or a stronger force in tho sabre and riflc clubs— wounded ‘severclyin the leg, accid B ;url.f. of Aupusta- “pallce, with' loaded and fixed bayonets, . = oecupicd the South Carolina end of the city bridge to pr tect the bridge, and to prevent nerroes g from cither side of the streamt. The prisoner were placed under L and at 1 o'clock fhy whites began to disperie. Gen. Butler went home after directing the guard fo camy th prigoners to Aiken and put them in fuil.” Bt this was not to be. The worst m‘éf;' 1o come. ‘The most horrible feature of the affair had ngt yet been exhibited. After Gep. Batler had rd volunteer corps, wall armed and well mounted, and ly and willing to _move at a moment’s warning. Oue of the colored military compa- ules is located in Hamburg. It numbers some sixty men, and is commanded by **Doc*’ Adams, who was formerly & RBepublican politician of some local note in Georgia, but who morved to Hamburz two or throo yearsago. 'The whites bave always nssumed that the blacks HAD NO RIGHT 70 BEAR ARMS; have persisted In regarding the colored militts as a standing menace t0 themselves ard to their families, and have never falled to disarm :,&ex& when 8 favorable opportunity presented elf. On the heights everlnokingkthz town of Ham- burE ds the reeidence of Mr. ‘Robert Butler, bet- ter known, perhaps, as * Butler on the Hill.” Last Taesqay, the Fourth of July, two young " men, one the son of Butler and tlic other name | " windows when oceasion Gettsen, were returning from a visit to Augus- In the strect of Hamburg they laun;gglu ‘way obstructed by * Doc' Adams' company, which was drilling and celebrating the day. The soldlers did not ges out of the way of the young men, and some hot words passed be- tween them. On Wednesday, ““Butler ou the Hill . sent for Geo. M. C. Batler, who lives in another portion of the county, andis aprac- ticing Iawyer, and retained him to prosecute the Captain and his Sompuny for ‘obstructing uu;}m lic highway.? (Gen Butler was in the. Confederate army, lost leg in one of the mu- merous battles of the War, and rose o the rank of- Major-General of cavalry). Gen. Butler went to Prince Rivers, a colored Trial Justice or Magistrate of Hamburg, and commenced his prosccution, but for some reason the hearing of the causo w:s’flpostpbnml untl Saturday after- noon. Yesterday evcuing Gen. Butler again made his appearsnce, but "the defendants were not in court, and when calicd failed ta respond. Gen. Butler then said to Rivers that the ne- groes NUST GIVE UP THEIE ARMS. e sought Adams, who had in the menntime otten his mon together, and made the samc cmand. Adams declined 10 comply, but asked Butler to confer with bis men in the chamber of s the Town Council. Of this conference nothing, came. Rivers, whois a Major-Genernl # the State militia as well ag a Magistrate, advised the negroes to surrender their rifles, but, his words made no impression. Gen. Butler then cam over to Apgusta, and told some of **the boys that he might need their assistance after awhile to disarm the negroes. It soon became agpnrcnt that he was perfect- 1y in carnest, and that force was tobe employed in the accomplishment of his purpose hcre, while people in Edgefield County were .'sppriscti of what was3 going on, and soon’ ARMED MEN BEGAN TO ASSEMBLR in the streets of Hunburg, The Sabre Club {rom Currytown arrived, and the Sabre Club of Beech Jsland was sent for, and came o soon aftordusk, A number of young men of Au- gusta hastily gathered up theirarms, and, cross- 1ng the river, joined the Caroliniaus, and placed themselves under the command of their leador. In the moantime Doc Adama and his men, conscious of the approaching storm, went into thelr armory, and determined to de- fend it to the last extremity. When Gen. But- ler returned, Rivers said he would make o last effort to obtsin the gune, provided the former 'would protect the town during the night. The protection was promised, and Rivers had an- other consultation with Adams and the Mayor of the town, Gardncr, colored, who . was also in the armory. ‘The ncgroes still refused to sur- render the gans, saying that they were the legal militia of the county, hnd had~ been armed b the proper authorities of the State. This closes the negotiations. It wasnow 7 o’clack in the evening, and an order was given to COMMENCE TIE ATFACK. The armory in which the milisia had sbut themselves up with the determination to defend it is an ordinary two-story brick building, with a collar, and a’parapet wall surrounding the roof. Itis situated on a corner of the street which runs parallel witi. the Savannah River. There ate no bouses between 16 and the river, ana the stream is about 150 yards from the house,—the Intermediate space being green- sward sloping_gradunlly to the water's edge. At & polnt ncurly opposite the armory, the bridge of the Churlotte, Columbfa & Augusta Railroad crosscs the stream,—a fine structurc, with piers aud abutments of solid masonry. Some of the whites were posted behind the ubut- ment of the bridge, whilc others took position in rear of the bullding. At 7:30 o'clock fire was opened on the armory from the froat and rear. ‘1he windows were dlmed at, and were soon riddled with bullets. The besfesea returned the fire with. epirit,—some shooting from the resented, while others, who clambered upon the roof, shot from thc cover of the parapet-wall. The firing was toler- ably rapid and well-sustained, and the sounds brought to mind a sharp skirmish on the picket line. = Most of the white gcople had been warn- cd of what was coming and left the town in the afterngon, The colored people now began to retrea to the woods. In a u{‘un time most of the houses in the town were deserted, and the combatants had it all to themselyes. About 8 o'eluck the besiegers sustained $heir first 16ss. A young man from Edgetield County —T. Mackey Merriwether—who bad beea firini {from behind the stone abutment of the Tailway- bridge, exposed his person too much, and was shot by one of the men on the roof. The ball entered the brain, and he fell dead almost with- out & n. His death added to the exaspera- tion of the whites, and it was determincd to take the armory at all hazards. Seeing that small srms made no fmpression upou the brick walls, it was determined to bring _heavier metal to bear against them. A squadof men were sent across the carrlage-bridge to Augusta to procure A PIZCE OF ARTILLERY, with which to batter down the fortalice. A vol- unteer artlllery company of this city promptly Jonned them an fren six-pounder belonging to their organization, and farnished then with gome prape-shiot, the only ammunition they had, The cannon wns taken acroes the river, placed in position, and the iron hail sont bursting into the upper story of the anmory. Again it was londed, and - ngaln d!.sc)mrfcd; ut, while the shot tore the windows to . picces the walls stodd firm, and the hesicge refused to surrender. But thelr fire siack- ened, and (a8 was afterward discovered) the negroes sought safety in the ccllar,—rome slipping through the lines and making their cscape, cither to the woods or to other finuses. ‘The grapé-shot had now %’ivcn ont, And the gun was londed with dumb-bells and old pleces of metal, and fired twice again, i - EVERYTRING WAS QUIET NOW, and a ncgro who care out and gave him- dep away, and most of the white troops hisd die, persed, the work of killing the prisoners com: - menced. Thoguards had a list of” tha . lcaders,” and as the name of a negro was out he was taken to s cornficld hud by, where the grain had “just begun to shact, and told to ran, and-before he could make a dozsy . s L i wvipz.s!amxbsnm BROUGHT EIM DOWN DEAD, One poor wretch managed fo “make wg‘u& but the fatal bullet at last overtook him # {flight and stretched him prone upon the carth Two were shot in this way in the field and tw in the high road. The other prisoners were then turned loose and told to Uy, and as they ran 3 volley was fired after-them. The.guard. thea mounted thelr horses gnd rode rapidly away, and by 38 o'clock not 2 sonnd c,ou](ng heard In the village where for six hours the work of death had been goingon. The negpo Thomas, who was wounded early in the cven ing, was brought ta this city and released to 3 in search of a physician: He has sincs di Two or three others were saved in the sams way. This morning, within a stone's throwol . the bridge, lzy B $ FOUB MEN WELTERING IN THEIR GORE. . One who had not been quite killed was taken his home and died within o few bours. - Afters while the few negroes in the town plucked up cournge 10 remove the bodics of their coms rades. Three were stretched in the markeb ‘house; another was lying on a mattress under the shade of a tree. One of the-slaln wasa man pamed Attaway, s Commissioner of ths county, and 2 prominent man. As a geperal thing, the negroes met their fate patiently and quietly. This morning I hear that an inguest by a n 3 and a negro Coroner hai been held upon the bodies, but the verdict will not be made public at_present. - The kfluu%f the prisoncrs is severcly condemned by the bet- ter class of the community. The . casualtics in the battle arc as follows: Killed—T. 3 Merriwether. (white), A. T. Attaway, Dasid Phillips, James Cook, Albert Minard, -Moses Parks, Hamp Stevens, John Thomas: {mlmd) Wounded—Morgan (whitc), Pompey Comy, seriously, and Butler Edwardss.(colored). SOME OF THE BODIXS MUTILATED. - - Further accounts of the massacre. given In i Charleston Vews and Courier confirm the worst featurcs of -the terrible affair. And in addl tion it appears that “Two of the bodics wera iutilated - with batchets or bayonets.” /Tbo same paper szys_that ** The fccll:f nmm:s the negroes in. Hamburg is that tefrifi submission. All the kilicd had familfes, ‘¥ith onc exception (Moscs Parks), and the gric-snd distress of the women and children were violeat aad hca:trcndlni The negroes of Hmhufi fled by scores to Augusta for protection, bat are returning fo-doy. A number of their houset were broken into and robbed, and the furniture destroyed. Prince Rivers’ house was sacked’ F‘ His loss is seyeral hundred dollars. “The ban¢. lunted for him to kill him also, but hehad escaped.” - TR A S TR e FIRES. v IN CBICAGO. s The alorm from Box 37 at 4:13 yesterday of ternoon was false. o e Tho alarm from Box T4t at 4:15 yesterds; morning was caused by the woodwork In th bakery of Charles Edben, No. 51 Bremer street, catching fire from an overheated ovess Damage, $25; insurance unkaown. X : "The alarm from Box 727 at 1:40 o’clock yes: terday afternoon was caused by a fire in the up* per floor of No. 336 Ohio strect, s twostory. Irame owned by Mrs. Farrel, and oceupicd by A. F. Bullen. Damage, #2351 {nsurancé mn- - known. Cause, a boy playing with matches set } ting firc to some rags. = The alarm from Box 2 at 13:45 yesterday ternoon was caused by the explosion of alamp in the hands of a careless workman at Golsens , rectifying house, Nos. 21 and 28, River street * The workman, W. H. Flower, by &ime,was bad l{ burned about the hands by the explusionol the Iamp. . s ——— AT MANISTEE, MICH. Speciut Dispatch to The Tribune. MaxistEB, Mich.. July 15.—A large fram¥ , boarding-house, together with a_barn, on tho™ North Side, belonging to James McAuley, were totally destroyed by lirc last night about 10 o'lock. The buildings were fnsured ia- tho Bangor, Mc., and Roger Willfams, Rhode Island, Companies for $1,000. Estimated loss, 52,00 At 5. p. mayesterday a hounse belonging 1 Freezy Adams, at Charles Sccor & Co.'s milly was destroyed by fire. Insured in the Atlas ff About 2 o'clock this morning the milf of Charles Secot & Co. caught firc and was totallf destrofed. Thé mill was located on Lake Mar istee, about 3 miles above the city. Thac losats, estimated at $15,009, insurcd as follows: Brit . ish Amerlean, 3$1,509; Atlas, $1,500; North Britlsh and Mercantile, $1.500; Underwritersy $2,500; Citizens, of New York, $1,000;a0d Sk Paut, $1,50. B « CANADA, Taneral of Ex-Mayor Bernard at Montreal~* Anpexation Scheme. i Spezial Dispatch to The Trivune - MoxTREAL, July 15.—The funeral of ¢x-3ay~ or Bernard, of Mohtreal, who dicd in Califorsis and whose remains were forwarded to thiseily, for interment, took place to-day with Masonit honors. The streets through which the cori¢g®’ passed displayed flags at half-mast, and 88 stops closed their doors, The Grand Lodge! of Canada snd Quebee, and cligbiéon oty lodges, were represented. The Mayor City Council and Harbor Commissionors: folt lowed the procession. Sixty policemen undet e Chiel i Depaty Chief formed = guard -of; honor. Tiousants of citizens joined in the pre cession and Ifacd the attcets. The faperal wat the Jargest dpd most imposing that eves & place nere. B 47 The North American Union is tae pame of 8. society sbont to be starfed by rome residenty here, its objeet being, as statéd in the words of! the orizinntors, the confedération of the Cow, tinent o} North Amerfea in one Frnnd constity” tutfonal whole, from tha Atlantic to the m!q& ?’mx from the Arctic Circle to the Isthtd ‘anama. .