The New York Herald Newspaper, May 29, 1871, Page 3

THE MINE DISASTER, Searching for the Dead and Dying in . the Pittston Mine, HEROIC EFFORTS OF THE VOLUNTEERS, Eighteen Dead Bodies and Nineteen Living Oncs Exhumed. STORY OF THE SURVIVORS. The Entombed Miners Barricade Themselves Against the Foul Gases. THEIR LAST ADIEUS AND PRAYERS, Pittston, Pa., May 28, 1871, SATURDAY, 11 P, M.—The temporary carriage erecteu for the ascent and uescent of the braves who have volunteered to assist in the rescue of the vic- tims has been lowered only 100 feet, so slow and Precarious 1s the task of clearing away the débris in the shaft and repairing the injured passages for fresh atmosphere down to the chambers of death below the surface TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FERT, and tho upcast passages for the escape of the foul and obnoxious gases. The rope attached to the car- riage runs over a large pulley and is manned by 800 men, members of the Pittston, Scranton and ‘Witkesbarre fire departments and miners and citi- zens, under command of J. E. Patterson, Police regulations have been inaugurated under the superintendence of Chief Langford, of ‘the West Pittston force, A rope encircling haif an ucre around the mouth of the shaft has been at- tached, and all unemployed spectators have been excluded from the ring with the exception of the HERALD reporter and other members of the press, Drs, Dennis and Ruthrock, of Wilkesbarre; Dr. Robotham, of Hyde Park; Dr. J. P. O’Mally, Coroner; W. G. Nilgent, Underwood, Brecker, Gorman, Hareton and Ostrander, of Pittston, and Dr. Tripp, of Wyoming, are upon the ground with medical stores, prepared to render such assistance in their power as the circumstances may demand, W. Wynn Keneck, superintendent of the works, and Barney Malroy have signalled to be raised, and have arrived at the top weak and faint from the labor incurved in repairing the shaft and m- haling the heated stagnant air. They report that they have discovered unmistakable noise from below and HOPE AGAIN ANIMATES the hearw of the anxious spectators, but as such igus might ariso from: various causes other than that of human participation, the term of this frail hope 1s rier, 11:30 P, M.—The carriage 18 again freightea by mipers—Samael Thomas, Edward Cooaks and David Elweli—and with canvas and boards they begin the downward passage. Two hundred feet more, and again noises from below are distinctly heard by the occupants of the carriage. The hoisting signal is given again, and the three men reappear at the opening aimost overcome by the excessive heat and stifling atmosphere of the mine. 12 MipN1IGHT.—Uther Volunteers step upon the few planks nailed together, and down, down out of sight into the unfathomed, mysterious depths of the byes go these undaunted men, who have undertaken to penetrate the darkness and Giscover the fate and condition of their brethren in the graves over which thousands of hearts are beating for news that shall make the self-confessed widows and a happy wife and chil- dren to rend the alr with prayers and thanksgivings, SUNDAY, 12:32 A. M.—The arrival of the platform AT THE BOTTOM 4s announced, and murmurs of congratulations are heard on every hand, 12:35 A. M.—Signal to ratse, and 590 willing hands apply their strength to the rope, and slowly but steadily the journey is being made. 12:40 A. M.—The carriage has arrived, and con- tains the insensible but BREATHING BODY OF ANDREW MORGAN, the first retiable messenger of hope for the salvation of the entombed, The volunteers are nearly over- come from the inhalahon of choke damp and heat, The rescued man wus found by Guion Thomas In the east gangway, some fifty feet from the shaft, lying on his face, stripped of nearly all his clothing, Tbey also report the discovery of two horses and four mules, all alive, anda that the lamp at the foot of the shaft is still burning, Tnis intelligence cre- ates intense excitemeut among the visivors of this Wighty scene, and CHEER UPON CHEER Te-echoes anovg the adjacent mountain ranges. No other men were found, and the searchers, rapidly failing from exhausted nature, dare not explore far- ther until reinvigorated. 12:45 A, M.—Another detachment of miners are going down. 12:50 A. M.—The signal to hoist ia given and the carriage arrives with the information that Hiram Curtis has been found dead sitting against the wall of the mine just outside of @ barricade erected by ‘the miners across the east gangway. They have brought the dead man to the foot of the shaft and ‘want reinforcements to go down to assist in break- ing:through the wall to get to the men, Upon the wail is inscribed in chalk, “WE ARE ALL IN HERR,” Thednteliigence of the fate of Curtis has changed the exclamations of joy into @ renewal of the most heart-breaking agonies. From every quarter shricks of anguish of women excite the sym- pathies of the strongest and most obdurate hearts, and teats of pity Now down the smoked, stained, ‘Migid vieages of the bystanders, speaking the rich @loquence of sympathetic hearts. 1:40 A, M.—The carriage is ascending with the body of Curtia; ie half-way up, and jt is announced Wat one of THE VOLUNTEERS 18 FAINTING. | New weal inspizes the fatigued mon at the rope and swiftly rises the carriage, and the deceased and feanting man are removed, the former to o building lope by to await the action of the Goroner and the Jatter to the care Of the physicians present. 2A, M.—George Cail nas arrived at the mouth of the shaft; no signs of jife apparent, but applica: tions of restoratives are being made under medical advice. THR SUSPENSE, 2:30 A. M.—The suspense in awaiting for further ews from below hag been felt as ominous of ile NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 29, 1871—TRIPLE SHEET. pol Gide i fortune to the tematnder, and to this circumstance fs added the sad intelligence that George Call has been taken to the dead house, bat the carriage is arriving with W. R. Davis, par- tially sensible, but very weak. When found he articulated some incoherent sentence ana fell pros- trate apon the’bed of the mine. He cannot recog- nize friends, and refases to respond to the strongly pressed interrogations relative to tne fate of others, One boy is reported at the foot alive, 2:45 A. M.—Thomas Smalicombe, the boy reported alive, aged sixteen years, has arrived insenst- ble. The task of resuscitating the victims who have signs of life ia being pushed with the utmost skill. Ladies from East ana West Pitiston are in atiend- ance, and fayorable appearances are indicated in the pulse of some of the patients, 3 A, M.—The holsting signal again announces the coming of human freight, and & breatuless silence reigns, save the creaking machinery of the hoisting apparatus. Nearer and nearer the top comes glare of the miners’ lamp, and now groans may be heard as if of dying men, and now it ig announced that the craft contains the bodies of Aaron Smalicombe and his son William, the former in the grasp of death and the latter witn but little strength remaining. The Smalicombes are of one familly, the deceased being the father and W. Davis, his son-in-law. Despite tho fatiguing nature of the task of the laboring men at the top and the volunteers in the gangways their efforts m the works are continued unremittedly, and thousands of looxers on, compelled by curtosity or the aching pains of desponding hopes and momen taryreliefs of anticlpated joyful tokens from the se- pulchre 300 feet below—Joya that were as quickly dis- sipated by negative answers, and hopes of a reunion dashed to atoms, never to be realized. Hoar after hour sleepless eyes gazed upon the animated scene around the mouth of the pit, and one after another, and sometimes two bodies at a time, would be an- Nounced at the opentiig, whom.but a few hours be- fore had the arbitration upon their destinies wrought with such disastrous fary. THE DEAD, The following 13 a complete list of the men in the mines dead when found:— Martin Cartis, Thomas Prosser, Charles McGinness, Martin Cooney, David Edwards, Aaron Smalicombe, Evan &. Davis, Patrick Carden, ‘Timothy Walsh, Joseph Farrell, Patrick Farley, Daniel Connor, George Call, Peter Davies, Thomas Rowan, Martin Cahan. DIED AFTER COMING OUD OF THE MINE. Benjamin Jones, ALIVE WHEN BROUGHT OUT OF THE MINE. Andrew Morgan, William Powell, W. R. Davis, John Price, Owen Macken, John Lloyd, Anthony Ford, George Edwards, William Smalicompe, Michael Cox, Robert Smalicombe, Joseph Fales, Thomas Smallcombe, John Williams, Thomas Savage, William James, John Boroughs, Thomas Edwards, James Jones, John Gibbs, While the work of bringing up continued the av- erage of living compared to the dead as found was two to one in favor of life; but as the hours passed away @ gradual change to the opposite was observable by the HERALD reporter. The cause of this is undoubtedly owing to the rapid accamu- lation of gasses im the gangways. And évery mo- ment of their presence therein lessened the chances of their existence until succor should arrive, At eleven o’clock A. M. ail but Benjamin Jones was found, and men went to his break, where he had been working, but brought back no news of him; but search until half-past one P. M. discoy- ered him lying on his side, with his head on his arm, and about sixty feet from his work. His position when found would indicate that that he had started for the shaft and nad succumbed to the deadening effects of choke damp. He, like many others, dead or insensible, was found near@ stream of water. He was still sensible, and after being taken out lived until fifteen minutes past four, when he died. At the place where THE BARRICADE ACROSS THE GANGWAY had been erected the bottom level was higher than at any point intermediate between it and the foot of shaft; and as soon as the functions of the mine pomp were annulled by the burning of the pump connections water began to rise, and by the time the comrades in search of the men arrived they were compeiled to wade it waist aeep. The water will soon fill the mine up. At one o’clock men were being hoisted quite regu- larly, but at this period all efforts to discover the mussipg man, Benjamin Jones, proved unavailing, The danger at the foot was increasing greatly, and volunteer after volunteer came up, all of them under the influence of carbonic gases and smoke, some of them even insensible. It was Suggestea that further explorations should be abated, but to this earnest and effective protests were made, and volunteers stepped mantully and boldly forward to undertake the duty of rescuing the unfortunate man, be he aead or alive. For two and a half hours did the almost superhuman powers of endurance of the men battle against disappointment and danger, when their labors were rewarded, As I stated in my yesterday’s despatch, the pre- valence of water in the mines in great abundance would have a salutary effect im the preservation of fe should there be no smoke, and it seems that many of the surviving members knew of its gualities as an element of preservation, and though the ex- perience has not proved entirely satisfactory, the result of the trial demonstrates itsemfciency. The shaft is also very wet, and a large quantity of water runs from the varlous layers of siate and coal, and it is alleged that after the fire the continual drip. pings of water ventilated the mine by expelling foul air through the upcast partition, The men were found, with the exceptions of some two or three in- stances, in groups of fiftcen to twenty, many of them ip partial nudity, THE STORY OF THE SURVIVORS. At an interview this afternoon with Thomas Ka- wards and his son George, who wero rescued from the mine and are now beyond danger, we gleaned thes? facts:—-As s00n a8 the warning came of the Appaliing state of affairs, tumultuous excitement ran riot for @ short space of time, Imprecations against the author of their dire calamity were given vent to in no measured terms; but as the awful aolemnity of their melancholy disaater was brought more vividly to their understanding the first im> pressions were succeeded by a hasty but earnest ducussion upon thetr chance 8f escape, The clr- cumstance of the Avondale tragedy and its com- parison with existing affairs was commented upon, and the decision to place @ wall between them and the fire was unanimously agreed upon, But pefore the completion of the barricade, npon which they worked as for life, some of the men from sheey exhaustion fellto the ground in @ death- like stupor, After the erection of the wall, Boroughs, as @ guide to tho future explorers of the mine, knowing full well the efforts that would be put forth to find the inmates, wrote thereon “WE ARB ALL IN HERE,” and then, returning inside, joined in with his com- Yades in singing anthems, praying and exhorting and bidding adieu to friends in this world. The proceedings of this last meeting of the men, as related to us by father and son, 1s of too solemn im- Port to be contemplated with aught else but rever- ence. Father and son embraced and kissed each other as never before and husband and brother spoke in subdued but weighty words oj whe prayers that were ascending to heaven for their deliverance by friends and relatives who might then be treading upon their tomb. It was about three o’clock that Thomas first learned of the Ore, and up wo six o'clock he remembers everything pertectly well. At that ime HH WENT TO SLEEP, and the next he knew he was in his own house, with endearing friends catering to his every waut and offered every possible means of regaining his Wonted reason. He remembers his son passiug among the failing men and urging them to vigorous efforts to keep up a circulation of blood and not lie down to sleep, @ sleep of death, The sensation of thechange was much like that of over-indulgence relapsing into @ stupor, when transpiring events might be very indistinctly observed, and then luio a total oblivion of all surroundings. In conversation with another resuscitated miner he admitted that the fears of death were moro pain- ful than he bel!eved the instantaneous experience to be, All hoped for the best and felt sure that every means for their relief would be brought into requisi- tion, but few dared to express a decided conviction that they would be rescued. Said one, ‘Never had I before felt the great peril of the vocation I foliow or the extreme terror and Misery the poor men of Avondale must have felt.’? George Edwards, who seems to remember the greatest part of the calamity, ran to the shaft to in- vestigate the progress of the fire, and after all the rest had laid down and were beyond awakening in the mine, he tried to look up the shaft, but the heat around the Immediate vicinity was so great as to drive him back. He saw timbers falling, and made Mis way back to the enclosure, but after this he re- members nothing. The loss to the breaker will not exceed $50,000, THE FUNERALS OF THE DEORASED will probably be held on Tuesday. The opinions as to accountability of the proprietors of the mines are aS numerous as the leaves of the forest; but as the Mine Inspector, Williams, was through the works on Thursday and reported all right, and the fact of the tire being the cause of friction and not of gases, there 1@ little probability of their being held Mabie for this great catastrophe, that has spread a gloom of mourning on the whole valley. THE INQUEST. Coroner J. P. O'Malley has empanelled a jury, com- posed of James Walsn, M. Bolin, 8. T. Barrit, Mor- gan Jones, James Fitzpatrick and J. M, Freeman, ‘Who viewed the bodies and adjourned until to-mor- row at ten o'clock. ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF THE DISASTER. The Sccne at the Mcuth of the Shaft—The Rising of the Water in the Mine—LAist of the Dead—The Scenes in the Barricade. WILKESBARRE, Pa., May 28, 1871. Operations were continued earnestly through the night, and hope was high that all the poor miners would be rescued from THEIR PERILOUS SITUATION. It was a wise forethought which led to the removal of the breaker atthe time. Had it been allowed to burn, as at Avondale, nota single man would have been got out alive. Tne operation left the mouth of the shait clear and saved much air for the men below. About nine o’clock P. M. the superin- tendent was lowered into the opening and descend- ing about twenty feet he found the air cool and ap- parently not much changed. This fact gave assur- ance that the men could held out some time at the bottom of the shait, Arrangements were then made for rigging a temporary § car- Tiage and holsting gear. This was completed at twelve o'clock A. M. avd the work of removing the men commenced at once. The radely constructed carriage for removing the men worked slowly, and the patience of the tollers was sorely tned, as but two or thres men could be bronght ap ata time. Up to nine o'clock this morning but twenty of the men were hoisted out, and of this number bat half of them could be revived. All of them were suffering more or less with A SENSE OF SUFFOCATION, and many died before reaching the pure atmosphere above. It was evident that the quantity of air in the mine was being rapidly exhausted, and those above redoubled their efforts to save their friends and neighbors; but still the process of rescue went on tediously, and It became more and more evident that It was next to impossible to save many more of the poor men. Notice of A NEW HORROR was brought from below as the carrlage rose and descended on its errand of mercy. As the air grew more vitiated the water began to accumulate and it ‘was feared tiat some of se men must drown belore they could be removed. Some brought up about eleven this moruing reported that the water was already breast high and increasing speedily. Up to this time i was impossible to ascer- tain how many men were 1 the mine. The fre was iscovered at one o'clock, about the time when one of the eight hour shifts were made, and, as the miners go in and out without much notice at that time, it is not always possible to obtain the names of the men in the mine when the shift 1s incompicte, It was stated that avout fifty men were at work when the accident occurred, but at one o'clock it was pretty satisfactorily ascer- tamed that but tiurty-eight men had been imper- twenty-one had been spared from THAT FEARFUL TomR. The names of those saved are Andrew Morgan, John Burroughs, James Joues, John Price, Thomas Edwards, Anthony 8. Ford, Martin Cox, George Edwards, W. Smaicombe, Thomas Smaicombe, Rob- ert Smalcombe, W. R. Davis, John H. Gibbs, Thomas Savage, John Williams, William Pow- el, William James, John Lloyd, Joseph Fells, Benjamin Jones, The dead are Hiram Curtis, Owen Markin, Charles McGinnis, Patrick Farley, M. Cooney, Aaron G. Smalcombe, George Cull, Martin Crayon, Daniel Connor, David Edwards, Thomas Ruan, Petor Davis, B. Farrell, Thomas Brosser, Patrick Cardin, Evan Davis, Jonn Jones, ‘The last man was hoisted up alive at five o'clock this P, M. Several INTERESTING INCIDENTS connected with this’ terrible affair have come to light during the day. When the men in the mine Were notified of the danger which threatened them they immediately fell to praying and singing hymns. In the east gangway 4 barricade had been erected to save as much air as possible, and upon the outside was written, in chalk, “We are all in here,” Twelve men were found beyond the barri- cade suffering different degrees of torture, some were dead and others were gasping and foaming at the mouth. It is estimated that upwards or ten thousand people were at the spot this morning, and when the first man was brought out @live the cheer which was given fairly shook the rocks at Campbell's Ledge, A inrge or iiied, Atthat hour it was made apparent that but | tion of the population of the valley has visited the gcone Of disaster, but, owing to the excelient police regulations, they were debarred from approaching near the shaft, so as to be no emparrassment to those who were engaged in rescuing the miners. ‘There has been no attendance of churches or Sun- day schools, the people being too much excited to pay attention to anything but the earthly horror into which they had been plunged. It is clearly demonstrated that the fearful loss of life has been OOCASIUNED BY CARELESSNESS, There can be no excuse for the journal hot being properly oiled. Itmay be that some of the cheap labor, which it was thought to introdace into the Scranton mines, has something to do with It. The ifference between this disaster and that of Avon- dale 18 that the West Pittston shaft caught fre im the headhouse and the pulling over of the oreaker prevented the fire from causing an upward draft and thus exhausting the alr in the mine. At Avondale the fire caught in the brattice, and the air in the mine followed the flames with equal rapidity, the men suffocating Ina very few minutes. Fortunately, the miners in the Blake Mine had @ small share of air left them, bat their sufferings must have been ter- ible. Several of those taken out alive have since died and none of them have as yet suf- ficiently recovered to give a distinct account of thelr suffeiiogs. When tne miners were first made aware of their situation by the falling sparks and burning timbers down the shaft some of the most active began to climb up the brattice in hope of reaching the upper air, They were soon driven back and forced to take their chances, This awful calamity will afford a fair indication of the justice of the cause of the miners who stood out so nobly against the Scranton monopolists. The miner puts HI8 LIVE IN THE BALANCE against the money of the capitalists, It is hardly necessary to state that the dreadiul event has en- shrouded our whole valley in the deepes* gloom, STATEMENT OF A SURVIVOR. Startling Description of the Scene Down in the Depths—Tho Barricades and the Last Moments of tho Victims—How It Feels to Look On Dvath—Martin Cox’s Narrative. Pirreron, Pa., May 28, 1871. Martin Cox, one of the miners who was taken out of the mime allve, makes the following statement:— Wa went tm at seven A.M. My brother Robert eut through from one air-way to another and turned in gas, and six miners came out with him before their shaft was up, The air was so bad they could not work at all. This was about filtesn minutes before the fire and seven miners came up to the top flve minutes before the fre was discovered, The first intimation we had of the fire was a sound through the mine as if there was an explosion of gas. An English miner said THERE IS A FIRE. We were then worklog about fifty yards from the bottom of the shaft on the west side. I then ran to the bottom of the shaft and saw the flre coming down; ran back to my comrades and told them we fre all lost—the shaftison fire. We were seven in all. We then ran to the foot of the shaft, and burning timbers were coming down; threw on avater to put out the fire, andthe smoke became so intense that we were nearly suffocated. Dense volumes came down the ahaft and filled the place, We then ran over to the west site, im the direction of the river bridge, down the slope, and got in at the door with eleven others, making eighteen altogether. In that place the smoke came in upon us so badly that we gathered up a gob of fine stuff from the track and plastered up the cracks of the door, and also stuffed coal in the holes, Which stopped the smoke for some time. We now had TIME FOR THOUGHT AND REFLECTION. No one expected to see daylight again and sald it was asecond Avondale. We all sang hymns and prayed, calling upon God in his mersy to save us, as ‘we all felt doomed and beyond human aid. Weran back and forth through the gangways for fresh alr. Ata quarter past tiree P. M. Patrick Faxley fell and groaned twice, and was found dead when the men came in the place after the fire. 1 then went over to the west side for my coat, to help to stop out the smoke, as we would all be suffo cated very soon, Tho men then passed me carrying back their comrades, who were dying in their arms, More men were outside the doorg crying out in distress aud anguish, calling upon God for safety and succor, NONR EXPECTED TO COME OUT ALIVE. The mules were kicking and neighing. A boy told his father, with a horrible oath, to stop praying and crying: “We will come out safe, and if we must die let us die Mxe men.” Tho father and gon both came outalive. At half-past seven P. M. I became inseusible and remained so until I was brought out by my brother Robert about five o’clock on Sunday morning. Martin Cox is an iatelligent Irishman, aged about twenty-two years, NEW YORK CITY. The following record will show the changes tn tne temperacure for the past twenty-four hours in com- parison with the corresponding day of last year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s Phar- macy, HERALD Building, corner of Ann street:— 1870, 1871. bad toatl! John Fitzpatrick, of 537 West Fifty-first street, fell from tho stoop of his residence late on Saturday nigut, struck on his head and died in consequence. parents live at No, 128 First avenue, died yesterday from the effects of severe burns, caused py her clothes taking five while playing with matches, The remains of an unknown man, about thirty- five years of age, were found floating in the dock at the foot of Eleventh street, East river. Deceased, who was five feet six inches in height, was dressed in dark clothes. The Kleventh tape td police sent the body to the Morgue and notiied Coroner ecnaa, Charles Winch, a German, thirty-two years of age, died on Saturday afternoon in Bellevue Hospital from the effects of injuries. On the Ist instant de- ceased, as stated, fell from one of the Belt Railroad cars, in West street, and had his arm crushed. The | statement of Mrs, Winch, the widow, was taken, but the inquisition papers fai to show ber place or residence. Coroner Keenan will wake an investiga- tion. Jobn Murmana, of 83 Cherry street, a native of the Emeraid Isle, has been saving every cout he could obtain for some months past in order to have his family brought out from the “Ould Counthry.” He haa saved $100 and was about to have his dream realized and be again in the bosom of his family when Margaret Deedy and her son John, who lived also at the above address, thought they would thwart him and appropriate the money to their own use, Murmana went home in @ state of intoxica- tion on Saturday night, wnen they took his money and hid it in a Dedtick, bens hd and Johnny were both fully committed for trial in default of $2,000, by Judge Dowling. INTERESTING CRREMONIES AT THE CONVENT OF THR SacreD H&ART IN ROCHESTER.—On Thursday, about nine o'clook, the Convent of the Sacred Heart, on le that delighted ough de a present. nt for services were THE ALEXANDRIA FIRB.< Telics a: i Morgaas of ry , sald to have that were de- which were as- Washi also 64 65 8PM. 66 65 or. M. 76 61 72 oP. M. 69 12M: 62 76 12 P.M. 63 Average temperature yesterday, wee TAK Averawe temperature for corresponding date 1aSb YEU, ... cere seeveee evveveces OLM | Hannah Lowenstein, sevea years of age, whose | when about two miles on thir way by ; seventeen border wilte men armed = with | guns and revolvers, who demanded the | WASHINGTON. Minister Low’s Account of the Chinese Outrages. EXCITEMENT ON THE BORDER. An Outrage Upon the Osage indians, Re-establishment of the Passport System in France. Seerctary Fish Not to be a Member of the Geneva Tribunal. ‘WASHINGTON, May 28, 1871. Ontrages—Despaiches from Minister Low. The government has recently received volnminous despatches from Minister Low concerning affairs in China, but especially with reference to tne course of the Imperial authorities toward Christian muis- sionaries, It appears the diMculties are princtpaliy confined to the French Roman Catholics, whore claims vo certain privileges and rights the Chinese persistently refuse to recognize, one of which is that a native convert to thelr religion shall, if ac- cused of a crime, be tried by the Consular Court aa & French citizen, and not by the local law as @ Chi- nese, Besides, the French Minister in that country does not seem to be on good terms with the government, which, with a full knowledge of the distracted condition of France, aoes not | fear nis menaces, ‘Tho Chinese government sent @ special commissioner to France last year, but nothing was done in toe way of adjusting difticul- ties, owing to the breaking out of the war with Prus- sia, The Chinese government has framed a new code without reference to religious teachers, ex- cluding females from the vocation, which differs essentially from some of the more re cent newspaper publications on the subject. Tuat government was paid about half a millon of dollars for loss of life and damages resulting from the Teintsin disturbances last June. A Sister of Charity killed at that time was believed to be of Irish birth, but recently aclitm has been received here from an alleged relative, saying that she is an American, and that he is entitled to the indemnity in that case to the amount of ten thousand dollars. He, however, furnishes no proof, An Outrage Upon the Osages—_xcltem¢nt on the Border. A letier has just been received at the Indian Bureau detailing an outrage committed upou the Osage Indians and showing that some whites de- serve more than the Indians the appellation of sav- ages. ‘The letler ts dated, New Osage Agency, May 16, and signed by Isaac T. Gibson, Indian Agent, It is stated that on the 13th instant Hope Walia, Chief of the Little Osages, and some of his men, ten in number, started in the morning from their village, which is about elght miles from | The Chinese the line of Kansas, to trade robes and furs at one of | the border towns of that State. They were met return of a horse which they alleged had been stolen by some of the Osages. ‘The chief assured them that | his braves at the camp would find the horse for them if it were in their herds, The white men after Consultation presented their arms and ordered the Indians to dismount, which some of them did and others attempted to escape. The whites commenced firing av the Osages and pursuing them, they making no resistance whatever, as they were unarmed. ‘Yhe chief was wounded elightly tn the shoulder, and two of bis head men, inoffensive and peace- able like himself, were badly wounded, perhaps fatally, and another was pursued to the river and killed; another saved his life by diving into a lake, Other details could be given proving it to have been one of the most cowardly and mur- derous assaults that has lately been per peirated on tho border, Some of the party escaped to the village. Amid much excitement about seventy-five warriors started in pursuit of the whites, who were overtaken before Teaching the State line, but refusing to stop and deliver up the ponies and robes they had taken, were fired upon by the Osages. One white man was killed, two were taken prisoners and five horses were captured. The remainder of the mo. rauders made their escape, spreading the news of a general slaughter of ali the women and children on the border. Hence the people rushed to arms, but were prevented from testing their courage by the advice of two or three coal men, who insisted on an investigation, which soon | allayed their ire, as the attack by the Osages was deemed justifiable under the circumstances, aud | they had quietly and peaceably returned to their villages through the settlement of the trespassers, in view of whom the fight had occurred. They also released the two prisoners. ‘The chief, wisely foreseeing another attack, aban- doned his town in the afternoon and fell back toward the agency, twenty mules distant, to be nearer the other bands for support. About sundown the agent met the band of 500 on the plain fleeing ) his Irom thelr homes and the excited borders. [t was indeed ao gad sight to him. This band had given evidence of their determination to abandon their wild life and accept civilization, but now they were on the war path, grieved, and, possibly, their hearts filled with the spirit of revenge, which would cause | ; them to forever hate the education and coarse of | | life which produced such unjust and hateful fruit. A delegation from the settlers on the border brought down to the agency the pony taken by the thieves and murderera, and they wished to do all they could to restore friendly relations with the Indians, | Ata council which was held the Osages voluntarily | gave up the horses taken by them in the fight and | appeared disposed to live at peace if let alone. | The agent again urgently requests @ small police force of armed men to remove trespassers and pro- | tect the Osages from the incursions of Christian savages. He says unless those savages are protected by the government it will be utterly impossibie for any man to control them or civilize them. If the gov- ernment would discharge its duty in that regard, their civilization would be rendered easy, certain and pleasurable to the agent and his co-laborers, The Passport System In France. The French Charg¢ d’A/fairs has addressed to Sec- retary Fish the following letter:- LEGATION OF FBANOK IN THR UNITED STATES, WASHINGTON, May 24, 1871. Mr, SRORETARY OF Stat ‘The French government has abrogated the decree of requirements of poss. June 80, 1656, And re-catablisbed orts, ‘Travellers ting themseives on the frontiers of France must, therefore, be furnished with regular patsports Dearing the viee of @ French diplomatic or consular agent. £ hasten to bring this fact to your Excellency's notice, and ‘avail myself of this occasion to renew to you the assurance consideration. ln at prereset ” HENRY DE BELLONNET. Secretary Fish and the Alabama Tribunal. Secretary Fish will leave Washington for New York toward the close of this week. The Secretary will not be one of the tribunal of arbitrators on the Atabama claims to which report has recently placed him, if, for no other reason, the indelicacy of acoept- ing an office which he assisted in creating. The Treasury Programme. The Secretary of the Treasury has directed the Assistant Treasurer at New York to sell $2,000,000 of gold on the first and third Thursdays, and $1,000,000 on the second, fourth and fifth Thursday's of June, or $7,000,000 in all, ana to purchase $1,000,000 bongs om each Wednesday of June, or $4,000,000 in Mevements of the President. ‘The President expects to leave Washington with his family om Tuesday for Long Branch. He will attend the examination at the Military Academy in er ‘The Mexican Commission. ‘The United States and Mexican Commission have adjourned until the 15th of June. is The Treaty. ‘The original of the Treaty of Washington has been Placed in the archives of the Department of State, ‘The ratifications are to be exchanged at London, The Natio Banks, The followmg 1s an abstract of the principal items Of the reports of the Comptroller of the Currency, showing the condition of the national banks in the United States at the close of business April 29:— Reource. nd discounts der notes. Clearing house ceri Three per cents.. The 1,704, This statement 1s exclusive of the First National Bank of Fort Smith, Ark., and the First National Bank of Portland, Oregon, from which reports have not been recetved. THE DUELLO IN NORTH CAROLIAA. A Sceession Editor in Raleigh Challenges the Radical Goveruor. The Challengo Declined and the Governor Postad—The Good Old Days of Chivalry Reviving. Ravetan, May 28, 1871. ‘The controversy between Governor Caldwell and Josiah Turner, editor of the Sentinel, is published, Turner accused the Governor of appointing one of his brothers-in-law a railroad director, who declined the oMce, The Governor descends from the dignity of the Executive ant flings dlth at the editor in an Apologistic card. A long correspondence ensaes, ending with a challenge from the editor, then in Columbia, 8. C., which the Governor, under date the 25th Inst, refused to accept on the ground that the duello was a mode of redress universally recog nizea by gentlemen to be imposslvle, On receipt of this Turner returns from Columbia and publishes a card, which will appear ia tho Senéined of to-mor- row, concluding as fullows:— I might here clos? with the correspondence, having given the Governor the first and the last word, He has no reason tou complain that the public does not properly understood the cause of quarrel between us, The extent of my offence was this and nothing more: J published a tumor that one of his brother:-In-law had refused to scoept the appoint ment of raliroad director from the Governor, The card signed by Judge Ruin, Mr. Jones and Thomas Cain, Esq., brothers-in-law of the Governor, whout he ventured to say would not believe me on oath, was not sought or asked for by me. it was of their own motion that they published it, and though it was but anact of justice ty me it was more than a rebuke to the Governor. I tiank them for this un- sought statement. 1 never read the code. I am no advocate or admirer of it am told {it requires that 1 should now post Mr. Caldwell as @ liar and a coward. | ‘This will not look well, because he Is the Governor, and meanly and falsely says in his last card that t gave him no chance to apologize. J, thereiore, vic- jate the code and refuse to post him, and leave bis scurritous, defamatory card and his own coutradic- tion of it to be read and condemned with the univer. sal contempt and detestatton which it deserves, Tha pucpose o. Mr. Caldwell was altogether poittical, Hd did not feel injured or aggrieved by my publishing a ramor relative to the appointment of nis brother- In-iaw. His purpose was by falschood and basa calumny to weaken the fore of what I might say in Ube approaching campaign, That wad purpose, hotning more nor less, He leit the executive enalr when he caluiny niated and slandered me. He left it agulg when he commissioned his triend, Major Hearne, to receive and answer notes as he did, and he did no resume It until a peremptory challenge suggested a retreat, I will not pursue him into the sanctuary of the coward, in which he has taken refuge, but hola him up to the world as void of courage as of decency and shame, and warn the public that therd 1s no depth of meanness to whick be would not descend. * It is antictpated that the appearance of this card ‘will create some lively work to-norrow. HOME AGAIN. The “Tigers? Return to Gotham—Brilliant Reception at the Blossem Clab. On Sutarday evening last Fifth avenue, betweem Nineteenth and Twentieth streets, was siive wid paxues going to and from the establishment of thé Blossom Club. The cause of the commotion wad that the delegation from the Americus and Blossom Ciubs, which had been acrogs the Continent, werq to be formally welcomed and congratulated on theig return. The club house was brilant indeea. All the lumiuanes of the club were on land, the rooms were briliantly lighted, and in the centre room was spread a table laden with the choicest daint.es. Ed. Wright, tne steward of the club, the orator of lis race, tre envy , of the colored young men and the idol of the cok ored young ladies. gazed fondly, almost paternally, at the scalloped edges on the slices of ham, at tha varlegated streaks in the ice cream, and then at tha scallops on the scattered wig of one of his aexteroud assistanté. Gumbieton bustled around, oe chat people with the glitter of his diamonds and saw tha! everything was right. THAT NOISY MAN, PYNE, endeavored to offset nis lormer repaotation as th quietest man in ail the town by wiaking aloud. Thi voyageurs all looked remarkably fine, George Mite! eli’ stood in one corner, hauasomer, if possible, than ever, explaining to Harry Ford and Kell how de< lighted the Hoosters were to get some of those e< quill toothpicks; how one of them declared that they ‘lay away over bowie knives for raking oug the scraps.” Ka. Kearney beamed tn his needie- worked shirt front and assured Bassford—who cam: in, beaining with sintles, fresh from the new Basefor: Club—of his continued affection for him, Peter Trainor seemed to have grown quite venerabl since he leit, and gazed with some surprise at tii iresh appearance of the man who formeriy passe for his twin brother—Speaker Hitchman. The Rev. Amos J. Cummings looked longingly at the magaifl. cent tigure of Andrew J. Garvey. The last named gent las volunteered his services to fresco any o' the Mansards the boys niay fave beeu presented with in ther travels, but he was spared thea} trouble. Senator Pf, Maioue came up smil. inj to assure Ed, Donnelly th: the dorg? was all might and had been - ape pointed doorkeeper of Judge Kano’s Chelsea Clady The “Poor Boy of the Mohawk” looked as if tu ‘Was just recovering from an attack of disease of tg heart, such as the brilliant police surgeons and ne body eise could discover; but he chatted quite gaily with Sue: Brennan about the surprise and cap ture of the Brennan manston on Thursday afte noon. County Clerk Loew aud Judges Koch, Kane aud McGuire formed @ quartet which would excite the admiration of an artist, while the prince-lke As semblyman Flanagan and ihe veneraole-lookin; James Ramsey, the smiling Denis O'Donoghue au his ,phtlosophical-looking friend Cody, and othe too humerous to mention, were scattered here an there, chatting cheerly about the tines, EXx-Alder, man Farley was captivating Supervisor Harold, of San Francisco, whom the fi 1} had smuggie away from home in a bale of blankets, while McCabe, In plenitude of velvet coat, endors Moloney’s epigram on the Yo-Semite—that it was A BIG THING. When some two hundred or more of the friends of the travellers had assembled, Mr. John Mullaly, o1 behalf of the Blossom Club, formally welcomea tn wauderers. Mr. Owen Brennan, in absence of th orator of the party, Judge Coulter, spoke on belial of the voyageurs, and ailudea In glowing terms the reception Se ae met with everywhere. Ti glorious “send-off” they nad received bad been well HERALD-ed that the trip was made for the more like a drive around Central Park than a tri across the Continent. At the conclusion of Mr. Brennan's remarks the company present attack: the lunch above aliuded to and enjoyed themselv for several hours, The affair was to a certain extent impromptu and passed off to the entire satia/actiol of ali concerned. HAVANA MARKET. Havana, May LAD 2. |, age eames, nel heavy, but impro' ow a ‘on account of the favoravie advices from abroad. qualities als tly advanced and aa demand bas vancrng, juoted at a arjobes Honey | in — want of stock. Hox Thared, market wu 4 on London, 1% a 19% premium § fn currency, 4% » B44 discount ; do., abort si count; do, in gold, 6U days, 6 a sight, 140 7% premio