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t SPAIN. ‘Official Confirmation of the Capture of Seo de Urgel—The Commandant Shot by Or- der of General Tristany. MavrID, August 23, 1874, Seo de Urgel has been surrendered to the Car- tists through the treachery of persons within the city, who are friends of the Bishop of Urgel, the Chaplain of Don Carlos, BUTCHERY OF PRISONERS. General Tristany captured the entire garrison— 485 men, with thirty-two guns, ‘The commandant of the republican forces in the citadel was shot by order of General Tristany. A Filibustering Expedition Against Porto Rico—That Island Not To Be Sold. MADRID. August 23, 1874, The government has information that a filibus- “tering expedition 1s preparing against Porto Rico, sand has adopted strong measures to put an end $0 i =e THE ABBE M’MASTER DEPIED, The report in regard tothe proposed sale of Porto Rico toGermany, published in the New York | #reeman's Journal, 13 indignautiy’denied. Austria and Germany Officially Accept the Political Situation. VIENNA, August 23, 1874 Tue Presse announces that the Austrian and ‘German Chargés d’Affaires at Madrid were notified on Friday last of the recognition by their re- Spective governments of President Serrano, as ‘chief of the executive power of Spain, More Arms for the Republican Troops. , Mapnrip, August 23, 1874, The War Department has sigued a contract tor 130,000 Remington rifies, GERMANY. Arrival of the New American Minister. BERLIN, August 23, 1874. Mr. J. Bancroft Davis, the new American Min- ‘tater, has arrived in this city. FRANCE.. President MacMahon at Morlaix. Paris, August 23, 1874, President MacMahon met with a strong republi- can demonstration at Morlaix, where he arrived to-day. During his reception there were tumultue ous shouts of “Vive la Répubdliquer” THE MILLENNIAL CELEBRATION. Beturn of the King of Denmark from Iceland. . CoPENHAGEN, August 23, 1874. His Majesty Christian [X., King of Denmark, has feturned to the capital from his visit to Iceland. VISIT OF THR PRINCESS OF WALES. ‘He was accompanied from England by his daugn- ter, the Princess of Wales. MANITOBA. A Treaty With the Cree Indians To Be Made—The Pembina Railroad—The Death Penalty. . Fort Garry, Manitoba, August 22, 1874, The Hon. David Laird, accompanied by the Lieutenant Governor and others, start on Mon- Gay next to make a treaty with the Cree Indians. THE PEMBINA RAILROAD. The specificatrons for the Pembina branch rail- road are received, and several prominent con- tractors irom the United States are in the city. THE DEATH PENALTY. ‘The scaffolding for the execucion of the soldier, Michond, who murdered brown, is erected. The execution, to take place on Wednesday next, will ‘de the first in the Province. THE SENATORIAL NAVAL INSPECTION, The Party at Sen Returning to New York. PortsMouTH, N. H., Angust 23, 1874. The United States steamer Despatch, with the Senatorial Naval Committee and invited guests, sighted the Isie of Shoals Saturday and returned to the Navy Yard. Captain Wiard’s steam yacht Minnehaha took a portion of the party to New- Duryport to visit Major Ben Perley Poore, at his Indian Hiil farm, and Senator Morrill left for his home, in Maine. The Despatch sailed for New York and Washing- ton Sunday morning, having only Senators Sar- gent and Connover on board. THE INTERNATIONAL BEGATTA, Arrivals at Saratoga—The Practice on the Lake. SARATOGA, August 23, 1874, ‘The Atlantic Club, of Hoboken, arrived here this morning. Nine four-oared crews are now on the fake in practice for the coming International ‘regatta. ORICKETING FESTIVITY, HA.irax, N. S., August 23, 1874. The American cricketers dined with the Mayor last evening. GiB ialhash THE NEW ORLEANS DEFALOATION. NEW ORLEANS, August 23, 1874. The deficits of Levy, cashier of the Citizens’ Bank, and Lessasster, cashier of Joseph Hernandez, have been adjusted, Both parties are here. Itis understood there will be no prosecution. SING SING CAMP MEETING, SiNG SING, N. Y., August 23, 1874, About 6,000 persons attended camp meeting to- day. An immense congregation was in attend- ance at both morning and aiternoon, the Rev. De Loss Lull preaching at the tormer and the Rey. William Lloyd at the latter, To-night the regular sermon was delivered by ‘the Rev. 0. B. Ford. Throngs of people alsohung about the prayer meeting tents. The children’s meeting was addressed by Mrs. E. Acker, of Brookiya, “FIRE IN BOSTON, “Boston, August 23, 1874. Some wooden buildings on Calei's wood and coal wharl, near Federal street, used for a stable and «goal shed, were burned this morning. Loss $8,000, FIRE AT DALTON, SPRINGFIELD, Mass., August 23, 1874, Z. M. Crane’s barn, at Dalton, with forty tons of hay and a fine lot of carriages and sieighs, and an ‘adjoining grapery, containing two tons of grapes, were burned Saturday morning. Loss $12,000; in- sured for $6,000; $2,000 each in the Berkshire Mutual, of PittsGeld; Pnoenix, of Hartiord, and Commerce, of Albany. FIRE AT TORONTO, TORONTO, Ont., August 23, 1874. Clark's boot and Shoe store and Dodgson’s cigar «manufactory, on Yonge street, were destroyed by “Gre this mornin; “FIRE AT BT, LOUIS. Sr. Louis, Mo., August 23, 1874. The distillery of Chanteau & Edwards, situated on the river bank outside the north limits of the city, Was burned yesterday. ‘fhe loss is about $40,000, on which there is $22,500 insurance, divided as follows :—The Franklin, of Virginia, and the Peoples, of New Jersey, $2,500 each; Ola Do- minton, $1,200; the German, or Erie, Ba., $5,000 and $9,000 in St. Louis companies. THE WEATHER YESTERDAY. The following record will show the changés in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours, th comparison with the corresponding day of last ear, a8 indicated sby the thermometer at Hud- Qut’s Pharmacy, HERALD Buliding :— Isis. 1874. 1873, 1874. - 92 69 7 6T <1 66 ‘Average temperature yesteraay 0096 Average temperature for corresponding date a | 1s being shipped. NEW YORK AERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET, Tivea, aua wich the United States peed expect minds in favor of Beecher, and that they pa SOUTH AMERICA. —-—___ PERU. ———— The Celebration of Independence—Sport- ing—Amnesty to Offen Against the Government—Immigration—The Debt— Improvements. PANAMA, August 15, 1874. The news from Lima to the 6th inst. is connected almost entirely with the interests of peace. Congress was opened On the 25th ult. by the President. General Prado had been elected Prest- dept of the Lower House and Don R. Munow Speaker of the Senate. A MONUMENT OF VICTORY. On the 20th the Monument of th e2d of May (dos de Mayo), in commemoration of the victory over the Spaniards in 1866, was unveiled in the capital. ‘The ceremony took place before an immense crowd of people. All the joreigners residing in Lima and Callao assembled under their respective flags; the schools, the benevolent societies, the printers, the veterans of the war of mudependence, the courts, and the Executive were present. The pro- cession formed was avout a mile in length, ‘The American flag, followed by 180 citizens of the United States, Was displayed with the em- blems of Cuba, Chili, Ecuador and Bolivia. The monument is considered to be a very fine one. Around the base are colossal statues of the then aliled republics—Peru, Boiivia, Chill and Ecuador— out of which arises a snaft of Carrera marble, twenty-two metres high, and crowned with & golden wreath of victory. Alter the ceremony of uncovering General Prado made a speech. AMNESTY TO POLITICAL OFFENDERS. A bil! has been passed by the Lower House granting amnesty to all political offenders. THE BALLOT. The new plan adopted by the government, with the sanction of Congress, of leaving to the people the right of choosing their local authorities ana decentralzing the local government, has met with great success. . IMMIGRATION FROM EUROPE. A society, formed for the promotion of an immi- igo from Europe, has also met with considera- le success, Congress is asked to appropriate sufficient funds to bring to the country 60,000 im- migrants trom Europe. ‘ THE PUBLIO DEBT, The government has lost no opportunity of affording to the holders of Peruvian obligations every description of guarantee and aasistance, ‘The interest and sinking fund of the debt have been paid with punctuality, During the year 1873 the government redeemed £752,900 of the toreign Joan of 1872 with the guano sold in Europe. During the same year the resources ol the country were sufficient to pay 1,469,237 soles of the interior debt. On thé ist inst. the Chilian-Peruvian debt con- tracted with the United States in 1866 was can- celled. The internal expenses during the last year were 17,389, 100 soles and the amount estimated for the same 11,407.95 soles, THE MESSAGE OF PRESIDENT PARDO to Congress has been published. The most im- portant subjects touched upon in it are the rela- tions of Peru with nations abread, which are de- clared to be satisfactory. The Maria Luz case will be arranged by the Eniperor of Russia: and the last news from the Peruvian Legation at Pekin is favorable to a tull and abundant introduction of Chinese laborers into Peru. CHILI. ow Much Rain and Snow—The Boundary Question—Brazil Spoiling for a War. PANawA, August 16, 1874. The principal news from Chili by the steamer that arrived here on the 13th instant from the south, 1s that there had been a terrible rainfall pretty much all over the Republic, exceeding that ofany year on record, even in the northern de- partments, where rain seldom falls, the railroads and telegraph lines had sufferea severely, The River Limari overflowed its banks and inundated the town of Ovalle, ‘The Tenney Railroad has sustained very serious damages by the late rains. "The iron bridges of Seca, Tague and Pacbuga have been carried away, Peay, land slides have also taken place on the ne. A WAR CLOUD. The Chilian and Peruvian press have been a good deal excited over the news that a Brazilian iron- ciad had bombarded the town of Alvear, in the Upper Uruguay, province of Corrientes. The al. leged motive Was that some of the officers of the Brazilian vessel had been beaten and ill-treated in the town of Alvear, and that the authorities would neither punish the assailant nor give any expla- nation to the commandante of the Brazilian ves- sel. It was believed that advantage was taken of the circumstance to bring on a war between Bra- zil and the Argentine Republic. COLOMBIA. The Montijo Steamship telligence. PaNaMa, August 15, 1874. Since the departure of the last steamer for New York, 8th inst., there has been no mail received here from Central America, and consequently no news. The steamship service between the differ- ent republics and the Isthmus is at present very irregular, and is the cause of much complaint on the part of shippers and merchants on the coast. THE MONTIJO CASE. From the interior of this Republic nothing later of interest has been received beyond the an- nouncement in a private letter from Bogota je~—Naval Ine that Dr. Schumacher, Minister resident tor the German Empire, is likely to se- lected to deciae on the claim of Messrs. Schuber, owners of the steamship Montijo, against the government of this Repubtic, which nad been leit to arbitration by the governments of Colombia and the United States, Hl the papers and evi- dence connected with the case are to be laid be- fore Dr. Schumacher, and his decision is to be fal. THE PACIFIC SQUADRON. Rear Admiral Napoleon Coliins, United States Navy, arrived at Panama from New York on the 8th inst., and on the ith hoisted nis pennant on the Unites States steamer Richmond, of the South Pacific station, The Richmond will remain in port Uli some repairs to the hoisting appa- ratus at her propeller now being made are com- pleted. THE ENGLISH FLEET, Admiral Cocurane, commander of the British squadron in the Pacific, sailed irom Panama in the steamer Tenedos, on the 10th inst., for San José, Guatemala, to inquire into the outrage on Consul Magee. The Fantome arrived here from the south on the 9th, and satied fain the same day also for Guatemala. The other vessels o1 the squadron are a!l making their way to tne same destination. ECUADOR. The Bank of Ecuador Has Resumed Payment—State of Trade. VANAMA, August 15, 1874, Advices from Guayaquil state that the Bank of Ecuador has resumed specie payment, and is now redeeming its notes in soles, Exchange on Europe had gone down to forty per cent premium, and on Peru to two per cent. Commercial affairs in Panama continue ina very depressed condition. Trade 18 dujl, money scarce and no produce of any amount Exchange on New York con- tinues at eight per cent premium, and on England at six per cent premium. A Jump from a Precipice Eignty Feet High Into the Hudson. POUGHKREPSIE, August 23, 1874. A terrible suicide occurred in this city this after- Noon. A notorious character named James Cram- sey repaired to the Kaal Rock, on the bank of the river, eighty-five feet bigh, and, lying down, fell asleep, being in half intoxicated condition. After an hour’s slumber he arose and said to a Person with him, who had been jumping, “I will give you @ jesson, boys, and show you a leap,” Pulling off his shoes, he went to the edge of the Tock, evidently to.look fora place from which he could jump easily into the water below without striking on the rock. Running back from the edge, he exclaimed, “That’s not much of a jump!’ and started for the leap. A man inter- fered, and caught him and heia him back Cramsey exclaiming, ‘What's the matter with pha Let me gol’ Again he started for the edge, jooked over and ran back ten feet for another start, and was caught the second time and a strug- gle took plece and Cramsey struck one of his cap- ors in the breast, crying, With an oath, “If you don’t let me go I'll take you with me.’ He was released, and sat down sor about five minutes, and a man took a seat between nim and the precipice. Cramsey said, “Let me jump, and Vil meet you at the ftirnace dock.” In anotuer moment he suddenly made a dash ior the edge of the rock, shoutiny “Now, rm of!” and, with &@ fearful spring, leaped out into the air and plunged teet first down a distance of eighty-five teet into the Hudson. It js stated that he turned once tn the awful descent and struck the water sideways. Up to nine o’clock to-night his body bad not been found. THREE PERSONS DROWNED, Lonpon, Ont., August 23, 1874, Last night Jenkins W. Nesbitt, his nephew and Miss Elizg Tait, bis sister-in-law, while attempting to ford the river, near Beecher’s Island, in a buggy, were drowned, ‘The horse was also drowned, THE WAR OF RACES. A Civil Conflict Waging in Kentucky. A POLITICAL FIGHT. Militia Sent to the Scene of Conflict. LOUISVILLE, Ky., August 22, 1874. In response to a call of Governor Leslie four companies of mulitia—250 men—under Colonel Clark left this city at nine o’clock to-night for Lancaster. ‘The following telegrams are just received from the seat of hostilities in Garrard county :— FIRST DESPATCH. STanrorD, Ky., August 22, 1874. A number of men have reiniorced the Kennedy Party at Lancaster, and recroita are still going into the town well armed. Trouble of a serious Nature is brewing, and the object ls to quiet the excitement peaceiully if they can, forcibly if they must. The Sellers party are negroes and whites, principally negroes. There were about fifty ne- groes guarding Sellers’ house, where they in- trenched themselves and made barracks. They were armed with Spencer rifles, but where they got them is unknown. Both parties are being re- inforced, The Sheriff of this county, W. G, Saunders, has been appointed chief of the peace brigade. Skirmishing has been going on since two o'clock this afiernoon. It is reported that five negroes have been killed and several wounded. Sellers’ house has been burned, and two others. The United States troops came out, and botn par- ties fred on them. The troops returned the fire and dispersed both parties, and then returned to their quarters, All is quiet at present (seven o’clock), but the end is not yet reached, we fear, although earnest efforts are being made to stop hostilities. SECOND DBSPATOH. Lanoaster, Ky., August 22, 1874. We are really having a terrible war between the whites and blacks. Fighting has been going on at intervals since Wednesday night. Yesterday morning some negroes shot Mr. Fred. Yeakley. This go exasperated the whites that a large party Look possession of the town this morning. Firing has been kept up all the evening. The negroes are fortified in the house of Wuliam Sellers. 1t is tnought two negroes were killed this evening and several wounded. The whites set fire to an out- house near Sellers’ residence, with the intention 1 burning up the negroes, and it is now burning. The whites now have the negroes surrounded. It 1s reported that Sellers has gone alter more ne- groes, The whites tave also sent for reimiorce- ments. A PERFECT REIGN OF TERROR exists. There is no law or order here. The troops stationed here now reluse to interiere, and the citizens fear the town may be burned. A party of whites from Lincoln county are here with arms and ammunition. A regular engage- Ment has just occurred between the troops and the rioters, The troops were called into town to try and quel the riot, when they were fired upon by both parties. They returned the fire, and sev- eral were wounded on botn sides, Sellers’ dwell- ing 18 now burning. THIRD DESPATCH. DANVILLE, Ky., August 22, 1874. The situation at Lancaster, up to a late hour this evening, was as follows:—Ken- nedy’s friends occupy the Court House, and Mason and Saunders the hotel situated on the road leading to Stanford. Sellers’ forces are located on his premises just down the hill, on the Lexington pike, and a short distance irom the public square. A third party, whose mission is to preserve or restore peace, occupy a corner build- ing on the public square, between the two parties and on the road to Lexington. No shooting since my last report. The Circuit Court has not adjourned. The man named Yeakley, who was sot, was not the son-in-law of Kennedy, but the brother- in-law of that gentieman. The con- tested election case between Kennedy and Faulkner, for the office of Circuit Court Clerk, was set for to-day, but not tried. The business houses in the town are closed, and the people are in mo- mentary expectation of further trouble. FOURTH DESPATCH. DANVILLE, Ky., August 25, 1874, There is more shooting at Lancaster. The ue- groes near Sellers’ premises fired on the party of whites in Brown’s building, on the corner above spoken olf, but the fire was returned, ana the skirmish between the parties kept up till the ttme the messenger left. Two negroes were shot and are supposed to be killed. No other casualties are known. Fuller Details of the Disorder—Origin of the Trouble—List of the Killed and ‘Wounded—Efforts to Keep Peace. CINCINNATI, Uhio, August 23, 1874, A special despatch from Danville, Ky., gives the following account of jast night’s trouble at Lan- caster :— “A party from Lincoln county and the Kennedy party commenced firing on the negroes, who occupied the Seliers property, and, from all we can learn, the negroes did no firing. They, were fortified in Sellers’ house, and occasionally came out to reconnoitre, The whites were under the command of Sheriff Saunders, of Lincoln county, who nad his forces surrounding the Seilers’ property. About four o’clock the wood and coal houses immediately back of Sellers’ residence were ignited by fire balls, These houses were in close proximity to the main building, to which the flames soon commu- nicated, Town Marshal Miller and other citizens protested against FIRING THE HOUSE, but without effect, Miller called upon Captain Fletcher, in command of the United States troops, to assist him in protecting the building from dire, but the request was not heeded until the fames had control of the main building. About six o'clock Fletcher marched his forces to the public | square. After his arrival a consultation was held between him and Saunders, commander of the white party, and it was agreed if Saunders would withdraw and disarm his men, Marshal Miller, with the assistance of the United States troops, would demand a surrender of the negroes, and the latter were to be placed under the pro- tection of the troops as prisoners, At this time tbe fire in the main building of Sellers’ house was beyond control, and the whites stationed around the house were withdrawn, except a small party who were pliced in Waldon’s house, northeast from Sellers’, Marsbal Miller, with Saunders, marched down in front of Sellers’ house and called upon the negroes tocome out and give up their arms, Ten negroes came running to the front gate with guns and pistols in their hands, and, some of the troops, not understanding their intentions, called pon them not to come out of the yard, at the same time levelling their guns upon the negroes. Marshal Miller in the meantime kept continually calling om the negroes to lay down their arms, Amia the intense excitement which prevailed A SHOT WAS FIRED from some unknown source, followed by a volley. The soldiers, supposing they were being fired on by the party in the rear, turned and fired in that direction, Then the firing became general and lasted several minutes, which was followed by the soldiers retreating, with twenty-five negroes and three whites, whom they had captured, Sellers’ house was the only one burned, ‘The following are the casualties :— KILitep.—Foley (white), Doc. Reed and a negro, Dame unknown; Ward (white), with Sellers ana W. H. White, of Kennedy's party. Tus Wounpgp are—Henry Singleton (white), Walker, Landram (white) and @ negro, name un- known, Two hundred and fifty State troops have ar- to preserve peace. A Murder in Todd County, Kentucky. LOUISVILLE, August 23, 1874. in Todd county, a few nights ago, a party of masked men murdered Isham Link, colored, and shot his son through tue abdomen, The Sheriff is after the murderers with a posse. A District Attorney and Sheriff Attacked, CINCINNATI, August 23, 1874, Where was a fracas at Monterey, Owen county, Ky., yesterday, growing out of a fight on election day between Willis and James Russe! ana some others who attacked one Green Barr. The Russels | were arrested and bound over for examination at | Monterey yesterday. Thev threatened the County | Attorney with death if he prosecuted them, That | oficial callea upon the Sheriff for protection, and the latter, with a guard, and the Avtorney, went to Monterey yesterday. They were attacked | by the Russels party, numbering about | twenty, and George Mefford, one of the guards, was killed, The Sherif, finding himself overpow- ered, withdrew to Owenton and called upon the Governor for troops. Witvesses sor the prosecu- | tion were also fired upon and ariven off. The Gov- | ernor bas ordered troops to Monterey. | An Incipient Negro Riot at Ridge Springs (S. C.) Suppressed—Prompt Arming of the Whites Eifective—Happy Avoidance of Bloodshed. Avausra, August 20, 1874, | Last Monday an altercation occurred at Ridge | Springs, @ small village situated on the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, in South Carolina, | and distant forty-lour miles from this place, be- | tween Henry Smith, colored, and Henry Watson, white, about asmall sum of money which the | former owed the latter. Some words used by Watson toward Smith incensed the younger mem- | bers of the colored population, and vengeance was | threatened upon the white people of the village | and vicinity. These threats became so pronounced | that the white citizens deemed it best to prepare for any emergency. An agent was, therefore, sent to Augusta early on Tuesday morning tor ARMS AND AMMUNITION, This agent succeeded in purchasing before noon about one hundred rifles and a quantity of nxed ammunition. A short time alter twelve o’clock rumors began to be circulated to the effect that | hotels | lyn pastor is involved, there were present here ng. The gathering wi | Boe; Sathering was ofa Muttering, whispering | certain chat when the report of the committee Was BEECHER’S SERMON. Sar Ba tO AME Discourse of the Plymouth Pastor Yes- terday Among the White Mountains— | No Personal Allusions—Fervid Prayer and Praise—Lack of Faith in Chris- tianity. Twin Mocnrain Hovsz, N. H. August 23, 1874, Tn accordance with his practice in former years, | the Rey. Henry Ward Beecher to-day conducted religious services at this hotel, where he has been staying for several days. The event having been rumored for two or three days about tne in the mountains, caused a consider. | able stir among their visitors, who came out tn numbers from the Crawford, the Fabyan and Profile Houses. To swell their force were visitors trom many points within radii of fifty | miles of the twin Mountain House, and as the ser- | mon which Mr, Beecher was to deliver was ex- pected and announced by many who considered themselves well informed as likely to have a kin- | dred bearing upon the scandal in which the Brook- also @ party of reporters connected with New York and Boston newspapers. With these ele- ments the large parlor of the Twin Mountain House was crowded before ten o’ciock this morn- kind, somewhat more excited by the expectation | ot being fed with new information about tue scan- dalextorted by this Moulton statement than by religious fervor. , THE SERVICES Were late in beginning, on account of the restless- ness of the expectant auditors, who kept Mr. Beecher waiting for some minutes after his ap- pearance on the platform, before they rustied aud jostied themselves into statue-like attitudes of attention. Once placed, they bad to remain fixed throughout the services, because the crowd was too great to allow them to move. The gathering had a wonderful likeness in appearance and man- ners to that usual at Plymouth church, Mr. Beecher began the services with the usual prayer, which ® volunteer choir, under the di- rection of Mr. George S. Cheney, of Amberst, Mass., followed witha hymn, When the singing was over the minister gave AN EDGE TO THE EXPECTATIONS of ali present by reading the fifth chapter of the the negroes would seize the arms on their arrival | at Ridge Springs, and at three o’clock a despatch | was received announcing that, Smith, Botyer and | Rauord, three negro leaders at that place, had | leit tor Columbia, where they expected to ubtain | arms, and that the negro militia had been ordered to meet at che viilage. Upon — receipt of this despatch intense excitement pre- | vailed in the city. About thirty young men determined to go to the assistance of the | white people of Ridge Springs, Obtaining arms and ammunition they leit for the scene of the | troubles on the evening passenger train. At Graniteville, a station six miles from Augusta, G. | H. McDevitt, white, an acknowiedged leader of the | negroes, toarded the train, but finding armed men | in one of the cars soon leit. THE NEGROES SUBSIDE. On arriving at Ridge Springs the Augusta party | found everything quiet. They were received by | about 200 armed and mounted white men from the adjacent country. Not a negro was to be seen, | Whites, armed to the teeth, continued com- | ing in irom the vicinity and _ belore midnight there were fully 300 white men in the village. The country was patrolled for | miles around, but no hostile bands of negroes | could be discovered, Wednesday morning a por- | tion ol the Augusia party returned home. Yester- day afternoon, when the passenger train from | Columoia to Augusta reached Ridge Springs, tt | was boarded by armed white men, who arrested Bowi negro militia captain and_ principal leader of the negro malcontents. Threats of | lynching him were made, and the feeling against | him was so great that the men who had him in | charge were compelled to send him to Lexington Jail for saiety. Tue negroes came into the village by squads during the aiternoon PLEADING FOR PEACR and offering to give up theirarms. Warrants have been issued lor several o1 the negro ringleaders | who, however, have not yet been found. The oider | negroes about Ridge Springs deprecate any violent measures on the part of their race and are anxtous jor peace. The milina is composed eutirely of | age, and it is from toem that all the trouble pro- ceeas. Governor Moses has, as yet. taken no action in the matter, and it 1s thought that he will notin the future. The troubles are considered as having ended, The Situation at Georgetown, 8S. C.—A Demonstration by the National Guard— A Warlike Movement Foiled. [From the Uharleston News and Courter, August 20.) There was considerable excitement in the city yesterday, caused by the movements of the Na- tional Guard, two companies of which were sum- moned out in obedience to the order of the Gov- ernor to be in readiness to proceed to George- town. Atalate hour on Tuesday evening Briga- dier General Taft received the following despatch from the Adjutant and Inspector General of the State :— Geyerat W. N. Tart, Crarteston, s. C. You will immediately order one company of the Na tional Guard to be in readiness to proceed to Georye- arrival in Charleston to-morrow atter- town upon my 1 noon. By order of his Exceilency the Governor and Commander in Chiet, Adjutant and Iuspector General. In obedience to this order the two crack com- panies of the First regiment, the Randolph rifie- men and the Carolina light infantry were sum- moned to meet at the Military Hall, at three o'clock yesterday. ‘The Adjutant General was expected on the aliernoon train | from Columoia. The contemplated movement | did not seem to be @ very popular one with the militia Various hints were thrown out to the | eftect that the whole tuing was a pohiical job or | trick, and the most anxious inquiries were made as to what provision had been made for the sub- | sistence of the warriors. By four o'clock adozen | members of the two companies had assembled | ut Muitary Hall in uniform. These were detailed | into squaus of two men each, and were sent | around to hunt up absentees. ‘The search was not successful. All the tleld and stam were present, but the rank and file Were non est. A few strag: glers were brought in, and the arrival of the Ad- jutant General was Rea ioasige Ryesvec. ‘The alter- noon train came in on time, but failed to bring the Adjutant General, and at six o'clock the hearts of the National Guard were made glad by | an order of dismissal The contemplated excursion to Georgetown may be re- garded as abandoned jor the present at least, as it will be somewhat difficult to bring she militia up to the sticking point. By the Northeastern train last evening Major General Swails, command- ing the division, arrived in the city, in obedience toa telegram irom the same source requestin; him to meet the Adjutant General in this city, an to be in readiness to proceed to Georgetown. This errand was @ iruitless one. The latest news from Georgetown came by a | special messenger, who leit that place at two P, . on Tuesday. He says that there was a crowa of negroes 10 the city, but that everything was quiet. ‘Toe County Nominaung Convention was in ses- sion when he left, and was being addressed oy Congressman Rainey. There had been no figutung since last Thursday. Bowley was still in ja, which was Still guarded by Jones’ militia, He brought # letter from the commander of | the revenue cutter to the Collector of the Port, @ copy of which was sent | to General Vogdes, commanding the post. The letter stated that the cutter bad arrived at George- town on Monday, and would remain there until | Thursday (to-day); that everything was quiet, although some confusion existed, ana an outbreak might occur at any moment. Bowicy 1s still in | jali, guarded by Jones’ militia, who are still in | possession of the town, ‘The cutter, he says, can | rotect the United States property at the Custom ouse, but his force was not sufficiently large to enabie him to disembark them in case of a dis- turbance. He adds that there is not sufficient force there to protect the lives and property of the citizens. This letter was transmitted to General Vogdes, who still declines to order the United states troops to George.own until ordered to do so by the Presi- dent. we caus STATISTIOS OF IMPORTS TO AMERIOA. WASHINGTON, August 23, 1874, ‘The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics furnishes the following statement of the principal exports from Great Britain to the United States during tne seven months ended July 31, 1874, as compared with the same period in 1873:— Articles 1873. 181, Aikulis.. 120 £60922 Apparel and siops, ibs SULT £1277 Copper, unmanutactured, 104 Copper, manufactured, Wt Cotton goods, yards, 78,836, 630 Karthen and china Soe ose Haberdashery, millinery and "6 DrOWCrY:-ereee vies . £795,139 Hardware and cutiery: Sheets Iron and steel, bar, bolt &c., ton Tron—Railroad ot all Kinds, ton Lron—Hoop, sheet and boiler, tor Tin plates, tons. .. Old fron, tons. . Steel, tons. Lead, px, &6., tons. Linen goods, Varas. Machinery. Silk, mixed | this young negroes, from eighteen to tweuty years of | Epistle of Paul to the Galatians, beginning, “Stand fast, therefore, in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.” While reading the Plymouth pastor seemed laboring under strong emotions, against whose ex_ Pression, except in the smothered, sob, bing cadence of his voice, he struggied success- fully. Many of his auditors, especially ladies, be- ing sympathetic with nim, were less able to sup» press the emotion nis manner communicated, and ere he had done his reading their faces were dushed and tear stained, THE SERMON, When Mr. Beecher haa ended his reading of the scriptural tesgon he prayed long and with fervid eloquence, which was ‘finally quenched by tears. Mr. Beecher appeared in a particularly emotional mood, and his voice throughout the services was strangely toned by the effects of his hay fever. Aiter the singing of the 705th hymn of tae Plymouth Collection by the choir Mr. Beecher, having first read the hymn through, laying particu- lar stress on the last stanza, In such society as this my weary soul would fina Rest, &c., he began his sermon. His text was from Timothy, chapter 2, verse 19—‘Nevertheless the foundation 0! God standeth sure, having this seal: the Lord | knoweth them that are his.”” The real subject to which he applied this text was lack of faith in the power of Christianity. He charged that we have come upon a time when | there are two classes of men antagonistic on everything but the belief that Christianity is being rapidly overthrown. One class yet de- voutly believe in what they call real Christianity, | and are bewildered by and scout the new exposi- | tion and new creeds whicn accept Christ as their founder. The other class believe that Christianity has no present value, that it is a stubble-fleld, and that we are getting no scfentific light on the way toward truth. Mr. Beecher’s arguments and raulery were directed mainly to showing that rev- elations from God are alphabetical and may be ; Combined in ten thousand ways. He denounced the idea of a church stiffly modelied and fixed in the beginning, and argued that CHURCHES ARE LIKE MEN, | They were not born in full power, but have to | grow toward perfection. Changes within them are necessary ; like infants they must have ali their latent powers urged into nse. It is the vivific spirit of God which makes changes in the churches, yet the worshippers of modelled churches will not | recognize that the first sect possessed the possi- bility of progress, and that God’s influence works upon this possibility, una they declaim loudly the down/all of Christianity. Every daisy, every hare- bell, every renunculus has roots tn life, but they must be stirred by this vivifle power of the sun, In conclusion, Mr. Beecher defined the religions | of the present as pocket systems, provincial, and each having but one true element. Religion is truly the fruit of the spirit, which St. Paul defines as love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith; and it will never be out or be crashed until the soul of man is quenched, Such a sermon as that I have epitomized was not expected by many persons in the congrega- tion, yet it kept the attention of its hearers strained until the close. THE. FEELING AT PLYMOUTH CHURCH. If it were supposed that Mr. Moulton’s state- ment would break the spirit of Plymouth church people and that its publcation would result in @ diminution in the attend- ance on yesterday’s service the supposi- tion was a very idle one, for it received as com- Plete @ contradiction as the best iriends of Mr, Beecher could desire, and 80 pronounced that even his enemies must have been constrained to admit that it was useless to waste their energetic anger on Plymouth Rock. The attendance was larger than, probably, on any vacation Sunday ever Known. Ali allusion, either in prayer or ser- mon, to unswerving faith in the integrity of the pastor went like an electric shock through the assembly, and each turned to the other with a radiance in the eye that spoke unmistakably its meaning, Nothing but the remembrance that it was the Lord’s Day and they were there to worship God, and not to praise Mr. Beecher, would have been powerful enough to restrain them from ap- p.auding and cheering the speaker. Though there was only half the choir present the tunes to the psaimody, which were all in @ jubilant metre, were suug With the old fire and vim of a Plymouth church congregation. Before and after the service @ reporter of the HERALD had @ conversation with several of the brethren who are among the ew who from a variety of circumstances nave been compelled to remain in the city and postpone their tion to @ more convenient season. ‘There was,a unanimous expression indicative of a want of faith in Moulton’s statement. Brother Smytn, who has acted as usher in one of the aisles on the floor of the church for many years, said that the great trouble was that Mr. Beecher had made a confidant and friend of men who were notoriously untrustworthy, instead of confiding in the solid men of his congregation and church. All the developments of the investigation showed that Mr. Beecher had been the victim of misplaced confidence. He tnougnt it would be well to attach permanently this committee of in- vestigation to the organization of the church, and levit be constivuted and known 4s an advisory | committee, so that if any future trouvie arose there would bea body of men on hand ready to advise Mr. Beecher in any social and personal emergency, and wno, by their investigation into the particulars of this recent scandal, had acquired large ex, a trouble to Plymouth church and its pa: Sexton Weld, whose life, Jor the most pal been spent in the church, says that from he can hear the congregations will be even lar; in Plymouth church tn the future than the, been in the past. Be thinks that the next letting of pews wil show a larger amount than any previous year. The enthusiasm manifested as of persons who were likely bog has e goods. Wool, sheep and lamns.... a cloth | eting on Friday might indicated fost” Riquestional + he sooey that Piymoatn church people had unmistak: Made up their | plan T stand by the church to the last. ONE OF THE COMMITTEE. In repty to an ing , &member of the Investi- gating Committee said that the committee would meet on an early day this week. This was abso- lately necessary, as the report to the Examining Committee had not been determined upon, and some of the members had not had time to read it over. He thought it was very doubt jul if Mr. Moulton would be summoned betore the committee Jor cross-examiou- tion on bis last statement. There was nothing that was regarded by the committee as new in that statement, and as they had asked Mr. Moulton, with great earnestness when before them, to state all that be kpew in ref- erence to this trouble, and Mr. Moulton had then refused positively to comply with that request, they did not think that it was in- cumbent upon thei to invite mim to come before them again. The only important part of his lished statement was that in which he states that Mr. Beecher confessed his adultery to him. Against this was the explicit denial of Mr. Beecher, aud thts iact, united with the circumstance Unat the committee had in their possession frome disinterested witnesses testimony that showed that Mr, Moulton, on minor points, had made as- sertions in his statement that were quite out of harmony with the facts, had convinced them that he was quite a8 unreliable @ witness as Tilton, Whose evidence in this matter had been disre- garded by the general pubitc for a long time past. ‘his member of the committee proceeded to say tnat while he could not assert positively that * Moulton would not be called pon to testify im reference to his statement he felt a stroug per- sonal Coaviction that to listen to him would be only a waste of very valuable time. He was quite published it Woulg carry Couviction to every can- did mind, WASHINGTON. Chast cto WASHINGTON, August 23, 1874 The New Five Per Cent Bonds. Two persons have gone to Burope in the interest of the Treasury Department, carrying some mit lions of the new five per cent bonds, on account of the recent loan. {t is the present purpose o the Secretary to call im $30,000,000 of the five- twenty six per cent bonds, on the Ist of nex¢ month; but before doing so he may consult the convenience of the takers of the loan and tae condition of the market. Postmaster General Jewell—A Depart ment with Three Heads. Postmaster General Jewell having left the citg for a few Cays, the President has designated Seo- ond Assistant, J. L. Routt, as Postmaster General, aa interim, thus giving to the Department three Postmaster Generals—viz.: Marshall Jewett, J. W. Marshall and Colonel Routt, de jure,de facto, ad interim, Postmaster General Jewell is ex- pected to assume the control of the Departmen on Tuesday, Which is prior to the anticipated re- turn of Mr. Marshall, although that gentleman mag return for the purpose of being present to turm over the office to his successor, and rejoin tue family subsequentiy at their summer resort, How the Sate Burglary Case is fo Be Smothered—The Prisoner Released om Bail—Prominent Reputations Saved. The night of the robbery of the safe of the United States District Attorney @ Man Who gave the name of Benton was arrested by the Superinten- dent of Police. The farce of allowing @ burglar te injure government property by blasting the door of @ safe and shattering window glass, and thts not only within half a dozen buildings of Police Headquarters, but under the personal cognizance of the Superintendent of Police, Assistant District Attorney and government detectives,. was toe comical to be regarded as worthy of serious belief. The Congressional Investigating Committee, how, ever, changed the supposed farce to a veritable tragedy, implicating government officials in higm position and persons connected with the Secret Service, as weil as the Governor of the Dis- trict, Assistant District Attorney Harringtom and others, The boidness and depth of the to cover the “ring” iniquities was too apparent. Under the pretence ot doing justice to the subject the Attorney General Was instructed to employ special counsel to prose- cute the party arrested, while the new Secretary of the Treasury was to silt the matter to the bot tom and purge his department of all accomplices. In one way and another it has transpired that it any one was ever brought to trial there might be such a revelation as would make things unpleasant to prominemt members of the administration. Lt was even said that a prominent Southern Senator came to Washington to suggest to a member of the District Court that i was the duty of the Grand Jury having charge of the gale burglary investigation to hold their tongues and not communicate a word to anybody. Whethee this is so or not Judge Humpheys did call the Grand Jury vejore him for the purpose of warning the members agalnst revealing the business of the Grand Jury room, Mr. A. C. Riddle, the special attorney employed to prosecnte the safe burgiar and all the accomplices, gave imperative orders that Benton, while confined in jail, should not be allowed to see anybody without his per- mission, While Mr. Riddle is absent from Wash- ington the culprit, Benton, who never cowd fing bail, is liberated on the bond of a stranger, and now rejoices in his liberty. The bond will be for- feited, but never exacted, and in this way the probing of the safe burgiary is to ve continued until the crime ts forgotten, and the participants outlive the odium of the charge made against the "rhe Steam Boiler Experiments. Professor Joseph Winlock has accepted the ap- pointment of Chairman of the Commission to con- duct experiments with steam boilers, with a view to ascertain the causes of explosion. JEALOUSY AND WIFE MUBDER, HARTFORD, Conn., August 23, 1874, In New Britain last night Wikiam Durham, while intoxicated, cut his wife's throat with a pocket knife. 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