The New York Herald Newspaper, July 13, 1875, Page 4

THE BLACK HILLS: An Unsuccessful Attempt to As- cend Harney’s Peak. THE SURVEYING OPERATIONS Plenty of Gold “Over Yonder,” but No Pay Streak Discovered. Secuenaenaneeenioe MINERS BECOMING DISHEARTENED. [Probabilities of an Extermi- Mating Indian War. (THE POWER OF THE SIOUX. Camp HARNEY, Pack Hits, June 27, 1875. I have hitherto written from this spot without Nbestowing upon its scenery more than a ow pass- fing words. No part of the Black Hills wnoich we ave yet visited better deserves reproduction in @ a-picture. Nature has here laid out noble parks (th far greater taste than could the Land of man. jtately forests and groves, velvet lawns and reezy hills, tall crags and sombre mountains lease the eye with their varied beauty and serene epose, Canyons, deep and vast, separate great 3 of rock upheuyed by the earth in her ty throes, and their Geep clefts, filled with oll ground from the surface by the w.nds and torms of thousands of years, are covered by black r that makes more gloomy their hoary forms. ‘amp Harney 1s in the middle of the valley. ‘ne cavalry are on one side of the stream; tbe infantry on the other. On the south, the bot- om stretching along French Creek 1s confined by ark gray masses of granite, rising perpendicu- | Marly ous of the ground, and above which fs an ade wooded riage. Beyond rise high cuties in regular order, covered from base to crest with }thick black pines, and broken by abrupt ledges jand great ribs of rock protruding above the sur- On tne north the ley is broken by ow hills and ridges, deep hollows and canyons, loomy, overhanging grass, and damp giades, atered by springs. As the mountgins are ap- roached which bound the northern view from the evel of the vulley the scene grows wilder, the \gloom into which the gently-ascending ravines flead one, Garker and deeper, Little brooks bavble Rurough green giades, embosomed in the weod, jand may be traced up to their source on the wmouptain sides, whence they merrily dance down beheir pebbiy path to the long grass and crowding wers below. Buttercups and miniature daisies, avy peep through the rank grass, and many bril- Biant-orbed blossoms of the family astralagas nod Un the zephyr, as if eoquetting with the mountain Wluebeils near them, whose melting, dreamy looks Moighs well entrance humbier denizens of the Moral kingdom, In these dim nooks a sndden bound ts beard, ‘and yonder goes im full career, dasuing through the cottonwood thickets, A LIGHT-LIMBED DEER, carrying erect its delicately formed hend, tis ears ack to iisten for pursuit and its snow-white tai | raised in the alr, a signal of iright and alarm. Its | stretching away for many miles, between low | ranges of hills, covered with black foresis, These, it is supposed, would afford an uninterrupted | passage irom French Creek to the South Fork of | the Cheyenne River, 1 looked straight down | Upon jagged rocks, apparently mere ledges, pro- ‘truding a few feet from the earth, which from the | Valley seemed towering crags. North-northeast | by the compass hes Harney’s Peak, wit its batd top, It lookea but & few feet higher than the mountan on which I stood. Boyond the main range loomed up the mountains which form the western rim of the hills, purpled by distance, Ola Harney, as tt bas been famillariy dudved, looked not near as imposing as when we had | first seen it, The crag upon which I stood was of | @peculiar gray color, with tudercies of mixed quartz and mica, closely packed, imbedded tm it. Veins of ordiwary quartz also are frequent in this Tock, Tne rema/ncer of the landscape was lacking In Prominent features; but wuere there were Lot smooth parks, surrounded by forests or peaceful vales, imprisoned by high buttes, there was a vest are of broken chaotic upland, where ledges and great boulders were mixed and piled up in Piutonic conmsron, as if the earth had been shaken lke a dicevox and the result had been left as chance had or- | dained. Yet, stealing over the sense, as one ob- served the bright sky, the emerald vales, tho | dusky woods aud the frowning rocks, there came, nevertheless, that instinct of the power of a mighty band that had biended sach contrasts to form, in the whole, the most beautiful landscape that eye ever lignted upon, So, although we aid not reach old Hurney, those who ascended to the summit of the nearer mountain, 7,500 feet avove the sea, were amply repaid for their exertion. THE NATURAL HISTORY of the Black Hills would be very interesting If properly investigated. In ornithology alone the study would be charming. Many of the most prized sougsters of whe East ara found bere, and there are species occasionally seen whicn have hitherto been unknown. The robip and the biue- bird make cheerful music all day long tn the groves behind my tent, and deeper tn the woo: the thrush an@ oriole have their home, The larger birds are abundant. Huge ravens darken the sky in their single Otght aud cast a shadow like an omen. Their smalier relatives, the crows, apound. Bine jays of small size haunt the borders of the wood, and the spike-tailed and bine grouse May be beaten up from the thickets in large num- bers. They are as desirable game as the partridge | or woodcock. likewt bot then they aim’t no account in shootin’ and the solder: couid handie ’em.” ‘The moral eiicitea by careful inquiry and onser- vation seems to be that, while capital may pos- sibly be Hitlis, the poor man can gain little by venturing to become a mwer tn this region, The oldest and most expertenced miners whom I have met shake their heads solemnly and say that if there is mach money to be gained im the gold fieids it ts to be sought in lodges of auriferous quartz. Those are numerous, but it been stated, whether upon scientific authority Ido not know, that the ore 1s acompination diMcalt to separate into its con- stituents, A muer of experience pronounces It vellurium ore, but I do not believe that any of that metai exists here, Whatever 1s the real mineral vatne of this region is itkoly now to be soon determined by tne fresh inflax of miners just beginning. A hundred pairs of hands will labor where but one bas been ousy before, and the re- sult will be etther gold im plentiful quantitres or miserable starvation, The gold region is said by Mr, Jenney to be about jorvy miles wide, but hothing but a most meagre product has been found in any part of ity TRB INCOMING TIDE, Yesterday Yrank Humphreys and a fellow miner arrived at the second mining camp, above tho military station, with @ train of six wagons, loaded with provisions for three months, The Jubilation among the miners is great. Humph- reyS and his companion were sent to Fort Laramie two weeks ago to purchase suppites. They have returned from the post in six days, Making an entirely new road over the monn- tains, Without using spade, axe or suovel. They brought with them thirty-four fresh miners as a reipiorcement to their company. One hundred more are stid to be ready to stars from Fort Laramie to-morrow. A portion of Carpenter's band, which has brosen up and dismissed its leader, is on ita way mith This ts only the commencement of the tide which will inevi- tably set into this country. As it waxes Stronger the anger of the Sioux at the platin- spoken reception of their chiefs in Washington, and the contemporary invasion of their lands, is not likely to be abated, A final exterminating War with the red man seems near at hand, That it wil be no empty pestime every one acquainted with the power of the great Sioux nation well knows. Tne government has before tt, a8 a meas- ure of policy, to break its spirit and its strength, Oid hunters and traders, whose word can be be- Heved, say that, unitke the feebler tribes in the South and West, the Sioux are not tending to ex- THR SCTENTIFIO SURVEY. Tne ecientific party is out in two sections, each with an ampie escort. Mr. Jenney, with mining | assistants, started early on Fritay morning for | the Rapid Creek, inthe no th. Mr, Newton, geol- ogist, and Dr. McGiilicuddy, topographical eng Deer, with part of Company I, of the Second cay- | alry, under command of Lieutenant Hall, went | southward to explore the country lying between | Camp Harney and the South Fork of the Ohey- enne. One of their party, returning yesterday, reported that they had reached that creek, but is | evidently in error, as they had only made a march of eight miles, and could not have reached the South Fork of the Cheyenne, soutn of which stream a tributary lows nortuwarda. The belief 1s grow- ing very strong among officers and civilians con- nected with this expedition that this region WILL NOT PRODUCE GOLD in any but quantities which will barely afford a profit above the valus of labor. A sbait sunk to the ‘ed rock’ in the bank of the creek, in camp, failed to yield even the color of gold. At the base of the alluvial soll the richest deposits are supposed to exist; but unless by design the ex- | periment Was made in a MOst improvable spot the result is of a very discouraging sort, pace is the Swift poetry of motion. Soon tue dusky shadows drown it from the sight, Aquarter of a@ mile below the camps the scream bend abruptly southward and the valley becomes | so narrow as to be only a ravine. Monntains en either side rear thelr summits imto heaven's | lve. Yesterday, by a very circuitous ascent, f rode to the very top of one of these and enjoyed a | Deautiful prospect. South, west, north and east, | mountains, wita vales and canyons between, | Biretched away tothe horizon. The valicy ex- Iibited its whole widta, which, including the + arrogular bills and ridges intervening becween the | stream and the mountains, muss be about four miles, The emimences ou the north nave bleak peaks, looking grand and picturesque, but deso- | late. Their summits are compesed of ragged gray | rocks, deep furrows and clefts extending down ‘their steep and ragged sides, along which are | straggling ranks of pine. From my point of | -observation I haa a southern view of Harney’s Peax, looking less tall and imposing than when | Been irom the Dorthwest, but still appearing like | fome bald end gray-Readed old giant | of the earlest humana period, petri- fied, as we read in legends, for some vice Dodge’s Peak ts, unfortunately, not | distingnisiabie, by peculiarity of torm, from | ‘this side. Indeed, after leaving the rounded bil, } Dear Custer’s Park, wien we first beheld it, it bas bot been visible irom any part of tne trail and it | 4s not likely. therefore, to lend much lostre, tn the | traveller's eyes, to the hame with which it is now burdened by the modus operandi of explorers. In ‘the vicinity of Harney’s Peak there 1s little varia- | tion im the beight of the mountains composing the | Tange. Aud this brings me to an attempt to reach ud axcend Harney’s Peak on last Sunday, which | igpomiaiogsly failed. ‘i AN ATTEMPT AT BARNEY'S PEAK. | A party, composed of the commanding officer of ‘tne expedition, Liectenant Colonel Dodge, Lieu- tenant Foote, Lieutenant Bourke, aide-de-camp; Mr, MacMillen and myself, accompanied by sev- eral orderiies, started from headquarters about Mine o'clock, Well mounted and prepared for ardu- ous climoing, The morning was most beautiul, a cool breeze biowing from the sousawes ‘Dut the sun, arts upon us that we found a pathway leading through the shadows of the groves covering the jow hills much pleasanter than the one ly2; turough the open meadows on the bottom. We pursued the course of a tribatary of French Creek toward iis bead, which fows throug! emailer valley along the southerm base of the baracy | Ravge. Toe stream puris through the grassy | bottom with @ clear and icy current, winaing from one side of the vale to the other, now flow- | ing over smooth and bright-tiuted pebbies, ana | now gurgling through a narrow passage of grand | rocks. On the right several tiny Mountain brooks Cisgorge their small store Of sparkling waters, | ‘which they bave brought from springs existing in the substrata of gneiss underlying the great | crags that bear the name of mountaing, Up a | arrow ravine, which becomes at length a canyon, | ‘we first roae and then jed our horses through a | Conse brake of mountain cottonwood and red Willow. By following the smali water course we had ascended to a point far above the valley, ana | here commenced & steep aeciivity—the side of a are peak, composed of sulid rock, and present- _ ing great diMculties in the way of attaining its | summit. Tnis the Colonel stipposed to be a part of Harney’s Peak, bat soon found his mistake, Wature baving endowed the ohief of our party swith @ superfiuity of fes. had also made him Bubject to speedy exhaustion. 3m: je our old @riend Sir Jobn Falsta® tugging up one of these rocky eminences! We had passed throng’ » very marrow aperture between two crags, ana here tied our animals. It then appeared that th Colonel bad intended to go to the top of the peak only im ¢ase be could do so witnout dismounting, and here We were near the base of a subordinate eminence which could only be mounted by severe exertion. Harney’s Peak was, perforce, given up fn Cespair, and with Keen disappointment py the younger members of the party, who looked with silent pity on the undue corporosity which bai frastrated @ pleasant achievement. Only Li tanant Foote and myself ventured upon tbe ascent of the mountain on which we were resting. Tue ascent was Gificuit, partly performed on the hands and knees, over rocks on which tne footing ‘was very insecure. , ip Would have hurled one over & deep precipice upon suarply caged Jedges, indreds of feet below. Standing at Sength on topmost crag the whole surrounding country lay before us like a map, Southward ts ‘commiited, © From many of the miners encamped nearer the | | denominated “Cuerry Creek.” washed thar for a militon o’ years, p’raps, the lirtie pieces ©’ goid, reached.” nevertheless, hurled such calia | stream?” head of the stream hopeful reports are still heard. In a conversation with one of them a week ago, named George W. Denahay, a parwer im the pla cer diggings above the point where the expedi- son first entered the vailey, he unburdened bim- self quite ireely. It has been @ notable feature of the researches In the Black Hills after goid that the precious metal has eecmed like @ Will-o’- the-wisp—ever brightes! at a distance. “over yonder,” 1s the constant remark, “thar’s richer diggins than ony around hyere.” When reached, the “over yonder” has proved but moderately productive, and etill further on gieamed the ignis fatuus, “a better gold re- gion.” Domanay volunteered to give tnformation regarding the prospecting tour made by bis asso- | ctates in the north, on # large stream, whicn they It runs paraliet with the French and in the same direction, and is probanly the same which ‘California Joe” and his companions visited farther east, The miners tol- | lowed it about ten miles and ug five pits, out of which they wasted dirt taken off the ‘bed rock,” In one piece of gold which they got was the value of six cents, and the yleld in each pan was about twenty cents.” The particles of the metal are larger and thicker than those found along French Creek auG velouging to the variety called “snot goia.” “THE PAY STREAK ain’t been etruck yet,” observed the miner, ‘but when ‘tis struck ivil pay to @ man four or five dollars a day, 1 think, You see, the pay streak is whar the old bed o’ the stream bas ben an¢ has Thavul pay when is “Yes, but if there isa pay streak, why do you not Gnd it tn some of the pits which you have sunk?” The miner snook hia head. “it’s thar some- at you can’t alwas find ’t atfust. Toem over ‘shar (pointing northward) are here. A poor man can make as much agin over thar, and we've all taken our claims over thar.” “Do you propose to abandon the claims on this “On! no; we'll divide our party. Half o’ them il work on one creek and half on t’other,”” . The miner stated t there are at present about forty miners in this valley, having organ- ized into five camps. One party ts engaged in building & ranch anc the others are constructing flames and sluices, He said that mone of tne miners have yet gone to the “bed rock,’’ but ex- peet to find taere arich yield. He asserted that a single “color” or particle of yold had peen found worth four cents, and that one pan bad given twenty-seven and a half cents, THR NUMBER OF MINERS in the whole extent of the hills Mr. Donahay esti- Tated at more than ome nundred. That there are | many other parties engaged in prospecting be- sides those im this valley he felt assured, as he | had seen tratis fifteen miles from the camps which | were not those of Indians, the fore feet of tue | borses being shod and the others bare. | “1 think,” sald the miner, “ther’s gola slong every stream in the hills, We've found fine | quartz lodes that we wouldn't show to nobody. My sbare in one I would not take loss than $10,000 for. We have ground up the quartz between pieces 0’ red granite (gneiss) n small bits the size o’ a w: ‘The quartz is rotten and honey-combea,”” The sanguine statements above reprodneed aro Dot supported by all of the miners accessible to my inquiries, and I am very doubtful if a majority of them do not feel less confidence ia ti of their venture than when t bills, A tall figure, clad in buckskin and armed with a fine Remmgton rifle, came imio camp yes- terday, in the midst of a cold rain, and when se- curely under shelter opened its mouth and be- came quite communicative, yot in & quiet and seusibie way. STORY OF A TALL STRANGER. “I think as you do, stranger, that this here country has been very much overrated; its wealth end beanty has been terribly eXaggerated, The gold here won't pay very much. kinder expect @ gineral lnjun war andl shan’t care about | Stayin’ here; ef the soldiers ts ordered to tane us | Out, Vil go, but I shouldn’t keto go with an escort. Viigo alone, Jain’t willin’to make no More sacrifices to atay here an’ be no betier of. We wintered at Spotted Tail Agency last winter. Them Sioux is the best armed Injuns on the plains, and they can just muster 20,000 warriors at any unetion, The population of their reserve in- creases every year, Their grray of young war- Tiers grows stronger, while ey gradually have | obtained possession of superior arms of the latest invention, in tne use of which they are well disciplined by the exercise of the chase. Including the wild bands and the Cheyennes of the North, the medicine men can Taise up at any moment between 20,000 and 80,000 warriors, well equipped with arms and plentifally supplied with ammunition. Perbaps the peaceful benavior of the chiefs, Spotied Tall and Red Cleug, for afew years, may appear with a different aspect in the eyes ofthe government if it 1s found that these wily old rulers have 1m- proved the opportunity afforded by their calm ex- istence Bear the agencies to place their people in @ condition to bid jormidable deflance to the Great Father's authority, . Such has, I believe, been their policy, and a desperate struggie would be the result of hostilities once begun, There Is no one in this camp but anticipates such an event, and the next mail is expected to bring significant orders to the commanding officer of the expedition, which will, perhaps, hurry it back to tue nearest military post. GOSSIP OF THE WATERING PLACES, A great doy for Saratogal Al the rate the HEBALD Niagara lightning ex- | press train travels tourists could reach Europe in vhree dars. fic Rapid Transit, &c.—Jay Cooke’s princely property at Gibraltar Isiand, Put-in-Bay, is to be soid under the hammer on the 15th inst, Sir John A, Macdonald and Lady Macdonald passed through Montreal on the Oth inst. en route Jor salt water. Tue Boston erald ts running special trains every Sunday on the Eastero, Boston end Maine ana Ola Colony railroads ior the purpose of fur- nissing the Sunday Herald to the cities and towns and favorite summer resorts connected with those lines. Newspaper enterprises are catching. The Catekills are looming up. So are tne White Mountaims, where, we bear, the old-fastioned Concord stages are again in use. Albert Thompson, M. P. (‘Merchant Prince”), of Boston, has leased the clegant villa of Mrs, George Francis Train on Bellevue avenue, Newpert. The private secretary of Vice President Wilson 1s at the Grover House, Vineyard. What does be in the East when he should asaist the worthy Viee in his literary labors in the West? Mr. Monford, editor of the Aldine, and daughter are at the Grover, Vineyard, Ten tuousand people visited Nanant last Sun- day. | The number of summer residents at Swampscott end Marblenead, Maes. faid to be much greaier than at the same time last year. W. Hi. Hilliard, the New York artist, bas taken a cottage Oak Biuds, Vineyard. ‘The Want most felt at Long Branch ts young | men. ‘That is the Want everywhere in moderao high itfe. The tellors’ Gummy, the giria ind, lacks virillty and becomes painfully useless ex- cept a6 an object of reiresting contempt, oes a ioolish Woman good to Jeel she’s not the most contemptvle creature in the worid.- Trivune, Colonel and Mme. Jerome Bonaparte and family, of Baltimore, have gone to Lake Geneva, wh they will i the summer, retur to this country in fall. The report thas the faraily in- tend to live in Europe hereafter is incorrect. It has been suid that pretty young ladies at sommer resorts understand very well that a Parasol 18 no particular protection irom son- siroKes, Compliments of the summer fashionable season— Sardoc has a daughter, Sartoris a son. Mrs, Uyrus W. Field and O. W. Field, Jr., ar the Clarendon, Saratoga. So are the Aymars, Brooklyn; rowns (bankers), of New Yor! distinguished party consisting of Mrs, 8. J. Potter, J. D. Lippincott, Mrs. Aldea, Miss 8, 0. Alden and W. O. Hail, of New York. 4. L. Scott and B soit of Nashville, ¢ States, Sa a are R. C, Cowan and wi ° Oni0; N Hamburg; KE. Cutier and wie, of J. B. Forbes and wife, and the 0. F. Sai New York; General Cullum, United States e W. L, Skidmores aud Miss Barrett, of New York, H. D, Clapp and wifc, with a coterie of lovely young ladies {rem New York, are parlor suited at the States, Robert Colgate and danghter are cottaged at the States, The R. W. Lawiors (six in all), of Galveston, Texas, cottage dt tue States. Among the recently arrived guests at Congress Mall are D. Tramoull, of the centennial stock of Connecticut; A. W. Palmer, ex-State Senator, and wife, o1 Duteness county; C. R. Agnew and the H. A. Bostwicks, of New York, and Professors D. Cady Eaton and A. M. Wheelock, of Yale. ‘The Graud Union numbers among its recent ar- Tivals L. D. Fletcher, of Oincinnatl; Paimer E. Havens and wife, of Essex oounty; the Parkers, of Meriden, Conn.; tae Stickncys and Miss Hooker, of New Bedford; the N. Sullivans, of Montclair, N, J.; the Benjamin Bianchards, of New York; i. L. Bachelder and wife, of Boston; fT. De Witt Cuyier; G. E. Warring, Jr., of Rhoee Isiand, and Professor A. H. Vanamringe, of Co- lumpia College. Western people are largely patronizing their Rome Watering places teis searou, For exampie, Yhose at Waukesha, Sparta, Geneva Lake, Devil's Lake, Oconomowoc, Wis.; Grand Haven and Spring Leke, Mich.. and others. several South- ern families are among the guests, A Matca for the amateur championship of the Unuted States 18 to take piece at Spring Lake, August 10, between Frank k. he Wescern amateur single scull champion, and R. B, Baln- bridge, a noted Eastern chainpion, THE AERIAL LADDERS. The fonr aerial ladders for the patent right to | Use which the city paid $25,000, bave all been | completed, and will be put immediately in sor- vice. It 1s proposed to locate them in the sections Of the city thickly settled with tenement hot At present ove is placed in the house of Chemi Engine Company No, 6, located on Canal street near the Bowery, formerly old Twenty-two Hose house. Anotueris now qoartered in the repair | soop bulidings, West Third strect, but will be per- manently located as the house of No, 18 engine, on West Tenth street, near Jefferson Market, The third adder will be stationed at vity Hall Park and the fourta in the vicinity of Yorkville. One of these aerial ladders will always be found at @ fire, A trial of one of the new apparatus yester- day morni® gave goneral satisiacrion, it was @ long series of apparentiy level noland narks. time, Momo’ ‘em hastwo or three revolvers. raised ahd Manoed is iat three minnie, arded for investment in the Black | THE WAR IN CUBA, —— ON" FUNDRED THOUSAND SPANISH SOLDIERS ACTIVELY ENGAGED AGAINST THE INSURREC- TION—TAR BATTLE GROUND FIVE HUNDRED 4ND FIFTY MILES IN LENGTH AND FORTY- FIVE MILES IN BREADTH—THE NAVY ON DUTY ROUND THE COAST—THE REDELS STILL DEFY ALL, Havana, July 7, 1875. Since the defeat and death of Rios and the par- Wal destruction of bis command by the Spanish troops the revels have shown increased activity along the whole Spanish line, and in every instan: Whick has come to the knowledge of your corre" spondent have taken the offensive, Valmaseda | bas uot succeeded in crushing the rebellion in fiteen days, as he promised the Madria govern- ment, and on the 1st inst. he issued the following PROCLAMATION, TO THE INSURGENTS oF THE CINCO VILA How many oi you Wave heard the voice of duty, taking advantage of the amnesty offered you in my prociamation of the 23d of Apruf I know that there are maby AMong fou would have imitated ysOur example had they heard of this document. My duty as the Commander-in-Chief is not to pun- ish such as repentingly ask tor pardon for past of- fences, but to chastise those who have grown old in crime and arrogance, struggle against every 8 cial obligation, and persist in the commission of critne, In view of this | have determined to con- tinue in force my previous proclamation until tae last day of July, If at the exptration of that time YOu Stu! persist in wandering througn the woous, Go not plead your ignorance of the pardon I now offer you, for you cannot or ought not to be believed. Take auvantage of the few days still left you, waich are enouga ior repentance, and know ye all that the road to Cam ¥, Wich led you to these jurisdictions, is ng datly thoroughly closed up against that either on this roa¢ or av tne points bayonets of my soldiers you wil find the punishment of your crimes, as has already hap- pened to three of your columns who have at- tempted to cr. ss the trocha with their wounded. Listen to the voice of your Commanaer-in-Ohief by surrendering, With your arms, and do not walt jor my columns to pus an end to your existence, as they did with tue party o1 the Mulatto Rios. VALMASEDA. THE REBELS IN GREAT FORCE NEAR THS CAPTAIN GENERAL'S HEADQUARTERS, From reliable sour: your correspondent was Informed that there are at present 7,000 rebel troops within five leagues of Valmaseda’s head- quarters, and that the ill-clad and ill-tea Spanish soldiers can gam no advantage over them outside of their fortifications. In the last raid made by the repels they pene- trated within five miles of Valmaseda’s Lead. quarters, AT GIBARA. On the 234 ult. 1,500 selected Spanish troops ar- rivea here from Santiago de Cuba to prevent the rebels trom capturing Holyuin, for since the do- struction of the town and fort of Majagua the rebels have become so bold and daring that the Tempants of the garrisun have not dared to leave the town, ‘The citizens received the new comors with every demonstration of gratitude, as tueir presence re- moves the sword of Damocies. AT MORON. Since my last report I bave received letters from Moron, dated 14th ult, At this date a tew rebels approached the town and burned a brickyard and outbuildings. The volunteers, firemen and “Guardia Civyiles,” which garrisoned this place— the starting point of Vaimaseda'’s hobby, the trocha—beat to quarters and marched out ef the fortified lines, and the small force of rebels who had committed the depredations retired after a few shots. ‘ THE VOLUNTEERS, however, lost two of their comrades and insisted on making @ charge to recover the bodies of their companions, As they advanced the rebeis fell back to the woods, the volunteers /ollowing them until they reached an ambuscade, wuere they Were all killed, THE MEMBERS OF A SEARCH CORPS ALMOST ALL SLAUGHTERED. Thetr long absence trom the town induced the Governor to send out about forty mounted m*n to ascertain the result of the fring; and, on reaching the spot where their companions in arms bad been slaughtered, they, too, in their turn, with the exception of a few, met the same fate. THE REBRIS RETIRED and, two days afterward, the authorities of Moron Sent out a squad of troops, wit ox carts, China- men and negroes, to recover and bury the deaa, the bumber of which is said to exceed 100, AT SANCTI ESPIRITU, On the 27th ult. the rebels, under the personal command of General Roloff, with about 2,000 men, had a severe Nght with the Spaniaras, under the commana of Colonel Cejas, near the small town of Pedro Borja, with bis own regiment (Dei Rey) and other fying columns to tne number of 3,000 men. Spanish reports state that the Nght Was of two hours’ duration, and that Colonel Oejas retreated on Sancti Espirita, reporting that he had killed eighty rebeis, wao were left on the feld Of battle. ANOTITER ACCOUNT, AND DIFFERENT. The accounts received in Havana from reilab'e sources give a very different version of the above engagement. The forces of Colonel Cejas were completely rovted, with heavy losses in men, horses, ammunition and arma; and Spanish officers Who were engaged tn the action acknowl- edge having left their killed and wounded upon the field of battie, AT SAGUAL An American planter, who has an estate In the Jurisdiction of Sagaa, informed the HERALD corre- spondent last Monday that a perfect panic pre- vatled in his whole neighborhood, and that many estates around bim—the names of which nave not appeared in any newspaper—have been burned down by the rebels, aided, in mostinstances, by the slaves and Chinamen belonging to the who have at last learned the song of Brown's soul is still marching on.” THE SPANISH DETACHMENTS, composed mostly of the raw recruits lately im- ported from Spain, are 80 cowed down that they do not leave the fortified places, so that the rebels may be considered the actual masters of the whole jurisdiction, In view of this state of affairs Valmaseda has issued & special order to the Governor of Sagus, commanding all owners of sugar estates to dig entrencnments around their re- spective bateys of sufficient capacity to protect ali the hands and such troops as the government ay send for the protection and holding of the place. In addition to this each planter has been ordered to employ at least eignt mobilizados—tne planter paying for the same, which is a tremen- dous tax on an already overburdened section, Any delay in the execution of the above order is to be immediately reported to heaaquarters for govern- mental action. ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND SPANISH SOLDIERS EN- GaGED, The official Spanish report of the transactions of the whole Spanish army, to the number of 100,000 Mon, not including the navy, and extending over a territory of 560 miles in length, with an average breadth of forty-flve miles, for Gfteen days, ending dune 30, is as follows:— Rebela killed, 136; wounded, 8; taken prison- ers, 9. Bpanish loss tn killed, 64; wounded 10; sup- Posed to have been taten prisoners, 7, This 1s @ very greut discrepancy for an army of 100,000 men according to the reports published in the several Spanish papers of Havana and other parts of the island, the account of the fights at Quemados de Guines, Majagua and Sagua alone making more than 150 of a Spanish loss, according to the Diario de la Marina and Vou de Cuba, AT GUANAJAY. ‘The last reports from Guanajay represent every- thing a8 quiet in that neighborhood, the six re- maining young men who were engaged in the late attempted uprising having made good their es- cape to the Cuzco Mountains. Valmaseda has telegraphed to General Carbo NOT 0 SHOOT ANY MORE . of the Guanajay prisoners in case of capture. He believes the hasty execution of those capturea prevented the discovery of the leaders of the late rebellious movement, It is reported that a letter was found upon the road near where the skirmi: took place, supposed to belang to one of the young men executed, in which he informs one of his friends “that he is going out to make a name, and that ere many days exvire a good account NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 13, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. will be heord from the friends of ‘Cuda Libre? in the Western Department.” TREY CALCULATED THE COST AND REMAINED AT HOME, There is nodouvt but that a general prising Was anticipated by tne fourteen young mea who vofaried the Cupan flag on the 26th ult. near Guangyay, but that those who nad promised to Tally at the Orst cry of “Viva Cuba Libre,” after thoroughly considering the matier, thought it best to remain at bom AN EXTENSIVR FIRE IN MATANZAS—HEAVY ‘LOSSES, MarTaNzas, July 4, 1875. A fre broke out hore yesterday, in Pueb'o Nuevo, berween the two bridges, im the warevouses of Salvador Castefier, which was stored with sugar, Molasses, bogshead, shooks and hoop poles, The entire block was stroyed, together with 700 hogsheads sugar, 600 hogsheads molasses, 30,000 hogshead shooks and 300,000 hoop poies, LOSERS, ‘The loss on stock 13 $150,000, gold, INSURANOB, Insurance on bulldings, $150,0°0, gold. WILLIAM J. SHARKEY. THE AMERICAN MURDERER TROUBLES THE SPANIARDS AS A JAILBIBD. Havana, July 7, 1875, Willam J. Sharkey ts still confined tn jail. In @ conversation with your correspondent & few days ago he stated that the authorities bad offered to release him vp cundition that be would leave the island, HIS GROUNDS OF REFUSAL. He sald ‘that he had refused to be released on those conditions; that he was out of mouey, and that uniess allowed to remain in Havana with his freedom be would remain in jail until the Spanish authorities tired of nim and would be glad to let him ont upon any conditions.” HR, GLADSTONE'S NEW PRONONCIAMENTO. HIS LATEST PAPER ON THH ENGLISH CHURCH QUESTION, [From the Dublin Evening Mail, July 1.) Among the many violent contrasts presented by Mr. Gladstone's public career perhaps there 1s none more striking than that suggested by bis paper in the Contemporary for July, of whick we have obtained an early copy, and from whict we Proceed to make some extracts, Mr. Gladstone’s essay is an earnest plea for the maintenance of the Buglish Church, and ano indication of the only mode tn which it can, he thinks, be marntainea, His propositions sum up thus:— THE EX-PREMIER’S POSITION. 1. The Church of this great nation is worth preserv- ing, and for that end much may well be borne. 2.' In the existing stato of mids and of circumstances preserved it caauot be if we shift its balance of doc- irinal expression be it Leak 80 alteration of the prayer book (either way) in contested points, or be itby meat ing rubrical interpretauons of the matters heret most sharply contested, on the basis of “doctrinal nificance. i tore we trust to moral forces and the less to penal proceedings (which are to a considerabie extent exe\usiye Ue of thé other) the better for the establisie ment and even for the Charch. 4. If litigation is to be continued and to remain within sof safety itis higily requisite that it should be contined to the repression of such proceedings as Feaily imply anfaithfuluess to the national religion. 5. in ordér that judicial decisions on ceremonial may habitually enjoy the large measure of authority, fnul- ity and respect which attaches in general to the son- tences of our courts, it 1# requisite that they should have ‘uniform regard to the rales aod results of full historical investigation, and should, if possible, allow to stand over for the future maiters insufficiently cleared rather en aagenas them upon paral and fragmeutary eyi- ee. HIS ARGUMENT. The ex-Premier says:— There are those who think that bold changes in the Jaw and constitution of the Oharch, in the direction of developed Protestantisin, would bring wituin its borders alirger proportion of the people. My own opinion is the reverse of this. I look upon any changes whatever, {f serious in amount and contentious in character, a: Fyuony mous with the destruction of the natioual ¢ lishment. But the matter isone of opinion only. and I fully adit the title of the mation to make any such changes, Ul they think fit, with such a purpose iu view, In this “trangull season” he would have it reinembered that ritual and doctrine can be sepavated In the question of attendance at this chureh or that (he observes) 1 have never been governed by the abund- ence or the scantiness of its ritual, which | regard purely as an instrument, alming at an'end many instruments, and hot ag tne first among th uphold the iuvegrity of the, Christian dog.ua, @ trace its working and t> exhibit its auaptation to an thought und human weirare, in all the varying ex perience of the ages, is, in my view, perhaps the noviest Of ali tasks which 1s'given tothe numaa mind to pur the guardiansoip of the great tountala of | happiness id virtus. But with rospect to the clothing which the Gospel may take to itselr my mind has a large margin of indugeace, if not o1 laxity, both ways He assumes that— In the present instance the con‘entions of each of t! two parties are periectly capab.e or boing expmined supported upon grounds having no reference to the doc- trines With Which they lave becn somewhat willully placed. Ms There is something particularly fogyy 12 the fol. lowing argument :— There is in political life a practice analogous, as tt seems to me, to the practice of importing doctrinal significance into discussions upon ceremonial It 13 judeed a very common fashion to urge that something, in itself goud and aliowabie, has become bad and in’ acmissible on account of ulotives linputed to those | who ask it The reforms proposed im 1831 and 1563 were not to be conceded, because they would be used as lovers for ulterior extonsions of the franchise. ihe irish Church was not wo be disestablished, because the change would serve as an argument for lishing tue Churen of Engiand. Irish public houses musi not | be olosed on buiday where the people desire it, tor | fear tho measure shoaid bring avout a similar closing in England, where public opinion tg not ripe for it But then, in the ular world, this very practice is iaken as the Indication of an itliberal mind and a short-sighted e truly liberal maxim has ever been that by pe Fauiing just claims yon disarm undue demands; tat fiings should be judged as. the in themselves, And not in the extraneous con ions, and remote eventualties, which sanguine iriends and bitter toes Oitentimes agree in annexing to them. Itis, therefore, With unieighed surprise that I read in the work of no mean writer on this rubrical controversy, that in May last he “prayed” that the priest unght be allowed to face eastward, Lut that he woud now refuse it, because “this eastward position is clatmed for distinctively doctrinal pirposes.” Tam reinctant to cite & respected name, jut | it is necessary to give the meaus of veritying my aate- eierence to Dr. Swainson’s **Rubrical Ques. tion ot pages Land 6. I mignt, I believe, add other nstanees oj the saine Unfortunate line of thoughy but It needless. THE SPRCIAL CRUBCH AND STATE paragraph reads thus :-— We any Magda ot nolding the Church together, or of holding Church and State together. J am far from Diacing the two Juties on the sane oe assigning sudjects aro, in a this. It policy. ment b; t them a commen elevation. Yet tue certain form, closely connected, and the form may be that the continuing union of the Churen withia herself will not secure without limit the eontinung Union of the Church with the State. But it is certain, nevertheless, that the splitting of the Church will de- stroy its union with the state. Not only asa Church, bat asan endowed Regen it is, without doubt, still very strong. Any secession, it of sensible amount, constituting itself into a sanarene boay, Wy operate n tional Chureb, with refere: ts nation ali at in a wail, which is inainly importaut, ot by the weight of material it detaches, but by the dis. continuity it leaves. Division, Mr. Giadstone believes, would produce Gisestablishment, He holds the union of the Church to be a fact; there are fiiteen millions of people who bave not thrown off their allegiance tae Church; and to preserve this unity ne would, 1D & Word, discard all reform, and abandon al al discipline, This is the leading nh ngle purpose of Mr. Gladston that communion (of the Chur ton ingovation, betrays its duty and aggr the controversies of Onristenom, the very bes! friend to its eveninal unity may be he who a all hazards and to all lengtns resists the revolutio: ary change.” After performing pular au Vatican and anti-ritualist part, M! Hadatone ap- pears once more in the garb ofa strict ecclesiug- tical conservatism! “Union” at all arda, Union with ritaausis, be their docirine sound or n, ke, bat for the tadlishiment,’ is e. the case thas:— The Dean of Bristol, who has argued these questions with, | force and directness, wishes that no alter tions 8} j@ in the rubrics, if what is called the Furcbas judgment be maintained; but, with his acate eye, he has perhaps shrewd suspicions on that subject, and accordingly he says. if that jadgment be not mainiained, he is “for such wide agitation, such as shall compel (ri- Church its old ap. aavantaze over me. joes not ol aud if only the judgment goes his way ‘will ANDY. am one of Pett. who have misfortune of ug like Falkiand in the war of King and Parliament. { shall deplore all ais- turbing ju iments, wholly irrespective of my own syin- pathies or antipathies, (which Town! find it very Gificult to anticdpate) the prosecutors are deteated, who are strongly 8 use 4 barbarous word) estabiishment- arian, we shail have talon. tora change in the law toe likely to end in rupture. If they succeed we shail Dave Cry hoe bat anassaflabie maniiestations of the teeling it has been sought to put down; and, woile this is the employment of the interum, the party bit, who are with the state, will Gespairing of auy-ulber, sescewuae des; of any other peek peace through its dismoladom i happy character o our old age! But tl He writes again: And. if the doctrine of the Eacharist must Le | Lok or cast there are no alternatives betore us exce one hand a issue until with sincerit ing the “Real these be jew, yet many. rink word may be ‘nearly with them in On tae commer, Apart om ire ‘der. there are multitudes of mem who believe that the igwering of the sacramental doctrine of the Isnglish Church in any of its parts will involve, together with & Teal mutilation of Neriptaral and jolle truth, ® loss of Christan dignity and @ forfeiture of all the hopes Associated with her special position in Christendom. Of ‘ali sacramental doctrine 4s 80 tender in tuis respect af (hat wuich relaies to the it | sion as will best promote this work, and | THE CENTENNIAL. A Patriotic Letter from Governor Cham- Lerlain, of South Carolina THE WHOLE COUNTRY SHOULD AID. Financial Recognition by the States Necessary to Success. EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, e€ Couumata, July 3, 1875. Yo THe Epiror or THE HERALD :— T deeply regret that otiier engagements nave so long preventea me from replying to your requeat that I would give turough the HenaLp such views and information as I might have respecting the Telitions of South Carolina to the coming Centen- nial Exhibition in Pollatelphia, It is a subject on which | feel a strong and increasing interest, per- sonally and oMfciaily; but of its general patriotic clains on all Americans tt would be superduous to speak, The American Who would not join with his whole heart ta heiping iorward vhis Centennial celebration must surely be the original ‘man with- out @ country.” I think there is at the present time a widespread and genuine interest felt by the poople of thir State in the Centennial, From causes which need Dot now be stated littie nas yet been done toward @ practical expression of this interest. With the revival of the spirit of nopefulness among our people and the composing of the political bitter- ness of iater days, and espectaily with the tn- fluence of the recent centennials at Lexington and Charlotte, there has appeared—as 1t seoms to me—a new desire on the part of our citizens to join im the great reunion at Philadetphia. Is 1s but just to say that no State has a better right to appear there than Souto Carolina upon the score of ber Revolutionary reeord, She was early and constant in her adherence to the colonial cause; her sofl was the scene of numerous conflicts, and her partisan leaders supplied one of the most brilliant chapters in the great struggle. A high authority nas declared that “the romance of the Revolution was found in the Carolinas.” These early glories are again appealing to us all Nowhere is it truer than nere that the chords of memory aro “touched by the angels of our better nature,” and are responding in tomes unfamiliar to our ears in more recent times, Little, almost nothing, has, however, been done ‘up to the preseat time toward the work of prop- erly representing the State at Philadelphia, Com- missioners have been appointed in accordance with tne act of Congress, but 1 am not awaro that any effors has been made by them to furtner tne object of their ap- pointment, Quite recently some of our repro- sentative bodies, among them the Charleston Chamber of Commerce, have unofficially communi- cated with me in reference to proposed efforts to organize a movement to this end. All these efforts are sttll incipient, but I feel warranted in expresa- ing the confident belief that in some way tho desire of the p2ople to participate in the Exnibition will fina practical expression, The Legislature of the State cannot be said to have given much, if any, practical aid in this work, No appropriation of money for that pur- pose bas been made, but it is my purpose to rec- ommend such legislative actién at the next ses- el sure that favorable action will be taken by the Legisiature. A s.nall outlay of money, in conjuanc- tion with the earnest effort of our citizeus gener- ally, would cause South Carolina 9 ap- pear at Philadelphia with suck products of her mineral and agricultural wealth, with such Mmementoos of her history and achievements, with such proois of her industry and skill in the arts of civilization as would be commensurate with her yast natural advantages aud the vigor and bigh spirit of her people, Suca a resalt must be s¢@- cured, and I intend to leave no stone unturned in doing my part of the work. At the last session of the Legislature a spectal jot committee was raised “io ascertain and re- port av to the best me; ol furthering the representation of the resources of South Carolina et the Centennial Exposition.” 1 am not aware ofany action on the part of this committee up to the present time. Woatever is done must, 1 am persuaded, be the result largely, 1f not wholly, of rare oF SouTHt many | | the more recent awakening of our people to the | great importance of the matter and the organized action ef our represeatative commercial and agricultoral societies and bodies, or the organiza. tion of some special agencies for promoting this work. To one point 1 am glad to bear witness, namely, that if there 18 a want of present progress in the work here, or if Sourn Carolina shall finally fail to be properly represented at Philadelphia, this ro- sult will not arise from the indifference of the people at large, nor especially from any sullenness of epirit or nostility toward the Oentennial cele- bration, but it will be occastened by other causes which it is easier to understand here than to adequately state to the country, My hope and be- lief, however, 18 that before the great occasion comes on we shall have devised ways and means to present the proofs of the past, present and fa- ture cnaracter and greatness of our Stave when America shall mee? at Philadelphia to take note of the resulis of the firss completed century of her national life. The object 1s so grand and inspir- ing that no State will be found wanting, especi- ally one of the “Olid Lhirteen.” Very respectfully, D. H. CHAMBERLAIN, Governor South Carolina, SHERMAN AND BLAIR. THE GENERAL OF THE ARMY PAYS A TRIBUTE TO HIS OLD COMRADE IN ARMS. [From the St. Loujs Republican, July 10.) Tuere will now be no lack of grace ul tributes te the memory of Frank Blair, Among the tributes worth preserving is ome uttered by General Sner- man:—“I. always had @ most exalted regard for Frank Blair,” said General Sherman with mucn forceiulness of manner. “I always regarded him a8 one Of the truest patriots, most honest and men and one of the most courazeous couniry ever produced. I never lost services he rendered the country in tbreak of the war, and J iwily concede and fiways have conceded thas to his boldness, bee ge ude and firmness more than to tht je the country ‘ation of St. Louis as a ol Salvation of Missouri Frank Blair was a nob: e He was breve, frank, s neere will live forever, bi good upon otiers, waile is fauits will be buried With bum. because they harmed po one but bim- General’s manner indicated that he thought egara to General Blair in the wilfully maliciously misin« terpreted, and when asked if he had any objection to the pubitcat f the tril had paid tne memory of + ed states! dier, he instantly replied, ‘None, no! giad to have tt published. I desire to go on the Tecord a8 @ very Warm eulogist of Frank Blair.” GRADING GRAIN, A committee of the Produce Exchange held « private meeting yesterday afternoon to reach some definite plan for the grading of grain, a matter that hw been for along time the cause of much trouvle to some merchants who object to present system. As the arrangement now ut get his own consign: shout any adinixture of the grain co d to others; but it seems that there are t to this, and want to my adopted by witch all the grain shall be carrie: the boats Without any separation of particul: quantities and oe drawn by merchant tn the quansey, owned by bit on an order or check, la chants Saint to this, bry indebted for the ‘ategie point, and from secession, aw 8 nse they reflected for that Ri committee reached no definite sonciu day and will mees again on Monday by the principal mercnai ttlement of this diMcuity will now be ge merchants are willing to em adopted by whic! e grain but obiect to that apove reforred