The New York Herald Newspaper, November 8, 1876, Page 8

8 SOUTH CAROLINA, Atrocities of the Sea Island Negroes in. the Bice Region Near Cooper River. THE CAINHOY BUTCHERY 4 Frightful Story of Savage Colored Murder and Outrage Upon Their Political Opponents. ARMED PROTECTION NEEDED. erin & Campaign Conducted by the Aid of Argu- ments from Guna, Axes and Clubs, Crantastox, §. C., Oot 23, 187 tn the lower counties of some strange developments 4 political character oi what ere Raown in this State as “the (sland miggers.”’ The Renan correspon: to say, ie native of Charleston, who haz lived here all his tife (thirty 4 who up to this p-riod had thonght Dimeelf thoroughly acquainted with ali the phases of character as weil of the whites as of the black the low country. But this canvass bas revealed things that I never dreamed of and incidents Thepe it me! r be my lot again to witmess, In order to give to the readérs of tae Henaip an idea of the way things are managed ip this county it will be necessary to go Dack a little, It nas never happened that a dozen of island megroes in this county have heard democrat make a speech. At the beginming of the present canvass it determined by the whites to wend speakers to all radical meetings, aod (o Insist apen being heard. This is what is known as DIVIDING TIME, ‘The fret ein thie direction was early in Deteder, when Bowen, the white Sheriff of Charleston, who 19 absolute maater of every negro outstde the city Limite, bad ealled a meeting at a place called Straw- berry Ferry, about thirt; es from the city. I shoul State that it 3: iversal practice of the negroes in this section, and, indeed, all over the State, to carry their rifles to all political meetings which they attend. Strawberry Ferry is in the midst of the rice fleids of the Cooper River. In the Immediate neighborhood there are about 600 black and it thirty white voters. The democrats of Charles- ton city determined to attemd the republican meeting and ask a division of time. They accordiagly chartered ‘steamer, and on the morning of the meeting set gout for ‘‘the Ferry.” The spéakers were escorted by about Afty white men, mostet whom carried their ms, There was no mincing matters. The whites on landing at the ferry fell ia. A United States flag was pinced at the head of the proces: nd, preceded by G2 to the moral, social e band, they marched to the place of meeting. There they found about 500 of negro militia drawa up ‘with rides, muskets ta shotguas. Bowes, ther ‘White leader, was asked to allow the democrats to be Beard, and atter some parieying the request was granted. At that meeting the: 000 armed wegroes and abou althoagh ihe speakers pitened ivto each other wit! gloves, it was the most peaceable and ord: Political meeting | have ever in South Carolina. I shoalé mention passing that there were abeet a dozen democratic negroes in erowd, bat they were cowed. It is as much eee negre’s life is worth In this section te announce Rimeelfa democrat, Abouttwo weeks later another meeting was held in the same piace, aod white demo. rats of Charleston again, attended. This time they were accompanied by two or three of the colored can- didates for the Legislature om the demoeratic Ucket ‘They carried their arms, but upon arriving at the ferry your reporter, with another gentleman, proceeded to She place of meeting, and, efter having a conference ‘With the leaders of the negroes, it was agreed that Doth parties should aot bring their geas te the meet. Ing The white mon acsordingly attended the mest- teg unarmed. The negro militia violated their agree- meantand marched up to the sta: ie their muskets, Guill tmore was no disturbance. When one of the éelored Gomocratic candidates for the Legisiature attempted te speak the negroes seemed disposed te mob But this time there gwere;felly ope hundred Diack democrats present, amd the determined stand taken by the whites and their black allies silenced and overawed the militia. There was no disturbance ea this cecasion. THR ADISTO SlUUX. By this time it had been arsanged by Bowen (who is the republican cowaty chairmen) and the democratic eounty chairman te have joint discussion on al! the wea islands, 1: was further agreed tnat neither party sheuld go armed to the meetings. The next meoting I attended was one at Edisto Island. Here are 1,200 ‘Diack and about twenty white voters, About ofty ‘white men from Charleston atteaded this meeting. ‘Taey were unarmed. It was here that I frst discov. eréd the trap tnat had been set for them by the biecks, and {t was here that I obtained an insight into the ne- aro character which in thirty years’ resiaence here 1 Dad tailed to discover. The whites, headed bya band ic, marched from the landing to the place of were ime, armed only with clabsa. The whites gave three cheers for “our fellow citizens” of Edisto Island, bat “our fellow citizens” di seem to woderstand it, end at once Looney charge of armed pegre militia had von ibe cutting off the retréat of the sb them se the island. deen posted ‘whites to the boat wh! Under these cireumstances the whites determined to stand éverything rather than hazard fight, and they tnd @ good deal to staad, too, Such of the readers of ihe Marat ad have never seen a sea island 2 can- tot form the most remete ides of the peeple whe were wesembled there that day. Jt is not ¢: joa to pay that Sreting Bull's tribe are civilised beings com- pared with them. For myself, lam to oay that rather than face that crowé again I would go alone and unarmed inte the ceatre ef a Biooxcamp. The men Drandished their clabe, cursed the whites and threat- ened to kill the colored democrats wao were with the party from the city. The clubs ana knives. the United States army. As Ve South Carell ith bis sword drawn ireedom + tion AY 8 | A reguery of the repr party in amnoupeed that efatic tieket, but would vote for Hayes and Whesie: Be accompanied the y trom Charleston as one the democratic speakers. Ho was not te opesk. At i have beior stated the only meesacre by their forbearance and by submit ting to every insult that was offered them. And now I come to carsHoy. Yeur oorrespondent w: os present at the butchery of tbe whites whieh took place at Caishoy oa the léth, pot he arrived there on Bight alter the massacre, and was enabled b) oare(u! investigati * spn statement of tho affair, he statoments contained tothe Heratn by tele- he trap was laid LI for thé whites; *hat the rot was bro mist Kinlay, oat of the swamp pir) he whites, voermed, made a dash for an old carriage house orheod, where about thirt~ rifles Delon: the negro miliuia were concealed, The rest of THE HORRIBLE STORY twas been told faithfully and :mpartinily im the columos ofthe Hemato, Bati bave not told your readers of the horrible seones I witnessed on the midnight 1 was over t them med Jim lite for y the | | | | related by ai When the 4) two colored dem whose name | hi ‘m the vestry reom ef the old chureb. A crowd of Begroes surrounded the place and fired @ roller through the window, wounding one of the in- mates, who then made nm rush for the door | eye-witmess, are briefly a* follows:— bi ced he, together with THE ROMAN PILGRIMAGE. SPANIGH BEAUTY IN THE ETERNAL. CITY—THE VATICAN AND THE QUIRINAT. Reur, Oct. 16, 1876 For the last week the pilgrims from Spain have been pouring into Rome by thousands. Most of them have come round by ihe sanctuary of Notre Dame de Lourdes and wear ti Dive amd white decoration on their breasts proudly as the pilgrims of old dippiayed the scallop sheii. Considerableeurioaity bas been showa by the Roman citizens, and the appearance of the greater portion of the visitors is sufficiently pe- Culler toattract attention. The prevailing element is oT TO PIECES. white, | Ively ‘Socrates and the Socratie Sehoels,” “The nothing | Stoics, Epicareans and Sceptjcs" and ‘'Plato and the who was brought tp Bight, died the nextday. Hie lett arm was ct backed in tbe same wm: ae ihe thigh of Dr. Sim. i jelly and bis left who died after being brought to the city, was alee borribly shot and bea! toniel King was abot im the stomac! Deiag almost entirely blown sul, ead and face. These are the five whites who were Killed. Two of the wounded are still ‘no oritiea! condition and very bepes are enterta:: of shetr recovery. They are Captain C. Carrel, white, au eld amd respected Steamboat captain, and Walter Graddiek. a yeuth of abuut seventeen years Graddick was pleked bd tm the Tuesday meoraia, Une riot by your apondeat, whe accompanied the armed citizens who lef, Charl she women and ebildrea of Cainboy, be was severed with Diood, bis left eve had been gouged cus ead protruded from the secket. bad Jain in tbe swamp all might, tt first time, able te speak, and is ie Hamalp reporter made the fol- pring about 200 yards in e fret disturbance. jtand wih Mr. . the abdomen backed over the ra og me, and sa’ swamp with quosia their ag he whites. 1 saw white men shot, but I den't Koow theit names, While go- ings ng the read to the atand Mr. Hughes aad my- selt were halted and collared by a mulatio maa whe was speaking at the time the row began (i have been told bis name ts MeKialay), who said:—'I arrest you 1 aah ogy Page as prisoners of war.’ Just 1 oe, ‘aad fell upe: kod me seaseleus, and 1 Kaew nothing far- the next merning, when | ieund myself and half covered with water in a from where I had first beem struck. jeogroes, taking me for ear. Shrew me into the water,’ scene of the memes 4 old negro man. en the road. Why is-bad not been removed b; fa itienes I ot say. loan only aceonat for it by the supposi- that they were too intently engaged in purauing ites te the landing, and that, fearing veageapee, they retreated by a read te Daniel's Island, where, at the lest accounts, thoy still remain collected | and under arms, Later in the day the whites found a party of about fifteen or twenty armed segroos, whom ‘they compelied to come out aud remove the body. MORE TROOrS WANTED. fe given . Ne ime men, will not do, mo.crime that they mit, Even im Charlestoa, where the negroes are more civiliadd, women flauat about the streets and hurrah tor Caishoy. We have nothing to depend om here for protection but federa: Cony anda committee ef citi, zens from Mount Pleasant leave this moraing for (o- lumbia te aek General Ruger for that protection which the civil authorities are periectly powerless to afford. = the ci mb jurderers dare to bab! waat to do it ‘miaseed in LITERATURE, Cavncuism or tua Locomotive. By Mr. N Foruey, Meohaa:cal Kagineer. Published by the Risue Gasetts, T3 Broadway, New York. ‘There are certain Kinds of books devoted to technique of serence and the aris which are absolute Ressssities to the progress of either. Wedo not mean those heavy tomes in whick the subject is wheimed by ponderons verbiage and distracting a rays of algebraic aad matbematical fermulw, bet those - clearly written and illustrated litte werks knowa as the eloméntary principles of the tect results of the diseovery And application of steam as. motor, and, in order to thoroughly appreciate its importance, one mest familiarize himself with the ich the machinery Is arranged and ren. dered obedient to the slightest lee of the steam, ‘The knowlodge thus gained will open up a wide field tor ‘mtoresting research to any ene who takes the trouble of being well intormed; for the laws that govern tne Yeast movement of a locomotive are the same which operate in the great mvebanism of nature itself. As a techateal instructor Mr. Ferney’s book leaves nothin, to be desired by the most eager student of applied mecbanics, and at the same time the information is conveyed im sech clear and simple language that the least intelligent ratirond employé can uaderstand it It te at once a valuable eagineering text book and a Plava course of instruction in the construction and managemont of the locomotive, and ts besides profesely SMustrated and well printed. With these merits to rec- ommend it the ‘Catechism of the Locomotive’ must be recognized as a valuable contribution to the lteratare of the mechaaiea! arts. LITERARY CHAT. That picturesque pertion of New York whieh ites Borth of Saratoga t@ to be described 11 mew book by N. B, Sylvester, under the titte of ‘Northern New Yerk and its Great Wilderness." The latest publication of Rexberghe Cleb te an iMustrated apocalypee of Johu the Divino, with forty- six colored pictures, making a singularly beautiful ‘book, ' ,M, Victor Cherbuliez, in his latest novel, “Le Fiancé de Mile. Saint-Maur,’’ is as drilliant, koee and witty as ever, though the subject, whieb, as usual with Freneh Boveis, is illieit love, is intensely repuisive, W. F. Gill & Co, will pabiish for the Christmas holl- Gays Bayard Taylor's “National Ode” in the style of a pietorial gift beok, iliastrated from drawings by Thomas Moran, A. R Waud, Alfred Fredericks and Mary A. Hallork. Mr. Wordsworth Donistherpe’s ‘‘Principles of Phitology’’ (a word, by the way, whick is not 1 yet the dictronarfes) moves the london Spectator to laugh at the queer notions of its author on political economy or the science of woalth. The latest book on Africa is published a the queer title :—‘‘Cemeral Africa: Naked Truths of Naked People,” by Colonel ©. ©, Long. This Colonel Long was chief of staf’ to Colonei Gorden in 1874, but ais personal knowledge of Central Africa ts extremely lim. ited and bis geographical igoorance amazing. Dr. Zellers invatuadle philosophy of the Greeks has been partially but very imperfectly translated, and pudlisbed in Londen in three parte, entitted respect. Older Academ:; The Rev, C,H. Spurgeen’s book on “The Metropoli- tan Tabernacle: Lig History and Work,” i aracter- istic account by the famous Baptist preacher of bis building up of @ Congregation of 7,000 im the hear of Landon, where he has won thousands of pounds as well as of hearers, and displayed aa extraordinary familiarity with Providence. Mr. William Tegg has added to his literary scrap Wook a compilation called “The Hayt Act, Being the Faneral Rives of Nations and Individuals,” which treats a grave subject from a point of view both serious nd humorous, abounding, as it does, in anécdotes of ale, The Brisish Museum Library of iate years hae quite Ontdid the Bidlothéqne Nationale of Paris at ‘the Frepeb auction sales, carrying off recently 400 mai useripts of great importance in French histery literatare. A FURNITURE STORE BURNED. Oswaco, BS. ¥., Nov. 1, 1876. fe sacerdotal; an 1 te number of priests im the well known Don Basilio bat, broad of brim and rolled up at each side, are to be met direction. srasine 7 48 Dut poorly represonted. In very few caser, indeed, does the face that Jeoks forsh trom the graceful folds Of the mantilis at all correspend with the tales we Dave Beard of the wearers of (his most charming of all headdresses, The men are ordimary and common- Place enough, with the exception of one or two mule- feers in thelr mative costume. However, they have come {> such oumbers, and most of them are se well supplied with money that they have decidedly ‘“futtered the dovecetes’’ here in Rome at thie stagnant season of the year. Lodging housekeepers have received piigrime with open arms, and at moderaie charges. Sych hotels as the Minerva, the Milano, the Tre Re are crowded, and the stores for the sale ef rosaries and other religious Delomgings, aoa those where the photographs of the Pope and his court are te be obtained have been driv- Ing « lively trade. Every day there has been some special service ior the pilgrims in one church or an- other, and, yesterday morning, ‘THE ARCHBISHOP OF GRAKADA administered holy communion to all the pilgrims thas presented themselves at the Chapel ofthe Blessed Sac- rament fm St. Peter's, The church was crowded, for over and above the piigrims there were pumburs of mere spectators who neither went to sof nor re- mained te pray; nor did anything occur to disturb the perfect tranquillity of the whole preceedings. But it was feared that the grand reception of the whelo body of the pilgnms in St Peter's by ‘the Holy Father this moraing might seggest to tho ultra-radical party here a counter demonstration of some kind, The doors ef the Basilica wore closed to the publie and agmittance given only those farmished with tickets, whose issue was m: Jealously superintended by the committe of the Soolety of Catholic Interests. The fear was that some M-judging s0i-disant patriots ¢ insult the Catholic strangers on their quitting the Vatican preciacts, Theretore a large body of ihe Koman police were in attendanee in tho Piazza of St. Peter's, and the soldiers of the som were not given permission to loave thelr barracks throughout the morning. TH ‘The hour fixed for the reception was eleven o'clock. The invitation issued exceeded 8,000, 7,000 being tor the prigrims alo: o'clock the broad street jeading from the Bridge of St. An to the Piazza be- to be crowded with vehicles of every description and by the humbler pilgrims on foot. The entri the Basilica was by the bronze gates in the thas face the great nestrian statue of staptine. Thi was for =the pilgrims; limited number of invitations issued Romans id foreigners instructed them present themselves at the doors of the Sacristy, ‘was not, however, till the bells began to ring out ao Joyous peal at midday that she Holy Father made bis ‘appearance. Borue in a sedan chair as far as the chapel of the Holy Socrament, Pius IX. walked thence with a Grm step to the throne prepared for him. Hw Holiness wore the simple white soutane and stole tam- Mar to us in évery portrait aud photograph. Loud cries of welcome greeted him on his way from the el il present Knelt in hom ‘Archbishop of Granada im Spanish, his voico force and Pope at considerable Jengtt h the Holy Father replied in {tal Shrougt the vast boilding with 1 ot old. eoncinsion of bis 3; th he gave the cus- tomery general benediction, and once more the general ‘enthusiasm burst forth uncontrolled and the cries of VIVA PIO 1x. were romowed again and again, Once more the proces- sion for i. the Pope di sing bis blesssng in the usual formas he through the kaeeling crowd, returned to bis iments in the Vatican. ‘Thesi came the scene outside the eb: The was crowded with carri be pil passed un- molested through the way nates them by the police and thegeasd’armes, Unturtunately, however, the members of @ certain clique who’ bad elected wo be present, did Ged food tor excitement ta the color of s ribbon of ecart belonging te an order mech ip vogue ia Spain, There were yellow and white siripes om this ribbon, the colors of So one ratsea the cry of ‘Vina I’ /talia !"* croup begau to insist, with groans and hisses, wearer of the decoration should at once lay it aside. The Spanish geetiemac, a man of about seventy, declined to comply with this demand, and the police Sore soblian to interfe Piazza alarm bad spread, and soldiers frot 1s de gard rried out to assist police But att frat gepnesn gives, tothe crowd by the gorges of publie safety, the people dispersed without further trouble. At the bri of St Angelo another: smali part; Wempted to get up » demonstra- tow against the pligrims, and displayed a banner with the italian colors; but the police dispersed them with- out the least dificulty. m FIREMEN IN. PEBIL, A fire broke out near midnight on Monday night at stable adjoining the residence of Mrs. Land, on Madison avenue, near Clinton, South Bergen. The stable was occupied by Edward Jones, # colored man, asa residence, Chief Kngineer Farrier with three other firemen ascenued the roof and were im the act of cutting it through 0 asto gain access to the upper floor when it gave 7 and procipitated the men int0 rt ter great exertions on the part of ey were resceed from thelr perilous situation. Their clothing was partially burned, but their injuries aro not of a soriows character. The loss @n the bailding Is $600, wnich is fully covered by in- @urance, SUICIDE AT THE COLEMAN HOUSE. A man registering himeeif at the Coleman House as J. F. Christie, of Rochester, N. Y., was found dead in bis room yesterday merning. He had committed sui- | Cide by shooting himeeif in the head with a revolver some time dering ihe night. Papers were found on his person marked William Wood. Deputy Coroner Marsh Attended the case. The body taken to the Morgue. Mr. Christie took bis room in the Coleman House on ‘the 29th of Oetober, and was said to be very quiet and unobtrusive. Nothing was knewn about if other inmates of the hotel. Yesterday mor set | Vane girl attempted to open the door, but heard a noise a8 if some one was inside. She then left, but came id, being agai roprietor of the botel. id the man was found y of fag ia the room. A Bible was fo ou one of the leaves of which ad written, od recaps dy, onigerd Deputy Coroner Marsh tele- srooued the Chief of Police of Rochester, N. Y., bat latter could not give any information regarding the deceased. ist Dight a fire broke out in the rear of No. 850 Broadway. This building formed part of a row extending from No. 837 to No, 847 Broadway aad from No. 57 to No, 63 Kast Thir- teenth street, Peloubet, Pelton & Co., organ manufac- turers, lost about $4,000; fully insured. Thatcher & Ca, photo engravers, lose $2,000, Rockwood’s pheto- raph gallery was ve about $12,000. The uiiding Nos. 841 and Broadway, owned by the Roosevelt estate, was damaged $5,000. H. Gui. mard, fancy goods, loses $5,000 by water. E. I. Peters’ Music store Was damaged Miner's art gallery, $3,000 by water. H. D. floor of No, 841 Broadway, wn judg With pictares ready for an auction sale to-day when the fire broke out, but they were all safely removed without damaging any of them. The Foome were slightly damaged by water. The total loss to burldings and stock is estimated at about $37,000, POLICE COURT NOTES. At the Washington Piace Police Court yesterday, be- fore Justice Bixby, Bridget @egan, aged fifteen, of No. 3453 East Kieventh street, held for trial in defaults of $1,000 dail fot stealing a watch and chain valved at $166 from Eliem Fogarty, of No. 384 Bowery, under ‘Whom she was learnit a lead refinery and resided at No. 74 South Fifth ave. nue, nod Frederick Dorr, aged sixteen, of No. 170 0 claimed to be a pedier, were com- mitted for trial by Justice Bixby for breaking into the premises of Constant Gnell, at No. 139 Bleecker street, And stealing $46 worth of clothing. satd he was a reolen, residing at was committed for 11 do- B ab the Mesert, Bons & Daine’s turmitare store, on Fest bese eases aa of Geol white vet jagton Place Court before i q Justice Birdy, themes Doyle and John two boys reasicg 1? Lib e Pay ghd and Tweatysixth anon were acl of into a froig! Tao the Radoge Bier hatred atthe toes Thirty-fourth street and th avenue, NEW YORK HERALD. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBHR 8, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET. THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE RACE. THR WINNER ‘THE CESABEWITCH AGAIN VICTORIOUS, ( Loxpox, Oct. 25, 1876 ‘The second of the two great ‘tall handicaps Las been a result which is unparaileied in the his- | tory of turf. “The unexpected generally hap- | pens,”’ and especially im horse racing. Still, all past record and tradition has taught us that the winner of the Cambridgeshire Handicap was not to be found in the winner of the Cesarewitch, Mr. J. Smith’s horse Rosebery has, however, broken the spell and foored the double event. The cause of the fatality which has hitherto debarred tho win- ner of the Cesarewiteh from repeating bis triumph 1m the other handicap (which used to be regarded as the close of the racing season, and is, in fact, the last great race of the year on s fiat course,) is pot difficult to fad in the first place, these two great coniests come close togeth: nly a fortnight intervening be- tween them. The Cesarewited course is two miles and a balf and she Cambridgesbire only s mile and a quar- ter, the longer race coming firs in order of time !t is well kaown that to trai jorse for the former dis- tance ts a very different thing to preparing him for the shorter, and that THE STATING POWER developed and encouraged for a long race |i ned at the expense of the speed necessary for a sbort ene Then again, a horse after the severe training neeessary for the Coaarewitch might.well be unfit for another dashing race twe weeks after, Thirdly, the heavy penalty of weight imposed on the Cesarewitch winner was generally supposed to crash out all chance of wioning the Cambridgeshire, shorter though the course be. Up to last year the extra weight was @xed at seven pounds, but it was then raised to tem, end this yoar jt was still further tmereased to fourteen. And last, but not least, there was the question of public money which the Cesare witch winner carried with bim, for, asa daily journal remarks, ‘it is an old saying thet it is not eo much the woight of the jockey as the ght of the public money which breaks a favorite down, and pablic favorites etien bave proved what are vulgarly callod ‘milk cans,’ a the present instance, however, the course of the owner and the backers of the horse has been straight- forward. ‘“Certninly,” says the same paper, “after the Cesarewitch had been won they could have made, at least, half as much by ‘milking’ the horse (laying against bim with the ‘strings’ in (heir own hands) a8 Shey could bcpe possibly to make by backiag bim and ru ie bim on his merits. The horse bad not, in ordinary parlance, more than a 3 10 1 chance at most im public form. '” ‘ts the ‘‘ring’’ made no use of their power and played a str: ilerward game. The result, thea, w as satisfactory from a moral as from int of view. The vietory of the heavily hi Rosebery has thas 3 HONESTY 18 ATILL COMPATIBLE WITH HORSE RACING, and that the breed of rachorses which cau go far and And the philosophy of the race also possesses interest as demonstrating the uncertainty of Precautions, for, sa: Paper, “‘it is just in the year when ‘of weight was adopted that the im: bi Rosebery’s performances as a two-year-old certainly gave no promise of such a triumph in the fature, and bis success will be “a poweriul argument i@ the hands of those members of the Jockey Club who are preyared to for s change in the scale of weights, or even in the whole system of handicapping, au it ought net to be possible for a four-year-old with impost as he te pushed b ‘to its logical cbange in the sense indicated by Lord Coventry, Sir Jobn Astley and Mr. Chaplin cai | ried oat, the doable victory ot Rosebery will not hay been purchased at too great a price.” With all thie interest attaching to the race it m: imagined how fraternity were exe: over the result pularity has been attained by rr. 4 BETTING ON THE | was beavy, especially just on the ev the struggle Mr. J. Smith backed his horee at £1,200 to £300 and offered to take £8,000 to £2,000. The other favoritos were also well supported, and Lord Huntley backed Mr | Bird’s Tne Ghost to wia a considerable amount at 6 to +1, No fewer than thirty-two renners came to sho post, and atter some delay, caused by the new system of making the jockeys draw lots for places in the line, the weighed anchor to a not very good start. When nearing the straight run in for home Kosebery and um came to the fore and the former won cleverly by a neck. THE .ENGLISH MAILS, THR BRITISH GOVERNMENT TO 4. °C THR UNITED STATES SYSTEM. [From the London Times. } Tho following correspondence has passed between the Post Office and Mr. Jobn Buras, in reference to the transmission of Her Mayesty’s mails to the United States:— Guvanat Post Orvice, Lonvoy, Sept. 26, 1876. ae ax—Tho several contracts now im force for trom the commencement of American mails on certain fixed days in each week by the most efficiont vessels sailing on those days, aod to remunerate the owners by a payment per voyage. based upom the amount of the cor- Fespondence carried ou such voyage. That ‘ment will be at the rate of 2s. 4d. per pound for the letters, and 24. per pound for the rosiiead printed papers and patterns, or samples contained in each mail Bhouid you desire to convey a mail by any vessel you intend to despatch to York on aay given alter the 3lst of December, your tender should reac! this office by te lst of month ing thas in whieh the vessel is te sail. Every tender must Ue ad- dressed to the Secre' of the Post Office, and companied by an autheatioated copy of the ship’ for the last taree voyages made by her from E: to New York. 1am your obedient servant, 8. A. BLACKWOOD, Messrs. Cunanp, Burns and Mciven. * @ussaow, Oct 18, Sin—In reference to your circular letter of the 26th of September last, addressed to Mess¢s. Cunard, Burns a Melver, 1 beg to inform you that, upon the termina- tion of the contract preseatly subsisting between Her Majesty's government and ourselves, it is not our in- vention (0 comtinge none steamship to the United States on the of each weck; but it 1s our purpose to despateh a steamer to Boston on Thurs- day instead, and to continue the regular sailing as heretofore on Sati of each week to New York; and upon that day wes! be willing to convey Her roy ops mails apon the terms which you pro- ; bat as the character of our service is perfectly ‘well known to Her Majesty’s guverament, we oe consent to submit copies of the logs of our shipt It Her Majesty's government elect, to employ our ships for the conveyance of the mails America, they wiil leave Liverpool, calling at Quecnsiown, as they at preseat do; and [ shail be giad to reesive an answer to this commuateation as early as possibie. 1 am, ar obedient servant, JOHN BURNS. & A. Buckxwoon, Baq., General Post Office. CHARGE AGAINST A PRIEST. [From the North British Mail, Oct, 27.) ‘The Deputy Coroner for Manchester held yesterday an inquiry into the circumstances of a mysterious death, The deceased was Winifred Markham Walton, a single women, twenty-seven years of age, machinist, im loagings in Hyde road. The deceased widow, and gave birth to a child a short time ago, Om the 2d inst. the woman with whom Vodged lett her in the possession of the house, and did pot revara until the morning she saw the deceased in bed, bat did Bot speak to her, aod again the woman slept away from home, Next morning, however, she weet into the bedroom and found the deceased lying on the bed dead, 1s was evident that she had been dead for sometime. The witness Walton was a respectable woman. A m oat man gave it a¢ bis opinion that deceased had | died frem poisoning by chloroform Several visite to the deceased on the f Daly, a Roman Catholic jest, living at Runcort were testified to. Rite jtleman during quiry, after being cac- | Moned by caliy denied that there was any [0 scandal which had been eircuiated about deceased a imeelf, and sald, if the jaat. him, he Coroner thought there was any case call uneorn on the | J THE NORTHERN INDIANS ON BORDER. {Prom the a (M. T.) Independent, Sept. 22.) ‘The moanted police are keeping a sharp lookout for the Sioux. Strong scouting parties are patrolling the border, and the garrisons at Forts Macleod aod Walsh are kept constantly tne alert, Both posts arc well supplied with arms an ition. None of Sitting Bull's band have been seen near the line as yet. A treaty between the Canadian goveromont and the Assiniboin and North ladiens open types om the 1st of September. In consideration of the of their reserva- waites, Theo. chiefa re- men and y aieeiea te Sete torms, 0 ite The Indians spent pace Seek ved anpnyedebanaaros= principally fer horses, im making pur: persaes Pane! tributed as follows RIPLING THE PUBLIC TALIS ampereninig Bogus Arms Manutacturing Companies. The Affecting Story of a Converted Springfield Rifle—Speculators Paid—Honest In- ventors Cheated. GENERAL F. T.~ DENTS’ LETTERS. A Suggestion to Uncle Sam jin the Premises. GENERAL B. FP, BUTLER'S OFFER TO BR USEFUL, The developments during the past session of Con- gress at Washington have brought about a sound- ing and dredging of the depths of ‘dishonesty, and it is wonderful what am amount of nastiness came to the surface every day. There are, however, parts of the great reservoir which have escaped official investigation for the simple reason that those who con- trolled and directed the inquiry machine do not care to distarb deposits that bear the imprint of their own foot- steps, and perhaps contain damaging evidence that ‘they, too, have been fillmgtho sink. Ata time when Suspicion is equivalent to condemnation evea the ex- posure of monstrous frauds end audacious peculation Must be conducted with caution, so thatthe mud will stick only to the skirts of the guilty while the innocent willremain without stain. Charges involving the hon- esty of public men must not be lightly made, and, if at all, thoy must be preferred with all the evidence of truth that circumstances will permit to be arrayod. The people of the United States bave been sitting in solemn Judgment on the conduct of mon who have undoubt- edly done good service tothe country m the trying ays of the past, and, it the verdict be one of condem- Ration afters fair review of the evidence, then we are Justified in regarding the gonvicted as guilty of the offences laid at their doors, THE HISTORY OF A RIFLE. It is not generally known that the membors of the Tweed Ring had entered on the schedule of their schemes a plan to control and make a vast amount of money out of the furnishing of the army, navy and militia of the United States with firearms, and that a company Was regularly organized with that object, and, according to the company’s prospectus, under the man- agement of the following well-known individuals :— UNITED STATES REGULATION FIRGARMS COMPANY, NO, 319 BROADWAY, Yor«. James H. Ingersoll, Pri t; A. D Dickinson, Vice President; George D. Buien, retary and Treas. ; Charles H. Greon, General Agent. Trustees—General Abner Doubleday, ErskineS, Allin, Lorin Ingersoll, Charles. Bailey, Charles Aldon, H, Ingersol’, Asa D. Dickinson, Georgo D. Bulen, Green, The basis of operations on which this gorganization proposed to begin was an invention by Mr. Allin, a master armorer of the government armory at Spring- fleld, Mass., of a plan for converting the old Springfleld muzzie-louding rifles then im use into breech-loaders by the attachment of a paient breech action which was rogarded as superior to anything of the king ever invented or applied before, All. the work connected with the gotting up'of this new system and the cost of every cxperiment necessary to test it was paid by the United States government, but the fruits of this ex- pendituce were appropriated by Mr. Allin and bis friends for their own private use ana benefit. With the concurrene and co-operation of General Dyer, Inte Chiefof Ordnance of the United States Army, a plan ‘was concocted to toist the new gun known as the Allin or converted Springfield rifle on the country, and for this purpose the above named company was organized inorder to give the movement a eset tint and divert suspicion from the oficial actors in the con- spiracy. In addition to the attractions of patent breeches it was resolved to adopt “the Builey sleeve” for the new. gun—a plan for the reduétion of the calibre e old barrels by the insertion of atube, which was brazed to ‘the old iron, and a laminated barrel produced, in- stead of one of homogeneous metal, The Allin breech and the Bailey sleeve combination rifle, invented and experimented vn at the government cost, being now roady, the next move was to evade the law under which Uncle Sam claims the right to use any patent owned by any officer or employé of the government, orin which an officcr#or employé has any interest withous royalty charges, SOT A DOLLAR OF CAPITAL ‘was subscribed by the new company, but there was a promiscuous distribution of stock among the influen- tial magnates at Washington, with @ view of securing their good will and assistance in procuring the adup. tion of the new gun by the Unitod States government, THE PREMIDEST’A SECRETARY, General F. T. Dent, was among tne number “fixed’’ with the stock, and there is little doubt but Gen. eral Dyer, the Chief of Ordnance, and even the highoat authorities In ths Army at the time, were substantially influenced in the same manner. However, the only ovidonee that existe of this last named arrangemont must be drawn from the published official reports of such gentlemen laudatory of the converted Spring- field rifle, whicn are as follows:— GENBRAL GRANT, 48 SECRETARY OF WAR, ad interim and General-ti ef of the Army, says ip his report of 1867 to Congress:— There were 23,083 Springfeld muskets converted inte breechloaders during the past fiscal year at the national armory. All of the converted arms bave veen issued to troops, and neurly all of the infantry serv img ip the departments of the Missouri and the Platte have been armed with them, Thealmost uuani- mous opinion expressed by the. officers s* thatthe mucket is simple, strong, not liable to get out of order aod extremely accurate in Oring. Not a single officer has UF han d the opmmion that the calibre (reduced from the muzzle loader) 18 tuo small, while a jew havo recummouded a furtber reduction, These arms have xcellent service in an indian campaign during the past summer, very few of them have been reported as fendered unserviceable, and of these more were made unacrviceable through careless. ness than from ali other causes, In July, 1866, the Secrevary of War directed the conversion of 25,000 Springticld muskets into brecchloaders aud the premamntion-at.an Sbeawate supply, of proper am- muniwon. He afterward ordered the eonversion of ‘nese arms to be continued without fixing a limit as to umber, and the work was carred on rapidly until August, 1867, whon it wan directed be, be suspended after 50,00varms had been altered. That number is nearly completed, and there bave been the requisite tools tor converting about 400 racsocndncl, aay, at which rate ther conversion van be resu at short potce. lt is confidentiy believed that) no breechioader in this country or in Europe hes been pre which 19 superior to the converted Springfield musket, as altered at the armory, and that noi to It fn serviceable qualitios can be vfoduced at cost, In view of the fact that the 50,000 converted moskets will vory soon be issued to troops, leaving no breechioading maskets on hand in store, it is recom. mended that the conversion the Springfield masket be resumed. ‘THR REPORT OF THR CHIGF OF ORDNANCE, “Brovet Major General A. B, Dyer, dated December 1868, contains the following commendation of the con- verved Springield gan :— Reports trom the army in regard to the small arm which have been converted from muzzleloaders into breechluaders, and to the special ammunition there- for, continue to be highly favorable vo the officiency and superiority of these converted arms and their am- munition. e work of conversion which had been limited to a smal! number of muskets—all of which have been issued for service—has been resumed, with such improvements as experience has dictated, and whieh will ba spetiad toa further supply, which has been authorized and fs now tn preparation. The toregoing extracts from the’ reports of two prominent army officials show a decided approval of the new gun anda desire that the country should be committed to its oxclusive adoption, by filing the arsenals with a large numbor bofore it had really been tested with guns of other patterns, These extracts from the official reports were duly published in » pam- phlet issued by the Unites States Regulation Firearms Company asa proof of the government recognition of the superiority of the gun with the Allin breech and the Balley sieeve. HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS wore expended at the government arsenal at Spri field im tho several teats and. experiments on this gun by the government, and im the end it had to be dis- carded as worthless, In the moantime, however, the company became in- volved in the Tweed troubles, and melted out of ex- | Istence before the scocrhing breath! of a lawenit, bus. leaving bebind in the hands of the officials certain quaatities of stook which they doubtless {eit should be turned to some account. Shrewd speculators possess- ing great influence at court now took the matter in hand, and General B. F. Butler, became the owner of a Patent used in the magufacwure of the arm. This transfer of interest was of course made through third parties, and the rigbts are nomually owned by them, bus they happen to be men who are notoriously im. pecunious, even though the reputed owners of a vai- nable patent on which the government is paying a handsome royalty. A A pumber of its were invested by men who were not iwiveniial enough at Washington te secure @ recognition of their rights, and Mr. Allir y adopted these, and the owners o! the patents never received a cent for the use of their inven. ties, although they Dave again and agaia applied for redress, The officiais indignaptiy reluse to submit tc these claimunts Jor justice. Not so ip the case of But. jer, who Oxeu things witn Belknap and was paid the eum of $60,000 for royalty on bis patent. Tho wealthy politician and epeculator ip er men's brains gov paid, while the inventor of equally valuable im. Goreme is driven with seorn {rom the door of the far Department. A bh BUTLER GUX, ‘ which is reaily tbe proper nawe ior the breech-loading Springtield, 1s now iw the handi# ofthe regutar troo; and the manufacture of these arms proceeds regul: to she great satisfaction and progt of General B, F. Buder, whose royalty of about torty cents on cach rite foots up a handsome sum every year. How much o this amount been “wi 16 wili do mos? good” is not Known, but it is generally believed by the soitiated (hat Butler has bis friends in a loop and is uot as ready as before to divide. AVTER THM BUTLKR ROYALTY Was PAID ‘@ Dill was passed vy Cougress opmating $150,000 for the manufacture of urms, tv be selected by a board of army experts, who were to examine inio the merite of all rifles invented und-in use-in Europe and the United States. In ail the tests made by this board the Butler or Springficld breech-loading gun ranked third and jourth ip eavellence, and was viearly proved even by the official report to be far inferior to those that were rejected. But the board wax overrated trom Washing- ton and disgracefully betrayed their trust by reporting the Butler gua as beat adapted lor the army. To show bow vaiuavle are the official reports of ex- Doards, inted by interested men, and the if credit should be attached to their opin- fons, we give the ‘following correspondence, which Beat Son, neral F. T. Dent, secretary to General rant, to J. F. Whipple, nt of the Ward-Buriot ri offer vy the General to secure the adoption of the Ward: Burton gun, if the proprietors would purchase the stock Dent had obtained from the United States Regulation Arms Company :— LETTER No, 1, will see by this enciosed slip that at beers is ban m poor Caeaggsonng b Hie ll 5 ee bam 7 aad a bid is ade to ‘me svon for my stock. t ‘vdeataad that the ‘Rem. (Rema: 0 ingtom) stock is officers und employes. Douvleday and myself are ly ones who own in the Allin. Hie brother will sell his sare soon. and | suall sell miue. Your gun or ours be the gun. There's no ch: for the Ram. (Reutngton.) Which snail it be do you w my stock ? DENT. The lettor bears no date, but Mr. Whipple made on Ty vs following memorandum fixing the date of its re- ceipt:— x Received at 938, H street, Washington, D.C., 181d, by the band of Nr. Grook, neem P-O-» Jane 14 The implied threat in the foregoing letter meact simply this:—That if the Ward-Burton people did po! buy General F. T. Dent's worthless stock their gur brs not. be adopted’/by the United States govern: men! Whatever was the nature of the reply sent to the above letter by Mr. Whipple the following LETTER No. roached him at New York on'June 25, 1871 Will sell: my 243 shares for B, (Ward-Burton) §s selected. additional $1,030, : \ FT, The envelope bears the foliowing igscription and frank :— \ ee ni Execative sion. F.Y. Dest, retary. Mr. J. F. WHIPPLE, us 3 54 Wall street, | z New York, 3 ececseseseoe GENERAL BUTLER 48 READY TO TRADE 01 hts rights even in the springtield breech-loader fr more proftitabie results to come trom other guns, andofered to guarantee the adopuon of the Ward-Burtoulgun by the United States if the owners would agree to pay him (Butler) one-fourth of all the protits arising trom contracts with the home or foreign govergments. It would seem, therelore; that the most important in- terests of the country apo in the hands of yovuds whe bull or bearthe market ju important improvements to suit their own interests, disregarding those of tue country, .! In Koman history there is mentioned a case of * courtier who sold the favors of the Emperor, traderships ulso we presume, for large sums of The business was exceedingly profitable, Th of Rome called tho wansactions “selling smok formation concerning the conduct of the enterprising courtier reached the cags of is master, who directed that the seliow should be sinothered to death with the smoke of green woud, and this sentence was duly car- riet out, Uncle Sun 1s the master of these vonal fcoundrels who ure bringing the American name iuto disrace before the world, wnd ho will ve sadly wantiug in his duty toward the honest citizens of the country if be does pet make the plunderers ‘smoke tor it before he gets through with them. We furnish him with clews to the labyrinth of corruption that will not mislead him, aud we thus discharge our duty to tos country. Now ict an investigation take place. THE RUSS{ANS IN SERVIA. [From the Temesvar Journal} Yesterday 370 Russians arrived at Orsova, from Odessa, to take passage im the boat of the Austrian Company to Belgrade, The Széchenyi, the bout then about to start, having already a large num- ber of passengers on board, and having to leave at once, asecond boat, named the Tisza, had to be freighted. However, the officers, smong whom was @ colonel, tho volunteers, several Russian ladies, and im faci all the first class travellers took the! ou board the Szécheny1, and the other Kussians, as weil as the sec- ond clas® passengers, embarked on the Tisza, These circumstances having oecasioned a delay ot two bours, and thence tho Joss of the train ut Bazias, the traveilore. were compeliod to spend the whole night there. Most of these Russias wore military kepis, aud the volun- teers white kepis, bigh boots, long paleto be neath these militay Olouses with lace. Cader hi | dress each bore u revolver and # short sword im the torm ot a couteau de be Thad an opportunity of conversing with an officer who bad been tu the Polish cam, some interesting matters He day 400 Russians had gove by way many iy Bucharest, their di umper of ie ed way of it tb Petersburg and Moscow, seven roubies as @ gratification and a free passage te Odessa, wht they were forwarded by the Lioyd’t boats to the Danuve, and ap that river by the Austrias Company’s bouts to Servia. The greater number of these volunteors are soldiers who have obtained their discharge io order to take service in the Servian army, und preference is givento those of the Army of the Caucasus, because they art already accustomed to mouataiy campuigoing Among them is alse a hetman of Cossacks, who bears nine dec- Occurred at the Russians, this wise;—A Turkish detach- trom garrison ef Ada Kalé, under command ef « sergeant, bad come as the market to buy sriicies of jood On ti they met the Russians, who were also goi market, and. with any command or a they drew their ewords on each oth the Russian office ord said, so that bad not t 00; the Russian voiupreers was aiso an English lady woe interested me much. She avemed, indeed to be very anxious, and the voat had ly arrived at Bazi. when she took a ticket for Vieuna ‘4 THE EASTERN SITUATION. (Paris correspondence London Times. } “lt isa hundred times better,” says a prominent Turkish sympathizer, ‘to Begotiate directly with Rissis renouncing the pretection of the Powers. Russias wi) be much more generous if she can attain ner end with out war and witbott their co-operation, What good has the protection of the Powers dono us? It has pa- ralysed us for fifteen months, tied our hands and kept us in uncertainty, When wo say to Russia, ‘We can- not prevent you from recovering the Bossarabiac territory; do what you like there, but declare Servia, Bosnia aad Herzegovina give Spissa to Montenegro, upen the gens to free na and io return tor all this us be tasters. et oet other provinces, Do not deprive us of Bulgaria §=to) which «we will give an in- dependent, Christian, bumane rern- it, without — prau- dice our ‘ration aud efforts in our Turkish to Ignatieff and he kot peace will be signed in all concentrate our efforts on ro. istration, and Turkey, rolieved of Hi be a hun- it pres. me does not suit Russia, it she to drive back Islam into ent, wants Tarkey in Europe Asia, that will change her attitude, ball carry on a religious war and shall bo driven to |}; but assuredly ps alg Be the of Russia, who wi'l much ot which ” mo Without war to "be foresesn