The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-30 00:00:00

NITRAORDINAfir OUTRAGES.

James A. Keith, formerly a colonel in the con-
federate anny. now ia pal eh Raleigh, N. 0., has been
amused, and does not deny the oessalsion of one of the
greatest outrages ever perpetrated upon this cootinent.
In URI theloyal people hying in laurel Valley coausivel
that the Confederate authorities did net give them their fair
Aare al salt. Uniting with the confederate element,
they proceeded to organism a raid upon the Kanawha
Valley Salt Weals, which proved eseesestal, under the
had el Captain Kirk, of East Tennessee. Captain Kirk's
men were fired with liquor f unsishal Ursa by the
people living near the weeks, who were seined with
terror upon the approach of the raider.. They earn-
pitted • number of outrages. Disappointed ia nit
obtaining a soaking quantity of salt, they metal
the lowa and retired. Gel. Keith organised a
party and in his turn proceeded to Laurel Valley, cur-
wooded a portion of the valley when he knew hi. game
was safe, and, without being over particular as t 3 whether
those be captured were concerned in the salt raid or not,
proceeded to whet his revenge. Capturing 13 persons who
were assembled at the house of a man earn id
Chandier, he deliberately took them to a se3ludod
spot, and in spite of the appeals and implor-
ing cries of old and young, shot them to death.
Women, old men, and boys were murdered w.th-
out giving them permission to say a prayer. Standing his
victims in line, this monster of the nineteenth century
ordered his command to tire upon them. Nine fell dead
at the ant discharge, but the four little boys were not
killed outright. They were shot a mooed time
while trying to clasp the knees of their murderers.
Keith ordered the dead bodies to be covered with
stoma, and thus they were left. Nothing was known of
the horrible occeneseefor some time, bat the facts finally
teethed Governor Van's ear, w►o immediately demanded
of the then Confederate Secretary of War, Seddon, the
arrest, trial, and death of Keith. The trial was a farce.
Keith was free after • time, and immediately placing
himself at the head of a band of outlaws terrorized
over the country. Visiting the house of a Mrs.
Franklin, he shot her eldest son, dragged her boy of 15
from under the bed where he took refuge, killed him also,
then pursued and killed her third son, who had in the
meantime run out of the house. For this and similar
atrocities, Keith has been formally indicted, and now that
be is securely caged, the authorities experience consider-
able trouble in protecting his life until the day of his trial,
which will soon take place.

Mr. Seely and Mr. Hinde Palmer, the represen-
tatives of Lincoln, have met their constituents at a work-
ing reen'edemonstratioe in that city. The senior member,
in expressing his belief that the present House of Com-
mon' was very far from being a revolutionary assembly,
remarked that it contained 210 members connected with
the aristocracy, 100 military men, 100 members of the bar,
134/manufacturers. and 81 editors, doctors, '• and such-like
gentlemen." He regretted that not a singe working-men,
eho lad come forward as such, had found his way into
ai figment, and while upon this point, Mr. Seely urged
the working classes to bani-h the jealo.ey of their follow
wee king men which in too many instances existed.
DEATH OF SIR WY. MACKENZIE, Ettitr.—The
death of Sir Win. Mackenzie, Bait, which oceirred a few
days ago at Coul House, ins seat in Ross-shire, is an.
nounced. Sir William was the second son of S.r George
Steuart Mackenzie, F.R.E., vice-preei tent of the Itiyal
Society of Edinburgh, and was born at Cool House on the
20th May, 11906 ; had been a deputy-lieutenant of Ross-
since 1857. He succeeded his brother, Sir Alexander, as
ninth baronet in January, 1866, and married, 16th August,
18,8, Agnes, second daughter of Mr. Ross Thompson
Smyth, of Ardmore, county Londonderry. The late Sir
William is succeeded by his brother, Robert Ramsay
Mackenzie, born 21st July, 1811, and married in 1846 to
Louisa Alexandrine, daughter of Mr. Richard Jones, of
Sydney, New South Wales.
Tim Lose or TEE CaLrarrr.—The official in-
quiry instituted by the Hoard of Trade, relative to the
loss of the ship Calumet, was resumed yesterday at the
Liverpo4ipolice.court. The filet witness—Willia, an able
asam:'posed that the Calumet was not seaworthy
when she left Liverpool ; that the captain was intoxicated
at the time; that the vessel was overloaded, and over-
strained with mils ; that while oa board the ship Santa
Rosa the second mate, in his hearing, accused the captain
of trying to sink the Calumet The witness also insisted
that there was no amenity to abandon her, if proper
care had been exercised. Another able seaman, named
Mathias, deposed that the diet mate ordered him to assist the
carpenter in drawing the spear and boxes of thefotarboard
pump, which they tom threw overboard. Subsequently
the carpenter knocked off the after hatch, and weed a
wooden stanchion down. This was done while the cap-
tain was on the poop. As they were leaving the Calumet
in boats one of the -crew noticed that water was running
out of her through some holes on the starboard quarter.
They counted at least three holes through which the
water was running. The holes were all below the water
line, but above the copper. Witness questioned the car-
penter as to all this, and as to what he bad been doing,
but the carpenter said the ass bad started the planks. He
(witness) was present when the prated was read. The
inquiry is still proceeding.
Tax DIFFERENT Foams OF Frrini rr Ero-
Laao.—We learn from the Registrar-Generare weekly re-
turn that a committee appointed by the Royal College of
Physicians of London have prepared a nomenclature of
discuss suitable to England, and to all countries when
the English is in common use. This nomencla-
ture recognises the ollowing forma of common fever (1)
typhus fever, (2) enteric) fever, (3) relapsing fever, and
(4) simple continued fever. Neither oerebro-spinal fever
nor plague need be referred to, as they do not prevail
here; nor febrieule, as it is never fatal. The
majority of the fatal fever cams in England may mo-
Daley be deeignated either as typhus or as enteric
fever. The two forms are thus defined by the committee:
Typhus fever : A continued fever, characterised by great
proidi Mien, and a general dusky mottled rash, without
specific 'mien of the bowels. Enteric fever: Synonym,
typhoid fever (or typhia). A continued fever, charac-
terised by the presence of rose-coloured spots, chiefly on
the abdomen, and a tendency to diarrhom, with specific
lesion of the bowels. Enteric fever occurring in the child
is often named infantile remittent fever. Medical mac-
tit:oners are requested to use these names, to enable the
Registrar-General to distinguish the several forms of fever
with precision in the returns of the ensuing year.

Tilt AUSTRALIAN MEAT QUESTION. —Yoder-
day an inteiesting meeting was held, under the presidency
of the Hen. F. U. Vernon, C. 8., agent-general for Vic-
toria, at Norton Folgate, for the purpose of introlucing
to notice th 3 steps which have been taken to give the
F.ugli,.h public the benefits to be derived from a supply of
animal food from our Australian c.ilonies. A great =my
gentlemen connected with the colonies were present, and
among others Mr. F. S. Dutton. the agent-general for
South Antralia ; Mr. W. E. Mayne, agent-general for
New South Wales; as well as many of the metropolitan
medical officers of health. The chairman pointed out
that the overcoming of the difficulties in the
way of obtaining s constant supply of meat from
Australia was important in two ways ; in the first plain,
is supply of good meat would be given to this country
at a considerably less cost than wee now given for meet ;
end, in the next place, the vast supplies of mutton and
beef now melted down in Australia for fat would then be
utilized, to the profit alike of the mother country and the
colonies. He went on to describe the many difficulties
whack had hithedonisted to prevent supplies of the meet
reaching this coonny from Australia, and he stated that
the Moneta coon
y so alive So the ensesity of ending
a me shot fee their pt.Wal stock that the mon esergetio
IS11•1111218 had Ism adored to furnish supplies to Europe.
The company leanest were invited to partake of various
dishes and to impost the meat in its raw and mann°.
tared state, the latter conditon referring to wages and
meets. It is fair to my that the meat tsd to
Cireitipection of the visitors was nee and site
boiled preserved best and pie of reserved mutton were
all that could be desired, but it was evident that in one
or two dishes of mottos the MOM had not received the
attention it requires before cooking. The meats are
packed in large iron cases-bolding about n tons. Sheep
are packed whole, without bona, and cured; and when
the in am is filled with the meat, boiling fat is run
into the ease, which is then borminailly " sealed "
for oxportation. The manner of exporting the beef
I. this same, and it conies to this country
in good eondition. That inhibited yeeterday was pro-
nounced to be vary Sae meet indeed, and 'bomb
it is without boss it is sold at s Isle price thin
meat in the London market is sold, ma Omagh the latter
is weighed to the purchaser with the hones whiz=
the mat to whet. Mr. Moreno guedsmas
with Australia, MINI that experiments were nag made
in order to brig how nab meat bum Australia to
Europe, and it was Wined snow would Mead the
effort. Mr. Itlieneen an behalf of the oblE of the
OSA ltelod 4Nee bad been erne& the Mail
Bellillhe melt is Meilen Feigns ; WOE to dear
awe dilleglffies, venire ler propels end i=e
food" win pea Iheirlehnnie. se else
that the of beef sad mien bed rises my
taw owe of the rem sled such sum
ries UM coned man null be supplied et
enessighlk the seatdinged is nodes. The *Wm el
the meet me ineeled emely Dards Welliffiele egg efrAem.

LONDON AMUSED
(THIS DAY.)

~NTtI.

TRIATIMIL
Ceesiv Oa assit.-0 The Damdies II ikeeL" " Rola' tee
—I WON*. Ter partiodses ase d*
Dam Lana—" acp WWI, out." " Pus ia Beets."
p pedississe me advt.
•sasasi.—" lad yes wie wed Mr eif‹.l.9
"Ilisate Vdedi.
Oixwie.—"llleekw and Orasker.". "The Tedrow Pospoata
Vdralt.
lameridis Loa." "The Gnosis trl4
" • AIM liie Diver."-1 eels*. fee partisaboo aim LIM
levaaara—" Tee Widow Hies." " The Field at tas ctata of
OsIL" "A Cemisil Osestemp."—, eels*.
Pusan es Waiaes.—" dacistr." "Who
deka. Speaks Prod"-7Y4."-7
flevacrv.—• A Lola, esp." "The Mai aid Ps, et It
ITV " The Olsalmakers Nat."— ?As Vito*
Ocues.—" Clout for Nothing." " Cyriro Sucore."—f o'clexk.
OMII17.—" Thermo Harlequins" "Os the Carle." "
le " Two toilets. For particular. sae we.
Havaisiev.—" • Here of liossiace." " A Vrightitd ilcr •
" As Alarialsi ilicatese." —7 dela&
LTOEUN.—" POW Mowbray's." " llar:eltan 11nrapty 1) Jaix 7
—I Vika.
Paiiiciss's.—" Me Reeist." " After Dot." " /Imo? Jot
ltirtbday." —7 o'clock.
dr. JAlll44'll.—" The beast Panel" " Glitter." " The fibs;
&slaty is the Wood."
Itcmasaia.—" ft. Marys Eve." " Turco the Tetribit."
Cliarlatte's Maid."

Bace.meo Wau.i.— " The Spectre Bridegroom" Natio:um%
"Coca lorielcos."-7 o'clock.
floaawr.—" Mae Tries All." "Jack sad Jill sad the ftnepior
Bumity."--1 o'clock.
Bora& warrmiarasi Ifohimmo.—Carre's Reforming LI m
lko—TAa Wake&
Breeriemi.—" Tell Tale Tit." "The Old floldi,r."-4 eiebek.
barrmono.—" lithluta -11orrhaahliothrusa."—" The Berme.
Master's Berset."

Pasitiow.—" Bluff Leg Hal."—" The Ikersent's W..... —7
o'clock.
ROTA,. ALTILaIo.--'. Whittington and His Cot" "The 3.00 ot."
—T o'clock.
BT. Geoseo's TIIMATTS (ST. Oaciaos'a Hsu.) Is .d
gentaaegmlos " " Tangly Jan.'. —7 o'clock. roc pancolsci
see advt.

Exersa-osth.—"The Messiah," by the Ititiond Chxu
Society.
amoral. racaca.—" Harlequin Little Boy BI•o," eel other en -
tertainaleata.-11.30 o'clock.
CIALLART or ILLUITILATIOI.—Kr. OM WI. Gomm Reeel'e ewer.
trauma, "Inquire Within," and " Tbr Let
—3 and 8 o'clock.
RoyaL A4211.-I;LTVIAL Ha I.l.—Baiwed Great Cirrus. —3 eel
1.100 o'clock. Foe particulars see advt.
Tun A A sow Chrialaoao " The Poky .I^ort
Tree," kit For portinularo see adet
C AAAAAA HALL. —Teo ballets, " " The pair;
Haunt of the Batterfties," ke.
NOTrI7•I•RALL, I•IOOA.DII.I.T.—Mr. Amin( Norton's iktattata•
anent--e o'clock.
Canto' Miarriaza. Sr. ;Lao's Harr.-8 o'clock. Por part.
rulers see advt.
110TAL POLTTICI77O. A Ghost Btoty. and Mr and lira
Coote's Entertainment, " The Maid of 9:i.442,,•' For
ticulara see adet.
Kura TOINI6OWS.