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The New York herald., 1871-01-14

Row WITH A CIRCUS CoAPANY.-Some young men
Of 0pelika got INTO a row with the working men OF
Robinson IL Co.'s circus, after the close of the per-
formance in Loachapoka Monday night. Frank
Bailey received pistol slot in the hand, Edwin
Harris a cut In the collar bone with Knife and
Bailey, Harris and Crawford various blows. One
Snowman was dangerously shot another badly cut
and others Injured. IL IS reported that the circus
people commenced The 9ssaplt--COiufatLs IGd J
Sun. ian, 3,
The New York herald., 1871-01-14

Major Powell VIII deliver his lecture on the 'Great
Gallon Of the Colorado" tonight. AZ Cooper Union,
Of the free course OF scientific lectures for the
people.
The New York herald., 1871-01-14

AVeTHBt tUInpcTHLuIe .............. 40
Average temperature for corresponding date
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Z DISCUSSION I
ensued 10 whether tho committee, in investigating
the .Oficiai condinct Of the Assistant Book Agent.
should also go Into the question OF his manners and
morals While some OF the committee claimed that
they had the right and the power 70 do SO they
deemed IL ineXpedient and impracticable, because
the Annual and Quarterly Conferences 10 which the
Doctor belongs, would take care OF those, ana the
committee would have enough 10 do TO inquire into
his official conduct.
discussion also arose on Mr.. Brickleys request
that the committee send Tor the slgners or the
charges, TINT they might be examined as 10 Their
motives In signing the paper and their knowledge
OF its contents. The request was denied on the
ground that the signers we're properly represented
by their committee, consisting oi Drss Pease and
Taylor
Mr. n. l.. Fanchen then opened for the prosecu-
ton. lie went over the groun is ol the case N
The true northerner., 1871-09-08
The Car and the Evangelical Alliance

The Russian Official journals publish
the report of the Prince Gortschakoff
to the Car in reference to his interview
with the delegates to the Evangelical
alliance, in which he says that he in
formed the deputation that the question
OF freedom of conscience was one per-
tanning to the Government of Russia,
and one which the Government desired
to maintain. He declared that a com.
pliance with some Of their requests in.
volved the abrogation of some of the
laws of the Empire, and in that matter
no foreign intervention whatever was
permitted.
His statement that their address had
the appearance of intervention in the
internal affairs OF Russia caused regret,
especially to the American deputation,
who thereupon asked leave to submit
their own address, but this he found to
contain only general observations. He
at once rejected the London address,
which looked like bill of indictment,
and subsequently suggested the with.
drawal of both addresses to avoid
offence. Although he observed no sign
of irritation among the members, it was
evident that the recognition of COM
plete want of success was visible.
The true northerner., 1871-09-08

by the Czarovitch, the Grand Duke said A;
France may be unfortunate, but and the
Princess love her deeply all the same. Thus,
after Sebastopol, you conquered us more by
the generosity of your proceeding than by
the force of your arms. | shall never forget
H. You bore your success nobly, but that
was an easy task, as you were not the par
venus of victory" The Prussian Ambas-
sador, who was present, it is said, reported
this TO his Government.
THERE is confrmatory intelligence that a
firm and close alliance, offensive and de-
fensive, is being negotiated, and will proba-
bly, be concluded, between Germany, Aus
tria and Italy. The German and Austrian
Emperors will have final meeting for this
purpose at Salzburg on next Friday, and
Italy has already given in its adhesion to
the proposed arrangement..."D DR.. Living
stone is slowly weldng his way homeward.
......There were 929 deaths from cholera in
Kenigsburg through the week ending Aug.
26, including l27 children......It is said that
since the annexation of Stras bourg TO Ger
many, 23, 900 inhabitants of that city have
emigrated to France and America.....The
Prussians will evacuate the forts near Paris
possibly by the 5th of September The
steamship Prussian, from Quebec, ran down
the steamer Aber in st. Georges channel.
All on board are believed to have been taken
off the vessel before she sunk, though that
was but the work of few minutes.
The true northerner., 1871-09-08
Preparations for War.

The mails by the steamer Russia con
tain the following important dispatch
sent to the London Telegraph from SAILS
burg, Aug. 10:
/. Il have the best authority for stating
that the military organization in Russia
is now being pushed on at a high pres
sure, the Prussian system of forced SER
vice, without exception, being rigorous.
ly carried cut. In view of the enormous
extent OF the empire provincial depots
are to be established. Officers are exam
ming the frontiers and are making
reports to the government of the same
fashion which has given the Germans
such advantages in their offensive cam
paigns. The experiment is also being
tried how soon corps de arme advanc-
ing can lay down line of railway to
bring forward its supplies. If what am
assured be the actual fact,-and my in
formation comes from good quarter,-
everything in political sense promises
favorable for the future amicable rela-
tions Of Germany and Austria. The
only ground for apprehension is under
stood to lie in the possibility of an ALI
ance between France and Russia, and
have reason for believing that this con-
tingency, if not the main cause Of the
meeting Of the Emperors at Gastien,
will be one Of the questions most seri-
ously discussed during their interview" ="
The true northerner., 1871-09-08
Terrible Steamboat Disaster Near Mo.
bile.

The steamer Ocean Wave, with 200
excursionists on board, exploded near
Mobile, Ala, on Sunday the 9th ult.,
killing and manning upwards of 60 per
sons. A telegraphic dispatch, dated the
2Sth ult., gives the following particulars
of the shocking calamity:
The steamer Ocean Wave left this city
(Mobile) on Sunday morning with about
200 persons on board, for an excursion
TO Fish river, about 20 miles from the
city. On her return trip, the boat
reached Point Cedar at o'clock p. m.
and made fast. The passengers went
ashore, and after the lapse of half an
hour the whistle was blown and all re-
turned to the boat They had just got
on hoard when the boiler exploded with
great force, followed by rumbling,
kissing sound, and fragments of the
timbers of the boat and the metal of the
boiler were blown in every direction.
The forward part of the cabin was car
ried away, and the chimney fell upon
the after cabin and crushed it. The
boat almost Immediately sunk, and her
bow is now submerged.
About 60 or 20 persons were killed or
injured by the explosion. So far, the
bodies of l9 dead, Is of whom are
ladies, have been recovered Twenty
eight wounded persons were brought to
this city, and one of them, girl, has
since died.
The scene was appalling and heart
rending. Wilder grief is seldom wit
messed. Many of the passengers were
little children Cant VIM Eaton swan
for some time with both legs broken.
The boat reached him just too late, and
he went down. Two pilots were killed.
The fremen were all killed, and the
engineer and his wife were injured Sc
verely.
1t is impossible correctly to estimate
the loss of life. BY some it is supposed
that at least 80 or 40 persons are still
buried in the debris OF the wreck, or
at the bottom of the bay. A diver has
gone to the scene of the disaster.
The accident has cast gloom over
the whole city, and universal sadness
prevails. The streets are crowded with
people, and the excitement and feeling
is intense.
The Ocean Wave has been for some
time considered an unsafe boat, and has
always been unlucky. The appearance
of the boiler indicated that it had yield
ed through rottenness, as it had been
torn apart in a long seam. Had it ex-
ploded with greater violence, the de-
struction of life would have been more
general. The force Of the explosion was
directed upward and forward.
The true northerner., 1871-09-08

water, of Lockhaven Reuben Hitler, OF
Williamsport; James Shaffer, Jr, OF
Sinnemahoning, Pa, and p. McCor-
mick, Baltimore, engineer of the pass
enger train. Lesser injuries were sus-
tanned by some l5 others.
The passenger train was about an
hour late in leaving Williamsport, and
was running about thirty-five miles an
hour, and the freight about eighteen.
The trains, meeting on a sharp curve,
were not visible to each other till with
in a few yards, and speed was not
checked. The baggage car was tele-
scoped with the smoking car, all but a
few feet. The passengers in the two
cars in the rear were uninjured.
An official investigation shows that
the accident was caused by the neglect
of the conductor and engineer of the
mail train to obey orders given them
not to pass Westport until the freight
train had arrived there. A copy of the
order was found in the pocket of the
engineer, who was believed to be fatally
Injured, but later intelligence reports
him improving, though still unable to
converse
The true northerner., 1871-09-08
The Rule of the Reds i'm Paris.

The evidence given at the courtmar-
tial now in session, at Versailles, Is of
the most terrible description. DR.. Puy-
moryen testified that the commune, on
the oath of May, formed a kino Of
court martial at lie Petite Boquette. He
saw man condemned to death in five
minutes by some young wretches about
II or Is years of age, who gave them
selves airs of the greatest importance.
A young soldier was tried for the crime
of not joining the commune. His hands
were bound behind his back, and he
was tortured in the most inhuman
manner. "Kneel!' shouted the chief
of these assassins of soldiers. He knelt
down. "Get up!' and he rose. He was
then made to kneel again, a handker-
chief was then tied over his eyes and
then readjusted and finally the poor lad
was shot. and his body tossed into a
vegetable cart amid shouts and laugh
ter. Four other persons were massacred
in similar manner, among them Mon
seigneur Surat, who had managed to
escape from prison, but who was caught
by some of the juvenile offenders at the
barricade and brought back. A woman
demanded the honor of killing him,
and she sat on the unfortunate prelate
with a poinard, striking at his face, but
the bishop kept her Oft with his hands.
At last, losing patience and jeered by
the crowd, this fury drew revolver
and shot down her victim.
The true northerner., 1871-09-08

be of malignant type..... Michael Hickey,
noted thief, was shot dead in New Orleans,
on the evening of the 25th ult., by police
man who was attempting his arrest...... Pc
dro G.. Polais, aged IL, son of the Mexican
Minister at Washington, was drowned at
Fortress Monroe, Va, on the 25th ult., while
bathing. His body was not recovered.
The army worm is committing fearful havoc
in the cotton fields in the vicinity OF Selma,
Ala.
THERE are reports of great damage to the
cotton crop in North Carolina from drought
and rust, and that there will be a falling off
of one-third from last years receipts......A
severe storm recently passed up the South
Atlantic coast, wrecking many vessels, and
causing great damage to shipping. Many
lives were lost.....Jack Allen, one of the
the proprietors of the Commercial Hotel at
Memphis, is under arrest for poisoning his
wife, who died, as he alleges, from an over
dose OF morphine.
A PASSENGER on the Louisville and Nash
Vile road, who put his head out of the win
dow recently, struck the fence over the
cattle guard, and was killed. 1.-THE number
of deaths caused by the Ocean Wave disas-
ter, at Mobile, was So Thirty-nine persons
were wounded, some of whom will not re-
cover...... Parthe, one of the oldest chiefs of
the Kickapoo Indians, was killed by
drunken half breed named Walter, at the
reservation near Atchison, Kan, on Sunday.
...... Yellow fever is prevailing in Charles
ton, S. C. Three deaths from it occurred on
the 29th ult.
The true northerner., 1871-09-08

A New ORLEANS paper says that Mrs.
Gaines reply to the suit of Caleb Cush-
ing, to obtain $4,000 from her for ser.
vices rendered as her attorney.at-law, is
to the effect that he has collected rents
upon her property, more in amount
than he is entitled to. She claims the
balance.
The true northerner., 1871-09-08
A LADY, impelled by the demands O,

A LADY, impelled by the demands of
fashion to seek recreation in the coun.
try during the summer months, writes
back despairingly: "Did you ever
revel in the gayeties of half-grown,
torpid village, where a walk to the
graveyard was the only recreation,
and where, il you Indignantly refused
to walk, you were shudderingly remind
ed, All, poor child, you may haze to 60
there soon ~
The true northerner., 1871-09-08

WHAT THE PoPE SAYs.-Foreign adj
vices report the Pope as having recently
spoken as follows concerning the course
of the Prussian Government toward the
German Catholics ''I had expected
that the German Catholics would be
treated with greater justice | do not
conceal from you that hope so able a
diplomatist as Prince Bismarck would
not have provoked dlscord in the new
Empire. All wars that are undertake en-
against the Church are always converted
to her ultimate gain. They have always
reinforced her have made her members
more compact have fortified them in
their faith"
The true northerner., 1871-09-08
Reduction i'm FreightS.

Railway freghts are again largely re,
duced to the West by the leading roads.
The prices are now lower than at any
time since 1861. The following are the
new prices per hundred weight fof first
and second class goods from this city
The true northerner., 1871-09-08
The Census-OfIicial Figures.

From advance sheets OF the census, 1t
appears that the population of the vari.
Gus States and Territories, as officially
and finally revised at the Census Office,
il as follows.
The true northerner., 1871-09-08

Mr.. LoRNE's path is not strewn with
thornless flowers. At recent ball, Mr..
Wales was immensely disgusted that
his brother.in-law should have been
admitted at the royal entrance, and
gave orders that at the next ball he
seould be told that his face wasn't good
there. Accordingly, when the "noble
Markiss' presented his ticket the door
keeper told him that was played. Mr.
Lorne said he wasn't in the back-stair
business just then, and Mrs. Lorne said
that what was good enough for her hus-
band was good enough for her, and if
they didn't let him in she wouldn't go
there. And she didn't 90 to the ball,
but went home and played draw poker
with her husband and John Bright.
UTILIZING THE GREASE OF SLEEPS
WooL.-An additional instance of the
possibility of converting what was for
merly considered refuse into valuable
material, is seen in the shape of the
fatty matter contained in sleeps wool,
and technically known as suint. This
contains about 40 per cent. of potassa,
and when ignited the alkali becomes
entirely mixed thereby with strongly.
nitrogenized animal charcoal. The
result of recent experiments tends to
show that suint, thus treated, may be
used to an excellent profit in the manu-.
facture of prussiates and cyanides.
The true northerner., 1871-09-08

Dunkirk and Buffalo west to Chicago,
Toledo, and Detroit, are 20 cents; steam
around the lakes to Chicago and Mil
waukee, "a cents.
The true northerner., 1871-09-08
The South.

A s1ABoLIcAL murder was committed near
Turner'S store, Metcalf county, KY, on Mon
day, the 2lst inst. In the afternoon wo-
man started to the store, some two miles
distant, on horseback. Several hours after
wards, she was found lying in the road be-
tween her house and the store, with her
throat cut from ear TO ear. Her horse was
hitched near by. She had five dollars when
she left home, which was missing from her
pocket...... Mrs. Nathan Baker, OF Nodaway
county, Mo-, has four pair of twins. A pair
was born last fall, and ten months later she
was blessed with another pair. Mrs. Baker
is thirty-seven years old, and the mother of
nineteen children, thirteen of whom are
living; and she has one grandchild. A
citizen of Georgia, though now only so, has
been the father Of So children, of whom 40
are said to be living. The father and grand
father of this prolific Southron are reported
to have had respectively 81 and S9 chill
dren.
THE cholera has broken out in an epi-
demic form in Charleston, S. c. 1t is said to
The true northerner., 1871-09-08
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

THE dispute about the New York Trinity
Church property promises to be revived.
The Anneke Jams people now say they have
discovered further evidence of their right to
the property, and are raising means for the
commencement of a new suit....JOhn Nor
rissy and Commodore Vanderbilt have
purchased the site of the old United States
Hotel, at Saratoga, and will build new
hotel next spring as large as Congress Hall.
..... Gen. n. b. Forrest had fsticuif and
knock-down with another Southerner, on
the night of August 25 in New York bar
room. Cause-politics. Forrest is said to
have received black eye.
A TRUNK containing the body OF a female,
who had died from abortion, was left at the
Hudson River railroad depot, in New York,
on the 26th ult. A respectable looking wo-
man presented a ticket, and had the trunk
checked through to Chicago. Coroner Her
man made a post mOrtem examination on
the body of the unknown female. The ver-
dict was that the cause of death was intlam
nation of the bowels, brought on by abor-
tion. The corpse is evidently the body of
young woman about 10 years of age fea-
lures pleasing, hair light, height about
feet two inches. Mehetardt Trep, truck
driver, has been arrested on suspicion of
taking the trunk to the depot......Intelli-
gence has been received of the death of
Chaile Scribner, the publisher, at Lucerne,
Switzerland. He went abroad in May last,
in search of renewed health, and was ex-
pected home this month 49,. Charles Lind
say, aged 81, was drowned in the attempt to
save two boys who were thrown from a boat
in Bristol, Or. H. harbor on the 26th ult. He
swan with one boy to the shore, but in re-
turning for the other his strength failed, and
he sank
CHAs. SCRIBSER, the wel-known New
York publisher, is dead......A number of
vessels with yellow fever patients on board
have been detained at quarantine in New
York harbor, recently ly....The New York
police are about to make another raid on the
abortion establishments in that city, and it
is thought that the dreadful crime of pro-
ducing abortions in that city will be shown
in a more terrible light than ever before.....
Gov. Hoffman has respited the murderer
Buckhout, until the 18th of September.
The jury, in the case of Samuel j. Holley,
late collector Of Buffalo port, who has
been on trial before the United States Court,
charged with malfeasance in office, after be-
ing out three hours, returned a verdict of
guilty.
The true northerner., 1871-09-08
Foreign.

THE West India and Panama telegraph
cables have been successfully laid to the
islands of st. Lucia and Barbados ..... Ad-
vices from Versailles, of Aug. 25, state that
Thiers actually wrote his resignation, but
relinquished his intention of presenting 1t
to the Assembly after the adoption by that
body of Ducrot's amendment to the bill tor
the disarmament of the National Guard
which amendment supports the views OF tt c
Executve.....The French Government has
forbidden public rejoicing on the 4th of
September, the anniversary of the revolu-
ton of last year against the Bonapartes.. .....
Assurances are said to have been received at
Versailles thatthe Prussian troops in France
will be reduced TO so 900 on the lst Of Sep
tember. Those remaining will be lodged in
arracks.... DR.. Samuel Warren, author of
"T Ten Thousand Year." and bachelor, in
his Gath year, is about TO marry daughter
of Edward Beaumont, NJ. p. for South Dur
ham ..... London intelligence states that it
has been discovered that the Tichborne
claimant was at one time convict on
Cockatoo Island, Australia......In the town of
Morlia, Mexico, recently, Catholic priest
named Canero preached a bitter sermon
against the laws for reforms and religious
! liberation. He succeeded in exciting the
! people to such pitch against the Protestants
that his harangue resulted in committing a
breach of the peace by the multitude.
Canero was sent to prison by the authorities,
but the people attempted to take him out OF
Jail by force. The Fe !eral troops resisted
this popular attempt at Jail delivery. The
result was great riot. A great many per-
sons were killed and wounded. Even in
cendiarism was resorted to by the inhamed
and enraged followers of the priest.
The Governments of Great Britain and
the United States have chosen Count Suigi
Corti, the Italian Ambassador to Washing
ton, as the third arbitrator under the treaty
Of Washington....T The Russian journals
have statement that at a dinner given to
the new French Ambassador, General Leho,
shortly after his arrival at st. Petersburg,
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-09-26
Rather Old.

The inundation of I'LL, which swept
away great part Of the old Tyne Bridge,
Newcastle, was long remembered and al
luded to with emphasis as " the food !"
On one occasion Mr., Adam Thompson
was put into the witness box at the as
sizes The counsel asking his name, re-
ceived for answer:
Adam, sir-Adam Thompson"
Where doy you liveY'
"At Paradise, sir"
Paradise is a village about mile and
a half west Of Newcastle.
z" And how long have you dwelt in
Paradise?" continued the barrister.
Ever since the food, was the reply
made in all simplicity, and with no inten-
tion to raise laugh
1t is needless to say that the Judge
asked for an explanation
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-09-26
Jacks Proposal.

One evening as l was sitting by IIetty,
and had worked myself up to the point
of popping the question, sez |, Hetty,
if feller was to ask you to marry him,
what would you say?" Then she laugh
ed, and sez she That would depend
on who asked me-" Then sez /, " Sup
pose it was Ned Willis?' Sez she, I'd
tell Ned Willis, but not you" That
kinder staggert me, but | was too cute
to lose the opportunity,and so sez | again,
Suppose it was me ?" And then you
you aught to see her pout up her lip. Sez
she, " don't take no suppose" Well,
now you see, there was nothing for me to
do but to touch the trigger and let the gun
go off. So bang it went. Sez l., q" Lor'
Hetty, it's me Won't you say yes ?"
And then there was such hullabaloo in
my head don't know zactly what TUX
place, but | thought | heard II " Yes"
whispered somewhere out of the scrim-
mage. H
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-09-26

Bay One of the Saviour's most delight
full discourses, second only to the sermon
on the mount is that delivered at Jacobs
well to but one listener-and that one a
poor despised Samaratin woman. 1t en-
courages the heart of minister of course,
to be able to preach to multitudes-olten
it fosters vanity and pride. But let him
not count it condescension, when the oc-
casion calls for it to speak the truths of
the gospel to solitary listeners, or to "two
or three" gathered together in the name
of Jesus. For he that converteth one
sinner from the error of his way, saves a
soul from death, and hides a multitude of
sins