Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-08-07
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Moulton Will Not Testify.
~ STEAMER BURNED.
EASTERN.
The Postal Telegraph Controversy.


WASHINGTON, August 4.--The Post
master-General and Mr. Davy, an Off
Ger of the department having the
mas. n specially in charge, are in con-
sultation with the Attorney
in reference to the postal cOntrover-
sizes. Meanwhile the Assistant Super
intendent of the Railway Postal Ser
vice telegraphs from Philadelphia that
every thing is all right and that he
will be home this afternoon. The At
torney General, at the conference held
with the Postmaster General, said the
law fixed the compensation so explic-
lily with reference to the Postal Car
service that no opinion was needed to
interpret the instructions.
Kentucky Elections.
NEW YORK, August A. Reports
from principal points in Kentucky in
dicate that in the election yesterday
the Democrats carried the State for
Clerk of the Court of Appeals. The
other nominees were elected according
to local feeling, and party lines in
most places were not closely drawn.
Local Option was everywhere de-
feated.
The Guatemala Wreck.
New YORK, August 5.-Dispatches
announce the total loss of the Pacific
Mail steamship City of Guatemala,
which went ashore at Walling's Island
recently. The loss to the company is
$4,000.
Burning of the Steamer Pat Rogers.
CINCINNATI, August 5.-The steamer
Pat Rogers, while near Aurora this
morning, was burned, with her entire
cargo of cotton. The names Of the
lost, so far as known, are as follows:
J. r. Stuart, Mrs. Smith of Madison,
Ind; w. G. Brown, Cincinnati (son of
HI. w. Brown of the Union Line
Transportation Company; G. Fl. Dit
man, pilot; Shirley d. Snider and ia
cob Digit, of the crew.
The boat was valued at $60,000; in
surance, $4,000.
Engineer Holmes gives an account
of the burning of the Pat Rogers to-
day. About o'clock, when just op-
posite Sandy Creek, which flows into
the Ohio two miles below Aurora, /
noticed q bright light among some
bales of cotton in the after part of the
boat. I hastened forward. and found
them burning rapidly and beyond the
possibility of Immediately eXtinguish-
ing them. I rushed to the hurricane
deck and gave the alarm to the pilot
that the boat was burning, telling him
to run her ashore. The pilot attempted
to do so, but the boat would not obey
the helm. She drifted on q sandbar.
The flames, instead of spreading along
the lower deck. shot out through the
cabin and pilot-house and then swept
across the hurricane deck. The pas
sengers were aroused and boats low
cred and many were carried ashOre;
but others, in their fright, jumped in
the water. Those who were not
drowned reached a safe landing place,
after drifting some time with the cur
rent. There were nearly 100 people
on board, and but a small proportion
of this number were actually lost.
Many at first reported missing have
been seen by persons on shore after
the disaster.
The Plot Thicisens.
NEW York, August 5.-A member
of the Beecher Committee yesterday
said the design of MoultOn in with
holding his testimony was to espOuse
the stronger side when Beecher had
testified, and cut the throat of the
weaker 1t was doubtless Tilton's pur-
pose to lock up part of the testimony
for reserve fund of future insinua-
tion. The Committee unanimously
decided that no report shall be made
until Moulton's testimony has been
taken and letters submitted. If the
latter are not forthcoming, they will
be obtained by legal process.
Gaynor's libel suit against Tilton
was withdrawn to-day.
Beecher has written very caustic
letter to Moulton, demanding certain
letters and documents in his hands
that were not to he used by any second
party, and reproving him for withhold
ing them. Moulton responds rather
angrily, justifies his cause, and re-
minds Beecher of the time when Mrs
Hooker threatened to invade his pull
pit and read to the congregation his
confession of improper intimacy with
Mrs. Tilton. 1t is not probable thai
Moulton will testify before the com
mittee.
In the Grim con case of Tiltor
against BeeclIer, Gen. Butler Will ac
as Tilton's counsel.
The Iceland Party.
NEW YORK, August 5.-The excur'
sionists accompanying Cyrus Field t'
Iceland, to attend the millenial cele
bration, reported July 26th that the.
had arrived at Faroa Islands, wher
they met the King of Denmark, ant
the whole party sailed for Iceland tn
next day.
The Contract still Exists.
WASHINGTON, August 5.-The AT
General has decided that a con
tract for additional mail service be
tween San Francisco, Japan an