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Mutiny and Butchery at Sea.

LONDON, May 3-The schooner JEFF
ferson Borden, from New Orleans for
this port, has arrived off Porth Levin
The Captain reports that the crew mur-
dered the first and second mates, killed
two sailors. wounded and put another in
irons. One sailor was wounded and
chained to the pump, and another is dy-
ing. The vessel was worked by three
hands.
The following additional particulars
have been obtained of the mutiny on the
Jefferson Borden: The schooner Jeffer
son Borden, Patterson master, sailed
from New Orleans March 5 for London.
When eighteen days from the former
port mutiny broke out. Capt. Patter
son and his officers fought the men with
revolvers and knives. After a terrible
struggle, in which the first aud second
mates we're killed, the Captain succeeded
in disabling and securing all the men
who resisted. He hailed passing ves-
sells, obtained sufficient hands to work
the ship, and proceeded on the voyage
to London.
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RAILROAD ITEMS,

From the Bellaire Independent, 9th inst.l
Adiutant General Amos remarked,
when in town Monday, that he had
lived in Monroe County sixteen years,
and that this occasion was the only
time he had ever expended one cent in
Bcllaire. 1t is out Of his way. Monroe
County people now 60 to Wheeling and
to Barnesville to do their trading -
When the Bellaire and Southwestern is
constru cted it will be otherwise.
Mr.. Warren HOLSTER, in his speech
at the railroad meeting Tuesday even
ing, spoke Of Monroe County and the
region West of Woodsfield to the Mus
kinyum River as that Ito us) "undis
covered country" whose vast trade is
now unknown TO US, but on the con-
struction of the Bellaire aud Southwes
tern Railroad will all be poured into
our streets.
People OF Bellaire! this is worth q
severe struggle to obtain. 1t can be
won, if all of us do our duty in the
premises.
The construction of the Bellaire and
Southwestern Rail Road will open up an
empire of trade to Bellaire. Nathan
Hollister thinks there are eighty thou
sand people who would he tributary to
the road. A vast majority of them
would also be tributary to Bellaire.-
This trade is worthy of mighty effort
upon the part of our city. To-day il
all goes to GAINESVILLE. Barnesville, and
right past US and over us to Wheeling
The Bellaire and Southwestern will lant
the greater part of it in our streets.
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BEECHER.TIlTON,
Mrs. Tilion Addresses the Cour

New YORK, May 3.-The plaintiff
came into court with Mr. Beach. Wher
the Jury was called Mrs Tilton rose and
addressing the Judge said have com
! munica'ion which I would beg your
Honor to read aloud before the opening
of the proceedings. The note was pass.
ed to Mr. Evars who handed it to the
Judge, who after reading it said that this
matter would he considered.
MRS. TILToNs LETTER TO JUDGE NELSON.
New YORK, May 4-The Brooklyn
Eagle furnishes the following copy of
Mrs. Tilton's letter:
To JUDGE NELSON: I ask the privilege
from you for few words in my own be-
half feel deeply the injustice of my
position in the law and before the court,
and while have understood and expect
ed from the beginning that Mr.. Evarts
was principal in the matter,yet since your
last decision have been SO sensible of
the power of my enemies that my soul
cries out before you and the gentlemen
of the jury, that they beware of how, by
a divided verdict, they consign to my
children false and irrcvocable stain
upon their mother, For five years past
have been the victim of circumstances
most cruel and unfortunate Struggling
from time to time, only for place to live
! honorably and truthfully. Released for
some months from the wiles by whose
power unconsciously criminated myself
again and again,I declare solemnly before
you, without the fear of man, and by my
faith in God, that am, innocent Of the
;crimes charged against me. would like
to tell my whole sad story--truthfully to
acknowledge the frequent falsehoods
wrung from me by compulson. though
at the same time unwilling to reveal the
secrets of my married life, which only
the vital Importance of my position make
necessary. Iassume the entire response
bility of this request, unknown to the
friends or counsel Of either side, and
await your honorable decision with great
respect. ELIZABETH r TILToN.
| JUDGE NELSON s REPLY.
81 am desired by Judge Nelson to re
turn your letter, as it cannot be read ir
court. Also to state that in civil case;
the counsel have the right to refrain from
calling particular witness, however com
petent, and that neither the court nor the
client car interfere with the exercise o
that right. The question whether yor
could be witness stands on quite anoth
er ground from that considered. Wher
your husband was called and sworn, hi
was competent witness to testify in hi:
behalf against third person, and while
the policy OF the law Ito some extent
involved, there was no express statute il
the way but the statute of May 10, 1867
expressly declares the wife to be incom
petent as witness for or against her hus
band. Yours, G.. W. KNABEL,
Clerk City Court, DC
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EFThe Bellaire and Southwestern
Railroad, il completed according TO the
designs Of the projectors, will be the
peoples railroad. 1t will belong to
those who subscribe money TO build it
and they will have sole control Of its
management.
There will probably not be'to exceed
two thousand subscribers, and therefore
not to exceed two thousand voters in the
elections for officers. Every owner ol
stock will be entitled TO a vote for each
share OF stock held. 1t will be readily
seen that the management Of the road
will be more completely within the con.
troll Of the stockholders, than are the af
fairs of a county within the control oI
its voters. -
In short, it will be our road, and moi
owned, controlled, or Influenced by any
foreign corporation or monopoly. Il
will be the peoples road, managed by
and for the people.
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EF Whentroops are asked for to pro-
tect the borders Of Texas, the long delib-
sration of the President and Cabinet their
careful ba' ancing of constitutional pow
crs and restraints, their scrupulous care
to remain clearly within legal limitations,
are things to cheer the heart OF the old
iIonsidc, strict constructionists.
But when there is Democratic Legis-
lature to be "cleaned out" or where o
short supply OF administration votes
needs to be supplemented 10y a few federal
bayonets in order to secure an admins
tration victory ut the polls, or where q
fraudulent State government asks to be
shielded from the Indignation Of a plum,
dered constituency, then The laws become
- eobwehs, and Constitutions as egg
saeIls; then the old, fashioned strict eeE.
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EThere is blood on the moon
Dom Piatt gives an account in the last
Capital, of Zach. Chandler's search OF
him in Newspaper Row, very much as
the correspondent of the Chicago Times
reported it, and adds:
''The next day we had business with
the Sergeant-at-arm of the Senate, Mr..
French, and while sitting upon a sofa
talking to that gentleman, who should
loom up at the door but the war man Of
Michigan, and as he approached direct
ly upon us, we gently slid our right
hand into the pocket of our overeoat,
where our fingers gently caressed re-
volver, and had the ex-senator made
any move Indicating the production Of
that navy, we rather flatter ourself there
would have been vacancy in the Court
Circle of Ulysses. We do not propose
being snuffed out by an ex-senator, or
anybody else, drunk or sober. We
have observed through life, in our
checkered career, that when a man is
killed, he is just as dead when murder.
ed by drunken man as when demised
by q son of temperance"
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MISCELLANEOUS.

The vote most regret, during my
fourteen years. service in Congress, is
that which l cast last winter in favor of
the Force Bill; so says Hon William D.
Kelley.
Chicago's Mullett- built Custom house
walls are so shaky that they will prob
ably he torn down Supervising Arch.
itect Potter is Of this opinion.
Philosophers and scientists, familiar
with solar phenomena, last year pre-
dicted cold summer Tor the year 1875
If the spring is any indication of the
character Of the season, it will net dc
to put away furs in camphor and snuff
or dispose Of ovcrcoats to the old clos
rnen.
A prominent Spiritualist says tha
George Washington remains non.cem
initial on the Beecher trial, but the late
Judge f lmonds and Ben Franklin ear
nestlv favor Beecher, while Demosth
enes, Lafayette, and Moses are on Til
tons side.
Major Rankin, the former State
Treasurer Of 10 va, who is now on tria
for embezzlement, was a Union soldier
He was three times elected State Treas
urer. The funds he is said TO have
stolen were taken from the Agricultural
College and turned into the State Treas
ury. Hence the difficulty of the prose
cntion in proving case against him.
Three years ago no man in Iowa stood
fairer. To-day" his counsel says, "ht
is a man Of the past, having neither
wealth nor social standing. Premature
ly old, and possessing neither memorie;
of the past nor anticipation that car
give him pleasure, he stands at the ba
of justice asking only fair trial"
The Palace Hotel in San Francisco
will be provided in its table furntur,
with nickel plate covered with pure sill
yer. The amount Of ware for which
proposals were invited by the Palac,
Hotel was between $4,000 and $50,
O00 Something of the scale of th'
table service may he imagined from
such items of the bill as 1000 spoon.
and forks, 400 salvers for dining room
attendants, 400 double dishes and warn
ers for meats, 1900 pitchers for watel
and milk, &c all to be of the riches
electro plate, or thick silver on body
of nickel. The total number OF pieces
ordered is $4,000 e
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Debt of Chicago.

The report of the Chicago Comp
troler for the last fiscal year showed
that the bonded and floating debt of
Chicago is Sl7 100000; the receipts for
the year paid all expenses, and left an
unexpended balance amounting to
nearly 100000 to apply on the indebt-
edness. The city has been able to bor-
row all needed funds at a very low rate
of interest, and evidences are abundant
that the credit of the municipality is
unimpaired.
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EESuppose there had been a Demo
cratic President in TWEED 5 palmy days;
and suppose he had determined to keep
the TWEED ring in power in New York
and suppose the lega! voters had repudia-
ted TWEED and suppose rascally Re
turning Board had given iTwEEp's tools
certificates Of election; and suppose the
duly elected officers had taken possession
of their offices and suppose the Demo
cratic President had found SHERIDAN to
send there anil drive them into the streets
at the point of the bayonet; and suppose
the TWEED ring had reduced the city to
such des!itution as to compel it to repudi
ate tue interest on its debts. 1t is speak
ing in reason TO say that this would have
been all wrong.
Well now suppose that with the change
of few names this had occurred in New
Orleans, would that have been all right
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Foreign Notes.

Mile Lola, the trapeze performer,
offers to bet from $500 to $4,000 that
she can perform any feat on the trapeze
ever accomplished by any other woman
on the trarsze. Several years ago Mile.
Lola entered into contest with rival
male trapeze performer at New Bruins
wick, Dominion of Canada, although
she fractured her jaw, succeeded in &C.
complishing daring feat and winning
the wager.
Pho Frezza, the murderer of the
editor of the Rome Capitale, has con-
fessed to having been moved to the
deed through assurances given him that
the murder would be considered pub
lie benefit, and especially pleasing to
Garibaldi. He was conveyed to the
editors door in a carriage by an ex-
policeman, who then and there handed
him the dagger. He yielded to delu-
sion, without asking or receiving 0
cent. The policeman, Armandi, has
similarly confessed.
The King Of Italy, before leaving
Venice, gave ak thousand dollars to
the beggars. Standing on the Riaito
and giving each one cent that should
come by would be heavy business
Jumping it in the royal style or giving
them bath in the canal is the only
way of getting rid of the trouble o.
having to make change. But suct
heavy drains are never made except or
king or foreigner. They are begin
ming to reform things ON and near ths
bridge where merchants most do con
gregate.
During the first quarter of this year
toll on tonnage through the Suez Cana
amounted to S,1S6,06l 80 francs, yiel
ding an increase over the correspon
ding period of 1894 of nearly two
millions of francs. The population oi
the isthmus was 1900 at the end o
last year, having increased 3,26S since
1873. 1t is composed of 9,707 Turks
and Egyptians, 1856 Greeks, LOS;
French, S22 Italians, $40 Austriaus, 38i
English, 90 Dutch, 2l Swiss, 20 Ger
mans, Is Spaniards, IL Russians aud
Americans. That's the only way the.
are at the tail end, though. %
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party of Stewards friends, and his
hndy literally riddlad with hnllets

party of Stewards friends, and his
body literally riddled with bullets.
This feud, involving the death OF so
many superb men, and bankrupting two
powerful families, is but one of thou
sand that might be traced through the
system of Southern society. We have
followed only one branch of this feud.
Doubtless, were all the results, direct
and indirect, followed out, it would be
found that the publication Of that ar.
ticle caused the death of score of
chivalric gentlemen And one peculiar
feature ot it is that the man concerning
whom all the trouble arose was not in
any of the fights, and that every drop
of Llood that was shed was in defense
of friend or comradc 1t is splen
did tribute to the generosity and high
spirit Of the chivalry.
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nrwbon Hoprox i ,a,a, :, ,,,,

Ey When HORROR is asked to accept
the Republican nomination for Cover
nor, he applies his stuhhiest digit to bis
proboscis, ,and thinks almost loud enough
TO be heard: Gentlemen, when you ha,
chance to elect your candidate you
never said HORROR once; now, when you
need a martyr, you come wheedling old
HoRToN, You would oblisc me very
much by putting yourselvesin situation
to send me a telegram, in about four
hours. from the other side of the State
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The First Time Since the War,

RALEIGH, N. c., May 3-In the munic.
ipal election to day the Democrats carry
IL out Of II Alderman, and elected their
Mayor. This is the first time since the
war that the city has gone Democratic -
The Democrats sweep Durham, Salisbu
ry, Hillsboro, Charlotte, Henderson and
Warren, Which are all the towns heard
from.
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Iti a remarkable fact, though not an
unaccountable one, that every fair.mind-
ed Republican who visits the South, and
keeps his eyes open, comes back surprised
and .gratihed by the good feeling and
good order which he has found so gene.
rally prevailing.
For some reason the professional poll
ticians OF the Radical party cannot, OIL
will not, understand this. As soon as 8
returned Republican commences to make
public what he learned by mixing with
the Southern people, that moment the
GRANT organs begin to denounee him as
traitor to his party.
PHELPS and FOSTER, both Republicans,
went to New Orleans to investigate the
Louisiana troubles. Their report wa:
| like new revelation to the Northern peo
pie. The persistent ard vehement asser
tions made about outrages and outlawry
| in the South had made.a deep impression
even upon those Northerners who were
slowest to believe the stories But the
report of this committee, sustained es i
was by perfect avalanche Of sworn tes
timony, y,made revolution in public senti
ment.
The administration organs tried to re
sist this by lampooning Messrs. PHEEP!
and FOSTER, and by formally reading then
out of the party.
Since the adjournment OF Congress
Hon. WnLiAM KELLEY, who was /.
warm advosate of the Force Bill. ha!
made trip through the South. and tht
effect made upon his mind may be judget
by his statements on the subject to {
Tribune reporter: 'hsr75E '.e
"He found no traces of intimidation OF
Ku Kux conspiracy, and hereafter ht
would take little stock in Southern ont
RACES. The whites werenot violent ant
the blacks were not afraid. The misfor
tunes OF the reconstructed States were
pitiable enough, but they were not attrib
u,abe to animosities of race or politics
He talked with Confederate soldiers, witt
Northern men, negroes, carpet-bagger'
and travellers, and he was surprised at thu
good feeling existing. There was NJ
more use for militarw interference thar
in Pennsylvania and, he added With EN-
phasis, The vote l most regret during
my IA years service in Congress is tha
which cast last Winter for the Fore,
bill'"
Of course Judge KELLEY is just now
target for GRANTS mud-slingers. Th
line Of policy they have marked on
seems to be, when Democrat brings ia
vorable reports to put him down as al
original Ku Klux if Republican find
society there different from what 1t ha
been represented, they try to silence hin
by intimidation, or, failing in that, to de
nounce him and then to hoot him out o
the party. The organs seem determined
to crush every Republican who speaks
friendly word Of the South.
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In the line of the best grades of dri
wing horses, the supply is reported ol
getting lighter and the demand good
For common work animals for farm anG
other uses the inquiry is becoming
rather dull. In the Fifth street auc
tons, during last week, the sales footed
up 435 head, against 935 head for The
preceding week. Of these sales ship
ments were made into North Carolina a
prices ranging from 500 to &115, tc
Baltimore at 800 to $l20, into the in
terror of Ohio at 800 to $130, and to
Nashville at $50 to $50.
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~ Vice President WILSON has been
paying visit to General BRECKENRIDGE,
Of Kentucky, which would appear very
fraternal and very commendable in the
absence OF WILsos's maneuvers for the
Presidency.
Vice Presiltn, WILSON is deeply i'm.
pressed with the conviction that he would
Be just what he ought to be if he could
rid himself Of Vice.
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HNow and then protection chick
On comes home to roost. Philadelphia,
the center Of the grand tariff swindle, has
invited foreign manufacturers to exhibit
fhsir goods at the Centennial. A re-
sponse comes back, thatit is ludicrous to
iavi,s manufacturers to compete al an
exhibition where tariff laws prevent them
from competing in the markets.
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from the Daily Register
Wheeling Cattle Market.
CHRISTIAN Stock YARDS
NT q 1O7S

CHRISTIAN Stock YARDS,
May s, 1875.
CATTLE-The arrivals aer the week
at the Christman yards amounted to 81
head, AMI range from 5@6 so per cwt.
There were some fair local cattle among
the arrivals but most of them were
common stock. About seven car loads
of western cattle were received during
the week. The very best brought as
high as Z 90.
HOGS-Arrivals 81 head at 7 500
s so and in good demand, prices firmer
and shade higher than last week.
SHEEP-Arrivals of II head clipped
at 4@5 90. Demand moderate.
LAMBS-No arrivals yet.
CALVES--Arrivals 43 head at 3@7
SO each. Good ones in demand.
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Bloody Work at Port.au-PIince

KINGSTON, JAMAICA, via HAVANA, May
5-A revolution broke outin Port au
Prince Sunday. General Price was drag
ged from church and shot. Forty for
eieners were killed, and among the vic
Tins is servant of the British Consul
General Buildings were fred and every
species of disorder prevailed. A state
of siege has been proclaimed A British
gunboat is there, and another will be sent
tomorrow. Steamers we're not permit
ted to enter the port, and have landed
their cargoes here.
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RSecretary DELASo has cut the
Gordian knot. He has invented system
OF dealing with the Indians which is not
only cheap, but highly satisfactory in its
results. 1t consists in letting the agents
steal the supplies, and letting the Indians
ssarve to death.
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~ It looks very much as il tho Re.
eablican politicians Of Ohio were trying
10 resurrect the dishonored carcass oi
Know Nothingism as an ally in this cam.
paign The hue and cry about tho GE.
onAsbill ill'means Know Nothingism or i,
asans nothing.
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Baltimore Live Stock Market.

May b.
CATTLE-The market has been dull
during the past week, and prices de-
clined a@1c; greater decline being in
medium and common grades very best
6 25@7 47t; first quality, SOC 25;
medium or good fair quality, 4 50@5;
for ordinary thin steers, oxen and cows
4@4 so; most of the sales at 5@6 25
Receipts, ,449 head sales, 1872 head
HOGS-Have been exceedingly dull
prices declined &c; still fed hogs, 93@
lOc; corn hogs, 1o@ll4c, Receipts
1884 head. @
SHEEP-Have been dull, and prices
declined 4@4c: clipped, 4@5c; extra
&c; wool, 64@7c. Lambs dull at 2 sc
@5. Receipts, 1902 head.
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gA little tour in the country las

HA little tour in the country las,
week convinced us that the injury done
to the wheat by the recent cold snap has
l'een much overestimated The wheat is
not so promising as at this time last year
but we see no resson to doubt that the
amount per acre viii be fully up to the
average of the last ten years The in
creased breadth sown will probably bring
the aggregate amount raised in the coun,
ty up TO that of last year, when the crop
was exceptionally largo
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HProphecies Of war in Europe, o,
an early day, are again rife.
II there still lives a man who can re
member a yearin which European wal
was not supposed to be imminent, ht
should be preservcdin spirits, and sem
70 the Philadelphia Centennial
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S There are four or Ave members ot
the late Legislature, Democrats, who
should be left at home this Fall. II the
politicians persist in nominating them
the Democratic party can do their part.
and the State service by voting for a re
spectacle Republican.
Its tenfoo better for the party to b.
In the minority, than to have msjorit,
of 1--WE, if those FIVE are scamps