The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-07-10
GENERAL NEWS.

-Robt. Dale Owen, the we'll known spir-
itualist, who has been for some time at a
water cure at Dansville, Western New
York, has been taken to his home in In
diana insane.
The first celebration of Independence
Day by American Indians took place on
Monday at Atoka, Indian Territory, about
three thousand Indians PARTICIPATING
Governor Allen White, Choctaw. was
President of the day, and made speech
welcoming the people.
AS fuller reports are received from the
scene of the great earthquake in South
America in May It's horrors are multiplied.
The names of nearly dozen towns and
villages that were completely wrecked are
given, and the loss of life has been terri
BILE. At Cucuta alone ten thousand people
were killed, and the number is much III
creased by reports from other points.
Thieves and murderars prowl through the
desoated country and add to the horrors of
the situation. The inhabitants who es.
capped with their lives are suffering for
food, and appeals have been made for aid
for them. AT the latest advices the shocks
were still occurring and the alarm increas-
ing.
The project for union for commercial
and the English Co operative Societies is
progressing favorably. To avoid the diff
Guilty of direct union between two asso-
Citations, one of which is a secret organza-
ton and the other open, it is proposed to
form a trading company with capital Of
twenty-five millions of dollars and having
branches in both countries. The scheme is
very comprehensive in its details, embrac-
ing the purchase of ships and the building
of manufactures and warehouses, and
general engagement in the whole business
of traffic and manufacturing in the pro-
ducts Of the soil and industry. A commit
tee report is to be made on it to the Execu-
tive Committee of the National Grange,
now in session at Washington.
In noticing the celebration in Phila
delphia, on the 9Th, the Ledger says: The
concourse of assembled visitors and spec
tators was beyond all precedent in Phila.
delphia. Taking in that portion of the
Park between Lemon Hill and Georges
Hill and Belmont, including the Centen-
NAL grounds, there could not have been
less than two hundred thousand people
there in the course of the day; and fully
one-half of these were at various portions
of the day in and about the Centennial
Buildings. There was one time, during
the grand morning concert by the children,
when there must have been at least TWEEN
ty- five thousand persons in the one section
of Machinery Hall, where the concert was
held, and both at that time and again in
the afternoon, when the adult chorus and
orchestra were on the amphtheatre plat
form, the majestic swels of that grandeSt
of all musical organs, the human voice,
were heard with the finest effect at the
uttermost limits of the immense arcades
that make up the Hall. 1t was said by
experienced persons on the Centennial
GrOuds, that there were more visitors pres.
ent than upon any one day at any of the
great European Exhibitions.
EXAMINATION OF THE CoNsPIRAToRs
Loader and Price, the two volunteer wit
nesses in the Tilton- Beecher case, who made
affidavit to seeing certain improper famil-
iarites between Mr.. Beecher and Mrs. Til
ton, and who were thereupon arrested on
the charge Of perjury, had a preliminary
hearing before the Brooklyn Police Court
on Wednesday. AS is well known, Price
has turned States evidence, and charges
Loader with being the principal in the con-
spiracy to which he himself was accessory,
but the District Attorney refuses to use
him as witness, and he will be indicted
and tried with Loader, notwithstanding his
confession. Mr.. Beecher was the only wit
ness examined before the Police Court.
He denied all the allegations contained in
tile Loader Price atfidavits. Loader'S coun-
sci commended 4 that the requisite proof
to make out case of perjury had not been
produced; (2) that the atfidavits bad not
been used in the Tilton- Beecher trial, but
had merely been handed to the Judge, who
read them and returned them to the coun-
sci; (3) that there was nothing in Leaders
affidavit that charged Mr.. Beecher with an
improper act-hiS attitude on the sofa de
scribed by LOADER might have been that
of prayer; (4 that Price was the really
guilty party, and that to save himself he is
now trying to transfer the burden to Loader
The Court did not seem to pay much atten-
ton to this defense, and ordered both
Loader and Price to be held for the action
of the Grand Jury. General Pryor, one of
TiltOn's counsel, who assisted in the pre-
paration of these aitidavits, has been charg-
ed with being party to the conspiracy,
but the District Attorney exonerated him
ing of the members of Plymouth Church,
on Wednesday evening, Mr.. Beecher's sal
airy was raised to 100000 for the ensuing
year. 1t is understood that this large sum
is to be given him to assist in defraying
the expenses of the trial, and that it will
not be continued after the present year.
The sentiment of the Plymouth Church
people, as expressed by Mr.. S. B. White at
the meeting is "millions for defense-not
ono dollar for hlacL ,,