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Baltimore, Aug. IA special from
Taunton, Va, yesterday, says: As R
freight train was passing through the
Big Bend Tunnel. on the Chesapeake &
Ohio Railroad, thirty feet of rock fell,
crushing the engine and killing the
fireman, and badly wounding the
engineer. The accident was caused
by rock, several tons in weight,
being loosenefl and hanging, and when
the locomotive struck it, the whole
mass fell.
The New York Tea Company failed
to-day. Liabilities sixty thonsanc dol
lars.
Capt. Moody, convicted Of cruelty to
seHmen, on the voyage from Guano
Islands to Baltimore, and sentenced
to three months imprisonment and a
fine of five hundred dollars, has been
pardoned by the President. Moody
had served two mouths of his impris-
onment and had paid the fine and
costs.
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San Francisco, Aug 1.-THE grad
ers at the corner of Missouri and 10Th
streets, to-day, unearthed keg con-
tanning gold in scales and nuggets,
variously estimated at from thirty to
eighty thousand dollars.
The Independent State Convention
of Oregon. met at Salem to-day. G
NJ. Whitney was nominated for Con-
gress.
A disastrous fire occurred tonight
on Front street. A number OF build
ings have been destroyed and the fire
is still raging. The Sacramento plan
ing mills. tub and pail manufactory,
and lumber yard have burnt. The
strong south wind, it is feared, may
drive it into the heart of the city.
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Cleveland, Ohio, August Ill. ].
Adams, baggage-master OH the Cleve-
land. Columbus. Cincinnati & Indian
apolis Railroad, running between this
city and Gallon, has been arrested,
charged with robbing passengers
baggage while in his charge. His
house was searched and goods consist
ing of ladies' wearing apparel, watches,
diamonds, Jewelry, &c, valued at
$1,000 were recovered. Adams has
made full confession, which duplicates
several persons to whom he claims he
has disposed OF the stolen goods.
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Saratoga, n. Y. August LEX
Governor VIM. A. Graham, of North
Carolina, died of organic disease of
the heart at Congress Hall, this morn
ing. He came here about three weeks
ago, and had been confined to his
room four days.
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Copenhagen, Aug. 1l.-Hans Chris
tian Andersen was buried to-day. The
King attended the funeral, aud the
whole nation mourns his death. Az
fecting tributes to his memory have
been received from abroad.
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Portland, Me, Aug. IL. The Repub-
lican Convention of the Fourth Con-
gressional district, to day, nominated
Gen. Piaisted to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Hersey.
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Utica, n. Y, Aug. 1.-THE annual
reunion of the society of the Army of
the Cumberland, will be held here on
the 18th and 10Th of September. A
cordial invitation has been extended
to members of other societies to attend.
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where the late floods occurred and
the prospects are much better than
expected. About twO-thiEds OF the
wheat crop will be saved, and less than
one-half the corn crop.
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$40 re WARD

Will he paid fer the return to Fred.
Schwnrtz'5 Hotel, Pole Creek, Of a
brown, half-breed mare, branded q
on left hip, TIL combined. on left hind
leg; she has II white spot on nostril
aud scar ON right fct-lock Jnint.
a9 d6lwlt
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Raleigh, N. c., Aug. 1.-THE latest
authentic reports show that the elec-
tion has gone so Democratic. and 81
Republican.
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Fort Barancas, Aug. ll.-No new
cases or deaths. Every patient is con-
valescent.
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Cincinnati, Aug. 1.-THE Gazette
has specials from, .orty county SEATS
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Salt Lake, Aug. ll.-John d, Lee
is On his vay 10 this plans in charge uf
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Ticonderogn.

Yesterday the historic ground on which
stand the ruins Of Fort Tlconderogl was
the scene Of festivities and rejoicings which
must bring pride and gladness 10 every
American heart. There we're waving ban
ners and martial music, and an immense
multitude gathered from far and near, all in
honor Of the achievements of q handful OF
soldiers hundred years before. Booming
cannon heralded the centennial of that blood
less victory, and silver-tongued orators cele-
brated the deeds Of the man who had de
manded the surrender Of the fort in 'the
name If the Great Jehovah and the Cont
mental Congress" II was an occasion where
honors were well bestowed, because they
were wen merited Ethan Allen was both
patriot and hero, and his sufferings were
those Of proud spirit chatting under i'm
prisonment When he wished to be actively
employed in behalf Of his country. He was
d young man when be captured Fort
Ticonderoga, aud he was still young
when he died in 1889. His fame,
however, rests on the achievement Of that
morning ia May which had its hundredth
anniversary yesterday and was celebrated
with So much enthusiasm and propricty by
the thousands who gathered around the
crumbling ruins to do reverence to his
memory and his deeds. No event could
serve more wildly to recall our position as a
nation than this simple celebration. Ticon-
deroga is among the most historic spots on
the Continent As the Rev. Mr.. Cook SO hap
PLY said III his address, one hundred and six
teen years ago it was French and became
British; one hundred years ago it was
British and became American. With the
latter event rather than the former the con
test for European supremacy in America
closed. When Great Britain was compelled
to acknowledge the Independence Of the
colonies France 10 longer could hope to make
claim to the heart Of the Continent, and
soon she willingly ceded Louisiana even to
the new Power which had arisen in the West.
If il had not been for Lexington and Ticon-
dcroga, the surrender Of Burgoyne and the
capitulation Of CORVALLIS, the struggle might
have been renewed far into the present CEN
tury, and il is certain that the New World, as
we'll AS the Old, would have been the theatre
of the great Napoleon's ambition. The
scenes which we arc now celebrating AZ Con-
cord and Tconderoga, At MecklenbuTg and
Charlestown, and which all tho world will
unite with us in commemorating year from
nov at Philadelphia, gave q new direction to
history os well as new impetus to liberty
It is not 70 be wondered, then, that We should
hold Ethan Alien in grateful remembrance,
and that the eighty-three men with whom he
captured fortress which had successfully re-
sisted sixteen thousand veterans should be the
living over again the history Of the war for
independence these events, SO insignificant in
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-05-11
,e Good Faith OF the Louisiana
Conservatives.

Mr.. William A. Wheeler, the republican
chairman Of the Louisiana Committee, has
Just done q manly act Of justice d the con-
sentative members Of the Louisiana Legis-
lature in a public letter indicating them
from the aspersions cast on their good faith
by the republican press Mr. Wheeler, who
was the most active member Of the committee
in arranging the compromise, proves by con-
vincing arguments and citations Of docu-
ments, as well as by his own emphatic a.
sertion, that the reseating Of the four con-
servative members on which the charge of
bad faith was founded cannot be complained
Of with any color Of justice. First, by the
agreement Of submission the award bound
nobody but such members Of the Legis-
lature as signed it. and those four
members we're not among the signers.
Second, the only cases submitted to
the decision Of the committee we're those on
which the Returning Board either did not act
or on which the legality Of their decision was
disputed by the democrats but the four men,
bers in question belonged 70 neither class.
Third, the exclusion Of those tour members
from their seats was made BY the republicans
at time when there was no quorum and the
House could perform no valid act The facts
in relation to those four members are can
didly stated ~ Mr. Wheeler They were I'm
doubleday elected by the people Of their re-
spective parishes BY legal majorities, and the
proof OF this was 50 conclusive that even the
dishonest Returning Board was constrained to
give them certificates. They were among the
members whose names were on the Clerks
roll for the organization Of the House in
January After the withdrawal Of the con-
seryatiyc members with Wilt, at the
time Of the military interference.
the republican rump, acting without
quorum, decided that those four
we're not elected and gave their seats to their
republican competitors, in equal defiance
of law, Of fact aud Of the certificates Of the
republican Returning Board. Mr.. Wheeler
has no doubt of their title to Seats and he
states that he was told at New Orleans by q
representative Of the conservatives, on the
very day before the meeting Of tho extra ses-
SION that they intended 70 reseat those tour
members, and that he did not question the pro-
priety Of that determination nor its consis-
tency with the terms of the compromise. The
manly letter Of Mr. Wheeler should put this
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be no doubt that Governor Tilden will exercise
the power conferred upon him.
A Sorry sight.

Upon looking down the advertising columns
especially those devoted to financial interests,
we now and then observe announcements ola
painful interest Thus:-"We buy and sell
defaulted bonds !" 1--WE make specially Of
railway bonds in default - ''We desire tc
purchase bonds not regularly quoted" Here
we have one list in which twenty separate
railways are registered as having "failed to
pay their interest, and the bonds of which
are bought and sold on our markets as bust
ness. There can be no more painful evidence
OF the condition into which Wall street has
fallen than that the purchase OF dishonored
coupons should become recognized industry.
We have heard great deal recently about
q revival of business on Wall street, about the
avidity with which investors seek Pacific Rail-
way bonds and stocks and securities OF this
character. How can we ever have sound
financial system SO long as great part OF the
railways Of the Western countries are in
state of reputation and default? In this list
from which we quote five out of six represent
railroads in the West Now, before there can
be an honest business prosperity something
must be done with these defaulted interests.
We built these roads and borrowed the money
to pay for them largely from foreign cap
italists. We pledged our faith as corpora
tons and citizens to pay these foreign lenders
a certain interest for the use of their money
The panic came, and as all these negotla-
tons were based upon false idea OF business.
as we had induced our foreign friends to lend
money upon nothing but promises and expec-
tations and hopes, the foundations gave way,
the whole financial fabric came down, and
the railway system practically was bank.
rupt. Thus, having fallen into bankruptcy,
we owe it to ourselves to make some amends
to those who suffer. Something should be
done to redeem the interest on these railway
bonds. We should at once adopt some policy
to either pay the holders of the bonds the
whole or portion of their investment. 1t il
not for the good of the country that we
should quietly allow vast interests to fall
into liquidation and bankruptcy, and to 60
on heedlessly borrowing money in other
directions, endeavoring to found new enter
prises and caring little for the promises of the
past, and call it prosperity. The American
people will lose in the long run by the actual
withdrawal Of capital, the absence of conf
dence, high rates of interest, depression in
trade and falling off in immigration, five dol
lars for every one that Is repudlated.
This business of reputation, whether
practised by Commonwealth or corpora.
ton, is the most expensive venture in which
men can engage. No State and no corporation
ever repudiated dollar without, in some form
or other, having to pay five times its value.
This long list of dsfaulted railway bonds is
certainly sorry sight, and we wish that some
of our statesmen could devise the means by
which the American people could honorably
wipe it out.
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The Musical Celebration in Cincin-
natl.

The complaint which foreigners generally
make against America is that we do not en-
courage art. They concede our superiority in
mechanical invention, discovery and politics,
and are beginning to admit our equality in
science. There IS not one of the leading
sciences which has not received from Ameri-
can intellect new impulse in the last twenty
years. In ethnology we have had a Morton,
and in ichthyology and the leading
branches Of geological research an
Agassiz. Yet it is said that the
Americans do not originate art, and the argu-
ment has too much justice, for we have not an
original school either in the drama or paint
ing or music. One cause of this inferiority is
the importation of European artists who find
in our appreciation q field larger and more
profitable than that which they enjoy at home.
America is the gold field of the ambitious
European artists; they make fortunes here
more easily than they can at home. and return
have drawn from the unfortunate Yankees.
We thus see that, even if we do not create art
we appreciate artists.
But such festival as that which begins in
Cincinnati this week will 90 tar toward cor
recting the lmputation under which the
American nation has rested. II is purely an
enterprise OF art. There is an orchestra COM
posed Of the best resident musicians and re-
inforced by the finest talent of New York and
Boston. The vocalists are admitted to be
among the best in the country. The rehearsals
have been thorough, and over all rules the
unsurpassed genus Of Theodore Thomas.
He controls and inspires the great musical
festival which begins to-day, and We have no
doubt that il will vindcate the reputation
Of American art The programme Of this
musical reunion has been published in our
columns, and We need only express our
regret that Cincinnati, and not New York, is
to enjoy the credit Yet all American lovers
Of art and music are interested in its success.
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Lorraine could be still more largely annexed.
Navarro could 60 to Don Carlos or Spain.
Luxemburg and Holland and Belgium
and Denmark could be ''rectiied;" for
are they not one and all the German Father
land? And what fine German ports Copen-
hagen and Amsterdam and Antwerp would
make. Here is programme that would ex-
cite the ambition of conqueror in his old
days. This captain and king has been per-
mitted to achieve 50 many wonders since his
return from London exile that he may well
feel that he can bring even o stranger dream
to pass.
These, however, are mere speculations We
sincerely trust that these great kings will find
1t in their hearts to continue the peace. 1t IS
hard to conceive two monarchs sitting down
to the bloody business OF war, like the mer-
chant over his books or the player over his
game There are humane and enlightened
princes who are keenly alive to the spirit OF
the age How can they welcome war if peace
can in any way be made to answer their honor
or their ambition? But the peril in all these
conferences is the peril in the whole system.
% IOUR db pedCc VI WAL dtpcutto UPON hiO
will Of one man, who, with all of his maj
esty, is q mere man; SO long as great
tons will be governed by legends and not by
common sense: so long as people as mighty
and brave as the Germans and the Russians
are content to be the chessmen on the table,
to move and countermove rs the player
wishes, there can be no assurance of peace in
Europe We shall have peace surely when
the nations love her for her own sake, andnot
because it suits the policy OF king Let US
hope that the wisest councils will enter into
the conference on the Spree-that the en-
perors viii not outrage humanity by new
war. As Europe now is, the heavens REDEEM
ing and flashing with electric fire, war, no
matter how mario at first, must avoidably
draw the greatest Powers into its devastating
and unholy embrace.
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Mr.. GREEN CONTINUES TO withhold the
salaries Of the fremen for the month of
April This delay is entirely unnecessary,
and is an act Of official misconduct dangerous
to the city, and for which ne should be held
accountable For three months the fremen
have been paid on company rolls, as provided
by the charter. Out Of malice and spite to-
ward the Mayor Mr.. Green now insists on
drawing nearly thousand separate warrants,
for each individual iireman's pay-a process
that is intended to embarrass the Mayor, and
which, if permitted by the Mayor, would
keep the fremcn two weeks out of their pay
after it became due Some action should be
taken to compel the Comptroller to perform
his duty and pay the men. The money is in
his hands and NE has no right to detain it
from those to whom it is due. The fremen
should test the matter by en- application from
each company 70 the courts.
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DEATH OF A CESTENARIAN.-We print this
morning an interesting letter giving an ac-
count Of the celebration 81 the one hundredth
birthday of Nathaniel Eaton. The narrative
receives an additional and painful interest
from the fact that this centcnarian has now
passed away by an attack of pneumonia,
induced BY tho excitement and excrtion
caused by the birthday celebration. There is
something exceedingly instructive in the
history Of these old men, now SO few in num-
Der, who came into being simultaneously, we
may say, with the birth Of the Republic, and
we cannot but regret that in the case of Mr..
Eaton he should fail victim to the rejoic-
ings Of his friends because he had lived so
long.
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The SUPPLY BuL@-The last hours Of the
session Of the Legislature are generally occu-
pied with q struggle over the Supply bill.
The constitutional amendments have happily
cut off many Of the jobs that used annually to
find success through this bill. Nevertheless
il still affords ample opportunity for plumber
ing the state treasury. This year the Assem-
bly, is assuming the r6le Of economy and cut
ting down the Supply bill items, while the
Senate is more literally disposed. There is,
Of course, political object to subserve in the
opposition OF the democratic Assembly TO the
prodigality Of the republican Senate. But
after all the threatened fight over the bill in
the conference committee is of very little
consequence. The Governor now has the
power to strike out from the bin all items
that do not appear to him to be just and to
approve the remainder. This admirable reform
in the State constitution is the real protection
10 which the people may look, and there can
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question at rest, and we trust that the journals
which have cast unjust aspersions on the good
faith Of the people Of Louisiana will make
proper amends, now that the truth is stated
on such unauestionable republean authority.
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RAPID Transit stood still il the Legislature
yesterday by the desire IF m. Hustled, who
experienced wish to make further ex-
animation Of the Common Council bill. A
letter OF Mr. Husteds to the HERALD, ex-
planatory Of his recent action, viii be found
In another column.
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themselves, receive new meaning and we
can hope from their celebration something
akin to the grand results which followed their
achievement.
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INTERNATIONAL CoPTHIGHT has again been
urged by English authors, such a. Miss Brad
don, Mrs Henry Wood and others who suf-
fer by American reprints. Mr.. DisraeH, who
has himself lost 4 great deal # money
which be never had, Int might have made
has promised to give The subject the serious
examination Of the COZ. rnraen..
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TIE METROPOLIS has now been 50 long out
ct sea that hope Of Der safety must Be nearly
abandoned. But what chances there are Of
the safety Of the missing steamer are clearly
set forth in our special article elsewhere.
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JAMES GORDON BENNETT,
PRoPRIEToR
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THE MINERS are still troublesome, but the
parade Of their benevolent associations yester-
day may probably suggest % them the inn
portance Of d speedy settlement q their dis
pute with their employers. It is i misfortune
TO the entire public lint such labor strikes a.
these Of the coal regions should be annual
events. All classes u society bear the burden
of these bitter and iruitlcss disputes.
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WALL STREET YESTERDAY. we're de-
pressed, Erie being the leader Of the down
ward movement. Money was easy. Gold
receded to 115l ana foreign exchange was
firm
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From our reports This morning Responsibilities
IRE that the uedther to-day UiU Be i10rm and
generally cle1r.
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NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS On and
after Januory !, 1876, the daily and weekly
editions of the NEW YoEK HERALD will be
cent free Of postage.
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Mr.. WESTON has again begun one Of his
long walks. If be becomes as tired Of bis
journey as the public is of the repeated fnil-
ures in sensational pedestTianisul feats he win
be very weary man. We can See little proba-
bility in the score thus made u Dir Weston's
success in his daring attempt. If he sue
ceeds it will be all the more 10 the credit Of
his energy and endurance
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METROPOLITAN MUSEUM or ART.
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