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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-04-06
FOREIGN.

malta, April 6.-The ship Scraps,
with the Prince of Wales and suite on
board, has arrived here.
LONDON, April 6.-The Daily News
severely condemns the action of the
United States Senate in rejecting the
nomination Of Dana.
The following particulars of the dis
aster yesterday on the river Dee, at Aber-
deem, have been received: The day was
sacramental fast day, set apart by the
Dutch Church for preparation for Sun
day communion. The people were cele-
brating it as a holiday, and crowds were
crossing from Aberdeen to TORY village,
on the opposite bank of the river, in
ferryboats drawn across by wire ropes.
One boat, containing about sixty per-
sons, despite the watermen's warnings,
was pulled by the passengers into the
middle Of the stream, where it was
swamped. The scene during the night
was distressing. The relatives and
friends we're watching on the banks OF
searching the river for bodies, but up to
three o'clock this morning none had
been recovered. Twenty-Five persons
including men, boys and girls, are known
to be drowned. 1t is believed that the
total loss Of life will not exceed thirty.
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NEW YORK ITEMS.

New YORK, April 6.-Last evening
the front of the four.story brick house,
No. 2l2 Division street, fell, fatally in
juring VIM. Savage, VIM Schell and
Jacob Abrakams. The house was in
process of demolition. Three years ago
nine persons we're smothered in the same
house.
The steamship Hevel with the EN-
peror Of Brazil on board, left Para yes
terday direct for the United States,
where he is expected to arrive about the
18th inst.
Gustaye Cleaver, alias Myers, arrested
in Liverpool on the charge Of grossly
assaultiug his daughter, has confessed
himself the murderer Of John Minike al
Freehold, New Jersey, in 1864. The
Secretary Of State is in correspondence
with the British government on the sub.
iect.
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awadanborgianism.
From the New Jerusalem MesSOnsor.l

From the new Jerusalem messohboI'l
l. God is one in essence and in per
son. in whom there is a distinct and
essential Trinity, called in the Word the
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and the
Lord Jesus Christ is this God, and the
only true object of worship.
2. In order to he saved, men must be-
lieve in the Lord, and strive to obey his
commandments, looking to him alone
for strength and assistance, and &C
knowledgiug that all life and salvation
are from Him.
3. The Sacred Scriptures, or the Di.
vine word, is not only the Revelation of
the Lords will and the history of bis
dealings with men, but also contains the
infinite treasures Of his wisdom ex-
pressed in the s~ymbolical or correspond
entail language, and therefore in addi-
ton to the sense of the letter, there is in
the word an inner or spiritual sense,
which can be interpreted only by the law
Of correspondence between things natu-
raj and things spiritual.
A. Now is the time Of the second com
ing Of the Lord, foretold in Matt. xiv,
and the establishment Of the new church
siguifed by the New Jerusalem in Reve-
lation xxi, and this second coming is
not a visible appearance on earth, but a
new disclosure OF divine truth and the
PRONUNCIATION Of true Christian doctrine,
effected by the Lords servant, Emanuel
Swedenborg who was specially instructed
in this doctrine and commissioned to
publish it to the world.
s. Mans life in the material body il
but the preparation for eternal life, and
when the body dies man Immediately
rises into the spiritual world, and, after
preparation in an intermediate state,
dwells forever in heaven or hell, accord
ing to the character acquired during his
earthly life.
6. The spiritual world, the eterna
home of man after death, is not remote
from this world, but is in direct c%onjunc
ton with it, and we are, though uncon
sciously, always 10 immediate com
munion with angels and spirits.
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FOrrest's Hatred of O'COnOr.

Hartford Times letter.
II may not be out Of place here to give
a reminisceaee of the famous case which
gave Mr.. 0'Conor his great professional
eminence. While not vouching tor the
incident to follow, l may say that it has
been related many times and never con-
tradicted. Several propositions had been
made to Mr.. O'Conor to take the case
for Mrs. Forrest, but he was busy with
other affairs and would not actually
promise to do SO. 1t was pretty gene,
rally understood, however, that he would
take it, and Mr.. Forrest, who always was
something Of a bully, resolved to scare
him off, il he could. Meeting the lawyer
one day in a Broadway stage, he at once
addressed him on the subject, and after
much angry assertion, emphasized by
the t~ragedian's tremendous voice, he
finally launched into threats OF personal
attack if Mr.. C'Conor appeared in the
case. The lawyer kept perfectly cool
till this point was reached, and then fac.
ing Forrest, and with a sharp CLEAN OF
indignation in his glittering eyes, be
promptly said. "Sir, l have been I'M
willing to have anything to do with this
case, but now hat you attempt intlmi-
dation, l tell you that | will take it and
do all in my power for my client" Ac-
cording to the story, as it goes, he then
procured a pistol, set up a target at his
residence, and practiced on it every
morning, believing that he was really in
danger Of attack from the burly and
passionate tragedian, and resolved to be
prepared if it came. Forrest, however,
did not attempt to modest him, but up to
the day Of his death he hated Charles
O'Conor most cordially. For nearly
twenty years, and on one pretext or an
other, he fought 0'Conor in the courts,
and submitted only when absolutely com
PEELED to do so. This prolonged htiga-
ton was, Of course, expensive, and as
Mrs. Forrest had no money, Mr. OConor
met the costs himself, knowing that he
would ultimately win and naturally cal
culated on being reimbursed. Herein,
in all probability, lies the secret OF his
large claim upon the alimony, supposinG
the claim to have really been made.
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THE WITNESS CHARLES S. BELL.
HIS Career az n UnlOn Seout-Let.
aers from Prominent Commanders
showing His Standing.

His Career as a UnIOn SeOut-Let.
Gers from Prominent Commanders
showing His Standing.
Special to the New York Timesl
WASHINGTON, April 3.-Charles S. Bell,
the witness who testified last week before
Clymer's committee that he was employ
ed BY Babcock and Luekey to surrepti
tiously remove certain papers from the
office Of District Attorney Dyer, is pre-
pairing for publication the numerous let
ters and Endorsements received by him
while serving as a scout in the Federal
army. He is induced to this course be-
cause Of the attacks made upon him
through some newspapers since giving
his testimony before the committee. Bell
has autograph letters and orders from
various general officers Of the army,
extending back to the beginning OF
the war. Among them is one dated
Headquarters, District Of Cairo, Janu-
airy 4, 1862, signed by Brigadier- General
Grant, and another written upon a piece
of paper less than two inches u
certifying that Bell was a Union scout,
and signed U. s.. Grant, Lieutenant Gen
eral. This was used by Bell for protec.
ton in passing through the Federal lines,
and was carried in q button made pur-
posely to conceal the paper. BE has
also letters from General Hurlbut warmly
commencing him to General Sherman as
a most efficient, intelligent, and trust
worthy scout, whose reports may always
be relied upon, some Of which bear the
Endorsement Of General Sherman himself.
The letters in Bells possession show
that he was employed 10 the most dan
gerous and important service, and hat
the most implicit confidence vas reposed
in his integrity and patriotism. BE is
said TO have succeeded in passing the
rebel lines sixty-three times during the
rebellion. Bell has also a large number
of letters received from prominent citi-
zens in various parts Of the country since
the close Of the rebellion, commenting
him for his efficiency and integrity as a
detective officer.
Clymer's committee will tomorrow
consider whether Bell should be guaran.
teed immunity and protection while here
in obedience 10 the summons Of the
House. The attack made upon him by
Mollare on Saturday night will be in.
quired into, and If it be ascertained that
the assault wal made because Of testi.
mony given before the committee by
Bell, an effort will be made TO bring Mol
lare before the bar Of the House,
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not water Fish.

The following fish story from
the mining regions of the West, and is
told in the Territorial. 1t is about q most
singular discovery, as the editor truly
says, that was made in the mines called
the Savage Hale and Norcross:
Living fish were found in water that
is now flooding those mines. The fish
found we're five in number, and were
hoisited up the incline in tue large iron
hosting tank and dumped into the pump
tank OF the bottom Of the vertical shaft.
The fish are eyeless, and are only about
three or four inches in length. They are
blood red in color.
The temperature Of the water in which
they are found is one hundred and TWEEN.
ty-eight degrees Fahrenheit - almost
scalding hot. When the fish were taken
out of the hot water in which they were
found, and placed in a bucket of cold
water, for the purpose Of being brought
to the surface, they died slmestinstantly.
The cold water at once chilled their life
blood.
In appearance these subterrauean
members of the fnny tribe somewhat re-
semble gold fish. They seem lively and
sportiye enough while in their native hot
water, Notwithstanding the fact that they
have no eyes nor even the tudiments Of
eyes. The water by which the mines are
flooded broke in at depth of twenty-five
hundred feet in a driit that was being
pushed TO the nsrthward in the Savage.
II rose in the mine-also in the Hale
and Norcross, the two mines being con-
necled to the hight # 400 feet; that lie,
up to tbs eighteen hundred foot level.
This would seem to prove that o great
suhterranean reservoir or lake had been
tapped, aud from this lake, doubtless,
came the 6sh hoisted from the mine.
Eyeless FISH are frequently found in
the lakes OF large caves, but we have
never before heard of their existence 10
either surface or subterraneaa water, the
temperature OF which was so high as is
the water in these mines. The lower
workings Of the Savage mine are far be-.
low the bed Of the Cerson river, below
the bottom Of the Washee ~lake-below
any water running or standing anywhere
within q distance Of ten miles Of the
mine.
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nin.mn nendered Powerlesa.

The most certain way to render powsrless
the miasmatic vapors which produce chills
and fever and other malarlous disorders. is to
fOrtify the syste against them with that
matchless preventive of periodic fevers, Hos
letters Stomach Bitters, The remedial ope-
ration of the Bitters is no less certain than
their preventive effects, and they may be re-
lied upon to overcome cases of fever and ague
which resist quinine and the malarial reme-
dies Of the pharmacopeia. Dyspepsia, con-
stipation, bilious complaints, rheumatic all
ments, and general debility, likewise. rapidly
yield to their regulative and tenic influence.
and nervous of both sexes, an excellent family
medicine. aud the best safeguard which the
traveller or emigrant can take to an un-
healthy climate.
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WASHINGTON NEWS.
Courisr-JOurnal Special.

Courier-Journal Special
WASHINGTON, April 4-The sub-com.
mittee, of which Judge Hancock is chair.
man. reported to-day to the Ways and
Means Committee against any change in
the whisky tax. A resolution is proposed,
in order to give stability to the trade, by
declaring it to be the desire Of the COM
mittee there should be no alteration in
the tax. The subject was talked over in
committee to-day, and the resolution laid
over, at the request of one or two mem
bsrs, but it will almost certainly be
adopted at the next meeting Of the com
mittee.
THE TARIFF.
The Ways and Means Committee is
going over the tariff bill quite rapidly,
and will probably be ready to report it
by the last of this week or the first Of
next. There is no prospect Of this mea
sure passing Congress.
DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATIONS REQUIRED.
The House COMMITTEES on Appropria-
tons agreed to report a deficiency bill of
500, 900 for gas, fuel and water in the
public buildings; but these are not the
only deficiencies. There is a deficiency
of $780, 900 for the pay Of soldiers, and
the total deficiencies will aggregate
nearly 81, 900, 900.
THE CASE OF SENATOR SPENCER.
Gen. Morgan, representing the State
Of Alabama against George Z. Spencer,
has rested his case, and Spencer is now
to produce his witnesses. The case il
now made up very strongly against
Spencer, although the committee has
done everything to favor him.
THE SAFE BURGLARY.
The investigation of the safe-burglarI
case will recommence in a day or two
and the prospect is that there will b.
some startling Developments, duplicating
prominent officers and appointees 0
the President in this odiouS crime.
tbs REVISED tTATUTEs.
The Committee on the Revision of tn
Laws has Investigated over three thou
sand amendments, and will be ready Il
report next week.
CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILWAY.
Mr.. o. P. Huntington, who has beei
devoting his energies to defeat the cor
struction of a competing line to the Pa
ci6c coast, has two very impudent pre-
positions before Congress. One ia
occupy and transfer the route and land
grants given to the Texas and Paci6
railway to the Southern Pacific, whic
his friends control. Tie last is the BIZ
which he has induced Senator Edmund
to introduce, ostensibly to liquidate tn
Government bonds advanced to the Ger
trail Pacific railway, by crediting tn
company with all the worthless land
they own in Nevada and Utah Territorit
at the rate of 81 80 per acre. After th
+, fraud is consummated and the company
, Indebtedness thus largely reduced, th
company propose to make some pr,
visions for paying the balance.
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CHINESE IMMIGRATION.
Anu.Chfnese Meeting IN San Fran
cisco 10000 People In attend

Anu.Chfnese Meeting q n San Fran
cisco 10000 People In Attena-
ance-The Celestiais Alarmed.
SAN F~sAScIsco, April 6.-rhe anti
Chinese meeting at Union Hall and the
street in front was attended by at least
ten thousand people. Governor Irvine
presided in the hall. Resolutions we're
adopted setting forth the evils flowing
from Chinese immigration, urging that
local measures of relief had been ex-
hausted; that the only resource remain.
ing was an appeal to the treaty. making
power, and that a delegation be sent to
Washington to present the question in
full and urge immediate action. The
meeting was addressed by q number Of
prominent gentlemen, ceunseling mod
crate and conservative action, enieining
full protection Of the Chinese now in the
country, and %deprecating earnestly any
violent proceedings.
The meeting was quiet ard orderly,
and evidently in harmony withthe views
advanced by the speakers. Ample pre-
paration had been made to suppress any
riotous proceeding. A Gordon of police
were drawn around Chinatown, and its
inhabitants counselled by their leaders
to remain in their own quarters. Great
alarm had existed among them, and ex-
~tensiye purchases Of weapons were made
by them during the last few days in an
ticipation of trouble, but the city was
perfectly quiet throughout the evening,
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Mnrdsr ana

HARMONY, N. J., April 6.-Jacob
Young, q wealthy farmer, was murdered
in a house here yesterday. No trace Of
the murderer.
TUsoARoRA, Pa, April 6. - George
Houser and sister we're bound, gagged
and beaten so severely by burglars that
the latter has died. The house was rob-
bed Of some money and jewelry.
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HALLETT K~ILBoURN, prisoner Of state
in the hands Of Congress for refusing to
answer such questions as the Committee
on Expenditures in the War Depart
ment asked him, has been having aroyal
feast. His restaurant bill run up over
fifteen dollars a dsy for three weeksl II
he has eaten all that the bills call Tor
he must be an enormous glutton. His
bill of fare calls for stewed terrapin,
tsnderloin, mock turtle soup, spring
chickens, French green peas, lettuce,
mushrooms, cucumbers and tomatoes,
broiled shad, fruit, tea, coffee, currsnt
Jelly, green corn, robins, lemons, boiled
crabs, ice, pies, lamb fries, cold turkey
and ham, mutton chops, cold tongue and
a dozen other things too numerous TO
mention. he seems to have ordered the
costiisst viands that could be had at
the restaurant, and that without stint
Il must b. . nice thing to be
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THE RIVER.

The present food in the river at this
point and that of last summer came
almost entirely from the Ohio, but prin.
cipAlly from it's lower tributaries. Then,
as now, the Cumberland and Tennessee
sent out their foods, FIRST raising the
lower Ohio, and the Mississippi as far
down as this city, to the top Of the banks.
Then came the waters from the upper
tributaries, overlooking the low places
from Cincinnati to Helena, and before q
decline reached Memphis there was a
tremendous fall of rain here and north
of us along the Ohio valley, with the
heaviest fall in Illinois and Indiana,
which raised the Wabash higher than 1t
has been for many years, causing 1t
alone to food the lower Ohio and con-
tinue rising 70. Eve or six days after the
decline from above had reached Evans
vile. 1t is necessary TO notice these
facts in order that we may form some
idea as to the extent and duration Of the
present foods, as they are from the same
locality as those Of last August. By
comparing the signal reports Of that
date with those of the present, it will be
seen that at no point above Cairo has
either the Ohio or Mississippi been as
high this spring as during the
floods Of last summer. 1t is higher now
at Cairo, Memphis aRd Helena than
then, because at that time the evapora-
ton was greater, there had been no high
water for several months previous, and
the great basin of the St. Francis
was comparatively dry, while this
is the second overflow since January,
and the bottoms were full before the pres
ent rise reached them. The highest
point reached by the water at Cincinnati
was "a feet ii inches, August 7th, Al
feet l inch at Cairo, August 7th, 30 feeI
atsSt. Louis, August I'd, and "a feet a
Memphis, August 18th. During the pres
ent rise the highest point reached at st
Louis has been about the same as las
summer; and at Cincinnati on the 3ls
of March it was 43 feet 6 inches, or L
feet 5 inches below the food of last sum
mer. The decline since then at the lsi
ter has been l6 feet, and the river fallinI
all the way from there to Evansville. A
St. Louis the Mississippi has only 2
feet, with a rise of only 5inehes 10 th
last twenty-four hours, aad CHAMBERLAIN
and the Tennessee falling rapidly. TIL
rise reported at Pittsburg and from tn
upper Mississippi is of little const
quence; nothing but q general and heav,
rain can prevent q decline at Cairo witt
in q few days; and the decline will reac
Memphis sooner than before, from th
fact that owing to the cutoff at Devil
Elbow there is from one to five feet les
water in the swamps for sixty miles abov
that point than there was last summer
With these facts before us we think
safe to say that the river will be declir
ing here within a week, and that the d,
cline will be so rapid that no dangt
need be apprehended from the meltin
snow from the mountains.
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PHILADELPHIA. Pa, April 6.-The
steamer Lamerique. Of the French trans
Atlantic line, arrived here this morning,
bringing remainder Of the French con-
Segment Of goods for exhibition at the
Centennial exposition. Her freight is
1909 cases of exhibition goods.
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TIE stard but money-wise city Of Phil
adelphis was thrown into great commo-
ton last Monday by q report that a gen.
tleman in North Carolina had just dis.
covered that he had an ancient title to
the grounds upon which the Centennial
buildings are located; and further, that
the said North Carolina tar-heel was en-.
gagged in packing the deed and an extra
clean shirt in a pair Of colonial saddle.
bags preparatory to a journey to the
Quaker City to lay claim to and take
possession of his property. His name
is Van Aminge. His deed is dated tn
4th day Of December, 1898, and calls for
40s acres in "a piece of woods situated
on the west side Of Little Bush Hill,
near the creek, in Delaware township
Northampton county. Able lawyers have
been consulted, who say that this claim ID
seventy miles up the creek and that it is
not worth more than a dollar an acre
But Mr.. Van Aminge does not think SO
He is going to settle on that promised
land, and he reads his title clear, with
out the aid of glasses, to the Philadel
phia Exposition. We wish the old gen
tleman a happy time if he gets posses
sion, and would suggest to him the pro
priety of fencing it in, continuing thi
show all summer, aud charging all Phila
delphians a dollar a head admission
other folks twenty-five cents Very feV
of them would 60 in at the price, but il
would be too late TO get up much Of &
side show.
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PrnhnhIIinan

WASHINGTON, April 6.-For Tennessee
ard the Ohio valley, the upper MISSISSIPPI
pi and lower Missouri valleys, stationary
and falling barometer, southwest winds,
backing to southeast, warmer, hazy or
partly cloudy weather,
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SIDEs-0n Wednesday night. April 5th.
CHkRLEs EDMOND SIDES, only son Of William
and Margaret Sides. aged nineteen years.
The friends and acquaintance Of the family
are invited to attend the funeral. from the
residence Of VIM. I. Cole, $50 Tennessee
street, this (THURsDAY) afternoon at three
otcIook-
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Fire.

INDIANAPOLIS, April GA Gre at Ro-
chester, Indiana, last night destroyed
Harters & Co.'s elevator, containing III
600 bushels of wheat, and the old rail-
road depot building; loss, estimated at
1928, 900 to $50, 900; insurance, $22. 900.
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ReNDtte.

Albany, April 6,-The Governor has
granted a respite Of one week to Dolan,
az the time fixed for his execution occurs
on Good Friday.
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card.

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