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5 St. Louis Globe-Democrat. NEW SERIES. ST. LOUIS, MONDAY MORNING, JULY 26.

1875. VOL. NOTE THE DIFFERENCE! The Annual Premium per $10,000 Insurance at age dinary Life Plan, as charged by Mutual and mixed 80 The Annual Premium for $10,000 Insurance at age of 35, ordinary Life Plan, as charged by the ST. LOUIS LIFE' INSURANCE COMPANY, the largest purely stock company in existence, 204 50 Annual Difference in favor of the plans of the ST. LOUIS LIFE, $59 30 The difference is equivalent to a guaranteed dividend of over 22 per cont, which is far in excess of the average dividend paid by Mutual Companies.

EDUCATIONAL. KILL (N. MILITARY ACADEMY--Opens Sept. 8. 1875.

New Gymasiam. $100 per year. Address Messrs. Wright Donald. $57 50 for per Boys, 12 quarter; miles no from extras.

Philadelphia. Media 10 Academy instructors. S.C. Shortlidge (Harvard A.M.) Media, Pa. EDUCATIONAL Fifth Jones' and Olive Commercial streets, open College, all the year.

The fall day and night sessions begin September 1. Call or write for circulars. HALL, NEW HAVEN, CT. -BoardIng and day school for young ladies. Established In 1820.

Reopens Sept. 22. Miss MARIA P. MONFORT, Principal. Address, New Haven, Ct.

AND COMMERCIAL INSTITUTE-General RUSSELL'S. School- Haven. Ct. Forty-first year. Preparatory to College, the Scientific Schools or Business, with systematic and mastics, thorough physical training by military drilling, gymrowing, etc.

Catalogues sent on application. DRURY COLLEGE Springfield, Mo. TALL TERM for 1875, of 15 weeks, begins September 9th. For both sexes. Thorough in all things.

Expenses very moderate, Climate unrivaled for healthfulness. Send for catalogue to N. J. MORRISON, President. Kirkwood Seminary, BOARDING Children, DAY will re-open SCHOOL its for fifteenth Young annual session September 6, 1875.

Send for circular. Address MISS ANNA O. SNEED. Principal, Kirkwood, St. Louis Mo.

CHICAGO FEMALE COLLEGE, Morgan (near Chicago). TALL TERM opens September 14. For information circulars apply to the president. Prof. Thayer, or the principal.

Mrs. Mary Fields, room No. 12, Lakeside Building. Chicago. ELIODORO DE CAMPI, Organist and Musical Director of the CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION.

A Weber's. 206 North for Fourth lessons left street, at will Balmer receive Immediate attention. No coanection with any music school in the city. Springfield Business College and Telegraph Institute, SPRINGFIELD, ILL. and -DO not fail to write for specimens penmanship.

Inclose pa stage. S. BOGARDUS. Proprietor. WILLISTON SEMINARY, EARTH and MASS Scientific-being The two richly Depart- endowed and fully provided with the most improved means of instruction, offer unsurpassed advantages to young men preparing for College, for Business or for any scientific profession.

For Cataogues apply to MARSHALL HENSHAW, Principal. Hillsboro Female College. organized in 1839, as Oakland The grounds are beautiful. the house is spacious and comfortable. Education is sound and thorough: advantages in music particularly good.

Send for catalogue. The Mall Seasion begins September 6. JOS. MATTHEWS, President. HON.

JNO. A. SMITH, Pres't Trusteea. MISSOURI MEDICAL COLLEGE. Thirty-fifth Session will open October 11, 1875.

Terms $65 for full course. For circulara and particulars address the Dean, S. MOORE, 608 Walnut street. St. Louis, Mo.

Mount Vernon Military Academy, Morgan Park, 111., Near Chicago. THE tution fall will session of commence this new September and 14. successtul Parties instiwishing to place their sons at this acad-my can obtain full particulars and the catalozue for 1875 by addressing S. NORTON. Proprietor, No.

12 Lakeside Bullding, Chicago. STATE UNIVERSITY- -Columbia, Mo. 28th September; Law Department, 4th October. Departments of instruction are College and Preparatory, Normal, Agricultural, Law, Medical and Analytical Chemistry. The University is open to young women.

Entrance fee. $10. with incideatal of $5 for each semester. Fee for Law and Medica! Departments, $40. Board in private families, $3 to $5 per week: In clubs it is had at one-halt less.

By the rapid accumulation of the means of instruction. few institutions of learning. East or West. equal the Missouri University. Send for Report and Circular.

DANIEL REED. President. THE BETTIE STUARTI SPRINGFIELD, DAY AND BOARDING SCHOOL for A Young Ladies and Children. The Fall Term will commence September 1, 1875. This institution offers the very best, advantages for a thorough and accompushed education.

It aims at the HIGHEST EXCELLANCE IN EVERY DEPARTMENT. Parents desiring to have their daughters well educated will please inquire for catalogues of MRS. M. MCKEE HOMES. Desoto Academy, DeSoto, I.

M. R. Forty-two Miles from St. Louis. A sexes.

BOARDING Instruction and and DAY discipline SCHOOL equal for to those both of any institution of similar grade in the State. Charges as low as the success of the school will admit. The next term begins August 30. 1875. For circulars giving full information address I.

H. BROWN, Principal, DeSoto, Mo. ST. LOUIS LAW SCHOOL. (Law Department of Washington University.) regular annual term of this Law School will open on WEDNESDAY, October 18, 1875.

Full course, two terms, six months each. Students admitted to the Senior Class, on examination, by application on or before October 12th. Tuition, $80 first year, $60 second year, including use of library. For particulars address G. M.

203 STEWART. North Dean Law St. Faculty, Third street. Sto. MISSOURI SCHOOL OF Mines and Metallurgy ROLLA, PHELPS COUNTY, MO.

THE fifth scholastic year of this Institution will begin on Monday, September, 20. For catalogue, or information respecting courses of study, expenses, apply to or address CHAS. P. WILLIAMS, Ph. Director.

St. Louis School of Midwives. Geo. Engelmann, Director: FACULTY. Mrs.

Carpentier, Superintending Midwite: D. W. E. Fischel, Instructor. (Dr.

John T. Hodgen, BOARD OF ADVISORS. Baumgarten, Dr. Secre- G. President tary; Dr.

Weigel, In (Dr. A. Wielizenus. educated, order to supply the great demand existing for the Institution, and will midwives open the we next have term enEnglish-speaking larged with both English and German classes. Session Opens September 1st, Closes December 17th.

next Ladies well will do recommended, who course, well to apply early at the taking the Intend the Director, DR. GEO. J. office of 201 South Fifth street, 12 to ENGELMANN. 1 o'clock, DYEING AND SCOURING.

COOK PT THE great and original at No. Chemical 105 North Dyers Sixth and street. ers, have located near Chestnut. Gents' coats, pants and vests are dyed, cleansed and neatly repaired, and made to look 85 well as new. If they fail to please you, no charge will be made.

Ladies' silk and woolen shawls and dresses of every description are dyed, cleansed and restored to their original, pristine perfection. Persona residing out of St. Louis will send to us by express. Address 000K BROTHERS, 105 North Sixth street. Notice to Travelers.

I AM between NOW New RUNNING Madrid, a daily and line of Morle mail Iron Mountain Railroad, leaving each place coaches D. E. BAYNE, at on the New Madrid, July 20. 6 a. m.

Contractor. 1---NO. 63. MOUNTAIN MEADOWS. An Official Narrative of the Atrocity Written in 1859.

"If the Vengeance of the Lord is Slow, it is Equally Sure." the Cincinnati WASHINGTON, July 21. The trial now in progress in Utah gives interest to the following papers, copied from the files of the Indian Office, relating to the Mountain Meadows Massacre. The papers were sent to Mr. Greenwood in 1859, he being at that time Buchanan'8 Commissioner of Indian Affairs, by an army officer stationed at Fort of Floyd, Utah. The statements then made in regard to the par taken in the murders by John D.

Lee, agree closely with the confession which he has just made at Salt Lake: CAMP FLOYD, U. August 17, 1859. SIR- you have a copy of Lynch's testimony with regard to the murder of the Arkansas emigrants at Mountain Meadows, in this Territory, in September, 1857. I have known Lynch since 1847. He was in the Mexican war when I first met him.

He is a remarkable and honest man, and I do not believe he would tell a lie under any circumstances. I am aware that the Mormons, and those in the conf dence of the Mormons, will of course try to invalidate Lynch's statement, but those of us here now who know him will sustain him. assure (you) Judge, I would most gladly prefer Fort Smith as a residence to Utah. People abroad from Arkansas give u8 a bad name, but. my dear sir, they have not learned of the doings of this people.

Crime of every hue and dye is perpetrated here, under the sanction of the Mormon Church, upon payment to the Church fund of ten per cent; it 18 serving the Mormon Lord. Kill, rob, murder, plunder, if the ten per cent is paid up, all right with the Church and the Mormon Government, and go ahead. I am satisfied that Mr. Buchanan has been misled with regard to the Mormons and Mormon character. I know if he slightly understood these people be would change the present policy toward them.

It is but trilling with justice to treat them pacifically. Some more stringent policy must be adopted, and I hope Congress will give Mr. Buchanan power to do 80. The President has treated them most hnmanely, but the Mormons refuse to appreciate his humanaty. have the honor to be.

respectfully, your old friend, S. I. MONTGOMERY. llon. A.

B. Greenwood, Commissioner of Indian Affairs. CEDAR COUNTY, UTAH TERRITORY James Lynch, of lawful age, being duly sworn, etates on oath: That he was one of the party who accompanied Dr. Jacob Forney, Superintendant of Indian Adairs, in an expedition to the Mountaia Meadows, Santa Clara, in the months of March and April last, when we received sixteen children, ole survivors of the wholesale massacre peretrated at the former place in the month of Sepcember, 1857. The children, when we first saw them, were in a most wretched and deplorable condition, with little or NO clothing, covered with fith and dirt.

They presented a sight heart rending and miserable in the extreme. Tae scan: 01 the fearful murder still hears evidence of the atrocious crime, charged by the Mormons and their frienps to have been perpetrated by Indians, but 1 really by Mormons disguised as Indians, who, in their headlong zeal, bigotry and fanaticism, deemed this a favored opportunity of at once wreaking their vengeance on the hated people of Arkansas, and of making another of those iniquitous -offerings' to God so often recommended by Brigham Young and their other lead 18. For more than two square miles the ground is strewn with the skulls, bones, and other remains of the victims. In places the water has washed many of these remains together, forming little mounds, raising monuments, as it were, to the cruelty of man to his fellow-man. Here and there may be found the remains of an innocent infant beside those of some fond, devoted mother, ruthlessly slain by men worse than den.ons; their bones lie bleaching in the noonday sun, a mute but eloquent appeal to a just but oftended God for vengeance.

I have witnessed many harrowing sights on the fields of battle, but never did my heart thrill with such horrible emo. tione as when standing on that silent plain contemplating the remains of the innocent victims of Mormon avarice, fanaticism and cruelty. Many of these remains are now in possession of Mr. Rogers, a gentleman who accompanied us on the expedition. Why were not the remains interred, if not in a Christian- like and proper manner, at least covered from the sight? But no; the hatred of their mur derers extended to them after death--there they lay, a prey to the famished wolves, that run howling over the desolate plains to the unlooked-for feast, food for the croaking ravens that through the tainted air with swift wing wended their way to revel in their banquet of blood.

I inquired of Jacob Hamblin, who is a High Church dignitary, why these remains were not buried at some time subsequent to the murder. He said the bodies were so much decomposed that it was impossible to inter them. No longer let us boast of our citizenship, freedom or civilization. There were one hundred and forty poor, homeless emigrants to California butchered in cold blood, by white men, too, with attending circumstances far exceeding anything in cruelty that we have ever heard of or read of being perpetrated by savages. It is now high time that the actors and perpetrators of this dreadful crime should be brought to condign punishment.

For years these Mormons have possessed an immunity from punishment, or a sort of privilege for committing crime of this nature, but soon it is to be hoped a new state of things must dawn-a retribution must come, vengeance must be had -civilization, humanity and Christianity call for it, and the American people must have it. Blood may be shed, difficulties may be encountered, but just as sure as there is a sun at noonday retribution will yet overtake the guilty wretches, their aids and abettors, whether open or hidden under disguise of government employment. John D. Lee, a Mormon President, has knowledge of the whereabouts of much of the property taken from these ill-fated emigrants, and, if I am not misinformed, is in posseasion of a large quantity of it. Why not make him disgorge this illgotten plunder, and disclose the amount escheated to and sold out by the Mormon Church, as its share of the blood of helpless victims? When he enters in to a league with hell and covenants with death, he should not be allowed to make feasts and entertain government officials at his table, as he did Dr.

Jacob Fo ney, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, while the rest of his party refused, in his hearing and that of Lee, to share the hospitalities of this notorious murderer--this scourge of the deecit. This man Lee does not deny, but admits, that be was present at the massacre, but pretends that he was there to prevent bloodshed, but positive evidence implicates him as the leader of the murderers too deeply for denial. The children point him out as one of them that did the bloody work. Ife and other white men had these children, and they never were in the hands of the Indians, but in those that murdered them, and Jacob Hamblin and Jacob Forney knew it. The children pointed out to us the dresses and jewelry of their mothers and sisters that now grace the angelic forms of these murderers' women and children.

Verily it would seem that men and women alike combined in this wholesale slaughter. This ill fated train consisted of eighteen wagons, eight hundred and twenty head of cattle, household goods to a large amount, besides money est1mated at $80,000 or $90,000, the greater part of which, it is believed, now makes rich the harems of John D. Lee. Of this train, a man whose name is unknown, fortunately escaped at the time of the massacre to Yegars, one hundred miles distant from the scene of blood, on the California road, Here he was followed by five MorIn upon him to who, through promises of safety, begin his return to Mountain prevan and, contrary to their promises and his just Meadow. expectatio.

they inhumanly butchered him-laughing at and witnessed his and loud told and by Ira of the mercy, five. The object in repeated cries for a this was to to Hatch, one killing man give testimony in a JU court of justice; but Got, whose ways are inscrutable, has thought proper, through the Lustrumentality of the "'babes and sucklings' to bring to light cuis most hor Able tragedy, and make khown its barbarous inhuman perpetrators. Already a step di- has seen taken by Judge Cradlebaugh in the right rection, of which we see the evidence to in the lights mountains of to escape the just penalty of the law presidents, bishops, and elders for their crimes. If the vengeance of the Lord is 'tis equally sure. The the Mormons, who know slow, better, have reported that principais and, in fact, all the actors in this but fearful subsequent massacre events were thrown sufficient light upon this Indian savages; mystery to have fix the foul blot indelibly on the Mor mon escutcheon.

Many of the leaders are well known. John D. Lee was the commander inchief. President Height Bishop Smith, in Cedar City, and, besides these. 100 actors and acDr.

Forney. Some of those implicated are and complices, are krown to Judge Cradlebaugh and have been in the confidence and under the employment of the Superintendent of Indian Affairs. Bishop Hamblin, for instance, who is employed by Dr. Forney among the Indians down South, who knows all the facts, but refuses to disclose them; who falsely reported to Dr. Forney the children we brought away were recovered by him from persons who had bought them from Indians, and who knew that what he reported was false, and was so done to cheat the government out of money again reward the guilty wretches for their into human butcheries -it is pretended that this man is friendly towards the United States Government, yet it is a well known fact that he screened some of these murder- er8 about his house from justice, among whom are an Indian, named George, and a white man by the name of Tillis, recognized by one of these children, a little girl eight years old, who.

has been sent off to the States by Dr. Forney, as the man who killed her mother. Hamblin cannot be a Mormon Bishop and a friend of the United States, at least where Mormons or Mormonism is concerned. His creed and oaths forbid it, and he could not, if he would, with safety to himself, do it. Then why not out with him? Dr.

Forney can find another and more trustworthy agent than he. Why, then, keep and patronize the abettor of crime? Before I close, my duty to my country calls upon me to state to the nublic the course of Dr. Forney to engender in the minds of the Mormons feelings of antipathy and opposition to the judiciary, and the many obligations which he violated and promises which he disregarded during this trip. I left Camp Floyd in March last, in charge of -nine men emigrating to Arizona About the 27th of that month we came up with Dr. Forney at Beaver City, who there informed me that he was en route to the scene of the Mountain Meadows massacre and Santa Clara, to procure evidence in relation thereto, and to secure the surviving children.

He informed me that all his men had left him, being Mormons, and who, before leaving, had informed him, Forney, that it he went down South that the people down there would make an eunuch of kim, and asked 118 for aid and assistance. I cheerfully placed the whole party at his command, telling him that he had started upon an errand of mercy, and it was strange that he should have employed Mormons, the very confederates of these monsters who had so wantonly murdered unoffending emigrants, to ferret out the guilty parties. He was left without a man, and we found him guarding his mules and wagons. He requested two of the men of my party (Thomas Dunn and John Lopunk) to return to Great Salt Lake City with him, promising to give them employment during the following summer and winter. They consented to abandon their trip to Arizona upon these terms, and return with the Doctor.

Lam sorry to say he violated his plighted faith and his solemn contract on reaching the city, by immediately diecharging them without cause and hiring Mormons to take their place, as I am informed has been his custom since he came into the valley. I was with Dr. Forney from the time I joined him until he returned to the city of Salt Lake, having voluntarily abandoned my expedition to Arizona to aid his humane enterprise, and during the trip I repeatedly heard him tell the Mormone they need not fear Judge Cradlebaugh (whose I disclosures and energy had created some alarm), that he (Forney) would have him removed from office, that the Mormons (murderers and all) were all included in the President's proclamation and pardon, and would not be tried or punished for any offense whatever committed prior to the issuing of the pardon. That Judge Cradlebaugh was not a fit man for oflice, in fact abusing and slandering the Judge in unmeasured ternis, no language being too low or filthy to apply to him. could arrive at no other conclusion from his conduct than that the Doctor desired to influence the minds of the Mormons against the judiciary, that he cared more to create a prejudice against Judge Cradlebaugh's course in attempting to bring these murderers to light than he did to elicit the truth relative to the murders, and that he was only following out his instructions from the general government in going after the children, while he was availing himself of this journey to make a pilgrimage to the south settle ments to abuse and traduce Judge Cradlebaugh, and arouse a feeling of resistance to his authority among the guilty murderers.

It is to be regretted that the doctor has manifested so hostile a feeling to his associate Federal oficer, and that the course of the judge, especially that of Judge Cradlebaugh, has to be criticised by such a man as Jacob Forney-a more veritable old granny than whom, in my opinion, never held an flicial position in this country, and in this opinion I am borne out by the concurrent opinions of nearly all the Gentile population in Utah who know him, as well as by many of the Mormon people. I now reside in Cedar county, U. T. (Signed) JAMES LYNCH. James Lynch being duly sworn, states on oath that all the material facts stated by him in the foregoing afidavit, so far as he states the same as of hie own knowledge, are true; and so far as he states the same as from information derived from others, as also the conclusions drawn from the same, he believes to be true, and further saith not.

(Signed) JAMES LYNCH. Sworn and subscribed to, July 27. 1859. R. D.

ECKELS, Chief Justice of Supreme Court. The under mentioned state on oath that the foregoing afidavit has been carefully read to them; that they are the identical persons named in it as having been employed by Dr. Jacob Forney to return with him to Salt Lake City; that they went from Beaver City with said Forney south and back again; and that we fully concur in the statements made by James Lynch, in the foregoing affidavit, as to what we saw and heard on the trip, and the conduct of Dr. Forney, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, and further say not. THOMAS DUNN.

JOHN LOPUNK. Subscribed and sworn to before me, July 27, 1859. D. R. ECKELS, Chief Justice of Supreme Court.

MOB LAW. How Justice Is Administered in the Vicinity of Memphis. MEMPHIS, July last Tuesday, an industrions German named Frank Williams, engaged on the plantation of A. K. Hancock, on Frenchman bayou, forty miles above here, on the Arkansas side, disappeared, he having drawn $10 from his employer the evening before, and was last seen in the company of Jno.

Phillips and Jno. Randolph, colored. Search was made for them, and it was found they had left. Pursuit was made, and they were overtaken and carried back. Yesterday, on their arrival, they confessed to having murdered Williams, and showed where they had concealed the body in the canebrake.

When found, it presented a horrible appearance, the flesh being literaily beaten off with bludgeons. The murderers were carried to Crowell's Landing, on their way to Osceola, the county town, and. on reaching the landing they informed their captors that they belonged to a band, of which Robert Burton, a white man, also employed on Hancock's plantation, was the leader; and Jess Carter, colored, was also a member of the band; that they were organized for robbery, and had murdeed a number of persons. Quite a crowd had collected by this time, and the indignation of the citizens was intense, and finally culminated in a mob taking the prisoners and shooting Randolph, killing him instantly, but the other broke from his keepers and escaped. Yesterday the whole neigh borhood was in search of him.

Randolph's body was thrown into the river. Warrants were sworn out for Burton and Carter, and they were taken to the Osceola Jail. A Sharp Stick for Mail Contractors. WASHINGTON, D. July -The Post-office Department has sent to the Department of Justice the names of -nine mail contractors to be prosecuted for failing to perform service after their bids were accepted, They will be sued for the difference between their bids and the amount paid by the government after reletting them, which, on the thirty -nine routes, for one year, amounted to $478,875.

The department will also bring civil suits against the contractors for damages sustained by the government in providing ten porary service after their failure to fulfill the contracts. The routes were subsequently let for four years, and should the government recover the above amount, suits will be commenced to cover the losses for the remaining three years. Good Harvests in Kansas. 3pecial Dispatch to the Globe-Democrat. SOLOMON CITY, July 23.

-Reports from all the counties in the Solomon river valley indicate immense crops of wheat, oats, rye, barley and corn. This valley embraces Ottawa, Mitchel, Cloud, Osborne and Smith counties. Wheat is all harvested, a large portion is in stack and some of it threshed. The yield is from twenty to five bushels per acre, and the quality most excel. lent.

Heavy rains during the last three weeks have put the corn out of danger from drought.and farmers are predicting from are per acre, jubilant The over people their of Northwestern Kansas wurty to eighty bushels merchants are expecting a immense heavy trade crops, this and fall, the No relief committees this year. Shooting a Locomotive Engineer, CAIRO, July Jake Sutter, engineer Louis of locomotive No. 13, on the Cairo and St. Railroad, was shot in this city last night, by John Hutchinson or Hutchins, a fisherman living here. Some feeling existed between the men, and some threats were made some days.

ago. When they met last night a word or two passed, when Hutchins drew a revolver and fired, the ball entering the right breast between the lungs and collarbone. Sutter is considered in a dangerous condition. The other man has not been arrested. There seems to have been no justification for the act.

Fears of an Overflow subsiding. MEMPHIS, July 25. -nere is still considerable alarm in regard to the apprehended overflow, and prayers were offered up in the various churches to-day tor its abatement. This evening news from above is regarded as favorable, despite the heavy local rains of last night, as it is believed the nine inches decline reported by the Signal Service at Cairo, renders danger from the Ohio freshet impossible. The river rose two inches.

Hot and showery. Arrived -Belle Memphis, St. Louis. Departed-Grand Lake, New Orleans; City of Vicksburg, St. Louis.

Not Proven. HELENA, July -The prisoners arrested for killing Assinmatorn, an Indian, in the British territory last year, have been released by the United States Commissioner, the evidence not warranting their extradition. FEEBLE-MINDED CHILDREN. The Illinois Asylum for the Care of These Unfortunates. Its History and Some Incidents of Its Management.

Correspondence of the -Democrat. JACKSONVILLE, July 23, 1875. Though last admitted into the noble family of public charities that are at once the pride and glory of Illinois, and that have made her name illustrious forever, the institution for the training of feebleminded children is by no means the least in any sense of that term. It is designed for the benefit of a class of unfortunates the lowest in the scale of human existence, and the most uninteresting and unpromising subjects that could possibly engage the attention of the philanthropist. It is a grievous privation to be divested of the use of the organs of sight or of hearing, and our hearts melt in pity as we look upon the blank face, unenlivened by the bright beams of the rolling sparkler; but even here there is some mitigation.

The blind have the sense of hearing quickened and intensified, and, withal, their other faculties are generally so sharpened by discipline and exercise that they act vicariously, and in a great measure supply the place of the absent member. The reason and judgment, too, are intact and active, and there is nothing loathsome or repulsive in the subject. So of the deaf and dumb. 1t is Bad to be doomed to perpetual silence, and to be forever excluded from the pleasures of sound, but the appliances of science make up, at least in some measure, for even these defects, while the brilliant eye and the sweet, expressive face, the well balanced and liberally endowed mind, invest the deaf and dumb with the graces of a presence that render them agreeable and pleasant to look upon. But in the case of the poor idiotic child there is no mitigating circumstance-no silver lining in his cloud.

His mind a total blank; his features distorted and ungainly; his person loathsome and repulsive, unable to talk, walk, or take any care of himself. a helpless dead weight. This would seem to be the most forlorn and forsaken of all God's creation, and the men and women who will volantarily devote their lives to the improvement and elevation of this most hopeless class of fellow beings may not become as famous in history as the man who founds a dynasty, or originates a religious sect, or builds up a political party, but in God's estimate they are great and honorablefellow- workers with Christ, who came not to be ministered unto, but to minister. And on "that day' when he shall distribute the prizes of merit to his heroes 'great shall be their reward." as ye did it unto the least of these, ye did it unto me." With whom soever the idea originated; to the late Hon. Murray McConnel, of Jacksonville, State Senator, is due the credit of introducing and carrying through the Legislature, in 1865, a bill appropriating $5,000 per annum for two years to make an experiment in the interest of this most un fortunate class for whose benefit nothing had as yet been done by the State.

The incipient institution was placed under the management of the Board of Directors of the Deaf and Damb." where it continued till 1871. The residence of the late Governor Duncan, adjacent to this last named institution, and surrounded ample and well shaded grounds, was rented for the purpose, and Mrs. L. P. Ross and Miss Walton were appointed matron and teacher, and on the 1st of June, 1865, the Institution for Children' was opened with four pupils.

The number had increased to twelve on the 31st December following. The present Superintendent, Dr C. T. Wilbur, who had been known to possess especial qualifications for this work, and who had just been mustered out of the 95th Ohio Volunteers, where he had served as surgeon during the war, and then in his thirtieth year, was employed to superintend the new Institution, and entered upon his duties on the 1st of September following. sults have abundantly proved the wisdom of the selection.

Your correspondent has frequently visited the institution during the earlier years of its career, and witnessed with profound admiration the earnest and untiring labors of this small band of devoted educators, not so much in teach ing the young ideas how to as in originating the very germs of the most mentary ideas. If ever there was a work of faith and labor of this was same for not only were the objects of it feeble-minded, but, in many cases, void of all mind. So utterly inanimate were they that it was only after months of manipulation that they could be brought to put forth the physical effort necessary to pick up a copper rivet and insert it into a hole in a board; and however trifling this may seem to those who know nothing of the subject, it was considered quite an achievement, indicative of great progress, and an earnest of still greater triumphs. This is the elementary branch; and, AS the pupil progresses, more advanced studies are introduced. During the ten years in which the institution has been in existence, some 261 of these unfortunates have been at different times under its care, all of whom have been materially benefited, and many of them have been so educated, physically mentally, as to be presentable in appearance, and able to support and take care of themselves.

Out of this number, only seven have died, a fast which, all things considered, speaks loudly in praise of the medical skill with which it has been managed. It is needless to add that the experiment inaugurated by Murray McConnel proved a success, and the appropriations for its support were on a scale correeponding with the increased numbers who availed themselves of its advantages. In 1867, the building was enlarged to the capacity of 100 children, and in 1871 it was incorporated by the Legis. lature, and placed under the management of a Board of Trustees of its own. The number who sought admission from Illinois since the opening of the institution was 615; from other States, 60.

The greater number of applicants were rejected chiefly for want of room to accommodate them. A careful investigation on the part of the trustees disclosed the startling fact that there were in the State over 3,000 idiots of all ages, about one-third of whom were of a schoolattending age. An appeal was accordingly made to the Legislature of last winter for an appropriation that would give permanence to the institution, and afford the necessary facilities for carrying out its designs on a scale commensurate with the wealth of the State and the necessities of the case, which appeal resulted in an appropriation of $175, 000 for the erection of new and suitable buildings, to accommodate 250 pupils, and $10,000 for the purchaec of lands adapted to the purposes of the institution. This law came into effect on the 1st of July, on which day the Governor appointed the Board of Commissioners provided for therein, who, having met at Springfield on the 13th, and organized, ad journed to meet in Chicago on the 20th to consider proposals, and plan a tour of visitation. The cities of Alton, Princeton, Quincy, Springfield, Vandalia and Jacksonville have already submitted proposals for the location.

There is no question but that, other things being equal, Jacksonville, in which the institution has been nur tured and so well cared for in the past, has a paramount claim upon its location, and there is not probably a score of men in the State outside of the competing localities who would not be grieved at its 1emoval from this beautiful, healthy and eminently centrally located point. Nor should the Commissioners allow themselves to be biased in the tion of a site by any local or private considerations, nor allow the institution to be hampered or embarrassed by the selection of any building, however admirably adapted to private or family purposce, that would require to be altered, amended or rebuilt before being fitted for the purposes of the institution, entailing in the end, as experience has proved, a greater expense, with infinitely lees satisfaction, than a de novo establishment, built from the ground up, from plans carefully drawn and originally designed for the purpose, Jacksonville offers a site, than which a more eligible one does not exist in the State, viz: the farm known as Sibert Grove, one mile southwest of this The land is of the choicest character, sunicienily elevated to be dry and healthy, and a farm of any dimensions varying from forty to two hundred acres may be had, furnishing elegant pasturage for milch-cows, woodland for shade, tillable soil for the development of a capacity farm labor in the male pupils, a most picture de site for the buildings, eufliciently near the city for all practical purposes, and yet far enough removed to prevent the annoyance of the pupils by the intrusion of observers, staring st them and pointing out their oddities. The sum appropriated, $175,000, is amply sufficient to co struct the requisite buildInge, a splendid for which has been pared by A. J. Piquenard, architect of the new State 110 use, and which in any case should be adopted.

88 me well as to the entire State to see that the adpeople of Jacksonville owe it to themselves vantages which they offer are fully but to made the known, public, not only to the Commissioners, because the location, when once made, will be final, and however disadvantageous cannot be al tered for generations to come. It behooves them, furthermore, to seriously consider whether the immediate expenditure of $200,000 in their of midst, and the annual expenditure hereafter $50,000, would not warrant the investment of some capital with a view to actually donating to the State the quantity of land deemed necessary for the this idea purposes to of the institution. I beg to commend the immediate and careful attention of the A. City Fathers of Jacksonville. Foreclosing a Mortgage.

MEMPHIS, July 24. -Philo 0. Calhoun and Lewis 0. Meyers, of New York, have instituted suit in the District Court of the United States for West Tennessee, for the first mortgage bondholders the pur- of the Paducah and Memphis Railroad, for pose of foreclosing the mortgage. The bill alleges that there are about $15,000 of these bonds in the hands of different partice in New York, and the mortgage thereon provides that the interest thereon at the rate of seven per cent shall be paid semi- annually, and upon failure to do so within ninety days thereafter, the trustees shall take possession of the road; and, further, that if the company fail to pay bonds for six months after the same have become due, the bonds, which are for thirty years, shall mature.

They allege that the company has failed to pay the interest for twelve months, and therefore the bondholders have directed them, as trustees, to foreclose the mortgage. THE CONVENTION. Report of Committee on Revision and Taxation Under Discussion. Spectal Dispatch to the Globe- Democrat. JEFFERSON CITY, July 24.

The report of the Committee on Revision and Taxation, and a substitute offered by Mr. Gantt, were taken up and discussed this morning. Mr. Gantt's substitute is as followe: Section 14. The debt of no city and of no county, including the debt of any city, town or municipal subdivision therein, shall exceed in the aggregate five per centum of the value of the taxable property therein, to be ascertained by the assessment next before the last assessment for State purposes, except that an additional debt, not exceeding per centum of such taxable property may be incurred to replace public inge casualty.

Sec. 15. No county, city, town, or other municipal subdivision of this State shall make any addition to its bonded debt within the limitations declared in the next preceding section, unless two-thirds of the qualified voters of such county, city, town or other municipal subdivision, shall, at a special election, at which no other section shall be submitted to them, declare in favor of making such addition. and at the same time direct the imposition on their property of a tax sufficient to provide for the payment of the interest together with the extinguishment of the principal of the proposed debt within a period not exceeding twenty years from the time of its contracting. Sec.

16. If any county, city, town, or other municipal subdivision of this State, shall have already exceeded the limit of indebtedness prescribed in section fourteen of this article, such county, city, O1. other municipal subdivision, shall incur no new debt whatever until its debt be reduced below the limit 50 prescribed, except that the corporate authorities or persons having charge of the affairs of such county, city or municipal subdivision may, in anticipation of the receipt of the customary annual revenue thereof appropriate, during any fiscal year, a sum not ceding three-fourths of the entire revenue applicable to general legislative purposes, exclusive of revenue applicable to the payment of the bonded debt of such county, city or other municipal subdivisions that was actually raised by taxation and received during the preceding year. After several amendments were agreed to, the substitute was rejected, and the following section was agreed to: Sec. 14.

No county, city, town, township, school district or other political corporation or subdivision of the State shall be allowed to become indebted in any manner or for any purpose to an amount exceeding in any year the income and revenue provided for such year, without the assent of two thirds of the voters thereof voting at an election to be held for that purpose; nor in cafes requiring such assent shall any indebtednees be allowed to be incurred to an amount including existing indebtedness, in the aggregate exceeding five per centum on the value of the taxable property therein, to be ascertained by the asses ment next before the last assessment for State and county purposes, previous to the incurring of such indebtedness; provided, that with such assent, any county may be allowed to become indebted to a larger amount for the erection of a court-house and jail; and provided further, that any county, city, town, township, school district or other political corporation or subdivision of the State, incurring any indebtedness, requiring the assent of voters as aforesaid, shall. before or at the time of doing so, provide for the collection of an annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on such indebtedness as it falle due, and also to constitute a sinking fund for payment of the principal thereof, within twenty years from the time of contracting the same. The Convention then adjourned until Monday morning. FAST TIME. Extraordinary Postal Arrangements Between New York and the West.

NEW YORK, July 25. -The Tribune, to-morrow, announces that the Postmaster General has selected the mail routes along the shores of the lakes for the fast mail train to the West. It is expected to begin to run on the 1st of October. It will make the distance from New York to Chicago in not more than twenty- six houre, and hopes to reduce the time to twentyfour-a gain of twelve hours over the present mail and express train. The amount of mail matter to be carried by the train will be enormous.

There will be four large postal cars of improved construction, capable of carrying thirty-five tons of matter, and it is thought by the Department the amount to be carried will reach forty-Ave tons before the expiration of six months. The greater part of the work of distribution will be done on the cars. Newspapers will be taken in by the bundle and folded and distributed en route. Relays of clerks will be stationed at Syracuse, Buffalo and Toledo. This enterprise will not cost one cent additional expense, the railroads having met the goverment in the most generous spirit.

SILLY CHILDREN. Some Trouble in Selecting a Site for Their Institution. Special Dispatch to the Globe-Democrat. QUINCY, July 25. The Commissioners for the location of the Institution for Feeble minded Children in this State, arrived here yesterday morning, and have been examining the magnificent property of ex Governor Wood.

They express themselves as highly pleased with the beauties of Quincy and its surroundings, but to conjecture what theirdecision will be is as yet impossible, as they have several other places still to examine, and will be guided in the location by the general advantages of the property offered and price asked. They go from here to Alton, where they meet to morrow. The proposals for different places are to be sealed and sent to Springfield, where the final mcetirg will be held. Right Lively Shooting. Special Dispatch to the Globe-Democrat.

TERRE HAUTE, July afray occurred last evening at a picnic near Middleburg, thirty miles southeast on the Cincinnati and Terre Houte Railroad, which will doubtless result fatally to one of the parties. Two men named Stagg and Prather quarreled over a bottle of pop. Afterwards Stagg disagreed with Geo. W. Smith on the same subject, and Dr.

Nathan Walker interfered. After some words he and Smith drew revolvers and began firing. At the first fire of Walker the ball struck Smith in the pit of the stomach and passed out at the side. Walker fired two other shots, but missed. Smith sprang behind a tree and fired five times, doing no damage to Walker, but one ball struck Miles Jessup in the head, injuring his skull somewhat, but not making a dangerous wound.

Walker ran and was fired up: on by one Hostetter, without effect. Smith was at last accounts thought to be dying. Walker is the keeper of a drug store, andis a quiet and highly esteemed citizen. He gave himself up to the authorities. Journalistic.

INDIANAPOLIS, July is stated on reliable authority that Jno. Fishback, for the past three years of the Sentinel Company, has transferred $51,000 of his stock to Jno. 0. Shoemaker, which gives the latter $83,500 of the $100,000 capital stock. Papers making the transter were signed on the 21st inst.

No immediate editorial changes are anticipated. The Journal Company and Jno. C. Doughty, bidders for the State printing, have obtained a temporary injunction against the miesioners of Public Printing for awarding the contract to the Sentinel Company. Tammany Movements.

NEW YORK, July 24, -The Tammany General Committee met this afternoon and voted, forty to seven, for a reorganization in the Third, present Eleventh a deand Fifteenth Districts. This is at teat of John Morrissey and Assemblyman Thomas bill, which promised to give to Tammany the Costigan, the originator of the -known Costigan possession of the municipal the patronage, and State created such a sensation among city politicians last winter, A Heavy Failure. WHEELING, W. July Cluney 00., of this city, large glass turera, failed yesterday. Liabilities, assets estimated to be $140,000.

A meeting of the creditors will be called to try and arrange for an extension of time, and to continue the works running. They employed upwards of 300 hands. Killed at a Picnic. agents' picnic yesterday, at Greenwood, on the INDIANAPOLIS, July 25. -At the passenger J.

M. and f. R. ten miles south of this city, a Frank dificulty Meyers, occurred when the between latter drew a knife and Chas. Bernhauer and stabbed Bernhauer, from the effects of which he bled to death before medical aid could be reached.

Drowned While Bathing, July Sharp, son bathing of Peter OMAHA, H. Sharp, a prominent citizen, while with a number of young men in the lake, He near this city, this afternoon, was drowned. was a young man of great promise, FOREIGN. State Submission Acquiesced in by Papal Authority. Extensive Strike of Cotton Operatives in England.

Plymsoll, the Defiant, Sympathized With and Indorsed. FINANCIAL. FINANCIAL $8.000 made in Wall street by vestment of $106 In Put on Panama: 100 shares of information bought deposit of $800. Pamphlet giving fall free. "Simpson, Darragh bankers and brokers, 84 Broadway, corner of Wall street, New York.

Money to Loan. HAVE a sum of money to loan on real estate security. JNO. N. STRATT, Chestnut street.

FINANCIAL. per cent. on first-class city real estate; also, funds advanced tor building in sums of 85,000 and upwards. BUDD, SON Financial Agents for Eastern Capitalists. MONEY TO HAVE Eastern funds to loan on St.

Louis real estate security, in sums of $5,000 and over, at lowest rates. BENJAMIN FARRAR. 417 Pine street. AT REASONABLE RATES MONEY on Lite Mortgages. and Endowment, also Insurance bought.

PoliNELSON W. CAMERON, No. 623 Olive Street, Room 4. GEO. A.

BAKER. JAMES AULL. BAKER AULL, BROKERS AND FINANCIAL AGENTS, 219 OLIVE STREET. BONDS, Stocks Commercial and and other Real securities Estate paper bought and negotiated. SENT FREE! FOR ONE YEAR WEEKLY, Financial reports containing prices, stocks, at Opp.

N. Y. Stock Exchange. 12 Wall N. Y.

Butchers' and Drovers' BANK, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI. Northeast Corner Fifth and Morgan Sts, NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE A how valuable $100, $500 Statistical or $1,000 information, invested in explaining Wall street pays thousands of dollars profit. Those desir Ing to speculate address ALEX. FROTHINGHAM Bankers and Brokers, INTEREST allowed accessible on time points, depesits, collections GOLD AND SILVER BOUGHT AND SOLD Drafts of £1 and upwards en Ireland and England at lowest rates.

B. M. President. P. S.

LANGTON. CONSTANTINE MAGUIRE. Vice-President. DIRECTORS. B.

M. Chambers, President. Constantine Maguire, of J. C. Maguire, wholesale druggists.

Jos. Mulhall, of Maxwell, Scaling Mulhall. James A. Wright, carriage manufacturer, Thomas Ryan, wholesale grocer. William McKee, proprietor St.

Louis Globe-Demoocrat. John F. Gibbons, real estate and loan agent. Hon. Arthur B.

Barrett, Mayor of city of St. Louis. Joseph Garneau, of Garneau, Hillard cracker manufreturers. Wm. H.

Benton, capitalist. Dr. Alex. Marshall, capitalist. J.

K. Cummings, proprietor St. Louis Glass Works, S. Langton, Cashier, SUMMER RESORTS. THE WENTWORTH, A FIRST- -CLASS Newcastle, N.

SUMMER three RESORT, miles from situPortsmouth, will open for the season June 10, under the management of CAMPBELL CHASE. All the rooms in the house are desirable; and the ocean and river bathing, sailing, fishing and riding facilities unsurpassed. For further information inquire of CHAS. E. CAMPBELL, Portsmouth, N.

or CHAS. H. CHASE, 45 North Market street, Boston, Mass. ISLAND LEDGE HOUSE, WELLS BEACH, ME. W.

A. WORCESTER Proprietors. THIS HOUSE is considered the best on the seacoast of New England, where there is surf and river bathing, with excellent facilities for sailing, fishIng, gunning and all out-door amusements. Good music for dancing and parties at service of patrons, and everything that can be mentioned in a house adapted for pleasure and recreation. Splendid drives on the shore and in the best the market can afford comfort and happiness of Maine Railroad runs four to this beautiful resort.

woods. Prices moderate. The for the table, and for the the guests. Boston and trains per day from Boston DEER PARK HOTEL B. 0.

R. Re, WIL OPEN JUNE 21, 1875 JOHN DAILEY, Manager, Formerly of the Hotel, Oakland. THE OLDEST, LARGEST AND BEST. FRANKLIN Lightning Rod Works COLE BROS. ESTABLISHED 1849.

TRADE TOST Sole Manufacturers of the Genuine Franklin Lightning Rod made to order to suit any building. and Copper Lightning Rods furnished. Roc city retall trade a specialty. All kinds of Iron 721 and 723 South Seventh 9' cureet. The United States Law Association AND COLLECT ION UNION.

Makes 210 collectior rope, every kind, through at ite any and transacts legal business of STREET, ST. LOUIS. whom has point in the United. States or Euand efficier' attorneys and correspondents, each of will be mr highly recommended as prompt, able moders' Preliminary investigations of claims de without charge. Fees and commissions 46.

Consult or address J. P. COLBY, Attorney at Law and Director for Missouri. GARTSIDE COAL CO. DEALERS IN Alma, Carbondale Big Muddy Coal No.

213 Chestnut Street. Germany. CATHOLIC SUBMISSION. BERLIN, July on 25. -The North German Gazette, commenting the recent submission of the Catholic clergymen to the law for the administration of the Church, says they have thereby abandoned the principle hitherto maintained, that politics and ecclesiastical matters can only be regulated by means of independent arrangements between the State and the Church.

The Gazette infers that the Romans have ven permission to the clergy to decide for themselves, at the same time assuring them that submission to the law will not be regarded as an act of disobedience to Papal authority. This, continues the Gazette, may be regarded as hanging the struggle between political and ecclesiastical powers, and the Cathofic Episcopate will probably urge upon Rome the necessity of extending a still further freedom of action in these matters. AN ULTRAMONTANE MAJORITY. MUNICH, July 25. -The Electoral College of Bavaria have choson members of the Lower House, which stands 79 Ultramontanes to 76 crals.

England. PLYMSOLL' INDORSED. LIVERPOOL, July A meeting was held at Birkenhead to- day to indorse Plymsoll'8 course in Parliament. Several thousand sailors and workingmen were Resolutions express ing sympathy with, and pledging support to, PlymBoll were adopted. STRIKE ON A LARGE SCALE.

LONDON, July 25. -In accordance with notices given by cotton masters of Ashton, Haylysbridge, Dunkenfield, and Mossly, a lockout commenced the mills on Saturday. Unless the operatives yield by the end of the month the mills still open will be closed, as the time of notices expires, in which case several thousand people will be thrown out of employment. Meantime the strike set on foot by the operatives in Oldham goes into effect to -morrow, and will involve 100 mills and 13,000 hands. ARRIVED OUT.

LIVERPOOL, July from Phildelphia. SUPPORT FOR THE STRIKERS. The workingmen's associations of Yorkshire, Lancashire and Cheshire have resolved to support the and striking mill operators. POSTAL IMPROVEMENTS. The Standard reports that Mr.

Scudamore will retire from the British Post and go to Turkey to organize its postal service there in accordance with the Berne Convention. IMPORTANT ARRESTS. A dispatch from Berlin to the Standard says that the Count de Zembek, his mother, and a chambermaid, have been arrested at Landeck, in the district of Breslau. They are charged with being concerned in a conspiracy to assassinate Prince Frederick William. France.

DEATH OF AN EMINENT MINISTER. PARIS, July Joscie Coquerel, the eminent Protestant minister, is dead. LOSSES BY THE FLOOD. The official statement by the Minister of Public Works to the Assembly, estimated the total damage by the inundation in South France at $15,000,000. VERY SERIOUS.

PARIS, July The Moniteur, commenting on the insurrection in Herzegovina, says a very little time will show whether it is a false alarm or whether the final conflagration in the Christian districts of Turkey has commenced. In any case the situation is serious enough to give uneasiness to European diplomacy. Russia. WANTS TO BE RECALLED, LONDON, July 26. -A telegram from Berlin to the Morning Post, says it is reported Count Schouraloff, Russian Minister at London, has asked to be recalled, in consequence of the recent assertion of Mr.

Burke, Under Secretary of the Foreign Department in the House of Commons, that Russia had violated her promises in regard to the Khiva. It was Count Schouraloff who conveyed the promises in question to the British Government. Spain. NO THREATS. LONDON, July 25.

-The text of Don Carlos' letter to King Alfonso is published. It contains no threats of uprisals on part of the Carlists. HEAVY LOSSES. MADRID, July 25. -The losses of the Carlists during the past three weeks in killed, wounded and missing, are estimated at 4,000 men.

INSULTED. A Petty Politician Attacks an Editor, and Gets Used Up. CLEVELAND, July Saturday afternoon a ruflianly attack was made on Mr. E. Cowles, editor of the Leader, by Assistant Street Inspector Zirmer, of this city.

The ground of the assault was an article published in the Leader, charging Zirmer with black- -mailing certain laborers in the employ of the city. He came into the office of Mr. Cowles, and demanded, in threatening, abusive language, to know the author of the article. Mr. Cowles refused to discuss the matter until Zirmer had cooled down somewhat.

When Mr. Cowles stated that, as chief editor, he was responsible for its utterances, Ziemer replied by striking him, while in a sitting position, a violent blow with his fist on the left side of the head. Ziemer was then scized by a couple of by-standers, when he drew pistol. While attempting to cock it, Mr. Cowles seized an iron cane and dealt him a heavy blow on the head, donbling up the cane and taking all the fight out of Ziemer, who was arrested, taken to the police station and put under $10,000 bonds to answer for assault with intent to kill.

Hotel Destroyed. SPRINGFIELD, July a well-known summer resort about three miles southwest of Iolyoke, was destroyed by fire this evening. It was built by J. S. Davis, of Holyoke, a few years ago, at a cost of $156,000, but was sold in 1874 to U.

S. Chandler of this city for $30,000, and has not been open for guests this season. Insurance $20,000. Marine. SAN FRANCISCO, July 25.

-Arrived -Ship Criterion, from New York. PHILADELPHIA, July 25. -Arrived-Pennsylvania, from Liverpool. NEW YORK, July 25. -Steamer Republic, from Liverpool, Special River Telegrams.

UNITED STATES SIGNAL SERVICE REPORT. Daily report of the stage of water, with changes in the twenty-four hours ending 3 p. m. July 25, 1875: STATIONS. 9 STATIONS.

water. Above 9 MOT ft. In. MOT ft. In.

9 14 Leavenworth12 0 Keokuk 5 Vickeburg 10 St. Cairo 3 11 N. Cincinnati ..87 10 10 00 5 Nashville POMM Pittsburg 9 6 0 fall. GEO. Service, PRENDER, U.

S. A. Sergeant Signal BEARDSTOWN, July a. Weather Lady cloudy Lee, 10 a. m.

Boyd, 11:30 m. with strong appearance of rain. Genevieve, CAIRO, July Vicksburg, 10 p. Raven, St. Louis, midnight; W.

Alf. Stevens, St. Louis, R. Thomas Means, St. Louis, 11 a.

Arkansas Belle, 111. Evansviile, 1p. A. J. Baker, Pitteburg, 5 p.

p. Departed-Ste. Genevieve, St. Alf. Louis, Stevens, 11 Dyers- Raven, 9 a.

Louis, Thos. A. Means, Ohio river, noon; St. 7 burg, Arkaneas Belle, Evansville, 4 p. Julia, Vicks Rain burg, in 4 p.

the m. forenoon; weather cloudy. Mercury 40 feet 7 inches and falling. 860. EVANSVILLE, July clear; mercury 74 to Port 86.

List: Up- Cons. Millar, 8 a. River 33 1-10 feet and rising, full of Red drift. Cloud, 9 3. m.

Down-Bowling Green, p. Morning Star. No July business. -River 8 feet 8 inches and falling PITTSBURG, weather cloudy and rainy. Brownsville, reports July 12 feet and falling -Thirty-seven slowly, feet 10 inches and stationary; fair during the day; rain CINCINNATI, LOUISVILLE, July 25.

-River rising with 15 feet in canal and 13 feet on Indian Chute. ArrivedD. Parker and Indiana, from Cincinnati; J. L. Rhonda, from St.

Louis; Fanny Tatum, for' from Pittsburg. Departed- -J. D. Orleans; Parker, Tatum for Mem- St. Louis; Rhoade, for Pittsburg.

Clear and Indiana, for New pleasant..