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KDITOP.I AI. NOTES.
Was on legislative free passes is being ;
waged in Kentucky and lowa.
Senator Brown is in Atlanta, and the
boys are trying to get him to talk.
GruTEAtr is bound to swing. Gath has
bmlt his gallows for him—on paper.
Fiei.d Marshal Longstbzrt seems to be
bringing his forces together for the fray.
A Georgia Independent who expects to '
run well must follow Oscar Wn.DE and pad
his legs.
Gath says that some ot the Washington :
lawyers characterize the GriTKAD verdict as
an outrage.
Politics are perceptibly on the bubble.
Candidates are already announcing in
Richmond county.
Ora Uncle Samuel says he would not
have it; bnt Mr. Voorhees thinks that'
Mr. Hendricks might.
Scoville's latest point is that the trial
was illegal because it occupied more than
one term of the Court.
It is said during the vaccination season
that “the right to bear arms for •self-pro
tection is a blessed privilege.”
Revenue regulations will bo rigidly en
forced this year against Georgia Bourbon
ism.—Meld Marshal Long street.
Poor Pledgee ! compelled to acknowl
edge that he could not make up a ticket to
“beat Ben Hill,” he had to go.
A man is wanted in Georgia, nnder the
new Apportioment bill, to run at large for
Congress. Mnat come well recommended.
The Guiteau jury would be a good tri
bunal to sit upon the Star Route cases, only
the country wants something swift this
time.
Georgia moonshinets are having a rest
while Field Marshal Longstreet is plan
ning operations against the Bourbons in
the State.
It is now said that owing to appeals and
general points of etiquette, Gitteai - cannot
be hanged before July. We suggest July
2 as a good date.
The party that can make rain, insure good
Crops and fair prices and teach agricultural
economy in Georgia, will hold tho winning
cards in all campaigns.
Editor Lamar is trying to break up what
he terms Independent “lodges” in tho dis
trict. Such Oneida communities of politics
cannot thrive in Georgia.
The American debutante, Lillian Larue,
from Now Orleans, appeared in Carl Rosa’s
English Company as “Carmen,” in London,
recently, and sang intelligently.
We can see no reason for running the
Hon. A. 11. Cox out of the Democratic
camp as yet. .Let ns hear from him in the
Arthur-Longstreet combination.
Has the rumor that Col. Cole is going
into the banking and real estate business in
Nashville, anything totlo with the stopping
of work aronnd Atlanta on the C. &G. R. R.
Several years ago our enterprises were
almost entirely supported on borrowed cap
ital; now tho money is here, and any great
panic is almost impossible.”— Wall Street
Letter.
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The position of the President’s Private
Secretary was offered to Mr. J. C. Reed, bnt
he was compelled to decline on account of
private matters in New York demanding his
attention.
Louisville and Cincinati are warring and
jarring over differential freight rates. When
the discussion becomes one of general in
terest Augnsta may bo expected to go np
and take a hand.
At New Orleans all the cotton presses are
glutted, owing to the fact that great quan
tities of cotton are being held for future de
livery and no largo shipments are being
made to Europe.
All of the Federal appointees in Mary
land were Grant men at Chicago, or helped
conspicuously to eend Grant delegates
there, line by one the old Grant crowd is
being resurrected.
Col. Albert Lamar thinks that Mr. Hill
is unfortunate in his political proteges.
Emory Suker has run to cover in the Re
publican camp and Albert Cox is trailing
in the same direction.
—--■ » »
One of the letters to the Gutteau jury, for
ths purpose of terrorizing them into a ver
dict of guilty, was from Jack Brown, of
Georgia. It was opened after the verdiet
was brought in, else tho trial might have
been concluded sooner.
The indications are that a caucus will
soon be called by Democratic Representa
tives for the purpose of ascertaining the
standing of respective members on the
tariff question, and with a view of deciding
a basis of concerted action, when the
matter cornea before the House.
—W ———
The small pox is not abating, but vac
cinations are multiplying, and in localities
where the death rate is largest, the percent
age is smaller than it used to be when no one
had even the partial protection of imperfect
vaccination. In those days one patient out
of three or four died. The highest death
rate we have seen is one in five or six, and
that is exceptional.
The highest compliment paid to Senator
Lamar on his recent triumphant re-election
to the Senate was by Mr. Shorter, a lead
ing colored Republican member of the Mis
sissippi Legislature, who voted for Lamar,
and said: “I have voted for the eminent
statesman, the Hon. L. Q. C. Lamar, being
assured that he is tho choice of a very large
majority of the intelligent and substantial
citizens of my county and of the State.”
That compliment is worth being grateful for.
An important unpublished work by
Thomas Carlyle has been discovered lately.
It is entitled “A Tour in Ireland in 1849,”
and comprises notes on the moral and politi
cal condition of that country of the most
stringent character and greatest interest.
This manuscript was unknown to Mr.
Froude, and it was submitted to his exami
tion. He was so delighted with it that he
voluiitacred to write an introduction when
it is published in book dorm. Meanwhile
it has been secured by Edmund Gosse for
the Century Magazine, where it will shortly
begin to appear as a serial, simultaneously
in London and Now York.
Bradstreet's .Reporter thinks some
notion of the prosperity of the Southern
cities may be gathered from the following:
Richmond, Va., population 63.000. has a
total property valuation of $40,000,000,
and its 675 manufactories have a capital of
$11,000,000. The product last year—
largely iron' and tobacco—amounted tp
$32,000,000, against $21,000,000 in 1880.
Columbus, Ga., with a population of only
7,400, last year increased it assessment by
$471,000 and its business by $695,000.
Augusta, Ga., has six cotton mills, with
$4,000,000 capital and 115,000 spindles,
and all are making money.
We trust the weather will be mere favor
able to Dr. Felton than last night’s indica
tions foreboded. The Doctor deserves a
good and respectful audience, for the day is
happily past, if it ever existed, when a
Georgian could not appeal to Georgians
rationally and effectively upon matters of
political difference. The true and the tried
Democracy of this State is big enough and
strong enough to confront all the evidence
of its opponents, and to sustain the verdict
•of its best support and highest tribunal—
the people of Georgia. Dr. Felton is a
gentleman of character and ability, and
many good people will listen to him for him
self rather than hear him for his cause to
night. .
MB. COX. OF LtGHAVCE.
The Chronicle has already alluded to a
letter written by Hon. Albert H. Cox, of |
LaGrange, a few days since, upon the mission
of an Independent party. Mr. Cox ranks as ■
a gentleman of fine ability, as a lawyer and ,
public man, and has at the bar and in the •
halls of legislation earned a reputation lor I
eloquence, force and sagacity which invest i
any of his utterances with interest, and
prime them with influence. He has twice i
represented Troup county in the Lower
House at Atlanta, and, as manager of one
of the impeachment cases, in 1879, ren
dered conspicuous and faithful service to
the State. In 1880 Mr. Cox was placed be- i
fora the Congressional Convention of the
Fourth District, and received a strong sup
port during its session, finally retiring,
however, with prestige and dignity, in favor
of Hon. Hugh Buchanan.
For these reasons, then, we wohld have ,
been the more disappointed had Mr. Cox
have written a letter encouraging any Inde
pendent movement in Georgia. But a care
ful construction of this article fails to justify j
any great apprehension on this point. ■
Beyond a casual answer to a mention of
his possible candidacy for the next nomina
tion in the Fourth District, he makes no
allusion to State politics. He does not care I
to speak of the present movement in Geor- j
gia ; evidently does not coincide with the
plans and purposes of the Felton confer
ence ; and we cannot detect very much in
what he says calculated to give aid and en
couragement to the new coalition.
Mr. Cox would have a National party
which, “bound by no pretext to the Demo
crats and bound by no subterfuge to Re
publicans goes to the country against
both—seeking support from all citizens on
rogrea-ive principlee.” The reasons which ,
he assigns are that neither the Democratic
nor the Republican party can ever ignore I
sectional issues, or cat ever be made the
instrument of the people’s welfare. He
would then invite progressive patriots.
North and South, to meet in it and drive
out sectionalism and corruptionists from
Federal politics.
Mr. Cox advances theories in his letter
which are both plausible, and, we believe,
patriotic. We will give him credit for hon
est purposes, for we believe he is as unin
fluenced by political preferment, as he is
possibly unfortunate at this time for making
public his present opinions. By some, he
may be misjudged in his motives; by others
his ideas may be mistaken and misapplied
to the new Administration party in Georgia.
Mr. Cox knows that, for his own advance
ment, it is unnecessary to go beyond the
pale of the party for which he has done so
much in the past, and which may contain so
much in store for him in the future; hence,
we could not, if we would, characterize this
letter by any other term than ilLtimed and
premature.
So far as the State of Georgia is concern
ed, Mr. Cox must, at least, admit that tho
breadth of party lines, and the progressive
ness of political principles, are enough to
drown sectionalism, and to throw ofl cor
ruption. The Democratic party in Georgia
was dully vaccinated in 1879-’B3, if we may
so express it, during the Department inves
tigations and subsequent campaign. Indeed,
for general prosperity, Mr. Cox must, at
least, accept the comments of the Philadel
phia Press, a Republican paper, which says:
There arc very few who will be found dispos
ed to take very decided issue with “Bourbon
iem” when it identifies itself with such prodi
gies of industrial realization as Georgia ex
hibits.
There are many in Georgia who might fol
low Mr. Coy with pleasure through his plati
tudes upon the desirability of breaking up
party lines all over the country and of sum
moning progressive patriots to form a new
alliance. But any surrender of Democratic
principles before Republican formulas are
correspondingly abandoned would be worse
than folly; and any coalition through which
a Stalwart Administration can be encour
aged to play upon local discords and work
upon "young and dissatisfied Demo
crats,” as President Arthur terms them,
would be a great miscarriage and misfor
tune. Mr. Cox has evidently in his mind
some such " liberal movement as General
Gari ield is said to have formed, in company
with prominent Southern leaders, by invit
ing the broadest statesmen of South and
North, and without any bitterness cherish
ed by the one or any desire to mortify or
to degrade, entertained by the other,
surrender old issues for new and growing
ideas. But the very element of this coun
try-the Stalwart faction against which
Gen. Garfield wished to ptoseed, is now in
possession of the Government, and wo are
even informed from Washington that “the
Arthur-Longstreet combination has com
menced operations against the Bourbons
of Georgia." Heufic, the time for indulg
ing in such Nationrd or Mato theories seems
to have been postponed for the
What Mr. Cox really wants in his letter is
a Liberal party—not an Independent party
for, as hu beenwell said, an Independent
partv means freedom from organization
without which there eoijjd be no existence,
and laxity of principle witti««q‘ which there
can be no influence.
Bnt because praiseworthy sentiments in
Mr. Cox’s letter have been imputed to
wrong motive, and because tjm Independ
ent ideas he embodies might be turned to
aid and encourage the present coalition in
Georgia—which would entirely destroy the
objects at which he is aiming—wb regrto.
that he has written this letter at this time.
the: mist cause.
When Hon. Jefferson Davis arose in his
place in New Orleans the other day *nd al
luded to the late Confederacy as “a eanse
not lost but sleeping,” he made two mis
takes. We criticise his statement, not as
a question of policy, but as a matter of phi
losophy. The man who engaged in an un
dertaking with so much earnestness and
fire as Mr. Davis, and who wasfcscjm'i up
by a people of so much devotion and vator
as the Southern soldiersand sympathizers,
shows himself ungrateful of the record or
forgetful of truth and history, when he
charactizes the cause M either lost or sleep
ing. As a student of public events and a
reader of the contests ot the past, Mr. Da
vis should have known better. He should
have known that no great movement, con
ceived in sincerity and in consistency car
ried out, depends upon outward success
or literal supremacy. Be should have
known that no well-ordered revolution await
ed the accomplishment of its exact
or fell back upon the consummation of its
original aims for its vindication. Because
Mr. Davis did not see the Southern States
secede as he cuald have wished; because he
did not see the Soittosrn Confederacy a sep
arate compact as he had desired; because he
did not see his flag crowned sjj victory,
when its folds were stainless of crime epd
resplendent with valor, he seems to have
been guilty of that error which consigns as
lost the cause Mbich ho espoused, or aban
don as dead the pna Spies which he had
cherished.
True, Many people have tnoX: the same
mistake. That man who is convinrej of
the eternal justice of his opinions, as wert
as conscious of the pc.rity of his motives in
enforcing them, will always believe in the
literal supremacy of these adUas, unless he
has been trained in a higher philosophy and
by a more liberal construction of iQdd’s
event*. And unless such a close construc
tionist lives to see the accomplishment of
hrs purposes in exactly the manner his own
fallible judgment may have planned, he
either begins to doubt the eternity of truth,
or dies pointing with confidence to that day
When the future, envious of the past.
Shall break all Argive’s iron sleep at last.
But why is it that Mr. Davis cannot real
ize his two-fold mistake that the cause is
“lost or sleeping ?” Ishaamaa or states
man ? Then let him look around. On esery
hand he will see the principles of Southern
independence and Southern supremacy as
serting themselves. Let him come to Geor
gia and view the same spot where lie last
met his Cabinet; cast his eye North and
South, and behold the same people, many
of them in their same iviises, on the
same hills, under the same sky. From
the mountains to the seaboard, what evi
dences of material prosperity, what achieve
ments of industry, what real advancement
not unatten.led with the disasters of the
seasons or the stringency of the times, it
is true—but on the whole, what strenuous
strides the South has made i Let the cen
sus speak and show the tide sf workers
gladly recognizing this Sunny Land “as
bright as it is happy, because as broad as it
is free,” kw -their homes. It is true that
tbe rifle pits along Kennesaw Ridge have
been levelled off. and the martial environ
ments about Pulaski abandoned, but in
every spot there lives a man who can tell
him to-day that there dwells in his breast
no mortification for the past; that there is
felt in the fioutfa no humiliation for
her course; but that everywhere in
the wake of the new era this peo
ple and this age can aee the “old i
CHRONICLE AND CONSTITUTIONALIST, AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY I. 1882
cause’’ at work, refining the civiliza
tion of the whole country, strengthening
the sympathy of its inhabitants. North,
! South, East and West, and welding into
bonds of political harmony, because of
commercial and social dependence, a more
[ perfect Union.
Why, then, should Mr. Davis’ too literal
i idea that the cause is lost or sleeping, be
| upheld ? The war was inevitable. States
men for twenty years had foreseen it.—
Daniel Webstee, whose centenary last
week we celebrated, was as powerless to
avert it with his eloquence and bis patriot
ism, ss were the forays in the Wilderness
and the fires of Antietam to alter the final
result. If not in the South, some other
section would have made the great test for
separate sovereignty. New England had
been several times ripe for it; the
West, with its great and growing
wealth and ambition, had more than
once made efforts to erect a Govern
ment for itself. The South did make
the contest upon her own soil, and with her
own blood. Blessed, pure, and fruitful is
that soil to day an hundred fold, and
strangely, yet wisely, effective the blood
which the heroes of both armies spilled in
the encounter! This side has learned the
more to respect herself, and to make others
respect her. and the other will be, itself,
more devoted to the Union and more jealous
of the aims and objects of the Constitution
and the laws.
If there is a true man in the North to-day
who regards the South with feelings of con
tempt or hatred, we do not know it; if there
is a true man in the South who is ashamed
of what is past, or believes the cause is “lost
or sleeping,” we do not want to know it.
We doubt if there be one person in this
: country now, who does not recognize that
j the spirit ol “the lost cause”—that energy,
j that genins and that chivalry which made
I Manassas possible, and Appomatox neces
sary—is every day working to make the con
dition of tho South more influential in the
Nation, and the strength of the Union more
powerful before the world.
THE CLOSING SCENES.
How the Court Room Appeared When
the Jury Were Deliberating—The Pris
oner and Ills Counsel—What Guiteau
Said.
Washington, January 25. —At 5:10
o’clock the jury went out. Guiteau, ner
vous and uneasy in his place, with the
crowd surging about him and peering at
him, stared at the jurymen as they passed
into tho hall, and then rose and asked the
Judge to allow him to go to the Marshal’s
office. His request was granted, and the
policemen led him through the crowd to
the eastern window, where he has spent the
recess hours and eaten his dinners during
the eleven weeks of the trial. Ten minutes
later Judge Cox ordered a recess of half an
hour.
After the jury and prisoner Sad gone out
people in the crowded Court room, now so
dark that faces of men and women were
scarcely distinguishable at a yard’s dis
tance, began to discuss the chances for or
against the prisoner. The Judge’s charge
was regarded as severe by the prisoner’s
friends; by the friends of the prosecution it
was regarded as absolutely fair. These who
hoped for a conviction feared that the story
that one of the jurymen favored the prison
er’s assumption of insanity would prove to
be true, and that justice would be defeated.
The prisoner’s friends were not confident.
The best they could hope was that the jury
would prolong their absence. “If they are
out an hour,” said one of the prisoner’s
most conspicuous friends, “we shall lock
for a disagreement.” Thera was great
anxiety to learn what was going on in tho
jury room. No one could find out. In the
Marshal’s room Guiteau lost his air of
bravado. “Will they acquit me?” he in
quired of C.ipt. Tall. “Will they disagree?”
he asked of another of his guards. The
guards could not tell. They only kept their
eyes upon him to see that he did not escape
or do himself anv mischief.
The scene presented in the Court room
half an hour later was one long to be re
membered by all who saw it. Darkness
had settled down over tho dismal apartment.
There were no gas fixtures in the room and
only two oil lamps—one for the Judge and
one for the stenographer of tho Court. A
crowd of four hundred persons was huddled
together in an indistingnshable mass.
Candles were procured, and three or four
were lighted at long distances apart across
the desk. A few were furnished lor the re ■
porters’ tables, one glimmered faintly in the
audience, and two were set upon the" rail of
the dock. They did not light the room but
they sent weird shadows flickering fantasti
cally against the grim walls. The place was
chilly, and the tired spectators shivered
from cold and with excitement. There was
no need to shout “silence,” when Judge
Cox took his seat at the moment appointed
for reassembling. The quiet of the grave
prevailed, broken only by the noise made
by the prisoner and his guards as they came
in. Guiteau, pale, shivering, full of fear,
dropped into his chair at the end of the
dock. His manacles were not removed.
Sitting bolt upright, he stared wistfully
across towards the seats reserved for the
jurymen. It he was anxious, he had not
long to wait.
Just 50 minutes after the time when the
jury had left their places to go to their con
sulting room there was a stir at the door
beside the Judge's bench. “Silence!”
shouted Marshal Henry. 'J?hc jury filed
into their places. Guiteau otri;ii;ed hjs
eyes, as if to read in their faces the decision
they had reached. The light was so dim
that he could not have known beforehand
the dread conclusion they were about to an
nounce,. The jury took their seats, everbody
in tho Couji room stood up, and all who
could see Guiteau fastened theij- eyes upon
his pale face as he trembling shrank back
into a corner of the dock. His eyes were
on the jury now. The names of the jury
men were called, the gray-haired crier telling
them off, until the 12 men were counted as
present.
“Ge*d f ’emen of the jury,” asked the
Clerk, "have yc"agreed upon a verdict?”
A rattling of seatsapi.ong the spectators at
the back of the room broke the rjeatla-lilre
stillness. “Silence,” shouted the Marshals.
“iiVhaf asy you, gentlemen of the jury,
is the prisoner at the bar gjiilty or not
guilty ?’
The sedate foreman, rising in hjs pjace,
responded in a low voice, bujt cjeayly
enough to be heard all over the room ;
* “Guilty an Indicted.**
There was a momentary rumbling of ap
plause, which was promptly checked as Mr.
Scoville and Col. Corkhill both demanded
that the jury be polled. The names of the
juryman y/era palled, and each responded
‘ ‘Guilty” in a firm, ,-iaa’ tone of voice. The
prisoner's disposition io bluster had not en
tirely deserted him. Rallying irpm Iqa de
pression, he declared that his blood would
be upon the jury and that the verdict was
an outrage upon the American people. Mr.
Spovillo made some inquiries for the pur
pose of ascertaining what privileges the de
fense cou«l siliim in the way of securing an
arrest of judgment an. 4 the opportunity of
making U motion for a t,jal. These
were auswxrpd, imd the Judge a<l J repaid a
few compliments*.' WP»ds to the jurors and
discharged them from fu,th;;r duty at the
Court.
Outside the Court House two lines of
mm s , women, and children, stood in the
drizzling rain to see Guiteau as he passed
from the to the prison van. The
wagon bad gmj backed with its
open door against the (Officers held
back the crowd on each sidp. ”4 4°; en
policemen, escorting Guitean, cam.e ont
through the arched passage beneath the
Co>ri House. He was hurried quickly down
the wa'jk tbe van, no one uttering a syl
lable as he passed- As the door of the van
was banged behind nim 4 yell arose, a yell
of satisisstmp, that was kept up while the
van rattled away toward the jail,
must have rung in liw murderer's ears‘i‘or
some time as he passed along oo the gloomy
journey.
Although the jury •'Vere out about fifty
minutes they did not consume that time in
reaching verdict. As soon as they retired
a ballot was sn.i all the ballots except
one contained t he word twelfth
ballot was blank, and this W(;s cast by Mr.
Heinlein, who desired information: .gl onp
point to enable him to vote iptelligentjy.
The information he sought was whether
Guiteau had said that in killing the Presj
ciept he would gain notoriety and thus in
crease tbe sale of his book. When he had
been satisrUfi that point a second ballot
was taken, all the juigjs voting "guilty.”
Mr. Bright, oneof the jurors, 4 a;d after the
trial, there had never been a cjrme
the evidence was complete when the surbjrs
were not ready to render a verdiet. He did
not believe that the arguments of counsel
made aay impression, one way or the other,
upon the jurors. He had not heard the re
port that it had beau discovered that one of
the jurors favored acquittal o» q verdict of
insanity. The jury was moat’
isolated, and Mr. Bright said that, ’while ho
had felt the deprivation of associates, he
could not speak too highly of cue faithful
manner in which the bailiffs had performed
theur disagreeable duty. The jury, he said,
had been absolutely ignorant of the drift of
public opinion the trial. They had
not been at all impressed ~ith the belief
that Guiteau was insane, ih,c ->nani
mocs opinion being that his insanity was
shammed.
THE SEiT MOVE.
Kroville to Move For a
Motion Bated on Krrors in the Verdiet*
Washington, January 25.—Scoville said
to-night that the next in the
Guiteau case would be a metion for a new
trial.- which he expects to file Saturday.
The main points on which it will be based
are: The jaty erred in rendering a. verdict
contrary to law, and they erred in render
ing the verdict contrary to evidence: the
Judge in his charge did not baeeit upon all
the evidence, and the jury during the trial
read the s«rspapers and had conversations
with outside petaons. Should it be denied,
an appeal will be takec to the Cohrt in banc
in April.
Referring to the Verdiet.
Scoville gaid, after hearing Judge Cox’s
charge, that ha was not surprised that the
jury rendered a vyrdiet of guilty. He le
frained, however, from passiag any criticism
upon Judge Cox’s charge, further than to
say he had not been accustomed to hear a
Judge address a jury as Judge Cox did. but
simply submit written instructions, and
this, too, upon the bearing upon the case
and not upon the evidence. Judge Cox,
Mr. Scoville thought, did not review the
entire evidence given in the case, but only
portions of it.
Guiteau
Is said by some to have appeared a sane
person in the Court room at the time the
verdict was announced, but Scoville be
lieves that when the excitement of the trial
isover—an excitement which Scoville thinks
has sustained Guiteau all the way through
—he will become a raving maniae.’
Scoville does not talk to-night like a man
who thinks his labor in this matter is at an
end. There are good grounds, he says, for
a new trial, and he proposes to show this
from the record of the trial, when the pop
ular feeling against Guiteau has died away.
In that record, he says, will be found the
fact that the letter from Guiteau to District
Attorney Corkhill, with the signature and a
large part of the contents torn off, was ad
mitted in evidence. Besides this there is
expert testimony which, he says, is con
demned by thousands of competent men
throughout the country, other facts now
matters of record, all of which can be used
as reasons for asking for a new trial. •
LETTER FROM SENATOR BROWN.
111. Reply To Certain Unfounded .state
ment. of HI. Position—Wblcli 1. tbe
Progressive Party In Georgia.
United States Senate Chamber, Wash
ington, January 17, 1882. Col. J. IL
Estill, Savannah, (7a.—Dear Sir : I have the
honor to acknowledge the receipt of your
letter informing me that there are reports
in circulation in Georgia that I applied to
President Arthur to permit me to control
the patronage of- Georgia, and that he de
clined,, to do so on account of my Democ
racy, etc.
In reply, I have to state that there is no
foundation whatever for such reports. My
personal relations with President Arthur
have been pleasant ever since I first met
him, but he understands very well my po
sition as a Democratic Senator, and I un
derstand his position as a Republican
President; and while, in accordance with
the request of many of my constituents, I
have presented the names of a few per
sons to him who were seeking appoint
ment, with such recommendations as I
thought them entitled to, I have never on
any occasion intimated to him that I would
like to have the control of the patronage of
my State, and I have never expected or de
sired it. My opinion is that most of the
Democrats who remain true to their prin
ciples and to their duties as Democrats,
who hold Federal offices worth anything,
will be displaced to make room for Re
publicans, or for the class of Democrats who
may be influenced and won over to alli
ance with the Republican party by the fa
vor of offices bestowed upon them.
You further call my attention to the fact
that there arc reports that I had been ap
proached by the Administration and desired
to take charge of what is termed the new
movement in Georgia. This, too, is entire
ly incorrect. My position as a Democrat is
well understood by the Administration. I
am not aware of any act I have done here
or anything I have said indicating in the
slightest degree a purpose to depart from
my duty as a Democrat. I know there is a
disposition on the part of those who are at
tempting t<s consolidate an alliance between
the Republicans and a class of Democrats
who are dissatisfied with the party and are
ready to leave it, to characterize every man
who acts with the Democracy and maintains
its organization as a Bourbon; and they ap
peal to every man who is in favor of pro
gress and of the acceptance of the Recon
struction measures and their faithful execu
tion to join the new organization.
There can be no reason for this in Georgia,
as the Democratic party, an overwhelming
majority of it,' as at present organized, is on
the progressive line. They have accepted
the reconstruction measures and the consti
tutional amendments in good faith, and in
tend to stand by them and carry them ont
in letter and spirit, and to see that legal
justice is done to all the citizens of the State,
without regard to race or color. The De
mocracy intends to see that there is a free
ballot and a fair count, and that the legal
rTghts of the humblest citizen arc protected
as sacredly as those of the wealthy and in
fluential.
If this is Bourbonism, then the charge
can be justly made against the Democracy
of Georgia. If it is Liberalism, then the
Democratic party of our State is entitled to
be termed a liberal party. The truth is,
the Democracy understand and appreciate
the changes which resulted f om the war
and aro determined to move forward on tho
lino of progress and development in future;
to stand by principle and maintain the
relative rights and powers of Federal and
State Governments, doing all in their power
to secure tho movement of each within its
constitutional sphere, as the surest and best
method of protecting the rights of all and
of building up, developing and enriching
the whole country.
At the end of the war society was greatly
disorganized in Georgia, and the other
Southern States. We have had a long, hard
struggle, and have been obliged to exorcise
a great deal of patience and forbearance in
reorganizing it upon a just basis. We have
reached a point where peace, prosperity
and harmonj’ are again securely based upon
tho reck of the Constitution. Race troubles
have passed away; there exists now between
the two races in the State the most cordial
and fraternal relations. It is the interest of
each to build up the other, as neither can
bo prosperous while injustice is done to the
other. We see on every side evidence of
rapidly returning prosperity. And it seems
to me, in this state of the case, that it is ex
ceedingly unfortunate for any portion of
our people, whether office-holders or office
seekers, or whatever their motive may be,
to attempt to tear down this fabric, which
we have been building up with so much
care and so much trouble, and plunge the
State back again into race troubles by an
attempt to upheave society, throw every
thing into confusion, destroy our prosper
ity, cheek our progress, depress the price
of jabop, apd produce discord and dissatis
faction in every part pf the
Surely the people of neither rape is ready
to encourage any new movement or any
other sort of a movement that would sub
vert tbe old principles of the fathers of the
Republic, obliterate tho old landmarks of
Society, er break the new ties that bind ns
together. This is a vital question that both
races, ppd alj the people of Georgia, are jn.
terested in, 4-0 dif there be any restless
spirits who would be willing to epcoprage
disorganization and disintegration and de?
stroy the prosperity we now enjoy for the
prospect of political promotion Or otherwise,
I am obliged to think they will find them
selves encouraged by a meagre following.
I trust it is scarcely necessary for me to
s?y to you or to tho people that I can give
no cotinfenapce to the new movement. I
see no necessity for if. 1 expect to vote for
tbe Democratic nominee fqr Goyernor of
Georgia in 1882 and for the Democratic
npmin.ee fipr presidept and Vice President
in 1884, if J live to see the ejections, and
Shull be gl»d to contribute ujy humble mite
to the success of the Democratic party,
upon a liberal and just platform, which I
have no doubt it will occupy, and I trust
the great body of people will feel it their
duty to do the same. Very respectfully,
Joseph E. Brown.
WHAT DAVIS DID SAY.
Ready to Unsneatn His For the
Union—Memories of Lee anil Jktkadn
and the A.N. V. ——
(New Orleans Picayune.)
The ex-President of the late Confederate
> States, tall and unbent by age, but with
/ peytain signs of lessening vigor, rose in his
i place' aj tjie table and amid deafening
’ apii ip a ijngigg voice and with
his accustomed dj'gpity of mapnpr, said
“Brethren of a cause not Ifist put (flapp
ing, it makes me happy to be with you this
day. Your history is written in my heart,
your deeds are graven on the tablets of the
history of heroes. It is not, however, the
recollection of these great deeds that gives
- pip most pleasure, but it is the knowledge
tugt iimvig'eie wrought in behalf of grand
principles tfiai a»e tlie very foundations of
the American Union—eistes riguts apj}
government. It is this knowledge that
gives me most pleasure.
You were not conquered, but overborne
I by vast odds and superior physical force.
, You never hesitated when you marched to
the*psaaplf, but attacked the force in front
<?f you, ’howeVey great its numbers. Stone-
I wall |ac£son pad cdpjplijifc'tp avalanche in
I the Valley of Virginia; e'nj.'ohiiie»’Jp^ : 'pa-
I merons armies greater than his own, and
sweeping them away in defeat. That was
I the history of the Army of Northern Vir-
I ginia.
Lee and Jackson, its great chiefs, made a
combination which had never been sur
passed. J* 6o to P^ an an, 'l Jackson to
strike, the arpiy been invincible, and
(well bad L ee said. wh'ep'4acbson- ( fell, that
he had lost his right aimj ~ Jacjiscp had
fallen in the hour of victory by the hands
:of his own friends. He fell only before his
I own conquering troops. You have raised
for him a lofty monument, and you have
(tone it nobly.
£ad a hero, wise in council,
glorious in arisis. JJc fell on a victorious
battle field and sleeps ifi 4 qistant State.
To him Louisiana owes a monument.' Al
bert Sidney Johnson, the first commander
of the Army of Tennessee, was one of the
heroes of the Confederacy, the peer of
chiefs in his own or any other day. I knew
■I Ihlrn and Lee well, and "even at the very be
ginning t&sir career in the army.
Jackson f did Jinow before the war,
j bnt when I came t° know’hip-, I loved and
I valued him with Lee and Alb.eii' fjjdney
-Johnson. I remember Jackson after the
battle of Malvern Hill, when he galloped
! up, saying, “The enemy are gone, but let
ns take their track and follow them.” This
Iwa« hv ruling idea, to push an adventure
with his” wsiidesful energy and unfailing
< determination.
The first battalion of artillery fpjnished
1 the Confederacy was from Louisiana', x
remember it well, and saw and felt its won
-1 derfui yglne at Manassas. It is represented
i here to-nigni, aj.d I now thank its mem
i bers for their maghincutt eervice.
■ Brothers, you have endured pJJ the fa-
I tigues of many campaigns and the dangers
cf ? hundred battle fields. You remember
i how, the toils and hardships of those
trying time*. 4 .comrade gave you a piece of
bread or a draught of ypter from his can
teen. There are no ties lika which
grow up and amid such scenes, an£ you are
isxLeed brothers.
Yoh aw® written your record, you have
done your'dfivy. Jbe principles you then
asserted are as necesste, the preserva
tion of the American Union as they were
yhen you struck for them, and the exist
ence of jhe best Government the world ever
saw, the' Amerizan Union, is still indissa
lubly bound up to tiio principles for which
you fought. Be still ever ready to “tot for
this Union, as I would be willing to un
' my sword for it. I have no regrets
for the past. for it involves these principles.
'lf you suffered for your principles and
lost all in war save honor yop still preserve
that, and you came from a great war with
your hands unstained by plunder.
yhis is your record and I thank God for it.”
BIG FIRE IN ATLANTA.
Sever*! Buildings Burned Lou, One
Hundred Thousand Dollars.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Atlanta, January 30, 8:30, p. m.—A fire
broke out in ike furniture store of Thomas
Richter & Co, at 7 o'clock to-night, and
rapidly spread to the adjoining buildings of
Dohme A Duffr, grocers, and McNaught &
Scrutchin, hardware, which were consumed.
But little was saved from these buildings.
Liebemun A Kiuffman, trunk factory, and
C. W. Motes A Co.’s harness and saddle fac
tory are now burning.
Later.
The fire is now under control. The loss
will probably reach SIOO,OOO, with good
insurance.
MORGAN COUNTY.
Dullness in Trade-Loaning Money To
Farmers —Tl.e Farmers' Club The
Fence Or No Fence Issue.
(Cor. Chronicle and Constitutionalist.)
Madison, January 25. —In matters finan
cial and commercial, Madison is aheady ex
periencing s midsummer dullness. There
is no money and no trade here worth men
licning. A majority of the farmers of the
county, I think I may safely say, are insol
vent. ’ They are unable to buy their neces
sary supplies for cash, and not a ftw of
them are unable to obtain them on credit.
Themerchaotsare at a stand-still, doing lit
tle or no cash or credit trade. Nelson, Bar
ker A Co., through an agent, js advancing
money to some of our planters, nominally, at
seven per eent. interest, secured by an iron
clad mortgage on property— real estate—
worth, in each instance, at least three times
the money advanced. I am informed that
the terms of a loan by this company are
as follows: A wants S4OO. He gets it, giv
ing his note, however, to the firm for SSOO,
due fi re years from date, interest at seven
per cent., to-wit: $35 payable on strict pen
alties in case of default, annually. This loan
is secured by a homestead-waiver mortgage
on real estate unencumbered, worth at least
$1,500. Thus, you see, for the use of the
S4OO actually received, A pays, in all, $275,
which is thirteen and thiee-fourths per
cent, pet annum interest. lam further in
formed, not having seen one of these mort
gages, that if A should desire at the end,
say, of the second year, to pay the principal
and interest up to date, he is prohibited by
the contracl from so doing, and must pay
for the whole five years before he can
raise the mortgage. That a goodly
number of our farmers are availing them
selves of the loans, is a proof of the
desperalenessof their condition. If the Leg
islature at itl last session had abolished the
usury law ol had even made as high as 12
per cent, collectable by law, the farmers
could have borrowed money from home
capitalists mther than from these foreigners.
Exactly how this arrangement flanks our
usury laws, lam not yet convinced. How
ever, that is a matter that concerns the par
ties to thetransaction.
Morgan County Farmers’ Club, at its ses
sion last Saturday, Col. John G. McHenry,
Sr., presiding, elected as the delegates to
represent the Club this year in the State
Agricultutal Society: H. W. Baldwin, J. M.
Griggs and G. D. Perry. The Club selected
as a subject of discussion at its next meet
ing “Theinfluence and effect of the late
Cotton Exposition as regards Morgan coun
ty.” This Club is one of the livest and
most intelligent organizations of the kind
in the State, has more than two hundred
members, keeps pace with the progress and
improvements in the agricultural world as
regards iertilizers, farming implements,
machines and farm buildings, and has,
among its best members, a number of en
terprising Northern men, who have moved
into our county and bought plantations
here sines the war. Its Secretary, since its
organization, more than a decade ago, has
been Emanuel Heyser, Esq., a Pennsylvania
gentleman by birth, and one of our most
usdful and popular citizens.
Judge Thomas B. Baldwin, our Ordinary,
has appointed the first Saturday in March
as the daj for the election of “Fence” or
“No Fence,” in Morgan county. All
classes of voters are more or less divided on
this question. It is a mistake to suppose
that the negroes are unanimous for “Fence.”
Last Saturday I signed a contract, as wit
ness, between Judge Augustus Reese, as em
ployer, and eight or ten negro men (each
the head of a family), as laborers on the
Judge’s plantation, in this county, this
year. Alter the contract was signed, I
polled these negroes on the “Fence" ques
tion, land found every one of them decided
ly for “No Fence.” These negroes are
more intelligent and influential than the
average of their race, and, taken as repre
sentatives of their color on this question,
give much hope of success to the “No
Fence” advocates. It is doubtful whether
one-tenth of the plantations of Morgan
county are surrounded by a lawful fence.
Y'our correspondent having gone out to bis
plantation the other day, the first and most
prominent spectacle that greeted his vision,
upon arrival, was a half dozen dyspeptic
looking cows, the property cf a neighbor,
complacently helping themselves to a crop
of oats, just beginning to grow off beauti
fully under the influence of the late propi
tious rains ! The tenants in charge of the
farm themselves negroes having an
interest in these oats, and a frequent
■illustration before their eyes of the
evils of the present “Fence” law, are
strongly “No Fence” men. A gentleman
who lived last year in Gainesville, in
formed me that Hall county sent a delega
tion of her citizens last Fall to Ander. on
and Pickens counties, South Carolina, to
inspect for themselves the workings of the
“No Fence” law, and report results. They
found, they reported, an almost unanimous
verdict from those people in its favor-only
one land owner, they said, being opposed
to the law, and that he was a nlan who had,
twice during the year, attempted suicide
in other words, a crank. If Morgan county
adopts the “No Fence 0 law (and I rather
think she will, although there is hot oppo
sition to it in many parts of the county) my
opinion is, her lauds will become rapidly
more valuable. Farmers will sow more
small grain, stock will be better cared for,
and the labor now expended on farms so
fruitlessly will be turned to the preparing
of the farms for cultivation and otherwise
improving them. True, there may be some
interruption of labor immediately upon its
passage—an exodus of negroes—but th'is
will be only temporary, and the negroes
who thus leave us will be of the ignorant,
superstitious and vagabondish sort, whose
room is better than their presence. A ques
tion of so much importance should be more
elaborately treated, so I may advert to it in
another and less hastily written letter.
Morgan.
THE OF THE TRIAL.
What Hte Government Hau to Pay to
Convict Guiteau.
Washington, January 25.- It cannot de
finitely be learned what Judge Porter and
Mr. Davidge are to receive for their services
as special prosecuting officers, but irom the
hints thrown out it is believed that their
fee will not be exaggerated when placed at
515.000 for each of them. Including
Saturday ip tjia dtjys o| the trial, it
will bring the pay of the jurors as follows:
For five, $620; for four, $488; for three,
$360; total, $1,468. In addition to this
comes the hotel board bill, which is pre
sumed will not exceed $3 50 per day per
man. With this must also be included the
three bailiffs in attendance upon the jurors
This foots up the handsome sum of $3,213
to be paid to the proprietors of the National
Hglol* 1 i 1
For witnesses, including mileage, there
has been paid out $8,078 35. Os this sum,
$5,189 85 was paid in behalf of the Gov
ernment and $2,889 for the defendant, and
of the latter $389 25 went to the Guiteau
family and their connections. For report
ing and printing the trial and papers used
in the case preparatory to the hearing, it is
hstimatgd that sq,ooo will be required.
For seven deputytoarshals used in the halls
and the chamber $1,302 will be necessary.
Then there are the miscellaneous expenses,
such as the physicians' charges, medicines,
chairs for the Court room, and incidentals
too numerous to mention, but which will
take about SI,OOO to cover—making a grand
total of $50,061 85.
THE A. <kY£.
What Col. Farrow Thinks of the Comple
tion of the Line.
(Cor. Spartanburg Herald.)
The prospects of the Greenwood, Laurens
and Spartanburg Railroad are brightening
every diy. The Board of Directors, at their
to Jiaurens, last Thursday, decided
to begin woVk St once. Thfiy elected Mr.
Pierson (formerly of the Engineer Corps of
the Spartanburg and Asheville Road), Chief
Engineer, and authorized President Ver
dery to apply for seventy-five convicts and
begin the work. Col. Verdery has applied
for the convicts, and we learn will succeed
to his application, and will commence the
work ;n less tjian thirty days, and as soon
as arrangements 6kn be toads wiii have
hands at work in Abbeville, Laurens and
Spartanburg counties. Col. G. Cannon and
Col. Joe. Walker passed through Columbia,
going and returning from the meeting of the
Board, and give encouraging accounts of the
Directors’ meeting. Col. Verdery is very much
encouraged by the action of the Board, and
feels cuDfideht’of being able to push the
road thtodfifi. The Augysta and Knoxville
Road is completed to TBoin's Mine— 44
miles—and will be completed to Greenwood
some time in April. The people of Au
gusta are more enthusiastic than ever on
the subject of the Spartanburg connection,
and there is now no doubt of the Augusta
:nd Knoxville Railroad being extended to
Spartancnj’g gs an independent line, which
will induce the'eitenaiOß of fbp- Carolina
Central from Shelby to Spartanburg, thus
affording a Northern and Eastern connec
tion, which will be as good a connection as
the Virginia Midland scheme would have
been had it been carried out as projected.
Then, too, we learn from reliable authority,
that -the Richmond and Danville combina
tion will certainly complete the Spartanburg
and Ashville Road from Hendersonville to
Ashville without delay, and we will soon
have fc'ttooujjh line to the West. T. S. Fq
Visible Cotton Supply.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
New York, January 28.—The total visible
supply of cotton for the world is 3,121,586,
of which 2,592,436 is American; against
2,777,612 and 2,417,552, respectively,
last year. ‘ ~
An AsnEnment.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Hazelhubst, Miss., January 31.—8. T.
Bogers, merchant, has assigned. Liabili
ties, $12,000; assets, $3,000.
FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
BUSINESS IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE
YESTERDAY.
The Sherman Bnnrt Bill in the Senate—
Amendments Offered —A Dull Session
of the Hoose.
(By Telegraph to the Chr-micle.)
SENATE.
Washington, January 27. —The Senate, at
one o’clock, resumed consideration of the
Sherman Bond bill. After discussion the
amendment of Mr. Davis, of West Virginia,
striking out the time feature of the new
bonds and making them payable at any
time at the option of the Government, was
carried—yeas, 38; nays, 2G. The following
is the full text of Mr. Davis’ amendment:
“That tho bonds herein authorized shall
nSTLe called in and paid so long as any
bonds of the United States heretofore is
sued, bearing a higher rate of interest than
3 per cent., and which are redeemable at
the pleasure of the United States, shall be
outstanding. The last of the bonds issued
under this act shall be the first called in
aud this order of payment shall be followed
until all shall have been paid.”
Mr. Sherman moved to amend so as ,to
make the bonds redeemable at the pleasure
of the Government at any time after Jan
uars 1, 1887.
An amendment, offered Uy Mr. Harris, to
provide that the new issua shall be three
vear bonds, was adopted —aves, 33; navs,
26.
An amendment, offered by Mr. Sherman,
allowing subscriptions for the new bonds to
be made at postal money order offices, upon
postmasters giving additional bonds, was
agreed. The amendment as modified, to
provide for three-year bonds, wag then lost
—ayes, 25; nays, 36. The Senate then
took up Vest’s amendment, whish makes
the proposed issue of two hundred million
dollars of 3 per cents, the sole basis for an
increase of circulat on by any National
bank now in existence, or for the circula
tion of any National bank hereafter estab
lished.
Mr. Pugh submitted amendments modi
fying the provision of the Vest amendment,
as follows: Ist, making more emphatic
the provision that it shall apply only to
banks hereafter organizing or increasing
their capital; 2d, striking out the proviso,
which forfeits the charter of a Na
tional bank if it. keeps bonds on
deposit . after they have ceased to
bear interest; 3d, making sections 5139 and
5160 of the Revised Statutes, which the Vest
amendments re-cnact, apply only to the new
3 per cents. A discussion followed, par
ticipated iu by Messrs. Hill, of Georgia,
Pugh, Beck and Hawley, when it was agreed
to defer the vote until the amendment, as
proposed to be amended, together with the
sections repealed and re-enacted thereby,
could be- printed. Upon this agreement the
bill was informally laid aside. Pending the
motion ior an executive session Mr. Butler
introduced a bill for a public building at
Greenville, South Carolina. Mr. Terry in
troduced a bill granting a pension to certain
Union soldiers and sailors of the war of the
rebellion who were confined in so-called
Confederate prisons. Messages from the
President were received transmitting, in
further response to the Senate resolution of
December 13, a report from the Secretary of
State, embodying the purport of tho recent
telegram from the special envoy of the
United States, setting forth the conditions
of peace presented by Chili; also, a further
response to the Senate resolution calling for
the correspondence touching a modification
of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. Referred to
tho Committee on Foreign Relations.
The Senate, at 4:45, after au executive
session of 30 minutes, adjourned until
Monday.
HOUSE.
Mr. Townsend offered a resolution call
ing on the. Secretary of the Interior for in
formation on file iu his Department rela
tive to charges that the Mormons are in
citing the Pinta-Niivsjo Indians in Arizona
to outbreak and lawlessness. Adopted.
The Speaker proceeded to call the com
mittees for reports of a private nature. Un
der this call a few private bills were re
ported and placed on the calendar. The
House then, ut 12:40, went into committee
of the whole, Mr. Townsend, of Ohio, in
the Chair, on the private calendar. At 4
o’clock the committee rose. The House
passed a number of private bills.
Mr. Caswell, from the Committee on Ap
propriations, reported the Post Office Ap
propriation bill, and it was referred to the
committee of the whole. Mr. Randall, of
Pennsylvania, inquired when the lull would
be called up for action. There was a great
desire among many members to investigate
the bill pretty thoroughly. Mr. Caswell
stated that he Avould call it up Wednesday
next.
Mr. Prescott, of New York, from the
Committee on Commerce, reported the Ap
propriation bill, which was referred to the
House calendar.
Mr. Colerick, of Indiana, presented a
minority report, which had tbe same refer
ence.
The Speaker laid before the House a
message from the President, transmitting a
further response to the House resolution of
the 24th instant, a report of the Secretary
of State embracing tho purport of a recent
telegram from the Special Envoy of tho
United States, setting forth the conditions
of peace presented by Chili; also, 11 com
munica'ion from the Secretary of the Navy
in answer to a resolution of the. House call
ing for information relative to certain lands
and harbors known as the Chiriqni grant
referred. The House then, at 5:05, ad
journed until Monday.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Washington, January 27.—The Presi
dent, to-day, transmitted to the Senate a
communication from the Sacretarj’ of State,
embodying the purport of a telegram re
cently received from Mr. Troscott, Special
Envoy ot the United States to Chili and
Peru. Mr. Trescott, in this telegram, re
ports that he had had several confidential
conferences with tho Minister of Foreign
Affairs of Chili; that the Chilian Govern
ment disclaims any intention of offending
the Government of the United States in the
arrest of President Calderon and his re
moval to Chilian territory; that the good
offices ot the United States will be accepted
by Chili, and that the Chilian authorities
will facilitate a conference between the Unit
ed States Special Envoy and the Provisional
Government of Peru, with the exception of
Senor Calderon. The tgrnm of peace pre •
sented by Chili embrace the following
points : Absolute cession of the Tarapaca
District aijd in addition thereto the pay
ment of an indemnity of twenty million
dollars, payable in ten years, during all
of which time positive occupation of Arica
by Chili as required, and should the in
demnity be unpaid Arica is also to be
ceded to Chili, and, besides this, Chili
is to appropriate the guano deposits of
the Lobos Islands. In the event of Peru
refusing the conditions named, the Chilian
Government would decline any further
proffer of the friendly interference of the
United States, she Temajnder qf tJi® Wh
gram is obscure, and it is uncertain wheth
er the Department of State is able to trans
late from cipher the exact language, or even
to obtain the sense of the sender. For this
reason, as well as from the wish to avoid
disclosing the cipher of the Department,
the substance only of the dispatch is sent.
The House Committee on Census
agreed so jenort to tbe with favor?
able recommendations, Representative Mc-
Coid’s Apportionment bill, with certain
amendments, one of which is that the total
number of members in the House shall be
320.
Mr. McCoid’s Apportionment bill report
ed to the House to-day is based on the Sea
ton method of computation and as amend
ed by the committee, is as follows :
A bill making an apportibumeht '.of Rep
resentatives in Congress among the sever
al States under the tenth census.
Be it enacted, etc , That after the 3d of
March, 1883, the House of Representatives
shall be composed of 320 members, to be
apportioned among the several States as
follows : Alabama, 8; Arkansas, s(a gain
of 1); California, 5 (a gain of 1); Colorado,
1 Connecticut, 4; Delaware, 1; Florida, I
(a loss of 1); Georgia, 10 (a gain of 1);
Illinois, 21 (a gain of 2); Indiana, 13;
lowa, 11 (again of 2); Kansas, 6 (a grain
of 3); Kentucky, 11 (a gain of 1); Louisi
ana, 6; Maine, 4 (a loss of 1); Maryland,
6; Massachusetts, 12 (a gain of 1); Michi
gan, 11 (a gain of 2); Minnesota, 5 (a gain
of 2); Mississippi, 7 (a gain of 1); Mis
souri, 14 (a gain of 1) ; Nebraska, 3
(a gain of 2); Nevada, J : New Hampshire,
2 (a loss of New Jersey*, 7; New York,
34 (fl gain of l) j North Carolina, 9 (a gain
of I); Ohio, 21 (a gain of Ij; Oregon, 1;
Pennsylvania, 29 (a gain of 2); Rhode
Island, 1 (a loss of 1); South Carolina, 6 (a
gain of 1); Tennessee,' 10; Texas, 10 (a gain
of 4); Vermont, 4 (a loss of 1); Virginia,
10 (a gain of 1); West Virginia 4 (a gain of
’1); Wisconsin, ».
Sec. 2. That whenever a new State is ad
mitted to the Union the Representative or
Representatives assigned to it shall bo in
addition to the number of 320. ' '
Sec. 3. That in each State entitled, under
this apportionment, the number to which
such State may be entitled in the 48th and
each subsequnt Congress shall be elected
by districts composed of contiguous terri
tory, and containing as nearly as practicable
an equal number of inhabitants and
in number to the Representatives to which
such State may be entitled in Congress,
no one district electing more than one Rep
resentative; provided that, unless the Leg
islature of such State shall otherwise pro
ride before the election of such Representa
tives shall take place as provided by law;
whsre 20 change shall be made in
the representptiou of a btaie, the Represen
tatives thereof to the Forty-eighth Congress
shall be elected therein as now provided by
law. If the number as hereby provided
for shall be larger than it was before
this change, then the additional Represent
ative or Representatives allowed to said
State under this apportionment may be se
lected by the State at large and the other
Representatives to which the State is en
titled by districts, as now prescribed by
law >n aaid State,, and if the numl ar here
by provided for shall in any State be less
than it Has before the change hereby made,
then the whole number to such State here
by provided for shall be elected at large,
unless the Legislatures of said States should
otherwise provide before the time fixed by
law for the next election of Representatives
therein. All acts and parts ot acts incon
sistent therein are hereby repealed. • 1
The ratio of representation as adopted by
the committee —320—is 154, 285. When
the matter is taken up for consideration in
the House of Representatives, Mr. Colerick,
of Indiana will probable offer an amend
ment providing that the total number of
representatives shall not exceed 316, which
will make the ratio 156,238. Representa
tive Tillman, of South Carolina, has inti
mated an intention to propose an amend
ment fixing the total number of representa
tives at 730, instead of 320.
The President to-day nominated to be
postmasters, Joseph F. Pells, at Palestine,
Texas jlMadison Davis, at Athens, Georgia,
Henry B. Nichols, at Norfolk Virginia. •
Washington, January 30.—A communion
tion was submitted from the Secretary of
the Treasury, transmitting a letter from Col
lector Robertson in relation to the difficulty
of obtaining search warrants for the discov
ery of smuggled goods in New York.
Mr. Edmunds, from the Judiciary Com
mittee, reported favorably, with an amend
ment, the Senate bill re-establishing the
Court of Commissioner of Alabama Claims
and the distribution of the unappropriated
moneys of the Geneva award. He remarked
that the committee was not unanimous as
to any of the recommendations of the bill,
bnt that as to somethings it did not recom
mend, it was unanimous. It recommended
payment out of the moneys received from
Great Britain of losses by what are known
as exculpated cruisers and nothing else.
The committee, he thought, were unani
mous against war premiums and the major
ity were of the opinion that insurance com
panies were’ not entitled to any relief.
Messrs. Garland, Hale and Hoar gave notice
of amendments to the bill, and the amend
ments were ordered printed separately.
The Senate, at 1:45, took up the three
per cent. bond, bill and Mr. Pugh’s pro
posed amendments were accepted by Mr.
Vest as a modification of his proposition.
The question was upon an amendment of
fered by Air. Hawley, allowing the banks to
retire their bonds deposited for circulation
in amounts not exceeding $5,000,000 per
month, and only upon thirty days’ notice.
The debate was continued until 3:55, when,
without reaching a vote, the Senate went
'into executive session, and, at 4:20, ad
journed.
HOUSE.
In the House a number of bills were in
troduced and referred, among which were
the following :
By Mr. Wheeler, of Alabama—To grant
lends to the State of Alabama in aid of the
Warrior and Tennessee Rivers Railroad
Company.
By Mr. Oates, of Alabama—Requiring the
Supreme Court and Circuit Courts of the
United States to decide all cases predi
cated on contracts or the breach thereof
coming within their jurisdiction, according
to the law of the place whore the contract
was made or was to be performed.
By Mr. King, of Louisiana—For the sur
vey of the Black river, La , looking to the
improvement of the greater bends therein
by means of cut-offs.
By Mr. Robertson, of Louisiana—Defin
ing the powers and duties of the Mississippi
River Commission; authorizing an appro
priation of land and material for the im
povement of the Mississippi river and its
tributaries; prescribing the manner of as
sessing damages and providing punishment
for acts in hindrance of such improvement.
Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, from the Com
mittee on Appropriations, reported the
Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation
bill, and it was referred to the Committee
of the Whole. It appropriates $1,198,530,
being $12,425 less than the amount appro
priated last year and $116,525 less than
the estimates. It is accompanied by a
voluminous report, which gives a short de
scription of every place mentioned in the
bill.
Mr. Briggs, of New Hampshire, from the
Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads,
reported a resolution calling on the Post
master-General for information as to re
movals and appointments in the Post Office
Department since March 4th, 1881. Adopt
ed.
Mr. Williams, from the Foreign Affairs
Committee, reported back the resolution
calling on the President for all the corres
pondence between the State Department
and the Minister at St. Petersburg relative
to the expulsion of American Israelites from
Russia and the persecution of Jews in the
Russian Empire. Adopted.
Mr. Neal, of Ohio, from the Committee
on Civil Service Reform, reported back a
resolution calling on the Secretary of State
for a list of all promotions, removals and
appointments made in the Consular service
since the 4th of March, 1877. Adopted.
On motion of Mr. Dibble, of South Caro
lina, Wednesday, the Sth of February, was
assigned for the delivery of eulogies upon
the late M. P. O Connor, of South Carolina,
and then at 4:30, the House adjourned.
— i— »
THE FLOODS.
Rivers Still Rising in the West—Crevasses
in the Mississippi Levees,
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Vicksburg, January 28.—A passenger on
the steamer Chateau, this evening, reports
that a break occurred in the levee at Delta,
Louisiana, about three o’clock this morn
ing, just above the Government light, house
at that place. He says that the break is a
hundred yards wide and the water is pass
ing rapidly through and flooding the coun
try in the vicinity.
Naihville, January 28.—The river is sta
tionary at 50 and 5-10 feet on the gauge. A
McMinville (Tenn.) special says a water
sprout poured upon White and Vanßuren
and parts of Warren counties last night.
Carsy Fork, al 12 o’clock, m., was rising at
the rate of two feet an hour. Rock river is
fuller than ever was known. All communi
cation with the upper counties is suspend
ed. These streams are tributaries to the
Cumberland river, and threaten a greater
flood than ever.
New Orleans, January 29.—A Jireak of
one hundred feet is reported in the Q’Biicn
levee, at Tropical Bend, a little above the
Quarantine Station, bnt on the opposite
side of the river. The country for two miles
back is said to be inundated. Chief State
Engineer Richardson does not anticipate
any serious trouble from this crevasse.
Nashville, January 30.—The river fell
nine inches between 12, m., Saturday, and
11, p. in., yesterday. The rise in Carry
Fork was occasioned by the rains of Friday
night. .
Nashville, January 30.—The river is
falling and is now 46feet on the gauge.
A big rise reported from Coney Fork and
Obods river. A large amount of damage
has been done to the country along Coney
Fork on account of its sudden rise in conse
quence of the water spout of last Friday
night at its headwaters. It is a low esti
mate to say that half a million dollars dam
age has been done by the floods.
Vicksburg, January 30.—Telegrams from
Delta, La,, to-day report no crevasse there.
THE IVDKPE.WKNTS.
What Seine of the Georgia Papera Say
of the Coalition.
(Hartwell Bun.)
Felton aspires tq be Ben Hill’s political
gyavp digger. Let him take care lest he
stumbles into a grave of his own digging.
(Sparta lehmaelite.)
Independence of the Democratic party is
not a good thing where it leads to depen
dence on the Kodical party. Now, parson,
isn’t this so ?
(Macon Telegraph.)
Arthur gives Emory Sp,eey a colored port
master to help him overthrow the “Bour
bon Democracy” of Georgia. Our con
gratulations are due the “Bourbon Dem
ocracy” of the low part of the Ninth Dis
trict.
(Eatonton Messenger.)
If Dr. Felton can see his way to a nomi
nation by “Col.” Marcellus Thornton’s In
dependent Convention, perhaps he pjay
control his hatred for "cliques” and ’’ma
nipulators,” and
fore it.
(Thomasville Times.)
The Independents expected some crumbs
of comfort from Mr. Stephens. But their
hopes have been blasted. Mr. Stephens
says that in an organized Democracy rest
the hopes and prosperity of the people of
Georgia. That’s a nut for the Independents
to crack.
uRITISII MARKETS,
Finances and Trade In England.
(By Cable to the Chronicle.)
London, January 30.—The Pall Mall Ga
zetle says : “It miy now be considered al
most certain that the bank rate of discount
will promptly advance to 7. par cent. The
report of the stoppage of the Union Gen
erate ancl the large withdrawal of gold from
the Bank of England to-day caused a very
weak market. Nearly all securities were
pressed indiscriminately for sale, prices
closing at about the lowest quotations of the
day.”
London. January 30. —The Mark Lane Ex
press, in its review of the British grain trade
during the past week, says: “The growing
crops remain very healthy. Trade in native
wheats was generally unchanged. Flour
was more freely supplied and talueg some
what weakened, There was a good demand
for fine malting barleys, but there was prac
tically no supply. Oats, bran and peas sell
very slowly. Foreign breadstufts were weak
er. *ln flour the trade was nominal. The
supply exceeds the demand and the possi
bility of large receipts from the United States
exercised rather a depressing influence.
Maue was firmly held. Fine barleys
were firm, owing to the scarcity. Grind
ing sorts were dull and declined 3d.a6d. on
Friday. For oats there was a slack de
mand and prices declined. Cargoes off the
coast were weaker. Eleven cargoes arrived,
of which seven wore sold and six with
drawn. Red Winter was quoted on Tues
day at 545. 3,d., but that price y t -as
tainubls. On yridfiy, No. 3 California was
quoted at 53V Bales of English wheat
during the week were 49,888 quarters, at
465. 3d. per quarter, against 34,293 quar
ters, at 425. 6d. per quarter during the cor
responding week of last year.
Bink Statement.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
JJew Yons, January 33.—The weekly
statement of the Associated Banks shows
the following changes:
Loans increase $1,894,700
Specie increase 408,500
Legal tenders increase 864,300
Deposits increase -4.300
Circulation decrease... 39,003
Reserve
The banks now hold $9,101,800 in ex
cess nf all legal requirements.
Talk about modern mis-aeies, M, r - Cab
bagehead, of the Stamford Advocate, says
he cured his boy of some bad habits by
the laying on of hands.
Olin WASHISGTOJi LETTER.
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
Washington, D. C., January 26, 1832.—1
have to thank “Rnssell” for some compli
mentary words which came from the abun
dance of his heart. A ruder or less gener
ous person might with justice have present
ed the dark side of the picture and robbed
it of brightness. No one can more keenly
understand than I do how far short I fall
from such an ideal likeness; but none the
less do I appreciate the motive and the art
ist. That anybody should find pleasure in
these or any other writings of mine some
times astonishes me, although they are in
tended to at least satisfy a sense of duty
more than critical taste. The enthusiasm I
once felt is slipping away, and compel
sition is no longer what Dr. Bledsoe
used to call his “ chief delight.” I
would abandon it if I could ; but there
are imperative reasons for remaining as I
am, and listening to the demon of necessi
ty as Socrates obeyed the admonitions of
his familiar spirit. It is said that “onr
wishes like our shadows, lengthen as the
sun declines,” and that the aspiration for
unreached destinies projects farther in mid
dle age than in youth; but I am not so sure
that this is exactly true of him who pens
these lines. Ino more expect to enter that
•'republic of letters” mentioned by Russell.
It is too late. The monster of the press has
absorbed and devoured me. I can never
hope to escape that body of literary death.
If remembered at all, when my life is a
tale that is told, it will be for a
lucky inspiration of boyhood and not
for any work of maturer years. So,
while I am profoundly grateful for pre
dictions of glory that surpass my merit*
or expectation immeasurably, I am not de
ceived as to what can be accomplished in
the time that is yet allotted me. Would to
Heaven I could be as certain to enter the
•‘City of God” as I am now careless of my
place in “the republic of letters." Bnt I
again thank Russell and all friends for their
encouraging language, only wishing that
the object of it had more worth and am
bition to second their prophesies of a pros
perous career. They can hope no good of
me that I do not turn into a benediction
for them.
The debate in the House yesterday, on
the bill for the retirement of Judge Hunt,
brought out two of our Georgia Represen
tatives - Hammond and Speer—who, this
time, were in perfect accord. Mr. Hammond
was listened to with profound attention,
and spoke with force and animation. He
was not in agreement with the bulk of his
Democratic colleagues, but I am inclined to
think that his logic was better than their
sentiment. Judge Hunt would have been
pensioned had he remained on the New
York bench. The contract of the Govern
ment with him, as a Supreme Justice, was
for life. The risk of disability existed al
ways. As a meie matter of taste, he should
resign. But Congress is dealing with the
fact of his right to hold his place, if so de
termined, and that the public weal de
manded his being got out in the only prac
ticable manner. He could not be removed
by impeachment, and so he has been re
tired on a pension. Hammond took the
practical view, and that finally prevailed.
1 do not see how the obstruction of the
Supreme Court could have been otherwise
removed, and Mr. Reed, of Maine, who
closed the debate, administered a fitting re
buke to those who are, in ease and comfort,
not to speak of health, so merciless in criti
cism of an old lawyer and judge who has,
from no fault of his, lost his reckoning and
drifted helpless on “life’s tumultuous sea."
Even sentiment may be employed advanta
geously here, as well as the nomination of
the bond. And so, it is well that reason
and sympathy had the support of both Sen
ate and House in this emergency. The
savage deserts his old parents on the march,
when they can no longer keep pace with the
strong column; but it becomes an enlight
ened people to succor aged functionaries,
“broken by the storms of State,” especially
when there is an obligation of contract to
do so.
Doting the controversy on this subject,
in the House, Mr. McMillin rather excited
ly interrogated Air. Speer; but our Repre
sentative from the Ninth District retorted
with coolness and propriety.
Air. Speer does not apprehend anything
to his detriment, because of his references
to “Bourbon Democracy,” in his letter to
the Post Office Department. He says that
Pledger has gone home badly whipped and
willing to make peace with him. Madison
Davis, who is booked for the Athens post
office, is almost, if not quite, white. I be
lieve that it was legally decided in Georgia
that he need no longer be considered a col
ored person. He boasts, it is said, of pos
sessing “some of the best blood of the
South in his veins.”
Senator Lamar has taken his seat, after
triumphant re-election. He is in the best
of health and spirits.
At tho Metropolitan Hotel there is a little
girl, about two years old, who has never
worn shoes. She is the fattest, merriest,
healthiest baby I ever saw, and her chubby
pedal extremities are as warm as possible,
with tho thermometer far below zero, and
while strong men wear shoes with inch
thick soles, it looked odd to see this win
some pet toddling along bare-footed. This
would seem to prove Mr. Stephens’ notion
that “children are not worth a cent unless
they grow two or three erops of toe nails an
nually !” But I have seen many a baby that
was full of life one year, and dead another;
while others who were much less promising
survived. For the sake of the mother of
this tricksy sprite, who makes sunshine at
the Metropolitan Hotel, I hope that what is
so palpably beautiful now may not be “only
a memory” when the snow falls in 1883.
I cannot understand how anybody here,
who protends th know public men, could
have had the shadow of a shade of doubt as
to Senator Brown’s position politically.
His recent letter, however, to Mr. Estill,
ought to satisfy the ignorant or skeptical.
If there are any progressive Democrats, in
the South, the so-called “Bourbons” of
Georgia can take the palm, and under such
leaders as Senators Hill and Brown, and
Representatives Stephens, Hammond, Cook,
Buchanan, Clements, Blount, Turner and
Black, they will go on “conquering and to
conquer.”
As a general thing, speeches here do
not change any votes. Some of the best
elocutionists are least influential. They
have been compared to music, which is very
fine, but leaves no impress upon the brain
except that of sensuous delight. Clay, Cal
houn and Webster were not, in Mr. Ste
phens’ estimate, near so eloquent as Choate
and other marvelous orators; but they made
their mark upon their country’s legislation,
which Choate and his brilliant compeers
failed to do. Some years ago, I related
Proctor Knott’s explanation of Joe Black
burn’s magnetism when speaking, and the
shock occasioned by his words when reduc
ed to cold type. “Blackburn,” said Knott,
“has a perfect contempt for his audience
and a total disregard of his subject." Os
course, this was said jokingly, and nobody,
I suppose, enjoyed it’more than the clever
and popular'gentleman who stiod for the
mental photograph. Senator Beck describes
a “great Columbian orator” as sailing over
the sea of thought with that complacency
which a swan enjoys by being profoundly
oblivious of what is in the deep Wow.
Jefferson said Patrick Henry could “make
the hair of a listener st;,nd on end and
his blood curdje., hut it was hard to
remembeq, whan the spell was broken,
what he had been talking about.” In the
case o i Patrick Henry, Mr. Jefferson was
more witty than correct in criticism.
General Phil. Cook was once accosted by
a politician who sometimes preached the
gospel in the church pulpit. This politico
clerical gentlemen was overrunning with
gall and wormwood against one of his own.
brethren; which tuaqa the General indig
nant. He dually said : “I do not think
your language is either accurate or chari
i table, and you conld not do better than to
reflect upon this text: "I would rather be a
doorkeeper in the House of the Lord than
dwell in the tents of the unrighteous.” ’
Mr. Stephens keeps microscopically in
formed of the least details at Liberty Hall.
He knows, from day to flay, hew many
chickens, ducks, pigs, etc., ha has in his
yard, and takes as lively an interest in these
home as he does in National or
State admrs. He recently lost a mule that
had attained the great age of 37 years,
and he is now much concerned about an
other, named “Old Beck*” that‘tad be
come moribund.
The verdict in the Guiteau ease was not
unexpected. I have no doubt that Judge
and jury were conscientious, and did what
they believed their duty. An overwhelm.-
■ ing public sentiment demanded the pris
. oner’s conviction, sane or insapq. Ido not
see any cause to retract my expressions made
during the progress of the trial, and my
present belief U, that, if Guitean shall die
on the scaffold, a crazy man will be hanged.
There may be some startling revelations be
fore the tragedy of the second of July shall
be avenged by the law. There wiU be
many elaborate accounts of the final scenes
of the trial, but nothing need be added to
the simple details of the press report.
Last night, I attended, the entertainment
given, by the Baltimore Wednesday Club.
It was a musical festival of the most classic
character, * founded on Schiller’s famous
“Song of the Bell.” The spacious and
beautiful hall was thronged with the fash
ion and wealth—l suppose I must add—the
beauty—of the city. Outside sleet and cold
and snow prevailed. Inside all was warmth
and splendor. The stage represented a
sunny street scene, while poised in the
blue sky was a gigantic bell. The orches
tra held a middle place, flanked by a multi
tude of ladies and gentlemen, whose culti
vated voices were to swell the melody and
make it the noblest exposition, of vocal and
instrumental harmony, The music was
sublime, but rather top elevated for my un
educated taste ay.d too monotonously pro
tracted. 4 ventured to suggest this to an
inquiring friend, stating my want of culti
vation ; but he awed me into silence by a
look so arctic that I began to feel sorry for
myself, and found consolation only in the
recollection that General Grant cannot tell
one tune from another, and that the grand
niece of Francis Scott Kej’,-s&er years of
desperate endeavor, never ’ was. able to dis
tinguish “The Star Spangled Banner” from.
“ 'Possum Up a Gum Tree.” lam very far
from such a misfortune of inharmony, but
I like simplicity and variety in music as in
other things. This may put me in conflict
with many estimable artists, but I remain :
with a highly respectably majority, all the
same. After thy musical entertainment .
there was a toast of sandwiches, coffee, (I
chocolate,'ice cream, cakes, etc. About 11 ,
o’clock, as the physical appetite was in the <
height of satisfaction. 0,-xar Wilde made
his appearance, one-half those pres- .
ent crowded, around him and gazed at she
man with'amused curiosity. stood 1
aloof, but craned their necka oyer the cof
fee cups and gazed a?l(UPee at the aesthete. t
He is a tall person, With long black hair, !
parted in tjhe middle, and flowing profuse- <
ly upon his shohlders. He has an unpleas- <
ant smile, and a vacant expression of
countenance. He looks like some In
dians I have seen. Now and then a ripple
of shame for thus exhibiting himself was
visinle on his face, and I dare say he was
glad to get away. I asked a lady near me
what she thought of him; and her prompt
answer was, "disgusting." Other ladies
appeared to have negative admiration, but
there was something of the “monkev show”
about it all. I his morning, as lon tub over
to Washington, an old-fashioned gentle
man, discussing Oscar, said : “Ho can’t
come over here and get me to wear knee
breeches. I never did like Tom Jefferson,
but he did a good thing when ho extermi
nated that sort of fashion. I don’t think
J eon ntry is ready to go back on Tom
Jefferson and pantaloons for that British
rUi * l >retensi °n.” The old gentleman
failed to comprehend that Oscar has come
over here for our ducats and not for our
inexpressibles. J R R
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Cincinnati, January 27.—A special from
Catlettsburg, Ky., says: “A jury was chosen
yesterday to try Ellis and Craft for the Gib
bons murder, and the trial will begin to
day.”
Philadelphia, January' 27. —The loss by
the tiro last nicht at the Keystone hub,
spoke and wheel works at 174, 176 and
1 <8 Canal street, was $150,000; partly in
sured. r -J
Petersburg, Va , January 27,-Theßasin
Mills, owned by H. F. Hunt, were entirely
destroyed by fire this morning, together
with a large quantity of flour and meal.
at abo utslO,O(X);insurance,
Sb.ooo. lhe origin of the fire is unknown.
Burlington, lowa, January 27.—J. R.
Heflin of Wapella, Louisa county, in this
state, fatally shot his wife yesterday and
ended his own existence by putting a bullet
through his head. Nothing is known as to
bis motive beyond tho fact, that the couple
had lived together unhappily,
Raleigh, N. 0., January 27.—John Alex
ander Morris, colored, was hanged here to
day for murdering Joseph Rourke, colored
in Lincolnton, N. 0., August 10th, 1880
The fall was only five feet and death was
caused by strangulation. There were no
unusual incidents. Morris confessed and
said he was prompted by revenge.
New Orleans, January 27.—A number of
gentlemen have interested themselves in
the ease of August Davis, condemned to bo
executed to-morrow, and are making an ef
fort to induce the Governor to grant a re
spite for a few days. The Governor took
the matter under advisement, and proposed
to see District Attorney Finney and Judge
Roman, before whom Davis was tried.
NkwOhleans, Janumy 27.-Shortly before
- o clock, to-day, August Davis (colored) wan
hanged at the parish prison for an indecent
assault upon a white woman in tho suburbs
of this city on the 25th of last October.
Davis asserted to the last that he was inno
cent of the crimq for which ho was to die,
but that he was not sorry to go. The drop
of nine feet failed to break the culprit’si
neck and he died of strangulation, though
almost without a struggle.
New York, January 27.—An entirely un
explained explosion occurred to-day, in
East Ninty-ninth street, between Second
and Third avenues, by which one boy, aged
14, was killed, and nine other persons, most
ly boys, were more or less injured. At the
place of the accident the lots are fifteen feet
below the street grade, and are used as
a dumping ground by the street
cleaning department. The only dwell
ings in the vicinity are a few poor
cubitus. A number of children, during the
afternoon, had been playing in the lots and
had started a bon-fire from the material!
they could collect around the place. Au
ash cart was unloaded, and Benj. Burns, a
lad of fourteen, picked up from tho debris
what appeared to be a tomato can filled with
grease. He threw it into tho Are, when an
explosion immediately occurred. A dense
black smoke and a cloud of ashes obscured
the scene of the disaster. When it drifted
•way, ten persons were found lying in tho
lots, injured; and the neighbors flocked ta
their rescue. The police think the <y.n
must have been picked up by an ash Hian
in some place whore blasting was going on,
and contained nitro glycerine. '
Manjfield, La., January 28.—Ed Briton
(colored) was executed yesterday for the at
tempted murder and highway robbery of
Alfred Smith, last Summer.
Detroit, January 28.—The Court House
at Northport was burned yenterday, with
most of its contents, including all the Pro
bate records and the Township Library.
Bloomington, 111 , January 28.- R-v. H.
O. Hoffman, a prominent Methodi'. ,<iinis
ter, was found gnilty of seduction c -.4 bas
tardy by the chnrch committee, aitc. a ten
days’ trial.
London, January 28.—Tho bark Sparta,
from Coosaw, S. C., December 13th, for
Liverpool, was abandoned nt sea on tho
18th inst., dismantled and leaky. The
crow have landed at Falmouth.
New York, January 28.—-The steamer-
Colon has arrived, with adVioes from Pann,-
ma to the 18th inst. Gen. Lynch left Lirm.
on the 2d, and dispersed the forces of tho
Peruvian Chieftain Coleres.
Cincinnati, January 28, Tho Times-
Star s Fort Wayne (Ind.) special says :
“Harry Maxwell, a sporting oharact/ir, was
struck on the head to-day in a so looh by
Jeff Morris, a gambler, and his skull crush
ed. He will die. Maxwell’s friends tried
to shoot Morris on his way to jr.il,”
Pittsburg, Pa., January 28. —ln West
Deer township, yesterday, a young man
named Lee, while on a hunting /Nvcursion,
met two young lady acquaintances. With
out explanation or provocation, he shot
both, seriously wounding them, but they
were able to roach assistance. A posse
started to capture Lee. The latter, when
he found escs.pe impossible, shpt his head
nearly off. Lee is of good family, and has
borne a good reputation, and no explana
tion can be imagined.
Goodman, Miss., January 30. Freemen
L. Lester, of Louisiana, was shot and kill
ed here Saturday night by Dr. J. B. Clay
ton. The cause of the difficulty is unknown.
Galveston, January 29.—A special from
Kyle, Texas, to the .News, says a building
occupied as the store of D. A. Young was
burned last night. Loes, nine thousand
dollars; insurance, six thousand dollars.
New York, January 30.—Mrs. Fink, of
Jersey City, while crossing West street,
New York, at Hoboken Ferry, to-day, with
her child in her arms, was knocked down
by a truck, the child killed and the mother
probably fatally injured.
Meridian, Miss., January 30.—The trial
of Bob C. Jones, colored, and Billy Miller,
colored, for the murder of the three sons of
Judge Walker, of Alabama, took place at
Aberdeen. Jones pleadod guilty and Miller
; not guilty. Both were found guilty and
i sentenced to be hanged on March 3d.
St. Louis, January 30.—Mrs. Dorris, an
aged lady living near this city, was mur
dered Saturday night by her grandson,
named Braan, and a confederate, while
robbing her. They choked her to compel
her tc-giye up valuables and she was found
dead noxt morning. Both murderers are
under arrest.
'Norfolk, Va., January 30.--A fire de
stroyed the grocery and liquor store and
adjoining dwelling of W. R. Drury, at
Berkley, last night. The flames broke out
shortly after midnight, and from traces of
kerosene oil. the fire is supposed to have
been the work of an incendiary. Value,
five or six thousand dollars; insured.
New Orleans, La , Januaiy 39.—About;
9, aclonk to-night the telegraphers at Hous
ton. Texas, notified New Orleans that a fire
had broken 'out in the block in which the
telegraph office was situated. A later notice
was given that the telegraph office was on
fire. Nothing has been heard from them
since.
Charleston, January 31.—The coroner’s
juryjn the case of Burbridge, who died
from injuries received in the recent railway
collision, have rendered a verdict attributing
the accident to the misconstruction of the
order to meet and pass by the conductor of
train No. 43, and censuring the Charleston
and Savannah Railway Company for the
loose manner in whioh orders are i«Rn«d.
i CCTK
PARTICULAR NOTICE. ALL THE DR AW
-L inga wiU hereafter be under the exclusive
i superviaion and control of Gena. G. T. BEAU
REGARD and JUBAL A. EARLY.
A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY to win a for
tune. SECOND GRAND DISTRIBUTION,
CLASS B, at NEW ORLEANS, TUESDAY,
FEBRUARY (4,1882-141st Monthly Drawing.
LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY COMPANY,
Incorw>rated in 1868 for twenty-five yer.rs by
the IrtgMtdMto iixD aducatknial and charitable
purposes -with, a capital of_ sl,ooo,ooo—to
which a reserve fund of $550,000 has since
been added.
By an overwhelming popular vote, its fran
chise was made a part or the present State Con
stitution adopted December 2d, fi. D. 1879.
ITS GRAND SINGLE NUMBER DRAW
INGS will take place monthly. It never scales
or posipones. Look at the, following distribu
tion:
CAPITAL PRIZE, $30,000.
100,000 tickets at. TWO DOLLARS EACH.
Half tickets, ONE DOLLAR.
■Just of pbizzs.
1 Capital Prize Y $30,000
1 Capital Prize 10,000
1 Capital prize 5,000
2 Prizes of $2,500 5,000
5 Prizes of 1,000 5,000
20 Prizes of 500 : 10,000
10G Prines of 100 10,000
200 Prizes of 50 10000
500 Prizes of 20 10 DOO
1,000 Prizes of 10 lo’OGO
APPROXIMATION PRIZES.
9 Approximation Prizes of $300.... 2,700
9 Approximation Prizes of 200.. >. 1,800
9 Approximation Prizes of 100.... 900
1,857 Prizes, amounting to $110,400
Responsible corresponding agents wanted at
all points, to Y»kom. liberal compensation will
be paid.
F°r farther information, write clearly, giving
tun address. Send orders by express or regis
tered letter, or mcaey order by mail, addressed
only to M. A. Dauphin, New Orleans, La.,
or M. A, mUPHIN,
137 La Salle street, Chicago, Illa.,
The New York Office is removed to Chicago.
N. B.—Orders addressed to New Orleans will
receive, prompt attention.
The particular attention cf the Public is called
to the fad that the entire number of the Tickets
far each Monthly Drawing is sold, and conse
quently all the prizes in each drawing are sold
and drawn and paid. docl4-wesa&w