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EDITORIAL NOTES.
A cold move is moving upon the South.
The Vandebbilts issued a thousand in
vitations to their ball one evening last
week.
Guttf-au is not now banking much on his
trial in banc. He fears he may be obliged
to swing. /
Erm Eijsleb and Kan Claxton both
will be weeping in New Orleans at the same
time this week.
Mb. Tiiamsw evidently wanted to trans
form the House of Representatives, by in
creasing it to 600, into “a light brigade.”
The bids are all in at Washington for
another season of corruption and extra
vagance in the expenditure of the people's
money.
Oscar says that American newspapers are
comic without being amusing. Americans
think that English papers are amusing with
out being comic.
A spittoon on castors is a Massachusetts
invention. It is thus, little by little, that
invention is perfecting the luxurious con
veniences of daily life.
A LrtrooN fashion journal insists that
American women* do not dress well as a
rule; they only drees expensively. They
are the slaves of milliners.
The farmers of Mt. Kisco qje surprised
over the appearance of grasshoppers on the
• snow. Next Summer they may be surpris
ed to see snowhoppers on the grass.
Snow, according to the Inter Ocean, has
not covered the ground in Chicago this
Winter. This is sad, but Chicago has the
ever-reliable mortgage to fall back on.
Nobtmekn and Western correspondents
agree with Mr. Randall that Hon. Geo.
D. Tiixman, of Edgefield, made a most
remarkable speech on apportionment.
Eoub hundred and ninety persons have
so far professed conversion in Cincinnati
under the recent ministrations of Rev.
Thomas Habrison, the “boy revivalist.”
There are about thirty thousand miles
of rivers in the United States applying
for appropriations. Os these, two hundred
and fifty miles of the Savannah need aid as
much as any.
Yon can get what is called strawberries
and cream at a Boston restaurant tor sev
enty-five cents, and the proportions are
these : Three strawberries and fifteen cents
worth of cream.
Georoe W, Cubtib says: “Truth and love
are forever young.” This may account for
the fact that the oldest inhabitant and truth
are strangers, when it comes to the weather
of sixty years ago.
It will be noticed that the Independent
movement in Georgia is apparently absorb
ing all Republican office holders; which
Hhowa that the Republican Administration
is absorbing the I. M.
Ip the Mormons would only pledge them
selves, and make it a part of their queer re
ligion to vote the Republican ticket—but
then they cannot be expected to be too
wicked, even for the sake of existence.
Gkn. Lonostbeet’s loss by the burning
of his barn in Georgia is about ¥1,500. A
man who has this much pent up in a
Southern barn is a “liberal” in truth. We
would that there were more of this kind.
The Baltimore American is afraid that the
Maryland Legislature will redistrict the State
so as to secure all the Representatives for
the Democrats. If they do, they will only
he pursuing the traditional policy of the
Republicans.
Admirers of “Geoboe Eliot” will be
grieved to hear that the publication of her
life and letters will be inevitably postponed
by the illness of Sir. Cross, her widower and
literary executioner, whose sojourn in the
south of France has not reunited in health.
The fire in Haverhill, Mass., was a very
disastrous affair. The loss amounts to
K>75,000. Merchants, however, whose
stores were burned with their contents, are
making arrangements to commence busi
ness again.
“We have the hearty autograph approval
•• of Gen. Gbant, who is now one of us,”
writes the President of the Peruvian Com
pany which the Stalwart newspapers have
been denouncing as the most gigantic swin
die of the age. The editors of these jour
nals now have the floor.
ITnchback, an eminent citizen of Louis
iana, who has been taking a political rest for
three or four years, is going to get an office
from President Arthtt.. Things which give
a man a recommendation in President An
•thi'b’s estimation would be a positive draw
back with most Presidents.
The Marquis of Lobne has a high opinion
of Manitoba as a matrimonial field for
young women. He said, not long ago,
that those happy maidens emigrating to
that country "would get an offer of mar
riage about every day.” We have noticed
that every wave from Manitoba precipi
tates marriages, even in this sunny clime.
Tbebf is a law in Massachusetts which,
if enforced, peculiarly affects the somewhat
notorious Mr. Sullivan, of Boston. It is
to the effect that if a citizen leaves the State
to engage in a prize fight he is liable to im
prisonment for a term not exceeding five
years, and to a fine of $5,000. Mr. Sulli
van, therefore, is to all intents and pur
poses a Boston refugee. What shall be
•lone for him? •
A cowntby must be prett} 1 well-to-do that
can buy between eight and nine millions
worth of diamonds and precious stones per
annum. The importation into the United
States has now reached that magnitude,
against less than two millions and a half
per annum ten years ago. The fact is
significant us showing not only the increase
of the national wealth, but also the develop
ment of luxurious tastes on the part of the
eople.
'The New York B'orid thns takes Mr.
Tiliman to task ■ “The fact is that the
larger a Legislature is the less is the re
sponsibility of each member of it, and
consequently, the greater are hie tempta
tions. Moreover, the larger a Legislature
is, given the eai»e amount of money avail
able for corrupt legislation, the cheaper
will be the individual legislator. Compe
tition always tends to lower prices. Mr.
Tiuaian should think at least twice before
he speaks once on snch subjects."
A miAowivo suspicion is created in the
public mind that Neal and Craft may not,
alter all, -be the guilty parties who murder
ed the Ashi-and girls. The detectives claim
to havj struck a lead which tends to fix the
responsibility upon three fiends who have
fled the country. Ellis, upon whose testi
mony Neat, and Craft was convicted, is ad
mitted to be a little cranky, and but for a
few corroborative circumstances and public
opinion these men could not have been con
victed.
The New York Tribune, which is of the
half-breed stripe of journalism or organ
ism. is so severe in its denunciations of the
Stalwarts and all their works and pomps
that it will not even spare tfie clergy. Dr.
Newman, who was Ifresident Grant’s spirit
ual director in Washington, made a speech
at the Lincoln Club dinner a few day's ago,
which very much displeases Mr. Of
the reverend orator's merits as a taffy dis
penser the Tribune says : “When he under
takes eulogy he exhausts the resources of
the tongue. His sweetness cloys. The
opening of the vials of his panegyric upon
the head of a friend is like the bursting of
a cask of New Orleans molasses upon a
wharf rat - sweet-overwhelmingly sweet
but, to be frank-sticky; just a little too
sticky.”
The Nashville loterieiwi warmly supports
the bill, recently introduced in Congress
pensioning all the widows of deceased Presi
dents. It corrects a report recently pub
lished in sever# Northern papers, to the
effect that the widow of President Pole is
“very wealthy.” This lady has a home,
left to her by her busband, in trust to the
State of Tennessee, bnt the Amerietm states
that Mrs. Polk has not the metins to keep it
up, as the late war deprived her. of an in
come from a plantation. The recent de
cision of the Supreme Court has -materially
depreciated the value of the few Tennessee
suite bonds held by Mrs. Polk, and she has
lived out all other means. On the score of
necessity, therefore, the case of this vener
able lady makes a strong appeal for Con
gressional consideration, although the bill
was introduced without her solicitation or
THK POSITION O« TJJE UNITED
STATES. ” >. I
Yesterday we printel Mr. Blaise'• letter
to President Aararß, drawn forth by the re
vocation of the invitations to the Nations
on the American Continent to hold a con
gress at Washington, for the consideration
of questions affecting_all. To-day we pub
lish a very able communication from Hon.
Henry W. Hilliabd, late United States
Minister to Brazil, upon the same subject.
Mr. Blaine goes further than Mr. Hilliabd
in his views of the position the United
States should take in the affairs of this Con
tinent, but in the HEtn ther «w «n the -
same line -a hue which is undoubtedly the
popular one, and which must appeal to the
pride and patriotism of the American peo
ple. Mr. Blaise does not place President
Abthvb in a very enviable light in his let
ter, since he shows that it was by his direc
tion. at the suggestion of Mr. Blaine, that
the invitation to the American Nations, to
hold the Congress, was sent, and yet Mr. ,
Arthur now proposes to annul the
invitation because it might offend some i
of the European powers. Mr. Blaine
very jiertinently asks what reasons
have any of the European Powers for
taking offense at such a procedure.
Those Powers repeatedly hold Congresses j
to which they never invite the United ■
States, to which this Government does not
expect to be invited and at which we never
dream of taking offense. Why, then, should
the European Powers expect to be consulted
in reference to a Congress of American Na
tions. As Mr. Blaine says : “If that move- I
ment is now to be arrested for fear that it !
may give offense in Europe, the voluntary |
humiliation of this Government could not
be more complete unless we should petition
the European Governments for the privilege ,
of holding the Congress.” What could be
more reasonable than such a Congress and ■
that it should be held at Washington. The j
prominence of the United States on this j
Continent entitles it to the privilege of in
viting the Congress and of having it held
at its capital. If, as Mr. Hilliabd, in his [
exceedingly able and conservative com- j
munication shows, we could take a firm |
position in 1823 when we were compara-'
lively weak, and make ourselves felt, why l
should we not now, when we have become i
one of the most powerful Nations on the j
globe, assume that influential position to
which we are entitled? We did not hesitate ,
to proclaim the celebrated Monboe Doctrine I
in the days of our infancy, and give the world
to understand that we intended to maintain ’
it. The permanence and the prosperity of our ,
free institutions depended upon our pre
venting the monarchies of Europe from
taking an active interference in the affairs of '
this Continent, and this doctrine, put forth
in snch strong terms then, has become, by |
frequent assertion since, and evident support I
of the people, almost a part of our Consti-:
tution. We could notabandon it with either
dignity or a regard to onr material interests.
Wo assorted it in unmistakeable terms, at I
the close of our civil war, in the case of the I
interference of Napoleon the Third in the I
affairs of Mexico, and it was this assertion '
that led to the withdrawal of the French
forces and the fall of Maximilian. It is to
the best interests or thia country that pease
should be maintained on the American Con
tinent. Our relations with the other Ra
tions of this Continent, and our natural
desire to see Republican government
prosper, would certainly make a congress
of representatives of all these Nations,
where questions affecting the inter
ests of all can be discussed, a very
desirable object. It is not necessary to
enter into any formal arrangement, but
the relations of the several Governments
can viry well be discussed and measures
devised for cementing the fraternal bonds
between them. It is time for us to aban
don an inert policy and exert the authority
and influence which onr position entitle us
to, in the settlement of all differences on
this Continent. It would not be well io
expert that power in an active form, unless
under extreme circumstances; but the
friendly offices of the United States, prop
erly offered and the knowledge that it
could at any time enforce its suggestions,
would go far towards bringing about a set
tlement of any troubles between any a|her
American Nations. As Mr. Hilliard says,
wo are not now in a position to enforce de
mands that we might make. In order to
do this wo must have a navy, not clumsy
wooden ships, that are obsolete and of no
utility, but strong iron or steel war vessels,
the best ships th*i can be built-swift,
strong nnd well armed, ft is idle, he well
contends, to talk of intervention where
or for any cause, unless we are aide to en
force our demands.
THE CONVICT SYSTEM.
It ia a question of political economy, as well '
as of justice and humanity, and its discussion .
belongs rather to the legislative forum than to
the hustings, where, amid the excitement of a
political campaign, parties appeal to tfce passicns
and prejudices of the masses.— Macon Telegraph
and Messenger.
We have carefully read an article in the
Macon Telegraph, ending with the words
just quoted. We are reminded by the last
paragraph of this apology, which clause is
supposed to bo final and conclusive, that
reasons of political eeoaoujy. if not of jus
tice an<l humanity, sustain the present con
vict system of Georgia, and speak for ite
preservation. We can but perceive the
force of the suggestion; the issue of expe
diency a hard one to break down, even ,
when a question of right works for its over
throw. But wo fain would believe tlaat our
contemporary has done great injustice to
the people of Georgia, in its scn.clnsione.
The Chbonici.e ventures to assert tnxl a
system cf inhumanity and injustice will
not long survive, though an expedient, ap
parent and paltry, may he imputed to its
advantage, and that the people are the
proper ones to pass upon it in their aggre
gated and sovereign capacity. The Cffiaott
rcL«, as much ?.s the Telegraph, daprecatis
tlie trouble which this issue foments in
every campaign, and feels as keenly as any
Democratic journal can the thrusts and at
tacks of demagogues. Not every man who
declaims against this aysfem in Georgia is
a reformer, we well know; hat liiere must
be something radically wrong in a public
question which the masses of Georgia can
not loach without division or handle with
out contention. Successive Legislatures
have patches and poulticed this diseased
system since its iniqnjtons inception ; com
mittees have repelled ag&#st it and lob
bies have fought for its retentioa, j».<th little
change: until now, we think the time him
come for the enlightened Democracy of
Georgia to demand an extirpation of the
whole lease system.
Need we go again into the merits, or
rather demerits, ofakystym which we have
repeatedly opened for public inspection ?
The evils of thia institution in Georgia
are trumpet tongued. They have cried
1 out for reform in every section of the
State. The vary advantages which its
wannest friends impcie to it are vague
and questionable. The hiring out of
convict labor to the highest bidder dias
a fair and square sound about it; but who
can say in the end that the bids are not the
lowest and most unprofitable to the State?
Awarded to certain parties at a time when
the State government was too poor to pro
vide means of support, and too corrupt to
present measures of reform for the convict
ed criminals of Georgia, parties of citizens
in different parts of the State engaged to
' pay something under S2O annually a head.
. Since then the convicts have been divided
, up, hired out and sub lotted, until whatever
I may be wrung from their labor enriches the
; private pocket rather than the public Treas
ury, and until whatever control should ex
tend over them is exercised by irresponsible
j parties. rather than the strong and impartial
arm of the law.
“A system,” continues the Telegraph, “which
keeps connete guarded in terms of the law,
which gives them uecessary food, clothing and
sleeping accommodation*, and which exacts
the labor imposed upon them as a punishment
for vioUtaxi of law, and exhibits as a result
only tin ae-qaartors of one per cent, mortality,
eaanot be made to appear as ‘a blot on our civ
ilization,* or the civilization of anybody else.”
. The Telegraph. should know better than
make any such assertion. A system which
’■ permits private bosses to control public
, convicts; which places the lash in the hands
iof cruel and irresponsible men; which
i chains criminals together without regard to
i gradeof offense, color or previous condition;
, which has for its development tiie brutal
. energy and not the reformation of the crim
inal; which seeks to make all it can out of
bis labor and save all it may out of his sus
tenance; which shuts out all hope and
engenders despair; which drives the wretch
ed slave to escape, and whieg fails, fee.
quently, to provide guards for his appre
hension; which places the contractor where
the public officer should stand, and shuts ,
out the State from all practical governorship
of its criminals, is not a system, we submit
in all candor, which controls the convicts
“in terms of the law." The present sya-
CHRONICLE AND CONSTITUTIONALIST. AUGUSTA. GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1882.
tern cannot be amended wuhotu endless
> machinery, and unlimited expense. And
i yet, the record of the past three month® in
i the convict camps of Georgia plainly says .
' tfiat something must be done. To continue j
, the present system with any outward show
■ of respectability the State must spend more
money in providing inspectors, bosses,
overseers, guards And paying up rewards *
for escapes, than the $25,000 annual rental.
A continuation of the lease business, we
venture to say, will amount to more than j
alleged “speculation in reformatory insti- i
turions." The Macon Telegraph insists that
| the pxooesn of eioaunHifl eeuvteto- ia peni- ;
tentiary walls and utilizing them “in an -
unskilled and unproductive way” in ’
mechanical trades would throw “rude labor
■ into competition with skilled labor of citi- !
zens.” This striking sentence carries its '
own refutation with it so openly that we ■
i shall “Work it for all it is worth.” Convict'
i labor, if crude «nd -unproductive, rude and |
untidy, will carry no terror to the honest
\ labor of skilled citizens. In fact, as the
j Telegraph well knows, the convict labor to
j day, in its diversity and subdivisions, upon
' farms, railroads, forests and other processes,
, comes intocloser contact, and exerts a great
jer demoralization upon free labor, of both ;
white and colored, than it would be possi- .
■ ble under a closer and more systematic ar- |
| rtngement.
The Chbonicle cannot be floored upon
the subject of vested rights. We have seen i
that snag before. There's nothing in it.—
: We defy any man in Georgia to examine
i the lease law under which the con
victs were first hired, with its modi
f fications and amendments, and say that
I the lessees have in good faith carried out
their part of the contract. Those provisions
! have been ignored privately and publicly,
|in letter and in spirit. They have often
| been flagitiously violated; and should the
I people of Georgia decide to wipe out the
' system, as we earnestly hope they may, our
■ good people will not ba leit the sole device
| of State sovereignty to recall to its own
walls the outcasts of society—if still, the
■ creatures of the law.
' The Chbonicle firmly believes that the
i time has come for the abolition of such an
j iniquitous system of “banking upon crime.”
■ The arguments of our esteemed, but mis
taken, contemporary are neither new nor
I ingenious. The people of Georgia are tired
I of contenancing this “blot upon our civili
i zation,” if the Telegraph pleases. Many of
i the old losses, sick of their unrighteous
1 bargain, have turned over their hybrid
. forces to sub-kisses; others are being dis
; gusted with the experiment, and will soon
I relinquish their unnatural contracts and ill
I gotten gains. Nowhere in Georgia has the
; employment of convicts resulted in satis
| faction*nowherc have their employes been
I blessed with happiness. Their work seems
to have begotten distrust and divison,
j whether in the sojl or in the pits; contrac
torshave fallen out, and open discontent has
j been the rule. Again we say, the time for
j its discontinuance has come, and its
I abolishment in Georgia will rank in the
I history of the State, with the Yazoo frauds,
! in the heinousness of its inception and the
barrenness of its results.
LETTERS FROM WASHINGTON.
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
| Washington, February 15, 1882.—The
! dullness of Monday was on
- Tuesday. In the Senate, Mr. Vance, the
incomparable “Old Zeb” of the Tar-heel
State, made matters very animated indeed.
Those who are not acquainted with him
personally will perhaps like to know what
manner of man he is. I supposo that he is
quite six feet in height nnd fully 250 pounds
in avoirdupois. His bulk causes him to
walk with an elephantine treid. Every
thing about him is big—head, heart, body
and brain. His hair is luxuriant and of a
lustrous grey, tinged with infrequent dark
ness. His forehead is square and firm. Hm
eyes are grey and sparkling-two “merry
devils” that have been converted to good
ness without losing their waggishness.
The face is full, unctuous, with eon
tent and incarnadined by high and gen
erous nourishment. Unlike his brother
in the JJouse, ho takes his toddy when the
spirit moves him and his quid of tobacco
when Innch time arrives. His devotion to
party is extreme, bnt the ultra Republican
Senators iiaye only kind feelings toward
him. He is ‘'hail follow well met” with all
mankind and I think even the temperance'
ladies, who go about crusading, readily for
give him for frankly informing them that
though his spirit is with their cause his
rebellious stomach is against it. He is
racy of the soil of the Old North State and
j a pine tree is ip Jiini far more beautiful
> than the stateliest palm or queapliest mag-
• noli.i. Like our own Stephens, who WOjild
I “rather be hanged in Crawfordville than
i compelled to live in Paris/’ Vance would
,be willing to give np tnc at
' once rather than be exiled from his
I birthplace. Never did the’ South pro
! duce. a character more sui generis— more
- typically individual. He could not have
' I been grown anywhere else, and I suspect
• that ho is bhe best prodqci f?f Buncombe
county, polished by Charlotte auq cieatrj-
I fled at Washington.' The idol of the masses
' and the hero of ifo: stump, nobody can sur
pass him in popular oratory lyjien jbreath
. ing his mountain air and face to f with
his devoted constituents. But the chilling
precedents of the Senate, allied with a certain '
1 traditional pomposity, repress his 'freedom
'of oppression and dampen his frolicsome
. ' pinions. The atmosphere he takes into his
capacious chest. »s not jilio “weet breath of
‘ the firs on the eliff, but the axhttcuu iegtila
' tion tlial issues from tshe bowels of the Capi i
' to! and engineered by a subterranean gnome.
, Under these erampiug circumstances, he
cannot be seen in the highest deyelonment.
Mistrusting his genine, in such an ar&u,, lip
■' Mrefnlly prepares his speeches, and has
! i them in manuscript before him. On yes
. terday he fyd ipt confine himself scrupu
lously to the teit, b*ii. eyer and anon, snap
' ped the threads of starcli conventionality,
I and burst forth into some of the wittiest ape
■ most eloquent utterances. While many pen- !
. I pie, North and South, may not agree, with
him wholly on the tariff problem, it cannot
I I be denied licit under a fusilade of humor
ous illustrations lay iifdden a deal of sound
■ > senst 1 and truth. His viiee Usippßow one,
. i and trained to giving emphasjs to ppi-
j gram, auwdote, and satire. He knows'
1 I to perfection when to make a point, and
1 [ where to stick it. He has the faculty
; j as Lincoln had, of illustrating argument
. j with little stories, full of pith and pungen
cy, and no less a man than Grant has re
' centt.y te.stiuml, in a post prandial speech,
■ that this gift is not great-
; i est and mast serious of mortals, bjit only
, i objected to by those who are hatrep’of wjt
I themselves aud mistake the sepulchral tor
■ | the sublime. In tica beginning and at the
- end of Vance’s speech, Mr. Mo;Hll. flf Ver
, | mont, a prim grandmotherly gentleman, at
, i tempted to break the force of argument by
’ referring to the North Carolinian’s record
1 for jocularity twenty years ago, when,
> as a member cf the Hou c e, he pro-
I posed io put a roi upon Yankee
j panqifeins as an offset .to a similar burden
’ i -'Bin f-errapujA yancegpodli.nmoj-edly but
' incisively retorted th# fee difl pot ihink
he had ever “
, years ago, but, if so, he v* ftaBin, P’> eay
i that he had kept some bad company ln
j youth, for which he was duly penitent now.
' j Mr. Frye listened to the greater part of the
speech with gravity, and did pot seem to
, relish some of the sly digs he received.
.. Democratic Senators in hearty accord with
the speaker, gathered around him in an ad-
1 miring and delighted group. There was a
i > deal of laughter on the floor and in the gal
, leries, which was not suppressed. The
, I speech started qui with a solid statement of
j how the North had received from the Gov
ernment the lion’s share of the public do-
. ! main, railway subsidies, canal bonds, edn-
J cati nal funds, and a long array of mis
j oellaneous bounties.. The mammoth dis
proportion was • so greatly in favor of
i ; one section and agtunst the other, that it
, j was no wonder wealth and luxury prevailed
i on the one hand and poverty and sbabbi
. nees on the other. The man who has eleven
‘ | acres given him can educate his children
• better than the man who had only had one
( acre. The absorption of. profits by the
manufacturing North was at the expense of
’ > the agricultuAl West and South, and such
■ , a monstrosity was only made possible by a
»' high politisal tariff, which constituted New
' England the great American dead-head.
■ The high tariff tails most heavily upon agri
i culture everywhere in the Union, and most
i j heavily upon the South. Prohibition in the
’ tariff was on a level with Dick Turpin's
J ; code of morality. The one had the more
civilization; the other more manhood. The
’ one sneakingly evades the ten command
-1 mentsitheotheropenlydefies tiiem. When
t he proclaimed that such prohibitory taxation
was robbery, he simply echoed the decision
. of the Supreme Court, he read tor the
> enlightenment of the Senator from Maine.
There can be no more heretical despotism
i < than unjust discrimination that builds up
i I individual wealth. It was um-tonstitnUonai.
. ; illegal and unholy. To maintain this Gov
| ernment protection of the rich few against
1 i the multitudinous poor, capital bad hired
I ’ innumerable bowling dervishes on the press
II and in the lobby. He was & loyal citizen,
. and so agreed'with the Supreme Court
' when that tribunal characterized Mr. Frye s ,
1 doctrine as’nothing but robbery —pillage un-
- der the forms of law to build up marble
[ palaces at the North and force the South to
dwell in hovels. The increased wages of.
American labor —liiai is New England opera-
1 fives—were reduced to the pauper level by j
• the difference in the price of necessities .
here and abroad. This shibboleth of ;
“Amerimn labor” wai applied only to
manufacturing districts. That small mi-
1 nority of workers was to be protected at the
I, expense and out of the pockets of the tre
mendous majority of mechanics, teachers
and farm-hands South and West. The
' farmers of this country are the truest la
i borers because they are the real producers
. of all that constitutes the true, substantial
Ito think tha tfie man at the spindle was
superior to the man at the plow
handle, and that the Government was
run for the one and not for the other,
j The white and negro labor at the South
was taxed on everything, from head to
heel ; and fifty per cent, of the black
man’s wages had to go to carpet the floors
and put pianos in the cottages of New
■ England factory men. This was protection
with a vengeance. It was also dishonest,
piratical, class-legislation. New England
■ selects her labor, not solely from the na-
J tives, but largely from the paupers dump
ied over here from Europe —the very paup
ers from whom the Maine Senator said we
should protect American workmen I Paup-
• er labor w«s itnpoHed ‘from Eu
rope to compete with labor at home. These
' paupers were likewise beguiled bv a prom-
■ ise of homesteads. . New .England sold
, her manufactured goods to the paupers
of Europe, so-called, at one-half the price
1 demanded from at home. This
] was not protecting our own countrymen,
I but skinning them to the tune of fifty per
! cent, bonus for the benefit of foreigners.
1 A Feejee cannibal could kill a missionary
with an American hatchet or knife, free o's
duty, and assist digestion with free salt,
while American labor is heavily assessed
upon all of these articles. Sugar was im
ported free of duty from Hawaii, to break
down the Louisiana sugar industry and
ruin the colored and white laborers in that
State. Onr own countrymen are always dis
i criminated against when it suits the pro
tectionists, who force us to buy from them
jat the highest price. Our home market
j was built up for manufacturers, and
j nobody else. It was the Yankee idea
of heaven to “corner” Western and South
! ern markets in buying and selling. A na
tion can not get rich by trading with itself.
When Japan sought to preserve her ancient
exclusiveness and home market, the Yankee
protectionists opened her ports and broke
down her traditional policy by sending war
ships to enforce a demand Io that end. The
gold of Europe is drawn here by the pro
ducts of our soil devoted to agriculture. A
nation cannot always prosper by taxing it
self. If the West, and South ever equalled
New England in manufacturing what will
do with our surplus? Foreign paupers
will be very useful then. The men who
produce $211,000,000 of cotton are strip
ped of their profits by the protection policy.
Lands are cheap here because they are abun
dant. Labor is dear because it is scarce.
The wages paid by free trade England are
double those of protected Russia, Germany
and France. England is not declining, and
never will as long as her commercial flag is
flying from the peaks of nearly all the ship
ingat New York. Protection is like Aunt
Jemima’s plaster on her old man’s back
the more she tried to pull it off, the harder
it stuck. It is the great political tapeworm,
It is an infant that gets angrily jealous
every time there is anew baby in'the house.
Great care is taken not to allow the rising
cotton factories of the South to purchase
cheap machinery. Rich and pampered
manufacturers in New England were much
harder to struggle against than the horde
of European paupers. The South was tick :
led with the hope of free apple whisky
some day; but she preferred free cotton
machinery. A judicious lowering of the
tariff and utter extirpation of the internal
revenue was what the South wanted. The
internal revenue service was a disciplined po
litical machine, to bedevil mountaineersand
carry elections for the Republican party.
When Virginia Democrats agreed to a debt
paying policy, the Republican Administra
tion menaced its myrmidons with dismissal
unless they aided tind abetted repudiation.
He opposed the lop-sided commission
urged by Senator Morrill, because the ver
dict on hog stealing was to be rendered by
men who had gotten some of the pilfered
pork. But as a sop to Cerberus, bank
checks, which the poor never had, were to be
released from taxation, and matches were to
go free, for the benefit of saloon keepers,
Batent medicines were tq have a day of
grace, and the American stomach was to be
come a wholesale recipient of mysterious
nostrums, whereby a speedy exit to the
grave was assured. This increase of mor
tality would add to the protected value of
Vermont tombstones and Ruthland marble.
Ours is the grandest land upon the planet,
with its 700.1KX) square miles of sun-kissed
soil and 2,000,0011,(XK) acres laughing with
grain harvests. We had a new Egypt water
ed by a naw Nile, which had gigantic devel
opment even under repression. We reached
out our arpqs fpr an all-embracing com
merce. blit were stopped by a New England
spinning jenny I Rrotpctiou eniiohed one
man at the expense of ten others. Wealth
is concentrated and penury diffused by
a prohibitive tax that is nnwise, unjust,
unconstitutional. Give us a free land, with
free labor, free ships and free competi
tion.
At the conclusion of his speech, Senator
Vance espapefl thfe congratulation of all his
friends, except Monator George, of Missis
sippi, whose rugged face was aglow with de
light and satisfaction. He emerged from
the cloak-room in hot haste, with hat and
overcoat, and beat a retreat so precipitate
that the casual observer must have supposed
that “the tocsin.of the soul—the dinner
bell”—had summoned him away. He had
earned his banquet, and I hoped he enjoyed
it, for whether right or wrong about the
tariff, no better or more whole-souled public
man steps in shoe leather to-day.
The House got into a kind of fury on
Tuesday oversomo iriespousiblfi report from
the Foreign Relations Committee, relative
to the imprisonment or trial of American
citizens ip England. Some decided action
in tlijs matter ought to fee taken by the
Executive Pepartm.ent; but the common im
pression is that Speaker blunder
ing, aided by Republican finesse, and
Richelieu Robinson’s ultra ferocity, has
created a mnddle that approaches the ri
diculous. The Democrats are all right, but
they do not care to follow Richelieu Robin
son’s vindictive.lead. During the debate,
Mr. RaaflaJJ doubled up Mr. Robeson by a
retort a« summary as ong of Sullivan’s blows
was to Paddy Eyanls Corpijosfiy. When
Robesop speeripgly reminded Ranijall
th# he yas no longer Speaker, the re
ply eamo straight asa shot; “True;
blit I am a member at this House
in good standing." Roars of laughter trom
all sides greeted this broadside, and thick
as Robeson’s hide is he manifested the pain
he felt from the searching nature of the
The Republicans disliked to re
cdpimit the ffOt °- 3 at Rast twenty of
their diatriots are cqntadileq py Itjoh votes,
they had to face sh h music. is to be
hoped that Mr. Keifer’s committees will
sopjetime or other'dp sensible and accept
able worii; b# thjs does pot seem likely
until the Speaker fibau uniuad bj's Jlenhis
topheles-Falstaff Robeson and yieid r the
leadership to George D. Robinson, of Mas
sachusetts.
The Senate to-day is considering the Mor
mon pui, ths salty—perhaps I should say
Salt-laky—details di ynUU are being lis
tened to with slight attention liy few Sena
tors and many women and girls in' the gal
lebmfi*
Speeahca mo bejpg made jn the House on
the Apportionment bin? Tpege addresses
are “for the country,” and not .to kill the
committee report, which has been dead as
a Oner nail for more than a fortnight.
J. R. R.
WashiNoaon, February 15.- J did not ex
pect to writ a second Ifittey 10-day F put am
impelled to do so because of an event that
has much concern for me and many per
sons in Augusta and South Carolina.—
£iong ago I promised and predicted that #
his constjtuepi«> would only have patience,
Hon. George D. Tiilmiin yopjfl make his
mark sot oply jp tjhe House of Repre
sentatives but in the Republic Very
nobly and grandly this afternoon did he
realize that promise and verify that pre
diction. I may add, ivith sober truth,
that hy pnlv surpassed my hopes and
expectations, but ,tnai fie cutdid anything
his own most daring fancy pictured. “If
Ido not m# lß a memorable speech,” he
said to a", “i will subside for good and
all.” Tha speech has jjoeen made, and #
was one of the most impressive and re
markable of this or any other Congress.
Qrdinatily, this opinion might be construed
as the e»ge” compliment of friendship -for
people t'ell'me tnai I am blind to the faults
of those I care for-tuft this time at least no
trace of mistaken z SaV wifi fifl’feund in the
narrative of this day's pyoceedjngsi which
may for themselves About four
o’clock this afternoon, w hen ,th« House
usually grows restless and turbu.*” 1 ' no "_to
say jifiPffty., the member from Edgefield,
who hadbe.cn ? o constant an attendant and
so modest in asserting himself, rose to
speak upon the report of the Oen«us Com
mittee concerning the ratio of apportion
ment. The subject had bean long discuss
ed and often tediously, wherefore there was
some impatience when Mr. Tillman was an
nounced for an hour’s speech. Curiosity led
groups of Democrats and Republicans to gath
er near him. As he progressed these groups
expanded until the whole House circled
him about in earnest attention, for he had
come with a message of original power and
a mind overflowing with the u.astepul
learning of his subject He was making a
wonderful speech and not drawling out an
essay from manuscript or printed slips. No
scraps of paper or notes of any kind were
before him. Nor did he need any such
adventitious aids, for his memory was
saturated with all the knowledge obtain
able, his powerful reasoning faculties grasp
ed it with imperial vigor, and his tongue
had but to fashion into articulation what
had been so faithfully, so laboriously and
so consummately acquired. Resolutely con
fronting the assemblage, he presented a
very imposing figure, with his erect form,
great Websterian brow and snowy hair
and beard. It was a face where youth
and health lingered, but fringed with the
frost of a wise maturity. He had toiled and
moiled fur years, aftd now his harvest time
had come. ~He felt it, in all its dread re
sponsibility; but he was equal to the emer
gency. Up in the Reporter’s Gallery the
whole drama was unrolled before me, and
as mv friend marched from one victorious
sentence to another, cheered and applauded
bv that splendid audience, I could scarcely
contain myself, and wished ever so much
that his wife and children and neighbors
in old Edgefiel4fhad been there to behold
how he "illustrated South Carolina. ”
I will give a synopsis of what he said,
premising that my cold language can fur
nish but a feeble idea of what he uttered and
the way he delivered himself.
He started out by observing that the re
port endorsed by a majority of the commit
tee did net have*even the merit of novelty,
for a similar contrivance had been present
ed by a gentleman from New Jersey, in the
Presidency of Washington, and vetoed by
the Father of his Country. He was in favor
of a large House, and had an important
offer when the bill came up
again for discassion. While he preferred a
House of 600 members, he would vote for
the highest number proposed. It was de
clared truly of England that she never could
be ruined except by her Parliament, and
the same might be said pf every Ixce coun
try; for while the law-making power is less
corrupt than the Executive, there could be
no danger to liberty. Wo had had corrup
tion under Grant’s administration, because
the lobby had full swing St a small House of
Representatives. Wealth delighted in display
and sought authority over others. A large
Senate and House would prove the best
barrier to insidious appeals of opulence. Ee
sooner or later, that- the American
people would be converted to that view. He
cited the case of New York, Pennsylvania,
Colorado and Nevada as examples of the
perniciotwnesWof Small Legislatures amen
able to debanchment. Had any one heard
of Jay Gould and Boss Tweed ? He quoted
was ‘M.Dem
ocrat ma Detiiocratic county, a Republican
in a Republican .county, bqj an Erie Rail
raid man all Cne‘time. ‘Also the bold
avowal of the same capitalist that he had
once bought candidates for Legislatures, but
changed his tactics when he found it so
much cheaper and easier to purchase
them after election. Tweed made no con
cealment att all of his having bribed
five State Senators. He meant no. offense
in these statements of fact. ’ The people of
such Commonwealths were as good as those
of any other parts of the Union, but they
had been cursed by a vile system. The old
time Legislature of Pennsylvania was noth
ing better than a broker’s shop. The new
Legislature is considerably larger and there
fore not corruptible. History recorded
few more gigantic frauds than the Wil
liamsport boom affair. Everybody had
heard 1 of the Bonanza Kings of Colorado
and Nevada, and how they flourished polit
ically because of small Legislatures. He
had nothing but admiration for the New
England system. Massachusetts, Vermont,
Connecticut, New Hampshire and Rhode
Island all had large Legislatures, and who
ever heard any corruption charged against
them ? Eli Woodbury is on record as testi
fying that he had seen the highest efficiency
among 700 members of assembly. They
were also above suspicion. We should
make the legislative authority a Gibraltar in
Congress. The English House of Commons
consisted of 658 members. He referred to
the invasion of that body by Charles I,
which Mr. Wellborn had alluded to, and he
asked the gentleman from Texas if Mr.
Speaker Lenthall would have made the no
ble answer he did to the audacious monarch
had he not fceen backed by that mighty
mass of men.
Mr. Wellborn replied that perhaps only
for'y members were present.
N it so, Mr. Tillman answered, the whole
Far. lament was there. History so records
it, and they are always there" when great
issues are at stake. It often happens that
six hundred members vote in the Com
mons, and they are the grand inquest of
the empire, A large House might obstruct
business ; but that was not to be repro
bated. There is no higher duty than to
prevent the passage of bad laws. The
chief occupation of modern legislation was
the undoing of the blunders of predeces
sors. Each member ought to have a clerk
or else the qumber of legislators should be
augmented. They were now mere errand
boys. Forty years ago, the then House of
Representatives had increased the mem
bership wholesomely, but the Senate had
reduced it. That disastrous operation was
the work of small Northern States
allied with Southern slave States, under
the lead of John O. Calhoun. It was
in the interest of the small Common
wealths and of slavery. The strangling
process was in the electoral college as well
as in legislative bodies. It was the cause of
the war of 1851-5; for had the large ap
portionment of 1840 prevailed, the patriotic
heart of the Nation would never have con
sented to secession. He represented two
hundred thousand people, forty thousand
of whom were voters. No one member
could have proper personal contact with so
many constituents, unless in communities
where rich men lake the poor brotherhood
up into a high mountain. It had been said
by Mr. Cox, of New York, that England was
and is an oligarchy; but what kind of an
oligarchy was that which had given us
habeas corpus; the proud boast that no
'slave could breathe her free air and remain
in fetters; that every man’s house was his
castle, where even the King could not
enter illegally; the independence of the
judiciary; the subordination of executive
to legislative authority ? All of these we*
had from England. All our charters of
right and freedom come from her. Nor was
the gentleman from New York correct when
he stated that the voting population of the
United Kingdom was comparatively insig
nificant. Over one half the males there
vote, and this is susceptible of proof that
cannot he challenged successfully. He
thanked God that England did not have
universal suffrage, because that was equiva
lent to universal damnation. [This remark
caused much laughter, applause and visible
sensation.] Ha knew by experience and
observation the entire truth of that remark.
New England had no right to complain of
Old England, seeing that she had taken
good care to disfranchise thousands of
white men who were not deemed fit for
suffrage. Everybody knew what had hap
pened in the District of Columbia, where
the annihilation of all suffrage had resulted
from wholesale abuse of the ballot. [Here
the speaker paused, thinking his time had
expired, but cries of “Go on ! Go on 1” re
sounded from evt-ry quarter of the Hall.]
Again resuming, Mr. Tillman said he did
not want to tre'pass upon the time or
patience of members, but he had not said
one-jourth of what \yaa in his mind upon
this theme. Ho would appeal to “Little
Brains” (Sunset Cox) to go for larger rep
resentation at home- He woqld like to see
300 men in the United States Senate to
place that body above suspicion. [This
statement, iqafle with, gravity, provoked
a tremendous sensation.] He meant no
offense to anybody, but there had
been charges of Senators having been
elected by corrupt means or being
the attorneys for great corporations
and employed by the lobby. [Great
laughter and applause.] Maryland was
not blameless; and perhaps this was be
cause of her proximity to N ew York. In
his opinion, thp country tpfl produped
three great statesmen wfiq tqwered above
all other,-;, and these were John Adams,
Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamil
ton. What Adams taught New England
was how to save her liberties by numerous
legislative bodies. The little townships
were a protection ag iinst each other and
protective of all classes. John Adams had
also taught New England that public officers
should be distrusted; that they might not
be corrupt,' put were gorrpptiblp. Alexan
der Haniiltdh was for the'one man pqwer,
and his malign pervaded thd
Constitution to this flay, overcoming
th,o benign influence of who
was absent in tenglfipd at tue time of the
adoption of the Constitution. Jefferson had
impressed himself upon the smaller States
and the States of the South His influence
is felt at the State capitah to-day, while
Hamilton’s spirit walks abroad in the Fed
eral uougiCaw, Job” Adams’ venerated
shades kept wateh apd w&'rfl over Hje tqvp
ship system—tlie Ja# raifiparts of freeflom
and’of this immortal trio he was the
greatest. [The New England members
rapturously appjffldefl at this point, and
one of them actually woptwitb ineeipotiops
evoked from so unexpected a source.] It
would not do to deny the corruptibility of
small Legislatures, lor it was notorious that
fho Peripsylyapja Qengr#
sembly “moved to adjourn sine die if Tom
Scott had no further business to lay
before them.” [Great laughter.] Mr. Her
bert, of Alabama, objicted to a large House,
because of the supposed trouble in count
ing the ayes and noes, but he (Tillman)
thought that easily remedied, especially as
there was no trouble about matters of im
portance/oy wh’e.a ipe pqp|ic ipinq was
made tip, aS in thb ciise ot the quinine bill.
He had heard that the gentleman from Illi
nois (Mr. Springer) knew of a labor-saving
machine of English use, or possibly of his
own invention, which he would probably
explain to the House. [Here the Speaker’s
gavel fell, amid tumultuous plaudits, but
by iiaanimons consent My. Tillman was
urged to fwoifeed.j' Chee 'inore Resuming,
he said he would not' Consume 1 ' much more
time, although much more thought remained
to utter. He would Conclude by calling upon
New isngiaqq ii, fiq iqf to® What
she had done for herself. The war was over
and its legitimate results accepted. The
era of good feeling had come. But it was
to be regretted that common sense had not
prevented the necessity for internecine
_ strife. When the policy of John Adams was
applied u tLq CqnA«ess cf the Union and
Senators apfl Members -brougfit ibeir faini- ,
lies to Washington, #1 sections' wquld be,
socialized and nationalijsed. Knowing each :
other better and appreciating eaeh other I
better i 2“ n !a handed common-1
wealths can unite in saving: “God save our |
E Pluribus Unum and Esto Perpeiil".
Ap Jfr, Tillman closed and took his seat, i
he was thunderously applauded; members
rushed toward him and shook bitil by the i
hand, and the pages swarmed about his
desk, begging for copies of his speech when
published. But I think the best pleased
men, perhaps, are the New England
Republicans and none like George D. Rob
inson. The marvellous spectacle of a South ’
Carolinian, from Edgefield county, not a i
disciple of Calhoun, but of John Adams, '
fairly aleptrified them. Tillman ha- made !
his mark', la’> sqe repeat. He' has won the
respect of the whole House, and’extorted its
admiration. The House always listens to
men of sense or wit. He displayed a mas
tery of mind that will never again need in
troduction or a passport, whenever he
cares to speak again, the House will listen.
At one bound, long delayed, but patiently
planned, he has gone to the front. As he
left the hall, Turner, of Georgia, slapped
him on the baek and said; “I think you ’
have won your election contest. That i
speech ought to settle the matter I” If, per- i
chance, a party by the name of Smalls hap
pened to be on hand when Tillman spoke, he
must have felt himself dwindling micro
scopically. Perhaps his bat-like hopes fled
before light of such supremacy of statesman
ship. Henceforth, Smalls will be much
more of a hero in Beaufort than in Washing-1
ton. f. R. B, ;
BOILKK EXPLOSION.
Fatal Accident Near Carteravllle, Yester
day Morning.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Atlanta, February 17.—Just before seven
o'clock this morning the boiler of the Geor
gia Oar Works, at Cartersyille, exploded,
kilting instantly five negroes and injuring
a number of others—two of whom have
since died. An engineer, named Wood,
was injured, it is thought fatally, and
Superintendent Lucas, of the Lucas bleep
ing Cars, was also hurt. The damage to the
building was very great. The cause of the
explosion te not yet ascertained.
—
Macon, Ga„ February 14.—Gen. Eli War
ren, aged 82, a distinguished lawyer and
citizen of Georgia, died of heart disease, at
his home in Perry, near Macon, to-day.
FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
[THE APPORTION MKNT BII.L FINALLY
PASSED BY THE HOUSE.
All Amendments Cat Off—T tires Hundred
and Twenty-live Members Coleriek’s
Amendment Cat Off—Kellogg's Grab in
Hit Senate,
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
HOUSE.
Wash ngton, February 17.—Owing to the
great confusion which existed at the close of
yesterday’s session, there were several cor
! rections made of the Congressional Record,
. after . which Xixe. Speaker- anuquacdd the
regular order of business to be a motion to
lay on the table a motion submitted at the
close of yesterday’s session by Mr. Springer,
I of Illinois, to reconsider the vote by which
I the House rejected the amendment offered
I to the Apportionment bill by Mr. Colerick,
■ of Indiana, providing that in case the Legis
i lature of any State where representation is
changed, shall fail to redistrict the State
before the time fixed for the election of
Representatives, the Governor shall be
authorized to eall a special election.
The motion to table the motion to recon
sider was carried—yens, 130; nays, 114.
The question then recurred on the substi
tute tor the whole bill submitted by Mr.
Colerick, of Indiana, and which fixes the
j representation at 316. Mr. Cox demanded
' the yeas and nays. Having been ordered,
| the Speaker appointed Messrs. Cox and
i Prescott as snch tellers, but Mr. Cox de
clined to serve in that capacity with his
colleague. The substitute was'rejected
yeas, 04; nays, 154. A substitute offered
by Mr. Joyce, of Vermont, providing for a
House of 365, was rejected without a divis
ion. The question then recurred on a sub
stitute offered by Mr. Page, of Uelorado,
providing that the House should be com
posed of 319 members. This Mr. Page de
sired to withdraw, but as it was the number
favored by the Democrats, objection was
made; it was, however, rejected—yeas, 99;
nay's, 148. The previous question was
ordered on the final passage ot the bill, and
it passed without division.
The text of the Apportionment bill is as
follows :
Be it enacted, d'c., That after the 31 of
Marcff, 1883, the House of Representatives
shall be composed of 325 members, to be
apportioned among the several States, as
follows :
I Present I Proposed I
STATES. | No. of | No. cf Gains.
United States..... 298 325
Alabama,B 8.
Arkansas........ 4 5 ID.
California........ 4 6 2*
Colorado..., 11 --
Connecticut 4 4 -
Delaware 11
Florida 2 2 -——
Georgia 9 K» ID.
111in0i5...;..-....... 19 2t) 18.
Indiana...,- 13 13
lowa 9 11 2R.
Kan5a5.......... 3 7 4R.
Kentucky 10 11 ID
Louisiana 6 6 V
Maine............ 5 4 -IB
Maryland 6 6
Massachusetts... .11 12 IR.
Michigan........ 9 It 2R.
Minnesota 3 5 2R.
Mississippi 6 7 ID.
Missouri 13 14 ID.
Nebraska 1 3 2R.
Nevada 1 . ..1
New Hampshire.. 3 2 -1R
New Jersey 77
New York? 33 .34 1*
North Carolina... 8 9 ID.
Ohio 20 21 IB
Oregon 11
Pennsylvania .... 27 28 18.
Rhode Island.... 2 2
South Carolina... 5 7 2D.
Tennessee 10 10
Texas 6 II SD.
Vermont 3 2‘ 1R
Virgiria .... 9 10 ID.
West Virginia.... 3 4 ID.
Wisconsin s 9 IR.
* Doubtful. - Loss.
Section 2. That whenever a new State is
admitted to the Union, the Representative
or Representatives assigned to it shall be in
addition to the number 325.
Sec. 3. That in each State, entitled un
der this apportionment, the number to
which such State may be entitled in the
Forty-eighth and each subsequent Con
gress shall be elected by Districts compos
ed of contiguonsterritorj and containing, as
nearly as practicable, an equal number of
inhabitants and equal in number to the
Representatives to which such State, may be
entitled in Congress -no one District
electing more than one Representa
tive ; provided, that unless the Leg
islature of such State shall other
wise provide before the election of such
Representatives shall take place as provided
by liw. Where no change shall bn hereby
made in the representation of the State, the
Representatives 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 be
fore this change, then the additional Rep
resentative or Representatives allowed to
said State under this apportionment may be
elected by the State at large, and other
Representatives to which the State is en
titled by Districts, as now prescribed by law
in said State; and if the number hereby
provided for shall in any State be less than
it was before the change hereby made, then
the whole number to suoh State hereby pro
vided for shall be elected at large, unless
the Legislatures of said States have provided
or shall otherwise proviso before the time
fixed by law for the next election of Repre
sentatives therein. All the acts and parts
of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby re
pealed.
The morning hour has been dispensed
with. The House, at. 3:30, went into oom.
qpttee of the whole (Hoar, of Michigan, in
the Ohair ( upo« the private calendar.
The first bill on [he calendar avas one au
thorizing the restoration -of Thps. Little to
the army with the rank of captain. The
report shows that Little was court martialed
on a charge of conduct unbecoming an of
ficer and a gentleman, and on this ground
Mr. Cook, of Now York, protested against
his restoration to the army. The House
had last Friday passed a bill restoring
Kirby to the army, and he wanted to raise
his voj.ee against, a policy which was then
pprsugd. My. tipaqq, of Texas, supported
the bill. The charge upon which Captain
Jjittle had been dismissed from the service
was ridiculous and frivolous, and nothing
more than the offspring of a prejudice
against volunteer officers. The charge
against him was that he had been seen on a
public street with a common woman.—
While he (Upson) did not desire to lower
the high standard of morality in the army,
he would like to have some one point out
the person vyho could cast the ffrst etqne.
There was no other charge against the of
ficer. Ho bore sqars received in the service
of his country and should not b.o dismissed
from the army.
Mr. MoOook read extracts from the review
of Judge Advocate-General McKee Dunn,
of the cage of Thorqaa Little, qonimeniing
seyerely upon the conduct of that officer
and fecfugmenflipg that thr. findings of the
cuurt martial be confirmed. He then sent
to the Clerk’s desk to have read an'affidavit
of Thos. Little, relative to the charge made
against him, and which was taken from the
files of the War Department. The language
of the affidavit was so gross that many ladies
left the galleries, and the was
stopped by obiectiona hpring
qj, ut Illinois, find Moore, bl Tennessee, on
the ground that it was obscene, and it was
stricken from the Record. The affidavit,
however, had its effect, and by an over
whelming vote the enacting clause of the
bill was stricken out, thus defeating tije
measure.
The next bill yas one authorizing the
/rasident to plkce Wm. P. Chambliss, late
Maj. of the Fourth Cavalry,upon rhe retired
list. On this bill the Democrats refrained
from voting, thus leaving the committee
without a quorum, the cim
mttia<i pisa. 1 Recommendation of the com
mittee as to the bill relative to Thomas Little
was agreed to by the House and the enact
ing clause was stricken out. Mr. Valentine,
Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture,
reported the Agricultural Appropriation
bill to the committee of the whole. It ap
propriates $392,480, being $66,770 ' esa
than asked so? and %119,&.8CI in'ote 'than
the • appropriation 'for the current year.
The Speaker laid before the House a mess
age from the President in further com
pliance with the House resolution calling
for correspondence respecting the war on
the Pacific, transmitting the report of the
Secretary cf State and accompanying docu
ment-referred; also, a letter from the
Secroterv of War the progress
report oi'the Commission
—referred. The House then, after several
roll calls, at 5:30, adjourned,
SENATE.
Mr. Coke, of Texas, reported favorably,
from the Committee on Commerce, a bill
introduced by him on the Yieviuus day;
apprbpriatiag oqe hundred thousahd dol
lars to improve the harbor of Galveston,
Texas, and urged its immediate considera
tion. Mr. Ingalls, of Kansas, insist
ed upon the regular order, but late
in the morning Mr. Coke reitered his
appeal, and the bill was considered and
passed. Mr. Jones, of Florida, reported,
from the Committee on Public Buildings,
to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to
erect a public building in Key West, Fla.
The bill authoring the payment of
assignees of claims of the Census Bureau
employes out of the recent deficiency ap
-1 propriation, was paseed. Bills were intro
duced : By Mr. Kellogg, of Louisiana—
Providing for the following appropriations:
For the improvement of the river front of
! New Orlerns, $300,009; Ouachita river,
$50,000; Re i river, above Shreveport, $50,-
000; LaFourche, $"5 000; Bayou
I Teehe, ?50,Q0Q; Calcasieu river, $50,000;
deepening the channel of Atchafdlaya river,
$300,000; building lock at the mouth of
Bgyou Plaquemine, $250,000; building a
post office and court house at Shreveport,
$250,000; building a court house and post
office at Opelousas, $250,000, and custom
house and post office at Morgan City,
$150,000. The calendar was then prccsed
ed with. Two bills for relief to individuals
were passed, when, at 1:40, the doors were
closed for executive business. At 4:30 the
doors were reopened, when tha pension ar
rears resolution wm taken np, and laid over
as unfinished business. The Senate ad
journeJ until Monday.
Washington, February 20.—Mr. Hale,
from the Committee on the Census, report
ed back the House Apportionment bill, and
asked unanimous consent for its immediate
consideration. Mr. Cockrell objected, but
afterwards withdrew the abjection, and Mr.
Hale gave notice that he would renew his
motion later.
A bill was introduced and referred by Mr.
Vanoe, of North-Carolhu, to refund to the
North Carolina Railroad Company certain
moneys assessed against and unlawfully"
collected from it by the United States.
Mr. Call, of Elorida, offered a resolution,
which, at his instance, was tabled to be
printed, reciting that the interests of peace
between Nations’ obligations and rights,
which are reciprocal between the United
States of America and all other peoples and
Governments ot the Americas, as well as the
commercial interests of the people of the
United. States, render it proper that the
Government of the United States, in some
proper form, adopt measures to settle the
controversy between Chile and Pern, and
Iprevent1 prevent 4^4oroihlo.-donabor mest- of- Peru,-
that a Congress, to be convened in Washing
ton, and composed of representatives from
the peoples of the different North, South
and Central Americas, for the purpose of
agreeing upon some just method of settle
ment of all questions now existing or that
shall hereafter arise between Governments,
would be a wise and beneficial measure,—
The Senate proceeded to the calendar and
Mr. Logan asked to have taken np, as the
first in order, a bill to plane General Gfant
on the retired list. Objection was made by
Mr. Vest, who wished to speak upon the
bill. Mr. Bayard gave notice of a substi
tute, giving a retiring pension to all ex-
Presidents, which would include Gen. Grant.
The bill was finally taken up and amend
ments of the committee thereto adopted,
without objection. Mr. Vest then took the
floor, in opposition to the bill. Referring
to the debate upon the proposition to place
Gen. Shields upon the retired list, he quot
ed from a speech of Mr. Edmunds’ allusion
to the failure ot Shields to secure the place
of Doorkeeper of the Democratic House (hie
candidacy for the place having immediately
preceded the unanimous passage by the
House of a bill placing him on the retired
list), in view of which Mr. Edmunds con
strued the measure as an attempt to com
pensate a beneficiary froth the Treasury be
cause of his defeat in the House. This
speech, Mr. Vest said, was what the lawyers
called a statement of the case, and he would
. now make that statement applicable to the
present case, upon the assumption that the re
tirement of Gen. Grant was a measure of com
pensation for his defeat at Chicago. The
discussion was continued, notwithstanding
the expiration of the morning hour. Mr.
Logan, to whom unanimous consent was
given for a reply to Mr. Vest, argued that
there were’abnndant precedents for thebill.
Mr. Logan eulogized Gen. Grant’s civil
and military services, and contended that
the exceptional value of his achievements in
the field was such as to entitle him to re
tirement on that account—not simply as a
civilian. This was the ground of his objec
tion to Mr. Bayard's proposition to cover,
the case by a provision for the retirement of
ex-Presidents. He charged that prejudice
existed in the Chamber against the illus
trious leader because of what he had done
for his country. There was no reason for it
upon any other assumption. He (Logan)
regretted, from the bottom of hie heart, that
gentlemen on the Democratic side still cher
ished their prejudices against a man who
had done so much to preserve the Union of
the States. If not this, he would ask the
other side what it was that incited their op
position.
Mr. Butler interposed to express his dis
approbation of Mr. Logan’s strictures upon
his own position and that of his party asso
ciates. Ho said he disliked to be charged
with prejudice against Gen. Grant. He re
garded the measure as one for buncombe.
He did not think Gen. Grant wanted retire
ment, nor that he needed any such pro
vision in his behalf, nor that it would be
any additional honor to him. The retired
list, in his opinion, had been reserved for
disabled officers. ' He thought Gen. Grant’s
friends were humiliating him by putting
him in the attitude of a beggar. He would
vote one hundred thousand dollars or five
hundred thousand dollars to save General
Grant from want, but for the reasons stated,
he equid not favor the bill.
Mr. Logan replied by asking Mr. Butler
if he had ever known a case in which an
officer had been placed on the retired list
because of necessitous circumstances.
Mr. Butler instanced the case of Gen.
Shields, who, he said, at the time of his ap
plication, had been compelled even to pawn
his sword.
Mr. Logan replied that the statements
published that Gen. Shields had pawned his
sword was wrong—that Gen. Shields himself
had denied the story. Gentlemen seemed
to be afraid that Gen. Grant might be hu
miliated. The friends of that gentlemen
thought they ought to be the judges of that
point. As one such, he would say that as a
recognition of the services of that distin
guished beneficiary,his retirement would be
considered by him as an honor.
Mr. Butler suggested that upon this con
sideration a similar provision should be
made for Gens. Franklin, McClellan, and
other distinguished soldiers.
Mr. Logan admitted the entire propriety
of any proposition to that effect.
The regular order-being the Pension
Arrears resolution —was proceeded with,
and Mr. McPherson offered and advocated
a substitute, declaring that the Senate ad
heres to the principle that pensions shall
be computed from the time of disability,
and directing the Pension Committee to
bring in a bill by which the business of the
Pension Bureau may be expedited, and
frauds detected and punished.
Messrs. Platt and Harrison discussed the
subject, which was “till pending at execu
tive session. Adjourned,
HOUSE.
Immediately after the reading of the jour
nal, Mr. Hewitt, of New York, rising to a
question of privilege, denied all connection
with the Peruvian Company, and said he
did not know Shepherd and never saw him.
Under a call of States a number of bills
.were introduced and referred.
By Mr. Robinson, of New York —A reso
lution extending sympathy to the laboring
classes in Ireland and their representatives
now in prison.
By Mr. Randall, of Pennsylvania—Pro
viding that all public buildings shall be con
structed of material found in the State
where the buildings are to be erected.
Mr. McKinley, from the Committee on
Ways and Means, moved to suspend the
rules and pass a joint resolution authorizing
the refunding to the American revisers of
the New Testament duties paid on importa
tion of copies qf the New Revised Testa
ment for the use of said company. Mr.
Speer, of Georgia, advocated the passage of
the joint resolution. The motion was agreed
to and the bill passed.
Mr. Hammond, of Georgia, from the
Committee on the Judiciary, moved to sus
pend the rules and pass a bill to establish
District United States Courts and officers
thereof in the Northern and Southern
Judicial Districts of Georgia—which was
agreed to.
Mr. Townsend, of Ohio, from the Com
mittee on Commerce, moved to suspend the
rules and pass the hill to promote the effici
ency of the life saving service and to en
courage the slaving of life from shipwreck.
Agreed to and the i ill passed. The House
also passed, under tho suspension of the
rqles, amid applause, a bill in relation to
the Japanese indemnity fund. It authorizes
the payment of a fund known as the Japan
ese indemnity fund, amounting to sl,-
770,314, to the Japanese Government,
with the exception of $254,000, which
shall be paid to the officers and crew of the
United States ship Wyoming, A.resolution
was adopted making the bill the
immigration of tfie 'spacial order
for the second Tq(ss.day in Maron, and from
day to, day until disposed of, subject only
to appropriation bills. The House, at
4:35, took recess until 7:30-night session
to be for the consideration of the District of
Columbia Code bill.
GEORGIA CAX-'i.
The Aniutaia Making the Far Fly On the
liiiliienny Plan In the Vicinity of the
the White Haase.
(Special to the Courier-Jouru&l,
Washington, February I.A President
Arthur has got liiia'seii into very hot water
, i.U his aUempt to foster a Liberal party in
' Georgia. He has set the factions of the Re
publican party in the State by the ears, and
now has to bear the brunt of it. Every day
there is a delegation of Georgia Republicans
at the White House, protesting against afiy
but their faction being listened to in Geor
gia matters. The' Pre.fldent but by
. decidifl£ [d give Qie o[d crowd of Republi
; caps fchake, and to put the new move
ment in the hands of Gen. Longstreet, Mr.
Atkins and other men, in opposition to the
old crowd; then the howling commenced;
it is now at red heat. Every train brings to
Washington a delegation of Georgia Re
publicans, either in favor of and
his people or opposed 'tb t'u«y go to
the White talk to the President.
. Eac'u 'side daubunces the other. The whole
row is, of course, about the distribution of
the Federal offices. The old crowd is now
in and does not want to loosen its grip.
The most startling charge? es one faction
against the other are made. two
of these opposin'* Ware 'ln the
Pres’doaty* room at the same'time. Arthur
had id' eXerClea "'a good deal of tact to pre-
> vent them vituperating each other then and
there. The memberspf tfee Ueliinet do not
escape delegations. They keep np
their fight before all the heads of their de
partments. The President’s first attempt
at the building up of aj“Liberal” party in a
Southern State has so far only resulted in
creating the biggest sort of a row among
the Republicans of that State, '
ftUITKAU’S NEW CLOTHES.
j He Wants Ta Present a Decent Appear
ance When Released.
i Washington, February 13.—Intent ja
-the convicted and Guiteau
! seems to have oonsiderably and no
further attention is paid to his movements
except by hi? relatives and counsel. His
brother John paid him a farewell visit
this niornirig, preparatory to leaving for
Boston to attend to his business. The in
terview between the brothers is said to
have been very affecting, although the
prisoner was apparontly the least disturbed.
Soon “fter bis brother had left be sent for
a tailor to come and measure him for a
new suit of clothes, and also ordered a new
hat, which was furnished him. He paid
for his orders out of the money derived
from the sale of his autographs and, when
asked what be wanetd with ne w clothes,
said he did not expect to remain long after
the Court in banc met, and he wanted io
make a good appearance when he want out.
This was regarded as an attempt at brag
ging. for the appearance of the prisoner
certainly belies his assertion. He is inclined
to be troublesome, and this morning he sent
his breakfast back, because, as he said, the
beefsteak was not cooked rare enough.
“Tell the cook,” he said, “that I want the
blood running out of my meat before X eat
it.”
Philabzlphia is raising a row over the
suggestion to move the mint to New York.
The Quaker burghers have for the nonce
put their war paint on. j
fy A MISSISSIPPI IjELUOE.
Damage to tliet, Plnnta-ttons— Drowning
of Horses, Cattie »u-l lloga Negroea
and Moles Huddled Together in the>-
Cablns, —— \
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Memphis, February 19. —A special dis
patch from Helena says there is no abate
ment of the disasters that have- overtaken
the planters of the Mississippi Valley,
caused by the overflow of the Mississippi
river between Memphis and Vicksburg.
For three weeks it has rained almost daily,
until now but a dreary watery waste ex
tends fully fifteen miles inland from either
bank. Thera have been innumerable
-breaks in, U*otedftSv au.l Uw--outlook
for the present is anything bnt hope
ful. Cattle and hogs have been drowned
by hundreds, and barns have been
swept away and their contents wasted. The
loss to planters by .these mishaps cannot
bnt have its effect in cramping their facili
ties for putting in a crop for the year. This
condition of affairs exists to an alarming ex
tent in a number of the largest cotton
growing counties in the Mississippi Valley,
both in Arkansas anfl Mississippi. Starva
tion is threatening many poor people whose
homes line the banks of the streams that
have overflowed. In some cases cabins can
bo found in which are negroes, hogs and
mules all gathered'under one|shelter, await
ing the receding of the river.
New Obleass, February 19,—A Pine
Bluff’ special says that Arkansas City is in
undated. The trains on the Little Rock
and Mississippi Road have discontinued
their trips there on account of the high
water.
Cincinnati! February 20.—A’dispatch re
ceived here says Carrollton and Milton,
Kentucky, have several feet of water in the
streets, and the Cincinnati and Louisville
packet steamer Gen. Lytle landed in the
streets of Carollton, yesterday.
Louisville, February 20.—The first floors
of all houses along the wharves from Fourth
street down are flooded.
Cincinnati, February 20. —A heavy rain
has been falling all the morning. The river
$t 11 o’clock was 55 feet and rising two
inches an hour. - All the cellars below
Third street are flooded, practically sus
pending business in that part of the city,—
A great force is kept busy removing goods.
Plum street passenger station, is inaccessi
ble and trains deliver passengers at Wood
street. Maddox A- Holbart’s distillery and
the Globe Rolling Mill have been com
pelled to close operations. The former
have driven away all their stock. Other dis
tilleries in the same locality will be com
pelled to close to-day. If the rain should
stop now it is estimated there will be five
feet more of rise, and what will come with
more rain would make the highest water
ever known. The same extraordinary rise
of water is reported all along the river.
St. Louis, February 20.—The rain has
fallen pretty steadily and heavily here since
Saturday morning. Nearly six'inches have
fallen, and considerable damage has been
done. All the trains were from four to
eight hours late in arriving this morning.
At Cave Cliff, on the Iron Mountain Rail
road, there is an extensive washout, and
two passenger trains which left the Union
depot last night were obliged to lay over all
night at Carondalot, and are still there.
The river has risen about ten feet since yes
terday. The rise was so unexpected that
considerable freight lying on the leveo near
the old Short Line was swept away. All
other property has been moved further up
the bank or taken away altogether to-day, so
that no further damage can be done. The
east bound train on the Ohio and Mississippi
Railroad, and the west bound train on the
Missouri Pacific were the only trains which
departed to-day. All trains 'on tho other
roads have returned, on account of the wash
outs. A special from St. Charles says that
three temporary spans and two wooden
piers, supporting the middle trestles of the
St. Charles bridge, were carried away at 2
o’clock this afternoon. The eastern Howe
truss span'! and supporting piers are still
standing The river is rising rapidly, and
tho rain is falling continually.
Cincinnati. February 2 1. —The Ohio river
is now higher th in it has been since the
great flood of 1847. At" 11:30 it was 58
foot 6 inches, atid rising half an inch an
hour. High winds prevailed this morning,
accompanied by colder weather, with a light
snow. This will check the rise, though not
at once, as the river is still rapidly rising
above. The windlias had the most inju
rious effect on the railroad embankments,
and in the Mill Creek Valley the waves are
crumbling the banks. There are fears that
the track of the Cincinnati and Baltimore
Road will be seriously injured. It is already
abandoned, owing to injury to tho bridge,
freight business being practically suspended.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton and
Cincinnati Southern and Cincinnati North
ern are the only roads whose tracks are free
from water. The obstruction of other tracks
and flooding of side tracks ot the Cincinn iti
Southern restricts business to the running
of passenger trains. The wind this morn
ing blew down many telegraph wires, and
the business of the telegraph offioa is con
sequently in great confusion and business
much retarded. The most serious loss this
morning is the breaking away of eighteen
barges of coal from Collier, Budd &, Co.’s
landing. There being no steamers ready
to pursue them, the chances are they will
be lost. All coal yards are submerged and
obliged to suspend business. Great incon
venience is caused by the flooding of firstr
floors of streets along the river front, where
yesterday only cellars wo inundated.
Memphis, February 21.—A special dis
patch from Helena, dated last night, says
the situation remains unchanged. The
liver has been at a stand for the past twen
ty-four hours. The water in the city con
tinues rising and is now over North Main
street, at the Presbyterian Tlhurch. All
mills and workshops in the lower pari of
the city have suspended operations, and
many laborers are thrown out of employ
ment. A few more days of such distress
will leave many in actual want. The only
means of communication between Main
street and West Helena is by skiffs, for
which there is a groat demand, and
business is at a standstill. There are no
transactions in mercantile circles except for
the actual necessaries of life. At many
points between this city and Vicksburg the
river is twelve inches higher than was ever
known> before. This is accounted for by the
fact that the Mississippi river has overflow
ed its banks above Osceola, Ark., 90 miles
up the river, and a large volume of water
pours through that country into the head
waters of the St. Francis river, and again
finds its way back into the main stream, 15
miles above Helena, whore the St. Francis
river empties into the Mississippi. Every
plantation between Memphis and Friar's
Point, Miss., is submerged, and the water
extends back from either shore 15 miles.
The planters are enduring great hardship
from the loss of stock by drowning. Jn
nearly all overflowed sections the stock is
suffering. What were saved are kept hud
dled together on hastily built
St. Loins, February The weather
turned very cold a!,.pmt o'clock this morn
ing, and tljq mStanry sank several degrees
be!,ow freezing point between that hour atrd
daylight. The ground is frozen very hard.
The river has risen oyer five feet since iaet
evening, and is now-27U feet high-n, total
rise, since Sunday, of About 17 toei. The
rise is much slower noy; than yesterday,
and the water wifi egin to fall by to-mor
row. Railed travel is still very much in
, The only roads which sent out
i trains this morning were the Ohio am}
Mississippi, Cairo Short Line, St. Louie uhd !
San Francisco, and the Vandalia. The
last named used the Ohio, aud Misissippi
track to Odin, thence by the Illinois Central
to its own frack. The only train from Chicago
thiii morning arrived over the Vandalia
I Road, and the only Eastern train came in
by the same line. The incoming trains. yq
all other roads were either abandoned or
have been indefinitely Relayed. The
Chicago and Alton. Cbipagp, Burlington
and Quincy and Indiana, P. a,nd St. Louis
train" ato popped at WoM river, about
twenty miles fyom fiera, and have washouts,
! bad'bridges ox overflowed tracks at various
other plucefc. The Vandalia and Louisville
and Nashville tracks are flooded at Silver '
Crook and other places. The Wabash, !
eastern division, has trouble bcycud Alton, ‘
and the western divisyin bad bad land
slides between hern the Missouri river.
At St. Charley op the Missouri Pacific, there
are suvcrallphd slides within five miles of
• the city and considerable of the track is
!; overflowed.
The Keokuk and St. Louis Road is also
’•under water in several places. The Iron
Mountain Road, besides the land slid:? re
ported last night, has an attentive washpnt
about 16 miles the city. The St,
Louis and rrancisco has suffered no
serious damage, and trains have Rcfl been
; stopped. The rise in the rive* here is said
: by the oldest jteamboat men to be unprece
dented. N n . such, amount of water was ever
i kuaowu to come down so suddenly. The
rain fall amounted to within 17-100 of an
inch of as much as the average fall for the
entire Winter for the past eleven years. The
telegraph lines west of heveaxe still pros
trated. •'
British Grain Trnde.
London, February 20. —The Mark Lane
Erpress, in its review of the grain trade for
the past week, says : “All the crops are
healthy and their previous fgp.aipid growth
has been checked, Tho position for this
time of tbs j 3 exceedingly good. The
8n riiy wfieat has been restricted. Trade
is completely ruleij by foreign. Even the
best samples slowly receded since Mon
day and inferior was unsalable. In for
eign wheat the trade was' deminished
in the expectation of lower sales and
prices declined a shilling on Friday. Nine
teen cargoes have arrived, three of which
were sold. Values off the coast declined 3s.
Red Winter wheat, to arrive has fallen 4s.
Flour was in small demand, and prices
slightly declined. The foreign supply is
increasing. Prices for useful brands are
unchanged. Inferior is cheaper. Foreign
bailey and oats are unchanged. Maize de
clined 6d. Sales of English wheat during
the week were 43,503 quarters at 465. per
quarter, against 26,484 quarters at 41s. Bd.
per quarter lor the corresponding week of
last year.”
Fired late the Train.
Yesterday morning, as the Harlem train
was moving into the city, in the outskirts
of the town, it was fired into from the rear,
by some parties, evidently on the track.
The glass door of the rear car was blown
entirely out and the shot flattened all about
the coach, one passenger being considerably
bruised. Thomas Nusom, a colored boy,
was arrested later in the day. He states,
however, that another colored boy, who was
with him at the time the train passed, did
the shooting. The law is spreading out its
itching palms for the other suspect.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Galveston, Fpb.rnary IB.—fwo bodies
were found in the Rio Grande river, near
Laredo, yesterday, one with a rope around
the neck, and both showing evidence of
murder. A difficulty at Laredo, between
two gamblers, resulted in the fatal wounding
of one of them. -*—
Cincinnati, February 16. —A special to the
limen-Star, from Louisville, reports tho
burning of Ehrman Cone's wholesale < on
fectioneryuipd notion
The loss is $40,000; ibsnrance, $25,000.
lhe building was owned by Mrs. Mary Ty
ler, whose loss is $20,000.
Washington, February 16 - Mrs. Johan
nah Lovejoy and her editor Ki.te Keefe dibd
suddenly at their residence, Fourteenth and
H. Streep, N» E„ yesterday.- The ’Violent •
spasms of both women OBnsefl; suspicions
that they had been poisoned. Tho ease was
reported to the, police- -authorities. i-An'-au
topsy was held and poison found in their
stomachs.
Louisville, February 21. the
Newcomb Buchanan Distilling Company’s
assignment, individual assignments of Geo.
C. Buchanan and Andrew Buchanan were
“ 'John M. Atherton. .The cause of
the failure is believed to have been- sudden
money pressure. The deeds convoy all
the property of the parties. It is believed
that an extension of time will brine all
right. • - . .. •
New Yobk, February 16.—At 11:43, -a-
PJc a toiler in Jewell Bros.’ Brooklyn City
Mills, at the foot of Fulton street, Brooklyn
explodea, destroying the lower floor of the
building, and doing some damage to tho
offices of the Pennsylvania Railroad Uom
engineer and fireman were
killed, and it is probable that several lives
were lost among the workmen em ployed on
the first injured, ,so Ist as can
be learned, are of those who were p.issen
gers on the ferry boat which had just arriv
ed from Jersey City, and passers by on their
way to F ulton ferry, A lady, who ' had j ust
stepped oft the boat was struck on the
shoulder by a falling brick and seriously
hurt. Several others were more or less in
jured by the falling debris.
Dock Rapids, lowa, Febiuary 16, Yes-
, terday, before the coroner’s jury engaged in
investigating the murder of John Lanahan,
who was killed while sitting near a window
in his own house on Saturday night, Mag
gie, the murdered man’s oldest daughter,
confessed she did the shooting. She and
implicated her mother, her sister Anna also
the latter’s lover, a young man named
Birch. Ihogirl testified that it had been
agreed between them some time ago to put
the old man out of the wav at. the earliest,
opportunity. Birch furnished a pistol, and
when her father came home from a (armors*
meeting Saturday -and was about to sit
( J ow , n stepped up-behind, hiifl and
hied, killing him instantly. She then ar
ranged the body so as to make it appear that
80 ™ e °>}e had shot him through the window,
while her sister Anna went out and ?
broke a glass. As to tho motive for the -
crime Maggie says that, Birch wanted to
marry Anna and that her father refused to
sanction it and that ho did not provide well
for them. Tho mother and Anna corrobo
rate this testimony. Biroh at one time liv
ed with the family and was driven from the
house by Lanahan, who suspected him of
criminal intimacy with his wife and daugh
ter Anna. AIJ tho parties implicated are
under arrest and the greatest excitement
prevails.
Washington, February 21. Dispatches
from West and Northwest report heavy
rains, rising rivers and much damage bv
floods. J
Brooklyn, N. Y., February 21. The east" ■
wing of the Kings County insane Asylum,
at Flatbush, was burned thin morning. But
one patient was-lost.
Fredericksburg, Va„ February 21,-r-The
suspension of J. B. Ficklen & Sons, of
Bridgewater Mills, is announced. Liabilities,
are estimated at $130,000.
Lynchbubg, Va , February 21.—A grea?
fire is in progress at Liberty, Bedford
county, twenty miles from Lynchburg.—
The fire brigade, of this city, has just left
on a special train to try and arrest the
flames.
Lynchbubg, Va., February 21.—Informa
tion has been received hero of the murder
of James Mercer, a prominent citizen of
Smythe county, by a man named Lyle.—
The murderer was caught and barely escap
ed lynching. -
New Yobk, February 21.—George G.
Sampson, late Director of the Atlantic and/ \
Pacific Telegraph Company and one of the
Directors of tho Bank of the Republic, died
yesterday. Ho eame from Richmond, Va.„
to this city at an early age.
New Yobk, February 21.—An assignment
for the benefit of creditors was filed to-day,
in the County Clerk’s Office, by Clinton H.
Smith, dealer in laoes. linens, etc,, 189 to
-493 Broome street, to John G. Smith. Tho
total preferences amount t0.5117,*<04.
Shrevecobt, La., February 21.—A heavy
wind and rain storm passed over this
city to day, causing much damage. Trees
and fences were carried away. Reports
from all directions state that tho rivers,
bayous and lakes are rising rapidly. The
river here is higher than it has been for .
years.
New Yobk, February 21 .—Two floors m
cne wing of the Kings County Insane Asy
lum were destroyed by to-day’s fire. About
eight hundred patients w’ere in the build
ing, all but two of whom were safely re
moved. One of these two was a paralytic,
who was forgotten; the other was named ,
Scoville, an insane man. The loss of prop
erty is about $30,000.
PfiTEuawr.G, Va., February 21. The
grand jury at Southampton county yester
day indicted Emrnit Claude, colored, for
the murder of John Murrell and Thomas
Glover, in December last. Ho is to be, tried*,
in the County Circuit Court in May next.
This was thq most brutal murder ovex
committed in this State and entirely unpro--
voked. After committing the murderClauda
set fire to the store of J. H. & J. B. Prince,
in which Murrell and Glover were employ
ed as clerks, and which was entirely con
sumed.
FOREIGN NEWS.
The Siege In llerxi-govlnla—Trouble W'Ato
Bradlaugh in Parliament—Swen-,
Him In. B
(By Cable to the Chronicle.)
London, February 21.—The Mmnchester
Guardian's correspondent at Ifagnsa says
“The Herzegovinians, after a four days’
siege, have captured Fort Uslrikolina, com
manding the defile of tin, upper Drina, be
tween Fotcha and Gavazy/a. The Austrian
battalion, forming th*, garrison, were pur
sued with a less, to Qavazza. Two cannon
were captured The whole population on
the upper Drina has joined the insurrec
tion. Tho Fotcha is surrounded by three
ih&uigent divisions, and. tho commandant
, as the place is treating for its surrender.”
The foregoing dispatch to the Guardian in.
an insurgent account of affairs. The Aus
trians maintain strictly a defensive attitude
in Herzegovina, bnt are strenuously pre
paring a Concentric movement against Cri
vosciuns, who number one thousand. Gen
dovaaovics, Austrian commander, has leP.,
Ragusa to head operations.
In the House of Commons Mr. labotr
chere (Liberal),, member for Northampton,
moved that a new writ be issued for an
election in Bradlaugh’s constituency, as the
Ritter was disqualified by a resolution of
:: the House. This motion is supposed to ba
an attempt to draw a declaration from the
Government in favor of Bradlaugh. Lord
Randolph Churchill (Conservative) moved
an amendment, that Bradlaugh was legally
disqualified. The Attorney-General nd
visad the Housa to vote neither for the'
motion aor amendment, but as Mr. Glad
stone had already been advise! to per
mit Bradlaugh to swear, subject to
subsequent legal liability, both the-motion
and amendment were rejected, the former
by a vote of 3W. to 18. Mr. Bradlaugh
then walked up, to the table, took tho oatl>/
signed it without waiting for the clerk, Knd
declared that now having taken the ez.tb he>
I would take his seat. The Speaker told him
ito withdraw below the bar. Ms. Hradhingh
, said he would obey,' but would claim his.
, seat- Lord Randolph Churchill moved that
a writ for a new viectian be issued.
Bradlaugh having by his action va
cated his seat, Mr. Gladstone moved
the adjournment debate until to-morrow,
to enable tRp question to bo discussed calm
ly. Members of Urn opposition agreed, but
UXpressed the hope that the Government
would ba prepared to propose something to
vindicate the outraged dignity the
House, When Mr. Bradlaiteh reached the
table to take the oath, h.a produced a Test i-'
ment from his own, packet. Obeying tlm
Speaker’s injunction, Bradlaugh withdrew
below the bar and then re-advanced and
took a seat, Tho Speaker again ordered
him to withdraw and to remain below tke
bay. Bradlaugh then retired to a seat fin
der the gallery.
BURNED UP.
Extensive Conflagration in Lincoln Conn,
ty frlday Nip/at.
Friday Bight, on Lift'e river, in Lincoln
county, the extensive milling property of
Mr. Eli Lockhart was burned up. The mill
included flo>Vr and grist mills, with a cotton
gin, and 'was very valuable. Besides a con
siderable amount of grain, several bales of
cotte, o we re missing, but were subsequent
ly found to have been stolen—evidently by
the incendiaries. On Saturday some of the
cotton was traced to Augusta and recaptur
ed, with one or two of tne parties suspected
of the arson.
’
Ntw York Democrat*.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Albany, N. ¥., February 21.—1 n the Sen
ate, this morning, the President said the
duty had fallen upon him of naming the
standing committees. Recognizing the fact
that the Senate is Democratic, he had taken
pains that each committee should be Demo
cratic in its make-up, the Republican mem
bers falling into such allotments as are due .
to the minority. Senator Jacobs was as
signed the Chairmanship of the Finance
Committee, H. A. Felson that of Judiciary,
and Mr. Grady, Tammany, has the coveted
Chairmanship of Cities. The Tammany
Senators have leading recognition in the
composition of the committees.
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