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CONKLING’S NOMINATION.
The nomination of ex-Senator Roscoe
Conktjxg, to be Associate Jnatice of the Uni
ted States Supreme Coart. was no less a
surprise to the people of the whole country
than it was to citizens of Washington. Sena- j
tor Hoab, in declaring his own indignation
at the nomination, but expressed the senti
ments of a large majority of the American
people, without regard to party. It is some
thing unusual for a Senator to object to a
nomination made by the head of his party,
especially when that party is Republican.
As a rule, the Republicans have stood by all
nominations of the Execuftve since they
have had control ot the Administration,
and objection, therefore, coming from such
an extreme party man, and especially when
expressed in such very strong language,
shows that there must be something radi
cally wrong about the nominee. Senator
Hoab conceded Conkling’s great ability,
and there is no man in the United States
who does not, but he contended that he
used his powers for bad purposes, and he did
not believe him to be honest. These are very
harsh terms, but the Massachusetts Senator
evidently had good reasons for using them.
He is experienced in parliamentary usage:
has been for many years in public life, and
certainly would not have spoken in such a
decided manner, in reference to the ap
pointment of a Stalwart Republican, by the j
Stalwart President, unless he considered
that the occasion demanded it. Senator
Hoab was the party associate of Cobbling in
the Senate for a long time, and therefore is
supposed to have full knowledge of his
character. With such knowledge, the accu- ■
nation he make. 4 is a very damaging and
sweeping one, and should make Senators of
both parties ponder deeply before they
vote to confirm the nomination. If the ,
charge made by Mr. Hoab had been j
preferred by a Democrat it might have ;
been said by Republicans that it was on ac
count of partisan prejudices; but it comes
from an extreme Republican, who lives and
has his political being within the fold of
the dominant parly. Mr. Conkling has
been nominated to one of the most impor
tant positions in the Republic. It is not a
mere place of political trust, but an office
which should be filled by none but men of the
purest private and official character. It is
well known that Mr. Conkling is, at least,
not free from suspicion. The Spbague
scandal should alone be sufficient to dis
qualify him from holding such an exalted
position as that of Justice of the United
States Supreme Court. The country is fa
miliar with the details of that scandal, of
the contempt which Mr, Conkling exhib
ited for the opinion of his countrymen in
that matter, and of the breaking up of Gov.
Si’Kague's family, leading to a final divorce.
That such a man should occupy a seat on
the Supreme Bench—the highest tribunal
in the land—is an open defiance of public
opinion. As Mr. Hoab bo emphatically de
clared, it would be a disgrace to the judicial
ermine and a reflection npon the people of
the United States. The standard of the
Supreme Court should be maintained, no
matter what else may lose proper dignity.
Mr. Conkling was rejected by his party in
his own State, last Summer. That he should
be deemed competent for Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States, when,
his party declared that ho was not fit to rep
resent New York in the United States Sen
ate, is a proposition not easily understood.
He resigned from the Senate under the ex
pectation that ho would be promptly re
turned; but those whom he expected to vin
dicate him by a very emphatic vote asked
him to stay at home. Taking it all in all,
Mr. Conkling's career has hardly been one
to fit him for so responsible a position as
Associate Justice-a place where he will be
called to sit in judgment upon important
causes. If the people of his own State, his
party associates, are afraid to trust him, it
is scarcely to be expected that the people of
the United Slates can have any more confi
dence in him. Mr. Arthur has suflered his
personal friendship tor the ex-Senator to
get the better of his judgment, an error
which the Semite should promptly rectify
by rejecting the nomination.
CURRENT t'OMMKST,
New York Demoerata.
(Montgomery Advertiser.)
For the County Democracy of New York city
to have assembled for the purpose of denounc
ing John Kelly, and turning him over to the Re
publicans, does not prove John any more a
knave, anil argues themselves next door to
fools. Tammany made its offer —control of the
Committee on Cities. The Democrats infused.
The Republicans agreed. Tammany voted with
the latter. ’ That was a fair and square transac
tion. Tammany is for sale. The most that can
lie asked of it is to give alljpurchasers a fair
chance.
A Wise Decree.
■ (San Francisco Call.)
A dispatch from Yokohama says the Emperor
of Japan has issued a decree to the army, for
bidding it to meddle in politics. Just what
Japanese polities are is not generally under
stood in this country, but doubtless they are
disturbing to the ruling authorities, who often
have a wholesome dread of the people. Many
*of our citizens think it would be a good thing
if a decree could be enforced against the med
ling in politics of the police officers and paid
members of the tire departments of American
cities. They would be then much more effi
cient in their respective spheres.
The Stock Flurry.
(N. Y. Times.)
Nothing baa happened or is likely to happen
to causa anv great decline in the value of
dividend-paving or interest-paying securities.
Thev mav go lower on the market than they
noware.’ They may, this year more than an
other, abate their power to earn a revenue. But
there is nothing in the business of the country,
or of the sound corporations of the country,
that makes it likely that the value of ordinarily
good secnritieM in to bo HubHtauhally diminish
ed. Ou the contrary, it is likely, for some time
to come, to increase, and it would be very un
fortunate lif any’ considerable number of the
holders of such securities, who have paid tor
what thev hold, should sacrifice them under
the influence of such a tlnrry as is just now
passing over the Stock Exchange. The present
condition of the street must attract more or less
outside capital, though it may be that a still
lower point will be reached before such capital
will come in freely.
Mason's Treatment.
(Chicago Inter Ocean.)
The treatment of Sergeant Mason by the ar
my offious at Washington arouses the indigna
tion ami merits the condemnation of the entire
country. There are very few men who, placed
as Mason was, would not have done exactly ae
be did, and there aro equally few who did not
regret that Ins bullet missed its mark. His act
was the result of an impulse inspired by the
uoauimous sentiment oi the country, and he
should not lx> severelv punished. To confine
him iu a cell where the rats are so thick be
caunot sleep, aud where the rain beats iu upou
him, is an ctT.mse greater than he oummitted,
eepeciallv as long as Guiteau is furnished so
manv comforts. Let lam exchange places with
Guiteau and uo one will complain, but the oflV
cer who keeps him iu the cell as described
should la' court martialed and dismissed from
the service as not tit to be intrusted with the
lives and bodies ot his fellow-men.
The t'onvlrt System in Georgia.
(Providence Press.)
The Augusta Chboxtcijs is most ablv attack
ing the convict system of that State. The con
victs are leased at say, twenty dollars a head
is-r year, to certain parties, with the right to
eiib-let. Thev are placed, in the words of the
t'HKONici f, in the hands ot cruel and irrespon
sible men; they are whipped without mercy and
with entire impunity; thev are chained together
without regard to their offenses, sex or color. A
vei v hr: es expel ieuce of the working of the sys
tem indueed Gen. Gordon to repudiate it, and
relieve himself of the obligations he had in
curred by participating in it. It is to the honor
of the CnaoNi i i: that it so plainly, as well as
empbatv aUv, deals with the subject.. It is pos
sible, p. that*, to defend the initiation of the sys
tem at the time it was entered upon, all circum
stnncee and expectations considered, but there
can be but one opinion as to the moral neces
ettv of exterauuaaug it as soon as possible. Ap
parently the sublect bas got into politics, but
the State of Georgia ought not to wait for an
overthrow of a system "conceived in iniquity
bv a pane partiv created by its abuses; nor
will it, it it is worthy of the sound ssnse. hu
mane feeling aud the indisputably good judg
ment exhibited by the Chkoniclk.
A Tahiag MlaUtsr.
(New York Letter.)
It astonishing that Mr. Blaine should be
..tnniah.'d— he says he is tilled with "aatonish
“ZT an 1 regret," and we take him at hie word
TZt Hurlbut’s performance in putting
_ Peruvian raj»’™* <i m 11,8 P«ehet for safe keep
*,. unfit Kmenea. ll capitalists can be found to
take it Tb^asuab ‘ hlu >-' thing is that Minister
HurlbuthtatiS pw all the Peruvian guano
beds in his pocket Ut. >re t hft time He is a
taking man and belongs io a taking family—
According to the division .<< the Supreme
Court. luTtook bribe* *rf cotton speculators in
Louisiana when in command there as ireneral.
According to the report « a ommissi.iu which
.nveetigaied hi* eooduct in 18ou, he was guiltv
of a serie* of " heinous offensre. of which
granting permits to his brother-in-tew for
which the tattor bad takeu nve thousand dol
lars in bribes, was one ct the least: and the
committee adrwed Ute unprieofemest, which lie
doubtless deserved; but be managed in some
wav to escape un whipped of justice, there
seems to have been hardly a misdemeanor or
crane of the smaller sort which tin* fellow was
not guilty of, except dining with a trund and
wearing away bis boat * trousers.
The Stork Panic.
(Philadelphia Tunes..
The depression which has attended operations
in the stock market for a long ume culminated
vesterdav in a panic of some magnitude among
the holders ot long stocks, and in the general
fright a good deal of valuable property was
thrown a wav, along with «uA of less intrinsic
worth. It is of little use to attempt to eheek a
herd of bulls which has started on a wild stam
pede with the Wind in the rear, but imrestment
holders should rememi> r that railroad a.eun
ties are just as valuable today as they were a
week or a month ago, and not to part with their
propertv under the uifiuenoe of a fear which
has been fostered by those who are to profit by
it. Various stocks* have been ‘•raided,” one
after another, until anch a feeling ol alarm has
been created among those who carry stocks «n
margins that laid* bv the bear* u> no longer
necewsarv. While frightened holders are
throwing their storks away or are leeuig them
on account of eahaitsted ciargin*. those sbo
have caused the alarm are .pnetly picking them
nil. When ttiev have all bean gathered in
prices will boom again and the same stocks
will be once more unloaded at high figures,
upon gullible speculators ; and so the game wUI
go on forever.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
1 From a Staff
Washington, D. C., February 21. —We
are having dreadfully wet weather. It has '
been raining for three days and nights.
There is a promise of sunshine to-day, bnt
it m.iy not be honored outside of the Hazen
Department. Many Southern Congressmen
are getting alarmed at this atmospheric j
pressure, and another season of drouth is
expected, in cons, quence, next Summer.
If these fears be realized there will be ruin
and desola ion in many quarters. Possibly
the years of plenty are to be followed by
years of scarcity. At any rate the signs are
all in that direction, and the wise man is he
who provides in time against the probable
emergency. In the day of commercial dis
aster the money changers and men of fixed
incomes profit; but wholesale misfortune
descends upon the masses. By some per
versity of nature or kindness of Heaven, we
may have abundance of moisture next Sum
mer; but the present outlook for anything:
of the kind is not consoling.
In front of all the grass plots, the other
day, I noticed thousands of earth-worms
dead npon the pavement. A scientific gen
tleman expressed surprise at this phenom
enon and said there must have been some
disturbance in the soil to drive them forth
in such colonies. I asked a negro boy
about il, and he replied as follows : “The
warm rain coaxed them out. Then they
crawled over to the sidewalk, got lost, and
not bring able to find their way home again,
died.” Other people regard it as the pre
sage of disease.
There are regular stands in the Capitol
building for the sale of lunches. Being of
an investigating turn of mind, I discovered
that these regular caterers charge about 5Q
per cent, more than the poor old women
who huddle up in some odd corner and ex
pose their gastronomic wares for public
purchase. According to a liberal calcula
tion, the high-toned dealers, if liberally
patronized, during a Congressional session,
i ought to grow rich rapidly.
Among the curious tolks who hang
around the Senate Reception Room, a New
i England female lawyer is conspicuous.
She is a stout, muscular woman, a (font 30
years old, with short-cropped hair and a
masculine countenance. I have no doubt
that she makes a good lawyer, as there is
such an approximation to the male sex in
her strong-minded nature.
I had hardly completed the above sen
tence, when a man of venerable aspect,
■ long bearded and mystical, approached me
with a paper coveied with curious chiro
grapby, purporting to show that George
Washington was the suspect of Bible pro
phecy. 1 dare sav the impending birthday
of the Father of His Country has inspired
numerous cranks to make all manner of
droll horoscopes of the career of the man
who sleeps at Mt. Vernon. In Baltimore,
there is a newspaper editor who weekly
writes a column of astronomical jargon to
prove that mankind must be, individually,
just what the planets form them at their
nativity. Either, in such a case, care’should
be taken te have children gifted with lucky
conjunctions of the solar system, or else
theology should devise a new sliding scale
of crime. lam inclined to think, however,
that this astrology is clever charlatanry, the
successful guess work being purely acci
dental. The lucky hits are remembered;
the numerous failures forgotten.
Coming from the Capitol, recently, I saw
President Arthur for the first time since
last Spring. He has changed much, being
perceptibly older and greyer. High-living
and the anxieties of his station are begin
iug to tell upon him. He has the apoplec
tic look and lymphatic coarseness that sooner
or later must overtake the grosser “club
men” in this part of the world. He is re
ported to have went copiously when the
Jubilee Singers saog their hymns at the
White House, on Saturday; but as the<
singers aforesaid are preambulating the
land professionally, in search of ducats at
Concert Halls, the parading of Executive
tears has the cunning look of an advertising
dodge. Nothing is sacred from the advance
agent of a minstrel troupe.
A tremendous eflbrt will be made to build
a new navy. Somebody will make a lot of
money out of the sale of old vessels and the
building of new ones. Perhaps by the
time the United States can boast of an iron
clad flotilla, Grt'at Britain will revolutionize
naval construction, just as she did her com
mercial marine. From a wooden material
she went to iron and from iron to steel. But
the Republicans are not stingy with Govern
ment lunds, and that is one reason why,
with a proper curb upon Mr. Robeson, we
may have a respectable addition to the navy.
I atu inclined io believe too that Augusta
will get her public building this time, un
less Democratic parsimony shall prove an
obstacle for the second time.
In spito pt the invitation Gen. Mahone has
curtly received to leave Richmond and make
at least a show of earning his salary at
Washington, he continues to absent himself
from Senatorial duties. He evidently be
lieves in caucus dictation in Virginia,
though assuming a virtuous horror of it at
the Federal Capital. His independent atti
tude is rather damaged by Auditor Massey’s
assumption of the same role.
Some of your readers may remember Dr.
George R. Ghiselin, who tarried at Augusta
a few years ago. Col. Beverly Tucker says
he met the Doctor at Los Angeles, Califor
nia, last January. Ghiselin, according to
this authority, js buying mines, but nobody
has ever heard of his selfing them. He is
one of the most remarkable persons I ever
encountered. Few men have an eqipl i
scholarship to his, and, as a dinner ta
ble companion, he can hold his own
with Jack Wharton and Tom Ochiltree.
He has, in some inexplicable way, visited
every country under the sun and engaged
in more schemes to extract the impossible
than any individual since Col. Sellers. A
sublime Bohemian, fie often tumbles from
a dizzy height ot speculation, but seldom
fails to fall upon his feet. He fiM shaken
the tree of the knowledge of good and evjl
with a tan fool pole, ami offered the apples
at the most generous diffiount. A gentle
man once spoke to me oluiin thus: “Gbjs
elm is his own Eleusw. The riddle of t|je
Sphinx is a simple sum in addition com
pared to the secret of his singula? career.
I thiuk he is a poor mnn; but if he were to
come to to-morrow and extend an invi
tation for a trip to Europe on a steam yacht,
without cost to tuysejf, 1 am satisfied that,
at the tune anpointe’, exp-di i »:» wo il I ’
sail ami the programme bo pitied cut to I
the letter. How he could manage wb an I
adventure, I cannot toll; but he would con
trive it all the wino." I hope the poctor ■
will sell the mines that Beverly Thicker re- :
porta him to have purchased.
It is (riven as a positive fact than siren (
LeDncw.au Commissioner of Agriculture he j
sent to Italy for wreuroni seed. This com- ■
petes in absurdity with some of Mark ’
Twain's yarns about Hovano Greeley's sg J
riculturai absurdities.
Ben Holloday Still haunts Washington in
pursuit of bis mammoth claim. I understand :
that the sum oi $100,600 was once voted ;
him, bnt he declined it on the ground that
it would not cover bis lawyers’ feee. He is
married, for the second time, to a young and
beautiful lady. His first wife was very de- 3
vout aud very ambitious. She succeeded ;
in marrving her daughters to foirigiX noble
men ; bnt, I believe, these Alliances vere>
not happy ones. They died early to woman
hood. Mr. Holloday is now an old man, !
but full of vigor. He must have been very;
handsome, but. in his case now, “Alcibi-i
ades has turned to Plato.” ;
Virginia lost a great journalist when Mr. i
Chamberlayne died last week. He was an
extraordinary niwstw of the English tongue. I
As if to show the irowy sf fate, I am told i
that while he was making a a.apd repnta- i
tion in Virginia a less gitted brother i# Bal- I
timore gxra.s a precarious living by seme;
hnniDie occupation*
The conjunction jf Blaine and Y oorhees !
as a Democratic Pre sided, yal ticket is non- |
sense, gome of the opinions ri JJr. Blaine ,
are rather gjpphatic and the reverse of £?m- I
piimentary. bno man says: “If I were in at
bad scrape Blaine would be just the fellow
to get We out. If I were mx. ).u a scrape, he
would be just the fellow to get me into
one.” A promimmt Democrat, who h«s I
had dealings with th* Maine politician, puis*
it thus: “It I owed the peril 10,000 rascals
and liaudj-d him Jim Blaine In payment of
the debt, I should regard Satan as a bjrd
creditor ia cas- he the proposition.' t
The A<rtio»ksf \K»j««lica* appears to think
that, in spite of a general ux;te«4to£. Shep
herd really did catch eouie political gallop
ers. and that he is, in some awkward way,
another exam pie of Oakes Ames. There js
such hunger and thirst for money, in these i
days, that even some good mtn may be
trapped before they i.aow it in most ques
tionable schemes of plnai;?.
The bill for the retirement of general
Grant, with <.V three-fourths pay to toto
army, is being pressed, and if Mr. Logan ,
can get it squarely before the Senate for,
final action, it will pass. ilr. Vest made '
one of his eloquent speeches agaoato it; but
lam inclined to think that the Missouri
Senator has shown oratorical ability ’
tnan good judgment. He gave General
Logan an opportunity of making %ti afective
reply, aud potting ' the Democratic. anj ,
especially the iSootiiern, .Senators nt a dis
advantage. In my opinion, ilr ' est on'y
succeeded in making votes for the meas-
I ure. Many Democrats, I stispect.. wjll
. not allow themselves to be placed in even •
: the shadow of a false position. If the j
' rich North shooses to pension Grant, let '
their Congressmen dp so. Senator Lamar
gained his unanimous re-election to the
i Senate by- not opposing this »iU. Ex-Ccn
federates in Congress may protest syer so
■ emph .ncuilv that they hay® no sectional
prejudice in the matter, but i. will be hard
' for them to convince the East and West us (
J that (act. The Democrats can not consist- !
: euily favor Fitr-Janc porter's retirement
and antagonize Grant s pa»wi?.n. Mr. Vest
■is not Asatejeadar. Me has a kuarimf pun-
! ishing bis adversaries with their own is-,
cords but this Usaraatimes only a JBalakla
-Iva charge. “It is .splendid, but it is not
war'" No nw in the Senate is mare oap
i tivating ora.Uiies.lly; but there is often
wisdom in silence J® dealing with'
I certain elements at Mib South, we
must respect some of their prejudices
■if we wish their co-operation. If Grant, as
i Logan states, desires this retirement for
i military services, as the last honor his
1 country can bestow upon tai®, it cannot
' serve the South to stand in the wa#. If ,
this exhibit greed on his part so ho it. j
. Relation will come and punishment too.
j The beet way to keep him to the front as a
I disturbing political factor is to show South-,
; ern hoetiiitv. Conservative Democrats are i
of this way of tbinkang, and they will, unless ■
i I ‘Ay- grossly mistaken, sc vote or refrain ,
i from casting a hostile ballot. j
The Apportionment bill passed the Sen- I
I ste tmanimopaly, after a] short discussion, j
CHRONICLE AND CONSTITUTIONALIST, AUGUSTA. GA.. WEDNESDAY. MARCH I, 188 S
which I shall briefly analyze at another
time.
As I close this letter to catch the mail, a
most unprofitable discussion is now pro
gressing about the arrears of pensions. I
have never heard so much useless gabble
from grave Iwislators npon a simple resolu
tion, which wcnld never have been sprung
upon the Senate or the country if Mr. Beck
bail not let his tongue go eff inopportunely
and at half cock, two weeks ago. At the
last moment, it has been laid on the table;
and so ends a case of much ado about noth
ing. . J. R R-
Washington, February 25.—The nomina
tion of Roscoe Conkling for the Supreme
Bench caused a genuine sensation. The
first programme was for Secretary Folger to
become the successor of Ward Hunt, and
thus leave the Treasury portfolio for Mr.
Conkling’s acceptance. The pulse of the
country Was felt upon this subject, and the
response was not assuring. Besides, it did
not commend itself to Mr. Arthur, who saw
the disadvantage of having in his Cabinet a
man of such positive and overshadowing
ability. Such proximity would have been
dangerous to friendship and diplomatic
concord. The half-breed organs would have
howled atthenew Mephistopheles and sneer
ed at his dwarfed master. Everybody knows
how Garfi.-ld was galled by insinua
tions of Blaine’s domination, and how
he was driven almost to desperation by
open charges to that effect. Nor need it
be repeated that just such artful and
insidious attacks made Gniteau possible and
his pistol deadly. Arthur is not sensitive
j like Garfield, but he does not care to pursue
his predecessor’s mistakes of policy, so far
as his Cabinet officers are concerned. He
J owed Mr. Conkling a great debt, but he did
not choose to repay it in away detrimental
to himself, nor would the ex-Senator exact
such liquidation. Appointing Mr. Conk
ling to the Supreme Bench subjects the
President to criticism; but it comes from
sources—like the New York Tribune manage
ment—that are naturally hostile and per
haps not worth appeasing. There may be
another breach in the Republican wall; but
Democrats need not bewail that. Rather
should they have the sense to utilize it.
It is so rare to see a public man true
\ to friendship that I cannot blame Mr.
Arthur on that score, and the ma
jority of men who are disposed to be
fair will not complain. It is most
likely that Mr. Conkling would have re
mained iu retirement, if he could have done
so with philosophy. But no such intellec
tual giant, who has made such an imposing
figure in public life, for so great a period,
could tamely submit to ba simply Roscoe
I Conkling, attomey-at-law. No man who
once had Washington and the Capitol for an
arena co.ild long consent to split legal hairs
in New York Courts, where he was over
matched by so many advocates without Na
tional reputation, and whose acumen, in
one narrow branch or another, more than
i offset his varied and splendid talents and
attainments in many fields of learning. He
found out late in the day, bnt not too late
for retrieval, that he had blundered in re
signing his seat in the Senate ; that but tor
his headlong and passionate unreason,
fate had in store for him the op
portunity he craved ; that he had
given triumph to mediocrity ; that the
only sure hold he had upon the world came
from the possession of patronage and place;
that his abdication of authority left him
naked to his enemies and the treachery of
pretended friends; and that be must remain
in the Valley of Humiliation, in spite of
his mental capacity, unless there should be
some way opened to a return to Washing
ton and high station. Unless all signs fail,
these considerations have moved him to
accept at the hands of Arthur a place in
ferior to one he had declined at the hands
of Grant. But the Conkling of ten years
ago, in the supremacy of his manhood and
the pomp of power, is not the Conkling of
to-day. He had not at that time any occa
sion to ask favors of the mightiest. Rnlers
of men were glad to seek favors of him. He
towered in the Senate and the Republic as
Saul above his brethren. Now, he is shorn
of everything but a dazzling oratorical
reputation, which is often a curse to its
possessor, especially when allied to a lack
of moral principle and common sense. No
individual of such prominence and in
tellectuality has ever#in our recent history,
so suddenly collapsed by an act of child
ish’folly; and few persons, however gifted,
could survive a downfall so tremendous and
absurd. But for Guiteau’s bullet, which
made Arthur and Mahone potential, Mr.
Conkling would have remained a legal
pensioner of Jay Gould, and never become
the prospective or actual wearer of supreme
judicial ermine. His good-luck, however,
had not» deserted him utterly, and in the
lottery of assassination .he is apt to draw
one of the capital prizes. Well, be it so.
That is not a Democratic funeral, and no
man in our party need lament the re
appearance of another “boss” who
will not add to the harmony of the
Republican organization. Mr. Hoar, of
Massachusetts, is reported to be indignant
at this nomination, and to have character
ized it as unfit and indecent. But I doubt
very much if his hostility can prevent con-
Qrmation. The country would like to know
in what respect, politically, Mr. Conkling
has been a more conspicuous sinner than
Mr. Hoar. Both men have been narrow
partisans, and, in that respect, the South
at least need not make a comparison be
tween them. If Mr. Conkling be pecuni
arily dishonest, there bas not yet been
proof of it produced. There have been
whispers against his private life; but very
few eminent men in Washington have es
caped slapder or suspicion. His intellect
cannot bp disparaged. Even Mr. Hoar
says his montal capacity is the fullest
since Webster left the world. Batween
Mr. Conkling and Mr. Hoar, as abettors
of the crimes of the Republican party, there
is no special difference, except that the one
gave greater eloquence to a bad cause and
the other greater purity ot life. Some law
yers a-mert that Mr. Conkling is not learned
1 in their profession, and therefore not fit
for a seat upon the Supreme Bench. Bnt
Judge David fcayjs, wfio has forgotten more
law than most meu ever knew, says Mr.
Conkling is ths best equipped man, every
way intellectually, that this country has
ever produced. My own humble opinion
is that while this high estimate is relatively
correct, it should be qualified with the
statement that Mr. Conkling has not one
spark of what I call genius. The imagina
tive, the creative faculty, is not developed
lin him. Nearly every talent is in his
' possession, but that diviner gift of
geping is absent. He will not live
|as ’ a statesman, a law-maker, a sage
ior a philanthropist. He can fancifully
! dopjet the known in aft ,qr scipppe or litera
< tpre: but nqt, so save hjs life, could fie dip
l-cover awytljing original in the wfioje realm
|of the invisible He fia§ a |ufty and incom
parable method oi advocating or assaulting
the propositions of others, but l;e is pot the
proclaimer of any new gospel, aud his match
stops at the seashore where the vast ocean
■ of Myfi'ery spreads its illimitable treasures,
and upon yhose mighty bosom no ship
trom the hand of Kospoe Conkling has ever
sailed. But, for all this, I see no reason
why he should not be competent sq sit be
: side Joseph Bradley, for example. TheSu-
I preme .Coprt ijarsball or Taney pre
; sided over uiighf regent tfie intrusion of
‘ Roscoe (Conkling as be emerges fyow the
blaek whirlpool of New York poijtics;
but the majority of those Judges, appoint
; ed for political epfis apd subservient to
| tbcti) with the eight to seven record ipdel-
I ibiy branded upon their judicial brows,
! need not blush too deeply when Justice
' Conkling, with the stride of weakened
j majesty, or roosting much lower than
: formerly, takes his place in the solemn pro
cession, or upon the bench. Not a tew of
, the best and purest in the land have long
‘i ago Ufit reverence for the Supreme Court,
> and, I take it, shpt the infusion of the Conk
ling element wiit not add the disparage
ment. Mr. Arthur’s friend way P ro ye no
worse a Judge than some of his new Lrethxgp.
, to the effect it may have upon his politi-
I cal fultuo. there can be nothing but con
jecture. kl maj paralyze his prospect. It
may be the entering >edgc to other high
I stations. lam inclined to think Qrant
. apd Conkling have about abandoned hopes
of the presidency, and only cling to such
authority m wfll maintain their dignity,
rescue them from the common herd of mon
grebs out of business, and keep pu their
affinity with the Central Head at V’ashiag
ton. Me'inwu-L. they will drift with just
such tides as fortune smy send, but ever
alert to grasp such prizes as opportunity
may present. An ambitious man never
eyases zo aspiye until he is dead, an, i Grant
j and ConkVng aje vet in the land of the
living, wiiiie Garytld js jj his grave and
Guiteau, who made history with QU£ feloni
ous or insane stroke, sells autograph, jp
a dungeon cell, and vauntingly boasts that
bpi for him the Republican party would
I base a wreck and the men who have
i won the chtat prizes drifting helpless and
forlorn.
Ex-Senator who gel; the Berlin
Mission instead of the Interior pepaitmeat
.is a raii.e; remarkable person. He is some- ’
where between fiftv and sixty years old, >
tall and shapely, wi£h whjt« hair and beard. I
• His face is the’ most youthful part of him, j
being *• pipk and smooth as that of a baby. ‘
Into the political world of California he
carried, years ago, fifee sneygy of a live Tan- ;
kee. I remember him as a Senator who al- .
most incessantly debated with everybody >
i about
can be believed, some of his transactions
were the reverse of honest. He took pains
to educate his sons and daughters go that
they could take care of themselves; and ,
they are self-supporting in various profes
fessions. His appointment to Berlin is
ecuivglent to honorable banishment and
I eleganj diplomatic leisure, since the chief
duty of an a%hsSgador to Germany is intro
ducing some Ame> icans .to the Emperor and
giving others information to t*ie jieet '
places to purchase gloves and pottery.
Jta-'. W. W. Hicks, who is half stump
speaker and hgl/ pulpit orator, has un
doubtedly made a here. He at-
tracts quite a crowd qyery Sunday U hjs
] tabemacJe. Many people go to hear him
because cf his eloquence. One gentleman
excused ;'or attendance on the
ground that it was betieg Uzag play-acting
to Vr- Bjcks preach- AS the
atres are closed uh Ssnday, Doctor
draws a mighty throng. I have not baud
, that the lecture he is said to have adapted
i from (Lincoln t? Lee has been utilized for
Qarfiald. He kn'qwp to please the
multitude with emotional qntory, and
a great people in Washington
only agk to be diverted, wiyhont spe
i cially .caring who the person is that fur
nishes the entertainment. My reeollecticij
j of him is that much of bis success is due
| to a kind of magnetic method rather than to
I any special excellence in literary com-
position. He has the trick of phrase end
articulation. After seeing thousands go
into ecstasy over Joe Emmett, I am not sur
prised that other thousands run after Hicks.
The collapse of the Richmond and Dan
ville stock bubble excited much talk here,
but as the speculators in this part of the
country had not been inveigled into the
pitfall, there were no cries of the wounded
to speak of. About ten days ago, I met a
North Carolina friend who had two hun
dred shares, bought at ninety. He was
waiting for a rise to five hundred ! The
worst feature of these operations is the
reported distrust excited in England for
all kinds of American investment. The
Goulds, Keenes and Sages may be getting
richer and richer, but at what a fearful cost
to the masses who rush into their tempting
and fatal embrace I J. R. R.
WALTON COVNTY.
A Grewing Town—A Carlon. “Stock Ex
change"—Grain Crop, &e.
(Correspondent Chronicle and Constitutionalist.)
Monboe, February 24.—With good crops
Monroe promises to be a place-of commer
cial importance in the near future. Since
the completion of the branch railway to So
cial Circle—where it makes close connection
with the Georgia trunk line, thus affording
easy and rapid access to the markets of the
woild—the town shows considerable im
provement. It is almost ready to put on
city airs. Among other improvements are
a pretentious brick hotel, containing tyenty
three rooms, crowned by a Mansard roof, a
block of wooden buildings for stores and
an extensive warehouse and depot. It is
also the home of Hon. H. D. McDaniel, the
possible next Governor of Georgia, whose
eminent services to the State and fitness for
the high position are generally acknowl
edged.
Court has been in session here since Mon
day, Judge A. S. Erwin on the bench, and
A. L. Mitchell, Esq., the Solicitor, repre
senting the State. No cases of public inter
est have been adjudicated by the tribunal,
yet it is but just hereto remark that any
Circuit would have cause to be proud of two
such officials, whose names carry with them
the assurance of justice.
The town has this week been the rendez
vous for the usual semi-annual gathering of
horse traders tronj various sections of North
Georgia. They are a motley set, that should
be seen to be appreciated, and their live
stock is in keeping with its owners. Some
of the creatures they offer for sale or ex
change are the merest apologies for that
noblest of animals—the horse - many of
them, for all practical purposes, are worth
less. But the view presented in the space
set apart as the “Stock Exchange” would
rejoics the heart of the humorous author of
the "Georgia Scenes.” Horses and mules
ot all sizes, ages, colors, conditions and
infirmities are assembled there. They
would excite pity, but that on a close in
spection one discovers that such has been
the cruel treatment given by their masters
that the animals themselves are more of
wild beasts in appearance aud conduct than
domesticated servants of man. They look
at you defiantly out of one eye, kick vicious
ly with a poor lame leg or snap with jaws
devoid of teeth, and yet the jockeys spur
and whip them into gaits which must strain
every fibre of their starved and weakened
bodies. It is no unusual experience for the
owner of one of these dilapidated quad
rupeds to ride into town in the morning
and before noon complete three or four
“trades." finding himself possesssd of the
same animal and from twenty-five cents to
ten dollars additional. ' This experience is
sometimes reversed, and at midday is
found minus horse, saddle, bridle and
whatever amount he may have brought
with him. I have seen a squad
ron of these mounted men start out
from the town to attend a race a few miles
distant, a trial of speed in which ping con
tends with plug. On a mce between horses,
which are scarcely worth in sound currency
more than a few dollars each —horses,
bridles, saddles, coats, hats, knives, &3.,
as dilapidated as the racers themselves—
change hands. Every one bets what he
has. The winner takes the wager without
a word. There is honor among gambling
horse jockeys as well as among thieves. A
bet is a bet—and the crowd -ragamuffin
in appearance, dissolute in habits, scamps
and sharpers as they may be - compel the
payment of the wager. They have bicker
ings amongst themselves and utter oaths
which must seem to a God-fearing man em
phatic enough to break the realms of space
into fragments. They come as the locust and
as suddenly disappear. Their abiding
places, when no Court brings together a
crowd, seems a profound mystery.
I am pleased to report a larger area sowed
in gr sin this season than ever before. Green
fields can be seen in every direction from
the car windows. The fields look promis
ing, and when their wealth of griin is gar
nered the county of Walton will bid de
fiance to the wolf which has haunted the
homes of its inhabitants.
In conversation to-day with successful
merchant, he told me that he had at length
discovered a great mistake made by himself,
and that was the requirement of the farmer
to cultivate so nuny acres in cotton bsfore
promising to furnish him supplies. He
stated that he was determined hereafter to
uso all his influence to induce his custom
ers to sow the cereals, giving as his reason
that if they did to he could dispose of other
goods to them upon which more piofit was
made. I insert this hero in the hope that
it may catch the eye of other commercial
men and induce them to adopt the same
method. M.
TIIE qt’KEV OF THE TURF.
Retired Frr m the Trotting Track to Speed
on the Road.
(New York Sun,)
Mr. William H. Vanderbilt sat in his
lofty library, in the most comfortable part
of ins $3,000,000 mansion, yesterday, with
a pile of morning newspapers at his elbow.
He appeared to be in a contented frame of
mind, and the lines of his massive lace re
laxed into a pleasant smile. A brief dis
patch had formed a picture in his brain
more stirring and life-like than any bound
in costly boohs or suspended in golden
frames. The dispatch read that Mand S.
was about to leave Cincinnati for New York,
to trot in double harness with William H.
and Lysander. Iu fancy he held the lines
over his peerless mare and mate in a brush
that left all rival teams behind.
“Yes,” he said, in reply to an inquiry.
“Maud will be brought to New York, and I
will drive her on the road in double and
single harness. There is no need for the
mare to trot against her own time on the
track. She is eight years old, and retires
with a record of one second faster
than that of any other trotter. The chances
are that it will be years before her record is
beaten. Then it will be time enough to
put her to another test."
Although Mr. Vanderbilt did not inti
mate that it was his ambition to have the
fastest team on the road, prominent horse
men said laM evening that there is no
doubt but that is the motive which brings
Mand to New York.
Mr. Vanderbilt groused great interest in
donble-team trotting, four years ago, when
he drove his famous nair, Lady Mac and
Stflall Hopes, in 2:23. This interest has
spread until now every city and town of
importance in the country has its rival
trotting teams. Among the latest move
ments in this direction was the purchase of
Cling-tone for twenty thousand dollars by
Mr. Wm. J. Gordon, of Cleveland, to match
his fast trotter, William H.
For about fouy years no amateur or pro
fessional reinsman was known publicly to
have beaten the 2:23 of Small Hopes and
Lady Mac, although many attempted the
feat.’ Last September, however, Mr. John
Shepard, of Boston, drove his team, Mill
Roy and Blondine, over Beicon Park, a
mile to his road wagon in 2:22. Mr. Shep
ard paid SIO,OOO for Mill Bay, to drive
him with Bl'.ndine.
This performance stirred up the owners
of fast teams in New York, and they at once
set their trotters at work to eclipse the Bos
ton record. Mr. T. C. Eastman drove Oapt,
Jack and Glendale, in 2:24; Mr. Foster De
wey’s team. Boston and William H., were
sent for 2:23, and Dan Mace drove
Mr. Vanderbilt’s William H. with Lysander,
in 2:20, on two occasions; and Mr. Frank
Work's team, Dick Swiveller and Eiward,
headed all the ottiers fey troftjng a mH® ' n
Fleetwood Park, to a top road wagon, in
2:19, September 27, 1881.
As the owner of Maud S. has announced
her retirement from the trotting track, a
brief record of her unparalleled perform
ances, some of which may have escaped the
memory of the general reader, will ba of in
terest.
f and S. first shot into the trotting firma
ment with dazzling light as a four-year old
early in the Fall of at Lexington, Ey.
The conditions were qot over favorable for
i of speed. The track was a little cup
py sud there was considerably wind. Mand
came-on the track half an hour before noor.
There were about one hundred horsemen
present, many of whom hell watches. The
! who timed_her in the judges’
stand were General <f. t-. Dr. L
Herr, Colonel H- stiadei and Colonel
Ferguson. William W. Blair, who has driv
en the mare in all her great victories, held
the lines. After jogging Maud around the
track twice, he nodded lor the word. Going
at her work like an old campaigner, without
! a skip cr break, the filly trotted to the quar
ter pole in 33)4 SoSOf-dt, passed the half
mile in 1 minute 6 seconds, sett the three
i quarter pole behind in 1 ’minute 41 sec
■ ends, and flashed under the wire in 2:l7J£.
A spectator of the trot at the time wrote :
I “The Lord only knows how fast she will
go in the time to come.”
Maud was kept in the shade after this un
til ihe season of 1&80, when she astonished
the world by her wonderful performances
in the grand* circuit from Chicago to Hart
ford in connection with the king of the
, turf, §t. Julien. After dividing honors with
the horse in sotting the records down to
2:ll 3 4. the mate became a little ofik at
Springfield, and her rival closed the season
at Hartford with the record of 2:111^ —half
a second ahead of Maud.
Her most brilliant performances took
place last season while St. Julien was under
tfie weather. She trotted at Pittsburg in
2:lofc. ana at Rochester, August 11, made
the unrivalled record of 2:16)4. M Chica
go she trotted the fastest second heat,
2:1117. and the fastest third heat, 2:11. At
Balmont Park she trotted the fastest three
consecutive heats on tecoid, 2,12, 2:13)£,
2:12)£.
Maud is a beautiful chestnut, without
white. She is fifteen hands three inches
hiah. She was sired by Harold, dam Miss
bIsmII, by pijpt, fr- sl > e was on ,he
great Alexander farm in Henupiky,
Mortaary.
There fta*e -been ieatfca the past
week, twn yhitee and six colored—one col
ored mH® adult apoplexy, one of con
sumption, one of puenmcnia, and one of
angina pectoris; one white male child of
meningitis, one of pneumonia, and two col
ored male children of pneumonia.
THE HYPERION CURLS.
ROSCOE COSKLI!• O CJMES TO THE
PR(RT AGA«M.
The President Nominates Him As Awo
olate dusciee of The Supreme Court of
The United Slates— -Mr. Hoar Opposes
His Nomination, aid Declares That
H« Is Not Honest.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
SENATE.
Washington, February 24.—An effort was
made to get up the bill pensioning Mrs.
Garfield, but the morion was rejected, and
the calendar was proceeded with.
The Eresident to-day sent to the Senate
the following nominations: Roscoe Conk
ling, to be Associate Justice of the United
States Supreme Court, and A. A. Sargent, to
be Minister to Germany. Also, Walter H.
Johnson, to te Collector of Internal Reve
nue of the Second District of Georgia, and
Harry T. Griscom, to be Postmaster at Chat
tanooga, Tenn.
Mr. Bayard offered the following:
Whebeas, Publication has been widely
made by the public press of the United
States of certain alleged commercial con
tracts between certain companies and co
partnerships of individuals relative to the
exports of guano and nitrates from Peru, in
which mediation by the Government ot the
United States between the Governments of
Peru, Bolivia and Chile is declared to be
the condition for the effectuation and con
tinuance of eaid contracts; therefore, be it
Resolved, That the Committee on Foreign
Relations be and is hereby instructed to
inquire whether any promise or stipulation,
by which intervention by the United States
in controversies existing between Chile and
Peru, or Chile and Bolivia, has been ex
pressly or impliedly given by any person or
persons officially connected with the Gov
ernment of the United States, or whether
tne Government ot the United States has
been in any way exerted, promised or in
timated in connection with or in relation to
said contracts by anyone officially connect
ed with the Goverameut of the United
States; and whether any one officially con
nected with the Government of the United
States is interested, directly or indirectly,
with any such alleged contracts in which
the mediation, as aforesaid, of the United
States is recited to b« a condition; and that
said committee have power to send for per
sons and papers, ananake a report of their
proceedings in the jUmises to the Senate,
at the earliest possible day. Referred to
the Foreign Relations Committee.
After the morning hour Mr. Allison, who,
as a member of the Appropriatidns Commit
tee in charge of the Immediate Deficiency
bill, was awarded the floor, yielded tempo
rarily to Mr. Van Wyck, who addressed the
Senale upon the necessity for an investiga
tion of the alleged frauds in the township
survey qdtestion. The subject was disposed
of by reference to the Committee on Public
Lands of resolutions directing an investi
gation on the subject by that committee.
The Senate then took up the Im
mediate Deficiency Appropriation bill,
and the amendments of the Senate Com
mittee were read and agreed to. Additional
items for the subsistence and education of
the Indian tribes are inserted; also, one of
$30,000 to expedite the construction of ex
hibition cases in the new building for the
National Museum; of $60,000 for the nec
essary expenses of the Garfield and Burn
side funerals. The bill was finally passed
without objection. After some contention
between Messrs. Bayard and Miller, of Cali
fornia, upon their claims to priority of con
sideration for the Tariff Commission and
Chinese bills, the motion by Mr. Miller to
take up the Chinese bill prevailed—yeas,
35; nays, 16. The measure was laid over
as unfinished business. The Senate then,
at 4 o’clock, went into executive session,
and, at 4:45, adjourned until Monday.
HOUSE.
A number of bills were introduced and
referred.
Mr. Belmont introduced a resolution call
ing for information relative to the Peruvian
correspondence. Mr. Kasson offered, as a
substitute, the following resolution :
Whereas, It is alleged, in connection
with the Chili-Peruvian correspondence re
cently and officially published on the call
of the two Houses of Congress, that one or
more Minister Plenipotentiaries of the Unit
ed States were either personally interested
or improperly connected with business
transactions, in which the intervention of
this Government was requested or expected;
and whereas, it is alleged that certain pa
pers in relation to the same subject have
been improperly lost or removed from the
files of the State Department, therefore,
be it
Resolved, That the Committee on Foreign
Affairs be instructed to inquire into said
allegations, and ascertain the facts relating
thereto, and report the same, with such re
commendations as they may deem proper;
and they shall have power to send for per
sons and papers.
Mr. Belmont accepted the substitute,
upou a statement by Mr. Kasson that it was
intended to cover all the ground covered
by hie resolution, and the substitute was
thereupon adopted without division.
Several private bills wore reported from
the co umittees and rrfarred to the private
calendar, i.mong them one for the relief of
Myra Clark Gaines.
The House then, at 1:45, went irto com
mittee of the whole on the private calendar.
At 4:3Jthe committee rose, and, after pass
ing a number cf bills of a private nature,
adjourned.
HOUSE.
Washington, February 25.—Mr. Reed,
of Maine, from the Committee ou Rules,
reported a resolution for the appoint
ment of a select committee of nine, to
which be referred all petitions, bills /ind
resolutions asking for extension of suffrage
to women and removal of their legal disa
bilities.
Mr. Hsuk, of Tennessee, raised the point
of order that under the rules the resolution
must lie over one day. The Speaker over
ruled the point of order, aud the resolution
was adopted by 115 to 85 -almost a party
vote.
Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, from the Com
mittee on Coinage, Weights and Measures,
reported a bill to authorize the coinage of
silver dollars, and fractions thereof, of full
standard value, on the metri) system. Re
ferred to the committee of t‘ie whole.
Mr. Money, of Mississippi, from the
Cemmittee on Post Offices aud Post Roads,
reported a bill to provide for ocaau mail
service between the United States and for
eign ports. Printed and recommitted.
The House then went into committee on
the Post Office Appropriation bill. The
amendment was adopted that there shall be
no more official stamps printed, but that all
correspondence on official businesi shall be
transmitted in penalty euielopes. Con
siderable discussion ensued over the motion
to strike out of the clause appropriating
half a million dollars tor necessary and
special facilities on trunk lines the words
“on trunk lines,” so as to leave it in the
discretion of the Postmaster-General to
secure special facilities on any lino. The
amendment was rejected without division.
Tho committee arose and reported a bill to
the House, with amendment, authorizing
the Postmaster-General, in case of sub-let
ting of mail contracts, to declare the original
contract forfeited, and to enter into con
tract with such contractor. Agreed to—
-112 to 69. The bill then passed. The
House, at 5:15, adjourned.
SENATE.
Washington, February 28.—Mr. Windom,
of Minnesota, from Committee on Foriegn
Relations, reported an original resolution,
instructing that committee to inquire into
all the circumstances concerning the alleged
loss of letters from the Department of State,
alleging that the action of diplomatic Repre
sentatives of the United States at the Re
publics of France and Peru in being person
ally concerned in contracts, &c. The sub
ject went oyer ope day under the rules,
The Post Office Appropriation bill was
received from the House and referred to
tie Committee on Appropriations. Upon the
close of the morning hour the Chinese bill
came up as unfinished business, Mr.
Miller, of California, jp charge of the bill,
temporarily yielded the fiqor to Mr. ferry,
of Michigan, upon the urgent appeal of the
latter to allow tho Honse Post Route bill to
be considered.
Mr. Ferry said that immediate action on
the bill was necessary, in order that new
routes might be included in the Spring let
tings. The Post Houte bill was then pro
ceeded with, ppd the amendments of the
Senate Committee read and agreed to. (No
appropriation ig in tfie bill.) The
sections, as amended, were adopted, and the
bill passed.
The House resolution tendering thanks
to Hon. J. G. Blaine for the appropriate ad
dress delivered by him in the Garfield mem
orial exercises, was, on n;ot;on of Mr. Sher
njan, takeq frorq the President’s fafel® nod
concurred in.
The Senate insisted upon its amendments
to the Immediate Deficiency Appropriation
bill, and Messrs. Allison, Plumb and Beck
were appointed conferees. The Senate
then, at 2:20, took up the Chinese immi
gration bill to carry into effect the treaty by
suspending the earning of Chinese laborers
for twenty yeaxs after sixty days succeeding
the passage of the acf. Mr. Miller, of Cali
fornia, who introduced and reported the
bill, proceeded directly to a discussion of
the merits of the measure, leaving the
amendments for future consideration. Dur
ing Mr. Millsris speech the habitues of the
galleries were astonished by the appearance
in the diplomatic gallery of four members
of the Chinese Legation. The strangers
had been sight-seeing in the Capitol, and
their visjt was not prearranged for. Upon
being apprised of the subject under dis
cussion, they immediately retired. Mr.
Miller concluded at 4:05, after speaking for
one hoot and forty minutes. The bill was
informally laid aside to permit action on
the House bill to furnish impressions of the
card of invitation to the Garfield memorial
services, which was pasaad. The Senate, at
4:15, went into executive session, and at
4:25 adjournefl. ‘
T ’ ’ ' HQUSti-
Washington, February 38.—Mr. Gibson,
of Louisiana, introduced a joint resolution
for the appointment of a committee of six
teen members - seven from the Senate and
nine from the House—to attend the celebra
tion of the two hundredth annivereary of
the discovery of the moath cf the Mississip
pi river by Bal|e. tebs Or
leans oa tfte Sth of ~
to the Committee on Bules. He also pre
sented a memorial of the Governor and Leg
islature of Louisiaim on the subject and it
received a similar rfferencfu
Mr. Kelly, of Pennsylvania, Chairman of
the Committee on Ways and Means, report
ed a bill repealing the discriminating du
ties on tea and coffee products of the pos
sessions of Motherland. Passed.
On motion of Mr. Jlesgan, of Texts, the
Senate bill appropriating SIOO,OOO for con
tinuing the improvement of the Galveston
harbor, was taken from the Sneaker’s table
and passed.
Mr. Hiscock, Chairman of the Committee
on Appropriations, reported back the Im
mediate Deficiency bill, with Senate amend
ments, recommending concurrence in some :
and non-concurrence in others of those
amendments. The report was agreed to.
Mr. Collins, of Indiana, Chairman of
the Committee on Elections, submitted a
report of that committee on the contested
election case of Campbell vs. Cannon, ac
companied by a resolution declaring that
neither contestant nor contestee is en
titled to a seat on the floor. He also sub
mitted a minority report, declaring Camp
bell entitled to the seat; while Mr. Moulton,
of Illinois, submitted a further resolution,
signed by Messrs. Athenton and Davis, of
Illinois; Moulton and Jones, of Texas, de
claring that Cannon was the duly elected
Delegate to Congress. The reports were
laid $n the table for future action. The
Honse, at 1:40, went into committee of the
whole, Mr. McCook, of New York, in the
chair, on the Military Aoademv Appropria
tion bill. It appropriates $318,857.
Speaking to a formal amendment, Mr. At
kins, of Tennessc, entered upon a personal
explanation regarding the attack npon him
self and several other members in the
columns of the New York Times. Every
other member named also relieved their
minds on the subject. After considerable
time had been thus consumed, Mr. Black
burn called attention to the bill under con
sideration, and on his motion the amend
ment was adopted, appropriating SIO,OOO
for astronomical instruments to equip the
new observatory at the Academy.
The committee then rose and reported
the bill to the House, when it was passed.
Mr. Robinson, of New York (by request),
introduced a bill to organize the National
Labor League Railway Company of Ameri
ca, for the purpose of constructing, opera
ting and maintaining a railway from the
Atlantic seaboard to Chicago, St. Louis and
Council Bluffs. It provides that for the
purpose of “establishing equal rights iu
commerce among States and for the pur
pose of securing railway highway under
such civil control as to prevent combina
tions against the public good, a commission
under the name of the National Board of
Inter-State Transportation.” In the list of
names appear the following: Francis B,
Thnrber, Thos. Kinsella, A. B. Mullett, J.
B Eeclesine, J. Pope Hodnutt, Nicholas
Muller and Wm. H. Grace, who.
with their colleagues, are authorized
to carry out the purposes of this
act by determining upon the terminal
points of the road to be constructed, and to
issue capital stock to the extent of $40,-
000,000. It further provides that when
the road shall have been constructed to
Council Bluffs it may be continued to San
Francisco, and in aid of its construction
grants to it every alternate section of unoc
cupied public land through which it may
pass for fifty miles on each side of the track.
In order to relieve the wants of labor, de
pressed by a contraction of the currency, a
workman employed in building the railroad
shall be paid bv the Government $1 a day,
and the remainder of his wages in certifi
cates of indebtedness receivable in 365 C
bonds. The bill was referred. The Speaker
announced Messrs. Hiscock, Robeson and
Cox as the House conferees on the immedi
ate Deficiency bill. Adjourned.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Washington, February 28.—The Senate
confirmed Jamas R. Jolley, Collector of
Customs for the District of Teehe, Louisi
ana; Christopher J> Terrell, Postmaster at
Terrell, Texas.
The Comptroller of tho Currency has au
thorized the First National Bank of Colum
bus, Mississippi, to commence business
with a capital of SBO,OOO.
Ths decrease of tho public debt, for the
month of Februirv, will be about $9,000,-
000, being about $2,000,0:10 less than the
average decrease since June last. The fall
ing off is due to heavy payments made
during February—one item of which was
about $9,000,000 on account of psnsions.
In the Senate executive session, to-day,
the nominations of Conkling and Sargent
were reported favorably from the commit
tees. and were placed on the calendar under
the rule which requires all reported nomina
tions to lie over until the' next executive
session. No request was male for a suspen
sion of the rules, and nothing was said about
the nominations beyond tho formal report
from the committee.
The Secretary of War telegraphed to
Governor McEnery, of Louisiana, to day, as
follows: “Under the resolution of Congress
it is my duty to distribute subsistence stores
to persons rendered destitute by the Mis
sissippi floods. I have no advices from
Louisiana that aid is needed. If such aid
is needed please telegraph me information
as to the localities, and number of persons
io Louisiana made destitute. I suggest
that you designate and appoint one or more
commissioners to confer with army officers
who will be designated, such commission
ers to be fully authorized to receipt for and
make detailed distribution of subsistence
stores.”
The grand jury to-day indicted Samuel
G. Cabell, John N. Minnix and Charles H.
Dickson for conspiracy to defraud the Gov
ernment of the United States by means of
fraudulent bids for 3,109 post routes,
located in North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Ten
nessee, Florida, Alabama and Mississippi,
and corruptly combining to obtain contracts
for sale by means of bogus sureties—Cabell
being the principal and Minnix and Dick
son bondsmen. They further indict Min
nix and Dickson for perjury in falsely
swearing that each owned 275 acres of un
improved coal land in Morgan county, Ken
tucky, valued at
nm ■'
IMPORTANT RAILROAD DECISIONS.
The following deci lions iu railroad cases
have just been rendered iu the Supreme
Court of Georgia, and will be read with the
interest their importance merits :
Mrs. Bertha Wolff vs. Central Railroad and
Banking Co. Case from Bibb.
Speer, J.-l. The term “goods” in sec
tion 2084 of the Code does not include bag
gage accompanying the passenger.
2. When two or more railroads are asso
ciated together, and form a continuous line
for the transportation of passengers and
baggage, each having the right to sell
through tickets with coupons over said line,
and thus bargaining for transportation over
the whole lino, and .receiving the price of
the tickets, the same to be divided between
them, said railroads are severally liable on
such contracts for transportation, and it
may be that they are jointly so.
3. Hence it follows that where a passen-
ger, traveling with baggage on a through
ticket from New Y'ork to Macon, found, on
her arrival at Macon, that her trunk had
been opened and valuables taken there
from, and brought suit for the loss against
the Central Railroad and Banking Company,
a judgment of non-suit was improper, it
being shown that said company was one of
those contracting to carry her, and the
valuables were suitable for her condition
and circumstances in life. Judgment re
versed.
Georgia Railroad and Banking Company
vs. Gunn & Rsaves. Complaint—from
Clark.
Jackson, C. J.—l. A charge of the Court
that a bill of lading, general in its nature
and applicable to all manner of freight, was
not such an express contract as to take the
case without the provision in seotion 2068
of the Code, was not erroneous.
2. The last railroad company which re
ceives goods “as in good order,’ is that one
of connecting roads liable for loss of dam
age, and this is true whether it be expressly
mentioned in the bill of lading or not, for
if it be not mentioned the fact that it took
the goods to transport them, and thereby
acknowledge them to he in good order,
would fix the liability cm such company,
Judgement affirmed.
GEORGIA’S NEW DEAL.
Longtreet, Atkina & Co. Jubllant—Andy
Clarke Bonnced Farrow Rqdta.nt
Wade on The Ra.'gcd Edge—The Au
gusta Pqat Office—The Rrunawlcti CoL
■ ectorehlp—Bryant, et al., Dlagnated—
Tile Old Gang Routed,
(Savannah News Special.)
Washington, February 24. President
Arthur to-day cut the string holding the axe
which has been over Andy for
some time. He nominated W. H. Johnson
to be Internal Revennp Collector at Atlanta.
Longstreet and Ytkins are jubilant over the
President’s action. Farrow, who has for
years had a fight with Andy Clarke, is wild
with joy.
Nothing in the case of Collector Wade
was done to-day. It can, however, be
stated that he wjll also haye to go. In
speaking about W a <jc, Secretary Folger to
day said a decision in his case “was still in
the clouds."
There are other Georgia matters which
have been determined on. Mr. Holden,
who is a neighbor of Hon. Alexander H.
Stephens, and who was the first candidate :
for the place, will be made postmaster at |
Augusta. Mr. Sciedel, who is Mr. Stephens’
Private Secretary, will be appointed Collect- j
qr at Customs al Brunswick.
While the Clarke-Bryant crowd thought
that they might not be fully able to con
vince the Administration thfit they com
posed the Republican party in Georgia,
they were not at all prepared for the drop
that they have been given. That the old
crowd must go is plainer now than when
the President gave similar information to
Pledger.
A SumTt Dog.
A gentleman of this city has a bull dog
which, until a few days since, never dis
played any particular degree of sagacity.
Among those for whom the animal felt an
attachment was a colored man who had
petted her on several occasions. One day
last week, “Vic’s” owner went to iftaiket
early in the morning s.n<J v,as’ followed by
the dtg. Jnsfcad'of'stopping, however,
“Yic tptted over to Sabneiker A My
er s, walked into a crowd of colored men,
and, picking out her friend from among the
number, quietly dropped a brown paper
parcel in his lap. The man opened the
parcel, and to his astonishment found sev
eral sandwiches in it. The parcel had ueen
put up by one of the children of the dog's
owner to take tq eifiaoi; aid Was stolen by
“lip,” evifioaliy, as the sequel showed for.
the man to whom she gave it. “You may
not believe it, but it is true.”
F<re At MndUoa.’’”’
A destructive fire occurred at Madison
Monday night. The warehouse of Mr. Griggs
and Mr. Few’s store, were both burned. A
large quantity of cotton was consumed.
There was very little insurance on the
property.
SOUNDS FROM HOME..
WHAT IS GOING ON IN GEORGIA AND
HER VICINITY.
The State and the South—Excerpte From
Our Exchangee and Private Advices to
the Chronicle and Constitutionalist.
(Winnsboro (S. C.) News and Herald.)
We are informed that the wheat and oats
crop throughout the county are looking fine.
(Columbia (8. C.) Register.)
Mr. Charles Jen kens Kyall, of Hamilton,
Canada, thinks of going into the cotton
business in this city. He says the cotton
trade will begin to look up just as soon as
work begins on the canal.
(Greenville (Ga.) Vindicator.)
See prospectus of the old Chronicle and
Constitutionalist, of Augusta. Mr. Ran
dall, one of the editors and Washington
correspondent, is certainly one ot the most
polished writers on the Georgia press. His
letters are well worth the price of the paper.
(Yorkville (8. O') Enquirer.)
For the week ending Monday, 159 tons
of fertilizers were received by the Chester
and Lenoir Kailroad at this place. The
total receipts to date are 837 tons. The in
dications are that the demand for fertilizers
this season will be equal to any previous
year.
(Edgefield (8. C.) Chronicle.)
The residence of Mr. L. Creps. near
Wards, wus_ burned on Saturday night, the
11th inst., aud on Sunday night, the 12th
inst., the barn of Mr. V. M. G.over, near
Hamburg, was destroyed by fire. Both are
supposed to have been the work of incen
diaries.
(Covington Enterprise.)
Emory College now numbers one hun
dred aud forty-two scholars.—Sweet pota
toes will not be near so scarce this Spring
as they were last. —The second election in
DeKalb county went f>r fence by a large
majority.—Covington is gradually increas
ing in population.
(LaGrange Reporter.)
A groat many farmers are preparing to
reap the benefits of the Stock law by re
moving fences and preparing pastures for
their stock and cultivating land which was
not enclosed. —A colored woman was burned
to death Thursday morning. She was
taken with a fit and fell into the fire.
(Newman Herald.)
There is a movement on foot to organize
a Lodge of Knights of Honor in Newman.—
About seventy-five negro men passed
through Newman last Saturday, under the
control of Messrs. Farrell and Stanley.
They were from North Carolina and were
going to work on the Georgia Pacific Rail
road.
(Charleston News and'.Courier.)
Extensive forest fires are raging all
through the eastern and northern portions
of Charleston county. The city was filled
with smoke last night from a huge fire that
was raging in Christ Church parish, north
and east of Remsley’s Point, and fears
were entertained that sorious damage may
have resulted.
(Sumter (S. C.)' Spirit of the Times.)
The first train on the Central ran through
on Wednesday, the 22dinst. (Washington’s
birthday). The days when twenty miles of
sand and swamp had to be crossed in the
old style to reach the county seat of Claren
don, are at an end, and we are within thirty
minutes of the beautiful town of Manning.
(Rome Courier.)
The friends and acquaintance of Tom Mc-
Kenzie will be surprised and shocked to
learn that he is a defaulter to the East Ten
nessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad to the
amount of five hundred and fifty dollars.
He has been the railroad agent and tele
graph operator at Csve Spring for over a
year, and up to the last few weeks had the
entire confi lence of the railroad officials.
(Dalton Citizen.)
Cotton will be more generally cultivated
in Catoosa county this year than heretofore.
It is estimated she will produce 3,000 bales.
Only a few years ago a bale of cotton was a
curiosity in this county.—We made a short
trip up the Western and Atlantic Railroad
last Saturday, and found that but little work
had yet been done on the farms along the
line, owing to the bad seasons. The water
courses were still up.
(Chester (8. 0.) Bulletin.)
President A, E. Hutchinson, of the Rock
Hill Factory, thinks plenty of Northern
capital could be secured for a factory in
Chester. He says Northern capitalists have
clamored for stock in the Rock Hill Factory
and wanted the company to increase the
stock, but the limit has been exhausted
and they had to be turned oft' He is
pleased with steam as a motor and claims
that it is as cheap, if not cheaper, and more
practical than water.
(Rockhill (8. C.) Register.)
Farmers from several sections of the
county tell us that the oats and wheat crops
are exceedingly promising.—The continued
wet weather is now becoming a very serious
matter with the farmeis. The time has
come when farm work should be com
menced, but so far the continued rains
prevented anything in this direction. Lit
tle work of any kind has so far been done
since the first of the year, the roads being
in such condition as to prevent the usual
hauling incident to the Winter season.
(The News and Advertiser.)
Albany, February 26 —The white hat of
Col. Primus Jones was floating about town
yesterday.—Friday last the bridge of the
Savannah, Florida and Western Railway
across the Flint caught fire from sparks from
a switching freight engine. The fire had
acquired considerable start, when it was
fortunately discovered aud put out.—Judge
Wright and ('apt, “Tete” Smith returned
from the Supreme Court yesterday. They
were kept too busy in the Court room to
ascertain which one of the ninety and nine
candidates for Governor would be inaug
urated.
(The Times.)
Chattanooga, February 26. —About three
million brick were laid in this city last
year. -D. H. F. Griscom has been appoint
ed postmaster. —We’ learn that General
Powell has made a proposition to purchase
the Lookout Rolling Mill, with a view of
greatly enlarging it, improving its capacity
and adding new departments.—Consider
able satisfaction wife expressed on the
streets yesterday over the probability of the
Chattanooga and Rome Railroad being
built.—A number of students, who graduat
ed from the Dental Colleges at Nashville,
passed through the city yesterday on their
return home. -
(Abbeville (3. C.) Medium.)
Last Sabbath two mad dogs entered a
church daring preaching near town and
created some excitement and alarm among
the worshippers. The dogs were killed be
fore any damage was done.—The most in
teresting case decided at our recent Court
was that of W. W. Mars against the Virginia
Home Insurance Company for $2,100 in
surance on a' store house burnt down. E.
G. Graydot, Esq., made a logical and learn
ed argument before the jury, which was so
effective that a verdict was rendered against
the company for $2,265, which was the de
mand in full, with interest added.
(Dawson Journal.)
Our farmers are as cheerful and sanguine
as if they had a million each. Their in
domitable energy aud pluck must succeed.
—While we heard flattering reports from
every section of the State concerning the
oat crop while in Augusta, we saw none
which compare favorably with the oat crop
in this section. —We are gratified to be able
to State that there are now 21Q pupils in
attendance upon the South Georgia Male
and Female College iu our city. The new
structure that is being built for the musical
department is rapidly assuming shape. It
will contain eight large’ rooms, and will be
a two story building.
(Greenville (8. C.) News.),
A meeting of the stockholders and Direc
tor.; of the Ruguepot Mills was held yes
terday, at whjch the plan of the buildings
was discussed. The general outlines >4 the
form of contract to be given out was also
decided upon. The contract will probably
be awarded by Saturday.-Mr. O. C. Folger,
United States Commissioner at Easley, died
on Tuesday of pneumonia. Mr. Fulger,
who is a native of this State, has held sever
al positions under the Federal Government,
having been the first postmaster at Easley.
He wqs also |a United States guager for a
number of years, which position he resigned
to become comngissioner,
(Meriwether Vindicitqr.)
Last Monday Wilson McGehee, a colored ‘
16 year old yo.uth of the Third district,
whjle hearing off some lumber,stepped over
the circular saw while it was in motion. The
teeth, catching the boy, cut off his left foot
at the instep and the knee cap of the left
leg, besides inflicting other fearful and
frightful cuts. The wounded boy’was alive
at last accounts, but oartainly will not sur
vive his injuries—A negro woman named
Vic Simpson had her brains shot out at
Hood last Saturday night by a dyuffkeu
man named Robert Garner, }t is claimed
that Garner thought tfc,e gun was not load
ed, and' that he was pointing the gun at
Vic in eport. The last Legislature enacted
a law to meet just such cases, and we tape 1
such sport will be effectually squelched by
the law.
I (Columbia Enquirer-Sun.)
Yesterday afternoon Edmund Taylor, a
negro boy about twelve years of age, was
! arraigned before Justice Ridenhour under
i the charge of arson. The evidence went to
, show that on Tuesday night Edmunds at-
I tempted to sei to a tenement house
i belonoing to. Mr. Patrick Foran and occu
’ pied by Eenyon pnncan, colored. C‘pe or
(' two witnesses swore that they him with
a chunk of fire in hie hand, touching it to
the building, and, U),at' he was frightened
away by then?. It was also In evidence that
kerosene oh had been poured on the side
of the house. The Judge bound Edmund
over to the Superior Court, fixing his bond
at >3O, which he succeeded in giving.
(Athens Watchman. \
Within the past few days we have discov
ered a strong current of determination in
our city to build a railroad to Jug Tavern,
. ana we feel no donbt but work will begin
j thereon next Summer.—The ioai»viila and
Nashville, through th« Georgia Railroad,
I will greatly rednse the rates on Western
freights to Athena. It seems that the Cin
i cyiuati Southern has been cutting, and has j
got the rival line on her metal.— Ms. Jbobert
Chapple, who runs a fart£ on the outskirts
of Athens, is not only one of our best citi
zens, but! most progressive planters. On
four acres of potatoes he made one thou
j uana bushels, and from one and three-quar
ters acres planted in ground peas he gathri
ered one hundred and twenty-five bushels,
that he sold at $2 50 per bushel, besides
fattening thirty hogs from the crop.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
London, February 22. —The bark Nortlf
ern Queen, from "Wilmington, N. C., for
Granton, is ashore off Cuxhaven, and has
been abandoned in a sinking condition.
Her crew were saved.
New York, Febiuary 22.—Thomas Kane's
cotton storage warehouse, at Thirteenth
avenue and Bank street, was gutted by fire
last night, four thousand bales of cotton be
ing nearly all destroyed. Liss, about $75,-
000 on the cotton and $5,000 on the build
ing.
Cincinnati, February 22.—The river has
fallen nearly two feet from the highest
mark, and is still falling rapidly. The
weather is clear aud cold. Advices trom up
the river show that the water is still rising,
and it may rise again Here; but cold weather
gives promise that the worst is over.
Lancaster, Pa., Febimry 22.—While a
party of youug men were firing a salute this
afternoon, in honor of the Democratic vic
tory in this city, yesterday, the cannon ex
ploded, instantly’killing Frank A. Herzog
and dangerously injuring Peter Rocherichs.
The latter’s right leg was torn off and he is
not expected to live. Both are married
men.
Washington, February 22.—The Signal
Corps station at Chincoteague, Va., reports
the sloop Dauntless ashore on Fox Shoals,
at 8, p m , yesterday. The master, Sewell
Collins, aud James Kyler were washed off
and lost. The bodies have not yet been re
covered. Howard Slaid was iu the rigging
all night, and waded ashore at low water.
The sloop is breaking up.
Pottstown, Pa., February 22.—Frank
Kirkpatrick, of South Coventry, Chester
county, aged 21 years, while beastly intox
icated and being" hauled home in a wagon
from a public sale, Monday, had his neck
broken. His comrades were drunk -and
they pitched him into the rear of a vehicle,
paying no more attention to him until they
arrived at his home, when they found him
dead.
New Orleans, February 22.—Two months
ago Delia McGraw eloped with and married
Victor Eloi Cruel. The treatment by her
husband drove the wife to seek employment
as a nurse, and yesterday, while passing
down Magazine street with her employer’s
child, she encountered her husband who,
after exchanging a few words with her,
plunged a dirk into her breast, killing her.
The murderer was arrested and imprisson
ed.
San Francisco, February 22.—A dispatch
from Guaymas to the Tucson Star says the
steamer Newburn picked up part of the 1
craw of a wrecked British bark off the coast
of Lower California. They were famishing
and about to resort to cannibalism. The
party consisted of the captain’s wife and
two children and two seamen. One child
and one seaman died immediately. The
mother gave birth to a healthy infant two
days afterwards.
Lyncuburg, Va., February 22.—A fire at
Liberty, Va., originated in the general
merchandise establishment of O. P. Bell, a
brick building in the centre of the town,
on the main street. A high wind prevail
ing, it spread rapidly. The office of the
Star caught, and the flames were communi
cated to several houses belonging to the
Hoffman estate, tothe property of Mrs. J. O.
Herslen, and that of Mrs. Wm. L. Holt, all
of which were destroyed. The building
occupied by the Bank of Bedford barely
escaped. The Mayor of Lynchburg was
telegraphed to for assistance, and a hook
and ladder company, sent by a special
train, rendered help in checking the pro
gress of tho fire, which was gotten under
central about seven o’clock, after raging
three hours and destroying almost the en
tire block. The loss is estimated between
twenty-five and thirty thousand dollars—
partially insured.
Chester, Pa., February 22.—The cor
oner’s jury investigating the cause of the
explosion of Jackson’s fireworks factory
rendered a verdict censaring the aity au
thorities for permitting such a dangerous
business to be carried on in a populous lo
cality; also, for not enforcing the ordinance
in reference to powder and other explosive
materials within its limits. The jury
further find that Prof. Sami. Jackson is high
ly censurable for maintaining in the midst
of a populated district au establishment
attended with all the danger of a fireworks
manufactory, and that. Chas. Van Horn, in
assuring the Chief of the Fira Department
that there was no further d inger after tho
[ second explosion, thus leading him and
other members of the fire department into
further danger, is also highly censurable;
and in view of the above the jury recom
mend that the (coroner hold said Samuel
Jackson and Chas. Van Horn for appearance
at the next term of the Court. Jackson and
Van Horn will be arrested immediately.
The Delaware County Court meets at Media
on the first Monday in March. Francis
Oakes, another one of the victims of the ex
plosion, died to-day, making 18 in all.
London, February 24.—A St. Petersburg
dispatch says: “At the Nihilist trial, yes
terday, all the piisonars pleaded guilty ex
cept Morosoff and Arontsehik, who pleaded
an alibi."
Danv.lle, Va., February 24.—The Hust
ings Court of Pittsylvania county yesterday
sentenced Dock Wright to bo hung on the
31st of March. All efforts to procure a com
mutation of the sentense failed.
Cincinnati, February 24.—The Enquirer
has a report from Lexington, Ky., to the
effect that its reporter, having been confined
a week in jail with George Ellis, obtained
from him a statement that his former con
fession, charging the murder of Fanny Gib
bons on Wm. Neal and Ellis Craft, was un
true, and that it was made under duress
and under the belief that Craft had con
fessed - he being so informed by the person
to whom his first confession was made. The
other Cincinnati papers have no confirma
tion of this matter, and tho Enquirer's re
port says the indications are that Ellis has
still further revelations to make.
Cincinnati, February 24.—John Maj er
Hicks, colored, was hanged at Covington,
Ky., to-day. The execution was the second
one ever had in Kenton county, and was
the first guasi private execution in the State
of Kentucky. Father Lambert came to the
front, and addressing the three hundred
spectators admitted, said: “Mr. Hicks will
say nothing. I speak for him. He takes
his death as the punishment for his sin.”
The black cap was then adjusted, Hicks all
the while weeping profusely and exclaim
ing, “God is good; oh. Lord, have mercy.”
The drop fell at 10:15, aud the body was
cut down at 10:44. There was no struggle.
He was hung for tho murder of Henry Mur
ray Williams, at Ludlow, Ky., December
15, 1880. There were no witnesses to the
erffne. The utterance of Father Lambert
on the scaffold was his only confession.
Galveston, February 27.—A special from
LaGrange says that the jail there was I
broken open on Friday night, and one J.
M. Harrison was killed by Deputy Sheriff
Rankin. One prisoner escaped.
Vicksburg, Miss., February 26.—The
steamboat Bertie Claiborn was burned to the
water's edge to-day, at Whiting Lake Land
ing, Steele’s bayou. Hey cargo, consisting
of 166 bales of cotton and 300 sacks cotton
seed, was totally destroyed. The loss is
$15,000. The insurance is not known.
One negro man and three children wore
drowned.
New York, February 27. - George Harry
Wall, the lawyer who was shot W Sunday
in New Utrecht, New York made an ante
mortem. statement tb,is morning before
Judge Church, of Hamilton, implicating
his wife, who wss thereupon arrested and
committed to ths Town Hall to await the
result of his injuries, which, it is believed,
will prove fatal.
Mobile, February 27.—Zedac/s jewelry
store was entered by burglars Bunday
ni£ht. Tiiey were evidently professionals.
One safe was forced open aud gold jewelry,
worth about $3,000, taken. Another safe,
which contained about $50,000 worth of
; diamonds, resisted all efforts of the burg
lars, who decamped, leaving a kit of tools.
The police have made one arrest and think
they are on the track of the rest of tffo i
gang.
St. Louis, February 26. spacial from
Gattsville, Texas, say? that 0 few days ago
a mob in the western part of the county
took a young man named Dering, under ar- !
rest on suspicion of horse stealing, front an ;
officer aud lynched bitn,. Yesterday, one
hundred armed men from (he nejghbor
hoo.l of the victim's same into town
an<| demanded tW kho parties engaged in
the lyqebias I*9 afre»ted, Os they would
ta|*e ita law iu their bauds. The sheriff
then arrested Bob Leverett and his two
sons, aud is now after several more of thft
lyncliing mcb.
Washington, February 2’), —A Norfolk
special says : “The Radies of a white wo
man named Rosa Stark and of her two in- ,
fants, were found in the woods, near yicaa
ant Hill, Northampton county, N- C., day
before yesterday. The jnqueut developed
the following facts : Cm the night of Mon-
Hay, the 30tfl iwst., the woman gave birth
to an infant. which she killed at once,, vn
Tuesday morning she went to t<j& poods to
bury it, and while th&TO »save birth to
another child. Thja, also, she kiU*,u, and
prostrated Ijy the exposure died herself.
The horrible affair has caused great excite
meut- No one has been implicated save
the woman, whose object appears to have
been to conceal her shame.”'
Peteesbubc. February 26.—From infor
mation, received here, it is supposed that a
foul murder was committed in Southamp
ton county, last Friday night, the victim
being Samuel Hili, a quack doctor. When
found Hill was in his night clothes, lying in
a ditch near his house. There was a bullet
bole in the bock of bis neck, another in his
' back and an abrasion of the skin on the
; forehead, as if caused by the blow of a
heavy cudgel. The house in which Hill
lived was found burned to tha ground.
Some days previous to the murder a colored
patient, for whom Hill had prescribed, died.
It was charged that he had been poisoned
by Hill, and the supposition now is that the
' doctor was murdered by the dead man’s
’ friends.
Galveston, February 28.—A case of
smallpox appeared on Market street, be
tween 25th and 26th streets. The patient
,is a variety actor, from Dallas. The house
’is quarantined, and all other inmates re
moved.
Wilmington, N. 0., February 28.—In
formation ia received here that Capt. David
R. Mqnchison, President of the Carolina
Central Railroad, and leading merchant of
this city, died in New York at 1 o’ clock
this morning. „„ . . ~ ,
Joliet, February 28. —A freight
car loaded with brick was thrown into a
ditch eight miles from here yesterday.
Eight tramps were secreted in the car at the
time, two of whom were killed, and the
others so badly injured that their lives are
despaired of. The names of the unfortu
nates are not known.
A CHAPTER FROM WALL STREET.
The Young Men and the Professionals
Who Put Up Margin—The Turn «f the
Wheel and the Twist of a Figure.
New York, Febtuary 27.—The brokers
say that the number ot young men who
are carrying their dollars to Wail street has
decreased perceptibly in the city the last
year, but that the out-of-town custom, es
pecially in the West, is increasing, for the
development of Gould’s plans there under
the eyes of many speculators give them
confidence in bis i-tocks, and there are
strong buyers. The tape-pullers, to the
casual observer, seem to bo middle-aged
men, and singularly enough there is a large
proportion of professional men among
them. The lawyers lead tho list, and hag
gard end nervous and quick tempered they
stand about the ticker watching the wheel
of fortune go round and round. In one
office there stands a portly, well-fed man,
with his hands under the tail of a cutaway
coat, a silk hat poised on the back of his head
and a cigar stuck between his teeth. He is
rocking to and fro upon his heels, and he
seems to believe that he is on the high road
to fortune. “Who is he?” is asked of a
shiiking, modest man of middle age, who
once moved with a broadside in the street,
aud has since taken his trip up in a balloon
so high that he says he has not got done
falling yet. “He’s a Methodist preacher,
who made a hit in New York. Elevated
some time ago at the first clip, and having
gained about $30,000, is now going in
heavy. He thinks that Gould will be send
ing for him soon to learn how to speculate.
He has given up preaching and has taken to
smoking, buying straddles and to lunching
at Dolmoacio’s."
v “How long do you give him ?”
“He will tangle himself up before the Ist
of May, and Re will then settle down here
for a year, with morning and evening
prayers, that he may get back his money
and go back to lead his little flock in green
pastures by the still waters."
"Is it true that young men in New York
are turning their backs on Wall street:'”
“Yes, they prefer poker, for thev have a
chance to deal once in a while. Here the
cards are stocked, and somebody else is
the dealer all the time. There are about
10,000 sign posts up around here warning
people to quicken their steps and get out
of the range of the miasma as soon as thev
approach Wail street. It needs a clear
vision to see them, and they are a blessing
to a man with good eyesight. The young
man who cometh here groweth np like the
grass and flouriseth like a grew, bay tree
lor a time. Then he is out down and
walketh away on his uppers. When Trin
ity chimes out three o’clock one day, a
fair-faced woman in rich attire drives up
iu a coupe and he steps in and they roll up
Broadway, laughing at the cold, cold
world. Another day he gets a note from
his broker, and he borrows a quarter to
get something to steady his nerves. If he
can scrape up $5 he tries his luck at faro,
and in a short time he is looking over the
list of men wanted in the Y. M. U. A. hall.
I saw among the soldiers, in the spectacle
of ‘Michael Strogoff,’ a few days ago, a
man who, like our friend the preacher, felt
two years ago that he would soon give Jay
Gould some points.”
— m
foreign notes,
Parliamentary Dots From England—Mr.
Gladstone and the Liberal Party—Par
nell Deeper tn Kllmainham—General
Foreign Notes. ——
(By Cable to the Chronicle.)
London, February 28.- la consequence
of answers received to a circular proposing
short time, the Lancashire cotton manu
facturers, at a meeting at Manchester to
day, unanimously resolved to close their
mills for a fortnight before the 12th of
April, the closing days to be optional with
the masters.
London, February 28.—The report, on
the 25th instant, that the British brigTren
mor, from Charleaton for Bremen, ashore at
Cowes, had been floated, was erroneous.
The bark Canada, from Darien for Berwick,
is ashore at the latter port. The' crew is.
saved.
London, February 28.—A dispatch from
St. Petersburg, byway of Berlin, says: “Ten
of tho Nihilist prisoners, including one
woman, who have been on trial for some
days past on various charges, have been
sentenced to death. The remainder of the
tweity-ono prisoners were sentenced to
various terms of penal servitude.”
Paris, February 28.—The Government
has resolved to modify the laws relating to
the expulsion of foreigners so that every
foreigner who has been convicted of crime
in his native country may be expelled im
mediately without any formality. Oases of'
those not convicted must be submitted to a
council of Ministars.
London, February 28.—1 t is stated that
Parnell has just finished a week's solitary
confinement in consequence of a warder
charging him with trying to bribe him to
“muggle a letter out of prison. Parnell de
nied the charge.
London, February 28.—The London cor
respondent of the Manchester Guardian
says: “The meeting of the Liberals at Glad
stone’s residence, yesterday, produced an
excellent effect on the party. The Conserva
tives are discouraged, and there is no con
cealment of their desire that the House of
Lords now abandon its attitude and give
assurance that the inquiry will not interfere
with the judicial operation of the Land cct.
Lord Cairns, Chairman of the Lord’s Com-,
mittee, is understood to be using all efforts
in favor of moderation. The good effect of
the meeting is confirmed from other sources.
An analysis of division in the House ot
Commons, last evening, on the motion
to postpone the orders of the day, shows that
the Government was supported by all sec
tions of the party, from Messrs. Cowen,
Collings and Gourley, who previously fre
quently voted with the extreme Irish sec
tion, to the Whigs, such os Lord Edward
Cavendish and Fitzmaurice, Goshen, Grey,
Guest anti Kingscot, Marquis of Stafford,
Sir Edward Watkin and Mr. 'Walter. Thir
teen Home Rulersalso supported the Govern
ment, including Colthurst, Fay, Gabbett,
Mitchell, Henry, Shaw, O’Conner, Rawer
and Smyth. In the House of Commons,
this afternoon, Sir Henry James, Attorney-
General, moved a resolution declaring void
the election of Michael Davitt, who
was returned to fill the vacancy for
Meath caused by the resignation of A.
M. Sullivan. Joseph Cowen (Radical)
member for Newcastle-on-Tyna. moved an
address to the Queen, praying in view of
the arrest, rearrest and subsequent return
of Davitt to Parliament, that free pardon
be granted to him. The Speaker ruled this
motion out of order.
Sir Henry James pointed out that the
Government would not move for a new
writ, but would allow time for Egan to
claim his seat. The resolution of Sir Henry
James was carried by a vote of 208 to 20.
CROMWELL'S HEAD.
The Protector's Cranium As It Is Preserv
ed To-Day.
(From the Dublin Times.)
It is not generally known that the em
balmed head of (JRver Cromwell is extant.
Some few years since, at any rate, it was
said to be in the possession of Mr. Horace
Wilkinson, of Seven Oaks, Kent. It was
then in good preservation, and its phreno
logical aspect presented several striking pe
culiarities. Thus, the length, from the
forehead io the back of the head, is quite
extraordinary—far greater than in ordinary
men. The-forehead, or frontal portion, is
low, but very broad; the orbits of the eyes
are vary large, the cheek bones and tho
bridge of the nose are high, and the lower
jawbone, which is ordinarily curved, is
short, straight and fotming a right angle,
with its point of insertion. The head is one.
indicating a brain (which is but the instru
ment of the mind) of groat activity and
great capacity, corresponding with tho re
mark of Cromwell's secretary, who said
that “it was at onso a shop and a storehouse.”
From its bnbag embalmed, such flesh as
remains on it is of the consistency of hard
brown leather. The eyebrows meet in the
middle, and between them was a small
wart, now worn away—one of those which
Cromwell, when sitting for bis portrait, or
dered the painter on no account to omit
representing, as his duty was not to fhttei
in any way, but paint what he saw exactly.
In life his complexion was fresh, and ot the
hue known as “salmon colored.” The
hair, which was of a fairish or reddish
tinge, has mostly bean cut off, and the.
beard is now stained brown by tho embp.'nn
ing fluid and drawn under the ohin, where,
when tha head was exposed on the, top of
Westminster Hall, it was tied to the
spear-head which hail been rwn through
and mounted on it, Several teeth remain
and the eyijlidH, but the, brain was removed
during *.kq embalming process.
SENATOR. BROWN’S DEMOCBACY.
What the Georgia Senator Says of Run
ning With Blaine.
Washington, February 25.—The atten
tion of Senator Brown, of Georgia, was di
rected to published statements that a possi
ble Presidential ticket of Blaine and
Brown would come up in the next cam
paign.
“Some time ago,” said the Senator, "I
wrote a letter, in which I said that I would!
vote for the next Democratic nominee fev
Governor of Georgia, and for the next Dem
ocratic Presidential nominees. Mr. Blaine*
could hardly be a Democratic nominee for
President; and, upon what I have an
nounced as my intention, I could neither
be on the same ticket with him nor vote for
him. I stand by what I have already de
clared as my intention. There is no neces
sity whatever, ia .»y opinion, for going
outside the Democratic party for candi
dates. The party should be of itself alone.”
In reply to a question as to the Ribera!
movement in Georgia, Mr. Brown said that
he never thought it could accomplish any
thing, and that it was further crippled by
the fact that the Republicans of the State
are diligently fighting each other in fac
tions over tjie offices.
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Sunday school teacher—Who was the
strongest man? Boy—Jonah; because the
whale couldn’t hold him after he got him
down.