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Wtmn Cljronide jßKnnstitutionalist Ctarontrle <S* Rentinel, Ertabli«h<<l 178-1-) Con<titutton*li«l. E«tabllHhr«i 17WI. f THE TALK OF "TIIEON.” A CLASSICAL LETTER PROM A CLAS SICAL TOWS. A Mecca of Convention#— The Vacant Chair In the University-Jug Tavern Read—ProgretvlVe Athena—Chan cellor Lipscomb—Coming Com mencements. [Correspondence of the Chronicle. 1 Atsems, Ga., May 28 —This city appears to be the Mecca of conventions. There has hardly been an interval cf two weeks since the first of April that some conven tion or association has not convened here. The Pharmaoectical Convention met here and was bar q netted by the city; the doc tors asfemtlei and the Opera House con tainfd good cheer and hearty welcome for them one night of their visit; the Teach ers’ Association followed, and the hospita ble halls and doors of the oity were thrown wide open; the editors swelled the list and were made merry and glad by an excursion to the falls; and yesterday the Women’s Missionary Society of the State convened in the First Methodist Church. When they leave us we will Lave nothing of the kind to look forward to, eave a small asso c?a‘ioo w’Jeh 1 ~~ * - ~'.Lle in October. True, .L r. -.c .. «.junmencements com- ing on, but they have come with such peri odical regularity that the entertainment of the gay throng on those occasions is looked upon as a solemn duty, net as an occasional pleasure. It would surprise your readers to know how well the colored people enter tain their ae social ion s. One met here a few weeks ago—a religions body of some two hundred delegates and every one of them was provided with a home, and in some cases the entertainers were known to draw their wages a month ahead in order that their guests might live upon the fat of the land. There is some speculation here about the vacant Chair cf History and Political Science in the University. As yet no ap plication has been made to the secretary of the Board of Trustees, but various names have been suggested in the public prints, and in conversation, as suitable gentlemen to fill the vacancy. We learn that the probability is the Chair will ba divided and Agriculture, which was tacked on to the department of History a few years since, without any regard* for the fitness of thinss, will be made a separate Chair, and in all probability be offered to Dr. W. L Jones, rs Kirkwood. Dr. Jones was at one time Professor of Chemistry in the University, and was esteemed one cf its ablest members. Os late vears he has < been editing the Southern Cultivator, an in fluential agricultural journal, and by taste .and education is well equiped to perform Rhe djities of the Chair. The History Chair wilbebard to’fi'l.^W»<coolly as it had such an able cccupafit a fewebort weeks ago. Several names bare been mentioned io connection with the vacancy; J>ut the trustees are somewhat petit no man can foretell their ft. ''’CM L A prominent citizen assured ns the I V qdhef day that the Athens and Western t Bailroad, more familiarly called the Jog Road, will surely be built. More 'necessary amount *for hw remark; but when we rememoer how loDgJtjeaa beforer the North‘astern was completed, we ate afraid our friend is too sanguine. We hope, however, he is Correct in his saying, for if a city ever needed one more railroad, this town is sadly in want of the Athens and Jug " Tavero line. It is very hard to raise money here for such purposes. Most of the people seem to be satisfied with the modicum of prosperity they'are now en joying, and are fearful lest trying to make “well enough” better they will really hurt their condition. But to set these off there are some half a dezm or more energelic, go ahead merchants who, when they see a thinfl is necessary, will do it, and may be after all these plucky, pub lic spirited citizens will connect the hard soil of the University town with the more pliable clay of Jug Tavern. They have an ice factory up here now, and the price of ice prospectively aston ishes the citizens. Thewriter remembers the time when Fl'scb, now of Augusta, eold ioe at tbe remarkably low figures of ten cents per pound. It was in the days when transportation was high and there were no i’e factories nearer than Balti more. I don’t think Mr. Flisoh’s profit, even at that price, paid for the loss in weight from melting. Now tbe price is as low as it can be one hundred pounds de livered at your door for sixty cents. The factory is owned by northern men, and is located near ♦he Northeastern depot. The Ben Hill property, which was pur chased some months ago, by Mr. Leonard, of Syracuse, New Turk, is once more on the market. He purchased it for ?6.G00, and is anxious to dispose of it or exchange it for a plantation. It is tbe finest r«d - decce in this part of Georgia, and was built by 001. John T. Grant, of Atlants, at a cost of over $20,060. Too large for the purposes of an ordinary small 'family and expensive to keep in repair, it is a house that will not sell very readily. But it is an elegant place, and deserves a better fate •than to be continually on the market fcr sale. The venerable ex-CNrancellor (Lipscomb, whose illness was announced in your col umns, has considerably improved—so much <eo as to be able to resume his literary labors, The doctor has not ’been to Vanderbilt -University in some eighteen months—being ton feeble to perform his labors there. But by the aid of -bis pen he still keeps up his connection with that University, where be is an Emeritus pro fessor of Mental Philosophy. He takes great delight in lecturing to the young ladies of the Lucy Cobb Institute’-upon •the playa of Shakspeare, and has remarked that there is mote satisfaction in lecturing before young ladies than before young men, as the former not only look as if thev understand but do, whereas the latter only appear it? do so. Two brilliant social events will take fdace in ibis city on the sth and 6th of une respectively the Presbyterian church tbe scene of both. A charming and pre'ty young lady, with eleven female friends, will, on &e sth of the next OMatb, accompanied by gal lav t gentle men, slowly march down the centre aisle of the old The ceremony . which will make a young Celumbia ♦ county farmer bappv will take place at 12:30, p m.. after which tbe young oouple will go North and spend their honey moon at tbe great watering places of that section. On tbe evening of the 6th a prosperous young business gentleman of the city will wed onset the reigning belles This, too, will be a church wadding, and Athens society, which has not enjoyed a acene of this sort for some time, hails with Crdonable pleasure these two oasises in e social desert There are all kinds of rumors about other couples, but it is so often the case that these rumors prove false that it will not be wise or proper to mention them. It can be said, however, that aome are alarmingly sensational, and, whether they will be consummated or not. have at leas* afforded endless talk, and fed the hungry tongue of gossip for many a a week. I The commencement season will soon be npoD ÜB, About the middle of the next CONSOLIDATED MARCH 17.1877. month the sweet girl graduate will begin to read somebody's composition on ‘'Faith,” or “Hope,” or “Charity.” or “Woman’s Rights,” and the fond mother in tones audible all over the house, will tell how much time Mary spent on that essay,when if tbe truth was known Mary’s papa well nigh went crazy concocting the thing. Fe male commencements are queer affairs anyhow, but are nothing o the com mencements at tbe University. There the boy s generally write their orations—we have heard some which were escribed to none but the parties themselves—and then proceed to deliver them in the most re markable manner. It ia a fact, strange as it may te tn, that much of the bad elocution in the college is due to excessive timidity. The young speakers have told us that fre quently they do not know what they are gay.ing.and ignorant oftbat.it is no wonder that they touch their hearts when they are talking about tbe devil. The present set of a’udents will in all probability not labor under this disadvantage. By-the-way all the institutions of learning are enjoying great prosperity here. The institute un der tbe able management of Miss Ruther ford was never in as flourishing a condi tion, and the University for the fir-it time in y c ars has over two hundred names on its register. The Brown donation will next term increase the number to over two hundred and fifty, and the old days of crowded lecture halls and well filled dor mitories will come again. Theon. MRS. PICKEVB' ADDRESS TO THE WOMEK OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Edgewood, April 26, 1883. To the Women of Carolina : As your Vice Regent representative in the “Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association,” I can no longer defer a direct appeal to yon for assistanco in raising funds with which to restore the rcom at Mount Vernon assigned by the Coun cil to the State cf South Carolina. Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania, Con necticut. New Jersey, Massachusetts, Ohio, Wisconsin, Illinois and the District of Co lumbia are now each represented by a re stored and furnished room in the mansion. Georgia, Florida, North Carolina and Ala bama will complete their rooms during this summer. I feel sure that it is owing to my own hesitancy and reluc-, tance tbat Carolina is last in this work of' commemorative love, but I bad neither the heart nor the courage, amid the gloom of her own bitter necessities, the strug gles of her burdened people, to ask aid for any object, however worthy, outside of her immediate interests. Yet, now tbat her woeful night is past and the dawn of a happy prosperity begins, I am embold ened to make this effort to enlist that devoted love and pride of State so charac teristic of her daughters in days gone by— those heroic days in which, counting naught the cruel past, they gave their all of life and love and fortune, “so vainly yet so hoiily,” to sustain in honor and dignity her faith, her truth and her rights. I scarcely need to remind yon that it was a daughter of Carolina, Miss Pamela Cun ningham, who, with broad intellect and strong heart, called to the women of , 4he land to co-operate with her to fthis hallowed and historic spot Hoti” desecration and decay. In the (generous response that came from tbe common heart of the country, the work I of Mrs.Chosi mt, yout* first Vice Regent, and the lady managers in their respective -A - ** ’UH'SgIU' States by act of Congress, thus concen trating the work of the respective Vice Regents in their efforts to restore from the mold and dust of time the home of Washington, and admitting a laudable 1 State pride into the harmonious whole. To Carolina was given the “breakfast” ; or “morning room,” and it is for the pur pose of restoring thia room to its original 1 beauty that I call upon the daughters of • Carolina for aid. 1 have adopted the > precedent set by your first Vice Regent, ’ Mrs. Chesnut, of a lady manager in each > district, whose collections will be sent to Mayor Courtney, of Charleston, who kind ly consents to act as treasurer of the > fund. Lucy H. Pickens. HE\RT WOUVDB AND PISTOL SHOTS A Mother’s Attempt to Panish -the Man Who Jilted Her Daughter. New York, May 29.—0 n Sunday even ing Mr. George Wilson, Jr., was shot at in Far Rockaway by Mis. Benjamin B. Mott, ( wife of a prominent resident of Woods ' burg, in the township of Hempstead, L. ’ I. The shooting caused much excitement in the place. It appears that Mr. Wilson, who is twenty-six years old and who keeps a furniture store in Brooklyn, was until ' some time ago paying his addresses ’ to Miss Lillie Mott, daughter of Mrs. ' Mott. He took the young lady to ’ balls and parties, and her family looked forward to their marriage. It was a surprise to the residents of Woodsburg ’ when they learned recently that Mr. Wil -1 sod bad married a Moes Heffner, and tbat ' the young couple were spending the honey moon at Far Rockaway. It soon became ‘ noised about that Mrs. Mott had made ! up her mind to punish Wilson at the first opportunity for trifeing with the affections i ot her daughter, and it was expected that ‘ the punishment would take the shape of a cowhiding. Mr. Wrtson managed to keep ‘ out e f the way of Mrs. Mott until Sundry. ‘ Their meeting then appears to have been not entirely unexpected on Mrs. Mott’s part. She carried a bulldog pistol, and this she discharged at Mr. Wilson. The ’ -shot did not take effect. Mr. Wilson did net wait to ask explacations, but made tbe best use of his time in getting to a safe ' distance. As Mrs. Mott was about to take a second shot, James F. Cronin, a witness of the occurrence discerned her. There JW<-re many people in the street and Cronin was warmly rebuked for interfering. Yes terday an effort was made to get Mr. Wil -son to make a complaint against Mrs. Mott, but be kept hiaaself secluded. A suit for heavy damages for breach of promise is threatened. Mau*.l S. Trottiog SKost. Hertford, Conn.. May 29.—Mr. ‘Wil liam Turnbull. Dan Msec and a >few ; friends came np from New 'York to-day to witness the daily work of Mr. Wanderbik’s horsesnow at Charter Oak Park. Athaif ,, past two o’clock Bair, after having given Maud her warming up exerci&e, sentherfor a practise mile. Without a break she pass ed the half mile post in and aooom-, pliehed the mile in 2:16. Among the crowd of <wo hundred or so there were -several watchholders who made the time but the majority of tbs timers were stopped at dead 16. Bair beKeves the mare was never so good as she ia at present, and he thinks she could have done the mile in 2:13 eemly. Be says it was the fastest mile ever trotted in tbe month of May, and be is m pleased with Her work that be feels confident eke will we in condi'.ioa to go for the 2:08 record in a few weeks. The day, with its frequent showers and high wind, was not favorable for speed. Later in the afternoon Maud 8 was hitched with Aldine, and the pair made tbe mile in the time for the last quarter be ing 33t$ seconds. Early Rose was driven a mile in 2:22. Fighting. (By Telegraph to the Chronicle.) Guayaquil, May 30.—There was fight ing in the river a little above Guayaquil thia morning, THE GRE4T_MAN TRAP. HUMAN BEIWGS CRUSHED ANDTRAM PLED TO DE A I H. .Novel Bat Fatal Accident on the Brook lyn Bridge—X Panic-Stricken Crowd Madly Rushing and Crushing— The Cause of the Panic—Po lice to the Rescue. (By Telegraph to the Chronicle.) New York, May 30.—A terrible accident occurred on Brooklyn bridge at half-fast four o’clock this afternoon. The bridge was crowded to its utmost capacity. Qo the platform at the New York tower tAe jam became so great that many p. *v fainted. A cry of distr /s was raised and a dreadful struggle /began between the panic-stricken -''crowd A num ber were, it is reported, crushed to death. Ia the end tbe crowd coming from the Brooklyn side prevailed and rcsbed toward the New Vork anchorage, trampling down everything in its way. Men, women and children were trodden under foot and falling down the steps leading to the tower platform, were buried under a mass of struggling humanity many feet high. As soon as the news of the disaster was conveyed to the New York station by the onset of the panic-stricken crowd, tbe police were called and the bridge was closed. The work of removing the crushed and wounded then began. A number were taken to the City Hall police station and others to the Chambers street hospital. Tbe police report that at least ten or fifteen persons were killed, but as yet it is impossible to say who or how many. Os the seven wounded who are in the Cby Hall fetation, one. B. Reichers. a cir ar maker of No. 335 Delancey street, is now dying. The excitement at the en trance to the bridge is intense. Particulars of the Great Catastrophe. The Brooklyn bridge received a dreadful baptism to day. In the crash that occur red, apparently by an accident on the New York anchorage, a number of persons, mobtly women and children, were crushed some to death, some fatally, and still others severely. A scene of terror reigned for fully 15 or 20 minutes tbat baffles description. When it was ever cartloads of wounded and crushed human beings were taken out of the New York entrance of the bridge A small mountain ot torn and abandoned clothing was gath ered up by the police. The accident occurred on the New York anchorage, where the solid bottom < f the middle foot way ends and two flights of seven steps each, with an intermediate landing, lead up to the plank walk of the span, between the New York anchorage and tbe tower. It was shortly after four o’clock. The bridge was crowded from one end to the other so tbat there was hard ly elbow room on the footway. A wo man who was ascending the lower flight of steps stumbled and fell on the landing. The crowd pressed upon her and she shrieked. Bridge Officer Fredrick Bich ards, who was on the plank walk above, seeing her danger, elbowed his way to the spot and lifted her up. The crowd closed upon them both and they went down. With a desperate tflort Officer Richards got upon hie feet once more, dragging th* woman after him. She screamed in despair and fright afid the crowd below pressed toward the spot SSfegL Those on the approach below thff' gn’P? were carried forward in a solid mass. Many stumbled and were unable to resist the pressure from behind. The crowds nassed over them from above. The crowd coming from Brooklyn was carried to the edge of the steps and then fell over and down upon the struggling mass below. A terrible struggle for life began. Men and women fought with the strength of despair against each other. Escape was impossible, with the pressure from both sides growing at every shout of anguish tbat went up from the dying and those who saw diath before their »yes. Fear and despair on the ore side, curiosity on the other, fought for mastery. The frightful cru c h was denser than ever when, after nearly fifteen minutes, a score of mil itia men of the 12th Regiment, led by Lieutenant Hart and Sergeants Conldock and Costello, marched up the approach to ward Brooklyn. Tbe yells of the crowd attracted their Attention. At the foot of the steps the wall of human bodies was piled high. The dfnse mass surged about it and in it. The soldiers saw two police man vainly struggling against it. Sergeant Couldock took in the situation at a glance. At his word of command his men scaled the fence and railroad track separating them from the foot-walk and wedging into tie mass of people near the scene of disaster and drove back the crowd at the New York entrance at the muzzle cl lhe'rguns. It fell beck slightly, and the militiamen, following up the advantage gained, forced it back until the approach was cleared. Then forming across the foot-walk. They prevented the crowd fro'u passing back, while as many of their number as couid be spared ran toward the scene of the accident to help in extricat ing the dead and saving the living.— The alarm bad meanwhile been given at the bridge entrance. A general call for all hospital ambulances was sent out and policemen were hurried over upon the bridge. From their station beside the city hall tbefiremen of the Hook and Lad der Company followed to assist. The crowd on tbe foot walk above the steps wa<= constantly receiving accessions and still pressing on and over the heap on the an chorage. Thebodies of the dead and dying lay here so fbm'y wedged together tbai to extricate them was next to impossible To beat back the crowd was equally ito possible. Relief was possible only by making room for the crowd to spread side ways. It was quickly done. Willing hands tore away the iron railing dividing the footway from the railroad track cn both sides, and dragging those who were nearest in the crush through the open ing. Room was made for the police men to reach the frightful heap o1 human flesh, and the work of clear ing it away began. As soot as a por tion cf the obstruction was removed from the steps, the crowd was eased and a nor tion were let through to the New Yorh station. The rest were forced <>aek until all the bodies had been taken away. Along the iron fenees on the<ootway ox the rail road track an-d on the carriage way on both sides of the bridge the dead and wounded were laid. Many were dead when extricated from the heap, and otters were more or less terribly ityured. They lay six. and ten deep, those in the lower tier being dead. The clothes were torn from the body of <more than cne in the attempt to get them aut. All were hstress, many shoeless, and &n others the clotfces hung in Five women, all dead and trampled into unshapely masses, were taken t-om the bottom of the heap. One woman had beea seen in ihe crush holding a screaming baby above the heads of the erowd. As she herself weot down some man took the baby. It was not found. It is said that the man had been seen carrying the dead baby away, but the police had no account of it. Baby cloth ing scattered about gave evidence enough that weak infants had been in the crush. The woman, whom Bridge Officer Richards had helped to hsr feet at the beginning of the crush was saved. Richards also es caped death by a desperate effort. In speaking of the occurrence afterward he said there was no chance of^estoring order AUGUSTA, GAWVEDNESDAY, JUNE 6. 18b3. from the firs*; that the first wrs the death knell of many in The crowd grew at cnce able and so dense that a cf any kind was impossible. J®a :l &rowd. ’ forced by the constant iinMnjpi and from the side, weot over the s'eps like * (Sttaraot, and once star'ei they fell until the walk lay piled with bodies to the of the steps, and then went over and ieU, down bpyond it. A dead Lo Sing-was taken from tbe the heap. Carls were pressed on the New York feide they arrived, and the dead an nred wfre hurriedly driven out City Hall, where they were laid station in the basement. AmbuO®|then arrived and those who yet were taken to the hospitals. besieged the station and ambulances to learn the fate of the missing oneaßear to them. There were heartrendingswnes at the police stations when a bodyjwjusraeog nized by friends. An.ample force of police tc of the New York entrance as t-o“ as pos sible after the accident. Tbe middle foot way was closed to travel, and |he current of those anxious to cross was turned into ’ the down-stream wagon track. Apparent - ly no measures were taken at theJßrosk lyn end to etop travel. Rumors t&t the bridge had fallen and that hundrals had s been crushed got afloat. Th*, dead that were pulled out from und®neath human avalanche on the anchorage were ‘ black in tbe face, showing they han died from suflocation. John Stucb, a Grand ; Army man,of Kotte’s post, helped five girls . from tbe cr.wd where they were j&amed in tightly. A big man, apparently«a Ger man, was pushing Item and strtfggling with them on the bridge as if his only pur pose was to get them down to save himself. A crowd of roughs pressed on behind the crowd, coming from Brooklyn and fought their way through it with, oaths • It was said that thieves profited by the op [ portunity and helpei precipitate the catas trophe Their chances were unlimited When the approach was cleared at last it was literally covered with articles of clothing and personal property Ia» andoned in the struggle. They were i viewed with amazement by £he people j coming over from Brooklyn who bad cot j heard of tbe disaster. In the excitement ,of the crush Wm Oxford, aged 45, a , drunken man, deliberately jumped from tbe bridge approach into William street and received severe internal inju ries. The place on the bridge where the accident occurred is the dan ger spot in the structure* To persons ! who are looking out over the scenery, as they pas* either way. it is a certain and i most perilous trap. In a crush like the one of to-day, it is a terrible danger spot. , Many said to-day they had feared such [an occurrence at this spot. At the . Chambers street hospital lay ' the bodies of twelve of those who per . ished by the disaster. Those already identified were as fdMbws : George Smith, , aged 45, of 41 Watts street, carpenter identified by his wife; he was alive when brought to the hospital, but died shortly j afterwards; E'len Riordan, aged 45. of I No. 36 Montgomery street—identified by her son; Maude Crawford, aged 33, jof 37th street, -near Broadway-she , is the wife of Charles Crawford, clerk; j Jas. O’Brien, aged 40, of 88 Latgbt street I —he was a delivery clerk ip the employ , of the Pennsylvania Railroad ’’gnipanv. niani, Turkish (. Sherwood, aged 35, of Bridgeport, Conn : B Ah Lo Sing, aged ISO; Maggy Sullivan, ] ased 13, of 115 Monroe stree 1 .; Eliza Karters, aged 66, of Jersey Oity; Sarah I Hennessy, aged 22, of 190 Washington avenue. Two men yet remain unidenti fled. In the evening the coroner empanneled a jury which viewed the bodies of the dead and the ir quest was fixed for Satuiday. A revised list of the dead and injured, ob tained shortly before midnight from the hospitals and stations, embraced twelve dead, eleven of whom had been identified, and twentysixinjured, some badly, otners less seriously. DOGS FIGHTING ON THE STAGE. BloodlaoundH Forgetting TKeir Parts in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” New Yobk, May 30.—A scene took place in Beverley’s Brooklyn Theatre last night which was not down in the bill. Jay Rial’s “Uocie Tom’s Cabin” was being played, and, in addition to the actors, two Siberian bloodhounds were on the stage to take part in the perform ance. These bloodhounds recently ar rived from Cincinnati, and their rcgu ular negro attendant was not with them. Before their introduction to the stage last evening they had a quarrel in the stable in which they bad been locked up, and fought it out until they were sepa rated. The forced separation displeased them very much, and they apparently re solved to renetf the battle at the first op portunity. When brought upon the stage to pursue the slaves, George and Eliza Harris, they showed a decided disinclina tion to become slave hunters, and as they approached the foot-ligbts they sprang at each other and allowed the poor slaves to escape. They fought ferociously, and in their* struggle rolled over into the orchestra. The audie&ce became greatly excited, and the play, of course, had to be stopped for the moment. Mr. L. F. Spencer, one of the actors, who was representing the character of Phineas Fletcher, Mr. McConnell, the matagei* and two others, jumped from the stage to the orchestra, and after a long struggle, separated the brutes. The fight did not end, however, without severe injury to Mr. Spencer, who was bittA ty one of the hounds in his right hand, wfaieb prevented him from continuing his part of the performance, and the charac ter which he represented had to be assum ed by Mr. H. 8. Duffield. When the hounds rolled into the orchestra the leader and his assistants adandoned their instruments and gave the animals a wide berth, but as soon as order was restored they returned to their usual seats and the performance was resumed. The two houndswill not be allowed to appear again this week. ORGANIZATION. The Fertiliser Manufiicturerg Handing Together. (By Telegraph to the Chronicle.) Baxxemosx, May 30.— A meeting was ; held in this city, to-day, for the organiza l tion of a national association of those en gaged in Che manufacture and manipu lation of chemical 'fertilizers. Col. W. H. Trenholm, of Charleston, 8. C., presided. There were delegates present from Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Vir ginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. A constitution was adopted pro viding that only manufacturers and man ipulators can become members. The or ganization was not completed and another meeting will be held to-morrow. The ob ject, as stated at the meeting, is to protect the trade from oppressive exactions which exist in some of the States and to protect the trade from the influence of middle men. li the man who delivers a declamation through the telephone 3 hellocutionist ? BAYARD AND M’DONALD. AN E’STERN CHIEFTAIN AND A WESTERS STATESMAN. Democratic Views of the Important Tariff Question—Key-Notes for > the Campaign of 1884. Wilmington, Dei. , May 23 —“The more important the question the greater the ne cessity in dealing with it gravely and worthily, and anything like finesse or the appearance of finesse or trick in dealing with such an issue as a tariff for revenue or a tariff for the protection of certain classes of our citizens will greatly weaken the party resorting to it." “Quite independent of the economy to the Treasury and incidental benefit to American producers and manufacturers which is to be affected by a higher or low er rate of tariff taxation, is the more pro found question of political right and pow er to lay any public burden upon the en tire people for the benefit, profit or ‘pro tection’ of private individuals,” “If this claim be admitted as one of right, then privileged claskesdo exist in this country, and although titles may not be allowed by the Constitution, yet all the advantages and privileges of rank will be obtained without the name.” “I know of no position more impregna ble, and upon which it is more important for the Democratic party to form its lines, than that public property cannot be taken for private use under any pretext.” “The Constitution of the United States and of every one of the States so united provides for the taking of private property for public use only upon the rendition of “just compensation” to the owner-but nowhere in thia country and nowhere where free institutions have recognition can the sovereign power take public prop erty for private use or the private property of A to be bestowed upon B with or without compensation.” “The only ground upon which any indi vidual can be deprived of bis property is to benefit the community, and whenever such an exigency arises he must (under our guarantees) be first justly compensa ted.” “The Jorm, of the exaction is immate rial-as much so as the place—and a tax collected in the interior, or at a man’s residence, or at the seaport of entry and under a tariff law —an excise or a direct tax law—it is al! the same, and to be justi fled must be in the name and Jor the use of the government of the United States.” “ With this principle once laid down, the rate of taxation will be easily measured by the public exigencies, and such a spec tacle as was at the last session of Congress—of a handful of men repre senting private interests and controlling and moulding public laws of taxation to suit those interests - will never again be tolerated by honest public sentiment.” “ The excise system can be so arranged, I am sure, as to do away with the army of spies and agents, and the detestable in quisition practised under present laws. A tax upon the ascertained capacity of a still can be substituted for the host of political storekeepers and gnagers and armed mar shals who now constitute the chief power of the Radical party in many States. And a sensible reduction of the rate of tax to a true revenue point would accomplish a vast reform and give great relief.” -gRv Vor* our‘civil removal* fruits, and if we continue to make menv salaries and means of living dependent solely upon the capiice and favor of the ' executive branch, we will see such men in high office as suit the office-holding class and not the people, or their interest or honor. Yours, sincerely, T. F. Bayabd.” Senator McDonald’s Views. Indianapolis, May 22, Ysß3. Joseph Pulitzer. Esq : Mx Deab “-ib I earnestly def ire to see 1 you successful in your new enterprise, and am confident that the energy, enterprise and ability you have di-p'ayed in the other fields of journalism will command success in this larger field to which you have extended your labors. With us this is the off year; we have no elections of any kind this fall, and there is absolutely no political agitation in our State, except such as arises from being in terested spectators of the political con flicts in other States. I feel a strong con viction that the political tides which set in in favor of the Democratic party last year will continue until the party shall be triumphantly successful at the next Presi dential election. The tariff issue connected with the gen eral subject of revenue reform will neces sarily be an important question in all fu ture political contests until it is settled upon the doctrines of the Constitution and the principles of sound political ■ economy. We may be some times reaching a so ultion of the question, but as the public mind comes to be enlightened it will not be satisfied with any tariff that has not for its leading purpose the raising of revenue for the Government; nor with the details of any tariff law in which the du ties laid upon foreign merchandise shall be above the revenue point. > With my best wishes for your sucess, and also for the success of the cause we ;both so earnestly support, I am, truly yours. J. E. McDonald. fc,ooo WHEELMEN IN LINE. A Picturesque Parade of Bicyclists In Jew York. Nbw York, May 29. - The third annual meeting of the league of American Wheel -1 men took place here to-day. Bicyclists from all parte of the country arrived in town yesterday to participate in the parade. The business meeting was held iin the morning and was attended by over ' 503 members of the league in uniform IN. M. Beckwith, of the Citizen’s club. New York, was elected presi dent for the ensuing year. The re . ports of the treasurer and corresponding secretary showed a prosperous financial condition of the organization, and a large increase in membership. The roll now contains 2,13) names. It is estimated that fully 2,000 wheelmen took part in the pa rade. The column extended from Sixtieth street to Seventy-sixth street, and pre sented an interesting spectacle as the wheelmen stood by their machines clad in their picturesque uniforms waiting for the word of command. The sound of the bugle gave warning, and at the word “mount” every man leaped upon his bycicle and the line of march was taken up in double file. ' The procession moved slowly down Fifth avenue to Fifty-ninth street, preceeded by a detachment of mounted police. Here I the column counterwbeeled and moved up ! Fifth avenue to 116th street through I Seventh avenge, down through the west side drive in Central park to Fifty-ninth street, back to Seventy-second street and to the Riverside drive, where the wheel mea stacked their bicycles and were pho togmphed in a group. The procession then disbanded. The route along which the precession parsed was thronged. Yellow Fever. (By jMegraph to the Chronicle.) Halifax, N. &■> May 33.—Her Majesty’s war ship Mallard, which arrived here to day, bad several pases of yellow fever on board while at Jamaica. She had a yellow flag flying while coming up the harbor. CURRENT COMMENTS. Consolatory. (Boston Globe.) Don’t fret yourself envying the rich. Nine times out of ten they are nnhappier than you. Frozen Facts. (Philadelphia Times.' First ice man —“Any mean people on your route ?” Second ice man—“l should e»y so; meanest set I ever run across. Why, three out of five families keep scales.” The Negro. 'Chattanooga Timee.; The destiny of the American negro is not extinction by decay. He is here to stay, and becoming numerous at a rite that suggests the very gravest problems for moralists, statesmen and educators to solve Progtess. (New York World) At this moment, when Ingersollism is rampant everywhere and the faith in a beneficent and omnipotent Providence is growing dim, it is gratifying to observe that an opera bouffe company has come to grief a}, Chicago. , . . Discretionary. (Boston Herali.) A will dated many years ago is on file in Virginia, in which the testator states his desire that his executors will bury him “in the plainest manner possible by the side of my dear wives whichever may be the most convenient.” Bill Arp. (Constitution.) Sometimes Bill Arp touches a tender spot in nature. When he suggested to his bosom partner that they were growing too old to go to picnics, the alacrity with which that worthy lady got ready and went was characteristic of her sex. Value of Litigation. (Inter-Ocean.) An estate has just been finally distributed in New York, which has been in the Sur rogate Court of that city for over 30 years. When the will was proved, in 1851, the estate was valued at between $503,000 and $1,000,000. The heirs got $70,000. A Marvel. (N. Y. World.) There is but one professional humorist in the South who writes in a Caucasian dialect. He calls himself Bill Arp, and his home is in Georgia. He has just distin guished himself by writing an essa? on the tariff question, which is quite facetious. A man who can do that ought to be deco rated. Mystery Explained. (Exchange.) While more boys are born than girls, it is a singular fact tbat there is a surplus of female population. It is easily accounted for. Fooling with toy pistols playing base ball and falling off cherry trees, all boyish pastimes, are six times " more hazardous than wearing corsets and jumping the rope 503 times in one inning. An Old-Time Christian. (Chicago Tribune.) The late venerable Bishop Peck, of the MethodisbtJSpiscoDal Church, made prac tical his teaching that there were more en during riches than houses and bonds. He gave away all his earthly possessions while isintzlo the Syracuse University. “I have *±" —fe-teu-w* si f ’ r o C?*’ o’r 0 ’ r g whßr e I shall have .^ cT9 - q -ejUsAV-A kind that wilj suit —r. than any oOTftwr-- mawrai things.” it-- The Same Old Story. (Herald.) A Washington dispatch says that “Presi dent Arthur was indisposed yesterday, end did not leave his room until a late hour.” Ah, yes; we have been there, Chet. Let us feel your pulse. Yes, yes—the same old story. Here, Cbet; take this: R. Brom, potass., iv. gr. Aqua distil., iii. oz. Opii. tine., ii. sc. Half wineglass every two hours. It never fails, old man; it never fails. Arbuckle. (New York World.; The death of Arbuckle, the cornetist, re calls the fact that most of the men who make an inordinate use of the lunes and buccinator muscle perish early. Ned Ken dall, the great bugler, died before his prime, and it is believed that the intense pressure upon the lungs caused by blow ing bigh-keyed instruments, predisposes performers to pulmonary affections. Ar buckle’s disease was pneumonia. Brother Talmage and the men who perform on ’tubas and heavy bass wind instruments seem to enjoy exemption. •Tit for Tat. (Charlie Murray.) Mr. William Henry Hurlbert, late edi itor-in-chief of the World, told me the other night at the Union Club that all the stories about the present ownership of the World are false. “Joe Pulitzer,” hesrid, “isn’t worth a dollar. Mr. Jay Gould got the World from Tom Scott as make weight in a railroad trade. Recently Mr. Gould had a trade with Mr. John Pendir in cable properties, and he unloaded the World on Mr. Pendir in the same way that Mr. Scott originally unloaded the paper on him.” I know that Mr. Hurlbert believes this story to be true, and be is cer ainly in a position to know the facte in the case. How to Cultivate the Foreign Market. (Springfield Republican.) George C. Tanner, our consul at Liege and Verviers, finds it useful in his office to keep files cf all American newspapers re* ceived, and to keep an index of their ad vertisements, so that when he is asked for reference to American dealers in any I branch of trade he is able to supply the want. He says he has had 2O n letters of inquiry in six years, io « hich he has thus been able to give an intelligent answer. He thinks the government ought to pro vide American newspapers as part ot the outfit of its foreign commercial agencies. The practice introduced by Mr. Evarts of making our consuls commercial mission aries and reporters is undoubtedly bring ing to our manufacturers and merchants a vast literature upon the foreign market, and helps to expand our trade. Consul Tanner has recently had a call tor Ameri can ber (which give the Belgians good satisfaction), and thinks our furniture might be marketed over there. Banging the Bang.. (Chattanooga Times.: Rev. Mr. Williamson, of Baltimore, late a delegate to the missionary convention at Waco, Texas, took in the Indian country -Choctaws, Cherokees and Creeks-and on his return he told his congregation about Indian customs of dress, etc. One of the most intelligent Creeks told him that his mother, who had carefully watched the civilized style of dress the Indian wo men adopted, observed that only a few years ago they used to comb their hair over on their forehead, and then chop it off over their eyebrows. Now, she said, they wear their hair combed back like civilized ladies. Mr. Williamson said : “I did not say a word about our American ladies' bangs, did not tell him how I hated bangs, but it made me wonder as to who were the more advanced in civilization some of our Baltimore banged ladies or the Indian women who have long since dropped the bangs.” The congregation smiled, and several of the young ladies looked like they wanted to pull their hats down over their bangs. TEaMS-$2-00 A YEAR. THE BOYS IN BLUE. BRINGING FIAJWEBS FORDEADSOL DIERS* GRAVES. Tile Northern People Decorating the Resting Places of I heir Dead Sol dier Boys—lmpressive Services- General Holiday North- President Arthur and the Celebration. vßy Telegraph to the Chronicle.) Washington, May 33.—Decoration day was observed here in the usual manner. All pnbile business was suspended and the city was comparatively deserted, the greater part of the population being drawn to the cemeteries in the suburbs. The procession was formed in the forenoon, comprised of Grand Army posts and bands of music, which marched to the National Cemetery, at Arlington, where most extensive preparations had been made fir the celebration. The programme there occupied nearly the entire after noon and included the decoration of the graves and monuments, music, the reading of a poem and an oration by Maj. Lambert, of Philadelphia. At the Bol diers’ Home cemetery, the proceedings were under the General Sturgis, Governor of the Home, and Generals Sher man, Sturgis and Ayres headed the deco rating committee. The proceedings here were nearly a counterpart of these at the Arlington cemetery with the addition of a salute fired by the Second Artillery. Ser vices on a smaller scale were held nt al! the cemeteries in the vicinity whiqh are old enough to have been used! for inter ment during the war. In New York the services began at 7:30 in the morning. All the banks, exchanges and public buildings closed and procesions, speeches, and decoration ceremonies have contin ued all day and are in progress to-night. At Cincinnati, Baltimore, Cleveland, Boston aud Chicago the services were even more impressive than in former years. In nearly every town and city in the North, large enough to have a burying ground, services have been held. The celebration in New York was more general than ©ver before. President Arthur reviewed the procession from a stand erected in Madi son square. Several members of the Cabi net occupied the stand with him, also Gen. Hancock and a number of other offi cers of the army and navy. Richmond, Va., May 30. Decoration day was observed here by a parade of tffe colored military and civic societies, which proceeded to the National Cemetery, below the city, and decorated the graves with flowers. Phil Kearney Post No 10, G. A. R. went to Fort Harrison this morning and decorated the graves in the eemetry there, and this afternoon underthe escort of Com pany D. Ist, Virginia Regiment, proceded to the cemetery near Richmond, Company D, carrying with them beautiful floral con tributions. This was done in acknowledg ment of the action of the Phil Kearny post, which, on Confederate Memorial Day, went to Hollywood with the First Virginia Regiment, and placed a magnificent monu mental floral design on the grave of Gen. Geo E. Pickett Lee. Pbtbbsbubg, Va., May 30. Federal me morial day was observed hereby the closing of the different government offices. This afternoon the graves of the soldiers buried in the Poplar Grove Cemetery near this city and those of the National Cemetery near City Point, were decorated with flow era. A large number of persons partici pated in the 6xe lc i sea> NewOblbanC3Q. —The jwaves ia Chalmette oeu>r_, v to-day by tnetor. a. x./axX Inecommitiees assooTa tion of the army of Tennessee and the Mexican war veterans. A heavy rain in-' terfered with the ceremonies. A CONFEDERATE BATTLE-FLAG. Presented to The Washington Artillery By Gen. Beauregard. New Oeleans, May 29.-To-night the battalion of Washington Artillery celebra ted their annual reunion. The occasi on was taken advantage of by Gen. G. T. Beauregard to place in the keeping ol the first bottle-fi-sg of the war. Ths trophy has an ii Greeting history. It was the handiwork of Miss Hetty Cary, a Balti more belle, who was a refugee in Rich mond, and who made it out of her own silk dresses cut up for the purpose. Miss Cary afterward married Gen. Pegram, of the Confederate ermy, who was killed in battle three days after the wedding. She is now a school teacher in Baltimore. The flag accompanied Gen. Beauregard un til the close of the war, when he sent it to Havana for safety. It has quite lately been regained by the General (and deeming the veterans of the Washington Artillery safe custodians of th© relic), he instructed Judge Alfred Roman, his old time adjutant and present histoiiao, to present it to the veterans, which was done in a feeling and finished address. The gift was accepted by the veteran Col. J. B. Walton, who commanded the battal ion in two wars. A banquet followed. Regular toasts were drank to the President of the United States, the army and navy of the United States, the Louisiana State National Guards and Gen. Beauregard. The first toast was recsived with enthusi astic cheers and drank standing. ALIBAM4 VS. GKORGI4. Great Cock Maia Soon to Come Off at Fort Gaines. (Eufaula Times.) Beginning next Monday, and lasting four days, there will be fought at Fort Gaines, Ga., a series of cock fights, in which almost all southwest Georgia and adjacent Alabama is interested. Those taking part will come from Jernigan, above Cuthr er*. Georgetown, Fort Gaines, Clayton, Abbeville, and every cross-road between these points, besides quite a number of sporting men from a dis tance. Eufaula will send down a delegation of a dozen or less. The scribe was put on the track of about a dez-n Saturday, but would not “give it away you know.” Eufaula has sixty birds on the ground. We fear our spotting friends will walk back from Fort Gaines as they did once before. This main, as we understand it, is to decide the champion ship between Alabama and Georgia. The Times will have a reporter on the ground. The exceedingly Sunday school look which the aforesaid reporter will wear will not give away his business and probably be the last man on the ground who would be taken for an editor of a sporting column in a newspaper. PRESIDENT ARTHUR, Observations of Newspaper Men as to His Physical Condition. Washingtom, May 30. Certain news paper writers are getting alarmed again over President Arthur’s physical condition, and are circulating stories of hie apparent ill health. Says oneto day: “When Presi dent Arthur walked through the railway station at Sixth street, on his way to New York to attend the opening of the Brook lyn bridge, I observed a pallor on his face that surprised me. He did not walk like a man in the best of health. I notice that the New York reporters speak of the pale ness of his features on Wednesday. They state that he became very tired on that day and that he remained in bed until a very late hour on the following morning. The President seems to be not well. Doubtless he needs a period cf complete rest. It is one of the miseries of a President’s life that such a thing is impossible,”