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SAVANNAH, MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1876.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
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Affairs in Georgia,
Travel is somewhat interrupted on the
Gcorgif- Railroad by an accident to the
bridge .>ver the Oconee. Col. Johnson, the
inperintendmt, with a gang of bridge*
bmlders, has arrived at the scene of the
accident, and is losing no time in recon
structing th bridge, bat it will require at
least ten days to complete the iron work of
the three .-pans that were destroyed.
The Western excursionists stoically re
fused to go up the Augusta canal, and the
citv reporters were compelled to make the
trip alone.
The next time the editor of the Darien
Gazette mentions our name in connection
with the Governorship, neither his youth
nor bis beauty will save him.
The reception of the Western excursion
ists atjPort Royal was as grand as itwas touch
ing. The motto was “Americans, welcome !**
And the aforesaid “Americana” were com
pelled t pay sc - nty-live cents each for the
repast to which they were so heartily wel
comed. Port Royal is either in Augusta, or
South Carolina, we forget which.
The editor of tho Blakely News bitterly
denies that he is a preacher.
It is stated that Mr. Henry W. Grady, for
merly of the Atlanta Herald, and la^e
the Courier, has accepted a position upon
the editorial stall of the Augusta Constitu
tionalist. The necessity that compels oar
young friend to cut loose from Atlanta jour
nalism is by no means a misfortune. Mr.
Grady is tho sprightliest and most pic
tnresque writer connected with the Georgia
press, and steady application and persistent
effort, which scarcely fitted his humor
proprietor, will develop him into one of the
most capable journalists in the country.
Joe Brown is as sassy as a jay-bird,
talks of Georgians as “my people.”
The Atlanta Courier has suspendod. This
time the Sheriff carried away tho subscrip
tion books of the paper.
The Atlanta Constitution is issuing the
testimony taken before the recent Legisla
tive Committee iu relation to the charges
bribery against the lessees of the State
Road in the shape of a supplement. The
idea is a good one, and we trust the supple
ment will fall into the hands of every citizen
in the State.
A row between two blacksmiths is the
latest effort ol Columbus to get up a sensa
tion.
The novel entitled “Wb*f?” written by
the editor of the Geneva Lamp, has come
to a happy conclnsion. The plot is simple,
bat suggestive. Tbe hero got hold of the
heroine’s hand, and held it for two weeks
Tbo heroine then sweetly succumbed, and
consented to marry the hero. This feat
was accomplished successfully, and both
died of old age, without ever having had an
opportunity to ramble up the Augusta canal
or to go to the Centennial. Nevertheless
no conscientious reader can tind it in his
heart to blame them.
The Clerk of the Superior Court of Butts
county has been compelled to resign on
account of the condition of his books.
The oat and hog crops in Mitchell county
are said to be very promising.
Bnena \ ista Argus: “ We are glad to
know that one daily newspaper in Georgia is
above all suspicion of bribery or selliug
out of opini us. That daily is the sterling
Savannah News, J. H. Estill, proprietor.
Tbo Atlanta Constitution, having been
proven tainted with Belknap corruption
attempted to begrime the Savannah New
with the same kind of dirt, but is signally
unsuccessful in its base attempt.'
Col. John T. B;own, Principal Keeper of
the Penitertiary, was in Darien the other
day looking around for & suitable island
upon which to place tho convicts, as pro
vided by the recently enacted law.
The \aldosta Times has entered npon its
tenth year. Its condition seems to be lusty
and vigorous.
ilr. W. E. Myers, of Blacksbear, writes
us that Charles Sprague is the author of the
»oem entitled “To My Cigar,” published in
the Mousing News last week.
Eatouton is in the midst of a controversy
in regard to a county currency. Some be
lieve that to issue such a currency will
make money plentiful, while others are of
the contrary opinion. If the cause that
produces the so-called scarcity of money in
tonton is the cause that produces the
ume resn R elsewhere, a local currency will
not remedy matters. Money is plentiful
though, but the trouble is, the people of
Putnai
m C0QQ ty are in the predicament of
^0 people of other counties—they have
nothing with which to buy money. There
* B a scarcity there, as elsewhere, of those
products that command money. A local
currency will only add another burden to
‘he tax-payers.
Mr. John A. Frazier, of Columbus, was
^- v a ground rattlesnake the other
J- 1 or a time his condition was critical;
1 be is now recovering,
d Woman living near Gainesville is ninety-
jears of age.
A sixteen year old boy was sent to the
i entiary from Gwinnett county the other
• for horse-stealing,
chr ^ a6 * 0n oouoty man has invenfed a
h lasher that will fetch butter in from
wree to fi ve
Another
- minutes.
HouBto,
prisoner baa escaped from the
fini 0B 1 f OBnty chain -gang.
trid! 1 US j9alor8 sell pistols and car
ies to children.
T Qe ^ ^ mencus Republican gays that on
la, * v tiie 14:th inst., the dwelling
6e U and kitchen of Mr. John 8. Allen, of
It i * ~ uuutv « was totally destroyed by fire.
ineend 1 ^° 8e ^ bave been the wor ^ oI an
mdkr i ’ Nearl y tbe en tiro household
k.... c en ‘ f,Jrn iture was destroyed.
* a verv
not
Thig
uqi a’ ’ 8e ' fere * 088 to Mr* Allen, as he is
an honest,
r lc £ man, and in these hard times
very heavily upon him.
Jd '‘ l,€ : “While in Savannah a few
^ic-n rj,
thread, D o T 6 ba< * tbe pleasure of a walk
in com, 6 " 0BSISO Sews establishment,
is certain/ ^ r * Estill. This building
Jervfc (r ' & bne one « and the owner de-
the Peon/nf C p dlt f ° r hi8 enor Sy in gW» n «
doet. \y. * ^ eor K ia the paper that he
pap« r i a p^ r * Estill and the best
long lif,. f . ,e ° r *»* a the Mobnino News—a
f u ^ e fulnes8 and prosperity.*'
faGrance
Uck ci, Q nr ‘ l ' orter • The scurrilous at-
^“reu in S “ itb > wbich recently ap-
allnded la P f **■ ^ ^ era ^» which
DUniv ref,,* tck ’ received a complete and
after f r l ° U io tbe Bame P a P er a faw
^Unself .« F r ° m , 4a ‘Atlanta writer signing
Pfovfcdiob, w a P 1 * 8 writer afterward
%hoin manv J ^ Sburter * a y° an 8 lawyer,
48 0Q e of thl ? Ur rea ^ era will remember
Allege Co mm ° r,i at tbe Sou thern Female
Unt flummer * We
° r ° Qa . convincing ^ ^ r * 8horter on Ria ng?
fc ° 8t coward] v Uinely auawer to $,
wretched slander
Th9y have horse-races on Sunday in Elli-
jay.
The Columbus-Enqtrirer says that daring the
cotton week ending Friday night, the West
ern R. R. of Alabama brought to Columbus
en route to Savannah and New York, 574
bales cotton—520 from Mobile, 0 from Mont
gomery, 0 from Selma, 4 from Opelika,
West Point and other stations, 50 from
Vicksburg, 0 from New Orleans, 0 N. & S.
R. R. The total through movement by this
route, since September 1st, is 32,222 bales—
7,151 from Mobile, 7,301 from Montgomerv,
11,280 from Selma, 5,491 from West Point,
Opelika, etc., 986 from Vicksburg, 95 from
New Orleans, 55 by North & South Railroad.
The total movement last season was 33,790.
During same time the Mobile and Girard
Railroad has brought up 7,645 through,
against 4,001 bales.
LaGrange Reporter : The following story
18 told by a gentleman of this county:
Meeting a neighboring farmer in the road,
with a wagon load of provisions, he asked,
“My friend, what do they charge you for
corn and meat?” “Eighteen cents for meat,
and a dollar and forty cents for corn, on
time,” replied ihe farmer. “Great heav
ens 1” exclaimed the questioner ; bow do you
expect to pay such prices as those?” “Ah,
I don’t expect to pay ’em,” said the inde
pendent granger, as he cracked his whip
and started his mules. This story may or
may not be true, but there’s a moral iu it.
When we see people, whether farmers or
not, eager to buy anything that they cau
get credit for, we think the only explanation
of the matter is that they “don’t expect to
pay for it.”
Blackshear Georgian : From Capt. J. W.
Brothers, Supervisor on the A. & G. It. R.,
we learn the particulars of an affray which
took place at Section Master Stewart’s pole
car, near station No. 7, on Thursday even
ing last, resulting iu tho death of two
negroes and the serious wounding of an
other. It seems that on the day before a
quarrel arose between one John High, a
white man employed ou Stewart’s gang, and
the negroes working under Mr. Thornton,
known as the “floating gang,” which was at
the time at work ou Mr. Stewart’s section.
The trouble originated in a dispute between
High and the negroes about tbe occu
pancy of the section shanty, which has
only two rooms in it—High contend
mg for one of the rooms to himself. Mr.
Thornton interfered and kept tho pending
difficulty down at thiB time; but High was
evidently not satisfied without bloodshed,
and on Thursday evening, as the hands
were gathering up their tools to go home,
he drew his pistol and commenced firing
at the negroes without a moment’s warning.
Mr Thornton again interfered, but was
unable to intercept the desperado until he
had killed two of the negroes and danger
ously wounded another. After this whole
sale killing High informed Messrs. Stewart
and Thornton that if thoy had anything to
say he would then give them a round, alter
which he lied to the woods. Ho is still at
large.
Valdosta Times : A third lake in Lowndes
county has been emptied of its waters by
subterranean passages during the last six
months. What is the matter? Tne Times
has several times alluded to the fact that
Lowndes county had within its borders
numbers of lakes, from ten to five hundred
(and several beyond a thousand) acres in
size, and can it be that these lakes are all
connected with a grand underground wate
course? It seems so. In September last one
dried up, or run off, and left bushels upon
bushels of fish iu holes of water about
upon the bottom of the lake. Iu Jan-
ury another, about five miles from this
did the same thing, and now Grassy Pond
a lake covering about five hundred acres
just between tne two above mentioned, has
left its millions of fishes out of water.
About three weeks ago it was reported that
the waters of this lake were sinking below
low water mark, and every day or two we
would hear that it was still going down.
Last Friday a report spread all over the
county like wild fire that Grassy Pond was
low enough to rake the fish out with nets,
and by sundown over one hundred people
had collected at the place. Some had dip
nets, some cast nets, and there was one
seine in the party. The first haul with the
seine caught enough trout, jack, bream and
speckle perch to make a mess for every one
§ resent. During that night all the water
isappeared and there were millions of fish
left dead upon dry land. Saturday, next
day, the planters hitched up their wagons
and hauled load after load and scattered
them in their fields for manure, and thou
sands were left at the mercy of buzzards
hogs and other creatures of prey.
Such quantities of fish, and such
destruction has never been known in the
history of Lowndes county. Ne one ever
dreamed that there were half that quantity
of fish in Grassy Pond, though it was cele
brated for its "fine fishing grounds in the
spring of the year. The other two lakes
ahove mentioned did not run thus completely
dry, and the fish that were not caught were
saved by the water returniug in a few days
from its’ hidden retreat in the bosom of the
earth. We learn that Grassy Pond is filling
up again, but it is too late to save the tinny
tribe. These statements are not at all ex
aggerated and can be testified to by several
hundred people living in this county, though
it is marvellous to all.
nr mmm
THE MORNING NEWS-
Midnight Telegrams.
THE CASE OF SPENCER.
How a Carpet-Bagger Bribed His Way
to Power.
TESTIMONY BEFORE THE SENATE II-
VESTIGATING COMMITTEE.
POKER SCHENCK IN NEW Y#RK.
More About the Mexican Revolution.
hOVEllENTS OF THE MONGRELS AT
MATAMORAS.
Miscellaneous Foreign News and Notes.
THE MEXICAN MONGRELS.
Galveston, March 19.—A special from
Brownsville, to the News, says Col. Christo
had a skirmish with the revolutionists, three
miles from Matamoras, but was compelled
to retreat. Throe of his meu were wounded.
Desertions of government troops are of
daily occurrence. The revolutionists, under
Gonzales and Pena, are so near Matamora9
that their pickets are in sight of the city.
It is reported that some of them went into
town and bought provisions. Tho people
favor Diaz.
Gen. Lebarra is trying to organize a
national guard. He has had sixty men
iu quarters several days, and is afraid to arm
them. They are clamoring for their pay.
The government troops are not permitted to
leave their qnarters except ou duty. Spies
report to Gen. Lebarra the name of every
person who visits Gen. Diaz. The revo
lution has interrupted business, and a
great numberjof horses and cattle have cross
ed to this side for protection. Gen. Diaz has
seen the order to General Ord, concerning
a 5 the revolutionists. He says it is entirely
proper, and be will endeavor not to violate
any of its provisions. Col. Potter is on the
alert to prevent any infraction of the neu
trality laws. Telegraphic communication
between Matamoras and the city of Mexico
has been interrupted, but arrangements
have been made to send messages by mail
over the gap.
MARSH AND HIS WIFE TO RETURN
TO WASHINGTON.
POLITICAL SITUATION IN
FRANCE.
New York Radicals for Conkllng for
President.
Frightful Work of a Bull-Dog.—
Raleigh,, N. C., March 6.—A monstrous
thing happened here this morning, in
which a bull-dog fought people who tried
to rescue an * idiotic woman from a fire
which was consuming the house in which
she had been placed for safe keeping.
Mary Ann Dolan was the daughter of Pat
Dolan, proprietor of the College Hotel
She was an idiot, and was kept in a sort
of coop in an outhouse used as a kitchen.
She was twenty-five years of age. The
cook had gone out, leaving the door
fastened and the idiot in her coop. In
some way or other a lire broke out, but
the woman might have been saved had
not a big and ferocious buil-dog stationed
himself before the door and fought the
firemen like a fiend, as if really possessed
by the devil. It was in vain that the men
attempted to enter the place; it was im
possible to do so. The dog would not
budge except to snap and fly at the fire
men. The idiot woman seemed exalted
or frenzied by the fire, and danced and
sang “ The Prettiest Little Girl in the
Country ” at the top of her voice, and as
gaily as possible. After the flames were
extinguished it was found that both her
legs were burnefl off, and nothing remain
ed of her head save the brains.
A Doubtful Story.—On Saturday Mr-
Howard, of the west end, took home a
strange cat which had been presented to
him by a friend, and during the evening,
after his little boy had been put to bed,
the attention of Mr. and Mrs. Howard
was attracted by a strange noise proceed
ing from the bedroom, whither they at
once proceeded, and found to their hor
ror that the cat was lying on the little
boy, with its mouth covering the mouth
of the child, who was laboring under
great distress. The cat was at once
driven off, and not a moment too soon,
for the little fellow was at almost his last
gasp, and was with difficulty restored to
consciousness by the application of water,
which was dashed on his face. This
should be a warning to parents to keep
an eye on their cats as well as their chil
dren.— Dundas {Can.) Banner.
The Charlotte (N. C.) Observer makes
the startling assertion that the Revenue
Department of the government through
out the whole of Western North Carolina
is a mass of corruption, and is rotten to
the core. It is one vast combination of
a gigantic venal ring, and no one who is
not admitted into the pale or in fellow
ship with its secret workings can prosper
long or carry on his legitimate business
with any satisfaction or peace.
A few mots from Dumas’“L*Etrangere:
When one is no longer young they
imagine every one else to be the same.
The professions that demand talent are
only the resource for poor devils. Love
is physic, marriage chemistry. Hazard
does not exist; it is the God of the ignor
ant To love is nothing, to make love
everything. The wife’s native land ia
the country where she loves.
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Washington, March 19.—Probabilities :
For the Middle States and lower lake region,
increasing cloudiness and northeast to
southeast winds, and during Monday rising
temperature, falling barometer and rain or
snow in western and southern portions.
For tho South Atlantic States, increasing
cloudiness and rain, northeast to southeast
winds increasing in force, rising tempera
ture and falling barometer.
For the Eastern Gulf States, cloudy wea
ther and rain, variable winds mostly from
east aod south, and dangerous ou coast,
falling barometer and slight changes of
temperature.
For Southwest, threatening weather and
rain will continue, with variable winds shift
ing to north and westerly, and during Mon
day rising barometer and cold weather.
For Tennessee and the Ohio valley, rain
and snow, northeast to southeast winds,
falling barometer and temperature near
freezing.
For the upper lake region, upper Missis
sippi aud lower Missouri valleys, generally
cloudy weather and areas of snow, with
temperature generally below freezing, con
tinued high barometer and variable winds.
The central Mississippi, lower Ohio and
Cumberland river, below Nashville, will rise.
Cautionary signals are ordered for Io-
dianola, Galveston, New Orleans and Mobile.
FRENCH AFFAIRS.
Paris, March 19.—Bethmont, in assuming
the Presidency of the Left Centre, made a
speech approving the ministerial pro
gramme and favoring the proposal for the
immediate abolition of the state of siege in
Taris, Lyons and Marseilles be immediately
abolihsed. Urgency was voted by a large
majority.
Leon Say, Minister of Finance, demanded
a credit for 1,750,000 francs for the relief of
the sufferers by the recent inundations.
The Seine continues to subside slowly.
M. Ferry, on assuming the Presidency of
the Moderate Left, said the Republican.
party must abandon its extreme claims, and
only’aek for what it can obtain. The coun
try, he said, desires to have Republican
functionaries. I am confident the ministry
will satisfy this desire. If it does, the Left
will be happy to support it.
The Senate has. by a small majority, con
firmed the election of the Bouapartist Sen
ators in the Department of the Gironde, al
though it was shown that the Preteot per
secuted Republican candidates aud threw
the weight of his influence in favor of Hie
Bonapartists.
AFFAIRS IN CUBA.
Havana, March 19.—The Captain-General
has Issued decrees prescribing severe penal
ties for all frauds perpetrated against the
treasury. It declares that tbe hiding of
articles subject to taxation, the prevarica
tion of officials and the acceptance by them
of bribes, be considered treason, and
offenders to be tried by comt martial.
The Voze (le Cuba gives the following ac
count of the incendiary raid in the C&lon
district reported in a previous dispatch:
‘On tho morning of the 16th, a party of
fifteen insurgents appearodi n the neighbor
hood and, alter setting fire to two small
f arms, burned San Jose aud Santa Susana
plantations. They next tried to destroy tho
Tign&rd plantation, but were driven off by
the owner, Richard Patten, an Englishman.
He fired on the Insurgents, wounding
several, and they fled preeiptately.
FROM NEW YORK.
New York, March 19.—The Communists
of New York, embracing all nations, held a
reunion last night in Germania Hall, tho
proceeds to be given for the benefit of the
New Caledonia exiles and the widows and
orphans of the Communists of Pans. The
occasion was the anniversary of the inaug
uration of the Commune in Paris, March 18,
1871.
The Spanish residents celebrated the
proclamation of peace in the Spanish penin
sula with a banquet. The Spanish Minister
presided.
John Brougham has been elected Presi
dent of the Latos Club.
PENDLETON’S CASE.
Washington, March 19.—The Committee
on Expenditures iu the War Department
have summoned several witnesses by whom
they expect to prove that Pendleton paid
money indirectly to Mrs. Bowers, Belknap’s
present wife, for her influence in procuring
the allowance of the Kentucky Central Rail
road claim. The committee have made no
actual discoveries, but should his testimony
be impeached, Mr. Pendleton will be af
forded ample opportunity for reply.
BCHENCK.
New York, March 19.—General Schenck,
who arrived on board the Abyssinia, took
up quarters to-day at the Brevoort House.
He remained in his room during the greater
oart of to-day, and received many visits
; rom personal friends, but declined to say
anything whatever in regard to tho causes
of his resignation, or the action he intends
to take respecting the allegations against
him.
A SNOW BLOCKADE.
London, March 19.—AU the railways con
verging at Aberdeen have been blocked by
snow for thirty-four hours, and telegraphic
communication is almost totally interrupt
ed. Sixteen trains are blockaded on the
Caledonian Railway alone, and one train has
not been heard of since Friday.
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR.
Boston, March 19.—The committee from
the Richmond (Ya.) Commandery presented,
last night, the elegant testimonials to the
DeMalay Commandery and then to the St.
Andrew’s Lodge of Masons.
SKRV1A.
Vienna, March 19.—The rumors recently
circulated that the Servian troops are en
tering Turkey are unfounded. It is stated,
on the contrary, that the powers have suc
ceeded in averting suoh an eventuality.
ALFONSO.
San Sebastian, March 19.—Alfonso left
here on Thursday for Madrid.
INVESTIGATING SPENCER.
Washington, March 18.—The Spencer in
vestigation was renewed to-day. Robert
Baiber, Clerk of the House of Delegates of
the so-called Court House Legislature, testi
fied that Spencer promised him an appoint
ment as Marshal when Healey’s term ex
pired. The promise was made long alter he
had begun to labor for Spencer. The night
before the election witness kept guard over
two colored Republicans, who were feared
to be disaffected. In tho morning he told
them in the presence of Spencer that he
(Spencer) had made up his mind to get
them office. Spencer said he couldn’t
make a direct promise, but there was a
route aget.cy vacant on a Western railroad.
They subsequently voted for Spencer. The
question was allied if Spencer furnished
any money to take a journey to Lowndes
county, and to this ex-Senator Carpenter,
counsel for Spencer, objected, taking the
grounds that no proof can be given before
the committee showing that any one had
Ibeen guilty of bribery; that bribery was
[punishable by the State. The witness
was directed to answer the question,
and did so by stating that Spencer furnished
one of the party three hundred dollars for
expenses. The reason they went there was
to defeat a man named Stanwood, who was
an enemy of Spencer’s. Moore, the colored
man who was elected in his place, was also
entrusted to go into other counties and in
duce persons to run as independent candi
dates, the expenses of the canvass to be
paidj by Spencer or the State Com
mittee, he forgets which. Several letters
were introduced and read, among which
was one from Spencer dated November 24,
no year, saying: “Healey’s time soon ex
pires aud ’ you shall have the place,” and
that “the office would be worth $5,000 a
year.” The letter adds, that in case the
United States Government has war with
Spain, Alabama will come in for a good
share of patronage, as he (Spencer) is on
the Military Committee of tho Senate, and
can thus get many offices; telling Barber
that he could get him a good place in the
army if he wanted one. The witness said
lie was appointed as Inspector of Customs
at Mobile at a salary of $2 50 per day,
although he never applied for it. He thinks
Spencer got tho appointment for him. He
never went to Mobile and never rendered
any services, but drew his pay and held the
position for three months.
The witness having mentioned the rumor
that he had heard the Democrats offered a
member, named Jones five hundred dollars
to leave the State House Legislature and
break its quorum; was asked whether Spen
cer did not give Jones money to remain. He
in reply stated in the presence of SDencer
he once proposed that it would be well to
offer Jones $2,500 or anything else
to prevent his going, but Spencer
|did not content. It was agreed to send to
Lowndes for a certain intimate friend of
Jones's, which was done, and this friend’s
influence kept Jones quiet. Witness was
then asked wliat he knew about anybody’s
offering a Mr. Maasell an inducement to
leave the Capitol Legislature so as to break
the quorum. The question was objected to,
and a lengthy discussion ensued as to
whether it was competent for this
investigation to inquire into the
organization or nou-orgauizat<on of this
State House Legislature, which did
not elect Spencer. Tho committee closed
the doors for consultation, and finally, by I
strict party vote, decided that it would not
be competent,when decision was announced.
Gen. Morgan, counsel for the memorialists,
insisted that great wrong had been done in
ruling out this branch of his case, and asked
that the whole matter be remitted to the
Senate for its opinion on the question in
volved. The committee have agreed to admit
any and ail evidence of the bribery of any
member of the Legislature by any person,
whether with or without the* knowledge or
approval of Spencer, but will reserve the
question whether Spencer is affected by any
particular act of this kind that may be
proven.
FROM FRANCE.
ARRBSTING NORTH CAROLINA DEMOCRATS.
Wilmington, N. C., March 18.—General
W. R. Cox, chairman of the Democratic
Conservative State Executive Committee,
who was brought here from Raleigh in
charge of a Deputy United States Marshal
yesterday, was to-day arraigned before
United States Commissioner Cassidy,
charged with conspiring to defeat the elec
tion of two Republican candidates iu the
election for the Constitutional Convention
last August. Before the case had made
much progress District Attorney Badger
stated to the Commissioner that he did not
thick there was any evidence sufficient to
justify the detention of General Cox, where
upon he was discharged.
Four of the County County Commissioners
of Robeson county were also before the
United States Commissioner on the same
charge. These cases have been adjourned
to next Tuesday, in order to secure the at
tendance of additional witnesses. Tbe
County Commissioners on trial are all Dcm
ocrats.
SENATOR GORDON.
HU Speech on the Collection of the Whisky
Tax.
Paris, March 18.—M. Louis Blanc decided
to take the Heat in the Chamber of Deputies
for the 138th arrondissement.
Tho programme of the Ministry is as fol
lows: Ten or twelve of the most obnoxious
prefects and sub-prefects will be removed
in a few days. Eight will be replaced by
men who have sincerely resolved to serve
the republic, carefully selected and particu
larly calculated to attract the support of the
middle class. The remaining officials will
be carefully examined. Those who in
terfered in the elections through politi
cal nassion will be dismissed. Others
who acted under orders or through
error are to be removed to other depart
ments. After these changes assurances
will be given to officials that they have noth
ing more to fear. The bill on municipal re
forms will not be introduced till the end of
the year, as the excitement of municipal
elections is undesirable during the present
year. They will, however, endeavor to
choose officials from the municipal councils
and arrange for the election of new munici
pal councils to replace the municipal com
missions which liave been appointed iu
some places by prefects. A bill will be in
troduced by the government restoring to
the State some power in granting university
degrees.
The Rappel says the result cf the voting
yesterday in the Senate shows the Right to
have a majority of fourteen.
CAPITAL NEWS AND NOTES.
Washington, March 18.—The Committee
on Expenditures in the Treasury Depart
ment convened this afternoon and decided
to go into an extensive examination of the
expenditures of the Treasury Department,
with especial reference to the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing. Numerous wit
nesses are requester ‘ttr appear, including
Bristow.
Marsh will return here next week, a par
don having been issued for him, as well as
immunity for his wife. He consented to
come on these conditions.
A telegram from the Chairman of the
New York Renublican State Central Com
mittee says every assembly district iu the
city last night elected delegates to the Re
publican State Convention in favor of
Conkling for President. Delegates from
the rest of the State are almost unanimously
for Conkling.
FROM MADRID.
Madrid, March 18.—Iu the Cortes on
Thursday, Senor Castelar made a four
hours speech. He criticised the policy of
the ministry generally, chiefly on its course
on the religioue question. He declared that
ultramontaneism had created the civil war.
The House was crowded. All the Ministers
were present, but remained silent. Thu
spectators in tho galleries several times ap
plauded the speaker. Conovas del Castillo
and Pavia will reply to Castelar.
Madrid, March 18.—The Chamber of
Deputies adopted an address in reply to
the speech from tho throne, after animated
debate, by a vote of 276 against 30.
MISSISSIPPI AFFAIRS.
Memphis, Tens., March 18.—The Appeals
Jackson special says Governor Ames will
make no appointment to fill tho vacancy
created by the resignation of Lieutenant
Governor Davis. As the appointment would
have raised complicated legal questions and
cansed trouble, the Governor’s counsel
advised him not to appoint.
The trial of Cardozo has been postponed
till after the trial of Gov. Ames.
brent.
London, March 18.—Charles Brent, under
arrest for frauds on the Falls City Tobacco
Bank, at Louisville, Ky., was arraigned yes
terday and remanded until next Friday, to
await the arrival of an American officer who
left New York March 11th, on the steamer
Germania.
district bonds.
New York, March 18.—The Committee on
Securities of the New York Stock Exchange
have decided that the further issue of tho
District of Columbia 3.65 bonds, recently ap
proved by Congress, will be placed upon tho
regular list with other securities.
A PRINTER KILLED.
Jackson, Miss., March 18.—J. D. Bell, pro
prietor of the Peoples' Defense newspaper,
shot and killed Augustus Carey, printer, to
day. A business difficulty was the cause.
Bell was arrested.
BURNED.
Philadelphia, March 18.—The West End
woolen and cotton mills at Augera, Pennsyl
vania, were burned this morning. Loss one
hundred and eighty to two hundred thou
sand dollars.
FROM CUBA.
Havana, March 18.—Several plantations
have been burned in the District of Colon
by troops sent to punish the insurgent in
cendiaries.
killed.
New Orleans, March 18.—Washington
Rockwell was shot aud killed by P. Desposi
to-day.
schenck.
New York, March 18.—The Abyssinia
arrived to-day with ex-Minister Schenck on
board.
declines.
Providence, March 18. -
Gen. George
Lewis Cooke declines the.Democratic nomi
nation for Governor.
FROM BOSTON.
Boston, March 18.—The Republican State*
Central Committee have decided to hold the
State Convention here on April tho 18th.
1 Few Centennials and Millennials.
[From the Chicago Journal of Commerce.]
100 years ago—American Indepen
dence.
200 years ago—King Philip (the In-
FBOM SEBVIA.
Vienna, March 18.— Servia has deter
mined lo raise a compulsory loan for mili
tary purposes, and to exact it immediatelv
with the utmost vigor. The Servian
Ministers seem to favor an immediate
wa*, and the situation is aggravated
by the continued raids of Turkish
troops on the frontier. The Austrian Rep
resentatives at Belgrade had another inter
view with Prince Milan on Thursday and
urged him to make a binding declaration in
favor of peace. The Prince asked a
few days, delay, because he oould
not trust the pacific assurances of
Montenegro. He said if Montenegro enter
ed into action he could not remain behind,
and preparations were all the more
necessary, as the Turks were again
concentrating on the Servian fron
tier. Long Cabinet counsels are held
dailv.
THE LONDON MARKETS.
London, March 18.—Mincing L ne busi
ness has been devoid of animation through
out the week, with very moderate trans
actions at present. Quotations are generally
considerably lower than for the correspond
ing dates and past three years. There have
been no new features in sugar; good yellow
crystalized West Indies have been readily
saleable and refiniDg sorts steady. Planta
tion Ceylon coffee has been in better de
mand, with firmer prices; ordinary quali
ties, including Brazil, are dull and lower.
Several cargoes of new crop of Burmah rice
for spring shipments sold at higher rates.
Tea continues quiet and spices are generally
low.
ALFONSO’S TRIUMPHAL ENTRY.
London, March 18.—A Times special from
Cadiz says Alfonso’s entry into Madrid will
be made on Monday. There will be three
days public festivities at the capitol. The
King will enter at the head of twenty-five
thousand troops. A Te Deum will be sung
at the Cathedral and a triumphant crown
be presented His Majesty. In the afternoon
dinner will be given to the soldiers, followed
by fireworks, illuminations, bull fights and
the distribution of medals and crosses to
tbe wounded. Masses will be said for those
killed in the war.
diaD) defeated and slain; habeas corpus
in England.
.'500 years ago—Massacre of St. Bartho
lomew; Spanish Armada preparing.
400 years ago—Printing invented; Isa
bella the coming queen.
500 years ago—The days of Tamerlane,
the Turk, and Chaucer, the English poet.
COO years ago—Baliol and Bruce, Rich
ard Bacon, Thomas Aquinas; House of
Hapsburg founded.
700 years ago—Richard Cteur do Lion
and Saladin, Sultan of Egypt, measuring
swords in Palestine.
800 years ago—William the Conqueror.
900 years ago—Hugh Capet, the
Frenchman.
1,000 years ago—Alfred the Great.
1,100 years ago—Charlemagne and Ha-
roun al Raschid.
1,200 years ago—Mahometanism mak
ing lively work in Constantinople and
other places.
1,300 years ago—Old Chosroes, the
Persian, lives by murder, and the Pope
is made a secular judge among kings.
1,400 years ago—The Saxons lively in
Britain. Clovis Establishes the French
monarchy and the Visigoths conquer
Spain.
1,500 years ago—The Roman Empire
having legislated many years in favor of
capital against labor, begins to fall to
pieces.
1,600 years ago—The world has nothing
better to do than to broach and denounce
heresies and get up religious peresecu
tions.
1,700 years ago—Marcua Aurelius, Taci
tus and Plutarch.
1.800 years ago—Jerusalem destroyed
and Herculaneum and Pompeii buried.
1,876 years ago—All the world at peace
and Christ born.
6,000 years ago—Adam rose to the
dignity of a large real estate owner, but
by poor management was driven into in
voluntary bankruptcy.
[From the New York Herald.]
The speech delivered in the Senate, a
few days since, by General Gordon, of
Georgia, was immediately replied to by
Mr. Morton and Mr. Sherman in so in
vective a spirit and with such bitter par
tisan vehemence that readers of the tele
graphic summary were led to infer that
Senator Gordon had overstepped the pro
prieties of discussion and made a violent
party harangue. As there was nothing
in the brief summary of his speech that
seemed calculated to provoke the fierce
philippics of his assailants, we were curi
ous to read the full debate as officially re
ported in the Congressional Record. After
a careful perusal we find nothing to justify
that remarkable outburst of party viru
lence. We are less surprised that Mr.
Morton should begin such au assault than
that Mr. She.rjnan should support it, for
the last named Senator has a reputation
for moderation and_candor*_
General Gordon’s * speech was really
marked by singular elevation of tone and
forbearance to turn the subject to party
advantage. Instead of miking the re
cent frauds a topic of party crimination
ho only attempted to erect barriers
against their repetition. The remedies
he proposed would, if adopted, require
the renunciation by the Democratic party
of the maxim that “to the victors belong
the spoils.” General Gordon’s proposi
tions were—first, to regulate the whisky
tax by the capacity of the fermenting
tubs, and collect it monthly or weekly in
advance; and, second, to make the inter
nal revenue officers immovable except for
dishonesty or incapacity. The first
of these changes is no doubt open to some
of the practical objections raised against
ic by Mr. Sherman, but it has no appa
rent connection with party politics. Mr.
Sherman virtually conceded that it was
based on a sound idea by his statement
that the capacity of the fermenting tubs
is now carefully measured and recorded,
and that it is one of the chief tests of the
honesty of the reports made by distillers.
But Gen. Gordon laid the stress of his
speech on the other part of his proposal,
thinking that a separation of tl^ revenue
from party politics is the essential and in
dispensable reform.
There is no reason why Republican
Senators should have worked themselves
into a rage of party hostility against Gen.
Gordon for offering such a proposition.
Its plain effect would be to debar the
Democratic party from filling the internal
revenue service with its own creatures
and tools if it should come into power
next year. Such a proposition from a
prominent Democratic Senator should
have been received with grateful satis
faction by honest Republicans. Most
certainly it should not have lgften made
th<f occasion of a furious partisan at
tack on Senator Gordon, and of drag
ging in such irrelevant topics as his
former connection with the rebel
army and the local politics of Geor
gia. What have these to do with
the propriety of disconnecting the rev
enue service from party politics Z Why
should General Gordon be browbeaten
and aspersed and his military recoed
be raked up against him for a speech fa
voring in one branch of administration
the same civil service reform which Presi
dent Grant was at one time understood
to favor and the Republicans in Congress
made a pretence of supporting in all
branches ? The scorn poured on General
Gordon’s proposal of a non-partisan rev
enue service by Messrs. Morton and
Sherman demonstrates the hypocritical
insincerity of the Republicans in Con
gress when they professed to support
the same kind of reform and to favor its
application to all departments of the
civil service. H^of any value at all it
would have the nff>st salutary effect in its
application to revenue officers, as pro
posed by General Gordon, for this is the
department where it is most necessary to
guard against abuses. The Herald, which
has been the steady, zealous and sincere
advocate of civil service reform, will not
look on with indifference when a Sena
tor is assailed with violent partisan abuse
for no other offense than a wise, temper
ate and courteous advocacy of an im
portant reform in the collection of the
revenue.
What could be more forcible and perti
neut than General Gordon’s explanation
of tbe fact that England can collect a tax
of ^2 50 on distilled spirits without
frauds or evasion, while we fail to collect
one-third of that sum ? “The reason,”
said Senator Gordon, “is this : England
appoints her officers solely to collect her
taxes, while here they are appointed to
collect the taxes and to aid the party which
happens for the time to have the appoint
ing power.” This hits the mark in the
centre, and it is no wonder that it was
THE BELKNAP RING.
SitanliDf Evidence on the Way to WaaL-
Infton Artec tins I fifth Officials—Harter
and Male of Patronage—A (Greater
Thunderbolt to Strike.
JONES AND THE KNIFE-GRINDER
Bismarck, D. T., March 15.—Those
who imagine that Belknap’s corruption
began and ended with the sale of the
traderships at Fort Sill must prepare
themselves for disclo.-ures which will show
that, with but few favored exceptions,
the officers and soldiers at almost ^ery
military post on the frontier were syste
matically plundered by Belknap and his
contents in order to maintain him in his
extravagance. The fact that a man filling
so high and honorable a station shonld
stoop sc low and become so corrupt must
be accepted as a cause of regret to the
entire nation. Tho following develop
ments, however, substantiated as
they are by documentary evidence
embracing facts and figures in the
handwriting of the guilty^arties, will still
further humiliate the American people
when it is learned that undeniable evi
dence which your correspondent has seen
and heard will be sent from this place for
Washington in a few days, proving that
within one week after Belknap’s in^talla
tion as Secretary of War he began his
scheme for the sale of all the prominent
traderships on the frontier; that they
were eventually disposed of for money, a
single post, that of Fort Lincoln, oppo
site this town, paying to Belknap and
his fiends more than $12,000 yearly
other smaller posts paying to the same
parties in proportion—and that in the
barter and sale of these posts the evi
dence referred to will show that
one Senator, one ex-Senator—both
from the same State, the latter
now Governor of a Territory—and an ex
Governor of a Territory now holding a
high and responsible position in the War
Department, and an ex-Territorial Mar
shal, have all been deeply implicated.
Ex-Governor Campbell of Wyoming,
made a special visit toWashington to con
trol the appointment and sale of post-
traderships. On his return he announced
through his brother—whose letter your
correspondent has seen and which with
other connecting documents will be for
warded by mail—that he had succeeded
iu his mission, and none but administra
tion men should hold post-traderships.
Iu the letter it is demanded that,
while the Campbell brothers are to re
ceive a third of the profits, they are to
supply none of the capital; it is to be
kept secret that Governor Campbell is
interested. Governor Campbell’s brother,
in arranging terms, said he could not
close the bargain until he had submitted
them to the Governor- J. M. Hedrick,
of Ottumwa, Iowa, who occupies the
same position there in internal revenue
that Joyce did in St. Louis, is known to
have been the recipient of hundreds of
thousands of dollars from the sale Of post
traderships, which sums cau be traced to
other parties holding high official posi
tions, including Belknap. One letter
from Hedrick, written in 1870, announces
that he can control any tradership in
any department. Another letter to a post
trader, finding fault with the latter for
Tackling a Frenchman’ll Language anil
Being Tackled in Return.
[From the Fayetteville (N. C.) Gazette.]
He was one cf those peripatetic nuis
ances that roam over the country ruining
the people’s scissors and* turning fine
pocket-knives into cross-cut saws. He
had been shot so often that he walked
lop-sided, wore a blue cotton handker
chief with white spots around his fore
head under his hat, and was fearfully
dirty. He set down his grind-stone in
front of Jones’s store, on Hay street,
with a weary sigh, and walked back to
the office, saying as he approached
Jones:
“Goot evening, meester. Knives to
grind, meester ?”
Now, Jones and his wife have recently
been studying French: they expect to go
to the Centennial, and, knowing that
there will be a great many Frenchmen
there, they wish to be prepared. It is
astonishing, too, what progress they
have made. At table, if Jones enunci
ates the word sacre, sucre sucre, two or
three times, pointing at the same time to
the bowl, his wife knows in an instant
that he wants the sugar, and hands him
that article. It is very deligitful to them
both, and is, besides, instructive to the
children.
So when this itinerant Gaul shambled
in and spoke, Jones straightway recog
nized the peculiar accent of his native
tongue, as it were, and he determined to
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custody at Willar.r 5 0use bl| d in close
be Mrs. General rL,? 04 * 1 torns ont
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ln E- It appears - Setu rday even-
olty, that Mis/’Roddv - Ulr7 in th is
*n«ittal of the charge of w b "
bracelet from Gen RoS, stolej B
trial of the action -k; u ?- v ’ Jemanded
aiminst Roddv Brooks anrtp* 1 ^ brou 8 ht
had been j-j’’../®?* 9 aad Everett, who
her of imjMJrtant^paper^an^ 1 ‘° TOb
while in ~ Chicago P Hi ? d documents
Phelps, howevfr,' enSSd f 0 ™?
proseimi », r ea a node
dropped. It^® , case ? were
Roddv and Br “ks have^ P r d that
leged'to hmre ^aJeT
asarj-j-iXssyft:
which, through^renc^WasUg t m o P’
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Mr” Rodjy
Ken from her house in Hacketti
town near Jersey, last Wednesday by
pheates several
Wn a tT d . Brooks have been indicted in
rionwdh S'”* accounto1 their connec
tion with bogus cotton claims to the
amount of about S«o 000
open the floodgates of Ollendorf. He
was sorry, too, for this poor outcast, who
looked so wretched, and was, doubtless,
alone and friendless in a strange land.
“Polly voo Fransay?” said Jones, with
a winning smile.
“All! oui, oui, Monsieur, knifes to
grind, Meester ?” and a dark flush stained
the swarthy cheek of the Frenchman
through the dirt, and his dull eye lighted
up as if the familiar words had brought
him a vision of his beautiful France be
yond the seas, or as though his soul had
caught a breath of perfume from the
waving fields of Lorraine. The next
moment he kind of shivered, and spit
wearily into one of Jones’s overshoes.
Jones straightened himself up and
began:
Coinbeean, vooly voo—ah—ah
charger moi—”
“Ah, mon dieu.' Vat you mean by dat
eh?”
Jones tried again: “Combeean, how
much you know—charger moi—me.
I, pour—pour—sharpener mon kuife ?
“Oh! sacre dam ! The Devil and Tom
Walker ! vat you go to say ?” cried the
excited Frenchman, in an ecstasy of im
patience and bewilderment.
Jones was thoroughly discomfited; he
was angry at having his Ollendorf so mis
construed and his French thrown back on
his hands in such a style. So he said
severely:
“You a Frenchman? Why, you don’t
understand the language; you are an im
poster. ”
Vat! me? I an impostare? Nevare
shall I take dat, you see. Not onerstand
de French? Ah! but yes. I will gife
the small profits derived, says, speaking I Y ou Wows of de feest and you can charger
of General Rice, of Iowa: “You know
Rice is a bachelor of expensive habits
living in Washington. He must Lave bis
codfishing in summer and his trip to
Florida iu winter, and you must pony up
and keep him going. He can’t live on
less than ten thousand dollars a year.”
Tbe trader at Fort Lincoln, fearing re
moval a few weeks ugo, Orville Grant’s
clerk at Standing Rock advised him to
see Grant. “He can fix you.” A tele
gram has been seen here from Delano to
Orville Grant, making the appointment
of Raymond, of this place, as trader at
Berthold upon the telegraphic de
mand of Grant. The post traders
along the Missouri river, having
been taxed almost to the full amount
of their profits, and regarding the down
fall of Belknap as the breaking up of the
them in your ledgare; vat you call it ?
An impostare, by gar!” And the bellig.
erent knife-grinder danced about the
office, upsetting tables and chairs and
treating Jones to the most approved
specimens of fisticuffs, as practiced by
Bazaine’s army in Metz; aud all the while
he kept up a running fire of interrogato
ries made up of Jones’s vocabulary:
“Sacre blue! I vill sharpener your
nose and it shall cost you nodings. Com
bien will you wish to have ? How do you
like dis style of de French, eh ? Oh,
damn!”
Two or three customers entering at
this moment were amazed to behold a
couple of figures wildly gyrating about
amid a cloud of dust, papers, and the
choicest North Carolina and Parisian
oaths all jumbled up together. The corn-
ring, are anxious and willing to hasten to b&fants were separated, the knife-grinder
greeted with “applause in the galleries,
which the President of the Senate
O ive Logan writes from Washington
that John A. LogaD has the handsomest
Real of hair in the Senate. “It is soft.
silk/, long, and black as jet” It is well
Olilk e , iwUR) — * , . -
known that Olive’s Wirt is deaf as desti
ny, but where were his eyes wnen her
fingers were testing the texture of Lo
gan’s hairf There is room for'a hair-
owing conjecture here.
Belknap’s name is inscribed forever on
— isiKSSKSSSS
The bogus Bessie Turner has had a
Wisconsin landlady dancing round her
with an unpaid board bill. Bessie es
caped unhurt, and gave vent to her feel
ings in the remark, “Give me a regiment
of women like that and I’d undertake to
clean out every grasshopper in the State
in a single campaign.”
Polish ladies have a special, vivid, deli
cate, spirited, haunting lovliness, with
grace, distinction and elegance in their
limbs and features that are all their own ;
you cannot call them fragile, but they
are of so fine a fibre and so delicate a col
oring that they only just escape that ap
prehension.
A correspondent vouches for the fact
that the revelation of Belknap’s iniquity
deeply affected the meek and lowly Col
fax. He freely exhibited the whites of
his eyes—glancing upward as if he saw
Elijah hovering over him, preparing to
scoop down and snatch liim away from a
~ wicked world.
WINSLOW.
London, March 18.—It is not certain that
Winslow, the Boston forger, will sail from
Liverpool for Boston on the 21gt, by the
steamer Siberia. The warrant for his ar
rest has not yet been received from the
British authorities. Detective Dearborn has
received a letter from Boston, which seems
to throw the pecuniary responsibility on
him if he takee Winslow’s family home. It
is uncertain, therefore, what will be done.
A decision will probably be arrived at on
Monday.
Chivalrous.-Tbe loyalists have strange
ideas of chivalry. The defense set up by
the beastly Beecher was that Mrs. Tilton
had fallen in love with him, without his
solicitation of her love. The defense set
qp for Grant’s operations with Jim Fisk
on “Black Friday,” is that it was Mrs.
Grant’s speculation and not his. The
defense set up for Belknap is that Mrs.
Belknap, and not himself, received the
money for the sale of the post traders’
places. The wicked Southern rebels
would rather die than bring shame upon
Southern women. The Southern man
who would try to screen himself from
obloquy by throwing the reproach upon
his wife would be looked upon with ab
horrence.—Southern Home.
STEAMER SUNK.
Washington, March 18.—The Signal Ser
vice Observer at Barnegat Inlet reports a
steamer sank at 9 o’clock last night five
miles north of that station and a mile and a
half from shore, caused by coming in con
tact with a thiee-masted schooner. The
schooner sailed north this morning. The
sea is too rough to go to the wreck to ascer
tain her name.
TERRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
Paris, March 18.—An arch of the railway
bridge over the river Ille gave way under
tbe pressure of the flood. A crossing pin
senger train was precipitated into the river
and the carriages dashed to pieces. The
passengers were all crashed to death or
drowned. Thirty corpses have alreadybeen
recovered.
Two officers who were friends, but had
not met for some time, volunteered, each
unknown to the other, for the Ashantee
war. To their mutual surprise they
stumbled across one another at Cape
Coast Castle, whereupon the following
dialogue ensued: A. “Holloa! Why, B.,
who on earth would ever have dreamt of
meeting you here 1 You don't mean to
say you have volunteered?” B. “Well,
yes, I have. You see, J’v© no wife and
family, and I like war. But whAt in the
name of wonder brings you here ? ” A.
“Well, you see, I have a wife and family,
and I like—peace!”
At a collection made at a charity fair a
lady offered the plate to a rich man who
was well known for his stinginess. “I
have nothing,” was the curt reply. “Then
take something, air,” said the lady, “you
know I ta besamg for the i
checked by a loud cry of “order.” The
non-partisan tone in which this view was
urged may be made apparent by a few
brief quotations from Senator Gordon's
speech. “I wish,” said he, “to repeat my
profound conviction that whatever party
shall be called to administer the govern
ment and shall proceed to appoint men
to office and to collect the taxes because
of the influence they can bring to the
party, we shall be forced to blush at these
revenue crimes.” “Convinced, as I am,
of the fact that any change of parties
would be beneficial, yet so fully persuaded
am I of tbe power of these temptations
to appoint party agents, and the tempta
tion to party agents to use the govern
ment money to perpetuate the party in
power and themselves in place, that I
should feel very much like pray
ing, ‘Lord, deliver the Democrats
also from|temptation!’ ” I believe, as
I have already said, that the people
of this country have determined upon
a change of rulers, and party patronage
would be as potent in the hands of the
Democrats as it has been in the hands of
those who now administer the govern
ment.” All fair minds will concede that
remarks in this strain rise above low
partisan politics, and such minds will be
astonished that Ifcey subjected their
author to violent partisan vituperation. It
is the wish of Senator Gordon to take the
revenue service as completely out of par
tisan politics as the military service has
always been. The army officers retain
their commissions through all changes
of administrations, and, being in
dependent of political parties,
they do not actively interest them-
selv°s in their fortunes, not one army
officer’ll ten taking the trouble to vote.
If the officers of the revenue were
equally independent they would be
equally indifferent to party movements,
and we might expect the same high sense
of integrity which pervades the regular
army. At any rate the English revenue
service is free from the scandalous frauds
practised in our own, and the revenue
officers are never dismissed except for
misconduct. General Gordon dwelt with
just emphasis on this example as well as
that of our own army officers, and the
scoffs of his assailants about “a privi
leged class” were a shallow and
contemptible evasion of a sound
argument. During the first forty
years of our government removals
were seldom made, and that period was
remarkable for purity of administration.
General Gordon merely wishes to restore
by law a state of things which formerly
existed by the public virtue of our Presi
dents. The cry of “a privileged class,”
when raised against the only, method
which can secure an honest civil service
is disreputable demagogism, and Senator
ShermaD, at least, should be ashamed of
it. With a revenue service formed on
the model of that of England, we oould
collect a tax of two dolalrs on each gal
lon of whisky as easily as a tax of fifty
cents, to the great advantage of the na
tional revenue, and a still greater benefit
to the public and private morals of the
country—to public morals by an honest
civil service, and to private morals by re
straining the vice of drunkenness.
Washington and disclose all they know.
Some of them are here awaiting the de
parture of the first train for the East and
declare they intend to implicate certain
officials now standing high in public con
fidence. The post of Fort Fetterman
paid a profit of $76,000 in two years, to
be divided among the members of the
ring. The ex-Senator referred to, among
other appointments disposed of, placed
his son at one of the most lucrative posi
tions.—N. Y. Herald.
being placed in an inverted position on
the curb-stone, while Jones went to lev.
eling the hills and filling up the waste
places in his countenance with raw beef,
vinegar, and brown paper.
And as the Frenchman took up his bur
den and wearily plodded over Haymount
toward the setting sun, he carried as
souvenirs Jones’s new hat and six-bladed
pocket-knife.
A Remarkable Doctrine.
Thj members of the Advisory Council
appear to have imbibed some queer no-
tions of morality during their late session
in the Court of the New Tabernacle of
Congregationalism. Brother Pettingill,
of Rutland, Vt., recently disclosed to his
flock the fact that a committee
from the Council waited upon
Mrs. Tilton and received from
her a full bill of particulars of the
scandal. Among other things she is re
ported to have informed them that, “in
consequence of her discovery of her hus
band’s infidelities, she determined to
bear no more children to him,” and, with ^
tne aid of a physician, accomplished her I re h e llion
design of disappointing his paternal ex- p^y j s fy„ B . \
pectation. In other words, she had an 1 F J
A French Drama of Our Civil War.
Mr. Alexander Delpit, a native of New
Orleans, and a resident of Paris since the
war of the rebellion,' has written a play,
untiflod tViA “Gliorolior /Ia In I>’>
abortion performed on her. Rev. Dr.
Warren, in the Christian Mirror, con
firms this story, and adds:
“Could her whole statement, as she
gave it, be made public, it would throw a
flood of light on her so-called confes
sions, and convince most candid persons
that she was guiltless and deserves the
tenderest commiseration.”
A woman who procures au abortion to
be performed upon her “guiltless!”
Where do you find warrant for this, Doc
tor—in the Christian code or in any other
code known to civilized men ? In the
canons of every people not sunk in the
slough of barbarism, foeticide is one of the
most revolting and infamous of crimes.
By what authority do you, a Christian
minister, assert the doctrine that a woman
who consents to the perpetration of that
crime is “guiltless?'’ Has the scandal
so debauched the public mind that a pro
fessed expounder of the Gospel of the
immaculate Jesus can advance such a
monstrous proposition as this and chal
lenge approval of it? Under what con
ceivable circumstances can a womn mur
der her unborn bnbe and be held guiltless
in the eye of any law, either human or
divine ? It is the Doctor’s turn to rise
and justify his new code of morality.
But granting that Mrs. Tilton told the
truth (although her subsequent letters
flatly contradict her story to the com
mittee), how does the explanation help Mr.
Beecher? Was this statement put forth
which has been produced at the Theater
Historique, in Paris. Its object is to
give the French people a notion of the
civil war in this country, and it lays the
groundwork for this fabric of information
bv making the Southern rebellion tbe re
sult of a tax on absinthe imposed by
President Lincoln. The Parisians, who
have no doubt often wondered why the
States went to war, will doubtless bestow
their sympathies upon the vanquished
Southerners for all time now that
they have come to know the real cause
The plot in the
villainous North
erner named Bradford, domiciled on
a vast cotton plantation near Washington
(M. Delpit knew better than this, of
course, but located the plantation near
Washington for better effect on a Paris
audience), burns his master’s house and
carries off his daughter Lelia. This young
lady’s brother, Robert Cavalie, together
with a French nobleman who happens
along and another acquaintance, joins the
Southern army, which, under Stonewall
Jackson, menaces Washington. Here,
while young Cavalie is hunting for his
sister’s abductor, he comes in contact
with Jackson, Stuart and all the Southern
leaders. Stonewall Jackson seizes an
opportunity to die on the stage after
making a long speech about patrie.
Young Cavalie, on his errand of ven
geance, finally penetrates into the
White House at Washington', where
he arrives just in time to pre
vent John Wilkes Booth, who appears
under the name of “Maxwell,” from kill
ing Abraham Lincoln. In reward for
this rescue the President ferrets out and
punishes the wretch Bradford, and then
suffers himself to be quietly assassinated
by Maxwell in his box at the theatre.
This ends the play, which is interspersed
throughout with steamboat explosions,
minstrel performances, a great deal of re
volver shooting, a bowie-knife duel, and
other pleasing diversions peculiar to the
Americans. The play seems to have cre
ated a sensation in Paris second only to
that created by Dumas’ “L’Etrangere
Dakixu Robbebi is Bbooklyn- -Pour
men armed with revolvers entered the
HiTk^ , St< ? Louls I,lllon - No - SIS
w e a*’ Br00kl 5' u - »t about eight
M k ^\ edne8da y evening. One point
ed his pistol at the head of Mr. Billon
while another levelled his at the face of
Mrs. Billon, with threats to shoot them if
they made any noise. Mr. Billon aud his
wife made a loud outcry, however, and
Wh ° Was 8 uard ing the former
struck him a severe blow over the head,
by which a deep gash was inflicted.’
Another of the men snatehed from the
atra -';, of gold rings, valued at
two hundred dollars, and all the robbers
tty?! „ them braaki »g a ground
glass door in his escape. They ran around
the corner into Carroll street, jumped into
a wagon which was waiting, and drove
rapidly away toward Fulton ferry. Mr.
Billon, whose head was bleeding profuse
ly, gave an alarm as soon as he was able-
but the men had disappeared wuen an
officer was summoned. The only clue to
the thieves is a hat which one of them left
in the store.—N. Y. Post.
The Gold Bill Robbery.—The Bel
knap bribery, the Credit Mobilier busi
ness, the Pacific Mail affair—all the other
swindles of the Republican party, are
trifles compared with tho enormous rob
bery of the Gold Bill of 1869. While
the House is investigating the minor
frauds why can not the passage of that
bill be probed ? It took about $600,000,-
000 from the pockets of the people and
put them in the pockets of the bondhold
ers. It has been openly charged that
millions of dollars were used to secure
the passage of that bill. We would like
to wager fourteen cents that if a reward
of half a million dollars were offered for
information that would lead to the expo
sure of the corruption in that tremend
ous job the necessary information would
be forthcoming. Let the matter be in -
vestigated. Schenck is coming home.
Call Schenck. Call Garfield. Call Doun
Piatt. Call General Boynton. Call John
Sherman. Let us know how the “public
credit was strengthened,” and how to get
“honest money.” The reward is the
thing.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
The India correspondent of the
London Echo tells the following rather
far-fetched story, which appeared origi
nally iu the Delhi Gazette: “ It seems
that on the day the city of Delhi was
illuminated, the PriDce, his suite, the
Lieutenant Governor of the Punjaub,
and a large party went on a picnic to
some place of interest a few miles from
the city. It was arranged that on their
return, which- would be after dark, the
party should pass through the streets of
Delhi, which were to be illuminated in
honor of His Royal Highness’s visit. But
on their arrival at the gates of the town
it was found that the first street they had
to pass through was not illuminated,
and then, whether for this or some other
reason, the whole party turned aside and
went to their several destinations, the
Prince aud suite going direct to the royal
camp. So far 1 can vouch for the story
being true, and recollect perfectly well
that many of the Delhi people grumbled
at the illuminations, which had cost the
people much care and a good deal of
money, not being seen by the Prince. It
now turns out that it was, in all proba
bility, most providential that the Prince
did turn back; for that in the street that
was not illuminated—a locality inhabited,
I am told, by some of the worst
characters and most fanatical Moslems in
Delhi—a revolver, loaded in all its
barrels, was found by the police, having
been evidently hidden or put out of the
way. Now, a revolver in the East is as
uncommon a3 it is common in the Far
West. Iu the street where it was found
there are no European residents, and
therefore the conclusion arrived at, when
taken in connection with the fact that the
police have kept the affair as quiet as
possible, is that harm was intended tho
Prince of Wales.”
Uriah J. St ffiler, of Mt. Joy, Lancas
ter, Pa., while awaiting the midnight
train at the Midland depot, on Thursday
night, walked a few rods and was shot
and robbed by a negro. The next morn
ing a pistol and rifled pocketbook was
found near the scene. Stohler" Parted
home, but it is believed he cannot suF*^
vive the journey. Several arrests have
been made, but no clue has transpired.
qnrlaimfd .freight.
as a proof °f ‘he falsehood of Ike charges which ld also an Amerioao pla , It ig
preferred against him ? If so, its only more than j ike i y ^ with these two
effect can be to relieve him of the crime of ,
dramas on the boards, the Parisians will
adultery at the expense of aoousmg him | mon acquire a great deal of Taryaccn
The Bepnbliean platform: Resolved.
That this is a “ Nation,” and we
have the right to rob it.
“ acceKso ^ t0 tbe cr i m « of feticide. | rate infoimation about America a‘nd its
His mere knowledge of her gailt could inhabitants. America ana its
not have induced him to humble himself
before Theodore Tilton as before his God.
His groanings and nervous agony and
penitential tears could not be explained
except upon the theory of hfa participa
tion in her crime. Tested by this simple
bit of reasoning, it is manifest that Mrs.
Tilton -pun her yarn with much confi
dence ii. the rural simplicity of her au- I
ditors. Scheherez'ide, however, baa |
Hideou8 Pauperism in England.—
Cardinal Manning in a recent sermon
referred to English pauperisn in the fol
lowing pointed language: “England,
the richest of all countries, has upon it a
stain and a shame not to be found in
countries which Englishmen assume to
despise; he meant pauperism, an intense
ceased to be a good authority. Arabian I demoralized state of poverty. Poverty
Nights’ tales are not accepted as evidence in itself was an honorable state, but pau-
in this exacting, prosaic age.—Brooklyn perism was something altogether distinct
Argus # _ | from poverty. Pauperism was that
wrecked condition of men and of families
The Free Press tells a strange story of I out of \7hicL these was no rising by any
a widow lady named McDonald^ residing e^ort of their own. And what did it
near '^Vashington Court House, Ohio,
whose daughter, Julia, left her home and
married a colored man. Mrs. McDonald
after a long searoh discovered the infatu
ated young woman living in a squalid den
in Detroit, her husband being a muscular.
come from? It would take too long to
endeavor to say. One reason he would
state: the overwhelming prosperity of the
rich, the closeness of the hands and hearts
and the ignorance in which the rich lived
and died of the state of the poor who lived
coal black negro. No amount of entreaty and died round about their dwellings.
could nprminHa hor (n Lava Kn. A.. Tb. .... : r _ .
could persuade her to leave her dusky
choice.
They will have their little spats, just
like other married folks. “William Worth
Belknap,” she exclaims, “I begin to think
you ain’t much of ia man.” “Belict of
Ihe late Mr. Bower
“I begin to think
he sharply replies, Heavy
'ou’re too much of a •
The possession of wealth and prosperity
generated a selfishness and an uncoil-
seiousness of the sufferings of others, so
that men were wrapped up in their own
daily indulgence, and were forgetful of
those who were in want.”
ANNUAL SALE
OF SOUTHERN EXPRESS CO.’S
UNCLAIMED FREIGHT
W ILL be soH at public auction (unless previ
ously claimed), ou MONDAY, April 3,
1376, at 10 o'clock a. m.,
BY BELL, STL RTEVANT & €0.,
in front of their store in this city, the following
packages of freight which have remained un
claimed in office of Southern Express Company:
1 Package—Allen, S, Valdosta, Ga.
1 Box—Adams, Mrs. J Q, Middletmrg, Fla.
1 Package—Atchison, J, Savannah, Ga.
1 Package—Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Co.,
Savannah, Ga.
1 Packag'—Atchison, John, .Savannah, Ga.
1 Box-Bush, IIII, Colquitt, Ga.
I Package—Drown, .1 M, Newton, Ga.
1 Package—Bruton, H -J, Bainhrtdge, Ga.
1 Box—Baggs, C A, McIntosh, Ga.
1 Box —Braswell, W D, Valdaata, Ga.
1 Box—Benjamin, Charles, Savaiuiah, Ga.
1 Package—Bracket, E, Savannah, care Pulaski
House. „ . „
1 Bag—Brown, Thomas, Savannah, Ga.
1 Package—Burnside, Mr* M A, Savannah, Ga.
1 Package-Britton, J H. Savannah, Ga.
1 Trunk—Bleye, Jans. Mnmt.
1 Package—Bert;mall, Mrs S, savannan, Ga.
1 Box—Beal, W C, Savai nah. Ga.
1 Package-Bren, R K, Savannah, Ga.
1 Package—Carew, E S, Newton, Ga.
1 Bale—Cummings, W K, Camilla, Ga.
1 Bun d le—Connell, H D. Cairo, Ga.
X Freeaer—Crawford A Lovell, Savannah.
1 Package-Democrat, Bain bridge, Ga.
2 Packages—Dunlap, Rev Henry, Sav&nnah, Ga.
1 Trunk—Fallon, J, Savannah, Ga.
1 EtnDtv Trunk—lox, Miss Min me,. *vancah.
1 Package—Galloway, W U Camilla, Ga.
1 Package—Georgian, lesup, <-a.
1 Package—Heath i Co. Camilla, Ga.
1 Box—!larrive, Mrs M A, Savanna.*, Oa, care
R Me Brown.
1 Package—Uelstein, S F, Savannah, Ga.
1 Stencil—Hudson k S&lhvan, Sarannah,, ja.
1 Casting-Johnson. L, No s, Gulf Railroad. „
1 Trunk—Jones, Maria, savannah, Ga.
1 Bundle Empty Baskets—Kwiiecki, J, Bam -
1 Padulge—lewis, John I, Bain bridge, Ga.
1 Box-Lynab, Kate, Savannah, Ga.
1 Bundle—Livett, Abe, Savannah, Ga
1 Package—Ludden s, Bajep, J aTa 5f®» G “*
1 R/it- 'tl ern ma ti G K, BeidviUe, Ga.
iBSESSSJK—5*
1 Ban^-Utt.-I P,
1 Package-I*urdoon, J M, Black. ..ear, GK.
1 Package—PrendergasL tt, • .nvaanah, Ga.
1 Rlarkliag— Pulaski House, Savannah, Ga.
1 Package—-Pbmnix Arch. Iron Works. Savan
nah. Ga. ,
1 Package—Pittnufi, Sam, Savannah, Ga.
• Box—Kan r.^, \T li. Savannah, be.
Packani—Klee, K B, Savannah. Oa.
p£Sc-1!„», Ml» A.
1 Packane— Samlw, colored, * amlil*, Oa.
1 CSSTsbuue Rev A, i Uomaeviile, Oa.
ISfcSS, >'*». Savannah, Ga.
p£Se-Kowart, J N, Savannah, Oa.
TraXStoiiti, L- savannah, tia.
fie in confidence. Grant
in everybody, and i
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