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J.0 contract rates allowed except try specie, ^reem-ni. Liberal discoants made to large ad- J. H. E STILL, PROPRIETOR. SAVANNAH, MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1876. ESTABLISHED 1850. fertiser-. Advertisements will have a favorable place ” ijcg, ; .;geited, hut no promise of continuous . uon 1E a particular place can be given, as ^ advertisers mast have equal opportunities. He 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 The mvaterinno ChIc,g0 wh r the ^ custody at Willar.r 5 0use bl| d in close be Mrs. General rL,? 04 * 1 torns ont She was ^Y^ ^ oo Naval Affairs: C ° mit_ 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’ * * ****«? 40 haTe P Uced u l'on noariv 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 1 VaidoK- G “' X 9 five m “ 8011 ;