Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

aflesunui ^ITAKKH 8TKEKT, >- b kino NEWS BUYING, [ j-^^^'suScKii'rioN^ f^ 's D«*■» BT caBBIBB 08 PBE - ,»» V4!,C 1-AID bt hail. tr , gtoptod at tte expiration ili tor without farther notice. i n ^ wul pieABC olwerve the date* on i^^Sinp the paper famished tor any ^Vie ono year wtU have their orders & ic ® .-ttadod to by remitting the amount des'-red. p ADVSKT1SING. SEVEN 'VOW>8 MAKE A LINE. -v advertisements, per Nonpareil line. 0$ Dftr n u and Special Anction and Amusement adver- Notices, per Nonpareil 4jjents » uu *'*''■ 1,15 cents. •^notices per line, & 1 ', -ciiccs, per line, Minion type, 25 cents. 1^” j nl mll de on advertisements continued Nonpareil type, 20 = A SKELETON IS A CLOSET. How m. itlexioan Woaai Preserved lh« Kemaini of her Hoo. J. il. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR. SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1877, ESTABLISHED 1850. iff 0»° week or longer. REMITTANCES -nMcriptions or advertising can be made For! * order, Registered Letter, or Ex All letters should be ad J. H. EST1LL, Savannah. Ga. if*' Office at our risk. Msecd, Affairs in Georgia, i , ee Iribune Btates the fact that m a hundred Colonels in Georgia. Ike occasion to dispute the fact. county a rousing majority will Bt up for a convention. 1,." remains of Judge Peeples were oar- ,. i .,vth, where they were buried on ritd to 1 Jlr - Saturday •jljg commencement at Co“ e » will begin on Griffin Female Sunday, Juno 24, and jnjjtiuGC (iii Wednesday, which will be com- Qf^cemeui day. Nl Dcy, au aged Degress, died ou Thursday . t (I* iffin. She was over one hundred mgut w «• ' lucre were 25,902 tons of guano sold in y.-y* this year, against 17,000 tons in [•r J. L. Cheney, a prominent druggist died last Friday from the ef- of a spider bite. Dr. Cheney was -ixtv-fonr years of age, and was a native of ionroe county. His many friends iu this jj 0Ll join his neighbors in expressing their xarei at his loss. Xhe Twelfth Senatorial District has made the following nominations for the Constitu- piiiii Convention: Stewart county—J. L. iv-,' r r!v, Isaac W. Stokes; Quitman—T. L. livrry; Webster—D. B. Harrell. The •vket is a good one, and the Twelfth Dis- tr.ct will give a formidable vote in favor of the convention. The Home Tribune says: “We learn that L ,. of oar enterprising merchants proposes ;u erec t a free drinking fountain for pedestrians in front of his store/’ There H nothing like enterprise on the question of I’ood, cool water. From the Rome Tri Weekly Courier wo get the following fact : Two young ladies while swinging fell and sustained se vere injuries. Miss Katie Wood had her ni-tit arm broken, and Miss Ada Coleman sustained injuries which, though 6enous, are hoped to be not fatal. The Mobile and Girard Railroad for the ni al yoir just closed,has paid the interest on •ts bonded debt, $57,000, to the Central Byroad Company. The latter organization reduced the rate of interest from tight to foarper cent. Thi* is neighborly : “In Tattnall county mli ;; the out crop is lo be harvested they give an‘oat reaping.’ The fatted calf is m - (i, t-very body and his neighbor come ii their cradles, and it is astonishing Lo v e oon a ten-acre field of oats will molt > fore ;i half dozen cradles, swung by a half i/.vi] stalwart men. In that way the whole c jmunity have their oats reaped. It is a good custom.” i lease of stabbing occurred in Haralson mty. Mr. Burt Green, formerly of Oar- r i co.i’uty, was the victim. The Carroll oj'ih'y limes says: “It seems that this • ang man had been paying some attention i.jGreen's daughter, and on the evening in question, while walking home with her, she to:d him that her father disliked for him to visit her, wnereupon he told her to go on Home, and he would wait aud see her lather as became along, as he was on behind *.h*m. In the meantime several of the . iiii.c mans friends had got with him, aid wLen Mr. G. came along they raised a diil/'ulty wuh him, during which he was stabbed’ by the young man who nad been vi.-iting his daughter. The Griffin News pays: “The corn and cotton crops are eufi'ering very much from the drought that is now upon us, but doubt less the vvheat crop is all the better from it. It has been near four weeks einoe we have had any rain; the dust in the city is almost unbearable, and we truly hope that we may have a storm.” The Hinesville Gazette says: “It is hard to convince seme people that wool growing will pay in this low county. The idea has be come prevalent that sheep can only thrive on the hill-side. This is a mistake; there ar some as fine sheep in this county as cau in Midale Georgia. Mr. W. A. Kennedy this spring sheared one two year old eat aLd obtained nine and a half pounds of wool.” The Lumpkin Independent says: “The "heat crops are now receiving the attention f the thrifty farmer and the busy cradles ring the grainfor the threslrer. For- varicrops have been housed, and with a few uioiv days of clear weather it will be .7 Larvented. The reports from all sec tions represent the wheat crop as very fine, Mid a good yield is now assured.” The Griffin Sun says : “We learn that a few nights since the dwelling of Enquire Sinford, of Paulding county, was fired into with ! urderous intent, endangering the ••te / himself and wife. Three of the Tib- wN have bt*eu arrested on circumstantial evidence and bound over to court.” The Ocala Banner says : “Notwithstand ing the severe frosts of last winter, our orange men are more sanguine than ever over the successful cultivation of tkiB crop. Many new converts are added to the list. The last is Mr. \Y. C. Jeffords, who has re cently purchased forty acres of orange land on the Withlacoochee river from Mr. A. L. Eichelberger.” The following resolutions by the Board of Commissioners of Escambia have been adopted: “Whereas, the best interests of the county (f Escambia demand a return to a cash basis at the earliest practicable moment; and whereas, there is now outstanding a large amount of county scrip, much of which, owing to the financial condition of the county, was issued at less than forty per cent, of its face value. Therefore, be it Resolved, That a special election shall be held on the 2d day of July, 1877, at which time the people will be called upon tq vote upon the question of an issue of not more than twelve thousaud dollars of bonds to bear interest at the rate of six per cent, per annum, payable annually—said bonds to be used only iu funding all outstanding county indebtedness. And be it further Besotted, That said bonds shall be issued in denomi nations of one hundred dollars, and the coupons of said bonds shall be paid annually, and the principal at the expiration of ten yearB from the date of issue, at the office of the County Treasurer of Escambia county, Florida.” We take this from the Jacksonville Sun : “The little schooner Frank E. Stone, com manded by Captain Fozzard, which has been plying between this port and Indian river, was wrecked ou Mosquito Inlet bar during a gale on Monday last. The Stone had on board five gentlemen passengers aud was bound to this place from Indian river with no cargo. On Monday a heavy gale sprang up from the northeast, and in order to escape the fury of the wind and waves and prevent being driven ashore, the Cap tain made for Mosquito Inlet, but just as the schooner reached the bar, at about four p. m., a heavy sea struck her on her port Bide, staving in her planking and throwing Her on her beam ends. Three of the passengers were in the cabin at the time, Wm. Ritenbrinck, Jesse L. Sykes, and J. P. Black, and they suc ceeded in reaching the deck just as the ves sel went over; the first two only to be washed overboard by a heavy sea, and seen no more. Another passenger, whose name is uuknown, was also thrown into the sea, and no trace of him found afterwards. The Captain and Mr. Menley, the mate, and tho two remaining passengers, J. P. Biack, aud his brother, ft. A. Black, clung to the ropes and chains attached to the wreck, and after drifting for several hours, were finally picked up and taken ashore by a pilot boat. Everything on board was lost, the men saving only such clothiDg as they chanced to have on at tho time of the disaster. The Captain lost two hun dred dollars in ca3k, which he had in the cabin. The schooner is a total wreck. The bodies of tho three drowned men had not been recovered up to Wednesday. Mr. ltifenbriuck, one of the men lost, was from Indianapolis, Ind., and had been in tbe btato only about a year, and lived in this county, near Riverside. He leaves a family. Mr. Sykes and his friend, both of whom were drowned, were from Columbia, North Carolina, and owned property iu the vicin ity of Indian river. They were ou their way to their former home when the sid ac cident occurred. Mr. J. P. Black, one of the rescued, arrived in this city yesterday, comiog overland via Crescent City. His brother and the Captain and mate remained at Mosqnito Inlet to continue the search for the bodies of the drowned men.” Thirty-three days of dry weather has^de stroyed vegetation in Escambia county. The Herald says : “To-dav is the thirty-third day of dry weather. Vegetation everywhere CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. AddrcMf by J. Randolph Tucker Before the Law Department ol the Univer sity of Jlaryland. THE ARLINGTON ESTATE. The Suit to Oust the Government—His tory of Arlington—The Law of the Case—A Strong View. Florida Affairs. In Fcrnandina there are a regular pack of freves. The Methodist Episcopal Church ^ 'Utli), on Broome street, was entered •Hue: time between Sunday and Wednesday last. The missionary contribution box was broken open, aud the contents, supposed to Lave been less than one dollar, taken out. fcv. Mr. Bird, the pastor, fortunately had removed four dollars and seventeen cents fe rn it on tho Saturday previous. Iq Key West tomatoes sell for twenty-five cents per bushel. A me ling of the citizens of St. Augustine *iil be held next Tuesday night for the pur s’ 0 - f taking into consideration the cele bration of tho Fourth of July. Ifecambia county wants a substantial “brick jail.” The Pensacola Herald says -he present jail is a “veritable hell.” that Hy tbe laws of Florida, any man who has lOS * an arm or a leg, no matter how or wkeD, rfrom what cause, cannot be taxed for any business he may enter into ; always, except ‘ n Z the liquor business. This is an excel- *ut law, and one that should nevpr be taken from tbe statute books, as it gives poor, mfimed persons a chance, at least, to earn i heir daily bread, after a fashion, and thus SvCQ re independence. iu Alachua county, in the vicinity of Ar- ^onda, melons are being got ready for shipment, and the indication is that they he sold to advantage, ifec&mbia has grown the first ripe peaches. r - Albert Riera, of Pensacola, .picked ur % e ri P e peaches ou the 20th May. ihe fig cr op 0 f Florida promises gdod re- The fig trees are heavily Jadened '•'h fruit. The Jacksonville Sun says: “It a most singular thing that some eQ trgetic man has not gone into the busi- Df8 3 of packing this fruit for Northern Sie* would pay undoubtedly for all Thell 8 Pent in bo laudable an undertaking. St. Augustine Journal S2ys: “The lay washed away a portion w ‘ ‘* ie , lrac fe and bed of the St. John’s Bail- -1 about one mile from the St. Augustine of the road, from which point the k DRera . aQ( i mai l were brought to this * * omnibus, ou the day mentioned.” John^P 0 ^ 8, ^ anntr : “Deputy Sheriff tu k " rowa ^turned last Wednesday with r obhp/ w ^° lir oke into the Ocala House and He u,' ffenrlemen their olotbiog. *iUo» as up at Jacksonville. The €r fe( j ^ P art of the clothing were recov- *“ e Deputy deserves praise for the fiance and determination he showed in terms? 8 jV Though a colored mau he is de- Xhie n ° guilty man escape.'” tgrifni. ■ Tribune says: “Experienced titatft j r,8ts ^ho have prospected the 4e C i,uS !f 8 S0, Mhern and eastern parts have tr? ; n a West Florida is the best coun- fealthf!? any re8 P ect 8—;among them being ia 8ect Ulne8 8, comparative exemption from v -ui< nt t? ’ avera K° fertility of lands, 3on- ^utreR J® mn,u kication with the principal from ei 01 tra de, and the continuous revenue honev 4 JrU °* timljer aQ d lumber, making *o*t;„v more Pitiful over here than in 1 other sections.” „ suffering, and the parched herbage, gar dens and general uudergrowth presents a bad outlook for a summer supply of edibles for man and beast. A good shower of rain would be now a generous visitation of Provi dence.” Tarty Architecture. The rumors of the construction of a new political party are becoming are becoming so numerous and persistent that they claim their passing share of attention. We have it from the National Republican that all this coming and going for the past few weeks at Washington means something. It states, on wnat it styles reliable in formation, that “a well organized move ment is on foot looking to the formation of a new party, to be composed of the conservative and moderate men of both the Democratic and Republican parties, under the name of the National Union party,” and that a conference is to be held at New York at an early day as a preliminary step. Now that is all non sense on the face of it; for the Demo cratic party is an eminently “conserva tive and moderate” organization already, as any party must bo that draws its privileges and life from the Constitution; besides which, no party could be set up that would supersede it as a “National Union party.” The Republi can, however, recalls the fact that during the past six weeks “some of the most prominent men from the East, West and South have visited Washington, repre senting every diversity of public opinion.” It says they did not all come in a body, but separately, aDd “ without any flurry or excitement, quietly saw the Presidet and members of his Cabinet. Of course the President has nothing to do with it personally; oh, no! There will be no steps taken by his direction ; certainly not! Everything is to be based on his announced policy; to be sure ! After the New York meeting, we are informed that it is proposed to hold other meetings m Southern and Western cities, “ and the Old Line Whigs of the South are to be specially invited in tho movement.” On the other hand, Blaine is booked as the champion of “the Simon Pure Re publican party,” and he will throw him self with all his energy and fervor into the assault on the administration. Ike administration is to be attacked vigor ously with the charge that it has aban doned the ancient faith and attempted the deliberate destruction of the Repub lican party. Blaine is to wage war on the same basis as last summer. Mortons recent letter is credited to his alarm at the increasing popularity of Blaine, his fear being that the latter will become the party idol in the North. And Hayes and his advisers, keeping the Ohio election ever in mind, are industriously striving to raise a new issue. They have before them for consideration the plan of a war with Mexico, aud tbe organization of a Know-Nothing party. The military ring is said to favor the former, whiffi for the latter a complete selection of officers has already been made. Now all this signifies that there are just three persons who are playing for the political stakes, not comprehending that in doing so they are but following the order of na ture in assisting the disintegration of the very party they are ambitious personally to lead. Morton at the West will do very well to pit against Blaine at the East ; and Hayes will perform effective service as the miller who is to grind the grist for both It is not likely that these three will ever meet again precisely within the same oar tv lines. Each may ba able to dZaTwfth his “thirds,” while Butler stands with uplifted hands, uttering benp^ tural sarcasm, and Banks bobs around and asks where he shall go. lakmg the efforts conjointly, they promise to d. good work in pulling the oM house down low that it is practically tenantless But the bare idea of hiring Democrats to take part in the enterprise under the guidance of the administration is preposterous. If the new party depends on them for its life it wifi be a long time in coming to birth.—Boston Post. The annual commencement exercises of the Law Department of the University of Maryland took place at the Academy of Music, in Baltimore, on Friday last, which was crowded with spectators. There were twenty-one graduates. The Hon. J. Ilandolph Tucker, M. C., of Vir ginia, delivered the oration. After treating of the profession and origin of lf.w, Mr. Tucker said it would be inexcusable if he failed to refer to a branch of legal science which is peculiar ly American—constitutional law. This w„s the science of the relation between the government and tbe citizen, in respect to which America claims to have made important improvements. Constitutions, or the manner of organizing the social force, is left for man’s contrivance. The “powers that be” are two-fold, organic and derivative. The sovereign author ity of the people is organic ; that of the government derivative. The former is paramount, the latter subordinate. The one is creative, the other created. The one delegates, the other is delegated. The one is principal, tho other the agent. This principle rejects wholly the idea that any government is entitled to servile obfdience, or to any obedience where it self violates the law of its creation or sets at naught the charter of its authority. Referring to our Federal system of gov ernment, Mr. Tucker said: It is true that despite all the cautious ness of our fathers the Federal system has failed to realize all the hopes of its founders. The spirit of centralism has seduced men at the mad bidding of fa natical sentiment to extend the domain of Federal power to the detriment of the reserved rights of the State, and this brought about results upon which the true friend of liberty must look with despondency almost akin to despair. You have seen in this city the venerable Chief Justice, wearing the ermine of the highest court of the land, defied by the military when he threw about the persons of your citizens the sacred writ of habeas corpus. You have seen your State Legislature in vaded, its members imprisoned, aDd its organization broken up. You have seen the governments of eleven States super seded and military governments estab lished over them by authority of Congress. You have seen the. writ of habeas corpus suspended by order of tbe President in time of civil war, and the same thing done by Congress in time of peace. You have seen the ques tion of State government determined by the President, and the whole State power placed at the mercy of his decree. You have seen the soldiery standing at the doors of the capitol as the arbiters of their legislative organization, and the civil subordinated to the military power; and these things have been done in the teeth of constitutional prohibitions and limitations, and in violation of .the sacred institutional principles of the British- American liberty. But, gentlemen, I have not despaired. I will pot despair of this republic of Confederated Commonwealths. They created the Union by their concur rent compact, and they can save it by their concurrent action. If we are faith ful to the institutions of our freedom; if the legal mind wiil stand true to the transmitted traditions of our an cient liberties during these ten centuries to the fundamental prin ciples on which our Federative sys- ern rests, and maintaining the complete autonomy of the States as an essential and permanent part of our organic law, and .steering wisely between the national centralism of power on the one hand and any tendency of the State to deny need ful authority to the Federal Government on the other, we shall check corruption by limiting power, prevent decay by vitalizing the organic principles of the Constitution, and purify the administra tion by controlling patronage. \V e will save the republic, and what is better, will strengthen and perpetuate our liberties. But if centralism shall eat out the power of the State as the independent creators of the Constitution, as the parties to tbe Federal compact, and as essential factors in the government, then the days of the republic will be numbered, and free citi zens of these States will become the sub jects of an imperial despotism. But I forbear to say more on this tempting subject. Ruin at the Gamino Table.—The ^Ti/flleming amounted to about°eigtit thousand dollars^ Urough when arrested at Larammhe had^only addition pecuiuiiuuB va. to about eight thousand d when arrested at Laramie --- . sixtv-five dollars in his pocket, whicu ne irisswtfasww‘-f? he look everjlhiog of value e his wife robbing her to supply his losses at gambling, an3 sold his *»■*■*£* two different officers on Angel Island His highspirited wife was prostrated ihe Mow. She had one interview with him after be was taken over to tbe island, aid thin had to be carried into Ms cell on a cot,--So» Francisco Pest. Minnesota’s Default.—In an article on the default of the State of Minnesota upon certain bonds, the New York Tri bune say6: “Minnesota in 1858 issued $2,275,000 State bonds to four land grant railroad companies, to aid in the construc tion of railways, and received in return from the companies an equal number of their first mortgage bonds. The com panies failed. The State immediately foreclosed the mortgages, and thereby acquired title to their property, which embraced several million : cres of la.ud and two hundred and forty miles of graded railroad ready for tho superstructure. The State then defaulted upon the inter est of the $2,275,000 bonds, the proceeds of which had been used by the companies in creating the very property which the State had by its foreclosure proceedings acquired, and by'concurrent resolutions of her Legislature and by a direct vote of the people of the State fairly repudiated them.” Sitting Bull rises like old Animus, or, more dreadful still, like the grasshopper This native plains, “all in the merry 0f h *h Mav ” But the conditions are month of MsY 0 and his reversed out there, tor ^ ^ thgt 681 ‘he th/reason why the latter left the , ma >; ^r bffith and came East to grow tfp with the'oountry. Few Orleans Tunes. Au extraordinary discovery of ancient coins tas just been made on the Mon- trane estate, a few miles from Cupar Fife, in Scotland, the property of Mr. Allan Gilmour. In draining a portion of land ‘the laborers struck on what appeared to be a boulder, but subsequently was dis covered to be a pot. A stone was firmly wedged into its mouth, and on being re moved it was found that the vessel was filled with coins, the total number of pieces being nine thousand. Most of them have the appearance of a well worn sixpence, a few are of the size of a florin, though not quite so thick, and a small number are about the size of a shilling. They are all silver, and, so far as has been ascertained, of the twelfth, thir teenth and fourteenth centuries.. It is supposed they were used in the reigns of Robert II., Robert III. and David IL, and have lain in the earth more than three hundred years. A most extraordinary scoundrel, eighty years old, has been deteoted in Baltimore, Vt. His crowning achievement was to poison two hogs belonging to a neighbor. But it appears thjt during a long and ill spent life he has been killing cattle, burning buildings, and destroying prop erty genera’ly. Only last year this ven erable wretch was convicted of girdling fruit trees, and escaped State prison by forfeiting his bonds. He has cost the State of Vermont, his family, and the community generally, more than any other man in it; and the number of his offenses and trials during the last twenty years is large enough to be remarkable. However, he is eighty years old, and will soon suffer au arrest which will be final, aud go through a trial from which there wiil be no appeal. The Romance of a Rich Youn&Man.— There is a young man carrying a hod at Rohr’s new building on First street who has a romantic history. He is about twenty-two years of age, and the only child of very'wealthy parents, who reside m New Haven, Conn. About three years ago, becoming angry with his father, he left home and reached this city, where he has since resided, engaged in various kinds of manual Ithir. At regular in tervals remittances and clothing from his parents are sent to him, but he persis- tently refuses to touch them, notwitli- standing the most urgent entreaties. He also refuses to return home, preferring to make his own living.—Maysmlle (Oal.) Appeal. It has already been announced that Gen. G. W. C. Lee. eldest son of the late Gen. R. E. Lee, has brought suit for ejecting the government from the posses sion of the Arlington estate. The suit is expected to be tried at the present term of the court in Alexandria county, Va. The DOtice was served about a month ago upon Lieut. R. F. Strong, command ing Fort Whipple, Frederick Kauffman, Superintendent of the National Cemetery, and one hundred aud sixty-two colored persons who are living on the estate. General George Washington, by his will, bequeathed Arlington to George Washington Parke Custis and his heirs forever. Custis was the adopted son of General Washington. He died in 1855, and by his will left the property to his daughter and only child, Mary Randolph Lee, who became the wife of Robert E. Lee, and in addition, the use and benefit of the Arlington House and estate, con taining about eleven hundred acres; Ms horses and carriages, furniture, pictures and plate, during the term of her natural life. After her death he provided that all the property should go to her eldest son, George Washington Custis Lee, and to his heirs forever. He further enjoined that the said eldest grandson should take his name and arms. Mrs. Lee, his daugh ter, was to be allowed the privilege of di viding her father’s plate among her other children; but Custis directed that the Mount Vernon plate and every article he possessed which formerly belong ed to General Washington and all that came from Mount Vernon should go to George Washington Custis Lee and * descend from him entire to his latest posterity. In his will he also directed the emancipation of all his slaves at the end of five years from his death, which took place in October, 1857. When Rob ert E. Lee joined the South he took these slaves with him, but, at the time speci fied, he manumitted every one of them and sent them beyond the Confedeiate lines North. Shortly before her death Mrs. Lee and her son endeavored to make a compromise with the government, and offered to surrender her title and that of her heirs for the sum of $300,000. Her petition gave rise to an angry debate in the Senate, in which the old bitterness of the late conflict was revived. The Re publican leaders turned the whole matter to party account, and of course nothing was done. Mrs. Lee died in 1873, and her son, who brings the present suit of ejectment, again offered to compromise. He presented a memorial to Congress, which sets forth the principal law points in the case. After presenting a copy of the will of Parke Custis the petition sets forth, “Upon the construction of the said will your petitioner is advised that he took an estate in remainder after the life estate of his mother. Whether it was technically a vested or a contingent re mainder upon the true construction of the will may be a question of doubt. If the remainder be contingent your pe titioner had no estate in the property until the death of the life tenant. If it was a vested remainder he had no estate in possession until that event.” The memorial then states how the United States obtained possession of the prop erty. In September, 1803, three tax commissioners for the insurrectionary district of Virginia fixed the sum of $92 07 as the amount of tax due and payable to the United States upon the Arlington estate, which was valued on the land books of Virginia for the year 1860 at $34,100. For the non- payment of the tax the estate became for feited td the United States, and the Com missioners advertised it for sale. The sale took place on the 11th of January, 1864, when, no person biddingan amount equal to the taxes then accrued, and the estate having been selected, under the di rection of the government and in pursuance of President Lincoln’s proclamation of January 6, 1864, for government use, for war, military, charitable and educational purposes, the Commissioners bid it in for the sum of $26,S00. The petitioner next recites (and this will undoubtedly be the line of argument of the plaintiff for the recovery) that he is advised that all the objections which an original owner can urge against the title of any purchaser at a tax sale apply with increased force against the title of the United States as a pureba-er at a 6ale for taxes, made under its own authority and by its own commissioners. The laws of August 6, 1861, and June 7, 1862, are referred to, and it is urged that neither can affefct the question. The as - sessment was made against the property of a married woman, and the reasons ou which the justification of the law of 1862 is based (the relation of the State of Virginia to the general government) cannot, it is held, apply to a law for the collection of taxes. The petitioner maintains that if the sale was not in every respect constitutionally and legally made he has been deprived of his property without due proceR3 of law, which is a violation of the constitution. Another aspect of the case is given as follows: “The land was assessed, taxed and sold as the property of the life ten ant. Your petitioner’s title in remainder was not noticed. The sale could by the terms of the law only be prevented by the owner’s paying the tax. The tax sale certificate recites the property as owned by Mary A. R. Lee. If your petitioner’s title in remainder was contingent it was no estate in the land and he was in no sense an owner. If it was vested, it was an estate not in possession, but in ex pectancy, and the land was taxed as that of the life tenant. If offered for sale he was not au owner; therefore, within tho meauing of the Jaw, he could not tender the tax. His right not being taxed, could not be forfeited for its non-payment. The sale could only pass, at the utmost, tho title of the life tenant, and not the re mainder. The title passed by the sale has expired, and your petitioner’s re mainder now vests in possession, as in title. This view is the more patent, as no assessment was ever made against your petitioner; no tax was imposed on or demanded of him, and no property or estate of his was ever advertised for sale or sold to the government.” Tar and Broom Torn. [From the New York World.] To the frequent journalist of an ambi tious mind there are few things so dis heartening as the reflection that he is seeing of the labor of his soul and being abundantly dissatisfied; that he is sowing his intellectual seed upon granite quarries much less remunerative than those at Cape Ann, which General Bntler has but to tickle with a recommendation to see them laugh in a contract. Such journals should console themselves. As the poet has beautifully expressed it: “ Surejnever yet was line of newspaper That was not read by some cull him or her.” If any man denies this we commend to him. the experience of the editor of the Ogle County (Ill.) Pioneer, a journalist whose decline and fall have not hitherto been satisfactorily accounted for. It was somewhat over eleven years ago that this The President’s Sliding Scale. If the friends of Mr. Hayes are to be believed, he must be a pretty slippery customer. The tale which Packard has told about the method by which he was I deprived of the Governorship of Louis iana, the deception which was practised upon the confiding Garfield, the doubie- i dealing by which Pitkin suffered, the i mysterious trick by means of which Boker | resigned without knowing it—all these things prove that the President has great | skill in political chicanery. His declara tions and practioe in regard to civil ser vice reform are neat specimens of his ability in making promises and avoiding their performance. His pledges of non-partisanship in appointments and immunity from removal during good behavior were made and repeated until the people actually put faith in them; but he was not long unhappy editor cut out from an exchange I in power before he modified his original The Reveeend Wife Poisoneb.—A let ter from Ashton, Illinois, dated May 25th, says: “Elder J. H. McGee, the alleged Ashton wife poisoner, made an attempt to slip the halter and catch his daughter. He first tells her to bring him some dish - es, consisting of a plate, cup and saucer, also spoon, knife and fork. He uses the knife for the purpose of escape, by saw ing away the bars of the cell, but failed in this. He next procures a pair of scis sors and attempts digging out through the closet. The third, and it seems the last chance, is to get the daughter, Jen nie, to sign a confession. He first writes one, and tells her to copy it and sign her own name to it. ‘By so doing it will help me out, and they can’t hurt you.’ She, being young and inexperienced, takes the advice, and copies the confes sion written by hjr father and signs her name. He then attempts to use the in strument to clear himself, but when the trial came on she was informed of the full enormity, aud the position in wMch she was placing herself. Her young heart failed her, and she said : ‘Father wrote this and to d me to copy and then sign my name, but I did not poison my mi.' ” When the body of a drowned man was found in the water in Boston, the uncle of one William Spofford was convinced that it was that of his nephew William, who had left for a visit to Peterboro’, New Hampshire. Ou examination of the remains Mr. Spofford was pretty sure that they were these of his relative. There was a brierwood pipe found in the pocket of the deceased, and divers persons thought it was the pipe of the.nephew. Upon the strength of this he might have had a funeral, with the Spoffords attend ing as mourners for the lost William cf that name, and been buried in the family lot, only there came a dispatch, from Pe terboro’ saying that he was alive and well, and with the genuine and original brier- wood pipe in his possession. a joke, stolen and not succulent. Unhap pily upon the obverse of the excerpt was printed the following: “commercial intelligence. “Wilmington, January 17.—Tar is in active and drooping, and from 371 to 50c. lower. “Okeechobee, Ga., January 17.—The broom com crop is a failure,and a rise in price is expected.” It need hardly be said that the intelli gent compositor chose the lesser of two evils and, ignoring tbe joke, set np tbe “Commercial Intelligence.” To the readers of the Pioneer next day this made comparatively little difference. The market report was, as “Grace Green wood” would say, “sprightly” when com pared with the ordinary witticisms of the journal. The editor swore a hasty swear, but then reflected that this interesting item after all would give the Ogle County Pioneer an air of metropolitan dignity, and that it had, further, a saving grace in the way of the cost of composition. For years, therefore, the item about tar and broom corn stood in the local columns of the Ogle County Pioneer like the shadow of a great rock in a thirsty land. ChurcU sociables might come and county con ventions go, but tar and broom corn were printed there forever. “Alike to it was tide aud time,” for, no matter how favorable were the early and the latter rain upon the tender broom corn elsewhere, the crop at Okee chobee, Ga., was a perpetual failure, and a rise in the price of that commodity was eternally expected. And tar, alas ! was never jolly tar. It remained inactive and droopiDg, and neither European wars nor rumors of European wars nor any eight to seven interpretation of the laws of trade sufficed to prevent it from a perpe tual decline of from 371 cents to 50 cents from its invariable price. Even tbe date line fell into somuiferous and conserva tive stereotypy. That enchanted land wherein it always seemed afternoon was outdone, for whether i; were the Fourth of July or Hallowe’en in all other columns of the Ogle County Pioneer, in the, commercial paragraph it was ever the 17th of January. Time passed on in Ogle County, Ill. Boys who had Deen recorded as prize winners at its institutes grew up, ran for the Legis lature, or ran away with the funds of savings banks. Middle aged citi zens died one after another, each leaving one complicated will and sev eral complicated families; or, having devoured the estate of the widow and the fatherless in respectable living, re canted in public and died in the full pdor of sanclity. Still the Ogle County Pioneer continued the beacon of broom earn, the test and terminus of tar. At last the types became jaded and spent with toil. The naked eye, unaided by the microscope, could not tell whether it was January 17 or June 87 whereof it was question. In due—or rather undue—time this fact became pat ent even unto the editor of the Ogle County Pioneer, and in a fatal moment he bade his foreman (who was also his intelligent compositor, and was, likewise, himself) “kill” that item of “Commercial Intelligence.” Unhappy man! had he— but let us not anticipate. The Ogle County Pioneer went to press on the usual Tuesday. It enlightened the public, made tyrants tremble upon their thrones and was circulated among the foremost residents of Ogle County on Wednesday. Late on Thursday its editor heard murmurs of the ooming storm. His friends fell off from him, and rallied him about the absence of quotations of tar and broom corn from his otherwise interesting and cosmopolitan sheet. He laughed, and offered an explanation which they (who better knew the temperof Ogle County, III.,) received with icy polite ness. On Friday the storm burst. Sub scriber after subscriber wrote to say that for years he had tolerated the Ogle Coun ty Pioneer iu his family merely because of its valuable market reports affecting tar and broom corn; these removed, the Ogle County Pioneer was for him an achffig void. Delegations from farmers' clubs and granges called on the editor, viewed his course with “alarm and indignation,* and declared him to be the emissary of bloated broom corn monopolists and of tyrannical tar holders. Prayer was of fered for him with spiteful zeal in the Ogle County First Baptist, Bethel Con gregational, Reformed Methodist and Apostolic Coalition-Presbyterian churches His children were socially ostracized, and their mud pies were shunned by their mates as if they had been prepared by Mrs. Sherman or Lu crezia Borgia. Finally the editor, driven to despair, drowned himself in an affluent of the Pecatonica riter, which waters the smiling plains and’ grocery liquors of Ogle County, Ill., an hour after tbe Pioneer had gone to press, thus recklessly securing a monopoly of the report of the tragedy—“holocaust" we believe it was called—to the Ogle County Orthotpor, a peculiarly reptile contemporary. The moral of this 'ower-true tale is much clearer than city milk. If we have by our humble efforts induced the editor of one exchange to press forward with renewed zeai towards the goal of—that is to say—in point of fact—the goal—onr highest ambition will have been realized our most arduous labor repaid Adieu! Murderous Mutineers.—The United States Consul at Havre reports a most terrible and unwarrantable mutiny on the part of the crew of the American brig C. C. Sweeny, of Harrington, Me., as having occurred on that vessel on the 16th of May, a few hours after that vessel left the port of Havre.. It appears that four of six ol the men refused to obey the orders of the mate, Henry Harris, made an attack upon him with revolvers, and killed him Instantly. They then at tempted the assassination of Captain Cole, the master, and the second mate, who escaped by barricading themselves in the Captains cabin. Through the energy and courage of the cook, steward and two of the men who were loyal to the officers, the vessel was got back to Havre. Upon visiting the vessel with the Chief of Police, the Consul found the body of the mate mutilated with pistol ballets. Tbe mutineers were placed in irons and at once sent to prison, the witnesses remain ing on board under police guard awaiting the action of the French authorities, who claim jurisdiction over the case, as it is charged by the French pilot, who was on board at the time of the mutiny, thit the mutineers fired upon him. It is now argued that it is unnecessary to kill broken legged horses, and a case in point is stated: Twelve weeks ago the nigh hind leg was broken of Mr. Wil liams’ valuable and favorite mare, in Utica, by a kick from another horse. The fracture was half way between the fet lock and the gambrel joints, and was complete). A veterinary surgeon under took to set the leg. A canvas sling was arranged and the mare suspended in it in such a way that she could occasionally rest upon her uninjured limbs. The fractured leg was then set, bound with hickory and leather splints, with a heavy leather boot outside of all. The mare did well, and never missed a meal. After three weeks a plaster of Paris bandage was substituted, and in seven weeks “Nellie” was walking around the stable. There was no sign of the fracture, and it is thought that she wiU keep her 2:40 gait. opinions so far as to say that a man who had held a Federal office for eight years should be considered as entitled to no further government patronage. TMs rule is simply the old one for the distri bution of spoils every four years modified by doubling the length of the office holder’s term. It is merely the old theory of rotation with a new application. Such a principle is directly opposed to the so- called reform contemplated by such men as Schurz and Eaton, which aims at erect ing the office holders of the country into a permanent class, with life tennres, and modelling the civil service of the Repub lic after the systems of bureaucracy in vogue in the Old World, where political aristocracy is the natural result of social aristocracy. * As many of the hast places under the government are in the possession of men who have held them throughout both terms of Gen eral Grant, and not a few are occupied by old appointees of Lincoln, the Presi dent probably thought that his eight-year rule would put all the plunder at his dis posal which he would require in carrying on his political scheme for a change of base: but it seems he was mistaken, and a new modification of his views on tho subject of the proper duration of an official’s term of public service has been announced. If the Washington corre- sp indent of the Evening Post is to ba be- ’ aved—and he sometimes deviates into truth—Mr. Hayes now asserts that foreign Ministers and Consuls ought not to be allowed to serve abroad more than four years. At the end of that time they should, in his opinion, be willing to return to their own country, and he is determined that none of the gentleman sent on diplomatic or commercial service by General Grant shall be exposed beyond the period of forty-eight months to tbe b andishments of principalities aud pow- i rs in Europe or elsewhere. His reasons for this sapient conclusion are not given, but they may be imagined. We have had some representatives abroad who became so enamored of the institutions and cus toms of other peoples that they acquired a contempt for the institutions and cus toms of America. They grew old in Italy or England or Holland, and their children were born and bred in those countries, and unfitted for republican life. They became so accustomed to courts that they lost the full stature of American citizen ship and were dwarfed into mere flunkeys. With the example of such unfortunate men before him Mr. Hayes is determined to rescue all their associates or successors from danger. He probably thinks that it will be unsafe to expose even a native of Ohio for a period longer than wiil suffice to give him a taste of foreign life with out obliterating the savor of Cincinnati pork and whisky. How sad it would be to nave the gushing Pennsylvania poet return to us from Russia a confirmed consumer of tallow candles, or the saintly Maynard retire from Constantinople with caravan of Circassian aud Georgian damsels in his train, or the simple mind ed Pierrepont quit London with all his aspirates as well as his aspirations min gled in hopeless confusion ! Perish tho thought! Let these and the other titanic sons of the New World, when wearied with their contaot with old social habits and old political systems, come back to touch their native earth and be renewed and strengthened with republican vigor. Mr. Hayes doubtless looks at the matter in this ligh!; but we suppose the civil service reformers will not fail to impress upon him the fact that the longer a man serves in a foreign country, masters its customs, language and policy, the fitter he will be to repre sent his government there. After they wrestle with Mm for a while in prayerful argument and find that his moral jacket has, so to speak, slipped over his 6houl ders, and that they are exhausted and beaten, they may possibly have enough of vigor left to say something to the purpose concerning their pious bnt oily antago nist.—-V. T. World. Raid on One Thousand Bats-Sight Alarm of Young Ladies. [From the Hartford Coarant] The large double building on the north side of M street, between Third and Fourth, owned byE. Torrey and occupied as a boarding house, has of late appeared to be the headquarters of a vast number of bats, which managed to get in between the celling and roof l hrongh small aper tures alongside the water-spout. The vampires became a great nuisance, and Mr. Torrey concluded to make an effort to get rid of them. With this end in view, he procured a five-gallon coal-oil can, and arranged it something like a rat-trap, so that the bats might enter it readily, but could not get out. A number of smalt holes were also punohed in the can to admit light. The trap was on Thursday placed in such a position as to completely cover the opening through which the animals passed in and out of the building. The result was that a short time after dark it was filled with the little pests, who made a great stratcMng and squealing. The remainder of the bats, finding their usual place of exit stopped up, looked about for another, and discovered a small hole iu the plastering of the ceiling. Through this hole they made their way in great numbers, and found themselves prisoners in the sleeping apartment of two young women. The latter, aroused from their slumber by a mysterious noise, aud feel ing their faces fanned by invisible wings, became alarmed and sprang from the bed, but their feet came down upon a mass of squirming, stratching, and biting somethings, while other somethings struck them in the face and on the head and body, chattering viciously, and causing a disagreeably cold and damp feeling. It was not a pleasant situation by any means, ana the girls opened the door and hastened into tbe hall, calling for assistance, closely followed by their tormentors. Other occupants of the house, alarmed at the noise, opened their doors to see what the trouble was, but were glad to close them again to keep out the bats. Some of the boarders desired to go down stairs, but every step was a bat-roost, and they had to get out upon the balconies. Afier much hard work, which lasted nearly until daylight, the animals were driven or swept from the upper story down into the basement, where they were gathered into a heap, so far as possible, and killed by the application of boiling water. Those thus killed numbered, by actual count, seven hundred and sixty, and the girls subse quently killed four more in their room. The trap was placed in a washtub filled with water and its occupants drowned. There being considerable curiosity to ascertain the number of bats a five-gallon measure could hold, they were counted, and amounted to two hundred and twenty- eight. The slain, all told, filled four buckets. Yesterday, the opening in the ceiling in the girls’ apartment was plastered up, and the trap was again set. Last evening it was well filled, judging from the noise, and it was estimated that there was a “right smart chance” of bats about that place. A New Republican Platform. We learn that various prominent lead ers of the Republican party in Ohio have been engaged in the preparation of a new platform, by means of which they hope to rescue their party and themselves from the overflowing scourge which now threatens them with destruction. We have procured a copy of this project from which so great a miracle is hoped, aid here it is; PLATFORM OF PRINCIPLES. 1. Favoring an amendment to the Na tional Constitution forbidding appropria tions of pablic money, property, or credit for the benefit of any institution under sectarian control. 2. Taxation of all property, excepting public property and cemeteries. 3. All church property to be held by trustee*, composed of members of ■ tho congregation, society or institution using the property. 4. Compulsory education. Favoring a law requiring all children to be educated, either in private or public schools. 5. Favoring an amendment to the Na tional Constitution requiring all new vo tors, after the adoption of the amend ment, to be able to read and write in Engtish before exercising the elective franchise. 6. An effective registration law, for the purpose of preserving the parity of the ballot box. 7. The passage of a iaw to prevent threats or intimidation of any kind, ec clesiastical or otherwise, for the purpose of influencing parents or guardians against sending their children to the pub lie schools. 8. The passage of a law to prevent threats or intimidation of any Kind, ec clesiastical or otherwise, for the purpose of inflaencing the voter in exercising his right of elective franchise. We regret to remark that there is noth ing in all this that is new; every one of these propositions we haw heard of be fore ; and most of them, we are sorry to say, as they are stated here, have a dog matic color and an ecclesiastical squint that are exceedingly objectionable in tMngs political. The most remarkable points to this programme are, first, the absence of that proposition to inflate the currency and make the silver coin of the United States a legal tender, which is now to greatly in favor with the Ohio Republi cans, and especially with Mr. Hayes; and secondly, the manifestation of a desire to disfranchise the negroes of the South by a constitutional amendment making read ing and writing a universal qualification of voters. Mr. Hayes and his administration have already turned their backs on the old principles of the Republican party by abandoning the negro to his fate; and it is not surprising to see such an indi cation of their disposition to deprive the black man of the elective franchise.—N. T. Sun. A Plea for Reconciliation. Gen. Lew Wallace delivered the Deco ration Day address at New Albany, Ind., and it was a noble plea for reconciliation and peace. The keynote of the whole is in the following extract: “I move a call for a convention of the citizen soldiers of the North aud South, participants in the late war, to consider how a full, hearty, perfected reconciliation can ba effected between the sections. A few weeks ago I met an excellent Confederate soldier to the ante.chamber of the White House. We talked over a battle in which we had been engaged on our respective sides. As we were separating he held to my hand and said: ‘Sir, if they would refer the business to ns, we soldiers could soon set tie it.’ The speaker was Gen. John B. Gordon, now a Senator from Georgia. My motion is his thought put in practical form. Will the Confederates meet us in convention ? If they do not, we have demonstrated our good will towards them, and, if the day of calamity come again, the reference will serve us well. If they do meet us—and I believe they will—and we resolve our selves into some permanent association as I believe we can—who shall refuse our txample ? If we fought each other iu the field, can forget our enmity, and of our battles even make bonds of renewed fraternity, the civilian and stay-at-home will not cry out against us—he cannot for shame. Accord is impossible, some one wiil say— impossible for want of a basis. You obseive, my friends, how carefully, considering my limited time, I strove to define and interpret what, in need of a better name, I call the Americanism Understand now why I dwell upon it. offer it as a ground of reconciliation. I it broad enough ? I said it was a belief that the whole country belongs to us and each of us, and that whatever we chance to be in the country no man has better rights than another, or more of them Broad enough! Why the world could stand upon it as a united community. Ladies and gentlemen, what I wish that the men who scarred the continent with trench and canonshot, and flecked it with cemeteries like this, may meet iu reunion, if bnt once, under the eyes of the nation. I think it a rule in wMch you may trust—nobody will find the way to peace as certainly as a veteran . weary of war.” A little girl has just exhibited great heroism in Pictou, N. S. She was only seven years old, and was with her brother, aged five years, locked up by her mother on going out. Some female wearing ap parel took fire from a lamp. Alice, the little girl, knew that the key was left iu the door outside. She formed the ter rible project of jumping from the third story window, and thus releasing her brother. Lowering herself by the arms as tar as possible, she dropped a distance of thirty-five feet. Her clothes buoyed her up and she was not much injured But when she rushed np to the chamber door and opened it her brother was gone. He too had crawled out of the window to see where his sister had gone, and fell to the ground. He was somewhat scratched but not seriously injured. An arm and leg of tho daring girl are hurt, but not seriously. ah Sin’s Game of Poker.-—The Silver State tells as follows how a Nevada Chi naman was inducted into one of the mysteries of American civilization There is an angry Chinaman in town to day. He engaged in a friendly game of draw last evening with a white man who had been studying “Schenck’s Poker Rules.’’ They played for an hour or two wi^iont any apparent advantage on either side. The Chinaman got four kings and an ace, and according to his barbaric ideas of the game, that was an invincible hand. He saw his adversary’s bets and kept raising him until there was $410 in coin to the pot, and he had no more to bet. He then called, throwing down four kings and an ace, and was horrified when his adversary showed four aces and king, and took the money. He does not yet seem to understand why there were so many aces and kings in the deck. General Dick Taylor, ex-Confederate officer, son of the ex-President, and resident of London, plays a good game of whist. Onoe, they say, when the King of Deumark was visiting his daughter, she sent for “Prince Dick” to make up a game witb her father. Taylor won largely, and laaghmgiy said to the King: “Your Majesty cannot find fault; I am only getting back those sound dues my country paid Denmark for so many years.” Misa Had.ock, of Newport, Vt., met to the street a man who had circulated derogatory stories about htr. She had prepared herself for tho occasion. First, she took pepper from a pocket and threw it in his eyes; secondly, she took a raw- hide from her bustle and struck him several times with it; thirdly, she took a rotten egg from a hand bag and smashed it in his face. Here is a simple verse, written by Sir Matthew Hale, Chief Justice of England, two hundred years ago : A Sabbath well spent, Brirgs a week of content. And health of the joys of to-morrow ; Bnt a Sabbath profaned, Whate’er may be gained, Is a snre forerunner of sorrow.” [From the San Antonio Express.] A little flurry of excitement was occa sioned yesterday morning by a report made by a hackman that in the honse of Mexican woman named Jesusa Reseu- dez, west of the San Pedro, a human skeleton was concealed. The hackman reported to Deputy Marshal Shardien that he opened a trunk belonging to this woman, in which he found a small box carefully wrapped with a piece of oil cloth, and the fact exciting his curiosity he opened the box and found it to contain hnrnan bones. Shardien proceeded to the house in question and made inquiry con cerning the matter, but the woman denied any knowledge of the reported skeleton. Her manner, however, convinced the officer that she was deceiving him, and a search of the premises was instituted. This search resulted in the finding of the skeleton, the bones being placed in a bag, all jumbled together, and hung up to a closet in the house. The woman was brought before Justice Houston in the afternoon, and an examination of the affair was made. The woman’s statement to the Justice was straightforward and reasonably accounted for the “skeleton to the closet,” yet a singular story withal. She said she lived here about seven years ago, and had a boy about fifteen years of age. She moved to Victoria about that time and shortly afterwards her boy, who was in poor health while here, died. The re mains were buried near Victoria, and some time afterwards—about three years ago, we understand—the graveyard where the remains were interred fell into private hands, and the owner announced that he intended to cultivate the ground and that parties who had friends buried there could remove their remains; otherwise the graves would be obliterated. The woman's affection for her dead boy was too strong to lose trace of his reBting-place, and she had all that was 1* ft of him, the skeleton, ex humed. She was very poor, had no money with which to purchase a coffin and have the bones buried in any graveyard, so she kept them in a box awai.ing the time when she could have them interred according to her desire. She learned their hiding place in the trunk had been discovered, and fearing they would be taken from her, she placed them in the bag and hung them in the closet where they were found. A physician of this city who had at tended the woman’s boy while here, cor roborated that part of the story, and de clared that some hairs still adhering to the skull were of the same color as the hair of the sick boy. As no charge of a criminal nature could be sustained against the woman she was discharged, and tbe bones of her boy will now, no doubt, find a final resting place. As various and conflicting reports grew out of the affair, it excited no little com ment on the streets. Mr. Stanley Matthews, of Ohio, is the trading politician of the Fraudulent Ad ministration. He manages its jobbing business, secures its influence in getting a Senatorship for himself, and proourea from it offices for the men who are serviceable to him. An office hunter needs nothing more than Stanley Mat thews’ recommendation to Hayes; and Hayes will give anybody an office who can show him the recommendation of Stanley Matthews. Consequently, the demands upon Stanley Matthews are very numerous and very pressing; and, as he cannot keep everybody and everything iu the front part of his head all the time, he sometimes gets into a state of confusion. Two office hunters from Ohio appeared before Hayes the other day. It turned out that both of the‘m were applicants for the same office—Supervising Inspector of Steamboats at Pittsburg. One of them, who had helped Stanley Matthews into the Senate, delivered Hayes his let ter of recommendation, which bore the familiar signature of Stanley Matthews j and thereupon the other applicant, a Cin cinnati ward politician useful to Stanley Matthews, gave Hayes his letter of re commendation, which also bore the fami liar signature of Stanley Matthews. Hayes was in a fix. What could he do but refer both of the men back to Stanley Matthews ? and what could Stanley Mat thews do but tell Hayes he must somehow find offices for both of them ? They could not both be Supervising Inspectors of steamboats at Pittsburg; but perhaps one could supervise and the other inspect, while both drew their salaries. The in fluence and jobbery of Stanley Matthews are not confined to Ohio ; and everybody in the United States who wants an office from Hayes will find it advantageous to make the application through Stanley Matthews.—N. Y. Sun. Attempt to Assassinate a Corres pondent.—Mr. J. B. Stiltsou, the Salt Lake City correspondent of the New York Herald, telegraphs that there has been two attempts made to assassinate him in the Mormon capital. Last Satur day evening, whilst he was being driven through the streets of the city, a man who had posted himself fired at the cor respondent, fortunately without result. This attempt at assassination was supple mented by another on Thursday. Whilst Mr. Stillson was aloue in his room a man made his appearance with a paper in his left hand, which he extended, saying, “Here is an affidavit which interests you.” Stillson reached, for the paper, when the man pulled a short knife and struck him a heavy blow on his left hreast and then hurried away. Unprepared for snch an attempt, Stillson was knocked behind a table. The point of the knife passed through a postal card and two photographs on pasteboard and glanced off from a suspender buckle againBt which it struck, and which is badly bent by the blow. The only injury is a sore rib. The same man is supposed to be guilty of tfle two attempts, but the cause of them is not known. To a paper which urges in favor of the reissue of silver dollars, that silver has intrinsic value, the New York Post re plies: “So lead has intrinsic value. Why not declare for a. leaden currency ?” but is apparently stupidly blind to the fact that its argument is quite as pertinent against the case of gold as of silver. But the question now is not whether silver is a good material to make money of, only whether the mintB should be instructed to coin what is already authorized by the Constitution and the law. The silver dollar is to-day an unlimited legal tender, and if there were any of the old issue in existence the tender of a thousand of them in payment of a debt would be a lawful tender of payment which the courts would be compelled to recognize. Silver has never been demonetized to this country, and consequently those who favor silver money are not asking the remonetization of silver money, but the reissue of silver dollars.—<Sf. Louis Re publican. Whittemore, ex cadet-peddler and lar cenous carpet-bag legislator of South Carolina, has marched without empedi- ment into the bowels of Massachusetts, and Massachusetts feels very sick. But Massachussets ought not be discouraged. She got rid of Whittemore onee before, when he had been caught swindling, by making him chaplain of a regiment dur ing the war. Why not ordain him now as a fnissionary, and let him steal awhile away to Kemper county or any other place where a good article of preaching is needed and where there isn’t much lying around that be could pick up ?—Neic York Tri/mne. Finley Verity, a young marrried man of Roslyn, L. L, some days ago eloped with his wife’s sister and has not since been heard of. The companion of his flight is only fourteen years old. Shot by His Own Spring-Gun.—A fatal and very distressing accident occur red near New Market, Pa., yesterday morning, resulting in the instant death of a young man named William Roller, son of Samuel Roller, Esq. It appears young Roller had seta spring-gun for the punishment of some thief who had been depredating on the property. Going to the barn and forgetting for the moment the deadly device attached to the door, he thoughtlessly pushed it open and was instantly made a victim to his own in genuity, a heavy charge of shot being lodged in his bowels. A Sad Suicide.—The suicide of Hon. Elisha Watson, of Wakefield, R. I, Thurs day morning, has caused a profound sen sation in that State, where he was uni versally respected. His body was found in a salt pond, where the water is only four feet deep. Mr. Watson was about sixty-five years of age. In early life he was an active politician, and represented North Kingston for many years to both houses of the Legislature. He was quite wealthy. Tbe cause of the rash act is a 1 mystery to his immediate friends. He ] was one of the foremoat men in Wash- I ington county, K. L