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tHK tali: of the terrible
FIRE.
I will tell you the tale of the terrible fire;
jtsprings from
the earth—it is dreadful and dire.
In the dark
Wintry sky,
See the spark
Upward fly;
See it grow
In its frame—
See it glow’
Into flame !
see it burning and blazing;
See it spring into life
With a vigor amazing—
How it longs for the strife !
Hoar the noise and the rattle—
How it swells, how it grows,
Hike the erash of a battle,
Hike the clash of the foes !
g^. it rushing and rising and roaring,
Se, it trying to touch a tall star;
It seem* in the sky to he soaring
yke a flag of fierce flame from afar,
gee it turning and burning and braving—
*" v> e «- it >treaming and gleaming and red 1
Vh t he smoke in the air now is waving
Uke a winding sheet of dull lead.
Hear it laugh with wild glee at each futile en
deavor
t ( .quench or to quell its exuberant force;
Iti« flaming anu free and fantastic forever;
1j delights and exults with no pang of re
morse.
With no pain, with but ptssion—mad passion—
it quivers
With its pennon of scarlet, the l/oodiest hue,
With its gleaming streams and its rearing
rivers,
It lares to do all things that flame dares to do,
jj, ,w it darts, how it dances and dashes.
though it had taken for aim,
To reduce all the world into ashes
And to fling all the stars into flame'!
it is glittering and glowing and glaring—
And raging it ring 1 s its own knell;
it is showing its wonderful daring—
|t is turning the sky into hell!
Jlow it lazily lingers
With its KW--U and its fall;
With its fiery fingers
Weirdly weaving a pall;
With its horrible hisses,
Like the wind in a storm;
With its blistering kisses,
()n face and on form !
Of its flashes
Bereft.
< )nly ashes
Are left;
Tili its cries
Tell its doom—
\nd it dies
In the gloom.
1 have told vou the tale of the terrible fire;
It has sung’ its last song to Its luminous lyre—
I; has sung its last song, it has breathed its last
breath,
It has lived without life, it has died without
death.
From Appleton 8 Journal for July.
Georgia Affairs.
The Western and Atlantic Railroad gives
notice that all teachers in the State wishing
to attend the connection of the Teachers
Association, to be held at Barnesville on the
31st proximo, can secure tickets at reduced
rates by writing to Mr. W. B. Bonn ell,
Secretary of the Association. All the other
railroads of the State will allow those who
pay lull fare going, to return free on pre
sentation of a proper certificate signed by
the President and the Secretary of the Con
vention. A very interesting programme has
been prepared, and a full attendance of edu
cators from the schools and colleges of the
State is earnestly desired and fully expected.
Says the notice referred to: “Every live
teacher should atteud; the dead ones should
remain at home.”
Colonel H. II. Jones, one of the editors
and proprietors of the Macon Telegraph and
Messenger, has been appointed a member of
the Board of Visitors and Examiners to the
State University by Governor Colquitt.
The closing exercises of the Albany High
School will he held, commencing on the
18th and closing on the 20th instant. Dr.
J. P. Stevens, of Lee county, oue of the
most cultivated gentlemen of the State and
one who ranks very highly as a chemist, will
deliver a scientific address, and Hon. F. C.
Furman, of MiUedgeville, will deliver the
annual address on the afternoon of the same
day.
The Confederate Powder Mills chimney at
Augusta, which towered aloft over the gov
ernment powder works there during the late
war, is tu be preserved as an enduring mon
ument of the sanguinary’ struggle. General
Stovall says: “ This noble structure has the
desi^m of a magnificent obelisk monument, of
nineteen feet base and about one hundred and
sixty feet altitude, and is constructed of the
best materials, and with an eye to taste
and correctness of proportions.
Governor Colquitt has, it is said, fully
made up his mind to reappoint the present
incumbent, Dr. T. P. Janes, Commissioner
•°f Agriculture.
E.x-Governor Brown and wife have gone
off on a visit to California and the great
West. They will be absent about six weeks.
Captain J. F. Burke has a grand scheme
on hand for carrying the Gate City Guards,
of Atlanta, on an excursion across the
°eean to Europe about the first of June
D ext. He proposes to charter a steamer and
Si her up as a floating hotel. He then pro
poses to carry enough passengers to defray
fhs expenses, and in this way the company
*111 Ret across for a merely nominal price
f*rhead. The scheme reads well, and if it
proves successful, the participants in the
Reunion will have a first-clas3 and jolly
,1Dle - The {>arty will be absent, if they go,
■^ut sixty-five days.
The Hamilton (Harris county) Journal
noes not think that famous “ new party in
tic Soutj, amounts to a great deal. It says:
The new party in the South is very largely
composed of Hon. A. IL Stevens ai
faster General Key. In fact # they <
*he entire new party.”
*be late failure of Messrs. Co
Hulelmrst & Co., of Macon, is very
criticized la this week’s Central
A colored brother wr» lately arr
‘-riapkia, as the Indepmia* puts
toi ordering his pork from Louisvill
Preferred that of oue of UIs white
citizens.
young men—one of Baldwin and the
r *her of Berrien county—are arranging for
*° 01 race at Alapaha on the 4th of July,
he animals are in training aud will be rid-
' len <*n that occasion by their respective
'"Tiers. Betting on the result promises to
•* lively.
The Meriwether Vindicator says that the
’ A, «ai crop Of that county is not turning out
44 "o 11 ns was expected.
Colttahus is preparing for a good time on
'0tiring Fourth.
ahlonega. Mountain Signal: “A man liv-
kiri H i Xinjbl ewiil district, we are informed,
♦hi 6 , tw elve rattlesnakes in one day, and
Slier ” WCre not right for th<? busine8S
Tnere teems to be a kind of reaction
Uatt U ?J iout State regarding the case of
luariny Sothern. A good many papers
* ‘t'ginnipg to talk like the Macon Tele-
tyt 1 "’"I Messenger of Sunday, which says:
comments on the evidence jn the
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR. SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1878. ESTABLISHED 1850.
bothem case yesterday on the streets were
w^» »h ge t n 1^ L The P reTail >ne impression
£ h .at the amount of public sentiment
which had been expended on the unfortu
nate woman was a pure waste of the ma
terial, and the justice of her present sen
tence was frequently spoken of. The
evidence is very damaging to her side of
the case, and, under it, the jury would not
have impartially discharged their duty had
they found any other verdict than that ren-
dered, and the general opinion was in sup
port of the Governor.”
Friday afternoon last, says the Conxti-
.**• lwo wb Re men reached Atlanta by
the W estern and Atlantic Railroad as prison
ers. They were in the care of the Sheriff of
Harralson county and one other guard.
I he men were fastened together
securely with a rope. Upon in
quiry at the jail yesterday afternoon
hff ornie< l that the men were Hora
tio Chisholm aud Claudius Chisholm, two
brothers, and were charged with the mur
der of E. L. Lambert, who was killed about
eighteen miles from Cedartowm, in Harral
son county, on the 19th of April last. The
men were originally from Polk county, but
w ere arrested in Harralson county three
days after the murder was committed. The
Chisholm brothers appear to be about the
ages of twenty-six and thirty. They have
had a preliminary examination, and, failing
to give bond, have been committed. The
elder Chisholm thinks that he and his
brother will be admitted to bail in a few
days, as the amount of the bond required
for himself and brother has already been
assessed.”
The Lumpkin Independent records the fol
lowing very narrow escape: “One day last
week while the family of Mr. J. J. Dowd,
of this county, were all out in the yard near
his house, a cloud arose rather suddenly
and a large oak tree, around which they were
at work, was struck by lightning. Pieces of
the bark were scattered all around them,
and some of it lodged upon their persons.
A shot-gun leaning against the tree had a
large plug torn from the stock. Fortunately
no one was hurt, though they were all
somewhat shocked.”
Columbus must have some hilarious old
culprits within her limits, who look upon
the chain gang as a huge joke. The Times
of the ifith says: “One of the prisoners,
while Dcing sentenced yesterday by the
court to the chaiu gang, w as so overcome
with laughter that he could hardly contain
himself. He had been convicted of hog
stealing, and was recommended by the jury
to the mercy of the court. This circum
stance saved him from the penitentiary, and
it was probably this that made him feel 60
good. He kept the spectators, members of
the bar and all others full of laugh at his
quaint aud comic appearance, and the veiy
good humor which he evinced. Even the
court was affected, and with some little
difficulty, managed to pronounce a sentence
of twelve months upon the culprit. We
learn that this prisoner is an old chain
ganger, and while a member of that honor
able body in former time, performed the
duties of chaplain. He will again have an
opportunity of carrying his missionary
labors into a field where there is full oppor
tunity for extensive and vigorous work.”
Columbus Enquirer-Sun: “Mr. II. Blan
chard, of Boston, the purchaser of the
North and South Railroad, is certainly the
gentleman to get the extension of this road
in hand. He is an experienced man in this
business, aud can control ample means to
do the work. He has the very highest re
commendations from some of the best
bankers of the country as c, gentleman of
able business capacity and qualifications,
and one iu whom great trust cau be placed—
one of the strictest integrity.”
Greensboro Herald: “A farmer came into
town the otLer day and spent all the morn
ing trying to convince everybody that a
stock law would ruin the county. At twelve
o r clock he went around to his buggy to eat
his dinner and feed his horse, out some
town stock had investigated that buggy aud
didn’t leave him a biscuit nor a blade of
fodder. He didn’t say whether or not he
had changed his opinion about the law’, but
he made a very significant remark—he said
‘dash it.’ ”
the arrest of Holder, and officers went in
search of him. At this writing nothing has
been heard of Holder.”
The Welbora correspondent of the Lake
City Reporter writes : “ A few nights ago, a
colored man living on the edge of town
heard a very strange noise at his door about
two o’clock a. m. He got up and asked
who was there, and was answered by a
scratch on the door. Not seeming to un
derstand that kind of language, he asked
again, aud heard another scratch. Feeling
alarmed at not getting an answer, he called
up his w ife and fastened all the windows
and doors, and they sat there until daylight,
expecting every minute to see some one
break the door down. When it was light
enough to see, be crawled out of the window
and peeped around the corner of the house,
and to his utter astonishment found a huge
alligator trying to gain admittance. He was
so enraged at nis ‘gatorship’ for frightening
him that he took his axe and killed him anu
feasted on ’gator tail soup for dinner.”
The Tampa Guardian reports that “ a
short time since Mr. W. J. Ott, of Rockville,
Indiana, who, together with his brother-
in-law, has been improving a place about
three miles north of Tampa, was found lying
dead in the door of the residence in which
they both lived. He was thought to be
asleep when first seen lying in the door;
but, being called, his sad fate was dis
covered. lie is thought to have died of
heart disease, as Le had been subject to it
for many years.”
Lake City Reporter: “Each county is or
ganizing joint stock companies and prepar
ing to hold a fair in the fall or winter. Shall
Columbia be behind? In many instances
these joint stock companies have already
purchased, the grounds and buildings for
their fairs. Let us not become indifferent
to this important measure and suffer our
county to be behind the rest in the State.”
Speaking of sugar culture in Florida, the
Palatka Herald says: “Without attempting
in the least to excite speculation in this
matter, we may say the yield of sugar under
fair cultivation is enormous. No exertion
of labor has paid so well since the placer
digging of California. No crop i6 more
free from insect enemies, and from the
length to the breadth of Florida it is free
from any injurious influence of its great
enemy in Louisiana and Texas as it is in
Cuba or Mauritius. It grows most luxuri
antly in the rich hammock lands aud will
grow admirably in all good pine lands
throughout the State. It is profitable in
patches of half an acre, more so in fields of
five to ten acres, and would be immensely
so In plantations of from fifty to one hun
dred acres.”
Palatka Herald: “There arc iu places
along the banks of the * St. John’s river
mineral springs of various kiuds. The in
habitants plant corn, potatoes, sugar cane,
vegetables and bananas, which, with the
abundance of fish aud wild game, gives
them a comfortable living. Hogs aud cattle
keep in good order all the year round and
increase very fast; cattle increase thirty-
three and one-third per cent, per annum
after taking out all required for beef. The
climate in winter is invigorating—iu sum
mer we have cool, bracing breezes, fresh
from the bosom of the ocean, renewing to
life and all the while preventing fatigue.
As a general tiling, farmers enjoy good
health' especially when they take care of
themselves.”
A gentleman from Callahan reports to the
Sun and Press that the storm of the 11th was
quite severe in that section. At Callahan
itself there was a little hail, though not
enough to do much damage, but a mile east
of the place the storm, attended with hail,
burst forth, tearing up and demolishing the
crops of corn, cotton, potatoes, etc., and
demolishing the fences completely. Messrs.
T. J. Landers, Jackson Booth, A. Barber,
aud Abram Oglesby, suffered severely in
their crops. The storm continued to pro
gress eastward, with a width of about a half
a mile, and iu its course blew down the
house of Mrs. Smith, killed chickens, cap
sized stables and created a general havoc.
Hailstoues from the size of a partridge’s
egg to that of a pullet’s covered the ground
in places to the depth of several inches, and
fell with such force as to pierce half through
the watermelons lying on the ground.
Florida Affairs.
Palatka has a population of over fifteen The Reign of Corruption,
hundred, and supports three hotels and half NashmUe American.
a dozen churches.
A boy of eighteen and a widow of fifty-
one were recently married in Madison
county, Florida. An exchange estimates
that suppose they reach the full measure of
time allotted to man, three-score and ten,
she will have but nineteen years yet to live,
while he will have fifty-two,
A grand ball, which is to be tlte event of
the season, is announced to come off at the
White Sulphur Springs, near Like City, on
the 20th inst. Everything to make it a suc
cess will be done, and a splendid time is
anticipated.
The Mobile Register congratulated Pensa
cola on the movement to establish a line of
steamers to Havana and Aspinwall, and pre
dicts that in course of time the bulk of the
Central and South American trade will, by
such enterprises as these, be transferred
from England to the United States*
The Mobile Register takes this cheering
and hopeful view of Florida : “No State in
the Union promises better for future de
velopment than Florida. Already her lum
ber, cattle, aud fruit interests aFe of consid
erable magnitude. Her lumber product
alone amounts to over $10,000,000 annually.
But what gives the greater promise to Florida
is the adaptability of her soil to tropical
production. All the valuable products of
the southern countries can be made to yield
there in abundance.”
The Board of Commissioners of Sumter
have repealed the game law in that county.
The cause of education is gaining ground
in Suwannee county. From the Live Oak
Expositor we learn that the Board of Public
Instruction for that county met at the court
house hi Live Oak on the 12th instant, and
after a most rigid examination, a number of
Dersous were commissioned as teachers and
contracted with to take charge of the public
'schools for a term of three months. Thirty
public schools were organized in this coun
tv together with much other important
business, after which the board adjourned
to meet on the first Tuesday of July next.
The young men of Pensacola are amusing
themselves °in fine style with fox hunts.
Not “Queen's county hunts, either, but
genuine, live foxes are what they are after.
“ A man iu Tampa lately became so very
much under the influence of old rye that be
mistook a poor old dog on the street for a
whole pack, and, drawing his pistol began
to try and “thin ’em out.” He fired one
shot, and very shortly after found himself in
jail, ,
Informal!*))! was received in Pensacola on
Sunday of last week, by letter from Apa
lachicola, that the boilers of Coombs A
Mcllvaine’s saw mill at that place had ex
ploded, demolishing the greater portion of
the mill, wrecking the engine, killing three
negroes and the eldest son of Mr. Coombs,
a lad aged about twelve years, who unfor
tunately were in the mill at the time- Says
the Advance ‘'The frequency of Ihcee tasu :
alties are terribly suggestive of the need of
experienced engineers or greater caution on
b.
ville Times: “Thomas B. Holder
killed Mr. David Kite, a highly re-
■itizen of tlq» county, on last Mon-
10th inst. The killing was done
-e miles from Gainesville, on the
ad between 3 and 4 o’clock in the
, uncKt the following circum-
Tbere had been a fsmily feud be-
e deceased and Holder relative t.
ibution of so.nc propenv.D Wt.cb
of Holder was interested, and for
. brought suit agaiust the deceased
o' the difficulty. Both were iu
He on that day. Mr. Kite, in com-
h his brother, John Kite, and Mr.
oorhee, started home between Z and
in the afternoon, and were over-
Holder a short distance from the
the killing. Holder then approached
cursed him. and stressed adeter-
’to settle their dispute
SSSSSSSKStfSteR
ider! aud was in tl)e act of turning
off from his assailant waan Holder
n him with a pistol. The hall peqe-
e head of Kite about a quarter of
above the left eve, zjjd produced
a few moments- The parties prps-
notified Judge Gardner, e*-
nce . v ftuiumou£<i a au 4
jroner, Wu. ® . jwith a. ver-
st was had of d ‘, ceased
effect that tne sa» -
his death by a pistol 6h°', fr °“ h
Thomas B. Holder,
mas B. Holder feloniously, )rtUuUy
nalige aforethought, did then.and
1 and murder tin) said Da '! d V^e
e rendition of the , e,.dmt of the
lee Gardner Issued » wajrjdi!
Oh, it is a beautiful state of affairs—
carpet baggism tainting the whole ad
ministration of affairs in the South, cor
rupting al! Republican rank and file
and the foul waters of that corrupt pool
rising and enveloping even the highest
judicial officer in the country. The
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court even
is made the repository of a secret which
it was a crime to know, and offers to use
his influence to procure an office for the
fellow who holds an agreement which, if
false in its statements, was a felony; if
true, an evidence of felony'. On such
testimony we are not willing to say we
believe the eiiarge against Judge Harlan;
but when the Republican party has
poisoned the very sources of public virtue
when its festering corruption has been
held closed under hatches, seething
in secre*, until it has permeated
every seam, nook and cranny iu the
ship of Plate, and tainted with or exposed
to disease all on hoard who can fail to at
tend to such a charge, even when it in
volves the highest judicial office. When
we remember that Bradley turned a deaf
ear to all demand foi inquiry into fraud,
and that Judge Strong said, after that
decision, that he feared ail was not right,
and yet, before the decision, refused to
examine to see whether it was not, how
are wo to allow one step more of eleva
tion to prevent the consideration of such
a charge. The entire party is tainted
and corrupted by false principles, low
and false standards of political mor
ality. The necessity for the use of
the lowest, vilest and most ignorant
means has engrafted the principle that
the end sanctifies the means, and the
end aimed at has sunk to he as low as
the means employed. If such disclo
sures do not convince the Northern peo
ple of a necessity of a change, this
country is not yet through with evil
times. The people can purify the at
mosphere by retiring the party' of false
principles, low standards, and corrupt
methods, and compelling Hie other party
to adhere to a high standard, or they can
wait for a thunderstorm to purify the
air. Assuredly purification will come,
fortunately, terrible as is the alternative.
The corrupt conditions of our past and
preserft politics are those which produce
politic al and social cataclism.
Waiving the matter of the truth of the
Harlan disclosure, it is enough to show
how fearfully prevalent corruption and
chicane, that with unblushing impu
dence men of low and brutal instincts,
ward bummers and cringing hounds,
crawling serpents, who in ordinary peri
ods slink away from the light and bite
from the bush, do not hesitate to seek the
capitol and the hall of justice, to demand
aid of the highest, and to accuse Supreme
Judges. It is enough that license has so
imbued such creatures with unblushing
effrontery that they dare accuse such
men. Without regard to the truth, that
fact alone is enough to show how fatally
the party has poisoned Hie entire system,
and cast up into daylight the rotting
wrack ftom the depths to fosier and ex
hale its foul vapors in the daylight, in
the open air.
\y iien foulness has reached the climax,
and effrontery' has brought the worst
elements out into the open day' to walk
shamelessly in the light, it is at least
where we can see, ani recognize and
correct it. The disease has come to the
surface. The whole country can now
know the evil and apply the remedy.
Pope's villa at Twickenham—the place
which he purchased in 1715, and lived in
until his death in 1744—has just been
offered for sale and bought in for $45.
50b. ' It was stafed, however, that this
sum was nominal, and that tffs property
will probably' he purchased privately at a
less sum. The property offered included
the whole of the grounds, five acres in
extent, with the cedars and other valua
ble growing timber, together with the
celebrated grotto which the poet formed,
and which is said to remain intact to the
present day. The cedars of Lebanon,
piautod long before the poet’s time, and
probably tile oldest in England, were,
with the rest of the timber on the estate,
LSlitnated to be worth $20,000.
A young lawyer in Lynn, Mass., has
jepai ated from i s wife, to whom he had
been married only eight months, because
she attended a circus In the evening with
her father- That young man s morality
must he of tl o most exasperating sort.
The right thing in the right place is with
out doubt Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup, the best
remedy for babies while teething. Price,
only 35 cents a bottle. It
BY TELEGRAPH.
NOON TELEGRAMS.
THE CONGRESS.
ITS SECOND SITTING-SUBJECTS
OF DISCUSSION.
The Quefttlon* Which Threaten the
Success of the Body.
By Cable to the Morning News.
Berlin, June 17.—The Congress meets at
two o’clock this afternoon. The Bulgarian
question will be likely to come up for dis
cussion first, then the Montenegrin and Ser
vian questions—Prince Bismarck having, it
is said, submitted a plan for taking up the
respective chapters of the treaty of San
Stefauo iu the order of their importance,
and of the amount of opposition they are
likely to meet.
The questions which threaten the suc
cess of the Congress are believed to be
the cession of Antivari to Montenegro,
the position of Bourne!ia iu relation to
Turkey, and of the administrative and gov
ernmental organization of Roumelia. Aus
tria and Italy will oppose the cession of
Antivari. Russia alone, or perhaps Russia
and Germany, will uphold it, but this ques
tion mav be compromised or Russia may
j-ield. England, France, Austria, Turkey,
and perhaps Italy will uphold an anti-Rus
sian arrangement -or organization of Rou
melia. On these questions it is thought
England and Austria cannot yield. Russia
can and must. Her friends allege she will
not, but such assertions are probably in
tended to mislead and influence forces
which are contesting Russia’s claims. The
fact is the war party was banished from
the capital when Iguatieff went to Kieff;
at least, this is the belief of well qualified
observers of Russiau public opinion. Bes
sarabia will be yielded to the personal
wishes of the Czar, aud Roumania
will accept Dobrudja in exchange. Terri
torial concessions in Armenia will not at
least meet opposition from England. The
question of a war indemnity will be settled
by the appointment of a commission to col
lect Turkish revenues and pay over a certain
proportion to Russia annually, or to capi
talize such proportion by a foreign loan and
pay the Russian claim in bulk. One nota
ble feature in all these speculations is that
they omit to take any account of possible
opposition from the Turks themselves.
This omissiou is only justifiable on the as
sumption that all the modifications of the
treaty of San Stefano, which the powers
will deinaud, are to be in favor of Turkey,
which is not by any means certain.
Coratheodori Pasha is making prepara
tions for a vigorous representation of 1 urk-
ish interests before the Congress,, but his
position iuvery unpleasant.
GENERAL REVIEW OF THE COT
TON CROP.
Extensive Fire—Loss Over 8700,000.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
The Trial and Punishment of Ex-
Secretary Robeson Recommended.
A GENERAL STRIKE APPRE
HENDED.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE POTTER
INVESTIGATION.
Kellogg to Appear When De.lred.
GENERAL DISPATCHES.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Washington, June 17.—In the Senate
this morning Mr. Thurman, of Ohio, intro
duced a bill to repeal sections 830 and 821
of the Revised Statutes iu regard to chal
lenging jurors in United States courts who
have taken up arms against the government,
and providing that jurors in such courts
shall take the iron clad oath. Referred to
the Committee on the Judiciary.
Mr. Conkling, of New York, from the Ju
diciary Committee, reported an amendment
to the sundry civil hill appropriating three
hundred thousand dollars to defray the ex
penses of the United States courts. Re
ferred to the Committee on Corporations.
After brief discussion the Senate passed
without amendment the House bill to organ
ize the life saving service. It now goes to
the President for his signature. It author
izes the Secretary of the Treasury to estab
lish a number of new stations on the sea and
lake coasts of the United States, and pro
vides for the appointment of a General Su
perintendent of the life saving service by
the President; also the appointment of a
District Superintendent for the Gulf coast
of the United States by the Secretary of the
Treasury. It fixes the compensation of
keepers, prescribes the duty of the General
Superintendent, keepers, etc.
Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, submitted
the following:
Ar-vV/vrf, That the Committee on Educa
tion and Labor be instructed to inquire into
the industrial condition of the country to
the extent of the nature and causes of de
pression of business and enforced idleness
of iabor, and what remedies, if any, can be
provided by national legislation, aud also
into the expediency of providing a perma
nent bureau in one of the Executive Depart
ments for the purpose of gathering and pub
lishing statistics of national industries, and
that the committee report by bill or other
wise. Agreed to.
The Senate by a vote of yeas 34, nays 30,
refuses to reconsider the vote by which the
joint resolution in regard to the eight-hour
law- was postponed until next session.
In the Senate, Mr. Gordon desired the
passage of several bills to remove political
disabilities, some of which had not. yet been
reported from the Judiciary Committee, but
he said there was no objection to them.
The Senate, however, refused to consider
the bills yet pending before the Committee
on the Judiciary.
The Senate is making rapid progress with
the sundry civil appropriation bill.
At 9:30 p. m. the Senate was still on the
sundry civil appropriation bill, and a num
ber of amendments of the Committee on
Appropriations in regard to the improve
ment of the capitol buildings and grounds
were agreed to. The bill will be passed
about midnight and get to a conference
committee before morning. The confer
ence committee’s report on the legislative,
judicial and executive appropriations has
been agreed to by both houses, and the bill
passed. The sundry civil bill is the only
appropriation hill yet to be passed.
The indications are for a very late if not
for an all night session.
E. S. Hammond was confirmed as District
Judge for the Western District of Ten
nessee.
In the House, the tobacco bill progressed
up to the ordering of its engrossment and
third reading. An opponent of the bill de
manded the reading of the engrossed bill,
and, as it would require two hours to en
gross it, the House proceeded in the mean
time toother business.
The conference report on the legislative
bill w-as agreed to.
No conference report has yet been made
on the post route bill, which contains the
Brazilian subsidy clause. The committee
have failed to agree, and will report their
disagreement.
At 5 p. m. the House took a recess unti 1
8, and a Democratic caucus was called.
The House Committee on Naval Affairs
concluded its investigation into the affairs
of the late administration of the Navy De
partment and adopted a resolution for the
action of the House looking to the trial and
punishment of Secretary Robeson, and of
Wood, Hanscom and Watmough, re
spectively, late Chiefs of the bureau
of Steam Engineering, Construction and
Repair and Provisions and Clothing.
The committee in presenting the resolu
tions say the evidence for the most part
is taken from the official reports and records
of. the department. The committee find
that vast amounts which, under the law,
should have been turned into the Treasury,
w ere disposed of in secret and improper
ways and the proceeds applied to naval
accounts.
Josiah Rent and L. L- Phelps were nomi
nated Commissioners for this District.
In the House evening session a message
was sent to the Senate asking that Senator
Matthews may be allowed to appearand
testify before the Potter Investigating Com
mittee.
In the post route bill it was reported that
the conference committee had been unable
to agree and a new conference was ordered.
A conference report on the Mexican
award bill -was agreed to. It authorizes
the President to reopen the awards in the
West and La Abra cases.
. In the Louisiana contested election cases
Robertson and Elam were declared entitled
to their seats, and leave to take additional
testimony was given In the Alabama con
tested cases of Harralson against Shelly.
ACCIDENTS AT A SHAM FIGHT.
Anxacows, June 17.—During a sham
battle between midshipmen and mariner,
iu presence of the board of visitors, Mid
shipman Hill had his face and eyes badly
injured with powder, and after the fight a
marine had his hand shot off through
carelessness.
GENERAL REVIEW OF THE COTTON CROP.
Washington, June 17.—The returns to
the Department of Agriculture indicate an
increase of fully three per cent, in the area
planted in cotton. The percentages, as com
pared with the acreage of 187i, are: Vir
ginia, 100 ; North Carolina, 101: South Caro
lina, 103, Georgia, 103; Florida, 100: Ala
bama, 104; Mississippi, 100: Louisiana,
101; Texas, 106 : Arkansas and Tennessee.
98. The condition of the crop is bet
ter than in June of last year, the
figures indicating it is the same as
in 1877 in Virginia, Georgia and Louisiana,
aDd higher in all other States. Thus : Vir
ginia 88, North Carolina 87, South Carolina
99, Georgia 101, Florida 98, Alabama 101,
Mississippi. Louisiana and Arkansas 98.
Tennessee 97, Texas 101; general average 99.
The stand is generally good. In limited
districts it is imperfect, owing to planting
seed of impaired vitality. The season is ten
days earlier than last year, and the crop fur
ther advanced than usual. In some districts
aud in a few localities it is three to four
weeks ahead of last year. The low condi
tion in North Carolina is the result of wet
weather and cool nights, and in South Caro
lina and Georgia planting was unusually
early, with seasonable weather, until the
first week in May, since when comparative
drought is reported.
In several districts of Georgia the pros
pects are better than for many years. In
Mississippi. Louisiana and Arkansas there
have been frequent rains in some districts,
and in some cases injuriously heavy. In
Texas there has been favorable weather and
few Insects. It is reported that the cut
worm was the partial cause of the defective
stand in many places on the Atlantic coast.
In limited areas w est of Mississippi the
plants begin to be infested with lice, though
the injury is very slight. The fields are un
usually clean in culture. Labor is increas
ing and efficient.
EXTENSn’E FIRE—LOSS *700,000.
Boston, June 17.—A fire broke out last
night in one cf the main buildings of the
extensive pork slaughtering and curing es
tablishments of Chas. H. North A Co., at
Somerville. All except one building was
destroyed. Loss *700,000 to *800,000. In
surance *150,000. The buildings consti
tute a continuous chain of structures,
six in number, and two main ones
of brick, six stories high, covering
four acres. Extensive cellars extended
under the whole range, in which a vast
amount of meat was stored in various
stages of curing. Besides the buildings,
machinery and meat in the cellars, twelve
hundred newly slaughtered hogs, thirteen
hundred live hogs, one thousand tierces,
oue thousand cases and eight hundred bar
rels of lard, a large amount of bacon and
fifteen hundred barrels of glue were de
stroyed ; also, two frame tenement houses
and ten others were slightly damaged.
Five hundred men are thrown out of em
ployment.
an apprehended general strike.
St. Locis, June 17.—The Tiuics, in an ar
ticle regarding the general strike which it
lias been alleged would be inaugurated to
day throughout the country, says there are
no indications here, either among railroad
employes or other mechanics or laboring
men, of any such movement, aud none is
apprehended by the employers of labor.
The police and municipal authorities, how
ever. have been oil the alert, and are fully
prepared to meet any emergency. Besides
having the local militia ready for immediate
action arrangements have been made with
the authorities in Washington for prompt
assistance.
THE MEXICANS .AFTER ENITED STATES
TROOPS.
Galveston, June 17.—A special to the
Sews from Eagle Pass says the Mexican
Government having discovered General
Mackenzie on their soil with American
troops has ordered Colonel Nuncio (falsely
reported dead) to take one hundred soldiers
and go after Mackenzie. Nuncio's troops
being poorly mounted, it is not expected
that they will overtake Mackenzie.
KELLOGG TO APPEAR BEFORE THE POTTER
COMMITTEE.
Washington, June 17.—Mr. Potter,
having written to Kellogg requesting him to
appear before the committee at his con
venience, Kellogg names to-day after the
morning hour of the Senate as agreeable..
To which Mr. Potter responds thanking
Kellogg for his promptness in the matter,
and promising to iuform him when his
presence will be required.
ILLICIT DISTILLING IN ALABAMA.
Washington, June 17.—Responding to
complaints from Montgomery of illicit dis
tillers in Cleburne county, Alabama, the
Internal Revenue Commissioner authorizes
the employment of sixteen men for fifteen
days to descend upon the illicit distillers
congregated at Edwardsville. This will
test the sincerity of the citizens’ offers to
aid the government in ending violations of
the law.
THE POTTER INVESTIGATION.
Washington, June 17.—In the Potter
Committee, H. Conquest Clarke, late private
secretary of Governor Kellogg, was recalled
and cross examined by Mr. McMahon, re
lative to the second set of certificates.
There were no developments. The commit
tee at 11:30 adjourned until Wednesdav, in
order to give members the opportunity to
participate in the closing business of the
present session.
THE ENGLISH STRIKE.
Blackhcrn, June 17.—Of seventy-five
meetings of operatives hell to-day, fifty re
solved to go to work at a reduction of wages.
Twenty-one resolved not to resume.
Manchester, June 17.—A large number
of operatives throughout Lancashire re
sumed work at a full reduction. The general
opinion is that the strike has ended.
MILLS TO BE STARTED.
Fall River, Mass., June 17.—The Bor
den City Mills have been placed iu the hands
of Walter C. Durfee, treasurer of the Wam-
panoog Mills, and Joseph Healy, President
of the Osborn Mills, as trustees,’with a view
to starting the mills for the purpose of re
lieving their present difficulties.
failed.
London, June 17.—James Thompson A
Son, co.n millers, of Wakefield, have failed.
Liabilities *450,000.
ACCIDENT AT THE EAST KI)ER
BRIDGE.
A Wire Cable Breaks, Killing Two
.Tien and Injuring Two More,
A serious accident occurred at the New
York anchorage of the East river bridge
on Friday, by which two of the work
men were killed and two severely injured.
The workmen had just completed the
fifteenth strand, containing two hundred
and sixty two wires, of the northern ca
ble, and*were lowering it to its final posi
tion, when the steel wire cable, an inch
and a half in diameter, which was used
in lowering, suddenly parted, and the
end of the heavy strand, relieved from
all restraint and forced by the weight of
the centre span, flew over the house tops
carrying with it the ponderous iron
tackle, and landed in the yard at the foot
of the New York tower, a few broken
telegraph wires in South street being
the only damaged property. The span
over the river between the towers fell
into the water with a tremendous crash,
throwing up an immense column of
water and narrowly missing the ferry
boat Farragut and several other river
craft. As the released tackle flew over
the anchorage it struck Thomas Blake,
one of the riggers, on the head, killing
him instantly. Henry Supple, master of
the riggers, and one of the most valued
and efficient workmen in the employ of
the company, was also struck and
knocked’off” the anchorage. He fell
about seventy feet on a pile of broken
stone, and when picked up it was found
that his skull had been fractured and
both arms broken. He died about 2:15
o’clock. Two other workmen. Thomas
McGrath and William Arbuckle, sus
tained severe though not dangerous in
juries.
A lady from Excelsior, Michigan, re
cently related her experience in "shoe
ing hens. " The object is to prevent their
scratching. She makes a boot, or stock
ing, of stout cloth, and ties it on the fedt
Then the fowls are let loose into the gar
den and fields, and they kill off the in
sects but do not injure the crops in the
least. It is amusing to sec them walk—
as though they were treading on eggs—
at first, but they soon become accus
tomed to it.
A married Eurekan desires the Repub
lican to announce, for the benefit of suf
fering humanity, tliqt onions and vinegar,
taken internally, are a sure cure for head
ache. He says he tried it last night with
perfect success. No doubt, but what
was he sitting out on the porch for, in
his night shirt, at 1 o'clock in the morn
ing ? And what lady was that prancing
around the bedroom in her night-gown,
and talking at the top of her voice ?
TREASURY BOOKKEEPING.
How a Balance wax Forced lor the
Fiscal Year 1865.
Baltimore Gazette
Washington, June 13.—In the course
of the investigations of fhe Committee
on Expenditures in the Treasury Depart
ment it has been found that in the
Treasurer's journal for June 30, 1865,
the account for the quarter and the fiscal
year is completed by seven orders for the
transfer of notes from the Washington
offices to offices at New York, Philadel
phia, Cincinnati and Louisville, the total
of these seven orders being $19,000,000.
These $19,000,000 are’ balanced by an
entry idso at the close of the account
for the quarter and the fiscal year of
$19,000,000 deposited as temporary loan
at six per cent. No depositor's name is
given either on this account or on the
list of temporary loan depositors. The
deposit is put down in a lump, as by
disbursing officers; no interest to be paid.
A close investigation of the records,
which has quietly gone on for some time,
reveals the fact that no such deposit was
made; that the entry of $19,000,000 is
false, and that the balance which it helps
to make is forced. It turns out that
the $19,000,000 were taken from the re
serve of unissued compound interest
notes at various times before June 30,
and transmitted to Assistant Treasurers
and depositaries who paid them out. This
issue of $19,000,000 was concealed, not
being even placed on the books, which
were withheld from public inspection.
The transfer order, which simply directed
the moving of notes from one point to
another in treasury offices, and did not
represent money, were put into the re
serve in place of these secretly issued
nineteen millions of notes, and were
carried on the books as cash till June 30,
when they were entered on the journals,
instead of being put down at their dates.
Meanwhile the books falsely stated that
these nineteen millions were on hand in
the reserve, when they were really in cir
culation. The transfer orders were
falsely stamped as paid by the Treasurer,
June 30, 1865. The regular books
and records do not show the
nature of the transaction, whicli had to
be very carefully examined to get at the
until. The issue was not acknowledged
in the Treasury statements for months
afterward. A certificate of temporary
loan deposit for $19,000,000 was made
out to the credit of disbursing officers,
and put away in an unusual place. This
certificate was made out July 1, and
dated back to June 30, which took it
back into the previous fiscal year and
made it seem applicable to balance the
account, while the notes were secretly
going out. The amount on hand during
the fiscal year was made to appeal by the
hooks to increase instead of diminish.
When the issue was finally acknowledged
the temporary loan deposit of $19,000,-
000 was put down as paid, while in fact
no payment took place? Secretary Me
Culloch stated in the fall of 1865 that
without the $40,000,000 lealizeC from
sales of gold to November 1 of that
year there would have bten a necessity
:or a further issue of interest bearing
notes.
It now transpires that during this very
time this very further issue was made.
Mr. Glover says it lias not yet been ascer
tained whether this immense forced
balance and secret issue covers a great
defalcation, but that he has iu his posses
sion sworn evidence that nearly every
important account of the Treasury has
been falsified to an unknown hut start
ling extent, and that if the House will
authorize his committee to sit during the
vacation, and vote the needful expert
aid, he will prove it. He says it is im
possible, without such investigation, to
know how many secret issues and
forced balances have been made. It
will be remembered that it came out
before Mr. Glover’s committee in the
last Congress that Huntington, Jay
Cooke's cashier, repeatedly borrowed large
sums from the reserve, and that consider
able amounts were often absent from the
result, aud represented by slips of paper.
The experts to the committee are ap
palled at the $19,000,000 revelation, and
oue of them, an experienced accountant,
says it is the most atrocious financial
transaction he has ever heard of, and
that there is no telling to what extent
fraud and falsification have gone. Mr.
Glover says that his illness has been un
fortunate in preventing the closing of
many matters under inquiry, but that he
deeply regrets, as he has often stated
during tne session, that his committee
was not empowered to get to work last
November, instead of waiting till March,
for that then these matters could have
been fully developed and laid lief ore Con
gress and the country by this time.
NEW DEVELOPMENTS OF AX OLD FRAUD.
In the course of the investigations by
the Committee on Expenditures in the
Treasury Department Mr. Glover has
been enabled to complete the record of a
fraud which was slightly reported at the
time and attracted very little attention.
In 1864 Charles H. Cornell, of Ohio, a
friend of Secretary Chase, ex-cashier of
the Fanners’ Bank of Salem, also ex-
cashier of a hank at Athens, Ohio, and
ex-Treasurer of a county in that State,
and a man highly recommended, was ap
pointed to a position in the office of the
Register of the Treasury. About two
years later he was made chief of the re
demption division in th£ Treasurer's
office, which was charged with the can
cellation and destruction of the green
backs and other treasury notes redeemed
or otherwise withdrawn. His duty was,
after the count of these notes, to have
them cut lengthwise in halves and send
one-half of each package so cut to the
office of the Secretary of the Treasury
and the other to that of the Register, to
be there counted and recorded. If the
counts in these two offices and in Corn
well's division agreed the packages of
halves were taken to the basement and
there, by Cornwell and a clerk from each
of these’ two offices, thrown into a fur
nace and burned. This was deemed a
perfect protection against fraud; but one
day a son of one of the clerks, who had
been present at a burning, asked his
father what right Mr. Cornwell had to
put packages of money in his pocket.
A watch was then kept on Cornwell,
and the fact was ascertained. Secretary
Chase on hearing of the matter sent to
tlie War Department for a detective.
General L, C. Baker was detailed to work
up the case, and a search of Cornwell's
desk in the Treasurer's office, and of his
house in Georgetown, developed proof
of his guilt. In the latter p ace were
found halves of about $80,000 worth of
notes. Inquiry showed that he had been
in the habit, when he got upper and
lower halves of the same denomination
of notes, of stealing packages of whole
notes of that denomination, replacing
them with the packages of half notes al
ready abstracted, and entered on the
books as destroyed. By this replacement
he made the count of notes delivered by
him agree with that of notes delivered
by him, and till he was caught in the
act everything seemed correct. How
much he had stolen does not seem
to be known. He admitted stealing
$5,000 of greenbacks and $18,000 de
mand notes, besides other amounts. He
hail liought $25,000 of bonds and $6,000
of certificates of indebtedness, which
were sold and the proceeds applied to
take up the notes he acTtnowleciged hav-
ing reissued. The case is important be
cause it shows that a fraudulent reissue of
a considerable and unknown amount ac
tually took place. His case shows what
may have been done, and the making of
a false certificate of destruction of $30,000
fractional currency paper in one case, and
of false certificates of destruction of over
$18,000,000 of bonds in others, Which in
vestigations It: past yeais have developed,
show that a disposition to repeat such of
fenses existed while vast destructions
were going on. It is stated by a gentle
man who has had access to confidential
information that Cornwell realized over
$100,000 by his peculations, andpaid his
counsel, Lieutenant Governor Ford, of
Ohio, a fee of $10,000 after his pardon
was secured.
A writer says ‘brilliant an^ impulsive
people are apt to have black eyes.” Y’es,
impulsive people are apt to run against
some fellow’s closed hand.
BRAVE MISS LULL' PRANGE.
< haKlun and 4'atrtalns a Man who
Robbed Her, then Dividing with
Him out or Pity aud Trying to Save
Him from the Police.
Xetc York World. 11(1.
Miss Lulu Frange, a pretty girl of
twenty, living with her parents at No.
1,353 FuMhn avenue, Brooklyn, was
robbed of her pocketbook on Clinton
avenue yesterday morning by Theodore
Hollis, a middle aged man, who lives on
DeKalb avenue, a few doors below
Waverly street. She pursued the thief
with horse and foot and caught him, hut
he told her such a pitiful tale of his pov
erty and the sufferings of his family,
which was verified subsequently by a
visit to his residence, that she gave him
half of the contents of the pocketbook.
While she was inquiring into the matter,
however, the police arrived and the ob
ject of her benevolence was, against her
wishes, carried off to a station house,
where he was locked up on a charge of
highway robbery preferred by a police
man.
“About 11 o'clock," said Miss Prangc
to a World reporter, ‘ ‘ while walking
along Clinton avenue," between DeKalb
and Lafayette, I saw the man leaning
against a tree with his hands around his
head. He appeared to be in trouble. I
thought he was sick, but took no further
notice of him then. A few minutes af
terwards my pocketbook was seized
gently and I let it £o, as I thought it had
been taken by one of my friends who
wanted to play a trick on me. As I
turned round, however, to look I saw
that it was taken by the man whom I
had seen leaning against the tree.
“ ‘ Bring back that pocketbook,' I said
to him angrily.
"The man hesitated, but did not say
anything, and then ran away. I followed
him from the corner of De Kalb and Clin
ton avenues to Washington street, and
up Lafayette avenue to \Vaverley street.
He was here about half a block ahead of
me, and I screamed for help. A crowd
of about forty men and bin's gathered
around me, hut just then a butcher's
wagon, driven by a nice young man,
came along, and 1 jumped over the wheel
on to the scat and ordered him to drive
along as fast as he could, as the man
who was runuing in front had stolen my
pocketbook.
"He urged the horse on but still he
went at a very slow rate and I com
menced to lash him with my parasol.
And this made him go faster. We over
took the man and 1 jumped from the
wagon and seized him by the coat-sleeve
and ex Alderman Dawson got hold of
the other arm. He handed me back the
pocketbook, and as I saw his face, which
was of a deathly pallor, it impressed ine
favorably.
“ ‘What made you take my pocket-
book?’ I asked him.
“ ‘I have a wife,’ he replied, ‘and two
childien who are starving, and I com
mitted the theft in a spirit of desperation.
For God’s sake don’t let my wife know
of it.’
“ Tf that be true,' I said, ‘take me to
your home and I will forgive you. ’
“I cried when he told me this story ; I
couldn’t help myself. I followed him to
his home, where we found an intelligent,
tidy and modest woman with two chil
dren in most urgent need, and we were
informed by the woman that her hus
band was an honest and industrious man,
who had done his utmost to obtain em
ployment. I then ordered Mr. Dawson
and the persons who had entered after
us to go out and leave me alone. I
searched the room, which was scrupu
lously clean, to verify the man’s ’story,
and disco vert'd that there was not a par
ticle of food in the house.
"The old man sat down on a chair,
took liis two little children on his knee
and cried, and so did his wife. I had to
cry too. 1 opened my pocketbook and
divided with them.
“ What are you going to do with
me ?’ the old man asked with tears still
in his eyes.
“ ‘To forgive you, of course,’ I an-
swered.
“At this stage our conversation was
disturbed by a violent knocking at the
door, and I looked out through the
window and saw four policemen seeking
admittance.
“ ‘Y*ou can't get in,’ I shouted to
them.
‘ ‘But they did come in, and notwith
standing my pleading for the old man
they arrested him and took him to the
Fourth Precinct station house, where he
was locked up, and to-morrow morning
he will be taken to court to answer for
highway robbery, but I will not make a
charge against him.”
Theodore Hollis has had no steady
employment for a long time past. For
many weeks his average earnings at odd
jobs have not exceeded three dollars. His
neighbors give him an excellent charac
ter. and say that he must have been
tempted to commit the crime to save his
family from starvation. At the house,
liefore his arrest, he said to Miss Prange:
"I wish I had killed myself long ago,
and I would not have been reduced to
this.” He has two beautiful children.
Miss Prange is the daughter of a Ful
ton avenue shoemaker. She has had sev
eral adventures of a like nature before
now. Last fall a young “rough”
snatched her pocketbook from her hand
at Fulton Ferry, on the New York side.
She seized him by the head, but he broke
away from her before assistance arrived,
leaving his hat in her hands. She is a
capital pistol shot. Last night she visited
the wife of Theodore Hollis. She found
that Hollis had pawned everything he
had to buy the necessaries of life. Miss
Prange telegraphed for Hollis’ father and
brother, who are living somewhere in
Connecticut, and did everything she
could to make the wife and children
comfortable. She went also to the po
lice station and begged the Sergeant in
charge to release Hollis, which of course
he could not do.
The Y’anderbilt Mill Contest—A
Strange Story in Regard to Detec
tives.
The contest over the will of the late
Commodore Vanderbilt was opened again
in New York on Tuesday, when some
startling affidavits were read. State
ments from three detectives, F. A. Red-
burn, George A. Mason and William H.
Clark, gave a complete account of the
alleged conspiracy against Cornelius J.
Vanderbilt. It was alleged that William
H. Vanderbilt and Chauncey M. Depew
arranged it, and hired the detectives to
follow a man who personated Cornelius
J. Vanderbilt to infamous places, and to
report his movements to the Commodore
in order to influence him to disinherit
his son. These affidavits were prepared
several months ggq, but have never been
made public before. A letter from Clark
and Slason, dated June 9, 1878, was
also read, denying their former story and
declaring that the only conspiracy was
one arranged by Cornelius J. Vanderbilt
himself. This was followed by the affi
davit of Cornelius J. Vanderbilt, deny
ing in gross and detail all knowledge of
the conspiracy detailed by the detectives.
During the session of the court 8urro
f ate Calvin decided to exclude verbal
eclarations made by the Commodore.
In the Vanderbilt will case yesterday
affidavits of Wm. H. Vanderbilt were
presented pronouncing the whole story
of the detectives a fabrication, and that
neither he nor any one on tua behalf did
anything to keep detectives away from
court. Counsel for contestants moved
for a continuance of the case that they
might obtain time to secure the detec
tives and read a letter from one dotective
to another, in which the writer says he
is sorry, as it was plain their reports
were the cause of the Commodore cut
ting off "young Corneal.”
An inter-State carrier pigeon match,
under the auspices of the Scranton (Pa.)
Volante Club, took place recently, the
distance flown being 150 miles. The
first and second prizes were won by birds
belonging to John Willard, of Utica, N.
Y.; time 3 hours and 57 minutes. The
time of the other winners ranged from 3
hours and 58 minutes to 4 hours and 34
minutes.
AN OLD TIME DUEL.
General White’* Account of HI*
meeting with General Houston
Hot Time* Among the Politician*
Fifty Year* Ago.
XashviUe American.
Mr. C. H. White, who lives near Pu
laski, in this State, permits the American
to make the following extract from a
letter written by his father, General
William White, giving an account of his
celebrated duel with General Sam Hous
ton, in 1826:
"At Home, Tennessee. 21st Dec.,
1826.—Aty Dear Friend: Before your
letter reached me, I had addressed’one
to my dear old mother, in order to dissi
pate the apprehension of my friends and
prevent the indulgence of those melan
choly forebodings which the newspaper
accounts in relation to my difference
and combat with General Houston would
authorize. As it is not certain that you
have seen a letter which I addressed to
the doctor on the subject, anil as my
friends in your quarter may feel anxious
to know all the particulars, I will pro
ceed to give them to you as much in de
jail as I can.
"A vacancy haring occurred in the of
flee of Postmaster at Nashville last winter,
several candidates presented themselves
for it, and among the rest a Mr. Erwin,
who was a lawyer, newspaper editor,
etc., and did not favor the pretensions of
Gen. Jackson for the Presidency. Gen.
Jackson, with a host of adherents, and I
among others, recommended a Mr. Cur-
rev. But Erwin, who was equally quali
fied, who was also well recommended,
and whose brother married Mr. Clay's
daughter, finally received the appoint
ment. Geu. Houston, who was in Con
gress, not content with making all the
opposition he could properly, seeing that
Erwin was to be appointed, assailed his.
private character, charging him with the
want of integrity,’ etc., etc. Long tie-
fore Houston returned from Washington
he had been notified that Erwin would
demand satisfaction on his return to
Tennessee, whereupon he began to prac
tice shooting with pistols, and no one ever
supposed that he would refuse to meet
Erwin, if called out. On account of
Erwin being opposed to Gen. Jackson,
it became somewhat difficult (although
Erwin is a man of good standing) for
him to procure a friend to carry his
challenge. I was applied to first, but.
not feeling any hostility towards Hous
ton, I declined doing so. About that
time a Colonel Smith, an old officer of
the army, who had slain seven men in
single combat, arrived in Nashville, lie
presented a challenge from Erwin to
Houston. No direct answer was given
to Colonel Smith, but it was intimated
to him that, as he did not reside in the
State, he was not a proper person to be
the bearer of such a paper, and that no
reply would lie made to it through him.
1 happened to be in Nashville ou that
day, and having been previously ac
quainted with Colonel Smith, he desired
me to go and see him tender the
paper to General Houston again.
Houston said he would not open
the paper, nor should he receive it,
and threw it on the pavement where he
was standing Fearing that from the
warmth manifested on bo’li sides a com
bat might result from a continuance of
the conversation, I remarked: ‘Colonel
Smith, you have tendered him the paper,
and that is sufficient, 1 suppose; let us
walk.' Houston then addressed me as
follows: ‘General White, I will receive
one from you with pleasure.' I retorted
in about the same terms, and this was
followed by a warm altercation between
us, in which I left him nothing to boast of.
Erwin then advertised Houston as a cow
ard and calumniator. Houston, in the
next paper, denounced Erwin as a rogue,
and procured a certificate from Er
win’s rival candidate to prove that he
had taken a newspaper liclonging to
another person before Erwin became
Postmaster. To this publication Hous
ton attached the certificates of two per
sons, in which the altercation betwixt
him and myself was very much misrepre
sented, thereby placing himself in a defen
sive, and me in an offensive, attitude.
Houston, who was somewhat popular,
hoped, in this manner, to escape public
censure himself and at my expense, and
that, too, without subjecting, himself
to the necessity of a combat with any
one, for he was fully aware of the-ine-
qualityof our situations. Knowing that,
according to the tone of public sentiment
here, a coward cannot live except in dis
grace and obscurity, I did not hesitate as to
my course, nor shall I have cause ever to
regret it; for I find that, although I fell
in the combat, I conquered even in my
fall. Yes, I conquered the prejudices
and extorted the admiration of my foes
themselves, whilst I am established in
the esteem and approbation of my friends.
And now it affords me pleasure to add
further that, although I was very severely
wounded, I have entirely recovered from
it. For a description of the wound itself
I refer to Mr. Turner, ami also for par
ticulars relating ta the combat.”
It will be seen that the above account,
written a short time after the duel, cor
responds in ail important respects with
Col. Willoughby Williams’ interesting
chapter of reminiscences, published in
the A met icon, a few weeks ago. Though
writing of events that had occurred nearly
fifty-three years, his memory retained
their details with remarkable accuracy.
One of our old citizens takes issue, how
ever, with Col. Williams in regard to An
derson’s galloping across the bridge and
into Nashville with the first news of the
duel. He says that Anderson was killed
in a duel seven or eight years before the
meeting between Houston and White.
BETWEEN TWO TRAIN’S.
Tlie Horrible DealH of Lieutenant
Totten at Cold Spring.
Lieutenant Edward H. Toiten, of the
regular army, grandson of General Tot
ten, met with a frightful death near Cold
Spring station, on the Hudson River
Railroad, at 9 ;30 o'clock Friday morning.
Lieutenant Totten attended the exer
cisos at West Point Thursday, and was
present when the diplomas were awarded
to the graduating class. Being a relative
of Governor Kemble’s family at Cold
Spring, he went to their bouse last even
ing and spent the night there. Friday
morning about 9 o'clock, he announced
his intention of returning lo West Point
to see some friends off, and the young
ladies of the Kemble family concluded
to go with him to Cold Spring dock,
where he was to take passage in a small
boat for West Point. The party waa
composed of Miss Maria T Kem
ble, who is about eighteen years
of age; Miss Gertrude Kemble, a trifle
younger, and Miss May Kemble,
aged twelve or thirteen. The party went
from the Kemble mansion through the
adjacent grove and down the path lead
ing to the Hudson River Railroad track.
The steps leading from the Kemble
grounds to the track are located about
five hundred feet south of the only rock-
cut between them and Cold Spring sta
tion. When they gained the railway all
walked along on the up track, laughing
and chatting, till suddenly a locomotive
whistle was heard. The party looked
southward, and observed the Pough
keepsie passenger train approaching.
They were a little bewildered for a
moment, till a man ahead of them told
them to hurry to an open space where
they could find safety. They either did
not understand him or became more be
wildered and all rushed across to the
down track, when, looking northward,
they saw the St. Louis express coming
at the rate of forty miles an hour ana
close on to them, for there is a sharp curve
there. Miss Gertrude and MBs May
Kemble, with great presence of mind, ran
back across the last track again and got
out of the way of both trains. Miss
Mollie (Maria) Kemble stepped off the
down track to a wall close to it and
clung as close to tho wall as possible,
with her back towards the last tiain and
holding her skirts down with her hands.
Lieutenant Totten stood between both
the up and the down tracks edgeways,
with his face to the west, and the two
trains passed each other like lightning.
When they disappeared poor young
Totten was found lying partly on the
down track with tlie back of his head
crushed in and his neck and an arm
broker and the blood flowing from his
wounds. When th< trains passed Miss
Mollie, who had clung to the wall ex
pecting every instant to be killed, fainted
from fright and was carried off in an
insensible condition, but afterwards re
covered. The remains of Lieutenant
Totten were picked up as tenderly as
possible, placed upon a stretcher, and
carried to the Kemble mansion.
—
Since it is revealed that they are in
with the rodents in the attempt to hide
out dangerous documents, we shall have
to rechristen them the Rat ical party
Noth ville American.