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iual meeting of the Georgia
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Press As»
i Wednesday, May 11th, at 13 m.
J. H. Estill, President.
0 P. Hassell, Secretary.
Georgia Affairs.
The Milledgeville Recorder records the
■sdden death of “Aunt Amy,” wife of
Frank DeLaunay, colored, on the 34th ult.
sbewa-i says that paper, a remarkable
•onus i Q many respects. She had walked
Milledgeville and back to her home in
the country, six miles, the day before she
died, and was assisting her husband plant
ing corn a few minutes before she dropped
dead She was over eighty years of age.
She was long the property of Dr. Chas. J.
Paine, and subsequently of Judge Tucker
and Mr. Frank DeLaunay, all deceased.
Xbe Coroner's jury brought iu a verdict of
death from old age.
The work on the United States court
house in Atlanta is progressing. We see in
the Court it ui ion that the court room and
post office have just been lathed with patent
fluted sheet-iron lathing, so that the build-
in* will be perfectly tire-proof. This part
of the work was done by Mr. Kellogg, of
Bpringtield, Mass., who represented the firm
that patented it. The work is done in a
beautiful manner, and the plastering will be
superb.
The Columbia Times of April 1st mentions
the startling discovery near that city on
Sunday last of a large cave filled with curi
ous bones and specimens of the work of an
ancient people. The great point of curiosity
in rhe whole story is that this cave has Jain
unnoticed right at the door of the city for
half a century. Wonder if anybody was
fooled by the Times' revelations.
The Ei. {Hirer-Sun complains that the in
habitants of Columbus are not a church
going people.
A telegram from Mt. Airy, Georgia, says
the Griffin Xucs, brings the intelligence that
Prof. Frank II. Bradley was killed at Na-
coochee gold mines, by the caving in of the
mines, several days since. Prof, Bradley
occupied a place in the front rank of Ameri
can geologists, and was ardently devoted to
the science. For several years he was Pro
fessor of Geology and Mineralogy in East
Tennessee University, lie was afterwards
with Prof. Hayden in the geological survey
of the Western Territories. For the last
three years he has been operating one of the
gold miaes of Georgia, where he met with
his untimely death.
The pugilistic career of two young men in
Atlanta was cut short rather ignominiously
on the 31st ult. After a fight iu a billiard
room they started out beyond the city’s
limits to have it out. The police pursued
the belligerents, however, and one was fired
at, whereupon they both incontinently fled.
The new twenty-year lease of Georgia con
victs went into effect on the 1st inst. Col.
.Nelms left Atlanta Monday night to dis
tribute the twelve hundred convicts among
the three companies iu the new lease. These
companies have new' charters, and will claim
rested rights, if the effort is made to abolish
the lease system.
A colored boy from Perry, recently arrest
ed for stealing, declared that he derived his
ileptomaniacal propensities from wearing a
Tair of old shoes which had belonged to a
convict, aud that the said convict had put
‘‘a spell” on him. He informed the Sanders-
vule Courier ihat this plea w as considered
sound by ihe intelligent court and jury be
fore whom he was tried, and he was dis
charged.
A number cf prominent gentlemen in
Laurens and Johnson counties are anxious
to have the ante-bellum mail route from
Tennille to Dublin reopened. The Sanders-
ville Courier is also strongly in favor of this
enterprise.
Joe Ilall, colon
charged with the
chison, of Crawl
last, has ju-t bee;
the seat of that e
in a verdict of gu
tion to the m •-
save the convict
iuteres
trial. Thri
Ilall will l
court.
The store
situated on
Public thor.
glutted
was
‘d, who has been on trial
murder of Mr. A. C. Mur-
ord county, in December
i concluded at Knoxville,
Jimty. The jury brought
ilty, with a recommenda-
*y of the court. This will
from being hung. Great
nifested throughout the
arrested as accomplices of
d at the next terra of the
re Mr. John Rooney, of ?iia(>on l
,n Second street, one of the most
J rough fares iu the city, was bur-
>u Tuesday morning last near day-
. ' window pane was cut out with a
dumotu!. an ) throusrh this goods to the
estimated at thirty five dollars in
xtracted- A bright light was
e at the time of the rob-
sto
boro IT raid: “We learn that Mr.
wiudow
7 &lue, wert
burning in
oery.
Swain
fek^l V m Scrious, F '"jursd by being
inr iu • • ? fal ' ni £ trefc o jl M ednesday raorn-
eral ,,r»V “ Scerns that Mr. Ilart, with sev-
UmberTnr/^r’ entca ^ d ln running
»roun t an l 0,1 Ine - Slla > night they camped
W in , a lrt *e which they set on tire.
began eh'. ® orn * n £ *^ r - Enoch Faircloth
told nil on the burning tree, and
thev pri i tUl !: to get out of the way, which
WcS 7 "”;', 1 >o Jo. Mr. Hart, however,
•rible for a an ' J ^! lr,ed to the ground with ter-
He w a < ■■ “ ! i:ub on the descending tree,
little bon 31 ‘ ist account8 > although but
WelMr,, i k 1S entfcr f a ined of bis recovery,
dirtt.'v ; b:i! a brother of Mr. Hart was also
f U I ‘BJUred at the same time.”
ShaSfo*.! & n ' li,ud ■' “Prom Mr. G. W.
^avfrojT)at * 10 rea cfce4 the city the other
the through the country, we learn
Wam.» n Jlars bis having been robbed in
onthe rail U r l,t 'V aSl V‘ ek ' 1Ie was walkiD £
and Camti-L track between Warrentou
tram 3s c5 ft K " hen he was accosted by two
told him r 1 ? e , ou t,le cr 088-tiee. One of them
anion w v,n , a, “I eD gaged him in con ver
mouth kn i!- he other struck him in the
&cd ccttin 0l , I ! ^ out °°e of his front teeth
now llp - H ot b !Q en attacking him,
Hsraiiro^ t d , ia rob bing him of $47 and
Os that r„ t V' L Ct ' ^ r * Shackelford tells
the othr-r o tkem w ’ ttS a bearded man and
. Qcra young person.”
tte People t'r“Just now not only
l be Unit»r.i°L^ ,eor ^ llJ > but of the balance of
Ver yQup<;tir^ff‘'' are commenting onthe
R Position now occupied by
^defend’ - • *’ "bo Jjas accepted a fee
road in tt C i m of the Uu{0D Pacific Rail-
StateB in ,h , P rern e Court of the TTuited
an.t of a law passed by Con-
win * vbi ‘-h Mr. Hill voted. How
®°rel no^P^cate’ himself in this rather
•ee. R,,t L v. ,u Tbe people are anxious to
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1879.
ESTABLISHED 18*50.
of
Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel: “The case
J the Trustees of the Masonic Hall aeainst
the Merchants and Planters National Bank
we learn, was decided on yesterday bv the
Supreme Court of the State In favor of the
Masons. The case was one of the mo«t
celebrated ever tried in the county, on ac
count of the parties, and the interest mani
fested in it was very qreat. It occupied
over a week in the trial before a jury, and
over four days in the Supreme Court.”
‘‘The news of extensive fires in the woods
of Southwest Georgia have,” says the Ma
con Ttlcjrapl ami Messenger, “reached us
from private sources. The windy weather
seems to have scattered sparks in every di
rection, and much damage has been done to
fencing in several places.”"
Dublin Ibst: “Mr. Frank Daniel, who left
this county before the war and removed to
Louisiana, returned a week ago thoroughly
convinced of the folly of ‘going West.’ He
says people in Georgia know nothing about
bard times. If it could be known how much
better off we are than the people of the
xrtate he has just left, complaints about hard
times would cease. Mr. Daniel left here a
bachelor; he returns a widower with five
little boys.”
Toccoa correspondence of the Franldin
Register: “On Sunday officer Gaston ar
rested and carried John a. South, of Frank
lin county, to Atlanta, for violation of the
internal revenue laws. John stood his tnal,
came clear and has returned. Our people,
though, need expect nothing now but to 6ee
trouble with the infernal revenue officers,
as the department in Atlanta has decided
that every warrant, no matter how trivial or
how insufficient the truth may be to con
vict, shall be served, and as every arrest that
is made gives the different officers a fat
grab, there is no doubt but what warrants
will be issued against hundreds of innocent
men who never dreamed of the violation of
this law.”
Prophet Croly.
In 1873 Mr. David G. Croly, of New
York, formerly managing editor of the
New York World, and afterwards of the
Graphic, published some predictions in
regard to events for that year, which
afterwards gained great notoriety from
the fact that he foretold the collapse of
the Northern Pacific Railroad and the
panic of the fall of that year, which he
certainly did. Air. Croly has tried liis
hand at it again, and here are his predic
tions as summarized in the New York
Graphic:
1. The year 1879 will, on the whole,
be a prosperous one for the United States.
There will be a general revival of indus
try, labor will be employed, and confi
dence in the future universally felt.
Before the close of the year there will be
a widespread interest in precious metal
mining. A dangerous speculative feel
ing in other industries will soon show
itself.
2. There will be a partial failure of
crops this year. Our hay crop on the
Atlantic slope will be short.
3. At least two important failures of
Wall street magnates will take place this
year. They will be of persons with
whose names every one is familiar.
4. An unsuspected weakness in our
national bauking system may be de
veloped during the year.
5. The disproportion between our ex
ports and imports, such as we have
witnessed for the past two years, will
come to an end before 1881. Home
prices will go higher and foreign goods
will be sold cheaper. We shall export
less and import more. Unless the unex
pected occurs, there will be a dram of
gold abroad, and then resumption, as- at
present established, must be legislated
upon anew or it will fail.
0. Should the country be prosperous
and resumption stand until the National
Convention meet in 1880, John Sherman
will be the candidate of the Republican
party for the Presidency.
7. * Resumption has not settled all our
financial difficulties. Questions affecting
the business interests of the country will
be the subject of many warm political
contests. But the final result will lie
the establishment of a national bank
similar to that of Great Britain or France,
but probably called by a different name.
When that occurs the Secretary of the
Treasury will be stripped of much of the
power be now possesses.
8. A foreign war before many years is
over is not improbable, due to the weak
ness of our navy and the unprotected
condition of our rich seaport cities.
9. A new pestilence or the revival of
an old one, which will affect the people
inhabiting the temperate zone, is among
the probabilities of the near future.
10. A new motor will soon be discov
ered which will make air navigation pos
sible.
the
to
in
*B P u°t M wt 0U T . he People* I
like *n JJ," , u eomes to ‘fees’ Mr. Rill,
‘ffw.: e . r ‘ aw vers, is on hand, aud thU
^Wor inm 4 S ' nes8 is finely to give the
«or , ome t r(>ub!e in the future.”
Welve i the Jg t in6t., about
*° n > in .\ a tire 0Ck Ui*red in East Ma-
Jjase ofMr tv he x, kitch ' n ’ 6talj i e car-
*he ii re j, * vv • '»• Richards were burned,
^rii from L? 110 , 8 ? 1 * 10 have caught from a
le ns turiic,^ 6 * kitck en chimney. Tbje citi-
^ble as3i R ta 0Ut ei ? masse ail( i rendered val-
*iih buek«*tft DC f e in exti:i guishing the fire
burned anH (* water - Some fencing wait
Richard? as with much difficulty that
from the KtnM and calf were rescued
? De gro man' In fading the former out
A ^ as , 8ever ely burned in the
during thp si 1 d °* excitement prevailed
40( -tDtrM'p,o a r in' Char<l8 13 an e,1 K> Qeer
Horrors of a Prairie Fire.
St. Louis Democrat.
Another terrible prairie fire is reported
from Bittle Creek, Lincoln county, Kan
sas, which destroyed everything in its
path, and resulted in the death of three
persons It appears that about four
o’clock iu the afternoon Mr. Montgom
ery, one of the well-to-do farmers of that
county, and his son, a boy about twelve,
were in the field at work, when they dis
covered a fire coming from the west.
They stopped their work to keep the fire
from the hedge, when the wind suddenly
changed to the north, blowing very hard
and cold, and hearing before it a second
fire, which came with the fleetness of a
horse. There were two fields near on
the other side, and seeing their danger,
' boy started to one field and the father
the other. The boy was caught
the flames and fell to the ground
instantly. A neighbor, Isaac Pfafl, who
was passing near on a mule, galloped up
to Mr. Montgomery and induced him to
mount the mule behind him and ride to
the field. Mr Pfaff, catching the bridle-
reins and holding the mule still while
they were enveloped in the flames. Both
men dropped to the ground and the fire
passed over them. The mule ran a short
distance and fell dead. The two men
arose to their feet and the wind and tire
took their clothing froip them as they
walked to the nearest field, about one
hundred yards distant. Mr. Pfaffa feet
were so badly burned that his boots fell
from him as he walked. A Mr. Manning
came to them from the nearest
house with a couple of quilts, which fie
wrapped abput the two men, and carried
them to the house. He then carried m
the dead boy. Both men were perfectly
rational, and conversed free>y with
those around them up to within a few
hours of their death. Mr. Montgomery
lived about two hours, and Mr. 1 tail
lived until about 11 o’clock that night.
Mr. Montgomery leaves a wife and seven
children, most of whom are grown. Mr.
Pfaff leaves a wife and one child.
Representative Stephens is & man of
decided ability, but he has never yet
turned it to any account. His vanity al
ways runs away with him and hence he
is never found in accord with anybody
else. He is always impracticable and
running into unheard of vagaries, lo
call him a Democratic statesman is a
misnomer, for although now in form in
affiliation with Democrats there is hard
ly a sentiment, principle or measure ap
proved bv them which comrnan is his
assent. He is the great impracticable to
whom ail listen with patience, but. his
influence is lost by his excessive desire to
he thought wiser than anybody e se
Such men, it is supposed have their
uses, but his it would be difficult to de
fine.—Boston Poet.
Fannie Edwards, one of the pedes-
triennes in the New York contest hM
walked off with the husband of Mrs.
Della Leonardson. The ' atter , cau i^
her husband's arrest on Thursday for
abandonment. The court exacted $-00
bonds that Leonardson would pay his
wife $3 per week. The money
bonds was at once furmshed hy Miss
Edwards and Leonardson skulked out ot
court with her while his poor wife sat
crouching in an obscure corner of tbe
court room crying as if her heart would
break. _
It should be distinctly understood by
the American people that the R ePl^ h ?^“
nartv has clearly asserted its belief that
safsa«®f«> sUj-j
republican doctrine.—Oouner-Jovmal.
BY TELEGRAPH.
NOON TELEGRAMS.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
Continued Debate in the House.
THE SALIENT POINTS OF THE
FITZ JOHN PORTER CASE.
The Silver Question Affecting
Cotton Trade in England.
the
DEMOCRATIC VICTORY
CAGO.
IN CHI-
Elinor Items.
8A.LIENT POINTS IN TIIE FITZ-JOHN* PORTER
CASE.
Washington, April 2.—Tbe following are
the salient points in the official report in the
case of Gen. Fitz John Porter, as taken from
the report itself: That the recorder has used
great diligence in pro<!Uring evidence, espe
cially such as might appear to have bearing
adffrse to the claims urged by General Por
ter; that due care has been exercised not to
inquire into tbe military operations or con
duct of the officers of the Army of Virginia
further than was necessary to a full eluci
dation of the subject of the investigation;
that new evidence in addition to the old has
placed beyond question many important
facts before the subject of dispute, in re
spect to which radically erroneous opinions
were entertained by General Porter’s ac
cusers and doubtless by the court martial
that pronounced him guilty. The result has
been to establish beyond a reasonable doubt
all facts essential to the formation of a cor
rect judgment upon the merits of General
Porter’s case. The report is therefore
made by the board with entire unan
imity and without doubt iu their minds,with
reasons for their conclusions,and what action
justice requires should be taken by the
President. The board state that the evi
dence as presented under several distinc
heads is as follows: First. Imperfect and
in some respects erroneous statements on
facts due to the partial and incorrect know
ledge iu possession of witnesses at the time
of the court martial, and extremely in
accurate maps and erroneous locations of
troops thereon, by which erroneous state
ments were made to convey 6till more
erroneous impressions. Second. The
opinions and inferences of prominent offi
cers based upon this imperfect knowledge.
Third. Far more complete and accurate
statements of facts now made by a large
number of eye witnesses fr m both contend
ing forces. Fourth. Accurate maps of the
field of operations and the exact positions
of troops thereon at different periods of
time, by which statements otherwise con
tradictory or irreconcilable are shown to
be harmonious, and opposing opiu
ions arc shown to have been based
upon tbe different views of ihe same
military situation, and finally conflicting
testimony relative to the plans of opera
tions, interpretation of orders, motives of
action, and relative degrees of responsibility
for uufortunate results. Concerning the
charge of which General Porter was fouud
guilty, of not having moved his command
on the night of August 27, 1862,. in obedi
ence to order from General Pope, the
board report that it was a manifest
physical impossibility to march over
that road that night; that nothing
could have been gained by the attempt, and
that it would have been wiser if General
Porter had delayed the attempt still longer
than he did; that he exercised the verj r ordi
nary discretion of a corps commander, and
that it was his plain duty to so exercise it.
The report recites at much length aud in
detail the important events connected with
the military operations of the 29th of Au
gust, 1862, and among other important
facts it is made clear that Porter’s display
of troops in the early part of the afternoon
of the 29th gave rise to the belief on the Con
federate side of an attack about to be made,
and that under this belief Longstreet sen
bis reserves from the extreme left
to the extreme right of his army
and in front of Porter, thus
lieving the Union army uuder the other
commanders from this Confederate force.
Porter’s duty during the afternoon of that
date, the report states, was too plain and
simple to admit of discussion, and the board
are unable to find anything in it subject to
criticism, much less deserving of censure or
condemnation. He had made frequent re
ports to his superiors stating what he had
done and what he had been un
able to dr; what his situation was
in respect to the enemy, and what their
strength; what his impressions were from
the sounds of action towards his right:
how he had failed to get any communica
tion from any commander in the main army
or any orders from Generals Pope or Mc
Dowell, as to his designs for the night;
sending an aid-de-camp to General Pope for
orders and receiving no reply, not even
the information that the vital 4:30 order
had been sent to him, and finally
informing his supeiior officers that if left to
himself without orders, he would have to
retire at night, for food aud water were not
accessible where he was. These reports
were sent not only frequently, but early
enough to insure the receipt of orders
from Pope, or correct information from
McDowell, if they had any to send him
The remainder of ihe report is a virtual ex
oneration of General Porter.
The exoneration of General Porter gives
him the right of reinstatement into the
army. It is generally understood that he
does not desire this, however, and will not
apply for it. He only wants a vindication.
The report of the board will be sent to Con
gress and a bill passed relieving Generai
Porter from all his present disabilities.
The report, which is addressed to the Sec
retary of War, is signed by J. M. Schofield,
Major General U. S. A.: Alfred H. Terry,
Brigadier General U- S. A.; Geo. W. Getty
Brigadier General U. S.’ A. and Colone
Third Artillery.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
Washington, April 2.—In the Senate
various bills were introduced, among them
one by Mr. Harris providing, for a treaty
with the Republic of Mexico.
Mr. Hoar’s resolution condemning as un
constitutional and revolutionary the Demo
cratic programme of legislation, was laid
on the table by a vote of yeas 35, nays 25.
Mr. Blaine 6aid at some future time the
Republicans would ask for a direct vote on
the resolution.
Mr. Saulsbury made a report against the
admission of Mr. Bell as Serator from New
Hampshire on the appointment of the
Governor. It will come up for considera
tion to morrow. At a quarter to one the
Senate weht iuto executive session.
The case will be taken up to-morrow
and tbe reports read, after which further
consideration will be postponed until Mon
day.
In the House an effort was made by Mr.
Sparks, of Illinois, to fix the time for clos
ing the debate on the army appropriation
bill. Suggestions were made to have night
sessions, to restrict speeches to fifteen min
utes each, and to close the debate to-mcr-
row.
Objection was made to all these proposi
tions, Mr. Conger, of Michigan, stating that
a number of gentlemen on both sides have
given notice of a desire to speak, also that
many have prepared speeches and would
not like to be restricted to fifteen minutes,
and also that but few members would be
present at tbe night sessions.
On both sides it was declared that there
was no desire to shut off debate, and the
Speaker gave it as liis experience that an un
limited debate was the shortest debate.
That opinion was endorsed by Mr. Kelly,
of Pennsylvania, who quoted the proverb
that “the longest way round is the shortest
way home,” and who also suggested that as
this session was a 6elf-imposed luxury, there
was no reason why that luxury should be
cut short.
The opinion of Mr. Hawley, of Connecti
cut, was that as the subject was of a most
important character it would be ungracious
to cut the debate short, or to compel tbe
members to attend night sessions.
A motiou by Mr. Stephens, of Georgia-,
that the vote be taken at 2 o’clock Satur
day, was voted down.
frinally, on motion of Mr. Dunnell, of
Minnesota, all general debate was ordered
to be closed at 3 o’clock Friday, leaving the
five minutes debate still open. The House
then, at 12.35, went into committee of the
whole.
The debate was opened by Mr. Williams,
of Wisconsin, who stated that two things
were absolutely indispensable—purity of
the ballot-box and peace at the polls. If it
required all the power of the State and
Geueral Governments, that power should
be exercised, whether it be put forth under
National or uuder State jurisdiction. He
had heard much talk about bayonet gov
ernment, but he knew of no goytrnment
which did not rest ultimately on the bay
onet. Whoever talked about government
without that final ultimate resort, in case
of resistance to civil law, talked about
Utopia.
The debate was continued without any
especially new features of interest, and
without the animation or excitement which
attended yesterday’s debate.
BETTING ON THE UNIVERSITY RACE.
London, April 2.—Tbe betting on the
race between the Cambridge and Oxford
crews, which takes place Saturday, is two to
one ou Cambridge.
VISIBLE SUPPLY OF COTTON IN ENGLAND.
Liverpool, April 2.—The cotton circular
of Smith, Edwards & Co., cotton brokers, of
this town, says : “The visible supply of cot
ton is 350,000 bales below that of last year.
Probably the spinners throughout the world
hold a surplus of from 150,000 to 200,000
bales, aud there may be a little more shipped
from India for the remainder of the season,
but, in any event, there must be a material
reduction of consumption to carry us
through the autumn. Whether there will be
such a reduction at the present level prices
of the raw material will depend very much
on the action of the government as bearing
upon silver and Eastern exchange. Even
the light improvement now noticeable at
Manchester is due solely to the proposal to
lessen the drafts on India by borrowing in
London. But a series of such expedients
would reduce the already deplorable finances
of India to a hopeless bankruptcy. The
silver question is exciting great interest
throughout Lancashire, and opinion is stead
ily tending in the direction of bi-raetalism,
but the interests in London opposite to it
are so powerful that it is doubtful whether
any practical steps can be taken in that di
rection for a long time to come.”
THE BLACKBURN COTTON OPERATIVES SUB
MIT UNCONDITIONALLY.
London, April 2.— The announcement
that the Blackburn cotton operatives of all
branches of trade at their meeting yesterday
agreed to submit to the reductions in their
wages, provided the masters would consent
to restore the reductions of both this year
and last year upon the revival of trade, was
incorrect. They decided to submit to the
reduction unconditionally, but declared
their intention to insist upon the restoration
of the prices paid previous to last year’s re
duction when trade revives.
DEMOCRATIC VICTORY IN CEICAGO.
Chicago, April 2.—At half-past one this
morning the returns give Harrison, Demo
crat, for Mayor, 22,356; Wright, Republican,
19.003; Schmidt, Socialist, about 8,500. The
whole city Democratic ticket is elected by
majorities ranging from 3,500 to 4,500. The
vote on the Aldermen cannot be given, but
the Socialists elect several. About twenty
precincts are yet to be heard from.
A SQUADRON <|F HUSSARS SWEPT AWAY.
London, April 2.—A dispatch from La
hore to Reuter ^Telegram Company says
“A squadron of the Tenth Hussars was
swept away by the current while crossing
the Cabul river Bear Emelsalabade on the
31st of March. A‘Lieutenant and forty men
are missing. SiTteen bodies have been re
covered up to the present time.”
ANNUAL SESSION OF THE METHODIST EPISCO
PAL CONFERENCE.
Newburg, N. Y., April 2.—The eighty-
ninth annual session of the New York Con
ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
was convened at Trinity Church this morn
ing, presided over by Bishop Morrill, of
Chicago.
DISASTERS AT SEA.
New Bedford, Mass., April 2.—Reports
have been received that four vessels are
sunk off Tuckeeruck Shoal and three 6unk
near Muskeget.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
The Present Agitation In Congress—
The Issue Involves the Question
Whether the People or the Gov
ernment Shall llect the Next Presi
dent—The Dehioerats Have the
Vantage Ground —The Radicals
Mast Succumb—The BloodyShirt
Will >ot Avail Them In this Fight.
EFENLNG TE LEG it AM. 1
GREAT DEPRESSION IN THE
BRITISH CARRYING TRADE.
Approaching Trial of Judge Elliott'!
Murderer.
COMPLETE RETURNS OF DIFFER
ENT MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.
Annual Session of the M. E. Church
at Newhurgh, N. Y.
DISASTERS AT SEA.
Miscellaneous Items.
GLOOMY PROSPECTS OF BRITISH TRADE.
London, April 2.—Mr. David Mclver, one
of the proprietors of the Cunard line, and
Member of Parliament for Berkenhead.
writes to the Times declaring unhesitatingly
that from his personal experience as a car
rier, he does not know of any nation whose
trade prospects at present are so gloomy as
Great Britain. Tbe depression in the Uni
ted Slates and elsewhere does not at all ap
proach the depression here. The British ex
ports to the United States are comparatively
nothing, either as regards the volume or
value. The British food imports are steadi
ly increasing and thejialance of trade is so
overwhelmingly agsfrast Great Britain that
he 6ccs nothing except ruin for home
industries, whether manufacturing
agricultural, if the present state of things
is allowed to continue. The export
trade from Liverpool to the United
States is so small that whenever the
restrictions on the importations of
United States cattle are removed, the
gentlemen who are prepared to put addi
tional steamers into the trade, deliberately
iuteud to make outward voyages with water
ballast only, without joining in the scramble
for the little outward freight which other
owners have been recently carrying as bal
last at merely nominal rates.
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Office op thu Chief Signal Observer,
Washington, D. C., April 2.—Indications
for Thursday:
In the South Atlantic States, warmer,
clear or partly cloudy weather, variable
winds, mostly from northwest to southwest,
stationary or higher pressure.
In the Middle Atlantic States, partly cloudy
weather, winds mostly northwest to south
west, stationary or lower temperature.
In the East Gulf States, warmer, clear or
partly cloudy weather, light variable winds,
mostly northerly, and stationary or falling
barometer.
In the West Gulf States, warmer, clear or
partly cloudy weather, variable winds,
mostly southerly, aud failing barometer.
In Tennessee and the Ohio valley, partly
cloudy weather, occasional light snow in
the northern portions, and warm southwest
veering to colder northwest winds, followed
by rising barometer.
CONFIRMATIONS AND NOMINATIONS.
Washington, April 2.—The Senate con
firmed Andrew D. White, of New York, to
be Euvoy and Minister of the Uuited States
to Germany; Cornelius A. Logan, of Illinois,
to be Minister to Central America; A. B.
Norton to be Uuited States Marshal for the
Northern District of Texas.
The Senate rejected the nomination of E.
B. Turner to be United States District Judge
for the Northern District of Texas.
The following nominations were made to
day : David T. Corbin, of South Carolina,
to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
of Utah ; Thos. S. Wadsworth, of Illinois,
to be Receiver of Public Moneys at La
Mesilla, New Mexico; Marshall R. Gittings,
to be Postmaster at Carrollton, Mo.
TO BE RETAINED.
Washington, April 2.—The Democratic
Senators in caucus this morning unani
mously agreed that the Senate should per
manently retain Captain Isaac Bassett, the
Assistant Doorkeeper, and the venerable
Wm. Johnston, well known as keeper of the
main door of the Senate Chamber, both of
whom have been in the service of the 8en
ate for forty years or more; and also Mr.
Amiza Smith, the Superintendent of the
Document Room, together with two of the
acting assistant doorkeepers, who are crip
pled Union soldiers.
ST. LOUIS MUNICIPAL ELECTION.
8t. Louis, April 2.—Through incomplete
returns and au error in footing, a mistake
occurred in these dispatches last night in
giving the Republicans a majority in the
Council. The complete returns now show
that the Democrats elected all their Coun-
cilraeu yesterday, which gives them a ma
jority of one in Council. The Demo
crats have the House of Delegates by a
small majority over all the anti-charter
party, composed of Socialists and Green-
backers, who polled about five thousand
votes and elected at least one member of the
House of Delegates.
LOSS OF LIFE AT SEA.
Washington, April 2.—A report to the Sig
nal Office, from Hatteras Inlet, says a small
craft, the Wyanoke, the Captain a negro,
name not known, left Cape Hatteras Sunday
morning bound for New Brave^The pas
sengers on board were Mrs. Rue and daugh
ter, Mr. Whitehurst, and one other man
name not known. It is supposed they were
all lost. Up to yesterday evening the body
of Mr. Whitehurst had been found. The
craft was also found, bottom up, near the
point of the beach, on the north side of Hat
teras Inlet.
WESTERN ELECTIONS.
St. Louis, April 2.—Warrensburg, Mis
souri, yesterday elected a Republican Mayor
and three out of four Councilmen. Sedalia,
Missouri, elected a Republican Mayor.
Kirksvilie elected tbe entire Republican
ticket. Carlinsville, Illinois, elected tbe en
tire Republican ticket except the City Clerk.
Paris, Tessas, elected the people’s candi
date for Mayor (he is classed as a Repub
lican) and four Democratic Aldermen.
Texarkana, Arkansas, elected the people’s
candidate.
BUFORD’S APPROACHING TRIAL — ELECTION
OF A SUCCESSOR TO JUDGE ELLIOTT.
Cincinnati, April 2.—A Frankfort (Ky.)
special 6ays : “Judge McManara has called
a special term of the Criminal Court to try
Thomas Buford for the murder of Judge
Elliott. It is set down for Monday, April
2Sth.
Governor McCreary has ordered|an elec
tion to he held May 12th to select a succes
sor to Judge Elliott.”
MUNICIPAL ELECTION.
Schenectady, April 2.—Graham, Repub
lican, was elected Mayor. The Democrats
elected the Treasurer, Assessor and a Jus
tice of the Peace. The Board of Supervi
sors will probably 6tand six bemotrats,
three Republicans and one Greenbacker.
The Common Council shows two-thirds
Democratic.
ANNOUNCEMENT OF STANDING COMMITTEES
TO BE MADE NEXT WEEK.
Washington, April 2.—Speaker Randall
will be able to announce the standing com
mittees of the House on Monday or Tues
day week. The Democratic members, it is
understood, are already placed.
Special Correspondence, of the Morning News.
Washington, March 31.—Some good poli
ticians speak of the present agitation in
Congress as one which both parties have
brought about in order to develop issues for
1SS0. The present contest has something
to do with the next Presidential campaign
It is true, but not in the line of developing
issues. The connection between the pres
ent date in Congress and 1880 is really
whether the Republicans are going to carry
New York and Ohio in that year by the use of
supervisors and deputy marshals, or whether
the Democrats are to carry those States
by being free to poll all their legal votes.
Right there is the real issue. If the Presi
dential election had been four years off in
stead of two it is more than probable that
the present contest would have been post
poned a year. As it is there was no time to
lose. The conflict is now well under way.
and promises to be long and interesting. If
the Republican party carries the day, the
next President of the Uuited States will be
L.S. Grant. The frauds at elections that
have heretofore been carried on under
the supervisors law will be more
open, more outrageous, acd, if
f ossible, more universally practiced,
f, on the other band, the wreath of
victory shall be placed on Democratic brows,
New York and Pennsylvania will c.ee fair
elections, which means Democratic majori
ties and a good Democratic President. The
Republicans see the magnitude of the situa
tion, aud are united in support of outrageous
laws; the Democrats are equally alive to
what the contest means, and are backbone
all the way down to their heels iH advocating
a free ballot. Besides what is to be gained
by the repeal on the one hand, or the reten
tion, on the other, of laws that are a dis
grace to our statute books, there is a collate
ral benefit that will come to the party
victorious. In politics a party is re
spected in this country for its power.
A party that shows it i6 a power
in the land is destined to be the most popu
lar. The victorious party in the present
conflict will have all the prestige of power;
and the party vanquished will lose much
more than the apparent object for which it
entered the lists. The t ugagement that is
now under way will, as stated, determine
whether there is to be a Democratic or a
Republican President after 1880. The party
which loses will consume considerable time
before it can work itself up to its present
position. It has beeu repeatedly pointed
out that the Democratic side has the better
f )06ition of the two, and it maintains
teelf the better. It has the popular support
of the people. That means victory. It can
only by blunderiug lose its vantage. The
leadership is in the hands of men not given
to blundering. It is of course evident to
all that the impending dead lock cannot last
always. There has got to be money to run
the government; and, in obedience to the
popular will, that money will have to come
by the Radicals consenting per force to
give the people the rights guaranteed
them by the Constitution. The Demo
cratic prrty has the just side. The Re
publican Supreme Court in the past have
made decisions that uphold them, and the
Radicals will have to succumb, the utter
lack of good ground upon which to stand is
shown by the utterances of the Radicals in
the House who have aired their oratory on
this subject. They shriek “revolution” and
fall back on their only battle cry, the bloody
shirt. They are compounds of absurdity.
They say “now you gentlemen on the other
side are proceeding in a revolutionary man
ner in putting this legislation on appropria
tion bills, and revolution means a new rebel
lion with Fort Sumter and firing on the old
flag and Jeff. Davi6 and things.” It
is nonsense—the most bare old scare
crow that the Radical mind has ever
created with which to fire the Northern
heart. If to put the repeal legislation on
appropriation bills is “revolutionary,” why
didn’t the Radical majority think so when
they enacted that legislation attached to
appropriation bills. The attempt to “fire
the Northern heart” by agalu nailing the
bloody shirt to the Radical flag pole, is
equally as nonsensical as the cry of revolu
tion. The effort is making to induce the
North to believe that the demand for the
repeal of the laws in question comes from
the South, and is simply tbe arrogant de
mands of the Confederate Brigadiers who
have captured the capitol! Garfield, in
his speech, to which the Radical press are
devoting columns of praise, never once said
that the repeal of the jurors’ test oath law,
an4 of the law authorizing the use of troops
at the polls, were unjustly demauded. On
the contrary, he held out that he had no
particular objection to their repeal, and in-
ferentially invited the Democratic party to
be satisfied with that much and settle the
dispute. Now for anything to come under
the ban of the bloody shirt it must be pecu
liarly Southern. The jurors’ test oath and
the army at the polls are the two measures in
which the South is sectiona’ly interested.
Supervisors and deputy marshals could not
break her grand solidity.
The demand for the repeal of the super
▼isors law^ comes, sectionally considered,
from the North—principally from Ohio and
New York. In other words, Garfield and
his followers can see no objection to grant
ing the repeal of the laws in which the South
has a sectional interest; but because she
happens to unite with a demand coming
from the North and from Union men, they
must seize on the old and only issue that
Radicalism has—the bloody-shirt. They ex
pect a hearty echo from every “Union heart”
n the country. The absurdity and nonsense
of the bloody-shirt cry is too apparent, how
ever, to realize their great expectations.
The interest in the conflict still increases.
The great debate has just been begun in the
House. In the Senate it will be as long and
ardent. Jim Blaine, of Maine, is in training
for a “stalwart” delivery. His late handling
of the bloody shirt should haye been a les
son to him. 'He hopes, however, to strike
the right chord this time and bring his Presi
dential chances up to at least zero. The
people will tire of the debate and after a few
days there will be but little interest
attached to the speeches. But the in
terest in the progress of the fight
and its ultimate result will remain
unabated until it is over. Much eloquence
ill be lost; but the preliminary contest for
1880 will be settled. When It is settled,
there are signs as big as a man's hand that
the Radicals will have to take back seats,
wrapped in their insignia—the bloody-shirt.
Potomac.
THE DEMOCRATS AND THE ARMY
BILL.
What the Debate of Friday and Sat*
urday Showed About the Political
Use of the Army.
A female book agent caused the publi
cation in the Sacramento Bee of the
death of one Geo. W. Bruff. Now, BruiT
was not dead, and appealed to the Bee
to restore him to life. The Bee found
the woman, who explained that Bruff
owed her and had fixed a day when he
would pay if he was alive; as he did not
pay she concluded he was dead, and so
published him in the Bee. Bruff aDd
the Bee people are angry; everybody else
laughs.
Four thousand men assembled in a
Boston theatre to see a wrestling match.
Thirty thousand persons in New York
paid a dollar apiece to witness three
worn out men walking around the track.
And when a clergyman announced on
Sunday morning that a collection would
be lifted in the evening to liquidate the
debt of the church, three hundred per
sons assembled, and the collection
amounted to nine dollars and a half.—
Norristown Herald.
The political and social Eden of New
England is New Fairfield, in Connecti
cut The town. Instead of being in debt,
has money* at interest; within its limits
it has no distillery, no grogshop, no court
house, no jail, no doctor, no lawyer, no
constable, no policemen, no male ne
groes and only three paupers.—New York
A Washington special to the New Y'ork
World says:
The intelligent and reasonable way in
which the Democratic majority in Con
gress conducts itself in dealing with
public questions begins to surprise the
enemies of that majority. It was the
all but universal opinion here among Re
publicans that the new Democrats from
the South would be fiery, untamed, and
untamable, but thus far it is now con
ceded by those Republicans that there
has rarely been in a new Congress more
caution and deliberation manifested by a
majority. And in debate every one has
observed that the Southern members of
the Senate and the House are really show
ing a clearer appreciation of the consti
tutional bearing of the measures under
consideration than do the older Iiepub
lican members who have been for a long
time in office in Washington. That was
very apparent in the brief discussion
yesterday in the House on the army’ bill.
The older Republicans did not appear to
have carefully studied the subject, or in
deed to have examined it at all. Robe
son especially seemed to look at the ques
tion of using the army r as it stood in
Grant’s time. He apparently knew
nothing of the fifteenth section of the
army appropriation law of June 18,1878,
which is “general legislation” and was
put into the bill by consent of the Senate
not one year ago. That section declares:
“ From and after the passage of this
act it shall not be lawful to employ any
part of the army of the United States as
a posse comitatus, or otherwise, for the
purpose of executing the laws, except in
such cases and under such circumstances
as such employment of said force may be
expressly authorized by the Constitution
or by act of Congress.”
That is the law to day’, and that section
is in an appropriation bill which Mr.
Hayes approved on the eighteenth day
of last June. Does the section which
Democrats now demand any’ more invade
the rights of the Executive or the Consti
tution ? Certainly not.
In the debate ou Friday Mr. Frye, of
Maine, got badly tangled in the legs by
ignorance of the effect of the opinion
which Attorney General Caleb Cushing
gave to the Secretary of the Interior in
May, 1854, on the Illinois fugitive slave
case. Iu that opinion Mr. Cushing said
that under the fugitive slave law the
Marshal, w r hen opposed in executing the
process of the court, could summon the
entire able-bodied force of his district as
a posse, and could charge the expenses
in his accounts. Mr. Cushing rested his
opinion as to a posse not on any Federal
statute, but ou analogies drawn from the
power of Sheriffs at common law and
under the English statutes. He said that
a Sheriff could call on all bystanders,
and so could the Marshal, and if a com
pany of Federal infantry was at hnnd
among the bystanders he could summon
the company. Under some such device
the Federal troops assisted the present
Attorney General Devens as Marshal in
Massachusetts under Fillmore to surren
der a pantiDg fugitive and to put the
court house in chains.
An old clerk in the War Office tells me
that Jefferson Davis, at the head of that
office in 1854, stoutly and vehemently re
sisted Cushing’s opinion and such use of
soldiers. He declared openly at the time
that he would rather a fugitive should
never be surrendered than that the army
be put to such uses. Mr. Davis argued
in season aud out of season and declared
to every one in the department that the
army was raised to fight a foreign ene
my and to keep peace with the Indian
tribes. He always resisted in Cabinet the
use of the army iu Kansas for the same
reason. He contended that the militia
was intended to be the true police force
of the nation, as i9 apparent from the
fifteenth clause of the eighth section of
the first article of the Constitution. The
law of Congress of 1795 to suppress in
surrection, which refers only to the State
militia, confirms that opinion. It was
not until 1897 that Congress authorized
the President to call on the Federal army
to execute the laws. The Constitution
does not expressly authorize the Presi
dent to call on the army to keep the peace
and execute the laws, or expressly enable
Congress to do it. The latter is an im
plied power.
But Congress on last June cut up
Cushing’s opinion by the roots when it
forbid the including of the army asp^rt
of the posse of bystanders unless (Jon-
press expressly authorized it. Then
President Hayes signed a law’ forbidding
any one to use the army in any way to
even execute the laws excepting there
was a statute expressly imparting the
authority. Robeson and Frye confound
ed keeping peace at the polls with msur
rection, when the President can call on
the army if a State asks it, under title 69
of the Revised Statutes. There are alsp
standing sections of the statutes which
expressly empower the President to call
on the army to protect certain timber
lands (section 246o), to execute judicial
process in civil rights cases (section
1984-9), to enforce neutrality (5287) and
in other clearly defined exigencies. And
also (by section 2002) to ‘Jieep the peace
at the polls” on election days, which
power the Democrats propose to take
away from the Executive.
The whole question is in this small
nutshell. Congress, in June, 1878, said
the President shall not use the army to
execute the laws unless the Constitution
or an act of Congress so declares in dis-
tiuct words. The Constitution nowhere
“expressly” declares that the President
shall employ the army to keep the peace
or enforce any laws. A law of Congress
(section 2002) does, however, say that he
may use it to keep the peace at the polls
on election da}’. That it is proposed to
repeal, and no one can be such an idiot
as to deny that Congress can siy for
what objects the army can be employed.
Mr. Robeson was so demoralized by
Grantism that he seems to have forgot
ten what he once learned as a lawyer.
The Republicans from Pennsylvania
are greatly embarrassed by memory of
the opinions expressed a few years ago
fiy Governor Geaiy, when the Republic
can Governor of Pennsylvania, about
Federal troops at State polls. He said:
“The employment of the United States
troops at elections without the consent
of the local aud State governments has
recently received considerabl • attention
and reprehension. Itisiegarded as an
interference with the sovereign rights of
the States, which was not contemplated
by the founders of the General Govern
ment, and, if persisted in, must lead to
results disastrous to peace and harmony.
The practice is one so serious in its
character and so injurious in its tenden
cies as to merit prompt consideration and
decisive action, not only by the General
Assembly but by Congress. Qne of the
complaints of the colonists against the
British King was the oppression growing
out of the assumption of this
power. They said “ Ho has
kept among us iu times of peace
standing armies without the consent
of our Legislaturesand, what is espe
cially pertinent to the case in point, ‘He
has affected to render the military inde
pendent of and superior to the civil
power.’ The alleged authority for the
use of troops at our State elections is
derived from the tenth section of an act
of Congress approved May 31, 1870, en
titled ‘An act to enforce the rights of
citi^eijs of the United States to vote in
the several States of the Union, and for
other purposes,’ which authorizes United
States Marshals to call to their assistance
‘such portion of the land and naval
forces of the United States, or of the
militia, as may be necessary to the per
formance of the (July with which they
are charged, and to insure a faithful ob
servance of the fifteenth amendment to
the Constitution of the United States.’
“But it must be a forced construction
of this law that will justify the presence
of armed national forces at our places of
election when no necessity exists there
for, and where their presence is calcu
lated to provoke collision. With a good
P,evident the exercise of the power re
ferred to might have no injurious results,
but in the hands of a bad man, governed
by personal ambition, it might prove ex
ceedingly calamitous. Unconsciously
good President might be induced to em
ploy it wrongfully; a bad one would be
almost certain to use it for his own ad
vancement. Under any circumstances,
in my opinion, it is unsafe and antago
nistic to the principles that should govern
our republican institutions. At the last
October election United States troops
were stationed in Philadelphia for
the avowed purpose of enforcing the
election laws. This was done without
the consent or even the knowledge of the
civil authorities of either the city or the
State and without any expressed desire
on the part of the citizens, and, as far as
can be ascertained, without existing ne
cessity. From a conscientious convic
tion of its importance 1 have called your
attention to this subject. A neglect to
have done so might have been construed
as an endorsement of a measure that
meets my unqualified disapproval. The
civil authorities of Pennsylvania have
always been and are still competent to
protect its citizens in the exercise of their
elective franchise, and the proper and
only time for United States military
forces to intervene will be when the
power of the commonwealth is exhaust
ed and their aid is lawfully required.”
The trick so thoroughly exposed in the
World, by which in Juoe, 1872, the
supervisor machinery was extended over
all the United States by an amendment
to the general appropriation bill while in
the Senate, creates much excitement,
No debate was allowed thereon by Re
publicans. The “general legislation’
was not only tacked on to appropriations
but tacked on by the Senate, and Demo
cratic Senators were not allowed to even
read the long amendment, in the last mo
ments of the session. How it was forced
through the House the World clearly ex
hibits.
DIABOLICAL STATEMENTS.
The Glaring Falsehoods of the
called Religious Organ ot the
ITlethodist Church North.
Macon Telegraph and Messenger.
The following precious morceau ap
pears in a late number of the New Y'ork
Christian Advocate:
1861—1879!—This week the legisla
tive department of the United States falls
into the hands of the men who ruled in
1861. They have the same spirit that
actuated them when they went out. The
field was the weak place in ’61, therefore
they struck with the sword. The Treas
ury is the weak place now. therefore
we may expect the blow there.
Having lived to hear eulogies pro
nounced in the L'nitcd States Senate on
Jeff Davis, the author of the starvation
policy of Andersonville, and the great
repudiator of earlier days, wc -are pre
pared to see him pushed for any post.
We feel that the Democrats of the North
will be helpless now as they were before.
‘ The spirit of 1861, revived in 1879,
must be judged by its history. The pois
oning of Harrison and Taylor, and the
attempted poisoning of Buchanan, and
the shooting of Lincoln, the killing of
every President who was assisted by a
Vice President who could serve the
South better, makes the election of a
temporary President of the Senate sug
gestive. The spirit that murders thous
ands of citizens for the control of the
South, can hardly be expected to hesitate
at killing two more men for the control
of the nation. Billions of money with
which to pay for the slaves make suffi
cient motive for anything. Hayes and
Wheeler will do well to insure their lives
soon. ”
We doubt if Satan, “the father of
liars,” with all his ingenuity and hatred
of the truth, ever hatched such a cocka
trice’s egg as the above. It is seldom
that some modicum of plausibility at
least does not attach to almost any writ
ten assertion. But in this instance the
lies are as numerous as the sentences
while at the same time there is a concen
tration of venom and m-.ilignity which
distances Zach Chandler, and even puts
the sainted and ever-walking ghost of
John Brown to the blush. Let the read
ers analyze the three brief paragraphs
quoted and see if a parallel to them can
be found in the annate of mendacity.
They fairly bristle with falsehoods manu
factured out of whole cloth.
But who is this Reverend (!) falsifier?
We allow our own Wesleyan Christum
Advocate to furnish Ifie answer, in a sin
gle paragraph, which is printed, heading
and ail:
“Atrocious Talk.—Wegivebelow an
utterance by the editor of the New York
Christian Advocate, the Rev. C. H. Fow
ler, D.D., LL D., late fraternal messen
ger, etc., to the Methodist Episcopal
i/hurch South. We venture the opinion
that no man in the United States cap
beat the doughty doctor at Urs kind of
thing.”
Our readers will remember him also
as one ol the Y'ankee gushers in the
great religious gathering which was held
in Atlanta a }ear ago. Then he fairly
preached peace and fraternity, and went
into ecstacies over ^hc fact that the
hatchet had been buried, and now the
churoh, North and South, should be
come a unit aud vie with each other in
acts of brotherly love. Now, he out-
Herods Herod in the oppDsite direction.
It is to be hoped that the sleeping con
science of our people will be aroused
when reminded of the terrible crimes
they have eommitted. Think of it, Har
rison and Taylor successfully poisoned
to death, Buchanan narrowly escaping
the same fate, and Lincoln shot in cold
blood.
Besides all this, they have been guilty,
says Dr. Fowler, of the unparalleled
crime of glorifying Jeff. Davis in Con
gress, who, we are told, was the “author
oj the starvation policy of Andersonville
and the great repudiator of earlier days.”
Well, after this can we expect quarter
from that pseudo fraternizer and those
of his ilk ? Let the South, therefore,
prepare to lose their scalps or resolve to
become more “solid” than ever.
We doubt if Grant ^nd his allies can
possibly S4c»ieed in securing a more bla
tant and devoted bloody shirt waver and
whipper-in of the Radical, fanatical crew
than the foul and Reverend Fcwler. Iu-
gerso’.l and himself are jmr nobile fra-
trum, and it is impossible to decide to
whom the palm should be awarded for
wholesale slander and hatred of peo
pie. It is fortunate, howevnr, that such
shots as Dr. Fow bar fires will prove veri
table boomuraugs, returning to wound
himself only. Utterances like his are
too bald faced to deceive .any one, and
will be received with loathing and con
tempt even by the good men of his own
party.
A DESPERATE AFFAIR.
Steve Venard’s
Highwaymen*
Fight with Three
Whom He Killed.
Nevada Transcript.
Steve Venard, the hero of the most
startling event that ever occurred in
Nevada county’s history, is iu town.
There are people in all parts of the
country who have not forgotten the ac
count that went Hashing over the wires
of his daring feat of the 15th of May,
1866. History tells us that the .stage
from North San Juan to this city was
stopped at 4:30 o’clock in the morning,
near the top of the hill, on the south
side of the South Y'uba, above Black’s
Crossing, by three men in disguise, and
$7,900 taken from Wells, Fargo tScCo’s
coin chest.
The stage drove quickly into Nevada,
a distance of five miles. The news was
made public. Sheriff R. B. Gentry ral
lied a posse and repaired in all haste to
the scene of the robbery. The posse
consisted of Steve Venard, James H.
Lee, Albert Gentry and A. W. Potter.
An examination of the spot showed that
the robbers had turned out of the road
and gone down the river on a parallel
with it Venard and Lee got on the trail
of the robbers and followed it over the
roughest of all imaginable ground for
the distance of a mile and a half. It was
evident which way the robbers went.
Lee went back to take the hor&es around
to the road of the crossing below’, the
rest of the Sheriff’s party having pre
viously gone in that direction. Venard,
left alone, followed the trail. He came
to Meyer’s ravine, at its debouchure iuto
the Y'uba. He saw that the pursued had
gone up the Tavine to a crossing. He
was alone in one of the wildest and
roughest of spots iu that wild and rugged
region.
He*walked on a short log to a rock.
AboVfc him rose the huge mass of granite,
buttressed iu front by two smaller rocks.
Between these latter was an alley which
led up the base of the Titau. His posi
tion was such as to look up the alley.
At the base of the great rock Venard dis
covered the object of his search. The
leader of the gang w ? as sitting on the
ground and in the act of drawing his
revolver. Venard instantly leveled his
rifle upon the robber, who was not more
than twenty feet distant. At the same
mom mt he saw another of the gang
pointing at him over the edge of a rock.
There was no time to change his aim.
He fired; the leader fell back shot
through the heart. The other robber
attempted to shield himself farther be
hind a rock, leaving the point of his
pistol exposed over^ the top. The ex
posure was fatal; Venard covered the
spot with his unerring Henry. No sooner
did the head of the robber peer above the
rock than his brain was pierced with a
bullet. There wras yet another, but he
was not to be seen. His pistol might at
that moment be pointing at Venard. Tl
latter, quick as thought, clambered up to
the lair to beard him iu his deu. He
found the treasure, took the pistols from
the dead, covered quickly the former
with earth and leaves, and nroeoeded to
hunt the missing robber. Crossing the
stream and ascending the steep mountain
beyond, he discovered the robber running
up the acclivity, sixty yards or more
ahead. Venard tired and the robber fell.
Another bullet, and the last robber rolled
down the hdl—dead.
Venard now sought his companions.
They all proceeded to the scene of the
tragedy, recovered the money, and by 2
o’clock of the same day the Sheriff’s par
ty deposited the cash with A. D. Tower,
Wells, Fargo & Co.’s agent in this city
After the Sheriff’s party had left Neviida
Wells, Fargo & Co. offered a reward of
$3,000, which was paid. The company
also presented Steve Venard with a mag
nificent Henry rifle, gold mounted and
beautifully inscribed, and Governor Low
appointed him. on his staff with the rank
of Lieutenant-Colonel, “for meritorious
services in the field.”
The bodies of the robbers were brought
to town,' washed and fully identified.
Upon them was found property they had
taken from the passengers in stages they
had stopped before. The names of the
robbers were George Shanks, alias Jack
Williams, the leader; Bob Finn, alias Ca
ton, and George W. Moore.
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AVhat will Delight the Dog-Fauelers
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HA Jsr&ev Thief's Conscientious
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J., March 25th, says: “Several nights
ago a burglar entered the house of Wm
C. Slansbury, in Westfield, and stole]
1*1.400 in money. Yesterday afternoon
Mr. 3 tan .-.bury received a letter, dropped
in the Westfield post office, and printed
with a lead pencil in rough block charac
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would visit at midnight a certain apple
tree on his place he would find near it a
stone with bis money hidden under it.I
Mr. S'anshury’s wife advised him not to]
waitun'il midnight, but te go immedi
ately, as no one would date place the
money there t\fter ha received the letter
for fear of detection, and if it was there
already some one might accidentally
overturn the stone and find it. Mr.
Stansbury went by the designated place,
found a stone, turned it over, and there
lay a roll of bank notes. There was
41,000 in fhe roll.' The letter said that
the writer was a woman; that herhus
hand had stolen the money while drunk,
and that she would pay back the remain
ing $400 as soon as she could. Mr.
Stansbury is elated over the return of
the bulk ef|the stolen money.”
A young man, to hector a young lady,
said: “This is 8t. Patrick’s day. Where
is your green bow ?” As quick as a flash
came the response: “You are green
enough for me; come along.”
From present indications the dog show,
which is to be held at Gilmore’s Garden
on the 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th of April,
under the direct supervision of the West
minster Kennel Club, will comprise the
largest collection of rare and valuable
dogs that has yet been exhibited in
America. Mr. Charles Lincoln, the
manager, says that extra pains have been
taken to provide comfortable quarters
for the dogs. New and improved stalls
have been ordered, and a systematic
method of examination will be intro
duced, in order to prevent the admission
of dogs suffering from contagious or
other diseases. The services oi Veteri
nary Surgeon J. B. Coleman has been en
gaged. Nearly every kennel club and
many private owners in the United Stales
and Canada wiil send their best speci
mens. As usual, the general class of
sporting dogs will largely predominate.
The desire to perpetuate and keep un
tainted the breeds of hunting dogs, Mr.
Lincoln says, has rapidly grown for the
last few years.
“Pugs,” Spanish and slender-llmbed
Italian grey hounds, will mingle will
their larger and more sturdy brethren.
A special feature will be the introduction
of a wild dog, captured while a pup in
the mountains of Mexico, the classifica
tion of which puzzles the fanciers. It
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trained dogs to exhibit his pets morning
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inst., at 6 p. m. The priaes embrace
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aggregating four thousand dollars.
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“I was dragged down with debt, poverty
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