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I-lABLISHED 1850.
happenings at home.
itHF REI> FROM OUR LATE |
exchanges.
,j.. nS Municipal Elections in At
' ;<n ,| Augusta—The Flames in
** l L, r viUe— Attempted Suicide— Dave. \
'. . Mineral Wealth— A Convict's j
,' l.Ver K ■scape.
■ f the municipal election at Au- ]
~,*n definitely settled, by the full
-lietl in the < onstitutionalist yes- |
riisnM- R- H. May. for Mayor, re- ;
~rity in every ballot-l)o\ in the j
-till majority was 1.919 votes— I
l.r,ir> colored. The whole May I
te l. and the members of Couu-
Fir-t ward, C. E. Coffin, M.
ltrelenburjt: Second ward. E.
,li.hn Doeeher, .1. K. Evans;
\Vm. Bennett. .Joseph Myers, C.
rth ward. M. K. Hill, tVm. E. !
i_. It. Lombard. The new Mayor
■ I were inaugurated in office at
, J k ~-ierday.
: the mnnieipal election in At
_ from the tone of the press of
.neat surprise. All llieout
i- |s>int to the election of John
- Mayor. Ir. E. J. Itoacli and
. 11. -cals lx*ing defeated. The
, I are as follows: Alderman—
II M a-lin. < •uuicilmen—J. A.,ray.
ji , '. H . I>ay, B. K. Tangle} and
. r , w -a large sale of real estate in Co
-11 I'a,— <|ay of the realty of the late
I Thom.i-. located on Rose
.a city, consisting of forty
. I lioinac residence. The prop
*r the aggregate -11111 of $13,895;
lc.nl cash, the balance in one and
.1-. at 9 per cent, interest.
\| l:t-l the tiin house of Mr. 1. I>.
• . 1 \ f*>nl. and the contents, were de
tin-. The gtn was a public one aud
twenty-six liale- of cotton.
• cghi of last week the gin house
M l :.I. >. near Box springs. Tails,t
.. . i.iirncl. containing four bales of
■ urge amount of cotton -red. It
. , mim-ler of the M. K. < liurcli
Ki i* lucky -cut to the mission rooms
\ . I • tin., a cheek for 12.00 U. to lie
the * ectral Me\iean Mi—ion,where
| Mtu liotiell and his excellent wife.
■1 1 ' lii* Williams, .>r Macon, arc lo
\ 1; mm in the bound-of the Wc-t
--i< ..iiferenee also-ent for the
- on. Tills is gratifying news to Mr.
•I ■ M.o l).oieirs friend- in Mticon and
Ii .itlor county Democrat- have a uoroi
m.ity election for county officers on
Ittli mst.
r . ..|..rcd Methiwlist- of Tallsdton have
.1 1.1 nice organ for their church at that
:.-:dcnc of Mr. W. Scott Brown at the
s| n-on place, in Tallwit valley, was
■'•■-! toyed by lire. With his residence
- liiuv. 11 also Inst Litio m money, all his
ind the product or twenty hog- in
1 spin receipts at Tnllsitton np to IV
. : u ere bales, and it iseslimatcd
t :-:al receipt' this sea-011 \\ ill lie over
q , 15. I 00k. of Tallmt county, had
.11.3 ml -i\ Itumlred |>oiinds cotton seed
I by tire Wednesday night last.
• 1 |hi ..lay la-l one of the liolde-t conceived
- <Ol record was clVcctcd at the Hade
■-. in Cob* l dy. •!■** Muore had lM*en
* 1 in 1 atoo~a county for horse steal•
i>. ii\,. vear- lulsir in the |ienilentiary.
A .1 s o'clock Tuexlay morning last super
i.ient Keno took Moore about a mile from
mine to tix a di-ordered pi]ic. They
cd the spot, ami the convict wa-busily
. _ ,g,d at work and at a moment when
K attention was diverted, the convict
1 rii a pi-tol from iiie latsoin and ordered the
si '. rmtenden. to throw up his hand-, point
_ the pistol at lii- head. I p lliehand- went.
Ccno was superbly armed, around him wa
ickleil a Wit containing a navy eix-sliontcr.
.nil Moon -aid w i|h great mna-halaii**)*. ■—out
the. licit:” Bern* did as commanded, awl the
•It and jii-tol fell to the ground. The next
*mmain! of the'convict to lfono vva- **strip
k!'* and in le—than three -eeond- Betio was
a Ins shirt sleeves and drawers. Tlte convict
w now complete master of the situation, and
■I the . *.*t .-iii.l breeches of the Superm
ini, and picking li|i the navy -:\ -hooter,
Ito his disrobed antagonist: “I’d kill you
an a\ if yon wu-n'l an o!*l man. l.umlbyv.
1 may go hack and pul your hound- after
t you call never take me alive." With
• 1 remarks lie strode oft armed with two
!-• i- and vva- emm lost to sight in the wofid.-.
Mr. If.-mu tlit'ii went to a might-'ring Imust 1 .
I \\ f i Mlllip lllll'ilr- ami -1">1I li:nl till l 1 Mix nl
ix mi ilii* track of :l- fugitive. lint at
... •11l ,100, hail io-r Ihe .1 cat of Hu- Imlil
hi-, i t iii the laurel bn-lies. *
T. . - ru|> iinxliiet of Ihxilv I'ininli *. imi’
ivi hi-*tu i* ,ai'l to lie iiiimen-e. There
x; ii .. oarrel. enough in tin- eouiit.' to hold
I-: “H heard a gen
. remark a few <lay. since that he would
I\ have 111 pour a |iart of hi, >x rup on
-i ml. a. he had ,ent to tiaiikiiinville
i M .Mte/imia. ami lieen over the riKßlv
i after harivl.. liut could find isom*.'*
I liman denning-, an old and highly e--
1 eiti/.i II of the seventeenth ili~triet of
' i . iiinty. having for some time ,ho wed
mi of'mental alienation a, to alarm
:r nd,. attempted on laid Saturday to
a-un-ide bv cutting hi-throat. The in
t w :.~ either too dull or the watefcf;il
• . of hi- friend, prevented tin- fatal deed.
H -ed. 'l. however, in inflicting a wound
not 'ngerou-.
! m i t ode of Georgia i- now running
ntiet of eritici.iu. One of the mo.t
t resolution,of tin- session *H in
- . | in the -cmite on " ednt-.lai hy
, Imltnmon. Jt wa, for the appoint
.. minitlee id three frnin the scuale
trotn tin- Ifmot) to examine the new
i -•.• what emus it iwalaitt'. amt
- ting the Governor to jiay a*i more
i rlu pulli,her- on the state', tu.i
--" ’ I't'iciii for the pre-ent.
1 n ntlemetiof the reliringlioard of ( om\-
• ■ f Montezuma take their places haek
. -t of the people witli the indor-c
--o . ■ tin hisnl h.i, iin titlii , in(i,lsui're,'-
’ii I. i i.nomieal in it, administration that
ha, ever had.. It ha, eolieelwi more
.lid off more del it,, and ha, more
mine jn the treasury than any
' - t ounetl. and. •i-idc-.’it compro
eh* w hich had been hanging over the
Tlie Curfew Law.
M. Lnn Xi jiHhlimn.
W mi i, known as the ‘•Curfew*’ section
• ! ’ ' i ptvMtjjfin aet lias just iieen pro
i-ii and in Dublin in consequence of a
iihK-.ii i ami one t*r two murderous as
' !'. which were held to indicate the ex
*-rirauized hatuls of assassins.
1 '• timi provide, that in a proclaimed
'’net it a pt*rson is out of his place of
-!• It any time after one hour later
’> - mm ! and liefore stiurisi> under sus
-1 i, ireimistauees any const aide may
ii ihtsoii and bring hint forth
fnre u justice of the jieace, and
' ,ti.-e. after in|iiiry into the cir
- ii is of the case, may either dis
iiim nr take the upeessary steps by
!; iag him to prison or taking hail, to
in before a court of siiinuiarv juris-
I -ting under this aet. and if stteji
■.ii appearing liefore a court of
■ > jurisdiction, acting under this
’• I, tii satisfy the court that he was
, place of hlnhlc ujHtn some lawful
' t. nr Inisim ~. he shall la- guiltjrof
'■ ~ against this act. The severity
• ■ i provision and the injustice and
that max !*- wrought under it to
- ni any ineaiitinus person caught
" from home during the forbidden
" ggi-.f that the government must
l; '.n : the situation a very grave one.
the shotgun as a Consoler.
'*c York t' nrtilnQ Pont.
\;.r pos of the shot-gun as a consoler,
1 ' '*,• in that eliaraeter seems to lie
. n. to the North, for the news came
: 1 MiU. aukee yesterday that the mother
- < -j in that city who had been dis* ;
- r < ■■! ■••.•..i, insane with grief, and that
• hfiv r was going around with a shot
•oiparentlv without any definite ol>-
; ml the comfort derived from the
; • '•! Th, weapon. If h should ever come
j ’hat. in the dark and tfrpary days
, life which so often overtake all
' ' wing a shotgun across one’s knee.
; ’ .‘"ing the stock or barrel, will send
' h "J* and courage through the weary
'a. and take the mockery out of the
•soin,-. we sliall undouldetily owe this
•| at alteviatiou to the South, it is there
: ' alue of the shot gun as a soother
in ! .’ r V sorrow, as the mourner’s lest
( ! ’ ‘b "as first discovered, or at least pro
,*■ * t - * 1 - Asa comforter. too, a single j
; r ! 'dl suttiee, so that the efcanner is
• llh teach of the humblest home.
r i' ! <1 Blueher. of the Second I'nited
p, , " Artillery and l*ost schoolmaster at
" ,I'Tli nry. Baltimore, has accepted :
lVi ' a . Position on the staff of Baker
p' 1 '' 1 : to aid in the reorganization of the ,
lin .*'i ,lan arm > - t'orporal Blueher is a
,i* tv of the Marshal Blueher
thr ,- at .‘ r, °f tame. He graduated from I
L niversittea of Bonn and Heidelberg, i
"as formerly a military attache of 1
s.-ni i rT “ a " legation in Eg) pt. where he
tr. a the Arabic language. He came
Ui," s^ rica tw ° vean * *g°' an d enlisted in
Artillery as schoolmaster six,
' ' '-5 i
api 1 im■ ■■■Maapsinr -
CONFEDERATE CRUISERS.
A I-etter from an Officer of the Shenan
doah—Statements In Vindication of
Commander Waddell.
Corresjstndencf Boston Sunday Glob *.
In the Globe of December 3d appeared
an article—copied from the Detroit Free
Presfg —with the caption “-Confederate
Cruisers," the writer of which, in refer
ring to the Shenandoah, has evidently
drawn too copiously from the well-springs
of imagination. The misstatements con
tained in the article referred to would not
have been deemed worthy of notice were
it not for the imputation of dishonorable
conduct on the part of her commander in
taking the ship into an English port, in
stead of making for the nearest United
State navy yard. As an officer of the
Shenandoah, during the whole of her
eventful cruise. I claim the knowledge
of a little more of her history than has I**-
cotne known to the facile w riter in the
Detroit Free Pres*.
In the article in question the Shenan
doah is styled a “Confederate privateer.”
she was a regularly commissioned ship of
war under orders from an acknowledged
uHligerf'iit power, and no more a privateer
than any ship in the United States 11 aw.
This laet applies as well to the Alabama,
the Florida, the Tallahassee, the Chicka
tnauga and the Georgia. If these ships
were privateers, why was not the Merri
niac ever mentioned as a Confederate
privateer> In the tlrst year of the war
then- were two privateers, the .left' Davis
and the Nashville, both fitted out bv pri
vate enterprise, but the Confederate Gov
ernment, realizing the objections of the
nations of Europe to privateering, granted
no more letters of marque.
In the article of the Fr Press the She
nandoah is accredited with or accused of
capturing five whalers “inside of three
hours, four of which were burned and the
fifth bonded that she might be loaded with
the prisoners.” This is well enough as
lar as it goes, but the fact is that on the
day referred to she captured eleven ships
within twelve hours, burning nine and
bonding two; this was accomplished at the
cutranee to Behring Straits. Ido not wish
to lie considered as exulting in this fact,
but merely give it as a matter of history.
The destruction of these unarmed whalers
was distasteful alike to officers and men.
but the orders of the government
under which we were acting were
imperative as to the destruction of
the whaling fleet, as it was con
sidered the nursery of the Federal navy.
The writer referred to again asserts that
"the Shenandoah was twice disabled at
sea and in great jieril, and on one occa
sion some captured whalers set tire to her
in two plaees at once, and came near caus
ing her destruction.” The only time site
was seriously disabled was some twelve
hours after ieaving the island of Tristan
d’Acunha, where we had landed a num
!>er of prisoners. This was an accident to
her machinery—a breakdown. We were
then someone hundred and twenty miles
south of the island, and within six hours
after the departure of the Shenandoah, a
Federal ironclad < the Iroquois. I believe)
touched at the island, took off the prison
ers and started under full steam for Cape
town. Cape of Good Hope, in search of
the Shenandoah, while the object of her
vigilance was heading towards Australia.
As to the statement of whalers having set
lire to her—this is too absurd for even the
marines to sw allow. With sentries con
stantly pacing the deck it would have
lieen worse than madness to ha\ e attempt
ed anything half so des|>erute.
Now as to the charge of conduct not in
accordance with honor on the part of the
commander of the Shenandoah. The Free
Press says; "While the war closed in April
the Shenandoah received no tidings of it
until midsummer. Her commander should
then have laid his course for the nearest
United States navy yard and surrendered
everything, but he did not do so, much to
liis discredit as an honorable commander.
He beaded for England, and the Shenan
doah ran into Liverpool with the Con
federate flag flying and surrendered to the
English authorities. Of course the fra ft
was at once transferred to the Federal
Government.”
August J. 1865, the Shenandoah over
hauled the British hark Barrucoutu. of
Liverpool from san Francisco, hound for
London, from the Captain of w hich was
received the lirst intelligence 011 hoard
the cruiser of the assassination of Lincoln,
the surrender of Lee and the termination
of tlie war. Immediately on the receipt
of this news Captain Waddell summoned
liis officers in council to express their
views as to the l*est course to lie pursued
under these —to us—unforeseen circum
stances. Some were in favor of making
for an English colonial port in Australia
or New Zealand, hut it was finally de
cided to steer direct for England, and.
after dismounting her guns and disguising
the ship as much as possible, her
course wtis laid for Liverpool.
From newspapers received from the
master of the Barraeouta. we learned
sufficient to justify Captain Waddell in
liis deeision, for in the excited state of
public feeling throughout the North a
spirit of vindictiveness amounting almost
to frousy wen among leading men,
making no allowance for the position of
the ship 011 the high seco, oj;t of the track
of vessels recently from eiviiued ports,
tiii other course was open to liiih. It
would have been suicidal in him to at
toiupt to rub into any United States naval
station, and. fully aware of his status,
liis course in this rcs|H*ci ;,tts heoii com
mended by the l*est men North ami South.
When the pilot came alongside of the
ship olf Holyhead he refused to take the
ship into ]Krt unless she showed her flag.
She wa-dot then an English ship, as she
had been sold by her former English ow n
ers to the Confederacy, thereby forfeiting
her English register. ’ She had no United
states register, of course could not use
the stars and stripes, 901] the pilot persist
ing in Ids refusal to take the ship into i>ort
without showing her colors nothing was
left but to hoist the flag under which site
was commissioned.
a s soon 3 s the ship’s anchor was dropped
in the Mersey, the Captain of the Shenan
doah mailed a communication to the Eng
lish Government t through Kuyj Bussell,
then Prime Minister , in which he an
nounced the arrival of ’he ship in the har
imr of Liverpool, and detail!”? the cii cum
-tai.<-i.t under which he sought rei”?e jn
an English pojg. and concluded by craving
the English Government to be the medium
bv which lie might surrender to the United
states Government the ship and all its ap
purtenances which by tlte fortunes of war
reverted to the victor.
And now. .Mr. Editor, begging your in
dulgence for trespassing so far upon your
valuable space—my sole object being the
vindication of as ehivalrie and honorable
a gentleman as ever trod a quarter-deck.
I am. sir. respectfully, your oliedient ser
vant.
Frederick *T. McNulty, M. I>.
Jf'iston, Dee. 2, 18**2.
t UKPSE IX A (’OTTIIX Bai.k. —On Xovetti
la*r 20 dames Bradley, a negro, living at
Bell's Ferry, Pitt county. X,t’., disappear
ed, and all search for him proved fruitless.
He w as about to marry a woman of that
section when two women came from Hyde
county, each of whom declared she was
Bradley’s wife, and each exhibited a child
of which he was alleged to be the father.
These developments broke otf the mar
riage and tfaKb*v Jlradley into a tit of rage
and despair. He’ went to the cotton gin
house w hile the laliori r xxete at dinner, it
is thought, and threw himself into the
half-tilled box in which the cotton was
packed into bales. When the laborers
returned the box was tilled and the bale
pressed, bagsred and sold. In a few days
it was shipped to Greenville. There a
graJer. cutting into it, found a shoe. This,
to his uorro;-. he found to contain a foot.
The bale was then *yi a #part by the eager
crowd, when the body of lirajk) was
exposed, presseil fiat and with the head
crushed to a jelly. The evidence showed
that the negro, deflating lie would end his
lije took several drinks and then threw
himself in the press. The case excites
unusual and widespread excitement. It
was at tirst stated that Bradley had been
thrown into the press, tait this w as proved
to have lieen false, although the laborers
were all discharged.
A Serie, of Collisions.
(ij'BiCCSK, Mo., Dec. 7.—During a
storm this periling a stock train bound
east broke asunder .when near Memphis,
on the Central Railway. And a dairy train
and another stock train following ijasueu
into the general heap. The St. Louis. ex
piess train, going west, also dashed into
the wrtad. No person was injured, but
considerable l*t stock was killed and
heavy damage was tjout to the rolling
st<K‘k.
7*o the youngster who lias a sprain, as
well as tig, l old gentleman who suffers from
rheumatism, or tame back, or neuralgia,
Cousseus’ Lightning Linimoj affords re
lief which such sufferers can appreciate,
Owners of valuable horses also rej’oice to
know there is such a remedy as this lini
ment for spavin, ring-bone, galls and
scratches, etc.' Price 50 cents a bottle.
For sale by G. M. Heidt A Cos,, Druggists.
The profits at the Imperial Theatre,
London, during the six nights Mrs. Lang
try plaved “As You Like It,” averaged
4 teti * iiight; or SW) lor the Week.
FLASHES FROM ATLANTA.
YESTERDAY'S WORK IN THE
LEGISLATURE.
Another Batch of New Measures—The
Savannah Registration Bill Passed—
The Ses(|Ul-Centennial Celebration-
Sale of the Atlanta Cotton Factory—A
Murderer Respited.
Atlanta, Dec. 7.—The House to-dav
considered the Senate amendments to the
general tax hill. No important changes
w ere made.
The sulseommittee was authorized to
visit and insjiect the Insane Asylum dur
ing the recess.
Mr. Owens, of Chatham, was in liis
seat.
A joint committee was authorized to
examine the new Code and report and
correct any omissions.
I lider a call of counties new hills were
introduced as follows;
By Mr. Smith, of Wilkinson —Making
wire fences lawful in Georgia, if six
strands high.
By Mr. Spingler, of Thomas—Prohibit
ing hunting and fishing on the lands of
another.
By Mr. Watts, of Stewart —Allowing
public and private schools to eo-oporaie in
certain eases.
By Mr. Drewrev.ofSpalding—Amending
the Railroad Commission act as to adver
tising rates; also, amending the charter
of Griffin.
By Mr. Humlier, of Putnam—Requiring
the owners of live stock in that countv to
keep them up.
By Mr. Bush, of Miller—Requiring the
Superior Court Judge of that county to
send to the County Court misdemeanor
cases.
By Johnson, colored, of Lee—A hill for
compulsory education.
By Mr. Mason, of Johnson—Amending
the road laws so far as that county is con
cerned.
By Air. Key. of Jasper Amending sec
tion ltisi of the new Code.
By Mr. Redwine, of Hall Prescribing
the manner of returning wild lands for
taxation.
By Air. Logue. of Glasscock—Regula
ting the liquor license in that county.
By Air. Hulsey, of Fulton—Exempting
the AlePherson memorial plat of ground
front taxation.
By Air. Osborne, of Franklin—Providing
for witnesses in certain eases.
By Mr. Rice, of Fulton —A memorial for
an amendment to section 2560 of the new
Code.
By Air. Chaney, of Earlv —Providing for
the payment of costs to the Sheriff of that
county; also, regulating juries in Early.
By Air. Mclntosh, of Dougherty—Regu
lating feiioes and inclosures in Dougherty:
also, providing for bonds for a bridge lit
Albany; also, incorporating the Georgia
Real and Personal Estate Company.
By Air. DeLacy, of Dodge—Providing
for all supreme Court reports for that
county.
By Mr. Ray. of Coweta—Creating coun
ty administrators for all the counties in
the State.
By 31r. .Morris, of Clayton —Amending
sections 301, .‘lO2 and 303 of the Code.
By Air. Russell, of Clarke— Furnishing
City Courts with Supreme Court reports
and tlie Code.
By Air. Harris, of Bibb—Prohibiting
live stock from running at large in that
county: also, prescribing how the Rail
road Commission shall apply tariffs.
By All . Bartlett, of Bibb - Requiring Su
perior Court Judges to state in 11 charge
the principles ot law applicable to the
case on trial.
By Mr. Pike, of Bartow—Repealing sec
tion 3023 of the Code of 1873; also, for re
districting the State: also, amending sec
tion 1,553 letter B of the new Code as to
guarantees of fertilizers, making it more
stringent.
By Air, Johnson, of Baldwin—Amend
ing the fence law so as to apply to militia
districts.
By Air. Carter, of Appling Fixing the
liquor license of that county at ton thou
sand dollars; also, preventing hunting 011
certain lands in Appling.
By Air. Sutton, of Aleriwether— Making
binding contracts between landlords and
tenants as to crons.
By Mr. Tate, of Pickens—Paying tally
jurors whether or not they do "actual ser
vice.
By Air, Wilson, of Smuter—Amending
the act furnishing limbs to maimed sol
diers.
AFTEUXOOX SESSION.
The House resumed the debate on the
Wilson-I’roetor contest.
Mr. AVatson, of McDuffie, contended
that Wilson had not shown that he was
elected.
Mr. Watts, of Stewart, said lie was still
in doqbt, and moved to table both reports
and have the evidence printed.
Mr. ltankiu, of Gordon, unwed to amend
by making the matter a special order for
the tirst Friday of the duly session, and
print three hundred copies'of the report
and evidence. Adopted.
The House killed the Senate bill for
revising the Superior Court calendar of
the Brunswick circuit: also, the Senate
bill prohibiting betting on elections, but
on motion of AJ r Harris, of Bibb, recon
sideration was granted, and the bill goes
| over to the July session for further action.
The House passed the Senate bill,
changing the time of holding the Macon
Superior C.ourt: also, the Senate resolu
tion in favor of material aid for education;
, also, the resolution asking for anew mail
i route in Charlton county; also, the reso
i liition that the Penitentiary Committee
impure whether the lessees have sub-let
to other parties.
The resolution for the establishment of
technology, was tabled; also, the resolu
tion to authorize the Governor to have an
exhibit of the mineral and agricultural
products prepared for Hie Boston Exposi
tion : also, the resolution £6r a .committee
on redistrletiug tb<* stafe. to meo’t'during
the recess.
There will be no sessions except of com
mittees to-night.
SENATE PROCEEDINGS.
The JMJiimc c/meurred in the House reso
lution for an exhiiiipajion of the new
• Code: also, in the resolution 10 oyr rep
i resentntives in Congress favor Mr. Rea
gan’s bill in reference to shipment of cot
ton from the South; also, the Savannah
registration bill.
The House resolution for the sale of
I'nited States bonds in the jjtate Treasury
\\ as jmsseil.
In executive session the Senate con
firmed G. J. Orr as Nlf ate School C'ommis
! sioner,
The following is the committee of the
Senate to attend Ihe Sesqui-Cen
| tennial at Savannah' President Boynton
1 and senators Dubignon. Parks. Peeples,
Jones, Smith. Tutt, George. Hoyt, Mc-
Afee. Thompson, Mandeville. Greer. AVil
eox and Oliver. 11. H. Cabaniss, Esq.,
Assistant Secretary of the Senate, will
accompany the committee. As there is
renewed interest in the celebration, and
matj v Senators and Representatives wish
to a'tteiid. senator Parks to-day intro
duced a resolution to increase the visiting
committee at the discretion of the Presi
dent of the Senate anil Sjieaker of the
House.
One hundred and thirteen Senators and
Representatives have signed the petition
for the pardon of Captain Edward Cox.
The Atlanta cotton factory was sold at
auejion to-day for $150,000. ii. B. Plant
and others vvefe the purchasers.
Governor Stephens tO-da> commuted
the sentence of win. 11. Hodges, of Effing
ham countv, sentenced to be hanged on
the 15th instant, to imprisonment for life.
BENNETT SUED FOR LIBEL.
A Suutq Curopiilaii Seeking IVamages.
New York. Dec,' 7.—The trial of the
libel suit brought by James Travers Mal
loy, a citizen of Edgefield, S, C„ against
James Gordon Bennett, was ltegun to-day
in the United states Circuit Court for the
recovery of |30,000 damages. The libel
coiii|>Uiut4 the publication of an
article in the Humid recording the de
struction of a large portion of the town of
Edgefield. S. C., by fire, on the 30th of Oc
tober. 18S1. and stating that Malloy, who
was a property owner and insured, and
whose store was burned, was suspected
oflieing an incendiary. A motion to dis
miss tile ca m on the part of the defendant
was denied^and fite trial is still going on.
DARIEN.
Two Murder Trials—A Conviction and a
Disagreement.
Darien, Ga., Dec. 7,—'Toney James, j
colored, was convicted to-night of the !
murder of Prince Anderson in August
last, and sentenced by Judge Adams to lie
La'iged on the Bth day of January next.
•fhe jury iu t>:e murder ease of Bob An- ■
derson has disagreed.
Weather Indications.
Office Chief Signal Observer,
Washington, D. C., Dec. 6.—lndica
iiohs tor Friday:
In the South Atlantic States, colder,
partly cloudy weather, northeast to north
west winds and higher barometer.
SAVANNAH. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 8, 1882.
THE STAR ROUTE GANG.
Decidedly Cheeky Tactics—The Second
Trial to Proceed.
Washington, Dec. 7.—ln the Supreme
Court of the District to-day. District At
torney Corkhill announced that the gov
ernment was ready to proceed in the star
route eases.
District Attorney Corkhill and Messrs.
Bliss aud Alerrick represented the govern
ment. The array of counsel for the de
fendants is nearly the same as in the for
mer trial, with the addition of Walter
Davidge, who assisted in the prosecution
of Guiteau,
Air. Ingersoll submitted a motion for a
continuance of the case, and road an affi
davit of Stephen W. Dorsey that his at
tendance at court is impossible, as he is
suffering from a disease of the eyes which
keeps him confined in a dark room with
his eyes baudaged; that be cannot attend
without risk of permanent blindness, and
that lie intends to offer himself as a wit
ness in his own behalf and in behalf of
the other defendants.
The affidavit is sustained by affidavits
of Drs. Bliss, Alarmion and Sowers, and
by AJessrs. Carpenter, Ingersoll and
Davidge. his counsel.
Mr. Merrick opposed the motion, and
asked to have put on file Dorsey's card to
the public, published on Friday, in order
that the court might see that Dorsey pos
sessed abundant vigor to make a public
attack upon the government. He argued
that a man equal to tlie preparation of
such a document on Friday, ought to be
able to appear in court on Monday, the
day when these affidavits appeared to have
been made.
Judge Wylie refused to admit this paper,
but decided that tlie trial could proceed
without Dorsey's actual presence, as he
wii*, under bond aud represented by coun
sel. and the motion for a continuance was
overruled.
Air. Ingersoll. after a passage with J udge
Wylie, asked time to go to his client's room
to procure liis signature to another paper.
A recess for this purpose was granted.
When the court reassembled, Mr. Wilson,
of counsel for tlie defendants, read a long
affidavit sworn to by all tlie defendants,
setting forth that they cannot safely go to
trial because of the acts of officers" of the
government in endeavoring to influence
public opinion against the defendants,
and to intimidate and coerce witnesses,
jurors and the officers of the court, who
have the selection of jurors. Among the
acts of intimidation so alleged, were the
arrest of Dickson, tlie foreman of the last
star route jury, who uaJ resisted the ef
forts to corrupt him made by agents of the
Department of Justice, delaying his trial
until a lew days since, their refusal to
arrest ami prosecute the person whom
Dickson charged with the attempt to
corrupt him. the removal from office
ef Alarshal Henry, Postmaster Ainger,
Assistant Postmaster Parker. Helm, the
foreman of the Congressional Record , and
Norton, tin* post office clerk, for the avow r
ed reason that they were in sympathy
with the defendants,and the publication or
the letters of .Messrs. Brewster, Bliss and
McVeagh for the purpose of preventing a
fair and impartial trial. Tlte affidavit
also expresses the belief that in the selec
tion of tallesmen for the jury, influences
prejudicial to tfie defendants would lie set
on foot, and that the appointment of Clay
ton AlcAliohael as .Marshal is part of that
scheme. They also charge -fudge Wylie
with bias and prejudice so that he cannot
fairly administer tin* law. Thev therefore
ask that the case go over until the next
term, when another Judge will hold court.
At the conclusion of tlie reading Judge
Wylie saitl tin: only question in his mind
was w hether he would permit such a pa
per to go on record,
Air. Alerrick asked that the paper lie im
pounded, because it was false, imperti
nent aud scandalous. ’
Judge Wylie said the paper was an in
sult to the court.
Air. Ingersoll disclaimed all intention to
offer an insult in alleging bias and preju
dice on Ihe part of the court, and said that
nearly ;dl the States had laws providing
for a "change of venue in such cases.
Judge Wylie said there was no such law
in the Federal statutes, Jfe, howoyer,
permitted the paper to go on file.
Mr. Wilson then read another affidavit
from Brady, in support of a motion for a
separate trial for himself. This motion
was overruled, as was also another call
ing for a bill of particulars. While this
was going on Attorney General Brewster
came into court and "joined the govern
ment counsel. The ease then reached the
stage of selecting the jury. Adjourned.
MASSACRED ItY INDIANS,
Thirty Alexieans anil Five Americans
Killed.
Denver. Col., Dee. 7.— Details have
b-vn received of the slaughter of thirty
Mexicans and five Americans by -lull's
band of Indians in Chihuahua: The
Politico of Caliano had raised a party of
thirty, with whom he started to punish
-lull for stealing stock. Juh ambushed
this party and corraled them in an arroyo.
One man succeeded in getting out, and
returned with a party ot seventy men,
The latter was unable to break through
-lull’s line, and were compelled to witness
the slaughter of Politico’s entire party.
-Full’s band numbered two hundred. After
the butchery was complete the Indians
escaped. The Mexicans who sought the
remains of their friends found near by the
bodies of five Americans, two of whom
were recognized as -Jos. Jjiggs and W.
AJcpowell. of Grant county.; New Afexieo.
who had been in ohifniainta purchasing
cattle.
A POLAR WAVE.
Intense Cold at the North—A Fierce
Storm in Great Britain.
Washington, Dec. 7.—lntense cold
prevails all over the northern United
Slates and Canada and Great Britain. In
the Northwest this morun;jC the ther
mometer ranged from five to fifteen de
grees lndow zero. In the Hudson river
valley the thermometer has fallen twenty
five degrees in twenty-four hours and is
still falling. All over (treat Britain a
fierce gform rages. Telegraphic com
munication between London and Glasgow
is interrupted and also in other sections
Many wrecks are reported along the
British coast.
At midnight the thermometer stood 9
degieeg above zero, and was falling 1 de
gree in every fom-ux e minutes
BASE BALL.
Meeting f?f tl*© National League.
Providence, R. 1.. ier. T.—fn ffie Na
tional Base Ball League today the schedule
scries was changed from twelve to four
teen games. The playing rules were
amended so that the pitcher’s hand
in delivering the ball must pass
below the shoulder instead of the
waist. Provision was made for
the appointment of four league umpires
at an annual salary of SI,OOO, anil the
rules for their government were adopted.
Ten players, whose names were on the
black list Hoitck, Pike, Ijorga;},
Gross, f ox, Dickerson. Crowley. Brow n
and Caskius were reinstated to full mem
bership.
THE FLAMES IN LONDON.
A Serious Conflagration Threatened.
LgndqJj, I;ei‘ 7, Midnight.—The premi
ses of Foster, Porter A Cos„ wholesale
hosiers, on Wood street, extending back
to Philip lane, are now on fire, and the
conflagration threatens to become most
serious. Several houses on Philip lane
have caught lire, and. the street being
very narrow, it is difficult for the firemen
to approach the burning buildings. The
flames have extended on PhNip lane south
as far as Addle street.
Tlie Itelmont-Devoy Libel Suit Ended.
New York, Doc. 7.— The Belmont-De
voy liliel case ended to-day in the Court of
General Sessions by the disagreement of
the jury and their 'discharge. The jury
stood eight for conviction and lour for ae.
quittal. Judge Cowing granted a motion
vacating the order committing Devoy for
contempt.
The riiiladclphia Grave Robberies.
Philadelphia, Dec. 7.—At Lebanon
cemetery thirty graves wen* opened to
day, Bodies from about half of them had
been stolen. The Health Department will
not allow any more graves to be opened
until it shall have ascertained whether
the jierson interred died from contagious
disease or not.
An Alabama Court House Burned.
Montgomery, Dec. 7.—A special dis
patch from Evergreen announces the
burning of the court house of Conecuh
county. All the county records were de
stroyed. Loss $50,000; insurance $20,000.
The fire is supposed to have lieen incen
diary.
“Rough on Rats.”
Clears out rats, mice, roaches, flies,
ants, bed-bugs, skunks, chipmunks, go
phers. 15, Druggists.
THE .NATIONAL CAPITAL.
ZEALOUS CIVIL SERVICE RE
FORMERS.
The Next Speakership—Oratorical Fire
works in Store—The Tax ou Tobacco—
Cheaper Cotton Ties—Dorsey’s Latest
Dodge—The New Georgia Senator’s
Seat—Economy Abroad.
Washington, Dec. 7.— Alembere of
Congress, both Democrats and Republi
cans, are fairly tumbling over each other
in the effort to do something to reform the
civil service. A few short months ago
the man who got up and urged reform in
the civil service was considered a nuis
ance, and, to a certain extent, a crank.
It must be said that very few Republicans
were ever considered nuisances and
1 cranks on this account. Senator Pendle
ton was laughed at for his bill of th<* last
session, the object of which was to fortify
and make stable the civil service,
Mr. Willis, of Kentucky, was voted
a bore for his hammering away iu the
House on the same subject, ft seems,
however, that the country has, in some
way or other, spoken in favor of reform,
and its voice is being heeded in haste. The
number of reformers in Republican ranks
is to-day so great that it must eause a na
tional smile. These gentlemen are not.
however, so disinterested in motive as it
would appear. They want the tenure of
public offices made a fixity. There may
lie a Democratic President iq 18*4. aud it
would be a very good thing for Republi
cans now in if they could hold on.
The Democrats are fearfully in
earnest. Between the two " there
is an almost certainty of some
civil service reform bill becoming a law at
the present session. There is a desire,
too, on tlte part of Democrats—which Re
publicans do not share—that there shall
be a little investigating about political as
sessments. Senator Beck lias introduced
in tlte Senate, and Jlr. Willis in the House,
resolutions requiring an inquiry iqfp Jay
Hubbellism and the blackmailing of gov
ernment employes for political purposes.
Senator Beck specifies in his resolution
that the Jay Hubbell and Mahone combi
nation in the robbery of scrub-women,
widows apd orphans shall be particularly
inquired into. Suefi investigation's
would deduce much information that
could be easily digested by voters, and
would do much to purify the civil service.
It is understood that the civil service re
form measure which will soon be reported
to the House from the committee on re
form in the civil service will have among
its provisions one prohibiting the levying
of political assessments, and one making
it a penal offense for any member of Con
gress to recommend unsolicited by a head
of department any one for appointment.
THE RIVALS.
It is already pretty well simmered down
that Carlisle and Randall vyiil be the only
Democrats who will go before the caucus
which will nominate the Speaker of the
next (louse, Sam Cox and Springer may
keep up their fight, even through the cau
cus, but it will be more for the purpose of
getting chairmanships of permanent
committees than any real hope of success.
Carlisle and Randall being the two men
to be pitted against each other, naturally
attract ii good .teal of attention o*l the
floor. They sit near each other. They
are on the fiest of terms. They frequently
hold short consultations about the pend
ing business, and are almost always
found to agree to a nicety on any point
in debate. One would never think that
they were trying to defeat each other in a
lofty ambition Tlie excellent terms up
on which they are could be imitated- with
great good by their adherents. But more
or less bitterness will creep into the con
test. Randall is personally the more
striking mat. of the two. Ife'ifi larger and
has a better voice. But there are a tie.
termination and frankness about Carlisle’s
face, and a perfect self-control, that
weighs greatly in tiis favor, when lie is
looked uiiou by even the most casual ob
server.
ABOUT THE DISTRICT ATTORNEYSHIP.
It is not at all among the improbabili
ties that Emory spe'Ar pill succeed Iligby
as District Attorney at Atlanta. Air.
James Atkins, who has more influence
with Arthur than any Republican in
Georgia, is supposed to tie the moving
cause against Bigby. Mr. Atkins would
like very much to see Bigby go, and
would not be verse to taking the office
of Assistant District Attorney. Air. Bigby
did not act on the square with Air. Atkin’s
in regard to tlte Judgeship. If he had he
pTiUtfi noyv have judge MeCay’s place.
When the question of lilting the new
Judgeship was pending here last winter
Bigby came on, ostensibly to help Atkins,
but really to look out for himself, as he
had tin ambition for the Judgeship himself.
Atkins did not forget this. When it be
came evident that Atkins could not be
confirmed as the new Judge the President
told hint that he would nmpinate any one
that At kins would name. The latter
thought that lie" would say, “Give the
place to Bigby,” but remembering how
tlie latter had gone back on hits, he recom
mended the appointment o( the present
incumbent. Now. Mr. Atkins would
doubtless like lo see Rigby go, and as he
and Emory Sneer are on the best of forms,
would also like to see Bpeer get the place.
THEIR SEATS.
Senator Pope Barrow Iras been given a
seat on the right of President Davis’ desk.
It is iu the second row from tlie front. It
is a good location, but not a choice one.
The new Georgia member of the House
has got a desk near All*. Blount. He is on
Keifer.’s right, and in the third row from
the From. "His iuuuediufo neighbor is
Tucker, of'Virginia. Air. Reese has been
introduced around by Blount and Turner.
Senator Brown in the Senate has done the
honors for his new colleague, Mr. Barrow.
POLITICAL DEBATE.
There will be political debate this session.
It would be an unusual session if there were
not. The first political bout that we are
promised will have for a hinge the ques
-1 iori Of oiytl sen ice reform It will proba
bly be first brought to a head in the senate
on the consideration of Reek’s resolution
to investigate the matter of political
assessments and Mahone methods.
There will be a very lively time of it.
Several Senators, among them Voorhees, of
Indiana, are already preparing speeches to
lie thrown into the public ear. It will lie a
very lively controversy in the Senate and
one just a’s lively In the House when the
AVillis resolution. Similar to that of
Beck’s, is brought up.
JfJF. TOBACCO TAX.
The bill'reported from the Ways and
Means Committee to remove the tax on to
bacco in all its forms, will not become a
law fjfe general sentiment is against
the removal of tax on either whisky or
tobacco. The outcome of the tobacco bill
will probably be that the tax will be re
duced to six cents a pound. The tax on
tobacco and whisky are more easily col
lected than any other source of revenue.
They constitute a revenue that is not at
all burdensome, and one which is willing
ly paid by the consumers Of those arti-i--
; .5 felnbVe the taxes on articles the bur
den of which is not, complained of, strikes
eyej; the average Congressman as some
thing slightly incongruous. The whisky
men do not want a reduction on their pro
duction. They want the time that whisky
can be held in bond without paving tax
extended. They have receded from'their
position of the last session, that such ex
tension shall la? indefinite, and will com
promise on a time of live vears. They will
very likelv get this,
HOOP IRON.
Bessemer steel rails and hoop iron are
the articles most likely to have the duties
on them reduced this session. Even Re
publican protectionists have to admit that
these duties should lie reduced. That
they will vote in accordance with their
convictions, is entirely another thing.
GEORGIA MATTERS.
There is nothing of special Georgia in
terest now on the Congressional dockets.
None of the memlxers have new bills to
nut in relating to Georgia affairs. Mr.
Reese will try to forward a number of
bills introduced by his predecessor. Gov
ernor Stephens.
A DODGE.
Stephen W. Dorsey, one of the star
route defendants, is very sick—so reports
from his sick chamber say. Every day dole
ful tales are told of how low Mr. Dorsev is.
People have commenced to sympathize
with Dorsey. But there seems to be a
dodge under it all. The star routers are
working for a postponement of their trial.
If the case of one defendant is postponed
all of them must be postponed. There can
bo no severance. And if the star route
trials should go over to the next term of
court there would be anew Judge to pre
side. The system of assigning Judges of
this District to the several courts w ould
make Wylie the presiding Judge of the
Equity instead of the Criminal Court. The
star routers have no good blood
for Wylie. The first trial sick
ened them. The government is
informed of the scheme for securing
a postponement, and will fight it to the
end. There will probably be doctors upon
doctors who will look into Dorsev’s sup
posed dangerous illness,
CUT DOWN.
All appropriation bills will be cut down
this session, and special objects urged
for a portion of the public monev will
have to take rear seats in the circus". The
spirit of economy is abroad in the capitol.
Potomac.
FOREMAN DIXON’S TRIAL.
The Testimony Continued—Bowen on
the Stand.
ashixgton, Dec. 7. —The examina
tiou of witnesses iu the ease against Wnt.
| Dixon, of the star route jury, is still on.
The remainder of the jury have all testi
, fled. One reporter of the National Repub
lican, who published an interview with
Dixon the day after the conclusion ot the
trial, testified to the correctness of his
published statement, that Dixon said he
had been ottered $25,000 to vote for the
government.
Henry A. Bow en, the man who Dickson
said tried to brilie him, was then placed
on the stand. He was asked if he had
told Dickson he was authorized by the
Attorney General to make a proposition of
any kind.
This question was objected to by the
defense, aud another was put, whether
lie (Bowen) hail been authorized bv tlie
Department of Justice to make any propo
sition or do anything in relation to the
star route trials. He replied. “None
whatever.” He added that he had not re
ceived such authority from Brewster
Cameron and had uot made any proposi
tion to Dickson.
The defense then took Bowen in h and
for cross-examination and directed their
efforts to estaolish a disreputable charac
ter for him, Bowen was still on the stand
when the court adjourned,
SOCIALISM IN GERMANY.
The Repressive Measures to be Con
tinued.
London, Dec. 7.—A Berlin dispatch
says: “The annual report to the Reich
stag on the extension of the Socialist law’
states that the condition of the Socialist
party does not warrant the conclusion
that it is being extinguished or even worn
out. Tlie moderates have been outvoiced
by the extremists. The Freiheit , Social
Democrat and other revolutionary papers
are being smuggled into the empire on as
large a scale as ever, Thirteen thousand
copies of tlie Social Democrat have been
confiscated during the last three months.
The followers of Herr Alost are rapidlv
increasing. The report concludes as fol
lows: “Theconviction is irresistible forced
on the government that the repressive
measures must lie continued.”
GRIME IN IRELAND.
Tfie Huildy Murderers on Trial.
Dublin, Dec. 7.—The trial of Patrick
Higgins, Thomas Higgins and Michael
Flynn, charged with the murder of the
two Huddys, was begun to-day. The
court room was crowded.
It is reported that it w ill depend on the
results of this trial whether the murderers
of Detective Uox will be tried bv jury ra
lly a commission of three Judges". Much
surprise was manifested yesterday at the
disagreement of the jury ip tfie ease of a
prisoner >vho clearly guilty of arson.
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.
Navigation was suspended yesterday on
the upper Ohio and Alississippi rivers'.
It is stated that efforts are being made
to establish a ontfoil exchange in Boston.
It has been decided that the funeral of
Louis Blanc shall be at the expense of the
State.
The Piedmont House at Spartanburg,
S. was burned yesterday, Tlie loss is
covered by $17,000 insurance,
The loss by the burning of the Alham
bra Theatre, in London, aggregated £150,-
000. The insurance is trifling.
Cicero Collins, who was sentenced to be
hanged at Kinston, N. C., on December 8,
has been respited by the Governor until
January 19
The Delaware and Lackawanna Railroad
shops at Kingsland, X, J., were burned
yesterday. Loss $70,000. Insured rat a
rtoHtiug policy,
A dispatch from Berlin savs: “A young
lady, lately banished to Siberia for com
plicity in the Nihilist conspiracy, has kill
ed the Governor of tlie Fransbaikal terri
tory.
The river Seine continues to rise. The
Freneli Government has asked tl}e Cham
bers for p gran; Of 1,000,000 franca for the
relief of tlie sufferers in the Inundated
districts.
A fire broke out on Wednesday at Lead
ville, Co]., in the Texas House, the largest
gambling establishment in the West,
which was entirely destroyed, with other
neigboring buildings.
The extensive emigration from the
mountain districts of Hungary to Ameri
ca has caused the Hungarian Government
to request Austria to stop emigrants not
provided with passports.
A Huntsville, Ala., special says:
“General Joseph Wheeler was vesterday
nominated by the Democrats to nil the
vacancy in the Fort\ -seventh Congress,
caused by the death of Mr. Lowe.”
Two capitalists of Wisconsin have
bought 6,000 acres of land in Lanzlade
county, in that State, for $210,000. It is
said that the tract contains about 700,000,-
000 feet of the best pine timber in the
State.
A fire at Covington, Tent; , yesterday
morning destroyed the ryeslivterian
j Church, Masonic "Hall, a newspaper office
and a number of' business houses. The
I loss is estimated at $56,000, The iusur-
I ance is small.
The President yesterday nominated the
following to be Postmasters: George S.
Krouse at Culpeper, Va.; Robert \V. P.
Morris at Lynchburg, Va,; Maria T. Sul
livan at Starkville, Miss.; John A.Mahone
at Holly Springs, Miss.
In the case, ot the United clues against
Oppenheimer, ldrtin’an and AVbite,' one of
the Halifax county, N. election cases,
the evidence for the government was so
insufficient that the District Attorney
withdrew the ease and the matter drops,
the defendants lieing released.
Frank Holt, of Chattanooga, Wm. Frei
tus. aged sixteen, and Sarah Young (col
ored ), who were badly scalded by the ex
plosion on the “Morning; Star” on the
Mississippi, have since died. OftwerttV
one persons on board at the time of the ac
cident, but five are now living, ft is stat
ed that the Morning Star Was racing with
the Sunbeam when the explosion oc
curred.
Some scoundrels a few nights ago raised
six paddles in a loch of the Erie canal *
Brighton, near Rochester, and let the
water Into the lower lock, the paddles of
which were closed. The water overflowed
the banks and washed out part of the tow
path, carried away two small bridges and
destroyed culverts on the Central Rail
£& 11,80 washing ftway the tracks.
. ,’Cn cars ot a freight train tumbled into
the chasm, but no person was injured,
j The Captalu of the ship Joseph E, Shin,
nev, which arrived at San Francisco re
cently from Havre, reports that an attempt
was made to sink the vessel in mid-ocean.
When she was four weeks out it was dis
covered that there was nearly four feet of
water in the hold, and on examination
three auger holes were found bored
through the bottom, just to the right of
the keelson, below the breast hook
hole in the inner sheathing. The holes
“had been plugged and covered with loose
dirt to conceal the source of the leak, and
the w-ater had filtered in between the inner
and outer planking.” A close watch was
kept on the crew, but nothing was dis
covered to warrant an arrest.
During the trial of a woman named
fturla, in Chicago, a few days ago, for the
murder of a man with whom she had
lived, a startling scene occurred. The
wretched woman was placed on the stand
and told the story of her relations with
the man she had killed, occupying nearly
hve hours in a recital of the abuse and
brutality she had suffered at his hands.
As she approached the date of the tragedy
she grew nervous and incoherent. While
describing a walk in the rain the night
before the murder “she suddenly threw
up her hands and fell forward from the
witness chair in hysteric convulsions
which it required half a dozen men to re
strain. With her shrieks ringing through
the room she was removed, and the court
adjourned.”
Eminent Men.
It may be observed that no attempt is
made to hunt up out of the way or un
known places to find names to endorse
Simmons Liver Regulator:
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens,
John W. Beckwith, Bishop of Georgia
Gen. John B. Gordon, U. n. Senator
Hon. John Gill Shorter, ex-Governo’r of
Alabama,
Rev. David Wills, D, D., President Ogle
thorpe College, 6
Bishop Pierce, of Georgia,
Judge Jas. Jackson, Supreme Court, Ga„
And did space and time permit we could
fill a volume with the highest testimonials.
GOTHAM GLEANINGS.
LANGTRY FLOWN WITH HER
DUCATS.
Is It an Advertising Dodge ?—Another
Famed Englishwoman—The Clergy
and the i’assion Play—Set a Fraud to
Catch a Fraud—The Sunday Law Re
vival.
ork, Dec. G. —The Knglish beautv
has left us. The towu is duller without
1 her, aud in saying this I do not refer to the
i gilded youth who just now wears a high
! collar and a top coat with a split tail that
; strikes his heels; but to prosaic people as
well. Even her last week was not with-
I °ut its sensation. She destroyed her re.
: putation somewhat for amiability, so the |
! *tory goes, by engaging in a quarrel with j
[ her bosom friend, Mrs. Labonehere, in I
w hich the scene took on the air of high i
tragedy. This must not be aoceptrai with '
too much credulity, as it has since lieen i
stated to be utterly without foundation, t
Yet there is reason to believe I
that Airs. Langtry did lose her temper, !
and that Mrs. Laboucfiere lost hers too,
and that they had sharp words back and
forth between them, tit-for-tat and tat-for
tit. What has given a color of truth to
the report is that Airs. Labouchere, instead
of accompanying Airs. Langtry to Boston, I
has gone in an opposite direction on a I
visit—she says to friends in Virginia, (t
is easy to imagine that any trouble lie- !
tween the two would make this journey,
although in contemplation before, at this I
time convenient. The peculiar social honors
to Airs. Langtry—l refer to baoli-elors’ j
dinners given in compliment to her—were |
kept up to the very last, and the determi- !
nation of society not to recognize her was
kept up to the very last, too. An incident i
in connection w ith one of these bachelor j
dinners was a good illustration of the i
pride that enters into her composition, ily
Lord Alandeville was invited as one of the :
guests; my Lady Mandeville was not. On !
hearing that Aiilor’ was to be present at i
e- -- " zv. j/n.nuiu (li
the dinner, }lrs. Langtry peremptorily re
insert to go if he were to he there. The
reason she assigned was that the Lady
Mandeville had been for some days in the
city and had not called at the Albemarle
to pay her respects. Mi lor’ stayed away,
and the dinner party weut uu merrily.
There is another member ol'the La'ngtrv
party that has attracted attention within
the last week hv her appearance as a lec
turer on the ever-recurring subject of
“Women.” Many will remember Emily
Faithful! as having visited t’.iU coun
try some years atm, This is the person.
She came this time as chaiieron for Miss
Kate I’attison, of Mrs. Langtrv's troupe.
She is a rather stout lady, with a ruddy
English complexion an/.f a kindly face
TUtte different, in met. inker ap
pearance, from Ule typical female reform
er, who is usually angular ami stern of
asj>eet. Miss Faithfully latest ,dam to
distinction is liey achievement in the di
rection of securing work In printing of
fices _ m England for women. She has
a printing office of her own in which
women alone are employed, and which
is commended by the Queen and
receives her patronage and en
couragement ijey lecture the other
night, h°Aever, was quite trite and com
monplace, ns our friend Oscar would
say, you know. Her subject was
the “Changed Condition of Women.”
She gave a history of the changes
through which women have caused in re
spect to the wort: they may perform, all of
which .va good' in its way, but one was
all the time wishing that she would strike
at the evils existing in society and the
fashionable world and make the young
women in the audience w!,(ihc buuies were
compressed to airy nothingness squirm
uneasil) in their seats—blush for shame,
I would say, were it not for the fact that
tight lacing makes blushing a matter of
some difficulty.
The clergy of New York arc very
strongly opposed to the production of the
“Passion Play” here during fhe holidays.
The preparations for producing this piece,
of which i wrote you some time ago, are
now actively going forward, and it is not
likely that they will by any amount of
public opinion. ,\s far as f have been able
to leant the views of prominent clergy
men, and f have talked with several of
them within the past week, they look upou
such a performance with abhorernce.
They say that it cannot possibly be pro
ductive of any good, but, on the contrary,
will lie attended with bad moral result's;
As the performances wifi be attended
mainly by flm irreligious, it is thought
that it will bo nothing more than an Idle
show. The Catholic priests are also op
posed to the undertaking—even the Car
dinal himself. The Jews too look upon it
with disfavor. One of the leading Rabhia
said to mein conversation he other ’day
that any spectacle ui plaj' ihat encroach
ed on the religious sentiments of any class
i or people should be vigorously opposed
by every one, whatever hi*-; religion.
\\ hen it is seen that the performance is
actually to fake place,' there will be a
great cry raised in tlie pulpit against it.
Spiritualism and kindred delusions are
always coining up in some jhrnp and they
scarcely etep Go <’Qine up without having
something ludicrous about them. Re,
cently the Rev. l)r. Newman, who enjoys
tlie distinction of iieiug the favorite of
Gen. Grant, startled hits friends by preach
ing a sermon in which his views on the
subject were very closely allied to the
doctrines of the spiritualists. It is giving
him no end of annoyance. He has re
ceived letters troni all eye* the .country,'
and it ha®, he oS<ys,jput him hud his friends
on the deferisitei tie asserts that the re
port to the efteet that lie attended seunpes
and believed in what is cqntmuhly known
as spiritualism, to‘he entirely'without
foundation, ft must be said, however,
that it is very difficult to
draw the line between his
line spun theory of the communication qf
spirits "With the heirs of
the messages from the other world, which
come through so-called mediums while in
a trancf eepdition Hut it is of a 6till
later reappearance or the subject that I
wfsh to spfeak. The ludicrous side of this
arose from the fact that a man who claims
that he is possessed of a remarkable gift
of mind-reading got up a conspiracy the
other night to expose a spiritualistic
medium—Mrs. Fox-Kane, the widow of
the celebrated Dr. Kane, the Arctic ex
plorer. The mind-reader invited a circle
of friends, and, in order to gain distinc
tion for himself, also invited several
newspaper reporters to attend the seance.
He himself went in disguise in order that
the medium might not suspect who he
l<* it not very comical to Hud <**•*
humbug in conspiracy to h-*-
humbug into ridim*-.- * “ t V“ g w a h n ß °* th l
i. H t* * licit 18 W hut W 0
had uerc_ IJf , lore Mrß Fox-Kane, who is
huite a sedate, matronlv-looking woman
of easy manners, came into the room, the
mind-reader (whose name is Stuart Cum
berland ,) entertained the company with an
exhibition of his peculiar gifts'. While
absent he had one of the persons present
touch t vVo objects in different parts of the
room; then coming in blindfolded he took
the hand of the person and designated the
objects touched. He performed other ex
periments of a similar character, much to
the wonder of the company. The seance
held by Mrs. F’ox-Kane was of the usual
description. The spirits were asked ques
tions, and made their answers in the
orthodox fashion, by giving so many
raps for yes and so for no.
When this had gone on for some time
one humbug (the mind-reader j said to the
other humbug (the medium) that it was
not a spirit that was rapping at all. but
that she was making the raps herself by
dislocating the joints of her lingers. This
operation, lie said, with the calmness and
precision of a scientist, could be performed
with a motion so slight that it could not
lie detected. The widow of the celebrated
explorer w as covered with cuhfusion. and
left tig' room precipitately, declaring that
the mind-reader was unquestionable a
medium. The company broke up with a
feeling of admiration for the mind-reader
and unconscious that he himself was as
much of a humbug as the other. The fact
is. there is no more in mind-reading
than there is in the communication
of spirits. If there is any difference
it is in favor of the medium". There are
certain people of nervous dispositions who
* J e K G that . tho >' rt ‘ oeive communications
and hear voices, and who are thoroughly
honest m their belief. They are simply
delusionists dependent on certain abnor
inal conditions; whereas, the mind-reader
in most eases practices deliberate decep*
tion. He makes his discoveries by means
.of involuntary muscqlar contractions on
the part of the person Who lias designated
objects, and w'th whom he has when mak
ing his experiments muscular contact.
For those who were acquainted with the
secrets of mind-reading it was a very
queer show.
One of the sensations of the week was
the enforcement of the new penal eode last
Sunday. The ore act comedy of a long
legged iKilicemau pouncing upon a diminu
tive bootblack and dragging him off to a
police justice’s office, put the new regula
tions in a ludicrous light. The street
gamins invariably wriggled and declared
Ip tears that they would not do it any
more. There were also a number of bar
bers who defied the law to test it, as thev
said. So far the police justices have
tlon t 0 P ut a liberal con
struction on the regulations of the code
.ilSra V<?n ! at,on thr <* or four of ,he
leading clergymen of the citv to-dav 1
j foarneathat the clergy are for the moft part
opposed to the enforcement of the code.
I Some of them say that the laws rigorouslv
i enforced would result in benefit to the poor
| er classes who do not get a day of relaxation
! trom labor during the week, but thev also
| say that the enforcement of trivial law : s will
J in the end react strongly against religion
and make Sunday more like a week dnv
| than it has ever been. Asa mat tot of fact,
j Suudnv in New York has been for years a
; remarkably quiet day for so large a citv
* and one with sueh a mixed population".
! The rum shops have not been kept open—
; to all apiiearanees, but really to be got
I } nto through a side door—and there has
been no trade to speak of except at cigar
; shops and news stands. The origin of the
; new code is to be attributed to a founder
| rather than to a spasm of virtue.
Scarcely a week goes by that an attempt
is not made to create a sensation in one of
the New York museums, which are of till
grades, from the very pretentious one in
Broadway, winch is covered all over w ith
pictures ot heroic dimensions of livin'*
wonders with some of the originals really
inside, down to the scarcely less preten
tious Bowery museum, w ith glarin'* nic
tures outside, an unearthly din issuin'*
from the doors and almost nothing inside.
Going down the Bowery yesterday I was
attracted by the picture of a shapely
voung lady seated on a high chair, with
her unstockinged feet resting on the key
board. Here were feet which without doubt
surpassed in loveliness those of Airs.
Langtry, whose feet, by the way, the whole
town lias lieen finding fault with for beite*
so big. Here was a “limb” show of an
unusual character, and I was swept to the
door by an eager crowd. Where was the
lovely girl with the unusual accomplish
meat of playing a piano with her loesF
“Is she out?” I inquired of a short man
w’ltfi a drooping black moustache, who
bad the appearance of being vested w ith
authority.
“This fs the lady right hero* allow me-”
He pointed at an elderly woman with a
scrawny neck and false hair old enough
to lie the grandmother of the girl on the
canvas, who, indeed, in the bloom of
youth as depicted, was most alluring.
The legs and aukles of the elderlv w oman
were clad in brown stockings, with hel
loes protruding. This was at first disan
pointing, but in reality fortunate }.r tno !
siiectators. Let no young oma n aspire •
to play the niaifo with her tots When
this tpuique creature brought her feet
< l ‘ e the crowd of * *’<’-
tatois made a violent rush for the. Root.
If all-Haynes.
A Xgro Murderer Shut,
Charlotte, X. C„ Dec, 7.-Joe Ross,
tlie negro w;ho murdered F. AI. McDowell
I l *,.Camden on Thanksgiving dav. was
killed on Wednesday night, at Ivey’s mill
on the Catawba river, in Lancaster coun
ty, S. €., by a ferryman named Alongo
Huntley. The pursuing party were close
behind. Ross asked the ferryman to take
him across. The ferryman identified him
uiHi tried to uriH*et him. Ross resisted
and the ferryman shot him. Before dvin*'*
the negro confessed murdering AleDowelf
and also murdering Bob Hennegau in
Mecklenburg county, two year, ago,
A Cotton Cargo tin Fire.
Xe\\ Orleans, Dec. 7.—The Times.
Democrat's Galveston special savs: “This
morning the work of breaking out the cot
ton in the forward hold of the steamship
Ardencarrah was commenced n,ud the
fire, that was supposed tu U* subdued last
night, was dieeuwrod smouldering in the
cotton tt the bottom of tho hold. When*
about 300 bales had lieen taken out
the flames again burst forth and a general
alarm was sounded. The fire department
soon had the flames under control. The
entire cargo will l>e taken uv.t.”
AJuwicr in Cincinnati.
Cincinnati, Dec. 7.—A quarrel arose
among some hack drivers and some iier
sons going home front a bgll at a o'clock
this morning. When policemen appeared
to s>fo peace one of tlto drivers,
>Y Ilham Patterson, a notorious character,
drew; a revolver and tired at a policeman,
lhe ball missed the policeman, but struck
Joseph Cocke, another driver, in the head,
killing him instantly. Patterson escaped.
A Valuable Cargn.
Nev, UItLEANa, nee. 7.—The steamship
w;>K , ra*ii, < i e f‘ Hi r to-day for Liverpool
W ith 10,381 bales of cotton. 12,000 bushels
of wheat and 2.(550 staves. This is he
largest cargo of cotton ever carried by an v
l' e a se *’ The tf >tal eigb( g the cargo is
•* H4 O'OOO pounds, and the total value $642,-
000 tho v anuoua will go to sea Friday
of Saturday through the jetties.
More Egyptians fo Ue'ExHeil.
Cairo, Dec 7.—Moiraud Sami Alslella!
1 astm, Ali Felony and Toulba Pasha
w-ere arraigned this morning and pleaded
gtuity to the charge pf rebellion. Thev
were all sentenced to death, but their sen
tences W’ere commuted to exile for life bv
tne Khedive. It is rumored that a Euro,
pean inob in Alexandria will attempt to
lynch the prisoners.
THE TITLE TO ARLINGTON’.
j Tbc Supreme Court Decision—The Title
Still in the Heirs of the Lh(s
j ate General Lee.
ire:;/, Special to Xeir York World,
i -i yhP.Supreme Court in deciding vagainst
i thd dissent of Chief Justice Waite and
| Justices Gray, Bradley and Woods , that
j General Lee’s heirs still own the 1,100
! Ayres on Arlington Heights, which, under
i special act of Congress, the government
! bought for $26,800 at a tax sale for a tax of
| only SO2 0", have paid ex-Judge Willie’*
I). Shipman, the counsel for the !La, estate,
! the distinguished and very unusual com-
I pliment of adopting into the opinion of the
court r,curly all the language of his very
elaborate brief of fom-six printed
j pages, which he filed ‘*l addition to
i making an oral argument, General Lee
took the property through his wife, a
daughter of George Washington Parke
Custis, who owned the Arlington estate
for many years. Judge Shipman began
the suit in ejectment against the Suo&fiw
tendent of the cemetery as nominal de
| fendant, but the government interpleaded
I and defended The tee heirs recovered
; possession below and the United Stales
appealed -setting up the right of sov
ereignty. To this idea Judge Shipman
answered;
Q “The notion that public officers w
! *** created and governed by
i aid shut out all judiciui inquire in",
to the character of their acts by invoking
the mystic but omnjiotent power of sov
ereign prerogative, and interims
ing that between them and their
victims, had not, at that jioriod,
taken root or even germinated, It is
due to the character of the illustrious ju
rists and lawyers who took part in most
of the cages which I have cited, and to the
age in which they lived, to sav that the
atmosphere in which their lives had been
spent was not one in which this idea of
sovereign prerogative could sprout and
grow to the portentous dimensions now
claimed for it. Some of them had periled
their lives and estates to found a govern
| ment which would secure the person and
( property of the citizen against arbitrary
power, and the rest had been cradled and
nursed by the spirit which rejects its
yoke. And disguise this question as we
may, robe it in any drapery of official
and professional language" we may
select, the doctrine contended for bv
the Attorney General here is a plea for
the extension of executive and the con
traction of judicial power by exempt
ing executive acts from judicial scrutiny
where those acts touch the property of a.
private eltisen. Such a doctrine is in
deadly hostility to the declared object of
the Federal Constitution to ‘establish
justice * * * and secure the blessings
of liberty’ to the people of the United
States and their posterity. It is a doc
trine in conflict with the fundamental
principles of liberty; and the whole lite
rature w hich records the st niggles of peo
ples against the domination of arbitrary
executive power glows with the spirit
which repudiates it with scorn.”
These principles Justice Miller, for the
court, apply to the facts established by i
the verdict that the law of Virginia as ti>
taxes made no payment of tax valid un
less paid personally by the owner, and
that when the time for payment came I
General Lee was beyond hostile lines.
Much of intendment as to the relations of
secession with the government and as to
the status of citizens in the Confederacy i
towards the continuing .state laws may 1
possibly lie behind this decision—which
may be the reason whv the strong Re
publican element of the" court dissented
from Judge Shipman's views as accepted I
by a majority of the court. The United i
States will no\y endeavor to acquire a
valid title to the Arlington estate, either
by direct purchase from the Lee heirs, or
by instituting condemnation proceedings
dSu the relating to eminent
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Tlie Bankrupt 8111-The Indian Appro
priation Bill—The Tariff to be Tackled—
Georgia’s Revolutionary Claims
Complexion of the Next House of
Representatives.
" asiiington, Dec. 7. —In the Senate
Messrs. \ oorhees, Sherman, Me Dill, Vest,
Ingalls, Chilcott and Miller (N. Y.jpre
*ented petitions for the passage of a hill
to increase pensions of one armed and one
legged soldiers. Referred to the Commit
tee on Pensions.
Bills were introduced and referred as
follows:
Bj Mr. Johnston—To authorize the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad to extend
it* road to a point on United States
lands at Fortress Monroe. Referred to the
Committee on Military Affairs.
Also, a Dill giving the approval of Con
gress to an agreement made in l,s7i and
1872 between the Secretary of War and
Joseph Segar and C. C. Willard. Same
reference.
A bill was introduced by Mr. Brown to
repeal the internal revenue act of lsfit
<iud all law* and parts of laws enlargin'*'
extending or amending the same. Re
terred to the Finance Committee.
At the Close of the morning hour Mr.
U P 1,18 j’olitieal assessment
v,\ t , i.i , .V on and asked that a
'ote be taken.
wfl'ered a substitute, setting
(Vrth the names ot the members of the
iJ?M frreS t‘ OUa k'Neoutive Committees of
both parties, reciting the allegation that
the Democratic committee had levied con
tributions on liquor dealers, brewers and
other associations, and directing the Com
niittee on the Judiciary to investi-mie
tiiese charges, as well as those made
against the Republican party.
Mr. Beck said the substitute prointsed
to investigate matters over which Con
gress had no control, and was evidently
intended to einba.w'ass the legitimate in
vestigation, proposed in the original reso
lutiou,
After a brief discussion the substitute
was Ordered printed, and the matter went
Over till to-morrow.
Mr, Jonas offered a resolution, which
was adopted, directing the Secretary of
War to furnish to the Senate the estimates
of the Mississippi ltiver Commission for
the work of improving the river during
the next fiscal year.
At 2 o’clock tlie Senate resumed con
sideration of the bankruptcy bill.
Messrs. Garland, Jonas and Vest were
the principal participants in the debate.
Mr. Vest moved to strike out the pro
vision ihat a man who fails for twenty
days to discharge an attachment against
his property in a civil suit shall he deem
ed a bankrupt. Agreed to.
The hill being still pending the Senate,
at 4:o0 p. m., adjourned.
HOUSE PROCEEDINGS.
In the House, Mr. Kelley, of l\?nnsvl
vania, Chairman of the Committee of
\\ ays and Means, reported a concurrent
resolution for printing “0,000 copies oi the
report of the Tariff Commission. Passed.
Mr. Kelley also rejsirtod a resolution
setting apart Wednesday, the lath of
December, for the consideration of certain
hiils on the calendar previously reported
from the Committee of Ways and Means.
He stated that the bills referred to related
exclusively to the administration of law.
Adopted.
The House went into committee of the
Whole on the Indian appropriation bill,
the total amount of tlie appropriation
provided tor in the Dill is $5,208,955, being
$2i,400 less than the appropriations for
the current year ami $1,510,770 less than
the estimates.
Mr. Rvan, of Kansas, who has charge
ol the hill, explained that the reductions
vvere principally on appropriation* for sub
sistence.
An amendment was adopted for the In
sertion in patents authorized to be issued
*?• V 1 ‘hdiv idua] Indians by the treaty
of fOE-i with the Sioux Indians a provision
mat lands obtained under that treaty shall
remain forever inalienable aud not subjeei
to taxation,
i eommifteo rose anil reported the
i • House* and it was passed.
Mr. Ellis, of Louisiana, offered a resolu
tion calling on the Secretary of State for
information as t<> the distribution of the
v lrginms indemnity fund balance, whieli
remained undistributed, and whether fur
thei legislation is necessary to authorize
the final distribution of that balance. Re
ferred.
The House again went into committee
o{ the whole. The first bill on the calen
dar was one looking to the establishment
of a soldiers’home at Erie, l*a. The dis
cussion ot this bill occupied the remainder
of the day. The enacting clause was
linallv stricken out and the committee
rose, and the House adjourned.
Mr. McPherson’s estimate is as follows
Democrats 191, Republicans 121, Read
justers 0, Indel\on<tent Democrats .‘5, Iu
dependent Republicans 2. There fire tw< •
vacancies caused by the death of Mr
perron, of Louisiana, and Mr. Upde
gratt, of Ohio, but as one of these was a
Democrat und the other a Republican
and their successors will be ot like faith’
the complexion of the House Will not be
changed by another election.
THE TARIFF TO BE TACKLED,
I lie House W ays and Means Committee
at its meeting this morning, unanimous]
adopted a resolution to proceed at once to
the couuideration of the Tariff Commis
report anti to frame a tariff bill
ihe clerk ot the committee was directed
to prepare schedules ot the rates now exist -
ing and of those proposed by the com
mission,
GEORGIA’S REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
Ihe bill to refund $.‘15,555 to the State of
Georgia, which passed the House vester
day, was reported ro the Senate 'to-da\
and referred to its-Committee on Revolu
tionary Claims.
Although the Ways and Means Com
mittee to-day decided to frame anew
tariff bill to be reported to the House thi®
session, it is not considered at all proba
ble that it will pass. The hill will lie
Imsed on the report of the Tar ill (oimui,-
slon.
THE NEXT HOUSE.
Mr. McPherson, Clerk of the House, has
made an estimate as to how the next House
will stand. He gives the Democrats n
majority over all of fifty-eight.
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