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I ESTABLISHED 1850.
j J. H. ESTILL, Editor and Proprietor.)
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
the .news of the two states
told in paragraphs.
puller Particulars of the Tragedy at
Hazelhurst— Interesting Budgets of
News from Canton and Camilla— At the
Grave of Ex-Gov. Early — A
Georgian Killed in Texas.
OEORUIA.
sandersville wants a military company.
A base ball club has been organized at San-
Uersville.
J. .J. Hunter, an old citizen of Columbus, is
dead.
The “no fence” men will cause another
election to be held in Bibb county four weeks
hence.
A bill of injunction lias bo#m filed in Rich
mond county against the enforcement of the
no fence law.
C urry, who is to hang at Monroe next month,
1. inviting his colored friends to attend the
gander pulling.
An effort is being made at Rome to have the
price of the whisky license reduced from snw
to $:ioO per aunum.’
It is said that all the Brunswick boys in col
lege at A thews stU'iy Spanish, and consider It
;1 , their most important study.
Aaron Daniels, a blacksmith of Moultrie,
was found dead in a field near that place a
■ lav or two ago. An apoplectic lit was the
cause of In- death.
Thomas smith, of Oconee county, was shot
id the leg during the war. Lately the wound
ha- reopened and the leg will have to be am
putate'! to save his life.
It h reported that several damage suits will
. filed by citizm living mar the water
i.ovcr against the city or Athens, as they
claim that its erection has seriously injured
their property.
• It the" Smith, a white girl in Oglethorpe
county, gave birth to the illegitimate child
that was found by a negro dead in the woods.
\ i ..roto r*- inquest was to be held Saturday.
The girl is seriously ill.
The citizens between Crawford and the
i,|ade, in Oglethorpe county, have petitioned
f. in dailv mail line between these points.
I i..• v want the route irom theUlado to Lllier
ton discontinued, as it i- of but little service.
\t a meeting of tlie Columbus Guards Mon
,|av uiglit an election for commission officers
was held, and resulted as follows: A. C.
-m oil. < aptaiu; !.. 11. Chappel. First Lieuten
.,ni: Metur.lv -sparks, second Lieutenant;.),
liarrisou. Brevet Second l.ieiiteuant.
Mi-s Narcissa Welsh, an aged and well
known lady of Athens, died Saturday. She
had kept for mnuv years the combings’ of her
leur in a pillow, and requested that tile same
e placed at the head of tier coffin and en
tombed Willi her, which request was granted,
-tie had a superstition on Die subject.
\ little negro girl named Martha Barnard
was raped by two negroes named Ed. Thomas
and Hill Clark, a few days ago, alKMit four
miles from Columbus. The former was cap
tured apd imprisoned. The latter escaped
across the river, not far from where the act
w as committed and tins not yet Iteen arrested.
Alonzo Floyd, son of 1.. 1.. Floyd, of Floyd
. uuntv, was killed near Rale-tine, in Texas,
,m the Bth inst. He went to Texas eight years
ago, and married a Texas lady a short time
before Christmas. 11.- was breaking a horse
aud the animal became uncontrollable, and
he was crushed under the wagon. His age
was about 2i> years.
The lime house at tlie reservoir ot the Co- j
tumlius Water Works Company, together with j
its contents, consisting ol lime, cement and j
derrick ropes, was deslfoved by tire last •
Sunday. It is not positively known whether !
the lire w as caused by lightning, or by water j
coming iu contact with unslaked lime.
The Athens Kanner says: "Mr. Bloomfield ;
received an order tins week for all flic checks
they had on hand. This don't look much like j
depression in the cotton goods business. The j
Athens Manufacturing Company received live i
. ar loads of cotton machinery tins week by I
tin- Georgia Railroad. This excellent com- j
panv increases its capacity almost daily, j
Athens is destined at no distant day to become j
itu> eotton-opolis of the South.**
The mails bring later details of Monday’s i
tragedy at Hazlehurst. Walker had been
hunting in Henderson’s field, and been ac
cused of Jiettv thefts bv his neighbors. Hen
derson cautioning him about trespassing
around his place brought on a dispute, iu
which Walker threatened to waylay Hender
son The latter immediately got his musket
amt shot Walker with buckshot, instantly
killing him. Henderson lias hitherto Ixirn a
very good reputation.
The people around Scull Shoals are in high
hopes of having the river rendered navigable
liy the General Government now, and will
put on a small steamboat to ply between the
iactory and Georgia bridge, as soon a- it is
ready. Twenty-live thousand dollars will be
ample suiliricnt for tlie purpose. Toon Rowell
ra\- the Oconee, by building a few canals and
locks, cat* lie made' navigable to Athens, and
he expects to see the day when steamboats arts
whistling Oil its placid w aters.
y- M. Keans, an Atlanta printer, who, in a
dnu ken frenzy, out a horrible gash acro-s his
wife’s throat and eiieek and ended his work
in stabbing tier in the breast, when he awoke
in a cell at Atlanta Tuesday morning a-ked
w hat he was imprisoned for. and upon learn -
in,, of the assault on his wife became almost
hysterical with grief. He iiad been too drunk
to realize what he had done. The woman will
recover anti pleads for her husband's release.
Evans also attempted to stab the arresting
officer.
\ party of capitalists, embracing men from
Macon and elsewhere, have purchased three
•nut a half acres of land at the junction of tlie
.Southwestern and Macon and Brunswick rail
roads. near Maeon, paying SI,OOO an acre
therefor. As soon as the titles are trans
ferred they will commence the erection of a
large entto'n mill, with a wide range of manu
factures. s. Long lias purchased tlie brick
building on the Armory property at Maeon
for the purpose of establishing a knitting and
£>aggiu£ fac lory.
The Athens Banner says: “Mr. John Mes
of Pendergrass, Jackson county, was a
strong friend of Kiuory Speer when he made
the run against Billups, but in the last con
test supported Col. • audler. Emory wrote
Mr M. that he would yet get even with linn,
uui it s.-ems like his threat has been made
good. Mr. Messer and tiis partner were en
* ed in till* liquor business, but neglected to
nonce when their to eu-ee had \pired and con
tinued the traffic, speer had his former
friend arrested, convicted, and he i- now
serving a two months’ sentence in the Atlanta
mil.”
The capable and enterprising Canton cor
rcspomient of the News writes under date of
March -"> as follows: “Mrs. Holland, of
Canton, has in iter possession some chairs and
:i walnut dining table that have been m con
stant use tor sixty-two years.—Mr. James
Hudson is now u-iug a hickory rocking chair
over one hundred years old.—Mr. Robert Sex
ton in an adjoining county, has a sugar
gourd that has held the family sugar one hun
dred aud thirty years.— About 200 dozen eggs
•ir shipped from Canton dailtk—The gin
bouse belonging to McAfee .S: McConnell
.audit fire vesterdav. By the efforts of the
citizens tlie' lire was extinguished.— Mining
in Cherokee county is tlie successful indus
try.”
The editor of the Athens Banner has been
... . tlanta.and furn'shes the following *tatis
f>f the city’s prosperity: “There are 450
m i'nufaeturing ranging from
watch It' match factories, employing over
5.000 hands! and paying about .StHM)OO an
m.oit ii wt' es. Toe principal m aim fact urea
-Ire iu cotton*ion and wood. There are three
cotton manufactories and seven manufac
tories ot agricultural implements. The cot
ton receipts for Hv'i el are upwards of 150.000
bales The mercantile business for 1883 was
■niOOub'OO. There are upwards of sixty
. hurches of all denominations. Tim public
school system is the be-l in the South, show
ing an average attendance of over 5,000 chil
dren. There arc one female college and four
colored colleges. - '
The Rome Bulletin says: “It seems that
t ol Kolhiem received an anonymous letter
signed ‘Mechanics of Rome' threatening him
and Ins property and the property of the
church if he continued to build the new
Methodist church with colored labor. Now.
we wish to sav rigid here that tills letter was
a vile slander on the mechanics of Rome, and
~ , hall lose our confidence in them, and re
'or them, if they do not promptly hurl
back ihcS base libel. Mechanics of Home! is
there no manhood left you to give the lie to
this basest ot accusation. If Col. Kolhiem
timls colored men more economical and more
Competent he li* a in-rfeet right to use them
t > the exclusion— if need lie—of every pale
face. We understand, however, lie is drawing
his laborers from both races.”
K I, Unatt, of the Athens Banner, give* the
following as one of the interesting items
picked upon hi* recen* exploring expedition: i
"While at Mr. Toon Powell's last week we i
made a pilgrimage to the grave of IVter i
Karlv, one of Georgia’s most honored t.over
nors." It was once enclosed in the convict
'tockade, but Mr. Powell prevented this i
decoration by moving his prisoners. The
grave is enclosed in a wall of rough stone, :
cemented together, but the freezes of last
winter threw down a part of the same. Only j
a plain marlile headboard marks the last rest- •
ill. place of this famous statesman, that aim- ;
p!\ announces his name, with the information
that n- died iu 1817 at the age of 45 years, j
There are three other graves of kindred in
the enclosure’- Mr. I’. tells us that he intend*
t rebuild the wall and keep the place iu good
repair.”
The Milledgevllltf £><<>* of Tuesday says:
“Last \vct*k there was excitement in
our community, caused L*y incendiary
talk among the negroes In the country, from a
negro named Clark, hailing, it was said, from
a Western State. His language was so violent
and threatening as to cause appreheusion of
serious trouble, hence a warrant was issued
and placed in the hands of sheriff Enuts for
his arrest. After holding meetings in the
eastern part of the county he crossed over to
the western. On Thursday night the Sheriff
efl.me up with him speaking to a crowd of
negroes in the woods, lie attempted to arrest
him, bill he ran and made his escape. The
Sheriff n.red at hint as he rau off. but missed
Kim. thcba.'t taking effect in the arm of another
negro. As tn.** is the Presidential year, our
people may ex,. eet to see emissaries of the
Republican party Sent amongst us.with money
and "darker wavs" £>f firing the hearts of
the negroes, for the purpose of causing strife,
and maybe, bloodshed, which will be used as
campaign amnnition at the North. We coun
sel our people to lie patient and forbearing,
but at the same time prepared for an emer
gency. We trust we shall have no more such
fellows as Clark sent here. But. it is of par
amount importance that o ir political friends
*" l “ e State do not fall into the trap adroitiy
them’’ Re P ul)l ‘ cauß at the North to catch
correspondent of the New*
Wilw?j- 1;i11 , lust, as follow*: “The long
and ulnnoh. aiQ !l have come, Oiling the ponds,
Ana sloughs, and wm. a wet spring is an-
< iP xt
tieipated. Farmers, generally, are up with
their work, and cotton planting has begun.
The stands of corn have been more seriously
damaged by birds than is usual. The oat crop
will be two weeks late, though quite promis
ing since the rains. Watermelons are coming
up. The area planted is larger than last year.
—Superior Court has lust adjourned. Last
week was spent in clearing the civil docket,and
Monday and Tuesday of this week given to
the criminal business. The matters in court,
civil and criminal, are growing less in magni
tude—indeed the criminal business has de
generated into negro pilfering, interspersed
here and there with a charge
against some white man for carrying con
cealed weapons.—Mr. C. Russell Twitty has
been admitted to practice law. We predict
for him a successful career.—The grand jury
recommended the building of a county Jail.
They also recommended the further co-ope
ration of the county commissioners with the
town authorities for the completion of the
artesian well.—Mr. Hefright. of Thomasville.
is here at work on the artesian well, attempt
ing to extract a plug from tlie pipe, some four
hundred feet from the top of the ground.—
The Presiding Elder, Rev. J. O. A. Branch,
began the session of quarterly conference on
the rid, and preached a line sermon on Sab
bath following.— No interest is manifested in
polities, though tlie general sentiment is for
the return of Hon. 11. G. Turner to Congress.
FLORIDA.
It is suggcs'ed that the name of Fort Brooke
bo changed to Fort Nelson.
Jay Gould, it is said, contemplates building
a house at St. Augustine.
Tom Hiatt has ten-pound turnips growing
in his patch in Sumter eounty.
It is rumored that the Jacksonville flerlad
may become a morning paper.
Edison, the electrician, caught a big shark
during his stay at st. Augustine.
It. 11. Marks, of Sanford, sold last week
twenty-two town lots and four orange groves.
Mrs. Frazier, of New Berlin, Duval county,
was fatally burned Sunday, and died in great
.tgonj .
Three factories supply Tampa with ice, and
it retails at 1 cent a pound. East summer it
sold there at 5 cents.
The Methodists have purchased a house and
four acres of land at Welborn, and will soon
erect anew church there.
An excursion is to be given from Jackson
ville to May port for the benefit of the pro
posed Home for ex-Confederates.
H. F. Dutton has declined to he a candidate
for the Mayorality nomination, at
on account of the demands of his business.
A 14-vear-old son of James Burt, cf I’alatka,
has left home eu route for Chicago. The
father is tryingto head the venturesome youth
off.
There is to be anew town in Liberty eoun
ty, near Orange post office. Eureka is to he
its name. Its population will, at first, lie
composed of a Tennessee colony.
In the ease of .Singleton and Sheen!, in
which tlie former was suing the latter for the
press and material with which the Sitmter
villo Timex was printed, the jury decided in
favor of Mr. Singleton.
A piece of land in I’alatka was sold last
week for $l,OOO. It was sold again the same
week for $1,200. It was then sold twice after
that within a week, the prices lieing si-400
and $1,500, respectively.
A party of some twenty Senators will leave
Washington, I>. t .. for Jacksonville to-night,
on the invitation of the President of the North
Carolina Railroad, and will spend several
days in Florida, returningtoWashington ear
ly next week.
lion. R. 11. M. Davidson. Representative in
Congress, lias appointed Henry 1.. Branch, of
Tampa, Secretary of the Committee on Rail
roads and Canals, of which Mr. Davidson is
l hairman. Mr. Branch has accepted and
left for Washington Monday.
The Republicans, of Palatka, have nominnl
ted tlie follow ing municipal ticket: For May
or: 11. R. Teasilale; For Aldermen: D. A.
Boyd, John 11. Purcell. For Clerk: .1. .1.
sawyer. For Treasurer: W. E. Itansome.
For Collector: I. L. Purcell. For Marshal:
A. N. Doyle.
The Common Council at Green Cove lias
granted to Col. Houstouu Clinch a charter for
a street railroad from the railroad station to
Walnut street, with a branch to Governor’s
creek. The main line is to lie completed
within one year and the branch to Governor's
creek within two years from date.
The following ‘•citizens ticket" lias been put
in nomination at Jacksonville: For Mayor,
C. B. Smith; for Marshal. John F. Tyler;' for
< lock. John A. Deidrich; for Assessor,Tohmas
Lancaster; for Collected, T. T. Stockton; for
Treasurer, J. I). Bucky; for Aldermen, J. E.
Onley. M. B. Bartholomew, S. F. Doggett, A.
B. Hussey and John S. Driggs, and for Alder
man-at-large 1L Thebeaut.
The old Spanish oak chest in which the
charier, jewels and regalia of the St. John’s
Lodge were brought to St. Augustine from
Spain, lias been deposited iu the museum at
that place by lioseoe Perry, Esq., the Master
of st. John’s Lodge, and Is of great interest
to the Masons who daily visit tlie museum.
The lock of tlie old Spanish treasury, an old
Spanish pike, and a pair of shackles used at
the fort are among its many recent additions.
At Jacksonville Tuesday morning while.).
R. Hill and a force of men were engaged in
cutting away the wait in tlie rear of Emery &
Co.’s store In order to deepen the store, a lot
of brick broke loose and fell on Jake Sparks,
from a height of six or eight feet, inflicting'
very serious injuries. Mr. Sparks was taken
home and an examination showed that the
spine was seriously injured, which, if it does
not result in death, may cause perpetual pa
ralysis.
Yesterday’s Jacksonville Times- Union says:
“Among those who sustained heavy losses at
the recent fire were Messrs. K. Hopkins &
Son, their entire stock of goods, and, as they
supposed, books aud valuable papers being
destroyed. Mr. Hopkins, in lookiug over
some of bis most valuable papers recently,
put them away temporarily in one of tlie
pigeon holes of ills fine walnut desk. These
papers were valued at $1,500, and could at any
time be converted into cash. As everything
else in the store hail been destroyed by the
fire, including tlie desk, Mr. Hopkins con
cluded that tlie papers above referred to were
also gone, but judge of his surprise and pleas
ure when, on yesterday morning, in searching
the ruins, he found the pigeon hole contain
ing them, badly charred, of course, and some
of the documents scorched to a crisp, but in
such a condition as to make them in every
way binding. Strange to say, about every
thing else iu tlie desk, and the desk itself, ex
cept the pigeon hole containing these papers,
i was destroyed.”
THE SOUTHERN FLOODS.
Virginia Added to the List of States
Threatened by Water.
New Orleans, March 26.— The Tirnct>-
Democrat says that it has not questioned
the statement that the flood is testing the
levees in front of and above and below
the city, or that there is great apprehen
sion of high water. The condition of the
levees above the city' is critical and seri
ous. £d expenditure of SIOO,OOO now will
save millions and prevent great suffering.
There should lie no hesitation in taking
immediate action. This, however, does
not affect the statement that New Orleans
ought to and will protect her own levees,
and ts only in danger from the breaking
of the levees above the city.
THE BREAKING LEVEES,
A break occurred in the levee at 11
o’clock last night on the west side of the
river opposite College Point. At noon
to-day it was 100 feet wide and 10 feet
deep and increasing rapidly. Reports
have been rife for some days that a cre
vasse existed at this point, and yesterday
it was said to be 300 feet wide, hut no
serious break occurred there until last
night. The Mississippi Valley Railroad
officials have information that the Scott
levee, near Bayou Sara, has been swept
away.
A special from Vicksburg says: “The
river at this point marks 48 feet and 10
inches, showing a decline of two inches
during the past twenty-four hours. W.
H yland, of Davis’ Bend, states that every
thing is overflowed at that place, and for
a distanoe of thirty miles down the river,
except Lovell’s plantation, where a levee
enclosure had been made by which the
people and stock are protected from the
flood.”
Somerset!, which has never before been
inundated, is now at the mercy of the
waves.
The steamer Williams removed consid
erable stock and other property from
Diamond Point this morning.
The chances for raising crops in Tenas
parish, La., this rear are very poor.
The steamer peer Creek arrived last
night from Davis’ Bend with a load ol
stock. She has removed large numbers
of persons to places of safety. From the
high points in this city the delta looks as
if built iti the centre of a big lake. Peo
nle are going from house to house in
i skirt's.
RISING WATERS IN VIRGINIA.
Richmond, March 26.—The heavy rains
of the past tew days have swollen all the
streams west of here and also the tributa
ries to the James river, which lias
risen at this point ten feet. All the
wharves in the lower part of the city are
submerged, and the water is up into Main
street and steadily rising. Merchants ap
prehensive of a serious rise, are removing
their goods tpopi warehouses near the
river. _ ~
At Columbia, b 0 mties above this city,
at* T o’clpck this evening the water had
risen 23 feet and continued rising at the
rate of j inches per hour.
Between Clifton Forge and Lynchburg
three trestles cf the Richmond and Alle
gheny Railroad have been swept away.
served With a Poisoned Meal.
Bartow. 6-, March 26.—While the
Johnson County Superior Court was in
session a number of person* who were in
attendance dined at a public restaurant,
and thirty or more were very seriously
affected from the meat. It is supposed to
uaye been poisoned. Suspicion rests on a
negro w]:o had been prosecuted by the
proprietress of the restaurant, he being
in her house most of the forenoon trying
to compromise the matter with her. The
doctors were quite busy lor twenty-tour
hours. They think that all who were
poisoned will recover.
AT THE NATION’S CAPITAL
AID GRANTED THE LOUISIANA
FLOOD SUFFERERS.
The Balance of the Unexpended Appro
priation Authorized to be Expended—
Mr. Butler Objects to Federal Educa
tional id for South Carolina, and
Digs His Oratorical Spurs in Charger
Sherman.
Washington, March 26.—1n the Sen
ate to-day, Mr. Gorman presented and
read a memorial of the Baltimore yearly
meeting of Friends, urging the Senate to
pass the education bill now before it. Mr.
Gorman in presenting the bill remarked
that the Society of Friends had them
selves contributed $200,000 toward the ed
ucation of all classes of illiterates in the
South, aud were much interested in the
question of education everywhere.
The Senate took up the bill reported
from the Committee on Indian Affairs pro
viding for the allotment of lands in sev
eralty to the Indians on the various res
ervations, and to extend the protection ot
the laws of the States and Territories
over Indians. An amendment wasjidopt
ed providing that the principal ol'the pur
chase price paid to the Indian tribes for
any of their lands shall be withheld lor
twenty-five years, interest to be paid
during the time withheld, such interest to
be expended for the support and educa
tion of the Indians to whom it belongs.
After further debate the bill passed.
MR. BLAIR’S BILL.
Mr. Blair’s educational bill then came
up. Mr. Vance said that much taunting
and boasting had been indulged in with
regard to the superior educational facili
ties of the Northern States over the South
ern States. Many of the Northern States
had received targe grants of land and
many of those States had received a elass
of immigrants who were already educated,
lie instituted some comparisons between
North Carolina and Kansas to show what
North Carolina had accomplished for
education as compared with Kansas, lie
also compared Massachusetts and North
Carolina as to common schools. He cited
figures to show that though the wealth ol
Massachusetts was ten times that of
North Carolina. The amount devoted to
school purposes was only nine times
greater than in North Carolina, and the
percentage of taxation devoted to educa
tion was only 2 per cent, greater than the
amount given by North Carolina, and Mr.
Vance thought that doing pretty well,
considering how Massachusetts had got
her wealth. The whole country had for
many years been taxed to support Massa
chusetts, and North Carolina was com
pelled to contribute to that support.
Referring to the remark made by Mr.
Hoar yesterday, Mr. Vance said that it
was a constant source of mortification to
him (Mr. Vance) to hear the Senators
taunt his Sttfte with illiteracy, but it
made tlie mortification more hu
miliating *to hear that taunt from
representatives of Tewksbury, rep
resentatives of a State that had sacri
ficed every principle for gain, that was
more responsible for slavery than any
other State, that was nursing the mother
of tite horrors of the middle passage.
When slavery was found not to pay in
Massachusetts Mr. Vance said that the
people of that State sold their slaves to
the South lor a consideration and then
thanked God and sang a long meter dox
ology through their noses that they were
not responsible any longer for the sin of
slaverv.
MR. IHtLRH'S VIEWS.
Mr. Dolph, of Oregon, said that it was
understood that the bill before the Senate
was meant primarily to secure the educa
tion of the colored children of the South.
Why should not the bill go directly to that
point $ Before being called upon to vote
for an appropriation of money to any
State for education. Mr. Dolph wanted tit
be shown some evidence that the State
was in sympathy with the object of the
appropriation. In connection with this
point Mr. Dolph referred to what he de
scribed as a denial of the civil rights to
the colored people of the South.
CALUMNY REFUTED.
Mr. Jonas, while not deeming it neces
sary to make any speech in favor of the
bill, could not refrain from referring to
the remarks made yesterday by the Sena
tor from Ohio (Mr. Sherman), who had
said that he would not trust the South
with this money, and the Senator from
Oregon (Mr. ' Dolph), who to-day
had said that the people of the
South had trampled under foot
the constitutional amendments, and
would not administer this fund faithfully.
Mr. Jonas denied most emphat
ically as baseless and calumni
ous any charge that tlie people
of the South had any prejudice against
the colored people. “You sympathise,”
said Mr. Jonas, with their ignorance and
poverty, but they are our fellow-citizens.
We meet them in the contests of every
day life. They are our neighbors. They
pervade the streets of our cities. They
live in our villages. They cultivate out
fields. They mix with our families. They
mix with otir children. They vote at our
polls, and to a large extent control our
elections.” Mr. Jonas repelled in the
strongest terms the insinuation that hqd
been made that the people of the South,
or, at least, that portion that
he in part represented, would be
faithless to this trust if confided to them.
“Why, Mr. President,” said he, Mr. Frye
being in the chair, “you know that before
the committee that examined into the af
fairs of the far off county of Copiah if
nothing else was proven there it was
proved that the blessings of education to
the utmost limit of the capacity of that
people were extended to both races
alike.”
MR. BUTLER OPPOSES THE BILL.
Mr. Butler opposed the bill. He said
that the common school system of
South Carolina was as good as any in the
United States. The constitutional pro
vision created a tax for an educational
fund and that fund received in addition
an income from the poll tax. Mr. Butler
read from the proceedings of an.educational
body the acknowledgments of a colored
teacher to show how much the people of
South Carolina had done for education.
The people of the South, he continued,
had had to solve a problehi that no other
branch of the Caucasian race had ever
been called upon to solve before. They
had made mistakes, no doubt, and as long
as human nature was as weak as it was,
he supposed that they would continue to
make mistakes. But if he knew his own
hcaitand the hearts of his people, they
meant to deal fairly with this great ques
tion. Slaves had been illiterate, of course,
and as freedmen they had been illiterate,
but the next census would show a great
improvement, for the older people were
passing away.
Mr. Logan called attention to the re
marks made by him [Mr. Logan] the other
day with reference to the propriety of
basing aid upon the number of children,
and not upon the total illiteracy.
Mr. Butler agreed that that would be a
better basis, as it would be impossible to
educate the old people. But of what did
education consist, anyway? Education
did not consist in cramming letters into
people’s heads. One of the most intelli
gent men in South Carolina was a man
that could not read or write. And there
was another consideration —one which
Mr. Butler thought of the utmost impor
tance! there was an education more
important than book learning. That
was the education of the family relation,
education in which the character, honor,
integrity and honesty of man had their
origin and largest irrowth. He feared,
too, the effects of a measure of this char
acter upon personal and private efforts.
There was no success in life comparable
to that which resulted from individual
effort, and.he would hesitate before doing
anything to discourage it. The people ot
South (Carolina, Mr. Butler continued,
were not so badly off in the way of edu
cation as might be supposed from the
debate which had taken place in the Sen
ate. He cited statistics to show
what that State had done for
public schools, and said that with the
disposition that existed in the South to
remove illiteracy there he could not
doubt that the people would eventually
succeed in removing it. He would not
say that it would be done in five years or
in ten, but it would be done. Mr. Butler
vyas opposed to the tendency growing up
all over the land of rushing to the national
Treasury to remove every difficulty ft' a
local character. He would continue to
oppose the policy that he believed would
lead to the subversion ot the government;
a policy that would turn the government
of limited constitutional power into a
paternal government.
UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
For the measurebefore the Senate Mr.
Butler could find no authority in the con
stitution. Some lad customs had grown
up. however, and the custom had been
used as an argument for this bill. He
did not think the argument sound, how
ever. He was very anxious to remove il
literaev from the people of his State, but
he thought that illiteracy and its conse
quences had been exagerated, and in any
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1884.
event he could not consent t* remove the
difficulty by means of a measure of this
character. His State needed money, there
was no doubt about that; they hail had a
desperate struggle to confer even such
educational advantage as they had been
able lo confer, but he believed that the fu
ture was brighter for them. For one he
proposed to put the past, with all its
horrorsf behind him. He had no desire to
charge the mistake on his political oppo
nents, although he believed that they had
committed very grave ones. “And per
haps, Mr. President,” said he, “I am as
responsible for that condition of things as
the most extreme ot them. But, for one,
I would only recur to the past iu order to
guard against mistakes in the future.”
He predicted that if this bill passed, ten
years would not roll around before the
school system of the States would be in
the hands of the National Government.
The Senator from Ohio (Mr. Sherman)
had said, though not offensively, for Mr.
Butler did not think that he meant
to be offensive, that he could
not trust the South to disburse
this money. That Senator would pardon
Mr. Butler for saying in the same spirit
that he ( Mr. Butler ) would not trust him
f Mr. Sherman) to contribute it. Mr.
Butler would not discuss with that Sena
tor or any other whether the prejudice in
the South against the colored man was
stronger than it was in the North. He did
not believe that it was. “But,’’ said Mr.
Butler, “when the Senator says that he
will not trust me with money to educate
the negro I say that I will not trust him
to give it. Timer) donaos et dona ferentes
MU. Butler preferred, on the whole, to
trust to the pluck, endurance, manhood,
courage and humanity of the people of his
State to do justice by all men, white and
black, than to accept aid from the Federal
Government.
The House joint resolution re
appropriating for the aid of the
sufferers by the Mississippi river floods,
$125,000 not expended for the relief of the
sufferers by the floods of the Ohio river,
was read three times and passed. After
an executive session the Senate adjourn
ed.
IS THE HOUSE.
In the House to-day, Mr. Ellis, of Lou
isiana, from the Committee on Appropri
ations, reported a joint resolution provid
ing that $125,000 of the unexpended ap
propriation for the relief of the sufferers
front the Ohio floods, may be expended
by the Secretary of War for the relief of
destitute persons in the district overflow
ed by the Mississippi river and its tribu
taries.
Mr. Rice, of Massachusetts, opposed
the resolution, saying that it was, he
knew, an ungracious" task to oppose "a
eail made on the score of suffering hu
manity, but the present was a good oppor
tunity to consider this question of afford
ing relief to every sufferer of a lolcal ca
lamity. The resolution contemplated the
distribution of supplies by the National
Government to feed sufferers from a local
disaster. The present calamity did not
much exceed previous disasters on the
same river, and it was a calamity, relief
of which did not come within the sphere
of the rights guaranteed or the duties im
posed ou the Federal Government.
Mr. Dunn, of Arkansas, spoke in favor
of the proposed amendment increasing
the appropriation to $600,000, and depicted
especially the unfortunate condition of
the people living in Arkansas. The water
is up to the highest water mark, and
would continue there for 60 days longer.
Mr. Jeffords, of Mississippi, predicted
that the calamity which had spread over
the Mississippi river liad not yet culmi
nated, and did not "consider even, say
$.100,000, sufficient to render adequate re
•lief.
NLr. Barksdale, of Mississippi, appealed
to the House to, ’grant to the sufl'erers along
the banks of the Mississippi, the same
measure of relief which it had accorded to
persons rendered destitute by the over
flow of the Ohio river. The resolution
then passed.
THE WHISKY BILL.
The House then at 1:20 o’clock went into
committee of the whole with Mr. Dor
sheimer, of New York, in the chair. Oil
the bonded extension bill. The debate was
continued by Messrs. Pusey, of lowa,
McCormick, ’ J. D. Taylor. Brown, of
Pennsylvania, Warner, Worthington, of
Illinois, Dunn and Cox, of North Caro,
liita. The lattei opposed the measure as
being merely a proposition for the loan of
money to distillers and argued in tavor of
a total abolition of internal taxation.
Mr. Dunn made a severe attack on the
pending measure which he said observa
tions had proved to him was favored by
only three members of the Ways and
Means Committee, Messrs. Morrison,
Ilurd and Blackburn. He wished to
know by what caesarian operation was
this thing taken untimely from that com
mittee and brought into the House.
Mr. Keifer, of Ohio, called attention to
the fict that the resolution made no new
appropriation, but simply extended the
benefits of the previous appropriation to
another elass of people, and made a brief
constitutional argument in support of the
power of Congress to make such appro
priations.
The committee rose informally for the
purpose of limiting the general debate.
Mr. Blackburn moved that it be closed
in one hour and a half to-morrow.
Thje motion was agreed to.
MR. HEWITT SUPPORTS THE BILL. '
The committee having resumed its ses
sion, it was addressed by Mr. Hewitt, of
New York, in support of the bill, in con
sideration of which he dismissed all ap
peals to sympathy or passion. It had
been discussed, except in a few cases, on
the grounds of charity on one side and
of morality on the other, but taxation
looked not to charity or morality. It
looked to certain economic principles
which had been settled by the experience
of mankind aud written on the pages of
the history of the human race. Taxation
cou'd only fall on accumulated capital,
on production or consumption. There
was no other spot where the strong arm
of the law culd impose taxafion. In the
original history of the government, tax
ation fell generally on production,
and hence had arisen that re
markable civilization of the middle ages
in which guilds tried to protect them
selves from the government. At this day
not a single enlightened or commercial
nation imposed a tax on production ex
cept the United States. Taxation on pro
duction, however, still survived. It was
characteristic of the oriental system of
government. He had seen the blighting
effects ot that taxation—industrial death,
moral stupor, decay of energy, buried in
the grave of a grasping and omnivorous
government. In this country, strange to
say, enlightened by common schools, by
colleges in every State, with schools of
political science and political economy
flourishing' everywhere, the cardinal
principle which survived to-day was a
tax on production. In other
countries raw materials were admitted as
free as air, but here they were met by ob
struction the moment they got within
sight of this land of free thought and free
governhient. Until the system of taxa
tion of this government should conform
itself to the fundamental principle that
taxation should not infringe on produc
tion there would be stagnation, depres
sion, suffering, want, lack of employment,
disorders, riots and destruction of prop
erty. This bill seemed to him to be in the
right direction. It was not the right
thing. It did not go far enough. It did
not touch the heart of the question. But
it was an entering wedge which was
going to bring Congress lace to face with
the question whether it would continue
to tax raw materials. It was for this
reason that he w’ould vote for this bill.
TAXATION FOB MORALITY.
Mr. Hewitt agreed with the gentleman
from Massachusetts as to the impropriety
of the government stepping in to relieve
any business whatever, but, on the other
hand, he did not agree with the gentle
man iu saying that the granting ot this
relief was going to let loose in the coun
try a flood of whisky which would be fol
lowed by wreck and ruin. Taxation had
nothing to do with morality. He had
been brought up to believe that taxation
was for revenue and for revenue .only.
[ Applause on the Democratic side.: But
there had been in this country a school
which had been dominant, which believed
in taxation for protection, and it hart
had taxation for protection until it had
divided the country into very rich and
very poor, and now, when the system was
breakiug down —aye, when light was
penetrating into the crevices which
had been the heme of protection—
there were coming good strong
advocates for free raw material. Now it
was necessary that this party which hart
exhausted all possibilities of taxation lor
protection should invent anew gospel,
and it had been announced yesterday,
“Taxation for morality?’ Taxation for
revenue with incidental morality.
(Laughter.) That idea was worthy of the
party of great moral ideas. If the govern
ment could be supported on its vices, and
the revenue system could be devised
which would compel those States who de
parted from the ways of virtue to pay ex
penses, then there would be produced a
new development truly admirable, and
wsrthy to be welcomed as the beginning
of the millennium, for instead of the coun
try being divided into rich and
poor it would be divided into good and
bad, and the bad men would be com
pelled to pay tbe expenses. Having
founded a government on the great basis
of human vice, the Republican party could
economize to its heart’s content, for no
schools or churches would be needed, as
morality would be the panacea for all the
country’s woes. [Laughter.] He had
said that taxation had nothing to do witn
the moral question. It was just as
-legitimate to produce whisky as it was to
produce pig iron. In the eye of the
law they were equally reputable and
valuable. Asa pig iron maker he was
at a loss to know whether the production
of iron or of alcohol was more useful to
the human race, and yet if ahy man to
day were to propose to impose a tax on
pig iton he would be hooted out of the
House, as he ought to be. The production
ot alcohol was either a lawful business
or it was not. If not, it ought to be
stopped. But if it ought to b stopped on
moral grounds it did not belong to the
General Government to stop it. It became
a matter of police regulation which the
States should settle. The tax on alcohol
should be abolished altogether. The first
step was the passage of this bill, and he
would vote for it, because he thought that
it would bring about an abolition of the
tax altogether.
DON’T WANT THE TAX PAID.
He did not expect that the% taxes, if
the time was extended, woe 1 ever be
paid. He did not want them to be paid.
He stood on the broad position that
this would be the first honest step to
wards the doctrine of free raw material,
which in his judgment was the vital ques
tion of the age and generation. The gen
tlemen might be confused a little as to the
natjre of the alcoholic traffic. It had
been dealt with purely on the ground of
being a beverage. No person had brought
to the attention of the House tbe vast
uses of tlie commodity in the arts. He
was astonished himself to find, on in
vestigation, that one-half of the en
tire alcohol product ot' this country
was used in the arts. He would vote for
every bill which approached to tree alco
hol. and he would not cease to work until
the total abolition of the tax was secured.
Some reference had been made ta the
resolution adopted last night to abolish
the tax on tobacco. He was sorry that
that action had been taken. He regarded
it as a step in the wrong direction. To
bacco was not one of the raw materials.
It was a luxury, pure and simple, and
when it was proposed to embasrass tbe
progress of true revenue reform, which
was the freeing of raw material from duty
by the introduction of a provision which
would make it impossible to remove it
from alcohol, he would regret it, though
he might be compelled to vote for it in or
der to secure some reform. lie held it to
tie the duty of this Congress to bring
down the revenue in every practicable
way. He wanted the obstructions re
moved from the growth of thiT industries
of the country. What Congress should
do was to keep-the tax on tobacco in force
and repeal the tax on alcohol until the
revision of the tariff was compelled on
the fundamental basis of free raw mate
rial.
AN ADDITIONAL REASON.
Tlie reason why he wanted to see the
whisky tax abolished, in addition to the
general principle he had laid down, was
that it would so reduce the revenue as to
compel a revision of the tariff on the
fundamental basis of free raw material.
He might lie asked whether it was possi
ble so to frame the tariff with the whisky
tax abolished as to give the country an
adequate revenue to pay the expenses of
the government. He answered: Yes; it
was easier to increase the revenue than
to reduce it. What he feared in regard to
the Morrison bill was that it might turn
out to be a measure for tbe increase of the
revenue instead of for its diminution.
As to wool he had no doubt
that the removal of the duty
on all kinds and grades of wool
would be the easiest measure which could
be adopted, hut there were gentlemen on
his own side aud on the other who did not
a'jree with him, and all measures brought
into the House must be so brought in as
to get a majority of votes. [Laughter ou
the Republican side.j He was in the
habit of talking frankly. He would abol
ish the duty on wool, and he hoped that
there were votes enough to do it. but if
not he would give it up in order to secure
some revision. “What was more, he would
put the duty back, if necessary, to tbe
point from which it had been reduced by
the last Congress, in order to force
the Republicans to vote for a
bill which put other things on the free
list that ought to be there. In other
words, all legislation was the result of a
concurrence of opinion. He could
not expect to have the gentlemen
follow him, but he might get enough to go
with him to produce practical results.
THE DEMOCRATIC DIVISION.
It was for this revision the Democrats
were divided. The Republicans voted
every time with their party; the Demo
crats did not. [Laughter on the Repub
lican side.] He said to his fellow-Demo
crats here and now that in order to secure
a measure of revenue reform that began
right, that took the smallest step toward
reform, he would take any quantity 01.
disagreeable medicine; and unless the
Democratic party was prepared to vote
together as a party it had better disband.
“This is not a caucus,” suggested Mr.
Reed, of Maine.
Mr. Hewitt, not noticing the interrup
tion, continued that it was the duty oi
the Democratic party to get together on a
common ground, and that common ground
he hoped would be the common ground of
free raw material. On that it could
stand. On that it could get the indus
tries ot the country In its power. On
that it would have with it the farmer and
the laborer. The gentlemen would lie
disposed, doubtless, to criticize him on
what he had said to-day, as a departure
of principle for the sake of politics. Let
them not deceive themselves. He knew
of only one possible policy for this coun
try in order to get it out of its present
condition, and that was to stimulate
manufactures, and he said now that he
did not believe that the horizontal cut
was too best method of arriving at that
end. He would he false to his convictions
and to his long training if he took anv
such view. But he would rather do that
and vote for this bill than not give proof
to the people of the country that the
Democratic party was in dead earnest
when it said that it would reduce taxes.
[Applause on the Democratic side.]
Several other members spoke briefly,
after which the committee rose and the
House adjourned.
ARTHUR AND THE NAVY.
A Message Sent to Congress Urging a
Further Appropriation.
Washington, March 20.— The Presi
dent to-day sent to Congress a message
recommending appropriations for the con
struction of naval vessels in which he
says: “In my annual message I im
pressed upon Congress the necessity of
continued progress in the reconstruction
of t* e navy. I now deem it my duty to
advise that an appropriation be made at
the present session toward designing and
,commencing the construction of at least
the three additional steel cruisers and
four gunboats recommended by the Secre
tary of the Navy, the cost of which, in
cluding their armament, will not exceed
$4,283,000, of which one-half should
he appropriated for the next fiscal year.
I am unwilling to see the gradual recon
struction ot our navy cruisers, now hap
pily begun in conformity with modern re
quirements, delayed one full year for any
unsubstantial reasons. "Whatever con
ditions Congress may see fit to impose in
order to secure judieiousdesigns and hon
est and economic construction, will be
acceptable to me, but to relinquish or
postpone the policy already deliberately
declared, will be, in my judgment, an act
of national imprudence. Appropriations
should also be made without delay for
finishing the four double turreted moni
tors, Puritan, Affiphitritc, Terror and Mo
nadnock, and for procuring their arma
ment, and that of the Miantonomab.”
# SAVANNAH IN' LUCK.
Probably *300.000 will be Voted for
the River, and a Public Building Fa
vored.
Washington, March 26. —Mr. Nieholis
said to-night: “I think everything is fa
vorable. We will get at least $200,000 for
the Savannah river and harbor, and I
have no doubt but that the Publicßuiidings
Committee will report in favor of anew
building for a post office and court house
at Savannah.”
Presidential Nominations.
Washington, March 26 —The Presi
dent sent to the Senate to-day the nomi
nation of Robert T. Clayton, of Georgia,
to be United States Consul to Para.
Brazil, and John Egan to be Postmaster
at Pensacola, Fla.
I>ied from a Tramp's Beating.
Chattanooga, March 26.— Alfred Da
vis, a wealthy farmer of Sequochee coun
ty, Tenu., who was beaten bv a tramp
whom he sheltered, is dead. 'The tramp
Is in jail.
WILD WINDS AGAIN FREE
LIVES DASHED OUT AND BUILD
INGS TORN TO PIECES.
Some Damage Dealt North Georgia and
One or Two Children Killed—The
Death List in Some of the States Ap
palling—Total Figures asYet Unobtain
able.
Boyd, Ky., March 26.—About 4 o’clock
yesterday afternoon a destructive cyclone
passed over here, blowing down every
thing In its way. The inmates of houses
fled to wells and cellars. Many persons
were injured. Live stock was blown
about like feathers. A rough estimate
places the damage at $500,000. The home
less are being cared for.
AT GAINESVILLE, GA.
Atlanta, March 26.—A cyclone yester
day struck Gainesville, unroofing several
houses and killing a negro woman.
Atlanta. March 26, 7 l*. m. —Later re
ports from the cyclones of yesterday show
greater damage than was first suspected.
A terrible thunder storm last night ac
companied by floods of rain has added to
the damage to farm lands.
Many buildings were demolished in the
Northern part of the State, but beyond a
child or two, no loss of life is reported.
Several people were injured, some se
riously, but none, it is believed, danger
ously.
TERRIFIC DESTRUCTION AT GAINSVILLE.
Aurusta, Ga., March 26.—A dispatch
gives the particulars of a cyclone. At
Gainesville the storm was very destructive
to property, many houses being leveled
to the ground. It traveled northeast
with a rotary motion. Hailstones as large
as guinea eggs fell thick and fast. The
track of the storm was 150 yards wide.
The cloud was black with a’silver gray
background. Three lives are reported
lost, and furniture, beds, roofs, trees aud
timber cover the ground in every direc
tion.
THREE CHILDREN INJURED AT GREEN
VILLE, .S. C.
Columbia, S. €., March 26.—A spe
cial from Greeaville, in this State, says:
“A severe cyclone passed over Anderson
county, near Piedmont, destroying the
house of A. M. Watson. Three of his
children are thought to be fatally in
jured.”
MANY LIVES LOST IN NORTH CAROLINA.
Charlotte, N. C., March 26. —Specials
show that last night's storm was the most
severe at Newton and Lenior, fifty and
sixty miles northwest of here.’ At
Newton thirty houses were blown down,
the Methodist Church wrecked, aud the
residences of Rev. Coley Killian and
Charles Jewett swept away. Cline
A Williams’ flouring mills were
partially destroyed. Mary Hunsucker
was killed and fourteen other persons
were wounded. Rumors from Lenoir say
that a whole family were killed there.
Six ladies are kflown to have been killed
at that place, but the telegraph wires be
ing down further particulars cannot be
obtained.
In Mecklenburg five or six residences
were destroyed, but no lives were lost.
The cyclone also passed through Iredell
county, doing great damage to fruits and
blowing down many houses.
LOSS OF LIFE AT PITTSBURG.*
Louisville, March 26.—A special from
London, Ky., says: “A terrific cyclone
passed near this place and Pittsburg, two
miles north of here, about 4 o’clock yes
terday afternoon. The Methodist Church
wasrazed to the ground, and much other
property damaged.
At Pittsburg, John Ilailman, a brake
man, was blown from a freight car and
carried about 50 feet, lighting on his
head in a creek. His neck was broken.
Three freight cars, two coal oil tanks and
the caboose were blown from the track
and several persons were slightly injured.
A little cabin occupied by a lamily
named Broughton was blown down and
Mrs. Broughton and two little children
were instantly killed. The following per
sons are thought to be mortally wounded;
Col. C. W. Stringer; he has both legs
broken and is cut in the head. Mrs. C.
IV. Springer had hip mashed. Robert
Hidings, his spinal column is broken and
he is cut in the head. Miss Sallie Goff;
she is cut in the head. James Warren;
he has two ribs broken aud is wounded in
the head.
AT FALMOUTH, KY.
Louisville, March 26.—A Falmouth,
Ivy., special says that a tearful cyclone
passed through the woods just south of
that town on the Kentucky Central Kail
road at 2 o’clock yesterday afterneon.
The track of the cyclone was half a mile
wide from east to west, uprooting trees
and everything else in its path.“ Many
trees were blown across the railroad track
and are now being cleared away by work
men. So far no lives have been reported
lost nor dwellings destroyed.
COLEMANSVILLK REPORTED DESTROYED
Lexington, March 26.—1 t was report
ed here last night that the village of Cole
mansvilie, in Harrison county, forty
miles from here, was almost entirely de
stroyed by a cyclone which swept over it
at five o’clock yesterday afternoon. It is
said that ten persons were killled by the
Hying timbers and debris, and fifteen or
twenty injured. Nothing definite is vet
known.
NEAR DAYTON, OHIO.
Dayton, March 26.—Further details of
the cyclone near this city confirm the
first reports of the damage done six miles
south of the city. The destruction was
most general and frightful. The cloud
first appeared in a southwesterly direc
tion from Lebanon and passed rapidly to
the northeast. Its track was most marked
in the vicinity of Oak Ridge,on the narrow
gauge railroad, where a whole forest has
been leveled and buildings razed. The
railroad is blockaded by falling timber
and trains are delayed.’ The Oak Itidge
House and barn and other outbuildings
belonging to Thomas Anderson were
blown quite a distance by the wind, and
he was buried under the falling timber.
The path of the cyclone was fifty yards
in width, and forests show where it rose
from the earth and descended again. On
the Lebanon pike it passed between the
house and barn of William Popenoe, but
being high up it did little damage. A
little daughter of Abram Wilson, a
farmer, was crushed under the timbers of
a barn near Oak Itidge, and other loss of
life is feared. The full extent of the loss
cannot yet be given.
TALES OF TERRIBLE DESTRUCTION.
Dayton, 0., March 26.—Intelligence
from Shakertown, Ridgeville, Centreville,
Spring Valley, Trebin’s Station and South
Charleston tell ol terrible destruction by
the cyclone of last evening. Two brothers
named .Johnston were killed at Itidgeville.
The damage to property cannot he esti
mated.
AT GREENFIELD, IND.
Greenfield, Ind., March 26.—A
heavy storm of wind and rain yesterday
afternoon blew down fences and outbuild
ings, and unroofed many houses.
AT RICHMOND, IND.
Richmond, Ind., March 26.—A de
structive storm occurred here at 5 o’clock
yesterday afternoon.
AT CONNERSVILLK, IND.
Connersville, Ind., March 26.—A
cyclone passed about one mile south of
this place yesterday afternoon, tearing
down a wild torest. So far as known no
lives were lost.
NOIi'UHERN PACIFIC’S FORFEIT.
Tlie Sub-Committee's Report on the
Subject Ready to be Presented.
Washington, March 20.—Representa
tive Ilenley, of the House Committee ®n
Public Lands, to-day completed a report
to accompany the committee’s bill de
claring a forfeiture of the lands granted
to the Northern Pacific Railway Company,
and not earned under the terms of the
charter by July 4, 1879. The report will
be submitted to the committee for ap
proval at its next meeting. Mr. Ilenley
says: “The committee is satisfied that
the grant was one in proesenti, upon the
condition subsequent that by a breach of
such condition the grant along the entire
line as far as it was uncompleted on the
4th day of July, 1879, is, and has been
since said date, subject to forfeiture, and
that justice to the United States and her
citizens now requires tjiat the forfeiture
and restoration of the lands to the public
domain should be declared by act of Con
gress.”
The Price of Marriases Not Reduced.
Annapolis, >ln., March 26.— Gov. Me-
Lane has vetoed the bill reducing the
marriage license fee from $4 50to60cents.
The Senate by a vote of 13 to 11 sustained
the veto, 16 votes being required to pass
the bill over the veto.
Verdict of 837,500 for Mr. Kilbourn.
Washington, March 26.— 1n the case
of llailet Kilbourn against ex-Sergeant
at-Arms Thompson the jury rendered a
verdict in favor of Mr. Kilbourn for
*3^600.
RESULTS OF THE CAUCUS.
Representatives Who Believe That It
Shows That no BUI Can be Passed.
Washington, March 26.—“1t is one of
the cleanest cut victories for Mr. Randall
and the protectionist Democrats generally
you could conceive of,” said Mr. Ermen
trout, one of Mr. Randall’s confidential
friends, and a member from Pennsylvania,
in speaking to-night of last night’s cau
cus. “You see, the Morrison men pulled
the chesnuts out of the fire for us, and
now we will eat them or not just as we
please. We are not bound to support the
bill. I can’t see what more we could ask.”
“Will the fifty-seven who voted against
the bill last night oppose it when it is up
for final passage?”
“I cannot say as to that, for I don’t
know what shape it will be in when it
eventually comes up for passage. It may
be so amended that even the Morrison men
will refuse to support it. I am almost
ready to anticipate that that will be the
case. You see we are not any of us
pledged to support the bill, but' ‘a bill.’
Even the Morrison men do not feel obliged
to vote for the Morrison bill. There is
wonderful freedom in the matter, and the
whole thing is at sea now.”
“Water, water everywhere, and none to
drink; that is the situation exactly,” said
another Democratic member. “Yes, sir.
there is free trade, tariff reform and all
that everywhere in the majority ot the
party, but we have resolved to have none
of it.”
THE CAUCUS WITHOUT GOOD RESULTS.
In all circles here to-day the chief topic
of talk was the caucus. Much nervous
ness was shown by Mr. Morrison’s follow
ing, and a lively interest is evinced by
Mr. Randall’s friends. It is evident that
the action of the caucus has not settled
the question. Neither side is satisfied to
let the thing alone. The protectionists
adhere to their declarations in the caucus
that the passage of the Morrison bill
would lose New York, Connecticut, New
Jersey, Ohio, California, Louisiana, aud
would weaken 'the ticket in Maryland,
Virginia and the Carolinas, and lose the
Presidency beyond all peradventure.
Messrs. Carlisle and Watterson have been
roundly denounced by all the protection
ists to-day.
Mr. Eaton, of Connecticut, otic of the
oldest and most influential members, says
that Mr.' Carlisle’s speech last night
smacked of Wattersonism, and that Car
lisle either patte-ned after Mr. Watterson
or Mr. Watterson patterned after Mr.
Carlisle. In any event, both are guilty of
trying to crowd better Democrats than
they are out of the party, and that there
are not enough Carlisles or Wattersons
to make him (jo a thing he doesn’t want
to do, or to read him out of the party for
refusing to do their bidding. So there is
nothing like harmony yet, and if the Ran
dall men continue talking as they have
to-day, and denouncing the opposite fac
tion, there never will be harmony.
NO BILL CAN BE PASSED.
Mr. Converse, of Ohio, one of the lead
ing Protectionists, who works with .Mr.
Randall and enjoys his confidence, says
that last night’s caucus demonstrates be
yond any doubt that this House cannot
i pass any' kind of a tariff bill. “The pro
! ceedings of the caucus,” said he this eve
-1 nimr, “were interlarded with Randall
j victories, and Mr. Randall’s influence was
I seen in every move.”
“Will not the amendments that will be
made to the bill in the House make it
friends?” tlie News correspondent asked.
“I think not,” replied he, “On the con
trary, I atn confident that the more it is
amended the more friends it will lose. As
the tariff is largely a local issue a bill re
vising it would naturally become more
objectionable as it becomes more compli
cated.”
There is a rumor that the whisky bond
bill and the bill of Mr. Converse’s" to re
store the duty of 1867 on wool are to be
consolidated with the hope that one will
carry the other through the House.
Mr. Converse was asked what effect one
would have upon the other it the whisky
bill was amended by adding the wool bill?
“It would give strength to both meas
ures. undoubtedly,” he replied. “I under
stand that it will be done, and I am sure
it will result iti the passage of both meas
ures and save the whisky bill, which is
otherwise doomed to defeat.”
“Do you think the 57 votes east against
the Morrison bill in tbe caucus last night
indicates the opposition to it?”
NOT THE FULL OPPOSITION.
“No; Ido not. It did not show the lull
opposition there is to the bill. You will
see that when the bill is put upon its final
passage 35 Democratic votes against it
will defeat it if all the Republicans op
pose it.”
Judge Holman, “the great objector from
Indiana,” said to the News correspondent
to-night: “None of the Indiana members
feel bound to support the bill, but all the
members except Mr. Lamb, who repre
sents a manufacturing constituency, will
indorse it. That caucus amendment re
ducing the tax on fruit brandy to 10 cents
per gallon will be defeated overwhelming
ly in the House. It was adopted merely
to catch the votes from North Carolina
and California, where the members are
largely against revising the tariff. It is
true that we do not derive more than a
million and a quarter dollars from our
fruit brandy tax; yet it will never do to
reduce or abolish that tax while that of
whisky remains where it is, even if it does
cost nearly as much to collect it as
it is worth. It would result 'iu
much fraud being practiced, and it would
require an army of inspectors to see that
otjier spirits were not made and sold
under the name of fruit brandy.”
“You evidently believe no good will re
sult from this caucus?”
“It looks that way to me,” he replied.
“1 canuot see that the caucus’ action is
of any consequence.”
“What is the fate of the whisky bill?”
“1 shall vote for it, but it will be de
feated. If interest is paid on this bond
extension in advance, I can’t see that it
is an injustice to the government to ex
tend it. There is, of course, much preju
dice against the proposition, but there
should not be. The manufacture of
whisky is one of our industries. If the
wool and whisky bills are consolidated
both will surely be defeated.”
AT THE STAl’ri CAPITAL.
Hearings by the Railroad Commission
—Pleading for a Doomed Man’s Life—
A Conductor Killed.
Atlanta, March 26.—The Railroad
Commissioners to-day heard the appeal of
B. G. Lockett & Cos. on the brick rates
from their yard. The case was continued
for final hearing to the 15th of April. The
Commissioners will probably decide the
Savannah case to-morrow.
PLEAS FOR TOUE TURNER.
The father, mother and wife of Tobe
Turner, under sentence of death for kill
ing Shuttles in Meriwether countv, were
before Gov. McDaniel this afternoon in
his behalf. The people of that county are
petitioning for a commutation of the sen
tence, as the Supreme Court has refused
anew trial. The interview to-day was
deeply affecting.
AN EVANGELIST IN TOWN.
Rev. E. W. Bliss, the famous revivalist,
arrived here this afternoon and com
mences a senes of meetings to-morrow
under the auspices of the Young Men’s
Christian Association.
AN KX-CONDUCTOR’B SAD DEATH.
Ex-Conductor Joe Fowler, of the Air-
Line Railroad, who was killed by lumber
falling on him at his home in Belton, was
buried at Decatur to-day. His wife wit
nessed his terrible fate, but could not re
lease him.
A VERDICT FOR MISS LEAHY.
The First of the St. Augustinian Suits
Won by the Plaintiff.
Lawrence, Mass., March 26.—1n the
suit of Ellen Leahy against Archbishop
Williams, growing out #fthe difficulties
of the St. Augustinian Society, Judge
Bacon this' morning charged the jury.
His instructions seeming “to favor the
claims of the plaintiff, the jury, the juny
then retired, and soon after re
turned a verdict for the plaintiff for
$1,240 with luterest, being the full amount
sued for. An appeal vrlll probably lie tak
en. It is claimed that this verdict is of
especial importance, and will largely al
fect the title of the Catholic church prop
erty in New England if sustained by the
upper courts.
A Crazy Woman Kills Her Children and
Herself.
Cincinnati, March 26.—A special from
Bradford, Penn., says: “At 10 o’clock
this morning a woman lining with Or rip
Farrell, at Wellsville, X. Y., as bis wife,
shot her son and daughter, aged 8 and 12
years, respectively, with a shotgun and
then killed herself. The cause is insan
ity.”
Bismarck's Iron Rale.
Berlin, March 26.— Prince Bismarck
has directed the Senate of Bremen to ask
for admission to the Imperial Customs
Union, The Senate is unwilling to d® so,
but must yield.
A NEW FOE IN THE SU.V.
Three Hundred of Graham's Men Struck
Down on the March.
Suakin, March 26.—The English troops
marched eleven miles yesterday. The
heat was intense, and 25 per cent, of the
men fell out of ranks. Several soldiers
were sunstruck. The rear of the column
resembled routed army men marching
without their rifles.
WHERE THE REBELS ARE MASSED.
Cairo, March 26. —The rebels are
massed near the sixth cataract of the
Nile.
A steamer proceeding from Shendy to
Khartoum was fired upon, and was
obliged to return.
El Mahdi’s people are becoming rest
less. They will not consider him the
true prophet unless he attacks Khartoum.
THE SUN’S ENMITY.
Suakin, March 26, 9 r. m.— The British
infantry are encamped nine miles from
Suakinj where they will remain for rest
to-day. Of 300 who fell out of the ranks
yesterday overcome by heat aud the
burdens of the march, only four are in
the hospital. The rest have returned
to duty. There is no doubt
but that sickness will lie renewed
when the march continues. It is hoped
that the cavalry will be able to accom
plish the object in view without the neces
sity of recruiting infantry to inarch to
Tatnanieb. The cavalry, with fifty Arab
scouts, have gone to-day to reconnoitre
Tamanieb. The troops bivouacked last
night in an oblong rectangle and slept in
their accoutrements. Capt Slade of the
reconnoissance party galloped within 300
yards of Tamanieb but saw now rebels.
If Tamanieb is deserted it will be burnt
and the troops will at once return to
Suakin.
WHY THE ABYSSINIAN SCOUTS WERE DIS
BANDED.
London, March 26, 11:30 r. m.—Admi
ral Hewitt telegraphs in answer to the
inquiry of Marquis of Hartington, Secre
tary of State for War, in regard to the
disbandment of the Abyssinian scouts,
that they were disbanded because they
were outlaws and robbers.
DIGNA’S POSITION STRONG.
Suakin. March 26, 11 :4o p. m.— The ad
vance to Tamanieb has been delayed in
order to give the troops a day of lest. The
Tenth and Nineteenth ilussars and
mounted infantry advanced to-night to
the wells of Tamanieb, whither the whole
of the remainder of the force will advance
early in the morning. The cavalry reeon
noissance to-day ascertained Osman Dig
na’s force, whose number is uncertain,
lie bolds rugged and rising ground at the
end of a valley where the village of
Tamanieb is situated. If Osman fights
at all it is not expected that the battle
will take place until Friday morning,
owing to the intense heat and bad water.
Gen. Graham intends to limit the march
to the clearing of the valley of Tamanieb.
The proposed cavalry expedition to Ber
ber has been dropped. Three hundred
Arabs have joined the British camp, but
leading Sheiks, excepting Morghani, keep
aloof.
THE PROPAGANDA’S SALK.
The “Catholic Mirror” Calls It Confis
cation Not Conversion,
Baltimore, March 26. -The Catholic
Mirror will, to-morrow, publish a long
pastoral letter from Archbishop Gibbons
upon the confiscation of the American
College and Fropaganda property at Rome.
In it he says that the proposed measure is
called “conversion,” but ft is none the
jess confiscation. “It cannot be called an
intermeddling in the proper jurisdiction
of a foreign government,” he says, “if we
use our endeavors to prevent them from
appropriating our property. We had no
intention ol enriching the Italian exche
quer when we asked you to contribute
your offerings. The title of the building
known as the American College may have
been placed in the name of the Propaganda
for convenience and security, but, never
theless, the fact remains that it
was purchased and fitted up by contri
butions which you and your fellow Catho
lics made, and it is in reality the property
of Americans. We ought tit make every
legitimate appeal to public sentiment,
and not to suffer our property and our
interests to be wrested from us without
a struggle. It can’t be that our govern
ment, jealous of the rights of the least of
its citizens, could allow ours to be vio
lated without protest, and we look for pro
tection from it, and who knows but that
in the providence of God the glory of sav
ing the Propaganda may rest the second
time on the banner of our country ?
CITY OFFICIALS FIGHT.
Norfolk’s Mayor and a Police Commis
sioner the Beligerents.
Norfolk, Va., March 26.—The town
was thrown into a state of intense excite
ment this morning by a personal difficulty
between Mayor William Lamb and Police
Commissioner Zachary. A meeting of the
Police Commissioners was called this
morning to consider tbe suspension on
Monday by the Mayor of eleven policemen
on the alleged ground of having
illegally raided a colored gambling den
and made a large number of arrests. Yes
terday the Mayor and the two Commis
sioners composing the board had a heated
conversation on the subject of the sus
pension which was reported in the morn
ing papers, and in which the Mayor said
that the Commissioners had put thieves
and cutthroats on the force, to which
Zachary replied that the Mayor had
shielded gambling dens as n'o Mayor
should do. This morning at the Mayor’s
office, in the presence of the Commission
ers, the Mayor said to Zachary that the
published statement which he had given
to the press was a lie, and that he
was a liar and a puppy. Zach
ary slapped him in the face and
they clinched. They were separated
andsubsequedtly were bound over to keep
the peace in $2,500 for twelve months.
Mayor Latnb is a prominent Coalitionist
leader, and the Commissioners are Demo
crats recently appointed under the new
charter granted by the last Legislature.
THE SCANDAL OF AN AMOUR.
Riley’s Children Tell of Dr. Barnes’
Suspicious Visits to Tlieir Mother.
St. Louis, March 26.—At the inquest
yesterday on the body of George M. Riley,
the river pilot who killed his wife and
then committed suicide, two letters were
found on the deceased from I>r. Barnes.
In them Dr. Barnes denies emphatically
that Riley had any cause to be jealous of
him. But notwithstanding this, the tes
timony elicited from Riley’s chiidren and
other inmates of the house showed that
Barnes was a constant visitor at Mrs.
Riley’s during her husband’s absence,
and that he frequently remained at the
house until after midnight.
The Home for Southern Soldiers.
New York, March 26.—The committee
of Union and Confederate soldiers deeided
to-day to hold a mass meeting at" Cooper
Union on April 8, in aid of the Soldiers'
Home in the South. Gen. Grant will
preside, and the following gentlemen have
been invited to speak: Gen. J. B. Gor
don, of Georgia; J. W. Daniel, of Vir
ginia; M. C. Butler, of South Carolina;
N. C. I*. Breckenridge, of Kentucky; W.
T. Sherman, Benjamin F. Butler, John A.
Logan. J. R. O’Beirne, M. It. McMahon,
W. S. Hancock and Henry Ward Beecher.
A Black Demon Lynched.
Gvlveston, March 26.—A special from
Gonzales says: “Bill Burleson, a negro,
was lynched Tuesday for attempting a
rape upon a German lady. The latter
identified Burleson. The officers endeav
ored to protect the prisoner, but a large
crowd tore down the jail fence In their
eagerness, overpowered the office?.:, look
the prisoner out half a mRo and hanged
him. He would neither confess or deny
the commission of the crime.”
Kellogg’s Indictments.
Washington. March 26.—The counsel
for Representative Kellogg to-day, accord?
ing to previous notice, moved in the
Criminal Court that an early day be set
for trial of tlie indictments against Mr.
Kellogg. Mr. Merrick, special couusei
for the government in this case, is sick,
and argument on the motion was set
down for Saturday next.
A Railroad's Machine Shops JL>estroye<l
Memphis, March 26.—A special from
Jonesboro, Ark., says; “Fire Tuesday
morning destroyed the machine shop of
the Texas and st. Louis Railroad. The
loss is $15,000. The fire Is supposed to
have been of incendiary origin.
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SARGENT TRANSFERRED.
A REMOVAL, FROM BERLIN TO
ST. PETERSBURG RATIFIED.
Reports that the German Mission Will
be Left Vacant in Retaliation for Bis
marck’s Course in the Lasker Affair-
Secretary ’Frelinghuysen Cables the
Ministers Complimentary Notification.
Washington, March 26.—The Presi
dent to-day sent to the Senate a commu
nication announcing the transfer of Min
ister Sargent front Berlin to St. Peters
burg. Soon afterward the Senate went
into executive session and confirmed the
transfer without reference. It is said in
Senatorial circles to-night that the trans
fer was made at Mr. Sargent’s request,
and that it is the intention of the Presi
dent not to send anyone to Berlin for some
time, but to resent the insults of Prince
Bismarck to our Minister by leaving the
post vacant. It is reported also that Mr.
Sargent would have demanded his pass
ports, in spite of Prince B'smarok’s con
ciliatory dinner, had he not been assured
by the State Department of the President’s
determination.
A SURPRISE.
The nomination of Mr. Sargent to he
Minister to Russia was a total surprise
to most persons at the capitol to-dav. ft
was not delivered to the Senate till’ after
Secretary Frelinghuysen bad spent an
hour or.inore at the capitol for the pur
pose, it is conjectured, of preparing the
leading members of that bodv lor its re
ception. When it was laid before the
Senate in executive session a
few questions were asked and
briefly answered to the effect
that the transfer, though not requested or
even suggested by M inister Sargent, would
doubtless be agreeable to him, and that
it would also undoubtedly be productive
of good results as a matter of nattionai
policy, although in what manner was not
stated nor asked. As the Senate, taere
upon accepting these assurances of the
members of the Foreign Relations Com
mittee, confirmed the nomination by
unanimous consent, there is good reason
for believing that the action of the Senate
was based not only upon the belief that
Mr. Sargent's transfer, which, in Eu
ropean estimation, is a diplomatic
promotion, would be agreeable to him
and avert the possibility of further un
pleasantness arising from personal hos
tilities, but also upon the prevalent im
pression that the position of American
Minister at the Court of Berlin will sig
nificantly and for an indefinite time be
left vacant.
Secretary Frelinghuysen sent the fol
lowing telegram to Mr. Sargent this after
noon:
Mr. Sargent, Minister, Berlin : The Presi
dent approves entirely of your course in the
Lasker matter. You have done nothing but
obey the instructions ot this government
therein. The President, thinking it may be
agreeable to you. to-dav nominated you as
Minister to St. Petersburg, and your nomina
tion, without reference to any committee,
was immediately and unanimously contirmed
by the American Senate. This action mani
fests an appreciation of your worth, and does
you ad honor of which any citizen may well
he proud.
[Signed]- Fuelinohcvsex, Sec’y.
OTHER CONFIRMATIONS.
Win. M. Bunn, of Philadelphia, to he
Governor of Idaho Territory, and Sumner
Howard, of Michigan, to be Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court of the Territory of
Arizona.
COMMISSIONING the alert.
A Distinguished Company Present at
the Ceremony.
London. .March 2G.— The putting of
the war sloop Alert, recently presented
by England to America to participate in
the Greely search expedition, in commis
sion yesterday was becomingly cele
brated. James Russell Lowell, the
United States Minister, hoisted the
American colors at the Alert’s peak.
Fifty guests lunched on hoard, among
w hom were the Earl of Northbrook, First
Lord of the Admiralty, and Lord Alces
ter, Admiral Seymour, one of the Junior
Lords of the Admiralty. Conspicuous
among the company were many famous
for Arctic explorations, as Vice Admiral
Sir Francis McClintoek, who accom
panied the' Sir John Franklin search
expedition of 1848 and 1850,
and commanded that of 1857; Sir Allen
Young, who served under Admiral Me.
Clintdck in the Fox expedition, and lias
made two expeditions since in the Pan
dora; Sir George Nares, who commanded
the Alert on her previous visit to the Arc
tic regions ten years ago, and Commander
Parr, who accompanied the same expe
dition. and Leigh Smith, who in the last
twelve years has made twelve voyages to
the frozen North. Lieut. Commander
Chadwick, naval attachee of the Ameri
can Legation, was present, as was also
Lieut. Commander Goodrich, who will
take the Alert to America.
Mr. Lowell proposed a toast to the
tpieen, to which the Earl of Northbrook
responded. He said that the Queen took
a deep interest in the expedition in which
the Alert was to share, and had felt great
pleasure in authorizing the offer of the
Alert to the American Government. A
toast was then proposed to the success of
the expedition, with which was coupled
the health of Lieut. Goodrich.
A Desperado Wounded Unto Death.
San Francisco, March 26.—A dis
patch from Tuson, Ariz., says that Kit
Cay, the last of the Doming train rob
bers, who broke jail at Silver City, N. M.,
has been captured by the Sheriff after a
hard fight. Kit was badiy wounded and
lies at the point of death.*
A New Cotton Mill for Fall River.
Boston . March 26.—A movement is on
foot, and it is understood that half ot the
proposed capital, $300,000, has already
been subscribed, to establsh anew cotton
mill in Fall River. The corporation will
be located in the Globe section of that
city, and will manufacture fancy fabrics.
Land Slides Impede Traffic.
Los Angelos, Cal., March 26.—Rail
road communication with the North is
again interrupted by heavy land slides on
the Southern Pacific Road. At Tehachapi
Mountain and Soledad Calon trains will
be delayed for a week.
Germany's New I'arty.
Berlin, March 26.—Deputies Haenei,
Rickert and Richter are making a tour of
Germany for the purpose of propagating
the principles of the new Liberal party.
They were received at Hamburg with
much enthusiasm.
Over a. Million In Gold liars.
New York, March 26.—The specie
shipments to-day aggregated $1,056,000 In
gold bars.
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