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Newspaper Page Textvol. xvm. COLUMBUS, * GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 3, 1876. NO. 106 WASHINGTON. Grant Revenges Himself on Custer. THE SENATE ON IMPEACHMENT. SCHENCK AND THE EMMA MINE. Mmwuti KILBOURNff MATTBN TABLED. The CmhtBet—ftpaal.k OMUII-UU (M the UK d ■Kh-WUHtr R.jiKK. Mm a »wemr—The HMfhMItMi” mrnrn Call, laaea -UalnUlm u< CK*naall«« —The Ul» Mi *■* Behemeh er Park TeM U—Cahlaet MM.Ha! ta UI aaloriflul Dacaha.M. «m. c«a»hr Haaera. bp Reman* af HI. TmUbmbj. Washington, Majr 2.—Tha World epe- eM diipatoh aaya Praaidant Grant has to day raUerad Gan. Gutter from hta com mand, aa H ia wall know Gan. Cotter gate important taatimony before tha inTaatiga- tion oommittae, ralatira to tha poat-tra. daiahip frauds, and subpoenaed by Mt Honaa mnnagara aa a witaaaa in tha impeachment trial. Whan tha nawa came to General Sherman and Sec ratary Taft, both want to tho Praaidant and protected that it would not do. By adrioe of Gan. Sherman and Secretary Taft, General Ooatar want to anil on tha Praaidant, bat wea nnable to gain audience. ■aaate aa InpMihnml. Tha Senate U disousing tha raaalntion of Hamlin to amend tha rules ao as to hare deliberation* of tho Saanto ia im peachment trials in pablio. t baheaek on Ministerial Daly. In foiaign relations Bohnnnk was aekad wh.ther he thought U. proper for an Ametioaa minister lo buy sad sail stocks. Tha oommittae insisted upon a direct an- ■war. Sehenok ao far hen oonflned tha answer to the aaaertion that ho did not consider what hs bad dona in tha Emma mines bnainem a wrong not. ■Ilrer for Local Tenders. The Committee on Banking and Gar. renoy will report favorably on tha bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to exchange ton million of lilrar change for tan miUion of legal tenders, thaaa is- gal tenders to bo again exohanged for fraational onrrenoy, whteh Mali be de stroyed. KlltenrM's Pnaailll.a Tha Hanaa motion that the Oommittae on tha Baal Estate Pool bo direoted to summon Hallatt Kilbonrnc and examine hii books, ns proposed in hie latter, crea ted grant excitement, and was tabled by a striot party rote. Cabinet nmd Gontomntml. Tha Praaidant and Cabinet go in a body to the Centennial, May 10th. Foil Cabinet masting to-day except Pierrepoat. Ipanlah Consol Tha Praaidant haa raoognixad Bararino La Barrera as Consol of Spain at Now Or leans. Portrait* of Post Mentors. Portraits of Postmaster Ganarala from Franklin to Jewell tool naira, hare bean forwarded to tha Centennial. intssl from Mexico. Tha latest ottoial adrioas from tha Bio Grande represent all qnisL Diaz haa mads no forward movement. It ia understood the Maxloan Government is sanding heavy forces from the interior to meat him within n week. The mails now doe at oat thirty, from tho North, will arrive at noon. Military Expedition Gen. Terry will oommend the expedi tion whioh it about leaving Fort Linooln instead of Gsn. Caster, who remains in command of tho poet at Fort Linooln. This arrangement will allow Caster to rs •sain hero to testify baton tho Impeach ment Committee. Kami nolle a. Witte Sykes, of Now York, Consol to Florence. - •ta. Maynolda on tko Domini. Gan. Beynolds talegrspeed Glymar that xpon returning from the Said hs aaw for Hie Amt time tho testimony given by Goa. McCook before his Committee, on Marsh 23d. . “It u absolutely falsa ao far aa it •efera to my being in any measure in col lusion with tha contractors, or having re- mired valuable presents from them." A Mafiosi Editor on the bland. Was. J. Martagh, of the Republican, testified ha had borrowed $12,000 from the Freedman's Bank, and paid it beak. He did mot know who was responsible for tha article charging Chairman Donglasa with wing money appropriated for his Committee,to toward hie ooaatitaeats,and a journalist. Donglasa made the state meat under oath, and concluding that either tha writer or hia informant was a Uar. ■eheaek nmd Park-Mow They Com ing it to tho company. ,He mad* sons* suggestions to Sohenok about it, bat did not dictate a single word of it. Lie Diet. Behenrk said that any statement of Pork that hia latter wee tho original draft, was false. CeaRrnaatleaa. Tlios. Walton, attorney of tho northern district of Mississippi; Alex. M. Hardy, oollaotor of oustoms in Natehea district! TUB CABINET—ORIGINAL TAPERS—WINSLOW. It has been decided in the Cabinet dot to deviate from tha rule whioh haa long existed, not to part, oven temporarily, with original papers in any of tho depart ments. The Winslow matter waa discussed, but the conclusion, if any, that was raaobod ia unknown, beyond that the notion of the British Government, as eonveyed by oable dispatches, must be taken aa aa emphatie reason for the abrogation of the treaty^ COUNSEL AUTHORIZED. The Judioiary Committee.of the Home authorized the Sergeant-at-Arma to em ploy eouoeel to aid him in prossouting nn appeal before the oourts ia the habeas corpus cases. TUB INSAKE WITH Bab. Ia the Committee on Foreign Affairs, bchenfk area shown hi* original letter of •migaatita ns a director ia the Bums Mia* Company; also a oopy of the sums in Park's handwriting, and asked him to explain. Bohaaek said the latter of neig nation was his own composition without Md from any one. He did not know bow p *rk earn to mnko n oopy, but waa sura It* did not oopy tho resignation from draft made by Park. Sehenok did ■si thUk hbssbt his letter of resignation i« Pa*. Park’s MS*. A curious stout which ouont to bi INQUIRED INTO. A ftw days since an exaggerated story about tbe Committee of Expenditures examining an insane person in the expec tation of making n case against Grant, was given to tbe publio by the associated press. The person was represented as an insane spiritualist, who represented to the committee that he had received a great injury from the President,but whoa* ■tory was so utterly ebeurd that he unceremoniously dismissed by the com mittee, who were severely ridiouled for entertaining the man's, complaint. It seems, howeyer, that the nutter is at tracting attention in Washington, and different versions of tbs affair are finding their way into print. A Washington ape oial of the 26th, to the Baltimore Gazette, says: Tbe faota in the ease are simply them: The friends of one Thomas Biggins, n grocer, living in the first ward of this city, osrae to the ohairman of tho com mittee and told him that about eighteen months since Mr. Biggins we* called upon late one evening by two men and requit ed to acoompany them to a lawyer's office in the city hall. As he bed n olaim in the hands of the lawyer he aoapeoted nothing, and got in a carriage whioh the men had in .waiting and waa driven away. That was tbe last his friends heard of him for several weeks, when they ware told on inquiry at tbe police headquarters, that Mr. Biggins was insane and had beeneent to the insane asylum. Tbe two men who called upon him at his resi dence were detectives, and they drove him to the polios headquarters, where his physicians were in waiting. They ex amined Mr. Biggins and pronounoed him insane, and on their eertifioat* he wee hurried off that night to an asylum. He remained there for several months, and was finally discharged. Hi* friends, both before and after his inearosration, notioed nothing wrong in his behavior, and not one of the many persons who dealt at bis stors ever observed anything like insanity about him. After bis release Mr. Biggim was very reticent in regard to his arrest, and to baton* er two of hii most intimate friends would he even apeak on tha sub ject. To these he said that he met tbs President on tbe avenue ou* day and told him that be had done him n greet wrong, but stoutly declared that he bed neither offered or threatened any violeno* to Gen. Grant. When asked whet wrong the President bad done him Mr. Biggins declined to state, but his friends any that befora hia arrest he wee engaged to be married to a young lady, and that shortly before he was abducted the metoh waa brokau off. Whatever may be the men tal oondition of this poor man, one thing iB oortsin—the minner in whieh he was hurried away to an insane asylum is sus picious, and his friends stoutly s&rra that he is not insane, but that he rather obooses to be so considered then to bring before tbs public the name of one whom be dearly loves and who has boon griav- oualy injured, A Washington speoial to tbs Beltimora Sun of the asm* date gives the following as the President’s version of the same story. The dispatoh says: Before the President went over to Bal timore this afternoon ho related to i member of Congress who eallod at tha Wbite House bis experience with the er. ratio witness who told sueh s dreadful atory ou him the other day. The Presi dent said a year or two ago ha notioed that in hie walks he was constantly fol lowed by the Mm* person, who appeared always to be on the watoh for him when be left the executive mansion. The mat- tor became so annoying that tha Pnsi- dent on one oooasion stopped, end, ad dressing the man, told him that if he per sisted in dogging his stops, be would band him over to the euatodjr of the po lice. This had the desired effect for e short time, although the man oontinned to prowl aronnd the Whit* Hons*. One day while walking with a friend this Mine men oauie end hissed in tbe President's ear, at tbe earns time grating hia teeth. The gentleman with the President insist ed that he owed it to himself to pat n stop to the matter. The chief of polios wm then made aoquainted with the oir- eumstnooea, and the reanlt was that tha man wm sent to the Insane Asylum. Af ter ha had been there some montba rep- rtMntations were made to tho President that if be could bo released hia friaads would send him to Ireland, Tha PrMident readily consented end the man was sent abroad. White abroad tbe party appeared to have recovered hi* balance of mind until he was nnhingad CONGRESS. HBNATE. Washington, May 2.—The Finance Committee reported tho Hons* bill for tho appointment of n raoeivar for national banks with amendments. Calendar. The bill appropriating $60,000 for tha Apostate Indiana wm passed. ConUiag, from tha Committee on Com merce, stated, regarding tbe steamboat bill whioh had passed the Hons*, that Mveral persona desired to bo hoard upon the bill, for whom the oommittae won waiting. A reaolatten instructing the Committee on Comment to onqnira whet legislation la neoeamry Ip regulate immigration, end to report by bill or otherwise, wont over. Bobottean introduced a bill for tho re lief of 8. P. Chisolm of Sonth Carolina. Mdnrimon submitted n substitute to prevent oflloera soliciting or making con tributions to aleotioas. Referred to com mittee for privilegM and eleotlons. Japansm Indemnity wm diaonMed to executive session. Adjourned. HOUR. Cox wm in the Cbair. • A joint resolution authorizing the Sec retary of tha Treasury to place a folly equipped life saving station in tho Cen tennial grounds passed. A resolution instructing tbe rMl estate pool oommittae, in the Kilbou.-ne oaee, wm tabled, by 130 to 83. Tarbox, of MaMaobnaetts, asked unani mous consent to offer n resolution re citing the feet tbst the Union Paoifio Railroad Company, in tbe year 1871 or 1872, became tbe owner of oertain Little Rook and Fort Smith Railroad bonds, for which the Union Paoifio Company paid a consideration largely in exoess of their aotuel value, end that tbe directors have neglected to investigate tbe trsnMction, allbough urged to do so; and therefore iaatrnoting the Judioiary Committee to inquire whether saoh transactions took place, end what were tbe cireumstaQce* and inducements, from whom each bonds were obtained, on whet consideration and whether the tranMction waa with corrupt design, or in furtherance of any oorrnpt object. Unanimous oonsant wss given end the resolution wm adopted. Lemoine vs. Farwell wm resumed. No notion. Peine, of Ohio, from the Committee on Banking and Ourrenoy, reported n bill authorizing tbe Seoretary of the Treasury, under each limits and regulations as will best secure a just end fair distribution of silver coin throughout tbe oountry, may iMue the silver ooin now in tbe Treasury to an amount not exceeding tea million dollars in exchange for legal tender notes, end providing that the notes so received end exchanged shall be reissued only on the retirement and destruction of a like sum of fractional currency received at the Treasury io payment of dues to the United States, and that such fraation al onrrenoy, when so substituted, shall be dMtroyed end bold as part of the sinking fond, m provided in the not of tbe 17th of April, 1876. Blonnt, of Georgia, objected to the consideration of the bill, and it must wait tha regular call of the Committee, nnleM objection is withdrawn. Adjourned. IMPERIAL EXPERIENCE. DOIC PEDRO DELATED —BUN OFF IN UTAH- TWO TRAMPS KILLED. Nnw Yoax, May 2.—A diapateh from Promontory Station, Utah, May let, says Don Pedro is detained there by n sin gular acoident. A freight train is off the track half a mils west of Bln* creek. A bull standing on the road overturned tbe engine and eleven ears, whioh were com pletely wreaked. Two tramps, who were riding free, were immediately killed^ end the fireman and n brakesman were severe ly wounded. The imperial party sndnrsd the delay with philosophical equanimity, and an making the beat of what accom modations this way-aide station afford. AU ere well. •MIS. COAL .Minis FIRED BT IHOBNDIABHS. Cleveland, May 2.—About 2 o'olook this morning forty masked assn appeared at the ooal mines north of MtHilloa, Ohio, seized and tied the watehaaa and set the ooal shafts on fire. Willow Bank mine, Mount Bank tin* and RbodM ft Co.'a mine ere now burning. The fire department of Massillon has gone to tbe scene. These mines were not being worked on account of the etrike, and no one wm in them. The inoendiartec wen undoubtedly strikers. HEW TORI. FOUR PERRONS DROWNED. Poet Jervis, N. Y., Msy 2.—While Orson Boyd, e well known wealthy citizen of Reed's creek, wm crouing the east bank of the Delaware river at Fisher’s Kddy yesterday morning in a wagon, with his wife and two ohildren, an aeoidant oauMd tbe vehiole to overturn. All of its occupants were praoipitated into the river and drowned. Mm the letter of reaignnUta before aend- igain by reeding the American papers containing the Congressional investiga tions, whieh were sent over to him by hie friends on this aid*. Then, M stated the other night, he concluded that he must com* home and toll hie wrongs. Until the statement mad* befora the oommittee by tbe man the President wm not swsro of Ms grievance against him. Tha man wm again sent to the InMne Asylum yes terday. It eeems to have been the look of Pnsident Grant to bo annoyed by to wn* peppjp. and many more of thorn hnvo boon hunting for him then for nay other President. NORTHERN HI. E. GENERAL CON ESSENCE. Baltimobb, May 2,—In tha Confer ence, Bishop Scott presidiog, a resolu tion offend thanks to the managers of tho Centennial for aloaing tho exhibition sad grounds on tbs Ssbbsth. C. O. Fisher, of Georgia, is on tbe committee of Centennial observance. Rraoiution that the Bishop shall pro- vide a oommittee of boundaries, and that it* division* shall be final. Adopted. Besolutions were adopted, asking Con gram to emend postal lews so that annu als published by benevolent corporations msy pern through tbs mails at tba same rates M other periodicals. The Conference wm next notified of the nominations for members of the Standing Oommittee. A motion wm submitted providing for the appointment of a Standing Oommit tee of twelve to be named the “Com mittee on Jndioiel Proceedings," and to consist of one from each General Confer ence, and nominated by the Conferences respectively, to which oommittee all ques tions of lsw and tbe reoord of Judicial Conferences shall b* referred. The proposition led to a lengthy dis cussion, in which a number of delegates took part. Bishop Simpaon Mid tb* bishops would bs gladly relieved of the present respon sibility of deoiding legal qaestions. A eabatitute to refer the record of ju dicial conference* to tbe Committee on Episcopacy wm lost, and a motion to ap point a jodioial oommittee adopted. ’ Adj earned to U o'clock to-morrow. ■eciKiarr Eire at Versailles, Ky. piNCiNNATi, May 2.—The fire at Ver sailles, Ky., Sunday, destroyed Harrison Johnston'a bonded warehouse end 1,500 barrels of whiskey, valued at $75,000. Insured for $33,000. The fire is attribut ed to inoendiaries, a* tha building wm of Iren end stone end *n explosion as of gunpowder occurred immediately before the flame* broke out. •ev. Reynaewr ns Hie Old Trleka Utioa, May 2. —Gov. Seymour pub- liahea * letter reiterating tb* aasurano* that he eonld not acoept tba nomination for PrMident even in tbe improbable event of hia nomination. PENNSYLVANIA. MEMBERS OF TH1 LEOISLATUTE EXPELLED. Haurisburo, May 2.—E. J. Petroff, member of the Legislators from Phila delphia, was expelled. He bad negotiated with the lobby to get 14 votes for the Boone bill for $7,500. Petroff did not receive the money, end asserts the object wm to see whether tha money wm spent, bat the House considered the negotiation improper. ANOTHER EXPELLED FOB BRIBERY—JOUR NAL OLEBE, IMPLICATED, RESIGNED. Habbisbueo, May 2.--The Honae ex pelled Lynatt, of Luzerne oounty, for re ceiving money on the boom bill. The Journal Clerk, Skinner, also impli cated, has resigned. CALIFORNIA. DEFALCATION—DISTILLERIES SEIZED—OBL- NESE QUARTER BURNED. San Francisco, May 2.—The defalca tion of Charles H. Berth, quartermaster's olerk, reach Mveral hundred thousand dollars. The rerenqe agent Mixed Bay Viaw, Oriental and Cashing ft Landerback’a dis tilleries, Lunin's rectifying establish ment, and Kane ft Olmay's and S. Lyman ft Co.’s wholesale liquor houses, for alleged violations of the revsnne lews. The Chinese quarters in tb* town of Antioch are horned. No personal violence occurred. THIS PREACHER*. THANES TO CENTENNIAL COMMISSIONERS. Philadelphia, May 2.—The Psesbyte riau Ministerial Association and Metho dist Episcopalian Ministerial Meeting, passed resolutions thanking the Centen nial Commissioners for their notion rel*. tive to Sunday. HEW ORLEAHH. DEMOCRATS CARRY THE OITI. New Orleans, May 2.—The Democrats elected the Mayor and five of the seven Councilman. It wm a hot oonteet. It is the first Democratic aneoeH sino* 1863, THAT TELEURAPH1C PERCHARE. STATUS OF THE SOUTHERN AND ATLANTIC. Special to the Eaqulrer-Sun ] New Yobk, May 2, 1876. To all Managera of the Southern and Atlantic Telegraph Company: Pay no attention to the stook jobbing reports circulated, to tbe effeot that we have sold out. It is not ao. Some large amounts of our stock has reoently changed hands, whioh caused the report. We con tinue the Mme independent businoaa. C. W. Blossom, President. 4'onfcresAinien Cane* an Editor. Wilmington, N. C., May 2.—Hon. A. M. Waddell, Congressman from this dis trict, who has beon severely attaoked in the columns of the Wilmington Pont, caned the editor of that paper yesterday evening. Excitemeut ensued, but at present all is quiet. FOREIGN NEWS. APRIOA. MXASUBBS TO MEET DAHOMEY 8 MENACE. London, May 2.—This morning's pa per* published the following: The King of Dahomey's reported invitation tq Com modore Hewitt to oome to Abaraey end re- oeive payment of flna import41 upon him for maltreating British aubjeots in powder and ballets appears to here been accept ed. Orders have been given for the *a- ■erablying of a fleet at Whydah to take aotive proceedings, if the amount of fine be not forthcoming. An opportunity however will be given the King to ohange hia present attitude, and boalilitiM will be postponed until Jane or later. CERA. Havahnah, May 2.—The steamer from Cadiz brought a thousand oavslry to-day. EMULAHD. WINSLOW AND THE REST TO BE RELEASED. London, May 1.—The British Govern ment has informed the Amerioau legation that it will release Winslow to-morrow, and that the two other prisoners, Gray, of New York, and Brent, of Lotrisville, whoM extradition is also claimed, will be releaMd when their ttrms have expired. Although this notification has been given the Government, it has not formally re plied to Amerioe’a argument, owing to tbe abMnoe of Lord Derby, oaused by the recent death of hia mother. HOUSE OF COMMONS. In the Commons, Mr. Brooks, member for Dnblin, gave notice that he proposed to question Mr. Disraeli, on the 12th, whether ha intends to advise the Queen to extend meroy to persona imprisoned for a breach of allegianoe to her majesty. Tarklsli War. Baouba, May 2.—. Solsvonio advices olaim Muhktar Psshau wss defeated after tb* relief of Nicsic, and retreated to Noaedoro, where he is now surrounded, Cesst Andrassy. Berlin, May 2.—Count Andrassy's visit here it generally regarded as an in dication that peeoeful counsels will pro vail. RPAIN. Madrid, May 2.—The ministry intend making tbe approval of the budget a Cabinet quMtion. Conferences between tbe President of the Counoil end delegates from the Basque provinces ooavened yesterday. THE CEHTEHHIAI-. OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. Washington, Msy 2.—The Fhiisilel phis Centennial Board af-Finanoes has issued the following : ‘International Exhibition, Philadel phia, Pa., May 2.—The opening cnrouio- nies of the Exhibition will take piece nn the 10th of May. The publio will be ad mitted to the grounds at 9* a. m.. and nt 12 M. the oeremoniM will take plnfe, af ter .whioh the buildings will be thrown open. ‘A fifty oent not* or e silver half dollar gains admittance to the grounds, and no further fee ia required at the buildings. “After the 10th of May, tho grounds will be open at 9 a. m. (Signed) “John Wal’h, ‘•President.” THE OF Military Protection to Hlaek Hills. Omaha, May 2.—Governor Thayer, of Wyoming, ia her* to confer with General Crook relative to military protection to bs afforded to the Blaok Hills stage line He wants some of the stations on the route thoroughly protected, especially Bed Canon and Hot Creek. The former is very deep, and travel has to psss through it. Tbe Indians crawl up its sidey and shoot down or throw rocks upon travelers. The General has promised all protection possible. Aa order is issued to that effeot. A traveler from the West to-day esy* it is oorrentiy reported about Cheyenne, that H. E. Brown was not shot by Indians, but by some persons hs bad put out of the train, and who revenged themselves by ambushing and ■hooting at the train, whioh resulted in the killing of Brown. Miaknp* sf s Steamer. Naw York, Msy 2.—The steamer Bal tic which reached her* yesterday from Liverpool lost one of her Beamen over board, resoued the erew of a sinking berk, and afterward lost one of the vessel's erew overboard. Arms Whipped. New York, May 2.— Large quantities of arms are being shipped hence to Mexico end Havens. Revere Fire—Inins M-I.ooo. Louisville, Ky , Msy 2. —The Hearing Machinery Manufacturing Works, occu pied partly by J. Bteele ft Oo., sre burned. Loss $85,OCO. Trailing Races at WnshluRtou. Washington, May 2.—Driving Park I In the first race, best three in five, for three-minute horses—Ososr wen, Boston Pilot second, Sunbeam third; time: 2:40J, 2:39, 2:89. Sejond race, second-class— Effle Dean* won, Gen. Howard seoond, Msttie Lyle third; time: 2:8S±, 2:90), 2:34). Weather. Wabbinoton, May 2—For the South Atlantia and East Gulf State*, rising ba rometer, northeast to northwest winds, Plr* lit Ohio. and slightly warmer, clearing or pertly Bbyah, Ohio, Msy 2.—Six business I cloudy weather will prevail, except a bouse* are burned ou the south side of the I lower temperature ia tbe southern por-1 000. The original outlay ou the mansion publio square. I tioa*. I wss over one million dollars. Root to the Asylum. New Yonx, Msy 1.—-Komaiue Dillon, who shot and killed without motivo, Juo. B. Dilburt st tbe Westminster Hotel has been committed to the insane asytaiu Acquitted. Naw Orleans, Msy 1.—C. C. Wills, John McWhirter and —— Bruce have been acquitted of whiskey frauds. Rood to Yosemlto Valley San Francisco, May 1.—The road io Yoaemito Valley by tbe Mariposa ronte, is open for vehicles. Tho first through stage coach from Usrcsd leaves this morning. Mb. Charlie D. Matthews, of New York, has bougkt tbs LeGrand Lockwood I property in Norwalk, Conn., for $100,- FEDERAL PRIRONERR WAR IN THE SOUTH. The Southern Historical Sooiety, true to its mission of vindicating the South end perpetuating tbe true history of tbe “Lost Cause,” has devoted its entire Mireh number to a diseussion of tbe treatment of prisoners during the wsr between the States. For this discussion Mr. Blaine is responsible. At a time when the psopie of the Union were man ifesting a desire to heal the dissensions and bnry the past, be, for politieal pur poses, saw fit to tear open old wounds and to exoite the wont passions of men. It has been the task of the Sooiety to ex pose the misrepresentations of Mr. Blaine end his followers of the “bloody shirt sohool,” and to give a plain statement of feet* aa they existed, leaving it to poster ity to place the responsibility where it belongs. The position S’eamed by tb* Sonth in this matter can be briefly stated. It is not denied that the prisoners, both Fed eral snd Confederate, suffered during the war, as prisoners in every ago and in every war have suffered and will suffer. Neither is it denied that the aiuonut of suffering snd disease at Andersonville was great. But it ia denied that the South wilfully and maliciously maltreated pris oners. And it is furthermore maintained, as an historical faot, that tbe Confederate authorities alwaya ordered the kind treat ment of priaoners, and that any individ ual eases of oruelty were in direct viola tion of orders; that prisonera were provided with rations the same, iu quan tity and quality, as were furnished to the Boldiers of the Confederate army; that prison hospitals were plaoed on the seme footing as Confederate army hospi tals; that the prisons were established with reference to healthfulueas of loeality; and that tbe great mortality among the captives arose from ohronio diseases and epidemics, and from the inability of the Confederate Government to preoure suit able food end medioines for them. It ie also maintained that the Confederate Government, reoognizing the inevitable reault of a want of suitable means of ameliorating the oondition of the prison ers, strove earnestly and repeatedly to exohange them for eaptive Confederates; then to oLtain from the Federal Govern ment medioines for the exoiusive use of Union prisoners, to be paid for at any price by tbe Confederacy; and, lastly, to release the prisoners without equivalent, if the Uuited States would only coins and take them away; and that all these offers were rejected, or accepted only after it was too late. Countercharges are also Drought that the Confederate prisoners suffered greatly; that many of them were subjected to brutal treatment, and that, by Federal reports, the percentage of loss wss greater among Confederate prisoners than among thefr eaptive enemies. These propositions are abnndantly proved by tbe papere of the Historical Society, consisting of lettera from leading Coufederate officials, contemporary offi cial records, the testimony of Federal prisoners and of Federal officials fully conversant with the facts. Mr. Davis, iu a letter, triumphantly re lieves himself from, the reaponsibilty wbieb Blaine, in a malignant and iude- oently vituperative harangue, endeavored to fix upon him, by showing that, after all other means had failed, lieu. Lee, by bis instruction, endeavored to obtain a personal interview with Gen. Graut, and to urge, in the name of humanity, the observance of the caitel of exchange. This waa refused. Then a delegation of the prisoners themselves were sent to plead with President Lincoln, and upon these men Mr. Davis calls for vindication. Mr. Davis sums up his whole defense in the feet that not even in the heated limes im mediately after tbe surrender did the Government feel itself warranted in bringing bim to trial on the oharge whioh Mr. Blaine now renews. The testimony of Gen. Lee before tho lleconstruotion Committee attests bis un ceasing endeavors to proonre an exohange; and a lotter from bim shows,what is other wise fully established, that the authorities plaoed Coufederate soldiers and Federal priHonera on the same footing, and that an offer was made to give awav fifteen thousand sick prisoners. Tbe Hon. A. H. Stephens also charges the responsibili ty upon tbe Federal Government. The most satisfactory paper in the col lection ia a letter from Judge Onld, Con federate Comuiiesiouer of Exabsuge, con taining facts simply. A cartel wsb arrang ed in 1862. Iu 18611 it waa discontinued ou acconnt of a disagreement between the authorities. Oo August 10, 1864, the Confederates acceded to tbe Federal de mauds, aud gave a statement of the mor tality at Andersonvitle. No reply being received, a second letter wss written ou the 22d August. On the 31st,Maj Mulford, U. 8. A , replied that he had reoeived no communication from hisgovernmeut, and he had no discretion in the matter. In the summer sn offer was made by tbe Confed erate authorities to release tbe sick. It wss not accepted nntil December, and iu the meantime the greatest mortality oc- cured. Offers to havo surgeons on either side to attend prisoners, aud for the Fed eral authorities to send medicines to their own sick, were coutemptously disregard ed. Judge Onld says that being sup- pmuaed for the defense iu the Wirz case, he was dismissed, noealled snd unheard, by Gen. Chipman, tbe Judge-Advocate prosecuting. A queer proceeding cer tainly. The lettor book of the Confederate Ex change Commission substantiates Judge Oald's testimony. Tho acts of the Cun- federate Congress, the report of tho Con federate Congressional Investigating Com mittee, the testimony of Charles A. Dana, Assistant Secretary of War under Lincoln; the ov:dence of Federal prisoners, the re port of Dr. Jones, Confederate Burgeon ; and other letters, all combine to coutro vert the charges made ugaiust tho Con federacy. Aud although tho time may not yet have arrived for a public acknowl- OHOINA8CE IK RELATION TO TBE ISSUE AND EXCNANON IF BONDS. Bo it ordained by the City Council of the city of Columbus, that tbe Mayor find Finance Committee be, and sre, hereby authorized to prepare bonds as follows, to-wit: 200 bonds of $1,000 denomination, 200 bonds of $500 snd 100 bonds $100 each, for the prompt payment of the inter est and prinotpal of which, at maturity, the faith of the oity is hereby irrevoreabiy pledged; said bonds, when issued, to bo signed by the Mayor, Treasurer end Clark of Council, to bear interest at the |et* of 7 por cent, per annum, and be made paya ble 20 years hence at Bank of , New York, with semi-annual coupons attached, payable 1st of April end 1st of October each year, and to be used exclusively for the redemption of any and all bonds of tbe city falling due after, tb* adoption of this ordinance, and before December 31, 1885. Be it farther ordained, that after arid bonds are printed, they be deposited in tho vaults of some bank in this oity, and whenever any bunds of the oity, as nbovs mentioned, fall due, the Mayor and Fi- nauea Committee shall oanseto be signed, sa required nbove, a similar amount of said new bonds for redemption of snob due bonds, and the said new bond* shall be registered by the Clerk of Council in the bond book of the oity, together with a record of the names of the parties to whom they are de livered, and a description of tbe bonds for which they are exchanged—any past dna ooupons to be detaohed from the new bonds before exohange. Adopted in Counoil May let, 1876. 8. B. CLEGHOBN, Jfajror. Attest: M. M. Mooyx, Olerk of Oounoil. my3-lw MARKETS. HT TEI.EURAPU TO KAMtVIKRB. Money and Etoek Market*. London, Mm? 1—Noon.—Erie 13}$. Woather uuuflually cold. Paris, May 2.—Five por cent. rentes lOftf. and 6c. lor the account. Neiv Yobk, May 2.—Evening.—Money quiet, offerod at 8 per cent Sterling firm, 4t8’i. Gold flrui, at U2%0112%. Governments aull »nd steady—new 6'bU7j^. State bond* quiet #nd nominal. Cotton Market*. Liverpool. May 2—Noon.—Cotton quiet an<l unchanged ; middling uplands 6 3~10d; middling Orleans 6) ^d; sales lo,g#o—$ peculation clauHo, May and June delivery, 0J400 8 June and July, <i3*10d; July and August, 0 0-32d. 1 i* m—Middling Ur leans, nothing below lew mid tiling, shipped in April per sail, 0 ll-32d. Lai vie a pool, May 2—8:00 p. M.—Of tales to day 0,400 were American. 6:3i p. m,—Yarns and fabrics steady. Futuie* firm : Sales of middling uplands, low middlings clause, May and Juno delivery, 0Ud; Jun* and July 0 f-32d; July nnd August, n 7-32d. Nkw York, May 2-Evening—Cotton quiet; sales 0 o bales; uplands 12%e, Orleans 12 1810c. Nhw York, May 2.—iutures opened firm, as follows: May 1^*012^; June 12 20-32012 16 10; J uly 13^013 6-32; August 13 0-32018 610; {September 13* .,013 6-10. .Savannah, May 2.—Ootton steady; mid dlings 12c; net recetpte 40.f; sale* 8<u». Nkw Orlians. May 2.—Ootton In moderate demand; middlings 12c, low middlings 11c, good ordinary 9%c; net receipt* 49S; expurtf to Great Hritsin 0428, to Franoe 3016; sales —. Mohilk, May 2—Cotton Irregular; mid dlings ll%c; net receipts 383; sales 6Ud. Bohton, May 2.—(Jotton dull and heavy; middlings !2%c; net receipts 182. (Jiiaklknton, May 2.— Cotton quiet; mid dlings 12}£u; not receipts 3(16; sales 160. Provlalon Market*. Livkupooi., May 2—1:00 v. X. — Bteedstuffs steady. fiw Y ouk, May 2.—Flour active, prices gen erally without decided change—superfine 1% es- torn aud State |4 1004 60; Southern slightly in buyer's favor—common to fair extra d& oo® 6 76, good to choice extra ♦& 8009 oo. Wheat ubout lc lower; moderate export and home tradu busiiiesH. Corn 2c lower but more aotive — 01002lor ungraded new Wusterm mixed; 00Uo for new white Southern- Oats a shad* eader—30i^040c for mixed Western and State; 405g54e lor white Western and State. Celfee— Mu linn—cargoes 16^@l8'/^o, gold; job lots 16^ 0 19, 1 4 c gold Sugar steady and In talr demand —7 9-1008 M0 lor f kir to good; retlned steady, vy.o lor standard, 8*^010^0 for granulated, lo%c ci ushed and powdorud. Mulaees, foreign rettnlng 40. Klee quiet and unohanged. New nio-s pork lower, $21 6o. Lard—prime steam #12 70 Whiskey withoukdeclded Change, #1 11, Lou ip ville, May 2—Flour steady—extra #4 26; extra family #4 2604 76. Wheat quiet and In (air demand—#* 160130. Corn nrm and active, 47048c. Oats strong, 38042c. Rye dull sides #11 40(«ill 60o Bacon—shoulders 9c, clear rlli sides 12012*^c, dear shies 12^0121$c. Hams, stigar-curoil 14016c. Lurd—tierce 14 keg 15c. Whiskey in fuir demand and Arm, #107. Bagging quiet, 12013. Baltimoick, May 2—Oats steady and active —goo I to prime {southern 40 u;48c. Bye dull 830*7c. Provisions dull ami stoady. Mess pork #23. Bulk meats—shoulders bj%e, clear rli* shies ll%e. Bacon—shoulders9%to10c.clear rib sides 13013>4c. Hams 16'^lflc. Lard quiet and wuak—relinod 144@14%o. Coffee quiet— j ih lots 100194c. Whiskey dull, at #1 12. Bugaa active and unchanged. Oats steady, 3804$o. Bye Steady, 73076c. Bar ley dull. No. 2 i*8cfa #1 02. Pork dull and lower, with small Miles. Lard active but lower— steam 12^0140, closing at inside figures bid; kettle lb ft *c. Bulk meaiH unsettled and lower —sbouldeis 7J*c, clear rib shies l(%e, dear UVf,@liJ4C. Bacon dull—shoulders 9c, clour rib Mile* 12c, clear sides 124c. Hogs in fair demand, but low—lair to good #7 1007 30; receipts aoo, Milpmunts 1,000. Whiskey In good odgetuent of tbe falsity of tho charge the adherents of the “Lo«fc Canse” are willing to leave their cate iu the hand* of posterity. Ah to the counter-charge of cruelty ou the Federal aide, we will, impelled by charity, forbear to preaa it. Let bygouen be bygonoa, aud let tbe live hundred Con federate prisonera, out of a batch of thir ty-five hundred, who died during the few days’ traneft from Northern prisou^ to Savauuah be remembered as martyrs to the cauHe they died for, and not ah mar tyrs to Federal oruelty and vii.dictivencbB. —Charleston Mica. A remarkable instance of the extent to whieh ice will transmit a vibratory shock ia related by Mr. James Lament, the arc- tio explorer, yachtHinan and aportsman, in his notes of travel. “I am perfectly sure,” he says, “the vibration* of a boat striking against the ice edge are con voyed a distance of two or more roilea. Directly the boat oatne io contact with the ice, every seal for miles raise* hie head aud in ou the alert.” IcmauU at lull prices* St. Louis, May 2.—Flour dull an.llower to sell, with very little doing—superfine fall #3 2. @375; ext ratio #4 2504 63. Wheat Jlrm-No. 2 red full #1 38*4. No. 3 fall #1 26 bid XJoin dull and lower—No 2 mixed 44@44 , qc Outs eusler —No 2 33 v 4o. K>e inactive out unchanged, 08c. Barley dull and lower to cell, cuolce* Minnesota #1 13. Whiskey nomitiRlIv un changed. #1 08 Pork dull, *21 60. Bulk meats nominally uiichiiuuod, nothing do'nu—. lear rib tidfri #11 25, clear Hides #11 4'; closed Armor nnd held higher—shout ’ora 7k@8o,cluar rib sides IP ,01 like, clear sides 11^01 lj^c. Bacon «|ui.st—shoulders 9c. clear ilb sides 12’412*.c, clear Hi iea 12%@l2%c. Lard dull and wc-.k Hogs lower—light shipping aad bacon #7 uu07 30. rattle quiet and un hanged —good to choke #4 75@5 12’4. Host a, Ac. New Youk. May 2.—Spirits turpentine steady—36030J^c. Rosin steady—|l 7601 80 lor N itvv York. May 2.—Freights tlrm-eotlou per sail, 7-32; per steam, Kill I* NEWS. — a New York, May 3.—Arrived: Uity of Ches ter. Arrlvod out: Cos Ilia, Nelson, Southern Rights, Adopt, Tliulb, Lydia, Lord BuKlng, Vasto, Protector. St. Nssalr, lieleu, Welling ton, Eliza, Sampson.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Columbus daily enquirer. (Columbus, Ga.) 1874-1877, May 03, 1876, Image 1