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(Holtimlw VOL. XIX. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 9, 1877. NO. 110 THE BELLIGERENTS. Turk* Still Hop* for Atslitanoe. 8UII Ex^tM Buila will ke op- pmil bp Ei,lu« a»4 Auatrla— ■.MbiNlax Kalb la iilx ■■* TURKISH REPORTS FROM ABU. Huhkton Fuchs telegraphs from near Kara his ability to oheok the Banian ad- Tanoe. The Turks abandonad Osorgeti on the Georgian frontier near Batoum. The plaoe is however dafended by seven Tarkish men-of-war whieh are cannonad ing the advancing Bastions. AUSTRIA'S HOTI ABOUT SHI DANUBE. Austria has notified Boasts and the Porte that tbs interruption of free naviga tion of the Dannbe oan only be tempore ry. Navigation most after the war be restored to its foil force in aooordanoe with the treaty of Paris. debbv's non. Bibun, Hay 8.—The Gazette believes Itusaia will not reply to Deiby’s note, be. canse the only possible reply wonld be a declaration of war. FBBNOH VIEW or THB SITUATION. Pabis, Hay 8.—The Moniteur, the or gan of the Frenoh office, says it is oertain- ly a most serious inoident, The Courier l)e France declares it is impossible to imagine a more alarming deplomatio declaration. We oan’t shat oar eyes to the fact. It is a perilous indication of the coolness between Eng land and Bnsaia and Germany. BOKBABDHBNT ON THB DANUBE. Tarkish shells were falling aropnd tho railroad depot at Ibrail when the Grand Duke Nicholas arrived there. The Bnssians have commenced bom. hauling Widin from Kalafat on the oppo site side of the Dannbe. BOUHANUN DECLARATIONS. Bucharest, Hay 8.—Prinoe Charles, of Bonmania, acknowledging the address presented to him by the Senate in reply to a speeoh from, the throne, reoonnted the acts of hostility committed by the Tnrks against Boumanian ports, open towns on the Dannbe, on their peaceable inhabitants and Bonmanian vessels, and said: In oonaeqnenoe of the aggressive attitude of Turkey the Bonmanian Gov- eminent will display, not only the fore sight, bat also the energy wbioh both Chambers of the Legislature have pre scribed. I foresee, however, with sorrow, be oonclnded, that moderation will be of no avail, and that we mast meet force by force, as it is onr doty to defend our country. POLI'H VOLUNTEERS. Constantinople, Hay 8.—A oorps of Polish volunteers is being formed here. TUBEEZ STILL HAS HOPES OF ASSISTANCE. Special lo Enquirer-Sun.] Constantinople, Hay 8—Recent intel ligence from England, especially Lord Derby’s reply to Prinoe Gortsohakoff has revived oonfidenoe. It is believed Tur key may still look to England for snpport. It is said Austria seems determined to op. pose the entry of the Bnssians into Ser- via. The Turks are bombarding Kaltat from Widen, and the Bonmanian bat teries are returning fire. The Frenoh Government will merely acknowledge tho receipt of Prinoe Gortschakoff’s circnlar, ENGLAND. BUSINESS. London, Hay 8.—Business on the Stock Exobange is quiet, bnt there is much more confidence than yesterday in consequence of Hr. Cross’ statement in the House of Commons last night of the Government’s polioy. International stooks are quoted considerably higher. musing ship—susau won’t beplt to debbt’s note—the oovebnmeot be ab- SUBES THE PEOPLE—NO FIGHT IF BUSSIA WILL BAY SHI WILL NOT SEIZE CONST AN TINOPLE — 85,000 MEN BEADY OBEAT BBITAIN TO DEFEND EGYPT. THE MISSING SHIP. London, Hay 8.—The ship seen by the Wisconsin was bark Rigged. The missing steamer City of Brussels is ship' rigged. BUSSU WILL NOT BEPLT TO DEBBy’s NOTE. It is oonfirmed that Bnsaia does not in' tend to reply to England’s note. THE GOVEBNMENT CONCESSION AND POLIOY. In their modified form Mr. Gladstone’s resolutions declare in effect that Turkey has no claim to the moral or material snpport of Great Britain. This proposi - tion may receive the full Liberal vote, as well as the support of suoh Conservatives as are desirous to keep Lordjs Beaoonsfield from plunging the nation into war. The debate has already constrained the Government to deolare that it will harbor no apprehensions, ahonld the Czar deolare that he does not intend to seize Constantinople. This concession to the anti-war party assures further snocess. THIBTY-FIVE THOUSAND MEN BEADY. Livebpool, Hay 8.—The Poet says her Majesty’s war Bhip Aobilles, lying in the Mersy, reoeived instructions yesterlay to proceed to Plymouth on Friday. We are informed tljat the Government has al ready 85,000 troops and 11,000 horses ready to embark at any moment. GBEAT BBITAIN WILL DEFEND EGYPT. London, Hay 8.—The British Govern ment asked the Porte to extend a few days time for oloeingthe Black Sea,whieh was granted. England will defend Egypt from inter ference or attack. THE BXPECTIVB VOTE IN PABLI AMENT. Pabis, Hay 8.—The Parliamentary wbipa on both sides era very active, and have sent argent summons to members to be in their seats to-night in readiness for the decision on Mr. Gladstone's reso lution. QUESTIONS BEOABDINO EGYPT. Special to Enquirer-Sun.] London, Hay 8.—Hr. Snllivan gave notice he wonld on Uonday ask the Gov ernment its intentions regarding Egypt. Ur. Sullivan said the points he wished to have explained were: First, Whether it is necessarily the meaning or intention of the Government to enable Egypt to participate aa a bellig erent in the war by supplying Turkey with troops without incurring the risk of retaliatory hostilities ? Second, Whether the House is to un derstand from the language used that the Government were resolved, if Bnsaia should retaliate on Egypt by attacking Alexandria, upon the employment of British arms against Russia ? Third and last, Whether the inclination to Turkey and Egypt is that their chief ports wonld be more or less protected against hostilities, is not substantially a departure from strict neutrality ? debbt's beply in the lobds. Special to Enquirer-Sun.] London, Hay 8.—In the House of Lords this evening the Duke of Bntland criti cised the strong language of Earl Derby's reply to Prinoe Gortsohakoff. He said the reply was liable to be misinterpreted as a departure from atriot neutrality, and asked whether it was submitted to be ap proved by the other powers before it was sent. Derby replied the suggestion that reply should have been submitted to other pow ers was unprecedented. He did not donbt the sincerity of the Czar’s declaration to Lord Lottos, bnt he conld not forget that Russian armies were at the same time preparing for war, and that a declaration of u different kind bad been made at Uos- cow. He denied that the reply waB in consistent with neutrality. We are not bound, he said, to abstain from express ing an opinion wbioh we were invited to give on the merits of a quarrel. He dep- reoated the the ministers being nightly called upon to express opinions upon del icate questions. THE POPE. BEPLIES OF FBANOE AND AUSTRIA. London, Hay 8.—The Timet’ special from Rome says the Frenoh and Austrian governments, to whioh the Pope had more particularly turned for protection, have confidentially informed the Vatioan that it is abosolutely impossible for them to open negotiatiens in his favor based upon the question of temporal power. The Holy See replied that while re nouncing its proper rights the assistance invoked was striotly in behalf of the in fluences of its spiritual authority. THU M DON IAN. MORE OF THE EXPLODED 8TEAMEB. New York, May 8.—The Burgeon of the steamer Russia reports that the cook of the Sidonian, who was brought here by the Russia, told him (the Surgeon) that the steamship suddenly stopped, and after a short pause started again. She then stopped a second time, and Oapt. Edwards went below to see what the matter was The explosion took place almost immedi ately afterward. Hutabinson was struck on the head by the iron oape of the galley funnel joining the main funnel, and his soalp was laid open. The fatally wounded men were not nnable apeak afterward, as has been reported, but retained oounsoiousness till their deaths. The aoeident resulted from the explosion of the port boiler. Previously there was some trouble with the eccen trics of the engine, but the surgeon was unable to explain its oharaoters. All the deaths occurred before the Sideonian fell in with the China according to the state ment of Hutchinson, whioh is also at va riance in Ibis particular with the imper- feot accounts previously reoeived. The first who died was Henry Tuggett, a fire man ; seoond was Oapt. Edwards. The dead men were buried in three install ments. WASHINGTON. EX-COV. J. E. BROWN. HAYES HOPES TO WIN THE SPEAKEBSHIP BY POSTPONEMENT—BUTLER'S NEPHEW IB HABSHLY BEHOVED—VARIOUS MATTIES— MEXICAN-CATTLE THIEVES TO BE PUN ISHED—SOME APPOINTMENTS—BENO’S SEN TENCE MITIGATED. THE INDEAVOB TO OAPTUBI OONOBESS. Washington, May 8.—There is a pres sure to reconsider the time fixed for Con gress. Applicants for offioa are muoh dis appointed, aa the polioy of postponement is to be applied to them the same aa to Congress. The best theory is that the Administration is ambitious of organ! zing the House in the interest of the Hayes wing of the Republican party. This being found impossible aa early as the 4th of June, the grand issue was post poned to the middle of Ootober, and that in the meantime every appointment will be with a view to that result. The slate has beenjmodified in the interest of this sobeme, and parties who ten days ago thought they were secure, find the doors of the White House opened tardily when they approa'-h. AUTOMATIC BUOY. Washington, Hay 8.—The Light House Board gives notioe that an automatic sig nal buoy, giving blasts of a whistle at short intervals, has been plaoed for trial off Cape Lookout, North Carolina. The buoy is located in eleven fathoms of water. NOT BEFOBE TIME GIVEN. High quarters say Congress will cer tainly not convene bofore the middle of Ootober unless someting occurs. APPOINTMENT. F. A. Clark was appointed engineer of the Hot Springs, Ark. reservation. PENSIONS. The Pension Agent’s consolidated are required to dose aooouuts by the end of the ourrent quarter. col. butleb’s harsh removal from his mail agenoy to the Black Hills is considered more incon siderate than his appointment. POSTAL. The postal convention between the United States and Italy was signed to day. STEAMEB GETTYSBUBG, at Constantinople, will remain there un til relieved by the Vandalia, when she will resume the surveying servioe. FULL CABINET, nothing has transpired. A secretary is quoted that they bad nothing before them requiring action. BIO GBANDE TB0UBLE8. Special to Enquirer-Sun. J Washington, May 8.— The Cabinet considered the Rio Grande border troubles to-day. It was resolved that cattle stealing and other depredations from the Mexican shore must cease, otherwise Gen. Ord will oross the border and oapture the marauders. BEALE BETUBNS. Gen. Beale, Minister to Austria, has left for home on leave of absence. BENO'S SENTENCE. Tho sentence of Major Reno has been mitigated to suspension from rank and pay for two years. HE IS SHOWN IN SEVERE TRUE OOLORS. BUT HI* UN JUSTIFIABLE ASSAULT OR SENATOR GORDON. Some Foots, Senas Quotations aad Same Expressions—A Historian 1 Review—Glstnelns at the Records of tho two Gentlemen. M. E. Uhnrch south Visitation. Nashville, May 8.—The Methodist Episcopal visitation for the preseat year includes — Bishop Marvin, Western Missouri, Southwestern Missouri and the Indian Conference; Bishop Kenner, West ern Virginia, North Alabama, Memphis, North Mississippi, and Alabama; Bishop Pieroe, North Georgia, South Georgia and Florida; Bishop Doggett, Tennessee, Vir ginia, North Carolinaand South Carolina; Bishop Paine’s assignment, inotndes Lon. isiana; Bishop Wightman — all Texas conferences. The New Turk PoatotHee Fall New Yobk, May 8.—The grand jury of the United States Circnit Court to-day made a presentment relative to the acci dent at the postoffloe building on May 1st, involving a loss of three lives. They charge negligence and want of ability and experience on the part of the super- vising inspector and assistant, but hold no one individual responsible. New Jersey Court Can’t be Held Tbenton, May 8.—Judge Nixon an nounced that the failure to oall an extra session of Congress wonld cause the omis sion of the June term of the United States Circnit Coart, as it oonld not be held at tbs expense of its offloers. The Hew York Delegate. Special lo Hu Enquirer-Sun.] New Yoke, Mey 8.— H. B. Fielding wee appointed e delegate by the Cotton Ex change to-day, to the National Cotton Convention et Liverpool on the 11th of July. Federal Revenue Officers Murder a Cltlnen or Kentucky. Special la Enquirer-Sun.] Louisville, May 8.—A Glasgow spe cial says: Four United States Marshals, having information that Tom and Ike Reynolds were distilling illicit whiskey, sought to arrest them. In resisting both the Reynolds were shot, Tom in the abdo. men and Ike in the neok. The former was mortally wonnded. The Bhoot ing took place in Reynolds' oabin. The revenue offloers first refused to be arrested, but subsequent ly surrendered. Several hundred oivil lens have volunteered to assist tha sheriff in taking them, if neoossary. They re futed to give np their arms for a while, bnt at laat surrendered them in open oourt, when the Judge had oleared the room of the shooters. The action of the Federal authorities is looked forward to with interest. Texas-Pacific Railroad- Special to Enquirer-Sun-.] GalVeston, Texas, May 8.—At the an nual meeting of the stockholders of the Texas Central Railroad held at Houston yesterday, the following directors were eleoted : Clias. Morgan, New York; C. A. Whitney, New Orleans; A. O. Hutch inson, New Orleans; George Jordan, formerly Superintendent Memphis and Charleston Railroad ; E. W. Cave, Hous ton ; A. S. Richardson, Houston; A. Groesbeek, Houston ; John J. Cisco, New York ; Ohas. Fowler, Galveston. The following officers were eleoted : President, 0. A. Whitney ; Vioe Presi dent, George Jordan ; Secretary, A. S. Richardson ; Treasurer, E. W. Cave. Gen. Hancock at Fortreaa Monroe. Fobtbebs Monboe, May 8.—Gon. Han cock, commanding the military division of the Atlantic, aocompauied by Goo. Mitchell, of his staff, has arrived here on a viait to tha fort, and are the tha guests of Gou. Getty. He received a salute be fitting his rank, and inspected the fort and artillery. He leaves for Riohmond to-morrow. Hrent Doesn’t Appear. Special to Enquirer-Sun.] Louisville, May 8.— Charles T. Brent failed to answer in ooart to-day to s oharge of forgery, and the aopposition is that he has fled again. Brent, after great trouble, had been returned from Europe after a patch up of the extradition treaty. Atlanta Uonstltutlon ] lo Kx.Gov. Joseph K. Brown : Sib—Before the faot was shotted by a personal demand general rumor had al ready accredited, or, to apeaE more accu rately, discredited you with the author ship of the articles signed “A Citizen,” in which the oonduot of General Gordon upon the Preeideutisl contest in Congress is assailed. luasmuoh aa tho subject is one of pub- lio importance, and the person assailed is a distinguished public man in an eminent ly responsible station, aud as yon yourself have held prominent positions in the State, a deotded impression prevails that it wonld have been more oousiatent with your personal honor (assuming you to have it) aud the interests uf the peeple had you made yuuir assault under your own name. I admit your mode of attack is best suited to your purposes. Anony mous abuse is ocrtainly the most effective when the name and purpose of the author (if disolused) would oouuteraot the inju rious impressions sought to be propaga ted. Perhaps yon may retort that I follow yoor example because I sign only my ini tials. Not at all, I am a private oitizen dependent for support upon the toil ot hand aud sweat of brow. My name would not add lo or subtract from the significance of what I have to say. In deed, I write this beoause I think that neither General Gordon or any of his friends ahonld uoUoe your obarges and insinuations. Thbre is no glory for him lo he won in a viotory over you. I oou- fess, too, that your reputation is, in a oertaiu sense, unassailable. You can confidently assert that nothing which he oan say or prove against you will impair your intlaeuoe or lowor you in the opin ion of the people of Georgia. There is another reason. Personal oontroversy and detraction, so distasteful to men of refinement and high oharaoter, is with you a labor of love. The most honored men in the history of Georgia have been the objects of yonr assaults ; for your ha tred, like death always love* a shining mark. You are under a fatal delusion. You have no donbt been told by some who do your “indiscriminate puffing” that yon write with stunning effeot, and that as a controversial writer you ere wonderful. This has oaused you to pique yourself as a champion, and to pitoh into fights where you have no business, just to show what a pugilist you are. Be advised, Governor, when I say that your best talent is the talent of the glaz ing, artful sophist, whose highest suibi tion is to make the “worse appear the bet ter reason.” Tho times are said to be degenerate, and we escape well if they are not decreed to be profligate, bnt there is yet a love of virtue and truth. The world, bad as it is, does not hesitate moment in choosing between the men of bumble sense and sterling principle on the cue hand, and the man of sinister shrewdness and bad heart on the other. The flattery of your friends have driven yon rather into many personal and politi oai quarrels. W ith most of our public men yon advo cated secession. I well remember hew the people of Georgia rose, and uniting with their Southern brethren, fought in defense of their imperilled liberty—brav ing dangers, enduring sacrifices and per forming prodigies of valor which flrod the world with admiration. Among those were Frank Bartuw. What a noble, gal hint Georgian was he! Gifted, eloquent, brave, his sonl was the sauotuary of all that was true and knightly in human ua. ture. But yon did not think so. Whilst be was making bis way with his regimeut to the army you opened upon him with eu assault even mure violent and soriiuo uious than that wbioh you are now mak iug against Gordon. I presume few have uot forgotten the sooru aud indignation with wbioh he repelled your imputations. But his nature was proud and sensitive aud a dishonoring imputation even from an ignoble souroo, oan tartars such high struug souls. Bartow felt the wound you tnflioted oven to that eventful day, when at the head of his gallant Georgia brigade be became tho first on the roll of Geor gia's martyred heroes. Then there was Howell Cobb. How sacred is his memo ry to-day. Wise, tolerant, big-hearted and patriotic; bis death caused one uni versal sentiment of sorrow. Youyour- self publioly acknowledged his worth upon the memorable ooossion when fu neral honors were offered to the mortal retnaiUH of the departed patriot and states man. But whilst he lived, you dogged him with antagonism, aud did ull you could to tread down his influence and damage his character. Ho was a man of warm and genorous nature, and full of charity that sought to think no evil. But bo loathed a base and ignoble nature, and oh 1 how he did despise you. In view of these antecedents, your at tack upon General Gordon exoitea no surprise. Yon unconsciously, however, in your laat, reveal the seeret of your an imosity. Tho papers you say are filled with notioes of Gen. Gordon. Exactly. The press is filled with indisoriminate puffing, and "hence these tears." But, Governor, this indisoriminate praise by the press of the country ot Gen. Gordon seems to be as incorrigible as its dispraise of yourself. And it em braces such a large number iu the plot, for, strange to say, the European press also is beginning to pay compliments to him as a wise and sagacious statesman. And, strunge to say, the editor of the Constitution, either by aoeident or with a sort of grim sarcasm, filled a column, just parallel with the one oentaining yonr seoond article with extracts of commen dations from the morchnntsof South Car olina, from the volunteers, from the wo men of that State— and eveu Hampton himself joins the plot and engages in the work of indisoriminate puffing. Does it hurt you, Governor ? Why one would suppose you would have got used to it by this time, for it has been going on for some time. General Lee started it, and Stonewall Jackson and Longstreet took it up and kept and kept it up. But they did not succeed in making you think much of him, for you opposed him then just as you are opposed to him now. When he returned home eovered with honors and soars, the people of Georgia Bought to make him Governor. In this effort all the leading pnblio men, inolud ing the Confederate officers and soldiers and distinguished civilians and tha white people uuited, except yourself. You could not see it. Your ideal of hero, statesman and patriot was different. He was oast in a different mould. You gave your intellect and energy to one Ruins U. Bnltook for Governor, and he justified your elioioe, for did he uot make one Joseph E. Brown Chief Justice of the Supreme Cuurt ? in your articles you distinctly oharge that Gen. John B. Gordon and John Young Brown enlored into a bargain with Messrs. Matthews and Foster by which Vildan's oiaim to iqe Presidency and the Democracy was sold out in consideration uf a pledge that Hayes, when oouftted in would remove the troupe from South Car olina aud Louisiana. You charge that Gen. Gordou did, by his adviae and in fluence oauee the Southern repreaentativea in the House to staud firm to tha comple tion of the oount, and yon “protest that (Kav" Aliirilitn Mint Ufmiin \ tta Inn they” (Gordon and Brown) “sold us loo oheap. ” You oharge that Gordon aud Brown “opened the negotiations by wbioh wo were sold out." Before looking at the evidenoe whioh you adduoe, let ua note the evidenoe which yon are oarefnl to omit. In the first place, yon do not pro duce any declaration of Geueral Gordon’s or any declaration imputed to him. You do nut produce one single human being to show that ha voted to continue the count under Gon. Gordon's adviae or in fluence, or any muu who says he was held firm to by his advioe. You Bhow nu word from Gen. Gordon to show that he even did not sympathize with the ffUibuatare, or that be approved the oourse of those who voted egaiust their effort to obstruct the completion of the oount. Your ouly evidence is tha letter ot Hon John Young Brown, which at ffrst you did not quote, but grossly perverted. Hia exact words show so plainly why Gan. Gordon was present at the interview that you oauuot eveu make your insinuations plausible. You doubtless reiuember)that the Eleo (oral bill whieh provided for the comple tion of the oount was passed a mouth before the interview upon which you base your oharge against General Gordon. You also remember that its passage was warmly advocated by Mr. Hill as a meas ure eminently wise, patriotic and const! tutional. You also know that the attempt to filhbuster or prevent the oount had beeu going on for many days before those letters were written, and that every at' tempt of the ttfiibusters had been frustra ted on the part of the Southern members. You are fully apprised that Mr. Hill and other memhors I rum Georgia did aotaally stand up to the completion and vote down the dilatory motions. You knew, when yon penned your article, that after the Commission refnsed to go behind the re turns and gave Florida to Hayes, that tha Deinoeralio caucus resolved to stand by the oount aud sustain no dilatory mo tions. Now, air, will you dare assert that these gentlemen were then setting oat Mr, Til- den ? Mark it, Governor, no letters had then beeu written, aud no assnranoea had beeu received. I press the question, when those gentlemen—Mr. Hill and others—wero “standing up” so inflexibly “for tho completion of tho count, did the; intend ‘to sell us out too cheap f " Now, let us have the very words of Hon. John Young Brown ae to tho qnea tion whether General Gordon songht the friends of Mr. liayos to enter into nego tiations to sell out the Deiuooraoy. He says: “Ou the 25th of February lost, I sout a page from the House to Uie Senate for my distinguished friend Geu eral Gordon, nud he esuie over iu a few minutes. I told him thut 1 wanted an in terview with Cileries Foster, at which / desired his presence." Now, sir, any one whose mind is not gangrened with mal ice, osn see that Mr. Brown wanted an interview oj his oum with Foster and that be simply desirod to have Geueral Gor don to be present. This is proved by the very uext somence. “I outlined to Gen eral Gordon what I intended to sap to Mr. Foster, and he said no wonld with pleasure accompany me." He then de scribed his interview with Mr. Foster. “I told Mr. Foster that 1 had, as he knew, been voting ugaiuut all dilatory motions, giving his viewd aud purposes always in tho first person singular. Speaking of Mr. Foster, he says / have tne highest respool for Charles Foster. . . . “He had just made a man ly aud patriotic speech in whioh he Haid that under Hayes, it inau gurated, the flag shall float over States, not provinces; over freemen, not subjeots. I referred to this speeoh and told him 1 bad oome to request of him written as surances, that if Hnyes was inaugurated he would restore home rule in the States of Louisiana aud South Carolina.” Again, “/ told that 1 wanted tu make no bar- gain, nu agreement, that I Boom ed the thought uf it, Ao., and that my object was unselfish, but desired a written assuranoe from him that the polioy would be as indioated, and from him especially by reason of his very intimuto relations with Mr. Hayes.” £ know, sir, that you sneer at theae de clarations of John Young Brown. But bo needs no defeuoo. Few men havo won a higher position than ho has as a man of splendid oratory. No man has poured out suoh btrruing and blasting inveotive as he has done upon your former allies, Grant and Butler. No man in America stands higher us a bravo, honorable and trutbfnl gentleman than he. Your im peachment of bis truth is simply in keep ing with yonraelf and just what you al ways do when you writo or apeak of men who have gained the confidence and rc- speot of the people. I have quoted his words not meroly to show that there was no suoh agreement as yon charge, bnt that be only undertook to speak hie twn views and to express bis own wishes, and that he nowhere assumes to represent in that interview the views or purposes of Gen. Gordon, who was present at his request. His only allusion to Gon. Gordon is a statement that he considered Mr. Foster’s declaration satiafactory, and that he de clined to read Mr. Hayes' letter. To show that Foster regarded it as ah interview with Brown alone, and not with the two jointly, I give his aoeount of it. He says: “Toe lettor written to John Young Brown and Sonator Gordon was the result of a conversation I had with Brown, in which be asked for a written assurance for his future justification. * * Be asked that a paper bo signed by Matthews and myself aud bo addressed to him and Senator Gordon. * * / have no recol lection of having any conversation with Qeneral Gordon on the subject of writing this letter. ” And yet yon have filled eight or ten ool- nrnns to show that General Gordon opened negotiations and entered into a bargain anil sale of the Demooratio party. But refuted as yon knew yon could be iu your ilireot oharge, you resort as usual to in sinuations. You say, “It may not have been n bargain, but it was a eapital un derstanding.” Perhaps yon have a reool- leotion of how suoh an understanding oan be had. After being a red-hot secession ist, you beoame a real red-hot Radioal. You supported Grant and yon supported Bnllook. After Bullock waa inaugurated by force and fraud, you were made Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State. Was that transaction “not e bargain—bnt a eapital understanding”—eh. Governor ? But do yon not see where you are plac ing your protege whom you oiaim to have eleoted by your argument ? If the were receiving of Matthews and Foster was a bargain to aeli out the Deiuooraoy, whet part do you assign to Mr. Hill, who, after these assurances, persisted in standing firm to the completion of the oount ? Do you mean to say that he and hia Demo. oretio friends actually did sell out the Demooraoy ? No, air, you know that the position assumed before these lettera were written, before theee assnranoea were songht and reoeived, the initallation of Hayee was rendered oertain. In view of this oerteinty, it was an aot of wise forecast, and patrotiam, and wis dom to get beforehand guarantees for the securities of South Carolina and Louisi ana. By the way, do yon remember Mr. Hill's bnsh ardor speeobi 1 He was another one of your antagonists. His ringing words yet echo in onr memories. How he burned and blasted you! Saroasm and ridi cule were never keener, end you were flayed alive. You were confessedly whip- >ed then I believe. Whet is the moral to >e drawn from the faot that yon kiss tho hand that smote yon so ornelly then? Yun say that by delaying tha eonnt and 6 reventing its completion till the 4th of tareb would have secured the inaugura tion of Governor Tilden, as the House of Representatives wonld immediatly have eleoted him. Nonsense. The House of Representatives of that Congress oeased to exist, had no power either as a legisla tive body or eleotoral body from the 4th of Maroh. The delay (assuming that the Senate, through its presiding offloer, wonld not eonnt him in), might possibly have defeated both Haves' and Tilden’s inauguration. Bnt the result would have been the eleetion of Morton as presiding offloer of the Senate, or some other person who would have become by virtne of bis office acting President. You say the ap prehension of oivil war was foolishness. The people of this oountry do not think so. With Mr. Hill they think the oountry was on the brink of it, aud they believe hia oourse was not a selling of the Democ racy too cheap, bnt an aot of true and oonrageons statesmanship. I have nothing to say abont your ooarse allusions to tha cause of General Gordon’s detention In Washington. Bnt you oomplsin that due oredit has not been aooorded to the oolleagues of Gen. Gordon. Now, air, have you ever written any thing to bnild up the Georgia representa tives in the oonfidenoe and affeotion of the people ? Have you ever intimated that they deserve popular applause aud approval, except in this complaint, that an undue excess ot praise has been given to Gen. Gordon ? Then what is your ob- jeot exoapt to exoite envy and jealousy among these gentlemen ? Do you never seek your objects except through tho worst end meauest passions ot men ? I repeat, I hold no offioa, have never been a candidate for oflloe, end no one will even think of me in connection with pnblio affairs. Bat belonging, as I do, to that large mass of the people who are close and deeply interested observers, in the politioel straggles of this State, I speak their sentiments and feelings when I say that they have no patience with this combination of disappointed politi cians against a pnblio servant, who, in every station to whioh be has been oalled, has ahown oonrage, skill, command, in tellect, integrity and honor. Especially will they disoonntenanoe the movement when they see it led on by a man whose name always revives the rec ollections of the Shellabarger, Thad Ste vena reoonstmotor, of the bellwether of the eonrvy flook of Georgia soalawage and oarpet-baggers, of the kerosene speech to the negroes assembled to bear him, of the saperservioesble inquisitor and raok- master of the Coinmbns prisoners, and of the darkeet days and deepest disgraces of our beloved Georgia. Oh, it is euongh to make the very angel of mercy herself feel for her dagger when yon speak of forgiveness for anoh crimes against blood and bnman nature. H. I. T. THE ARMY. PROPOSED REDUCTION OF THE ABUT BY OONOBESS. Washington,May 8.—A bill is in oourso of preparation and will be introduced in the House at the extra session reducing the army to 10,000 men, and thereby effecting a saving to the Government of many millions. Now that the Indian wars are at an end—and it is the opinion of Gen. Bhormau and Gen. Sheridan in oonferenoe here on the question that we will have no more of thorn—and the troops are to be used no longer for polico dnty in the Southern States, there is no need of a standing army of the present size, itja claimed with force by those who favor more retrenchment. Excopt on the Texan frontier tho troops promise to remain idle for some time. The pro posed reduction, however, in a general sense will prove to be wise. The experi ment made in the Forty-fourth Congress in catting down the appropriations for the army ware snooessfal to the extent of nearly six million dollars. THE END OFTHE «BA*«HOPPER*. THE ENTIBE BADE DYINO OUT. Council Bluffs, Iowa, May t.—Prof. Cyrns Thomas, a member of the Govern ment Commission, who has made a careful survey of the grasshopper-infested dis tricts in the northwest, has arrived in this city, and is of opinion that the grasshop per pest has abont run its oourse. Instead of spreading over the entire northwest, ns heretofore, they have a looal habitation only, and will soon perish from the eartli entirely. He has thoroughly examined their breeding grounds in Minnesota, aud finds many localities whoro large deposits of eggs were made, in whioh no hopper can be found. A very favorable feature of the observations and inquiries made is that no locusts are board from in the far northwest, the region of greatest danger to this and other States. From this faot and other oanses Prof. Thomas expressed it as his candid belief that tha days of grasshopper invasions snob as have been witnessed are about ended. Weather. Washington, May 8. —Indications— For tha South Atlantic States, winds most ly from the northwest to southwest, clear or partly oloudy weather, stationary or vising temperature aud rising barometer. A Mermen War Threatens*. By telegraph tu ihe Herald ] Salt Lake, Utah, May 4.—The indig nant feeliug aroused tbrougbont the Uuited Stales by the testimony at John D. Lee’s trial relative to the Mountain Meadows massacre has led the Latter Day Saints to apprehend the arrest of Brigham Young and other heads of the Church who are accused of sanotionfeg the commission of that horrible orime. The Saints have determined to resist any movement against Brigham Young by the Fed eral authority, and to this end they are secretly arming aud drilling through out the Territory of Utah. Orders have been privately issued by the military oommaoders of the famous Neu- voo Legion requiring that dilapidated or ganization to be in readiness fur aetive service on the 21st ot the present month. A SIGNIFICANT ORDER. The following is an exact copy of an or der from Colonel William H. Dame, one of the ebief men indiote J for participa tion in the Mountain Meadows slaugh ter :— BKOIMKNTAL obdeb—no. 1, Headquarters First Regiment, ) Iron Military Distbiot, j- Parowau, U. T„ April 18, 1877.) To First Reoiment Infantby:— Iu purauauoe to orders—First, you are hereby directed to osnse a muster drill and inspection of arms of your oompany, to be beld on its respective parade ground on the 2Lat day of April, A. D. 1877. BBOBOANIZE. Seoond—As far aa yonr oompany is dis organised, or in a partial state of disor ganization, yon will cause an election of offloers to be held promptly and the ranks to be filled without delay by enrolling all persons liable to military doty not now enrolled. report immediately. Third—Yon will make out the return* of the condition of yonr oompany as soon as possible and forward them to the head quarters of the regiment. Wu. H. Dame, Commander First Regiment. Joseph Fish, Adjutant Iron Military Diatriot. Preparations for hostilities era particu larly active among the Southern settle ments, to whioh four boxes of breeoh- loadiug rifles were shipped last week to the oo-wperative store iu Salt Lake City. DRILLING AT NIOHT. Night meetings and drills of squads of Moruious are going on in Salt Lake City itself, and it is reported some of theee proceedings arc oonduoted within an in- olosura, in the immediate vioinity of Lion House, where Brigham Young re sides. Brigham Yonng has boldly asserted within the laat few days that the Mor mons, who have been driven so often and so far, will be driven no longer. It re mains to be seen bow far General Emsry, Governor of Utah, will suffer theae sedi tious preparations to go. oinetMRtl ■sMtkbcrw Eallraad. Courier-Journal.] The Trustees of the Cincinnati Southern Railroad report to a committee of the new company of that ilk some faots with regard to the road wbioh have a pubiio in terest. The road is completed from Ludlow to Somerset, inoluding the Ludlow iuohned plane, a distance of ICO miles. This distance is without break at any point, and is ready for equipment for business. About two-thirds uf that dis tance is bullssted, and a speed of thirly- fivo miles oan be averaged by passenger trams. The Ludlow inoline will serve until the completion of the Ohio river bridge for transferring freight to steam boats. The grading and masonry of the whole road is optnpleted, except ou about six miles between Chattanooga aud BoyOe'l Station, and a tunnel un section 178, which it may be necessary to arch. Cum berland river bridge iH finished, aud there is a supply of rails and ties sufficient to oomplete the track to Emory's Gap, 98 miles beyond Somerset, end witnio 78 miles of Chattanooga. There remsius to lie provided for the bridge superstruc tures and viaducts s uth of Cuoiberland river, except the Tennessee river bridge, iu addition to rails and ties for the 78 miles last mentioned, and also in addi tion to ballasting and water tanks for 178 miles north from a point near Chattanooga. The trustees estimate the amount need ed to oomplete the road at somewhat score than two million dollars, exclusive of equipment, rolling stock, etc. The trustees estimate that $236,250 will purchase an outfit for the oompleted portion of the road, and they consent iu the same instrument to lease the same to a oompany of $100,000 onsh capital. Tho resolutions adopted by the board of trustees are excessively liberal to the company proposing to lease the property, though tho consideration or price is not mentioned. Great facilities are promised as to the use of the engnes, oars, shops, etc., owned try the trustees of the city, ami no limitations are introduced to pro tect the innocont and hopoful shipper in city and country from tho rapaoity pro verbially ascribed to soulless corpora tions. Tile Pope’s Temporal Power. It is nil abont the temporal power of tho Pupo. Sinoe Italy olosed in on the Vatican, some seven years ago, the be lievers in a temporal power for the Pope have been asleep, bat they have bad all sorts of dreams. The oomiug of the jubilee of Fio Nono bos roused them up, and they ory all over Europe that their dreams must oome true. They have been making a great noise in Franoo, where they havo hitherto met with more for bearance than in any other part of tha Continent. The government of MaoMahou, wishing to acoord tha widest measure uf liberty to the Churoh, whioh it is so axions to conciliate, has dealt very gently with the lay and olerio agitators. At the ssmo time it was painfully i.ware thut in doing so it ran the risk of offering grave insult to Italy, whilo enraging tho large class at homo who regard the priest iu politics as the inoarnaiion of daugerons meddle- somness. The government wonld like to atop the agitation by remonstranoe, but tho ultramoutanos defy enoh paper pellets of repression, and the Repnblicans, bead ed by Gambetta, cry ont against snob half measures with a set of conspirators who would drag Franoe into war simply to give His Holiness a eabbage garden.— New York Herald. Yet* la New York. Albany, May 8.—Governor Robinson vetoed the bill allowing women to hold offioe on school boards. He soya the bill goes too far, or not far enough.
