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VOL. XIX. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 25, 1877. NO. 254
THE CREAT RACE.
The Two and One-Half Mile Con
test at Baltimore.
WASHINGTON.
OPPOSITION TO HILLIARD’S
CONFIRMATION.
Great Excitement Among Men and Women.
TERRIBLE ODDS ON TEN BKOECK
PAROLE 'WON IN 4:37}, TEN BROEOK SECOND,
OCHILTREE THIRD—RAGE DETAILED-
TIME—MANT CONGRESSMEN PRESENT—
PAROLE CLEANS THE KENTUCKIAN8, WHO
STAKED TEN BROECK, OUT OF THOUSANDS.
CONTEST OYER A TENNESSEE CIRCUIT—
EVERYBODY GONE TO BALTIMORE RAGES—
NEGROES ENDORSING CHESTER FOB THE
LIBERIAN MISSION—BPOFFOBD BEFORE
THE COMMITTEE—SENATE RESTAURANT
KEEFER—STANLEY MATTHEWS DEMANDS
THE DISCHARGE OF A SENATE COMMITTEE
CLERK—BITTING BULL WON’T ACCEPT ANY
TERMS FROM THE UNITED BTATE8—SHEL-
LABABGKR DEFENDS LOUISIANA RETURN
ING BOARD.
Pamlico, October 24.—The mile for all
ages—Adair won, First Ohanoe 2d, Madge
3d, in 1:45}.
One and three-fourth mile—Viceroy
won, Mary 2d, Kewny 3d, in 3:11.
Two and one-half mile—Parole won,
Ten Broeok 2d, Ochiltree 3d, in 4:37}.
EXCITEMENT.
When the horses came np to weigh af*»
ter the race Parole was received with
cheers, and the people gathered around
him. As soon as his jockey was weighed,
the crowd raised him on their shoulders
and carried him about the track with
cheer upon cheer, until it become a per
fect ovation. Such excitement was never
witnessed in Baltimore on any previous
racing occasion.
In the French pool the investment of
five dollars on Parole realized one hun-
dred and thirteen.
THE GREAT RACE DETAILED.
Baltimore, October 24. — The third
race and great event of the day and of
the meeting was a dush of two and a half
miles for all ageB, $500 entrance fee, play
or pay, club to add $1,000.
T. B. Harpers b. h. Ten Broeck, five
years old, Walker rider, weighing 114
pounds; George L. Lorillard’s b. b. Tom
Ochiltree, five years old, Barbee rider,
weight 114 pounds, and P. Lorillard’s
b. g. Parole, four years old, Barrett rider,
weight 105 pounds, were starters.
In the pools Ten Broeck was the favor
ite by large odds, selling against the field
nearly two to one. He sold for $1200,
while Tom Ochiltree brought $400 and
Parole $335.
EXCITEMENT.
The wildest excitement prevailed about
the pool stands, and in the grand stand
the ladies became almost as muoh exoited
as the Bterner sex.
THE RUNNING.
On the quarter stretoh the horses start
ed well, with Ten Broeck in front, Tom
Ooliiltree 2d and Parole 3d; on the upper
turn Ten Brook opened two lengths ahead
of Tom, and Parole was two lengths
behind; and at the end of the quarter,
while Ten Broeck held his advantage,
Parole fell back two lengths. The first
half-mile was run without change, and
when the horses passed the stand, the
moBt intense exoitement prevailed.
Around the lower turn Tom Oohiltree
recovered one length, and at the quarter
pole waB only one length behind Ten
Broeck, with Parole three lengths behind
On the back stretoh Ochiltree gained
another half length,and Parole ran easily,
at his distance of two lengths in the
rear and at the half mile Oohiltree
was only a half length behind Ten
Broeck, while Parole had gained one
lenth. On tho upper tarn Oohiltree
went ahead and showed a head
in front, increasing his advan
tage to a half length at the
three-quarter pole. Down the home
stretch he increased the advantage to
two lengths, with Parole three lengths be
hind Ten Broeok. In that order they
passed the stand, but iu the lower turn
Ten Broeok gained a length he
had lost, as did also Parole. At the quar
ter Ten Broeok and Oohiltree ran head
and head, and on the back stretch Ten
Broeck showed a head in front. He in
creased his advantage at the half mile,
and went into tho upper turn one length
ahead of Oohiltree, who lead Parole over
a length. At the three-quarter pole,
Parole made a dash and ran up even with
Oohiltree. Down the home stretoh, the
running was fine. Parole went gallantly to
the front and finished two lengths ahead of
Ten Broeck, who beat Tom Oohiltree
three lengths. Time 4:37}.
The time of the first quarter was 0:30};
the half, 0:53}: the three-quarters, 1:38};
the mile, 1:55}; the mile and a quarter,
2:20}; the one" and a half, 2:47}; the one
and three-quarter, 3:15; the two miles,
3:42; the two and a quarter, 4:01)}, and
the two and a half, 4*31)}.
HURDLE.
Deadhead won the hnrdle.
A QUORUM OF CONGRESS PRESENT.
Among tho throng present to witness
the races to-doy were Senators Bayard,
Don Cameron, David Davis, Beck, Mo-
Creery, McDonald, Bruce, Gordon, Arm
strong, Thurman, Howe, Johnston, Ogles**
by, Ransom and Maxey, and members of
the House of Representatives.
THE BETTING
on all the raoes was heavy, and thousands
of dollars, at heavy odds, were staked on
Kentucky’s favorite. [Note.—Barr, the
Southern press ngent at Washington, adds
to the above that he is glad now he
oonldn't go. We presume from this be
would have bet on the wrong horse, Ten
Broeck.—Night Ed.]
Billy Pastor Dfad-Strlking Cigar
Makers.
New York, October 24.—Billy Pastor
is dead.
The striking cigar makers have organ
ized for a prolonged struggle, and yester
day opened a provision kitchen and dis
tributed food to nearly five hundred men
and women, comprising one hundred and
fifty families. The hands of two more
Bhops struck yesterday. One firm seoeded
from the Manufacturers’ Union, and ac
ceded to the demand of the workmen and
consented to employ none but Union
men.
THE TURK0-RUSSIAN WAR.
RUSSIANS REPULSED AT KARS.
THE SIXTH TENNESSEE CIRCUIT.
Washington, October 24.—The oontest
between the two Baxters of Tennessee
will probably give the Oirouit Judgeship
of the 6th district to Michigan.
GONE TO THE BAOE8.
Everybody of any account has gone to
the Pamlioo races except this paragraph*•
ist, who iB sorry for himself.
NEGROES ENDORSING CHESTER FOR LIBERIAN
MISSION.
Revs. John V. Given and J. F. Lyons,
of the African M. E. church, had an inter
view with Secretary Evarts to-day in be
half of General Chester, and urged his
appointment to the Liberian mission.
They also filed a document from Bishop
T. M. D. Ward, of the same denomina
tion, endorsing Chester.
SPOFFORD BEFOBR THE COMMITTEE.
Washington, October 24.—Mr. Spof-
ford, before the Privileges and Elections
Committee, to-day argued that according
to the Constitution, the Louisiana Re •
turning Board has nothing whatever to do
with the question of who were eleoted
Governor and Lieutenant Governor of
the State of Louisiana, and as the Louis'
iana law requires all election returns to
be delivered to the Secretary of State,
and not to the Returning Board, he
claimed a seat on those grounds. Most
of tho time was consumed iu referring to
past reoords and reading journals, Ac., of
the Louisiana Legislature.
billiard’s confirmation.
The Star says, Representatives
Stephens and Harris called at the State
Department to-day, in the interest of
Hilliard’s confirmation as Minister to
Brazil, against which there is some oppo
sition.
SENATE RESTAURANT.
Wheeler has given the Senate restan
rant to Oscar Barron, proprietor of the
Twin Mountain House, New Hampshire,
STANLEY MATTHEWS WANTS A CLERK RE
MOVED.
Senator Stanley Matthews has request
ed Senator Dorsey, Ghairman of the
Senate District of Colombia Committee,
to remove his clerk, W. E. Curtis, corres
pondent of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, on
aocount of a letter reflecting on him,
Matthews, written by Curtis.
THE SITTING BULL MISSION A FAILURE.
The official report of the mission to
Sitting Bull, after many words, says Sit
ting Bull and his chiefs declined the pro
posals. The Canadian commissioner had
subsequently an interview with Sitting
Bull Hud his chiefs, from which we were
excluded. In a communication to the
United States the Canadian commissioner
says in conclusion: I do not think there
need be the least anxiety about any of
these Indians crossing the line—at any
rate not for some time to come.
SHELLABARGER DEFENDS LOUISIANA RETURN
ING BOARD.
Speoial to Enquirer-Sun.]
Washington, October 24.—Arguing
before the Committee on Privileges nnd
Elections in behalf of Kellogg, in conclu
sion, Judge Shellabarger entered into an
impassioned defence of the justice and
equity of tho action of the Returning
Board. He specially referred to the Ver
non Parish returns for the forgery of
which indictments have been found
against the Beard, asserting that this
oharge was, to his knowleaege, a calum
nions outrage.
THE RU88IANB PURSUING THE BIT BEATING
TURKS IN ARMENIA.
RUSSIAN MOBILIZATION OF OOS8ACKB.
London, Oct. 24.—On dit—Russia or
ders the mobilization of all Cossacks, which
will give her ninety-one additional regi
ments.
FAMINE IN MONTENEGRO.
Twenty-one thousand Montenegrins are
famine stricken.
MOUKHTAH PASHA SAFE.
Moukbtah Pasha is safe. Ismael Paaha'a
retreat and janotion with Monkhtah Paaha
is, however, seriously menaced.
RUSSIANS REPULSED BEFORE KAB8—THEY
ARE PURSUING ISMAIL PASHA.
London, October 24.—A Reuter from
Erzeroum, says the following intelligence
has been received from Kars: On the
13th instant the Russians attacked Fort
Alienz before Kars, but were repulsed.
Ismail Fuaha arrived at Zeidikan on the
23d instant. He is expected to join
Ghazi Moukhtar Pasha at Zewin. Gen.
Terguktizoff is pursuing Ismail Pasha. A
Russian detachment is in Saghaulie Dagb.
FRANCE.
THE COURSE OF THE MINISTERS.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.]
London, October 24.—In addition to
its statement telegraphed last night that
at the close of yesterday morning’s Conn-
oil President MaoMahou plainly informed
Ministers DeBroglie and Fourton that the
idea of ministerial changes could not be
eutertniued at the present moment, the
semi-official Moniteur, of Paris, says the
Cabinet will meet the Chamber, vindicate
its policy and reply to all attacks and in
terpellations. President MaoMahon’s ul
timate course will depend on the attitade
of the Senate, and the Senate’s aotion will
be guided by the position taken up by
the majority of the Deputies. [Note.—
The foregoing may be merely a continua
tion of the coersive policy, designed to
affect the supplemental elections.]
FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS,
Washington, October 24.—The House
discussed Colorado all day.
Randall will name committees Monday,
MENA1E.
No session.
TRIENNIAL EPISCOPAL CONVENTION
Excnnlon Hates to Pensacola.
Nashville, Tenn., October 24.—The
Convention of the Western and Southern
railway lines met here to-day, with 0. A.
Atmore President, and decided to pnt ex
cursion tickets on sale to Pensacola, Fla.,
on the basis of $33 from Louisville to
Pensacola and return, $4G from St. Louis
and $28 from Nashville. General inter
est is oentered on Pensacola as the Flor
ida point for tho coming soason.
Ad American llorsv H im an Edr-
Iifcli llaoe.
London, Ootober 24.—At New Market
Hangbton meeting to day, the race for
the second class Czarowitob stakes was
iron by Mr. Sandford's horse, Mate, beat-
ing Rosini, his only rival.
THE MI88IOX BOARD.
Boston, Oct. 24.—At the evening sea
sion of the Episcopal Convention, the
discussion of the cunon relating to the
organization of the Board of Missions was
continued, and finally the canon was
adopted. The canon provides that insti
tution be denominated Domestio and
Foreign Missionary Society of the Protes
tant Episcopal Church in the United
States.
CONCURRENCE OF THE BISHOPS.
The Bishops now concur in the use of
the English Leotionary until the next
General Convention. The subject was
referred to a joint committee of the Con
ference.
The Bishops oonour in the nse of the
special Table of Lesson in the Lectionary
for Lent.
CIGAR DlAKERfir STRIKE.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.]
Philadelphia, Ootober 24.—At the
meeting of the cigar makers, held to
organize a plan of support for their
New York brethren, who are now on a
strike, a large sum of money was raised,
which will be forwarded. Committees
were also appointed to raise additional
collections iu the shopH.
GERMANY.
Berlin, Ootober 24.—A 15,000,000
mark deficit is anticipated in the German
Exchequer.
Democrats Carry Baltimore.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.]
Baltimore, Ootober 24.—The eleotion
for Mayor and members of the City
Counoil was quiet and orderly. The vote
was unusually large. George P. Kane,
Democrat, reoeived 33,178; Joseph
Thompson, Working-Men’s candidate,
17,363; H. M. Warfield. Reform, 535.
The Democrats eleoted every member of
both branobes of the Counoil.
A Sick Ship.
Special to the Enquirer-Sun.}
New York, Ootober 24.—Spoken Ooto
ber 18, lat. 32 deg. 40 min., long. 77 deg.
38 min., schooner Norman, from Mobile
for Boston. All hands sick.
Cubau Leudcrv to be Carried to
Spain.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.]
Madrid, Ootober 24.—It is stated Don
Tomas Esbrada and other Cuban leaders,
taken prisoners in Ouba, will be brougnt
to Spain.
Immense Grtiln Arrival* at Buffalo
New York, Ootober 24.—A dispatch
from Buffalo, dated 23d, says there has
been immense arrivals of grain here
within the last 24 hours. Eighty-seven
Like vessels, bringing over 2,500,000
bushels, destined for Tide Water, having
come into port since 8 o’olook last night.
Cassimere Factory Burned.
Providence, R. I., Ootober 24.—The
Fancy Cassimere Mill, employing 250
hands, was burned. Loss $100,000.
Failure at Bouton.
Boston, Ootober 24.—The Bay State
Iron Company has called a meeting of its
creditors. Liabilities $500,000. A com
mittee will wind up its business.
Weather.
Washington, October 24.—Indications:
For the South Atlantic and East Gulf
States, warmer, partly cloudy weather,
light variable winds, stationary or lower
pressuro, followed in the second distriot
by rain areas.
Louisiana Affairs.
New Orlaans, October 24.—The in
junction forbidding the School Board es
tablishing separate schools for whites and
blacks was dissolved.
The European syndicate proposes to
loan to Louisiana nearly $13,000,000 to
ease her finances.
Editor Dead.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.]
New Haven, October 24.—Minnott Os
born, for many years senior editor aud
proprietor of the New Haven Daily Rtffii-
ter is dead. Aged 67 years.
The Woman Who Got Tweed
Money.
Celia Logan In tho Baltimore Sun.]
I had a little business to transact a few
days ago with a eertain dealer in real es
tate. While sitting in his office there en
tered a lady, tall, straight, well built and
graceful. Not young, although art had
been made to do its share to make her
appear so. She was dressed all in black,
the silk being oovered with real Spansih
illusion—a very beautiful, oostly and per
ishable material, seldom worn in this or
any other country, on acoount of its ex-
peosiveness. She was loaded with jewelry
—the diamonds in her ears were almost
as large as walnuts,and could cot have coat
less than ten thousand dollars. Even the
handle of her parasol must have cost
large sum. Her carriage and pair outside
were enough to make one’s mouth water,
ho splendid were they. This lady talked
in a loud, shrill voice, with a ring of oom
maud in it, as that of a person possessing
power and conscious of it. And no
d»r she looks grandly, and talks as if ac
customed to carry matters with a high
hand, for this is Mrs. MacMillan, the lady
to whom Tweed, in those days when he
was flush and liberal, is said to have pre
sented a mansion on Fifth avenue worth
$30,000! And as fnrher proof of his
em fidenoo in her discretion and business
ability, he is reported to have deposited
for safe keeping, until be abandons his
retirement, the snug sum in bonds, etc.,
of $12,000,000 or $14,000,000, leaving
himself, as he truly states, with only a
few paltry hundreds of thousands.
A secret drawer in an old bureau in
New Orleans was found to contain an
explosive machine, intended to demolish
anybody, but the owner attempted an
opening. Age bad destroyed the effect*
iveness of the device, however, so that
when tho drawer was pulled out there
was no explosion. The contents oonsist*
ed of old papers of no value or interest,
and it is supposed that the arrangement
was a result of somebody's insanity,
ELECTIONS OF PRERIDENTM AMD
VICE PRESIDENTS.
The Senate has now a resolution pend,
ing appointing a committee of seven to
confer with a like committee from the
House to consider the best mode for pro
viding for the eleotion of President aud
Vioe President.
Mr. Springer has already prepared
amendments whioh he will introduce into
the House. We condense the provisions
as we find them in the Herald.
It provides the term of the President be
for six years Bnd be ineligible to re-elec
tion the ensuing term.
Eaoh State shall be entitled to as many
electoral votes as it has Senators and
Representatives iu Congress, except that
States having but one member of the
House, shall be entitled to but one vote,
and States having but two members shall
be entitled to but three.
Each shall vote ou the Tuesday next
after the first Monday in November, 1880,
and every sixth year after. The electors
shall be suoh as are qualified to vote for
members of the most numerous branch
of the Stato Legislature.
We quote from the Herald:
It shall be the duty of the Governor,
the Secretary of State aud the Chief Jus
tice of the highest appellate court in euoh
State to weei at the scut of government
of the Stato ou the second Wednesday of
December next alter each Presidential
eleotion and canvass the votes cast in
such State fur Pre&ident and Vice Presi
dent of the United States, but suoh can
vassers shall have only ministerial powers.
They shall aggregate uil the votes cast for
President and Vice President. They shall
divide the aggregate popular vote by the
number of the Presidential votes to which
such State is entitled, aud the quotient
shall be the ratio of a Presidential vote in
■uoh State at said eleotion. The whole
number of votes received by euoh candi
date for President shall bo divided by the
Presidential ratio and the quotient shall
represent the number of votes to whioh
said Presidential candidates shall be en
titled in such Slates. Tho candidates
having the largest fractions shall be enti
tled to the odd State votes. They shall
make a similar disposition of the votes
oast for Vioe President. They shall there
upon certify iu triplicate the result of
their canvass of the votes oast in suid
State, and they shall transmit one copy to
the Judge of the District Court of the
United States in whose district the can
vass is made, one oopy to the President
of the Senate and one copy to the Speaker
of the House of Representatives of the
United States.
The Senate and House of Representa
tives of the United States shall meet in
the hall of the House of Representatives
on the third Monday in January succeed
ing every election of a President and Vice
President, and the President of the Sen 1
ate shall be the presiding officer unless he
be one of the persons who bus received a
majority of the votes of any State for
President or Vioe President at said eleo
tion, in which case the Speaker of the
House of Representatives, unless he shall
also have received a like vote, in which
oase the joiut convention shall choose a
presiding officer. All the certificates re
oeived shall then be opened by the presid-
ing officer and the votes shall be oouuted.
The person having the greatest number
of voieB torPresidentshuli be the President
and the person having the greutest uum
her of voles for Vice President shall be
the Vioe President. The joint convention
shall be tbe judge of the eleotion returns
and qualifications of the persons who
shall be the President and Vice President,
and the two houses acting separately, or
the suid joint convention when assembled,
may make all tbe needful rules and regu
lations for canvassing the voles and for
ascertaining and declaring the result ot
the eleotion. If said joint convention
shall not have declared the result prior to
the second Monday in February next suc
ceeding each Presidential election, it
shall, at twelve o’clock of said day, pro
ceed, to the exclusion of all other ques
tions, to vote, viva voce, on each office
separately upon the question as to who
was eleoted, agreeably to the constitution,
President and Vice President of the United
States at the said election, and the result
shall be entered on tbe journal of each
house. A majority of the members pres
ent, eaoh member having one vote, shall
determine all questions tbat may arise in
said convention.
article xvii.
Seotion 4 of article 1 of the Constitu
tion shall be amended so as to read as
follows:
“There shall be au election in each
State for Representatives in Congress on
the Tuesday next after the first Monday
iu November, A. D 1880, aud every sec
ond year thereafter. The place and man
ner of bolding 6uch elections shall be
prescribed in each State by the Legisla
ture thereof; but the Congress may at any
time by law make or alter such regnla-
tions. The terms of tho Representatives
elected in November, 1880, shall begin
ou the first Wednesday in January there
after, and tho terms of their predecessors
shall expire on said day.
“The times, places and manner of
ohoosing Senators shall bo prescribed in
each State by tho Legislature thereof;
bnt the Congress may at any time by law
make or alter such regulations except as
to the plaoes of choosing Senators. Terms
of Senators shall expire on tho first Wed
nesday in January, A. D., 1881, and every
two years thereafter according to their
respective classes.
“The Congress shrtll assemble on tho
first Wednesday in January, A. D., 1881,
and on tbesame day iu onchy ear thereafter;
bat special sessions may be culled at other
times by tho President.”
OIL ON THE WATERS.
PEACEFUL C'ODNkEL FICOM HOR
TON'S SICK BED.
the repurlioan party leaders and the
president's policy.
Indianapolis, Oct. 22.—The following
editorial will appear iu tho Journal to
morrow. It expresses Senator Morton’s
views upon the duty of Republican mem
bers of Congress, having been rend to
him, reoeived bis hearty approval aud
embracing his ideas:
While there are few Republicans who
can give a full aud hourly indorsement to
every act and declaration of the Preai
dent whioh goes to make up what an
known as his Southern and civil service
policies, yet we huvu seen nothing, taken
either separately or collectively, to justi
fy Republicans in distrusting either hts
patriotism or his Republicanism. There
seems to be a feeling ou tho
part of those who disapprove of
certain nets of the President that
they are better Republicans nnd more
fuithful to the principles of the party
than he. Suoh usHumptiou does injustice
to the President. He is an original Re
publican, and has been tested for twouty
years as a soldier and civilian, nud bus
never wavered or been fouud wanting iu
his devotion to the great fundamental
dootrines of the Republican party, lie
was eleoted as a Republican, and it is im
possible for him, with tho present organi
zation of parties, even if ho should so de
sire, to aot other than as a Republican
President. Until it is demonstrated that
he has not this devotion and this denire
the Republicans iu Congress should l ot
breuk with him ou mere questions of puls
icy. President llayes has u most difficult
role, and, instead of receiving the un
friendly criticisms and attacks of his par
ty friends, he should receive their sup
port and be given their best advice. The
President’s paramount duty is to tho
country, and if he wore to place simple
party success above the public interest
he would render himsolf hateful to every
right minded man and infamous iu history
Tho day for discussion has passed to
the right or wrong of the Southern pol-
ioy. We might not have gone to tho same
extent in pl#oing the South upon its hon
or; wo might, after what has transpirod
iu tho past few years, have required some
protection er exacted some boud to keep
the peace, but President Hayes has seen
proper to accept the assurance of the
people of the South that they will main
tain tho law and rospeot the equal rights
of all classes, and if they keep fuith with
the Administration, his Southern policy
cannot fail. As long as these pledges ure
kept the policy should bo supported, and
we Hhould sustain the President in tho
efforts he is making for peace. When
these StateB fail to maintain tho law and
protect tho equal rights of classes we
shall expect the peace policy to he abac**
doned by the Administration and a forco
policy inaugurated.
The President was elected under a
pledge of civil service reform. The pledge
was made by his party and was fully ap
proved and endorsed by him. The
votes of the people had
been proourod for him upon his sol
emn promise that ho would inaugurate
the reforms demanded. Iu consultation
with his Cabinet ho laid down three lead
ing rules:
1. That he would not remove any faith
ful, competent officer without cause, aud
would not retain au incompetent officer
for any cause.
2. That, while he would freely advise
with Senators and members of Congress,
their recommendations should not be im
perative, and in no case lead him to vio
late the first rule.
3. That any one assuming to perform
the duties of a public office and receiving
its reward sould give to it his undivided
attention.
Who can object to one of these rules ?
Tho executors may, and, we doubt not,
have drifted into some proscriptive meas
ures whioh they will have to abandon'
The details may not have been applied
practically. It iH not likely the Adminis
tration oan control the action of civil of
ficers conueotod with the detail work of
their party, nor do wo believe there is u
necessity to do so. Liberty of thought
aud action should not be abridged t»e-
oatiHO a man happens to be in office. When
a civil officer performs faithfully and
honestly the duties imposed by his office,
this is all thut should bo required, and
au attempt to dictate what political
work an officer may perform for his party
must of right and necessity fail. This
will be discovered by the President about
as quickly as by Congress, and it is a
matter of minor importance. Congres
sional patronage may have boon abused,
Wo have no doubt it Las been, but it is
impossible be should know all the appli
cants for offloe in tho several States,
that he should know bven one good i
tor each of the offices to ho filled, and we
know of no safer advisers in reference to
such applicants than the Senators and
members of Congress who represent the
people. If any Senator or member should
prove himself an unsafe advisor then the
President would bo justified in ignoring
him and seeking information from other
sources and judge for himself with all the
lights he can obtain as to tbe fitness of
the applicant.
The Republicans in Congress should
not embarrass the Administration by any
factious opposition to tho measures in
augurated or appointments made, and
should seek to promote tho harmony of
tho party, in which none are more inter
ested than the President and his Cabinet,
and to secure which they have only to
remain steadfast Republicans.
CATCHING THE DEVIL FI8II.
THE MOBT TERRIBLE OF THE KNOWN MON
STERS OF THE OCEAN.
Now York Sun ]
The enormous ootopus in the Now York
Aquarium, the largest ever caught, is at-
attracting attention. Viotor Hugo has
vividly described the prodigious power of
this dovil of the sea, with its long feelers
aud great, muscular arms, covered with
rows of snekers, which instantaneously,
fastening to any living thing they touch,
drag the victim uuder water and to death,
to feed the monster which, hiddeu iu the
orevioe of a rook, lies in wait for his prey.
Moro than 2,200 years ago Aristotle re
corded observations of tho octopus, or
polypus, whioh allow that he had then a
better knowledge of its wavs than any
othor writer since his day. The fish has
long boon known to naturalists. It figui
among Egyptian hieroglyphics, and from
a knowledge of it was probably originated
tbe idea of tho Lernean Hydra, whose
heads, when out off by Hercules, grew
again.
In 1867 an octopus was exhibited in the
aquarium in Boulogne, and iu 1872 the
first specimen wus received in tho Brigh
ton Aquarium, it was very small, aud
was caught in a lobster pot at Eastbourne.
Like all of its kind it dislikes the light,
aud soon built for itself a grotto of living
oysters, which tiio attendants called the
“Cottage by the Sea,” and in whioh it lay
partly concealed most of the tirno, only
occasionally emerging from its hiding
place. In January, 1873, it was swallow
ed whole by a voracious dogfish.
The dovil fish now in this city is an
euormous specimen. Its body is ten feet
long, it has two tentacles thirty feet long,
and eight arms eleven feet long. The
tentacles are long, thin, of triaugular
form, end tough as leather, and are
d at tho ends with over 100 suckers
each. The arms have two rows of suckers
running their entire length. An notual
count was not made, but it is estimated that
altogether it has between 2,000 and 2,500
suckers. Tho sucking disks are composed
of a muscular membrane, whoso circum
ference is thick and fleshy. Tho outer
circle of the cup is a horned ring sharply
separated around its edge. When they
strike a victim tho sharp points penetrate
tbe skin, and tho cups, by nir exhaustion
from within aud consequent pressure of
tho outer atmosphero, adhere firmly to
any substance to which they are applied.
The object thus secured, so firmly bound
by these terrible arms that no strugglo
for freedom can bo made, is carried to its
mouth and torn to shreds beforo it is de
voured. Tho head is about two foot and
a linlf iu circumference, tho eyes largo
and sturing, and the beak, formed almost
exactly like n parrot’s, is Very powerful
Tho aotion of tho octopus when seizing
its prey is liko that of a eat pouncing
upon a mouse, but tho struggle is shorter,
and there is something devilish in its
movement ns it plunges its fierce black,
horny beak deep into tho quivering ttosh
of its yet living victim.
Tho Professor told the Sun reporter how
ho caught tho fish, whioh may loam our
Snnppers something :
“But you were asking how I caught my
dovil fish. Well, I neurly forgot them
but now I will tell you how it is done.
First you must remember that ho is au
enormous eater and a groat lover of shell
fish. If, when slowly sailing along the
shore at low water, I see anywhere lots of
mussel shells piled up in heaps, I know
that there iH a devil hidden in the rocks
somewhere near by, aud I move off’ care
fully, so as not to disturb him, for if he
is frightened he is likely to cjoot his ink,
u a second make tho water black as
Egypt, and under cover of this darkness
to escupe. Next I bait a good strong pot
with a dead lobster, for which ho has a
great liking, some mussels, and perhaps a
few oysters. Then I lower it as neur as I
oan guess in front of his hole. Iu a very
little time ho will go iu to get his dinner,
and then while ho is eating I bring him
quickly to the surface, and to secure my
game. That is the way wo got tho little
fellows. I should hate to bo in the Lizzie,
though, (tbat is my littlo boat, named
after the wife of Mr. Edward lteioho, the
first gentleman who successfully brought
tropical fish to New York,) and have a
forty-foot fellow taokle me. I am nfraid
the catch would bo ou tho wrong side and
that it would be the last of both me and
tho boat, nud that ho would not leave so
muoh us the American Hug to float over
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“I suppose, however, that after the fish
nro caught jour troubles are over, and
thut bringing them to New York is com
paratively au easy matter.”
“You do, eh ! Why, then, is just when
my trouble begins. As soon as I get u
good supply and *a good assort merit of
fish, I start from Platt’s Villinge for Ham
ilton, aud try to get there on steamer day
as near as possible to tho hour for sailing.
If the weather is fine, I sail across the
Sound iu the Lizzie, and tow my fish after
mo in a zinc car, which was made espe
ciully for the purpose ; hut if it is windy
and rough, I put them in big tin cans,
filled with their native water, aud rido
them uoroHH tho country in carts. Arriv
ing on the wharves, I do not lose a mo
ment iu getting my tanks ou thostonmer’u
deck. Thou I connect them all by
syphons, and at once start a smnll steam
pump going, which keeps u fresh supply
of water continually passing through
them. This continues lor about twenty-
three hours uud until we leave the Gulf
stream, where tho water is from 80 to 82
deg. Thou the pump is stopped, for the
water suddenly drops to u temperature of
from 60 to 62 deg., and if used m half an
hour would kill all my fish. It would be
like taking them out of warm water aud
plunging them into an ioo bath, and trop
ical fish are very sensitive to tho most
trifling change in the temperature of tbe
water in which they are kept. 1 now test
the water every half hour, and chango it
frequently from a supply tauk I keep
filled aud warmed uutil wo pass Sandy
Hook. There a now trouble awaits mo.
The water becomes muddy, impuro aud
utterly unfit for my oho. From this
point to New York I cannot chango tho
water, but I immediately start my little
donkey engine again, this time attached
to an air pump, which unceasingly forces
j a current of uir through tho water, thus
keeping it well oxygenized until we roach
Now York. Of course I lose aoine fish on
the way, particularly if wo have rough,
stormy weather, and they are knocked
around a great deal, but I generally de
liver from three-quarters to four-fifths of
my invoice in good order.
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condition of ihe great contractor s
ESTATE.
New York World.]
Mr. W. R. Graoe, of the firm of W. R.
Grace A Co., New York, andBryoe, Grace
A Go., of Paris and Callao, says there is
little doubt that the report of the death
of Mr. Henry Meiggs, at Lima, on the
23th ultimo, is oorreot.
Mr. Grace thinks that really nothing
except a mass of worthless weourities and
contracts is left behind Mr. Moiggs, and
says that he sbonld be very sorry to be a
creditor of the estate. Everything of real
value, or nearly everything, had been got-
teu rid of by him some time ago, and
what may be left was probably mortgaged
for its full value. Mr. Meiggs was a vis
ionary man, who earned out vast schemes,
but they were often things whioh a sound
business man would consider worthless,
aud he thiuks that the estAte cannot be
settled so as to pay his debts, let alone
leaving any surplus. The project of
continuing the Oroya road to the Oerro
de Pasoo mines has not been carried out.
The road is finished, Mr. Graoe thinks,
to about ninety miles from Lima, at a
place oalled Anohi, having been pushed,
at un enormous cost, to that place,
whioh is about 11,000 feet above the
level of the sea. The road, of course, is
not doing any business. As for this pro
ject of opening the Oerro de Pasco mines
und draining them of water, Mr. Graoe
considers it visionary in the extreme.
There is nothing new in the project; it
was a nursery fable when Mr. Graoe was
a boy, iu Peru, over twenty-five years
ago, uud was thought about as feasible as
the discovery and recovery of the buried
treasures of the late lamented Gapt. Kidd.
The stories of the masses of silver left in
those mines when they were drowned out
by tho water from the mountains umong
which they are situated, has lost nothing
the repetition during all these years.
Thu mines were opened by the Spaniards
before the days of independence,and have
been submerged ever since, but in parts
they are and always have been working,
while the shafts, which are being worked,
are now three hundred feet deep,and muoh
below that depth they cannot be worked
on account of the water. Now this vis
ionary scheme is to constrnot a tunnel to
drain these mines and find masses
and masses of silver worth millions and
and millions. “Well, to give an idea of
the work to do this,” Mr. Grace contin
ued, “I must tell you that it would re
quire moro time, money and labor; in
faot, that it would bo a greater under
taking in every way than tho work which
Gen. Newton did up here at Hell Gate.
One Inrge English house ruined itself
years ago on that scheme. By the terms
of Mr. Meiggs’ oontraot he must drive a
tunnel with' galleries in tho solid rook,
about sixty yards below the present
drainage tunnel—a work of the mo*t stu
pendous magnitude, anyway, and more
especially when all tho material and ma**
chtnery will have or would have to be
transported from the remote seaooast up
into those wild mountain tops. The
$5,000,000 gauranteed by the Peruvian
Government, if it was judiciously expend
ed, would be about enough money for
them to oommenoe to bore the tunnel
with.
“There has always been a halo of glory
about this thing—a sort of an Alladin’s
dream of silver in untold quantities,
hich was grasped at by Meiggs as
drowning men olntoh at straws. The
sugar haciendas ou the line of tbe un
finished Ghimbote railroad no longer be
long to Mr. Meiggs, bnt are in possession
of Mr. Dortiano, of the great honse of
Dreyfus A Co. These two estates, on
which over $1,000,000 a piece was ex
pended in improvements nlone, were
squandered and paid away as u commis
sion on the sale of Peruvian bonds.
They are now paying handsomely. The
Ghimbote road was expected to open np a
rich mining country, but failed to do so ;
there are, turnover, some ooal and silver
mining interests about there fairly pros
perous, but they have passed out of Mr.
Meiggs’ hands. His town house in Lima
ho never owned, but his two neighboring
estates, ‘Villegas’ aud ‘La Legna,’ he
owned, subject, however, to mortgages
foi more probably than they will ever
realize. I do not know whether Mr.
Meiggs still owned his magnificent house
at Suntiago de Chili or not—*Da Quinta’
ho called it. I know he valued it at
$500,000, and pat it np once and rallied
it off, winning it himself, with the iuok
that has always followed him.
“Peruvian finances and credit, with
whioh, of oourse, Mr. Meiggs was always
intimately connected, are now in a very
bad state.”
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AN OPEN LETTER
TO THE PUBLIC.
New York, Ootober 1st, 1877.
I have devoted twenty years of patient
study to tho Liver and its relations to the
human body, iu search of a remedy whioh
would rostoro it, when diseased, to its
normal condition. Tho result of that la«
bor has been the production of
TIIIT’8 LIVER PILLN.
Their popularity has become so extended
and tho demand so great os to induce un
scrupulous parties to counterfeit them,
thereby robbing me of the reward, and
tho afflicted of their virtues.
TO CAUTION THE PUBLIC,
and protect them from vile impositions, I
have adopted a new label, which bears
my trade-mark and notice of its entry in
the Office of the Librarian of Congress,
also my signature, thus :
*WTTo Counterfeit this is forgery.
Before purchasing, examine the label
closely.
THE GENUINE TUTT’S PILLS
oxert a peculiar influence ou the system.
Their action is prompt, and their good
effoots are felt in a few hours. A quar
ter of a century of study of the Liver has
demonstrated that it exerts a greater in
fluence over tho system than any other or
gan of tho body, and when diseased tbe
outiro organism is derauged. It is speci
ally for the healing of this vital organ
that I have spent so many years of toil,
and having found the remedy, which has
proved tho greatest boon ever furnished
the nlUictod, shall they be deprived of its
benefits, and a vile imitation imposed up
on them ?
Let the honest people of America see
TO IT THAT THEY ARE NOT DEFRAUDED:
Scrutinize the label closely, see that it
bears all the marks above mentioned, and
buy the medicine only from respectable
dealers. It can be found everywhere.
Very respectfully,
tf W. H. TUTT,