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a*Tl'ii*v, MAKOII 0. Hill.
TVifttod SuUvtiiuUon of Sllrer
L*r Fractional Currency.
A V* aabington letter says it is probable
that Mr. Haadall will ask the House to
Postpone the consideration of the legis
lative, ere cative and judicial appropria
tion bilk, in order to take up the silver
resumption bill. The Secretary of the
Treasury finds himself with fifteen mil
lion dojjars of silver on his hands,
purchased under the resumption act of
last year, and for which he has paid
about fifty-seveu pence sterling an ounce,
while it is now worth only flfty-three and
a half pence, and it is generally believed
among experts that it will fall to forty
eight pence. He is naturally desirous to
get this elephant off his hands, but there
will bo strong opposition in the House to
the passage of a bill substituting silver
for fractional currency. Mr, Hewitt, of
New York, has prepared a speech, in
which bo will show the mischief of such
a step, the losses which it will certainly
impose upon the country, and the per
sons who will suffer loss, who are the
working people ; and other speakers will
also be beard on the some side, and
the debate will be earnest and probably
prolonged. It is not improbable that the
House, if it rejects the general substitu
tion of silver for fractional currency, as
it ought to, may allow the Secretary to
put out the $15,000,000 he has ctflned
and on hand, as it is believed that this
will remain in the pockets of the people,
as tokens, and in any case, if the issue
stops there, there will not be a redun
dance of silver coin. There are members
of the H jw.e so infatuated with the idea
of silver resumption, so call* *tbey
already speak of further L. uou
making silver legal tender for bu„.n of
ten, twenty and even a hundred dollars.
The question puzzles a great many of
the members, and a thorough discussion
of it is needed to make the danger gener
ally understood with which the country is
threatened by this so-called silver re
sumption scheme.
Reduction of the President’s Salary.
The Senate on Thursday passed,though
not by a very large majority, a bill to re
duce the President’s salary after the 4th
of March to the old rate of $25,000 per
annum. Mr. Bayard was the only one of
the Presidential candidates in the Senate
who voted against the reduction. Mr.
Conklin showed an indication to dodge
the vote, but ho thought better of it in
time to record his vote in favor of the
bill. Hath Messrs. Morton and Thurman
voted in the affirmative. The vote was
not by any means a party division. Four
teen Republicans and twelve Democrats
voted in tho affirmative, and fourteen
Republicans and five Demociats in the
negative. Mr. Howe and one or two
other Republicans dodged.
The discussion on the bill was, says
the Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun, quite brief, but it was
developed that the weight of opinion
was that a salary of $50,000 was not gen
erally conceded to ba too much for the
President of the United States. Mr.
Bayard, in conversation after the
passage of the bill, said that he had voted
uguiust it because he regarded $50,000
at this day as a very inferior salary to
$25,000 when that amount was fixed. He
recall' and tin; fact that tho sum of $25,000
was fixed at the suggestion of Washing
ton himself, who stated that be would
only ask for a sum sufficient to pay bis
nooessury expenses. The action of the
Senate was not fiual, as a motion was en
tored by Mr. Ciiristianoy to rooousider.
/ The bill to reduce tho
salary - w\TT no pass the House, bV
it is stated in the Washington
that Grant bns determined to veto it. ll<
perhaps feels v personal interest in tlu
salary of Lus successor.
Tlio blue blood of Boston runs pale at
the very thought of the rejection of
Richard H. Dana. But it is true, nover
tireless, tLxut hat distinguished gentle
man was trieu fur and found guilty ot
“ literary piracy,” in appropriating at
his own some of the foot notes of Law
rence’s edition of “ Wheutou.” Whei
asked, upon the trial, to explain tin
seeming plagiarism, Mr. Dana no
counted for U by saying that it wat
a dear case of two minds running
in precisely tho same channel, and thni
his choice of the language employer,
was guided by his sense of its pecular fit
ness to express the ideas. Thereupoi
Mr. Lawrence produced the books ft
show that the Iypogrnpliioal errors occur
ring in his edition were exaetlv repro
duoed in the alleged plugari/c .jget
( of Mr. Dana's work. This ary uuenf
proved to be unanswerable, and the court
dirocted the jury to find a verdict for th<
plaintiff. The Brooklyn Argus puts tin
question whether those facts should de
bar a man from serving his country a>
Minister to England.
If by ‘‘his country " is meant the Amer
ican people, we should answer in the af
flimative, but if Grant's appointees are
supposed only to represent ‘‘the govern
ment," or the Radical banditti, of which
he is the official head, we maintain that
conviction for such small offenses as
literacy piracy and perjury is to be re
garded rather as an evidence of fitness
than as a disqualification. It is a proof
at least that the man is a good Radical in
principle.
E\ SECRETARY BOUTWELL ON THE RaOK.
A V ishington dispatch says: “A state
niout has been made that in 1872 Senator
Bout* ell, then Secretary of the Treasu
wrote to Henry Clews, of New York,
asking a contribution of $(>0,000 to help
carry Pennsylvania for the Republican
ticket, ami promising, by permission of
the President, that if Mr. Clews would
contribute this amount he should be fur
wished with early information of the
government gold sales and other informa
tion which would enable him to specu
late profitably'in Wall street. It is al
leged that prominent Democratic politi
clans in New York have the original let
er of Mr. Boutwell. The statement has
been made to leading Democratic mem
bers of Cocgre . s, but it seems too iucredi
Lie to warrant belief. It will probably,
however, be investigated."
If the Pacific railroads are allowed to
run on as they are now going there will
be a balance due the government by them
when their subsidy bonds mature of one
hundred and fifty millions of dollars.
This, of course, can never be collected,
and the government will be a loser to
that extent. 1 his is one of the legacies
of former Republican Congresses with
which the pres mt House is called upon
to deal. The history of these roads is
one of the gro- sest legislative fraud ftnd
corruption.
JJLf McDonald wishes to escape ala
Tweed, he is being afforded ample op
portunity, A uost any fine night he may
be seen taking a walk for the good of his
health through the streets of St Louis,
accompanied only by a single constable
or deputy. But perhaps after his friend
ly and confidential interview in jail with
Babcock and J edge Krum, McDonald has
no desire to escape. He is in the hands
g>f powerful frieudfe
Mr. Pendleton's Transaction with the
War Department.
From the first intimation of the oon
nection of Hon. George H. Pendleton
with the corruption in the War Depart
ment, we have watched with deep interest
the developments of the evidence before
the committee of investigation. We re
garded the connection of his name with
the Belknap scandal as only a cunning
device of the Radicals to involve the repu
tion of a prominent Democrat in the
frauds that were being brought to light,
as a means of breaking the force
of the public indignation against
the administration, or, perhaps, to
neutralize the effect of the recent de
velopments on the New Hampshire
election. We entertained no doubt that
when the facts of the case were brought
out Mr. Pendleton would stand before
the country unscathed —his honor and
integrity triumphantly vindicated. While
we have not been wholly disappointed in
this confident expectation—while the
evidence has failed to show fraud
or corruption on the part of Mr. Pen
dleton, we are forced to confess that
his own statement of the transaction
under investigation does not place him
beyond the reach of unfriendly criticism
and ungenerous suspicion.
The charge against Mr. Pendleton is,
that as the representative of a rejected
claim against the government, he used
improper influences to secure its pay
ment, a large portion of the money going
to himself.
The purport of Mr. Pendleton’s tes
timony before the Committee on War
Expenditures is to this effect: The
claim of the Kentucky Central Railroad
Company against the government was
for nearly one hundred and fifty thous
and dollars. Mr. Pendleton was Presi
de f, of the company,and administrator of
the Bower estate, which estate owned
four filths of the stock of the company.
In his double capacity of President and
administrator he virtually made a
contract with himself as agent,
by which he was to receive fifty per cent,
of the claim. The government, through
the aid of Mr. Belknap, paid him the
claim, eighty thousand dollars of which
he retained as “fee”—sixty-eight thous
and dollars going to the company. None
of this money was paid to Mr. Belknap or
to any member of his family, or to any
one representing the Secretary.
This is the transaction as set forth by
Mr. Peodleton’s own statement and con
firmed by other witnesses. No actual
fraud or corruption is shown. There is
no proof that any of the money was used
to induce the decision of Secretary Belk
nap in favor of the claim. But can such
a transaction be reconciled with that high
moral sense of right and duty which should
characterize an American statesman—
an aspirant for the Presidential office?
If tho claim was a just one, it was the
duty of Mr. Pendleton, as President of
the company and as administrator of the
estate so largely interested in it, to have
prosecuted it in his official capacity,
charging the claimants only the expenses
incurred. If it was an unjust claim, he
should have used no influence for a con
sideration to procure its payment.
It would be charitable to view
Mr. Pendleton’s connection with the
case only in a professional light.
But when his relation to the claimants is
considered, when it is remembered that
tho claim had been repeatedly rejected,
that Mr. Pendleton, as a prominent
Democratic politician, was not likely to
exert any legitimate influence upon the
Republican officials, it will be impossible
to escape the suspicion that improper in
fluences were brought to bear in the
’ settlement of a government claim
f from which the agent received a
larger amount of money than was real
ized by the claimants. The personal re
lations, too, of Mr. Pendleton, Mrs.
Bower and Secretary Belknap the
brother-in-law and afterwards the hus
band of the lady—are calculated to
strengthen these suspicious, and in any
point of view to give to the entire trans
action an unfavorable aspect.
Mr. Pendleton may be, and we are
willing to believe he is guiltless of
fraudulent complicity in this matter. Un
fortunately for him, however, it has the
repulsive aspect of a “job,” and associ
ates his name with the evil report of the
times. This unfortunate association will
be used against him with effect by his
political enemies, and though the confi
dence of his friends in his personal honor
and integrity may remain unimpaired, it
will not fail to have a damaging influence
on his political prospects.
Washington specials represent that
General Belknap has summoned as his wit
nesses all the general and staff officers of
the ‘"•’.uy, and from being dejected and
low-spirited, be is now confident that he
will sustain himself, even before the im
peachment court. It is said that he
maintains that with the exception of the
Marsh matter, he is guiltless of any
charge whatever, and courts the fullest
investigation. Ou the other hand the
sub-committee of the House Judiciary
Committee are credited with having ob
tained possession of eight express money
orders, for $1,500 each, paid by Marsh to
Belknap, and signed by the latter. They
have also, it is said, obtained possession
of express receipts given to Marsh in
New York, which W6re sont on to Mr.
Belknap here by him, marked “0. K.”on
the back, and returned to Marsh. Dem
ocrats as well as Republicans manifest
much impatience over the hitch in the
impeachment business, but it must be re
membered that the whole power and pat
ronage and money of the dominant party
is being used to embarrass the investiga
tors in every possible way. Some little
time is necessary to overcome these ob
stacles, but the due punishment of the
self-confessed bribe-taker may be re
garded as a foregone conclusion.
Pertinent. —The New York Tribune,
referring to the late Republican victory
in New Hampshire, where it has been
shown that the party most able to buy
votes is generally the successful one in
an election, says: “In a State where one
tenth of the voting people hold their
open palms behind them for a bribe,
there is not likely to be such a revolt
against the immoralities and corruption
recently brought to light as would over
turn a party. Whoever supposed the
Belknap and Babcock business and all
the procession of iniquities that wait on
Grantism would work upon the New
Hampshire conscience to the overturning
of the party in power very seriously mis
took the temper of the people, the
strength of partisanship, and more than
all, the pervading distrust of Democracy..”
Mr. Garfield, of Ohio, made a speech
the other night, in New Hampshire, to
help along the Radical cause. Address
ing the Union sobers he said, “get out
the musket of 1861, bring it to the
shoulder, look along the barrel, and say :
‘Old gun how would you vote ?’ ” The
Nashville American answers : If an hon
est gu% it wouldn’t vote at all, but belch
its load of buck-shot into the coat-tail of
some of Mr. Garfield’s party, who, under
cover of just such appeals have been
robbing live soldiers at post-tradership
stations, and making money oat of the
headstones of dead ones.
Senator Gordon’s Proposed Revenue
Reform.
Senator Gordon’s proposition for re
forming the revenue service of the United
States seems to meet the approbation of
everybody except the Radical majority in
the Senate, and, judging from the zeal
and unanimity with which the leading
journals of the North of all parties are
advocating its adoption, Messrs. Mor
ton and Sherman will be forced to abate
their hostility to the proposed reform.
In another column we give an editorial
article from the New York Evening Post,
a leading Republican paper, heartily en
dorsing Senator Gordon's plan. The
Washington correspondent of the New
York Herald, referring to in
the Senate on the introduction of
Senator Gordon’s resolution, says:
“A genuine sensation has been made by
the speech of Senator Gordon on the
subject of revenue reform. That the
country is likely to be thoroughly stirred
by the matter is evidenced by the deluge
of letters which has already poured in
upon Senator Gordon, commending what
he has proposed. The Senator claims to
have shown from the records of the
Treasury Department the startling fact
that the government has been robbed of
not less than $1,000,000,000 in the past
thirteen years, no matter what has been
the political stripe of the several admin
istrations in power during that time. In
this connection the calculation is made
that, had the money thus misappropriated
been put where it belonged, the questions
of the currency and of the national
debt would not now distract the coun
try. Had the thousand millions stolen
by these officials and the hordes
of placemen under them been honestly
handled the national debt would be less
than half its present size, and the finances
of the country would be on a specie pay
ment basis.. Even now the sources of
revenue are so broad and yielding that
an honest collection of the revenue, such
as Mr. Bristow’s efforts would bring
about, is only necessary to insure the
easy payment of the national debt, the
reduction of the taxes and the restoration
of the currency to a specie standard. The
movement initiated by Senator Gordon
promises to become a revolution which
will sweep out political lives in the next
Presidential election.”
The Projected Radical Change of
Front.
A correspondent of the Chicago Times,
who professes to be well informed in re
gard to the policy that is to govern the
Radical party in the present emergency,
says that since the Belknap exposure it
has become convinced of the necessity of
a chauge of programme. They see the
futility of attempting the Presidential
race with a candidate who will be put
upon the defensive as to his complicity
with even greater frauds than Belknap’s,
which every one rea’izes must soon
come to light. Under this conviction,
according to the Times correspondent, a
complete change of front is contem
plated—old party hacks are to be thrown
overboard, Morton, Blaine, Conklin g
and Hartranft consenting to the arrange
ment, and an effort is to be made to unite
the party on Bristow and Charles Francis
Adams for President and Vice President-
We think, with the Nashville American,
that there is very little prospect of the
success of this arrangement. Bris
tow has not been long enough in
position in the administration ring to
have lost his reputation for honesty. He
lacks, therefore, an important element of
popularity with his party. Besides, any
attempt to carry out the new programme
would be opposed by all the present aspi
rants for the nomination ; and by none of
them more strenuously than by Charles
F. Adams, whose blue-blooded, Puritan
dignity could never stoop to accept
the second place on the ticket.
It is too late for such expedients. The
Radical banditti must stand on its record.
Spasmodic virtue will not save it. The
strength of the Radical party is in its
corruption and the cohesive power of
public plunder. The question to be de
termined in this centennial year is
whether it is stronger than the people.
Upon the result of that issue depends
|he life of the American Republic.
Brother Orville continues to be a source
of unhappiness to the Republican press.
The Cincinnati Gazette has been trying
to reach around the President to get a
whack at him for some days, and has at
last struck. The blow has fallen on the
President, as well as on the obnoxious
brother, as might have been expected,
since the two are so close together. This
is the bungling way the Gazette did it:
“There can hardly be a case of meaner,
more sordid and degrading trading on
blood relationship to the President. But
Orville Grant seems to be unconscious of
this degradation of the influence of his
illustrious brother; and the brother him
self seems to have been unconscious
that this giving his brother a roving
license to trade on his relationship was
anything unbecoming his high position.
The Independent Republican press spoke
out plainly ou this Orville Grant scandal
at the beginning,yet he had not the grace
to discontinue this bnsiuess. He even
had the hardihood to face this Republican
censure and the hostile House of Repre
sentatives which he knew was elected.
Indeed, it is evident that he has that low
and sordid nature which makes him un
conscicfus that there was any indelicacy
in this. In the view of this notorious
operation, could Belknap suppose that a
levy on a post tradership would bring
him any censure from his chief ?” The
loyal reader is left in harrowing doubt as
to which brother is meant by the sen
tence, “He has that low and sordid na
ture which makes him unconscious that
there was any indelicacy in this.”
It appears, says the New York Sun,
that in the course of the investigation
into the affairs of the Freedman’s Savings
Bank, now in progress, one of the former
officers of the swindling concern acknowl
edged that $300,000 of the deluded de
positors’ money was taken for political
use in 1872, when Grant was running for
his second term. If the whole history of
the canvass of that year could be written,
it would be the most shocking story of
wholesale fraud and corruption the coun -
try has ever known. The whisky ring
exposures have afforded some light upon
the means used by the Grant party to
swell their corruption fund, though but a
small part of the truth has been made
known. Many of the worst facts "never
will be proved, if the policy adopted by
Grant and Pierrepont to intimidate wit
nesses is allowed to prevail. But about
the meanest part of the whole business
was this stealing of the poor freedmen’s
savings to use for the purpose of keeping
the venal administration crowd in power,
with continued opportunities for plunder
ing and oppressing the people.
Bloody Shirt Morton’s friends are los
ing hope. One of them informed the
editor of the Cincinnati Commercial re
cently, with tear-bedimmed eyes, that he
believed it was all over. Between the
soft-money plank in the Indiana platform
and the “betrayal” of Pinchback in the
honse of his friends, Mr. Morton’s
prospects have been badly damaged.
LEITER FROM J ACKSOS YILLE.
There is N* Pain—How the Radical Per
jurers shield Their Fe’lows—An Implied
Prophecy—Another Unexplained Cue
of Incendiarism —The Firemen's Anni
versary—Samson's Manipulation of the
Jaw-bone—A Hopeless Task —Kxegl
Monumentum Ore Pereonius—Also, .
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Jacksonville, March 16, 1876.
THE PLEASURES OF DESPOTISM.
Notwithstanding the apparent hetero
doxy of such an extensive averment, we
hazard the opinion that there is no
real unalloyed pain in this mundane
sphere. The experience of some indi
viduals would seem to warrant a different
conclusion, but it would be founded
clearly upon their own inherent impetu
osity. The impossibility of reconciling
dissimilar properties is neither acknowl
edged nor denied, but it has absolutely
nothing to do with the question we raise
in this instance. The speculator who
loses a million at one venture may con
sole himself with the charitable reflection
that his misfortune is another man’s sal
ration. The defeated aspirant for politi
cal distinction has our permission to con
template the happiness of his successful
opponent with a serene benevolence. Even
the grim visaged visitor we call Death has
really no sting. Your demise may bring
misery and woe to the grief-stricken
hearts of those you love, but otherwise
your bosom friend would be cruelly de
prived of the opportunity of concocting
an elaborate and fulsome obituary. Even
despotism is amusement for the despots,
no matter what the sufferings of the sub
jects may be. Ecstasy may be extracted
from the bitterest ordeals through which
mankind is doomed to pass, by an inflexi
ble adherence to this simple rule. The
future compiler of didactic litera
ture will probably mould a portion
of his data into a story similar to the fol
lowing for the enlightenment of posterity:
During the nineteenth century the pro
vince of Florida was oppressed by an in
human breed of wretches, who, upon the
return of justice to her throne, were all
hanged for their misdeeds. The usurpers
consisted of Radical carpet-baggers and
scalawags. The former was a thief
who robbed strangers, the latter
was a villain who stole from peo
ple .who should have been his ac
quaintances. Such vulgar rascals consti
tuted the rulers of the inhabitants. From
the Governor down everything appertain
ing to this grinding, pittiless despotism
was reeking with corruption. The judic
iary were notoriously puppets, and as one
evidence of the manner in which they ex
pounded law and protected their accom
plices in the most diabolical system of
swindling the world has ever seen, we
will cite one instance. A debtor who is
a Radical endeavors to defraud a creditor
who is not, out of a considerable sum of
money. The Radical is surreptitiously
removing his property, and the creditor
sues out a writ of attachment
which is granted and the levy made.
The Radical robber then secures a return
of the goods held by replevying and
furnishing a bond which is not worth
the paper it is written on, the sureties be
ing merely dummies and worthless, but
which the Judge approves unhesitatingly.
A judgment against the Radical is ob
tained in the course of time, but he
smiles derisively and invites his creditor
to find some visible properly. It
is all invariably invisible and so
are the securities on the bond.
These tricks were played so often
that some of the judges suddenly
grew into a pompous affluence, and these
things took place in the reigns of Stearns,
Reed and Hart, three land pirates who
roved through Florida at one time. One of
the judges was designated as Randall,and
another as Archibald. Iu this twentieth
century there are no carpet-baggers or
scalawags for the race has been killed
out.
THE INCENDIARY’S TORCH.
Precisely at eleven o’clock on the night
of the 14th an alarm of fire was given
from the Sea View Hotel, on West Bay
street, and in less than twenty-five
rSinutes the flames had eaten up their
prey, consisting of the boarding house
and a dwelling iu the adjoining lot. The
guests of the Sea View numbered prob
ably fifteen, who all made good their
escape from the burning premises, with
the exception of a young girl named Ella
May Knowles, who, as the flames shot
luridly up, appeared- at a window
in the third story, and without much
ado jumped out, striking a tree
in her descent, and sustaining
serious injuries. The boarders lo t pretty
much all of their personal effects, and
presented a suggestive appearance in the
half-clad style of their get up by ; the
glaring light. The Sea View was owned
by Frank Reed, of Providence, R. 1., and
insured for four thousand dollars, as far as
ascertained. The dwelling was the prop
erty of Mr. E. Barrs and uninsured. The
loss in buildings and personal property
will approximate fifteen thousand dollars.
The fire is supposed to have originated in
some shavings under the boarding house,
and was indisputably caused by design.
The fire engines arrived upon the scene
too late to accomplish anything, owing to
the inflammable material out ot which
the structure was built. The dismissal of
a negro servant in Florida is getting to
be thought an ample apology for arson,
and it surpasseth human comprehension
that these cases always remain uninquir
ed into.
firemen’s annual parade.
The fire department on the occasion of
their annual procession on Tuesday, were
watched by eager and admiring eyes, and
crowds of citizens lined the streets along
the route. The engines were beautifully
burnished up and ornamented by wreaths
of evergreen and a perfect carnival of
roses. The Mechanics, though not as at
tractively uniformed as the others, claim
that they are ever ready for work. The
Phoenix and the iEtna engines and men
were the objects of universal attention
and eulogistic criticism. The hook
and ladder company and the hose carriages
were not behind either in the parade
or in any other respect. Altogether the
turnout was highly creditable to the fire
men. Mr. Wm. Bay a was announced as
Chief for the ensuing year, and acknowl
edged the honor conferred upon him in a
lew choice and apposite words. The
Mechanics, we think, were the only com
pany that indulged in any after ceremo
nies, which they did in a sumptuous
luncheon at Metropolitan Hall in the eve
ning. The affair was conducted in an
entirely proper and orderly manner.
THE NEW INNOVATION.
Sampson, the saffron Justice of Jackson
ville, is unlike his biblical namesake in
dealing out justice with the jaw-bone of
an animal. Sarupy is also a member of
the school board, but that is nothing to
his credit. He is an interesting study
for any one whose olfactory sensibilities
have been sufficiently deadened to permit
of a near approach to him. On Tuesday
Officer Rushing was engaged in some
work on a street. A crowd of idle dar
kies were sauntering around watching for
a chance to steal, but concluded to con
gregate about the policeman and
interrupt the work. The officer is
impressed with the notion that if order
is necessary in the miiky way, it is not
less so iu a town, and one Henry Jackson
became so tired of the quietude that he
began to abuse the guardian, and added
injury to insult by jerking a club from
his hand. The officer, in a remarkably
brief space of time recovered his baton,
and upon further resistance he cracked
Henry Jackson over the head. Officer
Rushing came before Sampson on the
complaint of the disturber and waiving
an examination, was placed under bonds
for six hundred dollars, jin another cause
before Sampson this week, the prosecu
tor was intimidated by being required to
enter into a recognizance for his appear
ance. Not the defendant, but the com
plainant.
STILL AT THEIR TRICKS.
The lights of the Radical sanhedrim
have bean moving about suspiciously
lately, and various conjectures as to their
intentions are constantly arising. Steams
swears that he will quit the State, and
let the law and a decapt Legislature take
its course with its allies, if they do not
sustain him against John Tyler, Jr.’s
chances. The parasites of Steams are
infamous for duplicity, and they are
fawning upon Tyler and Steams at the
same time, so as to be prepared for the
favorable wind. They would be worse
than blind did they close their eyes to the
prospects for the nomination of Tyler. It
is understood that a great many office
seekers have interviewed Tyler, since it
has become evident that the Radicle
must run|him for Governor, and thus
early have put in their applications for
appointments. They are grhatly disap
pointed because Tyler would not commit
himself, and if they have invented this
rase for the purpose of compassing his
defeat before the convention by showing
that he had promised the same office to
different parties, they have assuredly
reckoned without their host. Hence
their tern r.
IN MEMOBY OF GAS.
The Common Council at their meeting
on Tuesday, awarded the contract for
lighting the street lamps to J. H. Burst
& Son, for $29 each. The contractors, it
is understood, will use an improved lamp
for streets and furnish the necessary
illumination from naptha. They claim
that they are able to supply a
light superior to that which we have been
enjoying at the hands of the gas com
pany, and, at any rate, it would be hardly
possible to discover a worse. It is about
as brilliant as a solar eclipse, and the moon
looks like a blazing star when compared
with one of our lamp-posts.
A MUNIFICENT DONATION.
The Episcopalian Church, now in process
of construction in this city, was made the
recipient this week of a princely contri
bution of five thousand dollars'from Mr.
William Astor, of New York, in addition
to a former gift from him of five
hundred dollars. In consequence of
Mr. Astoi-'s liberality, together with
subscriptions from other sources, the
temple will be pushed forward to
immediate completion, and will be when
finished a handsome church edifice, an
ornament to the city, a credit to the
congregation, a compliment to its pastor,
and a standing monument to the gener
osity of those who so materially aided in
its erection. Mr. Astor departs for Sa
vannah by this evening’s train.
HE TS GONE.
Henry Train took the train a few days
ago, after a short sojourn here as a gam
bler and cheat, leaving several unsettled
debts, including a board and washer
woman's bill, and carrying off two hun
dred and fifty dollars belonging to a con
fiding friend. His dupes merit their
punishment for their gullibility.
THE CRY FOB WATER.
As we intimated before, the projectors
of the city improvement known as water
works, are apt to meet with an impedi
ment in the shape of some wharf-rat who
desires to dispose of a decayed antedilu -
vian charter at an extortionate figure.
There is no predicting how many of these
cadets there are, and they may be as nu
merous as Radical crimes.
Adrianus.
THE KENTUCKY RAILROAD CL MM.
Positive Evidence of a Payment to Mrs.
Bowers—How the Money Was Distri
buted Pendleton’s Ingenious Testi
mony.
[Special Dispatch to the Evening Post.]
Washington, March 17.—Evidence has
been discovered showing conclusively
that thirty thousand dollars of the money
received by Pendleton for getting the
Kentucky Central Railroad claim allowed
went into the hands of Mrs. Bowers,
now Mrs. Belknap, but was not paid to
her directly.
The evidence already taken shows that
Pendleton had the amount of the claim
divided into three Treasury warrants, one
of which, amounting to thirty thousand
dollars, was endorsed by him and made
payable to the National Park Bank of
New York. In tracing the last named
draft a clue was obtained which, being
followed, resulted in finding what is con
sidered conclusive proof that the money,
after passing through the hands of two
persons, was paid over to Mrs. Bowers in
person in the city of New York.
A prominent Republican lawyer who
has taken much interest iffl this matter
and has had it thoroughly probed assures
your correspondent that the case is a
very clear one, and that it will be an easy
matter for Mr. Clymer's committee to get
at the facts if they are so disposed. If
the committee do not push the inquiry in
the direction indicated he says that other
hands will take hold of it and bring all
the facts before the public.
The same gentleman says he knows the
names of the persons through whose
hands this money passed, and the time
and place where the money was paid
over to Mrs. Bowers, who took it and
placed it in the hands of Mr. Caleb Marsh
for safe keeping and investment. Of all
this, your correspondent’s informant
says Mr. Pendleton must have known,
and his testimony before the committee
was very ingenious, and so adroitly
given as vo mislead and not bring out ail
the facts. He swore that he had not paid
to the Secretary of War, or any member
of his family, or any other person for
him, directly or indirectly, any consider
ation for his action, but he did not tes
tify that he had not paid to Mrs. Bowers
directly or indirectly money for herself
for her assistance. The money was not,
as will be shown, paid directly to Mrs.
Bowers, but to other persons, who paid
it to her.
The Savannah News.
[From the Bainbridge Weekly Democrat.]
We have been a silent, though none
the less interested, witness to the con
troversy between the Savannah News
and the Atlanta Constitution, relative to
the State Road lease bribery business,
and we feel no little gratification at the
handsome manner in which the News
has sustained its side of the question.
We are gratified because we feel that the
position taken by the News in this mat
ter reflects the sentiments of the true
and honest portion of the press of
Georgia, and on this occasion was the
special champion of those editors who
possess the true manhood which we
think ought to belong to every member
of the fourth estate. We are further
gratified because it has been proven that
we have at least a few papers in Georgia
that cannot be bought to do any dirty
work which may be assigned them—not
ever to publishing ten dollar sketches.
The News has long been very justly
the pride of newspaper admirers in Geor
gia, and this last successful vindication
of its principles toward right, honesty
and decency has advanced it yet higher
in the estimation of honest men every
where. As for ourselves, we have not
for a single moment had our confidence
shaken in the paper, and did not require
the truth-impressed editorial of Colonel
Thompson, or the “card” of Mr. Estill, to
assist us in arriving at a conclusion—that
conclusion being that the position as
sumed in the outset by the News has
been fully sustained.
We do not write this to censure the
Constitution, for that paper has already
met with a solid rebuke during its advo
cacy of a bad cause, but to commend the
News for its devotion to truth and right,
and to give it thanks for the bold and
uncompromising defense put up in favor
of the morality of the press of Georgia.
Frightful Work of a Bull-Dog.—
Raleigh, N. C., March 6.—A monstrous
thing happened here this morning, in
which a bull-dog fought people who tried
to rescue an idiotic woman from a fire
which was consuming the house in which
she had been placed for safe keeping.
Mary Ann Dolan was the daughter of Pat
Dolan, proprietor of the College Hotel.
She was an idiot, and was kept in a sort
of coop in an outhouse used as a kitchen.
She was twenty-five years of age. The
cook had gone out, leaving the door
fastened and the idiot in her coop. In
some way or other a fire broke out, but
the woman might have been saved had
not a big and ferocious bull dog stationed
himself before the door and fought the
firemen like a fiend, as if really possessed
by the devil. It was in vain that the men
attempted to enter the place; it was im
possible to do so. The dog would not
budge except to snap and fly at the fire
men. The idiot woman seemed exalted
or frenzied by the fire, and danced and
sang “ The Prettiest Little Girl in the
Country ” at the top of her voice, and as
gaily as possible. After the flames were
extinguished it was found that both her
legs were burned off, and nothing remain
ed of her head save the brains.
New Hampshire has gone Republican
by about a thousand majority. The
Democrats concede the election of Gov.
Cheney, and of a majority in both houses;
the Republicans claim that they will
have from fifteen to twenty-five majority
in the House, and from seven to nine of
the twelve Senators. It is what every
body has expected who read the Tribune
correspondence; and the methods of the
campaign ought not to leave the victory
much significance as a move on the
national field. Nevertheless it will have
it. Every gratified party paper will to
morrow be shouting : “New Hampshire
leads the way !” And the moral weight
of this cry will be a distinct and tangible
influence in the politics of the year.
Horace Greeley might have been elected
m 1872, if North Carolina had not been
bought or counted away from him. The
Republican canvass this year will be
strengthened by yesterday’s purchase of
New Hampshire.— N. T. Tribune.
LETTER FROM MADISON, FLI.
Three Strolling Srgroes-Thr Uelunding
of the Cotton Tax—-lion- It Should Be
Bone—Weather and Crops—Minor Notes.
From an Occasional Correspondent.]
Madison, Fla , March 16, 1876.
Were an angel to descend and affirm
the existence of a way unknown to the
carpet-baggers and their dusky allies, by
which a man could make (steal, properly,)
airing—sometimes a fortune—his alle
gation would not be accepted unaues
tioued. With the many “ways that are
dark and tricks that are vain” of the
former, you are already well enough
posted. Of the latter there is
A BAND OF THREE,
traveling through the country, hiring
themselves at any price whatever, draw
ing their rations and leaving during the
night. These remind one of the recent
atrocities at Eden, as your correspondent
stated there were still three not arrested.
While remaining several days with their
employer, two of them never took off
their coats, even while working, bearing
pistols, as was learned after they left.
During the greater part of Sunday they
remained in the woods. These actions,
together with the complaining one, who
is now believed to have been wounded,
has aroused suspicion of some dark deed.
They represented themselves from Leon
county, in this State.
THE COTTON TAX.
The bill introduced into Congress by
Mr. Wells, intending to make a perma
nent school fund of the illegal cotton
tax, should it pass, would indeed be most
dissatisfying to a large majority of the
payers of said tax, who, not only the
Morning News and the Hon. A. T.
Mclntyre, but every sensible man knows,
were the producers. Several have ex
pressed their opinion in regard to it, and
not one would give a three-pence for his
share —which was from SIOO to $1,500,
should Mr. Wells’s bill become a law.
From the present bill many old men, who
either have no children to send, or never
send to public schools, would derive no
benefit at all; and moieover, what right
has Congress or any other power to dic
tate the use to which private property
shall be applied ? Every thinking man
can at once see that a majority in Con
gress, who had nothing to do with raising
said cotton, could dictate the application
of said tax if they were disposed so to
do. And if Congress has a right to vote
it to the States which paid it—which
would give half of it to those who paid
not a cent of it— then it has an equal
right to vote it to the whole Union. * As
far as private opinion can be ascer
tained,
MOST ACCEPTABLE RULING
would be to give each individual the
amount paid, as far as he could prove,
and let the balance unproved go to dis
charge the public debt of the several
States. This, of course, would inflict
some injustice on the small number of
planters who could not prove the tax
which they actually paid.
Some time ago there was organized in
this county a Farmers and Planters' Club,
for the purpose of promoting a better
condition of labor (which is sadly need
ed), and for exchange of views, making
crop reports, etc. To it belong the most
substantial and successful farmers of
Madison county. The regular time of
meeting is the first Wednesday in each
month. All farmers and others inter
ested are invited to attend.
CROP PROSPECTS.
We have this day probably had the
heaviest rain which has fallen in this
vicinity for a year or more. It was much
needed, as many places in the fields had
become very hard and could not be well
broken, which is very essential to corn
making. Many farmers are about half
through planting corn, while others have
hardly commenced. Probably one-half
has been planted. The present prospect
indicates a smal decrease in the acreage
of cotton. But, lo! I have fallen into
the channel of the Constitutionalist and
Financial Chronicle —estimating.
NECROLOGY.
Recently five deaths have occurred
within the borders of this county, among
them Mr. Rufus Dickinson, an old and
estimable citizen of Madison, of pneumo
nia. Among them, also, was a colored
woman, who is said by her friends to have
been poisoned by her legal husband and
Hannah No. 2. Their plan succeeded
well.
DROWNED.
Friday night last a negro man and his
little sou started out fishing on a lake
near Belleville, Hamilton county, in a
boat nearly filled with water. The son
seeing the boat sinking, jumped out and
swam ashore. His father was drowned,
leaving five or six children and wife to
mourn his untimely loss.
THE NEW PAPER.
The young, clever and enterprising
Messrs. Mosely have established a Demo
cratic weekly in Madison. I hope the
Democrats will not, as has too often been
the case heretofore in this State, fail to
bestow their patronage upon a deserving
press at home.
Runnymede.
The Political Outlook in Florida —
Who Shall be the Democratic Nomi
nee for Governor 1
Jacksonville, March 18, 1876.
Editor Morning News :
Dear Sib—As the political campaign,
national and State, is approaching, you
may desire to be advised of the “ outlook ”
in Florida. The Democratic prospect of
success is decidedly encouraging. Not
only does the recent developments
of fraud and corruption in “high
places” at Washington favor this
hope, but the criminations and
recriminations of Stearns and Cowgill on
the one hand, and Conover and Purman
on the other, in State matters, aid to de
stroy confidence in all Radical rule and
honesty, and cause us to believe that day
light is breaking.
Bat, to insure success, the Democracy
of Florida must be vigilant and united—
must not be ashamed of their party
name; must eschew “Conservative” and
“Reform,” and fearlessly inscribe “Dem
ocratic” on their banners. The voters
must register and come to the polls.
Apathy must vanish. Each man must be
a committee of six hundred in himself to
storm the Bilaklava of Radicalism, and
victory will be ours, now and forever.
Who shall be our Gubernatorial candi
date? Who shall be our leaden? Let
sectional jealousies disappear—let per
sonal preferences be sunk. Many excel
lent names are suggested. For instance,
Colonel J. J. Daniel and Mr. Columbus
Drew, of Duval county ; Colonel Robert
Bullock, of Marion county; Mr. George
F. Drew and Hon. E. J. 4 Vann, of Madi
son county; General Barnes, of Jack
son county, and perhaps others—
all good men and true. No one
doubts that either of those gentlemen
named would make an honest and effi
cient Governor. But who is the best ?
is the question. On whom can we con
centrate ? Who will carry most strength
into the field ? My own impression is,
that someone not yet prominently con
sidered] will carry off the prize. If a
young man, it may be Davidson, of Gads
den. Or, if an old man, it may be ex-
Chief Justice Charles H. Dupont, also
of Gadsden county. Shall I
tell it, of all men in the State, this grand
old man is my first choice ! With an un
sullied and enviable record of more than
half a century, he still stands “the
ffoblest Roman of them all 1” Bom in
South Carolina, educated and married in
Georgia, a Floridian by adoption since
early manhood, identified with the weal
and woe of his foster-mother, from
territorial times and throughout the
vicissitudes and changes of a State exis
tence, until the present. True to her
under all circumstances. Filling, with
honor to himself and credit to her, many
of her highest offices and trusts, in bet
ter days—not deserting her in her adver
sity. and humiliation —awakening hope
and energy in her desponding ones in the
days of darkness. Setting an ex
ample of fortitude and courage
in the midst of despondency and gloom.
Seizing the handle of the plow, Cincin
natus-like, when the State no longer
needed his services, demonstrating by
voice and pen and action her vast re
sources, and calling attention to
them, and attracting healthy immigra
tion to her borders, and inaugurating an
era of better things and better times for
Florida, who so pre-eminently fitted for
the occasion as the Hon. Charles H.
Dupont? O. K.
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Nnuimnry of llip Week’s Dispatches
THE FI~Rlf FIBNI>.
DESTRUCTIVE CONFLAGRATION IN
CHARLESTON.
ESTIMATED LOSS A QUARTER OF
A MILLION.
HUNDREDS OF HOMELESS FAMILIES.
OPERATIONS OF BAND'S OF N'KOltO
TUIKVES AND ROBBERS.
The Result of Incendiarism.
[Special Telegram to the Morning News.]
Charleston, March 20.
A fire broke out at 3 o’clock this morning,
on the Corner of King street and Rogers al
ley. There was no water in the neighbor
hood, and the wind was
BLOWING A GALE
from the southeast, consequently the whole
block, from Columbus to Line street, on the
east and west sides of King street, was soon
destroyed. About 7a. m. the fire crossed
! Line street, the sparks and embers being
carried by the gals three-quarters of a mile
up King street road, and the houses, fences
and farms along that road were burned.
There were some t
heart-rending scenes
on the streets. Bands of negroes robbed
and sacked every house to which they could
gain admittance. Later in the morning
Mayor Cunningham took command, and
some order was restored. Hundreds of per
sons are
HOMELESS AND PENNILESS.
The loss is at least half a million. Very
little insurance is reported. At 10:30 the
fire burned itself out. The boundaries of
the burnt district are: On the south, Co
lumbus street and Rogers alley; on the
north, the .race-course; on the east, the
South Carolina Railroad, and on the west,
St. Phillip and Percy streets.
THE LOSS.
Lathb—The estimated loss by the fire
this morning does not exceed a quarter of a
million, the houses burued being chiefly
small wooden dwellings. There is much
suffering among the poor people deprived
of their homes and effects.
THE TOTAL INSURANCE
is $85,000, of which $28,000 falls ou Charles
ton companies. The other known
losses are as follows : Companies rep
resented by Colonel Burnes’
agenoy, $12,500 ; Liverpool, London
aud Globe, $200; Commercial Union,
London, $1,400; Fire Association of Phila
delphia, $1,700; Connecticut of Hartford,
$800; /Etna of Hartford, $1,800; Manhattan
of New York, $5,000; Atlantic of New York,
$3,500; Phoenix of Hartford, $2,600; Virginia
Home, $2,000, New York Home, $1,500;
Georgia Home, $1,500; Continental of New
York, $3,800; Royal of Liverpool, S6OO, Mis
sissippi Valley of Memphis, $1,200; National
of Baltimore, $6,000; companies represented
by Honour’s agency, $9,000.
THE PRINCIPAL SUFFERERS
are residents of the houses burned. It is
estimated that one hundred families are
left homeless and destitute, and subscrip
tion lists have been opened for their relief.
Tho total losses, as stated, will be nigh a
quarter of a million, and insurance only
$84,000, of which $27,000 falls on Charleston
companies. It is feared that the fire was
THE WORK OF AN INCENDIARY,
and it is a qotewortliy fact that it was
known yesterday that in consequence of the
neap tides, the tidal drains ou which the
fire department relies for water, would be
empty iast night.
IN THE FIELDS.
The wind carried the sparks and embers
half a mile and more, aud the dry grass and
pine straw in the fields on the edge of the
city burned like tinder.
THE HOMELESS.
Early this morning these fields were
dotted with refugees, and looked like a
camp-meeting ground. The city railway
cars which had been hauled up the road
were converted into temporary dwellings.
A CROP OF FIRES.
There have been seven fires during the
past forty-eight hours, but only to-day’s
was serious.
FROM THE CENTRE OF CORRUPTION.
Washington, March 17.—Witnesses have
turned up who admit receiving five, seven
and ten thousand dollars for their personal
influence with the Secretary of the Navy
to secure the payment of old claims,
though they say no part of these fees
reached the Secretary or the members of his
family. The committee may convict the
Secretary of bad conduct in transactions
with Wiard in the gun-bursting experi
ments, involving the unlawful use of at least
$72,000 of government money.
District Attorney Dyer, ex-Senator Hen
derson, Colonel Broadhead and others, will
be summoned by the committee to testify
regarding Babcock’s abstraction of official
papers.
Kilbourn will succumb. His investigation
will cover grants and purchases of property
from members of the pool. Secretary Bel
knap, Judge McArthur, of tho Supreme
District Court, and ex-Oongressman Ei
dridge are involved.
Secretary Boutwell, during his adminis
tration, ordered a subordinate to balance a
discrepancy of $2,000,000 found on the
books. A half million was expended for
the benefit of the mail contractor on a long
and comparatively useless mail line in Mon
tana during Creswell’s administration.
The sentiment of the Republican caucus
yesterday was high over the reduction of
ten and twenty per cent, in pay, also against
ariy reduction in the consular and diplomatic
bill already passed by the House.
General Peck will testify that four traders’
posts were taken from him and given to per
sons more or less connected with the ring.
THE MEXICAN MONGRELS.
Galveston, March 19.—A special from
Brownsville, to the News, says Col. Christo
had a skirmish with the revolutionists, three
miles from Matamoras, but was compelled
to retreat. Three of his men were wounded.
Desertions of government troops are of
daily occurrence. The revolutionists, under
Gonzales and Pena, are so near Matamoras
that their pickets are in sight of the city.
It is reportod that some of them went into
town and bought provisions. The people
favor Diaz.
Gen. Lebarra is trying to organize a
national guard. He has had sixty men
in quarters several days, and is afraid to arm
them. They are clamoring for their pay.
The government troops are not permitted to
leave their quarters except on duty. Spies
report to Gen. Lebarra the name of every
person who visits Gen. Diaz. The revo
lution has interrupted busiuoss, and a
great numberjof horses and cattle have cross
ed to this side for protection. Gen. Diaz has
seen the order to General Ord, concerning
the revolutionists. He says it is entirely
proper, and he will endeavor not to violate
any of its provisions. Col. Potter is on the
alert to prevent any infraction of the neu
trality laws. Telegraphic communication
between Matamoras and the city of Mexico
has been interrupted, but arrangements
have been made to send messages by mail
over the gap.
AFFAIRS IN FRANCE.
Versailles, March 20 Copies of the
Budget for 1877 have been distributed amoDg
the Senators and Deputies. The revenue is
estimated at $534,400,000, and expenditures
at $533,400,000. No increase of the tax is
proposed. The preample of the Budget
says: “Our resources are not greater than
our requirements, and none of the receipts
of the Treasury can at present be spared.
The government will not avail itself of the
power to borrow $8,000,000 from the Bank
of France. v.On the contrary it will be
able to refund $5,000,000 by anticipatory
payment. The treasury will have complete
ly repaid the Bank of France by 1879. This
will set free $50,000,000 yearly. It will be
only possible to propose a serious reduc
tion of taxes after this is accomplished.”
ENGLISH MARKET.
London, March 17.—The Liverpool bread
stuffs circular says the tempestuous weather
and heavy rain and sleet have caused gen
eral complaint from the country districts,
not only for chances for sowing interrupted,
but weeks may elapse before the land can be
got into condition again. The farmers’
stocks of wheat are short and shipments
from abroad are light, with a generally re
vived demand. English has advanced a
shilling per quarter this week. Foreign on
Bpot is also rather dearer. Sellers to-day
obtained two per cent, advance on white
and from a penny to two pence on red. A
fair business has been done in com, dry par
cels of new being a shade dearer.
GRANT DENIES.
Washington, March 20.—1 t having been
charged that the confidential letter of the
Attorney General to the District Attorney,
pending the whisky trials, met with the ap
proval of the President, it is authoritatively
denied that the President ever saw the let
ter until it appeared in print.
ARMS FOR THE SOUTH.
Washington, March 17.—1n the House to
day, Hurlbut, of Illinois, from the Commit
tee on Military Affairs, reported back the
joint resolutions authorizing the issuance
of certain arms to the Washington Light
Infantry of Charleston, S. C., and the Clinch
Rifles, of Augusta, Ga. Passed.
UNEARTHING CORRUPTION.
Washington, March 17.— The number and
extent of the investigations that are being
carried on before the various Congressional
committees are unprecedented in any pre
vious Congress, as the following oartial list
will show:
The Judiciary Committee, through seve
ral sub-committees, is taking testimony in
the matter of the Belknap impeachment,
the Beardslee cadetship purchase, and of
the Texas and Pacific Railroad legislation.
The Committee on Foreign Affairs, be
sides the question of Cuban complications
in connection with the State Department,
has to grapple with the Einnu mine scandal,
which is to bo reopened early next week.
The Ways and Means Committee, in the
intervals of its discussion of the tariff bill
and giving audience to bankers in connec
tion with the funding law and to deputa
tions of the wine and spirits and other
trades, pursues an investigation into the
operations of the Alaska Fur Company.
The members of the Committee on Naval
Affairs give their whole time to the investi
gation of supposed frauds in the Navy De
partment proper aud in several navy yards.
Not more than two-thirds of the testimony
taken at Norfolk has yet been transcribed
by the stenographers, and now a sub-com
mittee is at woik at Kittery navy yard ; and
after finishing up that investigation
Charlestown Navy Yard is to be overhauled
by the same gentleman. Mr. Wells, of New
York, iu the meantime, has been pursuing,
as a committee of one, minute researches
into everything connected with the dis
cipline, and expects next week to open up
an investigation at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
This Naval Committee, with its several
branches, is accumulating material that will
make as many volumes as the Ku-Klux
outrages report.
Tho Committee on Military Aflairs finds
work enough in endeavoring to throw light
on some of the dark spots connected with
the soldiers’ tombstone contracts.
The Committee ou Printing labors quietly,
but assiduousiy, in piling up faets and fig
ures bearing on the cost of tho government
printing office, which, according to the
estimate of experts outside, is fully fifty per
ceut. more thau it ought to be, if run as a
government printing Machine.
The Committee on Expenditures in the
luterior Department of Justice are going
very deeply into the maladministra
tion of officials in Georgia and elsewhere,
and also are looking serutinizingly into the
minor expenses of their departments, par
ticularly in the matter of furniture, etc.
The Committee on Expenditures in the
War Department looms up over all the rest
by ite big bouanza discovery of the Fort
Sill Leadership. It holds daily sessions, and
is the happy hunting grounds of tho gentle
men of the press.
The select Committee on tho Freedman’s
Bank is the most methodical of the com
mittees. Ever since its appointment early
in the session it has met on alternate days
and sits from 10 till 12. The testimony
taken by it is very important, particularly
as revealing the manner in which tho funds
of the bank were frittered away iu loans
without adequate security.
Iu the Beardslee oadetship case to-dav be
fore a sub-committee of tho Judiciary Com
mittee, young Beardslee himself was exam
ined. Ho testified that on his nay to Ala
bama to make up a constructive residence,
he called at the house of Lilly, the
Washington broker who obtained
the appointment for him, and was there
introduced to Mr. Chas. Hays, of Alabama,
tho member who gave the appointment. He
said that Mr. Hays expressed the hope that
he (Beardslee) would not fail to pass his ex
amination, as the two boys whom he had
previously appointed had done. It is under
stood that Hays will submit a statement to
the committee.
Governor Campbell, the Third Asssistant
Secretary of State, appeared before the War
Expenditures Committee iu explanation of
the charge made against him iu the New
York Herald, relative to his securing the
appointment of post traderships. He denied
every reflection upon him contained in the
article. He said he had iu no manner been
connected with the sale of post traderships,
nor had any one for him.
The Republican caucus to-day unanimous
ly agreed that the necessary efficiency of the
civil service would be seriously impaired if
a sweeping reduction be made throughout
all its branches by tho application of the
reported policy of the House Committee to
set down nearly all salaries ten per cent, and
the force employed twenty per cent.; and,
also, that tho action of the House in propos
ing to abolish a number of our missions to
South America, and to reduce the salaries
of our principal ministers in Europe is uu
wise and impolitic.
INVESTIGATING SPENCER.
Washington, March 18.—The Spencer in
vestigation was renewed to-day. Robert
Barber, Clerk of the House of Delegates of
the so-called Court House Legislature, testi
fied that Sponcer prornisod him an appoint
ment as Marshal when Healey’s term ex-
Eired. The promise was made long alter he
ad begun to labor for Spencer. The night
before the election witness kept guard over
two colored Republicans, who were feared
to be disaffected. In the morning he told
them iu tho prosenee of Spencer that he
(Spencer) had made up his mind to get
them office. Spencer said he couldn’t
make a direct promise, but there was a
route agency vapaut on a Western railroad.
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question was asked if Spencer furnished
any money to take a journey to Lowndes
county, and to this ex-Senator Carpenter,
counsel for Spencer, objected, taking the
grounds that no proof can be given before
the committee showing that any onp had
been guilty of bribery; that bribery was
punishable by the State. The witness
was directed to answer the question,
and did so by stating that Sponcer furnished
one of the party three hundred dollars for
expenses. Tho reason they wont there was
to defeat a man named Stanwood, who was
an enemy of Spencer’s. Moore, the colored
man who was elected in his place, was also
entrusted to go into other counties and in
duce persons to run as independent candi
dates, tho expenses of the canvass to be
paidj by Spencer or the State Com
mittee, he forgets which. Several letters
were introduced and read, among which
was one irom Spencer dated November 24,
no year, saying: “Healey’s time soon ex
pires aud you shall have the place,” and
that “the office would be worth $5,000 a
year.” The letter adds, that in case the
United States Government has war with
Spain, Alabama will come in for a good
share of patronage, as ho (Spencer) is on
the Military Committee of the Senate, and
can thus get many offices; telling Barber
that he could get him a good place in the
army if he wanted one. The witness said
ho was appointed as Inspector of Customs
at Mobile at a salary of $2 50 per day,
although he never applied for it. He thinks
Spencer got the appointment for him. He
never went to Mobile and never rendered
any services, but drew his pay and hold the
position for three months.
The witness having mentioned the rumor
that he had heard tho Democrats offered a
member, named Jones five hundred dollars
to leave the State House Legislature and
break its quorum; was asked whether Spen
cer did not give Jones money to remain. He
in reply stated in the presence of Spencer
he once proposed that it would be well to
offer Jones $2,500 or anything else
to prevent his going, bat Spencer
did not consent. It was agreed to send to
Lowndes for a certain intimate friend of
Jones’s, which was done, and this friend’s
influence kept Jones quiet. Witness was
then asked what he knew about anybody’s
offering a Mr. Mansell an inducement to
leave the Capitol Legislature so as to break
the quorum. The question was objected to,
and a lengthy discussion ensued as to
whether it was competent for this
investigation to inquire into the
organization or non-organization of this
State House Legislature, which did
not elect Spencer. The committee closed
the doors for consultation, and finally, by a
strict party vote, decided that it would not
be competent,when decision was announced.
Gen. Morgan, counsel for the memorialists,
insisted that great wrong had been done in
ruling out this branch of his case, and asked
that the whole matter be remitted to the
Senate for its opinion on the question in
volved. The committee have agreed to admit
any and all evidence of the bribery of any
member of the Legislature by any person,
whether with or without the knowledge or
approval of Spencer, but will reserve the
question whether Spencer is affected by any
particular act of this kind that may be
proven.
THE LONDON MARKETS.
London, March 18.—Mincing L ine busi
ness has been devoid of animation through
out the week, with very moderate trans
actions at present. Quotations are generally
considerably lower than for the correspond
ing dates and past three years. There have
been no new features in sugar; good yellow
crystaiized West Indies have been readily
saleable and refining sorts steady. Planta
tion Ceylon coffee has been in better de
mand, with firmer prices; ordinary quali
ties, including Brazil, are dull and lower.
Several cargoes of new crop of Burmah rice
for spring shipments sold at higher rates.
Tea continues quiet and spices are generally
low.
WINSLOW.
London, March 18.—It is not certain that
Winslow, the Boston forger, will sail from
Liverpool for Boston on the 21st, by the
steamer Siberia. The warrant for his ar
rest has riot yet been received from tlje
British authorities. Dotective Dearborn has
received a letter from Boston, which seems
to throw the pecuniary responsibility on
him if he takes Winslow’s family home. It
is uncertain, therefore, what will be done.
A decision will probably be arrived at on
Monday.
THE CORRUPTIONISTS.
Washington, March 20.— Secretary Bris
tow will appear before the Committee on Ex
penditures of the War Department and ask
for an investigation of all the details of the
Kentucky mule claim.
Boutwell calls for a copy of his letter to
Henry Clews, asking for $60,000 for the
Pennsylvania campaign on corrupt con
ditions.
MISSISSIPPI matters.
Memphis, March 17.-—A Jackson, Missis
sippi, special says: “In the Court of Im
peachment Governor Ames appeared, by his
counsel, Thomas J. Durant, and five days
were granted for him to answer. Lieutenant
Governor Davis has resigned, and Ames
will appoint a successor. Cardoza, Super
intendent of Public Education, will also re
sign.”
CAPITAL NEWS AND NOTES.
Washington, March 20.— The Star says :
Richard H. Dana, Jr., after asking to be
heard by the Benate Committee on Foreign
Relations, has mounted his high-stepping
Harvard horse, and published a letter in
Boston which, had a plebiau written it
would have been styled impertinent He
evidently wishes to be made a martyr
of, and he will be gratified. Dana is an ac
complished, high-toned gentleman, but he
lacks common sense, and Ben. Butler is too
much for him.
Mrs. L. G. Wasson writes (at great peril
to herself, as she says,) that tho Georgia
penitentiary convicts are lashed and strained
so that several have died. Pierrepont has
sent the letter to Senator Clayton, saying it
affects the Uuited States prisoners. The
Senate Judiciary Committee will investigate
tho matter.
Mrs. Kingman, wife of E. Kingman, the
life-time correspondent of the Charleston
Courier, is dead.
The north gallery of the House, known as
the small-pox gallery, is not opened till af
ter prayer. Admission to tho other gallery
by tiekot is easily obtainable by decently
clad people.
Ex-Senator Stewart, of Emma Mine fame
is here. ’
* Contracts for tine government printing
papsr show about a cent per pound decline.
The treasury will receive fourteen tons of
silver this week.
Bristow, before the War Department Ex
penses Committee, testified that Mr. Groom,
of Kentucky, asked him to arguo a case
before tho Court of Claims. Groom, by tho
collapse of the rebellion and the failure of the
government to take the mules, lost $200,000.
ristow, for a small retainer and expenses,
and a contingent fee of ten per cent., made
the argument. He had nothing beyond
this to do with the case, except introducing
Groom to the Attorney General as a gentle
man of character and standing. Tho argu
ment was on a question of law, not of facts.
Bristow was not in office at the time of the
argument. Judgment was rendered Jan
uary 5, 1874. February 4tb, Belknap ap
proved the claim. It was made special by
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Sawyer
passed upon by Comptroller Broadhead, and
$108,750 paid February 6. [Note. — This is
unusually good time.]'
The thirty thousand dollar draft paid to a
person for Mrs. Bower by a New York bank
did not belong to PendletoD, but to a Cin
cinnati bank which had discounted it for
Pendleton.
The Star says : “ There is reason to say
sii Uulß * ar > 1116 developments do not ful
fill the expectations excited by tho first an
nouncement.”
The resolution adopted unanimously by
the Committee of Elections to tho effect
that ail Congressional Districts of tho Uuited
States must be composed of continuous ter
ritory, and as near as may be of equal popu
latiou, and that the Legislature of South
Carolina, now iu session, ought at once to
oorrect the illegal construction of the Third
Congressional District of that State, now
represented by J. L. Iloge, it is very well
understood, was intended to allow the State
tho opportunity to correct tho error hersolf,
but if tho State persists iu this unfair dis
tricting, there is no doubt that the commit
tee will feel bound to take the whole matter
into their own hands,and will act with
promptness aud decision.
capital notes.
Washington, March 20 The Senate
Railroad Committee had a full meeting this
morning, and took into consideration the
various propositions looking to the con
struction of a Pacific Railroad on tho 32d
parallel of latitude. The Texas Pacific,
known as the Scott bill, was considered in
all its bearings, as also the alternative
proposition presented by Mr. Hamilton, of
Texas, to build a road with no further sub
sidy than a land grant. Some definite ac
tion will probably be taken on Monday
next, to which time tho subject was post
poned.
In the Supremo Court, the caso of Terry
vs. Tubmou, error to the Circuit Court for
the District of Georgia, was deoided. Tho
court affirm a judgment below dismissing
the case, which was Loin action to make
tho stockholders of a bank personally liable
for its circulation bills, ou the ground that
a creditor cannot maintain separate action
in seeking to obtain his entire debt to the
possible exclusion of others similarly sit
uated, the judgment being that proper pro
ceeding is iu equity, where all the claims
can bo presented, all liabilities of stockhold
ers ascertained aud a just distribution made.
NAVAL IRREGULARITIES.
Poston, March 21.—The Herald, referring
to the labors of the Naval Investigation
Committee at Kittery Navy Yard, says it
can bo stated ou authority that the ovidenco
taken before the committee fully sustains
tho charges agaiust the institution made by
Congressman Burleigh, of the House, last
year, and reports to the contrary previously
published were entirely erroneous. The
members of the committee, Messrs.
Texas, Jones of New Hampshire,aud Bdfl
of Maine, arrived in tins city tins
and have telegraphed .Hon. B. \\ jH
of Massachusetts, also a lnuniijJfl
committee, to meet them here, jfl
Of the eoniiniUee will not lie
weeks or two months, and uIM
it is asserted that it will
parties in very
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THE NEGRO
Siekre Leone, March 17. — Tho war at
Cape Palmas is about ended. The latest
fighting was three weeks ago, when the
Grebos attacked the town of Lopman and
were repulsed with heavy loss. The United
States frigate Alaska has arrived at Cape
Palmas, and the Captain was instructed to
arbitrate between the Liberians and the
Grebos. There was to be a meeting on the
26th of February, when it was thought a
treaty would be signed. Roberts, ex-Presi
dent of Liberia, died at Monrovia oil the
24th of February, and was buried with mili
tary honors the next day.
ALFONSO.
Madrid, March 20.—King Alfonso and his
victorious troops entered the city this morn
ing amid tho enthusiastic cheering of the
immense crowds, aud shouts of “Long live
tho Pacificator King!” Cheers wero given
for Generals Quesada, Campos, Rivera, and
tho army generally. Quosada aud Campos
wore especially greeted with cries of “Long
live the defenders of liberty 1” and “Down
with tho Fueros 1” Crowns wero thrown
from the balconies and pigeons liberated.
The people crowned the soldiers as they
passed with wreaths.
CASTELA.It AND PAVIA.
London, March 20. — The Daily News's
dispatch from Madrid, giving tho details ot
the recent debate on tho address in reply to
the speech from thelthrone, says : “Pavia,
in referring to the coup d'etat of 1874, de
fends his action, aud says it was the only
course left open to save the country from
still greator dangers, and he alone was re
sponsible for that step, Senor Oastelar be
ing unwilling to act. Senor Oastelar said,
in reply, that if he had been aware of what
was intended, he should have been justified
in ordering Pavia to be shot.”
HEAVV FALL OF SNOW.
Memphis, March 20. — Since seven o’clock
last evening to one o’clock this morning
ten inches of snow havo fallen aud it is
still snowing. The street cars have stopped
running and trains on all the roads aro de
layed. Tho streets aro full of improvised
sleighs. Such a snow storm was never wit
nessed here before the one of last March,
which was unprecedented, only measuring
eight inches. Tho telegraph lines south are
prostrated, and it is not known how far
south the storm extended.
PBEPABING TO UNLOAD.
Boston, March 17.—A conference of
prominent Itepublicans was held at Worces
ter yesterday. Between thirty and forty per
sons were present from different parts of
the State. It is understood that the object
of the meeting was to secure a State dele
gation to the National Convention which
will give the voico of Massachusetts for a
candidate whose character will be a guar
anty of purity and ability. In reference to
the candidates for the Presidency, a ma-’
jority of those who expressed their views
favored Bristow or Adams.
spenoeb’s case.
Washington, March 20.—The committee
announced a ruling in the Spencer case, that
evidence offered to show what means were
u-ed to prevent members of the Court
House Legislature from going over to the
capitol body and thus breaking the former’s
quorum, is not within the range of testi
mony that can properly be taken by this
committee.
CALEB p.
Montbeal, March 17.— W. Marsh, of I- 1
linois, Caleb’s brother, is here with a vietf
to Caleb’s return to Washington.
The Only Way to Conquer Dyspepsia-
It is perfectly preposterous to introduce pepsin
and other artificial solvents into the store;:. ;, in
the expectation that they will assist digest; by
acting on the food itself. They will not. Nor is
it possible thus to overcome dyspepsia. The only
way to conquer that disorder and prevent the
numerous diseases and disabilities which it a.-- r
edly provokes, is to renew the activity of gastric
action by strengthening the stomach. Dostetter -
Stomach bitters eradicates the most in 1 .. ••
forms of indigestion by restoring vitality to the
alimentary organs and those which ar- trib-.t. y
to them. The liver, the bowels, the kidneys 1
the nerves, no less than the stomach, experience
the invigorative effects of that standard to; ,
which possesses alterative properties that gr< :ly
enhance its beneficial influence, and give a per
manence to its effects which they would not
otherwise possess. - '■
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Plain Talk.
There is a preservative principle in Sozodont
that effectually preserves the teeth from decay.
Chemists pronounce it wholesome. Rich and
poor endorse it. No lady ever tried it without
approving its cleansing and purifying properties.
It outsells all other dentifrices. Ask for it, and
take no substitute. *
Every live man believes in Spalding’s Glue.
mhl&-Sa,Tu,Th&wl J
Choleba.— No danger from/cholera if the
liver is in proper order and’ ordinary pru
dence in diet is observed. The
taking of Simmons’s Liver Regulator to
keep the system healthy, will surely prevent I
attacks of cholera. mhl7-F,M,WAwI i