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la Grant Not to Blame ?
Some of the Radical organa endeavor
to relieve Grant from his ahare of the
infamy of the recent disclosures of whole
sale fraud and corruption in the govern
ment by asserting that the President has
been surrounded by unworthy men. Ad
mitting th character of hia subordinates,
it must also be admitted that they are men
of nia own aelecting. But thia plea won’t
do. Grant haa been Burrounded by
knavea of hia chooaing, bat if he haa not
participated, aided and abetted in their
villainy, be haa permitted them to use
the offices and the powers of the gov
ernment to consummate their crimes,
content to ahare in the spoil. Instead of
remaining at hia post and faithfully dis
charging the duties for which he haa re
ceived double, and more than double the
compensation of any of his predeces
sors, he has spent a large portion of
hia time at hia luxurious gift cottage at
Long Branch with boon companions, or
in perambulating over the country from
Cape Cod to Balt Lake, exhibiting
himself to the gaping populace, and
reveling and feasting with his flatter
ers, leaving the government for months
together to be administered by such
men as Babcock, Landanlet Williams and
Boss Shepherd. Grant ia guilty, either
by commission or omission. He ia either
a participant in the corruption that has
been brought to light, or it is justly
chargeable to his neglect of duty. His
friends cannot relieve him from both
horns of the dilemma.
The Bavannah News ia worried that we
are so ready to have the people read the
leaae evidence that we have printed
fifteen or twenty thousand copies and
furnished them free to the press. We
now propose to furnish the supplements
free to the Savannah News, which has
neither had the journalistic enterprise
nor the sense of justice to give all the evi
dence to all its readers. As an additional
liberality we will add to the supplements
copies of the Bavannah News’ receipts to
ex-Governor Brown and the lessees. — At
lanta Constitution.
The Savannah News is neither worried
nor surprised that Joe Brown’s five-thou
sand-doliar organ is so ready to have the
people read the lease evidence. As it is no
doubt well paid for printing fifteen or
twenty thousand copies of its supple
ment, it can afford to furnish them “free
to the press ” This sort of “journalistic
enterprise” is in accordance with its in
terests and its “ethics.” We must, how
ever, decline its offer to furnish the News
with the evidence in detail of the bribery
and corruption by which the lease ring
sought to create a false public opinion in
favor of their stupendous fraud. If the
Constitution is proud of its ill-gotten
gains, and desires to blazon its own
shame, beyond the unenviable notoriety
it hss already achieved, it must seek
some other avenue to the public than the
columns of the Mornino News.
Nullification of the New York Immi
gration Laws.
The decision of the Supreme Court rela
tive to the emigration lawn of New York
may be regarded as virtually and final
ly abolishing the emigrant establishment
of that State. All State laws undertak -
ing to prescribe conditions relative to the
lauding of emigrants, or imposing taxes
upon shipping for supporting the execu
tion of such enactments, are declarod by
this decision to be in opposition to the
Constitution of tho United States, which
it is determined reserves all such rights
to Congress alone. This boing the case,
the emigrant establishment at the port of
New York must be abandoned aud the
Emigrant Commission be dissolved, for
the fuuds for their support yan be no
legally collected
vvwTmpßmuei 1 1 are rendered null and
void.
The New York Bulletin, commenting
on the deoision of the court, says; “We
are not disposed to regret this result.
The emigration laws have long been a
burthen to the shipping trade of the
port, and their execution has been ac
companied with an unsavory odor. The
value of the services rendered by the ven
erable institution at Castle Garden have
certainly borne no correspondence to
their cost; and it is doubtful whether
they have not been offset by evils fur
exceeding the good accomplished.”
So Dnn Sickles is to be investigated for
procuring the purchase of a lot of rifles
by the Spanish Government. This double
delinquency of huckstering on his official
influence, and acting as a purveyor of
arms for a foreign government when he
did not know how soon these arms might
be turned on his own countrymen, would
perhaps have never come to light, if
Sickles had not been obliged to sue liis
employer for his commission, $20,000.
These Democratic committees think
Ministers are not sent abroad and paid
by the government to negotiate such
matters. How unreasonable the Demo
crats are, to bo sure. They cut down a
fallow’s salary, and then forbid him to
eke it out by the sale of post-traderships,
contracts and such.
Virginia Refuses to Tax Churches.—
The supplemental tax bill in relation to
exemptions wrh considered in the Vir
ginia House of Delegates on Saturday
last. Among other things the bill pro
vided for taxing churches and church
property in excess of the value of $.->,OOO.
After an-auimated debate this clause was
stricken out by a vote of 73 yeas to IS
nays, the effect of which is to exempt,
as heretofore, all church property. This
aotion of the Virginia House of Delegates
is exactly the reverse of that of the Mary
land House of Delegates, which last week
voted by a large majority against exempt
ing churches and church property, charit
able and benevolent institutions from
taxation under the revenue and tax bill
still pending.
If it were not that the term of Radical
control of the Federal Government will
soon expire, we would urge upon Con
gress the passage of a law making it
the duty of the President to cause to be
published a complete list of all the ofii
oes of the government from Secretary of
State down to tide waiter, and offer them
from time to time to the highest bidder.
Iu order that there might be fair compe
tition we would make it a condition that
the bidding should be public, and that no
straw bids be allowed. Brothers-in-law
and other Presidential kin and favorites
might be allowed a share of the proceeds,
but should not be permitted to carry on
a brokerage business in connection with
official appointments.
Sate Bubolabt axd Real Estate
Pool. —Colonel Whitely, late Chief of
the Secret Service, and Major Richards,
Chief of Police, had an interview with
Hon. Proctor Knott, of the House Ju.
diciary Committee, on Thursday night in
regard to the Harrington safe burglary.
It is undertood that Whitely made a
st*tetu°'it aud implicated several promi
i hr- Deputy Serseant-at
tlouse, uu as a subpoena
i... Jid VlmArthur to appear before
the Real Estate Pool Committee, reports
fiat he is uuable to find him, the Judge
having left the city temporarily.
The Centennial Show.
Our telegraphic dispatches have given
ns an outline of the programme of the
opening of the Centennial in Phila
delphia, from which we learn that it is
proposed to invite the “end men” in ail
the profeasiona, and to have a remarka
ble and representative turnout. A great
turnout of troops is anticipated. About
forty regiments are already promised,
although all will not be pres
ent at the (opening. What to do
with the military is a problem of serious
moment, and divers camping grounds are
suggested. The opening will be on the
10th of May, six weeks from next Wed
nesday, and the exhibition will close on
the l!Hh of October, the centenary of the
surrender of Yorktown. It is expected
that the Centennial will bring many Euro
pean capitalists to this country, who will
invest in our mining districts. They pre*
fer to look at the bonanzas in person,
and not depend on foreign ministers,
professors of chemistry and agents gen*
erally. There will be a great running up
and down the land during the summer,
and Philadelphia will receive more visitors
than ever before. Of.course the people of
that patriotic and fraternal city antici
pate a rich harvest. In thia expectation
they will probably not be entirely disap
pointed. It would be strange indeed if,
after having enlisted the patriotic senti
ment of the country, and laid the people,
the States, the Federal Government and
the rest of the civilized world under con
tribution, their show should not be a
success. It certainly will be the great
attraction, the sensation of the Centennial
year, and but for the general paralysis
and scarcity of money that prevails
throughout the land, the attendance dur
ing the exhibition would be immense,
and the amount of money expended in
Philadelphia might be coanted by mil
lions. As it is, hundreds of thousands
will flock to the great Centennial, and if
the affair is conducted in an acceptable
manner—if, in its inauguration, a liberal
unsectarian spirit is manifested by its man
agers, and if itis not made an opportunity
for extortion upon the visiting public,
it will receive a generous support from
the American people, and will exert a
most beneficial influence on the political
and social life, as well as upon the mate
rial interests of the country.
For ourselves, we have taken no stock
in the Philadelphia Centennial jubilee,
as such, feeling as we have that venera
tion for the “principles of seventy
six” had really very little part in
the inspiration of the scheme,
mil we have expressed our disgust at the
disgraceful manoeuvring by which the
Federal Government has been laid under
contribution in the interests of the Cen
ennial Stock Company. Nevertheless,
ts an exhibition of the national progress
iu art, manufactures, mechanical skill
and agriculture, we wish it eminent suc-
It is clear, says the New York Tribune,
from the financial statement of the
French Government that it is determined
to pursue the honest, prudent policy
vhich has tended so much to revive the
uational credit. Estimating the revenue
for 1877 at $533,400,000, and the expen
diture at $1,000,000 less, it proposes
neither to increase nor diminish taxa
tion. It tells the French people frankly
that there is no prospect of lighter taxes
until 1871), when it is expected that the
loan from the Bank of France (originally
$300,000,000) will have been rerepaid. It
is probable that this scheme will be sus
tained by the new Legislature. Although,
says the Tribune , the revenue required is
about $220,000,000 greater than our own,
the French people do not complain. For
the very good reason that they have no
whisky rings in France • the government
i.i to highest bidd^aa
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run by hordes SK knav,\ .Frpet-bag
officials protected by the military in
plundering, insulting and oppressing the
people.
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Information received from many dif
ferent sources renders it certain that a
large portion of the reports of gold dis
coveries in the Black Hills are greatly
exaggerated, and have been set afloat by
interested parties for selfish purposes.
The St. Paul Dispatch has private advices
from a trustworthy gentleman who has
been exploring the southern portion of
that region, and who says that the ac
counts of gold digging there are fabrica
tions, sent abroad by persons in Custer
City who are interested in outfitting and
transportation. He found a large popu
lation, but no gold. There is probably
some gold in the northern part of that
country, but it has yet to be shown that
it will pay the miner to get it, leaving out
of account the risk to his scalp, which
intrusion upon the land of the Sioux en
tails. Disappointed gold seekers are
now returning from the black Hills in
large numbers—there are many others
who will be fortunate if they are ever
able to return.
The Savannah News speaks of what
the “honest papers” of Georgia say about
the lease. We did not before know that
the standard of honesty in Georgia was
the approval of, or the agreement with,
the Savannah News. —Joe Brown's At
lanta Organ.
Bea little more particular if you please.
We did not speak of what the “honest pa
pers of Georgia say about the lease.’
The lease is one thing aud the accepting
if a subsidy from the lessees is another.
Honest people may entertain different
views of the policy of the lease, but in re
gard to the subsidy businesses disclosed in
•.he testimony before the Investigating
Committee, there is among honest people
and “honest papers” a very general con
currence of opinion. Joe Brown’s or
gan has a good deal yet to learn about
the “standard of honesty in Georgia.” Of
one thing it may be assured, and that is
that the standard of honest journalism is
not regulated by its system of “ethics.’
The editor of the Bainbridge Democrat,
whom we have always looked upon as
possessing unusually keen perceptions,
sees fit in the last issue of his paper to
reprint and endorse an editorial from the
Atlanta Constitution in which an attempt
is made to make the Morning News re
sponsible for a statement in regard to
Mr. Hill made by some Washington letter
writer. The fact that this publication
by the Democrat is unaccompanied by
our reply thereto leads us to believe that
our friend in thus endorsing the Consti
tutions article is prompted by some other
feeling than a desire to defend Mr. Hill.
It is the evidence of this feeling that we
regret, and not the publication of the
article itself, for the purpose of the latter
could not be plainer if the editors of the
Constitution had prefaced it by a formal
statement that it was a deliberate attempt
on their part to misrepresent the Morn
ing News.
A bill to prohibit the sale of intoxica
ting liquors within four miles of the
California University is called by a San
Francisco paper “an act to promote pe
destrianism among students."
The recent census gives these figures :
New York, 1,060,000, Philadelphia, 800,-
000; Brooklyn, 507,000; St. Louis, 450,-
000; Chicago, 410,000, Boston, 340,000;
San Francisco, 250,000.
The Cartemille Express and Free
• Discussion.
Last week the Express contained a
communication from a prominent gentle
man followed by editorial remarks of our
own favoring H. V. Johnson for Gov
ernor. The two were a reflection of the
sentiment of a large number of people
throughout the State. The object was
to place Mr. Johnson before the people
as a gentleman fit for the position, and
present him as one of the leading men
from whom the people might se
lect a Governor. With this view we
wrote private notes to the editors of the
Augusta, Savannah, Macon, Colum
bus, Atlanta and Athens papers, making
a personal request that they give the
friends of Gov. Johnson a showing and a
hearing through their columns by the
republication of the article. Of course
the question of complying with the re
quest was a matter merely of courtesy as
between those papers and the Express.
It was a courtesy we should certainly
have extended to the humblest of the
fraternity, but was denied us so far
except that the Constitution republished
an extract from the article.
Now. we refer to the matter to show
how fearful these papers are
of free discussion, especially when it
brings forward a gentleman for Governor
whose very name in such connection is
calculated to arouse the enthusiasm of
the people, and against his record aught
can be said except that it is one of politi
cal splendor. We understand by such a
refusal to extend a courtesy politely
sought that it is not intended by these
presses that Gov. Johnson or his friends
shall have a showing, however large a
class of the honest people of Georgia are
to make him Governor. The request
though made in a few words, was so po
litely made that we had no idea it would
be denied if for no other reason than for
personal considerations.
This is not what we call free discussion
among Democrats. It doesn’t show a dis
position for the people to have a fair
chance in makiDg up their choice in the
selection of a Governor. It means that
these papers are determined the people
shall have no choice except such as they
(the editors) themselves select and advo
cate in their columns. —CartersvUle Ex
press.
It is hardly necessary for us to assure
our old friend and esteemed cotemporary
of the Cartersville Express that in neg
lecting to comply with his request to
publish a communication from his paper
with the accompanying editorial, pre
senting the claims of ex-Governor
Herschel V. Johnson to the Democratic
nomination for Governor, we designed
no discourtesy to him or to the friends
of Governor Johnson.
W e have up to this time considered the
agitation of the Gubernatorial question
by the press as premature, and, partaking
as it necessarily does of a personal char
acter, calculated not only to do injustice
to gentlemen who have been or may be
named in connection with the nomina
tion, but also to embarrass rather than
promote the interests and harmony of the
Democratic party. The intimation of the
editor of the Express that neglect to
comply with his request is an indication
of unwillingness on the part of those
editors to whom it was addressed, to al
low “the people a fair chance in
making up their choice in the
selection of a Governor,” and of a deter
mination by those papers “that the peo
ple shall have no choice, except such as
they (the editors) themselves select and
advocate in their columns,” is as unjust
as it is illogical. It is for the very reason
that we desire that the people shall be
left free to exercise their calm, dispas
sionate judgment in the selection of a
candidate for Governor, that we have ab
stained from the expression of any prefer
ence of our own, and from a course which
might elicit personal criticism and excite
animosities and resentments calculated
to produce discord and perhaps disorgani
zation in the party, thus imperiling the
vital interests of the State. No citizen
has been named in connection with the
Governorship with any reasonable pros
pect of obtaining the nomination whom
we wmlmm;
HMHB'd Democrats, equally qual
Tue'PiUr the position, who have
not 4been named and who perhaps have
never contemplated being candidates,
who, if the choice of ,the people should
fall on them, we would support with equal
satisfaction. But we have expressed no
preferences of our own, leaving the mat
ter just where our cotemporary of the
Express seems so desirous it should be
left—with the people.
\Ve submit that in pursuing this
course up to the present time, we have
given no just ground for the charge
made against us by the Express of a de
termination to dictate in the choice
of a candidate for Governor. On the
other hand, the joint movement proposed
by our cotemporary would have looked
very much like a combined effort on the
part of the papers indicated by him
to dictate the candidate for Gov
ernor. We did not conceive that the
emergency called for such a movement,
and with assurances of our most courte
ous regards, we must ask our cotempo
rary of the Express to allow us to exercise
our own judgment in such matters.
Too Much Colton.
Bishop Pierce, in a letter from Texas
to the Southern Christian Advocate , of
fers the following rational advice to his
Southern countrymen :
Verily King Cotton, like other kings, is
consuming the substance of the people.
Prosperity in this article of production,
it seems, “tendeth to poverty.” Avery
heavy crop has been made, and yet the
people are on the “ragged edge” of in
solvency. The more we make the poorer
we grow. A.nd yet the desperate bet is
laid on another crop, in the face of ten
years’ unbroken uniformity of results.
The heathen adage, “Whom the gods
mean to destroy they first make mad,”
is being actualized. No soil, no fertilizer,
no seasons, will save the country on the
line of its present agricultural policy.
The result is just as disastrous on the
virgin soil of Texas as on the wasted
lands of Georgia. The man who loses
money in making ten bags of cotton,
will lose yet more in the production of a
hundred. This is the fact in ex
perience, in spite of theory
and figuring. Forgive this epi
sode, for I am really distressed at
the prospects of the country, financially.
Bad government may destroy us and our
property, but no legislation can lift us
out of the present “slough of despond,”
without home supplies. Bread and meat
must be made, not bought. The great
burden of expense lies right there. The
stomach costs more than the back.
Make bread, raise meat, live at home, be
self-supporting. Neither inflation, nor
contraction, nor the financial plank in the
coming platform, will save us. Help
must come out of the ground, in bread
stuffs. You may go to Texas —all cotton
will swamp you ; you may stay in Geor
gia and grow fat and rich on peas, pota
toes, wheat and corn. Let us fill our gar
ners with all manner of store ; then our
oxen will be strong to labor, our sheep
will bring forth thousands; then there
will “be no breaking in nor going out” in
quest of food—plenty and peace will
hush “complaining in our streets,” and
we shall be a happier and better people.
The London Lancet directs attention to
the great value of chloride of lead as a
deodorizer. It is prepared by dissolving
half a drachm of nitrate of lead in a pint
or more of boiling water, and pouring
the solution into a bucket of water in
which two drachms of chloride of sodium
have been dissolved. When the sediment
has subsided, the clear supernatant fluid
is a saturated solution of chloride of lead.
A cloth dipped in this solution, and
hong up in a room, will instantly sweeten
a fqstid atmosphere; or, if the solution be
thrown down a sink, water closet or drain,
or over a heap of dung or refuse, a like
result will ensue.
Diamonds are no longer trumps, says
the St. Louis Republican, among the
wives of Washington officials. They
turn ’em down now till the flurry is over.
LETTER FROM JACKSONVILLE,
Onr Western tinests—Their Reception In
Florida—lncidents. Accidents and In
stances—Peter .McC'onlhe and Lather
Jones— Begging as a Scientific Sin—
. Midnight lavaders—All Alike In the
Same Familv —One, Two, Three.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Jacksonville, March 23, 1876.
RECEPTION OF THE EXCURSIONISTS.
We have not devoted as much attention
to the presence in Florida of the Western
tourists as the occasion at first blush
would seem to require, for the reason
that the personnel and general
features of the party have been
made the subjects of extended no
tices in the Morning News already.
Probably two hundred and fifty of our
visitors reached the city by Tuesday, and
were the recipients of a cordial reception
by a committee of citizens at Metropoli
tan Hall on that day. Capt. W. Stokes
Boyd, as chairman, briefly welcomed
them, and introduced Mej. A. J. Bussell,
who, with characteristic eloquence, ex
tended a hearty welcome to them, ‘ as
brothers of our great nation and as
citizens of the Northwest.” Mr. Wilk
Call followed, and expressed the
pleasure which it afforded him to
greet them in the name of the citizens of
Jacksonville, and hoped that they would
return to their homes with agreeable
memories of Florida and Floridians.
Next came ahe whom Pollock hath de
scribed. Pity pretorial Randall prettily:
whether as a Radical justice or before the
public gaze, he invariably encounters
contumelious treatment and excites con
tempt. See any one of the excursionists
for explanation of this paragraph.
Mr. W. P. Horton, of the Cleveland
(Ohio) Exchange, responded, and in
behalf of the delegations from his State
thanked his auditors for the gratifying
reception with which they had been greet
ed. Mr. W. C. Buchanan then addressed
the meeting, returning thanks for the
hearty cheer vouchsafed to the party,
and committing the visitors to the care
of the gentlemen of Jacksonville. When
Mr. Geo. C. Burroughs, of Cincinnati,
begins by stating that he is a Republican
we put our hands behind us, when he
says he is a Northern Republican our
arms commence to moye forward,
but when he concludes his speech
with the following manly sentiments we
can scarcely refrain from publicly em
bracing him: “Upon our journey hither
we pursued the line of Sherman’s march
pretty closely. We beheld the devastation
of war, the paralyzed industries of Com
monwealths, and can admire the fortitude
with which your people returned to their
destroyed homes to grapple with des
tiny aud work out the problem of
national existence. But burnt homes
are not all the horrors entailed by
conflict, for in subjugating the South
we have lived to see the robes
of purity trailing deep in the mire of
corruption, dishonesty and turpitude in
high places, crime defying the law, offi
cial dishonor,national degradation and hu
miliation; these are the heritages we have
won,” aud the ascendency of the nig
ger, “and when they are obliterated we
will be one people indeed.” The remarks
of Mr. Burroughs elicited the most
hearty applause. Mr. J. J. Hickman, of
Atlanta, in response to a call, delivered a
very happy, but short speech, and
gave way for Mr. Howe, of the
Detroit Common Council, who discoursed
humorously, and among other good things
said that the excursionists did not visit
the South for the purpose of shaking
paws over a big ditch or yawning abyss,
but they came here to enjoy themselves
and see the country, and were heartily
gratified by the manner in which they
had been received. Mr. Howe’s references
were peculiarly well-timed, and it is a
grievous error that some people fall into
to suppose that we administer to the
comfort of our guests by fustian
orations about a “bloody chasm,” or
by dosing them with endless volumes
of immigration pamphlets with an inti
mation that we think them a very fine lot
of people but awfully misled by staying
in such a terribly poor locality as they
hail from. These gentlemen do not come
here to invest in lands or to depopulate
their own sections, but ari, in their sev
eral capacities, representative men on a
pleasure tour, and it is our duty simply
to extend them unlimited courtesies au^j
Sr
their sojourn enjoyable. On Tuesday
night the Nicholls and Windsor Hotels
indulged in a grand “hop” each in honor
of the party. The rest of the tourists
arrived here yesterday, some by the
steamer Dictator, which w r as detained in
consequence of rough weather, and some
by rail. They have scattered off into
small parties—one going in one direction
and another in another. St. Augustine,
Palatka and Tallahassee are the principal
objective points. The chairmen of the
several delegations met yesterday at
the Grand National and passed reso
lutions of thanks to the Slate
of Georgia through its Governor,
to the city of Atlanta through its Mayor,
and to the citizens of Savannah and Jack
sonville, to Mr. W. H. White, of Atlanta,
Mr. B. W. Wrenn, the gentlemanly rep
resentative of railroad interests, to Dr.
Owens and Mr. J. J. Hickman, of Atlan
ta, and the managers of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, for courtesies
and hospitality. Capt. Vogel and Purser
Chase, of the Dictator, received two
handsome presents on Weduesday from
the grateful members who came as pas
sengers on thii steamer. The excur
sionists are one and all in a charmingly
genial humor, and delighted with their
sojourn. *
STILL BUNS THE RACE.
We hold it as a self-evident proposition
that two dead animals will cause a more
offensive odor than one, and the imagina
tive youth of the earth can imagine how
severely the task of noting the proceed
ings of a nigger convention on Tuesday
evening taxed our powers of endurance.
One delegate proposed that the “fust
ballut” be an informal one, and this
brought another darkey up who asked to
be “inform ’bout dat inform ballut.” At
this juncture the atmosphere of the room
was suffocating, but Cato Lee cleared
away the mist somewhat by thunder
ing forth, “Seem’s if some folk cum
to dis convenshun wid dar hand
tied and a kancuf on their mouf.” An
indiscreet white participator suggested
the name of Luther McConihe as the
nominee for Mayor, but Nattiel, a black
orator, jerked himself to the floor and
said that he hoped the name of “Mc-
Conihe will die as a pancake.” The smell
about this time began to grow loud.
After considerable unsuccessful balloting
the choice fell upon Peter Jones, the
present incumbent, who was declared
duly nominated for Mayor. The re
mainder of the officers selected, out
not yet elected, consisted of an
intermixture of whites and negroes and
one ridiculous nondescript in the person
of J. W. Archibald, who became a candi
date for Alderman. We propose to dis
cuss the peculiarities of this ticket more
at length hereafter. The contest, as far
as it relates to the Mayorality, lies at
present between three contestants, viz:
Luther McConihe, Peter Jones and Gen.
E. Hopkins, It is currently reported that
another ticket will be put into the field
immediately, and the battle will have
fairly commenced then. In the municipal
election we are pleased to observe at
least five aspirants for the same office. It
operates against harmony, but it compen
sates in liveliness for whatever it may
lack in order. No national or State ques
tion is to be determined by the result,
and hence the amusing qualities of the
campaign are all that can be looked to
for relief. Motto for every intelligent
voter: vote as you please. Motto for
every illiterate suffragan : vote as you are
paid to vote. It may be a notable fact
that the greater number of the ward dele
gates to the convention the other night
are drawn as jurors for the United
States Court. This may be a purely ac
cidental circumstance, but the nomina
tion of the Clerk of the Court for Col
lector may lead us to suspect design. We
will investigate this anon. It is under
stood that large orders for deodorizers
have been recently telegraphed, the sup
ply having become whofly exhausted.
BBAW>*T BEGGABS.
The inventive faculty of Cuffee has
been often observed, and the fertility of his
expedients frequently commented upon.
He has lately created anew method of
replenishing his depleted finances, which
certainly indicates shamelessness, if it
does not betoken genius. The
plan is for a robust negro to
accost a gentleman in the
street and ask if you know where
he can find employment, and upon being
answered in the negative, he states that
he is suffering for food, and pleads for
ten oents to assist him. In this small
way some of these scamps contrive to
prey upon the public, and, as far as our
information goes, there are about eight
of them infesting tbe city at this writing.
They never discover any work, and
are becoming an unbearable pest
to strangers and a disgrace to the place.
This is Bot written with any hope of cor
recting the evil, but with the intention
of cautioning the citizens against this
imposition.
A GOOD CHOKE.
Was it not Baron Bunsen who said of
Sontag that the music of “loconde” was
inferior to her voice ? It is unnecessary
to enter into argument as to whether he
did or did not, but we merely desire to
record a counter statement to the effect
that the music and the voices of the
nocturnal brawlers of Jacksonville are
su; rior to nothing. Of all calami
ties in the category of ills deliver
us from the plagues who carouse about
like demons in the rear of town, and dis
turb the slumbers of our people. This
evil has existed just long enough to pro
duce a semblance of anger, and idots,
who have no respect for the rights of the
respectable citizens, are not worthy of a
moment's merciful consideration. Cannot
the police force bestir itself about midnight
some time and imprison a cage full of
these vagabonds. Among the other
privileges guaranteed to residents by the
Constitution is the right to sleep unmo
lested, but the reptiles we complain of
do not seen: ‘o be inclined to sleep at all,
and appear determined to let no one else
do so.
A PROJECTED LAND GRAB.
Our little bird communicates some
mysterious intelligence concerning a
colossal real estate swindle, which was to
be manipulated by the unprincipled
managers of the late morbific society
known as the “Florida Fruit Growers’
Association.” In case the concern re
fuses to submit to exorcism we may
elucidate this venture at some future
period.
st. John’s river mails.
I. '8 understood, authoritatively, that
the government contracts for carrying
thwmails on the St. John’s river have
been let to Messrs. Shirley, Hite & Cos.,
Louisville, Ky.; and that the contractors
will proceed to introduce several new ves
sels into our waters at an early date.
A COMPLETE FRAUD.
There was a traveling empiric in this
quarter who gave, during the week, a
kind of you-don’t-know-what entertain
ment, interspersed with valuable gifts,
inclusive of a horse, by a sort of lottery,
to the audience. A dozen purchasers, we
are informed, possess orders for the noble
steed, and are hunting for the animals—
the showman and the horse —with a mi
croscope and a shot-gun.
REFORMING.
The reform organizations will again
coalesce to-morrow night, and rehabilitate
one of the tickets now before the people.
Some changes will be made, though to
what extent it is impossible to ascertain.
Adrianus.
LETTER FROM JACKSONVILLE.
The Coming Campaign—^The Democratic
Candidate for Governor—Culling the
(toll —A List of Prominent Gentlemen.
[From an Occasional Correspondent.]
Jacksonville, March 25.
Florida has good material out of which
to make statesmen, legislators and j urists.
Her past history illustrates the fact that
men “moved, and lived, and had their
being” in the “Land of Flowers.” It is
not necessaiy to go into the remote days
of Ponce de Leon and De Soto, or of
the Spanish Governors (many of whom
were able men), to prove the assertion.
It is demonstrable under the American
regime. Let us take a hasty view -.
GENERAL HERNANDEZ,
the first delegate to the Congress of the
United States ?<om the Territory of
Florida, a cavalier of the purest Castilian
blood, was a gentleman of splendid edu
cation, cultivation and attainments
—possessing courtly manners and
address, - acquired by long residence in
Europe, where he moved in the best
society and became a thorough Spanish,
French and English scholar.
Mfi White, his successor, as the author
of “White’s Compilation of the Civil
Law,” which has become standard ar.-
■toity in all civilized co;S„r
Bumclently as an author
and a jurist to require more than a pass
ing notice.
Colonel Downing, successor of the last
named, a son of the “Old Dominion” by
birth, was highly gifted as a lawyer and
orator, and popular on account of his
resplendent social qualities.
GOVERNOR DUVAL,
whose name is a household word in Flor
ida, is well known as a good and great
man, and whose history has been so thor
oughly “learned by heart” that it needs
no repetition, is a shining illustration of
the grandeur of Florida's men in days
“lang syne.”
But we cannot stop to dwell on a host
of names that come thronging to memory.
We can but enumerate some; Westcott,
Call, Ward, Brockenbrough, Archer, Bai
ley, Thompson, Anderson, Battzell, Bron
son, Forward, Burritt, Douglas, Doggett,
Mallory, Lancaster, Cooper and Pelot.
But, for the present, where the illustra
tion ? Must the matron point alone to
HER JEWELS OF THE PAST ?
Has she ceased to give birth to states
men, warriors, patriots, scholars and
jurists? God forbid! We point still
with pride and pleasure to those who
stand upon the confines of the world of
the past with the world of the present,
and form the connecting link between
past and present greatness. To Dupont,
Walker, Yonge, Stephens and Hawkins,
and perhaps a few more, who were kin
dred spirits with those who are
gone to beckon on in the
right path, the men of to-day,
who are pressing on to fill the ranks of
those who have fallen, and of those who
are gently, ripely, gracefully falling ? To
whom shall Florida entrust the casket of
her honor, her purity, her truth, for
good government combines all of these ?
On whom has Elijah’s mantle fallen ? We
scarcely dare enumerate even, for fear o
seeming to be invidious. If any name es
capes the enumeration here made, it will
not be because we are partial, or desire to
overlook anyone’s claim, or merits, or
wish to inflict slight or pain, or give of
fense. We love the young men of the
present age too much for ihat. We are
too great a stranger to the West to classify
its men of promise. Doubtless there are
many there. We must, however, from
ignorance, omit them. Now, for the
Middle,
We tremble to begin. All cannot
be mentioned. The test is this,
WHO WILL BE GOVERNOR ?
We want a Governor and L’ eu f en aut-
Governor. Should the lot fall on the
Middle to furnish these, or either of
these, who shall it be ? The old men
first—and foremost not only from the
Middle, but as the representative of the
whole State, we present (as we have done
before) the name of Charles H. Dupont,
the contemporary of past greatness, and
now in a vigorous old age, the embodi
ment of the same pure principles he
learned in his youth and exemplified in
his early and later manhood.
Next—David S. Walker, honest, able
and true. Often “weighed in the bal
ance, and never found wanting.”
And—George S. Hawkins, the imper
sonation of chivalry. Brilliant and grace
ful as a man and an orator. True to
every trust committed to him.
Lastly—C. C. .Yonge and S. B. Steph
ens, both pure men, and but little touch
ed by the ravages of time. Noble speci
mens of better days.
Now for the young men: James D.
Westcott, Jr. —Like Story, reaching the
bench long before most men acquire
their profession, he has sprung with a
single bound into the front rank of the
jurists of America. He is the synonym
of industry.
Robert B. Hilton—With a well-bal
anced mind, and good judgment, he is
the “Bayard” of Florida.
William D. Bloxham—-No man any
where possesses in a higher degree the
elements of true greatness than does Wil
liam D. Bloxham. Punctiliously honor
able, even to giving up his beautiful
home to his creditors (the legacy of his
father and the separate property of his
wife and children, which the law could
not reach), rather than have a stain on
the name he transmits to his children.
This is enough. ISTo more need be said.
Robert Davidson deservedly has many
fnends—with fine talents, his career must
undoubtedly he a successful one.
George P Raney—a fine speaker and
logician. Asa lawyer he probably has
no equal of his age in the State.
Pasco—A gentleman of prob
ity and uf dignified yet quiet and pleas
ant appearance and address—a good pre
siding officer and a lawyer of mark. He
would fill either position mentioned with
credit to himself, as well as to the State.
E. J. Vann—High-toned, always the
advocate of right, the friend of the op
pressed, the benefactor of the widow and
the orphan, a righteous Judge and a wor
thy President of the Senate—he has
shown himself a parliamentarian of no
mean order, and possessed of decided
executive ability.
George F. Drew—The architect of his
own fortune, by industry, energy, judg
ment and honesty he has amassed wealth;
and by his enterprise assisted largely to
develop the resources of the State. With
an extensive and complicated business,
and a great number of employes under
his direction, he exhibits flue executive
qualities. The State would be safe in
his hands.
We will defer a notice of the promi
nent Democrats of the East and South
for another letter. O. K.
A QUESTION OF ADJOURNED YE
RACITY.
A Curious Statement Regarding the Let
ter to the District Attorneys—A Muddle
for the (fnidoiines—Flat Denial of At
torney General Plerrepont’s Explana
tion— WJiat Babcock Says Aboat It.
Washington, March 21. —A singular
announcement was made in double leaded
type this morning in the Republican,
which is generally regarded as the Presi
dent’s organ. The following are the ma
terial points of this statement :
“The President, as we are reliably in
formed, never saw the now somewhat fa
mous letter of instructions to the United
States District Attorneys from Attorney
General Pierrepont until after it appear
ed in paint. It seems probable, in the
light of this explanation, that someone
not altogether disinterested may have
temporarily abstracted it from the official
records and secured its publication. How
ever this may be, it is certain that the
President did not kuow of its extstence
until after it had been published, and it
is not certain that he would have approved
of it if it had been submitted to him.”
As if to make assurance doubly sure,
the information is repeated on the first
page of the same journal in these words:
“The letter to District Attorneys from
the Attorney General, about which the
detective press has made such a fuss, and
which it has stated, with so much circum
stantiality, that the President dictated to
Mr. Pierrepont, for the purpose of res
training witnesses from testifying against
Gen. Babcock, it is now ascertained was
simply a confidential letter written by
the Attorney General, without the knowl
edge of the President and in the interest
of justice. * * * It was not intended
for publication, but it was abstracted and
printed, when the President for the first
time became aware of its existence. Had
it been presented to him before it was
mailed there is no certainty that he would
have approved it. These are the simple
facti% in the case, which the detective
press is expected to ignore without apol
ogy or amende, either to the President or
the Attorney General.”
Finally, the Star this afternoon has
this paragraph:
“It having been charged that the con
fidential letter of the Attorney General to
District Attorneys, pending the whisky
trial, met with the approval of the Pres
ident, it is authoritatively denied that
the President ever saw the letter until it
appeared in print.”
The letter to District Attorneys had
been so nearly forgotten that these state
ments would have attracted little atten
tion were it not that they so flatly con
tradict Mr. Pierrepont’s own official his
tory of the origin of the letter and the
manner of its becoming public, which he
made in these words in a letter to the
Judiciary Committee, which was pub -
lished on the 7th of March :
“About the middle of January,and sub
sequent thereto, various newspaper siips,
private letters and personal statements
came to the President, and in a lesser de
gree to the Attorney General, that bar
gains were being made or were about to
be made with criminals, whose testimony
was not in the slightest degree needed, by
which a large number of criminals were
to be let off from any kind of punish
ment ; to be relieved of persecution in a
manner likely to bring scandal upon the
administration of justice and quite at
variance with the policy expressed by the
Secretary of the Treasury and approved
merits were, la ala. go measure, amrmta
to the President, and subsequently to the
Attorney General, by one of the oldest
and most trusted supervisors in the ser
vice, and who claimed to know, from
personal knowledge upon the subject,
and especially in relation to criminals in
Chicago. * * * The President was
greatly disturbed by these varied and re
peated representations of a course so at
variance with the policy before indicated,
and he brought it to the attention of the
Attorney General, and finally suggested
that, in view of the repeated statements,
it would be well for the Attorney General
to let the district attorneys receive some
caution upon this subject, and therefore
a letter was despatched by the Attorney
General. * * * A few days later, the
President being still further pressed about
the matter, sent for the Attorney General
to learn whether he had taken any action
in the case.”
Whereupon Mr. Pierrepont says he
sent a copy of the letter to the President.
Being “amazed” afterwards at the publi
cation of the letter, he adds that he “set
himself to work to discover how the letter
found its way into print, and finally came
to the conclusion that it must have got
out through the copy sent to the Presi
dent, and he received information which
convinced him that it was so.” And
finally he says:
“I waited for the opportunity, and
have now ascertained that General Bab
cock, or someone for him who had
access to the President’s papers, obtained
a copy of the letter without any know
ledge on the part of the President, and
that the same was used in the manner
not known to all, but under whose advice
the Attorney General does not know,”
General Babcock, being asked by a
Herald reporter about the grave charge
brought against him by the Attorney
General, said on the Bth of March :
“That he had nothing to say Jin regard to
the charge made against him by Attorney
General Pierrepont. But so far as any
impropriety is concerned, there was noth
ing of the kind, he declared, in the whole
affair. In my position, said he, I came
honestly and properly by it at the White
House. There was no seal of secresy
about the Attorney General’s letter. It
was not even marked private or confiden
tial, and there was no bar to my being
informed on it and, if it interested me,
to knowing and using the purport of it.”
In reference to the matter Babcock has
since made and authorized the publica
tion of the following statement: “I found
a copy of the latter lying open upon my
desk at the Executive Mansion, Ido not
know how or by whom it came there. It
was without any envelope or direction to
anybody. It was not marked official or
confidential. There was nothing to show
that it was intended for the President, and
he informed me that he never saw it. The
copy appears to have been made in the
Attorney General’s office. Finding this
copy open and without directisn upon
my desk, I presumed it was put there for
my inspection and use, and accordingly I
placed it in the hands of my counsel for
such action as they might think proper
in regard to it.”
It is a curious muddle which is puzzling
people here and has been much discussed
to-day. The general opinion here to-night
is that, for some unknown reason, the
President has thought it expedient to
deny the share in the letter imputed to
him by the Attorney General.
Tenxie Clafeih as a Peophetess.— ln
the case of Foster, the murderer, who
was hung, I foretold his end sometime
before his execution; but then this is
nothing uncommon with me. When I
was a little thing I saw President Lincoln
riding by, when a gentleman in the
crowd raised his hat, and, like in a dream,
a coffin seemed to hover over the presi
dent. Falling back into my father’s
arms, I could hardly enunciate : “Oh !
that man will be shot in the head.” Then,
too, when I was in prison I had a conver
sation with Stokes, and through the bars
detailed the whole course of his trial and
that he would never be hung. But
speaking of this reminds me that on an
other occasion my sister and myself were
sitting in a box at the Grand Opera House
in New York, when I was informed that
Mr. Fisk wished to speak to me. As
soon as he entered, him was
a coffin, and in a haze behind followed
the form of Mansfield. I could not help
ejaculating, “Mr. Fisk, you will not live
a year, and a woman will be the cause of
your death.” —From an Interview in the
iMULae Herald
HICKORY HICKORY DOCKK4Y.
Vicissitudes of a Career—The Ghost or a
Political Chronlrleo-Mnrvelou* Inci
dents In the Pilgrimage of Frederick .1.
Fomorton— One of the Irrepressibles—
The Conquering Hero—ln the Toils.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Jacksonville, March 26, 1870.
FREDERICK A. DOCKRAY.
Look at that name. It is historical,
suggestive, riparian, picturesque and
pictorial. Your perpetual italicizer would
say that it is a darkling pun instinct
with iridescent wit; and yet there are
many individuals who affirm that the be
ing who bore this miniature poem from
the tropics to the hyperborean regions
has legally no existence, but that Frede
rick A. Fomorton has. Be this question
as it may, the unfathomable personage
known as Dockray is now under an in
dictment, and has been arrested, prob
ably at the instance of those very boon
companions who lured him to immortal
celebrity, upon a charge of clownish em
bezzlement. Able, shrewd, prepossessing,
daring, demoralizing, Dockray was first
discovered in Rhode Island, where he
attained to manhood at au early age, and
continued in a similar direction for au
indefinite period. His advent into Florida
was signalized by a tremendous upheaval,
and his exploits form
A MOST INTERESTING CHAPTER.
Falling into the hands of one of the
gubernatorial dunces of Florida, as pri
vate secretary, this guileless young man
speedily became the manager of the Radi
cal party of this State, and may be con
sidered to have been duly and truly ini
tiated into the meshes about this time.
He manipulated the potentate so satisfac
torily that he has never recovered from
the shock, and more likely than otherwise
never will. Subsequently Dockray
emerged in a foremost part in the im
peachment proceedings against a
jail-bird sailing under the title of
Governor Harrison Reed, who re
mains to this day one of his most vindic
tive persecutors. During this era our
hero, being always the innocent dupe of
designing men, commenced a political
history of Florida, a work supposed to
furnish an inside view of politics which
was said to be as strong in developments
as the interior of a venerable egg. The
Radicals have always been in dread of
this intended publication and are unceas
ing in their machinations to destroy their
unfortunate victim and deprive the
world of these fragrant expo
sures. The result of one of the
conspiracies against his quiet was
his appointment as Collector of Customs
at Jacksonville. His enemies soon had
the room piled with champagne baskets
clear to the ceiling, and then directed the
attention of his bondsmen to the frequent
carousals held within the purlieus of the
office. For some unaccountable reason
this intelligence caused his securitieihm
easiness in an eminent degree, and they
made application to be released from
responsibility.
LOSING A KEY.
The authorities at Washington now
undertook to inspect the Collector’s ac
counts, but the emissaries of Hart, Reed
and Stearns had stolen the safe key and
it could not be found for over four
months. It is said that the torture Dock
ray underwent on account of the mis
sing key was agonizing in the ex
treme, and we relate this in
cident particularly for the purpose
of manifesting what despicable means
were adopted by these villains to encom
pass the downfall of their tormented
dupe. Wnen the books were examined a
deficit of about five thousand dollars ap
peared, or did not appear, and it is sup
posed that Dockray’s enemies pocketed
this. For this defalcation he was in
dicted a year or two afterwards, and is
to be tried now. The Radical crew next
palmed off upon their unsuspecting
scapegoat about ten thousand dollars
worth of Memphis and El Paso Railroad
bonds with which he succeeded in bank
rupting the financial reputation of the
cashier of the Freedman’s Bank and
eventually drove that worthy into the ac
ceptance of a justice of the peaceship.
dockray’s traducers
say that he deluded Thomas Scott, of
Pennsylvania, into the belief that he
could secure the position of United
and thus get DOSfo?sie-x>L.
tucev. coiids, btnr'rnrirTiftllearly chimeri
cal. Of the attempt of the knavish plot
ters to decoy Frederick into the Yellow
Bluff election frauds it is unnecessary to
speak, but of the numerous funerals
which he has enjoyed we may
say sententiously that they are
prodigious. He has a happy fa
culty of dying regularly once every
quarter and of retiring finally from poli
tics twelve times aunually. Some of
his associates, upon reading a pathetic
notice of his sudden demise, “while bat
tling for his country” some fine morning,
would exclaim, “poor, poor Dockray, I
must charge that money he owes me to
post obit," and dream that Freddy was no
more. The slanderous invention of his
foes that he caused the premature no
tices of his death to be published him
self, is too transparent to deceive any
body.
RECEPTION BY ROYALTY.
In the meantime our subject-matter’s
career in this republic was terminated
temporarily of bis own volition, as he
was inclined to emigrate to Cuba. Cal
umny, like noxious weeds, doth grow,
and when most subtle makes most pious
show, and the villifiers of Frederick in
sinuate that he fled the country
to elude the indictment. The truth is,
that he was dining with a United States
functionary at Key West when the at
tempt to arrest him was telegraphically
made and the Judge persuaded Dockray
to visit Cuba. The wanderer soon pene
trated into the insurgents’ lines, where
his suavity and blandness rendered him
extremely popular. In an unluoky mo
ment he exposed himself away from the
encampment, was gobbled by the Spani
ards and sentenced to be guillotined as a
spy, but through the instrumentality of
somebody the punishment was commu
ted to being shot for life, and afterwards
altered to
BANISHMENT TO AFRICA.
The same slanderers of this perplexed
being assert that he would have been
thoroughly at home in the African wilds,
but he was transported to a doDjou keep
in Spain, from which, in due course of
time, be effected an escapade, and ex
plored the ocean on a plank until the
plank decayed. About the time he
was seriously contemplating a diet
on worms he was overhauled by an
English vessel, boarded with Moorish
bugs for several weeks, and arrived
in London without a scent. A ter endur
ing all these hardships, he startles the
Radical miscreants of Florida with ghoul
like visions of a bewildering political his
tory by returning to the United States.
But the recreant scamps, for whose ad
vancement he lavished his ingenuity and
cunning, are determined to throw every
obstacle in the way of his journey hither,
as witness this extract from a Hartford
paper of a late date :
IN HARTFORD.
“A person representing himself to be
a Deputy Marshal from Florida, accom
panied by someone whom he claimed
was the much r heard-of F. A. Dockray, ap
peared unto the Distriot Clerk in Hartford
and wanted to be forwarded to Florida at
government expense, the Marshal stating
that Dockray had been arrested on a
warrant issued in 1873 on a charge
of embezzling $5,000 while Collector
of the District of St. John’s, Florida.
This request Mr. Marvin refused to com
ply with, as also did Judge Shipman,
until the Marshal should secqre iejentifi
cation. Suspicion was aroused by the
fact that both parties desired to be sent
to Florida at once, the prisoner being
particularly anxious. The pair left for
New York to secure transportation.”
“CHARACTER.”
Dockray is now en route to this State,
but the attempt of the Radical rascals to
stay his progress, as above stated, will be
seen at a glance. They are afraid to give
Freddy the opportunity of vindicating
his character. “Character—character”—
says Treluny—“character is wat I move
on.”
Adbianus.
Bogus Bills Put in Cieculationn.—
Philadelphia, March 24.—Last night the
discovery was made that a large number
of bogus $5 bills on the Merchants’ Na
tional Bank of New Bedford, Mass., had
been put in circulation during the after
noon and evening. Three men, named
Nels, Harrison and Patteison, were arrest
ed. They had a partial hearing to-day,
and were committed for further investi
gation to-morrow.
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Huiniiinry of the Week’s Dispatches
fernanoinaTin flames.
ISpccial Telegram to the Morning News.]
Fernandina, Fla., March 24.
Avery great disaster has fallen upon Fer
nandina. About o’clock this morning a fire
broke out which rapidly grew to a confla
gration and flually culminated in the de
struction of nearly the entire business por
tion of the town.
, ORIGIN OF THE FIRE.
The fire originated in a carpenter’s shop
on Second street, and was due to careless
ness. From the carpenter’s shop the flames
spread rapidly north and south, devouring
everything in their path, including the post
office, the city and county offices, and th 6
Observer newspaper office, on Second street,
between Centre and Broome,and everything
on the north side of Centre, from Third
street to the river.
THE LOSSES.
Fifty buildings were consumed. The
losses, it is thought, will amount to one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars, about
twenty-five thousand of whieli is covered
by insurance.
A FLORIDA FRAUD.
[Special Telegrem to the Morning News.]
Ocala, Fla., March 23.
The trial of W. H. LeCain, the defaulting
Clerk of Marion county, was concluded to
day, and he was oouvicted of embezzlement.
The jury which brought in the verdiot was
composed of four white and eight colored
men.
STATES RIGHTS ASD UNITED
STATES RIGHTS.
The Grant Parish Case.
SYNOPSIS OF CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE’S
OPINION.
The Enforcement Act a Prarticnl
Nullity.
Washington, March 27.
THE INTENT MUST APPEAR.
The opinion delivered by Chief Justice
Waiie in the Grant Parish case is substan
tially as follows :
The offenses provided for in the statute
do not copsist in the mere banding in con
spiracy, but their banding and conspiring
with the intent or purpose spociliod. To
bring this caso und9r the operation of the
statute, it must appear that the right the
conspirator intended to hinder was one
granted by the Constitution or laws of the
United States. If it does not so appear, the
criminal matter charged has not been made
indictable under the acts of Congress.
states rights and united states rights.
The opinion then goes on to show the dif
ferent rights of citizens of tho States, and
of the United States. It is the duty of the
State to see that its citizens are protected in
the right to peacefully assemble for peace
ful and lawful purposes. Tho Constitution
forbids the government from abridging this
right. The right of bearing arms for law
ful purposes must be seen to by the States,
the Constitution Bimply providing that Con
gress shall not infringe its sovereignty. To
protect lives and property lies exclusively in
the States.
THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT.
The fourteenth amendment prohibits
States from depriving any person of certain
rights, but this adds nothing to the rights
of one citizen as against another. The only
obligation of tho United States is to see
that the States do not deny the right the
amendment guarantees, but no more. The
power of tho United States is limited to tho
enforcement of this guarantee. No ques
tion arises under the civil rights acts, be
cause there is no allegation in these counts
that the wrong contemplated against the
rights of these citizens was on account of
race or color. Wo may suspect that race
was the cause of the hostility, but it is not
averred.
A BREACH OF PEACE.
The whole charge as made is nothing
more than a conspiracy to qominit, ft
"oPlte peace within a State. It will certainly
not be claimed that the United States have
the power to perform mere police duty
within the States. We are, therefore, of
the opinion that the Ist, 2d, 3d, 4tb, 6th,
7th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 14th and 15th
counts are not indictable under tho laws of
the United States.
TUE INDICTMENT FAULTY.
In the sth, Bth, 13th aud 16th couuts,
where the allegation occurs as to the ne
groes, the indictment is faulty iu uot speci
fyiug the acts with sufficient particulars to
enable the accused to prepare his defense,
and the conclusion is irresistible that these
counts are too vague.
MORTON’S SANGUINE SHIRT.
Washington, March 27. —The following
is the proposition offered by Mr. Christiancy
and accepted by Mr. Morton as a substitute
for the latter’s resolution relating to affairs
in Mississippi:
Whereas, It is alleged that the late elec
tion in Mississippi, in 1875, for members
of Congress and State officers, and members
of the Legislature, was characterized by
great frauds committed on, and violence ex
ercised towards, the colored citizens of that
State, and the white citizens disposed to
support their rights at the election, and
especially that colored voters on account of
their color, race or previous condition of
servitude, were, by intimidation and force,
deterred from voting, or compelled to
vote contrary to their wishes for candidates,
aud in support of parties to whom
they were opposed, and their right to the
lree exercise of the election franchise, as se
cured by the fifteenth amendment to the
Constitution, thus practically denied and
violated, and that such intimidation has
been since continued for the purpose of af
fecting future elections; and, whereas, the
people of all the United States have au in
terest in and a right to insist upon the en
forcement of this constitutional amendment,
aud Congress having power to enforce by
appropriate legislation, cannot properly
neglect the duty of providing the necessary
legislation for this purpose ; therefore,
Resolved, That a committee of five Sena
tors be appointed by the chair to investigate
tho truth of these allegations, and to in
quire how far these constitutional rights
have, in the said election, been violated by
force, fraud or intimidation, and to inquire
aud report to tho Senate before the end of
the present session whether any, and if so,
what further legislation is necessary to
secure to said colored citizens the free en
joyment of their constitutional rights, and
that said committee be empowered to visit
said State, to send for persons and papers,
to take testimony on oath and to use all
necessary processes for these purposes.
BELKNAP—MARSH—PENDLETON.
W ASUINGTON, March 24.—Marsh read tho
Fort Sill exposure published in tne Tribune
to Belknap in 1872. They both wondered
who wrote it. Belknap thought it was Gen.
Hogen. Marsh fled to Canada for fear of a
criminal prosecution. Mrs. Marsh has known
Mrs. Bowers since 186 R She resided at
the Burnet House, Cincinnati, four years.
She and Mrs. Bowers were in company
three weeks in London. Pendleton went
out with them, but did not return with Mrs.
Bowers. He knows nothing about tho Ken
tucky Railroad claim. Marsh’s original un
derstanding about Fort Sili was with Bel
knap. Mrs. Marsh’s evidence goes to show
that nearly every trading post paid tribute to
some friend of Belnnap, aside from Senator
Harlan’s assessments for political purposes.
TEE NEW ENGLAND FRESHET.
Worcester, Mass., March 27.—Damages
from the flood will reach SIOO,OOO in this
vicinity. Six dams are washed away and
three stone arch bridges in the city are
totally destroyed.
Norwich, Conn., March 27.—The damage
in eastern Connecticut will reach several
hundred thousand dollars. Seven lives are
lost.
ANOTHER MARTYR.
Washington, March 27.—Dr. Lippincott,
the husband of Grace Greenwood, has lost
his place in the Land Office for a question
able transaction in connection with a $23,000
claim. New will be equally satisfied with
Mr. Wyman, Assistant Treasurer, or Giffil
lan, Cashier, as Lippinoott’s successor.
DAMAGE FROM GALES.
New York, March 27. AU the vessels
which arrived yesterday report more or less
damage from the gales of the past few
days.
A SMALL SURPLUS.
Washington, March 27.— There are thir
teen millions currency surplus in the Gene
va A ward after paying aU claims.
YELLOW FEVER.
Rio Janeiro, March 27.—There have been
five hundred and thirty-six yellow fever
deaths daring the past fortnight.
A WRECK.
Sayville, Long Island., March 27.— The
Great Western is badly strained, and she
Will probably go to pieces.
EUGENIE.
London, March 25.—The ex-Empress Eu
genie and son have arrived at Esenoch en
route lor Weimar.
THE GRANT PARISH OASES.
Washington, March 27.—1n the Supreß
Court, Judge Bradley in the Grant Fail
cases sustained the order of the Oir®
Court, and Judge Bradley’s order arrest®
the judgment upon the verdict is snstai®
and the oauses remanded with instructs®
to^ t ißC^ ar 8 e defendants. Clifford dissen®
The Kentucky election case is also dec®
adversely to the enforcement act. Thill
against two inspectors of elections,
insed to receive tho vote of William®
mer, an American citizen of African|
scent. Justice Hunt dissented, T®
opinions are very long and the argun®
tod close for condensation.
THE COTTON TAX OABE.
Washington, March 27 Cheat®
and wife vs. Norvall, Coil®
from Middle Tennessee. This it®
cotton tax case The court says |
government has the privilege to decide!
conditions upon which it will submi®
suit, and parties aggrieved by illegal as®
monts must see to it that they comply ®
the provisions of the law. As there wal
appeal taken from the assessment, t®
could bo no recovery. *®
CROOKED WHISKY.
Jefferson City, Mo., March 25. A®
& Furst, distillers and rectifiers, of
eph, were found guilty ou fifty-live coun®
the indictment for violation of the reve®
laws. The penalty unler this verdic®
fifty-five years’ imprisonment and s27®
tine. The defendants have been put u(H
additional bond, making in all £5,00 ). |
other indictment has been found agaiust®
same parties. The graud jury returned®
dictmeuts against seventeen other per®
for defraudiug the government.
MILL DISASTER.
Noricu, Conn., March 26 Tweni4®
feet of tho north end of the Baltic Mill I
one hundred and fifty feet of tho east®
of the east bulkhead of the dam t®
washed away to-day with two hundred b®
of cotton. The sand washing down ■
canal filled it up and turned tho eu- r ®
thus saving the mill. The water cov®
the lower village, but did no great, dat®
beside destroying the bridge. Four I
sons were lost while crossing the poud|
evening. The damage at the null will ®
operations for three months or more.
FLOOD IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Providence, March 20.—Tin Hood ®
Biackstono is causing gr#at damas®
IVoonsoelcet Mills. The houses
cases are partially submerged. In B
river, at Burrellsville, there is a geß
sweep ot dams, causing damage tc®
amount of $200,000. The heavy rah®
the causo. The streams are swollen tlir®
out the State. The Journal has a dis{B
from Daniolsonville, Conn., stating tha®
Tenneboughs Company’s old mill is i®
mined, and will probably be earned uwß
spencer’s case.
Washington, March 25.—Tho severe ®
prevented a full meeting of tho S;®
investigation committee, which adj.iiH
till 10 o’clock on Mnndav. Mr. M.®
having been discharged by Gen. M®
was resummoned by Spencer. Mr. B
Fotte having been discharged was .<®
moned by Gen. Morgan.
A TOWN DESTROYED.
London, March 25.—Tho
cial from Paris says that the dvkes pi/®
lug llerzogonboschj iu Holland, have ■
swept away by the floods. The ra|
bridgo and roads liavo been destroyed®
the town isolated. Hundreds of hi®
have disappeared and six thousand p®
arc homeless.
VON AKNIM.
London, March 25.—A special disp®
from Berlin to tho Telegraph says tho ®
court has adopted tho charges of high ®
sou against Count You Arinin on Time®
The property of the Count will bo coB
cated if ho refuses to appear.
RECRUITING FOR CUBA.
. London, March 26.—Tho I Standard's ®
rid dispatch reports that recruhing I
Cuba is actively progressing, aud Tveii®
soldiers who served under Hon Carlos B
allowed to enlist.
TUE TOMBSTONE BUSINESS.
Washington, March 27.—The Commi®
on Tombstones for the national cemeteiß
heard additional witnesses, but will i|
mako a final report until they hoar Gone!
Meigs, now in Europe.
KILPATRICK.
Washington, March 25. Geu. Kilpifiricl
who achieved bad eminence in Southw'osl
ern Georgia during the war, succet ds I
eluding the Sergeant-at-arms of the House,
TUB REAL ESTATE POOL.
Washington, March 25.—Telegram: , un
der tho usual protest, have been furiiisliei
by the Committee on Beal Estate Pool b
Capt. Whitney, manager.
GRANT AND PIERREPONT. (
Washington, March 27 The Ibvaiden
and his Attorney General are me i.. iiseon
on any subject whatever, so Pierrepon
says.
THE “KU-KLUX” FRAUDS.
Washington, I). C., March 25 E Attof
ney General Williams and Comptrolle
Broadhead were examined to-daj in regari
to money squandered in tin alleged Ku
Klux raids.
+ , ,
Washington, March 27.—The Pacific Hal
road Committee of the Senate discussed t|
Southern Pacific Road, and, without aetio|
postponed the subject for two weeks.
harralson.
Selma, Ala., March 27 The Dall|
County Republican Convention unanimoi®
endorse Harralson, tho colored Congrej®
who voted for amnesty, for ren&miaaJfmP
MILL OPERATIVES OUSTED.
Lawrence, Mass., March 27.—From fly
to six thousand mill operatives have bee
ousted on account of tho lloods.
SLIGHTLY SHORT.
Washington, March 27.- Win. T. Collies
late Pension Agent of this city, is $49,00
short.
VESUVIUS.
Naples, March 27.—The eruption o
Mount Vesuvius is unabated.
LET TLB FROM QUINCY.
The Wenllier and Crops— Jack Eros
and the Knrly Vegetables—A Genera
Slaughter of Peas, Irish Potatoes un.
Cucumbers—Political Notes.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning, :-£ewa
Quincy, Fla., March 22, IS7O.
His majesty “Jack Frost” cam. thi
morning, and with a withering to oh o
his cold hand blighted, to a considcrabl
degree, the rapidly developing vegetable
wbiph were fast growing into maturity
and would have soon been on tho tables c
large cities in the North. Ice was sedn i
some places, half an inch thick, and mo
generally an eighth of an inch thick. Qe
erously enough, our unwelcome visit
sent harbingersof Ins coming, n a cold rt
on Sunday night last, followed by a cok
wind on the succeeding Monday am
Tuesday, which were promptly
ed by truck farmers and gardneri-, wLo
used all the means in their power to pro
tect the tender vegetation, by covering
it with boards, etc. Yet with all theii
efforts at protection,
THE DAMAGE
has been quite serious. I saw Je m
Wood, of Mt. Pleasant, this morni {
and while he did not authorize a perfec
accuracy of statement until t! effi t
of the sun could be seen, he ■ sed hi
casualties as follows: Five acres of Irisl
potatoes severely injured; seven aerds o
peas, some hurt and some unhurt; fcj
and a half acres of cabbages n >i mjfire®
two and a half acres of beans >adi' dai®
aged ; two acres of cucumbers gone, aqll
commenced replanting to-day >n- acrJ
of nutmeg melons, not injured "try much J
Mr. Wood had logs and brusl burnt all
that night, the smoke hanging over hi*
vegetables like a heavy cloud herJ
seems to be some difference > f opinio!
about the effects of the cold sn * on < jjA
some persons saying that it will i
on with as full an ear, but el |
stalk, and others affirming tin, f c p
to replant. However, so far
crop is concerned, our farmer t ‘ no|
yet finished planting it. There •< notl
many persons in this county ”i planil
vegetables for the purpose -of f. ppingj
not another to the extent that, Mr. Wood!
has this season, so that the injuries are!
confined generally to the household!
gardens, and the season for planting!
vegetables is not yet over. From
LEON COUNTY.
I am informed that the Minnesota set-1
tiers are very much discouraged, ame of I
them having invested largely in raising ]
early vegetables for other markets. It is]
too bad to think that their first year’s I
experience in truck farming in Fioridal
should have caused discouragement in-l
stead of hope and prosperity. 1
POLITICAL.
Senator Conover and Congre3smaj!
Purman arrived at -^^da®
Last night the “peer of tx!
member,” was in this place, and
few of his friends held a caucus at t®
office of Judge Davidson, County Jndg®
I am told that it was a private meetir®
as some persons, at least one, was
admittance on the ground of not bei®
“a friend of Mr. purman.” It haslea]®|
out that Purman was very denunciaiHl
of Gov. Stearns and his
one argument against the Governor
that the Savannah people wanted to b®
a railroad through West Florida, of gi®'|
advantage and benefit to the poor ]
pie of this State in that section, ■]
without any cost to the State of
embodying this proposition in a
fore the Legislature, which said billfllf]
vetoed by Gov. Steams. Quim^Hl