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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST
PR IDa v, Jone 4, 1878
The storm-winged cyclone has paid
its respects to portions of Indiana and
Kentucky, doing a great deal of dam
age, as will be seen by refening to our
telegraphic dispatches.
The Barnville-Blaekville war has at
last been settled." It will be seen by
reference to our South Carolina De
partment that BlackviUe has won the
battle and will hereafter be the county
seat.
MB i •
Why don’t Grant send Sherman to
New Hampshire? If such disorder and
excitement as now prevails at Concord,
were at any Southern Capital, his little
military satrap and bully would be on
hand in a few hours with four or five
regiments of troops.
A deficit of §47,000 has been discov
ered in the United States Treasury at
Washington. Mr. Srinnkr thinks it
was caused by theft. Perhaps, if Uncle
Samuel's books were properly balanced,
much bigger holes thau that would be
discovered ifi the cash box.
We are glad thero is a prospect for
an early return of Mr. Beck, of Ken
tucky, to Congress as Senator. To get
into the Senate was his real reason for
not again running for the Lower House.
Beck is one of the moat brilliant men
in the South. His most formidable op
ponent is that stupendous man, Major
Generalissimo Cerro-Gordo-Cherubus
eo-Chimborazo Williams, just beaten
the other day for Governor.
We candidly agree with many of our
readers that a great deal of matter
printed in our telegraphic columns is
nothing but veritable bosh. We never
would make such selections from our
exchanges or correspondents. But it
is telegraphic news and we cannot well
avoid printing it. The proprietors of
Southern daily newspapers ought to
have a Convention and remodel and
reform the whole business.
The Augusta Constitutionalist is
one of the best daily papers published
in tliis country, North or South, and
richly merits the patronage of all per
sons who admire honesty., independ
ence, gjgnly fearlessness and chival
rous courtesy on the pait, of a public
journal. We sincerely wish that the
whole Southern Press were composed
of the staff of which our Georgia con
temporary is made. Were such the
case, carpet-bag and scalawag rascality
would soon be, unearthed and driven in
disgrace from our dear old soil.— True
Southron, Sumter, S. C.
The Macon and Brunswick Railroad
is now the absolute property ot the
State of Georgia. The State is unwit
tingly its owner. We think it bad
policy for the Governor to sell it now.
It cost over three million dollars, and
we have no doubt in a few years it will
briDg fully the amount it cost the
State, about fifteen hundred thou
sand. This is no time to sell such
property as that. The best plan would
be to either keep it running awhile
longer and then sell, or build a link
between Atlanta and Macon and thereby
establish a continuous line from Chat
tanooga to the coast belonging to
Georgia.
Two dispatches which wo publish
this morniug from Pottsville, Pa., are
in strange contradiction. It was
thought, in the first instance, that the
long strike had come to something like
a termination, by the surrender of la
bor to capital and starvation. It was
also asserted that the miners, many of
them at least, had abandoned the
unions and expressed a willingness to
accept employment on any terms.—
Ninety-nine times in a hundred the
most formidable enemy to a man’s
principles is an empty stomach. He
generally succumbs to that, but there
is a world of bitterness left in his soul.
It will be seen that the rose-colored im
pressions of the Pottsville capitalists
were incorrect, since, at last advices,
the trouble bad flamed out again, arm
ed miners were marching on the town
and the military had been called out.
Death of Col. Lewis Tumliu.
[Atlanta Constitution].
Col. Lewis Tumlin died at; five min
utes past three o’clock this morning.
This was the substance of a private
telegram received here yesterday morn
ing. Brief as it was, it contained much
of sadness to many a household. Col.
Tumlin was one of the most prominent
men of North Georgia, and had been
long identified with it. He lived to see
the wilderness blossom as the rose.
Col. Tumlin was born in Gwinnett
county about the year 1811 or 1812. He
vfbnt, when quite a youtfc), to Cass
county as a volunteer to carry off the
Indians. While engaged in this service
he ploughed, barefooted, a crop of corn,
and made that the nucleus of a large
fortune. He settled there and amassed
a princely estate. Full of energy, vim,
persistence and hospitality he pros
pered in store and drew around him
hosts of friends. He represented his
county in both branches of the Gen
eral Assembly several times and tilled
the office of Sheriff, all faithfully and
acceptably.
A pious young widow in Milwaukee,
speaking of a handsome fellow who
lives iu her neighborhood, says : “I
feel set back a year in my religion
©very time I meet him.”
$ lie iatln (Constitutionalist.
FROM WASHINGTON.
A Holey li the Cash Box—Red Cloud aud
Spotted Tail Go Off in High Dudgeon.
Washington, June 3. — There is an ir
regularity in the Treasury of §47,000.
It is not yet settled whether it is a
theft or an error. Treasurer Spinner
thinks it is a theft.
The Indians, in council to-day, de
termined not to sign the treaty, and
will go straight home.
The Washington and New York Mail
Service.
The mail service between Washing
ton and New York has been given to
the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad
for the present. The Baltimore and
Ohio Road retains the service for the
West.
Robbery of the Treasury.
The §47,000 robbery from the Treas
ury Department has been confirmed.—
After a full investigation by the Treas
ury authorities there is now no doubt
that a package containing over §47,000,
addressed to the Park Bank, New York,
was yesterday afternoon stolen from
the Treasurer’s office. The package,
which was to have been sent by ex
press, was missing when the clerks
closed up the day’s business, between
4 and 5 o’clock p. m., after the regular
office hours. It was at first supposed
to have been mislaid, but a diligent
search failed to recover it. The clerks
were all enjoined to secrecy, but oLe of
them it is said disregarded the admo
nition and whispered the fact to friends
outside. By this means it obtained
publicity. Some clew has been obtained
as to the thief, but further thau this
no particulars cau be ascertained.
Appointments.
It is stated that Moseley will proba
bly b 8 removed as postmaster at Tal
ladega, Ala., and George Parsons ap
pointed in his place ; also, the post
master at Eufaula and probably the
postmaster at Mobile.
The Alabama Claims Commission.
The Alabama Claims Commission
will be extended six mouths.
A Collector Killed.
A telegram was received at the In
ternal Revenue Office to-day from Col
lector Latlutm, at Huntsville, Alabama,
announcing that Deputy Collector Hol
man Leather wood was to-day shot and
killed by an illicit distiller.
FOREIGN "NEWS.
Increase of Specie in France—A Huge
Workingmen’s Demonstration in
London—Mexican News.
Paris, June 3.—Specie has increased
over 14 millions iu francs.
London, June 3.—There was a dem
onstiation of 80,000 peisons to express
sympathy with cabinet makers who are
imprisoned for endeavoring to induce
men on the way to work to join a strike.
Resolutions declare the sentence a gross
violation of personal rights. Speakers
denounced the law as made in the in
terest of privilege classes.
City of Mexico, May 27.—Congress has
approved the contract with David Boyle
Blair for extensive railroads and tele
graphs in Mexico.
The vote to impeach the President
failed by 128 to 10.
FIRE, FLOOD AND STORM.
Disastrous Tornado iu Indiana aud
Kentucky—New York Villages Burn
ing—A Shipload of Cotton on Fire
Conflagration of Lumber, Mills and
Vessels, near Darien, Ga.
Indianapolis, June 3. —The storm ex
tended widely in the country. Fort
ville was inundated. It was very dam
aging throughout White W ater Valley
to crops and property. Travel has
been suspended in every direction. The
loss in that region is estimated at
§250,000.
Richmond, Ind., June 3. — A tornado
damaged three churches and unroofed
several houses.
Louisville, June 3. —The Masonic
Widow.3’and Orphans’ home, completed
bnt unoccupied, was leveled by a cy
clone. Many houses were unroofed,
aud trees destroyed.
Port Jarvis, J une 3.—Forest tires con
tinue. Half a dozen villages have been
destroyed, and several lives lost.
London. June 3.—The ship Adolphus,
which arrived at Reval May 15th from
New Orleans, had her cargo of cotton
on fire, and 300 bales were badly dam
aged.
Savannah, June 3.— There was a fire
at Union Island, near Darien, last night,
destroying Hiiton & Foster’s Mill, 100,-
000 feet of lumber, wharves, and the
schooners Hattie A. Fuller and Helen
A. Brown. Loss, §IOO,OOO. No insur
ance.
New York, June 3 —The Coopers
Drain Pipe Works, in Brooklyn, burned
to-day. Total loss, §25,000.
THE'’NEW HAMPSHIRE IMBROG
LIO.
Each Side Struggling for Mastery—
No Prospect for an Early Settle
ment.
Concord, June 3.—Every member of
the House was in his seat,with galleries
packed. An excited debate over refer
ring the disputed seuatorships to the
Supreme Court. Democrats threatened
to withdraw if the question was pushed.
In dilatory motions the Republicans
showed about a dozen majority.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad aud the
Mails.
Baltimore, June 3.—ln reply to the
telegram of the Postmaster General to
day, to Mr. Garrett, relative to postal
car service from the West, the latter
this evening telegraphed the following:
Baltimore, June 3, 1875.
To Hon. Marshall Jewell, Postmaster Gen
eral, Washington c
I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of your communication of this
date requesting that the Baltimore and
Ohio Company shall continue the pos
tal car service from the West to Balti
more, and that it shall not be cut off at
Washington as heretofore, so that the
Western mails shall be transferred in
Baltimore instead of Washington. I
take pleasure in complying with your
request and have issued the requisite
order so that this service will com
mence at once. John W. Garrett.
President B. & O. R R.
From Canada.
Ottawa. Juue 3.—Mr. Witcher, of
Maine, and fisheries department, claims
under the treaty eighty millions from
the United States. Forest flies are
doing immense damage. More pine
has been destroyed than lumberers
would have cut iu three years.
Court Bulletin.
Long Branch, June 3.—President
Grant aud wife, Mr. and Mrs. Sartoris,
Mrs. Col. Fred Grant and Gen. Bab
cock arrived here by special train at
4:45 p. m.
AUGUSTA, GA„ FRIDAY MORNING. JUJSTE 4, 1875.
THE LONG STRIKE.
A DREAM OF PEACE DISSOLVED.
Miners Returning to Work*Assailed by
Their Brethren— A Supposed Ex
tinct Volcano in Eruption— The Mili
tary Called Out.
Pottsville, Penn., June 3.—There is
no longer any doubt that the backbone
of the long strike is broken, and unless
something entirely unforseen should
occur, the present week will see a gen
eral resumption of mining throughout
the Schuylkill region. After holding out
for five months and maintaining a bold
front to the last, the men have con
cluded there is no possibility of success
for them, and are coming to the opera
tors all over the region and offering to
work on any terms. The miners’ union
has suddenly dissolved, and its mem
bers are coming, not as branches nor
in any official capacity, but as indi
vidual miners seeking work.
Tuesday and yesterday the collieries
have either started, or arranging for
stai’ting, at Mahoney City, Gilbertson,
Ashland, Shenandoah nn l in the west
ern part of this county, and more will
follow to-day. In every case the 1875
basis, as proposed by the Coal Ex
change, is made the standard of wages
and is accepted by the men. No at
tempt was made to interfere with work
ing men about the re-opened mines.
The situation is becoming more criti
cal. The citizens of Shenandoah have
applied for military aid, they having
advices of large bodies of miners
marching toward the town to compel
the suspension of work there, and that
Deputy Sheriff Heisler, now stationed
there with a posse of 50 men, will be
unable to protect the working miners.
Gov. Hartranft has telegraphed from
Williamsport to Gen. Sigfried here,
directing him to call out the military in
ease the Sheriff is unable to disperse
the mobs. Troops iu other localities
have been ordered to hold themselves
in readiness at 12 o’clock noon. Potts
ville troops are assembling in their
respective armories awaiting orders to
move.
Au arrested raider was rescued. The
mob is rapidly increasing. Militia are
in uniform and ready for action.
Later— Sheriff’s posse fired upon.
Three wounded. The militia leaving
for the scene.
Lebanon, June 3.—The Eighth Regi
ment is ordered to assemble. The
drum corps is beating up men. Deter
mined men desiring woik shall not be
molested. The mob is one thousand
strong.
Minor Telegrams.
Baltimore, June 3. —Israel Cohen, a
well known broker, and eldest member
of the Stock Board, died suddenly. The
Board adjourned.
Baltimore, June 3.—E. F. Folger,
Superintendent of the Richmond and
York River Line steamers, is dead.
General Latrobe has been nominated
for Mayor.
New York, June 3. —John Powers,
convicted of manslaughter in the fourth
degree for killing a lunatic placed in
his charge, was sentenced to t wo years.
Saunders & Hardenburg, bankers,
have suspended.
Now York Turf.
New York, June 3.—The races at
Prospect Park to-day were very excit
ing. Iu the first lace for horses of the
2:40 class, six heats were trotted, when
the race was postponed till to-morrow
on account of the darkness. Lady
Blanche took the second and sixth
heats, Eftie Dean fourth aud fifth, and
J. G. Blaine, first and third. Time,
2:28%, 28%, 29%, 31%, 32 and 33%.
Second lace for horses of 2:24 class,
Mystic won iu three straight heats,
beating Vanity Fair, Geo. B. Hancels,
John H. and George, in order named.
Time, 2:25% , 25 and 22.
A Negro to Hang To-Day.
Atlanta, June 3. —Only one of the
sentenced negroes here will hang to
morrow. One has been respited to
June 25th. The second, on anew trial
to-day, was found guilty. The third,
having been pronounced sane by a com
mission, will be hanged.
Indianopolis Under Water.
Indianopolis, Ind., June 3. —Rain
again last night swelled rivers and
caused disasters. Whole northern sec
tion of the city is flooded three to five
feet. Trestle and bridge work washed.
Supreme Court Decisions.
[Prepared for the Constitutionalist.]
In its decisions rendered on Tuesday
last, the Supreme Court of Georgia
holds, in several more cases, that Su
perior Court Judges are infallible in
the matter of injunctions, and that
their “discretion” in granting or refus
ing the same is not to be questioned.
The Supreme Court was established to
provide one rule for each matter of
law instead of the half dozeu rules on
the same point which characterized the
halcyon days when each Superior Court
Judge did as seemed UDto him best;
but as regards injunctions we are
worse off now than some thirt}- years
ago, there being then but some seven
ways of looking at an injunction and
twenty at present.
As to the other cases decided, there
are several from Richmond. In Gilbert
King vs. the State, the Court decides
that a conviction of simple larceny can
not be had where the indictment char
ges that offence, but the ovidence
proves that a larceny from the person
has been committed. Simple larceny
of currency notes is a felony, whereas
larceny from the person of currency
notes is only a misdemeanor, and “the
offense of a misdemeanor under the law
cannot be converted into a felony and
punished as such, in that way, without
a violation of the fundamental princi
ples of the penal law’s of the State.”
Reversed.
In L. C. Warren aud W. A. Wal
ton, Exes., vs. The Augusta Canal
Company, it is held no ground for a
new trial that plaintiffs in error have
discovered since the trial that one of
the jurors was at the time an applicant
for a place on the Augusta police force,
the city government being interested
in the case. Affirmed.
In Porter Fleming vf. Geo. W. Wil
liams & Cos., held that the return of a
deceased Sheriff showing service is as
good evidence as if the Sheriff were
alive and in court testifying. Affirmed.
In John J. Cohen & Sons, et al , vs.
Geo. W. Summers, et al, the Court in
timates that where an insolvent debtor
renounces certain legal exemptions in
favor of his creditors, on condition that
they accept all his property as a com
plete extinguishment of their claims,
section 1952 of the Code, forbidding
any reservation of benefit to the debt
or, is not infringed; and holds, posi
tively, that there is no such infringe
ment when the debtor subsequently re
vokes the condition originally attached
to his renunciation. Affirmed.
Sugar in thieves’ dialect means cash.
THE THIRD TERM.
MONTGOMERY BLAIR CRITICISES
GRANT.
The President’s Coquetting for the
Democratic Nomination—His Sudden
Political Conversion—How His Can
didacy Was Managed—Comments of
the Press—What Grant Says. *
(Special to the Pidladeipina Times.)
Washington, May 31st, 1875.
Gen Grant, in his third term letter,
declares that he did not seek the nomi
nation for the Presideooy in the first
instance. This is perhaps true to this
extent: He never openly went about, as
some politicians are now doing, elec
tioneering for the place and fixing the
pins ahead by making promises to cer
tain politicians, but he cannot success
fully deny that ho encouraged the ad
vocacy of his claims for the position
by leading men in the Democratic as
well as the Republican party. Hon.
Montgomery Blair has asserted more
than once on his honor as a gentleman
that Gen. Grant was fully aware of the
movement commenced by him in 1867
-’6B, to bring out Grant as a
Democratic candidate. He almost
daily visited his house, and gave
him to understand by expressions
used by him in discussing the political
situation that he was entirely iu accord
with the Democrats; that he had al
ways been a Democrat, and that the
only vote he had ever given was for
the Democratic ticket iu 1856. He was
aware that Mr. Blair was inspiring cer
tain articles that were appearing in the
National Intelligencer and New York
World, and which advocated Grant’s
nomination by the Democratic party.
So far from these articles giving of
fence to Grant, Mr. Blair declares that
he expressed himself as well pleased
thereat, and iu many ways manifested
bis appreciation of the interest he
(Blair) was taking in his behalf. It is
true, says Mr. Blair, that Grant never,
in so many words, avowed himself a
candidate, or even expressed a desire,
iu plain English, to have the Demo
cratic nomination, but he cert.aiuly did
by his manner aud by his general con
versation encourage him to go on iu
the work he had commenced, and just
as certainly did he give him good and
sufficient cause, iu the first instance, to
begin the agitation. While this co
quetting was going on with the Demo
crats, through Montgomery Blair, the
Republican leaders had begun to get
very uneasy. John W. Forney, who
then ran two papers, and was the rec
ognized mouth piece of the Republican
managers in this city, had gone to Eu
rope, leaving one of his dailies, the
Chronicle, in the editorial charge of J.
J. Stewart, of Baltimore. It was un
derstood at the time of Forney’s de
parture that Ben Wade was the favo
rite of the party managers, and Forney
left directions that while the Chronicle
was not to be committed to any candi
date, it was uevertheless to keep Wade’s
strong qualities as a possible candidate
well before the public. But when it
was discovered that somebody was set
ting up Grant as a Democratic candi
date, aud it appeared that this advo
cacy was by no means distasteful to
him, then the party leaders on the other
ide determined to court him also. Mr.
Stewart was instructed to cultivate the
general of the armies assiduously, anil
he did so. He had almost daily con
ferences with him, and a number of
leading editorials written by him ap
peared iu the Chronicle with such cap
tious, and using the name of Grant in
such a manner, us to convey the as
surance to the public that they ex
pressed the views of Grant on the vari
ous questions discussed therein. It is
a singular fact that omfbf these edi
torials was devoted to the discussion of
the limitation of the Presidency to one
term of six years, and the incumbent
to be ineligible thereafter. In this ar
ticle many of the arguments which have
lately been used to prove the danger of a
third term were advanced, as the writer
declares, upon the authority of Gen.
Grant to demonstrate that a second
term was often fraught with dangers.
Another of these editorials was under
the caption of “General Grant’s finan
cial policy,” and took for its text the
declaration of Grant to the writer that
the only financial policy he had was to
pay the interest on the national debt
and leave to future generations the
duty of providing for the payment of
the principal. Still another was, “Gen
eral Grant’s Position on the Fourteenth
Amendment and Universal Suffrage,”
and it was claimed that Grant was in
full accord with the most advanced
leaders of the Republican party on
these issues. Mr. Stewart asserts that
not one of these articles, and there
were perhaps a score of them, was
written without a previous interview
with Gen. Graut, and a discussion of
the questions which they treated of.
More tlian this, Mr. Stewart also de
clares that in almost every instance the
articles, after they had appeared in the
Chronicle, were talked over by Grant
and himself, aud received the approval
of the former. It is true, says Mr.
Stewart, that all the while there was
not a word said by either of us about
the nomination of Gen. Grant, but it
was so plain from his conduct that
“Barkis was willin,” nay, anxious, that
it was not necessary to formally inter
rogate him on this point. My object,
was to find out whether he was sound
on all the vital issues, and he appeared
to be enough so to satisfy and
through me the party. The Republi
can party was not only satisfied, but
the Democratic politicians were dis
gusted by these semi-official utteran
ces of Gen. Grant, and Montgomery
Blair gave up his self-imposed task of
President-making in disgust. In the
light of these undeniable facts, the
public can properly interpret Grant’s
•declaration on the third term, “I do
not want it any more than I did the
first;.”
An Eiul to the Whole Question.
The New York Times, in referring to
the letter of the President, says:
To us, we must confess, it does seem
that the letter ought to be accepted by
all just and fair-minded men as abso
lutely putting au end to tho whole
question. It is a manly, straightfor
ward letter, such as the President of
this Republic need not be ashamed to
address tojhe American people. He
reminds them of the dignity of his of
fice, which some of them are apt to
forget. A lawyer or a word-chopper
might have drawn the letter up more
skillfully, and a critic might suggest
the alteration of certain phrases; but
it says enough for all practical purpo
ses, and it says it iu language which is
at least intelligible. It ought to be ac
cepted as a distinct denial and repudia
tion of all that a net work of intrigue
and scheming for a “third term,” which
has been attributed to the President
and his immediate friends. Whatever
the Democrats may say about it, it is
the duty of the Republicans to treat it
in good faith, and to prepare the woi k
of 1876 without reference to even the
possibility of General Grant being in
the field as a candidate.
Delphic iu Phraseology.
The Tribune says:
At last, for the first time, the Presi
dent speaks his mind respecting a third
term. He puts iu the form of a letter
to General Harry White, President of
the recent Pennsylvania Republican
Convention. His previous silence he
explains as due to the dignity of his
office, and he only speaks now because
the subject has been considered by a
nominating convention of the second
State in the Union. Although some
what Delphic in its phraseology, this
letter will probably be regarded as
finally withdrawing Gen. Grant’s name
from the list of candidates for the next
Presidency. He does indeed take pains
to indicate that there might be circum
stances under which he would accept a
nomination, if tendered, but these, he
thinks, are not likely to arrive. He
says, “I am not, nor have I ever been
a candidate for renomination.” Ah !if
he had only said as much as this some
time ago, what suffering might have
been saved to the Republican party.
Ctesarism More Potent Than Ever.
The Herald thus concludes a long
editorial:
We shall be surprised if the country
accepts this as a satisfactory declara
tion from the President. It is an eva
sive letter. It would have been much
better for his fame, and even for the
welfare of the party which he proposes
to serve, if he had not written it. Iu a
word, the country is told that the Pres
ident will not take what is not offered
to him. That is not what we wanted
from the President. What wo did
want was an express avowal by Gen.
Grant that the question of a third term
would he a treason to a sacred precept
of our unwritten common law—a de
claration that whoever presumed to
use his name for such a purpose would
do an unworthy act, an admonition to
the country of the dangers to liberty
which twelve years of centralization
had produced, and a prayer that the
people would destroy Ceesarisiu by
limiting all administrations to one
term. Such a declaration would have
thrilled the country and been a grace
ful cap-sheaf to the lame of Graut. As
it isyCaesarism is, as a political issue,
more potent than ever. It becomes the
dominant question in the next canvass.
Our answer should be the limitation of
the Presidency to one term, and no re
election ever after.
Shows Weakness.
The New York World says :
The letter shows the same weaknes
that its author has all along shown in
attributing all opposition to the third
term in personal hostility to himself,
and iu failing to perceive that there are
constitutional checks which men who
know what free government means are
not prepared to give up in favor of a
Chief Magistrate, even if they believe
in his good intentions. This defect
arises partly perhaps from Gen. Grant’s
military habits, but much more from
the nature of his mind, and is one of
many proofs of his utter unfitness to be
a President of the United States.
Proof of Strom? Devotion.
. The Philadelphia Press says :
In this letter announcing his fealty
to the unwritten law of the laud, Gen.
Grant but says what his friends have
said for him all along. It is therefore
nothing new. It is proof, however, of
Gen. Grant’s strong devotion to the
Republican party when to do it, a ser
vice he is willing to thus sink his per
sonal feelings aud undertake the dis
tasteful task to a gentleman of deny
ing a silly slander.
The great weight, however, of this
letter is the way in which it strength
ens tho morale of the organization. The
point our enemies pushed as our weak
est turns out to be our strength. It
was thought that anything said by the
convention on tho third term question
would alienate the National Adminis
tration, and accordingly the issue was
forced on us hourly by incessant irri
tation and influence. The Convention,
in direct, honest, unequivocal words,
spoke. The President meets them with
equal frankness, and behold, on the
platform which was to rend the party,
Gen. Grant and the Republicans of
Pennsylvania shake hands.
We formed well at Lancaster bn
Wednesday. At Washington yester
day wo began closing the ranks. In
November we shall charge, and the
charge bills fair to be an easy swing
forward.
“Let the Band Play,”
The Philadelphia Times says : Hon
estly analyzed, the letter of President
Grant is a bold vindication of bis third
term ambition, a bolder bid for its ad
vancement, and a still bolder defiance
of the deliverances of party conven
tions aud the unwritten law of sacred
usage ; and he may now be considered
as fairly in the fleki for 1876. Office
holders to the front! Conventions to
the rear ! Let the baud play !
Has Done Wisely.
The Philadelphia North American
says :
In our opinion General Grant has
done most wisely in deciding finally to
add his own voice to those who have
constantly argued in his behalf that
the ambitions ascribed to him were
foreign to his thoughts or his purpose;
and he need fear neither ridicule nor
degradation of his dignity from so
proper a recognition of a sentiment
which if allowed to go unchecked would
have done much through the passion
of its progress to obliterate the recol
lections of the high honor which is his
(jue from the American people for the
patriotic service he has rendered them.
The President’s Explanation.
(Baltimore Sun Correspondence, June 1)
The President to-day, in conversa
tion on the subject of his letter, re
marked that he presumed there would
be quite a variety of constructions
placed upon it, and that he expected to
be misconstrued by those who would
not be satisfied with anything that he
could say iu this connection, but the
letter meant exactly what he said, and
nothing more nor less. He had not been
unadvised of the agitation of this mat
ter, which had been studiously fo
mented, and he had always entertained
the views set forth in his letter, and
therefore the action taken by the Penn
sylvania Convention had no part in
shaping those views, but he consider
ed the present time appropriate to
give them publicity.
So far as; the Presidential office is
concerned it had no special attraction
for him. He had already given fifteen
years of his life to the military and
civil service of the Government, the
whole period of which was one of con
stant and arduous labor and responsi
bility. He therefore looked forward to
retirement with a sense of relief. But
while entertaining these views, he has
not arrived at his conclusions by im
pressions of the force of what has been
styled the unwritten law of the Repub
lic. It is an open question as to the
authority of any individual or of any
political body to assume to declare
what the unwritten law is. It is a thing
based entirely upon usage; and now, in
the particular case of the third term,
for the first time in our history, fairly
before the people as au issue.
Reiterating his expressions as to his
own personal indisposition to continue
in the office beyond the present term,
the President said that he did not see
in what respect it was contrary to the
genius and the spirit of our institutions
to leave the Presidency as other Fede
ral offices. If a precedent against a
third term was now established, to
which he had no personal objection, a
crisis might arise in the future when it
would prove very embarrassing.
THE INJUNCTION MANIA.
What It Means in Certain Memphis
Circles.
[Memphis Ledger.]
1 here are many things which cannot
be reached by an injunction, but there
are fewer things of that nature in Mem
phis than iu any other part of the
world. We knew a man in this city
who had a bad tenant; he got out au
injunction restraining the tenant from
interfering with him while he was re
pairing the house. The injunction was
granted and the man went on, turned
the house around, moved it half a
square, tore the roof off so that the
rain catne through in torrents and
compelled the en joined tenant to vacate
the building in hot haste, fearing
that the next move would be to
turn the building up-side down.—
This case appears in tho records
of the old Chancery Court. This in
junction mania thus came down witli a
halo of glory thrown around it until it
is now regarded as the Magna Charta
of liberty by the sore-headed office
holder or office-seeker. You can hear
this remedy suggested every day for
causes which would make an old Eng
lish equity judge turn over in his cof
fin. A mandamus is a writ also very
popular in political circles, but the in
junction is the sine qua non. Some
judges grant injunctions too freely,
others refuse them when the proper le
gal and equitable grounds are not
clearly set forth The principal thing,
however, in the injunction busi
ness is a liberal affidavit maker
—a fellow who will swear to any
statement of facts to the best of his
knowledge, information and belief—a
chap who has au India rubber con
science, or no conscience. When the
necessary number of allegations are
sworn to (although each allegation
may be false iu fact) the Judge cannot
refuse to graut the injunction on the
necessary bond being given, and then
the only redress of the enjoined is to
tile an answer refuting each ailegation
aud have a healing on a motion to
dissolve the injunction. Hundreds
of injunctions are dissolved iu this
manner, a fact which proves that
the law as to granting injunctions is
too loose aud flexible. You can hear
men talk of injunctions who do not
know what such a writ ineaus, uuless
it means what a well known ward poli
tician called it, “a thing to put one fel
low out aud put another fellow in by
good swearing.” The injunction is,
however, one of those grand, incom
prehensible constitutional writs of
right which, it is believed, is guaran
teed to every citizen who can make the
necessary affidavit and give tho re
quired bond, and that is what au in
junction means in certain circles in
Memphis.
The Turn in the Wheat Market.
[United States Economist.)
It is not probable that there will be
any further very serious decline iu the
Chicago markets. Prices have already
touched the point which permits of a
general movement of pr< duce to the
sea-board and even permit of exporta
tion. This would give immediate relief
to the business interests of the whole
country, and impart to it a renewed and
enduring prosperity. But operators
are extremly cautious, aud will be so
long as the markets remain in a transi
tion state. This, however, can only be
temporary. The latest news from Eu
rope is more favorable for an active
export demand. Cable dispatches rep
resent that a severe drouth prevails in
France and that the Wheat harvest will
be below the average. The French har
vest always exercises a decided in
fluence on the European markets. That
couutry has no margin for a surplus on
a barely average crop, aud with any
thing less than this it is compelled to
enter iuto competition with England
for the world’s surplus supply of food.
It is significant that the Mark Lane Ex
press, the great grain authority of Eug
land, anticipates a speedy advance in
the price of breadstuff;*. Views of this
kind advanced on the eve of the new
harvest, when prices usually fall, indi
cate ttiat the European crop prospects
are less flattering than they have been
represented.
As the stocks at the seaboard are
unusually small, it will require only a
comparatively limited export demand
to induce considerable activity iu out
internal trade. The indications are fa
vorable that for the remainder of the
year there will be at least a moderately
active shipping demand. The present
"visible supply” is not very large, but
it only requires a slight advance of
price to bring forward an adequate
supDly from farmers. Next week the
harvest will commence in California,
and a month hence it will be general in
all but tho more northerly States. For
tunately, it is now ascertained that the
accounts of the grasshopper devasta
tions were greatly exaggerated. Even
in Missouri, where the alarm was so
great as to induce the Governor to set
apart a day of fast, prayer and suppli
cation, the losses will be comparatively
slight. But no matter what may be
the occasion, the general observance of
the day cannot bu; result to tho moral
improvement of the people. Indeed,
taken altogether, it now looks as if our
leading crops in the whole United
States are likely to reach the average
of last year, if they do not exceed it.
“No More Balls for Me.”
[Louisville Courier-Journul.j
A car-driver was signaled to stop at
the corner of Prestou and Market
streets, but two negro women, one of
whom was to get out at that point con
cluded their talk thus, as the car tar
ried a moment:
Inside darky—“l say, ’Liza, is you
gwine to come to de ball to-night?”
Outside darkey, lingering on the car
steps —“What’s dat ?” “Is you gwine
to de dance to-night ? You know, Jane
•’ll be lookin’ for you.”
“Look a hea, chile, han’t you done
heard de news ?” “No ’Liza, I haint.”
“Well, you jest tell dat woolly-headed
wench dat I’s done got religion —l’m
gwine to church to-night; no mo’ balls
for me, I tell you.”
“Pshaw, ’Liza, dat’il do well ’nough
lor one. foot—dat’s Presbyterian ; but
dat lett churn-dasher’ yourn’s bound
to wag whenebber you hea de banjo
dong wid you, gal.!’ And
the ear went on, too.
Orauge trees are long lived
THE INDIAN EMBASSY.
Spotted Tail aud His Associate Braves
Before the Great Father—How They
Look, Eat and Act—They Declare No
Gold to be in the Black Hills, Etc.
(Correspondence of the Courier-Journal).
Washington, May 29th, 1875.
I have just been fl&eorded an inter
view with the Sioux Indians, and their
agents and interpreters, who have been
brought here by the Government for
the purpose of effecting anew treaty,
if possible, but anyhow to settle some
misunderstanding which has recently
grown out of tho treaty of a year ago,
or more, between the United States and
their nation. General statements in re
gard to this deputation have doubtless
appeared in your columns, and. in ali
of the Eastern papers, but in none of
the accounts which I have seen has
thero been any mention in detail of
their names, bands and individual per
sonnel, etc. Of the Indians, there
are twenty-eight warriors, braves and
chiefs, and one squaw. They came
from the Cheyenne, Ogalala or Red
Cloud, and Whetstone or Spotted Tail
agencies, and are immediately under
the charge of Major Henry Bingham,
Dr. J. J. Seville and Major E. A. How
ard, who are connected with the agen
cies above mentioned, in the order
named, as agents. They are also ac
companied by the Rev. S. G. Hinraau,
chief Government interpreter for the
Sioux nation, an interpreter for each
agency, viz: William Peeler (white man,
Cheyenne), William Garnett (half-blood,
Ogalala), aud Louis Bordeaux (half
blood, Whetstone), and by several white
men who have joined their fortunes
with the Sioux and married squaws.—
The whole deputation G under the im
mediate control here of Col. J. W.
Daniels, United States Indian Inspector.
Delegates from the Agencies.
The Cheyenne agency is represented
by Long Mandan, Lone Horn, Spotted
Elk, Red Shirt, Charger, White Swan,
Bull Eagle, Rattling Cloud, aud Duck.
Those from the Ggalala agency are Red
Cloud, Little Wound, Conquering Bear,
Tall Lance, Pawnee Killer, Bad Wound
and his wife, Cha-inka-pa-lu-ta, or Red
Bud of the Woods, American Horse,
Setting Bull, Face, Shoulder, Black
Bear, Fast Thunder, aud Iron Horse.
Those of the Whetstone agency are
Spotted Tail, Sweat Bear, Cro\v Dog,
Looking Horse, He Eagle, and Ring
Thunder. Every one of these warriors
represents a band, and though the
bands each have a voice in matters
which eoueern the Sioux Tribe, Spotted
Tail and Red Cloud seem to be recog
nized as chiefs par excellence of the
whole nation. The deputation repre
sents about 60,000 people, who have
a reservation of about two hundred
miles square, which includes the couu
try about the north fork of the Repub
lican river, through which is located
the best aud most convenient route for
travelers to the Northwest and the
Black Hills, which embrace about sixty
miles square, or about tbirly-aix hun
dred square miles of laud. There are
but two or three of these Sioux who
are not over six feet tall, and a number
of them reach from six feet three to
six feet six inches iu height. None of
these are inclined to obesity, aud every
one of them are wonderfully muscular
and strong. Iu comparison with the
gaping crowd of white men and ne
groes who almost constantly surrouud
the Tremont House, where the Indians
are entertained duiing their stay here,
they look like very giants. lam told
by good authority that these warriors,
in tfieir splendid physical development,
are but a fair representation of then
people In general.
Their Solidity.
But three or four of this deputation
have ever been in the States before,
and notwithstanding as they are takeu
from place to place and shown the
wonders of this great city many things
are brought to the view which would
bring forth an expression of amazement
or surprise from the white man, or in
deed from most any other people in the
world, yet these gentlemen of the far
West witness most everything without
even a change of countenance. About
the only thing that has yet been shown
them, aud which surprised them iuto
expressions of wonder, was a ten-min
utes’ practice with the Gatlin gun,
which discharges with a full quarter
range, if necessary, 50050-caliber balls
iu one minute. This was too much for
t heir great gravity, aud they were suffi
ciently overcome to give expression to
the “how, how, how,” all around.
The Red Men at the Restaurants.
They all take very kindly to the mix
ed drinks which they find here iu
Washington, and some of them patron
ize the bar at Uncle Sam’s expense
pretty extensively, and get outside of a
very large amount of rye whiskey.
With all their inclination to drink,
however, none of them seem any the
worse for their fire-water. It is per
fectly astonishing how quick these fel
lows get used to the luxuries of civili
zation, and eat, and in almost every
other manner act like other people.
They are as ready to complain if they
don’t get the very best of food, and to
criticize the cooking as the veriest epi
cure in the city; aud, although they do
not understand a word of English, they
are ingenious enough tq make the wai
ters at the hotel understand by signs
that they want a plenty and something
of al! of the best. Many of the dishrs
of which they partake they certainly
never heard of before, but nothing
daunted, they go for all of them, and
that, too, as if they had been used to
them all their lives.
Their Costumes.
They all wear blankets of various
colors, some of which are beaded, but
most of which are worked across the
center about five inches in width, with
porcupine quills and beads. Most of
them wear shirt and pants, or leggings.
Some have shoes—low ones or slippers
—and most of them wear moccasins or
go barefooted. All of them have long,
black, coarse hair; in some instances it
is two or three feet long, and wrapped
in braids with strips of red flannel
Some of them wear hats, in all of which
are eagle feathers, but most of them go
bareheaded, except when they gj out
on State occasions. Then they assume
the beaded, feathered crown proper of
the Indian chief.
Spotted Tail
is regarded as the wisest Indian op the
Continent, and on all occasions here, in
meeting the authorities, he is made the
speaker. He is fifty-two years of age,
and weighs about 250 pounds of solid
bone and muscle. When at rest there
is nothing remarkable about his ap
pearance, except that one sees iu his
square, flat-looking, yellow face the
cruel, scalp-taking Sioux of the war
path, who is feared by the Pawnees as
an avenging Manitobe ; but when his
eyes open, glistening like diamonds,
lighting up his features, and he speaks,
you see a very different man indeed.
Immediately there is manifested that
magic power which belongs only to
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naturaHy g f e at men ; that power which
will lead the multitude, without an in
quiry being made as to what road it will
take or for what purpose it goes. Once
hearing this great warrior speak, and
feeling the magnetic. influence which
starts into life as you hear the music of
his words, aad realize that the rays
from his brilliant eyes are upon you,
you no longer inquire the reason of his
supremacy among his people. It was
during my interview with this chief that
I learned the proper name of the squaw
who accompanies the deputation. I
asked Louis Bordeau, the interpreter,
to write her name for me, as it was
difficult for me to do so from theiw
pronunciation. He undertook it, but
failed, and asked Spotted Tail as to the
proper pronunciation of the name by
syllables. Spotted Tail answered by
repeating, Cha-inka-pa-lu-ta several
times. So sweetly musical was the
name as spoken by him, that I was
sorry when he stopped. I trust to see
more of Spotted Tail, as well as Red
Cloud, and write you further on the
characteristics of these great red men.
The Object of the Talk.
It seems from what I can learn that
there will be nothing further accom
plished by this visit of the Sioux than
to hear the propositions of the author
ities, the President and the Secretary
of the Interior, which will be taken by
this deputation back to their people
and laid before them in general coun
cil. Afterwards they will, if the pro
positions of the Government are ac
cepted,Return and make a treaty. The
principle object of the Government
seems to be to get the Sioux abandon
their present reservation and take up
one in the Indian Territory, because,
as the President and the Secretary of
the luteiior says, the lauds about the
Black Hills country will necessarily
soon bo settled by the whites, whether
the Government is willing or not; that
immigration is tending iu that direc
tion, and, if the Indians do not leave
that country, there will necessarily be
bloodshed between the white settlers
and the Indians, in which event the
Government would be compelled to
protect the whites. As an inducement
to get the Indians to accept this pro
position, it has been stated to then: by
the authorities that that part or the
Indian Territory which would be as
signed the Sioux is a magnificent coun
try, with fine forests, plenty of game,
good water, fertile lands, &e.
knotted Tail’s Shrewdness.
Spotted Tail answers that he and his
people were born in the lands which
they now occupy, they have buried
their dead there, and all the associa
tions of their past are attached to that
country, and he pertinently asks if the
Indian Territory is such a good coun
try, why don’t the white men go there
instead of to his reservation. For the
purpose of this Summer’s travel, the
Government has been anxious to settle
the matters pertaining to the north
bank of the Republican aud the Ne
braska boundary.
The authorities say to the Sioux that
the buffalo are scarce on the North
fork of the Republican; that there is
nothing there which the Indian could
desire, aud that the white man must
travel across it. Spotted Tail says that
argument is not a good one for the
white man, and ought not to be good
for the Indian; that he has repeatedly
told the white man, through the au
thorities at Wiishington, that there was
no gold in the Black Hills, and that the
Indian used it only to retire to with
his stock wuen the prairie grass was
burnt, in which to hunt, and out of
which to get lodge poles, and yet the
white man would go there in spite of
such assurances. Yrai.
THE SOCIAL GLASS.
Stull' that is Palmed oil' tTpon Ameri
cans by the German Wine-Makers—
Art-Wines Without a Drop of Grane
Juice in Them.
[Bingen on the Rhine Correspondence of
the New York Mercury.}
Great excitement prevails in this sec
tion of Germany, which is the heart of
the Rhine-wine trade, the result of a
lemarkable trial just concluded at
Cffenburg, in the Grand Dukedon of
Baden. The manufacture of artificial
wine has largely increased of late, and
among others, the firm of Stein &Kahn
of Offenburg, in Baden, has gone ex
tensively into the business. They annu
ally exported these artificial wines to
other parts of Germany, and also to
the United States and England. Some
dealers recently made complaint, and a
quiet investigation by the authorities
followed, and Stein & Kahn were ar
rested on a criminal charge of selling a
chemical compound claiming to be pure
wine. The trial lasted nearlv two
weeks. The prisoners being wealthy
employed the best legal taleut, and the
most eminent chemists were sum
moned to prove that the artificial
wine was really a better thing
than the juice of the grape. But the
jury convicted both men, and the court
sentenced them to six months’ impris
onment at hard labor, and to pay a fine
of 300 thalers. The severity of the
sentence has created a sensation, for
nearly every grape owner in the neigh
borhood is guilty of the same offense.
I hear that a similar thunderstorm may
soon break upon the brewers of this
country. The tax on barley malt. *he
only kind of beer tax collected in Ger
many, has fallen off, making a hole in
the revenue. Untaxed chemical sub
stitutes are used instead of malt and
hops, and the Germans, in consequence,
begin to eschew beer and prefer other
drinks. The matter came up in the
German Parliament, and measures
were proposed for the punishment of
adulterators. This has stimulated a
number of brewere at Berlin, Dresden,
Frankfort, Munich, Stuttgart, Cologne,
and other places, to form an associa
tion pledged to use nothing but small
hops and water, aud they have invited
the people to witness the manufacture
of beer. This must be interesting in
America, since immense quantities of
German beer are exported to the Uni
ted States, and chiefly to New York.
A Double Dose.—A China man has
been imprisoned in Paris for bigamy.
He had become religious, and his priest
ordering him tc do penance for his past
sins, he took unto himself two wiveii by
the way of a commencement. He was
a barbarian, or he would have known
that one is as much as any ordinary
mortal could be expected to punish
himself with.
According to a Virginia editor fnere
are four hundred thousand dogs in that
State, which manage to get away with
several million dollars worth of food
annually. He thinks the owners should
•be taxed at such a rate that they would
be induced to kill off all the worthless
ones. Even after this is done he esti
mates that there will be fully one hun
dred thousand canines left to mourn
their departed comrades. Virginia
certainly a dog-ridden State,