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JOURNAL AND MESSENGER. CLISBY & JONES, Pbopeietobs. THE FAMILY JOURNAL—NEWS—POLITICS- LITERATURE—AGRICULTURE—DOMESTIC NEWS, Etc.—PRICE $2.00 PER ANNUM. GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING — ^STABUSIIED1826- MACON, FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1880. VOLUME NO—LV EVENTIDE. With ardent splendor The sun was beaming, O’er twilight streaming And spnngtide flowers; Its rays entangled ’Mid summer roses As daylight closes In evening hours. While hues of crimson The eve was blushing, And softly hushing The night begun. O’er lovers straying, Itself enshrining, Was fast entwining Two hearts in one. As day and evening Were slowly blending, And stars attending With silver beam, Love’s potent sunbeams Were also gleaming; . Wo two were dreaming Love’s fleeting dream. Then gloomy shadows ■Came down and wedded, In glass imbedded And sombre hue. As day and evening. So we, twin-hearted, Before we parted, Were wedded too. —John Anderson. THE SECRET OF THE SEA. * The story I am about to relate describes an actual occurrence. The recompense that came so speedily, .and in such a singular manner, to the principal actor in the events that are por trayed, will no doubt suggest to san guine temperaments a providential inter ference. The real names of the persons thus brought to the notice of the reader, I have, of course, withheld. Uncle Simon, as he was called, lived on a small islaud in Casco hay, on the coast of Maine. He was a simple-minded, but hard-working fisherman, of great in tegrity of character. During the summer months, large schools of hake frequent the muddy bot tom of the bay, affording a rich harvest to the fishermen along the coast. As these fish take the hook best in the night, it is the custom of the fishermen to go in their small boats to the fishing-ground about sunset, and fish till daybreak, or some what late* - . One forenoon in July, Uncle Simon was returning to the shore from baking after a successful night’s work. The light wind was barely sufficient to give his heavily- laden boat steerage-way, and, weary from his toil, the old man was nodding at the helm. Suddenly his half-closed eyes caught sight of a dead body in the water, just ahead of his boat. So startling a sight roused Uncle Simon thoroughly. He opened his eyes wide, for just one moment, then lowered his sail, and reaching out his boat-hook, drew the dead body towards him. It proved to he that of a man, floating face downwards. The skirts of h<3 coat were thrown up over his shoulders, and from a deep inside pocket of the skirt pro truded a large leathern pocket-book. All that prevented this book from fall ing out was the lining of the pocket, which was of cotton cloth, and being saturated by the water, held it. It at once attracted Uncle Simon’s notice, and he drew it forth aud placed it in the boat. The body had been so long in. the water that it could not be taken'into the boat, but Uncle Simon; by means of a rope, towed it to the island. On examining the pocket-book he found that it contained a laige amount of money in bank bills, which were soaked with water, but not otherwise injured. Uncle Simon was a poor man. He had nothing but poverty to look forward to in his old age. This money was like a mine of wealtli in his eyes. Men have been murdered, and souls have been .lost, for a smaller amount than tfyat pocket-book contained. - What was to hinder him from calling it his own? No living creature was in five or six miles of him. He was uttefly alone. As he towed the body to the land how easy it would have been to have kept the book, and then to allow the voiceless, ocean to swallow up the dead body. Who would have known his guilty secret? But it is the inward inclination that gives force to temptation, and there was nothing in the nature of this simple fisher man that could so incline his upright mind as to make it yield. He took the pocket- book with him, and after reaching home he dried the bills and carefully recounted them. There were nine hundred and fifty dollars, From letters and bills in the book, he ascertained that the body was that of a Capt. Small, who some week3 before had run his vessel on Half-way Rock (a dry ledge midway between Cape Elizabeth and Cape Small point) and had lost her. He also ascertained that the vessel was owned in North Yarmouth, a neighboring town. At once he sent word to the owners, one of whom came to the island. They knew what freight-money the captain had in his possession, for he had written them from his last port of departure. On count ing the money, it was found the right amount to a dollar. About a fortnight after this the old man was going home in his boat from Drunken Ledge, where he had been to fish for r#ck-cod, when he came across a raft of drift-wood. There was but little wood on his island, and Uncle Si mon, like most of his neighbors* was ob liged to purchase his fuel. He took in sail and set to work picking up the wood. While thus occupied, he saw something bobbing up and down in the water that excited his curiosity, and which proved to be the handle of a mal let, the mallet itself being under water. He drew it towards him, and after ex amining it with some attention, said to himself; “It’s master heavy. Some for eign wood, I guess. It don’t look as if it had been used any. I declare I wouldn’t believe it could float if I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes. It didn’t hut just float, though. Anyhow, it’s a good mallet, and it’ll come handy in the shop,” Uncle Simon had a small ishep, where he made lobster-traps and repaired* boats in the winter when the weather was too rough to fish. He put the mallet on the bench among his tools, and thought no more of it for months. A common joiner’s mallet is about six inches long by three in diameter at the ends, with a swell in the middle, and is usually made by being turned in a lathe. This mallet was not round, but nearly square, with the corners taken off. It was seven inches long, and four inches by five in thickness at the ends, being some what larger in the middle. As a piece of workmanship it was handsomely made, and was finished per fectly smooth. It certainly could Dot have been a long time in the water, as there were no barnacles or grass sticking to it, and much of the varnish with which, it had once been coated still remained. One rainy day late in the fall, Uncle •Simon was at work in the shop, when Jake Kilgore, one of the neighbors’ boys, entered, and seated himself on the work bench. Soon after, Skipper Harding ■dropped in. It was not long before the boy saw the mallet. “Uncle, where did yon get that big mallet?” he asked. • “Picked it up adrift,” was the brief "ft hile the old folks were chatting, the bey kept his eyes on the mallet, it was such a curious one, and kept turning it over and over. At length he said, “Uncle Simon, there’s a square piece fayed into one end of this maliet; I can see the seam.” “I think it’s like enough; my eyes ain’t as sharp as yourin, and yours won’t be as sharp as they are now when you’ve fished as many long nights as I have.” The boy worked a long time trying to dig out with the points of a pair of compas ses the piece that had been inserted in the mallet. “Let me look at it,” said Uncle Simon; “I’m afeared you’ll bend the points of my compasses.” Looking at the end of the mallet, he said, “The man that fayed that piece in was a workman. Better let it alone; I doubt if it can be got out without boring.” “Do try and get it out, Uncle Simon!” said the boy. “It’s hollow, I know it is. I don’t believe bat what there’s something in there.” “Hand the thing to me,” said Skipper Harding; and after looking at it a mo ment, he said, “The boy’s right, Uncle Simon; that mallet is hollow; if it wasn’t you’d never have .picked it up adrift, un less it was in a boat or on a raft.” “I certainly did take it out of the water twenty fathoms deep, between Eagle Isl and and Drunken Ledge; but why do you say that.” “Because that mallet’s made of linkum ntee (lignum vitae). ’Twill sink In wa ter like a stone if it is solid. It never could have floated.” “The handle’s white-ash. Wouldn’t the handle float it?” “No, it wouldn’t begin to.” Uncle Simon put the mallet in a vise, and with a chisel loosened andremovec. the wedge-shaped piece that bad been so nicely fitted in, when a large cavity ap peared, stuffed with oakum. After pulling out the oakum, he took the mallet from the vise, and striking the end on the bench, out came a large num ber of gold coins, which rolled over the bench and on to the floor. “What be they? what he they?” shouted John Kilgore—who had never seen a gold coin—picking up one of them, at which he gazed with dilating eyes, and then tried his teeth on it. “English sovereigns,” replied the skip per. “Be they real gold, like granny’s gold beads ?” “I reckon they are a great deal better gold than your granny’s beads. At any rate, every one of ’em is worth almost five dollars.” The coins were forty in number. On examining the cavity it was evident that they had occupied but a small part of it, the rest being taken up with a piece of clean new duck, which had been laid next to the metal, and with oakum. “No wonder it floated, with all that hol low. That’s the way we fix our lobster buoys when they get water-soaked.” “Now, skipper, in your younger days you’ve followed the sea, and been in for eign parts, but I’ve been only a fisherman. I want you to give me your candid opin ion. Who did that gold belong to, and what could possess any person that they should put money in such a place as that?” Well, it’s my opinion that the money belonged to some ship’s carpenter; most likely, the carpenter of a man-of-war, be cause merchant vessels don’t often carry a carpenter. Most likely that was his mon ey-box. He knew nobody would think of looking in a mallet for his money, and that piece was fayed in so neat that be fore the varnish was washed oft; no per son would be likely to observe it. ‘I knew an old Swede, a carpenter,-that went for years in one vessel, and he had a place mortised in a timber-head, where he kept his money, and nobody knew it till he got able to stay ashore, and then he took it out. I expect the vessel this poor fellow was in was lost, and he with her. You’ll have to keep the money. You can’t find any owner for' this, as you did for the other.” “I shall try; I shall put up a writing on the school house and on the meeting house, and tell the select men.” “That mallet might have drifted across the ocean; and by there being sovereigns in it, I expect it belonged to some English man-of-war’s man. It’s my belief and udgment you’ll never find an owner for t; though of course it’s your own duty to try.” '“Skipper Harding, it Uncle Simon tries and don’t find any rightful owner for the money whose will it be then?” asked the boy. “His; and when the rightful owner had dono with it, it was for Simon, and it was for no other person to find.” “Couldn’t anybody else find it?” “No; and what establishes me more in that belief is that,though I never knew or h£ard of his finding that mallei till I came iii here this morning, I remember the time very well, because we’d ’lotted to go to gether rock-fishing that day to Drunken Ledge; but I was called away to Small Point to look at a vessel we thought of buying. “Coming back, I ran foal of that same drift-stuff myself, and let the main sheet fly, thinking I’d roll the sails up and get part of it. Bnt I changed my mind, trimmed the sheet down again and kept on. I had been home about two hours, when in came Uncle Simon with a part of that stuff” “That’s the very day I found the mallet the day we set to go together and didn’t, and I remember you said I’d got your drift-stuff when 1 came in.” “Had I gone to taking in the wood, I should have found the mallet, but it was notthns to be; it was for yon, Simon. You wouldn’t take anything from the North Yarmouth folks, ’cause you said you didn’t want to be paid to do right, and this time the ocean took the matter in hand. It is my belief that the winds and waves had their orders to whom to carry that piece of wood.” Skipper Harding never had occasion to change the opinion so emphatically ex pressed, as, after due notice given, no person ever appeared to prove his lawful claims to the money.—Youths’ Compan ion. Seymour Declines Again.—A Utica dispatch of Friday evening quotes the Ob server as saying: . “With reference to Governor Seymour’s position th'ere is no troth in the report that he has in. any way changed or modified his position. He says now, as he has said all the time, that he is not and cannot be a candidate, and that he could not accept a nomination, even if one were offered to him. He deems it immoral for any one to en ter upon any public office when his health is nneqnal to the performance of its la bors. He alone can judge of this and can not yield his decision to the opinions of others. He has never anticipated the possibility of his nomination, and has only regarded the mention of his name as one of the coincidents which always mark political speculations before the meeting of a convention. In reply to any compli mentary allusions to himself, he has al ways distinctly and clearly stated his pur pose to withdraw from an active part in public affairs, although he felt a deep in terest in the success of the party to which he was attached. In stating what he says upon this point we only repeat his own words, and we do so to meet his views and not our own. HOWTHES’. Y. SUN PUTS IT. r ■ . Schuyler Colfax and lu. A. Qarflcld. In the summer of 1872, when the Sun first made public the testimony of Colonel Henry S. McComb in the Credit Mobilier suit, Schuyler Colfax and James A. Gar field were both conspicuous leaders of the Republican party. Mr. Colfax was Vice President of the United States; Gen. Garfield was chairman of the House com mittee on appropriations. Writing to Col. McComb in 1868 in re gard to Credit Mobilier stock set apart for the pnrposc of corrupting legislators, Oakes Ames had said: “I have used this where it will produce most good to us, I think.” Pencilled on the back of the same letter was Oakes Ames’ memoran dum list of Senators and congressmen bribed. There were thirteen names in all. Here are two of them: S. Colfax, speaker . . . $2,000 Garfield, O 2,000 Most of the persons affected by this pre liminary revelation hastened to deny their guilt. The denials of Schnyler Colfax and James A. Garfield were alike explicit and impressive. Colfax went from his desk in the Senate chamber be fore a committee of the House of Repre sentatives, and, having sworn in the name of God to'tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, made this statement: “I state, explicitly, that no one ri$er gave or offered to give me any shares of slock in the Credit Mobilier or the Union Pacific Railroad. I had never received, nor had tendered to me, any dividends in cash, stock or bonds accruing upon any stock in either of said organizations. I never received a dollar in bonds, stock, or dividends.” In the Senate chamber, Colfax shed tears while protesting his innocence, and appealed to the Eternal Tribunal of Jus tice to establish the truth of his words. Gen. James A. Garfield also swore in the name of God to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth; and having taken that solemn oath, he said: “Mr. Ames never gave nor offered to give me any stock or“any other valuable tiling as a gift. I once asked and ob tained from him, and afterward repaid to him, a loan of $300; that amount is the only valuable thing I ever received from or delivered to him. I never owned, re ceived or agreed to receive any stock of the Credit Mobilier or of the Union Pa cific Railroad, nor any dividends or profits arising from either ol them. “Q.—Were any dividends ever tendered to you on the stock of the Credit Mobilier upon the supposition that you were to he a subscriber? A.—No, sir. “Q.—The loan you have repaid, if I un derstood you correctly? A—Yes, sir.” Both Colfax’s and Garfield’s sworn de nials were made under the pressure of the emergency, and before it was known or supposed that Oakes Arnes would ever be witness to the truth. Circumstances which it is not now necessary to recall, brought Oakes Ames to the stand, with his memorandum book. By the record of his transactions with Colfax the account stood: “Colfax, twenty shares Credit Mobilier, cost $2,000; interest for seven months aud ten days, $80.72, making a total of $2,- 0S0. 72 less 80 per cent, bond dividend at 07,$1,552—$534.72.” The same book showed that a 00 per cent, cash dividend of $1,200 was paid by him to Colfax. Gen. Garfield’s account in the same memorandum book was as follows: “Garfield, ten shares Credit Mobilier, $1,000; seven months and ten days’ inter-, est, $43.40—$1,043.30; 80 per cent, bond dividend at 97, $770—$207.30; interest, Juno 20, $3.04; balance $271. Ten shares Credit Mobilier stock, ten shares Union Pacific stock.” And in another place a geneial state ment: J. A. G. Dr. 1808.—To ten shares Credit Mobilierof A. . . $1,000 00 Interest 47 00 June 19.—To cash 329 00 ment and showed it to him at' the time. In one conversation he ad mitted it, and said, as near as I can re member, there was $2,400 due in stock and bonds. He made a little memoran dum of $1,000 and $1,400, and, ..as I rec ollect, said there was $1,000 of Union Pacific stock, $1,000 of Credit Mobilier stock, and $400 of stock or bonds, I do not recollect what. “Q.—Have you the memorandum that Mr. Garfield made? A.—I have the fig ures that he made.” Paper in Mr. Garfield’s handwriting was shown to the committee, containing fig ures as follows: $1,000 1,400 „ 1808. $1,376 00 Dr. By dividend bonds, Union Pacific rail road, $1,000, at SO per cent., less S per cent $777 00 June 17.—By dividend collected for your account COO 00 i. $1,376 00 Schuyler Colfax swore that he had nev er received the $1,200 which Ames claimed to have paid him as dividend. Oake3 Ame3 swore that he had paid it by check on the sergeant-at-arms. Sergeant- at-Arms Ordway produced the cancelled check: “Washington, June 20,1868. ‘Sergcant-at-Arms, U. S. House of Representatives: Pay to 8. C. or bearer $1,200, aud charge to my account Oakes Ames.” This check, which Colfax swore he had never seen, was drawn Jane 20. The books of the sergeant-at-arm3 showed that it was paid June 21. The books of the First National Bank of Washington, where the Vice President kept a private account, showed that on Jane 21 Schuyler Colfax deposited there $1,200 in cash, and the deposit ticket, in his own hand writing, was produced. His perjury as well as his bribe-taking was proved. His closest friends ceased trying to defend him. After one effort, pathetically absurd in its weakness, he ceased to try to defend himself. James A. Garfield’s case was even woise. To the evidence of his corruption and peijury was added evidence of an at tempt on bis part to suborn perjury. His cash dividend, paid to him Jane ,19,1SGS, by Oakes Ames, amounted to $329. After the investigation had begun, he went to Arnes and besought him to let this pay ment “go as a loan,” and when Ames had refused to peijure himself to save him, he made figures to show that Ames still owed him $2,400 of the bribe money! Oakes Ames testified as follows: : “Q.—You may state whether, in con versation with you, Mr. Garfield claims, as he claimed before us, that the only transaction between you was borrowing $300. A.—No, sir; he did not claim that with me. “Q.—State how he docs claim It with you; what was said? State all that occur red in conversation between you. A.—I cannot remember half of it. I have had two or three interviews with Mr. Gar field. He wants to put it on the basis of a loan. “Q.—What did you say to him in ref erence to that state of the case? A.—I stated to him that he never asked me to lend him any money; that I never knew be wanted to borrow any. I did not know he wasshort. I made a statement to him showing the transaction and what there was due on it; that deducting the bond dividend and the cash dividend there was $829 due him, for which I bad given him a check; that he had never asked me to loan him any money,'and I never loaned him any. , “Q.—After you made that statement, what did he state in reply? A.—He wanted to have it go as a loan. “Q.—Did he claim that it was in fact a loan? A.—No,sir; Ido not think he did. No, he did not. •A $2,400 “Q.—You say that these figures were made by Mr. Garfield? A.—Yes, sir.” “Q.—That was his idea of what was coming to him? A.—Yes, sir.” All this, be it remembered, occurred after the investigation had begun—alter James A. Garfield had sworn that he “never owned, received or agreed to re ceive any stock of the Credit Mobilier or of the Union Pacific railroad nor any div idends or profits arising from either of them.” And after Garfield had sworn to this falsehood, a Republican committee of the House of Representatives, made up of his own political and personal friends, and with Judge Poland, of Vermont, as its chairman, branded him forever as a bribe taker and a peijurer in these blasting words: “He (Garfield) agreed with Mr. Ames to take ten shares of Credit Mobilier stock, but did not pay for the same. Mr. Ames received the eighty per cent, divi dend in bonds, and sold them for ninety- seven per cent, and also received the sixty per cent, cash dividend, which, together with the price of the stock and interest, left a balance of $329. This s:m was paid over to' Mr. Garfield by a check on the sergeant-at-arms The Credit Mobilier exposure shattered a good many reputations; but it left no character worse damaged than those of Schuyler Colfax and James A. Garfield. Schuyler Colfax, unnoticed, is living out the last years of a dishonored life; while, by a carious turn of a memorable straggle in a nominating convention, James A. Garfield, his fellow criminal, is the Republican party’s candidate for Pres-, ident of the United States! CoL Thomas Hardeman in Fort Val ley. . - Fort Vallet, June 12,18S0. Editors Telegraph arid Messenger: Col. Thomas Hardeman, by request of many friends, made an'address here this morn ing to an audience of 400 or 450, consist ing of ladies and gentlemen of Fort Val ley and vicinity. He was introduced by \Y. E. Collier, Esq., who, witli a few well chosen words, portrayed to the audience the man they came to hear. Amidst'the applause the grand form of the true Dem ocrat approached tho front of the stand, where for an hour or more he poured forth, in words of eloquence, sentiments of true patriotism and “devotion to old Geor gia.” Justics could not bo done to the speech by attempting a synopsis. He was truly grand when he made allusion to Gov. Colquitt. He said he would never be heard to make war against a political opponent to obtain office. Some had made a mistake when they fought Colquitt on account of his religious devotion. He gave way-once for harmony and for Colquitt, when he was urged by prominent men all over the State to hold on and defeat Colquitt. His reply was, he was for harmony, and he‘ carried enough delegates to give Colquitt the two majority required to nominate. Now, when tin re are about to be more schisms, all this devotion to party and harmony is forgotten by the friends of Colquitt, aud they say, Hardeman must give way again. He appealed to the peo ple, in the name of justice and candor, if it became a duty for any one of tho candi dates to retire from the contest, who should it be ? He closed with a burst of pathos that doubtless made every one present feel that he loved old Georgia more than he ever did before. When he took his seat, Col. Wallace, of Butler, was called for, who took the stand and replied that he did not wish to make a speech in Col. H.’s presence, as he felt a modesty in speaking before his face what lie could say for him behind Ins back; that he was with him in many positions of trust, both in war and peace; had known him for more than twenty years, and had always found him true as steel, and pure as gold. He said he had noticed Colquitt’s speech, and the very thing he wanted him to answer was left unan swered—that was, “why he suffered men under him in office to embezzle the State’s money, when it was his duty to make a searching examination of these officers under oath every quarter, and also exam ine their bocks.” He said ho had never seen any war made against Colquitt because he was a Christian, but he had seen him charged with neglect of "his duty due the State, while he was off interested in religious meetings, while the men in office were revelling in corruption. He said Colquitt claimed he merited muchfor the financial condition of the State, when he had fought every act of retrenchment introduced by the financial committee oi the legislature, to whom the honor was due. Fort Valley. Lee and Davis.—In a communication from John W. Fairfax ia the Alexandria (Va.) Gazette, the following occurs as a revelation: The seceded States lost life, liberty and wealth for the want of nerve in Mr. Davis to make peace with President Lincoln. General K. E. Lee told me the night before we left Appomat tox for our homes, that he urged Mr. Da vis, in the presence of the secretary of war, when the commissioners went to Fortress Monroe to make peace upon any terms. Make peace; if you do not, as soon as the spring opens to enable Gen. Grant to move, he will break my lines at Pe tersburg and take Richmond. Mr. Davis said, “I am afraid of the people.” In honor to the raeraoiy of Gen. B. E. Leo, I here state what he further said, to wit:"“I believe Mr. Lincoln would have given ns all we asked, except secession and slavery; but I believe he would have agreed tojpay for the slaves at a fail* valua tion. M. Davis never gave up the com mand of the army to me to do as I pleased, as was supposed; not until I wrote him from Petersburg that my lines were bro ken, then lie wrote me, ‘I will leave Richmond to-night; you do the best you can.’ That was the first time he had given up the command to me to do as I thought best, leaving me to be sacri ficed whilst he fled to take care of him self.” Here the good and great soldier became overcome, and I left him alone in his tent, where he had me called In, and he reviewed to me his course from the time be left the “old army” up to his sur render. The fear ot the people cost the lives and limbs of every one who was lost from'the time of the meeting of the com missioners at Fortress Monroe up to the surrender of Gen.'Lee at Appomattox Court House. —Mr. Alfred Tennyson is mentioned as Congnu. Washington, June 14.—The House met at 9:30 o’clock, in continuation of Saturday’s session, and the Speaker an nounced the pending question to be on seconding the demand for the previous qnestiwi on the electoral count resolution. The Republicans resorted to filibustering tactics, and after several roll calls the House adjourned, and at 11 o’clock the session! °f Monday began. The call of States And morning hour having been dis pensed, with, Mr. Herbert, of Alabama, submitted a conference report on the House .bill relating to public lands. In the Senate, Mr. Beck reported that the conference committee on the Senate amendments to the snndiy civil appropria tion hill had been unable to agree, the principal point of difference being the increased appropriation / for the na tional board of health. Mr. Harris, chair man of the committee on epidemic dis eases, stated his belief, that it would be better to abolish the board rather than cripple it by withholding this appropria tion,, which was necessary to enablo it to perform its functions. Oh mption of Mr. Beck, the Senate in sisted on its amendments, and asked for a farther conference. Mr. Lamar from the committee on rail roads, reported favorably on the Senate bill to aid the Mississippi Valley and Ship Island Railroad Company to construct a line of railroad in Mississippi. Placed on the calendar. Mr. Jonas, from the same committee, reported favorably on the Senate bill aid ing tho construction of a military, com mercial, and postal railway from military headquarters at San Antonio to the Rio Grande at or near Laredo, with an amend ment in the nature of a substitute, the committee adopting the bill introduced in the House by Representative Upson, which was placed on the calendar. Tho House bill making an appropria tion for the erection of a naval wharf at Key West, was passed. On motion of Mr. Garland, the Senate concurred in the House amendment to the bill regalating the pay and appointment of deputy marshals. The bill now goes to the IYosident. Washington, June 14.—The Senate proceeded to consider the calendar. On motion Of Mr. Beck, in view off the late stage of fthe session, only House bills fa vorably reported by Senate committees were considered. The House bill amend ing section 3,244, of the revised statutes, was passed. It adds a provision, that dealers in leaf tobacco to an amount less than twenty-five thousand pounds, in any one special tax year, which they receive directly from planters, shall only be re quired to pay a special tax of five dollars, instead twenty-live, as required from dealers m leaf tobacco generally. The House bill confirming to John H. Peting and others titles to certain lands in Louisiana was passed. At the expiration of tho morning hour, the Mexican pensions bill was informally Ia’.d aside to allow Mr. Windom to speak on the exodus committee’s report. At the conclusion of his remarks the Senate in sisted on its amendments to the general deficiency bill, aud a committee of con ference. was appointed thereon. The bill removing the political disabili ties of John C. Maury was passed. Mr. Lamar then spoke at considerable length in reply to the speech of Mr. Windom upon the report of the exodus committee Mr. Hampton, from the committee on military affairs, reported favorably on the House bill to loan tcnt3 to the Gate City Guards of Atlanta. Placed on the calen dar. Adjourned. In the House, the bill to confirm titles to lands to persons being prosecuted for trespassing thereon on payment of the government price, as agreed to by tho con ference committee, provides that when any lands of the United States shall have been entered and government price paid therqfor in full, no criminal suit by or in the name of the United States shall thereafter he had or further maintained for any trespass upon or on account of material taken from said lands, and tliat no civil salt shall be main tained for any trespass upon or material taken trom said lands intheordi- nary clearing of land, in the working'of mining claims, or for agricultural or do mestic purposes, in maintaining improve ments on lands of bona fide settlers, or on account of Any material taken by any per son without the knowledge of trespass or without fraud or collusion, by any person who, in good faith, has paid to officers of the United States for the same; provided, that the provisions of this section shall apply only to trespasses committed prior to March 1, 1879; and, provided further, thjtt defendants in such suits shall exhibit to the proper officers evidence of such entry, and pay all accrued costs. After some debate the report was agreed to: yeas 133, nays 42. Mr. Bicknell, of Indiana, demanded the previous question on the electoral count resolution, and the Republicans, re suming their filibustering tactics, left the House without a quorum. Mr. Bicknell finally withdrew his demand, and on his motion the resolution was made the spe cial order for the first Monday in Decem ber. , ■ The joint resolution to enforce the eight hour law wa3, after some debate, passed— yeas 130, nays 57. Mr. McLane, of Maryland, then moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill known as the Carlisle sugar bill. The opponents of the bill refused to vote, and tbe House was left without a quorum, and It therefore adjourned. One of the provisions of tbe bill which was passed in both houses to-day on the report of the conference committee rela tive to public lands restores the price of land witbm six miles of railroads to $1.25' per acre, where they were placed on the market at $2.50 per acre prior -to ,1861. This is understood to include lands along the Mobile and Montgomery railway ana many other Southern railways. The conference committee have agreed to retain in the sundry civil appropriation bill Senator Jones’ provision for placing the Pensacola navy yard in a state of effi ciency, with an amendment fixing , the amount of this year’s appropriation at The Senate to-day confirmed by the de cisive vote of 39 to 3 the nomination of Janies Longstreet, of Geoigia, as minister resident of tbe United States to Turkey. Washington, June 14.—The Presi dent sent the following nominations to the Senate to-day: Jacob W. Helffincb, to be commissioner in the United States mint at New Orleans; Thomas J. Johnson, collector of customs at Savannah; Charles Pelham, of Alabama, associate justice of the Supreme Court of New Mexico. Washington, June 15.—In the Senate, a bill relieving James Monroe Heskell from the operation of exclusion in 1218 of the revised statutes,which prohibits the appointment in the anny of ex-Confede- rates, was passed by a party vote. In the House, Mr. Cabell, of Virginia, introduced a bill repealing so much of section 3385 of the revised statutes as fixes tbe export tax on manufactured to bacco, snuff and’ cigars. Referred. Mr. Blount, of Geotgia, submitted the report of the conference committee on the sundry civil appropriation bill. Tbe statement which accompanies the report sets forth the effect of the action of the to $1,740,764, from which the Senate re ceded to the amount of $772,540. The hill, as agreed to by the conference com mittee, appropriates $22,523,871. The clause directing the secretary of the treas ury to pay the money appropriated in sil ver coin is stricken out, and a clause added appropriating $10,000 for the expen ses of the Indian commisson. The report was adopted. Mr. Dibreli, of Tennessee, submitted the report of tho conference committee on tho agricultural appropriation bill. The bill, as agreed to, appropriates $251,000. Agreed to. •The morning hour having been dis pensed witb, the Speaker announced the pending question to be on seconding the demand for a suspension of the rules for the passage of Mr. Carlisle’s sugar bill, which motion had been made yesterday by Mr; McLane, of Maryland. Tbe opponents of the Carlisle sugar bill, led by Mr. Davis and other representa tives, resorted -to filibustering, and, by withholding their‘votes, left the House without a quorum. A call of the House was then ordered. Washington, June 15 The House bill granting a pension to Della Benner, widow of Hiram H. Benner, of company C., 18th iufantry, was passed. Benner became famous for heroism during the yellow fever epidemic at Grenada, Missis sippi. The House joint resolution lending the Gate City Guards, of Atlanta, Ga., 400 government tents, was passed. Mr. Eaton presented the report of the conference committee on the deficiency appropriation bill, and it was adopted. The House joint resolution declaring' eight hours to be a day’s work for govern ment employes was, under objection from Mr. Withers, laid on the table. Mr. Morgan submitted the concurrent resolution relative to the electoral count, but, upon objection by Mr. Ingalls, it went over under the rules. > Mr. Beck presented the report of the conference committee on the sundry civil hill. Mr. Conkliug opposed its adoption, but, after some further remarks, the Senate adopted it. Mr. Eaton introduced a bill creating a joint commission for the settlement of cer tain claims of citizens of the United States and France against each other, ac cording to provisions of the treaty of Jan uary 15, 1830. The bill was read three times and passed by unanimous consent. Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, and Mr. Whyte then spoke upon the report of the select committee on the treasury books and accounts. Messrs. Dawes and In galls followed in reply. The Senate then adopted the resolu tions reported by the committee, directing the secretaries of the departments to report to Congress what changes can advanta geously be made in the present system of keeping accounts. Mr. Hampton, from the committee on military affairs, reported favorably the House bill to pay Hiram Johnson and others money collected on excessive mili tary assessments. Placed on the calen dar. The call of the House showed the pres ence of 206 members. After a sharp de bate the question recurred on the second ing of the demand to suspend the rules, aud again no quorum voted. Pending another call of the House, Mr. Cobb, of Indiana, submitted the conference report on the general deficiency bill, and, after as- rany-measure declaring -Uia. palicyof this short debate, it was agreed to. government on international questiotfibo- The Speaker laid before the House a communication from B. B. Lewis, of Ala bama, stating that he had tendered his resignation as a member of Congress to the governor of Alabama, to take effect October 1st. I,aid on the table. Mr. Atkiu3 of Tennessee, under instruc tions from the committee on appropria tions, introduced a bill creating a com mission for the settlement of certain French-American claims under treaty of January 15, 1880, and appropriating $100,- 000 for salaries, etc. The bill was passed, the Senate bill of some import har ing been sent to committee of the whole on the ground that the Senate could not originate such a bill.' The House then took a recess until to-morrow at 10 o’clock. Washingt6n, June 15.—The Presi dent sent a message to tbe Senate this evening vetoing the Senate bill entitled “An act to regulate the pay and appoint ment of deputy marshals.” The following are the principal South ern controverted items In the sundry civil appropriation bill a3 reported by the com mittee and passed by ljptK houses to-day: Military post at San Antonio, $75,000; light at the mouth of Sampit river, $1,200; lights at tho mouth of Red river, Louis iana, $3,COO; for three new public build ings, at Austin, Texas, Atlanta, Ga., and Fall River, $130,000; for salaries and ex penses of the national board of health, and' to carry out the purposes of the vari ous acts creating the board, $100,000; for aid to local quarantine stations and for aid to local and State boards of health, to be used in case of epidemic, $150,000. [The two preceding items include $75,000 diverted by this bill from the general appropriations of last year, and made applicable .to the purposes named.] For: improvement of the navy- yard at Pensacola, Fla., $150,000; for com pleting the work of the entomological commission in a special investigation of the locust and cotton worm, $25,000; re pairs and furniture for the United States court house at Charleston, $2,500. The item, appropriating $20,000 for a light sta tion at Punta Rossa, Fla., is omitted. The Senate, in executive session to-day, confirmed the nomination of James E. Boyd to be United States attorney for tbe western district of North Carolina, and Peter F. Lawshe to be postmaster at Gainesville, Ga. Washington, June 15.—At a meeting of tbe cabinet to-day it was decided to demand an explanation from the Spanish government of the reefeift firing upon an American ship and the subsequent search thereof by Spanish cruisers ofl* the Cuban coast. Washington, Jane 15. — President Hayes returned to the Senate this morn ing without his signature the bill to reg ulate the appointment of deputy marshals, together with a message stating the rea sons why be felt it to be his duty to veto it. After citing authorities now in force upon the subject (sections 202t, 4028 and 5521 revised statutes), and quoting recent opinions of the Supreme Court as to their constitutionality, he says: “The bill pro ceeds upon a construction ‘of the const it u- The president then quotes the bill in full and says: “This bill does not connect the new officers which it creates w ith ex isting laws relating to special deputy marshals so as to invest the former with the same power, or impose upon them the same duties, or give them the same pro tection by means of criminal laws as spe cial deputy marshals have under the pres ent statutes. The so-called deputy mar shals provided for in this bill will have no responsibility to any one, and no authority to call a possecomHalua to their aid, if re sisted, “They are not protected by criminal statutes in the performance of their duty. They cannot keep the peace nor make ar rests when crimes are committed iu their presence. In all these respects this bill makes a radical change between the pow ers of tbe United States officers at nation al elections and the powers uniformly possessed and executed by State officers at State elections. This discrimination against the authority, oi the United States is a departure from the usages of the gov ernment, establishtd by precedents begin ning witb the earliest statutes on the sub ject, and violates tho true principles of the constitution.” In conclusion, the President says he will make no objection to the appoint ment by the courts of officers to act with reference to elections, and he favors their appointment without regard to party, but the present bill, while recognizing the power and duty of the United States to provide officers to guide and scrutinize congressional elections, fails to adapt its provisions to existing laws, so as to secure efficient supervision and protection. Washington, June 16.—In the Senate, there were only a half, dozen Senators present at 9 o’clock. Speaker Raudall came in aud stood conversing with Mr. Thurman until about five minutes past 9, when the chaplain appeared and'the pres ident, pro tem, called the Senate to order. The chaplain’s prayer contained allusions to the approaching close of the session, and he prayed for the guardianship of the Senators during the vacation. Tho jour nal was read as usual. , Mr. Jones, of Florida, from the com mittee on naval affairs, reported, with amendment, a joint resolution recently in troduced by him instructing the secretary of the navy to take necessary steps to se cure adequate naval stations and harbors forthe use of the naval forces of the United States at proper points on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Central America and the American isthmus. He asked its pres ent consideration. Mr. Cockrell asked what necessity there was for its present consideration. Mr. Jones said it was well known that the policy of this government, as set forth in the President’s message of March 8, 1889, was to exercise a single, undivided protectorate and supervision over any water way or ship canal across the isth mus, and the secretary of the navy had, in furtherance of that object, ordered vessels of war to that locality. The secretary thinks some authoritysbould be given him to secure the necessary means to sustain his vessels there in the future. Mr. Burnside advocated a resolution and preamble in solution of the policy of the government as per the message referred to. Mr. Cockrell said that the message had been before Congress several months without beingsacted on, and he objected to ing brought in at the last’two and'a half eratie members of the committee on elec tion as to the power of the national gov- | hours of the session. Mr. Jones remarked that a liko resolu tion had been approved by the House naval committee, aud as the committed on foreign affairs of the Senate had failed to act oh this subject, his committee had thought, it their duty to take some action Resolution went on the calendar. Mr. Anthony—There is a message from the President on the table. Several Sen ators on the Democratic side: “We will take that up presently.” At 9:40 Mr. Randolph moved to go into' executive session. Mr. Anthony—I hope the Senator will withdraw that motion in order to proceed to,tbe consideration of the message of the President. Mr. Randolph and others—That con be done afterwards. Mr. Anthony—Then I hope the motion will he voted down. The president, pro tem, said the motion was uot debatable, and put the question. The motion wa3 carried viva voce, Re publicans apparently voting no and the Democrats aye. The doors were then closed. When tho doors were opened at ten o’clock, Mr. Harris moved to consider the House bills on the calendar. Mr. Anthony said it was discourteous to the President not to consider his veto message, .and demanded the yeas and nays. Mr. Harris said that it could he done afterward. The motion was carried by a party vote, except that Plumb, Booth and Hill* of Colorado, voted yea, and Farlej nay. | Three or four House bills were there upon passed. Op Mr. Logan’s motion the eight hour bill was taken up, but Mr. Withers ob jected to its third reading, and it lies on the table. The bill for the relief of Ben Holladay was made the special order for the first Wednesday in December next. The House joint resolution paying an nual employes one month’s extra pay was amended, on motion of Mr. Blaine, so as include the Senate employes. Mr. Bailey moved to include all the military, naval and civil employes of the. government, wishing, as he admitted, to kill the reso lution, which thereupon was tabled. On motion of Mr. Morgan, the usual resolutions of thanks to> the Vice Presi dent and president,pro tem.,were adopted. On motion of Mr. Conkling, the bill fixing the duty on barley and malt was taken up. Pending debate, Mr. Garland moved to take tip the President’s message, which was tabled on his own motion last night. • >. . Mr. Conkling said he bad tried to have the message read last night but now in sisted on the regular order. After farther debate, Mr. Garland moved to postpone the malt bill until next December and take up the President's message. Mt;. Conkling said malt evidently had no chance against talk, therefore he would not struggle against the judgment of the eminent which is in direct conflict with the judgmeut of the highest judicial tri bunal or the country.” The President then recapitulates in detail the duties of deputy and special deputy marshals, as prescribed in the ex- Mr. Thurman read a clausa in the con stitution which says that on the reception of a veto message, the body “shall” enter objections at large on the journal, and proceed to reconsider the measures. He said that seemed to be mandatory, but of istinglaws, and says: “The functions of course the constitution did not provide special deputy marshals being executive, when they should proceed to reconsider, they are placed under The authority of ft hd that must be left to the discretion of well-known chief executive officers of the 6* body. Hs saw no constitutional dtffi- Ubited StaUs courts. They are in fact, culty in the Senate considering the veto and not only in name, deputies of tbe message at the next session. It would be marshal, and he and his bondsmen are * liule in day, but as there was no responsible for them. A civil force for i-im® I® read the message, and as there the executive of the law is thus constructed i *** executive business on the table, he in accordance with a long established and would proceed to the consideration of ex- famiitar usage which is simple and effect- ecutive business. ive, and under a responsible head. ! Pending motion, the committee ap- “The bill before me changes completely pointed to wait on tbe President reported the present law by substituting for the that th$y had done so, and that he had special deputy marshals of existing slat- nothing to communicate to Congress. The utes new officials, hitherto unknown to Senate then, at 11:40, went into executive ov - w “ vv * " vv,w “ Tmm-LT . UWJO **VW VU4UIWU, UlhUGI W UJUSUUW II tJVUAW llrcUj ■!> A A .IV) W Cllb IliUl CACdU 'VtJ committee on the Senate amendments, j tbe law, who lack the power,responsibility session. At 42 o’clock tbe doors were re- “Q.—State all you know in refereace receivirg $1,500 for “De Profnndis,” his and was read in full. .The bill, as it‘ and protection, which are essential to ena- opened, and the Senate very quietly ad- which her blood was poisoned.' Her to it. A.—I told him he knew very well poem of sixty-five lines recently publish- passed the House, appropriated $21,566,-' ble them to act efficiently as exocut've journed. daughter Eila is not expected to live it was a dividend. I made out a state- ed in the nineteenth century. 647. The Senate amendments amounted officers.” When the House met at 10 o’clock in continuation of Tuesday’s session, there were but few indications that the time for adjournment was rapidly approaching. The galleries, though better filled than usual, were by no means crowded, while on the floor most of the members sat qui etly at tbeir desks arranging their papers. A number of members, however, gathered iu the space in front of the speaker’s desk seeking recognition. On motion of Atkins, Seuate bill pro viding certain laws relative to permanent appropriations was made a special order for the second Monday in December. McLane of Maryland .said before he would demand the regular order he would yield to the gentleman from Ohio (Hnrd) to make a motion. To this there was great objection on all sides, members contend ing that McLane could not withdraw his cemand conditionally. Mr. Cox, of New York, said that for two months he had been trying to get up the Irish relief bill, but had been unable to do so, aud he requested Mr. McLane to withdraw his sugar bill, so as to leave the coast clear for other measures. This Mr. McLane agreed to, and the speaker recognized Mr. Hurd, upon whose motion the Senate bill for the construc tion of public buildings at Toledo, Ohio, was taken up and passed. Several resolutions relative to the pay ofHouse employes were adopted, and the demand for recognition increased into cla mor, and members who herelofote had ta ken no part In th8 proceedings, joined the noisy assemblage in front of the speaker’s desk, and added to tbe confusion. Mr. Gox, finding it impossible for him in the present state of the House to get up his Irish relief bill; moved that the House proceed to the business on the speaker’s table. Rejected : yeas 71, nays 104. The session of Tnesday here ended, and, at 11 o’clock, the session of Wednes day commenced. The journal not being completed, its reading was necessarily dis pensed with. The President approved the sundiy civil appropriation bill this morning, and, under one of its provisions, sent to the Senate the nomination of Cot. Albert J. Myer to be chief signal officer, with the rank of brigadier general. The President and all his Cabinet are now at the cnpitol. Mr. Carlisle, of New York, chairman oi the committee to inquire into charges of alleged bribery in the contested election case of Donnelly vs. Washbume, sub mitted the report of that committee, and asked that it, together with tbe minority report, be printed and recommitted. So ordered. Mr. Keifer—-In what respect, if any, is the committee unanimous in making this report? Mr. Carlisle—I am authorized to say that the committee’s conclusion is that the weight of testimony shows that the anonymous letter was written and sent by H. H. Finley. Beyond that I am not au thorised to make auy statement, because, after considering all the testimony given by exports and others, there is a proba bility of disagreement in the committee as to other points. In answer to questions by Messrs. Man- . nmg and Baker, Mr. Carlisle stated that the majority of the committee does’ not find that Donnelly had any connection, lersonal or otherwise, in sending or writ- nk tho anonymous lotter. Manning—With that vindication of Mr. Donnelly 1 submit ray report. - The report, signed by five Demo tions, declares Wm. D. Washburn is not entitled to the Seat and that Ignatius Don nelly is. Mr. Manning stated that Mr. Phister, of Kentucky, concurred in the first part of the resolution,' bnt dissented from the latter part. Mr. Keifer submitted another report from the commmittee on elections, declar ing that Washburn is and Donnelly is not entitled to the seat. He _ stated that the _ former part of the resolution met with the concurrence of seven out of fifteen mem bers of the committee, and the latter por tion with the concurrency, of ten out of . fifteen. Both reports were ordered print ed and recommitted. The speaker announced the appoint-* ment of Messrs. Atkins, Ryan, of Pennsyl vania, aud Keifer as a committee to wait upon the President to state to him tliat if he had no communication for the House they were ready to adjourn. Subsequent ly 1 the committee reported that the Presi dent had no further communication to make. On motion of Mr. Singleton, of Missis sippi, during the absence of Mr. Hooker, the biil for the erection of public build ings at Jackson, Miss., was passed. Then came the final chance for recog nition, and every member was on his feet, gesticulating aud wildly waving his bill. Nearly all were pressing public building bills, which led Mr. Cox, of New York, to remark that Peoria had its friends and Rochester had its friends, but where was the friend of the treasury. The confcsion aud noise on the floor was excessive and it was impossible to hear what the members were saying, though several were talking at the lop of their voices. A motion was made at 11:30 to take a recess until 11:45, but no quorum voted, and a call of the House was ordered. In the midst of the call, the hour of 12 ar rived, aud the speaker, commanding or der, said: “The hour fixed by the resolu tion for the final adjournment of the two houses, has arrived, and now, with an expression of goodwill towards every member' and delegate on the floor, and with the hope for their safe return to their . homes, I declare this house in its second session of the forty-sixth Congress, ad journed without day.” [Applause.] The sound ol the speakePa gavel, announc ing adjournment, was the signal for a general hand-shaking and leave-taking among members on the floor, and soon tbe hall was deserted and left only to the care of the employes. Washington, June 16.—The Senate in executive session to-day, confirmed a large number of army and navy nominations : Commissioners to ratify the agreement with the Ute Indians; J. W. Helffinch to be coiner of the New Orleaus mint; Amos Newton Kimball, receiver of public money at Jackson, Mississippi; Chits. E. Robin son, collector of tbe customs district of Albermarle, North Carolina. Col. Albert J. Myer, chief signal officer United States army, to be chief signal offi cer United States army with rank of brigadier general, to date from July 16. The Semite rejected tbe nomination of Charles Pelham, of Alabama, to be asso ciate justice of the Supreme Court of New Mexico. All the regular annual appropriation bills were signed hy the President in time to announce their approval before the honr of adjournment, and consequently all have become laws. A number of now- nations failed to receive action and ex pired at the close of the session—among them that of John F. Hartranft as collec tor of customs for Philadelphia, which re mained in the possession of the committee, of commerce without being reported back to the Senate. —In Titusville,' Vennaylrania, a few days ago, Mrs. Joseph Bushnel! died from the effect of kissing the dead body of her father ten days ago, while attend ing his fhneral in Pittsbugh. Her father died of erysipelas, and at the time men tioned she bad a sore on her lips,' through L -> kissing her mother.