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Editors Telegraph and Messenger: Per-
h&iw those who reed last week, the article
that appeared in your paper relating to Dr.
William T. Brantley, late of Baltimore,
would like to leam something of the facts
of his demise. On Sabbath, the 5th, he
preached morning and night, and after the
night service, in reply an interrogatory,
said he had not felt better for years than
he did then; and apparently he was in per
fect health. Bat the next morning he rose
®t 1 o’clock, evidently in distress, and went
np to his atndy on the fourth floor, where,
‘doubtless, he engaged in secret prayer.
After rotnrning to his bedroom for a short
time he rose, and kneeling besido his bed,
uttered an andible prayer, exclaim
ing: “O, Lord! I am bat a poor
sinner, and all my hope is in Jesus,” <
then again repaired to his study; this ti _
followed by his wife who had noticed his
distress. She met him comingdown stairs
■and, a’anned by his paleness and evident
nppoarance of suffering, she hurriedly dis
patched the Doctor’s son, Theophilns, for
tho family physician, who resided very
near. Dr. Brantly complained of a pain in
the region of his heart and lay down on
his bed. This was about half-past one
o’clock. The family rhjsician reached his
bedside by two o’clock, but on his arrival,
life was extinct. It was a case of angina
pectoris, or heart disease, to which the
Doctor had known himself to bo subject,
but which fact he had concealed from his
family, not wishing to create nneasinees.
And tlins expired one who was ready for
the grim messenger—death—and but
awaited the summons “Come up higher.
Few men have so worthily maintained
the high reputation of on honored and dis
tinguished father as he did; few have left
a record so pure and holy and lofty. With
great amiability, much pleasantness of
manner and disposition, Dr. Brantly united
eminent and uniform piety; he was a godly
man. Blessed with wonderful good sense,
sound discretion, groat business capacity
and infinite tact, and while at all times ont
of the pnlpit witty and hnmorons, genial
and good-natured, he never for a moment
compromised the dignity end respectabil
ity of a instated Christian character, bnt
always illustrated the pious and devout
spirit of Jesus himself.
He was a finished scholar, and his range
of acquisition was very wide. While the
Bible wsa his text book, he was well versed
in litoratnro and coaid repeat Paradise
Lost “ by the book.” As a polished and
cultivated preacher, he had no superior;
and he was an exqui-ite writer. For a
time he was the editor of the Christian In
dex, in Atlanta, which his own father had
edited, morn than thirty years previously;
and since the death of Dr. Fuller, in 1878,
ho has been associate editor of tho Relig
ious Herald, of Richmond, Va.; and ins
writings have always yielded delight to bis
readers. When leaving the Seventh
to take charge of the Eutaw Place
Chnrch, Dr. Fuller nominated Brantly
ns his successor, and worthily did he fill
the position. Ordained in 1840, there was
no time during tho succeeding forty-one
years when Lo was cot the poster of a
chnrch, nor in which he did not fMMnlly
proclaim the gospel. For, oven while for
eight years professor at Athens, be served
the Baptist church in that city and ono or
two in the country. Thus ns prenclier,
teacher and editor—three of the noblest
and most honorable of human occupa
tions—be passed a life of usefulness and
'‘•'honor, moving in a lofty plane, wielding
an extended usefulness, dying at last full
of honors gathered in lifo’s pathway, and
to the very hoar of his death laboring in
the service of Him to whom be bad sur
rendered his lifo’a devotion. Doubtless
his soul has been greeted with, “Well done,
good and faithful servant! Eater thou
into the joy of thy Lord!”
ruth says t
Russian General Skobeleff has had in his
life to tell diplomatic falsehoods, bnt they
stock in his throat and noarly choked him.
On one great occasion he boldly told a lie
—or rather a handle of lies. His mendaci
ty was to veil the scheme of a campaign
on which tremendous issues depended.
When the person wh^k he was deceiving
rose to quit him be insisted on seeing him
to his carriage. On his way out, the gen
eral stopped short and said: “You look
very honest, and you are a person of
sling. If yon suspected tho imi
import
ance of some questions you have been
ing. you would have cut your hand off rath
er than put them.” He then recapitulated
them, and added : “All my answers on
these points were lies. I can’t bear the
feeling of lying to you. You may guess
tho truth from this. I place my secret at
- your mercy, and am sure yon will not give
me cause to regret doing so.”
THE GBEA T FLOOD.
A Terrible Condi lion of Adairs la Ar-
knnsM *II<1 Louisiana— The People
Threatened With Famine and Pesit
lenee—The Crevasses in Louisiana,
[By Telegraph.]
Moirais, March 19.—The river declined
two inches to-day, and now mark thirty-
five feet two inches on thegauge. The
government steamer G. R. Reese
has arrived and will be pro
visioned to supply the needy at
points below. Major Bingham, of 8t-
Louis, will arrive to-morrow and have
charge of the distribution. Lieut. Vedder
left to-day to investigate the suffering at
points below Vicksburg. Captain Hnrd
departs to-morrow on the same mission.
Reports from below aro nil to the effect
that tho river is gradually falling from
Memphis to Vicksburg. A Helena, Ark.,spe-
cial, says the river declined Vi inches in
the last twenty-four hours—the overflow,
however, fell less than an inch. Beyond
this, there are no notable changes.
hr. Louis, March 19.—The Globe-Demo
crat's despatch boat reached Helena, Ark.,
yesterday afternoon. Tho river had fallen
two inches at that point, and the Arkansas
Midlsnd train went through to Clarendon
for tho first time in nineteen days, running
in water a foot deep. The overflow has de
parted from Clarendon, except on the low
est places, and White river is falling rap
idly. Jadge Mfingam, commissioner for
Arkansas, who has established his head
quarters at Helena, says he has 25,000 per
sons on his list, now being fed by the gov
ernment, and on half rations at that. He
says the number will be largely increased
now, as he can reach, from Helena, a much
larger number than from any other point
that being about the centre of the greatest
suffering. He thinks the government will
have to feed tho people of the overflowed
districts for a month. There is very great
suffering in the region tornd about Helena,
some of the inhabitants being reduced to
eating the carcasses of drown sd animals,
and others presenting the appeasance of
persons going insane from starvation. H
S. Montgomery, president of the Mer
chants’ Compress and Storage Company,
stated that he thought not more than a
half crop of cotton would bo raised this
yenr. The overflowed district, he said,
produced over 1,000,000 bales, and even if
tho.wnter subsides rapidly, of which there
is no prospect, not more tban half the acre
age of last j ear can be planted. Other
persons, however, take a different view of
the situation, and think the land can be
prepared in season for planting, and that
a fair average croo will be raised.
New i‘MEANS, Marsh 19.—A dispatch
X received to-day at the State engineer’s
# from Assistant State Engineer
Brown, reporting that he bad just returned
to Raton Rouge from the Landry crevasse
in Ascension Parish. He 6ays sixty feet of
the levee is gone, bnt be thinks they will
close it, a large force of laborers from ad
joining plantations being present 'The
Story crevasse below the city is now re
garded os beyond control, and no effort
will likely bo mado to close it Soundings
made to-day show the crevasse ten feet
deep and two hundred feet wide. Tho wa
ter from this crevasse will flow into the
Ship Island canal aad Lake Borguo, doinz
but little damage, except to Story’s planta
tion, where there were fifty acres of stub
ble and 2.-0 acres of plant cane. This will
donbtiess be almost entirely destroyed.
The ends of the levee on cash side of tho
break at the Live Oak Grove creva>se have
been secured and the belief is thit tho
break will bo closed. News is received al
most daily at tho State Engineer’s office of
the closing of small breaks in levees be
tween New Orleans and Baton Rouge.
In conversation to-day with B. P.
Thompson, secretary of the board of State
engineers, the following information was
gathered concerning crevasses in this
State: From the Arkansas line to the
mouth of the river, also on Bayou La
fourche and Atchafalaya crevasses have
(pen since 1867. They begin near
upper line of Carroll parish and extend __
to Arkansas, an estimated length of eight
miles. In Madison parish there aro
crevasses nt Omega, Buckner, Morngn,
Miiliken’s bend, Delta, Bridges nod Vi a
mond. At the bend last nntned a crevasse
has been open since 1867. In Tensas parish,
nt Woodburn, Buckner point, pleasant
Ship B tyou. Hard 1 imes ford, Hardscab-
ble and Kemp; in Concordia parish nt
Claremont and Glasscock — the
latter open since 1874. In
Pointe Coupee parish at Morgansenia
and Pointe Coupe?, the former open since
1874. In Ascension parish, at the Landry
place; in St. John the Baptist parish at
Bonnet Carre, open since 1874; in St. Ber
nard parish, at the Story plantation; in
FROM WASHINGTON.
sized. Twi negroes were drowned on Fri
day at Mrs. James’ place in Madison par
ish, by the upsetting of a skiff on.Tchula
lake. At Marcella, one house has fifty-
aevea people in it. Tho Yazoo river is now Washington, March 20.—In the Senate,
on a stnnd at Barton, and falling at the Mr* Garland, of the judiciary committee,
aassaaSdSagBag i ■»
sippi, and there is no water on call «P the bill to establish a court of ap-
fha levee, nnd it is crowded with ' peals, and said that in view of ita impor-
families Irom the buck country. At tmee and, the presure for action, he would
then ask to have the subjeot considered un-
I Shiloh Landing there is much trouble
from back water, but the front levee is
intact. At Aisatia the levee is all right. I
At Samuol Nelson’s, in chute 97, tho back
water has commenced rising at the rate of
eight inches in twenty-four hours. He
ha.-, about seventy-live aCrc^ free from
water, on which he has 213 persons needing
rations; also 100 head of mules and horse*,
200 head of sheep and 200 head of cattle.
At Tennessee Landing the back wate- is
three feet higher than the river and is run
ning over tho levee into the river. At
I Magna Vista the back water commenced
rising Friday night, and Saturday night
the water was running over the levee into
the river. In the house of Mr. Chapman
at this place there are thirty people in the
second story, and outside there is not a
foot of land visible. The water rose sud
denly, and there were many narrow es
cape* from’drowning.
At Chalard the levee is all right, bnt the
back water is running into the river. There
are about 200 negroes camped around a
small church on the landing at this place.
All this water is from Steel’s bayou. Deer
Creek nnd tho Sunflower and Yazoo rivers.
There are at least 900 people between
Clmlard and Magna Vista, mostly col
ored, who will have to be supplied
with rations. At Brunswick Point the
back water is running into the river,
and a large number of cattle have been lost.
This is the first high water they have had
there in fifteen years. The whr le of Eagle
Bend county is under water. B. K. Kizer
will lose fully $5,000 worth of stock.
Buckhorn creek is at least half a mile
wido and about ten feet deep. The water
is spreading all over the country, and the
people are on the tops of houses waiting to
be removed. James A. Stone and James
B. Stone, at Omega, rescued ninety people
by m’.ans of skiffs.
ViCKsnOBQ, March £0.—The levee at
Lovett’s, Palmira Landing, gave way last
night and there is six feet of water there.
The Ashwood loveo, in Tensas parish, has
also gone. The whole of Hurricane Island
is now completely under water. Capt.
Leathers expresses tho opinion that in
three days there will sot be an acre of
land vi-iblo in Tensas. Passengers on the
steamer White say the levee at Miiliken’s
cannot possibly hold ont if there is any
farther rise in the river.
I Lieutenant S. C. Vedder, of the United
States Army, nnder instructions from the
Secretary of War, left at 7 o’clock this
morning for Monroe in a skiff, and will
visit Tallolah, Delhi, Floyd and Raysaille,
and will report his observations of the c?n-
dition of this country and the distress ex-
He will mako his report by tele-
X Gilded Youth op New Yobk.—I can
not refrain from giving yon a picture of
a society bean as ho appears in after-din
ner costnme to bid a young Indy good-by
before sailing for England. He is tall and
very slender, and his chestnut hair is part
ed in the middle. His white vest is cat
low, and his dress coat and trousers are of
tho freshest broadcloth. On the first finger
of one large, shapely band sparkle dia
monds, sapphires, rubies and cat’s-eyes.
On the other hand is a largo red cat’s-eye.
His patent leather ties show embroidered
f-ilk hose. Ho enters the dra«ingroom
with his opera hat in his hand, a jewelled
match-box with his monogram upon it,
nnd a cane with a tafge topaz in its head.
This latter he is careful to keep in his
hand, if he is unattended by his valet, al-
though it is usual for that functionary to
lmit him in the hall, bolding cloak and
cano.—Cincinnati Commercial.
The Largest Drag Business In Geor
To one who is conversant with the hum
ble beginning of the now celebrated drag
house of Lamar, Rankin <fc Lamar, their
success has been wonderful id more re
spects than one. At the close of tho war,
Mr. L. W. Hunt.and Mr. Rankin,both
practical druggists, opened a drag store,
on limited capital, bnt with the determina
tion to succeed. They attracted the atten
tion of H. J. Lnmnr, Sr., who invested an
amount .which gave the young men a fair
start. They commence! to nccnmnlato
rapidly, and absorbed nearly all the drag
stores in this city. Their bnsiness contin
ued until they took in other towns and
-cities, until now thoy are the largest drag
•dealers in the State. A year or two ago
Mr. Hunt’s health failing, ho retired from
-the firm, and was succeeded by H. J. La
mar, Jr., a young man of remarka
ble business capacity, having been
■drilled nnder the old firm in this line, he is
now conversant with the details'of the
■entire business. He is the active hoad of
the house in Maoon, while Mr. Rankin
.superintends the immense business in At
lanta, the senior Lamar being the chief
capitalist and adviser. They are owners
.and manufacturers of several proprietary
medicines, whose fame is known through-
. out the length and breadth of the land.
They have each department nnder tho im
mediate control of competent men—men
who have prepared themselves by study
and work to meet the demands of their
situation*.
In this city fhey have the handsomust
retail store in the State of Georgia, if not
in the entire South. .This department is
nnder tho control of Drs. Goodwin and
Daniels, who are both accomplished gentle
men, and understand what they are about.
-Such an establ shment is a pleasure to
-visit, and every one in quest of anything
in this line will fiad it an advantage to call
upon this firm.
The Case or Mr. Nowells, Dldically
. WlthHuflas.
Mr. W. B. Nowells, a fanner of Hazard
district, has been arrested nnd lodged in
Jail for shooting his son with a shot gun a
few days ago. Oar reporter visited the
jail yesterday and had a talk with him. He
is a plain blunt farmer, about sixty years
old. In answer to oar questions as to
what was tli6 trouble between himself and
son, said :
“Me and my son Sam are the best fnends
in the world, and I have endorsed paper
for him nnd helped him along ns best I
could. Wo had a failing ont some four
years ago, and he came near murdering
me by beating me with a shotgun. Last
Monday was a week ago he came over to
my house, and my daughters told me ho
was coming to apologize for same rongh
language he had used towards me pre
viously. I went out to meet him, nnd
I said at once that he was in a
'bs-i homor. 'Ve had some rough words
and when he began to sbese me and gave
me impudence I shot him. I was about
forty yards from him when I shot. The
load was squirrel shot, and entered his
shoulder or in that region. He is badly
shot, but I do not think anything serious
will result from it. Ho is very poor, has
three children and a wife, and I feel very
sorrv for what I done.”
W Mr. Nowells was arrested by Constable
When the Belle of Memphis passed the
Eddington place lost evening the water
wa3 running over the levee. A further rise
of an iuch or so will put that fine plants-
tion under water.
The steamer Josephino Spingler will
leave to-day far Roundawny bayou on n
mission of relief. Plnuters are making ar
rangements with boats to go ont iu tiie
overflow and save the stock. The depth of
of water through Madison parish, Louisi
ana, is four to six feet over most of the
cotton fields. The tug Bigely went np to
Miiliken’s Bend yesterday to bring off the
stock. The majority of tho creatures were
so nearly starved that they died on their
way hither. Tho current passing through
Miiliken’s Bend carried away a storo nt
that pUce a couplo of miles back into the
country. Vicksburg is rapidly filling up
with negroes from the overflowed lands
above and below. They aro unable to get
work nnd wilt havo to bo assisted by the
government. The Bello of Memphis,
which nrrived last night from St. Louis, in
addition to her freight list, brought a lot
of live stock from Henderson’s nnd other
points; nl*o about 250 passengers, includ
ing a large number of negroes.
Vicksbdbo, Miss., March20.—The steam
er Carro'l nrrived ties morning from Yazoo
river. She baa moved about 1,000 horses
_ and mules from plantations to Yazoo City.
ElUott and brought to the city. From o8h-1 She reports toe river at a stand at Tchula
ers we learn that the sou’s wounds are not j City. The wnter is rising in Delta, op-
n«rwi*arilv fatal. This is the flrst crime posite this city. A strong current lias set
that has been committed in Hazard in a in through the principal streets, and
longtime and the citizens in the district fences and many outbuildings have been
greatly deplore it Mr. Nowells will prob- wasbed away. Anderson Thomas was
JhTv he held until his son s condition drowned at Delta yesterday. He was in a
chqnge* for better or worse.
Plaquomenes parish at Live Oak grove.
AU the above are on the right bank of the
Mississippi river, except tho Landry, Bon
not Carre and Story, these three being on
the left bonk. There are four crevas
ses at Atchafalaya and Sutton’s on the
left bank, in Pointe Conpee parish, Yel
low Bayon, and the npper Winn track in
Avoyells parish, nnd the lower Winn track
in St. Landry parish. The three last
named are on the right bank. There is
also a crevasse on tho Bayon Lsfonrcke.
Quite a number of the back levees arc re
ported as broken abont Lake Concordia,
False river and elsewhere.
Memphis. - March 19.—A ei>ecial from
Helena, Ark., says the latest advices from
the upper St. Francis river report that the
people in that section are almost reduced
to cannibalism; that they have eaten gnr-
cas.-es for several days, and now havo the
appearance of persons abont to become in
sane from starvation. CoL O. A. Johnson,
president of the Arkansas Midland Rail
way, who returned to-day from Hot
Springs, having come down to Helona by
skiff from the month of ths St. Francis
river, says that tho scenes along tho river
were most distressing. The stench from
dead animals is sickening, and when the
water declines it will be still more fearful.
The earth is ooveied with a thick, slimy
substnnee, with reptiles of every kind, and
miasma from decaying vegetable matter
will inevitably be serious in its consc-
qnence.
Memphis, March 19.—Tho river declined
two inches to-day and is falling steadily nt
all points. At Helena, Ark., it fell two
inches, and the outlook thero is much
brighter. As soon as the water ceases run
ning through the crevasse below that city
tho overflow can be easily drained off from
tho city. The country south of here is
swarming with bnffulo gnats, and much
stock that was saved from drowning by
the overflow is being killed by these insects.
New Oblzans, March 20.—A special from
Vicksburg to the Times-Demoerat, dated
midnight, says: The river has nsen an
inch in tho past twenty-fonr hoars, bnt it
is now stationary. Telegrams from Yazoo
City report no change in the condition of
affairs there. The steamer Carroll arrived
there to-day with 350 malee nnd other stock
and 150 refugees from the overflowed sec
tion. It is believed that the river at Yazoo
City will be at a stand to-morrow. It has
fallen an inch at Ricks’ place above there.
the steamer Headlight, from Davis
bend, brought to Vicksburg 200 bend of
s.ock and 800 people, tho majority of
whom are in a most destitute condition.
She reports Ksmock, liurricane and Big
Black Islands ts completely submerged,
not a strip of land being visible in that
entire section. At Palmira and Davis’
bend there are abont thirty acres of land
still above water.
The steamer Dickson, from Englo bend,
brought 75 head of stock and 75 people.
She reports the levees immediately in front
of Miiliken’s bend to have broken last
night. The crevasse is now 1,000 yards
canoe loaded with provisions, and it cap-
nows from the tributary streams of
tho Yazoo, Tallahatchie and Sunflower adds
tojtho gloomy aspect of affairs. Cattle axe
receiving no attention, all efforts being di
rected to the preservation of horses and
mules. Refugees and stock continue to ar
rive at this point in large numbers.
Yazoo Crrr, March 20.—’The water at this
point is two feet above tho mark of 1867,
nnd has risen an iuch in the last twelve
hours. At this rate of increase it will like
ly reach its maximum point tc-night nnd
to-morrow morning. Boats from above
ri port the water ot a stand. The excite
ment is subsiding, bnt each steamer brings
people and stock. A large per cent, of the
refugees are negroes, who, with a few ex
ceptions, are provided for by the merchants
and planters who have them employed.
Some have gone to tho bills temporarily,
sitd ns yet there is no suffering
Some have remained in town, refusing to
work, bnt clamor for goverment rations.
At this point v.ry little assistance is need
ed at present. Tho overflowed business
houses of this city have bad scaffolds
built in them and business continues.
Yazoo City has an extra police force on
duty night and day. With the exception
of a few cases of petty larceny, no viola
tions of law has occurred.
VicKsmmo. Miss., March 20.—The report
in a special dispatch from here of a break
in the loveo in front of town, in Miiliken’s
bend, is untrae. The breaks are above
and below town. The reported destruction
of a gin hiuse a few days ago, with great
loss of life, is also untrue. No lives were
lost by the burning of Baer’s store.
Washington, March ?2.—The Secretary
of War has issued instructions for tho
transportation of ono hundred hospital
tents from Philadelphia to Vicksburg,
Mississippi, for the uso of tho sufferers by
the recent floods. Each will give shelter
to from twenty to thirty persons.
The Secretary of War has ordered 300,-
000 rations issued at New Orleans for Lou
isiana, 200,000 at Memphis for Mississippi,
50,000 at Helena for Arkansas, 10,000 each
nt Charleston, New Madrid and Gayoio
for Arkansas. These are tho first rations
issued under the last appropriation of
$150000
Vicxsnuno, March 22.—Capt. J. S. Land,
of the United States army, who has arrived
on the steamer Commonwealth, says that
at Lake Providence nnd vicinity, there ire
abont 1.600 persons, and from the Arkan
sas line to tho Southern lino of East Car-
roll parish, not less thnn 3,000 white
and black, who will require rations for the
next thirty days, and that in Madison par
ish there are at least 200 persons who will
have to be assisted for the same period.
St. Louis, March 22.—Tho Globe-Demo
crat's correspondent on the govornmne
relief steamer Anita, up the Sunflower riv
er and some of its tributaries, gives graph
ic descriptions of the scenes along their
banks among tho poor people, who for
many days havo been camping on the dry
spots of ground or cooped up in the lofts of
houses, or huddled together on tho roofs.
Many of them were suffering from hunger,
nnd all were utterly destitute, having lost
everything they possessed. Up to Snndny
night, tho Anita had picked np and taken
to what arc known a» the Harris moands,
which are largo nnd high, nearly ono thou
sand poople, mostly negroes. They nro
camped in thoopen air, bnt they will besnp-
plied with food until the flood subsides and
they can provide for themselves.
New OnilM, March 22.—Up to date
rations havo been issued for 22,900 people
for fifteen days, which will soon be ex
hausted. Tho commissioners have appli
cations for rations for 40,000 people. This
number cannot be supplied unless addi
tional donations are received. Provisions
will be shipped daily by outgoing steamers
until all are supplied or the stock exhnust-
ed. Gen. York, of Concordia parish, has
been commissioned by Gov. McEnery to
supervise the deliveries of rations and for
age and the saving of stock along tho Black.
Ouachita, Tensas and Little rivers and
Bayou Macon.
There being no funds at the disposal of
tho Governor, the Times-Demoerat sup
plied forage to be distributed by Gen.
York and sabsequently bought a smn 1
steamer for his usb. It was loaded with
supplies, nnd to-day the Times-Demoerat
sent to Commissioner York at Troy, 400
sacks of oorn, 150 sacks of oats, 60 bales or
hay and 50 sacks of bran, to be distribnted
in the ovet flowed section. East of the
Ouachita river the stock are reported to bo
dying by the hundred. Apprehension is
felt thnt the people will not be ablo to
plant their orops, even if the water recedes
in time, on account of the loss of stock.
New Obleans, March 22,—The Cotton
Exchange. Produce Exchange, Board of
Trade and Board of Broken have appoint
ed relief committees. By invitation, del
egates from these oommittecs and n nnm
ber of prominent citizens met Governo
McEnery to-night at the St. Charles Hotel
and appointed an exeentive relief commit
tee representing these organizations and
the bnsiness community generally, and
systematic relief work will be commenced
nt once. Contributions are solicited
throughout the city.
Vicksbubo, March 22. —The river is fall
ing at this point and also all along tho
Yazoo, 8unflower nnd Tallahatchie rivers.
At Chutard, nearly opposite the Aisatia
crevasse,the water has fallen abont eight on
inches.
TELEOBAFHSC ITEMS.
hicks’ murderers.
Atlanta, Ga., March 22.—The District
Court for tho northern district of Georgia
held to-day that tho cn»o ot the State vs.
Boiton and Freeland, deputy United States
marshals, for tho mnrdcr of Hicks in
Gwinnett connty, could not be remove^
until after indictment in the county where
the killing occurred; but held that it could
be removed after indictment. -.
STOBM IN THE NORTHWEST.
Chicaoo, March 22.—A heavy storm of
snow and wind has raged for two days
along the entire line ot the Northern Pa
cific railroad in Dakota. Travel was sus
pended from Sunday* nntil to-day. An en
gine and two cars til’ed with construction
laborers went through a bridge over the
Hart river last night and a number of the
laborers were injured bnt none were killed.
The storm has abated and traffic is re
sumed.
til disposed of.
The Military Academy and oonsular dip
lomatic appropriation bills were reported
to the Senate, with amendments; also the
bill for the admission (ft Dakota as a State.
Mr. Brown presented a petition of citi
zens of Albany, Ga., for an increase of the
appropriation for tho improvement of the
harbor of Savannah.
The regulation for the payment to Sena
tors Bntler and Kellogg of $3,000 and
$9,500 respectively for exoenses incurred
by them in vindicat'ng their rights to seats
were passed. It was conceded in debate
that there were no precedents for such pay
ment to successful members, but itrwa* ex
plained that these cases were exceptional
in that they necessitated proof of the val-
ipity of the State Legislature in each in
stance.
Mr. Pendleton presented a memorial of
the National Tobacco Association, protest
ing against the passage of any free leaf to-
bacoo bill; also, a petition of the same as
sociation for the abolition of export
stamps, nnd tor sundry changes of the law
in regard to the exportation of tobacco by
rail and the fees paid to inspectors of to
bacco. Referred to the committee on fi
nance.
The Sennte took np the House bill pro
viding for a life saving service, pendirg
deb te on which the tariff commission bill
was again taken np, Mr. Beck opening the
debate. Criticising the declaration re
cently made by Mr. Frye, that he favored
protection per se, rega'dles3 ot any con
sideration ns to revenue. Mr. Beck argued
that, aside from its constitutional t»wer to
raise a revenue, Congress had no authority
whatever to legislate on the tariff. With
out action on the bill, the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
Mr. Hiscock, of New York, chairman of
the committee on appropriations, reported
back tho Senate bill making further appro
priations for the relief of the sufferers from
the overflow of tho Mississippi river and its
tributaries. Tho report of the committee
recommends that the House recede from
its amendment authorizing the expenditure
of a portion of the appropriation in the
strengthening of the levees. After a brief
speech by Mr. Robertson, of Louisiana, in
opposition to receding from the amend-
mentt, the report of tho committee was
aB Under ‘the call of States bills were in
troduced ns follows: By Mr-King, of
Louisiana, appropriating $500,000 tor the
reliof of the sufferers from the overflow of
tho Mississippi river nod tributaries.
By Mr. Hubbell, of Michigan, to reduce
the internal revenue. It abolishes the tax
on bank checks,{capital and deposits and a
largo number of manufactured articles,
and reduces the tax on cigars and ciga
rettes. By Mr. Tucker, of Virginia, to in ;
corporate the Atlantic and Mississippi
River Canal Company. ,
Tho District of Columbia taxation bill
was then discussed over two hours on n
motion to suspend the rales nnd pass it.
but the motion was finally rejected, the
principal objection to tho bill itself being
against a ssetion taxing commercial tray*
elera,
Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, under in
structions from the committee on ways
and means, moved to suspend tho rales
and adopt a resolution making the tariff
commission bill tho special order when the
House shall next go into committee of the
whole on the state of the Union, And con
tinue as such special order urtil disposed
of, not to antagonize nppropriatioirbill*.
After some discussion the motion to sus
pend the rules and adopt the resolution
as agreed to—yoaB 152, nays 56.
Mr. Reid, of Maine, under instructions
from tho committee on the judiciary,
moved to suspend the rales and adopt a
resolution making the Geneva award tho
special order for the fourth Tuesday in
M irch. A number of Democrats were op
posed to this motion, and manifested their
opposition nnd used up much time py mak
ing several motions to adjourn, which were
voted down by the Republicans.
The question having occurredon the mo
tion to suspend the rules, those Democrats
who were opposed to having the Geneva
award bill made tho special order rtf rained
from voting, and tho House was left with
out a quorum. A call of the House was
ordered and the doors were dosed, and
the sergeant-at-arms and his deputies
were dispatched to bring in the absentees.
Whilo awaiting tho first arrival, the mem
bers for the most part left thy House nnd
obtained their dinners at the res taurapt in
thebosement. Mr. Flower, of New kork,
suggested that the House was wasting a
good deal of time, and proposed that the
members having tariff speeches to deljver,
and he understood that there were 200such,
be permitted to deliver t*iem now, but he
declined to accede to a request that ho be
tho first to put into execution his own
project. At 7:30 tho sergeant-at-arms ap
peared at the bar of the House, haring in
his custody Mr. Wheeler, of Alabama,
and Mr. Page, of California, who were
excused upon their own statement.
Leavo of absence was granted to Mr.
Clements, of Georgia, on, his statement
that ho had been summoned to tho
bedside of bis colleague, Mr. Black,
who was dying. Then from time to
time other members were brought iu, and
when excused caused much merriment, one
of them premising his statement by de
claring that ho was unfortunately tho pos
sessor of a wifo and child; another declar
ing gruffly that ho was hungry: still an
other submissively acknowledged that he
knew he was at fault, and was ready to un
dergo any penalty the Speaker might see
fit to inflict. Mr. Klotz, of Pennsylvania,
rendered his excuso in German, and.cre-
atej much laughter thereby. Mr. Paul, of
Virginia, said, by way of explanation, that
he had business engagements in which his
constituents were largely interested, and
he feared that unless he kept his nppoint-
from the War Department have been ex
hauated and that the commission is in
receipt of additional demands for folly
300, OUO rations.
In reply to a question by Mr. Cox, of
New York, Mr. Page, of California, stated
that he would call the previous question
on the Chinese bill to-ino.-row at 3 o’clock,
and then, the morning hour having been
dispensed with, consdeiatiou of that hill
wa« resumed by the House.
Mr. McClnre, of Ohio, contended that
Congress not only possessed power to pass
the Dill but that its provisions were ex
pressly warranted by the Chinese treaty.
He favored the passage of the hi i on the
ground of expediency, and in conclusion
asserted that the Republican party was
committed to the principle of the bill—the
freedom of labor. Should it now turn ita
back on its old battle flag, its old war cry,
and ita platform, as mere claptrap, and be
recreant to its high trust? He, as a pro
tectionist, as a Republican, stood by the
white labor of tho Pacific States against
the dishonorable competition of Chinese
labor, and he could vote for the bill with a
clear conscience. [Applause.]
Tho remainder of the day’p session was
taken np by speeches on the Chinese bill,
several members speaking on both sides of
the question. The Dili then went over with
out aotion. Adjourned.
I » WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
There has been no change in the con
dition of Representative Black, and he is
so low that he may not live through the
day.
Mr. Pendleton introduced in the Sen
ate to-day a constitutional amendment,
providing for the election of postmasters,
marshals, district attorneys, etc., by the
people of the district in which such officers’
lutfes lie.
The steamships plying between New York
and .Porto Rico nave given notice of a
suspension of direct communication be
cause of the high differential tariff in Por
to Rico in favor of vessels nnder the Span
ish flag.
The President has approved the joint
resolution appropriating $16,0000 tor the
benefit of the sufferers from the Mississip
pi floods.
At the cabinet meeting to-day, the court
marital case of Cadet Wh’ttaker was taken
np and disposed of by disapproving the
sentence of dismissal from the servioe, im
posed by tho court,on the technical ground
that the eridenco taken at the trial was
improperly introduced, thus sustaining the
opinion of the Judge Advocate General.
THE 8XUPHEBD INVESTIGATION.
Mr. Shipherd appeal ed before the com
mittee on foroign affairs to-day and pro-
daced copies ot two of the three missing
letters, bnt after looking through several
envelopes said thero must be some fatali'y
abont it, as he could not find the letter of
May 21st. He stated that it was addressed
to the President, and, as he had been in
formed by letter from his secretary,
J. Stanley Brown, was referred to the De
partment of State. The letter of May 25,
1881, was then read. It was to Hon. Jas.
G. Blaine, and stated that on the 21st he
(Shipherd) had transmitted to tho Presi
dent duplicates of the enclosures, which
he presumed would be referrod to the De
partment of State. Those enclosed were
to he handed to Hnrlbnt in his (Blaine’s)
discretion and at the proper time. Also
that he would be glad to be summoned to
Washington before Hurlbut and Kilpat
rick’s instructions were prepared. Snip-
herd was questioned as to the onclosnres
mentioned, and said he had not made
copies, as the originals were in the De
partment of State. The principal enclos
ure was a prospectus of the Peruvian
Company.
The letters of May 3l and June 4 ware
a’so produced. Both were addressed to the
President, and were merely formal, the in
terest lying in the enclosures, which were
found in the correspondence already print
ed. Shepherd was cross-examined as to
the interviews with Horlbrat before he
went to Pern. At one of these held in New
York, Hurlburt told Shepherd that he had
been sent to tell tholatter that the President
regarded his case as strong in law and equi
ty as it could possibly be, bnt that it was
unfortunate that Pern should be in each a
deplorable condition. The condition on
which the President would consent to act
would be that the claim should bo put in
such shape that it would not impose hard
ship npon Porn, bnt should be remedial,
and should enable Pern to pay her indem
nity and get out of her troublo with Chili.
If that could be done the government
would heartily endorse the schoxe. He
further 6aid this cla : m most not be pressed
npon Pern in any chylock spirit. “I (Shep
herd) replied that we expeoted the United
States to assist only if the affair commanded
the approval of every fair-minded man. I
a’kod him if the Secretary of State hid
given him the paper I had alluded to, and
ha roplied, ‘No, sir, I knew nothing of your
scheme. I am only telling you what I have
been instructed to do.’ Iu speaking Hurl
but never nsed the term Secretary ot State,
bat always us. d the somewhat vague terms
‘the government,* ‘the exeentive,’ or the
United States. He desired as full an ac
count in the writing of our plans as I could
give him, and bo would read them with
great p’easure. He said: ‘Peru, ought to
have help at tho earliest moment, and I
hops you will pres9 your plans as rapidly
as possible.’"
Mr. Shipherd then made a general state
ment to tho effect that he never imagined
it would bo necesary to buy any man, and
never intended to do so. He did, however,
feel that it was necessary to prevent Hurl
but from taking any position which might
he violently opposed to their company.
Mr. Shipherd was asked: “Did you think
Hurlbnt could be purchased?” and replied:
“Most emphatically.”
Chairman—“And you proceeded to pur
chase him?”
Answer—“No, sir; simply to prevent him
from Betting himself viciously aud deter
minedly against us. I recognized the faot
that it would be necessary to assure him
that it would in the future resnit advan
tageously to himself or friends if he did
not oppose ns.’
Mr. Shipherd was tlTen questioned in re
gard to his interview with Secretary Blaine,
and replied that the interview took place
at Blaine’s residence in this city, on the
’ evening of July 25. It lasted until a late
hour, and was resumed next morning.
When asked who was present at that inter-
•liminaie from the discussion the possibilil I
tv of armed _ intervention, and will oiler
their mediation only in the event of the 1
belligerent expressing a desire to obtain it,
and wh«n ita acceptance would lead to re
sults satisfactory to both.
In the third article Chili declares ita
feelings of friendship and confldeBoe; that
if they were offered she would accept the
good offices of the United States in the
contest with Peru, if in employing such
good offices the United States would ac
cept the terms of peace whioh Chili is dis
posed to offer the enemy, it being under
stood that if the United States should not
obtain the .oonsent of Peru to the condi
tions of peace which serve as a basis to the
employment of theif good offices, in such
case the aotion of th« United States be
tween thebeligereata will at once cease
S Chili agrees to give every honorable fa-
lity to Trescott to enable him to commu
nicate with any of the Peruvian authori
ties or individuals whom be may consider
proper, with the exception only of Garcia
Calderon, who is a prisoner of war.
-The basis npon which Chili agrees to
conclude peace is as follows: “First, the
co-ston to Chili of all Peruvian territory
south of Comarones Duebiada. Second,
the occupation of the department
of Tacna for ten years, at tho
expiration of which time Pain will
pay $20,000,00:*. Should sdi $20,000,000
cot be paid to Chili at the expiration of
ten yean, the territory of Arica and Tacna
will remain ipso facto ceded to and incor
porated with the Republic of Chili. Peru
may fir in the terms of peace a longer
term than ten years, but always subject to
the same conditions. Should Arica return
to the dominion of Peru, it shall never be ^,
fortiUed. Aw it da
Third. Chili shall occupy Labo island^Pf'lMl
whilst guano remains on them, and tnP )a °d
net proceeds of such guano, as also of that *
from the deposits whioh are known
and being worked in Tarapaca, shall
be equally divided between Chili and the
creditors of Peru.
The politicians in Lima are reported to
be busy, and as usual, are more interested
in the triumph of party than in the regen
eration of the country and the making of
peace with its conquerors. Pieriola’s party
is strong, but the Calderon, faction is not
dead or inert by any means.
INDICATIONS.
Washington, March 21.—For the South
Atlantio States, cooler fair weather, north
to west winds and higher barometer.
GENERAL BEAUREGARD,
IXTER VIEWED AT THE .SAUDI
OBA8,
Telle A* “Oath” the Story or tbe rirat
■aaatHu sad Other (BeMeala ot tb*
Or*at War.
CorrtMoondtnee Cincinnati Enquirer.
NewOblsans, February, 1882.—Haring
been near but never with the celebrated
Gen. Beauregard, I enjoyed a study of him
last evening while the proceesion called
Proteus was passing the Varieties club and
theatre, as, having been just introduced,
we mounted a pair of chairs and looked . ..
down and talked backward, and he after- » scumtific on*,
lAtions, responsibility and many detail*,
daze I me with rent, and I discovered that
I had a tired mind. It brought a distaste
/or my old profession of arms, or rat ber a
sense that X had soldiered too long, and nay
ambition haa never since reawakened for
the avocation of my youth. I whs sent to
ts eit Point in the administration of Mk
tan Buren, in whose t:me the Texas and
Mexico bsne took shspe, and so have been
through two wars.
MEXICO.
“Gen. Beauregard, the French govern,
meat did not oonqaer Mexico as easily as
the Awericans?”
_ “^f°r had they such a general aa
Scott, said Beauregard. “He was ooe of
the most capable commanders, I would
say the most capable, perhaps, we have
ever had. His campaign in Mexico was •
ment the place which knew now would view, Shipherd said a United States Sena-
know him 110 more forever. All wore ex- tor, whose name he did not feel at liberty
to mention, because he had been informed
that in an investigation of this kind it was
necessary to bo very careful about men
tioning the names of members of the
House or Senators. He said farther that
this interview was brought about by the
kind offices of tho before mentioned Sena
tor. The -chairman suggested that Ship-
herd give the features of the interview
with Blaine, and for tho present waive the
question of what Senator was present.
At this interview Shepherd gave Blaine
a fall statement of the claims of the Peru
vian Company and their merit. The sec
retary listened with what seemed to Shep
herd a great deal more tban merely cour
teous attention, now and then interjecting
questions, showing that he was following
every part with care and precision. He
suggested some difficulties from a legal
point of view—that we Americans had pur
chased tho claim and expected the United
States government to enforce it against
Pern. After a full discussion tho secre
tary asked Shepherd to suggest what was
wanted from our government. _ To
this Shepherd in effect replied:
“At present we can ask almost
nothing. We can’t go into coart down
there nntil Pern denies onr claims, and nn
til this is done we have no right to ask onr
government to interfere. We can only
ask a provisional remedy. Fern is now
shipping onr gnano and is about to in uk e an
arrangement to pay her war indemnity
with onr gnano. All we deeire is that an
official notification be sent to both OhiU
and Pern, that there is an American titlo
nssertod to that gnano, and that wLoever
takes it will do so with notico of that as
sertion. The Secretary replied: “That is
Lot asking much.” After this matter had
been folly discussed, and it was made
plain to the Secretary that the oompany
was not asking the United State* govern
ment to assert its claim, the conversation
took some other torn and was finally clos
ed with the remark by the Secretary:
“Now, what do yon want mo to do ?” Ship-
herd replied in snustancoaa before, stating
that the govommont should send notifica
tions of an American title to the gnano,
nnd the Secretary replied that ho wonld do
so at once.
In farther reply to questions, Shipherd
explained that the employment of the
Senator in question aa attorney, was not
because he wa3 a Senator, but because he
was known to bo a particular friend of
Blaine. Shipherd stated thnt ho, had sev
eral other interviews with Blaine after
the one described at the State Depart
ment.
THE PEBUVIAN-CH1LXAN FBOTOOOL.
Panama, March 11—The text of the pro
tocol between Trescott, United States
minister extrordinary to Chili, and Senor
fialnocedo, tho Chilian minister of foreign
affairs, is printed in the official papers in
Lima. It sets forth in regard to the seiz
ure of Calderon that Qhili abolished the
Washington, March 21.—In the Senate,
Mr. George presented 0 memorial from
the Mississippi Legislature for aid to re
build tho lovees.
Mr. Hoar offered a resolution, which
was adopted, calling on the President for
the instructions given early in 1880 to the
former minister to China (George T. Sew
ard), concerning Chinese immigration
and tho modification of existing treaties
relating thereto, with tho correspondence
between Soward and tho State Depart
ment relating to said subject.
Mr. Call presented petitions from citi
zens of Florida for mail facilities on the
Gnlf coast.
The Military Academy appropriation
bill was taken up. The Senate committee
amendments wero agreed to without de
bate. They insert items of $3,500 for the
construction of a pontoon train, $1,000 for
contingencies and $500 for a swimming
bath for tho use and instruction of cadets.
The biU then phase:!, and the Senate re
sumed consideration of the tariff commis
sion bill. Mr. Morgan addressed the Senate
npon the necessity of prompt tariff revision
by committees of Congress in preference
to tho co at mission plan. He criticised the
dilatoriness of Congress in taking action,
and said he wonld havo voted for a com
mission if so long a period of inaction had
not elapsed. _ .
Mr. VanWyck secured the floor bnt
yielded temporarily, and the bill was infor
mally laid aside for general business.
On motion of Mr. Brown, the Homo bill
establishing distinct United States courts,
with separate officers, for thenorthorn and
southern judicial district of Georgia was
passed, and the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
At 12:10 this morning the final roll call
was ordered, and no quorum being pres
ent, the understanding was reached that
nftor the reading of tho journal tj-dny th*
House shall proceed to vote on the propo
sition submitted by Mr. Hewitt, of New
York—namely, making the Geneoa award
bill the special order for April 11th, and
thence from day to day until disposed of,
but not to interfere with the revenue and
appropriation bills, the tariff commission
bill, and the bill referring private claims
to tne cou t of claims. The House then
at 1:45, adjourned.
According to the agreement made at the
end of Inst night’s session, the House pro
ceeded to vote upon the compromise prop
osition making tho Geneva award bul the
special order for April 11th, subject, how
ever, to the tariff and appropriation bills
and the bill referring private claims to the
conrt of claims. A resolution to this effeot
was adopted—yeas 262, nays 55.
Mr. Gibson, of Louisiana, presented a
telegram received from the relief com
mission at Now Orleans, giviug a state
ment of the destitution caused by the
overflow of the Mississippigiver, and do-
alaring that the supplies of rations received
Washington, March 22.—In the Senate,
bills were introduced by Mr. Kellogg to
incorporate tho Atlantio and Mississippi
River Canal Company, wiiji a capital of
$20,000,000, tne route to be from the St.
Mary’s river, in Georgia, through the Oke-
fenokee swamp westward to St. Marks,
Fla., and along tho Gnlf coast.
The tariff commission bill (the regular
order) was temporarily laid aside, after an
announcement by Mr. Bayard of the sud
den illness of Mr. Garland, from whom a
speech was expected, and tho Senate took
up the consular nnd diplomatic appro
priation bill. The Senate committee’s
amendments wero read and agreed to and
tho bill passed. The Senate theu took up
the House life saving service bill
and discussod and amended it in
respect to the salary of superintendents,
after a long debate, in which Mr. Brown
contended for a uniform eatery of $1,200.
For the superintendents in the dijtrjgtg
covering the more dangerous lilies of the
coast and reported in the bill at $2,5CO,
were fixed at $1,800, and tho6u in districts
reported at $2,000 were graded nt 81,500,
Upon an amendment offered by Mr. Brown
for a slight increase for the Florida coast
district, Mr. Joiies, of Florida, said tho
losses from wrecks were greater there than
upon any other portion of the Atlantic
coast line. Mr. Morgan aaid that but six
of a total of two hundred and seventy-
three stations had been given to the dan
gerous Gulf coast, and spoko of tho value
and importance of the Gnlf commerce.
The bill was fiua'ly laid nsido without ac
tion. Pending a motion for executive ses
sion, the Senate adjourned.
aov««,
On motion of Mr. King, of Louisiana, A
resolution was adopted calling on the Sec
retary of War for information as to what
further relief is necessary for the sufferers
from tho overflow of the Mississippi river
and its tributaries.
The morning honrhavingboendispensed
with, the House, at 12:30, resumed consid
eration of the Chinese bill. The debate on
tho Chinese bill wa3 continued to the close
of the session. The House at 5:10 took a
recess until to-morrow at 10 o’clock. Mr.
Page gave notice that he would, at2 o’clock,
demand the previous question on tho bill.
THE SUirUERD INVESTIGATION.
Washington, March 22.—The examina
tion ot Shipherd was resumed at 10:50. He
produced n copy of his letter to the Presi
dent dated April 28th, 1880. In this letter
Shipherd states that tho interests of hb cli
ents in Peru are so great as to entitle them
to consideration iu the discussion of any
plan affecting the future of the prostrate
republic. He also asks tint a decision on
the appointments of ministers to Chili and
Peru be reserved until the facts relating to
the claims of the company have been laid
before the President. Ho stated that he
had not yet found the letter of May 21st,
but had written to bis son to make a copy
and send to him.
Mr. Kasson asked the witness if he know
any instance iu which Hurlbut’s official
action had been purchased, Shipherd ro
plied that in his statements lie spoke from
bis knowledge of events that occurred
many years ago, from which lie had form
ed his opinion of Hurlbut. He also called
atteution to tho decision of the United
States Supreme Court in the case of Clark
against the United States, in which it was
shown that General Hurlbut, while in the
servioe of tha United States at New Or
leans, accepted a bribe. Representative
Kasson then qsked if in ail his (witness’)
correspondence with Hurlbut, tne 4attor
ever intimated that he desired to have an
interest in the Peruvian claim, and the
witness answered, “No sir; ho never did."
The witness testified that the teandreau
claim is now held by Americans, but he
declined to say by whom. The le ;al name
of Shipherd’* organization is “The Peru
vian Company”—iucorporated under the
laws of Georgia in 1870—and every share
of the stock is held in this country, but be
yond this no information was gained in
regard to tho company’s affairs. Shipherd
stated that his first connection with these
claims was as counsel for the parties who
held them iu March, 1881. Shipherd flrst
submitted them lo ex-Senptor Boutwell, of
Massachusetts, who kept the papers three
weeks, returning them with the ox>inion
tfiat tbo claim was valid, and offering to lay
it before the President.
In tho course of his testimony Shipherd
forgot himself while exulaiuing the con
nection of the mysterious Senator, hereto
fore referred to as attorney, as bringing
the matter to the notice of Secretary
Blaine. Ho aaid he had an interview with
this Senator at his (Shipherd’s) office in
New York, where the Senator then was on
his way from his home in Now Hamp
shire. At this point the signs of
amusement on the faces of his bearers re
called him to his text. While Shepherd has
refused to mention the name of the Sena
tor, tliis reference goes to confirm the
statements published that it was Senator
Blair.
The witness was asked how ho came to
obtain the charter under the laws of Geor
gia, and explained that in looking about
lor the most favorable conditions lie heard
of the ch rter which had some time since
been granted to Duff Green by the Stato of
Georg.u, and which contained such extra
ordinarily advantageous features, l1 lowing
the establishment of branches at any ioint
in this country or abroad, that they decided
to obtain this charter. The company is
now acting under this- charter, and stock
has been regularly issued, and under the
clause permitting branches they havo es
tablished their headquarters in New York
city.
In farther explanation concerning liis
Senatorial counsel, Mr. Shipherd said the
Senator at first declined to take a fee, but
later did t ike one after an opinion expressed
by the Secretary of State and others that
the matter would never come before Con-
gre;s. Still later, when it became appar
ent that the matter was likely to come be
fore Congress the fee was returned and
the Senator’s connection with the company
ceased.
Washington, March 22.—Senor Marti
nez, Chilian minister to the United States,
to-day received official dispatches from his
government confirmatory of the authen
ticity of tho taxt of the protocol agreed
upon between the Chil’an government and
Mr. Trescott, aa already teicgni; hed. In re
gard to the conditions set forth in the pro
tocol, Martinez says that in his opin
ion they represent the extreme limit of con-
oesaion which Chili will grant to Peru.
■T«. , Th* Senate confirmed Samael Blatchford
authority. 0 .* 1 associated justice of the Supreme Court;
hmita held by the Jtod B - Duncan, of South Carolina, consul at
he was » r fested wita°ut any intention of N1 anJ the foUowing postmasters :
offending the Un ted Stated or auy otner , w Wari-tann • J R.
neutrn 1 ”L'£? 1186 of the j Banks', at Forsyth, ol; H. H.’ Andrews, at
le fn the second articte'Se* United Stats* *ex,*, - d •>■ ^ ^ Te -
ward continued his reminiscences in the
Clnb. I have prejudice against him,
which had nearly disappeared when he said
good-night. Others present remarked that
they had never heard him to so muoh ad
vantage, although he made no special effort
but gave polite and sometimes extended
answers to suggestions.
This General combines in his history tho
relation to oar war of both Napoleon and
Dumouri ex to th* Franch national insurrec
tion against Europe at the close of the last
century.* At Charleston he repeated the
task ot Napoleon when an unknown artil
lerist of Tonlon. He overran Virginia and
routed the Federate at Manassas as surpris
ingly as Dumouriez conquered Holland,aud
W it dazz'ed Europe. He then defended
' arleston against every species of attack,
. land and sen, by the mine and tha mor
tar, by unparalleled artillery and nneqoaled
iron-clad?. His name rang ont to the
world, and became terrible to the Union
T eople long before Lee was a success, or
Joe JohDston had a chanoe. For his per
formance he was sincerely hated in the
North, and yet I recollect no proclamation
or sayings of his which indicated cruelty,
rejoicing, or conceit. Ho illustrated Weet
Point formidably aa. both engineer
and artillerist, powerfully affected
the views and armaments of
Europe, and must ever rise on the mind of
future historians of the rebellion like a
sentry on a fen-wall, in the highest relief,
because the first in the foreground. Ma
jor Anderson and General Beauregard
opened the conflict of the centuries on the
Mestern Hemisphere. As the very re
markable procee-ion of the night before
Mardi Gras passed under our eyes, 1
suggested to the General that probably no
Roman triumph between Scipioand Cajsar
was as effective, to which he assented, with
reasons, I felt one of those momentary
transport of association which are the
chief compensations of a journalist, that
beforohe should die I had seen a man al
most flnniliarly, whose name in my youth
was as terrible as Pompey’s to the Egyp
tians, which, in mock show, was parading
the streets of New Orleans.
Beauregard world now be the ranking
engineer of the United States army it he
were still in active service. He entered
the regular army before I was born—about
1837. At the commencement of the war
he was a professor at West Point, His
political connections, of a family sort,
wero in tho direction of secession, ha and
Senator John Slidell marrying sisters—I
think named DeLong.
He is a mux of the military figure, rather
short and thick, weighing about one hun
dred and fifty pounds, with a French face,
aud stained or rather sallow skin, high
chesk bones, thick white hair and mustaohe,
eyes raiher wide apart and of a gray or
hazel color, a forehead of compact facul
ties, bnt not high, broad face, and a mild,
affable voice- He has been criticised for
his connection with the Louisiana lottery
in a supervisory capacity; but one of his
friends remarked:
“Beauregard wat pour; The institution
had been legally chartered, and tho only
effect of bis connection with it was to in
sure a fairer drawing. It is os well for
him to have taken it as some less scrupu
lous and responsible person. If there is
any scandal in it the State, not Beanregsrd,
is responsible, and the French government
has always legalized lotteries.”
THE TALK.
I asked Gen. Bennrogard when he flrst
began to despair of the success of the
Confederate States in the war.
“Not till late in 1861,” he said. “Even
then I kept my fears to myself. My hopes
never diminished till the operations in the
Wort wore so overwhelming that 1 saw wo
could not defeud our coa-te outwaidl . but
must meet large armies in our rear.”
“Did yon originally believe there would
be a war?”
“Yes; I was at tha resideuoe of my
brother-in-law, Slidell, in New Orleans,
when that very able public tr an and lawyer,
Mr. Judah P. Benjamin, was present. He
and Mr.'Slidoll agreed that there would be
no war at all and that the secession of the
slave States would soon exact good condi
tions for our property from the North, and
bring about the union of all the States
very speedily without bloodshed. I said,
to their snrpriso and not to their liking:
'Gentlemen, the people of the North will
not let you go out of the Union without
battle. There will bo war, and you had
best be ready for it.* They did not think
so, and that illusion was the cause of our
(allure, as the watcame without any reas
onable preparations for it in the South.”
“Do you regard tho selection of the Con
federate civil leaders as wise?”
“Hardly. That is a subject not well to
speak about now. It was not to my no
tion.”
I suggested that in Georgia, whence I
had juBt come, the people in many cases
thought Howell Cobb would have been a
belter chief magistrate for tho Confeder
acy tban Mr. Jefferson Davis.
“I think he would have been a good
man',” said Gen. Beauregard. “He had few
or no resentments, and if be possessed any
they would not have been allowed by him
to prejudiue the cause. It was that carry
ing of hostilities and prejudices into the
Presidential office and the cabinet which
proved our rain, I think, more thnn our
physical inferiority. As the contest pro
gressed it grew to be a powerful sonroe of
disuontent, and, finally, of opposition to
the cause itself. Personal feelings ex
tended from the politicians to the generate
and the army.”
“You had not known Major Robert An
derson before yoa met him at the siego of
Fort Sumter? *
“O, yes Ho taught me artillery. Ho
was my intrnctor, and I tried to prove
that he was a good teacher.”
The General laughed good-naturedly.
AHTZLLERV.
“Had you manyrifle guns at the siege of
Sumter?”
“No, only one; a Blakely-English rifled
gun, which was landed in Charles
ton harbor from an incoming
ship just as we wero ready to
summon Fort Sumter. It was lowered into
a tug aud put into the batteryrt Camming
Foiut. We bad there some large smooth
bore pieces—sDine sixteen and eighteen-
inch guns. It had been previously sup
posed that 1,800 yards—about a mile—was
the extreme dtetanoe that artillery could
be effective agamit a stone fort. That ri
fled cannon was the flrst important testi
mony to the power of rifled artillery at the
distance of two miles and more. I pro
ceeded at once, after the Encceas of the
siege, to rifle guns for the Confederate
service, aad as the war proceeded we
banded or hooped and rifled our guns at
several points in tho South. All Europe
took the lesson, yet with considerable ob
tuseness on the subject of fortiflrations,
delayed to increase the distance from their
fortified cities to the forte which they were
to rely upon. I had an instanoe of that at
Fortamonth, England, the principal naval
place of the British government, after
1 went to Europe following our war. The
commandant, .a Mr. Gordon, took me
around the line of defenses of Portsmouth,
and at the conclusion asked me what 1
thought of its defenses. I declined to ex
press an opinion. He pressed me nntil I
said: “Well, sir, I do not think Portsmouth
could resist such artillery sieges as it would
have to enoonnter at the present time.
Your line of works was good enough fif
teen years ago; now they would be entire
ly ineffective.” “Wlur so?” said he. “Be
cause I have observed a series of heights in
the rear of the city and fort which, I am
told, are only two miles distant from Ports
mouth. If that is so, an enemy, seizing
them, wonld easily make the present artil
lery effective agaicst these work*. Your
line of fortifications must embraoo those
heights to give you any security.” He
seemed astonished and discouraged.
“General Bjauregard, were you not rec
ognized in some way by the military au
thorities in Europe to the extent ot peek
ing your services ?”
“Yes, I was offered the command of the
Roumanian army by an English interest
whbh h«i ths osatrolliug indianw
Eastern counsels against tha Russians,
was also offered other places in connection
with the Turkish question, and also in the
west of Euroi>e. But I had made up my
mini to quit the military servioe.”
too. In ooe or two engineering details,
chiefly concerning the road by which we
were to approach the city. 1 might wish to
amend it now, but h’s calculations were
followed by nearly exact regatta. I recol
lect one battle, at the gates of the city, that
was won in just twelve minute*. We should
not have given up Mexico,” said General
Beauregard, “after we had taken it. That
part of the country we did annex ha* bad
great prosperity, excepting the period of the
civil war, when it suffered lew than the
older States. Bat the American occupa
tion, if made permanent, wonld have
been a blessing to Mexico and saved her
from the French war and from disorder
and instability. Behind onr occupation ot
Mexico (radii invariably started immedi
ately aud strengthened, and teourity was at
once felt. Genera! Soott’s government
was effective as h<* arms, and we were wel
comed by the best in erest* in Mexioo,
which oontinued to hope for our permanent
stay and their political absorption into our
system of State*. The Mexican indies
dared not invite us to any festivities at
their homes for fear of repraisals after we
were gooe from the country, but they used
the houses of the foreign consols as neu
tral ground to meet our officer*, and we
saw that they had no real antagonism to
us.”
General Beauregard here told a repartee
of the late General Fertifer F. Smith,
apropos of a Mexican lady whe^aid that
the Amoricnns did not fight fair, but kept
turning the flank of their army instead
of meeting it front to front; and said that
if Mexican women had been in the army
tho result would have been different, etc.
LEE AND JACKSON.
I asked General Beauregard if the war
of the rebellion led him to prefer volunteer
soldiers or regnlars.
*‘I like volunteers very much,” he said,
“after they have been well disciplined.”
Referring to tho two leading figures of
tho Confederate war. General Beauregard
said:
“General Lee had not the genius of
Jackson, but he was a conscientious stu
dent of liis art, and all his battles and
movements were studied over in the way
of his teacher, General Scott; he did noth-'
ing at venture or haphazard. He had been
chief of tha staff of engineers for Scott in
Mexico, and his work (n tte civil war here
was a sequel to that scholarship.”
As to Jackson, Beauregard told how he
obtained the name, of “Stonewall” again,
a? Beauregard personally knew it, and
also how Beauregard and Jo* Johnston,
after the battle of Bull Bun, did not go
into Washington city. .
“At the battle ot Manassas,” said Gen.
Beauregard, “Gen. Jackson was ono of
many brigadier-generate of no especial
mark at that time. He was known to old
officers of the regular army as formerly
one of them, but had his reputation yet ta
make. He received the sobriquet of
“Stonewall” from Gen, Bee, of South
Carolina, a very young officer, who was
kilied there, but who would, I have often
thought, have been one of our leading
general officers had he lived. He was at
thAtiiot*?! Aa but !ito •leaal-
ness and commanding spirit up to the
time ho died were of the greatest help tq
tha general officers.
“The part of the battle where Bee and
Jackson were engaged was on the left of
our army, as it held the plateau of Manas
sas from the railroad junction of that
name, and further east to the stone bridge,
on the tnrnpike from Washington and
Centerville to Warrenton. My plan of the
battle was to let tho Federal enemy cross
the Bnli Run, as I presumed they would,
above cr west of the stone bridge, and
then to cross my right nt the low fords,
abd interpose between them and Washing
ton, and force them to retire to the Upper
Potomac, if they could avoid a greater dis
aster. They did flank tho stone bridge,
just as I supposed, and crossed the Bull
Run at the Sudley Church ford, beyond
my left. Unfortunately, -my orders ok
Genorat Ewell were never delivered, the
bearer of them being killed or taken. Ha
was ordered to cross the Bull Run when he
heard the engagement on the left, and
maroh for Centerville. There he wonld
have been between the whole Federal army
and Washington City.
“But there was another circumstance
which facilitated the Federal advance
down the south side of Ball Run after they
hod crossed it and led to the principal con
fusion in the Confederate army. That was
the information that the Federate lmd al
ready crossed Ball Run lower dowa, and
were marching on Manassas Junction, the
key to our position. That news in the
most positive way was brought to General
•Johnston and me whero we were together,
and it might well have made me start. I
said to Goneral Johnston: ‘I will go there
nt once,’ anil I started at a gallop. Tbo
momenta at that hour were very precious,
for the silent enemy, as yet unreportod be
yond our western flank, was coming down
In overwhelming force on b position where
General Evans held the stone bridge, and
Bee. Wheat, Jackson and others—Jaekson
fresnly arrived on the field—held the
plateau about the Lewis house and the road
from the stone bridge going t> the south.
“After my long ride I found the exjiec*ed
crossing of the Federate was only a large
portion of the Confederate troops on oar
right who had croe -ed the Ball Ran at one
ford and recrossed it to the southern side
by another ford, creating among some
spectators tho idea of a Federal advance to
Manassas in force.
“I had not yet made this discovery when
the powerful and prolonged firing on my
left and renr left settled the fact of a heavy
battle there. With Gen. Johnston, I gal
loped to the spot, and when we came there,
to the Lewis house and beyond it, a scene
met my eyo that made my hesrt quail. *
“General Evans, finding the enemy be
hind him, had fallen back from the at me
bridge to cover the turnpike road. General
Bee, seeing the Federate coming beyond
that road, had advanced down from the
plateau, and sought to form his men tit
continuation of Evans’ line. But the ab
sence of nil discipline and the inexperienoe
of tho officers had almost immediately re
duced that army to be a mob; they filled
the ragged piece of country like a torrent
that had brokea its dam and was carrying
devastation before it- Not any especial
cowardice, bnt an absence of all sys
tem or confidence had broken the army up
before the superior masses ot the Feder
ate. Officers were shouting contrary.or
ders . commands were mingled—confusion
would be beggared to find a term to ex-
:ess the scene.
“At laBt I thought of one way to recall
the turbulent line. ‘Carry tho flags of the
regiments several paces forward,' I said.
‘Plant your colors out yonder, beyond the
line of this mob!’ It was done, and the
sight was interpreted in the brief words of
‘Rally to your colors 1’ In this way a stand
was made. The soldiery were willing to
do what they understood, and the confu
sion had previously been on account of no
understanding.
“It was at that time that General Bee,
seeking some figure to steady his line, look
ed back of them lo the plateau about the
Lewis house, where his eye caoght T. J.
Jacksyn's brigade of Virginia troops in
line of battle, waiting to become engaged.
‘Look there, men. he said, ’look there 1
See how Jaokson's men stand, just tike a
stone wall 1’ He pressed forward as he
spoke, and fell dead almost iu giving that
name to the greatest of oar genorate. ’
Gath.
A T1BXD ENGINXEB.
“I suppose your prolonged absorption
in the Confederate straggle was followed
bv a reaction.”
“Yes, l did not know that I was tired
till the war was done, then the un conscious
strain I had been under for years, of calcu-
Long after tho Reformation, Protestant
indulgences were granted in England. On
the fly-leaf of the fi »t volnrae of the
register of Plympton is written: “Whereas.
I certainly know lhat the wife of Edmund
Parker, of Bovington, in parish of Plymp
ton, is under such a distemper of Sadie
that she is not fitt to eat any salt flesh or
fish whatever, therefore I think fitt, as
minister of said parish, to license her to
eat flesh during the time of her sickness
acoordiig to the tawes aud statutes of tha
realm in that behalf. Given nnder my
hand March 4, UiUQ. Simon, D. O. An
other entry, dated two yoars later, and
signed by another clergyman, gives a
similar indulgence to John Slanning.
A DBtioutsT ic New Richmond, O., Mr.
E -J. Doahsm, writes ua ths following: “I
J oonsider Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup one of tb*
! best things mado I use it altogether in
my own family and can therefore recom
mend it.”
Mabbied women can be sited for debts
made by them in Maryland. This will b*
a joy to stingy hnabends, ss th* husband #
property cannot betaken forth* debts «C
his wife.
