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2 THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, NOVEMBER 1, 1881. TREASURY TYCOONS. HOW THE CONTINGENT FUND HAS BEEN USED. A Republican Organ Charging that Part of the Coat of a Banquet to John Sherman waa Credited to n Purchas" of Candles???Painting a Pri vate House at Government Expense. Washington, October 23.???The Sunday Ga zette, an administration orpin, lias to-day another installment of its continued story re garding ???The Treasury Tycoons." The Ga zette writer has the following concerning the alleged operations of the present Chief Clerk Power: ???When Power liecamo chief clerk he sent for Custodian Pitney, and told him that the system for the conduct of that office devised by Upton would contirue to lie the rule. This meant that the purchase of goods, regardless of the statutes, from ring merchants, and the duplication of warrants in payment of cer tain purchases, would continue. Custodian Pitney refused to lie a party to the continuance of this system unless he received a written or der for the execution of each irregularity. This demand was acceded to by Power, and the or ders were made from time to time, as occasion required. The system thus continued until the exodus of Sherman and the advent of Windom. The ring thought it the proper thing to do to give Sherman a farewell ban quet in the basement of the treasury build ing. No cxjiense was spared to make the oc casion one to be remembered by the ???greatest living financier,??? who was about to depart. 'The gloom of his Chicago reverse was to be ??? illuminated by the loyalty of the bureaucrats, who saw in him so much that was admirable; and power, true to the long settled policy of the ring to make somobody else pay, imme diately assessed the ring merchants $25 apiece which netted ahandsomesum, but not nearly enough to pay the cost of the affair. The bal ance was jiaid out of the contingent fund of the treasury department, and the public money so illegally disbursed was credited on the books to a large purchase of sperm candles ???forty-live boxes. ???When Windom became secretary, and on the day he first entered his office, he found on his desk a magnificent floral shield, etc., the gifts of Power. So beautiful were these ar ticles that Mr. Windom caused them to be photographed, and he distributed the pictures among his friends. It may afford Mr. Win dom a peculiar sensation to lcam that Power???s gifts to him cost $25, and were paid for out of the contingent fund of the treasury depart ment, the amount being credited to a pur chase of pot plants. Saul, the florist, made the shield, etc., for Power, and charged $50 for them, but when he found that it was in tended for the new secretary of the treasury he generously came down one-half. ???When the so-called Pitney investigation, was ordered, Power, swift to scent danger to Iiimself, went to Windom intending to betray liis associates should it seem necessary to do so. Windom had more confidence in Power than he had in Upton, and accordingly gave Power the appointment of the committee and the conduct of the investigation. Having selected a committee to suit his needs, he| sent for Pitney, told him of what was coining, and successfully liesought him to tell nothing, by assuring him that the ring would stand or fall together. He also prevailed upon Pitney to surrender the many written orders Pitney had received from him in authoriza tion of irregular transactions.- After get ting these orders in his hands, Power became master of the situation, and he so con ducted the investigation as to shield all ex cept Pitney, whom from the first he intend ed to make, and made, the scapegoat of the ring. The investigation progressed far enough to send Pitney out of the treasury depart ment a disgraced man, disgraced for obeying the written orders of his official superiors. Power and Upton were the authors of all the irregularities iu the custodian???s office, and they are still in the treasury department. A merchant who wanted to get in the ring told me that he had frequently offered Pitney presents as a means to such end, but that Pitney always refused ids proffered gifts because of his inability to do what the merchant desired, and that he frankly told him that Upton and Power ex erted sole control in such matters. ???As to the duplication of warrants in pay ment of certain purchases, the modus oper and! was like the following: The custodian, Pitney, would prepare the warrants for the payment of goods purchased, and lay them on the desk of Power. The clerk in Power???s office, whose duty it was to examine such papers, observed that at brief Intervals war rants for goods for which warrants had been previously passed and paid were regularly presented. Satisfying himself that he was hot mistaken, the clerk rei>orted his grave discovery to Power. The fact was denied hy _ Power, but he instructed Pitney to thereafter bring all his warrants directly to him for approval, and such papers never went through the hands of any of Power's clerks after that time. Comment on this matter is unnecessary. "The latter part of last winter or early last spring. Power, in violation of the statute that prohibits the purchase of more than $30 worth of books l>y any department head without specific appropriation, purchased for the treasury department library twenty-five bound ' volumes of Harper's Magazine, old books, from Third Auditor of the Treasury Edwin \V. Kneightley, paving therefor $122.50 from the contingent fund???an average of nearly $5 a volume for second-hand books, worth not more than a$l a volume in second hand book stores. Hut this is not all. The volumes never reached the library of the treasury department, and nooneexeept Pow er knows where they went and are. Third Auditor Kneightley wrote to the person for whom he sold the books, a man living in Michigan, as follows: ??????Washington, I>. C.. March S, ISSl.???I disposed of the books for 8122.50. On live volumes he threw off fifty cents per volume. I would have wrote yon be fore. hut the bustle of the inauguration prevented me from doing so." The Gazette says: ???It is a fact which,Lam- phore, appointment clerk, will not attempt to dispute, that he had his house painted, inside and out, and the floors oiled by an employe of the treasury department, who did the work during office hours, and all the material used was the property of the United States." It may lie noted that the above statements are not ???democratic lies,??? but are charges appear ing in a republican paper. Ixs the Hounding Rliton. Bi>nmn*k Tribune. The passengers on last evening's train from the Yellowstone had lut'experience exceeding; ly rare. When about two miles from Senti nel Butte, the deviding line between Montana and Dakota, a herd of sixteen buffalo nvere seen a short distance ahead, witliin easv ritle range. There were several soldiers on board with army rifles, and numerous small re volvers were also pointed toward tjie excited bison. A perfect volley of lead was poured into the herd, but to no'efleot. They bounded away over the divide, and were soon out of sight. The passengers had no sooner begun a dis cussion of what they had seen in years gone liv than a danger signal from the locomotive brought every one to the look-out. A herd of twenty or thirty buffalo were making directly for the train; and, fearing the engine would strike them and he thrown from the track, the air brakes were set, and the train nearly brought to a standstill, while the buffalo crossed the track a few feet aliead. Every gun was again leveled. Such excitement cannot lie described. Bullets flew in every direction, some striking the ground as near as ten feet from the train, others raising tiic dust a mile distent. The train moved on slowly, and the volleys of lead continued to pour from the guns of the excited passengers. Finally the smoke cleared away and the buf falo could be seen aliout half a mile away, trotting along as unconcerned as though they had never seen a railroad train. The disgusted passengers drew in their weapons and spent the rest of the day arguing as to the probable amount of lead that a buffalo will carry before lie will weaken. Pictures of railroad trains passing through herds of buffalo are numer ous, but the actual experience is one of which the pastengers may feel proud. They were probably but straggling bands from the main herd, which is forty or fifty miles north of the track. From Sentinel Butte east to Pleasant Valley (Dickingson) at least 500 antelopes were seen, which is but a daily occurrence. Verily, the North Pacific is the sportman???s paradise. SMALL-POX. ??? Gradual Spread of the Dreaded Dlieax. Memphis Appeal. Small-pox, which appeared in this country for the first time after a considerable interval in New York and San Antonio in 1879, has gradually spread throughout the northern states, until it has assumed epidemic propor tions in many places. In its onward march it has at last reached the Ohio river, ijnd it is feared will extend southward during the coming winter. Already Cincinnati, Covington and Newport have been invaded by the loatlisoiue pes tilence. What precautions are our health authorities taking to avert it from this com munity? We have had no casesof the disease since 1873, and during this time a large unpro tected class has accumulated among us. Com petent authority estimates at least 20,000, out of our total of 35,000 residents, to be suscep tible to the disease if exposed to its contagion. Of this number, two-thirds, or over 10,000, would, in the light of previous epidemics, be attacked beforethe scourge had run its course. In Philadelphia, a recent epidemic, in which there were 25,000 cases, has been shown to have cost the city$21,848,750, or an average of about $874 each.' The conditions of the two cities vary materially; but it will not be out of the way to assume that a case of small-pox in Memphis will cost at least half as much as one in Philadelphia. If this be correct, then 10,000 cases spread over the next twelve or eighteen months means a loss to this city of nearly seven million dollars. The ounce??? of prevention was never more sorely needed than in this ease, and could never hope to be more strikingly valuable. Five thousand dol lars judiciously expended within the next 30 days would make this community small-pox- proof. Has the sanitary association???if not the board of health???no duty in the premises? A Had Character Out of the Way. Rome Courier. From persons residing in the neighborhood, we gather the particulars of the killing of a man in Cherokee county, Ala., last Friday. The facts, as near as we could get them, are as follows: A few days previous to last Fri day, a man by the name of William Rober son, alias Bill Johnson, severely beat without cause, the little son of a citizen of Cherokee county. The father sued out a warrant against this man, and placed it in the hands J. B. Davis, and Joe Reed, sheriff's deputies, to be executed. They found their man in McCoy???s grocery, a saloon on Coosa river, about thirty miles below this city, opposite Sterling land ing. The officers told Roberson they bad a warrant for his arrest, and as soon as lie learned this, he resisted and attempted to draw his pistol, but before he bad time toget it out, Mr. Davis fired on hiin.with a shotgun, inflicting a wound, from which lie died next morning. Roberson was known to be a desperate charac ter, and lmd not the deputy sheriff been too quick for bint lie would have doubtless done serious damage with his pistol. Mr. Davis is fully exonerated from all blame in the mutter by the entire community, for it was clear lie acted in self-de fense. After the shooting Roberson ad mitted that lie had traveled under an assumed name, and said to his attending physician: ???If I die, you may say when you see riicgoing off in my coffin,???there goes a man who says he has killed six s???s of b s during his life time?????? It is said of this fellow that he once shot a negro preacher while he was delivering a sermon. A MISSING CHILD. DETAILS OF A LITTLE BOY???S SUDDEN DISAPPEARANCE. A North Carolina Farmer with His W ife Goins to the Woods to ???Rive??? Boards. Take a little Four- Tear.Old with Them. Who Mysteriously Disappears???A Fruitless Search. A REMARKABLE PROJECT. Special Correspondence Constitution. Asheville, N. C., October 22.???There is now going on in the northern part of this. Bun combe, county, a search for a child whose mysterious disappearance baffles all conjec ture. The universal interest manifested by the neighbors of the missing boy, and the ex tent and thoroughness of the search make it an incident likely to arrest the attention of every one supplied with a fellow-feeling for unfortunate humanity. The circumstances of the loss, as stated to your correspondent by one of the searchers, are substantially as fol lows: On Tuesday morning, the 18th instant, David Ballew, his wife and child???the latter a boy about four years of age, wentout to the woods one quarter of a mile distant from their cabin ???the parents for the purpose of ???riving??? boards, and the child because there was no one at the house to keep it company At about 11 o???clock a.m. the wife suggests that she must go home and prepare dinner. The husband assents. Mrs. Ballew starts in the direction of the house to which leads an undeviating country road. She had proceed ed only some fifty or seventy-five yards when the boy began crying to go with her. The father, after an effort to pacify him, told him to go on with his mother. Just then as the child started on in the???direction of his mother and home, Air. Ballew halloed to his wife to come back and help him turn a log. Mrs. B. who had then gotten a hundred yards or more away, returned to the plaee where they had been at work and passed the child on the way still sobbing as it walked homeward. Hav ing spent some minutes in aiding her husband Mrs. Ballew again started towards home, ex pecting to overtake the child. She reached the cabin, however, without seeing the child, and asked two neighbors who had just come over to see her husband if they had seen it. On receiving a negative response the mother rushed back to look for the missing boy. Such is the story as told by the parents. Then it was that the search began in earnest, and among others, the informant of your correspondent came to aid his troubled friends. He says that they prosecuted their fruitless search until night fall, their numbers being constantly augment ed by fresh arrivals of interested neighbors. As the darkness of the mountains??? night closed in upon the anxious searchers, they gathered fagots and lightwood with which for miles around the hillsides were bespangled, like the dark sky above with its thousands of trembling chandeliers. For the subsequent days and nights has the weary search contin ued. But no trace of the lost boy has yet been found save the little tracks made by his bare feet in the road towards home. How long the search will continue we can not tell. The sleepless parents listen like the father and mother of Charlie Ross, but like them,seem doomed to hear naught of their lost loved one. Any further particulars that may come to light will be given you. A Suit or Clothe* Mode From the Seed Cotton In a Sin etc I>oj. The Williraantie linen company, in conjunction with the Wheeler & Wilson sewing machine com pany, propose to do the most remarkeble thing ever accomplished in industrial history. An amount of cotton will be picked this morning from the fields adjoining the exposition grounds. As soon as picked it will be ginned and cleaned. The lint will then be spun upon the Wil- limantic machinery and woven upon looms in their exhibit. The cloth will then be taken to the dye house and dved a rich black. It will then be taken to the Wheeler & Wilson exhibit, where it will be cut into two suits by tailors, who will be on hand. The suits will be cut in the most fashionable style??? the coats swallow tail. All will be lined through out with handsome silk furnished by Chen? Bros. The suits will be made for GovemorCoiquitt, if Georgia, and Governor Bigelow, of Connecticut, who will wear tnem at the receptions of to-night. We shall watch the progress of this experiment _ . ----- ,, - . from the first step to the last with great interest and ts cajiable ( o^nidum.^ sufi,- will report its details carefully. It is absolutely _ world. It now contains one half the population IN SESSION. The Mt**t**lppl Klvcr Improvement Convention., St. Loris, October 2a???The Mississippi river improvement convention met at the Grand opera house at lialf-past 11 o???clock this morn ing. About 500 delegates were present front all the states in the Mississippi valley. Michael McEnnis, president of the local ex ecutive committee, called the convention to order. The secretary of the executive com mittee then read the call for the convention, after which t Mr. McEnnis spoke, and in the course of his address said: It Is strange that at this lute day there should be a necessity for calling the jieople of this valley to gether to urge upon congress the duty and obliga tion to enact measures for the improvement of the Mississippi and its navigable tributaries. The peo ple of the United States are famous for their public spirit and enterprise. Every subject involving the welfare of the people has received due attention except alone the question that has brought us to gether. This valley of ours iucludes eighteen states without parallel. The cotton will be followed through its various stages by an immense crowd of spectators. William the Conqueror. New York World. Mahone must Vie more than mortal if his bosom does not throb with pride at the position he occu pies. Last year Commissioner Green B. Kaum issued a stern warning to his subordinates in Vir ginia that if any of them were found working or talking for Mahone and repudiation their instant dismissal would follow. Commissioner Kaum has just gone to Virginia to take the stump for Mahone and repudiation. Eighteen months ago the Vir ginia republicans declared for Grant and declined to countenance Mahone, the Times, then an infu riated Grant organ, remarking that they could better nfiord to be defeated than to succeed by a union with a set of unscrupulous demagogues and repudiators.??? Now General Grant has knuckled under and come out for Mahone and repudiation; there is not a republican of promi nence in Virginia outside of the Mahone ranks, and the Times, though it swears most terribly under its breath, is actively supporting the ???union with a set of unscrupulous demagogues and repudiators.??? The Tribune, which used to denounce with much warmth ???all the covert schemes for swindling the creditors of the state,??? now regards Mahone as a rather nobler specimen of the Virginian than Washington was. The republican sen ators from Dawes up have been shuddering for years over repudiation, plantation manners, duelling, and so on, and Mahouc lias not only made them M AD-STONES. An Illinois Physician** Account of How lie Come to ltcllcvc In Their Eflleacy. Correspondence New York Sun. We have two reputed niad-stones in Jersey county. One belongs to Jacob Lurton, Esq., of Newbern. It appears to be a fossil coral. It is somewhat concave on one side and con vex on the other, slightly porous, of a grayish color, and about an inch across. It is sai r d to be one-lmlf of the original, which drew so hard upon the bite of a dog that it broke in two. It is applied to the wound, and it ad heres so tightly that it will take off a piece of the skin if one tries to remove it by force. It will drep off??? in a few hours, and it is then boiled in sweet milk, after which it will ad here to the wound again. After a few days of treatment it will not stick, even if you make a fresh wound. The other stone is owned by Judge I???liineas Eldridge, of Brighton, Macoupin county. It is about half an inch square, an inch and a half long. It looks like a piece of black slate with a high polish. It is applied like the other stone, but to extract the poison after it has fallen off it is put into hot, weak lye, made of wood ashes, and for several minutes it will send out bubbles of air or gas, that conic out of the stone and rise to the top of the fluid. When it ceases to bubble it is taken out and rubbed dry with warm ashe and again applied. In the year 1840, I believe, one of Jack Gorin???s sons, a lad of twelve years, was bitten by a mad dog in several places upon both hands. My brother and I, both being physi cians, and naturally skeptical concerning mad stones, went several miles to see this boy. We found him with both mad stones adhering to the wounds. We found the tongue white and velvety, the skin sallow, and a peculiar con tracted pulse of 110. In a short time the boy regained his usual health. He was evidently under excitement when we visited him. The stones adhered in this case about eight day the black stone sticking for about two days after the other would no longer act. Horses, hogs and geese bitten by the same dog went mad, but the boy recovered. The next cases I saw in which these stones were tried were those of Mat Irvin and Miss Nancy Wat ton. of Delhi. These young people were bitten in 1807, I believe, in several places on the legs and arms. The stones were sent for and used in the usual way. I had a chance to see the daily use of them, as I resided in Delhi at the time. They both got well and are now living in that vicinity. The dog that bit these young people was undoubtedly rabid and stock bitten by it died of hydrophobia. These are the only reputed mad-stones I ever saw, and their efficacy in the three cases under mv own notice, and the similar state ments of persons of undoubted veracity, have removed my disbelief in the virtue of mad^ stones. L. C. Washburn, M. D. Fieldon, 111., September 29. BREVITIES. Tiif. death is announced,of Rnffaglle^IonJ^I Hie celebrated Italian sculptor, at the age of sixtv- three vears. A Vermont farmer, whose cow chewed up his pocket-book containing 8225, has asked Treas urer GilHUan to reimburse him for his loss. The queen business pays. The private for tune of Queen Victoria amounts to 8S0,000,000, and her annual income is 83,250,000. And yet she com menced life a poor girl. Stump speakers in Virginia find hard work in towns where they are obliged to make two speeches and fight two duels each day, and keep allother appointments. In a recent meeting of the academy of soienee in Paris, a communication was read from a man who announced that he had discovered a mode of inoculating vines as u protection against the at tacks of the phylloxera. > A paper in Chicago having said that that city uses 70.000,000 gallons of water daily, the Balti more American remarks that ???half of thatumount is made into beer and the other half is used to seald the bristles off of hogs.??? Damascus is the oldest city in the world, and the street called Strait, in which it is said Paul prayed, still runs through the city, and the yearly caravans come and go through the plaee just as they did one thousand years ago. In the German town of Herxlieim there were sueh hordes of mice that a reward of a fourth of a cent for every one killed was offered by the municipal authorities. Under this stimulus proof has been furnished within a short time of the death of over 340,000. Chicago water has to be boiled before it is tit to drink. It is mighty inconvenient fora thirsty Chicagoan to have to wait in a saloon until the bar tender boils him a glass of water, so he surmounts the difficulty by calling fora glass of whisky,which doesn???t require any conking. The Chicago intellect is equal to any emergency. Thousands of girls in Germany, Norway and Switzerland cultivate their hair as carefully as a farmer would his crops: and once a year, when the hair merchant, generally an old woman, comes around, there is a lively time shearing. Swiss girls have the finest hair, and the prices vary from twen ty-live cents to thirty-five dollars an ounce. One of the curiosities of the sensational advertising of subjects for preaching is seen iu the announcement of a Brooklyn sermon for the even ing. The concluding part of the advertisement reads: ??? ???Thus saith the Lord.??? Take Tompkins cars at Grand street ferry.??? Another queer adver tisement is intended to attract people to South Brooklyn, and concludes by saying, ??? ???Lost sheep.??? Take Third avenue cars.??? Mrs. Campbell, the wife of Alexander Campbell, founder of the Christian church, of which President Garfield was a member, is a strik ing looking woman of eighty years. Her hair is as black, her eyes as bright, as in her youth, and her mental activity is remarkable. She reads and writes often until past midnight, and is now en gaged upon a volume of reminiscences of her hus band. of the United States, and could sustain ten times the number of its inhabitants, and now yields a sur- plus of production that has turned the balance of trade iu our favor, and made us creditor instead of debtor to the nation. Our duty is plain and imperative, and we must go before congress with overwhelming proof of the necessities of improving these rivers by deepening the channels, removing obstacles and giving us a free outlet to the gulf. Mr. Henry Hitchcock next delivered tiie address of welcome; he said in the course of his speech: You are told that 90 per cent of corn. S7 per cent of wheat and 43 per cent of oats produced in lssoin the United States came from tile Mississippi valley. The millions of bushels of grain grown upon more than one and a half million of square miles means prosperous and happy families. The improvement of the Mississippi is no new project, but it is now "ywell understood and an increasing eur- generally rent of public opinion is rushing it on. The appointment of Governor Crittenden as chairman was received with cheers. He de livered quite a long address. He dwelt upon the magnitude of the Mississippi valley and the percentage of the entire agricultural products of the country received within its borders and showed the absolute necessity of a thorough improvement of the great water way running through it, in order that these products may be carried cheap to thesea. Upon the question of improving the Mississippi nominate and stand by Gorham, but has compelled ??ver without reference to its tributaries, he them to make Ihcir tight on Riddleberger, repudia-1 , u ; . tionist and fire-eater. Even at Mahone???s nod Sena-!, not thy smaller question govern the tor Davis, bearing all his weight of adipose lightly Iar ser one. I have seen whilst a member of con as a flower, has skipped down from the fence and gresL evils of. ???omnibus, appropriation bills for fallen in line behind him. Mahone may well be tbe improvement of our livens and harbors. Much pardoned for cherishing an exalted opinion of Spud is always embodied In those bills; himself; they have all ???surrendered to Mahone.??? *???? an infinite amount of demagoguery and waste ot money. It should be stopped before the evil grows too large. There are too many unnuvigahle and unwatered streams iu those bills inserted by interested politicians for local purposes. Abolish the evil and assert the independence of the great stream and its truly navigable tributaries. Then victory worthy of ah American congress will have been accomplished and the money of the people will he judiciously expended. Enough, money is wasted on these small streams to perform a large part if not the whole of the desired work on the Mississippi river. Such foolishness should be stopped at once. May this convention strike the key note not only in suppressing sueh an evil, but also in marking out a line of policy by which our senators and rep resentatives in congress are to be governed ill their future appropriation bills. ONE OF THE OLD GUARD. A Veteran IVho Declare* the United State* a Despotic Country. Decatur, Ind., October 20.???Two weeks ago Officer Mitchell, of Greensboro, Pa., quietly arrested an old man in Fort'Wayne, and hur ried off with him to Greensboro, to answer the charge of burglary, whqreby it was alleged that he had obtained the sum of $2,500 from the trunk of Mr. George Granlee. ???My name is Joseph Brovinski,??? he said. ???I am a native of Poland, and am legal heir to a very large estate near Warsaw. I was born in 1789, and will be 92 years of age on the 12tli day tif next December. I fought for the great Napoleon, in Pontutowski???s command, unil that prince was drowned at Leipsic, when I was transferred at my request to Colonel Gar- don???s command, in Marshal Groucliv???s corps, and hence was deterred from taking part in the immediate battle of Waterloo. After Na poleon was banished I remained in France about four years, during which time my father died. Soon after his death his estates were seized, and although I have tried every con ceivable plan to get some portion of their value, I failed, amt they are to-day held by a Russian nobleman. Caulincourt, through the friends liorhaciMinido while-minister to Russia, made every effort to encompass my object for me, but without success. In 1859 I came to America and associated myself witli Dr. Inskip of Alleghany as a veto rinary surgeon. 1 was from that time until 1868 periodically in Alleghany and Jersy City; at this latter date I lost all the money 1 had, and in 1870 was arrested in Erie for lar ceny and sent to the western penitentiary of Pennsylvania. I served my time and went out in 1873 a broken down old man. I did not give my proper name there, but I am proud to say that I was the only Polander in that prison. It was my inten tion to procure assistance through the French consul of New York, and return to France, where 1 have a son living, but I was deterred hy various considerations. I went to Philadelphia and lived there, prac ticing as veterinary surgeon, until last Au gust, when I received a considerable amount of money. I went to Greenesboro, and while there met two men who hud known me iu prison, and it was through them that sus picion was attached to me. They failed to make any case against me, and 1 am on my way to Chicago. 1 expect to go hack to France in November, and I shall never, never leave her shores again. Next to Russia, the United States government is tiie most des potic in the world.??? and windows and shutters were rattlinft. Return ed iu an hour; found my wife very uneasy; raid she had been so all evening. .She said Mr. Ross had called, sent by Mr. Ludlow, to have ns join them at the exposition. Deceased said she answered the bell and found Mr. Ross Shut the door too soon; perhaps offended him" Said she heard a buck door open as she closed the frontdoor. I paid no attention to her uneasiness We ittissed a most pleasant evening. She read me a story. We retired at 11 p. 111. I was awake per haps an hour. Heard a door softly opening, i listened a moment: decided not to awaken de ceased, and slipped out of bed as gently ami quiellv as I could. There was no light. 1 went to a desk at the foot of the bed to look for my pistol. Some things lmd been jiacked in a drawer, and I had difficulty iu tindiug it, and went to her side of the bed to ask her, but did not dis turb her, and went back to look again. This time I found the pistol. I stepped in the sitting room. Found door, which I had locked and bolted, was wide open, and the gas on tiie floor below turned on full. I felt the socket which the bolt shoots into, and found it loose. Never noticed this before. It looked like a former attempt at burgliuy. When the doors were open and gas turned on went back to bed to tell my wife, but thought it a shame to wake her,and for the third time turned back without disturbing her. I supposed my wife was in bed. I heard a noise down stairs. Thought it burglars. Thought they had heard me and would escape. 1 went to the front window, leaned out to fire upon them as they passed out of the front door; was at the win dow a half minute, und looked back ami saw that the gas below was turned off. 1 decided the burg lars were in the house, and started toward the hall door to go downstairs. When half way across the room I suddenly sa iv something indistinct appear at the door. The room was very dark and the hall still darker. I could not see shape or form, it was. so dark, but was sure something was there, and I aimed and fired. Susie???s voice said, ???Oh, Andrew, you have hurt me so bad,??? and 1 knew what 1 had done. I instantly lighted tlio gas iu the sitting- room, ran to my wife, assisted iter to the bed-room, turned on the gas, saw the wound, und told her of it. Did not think the wound dangerous; she did not faint. I left her there and went for a surgeon, as no one else was there. Before going for the doc tor Susie told me how it happened; said she had gotten out of bed gently, so as not to wake me. She had put out the gas down stairs, come upstairs, ami had gone Into the little room (for some pur pose) at the head of the stairs, and had just come: out to enter tiie sitting-room. slui saw me running across the room from the win dow toward tile door with my pistol, ami she was frightened: said 1 looked dangerous, and tliut she tried to spring back into the little room; said, ??? Why vourcom???was going to say,???Why arc you coming???? 1 tired simultaneously just us she began lo speak, and did not hear her. 1 never was jealous of my wife. She was a perfect lady. My wife and 1 thought tiie wouud was not fatal, and slieespecially eharged me not to let either her mother or mine know of it, for she said it would worry them to death. I wrote to tier brother the full particulars, telling him of her request. 1 ulso wrote fully to I)r. Whittaker, also to Mrs. Jenkins.??? The coroner rendered a verdict to tiie effect that Mrs. Van Bibber came to iter deatli at the hands of her husband, but lie was unable to determine from tiie testimony whether tiie shooting was done accidentally or otherwise. Wnttcr*on on David Dull*. Louisville Courier-Journal. Oh, you perfidious old man! You never shall make love to us again. And don???t you wink and leer, Mr. D. It won???t do any good. Your stomach is too big to be holiest. You look like a porpoise, and it???s a mercy how any one was ever deceived by you. Goto! Goto! You are little better than one of the wicked, and you stay out o???nights, and there???s no knowing the company you keep. You didn???t expect it? Fiddlestick! Black Jack lias been flattering your fat vanity with smutty jokes and promises for a fortnight. Eh? You don???t deserve ! That you don???t, you old sinner. You think it very line sitting up there in your ruffles???puffing and blowing like a hippopotamus???but you are only the laughing stock of the senate and the country. Come, none o??? that! No ogling, if you please! The democratic party is not, that sort of a girl. Go on, old chair-warmer, go on. All this comes from tiie fact that the broadest tiling about you is the seat of your pantaloons! A Monitor Piece of Ordnance. Reading. Fa., October 25.???The Haskell multi charge cannon, weighing 56,000 pounds, was success fully cast here to-day. It is claimed that this enor mous piece of ordnance will carry a ball of 150 pounds weight a distance of twelve miles. It is undoubtedly a great work, and the distance it will cover in throwing a shot has never been equaled in litis or any other country. The gun is of ritled pattern, neatly and strongly molded, and is greatly admired bv all who have had an opportunity of seeing it. It will probably be tested at an early day. An Order lo Po*traa*tcr*. Washington, October 25.???The postmaster gen eral has issued the following order: ???The statutes of certain of the states having provided that deposi tions before officers properly authorized shall be treated as having been in official custody when re ceived through tiie United Suites mail, provided a certificate of its receipt from the officer taking the evidence is given by the postmaster at the office of mailing, it is therefore expected that postmasters receiving depositions for mailing will, in a spirit of comity, sign the formal receipt contemplated by the law of the state for use in whose court the depo sition is taken.??? Vanderbilt In the South. The following is the substance of a long article in the Cincinnati Gazette: ???The Ohio railway can be made a very val uable feeder to tiie New York Central system, and is well worth capturing for that purpose alone, hut Mr. Vanderbilt wants it for a pur pose other than that, lie is thoroughly con vinced that the south and southwest are the _ , ..... . fields for railway enterprise, and tiie fact that The Talc or lahnion. Wealth L,*t on nn tn E n.h the clyde Erlanger, Cole, Huntington and ^ rr.i f nm the Louisville and Nashville company are M il.mlm.ton Del.. October 2b.???A special from ??? making both reputation and money in their Lewes to the Morning _.ews, dated Siuurday, sajs |Sc j lem cs f or covering the south with their that the International submarine diving company, I systems of roads has made tiie New York organized two years ago by capitalists in I???hiladel-1 Central???s owner a little bit jealous of them, phia to search for the Debraak, an English sloop-of- and lie proposes to enter that field himself SEEKING FOR SUNKEN MILLIONS. Mrs. Garfield will spend the winter in Cleveland, haring rented the residence of Colonel W. II. Harris, of Euclid avenue. On Wednesday she was presented with a memorial of flowers and immortelles as a tribute to the memory of the late president. The device was a ladder six feet in height, its base resting on a miniature canal boat. At the top are a crown, a Masonic cross and a union shield with a dove of peace perched on it. Chicago Tribune. Mr. Tra-Brown, tlio enterprising real estate man states tiutt he could and would suv a good word for the St. Jacobs Oil. which had cured him of a severe attack of inflammatory rheumatism that all other treatments hail failed even to allav. A Proof of Ui. Inunttr- New Haven Register. The mere fact that Guiteau borrowed a silk um brella and returned it is strong evidence otpnranitv. but that he carried it to the republican headquar ters and succeeded in getting it safe back apiin is The Treasury Investigation. Washington, October 25.???The report of the in vestigation into the accounts of the treasury custo dian, which was called for by Senator Sherman, was sent to the senate by Secretary Windom yester day. None of the testimony accompanies the re port, but it shows that the office of ???custodian,??? whose duty it was to make disbursements for the contingent expenses of the treasury, was created without a warrant of law: that only on rare occa sions was the law observed which required adver tising before contracts are given out, and that there were no books kept showing the stock on hand, nor an inventory of it taken, although both were pre scribed bv law After giving a detailed account of the irregularitiesand abuses discovered the com mittee say: ???We think the system at present in vogue very loose and liable to great abuse, and in our opinion it ought to be materially changed.??? Nothing can be plainer, from the exposures em bodied in tiie report, that a change in such a svs- tem is imperative: whilst nothing could be tender er or more pathetically considerate than the ex pressions of the committee on the subject. Dreadful Paroxysm* of Asthma. ???I was having dreadful paroxysms of Asth ma when tiie <.omi>ound Oxygen came. I am very grateful to inform you that in that | resjiect I am greatly relieved.??? Treaties on ! ???Compound Oxygen??? sent free. Drs. Starkey Sf P on???m<Lt*fe 1109??? UH Girard Street, Phiiadei- Icsely insane persons. ??? phia, Pennsylvania war which foundered in a storm off Lewes, this state, June 10.170S, has discovered evidences of the missing vessel. According to papers in possession of Samuel S. McCracken, a pilot, whose grandfather was the only survivor and who was engaged iu pilot ing tiie vessel into harbor, about 852.000, (XX) of specie aud jewels went down with her. The money was taken by tiie Debraak from an intercepted Spanish fleet while on her way to Halifax, England, from a successful cruise on the Spanish main. With the specie 200 prisoners were taken. When the vessel foundered tiie prisoners were in irons on the lower deck aud were all lost. Captain James Drew, who commanded tiie vessel and whose body was recov ered two days following, lies buried in St. Peter???s churchyard???at Lewes. Two years after the wreck the British 1 government sent two frigates to raise the Debraak, but without success. McCracken says that the Debraak lies in fifteen fath oms of water. The divers toundaloug, irregular ridge about 15 feet high, IS feet wide and 00 feet long. On each side are piles of loose stone, sup posed to be the ballast thrown from frigates in tiie effort to raise the wreck in 1S00. Rough weather uteifering with further operations, the company was compelled to postpone the search, and on Wednesday the divers returned to Philadelphia. The work, however, will be vigorously pushed for ward as soon as favorable w?? ather sets in. The MI**I**lpp! Valley Comml*??Ion. St. Louis. October 26.???The Mississippi valley states commission, a i>ernninent organization, com posed aP present of three representatives from each of tiie seventeen valley states, appointed for life by the governors of those states, met at its rooms in the Merchants??? exchange building here to-duv. Hon. Eugene Underwood, of Louisville, Ky., presi dent, was in the chair, and regular Secretary Platbe Walker, of Minnessota, was present. No business was transacted, but the commission, about thirty members of which are delegates to the Mississippi river convention, will meet again to-morrow. This convention was organized three yeans ago for the purpose of collecting statistics, devising plans of memorializing congress for tiie improvement of the Mississippi river arid its tributaries. It will observe the action of the river convention. The Election of Shobcr. Washington. October 25.???With reference to Mr. Edmunds getting in ahead with his resolution making Chief Clerk Sltober acting secretary of the senate. Senator Pendleton says: ???The maneuver is quite in keeping with the republican tactics. Every movement iu the organization of tbe senate nas been in that direction. The republicans dead locked the senate last spring for two months in or der to vindicate the nght of the majority to rule aud vet thev now abandon the field without a thought of the great principle for which they then fought. Thev have not the courage to come to a vote for their caucus nominees, Gorham aud Kid- antl compete for tiie control of tiie traffic. Both he and Mr. Devcreux told the writer a few days ago that tiie object in securing con trol of the Ohio railway was to give the Cen tral a line of its own to St. Louis, and that tiie Cincinnati connection is looked upon merely as a part of what is to he itis New Or leans line. New Orleans, they both said, is the objective point, and Mr. Vanderbilt will not rest until he is able to run his own ears over his own lines from New York to that city. In answer to a question as to how he proposed to get from Cincinnati to New Orleans, a direct answer was evaded, but enough was gathered from what was said to warrant tiie a-sertion that a move will be made to capture tiie lirlanger lines. It is be lieved hy Mr. Devereux certainly, and most likely by Mr.. Vanderbilt, that tbe Erlanger folks' will very soon find that railroading in America is by no means a sure and profitable business, and that it a failure to gather the expected yield should occur, they would he only too glad to unload. If fact, one of tiie gentlemen referred to openly declared that lie confidently expected that tiie Erlanger syndicate would go to pieces al most on tiie approach of a panic in American business circles. Then, said lie, the Cincinnati Southern, and the other lines which are now, or may be at that time, under tiie control of the syndicate, would be almost certain to drop into the New York Central???s basket, In fact, Mr. V. and Mr. D. are all ready and prepared for an event of that kind to take place in the ncai* future, and very much sooner, they be lieve, than the public think for.??? MISTAKEN FOR A BURGLAR. Mr. Vanttlbber Tells How He Came to Shoot IIU Wife. Andrew VanBibber, of Cincinnati, testified before Coroner Rendigs, of that city, on Fri day, and related how he came to shoot his wife, Susannah Nancy VanBibber, aged 29 years. lie said: ???I was bom in this city in November, 1813. was married to Susannah Nancy McArthur, in Februa ry, 1*7:;. On Thursday night last returned home at 7:45 o???clock. Wanted deceased to go to the exposi tion with me, but she heard me say it was meeting ??? ---- - . . ??? night for the Grand Army of the Kepul lie, and told dleberger, though this is of course an abandonment me to go und see the boys, and we would go to the of them.??? exposition the next night. The night was dark A Mysterious Murder In Suvunnnh. Savannah, October 25.???The dead body of the fireman of the British steamer Inthros, was found on the street here Sunday morning. His throat was cut. The murdered man was five feet live inches high, with gray eyes, light hair and mustache, and a slight goatee. He was dressed iu dark pants, two dark woolen striped shirts, a black vest, dark blue coat and a pair of knitted drawers. On his left arm was found marked with India ink, a fish and a wine glass, while on his right ???J. I*. 1871,??? was found pricked in with the same ink. Suit- sequent investigation developed the fact that he was the fireman of the British steamship Inthros, which arrived here front l???ort Royal a few days ago, and is now lying in this port. All that lias as yet been developed regard ing the murder is that the murdered man had been at a dance the night before and it is thought that while there a difficulty ensued between him and others present, and that lie was afterwards set upon and killed. - When found he was black in the face,and his tongue was protruding as if he had been choked, and further investigation revealed the fact that his throat was cut. There is little doubt, therefore, that he was first badly choked and then murdered. It was found 'impossible to hold an inquest on the remains yesterday, so, by order of the coroner, the body was taken out to Laurel Grove cemetery.' where now lying awaiting an inquest to-day, at " which other facts tending to solve the mys tery will be actuated. Six men known to have been in company with the murdered man have been arrested on suspicion of being connected with the crime. Their names are Charles Thompson, Henry Bass, Peter Carr, Joint McBride, John King and Charley , all white. Of these Henry Bass, who is a sailor on the British steamship Venice, also in port, was arrested hy Sergeant Killourhy, of the police force, just as he was about to enter his ship. When taken in charge his clothing was covered with blood, and circumstances point to him as either the murderer, or as having been inti mately connected with the crime. Other per sons are also known to have been too much mixed up in it to he permitted to go at large, and hist night preparations were being made for their arrest, and they doubtless are at tills moment keeping company with their com rades at the barracks. THE ATLANTA CANAL. IVhut Hie Survey hu* Demonstrated???A Perfectly Feu.lMe Project. In conversation with Mr. Kimball on yesterday lie- said: ???We have just about completed the survey of the Atlanta and Gainesville canal.??? ???What is the result of the survev???? ???It has demonstrated that the canal is perfectly feasible und that it can be dug at very much less, cost Ilian we had dared to hotie. The survey has been made at a cost of but little more than one thousand dollars in the most thorough and accurate manner, and it shows that we can build a canal that will give Atlanta all the water she needs, for. tiie city and ten thousand horse power between here and tiie Chattahoochee ut a cost of less than two million and a half dollars." ??? Call the money be raised to build il???? ???There is not tiie slightest doubt of it. It can be demonstrated in tiie plainest manner that the in come front the rent of water-power and from water for the city would pay a handsome dividend on the- money invested. As the city grew larger and man ufactories were added, it would become an exceed ingly valuable property. I think the money can be raised til very short order, and as soon as the affairs of tiie exposition are off my shoulders I shall to work ut it in earnest, and there reason why we should not have' June.??? . soon!??? ... . already had eorrespomlenec with leading capitalists in New York, and I know that everything is nr>e for the project. We ought to be able to start in six months from to-day, but wheth er we start m six or twelve months you mav rest as sured of one thing???I promised th*e jieopie of At lanta, in an address at the Gordon banquet several months ago, that I would take hold of tnecanal and never rest until I had the water of tiie Chattahoo chee flowing into and through Atlanta. I have never yet tailed to consummate any enterprise that I gave mv promise to, and I don???t think 1 ever had an easier job than buildingthe Atlanta canal. You need not be afraid that I will not do it.??? the rising waters. The MI**!**t I>I> t still Dreuktnc Levee*. Chicago,, October 26.???A dispatch front Keokuk reports "a continued alarming rise- in the Mississippi river. The town of Alexan dria is completely inundated. The city levee near there broke and the water was overflow ing the \\ abash railway embankment in the southern part of the city. A number of citi zens have gone to Warsaw and Keokuk for protection. It is believed there is much dan ger of increased floods at. Quincy, Illinois, as the water is still very high. Quincy, 111., October 26.???The Mississippi river at this place is now higher than at any time since 1851. The running of trains on the- Quincy, Alton and St. Louis branch of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad lias had to be abandoned tin account of the weak- entng of the bridge over Curtis creek, one nttle south of this city. Trainsare running to and from Hannibal via Tahnira, over the Hanibal and St. Joe railroad. . Keokuk. Iowa, October 26.???-The alarming rise tn the Mississippi river still continues. Official Vote of Ohio. O ?: tober 26.???The following is the a^ le f e s,8le for governor; Foster,. Owt w 'i' Boo*"alter, democrat, 2SS.4267 6 330 ??? I ??? rohibl,lom st. 10,597; Zita, greeubacker, is no reason wny we should not commenced digging before the first of next Ji ???5 on feel sure that it will be started that sc ???Ido. I have already hud correspondence