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VOL. i. THE WIDE WORLD. GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND CABLE CULLINGS Of Brief Items of Interest From Various Sources. Telegrams of Sunday report that Poet Walt Whitman has somewhat improved. Admiral Jorge Montt was formally installed Saturday as president of Chile. Sir William White, British ambassador to Turkey, died of influenza in Berlin, Monday. The grip is becoming epidemic in New York. Twelve deaths were reported Thursday. . The total loss by Sunday night’s fire in Boston will be nearly four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. A collision occurred Thursday' near Cuernevaca, Mexico, on the Southern railroad, resulting in the death of twelve persons. The British steamer Southgate arrived at New York, Monday, with 4,900 bales of Egyptian cotton—the first large impor tation of that article. The total number of postoffices in the United States is 65,007, being the high est number ever reached. About three hundred are presidential. Reports of Thursday from the north west indicate that it is snow’ing over a wide area, extending from northwest ter ritory southward to Montana. Telegrams of Monday state that fully three-fourths of the people in Hamilton, 0., are afflicted with the grip. The death rate is the highest ever known. Ten deaths from grip were reported to the board of health of New York Friday as against twelve on the preceding day. Six were in tenement houses and four in private houses. A dispatch of Monday states that the entire system of the San Antonia and Aransas Pass railroad is tied up by a strike of its employes. The trouble was caused by the discharge of a conductor. A Washington dispatch says: Secreta ry Foster spent a short time at his office in the treasury department Monday af ternoon, for the first time since Novem ber ,JL7th, when he was taken ill in New %grk. J ..... York dispatch says: Accord ing -to statements made by the warden and attendants in Ludlow street jail. Etjwaikl Fielli is in a bad condition. He neither (kite’rsor drinks and i* growing perceptibly weaker every day. A Washington dispatch of Friday says: The navy department has been officially informed of the arrival of the United States Cruiser Boston at Valparaiso, Chile. Orders have been issued to the commander to proceed to San Francisco. Saturday was the 115th anniversary of the revolutionary buttle of Trenton, N. J. Gov. Abbett laid the corner stone of a monument to the memory of Washing ton and the continental troops who crossed the Delaware and surprised and routed the Hessians. At Camden, N. J., Saturday, A. Holt, publisher of the Echo, a religious journ al, issued in that city, was fined 11,000 for contempt in publishing a statement reflecting on the court. He was com mitted to prison until further orders of the court are made. A New York dispatch says: The ac tion ol Henry Stanford, as president of the Adams Express company, against John Hoey was discontinued Monday by order of Justice Andrews, of the supreme court, and the attachment granted on October 16th has been vacated. A Tyrone, Pa., dispatch says: The cashier and stockholders of the defunct Tyrone bank turned over all their prop erty to Assignee Stevens, Monday, for the benefit of their creditors. This will swell the assets to $160,000. .As the liabilities are only SIOO,OOO, the depos itors have good prospects of getting dol lar for dollar. A cablegram from Rome, Italy, says: While midnight mass in celebration of the Christmas festival was being performed Friday morning in a church in the city of Valencia, four bombs were exploded in the edifice in rapid succession. The congregation was, lor the time, paralyz ed, by fear, and a number of lights burning in the church were extinguish ed. The Carpenter Steel works at Reading, Pa., were burned Saturday night. Two of the buildings, besides the office, were saved, and not as much of the machinery was damaged as was at first supposed. work of rebuilding on a larger scale will be commenced at once in order to fill government contracts for steel pro jectiles for heavy ordnance. The total loss is estimated at $90,000 to SIOO,OOO, fully insured. A New York dispatch of Thursday says: Johu G. Roth, the crank who at tempted the life of Rev. Dr. John Hall, was put on the stand. He told a ramb ling and incoherent story of conspiracy to keep him forever in poverty, and claimed that Dr. Hall was at its head.. The whole of his tale of woe was that of a madman at bay, and his counsel had ™ difficulty in satisfying the jury as to the prisoner’s insanity. Dispatches of Saturday say that la grippe has a firm foothold in Montreal, Canada, and it is now claimed there are 1,000 cases. It affects its victims in a different way than before —pains in the stomach and headache, followed by weakness in the lower limbs - but the attack only lasts in most cases from, four days to tw r o weeks. The street railway companies, police force and fire brigade are the biggest sufferers. Out of 375 men on the police force fifty-five arc laid UP with it. State of Cl aDr gmiif. A POSTAL GUIDE Which Has Been Issued by Postmaster General Wanamaker. Postmaster General Wanamaker has issued a postal guide, the only official organ of the postoffice department, and in it is a number of matters of interest. He makes several important recommend ations. One is that physical examina tions of applicants should be made for the heavy work of the railway mail. A very general extension of the money order system is advised, and a number of rea • sons given. The adaptatioa of the tele phone to the postal system is heartily recommended. The lottery towns come in fora great deal of attention. From all over the United States but 686 letters containing lottery tickets were received at the dead. letter .office from December, 1890, to last October, an average of sixty-two a month. At pres ent the average is less than forty, which shows that the anti-tottery bill is . being enforced. This enforcement,' however, curtailed the revenue of the revenue service more than one million dollars last year. Here is a statement from the Postmaster General, the truth of which is not generally known: “Only once in a quarter of a century— in 1882-1883, just prior to the inaugura tion- of two-cent postage—have the department receipts met the expenditures. The estimates for 1893, which have been prepared for the action of congress at the coming session,.show that the service may be made to reach a self-sustai; ing basis by July 1, 1893. In the additional railway postal service established during the year, the south comes in for a full share. Of the 8,000 miles increase, three-fourths were sup plied to western and southern states, the south having 1,400. The postmaster general meets the views of a big number in what he has to say about the telegraph. “I want to see,” he remarks, “the two great servants of the people, the post office and the telegraph, reunited, and the telephone brought in to enhance the value of the combination. Public inter ests, private needs, and the popular will call for these agencies to perfect the great postal system of this country. Sixty-four millions of people are taxing themselves to-day to the amount of $70,000,000 annually to maintain the postoffice plant, and are denied the right to vitalize this magnificent machinery with the mightiest force which science has given to render that machinery most effective.” As to reducing letter postage to a uni form rate of 1 cent, Mr. Wanaqpaker has this to say r' “To do this means exactly that the de partment will lose one-half of the re ceipts from letter postage. One half would be $20,716,063.75. I have hereto fore stated that 1 cent postage will be suc cessfully demanded in time. I believe that time is not far off. It would not be just and fair to a service upon which every effort has been spent for two years to make it self-sustaining, and which now promises to become so in the next fiscal year, to heap upon it, the instant the balance sheet becomes clear, a bur den of millions.” The postmaster general believes that letter-carriers should not be weighted down like pack-horses; that railway postal clerkß should be paid for the ■dangers they face daily;' that it is wrong to pay a fourth-class postmaster SIOO a year who has fo pay S2OO for fitting his office with boxes, and that rural delivery should be widely extended. Then comes a valuable item regarding newspapers which he says, could be car ried Iree. “It is possible from July 1, 1893, to take off the entire tax on news papers, except for city delivery, if all books of every kind are placed on a level with other merchandise and the postage mnv be reduced by consolidating fourth class matter with the third-class. RIOTOUS MEXICANS. The People Object to the Closing of Their Monasteries. A dispatch of Thursday from the City of'Mexico says: A district judge recent ly issued orders to the police and troops for clossng four monasteries iriPiieblo on the around that the maintenance of these institutions is contrary to law. Upon carrying out the judge’s orders the people revolted and a tight between the people on one side and the police and soldiers on the other followed, during which one person was killed and four others wounded. Accounts of the affair are conflicting. The clergy on one hand assert that they were torn from the altars, leaving the sacrament exposed, dragged through the streets by troops and sub jected to many humiliations. The popu lace rose en masse and offered considera ble resistance to the troops, crying: “Viva la religion; death to the Masons.” Twenty-five priests were arres'ed. Pu eblo is in a state of intense excitement. NEW POSTAL CARDS. Issued from the Postofflce Department at Washington. Two new sizes of posial cards went into effect Tuesday. The postoffice depart ment issues them to postmasters, to be known as “A” and “C” cards respective ly, in addition to the “B,” the one now in current use. The A will be of fine quality of loft-dried paper; the Cof a strong, finely finished jute paper. The former will be nearly gray in color and 2 15-16 by 4$ inches in dimension, with a portrait of General Grant in the upper right-hand corner. The card will be printed in dark blue. The C will be light mauiila, 3fx6£ inches, designed very much like the other new card. Post masters will not be permitted under any circumstances to redeem postal cards in the hands of the public, nor to exchange one kind for another. TRENTON, GA. FRIDAY, JANUARY 1,1892. THROUGH DIXIE. NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY PARAGRAPHED Forming an Epitome of Daily Happenings Here and There. J. H. Wertz, clothier, Louisville, Ky., made an assignment Monday. Hunter Bros. & Cos., dry goods, Mem phis, made an assignment Thursday. Atlanta made her first shipment of bonds, recently isssued, to the purchasers in New r York, Saturday. They represen ted $289,000. The comptroller of has au thorized this First National bank of Key West, Fla., to' begin business, with a* capital of SIOO,OOO. " , The orjhodox'Jews of Atlanta haveor ganized a relief association for the pur pose cf relieving and aidiug their down stricken brethren with as much as it is possible for them to do. The statement of affairs of Rosenber ger, Spondler & Cos., the Newmarket, Ya., bankers who had branches in three oher towns, places the combined short age at about one hundred thousand dol lars. A Raleigh dispatch of Thursday says: The election in Brunswick county on the questioa of subscribing SIOO,OOO to se cure the construction of the Brunswick, Western and Southern railway resulted in the defeat of the proposition. Governor Fleming, of Florida, on Monday, appointed Edward J. Tracy, state treasurer, vice Francis J. Pons, de ceased. Tracy has been the governor’s private secretary since 1889. He is a native of Cuba, but was educated at St. Augustine. An injunction was granted in the su perior court at Macon, Ga., Saturday, against the Macon Abstract company pending the hearing of a petition for a receiver filed by W. L. Henry, who claims that he was induced to sink $12,- 000 in the company on false representa tion. Surgeon General Wyman, of the marine hospital service at Washington, has re ceived a telegram from the medical offi cer in charge of the smallpox district at Harris Neck, Ga., saying that the dis ease lTad’ been 'nearly stamped out, and that no fear need be felt of its breaking out elsewhere. A Savannah telegram of Saturday says: The latest ruilroad news is to the effect that the Savannah, Macon and Dublin road is now working to come by Savan nah early in 1892/ The officers of the road have been in correspondence with the Middle Georgia and Atlantic people for some time, and it is understood that they are desirious of making their way to Hutchinson’s island over the latter’s track. A dispatch of Saturday from Fresno, Cal., says: Gratton Dalton, the fugitive train robber, who escaped from Visalia jail last. September, was overtaken by officers in tbe mountains Friday and in a desperate fight one of the officers was killed and two of the robber gang were wounded. Dalton escaped unhurt. He was convicted of robbing the Sonthern Pacific at Alila, in Tulare county, last January. A Chattanooga dispatch of Sunday says: To-day the full extent of the de struction by fire was made apparent. The principal retail business houses of Chattanooga are in ruins. A terrible picture of devastation is seen. The fire district covers an area of 250 square feet. In all nineteen storerooms were destroyed, with several stores above them. The total loss will reach $650,000, with $500,000 insurance. Thursday night a large house six miles Irom Goldsboro, N. C., occupied by William Pearsall, suddenly burst into flames. By the time people reached it the house was in ruins. The skeletons of Pearsall, fcis wife and two children were found. It was evident that Pear sall was trying to save hi§ children, as their skeletons 1 were oh either side of his. There is considerable suspicion that the family was murdered and the house set on Are. George Rose and his son Sam, were tried at Murphy, N. C., Saturday before United States Commissioners Patterson and Henry on the charge of counterfeit ing and passing counterfeit money. Sam Rose was sent to jail. His father gave bond for his appearance at the United States court in Asheville. They have been counterfeiting dollars and nickels, and the counterfeits exhibited in court are the basest sort of imitations of the coin of the realm, being made from pew ter or metal. LESS COTTON. A Movement in Mississippi to Reduce Acreage. A meeting of planters, merchants, fac tors and others interested in the produc tion of cotton was held at Greenville, Miss., Wednesday. State Auditor W. W. Stone, one of the largest planters in the delta, called the meeting to orJer, and introduced the following resolutions, wnich, after fuii discussion, were unani mously adopted: Resolved, That we, the planters and cotton factors of Wa-hington county, recognizing the intense financial strain and absolute distress which now hangs like a pall over the cotton producing country, growing out of overproduction under the present management, and that in the future we see no hope for us as producers unless some radical remedial changes are made in the system now in vogue among the planters and merchants, to the end that less cotton be raised or the production be cheapened. DUN’S REVIEW for the Week Ended De* ceniber 24th. Business failures occurring throughout the country during the six days ended Dece’mbeV 24th, reported to R. G. Dun & Cos., number for the United States 257, and for Canada 35, a total of 292, as compared with a total of 335 last week and 320 the week previous to last. For the corresponding week of last year, the figures were 333, representing 303 failures in the United States and 30 in the Do minion of Canada. The holiday trade is not always a just measure of the prosperity of the people, out it is satisfactory to know that at most points unusually large this year. It indicates that the people feel able to cx >end more liberally than usual, and it qturns large outlays to the manufactu rers of holiday goods. The general trade this season is unusually light, the merchants being engaged in taking stock, but at many points it is reported larger than usual, and even larger than last year. The volume of trade measured by the Searings at the various cities, outside of New York, was 6 per cent more than last year for the first half of December, and later reports show an increase of about 9 per cent. The movement of products continues extraordinary. Reports from "cities other than New York i-how less complaint as to collections, and a large trade in progress. At Baltimore trade in sclathing, dry goods, and boots and shoes is good for the season. At Philadelphia, the jewelry trade is unusually busy, the grocery trade light, but equal to last year’s, Trade iu tea, coffee and sugar fairly active, and in chemicals quiet and steady; while tobacco, liquors and wool are quiet. Southern cities report less cheerfully than the others, the low price of cotton causing the dullness. The great indus tr.es close ihe year with more than the usual activity, even woolen mills having orders enough to keep them fairly em ployed, and a number have recently smarted, but none shut down. Cotton manufacturers find a good demand and numerous enlargements of plants are re ported. Shoe factor es are complain that the usual orders are lacking, and yet they are fairly active. Paper mills are busy and making many additions of machinery and buildings. Iron manufacturers have been turning out more pig than ever before, though some works stop for the holidays, and the tone of the market is stronger, with Tather more demand for finished products. Speculation continues moderate, wheat 4 bavins 1 risen 1J cents, with safes of 13,- 000,000 bushels, corn Vv *ying declined 1 cent, and oats a fraction. Coffee un changed, oil a cent higher, and pork un changed. COTTON STILL LOWER. Cotton has sixteenth below 8 cents, with receipts from the plan tations exceeding last yeaoj to date by 556,000 bales. The very'large output of coal leads operators to expect lower prices. Money is plenty and cheap, and there is a general feeling that tl e favorable conditions will continue for some months. THE VACANCIES STILL VACANT. No Appointments hy the President Yet for the Interstate Commission. A Washington dispatch says: There was some comment at the capitol Wednesday upon the failure of the pres ident to send to the senate for confirma tion the names of the persons to fill the vacancies in the interstate commerce commission. One of the originally ap pointed commissioners is dead, one has resigned, and Commissioner Morrison’s term of office will expire January Ist, before the senate reassembles. Owing to the peculiar phraseology of the creating act, the terms of the commissioners ex pire at the end of the period for which they are appointed, instead of continuing, as is usual, until the qualification of their suc cessors, so that when Commissioner Mor rison’s term of office ceases on January Ist, the commission will consist of but two members. Some fears hare been ex pressed that the commission will be se riously crippled and prevented from dis charging its full functions after the first of the year owing to this state of affairs, but it appears from a perusal of the act that that emergeucy is guarded against by a paragraph in section 11, providing that no vacancy in the commission shall impair the right of the remaining com missioners to exercise ull the powers of the commission. DECEIVED THE DIRECTORS And Made Way with SIOO,OOO of the Bank’s Money. A Raleigh di-patch of Wednesday gives further news of the flight of Cashier Ranscm M. Bowden, of the wrecked First National bank of W’iimington. The batik closed its doors the day before Thanksgiving, and Bowden fled that night. The reason for his flight is ex plained. He had for years deceived the bank examiner and directors by suppress ing the true state of affairs, and making it appear that the liabilities to the depositors were only $300,000, where as they are $400,000. Only $9,000 in cash was found in the bank when it clos ed. The available assests will give the depositors about 40 cents on the dollar, an i, with the assessment on the stock holders, will not enable over 60 to 75 cents on the dollar to be paid. The members of the Bowden family say that even they do not know his whereabouts. All his property has been seized. He was one of the leading church and Sun day-school workers in this city, and, it is believed, is now out of this count? f. HUNG TO TREES. The Fate of Bob SI ins and His Gang in Alabama. A dispatch of Thursday from Mobile, Ala , says: Three months ago Bob Sims, leader of the co religionists in Choctaw county, all in toe neighborhood of Wo mack Hill, vai arrested for running an illicit distillery, which he claimed he had divine authority to run. Two of his brothers, fellow believers, rescued him, killing a bystander and wounding a dep uty in charge. One of the brothers was killed. Sims and the other brother es caped, and have been hunted for vigor ously ever since. Wednesday night Bob Sims and his gang reappeared in Womack Hill and attacked the house of John McMillan, who has been a member of the pursuing posse. At 11 o’clock at night seven of the Sims gang, all armed with Winchesters, fired into McMillan’s house and shot the occupants as they ran out. Fluelleu Utzen was shot, but not mor tally wounded; John Kennedy, McMil lan's father-in-law, was killed; John McMillan was shot three times and will die; tbe twelve-year-old neice of Mc- Millan was killed; the ten-year-old ne phew was shot in the house and burned; Miss McKenzie Shorter, boarding at Mc- Millan’s, was shot twice in the neck; Ohailey Ritzev escaped unhurt. They then opened McMillan’s store and robbed it of what they wanted and left it lighted up and open, scatteiing shoes along the road. PURSUING THE OUTLAWS. After the slaugliteran alarm was spread and Sheriff D. O. Gavin and posse started in pursuit of the desperadoes. They were found and surrounded in Sim’s old home, six miles from the scene. Knowing that the cabin was provisioned with articles plundered from McMillan’s store, and also that Sims and his men would not surrender without a fight iu which the assaulting party would suffer severely, the sheriff telegraphed Governor Jones for a detachment of artillery, his purpose ■ being to overawe Sims by a display of force, or to blow the cabin to pieces. The governor ordered Colonel Price Wil liams, commanding the First regiment of —A - m S/\ A• y~v /\ n trt v/v/, nr\n • 1 ■—■ At. —3 —Amm l D Late i>i \j\j poj vvs luopwuu Willi a uctauu* ment and one piece of artillery. The troops left Mobile at a quarter of 8 o’clock Saturday morning, and reached Shubata, Miss., at 6 o’clock. At half past 9 o’clock, the soldiers were en route for the scene of action in Choctaw coun ty, Ala., twenty-one miles distant. In the meantime Sheriff Gavin on Christ mas morning sent to Bladen Springs for cannon. When Sims heard of this prep aration to blow his strong-hold to splin ters, he looked at his women folk aud his heait misgave him. He began to parley with the sheriff. At 2 o’clock he said he would surrender if the posse would do him no injury, and if the posse would protect him from mob violence. At first the proposal was flatly refused, but the fact that there were women in the house was a strong point in favor of mercy to the inmates, so that at last the terms of Sims were accepted. At 4:30 o’clock the outlaws laid uown their arms, and came out of the house. The posse were aston ished to see that, instead of seven des perate outlaws, there were only two men and a boy, as follows: Rffit. Sims, Thomas Savage and Young Savage, a nephew of Sims. Four women—Bob’s wife and three daughters—came out, also. The others were at once ironed and placed in a wagon. The women were placed in a second wagon and under guard. At 5 o’clock the procession started to Butler, the county seat of Choctaw county, al though it was feared that they would be mobbed on the way. As showing the temper of the people of Choctaw it is said that John Savage, who was arrested the day before Christmas on the charge of being a member of the Sims gang, was hanged to a tree at 10 o’clock the same night. THEY WERE LYNCHED. A later dispatch states that while the posse in charge of the Sims ’party were enroute to Butler Friday night a mob of Choctaw men overpowered the posse and haDged the three men—B6b Sims, Tom Savage and Young Savage. It is report ed that another of the Savage boys was hanged at the same Time. ' When the guard moved off with Sims and the three Savage men —for there were three of them, namely, Thomas Savage and two boys, sons of Con Savage —there remained behind the greater part of the posse that the sheriff hud attracted to the scene, and these immediately held a consultation, and, after debate, decided it would not do to permit the desper does one chance of escape. So they set out in pursuit. On the way they met Con Savage, another of the Simsites, and without any delay he was strung up to a tree. This is the man reported hanged on Christmas eve. Later the guard was overhauled, but made no re sistance. Sims and the other three were taken back to the tree upon which Con Savage had been hanged, and four ropes were quickly adjusted to the branches thereof. The nooses were quickly ad justed and the four desperadoes were launched into eternity. PLUMB’S WEALTH. The Dead Senator’s Private Estate at Least a Million. A dispatch of Thursday from Emporia, Kansas, says: Since the death of the late Senator Plumb there has been a great deal of speculation as to the dimensions of his private estate. Colvin Hood, bus iness associate of Mr. Plumb, and one of the executors cf the will, states that the estate, at a very conservative estimate, is valued at $1,000,000. In Favor of Annexation. At a public meeting held in Innorkin, Ont., Thursday night a resolution was carried favoring political union with the United States as a means of bringing prosperity to the people of Canada. NO 37. CHATTANOOGA BLAZE; Over Half a Million Dollars in Property Destroyed. "he most disastrous fire in Chatta nooga’s history occurred Saturday. D. B. Loveman & Co’s, great dry goods hous j, occupying three numbers on Market street nt the southeast corner of Eight, was discovered to be on fire while the clerks were at their luncheon on the third floor. The flames spread with astonish ing rapidi‘y, burning through the eleva tor shaft and stairway, cutting off the escape of about thirty female employes, who were rescued from windows with ex tension ladders of the fire department, aided by citizens. Two of the women jumped from windows and were some what injured, and a third was rescued in an almost suffocated condition. The ad joining buildings were soon aflame, the fire licking up over a half million dollars, in less than two hours. The fire began at 12:30 o’clock in the afternoon, and by I:3Q o’clock buildings on the north side of Eighth street were ablaze. The buildings burned on Mar ket street were: D. B. Loveman & Company, dry good®; T. C. Ervin & Company, dry goods; Christie & Com pany, dry goods; Chattanooga Library Association, Chamber of Commerce, Schwartz & Brother, boots and shoes; Silva & Abbott, chinaware (on Eighth street), Wesler & Manning, insurance; W. J. Alexander, broker; Charleston fast freight line; Great Southern Tea Company; Tennessee Missis sippi and Ohio River Transportation Company; R. F. Dix, barber: Martin & Ifonry, red estate; Rowles & Ritely, in surance; Mrs. Jane Weaver, milliner; Southern Bank and Trust Company; T. A. Roberts, jeweler; T. D. Charleton, ITowesewing machineagent; W. B Van Wagoer, drugs; Fourth National bank; P. 8. Griffith, real estate; C. C.. Ander son, real estate; Lucas & Peacock, insu rance; Harris, Thomson & Quinn, real estate. The total loss is about eight hundred thousand dollars with about five hundred and fifty thousand dollars insu lanoe. CHILEANS ARE SURPRISED That We Should Consider the Murder of a Few Sailors. A San Francisco dispatch of Wednes day says: Correspondence of the Asso ciated Press from Santiago, Chili, under date of November 21st, says the feeling against Americans is so strong that ever since the congressional party came into power a majority of the people are dis posed to regard the killing of the few American sailors as a very trifling affair, and express much surprise that the United States should have taken official notice of the matter. The reports of the intendente of Valparaiso say there were 2,000 men engaged in the “sailors’ ” fight. He gives this figure to show that the police were powerless to quell the disturbance. , Asa matter of fact there was not any where near half that number, and the police found ample opportunity to Btop the trouble. ... For some time following the attack there was a strong feeling among the crew of the Baltimore, and the men would have liked to send another party ashore better equipped. Of thirty six American tailors arrested at the time of the fight, not one had a weapon more formidable than sailors’ jack-knives. The correspondent says President Montt has given no special indication of any sympathy with the general ill feeliag in Chile against the United States. In a recent interview with an Associated Press correspondent, he expressed the hope that all dificultics would be settled amicably, as he did not believe the people of either nation desired trouble. He also expressed disap proval of the accusations and insinu tions made against the American minis ter by certain Chileans in the United States, professing to speak for the Chil ean government. - • . "A SIXTEENTH AMENDMENT. To the United States Constitution to be Submitted to Congress. A New York disp&t&h of Sunday says: The National League for the Protection of American Institutions has prepared an amendment to the constitution of the United States, which will be submitted to both houses of congress shortly after they resume their sessions. This amend ment, which, if adopted, will be the six teenth amendment reads as follows: No state shall pass any law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibit ing the full exercise thereof, or use to property or credit, or any money raised by .taxation, or authorize either to issue bonds for the purpose of furnishing, maintaining or aiding by appropriation, payment for services, expenses or other wise, any church, religious denomination or religious society, or any institution, society or undertaking, which is wholly, or in part, under sectarian or ecclesiasti cal control. The following states prohibit sectarian appropriations in their constitutions: California. Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Mis souri, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming— twenty-one states. FOR DEEP WATER. A. Petition to Congress Endorsing Sa vannah’s, Scheme. , The first movement in congress towards the appropriation of $3,000,000 to deepen Savannah harbor was made in the senate Wednesday. It came from Missouri, and was in the shape of several petitions of fered by Mr. Cockrell, from the board of trade and the Commercial Club at St. Joseph. They endorsed Savannah’s scheme, and petitioned congress to appro nriate the amount recommended. I