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THE ATLANTA ^CONSTITUTION,
VOL. XYil.
ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY MORNMQ. FEBRUARY 3 1885.
PRICE FIVE CENTS. 1
ROSSA SHOT.
iftn English Woman Wounds
^he Irish Dynamiter.
THE WOMAN ARREST
ED AND HELD,
While Rossa is Taken to tlie Hos
pital for Treatment.
TRACING THE ASSASSIN’S
MOVEMENTS.
Dow Hie News Was Received in England.
/above hi* head ail'd
K f.w York, February 2.—The assassination
of O’Donovan Kona, tho great dynamiter, by
a pretty English girl, has thrown the city in*
to such n whirl of excitement as was only
cclipsfdby the reverberation of tho pistol
nhot wfo which the life of Garfield went out.
1 herniation created by tho bloody assas
sination of Captain Thomas Phelan, and the
pistol dud which took placo between him and
hia assailant on tbo street, gavo the first evi
dence that the Irish conspirators on this side
meant that life should bo the forfeit of dis
loyalty to their cause. Tho well-
planned explosions of tho parliament
buildings and the tower of London was the
Signal that tho Irish meant to carry tho dyna
mite war into tho heart of the enemy’a country.
The excitement which first alarmed England,
, then the United Btates, and finally shook tho
civilized world, is now capped by n tragedy
in whicW young English woman—whether a
fanatic or tho avenger of a private grievance
yet remains to be established—stands over tho
prostrate body of O’Donovan Rossa with, a
snicking revolver in her hand.
The Story of the Crime.
Tho great dynamiter was standing in front
ot the Stewart building on Chambers street at
twelve’ minutes past fivo this afternoon,
when be was* approached by a handsome
young lady, dressed in plain*? clothes,
fibe wore spectacles, and bad tho appoaranca
ofar intellectual looking school-tcachcrT Sbo
drew a five-barrelled reyolycr fc<
cried:
“I’m shot!”
lie then fell heavily to the sidewalk. The
woman fired tho remaining bullets in her
pistol at tho prostrate man, and calmly and
unconcernedly walked olTwith tho empty re
volver in her hand.
FOLLOWED AMD AKRZSTED.
She was followed by a large crowd, while a
•till larger mob surrounded tho
wounded dynamiter. City Marshal James
McCauley, in the absence of a policeman,
saw the weapon in the woman’s hand, and
arrested her. She was conducted to tho Twen
ty-sixth precinct slationhouso in the city
hall. Her improvised gravity and coolness of
demeanor wero remarkable. Whon arraigned
at the sergeant’s desk, McCauley handed the
revolver, a small calibro five-shooter, to the
sergeant, and said he found the woman brand
ishing the weapon in the street. A citizen
who entered the police station with tbo pris
oner, said she bad just shot a man on Cham
bers street. •
“Do you know tho mnuT” asked Serjeant
Cots, turning to the womiu.
“Yes, I shot O’Donovau Rossa,” said tho
prisoner, with n slight English accent.
She looked very pretty, as sho stood at the
bar, and betrayed no excitement whatover.
She gave her name as Yeslct Dudley.
Further questioning by the sergeant at tho
police station elicited tho statement that tho
woman’s name was Yieulet Dudley, aged 25
• years; that she was a nurse and married, and
that she lived at No. CO Clinton place. She
was asked why she shot O’Donovan, how long
•lie had been in America, and other questions,
to which she made no answer. After her
“pedigree” had been taken, she was escorted
to tbc rear room, and the crowd slowly dis
persed. As thero were no accommodations for
fhe prisoners in the city hall station, Mrs.
Dudley was removed to Oak street station, at
7:15 p.m., and there placed in a cell. Her
entire demeanor was that of a rational person,
and a cool beaded one at that.
ROSSA TAKKX TO Till HOSPITAL.
Rossa, after being shot, was able to rise to
bis feet, and with the assistance of a man on
etch side, he walked to the Chambers street
hospital, about a quarter of a mile. There it
was found that only one ehot had struck him.
That was in the beck, and the bullet is lodged
L In the muscles about half an Inch above the
left shoulder blade. The wound will not cause
him much Inconvenience. Rossa was placed
on a cot in the same ward in wbleh Captain
Phelan lies, and within twenty-five feet of
Phelan, who was neatly cut to pieces in
Rotta’s office by Short.
Shortly after the surgical examination the
coroner was sent for and Rossa made his anti,
mortem statement, which ia as follows:
IXTEIGLXD BY TDK WOMEN.
Mr. O’Dcnovan Rossa msde the following
statement to Coroner Kennedy:
On Saturday, January Slit, about 4 p. m., I re
ceived a later at my office, No. 12 CHambers
street. The message was la writing, and was de
livered by a messenger boy. The note stated that
a lady wUhtd to set me , that she was Interested
in the Irish canse, and desired to assist it She
did not care to go to my room end remain waiting
there until I came. Sue only uked
tot ten mlsntes time. The boy told me the lady
was at the telegraph office lathe etc wart betid
ing, corner Brcadwsy and Chambers street. I
followed him, and I met her. I told her it would
be well to go to some hotel, as the telegraph office
was no placo to talk in. Wo came out and went
to Sweeney's hotel. Wo went into the ladles’ par
lor, and she said she would be able to give consld-
i rablo money if anything good was
done. She theu said she would
call Monday, February 2, at 4 o'clock. To-day she
set t another nemge to my office, and I went to
tko same telegraph office, and there I met the
lady. She showed me a paper which I was to sign.
She then suggested that we go to some place. We
walked down Chambers street toward Broadway,
and we got a short distance toward Broadway,
when the woman stepped back aid fired two or
three shots at me. One of the balls entered my
Lack. Jin* mi ah O’Donovan Rossa.
CAPTAIN PH EL AR’B (HUM SUILtC.
He was then moved to another ward.
Captain Phelan, who ia still guarded by a po
liceman, when informed of tho particulars of
the shooting, smiled grimly, but refused to say
anything on the subject. The offico of tho
hospital was visited by a large number ol
Roeea’s friends to-night. All of them were
deliberate looking tnen, and their talk bodes
no good to Rossa’s enemies.
MRS. DUDLEY A BRITISH SPY.
To a reporter who interviewed him to-night
Rotrn expressed tho opinion thut ho was tho
victim of a conspiracy by the Dritisb govern
ment ; that the woman was only a paid assas
sin.
Patrick Joyce, Rossa’s right-hand man,
expressed a similar opinion, accompanied with
many threats.
Mrs. Dudley discarded her glasses to-night,
and some of Rosia’s friends assert that they
were merely worn as a disguise. She refutes
to talk to any person.
The bullet struck Rossa below tho shoulder-
blade and ranged upward, and is lodged in
the muscles behind and above tho shoulder-
blade. Rossa is a large, muscular and flothy
man. The doctors soy no danger is to bo ap
prehended from tlio wound. Rossa is comfort
able to-night, and expresses conhdenco that
bo will recover. Ilis wife was soon at the hos
pital, where she remains.
MRS. DUDLEY'S ANTECEDENTS.
Mrs. Dudley, who shot Rossa, applied lor
admission, on January 22, nt Mrs. Leggett’s
house fof unemployed women, iu Clinton
place. Tho matron admitted her, whon sho
gave £2 reference a physician whom sho said
everybody knew, and then she added:
“I am a professional nurse, and a widow,
and desire to ntny here until I can securo en
gagement.”
In telling tho story of her acquaintance with
Mrs. Dudley, Matron Brown said:
She impressed me so very favorably that I told
her to remain In the house if she would room with
two othsr young ladies. This sho consented to do.
Her only*taggsKC was a valise, which she neuer un
packed, because, as sho ono day remarked,
sho might bo. called suddenly
to alter d some patient. 61io told me she had
been married and had two children, but that her
husband and children died abroad. Hor fathor,
sho once remarked, had been ongiged In tyio
Brltbh cavalry service.'. Bhebad acted as a trained
t : ..»Jnyd* them, though she showed them
to tome young ladies In tho house. She was in
accomplished woman,ami her manners and spesch
betokened a thorough-bred English woman ot
keen n ind and bright preceptlons, an intensely
patriotic llttlo lady, and sarcastic and cuttlug
when speaking of (nose who soemtobo at war
on tho people. She was extremely near
sighted. In telling me -of her*
work abroad, tbo ono day said
that she much more enjoyed hospital work abroad
than the nursing sne has been doing here,”
"What is thl history of her Movement* while
with you?” was asked of the mntron.
"She came here one week 'ago Thursday last.
Tuesday is our weekly pay dayrlhd sho paid her
board up to Inst Tuesday. On Tuesday »lje came
to me hurriedly, said sho had a case and was go-
lug. Hbc would take the latch-key, tor she
might desire to return. Hhe went, taking
a valise, and by tho way, I never knew of her hav
ing a pistol. Lost Thursday she returned, coming
iu in the pleasantest mood possible, and said her
patient died. Then she paid her board up to Tues
day, to-morrow. But about three o’clock this af
ternoon, she came to me and said sho
was going awsy again, might not
return, and if sho did not sho
would send for the valftc. I returned to her tho
more? for one day’s board, nnd she went away
between three and four o'clock this afternoon, and
reomed not unduly exc'tcd. Then this evening I
was shocked to hear that sho had shot at Rossa.”
• THE TOCXO LADIES TALK.
In tho parlor of Mrs. Leggett’s home,a bevy
of young ladies talked of Mrs. Dudley’s deed.
"She was almost crazy with excitement one
week ogo Sunday, when she read of the ex
plosions in London,” said one lady. "She
said America should give up Rossa to the
English, and then, on Sunday last, when she
heard of the explosions in Grand street, she
was again very much excited. She had a
number of copies of Korea's paper, and Sun
day, said she had nn interview with Rossa the
doy before, and said she had Roasa's
word for it that he could
*•* a ton of dynamite in New York, that she
heard him say he knew and was in league
with those who made it, end he didn’t care if
they stopped its exportation or its importa
tion.’’ Then she added, that “somebody
wonld get even with O’Donoven Rossa yet.”
1 never knew she had a pistol, but offered to
lend her mine.” The young woman conclu
ded by saying she believed Mrs. Dudley tem
porarily insane on the subject of dynamite as
used sgaiest her country.
HTILL FURTHER BEHIND THE RECORD.
The matron did not know who or where Dr.
Yhcmai or Thompson was, whom Mrs. Dud
ley had referred to, but investigation proved
sbe bad referred to Dr. Thomas at 294 Fifth
avenue. At his office it was learned that
about four months ago Mrs. Dudley had come
from Eugland in company with
a lady of Newark, >\ J. They
brought dipomss from foreign hospitals, and
Dr. Thomas had sent them both to Dr. Cham
bers, at Dr. Thomas’s private sanitarium, 593
Lexington aveune. Dr. Chambers was found
at this address, and in tha absence of Dr. Du-
belt, wbo*has charge of the institution for Dr.
The mas, stated that Mrs. Dudley and Miss
Chalmers fame to bim, not from Dr. Thomas
direct, but from the Rossevelt hospital,
where they have been employed. They were
employed on trial November 21 and showed
diplomas from the London hospitals. Dr.
Chambers was very favorably impressed with
Mrs. Dudley, bat she did not work harmo
niously with those iu tho sanitarium. At the
eud of ono month, without bciug discharged,
Mrs. Dudley left. A young nurse at the
sanitarium talked reluctantly. Sho had,
seen Mrs. Dudley’s certificate from
the Charing Cress hospital in London. Sho
did not regard Mrs. Dudley as light iu hor
head. Sho boasted almost constautly of hoc
cst child had been dead two years, never ro
ferred to her father or mother.
The superintendent J. R. Lathrop was seen
at 7 p. m.
Mrs. Dudley came there October' 7th and
leit November 19th.
Lathrop was not favorably impressed with
Mrs. Dudley. Her service wik not satisfae*:
tory. She had some ability as a nurse, but
was deficient inorder.Sho loft voluntarily, and,
from Roosevelt had gone over to Dr. Thomas’
sanitarium.
WHAT TI1E ENGLISH CONSUL THIHKS.
James Fierrepont Edwards, British consul j*
was found in his library at 41 E^t Third street.
He had heard of the shooting of Rossa by Mrs.
Dudley, but hod no details*. These being fur
nished, he asked “the condition ofr this
wretched man,” referring to Rossa. Being
told that he would probably recover, Edwgrds
ejaculated:
"Then ho will bocomo a grentor hero than
ever.”
Then he added: “It is unfortunate that he
should have bcon shot by au Englishwoman,
but I think tho i»oor lady must be demented
on the subject. Sho surely must bo demented.
I never have seen her, that I can recall, and
know nothing of her.”
RDSSa’s LIFE IX XKW YORK.
Jeremiah O’Donovan has been a conspicu
ous figure in Irish nntional affairs for years.
He added tho word “Rosrs,” which in the
Celtic tonguo means “Red,” to his namo after
reaching this country, nnd it is presumed he
did this to striko terror to perfidious Albion.
After being discharged from an English prison
he camo to this country with Thomas Francis
Bourkc, Dr. Denis Dowling Mulcnhey and John
Devoy, about 1809. Ho was engaged in u num
ber of enterprise* in New York, having boen
ticket agent for the trans-Atlantio line of
kteamers, and a hotel keeper. Ho ran for
stnto senator in the fourth senatorial
district against Wm. M. Tweed, and was
badly defeated. Ho opened a hotel on the
corner of Chatham Square and Mott street,
which, for ayrhile, did a good business, being
a great resort for Iriah nationalists. Custom
fell olf aher n time, aud Rossa was compelled
to shut up tho place. He subsequently found
ed the United Irishmen, a radical dynamito
organ, and of which sheet he was reputed ed
itor at the time ho was shot. Do is 53 years
old, but remarkably well preserved. Ho has
a wifo ami five children, and lives with hi?
family in his owu houso at 23 Dory street,
Brooklyn.
BURBA 8 Lit KIM NO QUIETLY.
physicians' bulletin, issued at 1 o'clock
. it money market have awakened to tho fact
I tax our bands arc against them quite as much a*
■raincf the aristocrats of the Old world. Edmunds
. iu this as iu other shady transaction*,
iiney.” •
Tho News tn England,
ix, February 3.—The first intelligence
fbcoting of Rossa was posted on the
newspaper bulletins and sent on tbo tickers to
nbilRr as a muse. She one. said hor youug.. MW clob * n,idnl 's ht - •>>“*• '!“•<*
- work, considering the five hours difference in
dime between New York and London. Tho
nows *|rc sd with wonderful rapidity through-
* it the city, and caused tho wildest excite-
it.s Ciowds of people surroundod the bul-
I’foards, and at almost overy corner there
i s rroup of men jubilantly discussing the
nt^dressing pedestrians who stopped to
, what the excitement was about were
“O’Donovnn has been shot.” Tho ro
te was invariably a cheer or somo other
isaion ot delight. Muny men became
almost frsntic in tbo exuberanco of their fool-
in£k. .Slfangcrs embraced each other effu
sively and shook hands with the fervor of life-
4onf friends. Then they would link arms and
squads to the bars of tho nearest hotels,
*h>g os they went, “Rous Is shot!”
Mnt.y thousands toasts wero drank to tho
ftcfiith and happiness of Mrs. Dudley, who is
lauded as a heroine.
. Ite* Daily Telegraph, commenting on tho
sfioeiln^f Rossa, says:
”I4\ -irid be Idle to pretend that there is tbc
smsltot sympathy for Rosm in England. He Is
not a bold patriot, willing to die in behalf of his
country, but has always been ready to cheer oth-,
era In the danger which ho himself avoids
From the beginning of his career thcro has never
been a speck of nobility, courago or patriotism In
bis conduct.”
The Telegraph congratulates Ireland upon
the fact that somo of her sons havo dcnouncod
the dynamite outrages, and calls upon Farnell
also to spenk.
t The Nows says:
• '.Though there is little sympathy with Rossa,
rtsiOnsble nun will deploro tho couno of shott
ing him as the porsiblo beginning of a series of
tfintpel rcpiiials which will uot be easily ended.
It Utmost Inevitable that Madame Ungues will
have Imitators."
cfHADWICK’S BANK ACCOUNT.
A specimen 1’leco of Massachusetts
Financiering.
Button, February 2.—Tho Pacific National
bsna’Jof Nantucket, was visited by Colonel
Nredhum, national bank oxaminor, last weak.
Uc found that Chadwick, tho lato cashier, had
wf stricted mono/ from tho bank to the extent
* but through tho nnsistanco ol
and /Menus had indemnified
Ho mado sovcral false entries,
Needham discovered, to e.ov«r
Lie deficiencies, nt tho tinio of tho directors’
examinations. He over-issuod thirty-eight
shares of stock, and pledged the
over-iffsued certificates for money borrowed.
The amount 1ms been paid aud tho certificate
was burned by his fathor, who paid the debt.
He wrote on the stock ot certificate book, from
which tho over-issuod certificate was taken,
“uncacd,” tbnt the ubsenco of the certificate
mighta»«.t occasion distrust. Chadwick’
tiro ittdeliteilncss on tlio island amounts to
•f fiO,( *), much of it due to people who can ill
,—A-., . , .
cJJw’* Vue- Dim
tion was generally favorable. Mrs. Bossa left
tho hospital for her homo at 11:30 p. m.
A QUEER WOMAN.
Newark, N. J., February 2.—Mrs. Dudley,
who shot RosSk, spent a week in a boarding
houso here, and during that timo acted so
strangely aud talked ao violently that tko
proprietor determined to get rid of her, and
told her be lmd no room for her, aud she
must seek other quarters. Sho loft on Mon
day following the dynamito explosions in
London. ’ The proprietor said sho talked
almost insanely on all sorts of subjects, and
he made up his mind to get rid of her.
uossa’h hate.
The story of O’Douovan Rossu’s hatred to
ward Kngland Is ono of great interest, and in
it must be sought the sting which has goaded
him on to such deeds of rovonge against tho
British government. He is tho son of a pro-
tcifant minister, and is himsolf a protectant.
During tho Ionian excitement of 18(1(1-7-8 ho
was the publisher of a paper iu Dublin called
“Tbo Irish People.” Ho naturally sympa
thized with his ohs people, and urged politi
cal organization to wrest Irish rights from
British power. For this act he was convicted
of treason nnd sentenced to silent servitude n
Portlsud prison for u term ot yeurs, and wm
confined in n col). Tho cruelties to which he
was submitted were of such a nature as to
make a madman. When his time bad expir
ed tbo iron of British cruelty had sunk deep
into his beort, and he went forth with a vow
registered that the yean spent in Fortlund
prison should bo avong«*l.
A U\ MAMIE MEETING.
^Tho Tiibirae this morning says:
O'bonovan Kona and others addressed the
DonisDeasy circle of the Irish Revolutionary
hiotherhocd here last night. Walker KlUott, on
tsklcg the chair, Mid:
"You all knew what ha* been done recently,and
I think yon aro satisfied with it. [Applause], f
know that I am. Wo don’t need
to lend material to the other side. It can be made
there.”
Hugh B. O'Relly, who was introduced as "a
young fen Ian from Ireland, not here very long,"
said:
"In the war between England and Ireland wc
have had the tlctory. You In your hearts know
perfectly well that any means to bring about the
amelioration of tbc condition of the Irish race are
Justifiable In the sight ol God and man."
Ike speaker continued In even a mors violent
ttialn.
thm Opinions ol Uer Work.
NF. HEARS WITH SOEHOW THAT THE. LOVDOS FOLIC’S-
MEM ARE CONVALESCENT.
"We have all heard, with unspeakable joy,"
said "Comrade" Moat last night, to some three
hundred members of the Internationales Arbelter
Vc-rcin In their hall on Bond street, "the
noise caused by the dynamite explosions
In London by which Westminster hall,
England’s parllsmcntsy brothel, and
the tower, the national junkshop. were dam-
stcd-onfortonateiy not entirely blown to pier ~.
It is any mournful only to announce to-night that
the two policeman, who at first It was generally
coo tide-ri d bad been "removed" are now pro-
Donnccd couvalocenL” (General groans for the
"JVhaTolten been asked and never answered,
in the lsst few days," continue I the speeder,
"what ts the meaning of the Kdmunds anti-
dynamite kill introduced into the aenate? I will
t e the first te answer this question. It Is aa auda
cious attempt to annul the glorious constitu
tion, drafted by the fathers, string to every one
* now, I prefer concussion to any other
Lend above all things ia the Immediate
f ol some well fed monarch* or their oat*
The bill means that at last Urn monarch*
THE PUBLIC DEBT.
Tlio Decrease for January Nearly Ten
Million Dollars.
Warihxoton, February 2.—The debt atato-
ment totted to day shows tho docrosse of the
public debt during the month of January to
bo (0,420,OKI.
I>t( n ose of the debt since January 39,
1**4 8 40,921,§10
rrnli in txasnry 4001840,801
Gold certificates outstanding
silver certificates outstanding., 14I.1M.701
reitlfUatcsof deprftit outstanding 30,130.000
Refunding certificates outstanding.... 2Yi,«m
legal tenders outstanding 391,081,010
Fractional currency outNtnndlug (not
inclmtlnff amount estimated as lost
or destroyed d,909,00*
A Move Agntnat Jay Gould,
St. Lodx, February 2.—A bill inequity wa*
filed in the United States district court by tho
Iron Mountain railway company against tho
receivers of tho Wabash road, te nullify the
indorsement of the company on all the Wabash
bonds and noUs, and to remove Jay Gould,
Solon Humphreys, Russell Hag# and F. M.
Ames from the directory o! tho Iron Mountain
railroad, aa tney are also In direction of the
Missouri Facifio road, a competing lroe.
A Woman at the liar.
Warhixgtox, February 2.—Mrs. Laura l>o-
Force Gordon, of Colorado, was admitted to
the bar of the United States supremo court
this afternoon. Mrs. Gordon is the second
woman allowed to practice before this court,
the first being Mrs, Belva Lockwood,,who htt
ergm-d only one esse hero since her admission
to the bar In March, 1879.
A CRANK IN THE PULPIT
CABINET-MAKING.
A Slate WMch Gives the Treasury to Osrlaod, the
LewOtnoeto Merrtok.and Other Positions to
Viles and Hewttt-Booms Engaged
for tho Preside nt-cleot-£te.
Washixotox, February 2.—[Special.]—Mr.
Carlisle camo back from Albany with a smil
ing countenanco and a very hcarso voice. The
latter ho attributed to a cold caught in trav
eling, and not to his long consultation with
the president-elect. Mr. Carlisle will say
nothing concerning the object of his visit, or
what occurred while ho was at Albany. He
wa» forcibly impressed, ho says, with the
prcsident-olect, nnd regards him as an extra
ordinary man. He; pronounces as simply
absurd tho story that Cleveland expressed to
him his disapprobation of the conduct of any
element in the democratic party.
TBK FKRRUAItV HLATK.
If Cnrlislo put iu a good word for any aspi-
rant for cabinet honors it was probably Gar
land. There havo been suggestions of Richard
Merrick's fitness for tlio cabinet eversinco tho
election, but recently they havo been made
frequent, sad there are signs of systematic
support of bis claims by friends in aud out of
congress. 1 hear, to-night, of a new slate,
which puts Garland In the treasury nnd makes
Morrick attorney-general. Merrick stands at
the head of the bar in this city. He was load
ing counsel for Tilden before the electoral com
mission, and managed tho prosecution of tho
star routo cates. W. W. Corcoran is one of
his most ardent supporters for tho cabinet.
RUI'I'OHKD TO COME FROM CLRVBI.ANO.
A special to the Evening Star from Albnuy
saja: It is said by those who pretend to know
that next week Mr. Cleveland will tendof
cabinet positions to Merrick, of Washington
City; Vilas, of Wisconsin; Howitt, of Now
York, and Garland, of Arkansas. Tho frionds
of Jonas, of Louisiana, express great confi
dence iu hia appointment as postmaster-gen
eral.
Senator Gorman, who Is now with Clove-
land, will advise this appointment.
UK WILL FAY AH HR flOKS.
The squabklo among tbo Washington hotels
for I ho honor of cutertnining the president
elect was settled to-day by a tologram from
Colonel Lamont, engaging a suito of rooms at
tho Arlington, to bo ready on Murch 2d, for
tho prcsident-olcct and his sisters. Cleveland
will pay as ho goes, having declined all ten
ders of hospitality, cvcu thoio from sovorul
wealthy citizens, who expressed a dosiro to
entertain him.
Tho judiciary rnj-oQ^tce of tho senate mot
to-Jny, hut dirt now-'consider Speor’a noiuina-
nntiou. It will not bo taken up ag*in until
Senator Browu’s return. F, H. K.
THE INTEH-STATE BILL.
Who Calls for the Routing ol God's Mas*
mlesand the {Jaeens Opponents.
Toeoxto, February 2.—Rev. D. J. McDon-
oll, during the servico in Ht. Andrew’s church
yesterday morning, created a sensation by al
luding to tho battle of Bhebacas wells, and re
lating the incident of the chargo of the guards
men to get water for tlio fighting men of tbo
square, who were dying of thirst.
"Thank God,” said the revernedfeenUetnan,”
that such men lived who would die for
their Queen and country and for their fellow-
men.”
As the minister with flashing eye. celled on
the God of battles to protect the British sol
diers, who were fighting the cause of th- right
eous, the organ pealed out God Save the (Juecn,
and the congregation, who were greatly mov
ed, joined in singing the old hymn. Before
singing the second vena MacDonell
a-ked the congregation to use word* “deviliih
tricks” instead of “knavish tricks,” to express
their contempt for the misguided men who
were taerifieiug Uvea and property by dyna
mite.
Tbc whole service wee very stirring and
will not soon Lc forgotten by those present.
NEOROES GAIN DAMAGES.
Tbrtn Colored Woman Kseludod From
* Equal Privileges. *
Baltixocx, February 2.- Judge Morris, In
the UniUdelates district court to-day, render
ed hi* decision in the ease of Martha Stewart
and three others, colored, against the Balti
more, Cbsseetiuake end Richmond steamboat
company. The libellants purchased first-
cists passenger tickets on the steamboat Hue,
after raving been told they would not be a I-
mitud into the sleeping apartment occupied
by the white fomalee. Thus suit wat brought
to recover five hundred dollars damages each
for exclusion from that apartment. Judge
Morris said it was the right of cornmin
carriers of passengers to make
regulations for the separation of
different eltrsee of peaoengtrs, but they have
no right to moko any difference in Abe comfort
and convenience of those who pay equal fare.
The forward eabin assigned to the colored fe
males was net in as comfortable a condition aa
that assigned to the white fomalee, and he
therefore awarded a decree of one hundred
dollars to each of tbc libellants. Notice of ap
peal was given.
The Bennte to htt i'o.day Until is Vote fe
Reached.
•v Waihikotox, February 2.—The efcife; lahl
bc/ore tho senate tho crcdonlials of John C.
Spooner, elected United Slatee sonatorfrom
Wisconsin, for six years from Maroh next;
also the credentials of tbo ro-election of Sena
tor Vest, of Missouri; and also a message from
the president informing congress that tho gov
ernment of Corea desired the sorvicoj of one or
moro American military officers as instructors
I for the tinny of Corea, and recommending the
1 passago by congress, of a concurrent resolu
tion, authorizing tho president to comply with
the desire expressed; also tho president's ines-
sogo relating to the “Alert,” recommending
its return to the British government.
Tlio senate took up tho Pacific railroad bill.
A few verbal change* were mado in it, and it
then by agreement went over till Wednesday
next.
On motion of Mr. Dolpb tho senate then took
up the bill to repeal the pre-emption and tim
ber culture laws. After tonic discussion by
Mcasrs. Dolpb, Morgan and Cockrell, the bill
woe displaced by tlio intor»tato commerce bill,
the consideration of which was resumed.
Mr. Collum said he hoped the bill would bo
eciiipletcd to-day. If uot ho would ask the
senate to remoiu in session to-morrow until it
was diaposed of, and would interpret a de
clination of the senato so to remain iu aession
to-morrow as au evidence of an iutcution not
to do anything at ail on tho subject.
Mr. Beck moved to amend tips so aa to pro
hibit charging moro for transportation
“any distance Ten than tho whole lougth of
tho line than is charged fur similar service
over the whole length of tlio line.” To tliia
amendment several others followed. Amid a
ng"~debate all were voted down, except one
by M?* Piumn, on which a vote was not
n ecked. It was to amend Mr. Beck’s amend
ment $o m to make it apply only to cases in
volving “similar circumstances.”
After speeches by Messrs. Ifarrison and
Mahone. a vote wns taken on Mr. Beck's
amendment to strike out from the bouse bill
the provision relating to equal facilities sad
accommodations of passengers.
The senate, by a vote of 22 to 33, refused to
strikeout the cluuse. The bill provides that a
railrcnd shall not charge more for a shorter
haul than for a longer haul that includes the
shorter.
Mr. Hberman, iu moving that the senato
proceed to the consideration of tho executive
business, said he would to-morrow support
Mr. Cullom's proposition that the senate set
continuously until the bill shall be com
pleted.
Without action on Mr. Plumb’s amendment,
the senate, at 5:35 p. m., went into executive
session, and when at 5:45 p. ni., the doors
wero re-opened, the senate adjourned.
DEADLOCK IN THE H0U8B.
An Attempt to Force the Bankrupt Hill—
A Motion to Adjourn Lost.
Wabsixotoy, February 2.—In the house, In
the call of states, a number of bills were in
troduced and referred.
Mr. Randall called up the resolution pro
viding that during the remainder of the see-
aion, 30 tninufoa every morning ahall be de
voted to the consideration of measures exiled
up by individual members, If there are not
fivo objections made thereto, provided that
while this order is in foreo, the speaker shall
not entertain a request for unanimous consent
at any other time. After several apiendinente
bad been offered and defeated, tha previous
question was ordered, 192 to 08, upon Ran-
(tail's motion.
The time was than extended to one hour
instead of thirty minutes, as specified in tha
resolution. At this point, and before the final
action was taken on the resolution, Mr. Col
lins, of Massschnsetts, moved that tha house
taka a n-cesa until 11 o’clock to-morrow. This
wen dnm (for purpose of continuing the legis
lative day of Monday, In order that an oppor
tunity may be bad to mova tha passage of tha
bankrupt bill under a suspension of tha rules.
Mr. Thompson, of Kentucky, interposed a
motion to adjourn. Lost—yea* 183, nays 157.
Mr. Moulton, of Illinois, then made some
filibustering motion, on which the roll was
called.
A yea and nay vote wa* ordered at f:20 oa
tbc motion of Mr. Blount, of Georgia, to ad
journ.
Before it was taken, Mr. Iliscock, of New
York, asked of Mr. Collins, of Massachusetts:
“What mu we accomplish? You know it is
not possible to accomplish anything.”
Mr. Collins returned: “All thiogs are pos
sible in a sensible assembly.”
Thus passed another hour, and then Mr.
Springer, of Illinois, rose and said that early
in the day he had yielded his right to call up
a bill of local importance, and that he now
hoped tbafunanimous consent would be given
to have it passed. ^
Mr. White, of Kentucky, objected.
A roll cell followed, roll call In monotonous
succession until 9:20, tbo friends of the bank
ruptcy bill being fn tho majority, ranging
from two to six, and voting down every mo
tion to adjourn. The attendanco'of mom hors,
which at the beginuing ot tho strugglo was
large, aggregating about 250, gradually
dwindled away until at 9:30 there was but half
that number present.
t At midnight the house is still in session,
with no probability of adjournment. The
time is mostly occupied with roll calls.
F1TZJOHN PORTER.
The President Transmits Ills Appent to
Congress.
Wahhixotox, February 2.—In response to
(lie house resolution, offered by Representa
tive Slocum, tbo presidout to-day transmitted
to congress the rceent appeal of Fitzjohn Por
ter to him in hia own behalf. Mr. Portersays
in port:
si long as I am excluded from tho profession ia
CUquallfled mo fiom restoration to tho armv.
I 1 . ,n f P® w ®r *° terminate
further force of this continuing sentence, by ap
pointing and nominating me to the senate for
rrstoratlon to the army, for which I am mado
eligible by tho action you bare already voluntarily
taken. The law provide* (or just auch cues at
mine nnd there aro many precedents with which I
need not troublo you In this appeal. You had ob
jections to tbo special course of action pnweribod
In tho vetoed Mil. If you continue to adhere te
tho views expressed In your message, may 1 not
indulge tho hope that under the general act of ISM
you will, In tho exerciso of your constitutional
power, reappoint and noinluate me to the flr*t
va<aury which may exist, or may now exist. If,
however, you believe that this course Is not with
in your power. I respectfully ask you, by a special
mosngc, to refer n»y caso to congress, with the
suggestion that the recommendation of the advls-
oiy board be carried out by such action oa, in tholr
wisdom, shall scorn proper and just. This appo.il
to you is prompted by a deep reuse of tho wrong
end Injustice done mo, aud of my right to receive
tho utmost measure of vindication that caa be
scroided to ino. I have mado iny appeal
for redress continuously, from time t*
timo iu every form that seemed open to mo, and
1 niw adopt this as tho only one In which lean
present It nt the presout time. I consequence uijr
appeal for Justice and tho righteousness of iny
caso Is respectfully but earnestly mado to you, te
tnko Mich action as can now bo had for tho pur-
poso of restoring mo to a position ol which I
wen so unjustly and cruelly deprived."
DEATH OF A CRANK
XI ho Served In Savernl Warn nnd Political
Catnpnlgus.
Krattlkkobo, Vt., February 2.—General
John W. I'hclps, of Guilford, was found dead
in bed this morning by a neighbor, his family
being nbsont on n visit. Genoral Phelpi
served in tho Florida and Mexican wars, and
was promoted to a captaincy for his gallantry
in battle, a position which ho declined. Dr
1801 he was colonel of tho First Vermont reii-
mriit, nnd was soon after brevitted, brigadinr
f tnci sl. Later he was with Goneral Bailor
n the department of the gulf, and while sta
tioned at Shin Island, ho issued
his famous emancipation proclamation to tho
negroes, for which lie was proclaimed «an out
law by tho confederate government. His proc
lamation was also unfavorably received by tho
war department, which led to his resignation.
Since that timo Phelps has resided in Brattle,
boro, until within a low months, whon ho re
moved to Guilford, lie was anti-Mssonio
candidate for prcsldont in 1880. He has long
been n contributor to tho Century and other
niagazinop.
A MORMON PRO TEST*
In Which President Taylor Cries Out
Agalnat Persecution,
* Salt Lakx, Utah, February 2.—Presi
dent Jhn Taylor spoke in tha
Tabernacle church yesterday. He re
ferred to ids recent trip, and said^tliak
the mints were being persecuted in Arisons,
and sent to the Amuriean Siberia for living
up to their religion. Ho spoke of tho federal
officers here as suruks nnd tramps, intruding
with processes from courts into tho homes or
the people. This was hard
to bear. and forbearanco might
cease to be a virtue. He said tha saints
would havo te stand It a little longer. He did
not want blood to flow, but there would bo a
change before long. These persecutions were
making somo of the saints think of going te a
foreign country to pursue their religious lib
erty. There might be another pilgrim's day.
He said the saints wore illegally punished at
home end killed in tbe southern slates, and
no one was punished for the murdering of
missionaries.
THE FIRE RECORD.
A Michigan Town Completely Wiped Out.
Tbe Damage Estimated at 1950,000.
Maicoxkttk, Mich., February 2.—Tho firri.
[Nationnl bank building, tbe nneet_atru fturu
in
CliV'l
stray eoMH
1:45 a. tn.. the bank building was totally de
stroyed with all its contents. The greatest c x •
icitemcnt prevails. Efforts are concentrated
on saving the adjoining building.
Tbe losses will be about as follows: Bond
ing 2150,COOi Newbcrger $40,000; B. Kaufman
A Son $30,000; Rothschild St Bending f20,0o<»;
First National bank $10,000; Champion h >r»
company. J. K. Pallets. Dr. 11. W, Ranks, M.
H. Maynard, W. V. Healey. Unite ! State*
signal service office, and W. W. Manning, lorn
all their hooka and offiea fixture*. Threo val
uable law libraries were destroyed. The total
ftoM will reach over $250,010.
HENDRICKS'S TRIP SOUTH.
Tbe Vice President-Elect Going to Mew
Orlenris. *" *t
BiRMixoHAM, Ala., Fctenary X-(8pectal.l-Vloe
President Hendricks will stop over In tht*
city Thursday, on bis trip to New Orleans.
Arrangements are being made te give hint
a warm welcome.
THE STATE LEGISLATURES.
Tbe Illinois Aieemhlymnn Not Sick—The
Echoes From the States.
Chicago, February 2.—It ie stated to-day
that notwithstanding the report to the contrary
Saturday night, Assemblyman Bracklenboof
is not seriously ill. He la quoted as saying
that he txpeete te be on hand at Springfield
whenever the senatorial election takes plsee.
Free Porte Declared.
Washington, February 2.-The president has
Issued a proclamation directing that the collection
ol tonnage tax shall be suspended as regards all
* ‘ United States
.lUrfo. C'.mln-
Juan and Muy-n
gura, In tbe island ol rom kico; from the port*
of panama and Atplawali, or from (orts la the
la!aod of Manserry.