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THE SPEAKERSHIP.
GARFIKXO VS. BAXDAL
rAFKABD * CAME FATALLY DEFEC
TIVE"
Uphill Work for the Commis
sion.
PACKARD STUBBORN.
TBI YEW YOIIK TIMES FF.AKSHF.
WIIX FIGHT.
Washington, April B.—The Repub
licans are centering on Garfield for
Speaker, and they have slignt hope
that the Texas and Paciflo influence
may elect him. Randall is most
prominent among the Democratic
contestants.
The President and family have
gone on a days excursion to the
great falls of the Potomac.
There are several gentlemen here
with a few thousand spare dollars,
talking seriously of putting them in
South Carolina.
Specials from New Orleans to
Northern papers represent the
Nicholls’ showing before the Com
mission as fatally superior to Pack
ard’s in yesterday’s proceedings. It
is thought the inevitable result will
be reached much earlier than was
expected. Packard himself has
forced the fighting to bis own dis
co mUtaro.
Washington, Iprii 7. Hulburte
Payne declines the Assistant Secre
taryship of the Interior.
Ex-Governor Gilbert C. Walker, of
Virginia, is becoming prominent for
Speaker. His friends claim for him
sixty pledged votes.
The charges against the Secretary
of Btate, Seward, made while he was
Minister at Pekin, are officially pro
nounced unfounded by the Consul
General of the United States at
Shanghai.
Attorney General Devens bas issued
instructions to his subordinates
throughout the oountry to curtail
their expenses.
The Times has the following edito
rial:
The Louisiana commissioners have
entered upon their task of concilia
tion and compromise, and already
begun to find it up-hill work.
Gov. Packard exhibits a disposi
tion as far removed from com
promise as could well be Im
agined, and will hear no proposi
tions whatever which do not proceed
upoa the assumption that he is tfie
legally elected Executive of the State.
If the Commission can point out a
flaw in his title, he is willing to have
the Legislature reconvened in order
to reoanvass the vote, but not other
wise. If the United States troops
are removed Packard proposes to test
his ability to keep his place by force
of arms, and he happens to be a man
who in a matter of this kind can be
trusted to keep his word.
As it is equally certain that the
President will leave all contestants
to themselves as soon as all possible
means of bringing about a settle
ment have been exhausted, the dan
gers of civil conflict in Louisiana are
by no means at an end. That consid
eratoin will lead the country to re
gard the labors of the Commission
with some additional solicitude.
The Commission at Slew Orleans.
New Orleans, April 7.—The Com
mission, after visiting the Cotton Ex
change, spent an hour with Packard,
who explained the situation, and
said that if recognized by the Presi
dent and reinstated in possession of
the court buildings, arsenals and
arms of which he contended that be
had been illegally despoiled, and
accorded the moral support of the
National Government, he could sus
tain himself without the interven
tion of the United States troops.
The commission organized—Law
rence chairman; Hawley Secretary.
■I telegraphic nummary.
Memphis-L. H. Coe, charged with
killing Beach, released on $25,(100
bail; Cleveland, his clerk, as acces
sory, in $5,000.
New Haven— Charles Wilson, from
Texas, was killed in attempting to
escape from the polioe.
snip wi.
New York, April 7,—Arrived out: Nor
ton. Schiller, Scurnakerr, Dakota, Lake
Nepigon.
THE EASTERN QUESTION.
Reported Peremptory Remand by
Bula.
Vienna, April 7.-News from Con
stantinople—that Russia had ad
dressed a demand to the Porte for a
categorical answer-Is startling; bur
It comes from several sides, aud can
not be altogether unfounded.
London, April 7.— The Times cor.
respondent at Pera telegraphs:
There are men in high places here
for whom peace has as many terms
os war, w.ho think the protocol should
be resisted as an injury. Indeed
soma members of the old Turkish
party declare that na Russia is so
afraid to fight, Turkey should seek
a quarrel and go to war, regardless
of consequences.
The Times prints the following in a
leading article: Our Government
has not passed the bounds of Consti
tutional right In its expression of
opinion , or its engagements in regard
to Turkey, but Russia receives all she
asks for, and probably more than she
expected. This is also the feeling at
Vienna. Our correspondent report
ing the feeling there says: “Mild as
the language, of the protocol is, it
contain* a full and equivalent accep
tance by all tHe powers M the Rus
sian views concerning the interna
tional position of Turkey. Although
the protocol does not even mention
the treaty of Paris, the principles of
the independence of Turkey and non
intervention in her internal affairs
are virtually abrogated.
The Times continues: Lord Derby’s
declaration defers deliberation on the
common action of the Powers, but it
does not affect the principles con
tained in the protocol, in the least.
We have a right to say tho Powers,
.and particularly England, have not
been wanting in good will towards
Russia. We hope the Russian Gov
ernment will show it knows how to
regard the spirit in which it has beeD
met, and it may seem useless to ap
peal to a military power relative to a
decision which, iu all probability, it
has already taken; but if uncertainty
still lingers in the Czar’s counsels, he
may be influenced by the fact that
the protocol is recognized as an hon
orable attempt to satisfy Russian
susceptibility, aud is justifying dis
armament. Until the announcement
is made, we have the right to consid
er it uncertain, and glfe Our readers
the best means 6f divining the restllt
of the first condition proposed
by Russia, namely, peace with Mon
tenegro, is beset by new difficulties.
We have nothing as yet to encourage
us to believe that the second condi
tion, that the Porte should replace
its army on a peace footing and send
an envoy to St. Petersburg to treat
of disarmament, has been accepted.
The Tarklsh parliament, to whom it
is said both conditions will be refer
red, is no. doubt subject to tbe gov
ernment, but the yery delegation of
the decision by the Porto to the pop
ular assembly seems unfavorable
to a policy pf concession.
A Tobacco swindler, Gc.
Richmond, April 7.-A "man repre
senting himself as one of the Hern
sheiin Brothers, a large tobacco firm
of New Orleans, has been playing a
lively confidence game on a number
of the leading tobacco manufacturers
of this city, by obtaining money
through power of misrepresentations,
apd giving large orders for tobacco.
He remained in Richmond three
days, and bis swindling operations
were : not discovered until he had
gone. He has been traced to Dan
ville, where he is reported to have
gone Southward. A telegram from
New Orleans states that no member
of the firm is in Virginia, nor is any
authorized to make purchases for
them.
James E. Good, Job Printer, doing
the State work, has been fined five
hundred dollars and sentenced-to jail
nine months, for shooting W. E.
Jones, a rival bidder for the Public
Printing, about two weeks since, in
an altercation resulting from investi
gation by a legislative committee, in
to alleged frauds in the manner of
making bids for the work.
WEATHER INDICATIONS.
War Department, |
Office op Chief Sional Officer, >
Washington, April 7, 1877, )
Eor South Atlantic States, during
Sunday, northeast to southeast winds,
with falling barometer, slight
changes in temperature, cloudy
weather and rain.
Gnriu Land, Immigration and
Navigation Company—Jleetlnff Yester
day.
TbePe was a meeting ol the commis
sioners named by the legislature for tire
organization of this company held at the
Slate House Tuesday. A majority of said
commissioners were present and after or
ganizing, by the election of _a chairman
and secretary, the meeting adjourned to
meet on Wednesday. At aiue a. in., the
meeting was again called to order by the
Hon. David E. Butler, ami a report called
for from the commisaioners. It was
found that the ri quisite amount of stock,
viz, $20,1)00 had been subscribed, and
thereupon the stockholders were called to
gether and the charter ana books of sub
scription turned over to them. A prelim-'
inary organization having been held, Hon.
D. E. Sutler was unanimously elected
president, and the following named gen
tlemen chosen directors: E. T. Paine, B.
W. Frobel, D. E Butler, J. B Jones, Ptf
rino Brown, C. H. Ketner, C. H. Olm
stead, T. J. Smith, Wm. P. Price, Lyman
COLUMBUS, GA., SNUDAY MORNING, APRIL 8, 1877.
Bridges, Russ P. Johnson, J. H. Fannin,
and the organization of the company was
completed by the udoption of rules and
by-laws. ’ I •- ' t
After tho adjournment of the stockhold
ers meeting, the board of directors was
called together, and the following officers
elected, which with the president are as
follows:
Hon. David E. Bailor, President.
Capt. E. T. Paine, Secretary.
Judge Perritio Brown,Treasurer.
Col. B. W: Frobel, General agent and
engineer.
The object of this company is to secure
the sale and settlement of the vast tracts
of waste lands iu this state, and to intro
duce thrifty and industrious immigrants
for this purpose. It is a highly important
move, and thejcharacter and high standing
of tbe gentleman who compose the board
of management give best, ussuranoe that
it will be well managed. The effort has
our hearty approval- Atlanta Conktitu
lion, 6th.
Tlie Du hr* of England.
There are but eleven Dukes of England
properly so-called—that is, Dukes sitting
in the House of Lords as such, and de
riving their titles from the creations be
fore the union with Scotland, The Duke
ol Norfolk is the first pf these, and the
Duke of Rutland the last in order ofnre
cedence. The patent of the latter as Duke
bears date, March 29, 1708. There are
also Dukes of Great Britain aud of the
United Kingdom, as well as of Scotland
and Ireland; but those of the two sister
Kingdoms sit by inferior titles among
their peers, and all the Dukes not of
England take precedence among each
oilier by somewhat intricate rules of pre
cedence, into which it is not worth while
to enter. The Dukedoms are twenty-,
eight in all, exclusive of those held by
Princes of the blood-royal. The honor
has been vefy sparingly bestowed in late
years. The last conferred by George 111.
was that of Northumberland, the Kiug re
fusing to make any more creations except
in favor of his own descedants. The
Prince Regent made Li*d* Wellington a
Duke, and, alter his accession to the
throne, raised Lord Buckingham to tbe
same dignify. William IV. made two
more, and Her Majesty added an equal
number of the list.
L ~.■*'
How a City Absconded.
Baxter Springs, a small place in
South-eastern Kansas, has few people
but great expectations. People were
to come to it in thousands, and the
citizens wanted their "metropolis”
fitted up in a manner worthy its fu
ture importance. But there waseven
less money in the place than people.
HoweYer, some “benevolent, public
spirited” capitalists werefound ready
to advance money, and for a year in
dulged themselves in genuine muni
cipal extravagance. The feast was
ready, but tbe expected thou
sands failed to appear. Meanwhile,
the interest had to be paid, for the
much- praised, “publid - spirited”
capitalists would have mouey.
Another'Vear and the interest was
unpaid, and there was no money in
the Treasury. The bondholders
brought suit and obtained judgment,
but Baxter Springs appealed. These
rapacious robbers must be foiled at
any cost. A happy thought came.
The citizens were not individually
responsible except' while they con
tinued residents of Baxter Springs.
So they seleoted a convenient site
just outside of the city limits, moved
their personal effects and what
buildings they could, and migrated
iu a body. Baxter Springs remains
a deserted city, and the first one to
become a runaway debtor .—Nashville
American.
A GOOD WORK FOK THE PLPH
HER).
From the Detroit Free Press.l
The plumber is an abused man. All win
ter long the papers have been flinging at
him and maligning him, and yet when
the real facts are brought to light, the
plumber stands forth as free from guile
as any living man. Yesterday when a
Detroit plumber was asked to" contribute
the money for the proposed river tunnul,
he repudiated the idea that he was evcu
able to subscribe a tenth of the sum.
“Bat last winter was a tough one—
busted —ftve pounds of solder to a pin—
hole leak—jobs on the slate three days
in advance—collections sharp—weather
right in your favor all the time.’’
“Yes; but I didn’t make anything.”
“They guv you bought a trotting horse.,’
“Ob, that’s nothing. If I was in some
other business I could buy two.”
“You wear diamands.”
“Yes; but diamonds are very cheap—
very cheap.”
“You carry a gold headed cane
around.”
“Danes are way down in price—a drag
in the market.”
"How about that house with the man
sard roof?”
“That? Oh, my] mother-in-law deeded
us that”
“And yonr silver plate?”
“Had that with my other wife.”
“And those Vacant lots on the Cass
farm?”
“1 traded an old horse for them twen
ty years ago."
“And you haven’t really made any
thing for a year?”
“Scarcely anything—hardly a dollar.
The papers have lied outrageously. I
don’t believe we have had over 18,000
cases of busted water-pipe since last No
vember, and when you come to figure up
materials, labor, rent and losses it leaves
me in debt. 1 want to sell out and go
to making chairs. There’s where you can
make some money- use poor glue, paint
over yonr pine to resemble rosewood —
work putty into the joints and keep the
curtains down when selling to a customer.
Don’t talk of profits in business, sir.
Why, Lam now half dead for the want of
a five cent cigar.
Winter Yonr Cw>.
Xam prepred to take care of Cows for
the winter, on a good cane Pasture, and
plenty of Hay. Ap-iy at Times office.
novas tf a M. Bryan.
Love At Wilson s
celebrated Belts will ure chills, correct
deranged nervous systems, strengthen
the appetite, and actively aid in restoring
mpaired health. For sale at
agjrliO tf M. D. Hood A Co.’s.
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A STORY OF CIRCUMSTANCIAL EVIDENCE.
Many person* of the State of New York
will remember the excitement created dur
ing the summer of JBSB by what was gen
erally called ‘"The Wealherwax Murder.”
The arrest, the legal controversy concern
ing jurisdiction, the final trial, and the howl
of dissatisfaction which followed th* final
acquittal, are matters not easily lorgotten
by those who then resided near the scene of
tragedy.
The circumstances of the case are sub
stantially as follow*: Capt. John G. Weath
erwax resided, in 1856, near the village ol
Plattsburg, N. Y. He was a man ol good
character, one ol a numerous family of the
same name, the settlement being known for
miles around as the Weatherwax settlement,
Capt. Weatherwax was, at the time ol which
We write, about thirty years of age, and the
owner ol a small eratt which plied on Lake
Champlain, trading with New York, Ver
mont and Canada town* along the shore of
the Lake.
The crew of this vessel consisted of him*
self, his cousin, Andrew Weatherwax, and a
man named Waiter Brown, In the latter
part of June, 1856, he left Plattsburg with a
cargo for Canada, and on his way back stop
ped at Pike river landing, on the Canada
shove, where he Was to take on a cargo ot
wood for Plattsburg. During the day, while
the wood was being taken on board, a sharp
quarrel arose between Capt. Weatherwax
and his cousin Andrew, and mutual threats
were indulged in. It was toon over, how
ever, but as Andrew had become intoxica
ted, he was rather morose during the eutire
day.
So far, everything is plain and easily un
derstood; but here the mystery begins, and
what follows iB largely based upon the state
ments of the third party, Walter Brown. He
states that after dark (the night was very
cloudy and starless) he was standing on the
rear of the boat, and heard the captain and
his cousin, who were at the bow, resume the
quarrel ol the day. It steadily increased in
violence, threats were exchanged, and al
though he could see neither of the parlies,
he could hear distinctly all that passed. The
wordy war waxed hotter, and suddenly he
heard “rash as of a blow crushing through
skull apd brain, succeeded by a heavy fall,
and as suddenly all was still.
Tbe man listened with bated breath, and
trembled; his first impulse was fo rush for
ward, and offer assistance to the wounded
man, but fear restrained him, and he awaited
the result. In a few minutes the captain
came aft, but he was alone. Brown noticed,
or thought he did, that he was pale and ex
cited.
Nothing was said about the quarrel, and
the two men soon retired. Brown, however,
could not banish from his mind the impres
sion that a serious crime had been commit
ted. Hq arose early and visited the spot
where the altercation took place, and found
Andrew's hat and near it drops of blood
Still he did not mention his suspicions to
any one, nor make any inquiries concerning
the missing man. It seems that he was by
nature exceedingly timid, and shrank irom
the responsibility of charging a man with so
serious a crime, and from the publicity
which the position of a prosecutor would
compel him to assume.
The boat proceeded to Plattsburg, and
when Andrew’s relatives made inquiries for
him, the captain professed entire ignorance
of his whereabouts, saying that he had left
him at Pike river without notification, and
gone he knew not whither
Matters rested in this state until eight or
ten days after the occurrence, when a body
was taken from the river at the identical
place where Captain Weatherwax'* boat
had been moored on the fatal night. Ihe
body gave evidence ot having met death by
violence, as the skull was crushed as by a
blow from some heavy instrument. An in .
vestigation was held, and the captain ol a
vessel lying near to Capt. Weatherwax s on
the night in question recognized the body as
that of a mau he had seen employed on
Weatherwax’s boa(, and he distinctly heard
Weatherwax * voice in the quarrel.
Of course suspicion was at once directed
to Weatherwax, and as be could give no satis
factory explanation of his cousin’s disap
pearance he was arrested. The preliminary
examination lasted lor nine days, and pro
duc'd great excitement, but resulted iu his
being remanded to jail to take his trial at the
next term of the court for murder. The
Weatherwaxes then became alarmed. Few
of them doubted his guilt; indeed, nothing
could seem more eertain; but they were not
willing that the name should be disgraced
by one of them dying at the the hands ol the
hangman, so they contributed funds, em
ployed able counsel, and made the best de
fense possible. Mr. McMasters, then and
now, We believe, a leading lawyer of that
county, was engaged to defend him. Mr.
McMasters examined the case, and, though
hav ng no doubt of his guilt, he, like a true
lawyer, did his best for him. Not daring to
take his trial on the merits of the case, he
succeeded in establishing the non-jurisdic
tion of the court, and locating the crime in
Canada The criminal, for such everybody
believed him to be, was therefore set at lib
erty, when he was threatened with violence
if he did not lgave the country. He refused,
saying he was innocent, and would not stir
until he was vindicated.
While a movement was being organized
to put these threats into execution, an officer
arrived from Canada with a requisition, and
he was taken across the line for trial. The
trial was the most remarkable ever held in
Canada. The ablest counsel, both of Canada
and New York, were engaged for the pris
oner, and by postponing the trial for nearly
a year, spiriting away some ot the most im
portant witnesses of the prosecution, and
other ingenious but questionable devices,
they succeeded in producing a disagreement
of the jury, and finally brought about anac.
quittal, after eighteen months of imprison
ment. The community felt greatly outraged
by the result, and the press teemed with de
nunciations of those who thus conspired to
cheat justice. His own councel, wishing to
repair as much as possible the wrong they
had done society by rescuing a criminal
from a just fate, advised him to flee the coun
try, and under another name strive to repay
society for its tolerance in suffering him to
live.
All such advice the wretched man failed
to heed, and leturned to his old home, de
claring his purpose to remain there until the
cloud was lilted from his former good name
But though saved from the gallows he did
not escape punishment. The brand of Cain
was upon him. Everybody believed him
guilty; his old neighbors and friends avoided
him; he was pointed out as a murderer, and
his supposed crime was even hooted in his
ears many times as he passed through the
crowds in the public streets.
Thus the unhappy man passed eleven
years of his life, submitting quietly and
meekiv to the aspersions cast upon him, and
waiting patiently for his vindication. His
loss of character brought with it loss of pro
perty; business men shunned him; trie better
averiues of trade and commerce were closed
against him, and he became almost reduced
to beggary. Butamid those mistortunea
be was still hopeful.
Thus matters stood till the early part of
October, 1867, when a man clothed in the
garb ol a sailor made hit appearance in tbe
village of Plattsburg. and inquired for Capt.
John Weatherwax The latter was jest then
entering the post office, where a considerable
c-owd had collected, waiting the distribution
of the mail, and was pointed out to the in
quiring stranger. He made his way toward
him, laid his hand familarly on his shoulder,
and exclaimed:
“How are you, John?’
John looked at him a moment in be
wilderment, gave a suppressed scream, and
replied:
“Great Heavens! has it come at last?”
Turning to the crowd in the post office,
which had by this time become interested,
he said:
“Gentlemen, my vindication has at last
come. For eleven years I have borne your
reproaches in silence, hoping and praying
for this hour. This is my cousin Andrew,
for whose murder 1 have suffered a punish
ment rpany times worse than death.”
The men etared at each other, and at the
sailor, stupefied with wonder. Andrew was
equally perplexed, for the actions of both
parties were to him incomprehensible.
For a short time there was a disposition
to regard the new comer as an imposter,
who had been brought forward to relieve
Capt. Weatherwax of the disgrace that had
attached to him: but his identity was soon
established beyond question, and the interest
in the case deepened, thousands coming from
all parts of the State to see the man whohad
apparently risen from the dead.
The account which Andrew gave of him
self was that he left the boat on that event
ful evening after the quarrel, wandered into
a rum-shop a short distance from the land
ing, became engaged in a fight and was ar
rested. in the morning he was brought be
fore a magistrate and fined, but having no
money, and being still angry with his cousin,
he could not go to him for aid, and was on
the point of being taken to jail, when a stran
ger in the audience came forward and offered
to pay hi* fine if he would engage to sap
with him, his vessel then lying at Montreal.
He consented, and the next day they sailed
for China; and for eleven years he had fol
lowed the sea, and never once communicated
with his relatives. He now heard for the
first time what one of them had suffered on
his account.
The matter of the blood and his hat, which,
it will be remembered, was found on the
deck, he explained by stating that he had
had the nose bleed during the day, and that
some of the blood had probably fallen upon
the deck; the hat he tossed upon the deck
when he decided to go out in the evening.
The identification of the body found, the
quarrel, the blow, and the voice of Weather
wax heard during the altercation are myste
ries never explained. Perjury can never be
alleged, but there was certainly criminal
looseness in the judgment whislh embittered
the best years ol an innocent man’s life, and
nearly sent him to an untimely and dishon
ored grave.
It is hardly necessary to say that there
was a complete revolution in feeling toward
Mr. Weatherwax. Every one seemed anx
ious to compensate by kindness and patron
age for the wrongs so innocently inflicted
before. This was not unappreciated. Bus
iness prospered, and three years ago both
Andrew and John Weaiherwajj were among
the most contented citizens of Clinton Coun
ty, New York.
Putting the Baby to Sleep.
The young rascal has no more idea of go
ing to sleep than the man in the moon. He
deltly clutches me by both earrings, and.
throwing himself upon his feet in a manner
calculated to make the most fond mamma’s
teeth chatter, and seizing my frizzles by way
f steadying himself, be firmly grasps my
back-comb, which be only relinquishes at
my most earnest and repeated solicitations.
Finding less comfort there than he had rea
son to expect, he proceeds to explore my
eyes, nose, ears and mouth with his chubby
forefinger, emphasizing the research by try
ing his teeth on the aforesaid members.
Anatomy exhausted,he turns to pastures new.
Do not imagine that I have been an idle reci
pient of these fond attentions. No! I have
been sweetly chanting, trotting and rocking.
I have tenderly given ‘Sweet and low,’
‘Sleep, baby dear.’ I have done ‘The Crook
ed Man,’ ‘Humpty-Dumpty,’ with varirtions,
‘Hickory, Dickory, Dock,’Ac., Ac., and hav
ing conscientiously finished ‘Mother Goose’
lot even disdaining such unmusical pro
ductions as ‘Pop goes the Weasel’ and
‘Mother, may I go out to Swim,’ in the illu
sive belief that they are calculated to stay
and fix the wandering eyes and attention ot
Young America —I proceed to more solemn
business. I divest myself of earrings, neck
tie, and all other snares, and, metaphorically,
rolling up my sleeves, I strike into the ‘Sam
tunes.’ ‘O to grace how great a debtor’ is a
comfort to me, but its soporific influence is
confined to churches Baby still pokes and
clutches at my throat. ‘Hold the Fort’
rings out with the heat of combat. Baby
evidently intends to do so. Having gone
through my repertoire of major tones with
no success, 1 conclude to resort to heroic
treatment. With groanings that cannot be
uttered I lay the young man down and firmly
clasp him in my arms. Result —a very ex
asperated boy, a year old, who struggles and
squalls most lustily. Being a little stronger
I hold on and solemnly chant, ‘Hark from
the tombs.’ Five minutes of this innocent
diversion convinces me that the child must
have a pain. Perhaps the little love has the
stomach-ache. His ear may ache. He
throws his little fists about fiercely, and as
he reaches for water so sweetly 1 let birn up,
feeling ikat I have been unwarrantably
stern and severe. Still Ido sometimes won
der how a few judiciously-administered
spanks would sound. Having thus solaced
myself, we go at it again—sing, scratch,
poke, trot, rock, walk, drink, kiss, scold, pet
—eyes preternaturally wide open, dinner
getting cold down stairs. At length, when
we are both exhausted and those dear little
peepers do close tight, and, snuggling down
close to my heart, he resigns himself to the
inevitable, how sweet the cherub is!—Chi
cago Tribune.
1
The Telephone Explaind.
A reporter olthe New York World having
some doubt of the genuineness of Mr.
Strakosh’s Telephonic concert, called on
that gentleman, and the following conversa
tion ensued:
‘I have called to see you, Mr. Strakosh,’
said the reporter, ‘touching this telephone
concert.’
‘Ah,’ said the great man, ‘what a concert
that will be! Only to think of it! A man
stands in Philadelphia and sings ‘Home,
Sweet Home,’ and you shall hear him in
New York, begar.’
‘How do you do it?’ queried the reporter,
lighting one of the meastro’s cigarettes, and
squinting beyond the exigency of his left
eye and the fumes of the match. Max didn’t
take.
‘Well, said he, you see that box. It has a
diaphragma therein which resounds, and re
sounds till the beautiful notes of the charm
ing man’s voice full ninety miles away situ
ated, resound and resound, aud the notes
disentangle themselves as they come through
this hole, and begar, you hear em so plain
as day.’
‘But how it it done?’ again, with vacilla
ting left eye, plied with mighty words the
reporter.
‘But I am not an electricity maestro,’ said
Mr. Strakotch, ‘and what the diable is the
matter with your left eye? Belladonna might
make him not what you call wriggleso. The
sound is played and it vibrates through the
wire from Philadelphia to here. What the
deffil—l am not electric.’
‘And according to the rate at which sound
travels,’ said the reporter, ‘it would take
about thirty seconds for the notes to travel
along the wire, and some tones would be
lost.’
‘Ah! yes,’ interrupted Mr. Strakosch;‘but
my dear philosopher, you don’t take into
account the difference of longitude between
the two places. That brings the sound here
—I have calculated the proßleme—just two
seconds before it leaves Philadelphia. What
do you say to that, my friend?’
T he reporter sat aghast.
‘And so you tee,' said the maestro, coolly
lighting a fresh cigarette, ‘instead of being
dispersed the sonnd is reinforced by just the
tone-equivalent of those two seconds. You
shall hear my concert better in New York
than it shall be heard in Philadelphia, begar.
By means of a little telegraphic machine 1
have here I shall be constantly two seconds
akaad of the singers there, and thus shall be
albe to admonish them in time if they go
wrong. I shall hear the false note or detect
the false time just two seconds before it is
perpetrated. Thus shall 1 direct, my friend,
thus shall I direct even as if I were in Phil
adelphia with a batan. What you make of
that, eh? What you say for science now?’
The reporter wilted, but only for a mo
ment, and then his strong resolution braced
him once more to the encounter. So he con
tinued:
‘O! come now, Max, where are you going
to conceal the singers?’
‘What’s that? Conceal the singers? What
the dsffil do you mean by that?’ said the tone
master.
‘Yes,’ urged the reporter, while his eye
again plied vigorously the wonted wink.
‘Where are you going to put them you know?
Under the stage or at the sides? 1
The maestro rose in rage and cried:
‘What’s the man talking about?’
‘You can have speaking trumpets, I know
laid from another room in the hall,’ said the
reporter, armed with the consciousness of
virtue and the newspaper man’s unconquer
able mind; ‘but won't the tones seem kind o'
muffled and be flannelly when they come
out into the auditorium? The telephone is
all in my eye; you know it as well as I do.
No man can sing ninety miles, you know.
Ah! come now.’
‘Sir,’ replied the now placidly smiling
Max, ‘You are an idiot. Perhaps you know
more than Ido about my business. What
the deffil, isn’t science here, and I? Sir,
adieu, you couldn’t telephone if you should
see one.’
And so, unsatisfied, yet yearning for light,
the reporter was fain to depart.
The rarpct-RsKim and me Adminis
tration,
THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN'S PLAN.
Special to the N. O. Democrat.]
Washington. April s.— Tbe carpet
bagger is on the rampage; he walls,
gnashes his teeth, and refuses to be
comforted.
Senator Patterson, of South Caro
lina, says that the Administration
has forfeited all claims to the sup
port of Southern Republicans by its
recent action in the South Carolina
matter, and swears that he intends
to vote for the admission of M. C.
Butler, the Senator elected by the
Hampton Legislature, to the United
States Senate; that since Democratic
rule was thought good enough for
the people of tho South, it should
also be felt in national affairs. In
this he undoubtedly expresses the
sentiments of the majority of the
carpet-bag persuasion.
Other prominent men among this class
express in substance the same sentiment;
and while they pretend to hope for a
peaceful termination of the disputed ques
tion now agitating tbe South, they do not
deny that a vigorous opposition to the
National Administration will be inaugur
ated with tbe coming meeting of Con
fress. One of the most prominent of the
outh Carolina carpet-baggers,who claims
to control three-fourths of the negro vote
of the State, said that he was now like
Lee at Appomatox. He saw nothing in
further resistance but death iu the fight,
and declared that that would avail noth
ing. He was ready, therefore, to surren
der; he had suffered long enough, through
the actions of a toadying party, and he re
garded the total dissolution of the Repub
lican party as question only of four years.
Chamberlain, he believed, bad brought
trouble and, at last, political death upon
bimseif by commencing precisely as Pres
ident Hayes has done in attempting the
conciliatory policy, and Chamberlain's
downfall, he thought, was ominous ot the
fate ol President Hayes and the Adminis
tration.
Kellogg is equally desperate. The on
ly carpet-bagger here who seems to have
the respect of the people of his State and
influence with the President, is Con
over of Florida; but it must be remember
ed that Conover indorsed Hayes’ Southern
policy, as soon as the inaugural was
read, and has ever since been a staunch
supporter of Hayes. With this single ex
ception, the carpet-bagger may be consid
ered as completely eliminated from the
political situation.
The National Republican, the Admin
istration organ, says this morning:
“In the Nicholls House of Representa
tives only seven are needed to make a
quorum of Returning Board members.
The Senate has already such a quorum.
In view of these facts, it is quite likely
that one of the objects of tbe Commisson,
viz., to consolidate the two Legislatures
into one having a majority of the legally
returned members, will soon be reached.
When this is done, the question of who
is Governor can be easily settled without
any Federal interference. The proposi
tion to first recognize one or tbe other of
the Governors, then leave the govern
ment to stand or fall is much disfavored,
there is no more reason, it is claimed, for
recognizing a Governor in Lousiiana than
there is for recognizing one in New York.
That State must settle its own gubernato
rial affairs. Tbe Commission must first
report, and then President Hayes will act,
consistently with his policy.
This is the confirmation of my dispatch
es. _
Buell.
Remarkable Phenomenon.
From the Now Orleans Pickayune.
Two miles south-west of Milne
burg, and about half a mile from
Lake Pontchartrain, there occurred
ou Friday night a most wonderful
phenomenon. The earth for about
thirty acres became suuueDiy de
pressed, sinking fully thirty feet,
and trees on the margin tumbled
into the chasm. When there, on
Saturday evening, a very distinct
rumbling noise could be heard at
intervals, whilst in the center of the
cave flashes of light sprang up to the
height of fifteen or twenty feet. A
sulphurous odor is so strong on the
margin of the chasm that it is ap
proaohed with difficulty, and is per
ceptible at the distance of a mile
from the spot. Wherefore is this,
and what does it mean? I am a
seafaring man, and have recently
noticed a change in the Gulf Stream.
It sets in with a powerful current
through the Chandeleur Islands,
Mississippi Sound, Lake Borgne and
by the liigolets into Footchartrain.
Can it be, by some sudden convul
sion in the iuternal structure of the
earth, that a vacuum has been crea
ted eo near—into which the waters ot
the Atlantic are now running—threat
ening an earthquake? The subject
is worth the attention of scientfle
men better able than the writer to
explain this very strange phenomen
on, to which I merely call attention.
John Rugby,
Captain Brig Ajax.
FINANCIAL ANO COMMERCIAL.
BY TELEGRAPH TO THE DAILY TIMES.
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MOKJCY AND MTOC'KM.
LONDON, April 7.—Noon-Erie
2:00 p. m —Erie 7.
PARIS, April 7. —1:15 p. m.—Rente* lOHf. end
sc.
4;001*. M.—Routes 108 L and 17>4c.
NEW YORK. April 7.—Noon—Gold opened
106.
NEW YORK. April 7.—Noon—Stocks dull end
steady; money 3; gold 4J* ; exchange long, 4.88;
short, 4.88; State bonds firm; Governments
steady.
NEW YORK. April 7. Evening Money
easy, offered at sterling firm at 6; gold dull
t Governments dull and lower— new
s's 10 y t ; States dull and nominal.
OOTTOK.
LIVERPOOL. April 7. —Noon Cotton dnll
and easier; middling uplands 6 8-32d, Orleans
6 7-16d; sales 6,000, speculation and export 1000,
receipts 16,400; American 10,400.
Futures partially l-32d cheaper; uplands, low
middling clause, May and June delivery, 6 3-16d;
June and July 6 6-16@9*32d. shipped April and
May 6 3-32d, July and August C 11-32d.
12:46 p. m.—Uuplands, low middling clause,
May aud June delivery, 6 5-32d; July and August
6 5-16d.
2:00 r. m.—Uplands, low middling clause, ship
ped, April per sail 0 6-2tfd.
2:15 p. m.—Sales of American 3.000.
2:30 p. m.—Futures steady; uplands, low mid
dling clause, April and May delivery b 1-lud, May
aud Juue U 5 d'Jd, June and July 0 2-July and
August 6 11-32d.
NEW YORK, April 7. Noon —Cottou quist;
uplands 11 7-16; orieaus 11 9-16; sa ta 004.
Futures opened shade easier, tut follows: April
11.30(gj.36; May 11.4ui.43; June 11.63(0.56; July
11.G6<&.70; August 11.76(a>.70.
NEW YORK, April 7. - Evening Cotton
quiet; middling uplands 117-16; Orleans 11 2-16;
sales 100; net receipts —; groaa —.
Consolidated net receipts 3019; exports to
Great Britain 6493; to France 7676; to Continent
C7U7; to channel 70.
Futures closed firm; sales 37,000; April 11.41 <$
.42; May 11.49; June July 11.77@.7;
August 1 11.86(g).8; September Octo
ber 11.56(g).58; November 11.44#.46; December
11.45(g).4<>; January 11.54#.68.
GALVESTON. April 7.—Cotton dull; middling
11,'oJ net receipts 369; gress —, sales 801; ex
ports to Great Britain ; France —, coastwise
1122.
NORFOLK, April 7. Evening Cotton
quiet and Bteady; middling 11; net receipts 401;
gross —, sales 150; spinners—; exports to Great
Britain —; coastwise 831.
BOSTON, April 7. Evening-Cotton quiet;
middling 11#; net receipts 197; gross 693;
sales 410; exports to Great Britain —.
WILMINGTON, April 7.—Evening Cottoa
dull and nominal; middling 11; net receipts 0;
Hales —; exports to Great Britain —, coastwise
300.
PHILADELPHIA, April 7.—Evening—Cotton
quiet; middling UHi net receipts 624; gross
616; sales 629; to spinners —; exports to Great
Britain —.
SAVANNAH, April 7.—Evening—Cotton dull;
middling net recoipts 984; gross —.sales
150; exports to Great Britain —; to continent
4007; to channel —; coastwise —.
NEW ORLEANS. April 7. Evening—Cotton
cany and in fair demand; middling 11>; low
middling It; good ordinary 10; net receipts 277
gross 908; sales 3000, exports to Great Britain
14'2U; to France 6691; to Continent 2600; coast
wise —.
MOBILE, April 7.—Cotton weak aud nominal;
middling 10J£; net reoeipta 506; gross 606; sales
200; exports to Great Britain 6963; to France —,
to Continent —; to channel 70; coastwise 866.
MEMPHIS, April 7.—Evening— Cotton lowsr
to soil; middling Hip. receipts 318; shipments
7:t; ssles 1000.
AUGUSTA, April 7.—Cotton quiet; middling
middling XI; receipts 58; sales 155.
CHARLESTON, April 7. Evening Cotton
qtiet; middling 1134. n “t receipts l* 7 : ssles 160;
exports to Greet Britsio —; to France —; to
continent —; coastwise
SELMA, April *.—Weekly net receipts 10,
shipments 561, stock 1743,
PROVISIONS. A.V.
NEW YORK. April 7,—Noon - Flsur shed*
firmer. Wheat lc better. Corn firm. Pork
dull s t sl4 90. Lsrd heavy, steam |9.16@90.
Freights Btesdy.
NEW YORK, April 7. Evening Flour
agsiu s@s>sc better, fair trade for export and
home use; superfine Western and State $6,500
$6 50, common to Heir, extra do., $6.96®57.76,
good to choice do., $7.80@510.00, Southern flour
unchanged, common to Mir extra $6.50®57.26;
good to choice do., $7.50@59.00. Wheat l@3c
better, and fairly active; No. J, red Western,
$1.46®50, white Western $1.61. Corn fully lo
better, good export and trade demand; ungraded
Western mixed 54*4®55. white Southern 56>i®60 (
yellow Western 68. white do., 56)4. Oats higher,
more active; mixed Western and State a9(a,54.
Coffee, Bio, quiet, moderate den and—lo>i®2O)4
for goll cargoes, 16>4®22 for gold job lots.
Sugar (quiet; 8?4®8J4 for fair to good relluißg 9,
prime Muscovado 8)4®8)4; refined, 10>£ for
standard A, granulated and powdered 11, 11 %
for crushed, liolaaaes—grocery grades quiet, at
38® 50 for New Orleans. Bice steady, lair In
quiry; Carolina 5@6. Louisiana 4*@6*. Pork
dull, closing firm at $14.80. Lrd opened firm,
afterward declined, closing strong—pr,me stesm
$9.80. Whiskey firmer at 7)4, Freights to
Liverpool steady; cotton per sail )4 per steam >4*
CINCINNATI, April 7. Evening Flour
firm; family $7.00®57.15; superfine fell $6.25®
50. extra $6.76® $6.15, double extra do., $.36®60,
treble extra do., $6.60. Wheat in fair demand;
red $1.6u®1.65. Corn quiet and firm at 41®43.
Oats steady at 36@40. Bye quiet and firm at 75.
Barley firmer, not quotably higher; prime fell
60®70. Pork dull and nominal at $14.60®76.
Lard in fair demand, steam $9.40®46, kettle
$10.25®$ 10.75. Bulk meats inactive—shoulders
$5.12)4, short rib sides $7.60, short clear sides
$7.75. Bacon quiet—o)4, 8)4, and 8)4, for shoul.
ders, clear rib and clear sides. Whiskey
at 4. Butter aseier ; choice Western reserve 20®
23, Central Ohio 21>®22.
LOUISVjILLE, April 7.—Flour firm and in good
demand; extra $5.60®76, family
Wheat active and higher; red $1.65, smber $1.65,
white $1.65. Corn dull; No. 1, white 42. mixed
41, Bye dull and nominal at 76. Oats felrly
active, shade higher—No. 1, white 42. mixed 40,
Provisions dull. Pork $14.76®516.60. Bulk
meats quiet-6>4®sX. 8)4, nnd 9. for shoulders,
clear riband clear sides. Bacon firm—6)4• 9%.
and 9, for shoulders, clear rib, clear sides.
Sugar-cured bams firm at, 10)4@11)4*
quiet; choice leal In tierce 10* do., in kegs UJ4.
Whiskey firm at 1.04. Bagging dull at
ST LOUIS, April 7.—Evening— Flour active
and firm; superfine fall s.o®s.>; skWAde..
sC.4o@s.Bo; double extra do.. $7.09®57.26,
treble extra do., $.85@57.00. Wheat excited
and higher-No. 2. red fall $1.58, No. 3 do
$i.54@54*. Corn active—No, 3, mixed, 40>,@
40-,. Oats firm—No. 3, 87. Rye 67),. Barley
■toady; strictly prims to choioe Minnesota 90.
Whiskey steady st 4. Pork closed somewhat ex
cited at $14.50 Lard dull at 9* bid. Bulk meat,
quiet; car lota—BX and 7 X for shoulders and
clear rib sides. Bacon quiet—sM@*X. B>,@Btj.
and 834@X, for "boulders, clear rtb and clear
sides.
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