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A Romance of History.
In the early part of the fourteenth
century the Island of Corsica was
a bone of contention between the
maritime Republic of Italv, the
Duchy of Savoy, and the Kingdom of
France. The latter at that time was
ruled bv the chivalrous Francis the
lirst, one of the most remarkable
characters in history. His ambition
was only equalled by his reckless
audacitv, aud he alone of all the
Princes'of his time ventured to break
a lance with the powerful Emperor
Charles the Fifth, who so disastrous
ly defeated him at Pavia in 1521 . In
the preceding year King Francis had
a quarrel with his wife, who had re
preached him for his follies. One
day, maddened by her taunts, he
said to his valet, Gaviui, a Corsi
can :
“Ah, I must get rid of her majesty.
Her temper is too bad. I am sure
that the Holy Father will Riant me
a divorce from her. But where shall
I rtud anew wife?”
“YSur Majesty has only to choose
among the most beautiful princes
ses of Eurone,” said Gaviui.
“But there is not a single beauti
ful princess in Europe,” rejoined the
King, almost angrily. “Amelia of
Savoy is the only one that is not ab
solutely homely, and I hate her
father so bitterly that I should be
reluctant to enter into a union with
any member of his family.’
"If your Majesty will permit me,
said the wily Corsican, "I could tell
you of a lady with royal blood in her
veins who is young and handsome
enough to grace the throne of France
by your side.”
“And who is she?” asked the King
eagerly. , ,
“She is the Marchioness Isolena
Della Ballo.”
“I never heard of her.
“She is the richest woman in Corsi
ca* where her ancestors, sincj time
immemorial, have owned most of the
real estate, and where they have been
more powerful than the real rulers
of the island ever were. Her grand
mother was a niece of the Emperor
Maximilian, and she is the last of her
race, your Majesty.” .
“The last of her race, Gavint, and
still unmarried?”
“Your majesty, there is a strange
tale to this,” replied Gavini. “About
seven years ago the Marchioness,
with her aged fat her, was having a
boat ride off Ajaccio. A thunder
storm sprang up and the frail bark
was in danger of capsizing. Ihe old
Marquis was frightened to death.
‘“Pray, my child,’he cried in his
terror ‘pray to her who aloDe cud
save us. Pray to her, and promise
to remain unmarried, unless a king
should come to solicit your hand!’ ”
“Isolena took that pledge, and now
she is mistress of immense estates,
and one of the most beautiful women
in the world.” , ... . ,
The King, who acted as if he had
already got rid of his legitimate wife,
had by this time become deeply in
terested in the subject.
“Gavini,” he said, “how does this
Marchioness look?”
“Your Majesty, I have truly never
seen a lady worthier to adorn a
throne than she. She is the fairest
daughter whom Italy, the land of
pretty women, ever gave birth to,
Tall slender, majestic, with a com
plexion of marble, and feaiures which
Phidias would have gladly chiselled
in stone. She has on her ripe lips
the tempting smile of Cupid, and in
her black eyes all the lire of the god
dess of love.”
In this manner the artful valet
stimulated the desires of his royal
master, until the latter said to him :
“I should like to make her ac
quaintance ; but that has to be done
in a very discreet manner.” j
After hemming and hawing for a
long time, Gaviui suggested tiiat he
himself might go to Corsica and
make overtures to the beautiful Mar
chioness. The King eagerly embrac
ed this offer. , . . ,
“You shall go, Gavini,” he cried.
"Go to Montpas, my treasurer, and
draw as many livres in gold as you
need.” , , .
“But your Majesty,” said the valet,
“money is not sufficient for such a
mission. I ought to have to that end
also"—
“What?”
“A position!
"What position ?”
“I ought to be clothed with the
rank of "a minister, your Majesty.”
The King looked at his valet for a
minute and without saying anything.
Then he burst into laughter.
“Gavini,” he exclaimed, “you are
the most impudent rascal I ever saw.
But your idea is a good one. Yes,
you low-born villain, shall for once
go as my envoy to Corsica. Prevail
upon the Marchioness, whose charms
you extol so enthusiastically, to come
to Paris, and I shall reward you right
royally.’ , „ . ,
On the following day Gavini, to
whom royal credentials had been
given, to the dismay of the King’s
Minister of State, set out for Corsica.
He had a large retinue of servants,
and acted in perfect keeping with the
exalted position to whicli his master
had so suddenly raised him. . In due
course of time he arrived in Ajaccio
and called with his attendants upon
the Marchioness Isolena Della Ballo. j
He had not exaggerated her charms, j
She was, indeed, a most charming
and attractive woman. Upon pre
seating the credentials to her he
said: „ ~
“My royal master, your Excellen
cy has intrusted me to bring
about more cordial relatione
between France and the Island of
which vou are mistress, if not by
divine right, at least by the right of
your surpassing beauty, as well as by
virtue of the time-honored claims of
vour ancestors.”
The compliment was not lost up
on the handsome creature. She dis
missed the valet-envoy in the most
gracious manner.
“I will capture her easily,”
thought Gavini, as he took his de
parture “I believed she was too in
telligent to be guiled by such trans
parent flattery. Very well-so much
the better for me.”
But a young admirer of the March
ioness, Signor Conde de Varo, who in
years gone by had been at the Court
of France, had recognized him. ihe
Conde solicited a private interview
with the Marchioness after Gavini had
withdrawn. At firstshehesitated to
VOL. 2.
grant the request, because tho Condo
had often urged her to give him her
hand. But he was so persistent this
time that she went with him to her
boudoir.
“Isolena,” he said to her, “do you
know who that man is?”
“The Envoy of the King of France,
Conde,” she replied. “His creden
tials show it.”
“That may be, Isolena,” he re
joined ; “but I am sure that the King,
in sending the l’eliow ”
“The fellow!”
“Yes, the fellow, Isolena. 1 am
sure that the King, iu sending the
fellow to you, has played a very con
temptible trick upon you!”
“How so?”
“Because this pretended envoy is
no other than King Francis’ body
servant.”
“A menial!” she cried, with flash
ing eyes.
"Yes, the lowest of the low; he
who dresses and undresses His
Majesty of France.”
And the King could put the affront
on me by sending such a rascal to
me?”
“It, is not all, Isolena. This .Gaviui
is a Corsican, a serf of your father’s,
who fled the country twenty years
ago because he had committed sever
al disgraceful thefts.”
The beautiful Marehoiness was by
this time so enraged, she uttered the
following terrible oath:
“Had I to-day King Francis in my
i power I should cause him to perish
as miserably as the dog whom he has
sent to me. I swear it, aud should I
lose my own life, and ruin this whole
island, which I love so well!”
At midnitSit on the same day Ga
vini was dragged from his bed, and
thrust into a dungeon. Six hours
later ho was confronted by the exe
cutioner and the indignant Mar
chioness.
“You are about to die,” she said,
pitilessly, to the ill-fated man.
“How dare you treat the sacred
person of an envoy in this manner?”
he cried.
“The sacred person of an escaped
serf and thief!” she exclaimed, “Ga
vini, I know who you arc.”
“The Envoy of the King of
Franco!”
"You moau his valet. Now listen
to me. I shall have your flesh torn
from your limbs with red-hot pincers
if you do not confess what Induced
King Francis to commit such an in
famous outrage as to send you to me
in the capacity of an envoy.”
Gavini referred once more to the
inviolability of his office. Bho or
dered the executioner to torture him.
A horrible scene ensued. The pris
oner was placed on a wooden beuch,
and then the executioner, after bind
ing him, began to tear off Ids flesh
with red-hot pincers. For ten min
utes the victim, though uttering the
most unearthly yells, refused to con
fess. At last, when tho agony be
came too great, ho told the Mar
choiness what he had come to Corsi
ca for. This still added to her fury.
“What!” she cried, “King Francis
has believed mo to be so low! Me,
who have more ancient blood in my
veins than Valois ever had! Oh, he
shall rue it! He shall rue it!”
She then ordered Gavini to be be
headed, and sent his head in a glass
jar filled with white Corsioau wine to
the King of France. Francis tho
First was beside himself with rage
upon receiving this ghastly present.
He organized a secret naval expedi
tion to Corsica, and caused Isolena to
bo kidnapped. She landed at Mar
seilles In February, 1321. The King
was there at the time. He refused
to see her. “Have her hair cropped,”
he ordered, “have her clad in hemp
en garments, and then whipped
through the streets of tho city!” This
was done on the following day. The
beautiful 'Marchioness suffered the
torture with astounding fortitude.
Not a cry of pain escaped her tightly
compressed lips as the executioner’s
lash descended upon her back. At
last she opened her mouth ; a stream
of'blood issued from it.
‘Who will avenge me?” she gasp
ed.
She was avenged a few months
later when Francis the First was
overpowered at Pavia, and so badly
beaten that he exclaimed :
“All is lost save honor?”
11l KRYIXU A HAM,IVI,
HOW A CALIFORNIA MURPERF.II WAS H1..N0
ON THE AUTHORITY OF A NEWSPAPER
REPORT, & C.
From the Sacramento Bee.]
In the olden time, in Plumas county, a
man was arrested for murder, tried con
victed and sentenced to be hanged. The
case was taken to the Supreme Court on
appeal. Finally a decision was filed af
firming the judgment of tho court, below,
and directing that the defendant be resen
tenced to death.
In those days the Sacramento Union
was about the only paper circulating in
that remote county, and whatever appear
ed in its columns was taken as being un
doubtedly the fact. The number containing
the Supreme Court decision arrived at the
county seat, and the sheriff saw it, and
concluded that the matter was finally set
tled. So, walking into tho jail ho address
ed the defendant with, “Well, the Su
premo Court has affirmed the judgment
fn your case; it’s printed In the Sacramen
to Union"
“Is it?” said the prisoner; that’s rough,
but I guess I’ll have to stand it."
“Well,” said the sheriff, “I have got to
hang you; you have been in here a good
while, an expense to the county, and the
sooner the thing is over the better.”
“There is no use being in a hurry," said
the prisoner; "give a fellow a chance to
get ready.”
“How will the first of next week suit
yon?” asked the sheriff.
“Ob, what’s the use of all that hurry;
call it the last of the week."
“Well, we will split the difference and
call it Wednesday afternoon," said tho
officer.
This was acquiesced in by the party in
interest, aud at the appointed time he was
taken out and hanged.
At the opening of tho District Court at
the following term Judge K. H. Taylor,
now of Virginia City, wtio was then on the
bench, inquired of the clerk if the remit
titur had been sent down; and being ad
vised in the affirmative, said: “I guess we
had better have the prisoner brought up
this morningarid resentenced.” He was
rather surprised when tho sheriff inno
cently informed him that the law had al
ready been fully satisfied, and that the
criminal had been sent before a court
whence there could be no appeal.
Mexican Revolution.
City of Mexico, July 25.— Gen. Ala
torre, with his advance, numbering
400 men, defeated, on the 15th inst.,
the Bevolutioni3t Fidencio Hernan
dez, with 1300 men, at Fortin, on the
railway, near Orizaba. It was a com
plete and decisive victory. One hun
dred Revolutionists were killed, and
Hernandez himself is a prisoner, with
600 followers. All their artillery, am
munition, and 177 mules were cap
tured. The forces of Hernandez hav
ing been the best organized, this is a
very important blow to the revolu
tion. Government troops reoccupied
Jalapa on the 12th inst. Gen. Porfi
rio Diaz is reported at Caxala.
fPI I 1,3 rill \ I I Xyl
1 xlJii JLllVlJliio.
COLUMBUS, GrA., SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1870.
CAPS MAY LBTTKK.
From our regular Correspondent.J
Stockton Hotel, July 24.
It is only three hours ride on tho
West Jersey railroad, from Philadel
phia to Capo May, but the difference
of temperature is that between the
temperate and torrid zones. Few
summer resorts passess so many
natural advantages for health aud
pleasure ns this extreme Southern
point of New Jersey; it is fanned on
three sides by the deliciously cooling
breezes of the Atlantic; the coast is
one of the safest atul most delightful
for bathing purposes, while, inland,
there are line forests atul green pas
toral meadows intersected by inlets
and coves abounding in flsh i and
oysters. There are many resorts on
the Jersey coast, but Cape May was
frequented before most of them were
heard of, and notwithstanding the
confessed attractions of younger
rivals, she still holds her own, and
is gladdened each season by hosts of
new admirers. Asa village Cape
May has a permanent population of
about 1,200, which is increased during
the summer, and, this summer es
pecially, to the limitof thoaccommo
dating capacity of her numerous
hotels and boarding houses. There
are, I think, not fewer than 7,000
persons at the Cape to-day. The
Stockton Hotel alone, with its capaci
ty for 1,200 guests, is at present over
crowded and has been compelled,
after converting the East parlor into
a domitory, to turn away mauy ap
plicants for rooms. From conversa
tion with many visitors here, lam
persuaded t hat in spite of hot weather
and financial depression, an unusu
ally large number of summer tourists
are afloat. The excursion facilities
offered by tho Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, enabling the traveler to
see at a comparatively small cost
more of tho world than any other
corporation can compass, has in
duced many to leave homo, primari
ly to see the Exhibition iu Philadel
phia, aud, secondarily, to see the
many interesting places to which
th 6 ramifications of the road, in Now
England, Canada, the Southern and
Middle States, will take them. They
remain abouta week in Philadelphia,
after running down to Atlantic City
or to this place, which has won the
name of the “Philadelphia Brigh
ton,” to spend the night or Sabbath.
Among the distinguished fas the
saying isj persons here, aro Gen. Jos.
R. Hawley and wife of Hartford,
Conn.; Fritz Conliffo Owon, of Lon
don, Eng.; Japanese commissioner
to the Centennial Exposition ; Count
Outremond, of Brussels, Belgium;
E. A. Weyden, Vienna, Austria;
Commodore J. M. Furgusson, U. S.
N.; Hon. J. Bain, Lord Mayor of
Glasgow; Hon. H. C. Warmouth,
Ex-Gov. of Louisiana; Col. Thos. A.
Scott; Hon. Thos. H.Bowles, Indian
apolis; Col. Grey and family, Phil
adelphia, Pa.; J. N. Hobert and fam
ily, San Francisco; Gen. W. J. Sew
ell, President of the West Jersey
Railroad; Hon. Wrn. 11. Stowell,
Petersburg, Va,, and many others.
The chief attraction hero is surf
bathing, and it is enjoyed by all
ages, sexes and conditions. The
fashionable hours for the bath are
between 11 a. m. and 1 p. m., when
the breakers and beach present a
very animated appearance. Two or
thousand persons may be seen in the
surf about 12 m., while large numbers
come down to the beach as specta
tors. The belle who was at the hop
last night, so resplendent in toilet,
emerges from the bathing house in a
rough straw hat, flannel petticoat
and short pantaloons, her white
ankles gleaming in the sun, her little
toes bearing the marks of tight
shoes; she plunges in the wave and
her garments have become slightly
wot—
Shade of the lovely, can it be
That this is all remains of thee?
Slender man and women are
more enviable in appearance in
bathing toilet than the corpulent.
Some ladies wear corsets in the
water, and others wear stockings,
with, I think, cork in them, perhaps
to preserve their lives in case of ac
cident; but no art can tone the un
imaginable grotesqueness of a fat
man or woman in bathing costume:
I confess I haveasofterside for wo
man’s rights since I have seen some
of these etherial ladiesswitnming and
diving as fearlessly as fish. Y’esterday
I saw a couple, I suppose man and
wife, a little farther out than seemed
to be safe. She would get upon his
shoulders and dive from them
through the heaviest breakers, then
she would attempt summersaults
over hjs arms; for a moment her
head and half her body would be in
this deep, and her feet toward the
zenith; sometimes, before she had
completed the revolution, a big wave
would strike and wash her fifteen feet
away; when I expected to see her
half drowned and in need of mascu
line assistance, she would simply
spout like a little whale, snatch the
brine from her eyes and was ready
for another trial.
After the bath comes dinner, ufter
dinner music on the grand piazza,
then a drive on the sands of the
much sounding sea, returning for
tea, after tea a hop In the spacious
dining hall, flirtation ad interim et
ad infinitum. This is the way the
minions of wealth (or credit?) and
fashion annihilate time and thwait
the fiery summer, and all the while
the stifling heat is sending to their
graves pent up gasping thousands in
the cities, who know not sea breezes,
or mountain air, or green fields—
nothing but hot radiating bricks and
nauseous smells. The evening pa
pers from Philadelphia report tho
thermometer 100 iu tho shade; here
it is so cold that the ladies sit on the
piazza in wraps.
There is something wrong in our
social economy; the mutinous out
croppings of labor strikes, trades
union and other blind efforts at rec
tification, are not tho disease, they
aro only symptoms. It is notequita
ble that tho poor should dio by the
thousands iu tho city, while thous
ands luxuriate wastefully in pleas
ant places. The "survival of the fit
test” theory will not solve or satisfy
the fact. The habitues of our fash
ionable summer resorts are not in
any senso the flt—the hone, sinew,
brain, or virtue of the country.
There is a well-kept brunetto here
with a dog; the two seem very much
wrapped up in each other. She has
two maids, ouo for herself aud one
for the dog, lam neither rich nor
cruel, but I would give five dollars
to seo this dog coursing along the
beach with a tin pan tied to his tall.
If this dog had lived iu l’aris during
the revolution lie would have been
guillotined.
C. A. S.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Washinoton, July 28. — l The Wash
ington monument bill, us atnondod
by the House, was passed by the
Senate this afternoon us amended.
It leaves the Washington Monument
Society in existence for the purpose
of collecting subscriptions, and
appropriates 200,000 dollars to bo
paid in four annual installniments.
The House to-day refused to take
up ttie special order, tho report of
the Committee on Naval Affairs con
cerning Secretary Robeson, and pro
ceeded immediately after the read
ing of the journal with the Platte-
Goode election contest caso.
The arguments in the case of the
charges against Judge Wyllio pre
ferred by the Capt. A. Grant, will be
heard on Monday next, by tho special
committee having tho investigation
in charge.
The position of Commissioner of
Internal Revenue having been form
ally declined by Representative Me-
Dougall, of New York, was offered
to Gen. Green B. Baum, of Illinois,
and accepted by him Thursday even
ing, whereupon his nomination was
sent to the Senate. Geu. Baum is a
lawyer by profession aud about 50
years of age. He served throughout
the war in command of a brigade of
the army of the Tennessee, and rep
resented the Cairo, Illinois, district
in the 40th Congress. His appoint
ment is spoken of as a highly credit
able one by Ids old Congressional
associates of both parties.
Acting under the provision of the
silver bill, repealing tho legal tender
of the trade dollar and authorizing
the Secretary ol’ tho Treasury to limit
the coinage of tho same to the actual
export demand, and tliero being no
export demand from the Atlantic
cities, Secretary Morrill has directed
that no deposits for these coins be
received until further advised. The
same directions have been given to
the Carson mine, and tho San Fran
cisco mint has been authorized to
coin an amount sufficient to meet the
actual export demand. These coins
being required for export to China
and Japan only, otherwise the mints
will bo ’ run to their full capa
city on the subsidiary coin
and tire necessary gold coinage.
The President has decided not to
sign the sundry civil appropriation
bill now before him, hut to allow it
to become a law without his signa
ture, which it will do in ten days
from tho time of its passage, if not
vetoed. The time will expire next
Monday. His reasons for this are
that there aro some things in the bill
which he does not approve of, but
there are so mauy desirable features
in it that ho has decided to lot it be
come a law. In one of his messages
the President wanted an amendment
to the constitution allowing tho
President to approve such portions
of an act of Congress as he saw fit,
and disapprove such as did not meet
his views.
* ♦ *
Come, Freddy, untie-yourself from
your mother's apron string,stop play
ing with your tin soldiers, lay down
your stick of candy, and request to
be sent, back to your command. If
your father had been the kind of sol
dier you are, Freddy, you would not
be in the White House now. You
would have been earning honest
wages as a journeyman tanner. Come,
Freddy, be a man. Go West, young
man.- lialtinujre (Juzette.
Illinois Democratic Convention.
Springfield, July 27.—1n the Dem
ocratic Convention resolutions were
adopted endorsing the St. Louis plat
form and nominees, and asking the
Legislature to devise means to pro
tect workmen against convict labor
ers. Lewis Stewart was unanimously
nominated for Governor, and A. A.
Glenn for Lieutenant Governor.
There is no place like home! To enjoy
your home, take Dr. J. H. McLean’s
Strengthening Cordial and Blood Purifier.
It wilt invigotate, strengthen, vitalize and
purify your blood. Dr. J. 11. McLean s
office, 314 Chestnut street, St. Louis, Mo.
Now Dress Goods, embracing beautiful
effects in Plaids, also Gray Silk Poplins,
especially adapted to immediate wear
ttt J. S. June
Sep. 10-tf
CONGRESSIONAL.
111 l lIMHY. JULY 2JTII,
SENATE.
Washinoton, July 27.—The Semite
did no business, but received the an
nouncement of the death of Mr. Ca
pe rton nnd adjourned.
HOUSE.
Mr. Lynde, of Wisconsin, from the
Judiciary Committee, reported back
tho Souate bill to rewovo the politi
cal disabilities of Samuel Jones, of
Virginia—passed.
Mr. Foster, of Ohio, from the Ap
priation Committee, reported back
tho Senate bill for the completion of
tho Washington monument, and
moved its passage.
The committee reported an amend
ment allowing the Washington Mon
ument Association to continuo its or
ganization and solicit subscriptions
of money and material and to act in
an advisory capacity. The bill pass
ed as amended.
Mr. Wilson, of West Virginia, called
attention to the death of Senator Ca
porton, of West Virginia, and moved
tho appointment of a committee of
seven members to act with the Sen
ate committee in convoying tho re
mains to West Virginia.
The House then, at 12:30 o’clock,
adjourned.
FRIDAY, JULY ZH I 11.
SENATE.
Washington, July 28. Tho Senate
mot at 11 a. m.
The chair had before the Senate a
communication from tho Attorney
General and Postmaster General in
answer to’an inquiry*of that body
and iu relation to the number of civil
employees in thoir respective de
partments—ordered printed.
Mr. Edmunds moved an order that
the Senate, pursuant to rule 25, gov
erning the trial, resume the consid
eration of tho articles of impeach
ment at 12 o’clock on Mondaj next—
so ordered.
Mr. Edmunds then moved that
when the Senate adjourn to-day it be
to meet on Monday, to-morrow be
ing the day of the funeral of the late
Senator Caperton.
Mr. Boutwell, from the Commitee
on Commerce, reported tho House
Steamboat bill—placed on the calen
dar.
On motion of Mr. Withers, the
House bill for the relief of, R. H.
Buchner, of Alexandria, Virginia,
was taken up and passed.
■ Mr. Sargent, from the Committee
on Appropriations, reported the
House bill to defray the exjionses of
the Joint Committee on Chinese Ifii
migration, and it was passed.
Mr. Keruan, of New York, was
appointed a member of the Commit
tee of Conference on the Indian Ap
propriation bill, in place of Mr. Ca
perton, deceased.
Mr. Wlndom called up the bill to
give tho consent of the United States
to the appropriation of certain pro
ceeds aiising from the sale of swamp
and overflowed lands in Alabama for
the purpose of furnishing other and
additional accommodations for the in
digent, insane, and idiotic persons
resident in said State. Pending ac
tion on the bill the morning hour ex
pired,
Mr. Logan, from the Committee on
Military Affairs, reported a bill to re
store tho name of Edmund 8. Meyer,
of the cavalry, to tho active list, and
it was considered and passed.
Mr. Frelinghuysen, from the Com
mittee of Conference on the Consular
and Diplomatic Appropriation bill,
reported that the conference had
been unable to agree, and asked that
the Senate adhere to its amendments
and ask a further conference.
Mr. Hamlin alluded in strong terms
to the persistence of tho House con
ferees in their refusal to make tho
necessary appropriations to carry on
the consular and diplomatic setvice,
and their demand to chango the ex
isting laws so as to cripple the ser
vice.
The discussion was continued by
Messrs. Edmunds, Haulsbury, llowe,
Bayard, Morton, Whyte and others,
after which tho motion of Mr. Fre
linghuysen agreed to.
On motion of Mr. Sherman, tho
amendments of the llouso to tho bill
providing for the completion of the
Washington monument were concur
red in, and the bill now goes to the
President.
Tho unfinished business, being the
River and Harbor bill, was taken up,
the question being concurring in the
amendments made in committee of
tho whole.
A separate vote having been de
manded on each amendment, after
several of the amendments had been
voted out and concurred in, Mr.
Christiancy moved to recommit the
hill.
Mr. Edmunds moved to amend,
with instructions that tho aggregate
amount of tho appropriations shall
not exceed $5,000,000 which was
agreed to, and the bill was then re
committed.
Mr. Ingalls then called up tho bill
to provide for the sale of the Osage
Indians lands in Kansas.
Mr. Logan then moved to take up
the House Bounty bill.
Mr. Morton advocated tho motion
of Mr. Logan, aud said the Bounty
hill was of general as well as of polit
ical interest, while the bill called up
by Mr. Ingalls was of local interest
only.
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j The motion of Mr. Logan was lost
! —ayes 20, nays 27.
The bill to provide for the sale of
i the Osage Indians lands was then
proceeded with. A lengthy debate
ensued on the bill, pending which
Mr. Allison submitted the conference
report on the West Point appropria
tion bill, which was concurred in, and
the bill now goes to the President.
Mr. Logan gave notice of his inten
tion to again move to take up tho
Bounty bill.
Certain amendments were made to
the Osage Indian bill, but without
final action, tho Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
Immediately after tho reading of
tho journal, Mr. Harris, of Va„
claimed the floor, and the House re
sumed tho contested election case
of Platt vs. Goode, of the scond Vir
ginia district.
Mr. Harris addressed the House
in support of the minority report,
declaring the incumbent entitled to
retain the seat.
At the conclusion of Mr. Harris’
remarks the previous question was
ordered, and Mr. Brown, of Kansas,
proceeded to close the debate.
Mr. Thompson, to whom Mr.
Brown yielded the main part of his
hour, next addressed tho House iu
support of the majority report, giv
ing the seat to Platte the contes
tant.
A vote was then taken and the sub
stitute submitted by the majority
was agreed to—yeas 105, nays 99.
The resolution as amended was
thou adopted-yeas 107, nays 95.
Mr. Abbott, who had been declared
elected to the seat for the Fourth
Massachusetts District, in tho place
of Mr. Frost, ousted, being present,
was sworn in.
Mr. Debatt, from the Committee
on Civil Service Reform, to whom was
referred certain charges first publish
ed in the New York Sun against W.
J. Purman, a member of the House
from Florida, reported to the effect
that a statement, was made by Dr.
Pitkins, that if ho would contribute
$3OO to the campaign fund, he (Pur
manj would appoint Pitkins’ son to a
naval cadetship; Pitkins refused to
pay till the appointment was made,
and Purman required payment in ad
vance. No money was paid and no ap
pointmeut made. The evidence
fails to establish the sale of any Fed
eral office. The committee And that
Purman did recommend several per
sons for Appointment as timber
agents, and that those agents never
performed service except to draw
their pay; that in some cases Pur
man informed them [before appoint
ment that this was tne only service
that would be required, and the evi
dence showed that some of them re
sided 150 miles from their reserva
tions, and neither wont upon them
or knew their location. The report
was ordered printed and recommit
ted.
Mr. Randall, from the Conference
Committee on the Military Academy
bill, submitted a report.
Mr. Sampson, of lowa, culled up
as a privilegd question the motion to
reconsider the vote on the bill to
amend the statutes relative to dam
ages for infringement of patents and
for other purposes.
Mr. Whitthorne raised the question
of consideration in fuvor of the re
port of the Naval Committee on the
investigation into the affairs of the
Navy Department.
Mr. Bright then made an effort to
go into commttee of the whole on tho
Privato calendar, this being objection
day.
The House decided to consider the
report of the Naval Committee.
Mr. Lewis, of Alabama, proceeded
to address tho House upon tho state
ment of facts as presented by the ma
jority.
At tho closb of his remarks, which
were mainly devoted to a review of
the testimony, the House, at 3 v. m.,
adjourned.
THE INDIAN SITUATION.
THE SIOUX IN STRONG FORCE.
New York, July 28.— Aspecial from
Washington says it is believed at
army headquarters that the forces of
Crook, Terry and Gibbs are not over
eighty miles apart, and can readily
be brought within supporting dis
tance. Crook feels he is going to
have bad lighting, but intends to
make it decisive. It is said there are
at least six thousand warriors in the
field under Sitting Bull. It is fear
ed the Sioux may have received ac
cessions from the Sioux in British
Possessions,.which might swell the
hostile force to 10,000. The Sioux, if
drawn to the wall by the troops, will
go forth to take refuge in the British
Possessions. Fears are entertained
that Crook may be overmatchod.
FIRE IN CiItANII RAF ID*
LOSS OF LIFE.
Detroit, Mich., July 28.—A fire
broke out at the sleeping rooms of
the ltathburn House, Grand Rapids.
Edward Parrish, who kept a cigar
store in the hotel, was suffocated to
death. C. N. Thompson, telegraph
operator, was so badly burned ho will
probably die. Loss of property $50,-
000. Jackson’s dry goods store was
burned; they lose $7,000. Sears &
Barker lose $3,000. Wing & Cald
well, millinery, $3,000. Loss on the
hotel building comparatively small.
TEUKUItAPHIC SUMMARY.
Judgo Benedict of New York yes
torday sentenced John H. Lee, re
cently convicted of passing counter
feit money, to King county peniten
tiary for three years and six months.
Charlotte Thompson, convicted of
tho same crime, was sentenced to
the same penitentiary for two years.
Treasure shipments from .San
Francisco to China yesterday aggre
gated 651,905 dollars.
R. R. Doderick & Co.’s hay press
manufactory at Albany, N. Y., was
destroyed by lire yesterday; loss $50,-
000.
The West Virginia Republican Con
vention adjournod at 1 a. m., after
nominating for Presidential Electors
at largo W. A. Larmon and Cheese
head Smith.
Dr. Thomas L. Connolly, Aroh
bishop of Halifax, N. fi., died at mid
night Thursday at his arch-episcopal
residence in that city.
Tho New York papers of yesterday
deny the statement that Commodore
Vanderbilt’s condition is serious, and
say ho is recovering strength slowly.
A dispatch of the 28th from Vienna
says: It is reported here, on reliable
authority, that tho Sultan, Murad
Effendi, is dying, and that Abdul
Hamid, brother of the Sultan, has
been appointed provisional regent.
Prince Milan, of Servia, is endeav
oring to socure diplomatic mediation.
J. L. ltothelin tho West Point sen
try who shot the hack driver a few
days ago, was brought to Now York
and committed for examination by
United States Commissioner Osborn.
Tho Independent Reform State
Convention of Kansas met at Topeka
Thursday, and adopted resolutions
endorsing Peter Cooper for President,
and the reformed Indianapolis plat
form. W. E. Hudson was nominated
for Governor.
Hon. Geo. Wm. Curtis emphatical
ly declares that he is not and will not
be a candidate for the Gubernatorial
nomination in New York. He indi
cated that his vote is for Hon. Wm.
Evartsas the Republican nominee.
•
THE NIDI X OCCUPY THE MOUN
TAIN*)
ANI) WILL FIGHT INCH 1)1' INCH.
New York, July 28,— A Times spe
cial from Chicago says advices from
Crook’s command in camp at the
mouth of Tongue river, Wyoming,
July 23d, stato that his troops wore
awaiting Gen. Merritt’s arrival be
fore commencing active operations.
Scouts from Terry’s command, with
dispatches to the Kith, state ail are
well. It is expected Terry, under in.
structions, has by this time reached
the confluence of Big Horn and Yel
lowstone rivers. Crook wants Terry
to march toward his command half
way, as tho Indians are in the
mountains and a battle must be
fought there. Tho Sioux allies say
the Sioux uro occupying the moun
tains, where Sibley’s party struck
them and will compel the troops to
fight them inch by inch. This will
be deadly warfare. The Sioux know
every foot of ground, the ranges of
which the troops are docidedly igno
rant of, and can guard every pass
and ainbascudo the soldiers at every
step. With plenty of dried meat and
an abundance of game, they can
make a prolonged resistance.
Western officers say it would be
wise to accept volunteers.
Weat Virginia.
New York, July 28—A special
from Parkersburg. W. Virginia, says
the Republican State Convention
yesterday adopted majority and mi
nority reports. The.former arraigns
the Democracy for the administra
tion of State affairs, censures tho re
ception of Federal prisoners by the
State penitentiary, condemns tho
bringing of cheap and compulsory
labor into competition with the la
bor of the people of the State, oppo
ses tho restoration of test oaths, en
dorses the Cincinnati platforn, and
pledges support to Hayes and Wheel
er.
Tho minority report consisted of
the recommendation that question of
locating the State capital be submit
ted to a vote of the people of the
State.
General Rathon Gaff, jr., of Clarks
burg, was nominated for Governor,
Moses Frankenberger for Treasurer;
Jno. A. Hutchinson, of Wood coun
ty, for Attorney General.
ANOTHEK CONFERENCE OF TILUIIN
AMI HENDRICK*).
they will agree and accept.
New York, July 28.—A special from
Saratoga says Tilden and Hendricks will
have a conference to-day, when It Is be
lieved the tenor of their lettors of accept
ance will be decided upon, and the letters
be ready by Sunday.
A great pressure has boon brought to
bear upon Hendricks, and it it is believed
ho will come out in favor of hard money.
THE WAR IN TI lIKUY.
HERVIA GETTING SICK OF IT.
Paris, July 28.— Tho Journal I)es
Debats publishes a special dispatch
from Semlin, dated yesterday, saying
the general political position of Ser
via is growing more serious, and the
partisans of Haragoorgeovitch be
come more threatening every day.
Sixty thousand Chassepot rifles
sold by Germany havo arrived in
Servia by the way of Roumanla.
Prince Milan will return to Bel
grade and ondeavor to bring about
the mediation of the Powers between
Servia and the Porte.
The Weather To-Hav.
Washington, July 28.—For the
South Atlantic and Gulf States, Ten
nessee and the Ohio valley, partly
cloudy weather and light local rains,
easterly to southeasterly winds, sta
tionary or slight rise in temperature,
and no decided change in barometer.
