Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 20, 1873, Page 2

2 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, EBRUARY 20, 1873. WASHINGTON. The Joys of Public l)cht--'l‘roublqs,o[ Virginia and Georgia. Railways and Charter Lobbies. A Skoteh of Kansaa Polities--Pomeroy as Falstaff Banished-Il-Doing Caldwll, Harlan's Moral Calisthenics=-Mems. En_Route. From Our Own Correspondent, WAsuInaTON, Fob, 13, 1873, A tilt batwoon Roosavelt and Chipman, of the o Citios of Now York and Washington, camo - off this woek. Roosovelt roprosonted Tammany Hall ns it ueed to bo, having obtained his nomi- nation from Poter B, 8weony, as also that of his friond Ely, Tammany, at that timo, was looking for two Cougrossmon, nnd puting its Ita bost foot foromost at Washington. Mr, Raosevelt, with some inconsistency, choso tho City Governmont of Washington as tho objoot of attack, and 1aid himeolf opon to the return slur : that ho had nover Licen equally officiont at homo. * It could not Lave beon enid with candor that _ oithor city, aven when most Bossed, was not ont~ * wardly ornamonted ; but tho issuo in bolh eases, .88 in half our National logislation, is, whothor tho ndmirable uso of mouoy justifioa public ofticorn in taking it without warrant. That s tho first refugo after tho illogal usa of monoy: Y Look what we have dono with {t1" A nogro barbor at Atlanta, rubbing ovor my hair, in tho gront, propostorous Dbarn called tho Kimball ouso, oxclaimod: “Doy say dat IL I Kim- * ball, hostolo! But doy nover bad such good times in dis placo nfter ho loftit! Ife mado money plonty, aud do wan dat docs dat will al- waya get my votoI" Yot Goorgin is now threat- sned with ropudiation or hasvy direot taxation + for Mr, Kimbell'a ontorprise. A DEDTS OF TWO STATES, Public dobts, whotlior in citics or States, is oause of depression and alarm. The Stato of Virginia finds its politics affectad by this causo at %ho presont timo, and with difiiculty meots the interest on its bonds; whilo Georgin, sook- Ing to avoid tho ugly imputation of rapndintion, finds ita prosent cheerful and capablo Stato Ad- ‘ministration_threstoned with the disploasuro of toxpayors. Meantimo, Kentucky, with no dobb to -disturb 1t, is, 08T am informed, in o mozo Prouporous condition than for years, and attract- -vg_immigration from Virglnia, and evon from burdened ‘Tennessco. Meantime, tho now Stato of Wost Virginta, having oscaped for tho nonce, in & rather discraditable manner, hor share of tho obllfimons of the older Commonwealth from which sho was shorn, is encouraged by an_ agita- tion in tho valloy counties to bo also admitted Into hor limits, " Tho debt of Virginia was not inourred Dby robeliion, but by railvoad-building out of tho public fuuds prior to the war. It is tho asc ovidonco of the panio of a poor peoplo attha npproach of the luxfinyer to 8co tho poopla of Winchester, Woodstock, and Staunton willing to throw off alloginnce to that Old Dominion I.h'? Dhave 8o blindly worshipped. 'ho older Btato of Virginia is, meantimo, tho Emy of railroadcontontions between the various anda of avaricious strangers who are scoking to cut each othor out in tho Logislaturo, and the narrowness of hor own_politicians, who resist o frea raflrond law. A minority of tho Logislature 1a prufimmd to opposo chiartor for evory new rafls way, belioving that the corporations thomselves rill thus bo compelled to favor o general railway law. ' The Eastorn States are twenty yeara be- hind tho West on this issuo, and, undor a gon- eral law, Obio io gotting railvay Jiviloges i al Elrtn of the 8tate, whilo poor Commonyweslihs ko Virginin aro ecld out by their legislators for & few free passes. QIARTER-PEDLERS, Yeatorday I was told, in ono of the greatest railway offices of this country, that tho Stan- hiopo charter, so-called, which was gbtained from the Now Joraoy Legislatura by tho piocemoal so- licitation of small turnpike and milling liconses, had beon poddled all over tho country smongst railvvay capitalists to find o buyer. The porsons who conceivad.it and carried it ont expootod to got a largo prico for it, Just ns did the lobbyists Who obtained the Baltimore & Potomao charter from Maryland. *.Why did not your COompany buy the Stanhops ohartor ? " aaid X to therailway's Vice-President, ** Becauso our counsellor told ua that it would be decided illegal in intent In tho Joracy tribu- nals, and wo would buy lnwsuit with it. Nol we havo lonrned by soro. chastisomont to oporato upon tho Logislatures in our own way, snd they can’t cook up charlors to sell to us," The States of Now York, Penusylvania, New Jersoy, Maryland, Virginin, snd of the South geuerally, havo Logislatures whichare the silont Dpartners of o fow—sometimesonly one—railrond man. .o treats tho mombers ag partly privileg- ed creatures, and lmyu them wigx n free ride. Thoy are hardly allowed the freodom of his ace qualntance, excopt now and then in_his Diroo- tord’ car, and at such times, gouorally, to lear long-windod harangucs nbout tho comprelonsive lans of his railrosd systom. Moro dogs of ives, and tha cheapest mondicants at tho groat man's crossings, o.lho{' noi and then submit con- spiringly to Lug rival'a propositions, or, in ox- tromtics, contrive aaehomo of their'own to ped- dlo with, No ruilwn{ corporation ean Le l‘:o - est and dircet with Legislatures so gore vilo or ko _corrunt, nud honco such chartors a8 tho Oredit Mobilier, the Stanbope, and vari- ous others nro pussed to soll, and Lought of ;mlitlcnl speculators on the streot. Noither do ho great Railway Kings want to Lavo free rajl. road laws, bub Smn}r to poesess Legislatures or buy thofy priviloges uuder anonymous names in the public shambles, % Buch Logislntures elect nearly all the United States Sonators in tho Epst and Constwiso Btatos, And hienco tho Sonnta fs rapidly grow. ing to bo n sort of General Ticket Agonis' Con- &m:‘lon, l!n; soats h?lld for 6ix yours.” What are 0 prospocts of good and genuino government if theso things bo ndmittcdg? 9 . A BPEOIMEN LEGISLATOR, Noman for his heft over lnd tho'falth of small familics to fully na Mr. Colfws. Yootor. doy Lo testified to having ownod thin kind of Btock while in Congross : Beven-thirty bonds,..., $3,000 Ono sharo New York 7y ibtin T 500 Lake Buperlor Iren Company sodk D 5000 Western Rolling 2R stock. .00 Rocelpta at tho door for n L1200 Adams’ Express stock,.,., . 5,000 Alton & Terre Hauto Railroad bos 6,000 Orodit Mobilior stock (donied). . —7 Buch were the proceeds of tho pockot-book of one of the most virtuous mombers of~ Congresa inDbis duy, A thoussnd rendors may cry out, “ What was to hindor him from holding such stock 7" But thero will be _sigh and o roply from hundreds of cotingos whoro thesgotter's family belioved that {onng Colfax never carrled anything moro worldly than some Bunday-sphool tickota aud Lis necessery oxponsos, Congress, lika n pack of gamestors' oards, lo stocked, It is full of stocl,—good, bad, and in- differont. Tho pockats of tho most promisin are filled with coupons, free expresa tickets, ang oo fustalmont of the wagos of Lrotection, Apart of tho romedy for sall ti part of tho romedy for railway corrnptions 1o tho East is 5enm'nrln.w on the l)":xflronl]p Bube deat, such as Ohio pousesses, hy*which the littlo and the big road will have logal protection and encouragement, and tho Logialature be put out of tho temptat{on of lobbylate, In the Wost, the railway system is compli- catod with the land quostion and tho Bubject of oxcoasivo local taxation. The Hon, Bldney Olarka deseribod to me, recontly, the condition of Kanats, plaatored throo doop with county obligations to railways, and yot IEB Btato Logla« Iature n pussive instrumentality in the hands of two or three Nailway Kings, At the samo time, the farmor’s corn is 15 conta a bushol, and large citloa are hnqnllblng by renson of ovor-stimi- lation under railway influences. A PICTURE OF KANSAS, Kansag lpfiun.rl to have baon the corrupt off- apring of bel l;im‘ent. Froodom, debauched, lika tho daughter of Gustavus Adolphus, whilo all tho goldiery of Protostantism were away tighting out hor cause, The firat onsnarer of this young Btato fs sald to bave been Tom Carney, & trador and shaver who became Governor, and got tho maggot of the Benate on the Lrain, soon after tho xgsn of the war. T'his is the samoe man who took $15,000 from Oaldwell for getting off tha traok in 1K79, Although beaton in politics, ho is successtul in, business, and has becomo o wholesale grocer in, Bt. Louts, ! e x-m-:lAmmnil ; r. Pomeroy was alio a wholesale groasr in. #ho Loanortant axtlolo of beans,—not to mention 1 voeal prafse. o foll into tho praciioa of all' Knusss_ Sonators, . of bnh:g ‘mnnaaod in foo simplo by somobody elso. - Gaylord. owned Pom- oroy, {ust as Loon Bmith possossed =good donl of Oaldwoll, nnd Jim Lnlguto of Oarnoy. Mr, Logato alpnrn[:tnd to goll M, Pomeroy's voto for £100,000 “in tho - Tmpeachmon®. trial; and Mr, Gaylord, hia brothor-iilaw, isn Now Yorl mtro- polltan at Ymflnul, with a clear million, TI'om- oroy lives at Atchison nominaily, whoro 1o has largo farm, over which ronm hords of Angolo gonts, trained to uttor roligious sonnds and furthor stupefy and seduco menof prayor in Xan- sns, Theso gonts utter o ory which is snld to sound wonderfully lile the word * Amon," and many of thom continually do cry tho samo whon- over Mr, Pomeroy is known to fie at homo, g0 ne to convey an Imrmulun of his orthodoxy. Ilo lives, howovar, in faot andIn iutontion, at Wash- ington City, wiih altornntions of Mnasachusetts, Ifo marriod for the third consort n vory ngroo- ablo nnd spiritod Massnchusctta lady, of graclous fortuno fn hor ow right, who fs wall tiought of at tho Fodoral Capital by all sorts of peoplo, In beming, worldly tono, and understanding, Pomeroy is tho suporior of anybody wo Lave soon-horo from Kansas. o look upon, ho ia baldish, largo, ohoorful-faced, and looks Iiko tho ropriotor of a largo iotel who was fond of hay- ing & olorgyman for & guest. Ilis most atatos- manliko “motion s tho picking of his teoth aud tho writing of g(u auto- graph. 1o - boars no malico, is always laddoned to linve an opponont makae it up and Bo nolghborly, and. doptbenton agitatlan. joue nalism, charity outside tho parly,” and nlf othor such dangerous procedents. Mo holds it to boa ‘more boautiful act of one's life to kick a Domo- orat out of his sent than to uxlpnsn o party neso- clato who hns stolen into it. In like mannor, ho ‘would hold tho door to provent scandnlous wit- noasos looking in upon a good man temporarily in tomptation, and, if neccssary to compose the good man :nmpurm‘hy, ‘would havo tho door held upon himsolf. " In short, a well-rogulated, bodily- enjoying, morally-squint-eyod man is Pomezoy, without indignations, talents, or anything moro than o business love of monoy. Ho holds that whatever is is right. Ilo wont to Kansas whon all the youth ‘and fortitude thoro wore aloct to compote with armed Slavory, snd the wospon, which Lo grasped'was o bag of boans,” Tho win naturally rosident In tho bonn—as too many in- ‘vontors *now ‘who havo eought to oxtract lt— took Pomeroy iuto politics, He camo in, and wont out on” his belly. With him rotiros tho nonrest approach to Falataf who hns boon n tho Bouato since Ilumphroy Marshall or John M. Olayton, Thoy possosscd nono of Falatail's dis- honesty, and Tomoroy mono of hiawit; but thero wns & voritablo humor in the Intter’s ukter want of moral naturo, and eany assumption of it. Liko Falstaft, ho wag, onco a (oneral, and Phil- lipg' Lottors on Ionsas show him anmling around in this title, IRko ‘‘Judgo™ Sloanakor uuhm«}uunfl in Louisiana, In Massachusotts, Pomeroy had bean n mem- bor of tho Logielaturo; this fact, tho Genoral- ship, and tho boans put him into the Benate in tho sama combination with that Groat Border Ruflian of the North, Jim Lane, of Kanss, His firat term, liko tho socond, wag distinguished by that closo attention to Committoc-businoss and Postmantorships, and porfect_indiforence to in- dividunl oxpression and Nnttonsl influence, ‘which scom to Lo tho surost ronds to re-olaction nowadays. In 1867 he beat Carney and A. L. Loo,—tho latier .a Gonoral Euhuulrllnuntly in Banke’ army. Tho only acts racorded of him in twelve years, according: to McPhernon' politicnl historics of tho Rebellion and Reconstruction, hayo beon :Tab. 1, 1305, to substitulo tho word _% condition " of rebellion for ** state " of roboll- don; in January, 18G5, to admit the Senators and Mombers from Arkansas—n moral offshoot of Kansns in Republican politica ; and April 19, 1870, to malko !yom'gln ‘the Third Military Dig~ trict,” and’ go prepare it for an eloction in tho following Novemibor, ‘I'bis 18 his record, oxcopt that hovoted “right” ond steadily with his évmy on oveory question, from Stultification to Saute Domingo, I do not Loliovo that ho would hinve over sold his voto on tho Imponchmont trial ; ho waa too good & party man and too arranl & coward. Insido that part; lino whero meannees could eroop and be covere Lo was liko o Jackal proying undor the covor of dorknoss, But the spirit of o martyr to the faintest degroo, ho nover possessed, Ilo lost twonty-six pounds avoirdupois in two days whon tho Logiulaturo of Kaneas passed articles agninat him for bribery ; and, when he aroso to talk in the Bonnto, tho otlior day, it waslike Falstaf® safter tho Princo had eut him: “Ilis nose wos sharp 08 o pon, and 'a bablod of the green fields, and 'acould nover abide carnation : 'twasn color he nover liked." . TIE DUNGLING BRIDER. Caldwoll camo up to the Senato by the gbod, brond, shameless rond whicl Carney and bomo- roy had mado, They had walked the Flwu until any timorous nymph could venture to face it; tho first_atep is Lalf the journoy, bub twelye yoars of Pomeroy might havo mado all Kansas Caldwollian. Tho prosent nccession ‘‘on tho town” wag g'rlsll{, 1ittlo, and with no naturally immoral constitution, ' Naturo did not contribute to his longevity thoso burly hips and shoulders, that back of the neck, and porfoct flatness of foot, which she gives to lLior logitimata jobbor in olitica. He was scrawny, and tho color of his air wag like the lonves of the nubbin-pino in wiator,—brittlo and undecidedly rod. It might havo boen soon with balf sn oyo that Caldwell would alip up in politics, being too vulgar and dlrect abt it Ho kept 1o Amon goats, oxuded no oil on the Boft ovoning boforo the Sabbath-day, and looked out of place with a bandann handkerchiof, Ho wasg, in truth, a wandoring oxpress_clerk from Pounsylvanis, who appeared in Kansas just prior to_tho War, and gottled in Leavenworth City. Having some aid from the Enst,~various- y atated by himself to ba dorived from Camoron and Scott,—ho picked up monoy in_spoculation, and, in company with an uneducated, but adroit, team-contractor named Leonard Smith, Lo shared in tho profits of the overland trade from Fort Leavenworth to the Plains, being first bookkeepor, and ullimately Genoral _Su- porintendent, of tho Overland Freighting Com- pany. They aro o given to slandor in Kansas politica thnt thore is no rcliance to bo placed upon tho chiergo that ho undid his cmployors by ocping at thoir proposals, nor that hie claimoed to 0 o cousin of Simon Camoron, nor that ho said ‘Tom Scott would back him for the Sonate to auy amount. The businoss of froighting to tho amount of two millions por annum gavo Rr, Celdwoll * cluims” on tho Quartermastor’s De- partment, of course., Nobody ever worked for Govornment who was not entitled to * reliof.” fomo yonrs, subsequently, theso claims, and tho daclino of Lonvenworth tosl ostate, Homo ex- orience which he lad in gotling possession of [‘ho Delawaro diminished reserve lands in 1806 (price 22.60 por nctu? andintorests in a couploof Tailways, atartod Caldwoll upon tho race for tho Bapato. ~ Hoe proclaimed his intontions in tho automn of 1870. In two months ho * fixed” tho Logislature by taking the advico of Leon, Bmith, going boldly into tho market for votos, and startling tg‘nbl o impuleivoness in Kansas by stating that the ponummz resourcen *‘ behind him" wore fllimitable. ‘I'ho averagoe man out thoro is said to run for tho Logislature from his youth up, and it wes fashionablo to soll ong’s Yote when successful, in ordor to show n peaco- ful and nccommodating mood, and kaep real estate sterdy, Mr, Caldwaell paid "W“E' a8 has beon shown by tho testimony and by the bank-hooks, $38,001 which have Ueen discovered. o mado his cam- paign in just throo months, bought tho bosom- Irionds of Mr.Bidnoy Cinrko, bought High, Lo, Juck, and tho Game, and was uloctefi at "tho dropping of tho bat. 3 o wus not o natural politician. Ho wns menaced by all the othor defeated candidatos to whom he wonld not make contributiona in an cleomosynnry way, Morover, his Loavonworth proporty declinod, Oredit Mobilier camo in malapropos and nroueed tho country, o found Oarnoy and ll tho set poking his checkes st him. And, in the hurly-burly, despite tho earnest intercessiont of * pal” Harlan, the great fororunner and pmfiunuor of Onldwall' N, Bome nw{, was ostraciged Ly the Legislatiro on the paliry showing of 87,000, cash in hend, Tor this amali and porfoctly innocont consideration, Mr. Pomeroy was desortod oven in Kausag, Thus was tho winter of o discontent Made rod-lot summer by this sum of York thllllngu understoed), Mr. Farlan and myself o not believe this story, We quote the Lymn to ourselves, boginning 1 Bribios, 1010 brives, wolmow not what thoy moan § Tiribea from the depth of gomio divine deapaix Riuo In tho heart and gather o the oyes, 1 Tookiug on 1hio lappy Kankas fclda, Aund thinking of tho beans (st are no niore, Harl titun, b o Dy Zenedlot 4 arlan saya thue, in tho Daily Benedicl Arnold which he publishes's 4. It {3 about tme for tho opposttion press fo dlscover that tho peapla aro eartily uick of (hia cry ahout the corruption of thoso membiors who wers invelgled into the purchaso of o littla Credit Mobiller wtook, The smnount thoy recelvod was too ridiculously snall for #uch nolso, This {8 tho firat timo wo ovor hoard tho youny Iady’s npology for her foundling applied luysmlgu questions : 4 Plongo, sir, it's such o littlo ono! s ‘x;n'rmx.‘xsl o mm‘.‘ 0 Boaton Jotrnal has abandoned D and wheeled oyer to Boutwoll for the Bnm?;: This nccesu!o? ul{ mlz;llél m‘?lolu: wlz:u!v.l bo of no consequence in iteelf, not show how t| Oredie Noblior wort he ore Is somethiug afloat about the counter- folting of Bloux Olty Rallrond bonds: about their impasition upon tho Trenaury through tho corruption of ofliclals; about tracing thom as articlon of bribory fnto distin and about pending disclosuros which shall make William Trweed nllogo with confidenco that ho is tho most lionost publio man in Amorioa. ~Tho North Paclflo Railway pooplo dony that thoy had any {utontion of nsihlg for bonded ald to holp thoir road ; but thero 18 roason lo bho- lova that tho Orodit sobor second thought, ™ “If tho people do not stamp out this systom of railway-oorruption now, {t will stamp them out." IIad wo swindlod tho Governmont of tho United Btaton, porjured ourcolves, aud proved tho uneasy oravon hich James Brooks Lins done, wa wonld have avoided tha confossion of imbo- cility ns well. " Last Thursdny, Brooks callod up Dan Voorhacs, Gun Bcholl, and Book, of Ken- luchy| to provo that ho hnd * nover ' influctced thom" to voto for tho Paciflo Raflway, Probably not. Iocould influonce nobody who know him, but a thonannd negatives conld not provo _oven this, What did ho get the 160 sharos of Oredit Mobilior for? What did ho take an intorest in tlo rond for, though o Governmont Dircotor, contraty o faw? What did o slandor Iugl, Hasting for, and poraccute him to tho odgo of the Capitolino dutgeon? What id ho slauder A'Comb for? What did he nppeal to Almighty god ;or, with consclous guilt in his bosom at tho mo Oaoldwell, of Kansas, whon askod if ho wonlil awonr to hia dofonce and confossion mndo Inst Monday, roptied that ho ““upon’liis SBonatorial honor ~Iow difforont this frank conduct from those Toprosentatives who committed moro actiona~ ble perjury! Goneral Grantrofused to sign thobill ““to quict land-titlos” inTowa, which was fathoredby Frank Palmor, of Dos Moines, who hag boon votod out of tho noxt Congress by tho wish of his follow- citizens, F““ in disguat at his_inhuman porso- cution of John A, “Kasgon. Kasson mado a Jaux pas many yonrs sgo, which was attonded ‘with domostic and political consoquoncoes which might woll have touched tho honrt of any ehiv~ alrous competitor, - Not so in Iowa, howover, whoro the politicians caa quiot Iand-titlos with moro alncrity than pormit a bruised spirit to forgot iteclf,” Mr. Palmer olocted and ro-clocted i 1 that ification of. X X P R p'mtnned iv to go boyond ° the door's own throshol Tho enmpnlqn mado against Kase son failed lpst summor of its own contemptiblonoss. To rovel in a follow-man's pain ; to hold out Lis heart upon & knife, and show tho ono old spot in it forever; to keop ‘malice upon yonom, and swoar that, when once down, an orring countryman shall never got upon his foot, but be stamped thoro,—and all to elect Frank W, Palmer threo times,—this was very liko tho porformance of a coward; and it not only beat Palmor, but beat him so badly that ho is nbout to move to Chicago, extinguished. Bo- twoen times, tho bill passes to quict other men's titlos,—n bill passed {n'tho faco of tho protest of forty thousaud potitioners. Tho Prosidont rofused to give the bill his sig- nature, but did only half his duty. An investi- gation 18 nocessary upon this subject, and it is to bo lioped that Iasson will como hore in the month of March and begin it, There are iwo tilles quieted in Yown, to ‘soats in Congress at any rate. Garu, P e 5 R PRODUCER VS. NGN-PRODUCER. Protection of Ilome=Endustrys oox's PoxT, Hamilton Co,, Tows, Fob, 17, 1873, -To the Editor of The Chicago Tribuste: 8in: Your Dea Moinos correspondent, in an analysis of tho recont vote in our Loglslaturo on the subject of logislative rostrictions upon rail- road froights, infers that the farmersin that body * got upon the wrong sido of tho tongue," or, in othor words, did not voto, in ki opinion, intelligontly. Tho roal significanco of thoir voto, ns I undorsiand if, is this: Thero are farmera in our Logislaturo who aro intelligent onough to undorstand tho important principle involved in & logielative cnactmont like that re- forred to, which, if disrogarded, and oxpodi~ onoy be substituted, must, like all departure from principlos, rosult sooner orlater in mis- chievous, if not dangorous, consoquonces. There are roflocting and observing farmers, who rocog- nizo the immutablo Iaw of supply and demand; who percoive tho ovil offecta of artificial bar- riora'against natural forces ; who porfeotly com- probond that the non-producing classes are alarmed by tho unoxpected combinations and ootivity of tho preducers, and, fearful of tho punishments that await their solfish and rapa- cloug uso of powor, would now savo thomselvea by throwing this ‘‘oxorbitant freight” tub to tho whalo, Vainly will the non-producer try to divort tho producer from thae pursuit of his real onomy, by forciug this railroad scnpegont across tho path of vongoance! Tho farmors, of Tows at leagt, know {00 much to bo doceived by this Now Jersey trick,—n kicle on the shin, and a bandful'of sand in tho eyes, Tho furmors, of Towa, ot lenst, are organizing rapidly, drilling activoly, and proparing zenlously for'tho pur- poso of overthrowing tho croators, rather than tho creaturos, of ariatocratio logisfation, Thoy aro now beglnuing to sco that the worlk boforo them ia to regulnto Congross and ogisla- tures. In tho light of rocont investigations, thora are but fow who do not smilo knowingly ot a “Dill to requlato railronds,” Porhaps, as the revolution bucomes moro for- ‘midablo, and .it is found that we are not lured from our path by the railroad scapegost, the iron, ealt, lumbor, nnd othor class intorests which have so long furnishod him with pap, will ba_eacrificed by tho norm-producer in his extromity. Who doos not already soo tho signs of proparation for throwing overbonrd tho Tarif? Murk you, if this movement of tha pro- ducing clagges can show tho influonce its frionds oxpect with auotlior yonr, our non-producing friend will blandly offer to condono on the ‘Tarife | Inow venturo to ask you fo publish what Iboliovo to bon now, original, and valuablo iden; it is illustrativo of that great principle so ardontly advocated by tho immneulato Kelloy s “Protoction of home-industry against tho pauper-labor of Europo.,” If “thoidoa is not what I claim for it in overy respect, pleaso omit. from corrospondence. If, on tho contravy, it stands pro-ominent amongst nll Tariff argu: ments and illustrations, I trust you will not fail to olaboratosnd apply it in Gome of your valuablo cssays upon tho subject, for the futuro bonoflt of tho nution. My ided is, thet a per capita tax, or tariff, enficiontly Iargo at lonst, should be impoaed upon evary able-bodied man, or woman, of tho dencln claggon, who is, or may bo, imported into the United Statos. Let tho rato beso large ns to eocure homo- Inborers from the paupor-competition of Eu- ropo; and, it it oan Lo so adjusted, why should not tho gronter portion of thio dufy go jato tho ockets of tho manufacturors of * homa-labor 7" am quito onthusigstic ovor this schomo, The fact ig, Tam tho fathor of thirteon childven, who aro in the possession of various, refined, and lnxurious tastes, nud somo mental attnine ments, It s impossiblo, you know, to support {hem bandsomely by agricultural lobora of my own, in compotition with my surrounding neigh- bors, who aro chiefly impoi+ed citizons, and who, somohow, contrive to' live without' mueic, libravios, or a Onrcaco Toivuxn, and who do nob scom o take much intorest in Club, Grangon, tariffy, railrond-oxtortions, or * auy other man,” whethor corn ba 10 or 50 conta por bushel. Xt occura to mo that, if thore bo roully anything for tho good of tho country in tho pop~ ular dodtring of protoction to honiw-indusiry, it ought to bo appliad diroctly to protect my class, by exoluding, nchl‘dhlE to my original idos, na far ns n high tefd may have 'that offoot, all ablo-bodied foralgners from our ports; nud I would suggost thot the more skilfal, and hoalthy, wnd othorwiup yvaluable tho article imported, the highor ought to bo the duty. Thus would the great, but puzzling, doctrino of proteetion to Amorican Inbor be brought within the undor- Blnudlnfi of every laboror and praducor, sud it ouglt then to receive his unquulified assont and cordial support. If ever my follow-citizons sond me to Congress wpon this"onoe idos,—and aro there not somo Congrasemen who hayo but the ainglo ono of “ protection to Liome-Industry p"— 1 horeby }fludgn nyself to uso my best offorts to wnku it tho koystone to tho \vfmlu Proteative Tarif arch. Curas, WinTaken, —_— THAT THOUSAND-DOLLAR BILL, TaBALLY, TIL, TFob, 3 To tho Editor of The Chicago Tribuna: T But: In aditorial comments upon tho allogod donation of §1,000 by Mr. Nesbit to Afr, Colfux, I note thoe following language in your papor of this dato: “ It goes toward explaining his bauk account,” eto. Unlous somo of the testimony has cscapod my notice, his bauk account is fn n tht thousnnd-dollar bill; for Dr. Oulfae sooss 13 show that ho over checked against that fatal doposit of Juna 23 for tho §1,000 draft ho sont 'ho inforenc areforo, is ol tho Nonbit bill for tho dratt, and. 'z‘l'x'nne'l‘,tz% e ronoy deposit still smells strongly of Oredit Mobllier dividends, Yours truly, AggounTant, lplicd hnnday |- Mobilior panio led Lo this | =T DUE SOUTH. - Proposod Air-Tine from Chi- cago to Nashville. The Owenshoro Route to the Gulf and Seaboard, The Richest Portion of Kentucky to Be Opeoned to Chicago Trade, to Rome, 20 there is & tendency everywhoraman- ifested by railroad builders to muko for Chicngo from Enst and West, North and South. Tho most recent of theso enterprises is ono whose naturo and promising and important aspeets aro bost shown by the map wa giva in this iseuo, tho route due south by Owensboro and Nashville, which certainly possesses great claims to tho considoration of ¢ur citizons, It involves the opening of n grand trunk line via Danville, Vin- connes, and Owensboro, Ky., to Nashville, Tenn., ond the Quif and Aflantic sonboard of the Bouth, This onterprisoc has beon Inid bofore prominont railroad men- of the city by Mr. James O. Rudd, of Owonsboro, Ky., and is meeting with much favor. Our map saves longthy description, ~ Chicago is nlready con- nocted with Vinconnes by way of Danville and Terro Haute, The links to bo complated are 70 miles botwoen Vincennos and Owensboro, and o ortion of the routo betweon Owonsboro and glnah\'flla. ‘Tho advantages of -this important proposed railway connoction will be seon ata glance. Of the lavgo and weslthy agricnltural region, of which Owensbora is tho contre, much is alroady known, and of the benefits resulting to Chicago from' direot oconnection with tha §rou.t southern railway system, and centres of rade, it ia not ensy to writo too glowingly. Owensboro ia o eity of 8,000 inhabitants, tho mart of a region vory wealthy in proportion to its populntion. Bouth of itlies tho gront to- bacco produclng region of Kentucky, oxtonding noarly to tho Tonnessos line, ‘This county nises more than ona-fourth of all the tobacco of tho Stato. Most of it finds its way to Owonsbora ay its most convenlent river point, and is taken thonco to tho difforout cities of tho West. The tobaceo trado i8 extonsive, and there scema to bo no reason why Chicago should not Inrgely par- bicipato therein, $ Ovensboro, it will be seon, lies upon an air line botwoen Chicogo and Nashville, Tho Ken- tucky counties lying botween the two cities first and fast mentioned are not only rich in agricul- tural products, but ‘in coal of the best quality, which, a8 murked, undorlies n largo portion ol tho entire region. Iron oresare found in abund- ant and oxhaustless sources, and lead exiots, nl- Lhiou%h to what oxtont has not yet been dotex- mined. As to stage of complotonees, tho lino botweon Ovensboro and Nashvillo i entirely completed, —to Btroude City, 36 miles from Owensboro, tho tracik Is Inid from Stroude City to tho State line of Tonncaseo, the rond-bed is graded, and rendy for the ties, and thence to Nashville, 8 miles, it is untouchad, - Work is progressing enorgoticaly l{ all along the route, aud thero is little’ doubt thet the cars will bo running_botwoen tho two tormini within cighteen monthy,” Tho Company pushing this groat enterprise is Inrgely composed of Owonoboro capitnlists, and tho tobacco coun- ties intorosted aro gssisting liberally, Tho distanco from Chicago to Nnu{x ville by {ho proposod through lino is 440 miles. At this point it touchos the contro of the great Southorn network of railronds, redinting to nll parts of 'Wonmesseo, and tho northorn ports of Blississippl, Alabumn, and Gooxgia, o vast district, hnving boundless weelth. in cot~ ton, moat of Which gacs to the Enet smd to Tu- ropo. Wo horo kuow well what tLi country abroad is boginning to botiove tho prospeot that Chicago may, at nodistant day, hecomo a senport, a3 woll au o laka port. ~ Tho deeponing of tho old canals to admit of tho passago of ocenn eraft, nnd tho construction of now routea to the scn, which have from timo totimo boon divcussod in e Toivoxe, Wikl doubtless reach sudh nre- sult, With the consummation of' suvh ontorpriees, the commerolal importanco of our oity would Do inflnitely incr.ased. With this route to tho scn scoured to Ohi eago, not only tho Northwest, and tho large po.tiion of tho Wost whoso trad scok Chicago, but the Bouthwost, and o \raeb traot of country duo south, will find Chicago’ to bo thoir mont economical point of export end import. In view of such nn ovent, the comple- tion of o grand trunk routo duo South avsumes grent importance. New York Oty is 1,000 miles from Nashvillo ; Olicago is but 440 nziles from tho capital of ennassoo, and In rapidly roaliz- ing oqual ndvantages in compoting tor its trade, Weo havo givon above the distancos betwoon tho various points betwoon Nashville wud Chi- cago, Dut tho complotion of a new route from Danvillo and Yinconnos, through Parls, Iilinols, will shorten tho dlstauco ovor twenty milos, A company has rocently boon organized to build tha saventy miles botweon Owensboro and Vin- counos, and it is ospeoially in tho intevests of this rond that Mr. Rudd now visits Ohiengo. ‘I'he citizonsof Vinconnosarogreatly futerested iu tho proposed route betweon this oity and Dunville, and still moro 5o in tho road betweon thelr city and Owonsboro, ~Public moetings bave boen Lotd to forward the entorpriso, and & company bias boen formed with a uarxiul of 83,000,000, which can bo incressed at will to 34, 000,!500. ‘The following gontlomen have boon chosen Direo- tora: T, R, Oobb, Dr. A, Iatton, H. A. Foulks, W. IL. DoWolf, N. F. Mallot, L. L. Walton, Conornl Laz, Noblo, T. W, Viatie, Hon. Jumes D, Wilifsing, and Colonl O M, Allen, ali of Vin- cennos and vioinity, James O, Rudd, of Owona- boro, Ky., Goodlet Morgan, and W, H. Posoy, of Plic County. The following ~ oficors havo becn olooted by the Directors’ moot- g in_ full Board: L. L. Walton, I’nssld«mu Oolonel 0. M, Allen, Vige President; Gener: Laz, Noble, Booretary ; Hiram A, Foulks, ‘I'rens- urer, The roscoution af tho enterorli®y i6 in . As, in olden times, all ronds wore snid to lead’ lo_8hio now controls, will® | "Ras Sy 0o, Yogy, Otlingn [ that tho pooplo of Vin- pooplo of Vin- good Lands. Tho ener; counes and Owensboro have hitherto' shown railrond enterprisgs warrants the bellef that tha hand will bo pushed forward projects now in with vigor, and comploted within a year. If Owonsboro, Vinconnes, and tho localities adjacont_to tho nncomplo‘od roads recelve & roasonablo nmount of enconragoment from capi- tolists and corporations at this end of the lino, suflicient enorgy comld bo dovel- oped fo ' comploto ~ all_ tho meoessary links betweon CI.IE‘.ISD and Nashville within o enr. In Any ovont, not moro than o yonr and o alf ia likely to elapee boforo tho only obstaclo that provonts n continuous rail between the two oitios will bo the Ohio River.. . Tho vicinity of couliarly ndapted for bridging Abovo the city about a milo thero is a broad bottom of rock éxtondivg from bank to Louk, and cov- ored in summor by not more thivn from 16 to 2t inchos of wator. "Below tho oity about the samo distance thore is another Flu“ having a similar o railway bridge, At either point viaducts could be builtof tho most substantial charactor, and at a minimum of Tor this formation of ‘a trunk line to Nashville, thore would bo noeded, on tho part of the intercated ronds, mutual accommoda~ toa cortain oxtont, financinl Wliat was for tho intorast of any Iink in the lino would most surely bo for the in- torests of tho wholo, Between Ohicsgo and route crosses many cast ond west lines of railway, all of which would bo feodors, incronsing indoflnitoly its trado and iravel, Southof Owonsboro, tho road toNashvillo would cross at Btroude City tho Elizabethtown & Paducah Railrond,. and at Russelville the New Orloans & Momphis Railroad. It will also tap o line to Bowling Green soon to bo completed, snd which will either use ite own track to Owens- boro, or run for the last twenty or thirty miles over tho track of the Owensboro & Nashville Railroad. Wo trust that what has boon said will bo carofully considored by all intorested, and thal will bo heard dispassionaoly wherovor ho may urgo his viows, for that which. hio advocates oannot fail to be of interost to all Owensboro is that strenm it} .enso and choapnoss, fitness for the building of oxpenso, tion, and, porhaps consolidation. Nashvillo the proposed Mr. Rudd iuterosted in the progroes of our city. —_— NO SCAVENGERING IN THE SEVENTH WARD To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune : Bm: In the Bunday issue of Tux TribuNE, o communication appesred from Mr. Poter Dow- nio, tho City Scavonger, in which ho gives tho Himits of tho districts within which his contracts requiro him to colloot garbage, nshes, eto., ate., on the West Bide, substantially as follows: Trom Lako sireot south to Twelfth street, and It thus appears, Mr. Editor, that, in the lotting of theso contracts, Iargo and thickly-populated dis- tricts of onr city aro entiroly disregarded by our Health Board, and garbage {s loft to be disposed of in tho only way posaiblo, namoly: decompo- from Canal streot west to Western avenuo. sition, to tho detriment of publio lealth, The writer has tho fortune to reside in tho Bevontl Ward, tho populntion of which was stated by Dr. Rauch, in June, 1871, st 16,000, and which ward he reports, in the same docu- mont, r8 baving less sewerage in proportion to art of our Thia i8 also tho same ward which, during tho last two yonrs, was_so naverely visited by discase, ospecinlly tho dronded smnll-pox, and which also showed such largo numbers of deaths in the wcalg{ mortality reports, This ward in- strick from Sixteonthstroot south to tho e ,population *‘than any other city. cludes the tho rivor, and from' the river, and soap-manufectories, doprivsd of the benefits ? compolling thomn to broatho the foul and poison- ous gasos arising thorofroin? Is thero nuy good reason for tho oxclusion of this ward from tho Deos this not ox- Libjt an inexcusnble indifference for tho rights sud priyileges of tho tax-poyers of this ward? In the name'of tho peopls of tho ward, I do- agalnat {hia Htagrant 1th of this district. T'ho writer, durinz tho summor-months of last’ year, took paing t6 obeorvo tho gonoral condis ion of tho stroets £ad ditehes -of this. ward; and I stato tho positivo tryth whon I nssort thab thelr condition wes o moat vickoning one, m}: W, graon, slimy matter, and tho remeins of decaying Yogetuble matter and rofuse thrown thera by 4ho occupants of houees, from want of a battor modo for dispasing of tho game. And yot it is- not dormed necossury to inoludo the distrlet in 1tis of littlo bonofit to tho peoplo to hear of long poriodieal roports from the Board of Hoalth converning tho nogli- enco of the contractor in fulfilling Liv contracts, 'hoy would much rathor profer prompt, officient, and earnest supervision of the mannor in which $he seavonger porforma’ his dutles during the montus whon 1t is most neceesary, and tho ox- gending of tho bonefits to all parts of our eily. Bevexra Wirp. bonofits of these contracty ? sira to enter my protosts nogloot of tho public Loa much all tho timo; that thoy wore fille the scavengor's contraot. g A Rat Story, . The Someract Herald tells the following: ¥ Misg Lizzio Housefelt, dnughtor of Honr Xousofos't, who lives sbout a mile to tho soutl of town, ownu o boautiful ot sheep, On onoe morniug Fast weole sho noticod that the wool, of which Lty pot has o mowt luxuriant ooat, on ono aido, Just whore tho necl Joina tho spoulders, was twlsted and knotted and raised up in o sor Upon oxamination, aho found that & in tho wool of tha sheop, and whon iho pulled the placa it stuck its hoad af hor ay comlrlncuutly a8 you hat it was enslly onught and despatched. In tho evening, whon tho sheop was put back in thoatable, Mesl Lizzio ‘noticod that it wont ali around, looking into tho <oruers aud nosing about as though it wore in sonvoh of somothing, showing thrt a friendly ro- A, datiouship existed betwoun tho yat aud shoep, - of o lump, rat lad mado & nost out and loodia ploago, T'he rat was so tamo .GEORGE DRIVER. he Wife-Murderer to Be Hx- terminated. Sentenced [to Be Hanged March Fourteenth. The Motion for a New Trial Over-: rulod. Drivor Coolly Ackmnowlodges That Ho. Fired the Fatal Shot, - b The motion for » new trial in the caso of Qoorgo Drivor camo mp at 10 o'clock yosterday morning in the Oriminnl Court, Judgo Gary, of tho Buperior Court, prosiding. Tho prisonet was neatly dressod, and lookod clesn aud com: posed. Ho mat with his hands upon his kneces Quring tho ontiro argument, and scemod neither cexcited by Mr, Mason's offorta, nor depressed by tho advoraoc action of tho Court, Alr. Mason safd the ovidonce was so fresh in thoir minds as to make it unnocogaary to dwell onit. Thomain ground on which tho applica- tion was basod, and onoon which it should bo granted, was that of nowly-dlacovered evidence. Ho prosented "the afiidavit of Adelaide Fitzpotrick, that she know Ann, Drivor. On Baturdsy, Nov. 18, the day after tho shooting, sho saw Ann Drivor at hor houso suf- foring from the pistol wound, and that Ann told bor that Goorge was drunk .at tha time he shot ‘her, and that it 1t Lad not have been for that ho would not have hurt her. Mra, Driver, shortly Doforo hor denth, snid it was the drink undor tho influencs of “which Drivor was that caused on tho east, to Wostern avenue, on the west, and includea with- in its boundarics & number of slaughter-houses 2 Alargo part of it is vory donsely iuhabited Ly laboring mon and me- chanics,—threo or four families in onoe houso. It L sawors on but three stroots onst of Halsted streot, although rosideuts have made ropeated effortato necuro drains on the most filthy strects, And this district, which can bonst of tho least sowers, is not oven includod within tho scaven- ger's contracts, “Aro wo to ho taxed from yenr to yoar oqual £0 other parts of tho city, and bo Is this the mannoyr in which our Board of Health look after tho cloaulinogs and Lior]th of the poorar portion of our population, by coolly permitting them to liva on streots whoso gutters and alloys always xeol with filth and decayed mnttor of ovory kind, and hor donth, Thocounsel also read an afdavit of Drivor's, to tho effect that he had just found out that Mrs, Fitzpatrick could tostify for him, ahe boing the only witnoss to tho dying doclarations of tho wifo, Ha was not awaro that thore conld be any opposition to tho motion for & new trial. Cortainly thers could bo no question n};?ntmuulvtng tho’ dylng declarations of the wifo. « Mr. Reed auggeated thiat Mra. TFitzpatrick's affidavit did not stato that Mrs, Driver was con- Hoious of hor cortain death. Mr. Magon commentod on Mr. Reed's un- seemly hasto, and his apparent thirat for Driver's blood, Iftho Biato’s Attorney. would wait, he would noe that the afidavit was in proper form. Ho rond therefrom to slow that Alrs, Driver's statomont was made, knowing that her wound as fata, for sho sald it was tho drink that her husband ook that caused hor dosth. Thosn words, Mr, Mason thought, wero sufliciontly ex- pliclt, and tho afiidavit would bo strong . nuuuf,vh oven if it wore not as explicit, to prove whic] Lo reforred to numerous authoritics, H also roferred to the books to show that tho evi- donco referrod to in the afidavit camo within the definition of nowly-discovered evidence, Its matorlality was unquestionod, and, if introduced ‘boforo, would probably have lod to a differont <vordic, : . Ho had other grounds for moving for a now trial, but thoy wore not so.strong as the ono al- rgl}dy stll:tcfl, and he did not desire to arguo them st longth. A Tho Court agreed that the afiidavit was proba- bly sufflolent, a8 far as Mra. Driver's conscious~ _noss of ' doath as concorned § butwere those declerations evidenco of anything _moro than the baro fact of Drivor's drunkenness at tho timo? Could they bo teken ns evidonco of his intentions, wh%h could bo judged of only by higacts? If not, tho testimony would simply go to prove Dri- vor's condition. Had not Mr. Mason put in tos timony on that point? _Thero was no question ho was drunk then, and the testimony went as far ns Mra, Driver's docleration did. 3 Mr, Moson said-His Honor's ressoning would drive out all camulative avidonco. "Tho Court thought not; only in cases where it was sought to pile up avidencs on & point not disputed. If it- was proven ha was drunk, it nmt io no difforenco " if furthor testimony was ut in, 4 AIr. Mason enid therg was no such ovidonca. Theo tostimony of ihe children wont to show he wag not drunl, but o littlo exelted with liquor. Thoy had sworn thus in order to hang tho man, “L'he Court loolked at tho testimony, which con- firmed Mr. Moson's statemont. Bir. Mason went on to say that Mrs, Peters, testimony, as to the threats made by Driver, should bo excluded, since they wero mado in 1860. 1Mrs, Peters anid Driver lad told her thon hio would shoot hig wife. During the intorval nothing waa provsd, . On that ground alone s new trial should bo granted. Thentho tostimony, o8 to throats six mouths. ago, should be ex- cludod, tending to. improporly - -projudica the {ury agninet .the prsouer. 'The Btarko testified” to acts . three . months boforo tho homicide which certainly could not be con- neeted with it. Ho Ld attompted to prove thoy Tiad lived peacofully together up to tho timo of the homicldo, wont to merket together, etc., but the Court exciuded it., - Tho Court eaid that was a mistake—tho teati~ mony waa in, Lven if it was not {t amounted to littlo, 'The old throats were admissiblo only to show hig intention at tlio time lio did shoot hor, They proved ho had doliberated on the matter. M. Mason insisted theromust bo a continuous chain of threats, ‘I'ho Bteto's Attorney hardly thought it neces- seiy for him to say coything, : . The Court could not koo any ground for grant- ing a new trial. ¥ Alr. Mason said ho had also taken excoptions to somo of tho instructions; but the real ques- tion was, wouldnot Mrs, Fitzpatricl's testimony, if’it bnd' gono boforo fhe jury, have changed thoir veraict and gont the ‘defendant to prison rather than tho gallows? He dwelt for somo time upon this point.. , 3 3 "The Court.—1'ho decision of the motion must bo based upon strict logal principles. Tho coun- sel of couruo feels tha. importanco to his client of the docision, and whatovor is in his power Lo urge, it i8 right that Lo should urge,. . But. the ground of tlio motion for o now trialis, subotan- ticlly, that tho dying deoliration of this woran- 8 to “tho offcot that at tho timo of tho shooting the prisoner was drunk, That fact was proved at the triel ; thero was no doubt about 1t in tho mind of suybody who that thoy wero to take thatfact into considers- tion, if (hey bolioved it from the evidence, which thoy could not nvoid; and connsgl, on his argu- ground upon which'the jury woroto oxorciso their discrotion a8 to tho character of tho pun- fghmont. It wag for thom to detormino what tho punighmont should bo with that fact boforo thom, and thoy have dotormined. Now it is quito possiblo, 88 -tho connsel urgos, jury, that she did not beliove that e intended to Iill Lor, that the Jury might give to that doclaration o weight thet thoy onqht not to give, and oonsidar it as ovidenco when it ought not to bo considercd ot all, and s0 give o verdiot not upon the avidonco in .tho causo—that which ia tho legitimate ovidonce—but based partly upon what they ought not to consider. I cannotgrant & new trful with thut view. I should- bo violat~ ing all legal principles to grant a now trial with tha oxpectation thet by tho new trial tho dofend- ant was to get a benofit which tho law did not en- titlo him to, Tiho fact of his drunkennoss, of hi condition ut the _time, of hie boing drunk at tho timo, is tho ouly fact with referonce to whicl hor dying deolarution Is_sdmissiblo, and that fact wa3 boforo the jury. Imust dony tho motion for o now trisl, Mr. Magon oxceptod, snd filed n motion in arrost of judgment, whioh ‘was also ovorruled, IJo asked for timo to filo n bill of oxcoptious, and during that tima to stay the sontence. The Courb Lkuew of no precedont for it. My, Mason wantad oll the time ho conld got for his bill, & ‘Ihe Court gave him till the 12th to propare it ; that, hio belleved, was long onough. Mr. Reod moved that the Court proceed to sentonco tho prisonor, Aftor tho prisoner had stood up, the Court sald: *Your counsel hns urged overy argumont which hia ingonnity cau deviso, a8 a roason for & new trisl in thia causo, but utill it is in accord- 1 | auco with usngo that T shoul ask you wheshor you have auything to uny why soutonce of doath Bliould not riow b passed upon you P ‘T'ho Prisonar—Your Honor, sir,- all I bave got tosay is, Ididnotinteud to shoot that woman any mora than [doyou now. Wo hed a littlo troublo, and I hnd n small pistol that Ihad put in my pookot. I put this hand In my pocket, na Ithink Idld, oud, os Iremombor well enough, it enught my loft hand, and it wont off, Iwontinto fho bedrnom to look for my com- forter, and I gaw tho little boy and girls in tho othor raom, und I wont out toaco thom, and elio looked at mo, and did not speak; norI. I went up Bluo Islund avenuo and thinks I to mysolf, T mny have shot her—I. did not know—I will go howe. AvsoonesIdid, I saw two or throo |- attomptin) “| women in tho houro, and two mon, I did not Imow what it was, and stayed looking, and by and by n pollosman osmo and took held of mo, and eays, * You skot your wito,” or aumo!hlng % liko that, and I walked off. I did not inten: to shoot that woman or do suything with hor. = From tho dsy wo was married, until then, 1 do not think I ever lifted my hisnd on hor. - T fny have ot hor -down; ot scolded hor, but I never struck thatwoman, That is all T have got to uay. T Tne Ouurb—guurfia,,])rlvnr you. havo .boon convioted of a terrible orimo, tlio murdor of the wifo of your carly love, and tho murder of your children,” Your situation excites gront pity, but this s not n Pl«wn nor “nn occaslon for iha exhibltion or Indulgenco of suy. emolion, I ghall - mot ropronch {ou nor oxhort you, for tho henrt canuot bo riod liore, nor shall I nul-r{;u upon the ciroum- atances of your offonco, or its cnormity, Wha I nay to you is not 8o much “for you as for oth- ors, who may take warning by your fate, A {uopnr Justifioation of tho death ‘which yonsro 0 meab at tho hands of your follow men” is not found moroly {n tho fact that you desorve it, but sooloty protocts_itsolf against you, and ofhora to do-na_you have done, by 'overy moans in ita powor, It hna organizedthls Court to denl with "tho 'moro dangerous members of tho community, and. whou all othor moans prove inoffectunl, ‘to oxterminato tho most langerous, not for vongosuca, but- for safoty, You have taken one lifo, and as tho appotite grows with what it feeds upon, all lives are maoro ondangored from your hands if freo, than thoy woro bofore that sct. If possible, othor Iivea are to bo saved. Tha oxample of your puns ishment may be o warning to those who. would othorwiso imitata tho examplo of your gult, and 80 save somo that would olse” bo eacrificed. There aro in this oity o mult{tude of mon who are violent to thu,wnnk—subglnuls of their hower —somo of whom prohnbl{ will ocoupy tho place whoro you now stand, but some may be prevonts ed from coming to thls placo by your example. 1t romaing only that I should pronounce the sontenco, which fa that you be taken from the bar cf this court to the county jail, from whenco ou woro brought; thero to bo !nlnix[ kept until iday, tho 14th day of - March, and then ‘In the ‘prison of this counly or in the yard or-enclosure adjoining sald prinon, that you bo by tho Bhorift hung by the nock un- B I o listoned to the triel, Tho jury wors instructod- ment to the jury, urged that as almost the only. that if the declaration could be got before tha. til death. Romove the prisonor. .. Mr. Mason—I deaire to take an oxcoption to tho sentence, sinco it doos not Bay tho prisonor is to bo hanged between sunriso and sunsot, Mr. Rood—That in the custom, not tholaw. The Court—Racall the prisoner. % nlllr. mmd—tl hnu‘a no doug:!. enu: sontenco 18 pere ‘cotly corract aa it I8 noi, but to pave any quese tion ¥ will o it bo corestd. 74 T, Mason—Now I objoct, your Honor. I take tho oxcoption that gl.m Court cannot roe ! #entonce the prisoner. 5, 3 ‘Tho Court—Your counsel hns objectod that tho hour of. tho Eunhhmnnb lins not beon fixed, In nddition to what I said boforo, the sontence will bo carried into effeot betvoon the hours of sunriso and gunaet, on the dry fixed, . Mr. Masou—I exoopt,of courte, to your Honor'y rosontencing. THE PRESIDENT'S SOUTHERN TOUR. Gonerni Grant to Leavo for the South on DMarch 20-«Carpot-fZnggium and Corruption to Ro Investigntod, and Xiarmony Betweon Norih and Ssuth Xcstorods Richmond, Va, (Feb, 14), Correspondincs of the New : ‘Vork Heratd. ¥ Thore i8 no ovent either of Stato or National “intoreat that occasions no much commont, con- sldoration, or speculation among the Southern peoplo as tho contemplated tour of President Grant through the lato rebollious Statos. Now, thia is to be no ,nrdlnnr{ oflair, a5 the moro cnse ual announcement by felograph would scom to _imply. . It is full of political significance, and if tho Prosident's obsorvations nnd doductions of tho nntional fecling and condition, both socially and politically, of tho Southern Iéooplc Justify objects In making tho tour, it will result in ‘untold ' benofits to them. This comes to mo direct from - tho Presidont himself, through oneof his most inthnate friends in this Stato— one who enjoys his confidence aud esteem, and who is always roceived at the Whito House with marked courtesy and attention, This gon- tleman returned licro from the national cepital this morning, having had a lengthy and confl- dontinl chat with the Presidont tho daypravious. The conversation was altogother in roferonce ta tieprojected tour through theSouth. Throughout tho wholo interviow, whick Instod over an hour, tho President took the deopest interest in ine quiring mto tho condition of tho people of tho Sonth, and he menifested tho grontost earnent- ness {u trying boforelnnd to nscortain what effect Lis visit would have with them. He frank- ly admittod that o great barrier had boen ’gnced Dbetweon “thie Bouthorn people. and ho National Government by ‘tho pemi- ‘cious results of tho Congressional plan of roconstruction, which lhad given tha control ‘of the Ialo robellious Btates to men lioso policy it was to misroprosent, dotract, and keep them in nutngonism with {t. The four yonrs of his administration, now nonrly closed, wero poculinrly in this lamontablo condition. Tho sooial and “political status of tho Southern Bialos, with tho oxcoption of Virginia, was dis- turbod and unsottled, and in his froquont eiforts 1o offect some good hie was ofton circumvented end thwarted by desiguing and tricky politicians. ‘Whilo there was not ‘ono of his administrative sots toward the South with which ho could re- proach himsolf, having done tho best bo possibly could under tho circumstances, yot thore wore many instancos - within Lis _kmowlodga whero o difforent line of policy ‘would hovo had - decldodly better nud more pleasing rosults in a nationsl way. He dcplored, not the earpot-baggors aa individuals, for therg were ‘many of them good men, who had accom. plished 'a_good doal in tho way of loyalty and good feeling; but tho carpot-bag ‘Bystom ha thought-was not only injurions but destructiva of tho vory objacts” sought to bo attained. Ha casually referred to the chaotio and unfortunato overnuonts in some of tho Southorn Statea, ut’ gavo ‘no° expression of opinion as to tha morits of, or tho partics to, the differont quar~ rols.. Ho was espeoinlly tifled at the peacea~" blo and proaperous_condition of Virginia, and soomad to be proud in the roflection that the elnctoral vote of the mother of States and statos- mon was east for him the first timo sbo voted in” & Presidential-cempaign since ha conquerod o peaco ou her sacred soul. % __Coming, thon, to tho objeots of his tour, the Presidont stated that it was more than probablo Lo would bo nccompanied by nearly all, if not the whole, of tho mombors of his Ocbinet, bo- pides many other distinguished porsons, Sena~ tors, mombors of Congress, and others, - Tfioy wonld_ start by special train on tho 20tk of March, and Richmond, tho lato capital of tha Confoderacy, would bo hia irststopping-placa. It is his intontion to remnin & fow gays,” for tho purposo of recolving prominent oltizons and of quietly convorsing with them s to tho sooial, | matorlal, and political prospects of anch State! Divestod of sll ofilelal siguifioanco, the groat Bouthorn visit of ' tho President will be, by n franic and friondly inferchango of opinions, to arrlve at the true solution of tho Southern prot- lom, and, it possible, to inaugurato 2 now and Natlonal'era of good focling nnd ronpurltp Ho has nlrendy lent his friendly aid fo ' the complotion” of Virginia's long-wishod for wator-lino from tho “Chesnpealio Bay to * tho Ohio, and my informant thought’ tho Presidont intends to investizato carefully tho mnteriul wants and necossitios of tho Houth, - and to doviso subannuutl¥ tho best moans bp which they can ho cousistontly ndvenced with national aid,. Perhaps iho burdeusomo public dobts of opch of theso Blates will nlso_ougaga his attentlon, A fonturo of tho visit will bhn 3 oxamino thoroughly the working of tha carpot. bag system, to root out- such of theso precious birds of ;‘:my 88 Lo finds obnoxiofs to tho in- torosts of thio respective pooples or Statoa where thoy aro, and na far as he can to supply thofr oflicial places with nalives of charnctor and rospootability amongs tho peoplo where thoy rosido. Noxt, aud Inatly, tho Prouident is doter- mined to offcetunlly Liarmonize iho people of tho Northh and South, aund in this, his Initial movamont fo muko the noxt four Yyears of hig administration yours of uuuxam&xlod national peaco, ficnd will, and prosperity, might have * sddod, kowovor, porhaps Lo wlshos Lo ascortain tho opinions of tho Bouthern poople with rogard to tho acquisition of Cuba, AMexleo, and St, Do« mingo, na thoy, bolng the nonros! noighbors, ° might b moat interented, —_— L« No nand Polmorcton. The Ofnolnnatl Commerciul’s London corre- spondont suys this of tho lato Emporor Napo. on 3 “ On Tuosdny whilo tho body was Iylngin stat 1 was dining wlth o company of Jonraie Chisollurat, in tho ‘Tiger' Ynn, wion some ona eald, ‘Woll, Napoleon lma fono o hinre ¢ Milker," ohfmod n anothor of tho party, point. ing at tho same time to n porlrait o Pnfiuom!on on tho wall. . Tho eynieal . romurk could not bo wingayod iil‘n!merulnn was tho makar of Napo- | loon IIL, He found bim a dishonored and blood~ stuinod usurper, suubbed by every Bavarelgn of Eurapt‘:‘ and in payment for'a commoroial troaty ¢ lodgod Lim that Queon Viotaria would atoop to io tho garter on his knae, and offor Lior cheok 0 bis lugs, This mado Louls Napol - :'{fll’héo‘?x','z“’fii’.“ c{uim :‘twnug. uflovnv:l: ?f’m a loupotism Do vonma potism wag onnbled. tlu lag#