Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 27, 1879, Page 9

= THE CH ————————————— THE NEGRO NEGIRA, fomo Information as to the Colored Emigration from the South to Kansas, She ** Tennessee Real-Estate & Wome- Steal Associntion,” and Its Operations. flovoral Ooldnics from Tennosses and Kon- tucky Already Settled Comfortably in Kaneng, The Colored People Want Womes of Thelr Own, in a Land Where Thoy Can Enjoy _ Their Rights. Spretat Correspondence of The Tribune, Toveka. Kas, March 23.—Your readers will be glad to hear abuut the colored emlgrants in Kansas trom the South, 1 catled yesterday at the house of Columbus M. Jolinsony who fs the agentat Topeka of the * Tennessee Real-Estate & Homestead Association,” and who ts devot- fing his time at present to luoking after the wel- fare of the recently-arrlyed iminigrants. tle is ainiddle-nged and intelligent colored man. 1 found him disposed to be communicative. Ho appears to bave been a manof considerable prominence in ‘Tennessee alter the Wars nud, at my request for information, te stowed me varlous papers exbibiting evidence of his having held positions of trust wid honor, He war a delegate to the Republican National Conventian at. Philsdelphia in 1873, from the Fifth Cons eresslonul District of Tenneesca; and was nico adelegate to the Cinchinat! Conyentfon tn 1876, from the Fourth District. ‘The Association of which he is an agent was formed at Nashville AS TARLY As 1809, It contemplated the purchuse of amall farma fu Tenneesce, and the encouragement of the freedmen in ‘the farming dlstricts tu become owners of the kind they should cultivate. it was soon found tit no headway could be made in the.undertaking, and, aftor holding a State Convention over the subject, a Commute tee was appointed to vialt Kansas, to sec if cheaper homes could vat be found among a more friendly peaplo than in the land of thelr former slayedam. Mr. Johneon was a member of tat Committee, The Committee came to ‘ansaa, And returned with a favorable report. ‘But, although the organization was kept up, it was several years ocfore the eintgration gat falrly started, One other Committee sent out made an unfavorable report; Kansas had met with soina advereities; and the blacks preferred to live in the land of thelr birth any way, Hut a few, tanilies COMMENCED MOVING TO KANSAS from the time of the first Committeo report, in 1869. Letters written back by such fainilivs Kaye cncoulagement to othera to come; and, in 1873, Bonjamin Singleton, the Preafdent of the Association, himself came out to take a look at Konsus. Hts report was so favorable thita company ot” 200 or 300 gathered, unit Singleton brought them out that year,—locating jthein In Cherokee County, in the southeast corner of the State. Fromthat time the ratlroad-agents over varlous routes have been stimulating ‘the emigration by offers of low fares. ‘Choy bring companies from Nashville to Topeka at $10 a head. The Association has continued “to keep upactlye operutions. Emigrants desiring to come are by its agency thrown Into companies, placed nnder competent Teaderg, and cheap rates of transportation are secured. Some half-dozen different parties, numbering from 100 “to 300 tach, have come out under the auspices of this AssGelation, Most of the parties have come to Topeka, From here they, havo GONE TO VARIOUS PANTS UF THT STATE. Sevarnl hundred: have. gone to Barton-Conaty, away down in Vid “Arkuneas Valley; others to Mudgeman und other froutler counties. In 4877, Johnson himself ene to Kanana, in company wih Slugleton, the President. ‘Chey fouether spent much time obtaining information from Government and other lind aficers, and, Inexploring aut viewing Inuds. Jolinson has reinained here, and Stugicton attends to affairs at Nashville, Aimong other colonics which they tuve ecatabtisbed is ono in Morris und Lyon Counties, called the Stiydeton Colony. ‘Thfs bs Upon somes lands purchused by the Governinent {von the Kanans tribe uf Indians, and which is to be sold to the settlers at alow pricey—at from $1 to $5 per acre, it fs said,—nned on lone time, Other companles huve come out besides those organized by this Emigration Company,—some from Tennessee, and some from Kentucky, Many of these iminigrante huve seattered ont through the older counties, where they rent Jind, (arm on shares, or work for wages. In some instances the immilzrants ore able ty buy improved turms; or sinall unimproved tracts, at from 335 to $10 an acre. ‘They ure NEANLY ALL AGHICULTURAL LABORENS, and, as Jobuson and others of them adant, have, tuck the larger part of them, ttle means other than thelr own hands to begin Hfe with in this to them strange country. Many of those who have gone out to the frontier, upon homestead Jands or upon chop railroad lands, make their subsistence and their firet gulns by workiug for Wares on the new farms of the more torehunded white settlers. Fortunately for these people, the present large taunigrution of white peoplu to the new counties In Kansns enables the blacks to. fail in umong the others fn places where they can get work at falr wages. This, Jolson soya, thoso who have wone to Barton, Morris, and other vountica ura dolug; and only in one in- stance has there been disaster and sullering, 50 far as L can learn. ‘That was tn the case of NICODEMUS COLONY, ty. towarda the northwest part of the Stute, on the Sulomon River. ‘That colony was commenced Iu the summer Of 1877,—tou Inte in tle seuson to raise any craps thet year, The people came from Keni- tucks. They canio out under the lead of ao white inan who wag more enterorishiy than cau: tious, Ho was ambittous to populate a new county, and to establish acotnty-reat which should bear his own name, Hill's City. ‘The Principal part of the colony, however, clustered Bround a location in another port of the county, to which they muve the more appropriate name, Nicodemus. Midwinter found then short of provisions, an they were tov remote from Other acttloments to get work to earn the Menus to carry them through, They were obliged to apply to the peuple of the older coun: Hes for nid, ‘This tes kot. ‘The Conference of tho Methodiat Church, meeting at Salina tu March fullowing, also fnatituted ineugnres to help the fubiy atong tll they shoutd “rafss a crop. ‘They alt raise a crop Just year, sufliclent for their subsistence, excent In the caso of a few. famblics whe lad the nifafurtune to be burut out y a prairiv-tire fast fall. On the whole, this colony SEEMS NOW TO HE PROSPBNING, They are settled on homestead lands. Every man gets bis farm of 100. ueres by pavinent of land-offies feca of about 818 and Tiving on the Jand tye years. MH he ‘was a soldier aud helped to tight for his freedom, he gets a rebute ot time from the flys vears’ probation, But these Pevpte do ot talk ubout a probation. ‘The up- Permost thoucht with them appears to bo to make homes—permanent abiny-places tor themsglyes and their children—upon portiona vf Go's tootetuol which they shall be enabled to call thelr own, amt the fruits of the cultivation of which ahall be thelr own. subject to the o} ation of no oppressive hen laws made by thelr former masters for the purpose of robblog then ofthe principal proceeds of thelrtaber. ‘The Nivodenus Colony, in svlte of drawbacks, fe Rrowing, and this apring. EXPECTS LANGE ACCESSIONS from Kentucky, ‘This iuformation £ obtuln from members of tle colour, portions of whose Jamies are tureylng fin ‘Topeka, working to help *aro the means of cal ME ON the maim enters Drise of smniduy hues on the frontier, nearly ‘200 miles away, ‘ Four days ugo, a company of between 200 and 800 of these colured smuimigrants arrived here from Nashville. Yesterday I bad u con Yereution with Martin Oglesby, who was men- tlonea to meas one of thy feuding men of the company, He ds a plain-louktug farm-negro. etal me ho could not write, though be hud oueo Tearned to read same. His company, be Sud, hud" putherea at Nashville from the cuuntry withia torty miles around, and without, by reference to the of rations of the [oine- Singleton ts Preaident, fon tad given them aletter te the azcut, Jotinson, In Topeka, and Johnson bad aided them here since they came. ‘They first, a large pare of thei, were obliged to tuke up temporary quarters in a large unoccupied buitding in North Topeka. But in three dayet {ime they bad all found butter places, geuerally temporary quarters among peuple of their color throughout te city. Some have found employ- ment; but they have z NOT COME TO THIS PLACE TO STAY. They have come here ns a polut from which they Inay go to the country when they shall have ob- tained the necessary Information to enabie thei to fudge as to where In Kansag they ean best make thet hemestends,—upon cheap linds, or Upon the free public domain. Oalesby, und bis companions who gathered Ground, told me that they bad all recelved Kreat deal af adyter since they had reached Heres whieh they would have to (uke tina to digest, Sune had advised them to eo out on one riiroad ond some oy anothers to. the frontice ur to suine town. Johnson had ex- pained to them the adyantayes of the Shiglo- fon Colony, ou the Kansas Indlan lauds, ‘Tho Topels city authorities hud seemed to desire to Ket then out of tan, for fear they were pate hers, or on. account. of some. prejudice. But they had started without leaders [n this enter: , Wie. Experience tt following Seaders during the last fifteen years had tnught them to be cautions. 45 one remarked: “We have found no leader to trust but TUR GON OVERNEAD OF U5, We know only this: that, ff we are to get our own rights, ail leave our chiltren where they may enjoy the righta of freetnen after us, wo wust get ot of the Bouth, out of the clutches of our former inasters, who are hold- {ne us in bundg.ne bad as slavery. Our friends who haye come here before ato Kansus have told us chough to imuke us bellove ttt we can fot our rights and mate -ue hanes here. Wo have not come to beg. We brought. with tia enough to tive on a Httle while, nud we have our hinds to work with, Here we see tibor pane briskly on In ‘Topeka, as if you bad just pest ie make a new town wid a new State, So we learn ft {salt over Kansas, If we, alter the Ife of struggle und toll we have gone through, every nian, woman, nnd child of us, eininot piteh fund de our share of this work, wand maken Hving and mike us homes with th reat, why can't wel Wehaye falth in God, and faith in oursatyes, “That's evough.”” A, LETTER PROM EX-GO¥. MINCHNACK, T= Wasninaton, March 2).—Ex-Gov. Pinchback, writing from Delta, Madison Parishy La,, Murch 11, thus describes the negro exodus: ‘Before Teavingg New Orteaus I heard of the Kaneus fever among the colored people of this section, but did not attach much importance to it, 1 was, therefore, surprised on nearlny the Delta ferry-landing to fud the banks of the river covered with colored people and thety little stores of worldly goods, ‘I'he crowd awatting transportation. at this polut was estimated at 300, but I letra it wus swollen to 600 yesterday, when the peoplo tou® their departure on the Hee Louis packet ¢ «l Tower for Kunsas, A noticeable: feature about thelr departure way the fact thut. not one of thut Fast number was permitted tu board the steamer until fare waa pald to St. Lows, ‘This fact explodes the erro- neous flea that these people ure haying their expenses puld by some outside agency, and that the movement. fe not a spontaneous one on thelr part, Numerous reasons are alleged for this remarkable exodus, but, 60 far as Ihave been abl to learn, the reat cates fs an appre hunsion of audetined danger in the near future, ‘They religiously bellef that the Constitutional Convention hades them no good; that, it hus been called fur.the express purpose of abridg- jug thetr rights aud Iberties, snd they ave ‘flue {ng from the wrath tu come.’ They” are abso- Tutely panic-etricken, Every road leading to the river-is fillet) with wagons londed with plunder, and families who scem co think any- where fs better than here, On my way y to MUlliken’s Bend, Io saw o larg pedlon the Inuding at Duckport. A still ager crowd awulted transportation at Milll- y Ken's Bend. . There is no doubt in nin thet thls movemunt has aseumed formidable shape, and, unless sonse menns are devised to arrest it, this portion of the State will soon be entirely depopiated of its laboring classes. “The entire congregations of tivo of the lead- ny Baptist churches of this parlsh have already gone, tnd the catinate of the mumber that has: loft sinco.the movement begun is placed by the white planters as high as 1,500, Wale f deeply deplore the condition of things up here, Tam notcertain but what ft wilt be productive of more good than hart in the end, in that ft has taught the white people of Louisiana that there isa polut beyond which even negro endurance catitot lst!” eo z Goy. Pinchpack says meetings have been held in “Madison. Parlsh-at which Gen, Morey, Will- ium Murray, himsolf,.and. others have attended und addressed the blacks, and he expresses the beltef that their efforts will lead’ to a mutual understanding between the planters and the laborers, 0" St "HE VOICE OF TMs PEOPLE. Temporauce at Rochelle. Ta the Hditor of The Trisune, Rocnets.e, M1, March 26.—Our approaching munteipal election ts beginniug to nrouse con- siderable interest here, ‘The question of the Heense or prohibition of the Hquor traiflc is the all-absorbing question, and is the only issue. D, A. Baxter, the handsomest mun in the city, and the most populur among “the boys,” fs to he the candidate of the License party for the Mayoralty. W. W, Ioleomb, the Reeelver of the C. &f, allroad, a mussively-bullt and a aplendid business man, will tead the friends of prohibition. tf Mr. Holcomb shonld be elected, woe betide the luckless culprit upon whom he will fay his ponderous hand, An immenve petition of nearly, If not quite, amujorily of the voters requests our esteemed citizen, H. H. Glenn, 4o consent to run for the office of Schoot Director. He will conseut, &. Newspapers In tho Malta, othe Eulttor of The Tribune, Crrcaao, March 26.—A few days since | saw o paragraph In your paper saylog that a darge per centage of the transient wewspaper mall did not reach its destination, but was rold as waste pa- per. For the iuformation of many who are ‘sending newspapers to thelr friends duily, please state Whether a sixteen-page TiuBune Or Tires, properly wrapped, amd stamped (with a one- cent stump), will jusure its transit through the walls. By uuswerlngs you will oblige many readers, > WB. (Un order to Insure the transmigsion of a copy of Tus Sunpar Trimunn—sixteen poyes—n three-cent stamp is required. For an cight or twelve pare Thinuxe, a two-ceut stamp. The same applles to the Lines.) An Appeal for the Homelons Blacks. To the tor as The Tribune, Battin. Crerk, Mich. March 24—In reading the horrible tales given by those poor blacks in thelr fight from those Infamous, murderous Southern States, Jam surprised to seo no mauve innde by the Christian societies to relleyo their wants and to belp them on thelr journey to homes in Kangay, What a burning shame it ts that they Hon't attract. more attention In bohall of their sufferings, Several times have the Northern und Bastern states been called upon to and did relieve the people of Kangus when in distress, but thesy were white people, bat uu more worthy of our sympathy anit holy than ethese poor bincks, who are driven out by the murderous chins of the South, When the ref. yees of other lida are thrown on our shore: ihe press and pulpit and Cliristian associations vio with cach other to tender hospitality, ‘This isall right; but ts it right to neglect those inna- cout peuple and tet them suffer ‘The artich in your paper of to-day ought to fire every hue tine beast ut the domuable treatinent of the poor blacks by the people of those uccursed Btates i will connive at such ucts us ts evi dent they do, Will your paper make the ap- peal ere are aniiifuns of acres of Jand tn Kansis. Let us tend a helping tinnd to get hones for those poor, persecuted pennies Yours, i. Wits, Discovery of Gold Near Wiehita, Kas, ‘To the Editor ny The Tribune. WAUKEGAN, [1,, March 26-1 haye read the letter fu yesterday’s Jesuo on thls subject with considerable interest, the more vo as fur four oud a half years Jast past J have restded In that suction, aud sin acquafuted with almost every ace of the surrounding country, 4 may be per- tultted to vay that I am an Englishman, ant went direct frum Evgland to Kansas, judging from my geucral reading and the moat reliably information accessible that Kansas was des> tined to become the Btate of the Union, My reeldence there for the perlod stated hes more than contirmed the soundness of my views ol the gorrectness of wy judgmunt. 1 do nob clahin any epeelat credit. to myself, but 1 cuniot rostet thi temptation at this juncture to state Unt in ny travels and amateur geological inyes- tigations in the Arkaueus Valley, I ulways tuted that ft was rich in milueral resources, und only required knowledge, nieans, aul muscle to dee jp them. Your articies would certaluly seen to indicate that £ was not for from being o true prophet. Twill nat, Itke sume men woul du, strive to bide the truth, und say that 1 have vo interesy ti fils uiatter, but at uuce confess thut 1 have a farin of Biducres close to the City of Wichita, bealdbs owning sotmy of the yery dest lucuted prupurty iu the city, and of course Lhopo honestly: that every word your corre- ICAGO '[RIBUNE: THURSDAY, MARCH 27.. 18 2—TWELViS PAGES, sponitent. auysiatrue, but your readere will resd- it seo thatthe mere fact of hoping for the best cannot necessitate the hext. tobe, Bhould the Vonsnza fave been discovered near iny oft i world moat willingly pluce my best, offices at the feet of all Intending to wend their way thither, [na little while Fslall start on wy Journey to Joln my family on the farm, Yours faithfully, A, Winrtwontit. In Justlee to Misa Willard, Ta the Editor of She Trine, Jorn, Tl. Maret 25.—The foliowing explans atory Ietter will show to what extent the sinte- ment made before the House at Springfield a few days alnee, in regard to the use, by Miss Willard, of the State paper and stamps, 44 trie. Miss Willard went to Jacksonville to fll tem peranes engagements, and wile thers was the cucet ot Mrs, Cillette, at the Deaf und Dumb avium, Prominent members of the Legislature hind represented to Mies Willard that. it woutd be for the benelit of the © Home-Protection Petl- addTHon of 40,04) signatures presented tothe State, The original petition was presented to buth Senate nod Toure, She resolved to return and present the (welt, with the additions! riguatures, to the Senate. It twas uot necessary tu deluge the: Rtnte with petitions as before; knowing wow who te workers were, documenta could be fent Sirgis ly ve them, An there [sn printing establishment, connect ed with the Deaf amt Dumb Asylum, Mise Wil- Tard haa 2,500 documents struck olf. Her own otitelal notes having given vut, she purchased What was necessary from the Instiutlon, aent the fohow!ng is the full amount of the bill, with Stems: March 8, to 1,000 cirentars. March X (9 1,000 envelopes, March 10, to 500 ab March 10, to March 10, to. March 12, Lo envelopes... ry Total . seisathe This statement ina fate showing of how far o temperance wotnan gets her Mngers into.the public crib, Mus, M. Hanwoop, Wonns and Sous, To the Editor of The Trihune. Chicago, March 23.—** Circumstances alter cases.” Noub Webster, in making up ils dic tonary of the EngHsh Iauguage, madd a and intstake In defining the words Iberty, equality, freedom, and chivalry. We of the North have always been tauht that where all things were equal in two given quantities, equality was pro- duced, But how sadly are we disappoluted when weg South and fiud that, though we may be morally, intellectually, and phystealy on a level, there is no equality. And why!” Simply for the reason that we were born in the North, and are pat, therefore, cquih, but “carpet daggers.” Liberty and freedom! What glorl- ons old words! Jfaw our hearts in our younger days have awelled with emotion at the recital, of the glorious deeds of yaler performed fu thy defense, Once thou imeant that “man” was born with certain inallenable rights; that among these were life, Nberty, ‘aud the pursult of happiness." But now, nlas! how. chonged. You ask o South r tv define these, und he answers, they mean for weuns todo as we like, and make youuns do as we du,” Once {b was. chivalrous to defend the weuk, the poor, und the Jowly;, but modern shuivaley bulldozcs the weak, robs the por, and tramples the rights of the Jowly in the dust. Wore we to mount the pin- lons of our glorious old *' Bird of Freedom ” and sour aloft. and land in the home of the “Cane the Turkey” we would be an alicu.~a earpet- bagger.” "But should,one of her proud sons be Junded in Chicago he woutd be a gentleman and neandidnte for Mayor. Doubtless * Our Curter expects us all torush to the polls on day und cast our votes for a & Solid South,’ show our dispositfon to return good for evil, ete. Yea. a8 much ought we to finport Southerners to fill afl of our offices, a3 they urea “superior race mid born to rule’? ond we—are “imud~ sills.”? AMERICAN, Mr. Ingersoll Crittelsou, Ta the Haltor of The Tribune, Cuicano, March 20.—f was plod to sec that you stigmatized as vulgar aud filppant’ (he harangue of Mr. logersoll, which fuvaded the sanctity of our Subbath, bringing saduess to many a wife and nother whose joved one was drawn from the home firestde on that sacied aay,;—sacred not only to Christians, but to all who hold dear the name of “home,” and who, after un week of busy toll and fast-specding time, “hath with pleasure the one day of peave anit rest, but many of whont.wure induced to Jeave it and wo unt to hear Mr. J.,—to hear, to Jauch, and to accept, because It fs 50 easy to adopt wrong, and this speaker is very adrolt in enlarghy upon the ideas which many, fn the rebound from the strict parental theory foreed upon them In thelr younger days, haye tried to nelieve, It is sacasy to teach o man what he wishes to learn, ant also in avoiding these points in hls own ea- beltef which Ine heaters would notaccept. Mr. 1. thinks there fs no hereafter; that he will, die Ikon bird or a foafs tnt he has no suul! Now, ihe had talked of that, many of Ula hearers would not have accepted tt; but ny, he fs lectur- lig for dollare, wid it would not do to lessen his populart So he spoke only of tut which ho could inake them belleve, anf they, dazzled by the wit of the man, CM homage to him th due only to gentus, which he certainly do posscos, tnd i will be so proven in af v by hits fading from sieht aud being forgotten. follaire possessed something more than wit,— perhaps one evidence of which was bly chanze of uuine,—but the most earnest admirers of this man bring no evideuce that he has more, or that they learn anything from hin which they had not thought before, but which oes do tub. wish their wlyes to uecept. L hear a husband suylng, 1 would not want my wife to change her beltet’; but the wite answers, & LE would vladly bring you to imine, and hays striven all theve years to do so, but I know I bave suc- eeeded’ ut Jeast in convincing you that onu th made purer und ¢lesitted by being a Christiane? And havpy are we who, Hf we do nob think just. jus our mothers ald, have not nt least ‘pra. uressed” cutirely out of our religion; on the contrary, o8 tho selentist of the creater Knowledge of this advanced age does not dis- card hls scieace, but enlarges upon it, ho our religion, in becoming ‘more brow, ia nance the Jesa deep, but is sweeplog on in greater beauty: nd strength than ever betore. » Les The Wheat Question, To the kiditur of "The Tribune, Spruxavin Wis March Yh—In looking over the ,urtietein Tita ‘Tmone of March 10 under the caption of “ Blthted Wheat,’ I seo ihat one very important Item ts altogether lost elgbt of. Inthe consumption of whent this year {crop of 1878) the esthmatotl bushels caniot be relied on asa baste for esthinalug the four ar bread of sald crop as compared with the bushels: produced In 187%. ‘The spring wheat of 1873 will not praduce as mich four per bushel asthe crop of 1877 did by one-fourth, and tn niany toe culties it falla short fully one-balé. [t now re- quires from four to elx bustels of apring wheat to produce 100 pounds of flour, whereas three buehels oof =the crop of ASTT would more than make = 100 pounds after being tulled. pueeding that we had 883, 003,000 bushols In 1878; then deducting 93,000,000 (une-flourth shurtago fn flour), nud it Jeaves us Dut 244,000,000 bushels equal fo uur products with former years, und from thls Intter umount take our brea) aid seed, and wa haye but 64,000,000 left for exports and if we } already exported more than 04,000,000 bushels, We have ta stand the shortage hetween this and whother harvest oursalyea, | ‘The “ sericultural press” Is not very reliable (u estimating the umount of tlouraglyen quantity of wheat will yield, The milling Juuriils sre manet better authority. It-ts an tdpossibility for shrunken or rhriveled wheat to producy as inuch flour as Wheat that hia fully matured, Any me % aera moinent’s reflection shoul snow this. {snore bran wnd offal Ina bushel (by inensure) of ahriveled wheat than th bushel of plump, wellsloveloped wheat; conse- quently there muat be less flow Fur the purpose of plantiy wheat wil be found as good as No. 7 sprit, breviding the weather ts propitions after the graiu germinates, The larger the berry the more Miutriment the young plunt will have to draw upon in case of drought. ‘The crop of 1873 lu, thla county {Nernion) is about atl cut of iirat hauds, many of the small farmers being obliged to buy thelr seed of their more fortunate elgibors, Winter wheat in thts county looked weil when the snow went off two weeks ago, but since that time we have bad hard freezing, with almost constant high winds. What the outcome of the crop will be ft pretty hard to determine at this time. Hawover, there fg one thing certain,—none of the furm products of 1873 have paid the farmor, and te will be found belore thy present year 4s out tliat the ine sunv bowl of overproduction” is what has beat hin, Dickson & Qnatas, The Asta Life-Tnsurance Company, 40 the Kdiior af The Tribune, Curgago, March 20°-The Goucral Agents of this Co:mpuuy tn their letter of the 18th gay? “Uf the Judue or any other | person will call ot our ofilve wo ebuil bo pleased ta give any {a- fortoation that may be desired fn regard to the’ Mtua Life,” ete. Ido want some juformatiou, und hopo these throughout the eguntry. ‘the agents will beable to give a autisfactory ex- planation of the extraordinary transactions I shall refer to, Unless they do so the Company inust be branded with having carried ona ays- tem of fraud unparalleled in the history of In- surance companics, My policy requires me to pay annually $79.50 incash, aid give ‘a nofe for o tke amount. Each note fs payable twelve inonths after date, hut without Interest. fn 1874 the Company hele uy note for $174.73, Tn t9t5 my new note would he 879. woulil be 8257. Inatea of taking a new note from mo for $257.20, It. compelled me to give a now note for $1404, bole 818.73 more Lian tt was cntltled to, Now, what 13 thls but down- right robbery! . Now, Messrs. Paul & Mason. tell tne how you Increased! ny note from 8177.72 to $440,090 Inone 50. wlict, added to the off nate, wis year! Give mu the exolanation, Nor ts this all, ‘They not only robbed sia of AIgt.78, brut they charged me with one year's interest on my note of SITET when the note ald not draw Interest, which I pald in cash, Now, ventlemen, why dit sou do thts? Did you not know that a note docs ‘not draw interest until alter due unless tt is songrced inthe body of the notef You will hardly tnaku yourselves ao {diotle as to deny thut. Nor fs this all, ‘This Company that you elatm [a nanaged so exclesively for the futerest of the policy-holders that Its Tnanagers virtually keep in thelr own hands the surplus of four and a qqtarter millions that belonge to the: {nettred soos to honelit their children's children,” Test, I suppose, if it was paldoverte the insured, they mleht apend tt, this Company each year tuple from ine (and 5 presume from every other poliey-holder) a new note, Including alf the old notes, whleh note waras all thes made payable twelve tonthy alter date, but without Interest,. it fs, tt did hot agree to pay interest, yeteuch year the Company made me pay in cash the interest on each note, ‘Lhus for thittcen years it bas each year fraudulently and disuonestly compelled me tu pay interest they were notentitied to ls this beneiiting my “ehildren’s children YL ain tehumed to admit T have been sy deceived; Dut thelr manner of dosing bitsitiess [4 sich ns inay Well deceive an unsuspecting person, ‘The eentlenunty ugents, with o plansivility pecullar to their calling, annunlly band you # ‘statement. alreaty innde out, cosh eo much, Interest. on and new note already made out and this =o wus) handed =e fo comply with as oa condition to continue, or, as the Company call {t, renew my poltey. AMT had to du was to ulye my check. confess [never discovered this gross fraud untilto-day. How much more ruscallty I shall discover I cannot tell. Now, [havo a legal claim ttnon this Company; first, that the $189.78 they fruudutently incladedt du my note of 1 be fudorsed upon my note; and second, # legal claliu for all the futerest I have pata then for thirteen years, Will Messrs, Paul & Mason inform me whether the Campany wilt pay that back without aeuit? The Cor- pany buasts of its wealth. Will it rectify a wrong, and show its willlugness to be Just? do not desire a dawsuit, buc 1 wil! not submit to ‘be rob! ‘The managers say tell me of their wealth, but [tell them they inay “earn that they, too, are penetrably stuff Look o moment at the greed of this Company, whoxe mary, like cormorants, {8 never satiatied, , 1, They take from the murplus carntage of the Company a iillllon of dollars to Increase the stock that amount, and divide it among theme seives, 2. They take at another tine $750,000 from the surplus sands to inciwase thelr stock tint amount, and devde it among themre'ves, 4, They have made thetrypolicy-hokiers (for 1 assume they have robbed others as they have me) pay hundreds of thousnnids of dollars an- uualiy, by way of interest, thuy had ‘no more right to than a bandit. 4. But, not yet satistied, they hold on witha grip of a Shylock to four and a qtarter millions. of dollars which belong to the polley-boldera, but which they refusa to divide. ‘Tey have by their grinding operations crushed policy-h and compelled them to forselt their policy after payloyg all they could carn cure, nnd abe sorbed what they had put tn, and” brought poy erty, and want, and guffering to myriads of facilites which theae_cormorants claimed ta enciite tyme! Evenett Van Buren. a PENDERGRASS, Tho Extraordinary Hasto and Unfatrness with Which fo Was Rushed Into‘Prison in South Crroling for Optnlon'’s knke, Correspondence New York Tribune, Wasninaton, D. C., March 21,—Senator Tell- erhas revolved in reply to a letter written by him to a prominent lawyer dn South Carolina on account of the trial of John If, Pendergrass (col- ored), of Kingstree, who was recently sentenced. to two years?’ Imprisonment at bard labor, or to poy a flue of $500 and costs of trial tor Ivel, ‘The get of libel covsisted in welting a letter to Mr, Bwails, last fll, giving an account of the fraud and violence of whieh Mr. Pender- urass wag a witness during the ast election, This Ivtter Mr, Swails allowed to be published, and immediately afterward the writer was arrested and fndieted for bel, as were also otters who had made reports of the ‘The mat- ter nbout which Pendergrass wrote was Investi- gated by the Teller Commlitice wien in South Carolina. According to the beltet of the mein- bersof the Committee, the fucte were tully proved to bo as Pondertras, reported them, ‘The correspondent of Senator Feller writes: “Mr. Pendergrass, na suine others, seems to have labored uuder the uporehension that no Dill would bo sent to the Grand dury at the Mnreh term of the Court, nor until the Juoe term, understanding, a8 he informed me, that these cases were in obedfence to the lex tationis held §n terrorem to abide tha development of the United States Court fu April, He was eur- rendered by bis bail some time before court, aad the great mistake the pre fellow made was in making no effort towards his defense, “Me lad no money and but ittle means it was trae, but had he’ advised tie us Mr. did who came down and saw me, 1 would have volunteered to defend him, as have tnyariably done, ls case was utterly beyond the reach of the Federal arin and prov te was put upon his trial by the presiding Judge, the Hon. ‘Te d. Mackey, without counsel, hays no means to Miia only defense was his unsup- can thestand, ‘The nowapaper in print was produced, and) one Montgomery, a black mun, his yersonul and political iriend, turned State's evidence agalnse hing to escupe his own trlak [learned that the Ande charged the Jury that the maillag of the: lytter containing Hbelons nattor was sullleient, publication, aml tut the intent wus a question of fact for the Jury, the baridten of proof to show tho absence of mallee having been alilfeed to the shoulders of the defense by tegal_ presumption. “T need not weary you with the law, al- though [ have carefully sttdied the case amd al! the latest anthorithes wil reported cases, 1 crmot suy what a feteh Jury wilde. Nelther a prophet nor the san aw proph do tliat, aml that jury might have convietced tim in an: event; but with the information the poor tcl- Tow gave ome tn fall he never could have dud that verdict written up ugainst him. ‘The sue preme Court would have set itaside, in my opiiion, He was vonvieted and ‘sentenced to two years Iu the Penltentiary, or §500 fluo and 60; ste “When Frenched Kingstreo T called at onca at Che jaf) and saw hla, ‘The Sessions lind ad- journed, the terin closed, and every legal ave- Ime was barred neainst the Feopeulnis of the case. Thad long interviews with the Judgo and solicitor and others, 1 asked the Judye and solluitor if they would sign’ an. application for pardon, but they refused lo Bu, as ib was too clo: upon the sentence, T then went {nto const the next morn. tog and je the best sppeal. £ could, moyhig the Court to Instruct the Sherill not ta send iim to the Penitentiary, a fearful placa in winter hero, for twenty days, that he might have the tine to ratan the flac ammoieg his trlends. ‘The request waa refused, FT then went out and munmoned to ny room all the negroes who had. property, and whom Lcuuld reach, aud they sald they were willing ta pledge theie Hetle all, nnd wera sire the money could be tually raised ug soon as the conuregations could be reached dudge promised to put in the certiteate of sentence the proviso of hts iustant release upon payment of the fine, urelig the people to muke the collections as soon us posible, f was compelled to return on account of the exceeding preas Of ny public business. ‘The poor fellow seemed oppressed with u strange aj@rehension, a kind of prescntl- ment, ag he told me when the doors of the Pon- itentlory closed upon hilm they would: close for. over, but did my bust to disabuse hls mind of that idea and left bin, TI do not bellove that Pendergrass knowa what Itbel menus," Numor that Loran and Ile Wife Are to Visit Newport Nest Summer, Newront, RK, L, March 23.—The report clrea- Jated same weeks eincu that her Royal Highuess Princess Louise and the Marquis o€ Lorne would visit thls waterlng-plice durfug the coming eum- iner appears to have foundati itis ay any Tate a fact that a gentleman weil known to the majority of our summer residents has for some thne bet negotiuting with u protiuent real- catate avent here in refercuce to the hiring of a cottage for the comlug summer, the leases to be Slr Edward Thorutun. From the best informa. tion tu be derived, it is certain that within a day or two a Teasy will be aigued by the ontteman referred to; and, furthermore, tt is uuderat: st thy house to be hired ts oue uivued by Bos- touluns. ~~ PRANCE. The Report of the Commission on the Crisis of 1877. Recommended tmpearhment of the No Broglie and Rockebouet Ministries. Thoir Persistent Recourae to Corruption, Fraud, Violence, and Terror, - ‘An Anti-Republican Coup a’ Etat Their Undoubted Intention. , Diepatch to Landon Ther, Pais, March &—In the Chamber of Deputies yesterday nlterdoon, Aelssou ascended the tribune, aiid profound silence, to submit the report of the Commission on the Crisis of 1877, and the reading of ft oceupfed an hour and a quarter. The report begins by recalling that the Chamber bat referred to the Commiesion hoth the acts of the Wthof May Ministry and certain events In the fret: fortnight of Novein- her in 1877,-—a proof that [t connected both with aconcerted plan for changing the form of Goy- eroment. During the: first perled te chtef ob- ject was fo force universal sultrage to reacind [ts yote of t876 nud give a majority adverse to the Republic, for which purpose the Constitntion was violated, laws trampled under foot, individual Mberty Wegally infringed, the anaulstracy in- cited to partisanship; corruption, fraud, rio- lence, and terrur reaurted to. During the second perlod the authors of the 10th of Moy were organizlig the means of MAKING UP BY FORCE for the absence of nations) assent, and what was then attempted or meditated Uirew Neht on the real designs of the original rcheime. The 16th of May wus a thunderctap for alt but those who profited by ft, and It Ix na futile as fy 1830 ta seek hy subthe constructions’ of the Inw to screen Mealittes, ‘Phe inventors of the pulicy of combat never sincerely applied the rules of constitutional government, and the Influence they had retained over the President of the Re- public enabled them to prevent the formation of a truly hon ogeneous and parliatnentary Goy- ernment. Their favorite tactics were a conflict between the two Chambers aud the election to the Senate’ of the inost notorious enemies of the Republic, After shuwing that the Impending election of amolety of the Departmental Counctis and the | Well Inform entirety of the Munictgal{ties threatened the, loss of the Senntorinl majority, the report points out thut the pretexts for the: eviction of M. Jules Sitnon and the allegations against the Chamber were frivolous pretexts, while the rapidity of the personal cianges made after the 1th of May proves thit the scheme had been long — premeditated by the occult Gov- ernment wich overturned = M. Thiers. It charges the De Broglie Cabinet with VIOLATING TNE CONSTITUTION by re-opening the question of the existence of the Republic, by instigating the President to nesume personal power, and by endeavoring to. convert the Varllamentary Republican Cousti- tution Into a kind of dictatorship. In proof of! this it cites the bitter opposition of the Cabinet to the most moderate Republican, the sixinonthis’ Une AER interregnum, the manifestoes and specehes of the Prealdent, who was constantly mude to eneak of * volfey, my Government, my tdeas,” bootles warniue The electors that if they did not elect his candidates he should hotd his ground against thei with the ald of the Sen- ate, Enllefitencd by events und impelled br honesty. the President did not, however, foltos to the end the detestable counsels of his Minis- ters. ‘The report dwells at length on the postpone- ment of the elections, proving that under no previous Constitution since 1814 wus the legal interval exhausted, much less exceeded. It then shows that the Jaw on the - Department Council elections was glav violated; that the hawking of Republican newspapers was MMegally: prohibited; that publle houses were illegally closed; that Mintsterlal circulars insisted on non-political officials taking part in the cam- pulgn; that = * AN ACTUAL TERRORISM was exercised over thems that cecret agents were sent into thu departments; that subsidies for public works were promised, with a view to ftniluenco the elections; that fudiclal posts were placed at the disposal of Prefects for electoral purposes; nnd thatin more than 8,000 pote: cutfona justice was made subservient to. Mints. terial polley. At Agen an independent Con- servative candidate wus Induced to withdraw by a judicial appointment ot Algiers, und there were nv legs than forty-une telecranis respecting thls shameful bargain, difllenity being found in creating wyacaney ab Alglers nid algo in ob- taining the candidate's withdrawal prlor to bis appolutinent. The report mentions ane case fu which a Justice of the Peace was dismissed for having awarded 200 franes damages avainst the Police Commissary for the withdrawal of colporteurs? Heensea; another in which the opinion of the dudes was sounded before the prosecution was inetituted against a General Councillor for an uupaletable speech; athird in which a man, nentenced to fifteen days’ imprisonment for putthiy fuchsine into wine, was pardoned on the ground of his Conservative views and inflnences aud a fourth in woleh an Avignon paper was BNIBED WITH TELEGRAMS AND CORRESPOND ENCE, being threatened with judicial severities {f It re- eeded from ti bargain. Both the editor wud manager were foed and fuprisoned fu uccord- aney with the threatof the Vrefect,—"Je Incherat parquet sur le ait journal,"’—and it eveatuully became docile, the long telographic re- ports gratuitously furnished ft being a (iverson of revenue fram tik Shute. The telegraph, indeed, was placed ‘at the disposal of the Mintatertal Papers, but thers fre no mens of ascertaining the ainount thus Jost to the revenue or the considerable sums ex- peuded by the Ministers for the electoral prop agauda. ‘Aller noticing the attempt made ou the eve of the elections to produce a rise on the Bourse, and to represent this tu the country as turo- shadowing & Government vietory, the report urges that the Cabinet, in promoting ite ineen- jtutlonut projects, crinunaliy abused ite pow: ‘3, perverted every dvoartinent of the State, ad aullted justice. Tt proceeds to mention that citizens were arbitrarily arrested, partion- larly in Dordogne, Maute-Loire, Bouches-<lu- Ragne, and Murbihan, belng relensed fiumedl- ately aiter the elections, aud that in Vaucluse und elsewhere eftizens were ‘ED BY FORCE OR THREATS tho hallat, Gendarmes and sol- ders being employed in several communes for this intimidation, A number ot functtonaries, moreover, were obllged durligs the electoral pee, riod to leave thelr resilences, while the num- berless menaces dirveted agatust fuusttionaries und eltizens were all desizned) to hamper the free exercise of civic rights, AM these acts were a part of a concerted plan to ve carried out all oyor the country, and they come within arti- cles WwBand 10 orl and 215 of the Penal Coie, ne tnvestigation fn Dordorna shows that agents were sent by the Ministry near the cloao of its enrcer to carry off certain documents from the Prefectures, Severat Prefests hest- tated, indeed, to give them up, but, the Minia- try inslsting, they yielded. On the 18th of De- ber these agents wero sill in the south. The prelininury investigation will show te whom the documents were delivered, the nature of the responsibility, and whother tm vets come within article 178 or articles 254 and 255 af the Penal Code. TURNING TO THE SECOND PEINOD, the report voluts out that after the unequivocal verdict of the country the Cablnet was bound to retire; whereas It affected to disregard the adverse majority, proceeded to hold the devart+ mental elections, id threatened by its news- eapluntat ings papers a second dissolution, On the Chamber reethng au tuquiry into the elections, tha Cab- inet forbade its tuctonarles to glye eylulence or to allow the use of the public bullddizs, ant tt incited the citizens to disobedter Ainidenly, however, the Ministry disappeared, apparently ou tho discovery that the Sanate' would wot. countenance a second dissolution. ‘The fallaw- tng Cabinet, consisting of men unconnected whh the two Chawbers, had nothing purtla- mentary about {t, but was headed by a milltary man, Gen, do Rochebouct, ‘The report pro- coeds to 6ay GEN, ROCHEBOUET, who war commanding at Mordeaus, ls summoned tu Parle on the Isth of November by telegrams, 1n which no mention ja made of the Intention to make bia Prine Minister, and begging lim pales to come to Party on the following day and call at the Klysvo, Gen, Rochoboust had, howover, deubt- tesa aome nution ay 10 tho motives for which be was summoned to Parls, for he 1 raphed to Gen. Ducrot Eighth Corps at Bourges, tioned to Paris by Marstial MacMahon, You can Inaulue the fcolinye 1 experience in regard to the proposals which way be mado to me. [shell bo tate cveutug aud to-morcuw (Tusadsy) at the inudjately tele the commandant of the “Tau sum- Hotel Vouitemont, Paris.” ‘The tact that Gen, ds Rochebouet addrcesen timecdt to Cou. Ducrot An these terme maker it oxtremely. probable that in previous interviews ant correspondence the formation of in Cabinet af military. intluence had heen discuteed and that Cien. Ducrot was no stranger to the plan, ‘Tha latter, infact, doce not hesitate, and nt once renlier to M. da Kockebouet: *'In present circnmeatances: youcannot refuse, Onty make it a candition that yar are allowed to make the changes in the Minis. terial pereonnel and the garrisons of Maris and, Versailica which seem to you indispensable on Sour ayn rexponaiblltiy, Count an my fullest ens ‘Operation. Dam wetting to vou” Thia telegram authorizes the anpposition that Gen, Iucrot wis aware of the imiasion reserved for Gen, Roches touet. Instead of ylelding io the nation, prepa- tatloue are being made TO RESIST IT. Can it be fancled that the Ministera of the 10th of May still in power ara in ignorance of this rosaln+ Hon and these preparations? Was it the Due de Hruglte, chief of the reticl ninal, whe gave the President af the Republic tie advices to aime mon M. de Rechesauet? ‘The preliminary $o- auniry with, doubtioss, lear up this” polnt, Wohave neem that Gen. Daerut advised He Kochebouet te | make changes fn the personnel of the Miolairy of War. This advice wae forthwith followed, On the + of November do Hochebonet telerranhed te Nothing nettle nd Mirabel to On the following day Gan, Ducrot ss ay at Versaiilex an fotlowe? bit boner that Méribel accents the post of Chief of the Sinz, out cannot leuve his roum for two or three day owing to an indlspo ton." Gen. Miribel fx Gen. Jincrot’s Chief of Stall, ‘The new Prime Minlater wie accordingly drawing front the litter not only Inapirers, bnt co- uberators, ‘Tho Rochebourt Mintatry wae inatalled, On the It wan placed ina minority in “4thot November the Chamber by ith votew to 07. Itdld not ree from the frioune wan 1 Mttle 1 Ure,” Ute Jangune ioss agcrenetve (lian that of Ite predecessors: etill. the coup do force seems in prevaration, Hvience a shall place the mo forn you. Two tele War, on the 27th a commaniant at Mar tmportant Items of ft be- ms trom the 3fulater of ath of November, to the tex and the commandant at Lyand recommen adgniticant precautions 10 lem, among othere to cadi tn the ating belonging to pel: vate perenne to Fort St. Jenn. ‘The reuly of the Lyons commandant contained thie pass uy do not donbt' that, yoda will procitim the etate of slese by telegraph,” Other rains express the fenr that certain enrps sill not lend themmelves to the premeditated coup deforcrs On the tth of Dee cember the Mintater of War telegraph te the rom- Hat Toutonxe ax fallowa: «ft ant told thot t Reginent cannot te counted spun, J Are there any meaanres to Uo taken?" then, Git the promoere. of the enterprive premeditata to dread resletutice on the part of the troops? SUSPICION AND FREAK seem totiave stoten Into thetr breasts, ‘The fale lowing telegrame xvein ta show thigs Minister of War to the Military Governor of Lyons, Dec, St According ta infurmation {t anpenre certaln that pertudutenra ate au courant with the orders uiven 10 the enlef of vour catia. Secrce: yous contdentiel Inetructions in cacy of ances Is not maintamed.” ister to the Guvernor uf Li as to iaturb- “tom the yame Min- tan tect wg at Hine Grolee the ed- ie fatlawing televram 4 the Commandant of the In reply t your elppared elcgram, and comformabty to the verbal tuetrne- tlone T gave you. f bee vou to ¥ absence. of Generale of Diviste ertal urder, even whonid these ofl forthe com= aifewions,” Ou this te eatre two observa. tlons to takes thratly, Duerot came to Faris between the er send the re are verbal inatrnes that the moment for action dues ttonn; wecond, notecemdletar ‘The Munsster of War nnd Gen. Ducrot need a freak conference. for the follow! sent off un Dec. 6; ** Minister of uiandant of the Eighth Coros at Gourzes: thorize you to come ty Paris on Sunday, {ante Cabinet ia at present th forination.” last words show that for ( tan. ADn- There jen, Pucrot and M, ae Roucheburtet the politleal quertlon OUTWEIONS EVERYTHING. An attempt at concillution was, in suet. Just then. talked of; the nation thought an understands Waa tome to be oxtabllehed between the President of the Hepnblle and the representatives of France. ‘This was the hope of every good ch on the Gthof December M. de Rachehonot ‘anhe 10 Gen, Dacrot: *"The unzotlations for the farma- Hone of n Ministry are Urokunt off because of the Marshal's refusal: to give way on the question of the Ministries of War and Forelen aflaite." Gen. Ducrot replies: **Tnanke, May the goud God and Marshal MacMabon be blessed and gloriiled.”* (Laughter aud exclamation.) We will nat com- ment an this ery of taumph extoried from Gen. Duerot by the iews that war was resumed betwe the Go nd the nation, ‘The tire tele: grams of the 7th of Hecember” enMclently anew What vonliments untmated the promoters of the From this aoment weastites of detail are adopied to insure the carrying: ot of thelr Fesolutions, On the sh of Deceaber the Tuten- dautof the Fifth Army Corps audrogsed the f0l- Jowing telezram to the Sour-tntendants of tow, Auxerre, Melun, Foutainenteau, Sere, and, tho Sna-Prefects of Jolzny, Provinw,’ Montargi«, Ven- dome, and Homoruntin Have juuediately conveyed into cach barrick, eo ae to bo rendy at the disposal of the truope,—iufantry, cavalry, and artillery, TWO DAYS’ MOMILIZATION RATIONS, for the horses two We vttull seo firther onthat this measure was not taken solely in the ares of the Fifth Corps, On the 10th of December two fresh telecrams are exchanged between the Minister of War, tho Prorident of the Coane), und Gen, Ducrot: * The Minister of War to the Commandant of the Blehth Corps at Hourge Miltary Comuntesion will mect to-morrow enday) ring. Pray con and ser we on your atnval.” +The Commandant of the Highth’ Carpe ‘to the Minister of War at Vane: **l wilt call on sou tu-morrow at 8 o'clock." Jt was withont doubt at thie Inat tnter- view that the dednitive resulutions were take Such at least tx the conctuston we draw from th two following telegrams: 12th of December, — Minister of War ta the Commanaant of the ‘hint Corns at Hannu: Orgunize the Delauuay Brigade for the execution of than No, 2. a4 rou propusy mn letter handed tne by Commandant Goasart.” sth of December, —Tho Minister of War tw the Commandant of the Tenth Corps at Reunes: Bue deuvor ts be : READY ON TURSDAY AT LATEST. Your troops should take all camp effects, but It te tmporathle to ada carr « Lantly, on the With cember,--namely: the day when the Dafanre Ministry a9 Torm fe cle Rochebouet telegranhs to Bordeaux: ** Pray warn confidentially at headquarters ty atop all prepara Cows of departure, Yaball probably resume tte command of the Eighteenth Army Corps.” These telegrams ravyeal, 1€ not the organization, at leant the existence af ‘the plot, ‘The design of tesietint ine national will was ferined: the tesolatiun to uct wastaken: the ggents for careying it aut wero chosen; the miliary: srrangements were fared: dora for puitlng the pln inte execution Lastly, av th stilt more ta prove that alin all this only a political conspiracy, uit nv contingency of Insucrectton Justitied Preparations, us xeon ox a Constitutional Minietry ta formed everythiny te conntermanded by the Minister of War, and ke returns to take the comuianst of bis army corps, THR REVORT then dwetla on the petition of Maj. Labordere, who shows that Gen, Rochebouet's tstrnetions to the commanders of the army corps at the be: ahining of December were not posted, bat sent by officors of his staff: that two days? teld ra- tons were conveyed on Mie Lith of December to the barracks of the Fourtecush Infantry Reg- Iment at Ldmages; teaton the same day te arling of the conseripts just arrived was begin by teaching them exclusivery how to loads that on the Hh all the ollleera were summoned in fehl uniform with their revalvers, the soldiers being rendy to take urma, and) te ollicers! horses saddled in the court. ‘The report quotes (he Major's aecount of the orders elven in case of disturbances at Limoxes; bow the crowd waa to bu dispersed; anid how, after the usual sum: mons, the soldicra wore to tire, without regard ty the women and children: the erawd would probably put in front, ‘The report ugrees with the Major that all. ts, coupled with the tele: grams ubuve quoted, INDICATED A COUP D'ETAT, especially as the same orders were given else- where. Qn that yery day, moreaver, the Minis- ter of the Tnterlor telegraphed to several Pre- fects: “ Lea idecs de resistanve Pemporiant a PElyseo!? ‘The report urges that the enter prise of the Ith of May was not designed to ob- tal the assent of the tatlon, for dn that case bts authors would bave resigned at latest on their frat defeat ln the Chambery but that {t was to change the form of yovernn Why the cou evlrators paused at the Just moment will, per- haps, be known hercafter, ‘The report maine talns that the De Brogtc Cabinet formed this dealgn, and that the Rochebouet Cablaet tures oniy as the agent forecarrying Itout. After re- eine variuus charges, it malntalus that they fall within the Penal Code, sud that there {4 werlous presumption of the Ministry having been gullty of treason and Ketraval of trust. It therefore concludes by proposing to the Chamber THM FOLLOWING RESOLUTION: Conformably withsArt. 12, paragraph 9 of the Consthutlunal Law of tho With of duly, 1875, the Chunuer of Deputies tmapencies beford the Reante ho Ministry of the 20th of May, the Hue de Hrozlte, and of the tot Novembe 1 headed by f. de Hochebouet. 2. Three Commissioners taken frown tho Chamtoor uf Deputles wball be nomlasted by Ib 1a take 1 itv name all the requisite measures 1a condact the Impeachment before tha Senate, te which body the present resolution aud all ‘the documents collected uy the Comniledon of Inquiry shall bo traneuiited at too earliest ino ont, Strugh by w New York Tribune, diureb 3 A boy, about 15 yeare of age, named Edward Braln, living with bis father, Jueob Brain, ut o. BIL Ellison street, in Paturson, N, t, about | p.m. Saturday, to purchase some groceries at 9 sture close by. Ou the way bo ‘Was joluvd by auvtber boy Bamed Robert Dy- roe, about 13 years of oge. It was raining hard. Ap they were going across a vacant lot in Pearl street, at the end of Summer atrect, In ordat |” to el to Mechanic atrect, Puroe nays ho lookod + Up und saw coming toward them from above in |” an obliqne Ine a amall ball of thre, which in an: instant struck Hratn on the left breast, nossed* under his coat, and epread into n mass of flame over the boy's breast and side. Grain was holding his feft. hand on bis breast at thé tlie, ind in it waa sn quarter of a dollar, Both boys wero terribly frightened, and rain says ho was. nearly . knocked down, ‘They ran throwich to, Mecliante street, inte the grocery story kept by ‘a’ man named Cox, He + finmedtately: stripped: off young Brain's blazing elothee, ‘The boy's coat was burned Lon cinder on one side, a3 was -alno his underclothing, its stda was badly ecorelied, anil biatered, ail the end of his tind, In- chiding the nail, was burned off. Tis tuft linnd was also badly burned, and the Q5-cont piece whict he held fo hfs hand’) was partly melted.-. Young Brain was put tnier the medical cura of Dr. Garnett, who pronounced his injuries not dangerous, Brain aays that be saw nothings that he onty heard o Missing noise over his head just as he war struck, ‘She other bor, a.very Intelligent Ittle futlow, who was about fifteeit fevt from his comrade, rays he saw the ball of. fire coming very distinctly. . Ural claims not to have felt any shock as from a rolld supstance, but says he was paralyzed for the moment. Both boys ure truthful end their story fs creditud by all those to whom it hna been told, MONTICELLO. The Wome of Joferson Again Under the Auctloncar's Haniner=Baught by doiter= san Mt. Levy, of Now Vork—Lis History, and the Jatentions of the Mrosont Owner. Sen York Heratt, Starch 2. : 5 Monticello, the toriner homu and burfal spot of Thomas Jefferson, was sold at public auction on the 20th of March by order of a Virginia court, and purchased by Jefferson M, Levy, of this city, for $10,500, ‘The sale was the result of n friendly sult instituted for the purpose of making a distribution among the helrs of Capt. Ural P. Levy, and, beyond a few inembers of thut fami, there were no stranzers at the site. The attendance was nob small, tiawever, fora great number of Virginia centiomen anit reai- + dentsof the nelghboring counties were present, deawn thither, §t would appear, snore from cu- resity than from a desire to bid for the hen- ored homestead of thi dead atatesman. ‘The aale wns iInade on the pretoises by a local nee * doneer, and the first bid was that of $5,000, made by S. M. Ketler, of Chorlottesvilic, Va, Mr. Asnhel § Levy, a consin of the purchaser, mide a numberof bids, but, nally reticiay, Une prorerty was Itnockei! down te Me. Jelferson Levy for the price named above, “The purchaser 1% a son of the late Mr, Jonat 3, Levy, and was already the owner of a kage portion of the old estate, By the anle of the inanaton he becomes the ly allot. the original property, Shadwell,” the birth- Mare of Jefferson, was also. recently suld ot ductor, but the public interest, does net. turn toward ft us it does te Monticello, Jefferson re- moved to the latter place in 1704, and com- menced a number of iaprovements both in: the buildings nnd on the estate. When at home he passed much of his thine In personally superin= tending the improvements, aud yery frequently assisted the workmen in erecting a wall’ or ex+ cavathi. Monticello ts 530 fect high, and slopes: east~ ird one id a half miles by ayentle dectivity to the Rivanna River. The mansion exterantiy is of the Doric order of Grecian architeetures ‘The front hall of entrance recedes six feet within the front wall of the butlding, covered by a per tivo t luth of the recess, projecting twenty- five feet, wed rising to the full niht of | the house, The ball also extends to the roof of the honse. J Midway In ta{s hall passages lead off to clther extremity of the building. ‘The rocmaat the extremities of these passages terminate in oc- toconal projections, Piazzas covering tis recess project six feet beyond the level of the roof and resting on brick arches, ‘The northern one onneets the house, with the public terrace, while the southern one fs closed. in for a green- house. To th bof these passages, on cach side of the tall, are sleceping-rooma, | ‘The frout. fg one and one-half stories In hight. ‘The rooms: on the west front accupy the whole hight, making the house one’ sory, except the parlor, or central roont, Which fs eurmounted by 1 oc tazonai stury, with a dome or sptterival roof. ‘This was vriginally designed for 9 billlard-room,, but before [ts "competion a bn. problb- Stine public or private blllinrd-tables in. the State of Virginia was passed und the futention was abandoned. it was to have heen approached by rlairways, connected with a, vullery at the uner extremity of thw hall, whieh Itself rormes the conneetion with the lodging- but these stairways were never eruetéd, in this respeet a erent deticleney in the house. The parlor projects twenty fect beyond. the buy of the house, covered by a portico, “It isone story, and surinonnted by the billinrd- room, whieh will probably be put to the usu -for which tt was oricinally Intended by ite present owner. ‘The original plan of this projection was square, but when the cellar was built up to tho fuor above the room was projected bevond tte squnre by three aides of am octagon, Ieavlug:a space beyond the cellar sit, excavated, and It was tn this place that some of Jeerson's falth- ful sorvants concealed thefr inaster’s plate when Monticello way visited by British troops. ‘The. foore of the house are moste ly in hardwood; liv wild cherry squures: of wbout ten inc wide. ‘The borders are of beech squares, about four inches wide. Bathe ‘ of these woos wre very hurd, ated to-day pre= sent the nppearance of & handsome tessellated, floor, ‘Phe ton of the DML was loveled into a space (00 by 200 fect, circular at cach end, ‘Tho bill #loves gently on every side from the Jaw, upon which, 100° feet fram the custern edge, studs the mansion. Its projecting porticocs, east and weat, with the whith of the house, occu- py 10) feet wach wap Frou the northern ture he views are elmply sublime, and here Jef- fergon and his trends were aicunstomed to sit on aummer eventogs. Here, perhaps, bas been gathered more love of liberty, virtue, wisdom, anil learning than on any other private spot in Atmerica, and within a short distunes now Ho the remains of the statestnan whose purity und no- ullity of Hfe hallows the ground bo once trod, On the fat of Novemtier, 180, the property, then cmbracing 552 neres, was soli by Mra. Martha Raudulph and Col, Thomas d, Randall, the executors of Jefferson, to Dr, dames T. arelay, for the eum of 37.000, After holdlne the property for some years, during which ho disposed of 334 acres, Dr. Barclay sold whut re~ auned, including the mansion, to Capt. Uriah D. Levy, of this elty, for 823,700, Ci Levy, or » Commioiore,” a8 he wus termed by the people Mvlng near Munticello, lived on the property for anutnber of years. [1 1803 the Rebel Govern- ment confiscated the property, and tt was sold at public auction to ue tate Ben Ticktin for $90,502, butatthecloseoft the War the estateagaln came tito the Levy filly. Commodore Levy: alled tn this city me snd ft was found by the terms of Is wilt that he bud tert Monticello to the *peopte of the United States, or such pers sons as Conereas may appoint. in trust, for the sole atal only purpose of estabtish- dug and oo maintuning — anu agriealtural school for the purpose of educating us practical farmers the children of warrant oillcers of tha United States whose fathers are dead, tee! In The eyeut of Congress not nevepting the wilt tt was to be rio the Sttte of Virginia for the. sutie purpose, nod shold the Legislature of that State not iake eteps to accept ti gitt, then the estate was to go ta ccrinin’ Hebrew aovlettes of Now York ant Philadelphia for the purpose ot educating poor children between the ages ut 3 Tand 1d years. Upon application of the helrs thiselause of the Commodore's will wae do- clared yoll by the Court of Appeals of this State, aut since the deeree was pronoupeed in. 15 the property bus been in the possession of bs y = Levy, the present owrer, fs nowon the estate, anil bas been busy since the day of pure hase arr. ny the tncldental iega! business, Tho will arrive home saine thas during the com Ing wevk, it is hiv intentlon to make & summer residency of Montleello, restoring as far as pos- siblo the grounds and surroundings to their ap- pearanve when the great owner was allye, ‘The inunsion will not be disturbed,—nt least not f, 2 the present—winl everything wil be done fo + * hue ureen the associations and memories ot the : yust, ; —— A Doubtful Canitdate, -. Burton Journal, There appear to be some doubt about the reaklenco of the -canildare of the Democralle Convention of Ruwde Isund for Lieutenant overnor, None of the geutlemen reeponsible for the punning of the Convention kuow any- thing about the Doctor; but “suine one told a reporter tat lis same was Dr. dol D. guiloy, of Woonsocket, Further juvestigation .dfa- closes the fack thatthucandidate’s dame ts Dr, Jol M, Bailey, and that he resides fa Bilterles, (9 Musawhusetts; wat Dr. Bulley formerly livea in Woonsocket, but for thy last two yours has Hived on a farm io Billerica, although he att hos un oillce in Woonsvelivt, und by has reeis- tered there, Where his wife pays a largo tax, His uate, Howover, has been dropped drom the allrectory. Ile ts a Greenbacker of the Pankey type, which may uccount for bls oyident! What? residence in Rhode Tetand, as itis difficult to obtain thy consent of Ruode Jehu Densucrate to bo candidates un the State ticket, and ag cundidatca ure unly peeded by. thut, party mt Ruode Isluud to concentrate small voto that would atheritise appear und the head of scatterins, Dr, Batlos Wad ag well be du Sacsachyactts as Kuude Jslau i