Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 10, 1881, Page 6

y [ o ‘THE .CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAN; JULY. “10, —TWENTY PAGES EXTRA 5:30.0°Clock A. M. . MORNING HOURS. The President Resting Quiet- ly under the Influence of Morphine. Interest in President Garfield’s Condition Continues Una- bated in England. ‘ An Unfavorable Impression. Produced in the British Mind by “ Conk- ling's Statement.” An Exciting Week Enjoyed by the Conspiracy Called the “Syndicate of Liars.” “The Liars Have Thoroughly Alarmed London by Stories About Arthur. Letter from 0. B. Potter, Protesting Against a Gift to Garfield’s Family. THE LATEST. 3:30 A. Me Spectar Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, EXECUTIVE Mansion, Wasuinatoy, July 10—3:30 a. m.—The President has dozed since midnight under the intluence of a small hypodermic injection of morphine, and has developed uo uniavorable symptom. FOREIGN. IN TH ABATED IN GE Special Cate, Lonpon, July 9.—English interest in the President, manifested in a hundred ways during the week, continues as genuine and universal as ever, though anxiety is now cifanged for hopefulness, The weekly p including most of the Radical organs of - the workinzmen, retehu the expressions of — profound sympathy which have neverceased to appear in the daily journals. The Weelly Dispatch, perhaps the most intluential of all, says the English people seldom have been moved to @ more spontaneous feeling of surrow. They take the calamity which has befallen their sin beyond the seaasinuch to heart as if it had befallen themselves. Lloyd’s Weekly remarks that ‘ TNE ANXIETY HERE EQUALS AMERICAN HOPES, Americans accepted the overwhelming proofs ot England’s affcetionate sympathy toward them which lies deep in the heart of the mother country. The demonstrations of such papers, speaking for iillions of British peuple, deserve at Ieast asimuch attention as those of the political and fashionable world. The Saturday Revicw is the onfy excep- tion amony these, the latter publishing two articles, both guarded by plirases of conven- tional regret, but both offensive. CONKLING'S S0-CALL ‘ATEMENT ‘was sent by cabie in substance to the Tics, and produced an extremely unfavorable iim- pression of that statesman. The United States Legation and other American centres are still beset by throngs of ingquirers. CONDITION T BRITAIN. NTs! Minister Lowell, _ besides manifesta- tions from public bodies, Royal and other personages, receives tly many touching messages from private indi- viduals. American and English alike wish that Mr. Biaine’s admirable and most 2e- curate dispatches misht be more frequent. No others are regarded with equal conti- dence. The Spectutur expresses the general English feeling of ADMIRATION FOR TIE PRESIDENT’S BEAR- ING, saying that his courage is as remarkable as the soundness of his constitution; that his conduct sinee wounded is thoroughly Amer- ican, and that he is very couragcous, full of domestic kindness, and tinged slightly with a grim sense of humor. Eminent surgeons at first were Inclined to despair of his recovery, but now they say, recognizing the skillfulness of the treatment, that they share the hopefulness prevailing at Washington. English journals and public men of every shade ‘of politics estimate with singular accuracy the disastrous consequences to be apprehended trom Mr. Conkling’s- accession to power. THE “SYNDICATE OF LIARS” has been exceedingly active this week. Its agents have taken advantage of the attempt- ed murder of the President to create a panic in the stock market by the circulation of nu- merous disgusting rumors, some of which are supposed to have been set afloat by Keene’s party. Most of these rumors hhave been started in carly business hours, after the publication of the morning papers, so that the * syndicate * had aclear day for carrying on their operations before their canards could be denied by the New York dispatches of the following morning. The rumors were to the effect that a great finan- cial crisis is imminent in the United States; that’ | GEN. ARTHUR'S ACCT: aE N TO THE PRESI- would occasion a serious misunderstanding with England; that the fiscal poliey of your Government would be reversed, and trade completely disorganized. ‘The attacks upon Vice-President Arthur come especially from the Standard’s correspondent in New York, but private telegrams froin the “ bear”? clique in Wall street go much further, and aim to create the belief that the change in the Presidency would go near to pro- ducing civil war. The utmost efforts of the “syndicate” have been exerted to create the impression that a generai crash in railroad securities as inevitable, and, although the’ British public receive these stories with suspicion, the effect has been to unsettle the market and cause a fall in prices, THE STOCK EXCHANGE resounds every day with these alarmist cries, and the vigor with which they are kept up and reinforced by fresh canards almost trom hour to hour shows that the “bear” clique ou your side of the water has vast and well organized rawifications. The daily papers are beginning to understand this, and the Stand- ard knows it, but, for reasons into which I do not care to inquire, publishes—and with great display—every item its New York agent sends in the interest of the Wall strect bears. THE “DAILY NE’ which ought to know better, repeats editori- ally that Gen. Arthur is hostile to England. ‘The Standard: dispatches declare that Gui- teau representsin spirit Arthurand Conkling, aud draws pictures of theruin that would fol- Jow the President’s death. The syndicate has evidently made elaborate preparations for making a heavy raid on American securities ‘Should Mr. Garfield succumb to his wound. ) s So far they have not met with very much success, but public confidence, in railroad securities espocially, is greatly shaken, and the President’s death would give the “bear” operators the victory. NEW YORK. A PROTEST. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, New Yon, July 9.—Mr. 0. B. Potter has addressed a letter to Cyrus W. Field-and others, contributors to the proposéd fund for Peesident Garfield’s family, protesting against the proposed gift to Mrs. Gar- field) and family, as tending, in fact, or in the minds of some, as liable to tend to lower the dignity, independ- ence, and impartiality of the Presidential office, and as establishing relations and obli- gations between the President and the con- tributors other than those which should ex- ist’ equally between that high official and every citizen, from’ the millionaire to the honest laborer on the farm or the tow-path. CURRENT GOSSIP. TO TAFFY, 5 Hail, Taffy, new-born goddess! Thou art come Into the world emolifent and serene, With liberal bands dispensing balmy gum, A sirup-mouthed, molasses- visaged queen! What art thou giving us, O gracious one? ‘Thou dost assuage our daily cares and tolls. *Tis thine to moltify the rasping dun, Thine to alleviate domestic broils. ‘The lover seeks thy aid to win his joy; The statesmun looketh toward thee, and the preacher, The interviewer, and the drummer-boy Who drummeth wisely, owning ‘thee for teacher. The clam-dispenser toots thy tuneful praise; The lightning-roddist knowetb all thy ways. —D.S. Proudft in Scribner for July, THE SMALL BOY AND VACCINA- TION. Virginia (Nev) Enterprise, in small-pox times the small boy is alive to all the terrors and humors of the situation. ‘Take three or four small boys who have passed through the ordeal of vaccination, and let him get hold of the sinall boy who has yet to undergo that trial. ‘The young in- nocent stands with mouth agap and distended eyes while the others describe the operation. “The doctor tells ye Haul off that coat? Then he tells yer: ‘Roll up that sleeve? When yer got yer sleeve up, he takes a great big knife and jobs it inter yer arm, up to the handle. The blood flies all over things, and the ductor mops it up with a big sponge. Oh, yer have no idea of the blood! Then he silotoft stuf what he’s got mixed up ona piece of glass, an’ he stutis it into the cut what he’s made, and that is the waxina- ton what he’s a-puttin inter yer. While he’s a-stuftin’ in xination every jab he is heart,—iv’s jist like ho has thus been encouraged hed into the doctor's office, three or four comforters manage to slip in and view the operation, looking as solemm as so matny mourners at a fun ‘the boy who is about to undergo the opera- tion at last his arm bared. ‘The doctor grasps the limb and the boy turns azide his face and becomes pale. His teeth are firmly set. He tries tu smile as he eatehes the eye of one ot his companions. Me wants to be brave if possible. The cold point of the doctor’s lance touches the bare skin of his arm, and he thinks a gash several inches in length has been made in his flesh. [le twists his head around to look for the wound, and the doc- or twists it back, telling him to “keep still. ‘Then the lance begins to prick the skin, and the small boy imagines that the point of the steel is far down toward the bone of his arm, working about the sinews ane eles. ‘The boy's lips are compressed, bis eyes are almost closed, his neck drawn d&wn be- and his right lez so drawn up that only the toes of the foot touch the floor. ” ‘The small boy’s chin falls,—he gives him- self up fordead. Ile is sure the doctor has in and that blood is spurting in all directions. He has not the courage to turn lis head and look. He is about to faint. when the doctor pulls down his sleeve and “Now, boy, put on your cvat,—you’re ‘The small boy can hardly believe his ears. His heart gives a great bound of joy and re- lief. A smile irradiates his face, and in about a minute he is one of the bravest of the brave. An hour later he is out on the streets describing to other small boys the terrors of *‘waxination,” and how the doe- tors rip and tear through flesh and muscles with their big knives. THE COMET. Brovktya KE “T find,” observed Dr. Budge, as he sat on the coping of his roof with his elbows on his knees and his chin on his hands,—* I find, while the nucleus is very distinct, the’ tail appears to be obscured by the precipita- tion of inoisture in the atmosphere. Does it+ not seem to strike you so, Dr. Todd?” “Qur observations agree minutely, plied the other old:scienti: of the adjoining house, ‘but I think the ob- seuration will afford additional facilities for Dr. Todd,” replied Dr. Budge, “1 find the head more steady than in either of those phenomena, But I ascribe that to the t that this comet is receding from the sun.” “Thatis « common, But yulzar, error,” responded Dr. Todd. “The fact isthe comet proachiny the sun, and to that fact I at- tribute the involved appearance of the nu- cleus. Were it drawing away from the you would not detect those two dark radia- Uons from the centre to the circumference,” You are misled, Dr. Todd. If you will notice those dark spots at regular intervals just inside the rim, you will readily agree that it must be approaching the sun, other- wiseyou could not seé such shauows.”? Anybody who says those are shadows, Dr. Budge, is an_old » and don’t know a comet from a codfish. You see—” “TYsee a bullet-headed old idiot who don’t know the difference between the sun and a soap-box,”. retorted Dr. Budge. “16 you knew an asteroid from a jackuss, ’'d like to talk astronomy with you.” “Yow cussed old mule, you say I don’t know astronomy? Pil punch your nose for you! *Come on, you mullett headed ignoramus! you'd never Know it was a_coimet but for if you intimate that [ ain’t a scientist hingle your eye for you! Lye been in siness since I was 2 boy !? vs the matter over there?” yelled Daddy Hicks from his roof across the street. ‘The two scientists pointed out the object of dispute, and each argued at length on his eory. “That's all right,” said Daddy Mick: when they had finished, “but you d either of you seem to have noticed that it is twenty minutes past 11 by your comet. Us one of the illuminated faces of the all clock, Here’s the comet over id old philosophers fell ards. each down his respective le, and were seen no more by Daddy QUIPS. Afflicted man—No it is no disgrace to be named Sinith, We'd rather be named Smith and own over $160,060,000 than be called St. Lawrence De Vere, and have to be bashful of the dog-tax collector.—Boston Post. “Talloa!? With this exclamation the hunter came toan abrupt halt. [The con- cluding chapters of the thrilling and absorb- ingly Interesting story of “‘The Scout and the Indian”? will be found in our waste- basket.]—Hackensack Republican. Capt. Bogardus’ feat of breaking 500 glass balls in twenty-five minutes and _ fifteen s onds has been excelled by a Philadelp! n who was carrying a basket of glass ballsto a shovting-range and stepped on a banana peel.—PhUadelphia News. The Somerville Journal says: mers are so inad at the voinet gettin; the range of naked vision before they saw it, that they ure singing: ‘Refrain, audacious star!?” Sang Pinatore to it, el? ‘That ex- plains why it las been: getting away at the nate of 700,000 miles a day.—Boston Post. “Gentlemen of the jury,” said an Irish lawyer, “itwill be for you to say whether the defendant shall be allowed to come into court with unblushing footsteps, with a cloak of hypocrisy in his mouth, and draw three bullocks out of my elient’s pocket with iupunity.” JEFF DAVI How the Arch-Confederate Received the News of Guiteau’s Crime. His Detestation of the Deed and the Moral He Draws from It. He Trembles for the Existence of the Government He Attempted to Destroy. The Old Landmark’s Excellent Knowledge of Things Prior to the War. It Was Marcy Who Said, “To the Victor Belong the Spoils.” He Is Like Guiteau, He Had Rather Be Execrated than Forgotten. He Admits that the Abolition of Slavery Ameliorated Labor in the South. Spectat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. PmLaDELPuta, Pa, July 9,—Col. Frank A. Burr writes to the Press an account of a visit to Jefi Davis, in which he says: “As 1 approached his house by the broad walk — which leads up from the road, Mr. Davis was sitting upon the poreh in front of the door to the hall of the house, reading a letter. I walked up the steps, and, as I reached the porch, he rose trom his seat and extended his hand. I was greatly surprised at his appearance. I have seen many different pictures of him, none of which resemble him much more than they do Julius Cesar. The picture in the second volume-of his book, if the gray hair and whiskers could be shorn, would be the best Lhave seen. He is f A TITHE, SPARE MAN, alittle over the medium hight, weighing, I should say, not more than 140 pounds. As 1 saw him to-~lay he was neatly dressed in light-colored duck. trousers, white vest, and linen coat. A light gold wateh- chain hung in his buttonhole, and his spectacles dangled from a black horse- hair chain about his neck. He wore a stand- ing collar with a neat, black tie, and his whole appearance was that of an unpreten- tious gentlemas. Closely cropped gray whiskers fring/d his entire ‘face, and his expression, while — very firm, is quite pleasant, especially when he smiles, which he often dges. He has an ample suit of gray hair, his eves are full of fire and ex- pression, and, in conversation, he has a way of closing his mouth firmly, denoting the great will-power which has been ever recognized as one of his leading character- istics. WS FIRST EXCLAMATION, as he greeted me in atone of voice low and Pleasant, was: “E am glad to seé you, sir!” Almost before I fad time to reply, he anx- jously inquired: “ What is the latest news as to the President’s condition 2” I gave him the latest dispatches, and he re- sumed his seat. inviting me to take a great bruad, splint-bottom chair which sat near him. “This assault on Garfield is a horrible crime. There can be but one sentiment among the people of this country at THE ENORMITY OF THE OFFENSE. What it may forebode to the country is hard to determine. When a man kills the President because he refuses him office, what may not be expected? Assasination is usually the outgrowth of seasons of galling oppression. Even then itis the resort of a forceorsentiment too cowardly for revolution and too contemptible for civilization to toler- ate. But this crime is without even the cuse of excitement, A vulgar man murders the President in his wild delirium about of- fice. Such a crime makes the whole Nation kin, alters all prejudices, and hushes par- tisan thoughts. It is evident that the crime is the outgrowth of THE GREEDY SCRAMBLE FOR OFFICE . which has of late years been so marked. . It isto be hoped that the reaction which this great crime will produce may correct this alarming evil. Ithas for a long time been erowing into our systein of Government, unul it appears to have finally resulted in .the murder of the Executive. The South had much hope of Garfield’s Administration and will sincerely mourn his loss, as it joins in the National sorrow over the assault upon his life. I earnestly hope he may speedily recover. Ap- ointments and removals for pulitical con- siderations are a bad use of executive powe! WHEN THE CONFEDERACY WAS ORGANIZED at Montgomery it was provided that no man should be removed from office by the Ex- ecutive except for cause, which the taw re- quired should be specifically stated. The political power concentrated in the hands of the President by his control of patronage has been growing greater every day, and its administration has for a long. time been vicious.” “Didn’t it begin in Jackson’s time, when he proclaimed the doctrine that to the victor belong the spoils?” “It is a common error that Jackson was the author of that declaration. ‘That is not true, nor is it true that removals and appoint- ments for political considerations began during his Administration. Mr. Marcy, while making a speech in the Senate, made use of the expression, ‘To the victor belong the spoils,’ while stating what might follow as the line of policy under — certain contingencies. Another Senator, after the speech, called his attention to the phrase, and said that statement will be considered and treated as an open avowal of party policy, and you had- better have it stricken out? ‘No, that is not what intended, but it is there, andI will not change it,’ replied Mr. Marey. THE FIST REMOVALS FOR POLITICAL COX- SIDERATIONS began during John Quincy Adams’ Ad- ministration in the State Department, when Mr. Clay was at the head of it, and he removed the printers who did the public printing. The State Department then also indirectly controlled the Post-Office Depart- ment, the Postmaster-General not then being a Cabinet officer.” Mr. Davis then gave a most interesting ac- count of the Civil-Service in-carly days, and how it had been adwinistered under the various Administrations with which he was associated as Congressinan and Cabinet offi- cer, and of which he had a familiar knowl- edge. Finally, matters touching HIS BOOK were called up, and the reception of the work became the subject of inquiry. “Tam very well satistied with its recep- tion,” replied Mr. Davis, “I did not expect or wish: it or myself to escape criticism. I suppose, however, I am like most men. I would. rather. be. criticised than not noticed. I undertook the work for the Purpose of placing upon record the truth about Our Cause and::its conduct, and the demeanor of our people. Having done that Iam content, for that was the motive that prompted its publication. Most of the criti- cisms I have seen strike me as having been WRITTEN BEFORE THE BOOK WAS READ. necessarily the historical part is very incom plete. Everything of which it treats had to be epitomized, much had to be omitted, and niuch more simply glanced at. Several books as large as either of the volumes of my work have been written upon the battle of Gettys- burg, and probably as many more might be written. Many volumes could be profitably written upon the siege of Vicksburg, and other great events of the War. More than thirty volumes, instead of two, would have been necessary for a complete review of the rise and fall of the Confederate Government and its military history. Who will write that history-I cannot say. Much of it, I fear, will never be written.” At this point the conversation was inter- rupted by | ‘TIE ARRIVAL OF THE MAIL. Mr. Davis stepped down to meet the mes- senger before he had reached the upper step of the porch. He took the New Orleans paper, seated himself, and quickly began reading aloud, without spectacles, the last dispatches concerning ——_Presi- dent Gartield’s condition. As-he read the unfavorable. dispatches, he dropped the paper upon his lap, and, for a moment, sat in deep thought. He finally looked up and said: “I fear he will die. What a calamity! What a fearful crime! Life is full of danger and disappointments, and we all get our share, ‘This is a terrible blow at our institu- tions. IN A TIME OF PERFECT PEACE AND PLENTY, that the President should be shot down by a vile wretch portends, 1 fear, more of evil than we can comprehend. It is a great pity. “Ido hope that he may yet rally.” Then the ex-President of the Confederacy went on discussing the various phases of the crime, showing. deep concern for the life of Gen. Garfield. While he was talking Mrs. Davis, alarge, fine-looking, motherly-appear- ing lady, came and took a seat in the group and mingled her expressions of regret, regard, and condolencé with her husband’s, A reference to the crime recalled the War and the effect it had had upon the country, our Government and institutions. “ We are by no means out of ;danger yet,” said Mr. Davis. ‘“ The solution of THE GREAT PROBLEM OF POPULAR Gov- ERNMENT is still in the womb of time. ‘Che foresight of man cannot determine the result, as the serious and startling events which have rid- den down upon each other in quick succes- sion during the past twenty years clearly demonstrate.” . “Have they in any wise changed the char- acter of the Government?” “Certainly. It was said by our enemies, when the War began, that it was waged for the preservation of the Union. lf that had been true, when the War was over =the. States were in the Union,“their relations to it had in no way changed. But} instead, conditions were imposed for admissiin into the Union, and then it was apparent the War had been waged for the subjugation of one section of the country, and that a new Government had been created by the War. THADDEUS STEVENS tent and frank in his po- sitionasto the seceding States. He. said, during the framing ef the Reconstruction measures: ‘We are king te outside of the Constitution,’ taking: the ground that the Southern States (were subjugated territory, and had nog rights except such as the conquerors} prescribed. ‘That Was in truth a reéxposition of the policy pursued by Congress in \ dealing with the South. It willnot do to say: that there is the same Constitution with a few amendments, Government and Constitution are synony- mous terms, save that the Cpustitution is the basis of Government. What would the framers of the Constituyion and those who founded the Govermpent under it have thought ifan oath to support the Govern- ment had been asked of them instead of an oath to support the Constitution? That was an oath that the nen of “798 never would have consented to take. 7 ‘The War and the measures which followed. it CREATED A NEW GOVERNMENT. It came us the result of jrevolution and the passions which it engenglered.” Of course this is only’ an incomplete epi- tome of what Mr. Davis said upon the sub- ject of the changed conditions of the Gov- ernment, His argument was long and intensely interesting,/but space forbids giv- ing more than the sifgle idea upon which le built an able and intfresting arguinent. “WHEN LAVAS IN PRISON, walting trial, Thad\deus Stevens twice sent a message to me, volunteering to defend me. Ideciined, not from any lack of confidence in his ability, becatise he was 2 a manof great nptural endowment, but I was aware of his life of argument, It would have been that the beceding States were con- quered provinces, and were to all intents and purposes a foreign power whieh had been overthrown. Therefore, their prop- erty was subjectl to confiscation, and the people to such penalties and conditions as the conquerors might impose. ‘That would have been . AN EXCELENT ARGUMENT for me, but not tu&: my people. As it was still being contend eH that the Union had never been bruk up, and that the War had been ducted for its res- toration, it wag due thatthe South should have the benefit of such a posi- tion, regardiess of cousequences to myself. I suppose Mr. Stevens thought thatz1 had avery limited appreciation of the danger I was in.” “What is THE MATERIAL FUTURE OF TITE SOUTIC?” ““Phat no man can tell. It the South can establish a system of tenantry or get immi- gration tooceupy and till its lands there 1s no question but that it has a great future. Whether the colored people will ever reach that —_ point is a question yet to be settied. Man is nowin a struggle with Nature upon these problems, There is no question but that the whites are better off. for the abolition of Slavery. It isan equally patent fact that THE COLORED PEOPLE ARE NOT. It is an arithmetical proposition easily de- determined that it is more profitanle to pro- ceed with free labor where only the hand employed is to be paid than where the whole family is to be supported to get the labor of those competent to work, Then there is also a saving in capital. Before the War, when acolured man died, the owner lost from $1,000 to $1,500, Now he loses nothing, except perhaps the cost of burial. 1f the colored people shall develop a proper degree of thrift and get a deegree of moral education to keep pace with any advancement they may make, they may become a tenantry which will enable the South to rebuild its waste places and become immensely wealthy. Negroes become greatly attached to localities, and most of them love to remain where they were raised. Almost allof our old servants are yet on the old plantations near Vicksburg. The colored people have many good traits, and many of them are religious. Indeed, the four millions in- the South when the War began were Christianized from barbarians. In that respect the South has been a greater practical missionary than all the missionary societies in the world. I had an old man who for the colored peoplein our section was AS COMPLETE A RULER as was ever boru. Ie was as free from guile and as truthful a man as L ever knew. ‘The Federal forées treated the old man with great: indignity: He was a very su- id his quarters where were fitted up with some people might. say wil luxury. He had everything about him for comfort, and when the suldiers came and looked into his well-furnished cabin they asked him who those things belonged to. “To me,” -he answered. They denounced him-as, untruthful, and said he had taken those things to keep for his master, and took them away from him. “Nothing that was ever done to me,” said Mr. Davis, “made me so indignant as the treatment of this old colored man.” “WAR WAS NOT NECESSARY to the abolition of slavery,” continued Mr. Davis. “Years before the agitation began atthe North and the menacing acts to the institution, there was a growing feeling all over the South for its abolition, but the Ab- olitionists of the North, both by pnblications and speech, cemented the South and crushed the feeling in favor of emancipation. Slavery could have been blotted out hout the sacrifice of brave men, and without the ‘strain which revolution always makes upon established forms of government. [see it stated that I uttered the sentiment, or indorsed it, that slavery is the corner-stone of the Confederacy. ‘That is not my utterance.” CRIMINAL NEWS. AWFUL VENGEANCE. Dispatch to Cincinnati Enauirer. ATLANTA, Ga, July 8—Last night, in Heard County, near Alabama, occurred one of the most horrible instances of popular in- dignation on record. Jesse Waldrop was burned to ‘ashes‘for a crime so horrid that the law’s delays could not stand between him and vengeance. Three months ago, in Randolph County, Alabama, Dr. John Mit- chell, a prominent young physician, married. Carrie Knight, famed for her beauty and ac- complishments. On the 29th of June, in the joy of their honeymoon, Dr. Mitchell was walling up the road near his coun- .try home, when he beheld what almost paralyzed him with horror. Itis lovely wife Jay before him a ghastly corpse. Her throat was cut from ear toear, and her body was torn with the fearful clutches of her mur- derer, It was discovered that she had been raped and murdered, ‘The neighborhood was at once aflame with excitement, and seurch for the guilty wretch was begun. Jesse Waldrop had not long been in the county, but there had followed him rumors of his bad character. He was seen on the road near where the corpse was found on the day of the murder. In the death-struggle the murderer had bitten his victim severely on the cheek and left signs that one of his front teeth was out. Waldrup had this peculiarity. With these evidences search for him was begun at once, and it was found that he had fled. Trained plood- hounds were | obtained, and = from the scene of the murder, they tracked hia several miles into Georgia. Hege the pursuing party heard that Waldrop had passed. Gradually tracing him, they ar- rived at Newinan, thirty miles from Atlanta, where a ferryman described a man who: hat crossed the bight before, and the pursuers knew that Waldrop could not be far away. At midnight on the 3d the party reached a house where they learned a man calling him- self Owen had stopped. ‘They demanded to be shown to his room, and, rapping on it, Waldrop came out. Ie was seized_and, after a desperate resistance, bound. He de- nied all knowledge of the crime, and was taken to jail, though the fury of some of the crowd demanded “his instant death. Next Cy circumstances were collected so strongly and presented to him that, trem- bling with fear, he confessed ali; told how he hada passion for the beautiful young woman, and, meeting lier, threatened her life if she would not yield to his Uesires. She indignantly repelled him, and tried to es- cape. In his struggle to accomplish his hell- ish design he had b itten and torn her horri- bly. She struggled so tiercely that the wretch was about to lose his hold, when he cut her throat, and as she was dying accom- plished his black crime. After detailing this damning story Waldrop told of a life of erhne which few police annals can equal. le confessed to haying five living wive and gave a list of aliases, saying he has al- ways had an uncontrollable passion for wonen, When he confessed, passion rose so high that he was about to ‘be swung, When some one suggested that he ought to die on the scene of his crime, and that hanging was too good for him. Ac- cordingly he was lett in jail until night be- fore last, when fifty armed men, but not dis- suised, went there and demanded him. ‘The jailer gave him up, and the procession start- ed. All along the route people came out to luok tt the prisoner and demand that he should die. Several times the excitement grew so great that it seemed it would wreak vengeance on the wretch at once, but riding by his side were relatives of the murdered woman, who eunrded him and declared they had reserved him for a special fate. Late yesterday afternoon the scene of the murder was reached. Nothing was done rasiily, but preparations were made for the execution with ghastly coolness. Waldrop was tied and bound with wire to a stake di on the spot where his victim was found, when for the first time his dogged courage failed. Me pleaded piteously, not for life, but only to be allowed to die by the gal- lows or builet; but he cried to men of stone, and at midnight one of the relatives ‘of the unfortunate woman applied the torch to the pine which, saturated with oil, had been piled around him. His screams rang out on the quiet country air, and the flames lit up he scene with lurid glare. ‘Che death-strug- es were horrid, but not a man stirred. Standing in a circle around the human sa fice, they looked with stolid inditferen the horrid expiation of the crime. From first to last the oflicers made no effort to sive the prisoner for a legal doom. If they had it would have been futile, for popular passion was fairly frenzied. Waldrop was 23 years old, and a man of good address. SENTENCED TO DEATH? Speerat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, « Kewaxee, Ill, July 9.—At Cambridge to- day, for the first time in the history of Henry County, a man has been sentenced to death, and by the hanging of this man, which is to take place Sept. 16, who in the dead of night, on Dee. 10, shot a well-to-do and highty re- spected farmer by the name of Thomas Dil- ley, while he lay asleep, instantly ‘killing him, and witha club beat Mrs. Dillef until her head was a mass of jelly, the people of Henry County will have been avenged. The prisoner, Clem Gallion, — was a tramp, but oa short, time out of the Minnesota State Prison, who had been given by Mr. Dilley a few days’ work picking corn, and for the possession of a couple of silver watches which the farmer possessed the fiendish act was done. , The ement at the time was intense, and pon the arrest of Gallion nothing but the possi bi ty of his innocence’ prevented his being lynched. The evidence was purely cireum- stantial, but so strong that the jury required scarcely an hour in which to return a ver- dict of guilty and find that the pris- oner should suffer the punishment of death, The prisoner was ably defended by Jolin P. Hand smd Emery C. Graves, who undertook the thankless 7° purely from motives that justice should be done to all. Our able State’s-Attorney, T. E. Milchrist, conducted the prosecution in an admirable manner. is Honor Judge Glenn was much affected while pronouncing the sentence, but the prisoner appeared the same as he had during the trial, perfectly indifferent as to the sentence, the Judge, Sheriff, and others being far more affected. A COWARDLY MURDER. Larrie Rock, ark., July Dlooded murder was committed on 'Thurs- day on the Arkadelphia & Mount Iola Rail- road, about eight miles from Hollywood. It pears that two strangers hailing from ‘Texas stopped at the house of ‘Thomas Ilolder, two miles from Hollywood, during his absence, and wanted to purchase cor: to feed their horses. They were refused by the negro who had charge of the premises, who told them that Holder not. being at home he could not let them have the corn. Upon being. refused the corn one of the men remarked they had to have twenty ears, anyway, to feed their horses, and, throwing the negro 25 cents, took-the corn tnd started on their journey. Holder returned home, and, hearing the ne- rro’s report, secured the companionship of ohn HL Wilson and started in pursuit of themen. They overtook the fugitives some cight miles from Hollywood and found one man sitting on his horse, while the other was sleeping on the ground. The man on watch gave the alarm to his sleeping companion, 9,—Another cold- | and then took to aight. He was pursued and shot down by John Wil- son, “They captuted the remaining man and returned with him to Hollywood to have him tried, leaving the body of the slain man in the woods tiil yesterday. The Magistrate, from some cause, refused to try the prisoner, and he was set at liberty Wednesday. An inquest was held upon the body of the slain man, after which he was buried. . Wilson shot the man with a needle-zun, carrying a Minie ball, which entered the body just below the point of the right scapula. A COOL MURDERER. GRAPELAND, Tex., July 9.—J. M. Williams came to town to-day, rode up to the rear of the store of Ira Reals, and accosted him with the words, ‘“‘ Howdy! I’ve been hunting you- all morning, and G—d d—n you l’m going to killyou.” Suiting action to his words, he fired, part of the load entering the left side of Keals, the remainder passing into the room, killing John Kent, wounding one Garrett, and grazing another man. Williams and Kent were suitors for the hand of the same young lady. Williains, it is reported, intends to kill the young lady and then com- mit suicide. KU-KLUX. Special Disvatch to The Chicago Tribune. Litrre Rock, Ark., July 9.—John Fetting, a German living in Clay County, was calied. outof his house on Friday night by a party of four disguised men, who fired several shots at him, wounding him in the face and arm. They rode off before any of the family could identify them. Fetting was alive at Jast accounts. A FATAL ALTERCATION. New Onrceans, La, July 9.—A special from Winona, Miss., says: ‘In an altercation yesterday at Chester, Choctaw County, be- tween D. B, Archer and. T. Ewing MeCatfer- ty, the latter led? THE RAILROADS. EAST-BOUND FREIGHTS. Although the east-bound freight rates are lower than they have been for some years, and only one-half of what they were at this time last year, yet the aggregate of the traflic is but little heavier than it was twelve months ago. ‘The sudden reduction ot east- bound rates about a month ago to the basis of 15 cents per 100 pounds on grain, Chicago to New York, has had the effect of stimulat- ing shipments temporarily. During the first week the low rates were in effect shipments of flour, grain, and provisions by the various. lines leading East from this city jumped up from about 30,000 tons to nearly 73,000 tons. This boom was temporary, and the following week the shipments fell off, and only 55,864 tons went East by the various roads from this city. _ Last week, although rates: still re- main at the lowest figure reached,—15 cents per 100pounsd on grain, Chicago to New York —only 44,371 tons wereshipped, and the indi- cations are that shipments will fall off still more during the week, unless the roads should stimulate business by inaugurating auother cut, which at present does not seem probable. ‘The present rail rates are low enough to compete with the lake and river tariff, and it is doubtful whether a further reduction would bring the railroads any nore business, for in that event lake and river rates would be correspondingly re- duced. ‘The great troubie is that there is not enough tratticin the country to ** go ’round,”” It is claimed that the amount of business in the country to be shipped during the sum- mer is not one-half what it was one yearago, and the competition is now far greater. Not much tratlie being diverted by the Mississippi barge lines, but the number ot railroads: to the East has largely increased. The construction and formation of so many new roads during the last year has had much more to do with forcing rates down to 15 cents,a figure which ‘barely Jeaves a margin of profit, than the competi- tion by lake and river. ‘Che latter last sum- mer was nearly as. acti as this, yet rail rates were steadily maintained at 30 cents per 109 puunds, and the roads did a good business. Vanderbilt: refuses to submit to a, higher rate. than 15 cents this summer be- cause of the great multiplication of roads, and by taking this stand he means to discour- age the formation of new lines to the East, as with the rates now in- vogue new roads could not possibly hope to make any money. It is for this reason that rates are likely to remain at the present figures throughout the suinmer. To make them lower would entail aloss upon the existing roads, and neither Vanderbilt nor any other Eastern magnate seems desirous of taking business at a losing; rate; while to advance the tariit would be to stimulate the construction of more new lines, which he and the other kings are desirous to avoid, as there is not enough business’ for all the roads in operation. ‘The following statement shows the amount of grain, flour, nd provisions carried by the ‘ious roads from this city during the week ending July 9: Grain,!Prov's, Furur,|tons of |tons of bris. "| 2.009" | 2, Total 2.000 | tons. Michigan Central, Lake Shore. Baltimore & Ohio. Grand Trunk .....- Total........0-- FAoe| ALL ‘The percentages were: Michigan Central, 14.80; Lake Shore, 33.70; Fort Wayne, 16.10; Pan ‘Handle, 21.40; Baltimore & Ohio, 6.503 Grand ‘Trunk, 7. IOWA RAILKOAD MATTERS. Spectat Correspondence af The Chicago Tribune, Des Mornes, fa., July’S.—The New Shan- on, Coal Valley & Eastern Road will be in running order this week from Brighton to Richland. ‘The Des Moines & Fort Dodge Road has a contract with the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul to haul 5,000 cars of material to be used in the extension of the road from Fort Dodge to Perry. It also has a contract to haula Chicago & Northwestern train every day from Grand Junction to Gowrie. This, with its own traflic and that of the Des Moines orth wes: hich joins it at Waukee, will keep its rails warm, ‘The Toledo & Northwestern crosses the cemetery grounds in Rutland, ULumboldt County, and the same road, to make a feas- ible crossing of West Fork, will change the channel of the river by digging a canal 600 teet long, "100 feet wide, and 14 feet deep, re- quiring the removal of 30,000 cubic yards of earth. It is reported that the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy have begun the connection of Moravia with Centreville, thus. torming a new direct connection trom this city with their Burlington & Southwestern Division. ‘h the latter extension completed to Kan- ts City, the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy will be pretty well fixed in Lowa for tratlic, ‘The St. Louis & Nevada Railroad, Com- pany isa new project, and a_ route for it is bemy surveyed from State Centre, in Mar- shal County, to Sheldon, O’Brien County, gers toconnect with the Milwaukee & St. aul. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy has got a grip on the Keokuk & St. Louis Ke Amasa Stone, D. P. Eels, and W. H. Harris, of Cleveland, unloaded their stock, which Was a controlling. interest in the Keokuk & St. Louis to a Boston man, supposed to be a purchaser in the inter Burlington & Quiney. Chicago, Burlington “& Quincey a St. Louis connection on the west side of the. river, and it looks as though it was a checkmate to some of Jay Gould’s recent moves. ‘This transfer dues not affect the north end of the Keokuk & St, Louis, from Keokuk to Mount Pleasant, ich isaseparate company and has separate stock. About two months ago a package of letters for Ft. Dodge. gathered up alonz the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, and the Minneapolis & St. Louis in Minnesots nesota, was missing. On the 2sth ult. it was. foundina bag of waste-paper, wich had been sent bya route agent tothe Chicago ollice. It is very likely a vast amount of lost mail-inatter could thus be traced tu the blun- ders of route agents. It is not infrequent that letter and pxper sacks from Chicago are received here twelve hours behind ‘time, which have been carried by. A Tecent statement from Mr. Merrill is that the Gttuinwa Extension of the Milwaukee & St, Paul is to be commenced at once. Euinetsburg, in Palo Alto County, seems to be the starting point fora lively ‘Tace_be- tween the Des Moines & Fort Dodge, Mil- wausee & St. Paul, and Chicago & North- Western, to some point northwest. Manager Merrill was there a few days ago with a corps of surveyors who at once began the lo- cation of a line along the proposed extension of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & North. ernto Esterville, in Emmet County, a point” , will give the on the Chicago & Northwest bash isheaded that way also. The Wa. The Chicago & Northwestern has made permanent survey for a route from wild the cond fc coor ty a will bu: er 18 Necess: i mc ey tine lis, Delhi ac he Indianapolis, Del Chi row Gauge Road iron and rolling spat Nach was revently, fel, was Burehased ‘ fe St. Louis, Des Moines & is being delivered bere. ene WEEYE, ITEMs. The Chicago. Burlington & Quincy road has just completed arrangements for the construction of a new line from Osceola, to Des Moines. This will give the Burti ‘ton the most direct route from Des Mone to all Southwestern points. The new Ting will be thirty-eight miles ong, It is ctaimed that fully 70 per cent of what are known as back-pay elalins of Indianapolis, Bloomington &_ Western Rail. road Company are owned by sbeculato; who have bought them in at low tigures, 4 is also stated that parties who were. riorte the road passing into its present hi up in authority, have been dabbling treeiy ims, and have a pretty good holding in question. 3 regen Us elt Mr. Charles H. Felton, Agent of chants?’ Dispatel: Hefrigerator-Car tie been placed in charge of the territory wes of the Missisippi River, embracing Missoy Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Dakota, with headquarters at Des Moin, Ja. The appointment takes effect July 5, Mr. Felton has devoted the past twelve to the perishable fruit business, Particularly the butter, egg, and cheese trade, and not only become thoroughly posted in this largely-increasing branch of the freight busi. ness, but has made numerous friends who . Will be pleased to learn of his Promotion to so responsible a position, The Cincinnati Commeretal says: « midsummer dulless of the railroad ete was somewhat relieved yesterday by gossip concerning the supposed-to-be pending pur chase of the Louisville Short-Line by ‘the Louisville & Nashville system. It is ag plainly the destiny of Lexington, Cincinnati & Lafayette to be under the. control of the Louisville & Nashville, as. that the Marietts «& Cincinnati is a ‘legitimate Dart and parcel of _ the ‘Baltimore & Ohio, but whether or not. the would-be masters are ready to pay the price necessary to outright ownership must ap bear froin the tidings from New York, Where negotiations have been pending. The effect upon Cincinnatl would be good, su far ag general business is concerned, aud the Southe ern Road would be affected only in the nat ter of healthy competition, though, without doubt, the Louisville & Nashville would be - in a position to make lower rates from here to the South, and from the South to Cincin- nati, than ever before. The Ohio & Missis- sippi and the Jeffersonville, Madison & In- dianapolis Roads are more directly interest- ed than the Cincinnati Southern, as the Louisville & Nashville system, which now delivers them freight at Louisville, would undoubtedly carry much of it *by the long- est route,’ as_is the axiom, and bring it hera by the Short Line.” LUNATICS, Crazy Visitors at the White House, Dispatch to New York World. Wasurxctoy, D. C., July 5.—"Crazy men, yes lots of em. If I could remember half of the lunatics that have haunted this house since I came on duty as watchman, their stories would fill the biggest newspaper in New York. But you see there are so many of them that we don’t take the trouble to re- member them only in a general way, you know.” The speaker was Alfonso. Dunn, who has been a watchman at the White House for the past seventeen years. “In Gen. Grant’s time,” continued Mr, Dunn, “we were greatly bothered by Abra ham Joltz, a crazy Dutchman, who used to present himself. when tne gates opened in the morning and spend the rest ot the day in trying to get access to the President. He was the most persistent and persevering man Jeversaw. He never missed a day, rain or shine, and always waited patiently at the door when refused adinittance. I believe he used up half a gross of visiting-cards with- out ever seeing the President. One day he got by the door somehow, and I met him up stairs. What do you thinkailed him? Why. he believed he was elected President of the United States, and had. come to wwe President Grant notice to quit ie appeared to be a harmless Innatic, so I cuaxed him out by telling him that President Grant would be ready to va cate the next day, 1t was a loug time before Isaw him again, but when he finally made his way to the house again he had not for- pouen my promise. Singularly enough, he ad not noticed the lapse of time, but spoke ofthe promise as having been made yester- day. 1 got him away again quietly and never saw him again. I think it was the next day that his sister-in-law called here and ask me to get the President to put Joltz into the insane asylum, She said his disappointment at not being inaugurated had made him vio- lent. She knew he owned a gun and she feared that he would endeavor to use it to Kill, the President who had usurped his chair. Ie was sent to the insane asylum.” “Were there any attempts to assasinate President Grant?” “No, not exactly; but he was never alto- gether safe from crazy.men. In his second term a big, wicked-looking negro—he was. over six foot and built in proportion—came to me and asked me to let him see the Presi- dent. He an evil-disposed looking vik lain and had a trick of showing you only the whites of his eyes. I suspected he was not all right, and questioned him pretty closely. While I was talking to him I noticed that he kept his right hand in his left breast-pocket, and I was afraid he had a revolvor there. Imade an excuse and pot away so as to call Otficer Kearney, to whom I ‘imparted my suspicions. ‘The officer, under the pretext that he would lead him to the President, en- ticed him from the house and caged him fn the police station. Search showed that his left breast-pocket contained a loaded re- volver of large size. I don’t remember his name or what was done with him.” “Are there many who labor under the de- lnsion that they have been elected to the Presidency 2” “Oh, yes; two orthree every year, at least. They are generally harmless and go away without giving us imuch trouble. ‘Then there’s another class of lunatics, also humor- ous. They believeve they own the White House, the Capitol, the ‘Treasury Depart. meut, and all the other public buildings, and come here periodically for the keys. We generally send them to the Capitol,'where they wander about till they are tired. One morning a woman who had gone crazy. because of thé loss or abduction ot her daughter, came her@ to accuse President Grant of the crime. After she had butted her head through two or three panes of glass we gave her into the han of the police. A very frequent nuisanceat the White House is the praying lunatic, harmless poor devil who has gone crazy on religion. We had one here the other day who kneel on the porch and prayed quite eloquently for President Garfield. ‘They are | generally harmless, and we let them have their pray so long as they du not make too much nm you remember any other crazy “Not by name. Well, yes: have you ever heard of John Biggins? “No? Weil, he was a big Irishman, about six feet four, and 23 strong as a yoke of oxen. He was a rough: looking chap, too, and had a hand like a les of mutton. He was as crazy as aloon, but only on one point, and that he never shower until the oceasion arrived. He was one ot President Grant's visitors. One day he called, looking as. sober as a judge and as quiet as a lamb, and asked to see the Presi- dent, His name was sent up-stairs, and aftet waiting awhile he was shown into the Prest dent’s reception-room. egal “What ¢ do for you, Mr. Biggins? asked the President. President Grant,’ said Biggins, bis craze ness breaking ont for the first time, ‘I wish you to understand that [ don’t want you beeping through the keyhole of my bedroom door any more. if you do it again PU shoot you dead, as sure as my name is Biggins- “*So woulut if E were you,’ replied Pres! dent Grant, not a muscle of his face moving; ‘and I canassure you it will not occur again. + “The coolness of the President probably saved his life, for Bigsins was armed and desperate. He is now in the insane asylum.’ re Sparrows Whip a Cat. Hartford Courant. An interesting scene was witnessed by a num- ber of people on North Main street last Sunday. A mother sparrow hud tumbled a littie one out Of its nest, when a lurge cat sturted for it, tuink- ing to have a choice bit of Iuneb. Before the bird was caught two large sparrows, probably parents of the littie one, attacked thecat with 80 wnuch vigor, picking at its head and Tien as, to cause the feline to retreat, squalling with | nner cenememerennarirneenintenenmiennnieemmmmmananiiiaiiaint iit s