The New York Herald Newspaper, January 12, 1874, Page 8

CUBA. ‘The Financial Problem in the Gem of the An- tillee—A Visit to Matanzas—Sad Memories— Beautiful Rebels—Moonlight Musings in the Calle 0’ Reilly—“Yumuri,” Havana, Jan, 3, 1874, ‘The great anxiety of the hour !s the financial wituation, Itis much more serious, More tmpor- tant, comes nearer nome to citizens of all classes ‘than the case of the Virginius. Meetings have Deen held daily during the past week by the Junta de la Denda, a committee appointed to study the Mnancial question, and they have been studying it hard and fast with about the same results as at- tended the labors of the Senate Naval Committee that undertook to devise @ Vessel to overtake the Alabama, The cure is not torthcoming. Every @ay the committee Meet gold seems to take the alarm and go up. Not an interest in the island bat is forced to sympathize with the troubled fnan- cial situation. The worst of it is the science of finance is but poorly understood. The Bank of Havana, which should be seeking to keep down the price o/ gold and @ return to specie payments, thinks the time opportune to increase its paper and take advantage of the disordered condition of tne finances to make enormous revenues and de- clare big dividends, There 18 every cause for serious alarm. The Mnances are in a muddie; the values of goods are deplorably measured. At one store you will buy an article for $5 that may be selling at $10 just across the street. HUNDREDS OF MERCHANTS ARB LOSING MONEY DAILY, mot knowing whetier to advance or retain the figures of their commodities, 1t was thought that the Virginius trouble once over gold would tumbie. During that excitement it went up nearly 50 per cent, and for a few days it stood within a few per cent of 100 above par. Then it fell, and seemed to be On a gradual decline, when a sudden check came, from what cause it would be diMicult to say atonce, except from the meeting of the financial doctors, where none agree and all con- spire to create alarm. Worst feature of the mat- ter is, the prices of provisions have suddenly begun to ascend. Flour has reached about $40 a barret, meats have gone up to the meighborhood of 75 cents and 85 cents per pound, egus 10 cents apiece and vegetables in proportion. The projetaman class will soon begin to feel the pinch and then will come riots and misery and bloodshed. Last week the advance of rates became almost universal, but the effect cannot come im- Mediately. In a few weeks from now, when the loaf grows smaller monest kind o! vegetabies, so indispensable to the existence of the poor, cost a sum of money, small | Spaniards in all parts of the island practice with to be sure, but still large enough to be felt, discon- | impunity. darkies and Chinamen must | ran through Cornwall that a popular baronet tent wiliset in. The be fed and. clothed, and they are too ignorant to | named Trelawne Feason irom eause to effect. ‘They will have food | treason and his ff they are forced to steal it, and, should they | ballad was printed that bas since become histori- | and smaller, when the com- | has given to others the necessary tinge of ferocity select the last alternative, the result would be la- | mentabie. Bear in mind that THIS ISLAND SINCE THE INSURRECTION no longer produces cattle for consumption the provisions, such as flour, potatoes, s dried meats, &c., are imported, ana the high rate of exchange makes importatious dearer still. The interview which your correspondents had ‘With the Minister 0! Ultramar has been the occa- ion jor a great deal of STUPID CRITICISM, There was an introduction to the interview proper, wnich described a few incidents on the Occasion in the most harmless way imaginable, devoid of anything like prejudice or empt at burlesque. Now comes the New York correspond- ent oi the Diario la Marina, and, with green gog- es over his eyes, reads one or two faintly that etious sentences and straightway declares to | 248 translated means paper, in the most hightalutin — pr that the Yankees, not content with the airty tric on the Arapiies, &c., the HERALD commissioners, | eVer fell upon, after being well recetved by the Minister of Uitra- | tO ridge mar, must needs turn round and fling back scotts Sor courtesy. If the Diario correspondent had ap- ed himself to a better understanding of the @lish language he would not lave made so egre- fous an error as supposing that no reference can be made in an interview with-a man of rank to | Yumurt. anything free and cheertul The only purpose cor- respondents like these can have is to stir up bit- terness In the minds of the Spaniards against the representatives of American journals, and that is gmall business indeed. From the fact that no news has been received of Yate from the insurrection it may ve interred that the cause of Cuba Libre is making headway, and as the Havana journals have nothing eise to dis- course upon, they have taken to dissertations o: #ix and seven columns on the exploded case of the Virginius. They want simply to know why the United States did not place an embargo on that tempest that put an end to the career of the “pirate craft.” MATANZAS, Jan. 1, 1874, The traveller from Havana to Matanzas sees, as be draws near the latter city, acemetery of re- @arkabie prominence. It ison hill side, and at its entrance stands a snow-white church, sur- mounted by a snow-white dome that springs high and lightly into the air. Snow-white walls project for a great length on either side of the church and encompass the city of the dead. it is the most conspicuous object in the landscape, and also the most suggestive. municipality here repose, awaiting the resurrec- tion horn. It is the saddest sort of cemetery, the nameless graves are many. Not few they were who were caught away from home and friends and swept in here by the ever-recurring breath of the Mative pestilence. It is full of strangers’ graves, and if anybody desires an abundant crop of reflection on the vanity of human wishes, he has but to stand amid these mouldering remuants of mortality and think of how they came from near an (ar in pursuit of earthly treasure and were dropped in their tracks by the sudden and unerr- ing arrows of death. The old boy with the flesh- t fish, | The population of a decent-sized | inorm him that the weather is unusually warm for less frame and the ghastly index finger reaps a | fieher harvest in Cuba than in any other country | sysiem, as an inducement to Americans to come See how he ploughs through | here, he would make a free grant of ijand and | $25,000 out of the public funds as a gratuity tow- of equal population. the ranks of the Spanish soldiers, who are day by day seeking an unseen enc think of all the precious sacr es which have been made to him in the tong and bloody rule of the Spanish Captain Generals, But it is the yeliow fever, the “black Jack,” that does the mowing ior him. This it is that nas filled the cemetery o! Ma- tanzas and chiefly peopled the great burial place of Havana. | visited THE HAVANA CEMETERY beiore leaving anc dit full, of intimation that I had better hurry up and get tucked into one of them. A wonderful cemetery, too, and utterly unlike anything we have in America, You stand witht as in the centre of a great barrack square, and the four sides of the | crease over the quantities detail -Wast quadrangle form the quarters of the dead, | 4t the corresponding period of last year, | the quarter mentioned we exporteu 9,455 hogs- | Four great whitewashed wail high, making four stories of ¢: ‘They are pierced with niches, ali of o et deep and 20 enough jor one coffin, and blocked at the mouth | oy beeswax. with mortar, or mart orgiass. The dead are | the minor ones, of which there are some fifteen or | buried above in place of below ground, ana this | tweuty, @ general mereage is also observable. The | pac a crop of pimento has fallen of, but as the price has explains the ambiguous inscription over | risen 50 per cent those plantations which suce the entrance, referring to the cemetery | ceeded in their reaping ave been well compen. | ae 8 sanitary institution. Twelve thousand | sated. The toful value of the exports during the iy apawa | duarter is set down at £303,222, against £200,029 in vodies are here deposited, shelf above | tye corresponding quarter of last year. shelf, numbered like 80 many articles | YELLOW FEVER of merchandise in @ pawn shop. in wandering Mrough the smaller quadrangles of the main one Icame across the niche where, in horizontal re- ose, lie the remains of Castaiion. ere wes a sheet of glass, rounded at the top in the bush; and | try ifit could be carried out. | mates. “There are only@ | per hundredweight was paid for the best coffee; few niches leit,” sad the attendant, with atone | now 76s. is paid for any quality, and the caretuliy ves, surround you, | dredweight ot size, large | 8eT, 6,349 hundredweight of pimento, 265,832 cocoa- | Originally | new water works, a man of great ability ud | kindly disposition, who had rendered hum: ) Sweet Upe spoke the words and Mashing eyes em- PI the syllables, aaeing down onthis broad w | innocent biood! | the hand of Murillo, | this period of the year, #0 much so that in the day for | summer clothes are a luxury, and to go any dis- | they would have established this country as their ,NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. Monserata } mev a swail party of the natives. They were chiefly ladi¢:, and whe bright sunstine aud se geerane. view over Matanzas city and bay had them enthusiastic, Proud of their agi the reflection marred their joyous feelings When looking out from this ore over the splendid Scene that stretched away low that they, the children of the soil, were banned, a price upon their-heads and an alien yoke upon their necks. and beautiful plaim of the Yumuri, I ask myself What business has the Spanish stranger here!” BEAUTIFUL REBELS. hill T rot! in my volante, and at every turn of the road I caten the sigbt of snowy cambrics Waving “Adios, Americana !”” If my eyes Gid not deceive me I saw for an instant the Mash of & blue banner—the banner of the Cuba Libre, When the women espouse a cause it will triumph some day. Now the curtain is drawn down, the fight goes on hidden from the world, save that oc- casionally an enterprising correspondent of the HEMALD pierces the barrier that enviroas tue deadly struggle and lets a wondering world know of the horror and desperation that marks its every step, ‘Matanzas Harbor is full of shipping. The wharves are busy, and the smoke of several factories trails the vaporous banner of industry across the sky. I see the Stars and Stripes and the Cross of St. George swinging side by side, Englandand Amer- ica are here, and their commerce Makes Matanzas a city of 40,000 people. ‘The Spaniard is ashore. He stands at the Custom House and collects the revenue, He stands behind the counter, and Mmonopolizes every penny tn the way of trade. He tills every office that is worth filling, and what is not worth the having he throws away to some mis- erable native, who tries to be loyal in gratitude therefor. Here, too, are volunteers, as in Havana, and forever enthrgned in piace and power, to all appearances, is thé rule of the foreigner, Have you ever read THAT STORY OF GRIFFITH'S, of the gentle aborigines of this island driven to bay in the neighborhood of this town of Matanzas by the early invaders? Mutely helpless, they met aeath with such unresisting gentleness as to un- nerve many a@ bloody arm raised with murdérous mtent. Can you not trace in the nature of the Cuban some few of the characteristics of the abo- rigines ¥ When Columbus. landed he found, on penetrating the interior, that the natives were of the gentlest and most innocent character. They adopted all sorts of attitudes to ease their lazy bodies, and spent the days smoking or nibbling at bananas. The natives of to-day are cultivated more or less, and are, in great part, as gen- tle as the aborigines, and as lazy too, ney want more of the devil in them to fight these Spaniards, When the eight students were snot at Havana no Cuban should have rested till he had revenge. They are stoical, but it is the stolcism Of apathy that has no mag- netism and excites but little admiration. They are children, to sum up the whole estimate ina word, and until the great brawny arms oi Uncie Sam are interposed to fight off the buily that now lords it over Cuba, the r natives have little show for independence. This 18 what I notice of the natives in cities such as Havana apd Matan- zas, but there are BRAVE, RO! SPTRITS away from the centres of population. Through Camagiey, Holguin, the Canto and the.entire cen- tral department, bold, casing p88, who cam look the fee-faw-fum flag of Spaty Straight between its bars of red without inching, may be jound in abundance, Down tl 4 DASH OF AFRICAN BLOOD to their natures, and they are not the people to subnuit to any of the high handed outrages that the Many years agoin England a rumor was arrested on a charge o! high fe placed in jeopardy and the if cal, and that then breathed the spirit of all Corn- wal And shall Trelawney die? And shail Trelawney die ? Then twenty thousand Curnish men shall know the reason why. * This little incident is a characteristic of Anglo- | Saxon spirit. If only a tithe of such existed here, think you the students would bave been shot. the ditches of the Cabafias filled daily, as they were during the reign of Rodas and Vaimaseda, with the riddied bodies of poor young Cubans, torn irom their families in the night, and disposed ot all unseen and unknown, save to their execu- toners and the omniscient eye of Heaven? Great heavens! how thjs land has been saturated with All round here blood breathes in the very names of the rivers and valleys. Matan- “Field of slaughter.’’ Across | | | the hill behind me, and down in a basin- | shaped valley, as lovely as the = eye | green carpeted from ridge apd planted with stately paims, an Indian cacique expired a few hundred years | ago, pierced to the heart with Spanish ballets, and as his breath lett him he exclaimed “Fumurt!? attempting to render the Spanish ‘yo muero” (I die), and ever since then the valley has been called | Here, again, is a reminder of blood, car- | nage andextirmination, a cleaner city than Ha- vana, better drained, but little better off in point | of health; a larger port of export, and in its popu- | lation are reckoned @ considerable number otf for- eiguers. THE CALLE O'REILLY. The Hispano-Irish Count O’Reilly bas a street called aiter him here, as he has in Havana; but here it is the quiet retreat of the rich aud fashion- | able, and a stroll there of a moonlight evening 1s next to walking In agallery of paintings fresh irom JAMAICA. f Statistics Concerning the Trade and Commerce of the Colony=—Change in the Governorship. Krxeston, Dee. 31, 1873. The accidentgl circumstance of the Atlas Com- pany despatching a second steamer this month affords me the opportunity of forwarding another letter at an earlier period than I contemplated. There is very little to note, however, that is likely to interest the distant reader, unless it be news to | tance out of doors an umbrella is indispensable to shelter one from the scorching rays of the sun, In the mountalus, however, it is deiightfully cool and balmy; just the sort of climate that would suit peo- ple in the North, who cannot stand the rigors, of the winter. If this island had.been better known | to the people of the United States long ere this winter resort. Our Governor is anxious to en- courage this idea, and stated not long ago that if any capitalist or company would undertake to butld and establish ere a hotel after the American ards it. it would be a great biessing to the coua- In the agricultural districts the weather is all that can be desired for EAPING O1 ud coffee crop being taken in it is, however, unfavorable to the growing Pp aud unless a lew showers fall in the course of the next three or four weeks hext year’s crop of sugar will hardly realize the esti> | Coflee picking and cnring are progressing | rapidly ander the stimulus of the high prices now obtained tor this article. This time last year 664. RATIONS, and the sugar very rapidiy picked mountain berry would command deal more. The RETURNG OF EXPORTS for the quarter ended on the 30th of September show the industry of the island to be steadily pro- gressing, a8 most of the arti exhibit an in- in the returns During @ great beads of sugar, 6,461 puncheons of rum, 4,306 hun- 2,760 hundredweight of gin- nuts, 6,227 tons logwood and 420 hundredweight These are the teading staples; but in | haz been doing some damage among the lately arrived Europeans at Port Royal. Among we deaths 18 that of My, Farrar, the engineer of the aud uf bi Jarge a5 tie window ol @ drawing room car, pi 1 | loved by all Classes. The fever having ed | at ‘he ‘outside of his special shelt, while six or | the shipping, all the vessels-of-war in port have | eight inches juside a marble slab hermetically | been ordered away to Bermuda and Maliiax. The Sealed the entrance. Students the world oyer do | feet of steamers belonging to the Telegraph Mat Fash and imouisiy lings, amd little wonder ita | tenance Compyny arrived at Holland Bay, in this party of tbe warm biooded Cubans, | island, on Monday last. he Object is the laying of With the pitt s of Spanish tyranny td of cable between Jamaica and Porto | Prompt, then eds, should, on finding en this 18 completed a second tine will | Themselves i r noed of the grave of | be laid between Jamaica and Colon, the existing | this man who. in ive us tueir most mercless foe, do something in crude proclamation of their hatred of lie memory. They distigured the glass With their diamond Tings, thougy the scratebes inflicted would hardly be nouced§ b casual passer by. Their boyisi hatred of the tools of tyranny expyessed itsell at the same e Blight disigurement of the glass in fout of Kicardo Gazman’s place of repose. Gu eficient aid to Valmaseda in his bioody campaign inet the Cubams. For all of tus—for al Which these boys would have been fined §1 the Tombs-—eight of them were taken out ack of the Punta and shot like dogs. How many handred gd ig this civilization behind the standard ot much unlike Havana is this town of Matanzas in its political features, Bere, woo, the Spanturds have their Casino placed, as at the capital, on the best site in the town. tere you will also fd the aj)-pervading lahorantes waiting with lent eyes to greet that azure flag, with its vrignt. and hopeful constellation, that is now hid away in the fangied bushes of Cuba Libre; waiting ‘With as sanguine fate ae did the Israelites for the mlori¢s of tho promlned jaud Cp on tue Leite of mat hed been ag | A cable having proved all but wortiless, In political matters there is very ittie to note, | affairs being tm statu quo till the arrivai of sir Wil- liam Gray, the new Governor, His Excellency will be here by the end of next month, as sir J. P. Grant as made all arrangements jor his departure ip the first packet in February. The Virginius excitement has quite calmed down, and the Niobe, which had been sent to Cuna tor the rotection of British interests, has returned to port Royal. ‘There has been quite a revival of business for the Christmas holidays? still the market continues fairly eupplhed with the staple articles of con- sumption. It is — that Governor Grant has decided ‘© anual the postal contract existing between essrs. Leech, Harrison & Forwood, of Liverpool, And this government for the conveyance of mail matter between Jamaica and New York. it is said that the non-performance of the terme of the con- tract has brouyrht about the alleged rupture. Pre Mea oh leading merchants here dd ied Be neriean line of steamships esbubiished begweep Kingsion agd New Yorks | James Merrett’s house, in Arlingham. |v stated. | condition. ALL JEALOUSY. Sentence of Death for Shooting a Sweet- heart—A Painful Case. {From the Liverpoo! Post, Dec. 26.) At the Gloncester Assizes on Weduesday (a3 already briefly reported), belore Mr, Justice Archi- bald, Charles Edward Butt, a young farmer, 22 years of age, and described m the calendar as well edu- cated, was placed on his tral, charged with the willu! murder of Amelia Selina Phipps, at Arling- ham on the 17th August last. The court. was densely crowded, among the audience being @ large number of farmers. The prisoner was dressed ima suit of mourning. He was greatly dejected, and, after he had pieaded “Not guilty,” in an almost inaudible tone, he cov- ered his face with a large white pocket handker- chief, and keptit there throughout the trial. He ‘Was allowed to be seated in the dock, THE CIRCUMSTANCES of the case are Of a paintully distressing character. and are rendered the more so ry the higaly re- spectable position occupied by the irievds of the deceased and her murderer. The shocking occur- | rence took place on Sunday evening, the 17th of August last, in the quiet little Village of Arlingham, some dozen miles below Gloucester and about a mile from the Severn bank. The accused lived with his mother, Mrs, Butt, a widow lady, who oc- cupies Chureh Farm, and the deceased, who was an attractive young lady, 23 years of age, acted as housekeeper to her brother, Mr, Thomas Phip) who occupies West End Farm, 200 yards from tha’ occupied by Mrs. Butt. Her parents, well-to-do people, reside at Sheepescombe, near Stroad. THE PRISONER ig ono of 12 children, and, in the absence of his eldest orovher, who emigrated some years ago, he had, since the deatn of bis‘iather, discharged the responsible duty of m: ing bis mother’s farm. For a long time he had paid eourt to Miss Phipps, and he received what appeared to nim to be en- conragement. The young lady, however, was 0! a free and genial disposition, and tuere is good reason to believe that her frank and hearty man- ner conveyed an impression to Mr. Butt she was far irom intending. A fortnight before the mur- der they were present at @ dance, and tnen he compiained of her dancing with other young men, and it 1s said that, actuated by jealousy, he struck her a violent biow in the face, blackening both her eyes, and she thereupon protested she would never accompany him alone again. Sunday, the 17th of August, was what 18 locally termed Arlingnam ‘“eust;? visitors from far aid near thronged to the village, and Mr. Phipps entertained a party of Jriends, among whom were James jerrett, brother-in-law to the deceased; a young farmer, named Harry Goddard, of Frocester, and others. butt also visited the house, and paid marked at- tentions to MISS PHL IPPs, who, however, did not on that day appear to appreciate them, but seems to have acted somewhat coolly towards him, while she Soqne ried with Goddard in @ manner which evidently irri- tated the accused, whose passion was further aroused at @ later period of the day by the de- ceased accepting an offer from Goddard to drive her and Merrett to Gloucester Cheese Fair on the following day; and, notwithstanding that Butt made a passionate appeal to her to allow him to take her there, she positively declined, and said she would rather go with Goddard, as he had offered to take ber, At about seven o'clock in the evening the deceased, pn Thomas and Phi- lemon Phipps (deceased’s brothers), Richard Hil (her cousin), and Henry Goddard walked to Mer- rett’s house, where they remained half an hour, and then returned to Mr. Phipps’ house, where de- ceased and Butt WALKED ON THE LAWN TOGETHER, and while there. Merrett beard Miss Puipps call, “James, James.’ He went out, and deceased said to nim, “This fellow (Butt) 1s going to murder me with his knife.” Merrett remonstrated witn him, when the accused said, “Amelia, you have de- ceived me,” to which Miss Phipps replied, “I have told. you scores of times, Edward, I should never have you.” He again appealed to her to accompany him to Gloucester; but she still refused, and he said, “Then 1°11 do tu you as I told sou; I’m damned if I won't,” repeating it two or three umes. Not- withstanding this th. eat the deceased, some little time aiterwards, consented to walk with the ac- cused on the lawn, he taking her by the-arm. The: entered into conversation, in the course of whic Mr. Merrett overheard Miss Phipps say to Butt that “she did not care for one more than another, and that she talked toany one.” In about a min- ute alterwards Merrett, who was leaning over a eee his back towards the two young people, hear THE REPORT OF A GUN, and.on looking round, he saw Miss Phipps lying on the ground struggling. She had been shot through the head, and the lower portion ot her jaw was clean cutaway. She died in a iew minutes, Butt made off, and tt was thought he bad ended his own existence by drowning himself in tne Severn; but he succeeded in getting away toa place near Abergavenny, where be hired himself out as a common laborer, and lived undetected ior gome twoor three days. His trends, however, were communicated with; but the correspondence was very cleverly intercepted by Mr. Griff_in, deputy Chief Constable of Gloucestershire, and the prisoner was apprehended while looking on at some ath- letic sports, near to the place where he had secreted himseif, Alter his apprenension he made the fol- Jowin, xd STATEMENT TO MR. GRIFFIN. “She served me very badly. Sometimes she was very foud of me, and at another time, in the pres- ence of people, she refused to speak to me. I shall give you the tratn, On Sunday morning last Amelia appeared to be very fond of me, and I helped her to peel the beans for dinner, and we waiked together on the lawn. In the evening she was rather different, and walked and talked with Mr. Goddard and Mr, John Webb, which very much annoyed me. In the evening we all went to Mr, When there she would scarcely speak to me, and was talking with Mr. Goddard about driving her to Gloucester nextday, although she had arranged previously to go with me, When in Mr. Merrett’s house Amelia got behind Goddard and pulled his hair, and they both went into the orchard together and stayed there half an hour, which upset me bd much. After this she waiked up the road wit me home, and told me many times she should go to Gloucester with Goddard, I told her I wished her to go to Gloucester with me, but she reiused. This upset me. I got very excited, went and fetched my gun from our honse, and placed it on the lawn near the parlor window. Alter this 1 entreated her to go to Gloucester with me and not Goddard. Finding she still retused | became more excited, and when walking on the lawn I took up my gun and shot her. I was very sorry aiter I had done it. Lhad no intention of shooting her until | she had repeatedly reiused to go with me to Glou- cester.”? ‘The facts as above stated were fully testified to by several witnesses, His Lordship, who was an hour summing up, reviewed witli great precision the various points raised for the defence, after which The jury retired, and after an absence of 20 minutes found a verdict of guilty. They did not make any recommendation. The Judge, in PASSING SENTENCE, said :—“Your case is a warning wo guaro against the beginning and outletting o/ evil passion, You have been induced to give way to the pitiiess pas- sion of jealousy, and under the influeuce of that you have inflicted an awiul and cruel death upon the woman for whom you professed affection, Ido not wish to say one word to cause needless aggra- vation tothe agony you must be suffering at this moment; but I earnestly entreat you, as your life stands forleited, to seek, by earnest and true re- entance, the forgiveness of God for your great sin. iis Loraship then passed sentence of deatn. ‘ The prisoner was carried from the duck swooning. BUCKRIDGE’S BRUTALITY. Death of the Infant at the Hospital. Henry Buckridge, the infant of John and Mare garet Buckridge, who was reported in the HERALD of yesterday as dying at the Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, from the effects of imhuman treatment received at the hands of his !ather, died at an early hour yesterday morning. It appears that Buckridge, who i# @ salesman employed ina wholesale store, has been indulging too freely in the use of the maddening bowl for some time past, and on Saturday evening returned to his home, No, 138 Douglass street, ina frenzy of excitement. On entering the apartment, Where was seated his wife, Margaret, and his child, a baby only three months old, he seized hold of the imaocent littie one and dashed it against the bedstead, This terrible act of violence he followed up by beating the infant with his hands about the head and body until the maudlin cries of the untortunate mother, who was drank, brought the neighbors upon the oe. The dying child was picked up and con- ed to the hospital, where it expired as above The parents were both locked up in the Butier street station house, The mother was taken With a fit during the night, and was also removed to tne hospital, where.she now lies in a precarious Mrs. Buckridge is 20 years of age, and her husband is 35. Both ave apparently intelligent people, and have, heretofore, bor: tient char- acters among their neighbors. Coroner Jones will hold an ingest on the case to-day, A SHOOTING AFPRAY IN CHATHAM STREET, About ten o’clock yesterday morning James Sullivan, barkeeper for Constantine Doyie, 101 Chatham street, went into the concer: saloon kept by Ernest Clifford, at 107 Chatham street, and be- came engaged in a quarrel with Cligord, Clitford and his barkeeper attacked Sullivan, when James ,. Doyle, brother of Constantine, interiered to save Sullivan, Sullivan palied out his revolver and fired, the ball taking etlect im the leit lung of Doyle. The party was arrested and jJocked up in the Fourth ward station house. They were arraigned betore Judge Morgan at the Tombs Casa morning. A complaint of assault and battery Wasgiade against Gilford, but on hearing the story the Judge discharged him, Sullivan Was held to await the result of Doyle's injuries, Who is at prevent coniined tn the house in Chat ham street. Suilivan and Uoyle are cousins, and the wounded maa rejuses to) Muke suy com- Djpilte Ye Joint Meeting of Twelve Organizations in Transfigurat Hall: Yesterday— Jeisey, Brooklyn and Metropolitan Unions Represented—Another Public Demonstra a Yesterday atternoon at three o'clock a meeting Of the officers, delegates and union officers of the Catholic total abstinence societies of this city, Brooklyn and Jersey City was held in the Transtig- uration Hall toconfer together relutive to the prose- cutlon of public demonstrations for the aavance- ment of the Catholic temperance cause. The folowing organizations were represented. The societies of this city--Transfiguration, St. Joseph’s, St. Anthony’s, Holy Innocents’, St; Michael’s, Young Men’s Transfiguration, St. Bridget’s, St. Ann’s, Roman Catholic Father Mathew. — Brooklyn—The Diocesan Union, St. Paul’s, St. Peter's. Jersey City—The State Union, Young Men's, St. Joseph’s and other societies, ‘The societies and unions were called seriatim tor the expression of their views, and statements in response were made by Messrs. Lawrence, Fitz- simons, Quigley, O’Brien, Shea, Murtagh, Gilvarry, Lennon, jallagher, Canning, Bermingham, McGione, Clifford, Cunningham, Murphy an other representatives present relative to time and system of admission and hall. The Academy of Music, Cooper Institute, Ferrero’g Assembly Kooms and other halls were considered, the question being as to opty, Alter eliciting the views of thesocienes of the three unions, It was decided that the final arrangements should be remitted to the authorities of the Metropolitan Union, of which the Rey, Father McGean is di rector, The President of the Brooklyn Union, J. F. Murtagh, announced that tue societies of that diocese were to unite in a grand demonstration in’ the Academy of Music of that city, and that a special union convention meets next Sunday to take actiol The Very Rev. President of the Union ot America 1s to preside, and eminent ecclesiastic dignitaries are to lecture. Bishop Lougilia was said to be very favorable to the Catuolic total abstinence movement and to be well pleasea with the Union. The admission to the Academy 1s to be tree, or placed at a nominal figure to nrerent overcrowding, the object being, not lor. financial result, but to create moral sen- timent and activity. All the societies are to be in- vited to participate. Itis to come off early next month, and great enthusiasm prevails regarding the BTebArenone A Jersey union rally w to be arranged for the Cathoiic Institute, Jersey City. There is lively energy manilested im the three cities since the late Cooper Institute demonstration. Grand Celebration of Washington's Birthday in Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 11, 1874. Tne Catholic Total Abstinence Union of the diocese of Philadelphia, which of itself ‘compre- hends more than 10,000 members, and which isa subordinate branch of the Union of America, decided at a late hour last night to celebrate Wasnington’s birthday over a Nigg ° grand and ex- ceedingly imposing programme. The programme includes a procession of 43 distinct societies, of strictly local organization, dressed in full regalia, and @ grand mass meeting in the Academy of Music, on the evening of February 25, the Academy being previously enzaged ior Washington’s birth- day proper. The order ol exercises also combine the reception of the President of tne Union of America, Father Byrne, of ‘trenton, who, along with other prominent gentiemen, will address the meeting. in combination with a.great many other motives, one of the objects of this gathering is to place the association in a better attitude tor making ar- Yangemonts for the parade of March 17, 1874. On this latter occasion it 1s the intention to show the largest procession tver witnessed in this city, not excepting the one given at the dedication oi the new Musonic Tempie. The most elaborate arrange- ments are now being made, both tor the mass meeting on the 25th of February and tor the pro- cession on the 17th of Marcu, TRE LAW OF CHARITY, peeled The Action of the Legislature in ftefer- ence to Our Charitable Institutions— Powers of Supervision and Inspection. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-— There are a large number of the citizens of this metropolis who are profoundly interested in the forthcoming action of our State Legislature, now about entering upon its duties for the current year, in reference to our charitable institutions, Asone of these, and because such action may ‘aifect for weal or woe.all of the more prominent of such institutions in our city, 1 venture to address you some suggestions, for which, I trust, you will find space in your widely circulated joarnal, Any one looking over our present Spatutes relat- ing to charitable institutions will notice that many changes injuriously affecting the structure and symmetry of our State law have been made during the last ten or twelve years. These changes, gen- erally occurring through special legisiatiou, some- times for good and at others ior sinister ends, have placed the law in relation to charities in such con- dition as to fairly dely codification, Our legis- lators seem to have been very accommodating, and have passed every variety of special bills at the instance of any party askmg for them in the name of charity. ‘The genius of our American law places all our charitable institutions under the direct guardian- ship of the Supreme Court, both as td'the tenure and honest use of their property and the proper management of their ordinary aflairs. In the Su- preme Court inheres the functions of over- They are the rightful sight and inspection. inspectors of every charitable society, either directly or by commissioners of their own appoiwtment. The wisdom of this arrangement, law, has been proved by long experience and is obviously natural and right. The Supreme Court 18, locally speaking, the uitimate exponent ot jegal right and wrong, as substantially evoived from our general Carisyan jurisprudence. The judges oi the Supreme Court are segally and by common consent presumed to be men.oisound mind, ex; tended experience, learning and purity of charac- ter. They are necessarily and properly invested with large discretionary powers, and the aclicate and sacred subject matter imvolived in the custody and distribution of the public alms belongs prima Jacie to such men, whether acting with or without ecclesiastical institutions. No statesman, there- fore, Protestant or Catholic, can see without regret the contusion and mischief arising irom conferring ‘these high eleemosynary functions upon another and different class of citizens, whether under the name of State boards or charity bureaus. The trustees of Charitable institutions are generally men of standing and tried character, and the State places them and their institutions under the direct supervision of the Supreme Court, and lifts them above the jealousies and rivalries that oiten creep into illegal or outside agencies controlled by non- qualified and interior men, It is theretore c.early abnormal and utterly opposed to the spirit of our ; laws to invest with judicial powers and preroga- tives such as can only be legitimately and properly exercised by the Courts, @ board of citizens, as likeiy 48 otherwise to be composed 01 ambitious politicians, and who may be inexperienced, parti- san and fanatical. Our charities have heretofore been placed above the scheming of the politicians, who notoriously Jook solely to their own advance- iment and protit, and those unselfishly interested in our institutions will have cause to rue the day when they are dragged through the mire of poli- tics. ‘The Legislature should remand the entire juris- dictiction over the charitabie institutions to its original and natural place as fixed by the law, and let the cliques, whether political or religious, and the aspirants for position on charity boards or bureaus attend to the business for which they are fitted. If these institutiens need inspection, aa they often do, let the Supreme Court appoint the inspectors as the law directs, and let action be instituted in and through the proper courts, and not through sell-appointed juntas, seeking power under the plea of existing evils or public n peasy. THE GENERAL COUNCIL OF INTERNATION. oA The Proposed Workingmen’s Parade— The So-Calied Federal Council and French Internationals—The Committee of Safety. Several prominent members of the General Coun- cil of Internationals, in company with several members of the trade unions, met yesterday at the Tenth Ward Hotel, corner of Broome and For- syth streets, for the purpose of exchanging opin- ions and receiving information relative to the pro- posed parade o/ workingmen to-morrow and labor matters in general, It was stated reliably that the German working people will not join in the parade, and the trade unions are opposed to it, consequently the parade will be composed of un- organized Workingmen, and are easily led by “firebranda,” who, to gain notoriety, will probably lead them to-morrow. The Committep of | Safety 18 not recognized by the trade unions or adherents to the General Coun- cil of Internationals, and the practical work. ingmen who consented to join and attended several of the councils have withdrawn, Ouv of the fiity members who originally composed the committee but six remain. The seven or eight French loternationals who meet weekly at No, 135 Bleecker street are not affiliated with any other branch of the organization. The majority of them have been members of the late Commune in Paris, It was stated that the Police Commissioners need pot apprehend any trouble from the or- ganized workingmen. There is an extensive or- ganization in the principal cities of the Union, called “workingmen’s clubs,” composed princl- ally of Germans, and before these workingmen are thoroughly organized there will be no demon. ‘ation or demande made by the workingmeu. Tne men Who caued-on the Mayor, Comptroller or others, for the purpose of demanding work, did so Without authority from she masses pf practical Orgaayized WOrkincEy Cle common to our system of English and American {| TROUBLED T The Muddle Over te Now Constitution and the Elections—The Decision of the Court and What Is To Be Done About It—Will There Be Another Louisiana Revolution? EXAS. The Texas muddle has grown out of the revolu- tionary ideas of the day. Texas is one of those States which took the dark and dreary road to get out of the Union, and being remote from the con- flict of arms it felt not the calamities of war to the extent of the other States. Its armies were not captured nor did they surrender; but its soldiers dispersed, taking with them all the munitions and Confederate property west of the Mississippi. The people returned to their industries, conquered but not whipped. The climate being genial and healtb- ful, the soil very productive and the pasturage inexhaustible, the immigration to it has been so rapid that the population has been doubled since the close of the war. The increase has been mainly from the Southern States. Texas has thus received them. Sons of respectable fam- ilies from the other Gulf States, who, being de- prived of their slaves and forced to labor, prefer now to do so upon afresh soll and with new associations to the struggle upon exhausted lands, where ‘THEY HAD SEEN BETTER DAYS. These people went with all the bitterness natural to carpet-bag and negroxrule which they left behind them. And for the same reason that the chivalry emigrated the fifteenth amendments ana their plundering allies remained east of the Mississippl. It is, therciore, not wonderful that the democracy of ‘Texas find themselves in an immense majority. Even the. heavy increase trom Germany have generally ranged themselves on the strong side; and since the new constitution of Texas gives suffrage to aliens after one year’s residence the number of voters has swelled beyond any other State during the last five years, Texas was slower to be reconstructed than any other State, It had a larger body of intelligent men who had remained true to the Calon, through all the struggles. Many of these had come North or gone into the Union army. The most prominent of these, Governor A. J. Hamilton, returned as Jollowers undertook the work of BUILDING UP A REPUBLICAN PARTY in Texas. But dissensions soon arose between the Southern Unionists and the carpet-baggers whom the army had left behind. Notwithstanding, the Texas Unionists led in the Philadelphia Conven- tion, which was the first organized body which proclaimed in favor of colored suffrage. The newly emancipated were naturally jealous of their old masters, and, through their Union Leagues, they sympathized with their new Northern allies. The Reconstruction Convention of Texas was, not organized until July, 1868, which was aiter the first nomination of General Grant. The Southern democrats, who had staked and lost all upon se- cession, sulleniy remained away. The Convention ‘was made up 01 Southern Unionists, carpet-bag- gers and newly emancipated colored men. wis- sensions immediately arose over subjects beyond their jurisdiction. The division of the State, a senseless dispute over legisiatiun and official during the rebellion and petty jeaiousies tor ieader- ship svon destroyed all prospects of @ succ essiul republican party in that state. There was one point about which both factions agreed, and out of that has grown the state of Unings which leave the choice between DOUBTFUL GOVERNMENT AND ANARCHY. That point was how to perpetuate the power in the hands of whoever should succeed. “in pur- suance of this plan, judicial elections, which, uuder tue old constitution, had been given to the people, were entrusted to the Governor and Senate; long tenures of nine years were given to these otlicers; Senators were to be chosen for six years, and Rep- resentatives tor two; elections were carried to the county seats, and a vast patronage was given to the Governor. The constitution gave saifrage to all maie citizens over 21 years, and invited aliens by giving them suffrage aiter @ year’s residence, The election which was provided ior in the consti- tution was postponed by an act of Congress, and the time placed at the will of the: President. Hamilton and Davis, leaders of the republican —_ factions, having become candidates for Governor, General Reynolds, in command of the. military forces, went over to the suppory of Davis, ‘he administration threw its patronage im the same direction, The great body of the democrats stood aloof, The result was that the military officers declared Davis elected. Four years of State police, muitary, cor- rupt legislation, and appointments of iguoramuses to office brought the administration to grief, and hence the 50,000 majority in favor of the dem- ocratc candidate. . ‘The points of the State constitution which bear upon the present controversy are as follows:. EXTRACTS FROM THE CONSTITUTION IN POINT. Articte 3, Sxction 4—The’ members of the House of Representatives shall be chosen by the qualitied electors, and their term of office shall be two years from the day ot general election, and the sessions ‘ot the Legisiature jell be annual, at such times as shall be prescribed by aw. —All elections tor State, district and county officers shall be held at the coanty, seats of the several counties until otherwise provided by law, and the potl shall be opened tor four days, from eight o'clock A, M. until four o'clock P, M. of each. day. Nec. 8,—The Senators shall be chosen by the qualified» rs hereatter tor the term of six years, Those 1 at the first electic three classes, as nearly equal as can be. Senators of the first class shall be vacated at the expira- tion of rhe first two years, and of the second class at the expiration of four years, and the third class at the ex- piration of six years, sothat one-third thereof shall be ebosen biennially thereatter, ‘AuitcLe 4, Skcx10N L—The Executive Department of the State shall consist of a chief magistrate, who shall be styled the Governor, a Licutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Comptroller of Puclic Accounts, Treasurer, Com- missioner of the General Land Office, ‘Attorney General and superintendent ot Public Instruction, Ske. 2.—The Govertor shall be elected by the qualified Voters of the State, at the time and places at which they shall vote tor Representatives to the Legislature, dec. 4.—The Governor shall hold his office tor the term of four years trom the time of his instalment, and until hus successor shall be duly qualified. He shali be at least 30 years of age, a citizen of the United States, and shall three years Senet Preceding his election. He shall be inaugurated on the first Thursday after the or- gauization ot the Legislature, or as sovm thereafter as practicable. THE ELECTIVE DECLARATION incorporated in the constitution is as follows « 3. The election for State, district and county officers shall be conducted under the same regulations as the election for the ratification or rejection of the constitu. tion, and by the same persons. ‘The returns or elections shall be indde to the Commanding General, who shall give certificates of election to the persons chosen for the respective offices. The oflicers as elected shall com- mence the discharge of duties of the office tor which they have been chosen as soon as elected and quaiitied, in compliance with the provisions of the constitution herewith submited, and shall hold their respective offices for the term ‘ot years prescribed by the constitu. tion, beginning ftom the d. i their election, aud until their successors are elected and qualified. SUBMISSION OF THE CONSTITUTION TO TITE VOTERS. ‘The act of Congress of April 10, 1862, thus pro- vides for a change of the time of election:— & The President of the United States may, in like man- Staie at such time and in such manner as he may dircet either the entire constitution, or separate provislons of the same, as provided in the first section of this act, to a separate Yole; and at the same election ’the voters ma; vote for and elect the members of the Legisiature ana all the State officers provided tor in said constitution, an members of Congress: provided also, that no election shall be held in said State ot Texas for.any purpose until the President so directs. ‘The election was held on the first four days of December, 1868, under tue order of President Grant. ‘The Legislature of Texas, which assembled at Austin on the Zoth of February, 157), ratified articles 13, 14 ana Tot the constitution of the’ United States, apd elected Morgan ©. Hamilton and J. W. Flanagan United States Senators, | The joint resulultion and the consutution were transmitted to the Adjutant General of the United States and by the President laid before Congress. (Senate, 4st Cong, 24,nea% Mis Duc. No. 77.)—Paschals dyer, pp. 103 to 1,137. This being done on the 30th of March, 1870, Con- gress allowed the Senators and Representatives to take their seats. The Legislature reassembled on the 26th of April, 1870, and the Governor was installed on the zsth. But the idea was conceived of eking out their term for electing a Legislature in 1871. The first election was held on the first Tuesday in ‘November, 1972, of a full representation in the House and one-third of the Senators. The Legislature assembled on the second Tuesday in January, 1 Aud now had to be met the difficulty of ELECTING A GOVERNOR, This office would expire on the Sth of December, 1873, if the last quoted clause in the constitution is to control; on the 26th of April, 1874, i! the date of formal instalment is to control, But the elec: tion must be held on the same day of the election of the Legislators. If the House should hold “two years’’ there could be no election until 1875. and the terms of two-thirds of the Senators expired on tne 8th of December, 1873 SO there must either be an election during the odd year or the State must go without a Legislature and without a Governor, To meet this difficulty the Legislature provided fora general election in December, 187%. They changed the ers back to the old precinct syse tem, which they had the right do, and they reduced tue time from four days to one day. And now the the Supreme Court of Texas holds that because of this reducing of time the Election law is void, and becanse the members of the House must hold over two years the election of Represen- tatives is void, But, if this be 80, there can beno legislation for want of a quorum in the Senate, All the county officers have entered upon the duties of their offices, and there will be no way to litigate them out, There can be no new election under the N provisional governor, and with his able allies and Old Joy.bagagse the DEW 10%,J0 COA WALD shall be divided by lot into | The seats of | have been a resident and citizen of the State of Texas for | ner, submit the constitution of Texas to the Voters of said } Fepeals the ola, and there can be no doubt about the constitutionality of the repealing clause, There seems, therefore, to be nothing to be done but tor Legislature—which meets on Tuesday next—to careeard the decision of the Court; to organize, i tae Goveruor and proceed to b ness. The matter is certainly one of very great importance to the whole country, The case ot Louisiana has tan; elle tennean mans us that no cpuntry can afford Novelties at fich The proprietor of those headquarters ror art which are found at No. 749 Broadway has improved the lull supervening upon the Christmas season by giving place to three new plotures, each of which is excellent, and the interest in each of which varies inflaitely from that of the others, To begin with the one which first strikes the eye as you pre- pare toenter the store, Mr. A. T. Bricher has ex- posed in the window his newest ine view. The scene represented is that of Manchester Clits, on the Massachusetts coast, and 16 18 more powerfully painted tnan any other picture by Mr. Bricher that. we have yet seen. Mr. Bricher belongs to that amalt class of young New York painters who toa very strongly marked ability in their art unite sey- eral sober qualities not generally found in am- bitious and capable young artists, and usually supposed, indeed, tobe antagonistic to genius in tvs first blush. He is very industrious, very patient, and, during the last year or two especi- ully, has painted several marines which encourage the hope that he will some day gaina unique place among workers in that department. He sym) uzes exuberantly with the life and motion of waves, with the passionate recklessness with which they break on++> saturated shore and fret the bases of the bastion-ltke rocks, It is this sym- pathy which ts expressed with admirable power and grace in ‘Manchester Cliffs’ and which justi- fles the interest manifested by the crowds of on- lookers. The other pictures to which we have made reference are a new one by Mr. J. Beaufain Irving, Whose exquisitely painted “Recital” so re- cently created the ouly seusation awakened this season in the art world here, and a landscape by Diaz, Mr. Irving’s composition is named “The Philosophers.” lt is conceived and elaborated in the same vein as ‘Tne Recital.” 1t represents the interior of a study abounding with evidences ot scientific dilettantism and occupied by two old gentlemen, ‘the poilosophers,” one of whom holds in his hands a _ skull, over which he is evidently prone some theory to his companion. The picture is principally remarkable for the happiness of the accessories, the delicacy of the sense with which the demands of detail are satisfied, the rare fineness of finish and the perfection with which the sentiments of the two Philosophers are ex- ressed. It occupies an easel to the right on enter- ing the little gallery at the rear of the store. The landscape by Diaz is ensconsed in @ corresponding nook on the other side, It is one of those shadow- tangled scenes which are sombre but not senti- mental. The sky is almost completely but not heavily obscured, and the tender gloom due to the absence of full suntight is added to the soft juxuri- ous adumbrations cast by &@ wood of richly boughed trees heavy with voluminous leafage. The only human life given to this sober but rich en- semble: is that bestowed by a scarcely seen man emerging with two dogs from the SORDIES: This Diaz has never Agente been seen in public in America, and will remain on exhibition only a few FLASHES FROM THE PRESS. days. A wealthy Buffalo lady of 60 has just marriea her own widowed son-in-law, and the children of two families are now puzzled to settle their relation- ship. Police Commissioner Martin, of Massachusetts, satistied that the liquor iaw cannot be enforced, and is actrimental to the temperance interests, bas resigned. ' The St. Paul’s Pioneer states that aman named Jake Short, of Filmore county, was found dead om Monday in a sink hole. He was too short to get out after falling in. Mrs. Mitchell, wife of the Swedenborg minister, tne St, Paul’s Pioneer reports, has gone to Uhicago to get a divorce, so that she can marry Patnam, her new found lover. Manchester, N, H., on Tuesday inaugurated ex- Governor James A> Weston as Mayor and Rufus H. Pike as President of the Common Council. The debt of the city is $495,460. Bridgeport is excited over the finding.of a beau- tiful female child on Tuesday evening 1n the ladies* waiting room of the depot. _Upon the body was @ salt sack, bearing the name of Dow S. Kettle, No. 716 Third avenue, New York. Colonel J. W. Horner, tormerly President of the Kansas State University, and later editor of the Chetopa Advance, attempted to commit suicide by, drowning himself a tew days since, Richmond, Va., under conservative rule is look- ing u| Last year she erected 389 buildings com- pleted, and 78 are in progress, the cost of which is $1,093,530. The manulactures for the year were $14,991,155, . At St. Joe, Louisiana, on the 30th ult, Dra.’ Campbell and Rawis were chatting, wheu Rawis insulted Campbell. Rawls drew a knife and severed the heart of Campbell. Campbell is in the ground and Rawls is in jail. According to the Atchison (Kan.) Globe, while soldiers .were digging up graves at Fort Kearney a | few days ago they found a coffin tiled with snakes. One of them remarked that it would not require & Kansas coroner to tell what that fellow died of, The Pittsburg Internationals are growing Ww: like. On Tuesday they resolved to go en masse to the authorities and demand work. une re- marking :—‘“‘Ii they don’t help us, there are plenty of lamp posts around there; we'll hang tiem.” On. the 20th ult. John T. Yates, Sheritf of Red River parish, Louisiana, was shot -by Newton Gilliam, negro. Notwithstanding 12 bucksho entered his breast he is still @ Uving snerif and niay yet hive the custody of his black antagonist. ‘The liquor interest of New Hampshire are go! jnsist upon legislation this year in their inter they will put a ticket in the field themselves next ear. They have organized ‘the New Hampshire otel Landiords and Liquor Dealerg’ Association.’? oe Boston News hopes they will be beaten out of sight. One McCormick, a boiler maker at Port Jervis, last week, entered the dome of a boiler at the Erie shops to Tepair it, when his feet became entangied in the stays, and he had to stay there and sweat in the hot boiler until it was cut through and bis Meet got out ol chancery. When extricated he was almost lifeless. The Grangers of Iowa are 5 me doing. They have purchused the patent ofa harvesting machine, and propose to seil it to patrons much cheaper thah any manufacturers. They have also made rangements with a sewing machine company to furnish machines at a reduction of 40 per cent on ordinary prices. And now comes another charge of the illegality ofa legislature. A,portion of the Ildnois press de- clares that the present Legislature is an illegat _body. 1t is an adjourned session of last year’s Legislature, after a recess of eight months, and met, it is contended by the objectors, in direct violation of the spirit of the constitution, which provides for biennial sessions only, i Captain Elton Matthews, of Dartmouth, hag re- | ceived from the French government, through the Secretary of the Treasury at Washington, a hand- @some silver mounted binocular glass, enciosed in & box, appropriately inscribed, in acknowledgment of his service, while master of British brig Peter Grerar, of Pictou, N. S., in rescuing the crew of bark Ida, of Dunkirk, burned in Deceniver, 1872, The Indians of the Cherokee nation are imitating the chivalry, At Littie Rock last week Sam Osage and Colson attacked and mortally wounded Tom Furman, who, beiore departing for the hap! hunting ground of the Cherokees, killed Osage an: wounded Colson. Furman confessed that he Killed during his lifetime 64,men, and then turned over and died, é Gordon, the tiger killer, has been vanquished. According to the Jacksonville (Fla.) Union, of the 3d, @ large tiger cat was killed by a stepson, 11 years of age, of Mr. McDuflie, on his farm, two and fa half miles west of this city. ‘there is a small hammock on the place, in Which tt was iurking when killed, The hide measured three ieet six inches when it was skinned, Illinois has discovered a new cutlery factory. " . ecora hat a Mrs, by calling this “called session,” intending to hold 1 7 Eee i Way Tee DOR tor yeark acnioted two more sessions, Hence no provision was made | with a severe cough, believed by her friends to be consumption, Last week, during @ severe par- oxysi she threw up a hard substance, which proved to be a portion of a knife blade, an inch: or more in length. When or how it was intro- duced into her tiroat she has no recollection. This is how a eortie pares announces the ap- pointment of Samuel Bobard as Postmaster at Au- gusta:—"“Sam"” has tried almost everything and jailed, Asa dentist he pulled the wrong tooth; as a temperance lecturer he got drunk; as a minister- ‘of the gospel he fell from grace; as a public man, he ig the only bard that has kept time to every olitical tune; and we can only conclude that this ast appomtment was made because he was @ namesake of Uncle Sam. According to late St, Louis statistics the total products of the grain growing States of the Mis- sissippi Valley last year were:—Corn, 629,000,000 bushels; wheat, 182,000,000, of which Ohio ¢on- tributed, of corn, 55,000,000 bushels, and wheat 19,000,000 bushels; Michigan, 14,000,000 bushels ol COFN aNd 73,000,000 of wagat ; Indiana,66,000,000 bush- els of corn and 18,000,000 of wheat; [liinots, 140,000,000 bushels of corn and 28,000,000 of wheat; Wisconsin, 16,000,000 bushels of corn ‘and 26,000,000 of wheat Minnesota, 6,000,000 bitsheis of corn and 20,000, of wheat; Lowa, 105,000,000 bushels of corn and 84,000,000 of Wheat; Missouri, 72,000,000. bushels of corn and ‘12,000,000 of wheat; Kansas, a x bushels of corn and 3,000,000 of wheat; Nebraska, 21,000,000 bushels of corn’ and 8,000,000 of wheat. ‘The decrease in 187% of corn ts 172,000,000 and tae 4,900,000 bushels, LJuapoang os whgas is