Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 8, 1883, Page 1

b | 1 "WELFTH W AKX nb ——— THE OMAHA DAILy - evl OMAHA NEB MONDAY MORNI LEOR'S LIASSON. The Famous Frenchman Falls a Victim to His Owa Folly. The Story of the Shooting Re- iterated With Minute Detaile, A Graphic Sketch of His Harly Life and the Fortune Teller's Prophecy. The kxcitement in Paris Fol- lowing the Suddea An- nouncement of Death. The Tcmb of the Great Man Fur- rounded with Wreaths by a Mouraing Pablic. The Usual Variety of General Forelgn News. GAMBEITA’S DEATH. Bpeclal Dispatch to Trx Bxa. . A PROPHECY, Pagis, January 7.—Gambetta was not above the superstitions of his family., “Twice, said the fortune tel- ler to his mother, ‘‘will your son con- trol the destinies of France, and then he will die by the hand of a woman.” The effect which this had upon her mind was shownin her eagerness to give her son an education far beyond his standing as the son of an humble grocer. (Gambetta affacted to laugh at such superstitions, bat not aiways He seems to have made the acquain- tance of the woman, Laoni Laon, as she has of late been known, about dleven years ago, Thera had beoen a preceding liasson of sema duration with some one elee, of which a son, now at school in Garmany, was th re- sult. For many years he maintained a monage in Rue Bouaparte with Mme. Laon, visiting her at first with clrcumspaction, but later, when at the height of his soccess, dis- avowing all convealment, and APPEARING WITH PUBLICLY. She became a partser of his country house at Ville Davray. Mme Leon was the wife of a solictor named An- drea, and when Gambetta first met her sho a woman of graat beauty and distinction of appearancs at d4 She is 8o yet. As their intimacy advanced she grew desirous of sharing his am- bitions, She was mistress at Ville Davray; she presided at Gambetta's dinneas and was present at his infor mal councils, and while his prosperity and activity continued she gratified her wishea in the political world of her lover in no small way, He became and among radieal materialiste, Ultra Oatholics aud royalists recited the soenes at his death bed and sald, HELL COULD NOT WAIT FOR HIM, but had anticipated death with its tortures, The sickeniny detalls of the autopsy, publiehed with horrible minuteness, were gloated upon by these fanatics, ‘‘He will rot away before he reachos the Palais Bour- bon,” they cried. *The enemy of (lod and the enemy of ‘Franco He cannot enter the Madeliene.” On every side ono heard wild utterances of popular fre' z7, oxpending itself in a thousand different directions. There was no sobriety in the grief of his friends, nor modaration in the senso- less outbursts of his enewmios, GAMBETTA'S FUNERAIL Paris, January 6.—The car to be used in the Gambetta funeral cortege is the one specially designed by Bas- tien Lopage, tha painter, It moves on low black whee!s streaked with «il- ver. On it will be placed the cat: al- que as it now stands. Wreaths wil! be aeposited at the baso of the catafai | 10 at the four corners. Vases will be affixed in which will be burn- ing perfumes shrouding the coffiu in a vapor. Several cars will follow con- talning wreaths, the number of which is momentarily fncreasing. It had been proposed to bear the Ant riri Marceres statue «f (iloria Victisa now in the Place de Lafayette on an artil lery wagon before the coftin as an allu- sion to Gambetta's services in 1870, but ebjections wure raised by the uu thorities. As early as daybreak the aspect of the streets is animated Flags draped with crape are every- where displayed and troops ave maic - ing botween the Esplanade des Iuva lides and the Palais Bourbou, A dense mass of spectators, the ma- jority of whom have been in positiou balf the night, occupy the streets all the way to the cemetery. Tho remaic- der of the city is deserted, Gambet. ta's father has concluded to permit the faneral at Nice to bs a civil one. The body was placed in the hearso at 10:20 2, m. amid the booming of can non, the beating of drums and the sound of trumpete. The troops pre sented arms ge the procession started at 10:30. It was headed by the rela. tives and friends of the deceased, rep- resentatives of President Grevy, min- isters, gencrale, ivcluding General Galbfit, senators, deputies, including Clemenceau and other members of the extreme left. M. Brisson, the presidont of the chamber of deputies and Pegrat, the vice president of the senate, headed the senators and depaties reepectively. The procession w:s noarly two milee long. The guard of honor preceding and flanking the catafalque was com- posed of the Republican guard with a band playing a {uueral dirge. It 13 estimated that 200,000 persons were in the procession, conspicaous among which Free Masous in complete uni form, advocates and students of morbid, a prey to fits of depression, and sought to seclude himself among his books. He saw no friends, and both physically and mentally showed a determination to rest. HE WAS DISSAPPOINTED. His patlence did not accord with | 'uc jeare, - About eighteen months ago the solicitor died, and to Mme. Leon the world looked brighter than ever. She thought Gambetta would certainly marry her. She had visions of satin, of an infant republic, of let- ters, of art, of which she should be absolute mistress, and to all thie dis- tirction she saw her way clear before her. “It was impossible,” Gambetta eaid; to the republic ho owed his first duty and he conld not afford to imperil his position. He waa inflexible and there was o longer peace at the villa Davry. His sister had long advised him to marry as becama his oppor- tunities, and 16 finally came to Mme. L:ou's ears that ha was engaged to Mile. Dattonshes, neice of Dattonshea who was one of the piers of France, a lady of beauty and fortune., This meant that he would shortly be TOTALLY LOST TO HER, and ehe at once sought to establish its truth. He admitted it; said that cir- cumstances compolled him to change his mode of life; that the sooner she | accepted the inevitable the better; that his position and responsibilities made the proceeding imperative and soon. Frenzied with rage and disap- pointment she drew a pistol which she said she intended for herself, aimed it at Gambetts and fired. At the first movement he had rushed toward her to wrest the weapon from her. He wus too late; the ball entered the palm of his hand and ranging upward came out of the under part of the forearm. It was a painful but not necessarily dangerous wound, To Gambetta, how- ever, IT WAS FATAL, He was already a victim to diabetes and the shock to his nervous system and montal distarbance which ensued were more than he could sustain Hls eurgeons and his friends were ap- rehensive of the result from the first, ut they studiously concealed his con- dition until the end. 8o effectively did they misreprosent the case that the announcement of his death came upon Paris on Monday like a thunder- clap. Oae paper, his own, appeared In black and with a single line only meade the announcement, ‘‘Gambetta is dead.” In London nothing was known of it until the afternoon. His death agony was protracted and was of THE MOST FFARFUL DECSRIPTION, but to the last he retained his facul- tles, The excitement in Paris since has been indescribable, The whole community has been feverish, hysteri cal and irrational. The comparatively fine weather brought every one into the streets, Every seat in front of the cafes on the boulevards was occu- pied. Newspapers, filled with the wildest extravacances, wera sold as fast as they could be printed, In the cates the resctionary and royallst joaruals were torn to picces, flang upon the floor and stamped upon, Everywhere there was the most in- tense feeling on the part of every class —among the encmies of republicans, among its friends, among religlous Parls, An Eoglish delegation from. Bologne was present. CEMETERY SCEN Paris, January 7.— Enormous throngs of pecple are visiting the tomb of Gambetta. A demonstration wes made at the grave of Blanque to- day, «boat 200 porsous Lid gurlai de on the grave and speeches were made. One speaker protested against the honors paid the memory of Gambetta, Other manifestations followed at the tomb of the federals of 1871. Many slgos of mourning for Gambetta were displayed in Bo.deaux, Cerbourg and other towns, 2 MEMORIAL SEKVICE IN NEW YORK, New York, Januiry 7.—In Tam- many Hall ta-day a great throng «f Frenchmen attended the funeral ser- vices of Gambe‘ta, In front of the stage was a catafalque heavily draped and guarded by “‘Gardes Lafayette.” At 2 o'olock, the haur appointed for the commencement of theservices, the band stationed in the hall played a funeral march, The membera of French socities filed in, the officirs aud citizens rpoecially duvited taking seats on the etage beneath the portraic of Gambetta and the tricolor of France. All wore crape and immor teles, The president spoke brictly, simply raying: “‘In the name of the ew York French societles, and in the name of the French Re- public, he thanked those present for the honor they paid to the memory of Gambetia, The principal address was made by Prof, Adolphe Cohen, of Cslumbia college, Wnd corretpondent of The Republique Francaise, He eald there could be no greater praise than the grief that all France expressed at Gambetta's death. In confronting the imperial tyranny he voicad France and was first to proclaim the logiti- macy of republicanism, The speaker alluded to the etatesman's funeral as presenting the spectacle of France rocking to eternal sleep the most be loved of her children. A number of other speeches were made. Services closed by the band playing ‘‘Marsel- laize.” : PEKE HYACINTHE PANEGYRIC, Parts, January 7, —Pere Hyacinthe, preaching at the Galiclan chapel to day, said the funeral of Gambetta was not only national but religious iu its oharacter, despite the absence ef re- ligious rites. It is tho immortal soul of the great patriot whom we de- plore to which homage is paid. 1 pray our German brethren may be better inspired than hitherto, and that thoy will #o act as to canse the natiovs of the north to become reconciled to thoee of the eouth.” Pere Hyacinthe then compared the advantages of constiiu tlonal monarchy with those of a wise républie, such s that of Washing Papal vuncio did not attend Gam botta's funeral. Losvox, January 7.—A dispaich from Paris says the unmistakable grief at Gambetta’s domestics, relatives and private friends was one touching re. ality in the whole proceedlngs con nected with his funeral GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. Special Dispatches to Tus Bw GLADSTONE'S RETIREMENT, Loxnox, January 7.—Private ru. mors in quarters likely to be well in- formed are to the eflest that Gilad- ttone wiil cortainly rotire, his known faclination in this direction being per- haps increasod by the recent ill health and the warni ot hls’ doctors that the timo for hard work is over and the pericd for rost has come. More- over all is not working so smoothly as might be thought in the radical house- hold, Great complaints are being made in particular of Gladstone's ap- pointments, the radicals erying out loudly thataltogether too many plums fall to the shave of the aristocracy. ATDING THE RHINE KUFFERERS, Ne« Yok, January 7 - Oswald Ottendorfer, proprietor of tho Staats Zoftung, and otber well kncwa o zons, attended the meeting to-day called by the Tornverein, to devise means of relieviog distress caused by the floods in (Germany. 1t was re- solved to send aid to the sufforers by the fove (l,ws of the Rhine and its tributaries. A FIGHT AMONG POLICH, ALEXANDRIA, Javuary 7.—In a fight between Aibanian and European menm - bers of the police force, one Albantan was killed and six daogerously wounded. Two policemen’ were ind jored, A searching irquiry into the affair has begun. A QRISIS IN SPAIN, Mavrip, January 7.—There was a ministerial crisis in consejuence of the differences between Camacho, min- iater of finance, and Albareda, mints- ter of commerce and agriculiure, at the cabtnet council yesterday to dis cuss the budget with a view to reduo. ing the taxes and at the same timo increasing the reverus, Comacho proposed the bale of the state foreat lands on the mountains, valued at 40 000,000 pesotas, in order to provide funds to pay during the term of eight years the increased iaterest on the public debt, commencing in July. Albareda strongly opposea the propo- sal, and being unable to agree buth he and Camacho tendered their resig- nations, To-dsy the ministers met again, and after four hours’ dlibera- tlon, an agreement being impractica ble, resolved t. resign in a body. Piesenting his resiguation to the king, Sagasta, president of the coun- cil, stated he would return to the palace at noon to-morrow and receive royal oommands. It is believed he wiil be invited to form & new cabiner, comprising some of the outgoing min. wters. The crisis was unexpected, and caused a great sensation, ILLNESS OF GLADSTONE, Loxpi N, January 7.—Gladstone 1s indisposed, Dr. Andrew Olark was summoned to attend him Sunday morning. BIOTH IN BERLIN, BrruN, Janoary 6,.—Edwin Booth has accepted an engagement at the Residenz theater. His first appear- ance will ba in Hamlet. e Gye's Geip Gone. Speclal Dispatcn to Tus bux, PoiLapELYEIA, January 7.—Her- bert ¥, Gya, of Mapleson’s opera com pany, boarded a train at Broad street station, last night, carrying a traveling bag which he placed upon a seat. A trifling accident stoppsd the train and Gye with other passengers went to the platform to 1nquire the cause. When he returned the bag was missing, also a well dressed man who had occapied the opposite seat. The bag coatained checks for $4 550, $100 in bills and some articles of jewelry, among them a poarl pin and dismond pin and studs, Gye returned to this this city and notified the authorities. Payment on the checks has been stopped. & oegunta Taxing Railroads. Special Dispatch to anx Lk 81, Louts, January 6,—A bill was introduced in the state senate to tax the gross earniugs of railroads at tho same rats as othor parsonal property. THE UNION WACIFIC AND THE WAEASH, The Globe-Democrat states on the authority of a gentleman just from Now York who is said to be well upin he workings of the syndizate that it is much more than probable that the Uuion Pacific will soon acquire by a lease or purchase the Wabush road, or make such trafiis arrangement as will virtually control it. 'The purpose is said_be to get an independent lino to the Mississippi river and the lakes. A Brooklyn Fire. Spocial Dispatch to Tux Brx New Yok, January 6.—About 7:30 this morning a fire was diecovered in the extensive crockery and favcy ware establishment of Ovington Bros., in Brooklyn, and in an hour the store and its coutents were completoly de- stroyed. Ovington Bros dealt in the finer grades of ocrockery, elegant bronzes, clocks and all descriptions of fancy ware. The loss is heavy, but not yet ascertained. 1t is covered by iusurance, however. The Cuckerill Cass. Special Dispatch to Tus K. St Louis, Janaary 6, —An applica- fion has been made to Gov. Critten- dan by the relatives of the late Col. A. W. Slayback, that he direct the attorney genoral to come ‘to this city and take charge of the grand jary in- vestigation in the case of Cockerill, the managing editor of The Post-Dis- patch, on the alleged grounds that the clreuit attorney here is prejudiced and has obstrucied the investigation. He declined to comply with the re- quest but will refer tho matter to Judge Waggoner, of the criminal court in St, Loais. Esrthquake in Ohio. Spectsl Dlspaten w Tus Bun, CLEvELAND, January 7.—Word was received here to-day that a violent earthquake was felt 1n different parts of northern Ohio, between 2 and 3 o'elnck yeeterday morning. The peo- plo wera roused from sleep by the shock, Cases are reported of ohim- neya topplirg over. Mourning for Gambetta, Special Dispatch to Tus birs, New Yoi i, January 6,—This being GATH ON VANDERBILT, His Proposed Donation of §5,- 000,000 for an Att Ballery, Various Puints of Iaterest Oon- cerniog the Richest Man in America, What He is Doing With a Portlon «f His Immenss Wealth His Intimates, His Pecullarities, ard His Personal Characteristics, Correspondcnce Chicage Tribune., EW Youk, January 2, —Taking a ride on Saturday with & wealthy man, who has had close relation wiih the Vanderbilt family for many years, he @ave me soma Interesting information, which I communicate: ‘‘Have you heard anything,” said I, “‘about William H. Vanderbilt con- sidering the gift of an art gallery to New York City !’ ““Yer; 1t has not been put in the newspapors that I have seen, but he has mentioned it to a few friends Upper Fifth avenue has been very beautifully built np, and Mr. Vauder.. bilt's vew houses there becamo tho signal for the most remarkable inatan- ces of private household construction in the New World, Ths beautiful ca thedral in white marhle, with the shields of tha United States and of the city of New York set over its portals, is, of conrse, the center of this lavish private ornementation, Iu the rear of this cathedral the cardinal has built hts palace, also in white marble; and there you see Mr. Field's great (quare house, with one with ¢x teriorly compieted, sheltering itaelf behind the oathedral. Thé Buckiug- ham hotel, 7f:h ita elegant facade and the smui%ui tho grand duke of Buck- ingham ovpr the portal, completes a third side Jof the cathedral, But on the fourth side is su ugly lot, com- prising a whole square, with a high atone wall and an ¢blong brick build- ing, which is an injury to'the avenue not so much to the residents there as to the gencral brightness and beauty of the city, where Amwmericans present their best fronts to strangers. “'Mr. *Vanderbilt is not a profes- sional philanthropist or preseut. maker, 1 suppose that it was the ex- JAN his youngest son, George Vanderbilt, who is about 18 years oid and unwar- ried. T think they are going to some aprinan in the interior of Caba which are said to have & good effoct on the stomach and intestines, About a veek after Mr Vanderbilt goes away P O Mils, who has been connected with him io numerous ¢ porations, also goes to Caba, That will take away » coneiderable element from the bull eide, and strength wy noticn that wo are going to have a YERY LAX JMARKET HERE AFTER NEW YEAR'S While we were spasking wo passed Mr. Vanderbilt's stabler, tn the rear of the orphan asylum wmoentioned as the site of his suggestod art gallerv, “‘How many norses has Mr, Van- derbllt [ said 1. “Ten, Ha has a model stable there, bat no very extravagant number of animals, Yoo will see a dozan to twonty botter stables in New York— not better in thelr internal arrange- ments, but more stylish,” My informsnt then surprised me by the following statement: “Y.uare aware that William Van- derbilt has very little interest now in the New York Central railroad ¢ I sald thatit was the general opinion that he owned very near the majority of the stock, he and his connection, ‘“‘My information is protty straight, I think,"” said my friond. **Vander- bile has sold large blocks of the New York Centrai atock to Eaglishmen, In his recent frquent visits to the other side he has made a strong olass of ac- quaiantances, aud has frankly said that he did not care to carry so much stock, even ir the railrond his father acquired, as it embroiled him with the lobby at Albany, and made him the pors.nal target for the inevitable quar- rels that spring up between such a railrond and the numberless large oit- ion through whoso centre 1t passes His frankness was more potential than artifice, and the Koglish leaders gludly mude purches:n of large blocks of Central. Considerable interests in the same railroad have been sold to the Americans. Mr. Vanderbilt, of courso, will retain the presidency of the road, and 1t can be In hia family a8 loug us he likes, since all these new interosts desire him to stay where he is." ‘What other things does Mr. Van derbilt posses: '’ “Woll, ho is putting $6,000,000 at this mowent into the state of Penn- sylvania, building the railroad himself by advaiciog the money and taking istence of this eye-sore which sug- gosted to him a mild aud agroeable torm of benefaction He has satd that if this_square, which belongs to the city of New York, can bo trans- ferred by some action of the city, under some pleasant compromise with the Catholic institution, he would GIVE NEw PORK AN ART GALLERY the day of Gambetta's funeral, the national and munieipal flags are’ dis- played at half mast on the City hall, which would more than match the gift of the Astor library by the Astor family to this city, I think he has said that he would spend as much as $5,000,000 to put up the building sud fit 1t with paintioge worthy of the taste and wealth of New York city. Bat I would not bs surprised if the people would ‘her is .8 spoil this good intention by ilunediately instituting a serles of criticisms and quarrels about it. They will begin to intimate that Mr. Vanderbilt only wants to improve his property, It 1s 80 easy t0 say exasperating things about a man with the crime of Vau- derbilt’s wealth that nearly everybody goes into training to got thewn off You know very well that1t is of slight conscqasnce to Mr. Vanderbilt abont the mere value of the lot on which his houne stands. Ho is probably worth $200,000,000, and the whole rquare on which ha has built is probably worth not $2,000,000. Our people ought to give a rich man like that a chanca to expand his good in- clinations by farnishing a gouial and gpprecistive atmosphere for them to leaf aod blossom in. The fact id, Mr. Vanderbilt's wife objected t. woving from the old howe several squares further down the street, 5o said they had house enough, and it was going to be more trouble and ro- sponsibiity to have & larger house. Sho finally consented to let her hus- band build if he would put up on the snme block & home for her married children, Thatis why Vanderbilt did not build in the middle of the square, and make a really great residence, in- stead of cutting up the equare into two housos, connected by a colon. nade.” ““What has become of the hint Me, Vanderbilt gave in 1877, soon after his fathor's death, of ercsung a hospitat and ARYLUM FOR DISARLE PLOYE “Why, that ls going to be done, Tt has never been cut of Vanderbilt's miud, Iwould not be surprised that the pending year wouid seethe institution built. I think it will be a larger in. stitation than at first intended, since his railroad system is so much greater, His father had such an idea for a hos- pital for the New York Central, Hud son River and Harlem railroads. Since that time W. H. Vanderbilt has acquired property reaching to Dakota aud Omaha, So 1 apprehend that some institution taking in the necea- sity of all theso railroads will ba built. He has plenty of money, but he can get mad when he is tauated. The people ought to have the good sense to accept a man with Vanderbilt's wealth when his mood is gentle. He_ has the greatest opportunities in th¥s country to confer benefits on his neighbora. Like all mon ot old Datch stock —with a little Ssoteh in him—he s thrifty and close. Yot 1t is well to give him the credit groat deal ot the caricature of Mr. Vanderhilt in the illustrated papers is too hard, and some of it, in one paper at leaat, is paid for by a rival specula tor, and comes pretiy close to the head of blackmeil,” **What are Mr, Vanderbilt's plaus for the present? “He sails for Havana on vhe h of January, aud probubly remains away IAILROA® EM for ideas like these. Al the bonds. You know what this aystem of Pennsylvania road is, Primarily it is to get at both the coal and coke fields and share in that great featuro of the business which the Penvsylvania railroad is so strong in. Mr. Vanderbilt has also invesTep $10,000,000 IN THE NoRTH- WESTERN RAILROAD: It is & very judictous investment, He stretohes his arms wider, and grasps the grain fivlds which the Northern Pacitic railrond expectod to control to a large extent, and deliver its freights to some other system of railroad than the Lake Shore and the Michigan Central. Mr. Vanderbilt realized nearly 100 per cent on the purchase of tho Michigan Central railroad. He got the stock at from 40 to 50, and it 18 now at above par. While he is not, in my judgment, a large holder of New York Central store now, his posi- tion as presidont of the railroad is just ag secure us if he owned it all.” “‘Who is the nearest individual to Vanderbilt in friendship and confi- denc: “Foster Dawey. Ho is a compara tively young man of rather juvenlle appearanca, He came from the in- terior of New York state, somewhere about Lockport, I think., He is a man of somewhat sporting propensi ties, willing to bet his money.on elec tions, on a gamo of carde, or any othor soneral contingency. But he 13 hoth cuto and gentlo, No circumstance ever happene1 to make him lose his tempor. Ho is, therefore, o winning man with Me. Vanderbilt, who likes his friends to be strong, swoet and sharp, and to keep taith, Dewey goos with Mr. Vanderbilt on ali his excur wions, drives with him on the road, aud he is slso a rich man, though 1 think he gots no other benefit from Mr. Vanderlilts company than' to tuke chances with him. Vaaderbilt ofton loses monoey Like other pe¥sous. Dowey has to risk his along with his friend, Mr., Dewey not lorg ago made $1,200,000 in o Weatern rail- road operation, “Is Vanderbilt an educated man?"’ “‘Not much. He cantalk very well, however. Hin father was gnilty of a gross injury to him by weauly keeping htm on the little old farm within sight of New York, and making him stay there TILL HE WAS A MAN OF WORE THAN 10 YEAKS OLD, under the old fashioned deluston that if you kecp a child hangry he will de- sorve, fortuno better. Conseuently, the time Williaw Vanderbilv should have spent at college he had t6 spond throwing up hay and shovelitg dung. He roprets the loss of bet ter cducational advauntages, bat ho has picked up a good deal from intercourss and from the re- fining inetincts of his wife, who is the best person that ever entered into that family, She was, I believe, a clerggman's daughter, or something of that kind. Vanderbilt takes great pleaeure in his family athome, They are as happy a family as their old Datch ancescors in the valley of the Hudson river, where divorces were never known, Vanderbilt loses his temper somotimes, and can be very severe for a few wminutes; but he rather rogrets it afterward 1 have heard men say that when Vanderbilt got mad he could make them feel {meancr by his remarks than any other person in the world could do., Still'Has a Cold. Spoectal Dispatch to Tus B, St1. Lours, Jannary 6,—Christine Nilgson is sutforing from a severe cold and will not appear at the coneert to- night. The advance sales amounted to over $4,000. The songsizess leaves threo or four weoks. Ho takes with hiw his uncle, Jake Varderbilt, and is announced to sing on Tueaday, JARY 8 1883 THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. A Subsidizod Twivkler Dreams of Bliss and Informs the Public, Progiees of the Expedition for the Bodies of DeLong and Companione, Sums Additional Facts Abont the Bleak and Barren Sheros of Sibrria. The Reported Discovery of Lieut. Chipp's Body Discreaited. CAPITAL NOTES Special Dispateh to Twe Bax TO THE PURKAC, Wasnivaron, D. C., January 7.— John A. Walsh, witness for the prose- cation in the star route cases, gives “‘to the public” his unanswered letter to President Arthur, which letter, ho snys, became necessary, owing to the communication to the attorney general not meeting with a response, He charges upon Speclal Counsel Bliss failure to indict United States Senator Kellogg, against who Walsh says his testimony before the grand jury bore in an especial manner, rather than against ex: Postmaster Genoral Brady and Mail Contractor Prive, who were indicted; recommends that tho prosecution of Brady, Dor- sey, ot al., be confided toanother than Bliss, and conciudes: ‘‘Such has been the weak, halting character of the prosecution, as a whole, that the men know not on which side the govern- went was arrayed. Feeling of doubt and distrust have been engendered by this vacillation, that, iu the opinion of many law abiding citlzens, nothivg less than your active and positive di- rection in these cases, Mr. President, will insure a result commensurate with the gravity of the occaston, AT THE GRAVE CF DELONG The navy department to.day re- ceived from Miuister Hant the fol lowing telegram: Sr. Pererssuka, January 7. — OnanvLer, Secretary: 1 have just ro- ceived from Hasign Hunt the follow- ing telegram: ‘“‘Please tnform the secretary as follows: ‘Kirinsk, Do- comber 31.—Ancquin is seriously ill in the hoapital. Myself, man, son and Bartlett will romain here, probably a delay of two wecks, Leach, Iiauter- back and Thomas proceeds and await me at Irkutak. The Russian govern- ment has not yet ordored its authori- ties to permit and assist in removing the bodies.’ " THE BOSTON STORV, Geo, Kennan of this city, who has travelled extensively in Siberis, and who s, perhaps, the best authority in this country upon the geography of arctio Asia, speaking of the statement telegraphed from Boston that the bodies of the crew of the Jeannetie's second cutter had been found by an Amerioan artist on the Gulf of Kh onga, & long arm of the Arctic'ocean, south and east of the Taimur peninsula, says the story strikes him as a ‘‘very clumsy Invention.” Kennan adds: that the mouth of the gulf of Kha- tanga is more than 300 miles in an air line, and more than 500 following the coast from the place whero the boats of the Jeanneito separated. Lieut. Ohipp knew very well that Captain DeLong intended to land at ths mouth of tho Lena, and it is hardly to be supposed he would deliberately and voluntarily go threo or four hun- dred miles further westward and land on the edge of the Taimeer Peninsuls, the dreariest, most desolate and least knowa part of theentire North Siberian cosst, OFf course, ho might have been blown there against his will, but it is in tho highest degree improbablo, 1If you should lose sight of a small boat 56 miles off Saudy Hook, with a gale blowing on the shore, you would hardly expect to find that boat on the const of South Carolina, but this is perhaps least of the story's tmproba bilities. The artist who issaid to have discovered Liout. Chipp's party on the coast of Khatanga went there, accord ing to his letter, for the purpose of finding his brother-in-law, exiled to 7 wua mines,” 1 don's think there is # mine or Russian settlement of any kind within 190 milesjof the mouth of Khatonga gulf in any direction. The nearest inhabited places sro Yefaiek and Khatongsk, both four hundred milesnland. A fow Bamoyades wander in the summer over Tookdra, which lios along the Arctic ocean in that vici- nity, bui In winter they even retire to the interior and leave the whole region uninhabited, The mouth of K hatonga gulf lies in latitude 706 degrecs, almost a8 far north as the winter quarters of Dekane, and it could be reached at a season, when Wost says he went there, only by a well-equipped Arctic expeditton. The lotter telo- graphed from Boston, besides being suspiciously vague in its geographi cal details, is full of absurdities and Inaccuracies. The presence of & man in the north cannot be determined at a distance of half a mile or so by the peculiar **strong odoz, " neither domen at the north inhabit cairns; chookches, of whom West Is ropresented as being afraid, do not live within 00 miles.of Khatonga, and it is next to impossi- ble that & traveler in that region should even leava their name, All details of the finding of the sup- posed rurvivors of the second cuttor strike me as eimp'y preponterous, ceording to the alleged record found in the bible suppored to belong to Kuchue, Oae, at least, of the crew lived until the 21 of March, 1552, In other words, an inexperionced sailor, an inexperienced sailor, thrown on the uninhe hited Faimur peninsuls, in lattitada 75, without food, proper clothi ag or ehelter, lived through the entice arctic winter, in the eourae of which the sun was continuously balow the horizon for nearly one bun- drad days, 1f Captain Delong's party to-night for New Orleaus, where she|could not keep themsolves alive longer than a wmonth tn the Loua Delta at the boginning of autumn, It is hard- ly reasonable to suppore that any of Lieut, Chipv's crew lived through the winter of six months on & still more barren const, and at a point 201 3 de- grees further north. - Finaly, if the story contained in this letter had any foundation in fact, the tinding of the men, through regular Russian chane nels of communication, the loss of the Jeannotte would have been known for months in everv Russian settle. ment in nothern Siberia, If the bodies of white men had been foand on the Galf of Lahatonga last epring, as represented by this letter, the Ros-* sian authorities at Yenieayek would have been Informed of the fact before midsummer, and we should have had the news promptly by telegraph. Noither Seoretary Frelinghuysen nor Secretary Chandler received any information with regard to the alleged finding of the bodies of the . eanette's second cutter, A PLEASURE TRIP, WasniNoron, January 6.—The ag- oultural committee of the house has agreed to recommend the ap ropriation to send representatives of the United States to the Hamburg Castle fair, RIVER IMPROYEMENT, In the senate Slater has presented a memorial from the Astoria board of trade for an appropriation to improve the entrance to the Columbla river. A FAT OFFICE, The house committee on expendi- tures of the department of justice to- day examined J. H, McKenny, the clerk of the supreme court, in the mattor of receipts and expenditures in his oflice, during which it developed tho faot that the receipts were $29, 496, For the year previous .£:20,000, CONGRESSIONAL. SENATE PROCEEDINGS, Wassivaron, January 6 —The prosidential succession bill came up, and Henator Massey spoke. He eatd wo ought not to go to the legislative dopartment for successior «. tho prosi- dontial offices in the cases contem- plated by the bill, and the plan pro- posed of taking them from the execu- tive departments of the government was clearly the best that could be adopted. Senator Lapham sald this bill open- ed up the whole «uestion of succes- sion in tho discharge of the duties of president, aud it was fortunate the subject could mnow be discuss- ed tree from the excitement and pwbarrassment which sar- rounded it the tme of the shooting of President Garfield. In Lapham's Jjndgement the Inability of President (Giarfield began when tho assassin’s shot had been fired, and the vice pres- ident would have had the right to as- sume performance of the duties and powers of the cflice at that time, and the fact he had forborne to do so was a sufliciont anawer to the intimation made in some quarters that he had been disposed to grasp at the powers and emoluments of the presidency. Senator Morell introduced a reso- lution providing for the termination of the Hawaiian reeiprocity treaty. Tabled till Monday. Afcer executive session the senate adjourned. T LS LR 0 spusiter ) from the pruldgnt asking $100,000 to complete the tenth consus, Referred. Mr. White offered a resolution re- citing that Illincis eapitalisis have now in bonded warehowses large uan- tities of distilled spirits, and asking tho commissioner of internal revenue about the amount of those spirits, and whether the presence of the commie- sioner is required at this time in Il- linois preparatory to collection of taxes on large quantities of distilled spirtts yhioh, undor the Carlisle bill, have been allowed to reicain in bond throe yours at a loss in revenuo of many millions. Referred. The shipying bill was then consid- erod, Mc Cox delivered a carofully propared speech in support of the bill. After iving & detailed account of the navigation laws he said amid the diyided marine of which one power has alone half rule of the ocean, Amcrica s'ts scepterless and forlorn, dethroned, Jgnoble, dispirited and disgraced, The symbol of our nationality, taking its ssars from the vault of heaven, by which brave men sail, 1s an wnknown emblem upon the sen. We welcome every race to our shoves in vessels of other nations, Our enomuous surplus which fecds the worldis for others to bear away. Weo gezo at leviathans of commerce entoring our harbors and dark- ening our sky with pen- nons of smoke, but the thun- der of the engines is under another flug and the shouting of captains 1s in an alten tongue. Others distribute the produce, capitalize money, gather glories, and elevate thelr institutions by the amenities and benignities of ou commerce, and we, boasting of our invention, herolsm and freedom, allow the jailers of a hated and seltish policy to place gyves upon our energy and imprison our genlus in the sight of these splendid achlevements, Mr, Speakor, sald Cox, 1f you would that wo should once more fly our ensign upon the sea, aselst us to take cff the bardens from our navigation and give to us first, last and best the indispensi» ble condition of civilization by com- meroe, liberty, (Applause.) Mossrs, Dingley and Hawitt epoke in the same strain, Mesars. Ellis and Morvy gave nstice. of amendments looking, towards sub-. sldy for American mail steamahips. Mr. Reagan secured the flooy, and the matter wont aver until Monday. Mosars. Forney and O'Neill, from. the committes on appropriations, re- ported the fortitioation aud approprias tlon bills, which were respectively re- forred to the committee on the whole, Mr. Steele introduced a bill o cqualizs the bountios of soldiers, suilors and marines. Roeferred, Adjourned, Loss by Fire. ial Dispatch to Tus Bue, New Yok, January 6.—Ovington Bros., estimate their loss at a $250,- 000. In their atore beside bric-a-brec were a number of valuable oil paints ings which could not be saved. Spe