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ah Ten the Stavy of Has Keoafew, The actor, John Wilke Booth, ahot President Lin col a abOHt 10 o'clock on Friday night, April 14, 1S65. Near midnight he and his uninteresting road pilot, Da-rid E. Herold, called at Sotratt'a tavern, about ten miles southeast of Washington, end obtained the arms, - field class, etc, previously prepared for them there.' Saturday morning they vera at Dr. Samnel A. Mudd's, twenty miles farther on, where Booth's broken ankle tras set and a crutch made -for him,- and that evening the tiro fugitives rcre guided in a roundabout tray to the gate of Samuel Cox, prosperous Southern sympathizer, about fifteen miles southwest. The last witness in Maryland ended here. The Government, in its Prose

cution of the conspirators, took up the fugitive next at the crossing of the Rappahannock River, in Virginia, the 24th of April, liaring failed to trace Booth a single step rther in Maryland, although he did not cross the Potomac unt 1 Saturday night; April 22. A whole week remains unaccounted for, and for the first tone the missing links of the connection are here made public. Prqbably not half a dozenpeople aro a'ive -who ever ' heard the narrative fully told. - Near Pope's Creek, in Lower Maryland, lived Thomas A. Jones, and, as his place was peculiarly well situated for easy intercourse with Virginia, he became the ferryman of people who xrishad to cross the Potomac, and - for this offense served a term in the Old Capitol Prpon. He released in 1S62, but continued to aid the Confederate cause in every possible way, being always in full sympathy with the South. Jones, who is still alive, is a man of hardly medium height, slim and wiry, with one of those thin, mournful faces common to tidewater Maryland, with high cheek bones, gray-blue eyes, no great height or breadth of forehead, and thick, strong hair. Tho tone of 3 sis mind and intercourse .is slow and mournful, somewhat complaining, as if the summer heats had given a nervous tone to his views, which are generally instinctive and kind. About the third year of the war Jones understood that a very important act

bad been acreed nnon namelv: to

seize the President of the United States J when they, sent him back to Dr. Mudd's.

in the city of Washington and by re

lays and forced horses take him to the west side of Port Tobacco Creek, about four miies below the town of that, name, and dispatvh him across the

Potomac a prisoner of war. I possess

the names of tho two persons on Port

Tobacco Creek who, with their sons, were prominent in this scheme; but the frankness with which the information was given to me persuades me not to print them. A person already named, in Washington, was in the conspiracy; and it was given out that "the big actor, Booth,'' was also "in it." Jones heard of this about December, 1861. It was not designed that he should take any part in the scheme, though he regarded it as a proper undertaking in time of war. Prom the time this scheme was proposed nn til the very end of the war the batean which was to carry Mr. Lincoln off was kept ready, and the oars and men wejte ever near at hand to dispatch the rHastrious captive. -That winter was unusually mild, and therefore the roads were particularly - bad in this region of clay and marsh, and did not harden with the frost a cirenmstance which perhaps snared Mr. Lincoln the terrors of such a desperate expedition. Inquiries were made from time to time as to when the thing was to be - done, and it was generally answered that the roads were too heavy to give, the opportunity. The idea Jones has of this matter is that Mr. Lincoln was to be seized, not on his way to the-Soldiers' Home, but near the Navy Yard, and gagged quietly, and the carriage then driven across the Navy Yard bridge or the next bridge .bore, while the captors were to point to the President-and. wave their hands to the guards on the bridge, saying : "The President of the United States." When we consider that he was finally killed in the presence of a vast audience, and that his captors -then crossed the same bridge without opposition and without passes, the original scheme does not seem extraordinary. Jones heard of the murder of Lincoln Saturday afternoon, April 15, at or near Ins own. farm of Huckleberry. Two Federal officers or cavalrymen came by on -horseback, and one o them said to Jones: I that your boat a piece above here?" "Yes, " said Jones. "Then yon had better take good care of it, because there are dangerous people around here who might take it to cross the river. " "That is just what I am thin king about;" said Jon, "and I Lave had it pulled up to let my black man go fishmg. for the shad which are now) nmning." The two horsemen conferred together a minute. or two, and one of them said: "Have yon heard' the news from Washington?" "No." "Our President has been prerdered." "Indeed !" eaid Jones, with a melancholy face, as if be had -no friend in the world, "Yes."

said the horseman; "President Lincoln was killed last night, and we arc looking out for the men, who, fro think, tcaped this way.! Sunday morningne Icth of April, about ' 9 o'clock; - a young white man came from Samnel Cox's to Jones' seecad farm, called Huckleberry, which has beeuijalready described as abont two and a half miles back from the old river residence, which Jones hod been forced. to -give up when it appeared probable that the Confederate causa was lost. - The Huckleberry farm consisted of about 500 acres, and had on it a one-story-and-garret honse, with a low-pitched roof, end chimneys, and door in the middle. There was a stable north of the honse, and a barn south of it, and it was only three-quarters of a mile from the honse io tho iivcr, which here runs to the .Mrr&'to

make the ndentatitm called Prt Tbacco Creek Or river. Although Jones, therefore, had moved some distance from his former' house, he was yet very near tidewater. The new farm wan very much retired, was not on the pttblic road and consisted of clearings amidst rain-waahed hills and dOtip gullies,' almost impenetrable short pines, and. Some swamp and forest timber. Henry Woodland, the black servant, who was then 27 years old, was still Jones' chief assistant, and was kept alternately farming and fishing'. The young man who came from Cox's was told if stopped on the road to say that he was going to Jones' to ask if ho could let Cox have some seed corn, which in that Qlimate is planted early in April. He told Jones that Col. Cox wished him to come immediately to his house, abont three miles to the, north.

The young maa-mystorionsly intimated

that there wewverv remarkable visitors at Cox's the night before. Accustomed

to obey the summons of his old friend,

Jones mounted his horse and went to Cos's. Cox's property,, called Bich

Hill, made an agreeable contrast to the somber short pines which at no great distance seemed to cover the plain

almost, as'tbkkly as wheat straws in the

gram-neia.

Taking Jones aside, Cox related the t the previous night the assassin of President Lincoln had come to his house in

company with another persbn, guided by a negro, and had asked for assistance to cross the Potomac Biver ; "and," 'said Cox to Jones, "you will have to get him across." Cox indicated-where the fugitives were concealed, perhaps one mile distant, a few rods west of the present railroad track, and just south of Cox's Station.- Jones was to give a signal by whistling in a certain way as he approached the place, else he might be fired upon and killed. Nobody, it is believed, ever saw Booth and Herold

after this time in Maryland besides Cox's overseer, Franklin Boby, and Jones, Cox's family protest that the fugitives never entered the house at all ; lus adopted son, still living, says Booth did not come into the honse. Herold, who was with Booth, related to his counsel, as the latter thinks, that after they left Mudd's house they never were in any hocaa whatever in Maryland. The negro who was employed to guide Booth from Dr. Mudd's to Cox's testified that he saw them enter the house; but as the Government did not use him on the trial, it is probable that he related his belief rather than what he saw. But there is no doubt of the fact that when Dr. Mudd found Booth on his hands Satifrday with a broken ankle, and the soldiery already pouring into Bryantown, he and Booth and Herold became equally frightened, and in the early evening the two latter started by a road to the east for Cox's house, turning Bryantown and leaving it to the north, and arriving about or before midnight at Cox's. There the negro was sent back. Herold advanced to the porch and communicated with Cox, and Booth sat on his horse off toward ,

the outer gate. The two men cursed Cox after they backed out to where the negro was he remaining at the outer gate and said that Cox was no gentleman and no host. These words were probably intended to mislead the negro

teilHon and my own, end for your own ' borso, and Herold was put at tno

fifer: Thiit I will 0.0 iWtOUi if tliare bndie. "Mow" whispered Jones, as

is any way in the wotld to do it: " , I wo cannot see twenty yards before us, When I received this account fro'm 'twill go1 ahead: Wo must not speak IT- T T r.'l. n 1 l,!in mtaairrttt offa. Wliml t iriii ftf A ifi4t. li'Tfon AVOW-

question to son if I conld extraet any j thing is clear from me to ou I will information as to what Booth inquired whistle so," giving the whistle. In about while in that wildornoss. J nsbed that way he went forward through the

if ho spflke of his mother) or where he . blackness, repeating tho signal now was criinsr when he reached Viririniai ' and tlicni and although tho wooded

whether he blamed himself fdrjnmphitf j pathfi iaM generally tSrtiiO'uif and ob

trom tno TiUeaxer oox: wuc&uer no ta- i bhuvwu uuujiuu iiuijih-ui-u. a-vi

xnis negro was arrested, as was a colored woman in Cox's family, and with tbe same remarkable fidelity I have mentioned, the woman confronted the negro man and swore that what he said was untrue. Nevertheless, Booth and Herold were sent into the short pines, and there Jones found them. He says that as he was advancing into the pines he came upon a bay mare, with block legs, mane, and tail, and a white star on the forehead; she was" saddled, and roving around in a little' cleared place as if trying to nibble something to eat. Jones took the mare and tied her to a tree or stump. He then advanced and gave what ho cuiis the countersign, or whistle, which lie does not precisely remember now, though he thinks it was two whistles, in a peculiar way, and a whistle after an interval. The first person he saw was Herold, fully armed and with a carbine in his hand, coming out to see who it was. Jones explained that he had been sent to see them, and was then taken o Boothwho was but a few rods farther along. Booth was lying on the grouriil, wrapped up in blankets, with bis foot supported and bandaged, and a cratch

beside him. Jttw rumpled dress looked respectable for that country, and Jones says it was of ' black cloth. His face was pale at all times, and never ceased to be so during the several days that Jones saw him. He was in great pain from his broken ankle, which had suffered a fracture of one of the twobones in the leg, down close to the foot. It would not have given him any very great pain but for the exertion of his escape, which irritated it by scraping the ends of the broken bone perhaps in the flesh; it was now highly irritated, and whichever way the man moved he expressed by a.twitch' or a crroan the

pain he felt. - Jones says that this pain was more or less continuous, and was

greatly aggravated by the peril of

Booth's situation unable to cross the river without assistance, and unable to walk any distance whatever. Jones

believes that Booth did not rise from

the ground at any time until he was finally pot on Jones' horse to be taken to the waterside some day's afterward.

Booth's first solicitude seemed to be

to learn what mankind thought of the crime. That question he nut almost

immediately to Jones, and continued to

ask what different classes of people thought about it, Jones told him that

it was gratifying news to most of the

men of Southern sympathies. He

frankly says tha,t he himself at first regarded it as good news; but somewhat laar, when he saw the injurious

consequences of the crime to the South,

he changed his mind. Booth desired newspapers if they conld be had, which

would convey to him an idea of public feeling. Jones soon obtained newspapers for him, and continued to send them in; and Booth lay there, where

the pines were so thick that one could not see more than thirty or forty feet into them, reading what the world had to say abont his case. He seemed never tired of information on this one subject, and the only thing besides he was solicitous about was to get across the river into Virginia. Jones says Booth admitted that he was the man who killed Lincoln, and expressed no regret for the act, knowing all consequences it involved. He harped again and again upon the necessity of his crossing the river. He said if he could only get to Virginia he could have mqdical attendance. Jones told him frankly that he would receive no medical attendance in Maryland. Said he: "The country is full of soldiers, and all that lean do for you is to get you off, if I can, for Cex'a pro-.

nrnnsml anv nnnrohension for Mrs.

Snrratt or his friends in Washington. To these and to mRny:ttlier qnertfons Jones uniformly replied i "No, lie did not speak about any of those things. He wanted food, and to cross tho river, and -to know what was said about the deed." Booth, he thinks, wore a slouched hut. At first meeting Booth in the pines, ho proved himself to be

thtf-assnsm by-showmgpoa.nia wrist,in India ink, the initials J. W. B. He showed the same to Copt, Jett in Virginia. Jones says Booth was a determined man, not boasting, but one who would have sold his life dear. He said he would not be taken alive. Mr. Jones went up to Port Tobacco in a day or two to hear about the murder, and heard a detective there from Alexandria say: "I will give $100,000 and guarantee it to the man who can tell where Booth is." When we consider that the end of the war hod pome,, and all the Confederate hopes were blasted and every man's slaves sot free, we may reflect nnon the fidelity of this poor man, whose'land was not his -own, and with inevitable poverty before him perhaps for the rest of his days, when the next morning he was told that to him alono would be intrusted that man-for whom the Government had offered a fortune, and was increasing the reward. Mr. Jones says it never occurred to him for one moment that it would be a good tiling to have that money. On the contrary, his sympathies were enlisted for the pale-faced young man, so ardent to get to Virginia and have the comforts of a doctor. Said be to Booth: "Yon must remain right here, however long, and wait till I can see some way to get you out; and I do not believe I can get you away from here until this hue and cry is somewhat over. Meantijne I will seo that you are fed. He then continued to vsit thenvdaily, generally about 10 o'clock in the morning. He always went alone, taking with him such food as the country had ham, whisky, bread, fish, and coffee. Part of tho way Jones had to go by the public road, bnt ho generally

worked into the pines as quickly as possible. His intercourse at each visit

with tho fugitives was short, because he was in great personal danger himself, was not inquisitivo, and was wholly

intent on keeping his faith with his old friend and the new ones. He says that Herold had nothing to say of the least

importance, and was nothing but a pilot

for iiooth. JNot improbably Jox sent

his own overseer into the pines sometimes to see those men or to give them something, but he took no active part

in their escape. The blankets they possessed came either from Cox's or

from Dr. Mudd's.

Booth, as has been said, rode a small

bay mare from the rear of Ford's Theater to Cox's ines. Herold rode a horse of another color. These horses were hired at different livery stables in Washington. Jones is not conversant with all the facts abont tho shooting of these horses, but the testimony of Cox before he died was nearly as follows : After Booth entered the pines he distinctly heard, the next day or the day following, a band of cavalry going along the road at no great distance, and the

neighing of their horses. He said to Herold: "If we can hear those horses, they can certainly hear the neighing of ours, which are uneasy for want of food and stabling." When Jones, Sunday morning, came through the woods and found one of the horses loose, he told Cox, as well as Booth, that the horses ought to be put out of the way. Cox had Herold advised to take the horses down into Zekiah Swamp and shoot them both with his revolver, which ho did. The weather during those days and nights was of a foggy, misty character not oold, but uncomfortable, although there was no rain. At regular intervals the farmer got on his horse and went through the pines two or threo miles to the spot where still lay the yearning man with the great crime be

hind him and tbe great wish to see Virginia. Booth had a sympathetic nature, and seldom failed to make a good impression ; and that he made this impression on Jones will presently appear. No incident broke the monotony of these visits -for days'. Jones sent his faithful negro ont with the boat to fish with gill-nets, so that it should not be broken up in the precautions used by the Federals to prevent Booth's escape. Jones was now reduced to one poor boat, which had cost him $18 in Baltimore. He had lost several boats in the war, costing him from $80 to $125 apiece. This little gray or lead-colored. skiff was the only means by which the fugitives could get across the river. Every evening the man returned it to the mouth of the little gut or marsh called Dent's Meadow, in fron.t of the Huckleberry Farm. This is not two es north of Pope's Creek, and from L xpot Booth, and Herald finally esca. . Jn day, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday passed by, and more soldiers came in and began so rido hither and thither and to examine the marshes; but they did not penetrate the pines at all, which at no time were visited. The houses, were all examined, and old St.. Thomas' brick buildings, of a venerable and imposing appearance, above Chapel Point, were ransacked. The story

went abroad that there were vaults under tho priests' house leading down to the river, and finally the soldiers tore the farm and terraces all to pieces. Yet for six nights and days Booth and Herold kept in tho wooods, and Friday Jones slipped over to a little settlement called Allen's Fresh, two or threo miles from his farm, toseo if he could hear anything. A large body of cavalry wero in the little town, guided by a Marylander, and whilo Jones-in his indifferent way was loitening about he heard tho officer soy: "We have just got news that those fellows have been seen down in St. Mary's County." The cavalry wero ordered to mount, and set out. At that time it was along toward the gray of tho night, and instantly Jones mounted his horse and rode from Allen's Fresh by the road and through the woods to where Booth and Herold were. Said he, with decision : "Now, friends, this is your only chance. The night is pitch-dark and my boat is close by. I will get yon some supper at my house, and send you off if I can.1' With considerable difficulty and with sighs and pain Booth was lifted on to Jones'

it

short distance they wero on the public rood; they finally turned into tho Huckleberry farm, and about fifty yards from tho house theossassin and bis pilot

stopped under two pear trees.

At this moment a very palhetio inci

dent took place. Jones whispered to

Booth : "Now I will go in and get some-

thins for vou to eat, and you oat

here whilo I get something for myself.

Booth, with a sudden longing, exclaimed : "O, can't I go in the house

just a moment and get a little of your warm coffee T Jones says that ho felt the tears come to his oyes when he replied: "O, my friend, it would not be safe. This is your lost chance to got away. I have negroes at the house; and if - they see yon, you are lost and so

am 1. .But J ones says, as no wont in, Vin folt bin throat choked. To this dav

he remembers that wistful request ol

tho assassin to be allowed to enter

warm habitation onoe mora before em'

barking on the wild and unknown

river.

The negro, Henry Woodland, was in the kitchen stolidly taking his meal, and

neither looking nor asking any ques

tions, though ho must have suspected

from tho occurrences of a few days past

that something was m tho wind.

"Henry," said Jones, "did you bring the boat back to Dent's Meadow, whore

I told you? lea, master, "liow many shad did you catch, Henry?" "I caught

about seventy, master." "And you

brought them all here to the house,

Henry? "Yes, master.

Jones then took his suppor without

haste and rejoined the two men. It

was abont three-quarters of a mile to the water-side, and although it was very dark, they kept on picking their

way down through the ravme, wnere

little, almost dry stream ran off to tho marshes. Not far from the water-side was a strong fence, which tlioy were

unable to take down.

Booth was now lifted from the horse

by Herold and Jones, and they got under his arms, he with the crutch at

hand, and so they nearly carried him to tho water. The boat could bo gotten

by a little wading, and Jones brought

it in. Booth took his place in the stern.

He was heavily armed, and Jones says,

had not only h's carbine, as had Herold.

but revolvers and a knife. Herold took the oars, which had been left in tho boat, and sat amidships. Jones then

lighted a piece of candle which he had

brought with him, and took a compass which Booth had brought out with him from Washington, and by tho aid of the

candle ne snowed tfoowi wie true direction to steer. Said he, "Keep the course I lay down for vou, and it will

bring yon right into Machodoo Croek. Kow up the creek to the first house,

where you will nnd Mrs. yueensberry,

and 1 think she will take caro of you 1 you use my name."

They were together at the waterside an unknown time, from fifteen minutes to hal on hour. At last Booth, with

his voice full of emotion, said to Jones:

"God bless you, my dear friend, for all you have done for me." Tho last words Jones thinks Boolh said were: "Goodby, old fellow!" There was a moment's

sound of oars on tho wator, and tho u gitives were gone.

A few days after Booth crossed the river and had been- killed, suspicion turned upon both .Tones and Cox. The negro who had taken the fugitives to Cox's gate gave information. Negroes near Jones' farm said he had recently concealed men, and showed the officers a sort of litter or camp about two hun

dred yards from his house. Here, in reality, quite a different fugitive had

hidden som e tim e before. Jones looked

ntit in his mournful way, and ex-

prersed an opinion that it was nothing

but where a hog hod been penned up. He was arrested and taken to Bryan

town, and kept there eight days in the second story of the tavern where Booth had stopped, and in sight of the country Oattiolio Church where Booth first

met Dr. Mndd and others six months

before. Cox was there, but in two or

three days was sent to Washington.

The detectives from all the cities of the East sat in the street under Jones and

and described how he was to be hanged,

He remarks of Col. Wells: "He was a most bloodthirsty man, and tried to scare out of me just what I'm tellin' of you bow." In eight days

J ones was sent to the old Carroll Prison,

Washington. There .he opntriyed to communicate with Cox, who was completely broken in spirit, and told liim by no means to admit anything; and when Jones, in about a month, saw Swan, the negro witness, going past his window toward the navy-yard bridge with a sachel, Join said to Cox: "You have nothing to fenr." The Govern

ment soon released these men, who hi'

deed had taken no part in Mr. Lincoln's

death, though they may have been ac

complices after the fact. Jones was

kept six and -Cox seven weeks.

Mr. Jones it- married again, and now has ten children. He lias filled some

places under the Maryland and Balti

more political governments, and now

keeps a coal, wood and feed yard in North Baltimore. Ueorge . Alfred

Town-send, in the Century.

England's Throne. The throne of England, so Splendid

when covered with silk velvot and gold, is, in fact, only an "old oak chair," over eight hundred years in nso for the same

lUrpose. Its existence has been traced

back to tho days of Edward. The wood is very hard and solid. The back and sides wero formerly in various colors, and tho s;t is maiki of a rouuhlooking sand-stono 2(1 inch es in length, 17 in breadth and 1W4- in thickness, and in this stoBo lies tho giwnd peculiarity of tho hoir. Numberless legends are tob' in connection with it, the trnth probably being that it was originally taken from Ireland to Scotland and served at tho eoi onatinn of tho early Scottish kings. Jill Malt O'dzeUe. Onjs day as Thackeray was walking along Wych street ho passed a group ol dirty little street arabx One little female tatci-demalion looked up at him as ho passed and then called out to hoi younger brother: "Hi, Archie, do yon know who him is? Mini's Becky Sharpe." "By Jove," said Thackeray tc

a friend, "strange as it muy seem, thai

little maiden gave me more pleasure than if I had received a complimentary letter from . his . grace the Dnko ol Wellington. When your namo god into tho slums that means fume; you have touched bottom."

X Party Wftidii A Policf. Tho Democratic Congrossion'al 6atfcus on tho tariff question was a dismal failure. It was called to agree ttpon a tariff policy and to "promote' , harmo'uy".'" It accomplished neither result. The resolution finally adopted is simply inconsequential; it leaves the breach in the parry as wido as it was before, and, if it has any meanings it.doiiotes that H0 tariff legislation will be agreed upon in the Hdnse which will be of tho slightest benefit to the ountry. If this . shall be the resnlt of the nominal victory won by the revenue, reformers in the election of Carlisle as Speaker, and after four months Of almost exclusive attention to tho tarif question, tho Democratic parry wilnind it difficult to account to the country for the agitation it has occasioned and the flagrant neglect of all other public business. The caucus resolution was passed by a vote of 114 to 67. It was proposed by Morrison and advocated by leaders in his faction, nud it was opposed by Randall and his followers. Hence tho vote may be construed to represent the relative strength of tho high-tariff and low-tariff Democrats. It divides tho party into about two-thirds on the cno side and one-third on the other. This is probably a pretty accurate indication of the" actual proportions of the disagreement. But tho tariff-reform element still further confessed its poworlesness to control tho matter by the feebleness of the resolution it proposed, which is as follows : Hesolvctt, That tho Mil commonly known as the HnriiEon tni-lff bill shall l o :nkou up for consideration at tbe earliest practicable day. and a reafonalilo tluio lor dotato allowed tbcreon. nnd altar such debate ttiat a 1:11 be passed for tl.e reduction of duties and war tarill' taxes; that tho adoption of this resolution shall not he considered bind n in controlling ibo individual action of Democrats, e.vcept to tho extent that each mcinbor muy fool tbat bo ought to bo iutluoncod by the expressed opinion oC tho majority of his associates. So far as the above resolution may be construed to control the protection Democrats at all, it imposes a moral obligation upon them not to move to strike out tho enacting clause of the' Morrison bill, but to tolerate a discussion of the same in the Houho. In consideration of this concession on the part of the Bandall faction tie Carlisle-

Morrison faction does not exact from the minority a pledge to support the Morrison bill. In fact, the intimation

that "a bill be passed for the reduction

of duties and war taxes, though it is not hinted where the votes are to come from, is a tacit admission that there is no expectation of passing tho Morrison bill. The logical conclusion from all this.is, that if any bill be passed which concerns the tariff it will be a deception and a fraud, and will make so infinitesimal a reduction of tho tariff that the protection faction will not consider it worth their while to make a row about it. What a lame and impotent conclusion to a reform movement which started out with an ostentatious display of strength and courage ! But the Bandall faction demanded still more concessions frora the majority without making any on its side. To this end a supplementary resolution was adopted favoring tho repeal of all tobacco taxes and reducing the tax on brandy distilled from fruits (apples, peaches, etc.,) to 10 cents a gallon. This is evidently designed as an entor-ing-wedgo in tho scheme for overturning the whole internal revenue system. The avowed purpose of the protectionists is to abolish the revenue derived from whisky and tobacco, and thus re

duce tho Government's surplus to an extent that will render the reduction of

taxes on the necessaries of life imprac

ticable. Tho representatives of the whisky interest would not consent to the proposed reduction of taxes on tho fruit brandies unless they had assurances that it shall be followed by a similar reduction on whisky. But the entire remission of the tobacco tax and the reduction of the whisky tax to 10

cents a gallon will scarcely wa.rant the

maintenance of tee internal revenue

system of collection, and the next step

will do to aooiisu is altogether. lie

outcome of this movement, unless checked by the Republicans, will be the abolishment of the Whisky and tobacco taxes, which will benefit nobody but the consumers of these stimulants.

in order that bounties may continue to be assessed upon the whole people in all articles of daily and necessary con

sumption tor tne benefit of certain favored classes. Chicago Tribune.

Shall Voters Vote 1 This is not a question of party. It is

a question of lifo or death for the principles of republicanism, of democracy, of liberty on which the Government itself, is founded.

The Copiah investigation 'shows be

yond peradventure that the negroes are not to be allowed to vote in the South unless they vote the Democratic ticket; it shows, also, that no white man is be permitted to exercise his choice if his vote nt any time threatens tho rule of the reigning oligarchy.

lhat this plan of intimidation has

given the minority complete power in ths South is n palpable fact, Tho first stage that of frightening those who

oppose the Domocratio party into re

maining away jrqm tno 110113 bos been

passed; tho next will be to frighten them into voting as tho bourbons direct, and this consummation is near at j hand. .

Formerly tho Southern States had a

representation in Congress baaiou the number of whites and three-fifths of all

other persons meaning, of course, the

slaves, jjfow they have a representation based on the entire population, white and block together. Of course this increases their political power very

decidedly. Representation, in' theory, is what tho word signifies the appearance of ono man in the national Congress and other national bodies as tho represent at ivo of a given number of inhabitants. They cannot nil go, so thoy send a man to speak and vote for them. This arrangement is theoretical only in the Houth. Tho plain truth is that in a

political 'sense the majority of tho voters

or,tue woutu are absolutely without representation. Tho members of Congress returned are the mombera elected bv

tho minority. Tho electoral votes cast for President are the votes which tho minority of the voting population return.

Is this to continue? Yes, for mark what the chief of the

Copiah county bulldozers, Mr. Dodds, soys, echoing tho words of all tho Others of his class :

"So you indomo tbe resolution tlia: ; ma 1

shall bo allowed to organize the iuvir..-.'"

asked Mr. Hoar.

Most emphatically. If you should sn::d

your biggest man -Gen. (Irant down into

aur country to organize no n(oe, ho

would be kllk-d at once. All our trouble last fill 8 anions ibo County Supervisors. We V'cro' 'fvtrmliied to pleflt our men and get rid ft'f tft'c lrMojiehdctitS, we would have taken human lifo if h hiw bctri ncoRssary In ordsr to get rid of them. Yfis, e' woHfd dolt if they bad a majority of the Vote's, lit some oasos I deny tho right of franchise to tho majority, and I belloro in a qalifloatiou to limit tbe suffrage. Wo limit it, anyway, t bMtuVa It is a moral obligation to -st rid of the ludei SndfliifS; even if tboy aro in a majority, and that Oniiiion ithrd by the nod wluto people. That was too XtU3 trur trouble last fall'" Without moralizing or appealing to any sentimental feeling in the business, what- is" likely to be the outcome of it? That it is revolutionary and subversive of the laws and the constitution, all admit. Is it likely that the Republican party, for example, defeated by force at the polls, will submit to Bucl, defeat without a struggle? Is not this sort of business leading straight on to civil etrifo and a fight for the supremacy? "This eountry Cannot endure half slave and half free," said Mr. Lincoln. We may sarely add that neither can it exist with democratic forms in one-half the States and autocratic forms in the other half. It must be all one thing or all tho other. Chicago Daily Xcwu. Tiro Kinds of Crime. The North acknowledges with shame that there is much crime among its people; much of it fierce, bloody, and desperate, and that, in altogether too many instances, the courts are. incompetent to deal with criminals properly. But the crimes in tho Northern States are not of tho claos of thoso murders in the South which are receiving the attention of the United States Senate and are arresting tho serious thought of the whole country, nor are they the outgrowth of like circumstances. The crimes in the North grow out of the natural depravity of human nature; they are committed for the usual motives that prompt crime. The men who commit tho crimes are of the criminal classes; they are arrested, jailed, tried, convicted, and punished" in many cases, although, as we have said, in too fre qnent instances they escape adequate punishment; but they so escape because of the tricks 'of unscrupulous lawyers 9r the senseless technicalities of hair-splitting courts. The press of tho North, however, and the best people of the North are earnest and instant in condemnation of crime, and in rebuke of the- methods whereby, at times, criminals

are enabled to avoid just and swift penalty for their misdeeds. The crimes in the Sonth which aro complained of are crimes without motive other than that of difference in political opinion or action. Tuey tire committed by those who are recognized as of the best classes, the representative men of tho community. Ihe committers of these crimes are not arrested, they are not troubled by the law, they are not tried, they are hot convicted, they are not punished. On the contrary, they are honored, they aro lionized, and, as in the case of the assassin of Matthews, thoy are elected to public office as a testimonial of public regard and as a reward of merit. Tho press of the South does not condemn these crimes. The newspapers, if they do anything, uphold and defend them. Democrats everywhere, in Congress and out, feel by an instinct tbat these crimes and criminals aro for them and of them, and they build a wall of defense about them. Now, these statements are true as to the crimes in both North and South. There is not a single element of similarity between the tno classes of crimes, nor is there any possible likeness in the atti tude the peop e of the two sections maintain toward them. Chicago Inter Ocean. A Woman's Burning Words. I seo by editorial notes . you receive small contributions for the wife of the murdered Matthews, of Copiah County, Mississippi. Will you do me the kindness to accept the inclosed? It is but a mite would it were more. My heart bleeds at the recollection of my own experience in Mississippi At tho close of that dreadful April Sabbath, before me lay, within a space- of a few feet, Johnnie, our dear son, with his loft hand shot off and his young heart shot out; Cornelia, our girl baby, bleeding literally from head to foot,' exhaus ed and with none to bind her wounds ; my husband, truly the imago of his God,

murdered by those oxultmg In cowardice so mean, in infamy so vast, That hell elves in and devils stand aghast

My husband said to me: "My deith

will not go unavenged or be iu vaiu.

The Republican party Is too loyal in every principle of freedom. They of the North will rouse from their lethargy, and make it impossible that such

crimes can be re-enaoted. My death will affect more than thus far livinir I

could do." When I have prayad at the

feet of justice, kneeling into the very dust of entreaty, remembering his

words, I have begged for legal retribution for the sake of the living Republic

ans of the boutli, and I have been

soothingly told, "They dare no more to

do such crime, They waited not tin the blood of my boloved had ceased to voice the Lord's question to Cain till in tho same shameless State they made Henry Gully, tho mardoror of my

daughter, a member of the 1 legislature.

Tho murder ol V anca, and at various

times nnd pines of many poor negroo", have scarcely baen recorded. Now tho bravo Matthews' uneasy sleep iu a bloody grave takes down another committee. No loyal Southerner, whether child, maiden, or of glorious manhood, is protected iu lifo under their own flag.

Were such permitted in other lands the American Congress would bo the iii-at by unanimous vote, to utter protest against "Man's inhumanity to man." Euit,r S. M. Cuisholm. Washington Republican. Beading Men Out ef the Party. A Tin Can once succeeded in getting itself attached, by several frank and ingenious boys, to tho tail of a fino Dog. Tho 1 Jog started for Chicago. Tno Tin Can started, too. They fared along together, not without considerable din comfort and apprehension on tho parti of the head of I he proees .ion. 'J.ho Tin Can. being empty, niado much noise as it rattled over tho rubble, and nt last tho Dog, slightly turning his heal, remarked in a luildly-romonstratiiig voice : "It strikes mo j ou aro a good deal of a nuisance ou an expedition of this sort. Whereupon tho Tin Can roddono.l almost to tho color of tho tomatoes it had formerly contained, nnd retorted with, some heat : "Tho soonor tho break comes the better. I hereby read you out of tho Animal Kingdom!" ! In this apologue tho empty Tin-Can I does not represent tho Hon. HenH Writterson. Ho is ont- of the frank am ingenious beys who tied it oi. -tey 1'ork jS'mii- '

P0ST0FF1CE FIGURES.

Some Carious Fejtnres of the Postal Service.

the report of the Sixth Auditor forth PogtolUcS? rirt!!rtfortbe fiscal year 183 shows tfc at but afteCU : States and two Territories supported their poihet service and furnished revenue for tho GorWrtattrt. Cha States are Maine, New Hampshire, Varatosrt, Mas-sack usotttf, Hbodc Island, Connoctlcxt, New roi-k, JVOW Jersey, I'ennsylVanlo, Delaware, IHchla-an, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minntfdta. One of tbe Territories, singulnrly enough, it Alaska. The other is l.akota. ... Tho following table gives tho receipts, expenditures, and excess of receipt v9r ex

penditures in the States and Territories

above named;

Expend!- Excess of

JlScelpts. tures. receipts. Maine fBOiM $5,9 IU.6U New Hampshire.. 371AM sie&uw KUjes Vcrmon-: 830,79 MTMG7 15,390 alaaaoliuaetts.... 2,09i,C83 l,M8,- l,Ul,l Rhode I -land... . tSll.sw lS.n '.? Connecticut 882,08a M4,IH 38S New Ycrk 8,100,5S 5,3' S,8,W KWjSiS8V 9C0.16S 19,581 249,H Pennsylvania 1.018,738 3,001,147 as7.no Drfawaio-. 103.74S Sl.MS SB.SOl Michigan l,sa8f77o .U.!B 383.801 llllnola 8,31r-i9 S,0sai7T A52,3l Wlsconiiin l,035,tM 79.B ll,SSi Iowa... 1,?7,33 l,37,se8 101.40S Minnesota 876,057 870,969 e.OSl' Alasa. 407 IV W Dakota. 313,1( 291,993 M-H An analysis of tho table shows that the six States yielding tho largest revenue aro Now York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Michigan, and Connecticut. In Ohio, a State with a papulation greater than Illinois at tho last census, ths receipts wore only $-',900,038, against S3.i-84.aa8 in Illinois a difference of nearly tl,0O0,000 in favor or tho latter. The expenditures in tho two States were $3,380,198, against. $2,982,077. Tho result la that ths postal service in Ohio fni.cd to support itself by a deficit of $430,100, whereas Illinois yielded a profit to the Governtneot.of SUM,319. It is not surprising -that New York, with its overflowing population and ha diversified industrial pursuits, should add a handso-ne Increase to tbe rovenuo of the Postontee Department; but who would expect Alaska, instinctively associated in our mlflds with all that is bleak, barren, uninhabitable, to furnish a surplus of receipts over expenditure's? This she did to tho amount of $2 sat increase relatively as great as tbat of the Empire State. Tbe postal Eorvico in tho Southern States has been a dead loss from tho creation of tho Government. Not a dollar of revenue has ever been received from

a stu-e sonth of Mason and Dixon's

line, tbouirb tho following table, covorlng a

perlcd of Sve years, shows a gradual lessen

ing of tn.s orilcit tnat loads tne postoinoe orfioin s to orodiot that, a few years honoe.

when tbe country shall become more thickly

Bottled, it will, as a section, ue seir-support-

lng: .

1879,... 1880.... 1881.... 1883....

1883.

Receipt. ,fS,331,71l . 6,066,308 . 8,836,308 . 7,676,34

Expenditures t7,964,3fit 9,039,819 10,183,453 9.791,03

10,4S47a

Exoesa'of.

expenditures.

2,633,2M

1.993.M4 3,327,14 2,112,708 2,02S,M8

it will be seen that the excess of expendi

tures over receipts tn the South reached its

highest point In 1881 sa,az 1,14. lira years

later it; had fallen to $3,0!3,283, a practical increase or $1,101.003. OS A WELL-FOUGHT FIELD.

Anniversary Observance of Grand Ann

Veterans of the Battle or Sniloh. IShiloh (Tenn.) Telegram.)

The steamers John Gilbert and W. F. NeeLit left this point on the 8th Inst, for Pitts

burg Landing, having about 400 excursion

late on board, mostly members of the Grand Army of tho Republic from Illinois,' Indiana, and Iowa. When tho excursionists landed a oolum i was formed, and the party marched to tho national cemetery, where tho band played a dead march. The men stood with moovered heads, many with tears 'running down their cheeks 'as they

looked around and saw the melancholy

array of marble slabs which marked the

graven of dead comrades, -ine column men marched to the platform erected for the

speak rs at the western end or tne oemetery. Prominent among those present were Sens. M. U. VI. Wallace, D. C. Smith, T. L. Dlokey, Cols. J. L. Godiroy, W. T. Shays, Maj. B. Bingham, Capts. 8. 8. Garrett, H. B. Hlnkle, T. D. I'atteraon. P. M. Kvto. 8. L. Ensengo.

Goorini C. Jontorlea, T. J. Bryant, H. 8.

Cli ck, David Jones, Judson McCoy, Fred A. Smith, Charles VanGorden, A. H. Vershey, D. C. Andress, W.T.Hussell, andC P.Searle. All the above-named took part la the battlo

of Shlloh as Federal officers. The Bev. Thomas Cotton, a local preacher, explained that tho small assemblage was duo to the fact that many people had been scared away In consequence

of a smau-DOX . scare, ana uapt. a.

It Hlnklo, of Savannah, Tenn., a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, heartily deplored that there ware no representative Tcnneasoans from tho Confederate army to

wclcotie the visitors. The Hon. T. D. Smith.

of Illinois, was the orator of tho day, and de

livered a stirring speech eutogustle or tne

dead of both armies, lien. x. iylo uickoy, Judge of the Supreme Court of Illinois, fol

lowed la an eloquent address, giving some

interefitlng personal experienoesoi tne Battle of Sh loh. The audience had by this time been considerably Increased by country people, and all Joined in the singing of several hymns. Tho entire day was spent In visiting points of interest on the Hold, and at S o'clock

the boats left on their return trip.

ASKINdt FOB LOWER POSTAGE. Two Chicago Xditors Make Argument la Favor of Bedneed Ifowapaper Bates. Washington Dispatch. Joseph MediU, of tho Chicago Tribune, Argued before- the Senate Postofnce Com

mittee lax favor of reducing tho present

postaga sates on newspapers. He claimed that tho law laid an oppressive tax on publishers, and those who were not making money were oompellod to borrow money to pay the postage In advance. At the present rate she postage per year on one copy of a paper the sue or the New York Herald or Chicago Tribune was from $1 to $1.80 per year. In many ease such postage ratcf represent 5(1 the ontlre profit of tbe paper. The press, Mr. MediU said, did not think ft fanthat ttiey should be compelled to bear the burden of the present rate. At present express companies were doing tho best of the business, but it the rate was reduood to $1 per ion pounds nearly all newspapers wonld be carried in the mails. He was satisfied that anything that Increased tho circulation of papers multiplied tho lotter postage. Ho thought newspaper publishers, having borne a heavy burdon for ten years, were entitled to somo relief. The result of tho reduction would be auah an Increase in the number of papers sent as would give the Fostot'lce Department a larger revenue than ever. Mr. Hosing, of (the Chicago StoatsZeifmiii, declarod that ho had found it to be a fact tt at too people who did not road the pa pore made biit littlo uso of tbo malls. If tho puce of postage should be reduced It . would materially help small papers now barely able to struggle along.

Mfaj HUl'S Strange Graveyard Char; - rSan Francisco Telegram. In tiw Sharon divorofr case Geo. Dudley Gillan'-, employed In tho Masonic Cemetery, testified to Miss Hill having placed a package of Sharon's undergarments in a newly mad grave In the spring of Hill, aocompanijd by Miss Braokett, called at tho comotory. The former said she had

just bed hor fortune told, and in obedienoe

to commands wanted to piace tno package in a newly mado grave. Sho said this package coutaiiiod flowers and rose loaves. W itness, who vas personally acquainted with Miss Brackott, granted the request. Miss Hill

wont down a ladder into tho grave and placed tho package undor a eottln shell. She insisted upon v.-li noss accept ing a silver dollar, saying

ii ne noma not iuko it tno cnarm wouia not

work. Witness said he was present when the

pookaf-e was exhumed; it was tho same that had bcor. put there by Miss Hill. The cross-

examination failed to disturb his testimony.

A Man's Hair and Whiskers Torn White. James Campion, an old resident of Roches

ter, Minn., is the subject of a most curious phyololoiloal phenomenon. His hair and beard, which have always been so black as to givo him the sobriquet of "Blaok Jim," eud. denly commenced to turn gray, and in lee

than ono week have become white as the

driven snow. Campion Is 4t years old, and

was in perfect health at the time. He can assign no reason tor tfea strange occurrence.

, INDIANA SJATE NEWS. Four street peddler's were arreated a Indianapolis recently "for selling goods oath streets by public outcry." ... - Ten Indiana, Bloom Ington ana Weatorw system, Ohio Southern exeeptad. rneV In February $rlZ,881,'an increas over tlao ocV" responding- month of 1888 of $8,91. ' '- Son 1,500 people participated la taeCax drive at Forest HU1 one day hut ;w, Seven foxes were caught, but a wVeaeape4 through a part of the lino torsned maatly try ladies. '" ' CoMHODona Wood, who had eervW two years of a fifteen-year aohtenoe In the Penitentiary for killing Charles acinar, ' at Huntertown, was granted a.aow, trl4 acquitted. . ,. GBonoB Stakb entered the Cotriarmo at Wabash, intent upon puinmoliag the editor, Mr. Lee Una, but the latter gintlemaa belabored the interloper 'with a chatf i-an fled la disorder. ' ' Tire evidence of coal deposit In vaifow part of this county will fflmly lead at? tav vestigatton of the matter. A anuM "or money spent in Investigating might prove av good investments Steuben Ocmntv Jouraot ' ..... ' af

Coi J. H. woodasd, wweiy Known m aw

West as "Jayfaawker," tho Indiana eorra-

spondent of the Cincinnati Bnouwtr, to at tt Gtlsey House, having come East to take tho

measure of political sentiment tor ni papa

Dew-os Dowses, on of the bandits who, in collusion with Bert Moatlk.' thf.na t. robbed tho car of the Pacino Express Coaspany, ou the Eel Elver division Of . Wabash line, near Koannjaat 8entemrjer,-hta been sentenced to nva year in the pataltaB tlary. ' I-- . ,

The Jury in the noted disage suit of aary B. Eelhl vs. The Alaulna Turnpike Company. '

for damages on account or a fraotnre e tho skull, caused by the horse She was drlvtobeooming' frightened at a aaw-log along tho road, and upturning tbe boggy, returned ay verdict for tbe defendant. The case was triad

at tae last term oi oonxxlna u jaiy to agree. F. B. Thomas, Jacob Delhi, and a drummer

were sitting In the oSce of the Delhi Hotel' at Bedford, and they agreed to play a JokvMt ' Samuel Jacobs, a peddler who was bblrratnhr 1 at the house, ry giving him (Crotoa fl -eggs. This was don the next morriragX Jacobs was taken ill, and for several day lingered between life and death. He has commenced suit against F, & Thomas an Jacob Delhi for $5,090TBsHon. Henry C. Lord, for many year President of tbe Indianapolis, Cincinnati U -Lafayette Railroad, and also prominontjy identified with other public interest. dtadC cancer of the throat at bis residence at Riverside, near Clnolnnatl. Mr. Lord was the aoo of Dr. Nathan Lord, of Amherst, and a fraaf oat of Dartmouth College In the Iat of, 1818, His wife, the daughter of the Ho. Nathaniel Wright, and three ohlldreo surviv . bim. ' Tax Presbytery of Indunapolto, at Its las meeting, ofEotally dissolved tho pastoral reationship between Rev. Myron W. Beed and the First Presbyterian Church of that otsy. Mr. Reed, some weeks since, aanonnced hie resignation of the pastorate be has Oiled wish distinguished acceptance for seven yearsHe has aoooptod a call from Denver, Cohv The presbytery bade, him todipeed. hi-his new field of labor, and paid a handsome compliment to hi broad and uniform charity toward all alsanna, and hi manly atasidtMt the welfare of the common peupisv 's the report of tbe Commlttoorr of AtP riculturo. Just issued, it is stated that corn on hand in Indiana on March -1 was 88,888,000 bushels, which Is 80 par sent, ef the crop In the State last year, that leaalao d for country consumption amounted to T9,4,0 bushel, or 80 per cent, of the entire orop. Eight percent!, or tbe crop remains ta.th field. Indiana raised a snrprns last year f 8,888,008 bushels, against Sf,tt,St8 for th

year before. Indiana exceeded th

crop of Ohio tat 18t by lLOCO.OOO 1

fell short of Illinois 49,000, 900 1888 her surplus was 18,000,800

of Ohio, and was 88,000,08 lewtkaa UlasoU. Tan Board of Director of th IadSaaa University met at Inatanapolis but Week open bids for the. two new cones boildtsga

to be located on the new oaapn at l

ington to take th place of tbe oise 1

'last year. Th bid of H. J. Nichols Sea for $69,962 was accepted. Thtwo Iwadhaf are to be finished by December, 188. Each. I fire-pro if building, two stories, . with basement of brick with stone tnlsk.- the larger building, 108x88 feet, is for tbe oVsparsment of chemistry and natural phUoeophy; the other for tho natural Mstory Jmimut. The buildings will be topoatng reappearance, and fitted with evwy uunvntej a8id divided into apartment suitable to (he purpose designed. XMt June the bDahjr of thtsAtjj tattoo, wa struck "by Ughtan4nd eatlrelr destroyed. Tho loss was $800,000, mcludlnr contents. According to th contract work hi to begin at on and be oomphMed Dee, U. JambTS. BAfflAM, of Pntriam County, Oo to Congress with a somewhat unusual claim. Itgrowsootor the late waiy ths

be is SS year old, and wo a private in Com

pany H, Forty-third Indiana Vojonaeet, oad was honorably discharged at the o)oe of th

trouble. In 1885 he was on duty at Camp Morton, near InfoanapollB. HsvwaaV jprbna, and, aswscutomnry,'wwa reWvr'r. nishod him by tho Government. H ,wa at

one Urn kepton guard for 1

He fell asleep, eon-

apprehend the' thief, although :

strcu no us effort to do ae tole tit Yevolvor

from him. The price of th weapon $A

was oharged to him and deducted ffoat ,hf

pay. He taints inat onarge inequuaoie and unluat. and ask the Government to refund

t to him, with interest since May, lies,. Hp

wears to tne merits or we ciaim, ana it m been presented in the Hon by Bcpt outer tlv Mataon, and referred to the Commute

on Claims. TTaMr pmt

Thb courtroom at Ivtfajrette was eioisdo

to hear the deolskm of the Hon. D. !p. Vmton on the motion for a new trial in the Keye

murder cos. Th Judge delivered a vary

elaborate decision, ruling upon th sever!

reasons sot up, summing up that undor ail

the circumstances he did not feet justified hi sotting aslile the verdict of the Jury. Key

was then asked if he bad any reason to offer

why sentence should not be prouounoed npoa him. Keye hesitated a moment, and then, in an almost inaudUMo tone, said ho had not. The Judge then sentenced him to th Penitm. tlary for life. His counsel moved an rret in Judgment, and prayed an appeal to th

Supremo Court, which was granted. Mid

ninety days given kt which to perfect an appeal. Keye is aged M yoar. He wa oharged with seducing a daughter of Sinut Stewart, of Carroll County. The father brought proceeding against him, and Keye married the girl but never recognized her a his wife, nor would be live with her. July , 18S8, Stewart aatd to Keys he most live with the girt, leave th county, or be barted. Keye went off, got a revolver, and earn back accompanied by his father. Ib quarrel was renewed and Key shot Sfwartdeod.