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AMUSEMENTS TIITS EVENING. GRAND OPERA-HOUSE—Mr. and Mrs. McKee Rankin in “Gabriel Conroy.” THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW & SON. For Rates of Subscription, etc., see Sixth Page. MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1884. WITH EXTRA SHEET. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange iu Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucines. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Brentano’s, 1,0X5 Pennsylvania Avenue. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. C. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine Street. LOPINVn.T.E —C. T. Hearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. Everybody is willing to admit, now, that Cincinnati is the Paris of America, and no one envies her the title. The coming dramatic festival at Cincinnati will be tame in comparison with the impromtu affair just enacted in that city. Cincinnati may be a musical center, but probably few ears were attuned to the music of the “sweet bells jangled" on Friday and Saturday nights. Mr. W. A. A. Carsey, a prominent labor reformer, says that the Widow Butler will be willing to accept a presidential nomination from whatever party will give it to him. Well, who said he wouldn’t? Professor Wiggins says the corn crop of the United States will be a failure this year. If Wiggins isn’t careful people will suspect him of being in the employ of Chicago speculator's, and will lose confidence in his prophecies. The will of Mr. H. B. Hurlbut, the recently deceased millionaire of Cleveland, gives his art collection, valued at $200,000, to that city. Few millionaires die in Indianapolis, and none ever resigns any of his wealth in favor of the town. The advertiser was lucky who got a place in the Saturday issue of the Indianapolis Journal. We would be more than willing to place that issue of the Journal against any paperpublished anywhere in the United States, and invite competition as to its qualities as a newspaper. __ Mr. Editor Henry Watterson is en route home from Washington. While kicking Up a great deal of fuss over the tariff, the Count's real business at the capital was understood to be in the interests of the whisky bill. It has been a sad session for the “star-eyed goddess,” take it by and large, thus far.

Tiie Duke of Argyll's attack on Mr. Henry George’s system ot political economy, as set forth in his several works, has excited considerable interest in England. When the noble lord attacks Mr. George’s morality there are people who point to some instances in the noble Duke’s family, and cry, “A paradox,” “A paradox!” It is well understood that the occupation of a butcher tends to dull and brutalize his sensibilities. As the leading occupations of Cincinnati, aside from music and the drama, are those of slaughtering and pork packing, the forty-two original murders may thus he accounted for, as well as the later butchering of citizens by each other. The dispatch from Koine to the effect that “Bishop Read, of Loando,” had been transferred to Philadelphia, is not understood by Catholics there. They do not know of any such prelate or any such diocese, and conclude there must be a mistake. Some thought it possible that Archbishop Ryan, of St. Louis, is intended, or, possibly, Bishop Ryan, •f Buffalo. A STUDENT in the art department of the Pennsylvania University died from overwork, last week, just after he had been elected captain of the freshman ipot-ball team, and was fairly in the way of becoming stroke-oar in the freshman crew This devotion to art and the higher education of man is rapidly thinning the ranks of our intellectual young men everywhere. Mn. Thomas C. Campbell, the “able criminal lawyer,” writes a card to the Cincinnati papera in which he says that, were he called upon to try another murder case, under the same circumstances he would do to-mor-row precisely as he did in the Berner case. We should advise Mr. Campbell not to feel called upon, just at present, to do so. His noblest station is retreat, at least for a time. “The fight between J. C. S. Harrison and Harry Adams for the honorable position on the Chicago delegation waxes warmer and warmer every day. It is said that delegates in the ‘Raccoon precincts’ are already selling at $lO a piece, and the bulls appear to have control of the market.” This choice item we find in the Sentinel, which just now is exhibiting much anxiety respecting the vote of colored citizens, whom it here designates as “raccoons.” The utterly inadequate and absurd manner in which our contemporaries treated the terrible Cincinnati riot compelled the Journal, in the interests of the citizens of Indianapolis, to issue mu extra edition yesterday morning, the

main portions of which are given in the extra sheet accompanying this issue. It was not until after 12 o’clock Saturday midnight that the member of our editorial staff who had been sent to Cincinnati during the day to watch the course of events, received the announcement that the Sunday edition would be printed, and it was not until after that hour that the Journal force got to work in the office. But we printed by far the most complete, graphic and reliable account of the affair that appeared in any paper, not even excluding the Cincinnati papers themselves. A comparison with them, or with any other paper of like date, will show the fact. The receiving clerk of the Cincinnati telegraph office says that the Journal has taken more special telegraphic matter about the riots than any othef paper in the United States. The fearful mob spirit still prevails in Cincinnati. Despite the enormous sacrifice of life on Saturday night, which surely should have glutted it, the demon seems not yet sated, but renewed its work yesterday afternoon and night, as related iu our special and regular dispatches. Not less than four or five thousand people swarmed on the streets in the neighborhood of the jail all through the day, and although the mayor had tardily ordered the saloons closed, and requested all good citizens to keep within doors after 7 o’clock p. m., men kept getting drunker and drunker, and the crowds of people became larger and larger. A public meeting was held last night, but took no steps other than to call for another assemblage of citizens this morning. A self-constituted committee have ordered Mr. Tom C. Campbell, the “able criminal lawyer” who defended Berner, to leave the city within twelve hours, or suffer the consequences. Few less than one hundred people, from first to last, have been killed, and a still larger number wounded. The destruction of the court-house, with a portion of the public records, and its valuable law library, is a loss the seriousness of which cannot be easily estimated. Certainly enough has been sacrificed. There should not only be vigor enough in the authorities of the city and State, but there should he salutary force enough in the people of Cincinnati, who respect law and order and are interested in public peace, to at once put a stop to the terrible scenes that have recalled the Paris commune.

THE CINCINNATI RIOTS. Since the draft riots in New York city and the railroad riots in Pittsburg the country has seen no such stubborn manifestation of the mob spirit as that developed in Cincinnati, and which for two days has burdened the telegraph with its awful story of destruction of life and property. The very full and complete special and regular reports given by the Journal yesterday, covered the narrative of the trouble from the indignation meeting at Music Hall to the attack upon the jail, the escape of Berner from the officers of the law, and up to an early hour in the morning, when it was believed that the worst was over, and that daylight and reflection would cool passion and still the rage of the surging thousands of men who proved themselves little better than wild animals. But the hope was doomed to disappointment. Scarcely had nightfall set in last night before judgment was again given to the winds, and a mob larger even than that of Friday night assembled, the Court-house was fired and destroyed, and how many more people killed and wounded cannot he readily told. The mob spirit can neither be palliated nor defended. It is simply horrible, and can, of itself, work nothing but disaster. There is nothing healthful in it. There is no corrective, but rather an aggravation, of the very evils against which it is a protest. Such a mob as that in Cincinnati is not the counterpart of that orderly, quiet, efficient, executive vigilance committee which took the place of inadequate and inefficient law in San Francisco and succeeded in bringing order out of social chaos, and paved the way for the administration of public and recognized statutes. The Cincinnati mob is simply unreasoning fury, without head or heart; a wild animal, liable, when heated and with the taste of blood in its mouth, to glut its appetite on friend as well as on foe. The mob is not the legitimate outgrowth of the orderly, earnest meeting in favor of law and order which met to deplore the prostration of law. and to take measures by which the administration of justice could be energized. In truth, the mob, by its work, has retarded what the meeting of citizens desired to advance. But while all this is true, it is not to be forgotten that but for the existence of facts which called for and compelled the uprising of the people in indignation, there would have been no mob, no dead men and women, no burned court-house, no rifled stores. It is not a pleasant thing to contemplate a mob in possession of a city or town. It is not pleasant to read of a jail sacked, and a criminal taken from the hands of the law and hanged without judge or jury. It is not pleasant, either, for people to know that there are forty-one murderers in their jail, representing forty-one capital crimes of more or less heinousness, and that the history of legal trials causes them to know that of these forty-one possibly not a half-dozen will receive anything like adequate punishment. It is not pleasant for people to see, day by day, the most notorious and blood-thirsty scoundrels

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drop from the paralytic hand of the law, either back into society entirely acquit, or suffer only a paltry and fheager penalty, ready soon to resume their trades. It is the contemplation of these things that stirs the blood, and causes the very stones to rise in a suddeu flood of mutiny, under the excitement and stimulus of such scenes as immediately preceded the Cincinnati pandemonium. People have ordained law and constituted courts, willingly paying the expense out of the general treasury, to the end that society may be protected, and that life and property may- be safe. If they see law palsied by the faults or crimes of its ministers; if they see it perverted; if they see the courts turned into shambles, where men may defeat justice either by open corruption or cunning chicane, they are liable to take the law into their own hands, and in the doing of that there is danger, especially in large cities, of just that which has come upon Cincinnati so direfully. There is but one remedy for all this, and that is the uniform, unswerving, equal and exact enforcement of the law. The very first thing is for the ministers of the law to obey it themselves; for men who have an oath upon their consciences to uphold and execute the law, to discharge their duty without fear or favor, and not to wink at any sort of violence, even iu the smallest matters. The dyke society has built up against the sea of vice cannot be relied upon if little trickling streams are permitted to percolate through it, the excuse being they are too little to be dangerous. There must be a correct, salutary, instant and constant public opinion that will uphold law, and hold officers and people alike to a proper regard for observance of it. In the presence of such a public opinion, just, true, equitable, courts, lawyers, jurors—all the agents for the administration of law—will be quickened and purified. There is no other lesson in the Cincinnati riots than that “righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.” No people can laugh at crime, nor mock at apparently venial sins. He who offends in one thing offends against all. If the nation would stand it must stand for and upon righteousness, the right in little as in big things. Integrity does not mean honesty in a thousand-dollar transaction alone; it means honesty in the one dollar and the one cent matters. We shall be wise if we heed the lesson.

POLITICAL NEWS. The Eleventh congressional district of Texas contains eighty-one counties. The total number of votes in the Republican national convention will be 820; necessary to a choice, 411. The Logansport Chronicle announces the name of Rev. W. D. Owen as a candidate for Congress, Liberty Herald: Drop all side issues and go to work for a grand Republican triumph next November. The lowa House of Representatives has voted down an amendment to the constitution granting female suffrage. The first duty of all good citizens is to attend the primary meetings of his political party, and make politics pure by putting honest men in charge of “the machine.” Mr. E. H. Staley, editor of the Frankfort Crescent, has been nominated by the Democracy of Clinton county for Representative in the Legislature. Staley is as good a man as a Democrat can be. Chicago Inter Ocean: Senator Harrison declines peremptorily to be considered as a candidate for either position on the presidential ticket. But the fact remains that he would honor either end of it. Jayhavker: Mr. Holman told me that he is not a candidate for Pfesidcnt, Vice-president or Governor of Indiana: but that he is a candidate for Congress, and that ho reads the Enquirer for the news. The New York Graphic says: “The fairest of the dark horses in the Republican Derby are ex Governor Fairchild, of Wisconsin, Benjamin Harrison, of Indiana, and Genei’al Hawley, of Connecticut. Munoie News: It is stated that Hon. John Overmyer will not serve longer as chairman of the State central committee. We respectfully suggest Hon. George W. Steele to the position. He would make a splendid chairman. The Fowler Era says: “Major Calkins is gaining strength every day as a gubernatorial candidate. His candidacy is the exemplification of honesty, frankness and manliness. However, as be'tween Calkins and Dudley no mistake can be made, as either will receive the hearty and earnest support of the best element in the State.” St. Louis Globe Democrat: No man since Lincoln has held a warmer place in the affections of the people of Illinois than plain, sincere, eloquent old “Dick” Oglesby; and his assured unanimous nomination by the Republican convention leaves no room for doubt as to what the State will do in the next election. Oglesby and a big Republican majority always go together in Illinois. Columbus Republican: The Valparaiso Messenger, the Plymouth Democrat, the Goshen Democrat and the Michigan City Dispatch are dissatisfied, and show signs of following in the footsteps of the Wabash Courier into the Republican ranks. It is not strange that sensible men and papers grow discouraged and disgusted at the shilly-shallying, time serving course of the party and want to leave it forever. Prof. Amzi Atwater is urged by the Bloomington Telephone as a proper man for one of the delegates to Chicago from the Fifth congressional district. Prof. Atwater is a life-long Republican, a gentleman honored in every rela tion of life, and. as the Telephone says, would “represent the great mass of intelligent indc pendent voters who do not make their living by politics,” the voters who are going to elect the President. Ex-Senator Conklino wrote as follows to the editor of the Pittsburg (Penn. J Commercial, under date of the 22d inst.: “Thanking you for your note and kindness. I am compelled to say as Ido in answer to all communications proposing word or act in politics, that I am wholly out of political movements and affaire, and wholly absorbed in professional work, which taxes all my energies. Apart from preference, it is impossible for me to participate in or be drawn into discussion at tins time.” Elkhart Journal: In a private letter to a friend, some time ago, in reply to the question whether he were a candidate, Major Calkins says: “I am a candidate for Governor, not in the senso of setting up committees, or beating about the border to get delegates to vote for me; but, 1 trust, in the higher and better sense. I simply say lam a candidate; then let the delegates when assembled do for the best, and go for the best man. If they decide for me, well and good, if fur another, my voice will be beard for him wherever I can get au audience.”

NATIONAL CAPITAL TOPICS. The Democracy Preaching Communism in Order to Hold the Labor Vote. Commissioner Dudley Denies Having Made Any Agreement Regarding His Candidacy for Governor. Outline ol' the Work To Be Taken Up in the Two Houses This Week. The River and Harbor Bill Not To Be Reported Until the Latter Part of April —The Pension Bills—Notes. PREACHING COMMUNISM, The Desperate Democrats Seeking to Win Back the Laboring Men and Mechanics. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, March 30.—“A counter-irritant is being applied by the Democrats on the wage issue,” observed a Republican member to-day. “The Democrats, realizing that the laborers and mechanics of the ceuutry are largely leaving their party, are working now to win them back.” “l<y what tactics?” “They promise a complete abolition of the customs, and say tho government shall be maintained by direct taxation. I have just had a talk with a labor agitator on the subject. He has been enlisted. This is his argument: ‘Under the existing condition of affairs I have to pay just as much toward maintaining the government as does William H. Vanderbilt, who is worth hundreds of millions, while lam as destitute as a last year s bird's nest. Now, if we abolish the customs and run the government by direct taxation I will pay nothing, while Vanderbilt will pay thousands. That’s the difference. Then my living will cost less and his will cost more. I will not be taxed because I'm poor, but he will have to pay for being rich. This thing of running the government on resources derived from what we individually consume is all bosh. It’s unjust and the workingmen will see it some day.’ “I asked this labor agitator where he got his figures, his calculations trom, and he replied indirectly, from free-trade statistics, I wanted to know,” continued this member, “if he did not think that he would lose more from his wages by free trade than he would save by the reduction in prices of goods now taxed by import dues. The fellow looked perplexed a moment, then replied: ‘I haven’t taken time to calculate that, nor do I care. lam not afraid of my wages being reduced. We are not paid any more than we force out of our employers, anyway. It is merely a struggle between capital and labor. Capital and labor have their hands clutched one upon the other’s throat. Labor demands $2 a day, and capital closes its grip and replies that it’ll bed and if it will pay but 75 cents. So it is. lam willing to risk it.’ “Well, I suspected something. This was a new argument to me. I inquired: ‘What kind of doctrine is this!’ ‘Some people call it communism,’ replied the agitator.” This is the secret of the whole matter. The Democratic party, seeing itself cornered in the tariff and labor issues, and having wound a web about it until it is ready to topple and fall out of sight, has called to its aid the fiery and bloodstained hand of communism. It will not be many days until even the few who have been caught into the snare will see their doom and flee from it. The laboring men and mechanics are too honest and too shrewd to be caught with a hook baited with communism.

COLONEL DUDLEY INTERVIEWED. He Does Not Regard His Candidacy as Injurious to Mr, Noble's Interests. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, March 30. —A Washington paper lias an interview to day with Colonel Dudley on the Richmond Palladium controversy. Colonel Dudley is quoted as denying having any special conversation with Mr. Noble in which he expressed what is attributed to him regarding his own candidacy for the gubernatorial nomination. From newspapers he had learned, and had also been otherwise informed, that Noble was an aspirant for the nomination for Auditor of State. Iu fact he was au active candidate for the nomination before he had any conversation with him relative to the subject of his own candidacy. Col. Dudley also denied that he had been guilty of bad faith in that he had withdrawn in favor of Noble, and had afterwards reappeared to his detriment. He recognized the right of any man to be a candidate. In regard to his own nomination he said that he will not solicit the support of a single delegate. If his nomiua tion comes as a voluntary and unsought selection of the convention, he will accept it, and will do his best to make a vigorous and effective campaign. “From your statement I judge that you do not think your own nomination will prevent that of Mr. Noble?” was asked. “No. I don't see how his candidacy depends on mine,” he replied. “Then you think there is no cause for dissension?” ‘ ‘None whatever.” he replied. ‘ ‘lt is really not a matter of any public importance; simply a little affair in Wayne county. There is no reason why there should be any hard feeling, so far as I can see.” Colonel Dudley does not believe that candidates are to be chosen upon geographical lines, but that if the Republican State convention deems Noble a worthy man, it will give him his coveted nomination, even though he (Dudley), also from Wayne county, should head the ticket. PRISONERS OF WAR. Two Bills ill Which Occupants of Rebel Prison-Pens Are Interested. Special to tlie Indianapolis Journal. Washington, March 30.—A question of con siderable interest to soldiers of the late war has for several days been under discussion in the House committee on invalid pensions. For the past ten years each succeeding Congress lias been importuned to enact legislation granting pensions to all of those soldiers who were confined, during the unpleasantness, in the rebel prisons—Libby. Audersonville, etc. Each year Congress has adjourned without reaching a conclusion upon the subject. This winter, however, two bills of like import wore introduced and referred, one to the committee above spoken of, and the other to the committee on payment of pensions, bounty and back pay. The former committee will make a favorable report to the House. It is not yet. known what action the other will take. In speaking of this subject, to-day, Representative Groenleaf, of New York, said: “I don't

think a hill pensioning every soldier, simply on the ground that he was confined for two months in a rebel prison, will be favorably reported, or that such a bill could pass the House. Out- committee on payment of pensions, bounty and back-pay, has before it and will doubtless be ready to report shortly, a bill which every soldier who has sought a pension, will appreciate. It seeks to establish a law that any man who enlisted, was examined, accepted and served in the army for three months or more during the war, shall be considered as ablobodied when he entered the service, and shall not be required to prove liis physical condition to have been good before his enlistment before he can receive the benefits of the pension laws. It is much less difficult for a man to prove that he was disabled in the service than it is to prove that he was physically sound when he entered the army, and many worthy soldiers are kept from receiving pensions to which they were justly entitled through wounds received or disease contracted in the army, simply because they are unable to get anyone to certify, at this late date, that they were perfectly sound, physically, upwards of twenty years ago.” These two bills are perhaps as important to the soldiers of the late war as any that are now before Congress. There seems to be a disposition upon the part of the lower House, at least, to favor the soldier element, and it is more than likely that one or both of the bills referred to will receive favorable action before the session comes to a close. THE RIVEK AND HARBOR BILL. It Will Not Be Reported to tlie House Before tlio Latter Part of April. Special to the Imlianapolie Journal. Washington, March 29.—Usually at this stage of sessions of Congress the river and harbor bill lias been reported to the House, and frequently it has been in the Senate. At this session it is a vast subject, and requires a great deal of debate. It sometimes takes up months in being perfected in the House and Senate after it comes from the committees. It always requires weeks of time. Every little river that can float a canal boat, and every miniature stream that is navigated, wants money to improve navigation and establish harbors. This discussion is mostly done on the floor of the House and Senate. The committee work is merely a matter of estimation. It is important, therefore, that the bill emerge from the House committee early in the session. To-day your correspondent inquired at the House committee on livers and harbors how the bill was progressing. “It cannot he reported before the latter part of April,” replied the clerk. “Before the latter part of April!" I echoed, in amazement. “Yes, sir. You see the Hennepin canal has been thrown to this committee, and it is an elephantine subject. Then we have been requested to hold it back, that delegations may be heard on this and that river and this and that harbor. It may be in May when the hill is reported,'’ continued the obliging clerk. It will be remembered that the river and harbor bill is the great political omnibus which is intended to carry or defeat many congressional districts, and is the source of distributing many millions"“wf money from the Treasury. This committee is merely holding back the bill for returns from the out districts. It is ascertaining where help is needed, that its flagrant expenditures may be placed where they will do the most good. If the bill can be made to serve a purpose political the majority of the committee would not object to holding it back until midsummer.

JASON BROWN’S RECORD. It Is Being Revived Against Him in His Struggle for the Congressional Nomination. Special to tlio Indianapolis Journal. Washington, March 30.—“ Jason Brown is having his political record pulled on him in his race for Congress in the Third district.” observed a gentleman to-day who is fresh from Indiana. The Journal correspondent inquired what there was in Brown's record objectionable to Democrats. “Why, Brown is a political renegade,” replied lie. “The Democrats of to day are a little particular about records. In 1870 Brown was elected to the State Senate from Jackson and Brown counties as a Democrat. In 1872 he suported Grant and the Republican State ticket and opposed Greeley and the Democratic State ticket. He voted at the called session of the Legislature in 1872 with the Republicans. He voted for Oliver P. Morton for United States senator, and opposed the Democratic candidate, James D. Williams, and he acted with the Republicans during the special and regular sessions of the Legislature in 1873. I believe it was in that year that he was appointed to the secretaryship of Wyoming Territory, serving about, a couple of years. I do not remember distinctly, but believe he returned to the Democratic party about 1876-8, and soon was nominated and elected as a Democrat to the State Senate from Jennings and Jackson counties.” ‘ ‘They have drawn this record on him for the race to Congress?. “Yes, sir; and I think that that alone is suffiient to defeat him. As I said before, we are looking up records at this late day.” CONFERENCE OF STATESMEN. The Democratic Situation Discussed by McDonald, Randall, et al. Washington, March 29.—The following Washington special appears in the Baltimore Sun to-day: Among the several groups on the Democratic side of the Moor of the House of Representatives to-day.all engaged in discussing the Democratic situation, was one that attracted particular observation. It included no less than four presidential candidates—ex-Speakor Randall, ex-Senator McDonald. Justice Field, of the Supreme Bench, and the three-headed watch-dog of the Treasury, Representative Holman. Sandwiched between these four was the sturdy and unyielding protectionist ex-Senator Eaton, and the fiery Rupert of the free-traders. Heury Watterson. It was universally admitted that if these six could come together on the issues which are now dividing the Democracy in the House, there would be no difficulty about getting all the rest of the party to stamlon the same platform. Mr. Randall and Mr. Watterson were the principal speakers in the conversation that was carried on. although most of the others did more or less talking. Mr. Watterson was especially animated, and it was rumored that he was as pronounced as possible in the opinion and in the hope that the Democratic party would be defeated in the’next presidential election if it did not abandon the policy of cowardice and inaction which the protection wing of the Democratic party wish to adhere to. Mr. Randall thought, on the other hand, that the Watterson policy would bring certain defeat. Mr. McDonald said nothing, and Mr. Holman, true to his instincts, objected to everything that was said. The Republicans derived much satisfaction and amusement from watching the conference in progress. The personal relations of Mr. Watterson and Mr. Randall are as pleasant and kind ascan be imagined. AN INTERESTING CASE. Grounds on Which an Ex-Army Officer Expects a Favorable Decision. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, March 30.—There is a case upon the calendar of the Supreme Court of this District which will probably come up next week, that has excited a great deal of interest in army

circles. It is the case of First Lieutenant Street, late of the United States cavalry, against the United States, and the decision hinges upon a very fine point. In 1870 Congress passed an act which provided that one year from tho date of the passage of said act the Secretary of War should promulgate an order reducing the number of army officers something like one hundred. It happened that the day one year from the passage of the act fell upon Sunday, and the Secretary of War in consequence issued the retiring order the following day. Among the officers thus dropped was Lieutenant street, who now claims that the order was illegally issued and that he and his brother officers were not dropped according to law, but are still officers of the army. Some of the best lawyers here think that Street has a good case and that he will win. If, on the contrary, the court shall decide against him, the question will he carried to the Supreme Court of the United States. The decision i? awaited with great interest, not only by the seventy or more officers directly interested, but by every officer now in the army, for. if it is decided against the United States, all of those dropped in 1871 will be restored to the rank to which they would now be entitled had they been continued in service without interruption. THE WEEK IN CONGRESS. Measures to Come Up for Consideration in the Two Houses. Washington, March 30.—1n the House of Representatives, to-morrow, after the usual call of States and Territories for the introduction of hills for reference and call of the committees for reports to be placed on the calendar the consideration of the bill for the retirement and reeoinage of the trade dollar will come up as unfinished business. It is thought the discussion of this measure will continue until on Wednesday and possibly a vote will be reached that day. The bill authorizing the construction of a building for the accommodation of the congressional library has been made the special order of Thursday. A number of prior orders, however, if consideration is given general legislation, will probably prevent discussion on that measure that day. An effort will be made to bring up the bill to establish a board of commissioners of interstate commerce and to regulate such commerce, which was made the special order for the 18th ultimo. The measure to remove certain burdens on the American merchant marine has been the special order since March 13, and the bill for the encouragement of ‘.lie merchant marine and to promote postal and commercial relations with foreign countries since March 19. The pension and Indian appropriation hills are on the calendar, and after the trade dollar bill is disposed of either of them may be called up during the remainder of the week, or any time, regardless of special orders. The friends of the tariff hill assert that they do not know when that measure will be taken up. Mr. Morrison himself says he does not know when it will be considered. ' Mr. Blair's educational bill remains the unfinished businessin the Senate for consideration after 2 o’clock each day. The naval appropriation hill will probably be reported to the Senate on Monday, and if the education bill is not disposed of within a day or so it will doubtless be laid aside until the’ naval bill is passed. The bankruptcy bill, to regulate practice in patent suits, and the pluro-pneumonia bill still remain th® special orcler on the days fixed for their consideration. MINOR MENTION. The Bill to Pension Ex-Prisoners of War Considered in Committee. Washington, March 29. —The House committee on invalid pensions, by a vote of sto 4, decided to report adversely the Price bill to pension all soldiers who served in the late war at the rate of twenty two cents per month for each month of service. The bill of Mr. Robinson, of Ohio, to place all ex-soldiers, who were confined in confederate prisons, upon the pension rolls and pay them $2 per day for each day of imprisonment, was taken up, and Mr. Matson offered a substitute, providing that a pension shall be given any ex Union prisoner of war, whom the board of pension surgeons shall find suffering any disability, either general or specific. Also, providing for pensioning the widow of any Union soldier who was confined in a confederate prison, and died from the effects of his confinement, the only evident'* necessary in the latter ease to be the testimony of the physician who attended her husband i* his last illness. After some discussion the substitute was adopted—s to 3. Notes and Personalities. To the Western Associated Press. Washington, March 30.—Mrs. Gresham, who has been ill for nearly a fortnight, could not see any of the large number of visitors who called last week, hut hes daughter welcomed all cordially. She was assisted in receiving by Mrs. Harris, of Indian' apolis. Should the bill become a law which has been agreed to by the House committee on war claims, authorizing a settlement of the claims of the States against the government for supplies furnished during the late war, it is estimated that Indiana will receive about $250,000. Colonel N. O Tolford, Indiana's agent, was instrumental in securing a favorable report. Colonel Tolford stated to the Journal correspondent to-night that he had been working to secure the passage of this bill three or feur years and had no doubt it will go through Congress now without delay. _

A RACE WAR. An Uprising of the Negroes of Georgia and Massacre of the Whites Threatened, Savannah, (ia., March 29.—1n Sandersville, s thriving town of 1,500 inhabitants, situated ir Washington county, East Central Georgia, to night, there was a fearful uprising of negroei and an attempt on their part to massacre all tht white people of the town and county. The trouble is incident to the arrival in the county o( a communistic emissary, who convoked a negro mass meeting, which was held in a woods neat the outskirts of the town, and was attended by fully 500 blacks. The negroes wore told tha( they wore poorly paid and little hotter than serfs, and that the only way to right their wrongs was to murder every white person in the county and take possession of all the property of their victims. which he said rightfully belo’nged to them and not to the whites. The day being Saturday many of the negroes were supplied with money, which they spent freely for whisky, and were thin made more than ordinarily excitable. After thi meeting negroes paraded the town in squads boasting of their contemplated massacre, and th place was, of course, thrown into great excite ment. The civil authorities being utterly power less to cope with the negroes, the local militarj company was called to arms. It numbers about forty members, but is almost destitute of ammunition. The military did not leave tlieii armory, as it was feared that the sight of tlieii uniforms might increase the excitement of tin negroes and precipitate trouble, which, owing t< the lack of ammunition, the military would lx unable to quell. At (1 o'clock to-night a telegram from the mayor of. Sandersville was received by the colonel of the regiment in this city, asking that 1,000 rounds of ball cartridges be dispatches to Sandersville as quickly as possible by special train. He reported the negroes arming rapidly, and grave fears were felt lest an uprising should occur before daybreak to-morrow. The female portion of town are reported as thoroughly tend iied. and males of all ages are making prepara tions for a vigorous defense. Another meeting of the negroes is called for to-morrow, and evet if to night passes in peace the mayor does not believe that an outbreak after the meeting eai possibly' be prevented.