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and fearless brow to the carnival of death, and I have also looked npon them when their knapsacks and muskets seemed heavier than the boys, and my eyes, partaking of a mother’s weakness. filled with tears. Those days have passed. Many of them have found nameless graves, but they are not dead. They live in memory, and their spirits stand out as the grand reserve of that column which ia marching on with unfaltering steps toward tho goal of constitutional liberty. [Applause.] It were in vain if I should attempt, as I have already said, to express my gratitude to you. I am standing now very nearly on the spot where I stood when I took the oath of office in 1861. Your demonstration now exceeds that which welcomed me then. This shows that the spirit of Southern liberty is not dead. [Long and continued applause.] Then you were full of joyous hopes; you bad every prospect of achieving all you desired, and now you are wrapped in the mantle of regret; and yet that regret only manifests more profoundly, and does not exceed the expression of your sentiments. I felt last night, as I reached the Exchange Hotel, that I was coming to my home, coming to a land where liberty dies not [Applause.) I have been promised, my friends, that 1 should not be called upon to make a speech, and therefore I will only extend to you my heartfelt thanks. God bless you, one and all, old men and boys, and the ladies above all others, who never faltered in our direst need.” [Loud and long continued applause.] The Reception to Their Here, F. D. Mussey'a Montgomery Special. The reception given to Jefferson Davis tonight was something unparalleled in the history of the country. It seemed that the people had gone wild. I have seen many events of the sort, end have chronicled them for the readers of the Commercial Gazette, hut I am free to say that I never saw such a popular demonstration before. The street leading from the station up to the hotel was festooned with thousands on thousands of Chinese lanterns, and covered with the national colors, and drowned in red, white and blue bunting. The electric lights blazed overhead. From the line of the curbstones shone the lurid-colored fires aud innumerable bonfires, and from the sidewalks and every window and roof poured a steady stream of Roman candles, rockets and bombs, making the roadway a fairy scene in its commingling of lights, and colors, and dazzling brilliancy. Through this magnificent combination of surroundings Mr. Davis passed in a carriage drawn by four white horses, and a band marched in front playing Dixie. The Union flag floated over him. The tremendous crowd roared in cheers and the never-forgotten rebel yell, and the people appeared to be crazy. They ran in front of the carriage; they stopped the horses; they pulled them aside and grabbed the wheels of the carriage. In front marched a company in confederate gray, and surroundine the carriage marched a company in Union blue, carrying the national colors, and bearing on breast-plate and beltbuckle the letters “U. S." Let others comment upon this wonderful incongruity as they can. It is mine simply to give the facts and describe the scene. When the carriage containing Mr. Davis and General Gordon was pulled up in front of the Exchange Hotel, the vast throng of 15,000 people, who seemed not to notice that the raiu was falliug and the mud deep, joined in a general acclamation. Across the Fountain square was stretched a gigantic piece of pyrotechnics. It represented the eleven stars of the Confederacy, and the words ‘‘Our Hero,” and when this great piece blazed forth to the music of “Dixie,” and the booming of the cannon that flashed against the black and rainy sky and shook the ground, it seemed that a great people had lost their senses, such were the demonstrations of joy and mad excitement As Mr. Davis was hustled through the gayly decorated rotunda of the Exchange, in the crowding mass, and hurried up the broad flower-cov-ered staircases to his room, the women lining the way covered him with caresses. He walked over flowers and into a room in which his bed and every article of furniture, and even the floor, were strewn with roses, snatched from the bouquets and baskets prepared for him. Along the route of two hundred miles, from Beauvoir to Montgomery, these scenes bad been repeated, and no man in America has ever journeyed across the country amid such tokens of homage and affection. While the cannon boomed and the streets were alive with the surging crowd in the fetid smoke of the fire works, the demand for Mr. Davis became irresistible. He appeared at last, coining from the same room ho occupied twenty-five years ago as President of the Confederacy, and stood forth upon the balcony. Cheer upon cheer for Jeff Davis arose, and the lines of the military were utterly broken and disorganized by the struggling mob. When comparative silence was obtained he began to speak. He said: “With a heart full of emotion” —and that was as far as he ever got A band struck up “Dixie”—a brass band can always be depended upon to get in its work in the wrong place —and, after waiting a moment, Mr. Davis retired with a gesture of impatience, and went to his room. When the facts were ascertained, the inclination of the crowd was to lynch the stupid baud which had robbed them of the opportunity of hearing their hero. A few moments afterwards the rain, which had drizzled all day, becan to pour in torrents, and the crowd slowly •lelted away. Mr. Davis went to his room, • here a crowd of ex confederates attended him > mil be expressed a wish to retire. The scenes and incidents of Mr. Davis's recopn here to-night are of so extraordinary a charter that the sober-going people of the North Wll hardly be able to credit them until they understand more perfectly the emotional character of their Southern brothers, and the depth and pathos of the affection and regret they feel in regard to the “lost cause.” At 12 o'clock the corridors of the Exchange Hotel are still a solid mass of people. A baud is playing “Dixie,” and “Way Down Upon the Swanee River,” and “Old Lang Syne,” and the cheers for Jeff Davis are going up, and the men ore getting about as enthusiastic as the women.

OEN. JOHN B. GORDON. fils Eulogy of Davis and the Exalted Purpose and Valor of tlie Southern People. Montgomery, Ala., April 28 —At the conclusion of Mr. Davis’s remarks. Governor O’Neal, when it was possible to be heard, made a handsome speech, in reference to the cause of the gathering and of the love of the people of Alabama for the statesmen and soldiers of the South, and introduc'd Gen. John B. Gordon, the orator selected to deliver the address, os, in Mr. Davis’s feeble condition, it was understood he could only speak a few minutes. General Gordon received a grand welcome, as many soldiers that he had commanded were present Ho said: “Mr. Chairmans, Ladies, Brother Soldiers and Fellow-citizens—The invitation of your committee fonud me engrossed with the cares and conflicts of important business engagements; but it would have been accepted had the burden upon roe been ten-fold greater. That request closed with these impressive words: ‘lt will be a memorable event, upon historic ground. This invitation appeals to your patriotism.’ Perhaps no more appropriate line of thought could be pursued by me than the one suggested by these words. Ths events of this day will be ‘memorable’ because the monument whose foundation* we are assembled to lay will testify to future ages Alabama’s appreciation of the courage, fidelity, devoted patriotism and self-sacri-fice of the bravest and best of her sons. “This ground is ‘historic* because it was the home of a race antedating the red man by centuries; because the Spanish cavaliers pitched their tents upon these hills nearly two hundred ears ago; because it waa the probable birth•iaco and home of Weatherford and Tecumseh; r at, more than all, because here was born the Confederate States of America.’ Here, amidst he prayers and hopes, the aspirations and apJ prehensions of a proud, brave, free aud freedom oving people, waa christened the young republic, destined to only four years of meteoric life as a nation, but to an eternity of renown. Here the chief executive of that youn’g republic—its first and its last Presidentcalled by the united voice of tho representatives of his people, modestly but firmly assumed the gtupendou* responsibility of his high office, f *pay be pardoned, even In his presence, a brief ellusion to two memorable occasions—the only two—upon which it was my privilege to meet itim from 1861 to 1865. These occasions illus-

trate tbe very climax in the antithesis of fortune. The one was in victory, the other in defeat. On the one he was a President; on the other a prisoner. On the one occasion he rode with lofty bearing on the battle-field of the first Manassas, the constitutional coramander-in-chief of a victorious army; on the other he lay incarcerated in Fortress Monroe, the vicarious sufferer for his vanquished people. “As I saw him in that first great conflict of the Confederacy, with the shouts of his victorious legions in his ears, and the glory of battle on his face, he was in the meridian blaze of his fame, commanding the unqualified confidence of his Southern countrymen and the attention of Christendom. But as a prisoner, stripped of all power save the power to endure, sustained by that majestic spirit which no force but death could conquer, awaiting bis judicial trial and all its consequences with a repose of mind, an equipoise and dignity of demeanor rarely equaled and never excelled—it was then that he bound himself to the hearts of his people in deathless affection, and rose to the snblimest height of the morally heoric. Os these two scenes, the one in the fortress was more profoundly impressive. Its lesson is of inestimable value to the young men of our country. It teaches that no revulsion in political fortunes, however sudden or extreme, can overwhelm or crush tbe man whose aims are lofty and whose life is blameless. To my mind, great and grand as he was in the hour of his most splendid triumph, he was greater and grander still in the hour of his deepest humiliation. And when alienations and bitter memories are gone, when the crucial test of historical analysis shall be fully, fairly and truthfully made—then his name and his fame, his conspicuous services to the country before the war, his unrivaled state papers and manly utterances during the war, and his moral elevation and matchless fortitude as prisoner of state after the war. will command universal respect and challenge unqualified admiration. “The third and last thought suggested by your committee's invitation is, that the occasion appeals to our ‘patriotism.’ I embrace this truth in its broadest significance. This ‘memorable event upon historic ground’ will assuredly increase the strength and enlarge the scope of the ‘patriotism' of this people. The natural, logical, inevitable issues of this and all analogous events must be to enhance the self-respect, nugment the self-reliance, exalt the manhood and heighten the appreciation of this people for their past history and achievements, and therefore iutenaify their love of country. The converse proposition is equally true. Should we build no monuments, wriWi no histories, cherish no memories of the men and the deeds which truthful history would make immortal, we would sap the most solid foundations of our manhood and bring certain decay to the patriotism of our The soldier or the citizen of the North or the South who would frown down upon scenes like this in either section, who does not esteem the renown won by both armies in the late war, as enrichment of the history and aliment for the patriotism of the whole people, is narrow in conception and jaundiced in vision. “The thought of Lord Bolingbroke was a true one, that ‘patriotism must be founded ou great principles and supported by great virtues.’ It therefore follows that the more commendable the principles and the higher the virtues which moved and supported the course of each section in the late war, the more life-giving is the nutriment afforded to the patriotism or all by their contemplation. Let each section, therefore, while appreciating the virtues of the other, add to the aggregate patriotism of the country by perpetuating in brass and marble shafts and granite piles the valor of its sons, and emblazon every page of its history with the glory of their achievements.

“I am not of those who sympathize with the spirit of that narrow though patriotic citizen of England who declared that high praise of the Romans was detraction of the Britons. Nor can I suppress contempt for that short-sighted statesmanship in this country which sees in merited tributes to confederates implied detraction of the valorous federal?. Ou the other hand, I acknowledge inferiority to no man in admiration of the broad liberality which prompted the effort of Charles Sumner to strike from the flags of the Union the names of the battles Detweea his estranged and embittered coun trymen; yet I subscribe neither to its policy nor to its justice. All honor to the spirit of the man who, facing a storm of political wrath, could rise to the lofty purpose of destroying all mementoes of Northern triumph over his Southern countrymen! All honor to the eloquent utterances by which he sought to make practical his magnanimous conception! But 1 utterly dissent from the opinion that such obliteration was either essential to the fraternization of the sections or just to the intrepid armies of the Union. The one thing essential to the manhood and self-respect and, therefore, I repeat, to the patriotism of the people, is that exact historic justice shall be meted out to each army and all sections. Let malicious detraction cease; let envy—which enslaves ignoble miuds—find no place in the breast of any lover of truth. With what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again. A just appreciation of the motives which impelled and of the heroism which sustained each army and section in their Titanic conflict is the symbol as well as sustenance of patriotism. Illiberal criticism is not only unpatriotic—it is irrational. Merited encomiums of Southern heroism is implied eulogy of North prowess, which, inspired by devotion to the union of the States and sustained through privations and blood by the profoundest convictions, brought at last this lion-hearted section to defeat and surrender. On the other hand, laudations of the great commanders of tbe Army of the Potomac and of their fearless followers and the monuments built to their memory are monuments also to Lee and his barefoot and hungry heroes, who for four bloody years kept those vast numbers at bay, and in the space of three years defeated and foreed from the supreme command at least five of these renowned federal captains. “And now, without the possibility, I tru3t, of being misconstrued in spirit or purpose by either the North or the South, I will group together some of the indisputable facts connected with that mighty struggle. Justice to the conquered South, to those who fell and to those who survived, as well as to their descendants, demands the production and reproduction of these facts until they become familiar in every household in the land. Truth, self-respect and Southern manhood demand it. Patriotism itself demands it. The statesmanship and spirit of liberality of the North will sanction it. The danger is that injustice will be done to the conquered and not to the conqueror. In the average estimation of mankind, victory vindicates, while defeat dooms to misconstruction. “Deeply impressed with this portentous truth, I wish I were able to impress every Southern mind and sustain all Southern hearts with the profound convictions which a somewhat extended investigation has left upon my own. Standing near the summit of this, the nineteenth century, and looking backward through all history, modern and ancient, civilized and barbaric, I assert the belief, grounded upon careful thought and statistical information,, that no more exalted purposes ever inspired a people than those which impelled tho South to enter upon her perilous struggle for independence, nor ever induced a freer and more costly sacrifice, nor led to a defense which, though unsuccessful, secured a more deathless renown. “I am not here to discuss the causes which precipitated the conflict. When all is said that can be said in justification or condemnation of the course pursued by either section, it is sufficient for the purposes of this argument to realize that the South was driven by her apprehensions, whether ill or well founded, to seek security under a separate government; that she threw around that infaut government a cordon of breasts as devoted and dauntless as ever withstood the shock of battle; and with lavish liberality gave to its defense her wealth and her blood, her prayers and her hopes, her manhood and her womanhood, and yielded at last only when exhausted in resources, bleeding at every pore, paralyzed and prostrate. “I wish to submit one remark before giving the figures which evidence tho enormous expenditure of blood and treasure by both sections in their memorable struggle. These statistics, unimpeached and unimpassioned, establish beyond dispute the fact that there was an exhibition of marvelous heroism by the South. They are also most omphatic tributes to the persistent and indomitable wili.and splendid courage of the North. While we are entitled to claim tbe credit due on account of the great disparity in numbers, and resources which these statistics show, we must concede to the North tbe credit of having secured the victory while waging an offensive warfare against interior lines of defense. From the day of our surrender, my earnest desire has been, and is now, to speak and act with justice to both armies and sections, and, to the utmo. t of my ability, aid in promoting cordiality, reciprocal respect and confidence

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throughout our reunited country. Tho citizen who at this day cannot discuss the facts without prejudice is a partisan and not a patriot—or else a patriot enslaved by his passions. “I introduce these statistics by remarking that it is difficult to obtain any adequate conception of the cost of that war to the country. Perhaps this gigantic expenditure will be more readily appreciated when I state that if expended in steel tracks it would have constructed enough miles of railway to have reached more than eight times around the whole earth. “Bat let us come to the details. The original colonies which rebelled against the mother country and established their independence were thirteen in number. The Southern States which sought their independence were also thirteen in number. These thirteen, including the border • States, which were divided in sentiment, embraced a territory of about 832,608 square miles, leaving the government of the United States in undisturbed and unthreatened possession of a territory of about 2,193,846 square miles. “These thirteen Southern States possessed an aggregate wealth of about $6,000,000,000. They were confronted by an aggregate wealth of about $10,000,000,000. Os the South’s wealth, the greater portion was represented by slaves. The Southern States had. as a means of transporting, concentrating and distributing troops and supplies, about 9,999 miles of railroads, while the railroads in the section opposing them measured 20,646 miles. The value of this ageucy in prosecuting war will be appreciated when it is known that a recent able writer estimates that, with the aid of railroads, Napoleon would have conquered Europe. The Southern States had invested in manufacturing establishments from which to supply the Southern armies, about $136,265,984. while the North had in like establishments about $873,589,731. The South, including the border States, contained a population of 11,441,029. TJpy were confronted by States containing a population of 19,549,114. To add to this disparity, the Southern States furnished to the Union armies more than 360.000 men. “Let it be further remembered that tbe movement. was made by the leading Southern States without an organized central government, without au army or navy, practically without arms, arsenals, ammunition or artisans. This embryonic power of poorly-armed States was antagonized in the incipiency of the movement by a government thoroughly organized and equipped; with at least the nucleus of an army and navy; with magazines, munitions and manufactories for supplying all the implements of war. “When the future historian shall oonsider this remarkable inequality in territory, in wealth, in means of transportation, in population—in all the circumstances surrounding the sections — and when he shall add to these the still more striking disparity in the numbers of men enlisted by each, he will be lost in amazement that the struggle could have been prolonged to four years of Southern resistance. “The official reports from the Adjutant-gen-eral’s office sho w that the number of men enlisted in the Union armies during the war was 2.859,132. The number enlisted in the Southern armies during tho war, as estimated by tbe War Department, was about 800,000 men. Placing these man against man—Boo,ooo against the 800,000,—there was hurled against the South more’ than 2,000,000 of men in excess of the number she had enlisted. “These official figures, absolutely startling in their disproportion, will forever attest an unrivaled courage and consocration by Southern troops. Let him who can point to the parallel. “To the philosophic statesman of the future a most interesting field for thought will be found in investigating the source of this phenomenal power exhibited by the South. Both armies were composed principally of free-born American citizens. The ranks of both were largely filled by volunteers and not by mercenary hirelings. Both gave allegiance to governments organized under similar constitutions, guaranteeing political and religious liberty, trial by jury, taxation only with representation, and all the fundamental rights of equality and republican freedom. Both gathered inspiration from the example of the fathers. Both were impelled by the authoritative sanction of a genuine patriotism; and every soldier who fell on either side turned his pale face to heaven, a martyotto the right as he understood it “It is necessary, therefore, to find in some other and peculiar elements of power the explanation for this unexampled resistance made by the South to one of the most suptirb armies ever mustered for battle. Os the same race, born of a common ancestry, reared under the same free institutions, it would have seemed safe to predict that with the disadvantages under which the South labored she would be compelled to surrender to a force not grpatly superior to her own. It ia true that the rural life of the Southern people was promotive of individual independence, and this independence was productive of individual heroism; which was one of the marked characteristics of the Southern soldier. But, on the other hand, tho Northern soldier was more vigorous in constitution, more robust in physical energy, and was reared under a civilization and domestic institutions which developed, in a high degree, the virtue of self-reliance. Where, then, are we to find the explanation of the astounding fact that it required to defeat the South in four years an enlisted force more than twice as great as the entire Prussian armies which in seven months overwhelmed and humiliated France? What is the explanation, I again inquire, of the unexampled record made by the Southern armies? “It cannot be attributed to any want of high courage in the soldiers of the North. Independent of the exhibitions of individual heroism, by which all were impressed who met them on the field, the ratio of federal losses in battle, as compared to the losses of European armies, the rushing and oft repeated onsets of Northern phalanxes. with fixed bayonets, against the walls of fire from Southern guns, and over the dead bodies of their comrades, piled in ghastly hecatombs before Southern forts and breastworks, bear witness to federal courage and devotion, which nothing can ever impeach.

“In seeking the source of this marvelous exhibition of resisting power shown by the South, it is proper to take into the account the fact that she occupied the interior lines of defense. But, to my mind the one sufficient explanation—the causa causans—is to be found in the great, distinctive, primal thought that moved, dominated and inspired the Southern people. If the Northern soldier was impelled by the thought that a disruption of the Union endangered the permanence of our free institutions, and that to save the Union was to save republican freedom on this continent, the South was moved, on the other baud, by obedience to “nature’s first law”—the law of self-defense. If she sought to sever her relations with her sister States of the North, it was in the bplief that she would find safety under a government of homogeneous institutions. Her declaration of a desire for peace and for a continuance of friendly relations was emphatic and sincere. If in the progress of succeeding war she crossed her borders and bore her banners northward, it was with the hope of forcing the withdrawal of federal forces from her territory and of compelling recognition of her independence. The one controlling, all pervading thought that throbbed through every fiber of the Southern brain was that the rights of the States, the security of property, of home and of liberty were involved in the issue. The spirit of defense, not of defiance nor of conquest, nerved her people. This was her panoply of power, this the tower of her amazing strength, this the individual inspiration that made of her individual soldiers individual heroes, who have left a record uneaualed in the annals of war. “But we were not successful. Circumstances decreed it otherwise. Failure came because success was impossible. But deeper and more indellible than the scars and lines left by war on the face of tbe country is the impress’made by your valor on the pages of history. A past so lustrous aud a present so full of encouragement are prophetic of a brilliant future." Do you ask for more specific basis for this promise? It is in the striking contrast of your present condition with past experience!;.

“A few years since your backs wore bent under burdens incident to bloody strife, to defeat and subsequent political spoliations. You were suffering unprecedented privations, consequent upon the destruction of four thousand millions of property. You were enduring the keen anguish of a prolonged reconstruction and of repressive and coercive legislation, which you solemnly believed unjust to yourselves and unnecessary for the national safety—a system of legislation, the wisdom of which is impeached by experience here and experience in Great Britain, and which is condemned by the recent and noble utterances of the most conspicuous. if not the ablest, statesman of the present You bore these trials with a fortitude and courage worthy the highest commendation. With rare and unpremeditated disturbances, you preserved the Eeace, obeyed the laws, and sought redress only y manly appeals to the sense of justice of yonr countrymen. In the midst of an almost endless •Mr. Gladstone’s speech on coercion of Ireland.

expanse of desolation and financial ruin, you heroically turned to the task of restoration, realizing that yours was a ‘goodly land,’ and, though parched and made bare by the fires of war, that a benignant God still bent above it the balmiest of skies and peopled it with tbe bravest of men and the loveliest of women. With what success you have striven, your increased comforts, your increased agricultural products, your increased miles of railway, your increased mines and manufactures sufficiently attest, Amidst it ail, and better than all, you have retained tbe respect of mankind and preserved vour own. “And now, let the manly virtues of the fathers aud the stainless purity of the mothers dwell richly in their sons and their daughters; let personal and public honor be tbe commanding law both of your thought and of your action; let your representatives, State and federal, still maintain untarnished reputations for incorruptibility in office; let your fidelity to the whole country be as conspicuous in peace as was your devotion to the South during devastating war; let the South’s plighted faith to the permanent union of the States and the legitimate results of the war be forever unquestioned; let all constitutional policies that tend to unite more closely the sections and people, and at the same time to promote simplicity and economy of administration, find among you their sincerest and most enlightened champions. Then, in tbe march of the Republic to its hieh destiny, the South will resume her place with the ranks at the head of the column, and the names of Southern statesmen and Southern soldiers will live among the most conspicuous and honored iu our country’s history.”

General Gordon’s speech was received with great pleasure, and at many points he was interrupted by the approving shouts of the multitude. His references to Mr. Davis and the grandeur of his life, especially the scenes depicted in Fortress Monroe, made a profound impression, and brought tears to hundreds of eyes. His tributes to tbe soldiers of both armies, and contempt for tbe men who would attempt to detract from the valor of either, received long continued shouts of applause, it was then announced that Mr. Davis would receive his friends at the City Hall as soon as the meeting adjourned. When Mr. Davis and the others of the escorting party had passed through the lines and reached their carriages, the vast throng dispersed. As he started from the Capitol portico, the artillery boomed forth and fired a salute of 100 guns. The same scene of cheering and waving of handkerchiefs was enacted as when the procession moved on tbe avenue. Mr. Davis was carried to tho City Hall, where a general handshaking was indulged in, the vast number of callers only permitting a moment to each. Thi3 ended the day’s demonstration. It was a grand success, the heavy rain in the morningand after the speaking being the only drawbacks. Universal good humor prevailed. There was not a hitch in carying out the details. Fully 20,000 people were on the streets and the grounds. No political significance attaches to the meeting. It was an opportunity for thousands of confederate soldiers, their wives and children, to see Mr. Davis, and they came accordingly. It has added largely to the fund for building tbe monument. The streets are crowded to-night, and the hotels are filled to suffocation. To-mor-row wiil be another big day. The corner-stone of the monument is to be laid with impressive ceremonies, in which Mr. Davis, General Gordon and other distinguished confederates will be present and take part Tbe Masonic fraternity will lav the corner-stone, and Mr. Davis will put it in place. Davis to Visit Savannah. Savannah, Ga., April 28.— Jefferson Davis was invited to visit Savannah during the centennial encampment celebrating the organization of the Chatham Artillery, from May 3 to the Bth inclusive, and a telegram received to night from General Gordon says that Mr. Davis accepts the invitation. Ten thousand soldiers from all parts of the country are exSected to take part in the parade aud review on londay next. Thirty companies have entered in tbe competitive drills, for which SIO,OOO iu premiums are offered.

TELEGRAPIUC BREVITIES. John McNally and Wm. White, New York 'longshoremen, quarreled yesterday, and the former killed the latter by beating him over the head with an iron bar. McNally is under arrest Secretary Manning has so far progressed on the road to complete recovery that he was able to-day take a long drive about Washington without fatigue. Among his callers to-day was exSenator McDonald, of Indiana. John L. Sullivan and Charles Mitchell have arranged for an eight-round glove fight to take place in Chicago, June 7, the winner to take 75 per cent and the loser 25 per cent of the receipts. Mitchell also signed articles with Jack Burke for a small glove fight, eight rounds, at Battery D, Chicago, May 10. The body of John Robson, seventy-two years of age, was found yesterday in the river beneath one of the Cincinnati wharf-boats. He had been missing since last Friday. His family believe he was murdered, though no external marks of violence were found. It is hinted that he was thrown into a large sewer and floated down to where found. Henry W. Jaehne, the New York alderman who is accused of accepting a bribe of $20,000 from “Jake” Sharpe for his vote in the Broadway railway franchise, was arraigned in the Court of Oyer and Terminer yesterday. After a brief consultation between counsel for the prosecution and defense and Judge Barrett, the trial of the case was set for May 10, peremptory. Meridy Jones, a notorious negro, was killed by a mob of citizens about midnight Tuesday night, near Auburn, Ky.. On Monday night Jones entered the room of two respectable young ladies, and tried to chloform them. He was discovered, but made his escape. He was captured by officers. who were taking him to jail, when the mob seized Jones to hang him. He attempted to escape, and was shot down. A. L. Gooch, a citizen, while remonstrating with the mob, received a severe pistol-shot wound. Fatal Explosion at Chicago. Chicago, April 28.—Tobey & Booth’s packinghouse at Eighteenth and Grove streets, was the scene of a frightful explosion this afternoon, in which one man lost his life; two were seriously hurt, and six others more or less injured. The casualties were as follows: Killed—James Sandford, aged sixty years; seriously hurt, Mattie Acton. About 3 o’clock, while a gang of men were working around a large iron lard tank, from some unknown cause it exploded. The great tank was rent into innumerable pieces, and the flying iron tore up the floor, ceiling and walls. Not one of the men in the room at the time escaped some injury. Children Fatally Burned. Erie, Pa., April 28.—A frightful holocaust occured last evening, as the result of the thoughtlessness of a mother, Mrs. Ephraim Lawsoo. Prior to going out shopping, Mrs. Lawson locked her three children in a room. The house took Are, and before the alarm was given the children were imprisoned by the flames. The firemen rescued two of the children alive, but they will hardly survive. The baby was forgotten, and was consumed with the house. Several of the firemen were badly burned. Steamship News. London, April 2a— Arrived! Rhineland, from New York for Antwerp; IndlA, from New York for Hamburg. New York. April 28.—Arrived: State of Indiana, from Glasgow; Waesland, from Antwerp. Queenstown, April 28.—Arrived: Lord Clive, from Philadelphia. Hamburg, April 28.—Arrived: Wieland, from New York. Oregon Republicans. Portland, April 28.—The Republican State convention renominated Binger Hermann, present incumbent, for Congress by a unanimous vote; for Supreme Judge, John B. Waldo; tor Governor, Thomas R. Cornelius, of Washington county; for Seeretary of State,Geo. W. Mcßride, of Columbia county. Those who take Dr. Jones’s Red Clover Tonic never have dyspepsia, costiveness, bad breath, piles, pimples, ague and malaria, poor appetite, low spirits, headache or kidnejr troubles. Pries, 60 cents.

GREECE WILL NOT DISARM. On the Contrary, if Her Claims Are Not Settled, She Will Declare War* And Will Yield Only When Her Fleet Is Destroyed and Towns Bombarded—A Reign of Terror in Galicia—-Notes by Cable. THE WARLIKE GREEKS. They Will Not Disarm, and Will Declare War Unless Their Claims Are Granted. London, April 28. —M. Genadios, the Greek minister, had a long interview to-day with Lord Rosebery, Minister for Foreign Affairs. The Greek difficulty has become the absorbing topic at the Foreign Office. The submission of M. Delyannis, the Greek Prime Minister, to the ultimatum of the powers is expected to be received at any hour. The temper of the population of Athens is causing alarm. It is understood that the show of resistance by the Greek government has been prolonged with a view to appeasing the national pride. The Greek government has telegraphed to all its representatives abroad that the assurances Greece has given to France about keeping the peace and disarming ought to suffice, without more being demanded by the powers. It is believed at Athens that the Ministry will resign unless the powers withdraw their ultimatum. The citizens of Athens, in a public meeting at the Town Hall, to day, adopted resolutions strongly denouncing the action of the powers in bringing pressure to bear upon Greeosto compel her to desist from attacking Turkey. The meeting appointed a deputation to present a copy of the resolutions to M. Delyannis. A dispatch received from Athens this evening ssys the Greek government insists upon the withdrawal of the ultimatum. If it is maintained the Ministry will resign as a protest against the menace to the independence of Greece implied by the ultimatum of the powers. M. Delaynnis, replying to the deputation which presented the resolutions adopted by the citizens’ meeting, said that the government had not promised France that Greece would disarm. It had accepted the mediation of France on the condition that an early settlement of the Greek question would be effected. The government disclaimed any intention of yielding to the powers or of disarming. Unless her o laims were settled very soon, Greece would declare war, and would yield only when the powers had sunk the Hellenic fleet and bombarded Greek towns. A mass meeting was held in Constitution square, Athens, to-night, at which warlike speeches were made. Strong patriots are trying hard to preserve order.

TERROR IN GALICIA. Crazy Agitators Filling the Ignorant Peasantry with Discontent. Cracow, April 28.—The Galician landlords, panic-stricken by the news from the west of the province, are abandoning their estates and pouring into this city and Lemberg by hundreds. The peasants are rising in all directions, and it is feared that unless the agitation which began so strangely last week is promptly and sternly suppressed there will be a repetition of the awful soeues of 1846, when the peasants, led by local Jack Cades, and armed with seythes and pikes, burned, slew and ravished like savages. The disturbances now filling Galicia with terror have so far occurred in the very districts laid waste forty years ngo. The natives are grossly ignorant, superstitious, miserable and easily led away by agitators, and ready to believe the wildest nonsense. Emissaries, many of whom are suspected—despite official denials—to be Russian agents, are tramping about from Tillage to village and hut to hut preaching rebellion. A wave of madness seems to have swept over the districts of Gribow, Tarnow and Bezesko, where frenzied men, women and boys go about exhorting the peasants to rise against the landlords, who are endeavoring to persuade the Kaiser to allow them to re-establish the old feudal bond service. In many villages knots of peasants may be seen clustering, open-mouthed, round some crazy visionary, who is prophesying the end of the world at hand, and bidding them to stay and rob their oppressors. At night the vast Galioian plains are studded with flickering torches and excited group* gather in the woods early, commenting on tne predictions, superstition being artfully used to fan the slams of discontent, long smoldering in West Galicia, where the peasantry are wretchedly poor, and have many real grievances. The Socialists also are taking advantage of the agitation to spread their doctrines here. There have been collisions between the gendarmes and insurgents, several hundred of whom were arrested. On Easter Sunday the priests in the disturbed districts preached sermons against the rebellion to reassure the peasantry as to the intention of the government This had some effect for a time, but to-day fresh risings are reported. TrAops, regular and gen-darmes, are scouting the country, and the imperial banner is unfurled wherever the most apprehension is felt, as a sign that the Kaiser, for whom the Galician peasants have a blind adoration, is hostile to the movement

FOREIGN MISCELLANY. Christopher Columbus Found to Have Been Born in Calvl, a Town of Corsica. Paris, April 28. Abbe Casanova, a Corsican archaeologist, has discovered archives which show that Christopher Columbus was born in the town of Calvi, in Corsica, and emigrated to Genoa. President Grevy, having examined the evidence, and being satisfied of its authenticity, has authorized the authorities of Calvi to celebrate by official holiday the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America. The inhabitants of Calvi will hold a fete on May 23, when a commemorative inscription will be placed on the house in which Columbus was born. Wholesale Incendiarism. Vienna, April 28.—News of wholesale conflagrations comes from several parts of Austria. The town of Friedland, in Moravia, has been almost totally destroyed by fire, during the progress of which ten persons were killed. The towns of Dobrowlaney, Bojaniec and Chyrow have been completely destroyed, and the town of Sanok has been greatly damaged. At Chicrow a man was caught in the act of setting fire to a building. _ |A Decoration for Cardinal Jacobinl. Rome, April 28.—The Pope, complying with the request of the Queen regent of Spain, to-day invested Cardinal Jacobini, the papal Secretary of State, with the order of the Golden Fleece, which the Queen conferred upon him for his services in connection with the Carolines dispute between Spain and Germany. Cardinal Jacobinl gave a banquet this evening to the diplomates accredited to the Vatican. Gladstone and Jeff Davis. London. April. 29.—The Times says: “The reappearance of Jefferson Davis, whom Mr. Gladstone hailed as the creator of anew state, enforces the thonght that the man who made that capital mistake may be making another when he hails Parnell's temporary capture of the Irish representation as evidence that another nation has been born." Cable Notes. The Prince of Wales has been re-eleoted grand master of the Freemasons in England. The London Morning Post says that Mr. McLane, United States minister to Fraaee, will leave Paris in fortnight on a tint to the United States. There Is no improvement In ths condition of Count Herbert Blsmarek, who la suffering from

inflammation of the lungs, but the doctors an hopeful of his recovery. A Silesian journal says that Prince Bismarck recently told Dr. Koph, Bishop of Fulda, that personally he was not opposed to the return of clerical orders, eysn Jesuits. I SUCCESSFUL SWINDLE. Several Philadelphia Merchants Victimize! by a Fine-Looking Ohio Man. Philadelphia, April 28.— A tali, fine-looking portly man, about forty years old, with a dark brown mustache, hair of the same color, allghfely bald, red-faced, and the confidential air of * so* cessful merchant, registered at the House last Friday. He had a grip-sack with him. He wrote “Ed Kinnane, Springfield, 0.,* on the hotel register. He left for Pittsburg oa the 11:20 train, on Saturday night, with three large trunks full of cloaks, suitings, cloths, silks and jewelry. Mr. Kinnane had cleverly swindled a number ofMarket-street merchants and got sway with his plunder. Mr. Kinn&nedroppedinonJaoob S. Bunting, a cloth merchant, on Friday last, and bought about S3OO worth of cloth for the dry goods house of Kinnane, Wren & Cos., Springfield, O. He told a plausible story of his connection with the house; that he was a son of the senior member of tho firm, and one of the firm himself, and asked Mr. Bunting to send the sloth in a trunk to Riegel, Scott & C’o., No. 333 Market street, who were also going to ship him some goods. Mr. Bunting, after ascertaining that the house of Kinnane, Wren & Cos., of Springfield, 0., was A No. 1, and that Riegel, Scott & Cos. were going to send goods out there, immediately gent the trunk, which was nearly full, to hia neighbor. Mr. Bunting said to-day: “It was a good, clean job. lam not as much out as soma of the other merchants along the street. 1 never would have sent the goods to a hotel for him if he had asked me to do so. lam too old a bird for that. He requested me to send the trunk up to Riegel, Scott & Cos., as he had bought some goods there which were to be put in it I did go. Ha was a clever confidence man.” Riegel, Scott & Cos. were swindled out of a trunkful of valuable silks. The other merchants swindled are the wholesale jewelry house of S. Kind & Cos. and Wright Brothers & Cos., umbrella manufacturers. Pinkerton’s detectives are looking for the successful buyer of drygoods, silks, wraps and jewelry. MR. CARNEGIE’S HANDSOME GIFT. He Presents $5,000 for a Library to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum. Pittsburg Chronicle. Mr. Andrew Carnegie and Mr. Henry jr., were riding in a car the other day out the Pennsylvania road from the city, when they noticed Rev. Dr. Brown, the president of the Western Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, at Edgewood, get on the train. Mr. Carnegie went over and sat down by Dr. Brown and engaged in conversation about the school and what it was accomplishing. He made soma inquiry as to the condition of the library at the school, and ascertained that it was not what Dr. Brown desired it to be. “Well,” said Mr. Carnegie, “I have concluded to give you a small donation for the library, which I hope will be of some benefit,” and ha handed over his check to Dr. Brown for $5,000. Dr. Brown was much surprised, but warmlv thanked Mr. Carnegie for his generous gift The money is given iu such a way that the interest of the fund is to be dovoted each year to the purchase of new books, which purchase is to be made by the board of managers. The friends of the institution, particularly those who are immediately connected with it, are very much elated over securing a much-needed library for the school. Sprinkling the Street-Car Tracks. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Dos’t see the dust? Mr. Johnson, a lot of us very poor devils that can neither afford tho water works water, nor pay to have a sprinkler to follow your street-cars around, are obliged to suffocate during the warm months, or “eat our peck of dirt" every two or three hours. We pay taxes and thereby are part owners of the city, and as such owners, we granted you permission to use our streets to make your cent per cent., but as most of us are too poor to pay you for riding in your cars, therefore, we art not benefited os an offset for your dust. As you sprinkle your tracks with salt in the winter, won’t you please sprinkle them with water in the summer! I. M. Choked. The Date of Easter. To the Editor of 'the Indianapolis Journal: By some means, common fame has circulated the report that Easter Sunday will not comet again, so late as it has this year, until two hundred years or more have elapsed; but this Is a mistake; such an occurrence takes place one# every nineteen years,—the cycle of the moon or golden number being six. This period, of ninateen years, contains 235 mean lunations, and every new and full moon, in each succeeding year, will fall on the same day of the month that it didnineteen years before. The mistaka, we think,' originated in the idea that the 235 lunations are years. Asa M. Bellows. New Providence, April 26.

The First Boycotter. "Gath's” New York Letter. Who will be atrocious enough in these duys to imitate the example of the crooked-back Duke Gloucester, who, after he had murdered his brother and his King, and killed his nephews, issued an edict that the mistress of the late King should never have human protection? I speak of the story of Jane Shore; of her it was ordained that no person should take her in, let her sit by the fire, give her food or let her lie on the floor. That was the first boycotter of the British races. Seven bottles of Athlophoros nave relieved me entirely of rheumatism of five years’ standing, which was so acute at times as to compel me to give up work and keep my room. William Sommers, foreman for B. F. McMillan So Bro., McMillan, Wis. Planlng-Mill Burned. Columbus, 0., April 28.— The planing-mill of N. E. Lovejoy burned early this morning. The loss is estimated at $12,000; fully insured. Halfkd Sauce kept by A 1 grocers. Ask for ik toOST PERFECT MADE Prepared by a physician with special regard to health. No Ammonia, Lime or Alnm. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO., CHICAGO. (SOLO Dm II MXM ST. DOtTTi 3 A \ tit-and OperaWfir§lft*frT house, Indianapolis. Teeth extracted without pain by use of Vitalised Air or Nitrous Oxide of Gas. which is perfectly harm, less, and agrees with all conditions of the system. Teeth extracted, plain, 25c. Gold flttUgs, $1 and an. wards. Silver end Amalgam fillings, 50 and Teeth from $5, $6, SB. flO to SSO per eeO All kinds of the Finest Dental Work in the State ah Reduced Prices. Ail work warranted as reprcscawd^