Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 January 1889 — Page 4

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Telephone CalK, Buslnejw Office 238 Editorial Rooms 212 Two Senatorial noses are put out of joint by Claypool's nomination. Neither Voorhees nor Turpie was consulted, and both are disgusted. They went down with Bailey. It is interesting to Know that Lord Lonsdale is well on his way to tho north pole. Lonsdale is au English lord with a damaged moral character, and such members of tho nobility can be put to no better use than to set them hunting tho pale. As the nomination for United States district,' attorney at this stage of tho administration is only an empty compliment, the President might continue to pass it aronnd. There aro lots of Democrats who would enjoy having their names sent in. Mr. Tcrpie seems to have lost his temper over the nomination of Judge Claypool as district attorney. He thinks Bailey is a big enough man for the positionan opinion that is not surprising when it is remembered that Mr. Turpie is not a very big man himself. General Harrison is receiving a great deal of advice about the construction of his Cabinet, but he has not yet advertised for proposals to let the concontract to fill it; nor will ho be likely to measure petitions filed for such positions by the yard, nor weigh them by the pound. . Congressman Oates, of Alabama, rather overdoes the business in his anxiety for a foreign war to demonstrate Southern loyalty. Tho rest of tho country can get along very well without a foreign war at present, and Southern loyalty will probably keep a whilelonger. TriE Sentinel does not explain how Mr. Dick Bright, who has not lived in Indiana for ten years, and has been out of government employ for nearly half that time, happens to bo "pairing oft"' with anyone as an Indiana voter. By the way, Mr. Bright has not visited Indiana since election, but no one has accused him of criminal motives on that account. Tiiat tho Germans should feel anxiety over Prince Bismarck' failing health was to be expected under any circumstances, but there is now a special intensity about it. Tho subjects of tho young Emperor maybe loyal, but they look forward with dread to the time when he will control tho nation unchecked by the guiding hand of tho Chancellor. There are few men of any prominence whatever in this country who are not better fitted to judge of the economic effects of a protective tariff than Mr. Cleveland is, yet he arrogates to himself superior knowledge of the subject and charges all who oppose his views as being actuated by "selfishness and greed!" As for his defeat, he says, "It proves tho stubbornness of tho combined forces of selfishness' Your intensely selfish man is always abusing it in others. The Sentinel advances tho remarkable statement that $50,000,000 will bo saved to pensioners by the proposed law cutting down tho fee for securing an increase of pensions from ten to three dollars. This estimate is necessarily based on a saving of seven dollars to each applicant for an increase. Seven into 50,000,000 goes 7,000,000 and a fraction over. Seven million old soldiers a year whose disabilities call for an addition to their pensions! Gracious! Who but tho Sentinel would have thought it? If the grand jury investigation of tho alleged Dudley letter is not yet finished, we trust it will be pushed to a definite conclusion by those who have tho matter in charge. There has been enough of tall lying in the papers and of significant hints by government officials. What tho public wants is an honest, thorough investigation and declared result. If Co'.onel Dudley has violated any law or doao an indictable act, let him bo indicted. Tho public expects the grand jury to do its duty without fear or favor, and not to bo bulldozed into doing anything else. Sciiool-eook "rings" doubtless exist, and many impositions are constantly perpetrated on the public in tho matter of unnecessary changes and extortionate prices. Some protection for tho people should be devised, but it is by no means certain that this consists in making tho books free to all pupils. Legislation restricting the powers of trustees in regard to changing text-books, and providing a method by which they shall be furnished to pupils at cost, may bo eflocted as readily as that requiring the purchase to be raado economically and safely, out of public funds. "Rings" arc quite as likely to exist where the State's money is concerned as when tho victims arc private

citizens; and while tho parents of school children may be relieved from direct outlay, a change which places tho burden on tax-payers, and does not secure them against tho existence of publishers' combinations in that direction, can hardly be called a reform. It is a question to which there arc certainly two sides, and the problem is one calling for very thorough consideration and careful legislation.

A3 TO THE CABINET. Tims far, all discussion and conjecture relative to President Harrison's Cabinet has related to its personality, or, in other words, to the individuals likely to compose it. This is natural enough. Personal affairs come nearer to men than any other class of considerations, and excite more interest. It is natural, therefore, that curiosity and conjecture should first concern themselves with tho personnel of the new Cabinet. But a point of much greater importance to tho Republican party and tho country is what the Cabinet will represent. Outside of personal politics the country is muck more interested in what the Cabinet will bo than in who it will be. On this point the character and conduct of the President-elect are every day strengthening the conclusion that it will be a Harrison Cabinet, and a ljaraionious Cabinet. These are the points that the people desire to see made secure. During the last six months General Harrison has grown so rapidly in public esteem and has shown himself in all respects so wise, conscientious, conservative, wellequipped and weU balanced, that tho people have como to place implicit confidence in him. Having learned to admire and trust him to an extraordinary degree, they desire to see his personality impressed on his administration as it was on the campaign. They want to see a Harrison administration, and to this end they want to see a Harrison Cabinet. Whatever the personnel of tho Cabinet may be, the people expect it to bo distinctively a Harrison Cabinet, composed of persons entirely loyal to their chief and interested solely in contributing to the success of his administration. As already remarked, tho character and conduct of the Presidentelect aro every day furnishing cumulative evidence that his Cabinet, will be essentially a Harrison Cabinet. His personality will make it so. Tho remark has become almost threadbare that "General Harrison will bo President," with a strong emphasis on the last word. We have no hesitation in putting it on record. At every Cabinet meeting during President Harrison's administration the head of the table wiU be where lie sits. It will be a Harrison Cabinet and a Harrison administration. The Constitution makes the President tho chief executive of the Nation. The people have called General Harrison to that position, and he will assume it with a clear understanding of all it implies. His executive assistants will all understand it as clearly, and the result will bo a harmonious, Harrison Cabinet. This is what all Republicans desire, and is of more importance than who will be in the Cabinet. THE SOUTHERN" EACE PROBLEM. The Charleston News and Courier publishes an undelivered speech by Congressman Breckinridge, of Kentucky, oil the race problem in the South. Mr. Breckinridge is a thoughtful man, and is counted an eloquent speaker. It was expected that he would attend a recent annual dinner of the New England Society, in Charleston, and respond to a toast. He wrote his speech, but was prevented from attending the banquet. He treated the race problem in a philosophical, impartial and Christian spirit. The central idea of his speech was that the negroes are in the South to stay, and that the solution of the problem created by their presence there depended on the Southern peoplo and their own sense of justice, right and Christian duty. Starting out with the declaration that, "No political revolution, no temporary success of a political party, can free us from the obligations wluch Providence has imposed" on tho Southern people, he insisted that, "The solution of tho race problem depends upon the intelligence, the courage and the conscience of the white people among whom these negroes have been placed." Again ho said: "It is impossible to exaggerate the difference 'to these Southern States between seven millions of hopeless colored people and seven million contented colored people in their midst. 'The very worst use to which you can put a human being in a community is to proscribe him so that ho becomes hopeless.' " These expressions read well and seem to be inspired by tho right spirit, as far as it goes. But they do not go far enough. They deal with glittering generalities and stop short of a practical conclusion. Why did not Mr. Breckinridge say in plain terms that the only solution of tho race problem was in recognizing the civil and political rights of the colored people, encouraging them to qualify themselves for the duties of citizenship and allowing them to exercise said duties? If there is any other or better solution for the Southern question than honest elections and a fair count, wo have yet to hear of it. The nomination of Judge Claypool as district attorney is a great improvement over that of Bailey, yet that alone is not a sufficient reason why ho should be confirmed, and he should not be. Under an ad interim appointment from Justice Harlan he could discharge the duties of the office for the present term of tho federal court and leave open for the incoming administration the appointment for a full term. There are plenty of Republican lawyers in the State who could and would discharge all the duties of that office as well or better than Judge Claypool, and from such President Harrison should bo left free to select the district attorney, after the 4th of March. A few days ago the Journal expressed some doubt as to whether tho hopes of tho gold-hunters who Hocked to tho Cceur d'Alene region two or three years ago had ever been realized. Since then figures have been received showing that the lead, silver and gold output within that period runs into the millions. This

is a pleasing variation from the usual history of mining booms, and is, of course, correspondingly gratifying to tho persons who risked their lives in tho search and to the others who risked their savings in investments. At the same time, the fortunate result does not invalidate the Journal's advice as to tho propriety of waiting for further advices before hastening down to lower California on tlio strength of what aro probably fabulous tales from Yuma.

The repeal of tho $100 limitation of the dram-shop tax is supported by every argument of good morals, good government and good finance. Not a word can be said in favor of maintaining the present limitation that does not look to the encouragement and protection of dramshops. It tends directly to increase their number, their demoralizing influence and their cost to the community. A large increase of the tax would diminish all these evils and lessen the burdens of other tax-payers. As dram-shops contribute largely to the expense of municipal government, they should be taxed heavily for its support. Tho present $100 limitation is an insult to the intelligence of the peoplo and to the moral sense of the community. The Indianapolis High-school has been a prolific preparatory department for science teachers for Western colleges and universities. Dr. Harvey B. Wiley, chemist to the National Bureau of Agriculture; President D. S. Jordan, of the Indiana State University; Prof. Chas. F. Gilbert, of tho University of Cincinnati; Dr. Wm. R. Fletcher, late superintendent of the Indians, Hospital for Insane; Dr. R. T. Brown, former State Geologist; Professor Naylor, of the State University; Professor Parr, of DePauw University;Superintendent Jones, of the Indianapolis schools; Prof. George Brown, late president of the State Normal School; Prof. Eli Brown, superintendent city schools, Paducah, Ky.; and a score of others won their laurels as scientists and educators in the Indianapolis High-school. Miss L. J. Martin, who has just been called to tho high position of vice-principal and master of science in the girls High-school, of San Francisco, is a graduate of Vassar College. Sho has taught tho entiro rango of science in the Indianapolis High-school, but her greatest work has been as teacher of inorganic chemistry; the laboratory was built after her plans, and the work in general and analytical chemistry has attracted the attention of teachers throughout the State. Miss Martin has been a contributor to various scientific and educational journals, and has read numerous papers before educational conventions. Her summers havo been spent in the laboratories of Harvard, Ann Arbor and Cornell- with eminent science teachers in chemistry and botany. Her departure is regretted by a large circle of pupils, teachers and friends in this city, who have been attracted no less by her genial and womanly nature, than by her success as a teacher of youth. The increase of her salary over that of city high-school, teachers of equal rank is a matter of encouragement to local talent to make their services so valuablo that the School Board cannot afford to retain them. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal. Please state what is tho pay of United States supervisor of elections, and to whom shall application for pay bo made. John P. Tester. Union City, Ind. Supervisors in towns having a population of over 20,000 receive $5 a day for their services. Tho amount is paid by tho United States marshal when tho money is appropriated. Supervisors in towns of less than 20,000 get nothing. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. r Ellsworth Ingalls, son of Senator Iugalls, has become the city editor of tho Atchison Champion. A fund is being raised at New Orleans for tho family of James Givens, the hero of the recent steamboat fire. The Sultan never uses a plate, but takes his food usually with a spoon or his fingers directly from tho little kettles in which it is cooked. Mas. Andrew Carnegie gave a number of paintings by artists of position as Christmas presents, thus patronizing art as well as pfeasing her friends. Mrs. Mates Dodge, is a very vivacious talker as well as writer. Sho edits St. Nicholas, but only goes to tho office once a week, doing most of her work at home. ' Kuaxg-Hsu, tho young Emperor of tho Flowery Kingdom, has thirty cooks and as many doctors in his household. It is the only way he can keep his digestion in equilibrium. Miss Rosa Burnand, daughter of ono of the editors of Punch, is her father's literarysecretary, and has recently compiled a birthday book from his famous work, "Happy Thoughts." Millions of Americans will bo glad to know that Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowo has largely regainedher health. She is able to walk otit every fine day, and writes letters to her friends in a firm, strong hand. The girl blacksmith. Miss Anna Bole, who recently exhibited a dozen horseshoes at tho Mechanics' Institute, in San Francisco, is described as being "about five feet three inches high and rather fragile than strong." Sho is fifteen years old. The Rev. Dr. William M. Taylor, of New York, has in his study a chair which he uses instead of riding on horseback. It is moved by working two handles, and gives tho rider, or the sitter, about the samo motion as that of a galloping horse, only a litmore violent. Vivian Burnett is the original of his mother's "Little Lord Fauntleroy." His hair, which is beautiful, like his mother's, was once long and falling over his shoulders, like the pictures of Lord Fountleroy, but now is cropped off short. He is a manly youngster and very popular with children as well as grown people. Thk Safety Valve tells about a novel and beautiful watch that is being manufactured for presentation to Mrs. Harrison. The case plates are of transparent Brazilian pebble or rock crystal. Holes are drilled in tho crystal plates for the screws and fittings. The pivots are set in rubies and sapphires, and the plates are held apart by sapphire pillars. Miss Mary Maccribbtn, who died at Washington the other day, nearly ono hundred years old, used to say she had seen every President from George Washington to Grover Cleveland. Sho was living in Baltimore in 1S12, and saw tho bombardment of Fort McIIenry. Sho knew well John Howard Payne, the author of "Home Sweet Home," and witnessed his first appearance on the stage at Baltimore. The Bonanza King of Nevada, Senator Jones, retains his cheerful face and humorous ways through all tho vicissitudes of his career, even if he is less efflorescent than he used to bo in other times. When he finds fitting company, he spins yarns of frontier life that are both broad and long, and, if he can be induced to make a book of them, he will get an audience larger than ever listened to any of his political speeches, or even his financial demonstrations. WniTELAWREiD is decidedly aristocratic, says a New York letter in the Philadelphia Bulletin. A lady caller at his residence tells me that the door was opened by a young man who might have answered

Queen Elizabeth as a page. Ho wore a striped satin waistcoat and a doublet of velvet, cut in ancient English stylo,, with expansive shirt front and a general air of efleminacy about him that he was strikingly suggestive, anything effeminate can bo striking, of English nobility tastes. Forty-five years ago fivo young men of Concerd, N. H., formed a club. A few nights ago they ate together their forty-fifth yearly supper. All are married now, and there has been only one death in the five families in all this long stretch of time. Tho club is composed of Dr. W. W. Hurd, of New York city: Joseph S. Abbott, of W ashington, D. C; Dr. Charles A. Tufits, of Dover, N. H., and George A. Blanchard and J. C. A. Hill, of Concord. Thev sup at one another's houses by turns, the entertainer this year being Mr. Blanchard. "Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land," were the words which figured most prominently on a transparency just outsido the railway depot at Breslau on the occasion of Kaiser Wilhelm's recent visit to that city. Tho young monarch was deeply incensed at this strange want of tact on the part of tho local authorities. He chose to regard tho transparency as an intentional allusion to his untilial behavior to his parents, and has vowed never again to set his foot in the ancient capital of Silesia. The Popo has received nearly eight hundred requests from French ecclesiasts for one of the jubilee offerings which he announced his intention of giving away. In most cases tho choice of the article was left to himself, the object of the applicants being merely to secure a memento of the jubilee, however trilling. Tho Pope will probably present ths costly ivory tabernacle sent Turn by the American Catholics to the Church of Our Lady at Lourdes. Over a thousand demands came from Germany, mostly from the priest3 of tho poorer parishes, and nearly all asking for ono or another of the objects used in Catholic worship. Col. JonN C. Dent, who died a few days ago, was a brother-in-law of General Grant, and served with distinction in tho Mexican war, where, . while in an engagement, he was thrown on tho pommel of his saddle and injured. Ho also served in the war of the rebellion, and was in Libby prison. Owing to his relationship to General Grant the confederates demanded a lare ransom when exchanging prisoners for his person, but as no concessions were mado he was there a long time. At one time Colonel Dent was very wealth', owning before tho war a large part of Sacramento, Cal. During tho floods ho lost his property, and settled in Missouri, where in 1$!& ho established a stock farm in Carthage. The widely-spread report about Mrs. General Grant having bought a new home on Riverside Drive, New York, camo from the purchase of a house near that thoroughfaro for Mrs. U. S. Grant, jr., that is, Mrs. "Buck" Grant. She was tho only daughter .of tho lato ex-Senator J. B. Chaffee, of Colorado. His estate was left to her, with the exception of a few bequests to relatives, and was estimated at about $400,000. It was in an unproductive condition, but his old friend, D. H. MorTatt, president of tho Denver & Rio Grando railroad, who became his executor, has managed it so wrell that its productiveness is now assured, and out of some of tho returns Mr. Moffatt purchased the Riverside house for Mrs. Grant and her children. Mrs. General Grant goes often to see her grandchildren, and to visit the General's tomb near by. This is doubtless the foundation of the rumor. Sho still lives in tho old house on Sixty-sixth street.

C0M31EXT AND OPINION. A prosperous bod' of laborers is necessary to tho existence of a prosperous commonwealth. This is n lesson that has been well learned in the North and which must bo well learned in, tho South.Chicago Inter Ocean. Let the solid South break itself up by allowing free division on economic questions and giving every man his civil rights, and tho North will gladly accept the evideuce that it has abandoned its sectional politics. Portland Oregonian. yTiiK. worst possiblo use to put an ex-Pres-ldent of tho United States to is to retire him. It is an injustice to him personally. It is an injury to the country that should profit by the experience he has had in its service. New 1 ork Star. Onb of the sincerest consolations which tho Democratic business man has for the dofeat of his party is the knowledge that . within a few weeks the demoralization will bo remedied and his letters will reach their destination promptly andsurely. Nebraska State Journal. The essentials of international intercourse can be kept up, although some of tho avenues of diplomacy may be interrupted. Indeed, the average American would not enter any protest against the abolition of tho entire system of foreign ministers. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Because wicked peoplo give balls in which the chaste dance is converted into a gross caricature is no reason why all dancing should be condemned, There are more food people than bad people who dance, lore real, harmless pleasure than evil is derived from dancing.- Cleveland Leader. We want a Southern Republican administration. Tho Republican party wants General Harrison to be as good a Southern Republican as Mr. Cleveland has been a Southern Democrat. It wants the Democratic party treated fairly, but it must board itself and pay its own way and no longer live off the Republicans. Chicago Tribune. .The plain indications are that tho Cabinet was not mado in advance, either in word or substance, and that Mr. Harrison is considering the matter carefully and in his own way. The people will like to have the new President himself appoint the Cabinet, in the full sense, for in no other way can a body of advisers be got together at once so useful to them and helpful to him. New York Press. It is plainly the determined purpose of General Harrison, by the aid ot Congress, to see that the right of suffrage accorded the blacks by the Constitution is not denied them or abridged; that they shall be permitted to vote without fear of personal consequences, and that their votes shall be counted as cast. If the Democratic leaders in tho South can bring themselves to accept this programme they have nothing to fear from the incomipg administration. If they cannot, the consequences may not be pleasant to them. Omaha Republican. Ilia Constitutional Duty. Lafayette Courier. There is not a human being that will pretend to deny that Robert S. Robertson is the legal Lieutenant-governor of Indiana at this time, and it is his duty as such to call the Senate to order and preside at the opening session and until he is relieved by the Lieutenant-governor-elect, Ira J. Chase. The Democratic gabble about consistency is tho most trivial kind of flap-doodle. Tho revolution they engaged in two years ago was rascally business that cannot bo excused, palliated or condoned, and it would be creditable to their good intentions if they would 6eek to relegate the shameful record to the realms of f orgetfnlness rather than attempt to keep it fresh before tho people by a pretense of '( onsistency" that really amounts to nothing more nor less than a compounding of villainy. It is the duty of Colonel Robertson to preside, and he may rest assured that tho people will sustain him m any possible emergency. m lie Is Not Fishing for Cat. Madison Courier. , District Attorney Bailey has ransacked the State of Indiana, has wubpeenaed members of tho Republican committees from almost every county in tho State, to find some ono who has received the alleged Dudley letter. Yet after weeks of inquiry no indictment has been found against any one for conspiracy in connection with that letter. Yet, as the Indianapolis Journal pertinently remarks, Iih lias no surplus energy to devote to tho Whittaker letter. Tho original Whittaker circular, the man who sent it, and the man who received it can all be readily found. He will probably not havo to iuquiie outside the limits of the grand jury room to ascertain all the facts. -- They Fail to See the Difference. Boston Journal The Democratic papers keep right on trying to raise a quarrel in the Republican party over the spoils. They do not seem to realize the fact that tho Republican party is not the Democratic party that tho difference in character between them is as radical as tho difference in principles.

THE MISSISSIPPI SAVAGES

The Story of the War 3Iade On the reaceable Blacks of Wahalak. All the Negroes Who Defended Themselves Have Been Murdered, and Many Others AYho Had Nothing to Do with the Affair. Meridian (Miss.) Staff Correspondence Atlanta Constitution. Tho Wahalak tragedy was not tho result of a race war. It was simply an unlawful attack upon the home of a colored man and the killing of two of the assailants, and the subsequent pursuit and murder of several black men by lawless whites. This lawless- I ness was permitted to gather force through the culpable indifference of an incompetent sheriff, on whose head the responsibility must be laid. 1 Wahalak is a little lutsber station on the Mobile & Ohio road, situated in Kemper county, which is not unknown to fame. The negroes are. said to outnumber the whites ten to one. On. either side of the railroad, and for several miles back, the country is level and the soil rich. On the east side there arises a series of precipitous bluffs, behind which tho country is sterile and broken. In the valley below live the white planters, most of whom , own their places as family inheritances, while the negroes who were their former slaves, live on the highlands, where they cultivate email patches. Many of them have bought their homes and live in an ideal republic of their own. In the busy seasons they hire out to tho planters below, and the money thus earned, supplemented by their own little crops, enables them to live tho year round. The Maury family is the leading ono in that section of Kemper county. The head of tho family, J. W. Maury, now an aged man, has a largo family, who are settled around him. He was also, before the Avar, a large slave-owner, arid his former slaves arc among the most prominent among tho black inhabitants of the hills. Mr. Maury's two sons, Henry and Frank, men in middle life, married and tho fathers of largo families, live adjoining him. George Maury, the leader of the colored men, was a former slave of tho Maury family (and most likely a blood relation of his master, after whom he was called), and had tho implicit trust of its members. Somo years ago George marriedthe house girl, wlio held the kitchen keys in the Maury household. The aflair was one of note. In -tho marriage of two trusted servants the Maurys showed the deepest interest. The wedding took place from the mansion, and the newly-married pair were settled in one of the mountain cabins, where they have since lived in a thrifty manner, paying for the place and accumulating something every year. As to what led un to the present ill feeling, there aro conflicting opinions. It has been stated that a few Sundays ago a negro preacher in ono of the churches read General Sherman's recent fulmination, in which he referred to the use which might bo made of tho torch, dynamite and the sword. That reading, however, did not take place in the Maury neighborhood, but in DeKalb, some miles distant, and there is no evidence that tho Wahalak negroes ever heard of it. The friends of the DeKalb preacher deny that he ever read it. Then, again, a series of letters appeared, recently, in several Northern papers, which criticised somewhat freely the manners of the peoplo and tho relations between the races. As the negroes aro not a reading people, and probaoly never saw either one of tho obscuro papers printing the oftensive articles, it is difilcultto see how they could havo been incited by them. It is suggested that tho personal character of the white men concerned would throw light upon the tragedy. Tom Nicholson and his brother-in-law, Seth Cobb, are known as hard cases. Many stories aro told as totheirantecedents, their driuking habits and their association with negroes. It is asserted by many that their families lived on terms of equality with those of the negroes by whom they were surrounded. Hence, when George Maury ordered Nicholson's young sou to drive out of the way and let him pass, he was only carrying out the familiarity which had long, existed. George is a man of violent speech, so that his language was that to which the Nicholsons w;ere accustomed. When Tom Nicholson reached tho spot he found the boy still crying, with the negro still abusing him. A light took place, in which the negro whipped the white man. Cobb went home and Maury drove on. This, then, establishes tho feud, with George Maury, black, on one side, and Tom Nicholson, white, on the other. Nicholson sent for his brother-in-law, Seth Cobb. Soon others were added to tho crowd, among them being Wm. Vaughn and V m. Hare. They claim that their purine was to arrest Geo. Maury for assault and battery. There is much stronger evidence, however, that their intention was to get George for the purpose of flogging him and perhaps to kill him if he should resist too strongly. This theory would be in keeping with the antecedents of tho partics. The white Maurys joined in later, their special object being to punish tho negro for presuming to talk impudently to a white boy. Geo. Maury knew what was coming and prepared for it. His house is on the highest point of one of the highest hills in the neighborhood. The smokehouse, the cotton-pen, and wagon-bed form a triangle, commanding tho gate entrance into the house. George called his friends tnimflinr ViirAT in tinmhpr a ti H firmn mA to defend himself from the attack of tho mob. The party approached Sunday night, eleven white men composing it, with Seth Cobb in command, Irank Maury as his first lieutenant, and Thomas Nicholson, William Hare, William Vaughn, a young clerk named Gilest and others. The party passed within range of the triangle, and up to the door of tho house. Frank Maury pushed the door open, and found the house perfectly dark. An inmate told him that George was over about the cotton-pen. As the crowd turned in that direction a deadly fire was opened upon it from the three intrenched outhouses. Giles took to his heels and ran, never stopping until noon of next day. Seth Cobb fell mortally wounded, and died in a few minutes. Next, Frank Maury bit the dust. Nicholson was mortally wounded. William Hare fell between a log and the fence, which afforded him protection against the lire from the cotton-pen. The night was bright and clear, and every movement could be distinctly seen. One of the inmates of the cotton-pen took special charge of Hare, who was behind the log. The negro would work his rifle through tho port-hole in all directions, trying to get a good aim at Hare, while the lire would bo as promptly returned. , During a cessation in the shooting. Hare jumped the fence and soon made himself scarce. Half a dozen of the party were seriously wounded, all of whom retreated, leaving the dead on the field. When the party returned next day for the dead they found that the negroes bad evacuated tho place. Tho raiders at once took measures to color the whole affair. Tho stories sent out were all of their own making, correspondents from a distance werekept at bay, and several were given to understand that their immediate departure might be to their interest. Tho reports which were sent out under these circumstances conveyed tho idea that it was a race war; that the whites were in danger of extermination at tho hands of the infuriated negroes. Such reports found ready sympathy and immediate response. The young men in all parts of the State were read' to go to the defense of the beleagnred whites. Still Sheritl'Kcy was strangely inactive. So far as ho was concerned he might as well not havo existed. While young men JO0 miles away weretendcrjngtheiraid to the people whom they believed to be in danger, the sworn law officer of the county, but twelve miles away, never moved a peg. - The excitement which followed tho news of the moonlight battle on the hill was intense. The better class of peoplo in Kemper county, who havo as little nympathy with the Cobbs and Nicholsons as with tho negres, began to feel concerned for the good name of tho county, but owing to. the absence of a leader, the sheriff failing to appear, could not accomplihh much. A party of men from Meridian were the first to arrive and tho first to leave. The story of their tleparture has yet to bo told. It seems that there were a good many pocketflasks in the party, and that by the tiina thpy reached Wahalak they were ready for business on an extensive scale. They fired around wildly at every negro in sight, and, while a raco war had not yet broken out, it was plain that a little more promiscuous shooting would produce one. Several

prominent citizens, seeing this, induced tha Meridian men to return home. It was the Wednesday evening following the Sunday battle that the friends of th dead men organized to scour the comity. . Three days had passed by; the county wa, the scene of blood; tho 'whole Union was thrilled with horror at the impending calamity in Kemper; people, in all parts of Mississippi were concerned for the safety of their brethren, and yet Sheriff Key was supremely indiflercnt. Here was a company of armed men, booted and spurred, lnden down with shotguns and revolvers dividing oil' into platoons to scour tho country with hostile intent, all without law or tho presence of the sherill". who was quic! receiving the taxes in DeKalb. ?'rA The story of that ride over the conu'y iw will take tho grand jury to unravel. Vaushu and Hare were prominent as leaders. They ' went out bound to secrecy, and they aro yet under that obligation. Many negroes aro missing, and when an absentee i named tho suggestion is made that ho has probably -gone to Arkansas." What peculiar meaning that phrase has it is hard to determine. One of tho parties which scoured the neighborhood in which George Maury lived arrested several negrtos. On the return it was suggested that it would be well to havo the negroes under guard in an old liouso called the white house. Five hard-looking cases were left in charge of tho party. Thursday morning the guard appeared in Wahalak without their prisoners, "They escaped," aia tho leader. "I reckon they're whar they'll do us no mora harm, ana you wont as well scratch their names off the list. They won't come back here soon." How many more have gone the same road it is hard to sav, but there is plenty of room for conjecture' Kvcry one of the thirteen suspected men will be killed if caught," said a citizen who knew all the parties concerned. Georgo Maury," Will Martin and Walter Crook are among the three who. it is significantly stated, havo "gone to Arkansas." Their cabins havo been burned, and dessolation reigns where they lately lived. Will there bo a race war in Mississippi? That question is suggested by the above recital. There is no reason why there 6bouUl be. The negroes are as docile as ever. They are comparatively contented. Whatever ill-feeling exists springs from purely local and personal causes. There is no friction whatever between tho races. Rut still a race war might be easily brought about, unless the white peoplo of Mississippi tako prompt action to prevent it. The prevention must come in the shape of a curb upon the debased elements of the white population, among whom the antipathy to the negro is the greatest. Public opinion must bo so concentered as to forbid uch incidents as that of Wahalak. It is unfortunate for Mississippi that sho has no great city from which influences might radiate, and that no great newspaper is published within her borders to read the riot act to irresponsible men who would endanger the peace of the State. Mississippi is an exclusively agricultural State, with 6uiall cities located at long range from each other, and with no railroad center. As a result her interests aro scattered, her people are not acquainted with each other, and there is not that unity of purpose and execution which, are to bo found in a State where peoph meet moro freely and have better means of communication.' The politicians are equally as strange with each other as are the people. The circulation of the iapers js confined to the adjoining counties to the ones in which they are published." With tho people, the press, tho population centers, the railroads and the postal system thus scattered there is confusion which gives good play for local canards. Then the feeling prevails that tho good name of tha State requires the suppression, as far as possible, of tho publication of such events as have taken place tho last three weeks. I have not met a single citizen who approves of the conduct of the Wahalak raiders, now that they have tho facts in thai case, nor one that will lift a finger to bring the murderers to justice. It is conceded, that George Maury had tho right to defend his home against a party of vigilantes, and that the killing of tho negro prisoners at the whito house" was but brutal murder. But, if the courts do no better than the sheriff, the peoplo of Kemper county must be prepared for criticism. Southern View of the Negro Problem. Atlanta Conntltution. Every attempt to secure negro domination inthe Soutbvwhether by legislation or by tho bayonet, has been a failure, Th negro problem, fiom tho Southern point of view, is not a political problem in any sense,' and partisan or party legislation can only 1 serve to postpone its solution can only serve to irritate and disgust those who aro doing their best to solve it on lines that insure the safety and self-respect of both races. Tho civil-risihts bill was an irritant, and the force bill would havo been a worse one. Kven the discussion aroused by Mr. Georgo W. Cable's magazine articles was in tho nature of an irritant. As long as human nature remains as it is. outside pressure based on ignorance or partisanship can only havo ono result. Removo tho outsido pressure; eliminate the idea that the North, taking; advantage of its power and influence, is bent on placing the negro in positions he is not yet able to fill; leave the South to deal with tho situation as it exists, and thero will be no limit to the kindness and friendliness with which tho negro will be treatwt and advanced. The Dram-Shop-Tar. Logtuisport Journ&l. The matter of the repeal, by the next Legislature, of tho limitation of the municipal saloon-license tax to $100 a year is considerably discussed. It is clearly shown, that the saloons are tho sourco of a largo ' part of municipal expenditures, and they could justly bo made the bearers of a much larger proportion of tho burden of municipal taxation. In this city the license fee is only 25, and the income from it about $1,000 a year. At tho full amount of tho present limit, $100, it is probable that this income would not bo less than (5,000. If this limit is repealed, or fixed at not to exceed $500, this city, at a fee of $200, could count upon an income from this source of $10,000 a year; at $300, the amount would probably he $12,000, and at $500, 15,000, at the same time reducing the number of saloons one-half. The justice and propriety of such taxation will scarcely be questioned by disinterested voters and tax-payers. It is plain business and common sense, and the wonder is that the policy has not been adopted long since. Mrs. Harrison's Position. Washington Special. The wife of a prominent Ohio Congressman who has recently returned from a fortnight's visit to Mrs. Harrison, was asked many particulars about it at the Whit House, yesterday, as she sauntered through the Last Parlor. Sho said it was very amusing to read the letters that were flowing in upon Mrs. Harrison from all sorts of Ceople, and on all sorts of reform topics, egging her to do this and not to do that, and give somo assurance in advance that she positively would or would not do' the other. On leaving, tho lady said to her hostess: "What shall I tell your old friends in Washington, besides telling them that you are not a bit spoiled, but the Kiino wholesouled, genial woman as in the old dayt there?'' "Well, tell them," said Mrs. Harrison, laughingly, "that as to low-necked ana short-sleeved dresses, personally, no; as to wine, 1 haven't made up my mind; as to bustles, yes." In the Civil Sen Ice. Washington fcpoclaL There are about ino,000 persons in the civil service of tho government, there having been a large increase under President Cleveland. About 2,000 are. or will be at tli close of his administration, under th civilservice rules. Hence t here are '4 good many places not covered by the law. lint if they were twice as manv there would apparently be several applicants for each place. .Senators and members complain that theit mails are loaded with applications for of. lice. Senator Sherman remarked to-dayi lt is an intolerable nuisance.5' Midwinter on lioton Common, Boston Advertiser. It really seems hard work to believe thai it can bo midwinter when one gazes acroM the Common and sees tho spring-like look of things. Rut a faint etiort of tho imagination is required to make one think tho trees will be budding and the gras ringing in a day or so. 'i he weather we havo been having may be, and undoubtedly is. unhealthy, but it is pleasurable to tha man of health and healthy imagination He Will Live JIUrnhertv. Jntlsre. We do not know where Orover will liv after his departure frm Washington, hnt certainly not in the heart of hi country laea.