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Business OCce -38 Editorial Room 242 The Legislature goes off junketing, but tho fifty-eight door-keepers goon drawing their pay, just the same. It is evidently going to "hustle" somebody to prevent a shortage in the county clerk's office, and indications are that Sullivan will not bo the only one to walk the floor. ITow would it do for tho Democrats to pass a bill vesting the legislat ive, executive andjudicial power of the State in the Secretary of tho Senate! This would simplify the government and vindicate Green Smith. A Washington special quotes a friend of Secretary Bayard as saying that if there is a question of resignation anywhere, "it is a matter between the President and the Navy Department." And now the question is, "Will Cleveland resignP Who says Republicans in tho South do not enjoy equal rights! Of course they do. Thero is the Hon. Mr. Clayton, of Arkansas, who was murdered by Democratic thugs, just the same as if be bad been a negro engaged in the desperate crime of trying to vote. The rbetter class" of Arkansas Democrats are so indignant over the assassination of Hon. John M. Clayton, by baser members of their party, that the best men among them will, as like as not, go out and lynch half-a-dozen negroes by way of showing their earnestness. The Legislatures of Indiana and New Jersey are as much alike as two peas. Both are opposing reforms of all kinds, both are laying plans for making more offices raiding tie treasury, both are on tip-toe to grab everything in sight, and both defy the law. The reason of this likeness is readily explained both are Democratic. Sotjtiiekn Democrats are frank enough to admit that colored men down there are not in tho enjoyment of all their civil and political rights, but to assert that white Republicans are under similar disabilities is to bring from them furious denials. These gentry are now explaining how the murder of Hon. John 31. Clayton, in Arkansas, came about, and very lame work they are making of it. TnE New York Post having been convicted by the New York Independent and other papers of lying about Quay and Wanamaker, finds the comments of those papers on its dishonorablo course "peculiarly diverting." The Post, which holds the opinion that chastity is not an essential virtue for a public man, evidently adheres to the other lofty principle that lying is a respectable accomplishment for an organ of the "moral element." Murder as a part of tho Southern Democratic programme must be elimi nated from tho politics of that section. The Republican party will no longer tolerate assassination as a political factor, and a continuation of the bloody methods of the Southern Bourbons will call for an application of federal power that will take strong-handed supervision of every ballot-box in the. South whenever national officers aro to be chosen. At the dictation of the brewers and whisky-dealers tho Democratic majority in the New Jersey Legislature has deci(Ted to repeal tho local-option feature of the liquor law passed by Republicans two 3eirs ago. This law brought about practical prohibition in several counties, and sreatly restricted tho sale of liquor in others, but the political Prohibitionists did not approve of a measure which they. did not pass, and, therefore, assisted the Democracy into power in order that the law might be repealed. It is another example of tho way tho third party loves temperance. Whatever difference of opinion thcro may be concerning different plans of temperance legislation there ought not to be any, and among wise men and good citizens there is none, as to tho propriety of instructing the oung in regard to the hygienic and physiological results of intoxicating drinks. Such instruction ought to be imparted in tho schools. Some of the States have enacted law6 requiring it. It is entirely in keeping with the record of tho Indiana Democracy that they should Riunmarily reject a proposition of that kind introduced in the present Legislature. They do not even want the children prejudiced against drink. They stand by the dramshops. Whatever else tho Democrats in tho Legislature do or fail to do, the public can rest easy on one score: they will stand by the dram-shops. The average Indiana Democrat regards tho saloon in politics as the corner-stone of liberty

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and the sweetest flower of popular government. Let society suffer, let morals decay, let revenues decline, let crime and pauperism increase, let taxes multiply and tax-payers protest, let cities and towns beg tho privilege of taxing tho traffic and tho rural districts ask to bo permitted to abolish it, let corruption in politics run riot, and let tho slime of tho saloon trail its way over the State from end to end the Democracy will stand by the dram-shops end cheerfully do tho dirty work of tho whisky ring. THE MURDER OF COLONEL CLAYTON. No more atrocious political murder has occurred in the South than that of Col. John M. Clayton. If this is the first offering of the New South the people of tho North might well reject the bloody hand that tenders it. They will, at least, bo justified in demanding to know if there is never to be an end of political murders as a means of maintaining tho solid South. Mr. Clayton was a man of ability and character, brother of Hon. Powell Clayton, and Republican candidate for Congress last fall in tho Second Arkansas district. The district is Republican, yet his Democratic competitor, C. R. Breckinridge, was declared elected. Mr. Clayton, believing that he was defeated by fraud, had filed notice of contest, and was collecting evidence in support of his claim for the seat. It was while engaged in this work in one of the country villages of liif district that he was brutally murdered. The murder occurred in a township. where the ballot-box was stolen in the lato election in order to assist in establishing a Democratic majority. All tho circumstances go to show that it was strictly a political murder, done by Democrats for partisan purposes. It is a shocking, cold-blooded murder, but not more so than hundreds of others that have occurred in tho South. The fact that tho victim is a man of high standing and character does not make the crime any more atrocious than if ho had been an unknown negro. It does, however, in largo degree, account for the alleged indignation of "respectable Democrats," and the promptness of tho Legislature in offering a reward for tho ' murderer. The Democratic majority in the Legislature is itself tho result of gross frauds. Tho Democratic Governor of Arkansas was elected tho same way. They aro all in tho samo boat. They aro "not all murderers, but they represent a system whose political methods lead to murder. If their hands are not actually red with the blood of John 31. Clayton and hundreds of less prominent men who have been as foully murdered on account of politics, they are morally as guilty as if they had pulled the trigger or plunged the knife. For years past they have been tho defenders, supporters and beneficiaries of a system that is founded in fraud and culminates in murder. Southern Democrats cannot prove their respectability by indignantly denouncing tho occasional murder of a prominent Republican whose taking off they fear will hurt real estate and immigration, whilo they aro habitually shutting their eyes to tho murder of obscure men and defending the political sj'stem which necessitates such crimes. Every man who has contributed to the maintenance of the solid South or profited by that infamous system of political fraud and villainy is morally responsible for the murder of John 31. Clayton. Wo ought not to talk about assuming a protectorate in Samoa until wo have civilized the South. So far as known no attempt has yet been made in tho Legislature to give practical effect to Governor Hovey's excellent suggestions in regard to an improved road system. Ho presented the case clearly and strongly. Tho State and its people suffer enormous loss every year by tho lack of good roads. No expenditure of public money yields so little in return as road taxes, and none would yield more if judiciously expended. The construction of a good system of roads throughout the State would add to the taxable value of every aero of land, increase tho profits of farming, and contribute very largely to the comfort and convenience of the people. Our road laws and road system both need reconstruction. Governor Hovey said: "Large sums of money are now, under our present road system, expended and wasted, which might be of great benelit if the roads could be worked under some general supervisor who understood practical engineering. Bridges, culverts, ditches and embankments are now constructed in many localities at great cost, which are almost worthless, and even the earth roads aro worked in many instances, exhausting the road-tax, without much practical benetit.,' This is a matter of great and general importance, and one that concerns all the people, but for that very reason it will probably receive no attention from the present Legislature. The majority are wholly absorbed in stealing offices and trying to get some partisan advantage. They aro far more interested in curtailing the Governor's appointing power, andiu exercising executive power by the Legislature than they are in adopting any of his excellent recommendations in the interest of the people. 'Congressman Holjian, of this State, than whom there is no smaller statesman or bigger demagogue and fraud in public life, is at last finding his level, even among his party associates. When a Democrat reaches the point of being denounced and despised even by Democrats, he is very low. Holman has reached that joint. As long as he practiced his duplicity, deceit and deuiagogism on Republicans it was all right, but when he began to administer his nasty medicine to his own party they spit it out. His sneaking course in regard to the opening of the Sioux reservation, and his more recent factious opposition to the Oklahoma bill have made him the best hated man in Congress among Democrats, as he has long been among Republicans. As a political fraud of tho cheap and nasty order, we aro glad to see that ho is finding his level. The 3Iu!linix bill for tho establishment of a State school-book printing bureau is a corrupt job. The main object is to create offices and employment for impecunious Democrats. The Journal is iu favor of cheaper school books, but not that kind nor that way. Tho solu tion of the school-book problem is in tho

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purchase of tho(bcst books in the market at wholesale rates from thelowest bidders and then furnishing them at cost or free to pupils. The, distribution can bemado through the machinery of the school system. The Mullinix bill, providing for a lot of incompetent, high-salaried officers, is the orst possible plan that could be suggested. In short, it is a Democratic "good scheme" and a corrupt job. Our school books must be kept out of partisan politics. Is one of the February magazines Hon. Andrew D. White, ex-president of Cornell, advocates the establishment of a national university at Washington, and mentions as ouo of tho advantages of tho place the presence of leading men upon whom a university might draw for its lecturerooms or council chambers. Ho says in this connection: We sometimes hear sneers at Western Congressmen, and yet, out of the small numler I have tbe honor to know, I can at this moment recall two who, opart from lanre diplomatic ex iericnce, stand iu the highest rank of American scholars. Mr. White should at once be called upon for the names of these two men, or every district in the West will bo claiming one as its own. That is to say, nearly every one; there are a few exceptions, and the Seventh Indiana district is among them. A Buffalo reporter has been making a calculation on the. probabilities of tinding men at home whom ho is assigned to interview after 8 o'clock at night, and has reduced the matter to figures. He considers the noctnrnal habits of a great many classes of citizens, but makes one omission that renders his calculations valueless. The chance of tinding a suspected embezzler at home after 8 o'clock is not included in tho estimate. . To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Where can I find complete information concerning the United States Military Academy! When will there be a cadet to be appointed from the First district oi Indiana? - Reader. Write to your member of Congress. ABO UT PEOPLE ASP THINGS. Complaint is madethat King Alfonso has "nobody to play.wlth'. Sknor Domingo," the celebrated Spanish artist, has painted a portrait of the little King Alfonso, for which he received $20,000. Dn. Caspar AVistar, whose death at Philadelphia was announced theother day, was the husband of the Mrs. Wistar who is pleasantly known to the public by her translation of German novels. Prince Bismarck displayed characteristic brutality in his manner of releasing Dr. Gefficken. He 6imply sent a turnkey to tho outraged scholar's cell to tell him to "get out and go about his business." Sir Charles Dllkk, who is in Paris, was asked his opinion on Saturday, of Boulanger. He replied: "I can : only, repeat what I said in the Fortnightly Review in 1887. I have not discovered whether he is a clown, a charlatan or the coming Casar.? Jack 3Iaynard and 3iiss Jennie Burrcss, of Todd county, Kentucky, were recently married after having been engaged a quarter of a century. During twenty-two years of the time the gentleman never once missed calling to see his bride-elect Sunday. In the artificial process of manufacturing ice, the freezing taking place so gently that a spray of roses may bo put into a tank of water and froze into the mass of ice without stirring a petal from its place. There it lies imbedded in all its beauty of form aud color. The engagement of W. C. Endicotr, jr., son of the Secretary of War, and 3Iiss Thoron, of Washington, has been an nounced in Salem. The lady is ' stated' to" 1 J 1 A At C 1 11' oe a granuuauguier oj. -nr. cauiuei am, now, or formerly, agent of Baring Bros., in New York. Mrs. Talbot, of Washington, has been very successful in teaching the street Arabs the use of tools. Although rebelling i against the routine of school life, the3' cau; be taught to work, and soon become selfsupporting. She is aided in imparting instruction by the Howard University. The total immigration from Hungary and Bohemia last year amounted to 16,585, most of which found its way to tho coalfields, coke-ovens and iron-mills of Pennsylvania. Those. now in the coko region are getting ready to strike, and possibly make places for some of the new comers. " A contrivance has lately been introduced on the railroads in Russia to indicate the next station at which the train will stop. It is a dial, the iudox of which points to the station. One is set up. in every car, and the indices of all are moved at once by electricity, working from the locomotive. . General Bctler has accepted the invitation to address the alumni of Colby University and Watertown College next July upon three conditions, as he states it: 'Life, sufficient health, and if I-am not absent from this country, as 1 may be compelled to be in search of the continuation of the two former." 3Iiss Mollis Fanciter, a Brooklyn lady, who has been an invalid nearly all her life, is the vice-president of a manufacturing company which makes and deals in goods designed for the comfort of sick people. All tho meetings of the company are held in the lady's darkened chamber, from which she has not stirred for twenty-three years. The four heirs of the late Paul Tulane of Princeton, N. J., have erected, at a cost of nearly $6,000. a magnificent granite life-size statue of the philanthropist. The inscriptions read: "Paul Tulane 18011S87." "Founder of Turane University, New Orleans." "Noted for his public spirit and enterprise: beloved for his chairty and philanthropy." -i Mrs. Stanford, wife of the California Senator, recently sent her Chinese cook to a cooking-school in New York, where he learned all the scientific features of the gastronomio art.' The result was that, on his return to Washington, he displayed a desire to serve a' banquet every day. Rich as she is, Mrs. Stanford now thinks that tho Chinese must go1. The following facts about the tongue may interest some people. A white tongue ia said to denote febrile disturbance; a brown, moist tongue. .indigestion; a brown, dry tongue, depression, blood roisoning, typhoid fever; a red, moist tongue, iuilammatory fever; a ' red, glazed tongue, general fever, loss of digestion; a tremulous, moist and flabby tonjue, feebleness, nervousness. Among the living sovereigns mentioned in the new Aliiianack de Gotha. those who have reigned longest are the Emperor of Brazil, who ascended the throne in 1831, at the age of siii Queen Victoria, who succeeded in 1S37, and Dike, Ernst of Saxe-Colmrg-Uotha, crowned in ISM. The oldest sovereign is Pope -Lei XIII, who is seventyeight years old; tnV Jourigcst is the King of fcpain. not jfet tare' A New Yorker, who is a student of slang in his leisuro'moments, has been looking up the origin of the word "snide." He finds that years ago it was 4 customary for tho street-boys of NeWiYork ;to call all tailors "schueiders." Out of Hhafc prew the abbreviated word "sebnid'which ;was at first applied onlfto ehoanor poor clothing, such as was matle by German tailors in the little sidcstreet shops.' Now "snide" is applied to anything that is mean, poor or irauauieuF. Ix 1SH3 tjio wife of a missionary opened a school . for girls in Athens, which until then had boen an unheard of thing nan ween-an nnneara ot tiling in rVoru aj verf :1iumjle beginning :cntncc incre'af ett.lnVa few years to Greece theattcn an averag ol 7C0. This opportunirv for tho education of girls was so well appreciated that bv the request of several leading Greek lamilies a school for more advanced Ktndy was opened, the 'Hill Institute,"

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whose name commemorates ,the founder of the first. The school is ono of great importance, having students from all parts of Greece, Crete, Kaypt, Asia 31inor and tho Balkan region. T-day in Greece there aro 270 public schools for girls, with over 20,000 pupils. Dr. Hill, the only surviving ex-president of Harvard, is described by the Boston Advertiser. He occupied the portion of president from 1SG2 to 18GS, just beforo the term of President Eliot began. Dr.1 Hill in a large man physically, as well as mentally, with hair, face and figure showing few of the marks of age. Ho wis a great friend of Professor Agassiz, having many of the tastes of the dead savant. One of them, tho studv of natural history ha occupied very much of his time since he finished active college work. His investigations of the habits of the lower reptiles are world famous. He often lectures before the Maine colleges on hishobbj'.auduponphilosopical and ethical themes. The story of Mr. Stead's interview with the Czar of all the Russias is sufficiently characteristic to bear repetition. 3Ir. Stead was received very graciously, and he discussed in his most eloquent vein tho advantages of Russia and England becoming good friends. The time slipped away pleasantly enough. After a while Air. Stead thought he might be intruding on his imperial host, aim wini ;i uianu smiie arose, consniteu nis watch, and said: "Realry, your Majesty, I feel that a poor journalist has no right to take UP anv more of vonr valnablo time " and with this he departed. Now, if there is any rule more stringent than another in tho etiquette of court life, it is that royalty should always terminate an interview. The Czar was immensely amnscd when Mr. Stead usurped the imperial prerogative, and he repeated'thc story many times afterward wuh intense deliht COMMENT AND OPINION. Bismarck's ill-concealed contempt and dislike for tho United States is based on tho belief that nothing can make ns ticht: and if we do not show the contrary in this case there will be reason for considering that opinion well founded. Pittsburg Dispatch. If the South desires to' .'keen federal authority away from its ballot-boxes it must punish political crimes of every sort. If it hopes to prosper by reason of immiprauuu auu iuo mvesinieni oi.oui.8iae capital it must hunt down its assassins. Chi cago News. If there cannot bo freedom of choice in all States, honest elections in all States, respect for the rights of a million citizens wno nave settled in tho Territories, and defense for Americans in their industry, no scientific selection of clerks will make the government satisfactory to. tho people. New York Tribune. A Democratic assassin assumed the job of defeating the ends of justice by putting him John M. Clayton! out of the way. It was a crime characteristic of the 'solid South, and is new evidence that the patriot there who attempts the defense of the suffrage does so at his peril, taking his life in his hands as ho enters on his work. Chicago Journal. This awful thing called diplomacy is becoming nauseating to our practical Yankee sense of business. Commissions between countries to adjust disputes are a necessary part of atlairs, but secret protocols, bv which a nation, 00,000,000 strong, is pledged to this or that vital policy, is an oflenso in . the nostrils of a self-governing and powerful people. New York Telegram. Reasoxarle people are agreed that if a man's work and wages do not suit him, it is his privilege to quit the work; but that he has no right to prevent another from taking his place. Asa matter of fact, labor organizations do not work on this principle. They hold, in practice, that when men strike other men have no right to take their places on any terms. Milwaukee Sentinel. It is to the common people's interest that the laws should be obeyed, and every man's equal privilege to use the streets in any lawful manner maintained. When s wage dispute leads men to attack and mob those, .who differ with them, they are injuring the .cause of labor more than anything else by 'turning a government of law into a government of brute force. Pittsburg Dispatch. . .CoNfiRESSMAV BlTTTERWORTIf 1R riffllt. ThA tyranny of some of the labor organizations that deny a father the right of teach ing his trade to his son. and that seek to "monopolize certain trades aud employ ments, is as repulsive aud destructive r.s that of the capitalistic monopolies and 'trusts which interfere with the freedom of production, and have aroused tho indignation of the wholo American people. Cleveland Leader. If all the burglars, thieves, beggars and tramps could bo forced to honest work, both in confinement and when they aro at liberty, labor generally would be a great gainer, despite the increase in the number of producers. For those enemies of society now impose its heaviest burdens for the maintenance of police establishments, lockups and crimiual courts, lt costs labor more to keep them in idleness than to keep them at work. New York Sun. A labor union intelligently and tolerantly governed is a force to be welcomed in the industrial Held. But the unions need at all times to beware of methods that belong only to the ignorance and vieiousness fostered by foreign despotisms. It is easy to draw the line between a peaceful effort to persuade workmen to stand with the . 1 r " k i union iu Times oi siriKes, anu 10 a iorcioie effort to drive them away with threats and clubs. Beyond the line of peaceful efforts they have no right to go. Anything further is indeed "un-American and a system of barbarism." Springlield Republican. It Is Indiana Democracy, iladison Courier. In all candor, we submit the question to fair-minded Democrats is it honest or just to change the compensation of an office so as to affect incumbents! Ought not the changes be made so as to allect the offices after the terms of present incumbents havo expired! And is it not particularly mean and low to make such changes solely for the purpose of venting political spito aeainst members of the opposite party f The course of the Democratic leaders m Indiana of lato years has not commended them or their party to the thinking, conservative men in that organization. It has becomo a settled policy with tho Jason Brown, Green Smith element to make the sessions of the General Assembly an occasion for getting in the lowest kind of Birty work. If the law happens to give the ovemor power to Appoint certain officers, and the Governor be Republican, all legislation for the people is postponed uutil such Republican Governor is stripped of his prerogatives. Such a course disgusts all public-spirited, fair-minded men, and will react upon tho partisans guilty of it. m The Unseating of Carpenter. Columbus Rpnbllcan. The unseating of Senator Carpenter is an outrage for which their is no justification except that of Democratic necessity. And that is all the excuse or justification that is needed, by the Democratic party. That is the constitution and the law as far as that party is concerned. We trustihat the Republicans and the honest and law-abiding Democrats of Shelby and Decatur counties will renominate Senator Carpenter, and then see to it that he is elected. Unless the people maintain the law against law-breakers, there is no hope for Republican government. Tho time has come when such men as Green Smith and Scott Ray must be relegated to the shades of obscurity from which by accident they havo been 'brought into light where ail their hideonsness and moral and political deformities have been revealed. The better class of Democrats are beginning to realize this fact, and it does justice to the honest Demoeracv of Shelby county, where Scott Ray is known, that they have had the manhood aud independence to throw him overboard. Iteforminsr Her Style. Kansas City JonrnaL f . . , Mrs. Amelie Rives-Chanler is growing more cautious. In submitting the manuscript of a forthcoming novel to the criticism of a Philadelphia friend, she requests that he will cut out anything he may. think imprudent. m m . Belittling Our Fighting Capabilities. Chicago Journal. T.pt tho United States whin the Anachea before it tackles 'Germany and Great Britain both at once. Chauce fo the Greasers. Boston Hf raM. f Allison, Blaine.C , I , E , F , G Fill up thef blanks and you havo the next Cabinet.

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TnE DEMOCRACY AND CRIME Tho Clayton Assassination Likely, to Load to an Important Investigation, Which Can Have No Other Ending: than the Breaking Up and Obliterating of Democratic Gangs of Political Murderers. Ecd-Handed Criminals Who Are Holdins Office Under President Cleveland. Southern Republicans Look to the Incoming Administration for Aid in Ferreting Out and Punishing Political Crimes. THE CLAYTON" MUItDEB. Prohabilltv that It Will Kesult In a Search Injr Concessional Inquiry. Social to the Indianapolis Journal Washington, Jan. 31. It is believed that tho assassination of Clayton, the Republican contestant of Clifton R. Breckinridge's seat in tho Fifty-first Congress, will lead to a congressional investigation which will likely result in the complete breaking up of the wholesale political murders in Arkansas and other sections of the South, for which Senators Chandler, Sherman and others have been lighting for many years. That whole section of country is honeycombed with Ku-klux and other political organizations which put down, either at the polls or by the shotgun, every formidable aspirant for office. If there should bo a special session of the Fifty-first Congress a committee will undoubtedly be appointed and sent into Arkansas, Louisiana, and probably one or two other States, this spring or early in in the summer, for the purpose of getting at the bottom of theso organizations by which men are murdered in cold blood, simply because they are Republicans and claim to have as good right to federal and other offices as Democrats. "While men in Congress are commenting on Clayton a assassination they are recalling some of tho many similar incidents which have occurred in Arkansas since ; the war. There is much talk about the reign of terror which prevailed in that section in the early seventies, when Powell Clayton, the brother of this last-murdered man, established himself in opposition to Ku-kluxism. Since tho incoming of the Cleveland administration a number of men who have been prominent in killing Republicans in the South during the past decade and a half havo been rewarded with offices inWasington and elsewherev There is at present a man holding tho position of chief of a division in the Interior Department, who was appointed by Secretary Lamar and recommended by prominent advocates of Ku-kltixisin occupying seats in the House and Senate, who secured recognition by leading a band of cut-throats who shot down one of Powell Clayton's lieutenants, sent into the county adjoining Little Rock for the purpose of ascertaining something about the Ku-klux organizations. There were probably a dozen men connected with that murder, and half of them are in positions in the departments here or in the railway mail service, Tho Louisiana statesmen in Congress have been busy during the past three years tilling up federal positions with men who have been prominent in leading the Ku-klux marauders and private organizations of political cut-throats. It will make interesting reading, the testimony these rewarded worthies will have to give before a congressional investigating committee when they are called up to state some of their political experiences and relate how it came about that they were appointed to the positions they now occupy. The advent of the new administration is looked forward toby Southern Republicans in Washington as the dawning of a new political era. President Harrison's views ou the Bubieetof Southern political outrages are well known, and he will give Congress the strongest possible support in any step it may take toward ferreting out the political organizations such as exist in Arkansas, their suppression, and the enactment of laws which will give political affairs there a better flavor. Interview with Mr. Breckinridge. Washington Special to Chicago Tribune. . C. R. Breckinridge, whose opponent Mr.,. Claytcn was in'the con gressional election, was asked what he knew of tho matter. He said: "I only know the fact that Mr. Clayton was killed, and have no information about the details. All I have is contained in these two dispatches" producing cne telegram from Armstrong, his attorney, dated Plummerville, stating that John M. Clay-, ton was shot and instantly killed about 9 o'clock to-night, and another from Pine Bluff announcing the kiUing. "I know John M. Clayton well," continued Mr. Breckinridge, "and had known him for years. His plantation adjoined mine, and latterly ho resided in my town. Last fall we canvased the district together, many times occupying tho same ' room, and on some occasions, at small places, the same bed. Our relations were of the most Pleasant kind. We never had any personal disagreement. Ho was a man of high character and aocial standing, equal to that of any man in Arkansas. He was always a Republican, but was not active. While his brother was Governor of the State, John M. Clayton, though he did not protest against any of his acts, did not give him any support or encouragement. In his notice of contest, his allegations were about as broad as they could be made. He charged everything, but he could not lay his linger on any proof of wrong-doing, except at that very place, Plummerville, where he was killed. Tho ballot-box at that place was stolen on tho night of tho election. As it was reported to me, four masked men rushed in tho room just as two of the election officers wcro getting ready to count the votes, seized the box and made off with it. I did believe that friends of Clayton took tho box to throw discredit on the election. I thought they expected to have the votes counted anyhow, and that they stole the box to have something in the shape of evidence that the election was unfair. In support of this theory a negro testified that the four men nearly ran over him as they nifihed to seize the box, and that they were negroes. They were masked, of course. Mowlam inclined to think it was not friends of Clayton who stole the box. It was, perhaps, some lawless men who followed the promptings of their own minds with the idea of doing something for the Democrats. They sought no authority nor owned any of the recognized leaders of the party. Mr. Clayton was earnestly engaged in taking testimony as to that box. lie had summoned about 500 witnesses, neany all tho voters of tli 3 precinct. It is Srobablo that the men who seized the box ecame r.pprehensive that the rigid scrutiny. Clayton was making would lead to the exposure of their crime, ami -with h iAa. of putting a stop to tho inquiry and saviug themselves .they committed murder. Mr. ja ion ciairaea aooutouu majority at that box. but I allow him about 4o0. Of course, I intended that the voto should be counted lorhiin. I would not take advantage of auysucnacc unless i can hold my scat honorably I do not want it, Bnt. as I have said, to allow him all ho claimed would not cnange the result. My returned majority was 846, my actual majority about 850. Mr. Clayton was an excellent c itizen and ropular among his neighbors. He was a widow er, ana leaves a lamily of children." IN ARKANSAS. The Assassination the Chief Tople EverywhereRewards for Arrest of the Criminals. Little Rock, Ark., Jan. SI. The assassination of John M. Clayton, at Plummerville, Tuesday night, continues to be the chief subject of conversation and indigna tion. Meetings of all classes of citizens aro

t down thVcrinrinairUt ottered a reward of tim fSthl l4 conviction of the saJl.thS. has and amount he amount no can ollrr. The. nVtT1 Ce h passed a bill authorizing the Gi offer reward bill ot fch'-rt4 was read twice ru lower house and will be i. lu thl morning The Ilnar, t.?.? to I this afternoon and pass d resoWtf nouncingthe assassination i,h i subscription of $1,000. to be kd, !S ward for the arrest of tho cr il h arrests have been made as yet PS nio wno came in from Pin me rA say everything is quiet there A T remains were trikeu to Piue Hlnffto,i special tram this morning. Tn; , a will occur to-morrow. A special tV.-1 take several hundred citizen Q attend. UW1 doa u A telegram from Plammerrm. . where Colonel Clayton was says the brother of the mmd5aiK Judge Clayton of Pine Brecti very cold reception at that pLv .Ii no one offered to aid him fu ferretb the gunty parties. A Cowardly, Infamous Deed. Little Rock ProKiTM (Rrp.) Since tho days of the assassination cf Abraham Lincoln, lnArriLlStt 11 1 i ui:tvi chievous, so unpatriotic, so un-Americ and so detrimental to American intend as that of tho assassination of tie H John M. Clayton, Congressman-elect fc. the Second congressional district of ktF sas, at Plummtrville, Ark., last niht stated elsewhere. Col. Clavton wasQr- V pursuing his right and duty, takinz dencein contestinar his right toasat -the next Congress of the United Stated plicitly believing that he was elected S 'confidently relying upon the honor? manhood of American justice and men t see that he had fair play. He Was paJ;! up and down his room at the hotel with?; hands in his pockets, when suddenly the rt port of a gun was heard, the lights S out, and John M. Clayton was shot in tit neck and through the head and died h. stantly. What a sad. cowardly, dishonor able act of Arkansas Democracy! Let us see. J ohn M. Clay ton was an ion. orable man. a good citizen, a faithful dier. a noblo fellow, an earnest Mason. believer in the justice and ordination of th! great God of tho uuiverse. He came u Arkansas in 1863, bringing the laurehof x faithful soldier of tho Array of the Poto. mac with him, when, with his younw f. h AAttlAil nt lin Rlntr Art .n: life as a planter, r ull of reliance en American manhood he and his wife - - : vi Lrrr-.U forward, gave themselves to work. nmrv. themselves successful in this new vocatio" A vear or two aco Mrs. Clavton dird 17 ing the household and six children to ths charge of the faithful, honorable and tolls husband. Among other duties Colond Clayton served Jefferson county eight yem as sheriff. He was tho same honorable kindlv man here as iu every station of Uit i i : iiii anu mere is nuv oucpcisuu iuauiueconr.tT State or land who can truthfully say tht ho was an enemy of John M. Clay toa. Lit, last summer or early in the fall he u nominated for Congress. That he u elected there is scarcely a doubt That h has been shot down by a cowardly assassin in the hands of. the defeated Democrarr xnerp is not a panicie oi uouuu PROCEEDINGS OF.CQyGETSS. The Senate Decline to Convert Foreign ilia. lsters into "Embassadors. Washington, Jan. 31.The credenthU of Mr. Higgins, as Senator from the Stat of Delaware, for the term commencing cn tla 4th of March next, were presented, read and placed on file. Tho President's message in relation ta the Samoan islands and to Cores the 8029 as were presented in the House yesterdajwcro read and referred to the committee ca foreign relations. Mr. Vest presented an affidavit, made Ij a Mr. Dorsey, in reply to a statement made bv Senator Piatt, in the discussion cf the cutlery schedule of the tarid' bill, to the effect that ho (Dorsey) had made affidavit, which was on tile in the Treasury Depart, ment, charging a certain firm with nudervaluation of cutlery by 40 per cent lie presses the beliel that he is tne person referred to, but denies having ever xnude any such affidavit. The House amendments to the bill to i crease the pensions of those who have 11 and concurred in. Mr. Hoar presented resolutions of the Home-market Club, of Boston, urging the importance of the immediate passagcot that portion of the tariff bill which is designed to prevent undervaluation of imported goods, and they Caere referred to tht nuance committee. J A debate on Sr.moan affairs here arose, which is printed elsewhere in this paper.) The amendment raising to the rank ci embassadors tho ministers to LngUadL France, Germany and Hussia was xvjecwa veas.23; uaysJCand the bill waswsN. The credentials of Kdward O. Wolcott, the Senator-elect from Colorado, were resented and placed on tile. . The Senate then proceeded to executire session and spent four hours in the cons:a erationof the British extradition treaty, but adjourned, leaving it still pending. The Homestead Clause in the Oklahoma BO. Washington, Jan. Sk-Almost erery desk in the House this morning was bedected with red cambric parcels containing pentions in favor of the Sunday rest bill and in a few moments after the nonsemettte petition box was overflowing with, til gaily colored documents. On motion of Mr. Toole, of Montana, the Senate bill was passed, granting th nptl of way through tho Crow Indian rescn tion, Montana, to tho Big Horn Southern Hailroad Company. ' r:. On motion of Mr. Hatch, of 3bfr Saturday, Feb. was set apart for the coo sidcration of appropriate resolution5 a honor of th ipeiuory of the late J. Burnes, of Miouri. . the Mr. Sprir.ger. oi Illinois, called up, as ue special urder, 1 1" Oklahoma bilL - . Mr. Grosram-r. of Ohio, made the point order that by xeawmof the aoomes yesterday the Vll has lost it P nn leg. Character. Mr. Hooker, of Missoan.J curred in tbir. view, which was controven ed by Mr. Springer. The Speaker o yerrojj the point of order, holding that the biU privileged under the operation of tne p vious question. , r. Voder, The bill having been taken up. Mniy of Ohio, movecf to reconsider the . ,oie J which the House yesterday agreed l ro Pavson -'soldiersMioniestead ameaum u Mr. Payson moved to lay the wot.ca the table. Lost yeas, 119: nays, 1. The motion to recousider was agreea yeas, 135; nays, 117. . . a3ie2d: The question recurring on ment, Mr. Kerr, of Iowa, made th-j rlur nQf 1ia TirnnoKltlOU Wa"'4; .V w t The Speaker sustained the point, jg;?tf0f Question was p the amendment icni, as loiiuw y'y,w provided that the rights oi noj -v charged Union charged Union soiaicrs auu.r: - WlC late civil war to make homes OD i . i lands under the existing olu":r, hr tie homestea snail uoi in any uegu -n w '"JZA to. , parage of this bilL" It a,.a;:f: Uc4 The question then recurred ) i , tne ; shall not in any drew i ti . clause, width provides tnai UiTi such honorably-discharged t,niou aCd and sailors to make homestead perfect the name by occupaucr. to existing homestead Jaws. h ft Opened V any and all lauds which shal be ope flll anv settlement by the provisions FJ. bill. Af !r debate by Messrs. 1 0rP. an, Struble, Warner of MisJJi. . venor. tho recoud clause was yeas, 110; nays, HI. madmen Mr. Payson nown-site 'amenaw 1 sideration, ami .Mr. fcP"" 7.". not1 that motion, pending which tne jourucd. shal John .MCAIUSVr y- v. i-nnWO- . m .j en 11 l 1 . by a man whos mime is noi d ftt man who did the shooting J ct If McAllister told him to k.a pnfj would have to arrest him. . jnS'u;j ill 18xi .MCAiusieruj si v - pjaii r. .. doing so. ho went otr and got .a 1 shot McAllister as above t tcr's wound is considered

murder lias been so atrocious, so need so full of hate, so full of rebellion, wf

agreed to without tin u ATPda reTf. Mr. OTerrall, of Vir?nia.m"IJSf0u

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