Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1873 — Page 2

qrrrT? PV r p'WT'M'rj. WS * wma origb+tty Imported into Boston, where persons at all acquainted with the detail* * rule* the rehearing, insists that Mrs. Clem X.il. K< -*-* ’ Xaxl Ai.1 vA ”7 it was withdann from the warehouse for ex- u,. ««*«. *1.

[From the Chicago

rior, Not. 30.]

JOHN H. HOLLIDAY. Paonuroa. ^ MON DA Y^N O VEMBJCE 24.' 1S7Z.

must be tried again for the fifth or fifteenth Inte-; time, and that two convictions “beyond

be treated as two guesses

reasonable doubt’

TnKvzrora News is rcBLisHsa araar waaa •at Arrmmxm, at four o'clock, at the office, southeast cornsr of Meridian and Circle streets.

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gCWCBIPTIONS: •abserlhets served by mien iiTany part of the eity at Ten Cents per week. Snbserlbers served by mail, one copy one month — 9 80 One copy for three months. 125 One copy lor one year. —. 5 00 THE WEEKLY MEWft Is s handsome eight-column folio, published every Wednesday. Price, 91 00 per year. Specimen copies sent free on applloattoa. Mo ADTtnrwsirsKTS nrasarsD as amroaiaL hat-

IpTutio. ofedhon^wo*. smuerled into Calais. The amount sued for .Prom the Jour. Nov. 22] I is said to be 975.000. Bat. to recur to the

. ' original point of differ-1 There can be no qnes-,. . . While some workmen were engaged on ence. we respectfully re- tion that the Episcopal by two companies of tools,

i Saturday in slating the roof of the Chicago pent that in oar opinion . Chart* has now. andal-

in the anthem p«r. SS’S' Si

jOttheeit}' » uc broke Md » |»mon :U ,.^ >l «op.lcSL£i«t- tw^tSTKm m- | of the roof fell to the ground, carrying five kwl in tu nature and cerdotal and the Low ' men, of whops Nicholas Wood and Andrew more or less active and Churchman have little ; Sellinger weroinsiantlv killed, and three— ***e*pread. We tfn- more in common than Charles MnrW Frank Molan in.1 «Wiy nope ft may not the Roman Catholic and cnanes Money. Melan an.i Josepn injure lhe uwfnlxie?s of ^ Methodist. The atPatton—badly mjuretl. The nm two, it u* > the ehurrh. but we be- tempt to keep these eont bought, are fatal I v injured. 1 lieve it likely, sooner or flirting theologies to

later, to caoae a separa- (ether is simply absurd. ~ The severance ought

TJSLMORAPB NEWS. ^Tbj^i^tandhjg legal tenders amount to The steamers sailing from New York Saturday took out *209,000 in silver bars. Ninety-four thousand live hogs were' rec&Iy€Q ftt Cim innati during tho a'W'k pndincr the 2!at. The reports that violence has l,era offered by the Madrid populace to General Sil kies, are prodounced false. tU * An ? h, ”iy exploded her Wiilers in Milwaukee river on Saturday. Peter Snyder, engineer, was fatally scalded. Another keeper of the Tombs has l*een arrested on the charge of wilfully allowing Sharkey, the convicted murderer, to escape. The DeSoto Bank, at Memphis, announces that it will resume business to-day. It is thought the First National will soon do the

■ame.

New Castle, Delaware, was treated to its periodical show—the w hipping jmst and pillory—on Friday. There were seven victims— J-hree white and four colored. It is said that if fieri. Butler’s resolution in emeus, excluding Credit Mohilier members from rhairmanshifw is introduced, a similar proposition excluding back-pay members is already prepared to affect it. Tom Alien, Arthur Chambers and Tom Kelly have been taken to Madison county, Illinois, on a requisition from Oov. Beveridge, charged with taking part in a prize tight in that county in September last. The ice breaker has opened a passage for boats on the Erie canal at Schenectady. Dispatches from various points on the canal announre the boats all moving. With help all hoattf east ol Utica can he got to tide-

water.

Wm. Tarolie, of Philadelphia, has tiled an involuntary petition in bankruptcy in the Eastern District of New York, against Jay Cooke & Co., basing his (>ctition 11 {ion the non-payment by the company of a certificate

of deposit.

The grand jury of New' York has found indictments against a number of inspectors of elections for violation of election laws, and against other citizens whose proceedings on election day have been the subject of much

comment.

The London Times to-day savs the demand for the surrender of the Virginias could not. with justice,, be maintained; but the other demands reported to have been made on Hpain by the United States, are such as England might well join in. The. wreck of the steamship Atlantic is fast breaking up. Last week thirteen bodies of her passengers washed ashore and w-ere buried. The heavy rains have exposed the bodies of many of those interred at the time of the disaster, in April last. The steamer Henry Probasco was sunk at Pairo on Friday. She was owned by Stewart A CO., of Madison, Indiana, who built her two years ago. She was valued at $-15,000, and insured in Cincinnati, Hartford and "Wheeling companies for $30,000. Major John C. Fell, an old citizen of St. Louis, a Union officer during the w’ar, died Friday night from an overdose of morphine administered by himself. Business misfortune is said to nave been the cause of the act. He has a brother in Philadelphia. The official majority of Taylor, for Governor of Wisconsin, over Washburne is 15,411, he is running nearly 1,000 ahead of the balance of the ticket The legislature will stand—Senate, 17 Republicans, 16 Reformers. Assembly, 59 Reformers, 41 Republicans. A challenge has been issued by the Irish National Rifle Association for a shooting match with representative Americans, to take place In this country in the autumn of 1874. The Irish Association sent a team to Wimbledon that defeated the English and Scotch champions. A telegram from St. Johns, N. F., says the telegraph cable steamer Robert Ixwe was lost in St. Mary’s Bay, on Wednesday morning. The chief officer and two boats’ ‘crews were saved. The captain and two other boats are missing. The tug steamer Cabott has been dispatched to assist the missing boats. The Navy Department has been informed by the Commandant of New London Station, that on the night of the 20th, two men, representing themselves to be naval engineers, tried to force their way on board the Die tator, and when resisted by the watchman, fired at him, and they made their escape. A petition signed by all the members of the bar in Chicago, and a large number of prominent business men, has been forwarded to Washington, asking President Grant to •ppoint Judge Drummond, at present Judge ot the United States Circuit Court there, to the vacant Chief Justiceship of the United

States.

’ President Castelar had a long conference on Saturday with Leyard, British Minister. The result of the interview is favorable to the continuance of good relations. The idea of submitting the cape of the Virginius to arbitration, is much talked of. Should this course be agreed to. the German Emperor is indicated as the probable arbitrator. Disraeli made a political speech at Glasgow on Saturday evening. He severely criticised th* and predicted a great Strugs (dein Europe between the spiritual and „ temporal powers. He feared the conflict might resuTt in anarchy, and declared the partisans of home rule in Ireland would unmask, and show Great Britain their real de-

signs.

Thursday last, in Adair count v, Illinois, a iiuul bag was picked up containing draft No. 6,777, from l**s A \\ aller, San Francisco, in tavor of R. H. Rochester. A Iso about eighty gold rings. The bag w in charge of the Postmaater at Fontanelie, Iowa. D is umloubtpome months ago. The funeral of the late John P. Hale took place at Dover, New Hampshire, on Friday Business houses were closed and bells tolled between 2 and S o’clock. Services were held at the residence and the l mtanan church. Among the pail-bearers were Governor Straw, ex-Governor Harriman and Judge Daniel Chaw, Hale's colleague in the United States Senate tor ten years. Prosecutions have been commenced in the United States District Court against Charles A Board man, of Calais, Maine, on the charge oi having smuggled a large quantity of cape qrool into Calftfe- The wool, it is alleged,

^ The first successful boiler test under direction of the United States Commission took place at Pittsbnrg on Saturday. The Cincinnati single riveted boiler leaked badly and a pressure of 319 pounds was all that rould be obtained. The double riveted boiler, manufactured in Pittsburg, obtained a pressure of 500 pounds, when two flues collapsed, the shell remaining intact, and not being moved from its position. This is regarded as a satis-

factory test.

William M. Tweed received his sentence on Saturday—twelve years' imprisonment and $12,750 tine—and was conveped to the Tombs on Sunday morning. Every effort of his counsel to procure a stay of ptru-eedings was tried but proved unavailing. Judge

tion. The controversy, ! The severance ought to or whatever it may be I have come long ago. and called, grows out of the would have come if Low j fart that the Episcopal Churchmen had been a« ' Church has now and per- courageous as they are

" ' The High

■■■■■■■■■ believes; religions The Sa- ! that the church means

rerdotanst and the Low the ministry: that the Churchman have Utile ministry consists of those more in common than t who are ordained by

the Roman Catholic and the Methodist The at-

tempt to keep these conflicting theologies together i* simply absurd. The severance ought to have come long ago, and would have come if Low Churchmen had been as courageous as they are

bishops: that bishops are in the line of direct suc-

cession from the apostles: that the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper ha« in it the element of sacrifice, and needs a priest for its celebration: that baptism is a regenerating ordinance, and that

w s • a* rsiAA |VH-SVg7v.A VAaaaAv aAAJlJlK,- .( car* Ii*w; a v S- : 1115 IVIVAIAAMAAVWA «*aas.a aaica 1 Davis, in pronouncing sentence,%mong other evangelical The High ; forgiveness of sins is obtliimro aaLi- : Cburchmaabelievesthat tained by means of it.

things, ‘.aid

“With all the opportunity you had, had you faithfully performed your duties to the public, to win the honor and respect of the whole community, you saw fit to pervert the .opportunity you pos.ses.sed and the power with which yon were clothed, in a manner .more wicked, more infamous, ami more outrageous tbaii any instance of like character which the whole history of the civilized world contains Instead of protecting the public, you plundered it; instead of standing guard where the law placed you, over the treasury of your county, not merely to yonr own rapacity, but also to the avarice of your associates, under circumstances which makes it transparent that you were engaged in a concerted conspiracy to plunder the Treasury of this county, in which yourself and your associates in crime were principally to lie benefltted. The evidence on this subject can leave no manner of doubt in the

minds of any.’’

After summing tip the prisoner’s career of plunder, showing the impossibility of his receiving just twenty-four per cent, on all transactions without a definite and systematic plan of plunder. Judge Davis considered the |ierfectly fair and non-partisan nature of the trial. He continued: “Itwould be wrong and unjust to entertain for a moment the idea that your conviction has l»een the resultof persecution at the hands of any person or party. It has been the result of evidence so clear and plain that never have I seen a case where the evidence was so utterly overwhelming, and where it was sodmpossihle for the jury to fail to come to a just and conclusive verdict. Through the wlmje of this trial you remained up to the verytnqment of vour conviction as calm ami serene as"4lumgfi yon relied upon your innocence, when it was overwhelmingly apparent to all that your serenity w'as only that audacity arises froth confidence in the omnipotence of corruption, rather than reliance upon your innocence.” [The Judge emphasized this sentence by bringing his clenched hrnd down upon his desk.]

the church means the ministry; that the ministry consists of those

are ordained by

In all or nearly all 01 these particulars theLow

Churchman

istry who

bisho,w.,

in the line of direct succession from theopoatles,

that the sacrament of ’ theologies, and avoiding

l.lihoT-: th«i [ pMtlScrotMMzaeBr rotonfromthw-U-, | St.tafW??}

differs, and

it is simply ludicrous to witness both sides ap

the Lord’s supper has in a rupture of unit}', only it the element of sacri- . by a toleration, which flee, and needs a priest | so long as it continues, for its celebration; that ! is “a participation in baptism is a regenerat- ; other men's sins.”

ing ordinance, and that [ forgiveness of sin ia obtained by means of it. In all or nearly all of ; thefk? particulars theLow Churchman differs, and it is simply ludicrous to witness both sides appealing to the same symbols in support of their theologies, and avoiding a rupture of unity, onlv to a toleration which, Wiough it may hide, can not remove the cause of

difference.

It is late in the sason for whitewashing. The Council meeting to-night ought to lie mighty interesting. Tt is over a year since John Ross, the City Sexton, was whitewashed, his guilt being shouldered upon a mythical “Bill.” This “Wicked Bill,” like Sairey Gamp’s Mrs. Harris, never had any existence. Sergeant Bates ventures to offer his services to the President in case of war. Now if he will only try to carry the American flag through Cuba. What a happy duty it would be to write a seemly obituary for Bates.

There will be it great deal of business before the Council to-night, but that should not deter Mr, Gibson, who represents the Fourth Ward in the Council, while he f 7 lives in the Third, frotq considering the following section of the city charter: “No person shall hold the office of Councilman unless he is a resident of the ward from which he is elected ; and in case of the removal of anv Councilman from the ward from which he w r as elected, the Common Council shall have power to declare the oflice vacant, and order a special election to fill sttch vacancy.” At last justice is triumphant. The power of money and political influence pales and cowers before the majesty of the law. Honesty is vindicated and rogues get at least a portion of their dues. Boss Tweed, the king thief, who with his gang, robbed New York of millions, was on Saturday condemned to twelve years’ imprisonment and to pay a fine of $12,750. This result, so unexpected a week ago, should thrill all men, the honest ones because public virtue is somewhat redeemed, the rogues and thieves because it is a warning that the law can and will reach them, no matter how strong or well intrenched they may now be. On Saturday we charged the Journal with having stolen a portion—not the whole —of one of its editorials from the Chicago Interior. It replies as follows: In an editorial article in the Journal of Saturday “Concerning Some Matters of Faith,” the concluding twenty-six lines, Itorrowed from the Chicago Interior, were by an oversight nm in without quotation marks. Whereupon The News charges that the whole article of a column and a half was plagiarized. The News is to be complimented for its sharp-sightedriess, but not for its justice. With the exception of the few lines mentioned, not another sentence or idea in the Journal article was even remotely suggested by that of the In-

terior.

To make even such a lame defense as this certainly requires a good deal of hardihood. The Journal of late has on several occasions contained short paragraphs taken from other papers, and inserted as original matter, and the writer, growing bolder in his plagiarisms, on Saturday struck for higher game, as we shall show. We publish the extracts from the Interior and the Journal ride by side, so tliat all may see and judge of the truth of the charge. The excuse that the “concluding twenty-six ‘lines” were “borrowed,” and “by an over“sight run in without quotation marks,” is very thin. Editors don’t make such overrights without knowing it, and if it had been honestly borrowed the paper would

THE CLEM CASE.

The Supreme Court, this time by Judge Osliom, has overruled the petition for a rehearing in the case of Mrs. Clem, and, like the darkey who was knocked fifty feet from a sheltering tree by lightning, and got up and ran back swearing he "“would stand there anyhow,” it won’t he moved a peg by any force of argument in the State’s ease. Mrs. Clem shall have a fifth trial, or sixth, or whatever the number may be; there have been so many that nobody knows the precise tally without counting the dockets here and in Boone county for five years past. But Judge Osborn has changed his opinion upon one point, and refuses to concur with the majority that far, though he is indisposed to yield any further. He does not think now “that the averments of identity of the two crimes are sufficient to show that the two homicides were caused by the same act,” and for this reason he should have sustained the demurrer to the plea of former acquittal. The change, though it moves but a fifth of the bench, is not unpromising. It leaves a slightly widened crack for the entrance of a hope that may be, some time, id the “grander developments of Humanity,” and the “holier elevations of truth,” if not sooner, a Supreme Court may become a possibility in which the sentences of a crime two or three times proved may be accepted as an indication ^hat^fhe “graver developments, etc.,” and the “holier elevations, etc.,” are satisfied that the crime has not been unkindly treated. And thus all the persecuted accidents and failings of the unfortunate will bq viewed with a slight glance at their relations to society as well as the victims of popular malevolence, and the chorus of praise that now swells from the lips of hundreds of murderers and thieves will be softened from exultation to gentle resignation. Nobody will feel any safer in person or property, but everybody may feel that a Supreme Court is not a necessary obstruction of justice, and that when a crime has been proved “beyond a reasonable doubt” it need not be considered certain of a chance of escape on’ the ground that the Judge below charged that mud in the streets was a proof of recent rain without the almanac, or some other equally perti nent point of infraction of precedents. All this promise shines weakly through the crevice made by Judge Osborn’s secession from the opinion of the Court that it was sufficient, as a support for the plea of “former acquittal,” to aver that “two crimes were identical.” It should have averred facts showing that identity. This is just what we argued at the time the new trial was granted to Mrs. Clem. The Court held that the fplea was sufficient when it averred the identity of the two offenses, while we insisted that this was the averment, not of facts, but of a conclusion from facts, of an inference, and such an averment was not only legally bad, but in this case was notoriously false. The plea should have stated^-wfiat points of concurrence in time, ulaqe aad circumstance made it evident tjHKtheSjro homocides were the

:t, as by an explosion instead of different or it stated nothing at ail rt should have inferred have been alleged and

ire were no points of concurcould establish that identity,

result of the same, or fall of a 9>uilc successive acts, except what the' from what shot

was not.

renee

and hence “the shrewd dodge” of the counsel for the defendant in averring none, but substituting the inference for the fact All the indications were that the two Youngs were killed by two parsons, by two weapons, and at slightly different times. Yet the Supreme Court allowed the validity of this plea of inferences, and accepted as true in spite of its notorious misstatements or failures of statements. And all to give Mrs. Clem, twice eonjdctod, a fresh chance to escape, or rather, to maintain an adhesion to some idle precedent, about a* much concerned with the murder or the murderess as with the transit of Venus or the next tornado. Judge Osborn dissented on thi*

have been credited. The mere omission point, and it promiserwell, though it don’t

of inverted commas at the beginning and the ending will not be any explanation to

promise much. On the other points he concurs in the former opinion, and over-

8rAIR AMD CUBA.

Oatraaetf Party—Htotory mt tffie Yir. Ktaiaa. [N. Y. Correspondence Cincinnati Commercial.] But, in the name of God and liberty, (as

Tire Village Blartoualtfe. BT H. W. LONGFELLOW. Under a spreading chestnntXree The Tillage smithy stands: The smith, a mighty man is be. With large and sinewy hafids: And the muscles of his brawnv arms Are strong as iron bands. His hair is crisp, and black, and long. His face is like the tan; His brow is wet with honest sweat. He earns whal er he can. And looks the whole world in tW face, For he owes not any man. Week out, week in, from mom till night. Yon can hear his bellows blow ; You can hear him swing his heavy sledge. With measured beat and slow. Like a sexton, ringing the old kirk chimes When the evening sun is low. And children coming home from school Look in at the open door; They love to see the flaming forge, And hear the bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks that flv Like chaff from the threshing floor. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys ; He hears the person pra>' and preach. He hears his daughter’s voice Singing in the village choir. And it makes his heart rejoice. It sounds to him like her mother’s voice. Singing in Paradise; He needs must think of her once more, How in the pave she lies; And with his hard, rough hand he wfpes, A tear from out his eyes. Toiling—rejoicing—sorrowing— Onward through file he goes; Each morning sees some task begun. Each evening sees it close; Something attempted—something done. Has e&med a night’s repose. Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend. For the lesson thou hast taught; Thus at the flaming forge of Aife Our fortunes must be wrought, Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought.

“SCRAPS.”

Health is the unit which gives value to the

zeros of life.

California has a toper who is said to be tarantula-proof. You can send a cent’s worth of card to Deutschland now. Paper caller—The man that leaves your paper at your door. ** Rev. Mr. Tongue wagged that in an Erie pulpit on a recent Sunday. A daughter of John T. Ford, of Baltimore, has written a successful play. The worst knaves are the ones who wear broadcloth and diamond pins. Rousseau picked up his brightest thoughts in strolling through the woods. The negro higera from Alabama to the Mississippi cotton fields continues. Ever Faithful Isle is beating the fifty cent article in the petroleum districts. Seventeen soldiers have died at the Home near Dayton, Ohio, since August last. The streams in Idaho have frozen up, and mining and mills have been stopped thereby. General Boh Littler, formerly of this city, and now of Davenport, was a Lopez flllibus-

tero.

A farmer at Augusta, Ga., lately discovered that his dog was in" the habit of milking a fine cow. About the best saddles in the w’orld are now made in Los Angeles, Colifornia, Mexican fashion. Hartz,’the magician, and Colton, the laugh-ing-gas man, have formed a copartnership in the show business. The Young Men’s Society of Cleveland made seventy cents profit off of John Hay’s lecture, by keeping the gas turned low. Emperor Francis Joseph will celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of his accession to the throne of Austria on the 2d of December. “Rev. Dr. Mrs.” Mary Folsom and Huldah B. Loud, “Esq.,” were among the speakers at a woman suffrage meeting in Salem, Mass., Tuesday. A German paper at davenport demands that German shall be made the official language of Iowa, and shall be spoken in the legislature. Colonel Higginson says that the old stone mill at Newport “is the only thing on the Atlantic shore which has had time to forget its birthday.” Precept of domestic philosophy—Never keep anything from your better half. It will save her the trouble of finding out from your neighbor’s wife. A pork barrel one hundred and forty-three years old belongs to Colonel Joseph P. Stickney, of Concord, New Hampshire, but where is th6 hog that squealed 143 years ago? The mother of General Ryan called at the Mayor’s office in Chicago a few days ago to procure assistance in getting a pass to Washington to recover the effects of her son. A California paper says: Daily reports of the passenger movements by rail show that there is an unusually large influx of people from the East, many of whom come to spend the winter in California. There is a woman in Yamhill connty, Oregon, who Is said to know what it is to be the mother of twenty-four children. Her husband is under the impression that it is possible for a woman to know too much. Gordon, the Belfast mnrderer, has been convicted on a chain of circumstantial evidence so strong, as to leave no doubt ot his guilt. He murdered bis brother, and his family of a wife and child,because his father had given the farm to the brother. A bottle was recently picked np on the beach at Sandwich, containing a touching farewell letter of a drowning sailor of the ship “Hardwick Castle” to his brother in Boston. The fact that there was no such ship and no such brother robs the story of half its lachrymority.

ng that young, noble, struggling Spanish Republic,' the appearance of which, at the opening of the present year, gave profound joy to every lover of human liberty. The executions at Santiago were not by order of Castelar, but against his orders. The conduct of Burriel was not approved by the authorities at Madrid, but disapproved. These authorities are undoubtedly anxious to give us any reparation in their power, and to meet anv demands which wc may have made upon them. The wrongs we have suffered were at the hands of men who are in reality the deadliest enemies of Castelar. and who wonld like nothing so much as to involve him in a war which would burst the new Republic; but whom, during his brief, insecure and troublous administration, he has never yet felt able to bring to account. I think, as* I said in a previous part of this letter, that Castelar and the Republican Cortes should at once take high ground with the anti-Repnb-lican, royalist, slave-holding party In Cuba, who have insulted his Government a* well as ours, over and over again. I think they ought at once to proclaim emancipation, anil give Cub* those Republican institutions which have been set up in Spain herself. In fact, it seems to me that the wisest course about this w’hole matter, both for the Spanish Government and for onrs, is indicated in the letter of Charles Sumner, who has again given proof that he is at once a statesman, a humanitarian, and a most noble Republican. But I am. at the same time, aware that the Republican leaders in Madrid have heretofore felt too weak to enforce a proper policy in Cuba; and I think there could be no greater triumph of statesmanship, in this difficulty, than the carrying out of Sumner’s program* through which Castelar’s administration would find relief, through which our own Government would be justified, and through which the liberties ot Cuba would

be established.

I would like to supplement these ideas b; quoting a passage from a personal letter have received from a distinguished American statesman, who has rendered his country long and faithful service in an influential position and who feels the "necessity of allaying the prevalent excitement, which, for the moment at least, is evidently in the way of diminution. From the letter in question the

following lines are taken;

“I fear the press wi^ll drive our government into some senous indiscretion about this Cuban business. Already the public has entirely forgotten that, for the first time in our history, the Spanish government is more friendly to ours than to any other in the world; that for the first time in the history of Spain, the government is the choice of its people; that that government is in no inconsiderable degree dependent for its very existence to-day upon the friendly sympathy it receives from this sister republic; that the late outrages in Cuba were not perpetrated by, but in defiance of the Spanish authority at Madrid; that it is the majesty of Spain, not of Die United States, that was primarily outraged by the massacre of the Virginius; and finally, that the want of such a measure of forbearance on our part as might be fairly expected from the political sympathies and friendly relations of our respective governments, would be likely to precipitate a crisis in Madrid, and restore to power that satanic trinity of Dynasticism, Bourbonism and Prelatism, which has gradually reduced that noble Castilian race almost to helotism. We never had a better opportunity of showing that magnanimity winch is always so becoming in a superior force, and of converting a race of suspicious enemies into grateful and perhaps, one day, useful friends. But, I imagine I hear you ask, are we to sit quietly under these outrages? By no means. But as Spain received the greatest indignity let her take the lead in resenting it, and let us co-operate with her in the prosecution of our redress, and not defy, embarrass or fight her for the benefit of European despotism. There are none too nufny Republics in the world, Spain counted in. Let tt not be our work to

count her out.”

[Wahington Correspondence 8t. Louis Globe.J At the capture of Mobile in 1865 the Virginius laid in the harbor, loaded w’ith cotton. Being found in the internal w’aters of the United States, she was by law placed under control of the Treasury Department, as a captured and abandoned property other than war material or naval vessels was. She was proceeded against under the laws of 1862 and 1863-64, and condemned. She was used until March 12, 1866, by the Bureau of Refugees, Freemen and Abandoned Lands. After this date she was sold at Mobile by the Treasury to private parties, the principal of whom was afterwards a Treasury official and defaulter. At this time she was registered at New Orleans. She was owned by Mobile parties till the winfer of when she was taken by the government as the property of the defaulted Treasury officers. She was then brought to New York, and an attempt was made to put her in the revenue marine, but she was found unsuitable. On July 15,1868, she was ordered to Washington and offered for sale, hut ihe notice was withdrawn, and she remained at the Navy Yard until July 27, in 1870, when she was sold for $90,800, She was then taken to New York, and on the 26th of September a regis-

ter as the Virginius was granted.

The discrepancies beiweon the above statement and those telegraphed last night, are owing to the'(act that (the Treasury Department hqd not yet completed the investigation a» to whether the control consequent upon capture rested with the Treasury or Navy Departments, The nationality of the vessel is thus settled by the facts of her capture, condemnation and subsequent sale to private citizens by the government' This is in accordance with public maritime law and the decision of Admiralty courts. The question has been raised whether the present name was legally taken, she being known at the time of capture and sale as the Virgin Merchant Vessels are not allowed to change their names except by special act of Congress; hut the Treasury decision declares that vessels once in possession of the United States, and sold by it to citizens for mercantile purposes, may tefce any name, as the department decides that she is, for all com-

mercial purposes, a new vessel.

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THE PIONEER.

A Sketch ef Southern Life. [Florida Correspondence Cln. Commercial.]

On the way to the office I met a neighbor ; a thrifty, hard-working man, whose disposition to tackle with the rough work the cracker and cow-boy shirk, such as clearing, grubbing, etc., had attracted my attention. I had five acres of “rough,” i. e., palmetto and oak-scrub, waiting on his labor; but he was always engaged. 1 therefore counted him among our thriving settlers who wonld stick. I was mistaken. I did not know the pioneer yet. Seeing all his “plunder” and honaehold. big and'little, on or about the levee, I hailed

him: -

“Halloo! where *w»y now?”

“How do deto? Well, me and my ole gal ’lowed we’d try hit dowflrin Brevard,” he

answered. *

“Bremrd*”! exclaimed. “Why, you are doing very well here, ain’t yon?” “i haimt a eomplainin; party good most anywheres yereahemt; but i done hearn tell o’ a passel o’ good hamak down Brevard; oodles o’ game down thar—bar, venison, duck, turkey,” he explained. "There is here, and you have your ptece beside, and plenty of work,” 1 remonstrated. “There’s my ten acres.” (I added in five for grandeur.) . “Well, hit ain’t Ps afeard o’ ro»tg ‘ like that o’ your’n, but I don’t banker.tor it. But I ain’t a eomplainin; hits a good neighborhood yereabouts.”

SEEING IS BELIEVING.

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“You are a rolling stone,” I said, peevisli-

ly; “you’ll gather no moss.”

“Well, I can't say I hanker for moss uyther,” said he dryly. “Hit does well enough for steers in dead o’ winter, when they can’t get no green sass, but it hain’t wuth gatherin’. Mrs. H. she tried hit. She got a lot and buried hit a year ago, and hit’s full o’ skins yit” (the bark of the moss). V/as ever a maxim so crucified. He referred to the Tillandria, or gray Spanish moys, which the stock will eat, ana which is rotted and used

for mattresses.

“I mean,” I said, coming down to the hard pan, “that your moving every 1 year eats up

the profits of your labor.”

“x’low that’s a fact," said he, studying as if it was new. “Well, what of it? If you don’t spend it you don’t git no good outen it; so hit’s as broad as it’s long. Good-bye. Wo-a hara,” and he was off. . ™ A Southerner always says “wo-a ha-a” to start his team; a Western man “gee up!’*

Make what you can of that.

The incident set me to studying. Tba Trait was not new. The pioneer is a boprn Ishmaelite—always on the move. There, is, or was one neighbor whose changes, he told me himself, amounted to thirteen in nine years. The one I had just passed started from Georgia at the close of the war, sold his

farm there, and came to Florida.

“I suppose,” said I, “the proqfceds of the sale brought you a handsome little sum to

start on.”

“Handsome,” he said, in that dry drawl;, “thar wern’t no money in Georgy when the war ended. 1 got a wagon and team. Glad enough to get that” “Humph,” said 1, at the idea of selling a farm at that rate, “it ought to have been a fine team or a poor farm.” "The farm was good enough,” he said. “As for the team, the critters died and/fhff team bunted up. Hit was no ’count, TxMuuurjr Item a. [Washington Letter.] When Mr. Chase was Secretary of tire Treasury, there were 900 clerks in the employ of that department This number haa now become increased to about 2,500. Ttto increase was - both due to the development of the country and to the special branches of business growing cwit of the war. >erv many war matters are still pending, although it would seem that in some branches of the service there was no longer necessity for snob a great number of clerks. ^The checks and balances which our fathere threw about the constitution, ana Minch have formed the text for so many drear)’ political platitudes, have been adopted m thw routine business of the department A larger portion of the business scents to be arranged to prevent your neighbor from stealing. A gentleman who recently had a claim ptew*' 4 the Quartermaster s ted enough in his draft to waich it inreorx stage through which it passed before *t became money. The draft passed through t on hands of seventy diflhrent clerk* eml Wan thirteen days on it* passage. • Aa rahted CteL (Laporte Acgaa) A Philadelphia editor reward for the man who v ^ n / c V d “l* 11 , biggest He. There is a cjMmw for Colfax. Let him send in that 1^* »tory about his never receiving “a cent, nor a tenth of a cent” That will get th* prise and pnt all competitors to ahawe.