Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 26, Number 15, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 November 1876 — Page 2

TIIE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MOllNING, NOVELBER 29, 1876. 2

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER '-IV '

Our rooster crows for Moses. Let's hear from the Journal on Mose.-. - Evidently Hoses is the South Carolina lawgiver. The South Carolina Moses know how to bulldoze a rascally board of canvassers. The city of New York gave Tilden a majority of 53,909, which shows the vast influence of the New York Time and the Tribune, Coburn could afford to be salty on the South Carolina supreme court. Just aHttle more brine, general. It will pleaso the News. Sixteen or eighteen is the democratic majority in the next congress which means more investigation" end more lame radical ducks. It is stated, by bigh'authority, that the residents of New York city paid for one million quarts of water as milk last year. Croton, at that. Moses ought to go a courting in Florida and Louisiana; there are lota of radical prodi-gals in those states who ought tobe h jugged. . -ould be pleasant to see Moses Within kickint dict.iniw nf KLonrn tri i i o - an amazingly rapid rise in shoe leather. General Sheridan's uncle 3 ten trying to kill himself. It is a great pity thin little Phil has not inherited bis uncle's re6rd for public opinion. The South Carolina board of caavassers say they Are functus officio; that is, out of office, but Moses will see to itthat.it don't mean out of Jail. One of the South Carolina members of the board of canvassers says he won't purge worth a cent Dr. Moses will have to give him another bulldoze Will the Journal send the South Carolina board of canvassers one or two of its late issues? As a purgative we conclude it will purge the entire board. Ben Hill, of Georgia, is charged with the disgrace of Ben Butler's election. If that is a fact Ben Hill ought to fc-o down hill till he reaches the bottom of purgatory. General Schenck (ought to be spelled skunk) has just been put on the pension list. on account, we presume, of wounds received when the Emma mine exploded. The Journal published General Coburn's produc4in, the same the Sentinel declined, and has not yet deodorized its columns. The health board will please take notice. t -. - The fiscal affairs of Indianapolis ought to receive the special attention ef.the mayor. We do not say that certain officers ought to be bulldozed, but something ougljt to be done to get a fair footing and a fair count. If General Coburn will send a copy of his late production to the South Carolina board of canvassers and can persuade them to take it, we will guarantee a purge in ten minutes. If not "sally," according to the News, it may be salts. L i The South Carolina board of canvassers declare they were federal officers, and having adjourned ritte d, the state courts can not reach them. They may be dead in law, but Moses is of the opinion that he can damn , them notwithstanding. C. P. Holden, a Chicago republican, has been looking after the bulldozed Louisiana parishes, and all the bulldozing that he could hear of was done by the radicals, and he learned furthermore that more than' a thousand negroes voted the democratic ticket in Rist . Feliciana, simply because they were tired of rushing to starvation and the'ppor-home via. republican misrule. Mr. Stanly Matthews concedes that the face of the returns of the Louisiana election gives the state to the democrats by a majority of four thousand, but he says the revision of the returns, as required by law, will give the republicansadecisive majority. The "revision of the returns' is just what the board was doing on the 25th with the De Soto parish rote when the great fraud wai detected. The news from Louisiana shows that fraud with steady steps Is still marching on. : Kellogg has the troops. Shot and shell are ready. Fraud is piled on fraud, perjury mounts upon perjury and ' on the summit of the infamous pile sits Kellogg enthroned wearing the insignia of a villain, ' the pet .of Grant, who to 8upjort him in las acts .of scoundrel ism would exhaust every cartridge in all of the armories of the government. It is a picture calculated to inspire horror, but radicalism paints no other. The charge has been made that Zach Chandler sent a disjatch to Governor Stearns, of Florida, saying: Florida must be made republican. Troop and money will be furnished." The charge lias never been denied; on the contrary, nom things have transpired poijig to, sustain ihe charge. It is known that a telegraph operator t Jacksonville, Florida. htd to mi-render his place for making some rcvcl'ons, and the proba bilities are tliat giving Chandler I dispatch to the ; public wns the indiscretion that caused his dismissal. One thing is certain f'i:irn mfn imi ti'.p n limn wtm lift rildipra

KHALI, THE PEOPLE BUEE? From the day it first became probable that the result of the presidential election depended upon the official returns of IxmisU ana, South Carolina and Florida, a deep anxiety touching the result and touching the future of the Union has taken jKssessiori of the public mind. From that day thinking nren of both parties who bare for their country even a moiety of the love they bore for party have been heard in . tones whose sincerity could not le doubted to say, in words tkat unmistakably came from the heart, that they hoped the result, whatever it might be, would be such that the popular judgment of the country would recognize that it was true. Republicans and democrats who tove the institutions under which they live and desire their peretuity, aline have said and still say that they are more concerned that such a result may be reached as will merit and receive public confidence in its truth and fairness than they are as to who shall be president and vice president. Still more recently, as the complications thicken and the prospect grows more threatening, that wish grows more anxious, until now it comes from the heart with the intensity of a prayer. Who will pretend to foresee the evils that in this juncture would result from the placing of cither candidate in the presidential office it a majority of all the people of the land believe him to have been placed. there by fraud and not by right! Before the canvass opened public confidence had been shattered by successive ."hocks. Exposed corruption in the national legislature and in the administration and the revolutionizing of the state governments in the south by fraud sustained by military force, had led jeople to believe that the bands of society were slackening and that government was fast tending to disintegration. When the election had passed and the popu't frenzy had a little abated we found ourselvv, faee to face with a still more startling danger. Though the republican majorities of 1S72 had Hllen off more than a half a million of vots; tkough it was apparent that the democracy had a clear popular majority of some three hundred thousand votes, and that the moral power of the popular will had left the radical party and gone over to the democracy, still it was found that the electoral result depended on the votes of Louioiana, South Carolina and Florida; that with their solid vote Governor Hayes could

still be elected, and the will of the majority defeated. No doubts were entertained as to how each one of those three states had in fac t voted, but painful doubts at once sprang up as to how their votes would be counted. In each of them all the machinery of state government was in the hands of desperat political adventurers, who, it was believed, would hesitate to commit no political crime that would prolong their lease of power. In Louisiana the returning board stood invested by law with extraordinary powers powers dangerous even in the hands of honorable and enlightened men, for by means of them ballots might be cast aside at discretion and the popular will set nf naught. But in that state the personal comiosition of "the re turning board was of the worst possible sort. It was composed of men convicted of previous falsification of election returns, men who had stolen offices and revolutionized the state by fraud, and who were so infamous that no result they might certiy could be expected to command the confidence of the people unless it might be adverse to themselves. If the result of the vote of that state actually were unkpown and in doubt, still the return of that infamous board, if favorable t their party, would create no presumption in the public mind in favor of its correctness. It would have as little weight as the declaration of a known thief that he had not stolen when he had had a tempting opportunity to steal. But the actual result in that state is not uncertain. It is known to every one that the democratic candidates for electors have a majority of the aggregate vote as returned from the different parishes of from seven to nine thousand. But it is said that this majority was ebtaincd by "intimidation," and it is feared, and greatly feared, that under this vague and indefinite plea the parish returns will be sonanipulated by that board as that not only shall Louisiana be again disfranchised by them, but that a false and usurped government shall be imposed upon the other thirty-seven states. It is fully believed that Florida has cast a majority of its vote for the democracy, but it is feared that Governor Stearns and ly's minions will falsify it. While the vote of South Carolina was con ceded to be doubtful within the past few days, it remains still as doubtful though it has been returned for the republicans. If in the end the vote of both Florida and South Carolina shall be given to the republicans, the result of the presidential election in the United States will be absolutely in the hands of that Louisiana returning board. Can these desperate scoundrels, with that heavy returned majority against them, so manipulate it under any conceivable pretelice as to give the vote of that state to the republicans without leaving a conviction ingrained in the minds of ninetenths of the people of the land that the result is a monstrous fraud? The American mind most of all others, perhaps, is intolerant of unfairness and injustice, and it is especially so when the unfairness or injustice affects the fundamental idea of iopular ir-cnnient. It has been seldom in the history of the world that a usurer has enjoyed a peaceful or a prosperous reii when he has usurped from a usurper. If Mr. Hayes should be placed in the presidential chair, and the people believe, as they can not now but believe, that he is the mere appointee of that Louisiana board an official product of fraud and conspiracy against popufar rights, a mere president de

ful nor respected, even if the public mind were in a peaceful and settled condition. But in the existing unstable condition of sentiment, and when the very foundations of society are trembling and threatening to break up, the experiment would be fraught with inconceivable danger. There might not be an organized war, but there would be no settled peace. The industries of the country could not prosper and foreign credit must suffer. If it shall be found that the result depends upon Louisiana, it is manifest now that Governor Hayes could not become president with the reputation of having been fairly elected. If this be so, the republican party has but itself to thank for it, for the corrupt government of Louisiana, its infamous returning board in-

eluded, is the work of its hands, the product of its policy, and has been kept in existence only by its bayonets. In this condition of things, when the character of the country, its prosperity, its peace and pcrv.aps its very existence, are in danger, it is right that we should urge men of all opinions, men of all pursuits and professions, to do what they may to avert impending danger. Iet all the power of public opinion be brought to bear upon those Louisiana rogues so as to coerce an open and fair count and present an unscrupu-. lous manipulation of the vote. Suspicion of "intimidation" or conflicting evidence as to its employment, will not do now. , It is known beyond doubt that the negro vote was di rided. It is known that election day passed off as quietly in Louisiana as in anj- other state of the Union. It is known that federal troops were at hand in ample force to prevent violence to the negro voter, had there been any disposition to do him violence. Under such c't cumstances it is not in the power of btimony to convince the public mind tetany "intimidation" was used such would justify the board in throwing out the vote of a single precinct in ne sta-te- Tnat Tilden and HendricJr- nave been fairly chosen nt on an hone4 count the radical leaders do not doub. and that they have been so elected by p tremendous and almost unprecedented popular majority they do not deny. It is right that the popular will should be obeyed, and in the present condition of aff.urs it is policy also. In this city to-day hundreds of thinking republicans, who voted with their party, may be found who see and acknowledge this, and who do not conceal their desire that the result should le officially declared in favor of Tilden and Hendricks as the surest solution of threatened troubles. THE RETVUMXG BOARD DETECTED. I The vigilance of the do:iofTatic committee, charged with the responsible duty of watching the radical returning board of Louisiana, is likely to produce a very decided change in the convictions of all fair minded republican. Caught in the very act of committing o glaring fraud, there is no possible escape rom the conclusion that in any case when it is necessary to tamper with the returns to gain the radicals a majority the infairous work will be performed. The sealed packages containing the returns of the various precincts and parishes were doubtless broken open as soon as received, and doctored to suit the exigencies of the situation. This accomplished, the perjured members of the returning board, with a show of regard for fair dealing, were willing to make certain concessions to the urgent demands of democrats who visited New Orleans in the interest of truth. The importance of the movement on the part of the democrats is now demonstrated beyond all -avil, and we are convinced there is not an honest man in the country who will hesitate to denounce Kellogg's returning board. Every suspicion of dishonesty is confirmed. The estimate formed of the design of of the returning board and of the jMVfotinrt of its members, by distinguished republicans and democrats, in the light of recent events, is shown to have been eminently just. The upshot of the whole matter is simply this: there can be no confidence whatever placed in the acts of the Louisiana returning board. Those who have read the telegraphic account of what transpired when the returns from De Soto parish were oiencd will see at one glance the programme fully mapped out. The De Soto picture is only one in the panorama of fraud that has been moving before the eyes of the American people, but it is conclusive- in regard to the character of those that have preceded n the darkness and those that are to follow, if necessary, to count Hayes into ' the presidential chair and perpetuate Grantisnu The detection of the De Soto parish fraud was accidental," occasioned by an oversight of the radicals who had concocted it another illustration of the proverbial , saying that "murder will ' out." ' The returns, enveloped and sealed in De Soto parish on the ISth inst, when opened in New Orleans on the 23th were found accompanied by a protest of one of the supervisors, sworn to in the city of New Orleans en the '25th inst. This sealed and registered package had been opened and the protests inserted. The fraud was so palpable that the republican eommittee did not seek to disguise Its enormity. This transaction stamps villainy upon the returning board as ineffaceable as the mark the Almighty set upon Cain. There is nothing now or the Louisiana returning board to do that will satisfy the country but to count the rotes as they Have been east, to let in the largest possible floods of light upon the whole counting business, and permit the i-eople to witness the interior workings of Kellogg's infernal machine. All talk about bulldozed pari b es and Intimi dated negroes from this time henceforth will pans as idle.boeh and clap-trap, entitled to no consideration whatever. De Soto parish will pass into history as the place where the re-

WANDERING WILLIE.

His Return to His Old Quarters in Ludlow Street Jail. THE BOSS FOKTEXEJ. How He IIa Dorne III Lone JonrneyInKft, und How He Wa lleecived by 111 Old Friends. IKew York Dispatch to the Chicago Times. The first reliable news of the Franklin's arrival was a dispatch at 8 a. m. that a steamer with a white elephant aboard was off Ocean Grove. Tweed's friends shok -their heads and swore like ur army in Flanders. Importers arrived in swarms at the sheriffs office in time to see Mr. Conner starting excitedly and alone for a tug-boat to take him to the United States tender Catalpa, which was to take the prisoner off the steamer Franklin. The United States steamer Nina was darting around the bav signalling, and all was mystery and excitement. The bay swarmed with steam tugs, containing members of the press ana others. Photograpic and other artists were just ready to take a sketch of the Doss as he would appear getting over the gangway and aboard the tender. Theshore alomr the bay was dotted wKh little knots of ladies ana gentlemen, stunning au me cratt passing with telescojes and opera glasses. At 3:15 p. m. the Catalpa steamed up to Grand street, on the North river, where the landing took place, it is reported that the Franklin Will return -'o morions, immediately, aooui 4 p. m. Teed was brought to Ludlow Street jail in a carriage, which also contained the sh'riff, Under Sheriff Cummings, Order of Arrest Clerk Quincy aiid Wardrti Watson. The expectant crowd of repoers in the office of the jail were eluded by ütroducing the JJoss to his old quarters th-ough the gateway. The warden says the Jjs, on seeing him, greeted him heartily, a.ii said cheerfully, "I thought I would sec you again." No one could bj admitted to see the Boss. He is reported to be as heartv as ever, and quite unaltered in appearance. The warden is now extremely careful of his c harge, and the moment the carriage arrived a strong guard of turnkeys and other officials rushed to the door änd barred out the thronging crowd until the prisoner was safely in his cell. After this, with a sigh of relief, the warden appeared in theollice; then smiled and joked with the reporters, but up to a late hour would not allow any one to disturb the rest of a distinguished guest. It is stated that the Doss looks quite hale and hearty, and no more downhearted, lie fore Iiis arrival at the Ludlow street hotel his luggage, consisting of the blankets and carpet-bag which figured on the lone rock by Caribbean sea, when the illustrious exile landed in Cuba, arrived by an express wagon. "Twid Antelme" has not been assigned to his old quarters, facing the street, but to a room looking on the court-vard, with formidable gratings to the windows, specially prepared for his benefit. His bed is comfortable and the room well ventilated, but the furniture plainer than during his last visit to the jail, and there is a more prison-like appearance about the room than the former comfortable apartment. The bed appears too small for a man of such size as Tweed. The outside room will always contain a watchman, and is only accessible through the warden's room. It is stated that a rigid watch will be kept over Twted henceforth. No pleasant trips home, no favors, will be allowed; and the Boss Will be treated, as to the enforcement of prison rules, like ordinary prisoners. There are all sorts of rumors in circulation about terrible disclosures to blast sundry politicians in good standing which the Boss is expected to make in his indignation at being forcibly taken from the shores of sunny Spain to winter in a damp apartment in Ludlow Street jail. A fter the preliminary excitement and confusion, attendant on the arrival of the Boss at his old headquarters, had subsided" somewhat, the warden, Mr. Watson, had time to talk, but lie did not say much. He evidently means to run the prison on a plan of his own, and shakes his head and stomach knowingly when asked about the security of Tweed's prison room. There were few of those who formerly fed on Tweed's bounty who made any effort to see him to-night. Among the few was Mrs. McMullcn, his former mistress. She drove down to Ludlow Street jail, accompanied by one Moore, her brother, one of Tweed's former icelers. The Boss was surprised, and at first refused to see her, but slie persisted, and be ordered her to be admitted after his son had left. Mrs. McMullen v.'as deeply veiled, and her presence in Ludlow Street jail to meet her once princely patron was known to few. The subject matter as to what the course of the district attorney's office would be in- the prosecution of Tweed was broached, but Mr. Fhelps evinced decided reticence on the question. He, however, admitted that he had received an order on the sheriff, calling for the production of Tweed's body on charge of forgery. This is to prevent his release in case he should procure the bail required in the civil suits against him. precious rnirr. How Baltimore Jewrler W. Rone Oat of Lot of Diamonds by m. Xlrc Young Man. Baltimore Oazette.f Only a few days aqo the Gazette recorded the articulars of a bold and successful robbery of diamonds and other valuables from the establishment of Samuel Kirk it Son. Yesterday the adroit act was repeated under almost precisely similar circumstances, the victim being Charles Bein, a jeweler at 84 Lexington street, west of Charles. In the case of the Kirk robbery a welldressed and gentlemanly individual, accomIied by a prepossessing young lady, called at lis establishment, and asked to be shown some diamond rings, which they examined, and promised to rail again. This the man did a few days later, and at his request one of the clerks called on him at his reputed residence in Hamilton street with the valuables, in . order to "allow his wife to make a selection." The sharper, who had only been in the house a few hours, met the clerk at the door, selected the most valuable articles, worth about $1,200, and under the pretense of taking them to his roomt escaped by the rear gate. The cai was given to , the detectives, the clerk dismissed for his act, and it was supposed the puMic had been sufficiently warned by the publication .of the robbery to prevent a successful repetition of it. for at least a considerable time. Such matters are, however, quickly forgotten, and a day or two ago, when a young man of gentlemanly address, polite, intelligent, and otherwise bearing all the outward semblance of a gentleman, and not of a thief, entered Mr. Bein'a establishment ' and tked to be shown wme diamonds, his wish was cheerfully complied with. He was what th frequent lady visitors to MrJBein's store would term "a nice young man." He was tall and graceful, fair complexion, blue eyes and gentle, mainer, and parted his hair in the middle. Ho toyed carelessly with a number of valuable gems, expressed his preference for a couple of cluster rings, but his wife nndhere he blushed modestlv his

wife must be consulted on so important a matter. He would call again, and thanking Mr. Bein for his trouble, withdrew. Mr. Bein was assured that he had f jund a customer in the nice young man, and he was not wrong in that supposition. The strängt r did call again. He called vesterday, and, after looking over the jewels, selected two elegant cluster diamond rings, which he thought would please his "wife." Would Mr. 15ein oblige him by sending a c lerk with him o his residence.Gl North Liberty street, only a block distant, in order that he could get his wife's approval of the purchase. At about 2 o'clock he would be at home, and hand the clerk the cash for the valuables. Certainly Mr. Bein would, and did, and at the time appointed the clerk rang the bell at "No. 61," and was received at the entrance by his cusumer, who found himself 'accidentally" in the hallway. Ushering the clerk into the parlor the gentlemanly young man took from his hands the case of jewels, and requested the privilege of showing them to his wife. He would only be absent for a few moments, and if she approved the purchase he would return instanflv with the nionev.

He then withdrew from the parlor.-rarefnlly closing tne aoor, and in a moment had made his exit from the front entrance, leav ing Mr. Bein's representative in blissful ignorance of his designs. The latter finally grew impatient, and upon inquiring fo ins customer learned that only tmeen minutes before he had called and engaged board from Mrs. Staylor, the proprietress of the house. Mr. Bien was at once notified of the robbery, and lost no time in niacins the matter in the hands of the police authorities. Detectives visited Mrs. StayIors residence, and obtained a description of the swindler, but up to a late hour last night their efforts to cap ture him had not been attended with suc cess. The same party did not. it is believed. perpetrate both robbereis, as their de-' scriptions are unlike, but both were planned and executed in a precisely similar manner. One of the rings, worth $15, was recovered by the detective firm of Smith & West at a pawn shop, where it had been pawned for $15. The other is valued at $12". Mr. Bein states that he had recently offended a gentleman by refusing to -send to his house some silverware; afterward ascertaining from his clerk that he was a good customer and perfectly reliable, he was afraid of repeating his error, and accordingly sent the diamonds. ' THE LATEST MAMMOTH FOBTL'XE Claimant Wanted, and Found In Ken lue kr. Georgetown Times. In February last Mr. Charles Robert O'Keefe, a bachelor, aged b'i years, died at Allahabad, India, leaving fortune estimated at $21,000,000. Mr. O'Keefe was born in London. Both of his parents died before he readied his majority. He had one brother and sister, who are also dead. When about IG years of age he was apprenticed to a painter at Dungarven, county of Waterford, Ireland, to learn that trade, but, not liking the occupation, ran away from his master some two years later (in 1842) and went to India and enlisted in the army. Subsequently he engaged in the opium trade between India and China, probably as an agent of the Fast India company, and in course of time by close attention to business and good luck, assumed a colossal fortune. Soon after the death of Mr. O'Keefe the following notice appeared in some of the public prints, among others The Irish World, of New York: The latest mammoth fortune in search of a claimant is that of Charles Itobert O'Keefe, Victoria street, Allahabad, who died February 20. It amounts to $24.000,000. George (Harrington and William Whigley, solicitors of Calcutta, advertise for heirs." This notice was the means, in a measure. of discovering three of the heirs (cousins of the deceased ) to his mammoth fortune, two of whom reside in this place, the third in Danville, Ky., and the fourth (the entire number of claimants), if living in, England. The Georgetown heirs are Mr. P. J. O'Keefe and his s'ster Mrs. Morrissey who is the mother-in-law of Mr. Michael Geary, of the Georgetown pas-works. Some weeks ago Mr. Geary, who is a patron of the Irish World, in looking over thai paper, discovered the notice published above, and the family name claiming his attention, he read the item aloud to his mother-in-law, who at once exclaimed: "That is ray cousin!'' The Georgetown heirs expectant to this bonanza, which throws the yield of the Black Hills into the shade, have never been blessed with more "filthy lucre" than was necessary to meet the ordinary wants of life. P. J. O'Keefe is a shoemaker, and for the past 15 months has been working for our townsman, J. F. Gasner, at moderate wages. He has always worked at his trade in Ireland, Kngland and Kentucky. He came to this place from Cynthiana. He. has a wife (whom he married in Kngland) and eight children. The wife is keeping a tollgate on the Georgetown and Leesburg turnpike. The Danville brother is now in Missouri to arrange some pecuniary matters preparatory to a visit with the Georgetown brother to Hngland and Ireland to establish their claim to the fortune. The fourth heir, a sister, if living, is, as previously stated, in Kngland. though nothing has been heard from her for the past 18 years. The brothers and sisters were raised by -the father of the deceased India Crcesus. The Georgetown O'Keefe has received a letter from tlie priest who married him in England, corroborating the death of his rich India cousin, and also referring to the great fortune left behind. We tell the story substantially as it was told to us by the interested parties at this place, and shall watch the sequel with no little interest; though notwith the interest by a twenty-fourth million part that doubtless attaches to the rarty of the Srst part. A SHORT CUT , To the Election of Hure by the Kum- - initry Counting in of f'lorid and Louisiana. New Orleans Special to the Chicago Times of Yesterday. The summary disposition of South Carolina's case by a roost-robbing returning board has given the impression 'here that the counting in of Hayes by both the Florida and, Louisiana boards will be a very short cut.' It is the settled conviction that such a "programme was incepted long ago, and that the 8outh Carolina infamy is but the beginning of it To-day the board counted the returns from three parishes, making 17 parishes thus far completed, with a republican majority of 5,878. In the board session the democrats urged the appointment of a democret to till the vacancy on the board. Wells, the president, said the board vill make an effort to fill the vacancy. There has been organized in this city a scheme of systematic persecution of colored men who have voted the.democmtic ticket. Complaints, are made every day to the democratic committee of assaults and abuse against the men and their families. Threats are freely indulged in arrainst them, and they must leave the city. To such an extent has this system of persecution gone that in several instances the parties have been compelled to abandon their homes and seek refuge in the neighborhoods where their lives are in coinparativ-j safety.

A MILLIONAIRE MURDERER. The Kind of Justice They Deal Out in Canada.

J I'STLY Jl'DC ED. A Own od inn Millionaire Who It ni tally Murdered Hit Young; Wife While Drank (Joe I p lor Eile. Special Telegram to the Chicago Times. Peterhoru', Ont., Nov. 22. The spectacle of a millionaire leaving his rich possessions behind him and, accouipuniei by the olhcersof the law, boarding the train for the ienitentiary them to remain for the term of his life, is one rarely seen; 'tis even rarer than hanging in New York or Chicago. This morning James Kyan was taken from jail here, put on board of the early train by the sherili and his constables, and conveyed to the provincial penitentiary at Kingston. He was found guilty of wife-murder at the Petersboro', assizes on the I8tii of October last and sentenced to death to-day. The executive at Ottawa, however, 'heard the prayer of almost the whole province as expressed through a petitin asking for the merciful exercise of the executive power, ami the sentence of the condemned man was commuted to imprisonment for life. Kyan in personal an.t real estate is worth, so it is estimated, $l,aX),U(J0. Twenty years ago when he was of age, his father, Patrick Ityan, now a millionaire of 7&, gave him half a million in gold with which to start in business. James bought a large tannery and by energy in business and the wise profitable investment of his surplus capital soon doubled hie father's gift to Lim. Eight years ago he married a highly accomplished young lady of Montreal, the daughter of a wealthy French firm of clothiers there. Everything he handled prospered, and he was regarded as the coming Dives of the Dominion. In 1S7, when. owing to the panic which then prevailed throughout this continent and Europe, real estate was selling dirt cheap, he purchased larpely in Chicago, SSL luis, New York and elsewhere, and obtained an interest in some property in Birkenhead, the city opposite LiveriHHjl and the chief ship building center in the north of England, which brought him a handsome income. He sold out his Chicago property in lhOU, just before the great tire, and is said to have realized heavily upon it. In the early part of this year, however, Mr. Ityan, for some cause that has' never been thoroughly cleared up, took to drinking. On the th of May he had an attack of delirium tremens. He tied friu his house in the forenoon and took refuge from his imaginary pursuers in his tannery, hard by. Toward evening be sent a workman for a bottle of whisk), and having drank it felt nerved again, and returned home. He sat down in Iiis parlor and called his young wife to him. She believing no doObt that lie wanted more whisky, at hrst pretended she did not hear him, but ultimately walked up to him and put her arm abound his neck. Their two children, one seven and the other live years old. were in the room at the time. Suddenly Ityan, so tle elder child stated in evidence, rose from his chair and struck his wife in the side. She staggered from the room into the hall and down the steps, and with a piercing cry fell on the lawn outside the front door. The servants heard her cry, and rushed to he rassitance,butshe wasdead, stabbed through the heart. The town constables were sent for and they arrested Kyan, who sat motionless in his chair. On lieing charged with the murder of his wife he wept bitterly, but made no answer. A long.thinbladed knife, tinged at the sharp point with blood, was found on the carjet by his chair, ami was recognized as a knife used by the tanners for jaring peltries. The prisoner was duly committed for trial at the fall assizes, and a true bill bavins been found against him by the grand jury, he was placed in the dock before Mr. Justice Gwynne on December 18 ult. Ryan was defended by" three of the ablest niiprivs advocates at the Canadian bar, viz: Hon. J. II. Cameron, Q. C, (who died on the 13t inst. and was buried on rndav last), Hon. M. Cameron, Q. C, and Mr. John Ar mour, Q. C, with Mr. W. 11. Scott. Q. C., of this town. The defense was temporary insanity, in plainer words delirium tremens, and when that failed the learned counsel made an effort to show that. the deceased committed suicide in distraction at her husband's drunkenness. The suicide theory was abandoned before the close of the trial, however, and the prisoner was found guilty after a trial extending over eight hours, and sentenced for execution to-day. During the trial the crown counsel put the delirium tremens plea in this light: "In surance policies distinctly except delirium tremens from deaths commonly known as 'natural.' and who dies therein or therefrom is counted as one guilty of ftlo de e, and the privileges conferred upon him, or in other words, on his family, are voided. So it i? with the spirit "of the English law. Those who commit crime while laboring under delirium tremens are deuied the immunity, if I may say s, the law accords to other forms of insanity which are considered natural." The jury recommended Kyan to mercy, and this recommendation being backed by a petition by this town at large, and by some of the most reputable physicians in the country, Mr. Blake, the minister of justice. advised the governor general to commute the sentence as already stated. By the old English law a felon condemned to "death became "attaint by the crown." and his property, like his body, was forfeited to the crown. But that practice has been dropped mercifully enough, and Ryan's million and a quarter ig invested with trustees, of whom his father is one, for the benefit of the two children. Aboriginal Materialization. IThe Alta California. While the Quapaws were dancing around a large bonfire at raw huska, Indian Territory, late in October, a squaw suddenly broke away from the circle, and when only a few feet fron- the ring, fell to the ground dead. The medicine men of the band at once assembled, and after communing with the Great Spirit, informed the excited sav ages that an Indian woman had died close by the year before, and her spirit had got inside fhe late sister and killed her on the spot. ' This is perhaps the most remarkable instance ol materialization on recora. A man in Virginia City. Nev., whose Chinese cook left him, was unable to retain any of numerous "Johns" for over a day, un til he induced one ol them to explain that some apparently meaningless strips of red paper on the kitchen wall contained the Chinese inscription: "Boss woman, lonr time tongue. Muchee jaw jaw." The president has ordered that the govern ment building and contents at the Centennial remain in statu quo for the present. the project being to remove the building and contents to Washington, or to erect a suita ble building there for the reception of the contents, if. congress will apnropriate the money which the president will ass lor we purpose.