Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 26, Number 28, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1877 — Page 9

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CAPTVRE OF THE LONG POINT TRAIN ROBBERS.

Tkey Ar Taken In On the Information of a Prostitute. By Telegraph to the Sentinel. Tbem Haute, Feb. 23. Terre Haute was thrown into a furore of ncitement this morning by the announcement that the perpetrators of the Long Point murder, in July. 1875, had been arrested in this city. The arrests were made by Colonel A. C. Dewey and Captains Brown and Murphy of the Indianapolis police force, assisted by Sheriff Carrico of this county. WHO GAVI THEM AWAT. Information whichled to the arrest was given to the Indianapolis officers by two prostitutes, Jennie and Maggie Williams, who ar now in ycur city. HOW THXT GAIN THK ISFOKMATIOJC. Several weeks since, while these women were inmates of a house of prostitution kept by Chas. St Clair in this city, they OTerheard a conversation between St. Clair and a negro named Alex. Cauthorn, in which the details of the attempt to rob the express car at Long Point were re hearsed. This they related to Colonel Dewey, and he, acting upon this evidence, aptured the whole Rang. KEPT IS COXFIXEMEXT. The negro Cauthorn was induced to visit Indianapolis about two weeks since, where he was arrested and has been kept in solitary confinement until to-day. From him the officers gained much valuable information The parties implicated are Charley St. Clair, keeper of a house of prostitution in this city, Alex, and Sam Cauthorn, two negroes who were in the employ of St. Clair at the time; Billy Carr, son of a respectable citizen of -Terre Haute; Jack Splan and Dud Shewmaker, who were baggagemen on the Vandalia railroad at the time of the murder, and Jennie Osgood, a prostitute. ' . THE ROBBERY. Colonel Dewey says the robbery was planned at the house of St. Clair, and all of the parties except Hplan ' and hewmaker rendecToned at Marshall, III. , A WOMAN HELPS IX THE BOBBERY. The woman Osgood was dressed in men's clethes, and wore a black mustache. She was one of the two persons who sprang upon the engine, and she was standing on the foot board when Eames. the engineer, was killed. TAKEN TO ILLINOIS. All of the parties above named except the woman Osgood and Jack Splan, were sent to Prairie City. Illinois, the county seat of Cumberland county. The Osgood woman is still in jail in this city. LEAVES THE COUNTRY. Jennie Wyning, the wife of St Clair, has fled the city. TILDEN SPEAKS. The President Elect Repudiate a I)ublAsrciiiiit In m Clin ratrri tic Let tec. New York, Feb. ill. Governor Tilden has sent the following communication to Senator Kernan: . New York, Feb. 21. To the Hon. Francis Kernan, Washington, D.C: A telegram to ie associated prens published this morning states that a harmonious agreement lias been brought about between the senate committee, of which you are a member, and a committee of the house, by which It has been decided not to go Into an examination of my bank account ou the one hand, or the aof-ouiit of the chairman f the republican committee on the otln-r. I repudiate any nch " agreement, 'd oisclaira ciiy; nidi immunity, 'protection, or benefit from lt. I rejeettlie utterly Lls imputation ii:tt my privat bank account contains anything; whatever that needs to be concealed undue, pretense of. looking , for a payment. In ; De?embtr the . demand vat made for all payments after May and all deposit during nine months. The bank wa repeatedly menaced with the removal of Its officers and books to Washington. A transcript of . the entries of private business trusts, charities, containing every thlrtg but what the commission was commissioned to investigate, but nothing which it was commissioned to investigate, because nothing of that sort existed, has been taken with my knowledge to Washington. Of course there is "no item in it relative to anything in Oregon, for I never made a purchase or knew of an expenditure in relation to the election iu that state, or resulting controversy, or any promise or obligation or negotiation on the subject. Mr. Kills, acting president of the bank, himself a republican some time ago told the chairman of the committee and several of its members that there is nothing in the account capable of furthering any just object of investigation. I am also informed that a resolution was passed to summon me as a witness, but have received no subpena. I had written before thw telegram appeared requesting you to say to the committee that it would lie more agreeable to. me not to visit Washington if the committee would send a ftub-eommittee, or hold a session here, but that otherwise I should attend under the budr?na. As to this arrangement now reported, have only to say that I can accept decorum and decency, but not a fictitious equivalent for a mantle of secrecy to anybod r else. S, J. TlLDKf. The Bill to Rename Specie. WASHiycTos, Feb. 21. The following is a full text of the bill to aid in the resumption of specie payments, reported to-day by Senator Sherman, from the committe on finance, and placed on the calendar for consideration: Be it enacted, etc., that the secretary of the treasury be, and he is hereby authorized to issue 3n am or sums not exceeding in the aggregate one hundred million dollars in redemption of an equal amount of United states notes under the authority of the acts of February 2i, 1, July 11, 1. March 30, 13, coupon bonds of the t same . description and character as those authorized by the acts of July. H, 1470, and January 20, 1X71 redeemable In coin of the present standard value at the pleasure of the United States after 3) years from the date of their lsnne and bearing lnter- . est payable quarterlyln such coin- at the rate of four per cent, per annum. fuch bonds shall be in addition to the loan authorized by the acts of July 14.1S70, and January 20, 1S71. JSee. 2 That during any one year there shall not be issued of the said bonds or redeemed of the said notes more than ,000,000, nor more than $14.000,000 daring any one month, and when the said treasury notes shall have . been so redeemed they shall not again be reissued but shall be canceled and destroyed; No com ; mission in any form shall be paid for exJ change of bonds issued ander the provisions of this act. ' .,,.! ! ,- 8ec. 3. That the secretary of the treasury is hereby authorized to Issue In exchange for legal tender not of the United States, silver ' coin to an amouit heretofore authorized to be issued by tlw -ct of April 17, 157, chapter 63. and by tbfc Joint resolution of July 22, lx7flL number 17. They shall not exceed 90,000.000, and the legal tender notes so received shall be canceled and destroyed, and beheld to be a portion of the sinking fund provided by the existing law the Interest to be computed thereon aa in the case of the , bonds redeemed. Hec. 4. That the necessary expenses ot engraving, printing, preparing ana issning the bonds, and of redeeming and canceling the United titatea notes as provided, In this act, J

shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, but the whole amount thereof shall not exceed one quarter of one per centum of the amount of the. bonds Issued.

; THE JOINT JSESSIO V. How the Oregon Tote Came Before Congress and the Objections that Were Had. At 11:45 the senate and house met in joint convention. The presiding officer having called the meeting to order and directed the reading of the resolutions of each house in favor of counting the votes of Nevada, the teller then announced Nevada had cast her votes for Hayes and Wheeler. Then followed in succession the states of New Hampshire, with 5 votes för Hayes and Wheeler; New Jersey, 9 votes for Tilden and Hendricks; New York, 35 votes for Tilden and Hendricks; North Carolina, 10 votes for Tilden and Hendricks; Ohio, 22 votes for Hayes and Wheeler. The presiding officer now opened and handed to the tellers a certificate received from Oregon. It was read by Stone, and K roved to be the certificate of the three ayes electors, Cartwright, Odell and Watts, executed before a notary public. The papers contain a full statement of the doings of the electors, the resignation of Watts as postiuastervhis subsequent choice by the other two electors, the original ballots cast by the three electors, etc. They were read in full. Tne presiding officer then handed to the tellers the certificate of the three rival electors, Cronin, Miller and Parker, authenticated by the signature of the governor and secretary of state, with the seal of the state attached. These certificates give two votes to Hayes and Wheeler, and one vote to Til den and Hendricks. Senator Mitchell presented objections to the certificate of Cronin, Miller and 1'arker, on the following grounds: 1. Because neither of said persons was ever appointed elector by the state of Oregon in any manner whatever. 2. "Because it appeared from the records and paper contained in and attached to t lie certificate of W.U. Odell, J. C. Cartwright and John W. Watts that they were duly appointed electors, and cast their votes , as such. 3. Because it does not appear from the face of Governor Grover's certificate, attached to the returns of the votes of Cronin, Miller and Parker, that such certificate was issued to the three persons having the highest number of votes for electors, out was issued by him to jersons whom he deemed eligible", though one of them, E. A. Crocin, was not appointed thereto according to the laws of Oregon. ' . 4. Because it appears, from the certificate of S. F. Chadwick, secretary of state. , that Odell, Cartwright, and Watts received the highest number of . votes, and rhat the secretary of state, in pursuance of law. so declared, and that therefore the certificate of the governor, in so far as it omitted to certify the name of J. W. Watts as one of the electors appointed, and in so far as such certificates contained the name of E. A. Cronin as one of the electors appointed to conform to the act of congress in such cases made and provided and to the law of Oregon, that Mich certificate is as to the said Cronin without authority and of no effect. 5. Because it appears from both certificates that Odell and Cartwright, a majority of the electoral college, were duly elected electors , by Oregon in the manner prescribed by the legislature; that their record, presented to the president of the senate and by him to the two houses, shows that a vacancy in the office of elector existed on the day fixed by law for the meeting of electors, and that such vacancy was filled by the appointment Of Watts. This objection is signed by Senators Mitchell and Sargent and by Representatives Lawrence, Burchard (Illinois) and McDill. . .... Senator Kelley presented the objection to the certificate of Odell and Watts. It is signed by Senators Kelley, Bogy, McDonald, Stevenson and Cooper, and by Representatives Field, Tucker, Lane, Jenks, Walling, Clymer,' Wigginton', Poppleton, Vance . of .Ohio, Ilurd. and Luttrell., The grounds of the objections. are: ,' ., .. ,'. 1. ' The papers purporting to be certificates of electoral votes' of Oregon have", not an.-, nexed to them the certificates of the' governor of Oregon, as req"iried' to be made and annexed by sections 137 and 133 of the United States ruyised statutes. .. 2. The papers hav- not annexed to them the list of the nanu s of Cartwright, Odell and Watts as elector- to which the seal of the state of Oregon was affixed by the secretayr of state and signed by the governor and secretary as required by section 0 of chapter 41 of the genera! I. ws of the s'ate of Oregon. 3. It was the right and duty of ihe governor of Oregon, under the law of tint state, to give the certificate of election or ajivntment as electors to John C. Cartwright ll liani II. Odell and E. A. Cronin, they being the onlv three persons capable of being appointed presidential elactors who received the highest number of votes at the election held in Oregon November 7, 1876. 4. Cartwright and Odell had not the right or authority in law to appoint Watts to be an elector December 6, 1876, as there was no vacancy in the office of presidential elector on that day. 5. Cartwright and Odell had no right or authot ity in law to appoint Watts an elector December 6, 1876, inasmuch as they did not on that day compose or form any part of the electoral college of Oregon as by law constituted. ' . i 6. Cartwright and Odell had nO authority to appoint Watts an elector, December 6, 1S76, because on that day Watts was still postmaster at Lafayette, Oregon, and was still on that day holding said office of profit and trust. 1 7. Watts, who claims to be an elector in the above named described certificate' was, in February, 1873, appointed postmaster at Lafayette, Oregon, and was duly commissioned and qualified as such postmaster, that . being an office of trust and profit under1 the . : laws of the United States, and continued to be and act as such postmaster ; from February, ' 1S73, until after November 13, 1876, and was acting as such postmaster on November 7, 1876, when the presidential electors were appointed by . the state ot Oregon, and that i he .was. ineligible to .'be appointed , as i one ... of , said presidential electors on the 8tlu ..When the governor of Oregon caused . the lists of names of the electors of the slate to be made out and certified, such list did not contain the name of said Watta, but -did contain the names of Cartwright, Odell and, ; Cronin, who were duly appointed electors of president and vice president of the United States in the state of Oregon, November 7 1876. .: .i: .... , 1 Mr. Lawrence presented further objection to the certificates1 of Cronin and Parker on the ground that neither had been appointed a presidential elector, and that Odell, Cartwright and Watts had been duly elected and had cast the true and lawful vote of the state. ' ; . This paper is signed by Senators Mitchell and Sargent, and by Representatives Lawrence, McCrary, Hale ana Banks. . i '' , All the objections to the Oregon certificates having been presented, they have been referred to - the electoral commission and the senate has retired to its own chamber, i .

HAYES QETS OREGOÜ

By the Same Old Tote of Eight to Seven. Washington, Feb. 23. The electoral commission re-assembled in beeret session at 10:30 o'clock and remained in consultation on the Oregon case four and a half hours. At 3 o'clock, the discussion being concluded and Senator Thurman not having been able to attend the sitting on account of illness, a recess was taken in order to ascertain whether he would prefer coming to the capitol, or that the commission should proceed to his residence and there transact the business incident to taking the vote. A committee consisting of Senaters Bayard and Frelinghuysen was appointed for this purpose, and reported in due time that Senator Thurman E referred to receive the commission at his ouse at 4 o'clock. Therefore, the other members of the commission proceeded in carriages to Senator Thurman's residence. AT THXEMAN'B RESIDENCE. Senator Thurman was found confined to his bed, where he remained during the proceedings of the commission. The commission was formally called to order by Justice Clifford, the president, and a vote was taken on the following propositions, which had been informally submitted and discussed but not voted upon during the day's session. EDMl"M8'8 RESOLUTION. Resolved, That Ihe certificate signed by E. A. Cronin, J. N. F. Miller and John Packer, purporting to cast the electoral vote of the state of Oregon, does not contain or certify the constitutional votes to which the state is entitled. AOAINST COUNTING WATTS IS. Justice Field offered the following as a substitute: Whereas, J. W. Wat'. designated in certificate No. 1 as an elector of the ptate of Oregon for president and vice pre.idnt, on I the day of the election, viz: the 7th day of November, 1876, held an office of trust and profit under the United States; therefore Resolved. That the said J. W. Watts was then ineligible to the office of elector within the express terms of the constitution. Rejected ayes, 7; naves, 8 as follows: Ayes Abbott lUvard, Clifford. Field, Hnnton, Payne and Thurman. 7. i Nays Bradley, Edmunds. Frelingbuysen, Garfield. Hoar, Miller. Martin and Strong, 8. , IS rTT IX ANOTHER FORM. I Justice Field then oüered the following: ! Whereas, At the election held on the 7th f November, 1376, in the state of Oregon, for electors for president and vice president, ,W. IL Odell. J. W. Watts and J. C. Cartwright received ihe highest number of votes cast for elector ; but, . ; Whereas, Said Watts, then holding an office of trus. and profit under the United states, was ineligible to the office of elector; therefore : ". ' Resolved, That the said Odell alid Cartwright were the only rsons duly elected at the said election, and there was a failure on the part of the state to elect a third elector. Rejected ayes, 7; nays, 8. The same vote in detail as the preceding. 1 JUSTICE FIELD TRYS IT AGAIN. Justice Field then ottered the followingWhereas, The legislature of Oregon has made no provision for the appointment of an elector under the act of congress where there was a failure to make a choice on the dav prescribed by law; therefore Resolved, That the attempted selection of a third elector by the two persons chosen was inoperative and void. Rejected yeas, 7; nays. 8 as above. 1 Mr. Bayard then offered the following: . Resolved, That ttie vote of W. II. Odell and the vote of J. C. Cartwright, cast for Rutherford B. Hayes, of Ohio, for president of the United States, and for -William A. Wheeler, of New York, for vice president of the United States, were the" voteg provided for by the constitution of the United States, and that the aforesaid Odell and Cartwright, end they only, were the persons duly apointed eleetrtrs'in the state of Oregon at the election held Nov. 7, 1876, there having been a failure at the said election to appoint a third elector in accordance, with the constitution and laws of the United Slates and the laws of the state of Oregon, and that the votes aforesaid should be counted, and none Others, from the state of Oregon, j Rejected yeas, 7; nays, 8 as above. I ." ' , . ' ADOPTION OF EDMUNDS 8 BESOLCTION. ' A vote was then taken on Edmunds's original proposition, and it was adopted. Yeas, 15; nays, none. MORTON TAKES A HAND. Mr. Morton then offered the following: . Resolved, That W. II. Odell, J. C. Cartwright, and J. W. Watts, the persons named as electors in certificate No. 1, are the lawful electors of the state of Oregon. and that their votes are the votes provided for by the constitution of the Unitad States, and should be counted for president and vice president of the United States. WANTS WATTS OUT. Mr. Hunton moved to strike out the name of J. W. Watts. Disagreed to yeas, 7; nays, 8. THE KEFUBLICAIf ELECTORS COUNTED IX. Morton's resolution was then adopted yeas, 8; nays, 7 as follows: Yeas Bradley, Edmunds, Frelinghysen, Garfield, Hoar, Miller, Morton and Strong 8. Nayes Abbott, Bayard, Clifford, Field, Hunton, Tayne and Thurman, 7. .1 THE DECISION SIGNED. The decision ot the commission was then drawn up and signed by the eight members voting in the affirmative. HE WOULD HILL, HIS DAUGHTER. ' - r An Interview With the Italian Woman Whose Father Tried to Kill Her In Brooklyn. , , Brooklyn Eagle. Rose Masai mi no, the young Italian woman who had such a narrow escape with her life from the hands of her infuriated father, Antonio Leon, last Thursday morning, is i rapidly recovering from the effects of the numerous cuts and bruises she received in the terrible struggle, and this morning, for the first occasion, the , authorities at the Long . Island college hospital allowed fier to hold a conversation with strangers in reference to t the occurrence. . The' reporter of the Eagle found ' her not only willing, but anxious to talk over the trouble, which came so near resulting in a tragedy and she exhibited only the most bitter hatred for her -father; whom she represented as monster in iniquity and a most fitting subject .for the gallows. Her statement in brief was as follows: - Four years ago, when she resided' in Charleston with her mother, who is a' neice of Controller Kelly, of New York, her father returned from a sea voyage and found his wife in an intoxicated condition. He was very angry, and after beating his wife in f brutal manner, left the house taking . her (Rose) with him to another part of the city, and his inhuman and monstrous 1 act waS perpetrated on that occasion. She was, then, only thirteen years of age, but "blessed God she had a good memory" and could not forgeMt. On the following day, she returned to ' her mother's house

and revealed her father's iniquitv. Her mother was in the habit of getting drunk, aDd when in that condition would speak of her husband's crime and threaten him with exposure. The matter finally came to the ears of their neighbors, and the consequence was that they were obliged to leave Charleston, from which city they went to Baltimore and thence to New York. Her father and his brother John, through the influence of Controller Kelly, secured positions as night watchmen, etc., at City Hall, and the family settled in Williamsburgh. Shortly after her marriage, two months ago, she made a confession to her husband, and the consequence was a quarrel between the latter and her father; who accused her of slandering him. The trouble continued till last Thursday morning, when her father attempted to kill her. He had threatened to take her life unless sbe denied, in the presence of her husband, the truth of her statement, but this she positively refused to da That her father intended to carry out his threat she had no doubt whatever, for only two days before he shot at her he called at the house and swore that he would hang for her unless she got iown on her knees and with crucifix in hand acknowledged that she had lied. He had a pistol in his possession at the time, and would undoubtedly have used it had not her husband and a friend come in just at that moment. She then did fall down upon her knees and raise the crucifix, but only to reiterate the truth of her accusations and denounce him as a fiend. 'P'ie next and lat interview with her father was on Thursday morning, when he made the attempt upon her life. Her statement in reference to the murderous attack corresponds materially it!i the report already 11 hl i shed in the Eagle She says he tired at her three litn and then knocked her down, and after bt-atir.g her over the head with the pibiui, ttiahbed her on the arm and wnt wiili the ociseors. Bhe exacted every moment to be her last, but was sensible enough to pretend to be dead, hoping, by that means to hasten the flight of her iHMiilunt. Twice, however, he discovered that she had signs of life and renewed his attack. Ro.e is exceedingly bitter not only against her father but her uncle, John Leon, vh is also under arrest Her statement places the latter in the light of accessory to the" deed, inasmuch as she says ,that he uod quietly by and made no effort whatever, to save "her, although she made piteoas appeals to him to do so. From the closinsr portions of the interview with the unfortuiiHte woman, it is clear that she is not likely to show any tender-heartedness I toward the pri.soners. l ' ' , ( The lllood-tlilrsty Editor. Donn Piatt's Liefer to Cincinnati Enquirer. 1 In this matter of assassination much depends as who is to be assasMmted. When the president's fon and brother in law came to my honse in. the night time armed, to seek a fight, when, le't to terminate as it might, an invalid wife would have been a victim, the whole affair was regarded by the administration press in the most cheerful manner.. t was regarded, indeed, as a thing to jest about It only meant invading the home of an editor and shooting him down or smashing in his impertinent skull in the presence of his family. That was all a mere pastime of the sweet prince. But now to say these men who have gobbled all, save the presidency shall be met with force in their violent attempt to deprive us of a free government and strike down every vestige of self-government, is regarded as terrible. My language, however, bears no such construction as these fellows pretend to fix upon it. There are other means of arresting the infamy that make it unsafe for the criminals than assassination. To take up arms in behalf of our country and use them in open field is not assassination, and these poor devils well know that that is precisely what I meant -' I learn while writing this letter that Pappy Taft and Don ' Ciosar de Bazoon Cameron have been, urging my arrest for instigating violence, and my office boy has brought me Some anonymoiis' letters of the "beware" Style. So 'it seems that it is all very well to gather in 'an army to enforce an , inauguratiom but very bad to talk about punching the beads of the miscreants' who, through i their frauds, have made an army necessary. I have ,riot yet', said a word about "assassinating anyone nor is it likely I will but this talk of violence began on the other side. But it does : not grieve i me to know that Pappy Taft, all from my own town, of whom I have said so many pleasant and endearing things, should thus urge my arrest and consequent incarceration in a bastile. Fortunatelv for me, the alien and sedition laws have long since ceased to exist. Well, there is comfort in knowing that I can not be shut up with J. Madison Wells, nor feed at the house restaurant That last would make me get on my marrow-bones and plead for pardon in the most pitiful manner.

KtntiMtlew or CouKrmN. IWashtnifton Letter to th4 Oraphlc. It is always interesting to note the nativity of public men. I have taken some pains to hunt up the record of senators and members of the Forty-fourth congress, and find that Rhode Island, Arkansas, California, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Nevada, Colorado, Oregon and Nebraska are the only states which have no sons in congress. Florida, Mississippi, Texas and Wisconsin have one each, and Delaware and Michigan have two each. New York has been the most prolific, having 52 descendants. Pennsylvania comes next with 46. Ohio next with 28; Virginia, the mother of presidents, has 21; Tennessee, 20; Massachusetts, 19; Kentucky, 18; Indiana, 18; Georgia and North Carolina, each 14; Connecticut and Vermont, each 11; Maine. 9; Maryland and Alabama, 8 each;1 New Hampshire and Illinois, 6 each; Missouri, 5; Louisiana, 4. and West Virginia, 3. Two Williams and Lavy, of New York are natives of Canada; Jones, of Nevada, and Joyce, of England ; Schleicher of Germany Wilson of Iowa, Phillips of Kansas, and MacDougall of New York, of Scotland; and Jones of Florida, 'Walsh' of Maryland, and Woodbnrn" of' .Nevada,- were born on the , , onld ' ' sod. .Singularly enough, every senator and representative from Connecticut, Georgia, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Tennessee were born on the soil they represent, and Pennsylvania has twenty-nine descendants in congress. Both of the Delaware senators were born in that little state, but the birth place of the single 'representative was over the border. ; In other states the proportion is large. Six out of the eight Alabama representatives were born there, seven out of twelve from -t Kentucky are natives of the state, five out' of , seven from Maine, .seven out of eight -from Maryland, eleven . out of thirteen from Massachusetts, four out of five from New Ilampshirej twenty-five out of thirty-five from New York, and nine out of eleven from Virginia. The representatives from the other states are mostly carpet-bag-gers. ' " ' ": Taking It Back. i ' pVashington Sentinel.! . Now that they have got the blood out of their eyes, in a measure, the Indiana republicans discover with surprise that Blue Jeans Williams, so far from being the boor their campaign fancy painted him; is a very clever fellow, as shrewd as he is simple, who bids fair to make one ot the best and most popular governors Indiana has seen this quarter of acentury; 1 ' ' '"l

THE GENTLEMANLY GAMBLER.

A Correspondent Meets a Striking Type of the Class, Who Relate Several Startling- Incidents of an Ad vent uro a s U re. rTennessee Letter to the Courler-Joarnal. Detained at this little place by a missed connection caused by hot boxes, I made the acquaintance of Geo. H. Devol, one of the most famous, if not the most famous gambler of the west. Only a day or two since I noticed in a St Louis paper a long account of how he and his confederates waltzed a Maine Yankee who was going south to buy a plantation for $1,700 at three-card monte. It was the old story of a Texas stock trader who had been beaten out of $2,000 by the little picture cards, and was explaining to juLssengers how it was done. He had learned the trick. Maine saw through it, and wanted to bet that lie did. Devol was a southern planter, who was tired of planting and wanted to sell out. and gently led Maine up to the biting oint. When be did bite, it was to the extent of his pile of ready cash. Devol is a gentlemanly looking man of 47. dark sandy hair, light sandy wlmkers, beginning to show the silver, a quick, piercing gray eye, ruddy complexion, of good address, and a sweet talker. He whs born in Ohio, but for thirty years h-ts followed the profession of a gambler. Some years ago he worked on the roads leading into Louisville, and is well known there. Whil- prnt?ncj on the Short Line road, near Li!ange, be won about $1. and five gold wnti-lu-s, and ended the g-.ime just a the train was leaving Lagrange on its way to Cinciati. The victims squealed terribly, and j.roposed to have their treasure or blood. Tcy marshaled their force and drewtboir revolvers. Devol skipped into the rear ckhIi, locking the door as he went. He then went to the rear platform, and although ihe train was running at the rate of thirty-live miles an hour, selected a clear spot and jumped. He rolled over at a lively rate, bu picked himself up unhurt, though his lau; irienda fired a vollev at him from their revolvers. He put across the country and struck the railroad at Lexington junction and went back to Louisville. , I Devol is full of anecdotes of hi- profession, and tells some good ones. . He teils of a little irame he had with A. iL Waddell, of Louisville, and Billy Cheatham, of Nashville, eighteen years ago. Devol and Dad Ryan were going down the river. Waddell and Cheatham got aboard atSraithl&ud. A game of poker, $25 ante, was soon in progress. 'Directly," said Devol, "Dad gave me, the item that be was going To cold-deck the party. I reached over and said to Cheatham, 'Tha't is a very fine single-stone diamond you have there.' This movement enabled Dad to ring in the cold deck. Waddell got three fours, and an ace in the draw, and lost $2,200 on the hand." Six or seven years ago Canada Bill, another famous three-card man, set up at the mouth of Red river with a lot of horses to sell, mostly all of which he had won, and a store, which he had bought. It was right in the line of Texas travel, and Bill was winning everything in sight Devol suspected (wrongfully, as is afterwards proved) that Bill had held out $200 from a divide of winnings they had made together, and determined to get even. To do this he went to New Orleans and manufactured a "sucker" especially for BilL He dressed him up in rough clothes, gave him $2,000 in money tied up in a woman's silk stocking, and told him to play the game of reen by gawking about Rill's stable and counting his money, where Bill could see ..it Debol put the "sacker" off, at: Hog's point, three miles below the mouth of Ked river, while he continued on , the steamer. In due time the "sucker" ame into Bill's stable, and getting into j an out-of-the-way corner, pulled, out the stocking, which, .by t lie way, was . a keepsake presented to Devol by a lady frietid, and began to count the noney, Bill "dropped on if at once, 'and took Devol out and said:. . "George, here, is a 'sucker' with $2,000 ; or $3,000; let's take him." "Do you i hink l ean handle him?" said DevoU "Of . course you can," said Rill. f'I'll try it,'' said Devol. ; He' carelessly approached the "sucker' engaged, him in conversation, and proposed a walk. The "sucker" assented and they walked out together. While thev were gone Devol told the "sucker" just how to play the game. Said he: ''Pretend that . you are going to turn the spotted card, but don't doit. Turn. the one I motion to." After a while thev came back and Devol gave Bill, the wink that the "suck-, er" was ready, for. the bait. Rill Opened out. The usual . preliminaries were gone through with, . and the "sucker" untied the knots in Iiis stocking and put up $2,000. and Rill covered it. Devol being stakeholder for the reason that the "sucker" would not bet unless Devol would hold the stakes, as he, the "sucker," "knew that Devol was an honest man." Everything was all ready; and even then it looked so fair that the "sucker" wanted to turn the card with the spot on it, and it was all that Devol could do to prevent it, and he had to whisper to the "sucker" several times which card to turn. This whispering Rill took to be part of the plan necessary to induce the "sucker" to bite. Finally he' reached out, let his fingers linger a moment over the card with the spot on it, and then suddenly turned the right card. Bill looked like he would sink through the floor, then at Devol and then at the "sucker," and said, "That's the first rub." The "sucker" said, "Rub, b 1 ; I want my money!" and pulled out a six-shooter that Devol had given him and pointed it at Bill, and Bill said, "'George, give : it up." The sucker wheeled and pointed the pistol at Devol, who says, "Bill, shall I give it up?" "Yes," said Bill, and the money was handed over. . After the sucker walked, off. Sill said, "George, by G 4, I have seen six cocked pistols pointed at your head anoyou didn't give up nothing. How is it that you give up so easy now?"; Devol replied, "I. thought that d d fool would let that gun go off,' Afterward Devol told Bill how he bad flayed it on him, and gave him back all but the $200 which he thought Bill had "held outf! on him. . After this Bill and Devol worked together and made a great deal of .money. "The closest place .1 was ever in, in my life," said Devol, "was ij'50. I was coming up the river from, New Orleans on the steamer Fairchild, ana had won a great deal of money. " The boat landed at Napoleon, and about 25 of ,' those killers there, who in those days did not think any more of killing a man than they did a. rat, got aboard. ' ,1 opened out and won a good deal of, money and four or five watches,. "Everything went along smoothly enough until about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, when they began to get drunk.' One of ' theiu said: "Where is that d d gambler? '1 am goirg to kill him.' I'm with you,' said another.' 'L too,' said another, and the whole party rushed to their state rooms and got their pistols. I slipped up and got between the pilot house and the roof. They searched the boat from stem to stern, but did not think of looking under the pilot house. I whispered to. the pilot that when he came to a bluff bank to throw her stern" in and give me the word and I would run and .Jump off. . About 6 o'clock he gave me the word and I ran and jumped.

I was weighted down with the watches and gold I tad won and the distance was more than I thought, and I missed the hank and stuck tight, waist deep, in soft mud at the water's edge. The killers saw me, and as the boat swung out they opened fire. I could not move and the bullets whistled past my ear and spattered mod and water all over my face. I had given the pilot $100 in gold, and he threw the boat out, so that I was out of sight very ouick. It was a mighty close place for a little while." Devol invited me into his room at the Milan hotel and showed me the modus operandi of three-card monte. It looks mighty easy to tell the right card, but it is not Devol does not throw the cards now. A confederate does that He is better, he says, on the outside. His splendid address and unlimited cheek eminently fit him for the position. During the war he had the race track at New Orleans, and had a tine lot of trotters. Ben Butler confiscated them and threw Devol into jail because he had won a large amount of money from Butler's paymaster. "I have made more nioney than any two gamblers in America," said Devol, "but I can't keep it. My traveling expenses alone are $10.000 a year. It's a gay life, though a risky one. and I have lots of fun."

LEABLT A LUN ATIC. Weldon, Who Shot Packard. Wltheat Accomplice nud Manifestly Inwoe. New Orleans Picayune. As the smoke from Weldon's one-barreled, two dollar second hand pistol clears away, and the noise of its explosion is disjiersed in echoes thit becnin le? faint diyby day, we ar able to ascertain iu.re clt-arly its antecedciits and cauef. which prove beyond a preadver.tnre thai Weldon was not only alohti in the attciai.:ed a.va.s,sir..iüou of Mr.' Packard, bnt slo trnf he was insane. On Sunday Isst the Piciyune published the resitlt of an interview with Mr. Paul Jge, theChartres street gunsmith, who sold the pis- . tol to Weldon, bis statement to him that he was a northern man, a perfect stranger in Louisiana, and bis nnoontrolab'e desire to ' ascertain from every pei son he conversed with n Thursday morning ihe residence of Mr. Packard. This, with his confession after the act, that his purpose was to kill Mr. Packard, and then Governor Hayes, in order "to save the country1 pi vitig as a rea.-'onvrhy -be attempted the life of the former first inMead of the latter that "Hayes is gone," together with the 'flame Vfssumed by him, until it was finally discovered that he was actually Wui.II. Wel.iou,of Phiiaielphia.and his remarkable .conduct with his quandam. , friends, the one lejjged an J one armed men, . in the "boarding house, City of Luxenfberg," No. 40 Toulouse street. altogethS" exhibit such a history of unnatural circumstances as no man of sound mind could. !035ibly combine. . Nor is this all, later developments proving that the first great cause which actuated Weldwn in attempting to take the life of Mr. Packard, and, if successful, that of Gov- . ernor Hayes, was an insatiate and overruling passion or mania to imitate the man who killed Mr. Lincoln, J. Wilkes Booth. Yesterday afternoon a representative of the Picayune called upon Mr. E. Landry, one of the two gentlemen who were present in the gun store of Mr. Juge when Weldon made bis second appearance at that establishment on Thursday morning last. Mr Landry makes the following statement in relation to that interview, which throws the clearest light upon the obscurity that involved the first two or three days' history of the affair: : On Thursday morning I called upon Mr. Juge, who is my brother-in-law, to see him about the payment of his city License before I went to the city hall for that purpose. Mr. Paul Devron, a drug dealer, and Mr. Juge were also in the store at the time when Wei- -don cm in to request my brother-in-law to ' withdraw the. load pf a sir de barreled pistol , and load it again, as he said it would not "go ; Off." , ,ln addition tq. what, Mr. Juge has at- , ready .stated regarding wht Weldon said in r our presence liiat morDihg;1Mr. Deyron will ; substantiate the toUowng;, Mr. Juge, proba-T bly ton.buiy engaged with, the pistol to noice all that. was. said , Y,eJdQn opened the onversation bv'inquuing of us if we knew.i where Mr. Packard lived We replied that; , we did not . I added that I did not think ; that I should know Mr... Packard if I should;, see hiaiT.lWeldön. then eaid.we ought te get. ( fviiiftiYifpd with hinii lhat be fWplilniil was . i northern: man, and ,would;like to know Mr. Packard and make his acquaintance. The question was then opened by Weldon as . to the personal safety of Mr. Packard at this,, time in this community when I .said I believed that the personal safety of Mr. Packard was as secu re in . New Orleans as that of any other man, and even under extreme circumstances., if it was in my power,-1 i would, , as , a .democrat and a friend ot governor, lcnoiis, prevent air. Packard from receiving either injury or insult at . the hands of .or from members of the party to which I belong. Weldon replied: "Well, if you don't know Packard, do you know J. Wilkes Booth?" I I said you mean the man who , killed Mr. Lincoln? Weldon answered yes. Mr. Juge at this handed him the pistol, when Weldon left the store, saying to us as he passed out . of the door: ."Perhaps you would like to go to Packard's tuneral, or. "Don't you want to go to Packard's funeral," I am not certain which. i . As I was returning from the city hall an hour or so later, after paying my brother-in-law's license, a friend met me on St. Charles street and asked me if I knew , Packard was shot In an instant the conversation with Weldon recurred to me, and I thought of him at once as the man who did the shooting. j Weldon was insane or under the influ- ' ence of some strong stimulant on Thursday morning. I and Mr. De vrpn are ready to. make an affidavit to if necessary, as I have seen, Mr- Devron since in,. relation to the matter, and that is his opinion as well aa mine. From the description, as published, of Wm. H. Weldon. hid .resemblance to J. Wilkes Booth does npt simply end by a com- ' parison of the .deed which both represented was the actuating motive that induced the former to attempt the life of :Mr. Packard and the latter to kill . Mr. Lincoln, but the . looks and ' appearance 6f the two men (as Booth was twelve vears ago) are so wonderfully alike ' ias to 'be remarkable; t more especially so under the circumstances in which we find them. " Each of the "same stature, , both handsome, with almost classic1 features. ' . , - j I,- . ' i - Ii.) r '.i , ' I Opium In Oregon.-. - , . , i - Portland (Oregon) Standard ' . . it, - ' . r :-: I. I.- "I- (. . This crime is alarmingly on .the increase : in Portland, and where but one den existed , a year ago, there are now five or--six, patronized almost exclusively by young men and . boys between the ages of fifteen and twenty, five years. Why the authorities do not take., some means to arrest this evil is a query that we are unable to answer. Every evening , these low- places are filled with those who have acquired an uncontrollable appetite for this narcotic Last evening two boys were borne home by their, friends in a state of complete stupeiacuon, irom tne enecia ot several hours indulgence. This morning they were unable to . attend to business, and complained of feeling very badly and sadly in need of a stimulant , if something is not done to close these disreputable haunts, it is impossible to predict where the evil will end.