Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 29, Number 20, Jasper, Dubois County, 11 February 1887 — Page 2

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Vuw, 1 MUHttf IM IHUUM TCMMM M ft traik to Islttmaro, m4i ft full eoafe ate of the horrible ttaedy met night U lMwrtw Byrne. After returning tram the Tomb polio court yeatcrdajr after mm Uftflar atiTM verr nervous, i whoa near the Central oatee 1m turned to Byrne aad said: i trytog to aaagat-a, atony!" Yeu mht whether jm hnva mmhKaurertBM or wWtkt.lMiMter reMM. vim toltototouyUBy 'maAt atx o'clock last evening, Uager we labe out ef hie oeil ami showa the tauakla which tlM riwilti of hi vtotim had beea Mdnl Tm access! man ahaeenredat ttoitof the truak and turned awnr Tli mw, hammer, ftMl knife, were thee bbowb km. tm signl af Um weapons wtt wMra tM crtaM had ten committed we to much for the wretched aaoassin. who atmoet fell to to Moor with fear. Tm rfMwnm then tod back to 1 pita, but before beiag leahed uplnspiet OC JtjrSM tMt MM IBM When M WM ready to toll tM truth to 14 him kwr. At a 1m o'clock Uasrer oaUod tM torn key and -ecu ted aa iatorrtow with tM ton par tor. Tm prisoner was brought from kia cell and token to tM iaspector's private oUto. wBms he seat M wu road; to toll tM wboto truth. Uager then, ia tM praaence ot Inspector Byraoa and several wtta, made tM fallowing sUtoaMst IMv at Jf. If Xfdg street I bare known Jtagaet Behto alaea Xovember, Man. Iftrst met him la my lager boar saloon la Bldridge street, where he railed upon ate about aa advertisement I had pat to a paper i.r a par later. Bat wo could aot agree about the price, and I aokl tat place out, aad aooa aftor Bohle euu to Irs with mm to Ridge street. Tm agreement waa that be should par half tM rwat aad one-third of tM household expenses. Aftor sapper on the night of Thursday, January M, Bohle aad mrelf wore aloae talking aboat dUhnat matters tmtfl nbout half-rest nine o'clock. Ho waa siUiag ea tot aofa, aad I waa ia tM act of pefchtg tM Mr. He waa very profane and called me some very hard a ant. I told him to atop, aad pat my hand ap to tara ki bead away. He attack me. I npraag at hint aad attomptd to atrikc Max with the poker. We thea grappled, aad he picked tip a kaife and attempted to tab mm. I raa into the bedroom aad picked apa hammer from on the chest. He made anvotber attempt at me with the kaife aad I received a slight eat oa the band. I than struck aha with the hammer aad he staggered. I atrock him agala, aad the bead of the hammer eatered deep ' into hto akan ap to the beadle, aad he felt dead, ea the aofa. Thai wm aboat tea o'clock. I expected myaoa home, aad hi order to eoeeeeJ the remains of the dead maa, I took the body Jrom the sofa aad laid it oa the floor. I thea took the cot vpea which gable aeed to ftfeea aad placed it orer the body aad peered It aa with the bed clothes. Whea myaoa came home I told him that BoM had com oat. Shortly afterward woat to bed to the aame room with the "Oa the fottowmc merabag aftor my ad aae to work. Iweat to Oread street, hoaght a saw for aiaety eeata aad two yard of rabeor. Before reteraiag to the hoaae, 1 took aereral driah of whiaky. Oa reacbiag heme, I spread the raeberoa the Boor aad pat the body top of it. I thea alerted to eat the body ap with a saw. I f rat severed the bead from the body, wrapped H hi paper and laM itaoMe. I thci cat both toga eaT aad I thiak the left ana; aad fladiagthe legs tooloagtopat hi the traek. 1 eat both toot off and placed themia thetraak. I the placed the bodyoa top of the leg aad the arms oa top of the body. I wiped aa the Weed with tome dothiagof the deceased -ri -a paper, pet them ia the traak aad tied the traak ap. I thea left the aoase aad weat to the Oraad street ferry, carrying; the hood with mis. I boarded a WUlhtaseherg heat, aad whea ia midstream I threw the head ia the river. I thea weat to the tMHkae of Hoary Btogel, Ho. M Threea street, Breeklya, bat oa fiadiar that be was aot well, I told hie wife that Behto had goa to Chtoage. I retarnedhoma, aad oa the fettewiagaay Iahiaped the traak to Hoary Boa, Xe. am Keat aveeve, Breeklya. Oa the same dag I traasferrod the traak by Weetcett's aapreas to thia city, barmy pasted the fottowiag addrma apoa it: Joaa A. wmoa-,HiiaMf,Md. laMoaitodior. The traak was brosght to that etty aad traai ported by Adams Hxprees to Baltf"Ididaotmeaa tekiUI-to. He was a Tory oaarreUome maa, aaa I hollered my ftobeiedaeerwbebatrokBM. I took the method I did of etoaoetarof the aaaaa aw oaewsvm m aoa wa ainrwaiaW ara lam body bocacM I waated to sara myeelf aad family from hTe." Unger idea ttaed the traakaad the btoodr dothtng broaght from BaUimore. The coroaer iaqwget la the matter will be held Taeeder. rwaTaaawaaa av gmraa ATJwojcaaos, K, aL, Jm. W. Last Hoaday Deteeirres Fraakha aad Marsh, aocompaaUd Irr fear detormiatd moa, atortod with btoodboaadt ia pnrsatt of a aaefrobbars who hare boea operattag to mm rtomtty for the feet eixmoatlM. The aews reached her yog'.eiaar that the reapers Md bee orertakea, whea a verato oaceaator at ctooe rang The robbers war tracked late eaaee, aear Belea atatiea, eighty miles oath of her, aad whea they discovered that they were sarreaaded they prepared for a Bght The detect hres' party were toe away for them, however, aad they sacoeeded ia kflltag oae bum who proreJ a daaparato character aaaied Hardy Fostor, aad captarhaj two. The fourth robber aaaaVaaH heal aMMafrat Om of the prisoaers ia said to beChartl Bees, who aardered Marshal McOair to tM city last Xorember. aad saboetaeaUy rah toil. The aame of the other is Leslie Bote, a aetive af Wastharf ord. Tec. Haw Toac, Jan. The Jewraef arbtt. the followiar aader Leaden dale: "Tbt , toto of Mr. ParaeU's health is occaaioalag the groatoet aaziety o km frkmd. He toohs pale sad this, aad I phystoaUy a mar shadow of hi former eelf. Metras. tag ramers are abroed that ale mtod baa 0(B(a? ftBtabarK tMMA aaaaai araJ fcj ra'aaavlljr'' asa Bttod to aot m th rigoroat leaner of the Irish Bntttaalieta m Facllsmeat. Hostile rsaarto are My that the Uacrewaad Parmboraartag apea bmantty. I give ' "ftowt with an rsrr,aad , wMh all other fman af Iretoad . ley amy areve antra, TMwearmg I m. Mi aaato enwJmr the feaaaahaa byaaoihaa

ONtnCV OAMUOICaV

View. aUarraar, Mo , Jan. K. Whan the wm rising Batarday morning, a af Qiaadlan VMeala war taking hsulag ia the water at rneaamMaeadr bar. of the aew nrrivak aeon sareed to hone, nad whoa th aaa m hoar high th wbnrvM were with M eacitod gaag of Mate their wive aad child rea. Aa this I the time of year whea Immense schools of herrings raa la, the oittoea saw what theii JheaaFflTs trawa aVf from the shore by om af the angry ritisana, and in reply to his faaettoa as to whatlMy were doiag, om af the CaaaMW are taking Taahoe herring. That's what we are doiag." Whoa thia ia formation was mad known to the oitiaens their todigaatloa kMW o beaad. TbreeU of retaitaOea were rife, aad it is believed that bad there been aay araUahto ordnance in town th angry aahormeawonldhave opened Ire on the to A th day advanced news wm received from St. Andrews that the Caaedtaa orntoer Middletoa had tonched at that pert aariag the fereaoon. Later a the days wm aeon crawiag oh Best port, aad there the aews spread that the Middletoa wm there to preveat aay American fishermen sntoring Caaadtoa waters to ash. Th ladlgaaat oitisens were told by the Uasftiton fishermen, who were within a atone' threw of the shore, that th Middletoa wm there to protect them against the Yankees. Om of the captains of the Cam am -raeeele hMtghed iaaoleatly at the bo, s eondHioa of the Sastport fisher awm. He said the Yankees could not mo lest him, and be proposed to Bah jst waererr it suited kh fancy. When asked if he did aot kaew be was within the line, be said: "Of course, I am aware of it When a maa can almost stop from his vessel to the hore he is pretty ear he Is inside the H-. The herring just bow happen to be on this aide of old Fassameoueddy, and hare been for several days. Why ahonld not w come bore aad take them. Yon Yankees follow the fish into our waters, and when the cruisers are not around they dodge inside the dead line and take all the fish they can get Why should n't we do the same, especially when there are bo cruisers about to seise oar craft. We would be more wary aboat entering yoar waters if your coast was guarded. As it is, we would be coaeidered fools to 1 tie our vessels ap to the wharves simply because the fish happea to be on the Amer ican side of the bay." Whea asked bis opiaiea of the Senator Edmunds bill, he said: "If its prorisioM wore enforced, the Ceaadiau Govern Bteat would have to night aaont lace aad adopt a dlffereet policy, or tomothiag weald drop bard hi the mari time pro viae." Should the Government continue lie present policy, a collision the coming season can hardly be avoided, and alter that m om can toll what the end will be. The iadlgMBt townspeople forwarded a dis patch, stating their grievances to Senator Frye at Washi agios. FEELING THEIR WAY. Oar LeatfttotsTC at Watbtoaten Bhnrrt1 fStofj ga a?4)maBB,tt$esaatd JnaafahaaNawaVfjr Wasixctox, Feb. 1. The action takes by Messrs. Beiaiont, Clement and Rice, the sub-committee of the eomalttoe en foreign affairs on th fisheries question, is BBderetoed to be as follows: A majority of the sub-committee find that whatever course wm taken lv toe Mouse should be had, ia view of the gravity of the interest involved, net only with the knowledge bat with th fall consent aad active concurrence of the administration. They therefore determined to forward copies of the Xdmaad joint resolation, passed by the Ssnate, the Oormaa retaliatory bill, as introduced into the Beaato, and the Behnoot retaliatory bill as reported by the foreign affaire committee, to both Secretory Bayard aad Secretory Maaaiag. Secretary Maaaiag is specifically asked for m expression of his views aad preference on the bill submitted as bearing apoa the interest submitted by tow to his sapst vision, and both the Secretary of the Treasury aad the Secretory of State are asked to suggest aay modlfieeUoae which may seem to them desirable ia either of the mess area. The earliest poisibi reply i sol totted. MACDONALD TALKS. fcParflftra4JMJ "Vda It WeaM Cast Boerox, Feb. L As Ottawa special to th JrtwU say: Mir John MacDeaald stated this morsiag that there is no truth in the report cabled from London that the Domiakm Government had made a propositi oa of a greatly modified character, by which it was hoped an early settlement f the fishery dispute would be reached. fJTLa govsrameata lad that if the impression goto abroad ia th country just aew that it ia becking down on th or of a general election it will he seriously ia Jar. Xotwitbet ending Sir John's denial K is positively known that some important proposals bare been made by the Domialea Cabinet to th imperial authorities, by which the iatrepretatioa of the treaty of ltlfi to atode largely in accordance with the rtows pressed by Secretary Bayard. Thia fishery east ties is beiag made a strong card by th Government la the present e lectio campaign. Jib aTwa4MF aWffct MllBsatJfBrwaaa Frrrtaeaav, Fa., Feb. 1. What promises to be a bitter Bght common ood this morning in the prohtde to the strike wf the seven thousand eeal minors along the MnMfthe!n river. A majority of the mines are already vdle and to-day it is expected that all will he closed aad business suspended Indefinitely. Prominent coal operators claim that they hare net yet been oMoially notified of toe den-sad for the three coat rate, and that in nay event the condition of the market will by no means nimr um granung si A Tetot hntash-Os Baxsok, Wyo., Jan. BL Th wastIraanaVaa nanWstffcPrn anTftaas I9as aaaa LT'Bvgaras Fsciflc wm wrsched at Aimy Janettoa, om nad a half, mitos wset of" hor, Satnrday evening. Th engiM, tonder, mall Md baggag oar nr piled up premiseaoaaly, being s total wreck. Th first ana aecoaa pneeenger eoHtm are cosidsrably danmgsd. Th train raa off the traek owing to the diaplnesmaat of switch. Th mail etork escsaed with a few slight braises. Th areata wm feaad andrr the nebri near the Brs-hos with m tornry aaeat a sMght seato Th jfftoar, Mark nridbjr, was

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PROXY. I

Baa Vase laa Baamt nad immt ftsln ' Mi"'?.w A eaWaagJ(eTnt paa'B'J aaaVaaaVa'ha) gJpBwBm a ananaaaan aej Aaa iwi n"r?r1TrrniysaTn TWy to. Maad t.J.iiM.rr !.! IMm

AM af n Catoieo, Feb. 1 The made that Autruet Sam hi Htoa YanBaadt have beea married by nroxjr, the groom beiag i by his broth r. A suburban Jaatic of the nonce ofBctotod. Whoa Sheriff Mataan. about two weeks ago, issued the order to th eMcial of the couaty jail net to admit Mhw Van laaat to m Angnst Bptos, K was thought that the matter was settfed. bat it now appears that neither of the oeupic abandoned their purpose. The law about marrying by letter and mar risge by proxy wm looked up, bat aothiag wm found except in regard to marriages by proxy. This wm finally decided upon, and Justice Xagiehardt, hi th town rf Jefferson, whose aame figured in the papers during the tost months of the past year as de Bouacing the verdict of the Anarchist's trial in public speeches, wm consulted. He gave it as his opinion that a marriage by proxy would be blading ia law If the proxy wm made out in due legal form. He wm commissioned to draw up a form of proxy, aad spent considerable time in making it conform to what he thought wm th law in the case. The document wm not get tea ready until last Friday. Karly Saturday Miss Th Xaadt and Gretcben Spies, the slater of August, went out to Jefferson and called on Justica Bngtohardt to get the proxy, and having secured the document, went to th county jail with it. They met the wife of Bptos' brother, Ferdinand, aad a Mrs. Wend toad. Miss Tan Xnndt's three ions witnessed the sigMture of Spies to the document, by which he gave full aa"tborityto his brother, Henry W. Spies, to represent him at the ceremony. Mrs. Ferdinand Spies and Miss G retches Spies signed the paper to witness August Spies' signature, when the whole party except Spies himself went with Ferdinand Spies to Justice Eaglehardt's oAce on Milwaukee avenue, in the town of Jefferson. They were rein forced oa the way by Miss Van Zandt's parents and Henry and Christ. Spies, brothers of August. The journey to Justice Bnglehardt's ettee wm made on foot. It wm after eight o'clock Suaday night by this time. The justice agaia examined his law books Md then the ceremony was performed. Henry Spies answered to the name of AugMt Vincent Theodore Spies, and under this name wm married to Miss Van Xandt. The bride and her parent went from the office of the justice to the home of Mr. aad Mrs. Ferdinand Spies, aot far distant, and remained there orer night. The license has not yet been returned to the county clerk, m required by law. It a as Issued only three weeks ago, bowsrer, Md the thirty days allowed for its return have not yet expired. Justice Sagtehardt is authority for the statement that the marring was performed. Spies decliaes to speak of the cere mony, and Miss Van Znndt refuses to be interviewed, or even to be seen. Her father also decliaes to talk, but does set deny the fact of the eermaony. Sheriff Matson expressed great surprise. and then promptly said: "I would not consider a farce like that a marriage un less pronounced so by eompetoat legal au thority. The alleged ceremony will not, ia my judgment, change the relations of the parties. If this actio wm taken for to purpose or compelling me to consent to the visits of Mis Van ZMdt to the jail, it is a wis taken course Md will aot sraiL There is no obligation, even if she was his law ful wife, to let her visit Spies, who is my prisoner. Allowing wires to visit their imprisoned husbands is merely a matter of courtesy." TM BsrcH f ntntUM-e en the "Xew Washixstox, Feb. S. The Bureau of Statistics yssterdsy issued a large volume, a report upon the commercial aad industrial condition, transportation aad other facilities of Virginia, Xorth Caro lina, South Carotin, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tmbssbo and Kentucky. The information wm collected by expert agent detailed to each ef those ton States. The development ef transportation by railroad and water, the growth of agricultural aad mineral operations, etc, are given in great detail. Chief Switator, in reviewing the reports, savs : Whatever speculations may be deduced from the exhibit here made, or the lessons it may teach ear states men, it will aot b questioned that the reports furnish evi dences of rapuperatve energy, and of material, progress aad development by the Southern people, unexampled ia the history of our civilisation; ia short, that the mw Md the mightier South is rapidly emerging from the blight and desolations of the civil war, and promises in a short time to attain a high degree ef prosperity. This marvelous development can be truthfully smrmd, aot simply, or chiefly, in respect to railway trans porta tioa, or to mining, or manufactures, but to every material in terest of the South aad to almost erery section of it The exceptional stations are those which are destitute of direct railway or water eotnmunicatioss with the market of th world. These, and these ly. are vet to feel the forces which quicken the sluggish currents of th old life, sad these, no doubt, in a compara tively short time, will hear the whirl of th wheel that weave the woh of town.' The eo lent of this report will be revelsMoss to tM country, evea to the Southern people themsatvM, for they disclose a wealth of opportunities for enterprise and industry which ia unparalleled. The advantages of the South for agricultural pursuits, not simply for the cultivation of cotton, sugar, and rice but for agricultural developement in nil Ha branches and for menafecturinr, for mining the precious metal, for eoai and kaa (which are more substantial foundations of prosperity), for lambs ring and for stock raising ar being aaprecintod by th people of other part ef the Union, and already thouMads of enterprising im migrants from tM xortn and west, and mtiltoM and ere hundreds of million of capital ar pouring Into th Son leers lMaaM - - - m AftW fffmm- maaVa lawnmyemmi aa IIIU 11 aa IJ ra fill .MWItlVTs Xxw Tone, Fab. 1. Marry M. Getty, twenty-one years old, whose residence wm ia Xew York, committed sntchto oa his mother's grave in the Rest Moriches (L. I.) cemetery Xosdsy night His body wm found yesterday morn lag. He had severed the arteries in hi wrhrt with a small pocket knife. The young Bum mother dtetf aboat five years ago. Km bad led m unhappy life with her hasband, which tod to their separation about m af. Both were Mvotodly aflt trauS flaawaataTaMl ftflras aafcaB aaSay'a Barry, fatrty wirihlpas M mitinr. It Horry, ferny wmhlppti M mitinr. 11 h) thoBffnt that hi grtof arva hhn erBy we bis habit to TtoH hit wiiWi

SCOMETAPlY MAtiNIMO.

Wam .Momx, Feb. 1-Secretary Maa ahur yesterday Mat a long eommunioatton to Speaker Carlisle ia reply to n neat resolution of the House of Hepees en tatires respecting reissue of treasury aotoa and the oMtractiutt of United Stole notes, eta. The first of these reseluUoaa ksouired w bet her My money appropriated la the Sundry Civil bill or any other gov ernment money had beea expended tor tM purpose of issuing trtwaury note or large eenominstioua, in lieu of notes of small eaaeminatioM cMcetod or mired. Sec retory Manning, aftor observing that M fled ho authority to reissue treasury note, says that if a more patieat scrutiny af tM statutes at large discloses such authority he could not, aeeat under fresh instructions from Congress, conceive it a duty to ex Mad money for such a purpose: and thea he adds that bom of the appropriation re ferred to, nor any other money belongtug to the Government, has been expended for such purposes, The secretary then gees into along argument in favor of paying the green beck debt aad a repeal of the Compulsory Silver Purchase bill. He says: That another species of our outatoad ing indebtedness, namely, the legal ton ders or greenbacks, known in law m Hatted States aote,ar0 equally with what tM law designates as treasury noum Be yond My need or excuse for reissue; that temporary notos which are a debt of principal and interest, should at onoe be cashed and canceled from abundant and superfluous coin on hand not bow capable of beiug applied to any other use tat is so obvious a principle of sound finance, such m a prudent citizen would apply to his private affairs, that aay Secretary of the Treasury would be subject to just reproach for departure therefrom by reissues, .were it not that the act of May SI, 1S7S, seems to require of him that fiscal misstep. And I beg leave to submit to the House the question whether, among many other reasons for its repeal, the contraction of the currency sought to be averted by that act can not in any other aad better way be prevented than by it repeal. The fact that the fM.l, Oil of (free i back debt is a greenback currency, is so far from being a reason against its payment that it is reason which make its payment and destruoUon necessary not without a bettor currency to take its place; but such a currency is at hand. But, also, a contraction ef the currency should be avoided. The substitution of a bettor currency for the Greenbacks runs no haxard of contraction. But the consequences of aot using our coin surplus thus are serious. For ia currency of some sort with the year's taxes paid, and the excess of receipts over the authorised disbursements of the treasury would be the' measure of the contraction of the ' currency. This contraction can be avoided by appropriations for nn extravagant Md reckless outpour of expense like that of war. It can also be avoided by the payment of debt The first remedy Beed not be discussed; it is of course the remedy of the most unworthy of the people's representatives. The second remedy is all that remaias." What debt, thea, shall we pay!" the secretary asks, and goes on to 'argue that it would be aa inexcusable extravagance to diminish the bonded debt aot yet due by anticipatory purchase, at a high premium, when, under the operations of the Sinking Fund law, every dollar of the National debt, rreenbacks and alU can be cancelled by lDOs. Of anticipatory paymeat of funded debt at a high premium, the secretary says : ''While successfully getting out of the treasury the currency tax surplus, and so preventing contraction in that form, is that method, nevertheless, which would contract the currency in another form by too suddenly diminishing XatioMl bank circulation band oa th funded debt. It is tberelor necessary now, not only to reduce taxation ia order to prevent surplus tax collecting from being currency contracting agaia and again, but it is necessary also to employ Mr present aad use voidable tax surplus in the payment not of funded, but of the unfunded debt. Great extravagance or needless expense or serious monetary trouble can bjth be so avoided. The people's representatives, by action before adjournment, can relieve the Secretary of the Treasury from a had choice between these bow present altera stirs. The surplus coin Md bullion which will remain ia the treasury aftor all the bends sub jet to call have been paid, nod before the th Fiftieth Congress will assemble, together with the proceeds of surplus taxation which will flow into the treasury Mfor aay possible reduction of taxes by the present Congress can take effect, constitute a sum which can well be got out of the treasury into the hands of the people, where it belongs, by the payment of the greenback debt. Coin certificates are a ready and superior paper raonr to th greenbacks. The substitution can be effected as a mere matter of treasury administration when ver two indispensable conditions are first fulfilled by Congress. The repeal of the compulsory silver purchases is the first indispensable condition, and the repeal of the compulsory host of redemption reissue of United States notos is tM aext and only other condition. Th two repeals ar together neces Mry, th Secretary insists, to prevent on the one hand an extravagant expense, or m the other hand a considerable contraction of the currency. Replying to the other rosotatiens of inquiry about th cancelation of fit and fit notes, the Secretary pre to tables showing that since August 4, 1886, there has been a decrease by destruction of 96.M1,967 of ones and Kt,M7,$t of two, and an increMS ef 118,900,000 in fives ad ft,'),Mto tea dollar notes. Bjeeeptlnn to tonerat rate Coxoenn, X. H., Fab. 1. General Fairchild, Commander-in-Chief of the G. A. K., wm tendered a complimentary reception aad banquet by K. K. Sturtovaat tost night. J. B. Thompson', Secretary ef State, presided, and General Fairehikl spoke, kernnrk were mad by Cotonot Jones of Omaha, aide-de-camp m atonoral Fair him? staff. aTawar aflaHrpyWa BaaHrMttJMPaS fttal4Nto Xsw Tok, Feb. 1. X work wm don this morning on the piers of the Xew Jersey Central and New Jersey Southern railways, piers 8 aad H, Xorth river. The freight handlers on both piers having quK work yesterday mora lag, the official of the companies etosod the gate and refa nil freight. ThoM who had shipped goods war allowed to toks them to other piers. The officers of the Xew Jersey Central Company decliM to My why they d. not assure men to beadle freight, and the uut fc mnmmaAaSJI man mflh maA-aB mumn m nPYBnBmauuanBB, Snanaaajanm jk mjaapmaxar mya MPaT aramawaa BlPaBear' I that th reads being to th hands of rsrrer. aad thrafor aador th puita. aaaraa art aawa!l aWovaMPlni J Mi

of

ItCCMIOANIZIMa THg NAVY

of Xrl 1 hU annual report far IBM Secre tary Whitney called attention to uw dintoalttos an4 drawback MtteWr which th Navr Iprtant labored, and in hi second roport, last year, he again inafcteU upon the necamitY of A roar ganination of the department. Uon btom is sow wreeUiajr with the ijaaaUoh. The bill ejttiKMlyiitff the wbstan tinl point in Mr. VVhituey's report warned the Naval Coiumittoa of the House with hut two tils it'll Hif voto Mcssrs. Boit telle, of Maine, itd GoBA of West Virginia and wm warmly dUeasstHl before the II mw on Thurs day. The objection by the Main Representative and hi West Virginia "nte too" are mainly based upon th ground that what wm good enough for th itavy Department half a century ago should answer bow. They do not believe in new measure or new nieth ods for that department. According to their peculiar line of reasoning the type of ship that carried the Anierimtn Mag fifty years ago would answer all necessary purpose at the present tiny. It ia well that Mr. Boutellv and Mr. Goff ar in the minority in the report of the committee on this all-iniporttnit subject. They would, doubtles. prove fitting associates for the "auuient iuari ner." At a time when CeHgrees has em powered the Secretary of the Navy to undertake the responsible work of cre ating n navy that is to compare favor ablvH-ith the fleets of other nations, and is to embody the latest improve ment aud invention in naval arclu tecture, it is, to say th lat, remark able for a presumably sana member of Congress to oppose the reorganisation of the department on th ground that what wag designed nftv years sine should answer all contingencies now. Mr. Whitney instanced oaa in which the present system was found to be notafMy defective. On waa where, in t)te same year, coal was purchased, by different nivmastera, from th same persons, oa or about the same days, deliverable at the very same place, of like quality and character, lmt at mice differing from fifty to sixty-live cents a ton. Another result of th system u. ... wm in im case of tne umaha, a repaired wooden vessel, in capable of fighting or away from any modern running cruiser. She wm rebuilt under the Chandler regime at an expense of $.573,000, which would have sufficed to build a modern steel ship of Iter siaa with all modern characteristics. After the Omaha had been commissioned and wm ready for 9a)a it appeared that the several bureaus working independently upon her had so completely appro priated her space that thev had left her "oal room for not more than four days' steaming at her full capacity. Each bureau, too, finds it necessary to main tain its separate shops in the several navy yards, each with a separate or ganization of foremen, quartermen, leading man, etc, so that shops doing recisely the same class of work car penter shop and machine shops, for instance, are commonly duplicated and sometimes triplicated in the same navy yard, with a corresponding multiplicity of foremen and organization expenses a stato of things which, under the present organization of th department, H k almost impossible to orrsot. The bill now before Congress consolidates aad puts in efficient working hap many of the bureaus of the department, and k also designed to save a great deal of unnecessary expense to the Government. It is fairly and purely a business proposition to enable the Secretary of the Nary to carry out the great work before him with nnecess. But Mr. Boutelle, like Mr. Blaine, front his State, sees politics in every thing, even in the reorganization of tlie Nary Department. He, probably, thinks it would be bad Republican politics to lot Mr. Whitney succeed in creating a nary worthy of our country. Before ha took charge of the department the Government had expended, in seventeen years, over 175,000,000 on the construction, repair, equipment and ordnance of Teasels, which sum, with a very slight exception, wm substantially thrown away. During those years the department drifted along without consideration of what wm done and with no intelligent guidance in any direction. Failure after failure and the expenditure of VMt sum of money, without appreciable return, were the results of the Unadvised and inconsiderate manner in which important step were taken under the present system. There hi IKtle doubt but that the desired reform in the organization of the Nary Department will be granted by Congress in spite of tha objections of the ancient mariner from Bangor, or the ex-ruler f "Uncle Sam's navee1' front the hanks ef the raging Kanawha. Albany Argus. With a Democratic President trying to give the office of Recorder to a colored maa and a Republican Senate trying to keep him from doing so, th impression is likely to be made on the negro mind that, after all, tha Democrats and not the Republicans are the friend of the colored race. Should this oondttion of mind come tobeprT-, alent the solid South will be solidar than ever, and the last argument of the Woody-shirt group of Reptthlkma will h erasHed oat of 11 semblano t am nrfMa---Ciaj Nwt. in t oourM of human rente, Roeeoe Conkling should be rotarBSB to th United States wisrs narva

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mm 4 miwnwf tmwaamars MM saunas. There may b yet more grtof in stor for the Blainiaaa. A Maw figure loom wp whom Blaine though he had left aw tie. oombttL It ia no km a person titan Kosco Conkling, who is still not by any means an old wan. That he U a power in th party nobody daaiej, A correspondent of the Philadelphia. Necord Iim been looking the mat tor up. He says: It would not be a matter ef urHs to tae .vetonm petitteiaM if Mr. Oakltog saouM tora up si Aiaaajr as a oaaawata wr ausuaa to tas United States BeMto-tbouta it weald be la tM natora ef aa unpleasant surpriss for Mr. Waiae. I noties that our Moteoe is aa4a air. lag close attention t bis attire, aa that bs wear goad ekHhes, totm bis beard aad toangeshia necktie frequently. That alga, ia the ease of a widower, alwayt 'tadtoxte matrlmoay, and, with Mr. Coakllng, msjr to takea for m latentioa to agaia coquet with pottties Md woo toe RepuMioan majority la the Iegislsturs. Besides, be baa made a saug little sum in the laat tlx year, sad has laid by sad safely iavetd Sa0,00 fer bis eld age, hW wife baviag as much more In bar owa right, iki Mr. Oenkling. at ttfty-eight, alert, bandsowe and eloquent, whose bugle blast is worth Wftw men to kls party any day, may safely aspire te the Senate as Nsw York's only greet Keimbllcan leader, aad not unreacoaably be may have aa sye apoa the Presidency. Conkling would naturally take the place of Logan as a stalwart leader, lie will be even more formidable, for he ha no recent quarrels to heal up as Logan's courage had made him. Conk ling s quarrels were not so noble and creditable as Logan's, but thay wore not so recent. He is incomparably su perlor to Blaine in every manly trait, lie would not be driven to so man person! explanations involving downright falsehood. Still, he may have learned to dislike politics, and lie may also have no aspirations higher than the Senate. He miirht rive the New York Blaine henchmen some trouble on that score. Blaine can't afford to let Conkling back into public life on any terms or for any purpose. Preconceived purpose and final acta do not always correspond in magnitude. Our advice to the unhappy stormdriven Blaine lvoomors is to keep a weather eye on Conkling. His motives may be the most innocent in the world. But even then he may experience new motives. Where power is ample aud nothing is lacking but a motive it is safe to look out. Motive come with strange suddenness and from strange source sometimes. It U a pity for the Blaine people. Their distress is ox treme, and ha led them to do soiiir questionable things of Istc in order to save their candidate at least until con veution time. They had a long siege trying to get him nominated, and then failed to get him elected, and any further disasters are cruel to the extent oi exciting sympathy even among' bitter enemies. Be Motm$ Leader. Tha American "Navy." In a letter to Congressman Lawlet Admiral Porter made tne of the expressions: Every harbor on our coast is at the mercy of hostile guns." "Our lakeboard oities are entirely open." "There is not a nation on earth that could not wage war apoa our ooasta with perfect impunity." "We have but a single frigate which could be made ready to Ike a gun in months." The old navy is gone or is going so fast that it is no longer available for war purposes. The new navy hi yet on the stocks or on paper. For the purpoe of anphnetwRg the recklessness and corruption of th em which brought the grant navy of the war period to this condition th amount of money expended on the es tablishment frow im to 1877 m here with appended: WsS.. .............Mn.SOO.Unt im 81,000,0 ten jem,m ms si,m,h vm aees,ws mi smwux XKS 81,(t,0t M7 ),(, Here was an aggregate appropria tion in eight years of more than f 170. 000,000. During that period the Brit ish Government expended about twice as much money on it navy, and it had in 1877, aa it has now, the most formi dable fleet in tha world. The question naturally arises: If by spending onenaif a much money a England the United State can not at present show a single ship ot war capable of meeting and resisting a hostile ffset, how many more millions would they have been compelled to spend in order to have had one such vessel? The grotesque insincerity of the organs of the dispensation which reduced the American navy to this deplorable condition in pretending tlmt Robeeonlsm and Ronchism are things to be honored and applauded will not ong survive inspection of the figure aud a glanoe at the results. Admiral 'orter's review of the situation places matters in a bad a light aa has yet been thrown upon them, and the emphasis with which Its dwells upon them oan not be acnled to partyism. t ie the duty of Congress to look the facts squarely in the face, to repair the waste and to loss no time in furthering the plans of the department for an entire reconstruction of the Het. C'A . jm HtrttM. On of the things worthy of note .a a .a as i 4 t a - n these ttayswnan tne shock ik Kigws Farwell, Mortons, Stewarts and Hearst are raking in the fat of th North to th exclusion of the sohlier, hi the fact that John M. Hewitt, who wa a Captain in Um Federal army, ha just been elected Speaker of th Arkansas House of Representative. CiW Mtrttfd. The RepubTicans of the Indiana Legislature have nominated Senator Harrison by neelnatation, hut the aeBUmation i strictly eenined te the nominstkm. The Senator will gT 4oirfyopt aay kind ef set he earn ft-- x ItVM.

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