Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1885 — Page 6

' 1 . U The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. R MARSHALL. ' * r Pububhd.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. ' A MINER who carried a naked lamp into a dangerous section of the Delaware and Hudson mine at Plymouth. Pa., caused two explosions of gas and fire-damp, sending a sheet of fire through the mine, shattering the houses at the opening of the shaft, and driving the debris hundreds of feet skyward. All the persons in the mine were dashed to the ground by the force of the shock, four being killed and twelve wounded. Many of the injured, who are shockingly burned and also inhaled the flames, can not recover. The man who caused the disaster had all his clothing, save his boots, torn off, and also lost his hair, but was otherwise uninjured.. .7. Morton C. Warren, importer of laces at No. 49 Green street, New York, assigned, with preferences of $106,116. ‘ cows belonging to R. Sattenstine,. who sells milk in New Y’ork City, were killed, being found suffering from pleuro-pneumonia. The animals had been ailing for some time,. ..John Howell, of Wayne County, Pennsylvania, shot four of » his children, ranging in age from 3 to 11 years, and then shot himself. His wife and eldest daughter were absent at the time of the tragedy. John Howell, at Starucca, Pa., confessed to killing his four children. He gave them arsenic, then shot them, and sat in wait for his wife and sister, whom he also intended to kill. He finally’ shot himself, and upon regaining consciousness made the horrible recital. John G. Whittier, in recounting his experiences in the anti-slavery iiots in Boston half a century ago, expresses satisfaction at seeing the colored people express their gratitude for the’ work of the pioneers. .. .Walter Chadwick, a well-known citizen of Newport, R. 1., disappeared some days ago. His body was found near a wharf, heavily weighted with bricks, and around his head and chin was tied a strong cord.... John B. Paige, ex-Governor of Vermont, died at Rutland, of bronchial pneumonia, at the age of 61 years. He was for a long time connected with ex-Gov. Smith in the management of the Vermont Central Rail—way.. . .Owing to the long continued strike the supply of nails at Pittsburgh has been exhausted, and at Wheeling it is impossible to get more than twenty-five ana fifty keg 10t5... .Twenty-five children in the Allegheny City Home for the Friendless were taken suddenly ill after drinking poisoned milk. All recovered with prompt medical treatment.<,. .In a single-scull race at Albany, for a purse of $1,090 a side, John H. Teemer defeated Edward Hanlan by three lengths. The New Y’ork stock Exchange for the week did the heaviest business for years. Over 3,696,680 shares changed hands. ——— ■—

THE WEST.

A FARMER near Wabash, Ind., took into a corn-field a worthless dog and a half pound of dynamite, tied them together, and fired the fuse. The remains of the cur were scattered all over the man, who nearly fainted from fright... .The stockholders of the Chicago and Evanston Road and the Chicago and Lake Superior Road have been called to vote on a contract for consolidating the property and franchisesand issuing mortgage bonds to the amount of $7,000,000.... An attempt will be made to sell toe St Louis, Hannibal and Keokuk Railroad under foreclosure, December 8, for at least $370,000.... The Illinois Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias, held its annual session at Springfield, with a large attendance. The reports of officers showed the order to be in a healthy and flourishing condition.... An Indianapolis telegram says: “A tremendous sensation was caused in the Court House this morning by the shooting of Harrison Tasker, colored, charged with a criminal assault upon the person of a young woman named Helen Huendling, by the victim’s brother, Meindert Huendling. On Saturday Tasker enticed the girl into his room, and, pointing a revolver at her. compelled her to yield. When released, she jumped from the window and received serious injuries. Tasker was arraigned for this crime in the Criminal Court this morning, A young German boy, greatly excited, entered the room as Tasker was being led out handcuffed, and, rushing up within a yard, fired a heavy ball into the colored man, causing a fatal wound. ’My mother’s dead, and this nigger ruined my sister,’ was the boy’s comment as he was seized by a bailiff. Wild confusion ensued. Many negro women in (he courtroom screamed, and there was a surging of men into the room. Tasker was taken to the hospital in a dying condition, and Huendling was arrested. Tasker claims that the girl voluntarily visited his room, but few believe him. ” A dispatch from Winchester, 111., says that “Fred Homer, who was shot by a mob, has died of his, wounds. When he was dressed for burial four shot wounds were found in his back. These wounds were not discovered by the physicians who attended him. He died protesting his innocence of the crime for which the mob killed him. “ • A ghastly and mysterious double murder was committed in one of the populous portions of Kansas City, Mo.', the victims being Mrs. Catharine Conway and her ten-year-old daughter Kitty. The horrible discovery was made by a neighbor, who called at the house and was startled on &efng the bleeding and lifeless bodies of the mother and daughter in the back room, Mrs. Conway being found lying on her back on the bed bound and gagged and her skull crushed in, while the little girl was on her knees with her head ly on the bed and her bra ; ns oozing out of ah ugly gash in her head.... A policeman in St Louis found on the car-track at the corner of Compton avenue and Morgan street an infernal machine composed of gas-pipe and gunpowder, with a cap at each end. ...ln a game of three-bail billiards at Yankton, D. T., Mr. Lannie McAfee made a run of 6,004 points—a most remarkable performance. Chicago journalists have purchased the Davenport Gazette, which will be managed by George B. Armstrong and Thomas O. Thompson. ...Officials of the Union Pacific Road have learned that a mob of white man attacked a section-house at Rock Springs, occupied by thirty Chinamen. Revolvers were fired and stones thrown until the Celestials fled ,to the hills for the night, returning to their work in the morning. The Southern Pacific Company, keeping K view the necessity of warding off low--s»te competition, gave the Atlantic and Pacific Road an entrance into Los Angeles and surrendered the San Diego business,

in return for the use of track from Colton to Riverside and a pledge to ipaintain rates.., .Jacob Kauffman, a well-known musicinn of Denver, having evidently lost his reason, undressed himself on the prairie near the Orphans’ Home, and crawled back and forth through a barbed-wire fence until death came to his release. His flesh was found hanging in shreds.... While B. J. Shay, a prominent individual, was dining with Mrs. James C. Brown, of Healdsburg, in San Francisco, the woman’s husband entered the restaurant and tired two shots at Shay, inflicting fatal wounds. ... .A man named Brandt, at Waco, Neb., becoming irritated beyond endurance, flung a lad of 13 years into a thrashing-machine, where his head was ins antly torn from the trunk .. The Attorney General of Kansas has gone to Emporia to take proceedings to get aside the sale by the regents of thirteen thousand acres of normal school lands to a banker named Cross.... Blackfoot (Idaho) special: “The United States trial jury, after being out all night arguing Bishop Porter's case, ‘ agreed on a verdict, of guilty. YVilliam C. Garrison was tried and convicted of unlawful cohabitation. His was a peculiar case. Garrison, a member of the Mormon Church, asked the consent of his Bishop to take a second wife, which was refused. Garrison took the second wife, and was disfellowsiiipped. He was hated by the Mormons, and regarded as a Gentile. ” The Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company has sued the city of Evansville, Ind., for the payment of $60,000 interest on defaulted water-works bonds amounting to $3,000,000. The bonds were reissued in 1870, when the works were completed, and not a cent upon them has ever been paid.... .Don Ewer, a sporting man widely known throughout Michigan, was shot dead in an alley near the Michigan Central depot in Detroit. A few minutes previously he told his affianced wife that he had $2,200 in a pouch tied about his waist, but nothing valuable was found on his person... ” . D. F. Wadsworth, the senior partner in a banking-house at Ishpeming, Mich., which closed its doors last year, has been indicted for embezzling $60,000 of city funds..,. The body of Mrs. James Quayle, which had been missing at Cleveland for ten days, was found in the lake. She is thought to have killed herself, the result of melancholy... .A Swede named Charles Sundstrom. living at Stillwater, Minn., is afflicted with leprosy.

THE SOUTH.

Eight members of the New Orleans City Council were to imprisonment for ten days for contempt of court regarding the payment of certain claims. The Chief Justice, later, ordered the release of the men until Nov. 2. Isaac Dahman, of Fort Worth, Texas, has contracted with English parties to deliver on the wharf at Galveston every fortnight for the next five years the frozen carcasses of 3,000 beeves at six cents per pound for meat and nine cents per pound for hides... .Savannah (Ga.) special: William Clemens, of McVille, Ga., a newly appointed revenue officer, went to Montgomery County with twd assistants to capture an illicit still. While passing along a lonely part of the road the trio were suddenly fired upon from ambush by moonshiners. and Clemens and one of his companions were instantly killed. Officer Rose, the third of the trio, escaped with a bad wound in his side and his coat riddled by bullets. Great excitement prevails in that locality, and a battle between the moonshiners and a posse of citizens is expected. A BICH veip of gold quartz, extending fora mile along the mountains, has been discovered in Hampshire County, West Virginia The Catholics of Richmond, Va., are taking steps to bring the attention of the Spanish Government to the offensive utterances made by Dr. Corry, recently appointed Minister to Spain....lt is reported from Clafedon, Denley County, Texas, that prairie fires in that section of the State have burned over 500,000 acres of territory.

WASHINGTON.

A New York journal prints an interview with Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Coon, in which he says that neither the President nor Secretary Manning has considered the Warner silver bill, and that he believes it is seriously considered by no one save Mr. Warner himself. Mr. Coon further stated that both the President and Secretary Manning are opposed to any further coinage of the silver dollar. The Second Comptroller of the Treasury is making a thorough investigation of the accounts of Indian agents, which are reported to be in a very bad condition, and has already referred about a dozen cases to the Solicitor of the Treasury for suit to recover balance found duo the Government. ~ .The Hydrographic Oilice has issued a new map of the arctic region, which embodies the results of the latest explorations. The arrangement is such that the names and relative positions of all places arouud the polar basin can be seen without turning the map around, as is usually necessary, and the eye is not bewildered by a multitude of meridian lines concentrating at the pole. A very simple method of determining the latitude and longitude of any point is afforded by two lines intersecting at right angles at the pole, along which the degrees are marked. Advices from Washington discredit the report that Secretary Manning contemplates a call of 3-per-cent. bonds in the near future. The probability is that he will make no call until. Congress has indicated the policy to be pursued regarding the silver problem The Naval Advisory Board will complete the cruisers Boston, Chicago, and Atlanta at an estimated cost of $368,000, in the belief that they will conform in character and quality to the requirements of the contract with John Roach.

POLITICAL.

A Cincinnati. dispatch of Oct 23 says: “The official count of the vote of Hamilton County has been completed, but is liable to change at the hands of the courts. The complexion of the Ohio Legislature hinges upon a decision in two cases. ,If given the five precincts in dispute,--the Democratic legislative candidates will receive the certificates; if , the Republicans win in the courts, they will have all the Representatives but one. The unofficial footings complete make Hoadly’s plurality 686. Kennedy (Republican), for Lieutenant Governor, has a plurality of 734. M. F. Wilson has the highest vote for Senator on the Democratic ticket. 34,872, and Richardson the highest on the Republican ticket, 34,401. Hardacre is the lowest on the Republican ticket, having 34,118, and Brashears, on the Democratic ticket, 34,584. For Representatives the variance is not so great, but the Democratic figures are all higher than the highest Republican vote." A Colcmbvs (Ohio) special says that the returns from all the counties of Ohio have been received. They, shew that 731,732 votes were cast, of which Foraker

(Rep.) had 359,538; Hoadly (Dem.) 341,380; Leonard (Pro.) 28,054; Northrup (Greenbacker) 2,760. Foraker’s plurality, 18.158. The total vote in 1883 for Governor was 721,310, of which Foraker had 347,161 Hoadly 359,693, arid Schumacher (Pro.) 8 3.32. Hoadiy’s plurality, A number of Virginians have attempted to secure the removal of Fred Douglass, Register of Deeds at Washington, and the President is reported to have said that if the Democrats would suggest the name of a good colored man he would appoint him. Senator Sherman, on being serenaded in Washington, made a speech, in 4 which he proposed a reduction •of thirty-eight Representatives in Congress and the Electoral College because of the disfratichisemenf of negroesln regard to the relations between President Johnson and Gen. Grant, it is believed by Gen. Sherman that the controversy would have been settled by the appointment of Gen. J. D. Cox as Secretary of War. Y’ice President Hendricks suggests that President Johnson believed iu restoring and not in reconstructing the States; Gen. Sickles states that Grant said enough to him to reveal his alarm for the safety of the Government during the reconstruction period. Senator Arkell, of New Y’ork, reports Grant assaying that he had personally been the means of preventing a second civil war of a menacing character.

GENERAL.

Gen. Sherman has, it is said, written to a friend that he regrets having removed from Washington to St. Louis, and often wishes himself back at the national capital, comfortably settled for the remainder of his days. Ope reason assigned is that there is less brilliant and pleasant social life than in Washington, and a greater scarcity of pretty-girls. Another is that he finds there fewer army companions and congenial friends having sufficient leisure to chat with him about the past and kill time pleasantly... .Dr. Norvin.‘Green was reelected President of the Western Union Telegraph Company, with Gen. Eckert as General Manager. Col. R. C. Clowry, of Chicago, was elected a Vice President and member of the Executive Committee. Tremont Temple, Boston, was crowded to hear the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher deliver his eulogy of General Grant. The services were opened with music, organ and orchestra performing Chopin’s funeral march, which was followed by prayer, after which an ode composed by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe was-rendered -by- the choir.—A poem by Louise Imogene Guiny was then read, when the female portion of the choir sung an elegy written by the Rev. M. J. Savage. Mr. Beecher then delivered his eulogy on the Union soldier, praising in no stinted terms his genius, statesmanship, and martial qualities. The benediction concluded the exercises.... Ferdinand Ward was arraigned in the Court of Oyer and Terminer at New York, Oct 22, on the charge of larceny and obtaining goods under false pretenses. He pleaded not guilty, and the work of securing a jury was begun. There were 146 failures in the United States reported to Bradstreet’s during the week, against 164 in the preceding week, and 234, 209, and 137 in the corresponding weeks of 1884, 1883, and 1882 respectively. About 85 per cfent. were those of small traders whose capital was less than $5,000. In the principal trades they were as follows: Grocers, 20; liquors, T 9; general stores, 16; hotels and restaurants, 14; manufacturers, 7; clothing, 6; dry goods. 6; fancy goods, 6; produce and provisions, 5; carriages and wagons,, 5; shoes. 4; tobacco and cigars, 4; bakers and confectioners. 3; carpenters, 3; drugs, 3; furniture, 3; books and stationery, etc., 3. Bradstreet’s Journal, in, its commercial review for the week, says: “Special telegrams to Bradstreet’s report no special change in the general trade situation. The dry gdods market at present is dull. Retailers are believed to be carrying the large volume of goods lately shipped from first hands, awaiting the demand for consumption. There is a better demand for funds for use in regular trade channels. There is a fair movement of wool at seaboard markets for consumption. The large factories are well stocked, and the smaller ones are buying freely for near-by wants. Manufacturing is relatively active, and prices are firm. Holders regard the situation confidently, and are not anxious to sell. In grocery staples there has been an increased movement in sugar and coffee, but prices are weak. Tea is depressed. Dairy products are in steady demand for home consumption, but behind last year for exports. ” Intelligent and property-owning Mexicans in Chihuahua favor the annexation to the United States of the northern tier of Mexican States.... Work was Suspended on the Pacific end of the Panama Canal, but one-half of the excavation has been made for a stretch of three miles on the Atlantic side... .The Canadian Government has decided to appoint an international medical commission to inquire into the sanity of Riel, the leader of the Northwestern Territory rebellion.... The call for the con vention of the Irish National League at Chicago, Jan. 20 and 21, has been issued by the President; Patrick Egan.

FOREIGAN.

Judge Denny, ex-United States Consul General at Shanghai, has accepted the post of foreign adviser to the Corean Government. The Chinese Government has decided to maintain a standing army of 600,000 men, to be increased in time of war to 1,200,000 men. Tso Tsung Tong, the Chinese General famous for his anti-foreign policy, died last month ...The foreign representatives at Tangier are about to bring to the notice of their respective governments the barbarous treatment of criminals by the authorities of Morocco. Recently, for a petty offense, a woman approaching maternity was tied up by the Armsand flogged until blood flowed freely.... The Police Chief of Hyde, England, has identified pictures of W. H. Lennox Maxwell, imprisoned at St Louis for the murder of Preller. as Hugh Motham Brooks, an attorney who practiced in Hyde some years ag0.... .Prince Alexander of Bulgaria is reported as having guaranteed that the existing order of things shall not be disturbed in his domain. His troops have been ordered not to provoke a conflict.... An attempt to shoot the Minister of War of Montenegro was made at Cattaro by an Albanian, who confessed himself the agent of a band of conspirators. He was quickly executed. Mme. Cordieb, one of the most celebrated beauties of the court of Napoleon lIL, fell a victim to morphine at Paris. Her body after death, though she had endured the most excruciating torture for eight days, shortly assumed the charms and classic outline which had so famed her in youth.... The Marquis of Lome, the Queen’s son-in-law, ana Liberal candidate for Parliament, attempted to make an election speech at Brentford, near London. The crowd that assembled at the place refused to listen to him, and rotten-egged and otherwise tseated him so badly that he left in haste and immediately returned to London..,. Sister Cipriani, who arrived at Cairo re-

cently from 'Khartoum, says that Oliver Pajn fell from his camel while ill, and that the Arabs, who were hurrying forward at the time, buried him before he was dead. ... .A skirmish has occurred between the Bulgarians hud the pickets of the Servians. A loan of $5,000,000 was obtained in Paris by the Servian Government, which pledged its tobacco monopoly as security... .The sensation in Erench political circles is a manifesto by Prince Bonaparte (Pion Pion) to his followers, advocating that the Republic be upheld, as the Monarchists are not at present strong enough to bring about a revolution... .The opposition to the Government of Denmark are raising a fund to defend the assassin of Premier Estrupp.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The taking of evidence in the trial of Ferdinand Ward was begun at New Yorks on the 26th of October, the District Attorney in his opening remarks warning the jury that they must remember Ward was on trial for larceny, fiot for “sending General Grant broken-hearted to his grave: ” James D, Fish, the ex-Fresident of the Marine frank, was the first witness, and eyed the defendant savagely. He detailed the presentation of a check for $71,8J0, drawn agains’t a for $75,000; the rejection of the ‘latter by the First National Bank; how Ward failed to adjust the matter, and the efforts to raise sufficient funds to meet the dishonored paper; the deposit of the $150,000 which Gen. Grant borrowed from Vanderbilt, and the placing of the money to Ward’s personal account. The cross-examination failed to elicit anything, and Fish’s brother, ;an ofijcial of the Marine Bank, corroborated the testimony. The rear of a Wabash passenger train left the track near Laporte, Ind., tumbling over several times and rolling into the. ditch. Thirteen persons were seriously injured. John McCullough, the demented actor, who was brought froth the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum, New York, to, his home in Philadelphia in a pitiable condition, is reported to have perceptibly improved by the; change to* his own home. Mr. Johnson, who accompanied him, says: “I think that he is going to get better. Now that he will will ever be able to go on the stage again, but he will be able to get about and will regain to some extent his faculties. Already a great impfovement is perceptible. He is brighter and watches those who attend him, a thing he has not done for a great while. Drs. Engel and Lloy d believe that he will recover. They purpose a new treatment and hope to completely restore his reason. ” Jack Wyman and Tom Kinnard fought with soft gloves at the fair grounds near Grand Rapids, Mich. In the second round Wyman was knocked senseless, and remained unconscious for twenty minutes. Kinnard was awarded the S2OO purse and the gate receipts.... A hunting party in the vicinity of Specht’s Ferry, lowa, came upon the dead body of a woman, which upon examination proved to be that of the wife of J. H. Schneider, a retired lumber merchant of Potosi, Wis. A bottle, shawl, and hat were found on the shore a short distance from where the body lay in the water. The general opinion is that she came to her death by poisoning and by drowning. The remains were taken to Potosi. She leaves one son, a student in the Chicago College of Pharmacy, and two adult daughters. Poor health is supposed to be the cause of the rash act She was 45 years of age. A United States Fish Commission car left Washington last week with carp to supply applicants in Missouri, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Colorado and Kansas. The car will go via St. Louis and Omaha to Ogden, and will return via Cheyenne, Denver and Kansas City to St. Louis. Another car left for Portland, Oregon, and will supply en route in lowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Dakota, Montana. Washington Territory and Oregon The Secretary of the Treasury has appointed Richard M. Johnson, of Indiana, to be chief of a division in the Sixth Auditor’s office, vice Mr. Dickerson, transferred to the office of Comptroller of Currency. An Ottawa (Ont.) special says “there is no truth in the statement that a commission has already been appointed to report on Riel’s mental condition. It is probable, however, that a commission will be appointed in a few’ days.

Family Discipline.

Mrs. Bandry is an Austin parent who is very severe with her children. She maintains strict discipline, and never allows them to speak out loud. A few days ago Mrs. Bandry and. her little daughter, Maud, were about to go out calling, when the latter said: “Ma, your hair is coming- down.” “Child, when you speak to me you must do it in silence.”— Texas Siftings.

THE MARKETS.

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BIEL DOOMED.

The Date of His Execution FixedAngry Public Feeling in Canada. [London dispatch.] The Privy Council has dismissed the appeal of Louis Riel,, the leader of the half-breed insurrection in Canada, against the sentence of death passed upon him by the Canadian courts. In an interview to-day, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Riel’s Canadian counsel, said; “It is impossible to pretend that Riel was unfairly tried. No doubt, at the time of the outbreak in the Northwest, grievances existed which have since been remedied. Riel commenced the agitation from purely political motives. Many people still consider that he rendered valuable services to the country. Doubtless the exc tement again induced in Riel mental aberration, rendering him incapable of keeping the rebellion within legal limits. On thescaffold Riel will become a martyr; in prison, or in an asylum he would be forgotten. ” In face of the conflicting medical evidence in Riel’s case, Mr. Fitzpatrick advocated the appointment by the Canadian Government of a commission to again examine the prisoner. The Daily Telegraph, commenting on the case, says: “On the whale yesterday’s judgment is so upheld by reason and comes from a lawyer of such undoubted authority that it may be assumed to cover the justice of the case. The end of the chapter now rests with Canada. Riel cannot complain if Canada, now master of the situation, exacts the last penalties." [Montreal dispatch.] L. O. David, President of the Riel Defense Association, says that he has received trustworthy information that it is the Government’s intention to carry the law into effect against Riel. The feeling, he says, among the French Canadians is intense, and with the small-pox, and other causes of race feeling, the slightest provocation might cause serious trouble. Personally he will take no further steps in the matter, and believes the committee wiU, follow this course, holding the Government responsible. The Government officers here say that Riel will be hanged on the 10th of November. [Winnipeg dispatch.! ■ Althorgh the verdict of the Privy Coun"il in the Riel case has not been a surprise it has occasioned a deep feeling among the half-breeds and French in Winnipeg, who now expect the rebel will' be hanged. A dispatch from Regina says Riel displayed great agitation on receiving the news. He fears the last hope is gone, and expressed the private opinion that he would have to meet the fate the recent sentence imposed.

HEIR TO A MILLION.

A St, Louisan Entitled to a Portion of the Great Townley Estate. [St Louis telegram.] The Liverpool Weekly Post of recent date announces that by an act of Parliament, passed August 4, the British Government has decided to pay over to all the legal heirs of the Lawrence Townley estate their proper portion of the money. This estate amounts to the enormous sum of $800,000,000 in money and 400,090 acres of land. The estate would have been divided thirty-four years ago, but, through the false claim of one Talmy, it was thrown into chancery, where it remained twenty-six years. The estate was inherited by ’ four brothers of the Chase family, three of whom— William, Aquila, and Thomas —came to this country before the Revolutionary war. The direct heirs of these three brothers in America number about 800. Many of them are supposed to reside in Missouri. One of those who have put in claims is L. T. Austin, of No. 224 East Stein street, South St. Louis. He will be entitled to several million dollars when the estate is settled. Mr. Austin says that a number of the other heirs who have not put in their claims art supposed to be residents of St. Louis. Mr. Stein's grandmother prosecuted the,claim in 1846, but died at the advanced age of 100 years while it was still in litigation. Mr. Austin is now working on the Transfer Railway in South St. Louis.

TOOMBS AND THE UNION PRISONER.

He Secures the Release from Libby of the Son of a Former Sweetheart. [Centralia fill.) special.] The approaching death of Bob Toombs inspires people to tell incidents of his pubflic life and service. 'A story wastold to your correspondent to-day which is worthy of the public print One day, while Toombs wks in the rebel Cabinet, he drove up to Gen. Winder’s office at Libby, and asked to see a prisoner whom he named, and who turned out to be a mere boy, who had enlisted in a New England regiment and was captured and token to Libby. Toombs was taken to the boy, and the twp were left alone together. No one knew what transpired, but in a day or two the prisoner’s release was ordered, and he was sent home. In former days Bob had formed a fancy for the girl who was now the soldier boy’s mother. The tender memories of the past were not eliminated from the mind of the arch rebel by the clash of war, and a mother's appeal was not allowed to go unheard.

CHINESE STAMPEDED.

A House Containing Mongol laborers Attacked by a Mob Near Rock Springs. [Omaha special.] A dispatch received at Union Pacific headquarters states that a mob of White men attacked the section house at the old town of Rock Springs, Wyoming, three miles from the coal-mining town of the same name. The house was occupied by thirty Chinamen employed as railroad section men. The mob yelled and shouted, fired a volley of revolver shots into the air, and bombarded the house with clubs and stones, and smashed every window. The Chinamen were frightened nearly to death, supposing that another massacre was about to be perpetrated.,. They ran out of the house and fled totbe neighboring hills, whem they remained all night, suffering intensely from cold, as they were but half clad.

SPLINTERS.

The letter of Chauncey M. Depew regarding the relations between President Johnson and Gen. Grant has drawn from Charies A. Dana the statement that Johnson was an opium-eater. ■ The Mayor of Harrisburg, Pa., has issued a peremptory order to his police force to arrest all persons heard swearing on the streets. -; .. I The cheap edition of “The Life of George Eliot,” will contain a number of letters never before published. t >.

FIGHTING A PRESIDENT.

An Interesting Story of the Reconstruction Period Retold by Chauncey M. Depew, Gen. Grant’s Unwaverlner Opposition to the Alhged Disloyal P.ots of Andy Johnson. [New York telegram.] The Hon. Chauncey M. Depew has furnished to the press the following open letter to Col. F. D. Grant: .New York, Oct. 12, 1885. My Dear Colonel: In answer to your request for the particulars of the conversation I had with your lather, and to vhicn 1 alluded in a speech before the Chamber of Commerce, the following is my best recollection: About four years ago I sat beside Gen. Grant at dinner. There were many courses, slowly served, and the entertainment lasted several hours. We discussed many matters suggested by his trip arouad the world, and among other things he said to' me that when in China f rince Kung, who was Regent and real ruler during the minority of the Emperor, told him of their controversy with Japan. War was about- to be declared, and the Prince thought it would be a long and bloo iv one, and asked General Grant if he would act as arbitrator. The General declined for want ot time? but principally because he was,.a pri.a e person and had no power to enforce his decision. He suggested, however, the terms ot compromise. When, in Japan shortly after, the Mil.rdo s Ministers told him their side of the trouble, and revealed the fact that several of the European Governments were actively stirringup the strife on both sides, hoping to benefit by the war. The same request was made to him on the pait of the Japanese Government —to act as arbitrator—and in again declining he stated the substance ot the compromise he had advised for China. The two nations adopted substantially the terms proposed by General Grant, an I a disastrous conflict was averted. The conversation drifted into a consideration of his relations with President Andrew Johnson. The narrative of this period was one of the most graphic to which I ever listened, and it is unfortunate for history and posterity that it cannot be preserved as it was told, it had the h eal coloring of conversations with, and statements made by, the chief actol s, and of the situations of parties and persons as the events occurred, invaluable as a portraiture and estimate of the times. I said in my address that Gen. Grant performed services to his country which were unwritten quite as important as any that were recorded, and I think this narrative will bear me out. This is the substance of the story: Johnson began, the day after the assassination of Mr. Lincoln, to loudly proclaim at all times and places, with constant reiteration, the shibboleth, “Treason is odious and must be punished, and the chief rebels shall be hanged. 6 To give eftectjito this sentiment, as soon as he was inangured he insisted upon the United States Courts in Virginia finding indictments against all the leading members of the Confederacy. He also wanted the officers in the rebel army who had left the regular army to join the rebellion to be summarily dealt with by courtmartial. These movements of the President produced the greatest consternation throughout the South. The Confederate leaders appealed to Grant to protect them on the parole he had given. He saw Johnson on the subject, only to be informed that the President was by the-Consti-tution commamler-in-chief of the army, and that anything done by the commanding General on the field was done subject to his approval or rejec ion, and he rejected the terms. General Grant urged that the rebels had surrendered on these conditions, disbanded their organizations, submitted universally to the situation, and were carrying out in good faith their part of the agreement, and every consideration of both honor and expediency demanded equally good faith on the part of the Government. The other course would have led to an endless guerrilla warfare, conducted in a country admirably adapted for it by desperate and hopeless men. Johnson obstinately adhered to his view, and assumed the authority of commander, when Grant flatly told him that If there were to be any courts-martial one must be called to try General Grant first; that he would by ever! means in his power protect his parole and appeal to Congress and the country. In the halt called by this attitude of General Grant a very remarkable change occurred in the views and policy of President Johnson. General Grant discovered that the most t're juen't and -favored visitors to the White House were the men whom the President had proscribed. In the General’s opinion Johnson’s loyalty was subordinate to, if not entirely dependent upon, his entire enmity to the slaveholdmz oligarchy. He was a poor white, had been a journeyman tailor, and, notwithstanding the distinguished public positions he had held, he could not break through the class barrier, and was treated socially with contempt by this proud aristocracy. When they plunged into rebellion he saw his opportunity. He believed in the power of the Government, and thought that the time had come when he could defeat his enemies, confiscate their property, humiliate their pride, and possibly destroy them. The absorbing ambition and passion of his life had been to be received and treated as one of them by the oligarchy. Having tailed in that and suffered insult and indignity in the effort, he became one of the roost vindictive of men. He saw them foiled in their rebellion, defeated and impoverished, end now he wanted to kill them. While he was devising me ins to overcome General Grant's resistance to this last purpose, the leaders Of the old feudalism called upon him. They admitted their former treatment and justified it. They said that in all ages and countries where caste distinctions existed, conditions were always possible which promoted men who had achieved success from the lower into dihe noble order. As President of the United States, he became, regardless of birth and ancestry, not only a member of their order, but its leader. Johnson was wild with delight; ambition and pride were both satisfied. He became as anxious to sustain and perpetuate in some form a system which had given the highest social and pbbtlcil distinction to a few great families as he had been to destroy it. Grant did not have long to wait for the formulation of his plan. The President sent for him, and said that the radical theasuers of Congress were revolutionary and would destroy the country. The war was over, and the Republic wanted peace, and that was possible only by a union of all sections. The jrovisional governments provided for the seceded States were temporary expedients without constitutional authority, and the States had all the rights and should possess all the powers they had before the war. He had perfected a scheme to accomplish this result, and with Gen. Grant’s assistance its success was assured. He would by proclamation direct the rebel States to send to Washington their full quota of Senators and Representatives. He had assurances from enough members from the North who, united with them, would make a quorum of one house at lea-t, if not both. The Congress thus formed he would recognize and install at the Capitol. If; the other Northern members did not to join, they would be a powerless rump* meeting in some hull. To the General’s suggestion that thia would start the Civil War afresh, the ITesident replied: "They who do it will be the rebels, but if you sustain me, resistance will be impossible.” He appealed to Grant to stand by him in the crisis and they would be the saviors ot the Republic. After endeavoring for a long time in vain to convince the President of the folly of such a course and its certain failure, no matter who sustained it. Grant finally told him that he would drive the Conaress so constituted out of the Capitol at the point of the baynot, give possession of the buikVng to the Senators and Representatives from the loyal States, and protect them. If necessary, he would appeal to the country and to the army he had so recently mustered out of service. Mr. Johnson asked if he did not recognize the powers vested in the President by the constitution, and if he would refuse to obey, the Commander-in-Chief. General Grant said that under such circumstances he most certainly would. Shortly afterward the President sent for Gen. Grant, and said to him that the relations of otur Government with Mexico were very delicate, and he wished him to go to the City of Mexico at once on a very important mf-sion. The General knew that this was to get him out of the country, and put it ip the power of the President to call, as his successor to Washington, some officer upon whom he could rely. He replied that if the appointment was a diplomatic one he dedinedit; if it was a military one he refuted to obey, because the General,-of the army could not be ordered to a foreign ‘fcountry with which we are at peace. The interview was a stormy pne, but the subject was drooped. One day the General wae sent West on a tour of inspection. He knew that Gen. Sherman was to be his successor, and - in him he had absolute confidence. The outspoken loyalty of that great soldier prevented the project ever being renewed. . It is at this date needless to speculate upon what might have happened had Gen. Grant actively assisted or passively obeyed the President. No one dounts the courage or obstinacy of Andrew Johnson, and only a man of equal firmness and determination could have prevented a most calamitous and unfortunate strike at the most critical period of the reconstruction of the republic. Yours very truly, Chauncey m. Depew. To Col. Frederick D. Giant.