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ESTABLISHED 1877.
THE LATEST ABOUT GUITEAU
WHY A NEW TRIAL IS ASKED.
Allegations that the Jury Bead Newspapers Daring the
Trial A Tell-Tale Copy ltith Jurymen's Signa
tures District Attorney Corkhill Brands
them as Forgeries Scoville Dis
gusted and Asking Alms.
Mr. Scoville, Guiteau's counsel, filed his motion
for a new trial late on Saturday afternoon last.
It is supported by the affidavits of Frederick A.
Synder, John W. Guiteau, Charles J. Guiteau,
and George Scoville, and is based upon twelve
reasons, substantially as follows: "That the ver
dict was uncertain, as various counts of the in
dictment are inconsistent with one another; that
the verdict does not specify upon what count or
counts it is founded upon; that the trial was
continued from the June into the December term
without authority of law ; that the court had no
jurisdiction; that the court erred in overruling
the prayers of the defense; also, in excluding
proper evidence offered by the defense, and in
admitting improper evidence on the part of the
prosecution; also, in commenting improperly
upon the conduct of the defendant, and in enter
ing into an arrangement with the district attor
ney, whereby the jury and the expert witnesses
for the prosecution during the trial might observe
the conduct of the defendant to subserve the
purposes of the prosecution; that the jury had
misbehaved in reading newspapers; that new
and material facts have been discovered, and
that the verdict is contrary to the evidence and
the law.
Mr. Scoville also filed a bill of exceptions to
guard against the possibility of being deprived
of any of his rights through a legal technicality
of the affidavits. The most important was that of
Snyder, who made oath to the fact that on the
13th of December last he found in a room occu
pied by members of the jury at the National
Hotel a copy of the Evening Critic of November
19th, containing an account of the attempt on Gui
teau's life by Jones, and other matter prejudicial
to the assassin's interests and calculated to un-
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oi tnis newspaper were me signatures oi several
jurymen, presumptive evidence, of course, that
they had read the copy in question.
This new development in the case created a
sensation, and when the Criminal Court opened
on Monday District Attorney Corkhill denounced
the alleged signatures as audacious though clever
forgeries, and demanded that the Court take
cognizance of the matter, which it intimated its
willingness to do by interrogating the jurymen
themselves on Friday, which day he also fixed
for hearing argument ou the motion for a new
trial.
Subsequent revelations strengthen the supposi
tion that the signatures in question are forgeries.
The jurymen themselves stoutly deny having
read any newspaper during the trial, and it is
significant that in one of the signatures the name
is not correctly spelled a mistake which it is
not to be supposed any person would make with
his own signature. The matter will undoubtedly
be probed to the bottom.
Guiteau is reported to be conducting himself
with greater propriety than heretofore. He
issued another silly address to the American
people towards the close of last week, but has
now abandoned speech for card-writing. A
sign in his cell announces that he is willing to
dispose of autographs at twenty-five cents apiece,
but business so far is dull with him.
On Monday Mr. Scoville sent out an "Appeal
to the American People," stating that he has
sacrificed his business and has incurred expenses
.at "Washington amounting to $550 and has con
tracted debts for the support of his family at
home exceeding $300, and, as an offset, has re
ceived only about $250 from friends. His aged
mother is lying seriously ill and requires some
portion of his time and resources. For these
reasons he cannot give two months more of his
time to this trial unless the public come forward
with pecuniary assistance. At least $2,000 is
needed. Those who are willing to contribute
are invited to address Mr. Scoville at Washing
ton until February 4. He announces that here
after all letters addressed to Guiteau will be
destroyed without opening.
PATENTS LAST YEAR.
The following is a summary of the business of
the Patent Office during the past year: Number
of applications for patents for inventions, designs,
and reissues, 26,059; number of caveats filed,
-.ations for registration of trade-mark, labels,
,183; total number of applications requir
. .vestigation and action, 30,242. During the
ea 'here were issued 17,620 patents and de
ugix, as against 16,584 for the year ending De
cember 31, 1880.
REV, DR. PAXTON.
Dr. Paxton, pastor of the New York
ie.
a yeme Presbyterian Church, has received a call
Tvnt t congregation in New York city, with a
-ate: of $13,000 for the first year, which he has
aooepf-ed. Dr. Paxton was a brave soldier during
the w ar of the rebellion, and served for some
xim upon the staff of General Heintzelman.
TO CARE FOR HIM
WASHINGTON,
DEATH OF GEN. R. B. MITCHELL.
Brevet Major-General Robert Byington Mitch
ell died a few moments after noon on Tnursday
of last week at his residence, No. 227 Four-and-a-half
street, in this city. General Mitchell was
born in Ohio April 4, 1823, and educated at
Kenyon College. He studied law at Mount
Vernon, Ohio, with the late John K. Miller
(formerly" a Representative in Congress), and
after being admitted to the bar practiced at
Mount Gilead, Morrow county, Ohio, until 1856.
In the latter year he went to Kansas to defend
one of the arrested Lecompton members of the
Legislature, and when his labor was over he had
become so much pleased with Kansas that he
decided to make it his future home. He married,
in 1855 Miss St. John, of Tiffin, Ohio, the
daughter of Henry St. John, an ex-Representative
in Congress, who, with a grown son, servives
him. In Kansas General Mitchell was a mem
ber of the Legislature during the stormy days
preceding the admission of the State into the
Union, and was the Treasurer of the Territory
under Governor Medary. During the Mexican
war he enlisted in the Second Ohio Infan
try, becoming a lieutenant, and at the
close of the war was a captain in the Fif
teenth United States infantry under Gen
eral George "W. Morgan. At the outbreak
of the rebellion he again buckled on the
sword, and was made colonel of the famous
Second Kansas Cavalry. At the battle of "Wil
son's Creek, Mo., he was dangerously wounded
in the groin, and was promoted for bravery to
the rank of brigadier-general- of volunteers. In
1864 he was promoted to brevet major-general.
He distinguished himself many times in action,
and became commander of all the cavalry under
Grant and Sherman in the West. He was to the
"Western armies what General Pleasanton was in
the East. In 1865, after leaving the service,
President Johnson appointed him Governor of
New Mexico, which position he held until 1869,
when he was relieved by Colonel Crowe, of Ala
bama, a rebel cavalry officer, who had often
been defeated by General Mitchell. Since leaving
New Mexico General Mitchell settled in "Wash
ington, where he has been engaged in practicing
law. His death was from disease produced by
o-'K TJlv funeral took pi
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ace Sunday
afternoon at the First Presbyterian Church.
The church was packed throughout with the
friends of the dead hero : not only with those
who served with him, but with those who had
known and loved him in civil life. Rev. Dr.
Byron Sunderland preachad an impressive and
touching sermon, after which the large audience
were given the privilege of filing past the chancel
to view the remains. The casket, which was hand
somely trimmed with black cloth and silver han
dles, had upon it a number of very beautiful
floral offerings, the principal one being a pillow
of. tuberoses with the word "Rest" in violets.
The funeral was under the escort of the Union
"Veteran Corps, Captain Thomason, and the
"Washington Light Infantry, Colonel "William G.
Moore. The escort was formed into a battalion
of four companies, under command of Colonel
Moore, and was headed by a section of the Ma
rine Band under Professor Pierce, formerly leader
of the band of the Seventh United States Caval
ry. The interment took place at the Congres
sional Cemetery.
SALE OF WASHINGTON RELICS.
The collection of "Washington relics, oil paint
ings, and porcelains, of Governor Caleb Lyon,
formerly of Lyondale, was sold in New York,
Wednesday. A portrait of George "Washington,
an original by Gilbert Stuart, brought $550;
a punch bowl belonging to "Washington, bearing
his initials on the side, $330 ; Washington's Ma
hogany arm chair, $80 ; a bronze bust of "Wash
ington, by Clark Mills, $170. Among the other
relics an oval plateau, of the Cincinnati set,
brought $210 ; a round dining plate of the same
set, $65 ; & memorial pitcher, $80 ; a plateau of
the Martha "Washington set, $80 ; and two pit
chers, one of them ornamented with a represent
ation of the ship Macedonia, and the other with
likenesses of "Washington and Lafayette, $80.
Two eld Lowestaft pitchers that belonged to
Benjamin Franklin were sold for $50. A brass
cannon, mounted, a relic of the Mexican war,
presented to Governor Lyon by General Winfield
Scott, was sold for $150. A large number of oil
paintings were sold. A portrait of Abigail
Adams brought $400, and a small head by "Wythe
$350.
LATER NEWS FROM DANENHOWER.
Secretary Hunt on Wednesday received the
following cablegram from Minister Hofiman at
St. Petersburg :
"Danenhower telegraphs, 'Report my arrival
with nine seamen ; sick better. De Long traced
to a definite locality, for which Melville and the
Russians are searching ardently. If the ship is
not found before spring may I charter a steamer
and search the coast and islands between the
rivers Olenek and Kolyma? If yes, send two
active line officers to assist. Co-operation by
authorities is hearty and intelligent.' "
The following reply was sent to Minister Hoff
man at St Petersburg :
"Tell Danenhower two officers will be sent.
If his health admits he will remain and continue
the search for the missing parties.
"Hunt, Secretary."
WHO HAS BORNE THE BATTLE, AND FCW HIS
D. O., SATUBDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1882.
REVIEW OF THE WEEK.
EVENTS TRANSPIRING ABROAD.
Change in the French Ministry Resignation of Oam
betta and His Cabinet Their Successors Dillon's
Ultimatum Bismarck Thanked The
Perurian-Chilian Embroglio The ;
Princeton Students, Ac.
The events of Thursday, the 26th ult, when
the French Chamber of Deputies rejected by a
vote of 305 to 117 the government bill for the
revision of the constitution, including the scrutin
de liste, made the resignation of M. Gambetta
and his Cabinet a foregone conclusion. He
handed it to President Grevy in person the same
day and it was announced the following morning
that M. de Freycinet would be summoned to
form a new cabinet. Gambetta's las.t speech
from the Tribune is described as displaying all
the Premier's old time eloquence, but although
the Chamber applauded fftm, it refused to follow
his lead. His concluding sentiment was : "My
past is known. Above all ambitions there is the
future of the country." He is reported as being
as cheerful and confident as ever dispite his re
verses. His resignation produced no commotion
in the country at large for the reason, perhaps,
that his retirement was shrewdly suspected to
be bat a stratagem on his part intended to
bring the Chamber to the conviction in the end
that no ministery can stand without him. It is
certain that the new Cabinet which de Freycinet
has formed, and which since it includes M. Leon
Say as Minister of Finance, M. Varroy as Minis
ter of Public "Works, General Billot as Minister
of "War, Admiral Jaureguiberry as Minister of
Marine, M. Goblet as Minister of the Interior,
M. Humbert as Minister of Justice, M. Tirard
as Minister of Commerce, and M. Cochery as
Minister of Posts and Telegraphs may be said
to be a " ministery of all the talents," will never
theless be weaker in the Chamber of Deputies
than that which it replaces. At the utmost it
can rely only upon the votes of the Left and
LeftrCentre parties in the Chamber, whose "united
strength is but 137 votes, while the Gambetta
ministery, made up as it was from 3esenta
tives of the Republican Left and Republican
Union, numbering collectively 337 votes, was
supported by a clear majority of 58 votes. There
is not a single representative of the latter sections
in the new de Freycinet Cabinet. As the New
York Sun sagely observes :
" "What, then, have the Republican Union and
the Extreme Left, which unitedly command 330
votes, or a considerable majority of the Cham
ber, gained by Gambetta's overthrow? That is
the question which these Deputies are asking
themselves already, and which their constitu
ents will soon press on them with impatience
and disgust. The sections just mentioned have
no representatives in the Cabinet, and the re
forms for whose furtherance they were specially
elected are further off than ever. Fearing to
lose their individual influence in their respect
ive districts, they have helped to reject the
scrutin de liste, as to which the country had
never pronounced a definite verdict one way or
the other, and have thereby risked the frustra
tion, or the long postponement, of reforms ar
dently desired by the mass of French Republi-
cans.
May not the true explanation of the situation
be that suggested by the New York Times, name
ly, that Gambetta, finding that France was not
yet in the humor to be governed by him accor
ding to his own notions, he engineered his own
fall with a view of demonstrating to his country
men, that however much they might distrust
him, there was nobody else in the field strong
enough to hold the reins of government. If
this is the present feeling, we may expect fre
quent changes in the French Ministry. It will
not take long to run through the list of possible
Premiers de Freycinet, Say, Brisson, Ferry,
and one or two others. Then, no doubt, M.
Gambetta would expect to take his turn again
and have his own way, scrutin de liste and all.
Mr. Dillon, the Irish agitator, not only still
languishes in prison but seems to be in a fair way
to die there. His illness has become alarmingly
serious, but he refuses to accept anything short of
an unconditional release. Mr. Foster, Chief
Secretary for Ireland, has gone to London, carry
ing, doubtless, another budget of dismal reports.
Two more victims ot the agitators are reported
a process server and his nephew, whose corpses
were found in a ditch, near Ballinrobe, county
Mayo.
The Emperor William has taken occasion to
specially thank Bismarck for his defense of the
Imperial Rescript in the Reichstag, and the
North German Gazette has published a bitter at
tack on Herr Haenel, who assailed the rescript.
The iron hand has evidently not lost its grip in
Germany.
The Bourse troubles in Paris are practically
over, but the victims of the panic are legion. A
Berlin broker sought refuge in suicide and the
list of suicides in Vienna and other central
cities where the effects of the crisis were felt, is
a long one. The husband of Christine Nilsson
is reported to have gone insane.
One of the most interesting incidents of the
week was the arraignment, at Trenton, N. J.,
on the 27 th ulto., of twenty-three Princeton
college students for breaking street lamps in the
WIDOW AND ORPHANS."
NEW
borough of Princeton. For this highly aesthetic
performance the undergraduates were promptly
fined. The lark cost them $20 a head.
THEsteamshipEdam has reached port in safety
after all, much to the relief of her two hundred
passengers. She lost herpropeller in a gale, but the
steamer Napier fell in with her and towed her
into New York. Apropos of this event, the
suggestion is made that in view of the frequen
cy of such accidents modern steamships ought
to be supplied with adjustable paddle-wheels
which could be connected with the driving
shaft of the propeller without much difficulty
and would at least prove a safer reliance in the
.time of need than sails, which recent experience
shows cannot be depended upon except when the
wind is in the most favorable quarter. In the
case of the Edam, notwithstanding the best use
was made ofhersails, the steamer proved utterly
unmanageable, and narrowly escaped being
wrecked on the Nantucket shoals.
The Peruvian-Chilian imbroglio continues to
occupy a large share of public attention. The
papers which were transmitted to .the Senate on
the 26th ult. included nearly 450 documents
and extended over a period of over two years.
The most important of the series are those of
December 1, 1881, in which Mr. Blaine instructs
Mr. Trescott, the American representative at
Lima, that the United States will not permit
Chili to force a cession of territory from Peru,
and the 9th January, 1882, in which Mr. Blaine's
successor reverses his instructions and notifies
Mr. Trescott that President Arthur desires him
not to interfere in the matter. A comparison of
these two notes so strongly suggests the Presi
dent's disapproval of Mr. Blaine's course while
Secretary, that the latter has thought it necessary
to defend himself, and in a long interview with
a reporter of the Washington Post he declares in
the most positive language that both President
Garfield and Mr. Arthur were not only fully in
formed as to his action but thoroughly approved
it. If we may judge from the promptness with
which the partisan press of the country has taken
sides in this matter, the controversy is likely to
take a political form, and, indeed, Mr. Blaine's
friends already intimate that it is a political con
spiracy to destroy his prestige as a -statesman
and lessen his chances as a presidential candi
date. The country has probably not heard the
last of this diplomatic mare's nest.
Among the eminent persons who died during
the week were the Rev. Dr. Bellows, who expired
in New York on Monday morning, and Alexan
der Lyman Holley, the famous mechanical en
gineer, who died in Brooklyn on Sunday evening.
Mr. Holley first introdued the Bessemer process
of making steel in this country. Dr. Bellows will
be remembered by our veterans as one of the
founders of the United States Sanitary Commis
sion. GREAT FIRE IN NEW YORK.
One of the most disastrous and threatening
fires that has visited New York in many years
broke out at ten o'clock Tuesday on the lower
floor of the building No. 35 Park Row, corner of
Beekman street, and burned so rapidly that be
fore any serious attempts to check it had been
made the whole Beekman street face was involv
ed. Three alarms were sounded and four general
calls sent out, but the engines and ladders were
slow in reaching the scene, because the light
snow and frosted ground rendered the going ex
ceedingly difficult. The fire burned very fiercely,
even after large volumes of water were directed
upon it, and at eleven o'clock, after burning an
hour, the southern walls fell with a loud crash,
filling the whole lower part of the city with
black smoke and cinders. The roof of the Times
building was oh fire several times. The building
on the south side of the Beekman street
corner of Park Row, until lately occupied by the
Eveninq Mail, and now vacant, was badly dam
aged by fire and water. Several people descended
from the burning building on the Nassau street
side by means of the telegraph pole. One boy
leaped from the fifth story, and would doubtless
have been killed but for the wires breaking his
fall. He was hurt, but not dangerously.
Several people were burned to death or killed
in escaping from the building.
The following is a list of the sufferers from the
conflagration: New York Rubber and Belting
Packing Company, "Willie "Wallack, stationery
Munn & Co., Scientific American S. M. PettingiJl,
advertising; New York Observer, Turf, Field and
Farm, Scottish American, National Banknote Re
porter, The Retailer, The Evening Press, Tibballs &
Son, school books ; A. S. Clark, school books ; S.
Gruhn, tailor ; Charles Marks, tailor ; Rodriguez
& Ponds, cigars ; Starkweather & Gibbs, archi
tects; "William P. Brown, curiosities; A. J.Todd,
lawyer; Frazer and Roberts, lawyers; A. B.
Malcolmson, lawyer; S. J. Sigismund, physican ;
"W. R. Winslow, lawyer; A. W. Allenquist, pat
ent attorney; A. S. Hutchinson, mineral waters.
Their losses are estimated as follows: New
York Belting and Packing Company, $160,000;
Pettingill & Co., $5,000; New York Observer,
$10,000; Turf, Field and Farm, $5,000; Scottish
American, $10,000; - Willie "Wallaeh, $50,000;
Marks, tailor, $20,000; Rodriquez &Ponds, cigars,
$2,000; Orlando Potter, building, $500,000'; Eu
gene Kelly, building, $5,000; Evening Mail,
building, $2,000 ; Morse building, $5,000 ; Nash &
Crook, restaurant, $5,000 ; Times building, $5,000.
SERIES. Vol. j, jro. 25.
MEMORIES OF BURMDE.
ELOQUENT TRIBUTES TO HIS VALOR.
The Ealogles in Both Houses of Congress Senator
Anthony Tells the Story of His Bise to Fame.
Generous Words from Southern Generals.
His Home Life in Time of Peace.
A Pleasant Picture.
As has already been mentioned by the Trib
une, the session of both Houses of Congress was
devoted on the 23d ult. to eulogies of the late
General Ambrose E. Burnside, of Rhode Island.
The most eloquent tribute was paid by his col
league, Senator Anthony, from whose oration we
make copious extracts. The Senator began by
quoting the beautiful lines :
" No bugle must sound,
Ye bright waving banners, stoop low !
Let your lances with Cyprus be bound,
Let the drums be all silent in woe."
"General Burnside," said he, "was born at Lib
erty, Union county, Indiana, May 23, 1824. His
family was of Scotch descent. His great-grandfather,
Robert Burnside, with two brothers, had
espoused the cause of Charles Edward, and after
the triumph of the British arms, and the over
throw of the Pretender, at Culloden, sought an
asylum in South Carolina. The General's grand
father, James Burnside, married a daughter of
James Edghill, an Englishman by birth. His
son, the father of the General, bore his mother's
paternal name, Edghill Burnside. He was bom
in South Carolina, but removed to the Territory
of Indiana. He appears to have sympathized
with the conscientious repugnance to slavery,
which, even at that early day, had been aroused
in the Carolinas, for he freed his slaves, and ac
companied the "Quaker Emigration" to the
"West, which was dedicated to freedom by tie
ordinance of 1787. In his new home, he main
tained a character of high -respectability and
influence; was for a long time clerk of the
county court, an associate justice of the same,
and a senator in the Legislature of the State.
Ambrose was his youngest son. He gave him a
good English education in the schools of the
neighborhood; and in 1843 he entered as a
cadet at- West Point At the academy he-was :
not a hard student. "With exuberant animal
spirits, of vigorous bodily strength, he became
expert in military and athletic exercises, while
his aptitude in mathematics, then, as now, rank
ing high in the curriculum of studies, compen
sated for his deficiency of literary application,
and gave him an excellant average standing;
and he graduated at eighteen, in a class of thirty
eight. "Among his classmates and fellow-students were
many who subsequently rose to distinction, on
one side or the other, in the late unhappy war.
Of his own class were Generals "Wilcox, Fry, Gib
son, Long, Griffin, Viele, and Hunt on the Union
side, and A. P. Hill and Heth on the other. This
class furnished twenty-eight officers who adhered
to the flag, and four who took up arms against
it. Six had previously died or resigned. Among
his fellow -students were Generals McClellan,
Hancock, Pleasanton, Fitz-John Porter, Gilmore,
Parke, Reno, Foster, "William F. Smith, C. P.
Stone, Hatch, Sackett, Granger, Stoneman, Rus
sell, Pitcher, Gibbs, Gordon, Michler, Duane,
Tidball, Benet, Bond, McKeever, and Buford,
who supported the Union, and Jackson (Stone
wall,) Maxey (Senator,) Buckner, Rhett, E. K.
Smith, Bee, W. D. Smith, D. R. Jones, "Wilcox,
Pickett, Ben Robinson, T. A. "Washington, G. H.
Steuart, Thomas. K. Jackson, and Withers, who
opposed it. Immediately upon his graduation,
Burnside joined the army, and was sent to Mex
ico, with which the United States were at war.
Active negotiations for peace had commenced
before he reached the seat or war, in which he
took no part, except to escort a baggage train
from Vera Cruz to the capital city, through a
hostile country filled with guerrillas, a service
which he performed with such skill and discre
tion as gave promise of future distinction, and
received the commendation of his superiors.
After that, as first lieutenant in Bragg's battery,
organized aa cavalry, he was employed in the
difficult and perilous duty of escorting the mails
across the plains infested by hostile savages.
"In 1853, having invented a breech-loading
rifle, which, although since superseded by later
inventions, was a great improvement over any
then in use, he resigned his commission, and en
gaged in the manufacture of this new weapon, at
Bristol. The enterprise proved unfortunate. He
failed to secure a contract with the Government,
not from the lack of merit in the invention, but
from his indignant refusal to employ the inter
vention of a lobbyist, or middle man, who enjoyed
the favor of the "War Department. Leaving Bris
tol, for which he always retained the strongest
attaehment, and where he afterward returned
and set up his household gods, he entered the
service of the Illinois Central Railroad Company,
of which his friend and fellow-student, General
McClellan, was vice-president, and where he soon
rose to the important position of treasurer.
"At this time, General Burnside was a Demo
crat in his politics. He had run as the Demo
cratic candidate for Congress, in his district, in
Rhode Island. During the agitation that pre
ceded the outbreak of the rebellion he strongly
urged the restoration of harmony and the pre
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