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THE NEW ORLEANS DAILY DEMOCRA
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA.
VOL. II---NO. 149). NEW ORLEANS, FIIDAY, MAY 18, 1877. PRICE, FIVE CE]
BY TELEGRAPH.rt
BUTLER AND WELLS.
BIten Ilutler Persuades the President to 9
Reconsider his Appointment of J.
Wiley Wells as Solicitor of
the Treasury. ,
lie Thinks this Appolntment Might Inter- t
fere with his Little Climis Ble
fore the Treasury.
Sherman will Stick by Wells.
[S(peoil to N. O. DT)mocrat. I
WAnTmW;TOn, May 17.-Some weeks
ago, at a meeting of the Cabneot, it was
decided to appoint G. Wiley Wells (a
Mississlppi carpet.bagger) Solicitor of
the Treasury. Ben Butler heard of it
and came on hero, and had influence
enough to induce Hayes to reconidler
this and hang it up. It appears that
when Butler's son-in-lhw, Ames, was
Governor of Missisilppi, Wolls rofused
to indorse ine of his aots, and hence
was put on Ben's black list. Wells now
comes to the 'front, and charges that
Butler antagonl~id hi~ appointment be
eause he has a number of claims before
the Department whlch he did not care
to have Wells pass upon. He has fur
nished in detail a schedule of the claims
to Secretary Sherman, and has so im
pressed the head of the Treasury that
Butler's antagonism was from sinister
motives that Sherman has promised
that Wells shall have the place at the
and of the fiscal year. BEvuLL.
TIID JETTIES.
Charges Made thit the Work on the
,ettles Has Not Been Done in
Accordance With the Act
of Congress Authorlz
ing It,
.ds id Wanshington to Vindicate Illm.
self antl Ills Jettles.
[IpcSiS l to N. O. Dpmnerst. ]
WisurNonroN, May 17.-Charges have
been filed with the Secretary of War to
the effect that the necessary depth of
water has not been attained by Capt.
Eads at the jottles, and, in addition,
that the work has not been done in ac
cordance with the act of Congress au
thorizing it. isrysl i hero to vindicate
himself egainst those chargos, and his
friends say that the trouble arises with
army enginonre, who are jealous of the
work. BIELi,.
[Frotm Onr Evning Idition of Yesterday.]
PEDERlAL OFFIC:ES.
A New Candidate for Naval Oi(,fcr in Gee.
i. Kelpo, of lIl,pides.
The Custemlons. and Returning Board
Nuppaort II s andidalure.
Beckwith Again Spken of for District
Attorney.
UHis 'romined P'. oention of West et. a!.
Itptcial to th(1 N. 0. Democrat.]
Wasn1NoroN, May 17.-State Senator
Kelso, of Rapider, has just arrived here
to demand his aplpoiutment as Naval
Officer. Ho is indorsed by Collector
King and all the members of the Re
turning Board, who insist that the naval
ofice is the property and part or the
Custom-House lpatronage, and belongs
to them under the ntreement by which
King was appointed Collector.
Beckwith ii being pushed for rein
statement, and is urged on the ground of
his enmity to the whisky and cotton
rings. It is understood here that he
agrees to prosecute West, Casey and
others if appointed. BUELL.
ASSASSINATION IN WEBSTER PARISH
C. S. Franks Assashinated by a Concealed
Negro.
[Spedial to N. O. Demoorat.]
MINDEN, La.. May 17.--C. S. Franks,
son of Judge Franks, was shotand fatal
ly wounded last night, at Dorchite
Bridge, by some concealed assassin.
A negro was arrested charged with
the offense. The evidence is very con
clusive against him.
Franks was a Republican, but no pol
Ities are involved. Jealousy was evi
dently the cause.
A. B. GEOROE.
'Tll1 FEDERAL OFFICES IN LOIUiMANA.
The Attempt to Defeat M.Jor Jack
Wharton's N.m'natlon.
WASHINGTON, May 17.-Senator Pat
terson is reported as quoting the Presi
dent that he wotl I only appoint Repub
licans to office in the South, but in
making his appointments he would take
great care to get hold of the best men;
and Secretary Sherman, that so far as
the offices under his rntrol were con
cerned, out and opt R pputlliacansº who
stood by the party in t.i ast. will re
ceive oonsideratona lb preference to
those who have only becoome Repub
lioans sinoe the advent of the present
Administration.
They are urging against Gen. Jack
Wharton that he was connected with
the Bossier massacre of 1868.
Wharton's manly but impolitic hand
ling of the famous Maddox letters is
also urged against him.
THE TEXAN C'ENTRAL RAILROAD.
The Ternro Otfered by the Road AeceptTI
by Its Creditors.
GALVEsToN, May 17.-At an adjourned
metting of creditors of the Texas Central
Itdlroad, held at Houston last evening,
the committee appointed at a previous
meeting reported in favor of accepting
the company's proposition, and ad
dressed the following card to foreign
creditors :
The undersigned, Texts creditors of
the Houston and Texas and Central
Railroad Company, and a portion of the
creditors participating in the meeting
of the unsecured creditors of the com
pany which unanimously recommended
acceptance of the terms proposed by the t
company, on the plan for liquidation of
the unsecured linbilities, and having
ourselves accepted tie said terms and
signed the samtu, would recommend all
non-.rsidents, as well as resident credi
tors, to accept the terms proposed.
B. A. SH1EPHEID,
]lANGEtR & Co.,
JIENRY Fox,
;JAon IINSE,
T. H Hous.E,
B. O'CoNsoa.
4A nlliml.ot.
VINEYARnD AVEN, Mass., May 17.-
The stenin collier Harrisburg, from Bon
ton for Philadelphia, had a collision off
(Cross Rip with the schooner Marietta
rreton, from HIoboken for Boston, sink
ing the latter in a few minutes. The
captain and wife, mate, cook and two
seamen were drowned; two seamen
saved.
FOREIGN.
WAR NOTEI.
Not in Contraventlon of the Treaty of
Parts.
PES'r, May 17.-Premier Tlzsa stated
In the Chamber of Deputies that Rus
sia's action in Roumania was not In con
traveation of the treaty of Paris.
The American Officers In the Khedlve's
Army.
ST. PETERSBURO, May 17.-The Rus
sian telegraphic agency says: The
American officers in the Khedive's army
refuse to tight Russia; they will remain
in Egypt.
The Rounnanlans at Ialsfat.
The Roumanians have been working
incessantly at Kailafat. The fortifica
tions have now forty guns in battery
bearing on Widdin. They have built
twelve redoubts to cover the crossing of
the Danube. All will be finished Tues
day.
.tlkne's In the Turk lmh Army.
Rusehuk is enormously strong-has
20N0 guns mounted, besides five gunboats.
Turkish doserterts from there, who
have reached Glurgevo,complain of bad
food and sickness in the Turkish army.
Tle Military MIovements of the Two
Armlem.
The Russians have not yet advanced.
Tihe Turks are fortifying the passes of
the Balkun.
Abdul Kl tm is drawing all the troops
from Macedonia and Albania to the
Danube.
The National Guard throughout the
south are artned and all regular troops
are moving northward.
T're Clreasalan Insurrection lSpreadini.
It-liable information has reached
Fra.kfort that the Circassian insurrec
tion is spreading.
THIIE FRENCH MUDDLE.
The Anti-Cabinet Meeting of the Left.
LONDON, May 17.-Latest advires say
all sections of the Left were represent
ed at the Grand Hotel meeting in Paris
last night. There were 290 members
present.
A resolution was unanimously passel
declaring that no Ctbinet can have the
contldence of the Chamber which is not
free in its actions, and resolved to gov
ern according to republieaqn principles,
which alone can secure order and pros
perity ar home and peace abroad.
On leaving the meeting M. Gambetta
was loudly cheered by the crowd. He
addressed them, recommendling calm
ness and moderation, dcclaring that
power would finally remain with the
Eight. The crowd responded with cries
of "Vivo Gambotta," "Vivo la Itepub
lie."
The New Cabinet to be Formed.
PArns, May 17.-Though all the Minis
tors have nominally resigned, Duo Do
Catzes and M. B .rthault will remain in
the Ctbinet under any circumstances.
Prolongation f)r a month, andi finally
dissohltitn, is spoken of. MacMahon
desires the Ministry constructed from
the liberal section of the Right Centre.
" The MovIt Fatal Event for Yearn."
LoN)oN, May 17.-The Times corre
spondent at Paris says : President Mac
Mahon's letter to M. Jules Simon,
which caused the latter to tender his
resignation, is one of the most serious
and perhaps most fatal events since the
fall of M. Thiers.
nuttnied.
LONDON, May 17.-The American brig
C. C. Sweeny, for the United States, re
turned to Havre. the crew having muti
nied and killed the mate.
EIODIE TO EMILIE.
A herret of Radical Offier Holding Brought
to Light.
NEW ORLEANS, April 11, 1877.
Mr. Emile loonore:
Sr- It in with surprise that I have jrst read
the contents of }our letter, in which you say that
I had agre d to shard thq sa'ary of the offioe.
Permit me to say to you that if van have behtrved
this you have been deceived, for I could not, make
such an agreement, inasmuch as I have per
form, d my duty, being alone; consequently I
cannot see with whom I sh uld share my salary.
which I have deserve t. Wt h reap't,
),LOD) E RI HABD3ON.
Card fronm Judge Leonard.
NEw ORLEANS, May 17, 1877.
Editor Democrat-In your issue of this mo:n.
ing unid-r the head of "Btck Salary GOrbs." }ou
say: "i bree Supreme judges drewr warrant' as
folilow.: Le,'na-d from Novemb.-r 6 to Deo-mber
31, 1876, $11 69 45." The warrant rn-ferred to w -s
drawn p evi us to the 9th of January under the
appropriation bill of 1876, and for services ren
der, d while my tile as Associate Justice was an
questioned. Th , imputati in that I hive drawn
any nnau:horiz'd or even doubfal warrants in un
founded and absurd upon ies fa "e.
Very truly, yours.
J. E. LEONARD.
FUDAYr Excoaizona of the MosaLs LINE at
6:45 sunday morni. g an t return at 9:55 at night.
Fare to Biloxl and return On DeoahaS.
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OUR WASHINGTON LETtER. 0
fThe Trull Inwardness of Mr. Hayes' b
Southern Policy.
p
He Does Not Want Any Third Parly in w
ills.
The Democrat Pronmised A Nice Stilt for v
I ibel. 0
fr
WAsHNETroa n , IIay 14, 1877. n
The Lon'siana ofliee-seekors' rail upon the H
Presidlot seems to have spent its force, or at A
least to have abated some part of that wild fury n
whiob eharact, rized its first onslaught--no' un
like a charge of Bashi-B z ,nks upon a defenseless S
Bulgarian village. As yet there are no results u
to re cordl. beyon, the appointment of Tio n An
drson Collector of the P iri of N w Orleans;
that is to saiy-well, it amounts to the same a
thing. Whlln I to sg aplhal you "'he slats" a
week ago, there was a prospect that the appoint
ments suggested in it wolld he made
W!THIN TEN DI119,
but now there seems to be a hitch, and the
whole ba'chl is hn ag .up fir thl present. Of I
o ursn there is ni, to hug what a dav may bring
forth, but tira ohamnes are that it will take seo
eral days to bring f rth the new slate of Federal
patronage in honisiana. One thing, however, is
as.ourd. The Faderal patronage of the BSoth is
to be distributed on a strict party basis, and
NO CONsERYAT'riv NEED APPlY.
Indeed. there is good reason for asserting that
if the precent PIostmaster General should roeign
the isolated position which he holds--or, In other
wordis, esca.jo from the state of siege in which he
is helll-a Rtpublioon would be appotinted in his
pleon so quick it would make yeur head swim.
Not that the President has weakened on what is
oeatld his Bonuhern policy, but he has lately
reached the onnolusion that the best thing he
can do is to s'ick to his party, while the best
thing that can happen is to have
HI PARTY STICK TO HIM.
If he ever entertained any notion of smashing
things generally and organiuzig a new party out
of the itkbrie.,that notion was a dream inspired by
the dulcet whlspers of Rohlrs and Stanley Mat
,hews, and1 has now been ru lily dispelled by the
harsh dtsoords that IBlaine and Ben Wade struck
the key-note of, and that are still growling in ugly
undertones through the editorials of the New
York Time., Chicago lateir-(rea-c and othelr ortho
dox organs. Moreover the Pros dent has
I been to some extent disheartene l and most
utterly dilsppointOd by the reception
which his (harflold movement encountered
in the tNi nh, anl ha marvels to this momeunt
why it was that the Southern men declined to
transfer to Garfleld the go:id will they expressed
toward Chsrlos Fo.ter. He tdos not seem to
comprehend that the average Southern man is a
stickler for individual manhood, an I not suhol a
devotee of "measures," that he can lose sight of
the "mmu" who may be set up as their exponents.
Fancy the feelings of our good heart. , and over
genial President when, having hold hit fri ond
Clarflld outn to the South on
Tim ENDi5 OF A sTlVgIR F 'IK.
3 the South flung the uInsavor, i )t to say pittril,
mass of all politic I, andl narly all p',rs tn i, v ia
no.s imraginablal back i:ito his fa.o. with the
modest decliui.ion, "Not any Garfield in on 'u,
thank yoru.
Th R ):th 1 oted tp ii irea' noi . p1.l'cy i.a
its true light as a dsp ..s,iioor if sir)hlo jili' ic
longdelayedr, aI wis g'aI'ofol. If a mrtt has
owed you ten dollars you al,.ays fool bitter to
wards hire afro, he has p)i i, t'iºn wile it was.
s'ill due and unpid. An-d if you ha I sot it dii a
on the wren ; silo of pr tit ao1l lIas a& a bVl
debt, you fool etill greater gra'itude w~lon your
debtor, whon you had given no for a ,d.ead bait,
on xp-at.elly o ames up t"-'1 hain Is y n thlo in all
sum which you hadl g v,m up f r Ios. B;:; bo
calun he has paidl y)l thii dbt ym dI not foIl
like turning arolld aunI maltiri hiin a doela of
your prop ,rty-all y mr pns-srlouns -imurh tlilt
saying to him: "Here, my g it , frien 1, yon have
at last bsen hios~et with me; lat, m a in torn sanri
aloe my honor i, so -e way to do you a .ervioc !"
o Or, to pot the boat on the o her leg, suppoce
the dalbtor after having dischargud his dlabt
tshoul ,,y, "Jeohold, my dear fillow, I have paid
you what I owed you. Now, I have a friend who
is a thief, and I want you to give him an oppor
tnnity to lt' al s amething; you can hardly refuse
so small a favor as to enter into conspirae, with
my friernd who is a thief, sioco T have been so
gracious as to, pay you what I owed you "
S In the ordlinary effulrs of lifeo .ch a req'nast
i. would not be likely to mnrot with muclh flavor.
y And yet the Presideonlt's desiro Ihat the toutt
i shonlt
ELECT ;A.JIIEI.Db tI'EAIEU
was not lehes ahurd in a political point of view
than the ab:,vo euppj,sed caso would be as a
buttess traneactiIn. The Presidhnt simply
paid the South a debt of long standing, a debt
which oven his stubborn and despotic predeces
sor had acknowledged in equity lon. ago; and
then he turned blandly and asked the South to
support for the highest and most honorable
place in the gift of the representatives of the
people this Garfield, wh.), in the eyes of all de
cent, honest men, stands the hatefullest and do
spisablest of public characters in any party or
of any persnsioiL!
On these and other accon-ts the President's
views have been somewhat modifel, and his in
tentions as to policy somewhat narrowed of late.
He has given up the idea of reviving the Old
Line Whig, and concluded to
STICK TO THE MODERN REPUBLICAN
for his p ditical o mpanionship. He reahce out
after that unsubstantial personage called the
Liberal Republican, and pulls him back into the
regular party basket on a hook baited with a
poetoffice or a consulate; but he has quit casting
his li e into the deep, stil pool whero the Demo
cralic fish swim. He says they only nibble; con
funld them, they won't bite; they have g )t away
wi'h the bitr every time, and he has to fish care
fully, or they w 11 get the hook and line, too!
Thus recently a Conservative friend of the
Pres'dontwent to see him, simply to pay Lie re
spects, and wi hout waiting for an inquiry on
that subject his Excellency branched out upon
the sebjeet of
FEDERAL PATRONACGE IN TIlE SOUTH.
"I have made up my mind," he said, "to be
stow the offices is my gift exclusively upon men
who worked for the success of the Republican
party in the late campaign. I shall try to select
those Republicans who are most accep able to the
body of the people, but shall select in all oases
Republioans."
BHs visitor, who was a promlunea member of
Congress, by the way, replied, "Well, Mr. Presi
dent, I am obliged to you for this information,
but it is nothing more than I expected. I don't
know of any rm presentative Conservative man In
the South who wishes you to go back on your
party obligations in this matter. We never
wanted anything but our State governments; we
have got them, and we feel grateful to you fir
having been, as we think,
iaMIILY IRUST TO I'R.
We are ready to defntri you with our v-ices and
our votes if you are attacked by your own party i
for having been just to us, but beyond that we do 1
not expect any political favors from you, and do
not propose to give you any political sympathy.
As to the non-political measures which your ad
ministratikn may from time to time bring for
ward, thby will be supported or antagonized by
Southern men, according to the interests or lo
calities and the predilections of individuals."
To thi4 the President r" jined, that he was not
wholly a free agent in those matters. This was
a big country, and a natiousl party was
A o10 THING.
lie had deemed it his asholute duty, as Com
mander in-Chief of the military and naval forces
of the United States, to see to it that no part of
those forces was employed to interfere with the
popular right of local self-government. Thus he
had felt free t., take such measures as had re
sulted in the establishment of II impton's author
ity in South Carolina, and that of Nicholls in
louisiana. iBut in the matter of dispensing pat
renage he was the agent of his party to a certain
extent, and henlce, while in settling the disorders
in Lonuiiana and South Uarolina, he had acted as
the President of the whole people in dispensing
patronage, he felt I iand to bear in mind that he
was also
THE LEADER OIF A PARTY,
and that its working members must be recog
nized according to their works.
This is the most significant utterance the Presi
dent has given out on the subj ct of partylsm
since his iunauguration. It shows that he draws
the line between g neral executive policy and the
dispensation of patronage.
He said a great deal more to the same purport
during the interview, tbt no portion of it was par
ticuonlry significaut, exoent a rem ar";, the effNot
that as the loader of a national p..ieh lie had for
example
NEW ENOLAND AND O0110
to look after; that public sentiment in those seo
tions might b , and would be, affloted by any
policy he might pursue, for exanplo in Louisiana
and South Carolina, and hlene, so far as his
sence of justice and duty permitted him to do so,
he f lt bound to pursue in the South an adminis.
trative policy that would be acceptable to
Toir MEN WHO WORKiliD AND VOTED
fir him in the North. He raid that so far as the
termination of Fedt'ral interference in State poli
tic was c ,ncorned, he would do it over and over
again, no matnt r how great a clamor might ensue,
beooause he believod it was rig it. He would not
sustain any State government by Federal force,
North or South, in opposition to what was cl arly
the will of the pe ,pie of the State, no matter how
loudly such action might be demanold by mem
bore of his party, because he dermed it
UlN(ON'TTITITTION \t AND WRlONG
to do these things. ,But that was oneo mator and
the distribntiou of Federal patronage was an
other.
Thui il' our c'nserv.tive friends down South
who are writing to Key for poatofioe., or who
are will ng to acept fth situation on the basis of
the old flag anl a sptcial agonov, may as well
.\Vi. TIERII i'o rArE tFTA.\MPA.
Th,-y are nr t at all likely to be withdrawn from
the ranks if prodlnctivc inuiqtry. A. C. B.
P. S.--I h:ixo just lcarned that my venerable
Acqtliaintanci,, (leorgo Taylor, is wroth at your
recent aconrat of a certain cotton claim j ib in
which his name figures with more conspionity
than crerli, and that he proposes to bestow upon
the 1)eºarc.nTr oneo :f thoso things which invaii
ably oraament the suesessful nowspaper-a libel
suit. You will probably hear from him before
long.
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[IIY AU mIORITY ]
Appointments by the Governor.
B. F. Hlarrod, Chief Enginerr of the State of
Lorisian .
N. II. Wilson, Inepector of Weights and Meas.
ures f r the pzrish of AecIneion.
The Greek Army.
The army of Greece contains 21,514
infantry, 575 cavalry, 1547 artillerymren
and 50 guns. 717 engineers, 2347 gen
darmes and 90 surgeons. There are also
thirty battalions of volunteers, num
boring 10,410 men, making a total of
49,109. The National Guard, consisting
of males from eighteen to fifty years of
age, constitutes a force of 165,(000 men,
armed only with Minie carbines. Head
ing the army isa marshal, with five gen
erals of division and ten brigadiers, ten
of whom, however, are held in reserve.
The officers In all amount to 400. The
military academy comprises 70 cadets,
10 instructing officers and 20 non-com
missioned officers. The navy includes
two ironclad corvettes, each carrying
twelve guns; nine wooden steamers and
eleven sailing vessels. The total com
plement of these vessels, in time of war,
is 1400 men. The time of army service
is three years in the line, three in the
line reserves and six in the war reserves.
The Mn.hara Canal reheme.
The proposition is seriously made to
form a sea of the desert of Sahara by
cutting a channel to let in the waters of
the Mediterranean--an enterprise re
garded as entirely feasible. But a Ger
man scientific writer asserts that the Sa
hara project, if carried out, would even
tually turn Europe into another Green
land. He alleges that the diversion of
the Gulf stream, by the cutting of the
Suez Canal, has already began to have
an influence on the climate of Europe,
and that the covering of the burning
sands of the great African desert with
water would destroy the hot winds.
which are necessary for the melting of
the Alpine snow and ice, and would
finally result in a glacial formation that
would overwhelm Italy. He instances
the changes in climate in Australia and
New Guinea by the deviation of a warm
current of water.
Foa 'ALE. -Attention is called tothe judicial ale
of valuable property, in" Algiers. to be made by
Sheriff Handy, on the 26h inst., in the suit of
A. B. ,eger va. Southern Muinal Gas Light Co.,
Fifth Daetr;ct Court N . 7860.
Toe prop 'ty oonsists of 12 lots of sround,
with improvements, among wh oh is a ass meter,
of wronght iron, recently erected at an expense
of $8000.
The whole will be sold without limit at twelve
months credit.
Pearl Soepin..
ON TO MEXICO.
The Preparatlons Made by the Filibusters c
to Invade Mexico.
Ample Proviciaon for All Contintgrn'les-- C
Anurrei Rturrenr of the Expeditlon. $
[N. Y. Herald.]
WASHINmGTON, May 12.- -A good deal of s
excitement has been created in Wash- t
ington to-night by the disclosure of a v
plot for an invasion of Mexico by an I
American filibustering expedition in the C
interest of its refugee President, Senor t
Lerdo. Whispers of such an enterprise t
were heard several days ago, but they a
were not regarded as more than rumors (
started by some of the ever busy gossip t
factors of the place. This afternoon, r
however, the report assumed a tangible i
and more suhstantial shape andv
enough has transpired of the facts to t
indicate the existence of a formidable 1
conspiracy on the part of a legion of
American free lances to cross the bor- t
der and raise the standard of Lerdo.
Of course, the project is coupled with
all sorts of statements and conjectures I
Sas to the allee.d secret purpose and in- I
tentlons ascribed to the United States t
in connection with the enterprise, prom- (
inent among which is the boast of the (
filibusters that Lrdo has an under- (
standing with our Government and pur- i
chasers a promise of its non-interference I
by an agreemrnnt to rectify the R.lo
SGrande border of Texas suitably to our
notions of what should be the dividing
line in that r.egion, not to speak of re
moter regulations looking to the cession
of Lower California if not Sonora and a
part of Chihuahua. This part of the
programme is all in abeyance, however,
for the Lerdo movement would meet
doubtless with less encouragement at
home were it undertaken with the
avowed purpose of surrendering any
portion of the territory of Mexico. The
filibusters say this is a matter for the
Mexicans to rettle among themselves
after they have achieved their expected
object of restoring Lerdo to the Presi
dency.
WHAT TIIE EX'PEITION .AIMS AT.
r Meantime the rpi..'e immediate and
imp)ortant, .,onern of the public just
now is with the fact, of which there is
no doubt, that a flilibustering expedition
Y is on foot. Outside of what has been
a already stated, its object is believed to
a he the annexation to the United States
of all that portion of Mexico lying
north of a line drawn from the mouth
of the Rio Gran do to San Blas, on the
Pacific coast. It has assumed definite
shape and consistency, and is now al
e most ready to enter Northern Mexico
from several dif -rent directions. The
r expedition, though having the same
destination in the main as that which
t came to grief two years ago for lack of
funds, is not by any means a revival of
it. A great many of those who failed to
accomplish their desires then are en
rolled and hohl high positions in the
present organization, but to them is
added some of the strongest financial
men of the Pacific coast, and these last
d have had the selection of commanding
officers and the fixing up of the plan of
campaign. They would not put in their
h money without being allowed this privi
lege of naming the leaders of the expe
Sdition.
'I Immediately upon his arrival in the
United States in December of last year,
ex Preoident Lr-rdo, who had just been
n compelled to fly from Mexico by the
combined treachery of Iglesias and the
le prowess of Dinz, was approached upon
r the subiject of th8 expedition, and in
vitedl to give it his sanction. Of course
a nothing was said to him then, nor has
Y anything since been said to him, of the
a real object of the expedition, which is
i- the acquisition of Mexican territory.
si Nor is he now committed, so it Is said,
e in any way to permit Americans to per
manently occupy the land and rule it.
But ho was given assurances that if he
desired to be reinstated in the Presi
dency of Mexico, men of both financial
and military standing would soon raise
)f an army composed of ex-Union and
ex-Confederate soldiers sumlicient to
' accomplish it. The assurances be
ing sati.faci.ory, the originators were
told to go ahead and perf'ot their
plans, anrd already as many as 1800 men
4 ore enlisted in San Francisco alone.
n The plan of the expedition, as far as it
I- is disclosed by one of the filibusters, in
0 volves only a force of 3000 men to start
- with. One thousand of those are to sail
f from San Francisco and undertake the
g apture of Guayamas, in Sonora, the
f finest harbor on the Mexican co, st, and
, 500( are to rendezvous at Fort Ylma or
- Arizona City, the present terminus of
-the Southern Pacific railroad. These
Stwo columns are dleemed sufficient for
* the capture of the State of Sonora. An
e other thousand are to enter Mexico by
Sway of Eagle Pass, and 500 are to invade
C- hihuahua from El Paso.
MEXICO UNPREPAIREID.
It is well known that the Mexican
government have scarcely 500 national
troops of all arms in the parts of the
country propo-od to be invaded, and It
is not doubted that, even without any
assistance from native Mexicans op
posed to Diaz, 3000 troops provided for
in the plan would be able to take and
hold all of Northern Mexico, and prob
ably march into the city of Mexico it
self.
THE LEADING SPIRIT.
One of the leading military spirits, If
not the general commanding the pro
posed expedition, is Gen. Vaughan
Thomas, who is quite well known to
fame as the youngest member of Walk
er's Nicaragua expedition. He is the
same Gen. Tnoma who, long after
wards, at the head s than one hun
dred Americans, setPI the State of
Guatemala and held it for nearly two
years. The general has been in the city
of Washington for several days inter
viewing the State Department and try
ing to obtain from Mr. Evarts a promise
not to interfere with the expedition in
any way, and he left this evening for
the scene of operations, feeling well as
sured, it is said, that the Administration
would interpose no barrier to the suc
cess of the undertaking.
Another leading man in the scheme
is James D. Poston, who, though a na
tive of the Quaker City of Philadelphia
is believed to have been born with all
the elements of alsuccessful filibuster
in him. Postop has been for many
years on the Mexican frontier, in Ari
zona. and besides owning large Interests
in mines in that Territory, owns a large
ranche well stocked with herds and
flocks just over the line in Sonora.
Poston will be in command of the
column which will march from Yuma
and go-operate with the troops which
will go by sea to Guayamas. It is
thought that these two columns will oo
cupy Sonora almost without firing a
gun, as the inhabitants are known to be
more in favor of Lerdo than Diaz.
After Lordo's friends in Sonora are re
stored to power the troops will continue
the march until a junction is effected
with the column from Eagle Pass and
El Paso, when they will proceed to the
City of Mexico gathering strength as
they go, and calculating to sweep every
thing before them. The El Paso column
of 500 men will be under command of
Gen Frank Armstrong, an ex-officer of
the army in the late war, who spent,
much time upon theo frontier, and is very
popular with the wild spirits out there,
who will not be happy after death unless
they die with their boots on. The Eagle
Pass column of 1000 men will be led by
(hon. Joe Shelby,of Missouri, with Esco
bedo, late commander-in-chief of Ler
do's forces in Mexico, as second in
command. This column will doubt
less be the ilrst to engage in bat
tie, for after crossing the Rio
(rande it will make straight for the rear
of Cortina's cattle thieves and murder
ers. and occupy the old b ittloe grounds
of Z chary Taylor at Haltlilo and Mon
terev. With those points occupied, Cor
, tina's bandits could neither be rein
forced by troops from the city of Mex
ico, nor go to their aid. Joe Shelby
would hold him to the lower Rio
Grande until Armstrong, Poston and
I Thomas could join forces with his, and
6 then the grand column, having first an
3 niothilated Cortina's bandits and given
peace to the Texas frontier, and being
t heavily reinforced by Mexican troops
t which Gen. Esoobedo would be very ac
3 tive in recruiting, would not halt again
Y until their commander established
B headquarters in the ancient halls of the
a Montezumas.
JO SHBELBY'S OHANCE.
The command of the Eagle Pass col
umn, which is now being recruited at
San Antonio, only select men known to
be desperate fighters being accepted, Is
3 given to Gen. Shelby, not only because
t of his great reputation as a cavalry
s loader on the Confederate side in the
n Ilrte war, but because he is thoroughly
n acquainted with the country he is to
o march through. It ill be recollected
s that when Gen. Dick Taylor sur
4 rendered his infantry at the close of the
h war Shefby refused to sutrender with
e him, and with 2500 eavalry bravely cut
o his way through Juarez's forces and
toendered their services to Mail
0 millian. The rouie he is to follow
e now is the same that he took
e thoen. The leaders of the expedition
'l say that the enthusiasm for the expedi
Of tion both in California and Texas, and
f allalong the borders, is unbounded, and
o that they could as easily recruit 10,000
I men as 3000; but the latter number is
0e deemed amply sufficient. If unfortu
Is nately it should not prove so, they know
1l that at the llrst reverse thousands, if
It need be, of the bravest and the best of
the blue and gray would soQ,. rush to
? their assistance and uttdtl2 blot the
ir name of Mexico from thebsnap. Be
sides they say that, as the invading host
moves onward into MedtlO it will be fol
lowed by thousand of miners from Call
e fornia, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New
r, Mexico arnd Arizona, who will go to
n work in the rich mines and hold the
e country in their rear.
DEAD.
The ltepiahllcan Party of Mouth Carolin-
Jlbn Patterson'* Vain Attempt to
ilve It litf,.
[RILdfield in Cincinnati C mmorcial ]
The Democrats will carry the next
election in South Caroliha by thirty or
forty thousand majority. Indeed, there
is no limit to the maj,'rities they will
roll up, except the limit of voting popu
lation. At the next election the IR-pub
licans may carry Charleston and Beau
fort counties, but I don,'t believe they
will carry any other. If this bhe so,
TIIEN TITE PARTY IS DEAD,
you will say. Yes, it is dead.
The Republican leaelers should all
recogniz, that their party is gone. I
hear of only ^ne who ad.vises making
further fight. That i. John Patterson,
who bought his way into the Senate,
and who knows that he will politically
expire with his present term. There
are but twenty-two months left of John.
Whatever evils may attend the annihi
lation of the Republican party here, the
country has the s:itisfactiona of knowing
that John Patterson can't be re-elected
to the Senate.
Patterson is the only Republican that
I hear of who advises continuing the
contest. The rest are ready to pass in
their papers and give up the political
ghost.
Patterson called a few together the
other night, under leaders of both
colors, and matters were talked over.
Patterson said let us continue the fight;
we have the Senate vet; we have 35,000
majority, and the United States Senate
is on our side. Let us hold out. "Heav
ens, gentlemen, think of the nonsense
of caving in when we have a larger Re
publican majority than there is In Ohio;
yes, five times larger!" Thus spoke
Honest John, but it was no use. The
Republicans are hopeless, dispirited
crushed, and see only the blackness of
darkness ahead.
S THE NICIRAGUA CANAL.
A Plan of Builling it to Come Up at the
IN1 ra Mtemolen.
[GtioKgo timz e.l
The project of an inter-oceanic canal
through Nicaragua has not been abmn
doned by its friends. It will ata proper
time be brought forward for considera
tion by the present administration, and
the draft of a treaty between the United
States and Nicaragua providing for the
construction of the canal, etc, which
was drarn so by Mr. Fish and Decarde
nas, a special envoy of the Nicaragua
government, will be received and, per
haps, presented to Congress in October.
The President and Secretary Evarts are
both favorable to the project, and the
former has expressed his intention of
examining the subjdct very thoroughly
at an ear ly day.
One of the most deligk..ol reorestions that ca
be enjoyed is to take the IVIIDA Exotcaioz to
Bd,'xt and return on the MoaILs Lurz. atre for
the round trip, Ot DitNsa. Tr4an leave s_
*i a. a. and reourn at 9: e p. m.