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i THE NEW ORLEANS DAILY DEMOCRAT.
OFIOCIAL JOURNAL OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA AND OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS.
VOL. II---NO. 260. NEW ORLEANS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1877. PRICE, FIVE CENTS.
CAPITAL NEWS.
THU NEW OBtLANe CUleTO-HOUSE.
Seovernment Interests Neglected Ue
· s*ee the Omelals are Inharmonneas.
WAsmNoTN, Sept. 16.-Mr. J. Madlson
'Wells and his friends in the New Orleans
tustomnHousiedo not seem to be working in
harmony with Collector King. It issupposed
In Official circles here that they are organiz
Ing a movement looking to the ousting of
Mr. King from his position. The matter has
attrzeted the attention of the authorities here,
IUtl an officer will probably be sent to New
SOrleans to ascertain whether the government
Interests are being neglected in consequence
of the Custom-House officials there failing to
Work harmoniously together.
he New York and Philadelphia Custom
houses.
WAsimqOToN, Sept. 1lD-In thie changes t
be made in the Philadelphia custom-house
matter, it has been determined to allow the
people of that city a voice in the selection of
the new appointees. The Secretary of the
T.easury will give his attention to this mat
t~r as soon as he finishes with the New York
Slustom-house. Collector Arthur, of New York
custom-house, will be here to-morrow, when
Itfls expected the data will be had for the con
templated change at New York.
The Hmyden Expedition.
WAsAINOeTO, Sept. 16.--The apprehension
;whidh was felt for some time back in regard
to the safely of Mr. G. R. Bechler's division
of rof. Hayden's geological survey has at
last~been relieved by the reception of a dis
path from Mr. Bechler, dated Camp Stam
baugh, in which he announces the arrival of
the party at that place. He states that they
are how beyond all poselble danger, and will
reach Rawlins' Springs, on the Union Pacific
_.4lroad, by the sixteenth of this month.
The party must have croesod the main range
of Mountains from the Snake river country.
Removals.
WAse moreol, Sept. 17.-Thirty clerks were
removed from the Treasury Department yes
terday, and fltty more will follow on the 30th
Last. These clerks were'all on the temporary
roll, and the appropriation for that roll hav
ing been exhausted the removals became
Seceasary.
Prom otr d.
WAbsu OTO., Sept. 10.-On a recent exam
nsilon under the civil service rules, the fol
lowing gentlemen were promoted to clerk
Shitp in class 4; salary, $180o in general
noffice: E. N. Howell, of Michigan; W.
It. Irwin, of Illinois, and D. K. Syckles, of
Michigan.
' M*Onmhlnerm Oaught,
WAHITNOTON. Sept. 10,-For some time the
iienity of Tyrone, Pa., has been flooded with
Soountorfeit silver coin of the denomination of
halves and quarters. The Treasury Depart
ment was notified, and Chief Brooks, of the
seoret service, was Instructed to investigate
the matter thoroughly, He Immediately sent
several subordinates to Tyrone, who soon
ascertained that J. P. Funk, Of Altoona, Pa.,
and W. W. Hutchinson. of Baltlmore, were
the parties engaged in the manufacture.
DOMESTIC NEWS.
MAYTg' SOUlTHERN TOUR.
TLe Preparations IlBenx Made for the Re
eeptite of Hayes and Schurz at LouIs.
ville.
LOUISVILLE, Sept. 16.-This wcek promises
to be a memorable era in the history of Louis
ville. The preparations for the reception of
President Hayes and other prominent gentle
men to-morrow have been gotten up in an
elaborate style, and nothing is being left un
done which will add to the pleasure of the
City's guests. The people have already begun
to deca their houses with beautiful flags,
Chinese lanterns, etc., giving the city a holi
day like appearance.
By to-morrow the streets will present to
the eye a beautiful picture, and to-morrow
night the scene will be a gorgeous one.
People from all portions of the country com
m;enced pouring into the city last night, and
every train arriving brings a crowd. Ar
Tangements have been effected for excursion
trains and boats to-moriow morning on all
allroads and rivers, and it is already certain
that there will be more people in Louisville
to-morrow and next day than there has been
for a long time.
The German citizens have to-day been
itaking preparations for the reception of Sec
r.etary Schurz, who has notified them that he
will surely be here. The reception will be
tendered him at the Leiderkanz Hall, and it
will be an enjoyable affair. The reception to
President Hayes at the Galt House, Tuesday
night, will be grand and imposing, and the
ball will present an array of youth and beauty
not often gathered together in the historical
Galt House,
ov. Hampton Serenaded at Louisville.
LOUIRVILLE, Sept. 16.--The serenade to
eTov. Hampton last night was a most enjoya
le affair, and was participated in by many
. Louisville's prominent citizens. Ex-Fe.r
rxal and Confederate soldiers vied with each
,ther in welcoming South Carolina's famous
on to Kentucky, and during to-day many
tlemen from different portions of the
tate paid their respects to him, at his rooms
tt the Louisville Hotel. The front of the
iullding is splendidly decorated, and a stream
of people have thronged the corridors of the
hotel during the whole day anxious to get a
ht at the great cavalry officer and Gov
r.
Suicide.
DATON, Sept. 16.-Michael Mercer, a black
th, aged thirty-nine, and married, to-day
mmitted suicide by jumping head foremost
to a well on his premises. His neck was
n. Despondency from being out of
rk and out of money, as well as disap
intment, wad the cause.
The Breoklyn savings Bank.
BOOKxYN,, Sept. 16.-At a meeting of the
rs of the Long Island Savipgs Bank,
Syesterday, Mortimer L. Ourden, the
i ewatit was thqught that a,
dividend of twenty-five per cent could be paid
by the let of October, and another of fifty per
cent be made in three months, without the
sale of the costly hank building. It Is
thought depositors will lose from five to ten
per cent. The officers say if they could have
been allowed time to arrange their own af
fairs, everything would have come out right.
Broke Jail.
DAYTON, Sept. 16.--This evening at the close
of religious services in the county jail, four
prisoners, mere boys, escaped by slipping up
into the hospital ward. in the third story, and
then crawling through .a window and
sliding down the lighting rod. The last to
escape was Timothy Thomas, a colored man,
who fell thirty feet to the ground, and so
badly injured himself as to be unable to get
away. The other three, Charles Brown, Ed
ward Wilson and Edward Dousar, held for
burglary and larceny, made goodx their
A SPECTRE THAT WILL NOT DOWN.
The Late Supreme Court Must Di(gSorge
$71,000 of the People's Money.
Edlitor Democrat-The late judges of the
Supreme Court drew, for several years, from
the Treasury of this State salaries not au
thorized by law.
The constitution of the State is the supreme
law of the State. By article 75 of the consti
tution, under which they held their offices, the
Chief Justice was entitled to receive a salary
of $7500, and the Associate Justices a salary
of $7000 each. These judges were sworn to
support the constitution. Regar(lless of their
obligation these judges each received from
and after February 27, 1871, an excess of sal
ar above the constitutional limit of $2500.
They attempted to justify the robbery of
the State by an hct of a corrupt and servile
LZ lature which increased their salaries.
The same constitution which declared what
their salaries should be prescribed also that
their term of office should be eight years.
It was equally in the power of the Legisla
ture to say that their term of office should be
increased to twenty years. as to say that
their salaries should be increased by an ad
ditional amount of $2500 or $5000 or $10,000.
The act of the Legislature increasing the
salaries was manifestly unconstitutional. It
was the duty of.the judges so to declare it
and it is now the duty of the law officer of
the State to compel Ludeling, Howell. Howe,
Wiley, the estate of Talieferro, and Morgan
to disgorge what they have unlawfully re
ceived. The aggregate of money thus un
lawfully withdrawn from the treasury is
about $75,000. Several of the ex-judges are
able to refund. They should be required to
do so. LAWYER.
(Communicated. (
Remember the Unfortunate Brave of
September 14, 1874.
"Louisiana honors the living and the dead."
So reads the scroll; but there. beneath it.
stands one who bears on his body the marks
of the stern conflict. A inalmed and shat
tered man, John McCabe, who fought for Lou
isiana on the bloody battlefields of Virginia,
and again on the fourteenth of .September
helped to win the glorious victory. A black
smith, shot throurh both arms, his silent
anvil no longer rings to the music of the
hammer. He raises his shattered limbs in
mute appeal, not for charity-the thought of
which is repugnant to his manly independence
-but for jumlice, for a position whose duties
he can faithfully discharge and earn an hon
est living for himself and a sick and helpless
wife. Like Banquo's. ghost he will not
down, but rises to mar the banquet of our
freedom. A hero of the glorious fourteenth
of September, you who stand in high places.
won by his sacrifice. rear no monument to the
dead until you shall have made provlslon for
the living, M. J. C. S.
A FIRE.
The Tolling of the Bells Led William Con
nelly to Death-The Narrow Escape of
an Assistant Engineer.
A quarter past 2 o'!'ock Sunday morning a fire
broke out in the roof of the unoccupied frame
house situated at the corner of Urquhart and
Annette streets.
This property was owned by James Patrick and
the flames were extinguished with a damage of
$150.
A NARROW ERCAPE.
As one of the assistant engineers of the Fire
Department was running to this fire his fine
wagon upset on Chartres street, and he was pre
cipitated to the ground, but fortunate ly escaped
uninjared.
KII)ED EN ROUTE TO A FIRE.
As Hope Hope Hook and Ladder Company No.
3 was on its way to the same fire, when on An
nette street, between Marais and Villery, a
young man named Wm. Connelly, who was riding
on the truck, was precipitated to the ground, and
one of the hind wheels of the truck passing over
his spine he was mortally wounded.
The unfortunate young man was taken to a
drug store on Elysian Fields street, where he ex
pired almost immediately on arriving. The de
ceased was not a fireman, but was in the habit of
running to fires with Hope's men. He was an
employee of the Weed Htewing Machine Company,
at the corner of Dryades and Canal streets.
As soon as he died the sad news was told his
family, and the deceuased was taken to his late
residence, corner of Mandeville and Victory
streets. .
onnelly leaves a mother and sister to mourn
his untimely end.
FROPMOOR.
The Praetlee Yesterday and the Winners.
The practice shooting at Frogmoor yesterday
saw quite a number of spectators and the follow
lug result:
First prize-Jules Plffaut, Battery O, La. F. A.,
(Capt. E. A. Galbet).................38
Second prize-HFIy. Dpre, Company A, W. A..38
Third prize--0. A. Thiel, Continental Guards..33
Following close to these were T. C. McQuithy,
Continental Guards, 32; H. _. Bradford, Com
pany B, W. A., and Capt. Wm. Pierce, Continen
tal Guards, 29 each.
The above were the only three commands rep
resented.
isunt. O. A. Thiel made 36 for the Perilloax
hbadge for the Continental Guards, but Capt.
Pierce's 38 of last Sunday could not be beaten.
-+.,.w -. w ....o. .JY UOIILU not, hU U5owU.
SUICIDE.
A Man shoots Illuimelf In the Stomach
and Then Leaps Into the River.
At 6 a. m., Sunday, on the Levee, head of
Erato street, another unfortunate, who, having
been left a total wreck by the cares of this world,
put an end to his miserable existence by first
shooting himself in the stomach with a small
der-inger pistol, and then leaped into the river.
Officer Oash, who was an eye-witness of the
whole affair, leaped into the river after the sui
cide and brought him to shore.
He had hardly been placed on the levee than
he expired. The Coroner held an inquest, but
found it impossible to have the party identified,
and so the body was buried last evening by the
city, in Potter's Field. The deceased was a
young man, about 20 years of age. and of French
descent. The Coroner took a lock of his hair
and a piece of his pants, vest and over-jacken, as
it may lead to his identification.
A Fugitive from Justice.
The negro Robinson Oliver, who some weeks
ago, through the negligence, it is said of the
ailor, escaped from Jail in the parish of West Fe
lialana, was arrested Saturday night in Algiers
b ergant PajoL He was Incarcerated in the
ei Precint Sttiton, charged wish being a
- aw jagi
OUR ST. LOUIS LETTER.
THE ROUTE OF THE GRAIN TRADE
THROUGH NEW ORLEANS.
Southern BuRiness Men-Necessity of Or
Ranlzation-The Ilaratarla Canal
Tangled In the Wreck of
the Whlsky Ring.
Hr. LorIs, Septenbor 14, 1577.
The subject of the jetties has always been
one of very deep interest in St. Louis, and
each progressive step in the work called forth
universal expressions of' satisfaction. A
channel to the Gulf from New Orleans was
to be the open sesame to a
DIREl'f TRADE WITIH EUROPE.
that would annually add millions to the com
merce of this city. Great results were prom
Ised to follow the work of Capt. Eads, and this
important enterprise was to begin as soon as
a sufflcient depth of water was oljtalned to ad
mit of the uninterruptedl pa.ssage of aessels.
In view of all these promises of the commer
cial men and the capitalists of St. Louis, and
the fact that steamers of the Morgan line
are now said to pass regularly through the
jetties without any difficulty, your corre
spondent concluded to ascertain what steps
have been taken towards utilizing the jetties.
A movement in this directitn is, of course, of
great importance to New Orleans. Her posi
tion makes her the key to all donmmerce be
tween the West and foreign countries, if that
commerce Is directed by way of the Missis
sippi River.
The vast territory lying west and northwest
ofSt. Louis, stretching for millions of acres, is
teeming with grain, and the producers are
troubled with the problem of finding a mar
ket for it that will hold out at remunerative
prices. The first move, it is natural to sup
pose, wouldt h) in the direction of opening a
channel for this grain to reach European
markets, where, if one-half the press reports
are true, there will be an almost unpre' e
dented demand at extraordinary prices. A
visit to the officials of the railroads connect
ing St. Louis with the grain-producing States
and Territories, developed the fact that the
transporlation lines
ARE READY TO PERFORM
their part in the great work of directing the
commerce of the Mississippi valley in its le
gitimate channel. The St. Louis, Kansas
City & Northern railway brought 12,000,,00
bushels of grain to this city last year, and
said the president: "Give us a market for it
down the river, and we will bring three times
that quantity. We will provide all the facili
ties necessary.for handling, and will handle it
at rates low enough to be satisfactory."
Correspondent- What is needed to supply
this market?
President-- First, plenty of river transpor
tation, and second, vessels at New Orleans to
take the grain from there to foreign ports.
That is all. There is not sufficient river trans
portation plying at present to supply Such
demand as exists, and what there is is not of
the right kind. Barges and towto Ats are the
kind of transportation needed; nothing else.
If this sort of transportation for the river
were supplied, with plenty of vessels at New
Orleans, the grain of the West would come
immediately. This route to foreign markets
is incomparably ahead of that by way of New
York or Baltimore.
Correspondent -- Isn't it strange that in
times like the present, when so much capital
is begging for good investments, these ship
ping facilities are not provided?
President-All on earth that is necessary is
for somebody to take hold of the enterprise
and push it. Everything is ready and wait
ing for a push. But small capital would be
required, if backed by energy and business
judgment.
I'IPENTY OF TRANSPORTATION ON LAND.
At the general offices of the Missouri Pa
elifi Railroad, which, with its connections,
reaches the grain fields of Missouri, Kansas
and Nebraska, the same readiness to supply
shipping facilities at rates to compete with
Northern lines to the seaboard was found, and
tle <f.lials explressedl the same opinion in re
garr to what is necessary to put the ball in
Ia ndion
In addition to the roads named, there is the
St. Louis and San Francisco, in operation to
Southern Kansas, via the Indian Territory,
and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, running
through the States it derives its name from;
the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern,
extending through Southeast Missouri, Ar
kansas, and embracing half of Texas, with
its far-reaching connections. All these roads,
as well as the Missourl river and, to a certain
extent, the railroads running North and
East, would contribute to the success of a
transportation line hearing products to for
ei rn markets.
Your correspondent next called upon some
of the leading grain merchants, commission
merchants and flour mill operators, and the
truth must be confessed that the information
gathered from these sources is
NOT AT ALL ENCOURAOINO.
In regard tothe importance of direct foreign
trade, the advantages to accrue from it, and
the apparent splendid opportunity for inau
gurating it, there was but one ooinion. Every
man, no matter what his business, agreed
that the enterprise should be inaugurated,
but every one regarded the work of inaugu
ration as belonging to someb(oiy else. All
seemed to be waiting for somebody else to
start. Said the owner and operator of the
largest mills in the city:
"There can ibe no question about the ne
cessity and importance of direct trade via
New Orleans, but it must he worked up
quietly. For Heaven's sake don't go to blow
ing the thing in the papers now. Wait awhile.
Why there isn't grain in this market now to
supply local demand, without trying to work
un demand from other points. I had to tone
oelf an order from New Orleans yesterday for
10o000 bushels of wheat. Couldn't get it ex
cept by trading futures. If I could buy the
grain for cash at market prices I could get
orders from New Orleans by telegraph in an
hour for 100,011 bushels."
What's the cause of this state of affairs?
A PUZZING CONUNDRItM.
"Ah, that's just it. It's more than I can tell,
but it's the fact that we can't buy this grain
now for money, and if you go to stirring
things up in the papers it will only make
matters worse. Wait awhile till the grain
comes in freely, and then we'll push for a
foreign market."
"Wait awhile!" That expresses the great
defect in St. Louis commerce. The men who
ought to take immediate hold of this project
and give it life and shape are proceeding on
the Micawber principle of waiting for some
thing to turn up. Strange as it may appear,
none whom I questioned could account for
the fact that in this great city, controlling
lines of the best equipped railroads right
through the grain country, there is not sup
ply to meet the demand. Some were sur
ý * at .tuch a state of atffairs; others
reallzod its truth, but to all it was inexpl!
cable.
I began my tour of inquiry in the expecta
tion of learning something that would, at
least, prove encouraging to the business men
of New Orleans, who are ready to co-opeaate
with any and all efforts to establish a trade
that will contribute more to the building up
of their city. and the development of the Mis
sissippi valley than anything else. But the
facts must stand for themsieves and teach
those who are truly interested in the move
ment what course they should pursue. The
enterprise is too solid, its results too substan
tial. to be aided by fictitious accounts of en
thusiasm in the cause.
NOW T1 TIIE ACCRPTEI)D TIME.
There will never be a more propitious time
for the establishment of commercial relations
between this and other countries than the
c resent. Crops are bountiful and the whole
land is suffering--so say political econo
mists-from over-production; and what can
confer a greater blessing than an enterprise
that will convert the surplus prodluction into
money? ,The jetties, it is true, are not com
pleted, but they afford a channel sufficient for
thel assage of vessels. at least of medium size.
And it wd ni.t req~ire- th largest-aizeldves
sels for this trade. Men familiar with ocean
transportation have expressed the opinion
that steamers of medium capacity will an
swer the purpose better than larger vessels.
There is no lack of desire for this trade
among tthe business men, and they very read
ily admit that the movement ought to be in
augurated now but rather than take the lead
they remain idle and hug to their bosoms the
delusion that next month or next year will do
just as well. Now
THE ALL IMPOI'OTANT QUESTION Is,
Who will take the lead while everything is
ripe for the work? Capital and co-operation
can be obtained in Ht. Louis, and among the
commercial men of the Crescent City, which
was always noted for its enterprise and liber
ality, are there not some with the pluck and
the administrative ability to place themselves
at the head of the project and work it out to
a most glorious consummation?
THE DAIIATARIA (!ANALs.
Capt. John Cowden has been here for some
days endeavoring to work up an interest in
the Barataria Sliip Canal, of which he is
superintendent. He went before the Board of
Trade, explained the purpose of the canal,
and asked that a committee be appointed to
visit and examine it. He exhibited a map
showing the canal, its route and. depth, etc.,
and claimed for it all that is wanted as a
channel to the Gulf. He stated that the Bara
taria Canal Company, chartered by the Legis
lature of Louisiana, has ample funds to
complete the work, and only asks from the
national government permission to carry out
their plan as designed; that the canal already
contains an average depth of five feet, and fs
navigable for small steamers, and only re
quires to be enlarged and deepened to give
passage to the largest vessels; that if the gen
eral government will grant the privileges ask
ed the company will .egin operations imme
diately, and pledge themselves to supply a
channel twenty-four feet deep in one year's
time. No subsidy or aid of any character, he
said, is asked from Congress--simply per
mission to proceed with the work.
A resolution was unanimously adopted by
the board instructing the oresildent to appoint
a committee of live to visit and examine the
canal, and report the result of their observa
tions.
Capt. Cowden will visit Cinclnati and
Louisville during the next few days, and re
quest the commercial bodies of those cities to
appoint adlegates to make a tonu of observa
tion to the canal, and on or about the 25th
instant a steamer of the St. Louis and New
Orleans packet line will leave Memphis, carrTy
Ing the committees from different cities to
the canal free of charge.
THIE AT. LOTIT ExPOsTTION
is In iull blast and the display is truly mag
nifilent. The merchants have even exceeded
their promises to make a creditable show.
and the Exposition, taken as a whole, is far
ahead of anything of the character ever got
ten up in the West. The fair grounds, ex
tending over one hundred acres, are literally
covered with attractions. Every department
is full, and the exhibitorsentered into a rivaly
with each other in getting up their displays
that has added infinitely to the affair. The
zoological garden :which belongs to the Fair
Association, and Is situated on the grounds,
forms another attractlon, and one that Is not
elsewhere found accompanying an in
dustrial exposition. So far t.e attend
ance has not been as large as was
anticipated, but that can hardly be
construed into a discouraging sign. The
show is to continue for a month, and people
with all that time before them, naturally hold
back a few days until all the work of prepara
tion is done and the entire display is in com
plete order. The price of admission to the
grounds, including exposition and zoological
garden, is fifty cents, the same that has
always been exacted for the annual fairs. On
account of the attendance not coming up to
expectations the lessees of booths and the ex
hibitors have Joined in a petition asking the
Fair Association to reduce the price of ad
mission to twenty-five cents. So far the asso
elation has declined to make the reduction,
on the ground that they would be forced to
keep the price down to a quarter for future
fairs, as the people would demand it. The
association has tre management of the expo
sition, and will no doubt maintain the old
price. And they are right. Anybody that
will not pay fifty cents to see the magnificent
exhibition of all the arts and industries of the
West, with the privilege of relieving the mo
notony by studying the finest collection of
animals in the country, would not invest a
quarter for that purpose.
PERSONAL.
Col. John R. Purvis, formerly of New Or
leans, has recel ved the appointment of deputy
commissioner of supplies, under the city gov
ernment. Col. Purvis was for many years a
resident of the Crescent City, and his friends
there are numbered by hundreds. He retains
a warm affection for his old home, and looks
forward with happy anticipation to the time
when he can return and again 'establish him
self there. Col. Purvis is a high-toned, chiv
alrous gentleman, and of course ah unswerv
ing Democrat, and it is refreshing to see such
a man appointed to public office.
BROUGHT TO TIME.
The treasurer of the late county of St.
Louius, which embraced the city, found him
self indebted to the latter by the terms of
separation and division of property, in the
sumrn of $191,000. He delayed paying up, and
when pressed by the mayor put his honor off
with promises. Finally suit was about to be
commenced and the treasurer capitulated.
Yesterday he walked up to the treasury and
p|aid $102,000 in cnash, and the balance in a cer
tificate of deposit in the State National Bank.
MORE SUITS AGAINST M'KEE.
Poor old Billy McKee! It seems that he
will never free himself from his entangle
ment in the wreck of the old whisky ring.
Some time ago the government brought suit
against him for about $2,250,000, money out
or which it was alleged the government was
defrauded through his machinations, and
yesterday two more civil suits were filed
against the ex-deacon. Win. H. Hatch, of
Hannibal. Mo., one of Mr. McKee's counsel in
his defense, sues for $3550, balance of the
fee promised, and ex-Attorney General
Williams, better known by the name
of Laundalet, claims $500, balance
due him for services in securing old man
Billy's pardon. Those who profess to know
say that the pardon was obtained through
the influence of Laundalet Williams' wife, who
was all-powerful with Grant. Those familiar
with the capital in the palmy days of Grant
ism will remember that there was more than
one scandal about the pretty Mrs. Williams.
Pearl seaplna.
Ask for Soapina and you will get the best soap.
Boapina containing no rosin is the best soap
for washing woolen goods, ca be found at 110
Qravier street.
WADE HAMPTON AT ROCKFORD.
THE LOYALTY AND GOOD WILL OF THE
MOUTH MAINTAINED.
An Eloquent Appeal In Behalf of Peace
and Good-Fellownhip.
C('nuAo. Sept. 13.-The Times' Rockford. Ill.,
Speeial, gives Wade Hampton's spec -h before
the Winnebago County Fair to-day, of which the
following extracts were made. Mr. lllalton
said:
Mr. President and my Fellow-Citivens of Illi
notis :
If any evhlence was needed to show the high
appreciation in which I hold the inviting which
brings me here to-day. It would surely be found
In the fact that I have traveled more than a
thousand miles that I may make my acknowl
edgments to you for the honor you have con
ferred In person. [Applause.J
And let me say to yeu, and I say it with in
finite pleasure, that had that journey been far
longer, had Its fatigues been greater, t.e sight
that moe s me here to-day, and the cordiality of
the welcome given by the people of Illinois
would have amply compensated me, LApplause.I
Und+r ordinary cl-rcu-msvnces eshoulddscar
ly have f It at liberty to have left my official
duties to participate in an occasion of this sort.
however gratyfying the honor might have been.
But the invitation of the Winnebago Agri .ul
tural Molietv carried with it such weight that it.
inposed upon me an obligation which I felt I
could not neglect. It was this society a year ago,.
before the political spirit which has now so
happily subsided had abated, that was among
this first to Inaugurate that spirit of reconcilia
tion which is now spreading with such whole
some force over this land of onrs. Therefore.
when they made a call uton me. I
AS A SOUTHEHN MAN.
felt that it was not only my pla.aure, but that it
was my duty to go and mltake a response to
them in person, and thank them for their
course in the interest of history, ant to pledge
my cordial co-operation in this patriotic and
noble work. IApplause.I
If I comprehend the purpose of your invita
tion to me. it. was noatthit I sholld speak to you
merely upon agricultural subjeets, but that I
shoild discuss those graver and broader issuis
which are distracting the, country. But, my
friends, in doing that you nceel not fear that I
shall violate the proprieties of the occasion iby
giving you a political speech. I shall speak to
Vyou for no man, for no, patty, nor no section.
out for the whole cluntry [applausell and in do
ing that I shall strive truthfully to sink all men
and all partisanship and tlo place mcys.If upon
that grand, high planq where true and pure pa
triottsm can tbe foundtl) [Applause.I
As I construe the motives of this movement.
my friendls, it is in the interests of peace. Un
derstanding it so, it was that that brought me
here, and it by anything that I can say or do-If
I can in the slightest degree assist those gentle
men in the noble work that they have inaugur
ated, then, my friends, I shall feeo that my mis
sion has not altogether faile-d. The chief thing I
hail n view in corning hlte was to promote a
true and correct understahding between the
people of the North and South. You must ad
mit that very many of thie evils which have fall
on on the country have come from misconcep
tlon of the purposes each of the other. You re
member there is
A POFOUND TRUTH,.
as well as a knowledge of human nature, em
bodied in the fable where it is told that in olden
times a shield. white on one side and black on
the other, was hung at the intersection of two
roads, and two knights approaching in opposite
directions disputed as to the color of the
shield. Finally their lances were put in rest
and they perilled life each to support his own
convictions. It has seemed to me in looking
over all these questions, that something of the
same sort happened between the North and
South. The constitution was the shield; viewed
as it was. from different points and construe
tion, the dispute upon the points waxed warmer
and warmer. The sword was called in, and un
der Its red arbitrament many a brave and true
and kni.htly soldier laid down hsl life in sup
port of his conviction. What. might have hap
pened, my friends, had prudence and not pas
slon ruled the hour. is Is useless for us to say
notw. The statesman looks to the past perils of
his country simply that he may guard against
them, and the prayer anti the work of the pat
riot should tend to the same end.
My friends. I speak of the South. We of the
South have not had only enough. but too much
of war. [Laught-r.l We seek peace. We come
now to plead in the interest of peace, and It is
for this that I am here before you to-day.
(Cneers.] Can you doubt. my friends, that the
South wants peace? (Go look at her ruined
fields, the misrule under which she has lived
FoB TWELVE YEARS,
and you will doubt it no longer. Do you men
eof Illinois doubt her sincerity? She has been
charged with faults, but among these faults her
worst enemies have never said she was hypo
critical, or that she spoke with a double tongue.
Impetuous, rash. she may be: but, thank God,
false never. [Cheers.l Do you want proof of
her sincerity? Look in the recent past and tell
me if you can find evidence more conclusive
than is given by her conduct? Need I tell you
to look back to those trying dlays when the 'res
idential contest was unsettled? What was the
course of the South thlun?
Gov. Hampton alluded to the possibility of a
civil war in which families would have been
divided in civil war had not the South stood
lirm for peae, and said:
I tell you, men of Illinois-and I speak not as
ait Democrat: I don't know andi don't care
whether I speak to Democrats or ReIpublicans
i speak as an American to Americans. and say
to you to-day that you owe a debt of gratitude
to the people of the South [eheersl in Congress
to what some people of the North have called
the Confederate brigaliers-preventing filibus
tering-and who stood by the result. of the Elec
toral Commission's work. During the recent
strikes and riots, too, she evinced her feeling
by upholding laws and standing conservative.
Sroe has given bonds to fate to preserve the
pease. and she wants peace. She wants you,
men of the North, to understand her condition.
She wants you to realize precisely what sthe ac
copts as the result of the war. She wants you
to understand the motives whichl have actuated
her not only before and during, but since the
war. I for myself, gy friends, have
VA !'h V!"P U ·U·FL TM TA V·V·
NO CONCEALMENTS TO MAKE
for the past. I have taken part in the war, nor
would your respect for me be increased were I
to offer any unmanly apology for it. I did what
you did--I obeyed the command of my own
State. as you did yours, and you men of the
North were guided by your own consciences as
we of the South were guided by ours; and I say
to you that up to the beginning of that war I
used all my Influence to preserve the Union.
[Cnheers.] I was a Union man. I[enewed cheers.l
I did all I could to prevent it' I did all I could
to avoid a war, and when South Carolina called
her sons, as Illinois called hers, I obeyed her
command; and, men of Illinois. I fought you
as long and as hard as I could, and I have no
apologies to make for it. iLout cheers and
lau ghlter.J I remember especially that I fought
the Eighth Illinois, and I thought it one of the
best regimants in the federal army. I fought
them very hard indeed. [Great cheering and
laughter.I
Now, my friends, we went into the war hbliev
ing we were right. but when the war ended we
surrendered, and I want to impress that upon
you. We surrendered in good faith, andt I
(HALLENI(E ANY MAN LIVING
to say that from that day to this I have violated
in any degree the tenor of my parole, or done
anything inconsistent with my honor as a sol
dier or a citizen. [Loud applause I When I
sheathed my sword I renewed my ills giance to
the United states government. I pledged my
self to support the constitution of the United
States. When I took my official oath the other
day as Governor of South Car >lina. I swore to
uphold it as it now stands and so hell me God
Sintend to keep it. [Loud cheers.] We surren
dered in good aith. We accepted the con'titu
tion of the United States with the amendments.
Though we opposed the latter we accept them
now. and propose to obey them. right or wrong;
that the constitution shall stand equal for the
protection of South Carolina and of Massachu
setts. of Illinois and Louisiana. and we have the
right to ask that every citizen in every State
should be equal before the law and under the
constitution of the United States. [Cheers.]
So miwth. my friends, for the views we enter
tain. Then we come appealing to you for
peace. We come appealing to you because it
is not only the highest wisdom to restore
peace-not only because it is statesmanlike
not only beftuse the very theory of statesman
ship and p61itiSs requires the restoration of
pearce-but we pdePal to you because it is the
very mainspring of patriotism, and if there is
anywhere ihe mainspring of patriotism moving
strong andf perpeual, it is in the hearts of the
people of Illhnois.
Gov. Hampton, alluding to the story that he
E5BEEN THREATENED.
treated th 9 r jocosely eliciting much
mirth, e.L a a letter stating that one han
dred *' £ockford had eonsatituted a
committee to send him hrk from here in a bor.
The remainder of the speech was devoted tio
eulogisti. aIllusjijo to thn Siate of Illinois, it
regard to its a.uri.iltourll advantages: to ia pm
dhtlion of a glorious lesti. ny for the Mississippi
Valley: to a brief anllisn to the labor (l Po-.
lton, dlnd to lea for universal ed,(latio.,. lie
ionehided as follows:
We are standlng under one flag. 'bbeying one
constitution. and it is for us to say what will b.
the future of this country. (live us your help
and we will give you our hearty o. ~operation.
We feel and know that if this is done-if we rca
have a restoration of fratern ity: it we can make
the people of thi s country unders and each
other-we feel then that there is a glot ions fu
ture before the whole country. We can make it
so. We eanr make it so by each andt all of uS
performing in his allotted .phere his diuty. and
diving done tlhat to leave the crn.se qeinesto
(lto. Having prfor red our duty, looking hank
to the past only to gain wisdom for the future.
and using the present, wisely. end looking to
the future will hopne andt trust iX aodd. I an
sure that wit may all say, NortL d South,
paraphrasink the wish of the poet that our
tates mity all be "Distinct as the Olllows. y~r
one as the sia." [Applautse.l
Gov. Hampton was foil werd by Samuel .,
('ary, of Ohio, who spoke for an hour andl a
hab f.
THE REGATTA AT BILOf.
A Chapter of Accidents and a Gallant
Aquatic Contest.
Biloxi yesterday put on her gala garb over the
regatta given by the amateur yachtmen of the
Ilae coast for a handsome prize offered by Mr.
Montrose, of the Montross House. Early in the
morning signs of unusual animation were notioesa
Oie in that delightful sea-side resort, and in.
clpient sailors launched their small boats before
their veteran friends were astir. By the time ci
the arrival of the excursion train from New Or
leans there was a plentiful display of bunting an
the front boulevard, and anxious skippers cast an
eye to windward at the gathering of an array ai
omlnous clouds.
At noon the ladies began to dare the brisk
southeast wind, and every bath-house wharf was
crowed with Biloxi's beauty. Lonstrons black
eyes dazzled the average excursionist as thea
shone out from beneath seaside hats, whilst the
softer blue gave to the yachtmen an additional
incentive to their exertions for the victory. The
race was between boaas of twenty feet and an
der, to be sailed under the rules of the Creseell
City Yacht Olub, and the judges selected wae
Admiral J. E. Austin, perhaps better known as
Major Austin; Mr. Richard Charles, and CoL. L
W. James. The following were the entries:
Boat Olvia, entered by E. L. Israel, sailed by
Louis Holly; length 17 ft. 9 in.
Boat Frolic, entered by Marti , sailed
by Martin Green; length 17 ft. 6
Boat Nellie, entered by Job , sailed
by John Bymoor; length 19 ft. .6
Boat Carrie Bower, entered
sailed by A. Calehaw; length 17 fi. -
Boat Mary A, entered by Leon gSI
sailed by Leonard Fayord; length 17 ft, iS
At 12:30 o'clock the white.wlged e
in an appearance with their orew
not a few sand-bags for ballast, wi
every moment increasing. Af
vering they took their proper l.a eqs
to anchor and lowered jibe.
The course of the race was
staske boats, about two and one
triangularly, one to the west off ore
to the eastward, and the home flag- Upi
by the way. did not have a flag.
After choosing for positions they came bnte
iHie, the Frolic bemg windward, the Nellleet
the Olivia nhxt, Mary A. inside, with thb
Bowae to the leeward. It was evidentit aUMt
would be handling of reef points for Witoe sa
began to i splay themselves outside beyond the
bar.
Arter the second gun had fired as a waraulg,
Major Austin ailled out if all were ready,
meeting with an affirmative reply, after some de
lay on the part of the chief of artillery, the deep
boom of an eight pounder resounded erone the
wind toesed waters, and with remarkab alacrity
jibs were hoisted and anchors sprang, and the
fleet of five were off in splendid style. The
Carrie Bowers, however, was the most atisticeJlg
handled, and before the etnoes of the gun hal
died away she was off with a handsome _
steering westwardly for the boat niarking the
side edge of the bar, and thence to the fluf
stake boat. The Nellie was the next to follow
but little difference being between her, the Olivl
and the rest of the flest,
With sheets well qu.lered the coursers passed
the bar boat and headed out for the first stake,
when all trimmed sheets aft. The lead of the
Carrie was a good one and she held her own to
the stake, but matters did not go so well with all
her followers. On the first dash the Frolio brok
her bowsprit, her jib going by the boeyd,
retreated from the contest shortly a ftl ..
The Nellie whilst leading went
ALL TO PIEtC&.
her centerboard being taken out of its case, her
jib blown adrift, and her stay broken. After
beading for the second stake the chopping sea
outside began to show its effeots, and the smew
craft began bobbing about much to the admira
tion of the spectators. It was just then that the
Mary A. capsized, going over in the most grace
ful manner.
Mr. Sam'l Gauthier's yacht was at hand and
towed the sunken craft in towards the bar where
her crew, after much labor, righted and bailed
hee out.
On the second only two contestants, the Carrie
and the Olivia, the Oarrle leading, started out for
the first stake, and notwithstanding the gallant
efforts of the Olivia's crew, who sent up their
balloon jib, the Carrie Increased her lead san
landed a winner at 3:24-50 p. m., the Olivia being
just 9:35 minutes behind. At the close of the
hardly fought battle Major Austin, in a neat
speech, presented the prize to Mr. Hollingaworth,
the owner of the winning boat, who responded it
an appropriote manner.
There was to follow a skiff race, but some of
the entries failed to secure crews, and it was
consequently postponed.
There has seldom been a more desperately
fought battle on our waters.
An Aecident.
Saturday night, while Mike Cousins, together
with his wife and son, were driving to their ree.
dence, No. 242 Claiborne street, in a sarieg
wagon, the wagon caspeized, and its hliving freight
were precipitated into the street.
Mr. Con-ins received a slight wound in the
head just over the right eye, while Mrs. Cousins
had her right ankle sprained; the son escaped un
injured.
Murder.
Caroline Doloey, alias Arney Johnson, was ar
rested by Specials Tracy and Byan and lodged
In the Central Station, charged with having mur
dered a negro woman named Clara Johnson, on
the fifteenth of August. It appears the accused
kicked Clara in the stomach when she was abosi.
to give birth to a child.
A stabblng Affray.
At hell past 8 o'clock last evening a diffienity
took plae on Julia street, between Pocheblave
and Tonti streets, between a negro woman
named Emma Jones and a negro man named
Wm. Doherty which terminated in the latter re
ceiving a slight stab in the left shoulder with a
penknife In the hands of the woman. Emma was
arrested and lodged in the Central Station.
Crushed by a Car.
At quarter of seven o'clock last evening as a
little boy named John Jengle, aged seven yeaesa
attempted to Jump on the outward bound Post
chartrain train he fell between the wheel
and two of the wheels of one of the cars psased
over his left leg, terribly mangling it.
The unfortunate child was taken to his psaente
residence, where the leg was amputated by Ies.
Lewis and Moylan.
Bay your buggies and carriages from . T.
Maddox, 86 Carosdelet street, asse corner One
vier.