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rPTTrW MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL-MARCH 25. 1880. aiDMi-'HIS APPiSAL BY ,'i.lLLAWAV & KICATIKW. !raia of Kuhae rintttn Iljf Weokl ti t .-rr.. cue far. t btii ,.. i-w U 9 cot-t n!x mom; lis, by ivitill.... .---v s toty, one tum.lu, Isy mail....... . y ij coy), oue wuekt In cli VJKKI-Vi o erv. uc yr - 5 UW 1 OO l no o i? acv j, an nfw:rr;-.-::r.VJ-i"SV'5rtJ it C. flAU-twAV,' . 'AaJ Second street, J. at. Ksaiibv. ( yemohn, Tenn. ftr-Kntrrtil nt Ihe Pontoff.ce nt Hmiphvi, Tenn., 1IE&PU1S APPEAL THURSDAY, MARCH 25,1880. AST EXinrLK OK TIA.IEM TO III ITATK. CUssic.il bisfory Las iinoaortalized tue Ro man youth who sacrificed himself by plung ing into tlie chaum for the public good. When a vast aperture of immense depth wai found in Iho middlo of the Roman forum it could not be filled up by all tho earth that was thrown into it. There it remained, wide, deep, yawning, threatening to engulf the city and the terrcr-stricken population. The soothsayers decided that the Roman commonwealth would be made prosperous and eternal and ttant the chasm would imme diately disappear it some young man repre senting the army, ooui Age and strength of the republic would precipitate himself into the abyss. The Roman youth Curtias offered himself as a sacrifice. Arraying himself in full armor, he mounted hi3 panting steed and plunged into the yawning chasm. The grateful people threw after him their offer ings larjje quantities of the fruits- of the earth, and the earth immediately cLsed over the heroic youth. Samuel J. Tilden should imitate this role example. There U a wiuV, deep, yawmug chasm in the Democratic party, threatuuing its destruction. Tilden is tiie only m;m who can briJge the gulf fill up the chasm by imitating tho example of Curtius. L'.'t him mount his charger. The country i not particular whether the animal be a donkey, a male, or spavined, broken winded dray-hori'e, so Tilden mounts the beast and wakes the plunge, shouting as he goes: "Unity harmony everything for the cause nothing for men." As the notes of the dying swan are sweetest, 89 would these last wocds bo more melodious to Democratic ears than any music ever made by tho whispering statesman of Gi-amercy park. Here is a chance for posthumous fame, but it ia feared Tdden will not be equal to his opportunities. It he has not patriotism enough to plunge into the chasm for the purpose of closing the breach, the Democratic parly in the Cincin nati convention mud tako him by the hair of the head and the neat of his breeches and pitch him ii.to the chasm of Lis own creating. The Aiteal is making no factious war upon Tilden, but it his told end wili continue to tell tho Demo cratic parry that TiK'u n's nomination, instead of closing the char-m, will make it so deep and wide that it will bury the Democratic party in a common ruin. Tho journal which fails to warn the pnrty of impending dan gers is as faithless as tho sentinel who sees the approach of tho enemy and fails to arouse the sleeping army, but it is said the Appeal is too bitter iu its opposition to Tilden. These censors seem to forget that all the Infe, discord end bitterness in the Demo crati sparry has hern acated by Tilden, and tho possibility of foisiias such a man upon ths party is si mocbtroua in its stupidity that we cannot contemplate it with toleration. Every Democrat from Maine to Texas, and from California to South Carolina, would hail with acclamations of joy the nomination of either Bayard, Seymour or Fields. Ia every seotioa of the Union the affections cf tho Drrnocrutic party cluster around these men. Democrats cherish a lov ing admiration for these favorite and faithful leaders. But in every State and in every section cf the country Tilden has made an tagonism. In New York, where he is well known, end where he ought to have more friends than elsewhere, eighty thousand Democrats had rather see the Democratic party annihilated than to vote for Tilden. A recent dispatch fr,,m New York city to a St. Louis paper tins tho following: A meeting of tlie State committee and other lead er ot the wlim ot tlie Mciuocnu-y optiosed to Til ten was bold lo-tfuy. li whn c.iilttl fur consultallou as to llie action of lie Keily faction or tlie Democracy In this clir and 8tate with rotrr. nre to the Ix-mo-rrallc Stite convention. The Tilden btate commit tee Is tj met nt tlie St Jaui-s hotel at llvee o'clock KrUtay ii'teiiiouii, to name trie time and fluce of the Mate convention. The keliy bUle committee will meet at the bU Nicholas hotel hi four o'clock the same atW-rnoon, and lil call a State convention at the winie time ar.d plitoe as Iumi nt Us opponents. It was announced at the meeting tl at one hundred and 11 tl; of the hcxt roumn ot the but neit house and one hundred of a like chnrncter at the St. James hotel, Cincinnati, huu Ix-i-n et.gnfd In anticipation of Hie National convention In June next. Letters were reai from members of the Stme committee, stilng forth thHt the opposition to Tiloen was Increttniiift rtiliT tlnin diminishing, and that under no clrcumMHiices would he be supported If nominated. Alter the Hnjouruiiit-nt of the iueeili:K Mr K-lly, In Hot.wer to iiueitlona, sxld that the !eeilitf im iln.-t Tlldeu In the interior of the State was rotin more bitter da ly. He nd-ied that there wax no (juration that there would be two Dem ocratic tl te convention, although both would lb held in Itie sinue cliy 11 Is llie evident Intention of the Kellj kIhk "f te Democracy to natch carefully events of the olher wli K If the latter Instructs Its den-gaieti to vote and uik for Tilden. a full opposi tion del Dillon tiom this State Kill he sent lo Cin cinnati. It no Mich lusliutnlou are given, and oveitutee are m:uii. It l possible Unit the two wlum tiiay come U'teei her and aiee uion a coiumon deie Knllon. dome ot tho strongest nteu In tne paitv are workli'ir to bi Ihk "l out a lecuucilieltou. T hi Kelly inti s.iy tliat only TilUen's unihlllou prevents tuU, la iDuctioua lor the Appeal 'o warn the Demociattc p?rty aaiubt tho nominatiou of a man so hated iu his oviui Siate'r But we are told that the Demrrratic pnrty owes Mr. Tilden tho nominal ion because ho wns t heat ed out of the cfli.'o to which he was elected. The Democratic party owes Mr. Tilden nothing. It hits given him mure than it has ever received from him. It elected him President once, but his cowardice and timid ity, Lis want of courage and sagacity k&t the Democratic party tho fruits of the victory it had won. Tildcn'a pitsouco at Washington, demanding the position to which he had betn elected, anj r.rudiuticg the unconstitutional mods improvised for cheating the people, would have inspired the Democracy and nppalled the tricksters ready to surrender, and publicun party would now who the be were ting in "the tomb of J obsolete ideas.'' But after fairly winning the. fight, Tilden lacked the courage to gather the fruits of his victory, allowed himstlf to be frightened from tho contest by the vacue ambiguities of Grant and the rant of Chandler and Sher man. A man's popularity in his own State is always made a test of his availability. Jndjjed by this rule, Tilden will not be placed before tho Cincinnati convention, for his neighbors who know bin best are his worst enemies. The Democracy of the Empire State says to the Cincinnati convention, "You must either throw away Tilden or lose New York." And tho National. Democratic party would ba supremely silly to devote the next canvas to tho one ta-k of vindicating Mr. Tilden from tho opposition of Tammany. It has more important work to do that ot electing a man who, as President, will give peace to the county and rentoro constitutional government. If tho Cincinnati convention will select a candidate who can tot only nnite tho party ia Now York, but the entire party north, cart, toathand west, the Democ racy can win ac.iiutt any nxa the republi cans may acltvl. 0 An activo ursociation is in t-xUtencd that is earnestly striving, by tha dtsscminution of in formation and other wajs, to make a begin ning toward bringing ab:mt a roctiGcation in the spelling of English words. Tfccy do not axk to accomplish tto whole Uk at once; that ia too vast a work to expect success in. Tcey aro trying to induce people to do away with some of tho anomalies and so reduce tbe evil that cannot bo subdued all at once. No one run fail to see how silly it is to spell eieh differently, "said, red, dead," when "red, sed and d?d" give tho samo w.rJa uniformly and quite as well. Who can ob ject to changes as eay, as useful and as pleasant as thu? Any one can bein it, and why should not sctnebody bet in it? that is to ay, why should not somebody leave the wrong and take to tbe right? "But," (ays a readtr who can se2 tha cl-;er good sense of his pii?ositioa, "my coirj-pondenti would not know that I mado tac change on an in telligent system; they vri.j'd think I did net kno tow tj spell." Tan answer :'a jjst, tied it is for tuts rraion that persons who tie lakng too coovae recommended, have for mod theuistlves info an association, so as lo secure a large number to begin the correct spelling together, and to agree what words or classes of words all shall take to spell aright, as a commencement. A large number of persons in the western States and in the upper Mississippi valley are al ready taking a strong interest in the proposed change, perceiving tha genuine, practical benent that will flow from it. It may strike some readers of these lines that the proposi tion to spell words as we speak them ia something new and unheard ot; if bo, they will draw tt wrontr conclusion. All pho nographers who report trials, speeches, and so on, proccod strictly on the system of spell' log every word as it is pronounced, ana the name of their tystem means "writinz by sound." Macy laufruaes do tbe samo thing habitually even tha uicst ancient. The Lie brew, for instance, with its vowel points, is a beautiful and very complete system of Rpellinar according to the pronunciation. Nor is it new in English, especially among ourselves in this country. If an Eaglitth publication of to-day la ex anained. it will be found that "color, candor and parlor" aro spelled "colour, candour, parlour.". Is the American way the best? Who can think any otherways ai they look at tho words as here printed? If this amount of change ia good, why not spread it, then, and spell words right, instead of wroug? Take up an old Ejglish book, say of the time of Qjeen Anno, and notice what an abundance of words that every writer of English epells right now, were spelled wtong then. But why do we stop in this recti Sea' tioh jut where wo are? We see ther are endless words that remain with a wrong spelling, aridcletrly the necessary changes should gradually but peraeverinety go on. Perhaps there may be a bold mind or two considering the subject here presented who would dare fo make oae of the teachers by example on this subject, if they knew the nlan that was agreed upon as a beginning. We will insert the published rules upon the subject for tho benefit of such, adding by way of en couragement at the start that we sc-e in the Chicago Tribune ' such words as "filosofy and "alfabet," end the paper neither looks nor reads any worse on account of them. In deed the Appeal always prints "fancy," which used to be "phanry," but we must acknowledge to sticking to the old "phan- tasmagria," which Bhould be "fantasiaago- ria,"forit is evident that when "phancy" became "fancy," "phantasm" should have been spelled "iaatasm." Here are the rules for a few bitupio changes for all friends of reasonable spelling to begin with. 1. Leeva out a in ea when tho vowel ia pronounced short, as helth, ded, instcd. 2. Leave out silent after a short vowel, as hav, lov, in no it. 3. Use for ph when ph U bo pn nounced; as telegraf, frsa?, camlor. 4. Whin ed-at the end o.f a word iu pronounst t, write it so; as ruixt, laxht, Guisht. Ail proper names must be spelt as ubual. These changes wi 1 ba sufficient to start with, and great good will be rendered the Eoalish language even by thcce alterations alono. I P Ttl OKTlt" ! Oily last fall tho stock ot the Memphis and Charleston railroad was offerinf; freely by our Madison street broker?, and also by the brokers of New York, at five and six cents on th3 dollar. Little tie young fops who carry a liht cane ar.d wear a tLtf start collar thought if tho five cenU they puff away in cigars and cigarettes were laid out in Charles ton railroad stock, that they n'iht yet set up with money enough to pay the barber and the washerwoman for a year or two to come yet so it was. Thosa Eve cent pieces of en graved paper people sold yesterday for forty cents each. It I had only bought a hat lull of it! was the utterance of many a one last night, as he meditated over the mutation3 brought by time, and thought, with a sigh, of "what might have boen." Not only did the Charleston railroad stocks all at forty yesterday, but they were sought for pcr6everinp!y and bought up eagerly. So eagerly, indeed, that by night the prediction came as common as if Memphis wns running aecuoolof prophets it will Ro up to fitt ! And why noVr" We Lave eeen it vcithin this month or two sell at ten, at twenty, at thirty, now at fortj aud, as we atk, why should it not reach fifty V It will in a few days be regularly quo'.ed with other stocks on the blackboards and in the publications of the Wall street New York slock exchani e, and under Wdll Btreet guidance, no fear the stock that has flourished so speedily in ob scurity will bianch o it into luxuriance. Haetol, in his receutiy publih?d woik, 1'rinciplea and Portraits, says: 'Lwe is trnib ! It has no licentious secrets, - but a lawful privacy, all in'.ruaion on which is pro fane. As the bird hides her nest among the leaves of the thicket, not (or deceit but to be true to her nuture and her offspriop', and would ba false to heracif and her author, if with foolish candor sho exposed the delicate boauty of her ep,;S lo c vi'ry prowling eye or careless treal ot the passing foot, 60 no frank ness could impait to vulvar curiosity the truth of responsive breasts. 0'. all eaves dropper and overbearers he ia basest who luike, walks softly on tiptoe, and puts his eyo and car to the keyholo to catch the gentle confession or surprise tho ingenuous blush. There are scents in which kith and kin have no part to act, and from which churls find tattlers skoold be whipped." Thk noble chanty of which Mr. Whilelaw Reid, of the New York Tribune, ia the agent, and by which he is enabled at regular inter vals to send poor boys and girls from the slums of New York to cheerful, happy homes at the west, is a practical exemplification of common sense that ruicht well bo imitated by others, and especially by counties and towns that have to support pouthoasvs. Mr. Reid gives this work his special care, and the result ia that out cf the many hundreds who havo been the recipients ot his biunty, his advice and that care, not one has returned and not one hat made complaint. We do not know of money ever being employed to beltr purpose, and we congra'ulute our fwllow- journalint upon the good ho has done and is doing, and the nob'e example he has set to the charitable in till nations. Til eke are not lea than niu hundred million acres of arid lands ia Arizona, Da kota. Idaho, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexi co, Utah, Wyoming, Ktusas, Nebraska, Oregon, Texas, and Washington end Indian Territories. Not one per cent, of this vast amount of land has been sold by the govern ment, for the reason that in its present siiate it i absolutely worthless, and will so remain until some means be found to supply it with water. A bill just passed by tho senate pro poses the sinking f experimental artesian wells in the land for the purpose of irrigat ing it. It is to be hoped that the exoeri mnt will provo as remunerative ns is claimed for it. A convention is called to meet in Phila delphia on tho twenty-third of June, and to continue in session until the third of July, for tho purpose of arranging for a campaign for treeing Ireland. We hope the delegates, of whom there are to be a thousand or more, will resolve the convention into an emigration convention and arrange to. free the poor of Ireland by providing them with free homes in America. Tins, from the Edgefield A drerlinr r, is tho general sentiment of tho press of South Car olina: "Tbe custom of men going about with one, two and three pUtols girt about their waikto. or hidden in their pockets, is dirty, coarse and cowardly; infamous, dis gustmg and uogentlemauly ; defiant of the laws of God, of human h'e, and of public and private peace." TIIE HEYEftGE OF THE GRATE A JIady-Snatchcr, ft bo was Also an Amateur Phrenologist, Pays tbe Penalty or Devotion to Science with his Life Particu lars of a Death so Dirty, Jiasly and Horrifying as to Defy the Pea or a reporter to Describe The Body Could Only be Handled With Gloves. South Bend. Indiana, special to the Cin cinnati Enquirer: Several months ago the crave of S irah Platts, a young lady who died of consnmDtion. was found disturbed, and an examination showed that the head of tbe corose was misainz. What led to the discov erv was tbe finding of a human jaw-bone by r-red Auer, a larmer, wno uvea near me county graveyard, some eight miles from the city, where .the body was buried. The fact that only the head was taken threw suspicion on an amateur phrenologist named Gordon Trnpddale. Trnesdale occuDie i a small farm in the vicinity with his wife and a family of four girls, the oldest not more than eight years old. He was a handsome, broad-shouldered fellow, with a fair education, but laiy and shiftless. His treat bobby was phrenol ogy, and he occasionally lectured on that subject in country scboolhouses. His am bition to possess a collection of skulls was well known in the neighborhood, and the desecration ot the Platts girl's crave was laid at his - door, although he was never openly charged with it. About three weeks ago Trnesdale went to a physician and asked if a person could become poisoned in handling a dead body. He received an affirmative reDtv. and appeared to be much troubled. He complained to his wife that bis nose pained him terribly, and be believed that he was takiDg the erysipelas. He began doctorintr himself with bread and milk poul tices, but without success. His face began to swell rapidly,and in less than three days it and his head became twice their natural size, and lost all semblance of human shape. A physi cian was called in against the wishes of Truesdale. He found the man Buttering ter ribly: His lips were drawn by the tension of the teeth in unceasing pain. Ihe cuticle across the bridge of the nose and over the forehead was bo distended with the mattery substance underneath that it seemed as it it mu3t burst every moment. The eyes were swollen almost to bursting from their sockets, and were turned with pain until hardly any thing but the whites could be seen. It was evident that a terrible poison was slowly, but iurelv. Tjernieating the man a whole system, The uhvsician. after a careful examination of the unwilling patient, cut open his skin from about tbe center of the nose almost to the roots of the hair, and then made another cut across the forehead almost from temple to temple. From these incisions there oczid a mass of loathsome, detestable putrescence, so terrible in lta Btench that the attendants, save one, ran from the house. Other incisions were made in different parts'of the scalp.trom which the bair had been shaved, and frooi there this terribly offensive matter oozed constantly, until the swelling was reduced and tha head and face assumed nearly their nominal s'zo. Attempts were then mado to free the incisions of matter by injecting water into them. It was noticed that when water was forced into tha cut in the forehead it poured cut of the holes in the scalp. As one of the attendants said, "it seemed as if all the flesh between the skin and bone bad turned to corruption and ran out." When Truesdale was told that he could not possibly recover, he called his wite into the ronm and confessed to htr that he robbed the Piatts girl's graw, snd referred to a certain night when he iett the nonse and refused to tell htr where he went as the time when he committed the crime. He said he dug down to the head of the ccfliu, broke it open, and taking bis knife cut around the neck ot the corpse through the fldsh to the bone. He then placed one of his feet on the breast of tbe corpse and taking the head in his bands palled and jerked and twist ed it until it came off by mere force. He afterward disjointed the lower j-tw and threw it where Fred Auer found it. He closed bis confession by telling where the skull wou'd be found, under the straw in a certain manger in tbe stable. It was found there and givea up to the Platts family. The last three days of Truesdale's existence was terrible, not only to himself bnt to those who watched him. The poison from some corpse (for it is believed he had recently opened sev eral graves), which was communicited to his system by pricking a raw spot on the inside of his nose, appeared to course through ev ery vein in his body. Not only was his per son offensive to the eye, but the odor and heat of his breath was so offensive that it was impossible tor the attendants to wait on him properly. The breath was so poisonous that when one of the attendants held his hand six inches from the dying man's mouth it stung tbe flesh like hun dreds of nettles. Those who waited upon him were obliged fo wear gloves, as it was impossible to wash the odor from their hands. Thejday he died his flesh was so (rotten that it seemed as if it wouldjdrop from tbe bones if touched, and his eyes actually decayed until they became sight less. For two days before his death a coffin had been in readiness, and the orde rs of the physician were to place him in it as soon as the breath left bis body, and get him under ground immediately. After his death none cf the attendants had the temerity to touch the corpse, for fear of being powoned, bo they gathered the sheets on which the body lay at each tnd, and thus lifted it into tbe ccfnn. The lid was quickly screwed down, but before a wagon could be procured the body swelled and burst, it cif. It was then strapped on, but when . the coffin was taken from the wagon at the graveyard juet at daylight, it aain flew cif, end the body appeared to swell visibly be fore the Lorrifkd attendants' eyes. The fetid. noisome oterch from the- putrid mass within was such that no one could attempt to replace the cover, and the coflin was covered from sight as hurriedly as possible. The day aiter the funeral or burial, rather the wile of Iruesdale was confined at a neighbor 8 house. this ti'th child also being a girl. The TrueB- dalo house will not be fat to occupy lor sev eral days, as all efforts to fumigate It thus far have tailed. Ihe dcors and windows hive been left open day and nUrht, but the stench in still as bad as when he died. As one of the attendants said, "it s'ill seems as if you could cut the air iu that bouse with a kuife." A WEiT FIRE. Pillager Supplement tbe Work of the Flames In dinttlns tne Town. Nkw Yokk, March 24. News was re ceived to-day of ths destruction by fire of tbe entire business portion of Samana, Sin Domingo, on the ninth instant. The esti mated loss is one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The fire covered a space of about six acres, and as there was no insurance near ly all tbe mi r;hants are ruined, and the poor would be on the verge of starvation were it not that tbe country around abounds in truit, upon which all are subsisting. The most dis graceful scdnes of pillagu followed the lire. Tbe customhouse was dumaged by the con flagration. It is said that the pillagers of the pluce quarrelled over tho distribution of the booty and m vera I of them were killed in the Suht that followed. A servant of Mr. J. G. Durch lighted a fire in the kitchen, and feel ing sleepy went to bed; a high wind scatter ed some of the burning embers and in a short space of time the building and those adjoin ing were in flames. Tne tiro burned with great fierceness and the flames leaped across the street and swept evorytbing away to the customhouse. In the customhouse was alr re quantity of tobacco ready for shipment, but it was all destroyed. The customhouse stop ped the further pro?ress of the fire. Only the scores of Gruilen & Fondam and G. K vas are left. Mate, .clarions lonrnallats. New York Nation: "There has evidently been spent on this assemblage of shcrt stories and poems an amount ot labcr and pains which is as unusual to find in the work of so busy a man as Mr. Townsend, in his capacity of 'Gatb.' as it is to find it spent to such ex cellent literary purpose. This effect is partly due, no doubt, to his genuine fondness for the reg:o3 which all the stories and verse il lustrate (and which his ancestors explored in 162-. we note in his dedication), and the po etical spirit of which Mr. Townsend has ad mirably cautrht. His subject is not, however. any more to his advantage that his treatment ct it has been to his credit in refinement and simplicity. Tbe latter excites wonder as to how manv inslorious mutes so far as litera ture is concerned, that is to say the profes sion of journalism, of which it is so profit able, and doubtless otherwise attractive, to be 'brilliant members, contains." A lHatlngntohed Aetreas Uead. Indianapolis, March 16. Mrs. Coleman Pope, at one time a distinguished actress, died to day at her residence, in this city, at tha ago ot seventy-one years, from eeneral debility. She was boru at west mains. lorkehire, in 1S09, and made her hrst ap pearance on the stage as "Mrs. Haller," ia The Stranger, at Hastings, f rom which time her success was assured, and she soon became a leading actress in Birmingham, Bristol, and other places in England. In 1$46 she came to America, and opened at the Bowery thtater as Margaret Elmore. Subsequently she made a successful tour through the south and west. Mrs. Pope was tne "JUady Mac beth" at the Astor-Place operahouse at tbe time of the Macready-Forrest riots in New York. During the first scene or two, after Macreaciy bad made his entrance, amid tne whirlwind of passion and indignation which seemed to shake the house, the actors were in great terror, through the occasional tail ing on tbe stage ot some missile intended tor Macready's head. Then the time came for Mrs. Pope to make her entrance. It was with some hesitation that she appeared on the stage reading the letter from "Macbeth." The disorder, however, suddenly stopped, and no longer frightened, jars. Pope went through . her part without faltering to the end. She was in Chicago in loz, and did not return to New York till January 16, 1S57, when she appeared at the! Academy of Music as "Romeo" to Mrs. MacMahon's "Juliet. She subsequently played for several years in this city, and retired from the stage when her husband, wbo was insane, committed suicide. ALMOST EQUAL TO KAJiDALL. Talking; Twenty-Six Honrs A Patriot ic and Terrible Speeeb A grain at Tine to Kill Calaat Bill. Peoria National Democrat: The longest BDeech on record is believed to have been mado by a member of the legislature of British Columbia, named DeUosmos. it was in the interest of settlers who were to be do' frauded out of their lands. DeCosmos was in the hopeless minority. The job had been held back till the eve ot the close of the ses sion. Unless legislation was taken before noon of a certain day the act of conhscation would fail. The day before the expiration of the limitation DeCosmos got the floor about ten o clock in the morning, and began a speech against the bill. Its friends eared lit tie, tor they supposed that by one or two o clock in the afternoon be would be through, and the bill could be put on its passage, Oae o'clock came and went, and DeCosmoB was still speaking hadn't more than entered npon his sub ject. Two o'clock he was saying, "in the second place." Three o'clock he produced a fearful bundle of evidence and insisted in reading it. Tbe majority began to have a suspicion of the truth he was going to speak till next noon and kill the bill. Ftr- a while they made merry over it, but as it came on to dusk they begun to get alarmed. Ihey tried interruptions, but soon abandoned them be' cause each one afforded him a chance to di gress and gain time. They tried to shout him down, but that gave him a breathing space. and finally settled down to watch the combat between the strength ot will and weakness ot body. Ihey gave him no mercy. No ad' journment for dinner; no chance to do more than wet his hps with water; no wandering from the subject; no Bitting down. Twilight darkened, the gas was lit; members slipped out to supper in relays and returned to sleep in squads, but DeUosmos went on The speaker to whom he ' was addressing himself was alternately dozing, snoring, and trying to look awake. Day dawned and a majority of the members slipped out to break fast, and the speaker still held on. It can't be said it was a very logical, eloquent or sua tained speech. There .were digressions in it; repetitions also. But the speaker kept on, and at last noon came to a battled majority. livid with rage and impotence, and a single man who was triumphant, though his voice had sunk to a whisper, his eyes were sunken and bleared and blood-shot, and his legs tot tered under him, and his baked lips were cracked and smeared with blood. DeCosmos had spoken twenty-six hours, and saved the settlers their lanaa. 1870. Tlldra and the Soldiers A Scrap of History la Csnaeetloa with tne j?raadnlent Inauguration. Nkw York, March 21. A reporter inter viewed some of the prominent gentlemen whose names havo teen published in connec tion with the so-called Union veteran reform association, said to have been organized in 1S76, and that Tilden was aware of its exist ence previous to the election. A convention of Union soldiers was held at Albany for the purpose of advancing the interests of Tilden for the Presidency. At that convention an executive committee was appointed, consist ing of the most prominent Union army of ficers in the country; but nothing further was done till after the election, when it became evident that Tilden was to be counted out. A circular was issued stat ing that the constitution of the United States should be maintained; that the laws should be enft r jed and the will of the people should occasionally be respected. Tbe circular was sent to different army officers in this and other States, accompanied by blank forms, which latter were subsequently returned to the executive committee with the names of the signers. No person was admitted to the organization unless be had served in the Union army. In each State there was a cen tral committee, and General M'Mahon esti mated that there were between two hundred and three hundred thousand members. A meeting was held in the National hotel, at Washington, about the time that General Grant ordered the concentration of troops there. At that meeting the new association was formally organized. General M'Ma- bon said that duriig their stay in Washington several members ot the committee were warned by Democrats to be very careful in what was said. Many of tho Democrats feared the Republicans would order their arrest. The general concluded by saying: "None of us ever imagined any trouble would be experience! if Tilden had been declared President by tbe house of representatives. Our presence in Washington was merely for tbe purpose of securing the inauguration of Tilden." Among the mem bers of the organization were Peter Bowe, now sheriff ot this county; General William F. Smith, police commissioner; General Wil liam B. Franklin, General Couch, General M. T. Donobue, Colonel Michael C. Murphy, General H. W. Slocum and General John B. Woodward, late inspector-general of the State. "MOM PKT1T ACCIDK1T." Sarah Bernhardt' Ball la Honor of Her Hoy's Ulrthday The Heenen and Sights on the Occasion. - London Telegraph. I Paris, March 5. A ball was given last night, the like of which could certainly not be tound in auy other capital in the world but Paris. Some few days ago a very hand somely illustrated card a work of art in it self, due to tbe pencil of Clarrin was re ceived by the personal friends of Mile. Sara Bernhardt, reading thus: "Monsieur Mau rice Bernhardt prU Monsieur X. de lui aire Vhonneur de venir passer la soiree de la Mi-Uareme cnez sa mere. ihe enter tainment was given in celebration of the young ho3t having completed the fifteenth year of his age. Fancy drees was supposed to be de rigueur, and there were indeed so tew black coats that they in no way impaired the bright and picturesque aspect of the famous atelier which has been described so often. A model of artistic splendor, it needed little to adapt it to the requirements of a ball-room. The Japanese figures, the mag nificent bronz?B, the paintings, statues and numberless works of Jcost from nearly every part of tbe world, had only to be heaped to gether in more than usual profusion, and the somewhat severe aspect of the architecture merely lightened with additional tapestries and banners. The dining-room, the walls covered with frescoes on golden ground did naturally duty for the buffet, while an extra room, built out over the garden, and draped with gobelins, 'served as a cool retreat from the heat of tbe ball-room. The hest was dressed in the elegant Italian costume worn by bis mother in Le Passant, while she her self, in a white satin dress, with tall hat, ap peared as the most charming of "Pierrettes." Several dress 28 were fantastic enough Mile, de Gournay. for instance, being made up as "Puss in BjotV and Mile. Abbeind as a black "Pierrot." The painters present were naturally most correct in their attire Da taille, for instance, wearing the dress uni form of an Eaglish guardsman; Jacquet, a veritable Italian marJiieval costume, and Bas tion L?papa looking a Calabrian brigand to the life. But to enumerate the guests would be tc give a list of all tbe nobilities in Pane. To show the eclectic nature of the gathering I need only to mention that it included tbe famous Sergeant Hoff, whose bust, by Mile. Bernhardt, is to be exhibited in the next salon. Dancing was carried on with a reck less gayety, which found its excuse in the license of carnival time, and the view of the scene, as witnessed from the staircase, which is the moit conspicuous feature of the studio, leaves an impression which, by those who en joyed it, will not ealy be forgotten. Mood Reason for Chance. Aftfr an exp rience of thirty-eight years as an evening paper, tbe Cleveland Plain dealer has become a morning paper. Tbe philosophy of the chance is thus explained by the PUiindealer : "The rush of invention and improvement has for some years been making the attcraoon paper more and more antiquated, until it is now far from abreast the times, and can only prosper under excep tionally favorable circumstances." Baptised la Blood. Nashville, llarch 24 William O. Ha gan, a carpenter, fell from the Centennial exposition building, now in course of erec tion, at eleven o'clock this morning, a dis tance of thirty-Sve feet, crushing his bead. He died at half-post one o'clock in the after noon. He hailed from Talbot, North Carolina. OLD MOTHER SHIPT0JT3 Prophecy that the World Is to be Closed Ont Under Contract in 1881 Re ceives Additional and Peculiar Force from the Conduct of Certain ' Spirits who Hare Annoyed Several Per. sons In a Respectable House in Leroy Street, ITew ork A Marvelous Tale or Spirit Adventure. New York Herald: Believers in the super natural will reioice in tbe mysterious mani festations which to tbe past five days have caused the wildest excitement in an other wise well conducted and orderly private dwellings in the ninth ward. Tbe scene of the ghostly apparitions is a two-story brick building at No. 46 Leroy street. Mr. Michael Maher. the owner of the premises, occupies the front parlor and uses the front part of tbe basement as a kitchen. A Mr. Angus and his wife reside on the second floor. Mrs. DeBor. a remarkably handsome and intelli gent married woman, occupies the back par lor, which she rents as a furnished room. Her family consists of a baby ten weeks old, Alice, seven years of age. and a colored ser vant, Maggie Johnson, who is fifteen years old. Iheir apartment is small to accommo date so manv peoole. and is comfortably fnr nished. Mrs. DeBar, since the birth of her baby, bas not been in robust health. Mrs. DeBar ia nossessed of considerable literary attainments, and is a contributor to several periodicals. Her husband, J. H .Diss UatJar, is an ex-congressman from Virgina. At present Mr. DaBar is absent in Kansas, where he has charge of an emigration colony. PRANKS OF THE SPIRITS. There are several reputable and intelligent persons who have witnessed these mysteri ous manifestations, and who corroborate each others statements in a most remarkable manner. These persons will be allowed to speak for themselves: "I have occupied this room," said Mrs. De Bar, who was seated in bed, being an invalid, "for a couple of months." Nothing unusual happened until last Sunday. The place had been up to that time remarkably quiet and orderly. Well, on tho day in question, I was disturbed lor the hrst time by strange sounds in the room. I paid little attention to them at first, but tiiey became so frequent and loud- that my attention was attracted to them, and 1 became very much alarmed. 1 sent lor Mrs. Angus and told her of my fears. While we were talking the tappings were repeated. The knocks were loud and forcible. It ap peared as if some person was beating the bedstead with a heavy stick. I was so fright ened that I became very ill, and was obliged to send for medical assistance. Dr. Knox called to see me, and I informed him of the strange noises in the rcoai. He thought 1 was hysterical and - was skep tical. Finding that my condition did not improve, he called in Dr. Clarke, and they held a consultation. 1 was then suffering from occasional hemorrhages of the lungs. Ihey did not know what to attribute this to. I accounted for it on the theory that. owing to the repeated frights I had been sub ject to, I must have ruptured a blood vessel. Well, Mr. and Mrs. Angus, Mr. Maher, a Mr. Mallon, who is the proprietor of a liquor store and a mend or my husband, not to men tioh the members of my own family, became interested in solving tho mystery which oc casioned us all so much fright. Mr. Angus thought it was all a joke. He and half a dozen other people were in here talking over the case last Monday. Mr. Angus used very strong langaage in denouncing what he termed 'the nonsense engendered by a sick woman's diseased fancy, when a cup which rested on ths washstand near the door was lifted and dashed to the other side of the room. Maggie, said Mrs. DeBtr, adresv ing the coloietl girl, "please hand the cup to tbe gentleman.' Maggie produced (he cup from the cup board and exhibited it. The vessel was of stone-china, and was heavy and substantial It was chipped at the side and cracked .from the handle to tbe base. WITNESSED BI MANY PERSONS. "That was witnessed," said Mrs. DeBar, "by half a dozen persons, Mr. Angus, his wite, my little girl, my servant and myself were present. That was the least of our trouble. What I relate to you can be cor roborated by a dozen reputable peisens. That small table bell which you see on the mantel wa thrown high in the air and rent spinning around the chandelier. The bell remained in the air for quite a spell and was kept ringing all tbe time. That substantial chandelier has swayed to and fro until I thought it would be dashed to the floor, and was tnen lifted as high as the ceiling, where it remained fixed for a Bhort time A large ball was hurled from beside the bed with such force that it tore a hole in the carpet near tbe sofa. Just please raise that ottoman and you can see yourself where the carpet has been torn. My little girl saw here, Alice! Baid Mrs. DeBar, calling to a bright, blue-eyed. flaxen-haired child, seated on the sofa by tbe colored girl s Bide, please tell the gen tleman what yoa saw. Oh, she's not afraid; are yon, dear t: "No, mamma," answered the child. "Whera iB God, darling?" "In the dark," was tho childish reply. "Well, go on now, dear, and tell the gee tleman what happened to that picture." Hera Mrs. UeOiT pointed to B crayon sketch on the wall, midway between the head ot the bed and the dcor. "I saw a hand," said the child, "take hold or tbe picture a.d shake it. "Where did the hand come from?" "It came from the Bide of the table and crept np the wall. A small table, on which was placed medicine bottles, stood beneath the drawing. "Tell the gentleman what jou saw when the cup was tkrown from the wasbatand yesterday morning.' "I saw a hand and arm reach down for the cup and throw it across the rcom." "Just a few minutes before yoa came in," said Mrs. DeBor, "the cole red girl, while seated on the rocking-chair, with the baby in her arms Maggie, please tell the gentleman what took place. "I felt something press against my back. and I was thrown forward," said the colored girl with distended eyes. It may be well to remark that durinsr the above conversation Mr. and Mrs. Angus were present, and that they corroborated Mrs. De Bar s ghostly allegations. COBROBOKATIYE EVIDENCE. "1 didn't believe in it myself." said Mr Angus, "and I don't still: but I can't denv that I saw the bell flying about, and was also present at tbe cup-tossing. 1 can bear wit ness also to the mysterious rappings which have been going on here. I haven't slept a wink in two nights. I wish I could catch the author of these disturbances, I'd make short Wt rk ot him, said Mr. Angus, looking un easily about. This remark shocked Mrs. Angus, a mid- aie-agea, mna-iooKing laay. . "How can you talk so," she said repror ingly. "I thought that I should die with fright when I heard the awful noise right at my teet. "Yes," remarked Mr. ADgus, cynically, ' ana I thought you a choke me, yoa grasped me so tightly about tbe neck." "Oh," said Mrs. DeBar, "I won't stay here another night: l can t stand it any lonser. 1 sent for Father Cammellas, and he called here yesterday and to-day. iou ask him what he saw. Father Cammellas heard my confession and tried to dispel my fears. He saw the bell dashed about the floor, and he also saw the white wings floating in the air around the room. At this point of the narrative Mrs. DeBar was attacked with a alight convulsion. A gurgling noiBe was heard in her throat, and blood exuded from her lips. She recovered in a moment, wiped her lips with a handker chief and asked for a glass of watt r. "You see the priest," she said, "he will tell yoa all. He is not a man to be imposed on. His fine, prominent nose is indicative of his rigidity ot character. MESMERIZING THE COLOKED GIRL. A medical gentleman who was also an at' teutive listener, critically examined the crim son ttuid on tbe handkerchief. tie said it came from the gums. With some experi mental or scientinc object in view, not ap parent to the reporter, the medical gentle man, who had never seen tbe invalid lady or been in the chamber before, proceeded to mesmerize the colored girl. The latter had to be coaxed before she wonld submit to the operation. Taking both hands he gazd steadily in her eyes, and at the expiration of a tew minutes her gaze became hxed and she fell back on the sola, breathing stertonously She was allowed to remain in the trance for a few minutes, when the doctor recalled her to consciousness by a wave ot tbe band, at tbe same time btddmg her awake. At the word she suddenly: set up, cried out, hysterically "Oh, mamma?" covered hex eyes with her hands and sobbed violently. Father Cammellas is an Italian priest, and is attached to St. Anthony s church, in bum van street. He was fonnd last evening at the pastor's residence by the reporter. When tbe subject of the DeBar manifestations was broacbad lather (Jammeuas 6tatea unnesi ta tin civ that he had himself witnessed what appeared to him to be tbe work of supernat ural airencies. "As I was going into the room,1' said tbe father, "I heard the bell tingling, atd aa I was crossing the threshold it was dathed at my feet. It is also true that I saw white wings floating in the air, near the ceibng. I have witnessed these things myself, with my own eyes. I know that a great many people will ridicule me tor making such a statement, but I can't help that. I am simply telling tbe truth just what I saw with my own eyes. DOUBTINO DOCTOBS. Dr, D. M. Brosnan accompanied Father Cammellas to the sick chamber. Dr. Bros nan testified that he beard ths ringing of the bell; he did not remain long in the room and saw no wings, lie denied the theory ot the other doctor that the blood was exuded from the gums or from decayed teeth. "I thought so myself," said Dr. Brosnan, "until I ex amined her mouth. Her gums and teeth are perfect." uoroner unox is Mrs. uetsar s lamuy pny- sician. tie says be has beard of, out has not seen the mysterious manifestations. He and Dr. (Stephen J. Clarke concluded that Mrs. DeBar was suffering from hysteria, but they were at a loss to account for the cause of the spasms and the bleeding at the mouth. Michael Mallon is tbe proprietor of a liquor store at the corner of Carmine and Bedford streets. When questioned, he admitted that he, in tbe company of ether friends, among whom were Johu Angus and a Mr. Uogers, while seated in the room, heard the raps. "Ihe noise, said Mr. Mallon, "was like as if a person had struck heavy blows on tbe Hoar with a stent stick. A teacup was thro w n acro3S tbe room and narrowly escaped strik ing Mr. Rogers in the face." Mr. Maher, proprietor ot the bouse, states that he believes noises of a mysterious char acter have disturbed Mrs. DeBar. but he ce nied that the noiss in question was produced bg supernatural causes. Mrs. uetiar claimed that a glass tooth brush which rested on the mantel has been dashed to tbe floor; that the picture ot the M.-donna was raised trom its posiaon and shifted to another place; that her tooth pow der, combs, brashes, books and papers nave been dashed about tbe floor by unseen bands: that she bad at first administered a severe whipping to her little girl, thinking that she was responsible for these irrecularities. The colored servant furthermore alleged that when engaged sweeping the noor the dust and dirt she had swept together would be again dashed back over the surface of the carpet she bad a moment before swept. AN ANONXJIOUS SCRIBBLER, The Samo who so Annoyed Dr IIx and Others, of New York, Arrested la Baltimore. nisi Hla-h-Sonndlos Name Hot Likely to Avail film Bach in His Pres ent Kxtrenilty. Baltimore. March 24. This afternoon James Gaylor, geue.al superintendent ot the city delivery of the Nw York postoflice. with the aid ot a detective, arrested Eugene Fairfax Williamson in this city on the charge of having been tbe originator of the late an noyance to Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix and others of New York, by writing anonymous letters ana sending persons to their bouses and places of business. When arrested William son confessed that be was the author cf the letters and postal cards. He states that he arrived in New York about the middle ot February and remained there about a week, during which the first anonymons letters were written. He again went to New York on the fourteenth of March and remained a week, when he wrote and mailed the of' tensive letters and cards. On both occasions he stopped at the Windsor hotel, and regis tered his proper name and residence (Pitta burg). He says that he does not know what prompted him, as neither Dr. Dx nor any others ever annoyed or injured him. When he found on his visit to New York the injury be had done on his first visit, he felt badly about it, and wrote the letter from the Fifth avenue hotelto Dr. D;x which he afterward sent to the New York Tribune, hoping that it would prevent people trom calling at Dr. Dix's bouse, lie says that he did not intend to extoit money frcm Dr. D x or from any other person, and that lie did not an swer the "personal" in the Herald in reply to ono of bis letters. The accused was taken on to New York to-night, having expressed his willingness to go without a formal requi sition. Williamson is a sincle man. about forty years of age, and S3ys he is a native of Baltimore. He arrived here Friday night last, and went to a private residence where be was acquainted and fcuad when tr rested. He was trvcid from the Wines rholel by the detectives. UIUHTAKI) GALVESTOX. The Island City Outdoes Ittelf In HoS' pltallly to the IMatlnsalahed Guest. Galveston, March 24. This morning uenerai urant. Accompanied by Mayor Leon ard, took a stroll through tbe city, visiting several places, including the News office. At eleven o'clock the guests started for a drive on the beach. After an extended drive the party returned to the hotel, and from three to hvo o clock a ladies reception was eiven. a large number being present. Gene'al Grant this morning formally accepted an invitation to visit San Antonio, and will leave Friday morning. General Sheridan and wifa and Colonel Fred Grant and wife leave direct for Chicago Friday. There is as liberal a display of bunting as on the Fourth of July, and en thusiasm and excitement everywhere. Vast preparations ate being made for the grand banquet which the municipality tenders this evening to tbe general. TBE IiEE5iO OK ABOU BKX HILL. Abou Ben Hill -lone mar his tribe Increase- Long may Le tread the paths ot virtue and or peace! Approached br woman once of glowing charms, HoldtDg a plump young man child la her arms "What nast thou here, O pen. fair as noon! And whltber corneal, daughter ol the moon?" Thus from his truly goodness ibou cried, waen. boning low, tbe wayworn girl replied: "Long have I sought thee, scofftd at sou reviled, Bearing our passion's Iruit our little child!" Abou Ben Hill was rich and grand and proud. He wore fine raiment and bis voice was loud Yet. choking all, he bent with gentle grace, A ad saw himself reflected in the lutaut's face. "Now. by the moon! 'tis mine!" he startled cries "He hath my nose, my mouth, my ears, my eyes!" The woman said. H's truly thine. Indeed On, help us storvlog else we ale ot need!" Full thirty dollars of his store be give To keep the mother from a pauper's grave. Abou B?n Hill, long may thy tribe Increase Ia ways legitimate, without surcease. CURIOSITIES CK1JIE. Reprieved. A SIX WEEKS LEASE OF LIFE. Buffalo, March 24. A reprieve of six weeks has been granted Carl Monks, sen tenced to be hung April 21. Capturing the Crooked. NINE DISTILLERIES AND SEVEN MEN NIPPED. Atlanta, Ga., March 21. Nine illicit distilleries and seven workmen were captured by a raiding force which has just returned. A Heavy Hani. BOBBERY OF A BAND-WHEEL MAKER. Bradford, Pa., March 24 Charles A. Thilo, manufacturer of band wheels, was robbed last night, while asleep, of four thou sand dollars. Appeal Denied. WILL HAVE TO EXPIATE HIS CRIME. Montgomery, Ala., March 24. The court denies the appeal of Gus Wynn, con victed of murder, and be was sentenced to be hanged April 30th. A Doable Crime. FRIGHTFUL MURDER AND SUICIDE. Elmira, N. Y., March 24. At Liwrence ville, Pennsylvania, Sidney-Green killed his wife, and being pursued, shot himself dead. His wite had only recently returned from the west. Shot Herself. SUICIDE FROM FAMILY TROUBLES. PiTTSBUKCi, March 24. Mrs. Agnes Sneatham, the wife of Walter Sneatham, shot herself shortly after twelve o'clock yes terday. After lingering in acomatoe state she died this evening at a quarter post seven o'clock. The cause of the rash act is sup posed to b-i family trouble. Blswa I p. AN OHIO TEMPERANCE ARGUMENT. Columbus, O., March 24. A saloon in Dublin, this county, was blown up with pow der this morning by temperance people. Powder was used, and tbe wreck of the building was complete. Nobody was injured, and no arrests were made. The names of the parties cjnld not be ascertained. His BosdaBtem Liable. Chicago, March 24. Ia the case of the city of Chicago against D. A. Gage, ex-city treasurer, and his bondsmen, involving about five hundred and seven thousand dollars, tbe supreme court has reversed the decision of tbe appellate court, and decides that the bondsmen are liable. This is in accordance with the original decision of the circuit court. The full extent of the decision is not yet learned. A Ilanifireat Endowment. Louisville, March 24. Joseph E. Brown, of Georgia, has placed in the handj of Rev. J. P. Bjyce, treasurer of the Baptist theo logical seminary, fifty thousand dollars for the endowment of a professorship. It is the intention of the faculty to to add to this as to make a special endownmeot fund of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the support of professorships. A WIFE'S TALE. According to the Statements of the Belter-Ualfof Our Minister to Tern, that Venerable Personage is a Wife-Whipper of the Most Inveterate Stripe A Story of Shocking Treatment, to Free Herself from Which the Poor Worn s n is About to Apply for a Divorce from Bread and Board The End. It has already been announced that Mrs. Christiancy, wife of Ex-Senator Christiancy, of Michigan, at present minister to Peru, has separated trom her husband, and that both intend suing tor divorce. Mrs. Christiancy, who was a clerk in the treasury department, and only twenty years of age when she married Mr. Christiancy, was a Miss Lmbengeel, and now lives with ber mother, who is a sister of Colonel Laben geel, ot the United States army. Her mother keeps a boardinghouse in Washington, and it is said Mrs. Christiancy gains a moderate m come by coloring photographs. Being vis ited by a reporter ot the Washington fost, Mrs. Christiancy made the following state ment: "My going to Peru was against my will. My ill treatment had commenced long before that time, and 1 was fearful tor my safety. was only in Peru five or six months,' and yet all that time was marked by continued bru talitv toward me. One instance, in particu lor, I remember. Mr. Christiancy, as usual, had. been drinking. He came to me one night. and, although I had been sick in bed for two days, commenced to abuse me violently, until, bis druncen anger getting the oest ol mm, ce struck me. 1 went down to tbe door to rush from the house, when George, his sixteen- year old son, followed me out and said that he would go with me, as be was t'.red ot eee ing me so treated. At that juncture, a Mr. Havt. an American leeidont in Luma, came to the bouse on a visit and was a witness of the trouble. Mr. Chiistiancy then begged me to stay, saying that he bad net intended to strike me. But I ref used to remain, and as I was leavinir he calltd George to come to fcim George walked toward my husband, who then pointed to Mr. Hayt and me, saying ti me: .Mow you can go. Instantly Mr. nayt. comprehended the insinuation, and answered 'Mrs. Christiancy does not leave this hcuse without your son accompanying ber. With that George said : 'Father, 1 am going with her. and came to me. "If you go out of this bouse now you go forever, said Mr. Ohns' ti-ncv. Then it is forever,' I answered. George and I went fo a hotel. The next day Mr. Christiancy sent word to us that he was very sick and expeoied to die, and would I please come home. At first I refused, for I bad suffered almost too much to forgive. But the friend h-j hid sent pictured hts dis- trc-s in such a manner that at last 1 consented When I returned I was surprised to find him perlectly well. Ha made every manifestation of penitence, and once more 1 returned to Lis house. The very next mornmcr. when I was lying on the bed, suffering with the pain that my troubles had aggra vated, he stood over me, and cursed and swore at me until I was nearly wild. His driving me from the house had raised such a secsitloa that a petition tor hia recall as min ister was put in circulation; but I. dreading a scandal, hid it suppressed. Everything went quietly for some time, during which we heard that this Mr. Hyt, who had gone fur ther Bouth, had been killed in the war. This was noticeably good news to Mr. UbriBliancy, wbo would have been glad to have lost this witness of his cruelty. One day, however, he returned, and, calling at our bouse, said he was about to return to the United States. In stantly Mr. CfcrUtiancy's manner toward him was changed; he wrs all kindness, for he did not want him to leave with any ill will that might result in the spreading of the facts re garding him that Mr. Hayt knew. The latter, much to mv surLrse. received an in vitation to remain over night. Tho next morning Mr. Christiancy again commenced his abuse of me, and to escape him I ran into the siiting-room. He followed me, and, Lot content with using words, struck me. BJteamed, and then he choked me until I could make no sound. Mr. Hayt, who was in another room recnng a paper, beard my first scream and hc'ivied to my assistance, hurling Mr. Christiancy back and almost throwing him to the floor. Mr. Hayt left that day for the States, and 1 ktt tho follow ing week." "That was the cause, or rather those were the causes, of your coming home r "Yes." 'Have vou entered suit for divorce yet?' "I have already consulted one of the best lawyers here, and intend to bring a suit for divorce as soon as possible. There is a legal objec'ion, however, wbicb, perhaps, may be surmounted. I forfeited my residence here when 1 married Mr. Christiancy, and went to live in Michigan. When I returned with him and was subjected to continued ill-treatment, I condoned it by living with him. The acts of cruelty for which I left him happened in Peru, and I have not since lived long enough in the District to entitle me to a kgal resi dence ia order to bring suit." "Is Mr. Christiancy seeking a divorce?" "I do not know for certain, but I should not be surprised if he is. He threatened when I lelt him that he would crush me those were his very words unless I stayed, and would ruin my reputation for ever. He said that be had power and posi tion, and 1 was weak and could not fiht him. I can understand why these charges have been made against me. I threatened him that I would make known his treatment of me, ai d would expose his cruelty, besides telling what I knew of his selling his sent ia' the senate to Chandler for a mission. Fear ing that I would carry cut these IhreaU, he is trying to create public sympathy in his be half and against me by malicious accusations. He told me that be would briDg a suit against mo for divorce. I asked bim on what grounds,' for I cou!d not see where I had been guilty of anything which could form a basis for an action ot this kind. 'I will bribe witnesses,' he said, 'to appear against you, if it is necessary.' " "You sty, Mrs. Christiancy, that you can tell something about tbe manner in which Mr. Christiancy procured his appointment as minister to Peru ?" "Yes, and I think it ought to be published. One day Mr. Chandler came to cu - bouse in Detroit to see Mr. Chribtiancy. I was some what surtrised at this, as the two had been at loggerheads for some time. They had a long interview in the parlor, tbe nature of which I knew nothing of until Vie Chris tiancy, the senator's son, who overheard it, told it to me. Chandler said that he had been to Washington and seen Hayes, and one of tbe three missions could be tendered Cbristiancy, either Japan, Central America or Peru. The programme was that Chris tiancy was to have it published that he was to) unwell to enter into a canvass and wished (o be relieved from senatorial duties. Altera long talk, during which the details of the affair were arranged, Christiancy said: 'Well, we will consider this a settlement." Chandler chuckled and rubbed his hands, saying, 'Yes, we will consider this a settle ment, and I will fix that matter with Henry," meaning, as 1 learned afterward, that be would pay a sum of money to Christiancy 'a son Henry, who was in tbe customhouse at Detroit. That day Mr. Christiancy did not dine at home, but dined with Mr. Chandler, at the Lansing house. When he was away Vic told me what he heard, and that was the fir,t intimation 1 had of the matter. When Mr. Christiancy returned and asked me if I would not like to go either to Japan, Central America or Peru, I replied frankly that 1 would not leave the country with bim, for I was afraid to. I asked bim why he wanted a mission, and he said he wished to save money. . He thought he would take the Peru mission, as he would not have to live in style there. It did not pay aa much salary aa the other two, but he said he could make up the difference by perqui sites. S3 it was fixed for him that he should go to Peru. While he was in Michigan awaiting the action of the senate on his nom ination, I learned from the wife of a former minister to a Sjuth American country that it was impossible to live there in any respecta bility whatever and save money. I tele graphed Mr. Christiancy to tiat effect, for I bad opposed his going all along, but be wrote bock that it had gone too far and he could not back out. I could tell you more of this business, but that is enough to show you how it was deliberately planned that he should sell his seat in the senate to Chandler and receive as pay a mission." At this point a visitor was announced and the reporter took his leave. Ia this connec tion it may be stated that six weeks ago Sen ator Cnristiancy filed an application tor leave of absence at the state department, and was advised that it would be granted as soon aa practicable. Harder nod Uobbery. A writer in Appltton's Journal, who ap pears to spak advisedly, presents au array of facts and figures calculated to shake public confidence in the business integrity of M. DeLe-deps. M. DeLesseps was w.lhng to stake his reputation on the assertion that tbe Suez canal could be built for forty million dollars. It C0it more than ninety million dollars, besides tho lives cf about twenty thousand Egyptian laborers, who fell victims to bard work and poor fare. Ha bad obtained important cocc fsions from Ui khedive, but adroitly managed to avoid fulfilling his own obligations, while the Egyptian government was constantly plunged deeper and deeper in debt. By the time the work was comple ted Egypt owed about one hundred and twenty-five million dollars, including its sub scriptions for the work, which was more than it really cost, and had security in bonds to offset only a part of its liabilities. There isn t any reason to suppose tbat M. UeLies- 8eps's figures in relation to his Panama canal scheme are even as near a basis of fact as was the Suez estimate, for the proposed work at Panama is one that defies computation of cost. POLITICAL. POINTS. KAX81M. BLAINE AHEAD -THUS FAR. Atchison, March 24. The Champion has advices from fifty-five counties in this State showing the selection of one hundred and forty-eight Blaine and ninety-four Grant del egates to the State convention. Blaine will have about sixty majority in the convention. SEW KOBK. GREENBACK STATE CONVENTION. Albany, March 24. The National Green back-Labor party field their S.ate convention to-day. about one hundred persons being present. J. L. Wright was temporary chair man. At roll-call Mrs. uc. bteu responded for the seventh assembly district of New York city. Her name was received with ap plause and hisses. A committee on creden tials was appointed and a recess taken. SUHSOUBI. ANTI GRANT REPUBLICANS. St. Louis, Maich 24. At a. meeting last night of tbe committee of which Ex-8enator John B Henderson was chairman, and Em ory S. Foster secretary, it was resolved tbat a national mass-meeting ot Republicans op posed to tbe third-term candidate for the Presidency be called to meet in St. Louis some tima in May. A formal call for the meeting will b j issued Friday mcraing. MORE of ft. A special to the Time from Jefferson City fsvs: "In pursuance to the call ot Ueorge H. Shields, the recently deposed chairman ot tbe Republican state committee, six mem bers of that committee, with two proxies, met here to-night. Mr. Saields presented an address to tbe Republicans of Missouri, which he was authorized to have published In it be severely attacks C. J. Wiley, chair man of the committee, and his partisans, and characterized the removal of himself SB chairman as nrjust. He says that because he wad for filaine Wiley packed the commit tee with prcxit s, and beat him. He calls upon good Republicans to elect delegates to ihe Sedalia convection, and defeat Wiley and his schemes." The special further states that the members of the committee present were generally agaiost Urant, but will sue port the nominee of the National convention Protection by flarse. A well-known lady of Erjokline, whose father was a clergyman of that town, re member one day to have seen a dog barking at some cows in a pasture near her home. In another part of the pasture were horses grazing, too. All tbe animals ia tbe pasture belonged thrre, excepting the dog. The horses, on the occasion of which we speak, left their own ground and went together to ward the dog, and when near enough one of them kicked at him. Soon the dog saw his daEger and ran out of tbe lof, when the horses returned to the spot where they had been feeding . Xabhville'd fcprinar Keetlas;. Nashville. March 24. Only a small por tion of tbe track of the Nashville race-coarse was reached by to9 recent overt! jw. Tbe water has receded, and the (rick is in first class condition for tbe spring meeting, which opens on the same day of the Nashville cen tennial, Apnl 24th. Fifty horses are at the track, J and the prospects were never more promising for a successful meeting and an unusually large attendance. CamblBlna; Against Kesruilsa. San Francisco, March 24. The council of two hundred of the citizens' protective union last night nominated fifteen freehold ers as candii ates for the charter election eight Democrats and seven Republicans. It is tx pec ted that thfy will be indorsed by the Democratic and Republican county com mittees. Harrlaxe In Klch litre. Lansing, Mich., March 24 Governor Charles M. Cress well and Miss Lizzie L. Mas- grove, ot Charlotte, will be married to morrow at noon, at tbe residence of ber brother-in-law, H. A. Lee, in tbicity. It is to be a very quiet affair, as only tha relatives of the respective families are to be present. A Chance to JEInsr. A young lady writes to tbe Whitehall Be OTKthat the end above all things to be aimed at in dancing is gracefulness. If that is so, tbe prevalent idea tbat the object was to get a chance to hug a girl without depriving her family of tbe use of the front parlor once a week is all wrong. Kir and loan of lalfe. Milwaukee. March 24. A special to the Sentinel from Euclare says that the residence of Hon. J. G. Ingram was burned to-day, causing a loss of fifteen hundred dollars. Charles Liabenthal, aged sixty-fonr years, was buried in the ruins, and periBhed. A Conditional Btqusk Troy, N. Y., March 24. By the will of tho late General W. B. Tibbets, of this city, one hundred thousand dollars are bequeathed with which to build a soldiers' home in Trjy, conditioned upon fifty thousand dollars addi tional being secured within five years. B affile Cattle Receipts. Buffalo, March 24. Cattle receipts, 1100. Tbe market is dull and a shade low er; common to fair cattle and extra steers are in good export demand- at $5 25 and if 5 50; good to choice steers, 4 40 and 4 90. ColllDlon in Sew fork Harbor. New York, March 24 The steamer Annex, plying between Brooklyn and Jersey City, came in collision with a schooner off the Battery to-day and was badly damaged. One passenger fell into the river and was drowned. Secarrd the Advance Desired. New York. March 24. Thurman's strik ing cabinet-makers have resumed work at the increase of wages desired. Another piano manufacturing firm opened its doors to its workmen to-day at the advanced wages. Fire at Manitowoc. Milwaukee, March 24. A special to the Stntinel says that a fire nt Manitowco de stroyed the residence of Mrs. Wooden and two arjoipir g buildings. Loss, three, thou sand dollars; fully insured. Table's in Texas. New Orleans, March 24. A dispatch from General Grant says he will visit San Antonio, and will not reach New Orleans until March olt. Slarks of Approbation, In tbe shape ot Increasing demands for Hostet tor's 8tom&ch Bitters, are constantly reaching Its pro prietors. The mining and agricultural populations of the far west are porUenlarly alive to Its merits, for It .possesses the very qnsllUes which emigrants to tbsie remote district require. It protects them from malaria. It fortifies them c gainst ths In ulcus f fleets which frequently proceed from a mode ot Ufa fraught wfth hardships, and It bas an unimpeacha ble record for thoroughness. Travelers to foreign countries, mariners, and those generally wbo live an out-door life, will find that Its protective and brao fng properties have not txWn exaggerated br tbe many who btve borne favorable witness in Us be half. A rock Is nut firmer on Its base than this medicine In the couli Jenoe of our people. Pennine Diamonds." There are counterfeits and Imitations, which bear the name, and trade upon tbe reputation achieved by genuine diamonds. Bear In mind that every pair of genuine " Diamond Spectacles " bear the trade mark of a small diamond. The " Diamond" glasses will always be found tbe bfst In tbe market Cel luloid Eti-Glasobs, representing the choicest se lected Tortoise-shell and Amber. The lightest handsomest and strongest known. For sale In Memphis by C. L. BYBD ft CO., 275 Ham street. A t'ABD. To all who are suffering from tbe errors and Indis cretions of youth , nervous weakness, early decay, loss of manhood, etc, I will send a recipe that will our you, FEES OF CHABGB. 'This great remedy was discovered by a mlaslonarr in Sooth America, Send a seU-addressed envelope to Bev. Josxfb T. Imai fl'fff. P.. JVt (it Chancery Sale of Real Estate. No. 81. R. (2) Chancery Court of Shelby county Charles H. Ureen. Hdin'r, etc vs. Charles B. Lake ft al. ; and No. H0. ti. (2) A. J. Hayes tt aL vs. Charles H. lireen et al BY VlttTPK of an Interlocutory decree for sale, entered Id the above consolidated causes on the 12ih March, 1SKO. M. B 2tV page 529. I will sell, at public auction, tattle hlgbe.it bidder. In fiont of the C!e k aud M ikIt's olllcw. Courthouse bulld lnt. Ham street. In the Taxing-district ot Shelby county, late city of Memphis, Tennessee, on Satnrday. April 3. 1810, within legal hours, Ihe following described property, situatea Iu Sbi-iby county. Tenn.. to-wli : Tbe south sixty feet or lot No. 13. la country lot Ko. MO. In tne city of Memphis: Beginning at a stake on the west aide of Hill street at tbe soutlieast corner ot eatd lot No. i:i; ninth g thenen north with the west side of Hill street sixty ftet; thence west on parallel hues 1 K4 feet. Ai40lotNo 21, and tbe north half of lot No. 20, of Waldian hoineUad subdivision, on tbe east side of Waidrnn avenue, east of and near the city of MempuU, baviuK a trom of 75 feet on said avenue, by a depth on parallel lines oNSOl feet. Terms of dale On a credit of 6 and 13 months; purchaser executing notes with security, bearing 0 iter cent. Interest: I inn retained: enult at mtamth. ' tlon burred. This Uarcb 13, 1S80, It. J. black, cler k and Master. Fierce & Dlx, Hetcalf Walker, attorneys, sat sf Year Before the JPubllc THE CEIMlJirJg Dr. C. McIaAIXE'S LIYER PILLS are not recommend ed as a remedy " for all the ills that flesh is heir to," bnt in affections of the Liver, and in all BUions Complaints, Dys pepsia, and Sick Headache, or diseases of that character, they stand without a rival. AGUE AND FEVER. Ko better cathartic can be used prepara tory to, or after taking quinine. As a simple purgative they are nnequaled. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS. The genuine are never sugar-coated. Each box has a red-wax seal on the lid with the impression, McLANE'S LIVER PILL. Each wrapper bears the signatures of C McLank and Fleming Bros. SSy Insist npon having the genuine Da. C McLANE'S LIVER PILLS, prepared by rLEMIXG BEOS Pittsburgh, F, the market being full of imitations of the name JHcLane, spelled differently bnt same pronunciation. INALIDS WEALTH, STRENGTH AND ENERGY, WITHOUT THB-TOE OP DRUGS, ARE RE QUESTED TO SEND FOR THE ELECTRIC REVIEW, AS ILLUSTRATED JOUR NAL, WHICH IS PUBLISHED FOR FREE DISTRIBUTION. . r TREATS vpea HEALTH. HTOTEXE, and Phyo cmi Culture, lod oompiWt icrclHwiui of tafortsMtkNi for tavalkt cd toe wbo sodt fttxa KfrtCKta, BxbMMUng ma4 Painful Duea. Kvwj wbMt that bMr upon feMHb aod human bappinea, roeiTa attention in at paw: an 'I th many qa ttooa ankod by ofifertoa iDT&llds, wbo bave dispiur! of aoora, are anawerea, azxi valuable informatiaa ia tolootoorcd to all wbo mn in BeJ ol mc-diral advice. Tb aabrct of Eteotrto Btltt trwn Medicine, and tbe bondrod audi oo qtieationa of vital liuporUoos to Buffering htumftBitT, aie dulj cooakleied and x YOUNC MEN And other wbo atiflbr from Kervooa and Physical bthtT. Loaa of Mao It Vitfor. Prematcre Exhatmioa and the nany gloomy ooc9qQooM of eaiiy indwere tioa, eto are eapeetailj teneDted by consulting tt content. Tbe KLECTRTO REVIEW expos the unmitigated tVanda practod br qoacke and medical tmpoMors wbo profess to ' practice medicine, and points out tha only safe, aimple, and etteouve road to Health, Vigor and Bodily-Energy. Bend toot address ea pratal card tor ft copy, and fafortaaiion worth thonaaodj will be sent you. Address, the publwben. PULVERMACHER GALYANMC CO., CPU. EIGHTH & VINE SI BEETS, CINCINNATI, tt Coughs, Bronchitis, Consumption What a Well-kwai Iracclt Hays abent Allen's Line fJlas. nornEBe, bkadi Oakland Station, Kt. Gkktlbvxn The dmaDd for aiira'a La as Btla.si Is lDceaMng ecnstantlj. Tbe ladle th'nk there It no medicine equal tn tt for Croup and Wbooplnc Cough. C & MARTIN, Ltugglst. Wld by all Htmifla Iywlrrw. UNDERTAKERS, 320 (ilainMemphis. BURIA.L ROBE3 AND COFFIN EtODWABK. Orders br Telegraph Promptly Filled, and Cases Snipped C. O. D. POPTJLAH MONTHLY DRiWINQ OF THS Commonwealth Distribution Co. Aothorized br the Commonwealth ot Kentucfcj, and fairest In the World. at Macanler's Theater, in the city of Louisville, on WEDSESDAY, MAKCU 81. IS SO. fW These Drawings, authorized bj act ot tbe Leg islature of 1861, and ustaioed bj all the court of Kentucky occur regularly on tbe last day ot etfry month (ann -ays exje. td). and are supervised by prominent citizens of tbe State. Toe Management eall attention to tbe grand orror tunlty presented of obtaining, for only $2, any of ii ' THK FOLLOWING FRIZES 1 Prtee- S 80,000 1 Prize 16,000 1 Prize 6.000 10 Prizes $1000 each 10,000 20 Prizes 600 each 10,000 100 Prizes 100 each 10,000 2-X) Prizes 60 each 10,000 0J Prizes 20each 12.000 1000 Prizes 10 each 10,000 APPROXIMATION FRIZBS. 9 Prizes $M00 each 2,70 9 Prizes 200 each. 1,800 9 Prizes 100 each bOO I960 Prizes 11112,400 Whole Tickets, Half Tickero, Ml 27 Tickets, 50. 5o Ticket, Si 00. All applications for club rates should be made to the home office. Full list of drawing published lo Louisville Courier-Journal and Mew York Hiraid, and mailed to all ticket-holders. 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R.TEAftBALK.968 Walnot St, Cincinnati, Q AVERY &, BERIaIN Heal Estate AND RENTAL AGENTS, rVo SO Waillon W. iu?y Tcto Ctarai fi i rkewiMj fvaitt,90 and xrWIu ai tar cgs artrr of mttiff ai j&xrortxf ltet 3lao cr tnasle Aa our bln atr? trada-mcjk l elnaVy bnttatfi on inferior jroolv e tbat Jkon9 m tm vrr bltur. S-14 tf a) -SraJfrv SeiKl tnrab4maY fiee. to 1?. A- JjTKo?t A Wfr. l':br Va TlicAgitatorJfuxzle," OR Game of 14 Jk I O Is creating a perfect furors. Sold by merchants oo 10 nicr-. or sample sent ly us for 10 cent and He sump. Mereh-stta. Wak Up! Kt.ntS.r iwa t'aawtrr! We are the only Exclusive Jobbers if "5 and 10c Goods" In the World. Catalogue and particulars mailed free on application. HU LKK HBO , no aad 0 Raadalua bl.C'litruA-a. Also New York and Bocton. W. A. F AIRES & CO Ouccesiors to J. B. A W. A. Falres). Dealers In HOUSES and MUI8, No. 55 Union street. WI keep constantly on hand a eboles selection ot Horxea and Mules. Everything guaraa teed as rurironwrt . Oror, nllortt. J.S.STANTON & CO. WHOLESALG UKOCUltS, COTTOX FACTORS And Commission Merchants, 284 FRONT STREET, MEMPHIS. QPKC1AL ATTENTION given to the Bala of all O IT Inst of Ontrntrr PwmIimm. Memphis Floral Co. Isasaesis ttreeafcawaea IU Illlea frwaa City. Store 857 Mala street, Memphis, Tenn. BKAUTITTJL ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES OF Pianu, Koms. BuiSs, Ificww beeds, eio., mailed. til, oo apr-iloatua. BIBBLSTW m u 1 . - 'y a swffl'PrSisia