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THURSDAY. NOVEMBEtt 21. 1881
Bishop Siiii'n, in it reeeiit adtlrcts
Uloru a Methodist meeting in Pliiladcl
phia, KH:d lluit he had not lound, while
ahraJ, n finale protet-tant u ihe aide
of the Land Lt-auer.
It is now ataled that, instead of secur
ing any l.-idy to remain permanently at
tlit: White 11-iuse, the Pret-idcnt will in
vite tlic wive ad the daughters of the
iiicinlicrs of hia cabinet to an list lilm
wbm he has receptions and to prtside
ujmui other social occasions.
Bill niuoitmiugio $:j()0,OCO have Ui n
received at Ihe Treasury Department for
mourning decorations on public build
ing throughout tlti- country io memory
l the lute President. There beiog no
appropriation from ' which such ex-
ih ie ran lie paid, the matter will be
laid before Congress.
It in a source of pride and congratu
lation to know that Ihe educational facil
ities of Ihe great west are keeping pa( e
with the pheuumonal prpjjress which is
being made in the development of her
material resource. There in probably not
a more thoroughly t quipped institution
of Icarniog in the country tihday than
the Michigan University, at Ann Arbor,
which now hug an attendance of 1,470
students, -while llarvatd, with all her an
cicnt prestige has but 1,282.
The Russian Mennonites furnish
useful lesson to 'the people who dwell
upon tho western prairies. In Russia,
where fuc was scarce and dear, they
used grasses as fuel, and hero they do
the same. A furnace, costing less than
a common kitchen stove, supplies all the
warmth needed in winter, and at the
same time is used for cooking purposes.
Loose hay, slraw or corn stalks forked
into it about, time times a day serves
the double purpose of giving warmth
and saving an expense accouut for fuel.
Globo Democrat: There is a differ-
encu between tweedledum and twecdle-
dec. dpt. llowgate stole some $150,
000 from the government, to squander
on a inistres-i. and no loss than Ave In
dictment have been found against him
The star route thieves stole a good many
times as much, to lavish the Lord knows
how, and not one of them bas been in.
dieted at all. What is more, a good
many people who are in a position to get
bold of what is going on declare that
ten chances to one, they will escape pun
ishment altogether.
According to a Columbus, OJiio, jour
nal some persons in the northern part of
that statu have prepared a drama based
Uun the incidents oi the assassination
of President Garfield. The prediction
is safe that if on attempt Is made to pre
sent this drama upon the stage, the
wretched promoters of the enterprise, by
which money is expected to be made out
of the most mournful tragedy of modern
times, will not And their path one ot
roses. People are in no mood to have
the memory of their deid ruler thus ill-
atlltetl.
The Indus are coming to the front at
bankers. Mrs. John Burson, ofMuucie,
is a director and virtually President of
the Firrt National Bank at. M uncle, Ind,
Mrs. N. C. Williams is president of the
Statu National Huuk ut Ruleigh, N. C.
Mos Jennio Coombs is cashier of Brown
& Coomb's Hank at Middlevillc, Mich
Mist Sarah Dick is cashier of the First
Natioual Bnk of Huntington, Ind.:
Miss A. M. King is cashier of the bank
inghoithe of Springer & Noyes, White
Cloud. ICans.. and Mrs. M. II. II. Cow-
don carries on a banking business in
her own name at Forest Hill, Cal.
Mr. H. V. Redtleld, for very many
years the Washington correspondent of
tho Cincinnati Commercial, died in the
former city on Friday of last week. He
was not a brilliant writer but his letters
were highly intelligent and.iovariahly
reliable. His most successful and con
spicuous journalistic work was done
during the Mississippi campaign in
1870, it ml in exposing the Northern Pa
cific railroad job, which it is believed
precipitated Ihe failure of Juy Cook &
Co. iii 1873. His death is deeply de
plored by his numerous friends ii: the
profession which he so highly honored
CSuitenu had another running at the
mouth Suuibiy, as will be seen by the
telegraph ri-itoiU. He don't like 10 be
called mi aba.-aiu. It grates on hisdcll
catc sense of taste. If he is given
good chance he will convict himself by
his inordinate desire to gab. He main
tains still tU'it the Lord is protecting
him, but he is r.ot so limy but that he
demands an incrense of policemen. He
nows says he wns insane when ho shot
the president, but still l.iys the act on
the Lord. Tho claim ot insanity as set
tip his lawyers is getting thinner and
more inconsistent every day.
Among the members ot congress al-
ready arrived in Washington there is
much serious thought being given to
the demonstrated necessity of a radical
reform in the system of examining
National hanks. At present the bank
examiners are paid by the National
banks and not by tho government, and
the result is a tendency on the part ol
the examiners to imagine themselves
more responsible t the b.inks than to
the government. It is pr.ip wted, amoug
other cUnnges in the banking law, to
have the examiners paid ly and rendered
strictly responsible to the government.
There is one passage in Ihe charge of
Lord Denman to the Jury at tho trial o!
Oxford for shooii:ig ut (Jneeu Victoria
which would gecm to have a special ap
plication to the case of Guiteau. Lord
Dcnman said : "Hut. although he labor
ed under a delusion, if ho fired the load.
ed piitol at the qtuen, knowing the re-
.suit which would follow his conduct,
and although forced by his morbid de
sire for notoriety to ihe act, he would be
responsible for his conduct and liable to
criminal ptinislinu nL" However much
Guiteau may have Ik en laboring under
a delusion, there scorns to be but lilt!
doubt as to hi knowing tho result
which would follow his conduct; there
fore, according to the judgment of Lord
uenman, bo woul.l bo criminally re
sponsible.
A bulletin Just issued from the census
oIHce is devoted to the subject of the
areas or the United States, the several
states and territories and their counties.
Many serious errors in former tables are
corrected. Soma of the estimates of the
areas ol several states heretofore in use
have differed from one another by thou
sands of square miles. According to the
summary la the present document the
gross area of the United States, exclu
sive of Alaska, which cannot be meas
ured with any approach to accuracy,
3,023,600 square miles, or which 17,300
are coast waters such as bays, sounds
and gulfs 11,500 rivers and smaller
streams, and 23,000 lakes and ponds.
This makes the total water surface 55,
600 square miles, and the total land sur
face 2,070,000. The six largest states,
named in their order, are Texas, Califor
nia, Colorado, Nevada, Oregon and Kan
sas. The six smallest states, beginning
with the least, are Rhode Island, Dela
ware, Connecticut, New Jersey, Massa
chusetts and New Hampshire.
DEFECTS OF OUR SCHOOL SYS
TEM
The press is paying some attention to
tho matter of schools. The criticisms
are very general. Public tentiment in
this country seems to run in waves.
There has Itccn, Gr fifteen yeais, a
pecial awakening on the subject of ed
ucation. This hat been in the direction
of providing means for educating the
youth. If it could be ascertained howl
much money has been invested in im
proving the means for educating Uie
children of the country, in the time
above named, no doubt the figures would
be htartiing. Now a wave of inquiry as
to the result of this vast expenditure
seems to be sweepiug over the country.
The people are saying, "What
are we getting fur our invest
menta In school houses, in
improved furniture and apparatus
in educating teachers, and lor the mill
ions given to school bo-k publishers V
The inquiry is a very proper one, and a
very important one, also. It is gather
ing strength everyday. While theques
tion was whether the funds should be
raised to improve the facilities for edu
cating the children of the country, those
who criticised were regarJed with sus
picion. Liberality and the advanced
and enlightened civilization of the time
won the victory. That fight is over.
The policy of liberally supporting com
mon schools by taxation is no, longer
questioned in this union, except iu very
limited and obscure sections. The
time has come when the exposure of all
that is wrong ordefective in school man
agement,can only inure to the benefit of
the schools, and hence the press is de
manding reform. The unilormity of the
complaints is the most striking thing
about the demand. This results from
the fact that the common schools, espec
ially in all our cities, are of one stereo
typed pattern in organization and rou
tine, slavish imitations to a model to
which all the teachers are trained till
they seem wedded to its defects and in
capable of suggesting or asserting any
change. Reform must, therefore, come
from without, and the journals of our
leading cities arc handling the subject
energetically. .
There is great dissatisfaction with that
system of grading which requires the
pupils to advance in platoons exactly
abreast in each of a half a dozen t.tu
dies at once, or not to bo advanced at all.
But the universal complaint is that the
course of study in the graded schools is
arranged primarily for the text book
publishers, and that, whether so intend
ed or not, it does wrest from three-
fourths of the children the benefits
which they might receive, and which
they should receive from the schools
Instead of glviog these little ones the
key to knowledge and self improvement
while they can remain in the schools to
receive it instead of teaching them
reading, writing and arithmetic between
the ages of six and ten the course of
study is begun upon a foundation as
broad as if they were to remain in the
schools from six to twenty. They are
required to begin a multiplicity of
studies which they can uever complete,
and are thus deprived of tuition and op
portunity in the essential branches they
might master before the poverty of the
family withdraws them from school and
puts them at work. In regard to the
public schools in that city the Phila
delphia Record, says:
Of the tS.OOJ primary scholars barely fifty
per cent (o Into the secondary shools. Korty
two per cent of the scholar who set Irom the
primary schools Into the secondary never get
any farther. They do not reach the grammar
schools, snd, worse yet, they do not reach a
well-grocnded knowledge la raadinx, writ
ing and arithmetic They arj niudo tolerably
ready to bo educated; but they are not a
ready aa they should be to sot about their
business In the world, t hese are the young
iters for whom the common schools were pro
vided, but lor whom the common schools of
rLlladclphla do not adequately provide.
Honey that should flrst be dedicated to the
proper bousing and schooling ol those Infants
between the aires of six and eleven years is
devoted to furnishing a higher education lor
scholars who should be otherwise provided
for at private expense. The difference in the
average yearly cot of teaching the pupils in
the primary schools snd the pupils in the
high schools is the difference between $10 per
heal and $30 per head. The money that is
poured ont like wstor by the people of Penn
sylvania tir tho matutensnce of public
sohoola is very much of it squandered in the
effort to reach beyond what is practical for
all school children into a system which Is pos
sible or deslrablo only for a few. As we
said at first wo say agin tho system Is top
heavy. Here is the statement that over seven
ty per cent, of the children in the Phila
delphia schools, though they are la
school about five years, have to bo with
drawn before they reach a well ground
ed knowledge ot reading, writing and
arithmetic! Tho Chicago Tribune al
leges a still worse statu of affairs in that
city. It says :
The present system, which costs the tax
payer so dearly, is largely a failure. Be
tween 80 and 00 per cent, of tho children who
attend tho public schools of this city leave
them as soon as they can read and wr Ite. Bd
yond that point, tho time speut at school is re
garded by many parents as pretty much
wasted. They tee their children tied down to
a routine car which moves on but little faster
than a snail's pace. Boys who could master
their arithmetic in one session are held back
so as to consume sevoral Uirls who could go
through their English grammar in a few
months are kept at it for several years, simply
because some scholars can go no further in
those studios. The school history of the Unit
ed States can be succinctly studied by many
quick and apt pupils in one term, but they
are not permitted to do It In less thau several
term., and so ot all the studies. This bad
system must bo broken up an-i common sense
be permitted to take its place. The teachers
are not earning their wages in the education
al results they are accomplishing for the ris
ing generation.
The Intor Ocean of the same city
says:
The course of study in connection with the
grades of classes la made up on a theory that
every child spends more years in school than
he actually docs. The theory fails to lit the
facts la ono-thlrd or on half the cases, and
yet the course of study doos not bend to the
requirements of the boys and girls who are
compelled to begin the struggle in lifo early.
Citizens' asssociations are forming to
devise and apply some remedy for this
evil. The remedy may yet take the
form oi a positive law, forbidding the
waste of a child's time upon any other
study till he is well drilled in reading,
writing and arithmetic. As it is his
precious years are frittered away with
drawing lessons, geography got by rote,
a dnll collection of jejune facts and
dates called history, etc., so that the
school funds are practically adminis
tered and applied for the benefit of the
favored few who have means and leisure
to complete a thorough educational
course, while the very classes of children
for whom the common schools were pri
marily intended are cut off from the
feast. It Is evident there must be a
change.
From Edmun
and daughters of second-rate Americans
are quite as pretty, clever and accom
plUhed as their sisters above the line of
'upper-tcn-dom,' but, owing to the fact
of 'pa's pile' being of only recent forma
tion, have not had the advantage of be
ing brought np in Europe and European
ways. Hence, despite beauty, knowl
edge, aad talent, they lack the repose
and other things which mark the cast of
Vre de Yere. Their toilets-are apt to
be amazing, and their diamonds to rival
an exhibition of lighthouse apparatus.
Nevertheless they tower over their hus
bands, fathers, and brothers. The latter
have been sent into a counting-house
too soon to have acquired even the var
nish of good breeding. They dress very
much like a barber's block, and talk
more nonsense than could be imagined.
It Is a little odd that the western man,
who supplies presidents and leading
men to the United Stales senate, should
not be a success on the European grand
tour. His cleverness is undeniable, for
be has made a supurb fortune, but he is
obviously out of his element on the old
Continent. A life divided between busi
ncss and home politics leaves little leis
ure for cultivating the subjects on which
Europeans love to dilate.'
WHAT THEY PROPOSE TO DO
A prominent Virginia Liberal was
at-ked a day or two ago this Question :
"Well, now that you have gained vir
tual contiol of the state government in
all its brandies, what do you propone to
do?."
"In the first place, we propose to pass
the RiildlelH-rgcr bill to readjust the
stale debt, wilh as lillle amend uient as
practicable, and with a proviso that it
shall not lake effect until after its ratifica
tion by the people at the general elec
tion next November. In the second
place, the legislature will pas the con
stitutional amendment to abolish the
provision which requires the paymentof
a poll-tax as a prerequisit
to voting. This amendment will also
be submitted to the people for rati lieu-
lion next November, and the two things
will draw out a full vote. Iu the third
place, if Congress shall pass a bill reap
portioning Representatives amoug the
States under the last census, we will
next winter enact a law to red U trie t the
Slate as it should be done."
"Do you see any signs of a revolt
against the Bourbon dyuaslies in any of
the other Southern States?"
"Plenty of them, and strong ones too.
I am in constant communication with
promineut and influential men who are
nominally Democratic in North Caro
lina, and they assure me that matters
arc ripe for a Liberal movement
there. ' If five hundred native
wliite Democrats in that Slate, scattered
among the different counties, will come
out in opposition to the Bourbons, the
latter will be defeated by 20,000 majori
ty next year. My advices from South
Carolina and Florida are very encour
aging. The liberal Democrats in the
slates mentioned have been watching
the Virginia struggle with the most
eager and painful anxiety, and they
have signified over and over again, and
in hundreds of ways, their sympathy
with us and their determination to
break away from Bourbonism, in case of
our success. About as many congratu
lations over tho result come to us from
those states as from any three Northern
States. Mark my words,the 'Solid
South' will soon be like slavery a
thing of the past. Virginia is solid
now, solid for liberalism and progress."
WHAT SENATOR PLUMB SAYS
OF BLAINE.
Topeka Capital: In the department
of the auditor of slate a Capital reporter
encountered, yesterday afternoon, the
hale and hearty presence of our dis
tinguished United Stales senator, who
was at the time in earnest discussion
with Auditor Bonebrake over the merits
and methods of using the electric light.
After the usual greeting, the conversa
tion drifted to the National Capital, Sen
ator Plumb stating that he would leave
for that city the first of next week, to
be in time for congress which convenes
December 5th.
"Senator, will there be many more
cabinet changes?" queried he of the
pencil.
"Yes, there undoubtedly will be. The
present cabinet will probably hold over
New Years. I don't anticipate any
change until then."
"Will Blaine remain in the cabinet?"
"No, sir; Blaine is going out in fact,
going out of politics."
"Do you know what tho intentions of
the Plumed Knight are ?"
"Ho is going into railroading. And
then, I think, he has a desire to show
the people that there arc ambitions out
side of politics for a man to engage in
who has been eminent in politics."
"Is he a candidate for the Presi
dency ?"
"He does not intend to fight a Repub
lican Administration to secure it. Sec
retary Blaine is a party man, and will al
ways work with the party. I think he
intends to leave politics entirely."
"I saw a statement a few days age that
he is quite wealthy. Is such the case?"
"Mr. Blaine has large coal mining in
terests in Pennsylvania and considerable
other property, and is probably worth a
half a million perhaps a million. He
has railroad interests also, and intends
to make railroading his field of opera
tions in the future."
A QUESTION FOR MEDICAL
SCIENTISTS.
New York Tribune: In view of the
statements made at the recent Anti-Vaccination
Congress held at Cologne, the
layman may well ask whether there is
anything in medical science that he can
safely regard as settled. A few years
ago tho whole world believed vaccina
tion to be an efficacious preventive of
smallpox just as firmly as it believed
quinine to be a good remedy for chills
and fever. But now arise a host of
earnest and honest people who as
sert that vaccinated persons arc more
liable to the contagion of smallpox
than the unvacciuated, to say nothing of
the other forms of blood-poison which
they may absorb with the virus. But
this is not the worst of it. These agita
tors do not rest upon assertions. They
have an appalling array of hospital
statistics to back up their position. As
far as figures go, and figures must in the
end settle the question, it must be ad
mitted that up to this time they have
the best of the controversy they have
provoked. Meanwhile, why should the
discussion be confined to England and
the continent of Europe ? Let us have
an intelligent examination of our Ameri
can hospital reports. If the anti-vacci-nationists
are right, the sooner the pub
lic know it the better; if wrong, the
sooner their error is established and the
painful doubts they have awakened arc
set to rest the better.
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS.
A Cincinnati paper makes the follow
ing sensible remarks upon politics and
politicians:
"It is plain we need a new word in
popular language to answer for the
much abused term, politics. Politics
is the science of government, the most
useful, most subtle, most dignified of all
sciences, and yet the term is often
used as a synonym for demagogy, and
youths are warned against its wiles and
influences. "A politician" is regarded
as a bad citizen, to be suspected and
avoided, when the fact is a thorough
politician is a thorough statesman, not
only godlike and honorable, but an
adept in the noblest of a freeman's pur
suits. We adjure all American citizens
to study the genius of popular govern
ment, and never omit the duty of attend
ing nominating conventions, and plac
ing the wisest and best men in the office,
bnt all join in condemnation of the so
called politicians, who devote their time
to political pursuits and aspire to office,
complaining that they 'make a business
of politics.' There is manifest incon
sistency between popular professions
and practices in these particulars and so
long as the terms 'politician' and 'pol
ities' are so ill defined, such contradic
tions will constantly arise."
No Kansas man has yet been suggest
ed for a cabinet position. Common,
wealth. -
We take the floor to place in nomination
for Secretary of the Interior the Hon.
Floyd P. Baker of the Commonwealth.
We believe brother Baker is so situated
as to his engagements that he could ac
cept the place, and would not decline if
it were tendered to him. Floyd sat in
the Kansas legislature one term, and
if it had not been for Chester Thomas,
who objected to him on the trivial ground
that his bead was not-the right shape,
might have been speaker of the house.
He has been postmaster at Denison,
proudly carried the fame of Kansas to
the Paris exposition and is thoroughly
posted in the politics and understands
the needs of the grand old Republican
party in Shawnee county. It will be
seen at a glance that be is fitted by wide
experience for the position to which we
now nominate him. It is about time
justice) were being done to the Republi
can press of Kansas-
A HOPELESS EXPERIMENT.
Under the above head the Atchison
Champion, whose editor has been a
close student for many years of matters
on the frontier, has the following to
suy touching the Indian question :
Secretary Kirk wood is pinning his
faiib to an old doctrine that the Indians
can lie civilized and the impending fate
ol the race averted by educating the
children. This has been tried ever
since the whites and Indians began to
have any relations with each other. It
has been the idea of every mission,
Catholic or Protestant, ever established
among the Indians, and it has been a
failure. A Jesuit father, who
had devoted forty years of his life
to self-sacrificing labor to christianize
and civilize the Osages, once stated to
the writer his belief that after all no
such thing as an adult Christian Osage
existed, lie said that many young Us
ages, after being carefully educated in
the missiou schools, returned to their
tribe, became to all intents and purposes
wild Indians, and absolutely refused to
speak the English language. Indians
do not lack intellectual capacity. They
learn readily in the schools, but the
natural wilduess in their blood neutral
izes all efforts in their behalf. The sort
of civilization they accept, as in the
case of the Choc taws and Cherokecs in
the Indian Territory is of the rudest sod,
and is of no advantage. The real solu
tion of the Indian question will arrive
when the last Indian has perished from
the race ot me ear in.
Chicago Tribune: A medical man in
Toronto has been ventilating in the news
papers recently the subject of oversludy
among the children in attendance at the
public schools, and asserts fiat the re
sults of sn investigation made by him
show that several deaths of school child
ren which came under his observation
were due solely to too close application
to books by scholars of nervous temper
ament and weak constitutions. He
claims that the course of study in the
Toronto public schools is so severe that
many of Ihe pupils are compelled, in or
der to keep up with their classes, to ap
ply themselves to their books outside of
school hours, and that no such condition
oi affairs should be allowed to exist. An
investigation of the same matter in oth
er cities would doubtless reveal a simi
lar fault in the public school system.
HERE AND THERE.
Nearly 80,000 people visited the exhi
bition of electricity in Paris on Sunday,
"I see that a week of prayer has been
appointed for young men. I must be
lubricating my knee joints" S. J. Til-
den.
After Thanksgiving, Congress. The
order iu which the events occur is high
ly conducive to the exercise of popular
gratitude.
It would be a moderately interesting
spectacle to see Sargeant Mason and Mr.
William Jones shoot for the gate money
at the side ot a barn.
There are at least half a dozen parties
who claim to have invented the speaking
telephone before Mr. Bell thought of it,
with China still to hear from.
The asylum for the feeble minded
burned at Columbus, Ohio.tbe other day.
It seems that the Greenback party arc in
fearfully hard luck this year.
1'hilauelphia tress: "JUyex-wiie" is
Guiteau's way of speaking of his sun
dered tie. Ere long she may be able to
come back at him with "my executed
husband."
It would be an extremely valuable
contribution to American statistics to
ascertain how many thousand pairs of
slippers are in process of construction
for President Arthur. -
Mr. Keifer, of Ohio, still seems to
have the pole in the race for the speaker
ship of the House. Your Buckeye pol
itician generally manages to keep
abreast of the band-wagon.
The Philadelphia Press calls a cer
tain English preacher the "Talmage of
London." It is estimated by careful
attorneys that the claim for damages
will hardly fall below $100,000.
A Mount Pleasant, Iowa, young lady
is cutting her third set of teeth. We
should think the dentists of that town
would bring suit to enjoin such an un
natural and damaging proceeding.
The faith expressed by Guiteau that
the Lord will take care of him would be
much more impressive if the demands
of the cowsrdly assassin for a reinforce
ment of guards were less importunate.
The announcement that Omaha has
the worst streets of any city in the west
will prove somewhat of a tax upon the
credulity of persons who have ever toiled
through the thoroughfares of Kansas
City.
The official figures of the census make
the population of the United States 50,
150,783. It seems that the dawning Cic
eros of the country, in their late Fourth
of July orations and campaign speeches,
hsvo left 150,783 "American freemen"
ont in the cold.
The first instance of self-killing ever
known among the Cherokee tribe is that
of a young buck, who shot himself at
Muskogee the other day. The hope that
suicide will ever assume the form of an
epidemic among tho Indians is not
cherished by even the most stalwart op
timists. Commander Cheyne, of the British na
vy, lectured to a large audience in New
York on the subject of Arctic research.
He asks the public of England and
Ameiica to contribute $150,000 to enable
himself and Lieutenant Schwatka to
reach the north pole by baloons from St.
Patrick's bay.
The last words of Augustus Smithy a
licentious brute who was executed on
the 18th at Smithfield, North Carolina,
were: "Farewell ! Meet me in heaven."
According to the testimony of expiring
criminals it would seem that the Lord
gives a general reception to visitors from
this planet every Fridsy.
A well known newspaper correspond
ent at tbv state capital of Missouri has
applied for a divorce upon the ground
"that he finds married life and journal
istic pursuits incompatible and intoler
able." The inference is that the wife of
the petitioner has been sustaningan un
due intimacy with his bank account.
The New York Herald supports a
minister of that city in the declaration
that dancing as now carried on is un
heal thful, but, says the Herald, the old
style of dancing, when the ceremony
consisted more of an interchange of
courtisies than of miscellaneous em
bracing, was a most beautiful and health
giving amusement.
Capital : The idea that once prevailed,
and to some extent still obtains, that an
eligible juror should be an idiot, is very,
much modified. At least so much so
that the supreme court of Pennsylva
nia has decided that he need not neces
sarily be a roan who fails to read the
newspapers and forms no opinion of
what he hears.
We fear that the familiar cognomen
of the aspiring individual who sought
to achieve a deathless fame by his as
sault upon Guiteau last Saturday is
somewhat against him. Without enter
ing into a discussion of the merits of
his deed, we believe it will be readily
conceded that "Bill Jones'" were not ''one
of the few immortal names that is not
born to die."
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Brick Pomeroy is "broke" again, ne
went to Denver two years ago with only
$2, and since then be has made $300,000
in mining operations, all ot which was
squandered in riotous living.
The Democratic majority in the state
of Georgia has been somewhat depleted
by the fatuity of Osborn Pitts, of Colum
bus, who drank a quart of whisky on a
wast r and was carted home dead.
Th ; wire of Storey, of the Chicago
Times, is visiting in Washington, and
her manifold and magnificent diamonds
are the talk and wonder of the town. The
interest which always attaches in fash
ionable circles to these valuable gems is
naturally greatly enhanced wh?n they
testify to the opulence of persons sus
taining near or remote relations to the
business of journalism.
Senator Vest, of Missouri, entertains
the opinion that Gnitean will hang. This
looks a litt-'e dusky for the prosecution.
Chauncey I. Filley. of Missouri, con
tinues to protest that be does not expect
to be tendered a port! folio in President
Arthur's new cabinet. We regard it
highly probable that he will not be dis
appointed. It is intimated teat the Democratic
party is really beginning to feel dis
gusted wilh itself. The country has the
start of it in this direction by about
twenty-five years.
Chicago Tribune: Dr. Hammond
smokes six cigars a day and says he is a
wiser man. It may be mentioned in this
connection that ex Attorney General
MacVeagh is not addicted to the weed.
Robinson has withdrawn in disgust
from the Guiteau case, and it now, looks
as if Scoville would have to go it alone,
unless wc credit the statement of the as
sassin to the effect that the lxrd has
been retained for the defense.
The Richmond State says of Mahone :
"He was a point position, and nothing
more; be extended himself from Nor
folk to Bristol, and became a line-
without breadth or thickness; he is now
a solid with length, breadth and thick
ness."
His majesty the King of Siam. has
made promise to John A. H alderman,
onr consul-general in that country, that
he will present through him to the Na
tional Museum at Washington a collec
tion of articles illustrating the life.
manners and customs of the Siamese
people. This will be a valuable gift,
and its arrival in this country will be
looked for with interest. The King has
also promised General nalderman that
he will furnish a memorial stone for the
Washington national monument.
The late rumors regarding the retire
ment of Clara Louise Kellogg from the
stage and her entrance upon a career of
conjugality have been confirmed by an
announcement recently made by .that
lady to the members of her company, at
St. Paul, to the effect that on or about
the 1st of April, 1882, she will become
the wife of Mr. T. B. Whitney, of Phila
delphia. Miss Kellogg is amply able to
support a husband, and the hope is
ventured in the interest of impecunious
young men that the noble example of
the great prima donna may be emulated
by every lady in the country whose
financial endowments are adequate to
such an undertaking.
THE NEWS.
The Guiteau Business Scoville Concludes
His Opening Address, .
And the First
Witness for
Is Called.
the Defense
The Political Complexion of the Next
House The Latest Estimates Place
the Number of Straight Republi
cans at 146,
Which, with Expected Votes from the
Greenbackers and Readjusters. will
eive them a Majority of Ten.
AnotUer Dar ot Guiteau The Trial
Drags its Slow Length Along.
Washington, Nov. 23. The attend;
ance at cri minal court this morning was
sensibly diminished on account of the
rain storm. While Guiteau was taking
his second breakfast at the city hall
he expressed dissatisfaction at the re
lease of Jones upon bail.
When the court opened Scoville made
a formal request for the papers taken
from Guiteau atjhe time of bis arrest,
stating they were material evi
dence for the defense, and
since
needed
the prosecution bad - not
them be conld see no reason
why they should be withheld. The
District Attorney insisted upon his
rights in the matter and asked for orig
inals. Pending the discussion Guiteau
insisted upon being heard, and said
"I can throw light upon this. At the
time of my arrest I had forty or fifty
editorial slips showing the political
standing in May and June last. These
slips show the action and one of
the forces that compelled me to
assassinate the' President. They arc
VERY ntrOBTAMT
as showing the gist of the whole matter.
There were forty or fifty slips denounc
ing President Garfield. It was living
on such ideas as these that I was finally
impelled to assassinate the President'
Col. Gorkhill interposed again saying
"If it will enable you to get through to
day I will send for them at once. Dur
ing the momentary lull in the proceed
ings Guiteau. desired to make
personal explanation, . saying that
he had used the expression yes
terday that Julius was too suggestive
of the negro race, and for that reason he
had dropped it from his name. His
prejudice was begotten twenty years
ago. ne meant no disrespect to any
person or any race particularly not to
the colored race, for they were more
highly thought of than the white race
now-a-days.
Scoville continued by reading
Guiteau's letter. Scoville read the let
ter written by Guiteau to his father,
in which "he spoke of- having
gotten into some trouble, and
in which he asked for money. Guiteau
explained the letter saying: "One of
my clients, a miserable little whelp, had
me arrested on account of a little matter
of $20 between us. As sooo as the coun
ty attorney's attention was called to the
matter I was released. I never ought to
have been arrested but it got into the
papers and did me a good deal of harm.
I had been in the
THEOLOGY BUSINESS '
for some time and as usual was out' of
money. That is all there was in that,"
The reading of the letter . concluded
Guiteau again spoke, saying:' "I never
got much from my father.. He got down
on me because I left the Oneida com
munity. I could never after that agree
with that miserable, stinking community
business. I am mad every time I think
of it. It kept me out of fellowship with
my father up to his death."
Scoville, resuming, alluded to Gui
teau's career as a politician and drew
the conclusion that his intellect was de
ficent. This view aroused the prisoner
at once and he began a aeries of interrup
tions against Scoville's conclusions as
false. When reference was made
to his running around from one com
mittee room to another seeking to be
employed aa a campaign speaker and
his failure to obtain recognition was
mentioned, Guiteau shouted angrily:
"It was not because I had no ability but
was not known. I had
IDKAS BUT HOT KaWTATKMr. -
They wanted big guns like Gener
al Grant and Senator Conkling
men . who would draw." As aa
indirect contradiction of his counsel's de
claration to the jury yesterday that
Guiteau was a man who never made a
joke in his life, he looked np with an
amused smile and added: "I presume
I never do." This produced general
laughter that was promptly stopped by
the judge who struggled to disguise
the smile - upon his own features.
- Scoville concluded his opening state
ment without further interruption or inf
eld ent. At the request of the district
attorney the witnesses for the defease
were excluded from the court room with
the exception of Mrs. Scoville. The
prosecution, at the request of Scoville,
made an exception in her case. The
first witness for the defense, H. N
Burton, was then examined.
Seuville's Adaress to the Jarv
Washington, Nov. 21. After Gui
teau bad been heard in opening his de
fense, Scoville then addressed the jury
at cnsniderable length. "Much," he
said, had been introduced in the evi
dence, thus far, which could have no
bearing upon the case. All men shared
the same opinion In relation to the suf
fering of the president. It was not
pleasant to contemplate those things,
and when they were presented to the
jury they must exercise -an influence.
me only question, however, for the jury
to consider, was whether the prisoner
killed the president, and whether at the
time, he was jn such a condition men
tally as to be responsible for the action.
The speaker with no oratorical efforts,
presented in a plain matter of fact man
ner the points which be proposed
to make and upon which the defense
ould rely. The jury should note care
fully the expert witness; hear their testi
mony; see how they stand examination
and cross-examination, and then come
to the best conclusion they could arrive
at. The difficulty would come when the
jury came to weigh the evidence of both
sides, ine jury should then consider
the experts on the part of the govern
ment being paid from $100 to $200 per
day, and that even these scientific men
nave not reached that height beyond
passion and feeline and love of money
as that those things could have no influ
ence wnatever on their reelings or judg
ments. On the other hand not a single
expert witness for the defense would be
paid, and their testimony, if in favor or
me prisoner, would expose them to con
demnation and ostracism in the com
munities where they lived. These were
things to be taken into consideration in
weighing expert testimony. The popular
leeuog against uie prisoner nao neen
shown in three separate attempts on the
prisoners me toe last or them being
commended by the newspapers all over
tne country, mat same popular leei
tng would also exhibit itself in the tes
timony given Dy the expert witnesses.
Ue contrasted his own inexperience in
criminal cases with the experience and
ability or the counsel for the prosecu
tion, and in view of this disparity be
asked the jury to be considerate and
candid to the defense; still he did not
ask for any odds when it came to the
question ot facts; he expected the de
fense would erect an impregnable wall
or fortress which all the power of the
other side could not shake, and if he
came short of this he knew be could
rely confidently on the court's learning
ana integrity ana sense ot justice.
With the array of facts which he would
f ' resent to an honest jury and an upright
udge he felt that he was not entirely
at a a isaa vantage.
Scoville asked the court to allow him
further time and to permit him to finish
to-morrow. Time was granted and the
court aaiournea.
Washington. D. C, Nov. 22. Sco
ville continued to elaborate the insanity
plea set up by the defense. Guiteau ap
peared to be satisfied until Scoville
plainly intimated that a lack of capacity
on Guiteau's part had reduced his law
practice to the collection of bad debts.
Guiteau winced and broke out with :
I brought a great many suits and
generally gave them all they wanted on
tuc otner side."
After a moment of quasi-explanation
to the prisoner Scoville was about to
proceed, when Guiteau apparently
waved nis band pleasantly to ctcoviuc
ana said :
"Go on, Mr. Scoville, that's an inter
esting story and is correct in detail."
Continuing, Scoville said in effect that
uuiteau made a good living, supported
his tamllv ana paid bis debts.
Guiteau again broke in with, "I had
liret-class reterences, so I got business.
Besides that, I had no bad habits of any
Kino."
To illustrate Guiteau's freaks, and as
an indication of bis insanity, Scoville
related his rambling attempt to make a
speech upon a certain occasion when he
naa been assigned oy tne court as coun
sel tor a prisoner on trial.
Uuiteau again interrupted in an ex.
cited manner, and shouted, "That's abso
lutely raise. I never tried a case with
Charlie Reed in my life. I don't want
to interfere with your theory, but your
tacts are false. I want the jury to un-
derstand my peculiarities. That's all
right. There are a good many people
won win Bwear a am insane.
Recess.
Dr. Bliss on the Stand.
Washington, D. C. Nov. 19. Dr.
Bliss being called as a witness in the
Guiteau case, gave a narrative covering
from the tune he was called to tne l resi
dent's side (fifteen or twenty minutes af
ter he was shot), until his death. - The
immediate cause of dceth was hemor
rhage.
The witness then explained the char
acter of the wound, using the upper por
tion of a wired skeletor for purposes of
illustration, and detailed at great lengtn
the progress and symptoms of the case.
Pending the arrival of the fractured
veterbra. which the district attorney an.
nounced he had sent for the witness was
subjected to a lengthy cross examina
tion, the supposed object being to lay
the foundation for the theory ot mat
practice, which Guiteau insists be made
the foundation stone for his defense.
Quite the sensation of the trial was pro
duced when the district attorney sud
denly drew from a paste board box upon
his table a section of a human back.
bone, and holding it up inquired, "Do
you recognize this, doctor?"
The witness, in measured tones, re
plied, "I do; it is a portion or the ver
tebs of the late President James A. Gar
field." The vertebra was then handed to the
jury and the character and extent of
tne injury to tnem expiameu.
Dr. Bliss was followed by the closest
attention on the part or toe enure audi
ence, with the sole exception of Guiteau,
who devoted hlmseir to his papers, only
occasionally glancing up with the face
of a man being bored with a recital in
in which he could have no possible in
terest. After the vertebra had been re
turned to the district attorney's table,
Scoville reached over and requested an
opportunity of examining it. It was
handed to him and Guiteau, who sits
Immediately on his right, examined it
closely as Scoville turned it over from
side to side. He made no move to touch
it, however, and gave not even the
slightest indication of any feeling other
than casual curiosity. The examination
of the witness was still progressing when
the hour of recess arrived.
After recess a long and tedious cross
examination of Dr. Bliss took place,
and upon its conclusion the district
attorney inauired of the defense if they
proposed to pursue I the same course of
examination with the rest of the medical
witnesses, and upon Robinson replying
"about the same," announced to the
court that the prosecution had expected
to close to-day, but under the circum
stances they did not deem it advisable
to introduce another witness. Guiteau
here attempted to say something, when
the district attorney, bowing with mock
gravity, continued r "IT Mr. Guiteau
will permit me, your honor, I will move
an adjournment." Guiteau appeared to
relish the pleasantry, and noddingly, re-
?ilied, "Oh, certainly, yon shall have a
ull chance." Court then adjourned.
After the recces the cross examination
of Dr. Bliss was conducted by Scoville,
while before the recess the examination
was managed by Robinson, who read
his questions from manuscript notes.
The ingenious and comprehensive scope
of his examination plainly suggested
Ia Coar A sal si G ttlteam Somewhat Ro
coTsnd Croaa His Scare.
Washington, D." C, Nov. 2L The
crowd about the court house this morn
ing was three times greater than Satur
day and it was wilh the greatest difficul
ty that those entitled to admission could
find their way through the corridors to
the criminal court room. The opening
was delayed some momenta in conse
quence. Guiteau arrived in the van at
9 o'clock having an escort of three
mounted police in addition to two of
ficers on the van. He was at once
taken to hut room where he break,
fasted and then read the morn,
ing papers. He seemed to have
recovered entirely from his scare. He
attributed his escape on Saturday to the
interposition of the Deity, and desired
his hearers to understand be was not
afraid to die if the Deity desired it, but
he did not want to be
SHOT DOWN UKK A DOO
before he nad time to fully vindicate his
conduct in a court of justice.
Upon being brought into the court
Guiteau at once devoted himself to his
papers and contrary to general expecta
tion made no demonstrations whatever
r any allusions to the latest attempt
upon his life.
Immediately upon the opening of the
court Robinson arose and addressed the
court calling attention to an article in the
Sunday Post in which Scoville was made
to say he should request the withdrawal
of liobinsoa from the case as he. Sco
ville, had become satisfied that he, Rob
inson, could be of no assistance but rath
er an em harassment by his conduct.
Robinson criticised in severe terms the
discourtesy he bad received fromScoviile.
He was here interrupted by Guiteau,
who broke in with :
Your honor, I want Sobinaosi to stay
In.' . -
Cooiinnlsg, RobmsxMrreqaested the
court to grant bis discharge from the
ease, and positively statea ave eouia bos
witn proper seii-respect reouua
ciatiosj with Scoville.
futtmr Details ef Use Atteasa U KfU
fiaiteasv
Washington. D- C, Not. 19. The
driver of the prison van gives the fol
lowing particular ot the attempt to
boot Gaiteaa. The facts are substan-
tially these: Upon the adjournment of
court the van started as usual, for the
ail, having one pol iceman as guard, who
sat on the seat with the driver. Before
reaching the -capital the guard noticed
a young man on horseback riding be
hind the van. Near the corner of East
Capital and Fifth street the horseman
rode directly np to the rear of the van
aad hastily peeked through the small
grating.
OClTEAU WAS ALONK IN THE VAN.
and on the right band side, the seats
running lengthwise of the van. After
evidently satisfying himself of the loca
tion or the prisoner, the horseman
wheeled suddenly to the left of the van
and fired directly through it. He then
dashed directly to the front of the van
ana poiniea ms pistol at the driver,
with the evident intention of intimida
ting him or stopping the van. The
driver was somewhat excited and in re
sponse to an inquiry of the reporter,
said he intended to stop the van by
shooting one of the horses, but seeing
an armed policeman by the side of the
driver he exclaimed :
I'VE SHOT THK D S OF A B .
and puttingspurs to his horse he dash
ed down ast Capital street in the
direction of the Congregational ceme
tery. The policeman fired .one shot at
tne last aisappeanng horseman, ana tne
driver of the van whipped his horse into
a gallop and kept in sight of him for
several blocks. The would-be avenger
was however, mounted upon a blooded
horse and escaped out Into the country.
lie was described asasmooln-lacea man,
about twenty-five years of age ana a
dashing horseman. He had on a dark
brown salt. The van then proceeded to
the jail, and Guiteau was taken out in a
statu or great excitement, exclaiming
"I have been shot; notify Major Brock
at once.
TEIXHTX TO ARKKST THE SCOUNDREL
and have him dealt with as he de
serves." On examination it was found
that the ball had just crazed Guiteau's
wrist, mulcting a mere scratch, ine
ball struck the opposite side of the van.
and fell to the floor, where it was found
on reaching the jail.
A MrSKRABI.lt CRAVEN.
Officer Edelin, who accompanied the
van back to the jail says he did not hear
Uuiteau say a word during the ride ex
cept that he wanted to go back to the
police headquarters for guards. Paying
no attention to mm tney made tneir way
back to the jail. They backed the van
to the entrance and opened the door.
Guiteau was crouched in the corner, pale
and trembling.
"Come on out," said Edelin, but the
fellow was too frightened to move. Pres
ently be walked toward the door, but
shrank back again. The officers repeat
ed their assurances that there was no
one else thcro and Guiteau came out.
"The Lord is on my side, sure enough '
said he, "but I think he had better have
some policeman to take care of me after
this. Tell them 1 want a double guard
up here Monday morning to take me
down to court."
Guiteau was extremely nervous and
continually upbraided Maj. Brock, chief
or police, ror not furnishing him an ade
quate guard. Warden Crocker told him
that Maj. Brock was not to blame.
"Then who is?" inquired Guiteau.
"Some one. is surely." While putting
on bis striped suirt tne prisoner kept
saying the ixra was on his side." tie
was too much excited to talk much
Later he grew calmer and lay down on
his cot. When asked to tell how it all
happened, at first he referred all inquir
ies to "my body guard." Upon learning
that the officer had tola bis story he said
"We started from the court room tn ex
eel lent spirits. I stood up in the for
ward part of the van, took hold of the
grating with both hands, and was look.
ing out. I was thinking that my first
week in court had been a good one for
me. I had a good jury, and no one had
said anything bard against me. I no
ticed nothing out of the way till I heard
the shot, then another, and I felt some
thing in my arm. I diopped on the
Moor. 1 thought that .
MY ABM WAS BROKEN
but didn't move a muscle until the van
stopped at the jail. Who was it that
shot at me?" he asked. Upon being
told that the man escaped, he asked if
be fired two shots at him. luieiin told
him he had fired but one. "1 wish you
had killed him," he said, "while he was
talking."
TBI MAN WOO DID TUB SHOOTING,
The description given of the man who
did the shooting was so meagre, that the
police bad very little to worK upon. An
alarm, however, was sent out. and the
mounted police instructed to scour the
country and bring in all suspicious char-
acters. The officers who patrol near the
boldiers' home finally saw a man an
swering the description that had
been sent out, and cried out to
him to halt. He got a blast of profanity
in reply, and the man rode off as fast as
possible, the policemen n not pursuit.
The chase was continued beyond the
district line and several shots were fired
during its progress, the man finally dis
appearing in the woods. The officer
then laid in wait for the man and he
soon reappeared. As he rode in toward
the city he was overtaken and here the
assailant William Jones, by name, was
ARRESTED AND BROUGHT BACK TO TICK
CITT.
He has been very reticent ever since
his arrest, and the officers having him
in charge will not communicate any
thing in regard to the prisoner. It is
reported that Jones is another member
of the great family of "crooks," and
that he does not seem to realize that he
has done anything which is liable to in
voive him in serious aimcuity.
The Kind of a Fellow Jones Is.
Washington. D. C Nov. 21. Wil
Ham Jones, charged with firing into the
prison van in wnicn uuiteau was being
conveyed from the court house to the
jail, with the intent to kill him, was
taken to the second precinct police sta
tion about 9 o'clock last night. He was
very drunk and unable to say much
about the matter.
This morning he has become sober
enough to appreciate his position, and
at once took steps to secure counsel in
the person of R. K. Elliott, who will de
fend him in the police court to-morrow
morning.
The visitors to the station house to
day asked Jones why he did not hit
Guiteau.
Jones laughed and said it wasn't I
that shot at him. I want to sec them
prove it.
So confident were the authorities last
night night that the right man had been
secured that no further search was made
and it was not till five o'clock this aftet
noon that any of the officers on the top
of the van at the time of the shooting
were sent to the police station house to
identify the prisoner.
Police Officer Edelin, who was sitting
on the van with the driver, and who
fired at the horseman when he wheeled
and fled, rode out to the station house
about five and, after thoroughly scrutin
izing Jones' features and some conversa
tion. Officer Edelin entered the office of
the station and announced to the officers
and reporters: "Gentlemen, this is not
the man. I should know the man I
fired at among a million. I not only
rail to Identity in is man, but I could
wear that he is not the roan."
Officer Edelin then specified the points
or difference between them as follows :
Jones has a light complexion with hard
ly a perceptible mustache, while the
man that fired at Guiteau was a dark.
swarthy man, apparently about 45 years
old, with a very heavy, stumped,
black mustache and keen,
black eyes: besides, the latter v.
cool and sober, and the manner in which
be planned and executed his work, even
though he failed, was that of a clear
headed, determined man, rather than
that of a half witted crank. Again the
horse rode was a Heavy sorrel, with
white fore legs, while Jones horse has
not a white speck upon it.
The authorities are pretty well satis
led now from Edelin's statement that
they have not secured the right man, as
an interval of an hour and a half elapsed
between the time the would be avenger
escaped irom tne pursuing van and the
time when the mounted officers first
sighted the eccentric Jones.
There is room for several theories thai
are now being advanced, that the real
avenger made good his escape, as be had
ample time to do, or that Jones, after,
as be had supposed, having eluded bis
pursuers, coocluded to celebrate bis ex-
Jloit with a grand spree, and again that
ones was an accomplice to the extent
of leaving his horse, and that, after re
ceiving him back on the outskirts of the
district, and learning what had been
done, be was just drunk enough to en
joy the sport by being panned by the
police. Knowing be could not be held
for the real crime. The new phase of
the case creates a stir at police head
quarters. Jones is well known to the police. He
has been arrested several times in
the past six years. He is 29 years old
and owns a fine farm on the Bates road
a boat three miles from this city. He is
regarded as a crank by bis neihbor.
The chief eccentricity of the past two
years baa bees to personate policemen
ana make arrests, and. after makinea
snow of taking the person to the station
nouse to release him with, a warn in r
not to be caught offending again. -
Recently be went Bp to a carriage Just
entering the grounds ot the Soldiers'
Home and compelled the driver to halt.
The occupaata, gentleman and two
ladies, protested, out with much severity
of manner Jones called ont: This thing
has been going oa long enough. Ton
most go with m to the station hooee. I
have my orders to arrest yon. Explaaa
tioos being useieas, the party accompan
ied bins to the station. Jost as
they . were about to . alight from I
the carriage, however, Jones,
bade them good day, and putting spurs
tn his horse, quickly disappeared.
Shortly afterward be arrested a woman
and for this offense was fined. He was
never known to use or carry a revolver.
Those who know him intimately say he
is rather a half witted than a crazy man.
His demeanor to-day indicates he rather
enjoys the notoriety he has secured.
t'erry Carson, the colored guardsman
at the rear of the van, to-night positive
ly idenuiit-d Jones as the norseman wno
followed the van to East Capitol and
First streets. When the van reached
the capitol grounds, Jones was pretty
close behind, and when they reached
First street, he rodo past the rear end
and almost immediately he heard a pis
tol shot and then another; but whether
Jones is the man who fired the first shot
he can not say, as from his position on
the van it was impossible to see what
happened near the side or in the front
part. The police arc impressed to-night
that Jones is the man who fired at
Guiteau, notwithstanding the statement
of Officeis Edelin and Kikoff, by the
positive identification on the part of
Guardsman Carson .
A Sunday Call Upon Oniteaa.
Washington, D. C. Nov. 20. The
jail to-day was visited by many curi
ous people Dut only a lew got a sigut oi
Guiteau. Amoug those who saw himJ
was a reporter, to whom he talked free
ly. First be said he wished the papers
would not speak ofliim as the "assassin.
1 hat is a cruel word," said ne, "ana it
grates on my sensitive nerves. Some
papers always speak of me as 'the prison
er.' 'the defendant.' or uuiteau.' l
don't mind that. 'Fellow' is another
name I don't like. That is a low vulgar
appellation." The interview then pro
ceeded:
"Does your wound hurt you ?"
"Not in ihe least. It did not hnrt
from the first. The man intended to
kill me but the Lord interposed and
saved me from harm. You can look at
my arm." continued the assassin, and
be showed the spot inside of the elbow
that looked very like a burn. He con.
tinued. "The papers nave done me a
wronir in savin? I smilingly handled a
section of President Garfield's back bone
that was produced in court. I didn't
critically examine it. Scoville had it in
his hands and it attracted my attention
I whispered to him, ls that a part ol
Garfield's bones?" and Mr. Bcoville
nodded 'Yes.' I didn't stick my finger
into the hole: didn't even point at it.
I want the statements corrected, for such
reports tend to incense the people
against me."
' Alia you ever Know uui jones, tne
man arrested on suspicion of having
fired at you yesterday ?"
"I never saw him and don't want to
see him, or any one of his disposition
He must be a lunatic or a busuwacker.'
"Did you say, as reported, that you
supposed some Virginia or Maryland
rebel did it?"
"I did not. I don't swear. I have al
ways associated wilh high toned people,
christians and politicians of moral prin
ciples. When ever you see an oath
coupled wilh any expression credited to
me, you can put the whole tiling down
as a manufactured laisenooa."
Warden Crocker remarked that dur
ing his attendance on Guiteau he had
never heard a profane or vulgar word
from hm.
"Do you desire the punishment of
your would-be slayer?" resumed the re
porter.
"I certainly do and to the full ex ti nt
of the law; not, however, out of it spirit
of revenge, but as a warning to otbi-r
'cranks' w ho harbor designs against uiy
life."
"Do you stand in dred of any further
attempts at your inc."
"I have no anxiety as to the future.
am in no fear. The Lord and the met
ropolitan police will guard mc from all
harm. The Lord will protect me in the
future as he has preserved me in the
past. He is using the police to serve his
purpose, and hence comes my protec
tion. The issues of life and death, you
know, are in bis hands, ana he never, in
working out his plans, gives much reler-
ence to the will or man."
"But." said the reporter, "if the Lord
guards you with such tender care why
was it that this attempt on your life
threw you into such a state of fear ?"
"I was not thrown into any fear. The
report was false and slanderous. When
I heard the shot 1 thought one of the
guards had accidentally discharged his
pistol and that the horses then took
fright and ran away. I tell you they
made the van num. mat or course
caused me considerable trepidation, but
I was not fri ghtened."
"Will you appeal to the court for ad
ditional protection?"
"I undoubtedly shall if the additional
protection is not granted without such
an appeal, but ram informed it will be.
I want not less than six or eight mount
ed policemen to guard the van from the
jail to the court room to-morrow, and
back to the jail again. Heretofore the
mounted police have only accompanied
the van in the morning."
"Do you intend to make an address to
the court to-morrow ?"
"I do not intend to make any more set
speeches in the future. I will get in my
wurs on tuti siyiy neasuusuis interrup
tions and interjections."
"Your lawyers and the court may have
something to say on this subject," sug
gested tne reporter.
"You can just say," retorted the assas
sin, "that I ain't going to be muzzled. I
don't intend to be quiet from any sug
gestions of my counsel. I may have
something to say to-morrow, for I un
derstand that Mr. Scoville objects to
Robinson's cross-examination of the doc
tors. Now, I want them to be rigidly
cross-examined."
Mr. Crocker here objected to the pris
oner criticising his counsel, but Guiteau
said quickly :
"I want to say this, that the doctors
must tell their story in full. As I said
in open court, I admit the shooting, but
deny the killing. The doctors killed the
president, and I intend they shall share
with me the odium or his death."
"Do you then intend to insist on the
plea of malpractice?"
"1 do not; I rest solely on the plea of
insanity."
"Then you really consider your act an
insane oner
"I do. The act of taking President
Garfield's life, from its conception to its
end, was an insane one."
"You surely do not maintain that you
are an insane man at this moment?"
ventured the reporter.
"I maintatn," began Guiteau, but the
warden interposed and put nis loot down
on this way of getting evidence, as he
seemed to consider it. The assassin did
say, however, that he was greatly pleased
with the jury and the conduct of the
court: Said be, "I expect things to
move on more smoothly now. Judge
McGruder, of Maryland, and John D.
Townsend, of New York, appear to
morrow. This will about balance the
sides." Then retarning to the subject
of yesterday's shooting be said : "It
would be a national disgrace for the au
thorities to allow me to be shot down in
irons and on trial for my life. The eyes
of the world are upon us. 1 commend
myself to the Lord and the authorities.
In response to further questions be
said that other claims on his time had
prevented him from reading bis bible
to-day, though be yet hoped to "read
some favorite Psalms before dark."
He concluded the interview as fol
lows: "Tell the public that I am in
excellent health, I eat well, I sleep well
and I feel well."
Anaaal Be port
ml Postmaster
James.
General
Washington, Nov. 31, The postmas
ter general has submitted his report
showing the operations of the department
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1881.
It shows this department of the govern
ment to be in a prosperous condition.
and nearing the time when the debit
and credit sides of the balance sheet will
be together.
its financial statement is as follows
Expenditures .
Kecctpts
.ns.ssi.rss.4S
Excess ot exoeaditaras..
.S t.4SS,338.4S
"Bad uebu" aad cosaproniae"
account. ....
14.790.88
Total excess $ S. 48 1,129 Si
KSTIHATBS FOB 18te2.
Expend itnres. .......113.681.80009
uuanwnvnM tl, J .Z.UO
Excess of expenditures. S 930,077,!
STAMPS.
The total number of postage stamna
stamped envelopes ana postal cards is
sued was 1,504311,542, valued at $34,
635,435,81, showing an aggregate in-
crease of 7.9 over the fiscal year ending
w uoc au, xocv. -
DEAD LETTER OFFICE.
The whole number of letters mailed
in this country during the fiscal year
was i,uso,iuiHo. ine number
reaching the dead letter office
3,323,651. Of these 2,791,050
were unclaimed domestic letters: 279-
244 held for postage, and 24256 misdi
reeled. The remainder came under
rules forbidding transmission. Of those
opened 18,617 were found to contain
money amounting to $40,587.80; 22,012
contained drafts, money orders, et&, the
sggregsis iace value 01 wnicn was
$1 499.032.51 : 83.731 contained photo
graphs, and ia 75,213 were found valu
able articles. The amount nf
separated from dead letters for which no'
claimant could be found was $84.40.
iwo taonsana six nunared and fourteen
registered letters reached the dead letter
office, and of these 2.131 were finally de
livered to the owners.
KSBISTKRXD LETTERS.
The total number of registered letters
and parcels was 8,338,919. The amount
of registry foes collected was $7128i
20, aa increase over the previous year of
19.19 per cent. The registry system is
now in most excellent condition.
HONEY OHDBRS.
The money order system is growing
under the impulse of prosperous trade
and the influence of immigration, with
the rapid developmtnt of the newer
states and territories, aud the demand
lor addition al inter-communication and
exchange. The whole number of mon
ey order offices now in operation is5,4'jy.
l ne numoer oi money omt-rs ium m
.0U3.232. valued at 105t075.7C9.3.'.
The value of payments is $104,924,853.
61. This shows an increase of 4.71 per
cent. The average of tho orders issued
was $tS.7l, and the fee 12 62-100 cents.
There are seventy-seven cases of alleged
lost remittances.
The conventions for the exchange of
money orders between the United States,
on the one hand, and Switzerland, Groat
Brtlian and Ireland, the Uerman em
pire, Canada and Newfoundland, and
France and Algeria, on ine otucr, nave
remained in force, without alteration.
since the clse of the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1SS0. A convention has re
cently been concluded for the establish
ment Ol a like system oi excuange wr
tween tbe United btttes and tne island
of Jamaica, to co into operation on the
1st ot January next, and negotiations lor
a si miliar purpose are now in progress
between the United States and the Brit
ish Australasian colonies of Victoria,
New South Wales. Tasmania, and New
Zealand.
The rjostinaster-geueral urges a new
building for the money order system in
Washintrton. He sneaks of the growth
of the department, of its increase in the
west and of the re-establishment of the
southern mail service at the close of the
war. There is also mention of the pe
riod when straw bidding prevailed and
of the scandals that had attended the
poetoffice department during the past
quarter of a century.
SELF SUSTAINING.
The country has reached that stage in
the progress of its material development
where, it seems, an effort ought to be
made to bring the debt and credit sides
ot the department's balance sheet nearer
together. All or nearly all the long and
exDensive star routes have been super
seded bv railroad service. The cost of
the star service ought therefore to rapid
ly decrease in the Western states ana ter
ritories.
RAILWAY SERVICE.
The actual payment tor the railway
mail service during the fiscal year, lSsl
was $11.411.12090. The cost for the
current fiscal year will be srj.OOU.UUI
and the estimates for 1883 are $13,181,-
601. The enormous growth of railroads
in 1880 aud 1881, and their anticipated
increase of mileage in the near iuiure,
will account for a great proportion of
the augmented cost of the service. But
there is another cause which must also
be taken into consideration. Ihe in
crease in the weight or the mail trans
ported by tne trunk linos nas ueen un
paralleled and the maximum does not
anocar to have been reached.
It is undoubtedly true thai while some
railroads may not be fully paid for the
service they render, the great majority
are overoaid. There is aud always has
been a disposition on the part of rail
road corporations fb dealing wilh the de
partment to exact their own terms. I lie
subject is a complex one, and while it
demands immediate attention it should
have a most careful consideration.
REDUCING SALARIES.
Some saving has already been effected
in the matter of allowance of postmas
ters, and Btill more may be practicable.
The salaries of postmasters in towns of
10,000 inhabitants and less arc greater
than the compensation for equally oner
ous and responsible duties paid by banks
and express companies. A saving in
this direction can bo made wiihout in-
in justice to the officeholders or detri
ment to the postal service.
If these suggestions are deemed
worthy of consideration, and congress
carries them out, the
BEOCCTION OV LETTER POSTAGE
from three to two cents will be possible
within three years. I believe this re
duction could be accomplished without
the proportionate diminution of re
ceipts which followed the adoption of
three-cent postage in 1851. The people
have shown their appreciation of cheap
postage. The introduction of the postal
card, instead of diminishing the re
ceipts, bas on the whole largely in
creased them. Two-cent postage would,
I believe, after one or two years trial.
produce the same result. It is my de
liberate judgment that two-cent postage
is feasible in tne near future. 1 would
favor it even if the rates of postage on
third and fourth class matter had to be
increased. The great mass of the peo
ple are interested in cheap letter postage.
FOREIGN MAILS.
Postmaster James next discusses the
reorganization of the mail seivice and
subsidies connected therewith. He
speaks of foreign mails and the cost of
tne ocean man service, xy ine countties
and colonies have since the last report
declared their adhesion to the postal
union. He suggests an improvement of
the man communication witn Mexico.
There are 00,530 employes in the post-
on ice department or the government.
Of this number 43,012 are postmasters
The free delivery system was extend-
ed during the year to Leadville, Colora
do: Mansfield. Ohio: Menden. Connect!
cut; Richmond, Indiana; and Zanesville,
Ohio.
During the past year there have been
461 arrests ot post officials; 42 of this
number were postmasters and 11 assist
ant postmasters.
The laws governing permissible writ
ing on mail matter of the fourth class
and explosive and other dangerous ar
ticles in the mails are relerred to. The
postmaster general advises a new edition
or the ".Postal Laws and lteguiattons.
SALARIES OF LARGE OFFICES.
BONDS. IILltT
Chicago, 111
Philadelphia. P ..
ltoston. Atass
BC Louis. Mo
Cincinnati, u
San Francisco, Cal.
.S300.WM.O9 I fl.OUO.U)
. 1CO.iOU.0U ) 4.U.OO0
. ISO OUUUO I 4.0UOIO
. 1S0.UUO.UU I 4,000.00
9UU.UWWJI 4.UUUSU
8Su.UUU.OU I 4.UU0O0
SdU.OUUOOl 4.000 00
Baltimore. Md..
In view of the facts thus presented it
is recommended that the compensation
-of the postmasters at Chicago. Philadel
phia, Boston and tSL Louis be increased
to $7,000, and that of the postmasters at
Cincinnati, San Francisco, New Orleans
and Baltimore to $6,000 per annum.
The report closes with tho postmaster
general's view of conducting the office
on business principles. In conclusion,
governing the selection and retention of
employes, lie says:
"The public is best served by honest,
experienced and competent officers, and
changes, therefore, should be made care
fully and only for reasons affecting ora
rial conduct. My views upon this sub
ject are the result of prolonged official
experience, and 1 am petsuded that the
practical application of these principles
would promote public morality, increase
the economy and efficiency of the pub
lic service, and assuage the fury of par
ty spirit, against which Washington
warned the country as its chief peril."
A LATK DECISION.
Washinoton, Nov. 22. Acting Post
master General Hatton today announced
a decision to the eflect tbat matter pro
duced by a hand stamp, type writer or
copy press is prima facie subiect to first-
class rates of postage, but that this pre
sumption may oe removed by the ex.
animation or matter produced by pro
cess of adoption, the question Ut be de
termined in eacft case being w lietner or
not matter is intended for use only be
tween parties on subjects personal to
inemseives.
Congressional Apportionment
Washinoton. INov. 19. The present
membersnip or the house or representa
tives is 293 er one member to about 140-
ww 01 uie population according to the
table submitted by the census depart
ment to-day, the population of the states
being placed at 49.371.340. The states
will be represented in the Forty-eighth
congress at a ratio of one member to
every 169,090, unless a new apportion
ment is maae, as iouows:
48ta . 47ta
States. CoacrMS. Cona-resr,
Alabama. 8 j
Arkansas..... 6 i
Call torn 10 a 4
Colorado.......... J
Connecticut 4 4
Detawara. 1 1
Florida 1
OeoTB-ta.......
Illinois. is
Induuut is
Iowa....... . . . -. ..... ..... . S
Kansas S
Kentucky. is
Louisiana..... a
Maine. 4
Maryland 5
Massachusetts. la
Michigan i
Minnesota.... a
Missi.sippi f
Missouri jj
Nebraaaa a
Nevada 1
New Hampshire S
new s-ersey
New York
North Carolina.
Oslo
Oregon
FeanfiylTaaia..
Khode Islaad...
Soath Carolina.
. . 7
... SO
... S
...
... 1
... ts
s
... s
... s
... t
... s
... s
...
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IS
s
s
Verssoat.
Virriaia
s
, s
West Virginia
s
A Kacisur Carnival
LocisvnxK, Nov. 23. The Jockey
club bas decided to have carnival of
racing in the spring, increasing its regu
lar meeting to eleven days and adding'
some $2,500 to the program. Addition
al stakes will be opened making 130, to
close January in. I he new, stakes are
to farther demonstrate Uie worth of
American bred horses. The elnb will
adopt the sliding scale of weights
different from those of the Lexington
club and will announce them shortly.
Pollueal Complrxinn of the Xexl House.
Washington. Nov. 21. Since the
election in New Yoik it has been claim
ed tbat there was 147 straight Kepubli
can members of the next house notwith
standing the delcat of Asuir. The of
ficial list ot members as made up by the
othcers of the house and of those who
are entitled to draw pay only conttiua
146 straight republicans or one slirl of
a majority over all. They are from the
different slates, as follows :
California.. . S
Colorado ,
Connecticut
Illinois.
.IS
. H
U
. s
1
. s
. I
.III
.
. 1
1
3
. 4
I!
. 1
.15
. 1
.IS
.'. s
.. s
..
. 6
ndiana
low a
Kansas
Kentucky
Ivouisiana.
Maine
Maryland
Ma-sac luetts
nr.n laran
Minnesota
Mit-iotiri
Nebraska
Noj Hampshire . .
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
Oregon..
i-enusyivaaia.. ...
Knoae isiauu
Tennessee
Vermont. .
Virginia
w isconsin
This is the list of Republicans as tin y
will be recognized at tho organization
of the house. There are 130 straight
Democrats, 8 Greenbackers, 2 lteadjust
ers and 1, Independent Republican
(Smyth of Brooklyn). It is almost cer
tain that five of the Gieen backer?, tin
two Readjusters and Smyth will vote
wilh the Republicans, which w ill give
them ten majority. The project t at
tempting a coalition between the Dem
ocrats and Greenbackers to secure an or
ganization, seems to have been aban
doned since Hewitt and several other
Democrats declared they would i.ot
have any thing to do with it.
lynehlnr
Menomines, Wis, Nov. 19. A cour
ier bas just arrived from Durand, bring
ing the news that Ed. Williams was
lynched in that village at 2 o'clock this
afternoon. That was the time fixed for
the preliminary examination and K.I.
was brought to the court bouse to be ar.
raigued. It is stated that he add i eased
the court and said that he was one of
the parties who killed the Colein nis,
but that it was done in self defense. As
he sat down a rope was thrown around
his neck. He made a desperate etl'ort to
cast it off, but it was ineffectual and he
was Jerked through an open window in
a twinkling of an eye. A few stcotiils
more and he was swinging iu tlic air,
dangling from the limb of a tree in tho
court house yard. The whole buMiuas
was done so suddenly, and the crowd in
the court room was so dense they w. re
powerless to protect the prisoner. Though
they made a desperate effort to do t-o.
The affair had evidently been fu!!y
planned and its purpose accomplished
with celerity.
As soon as the rope was securely l.wt
ened about his neck the end was ihr.w u
out of the open window wheio r-aily
and willing hands seized it aud, ss--.ist.-d
by their confederates inside, ho was
hustled through the window headlong.
to the ground. As he went out the muti
insiue, wno uaa apparently come
in as quiet spectators of the exam
ination, pushed themselves between
the officers and the prisoner, hustling
him to another part of the room in spite
or all effort or resistance. This part or
the program seemed to be done by no
particular persons, but by a general
movement of those loside tho room. The
court and its officers were utterly pow
erless and no blame can attach to them
from their inability to protect their pris
oner. As soon as the mob had accom
plished Its purpose it suddenly disier-od
and the village resumed its wonted quiet
and peaceful aspect. When Ihe courier
left Durand at 2:30, Ed Williams was
still swinging from tho limb. Fully 100
men were engaged in the buBin'-ss. They
were from all parts of the country and
were supposed to have been attracted
there by motives of curiosity.
A Common Sense View of the Indian
tjasstlon-
WAsm'NSTON, Nov. 17. The annual
report of the commissioner of Indian
affairs to the secretary of the interior is
made public. Commissioner l'rice at
the outset desires to urge with earnest
ness the absolute necessity for a thor
ough and radical change in the Indian
policy in some respects, and particular
ly it must be apparent to the most c isual
observer that the system of fathering In
dians in bands or tribes on reservations
and carrying them victuals and clothes,
thus relieving themfrom the necessity ol
labor, never will and never can civilize
them. If white men were treated as we
treat the Indians the result would cer
tainly be a race of worthless vagulioinls.
I wish to call attention to the fact that
in almost every case it is only non-laboring
tribes that go on the war-path, and
the stubborn facts of history compel me
to say the government is largely to
blame for this. We feed White river
murderers 'and compel peaceable Uiu
tahs to largely care for themselves. This
course induced the Indians to believe
that to get favors from the government
they must refuse to work ; refuse to bo
orderly and peaceable and must commit
some depredations, or murder, and tin n
a commission will be appointed to treat
them and pay tbem in good provisions.
The commission recommends prohibi
ting the introduction of liquor on the
Iniisn reservation by the authority of
the war department. Incidentally he
suggests as a more effectual remedy for
the evil of drunkenness, that congress lie
asked to prohibit the manufacture or
sale of ardent spirits in any of the ter
ritories ot the United Stales, and among
other thing3 that laws be enacted ex
tend ing to the Indian reservations the
civil laws of the states and territories in
which they are respectively situated.
Blaise on the Stand.
Washinoton, D. C, Nov. 17. Sco
ville in his examination of Secretary
Blaine asked him in regard lo the
troubles in the Republican party last
spring. He tried to get Mr. Blaine to
tell him his own story or the matter, but
the secretary did a little cross-examination
on his own part and tried to in
duce Mr. Scoville to indicate more
definitely what point be wanted answer
ed. He admitted that there was dissen
sion in the liepublican ranks because
he appointed Judge Robertson as col
lector or the port of New York, and Hie
senators from that state resigned. He
could make a political speech on the
subject two boirs and a half long, or if
the counsel would put direct questions
he would answer them plainly. Aa lo
the length of the strnggle in the New
York legislature be was not sure. After
the president was shot, the secretary
said, he thought he paid as little alien-
ten to political matters as any one
in the country. When asked as lo the
origin of the name "stalwart" Secretary
Blaine said the term originated with him
years ago. It was. generally applied to
uie close roiiowcrs or uen. uraot. The
stalwarts worked well for Garfield be
cause they were Republicans. In tb
New York contest Gen. Garfield was re.
f erred to as a half-breed. He believed
Senator Cookling to have been a stal
wart.
The prosecution did not see the nm- of
this style of Questioning, but 8cov11Ia
deemed it necessary for their case to
show that bitter political dissension ex
isted in the party at the time referred to,
and be thought Mr. Blaine knew all
about it
Mr. Blaine said he had tnl.l ll ,
knew, and he was then dismissed from
the stand. The secretary's answer
caused considerable amusement.
A'Laae Prosecution
Washington. Nov. 17. From the
talk about the prosecution of the star
route ring the public bas been led to in
fer that extraordinary means have been
used in garnering testimony for the gov-
eminent. General MacVeagh is sup
posed to have furnished a large amount
of the means at the department of lat
tice tor the purpose of gathering this
testimony. The contrary, however, sp-"
pears to be the fact. Colonel Cook, the
leading counsel for the government, said
to-day that the department of justice had
furnished, from the beginning of the in
vestigation to the close, only $700, and
that not over $5,000 in monev had been
spent In pursuit of evidence. The dif-
lerenee between S700 farniahed bv th
department of justice and the $5,000
spent, was paid out of bis (Cook's) own
pocket. He informed a distinguished
public man to-day that thus far tne fight
against the star route people had been
almost entirely in the newspapers, and
that the count I employed by the govern
ment had really been so crippled and
hampered by lack of means that they
had been necessarily delayed in making
np a case. This was not aa explanation
that he could make ia open court, but it
was one ot the main reasons of the
failure np to the present time to produce
anything tangible for judicial consider
ation. .
Aaaerieaa Pork la France. ..
Baltimork. Md.. Novesnhps- fit
President GarretL of the Raltimnm ami
Ohio railroad, has the following ca
blegram from Leon Chalfi-aii. of PmHb .
"The new cabinet is favorable to the re
peal or decree of February. The first
steps taken. This is understood to
mean that Gambetta's cabinet is favora
ble to the repeal of decree prohibiting
the importation of American pork and
lard.. - - - - - - - -----
latterly ot Kashas.
Norwich. N. Y November 21 Th
grand jury of Chenango county foend
thirty.five indictments against 'Henry
T. Robblas. for forgeries dorin? 1673
aad 1879. Robbies has resided ba Kansas
since under aa assumed name. -