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,4-v V, v 4* '*>»'• fcfc-J? "WU ,» * J £ ^ * ^7V«#7,V - . V - -J ?7 ® r ,?+P /j- wt ,L*e ,.,v J. VAMSLYUL JULIUS HAIAWKOH, ft New York banker, "who died in Switzerland, left the bulk of Î OOOiOWtoUi Wi, bmI in the event of his death the amount to ge to twelve charitable and educational in­ stitutions. Ha bequeaths $160,000 to oharttiea. ORANUL GRANT'S wounds have both been* from falls. After taking Yicka- bttfg he rode a rough, nervous horse in the streets of New Orleans and experi­ enced a terrible fall, which kept him on crutches long after, and he had hardly recovered when Stanton went to Ohio to meet him and plan the Chattagooga campaign. BBIATOB WADS lUvrrox is not handsome, but good-looking, fie has ' attempted to replace the leg he lost since the war. He does not look unlike Che dead Bnrnside, except that his head is not so lare and that his whiskers are of a differently tinted gray. He is a wry graceful speaker and a pleasant companion. ^OUI8YK.ME (Ky.) ContmerHal: A number of ladies, guests at the Gait House reception New Tear's night, mis­ took the silver skewers in the banquet meat* for "favors," and incontinently carried them off to be used as hairpins. They belonged to the chief cook, and aretalued at $50. The mistake was explained in time to recover, all but four or fire before the guests had left the house. A cuBiotJB lawsuit is now awaiting trial in New York. Some ten months * ago Hiss Annie Pettit, a young girl of unusually large proportions, was engag­ ed by a dime museum manager to ex­ hibit herself as "the largest young lady in the world." Miss Pettit was given to understand that her position was a life one, and it probably would have been hadn't nature interfered and reduced her size so much that she was no longer a curiosity. The management prompt- lydischarged her, and she nowvs«e*for reinstatement NjefioLS, of Wilkesbarre, started up ^little postoffice system of his own. He engaged boys to deliver letters and circulars at a cent each. That old mo­ nopolist, the United States government, came down on Nichols. It does not be­ lieve that competition is the life of trade in the postoffice business, and it thanks that Nichols must be out of his 'five centses to think differently. Nich- c ols' counsel has advised him to give up his little postoffice delivery scheme. Yet the general delivery of opinion in Wilksbarre aeems to be ia favor of Nichols. JEN* SWIXTOH says:. "Yanderbilt'S capita!-of gold is greater than all the gold there was in the world-conquering Rome in the reign of Augustus Gasar. Two hundred million dollars in gold! or 860 tons of gold! or 700,000 pounds of gold I or 11,200,000 ounces (avoirdu- pois) of goldl How many freight-oars would'be required to carry this gold? Ten, you'll say at a jump. No--35. Turn the gold into golden 'eagle,' $10 ooins, lay them in a circle, edges touch­ ing, what would be the circumference of that circleb. It would be a ring over 300 miles in circumference." There is no doubt about it, Mr. Va&derbilt iB pretty well "heeled." • * * -- *- < }" . »• BABRUM, who has written a will of •even hundred pages and taken the most extraordinary precautions against it* being contested on ,the ground of hip insanity, will proably furnish his heirs such a ground for a contest, if he continues to insist that he paid $200,000 for his white elephant. A cable dis> patch from Calcutta says that the su­ perintendent of the work of catching elephants for the government in Bengal asserts that he can supply scores of such elephants, and even better ones, for from $800 to $900 each. A man who eays be has paid $200,000 for a white elephant would necessarily be consider­ ed crazy in any court of law, and it would be better for Mr. Barnum to own up that these figures are grossly ex­ aggerated, or even to acknowledge that the white elephant is the wofk of his o%n artistic whitewash-brush.' ' * £?' Vi.' M .-«!• •mk COLONEL WARD H. LAMON, widely known as the biographer of Lincoln, say the Chicago News, resides m Den­ ver. His rooms are the resort of the lateral and odd characters of Colorado. Lamon is a very large, obese man, ad­ dicted, to books, story telling, the. col­ lection of curiosities, and a pursuit of happiness. He has trunks full of curi­ ous weapons given to and confiscated by him while he was marshal of the District of Columbia--swords, cutlasses, knives, pistols, revolvers, dirks, billies, and sing-shot*. Some of these are very unique and valuable. One of Lamon's IpMts is to ait iip all night and lying abed till noon during the day. In Lot weather he takes naps on the floor of his office, with a patent fly-fan standing near him keeping the insects off his dormant form. He takes no part in politics, and is engaged upon ft volnme of personal reminiscences. it in the sand rock, denoting a bare foot, with toes, instep and heel aa plain and unmistakable as the orb of day. It measured twenty-six indbea in length aad twelve fa width. The aver­ age depth of the imprint fc four-inches, while at the ball of the loot it is six inches. These imprints appear along the edge of the narrow passageway for some distance, and they are distinctly and evenly eighteen feet apart, showing the great distance the monster with the human foot could make at a single step. The men had only three pack mules and prospecting tools with them, or they would have taken out the rock contain­ ing the loot imprint, but it is their in­ tention to return in a few days, prepar­ ed to perform the work and bring those evidences of a monster human race to the public gaze. A SYSTEM of introducing foreign labor into this country, says the New York World, which was begun some year ago. has during the past year assumed such proportions that it has begun to attract much attention throughout the country and Congress, it is expected, will soon be filled with petitions asking that some means be adopted which will pre­ vent it. The system is one by which large gangs of of laborers are gathered together in Hungary, Germany and Italy by the agents of large corpora­ tions in this country and imported here after having signed a contract to work so many years at a certain stipulated price. The laborers, it is said, are not correctly informed of the kind of work they will have to do in this country and in consequence agree to work for a sum much lower than that obtained by the laboring classes here. This system has been adopted by capitalists in New York, New England, and to some ex­ tent in the ootton-growing sections of the South. Under promises of free passage to the land of wealth and lib­ erty the poor wretches are eager to sign the contract which, although they are not binding here, the men believe them to be so, and pleee themselves in a position which is nothing more or less than slavery. Under these contracts they are put, some in mills, factories, and mines, others are used in railroad work, while those who have no trade or profession are engaged as joommon la­ borers on farms. A WASHINGTON correspondent writes: Clay preferred a seat in the House of Bepresentativss to one in the Senate, and at the present day the wise man, if he has higher ambitions,' would do so too. The Senate should nowadays be sought by men whose politzoal ambi­ tion ends with a seat in it, and who ex- peots to leave there reputation behind them when they enter. Eveq so bril­ liant a man as 'Blaine was a failure there and he could not be prevailed upon to resume his seat in that body. Young men, like Frye and Kenna, go there full of enthusiasm only to have their ...blood frozen and their aspira­ tions smothered. It is a chamber of artificiality; of red-tapeism and of dull and emotionless commonplace. It is stagnating with political ritualism. Senators themselves speak in private in terms of utmost discontent and dis­ gust with the unhealthly atmosphere that stifles all hearty emotions there, but say they are powerless to prevent it. The men, when they take their place in the chamber, are not real men, but a sort of card-board imitation like the characters in James' novels. The unwritten laws and customs grow apace, and he who violates them does so at his peril. Frye did so when he first entered the Senate, but he was snub­ bed or almost snuffed out for it, and he has hardly opened his mouth since. Senators seem to bo afraid of anything like emotion. Ingall's sarcasm, Vest's stump-like oratory, and Van Wyck's little javelin tlyusts at the administra­ tion are the nearest approach to it. Beck's vigorous indignation raises only dry smiles, and all the others mumble through their part as though it was a sin to feel enthusiasm ar emotion about anything. It is hard to put into words a description of this dry-rot, but it can be said that its effect is stultifying, and that unless there be a change the day has not gone by when the country can expect anything but the perfunctionary performance of duty by the Senate. Two miners who have returned from Grand Canon report a most marvelous discovery, says the Peach Springs, Ari- zonia Territory, Champion. In the basis of the canon, which was once a ' sand bed, and probably thousands of years ago a broad level plain, (but the g, narrow passageway is now hemmed in O by walls 118 feet high), they came upon Christian Work in Utah. ' The New York Sun says that the Christians are making an earnest effort to capture Utah. Six denominations are now working in harmony, and in substantially the same way. From all the smaller towns rivalry is absent by common consent, the first occupant holdiug exclusive possession. In the territory have been opened seventy schools, with 120 teachers and 4,500 scholars, the latter largely mormon- born. The annual expense is more than $00,000. Every step in advance has cost a battle. In most cases the teacher has gone uninvited and found few to welome her. Suspicion, if not hostility, was universal. Success was gained only by conquest. In various ways the pupils were made to suffer. If the youth will not absent themselves, then they must forego the church dances. Of late, opposition of a nobler sort is coming into fashion. The ward schools are made free, incompetent teachers are discharged, buildings and all man­ ner of helps are improved and increased; and thus, by competition, the church is put on good behavior. PICKWICK'S words are always sensible: --"Veo you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but vether it's worth while going through so much to learn so little, as the charity br>v said ven he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o' taste. I rayther think it isn't." SINCERITY is an openness of heart; 'tis found in a very few people, and that vrliich wo see commonly is not it, but a subtle dissimulation to gain the confidence of others.--Charron. THE WALL-HTftKET BEDLAM. IktOmtdMnoriaiallm YonFntDewa the LaHYMTO* Op. [New York Sun I At 10 hi the morning all down town is ready for the opening of the Stock Exchange. All the newspapers have jbeen thoroughly read by employes em­ ployed to find whatever intelligence theymay contain that can have any bearing'upon the markets, and such de­ ductions as the readers mav have made are ready to be flashed "over 25,000 Smiles of wire. A hundred operators circulars, based upon newspaper dis- jpatches, and upon private means of get­ ting facts and rumors, are poured into the telegraph offices, and thousands of merchants begin to telegraph to their agents, and get telegrams in return; and from that hour until 3 p. m. there is a hum all over the country. Millions up­ on millions change hands on paper, and fortunes are made and lost on the click of the telegraph instrument. The trans­ fers that are effected in the Stock Ex­ change are not, as everybody knbws, a tithe of the transactions of a day even in this city, to say nothing of the vol­ ume of business in the whole country; but Wall street makes the prices for all the markets in the country, and the speculator who keeps well-informed as to the doings in "the street" need not look much further. Yet there are houses that make a record of all known money transactions in the cities of both hemispheres, and these houses base many of their operations upon purchases and sales hundreds of miles distant from New York. It is the men of prescience--far see­ ing men--who are most successful in Wall street, as elsewhere; and it is to the end that they may see further than their competitors, that a hundred and fifty or more down town firms employ every auxiliary that can be brought un­ der their hands to strengthen them in their daily battle in the markets. Hence more than a hundred and fifty houses have availed themselves of the telegraph to the extent of hiring private wires, and other houses would do so if the telegraph companies' machinery could do the work for a greater num­ ber. There are firms that expend as oiuch as $20,000 a year in telegraphing to and from their correspondents in re mote cities and towns in this country «nd in Europe, and these firms with rorreapondente at all important points, «re seldom pinched in any Wall street squeeze. They go on from year to year, realizing from $35,000 to $250,000 an­ nually above all expenses, and their Aeignbofcs term them lucky speculators. Why term it luck? These players have their eyes constantly on the cards in other players* hands, and they know when to play and when not to play Given a game of whist in which two partners know at the outset where every card is, what are the chances of the two partners who know no more than they may properly know under the rules of the games? What are the chances, therefore, of the competitors of those houses that have provided themselves with every conceivable means of gathering intelligence? It is clear that the weaker operator will get just what the stronger may choose to give him, and no more, and that the hope of the weaker that he may profit by his speculations lies only in his be­ coming a customer of the stronger houses, and thus making it for the in­ terest of that house to give him a small margin of profiL Is the speculator who has fortified himself with all the advantages that in­ telligence can give ever bitten ? Sel­ dom. He is not deceived by the blund­ ering and sometimes wilfully false cir­ culars that are distributed in town and telegraphed to the country every day; no wild rumor in "the streets" disturbs him. If he is in doubt his private wire calls tip his correspondent at the vital point, and he keeps out of the trap that catches so many of his neighbors. They operate in the Bedlam, and in the excitement on the floor of the Exchange they have only what is visible to guide them; but he looks behind the soenes. His private wire is illegal; but whose business is it to prosecute anybody for this infraction of the laws? And since no more speculators can be accommo­ dated with private wires until new tele­ graph lines are brought into existence, he may expect to enjoy a long lease of monopoly. The broker, who pookets a percent­ age at every turn of the market, and who cares not whether prices go up or down, doesn't deem it his duty to pub­ lish the illegal private wire monopoly to his customers, the hundreds of thous­ ands of widows and executors, and country merchants and retired gentle­ men, and even deacons and clergymen who dabble in stocks, and these pur­ blind innocents will keep on putting bp margins and wondering, with the rest of the public, why it is that the public cannot get on the wires between 10 a. m. and 3 p.m., the time when com­ mercial telegraphing is busiest. You are told of men with sharp wits who have gone into Wall street and made from $100,000 to $259,000 in a year or two. But how many of them have come out a year later from $30,- 000 to $50,000 in debt? They were permitted for a season to draw glitter­ ing prizes, the speculators who held the private lines sagaciously assuming that the gambling cruze would hold them in the market, and that their be­ ing in it would toll other gudgeons into it, only to be caught and laid out high and dry in the end. A good story was told the reporter the other day of a hard-working man who had added to the occupation that gave him a livelihood a little specula­ ting in Wall street. After he had lost $3,001) more than he had in the world, a Wall street friend heard of it, and, calling on him, said: "George, you dont know the street; let me have that •tock, and 111 get you out of this scrape." George complied, and in a month later the friend returned and gave him $27, saving: "There, you're clear of debt, and have this over." The two called in some friends and they spent that $27 for wine, and George thanks his lucky stars that he hasn't been in Wall street since. An Atrocious Epistle. A more atrocious epistle than the follomng oould scarcely defile paper. It is from the electoral Prince of Hesse Cassel, and refers to the Hessians in tha British army killed at the battle of Trenton, December 26, 177(5. It is giv­ en for the first time in this country in Lessing's Pictorial Field Book of the Rovolution, and the writer was the grandfather of the present Prince Hesse Cassel, one of the thirty-nine petty tyrants who ruled Gemnany at the time: "You cannot think how much pleased 1 was to he^r that, out of the 1,955 jHessians who took part in the battle, po more than 345 remain. There are, pccordingly, 1,610 dead--no more and Bo lesa--so the treasury owes me, ao- H-: •&* s S -, >#">„ -V oovdiug to. Theoonrtof London ers, it is true, thedead;bntl hope theft remindful of my instructions gives togron at Cassel, you have not tried to «ftve,with inhu­ man help, those poor fallows who oould have bought life only St the sacrifice of a leg or arm. That irpold be a sad present for them; and I am sure they prefer to die gloriously rather than live lamed and unfit for my service. He- member that out of the three hundred Spartans but one remains in life. Oh! how happy would I be if I could say the same of my brave Hessians." An Experiment In Dreuiuiag. breams are the reproach of mental philosophy. So puming are they to the psychologist that, though he" has studied them for years, he knows little more about them than Shak- speare did when he wrote: . "I talk of dreams, .mhicfeaaethe children of an idle tram, Begot o( nothing bat Vain fantasy.** The most perplexing feature of the puzzle ia the mind'a caprioiousness. It mav have been busv during the day with great thoughts, but when it dreams it will seize on some trivial de­ tail and allow it to shape its fancies. An English student of mental philoso­ phy eaoe tried an experiment to ascer­ tain whether an idea which absorl>ed his mind during the day would influ­ ence his dreams at night He thus describes the experiment: I fixed my thoughts intently during the day upon the subject of polar bears. I shut myself up in my room and read all the books of natural history I had which described the appearance and habits of these animals. I carefully excluded from my mind every other idea, and the last thing I remembered, before I fell asleep at night, was an immense bear crawling out of the water upon a cake of ice. But instead of dreaming of bears, I dreamed I was on board a sailing ves­ sel on a whaling voyage. A whale was seen to blow. I entered the whale- boat with the crew, and the duty of harpooning the monster fell to my lot. I grasped the harpoon, and just as the boat was gliding over the back of the whale, I threw the implement with all my might. But at the same time I lost my balance and fell into the whale's mouth, and with a cry of terror, I awoke. For some time I was exoeedingly puzzled to aeoount for thia dream, which seemed to have had no material in my past consciousness from which it could have been fashioned. But, after much thought, I recollect­ ed that in one of the books which I had read the day before, there was a large picture of a group of polar bears dis­ porting themselves on the ice, while at the four corners of the picture were smaller sketches representing scenes in the Northern seas. One of these scenes was the picture of a whaling vessel, with a whale-boat just being lowered from the davits. My eye must have been attracted to this picture, if only for a second of time, and in some mysterious way the dream was fashioned from these meagre materials. Not satisfied witli this result, I made the same experiment for six conseou- tive days. Each day I made some one subject an absorbing study, taking par­ ticular pain?, to repeat to myself just before falling asleep the topic upon which my mind had bo«!p engaged. But in only one instance did my dreams correspond to the day's doings And even then a number of incidental circumstances which had not been in my mind for weeks entered into my dreams so as to confuse them greatly. In one instance I was unable to trace any connection whatever between my dream and my previous waking thoughts. Finally I gave up the at tempt in dispair, thinking it probable that the very intentness of my mind on one subject thwarted its own purpose. The mind may have become tired of that order of thought during the day, and rested itself by a different order of thought during the night. Compulsory Kducatioiu "As at present instituted it is a piece of tyranny, an attack upon the chief of those indidual rights that should be be­ yond the reach of the majority--the right of a father to be the guide, mas­ ter, and law-giver of his child. It is only excusable when confined to the purely mechanical part of education, such as reading, writing, arithmetic, and gymnastics; but it is destable when it becomes, in the master's hands, a school of false views, historic lies, and mntual hatred, or a means of electoral propa­ ganda and of making proselytes to a sect." He also falls foul of tho exces­ sive number of subjects that young children nowadays are forced to study. "It is not wise," he says, "to exact too much from a child. The true method is to teach him only how to grasp an idea and how to form his own judg­ ment, thus maturing also his will and conscience. At present children only get into their heads rules and tables, so that if some were not idle there would be soon not a single thinker in al! France. Then, also, the premature learning of foreign languages is replac­ ing the national idiom by a cosmopol­ itan jargon. For a man our system would be homicide; what must it be for a child of six or thirteen?"--M. Em He Ollivier, in his Pamphlet on Church ami State. Dew. An exchange says Professor Levi Stockbridge's "new theory" of dew seems to stand the test of time. It will be rememl>ered that about four year* ago he made a large number of investi­ gations into the temperature of the soil and air, finding in almost every instance that the soil was warmer than the aii after nightfall. The moisture con­ stantly being given off by the soil is condensed at night by the oooler air, and so forms dew. This is contrary to the old idea that dew "falls" from the air or is a moisture of the air oondensed by the "cold, damp earth," about which the poet sings. The agricultural editor of the New York Time* recently at­ tacked this new theory of dew, and was most effectually answered by the pro­ fessor's son, Mr. H. E. Stock bridge, who is now studying in Germany. There he has made a series of experi­ ments in different climates and at vary­ ing elevations, which confirms the Stockbridge theory of dew in the most emphatic manner. This theory is now accepted by the leading scientists and agriculturists of Europe^ IT is well enough to be rioh, but to parade your riches is oontemptible. A man may be proud of his horse but it is not necessary to ride on a ridge pole, says the proverb. A JTEW device has been patented in Tendon for generating electricity at so small • cost that it wul be cheaper than Otliign Work of the Pistol *ai Whip. Tfc* Mutation Worse than tl»« 8enato COM- aalMeo Kxpected--An Organise* to Kill «r fauk \ < BepubUoan Voter*. , *' XMIaMNV. Frank Hayes MtM tbat the third day be­ fore the election armed •£S • [New Orleans Cor. Philadelphia Pra^I In the aiz days' testimony which it has oc­ cupied in listening to some fifty witnesses the Mississippi Investigating Committee has ascertained a state of facts worse than its members expected to find. It has been amply proven that last fall the elections were carried by the Bourbons only after a reign of terror by mobs, headed by Demo­ cratic politicians and abetted by Congress­ men and State officials from the Governor down. In some counties the Independents were counted out: la others they withdrew their tickets the week before election. In Copiah, where a few bravo men were at the head of the opposition, the Democrats drove the negroes to the woods by murdering some and whipping others, broke up Independent meetings, patrolled the county by night,-and by a regularly organised and armed mob, dis­ regarded all appeals of pesceable people for the punishment of these crimes, held publio meetings approving the use of force, picketed the polling-places with armed men, drove away Republican officers of election, and notified their leaders not to go to the polls. POOR MATTMW8' VAT*. The strongest and best Republican in the oounty, a man that every witness, including Democrats and clergymen, has testified was an honorable, peaceful, and wealthy man, was notified not to vote. He expressed his intention of doing so. The mob under the lead of the Chairman of the Democratic Com­ mittee drew lota to see who should murder him at the polling place. Knowing that he was in danger, but persisting In voting, he was unresistingly murdered by tho chosen assassin, an old personal friend. No sooner was it done than tho news was telegraphed all over the country that Mat- thews was killed, and the victorious Democ­ racy drove off Republicans, threatening them with Matthews' fate. A few weeks later the murderer is chosen City Marshal, sent as a delegate to a prohibitory convention, and be­ comes a prominent candidate before the Leg­ islature for the position of Commissioner of Railroads. None of the criminals are punished. Grand Juries, ministers of the gospel. Sheriffs, May­ ors, and practicing attorneys are silent. Ar­ son and murder are not considered crime. The best men in the community swore that, while they did not approve of the*e proceed­ ings. they did not dare to object, on account of universal terrorism. They adopted a more civilised plan in Hinds County, as testified to by United States Attorney Ware. "Whatl" demanded Senator Saulsbury. "Over there they counted the Republicans out. Do you call that civilised?" "Yes, compared with deliberate murder, as it was in Copiah," was Ware's reply. No one can doubt, that there was Intimida­ tion. Thomas 8i0olair, a very intelligent ool- ored man, who was a candidate for Secretary of State in 1KA9 as a Democrat, did not dare remain in the county, and went to Jackson at election time. He had been a Democrat until two years ago, but he left that party be­ cause he thinks they mean to exterminate the negroes "I was A slave," he said, "and by hard work I have accumulated money enough to buy 1,000 acres of land with stock, with a steam mill, but had to sell for half the assessed value and leave the county." He has taken no part in politics of late, but he does not feel sale. DRIVBN TO TBI WOODS. A thorough system of terrorlsation per­ vaded, tho armed mob driving the oolored men to the woods, and election day forming a cordon of men with shotguns about tho polls, so that many Indoi.cn lent inspectors refused to act and hardly any of their party voted. The murder of Matthews was tele­ graphed and sent to every polling place, causing great Joy among tho Democrats, and convincing their opponents that it was no use to vote. " Wo are going t ) carry this oounty, no matter If we have to k.ll men," as testified by a dozen witnesses, was the cur­ rent talk among the Democrats. Matthews, the most prominent Independent in the coun­ ty, was selected to be butchered aa an exam­ ple for the i est. Richard Cogswell, inspector of the elec­ tion, testified that he saw Matthews shot. He was in the room with five Democrats. The moment he deposited his ballot Wheeler shot him dead. Wheeler's son-in-law, also armed, was keeping guard at the door. All the testimony shows that tho killing was a .deliberate plot. Cogswell had heard some •onu say thai Matthews carried a pistol to <shoot Democrats with. " I don't blame him if he did," blurted out Senator Frye. But jthat is all the evidence so far in that direc­ tion. On the other baud, Noah Ramsey, a •young' white man, sworo that he heard Wood, Democratic candid at.? for Coroner, say the jday before election that Matthews would be Skilled any way, and so would his brother if the latter was elected 8herilT. Henry Hodges said, at Tallhola, when the jaews of the murder same: "I have known for [a week it was going to be done." Walter P. jWare, a Democratic storekeeper at Hazlo- jburst, swore thai Mead, Chairman of the (Democratic Committee, told hiin that, in ao* VOrdance with agreement with a Democratic ioluh, he had ordered a cannon fired as soon mm Matthews was shot; he had advised Mat­ thews to leave, but the latter had been prom­ ised protection by the Sheriff. Sheriff Har- Kraves has been accused of trying to deputise Matthews to quiet tho mob, in order to have him shot. Williamson, the Democratic Mayor of Haslehurst, testified that he does not think that Hargrares did it solely for that purpose. ' WHAT WHCELim SAID. ; J. T. Dameron, a well-to-do merchant at Jackson, eaw Wheeler in a Btreetcar Feb. 14, and beard him say to a young man: "Hoar's Committee is coming down here. If I get a crack at him I'll kill him, too. I told Mat­ thews not to vote, but he did, and 1 killed him. I did not do it on my own accord, but for the Democratic party. It fell to my lot, and I am the man who did the dirty work." Finally Dr. A. P. Pitts, a cousin to Wheeler, after a long series of questions, admitted, though reluctantly, that soon after the elec­ tion Wheeler acknowledged to him that he killed Matthews simply because he had been chosen by the Democratic regulars. A CLKKOVMAN'S STATEMENT. When a liaptlst minister, of Harlehurot, named Lomax, was on the stand, he said he was a straight Democrat. Nothing could turn him from his devotion to his fellow- Democrats. He had heard of Matthews being killed, but was not prepared to call it a mur­ der. He found it was not safe to express an opinion in public, and he wOuJ^d not do so. At a meeting of Prohlbitlonistsvthe present month, the majority being Democrats, they bad voted to send Wheeler to Jackson as a representative, to induce the Legislature to grant a prohibitory law to Copiah County. He thought Matthews a lair representative citizen, although a Democrat. He said he would not vote for an InBdei. " How about murderers?" asked Mr. Hoar. The question was evaded. The committee was anxious to ascertain the popular feeling In Copiah. Lomax said: " I think the mem­ bers of the mob are generally law-abiding, orderly citizens. It indludes the most re­ spectable and influential Democrats, as a general thing. I think our people may be opposed to the mob rule. I never heard any one denounce Matthews' killing muoh; some disapproved it. Ex-Bepreeentatlve Miller told me privately he thought it best not to do it." BARKSDAUI'S SPJUOB. Congressman Barksdale Is shown to have made a speech advising the mob which parad­ ed and then attanded In a body to carry the election, no matter what the issue, and ex­ pressed his hope that Frank Buffin, an active Republican, would lie banged so high the birds of prey oould not bury their beaks in him. parson Mlltsap was present. While he did not remember the exact words, Barksdale's speech had been so violent and incendiary that he could never vote for him again. He bad done so believing Barksdale to be a re­ spectable man. A ROPE AROUirn Hts NECK. Napoleon Demar, colored, testified to hav­ ing been visited by armed men before the election. Tfcey threw a rope over his neck, and made him kneel down and swear that he would vote the Dcmocratlo ticket. He did. vote it, because he feared violence if he failed to do so. William Robertson. Coroner at Hazlehurst when Matthews was killed, tes­ tified that Dodd and Waro advised him not to bold an Inquest, as it was unnecessary, it be­ ing well known who killed Matthews. Later In the day be a«w Wheeler, who admitted CABTSUU» COUUMIB, at Carthage, has pended its educational work from laek funds. to his broke in, and shottwioe. Hts wife In the shoulder. Iter went out thee, and be ran down and Jumped oS the gallery, and was then shot la the lesr. He fell, and one of the party sakl: "That is whet you good men get.** Witness did not vote at that election. The shot he received laid him up two months, and be cannot work yet. Mrs. Frank Hayes (colored) was shot In the throat the day before the last election. She showed a bullet hole in her left shoulder. Was shot in four places. Witness was in bed when the men came and broke into t no heuse. Urange Heldshings, colored, swore to the way he was raided and deprived of the la- dependent ticket. J. S. Warehite lives at Jackson. Is Secre­ tary of the Jackson Light Guard. The night of the last election he was ordered to carry forty guns and 1,000 rounds of cartridges to Haslehurst. Met J. S. Meade at the Hazle­ hurst depot, who sa d he was ordered by the 8heriff to receive them. Turned the guns over to him and took a receipt. Meade had a body of armed men wtth him. T. D. Hurd stated that when he denounoed the killing of Print Matthews at Hazlehurst three men presented pistols at him and or­ dered him to leave town lea Daniel lives at Jackson. Is Second Lieutenant of the Jackson Light Guards Took a detachment of his company to Hazle­ hurst the night of the election. Saw many armed men there and beard threatening talk against the Matthews family. Ben Standiford was visited at 1 o'clock by armed men the Saturday night before eleo- tlon. Got up and opened the door for the visitors, when he was seised and carried out of the house and forced to swear not to gu to the election. At 3 o'clock the same night another squad came, when witnses slipped out into the darkness. The gentle men cursed and abused his wife before they went away. Witness had always voted split tickets sup­ porting Democrats when they were good men Did not vote after that. Solomon Smith, colored, was called on at his house the night before election Just be- torn day. They demanded the election tickets which witness had, and beat him over the head with a. pistol, knocking him down. They got the tickets. They were Independent tickets. They then went away. Daniel Cramhat, colored, lives in Beat 8. The night before the election. Just after. 10 o'clock, some parties came to his house and fired several shots into the door. Witness recognized two men, whites, Little and Nor­ man. They set fire to hts house, and when wit­ ness and his son attempted to put it out parties fired atf them and prevented all efforts to extinguish the flames, and his house was burned up. Subsequently he made an affi­ davit, when ho was visited by about twenty- five men. including Mr. Little, Newman, and others, who ordered him not to make any fuss about the burning of his house, for if he did they would kill him. Witness promised to go to Hazlehurst to withdraw the present affidavit. Frank M. Sessions was at a meeting at Hazlehurst the day after election, when the resolutions warning the Matthewe family to keep out of politics were adopted. The meet­ ing was in ihe Court House and some 400 people, mostly Democrats, were present. The resolutions were adopted. Mai. Barry objected to tho resolutions to far as they ap- plied to the Matthews family and wished that part stricken out. He rose twice to urge this action, but was met by cries of "No.no." The resolutions were adopted, Maj. Barry alone voting no, as far as witness oould hear, amid much noise and confusion. After the resolutions were adopted Mr. Bally made a speech, saying that be had gono into Beat 3 to stump the county, but he found he could do more electioneering in tho saddle than on the stump, and he had found the most convincing argument to be a pistol which he drew from his pockot. The speaker said his friend Wheeler was the best election- oerer he had ever seen. Wheeler's argu­ ments always convince. Witness had not taken muoh interest in politics on either side. Had boen In the Confederate army. Mr. Baiiy in bis speech said that if the Dem­ ocrats who had gone off to the Independent party would come back they ought to bo re­ ceived kindly, but, If they would not, what shall bo doney A voico in the crowd cried: "Kill 'etn off." "No," said llaily, "I cannot advise that, but I believe you will kill thom without advice." The speech was greeted with applause. .J. T. Hull, editor of the Tribune, formerly an Independent paper at Jackson, said that in Haslehurst, last fall, two Democratic pa pers were published. One of them was full of incendiary utterances; the other, though Democratic, was inclined to be fair and give the news on both sides. Because its editor would not indorse and approve of the out­ rageous methods adopted by the Democratic bulldozers, the various clubs declared his pa­ per a fo3 to the Democratic party, and had resolutions published withdrawing their sup­ port and transferring it to the incendiary sheet. This paper headed its election re­ ports: "Copiah shakes bands with Yasoo." • Col. Bridewell, an Independent lawjcer of Copiah County, had been a Democrat up to last fall. Two years ago, he said, the Inde­ pendents carried the county by a good ma­ jority. After the outrages the vote was 3,900 Democratic and 875 Independent, although three weeks before the Democratic papers acknowledged that their opponents were stronger than ever before. J. M. Goff, Orange Kitchins, Solomon Smith, Mr. King, father of the Mayor of Ha/lehurst; Hunt, a young man who was driven from homo, and several other wit­ nesses testified that the Independents were forced to give up their meetings and no mora were held. t . _ THE DASTILLE BUTCHERY. Oans and Revolvers Were Being Prepare* for (Tee at the Proper Moment--By Fool or Fair Means They Were to Carry the Klection «. Stephen Lang (colored) testified before the Danville Investigating Committee, at Wash­ ington, that be was in a hardware store the day before the fight and saw two white men loading about 125 double-barreled guns. He went to another hardware store and there found a white man loading double-barreled guns. Ruf us Hatch (colored) heard a white say at the Postoffice: "White folks are go­ ing to rule this town if we have to kill all the niggers." John Holderness (colored) described the riot and the events which preceded it. He was a driver for Bssil Graves* grocery store. He went to the back door of the store in the course of bis business and found it locked, but a clerk let him in. He asked why the door was locked, and the clerk said "there was h--1 to pay. and in a short time he would see more dead niggers than he had ever 'seed* before." There were 200 pistols loaded lying on the counter. Just after the firing eight or ten colored men rushed into the store. Buroh and another white man came into the place with empty pistols and exchanged them tor loaded ones. Burch got behind the col­ ored men and ordered them out. He said they (the negroes) had raised this thing, and they must not find harbor there. Warrich Bead (mulatto) was called. He keeps a private boanding bouse in Danville. Ho was asked with respect to the proceedings of the Democratic committee of fifteen or sixteen men, which ho had overheard. He asked the cotomittee to excuse him from answering. He said he was a resident of Danville, and must go back there. His bread depended upon his patronage in Danville, and to testify would be to risk his living. He represented considerable real property, and his interests were considerable, finally he related what be overheard. It was to the effect that the election must be carried by Salr means or fouL Adjourned. Political Notes. IF in any community in Illinois the Republicans should shoot down the most prominent Democratic leader and then get a brass band and go and sere­ nade the widow and daughters of the dead man, thej would be doing exactly as Mississippi Democrats dealt with a prominent Republican last falL How would the thing look up this way?-- Blooming ton Pantograph. A 8TOBY oomee up from Mississippi that a man has been murdered because he was not a Democrat. His bereaved family testify to the truth of it, and the Democrats meet in convention and openly boast of it. There are papers in the North which say this is all right, and which declare that anything like an investigation would be an outrage. This is the "bloody shirt" they wave to keep peaoeable people from inquiring into such infamies,--JndianapoU*" Journal Kum Coowrr paM out Vm f*r the witnesses who testified before th Grand Jury. TH* Fairbanks Sowing Machine Works, ea» v ̂ ploying 800 men, have been removed *4^ Belleville to Springfield. They have puwfcaeŝ -̂î ̂ 250 acres of land near the latter city. j', a , ; Thk Bev. William Whithaai, a welHiaos||,j 'A~~, member of the Rook River Methodist Ipleat* • pal Conference, and for fifty years a reside •> • . of Illinois, died at Thompson; aged » year% •?•*,. ,tj^ of consumption. ^ MRS. BZMJAXIW KLUS, of Qulncy, will co«ir * test the payment of several thousand dollaie h insurance on the life of her lata husband to i his two brothers, whom she charges witih .. having induced her husband to insure hie, i life so that they might recover the benefits after his death. ••• '5^ Miss NELLIE PATTBBSOIT, adult pupQ In • ' deaf and dumb asylum at Jacksonville, kit of late begun lessons in articulation with wonderful success. While accidentally shefi up in a school building a few evenings agjg. .. she was able to raise help by means of tie telephone--a wonderful feat under the dr- ,\i cumstancee. ,_(i , Mas. TIIXFOUD Bomnn died at the reat» - \ denceof her daughter at Freeport. Had At '/•" * lived until May next she would hftve been SFI years of age. Her husband died at the same place nearly two years ago, aged 93 years. ';| The deceased was a native oi Scotland, at j royal blood, and bad lived In this ooantgp ' "'> over fifty years. , Gaonos LOSS and Frank Clonkis, of iM town of Nora, were recently convicted ia the ; i Jo Daviess County Circuit Court of stealing ^ 51 and shipping poultry to Chicago commission houses. Their sentence was fixed at ope year each in the penitentiary. They had their possession, when arrested, 180 fowhfc which they were about to ship to Chicago. ImoBMATiotr has been received to Fraguu port thatKU Madlong, a former resident et the place, met with his death at the hands at the citizens of a town near Denver, Col. Tbe reason assigned was that Madlong, who haA been representing himself as a physician, was called to see a sick man. The dose Of medicine he administered ended the earthly career of the patient In a short time. The citizens called a meeting, and adopted rose lutions to the effect that it was for the beak interests of the community to exterminate Madlong. The command was given, and id # short time he followed his victim to the othfUt, world. * J \ s.4 S. H. HALL was arrested In Bt Lettta, Meii by Pinkerton's detectives, charged with tfcib triple murder at Mt Pulaski, lo, aa County. in 1882. It will be remembered that In Au­ gust of that year old man MoMahon, a worthy and well-to-do bachelor farmer, and his two hired men, Carlock and Matheny, were met* dered at their home, a few miles northeast of Mt. Pulaski. Two or three days elapsed before the bodies were discovered, and lathe meantime the perpetrators had tone toeovir their traoka. One Farris was subsequently arrested, but was release! for want of evfr dence. This man Hall is a brother-in-'aw of Farris. Hehnd two other parties (the lattee living near Mt. Pulaski) have been shalowdi for some time. Hall has been brought to Lincoln, and Is now in Jail there. The Mt. Pulaski accomplices were arrested. It said that a woman W'JO made the gags with which the victims were bound toli 'enough to make intelligible certain Ine 1 imllk atlng statements by two of the vfllians. Is connection with the butchery of Jaariis L. Wfllson and wife is a strange story, related by Dr. Scott, of Winnetka, in regard toose of his patients, Charles Steele, twenty yeese of age, who Is very HI with malarial (ever. On the night of the murder Steele was deliri­ ous from the intensity of the fever, and wge disposed to talk a great deal. At 10:45 ©'cloak he suddenly rose in his bed and told hit mother that the very devil was going on Hi Winnetka. His mother tried to paoify htm and persuade him that ho had been dreaming; but he would not hear to it, insisting that he know what he was talking about, and theft somebody was being murdered in that town^ and that he oould see it as plain as he ceoM itee her. He said it was right over there, pointing toward the Willson residence, whMfc was two squares distant. His mother •> deavored to lead hts mind away from the thought, but it was fully two hours before •he oould paoify him, and persuade him to llle still and go to sleep. Young Steele had been quite 111 for some time previous to tie tnurdvr, and has not been notified of the e» curreno?, as ho is too dangerously ill to heat such a revolting story. As Boon as he is wed enough to talk with upon the subject Dr. Scott Intends to lead his mind up to the ehf cuinstance in order to see If he has any recol­ lection of the vision, and can give any de­ scription of the awful seen* which most have been as apparent to his excited mind as though it were real. A Yotmo man registered at the OmwH t clal Hotel, Chicago, as Charles A. BeU, jf Rock Island. He said that be was a railroad conductor, and the day following he was joined by a young lady wfcom he claimed.to be his wife. They remained together at the hotel until Monday night. At that time e man who claimed to be a traveling salesman for a Chicago firm called at the hotel. In­ quired if Bell was stopping there, and was shown to tbe room occupied by the latter and a young lady. Angry words and a woman's sobs were heard leading from the room iaH mediately on tbe salesman's entrance, and a few minutes later the salesman appeared at tbe hotel office, and asked to be directed ton minister of tho gospel. "What ia the mu­ ter'/" Inquired the clerk, not a little tak«a aback by the suddenness of the demand. " Well, there is a fellow up-stairs who has ran away with my s'ster," replied the sulesman, "and is here with hor as his wife. I put si pistol to his head, and he promised to many bar, and I want to find a preacher to do the thiugup." Tbe clerk gave him the address of a minister on ths North Side, and the mas went hurriedly out, first asking the clerk roatraia Bell if he should attenpt to leave- He had not been out of tho hotel five minutsa before Mr. Bell and his "wife" slipped down the ladies'entrance. Bell paid his bill, and - Mid they were going to • Geneseo, I1L Ther then left tbe hotel. A minute later a woe, an's scream was beard on the street, and a* bell-boy, who ran out to find the cause, found Bell and the lady standing 0.1 t.ie tie walk, and the "brother" confronting the formOt with what looked like a 33cahber Smith 41 Wesson. The railroad conductor was endeae* oring to parley, but tha br t :er dismissed further explanations with a ineaacinjr wave of his pistol, and the trio walked down the street. The salesman, it it supposed, had re­ considered his determ nation to go after the minister alone, and, npp ehendin? an a#» tempt to escape, bad taken a circuit aronnd to the ladies' entran- e< Tho names of the • brother and s:ster were not ascertained hfir tho hotel management, and tboy have as idea where they wen after f»y left the hotel. It 1s presumed, hjne^er, the origiati| Intention of the brother was carried out, all a parson consult el. J. N. MAHSO, a mervlmat at JoMa killed while boarding a freight train. f * . - \, r,