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The Weather To-day: ! | FAIR. The News and Observer. VOL.XLVII. NO. 14. MM ALL NORTH CAROLINA DAILIES 11 NEWS 111 CIRCULATION. THE HERO OF MANILA HERE DEWEY ARRIVED OFF NEW YORK AT DAWN YESTERDAY. Throughout the Nation Wherever the News Was Flashed Guns Thundered a Glad Welcome. During the Day the Admiral Entertained Many Distin guished Visitors. Ahead of his Scheduled Arrival. New York, Sept. 20. —Admiral George Dewey arrived o(T New York at dawn, and the Olympia is now anchored in American waters in the light of Sandy Hook. The first shout of welcome was from the pilots.and crew of a pilot boat, Num ber 7, fifteen miles south of the Hook lightship. It happened to be Pilot John Peterson’s turn, and at 5:30 a. m., he was put aboard the Olympia and brought her around the hook and into the lower bay. The marine observers along the coast had sighted l the Olympia in the first light of the morning. The shore bat teries of Fort Hancock, manned by, gunners called from breakfast, let loose 17 guns. The flagship replied with 21J and let go her anchors not far from 1 where the cup challenger Shamrock is moored. The Admiral was in his own country again, after twenty-three months ab sence. The pilot had brought aboard the Sunday papers, and a reporter of the Associated Press was received by the Admiral in a cabin littered by the illus trated Dewey Editions, which, together made hundreds of pages in black and white, and in colors, all concerning the i great Admiral and tihe preparations made to receive him. “It almost saddens me,” he said, “to see what my people are doing for me. The pride and gratification is immense, and 1 cannot express the appreciation I feel. I didn’t know, I didn't really per ceive until this morning the splendid welcome tluat my countrymen are giving me. The Governors of many States are coming to see me, and troops from Florida, Georgia and other far away States are on their way to take part in receiving me.” Admiral Dewey stroked the head of a tawuy-haired dog, the Chow dog of a Chinese breed that appears in the illus trated interviews with the Admiral. “Bob, here,” he said, “is not well. He yearns to lie ashore. He is sick to get a little grass and to scamper around. I feel a good deal that way myself. 1 am mighty glad to get home. It isn’t good for a man any more than a dog to live on shipboard for twenty-three months.” The Admiral said that he felt tired, but he did not look so. His complexion is u dear bronze, his hazel eyes bright, his bearing brisk and raither jaunty. Some deep lines are under liis eyes anil around his mouth, but his voice is singularly dear and pleasant. The Ad miral's whole presence is that of a man in his fullest powers. His manner is gentle and kind, but he is exceedingly wary/ and did not permit himself to wander off into politics or to exercise those positive views, he no doubt holds about the Philippines and American affairs there. His attention was brought to interviews in which he is described as going rather fully into the character of the Filipinos and their fitness for self government. “I cannot stand for any interview giving my opinions on political subjects and the Philippines. 1 disown any views ascribed to me on those subjects.” Alluding to his arrival two days ahead of the time he was exacted, Ad miral Dewey said: “I am sorry that I am ahead of the schedule. The Olympia has been steam ing at the uniform rate of ten knots an hour since we left Gibraltar. Several days ago we knew that we would arrive before Thursday unless we moderated our speed or went somewhere out of our course. Captain Lainberton, Lieutenant Brumby and I held a consultation. The propriety of running into Hampton Roads or some other port in tlie South was spoken of, but we concluded that we ought not to touch land first any where except at New York. It was sug gested that we cruise some distance out side of New York harbor until Thursday, but we knew that if we did that we would Ik* discovered and reported. The weather looked a little squally and it seeuitd to be better to be inside the Hook than outside. But the considera tion that really decdoi us to come : uto port was to give Captain Lam her ton a chance to clean up the ship before our voyage up the harbor. Captain Lamb erton and I are very proud of the Olym pia, and we wanted enough time at our anchorage to rub her down and make her look spick and span.” The Olympia looks as smart now as a yacht. The anchors were hardly down before details of the crew were wash ing the ship’s white sides and' touching up the stains with paint. The Admiral’s first business was to send an officer ashore with telegrams for the Navy Department, Mayor Van VVyck and General Butterfield announc ing the arrival. lie then spent most of the morning in looking over newspapers and receiving reporters. He * was just finishing a midday breakfast when Sir Thomas Lipton called on him. With Sir Thomafc were Dr. Mackay and other visiting Englishmen. “I suppose you have come for the tea,” said Admiral Dewey, referring to Sir Thomas’ gift of five pounds of tea to each man on it he ship while he was at Colombo. “No, you’re welcome to that if any body can drink it,” replied Sir Thomas. The Admiral and the Owner of the cup challenger had a fifteen minute talk. As Sir Thomas and his friends left the Olympia a half hundred of the ship’s crew forward cheered the Baronet. "I couldn’t stop ’em,” cried out Ad miral Dewey, waving his hand at Sir Thomas Lipton. “They hadn’t any or ders to do that.” Admiral Dewey then had a succession of notable callers. Rear Admiral Samp son, with Captain Chadwick, his chief of staff, and Lieutenant Commander Winslow, his Hag lieutenant, came on the Dolphin. When the dispatch boat was a mile away it began firing an Admiral’s salute and the Olympia replied with a Rear Admiral’s salute of 13 guns. The Dolphin anchored near the Olym pia and Rear Admiral Sampson and his staff went mi board. They were re ceived by Admiral Dewey, Captain La;ni lteuton, Lieutenant Brumlby and tin officers of the deck, the full marine guard and band being paraded. The officers went to the Admiral's cabin. Ifeatr Admiral Sampson remained on hoard for more than an hour. Rear Admiral Sampson had first learn ed otf Admiral 'Dewey’s arrival at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where he went aoout xj o’clock to see Rear A din lira 1 Philip. Soon :lifter Rear Admiral Samp son had gone, Rear Admiral Philip voy aged down the bay in the Nnrkoeta and ]>aid tm official call, attended by iCoiii mander J. I>. J. Kelley. The Rear Admiral’s salute was not fired in this case, by request of Hear Admiral Philip. Admtiirall Dewey received these official visits in undraw uniform. Dr. ‘Sanborn, of the port physician's staff, visited the Olympia and looked at lvr pajs'rn. Eleven of the crew of 375 nten ha ve typhoid fever. Some of the cases are convalescent and all of them are of a maid type, according to Dr. Percy, the ship’s surgeon. No one has died of the fever, ami with this ex ception the sailors and marines are well. l>r. Percy is unable to account for the presence of.typhoid on the ship. The eases are not numerous or serious enough to cause him- alarm and it is probable that the sick .men will lie taken ashore to a hospital tomorrow. The Admiral, about 5 o’clock, return ed Sir Thomas Upton’s visit. Lieuten ant Brumby and the Admiral’s son, George G. Dewey, were with him. Sir Thomas .met the Admiral at the star hoard gangway of the Erin with his friends and the entire party went to the after-cabin where the health of the Admiral, the Shamrock, and, of course, the FioliiniibiH, were drunk amid enthu siasm. The Admiral remained on board for nearly an hour and then started for his sihii]). The Kirin’s crew began to cheer, and as his launch drew away the entire ship’s company, guests, officers, crew, servants, Cingalese and all. led by Sir Thomas, with a hip, hip, hip, gave three honest cheers, the kind that the Admiral heard from the British wait-ships in Ma nila Ray. Admiral Dewey waved Jiis goid-lKHind cap like a school boy as lie stood on the rail of his little white-cano pied launch. Admiral Dewey proposes, unless his plans shall he changed by the reeen tdoa committee, to bring the Olympia up the lower bay and anchor inside the har bor with the squadron of United Stales warships off Tompkinsville, of which squadron he is now in command. RICHMOND BOOMS WELCOME. Richmond, Vn.. Sept. 2d. —An artillery salute of seventeen guns was fired in the capitol grounds here this afternoon in honor of the arrival at New York of Admiral Dewey. RESERVES ARE BN ROUTE. Norfolk, Vn., Sept. 2d. —About fifty Norfolk naval reserves left on the gun boat Siren this afternoon for New York to participate in the Dewey reception. The Siren stopped at Old Point to take on the Hamiptoni Reserves. PALMETTO BOYS GO IN FORCE. Columbia, S. ('., Sept. 26.—Governor M. B. MeSweeney and fifteen members of his staff left here at 5 o’clock this afternoon in a special car for Washing ton, where the South Carolina troops en route to the Dewey celebration will rendezvous. Eight companies will rej>- resent South Carolina in the New York parade. FLOWER OF TIIE WORLD. Enthusiastic Tribute Paid to the Ameri can. Sailors. New York. Sept. 2d.—The Evening Post the following interview with Admiral Dewey: “They are a splendid lot,” the Ad miral said, speaking of his men, “the very pick, the finest in our navy, and that means the best in the world. Be- RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1899. fort* I got to Manila, the Archbishop, with whom I afterward became very intimate, said that the American sail ors were the scum of the earth, a blood thirsty lot of cut-throats, who would destroy everything in their path. "Utter on, when l did get there,” said the Admiral with a knowing smile, “the Archbishop came on board one day while 1 had a battalion tit drill, tin* very same battalion that will parade in New York. The Archbishop went, on the bridge and watched them closely. 1 knew he was admiring them, and 1 said to him: ‘Well, what do you think of our American sailors?’ “ They are splendid,’ lie said, ‘I have setm tin* men of most navies, but never anything like these. They are magnifi cent. 1 cannot understand it —such splendid young fellows. How does it happen?’ " iWell,’ I replied, ‘we look for the best men, we come closer to our men, we treat them better than other countries do, ami we pay them better.’ ” Admiral Dewey then said that Luna was the best man the Filipinos had. "It was a plot,’’ he said, “to assassinate him. A crack swordsman was placed as sentry, and when Luna appeared lie sim ply stabbed him. But these fellows all,” said the Admiral, “are a queer lot. They were simply servants and stablemen, ami Aguinaldo was a junior clerk in tin* navy yard, lit* is a pretty smart fellow. 1 know him pretty well, in fact, we were great friends, and are, for the matter of fact, but lie has not the brains. There are people behind him, some of them lawyers and able fellows, who make a tool of Aguinaldo. Here by the way, is a earn* which he presented to nit*,” ami the Admiral produced a thick black stick carved and resembling Irish dog oak more than anything else. BETTER THAN THE CUBANS. "I thought,” said the Admiral, “that this thing in file Philippines would Ik* over long before this, as it should have Ik* eu. 1 can't imagine how they have stood out until now. Os course, there was the rainy season, and 1 suppose little was done. One great trouble out there has been that General Otis has tried to do too much. 1 toid 'him so. (Continued on Second Page.) WOOD KILLED IN ACTION HIS HOME WAS GEORGIA, AND HE WAS A FARMtR’S SON. The Crew of the Urdaneta as Yet Unaccounted For. One cf Them Was a South Carolinian. Washington, Sept. 2d. —The Navy De partment today received from Admiral Watson a cablegram announcing the capture and destruction of the gunboat Urdaneta reported in the press dis patches of yesterday. Another dispatch from the Admiral states that he learns through insurgent sources that her com mander, Naval Cadet Welboru C. Wood, was killed in the action. The fate 6f the crew is not known. Admiral Watson's first dispatch fol lows: “Manila, Sept. 25th. “Secretary of the Navy, Washington: “Gunboat Urdaneta, Cadet Welbom C. Wood commanding, has been captured and destroyed by the insurgents while blockading. Tile wreck is hard aground, water two feet deep, mar (Irani on (Irani river, northwestern corner of Manila! Bay, and is completely gutted. Draft, maximum, was less than six feet. Dis placement in tons forty-two. Battery consists of one pounder It. F. (»., one ma chine gun (Colt automatic); one machine gun (Nordenfeldt 25 milinseters). The reason of his presence in that river is now known. Commander Cornwell was preventing the landing of arms with forty men. His force too small to attack armed insurgents at the village. Water is only six feet deep on the bar at the mouth of the river. Cannot obtain any authentic information of tin* crew its yet, because (insurgents) will not resiiect Hag of truce. Cadet Woml with crew of nine enlisted men and one Chinaman are not accounted for. The names and rate of Americans, all of whom were attached to the Oregon, as follows: “Benjamin James Green, coxswain; William Mitchell, seaman; Samuel Til den Herbert, ordinary seaman; Edward Burke, ordinary seaman; George Daniel Powers, apprentice, first Hass; Arthur William Drummond, machinist, first class; Thomas Grey, fireman, second class; John James Furlay, fireman, first-class; Samuel Stone, seaman. Re port by mail. (Signed.) “WATSON.” Cadet Welborn C. Wood, is included in the list of naval cadets who have passed the requisite academic course, and are now performing two years’ ser vice at sea, prior to final graduation. He was the son of Mr. 11. K. Wood, of Jerusalem, Pickens county., Ga., former ly a farmer, hut now employed as a storekeeper and gauger in the internal revenue service of the Government. William Mitchell, one of the men who was with Cadet Wood, was born at Bucksville, S. 0., and his residence is set down as New York city. Next of kin is George Mitchell, father, living at Bucksville, S. C. APPLICATION FOR RECEIVER. Amerieus, Ga., Sept. 26.—Application was made today for a receiver for the De Soto Plantation Company, capitalized at $50,000, operating near here. The company is made up largely of Michigan capitalists, and has been engaged in cot ton and fruit raising, A temporary re ceiver was appointed. The subscriptions to the Dewey Home Fund' today swell the amount to $38,- 810. FIVE DEAD AND DM IN WRECK The Awful Results of a Head on Collision. LIST OF THE DEAD GIVEN SCENE THE NEW YORK CENTRAL ROAD NEAR AUBURN. ANOTHER train runs into open switch It Strikes a Freight on a Siding, Injuring Both Engineers and Killing a Tramp Who Was Steal i g a Ride. Auburn, N. Y., Sept. 26.—A head-on collision Ik*tween a New York Central passenger train and a freight train oc curred! this morning at 6 o'clock just west of Old Flat Bottom Bridge, about half a nub* west of the city, and as a result four people are dead, one fatally 'injured and four seriously injured: The dead are: EMMET LANUTOT, of Rochester, en gineer on tin* freight train). J. G. CURRY, of Rochester, fireman on tlio freight train. JAMES E. KING, a tramp whose pa rents live in Skauea teles. 11. B. FREW, of Geneva, baggage mas ter on the passenger train. Fatally injured: THOMAS DUGAN, of Geneva, engineer on the passenger train. INTO AN OPEN SWITCH. Richmond, Ya., Sept. 26. —(Chesapeake and Ohio passenger train No. 1 ran into an o]M*n switch near White Sulphur Springs last night and struck a freight train standing on the siding, damaging both engines. Robert Garrison, a tramp, riding be lt ween the engine and tender, was killed. Colonel A. August, a passenger, was thrown from Ms bertlh and sustained a broken leg. It is believed the switch was malici ously tamiiered with. THE SHERMAN TRUST ACT. Attorney General Griggs Writes to Gov. Pingroe Defining Its Powers. Washington, Sept. 26. —Attorney Gen eral Griggs has written the following re ply to a letter recently received by him from Governor PSngree, of Michigan: “I am in receipt of your bitter of the 21st instant asking me to send you a copy of ‘opinion to the effect that under the Constitution of the Faulted States Congress cannot enact a law which would be effective in suppressing trusts, so-called.’ “In reply, l bog to say that I have never rendered, either officially or un officially, any opinion of this kind. On the contrary this department has Ikk*m engaged an bringing numerous suits i.i the United States counts under tin* Shertnan Act of July 2d, ISSK), entitled ‘An Act to protect Trade and •Commerce Against Unlawful Restraints and Mo nopolies,’ in several of which cases, no toriously that against the Trans-Mis souri Freight Association. 166 F. S., 21M), and that against the Joint Traffic Association, 171 F. S., 505, the result has !*cen the suppresiiun by decree of the court of the offending agreement or as sociation. ; “You may possibly have reference to a letter of mine'’ to a private citizen published several months ago in the news]napers, wherein I called attention to the fact that the only jnriadih <tioin that Gongres lias over eonilbinations or con tracts in restraint of trade, was in re lation to those which directly affected inter-*State com nierce. That this is true, and that this is the full extent cf the Sherman Trust Act. you will ascer tain h.v reading tin* decision of the United States Supreme Court in the east* of Hopkins vs. The United States. 171 U. S., 578, and the case of tin* United States vs. E. (’. Knight Com pany, 156 U. S., 1. “You are doubtless aware that it is iwvt the right or function of the Federal Government to interfere with business transactions carried on within the sev eral States, except upon some ground expressly authorized by the •Conwtitu t ion. Congress can regulate directly that which we understand by "inter-State commerce,’ but it lias no power to reg ulate or control business or commerce carried on wholly within the limits of a State.” JACKSON HAS TWO NEW CASES. Jackson, Mi6s., Sept. 26. —The State Board of Health this afternoon made the announcement of two new cases of yellow fever in Jackson, the patients be ing Mrs. Tapley and her daughter, re siding on Pearl street one block from the postoffioe. Very little excitement was created by the announcement. Nearly all interior towns, however, are putting up quarantines against Jackson. Many of the railroad lines west declared one on within thirty miuutes after the announcement was made. Radical mea sures will be taken by the State Board to prevent a spread. As yet there has been no logical tracing of the foci an nounced. ENGLAND PLAYING FOR TIME. The Controversy About Suzerainty Not Introduced By the Transvaal. London, Sept. 26. —The Transvaal crisis presents few fresh features. It is increasingly probable that Parliament will meet about the middle of October, and it is asserted again that General Bn,Her, who is to have supreme com mand of th/ British forces in Soul' Africa in the event of hostilities, start for the Cape on October 'A* Nothing, however, has been official!, made known on either point. The Transvaal Government was in constant telegraphic communication with Bloemfontein yesterday, on the re ply of Mr. Chamberlain’s dispatch. It is believed that the reply will protest against tin* continued dispatch of Brit ish troops as a menace to the Transvaal. The Pretoria Volkstein, the official orgau of the Transvaal Government de clares that the Transvaal executive ought to give Great Britain at the most, forty-eight hours to reply to the Trans vaal's demand that no further troops lie landed, pending the receipt of the Brit ish proposals. Sir William Vernon Harcourt writes to the Times denying that the controver sy regarding suzerainty was introduced by the Transvaal Government. He'says it was originated by Mr, Chamberlain in his dispatch of September 16th, 185)7. Berlin, Sept. 26. —The publication of Mr. Chamberlain's telegrams to Sir Al fred Milner, British High Commissioner in South Africa, calls forth but few comments from the German press. The optimistic views expressed yesterday have given way to a general feeling in many quarters that war is inevitable, and that the course of the British policy is merely a ruse to gain time to com plete the military preparations. GENERAL HENRY HETII DIES. Washington, Sept. 6. —General Henry Ileth, the Confederate chieftain and historian, (Tied at his home in this city at 1:40 o’clock this morning of Bright's disease. • - ■ SEVEN FORTS CAPTURED SNYDER CARR'ES STRONG POSITIONS NOT FAR I ROM CEBU. His Loss One Man Dead and Four Wounded. The Enemy’s Loss Estimated at Forty. Washington, Sept. 26.—The War De partment received today the following dispatch from General Otis: "Manila, Sept. 26, "Adjutant Genera 1: "On 'Sej-itcaiilKT 22d and 23d Snyder attacked strong iinsurgt nt positions about five miles west of CYbu with 265 officers and .men, Tennessee regiment and 517 officers and men. Nineteenth, Sixth and Twenty-third infantry and Sixth artil lery, driving enemy front works and capturing seven forts, includ ing smooth 'lmre cannon mount id therein and fourteen en trenched and fortified places. Our loss Private William M. Hanle.v, Company A, Sixth i'ii fan try, killed, and four wounded. Enemy's loss, estimated forty. Insurgents retreated tin new fortifica tions far soil til went. Snyder returned to U(‘lvu with Tennessee troops who had disembarked from transput Indiana to take pact in action, Two companies Nineteenth infantry hold important po sitions in inioiiintaius. (Signed) "OTIS.” DEPARTMENT'S TO BE FORMED. ’File Officials Decide to Carry Out the Plans Already Indicated. Washington, Sept. 26. —It lias b»*en definitely determined to create four de partments in the Philippines, as out lined in these dispatches a few days since. There are yet some details to Im* worked out and a possibility of Changes in the lines of the departments. SERVE WITH INSURGENT'S? What Filipinos Say of Three Captured Americans —To Yield up Prisoners. Manila, Sept. 26.—Two Englishmen, who had been held by the insurgents since June, have arrived at Angeles. Tliey report that the Filipino Congress •has resolved that fourteen American prisoner* shall Ik* surrendered on Wed nesday or Thursday. They have, however, no Information as ito the whereabouts of Captain Ohas. M. Rockefeller, of tin* Nineteenth in fantry, who disapiM*ared in April last and of whom no trace has been dis covered, They assert that three Ameri cans who were captured liy the rebels are acting as officers in the insurgent army. (MI AP El A JE' S AIMMMNTM ENT. It will Probably Permit a Reorganization of the Church 'System of the Islands. Washington, S-ipt. 25.—Tin* announce lnetnt that Archbishop Cbapede, of New Orleans, has iieen chosen Aipostolic Del egate for the Philippines attracts much attention in official and dermal quar ters. Tlie 'position has been vuieant up to this time, and owing to tin* large property interests of tin* drainh in the Philippines, the official status it occu pied under Spain, ami the influence cf the clergy over the nntives, it has been regarded as an important factor in the present reconstructum. It is expected 'that Archbishop Chap elle’s apianntineiit will permit a reorgani zation of the church system of the isl ands, based on tile changed conditions which have been established. PRICE FIVE CENTS. WHYSUMMERELHAS NOT pr F.N REMOVED i'.C* V the Exposure of His Brutality to Convicts. A DEADLOCK AT PRESENT FAILURE TO AGREE ON THE WORDING OF A RESOLUTION. IN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD Capt. Day Playing a Shrewd Game of Delay by Specious Pretexts Before Both Com mittees and Wa ting for Public Indignation to Coal. Why has Lewis Summered not been removed as supervisor of Northampton, State farm? That is it question, that has been often and indignantly asked by the people and press of tin* State since the investigating committee excised his brutality. The answer is as follows: Last spring when the newspapers printed the stories of Summereirs cruel ty as told by the returned convicts who had been victims of it, tin* new board of directors of the State Prison instructed the executive committee of the board to investigate oil the charges and report to the full board. The executive committee is composed of Chairman E. L. Travis, of Halifax; Col. W. 11. Osborn, of Greensboro, and Mr. W. (’. Newland, of Lenoir. To this committee the board, out of courtesy, added the name of Capt. W. H. Day, Superintendent of the State Prison. The committee summoned witnesses before it at Halifax and took testimony which was much the same in tenor as that brought wit before the Legislative committee, and even more startling in some particulars as the witnesses were taken off their guard. This evidence lias Iteen in the hands of the committee ever siuee and has been discussed at sev eral of the meetings, but no definite ac tion taken. At the l ist meeting of the committee here, on week before last, the matter was again brought up. Mr. W. C. New land, it is reported, offered a resolution demanding SumwereU’s removal, and citing as a reason that the evidence in the case showed him to have been guilty of wanton cruelty in driving men to the fields in the bitter cold of February, to have their hands and feet frozen. This resolution Mr. Newland strong ly supported in the committee, and was backed up by Chairman Travis. Capt. Day, who has not at any time made a secret of his fondness for Summered, stood by him and violently opjMvsed the passage of the resolution both on ac count of the action recommended, and because of the facts cited as a reason for Sitramerell’s removal. Col. W. 11. Osborn declined to vote for the resolu tion, because he thought the wording too strong, but is understood to have signified his willingness to demand Sitm mereil’s removal if the resolution was differently worded. This made a dead lock in committee, Messrs. Travis and Newland favoring. Messrs. Day and Osborn opposing the passage of the resolution, in tin* sluijk* in which it was offered. Col. Osborn, as away out of the diffi culty, proposed that the resolution Ik* given him to he re-worded, after which In* would sign it and, of course, Messrs. Travis and Newland, if they found it satisfactory. This was to Ik* done in a ftw days, I understand, but so far noth ing has been heard of the matter, and apparently it is still in statu quo. Capt. Day, who has conducted Sum merell’s case In'fore the executive com mittee in person, and who lias, it is al leged, directed it from afar before the Legislative investigating committee, lias all along played the game of delay on first one pretext, then on another. What his latest find is I am not advised. liis punmse has, of course, been plain in all this—to stave off SummereU’s removal until public anger at his atrocities luul cooled when he could retain him in safety, or at least allow him to slip out quietly at the end of this* year when the State's lease of Northampton farm ex pires and thus save him the disgrace' of a dismissal. Whether the executive committee can remove Summerell without Day’s sanc tion and whether Day will assent to his removal is a matter on which opinions differ. He is understood to have said •that he would remove Summerell if the committee should demand it. But then Capt. Day said he would resign if flio Democratic caucus did not endorse his acceptance of Russell’s appointment to the nuperintendency of the penitentiary. As to the legislative committee com posed of Senator Brown and Represen tatives Gattis, of Orange, and Patterson, of Robeson, it will probably in due time demand that a man Ik* substituted for Summerell at Northampton. Its reasons for not doing so earlier will doubtless Ik* made public when its report is made up. 'Justice Gaynor toid tin* Mazet com mittee yesterday that he had Leen of fered $50,000 worth of Rimnapo stoek to use bis influence to get Brooklyn and New York to adopt the system. He refused the offer.