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PUBLIC POLICY.
HETHEM'IIMKXT AND REFORM
Factt) and Figures" Again.
To the Editjr of the Sun : "Tax Pay
er," in bis article in answer to our former
communication, has adroitly evaded the
whole question by instituting a long com
parison bet wed
n the present Criminal
Court and the superior Court, as the latter
onstituted
before the establishment of
the Criminal Court.
The question
will be shown
raised by our former article
properly, only when the
comparison is made between tlje cost of
trying offenders' in the Criminal Court in
petty cases, as t tie law now stands, and the
cost of trying the same cases in the Courts
of the Justices ( f the Peace. ;;'
Nqw to .illu.-trate this comparison we
"will suppose a case : Cuffy Jonqs is arrested
for stealing one watermelon regaining un-
gathered in the field, the intrinsic value of
which is ten cents, carried before a magis
trate' where the evidence is conclusive, and
the magistrate binds him to court for trial,
as the law now requires; being unable to
procure bail he is committed, and at court
is tried and convicted of "larceny," and
being insolvent,
ceeding has to 1
the cost 01 the -.whole pro-
e paid by the county. Now
let us see how the cost stands, there being
three witnesses
age).
n the cast (about the aver-
Amount
of
Fees.
.. $2 00
..r 1 5
Amount
Due by
Count.
$:2,.00
v
First, Justices costs about.
Second, Constabl
s costs .
Total due by .county in Jus- , . -
. tice's Cour .. . . .... . $2' 72
Now the man goes to jail, say for thirty
days (being the ivcrage time'between the
terms of the Criminal Court). .
Whole Due by
Cost in Criminal Court. Fees. County.
Jail fees, thirty da yb, at 35 -
cents per day. .......... .$10 50.
Turnkey, ia and out.. ...... ... t'A)
Solicitor's fees. 4 (H)
Clerk'u fees indictment tOj
cents", capias $1, 10; dock- '"
etin ana 'filing 85 cents; ... '
three (ira.utf.Jury Bubpuenas '
75 cents: three Court bud"-"- '
" pcenas 75 cents; execu
tion 35 cents'. J . . . ... . . . . 3 iW
$10 50
m
2 00
1 95
Sheriff's feesT-arrest 1 00 ;
three Grand Jury and three
Court subpoenas at 30
cents each, ! 80; execu
tion 50 cents. . I ......... .
Three witnesses at $1 10 per
day, for three days each.. .
)0
1 5
U 30
4 05
(One-fourth day consumed in (rial of case.)
Eighteen Grand Jurors, one oflice to
same, and twelve Jurors, thirty-oue
persons at $1 50 per day each, $40 50
per day and one fourth of day. .-. . . .$11! (2
Judge's salary $2500, for six weeks'
court (tax-payers' estimate), $-flG G(i
per week, $09 44 per day and lor 1
one fourth of day. ... 17 ('
Costs to conviction in Criminal Court. .$50 33
Now in. this estimate the case , is pre
sumed to be tried at the term the indict
ment was found, while many cases are
continued for one or more terms and mis
trials frequently occur and costs are
doubled and trebled. So that while some
cases would :ost less than this estimate,
others would cost much more, and we be
lieve the case as stated would be a fair
average. Nbw '.some may say this is a
fanciful case. To such we would refer to
a similar watermelon case tried in the
Criminal Court at October term, 1878.
iState V3. Jacob Wood, et, al. .
Now in this supposed case, it has cost'
the county $33.05 to convict for larceny of
one . watermelon : worth ten cents, while if
the law had permitted th'e Justice to
, decide the matter, it would only have cost
$2.75 to convict in such case.1
. Now there are very many rases for,
affrays, . Peace Varrants, 4 trespass, and
other petty offenses, which come in the
same category p.Fj the case supposed, com
prising fully three-fourths of the Docket of
the Criminal Court, and: consuming fufly
three-fourths of "Tax-Payer's" six weeks,
which-would only leave one and one-half
weeks in which the important cases are
tried.
Now if Justices are given final jurisdic
tion to try and determine all of these petty
rases the Criminal Court could finish the
remainder of the ( cases say in two weeks,
which time could be readily! granted to our
Superior Court and save cost of Judge of
Criminal Court. Extending the jurisdic
tion of the Justices to all of these petty
cases would also materially reduce the
cases in th'e Superior Courts, of all the
counties, thereby saving hundreds of
thousands of dollars to the people of our
State , "'
"Economy and reform'' is the slogan
now, and our greatest need is: a cheap sys
tem of disposing1 of our many .criminal
'cases. Our constiiution has provided that
; the Justices may try them. Our Legisla
ture has givcii them that authority over a
small part of such cases only. Now if it
is proper that they should try a part of
these cases, for what reason are they pro
hibited from deternsiningothers of a similar
nature? Now let the Legislature either
give to the Justices full jurisdiction to try
and determine all these petty cases, or let
them take aw.iy all final jurisdiction from
them and establish some cheap system of
disposing of these cases.
The Jnstices are all appointed, and were
recommended for intelligence and ability,
aU(J U U proper! that they shall deter
'ae "onus ca-M, why not let them take
oun- 8lnular importance q.pd save the
cases'- enormous cost of tr-vin sucl
oflv mhe rira'mil and Superior Courts
Consider-
$7.00
'lh nature of oar popula-
tion, the great majority paying so little
taxes and at the same time creating the
most of the criminal cases, the cost falls 1
heavily on those who do pay taxes.
Our courts costs are the "big leak,"
"the bung hole to the barrel." and unless
it is stopped, poverty will be the fate of
our section tor years to come. "Tax
payer" intimates that increasing the juris
diction of the Justices would increase the
cases and therefore increase the cost!
Now it makes no difference to the Justice
whether he determine a case, or sends it
up for trial, as he gets his cost3 in either
event, and as the matter now stands, it is
to his interest to get as many cases as he
can, and the fact is that very few. violators
of the law now get off without being called
on to answer, and it would be therefore
impossible for them to increase cases and
costs, as presumed in his article.
Now, if in our supposed case Cuffy Jones
had been tried by the Justice of the Peace
and fined 5 00 and cost, it is quite likely
he could have paid it, and the whole cost,
justice's included, would have been saved
to tlie county, .lany defendants iu petty
cases would pay the justices' costs if they
could be determined before them, while
they are unable to pay the court costs, md
have to go to jail and swear out after thirty
days. ,
Now as to committing to jail of offeudeis
by justices'after trial : The county authori
ties should be given authority to farm out
such convicts ; or if a work house or house
Of correction is established in any county,
give the justice authority to send directly
there. ' ' . "
Xow "Tax-Payer" states that "either
party would certainly tike an appeal,'
thereby making . thp impression that all
these cases would go to the Superior Court
in any event. Appeals from the justice's
decision do not now occur oftener than one
case in fifty or a hundred determined by
them,, and it is unfair to suppose that the
proportion of appeals would be increased
by granting increased jurisdiction.
Now, as to "Tax-Payers" reflection on
the honesty aud character of the Justices
of the Peace, that they are restrained from
abuses by, the Criminal Court ; the same
restraint was formerly exercised by the
Superior Court, and would be again in
case of the abolition of the Criminal Court.
The Legislature holds but a short time,
and another does not meet in two years
and if anything is to be done to remedy
this evil' ;and stop these heavy costs, it
should be done quickly.
Respectfully,
Pro Po.no Publico.
Increase of Salaries for Officers
TotheEdrtoroftht'Sun:
Potxt Casweu,, Pkxdkr 'County, N
C. Jan. 28th, 1879. Increase the salaries
of our officials and public men? Whence
and by what means can the additional sum
be raised to bestow a bounty upon each of
ficial, who will vouchsafe to accept office
at the hands of the people ? Whut fund
of hiexhaustibte resources has been recent-
I3' discovered to justify the suggestion p
increasing the salaries of those who are al
reatjyenjoying positions of honor and em
olument, amply, seductively remunerative?
If any, in. the name of the poor laborers 0
the country, generally, the farmer, the
mechanic, the citizen and all classes of the
yeomanFV of the land, devise some plan or
system, by means of which thevcan become
the recipients of enough of it, at least, to
reward theni for their, trial. With wages
so low as to paralyze every thew of in
dustry, and drive the once hopeful aud en
ergetic to despair, the people utterly un
able to secure means to supply the plain
substantial necessities of life, mortgaged,
sold out, involved beyond redemption,
would you increase and extort from them
a tax which would irreparably ruin them,
that an already extravagant and wasteful
policy may be rendered still more injurious
and insufferable' by pandering to the the
vitiated and morbid taste of a certain class
of avaricious men, many of whom never
did a day's work in their lives? Should
we tamper with a policy which has
already gone from bad to worse?
Should we fill our land with meudicants,
robbers aud outlaws, rather than have a
hopeful, thrifty, active, .energetic, enter
prising and reliable people ? Should we
write despair upon our workshops defeat
upon our ' ploughshares desertion upon
our corn fields ruin upon our pine trees
insecurity aud peril, upon our homes? If
not, rather advocate and urge the neces
sity of lessening the already too high
salaries of officials than that of increasing
them We know, 8s aprinciple, that gov
ernment regulations almost always increase,
instead of diminish the evils consequent
upon habits formed, from the anticipated
realization of great fortunes supposed to
be in the hands of debtors; that .whenever
the regular and hannonifying operation of
demand npon; supply is disturbed, uncer
tainty and unavoidably rapid fluctuations
must occur ; but amidst all such embarrass
ment and suffering should we, pile "Ossa
on Pelion" ? Should we compel the
already feeble, exhausted, impoverished
and forlorn, to carry a still heavier bur
den? Should we at any period of misfor
tune, when want of confidence, stagnation
and collapse exist in - every department of
business, aid trade, impose new and
weightier tasks upon the propelling
power of safety, freedom-, wealth and inde
pendeuce ? Are we prepared, Mr. Editor,
to encourage the adveut of and welcome
the evil which would "result in the estab
lishment- of innumerable Octroi or Dona.
WILMINGTON, N. C,
nius, not only on your coasts, but in every
township, in ever- school district, addi
tional tipstaves to seize upon the fruits of
honest industry and enterprise, to gratify
the pride and vanity of those, who elevated
above, have forgotte'n the people, and,
with indifference and-contempt, regard the
lands which raised them to positions of
honor aud profit ? We know fpom yonr
editorial on this subject that vou would
not inflict any grievous wrong upon your
people that generous, noble, brave and
patriotic, you would scofn to do anything
that would impair, in the leasU'the mutual
obligations and relations which should
exist between-the people and their rulers
that you would oppose, with all of your
acknowledged power and ability, any
measure or scheme, no matter, by what
party proposed, which would threaten in
the least degree the liberty and happiness
of the people ; and it is, therefore, that we
offer, in our feeble way, these suggestions,
believing they will be received and appro
ciated in the same generous and charitable
Spirit in which they are given."
Respectfully, : Liason.
Xotes Xortli Carolinian.
Monroe has five schools- all with a fair
roll of students.
We regret to see the Monroe Enquirer
come out for the H'. k A. L. extension. I
No issue this week of the Hillsboro
ltccorder because the printers are sick.
Mr Dumont lectured to a good audience
in Commons Hall, Raleigh,' Monday night.
Two noted escaped, negro convicts with
various aliases werelceptured in Charlotte.
The Charlotte thining board protest
against the abolition of the Geological
survey.
Goldsboro Messenger says a young Ger
man lad named Carl Gladden employed in
A.' Korb s' steam lurniture factory, had his
left hand badly lacerated last Saturday
morning by coming- in contact with the
machinery.
Monroe Enquirer : We learn that a
negro was killed in Anson last week, by
having lii$ skull cleft in twain with. an axe 1
in the hands 01 another negro, with whom
he quarrelled. We did not leafn full par- J
ticulars; but hear that the niirrderer has
been committed.
In the Saulston tbwnship, AVayne coun
ty, murder, the coroner's jury' rendered
the verdict that Jack Smith came to his
death frpm injuries received -"from J. 11.
Hinsou and Josiah McKinnie 1 Butts.
Butts is in jail, but Hinson was last seen
in Greene county.
News : We are informed that Col. Win.
Johnston, of Charlotte, was recently, offer
ed the presidency of the construction of a
very important railroad in Pennsylvania,
with very liberal pecuniary inducements,
but declined the same on account of the
climate, distance from home and the sever
ance of domestic ties which would result.
The Monroe Ejcp ress reports therob
bery by a pickpocket of ja young Mr.
Henry Kendall, of Anson county, who was
on his way to Rutherford College. His
pocket-book, which contained a little over
$90, wras adroitly taken from his pocket
through a slit nrade by a sharp instrument.
Our contemporary says it is the first
instance that ever took place in the town,
and must have been done by an expert
from abroad.
Messenger: A warrant was issued at
Fremont last week, by Justice Barnes,
for the anvst of Mr. Richard Newall,
charged by his wife with attempting to
poison her, but Newall had gone for parts
unknown. Injustice to the good people
of Fremont, we deem improper to say that
they are new comers to that usually order
ly town, and have not lived there but a
short while. Family trouble appear to be
Jthe cause. Newall has not lived with his
wife much the hist few years.
Sunlight.
Senator Johnston, of Virginia, is very
ill at Washington.
Senator Ben Hill's speech, against pay
ing anv Southern war claims seems to be
generally regarded with approval in Geor
gia.
Mrs. U.-'F. Wade, the widow of Senator
Ben Wade, lies very ill at her residence in
Jefferson, Ohio. She is over seventy yeais
of age. ;
The Indiana State Senate is considering
a hill which declares it unlawful for a can
didate '"even so mibch as to treat ;for the
purpose of influencing votes." K
Fhrtadehdaa limes: fcomc men are
born nephews, others achieve nephews, but
Mr. Tilden throws out the sad impression
that he had a nephew thrust upon him.
.The St. Louis Globe-Democrat having
remarked that 'Jauuarv, 1879, ma-be
set down. as a very good month for Grant-
ism," the Kaltimore iSfaze tte retorts very
neatly: ''November. 1880, however, will
not be so good, judging from indications."
Professor George S. Morris will leave
the Michigan University at Ann Arbor to
take the chair of philosophy and ethics in
the Johns Hopkins University at Balti
more. It is said tha: there will be other
desertions from the Aun Arbor school,
the regions of which have wrangled a
arreat deal lately.
A dispatch received in New York to-day
by cable from Panama, announces that a
serious revolution ha? broken out in Anti-
oquia. No particulars given.
About 10 o'clock this morning an em
bankment at Ziegler's ore beds, 15 miles
from Allentown, Pa., caveoin, burying 15
persons, instantly killing one man and
seriously injuring four others.
W. B. Fleming has been elected to Con
gress, from the Savannah District, to fill
the place of Hartridge, deceased. There
was no opposition. The vote was very
small in Chatham county, only 636.
The Savannah News, the able senior
editor of -which was a "candidate for the
Ksition, speaks in high terms of J udge
emming who was nominated for Congress
in the First Georgia District to fill Col.'
Hartridge'a racancy. -' ' -" ' '
WEDNESDAY'
SM TELEGRAMS.
EARLY AND MIDNIGHT REPORTS.
WASIIIXCJTOX.
Two Brazil Lines to be Provided
"Itivor and Harbor Appro
priation.
J Washington, Feb. 11. Senate. The
Committee on Appropriations this morning
agreed to add to the Postoffice Appropria
tion bill a section authorizing contracts to
be made for a semi-monthly Steamship
Mail Service between the United States
and Brazil, by two lines, One from New
York via S'orfolk,and the other from New
Orleans via Galveston, each to receive
compensation not exceeding 150,-000 per
annum. .The Committee recommend the
appropriation of $200,000, or so much
thereof as may be necessary to provide for
this service during the next fiscal year, the
expectation being that the steamships for
the New-Orleans line will not be ready to
commence running before the expiration of
about two-thirds of the year.
Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, from the Com
mittee on Finance, reported, without
amendment, Senate bill avthorizing , the
conversion of National gold bank. Placed
on Calendar." "
; He also reported from the same Com
mittee, without amendment, Senate bill to
amend Sections 5157 and 5171 of Revised
Statutes - the United States, relative to
the deposit of bonds. Placed on Calendar.
-, These are two1 bills' introduced by Mr.
Morrill, yesterday.
Mr. Sargent,-. of California, submitted a
resolution requesting the Secretary of State
to furnis the. Senate with formation Tn
the possession of the State Department, or
that may be obtained through the "Consu
lar Service, relating to the methods in the
production of the various kinds of ferment
ed and alcoholic liquors imported into the
United States also,, the laws and customs
of the trade in foreu, and prevailing at the
various places affecting the purity of such
liquors and enulneness of the labels and
marks, and designating them.
He also sulunitted a resolution request
ing the Secretary of the Treasury to fur
nish similar information, and said, as an
Abject of these -resolutions was to ascer
tain whether we received any pure wines,
he hoped that .tlie committee on finance
would,give the subject early attention.
Mr. Conkling, referring to the last re
solution, said it was not .usual to 'request"
an Cabinet officer to furnish information
to the Senate, but "direct" . him to do so.
The resolution was amended as suggested
and then. referred .to the committee on fi-
nance.
"Mr. JKcriian introduced a bill to au
thorize; the President to appoint George
Foster Robinson to be paymaster in the
United States army; which was referred to
the committee on military affairs.
Mr. Robinson is the man who defended
Secretary Seward from the assassin
Payne,
:The Semite agreed to the conference re
port on the Naval Bill, which was passed.
A bill was parsed removing the political
disabilities of the following : Asa Wall,
FivE. Shephard, C. B. Oliver, D. M. W.
Nash. Henry G. Thomas,.! Chas,. F. M.
Spottswoodv John I). Simmons, C. H. Ken:
nedv, . B. Sinclair and W. L. Page, of
Virginia: Isaac R. .Tremble, Henry II.
Lewis and.W. E. Wisharu, of Maryland;
C. H. Williamson, of New York ; John T.
Tucker, of the District of Columbia-; and
W. T. .Walker, of California.
A joint resolution, providing for a com
mission to consider and report upon what
legislation is need for a better regulation of
commerce among the States, was submitted
to' the Committee on Commerce.
,The Postal Appropriation Bill, with
suhdrv amendments, was reported back
from the committee, and placed on the cal
endar
The Senate resumed consideration of the
bill for the erection of the Library. bnild-
mg on Judiciary square.
House. 1 he House has agreed to the
conference report on the Naval Appropri
ntion bill, and is now in Committee on the
Legislative Appropriation bill
Mr. Dorsey, of Arkansas, from the Com
mittee on appropriations, reported back
the post olnce appropriation bill with vur
ious amendments. Placed on the calendar.
He also reported from the same, committee'
anamendement to the b;ll submitted ,bv
- y- i' 1 . '
Mr. iienry irom me committee, on post
ortices auu post roads, some days ago. pro.
Tiding for the reclassification of mail mat
ter, and the readjustment of the compensa
tion paid to. the railroads' for its transpor
tation of mails be substantially the same
provisions as were agreed upon in the
poit route bill of last vear, and which fail
ed to become a law on account of the Bra
zilian mail subsidy, and other objectiona-
able amendments tnereto.
In the House to-d.iv the majority and
minority reports of the Committee on
Elections in the I ionda contested election
case of ; Fmley vs Bisbee were submitted
and laid on the table for future action
The majority report is in favor of Finley's
claims and is signed l-v alt the Democratic
members of the committee -except ' ! urney
of Pennsylvania, who joins the Republi
cans in the report in favor of Bisbee.
The House" was in Committee of the
whole on legislative, judicial and execu
tive appnation in.. After a protracted
discussion the House proceeded to consid
er the biil by paragraphs for amendment.
After mating snie progress the committee
rose.
Mr. Rea can-of Texas, chairman of the
Committee on Commerce reported the
River and Harbor appropriation bill
which was Ordered printed, and recommit
ted
In the executive session of the Senate
to-dav the renomination of Gen. N. P
Banks to be United States Marshal for
Massachusetts was reported from the Ju
diciary Committee, with the recommenda-
'tion that it be confirmed, to take effect
upon the expiration of the term of the
present incumbent, which will occur next
month.
The Douse Committee on War Claims
to-day agreed to report the bill appro
priating abou 3,000.000 ,tospay.tbe
yiaiuis nufB iKlVf; iMjeu apprueu "3 '
accounting officers of'tbe Treasury nnd
be
ier
the act of January 4, 1864.
The river and harlsor billlijclifwss Clnf
eluded bv- thl comriiittee on mhtfre
FEBRUARY 12,
day, contains the following among its ap
propriations : For the removal of the
snags-, &c, on the Mississippi river,
$100,000 ; for a snag-boat for the upper"
Mississippi river, $20,000 ; for the improve
ment's of the Mississippi river from St. Paul
to the Des Moines rapids, $100.000 ; for the
Mississippi river near the mouth of the
Illinois river, $40,000. Southern States
For the James river, $60,000; for the
Appomattox ri ver, $10,000 ; for the Rap
pahannock river, $10,000 ; for the Norfolk
harbor, $5,000; for the North Landing
river, $25.000 ; for the Cape Fear river,
$25000 ; for the Neuse river. $15,000 ; for
fie French Broad river, $5,000; for the
Charleston harbor, $100,000; for the Sav
annah harbor, $100,000: for the St. Au
gustine in Georgia, $5,000 ; for the Coosa
river .in Georgia, $45,000; for t-he
Alabama river, $30,000; for the
Chatahoochie and Flint rivers, $22,000;
for the Apalachicola river, S5.000 ;
Cedar Keys, Florida, $15,000 ; Choctaw
Hatchie" river, $50,000 ; AVarrior and Tom
Bigbee rivers, $30,000 ; New Orleans har
bor, $60;000 ; Mobile harbor,' $100,000 ;
Pascogoula river, $14,000; Brunswick
harbor, Georgia, $10,000; Sabine Pass,
Texas, $25,000 ; Galveston harbor, $100,
00K ; Ship channel, Galveston, $80,000 ;
Narro ws Sabine Pass, $6,000 ; Pass Cre
valda and Mattagorda Bay, $25.000 ;
Cyprus Bayou, $0,000; Aramsas Pass,
$35,000; removal of raft, Red river, $15,
000; Surveys of South Pass, Mississippi,
$24,000 ; removal of obstructions, Red
river, $22,500 ; mouth of Red river, $40, -000;
Ouachita river, $10.000 ; gauging
the waters of the Mississippi, $5,000 ;
Tennessee river, above Chattanooga, $11,-
500; Tennessee river, below Chattanooga,"
21,000; Natchez river, $5,000; Memphis
harbor, $37,000; Vicksbnrg harbor, $27,
000; Yazoo river, Mississippi, $15,000;
Cumberland river, below Nashville, $25,
000; Cumberland riven above Nashville,
$39,000 ; there is an appropriation for the
I improvement of the Mississippi, between
I the mouth of the Illinois and Ohio rivers,
of. $20,000. ' I he amount appropriated for
examination and surveys is $150,000. To
tal amount appropriated by the bill.
$5,780,000.
The caucus of the Republican Senators
leid to-dav The purpose of the signers of a
call was to secure an arranerement at some
early date for the action upon the Corbin-
Butler contest. N o determination was reach
ed. There was some informal discussion
as to what course should be pursued in the
case, also the amendments providing for
the repeal ot the rederal supervisons and
the test oath laws are attached by the
House to one of the annual appropriation
bills. Although no action was taken the
general tenor of opinions expressed was to
the ellect that effort to enact such legislation
upon an appropriation bill as should be
resisted even to extend the causing bill to
tail.
The Potter Committee met this morning
and immediately went, into secret sessiou.
lhe chairman read the letter from Dr
Green, President of the Western Union
telegraph Company. A few comments
were made upon the explanation therein
given and with regard I to its publication
before received by the committee. 1 be
Democrats have no more witnesses ' to
examine, though the Republicans wish to
call one or two
Gen. Ord- was before' the House Com
mittee on Military Affairs, to-dav, advo
cating the passage of Senator Maxev's
bill, which provides for the erection of
more suitable military posts for the pro
tection ot the Kio Grande lrontier.
the Committee appear disposed to
report the bill favorably, and are now in
communication with the Secretary of War
as to the best methods of complying with
provisions thereof.
A. A. Mabson is nominated for post
master, at Union Springs, Alabama. .
Iluried in a Railroad Cut.
St. Loins, Feb. 11. A Kansas City
dispatch says a terrible accident occurred
this morning at the foot of Grand avenue,
in a cut. being made for the Chicago fc
Alton Railroad. At that hour the cut,
with its almost perpendicular walls 90 feet
higii, caved inland buried the workmen
aud their teams under 0,000 yards of fall
ing earth. There were four teams in the
cut at the time and ten men working at
each team. Besides these there were the
foreman, Jas. McCarthy, his clerk and two
men worlving'with the pick. Mr. Soden,
the contractor, was not in the cut. Six
persons were killed outright and several
wounded. The following are killed: Pe'ter
Bagley, Jas. Hagen, Thos. Casey, Ed.
Hines.Dan Lucitt and Richard Kine. All
the bodies have been recovered. The
scene is heartrending.
Alleged Swindling or tlie Govern
- , " ment.
Boston. Feb. 11 A ..statementjs pub
lished, here, alleging that the Apollinaris
Company of London and Germany have
defrauded the Government out of the rev
enue, amounting to six hundred thousand
dollars. It is asserted that the water im
ported by tii e company, is compounded,
a treated liquid and not the product of
nature, as claimed ; aud that the treasury
has already, taken the matter in hand, and
a resolutiou will be offered in Congress
during the present week, whereby it will
be proposed to place a tax on all foreign
bottles. The Government will also take
steps to recover the money due from the
concern.
TheiTennessee State Debt.
Nashville, Tens., Feb. 11. The Legis
lature reassembled to-day after a recess of
ten days. Gen. Roger A. Pryor, legal
representative of the Tennessee bond
holders, arrived this morning from New
York to renew the offer of the bondholders
to compromise the State debt by a reduc
tion of forty per cent, of the principal or a
reduction of the interest. He claims that
those he represents are in no way inter
ested in the suite against the railroads
brought by one of the State's creditors to
enforce a sapposed lien on railroad prop
erty in favor of the creditors. Mr. Pryor
will remain during the present week.
j Dearth of a Xtel Priest.
New Okleassj Feb. 1L The Very Kev.
Cornelius Moyniran and a. native of the
cpanty of Cork. Ireland, and for 30 years
pastor of the St- Peters church, and one of
best known and most distinguished Priest
rf ihp. Son th died this moraine. The fau
eral will take place on Thursday.
1879.
OVER THE CABLE.
The Old World Yesterday.
Madrid, Feb. 11. On receint of
cial reports from Puerto Plata of the
Spanish Government will if necessary des
patch a man-of-war to San Domingo to
exact a heavy indemnity for the families
of two Generals taken from a Spanish
steamer and shot by the Sao Domingo
authorities and for the satisfaction to the
Spanish flag. The Spanish . Government
has purchased all the private rights in
Cabrera one of the Baleavie Islands in the
Mediterranean. They intend to establish
there a penitentiary and agricultural colo
ny. -
Liverpool. Feb. 11. By order of the
privy council adopted -yesterdv revoking
after March 3rd, 1879. article 13 of tho
foreign amendments, the order go far a it.
relates to the United States was a great
surprise to the trade here. All cattle
from the United States after March 3rd,
will have to be slaughtered in abbatoirs
now being prepared on the dock estates of
Jiirkenhead and Liverpool within ten davs
after landinsr.
The steamship owners have appointed a
committee to confer with the delegates
appointed at yesterday's meetiucr of the
strikers. Miuh firmness is in mifestwi on
both sides. ' ' " -
The Gity of Brussels is ready for sea
and will sail this afternoon.
Owing to the delay in the arrival of the
Celtic, the White Star Company has char
tered the Cunard steamship Marathon to
take her place, l he latter will sail for
New York on Thursday.
Paris, Feb. 11. Mouseigneur Desprez.
Archbishop of Toulouse, has been created
a Cardinal.
The' governments amnesty bill grants
amnesty to all persons heretofore, or here
after pardoned, except offenders against
the common law, and condones all political
offences since 1870, not heretofore present
ed a decree relative to the changes of the
rrocurateur ueneral, it is expected will be
signed to-day.
President Grevy has signed a decree of
making appointments and changes, affect
ing eignteen generals and twelve com
ma.nders of the corps. ,
Gen. Wolff replaced Duke D'Aumale at
Resancon. LeTemps says, Duke D'Au
male has been appointed Inspector Gen
eral. Berlix, Feb. 11. Specie increase,
8,940,000 marks.
It seems now settled that the Emperor
will open the Reichstag in person and de
liver his speech from the throne to-morrow.
London, Feb. 11. The Cabinet Coun
cil has to-day decided to send six batta
lions of infantry, two regiments of cavalry,
two batteries of artillery, a company of
engineers, three companies of the Army
Service Corps ami a company of the Army
Hospital Corps to reinforce Lord Chelons
ford in South Africa.
The Times, commenting on the news
from Capetown, says: "Nothing can ex
ceed the frankness of the recital, for it is
clear that nothing has been held back. It
would be : useless "to deny either the sad
ness or the extreme gravity of the catas
trophe.' Whether there was or was not
any want of vigilance on the part of our
own force, it is clear that the Zulus are
even more formidable than our military
authorities expected them to be. It was
known that they are well drilled, that
great numbers are armed with breech
loaders, and that they could fight courage
ously. We now know but too well how
large a force they can mass at one point.
Sad as the loss of our troops is, still graver
is the peril which must arise with defeat.
Tlfc Zulus will be emboldened, and the
colonists will be exposed to fresh and for
midable dangers. In these circumstances
the duty of the government cannot admit
of the slightest doubt, and it is to send
ample reinforcements to the Cape, without
the needless delay of a single hour. It
may be that they can be more quickly
sent from Mauritius or India than from
England, but, at all events, no effort and
no expenditure must be spared to save the
colony from disaster and the power of the
country from grave injury. ' It is a melan
choly consolation, meanwhile, that the
gallant troops of the Twenty-fourth regi
ment did their duty and died at their posts
like Englishmen."
Lord Chelmsfor, the commander of the
expedition, sets down the British loss at
thirty officers and about five hundred non
commissioned officers, rank and - file, of
the Imperial troops, and seventy non-com
missioned ofticefs. rank and hie, or tne
Colonial troops. A court of inquiry has
been ordered to collect the evidence re
garding this unfortunate affair. It would
cnom f li o t tlio rnnno woro ont iVHl AW&V
from the camp, as the action took place a
mile and a quarter outside of it.
Summonses were issued this morning for
the Cabinet Council, to be held this after
noon, to deliberate on the reverses to the
British troops in Zululand. An official
telegram announcing the defeat was re
ceived at the Colonial office at 12:30
o'clock this morning. ' They substantially
rrmfirm t hp rlptail of the affair heretofore
ffiven in these dispatches. The news of
the defeat has caused a sensation through
out Loudon. The demand for newspapers
at all the suburban stations was greater
than since the outbreak of the Franco-
German war.
Ttio fri1rwintr commnnicatioa has been
received at the War Office from Lord
riiplmsford "I resTet to have to report
a verv disastrous encasement on the 22nd
of January, between the Zulu3 and a por
tion of the No. 3 column, which as left
to guard the camp about 10 miles in front
nf Rm-kp Drift. The Zulus came down
in overwhelming numbers, and in spite of
the gallant resistance by 5 companies of
the first battalion of the Zftin regimeuw
one company of the second battalion M
24th reiriment, 2 euns, 2 rocket tube, one
hundred and sixty-four mounted men and
about 800 natives, were overwneimeu uu
the camp, containing all surplies, armnuni-
frrhn and tmnsrortation of No. 3 COIUTOB
nua m.,-j "
fenders escaped. Our loss, I - fear must oe
set down at 30 officers and about 500 non
commissioned officers to rack and
imperial troops and 70 non-commissioned
officers to rank and file of colonial troop
A court of .inquiry has. been ..ordered to
assemble to collect evidence rrgardingtms
important affair which will be forwarded
to yon as sons as received. Full partaew-
trao I ft IT ATI HTMI DDI IWO UK
t m m
de-
5 Cenis a Copy
lars as Tar as can be obtained liave been .
sent in my despatch : which will reach you
by the next mail. It would seem that the "
troops were enticed away from their
camp as the action took place about
mile and a quarter outside of it. The re
mainder of Colonel Glyn's column reoccu-:
pied their camp after dark on - the same
D!f T havinS fee1 with me 12 mile away
all day. On the fallowing morning we ar
rived at Rankes Drifl post which for
twelve hours had been attacked by from
30O to 400 Zulaa. Its defence by some 80
men of 24 to a regiment was most gallant,
i hree hundred and nn(t Wviuw i..
close around the post. I compute the
Zular loss at 1,000 here alone. At camp
where the disaster oecurred the loss of the
enemy u computed at 2,000. Colonel
Pearson commanding the No. 1st column .
has been attacked but he repulsed the
Zulus." . . . r
St- Pktersbcro, Feb. 11. The St.
Petersburg, sanitary committee hate pro
posed to clean the canals and to organiae
a barge hosnital in Xpra wTiik rnnM Ka
funchored jn the Gulf of Bothnia, and also
w organize a sanitary committee in each
district of the city and proriDee of 8t
Petersburg. ,
Gen. Leyis MelikofF, Governor-General
of the plague stricken districts, has sum
moned the Governors of the governments
of Astrachan, Lamaria and Saratoff, to
Traritzia, and proposed to them that all
the old paper money now circulating be
exchanged for new, through the Kama
Volga bank, and destroyed."
The attention of the medical authorities
is now concentrated on Selitreno and the
neighboring districts inhabited by the
Khirgiz.
Liverpool, Feb. 11. The committee of
steamship owners had an interview, today,
with a delegations from the strikers ; and -after
heaHng the latter's statement, decid- J
ed to aahere to their own terms. The
strike therefore continues, but many of the
men showed signs of yielding. No steamer
of the National line wiU; sail for New
York to-morrow. v
Calcutta, Feb. 11. A report of the ,
death of the Ameer of Afghanistan is un
true. It arose from the demise of tlie
Ameer of Bokhara. The .Ameer of Af
ghanistan will endeavor to reach Herat. .
Yakoob Khan recently sentfa cavalry reg
iment, to K oh is tan lo quell the disturb
ances among the tribes there; whereapon
i .a . ...... -
ooiu iacnons suspended nostinties.
London, Feb. 11. The Algeria, from
Savannah, January 6, for Amsterdam, is
ashore near Egmond.
Tlie Republican Party month ,
Carolinsu
Charleltox, Feb. 11. Sam Lee's coun
sel at Sumter moved 'for a new trial and
an arrest of judgment on technical grounds. .
Both motions were denied. Lee was called
to receive sentence, but failed to appear,
and the Judge stated .he would place sen
tence under seal in the hands of the clerk
of the court. --Li . '
The Grand Jury of Charleston county .
to-day found a true bill against E. W. M.
Mackey, a Republican, for libel in pub
lishing, harges against W. L. Daggett, a
DemoSat, of stuffing the ballot box at the
Palmetto engine house at the late election.
The Baltimore-A Ohio BmUroM "'.
Charter.
Cixcixnati, Feb. 11. A Wheeling, W.
Va.;dispatcb, says that in the Senate yes
terday was introduced to declare' "the ;
charter of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad
forfeited. A recent, examination by a
joint special committee having developed
the fact tnat tne company nas Deen cnarg
intr more than lawful rates, and by unjust
discrimination worked injury to the manu
facturing and producing interests or the
State.
A Disabled Steamer.
New Yohk. Feb. 1 1. The steamship
Canima, which arrived to-day from Ber
muda, reports Feb. 6th, three , hours after
leaving port she sighted the steamship
Castlewood, rrom unariesion ior xvevai,
with the loss of her propeller, and towed
her, after much difficulty owing to high
sea running, into Bermuda, arriving, there'
at 11 a. m., on the 7th.' - .
, . Strikers. ' ? ,
Ctn4inxati. Feb. 11. The striking
miners at Coshocton, Ohio, warn the men ,
at work5 at the union mines, that they will
assault them ifswork is not stopped by
Thursday next . t
New York, Feb.lL The strike against
the reduction of wages on the Metropolitan
Elevated Kailway, extension irom ooru u
110th streets, continues, tnougn-everything
is verv auiet Two thousand men
are engaged in the movement, but it is ex
pected they will return to wors uj-morryw
at the reduced rates.
The Cattle" sTefcuesMs.
New York, Feb. 11. The Brooklyn
Health Officers charge that a number of
cows, suffering from pleaso pneumonia,
have been taken from the stables and
slaughtered at ; Abattoirs. The carcasses
are now under guard until they can be in
vestigated by the surgeons. ;
Loaiaiana State lottery. -
Nfw Oklsaks, Feb. 11, At the State
Lottery to-day. No. 47,081 drew $30,000
No. 19.499 drew $10,000 ; No. 75,309 drew ,;
$5,000; No. 59,117 drew $2,500; No. 24
186 drew $2,500. " ; ' " .-'. '.j -,
Colored Hen's CoavresUloss.
Washwotojt, Feb- llA ;
has been started by represenUUyecoto v.-.:
men for convention to cons der ,
condition, wants, etc. ht
prepared for the convention to meet i t
Nashville, -stay v
....... naik Hobberj
i;ivTFeb. 1L-Tbe police have
Tan important arres,t onnecuou
SS Manhstun Bank robbery. The
Pioha Hope, and he was Uken
1DVU Ciuww
It
te hArter Telesram
".nt W Coit'of Norwich,' Connecticnt, "
-.P?SwolSst steamboat Captains in ' -
the country, is dead, aged 81. ? i 4?
vsr flifL editor of the Nap B.t h
porter and Captain inthe Cjmfcderatej
naTT dnring the war, died at Napa, Cal., 5
JIB I j uws, - p
to-day' : s . - ...i;" ? -
The 'Arkansas Bouse Representatives
nuxid a resolution proposing a. coustitn-
Uooal amendment repudiating the Halford ; ! n r
aad other bonds.
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