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DALLY CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, LI ARCH 15. 1S05. Sht GlxxAtsttzGbzmzt. nam dailt (kx. xojtday) ajtd wxhlt -U. A. XOMFKLNS. 8UBCBIFT10N PHICSU UAXLX OB&EKVEB 6 m nH.. ....... -00 (IMOKIH. .... MO t 1VctX.Y OBSKBVKB .J1.00 . J0 THE OBSERVER OEFICE, 84 fc Ttjs Bfc . Fbtdat, March 15, 1895. ; THE JTJSIOJT LEGHLATCBK. - - The last day of the fusion Legislature was a memorable one. I s events, taken together, go to show w1st sort of cattle the majority; of be:j'ft4atora were, " Pa jday had passed, s In other words the time had passed in which the con stitution allowed legislators to receive pay for their services. : A conclusively showing that the; average Pop.-Rep, fusionist was in Raleigh fop "what there was ia it," and not for patriotic pur pose, it must b-j stated that so many of the members had gone home as to leave the body without a quorum. . Never- . theless. there was some important grab- game : legislation . to be disposed of. The bills to take the penitentiary, and the Atlantic & North Carolina and the ' North Carolina Railroads out of Demo cratic control were still pending. : There was one man especially the Populists were anxious to provide for, althongh he was persona non grata to the Republicans. He had formerly been a Democrat of Democrats, one of 1 their most trusted leaders, and his hatred of Republicans and everything Republican had. become proverbial in the State. But true as he was always - believed to be by his party, he allowed himself to harbor a resentment against the administration so long and so bit terly that Anally led to a flirtation with the young Populist party, ad Anally his complete fascination with this Delilah in politics led to the shearing of his locks and the everlasting loss of his strength. He renounced his old friends, and took the stump for the fusion movement in the last campaign because he was assured that great would be his' reward if he did. This man was Buck Kitchin. t .The new office-hunting, office-creat- ing combine, whose cause he espoused, . . - m i w . . . was successiui. it created -Tp any new r offices and filled them with its own members, but when the adjournment came, Buck Kitchin had not been "pro- . vlded for." He wanted a job bad. He wanted to be railroad commissioner, but Otho W llson stepped down before him into the pool of political healing He finally consented- to relieve Mr. Leizar of his job as superintendent of the penitentiary. Enough new Populist directors of the penitentiary were to be elected by the Legislature to make Mr Kitchin superintendent. But when the vote for these directors was taken on the last day, it was found that the new directors naa received only 77 votes, while it required 86 votes to elect. As showing the trend of the Populist or fusion mind in this Legislature the ultimate aim and purposes of its patri ; otic legislation the following is repro duced from the News and Observer's account of yesterday: When this fact of the non-election Became apparent, me wrath or the fu- - eiumsts Knew no oounus. xoey were consumed with impotent rar and were beside themselves with disappoint ment, chagrin, and fury. Their faces presented a study of baffled rage. When the tellers presented their report in the senate the Lieutenant Governor stated that there had been no election. If he '. had hit Senator Rice in the face with a brick, that Senator could not have reel ea more than he did when t he signifi cance or tne Lieutenant Governor s plain statement was realized. He gasp- tsu ior oream, anu asKeu if the S?uate, regardless or the fact that less than a majority had voted, could not adopt a resolution declaring the tusiomsts elect . ed. ; benator Paddison took up the cold trail twice, and argued that immemo rial usage ought to be set aside, if nec essary, to enaoie the rusionists to put in their caucus nominees. The Lieu tenant Governor asked the Senator if he could cite a precedent in any State in the Union for the position "he was contending for. He eould not. He sat down,-a sadder If not a wiser man. And this is what Buck Kitchin left the Democratic party for! The way of the transgressor is hard The atmosphere of thecapitr.l seemed to be impregnated with retributi ve jus tice Wednesday. For the lack of the sarjie quorum, the f usionists were frus- trated jn their SchernstoeJet-a-State I ibrirJanT-a-rtdrcagetEe directories of the Atlantic & North Carolina and North Carolina Railroads. To cap the climax the Governor, claiming the power to fill vacancies on the bench, 83nt ia tie appointments Of Judge T. A j ones, ror the newly created western Vnmmai court circuit, and that of Judge O. P. Meares for the eastern. If the Governor's contention is sustained, J;, wart and Cook will lose theirprospect ..a tAhn rni, ir. -r . . " - ucu m.r. juacy s neaa was saved as commissioner of labor statis tics so th"a the Democrats should be very grateful for the surprising amount tney nave saved from the general wreck 1 he legislature has been dominated all along by a' few bosses; the members were like aherd of sheep -panic-stricken if ever left to their own .re sources for a short while by the absence of the few leaders. It disgraced itself in its mad efforts to create aew offices and fill them with its own members; it often shut off the minority from the rignt or speech; it dishonored Lee and k ..Washington and paid homage to a ne- r a" ivu wnue wiie; it substituted a . negro assistant door-keeper for a white man, and instructed him to oppose free wmte men in their lawful rights. It teeped itself in infamy all along. The two parties to this lecherous Dolitil , alliance now passed into history as the lusion Legislature "broke up in an angry row at the end verifying the many early predictions of such a con summation. - No house' divided against j itselfcan stand. The two parties to this mes alliance bad no two principles alikn. It was simply a convenient arrangement ior omce-grabbing. f-usioQ is surely dead. The Demo cratic party in DO will come td the res- cae as it did, in ":6, when Yance led it fo victory, and although his hand is wm-fl "rvmnrv i i of . , ..Wv.i, "in i ue wie uituetry tuu inspires to sac- cess. , - , ' - ; i We have, istho foregoing, dealt with 'test but a few, individual, incidents of the s-ssion, And these ' relating principally to events of the closing days. TbeStates- ville Landmark, in its issue of this week, deals with rHrnore comprehen sively, and from acolumn editorial re view of that paper, we copy s follows; The two most important enactments made relate to the system of county rovernment and to the election: laws. It is not worth while at this moment to nreiudee these, but we make the pre diction, and .ask that it be chalked down on the wall, that the government of no county 'la the State will be ad ministered more ' economically or efflcientlj-under the new "dispensation than.it was under the - old, and that no man will vote more freely hereafter than ne nas votea neretoiore, - - We were told last year that there was great extravagance in the btate gov ernment and man v expenses which should be cut off, that the people might be relieved of a part of .the burden of taxation which they bear.- Yet, not withstanding a number of new objects of taxation found, involving class legis lation in its most odious form no citi- sen will pay less tax hereafter lhan he paid heretofore, unless he returns less property for taxation. The two prac tical questions for a citizen tor ask him self, relating to government, are, first, How well does it protect me in my me, liberty and property? and, second, How much money does it take out of my pocket in return for the benefits it con fers? Unless the legislation just accom plished shall give the citizen better pro tection than he has enjoyed in the past, or eives it to him at a less nrice than he formerly paid, thenthis Legislature has been a failure, for it was promised that it would inaugurate "reform" in the government and "reform" must mean either better service or less ex pense. We all shall see how the matter is when the tax-gatherer comes around We note here, in connection with this matter of expense in government, that there was much clamor aforetime boui the salaries and fees of public officers, and in some counties much demand that they should come down. Did this Legislature reduce them? Nay, verily. We pass it to the credit of the body that it was generous in its provisions for carrying;On the State government and the public institutions. It con' tinued the appropriation to the Uni versity and to the Agricultural and Mechanical College and t j the Normal and Industrial School. It gave the money that the managers said was needed for the support of the insane asylums, and in all its appropriations it was animated by a spirit of liberality We repeat (hat this is to its credit, but in this it exactly tracked the Demo cratic party, instituting none of the economy which it - had promis ed ana the alleged lack ot which it attacked in the Democrats. A prom inent fusionist said, early in the session, that the expenses of all the public institutions would be re duced one-third. Was it done? No, because to have done it would have oeen to turn out one-third ot the m mates of .the asylums and to hopelessly cripple the efficiency of all the other institutions. The fusion ists did just what the Democrats had done before them and would have done again, and in so domr gave that party a cer tificate of good character and of good and economical government. We say one more time that it acted creditably in the matter, out it must be said in the same breath that it broke its prom lses and belied its words in that it in stituted no "reform" where it had said there was rottenness, and wrought no economy where it had said there was extravagance. It went in on pledges which made niggardliness a virtue and cneap-jonnism statesmanship,' and in its first days loaded down the pay-rolls of both houses with useless employes who would have vastly increased the expenses or the legislature over any that has sat since 1875 except that the Democratic press exposed its extrava gance and compelled it to practice on itself some ot the retrenchment which its members had been prescribing for other people. The most notable act of the body was the delicate compliment it paid the memory or the late Frederick Douglas, and the next, to our mind, was the vot ing down by one of the houses of an amendment to the election law which provided that judges of election should be men of good moral character. In so far as this Legislature has done well in doing as-its predecessors did. it has stultified itself, for it went in on the open-mouthed argument that pretty mucn an ot the existing legislation is wrong. It cannot, thus, claim credit for its own virtues, for its members bad previously denounced these as crimes, For the follies which it has perpetrated, many or which are already consnicu ous and others of which will develop as its enactments Become operative, the (usionists will have to render to thf people next year such account as they can. As for the promises broken and the hopes consequently disapjminted mere is no remedy ior them, and upon the whole we believe that the record wnicn nas oeen maae at itaieicrh since the Oth of January is one which will give the Democrats the State at the next electioo. Out of it all nobody has come with less credit than the'-Sneaker of the House. Beginning the session with-an abject surrender jfJhi-Terogative to aprxinjLJ&e--e6mmittees, he ended it With a system of Dettv tvrannv. nat- terned after that of the big brute who presided over the Fifty-Second Con gress, and capped the climax Tuesday j night by voting himself, in order to make a sufficient number to suspend the rules. His partisan rulings and his orders to a negro assistant doorkeeper I to,keep it and prevent Democratic mem- bers leaving the hall at a time when no call of the House was in progress, are au duly charged up against him. Ver ily, a combination which would put in a responsible position like the speaker ship a man who would do such things verily, it shall have its reward. The management of the insane asylums is left undisturbed. The Democratic directors whose terms have just expired were re-placed with fusionists, but on each of the boards there is still a two thirds majority of Democrats. The fu sionists had sense enough not to under take to rip these institutions up they are too near, the hearts of the people; too many people have or have had kin dred or friends in them, and none knows but what he will have kindred or friends In them,- ox be in one of them himself. They are too sacred to be tampered wth by politicians, and the fusionists knew that there is no more sure or certain road to destruction for them than they would find by making politi cal lootballs of the homes of the insane. Anrougn all this mess Governor Carr oas shown himself a good Democrat and a man of courage No Legislature ever gos oetter advice than he gave this one at tbe beginning. .. His special message "u wwmiy arxatrsfew days ago. wo uigninea ana .becoming. Ha has I stood all along upon what hn innaitt to be his riffhtn. and i w I ra V .nasi bji am LlliilTKItl 1 rm I oi tnese ne nominated iVom,, t I and Meares, Wednesday night, forjudges ' he westem nd ru criminal cir- cults. respectively It mav h tvDn iw eraniea mat ne did this under legal I board bill and all other expenses, had advice and that he W fvti . ... If 170 of his per diem left, and that he in the courts. Tn .1 tcon- wiU of course go for 'determination.. A BEAR IK BCIX'S CXOTHEiG. Hoa. Hector Db Luu Send Oat MTmla( t Cotton Growers About Planting a. Biff Crap, .- -.j- ; " i :X'X-fXX'-X:i t Atlanta, Ga., March 14. The Con stitution " publishes ' to-morrow from lion. Hector D. LAne,- commissioner or agriculture of Alabama, . and president of the American Cotton Growers Pro tective Association, a communication addressed to the cotton growers of the South, in which he warns them against what he calls the; strategic movement being made by cotton manipulators to delude them into the. suicidal act ' of planting again j large crop -in cottonL; He says that uneasiness naa been leu in Liverpool for some time concerning a probably decreased acreage and ihad this menace not existed, cotton would have been- even lower than it has been. and now, as the end of the season is at hand and the staple is substantially out of the bands of- the farmer, these gen tlemen who have represented the bear" element so many months while cotton was moving in large volumes, resort ' to this ruse of running val ues up simply as a device to : induce farmers to plant more cotton thin In tended. He warns the farmers of the South that the rise in cotton of the last few days is fictitious and that it is the protract of a conspiracy to systematical ly rob tne producer or legitimate gams, i Continuing he says: ; r :l 'Let the people beware. It is a bait to catch those who will bite. . There is no legitimate reason snown ror, this sudden rise Jn cotton values. , The pro-' duction has exceeded the most sanguine expectations; Russia has placed a vir tually prohibitive duty on American cotton, so we can no longer expect to sell her five hundred thousand bales" He says that those who are actually engaged In the work of producing cot ton are not earning 12 cents a day for their labor the year round "and what is to be the fate of this man when his cot ton goes down I or cents this faljt It is not at all Improbable when we recognize the condition that confronts us, for I invite consideration of the fact that we bad a most phenomenal season ior picking our crop this last season and its classification was higher than ever known. Hardly any grading less than low middling, wh-rch averaged less than 5 cents. I invoke," he con cludes, "the most earnest attention of cotton growers to this nefarious scheme and address you this letter as the caveat that you may not be deluded by this wolf in sheep's clothing, or in solher words, this 'bear in 'buJl's' clothing.'" GEN. AVEKY IN SOUTH AMEKICA. There Was Opposition at First to the Fair, Which is Gradually Weakening. Atlanta, Ga, March 14. Gen. Isaac W. Avery, one oi the three special com missioners of the Cotton States and In ternational Exposition, who is now in South America informs the Constitu tion from Santiago, Chili, that the gov ernment has made a preliminary appro priation of $10,000 in gold toward mak ing an exhibit or its resources hi the exposition in Atlanta this fall. The Chilian Congress has just adjourned and will re-assemble in May when it Will make a larger appropriation for the purpose of carry iiiir out the work to be begun with the $10,000 in irold already appropriated. . Gen. Avery writes that in most of the South American cuu..;;k's he has en countered considerable opposition among certain business elements which saw no good in encouraging closer trade relations with the United States, which they argued would benefit the United States at the loss of business interests. of 0--.l A : . " - Kiits ouuni Auicricau countries. "The opposition," says General Ayery, "has been everywhere Bitent. aggressive and influential and hard to either placate or conquer, and has been especially strong in these larger and wealthier countries, but ithas gradually yielded to the true consideration that without proposing to interfere with the great business interests of South Amer ica, our people now come in with a spirit of liberal rivalry to aid iu the work of development and to give as they take. The newspapers of Chili have been very active in urging an ap propriation and leadiug chambers of commerce have advocated it." The Argentine Republic has already appropriated $30,000 in gold, and Veu- zuela, Brazil, Uruguay nd Bolivia have already sent official acceptance of the invitation to participate. The South American feature! of the exposition, will be one of the most im portant developments of the uext few months. THK HORSA SAILS SVHIAX. The Negroes Emigrating to Liberia Are Ooly Those of Good Physical Condition. Philadelphia. Pa.. March 14. The Danish steamer Horsa sailed from hert- this evening for Savannah, havinir ben chartered by the International Emigra tion society to take about 2UU nero colonists from Savannah to Monrovia, Liberia. The steamer is under Command of Captain Henry Wiberoug.; The emi grants will be accompanied by an agent of the society. The Horsa will proba bly arrive at Savannah on Sunday, and. if possible, sail for Liberia the same day. . , 1 he society ..has organized its first party of-emigrants with great care, se lectfng them mainly from Mississippi, id maxing tne selections onlv men both single and married, of good nhvsi cal condition, have been chos -n and permitted to join. The married men will be accompanied by their wives and rammes, and the society has made ar rangements to give the uninarrried colonists ten acres of I ind and the mar ried ones twenty-flve acres urxn their arrival in Liberia. The Liberian government will shelter the colonists for three months until thev have built their own houses. Good mechanics and carpenters especially, it is claimed, can nave plenty of work at good wages, while those familiar with (farm work can engage in Coffee-growing. Gulf Country Naval Reservations Restored Washes GTOir. March 14. In the eariv history of our navy the. policy of setting asms navai reservations in tne iru r countries nonaa, Alabama and iliasis . . ... o - sippi was established. This was done lor tne purpose of reserving for naval purposes, the live oak and other valu able timber on them, then extensively , V t an. . . w uaetr in Bnip-Duiiaing. xne cnange-in naval architecture And the Dractic&l abandonment of wooden shins, made tne longer boldmg of these reservations useless,; ana oecretary neroert recom mended that i they be restored to the public domain. Congress approved the recommendation and passed the neces sary law, and Secretary Herbert to-day certified the lands to Secretary Smith. who will open them to settlement under the land laws. The lands in Florida are iuwuucu, luu. Wilt UO CJISiillUCU further before being transferred. Rhode Island BennhUeam gubernatorial I -''"-' Convention. Pbovidesck. R. I.. March 14. The Republican State convention was called to order at II o'clock in Musie Hall by X . . m . .. .. . . uunier v. tv mie. tne cnairman or tne Sute central committee, and John -C. wyman. or lincoln. was announced as chairman. ' The roll was then called bv Secretary Warner, of the State com mittee. Alter tne aaortioa ot tne re port of I the committee on resolutions ;.TJT the following State tieket .was nomi- withoul opposition: : Governor, Chas. Warren Lippitt, of Provideneei lieutenant Governor idwin--A; Allea. Hopkington; Secretary of f State. Chas. Pk Bennett, of Providence; Attor- - . wt! -a T-w , aa iJ,,..;., . V. , m Si , Clark, of Lincoln. , ' The Raleigh i Press tava that Senator Farthing, of Watauga, after paying his .41 in the breast pocket of hjscoat. " im, nek wis jnwea ij tne money taken ALL GLAD pHAT HIIAS GONE BAD OrnilOS OF TBB XKGIS IATCBE Its Ac That U JKest Condemned la Wash- lnjrfcoa-Bf or Unmanageable Thau the ; Gang of 186i' Personal, Ktc r ' Special to the Observer. . . Washxs6TOW, March 14. Republicans as well as Democrats rejoice at the break up of the Legislature. The for mer are simply disgusted at the rapac ity and incompetency shown by the fu sion ists. : Thy are; especially severe in their comments on the: act abolishing the county superintendents and boards of public instruction, . The Democratic voice is one of supreme contempt for a parcel of ignoramuses more stupid and unmanageable than the herd of 18C3-.70. The only members of our late delega tion in townj are Messrs. Bower and Crawford, and they intend leaving is a day or two. - . . d Young Hec ry : Grady, son of the ex Congressman , starts for Alaska in May. rJirs. S. O. Stalling, of Oxford, has received an Appointment in the Geo-logicaKSurveyi- V - ' Mr.. Crawford was at the War and Treasury Departments to-day. H. G. Williams starts home to-day. Mrs. F. ML Little, who has been spending the winter at Wadesboro, thas returned home. - . Arrived: Allen Butts, Miss U. Watt- I son, Wi T. Fenny, J. F. Ward, M. W. Montcastle, J. M. McCorkle, A. O. Mauney. Mjss Julia Tull, of Morgan ton visits friends. Mi. Lawrence Yates Spaun, of Mis sissippi, a clerk in the dead letter office, will marry Miss Annie Ltpscomb Bell, of Raleigh, next Monday morning at the bride's father's; COTTON GROWJEKS" CONDITION. Causes for Their HI Success' GItob Capt. ArtUey's Report for the Sixth District, Correspondence of the Observer. , Washusgtok, March 13. Calamity howling is cheap and many there' be who indulge! in it. The investigation into the condition of the cotton grow ers and the Remedies therefor, conduct ed by the Senate committee on agricul ture and reported to the Senate during the last week in February, makes a good sized volume.' Citations from the high est English authority, Thomas Ellison, show that there has been for many years a steadily recurring surplus, and hence overproduction, it is assumed, is not the cause, of the low price. Over production n the sense that more cot ton is produced than can find an effec tive demand at fair prices in the pres ent condition of the finance and trade of the work is, the report states, unde niably true. The tariff has so operated as to increase the cost of cotton goods and thereby, by diminishing consump tion, helped to produce that overpro duction at inremuherative prices com plained of,. Our general . tariff policy by impeding, and in many instances pro hibiting, the introduction of the goods of other ii, .lions, has diminished their power to consume our products. The eirort u set ure a home market for our products hate diminished the purchasing power, so f jir as cottou is couccrned, of the laboring classes among our people. There are ojthur rionsiderations of value under this Shead. . Another mentioned cause for the low price of cotton is the dealing in futures. The report dwells at length on this. Chairman George's views on this subject are well known. But he considers the demonetization of silver, the most potent of all causes. As, after a full survey of the question, extending over many printed pages, he sees "no immediate prospect for the great remedy," he passes to the consid eration of "palliatives," one of which, the repeal of the duty on cotton-manufacturing machinery, he states, is not likely to be favorably legislated on. In the establishment of cotton and other factories by the people he sees hope, ahd instances the Success of those already erected in the cotton States. 1 ne otner nations wno eitner now or might hereafter raise the staple are not likely to be come very formidable competitors with the United Stales, with the exception of Egypt and certaiu districts in Brazil aud Argentina. The report does not show a hopeful outlook for a very large ncrease iu the price of the staple at any time in the future, because much inter est would canse additional production elsewhere, and thus tend to equalize the demand and lite Supply. 1 he vast volume of testimony in the report was collected principally through circular letters addressed to cotton planters, raerciiants, spinners and others interested. rorin Carolina is repre sented by Messrs. W . is,. Ardrey, Meck lenburg; It. H. Speiglit, Tarboro; T. J. Watkins, Anson; li W. Wharton, Beau fort:- B. Wanton, Cleveland; A. lj. Nobles, Edgecombe; W. S. Parker, auce. There is probably a full score from South Carolina. Capt. Ardrey. reports the cotton ratsers of the sixth Congressional dis trict in June last, as generally in debt, 70 per cent, solvent; those who have raised their own supplies are out of debt and generally with ; money on band. They own more property thanJ ten years ago. Out money is scarce and times harder. Causes: want of raising home supplies, buying supplies and fertilizers on time at a heavy per cent., too much of the extensive and not enough of the intensive system of farm ing, Congress "not modifying the tariff (this was before the tariff act passed) want of confidence in the monetary system. AFFAIRS HAWAIIAN. the Royalist Women, tnt of Sympathy for Imprisoned Rebels, Are Wearing Convict Stripe Dresses. San Francisco, March 14. Corres pondence, of the United Press per steamer Arawa : Honolulu, March 7. W. A. Kinney. late judge advocate of the military com mission, goes to San rraneisco to-day by the Arawa, to present testimony in oenaii oi tne Hawaiian government in the case against the schooner H. C. Wahlberg, which brought arms for the rebels from San Francisco. He is ac companied by George Townsend arid unas. v arren as witnesses. Tnese are the men who were specially employed by Major Seward in communicating witn tne stewara on ner arrival, war ren remained aboard the schooner sev eral days, while waiting for the Wai- maualo to intercept her at sea. W illiam Davis, the then master of the steamer Walmaualo, also goes by the Arawa, his sentence of ten years imprisonment being suspended on Condition of his leaving the country for)good. He gave important testimony m several cases. Davis is the prisoner who was absurdly reported by a San Francesco paper to have been tortured. - i The ex-Oueen has after all refused to lease her Washington Place residence. Apparently she hopes soon to return there. The government feels the neces sity of separating her from access to the native population; wno would instinct ively pay homage to her as a semi-divine personage. , . I The Hawaiian annexation leagues aro vigorously perfecting aud extending their organization. They expect soon to enroll most of the natives in the or ganization.. '4 The r Royalist ladies movement for wearing convict stripes : materialized yesterday in dresses : and- hats of such material worn by two women in irons or the prison. The principal lady was the well known consort of a leading, rebel. Her example is not likely to lend lustre to the movement. - ' The Jbank of Dubois, Pa., failed to open its doors yesterday morning. No statement has been given ' out - and nothing of the bank's condition can be learned"-- . ... . Edison's great-grandfather died at ! 102. his grandfather at -103, one of his T aunts at 103, while his father is alive at i THE AXXlANCA tSClDESTT. : -??-': f, -.. ---.' V- Capt. Cmwass to Kx plain Polly t1 the state Department Th Identity of the Spanish Ship. - r. "" . I ; iNkw York. March-14. Capt. Cross man tf the Alliaiica, which .was; fired on by a Spanish gun-boat near the east ern point of Cuba, while on her last trip from Colon has receiveothe fol lowing letter - from the Department of State, Washington: f ! '" "To Coptaiii Crosxma.n, Commander of the , AUitmcst: - 1 - -A - -" ! Sib I have received your letter of March without date but which reached the Department to-day, Mach 13, which reports the circumstances under which the? above : named steamship x on her ! homeward voyage f rom Colon, Colom bia, to New York, off th6 north Cuban j coast, on the 8th instant, was fired upon by a Spanish-gua-boat X :? : 4 j . i "The Department desires to neceive from you ft statement of ; facts In the form of an affidavit, accompanied, if possible," by a sketch-chart, showing the course of the Allianca in passing Cape Maysiand the distance of the ves sel rrotn the nearest point of the island of Cuba- -' ' '. . " - " " ! . . ' "The affidavit should be explicit upon these two points. ' i . "Awaiting such, I am, sir, your obe dient servant, t 'EOwin EV Uhl, r Acting Secretary." Captain Crossman said that he would send a chart to the State Department showing where the attack occurred. It was in latitude 20.10 N-, longitude 74.15 W. He said he knew his vessel was at least four miles off Cape Maysi, which is the easternmost point of Cuba. Cap tain Crossman continued: r'The man-of-war which attacked us was broad off our port quarter. I will say right here, and this is a statement which I have not made before, that had the man-of-war signalled us with the international code, I would have stopped immeaiateiy. one raisea no sucn sig nals, however. Her fire was practically a command, and I am not a man to take orders from anybody except my superior oracers. . A little more in regard to the identity of the Spanish man-of-war was learned this morning. Captain Crossman said that he could plainly see that she had a coiDer bottom. In the opinion of experienced seamen, ibis indicates that she must nave been a wooden hulled ship, for copper bot toms are, as a general rule, used only on wooden ships. If that be so, the Al lianca's assailant was evidently' one of Spain's old ships, for Spain has dot built a wooden ship within the last ten years. The State Department should, therefore, the maritime circles think, have little difficulty in discovering the identity of the man-of-war. THK HERMITAGE MILL KK-SOLI). Howell, Orr & Co., of This City, Were Among the Purchaser Rejoicing Over the Legislature's Adjournment. Correspondence of the Observer. Reidsville, March 13. The Hermi tage Cotton Mill was re-sold to-day at public auction by Mr. r . II. tries, and bought by a syndicate composed of Messrs. J. B. Pace and W. S. Forbes, of Richmond, a.; Messrs. Howell, Orr & Co., of Charlotte, and Mr. A. H. Mot ley, of Reidsville. The price paid was fail, 700. I understand that it is the purpose of the purchasers to start the mill at the earliest possible day; and further, that, in the near future; the building will be very considerably enlarged and fitted up with the latest improved machinery. This is a source of rejoicing to our peo ple, for while this valuable piece of property has not proved a "very great blessing" to Reidsville, under the new management every one is confident of success, and so we feel that a brighter day is dawning for Reidsville 's first cotton mill. Our people are rejoiced that the end of the renowned "Douglas Legislatute" is about to Come. And so, though our mis-representative of the grand old county of Rockingham claimed that we had nothing to be thankful for, he must recant now, for I believe that all over this Old North State there will go up a shout of rejoicing and thanksgiving when this" miserable blot upon the pazes of our ' history shall have been blotted out forever. So mote it be. STEVENSON WRONGED THOUGH DEAD The Brilliant Novelist Accused of Com plicity in the Samoan Revolution. Sak FnAKrtscu. March 14. The fol lowing is correspohdenee of the United l'ress, per steamer Arawa: Apia, Samoa, Feb. 27. The rebel nartv has gathered in great force at Leulumoega, in Aana. They are 3,000 strong and well supplied with arms and ammunition. Ihey are to meet in council to-day to determine the course to be pursued. It will doubtless be the usual programme: impossible de mands made upon King Malietoa in reference to his abdication or a sugges tion of divided authority. These be Ing naturally declined, war will ensue without any doubt whatever. The missionaries from the outlying stations say that nothing is being planted and nothing in the nature of work in any way is being done. A half-caste named Taylor recently circulated a reportThat the late Robert Louis Stevenson was some few months ago in some way connected with the importation and sale to Atua rebels of a quantity of rifles and ammunition. Lloyd Osborne, the departed novelist s step-son, in a letter to the local press, has resented this attempt to vilify tne dead, and the public generally dis credits the report. Taylor has been ar rested and charged with Criminal libel. THE MATOa ACQUITTED. The Civil District Court Judge or New Orleans Acquits Him of Malfeasance. New Orleans, La., March 14. Judge King, of the Civil District Court, ren dered his decision this morning in the impeachment proceedings asrainst May or Fitzpatrick which he has had under advisement since the arguments were heard some weeks ago. The j udge read the definition of malfeasance in office and what duties were imposed upon the mayor and other city oracers and- read from the city charter what officers com pose the city administration and told how the mayor was obliged to report from time time the condition of the city. That he should suspend any offi cer who was negligent in his duties. How he should examine and have the vetoing power of all ordinances. The duties of the other city officers were de fined as was also the personnel and powers of the city council and stated that the power of the council is so ex tended as to give it nearly entire con trol of the city. The summing up is a complete vindication of the mayor and acquits him on every charge of mal feasance. I ' ' I The New York's Practice Game in Jnck- f : sonville. . j Jacksonville. Fla.; March 14. The first and second teams of the New York Club played again this afternoon, the regulars winning. The feature of the game was the heavy, batting, j . ; SCORE: , i. . Regulars team ....4 2 0 0 4 0 1 2 114 Second .team.....O 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 3 8 Base hits Regulars, 14; Second team, 12. Earned runs- Regulars, 5; Second team, 3.- Errors Regulars, 1; Second team, 8. 1 Batteries Regulars: Uorman, Meekin and Wilson; Second team: Krauss, Clark and Smith. - - t . Sir William Hareonrt for Speaker of the - Commons. '.-'! . Londox. March 14. The Globe as serts that intimation has been conveyed to certain members ox the opposition that Sir William Harcourt, Chancellor of the Exchequer, will accept I he speak ership of the House of Commons if his candidature-is not oppos-d. i It this is settled, Rigi i Honorable H. Campbell Bannerman will succeed ' biri William Harcourt as government leader in the HOW GARZA MET HIS DEATH, REBFX ATTACK OK BOC AS DEL TOROv. -.-v - X'f What m Lovely Kift-ht It Was, With th "Moonlight's Silvery Beams Shoddies; Themselves on the Village and Sea, Try -' ins; to Compete With th Search Uht on Board the Cruiser Atlanta la the Harbor Th Bloody Fight. Ended By Oars Death, and Daylight. - - ( Mobile, Ala., March 14. A cable dis patch from Colon, Colombia, printed In last Sunday' papers, gave abrlef ac count of the rebel attack on iiocas del Toro, on Friday last, by a band of in surgents under Gen. Garza, - i To-night, '-"upon the arrival of the steamship Herald, about 1. o'clock, the Keeister obtained from its correspon dent at Bocas del Toro the fnll details! of the bloody anjl desperate attack, as follows $ ' - !- i Bocas kl Tobo, United States of Colombia, March 8. A desperate at tack j was made about 4 o'clock, this morning by a band of rebels under Gen eral Garra, upon the Colombian troops quartered here, and the battle waged fiercely for three hours, during which time the bullets flew thick .and fast, and many of the principal buildings were; riddled until they looked like sieves. - i -. . ! In order' to better understand the fol lowing details of the battle, it may not be amiss to give a short description of the topography of Bocas,! and particu larly that part of it which was the scene of the slaughter. Picture to your mind a beautiful moonlight night in Bocas del Toro, city of 3,000 souls; the houses extending alons the sea for nearly a mile, one street making the city complete. On one side of this street is the aea. Imme diatelr in the rear is an immense swamp. Covered - with underbrush. In front of the city and visible to the eye, the United States cruiser Atlanta lies at anchor, casting her powerful search light along the coast, then suddenly up lifted to the heavens, the reflection in the skv having the appearance of an immense coil. ! Such was the night when the band of rebels under command of General Garza made an unexpected attack on the bar racks of the Colombian soldiers. The barracks is a small frame, shingle roof store and dwelling, situated in the cen tre of the city. -The store of John Wil son Company, is fifty feet north John H. D. Finke's store is directly across the street, about 40 feet The soldiers were asleep up j stairs, while their guns and ammunition were dow stairs, the steps being on Ithe outside the building, thereby exposing the sol dicrs to the fire of the (rebels as Ihey ran down stairs to secure jtheir arms. As to the landing of Ithe rebels, no definite information can be learned either as to how, when, dr where they landed. The general supposition is that they landed from a schooner at or near a noint on Columbus Island, known as "Big Bight." From this point they marched through the swamp, a distance of three miles, to Bocas del Toro. The mud on the shoes of the dead men proves this to be a fact. As they marched along, each government senti nel was in turn made a prisoner. The mitnosts were policemen armea wan clubs. ' I It was 4 o'clock a. m. when Gener al Garza and about ten men opened fire on the barracks from the k inke build ine across the street. The first man to meet his fate was the government senti nel at the barracks. As the shots were fired the second lieutenant, who was in command, ran out on the front gallery and met a similar fate. The rebels ad vanced and kept up a constant fire upon the barracks where the soldiers were en trapped, as the sea was behind them The regulars made a desperate rush down stairs for their arms and com menced to return the fire. The troops opened fine upon the squad of rebels who were fighting rrom tne secona sto ry or rinke s ouiiuiug, ana wmuij riddled the house. Garza continually called to the govern ment troops, "surrender, you ioois. He was heard to sav in English: 'The soldiers are shooting high, and ran down stairs where he met his death He was found dead not more than fifty feet from the barracks. So died the man who was the terror of the Rio Grande and successfully escaped the United States aud Mexican troops for many vears. When the rebels lost their leader they lost their cause. They had the best of the battle until daylight then the government soldiers seeing the enemy hot near o strong as they sup posed, rushed from the death trap aud forced the enemy to retreat. OnCe get ting their opponents on the run, they pursued them with renewed energy and deadly effect. They shot the enemy to death in the streets, dragged them irom houses and chased the remaining few in the swamps. 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