Horry news. (Conwayboro, S.C.) 1869-1877, April 15, 1876, Image 2
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ITEMS OF_INTERSST.
Nearly all the coal mines In Wyoming
Territory are worked by Chinamen.
A till to establish the whipping
post for wife beaters has been introduced
in the California Legislature.
Dishonesty in llureka, Nevada, runs
in btrange dire etions. The best
hearse in town was recently stolen.
A premium is annually given in
Oregon to the person who kills tho
largest number of squirrels during
the season.
Lord DufTcrin wants tho Dominion
to erect a vice-regal palnco or Hummer
residence for him at Quebec, at a
cost of $100,DUO.
New instruments have boon tin
plied i?i the tunnelling of Mount St.
Gothard, and the work is proceeding
more rapidly than heretofore.
A bill providing f?n- the abolition of
the death penalty and the substitution
of imprisonment* for life has passed
two readings in the Mexican Senate.
An effort is to be made to transplant
solos and turbot to the waters of tiio
United Stales. 1 hese tish are very
valuable, ami rank high uiuong table
delicacies of England.
The largest polished plate over exhibited
was the work ot the Thames
l'luto Glass Company of England,
measuring nineteen feet live inches '
long, an 1 ten feet three inches wide.
The Eov. Mr. Noble, a Free Mot ho* ;
cl 1st preaeher of lVrtage, Wis., has
purchased a steamboat, in which ho
travels up and down the "Wisconsin
river holding revival meetings at every
landing.
Four artists arc forever at work in
the UP.ik.i Palace at Florence, copying
u picture of Fra Angelieo, a "try- i
ptich," v.ith a border oT heavenly musicians.
It takes eight days to nmko
a copy, which sells for sixty to eighty
francs.
In France tho average salary of
workmen (without board or lodging)
is slxt y-clght cents; iu tlernmny,
Italy and Swit/.erhind, thirty-cight
cents, in Kngland, eighty-three cents,
living 1 >inthirty \ or cent, dearer
than in Franee.
The llev. Dr. Cuylor, reckless of
accuracy, says: "This nation is
spending more money for intoxicating
drink than for all the bread it eats,
and all the clothes it wears, and all
ilie books it reads, and all the
churches it has ever built."
During last summer 1,700 persons,
mostly tourists l'roin the Fast and
from Furope, visited the pet rilled
forest in Santa Ilosa township, California.
Tin J forest contains about
three "hundred trees, the largest of
which is eleven feet in diameter at tlio
butt.
The plan finally adapted for rectifying
the course of the Tiber contemplates
shifting the bed of the river, removing
the bridges which impede its
downward flow, and straightening its
winding course below the city. The
approximate expense is ten millions.
Charles Francis Adams says, in a
letter to the Quinoy (Mass.) 1'utriot,
that three-fourths of the books in
brisk demand at the public libraries
aro "vapid and sensational." lio
thinks that parents ought to guide
the children's tase in tho choice of
reading more than they do.
In the reconstruction of the Hotel
de Villo, Paris, a machine is used for
cutting stone which does in one day
the work of lift-Hen men. It is composed
of two revolving cylinders furnished
with marble hammers, by
means of which the stone is separated
with great rapidity and precision.
'l iie l- roneh town or r>orruo Is about
to be 1 ij_rlit??J by gas made from cork
waste and cuttings. These tire distilled
in a close vessel or retort, and
the gas obtained is sai l to be brighter
and whiter than that of coal. Tho
blue or non-luminous zone is smaller,
unci the gas itself has a greater density
than that from tho ordinary coal.
A horticulturist sells Baldwin apples
tit $10 a barrel. He takes a slip
of paper and cuts children's names;
then places the paper around tho apples
when they begin to color, and in
a week or two Mamie, Jamie, Johnny,
Minnie or Susie appear on the apples
in large red letters. These picked
and barrelled by themselves bring
fancy prices.
The Emperor of Russia is quite
foung in comparison with his most
important, contemporaries. lie is in
his fifty-eighth year. His uncle., Kaiser
Wilheim, is twenty-one years
older. While Alexander is much attached
to his uncle of Germany his
son and heir hates Germany and the
Germans. Honco the Czar's comparative
youth is a good thing for
Europe.
The suit of .. prominent gentleman
ajid his wife, of Chicago, each seeking
for a divorce from tho other, is novel
in the character of the witnesses. Tho
husband's own daughter, by a previous
marriage, testified against him,
and against the wife appeared her
mother, sister and brother. A clergyman
is introduce 1 as the writer of improper
letters to the wife.
M. Lavally, President of the French
fioeiety of Civil Engineers, and inventor
of the dredging machines for tho
Buoz isthmus, announces that.the flf.
teen scientific soundings taken bo*
i v ? ? i?i ?1-.
i-ween I ciiiM * iiwii.vs uunciusiveiy
prove that a tunnel uniting England
and France is feasible. TJiC matter
now in only one of time and money.
The eruptions of Mount Veeuvitm,
which is again active, amounted according
to the historians, to nineteen
from the first to the seventeenth eontury,
when twenty-three were rccordedIu
the eighteenth century twentythroe
took place, and in the present
century tilt-re have already heen
twenty Ave or one every throe yeurs.
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IHOKRY NE\V8.
T. \\ . llliA'l'V, Kimtou.
j SATUliD \Y, Ai'UlL 15, 18 7 (>.
Hon. lilair's Lcllcr
on (lie Presidency.
Wasiiinuton, March 18, 1S7G
1)kai; 1 have your letter reouesiing
lor | iildie.ition the views ex i
p essed I > \ mm: in a lecein con v ersa-ion
Willi i'eSJjeOt to I 11C* | M lldlUg l'll-sidfll j
i lial contest. I 'Jit.* stun oi iluin was
that we ought id eontiuuc the contest
as we In g in in 1872, when \v?' agreed i
to toregu ail other issues save that ot j
j reform in the admiuistration ol the I
(tovei'unienl, 'I lie adversary then
j struggled and still strives, with l lie
111 11 > u! lite 1! on. Hell. lidl, to keep
alive the issues ol the war lor the purpose
ol prolongit,g abuses which, I
however great, go uiiohei ked while!
sectional striie holds the putdic mind. |
\\ e did not carry the election in 1872, !
because we were not tally sucoesslul j
in making the issue ot rebuilt. l?ul i
we m ule such a beginning that the
victory of our adv ersai ies has proved \
a hatred one. \\ e so far succeeded '
tiiat a show ol investigation had to be i
made. i iio Credit .Motdlier Iran I,
which, though well known before tor
a I i public incn, count not coin maud
public attention, now absorbs it.
.spoliation was checked. .lav Pooke
A: Co., who had largely advanced the
no>n y t'? can y the elections, could I
not bo I'ciiiibui sed hv Congressional
Hub uscineni ol the Northern l'ucilic !
Railroad hot. Is, and then-lore tailed.
1 tie .so-called inves igaliou commit- ,
lees, organized not t-> convici, wen?!
i experts in finding out how not to do <
it, and the Department helped then !
assiduously; but the' liulependiuil 1
Press did the work so elVeetually ih t
a large I h inoei a; ic majority wis rei
turned to ihe present i louse id Kcpro- i
; seulatives. C uiotInnately ibis tide ol I
success, w hich nssuicd the rcloruier.i |
ol tin.' Oo\ei niucnl, this yeai hrs been 1
ariested and turned hack by the in
! trusson into tin. eauva-s, last hill, oi
anoi her issue, id which the Radicals
have eagerly and sueeesslully availed
themselves. And their cH'orl is to
hold mi that issue, ami make tin?
Presidential election turn on the
question ol resumption, upon which j
| they have won, instead ol upon the
question ol reform, upon which they
have lost tlie day. 11 they succeed in '
| this, tile result will iuvaiiuhly be tinlorlunatc
tor us. Our Iriendi having
been beaten on this issue, last kill, in i
i he ^Stales where niiuresuiuption was
strongest, our vote in New Yoik,
? / , ? I
| even ^w ithout which success lor us
would l>e hopeicss,) having been
largely alVccleil by the attitude of our
j tiicnds iu those hiatus, do rational
iniud can tail to see that such an issue
I
I would dcb'tlL us.
It is ?>lain, lruui this brief statement |
! ol lliu situation, lliat our success dc- i
:pcnds upon ouruhili.y to reinstall
the issue ol rot01 in as the issue ol tin- j
canvass; ami il is equally plain lliat j
j tilts is uol to he done by resolution,
| but by such action as will not only I
j proclaim ii, but will ol itsell verily it
as 1 lie i*sue to all men,
The nomination ol Tildrn will, ol ,
itself, lorcc llns issue, ami make the
I election turn upon it. The Irieinl ol j
, other candidates object to the nomina- j
j lion ol a citizen ot New York ami j
| claim the nomination tor the \\ est.
; 1 > u i Jackson was not selected because
i be was a citizen ot Tcnntesce, or Jet- j
I terson because lie was a citizen ol YirI
ginia, or Gram, because he was lor a i
I short lime in Illinois. Selection on |
I such ground has no political signili
j cance, and ignores altogether the only j
consideration upon wnicli a candidate
I ought to he selected, viz., as the representative
ot the idea sought lo he ad- I
vanced. My pretereiico lor Tiblen is
j only because his nouiination would u| |
I ilscll lorce on the issue ol relonn, I
i \> iik;ii n uui mii c uai u in nil1
| canvass. 1 do not doubt that t lio !
I ol her gentlemen spoken ol would !
prove vigorous reformers, ami 1 hav c;
no personal preference lor Hideo o\ei 1
J any one ol llieng but neither ol thein
j is so identified with "rclorin" in the ,
{ public inind as Tiklen. They have i
either not had the opportunity, or j
j have not availed themselves oi it, to |
; manifest the resolute purpose he has |
i shown to purge the male of iraud I
| and jobbing. They have not joined .
j hands with political adversaries to j
! overthrow und arraign and convict as j
! criminals the master spoils ol their
own party w hilst they seemed to be I
linpregnably intrenched in the control j
j ol its organization, and have not by
such Conduct been lilted into power
| by l he support ol large bodies ol poliI
tical opponents, even against a repubJ
bran whose integrity was not <pa s,
lioncd, but who had not manifested
' the same zeal in ihe cause ol reiorm. !
| Nor have they, alter reaching power, ^
H i? . i.. ~ ? : - - 1
nw ciKimil/.uu i.lllMI 1IU 111) II1SI I'UllOl) Uy
unsparing war on jobbery.
By this course Tildcii has mat It*
himsell, more than any other man ot
our clay, the representative man 01 the
idea to which thu Democratic party
ho empl:?i ieally pledged llsell in 187'i,
and his noiuiiittlloii would be accepted,
' not only hy the Liberal liepunlicuns,
who then acted with us, but by tlmus- !
amis wlio then held back, as -a sure j
' | guarantee that the pledge would be
lailhtuliy redeemed; ami his war iocoid
ami his linancial views would elfeci
uaby j revciil diverhion hy Mine
issues.
1 he a< tivr euniity which Tildcii <iun
piifVokcd, in his ow u pally, sel ves . ?:
iiuniil WKhJKIA'
ly to attest lii.< fitness for the occasion.
So man i-vcr dtove more men out ot
tin* Democratio party 1)1:11; Jackson;
but no mat; ever recruited it ho rapidly
from tlit* true men m tho ranks ol
I.is opponents at the *aiue time. Ami
tins vilali/.uujj process must be renewed
i lie eon I'm? ol llie 1 )einoerut io j
party lias been us Tweed. 'I lie j
Miviiolli of iis opponent-, who use llie
(in\ cruiuent lor class asjfor ludiscmcnl, j
is derived from vast expenditure, by
corrupt ing t lie people in one form or
anot Iter with tin ir own money, and by
misleading them wit It lalse issues,
liul old Uuliiou ne\ er said anything
iimce 1 rue than that "Tim democratic
party, to be strong, must be clean.'
Tilde n is I lie t \ pn ol the men who
were honored by 1 lie part y in the
days ol its sireiioth ; and his commabeimjj
a sure bond for a return to their
policy, will issue its return to power,
't on 1 s t rtilv,
M ON'Riil.M KHY '' I. AI It.
SAMUKL M.SHAW,
bid 1 tor breeiiuirls >/our.%
(loojxi'stobc/t A*.
faxes, and llills of the Hank of lite Slate.
The Horry AV/r*, ol the Ni instant,
says that "the county auditor has instructions
from the eotnpi toller-i?en?
i.'fal to :nld the 'JO peril lit. penally on
ati taxes not paid, when? stale fulls 1
have been tendered 111 payment.,
1 In iv will now l>il at?out i nil i v days
in which i In* lax with penally may Ikpaid,
aller which executions will be
issue l."
Coinp".rollcr-(icneral i iiiiii 11:?i-1
wi>)i to annoy, embarra-s ami per<c?
jute tin* down trodden taxpaycis ol
the slat , by Ihrnwing ditlicullicH in
their way, ami piling additional luirllicns
on them. No one Lnmv.-t, 01
ought to know belter, I liae i he ooinp
ii'ttller, 11 in V i lie supreme court ol the
I tilled Mates has .h-cidcd I hat tile
slate is umlei' obligat ici? to receive
llie lulls ol i he bank ol the sta c in
payment til taxes due t?? the Male.
No one knows, or oii^ni to know I letter,
than Captain l).?nn, that the
courts ot this stale have in everv instance
wlu re the ease lias heen made
followed the law as laid down by the
snprenie court ol the I niled relates.
Now, what docs the law otlicer ol the
state say on this subject ? Attorney<
i en era I .Melton, iu hi-* report to the
last, or rather, present legislature,
says: "The data lor ascertaining the
amount ot bills tendered are not at
baud, but it is estimated to exceed
one hundred thousand dollars', ami in
ev? ry instance during l.iie past year
wile re a lender has been made, the
ta v remains unpaid?the courts in
every instance cxeici-mg jurisdiction
to Mijoiu the eiiloreenieiit ol cxcculion.
Indeed, it is mere idleness to Joicc
tlie properly id the citizen to sale or
turlciuirc, where he h is teinb red in
payment ol taxes iliat. w h'eli, iu
obedience to the decision ol tile supreme
court ol the I in ed Males, the
stale is under obligation to receive;
and where the title, cil lu-r uii.b-i- k-iL.
or lorlciiurc, would not lor a in une.it
survi\e the U hlnl judn i.il inquiry."
Tins would seem in be conclusive
ol ilie matter, but it seems to be nut
with those who are bent on lurilicr
plundering our people l?y unlaw luil\
exai ting hum tuein llt.il which the
law doc8 not demand. The object o?
the coinplroller ill issuiiitr an order to
add penalties, issue executions, and
sell property, the taxes on which have
been paid, or lendeied in paynuii', in
hank ol the state lulls, is perlcvily
plain. It is to elleet a dishonest purpose.
Jt is to lofee those who are
either unwilling or uuahlc to stand a
law suit to eomply with the illegal
requirements ol the legislature. 1 lie
comptroller knows that the state will
lose every case which in ly hereafter
lie* contested, as it lias lost every one
\vliii-li 1' .s been heretofore a ijmticaled.
in tin* language ol the attorney'gen*
oral, it is mere idleness to force the
jiropertg of the citizen to snle or forJ'eitnre,
irhcre he h<is tendered in pugmet
it of ta.ecs t/int which, en obedience
to the decision of the snj/retne court of
the ( 'nited states, the state is under
obligation to receive/ ami when the
title, cither tinder sale of forfeiture,
tconld not for a moment survive the
test of judicial intjiury.
ll the stale desues lo add to its ?lebl
by an neemnuialioii ot costs in the at
tempt to resist law, it certainly can
proceed lo nominally sell and lorlcit,
but. let no one who has tendered these
bills he alarmed at such sale or lorleitlire,
tor either would he as hunting as
an execution against property 111 New
York.? Georgetown rimes.
[Special (Jul res|M)iuleiieo of the. Horry News. I
Washington, April 10, 1^70.
The disclosures ol the lust week,
while they are not so startling as the
Belknap affair, are ot much greater
importance. Before All. (Jlymer's
eoinmiltee it has been proven, that
President Grant himself sent a spy to
.*M. Louis to prevent the convieiiou ol
Bain oek. The witness lh ll, who was
the spy, tried to protect Grant, his old
commander, hut his testimony and
that ol Bahcoek, Lnek'-y, Bradley and
l'irrepont of Washington ami ol Air.
Dyer and Gol. Broad head the proseen.
ting lawyers in the whiskey eases,
leaves very little donht m the minds
ol those w ho have read the testimony,
thai it was the intention ol the 1'resti
dent i?? do ail in his power to proii ei
his guilty secielary and ne o.d this
alter Ins spy had imorinid him 111 it
' there was no douht ol Balicoi k's guiit,
j A spy was even kept in the Grand
.lei) room and Grant was informed oi
HEWS: APK1L 1">,
all that was done there, so that trom
tin* beginning he could not have been
in doubt an to liabeoeU's connection
with t he w lii-U? y ring.
The naval committee have taken an
immense amount ol testimony ami
have unearthed such a allow ol corrup|
lion in tiie manner ol eoiulucting that
department, that the country will
stand absolutely appalled when it is I
made public. .Score I a i v liobesoii ha*
not. only diverted the public lumls |
I lioin iheir legitimate use but he used I
million* ol the government money ami
J risked its loss to sustain the sinking
i loitimes ol the house ol .lay liooke,
.Met ulloch A: Co., ol Loinlon when lie
| knew that house to be virtually bank*
] rii|?t. Large amounts will be lost by ,
! criminal conduct. The navy yarils
every where were use?i as | 1111c-:11
I machines to torwaril the election ol i
Uadicals ami the tumls that blnuihl
have been expended in building sli ps
w;is n>c to secure votes. Ko'jeson's
niciil, C.i'lell was paid live per ecni.
on a'l con! raels and no one desiring to I
sell any thing to the navy department j
| eouhl do so without submitting to this
| black mail.
j 1 hiL i lie Indian committee have do i
I nioiislrated t veil more ol rrscalilv than !
cooid be lound in the navy depart- j
| im-nt, in (lie treatment ol the Indians. {
i Kvcry species ol venality that could
l?e de\ised and the existence ol a ring j
1 wiiicn permeated every department, in- |
! to '.lie very coiuiniltee room where the .
examination was being made. Con- i
igiessinaii Page ol Cuiilornia is one ol
[ Hie i 11 11 411 com notice and was oi:e i t
! the s?d>. eomiuiiUe over which Wd ,
sliilc ol Arkansas nresldrd. \\ llAmi. i
I - - X I
: has been imtsi 111 i11>11 i o 11 > 111 hunting ,
1 up hands. lie is a good lawyer an 1 j
! understands I?*?w lo extract tin* I r it I li j
j Iroin even ai? unwilling witness. Page
was emit 'mindly brow beating \vu* ,
j nesses la-lore l.'io eominttlco and had ,
I to oe reproved more iliau oiiec lor hit. 1
?
I conduct. it lioallv came out liiai he i
I had a reason !oi ii:s action. as one ol ]
iiii- witnesses Mr. Meckel* a correspon11?*111
'?l liie lli-rald swore Inat he had i
been inlonneil that Page was 11i111?c*!I *
a member ol I In* Imh hi ling. Meckel* |
I retu>cd lo the name ol his nihil* j
; mauls and I'a^o Mustered about, hav. I
| ing him taken helore liie hon>e ttnd ,
Colli Jiel led to answer, hut lie has ll-il :
done so nor does lie .intend lo.
.""Hades and \\ llslni'e ??l A i U insas ile- i
serve credit lot* the manner in whieli
iliey have conducted tins investiga
I nm.
The post oHice committee have also
proven that contracts were lament in i
the most shauielnl manner, iiom high- i
est oilieials in tile department. Some
ol the paid cm ployces ol the Postmasle-1
i<M:eral ae?l a^si.-taut I'. ,M. (.opera!. j
Kv erv day ne-.v rev elat ions are being
1'iade and new in vesi igatPms ordere-l, j
lull the bnsiness ol I 'ongress is not neg- j
Icel cd on I it is accon n I. 1*111' I louse sii s I
ilaily Irnm noon until tive or si.v P. .M. j
a i>< I has three night meet tugs per week I
I , ,
The discussion on legislative, lvxec1111v
e io-tl J ndieial hill is prolonged as I
the Uepubitcnus are using every elVorl
l<> deb-ai. the proposed saving ol six j
millions oi dollars made by the hill as
icporied hy the coimiiiiii-e, hut it will !
dually pass about as originally report, i
ed. il is said that the Texas and J
1'actlie will be reported next week in
i he only opposition lo it. now, comes]
Iroiii ilir U itiuit Central Paetlie railroads
which do n??t want their monopoly
broken down.
Col. .Iuiik'S O. Broadheud ( { .
J.ouis who is not favorably spoken o|
as a compromise candidal c I>* 1??ri; the
>t. Louis convention is Hi Washington
lo testily to the whiskey trials. No
name presented to the convention is
entitled l?? higher respect- than thai ot
Col. Broadband. lie is a gentleman i
ot ntinnpeaehable integrity, has never
j been te.ixed Uj> with any disreputable
truucvciioiis, was a union man and a
; war democrat and is the peer ot
any man in the country in ability,
i Bayard, Judge Davis ami Hendricks j
are much talked ol, but. it is too soon
i to even conjecture who will be either
| the St. Loom or the Cincinnati noun- \
| nee.
Blaine seems to still be a head ol j
| alt the ollu r radicals, the New \ oik
/ ?
Tribune which is strongly lor Biis-j
L >w admitting that Blaine will gel the I
I irgcHl v?nu on the tiist ballot. The
executive committee is working well !
as the result in Connecticut shows,)
i and tlie exposures being made hen? are
beginning to tell. It properly banidled
ami they will be, the people will
scarcely repudiate Radicalism this
| fall.
The revolution m Mexico is still pro- |
j gresiuo lavoraoiy lor 1'iris. I lit' g"v-j
I t*i*i11liftiL papers admit that there arc 1
! 10,001) iniMi in the tield ami railroad j
conimiinication between Vera Crux I
ami ilit* city <o Mexico has been inter!
riipied. The Kmperor ol Hra/.il and I
! his wile will airive at New York in a
lew days. They will spend Hume
months in the country. The home
exhibitors should hurry up their articles
lor the Centennial as the buildings
are about ready and it is desired
to have everything in '-place be-j
tore the 1 Olh ol May.
IS KMO.
OUIl NEW YORK LETTER.
j All Cold mid Dark?The Deficient Appro*
j priation?Our i'juekj Postmaster*?
Holding tUe Fort The (Quaker Mabel
[Kroin Our Own ConespotuU'iil.]
N'icw Apiil 7, )S7(>.
! (Joiisiilil'l l?ie M'lif.ll i(.|l wan (Tl'Ml c<l
| l?y fho eiiciiiiir of ill" fecialary <>i t in*
I rcasni y to ilio Postotlico aiul Custom
187 G.
House, staling that owing to a lack oi
uppi npriutioii to rover such expense's!
tin* sapply 01 coal, water, ami g??? to 1
those buildings inuH bo at once <lis- j
continues li may not seem so great
a thing to he itcpnvcil ol these comimiilitiis
lor a lew Gays, excepting
lor tlie i:n:oveiiicnce to clerks, but its
mo iousticss will l<c realized at once il I
one reflects lor a moment on the rela- |
lion which the 1'osl ollice bears to the !
commerce ol New Vork City, ami
through it to that ol i lie whole country.
So perfect ami regular have become
the workings ol our postal system,'
that our banks ami merchants have
(Mine to rely as implicitly upon the
punctual arrival ol their mail lemit*
lances to tfleet clearances ami meet |
obliga' ions, as though the easli was
being hurried to them by special measeng
r. So true is this, that the detention
for an hour or two of a
European or other important mail, J
ill crowd the ollioo with anxious
business men clamoring to know the
ifuson of the* delay, and imploring the j
utnnmt despatch possible. The largest j
portion o? the clerical work, which
rentiers possible this prompt and
eilieieiiL service, is done at nioht. or in
p u ts of the building where gas is a
const aiil iiceessit v \\ it li these points
to muni, one can easily imagine the
consternation and distress which
the el tsing ot the' Post-ollico lor even i
one night \v .>t?i?I cause; and that il
such interruptions should be continued
tor a single week, numerous failures
must result.
ihit ptst this was what the order
Iroui Washington meant, and as no
?Iis.irra111!eine111 ol mails had followed,
your correspondent called at tiie Postollice
to learn Itow the dilliculty had
tieeu sui mounted. Here in his elegant
ollice in- louiid Postmaster James, a
slrikingtN tine-looking man, with short
iron-griy hair, dark eyes and tnouslashe,
a hearty voice and a cordial
manner, with executive ability written
all over bun, and Irom hiniself and his
secretary karm.d the iullowing tacts
in t lie case.
The Postmaster also holds the position
u! Custodian ot the Building, an
odiee in which his immediate superioi
is the Secretary of the Treasury, and
a hu h, while il involves immense additional
responsibility and the giving
ol extra bonds, is tilled by Postmaster
James without salary. It was in this
capacity tin re to re, mat lie received the I
above-mentioned circular. His reply
was prompt, and to the elicet that as
Custodian he should carry out the
orders at once. As Post-master, however,
his course was very dillcrent,J:iud
consisted simply in becoming personally
responsible lor the indispensable
supplies, ol which gas is, ot coarse,
the main item, amounting to some
thing like I no per day, and he remain*
so at the present writing. This prompt
action on the part ol Mr. James, which
averted losses and damage to trace
which would have cost us dear, in |
lully appreciated by the business com-I
iiiunity, and the oliiee is in receipt ot !
nuiiur<MiM letters testifying its gratitude.
Through the courtesy ol the
HostmasU r, your correspondent was
also allot ded an opportunity ot inspectin"'
i he building Iroin sub-basement to
n ~
cuoola, and also the interior workings
& * O
ot the dill'erent ciepartiuents. Many
ot the particulars, when learned, would
be ot interest to your readers, but
must be leserved lor another letter.
At the Custom House little trouble
was experienced, there not being ilia
saute necessity there tor night work.
. ? n t
and everything there is running as
smoothly as possible, cousidcting the
recent cutting down ot the lorce which
wa> rendered necessary tiy the spasmodic
economy ot the Government.
Sixty Chi/'loycx have been discharged
tliis moiitli, and 11ni Collector stales
that, as a result, the Government is
being cbtated ol ten times the saving
llius ellected, through the iiisutlicieucy
ot the remaining lorce to watch the
importing business.
L'iymoutit can no longer boast the
only lirst-i lass church disturbance in
this vicinhy. -V darkey Methodist
eoiigregation, also located to Brooklyn.
is exerting itself strongly to attract Jts I
humbler share of notice, ami is meeting
with encouraging success so far. This
noble society has a pastor, who, some
weeks s nee, offended liis Board ol
Trustees, and then deliberately Bcotled
at their cordial invitation to him to
step down and out. This naturally
angered that august body, who determined
to no longer follow the leadnigs
t)i their contumacious shepherd,
but to lock the church doors against
him. lint lhey had reckoned without
their host, lor the preacher getting
ahead of them took possession ol the
sacred edifice and locked himself in,
taking with him a body-guard from
the faithful of the flock. Then the
trust.es, being only mortal, got mad
and stormed the sanctuary, but the
J good man "held tho fort," and the besiegers
retired with the loss ol a man
or two who foil into the hands of the
.,.i 'in.- i> j ?
jiwm.v;. i iiu ivuvereim Murray??tor
! such is the hero's name?still remains
! master o( the situation, but doesn't
venture outside tho sacred precincts
U>r tear ot the wiles ol the enemy.
And in order that the spiritual growth
ol hiinseb and charge may not sutler
by tiie deadlock h? holds nightly
revival meetings, in which praying,
{ shunting, and singing resound till a
1 I.tie hour. Whether the parson will
ever come out ot his stronghold is
' uncertain, but it lie does, it will doubtI
less be with victory upon hia banuers.
From Philadelphia we hear thit'tho
louv "1 workmen on the Centennial
buildings and grounds has been doubled,
in order th it as many ot the tiuish
ing touches as possible may We put on
be lore May 10th, ami the ixposition
opened in as complete a condition as
possible. The appearance ol iheVtieets
is already as much Kuropcan as Auiciican,
owing to the great iiuinber ol
foieigners composing ami connected ^
with tlie <litl\'reut eomuiisMoiis. in
walking a single block, one day last
week, a gentleman beard live ditlereut
languages in llie ordinary conversation
around him, and the Babel ol tongues
grows more contused every day.
About the Centennial buildings themselves
has sprung up a separate ami
populous town; a mushroom growth,
to be sure, but one that will be extremely
prosperous while it lasts.
In spite ol all that has been said ami
written on this absorbing subject, no
one can realize, until be stands on the
grounds and sets tor himsell, w hafc- a
stupendous a Hair the Centennial is
going to be. It will not only be magnificent
and entertaining, but instructive
and u->elul to an extent which makes
it almost a duly on the part of every
one who can, to see it. It will be the
best substitute the country has ever
seen for a voyage round the world.
11A 1)1 x.
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The. Republican Cimvuntion has elected the
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1st District?S. A. S wails, J. II. llainoy.
liil District ? II. v_i. Worthiinjton, \V. J.
Mckinly. ?
lid District?II. C. Corwin, \V. R. Nash.
<tui umrici 8. Wallace, John WinHmith.
51 li District Uobert Smalls, I.auronoo
Caiue. At large li. 13. Eliott, D. II. Chainbet
lain II. II. 0 leaves, .J. J. Patterson.
"A Ditoi* of Jov in Kviiiiv Woito."
Fi.kminoto.n, Hunterdon Co., X.: J., June
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