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,; K>r w. . ellingor for 'l of 8Qophngy le o the r la.tt,, was lJudge \;.w.., in Uharietcn lit wre tota ag on Tuesday. Solicitor erley " } "ed for the State, while the de Ye was rpesbnted - by - Messrs. S otehll & Smith and the Hon. A. G. agrath. After several chilianges -a ury, composed of twelve white rien, R was emp+anoled and sworn. The first , . witness for the State was Dr. ifloch, who simply described the five wounds -two in th6'head 'end three in the body. W. W. DeVeaux described the en counter-or so much of it as he saw. He stated that Riley was'advancing on Dr. Bellinger with his bead down and his right arm - outstretched and that Dr. B. fired I've times rapidly. Riley fell, and.Dr. Bellinger walked off. James Welle, colored, stated the cir cumstances of tie encounter, and swore that after Dr. Bellinger tired twice Riley fell, and that after lie fell Dr. Bellinger shot him three tinies. Solina Carter, colored, described the difficulty of the night before the kill ing but her account did not greatly differ from Dr. Bellinger's, summariz ed below. She saw only two shots, being in the house, and then got Riley's pistol and raised the alarm. When she got to Riley he was dead. Alexander Williams, colored, stated that he saw the morning encounter, and, after Dr. Bellinger shot Riley twice he (witness) saw him standing over Riley's prostrate body, and fire three times. Joseph Cain testified to the encoun ter, and said he saw Dr. Bellinger "stagger back", and fire, and that the Doctor fired twice into Riley's pros trate body, and snapped his plistol after that. Joseph Kennedy, colored, brought out nothing new. He denied that lie -waid before the coroner that Dr. B. re treated from Riley into the middle of the street, and then fired. The State here closed its case. Dr. A. N. Bellinger, the defendant, was now sworn. He stated that on the night before the killing he was in the streets, attending to his regular professional business, and that when ho came to a point on Bull. street, be tween Smith and Rutledge, he heard loud strokes of a whip, and cursing. lie said to the man (whom he found to be Riley), "You ought to be ashamed of boating that horse in that manner; why don't yott lead him on?" Riley became angry and abused, cursed defendant, flourished his whip, and came on him with a knife in his hand. Defendant went off, leaving Riley cursing and threatening. The morning of the homicide, de fendant went on his usual rounds, by no unusual route, and fearing violence from Riley, put a pistol in his pocket. He net Riley at the corner of Bull and Smith streets. le saw Riley with his back to the fence, his arms akimbo and legs stretched apart and glaring at him in this manner. As I got opposite to him he said: "I took you for a gentleman, but I never made such a mistake in my life; you are a d-d white - - -." That was pretty gal ling. I turned and I said: "Rilev, this thing has got to stop hero. You cursed m: shamefully last night and threatened me. Now you have got to retract this." I said this in a voice not louder than I am talking in now. Preserving the same position, ho said: "I have got nothing to retract, anmd I won't take back anythuing," and lhe said, "If you want to fight I am it better man thant you are and( I wfi give you h--."' I said: "I don't want to fight, but you have got to take these things back?" and he said "G-d d-n you, I will give you h-I anyhowv, and with that he madeo &frush'at me, -and as I stepped back, having on low quartered shoes, my foot turned an)d I stumbled off the pavement and my hat fell off. I then Jumped back a couple of steps into the street, and when I looked again lie (Riley) was coming at mne with his knife in his hand, so. (Witness indicated tihe position thus: Head bent down, the left arni thrown up as a shield an~d the right hand with the knife in it drawn back.) Q. Was the knife opedn? A. Yes, open. Q. In which hand? A. Right hand. Q. Had you lost sight of him whlen you stumbled ? A. Yes, my hat fell oll' and I lost sight or him for a moment. I then backed nearly to the middle of the street, and lie followed rushing at ime with his knife drawn so (indicating as above). I the'i pulled out liy pistol. It was a self-ocking pistol, an'd I1 kept * palling he trigger until he fell to the grount.I then picked upl my hat, wIped it with tile tail of my coat aind walked back to Capt. Dawsonm's house. (After stating that he started down town to deliver himself up, but, after going tQ Capt. Dawson's house, lie turned back, weont home and informed his wife of what had fiappened, tihe prisoner testified as follows:) Q. How .far was Riley from you when you fired the first shot? A. I can't say how closs, but ho was very close. You cannot make very accurate calculatoons iuder those circumstances. I kept backing and kept pulling the trigger and running backwards, lie rushed at me with his head bent downm and a knife in his hand. Q. Where were you when you fired the first shot? A. I was about tile iddle of the street, and I was back of that before I stopped. I never removed my hand from the trigger. I kept on fir: .g. Q. Where was he when you fired the drat shot? A. Ho was right on top of me. Q. Was ho advancing? A; lie was rushing at me. The last shot that 1 fired I was a further distance ofl becanse I kept backing and kept fiing,.ht ol - Ifv you had not fired wa ol A. He would have cut my throat. Hie could have taken me antd hold me at arm's length and cut my throat. I have not as much strngth a. when t WaR 15. Hie could have held me off at arrn'sle,,gth and I couldn't have reach. ed hi m. 'sti i bhes. Q. What wa isd condition ? A. Hie wos Ia violent e- . Ite utsed saae *restenedt l me diato akth tes sa_ 27.00.th tetreat Olan b dOU -and ob toer of dibl nt. f Mqrry ptsti~d $h t he sa R the ltbad depot thq'Ora Ing aft0 the night fhse, and It ey tol hi nthtt he (Riley) had cursed Dr. .I Siput tlis,tjterforepoe with him, an had also threatened him. J. G. DoVe' ux said he saw Dr. I retr.eating f-om Riley, and then sm four or five shots fired in rapid sut cession. The evidence of Kennedy before th coroner was put in, to contradict h statement as to what he then said. James Kelly and J. C. Humpii stated that they saw and talked wit Bellinger about 9 o'clock on the mlorr lng of the homicide, and he was in b usual good humor-not excited. (TI killing occured about eleven o'clock This closed the evidence. Mr. Smi proposed to submit the case witho argtment, but the Solicitor decline Arguments were then made I Judge Magrath, Mr. Mitchell and t Solicitor. On Thursday the case went to t jury, after the charge of the Judge. Th retired at 2.40, p. m. At 7 p. in., t Judge told them that if they agreed ten, lie would receive their verdict otherwise thev could remain. At U: hour they had made no sign, and th were locked up till next morning. THE RESULT. On Friday morning the jury retui ed into Court, saving that it was i possible for then to agree on any v dict. A mistrial was accordingly c tered. The jury stood eleven for ; quittal and one for conviction of ns slaughter. RAILROADS IN THE STATE. New Roads, Old Roads and Roads that n to be Built. At a recent election held in Bl lock's Creek township, York count on the question of subscribing $32,0 to the capital stock of the Georgeton and North Carolina Narrow Gan, Railroad, there were 376 votes polle Only 81 votes were polled against t subscription, the majority in fav being 214. The people along the line of t Augusta and Knoxville Railroad a lod in their complaints of the exce sive freight charges of that comtpan; The consequence is that large quant ties of cotton are being shipned by tLi Savainah River. It is alleged th the railroad in question has advancc the freight charges on cotton twenty-five cents per hundred pouni and on other classes of freight pri portionately. The Branchville Banner, speakit of the opinion that is held in son parts of Colleton county that the co porators will apply the $60,000 county funds to the building of tl road only from Walterboro to Gret Pond, says: "It has L'Cen suggeste and by those who have means to i vest in such an enterprise, that if tLI corporators wish to dispel such in pressions from the public mind, ar establish the fact that their oppose have misconstrued their intentions, at at the same time invite the investme of private capital in this enterpris let them have the survey made at on and when operations are begun let be simultaneously done at both (ire Pond and Branchville, expending they go equal amounts on both ends this roadl." The work of laying the rails ontt Savannah Valley Railroad is bei: actively pushed forwvard. The cc structioni party have arrived att river, and are nowv puttinig up the teo porary bridge, which will sooni be ti ishted, wvhen the cars will pass overt stream and( track-laying will be cc The people of Johnstont, Edgefkc coutnty, are makitng effortts to ral such a subscription as wvill place Joh: stonm otn the line of the road wvhich it prouposed to runtm frm Greentville Port Royal, or some p)oint, ott the I laintic coast. At a mneetinig recent hteld at Johniston Capt. P. B. Wat< and Mr. W. J. Iluiet wvere elect delegates to a railroad mneeting to 4d cuss tis matter, wvhicht will he held Niniety-Six om' theo 13th instant. Thell friend(s and adlvocates of't narrow gauge roadl frotm Augusta Newhberry met at Edgetield Coturthlor last Montday to disuss the'building that road tand( tile br'anch road fr< Ninety-six to the imain linie. It Is c pected that the p)eople alonig the pi posedl route from Ninety-Six tot mainm linoe will build that plart, of' t troadl by p)rivate subscr'iptionis. It estimnated that the miain linie cati built for $100,000. The Edgetield ?Chronicle says "tL thme bright visionis looked for from several railroad1 projects in viewv ha itnd(oubtedly failed to brinig anty wva of business p)rosperity to Edgetleld, Is about time now for the peoplo stop dreaing and waiting and to work anid build a narrow gau railroad." The Abbeville Press and Banna speaking of the proposition to levi tax to gradle the prtoposed roadl frc Enright's to A bbeville atndGreenwvoc says: "If' our p)eop0 le esir'e to levy' tax for a road which would p)rotmls( fair ret urn we will, no dloubt., make objection. But we certainly will ni jo-int a crusadoe to levv the tax whm thetre is matnifest oppositioni. Wte a opposed to lymich law, nto matt wvhether applied to per'sons or propeC Good for the Child. The ailments of childhood nteed car, futl attenttion anid wise treatment. Son lCeople think ''anything 1s goodl enloui for a child, and there isn't miuchi tI matter withl it atiyhiow." But ind cius mothers mothers know bette: and (do as Mrs H. Wt. Pert'y, of Rieh nmtd, Va., dloes. Sihe says: "I tak Brown's Iron Bitters and give it to mn children with the most suzisfactotr results." Sold everywhere. * -The State Faitr in Columbia wvas gratnd success. In number and variet the exhibits were quite as goodl a nsual; and the crowd was immense. A Blimd and Deaf Woman. he a minerWallace, of Atlanita, los ItrnaIg, -e sIght antd sense of taste Sore eoveired etbody and limbs. Hie join3s*resoreand paInful, her limii paralyzed, aptte ost and she was ekin out a t I1sate. Si xbettlesof B. B.i restored er sigat r@id hearing, relieved a aohies and pan, added fiesh and streng and she la nowr a well woman.;Wriet ber. A prmnent Abam pyInn al "A aient who was almos yngw eftec t Tertiay ypilhis adwi the ~ hkinati~6h e bta and H rd tottsmAt 41 6iOd V l oy-->polnts A bout 9the.sd ( hingtpn Iaer in Clevelana' Leader.) Secretary Whitney ivill contOs't AVith Secretary 13ayard as the most popular social member of the Cabinet during ., the coming sesson. He has rented the old ?i'elingtuyson mansion. which y was the social. centre of Mr. Arthur's administration, and is adding a large e ball-room for this winter's entertain i ments. This ball-room will be nearly as big as the city council chamber in 11 Cleveland, and will, it is said, be hung h with gobelin tapestries. Whitnev has more money than Bayard, and, though ihe cannot cook the terrapin for his 1 dinners himself like the 1ccretary of ) State, he can hire a French cook who h will probably equal him. Bavard it ought not to expect to save much out . of his salary as Secretary of State, v even if he does do' his own cooking. ~C His position demands more social work than any other outside of that of me the President, and he is a parsimonious a man indeed who can lay up money in l~0 it. Mr. Evarts paid out $20,000 more y than his salary while he was Secretary of State under Ilaves, thus making his at four years cost him $52,000. Bayard y, will get through,on less than this, but iL has a fimi!y and lhe wears too good clothes and has too tasty a stiomach to save anything on $8,000 a year. n- Vice-President Hendricks will live Cl- at Willard's during the. coming season. n'- This living at a hotel by a prominent. 1 ofiicial has -of late been looked down te- upon by Washington society, but Mr. A- ilendricks is such an adroit mixer and his wifH has so many social <qualitics that their little parlors at Willard's will probably be as popular as any ire place here. The fact that Mrs. Logan has a house hl- might lead to the supposition that she was going to entertain largely during the coming season. I don't think she 0 will have as many callers as when she was in the stuffy little boarding-house on Twelfth street. She is too much out of the way, and it is a Sabbath day's journe to get to her. The rc sult will be that her calling list will be C reduced to those who really want to see her, and that it will rather select le tham large. s IIenry B. l'avn(c will keep house next year, and 1 understand he has rented on Vermont avenue near the it l'ortland. This will not be a great t distance from his son-in-law, and Alrs. ,o Whitnev will assist her mother in many of her receptions. Whitney's actions in regard to entertainment lead to the suggestion that Ilenry B. l'avne and he may be concocting a scheme whereby young Whitney shall be the C Presidential candidate for 1888, and that his father-in-law may make him his heir to his Presidential support. I The opportunities for such a post P'residential campaign are excellent. There is plenty of moeoy in Whitney Payne "bar'l" to run it well, and Mir. 1 Whitney comes from the right State to make a good Democratic candiZlate. rs This is worth thinking about, and id please don't forget it. L, A MISPLACED SWITCH. e, - it A Frightful Wreck on the tsltimroro and hl (ilo Railroad. as A frightful wreck occurred at Blue Of stone quarry nearv Pittsburg, Pa., on the Baltimore andl Ohio railroad at ae sQeen o'clock on Thursday morning. lg Train No. 12, through express fromn n- Baltimore to Pittsburg, consisting of lie a sleeper, two coaches, two baggage n- andl onie express car, ran into a mis "- pacedswitch amid was completely ewrecked. TIhe: sleeper' rolled over an "i- emnbankment~ into the Youghion henmy r'iver. The other cars wvere upset and Id lie wvhole tr'ainI was detached( from thle sC engine. Sixteen persons were injured l.' but none killed outright. 1s Thlie report of' the wreck reached to Pittsburg about 9 o'clock and caused At- great excitement, as it syns known ly that mnany prominent mn of l'ittsbu rg were explected on the train. Th'le acci d( dlent disarranged the telegraph wires is- andl it was after 10 o'clock before the it following par'ticulars of the accident wereI( reccived: lie ThIe express train was about fifteen to muinutes late when it reached the pla5ce se where the wrcck occurred. At Blue of stone quarry the track makes at sharp, mI curve around the river. A short (is x- tanice back from the bank there is a 0- swit.ch at the comnmencemnict of the lhe curve. Whlether some one had left lhe the switch partly open or nlot is niot 1s certaini. The~1 officials of the road say beC the switch had been tampered with, evideiitly with the intention of caus at ing a wreck. hIad the swvitch been lie ope tl.3 train would have gone into it vC all rignt and would have beei stopped ve before any damage had beon (lone. It A.s it was, the train could go on necithi to er track. 'the result w~as that the ~o engine dashed along the ties, tearing e~ up the track and causing the coaches and sleep)ing cars to break foose and1( - , (dash on1 over the emblanlkmenit in the a1 wildest confunsioin. Th'le sleeping car m rolled over- and stopp)ed with its sidle dl, lying in the bed of the river t,hirty feet a below. The two passenger coaches a stoppedc~ at the water's edge, but the 10 baggage car went into the water. 3t There were many passengers oni board. m The senue that followed was 'one that '0 beggared descrip)ti on. Tbch cries of 3r the injured were heard from every -car'. The frighteined sprang from the wiidows and( strumggled with each other to escape from th'e r'ollinmg cars, anid the wails of pain werc heard from somie who were held wvithin the wreck. e Th'lose who escap)edl uninjured were h too much startled for a time to readler e assistance. Theun they began the ree' .cue. A messengeir was senit to Cor . nellsville for medical assistance, and 'in a short time a corpls of p)hysic-ians ewoci' Sent ill on a special train. The y; in.jured, after having their wounds dIressed, wvere remnovedl to the hotels at Cornelhsville, . where thev received every attention that could~ be given thiemi by the railroad company. Th'le wreck causedl great excitement at Cor nellsville, anmd for hours afterwards people hurried to the ene of the accident. The track was blockaded and( torn so b)adly that no truins got through until that afternoon. -Mrs. C. M. Walker, of Wildwood, Fla., has in her possession a baby s dress which Is seventy-five years o1(d Sand has quite a history. It' was the first dress ever worn by lier father, IJohn W. Barr, who was born in Scot- t land, and is now a citizen of Otkwell, Camden cottnty, ~a. 'bir. Barr Was 1 the father of eleven children, all of bWhom have worn tlida dres. CONDTEOl@W W URF' Itepert. of the Un Stae ANOW ts*u Department od, .otton, Oags Il6y+ P;P toes &o , for the let. Novembu The crop report of the Nationsl de- i partment of* agriculture says that the e cotton returns of Novetnbel- are local . estimates of the yield phr abre. They t are somewhat higher than thtl8o'of the last two years, but materially lower than those of 1881 and 1882. The in crease over the yield of last year is most marked in Tennessee and Geor- e gia. In - Arkansas and Tennessee, I where the average yield is unueually high, the rate depressed by unfavora- t ble conditions of August and Septeni ber. The rate of yield by States is as follows: Virgiila 152 pounds per acre, North Carolin 157, South Carolina 142, Gcornia 150, Florida 105, Alabama 145, Mississippi 165, Louisiana 223, Texas 182, Arkansas 200, Tennessee 155. The weather has. been favorable for pick ing, and killing frosts are only report ed in the northern border of the cot ton belt. The top crop is very light and in many places a sdrcely appre ciable quantity. The drought during the early fruiting period caused shed ding or shrivelling of bolls, and ro duce( the yield in North and South Carolina and parts of Texas. In a large portion of the Gulf coast there was an excess of rain and destructive storms which proved almost equally injurious. Injury by caterpillars anil boll worms have been severe in Cen tral Alabama, in parts of Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, and in a few counties in Georgia. Small loss from insects is reported, except in States bordering on the Gulf coast. The past month has been generally favorable for picking, which is well advanced, more than three-fourths of the crop having been gathered. Rains have interfered with the harvesting more in Georgia and Alabama than elsewhere. With good weather here after the proportion to be gathered in December will be confined to locali ties favored with a top crop worti harvesting. The present crop of corn is the first full average in the rate of yield since 1880, which was the last of a series of six full crops of 26 to 28 bushcls per acre. The present crop, growi on an area of 73,000,000 to 74,000,000 acres, is slightly above the average for a period of ten years or 26. bushels per acre. The highest rate of yield is 364 in Nebraska and Ohio. Three corn growing States will produce four tenths of the entire crop, Illinoi", Iowa and Missouri, each average several bushels per acre less than in the census year, Illinois 31, Iowa 32, Missouri 30. Utah averages 36, Massachusetts, Con necticut and Colorado 35, New Ilamp shire and Rhode Island 34, Michigan 63, Wisconsin 32, Kansas 31. The Southern States makes an average yield. The quality of corn is very good in the East and South, medium in central parts of the West, and some what depreciated on the northern border from Michigan to I)akola. The potato crop is smaller thain that of 1884, iin consequence of injury from rot, which has reduced the New York crop nearly one-third. There is imuch complaint, of rot in Wisconsin and Iowa, and in some counties in Michi gan, Illinois and Minnesota. The reported yield of hay per acre averages one. and a qiarter tolls, anl.d indlicates a crop of over for'ty-seven millioni tolls, niearIly as large as thlat of last year. The bvckwvheat cr'op wvill he large. Thcaae ylC'l~'~ieldl willeCxceed fourlteen hunshels per1 acre. TALK AlBOUT TOIBACCO. A Practical Farmeor's Expe'lenc., with the Weoed-Ilow to Plant. Cuitivate, and Cure. OnltGiU, November 2. To the Editor ofthie News and CJ.ou r': I have cultivatedl tobacco for' m v own''l use for' smoking puposes, for th'e last twenity years, and( wiill give you my expeieclIe with it for' tIhe betett of' your recadei's wvho conlteinplate giv inIg it a trial next y'ear. First. Feor tihe seed-bedC( select some)4 open spot in the woods wherie t here are not, mlany tall triees, as too imuchl shadel retair<s the gr'ow th of' theO plants, wvhilec sdme shade is advantageous. Early ill Janiuar'y, if lnt sooner, mnake a lar'ge brush or' log heap on tile bed and butrnl it thorongblly. I then spade uIp the~ soil about tell or twelve incehes deep and againi burn a brush heap upon01 it, and thlen let the spot stand for' a week 01r twvo, 01' until there conies a shiower of' r'ain upon01 it, whecn 1 againl spade te gromulll (four or' five inlches t his time), so as to have it in the best tilth, I then scatter the seed1s over' the spot anid brnsh them in ver'v ShallIow, the seeds being so very smal you have to be very car'eful or yvou wvill have themi too thick. It too thick 011 tIhe bed they are ap)t to be spindling and ai'e easily wvilted down when taken to tihe field. Otherwise they will be stout and1( ini bettei' conditioin t.o withstand tile rays of tile sun. Plant beds on 01(1 lands (10 not thi'ive nlear'ly so well as in the woods. Second. In this latitudte 1 find( the woi'ms a very tr'oublesome enemiy to the leaf and also to thle seed that is left to mature. if' the bug that dlepos its the eggs is not cradicated the weeds should he looked aftei' twice if not thriee times a week. Worming dioes lnt commnce, however, unItil Somei timle inl June 01' about fte first ot'Jully and continues unItil thle tob)acco) is r'eadly for the knife, but n'ot so mnuch after the leaves begin to get tough as whienl y'ounlg. If aniy wor'Ims sh19>nbh bc left OIn thle stocks thaIl tar Ie puiit ini thle houlise for natur1 al driniig theoy will there destr ioy thme tobacco. 'This dander is not lard to overIcomIe, however, par' Iitiuar'ly itf ar'tiflcial hleat is res~orted( to foi' drmying piurposes T1hird't. If' the gi'ound is in l',l t ilthi umnd a good stand( is ob)tained early, a second( crop) can1 be miade fromi 'the stuib bl e. I haive two kinds of se'ed, mlixed; mie a nlarr'ow~ eal, thle 0otheri a verv~ ar'ge, brload1 leaf. Th'le lnarro w leaf is mi' anId yellower thani lie broad leaf; >ut thle broad leaf will gr'ow taller and icavier', andt make a fai' greater yield ide by Ridle I have no seed foi' sale s I only keep enough for, myself and few neciglhbors. F. IT. GnIAxIANO. The Tobacco Boom In South Carolina. ( brom the Al1arion (!otton Planat. ) WVishing anid working for the wel 'are of our farmers, (Cotton Plant cau ions them against flying off at a tan-. rent. The Netos and Cour'ier, with ts Interest for our farmers, Is ably udvocating the cnltIvatIon of tobacco n our State Qtt a large andi extensive ;rale. We advise our farmers to go do0w on this quq tlon. The Imnpover' shed conditIbl ot ouir soil has nearly m verished our .Stt *nd tobaeco (a rnch gie(tek exhAsat6t of the oil than oottot* Sevetal monthsao ish 9ttr f jMt 3~ ti Ud t pe atg and now ed 1Gretyp o Dal .N a ore p;ay b6-nuh profit in grow. n tobteoo on our State, but it is an XpOnsivo oxperiment and will be a lisa6trpus ono if It is, tried otherwise hat cautiously. It is well to remem er that the poorest section of Vir ininia is that devoted to tobacco. rowing under the nanagelnoit of nen who have had hundred of years f study and experience to guide them. rho crop is more exhaustive to the oil than any other, and may fail en irely after having been very fine for wo or three yearj. With our present light we believe obacco will be proflitably grown in a mall way as an adjunct to cotton and orn, as a few acres of it on a planta ion would not require the employment f extra help and would utilize the ipare tine of regular help. When armers have generally tried that sys em for a year or two they can learn he methods of growing and curing he crop and know what hope of profit :hcre is in it. At the same time they will gradually build up home markets where what tobacco they make can he lisposed of. The growing of the leaf ig a very mall part-getting it prepared and to market is where the trouble comes in and the experience is needed. WILL THE SOUTI DIVIDE? Qucstions and Answors upon an Interest ig Political Point. The New York Herald has recently sent out the following questions to prominent Southern men with the request that they be answered: 1. Upon what issue and by what means can the white voters of the South be divided into two parties, separated by opinions and interests, as at the North? 2. Would an interchiange of political speakers of both parties between the North and the South be acceptable to your]state In future campaigns? 3. Do you consider that the negro voters are more indiflerent than foru 3rly to the suffrage, and arc they dis posed to disregard the color line in voting? 4. What is the greatest existing ob ection to a break in what is called tie Solid South? Prominent among the replies is the tnswer given by General Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia, which is as follows: I answer your first question thus: the solidity of the white vote of the South is the result of the false recon truction policy of the Republican par . after the war. The white people will not practically divide until the :olored people do, and these latter will lot" divide so long as the few whites cltiig with them1 are sustained by the National Republican partv's promises :>f ofice and reward. .Mahone said, you know, that he controlled tle ne gro vote, and it was only a question of how many white votes he could add to them to control the State. No South ern State can ever be long controlled by such a mixture. To your second question I answer: An interchange of speakers would make the sections know each other better, and might do good. We would like the Republican party at the North to see whlat the Republican p)arty of thec South is comp11osed of. Toeyou third question I answer: To your fourth qulestioni I answer: The fear that our State Governmientt will return'i to the conidit:oni of' thtingi existintg undeir the scahawvag aind carpet bag Governmen ts, and1( from which thl( Demiocracy rescued them. A HORRIlISLE D)EATII. A Distilngished ex-Confederate Surgeori Kilid ein Louisiana. Dri. Ai%lfred G~ourn'er, a dlistinoguishued medical pracuitioner aind sin-recon dir. ing (lie wvaron the staff'of'Gen . Steohei: D). Lee, wats buried in Newr Orleanm Thiursdiay hv~ the su rvivinug veteranis of the Cohnf'ede~rate Airmyi of' Tiennuessee, Dri. Gourner was killed by a hoilei exp losion ini Iberv ile pariish on Tuies. day. iIe went to I le river to snperin. tend thle working of anl enginle pump ing water tc the suigar-hioise, and soin had thle pump working unditer a heavy gauge of steam. Feeling (flat all wa's right he t urned to go, wh len lie wvas hiandled his miail by the post)ov. iIe returned to scani the mail by the light of (lhe eniginme, and finding a letter from his wife, noew absenlt in Maine, stooped niear (lie furnaucc to read it, when the exlosioni .ook pla5ce. The noise b)roughit many to the scene. Nothing of (lie engine anrd boiler could be found( in, thir pla1ce, aunt fragments wer'C eictteredlIli man hundredl vards away. Search was inlstitultedt for tile doictor. Ilis body was found among the weeds, 272 feect distanit, so horri bIy mangrledl as to be almost unr'ecog Dgniz'/able. 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