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ShE IC ris _ ________ V OL. X X - ~~~PICK EN S,S C , T IU S A VOL. x1x1,.89. O.3 STORY OF THE COOSAW. THE FIGHT NOW ON IN THE FEDE MAL COURT. Unexpected Appearance of the Attorne3 General-Laying Out the Lines of 11at tie-The Argument of the Counsel Vrc and Con. CHARLESTON, S. C., April 8.-Pur. suant to the order issued by Judg( Simonton in the United States Circuit Court on Tuesday, the proceedings on the order to the Coosaw Company tc show cause why the receivership cre ated by the State should not be made permanent were begun yesterday morn. ing at 11 o'clock. The Court was opened for the ordin ary business of the term at 10 o'clock but little was done, as everybod7 was waiting expectantly for the arrival of the hour when the cause now so famous in the judicial annals of South Caro, lina, should be argued. The opposing counsel ap,eared in Court a few min utes before 11, and taking their seats at the long table just in front of the clerk's desk quietly awaited the hour, When the portly form of Attorney Gen eral Pope appeared in the Court room there was some surprise evinced by many persons present as it had been thought that he would not have been able to leave Aiken, where similar pro ceedings are in progress before Judge Aldrich in the State Court. By travell ing in the night, however, Mr. .P'ope, and Mr. II. A. M. Smith, of counsel, reached the city, and, accompanied by Major Julian Mitchell, appeared in Court before the appointed hour. They looked as I resh and ready for anothei hard day's work as if they had been on a week's holliday, instead of being en gaged in burning the midnight oil ovei musty law tomes, studying up the merits of their position. IN BATTLE ARRnAY. These gentlemen occupied seats near the door. while at ths other end (f the table sat the lion. Augustine T. Sinythe, Mr. Louis DeB. McCrady and Mr. T. W. Bacot, counsel for the Coosaw Miin ing Company. The tables were crowd ed with law books, an(I a half dozon in evitable "green-bags," crammed with heavy volumes, peeped out from inder the seats of the opposing lawyers. The counsel on both sides were evidently ready for heavy work, and each was prepared to meet promptly any point that might. be raised by the opposing attorneys. There was no crowd in the Court room. The arguments were supposed to be dry and technical, and the general public took but little interest in them There were, however, se veral members of the Charleston Bar present, whc listened with great interest to the ar. guments as they were presented. OPENINO FIRE. Judge Simonton was en the Bench before 11 o'clock, and as the hands of the big Court clock crept around to th( appointed hour Mr. Smythe, leading counsel for the Coosaw Company, arosi and informed the Court that, in obe dienee to the order of the previous day the defendants were present and ready to proceed. Attorney GEneral Pope read the fol. lowing, which was flied with the clerk A PLEA TO THE JURISDICTION. "And now comes the State of Souti Carolina, plaintiif above named, by the lion. Y. J. Pope, Attorney General of the said State, and appear herein fox the purpo3e only of contesting th( jurisdiction of this Court over the above mentioned cause, and the legality of the attempted removal of the same from the Court of Common Pleas fox Beaufost County, and for no other pur pose whatsoever. Y. J. Pope. "Attorr.ey General, State of S. C." MUTUAL EXP'LANATIONs. Mr. Pope then called attention to th( remlarks of Mr. Smythe on Tuesday, in which a reflection had been thrown on him for not replying to a letter which It was said had been written to him in his official capacity. He disclaimed ever having received such a letter, either individually or as Attorney Gen eral. After mutual satisfactory ex planations between Mr. Pope and Mr. Smythe, the latter gentleman called at tention to the fact that the paper intro duced by Mr. Pope raisedl immaediately the question ot jurisdiction, and re qluested Mr. McCrady to p)resent thE argument of thle defendants. AIRL. LOUls D)E B. M'CIRADT. Mr. McGrady began his argument promptly and appJliedl himself to the( points In issue without any introduc tory flourish of trumpets or rhetorical effort. There were, he said, three iconstitu. tional questions involved in the cause. The tenth section of Article IV of thE 2onstitution of the United States pro vided that no State could by any legis Jative act impair the obligation of its contracts. Under an Act of the South~ Carolina Legislature a grant had beenm made to the Coosawv Minling Company, under wvhich it claimed an Iieiilnite and ex(lus5ive license, oin certain conidi tions, to mine rock from the Coosaw, River, opposite to andt slouth of C~his elm's Island. Bly another Act passed on D)ecembe'r 23, i890, a board of phioM phate commhlissionlers was created, and the Act provided that tile boardl should, on and after March 1, 1891i, take pos session of the Coosaw territory, and, further athorizedl theO ioard to isst( licenses to other parties to miine ini t hlis river. On the 21st of March the Stat& of South Carolina fled a complaint in the Court of Commoi Pleas of lcaufori County, asikinlg for an injunctioni re straining the Coosaw Comipany froin asserting its rights to the territory and from mining rock within it. There is no reference ill the complaint of the Act of 1890,) but without the Act thme board would have had no existence The wrongs charged against the Coo. saw Company are the wrongs set forth In this Act, and nowhere else. .In this suit the Coosaw Company has filled i p etition for a removal to the United States Court, and in regardi to juirisdic then It must be shown by the defen dants that there Is a Federal qluestion involvedi. Is the petition for renmoval a pleading, and can a Fedleral qjuestior be set forth in that petition? In support of his position Mr. Mc. Crady quoted numerous authorities among them the Gold Washing andii Water Company vs Keys, 9)6 U. S., page 202, which he referred to several timei In the course of his argument and read from at some length. In 121 U. S., page 482, in the case of Carson vs D)unham it was held that where the petition was defective It might even be amended tr make more plain the point of jurisdic tion. Hie quoted further from 122 U. S., page 517; Mayer vs Cooper, 6 Wal lace, page 252; Railroad vs Mississippi, 102 U. S., page 140, and a further lengthy list of authorities. Section 10 of the 4th article of the Constitution must be construed for the purpose of seeing if the act of Decem ber 23, 1890, is embraced in its purview, but a further constitutional question than this is involved. The 5th article of the Constitution provides that no person shall be deprived of his proper tv without due process of law. The Coosaw Campany claims that it has an indefinite grant under certain condi tions, which it has fulfilled, but the State, notwithstanding this claim, has passed an Act seeking to deprive the company of its property without the process of law. The "due process of law," it has been decided, is a case in which there is a plaintiff, a defendant, a complaint, an answer and a trial, but the Act of December 23, 1890, contem plated nothing of this kind. In the definition of due process Mr. McCrady quoted Bump on Constitutional Decis ions, page 350. Under the Act of 1890, if any one at tempted to mine in Coosaw River with out a permit, his property was imme diately forfeited to the State, and the State was authorizul to bring action for claim and delivery, and in such case was required to give no bond. If, after several years' litigation, it was decided that the Company was in the right its property would then be lost, and it could get no redress since the State could not be sued, and there would be no bond on which to sue. Further more, the Act of 1890 practically re pealed the Act by 1\arch 20, 1876, by which the grant was made, and the re peal took place after the Coosaw Com pany had spent vast sumnis of money on its 1plant, and its great proporty was thus to be swept away without any re dress from the Courts of South Caro lina. On the subject of the State being a plaintiff, Mr. McCrady cited the cases of [Zailroad vs Mississippi, 1o. U. S., page 110; Ames vs Kansas, 11 1'. S., page 462; Tennessee vs Davis, 100 U. S. page 269; Stone vs South Carolina, 117 U. S., page 269; Stons vs Soth Carolina, 16 S. C., page 544; Earker vs lowman, 8th S. C., page 388, and many other author ities sustaining the same point. ATTORNET GENERAL POPE. Mr. McCrady was followed by At torney General Pope for the State. In beginning Mr. Pope submitted the fol lowing suggestion to the Court: "And now comes State of South Car olina by the lion. Y. J. Pope, the At torney General of said State, and gives the Court to understand and be in formed that there is now pending and being beard before the Court of Coiiimon Pleas for Ileaufort County the question of the ordering an injunction and con tinuing its receiver undjer the rule to show case in said case in said Court made and returnable on 7th April, 1891, and also on the question of juris diction of such Court. Y. J. POi'E, "Attorney General, State of South Carolina." Mr. Pope, after some introductory remarks of a personal nature, said that in the argument of opposing counsel lie had detected two errors, one of leg islative history and one of State and judicial history. It was news to the State of South Coralina that the Coo saw Company first saw the light in 1871. It was the child of an Act of the 28th of March, 1870, he said, and, con tinuing, he gave what lie claimed was the history of the provisions of that Act. Mr. Pope's style is impassioned and earnest, and he referred at some length to the action of the Coosaw Company in, as.hie expressed it, ungratefully dis - avowing the State, its mother, and quo ted Shakespeare and several other au thorities to sustain his position on this point, HIe asserted with much warmth the determination of the State to give and to claim what was right, and asked what the State had done that the deC fendant could come here with such loud complaints. Hius remarks in this part of his argument smacked strongly of what might be termed sarcasm, and his references to opposing counsel as "thnese young men" caused some amluse ment to those gentlemen. The State, lhe said, had bowed her sovereign head to come into a Court of justice, and the people of South Carolini felt it acute ly that this mining comp)any was not satisfied with the righteous conduhLct of the State and sought to inject delay in the proceedings, and thereby induce a compromise. lie wvantedi to disabuse counsel's mind of the idea that thne State would consent to anything lhke this. South Carolina was neither poor, nor wanting In spirit, and no concaten ation of events couldl procure a comi promise. The State hadl been ihsulted, and her laws shall be vindicated, and this creature of hers(the Coosaw Coin pany) made to respect her. No power, save that of the Unitedl States Courts couIld stay her right to make this crea ture bow in submission to her righte oulS will, IIe here paid a lengthy tib te to South Carolinia, the Ui nited States a:n. I Chief ,Juistice Marshali, anid the Federal Co,,is. Thelm filing of a petit ion and bond does not conist itute n. tansfer of a case, ho sid. it is lihe duty cif a suitor who wishes a traust el to appear ini the State Court, and settle tihe matter tihere, arnd aniy other counrse indi(icated( a lack of courtesy t,oward the State Court. (On thme point of the Unied Stat-s jurisdic tion1 bingi~ putrely statutory, he read the Act of Congress of 1887 amendamory t,o the Act of 1875, which latter Act, lie Maid, was fraught with great msischmief andl arrogance to the St1ates. Every case citedi, lie sid(, by the opposing counsel had been diecidled un rder the 01(1 mischievous Act, andi not one uInde(r the new Act of 1887. Under the law of 1887 the Court was compelled to con fine itself In such cases to the com p)laint filedl In the State Court. Tids was not true under the 01(1 law, and it was there that the difference bet,ween the Acts of 1875 and 1887 appeared. The petition to this Court stat,es no facets which raises a Federal qjuestion. Ferom the beginning of this case the great cry on the part of the defendants had been the great amount of money that they had p)aid to the State, but they said nothing about the money they had made out of the Coosaw River, .i'he amount they paidl to the State was only a part of the value of the State's property. lie asserted that the State could not grant in perpetuIty to a few persons the exercise of rights which belonged to all her citizens, A ny such Ac of the Legislature is repealable. On the prin cipal of eminent domain, the State can take the property of private citizens and appropriate it to rights of way for a corporations, such as railways, canals, etc. But she holds navigable rivers and the soil beneath them in trust for all her citizens. She holds them as a a sovereign, and any act which gives them away can be undone by a subse quent Legislature. In support of this he quoted the final decision in the famous Louisiana slaughter house case, and argued that a Legislature could not bind another Legislature to such grants where the whole people were di- 1 rectly interested. In reply to a ques- i tion from the Court, Mr. Pope ex- i plained more explicitly that he held t that where an Act was passed by one j Legislature confining public rights to a - few individuals, a subsequent Legisla- t tore could annul it. GOINO INTO ANCIENT HISTORY. I This company may flourish, he said, t but in the end it would be overtaken. j Charges had been made, though they may va unti ue, that the inception of I these matters in the Legislature were I not handsome-i will use no stronger term. Mr. Smythe: '-Now, If he wants to re fer to those things, let him put them < in the pleadings, and we will moet him I now." Air. Pope: "I will not refer to these matters if the company behaves in a seemly manner, but if it does not the strong arm of the law will catch it by the nape of the neck and swing it clean I out. We will try to avoid it, but if i necessary will do it."-News and Cou- I rier. Argument at Alken. AIKEN, S. C., April 8.-Judge Al (rich, in chaimbers, continued the hear lug of the argument to-day on the peti tion of the lhosphate Commission that the adpointmient of a temporary receiver and t lie temporary inj unction of the Coosaw Coinpany be made per manent. The State was represented by Col. Robert Aldrich and Mir. G. *S. Alower, and the Coosaw Company by Gen. Edward Alc('rady and M1r. A. M. Lee. The hearing coimmenced at 10 a. in. and continied until 2 p. Im. A recess was then taken until 3.30 p. i., when Ilhe hearing was resumed. It was concluded at 4.3( p. in. Messrs. Mower, McCrady and Lee left for Charleston on the night train and Col. Aldrich returned to Barnwell. The matter is in Judge Aldrich's hands, and his decision as to whether he, sitting in chambers, had jurisdic tion in the case, and as to whether the appointment of a receiver and the granting of a permanent injunction may be expected in a few days. Ar. Mower, in opening the argument addressed himself to the task of prov ing that Judge Aldrich had jurisdic tion in the case. In support of his views he quoted liberally from lav and precedent. Col. Aldrich followed for the State and Gen. McCrady and Mr. Lee for Coosaw. The tine before dinner was taken up in arguing the question of jurisdiction. After dinner the argu ments were on the appointment of a recolver. Col. Aldrich said it seeied that the rock was owned by the State, which is not disputed, and when the Coosaw Company ceases work the State is deprived of its revenue, adding bur dens to the taxpayers. It appeared that his Honor should issue the usual order, confirming the order issued appointing a temporary receiver, and continuing him until further action of the court. lie thought there is no reason why Mr. Brooks should not be appointed receiver because he is a clerk in the of fice of the Secretary of State. Gen. McCrady-"Wonld you think it proper to appoint a Coosaw otficial re ceiver ?" Col. Aldrich--"Yes, if it pleased the court." Gen. McCrady then suggested Mlr. Moses E. Lopez for the position, lie knows more about phosphates than any other man in this State.-The State. School Examiners' Recommiendation. COLU'MBIA, S. C., April 8.--Tho ofli cial report of the proceedings of the meeting of the State board or examnin ers Saturday is given to the press this evening, it was dlecidedl that all man uscrip)t histories of the State to be sub nitted must be presented in type writ ten copy, and that thme manuscript will le accompanied with some Indication of the proposed arrangement of the text, the style and cost of thme book. TIhe board dlecidled that the form of county teachers' certificates shall be changed by the aidition of matter showing the holder's experience as a teacher, and attendlance on the teach ers' institute, proper credit being for them. The board decided to have the State (divided into suitable districts for the holding of teachers' institutes this summer. TIhe (detailed wvork for arrangement was left to St ate Supeirin tendent Mayfield. A resolution was passedl urging the county hoards to re dIistrict their counulties in suiitab)le school distr-iets andi press the levying of' a special school tax un mder the pro vision of the school act of 1888 in all propier cases. Couinterf'it Curr-ency. WVASII IGoN, April 8,- -Assistant Unitedi States TJ'zeasurmer' Whlelpley stated this mnorninig that thiei'e was no0 dloubt that a couniterfei't of the $2 sli ver certifIcate was ini cirictilation. As fast as thme $2 silver cer'tificates; was recei redi at thme Tr'easurmy D.epart menit they were destroyed, but no oider hadi yet been issued calling themm In. 'The 1priting of' $2 silver certificates fr'oni the 01ld plate had beenti suspend(edl. Tlhe new design will hear the portrait of Secretary WVindom, insteadl of that of Glen. hlancock. It is said that the new issue of .82 silver certificates will not be p)rinted( until Secretary Foster de cidles uption a dlistinctive paper upon which to print all treasury notes, bonds and securities. 'A Pnre Matter of Liaith." WVAsmi INO'TON, April 8.-Senator Ed mumnds, who sent hits resignation to the Governor of Vermont a few days ago, wvhen asked for a statement of the rea soins for his resignation, said: "I have resignled from personal considerations solely. it is a pure matter of health. I cannot live in Wasnington during the winter. I suffer from th roat trouble aiid the clinate is too severe. I hold that a senator shiouhld attend to his du ties, and if I cannot remain In Wash lngtoin constantly, I prefer to resign. I shall spend t,hie winters In Aiken, S. C., visitineg W~ashingtoni occasionally] to attend the sessions of time Supreme I Court when I havo business before It," TILLMAN AND NOBLE. 'HE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FUNC TIED UP STILL. 'urther Cor'respon(lenco netween (Gov ernor Tillman and tie Department o the Interlor-Congresm Will linve to do elde the Matter. COLU*ttiA, S. C., April 7.-The fol wilng is the last letter from the )epart nent of the Interior to Governor Till nan in regard to the equitable (listribu ion of the fund last year given by (on ,ress to be divided betweeni the -hit aid the colored agricultural colleges o he State. As will be seen by it the De >artment of the Interior adteres to itI dea of what is an "e<Iuitable" distribi ion. "Governor Tillman's reply wa nailed yesterday, and a copy of it wil LIso be found below. Ile, too, adhlere o his previously stated viws, aid st he whole matter lies over for the coi ideration of Congress at its next ses ,ion unless the Secretary of the I terio hould in the meantime conclude to ae opt the basis of distribition provide< or by our Legislature at its last sessionl DEPART31ENT OF THE IN TnEON, WjrAStIIN(rON, Iarch 21st., ISl. You. It. j?. RTil mu u, (locrilor of' No'mf Carufolina. Sin: I have the honor to acknowledg lie receipt of your letter of the lt1 nstant stating that your Legislattri iaving acted and adjourned ut il No 'ember the question of the eititabh livision of the fitndils appropriated fo tgricultural colleges by ti A t of Con ,ress, approved August :;I, 1 w , is ni onger ati opei one so far as I State ;oulth Carolinat is coniceriedl, am(t ('1 juirimg whether the Sveret ary "refust o pay South ("trolinla hl quta lipm lie basis proposud by the t(eral As emibly, ai if so, wihtel ht insist hat the school popllatimn, as iown 1e he celisis of 1 ,j ilisteal 41f 11, ;a 0,overin? In answer to the first pai I:~ the i; pIliry I haINv the honlor to vall your al ention Jo the provisiols of te statil t provided in t li irst sect ion "That in any State in which i lere lo )eeli one college establisheIi inpursu mce of the Act, of .1Jtly 2, I l2, aid als ]I which an edlucatioiial inst il lit ion ( ike character has bteii established 4 nay be hereafter established, and is lmv kdded by such State f'rom ;ts own reve mue for the eduication of cilored stu lents in agriculture and the tiechanli( trts, howeyer naued or si yled, o vIiether or not it has receiveil iont-, ieretofore under the Act. to which thi ket is an amendment, the Legislature o mch State may prepare aid report t .he Secretary of the Interior a jist, an quitable division of the fund to be rt 2eived under this Act between (ilt' 'ol lege for white studenits aid one istiti Lion for colored students established a tiforesaid, which shall be ditled iit two parts aid paid accortdidgly." -;ection -1 provides: "That oi or beforo the first day of .) ll in each year, after the passage of 1hi: Act, the Secretary of the Iiterior slia iscertain and testify to the Secretary o thie Treasury as to each State aid ''ei ritory, whether it is entitled to rVheiv ts share of the annual appropriatio lor colleges, or of institutions for co >red students uider this Act, and thi tmount which theretupon each is enti led respectively to receive. If' th iecretary of the Interior shall withliol , certificate from aiy State or 'l'erritor of its appropriation1, the facts aid re: ions therefore shall be reported to th President and the amouit involve ihall be kept separate in the Treastr intil the close of the next C'oingress i >rder that the State oir TIerritory m ta' f it should so dlesire, appeal t o (Congrei prom tile determination tof the Secret ar' )f the Interior. If the niext, C'ongres ihiall not diirect such stilm to be paid,i uhall be turned into the 'l'reasuatry, an hle Secretary of thle Interior is htetreb shiarged with the proper adlminiist ratio if this law.'V it seems evidlent that while the Leg atture may p)rop)ose aL division oft th 'und( betwecen the two inistitutions, it i nadle thet dutty of the Secretary to pas 11p0n the eqiuitableness of' the pIroplose livisioni. Ini all but a very fe w inlst aniet vhtere a slight variance was adtimit te lie Secretary has insisted upon4)1 a di vi: oin on ihe ratio of thet school popiulat 101 md1( this seems to b~e thte mo05 st iital imid uniform basis that (can b Ie adopte< [n tis case he~ sees 110 r'easont' t'recetd ~rom his convictionts t hmt equIity dli nandsk a di visioni into t he ratio of t h In antswer' to the14 se'ontd part of t h niquiry, I have to state th1 at. whent yo veire writtent to oin the sutbject , ,i annt ar I1, 189l1 the school ensuts for St ;ite< southi darolinla fotr thie year 1t 0 wt~l iot availablme, and1( thtt c'(nsus1 of te5 'ent., was sumggested as an emtnit ath 1asisiot divi55si4o Th ft-prt mnt Ithe divisitit shciubl he hId po t10 if latter' etiuntnrai in. \'ery rep et fuly e\t ng '''rt iiry. (cfiv1:l0. Noil fti ii .\I ai::iiv ILo t. Nt .bl,t ('Itcw//rar .l'/i:ui~ In I ttl/t i or,'t b li'urs s n ;/ot.tV' />, i. 1 ego: li hve beie-fin tit eimctl wc iib Atectlt i yourt,' e tet .\ae (Ila, rely (co yletir WI eitn .hn W. Nf onse, atFbruaryr 1(h. \s ') I wr )t ther. Noleior I(tsterl ittosemlth pronks(i iano ea dmiv bis of ir y' ii tmtotede i Congress yea "f.1 futheretndoowenctg nd tupporttsf a i ame forr to seeit o'iltf gri ! ret;s Al griulur al' tollege(whi tt e andor Clall nolgosoed).y tWetate. s divi ~ro i hiae ior ntorty as proi Ii .hef htad,t anwd tee tthe toecrto li te Ioneio hash teri ht ItS 1 4 refm Soatuth ointa enuta b'iecase s eimar to Ie untifi Cortss meet s. ,vith itsclo colegat the li'asa eslg amsor comienity ripleny iefs: rone pper.yteSat.. G GIRLS SAVED THE TRAIN. 1ht they 1'3inacd the Wreck Thetnolves -1gus HIieroines. F a.: i.:1101.1> .N. J., A pril 12.-Ano ther chapter was added to the story of ,aura and Flora Woolley yesterday. These ,_irls are the twinl sister* who piled ties ou a rail road track near Farmn Ini.dalc last week, antI then fla"ged the train. hoping to get a large reward. Their ruse was discovered. Laura has been geatly agitated over since the inattei becaie public, and yes terday she Went to her bed-room and prepared to eud hier life. She tied one end of a stout rope to a hook in the wall. and with the other end she iade a noose. Then she mounted a chair, placed the n1oose around her neck, aud prepared to swing hersell' off into eternity. She spratng from the chair, and was strang lin when her sister Flora ruished in at the door and rewetied her. The --irl is apparently not inuch tho worse for her experihent, and her friends and rola Lives will try to persuade her that there Io easoti wIly she should not con tiliu to live. The attelpt to wreck the train oc :curred on Monday of lst week. As the 1 ).:u p. Im. express train from New York to Iakewtod, on the NOw Jersey South tiern rail road, nearedi a deep cut at liIen dricks4n's switch, live miles from Lake N ood, a yun. g:rl ran down the track franit ically waving a rel fag. Engineer Williamo Nori.son put on the brakes, and the train stopped but a few feet from a he I iI tie. that had bwvtn piled across the traick. "I w twk t t put thei there :141 ]'Ull 11, t h O w od , the(-.il1 k,ap -~~~"I( retya :ta ivtelinew. -'.1d r.ul (.1 iteu 'iti en. it rI 10i- ' up :. collec - lion th-'a %v;t, rt the :l t) th > itit e it |11 ; ti I in;i, n1ltiiltt I U;41 0o I iou' l lI?V r el : a L rollkte. (i(or!_ -i, ;h! e ;t b eho s. c()jbM n1t -Cle.w o s c hemlit M01b1 be ph.twwd ill Ha'i ! int, TIui - were nIIot tuierlcl . ;Ut the lew huii a l ii m t ~ vicini nii wi~tt Nell 11-lmv?l l : ! abov4 Altiu. . little SIe a ,ab'ncomlincod hh1 l1t ha 10 :h:e tret noW at'ed ar to w ir*e1k t! tain. r1x> nply e vi inlefd ;. it cmisil Of'thv "h1cr4)inc Iofa dat\,'' who Ibtalinled - mlrli her a1 c 's i uth t -1he Iid le r -ister:l- 1 d h,1ined a1114 ca:rrive,d mut thm scheille to enlrithi a sleitlr Ilr-;e, .111d illlt1ei tallv to win a lit til liecmi . re ivo. ThIe gil who hIa waved the t.nl was ttne tf the twinl sisters, h'l'ira antd I ura, du'lter it ( W;eor \ool Iey. 'he Mi-'es WoIles were inl a ad pro - dicament at tie di,scoYcry of their. plot, 'lThey ha lheard their lIther reald ill tie I l.T;-pelTs, they said. of a _,irl who huaI 0 !aved a trail - glory, AnI tie idte. sug14 ested itsfItf to 1te11 that th e salmie tling couli he dmne tor loney. Teli I I t d c ri1.-etd the. ties to the track andl sei thoir younger br(other, "Bud,'' to the lou.ise for a sit.al flag. The stbr% about the Ilell inlaking for tIe woods mws persisted ill until lr. 7ir rung. 1 a col ule.ssion 11roli thetm. Allioncem in Evory State. .' asn li N 'ToxN, A pril S.-Hekpresen-. e tative derry Sitm pson left the city yester t day Ior Olean, N. Y., to spend the next y ten days ill the work (f prosel * \ting the - tarirs ol Wnstern New York. 'hie 0 tinl lecturer f tle Alltane, Mr'. I Willitts, also left yesterday atternoon Y tot Nw Jersey, where he hopes to awakenl conIsiderab)le interest ill thte Al l.Iaine cause. lIe has already made a~ .iouirney ott to (.h ic :1111I sowni thle seed fromi whliebh oei ag crop of Al l 1ianices will gro Iw . Thllis atctivity on the 1part. ot the A Ilianco leadom s, utcordmig t) Senuatori l'eIler's statement tona United Pr 'ess reporter, is due to the Itct that a mov0elnent is on l'foot 10 carry the Alli aniec ideaIS into ( every State ok'the U nion 0 b eforie thte next camlpaignl. Senator l 'ek. S Ier also spokn h opef ully of tile oett r-. entec to be blel ill ('in cintiliti on t.he 19 fth \f May, ioul said thtat it was the foireruni uer of flhe organIizhat!in of a necw party. Thie effect, of thio ie'enit visit of lIepre. 'Centaittie Silnpson! to New Enughioitl is hiers of biothi the I tlfubicani and1 1 )eiIlo e (lratie ltirttie ill New llIi ipshIire. SI oth Iath: t ther'e have dliscovyered how t.q<iially dividhed the vote is, atiti it. would tnot take miany conivets to thte A fltance e iltens ti ive the thirdt Party thie btaIlce Iof ptowerC. I'. T. IHarnea mtiles. s f'i it i*D :t''1:T, ('onn.. A pirl 7.--Tlhe Sawa it I tlc Ii bia tllin i!t1 tt Ii the j li i of I Itli i t lity b-O I i n :nto l Ise titjlemen t to ti . t p ittiti I.. fl:t iIIc' a et enittn ic t e r' g o - 't'.wi i as oi iilen ii i fredany tihn' whothrust l he i -io cwtrnId V; and kntva al i igi. ,t d n;Iih n t>le girl, ino wa ..it i foldh:ed, hueti phyi ot that iie Ilitn f: ig b.t the door no.-a lose. 'Ih .ai iA tip::: 'le twoha a Ceroon sutai ast whthe to klillNth ilr 3tal laer Cttli ho.e 'Iie gIr a n alnd wlke. eiu. wand i'tI |inn truck a raktl aht ]trilnny b; iles romul hoe wh:itet. var, nie dhat flOt et,werdb ha |t elalttet frt.pas e EDMUNDS EXPLAINS. The Farmers' Alliance Makes the aitum tion Inreresting. WA$JINOTON, April 12.-The Star re cently published a two column interview with Senator Ediunds upon the present political situation and outlook. As be t ween the two great parties the Senator does not see any great difference be tween the situation now and what it has been for several years, but as to the 'ariners' Alliance tiesituationi is one of extraordinary interest and importance 1 becalse of its possiblo effect upOlnil the Inext national election. The reporter asked: "What dangers to both parties t and to the country are there in the ( situation ?" "I do not think there is any danger to the 1)emocratic party," the Senat,r replied with a faint smile. "For in this t respect all is fish that comes to its lt, or indeed goes iito the net of tle Farmers' Alliance, for the next 'resi dontal election if' the Farmers' Alliance should carry many States without hav ing a majority of tle whole electoral college the simile result would be that there woild be no election by tihe people, as it is called, aud tine present Hfouse ot Representatives, having a very large lDenocratic majority of St ttes as well as inembers, would elect a )eI Ocratic caldideto in a Constitutional and regular way, although lie may have carried the smallest number of States. As to the danger of the l4epublicai party, it Is that the Farmers' Alliance may carry in th next Presidential elec t ion Some States that wvoild otherwise vote for a l,p3iblicanl candidate, aind Ihus inl elffect, it' there should be no elec. Gimn by til people, give 1th election toI the lmiocratic vatididate by the House tot I"-presentatives. "What daIt yoti thiniik will be the issue 44 t l' President i ial v;inimigil parties?" "'i t e Ihruballji:iis will doibt less' staint by tht, s:mle o'miuld fI' justice and e .ial!)it yof right 111 in lig tlie citizens of the (IiiteI States and fair elections and fao'r i pri'at ccl i'an oft .\iericanr la bor:rnii il)ilist ties t hat it hns mIaintained hith 'rt a W I ) you thii,k silver will be an issie in fhe iext elect ionl?" I daIn't I hinik it will be an issue lie I ween t iv kelpliblicanls and )emtocrats, fI'r I thiink that the I)eiociratic party will hiardl wish to make the silver(gties tio1 ill issille ta the extelit. of' unni :11V ctsiderable ris if separatilnivg silva-r and gold a.s c()iti lmllney14 for tihe% coint Iy. and cetainly tle gieat body af thn Neiublican party I atm sitre will not Ip to I 1hli pmilt ()f safety. I have mo doutt but that t le Iepliblicalns will be inl fav'or of lsilng silver as money as it, always has donia. W hat the F armers' Alliance plit foriml, if it, should mominillate a cahdidate foI' 'resideint, will be I aim (Ituite tiable to say." "low ii tle feeling of the unin atmnig c-taiti classes to be muet?" "I t iiiik it. is to be luet as every other Alistrihance inl society olight to be, by a candid co4nsiideratiio, by correct inifor mat ion, jiist reasoniig an I t he enact ieitt of such lav s as may fairly appear to be flor t ho promotioi of' the general p.it blie go(([. I t is upon such colnsidolra tins that, every g(verinItnent of tho people in ist, bo carried on." "is the third party luovement likely, anad if so, what, Imlight it lead to ? Is coinimisin at the bottom of' it ?" "A third party movemnilt.," replied l Senaor"does iot exist inl the FamIi ers' Alliatnee titerprise. If sicceessf Il to the extent, of' haviig a 'residetit and haoath houses o" C'ongress, it would doht less lead to tie eniiactment of the iea sures they have alread3 indicated, anl then in a very short t m whether those lueasures waere good 'or the farmers or extiremely bad for' thtem woui1ld mni festly applear. I do niot thnink that ('onunif lstin is at the bot tom of the Sairmetrs' A liice moveimenit. Th'Ie per' ee ent age of' comm i i uni ini this cotinitriy is, I beil ieve, alimost in liiiitesi mally sianall. TJhne gr'eat body of' thne labor ing pneopule of' tine country, which t akinig all t lie depart ments of human act ivit y, einb races prob)ably niinetydiv e otne hn- n dr'edthms of the whole nutunber (of grown nil peaople whota)are altogethier' too itntelli gent and hionnest, to thinik that commnil ismn will be of' anty benefit tothnein or' their fa tn ilies, but t hey believe that it is des raict i ve of' priv'ate irights, of' persotnal prosperity andio personal haineCss, annd i f car iriedi inito paractice wouldi effec the natint'ianice aof thei viciaous aind hazy anda igtnoirant aout of' the toil of initelli "'l mw mtighit the fitnainces otf the count tr b' le atffetdb hs oenn? "Tihie finiainens of tine couintry always adIeipen d very lar'gely iip~on the coidenil~ ce .hat p eop le eingagedi itt bulsinmess atnd peop le h t avintg ('apital have ini th adt,w - ininiistirationi of its gover'tnment. If ainy oif the movemen'ifliits of' whvaich we hna 'ea ben(at s4peakinig shiouill apeari so faormii dial e as to anake unisoui ( legisltion at all prtobnabh-, tic tinainces of tIne counti ry aanib I be very greatly dhisturbedai, aunt t i a al,of coinirsa, wa liidadist ila e\a-ny lirait('h f n l nitnat i11(t blinsit's-s. TI: s Theaa nh';ain h ,f (inav. I'ma1it. I :lAf;llni. N. C', Apil N. (IOvernitor I iami'l G. F-owlea, whota died sinbletnly hinst ig4ihtha b'tn slightly indaispnose'd ior' t woi iday s. bunt wasi nit suppomased to baa seriioiusly il. Slaortily iatr It o'claock he in a!!ieal to his daghiter .\atry ami sahil tinat ha was anot, I tel in g wel, amnd ex ;'etedf she wonul hnave to sit, upl with lhmit. II's dauightetr, .\iss I helen, titen wentl i ttn his rnomi, atnd ini a few tmniti alias hie saul, "I att fainiting.'' She has ta-nod tan his shIde, bitt lie altmost, inistanit ly e'xpnired. II is dleath was priobatbly 1111 roi pleIxy. li e was sixty years of agi'. '-iT the aptal, public bili ngs amid tihe eeut i ve mlatnsioni will he drapead in111 mournIing. llaleighi is a city of' sad ness. h,ieintenanit Governor IloIt, hats -aen telegraphed for and will be here ta at ay. liroake' 1oth ilanats. SPa' iKANt-s 1" ALLs,WAsHIINGTVON, April 7. A horge WVebberi, of St. l'aul, anid Voiung l)empsey, of' California, lighlt, 'veighits, fought seventeeni rounids be tore~ the Athletic club last night foir a puir.ae of $500. At t.he end of the sev enteenth round D)emnpsey threw up thno fight, the bones in both his hanids hay inug been broken. A Sensationm In A bbevlie. CH A iLLSTiON, April 7.-I t was dis covered Saturday that the grave of Judge Wardlaw, who was bunried near Abbeville eighteen years ago, had bneen opened and the cotlin broken. Tr.e body was undisturbed. llis wife's grave had also been opened. Thle 11o tiYA is not known. ITALIAN GASCONADE. LULL IN THE EXCITENENT AT THE FEDERAL CAPITAL. [he Viewg of Senator Butler on the Course of the Itualin Gxovernment in Itecalling their .11hiNter from the United States No War Probable. WAS1ING ToN, April 2.--All quiet on he Potomac" stums u the situation at he National Capital to-night. Sena ors Butler, Ialsoin, Vance, Rteprosen ative Boatman and all the Southern 'ongressinen now i-i Washington con lenin Italy's course. Senator Butler, vhen aske:l if he regarded Italy's ac ion in recalling laron Fava as justifi ule unler the circunmstances, replied: "I (o not. Mr. Mlaine and Governor Sicholls have done all that their official )Ositionli permitted them to do, all that :ould riason-Aly be expected of them in<l tlii.- action of the Italian Govern nent has very much the appearance of talian gase-on:Ide. Of course every aw-abi<ling citiz.en loprecates the un rortitnate oCCTrreLIce in New Orleans, tL tht. peoil- ol' Louisiana are the est ji,lgesof their own environments, intd can ie triisttl to dteal properly with Illihem. N tither Mr. BIlaine nor Govern )r Nichiolls is a graitl juryinan or pros ncutor, aml thwy havt properly left the tifYair int th0 IlV:ds of the law, where it belollgs. ")o y ou think t he- M-1ia will he again leard froiny'' "''hat, : (:annot tc1l. It appears to Ie aui 1'alian inst itution transplanted m this country, but it does not flourish lcr* Wid will not be permitted to ;prcud. Wipt evr means are necessa 'y to r-:14elite it will be adopted xh'rever it shows it; head, and the It alian ( iovern ient, inay as well un ler>t al. fir.-t- as lait, that if Italian il1.ie! , emnir over ainot identify them elves wit It the Mmhia they must take h coT)se ql(eles. Ilow long do you ippos. an A1iniric:au White Cap, Ku klix Klan or Ao!lv Nlag-uiro organiza Lion w hull porni,i ted Lo ply their avocat i. n in an I i liaft city on Italiaa Jild-;t? J- ahout as long as it Lalkos ii g-t t!wi (it the nearest lamp post or n"arest, linib. ()tne thing. I 1hink mn-ty bw alv assured, that the toirse of ltho Italini tioqernment is not cailatir,dl to ticourage the amia ble 'i' of the Ainirican character or oxite svilpit by lfor lUllian sibjects Mho iit stilt'tos '-hor[e law oflicers of his country in r f enforcing 'he law." "Will tLhoe )re;ttt coinplicat;ons lead to wartt inl 0pr:inioi1 ?' - do iot, know. I I itst not. There i% nothin-i inl tho vwooluctt of outr Gov.. erminelit to) go to w\ar- about, blitt if I1ily is spoilint'r for .t i t I expect she (.Anl ho -teonnionatl. NObodly here wants war, ;ld nobiy wants to be iictate<ti to or buimii iy a foreign Gov 1,in(nt. i tIh ei sui-eLs of foreign (;overimiets are lirstily treated by our people Ite (Qb,?V0I*ll(rit ouight to udo Its the . istico to give aln opportuni ty to uiko atmnnds. TIhat proper aiinls woutld e ma.e in dtie tine tero call litb no touit, but wien an ef fort is ina(le to (i rive us to a reckoning with nulecent, haste we ought, at least to assert a beconiing deterininat,on not t.o be driven." Seniator Ibltler's tteraices have the proper riig, Il h lie hit voices the sen I iiiients of his poople in the Old Pal niettt Stiate as exjpIessed in the News and Cui er'. T1her'e are no new developments in the ItLaliani in yv. Thle next feature of [tie conitroiversy' will be the reply fromn Mlar<1uis o pe rial11 to the Secr'etary's letter of last,i night, wyhich has not yet arr'ived. OIn it will' depend much ot t he prospect. Ii':nim.y indicate his in ability to~ speak for' hai Government, hafvinog beun let t, only ii charge of "cur sent alfairs,"' in which evenut M[r. Bilaine will take it, f'or gr.uitedl t,hat dliplomat ie representation in1 this country from Italy is at, an end, aiid will p)robably 'onnounlieni c:te withi Al argniiis I )i I tudini through Ali isitr I'or'ter' at ltoiue. The note fron)ii Alarisii nIm nperiali may be dielaye<i long enintighi for1 a cable mes sage to reach lI udini fr'oini here and for a rely 3 ci inta i ig inst r'ucti ons to get b ack. Ilhis I uiy hiappent within a couple ofi hoursi or' i. mnay take two days accorid inog t a ti he te ilper of the I tal iani yoern aien t. -News and Cour ier. N i: w Yiusn April 2. -The steamshi p Agti:ih o t he II ltdras Central Amern eini ( anal C oinipaiiy left heire twvo weeks ago wit ht Wanuer Al1iller, President of the .\ iiaraiugna ('anal Comipany and party whoi were 'ong to iisp)ect the works. in tie uonoring of' March 2tith the .\oti was wrecked on Paunnacadorie's ro'e,'.uutiles N orthw~'est of Greytown. .\i I li were lost so far as known. As sion a t hie steamter str'uck the reef a hi h e 1 oai: was sen t ashore. I t r'eached theytw nth 0hof iNlarchi, and on ih ha ollowing the steanmer Brazo of t lhe Aloriega- li fe, left Greytown to go ter,' Sit' resenie ti t het paissengers andl crew of the .\ imut.a. Tlhe lirazo is expected back at. I,reytIown today. 'The Chief Iagier ot thte Agiun telegraphedl these fa'.t; to hiis co;niany's ollice to day. J 4gIi ite 14uu1ncant vitory)'). tioin "~ tus ava i lable ait I o'lock this after' o)on mnake it rert a it lhat ther'e has been nio choice bty thle people for any Ollicer upon)1 1he P en erail ticket. Th'le retpulicaniis iave c'arr'ieul a sullicient niumbeir of towvns to give I hem thle fIfty live votes nece't.sary 1forI anjority on joint ballot. Th'ei lot al tinun ber of votes fon govern' ior st ans ik: lIr;ntl on, ntionalist, I ,529. 'Thle net*Xtgetinraassembly stands; Senat I, r'epubilicanis; 21 ; democrats 9; to be ch ose:n i. II tuse of r'epresentative, repubI llicanls 31; deumocrats 23; to be Qin:m.:t , April 2. -Last evening a violeuit carthliinake hieire was felt all along lte Nort h shioro tof St. Lawrence aind exIended& far' inito thie back country par'ishes. News fr'om St,.G(abriel County, at Qui'lee, aund other stations confirm [l.h f'act of a iuleiit shock. Rtesidents of lioniaparte stalte that the earth and :Iwellint there shook ini that parish for uever'al seconds anid caused the inhabit imts great~ alarnm.