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? ; CAPITOL DAMAGED BY FLAMES. L ' The Loss is About $5,000,000 with No Insurance. Albany, N. Y., March 29.?Five million dollars probably could repair the damage done by fire on the State capitol to-day, but money can not restore the historical records which were the pride of its State library. After examining the exterior walls with a transit, Mr. Ware, State architect, declared to-night that the mncsivp niip of eranite was as plumb and true as ever. The flames licked up the State library, the court of claims, the assembly library and document rooms, most of the offices of the excise department and the quarters of the senate finance committee. Water and smoke took up the work that the flames had laid down and the damage from this cause extends to every part of the building. The fire was still burning to-night in the ruins bene^h what was once the beautiful, cloudpainted celing of the State library reading room and the I water kept pouring in from seven lines of hose. From Corner to Corner. Although the fire started in the northwest corner of the building, it p. * caused the greatest havoc in the jp;'Ksouthwest corner. ? Here the redtinted cupola collapsed, carrying down part of the carved granite iTj work that supported it and a two t * . V ring stone chimney. Conservative : estimates place the damage to the exterior stone work at $2,000,000. v.-'/ The interior masonry was damaged gg?Y *? the extent of $1,500,000 and the same sum will represent the loss on ~ the State library. No trace has yet been found tonight of Samuel J. Abbott, the aged . nightwatchman in the State library. 111%; , Start Repairs at Once. Water still dripped through the ceiling in nearly all parts of the west wing and around the stone staircases, but the fire was subdued and i " the work of repair had already beI gun. "2 A hnndrpd National Guardsmen stood guard ?in the deserted corridors igp to-night and 50 policemen patrolled the streets outside to protect the dis|p . mantled end of the building. Next to the financial loss the effect of the fire will be inevitable delay in the machinery of State government, k&f Although the senate chamber stands S&lpractically untouched and a few pspL thousand dollars can restore the X meeting place of the lower house to ?: /> its former beauty, a week or so longer may intervene before legislative , work can proceed in its accustomed l?te channels. Talk of a Recess. ISSV There was talk tonight of a recess, HP!::. ; and only the constitutional requirement toblno' a riailv hallot until a JUCUV Vt mm ? jjj|pr? "United States senator is chosen keeps Sgpr^. the legislators here. Such a recess Wj$-: "was expected if the senatorship tangf"-7 gle could be unraveled to-morrow, feg/' To-day both houses met in the city o|v-;' hall across a short stretch of park from the capitol building, the senate in common council chamber and the pv. assembly in the county court room. The same arrangement will be followed to-morrow. The burned-out department forces found temporary Ifw^i Q^^rtbrs where they could. Discussing the fire loss, the State 111; architect said to-night: Tangible Loss $5,000,000* - "Based upon the original cost of the capitol, the extent of the damage M. would be about $6,000,000, but in ife.? view of more economical methods of j|Si construction Which can be employed ?g??. in the restoration, this amount can " - be materially reduced." The architect will recommend that when thp hnmpd-ont nortion is re stored the interior be remodeled to l$?v\ suit the other departments which will occupy it. The State architect's official description of the damage folP lows: ||||. State Library Gone. It would appear that the entire $/< . State library located on the third and J fourth floors, including the northwest and southwest pavilions is complete^ > , ly destroyed. This includes also the court of claims and some of the committee rooms of the senate and as'Qg 8embly. The ceiling of the senate jj|* appears to be intact and apparently not damaged, except slight water damage, has occurred at this point. Damaged by Water. The western side of the assembly v V hall, including the ceiling, has suffered a silght fire damage and considerable water damage. Many departments on the first and second floors have suffered more from water rfamapA than frnm notnal' firp On ar> count of the dangerous condition of tV. /, some of the interior walls and dormers throughout the western section ' - . it would be inadvisable to use the offices immediately under them. The State carried no insurance, as the capitol building had been regarded as absolutely fireproof. It was in fact not the building that burned, but its contents. Most precious from the historian's standpoint of the fuel the flames found in their path were the 23 manuscript folio volumes of the famous < ' y- * r . ' JUDGE GARY DISENGAGED. But Not Assigned to Preside at Union Court. Columbia, March 29.?The presence of Judge Ernest Gary in Columbia this week adds another interesting phase to the special judgeship fight. Inquiry reveals the the situation that Judge Gary has no term of court this week. Information from Chester is that this fact was known to the governor, as he so stated in a letter to the secretary of the Union Bar Association. Section 2,742 of the Code concludes: "In the event there be no circuit judge disengaged, then the governor, upon the recommendation of the supreme court or the chief justice thereof, if the supreme court be not in session, shall immediately commission as special judge such person learned in the law as shall be recommended to hold courts of such circuit or to hold such special court." The supreme court in the recent Jas. Davis decision ruled that the governor cannot commission except upon the recommendation of the supreme court. There may, of course, be some reason why Judge Gary was not sent to Union, but nothing has been given out here in explanation. It was asi certained from the records that Judge Gary has no- court this week, and it was learned here that he is in town and has been here since Monday. I What effect this will have on the special judgeship matter is also not known. The statement that Judge Gary is here is made solely from a news standpoint. There has been much talk of mandamus. It is not probable that such will result from anything that has yet developed. Talk has even gone further, to a calling by the legislature in these matters. In such an event the chief justice would preside over the senate. There has been only one press suggestion of such a course. It is known here that Gov. Blease is "keeping tab" on everything that has happened. FIRST SHOT OF CIVIL WAR. Citizens of Pine Blnff Ask That Historical Records be Corrected. Little Rock, Ark., March 28.?Until the present claims that the first shot of the War Between the States was fired at Fort Sumter, Charleston, S. C., have been undisputed. But the following from the local correspondent to the Omaha Bee, contradicting that claim, is of interest at least: When the Confederate reunion is held in Little Rock hi May records will be placed before the historical committee which will undertake to prove that the first shot of the civil war was fired near Pine Bluff, Ark., and not at Charleston, S. C., as accredited by historians. ni'finono r\f Pino Plnff will pi a iTT1 \JlUA^UO V/l JL. 1UV 1^4 uu V* 444 that about April 1, 1861, a meeting was called upon the receipt of a message from Gen. Hindman, stating that two government boats loaded with supplies for Forts Gibson and Smith" had passed Cumbeyville and were neauea up we ai iwiisao uvw. Capts. Bocage and Carlton were appointed and given orders to capture the boats. The command of the little fray was tendered to Ex-Governor Roane, but he declined. Capt. Bocage was promoted to the rank of colonel and ordered his force to fortify the banks of the river at a bend just below Pine Bluff. Soon after the embryo soldiers were entrenched the boats came puffing around the point and an order was given for surrender. No attention was paid to this and a rifle ball whistled through the pilot house of the Silver Wave, the leading boat. This caused the white flag to go up and the boats turned into the wharf, the first prize of the Confederacy. official records of the governors of the city of New Amsterdam covering a period from 1630 to 1674. Were to be Translated. These were in course of translation by A. J. F. Van Laer and his translations were burned with the original Dutch documents. In addition to these the State lost the correspondence of Gov. George Clinton, 5,000 pieces in all, and the original letters of Sir William Johnson and Gov. Daniel Tompkins. In the office of the regents' examiners 30,000 examination papers received from the schools of the State were destroyed, but the priceless co, lonial and Washington and Lincoln relics in the custody of the education department were in the big safe on the ground floor and were uninjured. These include the original manuscript of Washington's farewell address, the original copies of the State constitution and the Maj. Andre papers. Among the documents lost were records dealing with the history of South Carolina during the revolution. At the request of that State a bill was pending in the legislature here to pemit the department to turn them over to their original possessors. GOING STRAIGHT TO SENATE. Sooner or Later Gov. Blease Expects to Get There Columbia, March 29.?Gov. Blease will be a candidate for the United States Senate. He said to-day that he is "going as straight to the United States Senate as a martin to its gourd." Senator Tillman said the other day that he will run again if his health permits, but it is doubted by many that he will again be in the race. Gov. Blease said recently that he could beat any man except Tillman for the senate. In the event Senator Tillman is not a candidate in 1913, Gov. Blease will b? in the race. Otherwise he will be a candidate for the senatorship later on. That is the way the situation appears to-day. Gov. Blease has received encouraging letters, he states, from all parts of South Carolina. He is told in these letters that he is stronger now politically than ever before. One man wrote him to-day: "Go ahead and give 'em h? Beware of Ointments frkr Catarrh that Contain Mercury, as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do is ten fold to the good you can derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., contains no mercury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In Duymg wan s uatarrn \^ure oe sure you get the genuine. It is taken internally and made in Toledo, Ohio, by P. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free. I Sold by druggists. Price, 75c. per bottle. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Private Counsel to Blease. ???? i Columbia, March 30.?Just who is to be regarded as private counsel to Gov. Blease, the governor has not seen fit to say publicly so far, but a circumstance which may be significant, in this connection ahd the fact of which Gov. Blease has himself confirmed, is that Mr. B. L. Abney, of the Columbia bar, has lately taken up his residence at the executive mansion. Mr. Abney, by many considered one of the most astute lawyers of South Carolina, is the governor's near kinsman, their middle names are the same,. Livingston. They have been much together since the governor's inauguration. Mr. Abney was one of the leading pnnnapi fnr t.hA Southern railway in the celebrated merger case and his fee as counsel for the State in the dispensary litigation before the United States courts was $10,000. The lengthy special message on the status of trustees which was sent to the general assembly by Gov. Bleatee, arriving at a crisis in the debate over the railroad mileage matter, which was openly ascribed in the press to Mr. Abney and no denial has ever been made that the message was of his authorship. May Settle Status. Clifton Forge, Va., March 30.? The long standing controversy regarding the question of the church's interest in a control of RandolphMacon system of schools and colleges came up for consideration at to-day's session of the Baltimore conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, here. After considerable discussion it finally was decided to name a committee of two ministers and one layman to serve with a like committee from the Virginia conference to consider the controversy. Dr. W. W. Smith, chancellor of the Randolph-Macon system, spoke on the growth of this system of schools. Lancaster's Hen. Lancaster is one of the best advertised towns in Pennsylvania. The man on the job is a "peach," and no matter what happens there the press gets it and sends it broadcast throughout the country. Some days ago a thrilling domestic drama was enacted there, when a hen and a cat got into a fight on a farm for the possession of four little kittens, and the hen won out, as many a "hen" has done before, drove off the mother cat and at last reports the hen was playing the mother as best she could. The agonized tabby isn't allowed to hpr vnnner. and. as the lat V/Uilic UVUl UV* j w v? ? u/ ? , _ ter can't yet see, they must be embarrassed, to ,say the least. Then the hen nestles the kittens to l^er, shelters them with her downy feathers, and, in fact, plays the role of mother in a way calculated to make all stepmothers green with envy. But 1 J ' in tliio noeo WDEl S SO rtJLLlii.1 ttauic iu imo vuovj after all? We don't see anything in it. Wonder what that Lancaster press agent would have put on the wire if that same hen had laid an egg or a cornerstone??New Orleans Picayune. Subscribe for The Herald. 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