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ESA E 1-A EST ABLISHED 1865. NWER,SC.TURSDAY,MAC1,181PIE1.0AYR "X1AN'S IN~HUMANITY TO MuA%" Man's Infamy in the Treatment of HI: His Fellow Man-How Men Lie in Wait, In the Name of Justice, to Strike Down Socially ind Morally Those Who Have Once Sinned. LHoward in New York Press.] Many men have expressed a wist that they might die suddenly, and noi be compelled to drift a mental wrecl after the faculties of their head hac ceased to work. Why? Obviously, because whatever migh1 be their hope, their wish, their feelings born of earl education and continu ous assertion of a future life, they rec ognize that,is far as is known, with the loss of iason ends desirable life, The hangini on of the physical strue ture for dayi, or weeks, or years mean. no hinge. So far as ikan is concerne', the nio is dead whe4the light of reason is put out; and if it' be true that when ouz mental facultiesare blotted from exist ence the essential part of us is gone, and all immorality hinges upon a hope alone, wbit must be the infer ence as to the o'iginal intent of the Creator, derived from contemplation of the brutality, he infamy, the cruel ty with which Igan treats his fellow man? The poet whoang "Man'sinhuman ity to man make countless thousands mourn" didn't bgin to touch the core of the trouble. He barely plaed his -foot upon the lowest step in theflight which leads to the vestibule of he Chamber of Hor rors, into which'this world has been resolved by the -ickedness, the selfish ness, the rapacitiand the unkindness of mankind. There is no ned to cross the ocean for illustrations. The Czar of Ruiia, Napoleon I, Irish landlords are nothe only tyrants. We have them right.ere at our hand, and one of them is ca.Nd public sentiment. Given the controhf the columns of an influential jouril, I guarantee the dethronement of ie proudest name of our time. All thats needed is to point with malign connuity the finger of scorn or wag withievilish persistence the slanderous tonje, and the noblest man, the purest weian, can be pulled from the pedestal f fame itself and made to hide in theery gutter of les pair. Don't think I inid to rehash to dythe brutality, t, infamy, the out rage, the cruelty of itain of the news paper press of this c as against every man charged with eme. For the mo ment let the subject rop. ARE GUILTLESS PEIDNS PUNISHED? Innocent men. as in Sing-Sing to day. Why? It's but aiort time since an intelligent jury, hoided by an ignor ant but powerful pss, brought three men in guilty of bglary, and two of them had been lected first, and sen tenced next day by 2impartial judge upon the bench, whb, all of a sudden, something or anoth.turned up which 4 led our police authaies, not th-e court officials, to investige a little closer, and they found the iilty parties else where, with proof i!fragible; where upon intricate leg tlormalities were confronted, and it it absolutely sev erol days before t"M innocent men were.released frorm tibrand of raiscal which had been placiupon their brow by ..isrutal press ama super-service able set of officials. Innocent men in St-Sing? Yes, scores of then: Innocent men in.uburn, in Con -cord, in Weathersfdl, everywhere where iron bars and .lls of stone hold convicts in close congrment, are men as guileless of crime the very child who cries to-day his mother's milk. - In the iron hand oame of the social organizations of to-c is clasped the baton which controldie orchestra of devilment along theie of torture and interference with tlrights of men made in the image~ their Creator. "Msn's inhumanitio man makes co'untless thousandsnourn," reads very well as a line, bit is vague and general. A CONvICT'S EERIENCE. Some months ago old the story of a released convict. I showed how heid been driven from piliar to post; I: he came to me time and again untiiy patience wais exhausted; until all .t I could do for him had been done.id the end had literally coine when was forced to say to him: "I can bi you no more." Of course I did helimn once~ more, but although that li- help procured for him a position araved him from a suicide's grave, it ;but for a few weeks, and to-day h.back again,not only back again inine, but back again in a felon's ce With tears that ro- with unques tioned honesty dowis worn and pal lid cheek he confes; to me, as he stood in my presene a striped jack et, in his convict's b, that he had committed the crir:with which he was charged, for w'3 he wvas tried. convicted and sentet, but continu ing hesaid: "You know how 1: I tried. You know how thoroug I intended to be good, you know tyitter experien ces I underwent, aitou know how some secret foe folloime from point to point, and ousted,from every lit tle lodgment my foould find." And I did know it! I do know it, and I say that one sease as thbat is enough to make arzidel eloquent, and to draw from tl4outh of every thinking man the <Tui "What could the Creator have been thinKing of if rus this is a part and parcel of his folrcor- int( dained prcgramme? app A discussion is rampant in the press plo' to-day, and lie text is, "Can convicts eri reform?" of a Reader, (lid you ever teil a lie? Did the you ever commit a theft? Did you -,-er hal do anything dishonorable or mean and Till dirty? If so, and you long since repent- F ed, don't you know the possibility of N recovery of reason? Don't you under- if stand that under favoring eircumstau- he 1, ces your litt, effort can be made stur- His dy and grow up into desirable propor- peel tions for good among your fellow men, and and can't you therefore understand bac that if, having been detected, you were plo, followed incessantly, exposed there, abo made shameful here, pushed by un- sitic kind hand- from every opportunity of beei recovery, how you might have said to was yourself some time in a moment's bit- Was terness, "What's the use?" and then kno throwing up the sponge of endeavor, suel plunge back again into your old time auce habit? Why, of course, you can understand I it, and ifyou can't, go and see the con- pris victs, any one of them marked and me branded as Cain is said to have been, W with his portrait printed in books and wor sent from one station house to another, with his record published to the world, i with the Superintendent of Police in in every city informed as to his name, his mot appearance, his record and crime, the you date of his release, and then tell me, if vie you can, how it is possible for a con- t p I to a vict, unaided, to recoup himself and TI-k stand once more a man among his fel I wen lows? stre: I can't give you the particulars, but c within ten days a story has been told usec here of a man released from Sing Sing some little while ago without clothing o of a decent make, with no money, sent that adrift upon the world. shot Everybody who is adrift seeks the for great commercial center- shel The moment that man passed the as I boundary line of New York city he was shol recoguized. Being recognized he was coul spotted. Being spotted he was follow- for ed. Being folowed be was watched. was Being watched he was suspected. Being vear suspected in these days is as bad as be- - N mng guilty. He tried to get work. A policemau told who lie was. He tried pictl tu get work. A detective showed his inst picture in a book. He tried to get work. thes Somebody informed his would be em- can ployer who and what he was. Finally, this in despair, he turned up on Fourteenth of ti street as a peddler of bone buttons. cert, Now, he couldn't get much lower It than that. Jf To be sure he was on the sidewalk, mai: and there was a gutter, and fearing that blo he wouldn't get in the gutter a police- yet man walked up to hini and said: Choi "Here, I know you; get out of here,"t and drove him away, amid the jeers and taunts of little boys, who in time you will join that great army of alignants C concerning whom the poet sung, "Man's dran inhumanity to man makes countless .ri thousands mourn."gi A PRETTY TOUGH YARN, ever The story of my Sing Sing man at- meca tracted very widespread attention, and mnot I received many letters about it, one fami from an esteemned correspondent in Iored Lynn, Mass., who very humanely ex- cisc( .ressed her desire to be of practical aid pass and ordered the miau something to do. thoc Her letter came just at the time he had ed n secured the situation to which I refer, crim and she, as others, will be interested to a pa know the unfortunate termination of with his endeavor. It seems~ that an ac- " quaintance of his in~ a neighboring it. State has a brickyard, in which the Te convict found emiployment. Being a Berr nman of parts he was piut into the otlice, Tc where he had charge of what they call will a delivery book. For the services ren- B dered lhe received his b'.ard and $80 a man month. He had no relatives, and be- wor: came very much interested in a young 1. wvomran who lives in WVilliamisburg. While he was in New York, pirior to ni his brickyard employment, he was under the surveillance of the police T. continually. Havi , no money lie At could pay nothing in the way of black miail, and, as ma:y be remembiI'Oeed from every- position he secured he as driven away. I was very glad tha t. good( luck procuredl for him the po'' i tion lhe finally got, for two reaso. In the first place and' more especially~ it renioved hi>n fromii New \Yor, andl he had, I tho'ught and lie thiought, a r chance to recover anid rebuild himself TCl up). lie met the Willianmsburg woman oluit while in this cityv and corresptowited with her after lie wen1t to) work. One a day he came downi to visit her. That broughit him to New York. Hie took her to a theatre, where he was reeogniized by a detective, w icit pioi ntedl him i ot to a po licemian ait teO door. lie was foll,wed to, the ( an Street Ferry, where lie hwtie the yo ung womian goo)d ight, :0: hu Irried i to *i10 (Grand (Central Dep itto :ake the:c o'clock train fo'r Ihi' towni. Th'e deCte tive crossed the ferry in thle s:nie ba wvith the votung woman,. folowed heri.ti to her bouse. :ad as 5he ascendied Owb steps spoke to her. Shte was frighiten be at first, but the mi:m'is mantnerre sured her, and tiuring the c:onversatin which ensued lhe told her who ami a what the mian had been:. She was very much agitated, espiecialy as the detee ive teld her it wotultd be nieces:ary fotr him to inform the f:tly with whom gv she lived thle nature of the mian with wh1omi she associated, she tbeing a seamt- di st ress there. She at on1c put herself in a hisp.ower by begi:r himi and imuplor- I awvay prmsn her :tf -he hiad niothtig ' snore to do with thle ex-joniviet he c wvould say nothinia- drv She wrote to her lo-:.er that ni'ght. da'r< Hei recived the letter the day after. a ied to her house, where a storn rview followed, and between her rehension of difficulty with her em -er and her mortification at discov g she had permitted the attentions a ex-convict to attract the notice of pcice the poor girl was frightened out of her senses. SAME OLD INnUMANiTY TO MAN. lt the man, what of him? ell, perhaps you might guess. But )u are too tired I will explain that A t what sporting men call his heart. grip on life relaxed at one unex ed blow, every hope was shattered, in a half dazed condition he went ; to his place to find that his em er, who, by the way, knew all it him and had given in his po : in the hope of aiding him, had i renotified that his delivery clerk an ex-convict, and that unless he discharged the fact would be made wn to his customers, upon whom i information would obviously have ry bad effect. >he discharged him. isked him when I saw him in )n why he didn't come direct to Ind I blush to say he replied: by, Mr. Howard, I thought I had a you threadbare. I feared you Id say as I certainly felt, 'Oh, there se,' and I imagine myself jump 3n you like an old man of the ntain once more and adding to r cares and responsibilities, so I led for the first time in six months temptation to drink. Once started, pt on. The little money I had t like water down a mountain im and in ten days I was a physi vreck as I was already mentally up and I resorted to beggary. One it I literally asked people for money ie streets, but I got very little and I spefit in drink. I don't think I ild have stolen if it had not been bhe absolute want of brea1 and Ler. It was a keen, cold night, and passed along the brightly lighted Swindows I thought how easily I d relieve myself, so I made a dash tray of rings, ran, was followed, caught, and here I am for two s and three months." : use to moralize. Ais is only a fact. This is only a ire. It is only one of a thousand inees. The authorities say that e men not only won't reform, but t reform, and I dare say would cite very instance as a good illustration ieir assertion that ex-convicts are tiu to come back again. isn't so. that man had been content to re i sequestered, as it were, from the dhounds of New York, he might iave been married to the girl of his ce and have gotten along nicely in world's affairs. Of course, at once who remember, think of Kissane aliforuia. hat a dirty, dirty thing it was to that man's long since forgotten e to tVe face of affairs. Who ed anythio g by it? Was there one extra newspaper sold by as of that sensation? It broke a er's heart, it ruglely ruptured ly relations, it has caused an hon ,a reputable ci-izen of San Fran to bow his head with shame as he d along the s-reets, because, al gh lie is a respectable and respect ian, he knows that his brother's e has east a blighting shadow on L hitherto all sunshine and spread the flower of prosp)erity. Ian's inhumanity to man;" that's n dollars a seat to hear Patti or see ihard t. n cents to a beggar, provided he spend it in ruim. t not ten words of~ comifort for a ,however penitent, who has onice the stripes of a pison ;h! It makes mie very tired. IE PENITENTIAlRY DIRCECTOlRS. itefer the lIateman.i M'atter to the orney Genieral-Ani Increase in Price (anail Work. .the meeting of the Petitentiary tors yesterday, the p)ropositionI for age of sptecificationts in the i canal t, as noted ini the account of the tiig of the Canal Trustees, was ei uponi andi for'.azruded to the trus for their consideration. ie bord adopted the following res on in regard to thle Batemiani VIhereas byt repotrt of R. E. H1ill, exert emiployed lby the IBtardl to ine tie penitenitairy ltoks, it up-. that there is still an apaparent de of--: and whereas thle Boa rd k it beyonda their juirisdictioni to 'u :her thtan whait is sh own by thle sproperl therefore be it 2. . r1tl by ti;e IBoard, FTat w'e ii it. avisable to refer the mattecr to Ant orney G enetral for const~idearat ioni, '.eave the mtatter w.itht himi for set evios to t lhe :.d'1ptioni ofilhe above, Board( lad a: fi rst aigreed to send Mr. Hill ag~ain ando zet him to ex ethe booeI iks oif L(oriek & L owranlce the itemii of credit claimiedl b y Mir. :man, bu t they reconlsidered that atdoipted the resolution ab ove canse the sclpl fromr seuirf and :irufl: keep the hair soft and of a ia olor by the uisc of Hall's etaile sicilian H air Renewver. i-s B. Bedloe, of Burlington, Vt., a isase of the scalp whieb causedl hair to become very harsh and an tot fall so freely she scarcely d comb it. Ayer's H-air Vigor e her a healhby scalp, and rma:de CLOSED IN S"N--OW T E FIFTY FIRST CONGRIESS TERMINATEI)o Most Reinarkate Se*sions--epublicais and Democrats Vie with Each Oiher in Singing Son-g, but Stop to Li.ten to the Refrain from the Press Gal lery--The Record of the liody. WASHINOToS, D. C., March _.-The House of Itepresentatives of the Fifty first Congress went out in a burst of song. Its ending was reniarkable and un precedented, and a scene similar to that, which followed the declaratimn of theSpeaker that theFifty-first Congress was adjourned without day, it is safe to say, never occurred before in a Con gress of the United States. The vocalists of the House on the Republican side of the chamber gath ered in a body near the front row of desks, headed by Messrs. Colt man, of Louisiana; Yardley, of Pennsylvania: Stivers, of New York. and Wade, of Missouri: and as soon as the House was adjourned, they started up "Marching Through Georgia,"l which was taken up by the great mass of Republican Representatives, who made the haIl ring to the great delight and edification of the galleries, packed full of people. The Democratic chorus, headed by Representative-elect Jvhn J. O'Neil, of Missouri, started with the doxology, "Praise God from Whom all Blessings Flow," but their voices were soon drowned in the saperior volune of the sound from the press gallry, the re porters having taken up the hyin. The Republicans and Democrats alike ceased their singing to listen to that of their some time critics. Messrs. Burrows, Allen, of Michigan, and Coleman with Yardley struck up "Our Fatherland" as the closing notes died away, and the Republicans join ing in very generally the eflIt Was fine, as was the singing of "John Brown's Body," which was taken up immediately. The occupants of tile press gallery for the last numbers on the programme rendered "Good-bye, Congress, Good-bye, My Lover, Good bye," and "He's a Jolly Good Fellow," and it was with regret on the part of the immense throng on the floor and galleries that the impromptu musicale came to an end. The crowd then slowly dispersed. SOME CLOSING SCENES. All the fore-part of the morn!; g there was an intermittent babel of shouts for recognition front anxious members who crowded around the open space in. frolt of the speaker's desk and resorted to. calls, vociferous re marks and all manner of devices to at tract attention. The House was in a critical mood, and those members who were fortunate enough to catch the speaker's eye found they still had a road to travel to the presidential haven, for it was not an easy matter to secure the necessary two-thirds vote to. have the rules sus pend and their bills p.assed. Thie Republicans in the House nailed their colors to the mast, determined to go out of power as aggressive. defiant and as full of fight as they had been at any time during the session. LOYAL TO THIE TYRANT. They were loyal to the speaker, and aiaited .the proper occasion to mani fest the fact. It soonl came. No D)emo rats having prepared tile usual vote of thanks to the speaker, Mr. McKinley arose and ofTered a resolution thanking the speaker for the able and impartial manner in which lie had performed his duties. The House, which bad been in a b)uzz from the many-toned whispers f the members oa the floor, lapsed momentarily into something approach ing quiet as tile resolution was read, and Mr. Mills arose in h:~s place. He disppointed those persons who hoped for a vigorous orat orical d1isplay, as lhe merely denmanded the call of the yeais andl nays. The call was proceeded with aid great con fusion dute to the fact that nlearly every miember- hiad somie parting remiarks for a neigihbor whom ie p)erhaps miighit inever see algaini. When at last thle vote was anni ountcetd the R epu blicans a rose eiinimasse, elap ping vigorously, waving papers aiid ooks and miaking the air Ei-:soN s iTw rrii i-:i:s, the v'olume of soun d beinhg swelled by the ampplause in thle galleries. The ap plase was renewed moure vigorouily than before, as Spea':ker Reed enitered the hallI to relieve Mr. lHurrowvs, who was temilporarily ini thle chiaiir. TheL Deiiorats jeered at the denionst rat iin. Mi.. UlalBn c and Mr. MIe( 'Iaiin iii ortil ( 'aroliina, shotitiiig ollt irtorts to lOst il ie conifusloli. Ir. ( ainion eaiiie i for a wvi~ d'.:a tioii, a~ h~ presenlted the confece report oni the dletiieleniy hili-"'th- as aftr cheer andl tissing whiat-ver w a on thieir de-,lk! into thle .tir in a truinnl of al. ('nnon 31r ( urecnrid;: , N Democrat ic f. indV. m:db- a .zrace ful little spteeh, cuilogist ic if th- !r:at mnt the minoirityv hadl rcivil froni Mr. ('ainno n; but t he I epubiliea:: wire a litt le chary of joi ni ng in lohe :r:t a tin. being evidntfly of th- iioni liat 3!r. B recken riudge's remIa rks were reh-xvely, in somic ruiasure, in d ero ga:tioni of the speakir. d-rinz thi- t iankt.v of t h" II'G t pared a list of cases in whcichl ojcionii wa:s mxade ti the Voti. of thank :- to the in winiher. begiinmnig witu ihe Ffrili a:d Sixth (Oingres!es. The last pre viols (jccasionl was in the Thirly-sixth Congress, when Win. Renningtoln, a Whig, of New Jersey, was speaker. A mI.E.A NKABL nsCONCRESS. At nloonl to-day the Filfty-first Con grress in the opinion of nanv veteran !-gislators the most remarkable Con ,ress since the war' cane to an end by ionstitutional limitation. From the first to the last the sesnions have been interesting and eventful, ind for no long period were they ever -haracterized by the dullness which )ceasionally for days at a time marks the proceedings of nearly every Con ,,ress, and espefially of those Congresses in which the first session is unusually prolonged. The actual working time af the Fifty-first Congress exceedet that of any of its predeeessors, and the nominal session and time of all except the Fiftieth Congress, and in the nuni ier of neasures brought to its atten Lion, and the number, variety and irn [)ortance of those acted on, it likevi:e 4urpassed all previous Congresses. TUREE NOTABLE MEASURES. Three rueasures, any of which in in trinsic importance and popular interEst wou!d be sufficient for a national issue, .tand forth pre-eminent among all A hers. First, the McKinley tariff bill, which ecamie a law; second, the silver bill, on which, in the lirst session, a compro mise was effected, based on the month ly purchase of 4,56(,)0O oun'ces of silver. which, in turn, was followed bya more radical measure that failed of passage; Ind third, the Federal election bill, which, after a protracted, bitter, hotly Fought and intensely exciting prelimi =ary strUggle. failed in the Senate to reach a decisive vote on its merits. RADIcAL INNOVATIONS in the rules of the House added inter st to its proceedings, and tho deter muined but fruitless efforts to adop, the most vital of these innovations formed . part of the history of the last part of the session of the Senate. Even in its mortuary record the Con ress was remarkable. the call of death having surinoned no fewer than welve of its representatives a:id three >f its ::enators. Ml:iy of the bills enacted into laws ppropriated an uuusuaily large amount >f money, and the expenditures autho rized will exceed those of any "peace" :ongress .since the foundation of the overnment, the total appropriations nade by the Fiftieth Congress were, urinig tl:e first Seti, Nt~>,317,510. nd during the second session $4'2.626, l4:, or an aggregate of S817,9~>,539; while ap) ropriatio ns for the first session >f the Fifty-first Congres.; were 6460, ;7,1;97, and those of the second session will probably bring the total appropria tion for this Congress to $1,00,000,I0f. SoMETIL N ABOUT BILLS. A comparison of the .work of Congress ust closed with that of its immediate prdece&sor nmakes the following exhti bit: Bills introduced in the House in the Fifty-first Congres, 24,1:1:3, against, in the Fiftieth Congress, 12,654: in arease, 1379. Joint resolutions, 271; in 3rease, 10. Senate bills, 53120, against 10, or an increase of 1129. Joint reso lutions, l16l; increase, 24. Bills passed by the Hlouse, 1748S, of which 1531: became laws; and by the Seate, 1305, of which 673 becarne lawvs, naking the total nuniher of laws, :luring the Fifty-first Congress, 21S#3, igainst 1S24, in the Fiftieth Congress; icrease,:;02. The Sena te also postpon~Ied indefinitely (i16 Senate and 1S Hotuse bills, this being equivalent to defeat. '. ETES. Dunring the FiftiethI Congress one undred and sixty-one bills were vetoed and during the Fifty-first Congress ourteeni, the most important of which were lie act establishing a record and pension (llice of the war departmuent nd aets prov id ing for publie buildit( xt ar I Iarb)or, M1e., I)allas., Tex., Ilud son N. Y., andl Tuscaloosa, Ala. 'on:es-r En 1-:u-:cT10 N ASES. Out of eighteen conltested election ases, the I louse seated eight of the Re-~ pulican contestants, and dleelared the sat of M!r. Ilireckinrtige, of A rkanisas, vaci nit. TIwo eases, G oodrich vs. I ul - lok, fromi Florid:a, :m id 31eGiziniis vs. A bilerson, frtomi Weist Vi rginiiin, in whichl the emmnnittee recoinmiieidedl the seatinmg of the lieplubbean contest mnts, we-re not d isposedl of; and thle eletionis cemnuillt ee itself never aeted on the Eat a vs. l'helani, Tcienece, ase. TIhe Sent' dlispoed of of its sole tonestid elect ion ease by seat ing two A\-a re.-ult of thme work ot ('ongrees, a geat numbiiler oft thle meas-ures wh ib have for yearis reil '.e inorm or 1-.s it of th' go)vernt,t wi!l h. iransferrh to thoe ext uutive- and ju:.i:ril depart hapls. to I en me o p::.lly f:.n nii - whih aire nmow law are the vop. right timll, the ~ p ivatand iour bi m ltuetl 1 ,jute r~ ism :vriiit t lxion lr:mt tIn -. t r n - utaier :l-i' md T riv 1t'ie ' -t n' p it . ubiy ill, inVt thed:i depreda ton-ti' u cl h rtotbi,tei tibe :an pr'I h:ition inw! rtim:, l bilmm l ,Inai ng a w.re dlefeated on test vots: while among those whii-h. af"er passig ine House, failed of action in the otlhr, and will doubtless be %% reStled with by suIcceedinig (Congrsss, are the 1:ank ruptcv bill, the Conger lardl biland the arrmy reorganization bill. The Paddock pure food bill, tle Nicaragua canal bi;!, the Paeific railroad fui:lira bill a'i the inter-state coininerce bil to per mit limited pooling of the earning! by railroad corupanics!, -re aimong thie measures which 1,Iled to reacb a vote in either House. BURIED IN (0MM iTT!3s. Aniong the measures on which hei ther Hout4e acted, except in some cases by committees, were the sih-treasury and farm riortgai-e bills, the service pension bill, the Canadian reciproctv re.-olutioi, the bill, to eceourage the c mstruction of :m inter-continental railway, the postal savings barik aml postal telegraph bil s the Butler bill to aid negroes to emigrate to Africa2, the woman suffrage aid'. prolibition con stitutional ameiidments. the income tax bill, and various other radical financial and political neasures. :12,0,*(100 FOR PUBLIC UETLm1NCS. A statement prepared by the clerk to the House committee on publ'* build ings and grounds shows that during the past Congress 411 bills for the erection of public buildings were introduced, carrying a total appropriation of -7;. 6105,625. Of this number 3 passed L(,b H ouses, appropriating 12,;7,6;:, all of which became laws save four, which were vetoed by the President. E' POCKET VETO. Eleven bills passed by Coogress at this session failed to become'laws by the action of the "pocket veto." The only one of a public character was the act to create an Eastern division of the Northern judicial district of Georgia. All others were relief bills of difierent kinds. COPYRIGHTT, A LAW. The President signed the (--pyright bill shirtly after his arrival at the Capitol this morning. Friends of the bll had asked Private Secretary Hal ford to rcquest the Pre-ident to plae his signature to the .neasure with a quill pen of the style used in the early days of legislation, and this was done. The quill was plucked from the wing of a large American eagle, and was at least two feet long. It was sent to the President by Robert N. Johnson, of New York, secretary of the Internatio ial Copyight league. The pen wa then returned to Johnson with the President's compliments. The Brussels treaty for the su ppres sion of the African -lave trade and tratfie in spirits and firearms was de feated in the Senate in execut ive session this morning. The opposition to its ratification was Lased upon a number of reasons, such as fears of entangling alliances, interference with private business enterprise, etc., and the ima jority in the opposition to ratiliention was decided. NORtTilAND) SOC'TH. So:'thern Candidates( in the Democratic National Convention--Are They Candidlates. [New York Sun.I The suggestion is heard, w~ithi what has conic to be regarded almost as be comning reguilarity in advance of every tion of a Southern candidate by a D)em oeratic National (Conveintion woulId no longer be attended withI the peril' f Northern opposition, irresistible and insuruoniitable. The discussion of the claimis aind tiuali tientions of Senator .John (G. Carlisle revives the prev~i~is 'onlt roversies oni th11is poinit anrd thle fact that he "lives on the wrong~ side of :Iason a114 in Dxoin's line" is referred to as imiportaint by his chainpions and his o pponeniCiits. lIn the Naitionial Deumoucraitie 'on.vtin tion of I slS, l he ii rt ('le a fer t he wali. al11 thle lead inig eand id ates, Seymiuouir, P'end'leton, I laneoek. I lendriicks, ( hase andmlithureb , wvere N ort her nmen , .i no' Sou thIerni canida 'te considered. Ini the laltimoi're i k-ruoeratic Con'i venItionl of 1.7-. tihe rat:ie:t in (f the Greiie ai,'l 8r'wni ticket put up two mon'ithis previouisly h'v t he I .iher:dl U wsa foreg'ine 4'ocluison: ibut the re 1lern cndidate for the iir:st tilne wa I rle5el)tedl il 'tie p..r-'' f l Z'r- a ::i -! whlo re''eivedl the' votes of 15 deley:te. T)' he holumr vol:t in la I. :i'i the- :dt.ir ltuie (Il SlIernof exceptien a::'M r. leyar. wh recive thstinv- theii- lar tt:0r ~o I fra om ('4ga law ~ar : ( ili. Nrb I(:ya':!n:'. :.ouii:n. nand Tfx I n t ( ' e to 4 fi n r.1 . lot, 5:; otes a:.::i4 7 fr (e e l:u io k ') ih ion bal:. w eve , h .,pr If Mr loy rd \'nh\ r I nl - hrw n ln l:thrd time wasN a:i as' diiLi. s ' z:a i >f ate. with r. (leveland's ad midnistr'atin, m(" in'-then he has n:'er ben .poknci <, as a Prcsidential pYib:ity. The faict is n<,t to ix- .st .siht of that i] eacih of tile NIational CO'nventions in whicb, it' nCeS1m ii umbers each time ir. yard recived the support o: ranii:111y So?t0L&rn delegatcs, the vote giVen himi at the outset of the b-llot i:g was Ir;g:r than upon subsequent Hallots. This wzs due to the cir,.-um stane, which ha-s p:s!ed almost into the realhn of political traditions, that Southeni <leeg:ates in a National (.on vention, lb casti::g compliruentary votes for a candidate whose prospect of s:.eeess is slight, can hold theirstrer.gth until th critical time, and thus'n ake their support dlecisive. Although, as tl record shorws, thc support o-f a .->nlthern cani'ate Ls been more popu;>u-r at eath sucei-eding Democratic C;invention,' .ginal h'eadwav hast Leen r1o:ole in convin-iig th. delegates forom Northern Mtates of the availability of Sou:thern! canididate's. Tims, in the Nationial Conveition of iS-4. the Kentucky delegates, ating under instructions. favored the no.ii nation for President of 'Mr. Carlisle: aI Mr. McKenzie of that State, in aivocating his claims, raised the ques tion of locality in the following wrds, which, as hearing directly -ipon the (uIt-tilon still at issue, are worth repro "It may be: urged against Mr. Car lisk that he comes from the wrong side of tne Ohio Rtiver: but if the statute of l1nitations ever is to run against that plea, it ought to begin now. I belong to a class of men who believe that we have a Union in fact as Well as in name,. and I bel. -e that there is as much Lr,nor. virtue. and patriotism in the South as: there is anyw_iere within the broad limits of our common country. I a'ppeal to the senti:nent of justice and fairness that pervades this great Con vention, representing, as it does,the in teiliz. ..e of the Democracy of Ame rica, if .'--me before it with any un natural ;ea when I ask you to recog iize that the arbitrament of the sword has settled the war, and to present to you a peace ofl'ering in the person of John G. Carlisle." In response to this eloquent and impassioned appeal, one delegate in the Convention "he was from Wiscon sin supporei "fr. Carlisle. The solid Kentucky dtegation of G stood by tLeir favorite, but outside of the solita ry Wisconsin man he received no other encouragement. Tic superior fame and celebrity of Gen. Bragg. also 6f Wisconsin, who, at the same Conven tion. supported Mr. Cleveland on the si~ngular gound that he was in favor of him because of -the enemies he has made," preventtd the Wisconsin dele gate &hose fraternal sentiments were stirred by Mr. MIcKenzie's remarks, from receivin ti attention which mniTht otherwise have niade him a hero, as it did of Webster Fianagan four years before. However that may be, it is not to be disputed that, among the Northern delegates in National Demo eratic Conventions, Southern candi dates are far less populair than those belonging north of Mlason and Dix"n's line. Whlether this is due to the fact that the prejudiccs and asperities en kindled by the war and still latent operate on 'sectional grounds to the prejudice of such candidat es. or whether the objiectionl to the authiern candi dates is merely one of avaih-bility, the ernticai and decisive States being in the North and tnt in the South, is an interest ing qunesti,mn. ar.d oned not easy to decide. The)( F-aperimen4t on1 Coo-aw. I :eenv-ille New.] Thbe :ach1ieveent of .)vernor 'Till man in 4't4Oppin. lhe work of the ('oo saw comlp:uiy :i:d takitng possession of its terr itory ina the n:u ne of the StateC dloes not imtpress us as being very brave or grana ohroie or vailuable. There~ was w> ol:mLtr in! it. Thlere wvere no wheino1iO w:n-es 4r -lit tc c'annon1 or :mv other 1ari ies e. 1trors to face, n1' or ws thEreiany:i an; :er that we V mo:.n h: n' ctntrol 'ver is sala. rij'r contisn fnd,eo hord 'nn mor esges ver hn, :mdha ' n pliiein' - - ta ..bVt is ne'' *r com( '1. . r .:enrel in: b- m '1tr'- "h emp ,.n.le o i: o i ie \in t r imen in: 1 a ' .ry.h r-eofT and leave the river beds so unprofita ble that nobody will be able to work them iereaft'er and the land mines will b2 freed forever of the competition of river rcek. In that ca:e the State will have exchanged what .ronised to be a !termanent source of large and steady income for two or three years of in crease in her cceipts from royalties It looks much like a fight between the land and river phosphate miners with the governor throwing all the power of the State on the side of the land companies, with which the State has nothinL to do and from which sbe does not get a dollar of royalty, against the river companies'- which have been paying her from $150,000 to $225,000a year. Attorueys, friends and representa tives of the land companies have done the writing for the newspapers and the work in the legislature against the Consaw company. We s2 it stated that attorneys of the :and companies attended and advisid the phosphate corrmission when it went to take pos session of the territory claimed by the Coosaw company; and it is broadly hinted that those same land companies are bacling the new concerns which have applied for river license. It is the plain interest of the land companies to have the river beds so pieked over that they will be made worthless in the future. That would leave the land mines a monopoly and make their possessions far more valu able than they now are. We do not believe these land miners are working for patriotism or because they. have suddenly developed such love for the - people and the State as to make them spend mot)ey and labor to open up river mines and increase competition,. in their business for the sake of the people. If Governor Tillman had intended to - relieve the farmers and break down monoplies hiN best plan would have been to abolish the royalty entirely. It costs about the same to mine a ton of rock from land or water. -The water companies have been paying the State a royalty of a dollar a ton on their rock and selling at the same price as the land companies. That dollar the water companies pay is added by the land companies to their prices alid means that much'nore clear profit for them. If the royalty can be raised to $2.50-a ton prices will be raised in proportion on land and water rock and as the land companies do not have to pay it the in crease will be that much increase in their profits. The land companies must gain any way-whether prices are raised or river competitors are driven out or the river beds are ruined. The farmer pays the phosphates roy alty. It is the ona tax nobody shares with him. He pays it in the higher price of his fertilizer in which the phos phate rock is used. Added royaltyon. phosphate rock is simply a round about, indirect method of adding to the farmer's taxes while fooling himri~ the belief that he is being helped. All classes get the good of big royalty pay ments in lessened taxation, but the -- farmers alone pay them. - - The Coosaw company has made much money, even when 'irdened with the dollar a ton royalty. 'Ne land compa nies have not paid that royalty but they have added it in their prices be cause they knew 'the river companies could not undersell them and have cleared enormous profits. Governor Tillman may be innocently allowing the land companies to make a fool of him for their advantage or he may be their willing tool for purposes of his own. We cannot see inside of him annd do not know. After consid- -~ ering the statements, the facts and tigures from both sides-and for a long time only the side against the Coosaw compny was heard-we can not es .c;. the opil"en that he is doing one of the two 1. .gs. We cannot avoid the conclusio.- that the legislature of 1S7' made a fai-r, sensible trade when it granted the Coosaw company the ex elusive right to mine in seven miles of river at a dollar a ton and that the rash meddling now being done after four teen years is the result of officious and bull-headed foolishness or of walking he Stnte into a plain trap, or is evi dlence that-to use Governor Tillman's favorite campaign expression-"some thing is rotten in the State of Den ma:rk. 1T T.AKES OUT TILE STAIN. Iwhit b a lk-ntonz Far:neor. Md Fro th Ile A\uguxita Hecraid.] 1eret'ooe i hs ,.eemied an impos - i'ny toget stalined' cottI.'? a hite 'vith out inj:ring.. it. A process to accom pih i- has r'eent ly been discovered hv 3.r .1 J. Wlliams. ai -ucecssful far n it .iditonx. S. ( . Hie pacs his seed x:nin lyers. )ver each layer he 'kle- water with a pinie top, and af r 2:0 ts learvs it for nearly .1* . *. The s:ained and blue cot t a we I.ken on i's clean and white and ie asie a goxod as ever. The cottou w. lhen packed in this mam.er genaerates heat. which removes he aids, and the farmer is saved the di f~aee in price b,etwceen the stained aiwhit;e cottonl. be-ides gaining one po:md: jin eight in ginning. The heat n'erate.i in th~e par king kills the gerrn in t *o ed lut the oil in themi is not in*jur anl :. bxy are slieab!e to the "il 3.'r Wila:as h:.s found this process u. :-ui and he w'! be g.h4d to an . w-r anrv :inqu.ir.c eeneernxint it.' As tbe i.e<t eviece(s of it.s value it may be etC( tdtat this~ year he so1 ! h s entire crop as first-cla-- cotten.