| Show BY TELEGRAPH PER UNION umon une UVE AMERICAN A ile nie RI 0 AN new NEW YORK gomz 13 tho the herald prints print a three column reply from mcmahon of philadelphia whom wilom it has repeatedly assailed as the boss of f the republican ring there the herald says of him he gives the impression of a grave man inhere interested t in his work and arid that work the keeping of the republicans in the majo majority rity fity in ili philadelphia Phi adelphia adelphin intact he doos not ask to earry carry the sins of any one in the republican party but denies emphatically in all his personal doings not only in the gas trust but in every act of his life the slightest dishonor we accept what he says as true the herald says but biow low has he be a poor man grown rich in politics why is he be boss simply and only because by the aid hid of men like leeds rowan collis collisano Col coi lisand and their fol Jo wing owing he controls patronage and has the disbursement of public revenues 11 it challenges him to come the people for their suffrage the tribunes anva washington aw special says in conversation with a correspondent yesterday a well informed army officer said that in his iD pinion opinion sherman would soon carry out ut the purpose he indicated last year sherman has often expressed a preference for st louis as a place lace of residence and it is broadly fainted flinted hinted by military men that sher mans st louis preference has been greatly strengthened 0 bythe by the result of the recent elections it rt is common talk among many officers that the defeat of hancock caused sherman great di appointment disappointment and regret one officer of rank remarked today to day that he was int informed ormed that thai sherman cast his vote for hancock in stlouis st louis Louls the heralds cleveland special says great curiosity has been felt to know if the meeting be awen gar field and foster had any signi significance fleance askegard asye as regard gard the united states senator ship or cabinet foster emphatically said gaid he lie was a candidate for senator all the way wiy way through and meant to strive s hard to obtain the position have you had any conversation today to day or at any time with wi th garfield concerning his cabinet no except in a general way garfielo Garfi elc elg does not know what ill lil his s cabinet will be the herald special says gar fl reids elds troubles at mentor may be said to have just commenced now that lie he has been elected the horde bof of office seekers begin to pounce on eim him at eveny every every turn judge davis this morning rendered an elaborate decision in the case of philp the accused is charged with two offenses lenses of first that he wrote the so called letter counterfeiting delting the signature of garfield thereto and hat at after gar neld made a public benial of having written such a letter the accused wrote an elit eilt editorial orial lying and sticking tto it and asserted that gen garfield was a liar in denying the authorship of it it is apparent his honor says mo aio such person as henry L morey existed at lynn mass the letter as is unquestionably aforge rv and not in the handwriting of or garfield the question of the guilt or innocence of or phlp must be left to a jury juny to determine the rile defendant is held to answer to the charge of criminal libel and must be committed or give bail ball the tile genuineness of morey is a veny very import important int factor in the ase case philp must be held to answer unless he can show garfield wrote the letter judge davis said mr air hewitts dewitts He witts connection with the transaction is of f the most extraordinary ch character ar acter aeter hart testified when lie he received the letter of the very singular way in which it reached him his mind was aroused he saw its importance jf if genuine as a weapon of deadly power in the hands of garfielda garfield Gar fields V oll oil oll oil foes he was not satisfied to publish it upon the examination which he and his e elit elif lit orial staff could make and therefore took the letter and envelope to the democratic national committee for inspection spec tion he there saw hewitt mr mi barnum randall and several others mr hewitt showed it them and said in substance thit lie he did not want to publish the letter if it was a forgery but if gen aine lie lle did and wanted no other paper to get ahead of him hesayo he says sass it was examined by all the persons named but mr hewitt made the clo cio cloae close eat stand and most careful examination and iliad then pronounced the letter both body and signature to be the handwriting whitin of garfield photographs were luken meen for the use of tho the na committee and mr air hart re turned with the letter to his office his mind was not fully satisfied and fo f o late in the evening he sought besought and found hewitt again and was assured that hewitt had e examined a large number of gen garfielda Gar fields letters letter 3 and that the morey letter was genuine and this was clinched by impressing mr harts mind with the idea that he would have made it a forgery if he be could it is not very surprising that hart with the usual anxiety of newspaper publishers to be ahead of thelt theli neighbors should have published the letter without further inquiry but it is astonishing that a man of known f sagacity sagacity and of great experience in bubines and in public affairs and who is suppo supposed ed to have decent respect for truth and justice and who speaks ar kg as an expert in writing with all ail I 1 he uhe suspicious circumstances that attended the reception of the letter with the envelope and ani its erasures era before 1 him alm with the city po and station stamps on its back hack with letter marked personal and confidential and addressed to some person who he did not know with the letter before him the contents which if true would le be greatly injurious to his enemies and if false would do wrong to his friends as a base and wicked assassins assassin stab should have llave thought it just to press and cause its publication without first removing all doubts as to its character however much an equitable division may leave for others upon mr hewitt must rest the largest share of the responsibility of the first publication of the base and shameful forgery and his AS subsequent relation to the forgery doe does not lift a single shadow from his conduct he was a member of the national committee he doubtless knew the extent and purpose for which it was taken and used by that committee and that it went forth to the country with the sanction of his endorsement he knew beyond question it met speedily with tle the indignant denial of general garfield who denounced the letter a base and stupid forgery and its sentiments ments as brutal judge davis also says says nry my ary mind has reached the ele cle elear clear ar conviction that the so called morey letter in body signature and all its parts is not the hand writing of general garfield but is altogether a funge furge forgery iv perpetrated by some person or body of persons for the purpose of deceiving in the people and degrading th them em and general garfield of their votes the evidence bearing upon guilt or innocence ce nce nee of the forgery 0 is voluminous and would dema demand nd a careful analysis taken in a connection with other evidence in the cases it tends to e cablish a conspiracy to accomplish a national crime the conspiracy points to men in other quarters and offar of far higher pout poAt portions ions lons of whom he may hive hwe been an accomplice or only a dupe and tool it is better therefore that the question of actual guilt of forgery be left to the consideration consideration of a jury before whom additional and perhaps more decisive evidence may be brought ST 13 at also last night nigh t gilpin government inq inspector of mine and the local manager with a gang of men went down the shaft and made a short exploration they found the atmosphere a little clearer than during the day and the party were enabled to penetrate further along the main railway to the south they found the bodies of three men and a number of dead horses two of the bodies they were able to take with them to the tile surface but the third was so tightly jammed in a heap of fallen timber and rubbish that an attempt to extricate it would be incurring danger as is the rubbish would certainly fall upon anyone touching it the choke damp was detill till too thick to allow the party to carry their explorations very far but in one of the boards on the start from the main railway a faint smell of smoke and slightly warmer atmosphere could be detected which showed that jt it was not improbable in p the fire still remained in the mine when the party came to the surface a crowd had collected to hear the latest news two dead bodies were carried ino IWO the temporary dead house one was identified as that of McGillivray but the others were so charred clia ella and ana disfigured as to be unrecognizable one miner who escaped unharmed sa says y k that in trying bryin 9 to get to the shaft he stumbled across the prostrate form of an old man he stopped and calling some others running by to his assistance got him into the cage to go to the surface and aud then looked about and found a little boy apparently dead ite he was only insensible and lie he got the little fellow follow and old man to the surface and then thed found he lie had rescued his own son and his poor old father A brother was still below in the morning james hudon hud on greener and two or three other picked men went down into the shaft the rile party were able to go further into galleries than the previous night chokedamp the choke damp was clearing away and fire was discovered to b be burning a little further on to the brick stopping here an unused passage was floxd found and dense black smoke was coming out w with th a roar like escaping steam the men at once ran back to 3 the rest of the party and as all were now in the greatest danger rapidly got to the pit bottom and ascended to the surface the local manager government inspector and several other oilier men all miners were called to a meeting in the company compans comp anys office and a plan dian of the mine was spread out on a a table the location of or the nire fire fixed as well as possible and the belt beat action discussed it was determined ter mined to flood a portion of the mine where the fire seemed to proceed from as if prompt measures were not taken further explosions were not unlikely at any moment the conee consequence quence of which might be serious on the surface all night a ceaseless tapping of small hammers was heard in one of the carpenter shops and on returning from the mouth of the shaft the spectacle was one which is nt often orten seen rhe fhe place had been c converted into an undertakers shop collins coffins were being made by schrag scores that no delay might be occasioned the number logt loat might inight be as high as nifty fifty the ditale rous state of the mine will render the recovery of the bodies ies les impossible for many days perhaps weeks anti and in the dead house a huge platform is erected and will be made higher 11 so that there would be ample room for the bodies as last as fouad an old man viewed the lody body which could not be recognized the night before heat he at once I 1 identified him by his clothes as his son in law john skinner boots byots and legs are charred one hand roasted face burnt black and the top of his head crushed to ajola bidy gillroy was hut but little disfigured death having evidently been caused by choke damp rhe fhe binquet will be com corn fenced by dr niu ain murray rray at 12 in the village mr dunbar is in bed in a semi unconscious condition he is the only rescued man who was seriously injured he was a lamp jamp cleaner and had a cabin at the bottom of the pit aels bels he is unable to speak long enough 0 to tell his story but his wife says as far as she can gather from what he be said ho hie was wab in his cabin at the time of the explosion he saw the flames burst inthe back door and he rushed out the front and fell on his face his oil soaked clothing had llad however caught fire and was burning when his son fon f pon son in com corn ing to the pit bottom found fount him and extinguishing hi bi gar garments mento with some assistance got him to the sur face the old man is badly burned on the back and right side ame in one spot on ou the chest chea and no noe nose se one arm is so badly burned that the skin is 14 peeled down over his hand he did not complain of or suffering ferin much which tak tok is 4 D a bad sign he has frequent delirium periods is 70 years old and lind is recovery is doubtful all the other rescued men are out of dan danger gerand and aud able to converse about their escape all tell the same tale that they had been suddenly struck down and know nothing of the cause there is great mourning among the cottages blinds are down in every third or fourth place those suddenly ud denly made widows have large families of young children and if generous assistance si is not rendered them their buffering fering this winter will be great in seed volk voik has been almost wholly suspended in the mines since the disaster later the pit is flooded and all danger is considered over no more bodies can be recovered NEW YORK 13 ire Ile regarding garding the following paragraph in general Sch seh schofields dd report the superintendent of the department in the exercise of executive discretion may hereafter as heretofore show undue kindness toward any unworthy cadet calet even for no better rea reacon reason kon zon han than that he is colored but the academic board or court martial can be pretty confidently relied upon to do lim alm him aim impartial justice in the end the times comments thus whatever wa lat general schofield is ignorant of or beshon ld not be ignorant of the res rek pact peet due from an army officer to the seere Secre secretary iary lary of war 9 superintendent of or the war department is a phrase used by gen schofield el either elther therasa therssa as a slur on the as circumlocution to enable him to refer to the secretary without doing so specifically this tin s officious general says in the exercise of off omm official leial discretion I 1 may hereafter as heretofore show undue kindness towards an unworthy cadet even for no better reason than that he is colored the generals own report shows a eadeth color may be very excellent the superintendent of department should show him that undue kindness to white cadets cabets having things pretty much their own way dont need any attention from the civil head of the military establishment but whether this slighting allusion sey or his predecessor or both in yol yoi as it does a charge of unwarranted partiality is strictly proper on the part of general schofield is is a question forthe president or his representatives fo to answer to the warde war wan de department a n i A washington special says the democrats have not given up the hope of capturing the next house of representatives already notices of aa 44 contests bave have been served and adamos s has the making up of the roll rall rail these those con tests give kneat great signi significance flance to springer s recent ret reg remarks narks in this city when the complexion xion of the next house was discussed ed that all he cared about was to know how bow adams would stand the republican congressional committee has been informed that the democrats will contest the following first and und second alabama first and second louisiana third and ninth missouri first see second and third south carolina and the second and sixth mississippi cievo sis sippi pl there is no reason 0 to o believe however that the republicans republican will lose jose control of the house through these contests A Washl ripton special says speculating |
