The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-04-14
TELEGRAPHIC.
A HOTEL BURNED.

Between one and two O'Clock on
Wednesday morning the Southern
Hotel in st. Louis was discovered to
be on fire. The flames spread rap
idly and the building was burned to
the ground. The loss of life is still
unknown. AT first reports placed it
as high as one hundred; then it was
decreased to fifty and now but ten
names can positively be given as
those of the dead. Still the number
must be larger than this. 1t is not
yet possible to search among the
smouldering ruins for bodies, and in
the excitement and confusion people
are missing whose fate is not deter
mined. The scenes Of suffering and
death were appalling. Kate ClaXton
had as narrow an escape as at the
Brooklyn Theatre fire. The hotel
was valued at. about 81, 100000 and
the insurance foots up about half
that much. No Baltimore compan-
les had any risks upon it.
PATRIOTIC SPEECH.
New YORK, April Ga Char
lotte, n. c., dispatch says Governor
Hampton reached there last night
and made speech, in which he said:
II have the greatest confidence in
the President, | believe him to be
sincere, honest and determined to
discharge the duties of office under
the constitution and the executive of
this entire great nation" The Gov
ernor concluded by remarking that
but for the votes of the honest col
ored people of South Carolina he
would not now be her Governor,
and having pledged himself to
secure to the colOred man all his
rights and privileges under the con-
stitutiOn and laws Of the State, he
was going to see it done, so help him
God.
TUE LOUISIANA PROBLEM.
New YORK, April l0--The Tri-
b'0ae'S New Orleans dispatch says:
President Hayes special commission
labOred for four hours yesterday with
a delegation Of the leading business
men Of the city with the object Of
persuading them to organize move
ment to compel politicians to form
consolidated legislature OF all the
members in both rival bodies whose
election is conceded. The members
OF the commission made earnest
speeches. The business men We're,
however, immOvaele. They said
that rather than run the risk of hav-
ing to endure Packard as governor
they would resist with arms 50 as to
make military government neces-
sary. TO-day's experiment. ends this
compromise plan. The commission
may now try and bring about an adj
justment on the basis of Il legislature
made up from the face of the parish
returns. This is the only co npro-
mise that has the least prospect of
acceptance by the conservatives.
TIE NEW ENGLAND METHoDIsTs.
BOsTON, April THE New Eng
land Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church at the meeting at
Lynn to day adopted unanimously
the following as a substitute for the
political resolution of Rev. DR.. NAL
lilieu, previously offered:
That the warm and practical SYM
pathy of this Conference for the OPP
pressed of our land is a history of
too long standing and too outsp0ken
to need any reaffirmation by us at
the present time, and now that legal
lied slavery has been forever abol-
ished in this, our country we feel
equally DESTROYS that they who, hav-
ing been victims of that oppression,
were deprived of their civil rights
and means for intellectualsand morah
culture, may have secured to them
all the rights and privileges that
their changed relations to the coun-
try, and their consequently increased
responsibility so imperatively de-
mand for them.