Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-02-15

taohed to be effective. Il should
b. concentrated. In regard to rail.
road facilities, there is no good
reason Tor maintaining these many
scattered army posts. The present
force 10 sufficiently large for all
purposeA provided we could have .
good, effective force concentrated
at ono point.
Free Juse Asehiaery.
| WASHINGTON, Feb. 14th.-In
the House Page introduced q bill to
admit free Of duty certain jute ma.
chtnery for the use OF the Califer.
mia State Psnitentiary. Referred.
Ths Rssssi ApproprIsston hi.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14th.-The
Postal Appropriation bill was pro.
decided with. Pending the motion
to table. the subsidy amendment
being withdrawn and the various
propositions to perfect the original
amendments reported from the
Committee on the Postoffice being
overruled as not In order under
the rule, votes on these PROPOSE
lions ranged as follows: Is to II, IA
to 81 and 16 to "a. The amendment
by Morgan TO allow steamships to
| be Of steel as we'll as iron was
agreed to by q viva voca vote.
Tss ssssosssp sassiay B.jsessd.
WAsHINaToN. Feb. 14th.-Ths
Senate rejected the steamship sub-
sidy am radmsut to the Postofilce
appropriated bill BY . vote Of yeas
IA, nays4&. The bill was then
passed and the Senate took up the
House Funding Bill.
,ye1D yves seek.
CHICAGO, Feb. 14th.--Ths 7imes
gives choice extracts from jeff Da.
vis's "Ej3se and Fall Of the C0nfsd.
crate 0Svernmeut," which will be
issued (Arly this spring. He dedi-
Gates thu work to the widows and
orphans OF tbs Confederate dead,
saying thst he. conceives 1t to be
his duty to prepare this history.
He acqpits the South OF the re-.
sponsid5iity for slavery, which he
treats = only an incident Of the 90.
cesslou movement. The para.
mount question was equality In the
territories and to the inability Of
the South to secure slave code
be traces the conflict which burst
into open war. He opposed the
Missonsl compromise as . surren.
der of The rights Of the South, but
says IL repeal forced the South to
take aadecidsd stand. HU says the
electill6 Of Lincoln put the Federal
goveru5bspt In the, hands Of . party
under which the Southern States
could not live. Ssvefal chapters
are devoted to vlpdicAting the
right of secession. He deDonnces
Is q gross breach OF faith the At
tempt of the government to supply
Forts Sumter and Pickens with
provisions and ammunition, justi.
fiss their seisure BY the Confcder-
ates and lays on the North the re-
sponsibility for all the bloodshed.
Mr.. Davis fixes upon himself the
resi- Feasibility Of prolonging the
struggle after he was convinced
that. 6uccsss was impossible. The
concluding chapters, 1t is expeoted,
wilt defend bis policy.
Perashea IA sss Flames.
RENT, O., Feb. 14th.-The resi-
dsucs aud household effects Of Mr..
Klins, farmer living a few miles
sasG Of here, burned on Saturday,
Mr.. Kline, seventy years old, per-
iohod In the flames.
t.s.ss wlsssaess IL Faor,as.
| MADISON, Fla, Fes. s4sh.-Ilan.
mia E1an. Unitsd states Commits.
-.---s. ~. -... taking evidence In
the contested Congregational cleo.
ton case OF Blsbse We. Finley.
Frank Pattersap, q Democratic
lawyer, was overheard by negroes
to say all the witnesses would be
convicted Of perjury, for which
ICharlss Savage, . negro, killed
Patterson. Commissioner Egan
cried out "Give him another shot"
Savage was lodged In jail and the
Governor sent three military COM
paniss to guard it. Egan escaped
but was captured at Albany, Ga.
He is Q lawyer and q Republican.
Both whites and blacks are armed.
All the stores were closed on Sat.
urday.
The 8slls0sd sIa0sil0a Vt OmahG-I
shOss Of Fact.
OMAHA, Feb. 14th.-Early this
morning another snow storm be.
gan and has continued steadily all
day. No wind, however, has been
stirring In this vicinity and hence
it has rot drifted, but high wind
and big drifts are reported west
and south Of Lincoln. The storm
came again from the east and at
three O'clock this afternoon was
raging from Omaha to Sidney, 400
miles, with the thermometer eight
degree above zero here and zero at
sidney. At Grand Island eight
inches Of snow fell this forenoon.
The condition of the railroads is
not much improved, and IL Q wind
comes up tonight the work of
clearing out that has already been
done will be undone. Three delay.
ed passenger trains arrived here
from the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy road since midnight and II
noon to-day 1t was claimed the
road was practically clear from
Omaha to Chicago. These are the
hrst trains that have come from
Chicago since last Friday. The last
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
train, which came In at noon, met
with an accident vt daylight, 100
miles sast Of here, the rear section
running into the section ahead.
Three engines, coach and the
baggage car were wrecked. The
train was brought In by y freight
engine. Three delayed passenger
trains over the Chicago aud North.
western and three trains over the
Chicago and Rock leland are ex-