The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-16

and Jail.
Ex-Gov, DENIsoN, of Ohio, known as the
war governor, died at Columbus, in that state,
yesterday.
SENATOR MAXEY has championed the bill
to Inappropriate $4,000 to pay mail con-
tractors for services before the war in the
southern states. Senator Conger opposed this
bill and cited the Confederate records to prove
that these contractors had turned over to the
confederacy, and the Confederate records
show that they received pay from the Confed-
crate government for said services. There is
no boubt but Mr.. Conger is correct in major-
ity of instances, but there are claims of this
character that are just and should be paid.
Because a mail contractor was forced into the
Confederate service, or continued to carry the
mails under the Confederacy, was no fault of
his. The federal government failed to give
him protection and he fell victim to the
fate of civil war, while his service was emf
nently one connected with the domestic
comfort and convenience of the people-the
same people who are to-day good citizens of
the United States. Maxey is measurably
right.
THE phenomenal son of a democrat who
runs the U. S. Congress in the Chili-Peruvian
quasi Bolivian business, has again got on his
paint, and the first cousin of Manchausen is
succeeded in the mendaciy chair by ex-minis
ter and envoy, Trescott. 1t seems that the
shape in which the hungry Mr.. Belmont pro-
poses to take his Blaine this time is dripping
with the unsavory sauce of Credit Industriel.
But the successor of Shipherd in the menda-
cious seat refused to immerse the exSecretary.
The fact is Mr. Trescot seems inclined to
suppress what he don't know instead of letting
Just that out, as Shipherd did, and the game
can't be bagged in that way. If Mr.. Blaine
is to be overtaken and the greedy Mr.. Belmont
to have festive meal, somebody has got to
outlie Shipherd by proving that Shipherd told
the truth. 1t is painfully obvious, seen from
the Belmont observatory, that Prescott is not
the man, and the phenomenal son of the Au-
tocrat of the democrats is not going to be fed
on Blaine, with or without gravy, till he
adorns that cane bottom with some eagle of
fiction who will touch the very dome of the
Empyrean of Lies with his wings-for the
lofty peaks of the Shpherd mendacity have
got to be scaled.
THE SUMMARY tactics to which the people
of Missouri and the Northwest have had re-
course since diplomatic relations were inaugu-
rated by Gov. Crittenden on behalf of the
Missouri commonwealth with the Jesse James
murderers, are certainly not in harmony with
the governors plan. The case of the Brook
field bank robbers is one that should put an
end to stealing and murder on the plan of the
Jesse James association. The public are in
dead earnest about shutting down on such
spectacles as the late Crittenden masquerade
The Brookheld Bank was robbed on the 9TH
inst. at 4 p. m. Six mounted armed masked
men rode into town, and straight to the Bank,
where they dismounted. Five entered and
one remained in charge Of the horses. Inside
were the cashier and an assistant. Passers-by
were covered with pistols and warned not to
interfere. The cashier was threatened and
compelled to deliver about $1,000 in money
and large amount Of valuables. With these
they got off before the general public compre
hended the outrage.
The town, however, was soon in great ex.
element, and a large party, mounted and
armed, was speedily in pursuit AS the news
spread the whole country blazed with excite
ment, and in all directions mounted men hur-
ried to the chase.
On the morning of June 9th, at 6 o'clock,
% hours after the commission Of the robbery.
they found themselves surrounded in farm
house in which they had taken refuge by zoo
mounted and armed men. They has stocked
the place as fort and designed to defend it.
But the scene was rather too dispiriting. They
surrendered upon guarantee of safe delivery
in a Jail. 1t was believed that horse stealing
has been one Of their recent practices, and the
next news will probably be of their lynching.
The indulgence of an ambition for heroism
under such circumstances is discouragng to
the youth of the West