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Savannah. Ga.
Affairs in Georgia.
. nnna ! meeting of the farmers of
*, tou k place at Springfield, on the
~ ‘ tb0 camp ground arbor. The
„ wa8 opened with prayer by the
x. tnaiin, after which Col. G. R.
f Screven, addressed the citizens.
I* 1 ** Ailimfi E S q., also addressed the
lathe afternoon.
EiBni
l3tt
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per. Boot-
after the large
A*
ftroe y,’ had discussed a dinner prepared
""T 3 farmers of Emanuel, Mr. Wilson
If 11 * on the suhjeot of odneation.
If. following named gentlemen were elect-
1 ' »aadin£ committee for j the year
AMERICAN GENTLEMEN.
el the
13T3:
joflLua M. Dasher, J. D. Groover,
Kieffer, O. E. Smith, R. (
G ,Vf.Fov,A.N--Ki
L. Hawkins, F. Gnaon, Jr.,
f which Mr. Dasher was
and Judge A. F. Rahn
Norton,
jj or gan, James
A F. Rahn, of
elected Chairman
jjfcretary
A corresp
Ifnt writing from Effingham
county :
“Crops are good, fruit trees
breaking down,
^0 over burdenet and
“ j the outlook in old Effingham is particu-
urlv bright and profniaiog.”
vmsn w ho stole a horse two years ago
i| . 5U .,i 1 t to Jonesboro last week to an-
"« r lor the crime. Verily the way of the
(iinsaressor 1
i hard.
““ j q o.L. Strozier and W. T. Anderson
e arrested aud carried to Atlanta from
roveta county, upon a charge of violating
tbe enforcement act. The complaint states
•hit these two men beat Catharine McGee
inti Mil y Martin because they refused to
• [or Strocier. The case was heard ou
ipreliminary eximination before United
Slates Commissioner Smith.
t “Citizen” in the Atlanta Constitution
thicks that the convention is going beyond
Hi work when it “nibbles at the Duello”
aol the retailing of liquor.
For the small sum of one dollar, each
member of the convention can get a short
biography of his life neatly bound in cloth,
aod adorned with a portrait of the President
of the convention —the noble Jenkins. This
opportunity to purchase famo does not
thrust itself upon a people every day.
Mr. Tom Ames, of Oglethorpe county,
lost one day last week over a hundred head
0 > bogs with cholera. That’s a wholesale
business.
For live days the city of Atlanta baa been
without water in consequence of a break
down in the water works; but, aa tho
brewery ism fail blast, tho convention does
not materially eutfjrfrom the dry spell.
TkeCutlibert Appeal predicts a “stormy
opposition” to the ratification of the conven
tion in certain sections. We trust that the
Democracy will turn out on the occasion
ud pat the seal of their approbation upon
the work of tho convention by a vote greater
than that which elected Colquitt Governor
ol the State.
Somebody has sued Salisbury, of the Co
lumbus Enquirer-Sun, for libel. His name
is Palmer, and he says that bis character has
been damaged to the extent of fifty thou
sand dollars.
After four years trial the school system of
Richmond county has been perfected, and
after a considerable wrangle the psy of the
teachers of the high school has been fixed
at $115 per month.
Professor Willct’s little girl, while swing
ing in the Park, at Macon, on Saturday, fell
oat and dislocated or fractured her left arm.
There were niuo interments in ilacon for
the week ending Saturday, of which three
were white children and six colored. Only
one adult (coloredj was buried during the
week.
laSandersvillo there is a cork tree grow
ing io the yard of the residence formerly oc-
cupioil by tho late Major Brookins, which is
atleiatono loot in diameter, aud twenty-
five or thirty feet In height. Tho Major
planted it some fifteen or twenty years ago.
There U only one still in one neighbor
hood over in Jasper, and after getting th&
different pirts together it was found the
worm was gone, and now there is much
tribulation.
Bonaparte Mackia, an old and highly es
teemed citiz on of Liwrenoeviile, died at his
plantation on last Tuesday. He had been a
citizen of the town for over fifty years.
A Butts coanty pair got married last Sun-
^y under very peculiar circumstances by a
Justice of the Peace. It was done in the
^pen a;r, ai a spring near the bride’s bouse,
SDl * while tho ceremony was being perform
ed the reported arrival of the big brother of
the bride caused a general stampede of
Person, bride and groom, who performed a
wedding tour on foot for the distance of
twelve miles.
Iherewasa lengthy and fearful fight in
•ie Council Chamber of Augusta over the
‘Ppropriatioa for school purposes. It was
Proposed to abandon tho high school alto-
ht lh r ’ the friends of education made a
r \*yand 0 ucceeded in obtaining an appro-
i‘.4i;on of twenty-three thousand dollars—
annrr • 0a9aua dodar3 less than last year’s
appropriation.
Jfif"!
clip from tho Sacdersville
the
eoryian, which is authority on
Hobvtm^v : “ ^e Weekly, like the
*he lie i? We thought, had attained
hat t/i ti 'v ' 4 excellence in journalism,
IrttniJ ♦t a ‘ r , e i, ■ y array of attractive
turaJ n 5 ^ EEKLY now adds an Agricul-
‘7“ Department^|— *• - ■
experienrUi , “ l * C4refull y edited by an
v JJ® farnor and agriculturalist.
of Thomas county. The
*•— ‘ Li ^ EWs * Wlt h ita varied and Judi-
Sn 8 " iectoJ
A^ricnh 8 -f—ui
komh i rHl De P art ^ent,i
nmn/iJ mi scellany, its news col-
1 19 literary department, and now its
H'Qiurm • • . , is unsurpassed in
Ur.. n J°urualism, and is worthy tho
Buccess. M
„ — Terms, $2 a year.'
tr ‘V'of W1 | Unett “The immense
iklerai 1 ■
. s year has stirred up con-
Mto-i Tr llltc re«t in the distilling business.
°Psr»iii,i. e i r ' V , kranctl will have its still in
j, “ on bof °i'e September."
“Evervb''j> et fiom the Early County News-.
Biii-Uter’ ’ wau,s to see ‘ My Mother’s
no*” ' _ wo jueau tUe charming story
"ttsu- , i)Ubl ‘* be ‘l in the Savannah
iiterarv f.?. s ‘ 41)6 way, the special
* <1| i , -a‘toi” ta , re wbio11 Mr. Estill has lately
Oore bonvht * r terI “;i>' journal, lias made it
log it d ‘ tr than ever, notwithstand-
te *ding pnbi* V « r boou 1 favorite with tho
toetkithidn'^ 8 - . de l tro J or . shooting at a
Qe *r kiii-no-t? 1 P a,( ^ the collar tax, came
SUaciii.r daughter of a citizen, a shot
and th0
tui
jnatico
pu the collar bone. With irnpar-
‘Ue hntiuirer aavs r “The
dent r - n ’l*irer says : “Tho acci-
whatever „„ f, Clu,, ed by aDy carelessness
““sot to n, .? of ‘be officer. There
die canines »*!{ cr mtj ans of disposing of
liveg,” - ituout endangering person.’
f o[^i ar '■ff’Peuf says ; “Last spring
this » m i j?,* es > cumbering seventy-five,
»0S. L, .? tc ' 1 ''? rt county for South Caro-
thrned. 0 theeday some of the same re-
jktili Carolina “ded how they liked
l‘ ei ’ fcpltcd 'sorter well,’
S 4Ja ’ preferred Georgia.”
^J'kes of 6 nt * Constitution : “Seven
J 1110 Kunr, ^“ferior Courts, ono Judge
“’-Atc-a Sen„ ““ i Cu “rt, and an ex-United
in th. i a ’., wer ® a11 Beated on one
^«cu in tv, ’ er '
? tbe Rsllery i
at the convention yes-
: “Govw„ 5 ~ n 0t , tbe Macon Telegraph
‘\the man,io- n T, Co Muitt held a reception
'hriiii aQt ,L3 Thursday night, which was
Pre-sen. lr ’m, b Qll J half the convention
,." ,e lilioj 1110 parlors of the mansion
Geo,
“‘’Bi'gia n-,- wit h as
il u , of ‘he c^Jf?. u - —
nn klf , ati-i t \ entl °n, hold these reoeptions
they wU i be I ona( ] most
as lino an assembly of
- The r” * u ' RChtlomon as I have ever
r 00 -°f the conJr r fi 0r *‘h. during tho ses-
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1877.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
in^eLr?f„ e ^‘' ie . P ? ss haa the following
in regard to the stocking of the Chattahoo-
chee nver with ahad: “Last Monday. Mr.
Baird b = maDD ’ ageDt of Prof * 8 * F -
Fi«hSrfA B °ommuamner of United States
«1SV ar m Weat Point with 50,000
smaH white shad which ho put in the Chat
tahoochee river at the old bridge site. Mr.
50 000°mn?A t 8e K thr ° Ugh the Bame da J wi th
lm«°° rSSJi Put ia the river at Golum-
wfi* Q The ®? fish came from South Hadley
fiji ’i were only
nothin^- u They were < l Qite small—
visible but two eyes aud a tail. Tho
water in the cans had to bo changed every
two hours and kept at even temperature
i7nt\mVj* D81t !?* Phe8e fidh g° d°wn stream
^nri 1 th » y i e , a , ch ? aIt water * Tho males re-
*R r “ e *S h Allowing spring, and the females
when they are old enough to spawn, which
s three years. Their nature is to
return every spring to the poiniwhere
they were spawnetj or-ipiartfiliBi The
«rf r ^? e 0 P a wu.of , ‘a fuJlgrown shad is,
♦ ii ‘‘boused per year. Mr. Scheuramann
l 01 , a , n3 experiment has proven that shad
nsii do well in muddy streams as well as in
clear ones, and says that in three years wo
will begin to catch good shad here, and in
six years we will have them in abundance,
lhe little fellows were quite vUvely-and
seemed to be doing wall. 9 They were, sent
- -^ WWJAA. ^ A Uuy WCMySBUl
here on a requisition made bvotoe Hon.
Henry R. Harris.” '
This is tho way that P. A. S., the correB-
pondent of the Augusta Chronicle and Con-
sUtutionalist, immortalizes the committees
of the convention: “Like ‘shipwrecked
sailors waiting for a sail’ are the nine mem
bers of the Homestead Committee. We
learn that since they have submitted their
report they have again gouo to pieces, and
are floundering in barren strands. Each
man has a homestead of his own to report,
which would just work perfection but the
trouble ig that eight other blockheads
won’t see it.”
This is the way the Constitution makes
organic law. We are pleased to know that
the ratification of the convention work is
thus secured: “The capital question is
likely to come ud &t any moment. The
special commitee on'the capital has agreed
to report the facts back to the convention
without aDy recommendation whatever.
This is a practical victory for Atlanta, and
will be so considered. There is scarcely
any doubt, since Atlanta has made such a
liberal proposition, that the name of Atlan
ta will be inserted in the constitution. This
will insure the ratification of this instru
ment, which will be otherwise a matter of
doubt.”
THE MEXICAN QUESTION.
The Southern Christian Advocate thus no
tices the taking off, of its editor in chief:
“Eov. F. M. Kennedy, D. D-, editor of this
paper, was uuitefi io marriage to Mrs.
Louise C. Wise, of this city, on July 17.
Mrs. Kennedy is the daughter of Mr. Joseph
(llisby, the veteran editor of the Georgia
Telegraph and Messenger i of Macon, Ga.
The ceromony was performed by Eev. A. W.
dishy, of the Presbyterian Church, an uncle
of tho bride. Tho marriage took place in
the elegant residence of the bride in this
city, in the presence of her family circle,
and two others who were privileged to wit
ness the simple but sacred ceremony.
There was an elegant repast that followed,
after which ‘the twain made one’ left for an
excursion in higher latitudes. The writer
congratulates cordially the happy pair on
this auspicious event; may their days be
maDy and blessed.”
War exists between Mayor Ilnff, of MacoD,
and a majority of the Board of Aldermen.
The trouble grows out of a contract which
exists between the Mayor and the last Coun
cil in referen.ee to certain rights and privi
leges regarding the public park, which was
leased to the Mayor, and which tho present
Council desire to abrogate. In the Macon
Telegraph the Mayor speaks as follows,
which shows that although he was unsuc
cessful in obtaining the Slarshalship, he will
not have his other rightB abridged: “The
fifth charge made by these conscientious
guardians of the city treasury is true—for 1
do claim to have a good and valid lease and
contract with the Council for five years, and
shall bo defend it in the courts of my
country. I understand, Messrs. Editors,
that these ‘eight’ wiseacres quote in their
article certain statements made by mo in
1872, touching the value of the Park as an
investment, etc., etc. These statements
were then true, and if the Park property had
been managed and conducted as it might
have been, and would have beeD under cer
tain offers and opportunities then made, and
had, it would have been yielding to-day a
yearly income of two thousand to four thou
sand dollars. As it is, two or three hundred
dollars is the sum realized outside
of the rent I pay. With the
properly absolutely in my hands, I can
make it pay one to two thousand
dollars a year, even now, when all is dead
and asleep in Macon. But with a broken
down street railroad, a narrow-minded set
of city legislators, backed up by a sickly,
simpering crew of whining street grumblers,
spewing out their daily complaints about
‘park contract,’ ‘park expense,’ etc., etc.,
until the whole city business is parked with
in the narrow circlo of ‘eight’ men’s
brains, a sort of ‘little leven of an old
lump’ which has so long threatened to
‘leven the whole’ city goveroment; with
this state of affairs, I say nothing can be
done bnt stand and wonder at tho silly ex
ploits of a boasted majority who arc not
willing that a majority of the people shall
rule and direct them in their action."
The Working People.
In a recent speech at Sheffield, Eng
land, Mr. Itoebuck spoke of the difficul
ty which the members of the working
classes have in saving money. “To mani
fest providence is for them to manifest a
virtue almost unsurpassed in this world
of oars.” There are so many innocent
indulgeneies of which a man in fail work
and on full pay can have his modest
share that it is a severe trial of resolution
to do without them. It is not much, at
the best, compared with the luxurious
enjoyments of others, that the laboring
man asks. He is called upon to bear the
heat and burden of the battles of peace
and war, of which others, no worthier,
receive the rank and emoluments, and is
in general well content bo that he can se
cure food, raiment aud shelter for his
wife and children. When hard times
come thoughtless people are apt
lo ask -why the working classes
did not save, as if saving on
wages only sufficient to keep body and
soul together was the easiest thing in the
world. It would be interesting to know
how much the individuals who taunt the
working classes thus have ever saved
themselves. Mr. Eoebnck seemed to
think that it was the glass too much and
the drink too long which prevented the
English workingmen from prospering. In
this country there is as much sobriety,
courtesy and industry among mechanics
and laborers as any other people, but it
is no easy matter for the boat of them so
to economise as to tide over such times
as the present. George Sand says that
poverty makes the workingman drink,
and drink makes him vicious. That asser
tion could not be applied here, for, in
the majority of cases, our working
men are tempeiato and intelligent.
Yet they have great trials to endure, and
deserve in those trials the sympathies and
aid of the community. At this moment
in the United States there are multitudes
of honest and industrious men who, from
no fault of theirs, are out of employment
and utterly unable to provide for families
which are as dear to them, and deservedly
so, as those of the wealthiest m the land.
Possibly if more of the labor of this com
paratively new country were employed u
agriculture, and city life mad ®
nate to country life, as it is in the South,
where, notwithstanding the
meat by the war, there is less d >8tress for
tho means of life than in any other part
of the United States, it would be better
for the common good.—JA. *■ t3un.
The Black Hills Times publishes the
following: “We learn from John Mc-
Kelvey, of St. Paul, that on the 1-th
instau’ ns the B.smarck stage arrived at a
noint two miles north of Bear Buttes and
?e"es“°m Crook City they came
upon the bodies of two men and one
woman lying in the road. The men were
shot and scalped. Bn( j
“The woman was shot, scalped
horribly mutilated and murdered,
party was traveling by ox teaE “' ,
contents of their wagon were scatter
promiscuously around The Indians
about twelve m number, a* ter «Uiing
these travelers attacked a party
teamsters who were corrated a few miles
hack bat ran away at first fire.
“PJncer Mine, No. 6, above Discovery,
on Brad wood Gulch, after aweeksiuo-
nn three hundred and twenty
ZoeTof^ dust, valued at about fifty-
seven hundred dollars.
What General Pre«ton Thinks—How
t roaning the KIo Grande Differs from
Cros^ng the Rhine.
M .Wj* “
fans
an iron
man
car
[From the Cincinnati Enquirer.]
Lexington, Ky., July 14.—General
William Preston, of this city, formerly
our Minister to Spain and the Confede
rate Minister to Mexico, is one of tho
best qualified men in the country to pass
judgment on the all-absorbing Mexican
question. He is a great international
lawyer, has had large diplomatic expe
rience, and knows every peculiarity of
the Mexican country and people. There
fore your representative thought his
views on the subject would be peculiarly
^ficaptabie to the public, and sought him
at his residence this morning. The
Generaljvas at first very reluctant to say
anything for publication, but after great
urgency on thef the Enquirer
man he consented to the following inter
view :
“General,” said the reporter, “I be
lieve you have had large military and
officiar experience in Mexico, have you
not ?”
“I have,” said General Preston.
“Well, then, will yon please state your
views of our present relations with that
country ?”
“I have not examined the facts particu
larly, except so far as the conflicting
orders to the troops of the United States
by our government and those of President
Diaz, of Mexico, for the preservation of
order on our frontiers are concerned. I
think t^ie papers, in the present dearth of
news, take a more alarming view of the
situation than the facts warrant, and
that there is likely to be no collision or
war from jealousy of jurisdictional rights.
There is. 4 no great river nor range of
monpKp to give a defined frontier, but
iSn vas'
there iSf vast unpeopled plain, so that
solitude makes a frontier.”
“But if that frontier is violated, will it
not bring on a war wi£h Mexico ?
“I think not; it is not every just cause
for a war that brings on a war. To cross
the lthine or Eio Grande are two different
things in the light of common sense,
though in tho theory of international law
they are equally violations of jurisdic
tional rights. While the dense popula
tions, organized socielies and formidable
fortresses which protect one frontier
would make the entry of foreign troops
from France into Germany or Germany
into France a flagrant act of war, no such
consequence would ensue from pushing
a column across the wild and desert
frontier of Chihuahua to arrest or punish
predatory bands or gangs of thieves and
robbers, which Mexico is either not in
clined or not able to punish. We have
had enough of fine words from her dis
tracted governments. They succeed each
other in a whirl of continual impotenoy,
and have no right to put on the airs of
sober, established and responsible com
munities to shelter bands of thieves and
murderers against public justice.”
“Are there any cases in which govern
ments have assumed such rights cn
neglected frontiers ?”
“There are many instances. In the
case of Florida, General Jackson, when
Spain was in a very unsettled condition,
without any previous notice or indication,
crossed the frontier and hanged Arbutii-
not and Ambrister, because the wild and
unsettled condition of that border ren
dered it a skulking ground for just such
classes of men as now infest the Mexican
frontier. Though tha pride of England
was offended, that government recog
nized the necessity of the act, and Lord
Castlereagh expressly declared that Eng
land would not interfere. I cannot,there
fore, conceive, notwithstanding the order
of President Diaz to General Trevinc,
that his sensibilities would be so deeply
wounded as to make him embark in a
rash war with the United States. It is
merely a bombastic device to maintain
his popularity at home, and General
Trevino will be privately directed to keep
his division as far away from the United
States troops as possible, so that border
justice may be calmly executed by Ameri
can corporals without molestation upon
the murderers and horse thieves of the
Bio Grande.”
“Do you think there is any design
upon the part of President Hayes to pro
voke border difficulties, so as to bring on
a war, and seize the territory of Altxico
lying north of the mouth of the Eio
Grande ?”
“I know nothing of the views of the
President, but, judging from his wise
and temperate course since his inaugura
tion, I do not think his motives of action
ought to bo impeached. The facts do
not warrant any conclusion that he in
tends to open a war for territorial ag
grandizement. We have already a vast
unsettled country, with a declining com
merce and perishing industries, requiring
all the arts of statecraft and all the con
centrated labor of our people to restore
property, instead of embarking in re.
mote and costly expeditions to the desert
mesillas of Mexico. The President has
seen enough not to think, like some, that
war is the way to wealth. It therefore
seems to me that his purpose is simply
to repress violence and maintain order on
our frontiers; and if he limits himself to
that he will find no opposition from the
Democracy. If Mexico behave foolishly
she may lose the five States; but it ap
pears to be an instinct in the American
mind, when once they go to war, that
they must have an indemnity—not like
Bismarck, in French gold, but in an en
largement of territory. They, like the
Eomans, are never willing to see the God
of Boundaries go backward.”
“Do you credit the rumor that the gov
ernment desires to obtain the territory by
peaceful purchase at the price of
§100,000,0002”
“In the present condition of the coun
try, and with the great burden of taxa
tion endured by the people, together
with bankruptcies of the commercial
classes, and the fearful ordeal which is
impending for the purpose of resuming
gold payments, it is probable that Con
gress would not listen to such a proposi
tion, and, consequently, that the Presi
dent will present no such plan for pur
chasing new territory. I consider it a
mere rumor of the hour.”
“Do you think the Mexican question is
likely to divide the parties or oreate a
permanent impression upon their poli
cies ?’’
“In the present aspect of affairs I can
see no just eause of apprehension either for
the peace of the country or of any conflict
of parties. All good men should desire to
see the disorders on the Mexican frontier
corrected and quelled. Good sense and
international duty should make the gov
ernment of Mexico join heartily with the
government of the United States in se
eming this object without false deli
cacy or idle pretext of national dignity.
If this be true, for still stronger reasons
parlies in our own country ought not to
be divided in the adoption of all neces
sary means to guard our people on the
frontier from robbery and murder.
“Do you think that if we were to ob
tain possession of Mexico it would be to
th© advantage of our country, or would it
uot be prejudicial, on account of the dif-
fereuee of the religion, institutions and
customs of that people from our own ?’
“That is a very difficult question to
answer, and very comprehensive in its
nature The territory so highly spoken
of is larger than the kingdoms of Great
Britain and Spain combined, and would
make more than ten States of the size of
New York, It has a population chiefly com-
nosed of Indians, intermixed with a few
inhabitants of Spanish descent, who have
'degenerated from the patent stock until
they are far below the present educated
neasantry of old Spam. The people are
scattered in little pueblos or villages,
»ith few wants, no morals, intense su
perstition and io wealth. There is no
fulcrum on which the lever of civilization
luicrum was an officer in the
City of Mexico when Gen. Soott negoti-
o/pd the treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo.
He*directed Mr. Trist as to its terms
and conditions, and did me the
honor to consult me as
the protocol before it was agreed
upon 1 I then asked General Scott why
a P°ih not go frame the treaty as to in
clude that portion of the Mexican terri
tory lying north of the mouth of the Kio
Grande, and running, thence westwardly
across the Gulf of California to the Pa
cific ocean. This area would have em
braced the vast territories I have men
tioned, and which it is now said onr gov
ernment desires to obtain. I have often
thought of, and distinctly remember, the
reply. He said he had carefully consid
ered the matter, and had so drawn the
line as to take all the meat without the
bone. ‘When I 6ay ‘meat without the
bone, ’ said he, ‘I mean all the land,
without incumbrance. When I say ‘in
cumbrance,’ I mean all the land that
Americans can work, improve and inhabit
without being troubled with the towns,
cities and wretched Mexican population.
That is the bone I want to cut out of the
treaty.’ It was subsequently ratified as
originally drawn np.” Knabf.
The liussian Hospital Practice.
A London correspondent in Boumania,
who has been praising the conduct of the
invaders, feels bound to present a reverse
picture. He had stopped in a wine shop
to rest, when two young soldiers came in
wearied out, penniless, but cheerful, nnd
sat on a bench too tired to unharness, too
feverish to sleep. The writer sent them
a glass of wine, and then began to talk
through an interpreter:
They had not much to say even when
rested, besides laughingly displaying
the bread allotted them, which was like a
Captain’s biscuit, made of oak sawdust.
They observed carelessly that the regula
tions gave them a pound of meat every
three days ; “but,” it was added, “some
body else eats it. We do not see any
from week to week.” I asked what pro
visions they would receive at the end of
their day’s journey, and they marked off
upon their fingers about three square
inches to represent the ration of bread.
I remember to have sent you some weeks
since the scale of subsistence to which a
liussian soldier is entitled. Prince
Charles has declared himself astonished
at the voracity of his subjeots judged by
the comparison. But if I must believe
these young soldiers, their abstinence be
gins to equal that of the famous horse in
training to live upon a straw a day. Very
cheerful and manly they were, however,
taking with gratitude, but without the
least servility, such small refreshment as
I could find for them at the inn. They
could afford nothing themselves, receiv
ing but one rouhle a month—about three
shillings and twopence—gone long ago.
I a-ked how the health account stood in
their regiment, and they answered sig
nificantly that many were ill but few in
hospital. Then the fairer and younger
fellow, smiling rather painfully, added,
“The doctors were fooled yesterday; one
of our company died, and they carried
him to the hospital. The doctor came out
with his whip, aDd declared he was not
dead, so he cut him, of course, over the
legs, making great stripes. But the
poor chap was really gone, so every
body laughed at the doctor.” I said,
through my interpreter, that the joke was
not a bad one, but that they should be
careful in talking thus to strangers.
“Some might believe yon serious,” I
added. “It is serious, as God knows,”
they both answered. “Tfie doctors always
flog a man before letting him into hos
pital, and many times he will die under
the whip.” As they spoke, a melancholy
wretch tottered round the comer of the
inn. His face was waxy and bloodless, his
eyes swollen, his white shirt clung to him
as though soaked with rain. He dropped
upon the bench, letting his rifle fall.
“Surely this object is not being sent to
duty? ” I exclaimed in horror. “It is only
his feetamiss,” the others answered, more
in disgust, I thought, than pity. “He
prefers to go on”—rather than ask the
tender mercy of the hospital, I suppose.
Political Offenses.
[N. Y. Nation. Rep.]
The grand jury in «New Orleans have
indicted Wells and Anderson and Kenner
and Caseuave of the Louisiana Beturning
Board for fraudulent alterations of the
returns from one of the parishes at the
late Presidential election, and it is said
that the trial will produce many and
painful disclosures about the connection
of these men with the liepublican man
agers of the late canvass. It isobjected,
however, that to allow the case to go to
trial will be a violation of Gov. Nicholls’
promise or agreement to let bygones be
bygones, and pursue nobody for “politi
cal offenses” committed during the late
Presidential struggle, and generally inju
dicious as likely lo revive angry feelings.
We can, however, conceive of no reason
for stopping the prosecution that will hold
water for one moment except defects
in the proof snd consequent
likelihood of an acquittal. If the proof
is good, Wells and his confederates are no
more entitled to impunity,under an agree
ment to overlook “political offences,”
than any Democrat who, during the can
vass, whipped or murdered negro voters.
Their offence is only “political” because
it had serious political consequences, just
as a murder or arson might have had.
In reality, if guilty of anything they
were guilty of forgery and fraud of the
most shocking kind, and with Wells, at
least, the object was not wholly or princi
pally the election of anybody in particu
lar as President, but the receipt of a
good round sum for the election of some
body. The evidence before the House
Committee pointed strongly to this if it did
not convict him of it. The only possible
argument in favor of the “political” view
of bis offences is the connivance or coun
tenance which they met with from North
ern politicians and even from men who
do not call themselves politicians, but
moralists. Gov. Nicholls owes it as a
duty to the whole country to see to it
that if the proof against these men is
good they are pursued to the utmost lim
its of the law, so that thtir offence may
remain in American history, not as a pre
cedent for other scoundrels to follow or
be put up to, but as a warning and exam
ple which will make not only common
rascals avoid it, but political managers
frown on it as an expedient not to be
thought of, and pious politicians as some
thing by which there is no innocent way
of profiting.
The Potato Bug Abroad.
The crossing of the Atlantic by the
potato bug divides tho attention of Eu
rope with the passage of the Danube by
the Bussians. To some countries of the
continent it is the far more important
event of the two. Our fellow-citizen, if
not friend, of Colorado has already been
heard from on his European travels at
several of the Baltic ports, at Cologne on
the Khine, and in an Irish potato field,
which may be the cradle of his race, and
where at all events he must feel very
much at home. The English papers
make a great deal of ghastly fun out
of this unwelcome little stranger.
Even the London Times bandies
him in a facetious vein; but the
editorial of the regulation column length
which gives to doryphora decemlineata is
a proof of the deep anxiety his coming
causes in the British mind. While the
London papers are trying to make jokes
about the beetle, the matter-of-fact Privy
Council (which has charge of all the
plagues and epidemics in England) treats
him in a more serious fashion. The
Council publishes for general informa
tion the best methods discovered for
killing off the potatoe bug. These are
already unhappily too familiar to the
American public. It is fortunate for
England that she has our extended ex
perience in warring with this pest, and
by it she will probably save crops worth
millions of pounds, if she does not ex
terminate the beetle before he has done
much damage. In this country the far
mers now understand how to manage
him; and where they have been watch
ful and diligent, the potato crop this
year is good and even flourishing. The
cheapest and most effectual remedy yet
found in the United States is the actual
picking off and destruction of the bugs
by hand; and in Europe, where the price
of labor is low, this will also be the surest
and best reliance.—N. Y. Journal of
Commerce.
The exportation of American ingot
copper to England is gradually increasing-
ALIUNDE JOE’S TEMPER.
Stories That Are Told oi Him by His
Brothers oi the New Jersey Bar.
When Judge Joseph Bradley, the Presi
dent maker, resided and practised in New
Jersey, his quick temper furnished his
brothers of tfie bar constant amusement.
His inclination towards piety, his grave
and studious aspect and the emmen;
positions he filled rendered bis childish
humors astonishing to those who saw
them for the first time, and amusing to
his associates who were aware of the
nervous temperament be possessed. Joel
Parker and Robert AlleD. ex-Governor
and County Prosecutor, were once con
versing in the library of the capitol, at
Trenton, and were startled by what
seemed to be the sound of angry voices
and of flying furniture. Through the
glazed book cases they saw “Joe”
Bradley, who was trying to write upon a
table that wobbled under the pressure of
his arm. Bradley wasmuttering angrily.
Suddenly ho overlurned the table and
sawed at one of its legs with a penknife.
The table wobbled still and Bradley
fumed with rage. Again he overturned
the table, again he hacked at the leg, and
then with reddened face and ferocious
aspect he seized the table and hurled it,
legs under, across the room, yelling,
“Now, yon, you’ll stay where you’re
put.”
Important business in another part of
the State called Bradley away one morn
ing. He arose, dressed and ate, and yet
had ample time in which to take the train,
but as he reached the front gate his wife
oalled his attention to the fact that the
trousers he wore were dreadfully ragged
where they were widest. Back went the
Judge to his room, and presently, with
new trousers, strode towards the depot.
But the train had gone, and in a terrible
rage he returned to hia bedroom, seized
the hapless trousers he had first worn,
and slitting them into a thousand strips,
flung the pieces from him, saying
“ There, you’ll never make me misa a
train again.”
Once Judge Bradley lost a case in the
Court of Chancery, and as he was leaving
the court house in anger and was mutter
ing to himself as he descended the stairs,
some one asked him if the court was
closed. “No,” he thundered, happily
though perhaps nnconsciously, paraphras
ing a celebrated bon mot, “Hell and the
Court of Chancery are always open !”
Other stories there are of how at a
fashionable dinner Judge Bradley made
many ineffectual attempts to harpoon a
lump of frozen butter lying on a piece of
ice, and how finally he threw his knife at
it and swtpt it off the table, and of how
he cuffed his pastor for preaching a ser
mon that displeased him ; but these sto
ries are not authenticated.
A SHOCKING MURDER.
An Old Wamno, Bcd-KIddeu. Brutally
Alurdered by n Fiend—Her Bones
Broken One by One, and nol a Joint
in Her Whole Body Lett Whole—A Cold-
Blooded Deed.
Growth of Pauperism iu Massachu
setts.
[From the New Orleans Times.]
The question to which the property
holders of the State of Massachusetts
will soon have to turn their earnest at
tention, is how they may best check the,
growth of pauperism in that State. Sta-.
tistics show that in 18GG the number of
persons who received relief from the
public charity was 32,028, at a cost of
§740,458; while in 1870 the paupers
reached th6 frightful number of 222,073
and their relief cost the State §1,44!),874
This was an increase of more than four
hundred per cent, in two years, and
shows that one out of every seven of the
people of the S ate are living at the ex
pense of the tax payers.
It does not require much skill in
figures to demonstrate that at this rate
of progression unchecked, the paupers
of the commonwealth would soon be in
tho majority, become the governing
class, and hold in their hands the power
to shape the laws as they may see fit.
Well indeed may the possessors of
millions look with alarm upon such a
prospect. It would be a catastrophe
second only in magnitude to that which
befell the property helders of the South
when tho entire wealth of this section
was left as a prey to the greed of an
ignorant and besotted mob.
Upon considering these facts, the
thought obtrudes itself: how is it that
pauperism can so grow among a people
who boast of such energy and industry ?
It cannot be denied that the writers, ora
tors and statesmen of Massachusetts have
constantly claimed for that people not
only a superiority in civilization, but in
thrift and in productive power. They
have never failed to point to those vir
tues and make invidious comparisons—
especially in regard to the Southern peo
ple. Is it not, therefore, a remarkable
thing that, with those much boasted
qualities, one out of every seven of those
people are now living upon the means of
somebody else ?
Such a spectacle is not exhibited in any
other State in the Union. It is not the
result of some sudden and dire calamity,
but has been of gradual and continuons
growth, proving that there is a diseased
aud abnormal conditicn of things existing
in this headquarters of professional
philanthropy which will require active
and powerful remedies to eradicate.
A Massachusetts paper of recent date,
speaking of this tremendous growth of
vagabondism, remarks that: “One un
pleasant and perplexing feature about it
is that it is organizing into a profession,
and demanding Assistance, not as charity,
but as a right.” Let there be no remedy
applied, and in ten years—perhaps a
shorter time—we shall see all laws pro
tecting the rights of property either re
pealed by legislative action or set at defi
ance by a mob as barbarous and as blood
thirsty as the Communists of Paris.
Wobcesteb, July 19.—One of the most
atrocious crimes ever perpetrated in
Worcester county, was discovered early
this morning in the town of Auburn, and
its painful and shocking details, the
arrest of the perpetrator, and his unfeel
ing and even boastful confession, make
up a pioture of bloodthirstiness, brutality
and general horror, not often surpassed.
The crime was committed at an early
hour this morning. James Mulcaby, well
known in these parts as James Wilkins,
visited the house occupied by the Camp
bells, an aged couple, and horribly muti •
lated and butchered the old lad^, who has
been bed-ridden for years, leavtBJj her for
dead. In less than an hour afterwards
the murderer was arrested in Sonthbi
street in this city by Detective Ch
Mulcahy gives the following account
of the horrible affair: He says he spent
last night at his father’s house in New
Worcester, and this morning went out to
walk towards Auburn. While passing
along he was aocosted by a fiend which
was hid from mortal sight in the grass.
In a loud voice he commanded the fiend
to be gone; bnt it appeared several times
afterwards to him, once coming in the
shape of a dog. Thus harrassed by the
evil spirit, and commissioned by the Lord
to destroy it, he went to the hut of the
Campbells and entered. Mrs. Campbell,
over 70 years of age, was in bed as usual,
and, as Wilkins says, he went up to her
aud asked her what she would give to be
cured, so that she could arise and walk to
church next Sunday. He says the old
lady threw up her arms and in delight ex
claimed that she would give all the world.
He then says he took off his coat and be
gan rubbing her to dispossess her of the
evil spirit. He then grabbed one leg,
and, bending it across bis own knee,
broke it in several places. In the same
way he broke the other leg and the arms,
and then seized the body and threw it on
the floor, there jumping on it with his
heavy shoes, until, as he says, not a joint
in the whole body was left unbroken.
He then took pails of water and threw
them over the mangled body, alleging
that no evil spirit could survive the
drowning process. He then took the
body and laid it back on the bed, cover
ing it up carefully, and without his coat
on started fzr this city.
When the crime was discovered the
woman was alive, but there was no
chance for her recovery, and she died at
ten o’clock. The old lady was alone in
the house when Wilkins came in. Mr.
Campbell was at work in a field at the
time. He is quite deaf, which would
account for his not hearing any noise.
On his return to the house, he found his
wife where he had left her, on the bed,
but <n a terrible condition. She was
writhing in paiD, her limbs brokeD, her
tace disfigured with bruses and covered
with blood, her body stripped naked,
having on only a chemise, and the bed
deluged with blood, and water which had
been poured over her. Notwithstanding
her terrible condition she was conscious,
and on his entrance said: “Frank, where
were you when Jim Wilkins murdered
me?” She §then told him that Wilkins
had been there, (hat he tore her clothes
off from her body, threw the water upon
her, then took her limbs one by one in
his hands and broke them across bis
knees, and then pounded her on the
head, but the could not tell what weapon
he used.
The criminal is thirty-nine years of
ago, and was horn in New Worcester,
where his father has lived for the past
fifty years. The general opinion of the
neighbors and those who know the crimi
nal is that his crime was the result of a
frenzy induced by a protracted spree.
There is, however, some roason to take a
more serious view. Mr. Campbell had
just received his pension, and had some
money in the house. Mrs. Campbell told
some of the neighbors, after the occur
rence, that Wilkins took her money from
her dress pocket, where she kept it in a
small bag. Accounts seem to indicate
that she had about thirteen dollars in her
possession. When Mr. Lawrence was
there he picked up a dime on the floor,
and on asking her where it came from
she said Wilkins dropped it while robbing
her. It is possible, of course, that in
sanity and cupidity may both have im
pelled him to the crime.
An Effective Pabtnebship—a Man
and ms Wife in the Bubglaby Business
—Columbus, Ohio, July 14.—On Friday
a servant girl, at 115 East Broadway,
named Mary Castein, was robbed of
about fifty dollars, the money being
taken from a bureau drawer. The new
servant girl, named Mattie Kuntz, at the
same place, was arrested for the th6ft.
It has come to light that this girl is the
wife of one William Kuntz, a well-
known burglar aud cracksman. They
were married in Marietta, Ohio, while
both were in jail, some time ago. The
two have since been running a sort of
partnership burglary business. The wife
followed up the business of hiring out aB
a servant, for the purpose of giving in -
formation to her husband, whereby he
was enabled to secure large amounts of
booty. Kuntz made his appearance as a
brother of Mattie after she secured the
place at the Broadway mansion, and the
two had the run of the back part of the
house during the absence of the servant
from whom the money was taken. Kuntz
and wife have carried ou this business
for seme months and have been very suc
cessful. There is no mean3 of knowing
the extent of their operations. Kuntz
has a brother in the Ohio penitentiary.
Pbeventino Suffocation by Smoke.—
I omitted in my former letter to you on
this subject to give any suggestion for
the prevention of suffocation by smoke.
A pillow case, well saturated with water,
and having a small hole tom in it to look
through, placed loosely over the head,
will be found an admirable impromptu
respirator m the densest smoke. I am
indebted for the idea to Vice Admiral
Jerningham, who told me how, when he
commanded the Cambridge training ship
at Plymouth,he made his first experiment
with this pillow case,respirator. He had
twelve pounds of loose powder exploded
in a confined part of the ship, which, al
though screened off with feamonght,
emitted so dense a smoke that those out
side had to lie down on the deck. A
common pillow case, with a small eye
hole, was placed over the head of a man,
who, with the hose in his hand, went
inside and remained ten minutes, when,
to assure his friends outside of his safety,
he sang a comic ^ong.— W. II. Lewis in
London Times.
Experiments are being made in Pater
son, N. *T., with oil as fuel for locomo
tives. It is claimed that it will answer
the purpose, and that locomotives oan
be run at one-fourth the expense by this
means,
Modern Msrriag'e.
It might happen to any man to be
struck by lightning on his wedding day,
but for the groom to swoon, as happened
at a recent fashionable English wedding,
i3 amazing I Apart from accident or ele
mental interferences, the bridegroom is
generally supposed to be the only coo],
one might say tue only uninterested party
on the occasion, and to keep his con
sciousness if not all his faculties well
within poise. He is not on exhibition as
the bride is, certainly. Nobody takes a
second look at his coat, whether it be of
the morning or evening suit prescribed
by English custom. He has not under
gone any particular distressing anxiety
about his general wardrobe, nor has his
life “hung by a thread” for weeks be
fore, as has been the case with his be
trothed. Neither is he consumed with
the fatigue of the toilet on this particular
day. Ho can keep his head cool and
think how happy he is—with a slight
margin of remembrance for the time table
of departing railroad trains.
Clearly, if any one faints it ought to be
the bride, who comes to the altar quite
worn out with the preparations incident
to her part of the show. In the mo
mentous paraphernalia about her she has
no time to think of her own happiness,
not even solemnly of her new life*. She
has been on her knees all the day before,
it is true, but she has been packing her
trunks. If she were not utterly worn
out with the wardrobe ceremonial, the
modern girl would be equal to the occa
sion in composure and cheerfulness.
For the world certainly grows less sen
timental. Hysterics and fainting fits
are no longer necessary to prove delicacy
of feeling, and where Belinda, a century
ago, swooned dead away at the slightest
word of love, the more frank American
or English girl does not regard herself as
a victim of pursuit “in three volumes,”
but faces the situation as honestly as any
man. When she has as much common
sense as she has frankness, she will con
sent to have her wedding morning
associated with other memories than the
hair-dressers and milliners. Brides wear
their oldest gowns now-a-days on wedding
tourp; and one of Mis. Stowe’s heroines
directs her newly made husband to buy a
newspaper aad read it first himself before
offering it to her, as the best method of
disguising the froshness of their new re
lation. It will be a gain in many ways
when the same reserve Bhall surround the
church wedding, and it shall cease to be a
spectacle, and when the governing prin
ciple of quiet simplicity that regulates
the public appearance of most well bred
people shall obtain in this.
The Earl of Annesley, who fainted at
the altar, leaving his half-wedded bride
to stand there alone, is unfortunate in
being the innocent cause of a thousand
newspaper paragraphs. But he serves to
call attention to the fact that swooning
has gone out of fashion for brides, and
that the sensible among women do not
suffer their preparations to exhaust them
to the point of hysteria, bat make it a
religious duty to keep themselves on this
and every other important era in their
lives in good physical and mental tone.—
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Marquis of Lome having, as a
member of the British House of Com
mons, seceded from the traditional fami
ly policy, and voted on an important
question with the Conservatives, it is
proposed to elevate him to the House of
Peers. He is now a Commoner and a
Marquis only by courtesy, in virtue of
being the eldest son of a Duke.
New York receives annually §7,000,000
worth of eggs.
ISLAM AGAINST RUSSIA.
The JlainienaDce of Turkey the Safely of
India.
[Calcutta Letter to London Times.]
It seems now beyond all doubt that
feelings of sympathy with the Tuiks are
spreading rapidly among the Indian Mus
sulmans, and growing daily more intense;
and the masses, who were formerly igno
rant or indifferent, are now beginning to
take a decided interest in the progress of
the struggle with Kussia. Subscriptions
are being opened in most large towns,
and the amounts subscribed show a de
cided increase. It is alleged that in some
places women are coming forward and of
fering their jewels and ornaments in aid
of the cause. Public prayers for the Sul
tan are offered np in the mosques in va
rious parts of the country. The rumor
that the Punjaub Government had inter
fered to put down these demonstra
tions, which was first started by a Lon
don weekly paper, is, I believe, wholly
without foundation. The government
has hitherto been a passive spectator, not
interfering either to encourage or dis
courage the movement. Indeed, it is
difficult, if not absolutely impossible, for
the government to interfere in any way,
for the agitation as yet shows no symptom
of disloyalty. Everything appears to be
condnc'ed in a perfectly quiet and orderly
manner, without any attempt at conceal
ment, bat it is not difficult to see that the
movement may some day cause serious
difficulty to the government, whatever
the result of the present war. Pamphlets
and proclamations, coming chiefly from
Mecca, have been circulating largely
among the Mahometans. I gave you the
purport of one of them a fortnight ago.
Others are chiefly exhortations to union
against Kussia, the common enemy of
Islam. The people of Turkistan are re
proached with having allowed them-
: elves to be conquered by reason of
their internal dissensions, and are urged
to make common cause against the
oppressor. Kashgar is praised for its
successful resistance to China, and want
ed to be on its guard against Russian
designs. The Afghans are warned that
their turn will come next, and advised
to cultivate an alliance with England,
whose interests will induce her to help
them. Persia is reminded that the Sbias
no less than the Sunnis belong to the
religion of Islam. She is upbraided with
her indifference, and her people are told
that if they show trivial points of doc
trine to prevent their helping their co
religionists they will be looked upon as
Kaffirs. The Indian Mahometans are
informed that the fact of their being
subject to a tolerant and comparatively
liberal government does not excuse them
from the obligation of helping Islam iu
its hour of need; and it is insinuated
that the British Government will not
look with disfavor on their intervention
in ;the matter, because the greater
part of the Turkish debt is held
by Englishmen, and because the main
tenance of Turkey is essential to the
safety of Iudia. The people of Arabia,
Egypt, Morocco and other Mahometan
countries are also urged to join in help
ing the cause. Appeals are made to the
European clergy to refrain from preach
ing against Turkey, and from holding up
Russia as the champion of Christianity.
The present war, it is said, is in no sense
a struggle between the Crescent and the
Cross. Much stress is laid on thWambi-
tious designs of Russia and her cruelties
in Poland and everywhere, and it is
argued that her own selfish arms, not
her desire to help the persecuted Chris
tians, have induced her to declare war.
The above is a brief resume of some
of the pamphlets now being circulated.
The ‘.inioc of Islam against Kussia is the
purport of them all; but, so far as I am
aware, none of them contain anything
disloyal to the British Government or any
hint of enmity against Christian nations
generally.
THE INDIAN MOHAMMED.
‘‘.Suiohnila, the Drcnnier,” the Prophet
Whom the Blood? Nez Perces F’ollow.
[Fioin the San Francisco Examiner.]
The original cause of dispute with the
Nez Perces may be said to date from the
treaty which Governor I. S. Stevens, of
Washington Territory, made with the
Nez Perees and other tribes in June,
1857. At that time Governor Stevens
refused to recognize the hereditary chit f
of the Nez Perces, and practically elevated
Lawyer, a cunning and tractable Indian,
to the chieftainship. The Nez Perees
were then and are yet the most numer
ous of any of tho tribes of that whole re
gion. They are generally peaceful, and
live quietly on the fine and extensive re
servation on the Snake and Clearwater
rivers, near the town of Lewiston. They
cultivate large farms, have innumerable
herds of horses, and are generally
a well-to-do people. But some of their
tribe are “wild' Indians, and, instead
of believing with the majority of their
brethren in the policy of a somewhat
civilized life, they prefer to follow after
the traditions and habits of their savage
ancestors. Among the chiefs who very
recently signed the treaty of 1857 was
Joseph, the father of the chief of the
same name, who now heads the outbreak.
Old Joseph was not a Nez Perces. He
was a Cayuse chief. Yet he claimed the
VV allowa valley, and was recognized as a
leader of his people. Some of the Nez
Perces who were dissatisfied with the
treaty, but more with the conduct of Gov.
Stevens elevating Lawyer to the chief
taincy, measurably sided with Joseph,
and the disaffected of still other tribes
joined them, so as to swell the number to
somewhat formidable numbers. Before
that time a very cunning
Indian had begun to evolve a
new faith or superstition among the
Indians. He was known as SmohaUa, or
“The Dreamer.” He had been taught
by missionaries, and he turned what he
had learned to account in a way he had
never intended or expected. Of all the
Bible lessons the one he most and par
ticularly set store by is that which is con
tained in Judges vi. and vii., as to Gideon
and his band, reduced from many thou
sands to only three hundred, overcoming
the Midianites. Smohalla preached to
his tribe the doctrine he derived from
the text and inspired them to be
lieve that although the whites, or
Midianites, were powerful iu num
bers, yet could the Lord’s own
people, Gideon’s band of three hun
dred—the Indians themselves—triumph
over them and drive them from the land.
During the Indian war of 1658, when the
late General Wright severely whipped the
Indians of that upper country, and
obliged them to sue for peace, he put a
stop to Smohalla’s preachings and in
fluence by keeping him a close prisoner.
But after General (or Colonel, as he was
then) Wright male peace he allowed the
mischievous “dreamer” his liberty, on
condition that he should cease his efforts
to propagate his peculiar incendiary doc
trine among the Indians, and until Gen
eral Wright was called away from there
daring our own civil war, Smohalla found
it advisable to refrain from openly seek
ing converts.
Mr. Bret Harte’s name was recently at
tached to a story which he did not write,
and he sends a letter to the Nation of
Washington, in which he says sweetly
and gently : ‘ ’It is a small matter, but as
I observe that the careless practice of
signing other people’s names to checks
and drawing the money therefrom ap
pears to be steadily growing into disfavor
in commercial circles, it seems to me that
the placing of an author’s name without
hia consent, to an article not written by
him, should be practiced under some sort
of restraint, and only with the greatest
delicacy. I should, if I were you, pro
ceed cautiously in any comments you
might make; attributing my disinclina
tion to part with my name to that univer
sal human weakness which extends to a
desirable control of one’s wardrobe and
toilet articles, and even cast-eff clothing.”
The combined weight of five delegates
to the recent Lancaster (Pa.) Democratic
County Convention was on* thousand and
forty-three pounds.
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Aiidrc.M at Harvard.
I never reflect upon the breadth and
generosity of the underlying idea of our
system of government, with all its manly
equities, its constant demand upon its
citizens for the most elevated sentiments
known to our nature, and the opportuni
ties afforded for their exercise that it does
not appear to me more and more beyond
all other fonnsof government yet devised,
the most favorable theatre for the exercise
of all the qualities that dignify and adorn
mankind, and that if penetrated with a
true sense of the part which each man
among us should bear in such a plan, an
American citizen onght to be in the best
sense of the word a gentleman.
I have had good reason to realize the
exacting nature of the toil and varied
occupation of onr busy struggle in Amer
ican life, and amid what a rush of events
we have,' been carving civilization out of
the wilderness, emulating with hot im
patience the results and accumulations of
centuries of work and thought in the
older nations. The graces of life—those
fruits of repose and well earned leisure—
are of gradual growth, and have been ne
cessarily postponed until onr temple of
civil and religious liberty was erected
upon secure foundations and our grand
experiment of self-control by a free people
shall have been well tested.
Art, its studies and higher influences,
I do not underrate, and the great advan
tages it can impart to its disciples, but
personal contact has taught me how much
of that true refinement, delicacy of senti
ment and sensitive consideration for tie
feelings of others, which we justly regaid
as the best fruit of high breeding and
culture, can and does exist in the sim
plicity of American society, uninstruett d
even by that European example which to
some of our countrymen seems the neo-
essary imprimator of social success.
The American snob has none of the in
ducements or excuses of his British
brother, and when he follows m his track
and gilds and veneers his pettiness and
vulgarity in imitation of rank and dis
tinguished station, he sins more against
his nature and the honest simplicity and
natural dignity which are akin to repub
lican institutions, and which may well be
worn by every man who lives under
them, according to their true and manly
spirit.
It is in our power to create a standard
of American character and manhood as
lofty as that of any age or nation, and to
compel our representatives at home and
abroad to conform their conduct to it.
The spirit of true chivalry in all its gen
tleness and unselfishness, showing ten
derness to tho feeble and resistance to
the overbearing, mercy to whom mercy
is due, and honor to whom honor is due,
can and does exist in America to-day,
under the “hodden gray” of the laborer
and mechanic and threadbare coat of the
clerk, or the grave garb of the hard-
worked merchant or man of the profes
sion, as truly as it ever did under the
helmet and chain armor of a knight er
rant of the olden time.
The American people can justly demand
from those who are delegated to represent
them abroad or at home a punotilous ob
servance of honor and delicate pride in
their private and publio conduct, and the
moral influence to be obtained by digni
fied self-respect, intelligence and high
personal integrity will far outweigh any
attempted competition with the show and
glitter of the representatives of other
governments not based upon the princi
ple of voluntary and orderly self-control.
In truth, it will be found that where
American representatives abroad have
drawn obloquy and just censure or con
tempt upon themselves or their country,
it has been usually caused by some ig
norant attempt at ostentatious display or
the unworthy pursuit of private gain, in
both of which the dignity of their posi
tion was forgotten or disregarded, and the
fault was not “Americanism,” but the
absence of it.
Cbime in Philadelphia.—The reign
of crime in Philadelphia is the subject of
articles in the Sunday Dispatch and Phil
adelphia Times. The Sunday Dispatch
calls attention to the fact that fifty-six
persons were tried for murder and man
slaughter in the Court of Oyer and Ter
miner of Philadelphia between last Octo
ber and the beginning of the present
month. This makes since last October
seven murders per month, nearly two
per week. If this could be affirmed of any
Southern city we should never hear the
last of it. Robberies, violent assaults,
and other crimes but little less heinous
than murder are frequent in proportion.
In view of this frightful state of things
the Philadelphia Times suggests that it
would be proper to concentrate more
power in the hands of the Mayor and let
the people hold him responsible. It con
ceives that something like an autocracy
is necessary to good government m a
large city.
At a public dinner in the country a
farmer, while relating something to the
company about two Chinese women, said:
“I declare they were the ugliest women I
have seen anywhere.” There happening
to be two maiden ladies present of no
remarkable beauty, the farmer, who was
a little misty,began to thmk he bad made
a mess of it, and that they would imagine
he was alluding to them: so to put mat
ters straight (as he thought) he added :
‘•The present company accepted.” Roars
of laughter ensued, and in a few minutes
both farmer and ladies had vanished.—
Pittsburg Telegraph.
Prince Dice, of the schools of Cincin
nati, says: “When a young woman com
mences to teach a school she loses nine
chances in t6n for marriage. If she
teaches five years her chances for mar
riage and the dear delights of mother
hood are but one in one hundred, and if
she teaches ten years her chances for
marriage and good social position are but
one in ten thousand.” After this the
Cincinnati gills will take in washing
before they will teach school.
The Consumer’s Mutual Gaslight Com
pany of Baltimore did not begin supply
ing gas to consumers until November,
1870, but it has already eight thousand
regular consumers and has completed
attachments for two thousand three hun
dred more. The price charged is only
two dollars per thousand feet, and the
quality of the gas is said to be better than
that of the old company, which had be
come an odious monopoly.
“Have you seen the latest copy of our
paper," said a Chicago correspondent
on tho Danube, poking his head in at the
Czar’s headquarters and offering his
Majesty a copy containing a war map.
That evening, in the purple twilight,
muffled drums were heard in the out
skirts of the camp, then came u sharp
volley of musketry, and all was o’er.
(Chicago papers please copy.)—New
York Commercial Advertiser.
The King of Dahomey has resolved
upon a grand sacrifice of five hundred
human beings by way of a tbank offering
for an end of his trouble with the
British. If the King of Dahomey had
been a good political economist he would
have sacrificed the five hundred before
the trouble was ended, by setting them to
fighting with the Queen’s troops.—Boston
Post.
The Southern States are nearer than
the Black Hills and are about as full of
gold. The total gold product of Georgia
and North and South Carolina far the
fiscal year 1875-0 was §49,090,000, of
which the old North State produced over
§10,030,000. For the capital and labor
invested the new territory cannot make
as good an exhibit.—Boston Post.
“To this night’s masquerade,” quoth
Dick, “by pleasure I am beckoned, and
think’twill be a pleasant trick to go as
Charles the Second.” Tom felt for re
partee athirst, and to Richard said,
“l'ou’d better go as Charles the First, as
that requires no head.”—Ex.
General Leslie Combs, of Kentucky,
says: “I am a regular Old Line Henry
Clay Whig in politics, and a St.-John-in-
the-Wilderness, milk-and-honey Baptist
in religion ;* none of your sprinkled fel
lows, but a regular dipped-in-tbe-water-
of-Jordan Baptist.”
Here is another instance of the manner
in which the “amenities of journalism”
are observed in the Northwest:
“Mr. Joseph Medillis, of course, a liar.
The term liar is here used in its moat ex
act meaning.”—Excited Chicago Times.
Newbem, N. C., is to have a cotton
factory.