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DREAMING.
J dreamed we two were friends again
in the days of yore.
Anil all life held of bliss or pain
Came back to me once more;
Your laughter, nnginz c lear and sweet,
Your dark eyes, tender team,
The echo of vo'ur footfalls fleet,
Were in thV. happy dream.
There was a summer in love’s land.
The skies were skies of June,
While roses blushed on either hand,
Beneath a golden moon;
And all the sadne.-s of the years.
The frowns no smiles could blot,
The hitter doubts, the cruel fears.
Were in that dream forgot.
1 dreamed we two were frien is again,
And set my dream to song.
.So you might listen to the strain
That sought yon 'niid the throng;
That you might list, perchance might sigh,
Whilst idle tears would start.
To feel it with the last good-bye
Of one poor faithful heart.
I dreamed we two were friend* again—
Alas! : n;i- but a dream.
That fled when o'er my window-pane
Awoke the first red beam.
Oh! as it brightened on my sight,
And trembled o'er the floor,
i whispered: "Vanish, happy light.
For I would dream once more.”
— E. S. Miller in the Courier-Journal.
POLITIC All DUELS.
Famous Encounters Between Members
of Congress,
Since the first Congress, says a Wash
ington letter to the Boston Advertiser, five
Senators and Representatives, during
their term as members, have been killed
in due Is. only two of these barbarous
meetings are generally remembered—
those in which Cilley and Graves, Clay
and Randolph figured. The rest have
almost been forgotten, and the idea of a
Congressman being challenged to fight
for words uttered in debate is hardly con
ceivable now.
The most tragic duel in Congress was
ihat in which the eloquent Jonathan
Cilley of Maine wits killed by W. J.
Graves of Kentucky. Cilley was the most
brilliant Northern' Representative of his
time, and to this day many men believe
that he was murdered by a prearranged
plot. The moment before he was shot he
said that he entertained for Graves ‘‘the
highest respect and most kind feelings.”
The matter was from the reading in de
bate by Cilley of a report concerning
James Watson Webb, then the editor of
the New York Courier. Webb sent a
challenge by Graves, which Cilley refused
to receive, as he had no desire for a
quarrel. Graves considered this refusal
as an insult, and demanded satisfaction,
-o much was then said in Congress bv
Southerners about the cowardice of North
ern men that Cilley felt called upon to ac
cept. Webb sent his challenge February
21,1838, Cilley was killed the 24th. The
parties met in an open field a little out
side the district, *on the Maryland side,
just at the close of the wintry afternoon.
Graves had with him Henry A. Wise of
Virginia and Senator Crittenden of Ken
tucky. Cilley was accompanied by Con
gressmen Jones of Wisconsin and Bynum
of North Carolina. Congressmen Calhoun
and Ilawes of Kentucky looked on as
spectators. The distance was eighty
yards, the weapons rifles. The first time
Cilley tired first, but neither was hit.
Gilley's friends then asked for a settle
ment. The surgeon urged that the de
mands of honor had lieen satisfied. Wise
insisted that the tight should go on, and
again the men took their places. This
time Graves tired first, and again both
missed. Graves, as Wise said, “per
emptorily and repeatedly insisted on an
other shot.” At this point the outsiders
demanded that the tight should stop.
Wise would hear nothing of it unless
Cilley would declare Webb to be a man ot
honor or persist in his refusal to accept
the challenge on his privilege as a mem
ber. Cilley, of course, declined to do
either, but again expressed his avowal of
no ill-feeling towards Graves. It was
near dark when the two men again took
their places. “If this shot does not settle
it, 1 will propose to shorten the distance,”
said Wise, and it was agreed to. Both
men tired the third time very nearly to
gether. Cilley dropped his rifle, beckoned
to his second, said to him, “I am shot,'’
l*ut his hand to the wound, fell, and in
two minutes was dead. Early in the day
Webb had agreed with two triends, so
bitter was the conspiracy to kill Cilley,
to go around to his room. Then they
were to force him to tight Webb on the
spot, or give Webb a meeting before
Craves. If he refused to do either they
were to shatter his right arm. Not find
ing him, they went around to Bladens
ourg, where the duel was expected to oc
cur. They agreed that Webb should then
approach Cilley, claim the quarrel, insist
ou fighting him, and assure him that it he
lifted his rifle on Graves, Webb would
shoot him on the spot, it was supposed
by them that Wise would raise his rifle on
Webb, whereupon it was agreed that
Webb should instantly shoot Cilley, and
then they should defend themselves the
best way they could. Not finding the
duelists they determined in ease Cilley
had killed Graves to murder him at the
tirst opportunity. This determination
they had the hardihood to publish in
Webb’s New York paper. A great funeral
was given to Cilley three days after his
death, and a special committee of seven
members appointed to investigate the
manner of ins death. The inquiry lasted
several weeks. So bitter were the friends
of Graves that threats were made against
the committee. Toucey of Connecticut,
afterwards Buchanan’s Secretary of the
Navy, was the chairman, and he said that
the committee had been warned to be ou
their guard. They reported that the
w hole hotly of duelists bad violated the
privileges of the House. “The eye of rea
son,” they said, “can discover, iu the
whole course of Mr. Cilley, no offense to
wards those who pursued him. Nor can
his death be vindicated or excused by anv
circumstance whatsoever, not even by
that custom, which was formerly sup
posed to be a proof of some kind of cour
age, but which has in modern times
degenerated into a game of chance and a
scramble for undue advantages.” Tfier
therefore recommended that Graves be
expelled and Wise censured. Tne debate
went on for three weeks. Graves’ friends
delayed action by every conceivable
means. At first two-thirds of the house
seemed determined to support the com
mittee. But they were finally wearied
out. At one time Graves tried to prevent
the repoft from going into the Globe.
This was allowed, and then the matter was
indefinitely postponed. That fall Graves
was re-elected to Congress, and died ten
years afterward. None of the parties
were ever tried in any way. Crittenden
was afterwards Governor of Kentucky,
Senator again, anil later At torney-General
of the United States under President Fill
more. Jones of Wisconsin, who had
acted as Cilley's second, felt aggrieved at
the committee's report, and was unseated
from Congress soon after. But ten years
later he turned up in the Senate from
lowa, where he served until near the close
of Buchanan's term. His loyalty became
suspected when the war broke" out, and
he spent some time in Fort Warren. Bos
ton harbor. Bynum, Cilley's other friend,
soon after fought a duel with Jenifer of
Maryland, in which several shots were
exchanged without harm to either party.
In the next Congress he had a difficulty
on the floor of the House with Congress
man Garland of Louisiana, and then was
lost to sight on a sugar plantation in
Louisiana. This was the only duel ever
made a subject of Congressional investiga
tion, and in so flagrant a ease no action
was taken.
Another famous duel was that of 1820,
between Clay and John Randolph. The
former was Secretary of State, and Ran
dolph a Senator from Virginia. For some
strictures uttered in debate upon the
alleged combination between Clay and
John Quincy Adams, by which the latter
had tieen elected President, the Secretary
challenged the Senator. The latter could
have pleaded his privilege; he could have
refused because Clay had already been
given the lie in public twice, and had
taken no notice. Instead, he sent tljis
reply:
••Mr. Randolph accepts the challenge
of Mr. Clay; at the same time he protests
against the right of any minister of the
executive government to"hold him respon
sible for words spoken in debate, iu crimi
nation of such minister or the administra
tion under which he shall have taken
office.”
Clay's friends insisted that Randolph
had said in his speech that he would be
personally responsible for it, but Randolph
denied it,"and the minutes as taken down
by the reporters contained no 6iich words.
Clay's challenge was therefore entirely
voluntary. Before the meeting Randolph
6ent for Thomas Benton, then .Senator,
and told him that while he felt obliged to
meet Clay, yet he bad determined not to
return the" fire. This intention he ex
pressed to others. Colonel Tattnall was
Randolph’s second; General Jesup,
Clay’s. They met at four o’clock one
Saturday afternoon in April, just across
the Little Fall bridge on the .Virginia
bank. The distance was ten paces and
the weapons pistols. Benton was much
worried lest Clay should be killed. The
night before the meeting he went to Ran
dolph’s room to see if he was still deter
mined not to fire. To use his own words,
“I told him of my visit to Mrs. Clay the
night before, and" added I could not help
reflecting how different all might be the
next night. He immediately said, with
an expression that seemed to rebuke an
unworthy doubt, ‘I shall do nothing to
disturb the sleep of the child or the repose
of the mother.’ ” The two met in a dell
in the thick forest. By aecklent Ran
dolph's pistol went off before Clay’s was
handed him. At the first shot both fired
and nussed. Clay’s shot struck a bank
just behind Randolph. Clay insisted on
another shot. Randolph was angry that
he had tired before. At the next shot
Clay’s bullet passed through his oppo
nent's coat, Randolph shot into the air,
said “I do not fire at you, Mr. Clay,” and
then the two advanced and shook hands.
“You owe me a coat, Mr. Clay,” was
Randolph’s remark. “I am glad the debt
is no greater,” Clay replied. Every one
was pleased, and the next Monday Ran
dolph and Clay resumed their amicable
relations. Overjoyed at the issue, Benton
wrote down in his diary’, “Certainly duel
ing is bad, and has been put down, but
not quite so bad as its substitute—street
assassinations under the pretext of self
defense.”
The first Congressional challenge was
in 1797. when Thornes Blount, a member
from Nortn Carolina, called out George
Thatcher, then in the House front Mas
sachusetts and afterward a Justice of the
Supreme Court. It rose [out of some hot
words in debate. Thatcher replied to the
effect that being a husband and father he
could not think of accepting the invita
tion without the consent of his wife, then
at home in Massachusetts, whom he would
immediately consult. That was the end
Of it.
DeWitt Clinton was challenged in 1803
by Jonathan Dayton of New Jersey. Both
were Senators. Clinton had accused
Dayton of uttering an untruth in debate.
When Dayton sent a demand lor a meet
ing, Clinton said in writing that he had
not intended the slightest imputation
upon the veracity of General Dayton
This amende was solemnly read in open
Senate, but Clinton took care to be absent
from the city.
The river and harbor bill was the cause
of one bloodless duel. It rose out of a
personal debate over the bill in 1851, be
tween Congressmen Stanley of North
Carolina, and Inge of Alabama. They
met just outside the city, and tired once
at each other. Stanley’s friends then
asked for an accommodation, and the
matter was settled.
In 1554, Francis B. Cutting of New York
and John C. Breckinridge quarreled in
the house over the Nebraska bill. Breck
inridge sent a challenge, but the fight
never occurred, as one of his seconds x-ose
in the House ten day afterwards with the
statement that -the matters in dispute
had been settled in a manner mutually
satisfactory.”
Most of these affairs thus grew out of
troubles on the floor. There were excep
tions. In 1819 Senator A. T. Mason of
Virginia resigned his place for the ex
press purpose of fighting with a cousin
named McCarty, for some political dis
pute. On receiving the challenge Mc-
Carty proposed to tight on a barrel ot
powder or with dirks. Mason objected to
both. Finally they agreed on muskets
loaded with one bullet. They stood only
twelve feet apart. Mason was shot dead,
and McCarty hail an arm blown off. No
one was punished. Senator Gwin of Cali
fornia and Representative McCoi-cle of
the same State exchanged three shots
with each other in 1853, at a distance of 30
> paces. Then they found out that the duel
arose out of a misunderstanding, and it
was amicably settled by the bystanders,
of whom about 100 witnessed the specta
cle.
Button Gwinnett was a member of the
Continental Congress, and as such signed
the Declaration of Independence. The
next year.be was a candidate for Governor
of Georgia, and defeated. A militia Gen
eral, Mclntosh, made some slighting re
marks, and Gwinnett challenged him.
The latter was killed at the first fire. In
1831 Thomas Biddle was la Congressman
elect from Missouri. He bad some
elective controversy with Spencer Pettis,
a Major in the army. They fought with
pistols, so near that the muzzles over
lapped each other. Both were killed.
Senator Cooper of Pennsylvania in 1854
was attacked in the Philadelphia North
A merican and accused of corruption, lie
sent a message to the well-known editor,
Morton McMichael, to meet him outside
the State. McMichael refused to accept
on the ground that as an editor he had a
right to criticize the acts of public offi
cials without being putin peril of his life.
In 1837, Dromgoole, a Congressman from
Virginia, killed gentleman of that State
named Dugger with patois.
The last two attempt-’ at duels by mem
bers of Congress werehe famous Pryor-
Potter and Brooks-Burlingamc chal
lenges. Pryor was a fiery Virginian
serving his first term just before the war.
He felt aggrieved at some remarks made
by Potter, a Radical Free-soiler, during
one of the heated debates of that Congress,
and wanted to fight. Potter accepted on
condition that the two should be locked
up in a dark room with bowie knives, the
door not to be opened until one or the
other was dead. This was too sanguinary
forjPryor, and he backed out. Brooks took
exceptions to Burlingame’s strictures
upon his assault on Sumner, and proposed
to settle it with pistols. Burlingame bad
no fear of any man before bis eyes, and
only stipulated that they should meet ou
Canadian soil, where they would not be
evading the laws of the United States.
Brooks raised the excuse that, in the
state of public feeling, it \yould not be
safe for him to enter the Northern States
to go to Canada.
Jerome I. Case and Ills Trotters.
Chicago Tribune.
Mr. Jerome l.Case, of Racine. Wis., the
owner of Jay-Eye-See, is a quiet man of
50 odd years who invented some valuable
improvements in threshing machines.
This wras a good many years ago. Unlike
most inventors, he was a shrewd business
man, and was, therefore, enabled to enjoy
the fruit of his brain. He began the manu
facture of threshing machines in a small
way, and now has the largest establish
ment of the kind in the world. As bis
wealth increased so did his business ven
tures, and he is now tho principal stock
holder in a great plow works, a flourish
ing national bank and an insurance com
pany. He owns a vessel or two, has a
$200,000 interest in a great wagon factory,
a 125,000 acre ranche in Texas stocked
with cattle, and something like SIOO,OOO
worth of trotters. Nobody ever learns
these facts from Mr. Case. He is not a
man of many words. If you want to see
his horses he is glad to show them, and he
will talk enthusiastically of their exploits
and the merits of the blood that flows in
their veins, but his wealth is not a subject
of conversation.
“There have ieen a good many stories
told,” he said, “about how I came to own
Jay-Eve-See, but they are al! wrong. The
facts are that the fall I became his owner
I stopped in Chicago on mv way to Ken
tucky and met George Brastield, who had
been superintendent at Col. West’s farm
near Lexington. I asked him to tell me
about the best young stock, in his estima
tion, that Col. West had—to w r rite down
the names and breeding of each animal
for me, placing them iu what he consid
ered the order of merit. He did so, and
the very first was ‘Black colt by Dictator,
out of Midnight.' AVhen I reached Ken
tucky the little black colt impressed me
wonderfully. lie was my choice from the
first, and I bought him for SSOO and named
’him after myself. I paid the same amount
for Phallas. lam expecting great things
of Jay-Eye-See and Phallas this season.
We want one to beat the time made by
Maud S. and the other to lower the stal
lion record. They both came within a
traction of a second of doing it last sea
son. and eclipsed anything ever accom
plished by trotters of "their ago. They are
young and sound, and perhaps will bring
the double honors to Wisconsin when tliev
return lrom the campaign.
Tlie Old Grandmother,
\ isiting the mother of her little grand
child, so gradually and pitifully wasting
away by the drainage upon its system
from the effects of teethiug, sends the
nurse at once to the druggist, procures a
bottle of Dr. Bigger s’ Southern Remedy,
administering it, soon restores rest to the
mother and health to the little one. It
will cure cramp colic, diarrhu a. dysen
tery. and all bowel affections. This, with
a bottle of Taylor’s Cherokee Remedy of
Sweet Gum and Mullein, combining’the
stimulating expectorant principle of tfle
sweet gum with the demulcent healing
oue of the mullein for the cure of croup,
whooping cough, colds and consumption,
presents a little medicine chest no house
hold should he without lor the speedy
relief of sudden and dangerous attacks o'f
the lungs and bowels. Ask your druggist
for them. Manufactured bv Walter A.
Taylor, proprietor Taylor’s Premium
Cologne, Atlanta, Ga.
“Swke-ee-t violets! Sweeter than all
tlic“—(bang! bang! Police!! Kill lmn, the
son of a screech owl! Kill kmYt-BurHngton
Uvitkcye.
THE SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 1884.
APRIL-FOOLING.
No Authentic Account of the Origin of
the Custom—A Practice Widely Preva
lent Over the Earth.
The Ist of April, of all days in the year,
says the Providence Telegram, enjoys a
character of its own, in as far as it, and it
alone, is consecrated to practical joking.
On this day it becomes the business of a
vast number of people, especially the
younger sort, to practice innocent impos
tures upon their unsuspicious neighbors,
by way of making them what in France
are called poissons d'Avril, and with us
April fools.
Sometimes the opportunity is taken by
ultra-jocular persons to carry out some
extensive hoax upon society. For exam
ple, in March, 1800, a vast multitude of
people received through the post a card
having the following inscription, with a
seal marked by an inverted sixpence at
one of the angles, thus having to super
ficial observation an official appearance:
“Tower of London—Admit the beurer and
friend to view the annual ceremony of
Washing the White Lions, on Sunday,
April 1, 1860. Admitted only at
the White Gate. It is Darticu
larly requested that no gratuities be
given to the wardens or their assistants.”
The trick is said to have been highlv suc
cessful. Cabs were rattling about Tower
Hill all that Sunday morning, vainly en
deavoring to discover the White Gate. It
is the more remarkable that any such
trick should have succeeded, when we re
flect how identified the Ist of April has
become with the idea eff imposture and
unreality. So much is this the case, that
if one were about to be married, or to
launch some new and speculative proposi
tion or enterprise, one would hesitate to
select April 1 for the purpose. On the
other hand, if one hail to issue a mock
document of any kind with the desire of
its being accepted in the pi-oper character,
he could not better insure the joke being
seen than by dating it the Ist of April.
The literature of the last century, from
The Spectator downward, has many allu
sions to April-fooling; no references to it
in our earlier literature have as yet been
pointed out. English antiquaries appear
unable to trace the origin of the custom
or to say how long it has existed among
us. In the Catholic Church there was
the Feast of the Ass on the Twelfth Day,
and various mummings about Christmas,
but April-fooling stands apart front these
dates. There is but one plausible-looking
suggestion from Mr. I’egge, to the effect
that the 25th of 31 arch being, in one re
spect, New Year’s day, the first of April
was its octave and the ending of Us cel
ebrations; but this idea is not very satis
factory. There is much more importance
in the fact that the Hindoos have, iu their
Huli, which terminates with the 31st of
March, a precisely similar festival, during
which the great aim is to send persons
away with messages to ideal individuals,
\ or .individuals sure to be from home, aud
■ enjoy a laugh at their disappointment.
To find the practice so widely prevalent
. over the earth, and with so near a coin
! cidence of day, seems to indicate that it
| had a very early origin among mankind.
April-looling is a very noted practice
| in France, and we get traces of its preva
-1 lence there at an earlier period than is
the case in England. For instance, it is
| related that Francis, Duke of Lorraine,
and his wife, being in captivity at Nantes,
effected their escape in consequence of
the attempt being made on the “Ist of
April.” Disguised U 9 peasants, the one
bearing a hod on his shoulders, the other
carrying a basket of rubbish at her back,
they both at an early hour of the day
passed through the gates of the city. A
woman, having a knowledge of their per
sons, ran to the guard to give notice to the
sentry. “April fool!” crud the soldier;
and all the guard, to a man, shouted out:
“April fool!” beginning with the sergeant
in charge of the post. The Governor to
whom the story was told as a jest con
ceived some suspicion, and ordered the
fact to be proved; but it was too late, for
in the meantime the Duke and his wife
were well on their way. The Ist of April
saved them.
MON E V- MAKING.
Measures Relating to the Printing of
Small Rills.
The bill authorizing the national banks
! to issue their notes for the amount of the
par value of United States bonds held by
I the Treasury for redemption of the same,
says a Washington letter to the Balti
; more Sun, is now on the Speaker’s table.
It is certain of passage by a large ma-
I jority when it can be reached iu the regu
i lar order. It is understood that the
I Committee on Banking and Currency
propose when that committee is reached
under the Monday call to move to take
the bill from the table and pass it under a
suspension of the rules. It is somewhat
doubtful whether the necessary two-thirds
vote can be obtained.
It is the opinion at the Treasury that
Congress will take no action on the fetter
of the-Secretary of the Treasury asking
for an appropriation to continue the print
ing of the one and two-dollar notes, which
has been before the Committee on Appro
priations of the House for two months or
longer. Some of the Treasury officials in
cline to the belief that Congress will not
authorize the printing of any more notes
of smaller denomination than five dollars.
The silver men are opposed to it, as are
also those who, favoring a sound cur
rency, discountenance the issue of paper
of small value. France issues no paper
of less value than 100 francs, and in Great
Britain, with the exception of a few one
pound notes, which pass current in Scot
land, the lowest denomination issued is
five pounds. In both Great Britain and
France small gold and silver coins circu
late freely. There does not seem, so far
as the Treasury is advised, any embar
rassment in business circles at all on
account of the scarcity of the small notes.
Silver Js now paid out daily in considera
ble sums at the sub-treasuries, and is
received without objection. The only
valid objection which the Treasury regards |
as now lying against silver coin is its
intrinsic want of value as compared with ,
gold. It is hoped at the Treasuiy that if,
by reason of the failure of Congress to ;
provide for greenbacks of the smaller i
denominations, silver is forced into gen- j
eral circulation, Congress will be j
brought to see the necessity of raising the !
value of the standard dollar to one hun- !
dred cents.
It is the general opinion that the Senate
will not pass the trade-dollar hill as sent
to it bv the House, but will restore the
fourth section. Should the House refuse
to concur, which is anticipated, the bill
will probably fail. It is said that the
larger part of the trade dollars are in
circulation in the Eastern States.
A Fat Case for the Lawyers.
The counsel for the government in thu
case of Hallett Kilbourn against ex-Sev
geant-at-Arms John G. Thompson, savs a
Washington special, have filed a motion
to set aside the judgment of the jury in
the recent third jury trial of the case.
During the eight years that Mr. Kilbourn
has been contesting for vindication and
redress for his lalse imprisonment by or
der of the House of Representatives", the
government have employed as special
counsel against him the Hon. Samuel
Shellabarger, Col. Robert Christy, Judge
William Merrick of Maryland," 11. W.
Garnett, W. 11. Prescott. ex-So!ictor W.
H. Smith, Hon. Frank Hurd, John Mc-
Sweeney of Ohio, Messrs. Shellabarger
and Wilson, and also three district attor
neys—Wells, Corkhill and Worthington,
and their assistants. However Mr. Kil
bourn may fare in the end, the case seems
to be a pretty fat one for the lawyers.
The Wife of Bismarck.
From Dr. Busch' Sew Book on Bismarck.
With genuine womanliness she created
for her husband a borne full ot comfort
and genial warmth, and intelligently
shared for years his griefs and hopes,
sometimes even, as is evident from some
passages in Bismarck’s letters to her (re
printed by Hesekiel), to a certain measure
in political questions, although, as a rule,
she does not belong to the class of women
who take part in politics. Her corre
spondence with him, when official duties
or pleasure trips separated them, was
very lively and affectionate. He called
her “my heart,” “my dearest heart” in
his letters: he sends her jessamine from
Peterhof, blooming heather from Bor
deaux, and promises to send her edelweiss
from Gastein, where, on the sixteenth an
niversary of their wedding day, he re
members that this day “has brought sun
shine into his bachelor life.”
HORSEORIVS ACID PHOSPHATE.
Al an Appetizer.
Dr. Morris Gibbs, Howard City, Mich,,
says: “I am greatly pleased with it as a
tonic; it is au agreeable and a good ap
l>etizer.”
In answer to a question as to what is
the best grain food for milch cows, Prof.
Arnold recommends four parts of bran,
two parts of cornmeal and one part of
linseed meal as having given him the best
results in proportion to cost of any dry
food that he had ever used.
THIERS AND MIGNET.
THEIR FAMILIAR SORRigt ETS
“CASTOR AND POLLUX.”
Sketches in the Lives of the Two Prom
inent Frenchmen—Both Natives of
Provence and were Strong Friends—
Jilted in His Early tore Affair, Mig
net Gave Himself up to Literature—
The “Fit” for Foreign Possessions.
Correspondence of the Jfornina Mews.
Paris, March 27.—Castor and Follux
was the familiar soubriquet given to
Messrs. Thiers and Mignet. Only in death
they were divided. Both were lrom Pro
vence. Their prototypes were said to like
horse-rearing and boxing sports that never
entered the heads of either Thiers or
Mignet. The latter was an editor and
historian; to these Thiers united the poli
tician and statesman. Both graduated at
Aix for the bar, and it was while reading
for it that they swore an eternal friend
ship. They practised at the bar for
eighteen montus and then came to Paris
to seek their fortuue in 1822, They were
poor and resided in the alley Montesquieu,
where they rented two hack rooms In a
fourth story; a rickety, old deal table was
their writing desk; when they had money
they indulged in the extravagance of a
dinner at 23 sous; when there was no corn
in Egypt they observed Lent, though that
festival had long been passed bv the al
manac.
Mignet soon became editor of a news
paper, where he displayed, though very
young, solidity, determination anil
promptness of decision. lie was ardent
ly att achea to the liberal principles of
1789; he detested the Bourbons and found
in 1 allyrand an admirer, an encourager
anil a protector.
He has died in his eighty-eighth year; lie
was the senior Academician," having
been elected in 1836. Victor Hugo now
succeeds to that honor, by right of his
election in 1841. Mignet was the type of
a perfect gentleman in thought, conduct
and dress. His hair seemed to be Monde,
rather than white; he was silent and cold;
and, with his blue necktie with white
spots, his smartly rolled up cane-umbrel
la, faultless hat, and tight-buttoned coat,
he looked as juvenile as Auher. He was
not a fop; he was uot made up like Gen.
Changarnier, of whom it was saiu, if you
touched he would tall to pieces. He told
old stories so well as to make them as
charming as if new. Yet that modest
gentleman—whom Dumas fils said, he
might make love to any lady in a drawing
room despite his years, without being ri
diculous—signed the protest and so staked
his head, against the or donna rices of .July.
1830, and which killed aud buried the
Bourbon..
MIGNET IN’ EARLY LIFE HAD BEEN
JILTED.
by an Italian lady, but instead of tearing
his heart with his nails, as did the poet
Musset,who experienced a similar calam
ity, he said to himself; “Well, since pas
sion makes me suffer, I shall put an end
to passion.” Then lie arranged his life
for the passion of literature. He occu
pied apartments in a house owned by
Thiers, and where he died—calmly as ait
infant falling asleep in the Rue d’Aumale.
Every day his knife aud fork was laid—
though he was rich—at Thiers’ table, and
his absence would be regarded as a ca
lamity. Ho was the guide, philosopher
and friend of Thiers, though ever resting
in the wings of public life. He liked
youth, spring, nature and the Author and’
Giver of all good things. His delight
was, half a centurv ago, to have a run iu
the suburbs with Thiers and Beranger,
take their ease at an inn, and singing,
lead a butterfly life of a few hours. This
was different from the raking Sainte-
Boure anil Chateaubriand patronized.
Mignet hail a specialty for generaliza
: tion, for resume. He was all thought and
! research. Iu his histories he gives us the
; osteology of events, none of the small
! talk and gossip of the times, like Thiers.
• Ho was as exact as Ilcnri Martin; as ar
duous as Michelet. In his history of the
French Revolution from 1789 to 1814, and
published in 1824, he treated that epoch
of human history for the first time meth
odically,scientifically and philosophically.
It was immediately translated into sev
eral languages, for it eliminated every
thing approaching to party spirit. In
style Mignet combined that of Guizot and
Macaulay. He was an accomplished
essayist as well as historian,
as, for example, his Lives
of Marie Stuart, Franklin, and the Abbe
Sieves, aud other “portraits” of the Aca
demicians. Only he did not paint, but
sculptured. He produced, not pictui’es,
but statues and busts. Mignet, while
taking note of the present, lived in the
past in his souvenirs. Unlike Royer-
Oallard,he read asrwell as i-e-read. Nothing
lie detested more than improprieties in
thought, word and speech. lie abhorred
anything approaching dirtiness of soul.
For Miguet, nobility lay in virtue, and
benevolence was the “gowd” of the gen
tleman.
Doctors differ: 31. r. L. Boi'eau, the
first economical opinion in France,asserts,
despite all make-shifts, the budget for
1884-85 will be in deficit by 180,000,000 to
200,000,000 francs; others estimate it
lower. 31. Roryier, a 31inisterialist, main
tains there will be an excess—only he
does not prove it. The fact is, Finance has
arrived at the end of her revenue tether;
she has not resources to meet anemic
trade, foreign expeditions, home public
works, falling public funds, and whole
sale schemes of national education. Then
strikes continue to be the flies in the pot
of ointment.
TIIK “FIT” STILL EXISTS
for new foreign possessions. At Tonquin
' the aim is to bar out the invasion of the
I celestials. But how long France and
| China may continue fighting under masks
no one can predict. Madagascar, where
I the French are seemingly blocked rather
than the Hovas, the cry 19 to seize the
whole island and ignore the foreigner.
In the interim,it is urged to at once occu
py the port of Oboek merely as a “coal
ing station”—synonymous with “protec
torate,” and while thus making France
independent of Aden, England could be
checked on the eastern side of Africa.
Jealousy of England is the order of the
day—if it was ever otherwise. M. de Les
seps has thus no chance of obtaining his
Suez shareholders to elect seven John
Bulls on his executive council, and peo
ple ask, will the British shippers accept
the portion of the contract voted with a
respectable part of Hamlet left out of the
play Tt
The laundresses duly honored Mid-Lent
day; it is their only holiday in the year,
as Good Friday is that for the butchers.
People eudeavor to have all their linen,
ladies especially, back before the carni val,
as it is popularly believed the washer
women wear it—for that only. However,
sufferance is the badge of all their tribe.
George Sand said that, thanks to the bad
washing in Paris, she and her friends
have to renew their linen five times in the
year. The bad washing is simply the
employment of chemicals that Berzelius
or Berthollet discovered. There was a
time when buttons of shirts only dis
appeared ill the washing; it is now the
material itself that becomes burned by
decrees and beautifully less. It is not
objectionable to make ‘linen white, but
ladies have reason to complain to sec
their lilac robes returned to them as red
as the setting sud. Perhaps we may have
in self-defense to return to the times of
llomer, when the Greeks washed their
linen by trampling on it in a stream, as
the institution is observed in the north of
Scotland. The Egyptians and Hebrews
employed a kind of nitre, or a species of
soap plant. The Romans employed pu
trified human urine, and Pliny describes
the various systems for accumulating it.
The demand for this very peculiar soft
soap was such that the Emperor Vespa
sian imposed a tax upon it. In Iceland
such is still employed, plus ashes; the
latter when from fern are employed iu
many countries.
The Romans also employed gypsim and
chalk, and by the law of Metel’la sulphur
fumigations. Alcaline solutions were
patronized in France from the fifteenth
century, when linen tissues became
fashionable. It was under the reign of
Charles VI. that an outcry was raised
against the Queen Isabella on account of
her extravagance fn having “two linen
chemises.” There are at present many
substitutes for soap, the chief being am
monical salts solution, Indian chestnut
meal, rye flour, potato and wheat fecula,
boiled potatoes, gelatine and gum. Manv
employ nettles with alkalis to produce a
more delicate blue.
IN PARIS THE LALNDffIKS
are as plentiful as the bakeries and dram
shops. The public laundries in special
establishments, as well as in the barges
on the Seine, afford accommodation for
12,000 women. Then the making up rep
resents quite an army, and where men
largely figure as smoothing ironers, simi
larly as we have the men housemaids.
Such a class of subjects naturally have
their queens—the fair sex only being elect
ed to royal power as a protest, perhaps,
against the Salique law. Their majesties
are generally buxom and pretty. The
poet Dufresny married such a queen, ac
cepting the union as ft receipt in full for his
bill. Pope Sextus V. was of very humble
origin, and whan elected to the tiara he
brought his sister, who was a laundress,
and lodged her in a palace, for
by her brother’s elevation she became a
Princess by right. Next morning the
Romans covered the statue of Pasquino
with a toiled chemise. 3larfori demanded
the cause of such negligence, and the
reply was chalked on the statue, “Because
my washerwoman has become a Princess.”
The role played by a laundry maid to save
the chaste wife of Sir Eustace ile Yessy
from beiug seduced by King John is well
known, and one ol the rules exacted from
the Crusaders was that they would ob
serve purity of life towards" the washer
women who followed the army. In France
no woman is allowed inside a barracks
and the soldiers have to do their own
washing. In the time of Elizabeth, no
laundress was permitted to enter the pre
cincts of the inns of court.
Campi, who has been condemned to
death, but fated not to die, for murdering
an old lawyer last August, will go down
in the Newgate calendar as a “celebrated”
criminal. Save to his lawyer, his identity
cannot be established. He conceals his
name to avoid the disgrace for his family.
Even with a murderer there is somethiiig
1 human in that motive. In the trial a hor
rible system of espionage was exposed.
When a prisoner is arrested he is given
for companion an inmate whose wretched
calling is to worm himself into the confi
dence of the prisoner anil report the con
fession to the authorities, who, as was
seen on the trial, employ such evidence
against the accused. If the spy, called a
monton, does his filthy work well, his
term of imprisonment is shortened or he
receives jail favors. Campi, on receiv
ing sentence, observed: “Oh, 1 have just
caught a galloping consumption.” His
life is already announced dramatized for
the theatre. The man with the iron mask
is only second to the murderer sans nom.
FIVE LADS UNDER 13 YEARS OF AGE
formed a joint stock company to rob —not
shareholders, but suburban residences.
They burrowed into a wine-cellar anil got
j so drunk that their future was cut short
by two policemen, who, with wheelbar
rows, trundled the “finds’.’ first to the hos
pital.
At the Communists' weekly meeting,
the man who took the money for entrance
fees bolted, leaving a pencil note that
“property was not robbery;” thus difler
j ing from Prudbon.
Lavieille, son of the artist, and a sol-
I dier, found after a clean shave from a bar
i her that he had received a snig; his face
I swelled up, decomposition of the blood set
j in, and he has just been buried.
“I do not like my parrot; it is always
crying, Vive la republique!” Friend:
“WelT, sell it to the government and
they will make it a Prefect.”
At a matrimonial agency: “But the
girl will have no fortune till the
I death of her parents, and they are ro
i bust!” “Young man,” added the agent,
| “1 see that you do not believe in Provi
: dunce.”
A petite belle to a young man from the
| country, first time in l’aris: “3lonsveur,
\ will you lend me your arm and see me
home?” “With pleasure, mademoiselle;
! you tire afraid someone might accost
1 you, perhaps!”
THE SHILOH BATTLEFIELD.
Veterans of the North Visiting the Scene
of the Memorable Struggle.
The day broke bright, mild and beauti
ful over Shiloh yesterday morning, says
a Shiloh special, of the 7th inst. to the
Nashville American, as the steamers John
Gilbert and W. F. Nisbet, lashed together,
steamed up to Pittsburg Landing with
about four hundred excursionists on
board, mostly members of the G. A. R.
from Illinois, Indiana and lowa. Flags
were flying from the mast-heads and rig
ging, and two brass bands were playing
Home, Sweet Home” and “Auld Lang
Syne.” A number of citizens on shore
cheered the excursionists as they landed.
The column was formed, and, led by the
bauds, marched to the flag-pole in the
centre of the National Cemetery, the
bands beating a dead march with muffled
drums. Here they played Webster's fu
neral march, the men standing with un
covered heads, and tears running down
the cheeks of many as they looked ai'ound
and recognized the names of many old
comrades, while the marble slabs at the
head of the graves rose like the undula
ting waves as far as tho eye could see.
The column formed again and marched
to the platform erected for the speakers
and the band, at the w r est end of the ceme
tery.
The ceremonies opened with an appro
priate prayer by Capt. T. J. Bryant. Rev.
Ihomas Cotton, the local preacher, ex
plained that the small assemblage was
due to the fact that many people had been
scared away In consequence of the small
pox scare.
Capt. H. R. Hinkle, of Savaunab, Tenn.,
a member of the G. A. I!., said that Gov.
Bate had promised to be present and make
a speech, and Capt. Payne, State Superin
tendent of Education, had promised him
that if Gov. Bate did not come, he surely
would, and deliver an address of welcome
to the visitors. Mr. Hinkle heartily de
plored that there were no representative
Tennesseans from the Confederate army
to welcome the visitors.
lion. D. F. Smith, of Illinois, was the
orator of the day, and delivered a stirring
speech eulogistic of both the Federal and
Confederate dead. He concluded with the
following: “As the quiet, steadily flowing
current of the beautiful Tennessee, which
perpetually bathes the feet of the hill in
which rest our beloved dead, coming down
from the uplands of the South to join its
waters with that of the great rivers of the
North, so may a current of patriotic love
of country come from the Southland and
join others from all parts of the country
until they are all embraced in one senti
ment of love and respect for an insepara
ble union of States.”
Gen. T. Lyle Dickey, Judge of the Su
preme Court of Illinois, spoke of the mo
tives that animated the parties tft thecon
test, and the substantial benefits that re
sulted to the South, even from the fire
through which it had passed and the ter
rible experiences always realized by the
people of the soil w’here armed hosts come
together to prove tho earnestness of their
convictions by appealing to arms. He
said that from the terrible civil war that
had become a political necessity, the
South had suffered greatly, it was true,
but was recuperating so fast that within
the next decade it would be far more
prosperous than before the war. He then
related some personal experiences of the
battle and interesting particulars regard
ing Gen. Lew' Wallace and his command.
He spoke of the great self-sacrifice of the
soldiers of the North, and the Union had
been cemented together by their blood.
The entire audience, which bv this time
had been largely augmented ’by people
from across the river and neighborhood,
then sang “Nearer Mv God to Thee,” the
band leading with cornets. The children
of the neighboring Sunday-school sang a
hymn founded on Stonewall Jackson’s
last word 9, “Let us pass over the river.”
This affected many of the audience to
tears, and was well received. This w'as
all that was said or done in memory of the
Confederate dead who lay buried in the
surrounding fields without a stone to
mark the spot.
The audience sang, “1 love to tell the
story,” led by a cornet.
The veterans then dispersed over the
country as far as the old Shiloh church,
looking for the places where their com
rades fell, and they fought, and many
were wounded beside them. Great inter
est was manifested in searching for old
bullets, buttons and the like, and a large
number were found on the field near by,
every member of the party carrying awav
some relic of Shiloh’s dreadful day.
There was an old-time camp-fire last
night on the battlefield by the spring,
hard tack, bacon and beans being cooked
and eaten from tin plates.
DAT S OLE ABE’S SOX.
How Private Dalzell Booms Secretary
Lincola.
On the Ist of August last the press
dispatches gave a graphic account of the
reception of the President and suits at
Lexington Ky.
It is said that as the party approached
the grand stand one old colored gentleman
caught a sight of Secretary Lincoln, and
cried out in a voice that w as heard by all
the crowd and cheered to the echo:
“Dar he is!”
“Bat’s him!!”
“Dat’s Ole Abe’s son!!!’’
Talk about magnetic utterances. That
w’as electric, as if the spirit of prophecy
had wrapt the old man in its flowing man
tle and touched his eyes with its sacred
fire. He uttered but the voice of the
nation. I felt so then, and long before. I
feel so now. All who read it foresaw the
coming event 111 the dusky shadow of the
freedm.an’s face, and heard it in his jubi
lant shout, re-echoed from mountain to
mountain and across the plains and lakes.
“Dar he is; dat's him; dat's ole Abe’s
son!” Listen well, and you will hear it
echoing in your grand convention, O ye
time-servers and self-seekers, in answer
to all your questions, “Dar he is; dat’s :
ole Abe’ son.” Take him ye must. 1
NIGHT THOUGHTS.
So still and calm, so beautiful the night.
The burning heat had passed;
To eyes that wearied with excess of light
Darkness had come at last.
Far overhead, in the deep vault of heaven,
Stars kept their brilliant way—
The great Orion, and those Siiters Seven,
With all their bright array.
And as I watched the glorious firmament,
Behold, a bright star fell;
So silently it fell, with slow descent,
And sad and mute farewell.
Sav. hast thou left the phere appointed thee,
Like some lost earthly goal.
Finding thy faith and patience failing thee
Before thou’dst won the goal?
Or hast thou taken hut a lower room
Iu which to work and pray;
Unselfish love seeking, through toil and gloom.
Those that have gone astray?
W ith trembling hope and passionate desire
The eager questions rose:
Unsatisfied, unquenched, they still aspire,
Till this strange life shall close.
Striving to penetrate the mvstery,
Our human senses fail,
Till Death, the great revealer, passing by
Gently withdraw* the veil.
LAMMOT DUPONT'S CAREER.
Worth *13,000,000 When Killed—Run
ning a Blockade to Supply Russia with
Powder—His Services to the Govern
ment During the War.
3lr. Lammot Dupont, who was killed on
Saturday by the explosion at Thompson’s
Point, Delaware, says the Philadelphia
Record, is said to have been worth $13,-
000,000. He hail a controlling interest in
the manufacture of nearly all the high ex
plosives that were made in the United
States and Canada east ol the Rocky
mountains. Ten million pounds of these
materials were consumed in the country
in 1882, the Repauno Company’s works at
Thompson’s Point producing one-third of
■ this amount, nc is credited with having
! organized a combination of ali the makers
! ot high explosives. When negotiating
with the Panama Canal Company for the
i powder to be used in that work he guar
; anteed to supply twelve tons of Atlas
powder daily if that amount were needed.
One of the most daring achievements
j recorded in the history ol the present cen
! turyisoneof which he was the central
figure. During the Crimean war the Rus
i sian Government ran short of powder,
! and the explosive was required to con
tinue the defense of Sebastopol. A cargo
was purchased from the Duponts in this
country, and was placed in a steamship
lying off Baltimore. The British had frig
: ates posted in waiting outside the Chesa
| peake. ' After seven feints the watchers
I were eluded and a chase begun across the
Atlantic, through Gibraltar and up the
Mediterranean sea. With remarkable
i good fortune the vessel passed through
I the Bosphorus and into the Black sea un
checked; jmt when nearing the place of
contention the English war-ships hailed
the stranger. Young Dupont was at the
; helm himself, and insisted that the vessel
proceed, not heeding the signals from the
war-ships. Two broadsides were fired into
i the vessel, but she was able to steam
ahead and steer through the rocks and
was beached inside the Russian lines.
This daring adventure saved the cargo, i
lor which the Russian Government paid
the sum of $3,000,000. Throughout the
civil war the family rendered distin
guished services to the government, and
at the very beginning of the rebellion Mr.
Lammot Dupont was placed in a position
by which, through his energy and genius,
the country was supplied with the means
of defense lor the ensuing conflict. When
it became evident that the rebellion was
not to be suppressed in a single-campaign
the government began to consider what
means it had for supplying powder to the
vast armies to be put in the field. Mr.
Dupont was called to Washington to con
sult w'ith the President, and his estimates
fairly startled tho Cabinet by revealing to
them a great danger ahead in the highly
probable exhaustion of the supply of salt
petre. From England alone could the
requisite amount be obtained, and Mr.
Dupont sailed for Liverpool with the nec
essary credentials, personal and financial,
and made his way with all speed to Lon
don. There he at once applied to Pea
body and the Barings (then financial rep
resentatives of the United States in Lon
don), but encountered many obstacles, at
tributable to the timidity of the Secretary
of the Treasury, who, alter promising an
ample supply of funds, had failed to make
good all nis engagements. In this emer
gency the patriotic envoy concluded, on
the responsibility ol his own house, an ar
rangement with Brown Brothers & Cos.
which placed at his command a sufficient
sum. But the greatest difficulty was yet
to be encountered, for Earl Russell’s
government refused to allow' Great Britain
to be deprived of so much saltpetre, and
Mr. Dupont returned to America.
Another consultation of the Cabinet
was called, and, when all W’ere bewildered
by the difficulties of the situation, Mr.
Dupont made the suggestion that, in the
event of another refusal, the American
Minister should be instructed to demand
bis passports and close the embassy.
This, it was understood, was to be stated
merely as an alternative, for its moral ef
fect, without any immediate intention of
putting the threat into execution. Presi
dent, Lincoln accepted the suggestion,
and Mr. Dupont, returning to England,
had au interview with the Prime Minister,
who, on learning the danger of an inter
ruption of diplomatic relations, begged
Mr. Dupont to forbear communicating
with Mr. Adams for a dav, and next
morning called upon him at his hotel to
tell him that the council had been com
municated with by telegraph, and the
consent of the government obtained to the
export of the saltpetre. A number of ves
sels w T ere at once loaded, and fortunately
got away with their cargoes the very night
of the arrival of the news ot the capture
ot Mason and Slidell. The Premier on
hearing that the vessels had sailed ex
pressed his satisfaction and privately as
sured Mr. Dupont that he was at liberty
to state confidentially to Mr. Lincoln that
scarcely for any cause would England at
that period go to war with America.
PLKXTV or ROOM AT THE TOP.
How Several Buckeye Boy* Didn't Grow
I'p to be Great Men.
Chicago Herald.
“It's no wonder Ohio raise* so many
great men,” said a passenger from Buck
eyedom. “I used to teach school in But
ler county, and one day I remember a di
rector came to me and said: “Now, Mr.
Jones, we want to make something out of
our boys; we want ’em encouraged to try
to rise in life. Point out to 'em the great
possibilities there are even for poor boys.
Tell 'em, in the language of Dan’l Web
ster. ‘there’s always room at the top.’ I
promised, and did as I agreed. It was
wonderful to see the effect it had on the
boys. I was sure they would rise in the
world if they only had half a chance. And
ray predictions have been verilied.”
“Tell us how they turned out, won’t
you ?” •
“Well, Tommy Jefferson Smith inher
ited his father’s farm, speculated, made
money, went to New York and made quite
a stir in Wall street. Now he’s keeping a
lemonade stand on Mount Washington.
Jimmy Buchanan Cook alwavs wanted
to be a statesman, and so he went to
Washington. The last I heard of him he
had a job carrying mortar to the top of
I the Washington monument. Andrew
Jackson Murphy had an ambition to be
a big manufacturer, and he went to New
Y'ork, too. His wife takes in washinsr to
support him. and dries her clothes' on
the roof of a ten-story New York tene
ment house. Sammy Adams Brown went
West to deal In stock, got caught in one
of his transactions, and was hanged at
the end of a telegraph pole. Ann there
was Charley Foster Fosdyke—what be
came of him? Let me see—oh, yes; he
had an ambition to be a clown in a cir
cus. One day he tried to climb a greased
pole, fell from the top and broke his tar
nal neck. I have always believed that
early education has a good deal to do
with helping boys to rise in the world.”
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Feather Beds and Mattresses renovated and made as good as new. Recommended bv the
best physicians and citizens of Savannah.
S. HERMAN, 170 Broughton Street.
(Turpentine stUlo.
THE TICKET l' It ISS4.
THE SEAMLESS TURPENTINE STILL.
UriTH A PLATFORM DECLARED AGAINST LEAKS, which w ill cause A LARGE IN
CREASE, over all other makes, of both Spirits and Rosin to the rqierator. 'I raua
of the great increase in Naval Stores last year mar not be from over-production of the Crude
Turpentine, but from the great saving from leaks by the general use of
McMillan Bros.’ Seamless Turpentine Still!
We have THIftTY-FIVE NEW and SECOND-HAND STILLS, from Twelve to Thirty Bar
rels capacity, together with a large assortment of EXTRA WORMS, CAPS, AKM<. EXTRA
STILL BOTTOMS, GRATH BARS, DOORS,GLUE KETTLES and all kindsof STILL XKIM
MIN’GS. REPAIRS through the country a specialty. As now is the time to place your orders
for sTILLS, call on or address McMILLAN BROS.,
SAVANNAH. GA., or FAYETTEVILLE, N. C.
Diamonds! Diamonds!
TH E undersigned begs to acquaint his many patrons and the public at large that he has
purchased one of the largest and most select steckg of these precious stones which were
eve under one roof in this city. I invite an inspection, and feel satisfied that I can suit every
tas e. I guarantee every article as I represent them to be. besides I DO NOT CHARGE
FANCY' PRICES, but sell my goods at a very small advance above cost and at strictly hut
one price, thereby placing the amateur and the judge upon the same footing.
U/AITUAM U/ATPUCQ wsrassitffisssrs
WhL I fl/iIVI WHI unLO.r; ; ." l ';;” , ™'“. u, "' r ' ,T
IPIIIPI H|f There is no better assortment of all kinds of Jewelry to be found,
I L ISI LI U V and I can suit everybody, whether it be for a BRACELET. EAR
IPBEr| It V RINGS. PINS. CHAINS. LOCKETS, or anything else that may he
* ■ II bUII I I wanted in the jewelry line.
CnllH Ciluaruiara The goods I handle are from the most reliable manufacturers. lin-
OUIIU OllfClHdlC. vite comparison m quality and price. I mean Strictly BrsiXESB.
JVI. STERNBERG,
22 1-2 BARNARD STREET.
SAVE TOLU TIERS AMI PRESERVE TOM
HEALTH.