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PICKINO rp CHIPS.
Now, at the wood-pile,
W ith n ity cheeks and lips;
And with her pretty apron on.
Was picking up some chips.
Jaw--came along, aid halting,
And lifting up his hat.
A id growing quite familiar.
They both began to chat.
A- Susan there as sianding with
Her apron full of chips,
II • seized th- happy moment,
And kissed her rosy lip.
She ihrew her hands tip to her face,
Kepelli g the a.vanli;
And spi led her chips, but only said;
••Now. Jute, that was y*ur fault.”
Jake th.ew his hands above his head,
T<s>k to hi heels to run.
Ad look' and for dogs or squirrel shot
Fired from her daddy’s gun.
It:it Susan turned and softly said,
fThe best ot things to main ).
• I’m pic ing up the chip-* right here.
Most every morning, Jake. ’
— Baltimorean.
MSCUhSIVK ANI> SPECULATIVE.
A Famous Itecelpt, with a Story At
tached.
Frnm the Jteminiecencfg of an Artist.
Tergui— Donald, wliai’s the • iff' rence be
tween • rtbodoxy and he erodoxy?
Donut(l —<)rthodoxy is my doxy—heterodoxy
is your doxy! That’s all.
Heretofore I have given the mere froth
of the seething caldron of an Artist’s
Reminiscences, but the signs of the times
invite both pen and pencil to graver work.
Jouffroy, the eminent French moralist,
with whom I have had conversations,
doubtless amusing to him as conveying
the Ideas of a green youth, chock full of
the doctrines of Bunyan’s “I’il<rrim’6 Pro
gress.” of the “Federalist,” ot the
“Declaration of Independence,” and of
the “Fathers of the Chorch,” and certainly
valuable and instructive to me, as giving
an insight into how the greatest minds
must wander in the dark mountains of
doubt, if they once quit the straight path
of Revelation. Jouffroy says that human
history is a drama of which we know
neither the prologue nor the catastrophe.
I, believing that God conld not have left
ilis intelligent creatures without a cer
tain guide to a knowledge of Him—His
designs and His will—argued that they
were to be found in the Hebrew Bible,
■which gave the prologue in Genesis and
tho catastrophe in Revelation, and that
these properly interpreted would lead us
to a bro ider view of religious, scientific
and political matters than could be
otherwise arrived at. But, that if
the record was true, it must be supported
by other evidence to receive the accept
ance of lietngs gifted with reason, and
that evidence, I thought,should be looked
for in the ‘‘stone book” of the earth and
the “star book” of the heavens. But on
the a tempt to read these X fund that tiil
the invention of spectrum analysis. Lord
Ross’ telescope seemed to discourage the
idea of the origin of the universe from
cloud matter—a sup{>ositioii necessary to
my theory while geology was in
its infancy in the year 183d.
A proof of this is, that on my first
attendance on the discussions of the Geo
logical Society of France, the contest was
between Elie de Beaumont, the champion
of the ulcanic Theory,” and Constant
Prevot, the supporter of the “Neptunian”
view of the world’s origin, while on mg !
right sat Lntll. then scarcely known to |
science, intelligently listening and mean
ingly smiling at the vehemence and argu
mi nts o! the Frencbiner., whose opposite j
views he afterward reconciled in his own j
geological writings.
Jouffrov spoke English about as badly
as I did Freucn, but each understood the
language of the other sufficiently to con
verse fluently iu the two, with an occa
sional instructive and amusing explana
tion of idiomatic phrases. To his remark
about prologue and catastrophe of human
history 1 quoted as well as 1 could from
memory Snakspeare’s “All the world’s
a stage and all the men and women play
ers,’’but have since learned that it may
be more fitly compared to the witch’es
caldron in Macbeth, in which “eye of
newt” (narrowness ol view), “tongue
of dog—”(teacDings of demagogue and
fanatic) “adder’s fork” (envy, hatred.
mal:ce and all uncharitableness) “and
blind worm's sting” (scandal, lying and
backbiting) are mingled for the concoc
tion ot a bell broth, palat&b'e only to the
damned, but trom which the’Divine
alchemist has extracted an upper layer
ot wholesome food for the mind,
consolation for the heart, and hope for
the soul of one who belie es that —
■"There in ”' o, ' i,,cr c that shape? Cr en-ls.
Rough hew them asne
And moreover on th3 surface ot this
eve u He has allowed to rise a froth, light
aud unsubstantial u. is true, but pleasant
or bitter to him that tastes it, accord in it
to the use he makes of it, and the faith in
which he receives it.
Up to this time I have given only a lit
tle of this froth that rises on my memory
as I look back to the experiences ol an
obscure life, to the traditions of ray elders
and the confeesions'ol private.raotives and
actions, which the public "have never
heard, and would not have accepted
as true if listened to, and which if unfold
ed now by me would not be accepted as
other than the products of a vivid imagi
nation, which would shake the faith of
the yoang in human perfectibility i a faith
necessary to a striving after good), and
confirm "the old iu the opinion held by
many, that this earth is tae masterpiece
of the devil, a view which lam very far
from taking, even to an acceptance of the
Monboddian theory," revived by Darwin
in the idea that we come trom tadpoles,
through “progenitors of arboreal habits”
—even monkeys!
Now men, good Catholics and Protest
ants. honest Democrats, Republicans or
equally honest Republican Consolidalien
ists, would not tolerate for one moment
any attempt to prove that true religion
or political wisdom lies between the two,
and still less would they bear the demo
lition of their demi-gods, by an
tic exposure of their unworthiness. There
lore I shall not go oil witi my account of
duels, for this reason: the only one left
of those of which I have beard from sur
vivors or witnesses, involves this conse
quence. It shows Gen. Andrew Jackson
as faithless, explains why Henry Clay
supported John Adams in preference
to him for the Presidency, now this led to
John Randolph’s comparing the co-ope
ration of the two to one of blackleg
and puritan and this to, the
bloodless duel between them—how my
iather and Mr. Clay became intimate, and
in interchange of family traditions led
the latter to inier that they came from the
same original stock, dating back to one
generation beyond the settlement of
Georgia—how this intimacy led to an ex
posure of the profound statesmanship
which induced him to support the
“American system” and the “admission
of slavery into Texas,” and of the knowl
edge of "human character which' made
him foresee the utterance of the “doc
trine of to the victor belongs the spoils,”
and the iufallible consequences of the
' ’ . **-♦ nd
same in tue corruption oi poutic*.
public morals, which wc now recognize:
how the election of Gen. Jackson was
looked to by New England Federalists as
the oniv means of overturning the control
of the "Jeffersonian Democratic Republi
canism in the government by “running
Democracy into the giound” through the
ultraism ot a despotic military leader,
etc., till iu following it up 1 would have
to go back to the influence of the Ameri
can revolution on the politics of Europe—
the attempts to destroy it through the use
of priest and puritan by the mon
archies and oligarchies of the Old Woriel,
and to t inch upon various other things,
all of which would lead my readers to
think that I was seeking to turn the world
of thought upside down, and to be silenced,
not by lynch law, but upon the African
receipt for the quieting of squall
ing babies. But what that is, I will tell
you to the end, that grateful fathers, who
love peace aud quiet in their bed cham
bers, and doctors of law and of physic, a je,
even some doctors of theology, who ad
vocate the truth of the evolution theory,
and mothers who resort to Dalby’s car
minative and paregoric to quiet their
restless babies may unite to shield me
from the assault f the ignorant mass, op
posed to what they cannot understand,
and estimating pictures by the cost of
the frames in which they are inclosed.
The receipt and the way I got it is this:
“C;e-ar—not the famous Roman—but a
negro slave, who was brought trom
Africa in his advanced boyhood, and
lound in the estate ol Mr. Daniel Blake
with his fellow countryman, Pompey, in
bis old age, one day. aiter he became
mine in person and aflections, was
superintending the boiling of a ealdron of
garden vegetables lor the feeding of cows
and pigs, " hen a pretty young darkey,
nurse to one of my babies, witli the child
in herjarms, came to overlook the work,
It was a justifiable curiosity, but drew
such uu expression into the" old man’s
ratherourango-utangish face, that 1 said:
‘•Old man, what are you thinking about?”
“Nofing sir, ’ept that if I was in Africa
now 1 could have six, seven such wife
as dat.” To this the girl re
plied with a toss of her head:
“Ylu old monkey you, tink 1
babsicha ugly ting as you?” “No such
ugly thing arter all, but I wouldn’t ax
vou, you imper’ent buzzy. you!” Seeing
■ hat a tempest was about to arise 1
Interfered. “Bur, Ctesar, now if they
wouldn’t have you, how could you have
them!” “Cotch ’em, sir.” “Flow
would you catch them?’’ “Well, sar,
you see, when King want clo’es, or
beads, or rum, he say; ‘Com“, my
sog. rs, we go catch some niggers lor
white man cap’n.’ Den we go. We
er*+p t’rough de wood till we gst to
de town we want, make ring roun’ ’em.
den 6et fire to bouses. Kill all de
sogers as dey runs out. and de ole people,
and cotcbes de young oomans and the
gals aDd the boys, and de pickaninnies,
and den we run aw ay tefore Oder towns
can come and enteh and kill we, w hen
dey sees the fire oher de trees and know
what we doin’.” “But didn’t they follow
you!” “How dey gwine follow me when
dey don’t know which way we gone!”
“But they might hear the babies squall
ing and follow by the sound.” “No, sab.
no, for ebbery soger hub he bag of red
pepper, beat up tine all ready, and if de
mudder squall he kill her, and if de baby
squall he clap a ban’ful o; dissamend
pe pper in he mout, and naby no squall any
more dat night.” ‘‘Good gracious!” ex
claimed I and the negro girl simulta
neously, and 1 continued, “and that kind
of life is what slavery in America saves
you from?” “Pshaw, mas-a, all you
white people go away and leave nigger
here tree in ’Mericky,*and sure as gun he
do de same ting berry soon!”
And now, that I have brought the froth
of my reminiscences to a fitting conclu
sion in giving tnis rec- ipt for securing
peace among men, and repose, so neces
sary in the drawing room and iljsirahle in
the*te and chamber. 1 make my lew to the
readers of the Mousing News, and
bid them adieu, in hopes that if we
commune together again it will be on
subjects in which the grave will prevail
over the gay, the 6ublime over the ridicu
lous. ’ R. W. H.
A HUSBAND RAFFLE.
How a Toting Frenchman Won a Wife
Miil 50,000 Franc*.
A young Frenchman of fine family,
though itnjioverisbed by the revolution,
says the New York Mail and Express,
aspired to a post under tne government,
to occupy which it was necessary to fur
nish a certain sum to deposit as security.
Our hero eould not obtain the requisite
amount from his friends, and at last bit
upon an expedient to put an easy end to
bis difficulty. He caused an advertise
ment to appear in one of the journals, as
follows:
“A young man, occupying an honorable
position, wishes to marry a lady well
brought up, and possessed of 250 fran s.”
Two hundred and fifty francs is about
£lrt; and, as there are many women in
tne world who would be glad to purchase
a young, handsome and honorablv-eon
m cted husband on such moderate terms,
it was quite natural that the advertiser
in the course oi three da s. during which
his notice appeared in public, should have
received many letters and applications.
The young man addressed a note to each
ol ihe applicants, appointing a place and
b'iur wben he should meet them alto
gether and politely inviting all to come
and look at him.
The evening indicated they came, and it
j is said the company numbered tuliy 200
! women. Win n ail had assembled the
! young mau “organized the meeting” and
made a speech, in which he thanked
i these ladies for the honor tr.ey proposed
j eonterring upon him. “But,” said the
i self-possessed young gentleipan, “you
, must understand, ladies, perfectly well,
i that l can not marry you all; moreover,
! you are all so charming (many of them
were horrible witches), it would be utter
; ly impossible for me to choose am ugsuch
i lovely creatures. This, then, i9 my propo-
I tion: Consider me as an object put up at
lottery. You number 200; make 200 tick
ets, at 230 francs (£10) each, and the
gross sum realized snail be the foitune of
the lady who draws the lucky number,
and whom 1 pledge to marry immediate
ly.” They hesitated a moment, but the
youth was good-looking and the ladies
were anxious to marry. One of them de
termined to accept the proposition, and
the rest followed like a flock ol sheep. As
it to reward the venturous fellow tor his
courage, his fortunate stars directed that
he should fall to the lot of a youthful and
pretty girl, whose greatest fault is an un
happy passion for practicing on the pi
ano. * True to his woru, !!>o voting man
married her, and, by last accounts, the
couple thus strangely brought together
were passing a pleasant honeynioou.
GOV. GII,M Gil’S HOOK,
An Anecdote of the Days of Andrew
Jackson.
A correspondent sends the following to
the Nashville World: Oa looking over an
old book written by Gov. Gilmer, of Geor
gia, intended as a history of early times
in Georgia and its original prominent cit
izens, especially the Gilmer and Meri
wether families, I found the following
amusing page which will at least excite
a smile among your readers. In speaking
of the election of Gen. Jackson to toe
Presidency in 1828, he relates the lollow
ing:
•‘Among the various matters which took
place at the time was a call made through
a partisan of Mr. Adams upon the War
Department for information so as to afford
Col. Barbour, the Secretary of War, a pre
tence lor sending to ihe House, in answer
a literal copy of a letter of Gen. Jackson
written carelessly a long time before iu
which he spelled several words wrongly.
To avenge this petty exposure of Gen.
Jackson’s deficiency in learning a pas
quinade was written, which represented
Mr. Adams occupying the country school
teacher’s chair, with” the members of his
Cabinet standing around after the fashion
of school hoj s w hen exercised at spelling
on evenings before they are dismissed
from school. Mr. Clay stood head, with
the otfaer members of the Cabinet follow
ing, according l r!*nk, in a circle around.
Mr. Adams’ bald head, weeping eyes and
short, dumpy person, seated on a split
bottom chair, made him an admirable
representative of the class of old-field
teachers. He held a book in his hand
from which he selected the words for
spelling. He arose and said his adminis
tration had called public attention to Gen.
Jackson's want of knowledge of spelling,
and that it behooved them all to mind
their P’s and Q’s, and that he had assem
bled them to exercise them in spelling.
He then gave out the word ‘female.’
“Mr. Clay : ‘Fe-( fe)mail.’
“Southard: ‘Fee-male.’
“Barbour; Tbe-male,’
“Porter: ‘Phe-mail.’
“McKinney stood foot and, being a sort
ot cat’s paw’ for the Cabinet, had put
himself ther : without being asked, and
wnen Mr. Adams nodded to him spelt, at
the top of his voice, ‘Phee-maal.’ The
next word was ‘negro.’
“Southard: ‘N-i-g-g-e-r.’
J|SioC"” ' with his orarotunda voice):
~ . ' ***'•._' that then being the
‘N-i-g-g-e-r, nigger,• .
Virginia style.
“Porte: ‘N-i-g-r-o.’
“At tbis Mr. Adams, with pent tip rage,
threw the book at McKinney’s head and
dismissed the class—McKinney going off
blubbering that Mr. Adams himself could
not spell Michiliinackiuac.”
VICTORIA’S MOTH ER-IN-L.AW.
The Prince Consort's Mother lucluded
In Catherine ltauer’s Reminiscences.
Catherine Bauer, says the Hour, gives
a startling account of the late Duke
Ernst, of Saxe-Coburg, the father of the
Prince Consort* whose proceedings in
respect to his mistress, Pauline l’anaw,
prove him to have been a consummate
scoundrel and his mother, the Dowager
Duchess, appears to have been even more
villainous. The Prince Consort does not
seem to have been fortunate in either of
his parents, for his sire was a perfect Don
Juan, and in 1822
The Duchess had now likewise begun to spin
love-threads on her own account, and in
Coburg the very sparrows on the root twit
tered stories ot the amours both ot Duke and
Duchess.
There can be nothing more horrible and
Inferno-like than the description of Baron
Stockmar’s last days at Coburg:
The man who once had ruled Princes and
people was now powerless, face to face with
the tyranny and sordid avarice of his wife.
During his illness, which lasted several years,
he could not always, either by prayers or
commands, procure in his own house even a
bowl of broth. * * His last hours were
terrible. VV hen lie lay at the point of death
liis hard wife took off his hack his shirt and
i Hannel jacket, so that, after his death, accord
| ing to Coburg custom, the undertaker might
I not claim these objects.
I How ghastly, after these disclosures, must
| be the sight of the sumptuous monument
( whch was erected to Stock mar at Coburg in
ISOV by his royal friends, and how dismally
lu icrous the recollection of the telegrams of
condolence which his exemplary spouse re
ceived from Queen Victoria ana otner royal
personages!
Coughs and Hoarseness.
The irritation which induces coughing
immediately relieved by use of “ Brown’s
1 Bronchial Troches.'’ Sold only in boxes.
THE SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SEND AY, DECEMBER 21, 1884.
NOT UNDER DAVIS’ SIGNATURE.
Another of the Letters With Which
Gen. Sherman Bolsters Up his Charges
Against Ex-President Davis.
Tne St. Louis Republican has received
from Washington another one of the
I‘ttersupon which Gen. Sherman based
his recent assertions respi cling J'ff
Davis’ position in regard to separate
State action, conspiracy, etc., while he
was President of the Confederacy. The
b tier is from Alex 11. St -phene, addiessed
to ilorsehel \. Johnson, and is dated
Cra>\ ic-dsvllie. Ga., April 5, 18114. It
opens with a reference to a previous letter
written to Johnson regarding the habeas
corpus act, and says: “If, after reading
that, you are still of opinion that the act
suspending the writ <>r habeas corpus in
certain cases does.not attempt to confer
upon the President and others tinder him
the power to arrest and to hold persons
arrested, without the proper warrant
under oath, a power they could not
exercise without it, then it Is useless to
say more: and it. alter reading that letter
and tne order ot Gen. Cooper alluded to
in it, you are still of opinion that
per onal liberty is not jeopardized by it,
that no blow is struck by it at the very
vitals of lib-rty, then indeed you would
not tielieve though one were to rise Lorn
the dead.”
Mr. Stephens then refers to a letter re
ceived from, Johnson in which the lath r
alludes to St phens as being hostile to the
administration and saying he will neces
sarily be e.asset! with those whose palpa
ble object it is to organize a party in op
position to it. Mr. .Stephens in reply to
this says: “1 allude to these matters tor
the sole purpose of correcting an er
roneous impression on your mind. I as
sure you that I have no antipathy to Mr.
Davis, nor am 1 hostile to him, and it
mere is an qbject, or intention, or wish,
w ith any to organize a paityin opposition
to the adnunietrat on, 1 know nothing ol
it, and have heard nothing of it.
“As to the late movement on the action
of Georgia upon the subject of the habeas
corpus and the resolut ion in relation to
the terms upon which peace should be
sought, 1 think I know as much as a.ry
bialy else. If anyone is responsible for it
no one is more so than myself. It is true
that these resolutions were not drawn up
by me, but they were prepared by Linton
alter full consultation, prepared at his
house before he went to Miiledgeville, and
as t<>r Mr. Davis or his administration,
they had but little to do with it—nothing
in tne world except in so far as they
tall withiu the scope of the point a’s
stated. They do nor rise to the dignity ot
a moment’s* serious consideration or
thought one way or the other. Greater
objects by tar were then engrossing my
attention and Linton’s too. I think. As
for Mr. Davis, 1 repeat again that 1 have
no tee ling of antipathy, much less hostil
ity. Wbatopinions you may think I enter
tain ol him, as you intimate, I know not,
but 1 have no hesitancy in stating to you,
freely and frankly and most confidentially,
what my opinions ol him are. They are
much more akin to suspicion and jealousy
than animosity or hate. While) do not
and never have regarded biin as a great
man or statesman on a large scale, ora
man ol marked genius, yet 1 have regard
ed him as a man of good intentions, w eak,
vacillating, timid, petulant, feverish,
obstinate, but not firm. lam now begin
ning todoubt his good intents. Isay doubt,
lor, after watching him closely, I am not
satisfied in my own mind, *or arrived at
any conclusion, whether some of his
shortcomings are to be attributed to
weakness or other purposes. Thebe are
my real sentiments, and my reasons for
them are these:
“Bii.ee his first elevation to power he
has ebanged many of his State rights
principles, as in case of conscription.
Ilis whole policy on the organization and
discipline ot the army is perfectly con
sistent with the hypothesis that he is
aiming at absolute power. Not a word
has come from him on the military usur
pation in the orders for martial law by
Bragg and Van Dorn, or the whole sy stem
of passports and Provost Marshals, which
is utterly wrong aud without authority of
law. Alter all that may be said or
written by myself and others against
these usurpations, not one word ever has
escaped Mr. Davis showing his disap
proval of them. Again, it is well kuovvu
that the subject of a dictatorship has been
mooted, talked of and niscussedin private
and in the put lie journals, and that the
most earnest advocates of such a course,
the Virtual doing away with Congress and
the coi.sti:: , on, have been editors near
him, right under his nose; editors of
journals recoguized at the tune to be the
organs of the administration. Now it
seems to me strange that this should be
so, and men holding and advocating such
sentiments for months should hold a near
relation to him, if tficb sentiments were
distasteful to him. These are bad signs
to me; they are not conclusive evidences
of bad objects or intentions on his part—
they leave me in douor, but certainly
awaken my suspicion and watchful
jealousy. They teach me to be on my
guard, and they should, in my opinion,
put the whole country on its guard. The
pri e of liberty is eternal vigilance.
“But again, l assure you that I leel uo
more hostile to him than to you. There
are great numbers I meet who see no
danger in the-e things. Myhostdity and
wrath (and I have enough of it to burst
10,000 bottles) is not against him or any
ouier man, but against the thing, the
measure and the policy which 1 see now
leading us to despotism. If you can under
stand and appreciate this position and
these feelings, then you can understand
me, and if you cannot, then you do not
understand me and cannot. But 1 trust
you do. As to w hat you say about the
administration, onew’ord. 1 hardly know
what idea you attach to this term as used
by you. It you mean the Cabinet, then
they are sustained by neither Congress
nor the oountrv, and when their recom
mendations were rejected by Congress, it
thev had had any self-respect they would
have r< signed their places. If you mean
the acts and messages of Congress, *hen
1 am confident not one-tenth ot the people
ol this cournry approve them. 1 would
slake my head upon the issue that not ten
districts in iue Confederacy could be
carried in a Congressional election lor a
candidate running on the advocacy of the
four leading measures of the last Con
gress and pledged to sustain them as the
settled policy of the country. This cry ot
sustaining the administration you will
allow me to say, with all due respect to
you, is nothing but stupid, senseless
cacbinnation. Nobody approves it. I
hoard that Gen. Cobb, in his speech at
Milledgeville said that all these acts of Con
gress were proper, wise and just, and yet
1 do know that Gen. Cobb* spoke very
differently to me about some of them
before they were passed.”
Gen. Sherman was seen last night at
hi 9 residence, No. 012 Garrison avenue,
and shown the telegram, says the lie
publican of Dec. 10.
••Yes,” said he, “that’s the letter, and
here’s the original,” aud pulling open a
drawer of the desk at which he had been
preparing a treatise on St. Louis militia
Gen. Sherman opened a lop" white enve?
lope tied with a junk ribbon, and took out
a small package consisting of sixteen
pages ot yellow rote paper, slightly small
er than the ordinary commercial note pa
per. “There it is as it was taken from the
house of Herschel V. Johnson, where it
had been concealed.”
The handwriting was clear and dis
tinct, and the letter was signed with the
peculiar signature of the well-known
statesman. The date and body ol the let
ter correspond, word for word with the
telegram, and there could be no doubt of
the authenticity of the original.
“Why didn’t you use the letter, Gen
eral ?”
“Why, because, 1 have nothing to do
with the matter. I forwarded a copy of
the letter to the War Department, where
it properly belongs, and your correspon
dent lias doubtless obtained his copy
from the archives of the So
you see it didn’t come trom me. No, I
have nothing to with Mr. Davis and don’t
propose to be involved in a quarrel with
him. But these things are historical and
the War Department has the right to all
the facts it can obtain relative to the
war. ”
HOW IT WAS FOUND.
“How did you obtain possession ol the
letter?”
“Well, it was taken by a party of for
agers in my immediate command. The
letter was written in April. 1864, and was
captured in the latter part of November,
1864. The foragers began prodding the
ground ol Johnson’s residence, Sandy
Grove, with their bayonets for buried ob
jects, and came across a box contain
ing this letter and a number of other
thiDgs.”
“What other things? Was it spoons ?”
“Nevermind that. I don’t want to
say. But lam very glad the letter is
to be published so that the world can
find out that mv assertions were true.”
“What did you charge against Jefferson
Davis? ’
“1 said that he and a number of his
confederates did not intend to establish a
confederacy of States, but a despotism;
that if they had succeeded in building up
a secession government he would have
taken adva itage of it to make himself a
dictator <>r some hing of the sort.”
“Is Alexander H. Stephens’ letter your
entire prno 1 ?”
"No. 1 have dozens like it, but no
where is the proot presented in fc" sub
stantial a form as in it. The of he!* letters
are from great in the South, ansi cov
er a portion of the ground mentioned in
Stephens' I tter.”
THE ARTFUL DODGER.
Gen. Sherman n fused to give the names
of the parties ho had written the letters
and also deemed to state hit doyunieut
he would next forward to the War D
partment. lie declared that he had, how
ever, ample documents to prove the cor
rectness of his position, nameh, that, the
States of the Confederacy regarded the
government and Richmond as aiming at
absolute power.
“G'-neral, bow about Senator Nance s
lett* r?”
“Y’es, I noticed that, letter in this morn
ing’s Republic"a. But that letter was
dated 1802. and this letter ot Stephens’
was written in 1864; that is there were
two years of a-tive war b-tween the
dates. That makes a difference.”
“Was Senator Van e the Si nator re
ferred to in yrur speech at. the opening ot
the new headquarters of the Frank Blair
post?”
••Well, sir,” said Gen. Sherman very
slowly, "1 won’t say that be wasn’t.”
ANOI'IiKIt MONTt CIUSTO.
A Wonderful Story of a Parisian Adven
turer,
Some two and twenty years have come
and gone, says the Paris comspomient
of the New Orleans Picayune, since Pa
risians first began to tain about the Prince
Joseph Lubomirski. He was a fine-look
ing fellow and* so enormously rich that
whenever he went into a cafe he would
buy out the whole place and make every
body present help themselves. Such was
his prodigal generosity that the young
I>uc de (iraiiimont Caderousse nicknamed
him the Prii ce Rest uvenkj tuff, that is to
say “qu’est-ce que tu veux que je t’offi e ?”
one day Lubomirski ran down to Naples
with a “professional beauty” called Ju
liette. lie astonished theoldciiy with his
luxurious ways, kept a. steamboat ready
day and night for his girl’s use, and when
he had t ired ot her telegraphed a friend
here in Paris to reserve an apartment for
him at the Hotel de Castille. The friend
wired back: “Hotel full, but the proprie
tor will sell his house to you.” “Very
well, buy it,” was the immediate order:
and when the Prince arrived in Paris and
the waiters, cooks, chambermaids and
bottle-washers of the hotel were drawn
up in lines to welcome the new boss, he
sent all the guests away aud filled the
rooms with gentlemen and ladies of tx
cellentbiood but without money, and these
leeches lived on him until he hadn’t a
penny lett. The Prince had “great ex
pectations,” but his rich old uncle, in
stead of dying as any decent teliow would
have done, got married and in due course
ol' time was presented with a son and heir.
Then be Prince went to work, w rote a
book “Souvenir d’un Page de l’Empereur
de Rut-se,” made a reputation and gained
some money. Next he wrote “Un No
made,” then some magazine articles, and
by and t>v became a full-fledged journalist.
Once upon a time Robert and
Aurelien Scholl fell to quarrel* g. Lu
bomirski, a friend to both, undertook to
set tle their affair amicably, and succeeded
so well that a duel followed. The morning
of the meeting the Prince, in a wrv dole
ful tone, said to Mitchell: “Adieu,Scholl,
don’t fail to lay him out;” and then, turn
ing to Scholl, be exclaimed: “Adieu, Roll
er t, good luck to you; now go for him.’
One night at Bignon’s, the Prince of
Orange flew into a passion, struck Lubo
mirski over the head with his cane and
pushed him against a tall pile of plates.
"Monseigneur,” quietly remarked the Po
lish Prince, “that was a movement of bad
humor which will cost me anew hat. To
gain twenty francs it will he necessary
forme to write forty lineaJfc The next
day the Prince of Orange, wß*as the son
of a King, could not make his excuses,
sent Lubomirski word that if the latter
was seriously offended then he was will
ing to receive his seconds for a duel. This
honor was too much for our Princely jour
nalist, for although as brave as any of us,
he was too high born to dare accept a
chance to fight with one of royal blood,
and the incident was ended. Since
those days the Prince ot Orange has
died, while as for Lubomirski he several
years ago ma lea rich marriage and is
living virtuous and happily in one of the
finest houses to be found in the zone ar
tistique.
ANDREW JACKSON’S NOSE.
How It Was Pulled by Lieut. Randolph.
When I was at Alexandria last week,
writes a Washington correspondent of the
Cleveland Leader , I heard an old man’s
statement of how President Jackson’s nose
was pulled by Lieut. Randolph, in the
summer of 1833. Said he: “President
Jackson was passing Alexandria on his
way to celebrate the building of a monu
ment to Washington’s mother at Freder
icksburg. The steamer stopped at Alex
andria to get the mail. Jackson was sit
ting in the cabin back of a table smoking
a pipe andithere was hardly room to pass
him. His pipe was a long-stemmed one
and huugaltnost to his knee. A tew men,
including Maj. Donelson, Jackson’s adopt
ed eon, were standing about, and there
were others who had come on board to see
the President and to look at the boat.
Among these was Lieut. Randolph, a con
nection of the noted Randolph family to
which John Randolph belonged. He had
been dismissed from the navy by Jackson
for some trouble in his accounts. He was
a straight young man and not bad look
ing. He came on the boat and pushed his
way through the crowd until he reached
the cabin. *" This he entered and went up
to Jackson as though he would speak to
him. President Jackson did not know
him but held out his hand, asking him to
excuse him from rising. As he did so
Randolph, with a quick gesture, seized
Jackson’s nose and gave it three strong
pulls. It was done so quickly that no one
had a chance to interfere. Old Hickory
threw his pipe up into the air as if to
strike Randolph with it, but before he
could do anything Randolph had started
oil, and he was helped by the bystanders
on to the wharf. He quickly mounted a
horse and rode off into the country. Jack
son’s excitement was intense. His nose
was as red as fire and I am sure it did not
regain its color for days. lie said angrily,
‘lf I had had an idea that 1 was going to
be assaulted I should have been prepared.
Randolph is the first villain who has ever
escaped me.’ Hereupon a bystander said,
‘lf you will pardon me tor the crime, I
will kill Randolph within the next fiiteen
minutes.’ This Jackson refused to prom
ise. I think an indictment of assault with
intent to kill was tiled against Randolph
in the courts at Alexandria, but this was
afterward nolled by Maj. Donelson.”
A DREADFUL. PROPHESY.
How the Moon May Hung tbe Earth to a
Standstill.
'ih6 tides are caused mainly by the
moon, as it were, catching hold ot the
water as the earth revolves around on its
axis, says Harper’s Weekly. This must
cause friction on the earth as it revolves,
and friction, as every one knows, causes
loss of power. There is reason to suppose
that the action of the tides is slowly but
surely lessening the speed ot the earth's
rotation, and consequently increasing the
length of the day, and that this action
will continue until the earth revolves on
its own axis in the same time that the
moon takes to revolve round the earth.
Then the day, instead of being 24 hours
as now, will" be about 28 days, and the
earth will be exposed to the full blaze of
the sun for about 14 days at a time.
The change this will bring about on the
face ol the earth can hardly be exagger
ated. All life, both animal aud vegeta
ble, will be destroyed; all water will be
evaporated; the solid rocks will be
scorched and cracked, and the whole
world reduced to a dreary and barren wil
derness. It Is supposed by some that the
! moon has already passed through all this,
hence iH shattered and bare-looking sur
face. ™at the earth, being so much
larger, has more quickly acted upon the
oceans which once were upon the moon’s
surlace and stopped almost entirely its
revolution round its own axis, thus caus
ing It to have a day equal to 28 of our
days, and the heat of the sun has already
done to it what in future ages it will do
to the earth. _____
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HOW A JUDGE GOT HIS TITLE.
Where The Spirit of the Republican In
stitution Was Sustained With Six-
Sh"Olera.
“Judge” Caton, Indian trader at Fort
Bennett (Chey nne Agency), says the
i iiicago Inter-Ocean, is one ot the best
and must enteitaimng authorities on the
affairs, character, history and traditions
of the Sioux Indians to be met with in the
Northwest, and there is u<> better compa
ny for the leisure hour. But where and
how Eaton came to get that title has been
a mastery to me. knowing, as 1 did, that
lie could have hardly obtained it trom the
savage Daeotabs, among whom he had re
sided >or a mini tier ot year 9.
I asked him the other day, meeting him
on tne train:
“Where did you get your title from.
Judge?”
“Well,” he said, with a smile and a
twinkle <>f the eye, “I’ll tell you. 1 have
been a ‘Judge’ lor some eighteen years,
aud although the period ot my holding of
fice was of shortduration, l expect to hold
tny title tor life.
"It was that time when I was a youth of
20 that my father sent me out West in
company with an old Iriend ot the family,
a gentleman n arer my father’s ave than
none; visited Colorado, where things were
then iu a p-etty wiiu state.
"The day we arrived atFairplay an elec
tion was held for tne office of Register of
Deeds. Capt. Coates aud Col. Jenny were
the oposing candidates, and the election
had been carri. and on with a good deal of
feeling on both sides.
“The returns gave Coates a majority of
200 votes out ot a total poll of over 2,000,
in a county whose entire population fell
far short ol the vote in every body’s opin
ion.
“Col. Jenny contested the election. The
office was worth SIO,OOO a year, and worth
fighting lor. Eacu candidate had his at
torneys, whose tees on either side exceed
ed SI,OOO.
“Every prepartion bad been made for
hearing the centest except the selection o%
a reieree.
“A barrel of whisky and a barrel of
water were placed at the princi
pal street corner,with a tin cup for every
body’s tree use. All carried firearms,
save my friend and myself, and to me
the scene was, to say the least, a novel
one.
“The choice of a referee was the point
over which a dispute seemed imminent,
when Capt. Coates, espying me in the
crowd, exclaimed:
* “Yonder’s a tenderfoot with an honest
lace. What do you say to having him for
the judge of this here business?’
4 “He’ll do for me,’ responded Col. Jen
ny, and‘Judge Caton’ 1 became at and
from that hour.
“Witnesses were called on b ilh sides,
and the taking of testimony begau for the
contestant.
“A great, strapping ‘six-footer and six
shooter’ swore that in ‘Buckskin Joe’pre
cinct, where ov>-r 200 votes were polled,
there were not that many souls living,
men, women and children.
“Testimnoy of this sort soon showed me
that the election had been notoriously un
fair on both sides, and that there was no
way to ascertain who had been honestly
elected.
“It had been agreed that my decision
should be final, with the sole right re
served to the defeated party ot forcible
resistance when the other should take the
office.
“My position was a ticklish one. For
tunately, however, 1 was perfectly free to
act as 1 liked. My court had no prece
dents to follow. Deciding, after a day of
wrangling by counsel and clients over the
evidence presented, that I would try a
bold stroke tor justice, I called the court
to silence and announced: ‘Gentlemen,
it appears to this court that uo fair and
legal election has been held in this coun
ty, and I shall rule as follows—that there
be anew election, the ballots to be depos
ited in my keeping, in the presence oi both
candidates and their counsel.’
“This decision took them all by sur
prise, hut proved to he acceptable at
otice. It was arranged to have the vot
ing done at each precinct separately, and
on a separate day in a few instances where
it was necessary, so as to comply with
the conditions prescribed.
“A large crowd went with judge, can
didate and counsel from poll to poll, and
the result finally reached was a majority
of 12 votes for Capt. Coates out ot a total
of 326 votes, instead of the former poll of
2,000. ’
Gen. Grant’s War History.
New York Letter in Chicago Tribune.
“You can scarcely credit the pains my
father has goue to,” said Col. Grant, “to
make sure of points on which he has re
lied on his memory, but which he would
not commit himsed'to until satisfied by
comparing notes with others that he was
beyond a doubt correct. We have corre
sponded with soldieis and olh ers all over
the world. The correspondence relative
to the battle of Shiloh alone would be
somethin*' extraordinary for an outsider
to see. In several cases my father has
sent men to the old battlefields to measure
distances. In fact, every assertion con
tained in these papers can be proved.”
In reply to my question as to the General’s
method of composing, Gol. Grant said:
“My father never employs a secretary or
stenographer. lie writes every word
himself. Then I usually read aloud to
him his manuscript, correcting as he
suggests. He himself then copies this
manuscript, sometimes adding a great
deal. 1 again go through it, and so care
ful is he, and so anxious to make this
contribution to ihe war history of our
country worthy of the place which with
out egotism he aspires to, that no labor
on his part is too arduous for its accom
plishment. The paper on Shiloh which I
carried to the publisher mvself yesterday
was written and rewritten six times be
fore he was willing to give it to the public.
Besides these separate articles my lather
hascommenced a history of the war, which
he proposes to have published in book
form. He has already written about 1,200
or 1,500 pages of manuscript of this.”
A. Hint to Pastors.
Texas Siftings.
Col. Yerger, meeting the Rev. Whang
doodle Baxter on Austin avenue, asked
him:
“How is your congregation comingon ?”
“We am goin’ right ahead, sah. Since
we has quit passin’ de hat we has taken
in lots ob money. De kerlecshuus has in
creased wonderfully, sab, wonderfully.”
“1 don’t understand how you can take
up collections if you don’t pass the hat.”
“We passes de plate now.”
“Welj, that’s the same thing as passing
the hat, Isn’t it?”
“No, sah, hit ain’t de same thing. Dea
con Webster passed de hat for moah dan
a year, and de kerlecshuns was mighty
small; but now I passes de plate myse’f,
and de money just rolls in. De plate am
much more reliable dan de hat.”
“How is that?”
“Deacon Webster put tar in de top ob
bis hat.”
Taking Care of the Body.
The following editorial is from the
Christian Index , Atlanta, of Dec. 4: Too
many people seem to thing that a religi
ous newspaper should be confined to the
discussion of moral and religious subjects
only, forgetting that religion has to do
battle with the bodies and souls of men.
“Prove all things, hold fast that which is
good,” has as much to do with the practi
cal side of life as it has with the moral
side. Our readers will bear testimony
that in all questions discussed in the In
dex, the practical has been duly set forth.
In this paragraph, therefore, we only seek
to present an article worthy of commen
dation. After subjecting it to the above
test we have tried Swift's Specific, and
found it good, good as a blood purifier,
good as a health tonic. In this opinion
we are sustained by some of the best men
in the church. Rev. Jesse H. Campbell,
the Nestor of the Baptist denomination in
Georgia, says: “It is my deliberate judg
ment that Swift’s Specific is the grandest
blood purifier ever discovered. Its ef
fects are wonderful, and I consider them
almost miraculous. There is no medicine
comparable to it.” Dr. H. C. Hornady,
one of the best known ministers in our
church, says: “Swift’s Specific is one of
the best blood purifiers in existence.”
These brethren speak advisedly. Few
preparations now before the public can
bring forward such indorsements. The
Index desires only to indorse these state
ments. We have’witnessed the beneficial
effects of this medicine, not only in our
own households, but in several other
cases, where, seemingly, all other reme
dies had failed. It is purely a vegetable
compound, scientifically prepared, and
perfectly harmless in its composition. It
renews the blood, and builds up broken
down systems—gives tone and vigor to the
constitution, as well as restores the
bloom of health to the suffering. There
fore, we do not deem it inconsistent with
the dignity of a religious journal to say
this much in its behalf.
Tailor-made jackets are as much in de
mand as of yore, and now that the winter
has really set in, all the new styles and
shapes are observed.
Cfaprittr piaotrr*.
Dangers on Wheels.
“No, sir, it is not a business to get rich at,
this hack driving; whether a uisn own- his
carriage or drives for some of these companies
that are. springing up now-a-tlays.”
As * e expressed this opinion, F. H. Turner,
one of the best known and most careful hack
men in .Boston, was s anoing beside his ve
hicle in front of the Quincy .House.
“It would seeiu to me,” said I, “that one of
the principal drawbacks is the exposure you
have to undergo.”
“Exactlyhe answered. “We have to be
out at all hours and in all sorts of bad weather.
Hot or cold, rain or snow, frost or fog, we ve
got to face it or lose our bread and butter. In
spite of blankets and rubber coals w< are
often snaked to the skin, and, as a backmun is
as likeiy to catch cold under those circum
stances as a bank President, we get sick, with
out being as able to afford it as rich men are.”
“That's so,” I repli a with genuine S3 mpa
thy, “and doctors n turally want their le. s.”
"Yes, and luckily for me I don’t ofteu have
to call on them. Wheuever 1 catch cold—and
1 frequently do—and get pains i" the back or
cnest, or any part of ray body, 1 just run in to
Barteaux’, the druggist, around here in * .reen
street, and buy a Ben oil’s Capciue Blaster
and clap it square on the sore spo>, it r -
lieves me right away, same day. lion’l have
to wait. I’ve just thrown off on other ouiside
remedies. Benson’s plasters do the whoie
business. Ever tried’em?”
“nh, yes, many times. ’
"Then you know what I say is so. They beat
all toe other pi sters rolled into all
the stuff'in bottles beside. Ther are thous
ands anil thousands ot men exposed just as I
am. if you print what 1 say, tell them that
for me.”
Saying this Mr. Turner showed a passenger
into his coach, jumped on the box and rattled
down the street.
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