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VOL. XIX.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 24, 1877.
NO. 201
PLYMOUTH ROCK.
JUE IDENTICAL. BOCK-IF NOT
WHERE IB IT.
Plymouth a flood Place to Hove
From Early*
NO SMITH* IN THE MAYFLOWER—THE TOWN
OF PLYMOUTH HAS 8,000 INHABITANTS—
CHARACTERISTICS OF NEW ENGLAND TOWN
NAMES—BARNS AND STONE FENCES NEW
ENGLAND FEATURES—CATTLE FENCED IN
INSTEAD OF BEING FENCED OUT, AND
MADE TOO FAT TO LEAP FENCES-LESSONS
FOR GRANGERS TO FOLLOW.
Plymouth, Mass., August 17, 1877.
Editor Enquirer-Sun: As you have
I been advising your readers to return to
1 the “Halls of our Fathers" perhaps it will
not be inappropriate to drop you “these
I few lines" from one of the cradles of our
I Forefathers. Mr. Carlyle says of Ply
I mouth that “it wsb properly the begin-
I ning of Amerioa, for although there were
I scattered settlements which might form
I the body, yet this was the soul of all its
greatness. ” Whether you may agree
with him or not, still “Plymouth Book’’
I must ever ocoupy an important place in
the history of Amerioa, settled as it was
257 years ago, Plymouth ought to be one
of the largest cities in the Union, but
1 though a good place to land upon, and to
start a colony, yet one should do here as
in Vermont—emigrate early to a better
land. If one could be satisfied to sit
down quietly and spend a life without any
higher ambition than to live upon saored
soil, and with no more important objects
than the digging of dams, or fishing for
mackerel, then let him come
1 here. But there should
I placed in front of Pilgrim Hall in a
I monument inscribed with the immortal
I words of Horace Greeley, “Young man
[go West.” Still it is a place of great in-
Iterest, aid I am glad to have had an op-
Iportunity to stand upon Plymouth Bock.
There is no room for doubt about the
[identity of this famous rock. If th£ Pil—
Igrims did laud upon a rock at all, then
all the surroundings go t^ support the
[truth of tradition and evidence. It belongs
the class called by geologists “boul
ders,” by which they mean a rook not
formed in the plaoe, but brought there
Iby floating ice. About two miles further
■south the shore is covered with rook, but
[just at this place no other is found, so
I that there could be no difficulty in pre-
I serving the identity. It lies at the foot
j of a bluff, some twenty feet high, just
back of which is a high conical hill com
! mantling a view of the land as well as of
> the sea. Upon this hill was located the
j fort and watch house, and here after some
[ years the Fathers buried their dead. The
first burial ground was upon the bluff,
1 the site of which is how oooupied by
I buildings. Iu making an excavation here
I a few years ago, some of the bones were
[found. I believe that none of the origi
Inal pilgrims were buried on the hill. I
■read many of the names upon the ancient
stones, and also of those who came over
[in the Mayflower, to see if I could find
any relative amongst them, but could not
even recognize an acquaintance. It is a
little singular that there is not one repre
tentative of the great Smith family to be
sound upon the records, and I was at a
loss to aooount for the fact, except upon
the theory that, as the Mayflower was a
pmall vessel and brought over only 101
persons, the Smiths were compelled to
{charter a separate ship.
Like all New England towns Plymouth
has a new, fresh appearanoe, as if it had
|juot been built. The houses are of mod
ern construction, with no signs of age,
L'o pass through the town you would
never imagine it to be 257 years old. It
[contains about 8,000 inhabitants, but like
all Massachusetts towns it oovers a large
extent of territory. Towns here are only
subdivisions of counties, and not as with
simply collections of houses}
It is about 10 miles long by from four
knd a half to eight miles wide, and it is
paid a man could go fishing in a different
pond every day in the year and not be out
tf town. It is beoause of the manner of
laying out towns that we find so many of
he same names. There is Abingdon and
kouth Abingdon and Earl Abingdon, and
} number of many other names, meaning
hat in our town there are three distinot
ettlements, which are thus distinguished
Jhe advantages of this arrangement are
pat the seme officials have control of the
pe town proper, as well as the country
hrronnding it, and so good roads and
phool houses are made and other publii
improvements are extended beyond the
|mits of what with us would be the town
There are two prominent features in
pral scenery in New England—barns
pd stone fences. The barn is by far the
ost important and largest building on
> farm. It is stable, carriage-house,
n-orib and hay loft—all combined, and
thus made to stand for several buildings
ph us. The stone fences are made froth
| to 8 feet high. Sometimes a piece of
aber like a small sapling is laid on the
ftOp to increase the heighth. The stones
■IE gathered upon the surface of the
gfonud and are piled up loosely, largo
looks being placed first and smaller ones
OB top. Ab Providence has provided the
■■terial with a bountiful band, so the
faces cover the earth in every direction.
The fields are small and all surrounded
by a fence. It seemed to me that much
labor h»B been wasted in building so
many, bat it may be that this is s conven
ient method of disposing of the snrpins
took; or possibly as the farmer oan find
bnt little work to do in the winter, he re
tort* to fence-building for recreation.
Give a Yankee farmer a barn and a stone
fenee, and be is happy. There seema to
be nothing else worth having. It is strange
that they don't oarry this fence and bun-
bnilding propensity with them when they
emigrate. Perhaps they are too busy in
their new homes toindnlge in these favor
ite amusements. When the stone ia ex
hausted, small wooden posts are pnt np
about ten or twelve feet apart, through
which three holes are mortioed, and email
rails are inserted. Neither the atone nor
wooden fenoe would stop one of our Geor
gia oows a moment. Yon might tnrn
loose a bnnoh of cattle from any of onr
neighboring farmers and they would go
through New England from end to end.
People here fenoe in their atook,instead
of fenoing out those of other people. A
farmer is oontent with one or two oows,
bnt he keeps these so fat they oan’t jump,
or else he feeds them from bis barn. I
have seen several fields and patches with
no fenoe at all.
How long will it be before onr people
are relieved from the expense of bnilding
and keeping np miles of fences just to
prevent their crops from a few worthless
oattle ? It seems to me the Grangers
oould save more by adopting the
no-fenoe policy than by running
warehouses. We have mnoh to learn in
the way of economy and it ia time we
were taking lessons. Onr soil is good,
onr people sb skillful and industrious as
any others, bnt they lack the faenlty of
saving. It is in this alone that the North
excel us. When we add to onr intelli
genoe economy, then yon shall see pros
perity in the South. We remember the
days when we bad enough and to spare,
and we would like to bring baok those
good old times, but they will never re
turn. Wo most make np onr minds to
save what we used to spare, and when we
do this there will be enough for ourselves
and our children. Columbus.
PENNSYLVANIA.
DEMOCRATIC STATE NOMIHATIOH
CONVENTION OF OOVIBNOBS AT PHILADELPHIA
Habbibbubo, Pa., August 28.—Noyes
was nominated for State Treasurer on the
5th ballot, the vote etending Noyes 131,
Barr 88, Howell 36.
Oapt. UoOlelland was re -eleoted Chair
men of State Committee. Adjourned,
CONVENTION OF OOVXBNOB8.
Philadelphia, Angnst 28. — A Urge
number of aooeptanceB have been rooeived
from the Governors invited to the speoial
oonvooation of Executives of the several
States to be held at the International Ex
hibition next week. Extensive and elsba
rate preparations are being made for their
reoeption, and at the entertainment on
Wednesday the 29th instant, there will be a
grand floral display, and on the 30th, an
industrial review in whioh employes of
various manufacturing establishments of
Philadelphia will participate.
STILL SHOWING.
An unusually seusaiioual story is going
the rounds in Brussels. A man who five
years ago, hadjan interview with the Pope
and who again recently called on him, de
clares (hat the Pope of 1872 does not at
all resemble the Pope of to»day either iu
feature, voice, gait, or manner. He be
lieves, from information he pretends to
have reoeived that Pope Pius IX died,
three years ago, and that Cardinal Anton
elli substituted in his stead a man who
muoh resembled him, but who was not
priest. It is so thin the story won’t wash.
The correspondents with the Bussian
army are allowed to write everything,
with the following exceptions : Nothing
about Bussian troops moving. Nothing
about Bnssian troops standing still. Noth'
ing about Bussian troops. Nothing about
ammunition. Nothing about forts,
Nothing about weapons. Nothing about
citizens. Nothing about the enemy
Nothing about the face of the country.
Nothing about forage. Nothing about
horses, oattle, pigs, dogs or oats. Nothing
about the weather. After these things
have been omitted, the letter is taken to
headquarters and kept three weeks.
In San Antonio, Texas, O. J. Woodson,
formerly of Montgomery, was killed by
Sam Lumpkin. Woodson killed a bro
ther of Lumpkin in Chattanooga last
March and fled to Texas, where he was
tracked by the murdered man’s brother
with the above fatal result.
About half the fashion plates sent out
from Paris are colored in the prisons by
the female convicts.
A Horrible, Improbable Story
Maysfield (Ky.) Demoorat, August 16th.J
Several weeks ago an eleven year old
daughter of a Ballard county farmer mys
terioiibly disappeared, and all efforts
fled out her whereabouts were fruitless
until about ten days after her disappear
auce, when a neighboring farmer, while
out hunting for his cows, heard the ories
of some one in distress, and following the
direction of the sound found the lost
child in a dense thicket with both hands
tied together with a rope, one end of
whioh was tied to a tree. Near the
tree were some old clothes upon
which the ohild slept. The farmer
inquired of the child how she hap
pened to be there in that oonditiou, when
she told him that a negro man had
brought her there, and that he came every
night and brought her something to eat
and drink, and that he violated her per~
son. The farmer told the child to
main quiet until night and he would pro
cure assistance, and when the negro came
back that night they would secure him,
which they did. When the girl was asked
what mast be done with him she said
skin him alive,” whioh they proceeded
to do immediately. They commenoed
the crown of his head and stripped the
skin to his feet. He only survived about
five minutes after the operation.
A TERRIBLE TltAGEDY.
THREE MEN KILLED IN GREENVILLE COUNTY
DURING A REVENUE RAID.
Speoial to Journal of Commerce.]
Spartanburo, 8. C., August 21.—An*
other revenue tragedy oocurred at the foot
of the mountaios in Greenville oounty,
eight miles from Landrum’s Statiou,
From the best information to be obtained,
it Appears that William Durham, a rev
enne officer, Attempted to arrest one Har
rison for illicit distilling. Harrison
sisted and was shot by Durham. A man
named Howard and one named Gosling
were the only ones present with Harrison.
After Harrison had been shot, they fired
upon and killed Durham, when Durham’s
brother cprne up and shot Howard. Dur
ham was instantly killed. W. Harrison
and Howcrd died yesterday.
HE TURK0 RUSSIAN WAR.
ACTIVE OPERATIONS COMMENCED.
TURKS ATTACK BBVEUAI* PUCES— BOTH SIDES
CLAIM TO HAVE REPULSED THE OTHER.
Hayes and Party Quoting Soriptura.
THE YANKEE REPORTERS ON KEY.
HATES & OO. QUOTING ROBIPTUBE LIKE THE
DEVIL.
Washington, August 23.—It is thought
best not to telegraph any mote of Hayes’
Keys’ speeches. They are quoting
soripture like the devil.
ELOQUENCE OF PI1E UEPENTANT SINNEB.
The rasoally Yankee reporters make
Key, alluding to the sanctity of his Post
master Generalship, say : "If husband or
wife wrote a sharp letter to the other
half, he must not tell of it, end if a girl
wrote a very sweet letter to her sweet
heart, he most not let it be known. These
things were required to be kept entirely
Beeret exoept to these to whom letters are
directed.”
ABUT CHANGES.
Major Terrell, Paymaster, is ordered to
report to the Department of Texas. Major
Gibson is relieved.
Nauru CAROLINA.
SUIT TS. THE EX-NEOB0 OOUPTBOLLEB.
Columbia, August 23.—The Attorney
General has brought suit against the
bondBmen of ex-Comptroller T. C. Dane
receiver of the notorious Solomon
Bank, for ,25,000, the amount of biB bond
aa Buoh reeeiver, whioh, it is olaimed, has
been forfeited by hie failure to disobarge
his duties and aooount for property en
trusted to his management. The valne
of the property is placed at $314,760,
Dsnn is absent from the State.
SENATOR MORTON.
HE IS STILL VERT SICK.
AT LAST ACCOUNTS DOOTOB8 HAD HOPES—IF
HE DIES GOV. WILLIAMS WILL APPOINTED
HON. D. W. VOOBHEES AS HIS SUOOESBOR.
Bighmond, Ind., August 23—9 A. M.—
Morton continues to improve.
Indianapolis, August 23—Noon.—Mor
ton's condition is unchanged.
DISPATCH FROM HIS DBOTHEB-IN-LAW.
New Yobk, August 23.—The Post's
Washington speoial says a private dispatch
just reoeived from Senator Morton’s
brother-in-law, says that the Senator is
very low, and there is bnt little hope of
his surviving. His mind is perfeotly
dear, and his will is strong, bnt his diges
tive funotionB are impaired, indicating
waning life.
In the event of death, Gov. Williams
will appoint D. W. Voorhees to his seat
in tho Senate.
LATEB—DOOTOBS HOPEFUL.
Special to tlu Enquirer-Sun.]
KioIimond.Ind , August 23—8:80 p. u. —
Senator Morton’s oondition is more favor
able than doctors oonld expeot, consider
ing hie alarming oondition yesterday.
They are hopeful that the Senator will
soon rally again.
Consultation of Rnmarck and An
dros*?.
London, Augnst 23.—A Router from
Berlin slates that Bismarck left there to
day for Gasteiu. The PaU Mall Gazette
says it is arranged that the Frinoe aud
Count Andrassy shall meet there.
, Death of an En,llth Antbor.
London, Angnst 23.—Justin MoCarlhy,
a political writer and novelist, is dead.
DACES.
AT SABATDGA.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.)
Saratoga, August 23.—Two and Qne-
hslf mile—Parole won in walk.
One Bnd one-half mile—Vera Cruz won,
Booth 2d, Uemnant 3d, in 2:394.
One and one-eighth mile—Auburn won
first, Ohance 2d, Courier 3d, 1:58£.
One and one-fourtb mile, with fivo har
dies—Walter won, KelBo 2d, Dandy 3d, in
2:21j.
TBOTTING AT POUGHKEEPSIE.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.)
Poughkeepsie, August 23.—The 2:22
olsss summary.- Prosper, 2, 1, 1, 3, 1 ;
Msybird, 4, 2, 3, 1, 3; Frank, 1, 3, 6, 5. 4;
Qannis, 6, 4, 2, 2, 2; Lady Prioepard, 2,
6, 5, 4, 5 ; Lsdy Sutll, 5, 5, 4. Time—
2:20, 2:20, 2:20, 2:22j, 2:22.
XOBKBHIBE STAKES.
London, August 23.—Lady Golightly
won the great Yorkshire stakes.
Foundered In New South Wales—
Elves Eoat.
San Fbancisoo, August 23 —Adviees
from New South Wales report that the
steam oollier Yanayana, upon entering
New Castle harbor on July 15, was hoarded
by a heavy sea in a gale and went down
stern foremost with all bands—Captain
Lnmmerbell Miller, chief oifioer ; Ander
son, seeond officer, Eddes, chief engi
neer ; Baxter, aasiatsnt engineer, and
twelve seamen, firotnon, eto. The body
of Captain Miller was recovered.
GEBMANX'a PROTEST TO THE POBTE.
London, August 23.—The Daily News’
Berlin correspondent writes that Ger
many's protest against Turkish atrocities
js due to the suggestion of Emperor Wil
liam. Although the protest does not
contain any threats, it ia of a nature to
oonvinoe the Porte that Germany is in
earnest.
GBEAT BRITAIN ARRANGING FOB PEACE.
The Standardt Pesth correspondent
hears that Great Britain ie making ar
rangements for the intervention of the
g^eat Powers in the interests of pesos
This is not oonfirmed from any other
quarter, and is very donbtfnl.
BATTLE AT SHIPKA PASS.
A dispatoh from liu Bian headquarters
at Gorney Studeo, dated yesterday after- General
noon, etates the battle in Shipka Pasa ia
still prooeeding. The enemy has reoeived
attack many times with fresh troops, but
eaoh time been repulsed with heavy Turk
ish loss.
MEHEMET ALI.
Manchester, Angnst 23.—A dispatoh
from Eski Djnma to the Guardian Tues
day says Lieutenant General Mehemet
Ati left this morning for Rusgrade to in-
speot the oarnp and defensive works, after
whiuh he will return to Sbumla. There
are 60,000 troops at Osman Pasa, whioh
plsoe is entirely deserted by inhabitants.
TURKS REPULSED AT TIBNOVA AND BOHIPKA.
London, Augut 23.—The speoial edi
tion of the Evening Standard has the fol
lowing :
A Bucharest dispatoh this afternoon
says the Turks attsoked Tirnova yester
day, but were repulsed. The engagement
was reoommenoed to-day. Osman Pasha’s
troops made an attnek on Selvi, with the
intention of advancing npon Gabrava,
but Frinoe Mirsky repnlsed them even
before the arrival of a division which he
aekod for bb a reinforcement. Details
reoeived here regarding the battle in the
Bebipka Pass state that the Kussians re.
pulsed anooessivoly ten vigorous attaoks
made by the Turks, the positions of the
Kussians being very strong.
NO JUNCTION.
It is not trne that the foroes of Lieut.
General Mehemet AH and Suleiman
Pasha have effected a junotion. The Rub-
sians are prearing to attack several Turk
ish positions.
SOHIPKA VILLAGE AND SOHIFKA PASS—EX
PLANATION OF BUSSIAN MOVEMENTS.
London, August 23.—No further news
has yet been reoeived regarding the Lot
tie in (he Shipka Pass. The capture of
the village of Sobipka should not be con
founded with the repulse of the Turks at
the Southern entu of the pass. The vil
lage, whioh is two miles from the en
tranoe of tho pass, was, as reported, evso
nated by the Kussians, who fell baok be.
hind their redoubts. It should be nn.
derstoocl that after the aotions at Yoni
Sagbra and Eski Saghra Gen. Gonrko re.
tired unmolested by the Hawkoi pass,
while the Grand Duke Nioholts and
Prince Eugene, after, with difficulty, ex
trioating their foroefrom the Eski Saghra
defiles in the lower Balkans, retreated by
the Shipka pass, whioh has remained
guarded by the Kussian infantry and guna
established there over sinoe the pasB was
taken.
RERVIA.
A Times dispatoh from Belgrade, dated
yesterday, says: To day being the anni
veraary of the aooession of Prinoe Milan
to the throne, there was a parade of the
regular troops and militia at the Oatbe
dral. The Metropolitan delivered apo
litoal discourse. Ho said that tho moment
was probably not far dislant when Servia
would be called upon to fulfil her political
mission. The proclamation of indepond
ence has been postponed in ooneeqnence
of remonstrances from the diplomatic
agents.
Mobilization is going on and troops are
mnrebing to the front continually, bnt
owing to ltusBian defeats the population
do not abow a warlike spirit.
TURKS IN MONTENEOBO.
Loldon, August 28.—A dispatoh to tho
Timesa from Ostrak, datod Angus'. 22d
says, the Turke have enterd Shavanzi and
are steadily advancing towards Nicsios.
Tbero are only two battalions to resist
them. They will probably roaob Brob
niao to-night.
GENEBAL ACTIVITT—IN8UHBEOTION IN OBETE
Spcial to Enquirer-Sun. ]
London, August 23.—The latest news
from Turkey shows there is a reno wnl
activity not only at the actual scene
operations between the Turks and Kns.
sians, but also in places where disturb,
snoos have hitherto been merely latent.
Keuter’s Athens telegram annonnoes
that an insurrection has broken out
Crete. The Turks have token refuge
the fortresses. The Christians have
tired to the mountains. Two engage
ments have been fought, one in the de
partment of Cotea and the other in Keti-
mo. These, although unimportant in
themselves, only thirty-six Turks and
seventeen Christians being killed, mark
the beginning of a movement whioh is
spreading into Sphakia. Greek jonrnals
published in Constantinople state that
Thessaly is in s state of brigaodana,
and express the hope that Greece will not
assist the movement, whioh has unques
tionably commenced there.
TURKS ATTACKING GENEBAI.LX.
London, August 23.—Telegrams from
the seat of war seem to show that the
Tnrka have at last commenoed Berious op
erations against the ltnSBisn position from
three Bides simnHaneously. A Bucharest
telegram states that Osman Pasha com
mands in person a strong reoonnoitering
foroe near Selvi. This reoonnoisanoe
may aooount for the previous report of
an attaek on Selvi.
A Kussian official telegram, dated at
Gornistnden, August 22d, evening, says
as well aa attaoks in the direction of Sohi-
paka and Selvi, the Tnrks have made at
tempts to break in npon the Kussian ont-
posta on the side of Rustohuk, Kssgad,
Shumla and Eski Djuma.
TURKS CLAIM SUCCESS.
Mehemet AH, who oommands in that
section of the oonntry, telegraphs to
Constantinople, August 22d, olaiming that
bis foroes have repulsed six Kussian bat
talions, reoaptnred the heights of Sighar-
di, and also repnlsed the Kussians before
Kasgrad and achieved other minor suo-
oesses.
BUBO HOWARD ADMITS JOSEPH LICKED HIM
AND CAPTURED A THIRD OF HIS HORSES —
THE BURO WILL FOLLOW AT A SAFE DIS
TANCE BX ANOTHER BOUTE.
Washington, Augnst 23.—The follow
ing dispatohsB wore reoeived at the War
Department:
Chicago, August 23.—Captain Bain-
bridge, with Bismarok soouts, en route to
join Gen. Howard, telegraphs me from
Band Hills, Montana, stage route, at 5 p.
, on the 21st, that Gen. Howard is at
the head of Dry Creek, thirty-five miles
north; that he bad a fight with boBtiles
tha day before—the 20th. No portion,
lara given. P. U. Bhebidan,
Lieut.-Gen.
Ban Fbanoisoo, August 23.—The fol
lowing has just been reoeived from Gen
Howard, dated Camp Meadow, Idaho,
Angnst 20tb: "I arrived at this oamp
yesterday with oavalry and fifty infantry.
Miller, with the foot battalion, will join
me to-night. My advunoe oamp was ap
proached this morning before day by over
one hundred bostiles. They snooeeded
iu stampeding and driving off about one
hundred animals, of whioh number one-
third was reoaptored by the oavalry, who
started in pursuit as soon as they oould
saddle. Sandford struok the party after
pursuit of six miles, engaging them
with a loss of one bugler killed, oue
officer (Lieut. Benson, Beventh Infantry),
aud six privates wounded. No cavalry
horses were lost, and will oontinue the
pursuit to-morrow via Henry Lake.
Howard,
Brig. General.
By oonrier to Pleasant Valley, Idaho,
Ang. 22d. McDowell,
Maj. Gen. Commanding.
THE INDIAN8.
Sheridan Say*
Hid • Fight.
Howard
This oommaud did not find any Indians
there and returned and passed Pleasant
Valley yesterday on their way after How
ard.
All but eight or ten Virginia City vol
unteers have gone home. The Indians
have not been in any hurry or anxious to
avoid a fight. They are supposed to num
ber between 400 and 500 and seemed to
be making their way towards the Crow
oonntry.
WASHINGTON COS3IP.
The President'* flityle of LIvIiik.
Correspondence of the Inter-Ocean.]
Washington, August 15.—President and
Mrs. Hnyes seem to havo started out in
their official oaraer with the determination
not to set a bad example in the way of
living. Perhaps they are a littlo too un
ostentatious, for people like to see the
President of the Uuited States living in
a style and maintaining a social dignity
worthy of the chief of a great uation. A
refined degree of pretension is an excel
lent thing, but here iu Washington now-
a-days you see the families of mere bu
reau officers in the departments “putting
on more style” than the family of tho
President of tho United States.
THE PRESIDENT’S HOUSEHOLD
rises with the occasion, and Lord Chester
field would blush at his own boorishness.
Last year during the Centennial, when
the sovereigns of this Republic came to
tho White House thousands per day,
Jerry was in his element, and the oouutry
cousins went baok home and told the
folkB that “the colored gentlemen at the
White House was the politest man they
ever saw.”
Un reoeption days at the White House
for the last eight years, iu swallow-tail
and white kid gloves, Jerry assisted Mrs.
Grant, and was the most distinguished
fenturo of the entertainment. He knew
the face and name of every person worth
knowing, and had penetration enough to
see that it pleased the average member of
Congress to hear his name spokeu by so
eloquent an usher as he entered the White
House door.
“Ah! a colored member of Congress,”
strangers would say as they notioed his
elaborate attentions to distinguished peo
ple ; “a tincMooking man, isn’t he ? and
he seems to know everybody, too."
To see Jerry usher a party of ladies
from tho White House vestibule to their
carriage is worth a long journey ; aud it
was better than looking at a king to see
him on the box of President Grant’s car**
riago, with bis arms folded, his eyes
straight, before him, as calm as Buddha
and as motionless.
Hut this is a pleasure of the past. Mrs.
HnyoH eschews footmen, And Jerry is dy
ing of a broken heart. He is still ro-
. talued at tho White House, but is com'
now consists of Mrs. Ilayes, Miss Platt (a j polled to perforin menial labor, and goes
niece who has for a long time made her around with a long chocked apron tied
DETAILS OF THE PURSUIT—THE INDIANS IN
NO HURRY TO AVOID HOWARD.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.]
Salt Lake City, August 28.—General
Howard’s foroe in pursuit of tho hostile
Indians passed Pleasant Valley, Idaho, on
the 19th on their way south, and went an
far south on the stage roads as Dry Creek
Stage Station, eight miles south, then
turned eastward towards the head of
Camai oreek. The hostile Indians had
crossed the range some 50 or 00 miles to
westward, and had arrived upon the stage
road on the l(Jth, taking possession of
Hole-in-the*Rook, a stage station 20 miles
south from Pleasant Valley. The Indians
destroyed the telegraph line in that vi
oiuity aud stopped the stages and travel
upon the road, and were in the neighbor
hood of this station for three days. The
Indians had been for nearly two days
without water when they arrived upon the
stage line, and their stock was
mnoh scattered and in bad oondition.
They stopped to gather all tho loose
stock and feed the animals, using or de<
stroying all the grain at the station, and
destroying all property there, including
some twenty sets of harness. The Indi
ans left Hole-in-the-ltook station on the
19th or 20tb, on the approach of Howard,
going east or northwest, and surprised
Howard’s men who bad charge of the
pack animals and loose stook, at daylight
on the morning of the 20th, at Camas
Meadows, whioh is about 20 miles east of
Dry Creek stage stations. The Indians
got away with about one hundred of
Howard’s paok animals, and also about
thirty horses belonging to the Montana
volunteers. Capt. Norwood and Col.
Sanford followed the Indians with three
companies of oavalry and overtook them
about six miles distant, when there was a
skirmish, in whioh one soldier was killed
and six wounded. The wounded soldiers
were taken to Pleasant Valley station,
where one named Samuel A. Glass has
since died.
Howard baa been reinforced by Cspt.
Bainbridge from Fort Hall with one com
pany and abont fifty Bannock Indians,
and is at present in pursuit of the hostilos
who are supposed to be making for Henry
Luke, wbioh is about 00 miles northeast
from the stage road where the crossing
was made. Howard's force was camped
yesterday morning on Shot Gun oreek
whioh is about 45 miles distant fr in the
stage road. On the 20th Howard’s force
was inoreased by the arrival of Col. Mil
ler with about 290 infantry in wagons.
Howard bad with him about 250 caval
ry in addition to the force with Capt.
Bainbridge. While Howard was camped
at the junotion eighteen miles north of
Pleasant Valley, he sent sixty men and
some Indian scouts across the country to
Henry* Lake, to intercept the Indians.
home with them), Messrs. Webb, Bir
ohard and Rutherford Hayes (young men
from 18 to 24 in age), and two littlo child
ren—Fannie, aged 10, and Soott, aged 7.
Almost any morning you can see a oar-
risge load of the President’s family driv
ing about town. Sometimos the ladies
are shopping; sometimes they are mak-
iug oalls ; sometimes they go to the Con
gressional Library to got books to read
daring the long summer days at the Sol
diers' Home. Mrs. Hayes generally dresses
in black, quite plainly for this city of elab
orate oostumes, and she often carries a
large palm-leaf fan in her hand. Her
oarrioge is quite handsome, bnt the horses
are decidedly shabby. Nothing is quite
so distinotive a mark of sooial position
as tho turu-out oue goes about in, and
PRESIDENT HAYES* HORSES
are criticised more than they otherwise
would have been had not President Grant
been so fastidious in tho ohoice of his
equipages.
No person evor had in Washington a
handsomer turu-out than General Grant
used to drive. Ho had a pair of horses
whioh went before his carriage that oould
not by surpassed in this or any other coun
try. They cost 1(18,000,and were selected by
their owuor himself, who has as good an
eye for the fine pointH of an animal as
any jockey that ever handled a whip,
When he left the White House President
Grant sent them as a present to George
\V. Childs, of Philadelphia, and they are
now pointed out as tho finest team in the
State.
But President Hayes has introduced in
to their stalls a pair of horses that look as
if they came from a oouutry livery stable,
as they did. Mr. Rogers, the President’s
privato secretary, paid $300 for them in
Alexandria. Now Mr. Rogers is au ex -
oollent man; ho has studied theology, aud
be has studied law; he knows about all
that need be known of philosophy and
art; he oan see the tine points
in a legal argument or a doc
trinal sermon, and oan write a let
ter as politely as a letter oan be writ**
ten, but he has oue important weakness,
aud that is his ignorance of horseflesh.
He ought never to havo been trusted to
buy a team for the President of the
Uuitod States. The horses are ill-match
ed aud olutusey. They trot each on his
own hook without regard to the other.
They have both been accustomed to be
hitched on the nigh side, and every
horsoman knows that to hich two
nigh horses together will spoil a team.
One of them is a dark mottled ohestnnt,
with a white foot, the other is a bright
bay, with a white nose. Any one oan see
in a moment that those two horses ought
never to be harnessed together any more
than a blue bonnet ought to bo worn with
a green dross. Resides they are lazy, and
don’t lift their feet the way the horses
that draw a President ought to.
PRESIDENT grant’s OLD COAOHMAN
and footman, whose faces are as well
known in Washington as PresidentGrant’s
own, are still retained at the White House,
but neither of them take a real active in
terest in their business any more. Mrs.
Hayes thinks a footman a meretricious
extravagance, and Jerry has been retired
from his box. Albert, the coachman,
drives alone, but he looks like a widower,
and acts as if he was thinking of killing
himself. And it would not be a surprise
to persons who know the facts if both
Jerry and Albert were found some morn*'
ing with their throats out and razors in
their hands.
Before the 4th of March, as they rode
on the box of President Grant's carriage,
with their long blue coats and silver but
tons as large as your hand, their stove
pipe hats aud white gloves, they looked
the proudest men tho sun shone on. Put
since this civil service reform in the car
riage line was introduced thoy have found
out that this world in a hollow mockery
and filled with sawdust. Nowadays you
see Albert driving, and you notice a mel
ancholy expression on his oouutenanoe,
to whioh, in degree of blackness, u coal
isn’t a oiroumatanoe. He holds the lines
oarelessly in one hand, and he doesn’t
sit up so ereot and dignified as ho used
to, but sprawls all over the seat like a
hack driver. His coat is half un
buttoned, his boots are unpolished,
and he don't seem to care whether ho
wears his gloves or not. And it’s ull on
account of those horses Rogers bought.
If Albert hadn’t a largo family of pioa-
ninnios dependent on him for support
he wouldn’t drive that team for love nor
money, but necessity knows no choice,
aud he is holding on in hopes the team
may die and be replaced with a better
one. Albert is seriously suspected of a
conspiracy to lame those horses so that
they will have to be gotten rid of
JERRY, WHO WAS MRS. OUANT’b FOOTMAN,
Is about tho handsomest darkey that evor
rolled his eyes. A magnificent figure, ovor
six feet tall, and broad io proportion, bnt
lithe and Active; a finely shaped head, well
poised; a mustache and imperial that a
prinoe would bo proud of, and finely cut
features; face as black as midnight. Rut it
iH not Jerry’s manly beauty alone that
makes him eminent ah a footman, but his
general accomplishments and perfect
manners. When there is business in hand,
people of importance to usher iu or
out, Jerry blooms in all tho graudonr of
his magnificence. When there is a dele
gation of citizens and oitizenesses from
the country, who are suspected of having
loos* change oonoealed about their per
aous, iuspectiug the White House, Jerry
about him, rubbing up tho door knobs
and mantel ornaments with a piece of
ohntnois skin. Humiliated, depressed,
broken in spirit, he is drooping like a
wilted flower.
LANII FOR THE MILLION.
QUEER PROCEEDINGS AT A CINCINNATI MEET
ING—A DEMAND UPON UNCLE SAM
TO DUY US ALL A FARM.
Uinolnnati Enquirer of yesterday.]
About three hundred Germans met yes
terday morning at Turner Hull for the
purpose of organizing a society for the
purpose of colonizing in some one of the
Western or Southern States under the
homestead law. The meeting was called
to order by Mr. Ohr. Reif, who stated that
the ouly way to better the stuation of the
laboring classes in the cities would be to
emigrate to some good farming district,
and there cultivate the soil. Ho main
tained that a great many peoplo in Cin
cinnati would be willing to join the move
ment if the Government would advance
them a small sum of money to buy agri
cultural implements, eto. The Sooiety
should be formed, to rsk Congress
for au appropriation for this purpose.
After this C. Buntsohuh was made
President of the meeting, and O. Reif
Secretary. The first address was by M.
A. Jacobi, who thoroughly discussed and
indorsed the plans of the meeting, and
Rutd it was the duty of Congress to appro
priate money to start them on the colo
nies, as without money they would be
helpleHB. 'Squire Markworth fol
lowed Mr. Jacobi aud ex
plained to the meeting the work
ings of the Homestead Aot. While he
spoke a Scooialistio section of the Work-
inginon’s party walked into the hall aud
demanded to bo heard. The greatest
confusion at once followed. They evi
dently desired to make politioal capital
out of the meeting, to wbioh the Colon
ists demurred. ‘Squire Pohlman arose
and told the Socialists that they were
not wanted iu the hall, and unless they
wanted to join tho Colonists they should
leave. They insisted upon b-ing beard,
aud in the midst of 'the confusion a
motion to adjourn until two o’clock in
tho afternoou prevailed.
At the afternoon meeting the attend-
enoo was not so largo as in tho morning.
Squire Markworth agreed to communicate
with the authorities in Washington, and
try to secure an appropiation for the
colonists to start upon. A committee was
appoint* d to propure a memorial to Con
gress which shall be submitted to another
meeting of the colonists. Sept. 2. These
gentlemen,like Col. Mulberry Sellers, be
lieve in the old flug and—an appropria
tion.
A Knowing Dog,
Two promiuent gentlemen of this State
met ut the Laclede yesterduy aud renew
ed un acquaintance of some forty years
ago, when both were employed uh dorks
in a Main street store. Many pleasant
reminiscences wore called up of those
early duys. Among them the following
will bear relating: The year was 1833.
Tho clerks recievod a compensation that
barely paid their board. They slept in
the store. They boarded at Curtis’ Hotel,
then standing on the corner of Main aud
Pine streets, and the boarders rushed to
dinner on the second ringing of the bell.
There was a large yellow dog, the pet of
the boarders, which took bis station ha
bitually under the dinnig table, but kept
wutoh aud ward on the steps in front of
tho store. When undisturbed by tran
sient visitors, the dog spent bis time most
ly in sleep. Rut when the first boll raug,
he rose up, shook bis sides, and like the
dogs mentioned by Darwiu, when they
wish to go to sleep on a hard surfuoe, old
Roast” would turn ronud and scratch the
ground with his fore paws in senseless
manner, as if he intended to trample
down the grass aud scoop out a hollow—
as uo doubt his wild ancostyrs did when
they lived ou open, grassy plains or in the
woodH—and lie down and curl up to sleep.
After a very brief nap tho second bell*
would ring, when the dog roused up, and
with the oleiks broke for the dinner-table
at tho hotel. This custom tho dog kept
up for months, and never got fooled with
the fir»it bell, but bided bis time for the
seo ind.—St. Louis Republican.
Ry every consideration of profit, if not
propriety, that which sustains and
strengthens the system should be abso
lutely pure. Roils, Pimples, Eruptions,
eto., indicate impoverishment aud poison
ing of the blood, and should be removed
by Dr. bull’s Rlood Mixture, which
strengthens the blood and keeps it alwuys
pure.
Weather*
Washington, Aug. 23.—Indications—
For the South Atlantic and Gulf States
rising barometer, southwest to northwest
winds and cooler and partly cloudy
weather will prevail.
rott it bnt|
One First-olass New Piano; one Sec
ond-hand Piano.
au23 tf J. Marion Estes.
Many novelties aud bargains this week
to bo displayed at J. S. Jones’,
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