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(lolumbu mmuTf. VOL. XIX. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1877. NO. 225 HAYES AND PARTY. COMBINATION SOUTH. IN TBE OEM. CHEATHAM HEADS THE PBOOESSION IN NASHVILLE—DECEPTION AT CHATTANOOGA —MUTUAL ADMIBATION SPEECHES BY KEY AND GEN. HAMPTON—MBS. HAYES ON EX HIBITION. HIS BOUT IN TENNESSEE. Washington, Beptember 20.—The ■peeohes of the Presidential party are highly patriotio, but the prolixity whioh characterizes them excludes them from the noon report. The hubbub from Ten nessee is so great that it is impossible to say exactly where Hayes is. AT CHATTANOOGA. Washington, Bept. 20.— En route to Chattanooga President and Mrs. Hayes ooonpied the rear platform and admired the scenery, and seemed equally inter ested in the battle fields, whether the Yankees had the better or worse. At Chattanooga, on Market street, a large monogramatio aroh, consisting of the letters U. 1). H., had been ereoted, from the centre of whioh a large floral key was suspended. HAYES AND PiBTY. Special to Enquirer-Sun.) Chattanooga, September 20.—After an address of welcome and elaborate speeches by the President and Secretary of State, Postmaster General Key spoke as follows: My friends, I am quite hoarse to-day, and oould not make a speeoh if I wanted to, and I am sure yon would not want me to make one if I could, for you have heard me here and everywhere on all sorts of questions. There is one thing I can say to you tosday, and I can say it to the people of the United States, that when the President did me the very great and distinguished honor to place me in bis Cabinet, the colored people of Chat tanooga were not afraid of that aet. They knew me, and know I was their friend. They did not suppose that an old Demoorat would hurt them very muoh I am sure. [Applauae.J It may be that the white people were more afraid of me. I don’t know how that was. [Laughter. J I am glad to stand before you. All that I am I owe to Chattanooga —to the people of East Tennessee, They have been my friends, and while I am not unmindful of the great honor the Presi dent did me in the appointment, while I am proud of the administration to whioh I have, in my feeble way, given my earnest support, I remember with still more. pride and gratitude the faot that when in your legislature, I was can didate. for the Senate of the United States, every man in East Tennessee, white and black Demoorat andftepublioan, Union men and Confederate was for my eleotion. Now my^friends to a crowd like tbiB what can I say ? If I were to talk too mnoh I might suy something that Bomebody would not like, and I like all. There is no people on earth that I love as well as I do the people of Chatta nooga. [Applause.] INTBODUOINO MBS. HAYES. Judge Key leading forward Me*. Hayes —here'is the best speech I think has been made. They abuse all the other members of the administration but no body abuses her. Mrs. Hayes was greeted with loud and continued applause. Hampton’s speech. I scarcely feel that I am authorized to detain you one moment, when those of you out there are standing in the rain, but I will, at least, have the comfort of know ing, if I do so, that my Bpeeoh will not be a dry one. I oome to you, my friends, having met the President of the United States when he made his first oall upon Southern soil. The authorities in Louis ville did me the honor to invite me to join him there, and that gentleman himself added to that honor by expressing the wish that I should come. 'I went there expecting to remain only a few hours to greet him on Southern soil as a South ern man, and I recognize in him a man higher than a party man ; [applause], a man who has forgotten party as he rose to be a patriot, and it has been my additional good fortune to accompany him as he journeyed Southward, and I think we may say to-day that be has struck the solid South. He is here in Chattanooga, standing upon your battle- scarred plains, looking and seeing every bill-side, crowded with evidences of war, remembering that your soil has been Btained by preoious blood, poured out by brave men who were fighting honestly for their oonviotions on eaoh side. I am glad to oome here with him, and see the motto that you have writ ten there of peaoe and harmony onoe more restored in our beloved coun try; and, my friends, in the few remarks I have had the honor of making, as I have been in this trimnphant procession of the President, I have studiously avoid ed any allusion to politios. I have tried to subordinate them entirely to a feeling of patriotism, and I urge upon you, men of the South, as far as possible, to forget past differences between our people, to direct yourselves to developing and open* ing up the best resources of this oountry. I want to urge upon you this thing, and yon will have power and peaoe and happi ness evermore. I have not spoken of politics. It was my misfortune, perhaps, to differ in politios from the President of the United States, but, Demoorat as I am, Democrat as I have been, there is no man in Amerioa to whom I more oheerfully, oordially and willingly do honor than the Republican President of the United states. I do that, my friends, because he is Bhowing that he is the President of the whole United States. I do that because he, in the very first sot of his administration, lifted that great pressure which was upon the neck of my own people. Many of them said, “he but did his duty." Many of them had never smelt powder. Show me the man who will do his duty without fear and without favor, and who will not do more than his duty, and I will olasp hands with him, aDd will stand upon the same platform. [Applause.] He has brought back peaoe to our people. He has shown that the men who fought eaoh other can meet in peace and fraternity without any loss of respeot. We oould not do it when their State was pinned down by bayonets, and my right arm should have dropped from my shoulder before I would have given my hand in peaoe while my State was pinned down by bayonets. [Applause.] When we felt that every State was the equal of every other, that every man in every State was equal, white and blaok, when the great Republican party, the dominant, the rep resentative men who have fought, oame forward and said we respeot you as men who fought .for your oonviotions, as men who fonght bravely, and as long as they oould, when they oame forward and said that to us of the South, and ex tended the hand of peace, and said we were only fighting to restore the Union, come back into the household of States, oome baok to the hearthstone of your fathers, I felt that better thiugB would be accomplished. I felt, as a Southern man, aB a Southern soldier, as a rebel, if you choose, I oould come baok. [Applause.] I told the men in Illinois that I had fought them as long and as bard as I could. I would have been fighting them now if I had been or dered to do so. They honored and re- speoted me for it, and that is the way for us to meet—as brave men should meet— if not forgetting the past, at least drawing a curtain over it, looking not at the bloody past, whioh is full of sorrow to all of us, but looking forward to a brighter and higher future, when all of us oan march on bravely, honestly, truthful ly, eaoh one doing his duty to the whole oountry, leaving the oonsequences to God. [Long and oontinued applause.] HurniiiK of Steamers at St. Louts. St. Louis, September 20.—The steamer Grand Republic, the largest and finest steamboat on the Western waters, took fire at 12 o'clock last night and was burned nearly to the water's edge. The flames oommunioated to the steamer Oar- ondalet, lying along side, and all her up per works were destroyed. Her hull is of iron and will be saved, but the ma chinery will no doubt be badly damaged. Both boats were lying up at the foot of Le Speranoe, about two and a half miles from the centre of the oity. LOSS OVEB $300,000. Cincinnati, September 20.—Speoial dispatches plaoe the loss by the burning of the steamers at St. Louis at over $300,000. The steamer Grand ltepublio was insured for $200,000 in the Howe, Carroll Sc Powell agonoy. THE BUBNED STEAMERS. St. Louis, September 20.—The steamer Grand Republic was burned to the water’s edge and sunk before morning. It is doubtful whether her machinery will be of any value. She was owned by Captain Thonvegan, valued at $150,000 and in sured for $50,000 in about twenty-five offices. The Carondalet is probably a total loss. She was ownod by Captain Hioks and three associates, and valued at $40,000, insured for $17,000. HAYES’ SOtJTHEBN TOUB. THE LONDON TIMES THINKS IT LOVELY. London, Sept. 20.—The Timet edito rially commenting on the President's Southern tour, says: In little more than half a year, the President has suooeeded in beating down a compact mass of preju dioes, and in allaying a host of conflicting passions. The visible triumph of his pol icy is now being assured and be has this week began a journey through the South ern States which is intended to show that the work of pacification is not far from completion. The Federal Government has no intention in interfering in the looal administration of the Southern States. The Southern States have no de sire to disturb the great achievements of the civil war, whioh have been embodied in the constitutional amendments. The removal of the objeots of contention make it easy to establish friendly relations between people who respect eaoh other, and the sympathetic moeting of the Pres ident and Gen. Hampton is an omen of. the coming time, when the North and the South will no longer be separated by the lines of divisions whioh the civil war had traced. THE TURKO-RUSSIAN WAR. OSMAN PASHA REINFORCED. ADVANTAGES WITH THE TURKS—THE MEET ING OF BISMAKOK AND ANDRA88Y—REPORT ED THEE ARE CONSULTING REGARDING MEANS OF MEDIATION. The storm In the tinlf. Washington, Sept. 20.—The signal office reports,the oyolone yesterday in the East Gulf States has remained nearly stationary, bnt is diminishing its intensity with barometer rising at the centre of depression; high winds and heavy rains have attended this indication. They are not threatening for to-day, however. Gantionary signals continue at Mobile, 8t. Marks, Jacksonville, Savannah, Key West, Charleston, Wilmington, Smithville, Tybee Island, Gape Lookout, Kitty Hasok, Gape Henry, Gape May, and Norfolk. DAMAGE TO RICE. The New Orleaus Price Current esti mates the damago to the rice orop from the cyolone on the lower coast at thirty per cent. LOSSES AT GALVESTON BY THE STORM. Houston, Sept. 20.—The following is the estimated damages by the late cyclone around Galveston: The Government works in Bolivar channel, including a portion of the fleet, $75,000; Galveston, Houston and Henderson Railroad, loss of track and bay bridge, $20,000; Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fee Railroad, loss of track and bridge, $20,000; cotton presses, $18,500; incompleted buildings in oity, $25,000; bath houses on the beach, $3,500; twenty small schooners capsized, loss $5,000; private buildings and property, $10,000. YELLOW FEVER. Seven Deaths at Fernand I na—More New Cases. Special to Enquirer-Sun.] Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 20.—Seven deaths from yellow fever to-day in Fer* nandina—all white persons. Dr. Palmer is in a very critical condition. Fifteen new cases are reported to-day. Heavy rains for the past two days have caused an inorease in mortality. The weather to night is very cool and stormy. A contri bution of $300 from the Maritime Asso ciation of New York was received to-day, also contributions from Gainesville, Jack sonville and other places. Fifteen nurses have gone from here. ALABAMA. RIVERS RISING—LOBS OF COTTON. Montgomery, Beptember 20.— The Warrior river has risen sixty feet and is still rising rapidly. The entire river oountry is submerged. Loss of the orop is calamitous. The Alabama is rising slowly at this point. Rain has beaten ont an immense quantity of cotton. It has been raining since Tuesday. I. O. O. F. Baltimore, Sept. 20.—In the Grand Lodge, the special order, the amendment to change the name of the Grand Lodge from Grand Lodge of the United States to Supremo Lodge I. O. O. F. was taken np. The yeas and nays were called and the amendment lost by yeas 74, nays Cl not a throe-fourths vote, ns required by the Constitution. It was considered inex pedient and impracticable on account of the laws of the Spanish Government in relation to secret societies to take any steps towards granting a charter for a lodge in Havana, Cuba. Death of Senator Bogy, of Hll»- ■ourl. St. Louis, September 20.—United States Senator, Lewis V. Bogy died at 11 o'clock this morning. He had been afflicted with malarial fever several months, and lately an abscess of the liver was discovered, whioh hastened and, per haps, directly caused his death The Cyclone. Washington, Sept. 20.—The oyclone that since Sunday has been so severe in the Gulf States has moved to the east** ward, and is now centered in Southern Georgia and Northern Florida. The bar- rometer has risen at the centre of the de pression, and the storm has diminished very much in severity. It can no longer be considered dangerous. It is attended by northeasterly winds and rain in the South Atlantic and East Gulf States. American VcrroIr and Cabo. Washington, Sept. 20.—The United States Consul at Cadiz informs the State Department that the United States vessels have latterly been requirod to quarantine from three to seven days on account of their former voyage, having been from ports of Cuba or the Gulf of Mexioo, causing a delay and expense whioh the consul suggests oau be avoided, if the captains of vessels will apply to the Span* ish Consul for a certificate, stating that the vessel on her arrival at her home port from Cuba, or the Gulf of Mexioo under went the formation of qua|antine. Chicago Hank Fall arc. Chicago, Sept. 20.—The Merchants’, Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Savings Bank has failed. Chicago, Sept. 20. — Judge Williams granted the petition filed by a number of depositors in the Farmers’, Merchants’ and Mechanics’ Savings Bank, and ap pointed a receiver, S. D. Wards, whose bond was fixed at $350,000. Little ex citement exists on account of the failure, as it is generally believed that it will not prove disastrous to depositors or the gen eral public. Depositors number about 2,500. RUSSIANS OPPOSED TO PEAOE. London, Sept. 20.—The Times' corres pondent at Bucharest telegraphs the Rus sian officials of high rank here have de clared that, although opposed to the war in the first plaoe, yet now they would not listen to suggestions for peaoe. ROUMANIAN DEFEAT. London, Sept. 20.—The Standard's Bucharest correspondent says the Rou manians, in their abortive attack on the redoubt before Plevna, on Tuesday last, lost 300 killed and wounded. A telegram to the Daily News, dated Adrianople, Wednesday, states that strong hopes of speedy victory in Sohipka pass are still entertained there. The Turks, by constant fire, night and day, prevent the repair of the Russian works. The Russians aro withdrawing part of their forces. UNEASINESS IN RUSSIA. A Belgrade dispatch to the IHines says the news of repeated Russian disasters has created great uneasiness here espe** oially as every thing was prepared for the crossing of the Danube at Gladova by the Russians, and their reoeption in Negatin and the Tunak villages. It is announced that the Cabinet have agreed to postpone the error of action of the troops who were marching to the frontiers, and have been recalled in towns not so near the border, in order to give no umbrage to the Porte. RIbMAROK AND ANDRASSY—WHAT THEY ARE AFTER. London, Sept. 20.—The Vienna corres pondent of the levies, whose information of diplomatic mattors is conspicuously accurate and thorough, makes the follow- ing comment on the oonforenoe at Sals* burg between Bismarok and Audrassy: Its importance ought not to be under rated, not only as regards Germany and Austria, bnt touching the Eastern ques tion itself. The triple alliance, about the existence or non-existence of which there has been so muoh talk, had indeed become a woful anachronism since Russia step** ped cut of it, and took her own line ; but it must not be forgotten that it had another, perhaps deeper, meaning, and as regards that, happily, not only for the parties concerned, but for Europe at large, it still exists, and may be hoped will be strengthend anow by the Salsburg interview. Except for the apparatus of a permanent mediator constantly at work, since the Berlin meeting in 1872, which is said to be the foundation of the triple allowance to smooth down the differences which exists between the interest of Aus tria and Russia regarding the solution of the Eastern question, probably by this time, instead of a looal struggle Europe would have found itself in the midst of an European war. Prince Bismarok and Count Andrassy at Salsburg is to be regarded as a sequel of the rooent interview between Austrian and German Emperors as merely strengthening the views then exchanged between the two sovereigns regarding the continuance of the ' understanding be tween the imperial courts, upon the means of avertiug European complica tions. This result is secured without for mal treaty stipulations, inasmuch as it represents the complete personal agree ment existing between the three Empe rors. London, September 20.—The foregoing, whioh is a semi-official communique, is identical in meaning with the comments of the London I'imcs' Vienna oorrespond- ent as contained in the above London dispatob. A Russian offioial dispatch, datod Gorny Studen, September 19, says: Yesterday affairs were quiet everywhere. The blockade and bombardment of Plevna con- tiuue. * IN ARIA. St. Petersburg, September 20.—The Galos publishes a telegram from Igdijr, Asia Minor, which shows that the Turks, on the 18th instant, were cannonading General Tergukassoff’s positions there. MUCH TALK EE TWEED. William M. Tweed exploded a bomb shell in New York Saturday. It would seem us though the old man intended to make “a clean breast” of it. If his mind has really been burdened by its load of guilty secrets he is rapidly disohargiug his cargo. His first innings on Saturday were distinguished by a “threo base hit” at the expense of ex Sheriff Jimmy O’Brien. O’Brien had characterized Tweed’s story of the previous session as a falsehood. Saturday the “Boss” produced O’Brien’s autograph, the validity of whioh was attested by several witnesses. Tweed then proceeded to unfold a tale to the passage of the famous corrupt New York charter, declaring that he bought several Senators outright and naming the figures these legislators re ceived ; William B. Woodin, Norris Wius- low, T. L. Minior, George Boweu, and James Wood; Senators W. H. Brand and A. A. llarpending received $5,000 each, while Senator W. A. Graham frequently occupied the position of a debtor to Tweed. Sixty places were given to Sen ator S. H. Frost, ranging in remuneration from $2 to $5 per day, while Senator Oauldwell was given a position worth $20,000 per annum for his partner, Mr. H. P. Whitney. Senator Elwood was also described as a debtor of Tweed’s in vari ous amounts. Tweed says be oaunot name a single Assemblyman who was purchased, for the reason that he left the manipulation of the votes in the lower house to his celebrated lobbyist, A. D. Barber, of Utica. Barber has long been known as Tweed’s rigbt-hand man. “The Boss'’ says he gave Barber six hundred thousand dollars to be used in buying the votes of Assemblymen. Tweed severul times em bellished his teatimouy with dry humor. Speaking of one politician he desired to placate in the palmy days of tho ring, he said : I bought a few bills of goods from him—not for large amounts.” Question — What do you call a largo amount ? Answer—Well, five thousand dollars I considered a pretty large amount then ; five dollars is a large amount now. When he was questioned specifically in regard to lobbyist Barber’s business, Tweed replied: “I believe he swore that his business was to walk np and down the hill and talk to members.” Oakey Hail received five per cent, of the fraudulent divide. Thus does Tweed talk about the ex-Mayor : “One time Hall said to me : ‘Your peon pie are very Blow, arou’t they, in settling up matters ?’ I made inquiries and found there were some bills on whioh Mr. Hall’s percentage had cot been paid. I had the matter attended to, and after that I heard no complaints. Mr. Hall did not mentiou his percentage, but I found he was not paid his share of a little bill of Garvey’s, and so be was holding baok on the signing of the bills.” “The Boss” found that it was desirable to buy the vote Of Norris Winslow, the Senator from Watertown, Jefferson coun ty, New York. He says : “I didn’t know how to reach Winslow exactly, although he had been hanging around me; he was the proprietor of a bank, president of an insurance company, and in faot in the town and county he oame from I guess he was the most prom inent of all the men there; at Liasting’s suggestion I spoke to those men; Woodin I had never talked with before; ho was a very quiet and reserved man, and I had never spoken to him exoept to ‘pass the time of day;’ on the day of the passage of the charter I met a gentleman who asked if I wanted any help, and said he was the brother- in-law of one of the Sen ators who oould help mo; I Asked who it was and ho said Norris Winslow; a asked to see the brother**in-law, and he suid be would bring us together; he did so and I talked the matter over with Senator Winslow; bo thought they ought to have $50,000 apiece, as many as would go for the charter; we talkod the thing over on two days. Mr. Hastings then suggested thot if I could got Woodin I had better do it; while I was thinking over how bent to approach Woodin I met him in tho library hall of the Senate chamber one day ; I said, ‘I hope you aro not going against me, for it is a personal tight.’ ” In this way, by insidious approaches, Tweed said ho dragged the legislators, one after auother, into the mire of official corruption. Tweed promises to make good his state ments with documentary and other evi* deuce. It is fair to presume that there is a heavy substratum of truth in his story. Many others now enjoying their freedom are as guilty as he. Let there be as square a division of the punishment as there was of the spoils. FRANCE. EFFECTS OF MACMAIION’S PROC LAMATION. London, Sept. 20.— : The Standard's cor respondent at Paris reports that Prosident MacMahon’s manifesto has created an im mense seusation. The Bonapartists and Olerioals applaud it as a declaration of no surrender. Le Temps, which so far is the most outspoken of the Republican papers declares the manifesto unprecedented. The Times' Paris correspondent says the people look upon Prosident MaoMa hon’s manifesto as only an electoral arti fice designed to frighten the timid elec tors into supporting the offioial candidates, and to encourage the functionaries to exer cise fully their doty. Falling or Whetstone’* Oil Factory. Cincinnati, O., Sept. 20.—Last night the third iloor of the Whetstone Linseed Oil Factory on Eggleston avenne upon which rested about 15,000 bushels of fiax seed, gave way and carried all the floors below to the cellars, and at the same time foroing out the wall. The loss will exceed , $20,000. A few days ago, says the San Antonio (Texas) Herald, the sheriffs of Mason, Llano and McCulloch counties, with a posse ondeuvored the capture of several cattle thieves who were herding a drove of stolen cattle near Brazos City, McCul loch county. After securing one, Wads worth, they confined him in the Llano county jail. The night after his capture, a party of men went to tho jail, threw in a lighted turpentine hsll through the gra tings where Wadsworth slept, and then riddled him with bullets. One Henry Hoy, a bad character, was then pursued by the sheriffs. He had sworn he would never run and never sur render, and when the posse hove in sight of where he was, he took up hisjarms, Hat down behind a tree, and, resting his gun, opened a fusilade upon his pursuers. His fire was returned, after an order to sur- render had been given, and he received four wounds at tho first volley, killing him instantly. One of the sheriff’s party was grazed by a Winchester bullet. It is said that three hundred citizens of Llano, who were confident of Wads worth’s inuocouce, have sworn to find out and kill the men who murdered him while in jail. Notifications to leave the oountry are already being passed around. There is a likelihood of another cattle war, or feud between cattlo men in Llano and McCulloch counties. Death of u Hunk President. New York,Sept. 20.—John E. Williams, President of tho Metropolitan Bauk, is dead. Till*: TELEPHONE. A PECULIAR TEST OF THE INSTRUMENT—HOW FAR TIIE HUMAN VOICE MAY HE HEARD. From tho Utica Herald.J The peculiar tost of tho telephone in New York tho other day, whereby mes sages wore sent through the bodies of five men and distinctly heard, is calculated to inspire belief that the limit of tho thing is by no means yet reached. Five men joined hands, the two on tho extreme bolding ends of the wire. Through the circuit thus completed conversation was distinctly heard, and none of the men were conscious of any peculiar sensation. The resistance of one man was calculated to be equal to five longths of the Atlantic cable—that of five men fully twenty five lengths. Tho five men wore, therefore, equal to a wire extension of (say) 50,000 miles. Tho current used was produced by the magnets of the telephone, no bat tery being employed. Tho ability to send the human voice twice around the globe seems to bo impliod by the result of this test. A Tardoro, N. C., negro, nnder trial for larceny, made the following argument in his own defense : “Mister J edge, I clare ’fore God I nover stole nothin’ in my life, ’copton a pig tail at hog killin’ time from my ole miHsus, when I was a boy, and Mister Jedge, 1 shall nevor forgit my punishment. She sowed dat tail to my brooches behind, an* when company would come she would make me come out and shake myRolf so dat tail would switch, and Mister .lodge, I felt so moan an’ got so tired of dat pig tail dat I never stole nothin’ since. Dat’s a fao.” Throe years in the penitentiary. Went tier. WAsniNOTON, September 20.—Indica tions—For the South Atlantio States, stationary or falling followed by rising barometer, northeasterly backing to northwesterly winds, stationary temperas lure, partly cloudy weather, with rain areas. WOMEN “AN TELEUKAP1IEKS. ROMANCE AND FUN AND DUSINE88 AT BOTH ENDS OF THE WIRES. “Well, it’s better than sewing or mak ing shirts for a living, any way,” said tho black-eyed, sweet-voiced operator in one of our largest hotela. “It’s bettor than that sort of dog’s life, and besides I have a chance to kuow what’s going on in the world.” She sat behind a counter of black wal< nut, ground glass, and gilded iron, and looked np from a copy of “Adam Bede” she was reading. Like most of her class, she appeared to be about twenty-five years old, bright, quick, and talky. I had sent a number of messages over her wire, and for a wonder they were always sent as written. Littlo by little wo be came acquainted, and this morning I ventured to ask her if she liked the posi tion. She answered as above. “What are yonr hours ?” “I get here at 8 in tho morning and stay till 8$ or 9. They want me to stay later, but I couldn’t stand it. It’s awful ly trying, any way.” “But why get here so early as 8 ? Does anybody send messages as early as that ?” “Bless you, yes. I often find two or threo on my book when I get here. I have sometimes thought it would be a good idea to open at half-past 7 in the morning and oloso at 8 p. m. sharp, bnt tho manager wouldu’t consent to it. You see, like all lady operators, I am very anx ious to please tho company. You kuow how hard we had to work to get anything to do in the first plaoe.” “No, I don’t kuow anything about it. Tell me.” “Why, when the Western Union first gave a country office to a lady manager there was such a ho.wl of iudiguatiou from the men as would have done credit to a menagerie of hyenas. Any one would have supposed they owned tho lines and wore the sole proprietors of quick fingers. LAter ou, when they began to try us in the city hero, the silly fellows actually talked of getting up a strike, wish they would do it now. We'd soon show them that lady operators can be de< pendod on at all times.” “But they say you are careless in read ing messages.” “Who—I?” “No, no. They Hay that women are lesB reliable in rending thnu men. How is it?” That’s nonsenso. A oaroless man is as bad as a careless woman. What differ ence does it rnnko to you whether your message is wired by an operator in pants or in gown, so long as it’s wired right ?” “Exactly, aud that’s tho point.” “Well, point or no point, I kuow men who arc oaroless and ladies who are cor rect, and I should think it very silly to condemn the one and prniso the other simply because single operators were either bad or good.” “What effect has tho employment of women had?” “It hud threo good effects. Iu tho first place the companies are no longer at the moroy of a lot of selfish men. Why, do you know the operators used, literally, to tyranize over tho companies ? They’d do just ho much work and no more. Why, they used to let messages ncoumulute and pile up so that the manager would bo in perfect despair. You don’t hoar so much independence talk nowadays. ” “So you think tho companies are bene fited ?” “Certainly, nnd then tho stockholders are, or should be, for you know so long as men control tho money chests women will never bo overpaid. Tho men who throw away hundreds and thousands at home, are not at all sensitive about paying star vation wages to girls in their employ. Not that we have starvation wages by any means; but telograph pay is very much less now than it would have been if acci dent hadn’t demonstrated the peculiar fit ness of women for the nicest kind of tele graph work. I claim that our ears uro quicker, our fingers more useable.” H§“ Well, what is tho second point ?” “Thqfecond point is that thousands of women are able to earn an honest living. Take my curb. My husband was killed at Antietam. Because his discharge was made out and he fought as a volunteer a week after his time was out, I cun get no pension. My babe was born two weeks after her father died. I had no parents and no near relatives. What oould I have done ? I wont to President Orton, lie knew ray father. He gave me an oppor tunity to study. I was quick, and my baby’s needs stimulated mo, you can well believe. I felt that I was iu the way but I kept at it, and I thank God to-day that I’m us independent as Mr. Orton himself, as long as my health lasts. Could I have sowed ? Not and lasted till now. Nor could I have endured tho terrible wear and tear of a store. Tho field is just the field for women who are willing to make themselves useful. All along the lines of railroad aud telegraph hundreds and thousands of women aro saved tho degra dation of marriage without lovo, nnd liavo opened to thorn a door for solf-rospectiug industry.” “Aud the third point ?” “You’d never guess it. I contend that wo have made men out of monkeys. Why, sir, you have no idea of the way in which malo operators used to pass tboir idle time. I hove heard messages passing over every wiro, whioh would make u brass dog blush in his sleeve. Tho profane and indecent messages they used to send woro disgraceful. If tho manogomout had known a tithe of tho filth wo girls used to bo compelled to hear, it would havo broken ovory malo operator on tho lino.” “How is it now ?” “All changed. Onoo in a while n private flirtation is carried ou. Now and then a rough story is told. But altogothor, tho service is roforinod.” “Do you think you interfero now with male operators ?” “Of course we do. That’s inevitable. Wherever a lady is employed, the number of plaoes for the lordH of creation iu re duced. But we can’t help that.” “I suppose you come across queer cub** tomers now and then ?” “As a rule, everybody is queer. It s a bad place for any ono who has faith in human nature. I see so many lies writ ten, come across so many coincidences of deceit, that I really think I’d believe every body was bad if I didn’t know bettor by experience.” “Do you always read messages for sense ?’’ “I can’t say that I do. It would ho useless, for a great many have no senso to any but those concerned. No, I make it a rule to road messages literally, nnd bo- foro the writer loaves the desk. If you telegraph, ‘Two and two mako five,’it’s not my place to tell you they make four. I did that ouoe. A tall old man, with a oigarette in his mouth and a tremendous weed on his hat, gave me this mossage : ‘The Fall Kivor boat leaves tho foot of Twenty-third street at 4. Send tho doukeys by mail.’ I said, ‘You’re mistaken, sir; the Fall River boats leave the down-town pier at 5 o’clock, not 4.’ I never shall forget the look he gave me. Said he: ‘Young woman, you ’tend to your business, and I’ll ’tend to the Fall River boat.’ After that I’d have sent the Bible backward and oalled my baby a bear if a customer so wrote it on the blank.” “Are you paid by commission ?” “No, and I’m glad of it. We used to be, and between you and me, a smart girl oan make a donble salary almost, espe* oially in a place like this, where there are so many regular customers. But it opens the door to insult. Now don’t make a mistake. I’m not the kind of a woman to bo insulted. Gross insults are rarely offered to a woman if she respeots her- self. These women who Are alwaya being insulted give themselves away. But here’s a case. A man came in one eve ning just as I was closing up. He had what appeared to bo a trifling message to sond to Forty-Second street. The charge was twenty-three cents. I said: *1 can send if, but wou’t the morning answer?’ Ho said: ‘Going home?’ I said: ‘Yes.’ Well,’ said he, ‘yon send this and I’ll giyo you $5,* And we’ll stop in at Bigot’s and get some supper besides.’ I took his message and the twenty-three cents with out a word. He hung around for a few minutes. Then ho said: ‘You get paid by commission, don’t you?’ Itold him I did.’ Well,’ Raid he, ‘I Hond, as you know, a great many messages, and after this you charge double and keep the extra for yourself.’ I didn’t know then, and I don’t know now, that he meant to bo rnde, but, if ho was honest and fair, if he could have known how bitterly ho hurt me by talkiug so, ho would never have said another word to me. As it was, I very qnietly showed him that we had a regular tariff, that if I should overcharge I should get into trouble, that I was content with what I had and that I desired no acquaintance* on tho other side of tho desk. He seemed to bo a kind of rough diamond, after all, laughed aud wen* away.” “Do you ever have very long mes sages?” Yes. One day, or rather one night, I sent fivo messages, each over 800 words, to The Sun. Jay Gould’s Socretary sent 1,500 words to Washington, and I often havo oity messages of COO or 700 words. I sometimes think it would be quite as well if the senders were to hire a district mes senger; but that’s their business.” “How about women customers?” “I have very few. Now and then one comes iu to send word about dinner or the theatre to her husband or friend down town, but I don’t have many. There’s one nice little dumpling of a girl who is possessed about matinees. Reg ularly every Saturday about noon she comes in and sends word to a gentleman in Beaver street. ‘I Bhall be at such or such a theatre matinee. Don’t fail to come.’ She always pays, says ‘now send it quick, won’t you?’ smiles and runs off to her ooupe like a little rabbit. One day, not long ago, we had seven or eight West Point oadets here, and you’d have died to see those boys act. If they sent ouo they sent twenty messages apiece. Some to the Point, some to Brooklyn, somo to young ladies, some to tailors. Oh, it was too funny for anything. I deliver many a love-sick message. Some fellow down town hasn’t seen his ‘birdie’ since the .night before, and ho must know how the darling is. Now and then they wire for thoir friend to drive down to the office at four. Any number of dinner • appointments and theatre engagements aro made. The jueerost thing of all is the carelessness of the people who write the messages. Don’t talk to me about operators. Why, bless my heart, if wo were to make one mistake, where they make fifty, we’d be turned adrift in less than no time at all. Tho man sent: ‘Send mo a dozen eggs.’ His correspondent asked to have it re peated. I repeated it. He, supposing it a joke, sent tho eggs. I was hauled up. I showed tho copy. lie mount a dozen engravings, and ‘supposed the operator would know euougli to mako engravings out of eggs’—the word he wrote. They write absurdly, and in their desire to save two cents leave out a word that is essen tial to tho meaning. Half a dozou times this summer men havo telegtaphed their wives : ‘Meet me at Coney Island boat;’ bnt as they didn't mention boat, time or pier, they doubtless went alone—proba bly they meant to all the time.” “What improvements would yon sug gest as an easing of your lot here ?” “Well, I think it would be a good idea if tho hours wore different. If the offices woro to open at eight in tho morning and bo kopt open till ten P. M., two operators would find profitable employment for the company. For instance. I could stay from eight till threo and the other from throe till ton, or vice versa?” “What do you do in the idle time?” “Read aud write. Here’s a story I’ve just finished. I wonder if I could havo it printed?” Too long? Do you think so? And here’s some poetry—’A Glimpse into Future; or, Our Land in 1990.’ Now don’t laugh; why shouldn’t I try, as well as any ono else?” “Yon should.” “A woman who telegraphs has to do a groat deal of thinking. She thinks when a customer comes iu aud when he goos out. His meHHago is a text for more thought, and queer messages need curi ous fancies. ICh a pleasant life, after all.” Tho telegraph authorities say that women operators are of groat advantage, but they will get married. Just as soon ns a woman develops into a first class operator, she’s too smart to bo contented with hor sphere. A Mull Willi a KtomiM’li Full of Hm** Jewelry. Now York Evening Post.] A South Amerioau newspaper reports on interesting instance of the removal of foreign substances swallowed by a pris oner now in jail. The jailer is said to have in his possession a collection of Albort chains, penknives, brass rings, eto., whioh, he says, ho caused the man to vomit by means of emetics. The man is a traveling mountebank, who gave performances, during which he of fered to swallow anything his audi ence might select; and he now has in his Htouinch a steel watch-chain and a large brass ring, which hove been there nine months, lie asserts that he has had two pounds of jewelry in that receptaelo at one time, and that he has kept watches there for 24 hours. The release of a fork by tho French snrgeou, Dr. Leon Labbe, from similar confinement will be remem bered by many persons ; and the South American case just quoted, if correctly reported, presents, according to the Lon don Lancet, “features worthy of being studied from a physiological point of view.” Foncjo, ill South America, Hu rued. New' York, September 20.—Panama advices report tho burning of the town of Couejo ou the 15th of August.
