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pI'ELKG IN AMERICA.
t -2TCH OF THE FAMOUS FIGHTING
GSOGSDS AT BLADENSBUaG.
ryg First Duel at Bladensburg-The
Meeting-Some
fatal Duels Edward Hopktna
jlason and McCarthy-3 irron and
Decatur— Randall and Fox-Cilley
and Graves Stanley and Wise—
Johnson and Jones.
From the Xew York Star.
yisera'oiy falling to decay, a deserted vil
!a„ e truly is Bladensburg, with little to
r-; uate its name aside fro.n the u isav ry
neaiory of its dueling ground. Founded
about the middle of the last century, the
pan was named after Gov. Bladen of
Marrlaad, and soon became the chief to
wn j mart of the state, owing to the facility
f, r suipuient given by the ea-tern branch
of the Potomac. Indeed, Bladensburg’s
importance was sufficient to give it a place
on the map at au early date—when scores
0 f towns now superior to it, in the same
n ;ohborhood, were scarcely even dreamed
of.
The visitor to Washington who takes in
Fil.de -burg as one of the inevitable
••-.Vhts” of i istoric interest scarcely can be
prevailed upon to believe that the sluggish,
f-:'-dried stream at the end of the t wn
once fl ated merchantmen down throug i
the Potamac into the dies ipeake Bay and
out into the Atlantic. Ho listens to tne old
traditions of that battle in the village on an
A o ust day in 1814, when he British Gen.
K is- and Admi al Cockburn routed the
Americans under Winder and Barm y, and
pr ceeded on their march of devastation to
t..e capital. He wanders through ol 1 m in
si.ias, long since gone to decay, but bearing
enough m their ruined splendor to teli of
the elegance in which siavoholdi ig Mary
land lived. 11l front of tnese mansions,
massive in their ruins, are fields of weeds
and stubbie, which were once beiutifui
lawns and parterres of fljwers.and up which
drove the coacaes-and-f >urs cf the Fairfax
and Lee tamiiies of Virginia, cmiing to
visit tue Calverts and the Lloyds. A spa
spring of chalybeate water Hows uselessly
I away at one end of the only street in the
village, ad the picture of gloom is com
pleted with two or tnree taverns, rendez
vous f, r negroes, while deep iu the shadow
beyond is
THE DUELING GROUND.
About one mile westerly from the vil
lage, and just outside the line separa'ing
t i- Dis.rice of Columbia from Maryland, is
the world-famous Bladensburg dueling
ground. It is a strip of low ground, shut
in by hills on three sides, like a natural
auipuitbeater, with the fourth side opeu to
ward the roa 1. Civilization may com
p:ace tly gaze nt this far-away u.ok aud
aud r fleet that the world would have to
retard instea i of advance could the duel
ever again revive. It was the mediaeval
"wager of battle” without the merit of its
attendant superstition; it made t e trick of
the weapon the verdict of tne jury; it dis
guised murder u .der the name of chivalry;
it was a frau 1 and a delusion, with huinau
vanity al me making the lie real.
"Confess,” said a priest to a dying
Neopolitan nobleman who had fought four
t.i duels to prove that Daute was a
greater poet than Ariosto; “confess that
Ariosto w is tha greater poet.”
"Father,”answered the dying min, “to
toll y.m tue truth, I have never read either
Dante or Ariosto.”
NOTED DUELS.
The first du£l at Bladensburg was in the
year 1898, between the lion. George W.
Cainpoell and H. B. Gardeninr., b .th mem
bers of the House of Representatives.
Campbell was in the House from 1803 to
1809,representing Kentucky. He was utter
ward a senator from the same state, s ic
ce.ding to the secretaryship of the treasury
and finally becoming minister to Russia.
Gardenier was from Ne.v York. Their
quarrel arose from words spout) i in debate.
After several attempted meetings in wtiich
fri.nds interfered, they met at Bladensburg
on a cold, frosty morning In February.
Gardenier fell, alter several fires, severely
wounded, but ha was able to resume hi -
seat in a few weeks. C incoming the
event, an extract from the National Intel
ligencer of that date, signed by the respect
ive parties, stated that “everything was
comluc.ed o.i the ground witu the utmost
propriety.”
THE FIRST DEATH.
The first death occurring on the Bladens
burg “field of honor” was that of Edward
Hopkins, au ensign in the n ivy. He was
kibed in 1814 by a brother officer. Both t, e
cause of the dispute as wed as the name of
his layer are in much doubt at this date.
It is estimated that since that ime there
have been fifty hostile meetings on the
spot. Some have resulted amicably; some
have occasioned bloodless shots or wounds,
slight e.-ough to satisfy injured honor,
while iu others at least one of the duelists
has yielded up his life. I will recount some
of these fatal duels.
THE MASON AND M’CARTHY DUEL.
Pew men have ever crowded into thirty
three years of life more worldly honors
than Annistead Thomson Mason; no
nobler sacrifice to the demon of vanity was
ever offered on the “field” at Bladens’bu g.
Rising from the posi ion of colonel to that
of brigadier-general in the second war
with Ghent Britain, lie proved a brave ad
valiant soldier. Entering the Virginia
legisture in 1815, his talents soon made him
a marked man, and his step to the Unit 'd
Stat s Senate was easy. The great p >pu
larity of Mason was considered by the
Federalist party as their only hope in the
campaign for the choice of a member of the
Hou-e of K preseutatives. According t>
hi, partv’s reques , he resigned his seat in
the Senate to run for a lesser office. Figur
ing largely in that campaign was iiis
cousin, John Mason McCar hy. Bet ween
the two f unifies there existed a most deadly
feud. The hurried uttera ces of an ex
cited campaign were not calculated to allay
it. Crimination and recrimination fol
lowed, and g aded on by interested friends,
Mason challenged McCarthy.
Jack McCarthy, a3 he was familiarly
called, was a dead shot, and, knowing his
superiority, be it said to his credit that he
so ight to avoid toe meeting. He was a
noble enemy, for when he saw that the
meeting was unavoidable, ha detertmined
that both nves should be saerifi e l, in order
that the family enmity should e id. and, be
ing the ciia.lengea party, he proposed in
serious earnestness that each man sh >uld sit
on a keg of powder and be blown up. This,
of course, was ii"t in accordance with the
code,and was n it 1 ste e 1 to. His next pro o
Mtiou was to fights with musxets, ten pa es
apart.
That was the picture at the Bladcnsburg
dueli ig groUDd on Feb. 5, 181‘J—two men
armed with loaded and cocked muskets,
aimed at each other’s hearts and only te i
pacesaparl. There was no voice to cry out,
no hand upraised to prevent the murder.
The Ciear voice of the sec >nd gave the com
mand to fire. Two s lots startled the still
ness armnd; two men fell, and when the
smoked cleared, Annistead T. Mason, with
all the honors of his young life thick upon
him, luy dead, while Col. Jack McCarthy
was severely but not mortally wounded,
escaping death as almost by miracie. He re
covered, buteven afterward, it is said, led a
disc niteiited life. No wonder, for if he
could shut out the view of the dead man
staring fixedly at the uupitving daylight,
the other picture of the dea l man’s widow
and fatherless child ii their lonely homo
c nfronted him. "The mourning, the
stone and the draping” were the work of his
hand.
THE BABRON AND DECATUR DUEL.
In the naval history of the United States
Stephen Decatur’s name ranks oa the first
1 age. On tue -.hip Preble, before Tripoli,
as a lieutenant, i.e -vo.i promotion, and his
riso thereafter was steady and bnllia it.
The only tarnish in his honorable life was
his sad death at Blade,isb irg. Barron, like
Decatur, was an officer in the United B Dates
navv. He had been suso ndei from service
for fiveyears U-f >r • tue war of 1812-14, he.
c .u-e his ship, the Chesapeake, unprepared
was boarded by the British sui . Leopard!
The tinge of cowardice naturally c lured
bis fife aud reflected ali bis setts. 'He went
abroad, a broken man, and being in England
when the war broke out, was necessarily'de
tained du ing its continuance. On his re
turn i.e a plied for active service and as ip.
His application met with resistance; h was
do pise lby his fellow officers, an i h:s ii. -
se,.ce from the country duri ig her hour of
need -.as severely commented upon. G s.ip
oecame busy, and it das reported to Barron
that Decatur was the forem st of
his persecutors. Then there be
gan a 1• g correspondence between
the two. Mutual fri-nds w.denel the
breach, and at last Barron, stun; to mad
ness at the imputation of cowardice every
where thrust upon him, challenged De
ca ur.
No man of his time was more skilled in
the se of a weapon than Decatur; no man
more of an adept in dueling. It hal been
to hi n a pastime from h s school days up.
He unhesitatingly accepted Barro ,’s chal
lenge, and with fastidi us nice ness prepare I
his worldly affairs. He wrote his wid,ki-sel
his sleeping wife good-by, and rode our on
the raw, chilly morning of March 22, 182),
to seek his death at the accursed spot of
Bladensburg. Groat personages were they
who stood in that narrow gully at this meet
ing. The American navy was well r.‘pre
sented. Great decoru n prevailed in the
choice of corners and the measure of dis
tance. Tne two pri icipais, uaug ity, digni
fied, self-p issessed ever, observed in silence
the arra igeme its made for tuo deam of one,
and the question must hare suggested itself
—Which?
All being in readiness, the principals were
placed back to back;th ir orders were to
tun at the word “Present,” aud not to fire
before the word “One,” n rafter the word
“Three.” Eight paces distant from each
other, they s.vung around at the word
“Present,” each saw the face of the other,
the risi ig sun and the b trren landscape; oao
for the lust time; but which?
At the cry “One,” each took deadly aim;
to miss fire meant doath.
“Two!”
Bot.i pistols were discharged siultane msly
and bin men fell. Both me l were wounded
in the hip; the Pall which struck Decatur
glanced upward, severing the blood vessels
iu the aba nnsn. His time had come. Hot .
men were hustled from the ti Id, Barron
away from the city and chance prosecution.
Decatur back to his eiega it home. Ho
fingered l ar into the night and died in great
agony. Tne affair creaiod intense excite
ment all over the country. “A cursed
shame!” said the few onpose i to murder dis
guised under the name of tile duel. “Unfor
tunate in iis resuhsl” exclaimed the many
a 1 vocating the code. Barron suffered from
his wounds for many months and finally
died in 1851. having gained nothing in life
tha clung to his name with th ■ tenacity
of his reputation as the slayer of Decatur.
RANDALL—FOX.
A sad death at Bladensburg iu 1821 was
that of young Fox, a treasury clerk. He
had dared openly to vindicate the reputati >n
of a lady w.ioin Randall had vilified. For
his temerity Randall cuallenged and killed
him. Obloquy and disgrace followed Ran
did to ills dying day. ide had every ad
vantage of his youthful oppoue t, ho was
clearly iu the wrong aud took life iu tri
umphant wantonness, where he should have
rnnde aa abject apology.
THE CILLEY AND GRAVES DUEL.
Bladensburg historians persist in locating
the Cilley-Graves duel at Bladensburg.
They are in error on that point. It was
fought on Feb. 24, 1838, in a ravine, milts
away, besile t at turnpike over wh en
Booth rode on that fatal Good Friday night
after he killed President Lincoln. Both
men were members of co igress. Iu the pre
li binaries of the duel tue j lurualist, J.
Watson Web >, cut a prominent figure. Tue
weapons were rifles, and the ra ige was
eighty yards. At the third tire Cilley f ell,
mortally wounded, and died upon tue same
night. Acryof horr r went,up all over the
laud after tile Cilley-Graves duel, and popu
lar indignation had" tue effect of compelli g
congress,at length, to pass nu act a,ainst
dueling. It made dueling a crime, and im
posed imprisonment for tea years as a pun
ishment for a iv ou e convicted of sending,
carrying or acc >pting a challenge.
THE STANLEY-WISE DUEL.
Bya series of lejal iuterfe e 103s a hostile
meeting between Henry A. Wise, the i a
Uui eil States Repreeeiitative from Vir
ginia, and George W. Stanley, a eoagres3-
nm ifr n Norm Carolina, was prevented.
Tue dueling act. passed but a shoro ti ne be
fore. had no terror far tbe belligerents.
They ha i both bee i to the great race in
whion the famous Eclipse ran, aud, out of
deference no the occasion, congress had al
- mimed. Iu coming from the track Stan
ley’s horse splattered mud upon Wise, who
indignantly made a cut with h s riding
whi .at Stanley. A challenge followed, thj
parties were arrested, aud o e of t :e causes
celebres of the Dis rictof Columbia is the
lengthy argument of the most distinguished
jurists of tiro country for and against the
immunity from arrest of congress nen. The
case was decided nag itively, implying t at
t eduel.ng act p.-rcaiued to congress,non, as
well as omers, aud tie would-be duelists
were placad under heavy bonds t > keap the
peace.
THE JOHNSON AND JONES DUEL.
The lus fatal encounter on t ie Bladens
burg field was tha: between Da lie! John
so i, a poysician, and Thomas F. Jones, a
lawer, both fro u North Carolina, in Feb
rua y, 1846. The origin of tne feud between
the two was of a social and familv nature.
Johnson fell at tbe first lire, pierced through
the head with a ball. He tell almost in the
same spot ii wnich Mason fell ss many
years before. A warrant was issued f .
Jin s, who managed to escape from the
jurisdiction, aud no further pains were taken
for his apprehension.
Mil have called each other liars and
blackguards on tue floors of congress a id
elsewhere, ami the i repaired to some lonely
ravine anl one has shot down the other.
Yet impartial history, after the lapsj o."
years, nas never decide i which was tha liar
or blacsgaard. Neither has the duel. They
show the stranger the strip of ground at
Hob ken up >n which Aaron Burr killed
Alexander Hamilton. A.id they point to
the plat a B 1 idetiburg from which so many
dis iuguished men have taken r ipiii transit
to eterni v. They apply to such places tue
generic term. “The Field of Honor.” A bat
ter name would be the “Ditch of In
famy.”
HIS VISION CAME TRUE.
Eversett Now Wants a Divorce from
the Object of His Dream.
From the New York Press.
Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 33. —Leonard M.
Eve sett, a mining engineer, now living in
Colorado, is in correspondence with a West
m oreiand county attorney to get a divorce
from Florence Lapoivl Norton of London,
England. Eversett is 34 years of age. Four
yea s ago, when he was out in Colorado, he
began 1 1 experiment in self-hypnotism by
gaz.ng fixe ily. it a disk.
B mie startling results attended those ex
periments. The nlacx disk was imprinted
on a white car 1 six inc ies square and fix and
to the wall. He would gaze iut only ior five
or s.x minutes, then clo,e iiis eyes for a few
seconds. Oil opening them strange puio
ramos and phantoms were revealed, vhile
the bluck disk assumed fantastic shapes.
One of these suapes was that of a beautiful
woman.
He made a water color of the p etnre and
had photographs taken of it. He wni
called to Loudon and tae photograpns were
displayed in a window there. Oie day a
woman saw it. Eversett found that she
was tho fen lie of his hvpio ic vision. Hie
said she never had a photograph take l.
They were married io June, 1837, and
started for this country
Eve g tt found that his w fe hal sum
u :e .viable qualities, and tuey and t not agree
verv well wfi li-i gi i New York. They
then c tme to Allegheny City. Sib o; neatly
Mrs. E-ersett sa.a tnat sue was tired of
married life, and went home to England.
Now Eversett wants a divorce.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. FEBRUARY !), 1890— TWELVE PAGES.
WOMEN'S LOST CUOW.VS.
YOUNG NAPOLEON ONCE REJECT
ED BY A WEALTHY WIDOW.
Gen. Bernadotte's Love for a Beautiful
Girl, Who Waa a Decrepit Drudge
When He Had Become King of
twoden.
From Chambers' Journal.
Early in his career the great Napoieon
fell in with an ardent revolutionist, M. Paul
Fa g iis Barras, who took a great l.king to
the young Corsiciau, and conceived the
highest opinion of his abilities and of the
l>o vers, events proved, he po-srssed in so re
m irkable a degree. But in the opiuion of
Barras, Na,x)leon’s want of means was a
msc seri -us obstacle to his chance of
achieving fame, and he proposes to remedy
this by selecting for him a rich wife.
Barra, chose for this position a woman
who, though still undeniably handsome,
was no longer young. Tnough she was
called Mile. Montansier, she was in reality
a widow, who, because she had been on the
stage, ha 1 never adopted the name of her
husband. She was 0) years of are, but it
was said that she made herself appear to bo
not more than 40 by tue intimate knowledge
that she possessed of the secrets of the toilet
table.
To introduce Napoleon and Mile. Montan
sier, Barras gave a supper, to whien they
we e both invited. Ho so arranged matters
that they wore placed together at the ta 10,
and hoped t at this precauti n, added to tue
injunction which he had given to Napoleon
t> behave for once in his life witu some
show of civility to a lady, would have the
happiest resuit.
Napoleon was quite the last man to rely
upon in such a respect. His manners to
ward tuo fair sex were those of a coster
monger, nid though he could go lerally hold
his own in a conversation
with men, he was entirely
without tho knack of making himself in
teresting -or agreeable to women. He felt
that his place was in the camp or the field,
and he was quit • out of his element among
the conventionalities of a salon. Had he
been inclined to woo, it would have been in
a straightforward, soldier-like fashion, not
with the dallyings a id compliments so dear
to the French woman of his time.
So, presently, B .rr is had the mortific i
tiou of seeing Mile. Montansier, her back
turned to Napoleon, engaging in a lively
conversat on with the gentleman on her
other side, while the future conqueror was
making, with little pellets of bread, a plan
of battle on the table before him. Hardly
a word parsed between the two during the
remainder of the meal.
Supper over, Barras drew Napoleon aside,
aud spike forcibly to him of tue foolish way
in which he was throwing away his
chances.
“You know,” said he, “that money is
everything to you; hero are 1,030,000fra C3,
aud you will not stretch out your hand to
take them; a most attractive woman, aid
you w ill not sho v her the smallest gai al
try. Mile. Montansier has come here this
evening prepared to hear a declaration from
you. Strike while the iron is hot, and win
the wealth that you cannot do without at
one bold st oKe.”
NAPOLEONIC WOO I NO.
“The woma i is old enough to be my
grandmother,” said Napoleon, svho was then
25 years old; “blit that is no matter, for to
me all women are alike. Money is what I
want; and, if I cannot get it without a
wife, I must take the two together. lam
n ) coiuer of pretty speeches, but b tf ire t i e
evening is over I will say to her,
• la demoiselle, are you willing to aeeopt
me as your husband?’ More than that I
cannot do.”
“The very kind of proposal that any
woman wou.d expect from a blunt soldier,”
replied Borras. “Say that, and I desire no
more. You are to be envied; for, beside ,
her wealth, mademoiselle is very handsome
slid.” *
Napoleon turned away with a gesture of
impatience; but half au hour later Ba ras
noticed, to his j >y, that the two were alone
together in a recess. Presently Napoleon
got up ad wont away, and the lady beck
oned to Burras with her fan.
Take away that dreadful little man,” she
said, with a shudder, "he lias bore i ina t >
death, and I only prevented him prom pro
posing by sending nun for a glass of lem
onade.
“But why prevent, him?” said Barras.
“He wifi boa groat man yet.”
“Hive myself and my money to such a
little horror, such an ill-mannered boor as
that!” replied madem isalle. “Never! I
would sooner take the first beggar in the
streets. What have I done that I should
be given such a wretched evening? Don’t
let your—”
But at this moment she was checked by
the arrival of Napoleon with the lemonade,
barras hurried away, still hoping for the
best: but soon he saw at the other end of
tiie room B n.nparte standing in the atti
tude in which he h is so often o e i depic ed,
witu his arms folded and his chin sunk upon
them.
“ Well, are you to be married?” he said,
hastoni g toward his protege.
"That old actress,” said Napole m, “that
femaD Croesus refused me before 1 bad
op - ,ed my month to ask her hand. I was
on the point of speaking, as I told you I
should speak, when she b'ga 1 to inform me
tha’ her wealth was the cause of her con
stantly receiving offers from adventurers
who cared noihing for herself; that she
thanked Provide ice she had so far seen
thr ugh such fellows, and th tt she was re
solved to kep her independence. I was
glad I had not spoken, for it gave me til'd
opportunity of saving; ‘Mademoiselle ,
pray persevere in that praiseworthy inten
tion ; it is one which I am sure no one will
ever try to persua ie you to alter.’ Let her
keep her millions to bait the hook for some
one' else; 1 have and me with her.”
1 i after days Ml o. Montansier was fond
of boa ting hat, had she chosen, she might
have beau empress of France and wife of
the most famous rn in of the age.
Bi'.RNADOTTE’S love.
Vfhen the people of Grenoble, in 1788,
were preparing f r the revolution, Jiun
Baptiste Bernadette, afterward king of
Sweden and Norway, was quartered in the
town. At that time he was simple si-rgea t,
distinguisned by the atte ition lie paid io his
military duties, by uis skill at cards, and by
his popularity with the fair sex. On the fa
mous “Day of the Tiles,” when the women
of Ore lobio mounted on to the roofs ad
assui ed t ie troops with a storm of tiles,
Bor a lotte was witu his regiment in tho
Kuo Pcrtuistere.
There were cries from one housetop to
ano her to spare the popular serge mt; but,
in pite of tho good iute itionsof tue assail
ants, he received a blow on the head which
stretched him apparently lifeless on the
ground. But presently he showed some
signs of life, and was carri and into a neigh
boring cife, where he was lad upon a table
which is shown to this day. A surgeon was
caiied;and th s • mdeil man-bowed such
signs of vitality un erhi tn atm n , that it
was soon evid >..t on at h > was preserved for
some other fata tnan that of Py rhus.
As he recovered his senses, Bernadotte
slowly raised hims.'if on ole elbow, and
lookmg at the faces crowded in tho doorway,
was attracted by one, that of a i eautiful
young girl, whoso big blue eyes were su.-
fused with tears of pity for him. But faint
ess overcame him, and when ho again re
covered, tile sympataizing face was gone.
Ber iaditte was not long in getting over
tho effects of the blow that had prostrated
him; and when he was quite recovered he
lost no time in e ideavoring to fi id the
maiden \ hose face he remembered like tnat
of so ne pitying ang 1. For weeks his
search was all in vain; but one day, as he
was walking along and trying in vain to
persuade himself of the futility of the
search, o raise 1 nig eyes, and there b 'fore
him was the face which had haunted him
for so ioug! The girl walked past him
without recognizing the wouadoi sergoaut
of tho "Day of tno Tiles.” Ha followed
her, and entering her home, made himself
known t • her parents, a id offe.od himself
as a candidate for the hand of their daugh
ter.
At first the fair Am lie was well enough
pleased to receive the attentions of the
sinai t young soldier; bat after a while a
rival suitor appeared on the seme, and as
he was to© owner of a watch u king estab
lishment that yielded a comfortable in
come, his protesta ions of love sou iled
sweeter to her ears thanth >se of the pen fi
les* sous—ofli *er. At lest ihe day came
when Bee adotte was mot on the thresh fid
by her mother, wh > i iformed him that
Amelia had the evening before betrothed
herself to the watchmake . His furv
knew no b und-; and rus ling fr >tn the house
he s uight bis rival and chalieng and him
to a duel. '1 he civilian was no <• >.sard, and
they met t e same evening, lir the watch
maker was no match tor Bernadette, who
was considered one of the erne : s rords nen
f nis regiment, a id after the exchange of
a few passes ho fell with a seve e wound in
his side.
F.VTES SINGULAR WORKINGS.
Tho viotori us soldier hoped that now
Amelia would listen to bis suit, bu when ho
t fid .or what had happmed, sho railed at
him as the mur erer of her lover, and told
him never to let her see his face a tain. Ii
six weeks’ time she became the bride of tho
man who had braved death for her sake,
ands non afterward Beruadotte left Greno
ble and began the career that i aided him ou
the throne.
When he was occu 'ying a palace and di
recting tho affairs of a nation, his old love,
Amelia, was a wrinkled, decrepit old
woman, the general drudge of a wayside
inn. 11l healt i hal emu upon her hus
band, and tnough she had strug le 1 bravely
to tide over the bad times by taking|i.i wash
ing, she had not been a do to make i.ea lway
agii ist the evil fortune which pursued
them. Her husb aid died, and she sunk to
the lowest l"Vol of depe idonco.
Amelia was f md of rep) itingtlie story of
her i-a lior days, and used t > say:
“Ah, sir, 1 should have done much better
iu marrying M. Beruadotte. Ah! I made a
sad mistake, for I assure you, sir, that M.
B rnadotte was no common man, and I al
ways ha 1 a preseutiment that he w mid dis
t uguis.i him elf. But when \ve are young
we do not reflect, though I do no thiuk
that many can have boon punished for
iheir thoughtlessness by the loss of a king
dom. ”
All remembrance of her husband’. devo
tion seemed to have been driven from the
woman’s head by brooding over the grand
position she might have occupied ha 1 sho
refused him. W'uon asked if she hud over
hoard from him she replied:
“No, sir. I have written to him several
times since he became a king, but he has
never answered tny letters. Perhaps he is
still annoyed at my having refused him.”
What an illustration of the workings of
fate! The woman who might have shared
Bernadotte’s throne longing for his washiug,
and prevented from obtaining even this by
her extre me poverty.
WHAT WAS HIS SECRET?
A Strange Romance in the Family of
lx-Gov. Broas.
From an Exchange.
Ex-Gov. Bross ■ f Illinois, who died Mon
day night, had a brother who died in May,
1888. There was a strange story connected
with this brother—a romance that read like
one of Charles Reade’s novels. Tho brother
was Stephen Decatur Dress. Iu 1854, while
teaching school in New Jersey, he packed
his valise one day aud told his wife that he
was obliged to go to New York to attend to
some business. She never saw him again.
Efforts were made to find him, hut in vain,
and the family mourned him as dead, be
lieving that ho had been foully dealt within
tho metropolis.
Abflut seventeen years ago a man called
ou Gov. Brass at the Tribune office and
asked him if Le had a brother hvi g ii
Colorado, ihe governor said in had not,
and the i the caller told ab >ut having met a
man somewhere iu themmi igdi.tricts who
Lore such a srikiiig resemblance to the
governor that he had felt almost certain
that they were brothers. This incident ha
escaped toe me iory of G >v. Bross, when
auotuer man from Colorado asked him a
similar questio i and gave further details
concerning the myste ious double. It was
n t till his na ne was mentioned that Gov.
Bross became interested. When he learned
tnat the Coloralo nun was known as
Stephen Decatur, he bogau to wo dor
waether or not ho might he his long-lost
brother. Tue more he thought about it the
more curious he became to see and taik wi h
Decatur. Finally he resolved to go to Col
rado. He did ro, and ho found lh it tho
man was famous throughout the state.
Every one he met called tha object of bis
search “Comm and <ro” Decatur, i hey knew
all about his life in tue west, hut not one
could give the slightest acc mot of Decatur’s
antecedents. When they first heard of him
ue was running a ferry across the Missouri
river at Omaha. Ho hal come to Colora lo
ii 1859, and had fought through ali tue In
dian wars since. Ho had he n a successful
miner and a member of the legislature. At
tne time < f Gov. Bross’ visit ho was living
on a ranch in the interior of the state.
This inf< relation wuetted tho g ivernor’s
appetite for more, and after a perilous
journey across th) mountains lie reached
Decatur’s ranch. Judge of his astonish
ment wh n ho was met at tho door by a
buxom Indian squa.v, who told him mat
she was Mrs. Decatur. Mr. Decatur was
not at home, but the governor, now sorely
perplexed, resolved to await his arrival. D
was not long before a sturdy mountaineer
came striding up the road, tine glance con
firmed Gov. Bross that it was indeed his
brother, and he ran out with open arms to
meet him.
“.Stephen, my brother, my long-lost
brother,” almost sobed the governor.
Decatur stopped and, for a few minutes,
st iod perfectly still, curiously eyeing the
man who had accosted him. Then he gruffly
said:
“ Who are y u
“Why,don’t you know me, Stephen? I
am William Bross, your oldest brother.”
“J never saw you biiore in my life.”
“YYoy, Stephen Bross, how—”
“I toll you, sir, that von are mistaken.
My name is not Dross I never hoard the
name before. My name is Decatur.”
“Yes, brother, I know it is—Stephen De
catur Bross.”
“No, sir; it is Stephen Decatur.”
Gov. Bross was nu nfounded. He knew
that it was his brother t, whom ho was
speaking, a id he finally asked tho mail if ..e
did not have a large scar on his left arm, a
fevy inches ab vo tne wrist. In response to
this question, Decatur coolly rolled up his
sleeve and displayed the scar. Dispite t his,
h iwover, Decatur stoutly denied his iden
tity, and although he treat© i Gov. Bross
with marked kindness and hospitality, he
would n it acknowledge hirnas his b ot ier.
For several days the governor remained at
too ranch, pi ading vith D-citur to un
bosom hi : self, but bis entreaties were firm
ly repuls'd. Baldened in heart with the
r. suit <>f his long j mriiey, and realizing
that nothing could induce Stephen Decatur
to c infess the secret of his hie, Gov. Bross
retume 1 home.
In 1851 Gov. Bross learned that “Com
mons” Decaur had been commissioned to
represe it Colorado at the centennial exposi
tion, and on his way to this city Decatur
even stoppel off at Chicago a"d vi.ited the
g ivernor fir seve al daj s. There he met
other relatives, but to tneiu, as to his
brother, be denied that he over heard the
name ot Bros' until the governor came to
his ranch. While he was in the city
Stephen Bross’ children and some of his old
townspeop e ca.led up m him, but never
once did he bot ay himself. They identi
fied him foeyo id a shadow of a doubt, but
to all he simply repli and tnat tney were ini <•
taken. He fl tally die 1 in,pove ty, and his
secret diel with him, for so far as known he
never told it to a living being. Some cf
his children are mar; i)d and living in Chi
cago.
Me.n are like drums—the one with the big
bead makes the most noise.—Yonkers States
man.
CONGRESSIONAL BILLS.
COURSE OF A BILL DURING CON
SIDERATION AND PASSAGE.
The Enormous Number of Bills Intro
duced—The Engrossing and Printing I
of 1 hem—Some Amusing and Some
Dangerous Errors In Engrossing—A
Bill that Closed AU the M trine Hospi
tals—The Longest Bill Ever* Passed
by Congress—The Shortest.
/•Yam the Xeic York Star.
YY'hen congress adj mriicd for the holi
days there had been intr.xlucel ii the
H use of Renreseuta ivos nearly 4,i)nJ bills,
and in the Senate of the U ited States more
than 1,00). T. ey rau all the way from the
private relief or pension bill of forty or
fifty words to the bills for the revision of
the tariff or for the admission of new
states, c mtaming thousand* of words each.
These bills as t.iey were introduced were
sont to the government printing office to lie
printed for reference and for the use of
members. However unimportant a meas
ure, it is always aent to the printer, unless
theaenatoror member who introduces it
asks that it lie ou the table without being
printed, and this and hss not linp;>eii in more
than a score of cases during au e .tire con
gress. Bo small a proportion of the bills
introduced pass either house of co igress
that it seems almost a waste of public
money to print the thousa ids aud tons of
thousands of copies that are eventually to
oe thrown into the scrap neap. But no rule
could be established which would discrimi
nate justly iel wo 'ii tho measures of li.t o
importance and those of general interest,
and no one can tell in advance what bills
will pass and what measures will never
reach u serious consideration. There is one
set of clerks m house and senate that would
bo willing to pay a good round sum for tn
fonna'ioa at tho b)gi uing of the s <ssiou of
congress as to the bills that will pass ami
those which will be neglected. These are
the clo.ks who copy the bills that pass
either house, aud afterward copy the com
pleted bills tu it have passed both houses of
congress. The man who receives at the
ban is of his congressman a printed copy of
the bill in which he is interested, and
w hic.i has been introduced at his request,
feels as he looks at it that the in asure is al
most u law. If ho knew the history of a
bill in congress ho would lose much of his
outhusia-m.
The reas in the copying clerks would wel
come with joy an assurance of the bills
that are to pass and those that are to fail is
that with tins information they would be
able to dis ribut) ttieir labor so equally
over the days congress is in session that
their lives would be a continuous round of
pie isure, instead of being, during a greater
po tiou of tho year, wlmt Mr. Mantalioi
would have described as a "de nnition
grind.” Congress works in spasms. The
senate will taxe two weeks to debate a bill
which tho copying clerks could finish copy
ing iu a half hour, aud then will puss 1 i
two hours enough measures to keep tiiom
busy with their pens for three nr four days.
The engrossing of the-o bills is one of the
most delicate duties with which any em
ploye of either House is tasked. A single
mistake made in cop> mg a bill may le id to
almost endless complications. Tne first
copies of bills are made on hoavy white
paper. This is after they have passed one
house. Suppose a bill has passed the Senate.
Some amendments have been made, and it
is not at all like the original test. Tue
clerks take the copy as it is handed to them,
aud carefully tra iscribe it, inserting eaeu
pu ictuation mark at its appropriate place,
a id being extreme! careful in the dis.nbu
tiouof apitals. Thu LIU in manuscript is
taken to too president of tho Senate aud
t ion to the secretary, and these official
aillx their signatures on the assurance of
some m‘inbor of tha committee ou en
grossed bills that ho has compared it with
too original and that the transcription is
flawless. The hill thus signed aud attested
is taken to the House by Secretary McCook
and delivered into tbe custody of tha body.
If it is afterward passed by the II >use with
out amendment, that fact is recorded on it
and it is corned back to the Buuato with tho
s gnatures of the speaker and tne clerk of
the lIoU'6. Then it is enrolled ou parch
ment —English pirenme it —compared with
the original by a member of the committee
on ear iled bills, again .signed, aud sent to
tbe President.
Tne number of bills introduc’d in the
Penate in the last congress as 4,000, the
number of joint resolutions, 145. Too num
ber of these bills aid joint resolutions
pass and by the Be ate was 1.127, aid tbe
number indefinitely postponed or referred
to the court of clai us, 564. Tue remainder
were entirely wit mut consideration. Each
of these 1,127 biil3 and j hut resolutions ns
soon as it was agreed to was seat to tue en
grossing clei ks, who c spied it carefully.
One m in c ml l very easily have done all of
tns repyingif he had been allowed to bo
gi on i wi u the begiun ng of the sess.on,
and to o npleto it any tim > before tha ad
journment, but uiif rtunately the senate
usists upo i passing bills when the fa icy
seizes it, and toe result is that the engross
ing clerks arc kept without work for a long
oeriod and are tuen flooded with in ire tban
ho. can at e and to. April 21, 18811, the
B natep Ha'll GS4 bills—l3o Buuate bills aud
218 io..se bib . buoy w re all copied aid
carried over to the House tue next day, to
gether with the work or the 221, making a
Cotul of nea-ly 490 bills copied within two
and tys. In the list cciugr ss the Sonata
p ssed-*~Feb. 16, 1888—100 Senate and eight
House bills; but the record • f April 31,
1886, remains uutoucuod, and probably will
so remain formauy years. Toe a neurit of
casual la mr in the copying of such a
great number of thy; is hard to roiliz), aud
the strain ishicli toe copying clerk u olir
goesin keeping accurately and minutely to
the text is enormous.
Borne am using and some dangerous
err rs have crept into measures which have
; a sed the two houses of congress, through
ihe unequal pressure of work in the last
days of the session. S >me of the
most important appropriation bills are
pa sed in tbe last moments of an expiring
congress, anl they must be care
fully copied and compared before
t.iey are signed, ani this work
must ba done in time to got them to the
President tor bis cons deration. In tbe
Forty-eight. congress the deficiency appro
priu in oil! failei bjcatisj its passage was
so long delayed tnat there was not time to
copy it before the final adjournment of the
two h uses. Usually tho c.erks are able t j
anticipate at least a part of the b.U under
c nis.deratiori, and sometimes when there is
little and ,übt of the tiih’s passage they can
antic pa eit all. I saw in the clerk’s ties', a
few diys ago tue copies in manuscript of a
number of b iis tnat have never b n
cil.ed up for consideration. If by soni.
mischance they aro not passed, the manu
script will be thrown away; if they are
passed, it will be whipped out of the
drawer, and five minutes after the bill has
recetvod the final vote it wifi bo ready for
signature. But the clerks cannot often an
ti-spate large or important bills, aud from
tho hurried aud careless copying of iin
pirtant measures a number of euiba-rass
ing comp.icatlons have occurred. Home
years ago a misplaced com ma in a tariff
ill placed flowers of sulphur on the free
list and imposed a heavy duty ou Ilnur of
sulphur; which was tho reverse of what
congress hail intended. This mistake was
male in the Senate. When Mr. Wheeler
was Vice Prosidontof the United States an
error in an appropriatio i bill made his
salary for one year 180,009 instead of
48,001, as was intonded. Fortunately, this
mistake was discovered in time ta have it
remedied.
A uumber of years ago a provision was
inserted iu the naval appropriation ill f-.r
j the closing of some of the marine hospital .
Tue Senate struck out this a ue id ueut, but
the clerk who enrolled tho bill, mi-uuder
staddiag the purport of the Senate’s action,
so modified the amendment as to provide
for the closing of ali the marine hospital*,
ami in this condition the bill reached the j
Piesideut and was signed. Fortunately,
there was time lefore the close of the st*s !
s on to insert a provision in another of tho !
appropriation bills ojiening the hospitals
again.
Probably the Longest bill ever engross i
bv the clerks on the Senate side of the capi
tol, w.ts the tariff btil, as amended ami
passed by the Souato iu the last congiess.
Tuo original bill, as it came from the
ili use. was 67 prime I pages long The
S mate a .m.fluent I Ued 16J prime l pages ;
and made about 4'>,000 words. Much of it I
was copied b fore the bill was put ou its I
final pa-sage; go it was soon rea.lv to “••
sent back to the Eouse. The interstw
Oomme.ce law was com posed of about 8,000
wor ts. The original bill for the admission
of North Dakota into the union was anout
4(00 words l ug, but us tinullv pa-s <1
(ame ided so hs to admit the four new
s ates) it contained ab. >ut 6,000 words. Tho
shortest bill passed by the last congress con
tained sixteen words. I was a bill con
stituting i ort Angel is a p>rt of o itry.
A tew more bills of this length would be
weic in vl warmly bv tho engrossing clerk,
Mr. Newell, ad his a-si-lants. Unfor
tunately, the tendency in framing bills is
not 1 1 brevity, no is the tendency to lessen
the number of bills iutr dueel. Iu the
whole of the Forty-third- congress there
wore fewer bills introduced iu the Senate
ih m were introduced in the throe weeks'
session pi ©ceding the recent Christmas holi
days. In the Forty-third c ngross the
Bonate passed 325 bills and ju it resolu
tions, of which 223 were passiwi by the
House and went to th i President, in the
F rty-lour b congress 355 Sen ile bills
pa-s.xi the Sen to; in t o Forty-fifth, 471;
in th' For y-sit h, 492; in the F rty
sevoutti, 538; iu th) Forty-eighth, 553; iu
tbe For y-omth, 930, nid in tile Fiftieth,
1,127 Of the 0.219 went to tho President
(having been passed by bath hou.es) in the
Forty-fourth; 227 iu tho Forty-fifth, 19.5 in
tho Forty-sixth, 271 in the Forty-seventh 1
-'43 m the For:y-eigth, 420 in the Forty
ninth and 667 in the Fiftieth, • r last con
gress. J iio Forty-ninth and Fiftieth cou
gres os were famous for vetoes. Of the
423 Sonat ■ inoasur -ss-nt to tho Presidenti i
t e F rty-ninth, 64 were vetixxi and 76 out
of 617 in the Fif ieth.
Tne official reoordof each bill that pa sod
the last Senate is c intainod iu three large
volumes that are piled on one a lOther by
Mr. Newell’s desk. 11l ran are the manu
scripts as they were sent to the House, with
the sigu and ure of too President and tho secre
tary of the Senate. On the ba ’k of each is
a record of tho course it took after it left
tho Senate's hands. Tho parchment copies
of the bills which pass both Houses ami re
ceive tho President’s signature are kept in
tho state depart no*t. Tnere are the orig
inals of ah the laws winch have ever been
enac ed by the congress of the United
S atos. Tile earlier copies are soiunwlpit,
dull, but still easily legible. The parch
ment on which th y are enrolled is sheep
skin, which has boon scraped with a cuttle
bane to remove tho grea-o on the surface, so
that the skin will take the ink. The ink now
used is a mixture of au English with a do
mestic brand, which has !oeu found by ex
periment to be tho most durable,
O’Dhikn-Bain.
Royal Signatures.
From the London Figaro.
The queen’s signature to state documents
is still a model of firmness and legitn ity, no
sign of her majesty’s advanced are uomg
discernible in the tioldly written “Victoria
R.” which sho attaches to such papers as
have to bear the royal aut 'graph. There
are veteran statesmen living who will re
member that the question of the signing of
state documents by the sovereig i became
one of considerable importance in the last
m inths of George IV.’s reign. During this
period his majesty was in such a debilitated
state that the writing of numer ms au o
graphs was practically itnposd lo for him,
and under these circumstances a shot
bill was hurriedly passed through
parliament authorizing the king
to affix a fac simile of his
autograph by means of an inked stamp. It
was als . provi led, however, in the bill that
Go irgo should, before stamping each docu
ment, give Ills verbal assent, to it iu a speci
fied form. Tho Duke of Wellington was in
office at the time, and it was often his duty
to lay certain dominie ts before the king for
his approval. One dav the “Iron Duke,”
noticing that his majesty was stamping the
papers before him witnout repeating the
prescribed verbal formalary, ventured to
enter a respectful but firm protest. The
king, much irritated, exclaimed: "D
it, what can it signify?” “Only this, sir,”
replied tho duke, “that the law requires it.”
George IV. said no more, but at once began
to repeat the requisite f< rmulnry as lie
stain ped each of the remaining documents.
Yahsi.ky -Is Timmins doing pretty well on
the police force?
Wickwire—beautifully. He arrests the at ten
tion of every hire I girl he cones In sight of.—
Terre Haute Express.
BUBUKHAN RAILWAYS.
CITY AND SIM RAILWAY
ON and after FRIDAY, Nov. 8, IRK>, the fol
lowing Hchetiulo will Lie run on the out&kle
line:
IMA V K AHftIVE LKAVK I.KAVB
CITY. CITY. MLK OF HOPE. MONTOOMKRY
10:25 am H: 10 ain 8:15 am 7:50 am
* pm 2:oopm l:.v>ptn 1:1U u iii
Every Mon-Jay fh* n* will be a trait* for Mont
gomery, 1 aviug city at 6: 0 a. m. *
Every Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday a
train will be run out, leaving: city at 3:2.) p. m.
< >n Wednesday returning, leave Montgomery
4:40 p. m arid Isle of Hope 6:05 p. m.
On Saturdays and Sundays leave those points
at 5:20 p. m. and 5:50 r. m.
•This tram leaves half hour later on Satur
day and wiil Lj omcnitted on Sunday.
<iKO. W. ALLEY Supt
Savannah, Nov. 5. 1889.
Coast Line Railroad
For Cathedral Cemetery, Ilona venture and
Thunderbolt. City Time. WEEK DAYS—
Trains leave Savannah 7:15 and 10 a. m.. 8, 4:30
and 6:30 p. m. Leave Thunderbolt 6 an l Ba.
m., 12:30, 3:45, 6 p. m
Saturday night’s last train out 7:15 p. m.
SUNDAYS I'iave Savannah 8, 9. 10 and 11a.
m., 2, 3, 4,5, 6 and 7 p. m. lieavo Thunder
bolt 7:10, 8:30. 9:30 and 10:30 a. m.. 12:80.2:20,
3:30,4:30,5:80 and 6:30 p. m. Trains for city leave
B -riaventure five minutes after leaving Thun
der bolt.
l ake Broughton street cars twenty (20) mir
utea before leaving time of trams.
A. G. DRAKE, Supt.
Savannah anti Tybee Raiiroai
SCHEDULE OE TRAINS (Standard Tims).
I,cavt' .-livarinuli daily J:3 ) g:3O
Returning, leave Tybee 12:lXt 5:00
Saturday train will leave at 7 p. .
Family excursions every Tuesday and Friday
at reduced price.
R. E. COBB, Supt.
JEWELRY .
1. S. Mills,
21 BULL STREET,
Is offering his superb stock of
FRENCH CLOCKS,
Fancy Goods,
DIAMONDS, SILVERWARE, ETC.,
At Greatly Reduced Prices.
If you want jewelry or any goods in his line
call on him.
LOTTERY.
UN PRECEDENTS ATT noon I
OVER A toiiuiwi Biar.-UUFRD,
Louisiana Stats Lottery Company,
by tho L**rixlature, for Eduea
ti- iiAJ c haritable purpoM, and its fran
part >*f the present State Consti
■** • **7 j. by a ovurwhe-fmine popular vote.
o \ HMO in hr \\v |*;n uke place
-*•-•'%nimally i June and December), an I Ui
iniAM) SINGLE M MBEH DHAWI.\UB
lake plan' m enrh of Ihe other ten months
ol the year, nt| are nil drawn in public, ai
the Academy of Mu.ir, Acw Orleans, La.
FAMED FOR TWENTY YEARS
For Integrity of Its Drawings and Prompt
Payment of Prizes.
Attested os follows:
“We ifn hereby certify that tee supervise, the
arrangements for all the Monthly ami Semi
.4anu.il Prawings of The Louisiana State Lot
tery Company, and in person manage, amt con
trol the Drawings them.elves, ant that the
same are conducted uith honesty, fairness,
and in goo faith toward all parties, and we
authorise the Company to u>e this rertificate
ufth fac similes of our signatures attached, iii
its advertisements. ”
Commiulonera.
IU, the undersigned Hanks and Hankers mitt
pay all Prizes drawn in The Louisiana Stale
Lotteries ilhicli may he presented at our coun
ters.
It. SS. W \ LMSLKY. Pre.. I.oiitiUnA Ant. Bk.
PIKIIKF. LANAUX, Pre. Stale \nfl Bk.
A. IIALUWIA, I’m. !?rw Orleans Ant’l Ilk.
CAUL KOIIA, l*re. Inion .National Dank.
Grand Monthly Drawing
At the Academy of Music. New Orleans,
Tuesday, February 11, 1890.
Capital Prize $300,000-
1 IMI.OOO Ticket* at 830 each; lialtea glO;
4|uartern #5; Tenth* #2; Twentieth* #l.
I.IBT OS’ PRIZES.
PRIZE OF $300,000 18 $.300,000
OK 100.000 ii 100,000
1 -OF 60,000 Is 50.000
1 '’OF 25*000 is as*ooo
2.- ~A OF 1(0)00 are 20 000
6 i OF 6,000 art* 25*000
25 i’HUZES OF 1,000 tiro
100 PRIZES OF 500 arn ftO ftoo
200 PRIZES OF 300 aro 00 *000
600 PHIZES OF 200 aro 100*,000
APPROXIMATION PRIZES.
100 Priz-*Bof SSOO are $50,000
100 Prizes of 300 are 3o!o00
10 > Prizes of 200 are 20 <)00
TERMINAL PRIZES.
299 Prizes of 100 are 00.900
999 Prizes of 100 aro 09,900
8.134 Prizes, amounting to $1,0.54,800
Note.- -Tickets drawing Oapital Prize*are not
entitled to Terminal PnzuN.
AGENTS WANTED.
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formation desired, write legibly to tho under
signed, clearly stating your residence, with
State, County, Street and Number. More rapid
return mail delivery will bo a-wired by your
enclosing an Envelope hearing your full addreotf.
IMPORTANT.
Address M. A. I)AL'I*III,V,
I\ow Orleans, La..
or M. A. DAUPHIN,
Washington, D.
Ry ordinary letter containing Money Order
issued by ali Express < Companies, New York Ex
change, Draft or Postal Note.
Address Registered Letters Contain
ing Currency to
NEW OBLEAiVi HATIONAL H A Ali,
New Orleans, La.
“REMEMfIKIt, that the payment of Prizes
Ik (U AIIWI EKO IIY KM It \ \TIO\AL
IIA.\KS of New Orleans, and tho Tickets are
signed by the President of au institution whoso
chartered rig. its are recognized in the highest
Courts; therefore, beware of all imitations or
anonymous Mchetnes. ”
OSiK DOLL Alt is the price of the smallest
part or fraction of a Ticket lw4LKil BY Ud
in any Drawing. Anything in our name offered
for leaa than a Dollar is a swindle.
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AND FIXTURES
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fur limited.
Agent for the celebrated Swedish Metafile
Faint.
Aseht for Walter’s Baton! Tin Shingles,
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