About The sunny South. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1875-1907 | View Entire Issue (May 28, 1887)
VOLUME XIII.—NUMBER 602. ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, MAY £8,1887. PRICE: $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE. Shaking Across the Bloody Chasm. SOUTHERN WAR SONGS. Poetic Echoes From the Dead Past. SOUTHRONS. Mrs. C. A. Warfield, of Kentucky, composed the stirring, defiiiit words of “Southrons,’* music by A E. Blackmar. It was probably wriitcn in reply to the lion. S. S. Cox, who of fered some resolutions in the Congress of the United States inviting the seceded States to return to the Union. You can never win us back— Never! Never! Though we perish In the track Or our endeavor; Though our corses strew the earth That smiles upon their birth, And blood pollutes each hearth- Siodc forever! We have risen to a man Stern and fearless; Of your curses aud your ban We are careless. Every hand Is od lrs knife, J>ery gun Is primed for strife, Every palm contains a life, High and fearless. You have no such blood as ours For the shedding; In the vctus of cavaliers Was its heading I You have no such stately men In your abolition den To inarch through foe and fen, Nothing dreading! We may fall before the fire Of your legions, Palo with gold for murderous hire— Bought allegiance; TVit for every drop you shod ’ i ou sha*. nave a mound' A dead, And the vultures shall be fed In your regions. But the battle to the strong Is not given, While the Judge of right and wrong Sits In Heaven! And the God of David still Guides the feeble with Ills will; Tuere are giants yet to kill— Wrongs unshrivf n. Libraries in the United States. There are in the United States 6,338 li braries, each with :1()0 volumes or over. Of these 2,ffSl have each 1,000 .volumes or over. Forty-seven have eacli over 50,000 volumes, ami among the forty-seven are the public li braries of Boston, Chicago and Cincinnati, and the libraries of Harvard, Columbia, Vale, Cornell and Brown Universities. These forty- seven libraries aggregate 5,0:10,472 volumes, and the whole list of 5, JJS libraries aggregate 20,022,070 volumes, or one volume to every three persons in the country. In round num bers the United States has one library to every 10,00i) of population. Magnanimous and Patriotic. Gov. Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia, does not believe in permitting politics to interfere with the harmony of the Veteran Associations of that State. " Some opposition was manifested to John S. Wise becoming a member of Lee Camp, Confederate Veteran Association, and Gov. Lee learning of it, wrote a letter in which he said: ‘ J w'rite to express the hope that no objection will bo made upon the part of any member to Capt. Wise joining the association. The credentials and membership are based upon the Confederate’s record as a man, and not upon his politics, and 1 should be very sorry to hear that fealty to either political parky was the test of qualification to member ship of the Lee Camp.” THE BLUE AND THE GRAY. “With IVlaiice Toward None, With Charity for A:!.” [New York Herald.J The brave Southerners who took part in Pickett’s brilliant charge at Gettysburg, have been looking forward to July with high an ticipations. They hoped to meet their North ern opponents cn that famous and fateful day, to rehearse the events which were big with historic significance and to recount to each other innumerable adventures and hairbreadth escapes. They were also to take with them a monu ment, commemorative of the splendid courage of their comrades, and to erect it on the fur thest point reaches! within the union lines. The plan is approved by the survivors of the union forces which repulsed and drove them back. Tiiere seems no harm in marking the spot where the Northern forces were tempo rarily broken, and if a monument to Southern courage stands close to a monument to North ern pluck, what of it? The brave men on botli sides crossed their swords there and the spot will forever have a painful interest for every American. But the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial as sociation say “No,” politely, yet decidedly. They are willing to have the monument built at Pickett's starting point, but not within the lines of the Northern army. They object, also, to the inscription on the base of the mon ument, two lines written in pencil by General Lee and found in his army satchel after Appo mattox: Glorious is his fate and envied in his lot Who for his country lights and for it dies. This strikes ns as very mean and small busi ness. So it will strike every soldier who won honor on that field. The brave man is always ready to give deserved praise to his opponents. It was an awful day, that day of Pickett’s charge and stern Southern stuff was met by stern stuff from the North. If those two mag nificent armies could meet in July, 1887, they would “present arms” to each other. If the cause of the North was victorious it was not because the South lacked courage, and we may well be grateful that after twenty-five years the survivors, Northern and Southern, shake hands as citizens of a united country. Tfie dead of both sides may projierly he hon ored. The South should he invited to build as many monuments as they please, and on any spot to which their dash and valor give them claim. Those heroes lie side by side in neigh boring graves, and if the monuments of North and South touch each other they are simply typical cf the two forces which during the charge were close enough to cross bayonets. Lecture for BillArp. Ho Must not uso the Word Rebel. Editor Sunst South:—Will yon permit ire to invite Mr. Bill Arp off that fence and ask him to secure Bancroft’s History of the United States, and from it learn something of the prin ciples upon which this government was found ed? I am in the habit of classifying all those who apply the term rebel as ho does, to tl e honored soldiers of the Confederate army, as totally ignorant of thoso principles. While < n the cars somewhere in Virginia, Mr. Arp said in his last letter: “Behind mo sat two men, one talked about Gen. McClellan and the other about Bob Lee, and I found out that one w; s a federal and the other a rebel.” Now I will say nothing of the marked disre spect shown the memory of Virginia’s illus trious son, in dubbing him familiarly “Bi b Lee,” but will hasten to refer to the burden < f my complaint, his unpardonable misrepresen tations of the true character of a Southern so’- dier when lie calls them "rebels.” They we:e not rebels in any sense of tiie word. Sove:- cign states cannot rebel. Secession is tl e proper term to apply to that act, and to de fend his sovereign state, after it seceded, the Southern soldier-bov staked everything near and dear to him. Mr. Arp ought to know that the thirteen colonies were free and independ ent sovereign states before they formed a compact as they were recognized by all foreign powers as such at that time, and had they not been sovereign they could not have formed a compact, ana if he now admits that they re linquished their sovereignty when they entered into that compact, and can prove that they did, he may be allowed the privilege of using the term rebel in connection with the seces sion movement. He has certainly forgotten his exultations over ex-President Davis during his visit to Georgia, and the sentiments he ut tered on that and other occasions, upon the doctrine of states’ rights. I must also refer Mr. Arp to the last chap ter of the (ith volume of Bancroft’s history, and ask him to read the articles of Confedera tion between the states, which declared that “each state retain its sovereignty, freedom and independence.” The constitution of the United States, which immediately followed, was first adopted by the States, in convention, each State casting a vote as a proposed plan of government, and then ratiliee by the States separately, each acting for itself in its sovereign and independent ca pacity, through a convention of the people. And it was by this ratification that the consti tution was established, to uso its own words; “between the States, so ratifying the same.” It is then a compact between the States as sov- erigns, and the union created by it^p a federal partnership of States, the federal government being their common agent for transaction of the federal business within the limits of the delegated powers. Sovereign States cannot rebel. They can se cede, provided arbitrary measures aro tiot used to prevent it and understanding the princi ples upon which this gove-nment was founded as A do, ■- .iLU j w , uo 00" ot tut, jus tice of one state invading another with an arm ed force. Mr. Arp in his letters seems to pride him self upon being called a rebel; but when he en lightens himself as to the real meaning of a term, applied by the enemies of the South, he will be due an apology for so gross a misrepre sentation. The significant reply made by Miss Minnie Davis to an ex-Union soidier while on a North ern tour serves to show* how well she has stud ied the history of her country. The soldier alluded to approached Miss Davis at a depot and in a flattering tone, said: “Miss Davis, you must have beon quite your.g during the late rebellion.” Miss Davis, with a dignity and pride, born of Southern blood, replied: “1 don’t know anything of a rebellion, sir, hut was quite young during the late war between the sovereign States.” Take a lesson from this beautiful reply Mr. Arp and cease to use the slang of of other sec tions and other days. T. J. Scott, M. I). Hot Springs, Ark. FROM THE SOUTHLAND. On Sooing a Jessamine Vine in Bloom Around a Magnolia Tree. RY MUS. MIXXIE MOSHER JACKSON. Earl of Shaftesbury and His Donkey. A Creat Benefactor, and the Curi ous Tokens of Appreciation by the Recipients. THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURY AND HIS DONKEY. The Right lion. Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, was born on the 28th of April, 1801, being the eldest sen of the 0th Earl. lie died in Octobe 1885. He was educated at Oxford and was noted as a Christian philanthropist and the most eminent social reformer of the pres ent century, and by his efforts in behalf of factory children caused a revolution in the treatment of thoso who were in a far worse condition than a slave, being compelled to labor long hours at starvation wages. Chil dren four and five years of age were fre quently put to work in the colleries and factories and compelled to labor from eleven to thirteen hours per day. Lord Shaftesbury was challenged to a duel by laird Morrington for championing the “Jewish [Mendicancy Bill." He refer red his challenge, to the magistrate at Bow Street or to his solictors. Nothing further came of the affair. In 1872 the severe affliction of losing his wife befell him. The Earl was prominently connected with the Golden Lane and llexton Mission, with the Barrow Club, and was much among the Coster-Mongers, where he did a large amount of good. Many curious proofs of affection have been manifested by these people. A gold pencil-case was presented by the flower-girls; a patch-work quilt by the coster-women, and a donkey by their husbands. This donkey found a home at St. Gile’s House, the residence of the Earl, in Dorsetshire. HARRER’S FERRY. [From the Baltimorean.] ’Tis spring in the Southland; the zephyr doth breathe A Brief Sketch of its Event ful History. Ruins of the Govern” ent Puildings— Magnificent Scenery—Y. ar. Etc. OUR ILLUSTRATED LETTER. Editor Si nnv South:—A two hours ride from Washington on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad will take one to Harper’s Ferry. This village of 2,000 inhabitants is situated like a nest among branches—the branches being the lofty mountains surrounding it. To the north are the Maryland Heights, which rise in suc cessive plateaus to an attitude of 1,300 feet above the surrounding country, and 2,000 feet above the level of the sea. To the cast are the Loudoun Heights. They are not so high as tiie Maryland Heights, hut the sides are more precipitous, and, being out of tiie way of trav el are densely wooded and difficult of ascent. To the south are Boiivar Heights, on the ex treme slope of which is si mated Harper’s Fer ry. Between Maryland Heights and Loudoun Heights iR a magnificent gorge where unite tiie l’otomac and Shenandoah rivers. The l’oto- mac lias brought its waters from the Allegha- nies, while the Shenandoah has many a tribu tary'from the Blue llidge. A striking contrast is noticed between the waters of these two rivers. That of the Shenandoah is clear, sparkling and transparent, while that of the Potomac is muddy and turbid. lie died in 1782. In 1701 tbispb.ee was ehosen as a site of a National Armory. For this pur pose Congress bought 125 acres rom the heirs of Mr. Harper. This tract is uitained itt a triangle formed by the two rive *t, aud a line running from the Potomac to t‘_ Sherandoah along Union street. Another,*,;ref.use w is mad- of 310 arris, whig! t-*i tki ■.> wh* j'-S a,.A .is . r- V —*-' .... --A-. Government commenced the erection of shops, and in 1700, a Mr. Perkins, an English Mor avian, was appointed to superintend the works. The capacity of the. Harper’s Ferry Armory was from 1,500 to 2,000 guns a nnn h. At that time the guns manufactured there were considered the best in the world. Until just before the civil war the history and life of this town was the manufacture of arms at the ar mory. April 17. 1801 it is said that Lieuten ant Jones, “acting on orders from Washington City, or, under directions from Captain Kings- bury, who had been sent from the Capital, the day before to take charge of tiie armory, had se{ lire to the Government buildings and, with his men retreated towards the North. The citizens extinguished the lire in the shops and saved them and the maebiner,. The arsenal, however, was totally consumed with about 15,- 000 stands of arm, there stored.” The confed erates, June 1 i, 1801, burned the main armory buildings. June 28, 1801, some Baltimoreans and a (’art of .Second Mississippi Regiment, destroyed with lire the rille factory. Thus nothing was left of ail tiie armory works but the engine house, and tiie bui’ding near the railroad track, known as John Brown’s Fort. It, is now a weird looking locality, ruins, weeds and debris being in abundance. “Dur ing the winter 1808-0, a hill was introduced into Congress and passed, providing for the sale of the government property at Harper’s Kerry. 1 in the thirtieth of November and the first of December, lstlO, therefore, it was put up at I party now living is Owen Brown. Only six of | the party escaped alive. The party went into | Harper’s Ferry at midnight of the sixteenth of October captured the town and took pos- I sesion of tiie ’.armory with a .view of arming | the slaves. By morning the inhabitants armed j themselves, having been warned of the raid l and its^nb’Si’t. Gradually the engiue house the* prisoners tJ .rig taken WASHINGTON CITY. Reminiscences of Distil guished Public Men. Incidents Which Have Transpired at the National Capitol. By BEN. PERLY POORE. Jerry Slac-t Before the Electoral Com mission. Judge Jerry Black closed the case on the part of Mr. Tilden before the electoral com mission with a tirade against the result of the presidential controversy in general and the commission in particular. His speech was grossly disrespectful to the tribunal, and Jin some features positively abusive, but its ”L1L- terness was relieved now and then by the gleams of the good-natured humor which was so much a part of Black’s nature that he could not wholly suppress it. He talked about fraud being sceptered and crowned, and of the nation being clothed in iniquity from head to foot by the action of the commission, and said there was no more use of pleading for justice than of praying to Jupiter or any of the Olympian gods. If he could avert the horrible calamity by leading a forlorn hope or giving up his life, he would gladly do it. After half an hour of invective he closed by saying that Democracy would wait and bide its time. “The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine,” he said, looking at Garfield and Hoar, as if they especially were to be put into the hopper. Then in a significant tone he added, “and we shall turn on the water pretty soon,” and, turning his back on the commission, he strode out of the court-room. A moment of silence ensued. Afterwards the public session was declared closed, and Judge Clifford motioned with his ivory paper knife for the spectators to leave the room. The request was promptly obeyed, butfonce outside of the court-room the visitors began to criticise Judge Black’s bold words. Cettingthe Jury Drunk. What was known as the trial of Andrew Johnson on the articles of impeachment pre sented by the House of Representatives, was really a pint to secure his deposition, in which erse Ben Wade, who was president of the Sen ate pro fern.. would have become President of " i '-.Y-j? ° h f j flu PERSONAL MENTION* What the People Are Doing and Saying THE UNCROWNED KINC--Acrostlc. Chained ana powerless stand before thee Ho«.s of England’s mighty men: v r’’ a I r ®°Ktfi no sword can vanquish, 1. ’used by tire that- ne’er can languish, 1 1. 'ad to vlerory once again. b : °' ea *<» freedom s.ioeers its bleselneso’er thy name* ‘ tending In the midst of S3grg ’ 1 eerliig downward through rije ages n ti wurla shai! sound tby tame. Ba.se her name among the nations Nerve her sous wlrb zealous t ime’* Every gleam that gilds her glory ’ Eights ihe page that tells the story E.uxtd wnu nor immortal fame. ’ Atlanta, (li. j. F . Shirley. on G w°T W ,‘ ChUds was fiity-eight years old on Wednesday, the 12th instant. Barnum says that during his life as a show- public 6 haS rtcc,ved over *380,000,000 from the John S. Mosby’s "War Reminiscences”, are month 10611 f ° r I) ’ ablicatioa t!la fast of this The widow of the late Gen. Winfield S. Han- Albany Vl3ltlng Mrs * Jobn G. Farnsworth, of . IIenr Y ^* Stanley takes snuff when traveling m very hot regions. He says that in helps to preserve his eyesight. 1 Judge C. J. Faulkner, Democrat, has been elected Lnited .States Senator by the West Virginia Legislature. The statue of ex-President Garfield was un- veiled in Washington City, with imposing <*r7 emomes on the 12th. P s Cleveland has appointed James W. Ilyatt, of Connecticut, to be United States Treasurer, vice Jordan, resigned. Miss Catharine Wolfe helped a number of girls through Vassar, without letting them know from whom the money eame. Count Herbert Bismarck, of Germany, is in Dublm, the guest of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the Marquis of Londonderry Justice W. B Woods o the United States Supreme Court died at his home in Washing ton City last Saturday, the 14th inst. B Judge Ogden Hoffman, of California, is the o dest judge ou the bench of the United Skates circuit court. He was appointed in 1851 It is said that President Cleveland has si"*- mfied his intention of attending the re-union ^ ArWy ° f the 1,0t0mac at ‘^ratoga in ■A- i?* Fruchier, an American citizen who vis ited France, was seized on arrival, imprisored , ” ed »■» a President Norvin Green, of the Western ni»wi 9? mpail V’Occupies a handsomely mr- nished big room for his office in Jew York and In silver bay blooms and gold jessamine bells. But hark! through the marsh-lands, where in her white gown, Stands the pure, pale swamp Illy, fragile and fair; And the honeysuckle smiles at the dark cypress’ frown, And the gray inoss, like mist, swings soft through the air. Where the sweet-gum is crowned with Its tender, green stars, And the sycamore stands like a gho u t In the gloom; Where the woodbine from tret to tree builds crim son bars. And o’er green Aim’d pools the pond-HUes bloom. Through the marsh-lauds it tloated, a whisper so sweet That my heart paused to listen whence came the sott’sound; From the trees overhead, from the flowers at onr feet. It floated like perfume and wreathed my soul round. I felt, more than heard, what the ll iwerg were say ing That balmy, spring evening I wandered away— When each green bough and twig seemed to melody swaying Aud the gray-coated mock-bird trilled softly his lay. The flowers wore Darning their queen, aud I heard Oh! the music of perfumed Up* breathed low— Sweeter, softer than ever tue tendered word: I heard with the heart, not the senses, I know. North; Through the long night of winter we sleep as in death. And only Spring’s sweet voice our beauty calls forth. “But she—she, the queen-like magnolia, the grand. Wrapped in her rooe of deep emerald, stately aud tall, Like an empress enthroned, unchanged doth she stand With her great silver blooms—she is queen of us all. “She bows not her head to the summer. Ah, no; She wears her queen-robe, spue of chili winter’s cold: She is queen! She Is queen! The flowers named her so, And her Jessamine sprang upwards and crowned her with gold.” Savannah, Ga., May, 1887. ~ Kapiolani, although only a dusky Queen over •10,000 subject*, teaches all a fine lesson in courtesy, which it is to be hoped that many persons, who are snobs at heart and who will gratefully follow the lead of a Queen any where, will profit by. While in Washington the Queen and her suite were invited to dine with Minister and Mrs. Carter. The hour for the dinner had arrived while the Queen was still inspecting the Deaf and Dumb Asylum. She was urged to hasten home and dress for the dinner. That cannot be, said her Majesty. We must not keep Mrs. Carter waiting. And so they drove directly to the ministerial mans<on. It was not until next day that Washington society learned why the Hawaiian monarch appeared at the Carter banquet clad in a simple black silk dress and a plain linen collar. hi ins or Tin: confederate armokv. In the town on “Cemetery Hill,'’ behind the Catholic church, is situated “Jefferson’s Rock.’* On this rock Thomas Jefferson is said to have written a fine description of the grand scene which lies outstretched before one as he. sits there. Until recently it was composed of several huge masses of stone piled on one an other, the upper one resting on a ticklish foun dation. To prevent the overthrow of the top stone, it has been supported on pillars. This stone is rather of a soft character and has been chisseled and cut byjpersons anxious to have their names go down to posterity. The won derful beauties of the gorge above mentioned, can be seen from this rock, and Jefferson de clared “the passage of the Potomac through the Blue Ridge one of the most stupendous scenes in nature, and well worth a voyage across the Atlantic to .see.” At the base of Maryland Heights runs the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, and by its side is the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal. At the union of the rivers the railroad crosses by a remarkable bridge to Harper's Ferry. A visitor should never fail to notice from Jefferson’s Hock the sparkling of the Shenandoah by moonlight as it ripples over its pebbly bed at the base of Loudoun Heights. This place was named after Robert Harper. He was born in oxford, England, about 170-1. In 1747 in his travels from Frederick, Md., to Antietam, he was induced to go by a German named Hoffman, a shorter cut by way of ‘ The Hole.’’ lie bought out the only squatter named Peter Stevens, for 60 British guineas, and then obtained a patent from Lord Fairfax on whose estate btevens had squatted. The name was changed from “The Hole” to Harper’s Ferry. Mr. Harper lived until 177-3 in the Stevens cabin situated on Shenandoah street; where public auction, and the armory grounds and the site of the rille factory were purchased by F. C. Adams, of Washington, D. C , for the sum of $20fi,<i00, with one and two years time for payment." It turned out later on that this purchase was made for speculation, but nothing ever came from it. With the destruc tion of the armory and its accessories departed the life and bustle from Harper’s Ferry. The town had diminished in population. Many of its inhabitants have gone where work can be found, a large number have followed the Gov ernment works to Springfield, Mass. tin September JO and < >ct. 1,1870, occurred a most disatrous and devastating Hood at Harper’s Ferry. There had been a severe drougut previous to this date and on Septem ber JO the Shenandoah began to rise very rap idly. At one time it is said that the liver rose at the rate of six feet in four minutes. It de stroyed the most flourishing part of the town. Virginius island, situated in the middle of the Shenandoah river, was swept bare, aud many of its inhabitants were carried down the river. Every house except oue on the south side of the street, from the Market House to the island of Virginius, was either destroyed or injured. Some seventy houses in all were either totally destroyed or rendered uninhabit able. Forty-two lives were lost. October 17, 1850, occurred an event which has given her notoriety, however—the John Brown raid. Its object was the freedom of the slaves. The leader was John Brown, a native of Connecticut. He had taken a very promi nent part in the struggle in Kansas for the ad mission of that State as a non-slavery State— was fanatical in the extreme. He was assist ed by his sons aud some twenty others, four of whom were negroes. The only one of the I with them. This was held all day. The uoxt | day early a body of marines under the com mand of Col. Robert E. Lee and Lieut. J. E. | B. Stuart, stormed the fort with heavy sledge i hammers. A battering rain was made of a I long ladder and an entrance thus forced. Soon | Brown and his survivors were brought forth, i He was tried before a Virginia court, convic- I led, and was hanged at Charleston, W. Va., j December 2, 1850. j In the upper portion of the town, situated ! on Camp Hill, is Stover college with its aca- j demic and normal departments. This is an j institution for the education of the colored | youth. It seems to be a very striking and fit- i ting location for such an institution, where *Iohn Brown made his attempt for the freedom of the fathers of some of the very youths who now attend here. John Stover, of Sanford, Me., in 1807, gave 10,000 to found such an institution provided that the friends of the colored people in the Free Baptist denomina tion would raise an equal amount previous to January, 1808. Jt was done. The Normal School was opened in 1807. Stover college was chartered by the legislature of West Vir ginia, March J, 1808. There are now three buildings connected with it. Myrtle Hail, Lincoln Hall, and Anthony Memorial Hall. The last named building contains a library, chapel, lecture room, printing ollice, recitation rooms, etc. During the absence of the pupils in the summer these buildings are occupied by boarders, many going from Washington. The town experienced many vicissitudes du ring the w r ar, being first in the hands of the Confederates; then the Federals took possess ion only to be driven out by the enemy, and then a new turn of the wheel brought another change. April 18, 1801. the Southern forces marched into Harper’s Ferry. General Harper, a military officer of Staunton, Va., was put in command, but in a few days the Confederates wisely dispensed with feather-bed and corn stalk officers and put into important commands West Pointers and men of regular military ed ucation. “Stonewall” Jackson was then put in command. He was soon succeeded by Gen. JEFFERSON F.OCIv. Job E. Johnston, now IT. S. Commissioner of Railroads. June 14, 18(11, the insurgents rr- treated from the town. June 2Sdi it was again occupied by the Confederates. Then for a time the inhabitants were plundered by the raiders from both sides. The Federals occu pied it July 21. Several skirmishes took piace during the winter. General Banks occupied it February 22, 1802, and held it until May 25. It was held later by Colonel Miles. Septem- of Wade that Fessenden, GrimesAnovTrum- bull finally voted, and the radicals did all in their power to carry the day. Among other schemes proposed was one to get Willard Saulsbury, a senator from Delaware, ou one of his sprees, so that he might be absent when the vote was taken, or present himself in such an intoxicated condition that Mr. Sumner would insist on a jvoto on |his resolution for expulsion, placed on the calender one day when Saulsbury had behaved with great inde corum. Saulsbury had “sworn off” during the trial, but every one knew that the smell of whiskey might start him on a “spree.” One evening a gentlemanly young fellow called and introduced himself as a partner in a wine and liquor importing house in New York, interest ed in a proposed amendment of the tariff. He had brought in a few sample bottles of the qualities affected by the change, which he asked permission to send to the senator’s room. Saulsbury saw through the scheme at once, and ordered the bogus wine merchant out of the house. When Johnson was told of it he said: “They can’t beat me any other way, and they are trying to get the jury drunk.” Wy Son Yawpy. Martin L. Townsend, a jovial old represen tative from the State of New York, declared that when the Democrats passed the electoral commission bill, they did so with the expecta tion that it would place Tilden in the White House; but they woke up the wrong man. This Mr. Townsend used to illustrate by relat- anecdote of an old Dutchman, who New Yor could not come home no modest state, with . * jt r site ; here i jTt o.r *3 IYlUna’.. made the statue of ho.. ’ v LibertV in s -mv moutit Park, has receive.! from the Grand of Merit bax6 >l6lmnsen the Cavalier ’ s Cross The oil portraits of Secretaries of the Treas- uty in tiie department building at Washington, now extend from Hamilton to Foiger. and the officers in charge are planning to add Messrs Gresham and Manning to the list. Cardinal Simeoni has advised the pope to direct the Irish bishops not to associate ihern- se ves with the Irish agitators. It would be interesting to know how much Simeoni re ceived for giving this piece of advice. Queen GJga, of G reece, is fond of swimming, and a pond lined With white marble is tone constructed in the grounds of the royal puiace at Athens so that the Queen can disport her- sel: with her attendants like Diana and her ma-us. When Senator Hearst left New York for California, his baggage consisted of a trunk and a valise. Ihe porters of the Hoffman House were astonished at the smallness of the luggage or a man worth £8,000,W0. The memory of Baizae, the truest of French novelists, is to be honored with a monument to be erected in.his native city of Tourls. The greatest names in France appear on the com mittee watch has this movement in charge. Ate.ninetecn years of service as Edfio’r-in- j.hief ot ILirpcrx llaz.tr, Miss Mary L. Booth has gone to enjoy a six months visit to Europe. •*•= — —o ( § oe ?. at tbe desire ami with the substantial lived in Troy many years ago, and who went] benediction of her publishers, and is accompa- down to New York to find his son Yawpy. To ] llie “ her friend and colleague, Mrs. \V'ri <r ht give the Dutchman’s own woids: | James G. Blaine will sail for FuroDe on°thn “One tune my son Yawpy went down upon I 8th of June. Two double staterooms 0*1 the and upset a grocery. So Yawpy steamship Bins, of the North German Liovd ome home no more. By and by I ; line have been engaged for himself, his wife wanted to see Yawpy, so I goes down upon and his two daughters. Captain Jun-'st nup Trov and takes a sloop for New York. When i of the best sailors ou the Atlantic w-ll’t int we gets to New* York they tied up the sloop to 1 after his comfort. ' wlU Iook the dock, and I starts to find Yawpy. I went ! On Wfi. n up aside hill to a street I think they call the reinedoverthJ united k?n«l 1V ® Broadway. When I gets there I look's on both | m^ LeUnd Sco“and ^ Wat fifty but Yawpy does not wake up. I puts me ! arul y surgeon, who was a handsome and dressy mouth close to Yawpy’s ear and hollers: ma ' n . arranging his cravat complacently before ‘Yawpy!’and still‘Yawpy!’and be don’t wake a S lass * 'Cutting,” said Lee, “you must bo up yet. Den I takes Yawpy py his collar and shakes him just so hard as ever I could, and I holiers so hard as you could hear me maybe l.olf .. Y- 1. 1 r , the happiest man in creation, eral?” “Because you are in love seif, and have not a rival on the earth “Why, Gen- your- half a mile, and den Yawpy he wakes up. And The friends of Franklin J. Moses lawy den, so help me shmoke, it was not Yawpy!” | aIul ex-judge and ex-Governor of South Car Singular Colncidonces. Curious coincidences are sometimes to be fouud in tiie reports of congressional debates. Or.o was in February, 18ti.S, when the Senate was discussing the admission of Phillip F. Thomas, who had presented himself with cre dentials showing that he had been elected United States Senator by the State of Mary land. It was shown that Mr. Thomas had not only permitted his son to go into Virginia that he might enlist in tiie Confederate army, but had given him $100. This, Mr. Sumner urged, should exclude Mr. Thomas, lie appealed to the Senate to give tiie country a lesson of ! ' '“l have made application to Governor Ames, of Massachusetts, and the council for pardon Moses, m October, 18S5, was sentenced to three years m the State prison, having been con victed of forgery. It is stated that he is in poor health. V» hi*n the J'rince of Wales was leaving Man chester the other day a member of ti.e°Town Council pushed himself forward, and, in a burst of loyalty, said: “Bring the old woman w:th thee next tune.” Die Prince looked sur prised, not exactly understanding to whom the civic dignitary was referring. Observing this, the latter said: “I mean your mother.” i ^‘ r * George I. Senev has presented I nev oyalty, aud concluded with the following quo- Cobb Institute, Athens, Ga., with a maen li “‘ion: cent painting, entitled “La Confidence”--the I hear a lion in the lobby roar ; j ' vor "- Elizabeth Gardner. The paintingrep- Say, Mr. Speaker, shall we shut the door? I reseut8 , lW j^ irIs 1,1 . a , l * le P r * me of glowing Or shall we open it and let him in, i womanhood, one with a letter in her hand. And see if we can get him out again? i fflcsumbly a love letter, acquainting the other with its contents. Iheworkissplendidlyex*- On the same afternoon, and about the same eeuted, and is pronounced by good judges a hour, Mr. Dawes, then a representative from : most exquisite painting. The figures are life Massachusetts, was opposing the admission of “ Concluded on eUjhthiwje. John Y. Brown as a member from Kentucky, on the ground that he had given encourage ment to tiie Confederates, and iie ridiculed the idea that while the House had a right, by a two-thirds vote, to expel a member for treason, it bail uo right to refuse him his seat when he presented himself to be sworn as a member. On this point the homely verse of Col. Titus, when Charles II. undertook to batter down the doors of the House of Commons, was a better commentary than anything he could say: I hear a lion in the lobby roar ; Say, Mr. Speaker, shall we shut the door, And keep him out? Or shall we let him in, To try if we can turn him out agaiu ? Whether the senator or the representative quoted Col. Titus correctly was never estab lished, but each one let tha quotation appear in the quarto edition of the official report of the debates as above. Mrs. Peterson, widow of the late Charles J 1 eterson, who so long and so successfully edit ed 1 eterson s Magazine, has decided to assume the work of publishing and editing the periodi- ca.1 herse.f. She has been for years associated with her husband m the work of preparation butcher of the literary than tSe hostess side of the magazine; and there is every reason to believe that she will add one more to the many women who have been successful in the higher work ot journalism. The senior proprietor of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Brain Hitchcock, is a trustee of Dart mouth College, in New Hampshire, where he was graduated. He has the sturdy New Eng- land notion about the exercise of the franchise* and although he has been iu New York for nearly a quarter of a century, ho has retained his residence in New Hampshire and goes there to vote at all important elections, in minor elections he has arranged a pair with a vener able friend who is on the other side in polities.
