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VOLUME XIII.—NUMBER 610.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY MOINING, JULY 23,1887
Shaking Across the Bloody Chasm.
SOUTHERN WAR SONGS.
Poetic Echoes From the Dead
Past.
July4th v 185 I, Tuscaloosa, Ala.
In 1851 President B&rnard, of Columbia Col-
ege, New York Ci r y t was Professor of Chem
istry and Natural History in the University of
YUbatna, at Tuscaloosa. Hon. W. L. Yancy
was firing the Southern heart and preparing to
“precipitate a revolution." < >u the 4th of July,
President (then Professor) Barnard was invi
ted by the Whig Mayor and Council to deliver
the oration, which he said lie would do provid
ed lie could express his convictions. They
consented. The night before this oration was
delivered a committee asked Professor Barnard
to write an ode to be sung at the celebration
the next day. He consented to do so and
within an hour wrote the following stanzas,
which were sung by four young men before
the address:
* ris the day of Freedom’s birth;
Flint? her starry banner forth;
Let it wave, f r om .South to Nor-h,
In her own blue sky.
Floating wide, from s=*a to sea,
Oi the breath of liberty,
Let that glorF ui standard be »
Ever borne on high.
Wfto Its onward course would bar?
Who Its lu«tro'is folds would mar?
Who would blot, away a star?
L*4t him come m*t near.
Who would bear It proudly on.
Till Its world wide course is run?
OI his sire a worthy s >n,
Lst In in j tin us here.
By that sainted hero, sage,
Whose gr«at d«eds—our 1 erltage—
Fill with brightness hist’ry’s pa^e,
By our Washington.
We will cling, till l.oue expires,
To the charter of our sires,
* Till our course is run.
HIT HIM HARD.
How a Young Southerner Surprised a
Fashionable Club in New York.
[New York Letter.]
An event occurred in one of the swell clubs
on Fifth avenue the other evening, that for the
time being created the liveliest kind of a ripple
:n the social swim. The rooms were fairly
tilled with the young gentlemen who enjoy late
suppers, think it the correct thing to be on
hand at first night performances in the thea
ters, and do the athletic business in its various
forms. As several crack boxers were present,
some suggestad a friendly bout or two, and a
dozen or more of the gallants were presently
in the regulation ring attire. One of them is
well-known as a famous beau, but he is un
fortunately possessed of the idea that because
he is the amateur champion of listcuffs in bis
club he must per force be the ruler of that
particular roast. In (lie can tests that followed
this notion was further emphasized by his
f] lick extinguishment of three of the biggest
oi the young fellows pitied against him, and,
l ice Alexander, he panted for other beads to
bitter Flushed with his success and possibly
with a trifle of wine, the champion began
t , ( boast that he could whip any man in
the house, whereupon a number who had
just sauntered in from the billiard room
.-.ietly remarked: “I’ll wager you a thou-
s: - t vou can’t whip a friend of mine who hap-
,,, s ] 0 be at this moment a guest of the club
anil is playing a game of billiards in the next
roi :n ” The bet was promptly taken, and
tlm youn" man disappeared to apprise his guest
wh t was expected of him. The latter after
a» ii’le entered the parlor smoking a cigarette,
b U ( no one suspected that the handsomely
dr. ssed little fellow, weighing probably less
than 1”5 pounds, was more than what he
V seemed”to be—a mere looker-on in the halls of
fas lion, nor was he himself aware of all the
conditions. When t'uev wore made known,
therefore, he positively declined to box, unless
the bet was called off, and then only in a thor
oughly gentlemanly mauner for “points" He
stud he was a total stranger there, anil would
na'.:rally have no sympathy from a crowd who
■would of course want their man to win. The
ibuzziiig questions ran around: “Who is he?
When; does lie come from?" Ha was then in
troduced as Mr. If., of South Carolina, a grad
ual-: of Ilarvaid, class of ’86. It was not,
without persuasion that lie permitted the boys
to remove his coat, waistcoat and shirt, leav
ing pin, in his silk undershirt and drawers.
Stripped tie presented a flue specimen of man
hood He was compactly built, straight hr an
T i-diau, and without an ounce of spare flesh
upon him, while the muscles of his arms and
chest played like those of a Kentucky thor
oughbred. „ , .
When the two men faced each other the con-
t-ast was almost ridiculously striking. The
home lads thought they hud a good tiling. The
club man was at least forty pounds heavier and
three inches taller, and there was the old bull-
doe expression on bis face which he bad al
ways carried to victory. On the other hand,
the little chap, as they called him, wore an ha
bitual sin'le. Time was called in the parlor
facin" on Fifth avenue; the two gentlemen
shook hands, and the collegian said, “Now,
mind Mr , no hard hitting, we re to spar
iust three'rounds and for points only.” The
champion, however, bad his reputation to sus-
■ain and evidently did not intend to spar for
pointe He went in to knock the little fellow
tfut His first rush was ferocious, but the
young Carolinian, stepping lightlv to one side,
delivered two light taps on the cheeks of his
antagonist, thus counting two points It was
irritating, but it could not be helped. Again
and again the club man rained his sledge
hammer blows only to have them parried with
the utmost ease. When time was called the
score stood s x to nothing in favor of the
collegian. The non-partisan members
leathered around to congratulate bun on
bis wonderful skill, for he had not received a
blow. In the second round they came to the
scratch, .me mad and the other coolly 1hntton-
ig his glove. Before the position was fair y
ssutued, however, the club-man seemed te
jse ail control of himself, and, making a sud-
en movement, struck the young Carolinian
full in the face with a cruel blow that nearly
knocked him off his feet. An angry fire now
dashed in the Southerner’s eye. He saw that
the other meant serious business. When the
big fellow again reached out 10 repeat the dose,
quick as a flash the blow was parried; a body
seemed to fairly leap forward, a left arm flew
out like a rocket, and the champion clubman
was knocked down so hard that for fully two
hours the doctors, who were hastily summoned,
found it difficult to restore consciousness. It
was the only hard blow the young fellow had
struck, but he was mad now and meant it to
hurt. When the excitement was over he apol
ogized to the managers of the club. They said
lie had acted just right and could take the bal
cony. His opponent is still weary and con
fined to his house as the result of sudden con
cussion between bis head and the floor. Mr.
B. left for his home in Charleston on Tuesday
night.
Moral: It won’t do to under-rate a stranger.
The Star-Spangled Banner.
The stars and stripes of the present design
adopted in 1818, were first hoisted over the
hall of the House of liepresentatives on tlyc
1:1th of April, 1818, at p. m. Previous to the
adoption of the present flag by Congress, the
number of stripes in the old flag hid been in
creased to eighteen, according to the number
of Slates admitted into the Union, thus de
stroying the beauty and perspicuity of the flag;
and while this order was preserved in sonic,
others contained but nine stripes, as fancy
dictated. (>n the admission of Indiana to the
Union in 181(1, Mr. Peter 1). Wendover, of
Xew York, offered a resolution “that a com
mittee be appointed to inquire into the expedi
ency of altering the flig of the United States ”
A committee was appointed who reported a bill
on the 2nd of January, 1817, but it was not
acted upon. While the committee had the
matter under consideration, Mr. Wendover
called on Captain Keid, who was in Washing
ton at the time, and requested him to form a
design of our flag, so as to represent the in
crease of the States without destroying its
distinctive character, as the committe were
about to increase the stars and stripes to the
whole number of States. Captain Reid recom
mended that the stripes be reduced to the orig
inal number of thirteen States, and to form
the number of stars representing the whole
number of States into one great star in the
Union, adding one star for every new State,
thus giving the signiticant meaning to the flag,
symbolically expressive of “J? plurtbusunum.”
This design of Captain Keid’s was adopted in
committee, but the bill did not pass until the
next Congress, in 1818. The President, oil the
4th of April, 1818, signed “a bill to establish
the flag of the United States.” Captain Ileid,
who commanded the piivateer Gen Armstrong
in the war of 1812, had a flag of the new pat
tern made at his house in Ne w York, by his
wife, assisted by a number of young ladies.
When completed he sent it to Washington,
where it arrived on the Pith of April, and was
hoisted that afternoon to replace a damaged
flag then flying. < Hie of Captain Keid’s daugh
ter's is the wifi of the eloquent Irish born
poet, John Swage, now a judge in New York.
Captain Keid’s son, who now resides in Waslt-
“And Thus Would Wo Have It.”
Caleb Cushing, who left no children, in a
letter whilh lie wrote from Mount Vernon one
Fourth of July, said. “We may regret some
times that Washington left no posterity of bis
own body to continue his name and race, and
to retain and cultivate liis lands. But what
perpetuity of name or estate lia.I Jefferson,
Madison and Jackson? They have immortality,
not in Heaven only, but on earth as well.
Should not that suffice? And as to Washing
ton, what son or grandson him succeedirg
could have continued his fame? Let us be
content to have him stand in his solitary grand- ■
eur. We should not have tolerated a descend- I
ant of his presuming on his blood, nor should
we have been satisfied with one of inferior |
metal. And it is unjust to complain, as we
are too prone to do, of this or that descendant
of his brothers, if, in the possession of a frag
ment of the Mount Vernon estate, he do not
maintain the mansion house and its grounds
in the style of its opulent builder; and still
more unjust to complain of such a collateral
successor, if he do not, as of himself of course
he cannot, provide there a Mecca for the resort
of the people of the United States. But this
misplaced expectation has at length turned to
good, now that, about to pass into the custody
of the ladies of America, Mount Vernon be
comes a central shrine, a national temple, in
which, by the sanctifying influences of the
memory of Washington, to keep burning
bright forever the sacred tires of the love of
home and of country. And thus would we
have it. Siioh a memory, calm, grave, digni-
tied, severe, is well guarded by the fair maid
ens an 1 pure matrons of our land, fit minister
ing priestesses at a holier and loftier than all
the altars of the classio Vtsta.”
Bonfires and Boll-ringing.
Said Cbauncey M. Ilepew to a Tribune re
porter ihe other day: “I am and always have
been a firm believer in what John Adams said
about the celebrat'on of the Fourth of July.
It was said as a prediction, and it lias not been
fullilled because" of the immense number of
people in the country who don’t know any
thing about the lievolutionary War, and never
heard of it! That is all (he more riason why it
should now lie celebrated precisely as .1 >hn
Adau s n oed that it would I believe in the
ringing of lie bells; I believe in the cannon
and the. fireworks—but I would draw the line
at the tov pistol. I regard this way of keeping
Independence Day as a s irt of riinalof liberty,
quite as important for inculcating patriotism
as are the rituals of the, various church de
nominations for incul3iting an i perpetu iting
religion,”
Broad r.nd Narrow Guage Men.
(From the Washington Post.)
The meeting at Gettysburg, and the oilier
military reunions of like character that have
been, and that are proposed to be, held, show
a spirit in such contrast to that of the “palsy -
iug” Fairchild and the vaporing Tuttle that one
is reminded of General Grant’s saying that “if
nobody had been left but soldiers on either side
we should have had peace within a year,” and
of his other sarcastic remark, that “some of
the warriors did not get warmed up to the
fi»ht rill long after it was all over.” It is an
impressive fact that the greatUnion statesmen
of the war—Sumner, Seward, Chase and An
drews—were in this respect of one mind with
General Grant.
The Good Old Ideas.
(Fiom the Baltimore Sun.)
The tendency of enthusiastic celebrations of
the Fourth of July, as illustrated by many of
the speeches made yesterday, must be to re
call the minds of citizens to the men and prin
ciples that controlled in the formation of tho
Federal compact, to the neglect, for a time, of
the newfangled ideas of government that the
events of the last quarter of a century have
brought into vogue. No conservative person
can regret this tendency. It may be very
profitable in the interest of the country, to
skip the perverted teachings of the middle
period, and recur to the ideas of those very
sane, just and honorable people that co-operated
with Washington and Jefferson to found the
Republic.
PERSONAL MENTION.
BOTTLE TREES OF NORTH AUSTRALIA.
Bottle Trees of North Aus
tralia.
The above illustration of the bottio trees of
Queenslitnd, Northern Australia, will attract
attention. These tales grow upon a sandy
soil, in which the Eucalypti and other gigantic
myrtles and acacias flourish. The soil, judg
ing by the vegetation described, is poor.
These trees are rf the order sterculiaceie—
named Delnhecliea rupeslris by the botanists,
and called b ittle trees by ilie natives. The in
terior structure of the tree abounds in a mucii-
a re resembling gum tragacanth, according to
Dr. George IWmett. of New, South Wales,
opportunity of observing were nine, varying in
height from thirty-five to sixty-five feet, with
huge branches at the summit. The foiiage is
composed of narrow-stalked en'rie and lanceo
late leaves, four to seven inches in length.
Others on the same tree and stem are digi
tated, the digitations varying from five to
seven sessile leaflets of a form similar to the
simple leaves. The flowers are in panicles
and insignificant in appearance; the bark is
rugged, and there is no distinction of foliage
to be observed either in young or old trees.
The circumferance of the trees measured seven
feet from the base, was from twelve to thirty-
live feet. The trees grow very luxuriantly on
a soil of sand or sandy loam. They are often
tapped by stockmen, who procure from them
a glutinous and refreshing beverage. When
of large size they are scooped mu and form ex
cellent canoes. It is stated that an excellent
kind of jam or jelly is made from the sap.
Gen. Jackson’s Death Bed.
Gen. Jackson’s death bed at tho Hermitage,
one bright Sabbath morning in June, 1815, is
described as a scene never to be forgotten. He
bade them all adieu in the tenderest terms, and
enjoined them, old and young, white and black,
to meet him in heaven. All were in tears, and
when lie had breathed bis last the outburst of
grief was irrepressible. The congregation at
the little Presbyterian church on the planta
tion, which the general had built to gratify his
deceased wife, the morning service over, came
flocking to the mansion as his eyes were clos
ing and added their he wailinent to the general
sorrow.
Shortly after this mournful event a lady
friend of the family encountered an old servant
in the kitchen, who was sobbing as though her
heart would break. “< He missus is gone,” she
brokenly said to the lady, “and now ole massa
is gone; dey’s all gone, and dey was our bes
frens. And ole massa, not satisfied with
leachin’us how to live, lias now tciclied us
ho v to die.”—Ken: Perley Poore's Letter.
The Reconstructed South.
It is very pleasant to observe that, in the
discussiouof the liat'le Hug question, almost
every expression from the South is good-natur
ed. The South does not want the flags; they
are all right where they are; they are not worth
a hard word or thought. This is the universal
sentiment from the .S oith, and it shames the
fervid eloquence of a few Northern politicians,
with thei— theatrical curses and desperate ap
peals. Indeed, tiie discussion has not dis
turbed the era of good feeling, but has con
firmed it, by showing how far the South has
left the war behind in its new record of pro
press, and how easy it feels in its natural rela
tions under the old flag.—Boston Ihr it l.
In His Arms.
“It was just like a thunderbolt/’ said Ruth,
with a set, almost hard, expression on her
young face, as of a grief too bitter to bear * itli
submission, and too deep forte;.rs.
“Yes, my dear child, it was,” said h'V aunt,
a gentle-voiced woman, with bands of Mnooth,
half-gray hair over her quiet face. “But the
thunderbolts are all held by the Father’s own
hand, and His hand is as genth as it is strong.
He never sends his bolts am*). 11 is children
without directing them in le.tue • ->t love."
Ruth made a little movement of half impa
tience.-
‘.‘It would be hard to conQfv " ‘ me, A’uit
Faith, thaHhero was any -ne taking
Glim AlUlt T’TtTlh
patted her face gently, longin ^ T^ay the luir.g
that might be of help to the s growing heart.
“I mean good for me,” weapon Ruth, with
a little tremble in her voice. • Of course it is
all best for her. But she would never have
chosen to leave. She would have thought it
good to stay.”
“But tho Master doesn’t allow His children
to choose for themselves, dear. It must be as
He thinks best. Isn’t it enough to know that
what He orders is surely best.?”
“Christians always say so, and I suppose it
ought to be. But it doesn’t seem that way to
WASHINGTON CITY.
Reminiscences of Distin
guished Public Men.
Incidents Which Have Transpired at
the National Capitol.
Webster and Wentworth.
In the Twenty-Ninth Congress, when tha'
gigantic annual steal, the river and harbor bill,
first «ttV'>ia*l gigantic oroportfem*. ’ > l ’h —nr'--
t r _irscnOTpc,'.’Ttpf»n wur.,.. nc
hoped to secure his re-election, and among
liiem “Long John” Wentworth of Illinois ad-
| vocatad nv appropriation of 812,000 for the
improvement of the harbor at Little Fort, now
called Waukegan, on Lake Michigan. The bill
■ had been loaded down with amendments by
1 the Senate, and John Davis, from the conm.it-
I tee on commerce, endeavored to lighten it by
| striking out some of the items, among them
the appropriation for the improvement of the
harbor at Little Fort.
Long John” was in trouble when he learned
lean man, considerably over six feet in height,
with stooping shoulders, long pendulous arms,
terminating in hands of extraordinary dimen
sions, which, however, were far exceeded in
proportion by his feet. He was dressed in an
ill-titling, wrinkled suit of black, which put
one in mind of an undertaker’s uniform at a
funeral; round his neck a rope of black silk
was knotted in a large bulb with flying ends
projecting beyond the collar of his coat; his
turned-down shirt collar disclosed a sinewy,
muscular, yellow neck, and above th?t, nestling
in a great black mass of hair, bristling and
compact like a ruff of mourning pins, rose the
strange, quaint face and head, covered with
its thatch of wild, republican h^ir, of Presi
dent Lincoln. The impression produced by
‘ d
What the People Are Doing
and Saying.
Last year 770 women attended lectures in
the Russian universities.
Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, of London, has just
celebrated his 5 Id birthday.
There are six editors in Boston 80 years ol
age, who are engaged in active work.
Judge G. II. Nixon died at his home in Law-
renceburg, Tenn., last monday, July 4th.
A monument has been erected by the heirs
of Leopold von Ranke at the great historian’s
birthplace.
Queen Kapiolani, of the Sandwich Islands,
arrived in New York from Europe on the 11th,
homeward bound.
A subscription has been opened at Fort
Worth to erect a monument to the late Col.
Sidney I*. Cunningham.
Frederick Douglass, who has been making
an extensive tour of Europe, is expected to re
turn to this country in September.
Lawrence Barrett, Edwin Booth and T. B.
Aldrich will cruise along the Maine coast in a
steam yacht later in the summer.
The young American violinist, Hettie Car
penter, uses a bow which was a gift to the
young prodigy from Emperor William.
Miss Adelaide Johnson, of St. Louis, has re
ceived an order from Mrs. Logan to make
busts in marble of herself and Gen. Logan.
William Walter Phelps’ son, John J., the
skipper of the yacht Brunhiide, has just com
pleted a two years’ cruise around the world.
Mrs. Grant has so far received from the pub
lishers of Gen. Grant’s Memoirs nearly $400,-
000. The work has a constant and large sale.
Count di Mariflori, son of King Victor Em
manuel, is one of the greatest wine makers of
Italy. Ilis vineyards at Lucca cover nearly
7,000 acres.
W. W. Corcoran is slowly growing stronger
at Deer park, but he will in all probability nev
er walk again. His mental faculties are as
vigorous as ever.
Francis Roudo, the Wisconsin pioneer, who
died last week at Fond duLac, aged more than
100 years, is said to have left 454 descendants
in three generations.
Mrs. Mackay has presented her tiny grand
son, Prince Colonna, with a magnificent dress
ing case, all the appointments being gold, rich
ly entrusted with jewels.
When Mr. Edison uses the telephone he
fairly shocks whoever receives his message by
talking very loudly. Being slightly deaf he
does not apprecia.e the high pitch of his own
voice.
Prof. Crouch, of Baltimore, who composed
“Kathleen Mavourneer” while walking along
the banks of the Thames, has been made Fel
low of the London Society of Arts, Letters and
Sciences.
! Gen. Mahone, of Virginia, Ggn. L F. But-
I the size of his extrenv oies, and 'by his flap ler,‘ of Massachusetts, and Senator Plumb arfc
'll } »“> f „ {uea/io.it si h:j uc Crev-
1 njovtnfby the appearwr.ee of KintKiuess, sagac- ' sole, Lumber and Construction Coino:mv, of
A Wasbiugtoniau Relic.
An old trunk was sold at auction in Wash
ington for 25 cents. It was filled with rubb sh,
and the buyer sent it home, intending to have
it cleaned * ut. When this was done, the trunk
was found to contain a solid silver shield,
which appears to have been on the coffin of
George Washington. The plate from the cas-
, ket has been missing ever since the attempt
! to steal the reinaius in 1837.
FROM THE SHOULDER.
Canon Wilberforce Makes a Few Re
marks About Prohibition.
New York, June 20.—Canon Wilberforce,
of England, in his remarks at Cliickering Hall
on total abslinence last evening, said: “There
must be no compromise. There must be no
high license. There must be absolute, univer
sal prohibition. Talk about destroying an in
dustry ! In Scotland there is an establishment
that turns .€1,500,000 annually, and it employs
only 150 men. In the iron manufactoiies at
Sheffield the same capital would give work to
1,500 men. and in cotton manufactures it would
employ 11,000 persons. Any man who says
prohibition would hurt industry lies under the
greatest mistake of his life. [Applause.] I
don’t know anythirg about your politics here,
and I don’t know whether I am treadiug on
dangerous ground or not., but I beseech you not
to let this cause become a political question.
Don’t place it at the mercy of political in
trigues, and don’t have any party division up
on the question. Push it as a question outside
of politics.”
I that his appropriation was to be opposed in the
I Senate, and he went to the Senate Chamber
» .tsiH A,„.t Voith mil- I on the last day of the discussion on the bill
ingterougb who with h heavy lean, Neither of the senators
™ “robbery outside. “There | “-‘of S.EK* and ffkETZS
hint, exhibiting a large map of the locality,
and pledging his reputation as a civil engineer
that the appropiation would be wasted if ex
pended.
While Gen. Dix was speaking, Mr. Webster
came along where Mr. Wentworth was sitting,
in the rear of tho senators’ desks, and said:
“Wentworth, what is Dix making all this ado
about?” The reply was promptly made: “Mr.
Webster, since your trip around Lite lakes from
Chicago in 1837, we have had b it few appro
priations for ttc old harlors and none for new
ones. This place is half way between Chicago
and Milwaukee, and we want a harbor of ref
uge there.” “I see the point,” said Mr. Web
ster, and he went at once to his seat.
When Gen. Dix had concluded an I rolled
up bis map, Mr. Webster arose and remarked,
in liis usual impressive manner, that what lie
might say on the subject could add but little
! to the conclusive argument of the senator from
New York in favor of the appropriation for
Little Fort harbor. Tne senator had endeav
ored to show that there was no harbor there,
and so the House must have thought when i’,
made an appropriation to construct one there.
Upon what did the senator front Now York
found his doctrine, that, when God created the
world, or even Lake Michigan, lie left nothing
for man t) do? The curse pronounced upon
our first parents for their transgression was in
entire conflict with at y such doctrine. He did
not believe that the Constitution of the United
States wis such a narrowly contracted instru
ment that it would not permit, the construction
of a harbor ween the necessities of commerce
required it.
Mr. Webster proceeded to foreshadow the
growth of the West, its abundant products and
its gigantic commerce, indulging in predictions
which have been more than realized since. He
then described a steamer starting from Chica
go, laden to the guards with freight and pas-
I setgers, and caught in a storm, with no habor
I of refuge at hand. lie depicted the whistling
| of tho winds, the dashing waves, the creaking
timbers and the shrieking passengers, and, as
j he sent the steamer to the bottom with all on
j board, he exclaimed: “What but a merciful
Providence saved me from such a catastrophe
when I was a passenger on a Lake Michigan
steamer in 1837' At such a dire disaster could
the senator from New York derive any conso
lation that his narrow interpretation of tho
Constitution had bern maintained?”
The argument was unanswerable, and when
tbe yeas and nays were called on the motion
to stiiae out tbe Little Fort item, it waB lost,
by a vote of twenty-three yeas against twenty-
nine nays. Benton, who was an advocate of
internal improvements, said that Mr. Web
ster's remarks were the greatest speech on so
Email a matter that he had ever heard. But
the great expounder was always ready to serve
anyone of New Hampshire birth. lie had
known Mr. Wentworth’s father, and “Long
John” was a graduate of his alma mater, Dart
mouth.
1-resident Folk vetoed the river and harbor
hill, futile Fort item and all, as unconstitu
tional. When, years afterward, Gen. Dix vis
ited Chicago to deliver the oration at the lay
ing of the corner atone of the Douglas menu
uient, Mr. Wentworth called his attention to
the magnificent breakwaters whi:h formed an
artificial harbor, Gen. Dix complimented
them, adding: “They ought to protect you
from any storm, even from such a one as Web
ster manufactured for you in 184(1.”
Lincoln Graphically Sketched.
Dr. Russell, the correspondet t of the Lon
don Times, who so graphically sketched the re
treat from Bull Run, gave the following carica
ture pen-portrait of Abraham Lincoln: “Soon
afterwards,” wrote Russell, “there entered,
with a shambling, unsteady gait, a tail, lank,
hete.”
The clouds were gathering thicker and dark
er in the western sky, but in the east the sun
still shone, so that the streaks of lightning
were hardly visible, and the rolling thunder
was still very far away. But the cloud rose
higher and h.gber, and the puffs of wind which
foretold the approaching storm began to stir
the leaves.
"Come, come, child,” again called her aunt.
But the naugbly little one still lingered, now
holding out Iter small hand to catch the drops
which were beginning to fall.
“Hetty!” Tne call was sterner. Whether
it would have been heeded or not can never be
known; for at the mutt. if. came a blinding
flash of lightning, wind, seined to wrap every
thing in its appalling brightness. The deaf
ening thunder crash came almost in the same
second, drowning the cry of terror with which
the little girl rushed into the house, and
pale cheeks and trembling limbs, sought slte 1 -
ter in tbe loving arms which were folded about
her.
“Don’t be afraid, little one. Your Father
is caring for you all the time.”
“But it might Lave killed nte," said the
brightened child. “Lightning does kill people
sometimes.”
“And if it had, wouldn’t you be in your
Father’s care still?"
Ruth looked out of the window until the
storm had passed, and little Hetty had again
ventured into the sunshine. Her aunt came
and put her arms around her.
“Hetty did not mind me when I called her
in from the storm, until the thunderholt drove
her into my arms ”
And Kuril looked into the kind eyes with a
softened expression in her own; for she had
found a new meaning—a lesson of love in tbe
thunderbolt.—Sunday School Titi.es.
The Crown of England.
[l’.iiladelpbia Call ]
There are 21) diamonds around tbe cir-
clo worth 87,br-fl each - - - -§150,000
Two large central diamonds §10 000 ea. 20,000 1
Fifty-four smaller diamonds, placed at
the angle of the former, §500 each - 27,000 1
Four crosses, each composed of 25 dia
monds ----- - - -
Four large diamouds on top of cross -
Twelve diamonds contained in tho
fleur de lis ------- -
Kighteen smaller d,amends in tbe same
l’earls, diamonds, etc., upon the arches
aud crosses - -- -- -- -
One hundred and forty-one small dia
monds ---------
Twelitj -six diamonds in the tipper cross
Two circles of pearls about, the rim -
The cost of the stones in the crown, exclu
sive of the metal, is, therefore, nearly $500,-
0OO.
60,000
20.000 I
50.000
10.000
50.000
25.000
15.000
15,000
Of the men of New Y'ork who can justly lay
claim to success in this life, the following do
not drink, smoke or chew: Cbauncey M. De
pew, Jay Gould, Russell Sage, Cyrus VV. Field,
Henry C.ews, Stephen V. White, Commodore
Bateman, Collector Magone, Washington E
Connor and John D. Slayback. Many others
of almost equal influence use tobacco but do
not drink.
The Alexandria and Washington railroad
was sold at public auction, at Alexandria, and
was bought by the l’ennsyluanit. road for $100,-
ooo.
Luther Beecher, one of the wealthiest men
in Detroit, has promised the Citizen’s Associa
tion of that city $200,0C0 to be applied to the
erection of a permanent exposition building.
[■Pei .
ity and the awkward bonhomie o; his face; the
mouth is absolutely prodigious; tliu lips, strag
gling an:! extending almost from one line of
black beard to the other, are only kept in or
der by two deep furrows from the nostril to
the chin; the nose, itself a prominent organ,
stands o it from the face with an inquiring,
anxious air, as though it was sniffing for some
good thing in the wind; the eyes dark, full of
an expression which almost atnmiuts to ten
derness; and above them projects the shaggy
brow, running into the small, hard frontal
space, the development of which can scarcely
be estimated accurately, owing to irregular
flicks of thick hair."
Cen. Taylor and Ampudia.
Gen. Taylor, when lie won his victories in
Mexico, did not look much like a hero. He
was somewhat below medium height, was
short and stout, in fact, was what one wouli
call dumpy, lie wore a straw hat, an old tine t
duster that looked as if it might not have been
washed since he fought the battle of l’alo Alto.
His pants were large and loose, and he wore
coarse soldier shoes. Gen. Shields used to
narrate an interesting incident that occurred
one day when he was a guest of “Old Rough
and Ready’s” table at dinner, with Col. Bliss
and a son of Henry Clay. Just as they were
finishing dinner, a guard filed in with two
i prisoners that had just been arrested. The
| men had been for two days peddling oranges
j through the camp, aud by accident one of the
i soldiers had discovered that under their coarse
[ garments they wore the finest linen. So the
j two were arrested, and carefully concealed
about their persons had been found papers
! containing very valuable information concern
ing the American camp, the number of men in
arras and the best points for at .ack. These
I papers were handed over to Gen. Taylor, and
after read ng them be passed them to the rest
| of us. They were unmistakable evidences
} that ilia two men were spies. “Call my inter-
i pretet!” demanded Gen. Taylor. The general
could not speak Spanish. Lite only Spanish
word he knew was “rnmos," and he used i> on
I all occasions. Whenever he invited the Mexi
cans into camp, lie said “mmos,” and when
ever he ordered them out of camp, lie said
‘ vamos.”
Tne interpreter having arrived, Gen. Taylor
said to him: “Ask them who they are!” The
prisoners replied that they w-1e Mexican f<>!-
tiiers. “Humph!—bought so. Now ask them
what their rank is.” They looked at each
other a moment, as much as to say, “We might
as well tell the truth," ami answered that they
were colonels, one of them chief of the engineer
corps at Monterey. “Aha," said Gen. Taylor,
“so much the worse. Aud n o v a :k them who
sent them here.” They replied that they had
come io obedience to the orders of Gen. Am
pudia. “Gen Ampudia sent you, did he?"
roared old “Rough and Ready.” “ Well, I say
Gen. Ampudia is no gentleman, or he would
not have sent: you here upon this sneaking er
rand, to spy about our camp I sav he is no
gentleman!" Tho prisoners had just begun to
understand that tbe man whom they were be
fore was the American general, and when he
uttered this hasty opinion of their chief they
bowed very low. Gen. Taylor asked them if
tlity knew the penalty of their crime—if they
knew that, as spies, they ought to be shot. At
once the prisoners drew themselves lip proudly
and said they knew the penalty, but if they
were to die they trusted they would meet their
fate like brave men. Their bravery pleased
the bluff old soldier, aud after a moment’s
thought he said: “Well, I’ll let you go this
time; but if I ever catch you spying here again
I’ll have you shot, shot like Mexican dogs!
Now, tamos! tamos! And tell Gen. Ampudia
that when he wants to find out about our army,
he may send a delegation of his officers here
and I will escort them about myself and order
a review of the troops for their especial bene
fit.’’ The liberated men scampered off briskly.
Shortly after that Gan. Taylor, at the head of
his victorious legions, marched in and took
possession of Monterey.
General Bragg, tbe old commander of the
“Iron brigade,” says that the real soldiers
don’t c ire what is done with the captured flags,
and tells about a professional veteran in Wis
consin who “was going to palsy his arm, or
fight again, or something of that kind before
tbe flag captured by the Sixth Wisconsin from
the Third Mississippi should be returned;” and,
4, d—n him!” adds the General, “he left the war
two years before we captured that flag.”
Fernandiua.
The Rev. Wm. M. Turner, for many years
principal of the American Asylum for tne deaf
and dumb, and one of Yale’s oldest living grad
uates, died in Hartford, Conn., on the 11th
inst., aged 87.
Perhaps the most successful venture in au
thorship ever made in this country was that of
General Grant. It is stated that the gross re
ceipts from the sale of Ills memoirs have reach
ed odo.ooo.
l’rivy Counsellor Dr. vou Dechend, of tha
University of Bonn, has been elected a fore gu
corresponding member of the Paris Acaiemy
of Sciences. lie is the first German thus elect
ed for many years.
Harriet Beecher Stowe is aging very percep
tibly. She lives a quiet life in her modest
home at Hartford. To a friend she said re
cently: “No, I write no more. I have done, I
have done, I have done.”
Portland, Me., has a bank cashier who has
been in one bank fifty-three straight years.
People who ask why he hasn’t made a grab
and run away, are informed that tbe money
in that bauk is counted every night.
Rev. Dr. W. C. Winslow, of Bos'.ou. has
been made an honorary member of the Royal
Arcbte tlogical Society of Great Britain on ac
count of hts distinguished services in connec
tion with the Egyptian exploration enterprise.
It is rumored in Washington that the Pope
will bestow the Golden Rose on Miss Caldwell,
who gave .$300,000 to the new Catholic univer
sity. The wife of General Sherman is the only
American woman who has hitherto received
the Golden Rose.
P. T. Barnaul celebrated the 77th anniversa
ry of his birth on '.he Fourth of July at Wald-
mere, where he gave a clam bake to about
thirty of his children, grandchildren and great
grandchildren. Mr. B iruuui appears 1 ’.o be
iu remarkably good health.
The Princess of Wales is this year for the
first time an exhibitor at the Royal S iciety of
Painters in Water Colors. She sends a dainty
picture of Windsor, seen from the river. Mr.
Ruskin sends two pictures, one painted as
lately as February last.
The Empress Elizabeth of Austria has joined
the baud of royal authors. Wuile visiting Ma-
hadia she went to the summit of the peak
called in her honor, Elizaoetheu Hohe, and
was on the spot inspired to write a poetn on
the smallness aud vanity of earth 1 }- dignities.
Mias Alice Freeman, President of Weltesley
College, has received 580 applications from
young women wishing to enter Wellesley next
year. There are. only l'H) places possible it
present. Miss Freeman will only oe absent
one week during ilie summer Iron, the college.
The eloquent Indian woman “Bright Eyes,”
who is now Mrs. Tibbies, is making arrange
ments for a series of lecturers in London on
the wrongs of the North American Italians.
She has well chosen her time. Tae Wild West
show has awakened interest in England in the
red men of this continent.
Walter Murray Gibson, ex-l’remier of the
Hawaiian kingdom, is a matt over 70 years of
age, but hale aud vigorous. Miss Howard St.
Clair, a handsome California book agent,
claims that tbe Premier nas failed to keep a
nromise of marriage, and that the sum of $100,-
000 will j ist about quiet the throbhoigs oi her
more or less broken heart.
Senator Farwell is going to Europe in August
on business, lie and Col. Abner 1'ayior, of
Chicago, are at the head of a mammoth land
enterprise in Texas, and it is on affairs con
nected therewith that Mr. Farweil is going
abroad. Col. Taylor is spending tbe summer
over there on the same business. They will
come home together in October.
Mrs. Nancy Culpepper celebrated her 103d
birthday, at her home about tight miles e*.-t
of Starksville, Miss., on the !V,h instant. She
was b>rn iu Nash county, N. C., and was one
of the first settlers of Oktibbeha county. Her
general health is good, and she is now catling
her third set of teeth. She does not wear
specks, but can thread a cambric needle with
perfect ease.
Grand Duke Michael, of Russia, recently
asked to be allowed to eater into competition
with Miss Annie Oakley at the Wiid West
Show, at London, which permission nas at
once accorded But, although the Prince made
a fairly good score, it showed out piorty in
comparison with that of his fair competitor,
and he retired from the contest abashed but
firmly convinced of the superiority of Ameri
can markswomon over Russian amateur shot*.