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VOLUME XIII.—NUMBER 622.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 15, 1887.
PRICE: $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE.
WASHINGTON CITY,
Reminiscences of Distin
guished Public Men.
Incidents Which Have Transpired at
the national Capitol.
* Tippecanoe and Tyler Too.”
When almost every one was enlisting under
the presidential banner of Harrison, Mr. Grun
dy of Tennessee made an earnest speech in
the Senate. He endeavored to recall the de
serting Democrats to their Democratic stand
ard. He said that the Whigs were sure to be
defeated at the next election, and that he
wonld expect to hear, in the account of the
battle, of the despairing cry:
Charge, Crittenden, charge! on, Talmadge, onl
Were the last words of Harrison.
Mr. Talmadge replied to Mr. Grundy, and
in conclusion said: ‘‘The honoraablo gentlemn
has undertaken to predict the discomfiture of
the opposition at the next election. He has
not been content to do it in humble prose, hut,
under the inspiration of his theme has turned
poet, and has regaled us, after a long incuba
tion, with a parody upon a couplet from Mar-
micn. To be sure the measure was not very
accurate, but that was not the fault of the sen
atorial poet, but of the ut poetic names of the
senator from Kentucky and myself. Now,”
said Mr. Ta’midge, “the venerable and hon
orable poet will, no doubt, excuse me, if I
mount my Pegasus and try my skill at parody,
impromptu. He will perceive that I labor un
der the same difficulty that he did; and al
though the measure may be as halting as his
own, there will be more euphony in the names.
I tell the honorable senator, then, that in the
account of the great battle to be fought in
November next by the people against the min
ion of power, instead of the despairing lan
guage of his muse, he will hear of the inspir
ing notes of victory:
“Fly, Van Buren, fly! run, Grundy, run!
Were the first words of Harrison.”
Mr. Grundy said he was pleased to see the
honorable senator from New York in such a
happy humor, and he thought they were both
in a fair way to have their personal difficul
ties satisfactorily adjusted. He would, there
fore, propose that the account of wit aud poe
try be considered balanced (Mr. Talmadge
nodded assent). “Bat,” stated Mr. Grundy,
“I must add one or two more remarks before I
close. The honorable senator from New York,
ia his reply to me, has said that he had not
left his party, bat that the party had left him.
Now, I know of no better way to judge a man
than by the company he keeps; and I find the
senator from Ne w York, who formerly acted
withu«, now associated, with the honorable
senator from Massachusetts, Mr. Webster,
who I have generally found in opposition to
myself, and who has been pretty uniform, too,
in his opposition. Hence, 1 conclude that it
is the senator from New York that has chang
ed, and not myself and my friends.”
Mr. Talmadge rejoined that if association
was the correct role by which to determine
the changes or the principles of men, he coaid
prove, as conclusively as a demonstration in
Euclid, that the change was on the part of the
senator from Tennessee and his friends.
“Those gentlemen," said he, “are now asso
ciated with the honorable senator from South
Carolina, Mr. Calhoun, in support of all the
leading measures of the administration, and
without whose aid they could not sustain
themselves for a single hour. Now,” said Mr.
Tallmadge, “I will prove by the honorable
senator from South Carolina that he never
changed in his life; ergo, the party has left me,
and not I the parly—quod eral demonstran
dum."
Taylor as a Politician.
President Taylor was probably the only
President to whom the presidency was an un
coveted and unsought-for boon. Mrs. Taylor
was so averse to public life that it was said she
prayed every night during bis candidacy for
his defeat, and when told of his election, said:
“Why could they not let us alone! we are so
happy here. Why do they want to drag us to
Washington?’’ Who that ever saw Gen.
Taylor at a levee could forget him? He
grasped every new comer cordially by the
hand, and sainted all, high and low, old maids,
brides, young girls, all, with the words, “Glad
to see you! Glad to see you! How’s your
family? Hope the children are all well.” His
greeting was almost equal to Rip’s toast:
“Here’s to you and y'ur family. May you
live long and prosper!” He hardiy ever
opened his month without making a mistake,
and people laughed heartily. Still they loved
him, trusted his judgment, atd knew his heart
and hand were true as steel; and when he died
the whole nat on was a mourner at his grave.
When Major Done Ison returned from Europe
he introduced him at a dinner party as, “My
friend Donetson, just from Berlin, Austria.”
During his candidacy Col. W., a Slate elec or,
after discussing several public topics, asked
him whtt were his views on the tariff. “The
what, J ,ck?” said Gen. Taylor, who stuttered
dreadfully. “The tariff, General,” said Col.
W. “Why ! what’s that?’’ “I’s a sine qua
non," said Col. W., who was one of the
greatest wags that ever lived, “that the people
are much excited about now.” “A sine qua
non," said Gan Taylor, slowly; “I beiieve,
Jack, I saw one in Mexico, but I forget what it
looks like; and I’ll be blamed if I have any
views on the tariff.”
Sumner, the Law Student.
Charles Sumner first visited Washington
early in 1834, and was in attendance at the
federal metropolis for a month. The names
of some of those who then figured in debates
at the Capitol have come down to us as having
filled important places in our public history.
The impassioned, fasc.nating eloquence of
Clay, the close reasoning of CalhouD, the pon
derous arguments of Webster, the mellifluous
sentences of Preston, and the profound mental
powers of Silas Wright made a strong impres
sion upon the young law student. But he was
not favorably impressed by what be saw of po
litical life. Writing to his father just prior to
his departure for Boston, he said: “Calhoun
has given notice to day that he will speak to
morrow on Mr. Webster’s bank bill. I shall
probably hear him, and he will be the last man
I shall ever hear speak in Washington. I
probably shall never come here again. I have
little or no desire to come again in any capaci
ty. Nothing that I have seen of p«litics has
made me iook upon them with any feeling oth
er than loathing. The more I see of them the
more I love law, which, I feel, will give me an
honorable livelihood.”
Paris alone is sa d to consume 190,000,000 of
oysters m the eight months that the season
lasts.
The first English newpaper was the English
ifercury, issued in the reign-of Queen Eliza
beth, aud wasjin the shape ot a pamphlet. The
Gazetta, of Venice, was the original model of
the modern newspaper.
Judge Cowing, ot New York, in sentencing a
yonng thief to the Slate prison the other day,
said that if he oould send the culprit to a whip-
pii g post and have him given twenty lashes it
would have much better effect than years of
imprisonment Boy thieves who go to prison
come out men thieves; that ia all.
PEBSONAL MENTION
What the People Are Doing
and Saying.
George Bancroft, the historian, was 87 Octo
ber 4th.
The Queen of Sweden is slowly dying. Her
majesty is 61 3 ears of age.
country, obligingly says that the United States
is certainly the earthly paradise of women.
Miss Mailer, a member of the London School
Board, who is at present traveling in this
Oliver Wendell Holmes says that English
people ara taller, stouter and healthier than
New Englanders.
Gen Sheridan says the people who are nom
inating him for the Presidency are fair game
for the fool-killer.
Sunset Cox’s book, “Isles of the Princes,”
has just issued. His “Diversions of a Diplo
mat” will appear in November.
Rev. Dr. Joseph Parker and wife, of Lon
don, have been guests of Joseph Cook the past
week at Cliff Seat, his estate at Ticondaroga.
The Sultan of Turkey proposes to visit Lm-
don and Berlin in order to have personal inter
views with Queen Victoria and the Emperor
Wiliiam.
Senator and Mrs. Hearst have just given a
handsome sum to a Hebrew congregation in
San Francisco toward the erection ot a new
synagogue.
London critics say that if Mary Arderson
"could only act as well as she attitudin zas she
would be greater than Rachel.” Tnat ia a
large “if.”
Miss Octavia Hill, of Boston, recently enter
tained all her tenants, to the number of 700 or
800. Miss Hill will bo remembered as the pio
neer in house tenement reform.
Marie Antoinette’s famous necklace of
pearls, which went around her neck in sixteen
strings, is now for sale at the shep of one of
the principal jewellers in Berlin.
Peter McIntyre, a sprinter of San Francisco,
was badly burned in a fire at Central Park
last May. One hundred and sixty friends vol
unteered skin for grafting purposes. McIntyre
is getting well.
The oldest known paintings in England are
portraits of Cnaucer aud Henry IV. The por
trait of the formur is on a panel, and was ex
ecuted about 1380; that ol Henry IV. was
painted in 1405.
Manuel Barriant and wife, of Mitamoras,
111, recently celebrated the eightieth anniver
sary of their wedding day. The husband is
in the best of health at 102, and his wife enjoys
the same blessing at 90.
The Vanderbilt holdings of United States
bonds, the brokers say, are all registered 4 per
cents., and amount to $40,000,000. The late
William H. Vanderbilt’s original purchase was
$50,000,000 worth at par.
Miss Charlotte Morrill, who has been spoken
of in various quarters as a possible successor
to Miss Freeman as President of Wellesley, is
Secretary of the Adelphi Academy, of Brook -
If n, a preparatory school of high standing.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Thomp
son, who is Acting Secretary in Mr. Fairchild’s
absence, is mentioned as one of the handsom
est members of the Government. He has a
young face, snow-white hair and a graceful
manner.
The new Thiers monument is by far the fin
est in Pere la Chaise. It is a chapel, and
above the entrance it bears in letters of gold
on a tablet of green porphyry the legend cho
sen by Thiers himself, “Patriam dilexit. Ter-
itatem coluit.”
Mr. Mynall, the London photographer,
whose new method of coloring photographs has
created a decided stir in the scientific world,
received his training as an experimental and
analytical chemist in this country prior to his
settling in London, forty years ago.
On days when Alfred de Cordova, the New
York broker, doesn’t want to leave his com
fortable home near North Branch, N. J., car
rier pigeons, sent ont by his clerks, bring him
hourly quotations. The distance is 43 miles,
but the birds never get lost.
That Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes is the model
of the courteous traveler is the opinion of the
London Daily News, and it adds: “All future
English writers on the Unitel States ought to
resolve not to be outdone by him in this quality,
however much they may be obliged to fall short
of him in others.
Gen. Belknap has a son who some years ago
wanted to take a clerkship in a Washington de
partment, but his father begged him to do any
thing else that was honorable. He hired him
self to a railway company as a brakeman, and
stuck to it. He has just been appointed Assist
ant Superintendent of the road.
Carl Schnrz is said to be permanently crip
pled as the result of the fall on the ice last
winter, that was at first believed to be only a
strain. He has abandoned politics as too ex
citing for his invalid condition, and he amuses
himself with considering the Sbakspeare-Ba-
con puzzle and reading favorite authors.
Congressman Scott, of Pennsylvania, ac
cording to a Washington correspondent, re
cently laid in a mammoth stock of Havana ci
gars. On trial he found them of such delic
ious fl ivor that he thought President Cleveland
would appreciate them, so he expressed 10,006
of the choice weeds to the White Hoase.
Mr. James Hutchinson, who died at Paw
tucket, R. I , the 8.h inst., at the age of eighty -
eight years, was the ol lest past most eminent
grand master of the Grand Commandery of
Knights Templars of Massachusetts and Rhode
Island. He was born in Scotland, March 23,
1790, and came to this country when young.
Miss Catherine Ranger, of Hamilton, Ont,
is regarded as the feminine champion of the
cause of labor. For three years she has talk
ed and written at every opportunity upon this
theme, and one day last weak the Knights of
Labor of Hamilton manifested their apprecia
tion by presenting her with a memorial and a
gold watch.
It is quite a compliment to the retiring wife
of Gen. Phil Sheridan to say that Mrs. Sheri
dan was regarded as one of the handsomest
women seen at the Philadelphia celebration.
Her eyes are large, brown, aud beautiful, and
she has a special fancy for brown costumes
which are an admirable match for those at
tractive eyes.
Joshua Lassell, born on Lassell’s Island,
Islesboroogh, Me., is over ninety-two years old,
and his wife is over ninety. The old gentle
man is of French descent, and was a soldier in
the war of 1812, for which he gets a pension of
$8 a month. He has a fall set of teeth, all
sound, while his grandson, who is a man grown,
hasn’t a single tooth in his head.
Hong Yen Chang is the lull name of the
ambitious young Chinaman whom the New
York Legislature, by special enactment last
May, permitted the courts to admit to practice
as an attorney and connsellor-at-law, despite
the fact that he is not a citizen of the United
States. The Chinese of New York have long
desired a legal champion of their own race.
John C. Hunter, of Ballykelly, Derry, laud
ed at Castle Garden recently from the steam
ship Anchona. He says he expects to realize
a large sum of money lrom an invention which
he claims simplifies the science of navigation,
and which he says is now owned by the Unt
ied States Government. He says he sold his
invention for $150 at Bell's patent office in
London, and it was afterward sold for £1,706
to a Russian engineer, who dir posed ot it to
Engineer Ferry of the United States Navy for
£30,000. Hunter claims to be a graduate ot
Queens’ College, Belfast.
[J. B. McMaster in Century
••* i C*i lb*.-ommirtss to-^rift,a Ytooatofc’JFp
were Gorham, Ellsworth, James Wilson, Ran
dolph and John Rutledge. Of their doings
nothing is known save that, when the conven
tion assembled on the morning of Monday,
Aug. 6, each member was given a copy of a
draft of the Constitution, neatly printed on a
broadside. The type was large. The spaces
between the lines were wide, that interlinea
tions might be made, and the margin broad for
noting amendments. The draft provided that
the President should be chosen by Congress,
should hold office daring seven years, and
should never, in the whole course of his life,
have mors than one term; the Constitution in
tends the President shall be chosen by a body
of electors, and puts uo limit to the number of
his terms. By the draft he was given a title
and was to be called “His Excellency;” the
Constitution provides for nothing of this kind.
By the draft he could be impeached by the
House of Representatives; but must be tried
before the Supreme Court; by the Constitution
be must, when impeached, be tried before the
Senate. By the one he need not be a native of
the United States; by the other he must. The
one made no provision for Vice-President, the
other does. The one provided that members
of Congress should be paid by the States that
sent them; the other provides that they shall
be paid out of the national treasury. In the
draft, Senators were forbidden to hold office
under the authority of the United States till
they had been one year out of the Senate; the
Constitution makes no such requirement. By
the draft, Congress was to have power to emit
bills of credit, to elect a Treasurer of the Uni
ted States by ballot, to fix the property quali
fications of its members, to pass navigation
acts and to admit new States if two-thirds of
the members present in each house were wil
ling; none of these powers are known to the
Constitution. The draft provided hut one
way of making amendments; the Constitution
prov.des two. Nothing was said in the draft
about the passage of ex post facto laws, about
the suspension of the habeas corpus, about
granting pateuts to inventors and copyrights
to authors, about presidential electors or about
exclusive jurisdiction over an area of ten miles
square. Provision was made for a Clumsy
way of settling quarrels between States con
cerning jurisdiction and domain.
Nor were the future careers of many of
them to be less interesting than their vast.
Washington aud Madison became i'residents
of the United States; El bridge Gerry became
Vice-President; Charles Cotes worth Pinckney
and Rufus King became candidates for'the
presidency, and Jared Ingersoll, Rufus King
aud John Longdon candidates for the vice-
presideney; Hamilton became Secretary of the
Treasury; Madison, Secretary of State; Ran
dolph, Attorney General and Secretary of
State, and James McHenry, a Secretary of
War; Eliswortb and Rutledge became Chief-
Justices; Wilson ai d John Blair rose to the
Supreme bench; Gouverneur Morris and Ells
worth and Charles C. Pinckney and Gerry
and William Davie became ministers abroad.
Others less fortunate closed their careers in
misery or in shame. Hamilton went down be
fore the pistol of Aaron Bnrr^ Robert Morris,
after languishing in a debtor’s prison, cied in
poverty; James Wilson died a broken-hearted
fugitive from justice: Edmund Randolph left
the cabinet of Washington in disgrace; William
Blount was driven from the Senate of the Uni
ted S-ates.
Blount sat for North Carolina, and with him
were Alexander Martin, a soldier of the Revo
lution, Richard Dobbs Spaigbt, a native of
Ireland, Hugh Williamson and William Davie.
South Caroliua sent Pierce Butler, John Rut
ledge; and the two cousins Charles and Charles
Cotesworth Pinckney. Butler was an Irish
man, was descended from the Dukes of Or
mond, and, when the revolution opened, was a
major in the 29th Regiment of Foot. The 29.h
was one of the regiments stationed at Boston
and furnished the soldiers who did the shoot
ing in the famous Boston massacre. Disgust
ed at the treatment of the colonists, and con
vinced that justice was on their side, he threw
up his commission when the war opened, join
ed the continental army, fought through the
war and settled iu South Carolina. Another
man of Scotch-Irish aLcestry was John Rut
ledge. He loo had been educated abroad, had
studied law at the Temple, aud had been sent
at the age of 20, to the Stamp Act Congress of
1765. Nine years later he sat in the first Con
tinental Congress, and was pronounced by
Patrick Henry the most eloquent in that body.
Fearless, resolute, a man of fine parts, he
was ulquestionably the foremost man South
Carolinia produced till she produced Calhoun.
Georgia sent np William Houston, William
Johnny Bull beware,
_._gaep,at a proper distance,
■"•Jti-e welt signs >aa Jfrae, - - * —
By our 11 m resistance;
Let alone the lads
Now their freedom tasting;
R-colltcr, our dads
Gave you once a besting.
Chobuj.
Pickaxe, shovels, spade*.
Crowbar, boe ano barrow;
Better not Invade—
Yankees have the marrow.
To protect onr rights
’Gainst your flints and triggers;
See on Brooklyn heights
Our patriotic dlggeis.
Men ol every age.
Color, rank, profession
ardently engage—
Labor in succession.— Chorus,
Scholars leave their schools
With their patriotic teachers.
Farmers leave their tools
Headed by melr preachers.
How they break the soil.
Brewers, butchers, bakers;
Bere the doctors toll—
There the undertakers.—Chorus,
Better not Invade,
Recollect the spirit
That our cads displayed
Aud their sous inherit.
Still. If yo 1 advance
Friendly caution slighting,
Y. a may get. perchance,
A stomach full of fighting.— Chen as.
NORTH AND SOUTH.
How the Son of a N orthern General and
a Southern General’s Daughter
Behaved.
To one of our resorts there came ten years
ago, a dignified Southern general, with his
wife, and a daughter so lovely that all who
saw her were charmed. The first few weeks
the Southern visitors were quite exclusive and
frowned upon any attempts of the citizens of
the North to get acquainted with them. They
came simply for a change of air and did not
care for society. A Northern general, with his
family, stopped at the same house, and there
was a son in that family. There almost always
is a son in a Northern family when there is a
pretty girl around. The two generals were in
troduced, but for weeks they only passed the
time of day, and were so dignified that it was
a wonder they did not break their backs. The
lady from the South became interested in the
young gent eman of the North, and before auy-
body had realized that a calamity had befallen
the two families, they were head and ears in
love. The Southern general was mad, and
that made the N orthern general mad, and there
were stormy times about ihe cool resort on the
lake. The old Southerner stamped hi3 feet
and said they should never marry, aud the
Northern general kept cool and said if the
young folks wanted to marry he didn’t know
any reason why they shouldn’t, and as he was
in love with the girl too, and would give all he
possessed for her as a daughter, he swore he
would see that she was pioperly eloped with,
that old Confederate could go no further. The
old Confederate said ho would shoot up enough
Yankees for a mess, if they tried any such
wooden nutmeg game on his family, and so
they had it until the summer was gone, and—
well, you know how it is yourselves. The
young people coaxed, and finally the Southern
general said they could do as they pleased, and
they were married. To-day there are four
boys and two girls that have come to bless
that union of the North and South. Two of
the boys have been named after two of the
greatest Confederate generals, and twe have
been named after two great Northern generals,
and several months of the summer you can see
that old Confederate grandfather in Wiscon
sin, the guest of the Northern grandfather,
playing with those six youngsters, and several
months of winter the Northern general is visit
ing the South to see those children grow, and
it is a grand sight to see the two grandfathers
bending over a cradle, looking at the youngest
child, and arguing as to which grand-parent
the child resembles. The old fellows are good
friends; the Southern general thinks his
Northern son-in-law is one of God’s noblemen,
and the Northern general snows that his beau
tiful danghter-in-law is the sweetest woman
on earth. Ten thousand such weddings be
tween the Northern and Sonthern young peo
ple would forever silence those who may wish
to see the two sections at enmity.
Miss Maud Powel’, the young American vio
linist, who appeared at the Gewandthouse con
certs in Leipzig, and at the state concerts iu
LondoD, when she was only sixteen years old,
has returned home, and will appear in con
certs through the country in the course of the
season.
A Reminiscence of Slavery
Days.
Bishop McTyeire’s “Uncle Cy,” which"re-
cently appeared in the South Carolina Advo
cate, and which.hoB been extensively copied by
a great many of the leading journals in the
Sonth, has created no little comment. We all
admit that slavery was wrong, and yet the
thonght rises in our mindB, Why didn’t Har
riet Beecher Stowe paint at least one side of
her picture bright, which she so graphically
over-drew in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin?” There
were hundred’s of Cy’s and Tom’s and Re
mus’ all through the South. My grandfather
owned a character of this kind in the person
of “Old Uncle Dan.”
My grandfather’s mansion was situated in a
beautiful clump of forest trees on the banks of
beautiful Pearl River, in the good old State of
Mississippi. Never will I forget how we chil
dren would slip ont at night to go to nncle
Dan’s cabin, and there we would stay often
till the midnight hour, listening to the “Socra
tes” of the old plantation, telling of his many
escapades in his younger days, and as the
hours sped by on the wings of the wind, when
everything seemed solemn and all was still,
the old man’s superstitious nature would get
the better of him, and he would always wind
up by tell ng some marvelous ghost story.
Uncle Dan’s fund of anecdotes and ghost sto
ries was simply inexhaustible. In our part of
the country we had uo blood hounds, and once
in a great while, a slave would disappear and
never be heard of again. After all efforts to
get them back proved futile, we accepted the
inevitable aud let them go. But uncle Dan
would always get it into his head that the devil
had spirited them away.
All of the ex-slave owners remember how a
large portion of the slaves hated to be called
“negroes,” especially those with mulatto
blood in them, they would insist that the “de
vil” was the only negro, and that they were
dark skinned colored folks. But uncle Dan
was an exception to this rule. He claimed to
be naught else but a full blooded “nigger.”
The tale he most often told and one he never
tired of repeating, was “Dat night I met de
debbil.”
Uncle Dan, at the head of a large crowd of
Blaves, of whom he was the acknowledged
leader, went out one starry night to hunt the
gay and festive ’possum and coon. We chil
dren wanted very much to go, but uncle Dan
said “Go ’way Chilian, you git los’ in de brush
an’ den de varm’ns eat you up,” and as uncle
Dan’s word was law with us, of course we
would have to stay, but we determined to have
ourjevenge. We got the consent of the old
folks to go to “black mammy’s” cabin. So
calling the house boy, Tom, to accompany us
off, we started light-hearted and gay. After
many articles of wearing apparel were offered
to Tom by way cf a bribe, he consented to
scare nncle Dan for us. if we would “cross our
hearts hope to die" if we ever told on him, for
he insisted “if ancle Dan knowed dat wus me
he break dis niggei’s back, sho’.” Black
mammy we pacified with the promise of
a backet of sugar and a jar of “dem sweet
merzerves,” as she would say.
So after getting a quilt and as old hoe
handle we started to lie in wait for
the favorite slave of the old plantation.
UecIo Dan’s cabin being nearest the house,
we knew the other slaves would be dropping
off all the way, and ancle Dan would have to
come in alone, which he always did, singing
lustily to keep up his courage. Uncle Dan
was a truthful negro, bat an awful coward;
however, we were soon to see his courage
tested. Tom put his ear to the grou-d and
arising said:
“I hear dem paps barking; dey’ll be here
soon.”
Sure enough ’twas not long before we heard
uncle Dan’s voice singing:
“ ’Possum meat am good to eat,” and then
he would break off into, “I ain’t no sinner,
Lawd.”
As he neared our place of ambusb, we laid
down on the ground, while Tom stepped be
hind a convenient tree. Just as ancle Dan got
opposite where Tom was, that worthy stepped
out and said:
“De Debbil’s come arter nude Dan.”
Tom had the quilt over his bead and had it
elevated with the hoe-bandle. The old man
fell on hi* knees and commenced to pray as
never a slave prayed before or since:
“O, Mr. Debbil, let me off dislime; I ain’t
done nuffin. I’ll be ur good nigger.”
“Da Debbil’s done come arter you and you
mu s' go.”
Uncle Dan seeing no way (apparently) to
get out of the scrape, he resigned himself to
the inevitable, first saying, however:
“Wait jus’ a little while, Mr. Debbil. I
wants to go back dar to der crik (creek). You
see, de ole master gin dis nigger a silver quar
ter yesteddy, and I loss it right back dar on
tudder side dat plank whuts over de crick ”
Tom’s love for money was an all controlling
passion with him, and then and there he deter
mined to have that quarter. Forgetting our
bribes, he said:
“You stay right dar, uncle Dan; don’t you
move. I go git dat money fur yer,” and off
he started. No sooner had he gotten a hun
dred yards off than uncle Dan lit out for home,
yelling:
“I fooled de Debbil dat time, sho’.”
When Tom returned he was somewhat crest
fallen, saying:
“Dat’s de fust time I ebber knewed dat ole
nigger to lie.”
This is only one instance in a thousand of
the happy days of slavery. “Uncle Tom,”
“Uncle Cy,” “Uncle Remus” and “Uncle
Dan,” were indeed priceless black diamonds,
and were never sold under any circumstances,
as Harriet Beecher Stowe or “Judge Tourgee”
would have you believe. The days of slavery
are past, and it all seems like the vision of a
rosy dream. A new era has dawned upon us.
A new South, “Ptoenix-like,” has sprung from
the ashes of the old. Do we regret it? No, we
welcome and hail the coming of this brighter
day.
The G. A. B. at St. Louis.
At the recent encampment at St. Louis the
Grand Army of the Republic took the following
important action :
Tae committee on pensions submitted report,
which embodies new pension bills that they
propose to have introduced in Congress at the
next session. Its features are the granting of
ptnsioLg to a;l veterans now disabled or in
need; to mothers and fathers from the date of
dependence; the continuance of pensions to
widows in their own right, and an increase for
minor children; all of the recommendations for
increase and equalization of pensions fortpe-
cial disabilities made in his recent report by
Pension Commissioner Biack; a pension of
$12 per month to all widows of honorably dis
charged soldiers and sailors of the late war; in
creased pensions for severer disabilities, sub
stantially as presented in the bill prepared by
the United States Maimed Veterans’ League;
pensions for survivors of rebel prisons, sub
stantially as presented in the bill of the Na
tional Association of prisoners of war; in
creased pensions for loss of hearing or eyesight;
re-enactment of the arrears law and an eq li-
table equalization of bounties.
Beats the Adirondack.
The Cheat Mountain (W. Va ) Sportsmen’s
Association has ninety members, the majority
of whom are wealthy manufacturers of Wheel
ing and Pittsburg. They have a hunting lease
on fifty thousand acres of land on the Cumber
land range in Pocahontas and Randolph coun
ties, the highest and most densely wooded land
in the State. A building for the convenience
of the members is about completed. It is sixty
by forty feet, two stories high, and made of
dressed white pine logs and finished inside with
cherry, which grows in unlimited quantities in
these counties. Two banting lodges have also
been erected on the preserve. The main build
ing will be famished with all the comforts for
sportsmen’s lives, with big fireplaces and rooms
for trophies of the hunt. The first party of
forty-five will go to the hunting preserve in Oc-
teber. Here they will hunt the deer, which
abounds in the mountain fastnesses of this cel
ebrated range. There is also good fishing.
Mis W. D. Holmes, of Cincinnati, has just
concluded a 3,000 mile yacht ciuise on the
great lakes. She aaiied from Detroit, tra
versed the lakes in turn and met with no un
pleasant incidents.
TENTINC ON THE OLD CAMP*
GROUND
IIY WALTER KITIREUGE.
We’re tenting tr-alght on the old camp-ground,
Give us a song to cheer
Our weary hearts, a song of home
And friends we love so deat 1
Choeps.
Many are the hearts that are weary to-night,
Wishing for the war to cease;
Mauy are the hearts looking for the right,
To see the dawn of peace:
Tenting to-night, tenting to-night.
Tenting on the old camp ground.
We’ve been tenting.to night,on the old camp-ground,
Thinking of the days gune bj:
Ol the loved ones at home, that gave u* the hand,
And the tear that said, Good bye!- Chorus.
We are l ired of war on the old c.imp-ground;
Many are dead aud gene
Ol ibe brave and true, who’ve lift their homes;
Others have been wounded long — Chorus,
We’ve been fighting to-day on the old camp-ground:
Men are lying near—
Some are d 'ad, and some are dying—
Many are ia tears !—
Choeps.
M my are the hearts that are weary to-nlghl,
Wist Ing for the war to cease;
Many are the heart* looking for the right,
fo see the dawn of peace:
Dviug to night, dying to-uight,
Dying on the old camp-ground.
ALASKA.
Agent Tinuie’s Report-Marauders Cap
turerf—Seals Destroyed.
Treasury Agent Tingle, in charge of the seal
islands, in his annual report states that daring
the past year 104 829 seals were killed and
1 0,000 skins accepted as good. He suggests
that additional natives sbpuld be employed by
the lessees, which they are not now allowed by
law to do. The death rate among the natives
has been high, while it is a remarkable fact
that not a white man has died from disease
since the United States secured the seal islands
from R tssia. He places the number of breed
ing seals at about 4,000,000. He regards the
seal tisaeries as very valuable, and expresses
the hope that the United States Government
will not perm t their destruction.
The agent suggests that a steam yacht, armed
with rifled cannons, be provided for the agent
to help protect the sealeries. He estimates that
30,000 seals have been taken by marauders dur
ing the past year, and as only one seal out of
ten killed is secured, this shows the fearfnl
slaughters to which the seal fisheries have been
subjected.
A total of 5,000 skins has been seized during
the season, and the agent commends warmly
the assistance rendered him by Capt. Sheppard,
of the U. S. S. Rush.
It Wasn’t a ’Possum.
Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, had a
negro named Henry, who was very fond of
’possum hunting—a perfect Nimrod in that
line. Having, as nsual, gone ont for that pur
pose, it was not long before his dogs struck a
track and soon treed. The hunter, having ar
rived at the tree, deliberately laid now his
torch, and drawii g hi* axe from his shoulder,
eager for the game, began laying on to fell it.
He had not given more than one or two cuts,
when, to his consternation, he heard a voice
from above, saying: “If you won’t let the
dogs bite me, I’ll come down and help you cut
the tree down.” Tnunderstruck and amazed,
the huntsman dropped his axe, and made
double-quick time for home. It turned out in
the sequel that another negro, a runaway,
hearing the dogs, took to a tree, and the ’pos
sum was treed in another about ten feet off;
the runaway seeing no other person bnt the
hunter come up, volunteered his services to
help him. But Nimrod thought the “varmint”
was entirely loo obliging, or “thar was a ghost
somewhar about.”
It is announced that the Standard Oil Com
pany is to build a fleet of tank steamers for
carrying oil in bulk, each vessel to carry about
700,000 gallons and make the trip across the
Atlantic iu fourteen days or less. The oil will
be pumped directly from the storage tanks on
shore into the s learners’ tanks. At present
there are two or three German oil-tank stea
mer* running to this country.
*8
Shaking Across the Bloody Chasm.
For the Sunny South.
TO WiRS. CLEVELAND ON HER VISIT
SOUTH.
BY MRS MARY WARK.
Weloonie! gentle lady fair—
Welcome to our sunny clime!
Sc-Mer Bowrets rich and rar<-_
Offerings meet for sacli a time.
Youths and maidens haste to greet
The fairest lady of the lane !
Hoary age and childhood sweet
Long to press thy gentle hand.
North and Surth have learned to feel
The sweet l-.fluence of thy power—
M re potent than the warrior's steel,
Though gentle at a summer shower.
Welcome! peerless lady true!
T-'.e 8 iuth extends her greeting 1
For thee, and tor thy husband, too,
The Southern heart Is beailngl
A world of loving eymratby
Thy g*»n f ie smile is winning.
Live sunlight on a troubled sea,
Whose warmth Is just beglunlcg.
Thrice welcome to onr sunny laud
Begirt with N iture's beauty,
Woe>e plenty smiles on every hard
And life’s a p easant duty.
Birmingham, Ala.
The First Draft of the Con
stitution.
The Subsequent Career of Some of
the IUusfrious Men Who
Framed It.
Pierce, a Virginian, William Few, and Abra
ham Baldwin, a Connecticut man. The Con
necticut delegation was, as a whole, the ablest
on the floor Save Benjamin Franklin, no man
who came to the convention bad made for him
self so instructive and so useful career as
Roger Sherman. He was a man of the people.
Born near Boston, he got his education at the
common school, and was early apprenticed to
a shoemaker. His apprenticeship over, he set
out on fodt, with his tools on his back, for
New Milford in Connecticut. There he kept
store and read law till he was admitted to the
bar, when he moved to New Haven. At New
Haven he rose rapidly in the estimation of his
townsmen, was made treasurer of Yale Col
lege, represented the town in the Legislature,
and when New Haven became a city was
chosen first Mayor and remained Mayor for
the rest of his life. He was fourteen times
sent to the Legislature. He was twenty-three
years a Judge. Connecticut elected him to
the Congress of 1774, ar d re-elected him re
peatedly till he died He signed the Declara
tion of Rights in 1774; the Declaration of Inde
pendence, which he was one of the committee
to write; and the Articles of Confederation,
which he helped to frame.
With him came William Samuel Johnson
and Oliver Ellsworth. Johnson had been a
judge and a member of Congress; tut he en
joyed a distinction rarer still, for he was a
scholar of high rank. Indeed, the f ame of his
learning reached England, where Oxford made
him a doctor of laws, and the Royal Society a
member.
Massachusetts sent up Caleb Strong, Na
thaniel Gorham, a rich Boston merchant, El-
bridge Gerry, a signer and a member of Con
gress, and Rufus King, a Congressman and a
fierce hater of slavery. Alexander Hamilton,
John Lansing, and Robert Yates represented
New York. Yates and Lansing were men of
abil ty; but they had the narrow and selfish
views then so prevalent in New York State,
became mere objeclionists in the convention,
and when they could not succeed in setting up
State-rights goveri ment, left the convention
and went home. The departure of Yates is
much to be lamented, for, while he staid, he
was busy taking notes of the debates and pro
ceedings. Five men came from Delaware—
Gunning Bedford, Jr, Richard Bassett, Ja
cob Broome, George Read, who signed the dec
laration, and John Dickinson, who would not.
The largest delegation was that from Pennsyl
vania. On her list are the nanrs of Jared In
gersoll, who led the bar, and whose father had
been driven from New England for tryiDg to
serve as stamp agent in 1705, George Ciymer,
another s.gner, Thomas Fitz Simons, a great
merchant, Robert and Gouverneur Morris,
Thomas Miffi n, a general of the Revolution, a
member of Congress, and onco a member of
the infamous Conway Cabal, James Wilson, a
Scotchman and the best read lawyer in the
convention, and Benjamin Franklin. Mary
land sent up Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer,
Daniel Carroll of Carrollton, John Mercer,
Lather Martin and J.ames McHenry.
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, 1812.