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-■»***** F Z* 5 *:$&4R, ’ MANY A FLOWER 8Y MAN UNSEEN GLADDENS LONE RECESSES, MANY A NAMELESS BROOK MAKES GREEN HAUNTS ITS BEAUTY BLESSES) MANY A SCATTERED SEED ON EARTH BH1NG3 FORTH FRUIT WHERE NEEDED- SUCH THE HUMBLE CHRISTIAN’S WORTH BY THE WORLD UNHEEDED.” 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.