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VOLUME XIV.—NUMBER 658.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNINGS JULY 7, 1888.
PRICE: $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE.
Shaking Aoross tne BloodT Chasm.
AN APOSTROPHE TO VIRCINIA.
BT A. H. TATLOB.
Virgin!., "Mother of the States,”
Thou honored "Old Dominion,”
Thou who bait bad snch various fates.
Bat always one opinion
Of honor, liberty and right,
And of a nation’s glory,
Thou who hast shed a steady light
On our short page of story—
WAR INCIDENTS.
New and Interesting Reminiscences of the
Late Bloody Conflict.
NUMBER TIIIKTSXX.
Grim War Around Richmond—Seven
Pines.
On the 23rd of May, 1802, a part of the Fed
eral army crossed the Chickahominy and took
position near Fair Oaks Station, York River
Railroad. The following moraiDg Casey’s di
vision advanced to a point about one and a
half miles nearer Richmond, known as Seven
Pines, went into camp and began to fortify,
the lines running across the Williamsbnrg
road. When oar General received notice of
this advance on the 30th, he ordered a recon-
noissance of their position; these movements
on our part soon developed the location of the
Federal position and General Johnston ordered
an attack to be made the following morning,
hoping to beat one wing of his enemy before
supports could cross the river to its rescue.
Preparations for Battle.
To thee I’d lift my simple lay,
In this, the noontide splendor,
Of our Republic's glorious day,
Thy meed of praise I’d render
If thou badst only given one
Such character transcendent,
As that of thy George Washington,
Thy fame had been resplendent.
Bat Patrick Henry, Richard Lee,
With thy seven Presidents,
In that enchanted realm I see.
Where fame enrolls the residents;
There, too, “Stonewall,” whose loins were girt,
_ With strength from Him on high.
Whose watchword was: “Be brave, alert,
A Christian cannot die.”
The sky has many a brilliant star,
A bright Lee constellation,
Known to earth’s people near and far.
Observed by every nation,
One In this Ulnralnated cluster
Out shines the old and learned sages.
He’ll shed a pure, undying lustre,
Adown the cycle o( the ages,
His name—O Southern hearts, bear lowl
’Tls he who longest faced tne foe.
Who bent the sword, but obt the knee,
The scholar-warrior—R. E. Lee.
Norfolk, Va„ June, 18H8.
Historic Pants.
A pair of pants worn by Marston Pruitt in
the battle of Bunker Ilill, June 17, 1776, can
be seen in the office of the Wetumpka, Ala.,
Express. They have been reguiarty kept ifc
thefomllynf bis descendants, and now belong
Seme historical society *ught
price for this relic of other days.
From ennset till midnight of the 30tb, one
of the worst storms of the season had been
raging with unrelenting fury: as for sleep,
none could be had, blindingly vivid lightning
with loud peals of thunder, accompanied by
heavy rain and keen searching wind, penetra
ted every where; the camps were soon deluged
and the soldiers subjected to great inconven
iences, for the darkness was impenatrabie
except when the heavens were illumined with
electric dashes. As the storm abated and the
men were endeavoring to quiet themselves
down for, at least, a short nap, couriers rode
hither and thither at break neck speed, and
soon the Confederate camps were all astir; the
long roll beat and the oft repeated cry of
“Turn out! turn out!” rang upon the midnight
air. The order to prepare two days rations
and be ready to move at a moment's notice
were read to the troops. As the silvery threads
athwart the golden morn began to glimmer the
eastern sky, the drums beat, the troops fell
into line, and the columns-regiments, brigades
and divisions, moved noiselessly away. The
sight, as we passed silent ly around the suburbs
of Richmond, was a very inspiring one; the
swollen streams were rivers then and as we
splashed in to tie waist no thought was given
| to the discomfort, bnt we moved on with alac-
' rity, all well aware of the impr>: lance of
I promptness.
The positions to be attained by tbe moving
thousands were as follows: Longstreet and
Ilill were to take position on the Williams
burg road, fronting Casey’s camp, Hill to co
operate with Longstreet in the attack. The
division of Huger was to take the right of Long
street. Smith’s division was to move by tbe
Nine Mile road and prevent reinforcements
from crossing to the Federal force about to be
attacked. The reserve consisted of McGru-
der’s division. A. P. Hill occnpied the Con
federate left and the cavalry the extreme left.
Longstreet was to begin the attack and _ffie
troops right and left were to support bin.
heavy rains of the night before '
CONGO FREE STATE.
Livingstone, Stanley and
Emin Bey.
A Continent Redeemed and a Nation
Born—The March of Civilization
and the Leaders of the March.
“ON, STANLEY, ON!"
[Special Correspondence Sunny South.]
There is much nneasiness felt at Brussels
about the Stanley Expedition for the relief of
Emin Bey. Mr. Stanley’s friends are nervotu.
and the King of the Belgians is worried. Pro
fessor Lenz, the German traveller has just
published facts and figures showing that the
Anglo-American explorer should have reached
Emin Bay about the middle of August, and
that news should have reached Europe from
him before the close of last year in case disas
ter had not befallen his expedition. Of conrse
until actual news arrives nothing positive can
be said about Stanley's present condition or
his whereabouts, and the news that may come
any day is just as likely to be an account of
the explorers success as of his death. Stanley
HENRY M. STANLEY.
sent him as Governor of the Equatorial Pro
vinces, with the title of “Bey,” avast territory
extending along the white Nile almost as far
as the shores of the Albert Nyanza. His work
there had been of a splendid character, and
its best record is found in a book just pub
lished, entitled “Emin Pasha in Central Af
rica, a Collection cf his Letters and Travels,”
edited by Dr. Schweiufurth and recently
translated -Into English, Froirtfj^tJS Emin
Bay’s flic b^pues connected rule of
the p__ tinejf entrusted to hi’SJ^^E-ing the
he dealt A the
given his reasons therefor in one of his re
cently published letters, in which he says:
"Tne work that Gordon paid for with his blood I
will strive to carry on. It not with bis energy and
genius, still according to bis Intentions and his spir
it. When my lamented chlet placed the govern
ment of this country In my bands he wrote to me:
‘I appoint yon (or civilization and progress’ sake.’
I have done my best to justify the trust he bad In
me, and that I have been to some extent successful,
and have won tbe confldenee of the natives Is proved
by the fact that I and my. handful of people have
held onr own up to tbe precent day la the midst of
Hundreds of thousands of natives. J
tje iA&aSd only Jrei
have gone from one end to the other armed
with nothing more than a walking stick.” A.
German writer has said of his work: “In his
capital Lado, where Dr. Schnitzer earlier re
sided, he arose every day before the sun. His
first work was to visit the hospitals and to care
for the health of the people and the troops.
After a day devoted to executive labors, a great
part of tbe night would be spent in writing
those essays in the authropology ethnology, ge
ography, botany and languages of the peoples
dwelling in bis provinces that have made his
name famous as a scientific observer.’’
Around him, however, on all sides, Africa lin
gered in her original barbarity and. the slave-
traders, allies of the Mahdi, and the native
kings, were continually harassing him. To
the Sonth he had made early in his rnlership,
the friendship of the kings of Uganda and Un-
yoro. Kabroga of Unyoro has remained faith
ful to him np to the present time and it was by
his assistance that the Russia explorer Dr.
Tnnker, the last European who has visited
Emin Bey, was enabled to get back to Europe.
In Uganda, however, a new king M. Wanga,
came upon the throne, who is completely under
tbe inflnence of the slave-traders and is hostile
to Europeans, and the latest information about
him is that he has refused to allow any expe
dition to pass through his territory, thongh he
would not place any obstacles in the way of
messengers sent from the coast to revictual
1 -Yf adelai (Emin Bey’s headquarters).
It was Dr. Tunker, who left Emin Bey at
Wadelai on the first of January 1880, who
brought the news to Europe that led to the
sending out of the Stanley Expediton. The
Beauties and Celebrities.
American Life Under Eigh
teen Presidents.
Prominent Statesmen and Brilliant
Belles—Fashionable Styles, Snter-
tainments, Aneodotea, Bto.
NUMBER THIRTT-ONE.
I .the work of the
Tom Moore In Washington.
Tom Moore, the great Irish poet, writing to
his mother from Baltimore in June, 1804, (he
was then only twenty-four years old, and had
written nothing that had crossed the Atlantic,
bnt “Gentle Little’s Moral Song”) says:
“I stopped in Washington with Mr. and Mrs.
Merry, for nearly a week. * * I was pre
sented by Mr. Merry to both the President and
Secretary of State.”
It is related that Mr. Jefferson had treated
the British Minister’s wife with some incivili
ty, at which they took offence; also that the
President, standing in his six feet two inches,
looked down on the perfumed little Adonis,
spoke a word to him, and gave him no farther
attention.
Moore, after thiB unflattering reception fell
to lampooning the President, and almost every
thing American. Some of his most bitter at
tacks fell into the hands of Mr. Borwell, for
merly the President's private Secretary, who
carried them to Mrs. Randolph (the President’s
daughter). The two were aroused to indigna
tion by such assaults by a man who had been
introduced into society and patronized by the
British Minister, and decided to lay the matter
before President Jefferson. This was done at
Monticello, while the President was reading in
his library. He glanced through the obnox
ious passages pointed out, looked at his daugh
ter and his friend and burst into a clear, hear
ty laugh, in which they joined after a moment’s
reflection.
1
Jefferson and the Irish Melodies.
When Moore’s Irish Melodies appeared years
afterwards, and the book was put into Jeffer
son’s hand—
“Why, this,” he said, “is the little man who
satirized me so!”
He read on—he had always sympathized
with the Irish patriots—and presently ex
claimed:
“Why, he isa poet after all!”
After that the Bard of Erin shared with
Burns—Scotia’s immortal songster—the hoars
of the retired statesman.
“Do You Know Mr. Jefferson?”
One day the President, riding along the bank
of the Itivanne, saw a ragged old man waiting
at the ford opposite. He rode across, took
him up behind, and brought him over.
On another occasion, riding towards Wash
ington, he overtook a working-man of respec
table appearance, on foot. To draw np and
salute him was an act of habitual civilty. A
conversation on political topics ensued, and
the man strongly censured certain acts of the
administration. Finally be alluded to some of
the gross personal stories of Callender against
the President.
“Do you know Mr. Jefiama personally?”
’ the .equestrian.
A Relioof Webster.
A small hair trank once need by Daniel
Webster was recently presented by Colonel
Charles Webster, a nephew of the great law
yer to Henry Robinson, of Concord, N. H.
The story is. that it was found locked at the
owner’s old law office at the time of his death,
and there remained till several weeks ago. It
was supposed to be empty, but when taken to
a gun-shop and opened was found to contain
several valuable law papers and mementoes in
the shape of letters from distinguished men,
together with an account book and a pocket-
book in which were a few bank bills.
Carl Schurz on Henry Olay.
In his life of Henry Clay, Carl Schurz says
that in the elements which make a man leader,
Clay was the superior of Webster, as of all
other contemporaries, except Andrew Jackson.
On tbe whole, save bis onlr change of position
on the subject of the United States bank,
Clay’s public career was remarkably consistent
in its main features. Whatever his weakness
of character and errors in statesmanship may
have been, almost everything he said or did
was illuminated by a grand conception of the
destinies of his country, a glowing national
spirit, a lofty patriotism.
Grant on Sheridan.
General Sheldon, ex-governor of New Mex
ico, related tire other day that General Grant
once said ix bis hearing, speaking of American
army officers, “General Sheridan was always
where I expected him to be at any designated
time. lie accomplished as much as or more
than I expected him to accomplish. I tell you,
gentlemen, Philip Henry Sheridan is the
ablest military man now living, and if this
country should become engaged in a war with
any or several of the great powers of Europe
during my term as President, I should give him
command of tbe armies of the United States.”
A Story About Washington.
There is an unpublished story of Washing
ton, told by a descendant of tbe ancestor
who is in the Btory. which represents the great
general in the pleasant family life we have all
liked to contemplate, and not aq the grand man
and hero at the bead of his army. It was
when Washington, after the Revolutionary
war, was travelling througe Connecticut and
visited Hartford, staying at the Ball’s tavern
there. A boy came into the kitchen of the
tavern and said: “I want to see Gen. Wash
ington.”
The functionary on duty did not propose to
let any mere boy see Gan. Washington merely
for tbe asking, and said as much.
“But I have a note for him,” remonstrated
the boy.
“From whom!”
“My father. Chief Justice Ellsworth.”
“Oh—well,” and the functionary relented.
Gen. Washington read the note and said to
the boy: “Your father invites me to dinner.
I will do more that that, I will go and break
fast with him.”
And he did the next morning. And after
breakfast be took tbe twin sons of tbe justice,
each on a knee and sang to them tbe “Derby
Ram,” an old English ballad, beginning: “It
Was on a market day,” and setting forth that
the Ram of Derby was so big that tbe birds
built net>i8 in the wool on his back and the
batcher who undertook to kill him was drown
ed in the blood. .
STONEWALL JACKSON S DEATH.
BT JOHN J. TWALENLY .’
“Let ns cross over the river and rest in the
shade of the trees.”—Last words of Gen. Stone-
toa’.l Jackson.
In the fountain ot thought of tbe great and the good
What pearls ot expression lie hidden,
Awaiting the boar when Inspired by God,
TUey snow us the pathway to Heaven.
No forethought nor srady designed for his tongue
Those words so expressive of rest;
For he knew that the Saviour would pilot him o’er—
While weary he leaned on His breast
•reieran Third Corps A. P. Lanslngburg. X. T.
ccuTfcTikiw,
the Federal army were isolated. Unfortu
nately, this advantage was not folic ved
the troops were laggards in get’ing into pi
tions and much precious time was lost. If tun
attack could have been made at dawn of day
the corps o' Heintzelman and Keys might have
been bagged. •
The Battle.
At about 10 minutes to one o’clock the first
gnn from onr side was fired, and the battle
opened. Hill’s division with his centre on the
Williamsburg road advanced to the attack; the
second line was composed of three brigades of
Longstreet’s division, the whole nnder that
General’s command. The first Federal troops
encountered were a long line of skirmishers
supported by five or six regiments of infantry,
with an abatis protecting their front. These
were sood driven back, by our superior num
bers, upon their main line, consisting of rifie-
pits and a redoubt, all covered by abatis. At
this point the fighting was stubborn; the Fed
eral soldiers fought with great courage and it
took time and skill to drive them from their
stronghold; but the united efforts of infantry
and artillery, the former charging the enemy’s
left under a destructive fire, through an open
field, and an attack upon the flank under the
skillful eye of General Hill, finally proved suc
cessful and the enemy was forced from his
works and fell back upon his reserves. At this
moment reinforcements arrived to their relief
and they made strenuous efforts to regain their
lost ground, and might have succeeded, bnt
the timely arrival of General Kemper’s brigade,
of Longstreet’s division turned the tide, and
they were driven into the swamps.
This victory was not gained without hard
lighting and an improvised flank movement
made by one of Kemper’s regiments. The
loss to the brigade was very heavy, it having
double-quicked by fours, left in front, with
flank open to the heavy fire of the enemy.
This last charge closed the battle for the day
on that part of the line and Kemper’s men held
the front, standing in water from one to three
feet deep, until relieved, late that night.
In the meantime, the troops under General
Smith, at about 4 p. m. advanced against the
enemy’s right, along the Nine Mile road, and
striking a skirmish liae drove it in. Contin
uing the advance they encountered artillery and
infantry near Fair Oaks, and a very spirited
contest was kept up all the afternoon, neither
side gaining ground, nntil darknesa pnt a stop
to the conflict. The troops fighting Smith at
that point were those of the corps of General
Sumner, who had crossed the swollen river on
pontoons to the support of their comrades.
Thus ended the first day’s tight.
Swift.
Lincoln's Wreath of Flowers.
An interesting story has just been revived
at Cincinnati. When President and Mrs. Lin
coln passed through that city on their way to
Washington, a certain kind-hearted old lady
determined that there should be one person in
Cincinnati to show Mrs. Lincoln the courtesy
due to her rank, and she made a magnificent
wreath of flowers, expensive, elaborate, beau
tiful. This she suspended to a frail cord over
one of the streets along the proposed route.
One end of the cord she held in her hand while
seated in a second story window. In a sec
ond-story window on the opposite side of the
street sat a friend holding the other end. The
plan was to drop the wreath in the lap of Mrs.
Lincoln as her carriage passed under it. When
that carriage came along, however, Lincoln
was in the front part of it, standing up, occa
sionally bowing his head and waving his hand.
His tail form touched the wreath and it drop
ped over his bead and around his neck. The
crowd laughed, and the kind lady who had
planned to do honor to the wife of the man she
so much revered, burst into a flood of tears.
These tears were, however, wasted. It was a
happy accident. A wreath, not of laurels, bnt
of beautiful fragrant flowers, had been made to
bedeck shoulders which were to bear burdens
heavier than had ever been borne by mortal
mac. Mr. Lincoln smiled at the happy acci
dent, bowed to the involuntary honor, and so
reconciled her that her tears were at once
wiped away.
Alexander Rostoff is the came of a laboring
mac in Bridgeport, Conn., who can speak
Russian, his native tongue, and German,
Hungarian, Hebrew, Latin, English and Ital
ian.
often toF t tnB, ho may eventually Wet his
* to in the oountry which he has donelso mnch
r? opening np to civilization. Austrian ex
plorers, however, are still confident that Stan
ley is well, and say that news from him could
not possibly reach Europe nntil the latter part
of next month. In fact the question of getting
news from the expedition may be reduced to
a simple rule of three problem: If during the
years that Emin Bay has been cooped
np in the Equatorial Provinces it has taken
from nine months to a year for his letters to
reach Europe, is it not also possible that Stan
ley will find equal difficulty in sending mes
sages unless, he takes or sends them to the
coast with an armed escort. Emin Bay him
self is known to be quite safe and busily oc
cupied in the rulership of the immense province
in the regions of the upper Nile, but he is
SCENE OX TUE UPTER CONGO.
nevertheless completely surrounded by hostile
tribes and kings who have hitherto prevented
his easy communication with the outside
world. Stanley if with him, is in exactly the
same position. •
Emin Bay is the governor of the extreme
equatorial provinces formerly belonging to
Egypt, and he was cut off from the world by
the revolt led bv the Mahdi. He is an Aus
trian by birth. His name is Schnitzer; he was
born at Oppahi, in 1840, studied medicine at
TartAnicrchpr? nriH in
Preslau, Berlit>;and Koenigsberg, and in 1SG8
became a military surgeon in the Turkish ar-
STANLEY S CAMP ON THE CONGO.
my. He then became attached to the suite of
Mid hat Pasha, and when that minister fell
from the Sultan’s grace, had to leave Constan
tinople. He went first to Snakim, on the Red
Sea, and finally made his way to Khartoum,
where in 187G, he was introduced to General
Gordon, who made him his military store
keeper and appointed him doctor, and subse
quently surgeon-in-chief on his staff. This
was in 1877. Gordon soon learnt to trust him,
GATHERING OF NATIVES.
and as he was an expert linguist, knowing
Arabic and some of the African dialects, he
entrusted him with important missions to tbe
Kings of Uganda and Unyoro, and finally he
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slave raids which in former years devasted
the larger portions of the country, and suc
ceeded in substituting a reign of peace and se
curity for one of violence and terror.
He was in fact making the country semi-
civilized, when suddenly the Mahdi arose, led
his hosts northward and massacred tbe army
of Hicks Pasha and finally made himself mas
ter of the entire Nile country between Khar
toum and the Khedive. When General
Wolseley’s expedition retired the Equatorial
provinces were entirely cut off from Egypt,
and Emin Bey was left “neglected and forgot
ten.” At this time he had about four thou
sand Egyptian and native troops under his
command. Though completely surrounded by
hostile tribes it is generally admitted that if he
chosen to leave behind thousands of helpless
women and children and to abandon the prov-
I’ therefore falls to me, and Is my bonnden duty, to
followup the road he showed me. Sooner or later
these people will be drawn Into the circle of tbe ev
er-advancing civll'zed world. For twelve long years
have I striven and tolled and sown the seeds for fu
ture harvests—laid the foundation stones for future
buildings. Shall I now give up the work because a
way may soon open to the coast? Never.”
This letter gives us a clear insight into the
great character of the man to whom Stanley
is taking relief. His work—as governor of the
Equatorial province is in every way remarka
ble. Having studied the languages and cus
toms of the races over whom he was called to
rale, he has been abie to teach the natives
many of the arts of civilization. He has tanght
them how to raise cottoD, rice, indigo, coffee,
to weave cloth and make shoes, candles, caps
and many ordinary articles of merchandise.
He hoilt trading stations in all parts of the
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inees to the merciless cruelties of the slave
traders, he conid easily have effec'ed his es
cape either to tbe Congo or to the Zanzibarian
coast. Bat he determined to stay, and he has
provinces, “murder, war and slavery were
made things of the past, so that at last the
whole country was made sa safe that, hat for
the wild beasts in the thickets a man conid
Eminfhad had to go through mnch
but hi * always succeeded in driving his ene
mies vack, after terrible struggles. Of one of
those conflicts he wrote: “Deprived of the
most necessary things, for a long time without
any pay my men fought valiantly, and when at
last hanger weakened them, when after
nineteen days of incredible privations
and sufferings their strength was exhausted,
and when the last torn leather of the
last hoot had been eaten—then they cut a way
through the midst of their enemies and suc
ceeded in saving themselves.” The next let
ter received from Dr. Schnitzer was dated in
the following October, when he stated that he
had ten fortified stations along the Nile, that
his headquarters were at Wadelai and that his
command consisted of 1500 soldiers, ten Egyp
tian and fifteen Negro officers, that he conid
hold out nntil the end of 188G, and would be
able to maintain himself longer if tbe wild
tribes did not make the discovery that he was
entirely out of ammunition. A year ago he
wrote again from Wadelai: “I am still holding
out here, and will not forsake my people.”
Since then other letters have been received
from him, in which he describes his position as
hopefnl. King M’Wanga, of Uganda, had,
he said, heard of Stanley’s expedition, and
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NATIVE OF THE UPPER CONGO,
had sent to him for explanations, with the
threat that he would oppose it. Emin sent
back the messenger with presents and such
assurance that his sable majesty consented to
postpone preparations for war. He was then
Dr. Tanker’s account of Emin Bey’s position
induced M. W. Mackinnon, of Edinburg, to call
Stanley to take charge of a relief expedi
tion, which should take ammunition to the sur
rounded governor. Stanley decided to advance
by way of the Congo, though both Tanker and
Schwenifurtb advocated the plan of proceeding
inland via Zanzibar. He went to Zanzibar,
where he entered into an arrangement with
Tippu Tib, the powerful slave trader who had
escorted his caravan in 1877, when he made
his first descent of the Congo. Tippu agreed
to furnish GOO carriers at $3' a man, and as
Emin Bey was reported by Dr. Tanker to have
seventy five tons of ivory, the expenses of the
expedition were to be met by the return of the
Zauzibars to the Congo with this. Tippu was
are to meet the
to face?”
The man was a Kentnckiaa—a
chant, and at the word “dare” he promptly
responded,
“I will never shrink from meeting Mr. Jeff
erson if he comes in my way.”
“Will you go to his honse to-morrow, and
be introduced to him, if I will meet yon
there?”
“I will,” the Kentuckian replied.
The President rode on. The next day the
merchant went to Jefferson’s home, and sent
in his card. As soon as he saw the President
he said—
“I have called, Mr. Jefferson, to apologize
for having said to a stranger ”
Here the President laughingly interrupted
him with—
“Hard things of imaginary an personage,
who is no relative at mine.”
All attempts at explanation were laughingly
parried, an animated conversation on another
subject was introduced. When the servant
announced dinner, the president insisted onhis
staying. Afterwards onr Kentucky friend
cautioned his yonng people not to be too free
in talking with strangers.
The Little Giant’s Long Speech.
A Chicago man tells a new story of Stephen
A. Douglas and Wm. II. Seward. It was just
before the war, when both were in the Senate.
Douglas was going on the floor to make a
great speech, and Sawltrd called him into one
of the cloak rooms and said to him:
“Douglas, yon’re going to make a big
speech. Come and take a drink with me. I
have here a jag of twenty-year-old brandy, sent
me by one of my constituents. Try a Uttle.”
But Donglas declined, and soon afterward
made his appearanca on the floor and ad
dressed the Senate in a set effort. After he
had finished he again met Seward in the cloak
room.
“You’re tired now, Donglas,” said the New
Yorker, “and yon’d better try a drop of that
forty-year-old brandy of mine.”
“Tired!” exclaimed Douglas, “I should say
I was. Could yon expect anything else of a
man who has just finished the longest speech
the world has ever heard?”
“Oh, that wasn’t a long speech,” Seward re-
sended, a little puzzled; “you were on the
floor only fifty minutes.”
“Fifty minutes 1” the Little Giant retorted
reaching for the jog, “why, according to yonr
own story this brandy has grown twenty years
older while I was speaking.”
The Two Tolstois of Russia.
Count Tolstoi is the title and name of two
distinguished Russians, and it is well to know
that fact in view of suspicions of the attemp
ted violence to one of them. The confusion
between Count L. N. Tolstoi, the novelist and
philanthropist, and his cousin, Count Tolstoi,
the bigoted and narrow-minded Minister of
Education, is very commonly made. The
name of Tolstoi is found more t han once in the
history of Russian literature.|
BALOBO OX THE CONGO.
farther to be made governor at Stanley Falls
at a regular salary. The latter proposition
was especially to Tippu’s taste, for he would
thereby get control of a vast amount of Slave-
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Louis Kossuth, Patriot.
A friend recently spoke to Lonis Kossuth of
the flourishing condition of the I’esth, when
the Hungarian exile said that it aimost broke
his heart to hear of that beautiful city and not
be allowed to see it. The friend suggested
that he might go there wearing blue toggles
and a wig, after the style of General Boulan
ger. “No.” was the reply, “yet it is just
possible that I may see Hungary again. If
Russia attacks my country I will go without a
wig in disguise and will visit every village and
city, and give my right arm in the service of
my fatherland.
Courteous Wilkie Collins.
Mr. Wilkie Coffins is described as one of the
most courteous of correspondents. He is al
ways prompt with his reply, and his letters
are as gracefnlly written as his books. No
enrt laconics and brusque brevites with him;
there is good natnre in every line, and some
how when we get to the end of his chatty
epistle we feel there is less of the osnal for
malism in his “Believe me, faithfully yours.”
His letters, which are headed “Gloucester
palace, Portland Sqnare,” have a monogram,
with a quill piercing the letters, which is quite
a trademark in its way.
