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SPEECH OF
HIM- EMORY SPEER
AGAINST Til BILL TO ORGANIZE
Till: JIIUTIA.
On Moi.day. the loth instant,
House of Representatives had
consideration a bill to enlist
citizen between eighteen and forty-
five years of age, and to enroll in
National Guard, not more than five
hundred lor each Reprcsentative
Congress lorn State. 'Lite bill had
the fmaf.iinou's report of the l 0111-
mi:to- in its f.ivor, but it was
defeated after discussion.
Mr. Speer presented his objections
to the hill in the following
wJiioh wc give as a matter of intercut
to all of our readers, without regard
to party :
Mr. Si’Kitn. Mr. Speaker, I ‘re<rar<l
this bill as one of the most dangerous
aud insidious propositions which has
been* presented for action to
body since I have been a member
Congress. A similar proposition was
submitted to the (’ominittee on the
Militia in the last Congress and that
committee, as I understand it, refused
to commit themselves to the measure
embodied in the bill; some of us
certainly did. Sir, this proportion.
by the terras of the bill, m my State
for instance, and other gentlemen can
ppeak for their own Stats, would
organize a force of 5,000 militiamen :
it would have a camp of instruction
for five «Iays in each year ; it would
require the militia of the State so
organized to have monthly drills, and
would impose upon them all of
penalties and punishments which
enacted for mutiny and for
from the regular Army, with tiieir
disqualification of citizJnsliip and the
deprivation of all the rights to hold
offl-’C, penalties under tim laws gov-
er n ing the regular Jnnv degrading
and painful, as i involving
turpitude. t»n*iotod Ahd this law is sought
to L,o in a time of
peace and when tfi ev is no nos«ibie
n access ii y for such legislation.
We are not oppose,!, Mr. Speaker,
to a proper system of laws to organ,
izc and rr.overn the miii m. But tiic
(ii)imtry not need a b ll«of
character at this time. Th • lan \
filled with seasoned veterans, men
who have seen actual war, who have
faced real danger in time of battle,
and who do not heed 'to be ins'meted
now by the pomp an 1 pagean; ry o!
mimic war. Hie hoys who wore the
blue and the boys who Wore the gray
when they come to light, shoulder to
shoulder, as they will do if ever the
time comes when tins country shall
need their strong arms, require
such s) stem or instructions as this
bill contemplates, nor do the nee s i-
ties of the com,try demand the
organization of a tauulirdir system
such as this bill proposes.
l am opposed to it, sir. I know
how it Kill take the sturdy yeomanry
from the plow- and from the ootton
and corn fields in my country. They
arc tired of war and rumors of war,
and military display in all of its
forms. They are prompt and earnest
ami able to defend their countrx
when called upon ; and so 11 ^ lru0
of all our American citizen sokhery.
^ *
embattled farmers on the green at
Concord fired the shot heard round
the world and enkindled in millions
of hearts the sacred fires of national
liberty, [Applause.]
THE BUSH OF IMMIGRANTS
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Notuini Lite it Ever Known in
the History of the Couxtry.
The influx of immigrants from
Kuropo into this country since the
opening of the year has been
mous, five and six thousand frequent-
ly arriving at New Yor e in a single
,\ Xe-v York l..- !8
■
.dttiieC " > Garden Labor Bureau
tne iu»mar. lsfor*nelp' from Jill
of the M-:»nntry continues and from
almo -t all industries. Thc suocrin-
tendent said to your errespendea!:
•if the emigrants were fifty thousand
a day all the year round, I think we
could provide them with employment-
of one kind or another. 'There is
literally no eud of the wants of the
Western farmci; for hands.’
There were a good many Germans
•"^numerous the arrivals to M. Med* including /
Party of ,i :4 l
7 m ,r
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By Edw SCHAEFER 1
VOL. II,
bom the wagon an 1 carriage manu-
factories of Oifenbaeh. They all tell
pretty much the same tale as to dull
trade in the old country. Previous
to the war with France wheelwrights
could easily make their twenty dol-
larsper wee A - ; row they are
well if they can earn eight dollars,
Besides this, within the past, eighteen
months the cost of the necessaries of
life has advanced 33 per cent., and
house rent is also increasing. ‘The
Filing that gets cheaper and
cheaper is labor, said one;
another, •]. believe that' one half
the German people would leave the
to day if they bad the
means.’ On the Braunschweigh was
a party of Germans, who came from
Silesia, Saxony, the great hosiery
and underwear manufacturing centre,
These people had been working all
their lives in the mills, and leave only
on account of the poor price paid
their labor. One of this party,
ing of the trade outlook in the Path-
erland, said ; ‘Fes, times are ebang-
ing rapidly—the outlook so far as
mechanics and working people
concerned^ glows darker month by
m«»ntii. Business in Germany is
anything like as good as was ten
y.-ars ago, and it is perceptitdy
decreasing every year/ The
ists and large business men in the
Kirqievor’s kingdom do not protess to
h: ye made their wealth at home.
a man in Germany be well o.f it is
known that lieaecumulatcd Ids mohev
abroad. Throughout the winile
tiiat country ihere are six out
eve v ten working men willing to
emigrate to > mcr,*:.«, the new s thev
constantly receiving from their
.!<•,.erican friends convincing them
that their prospects of advancement
and good wages are far superior in
the United States lo what they are in
any part of Europe.’
! number of English families,
had been ei ■*i > 1 eyed at oot/on weaving
in Manchester, were likewise among
the crowd of new comers, as
some Dutch farmers an 1 laborers.
The .Rotterdam brings a number
shoemakers, all of whom have through
ticZets to Pennsylvania. Tfie labor
bureau continues to provide
meat for all who want it. and in
proof of their success im this
it may be stated that though nearly
three thousand Germans have landed
this week, not one remains
Garden. For all smta ot female labor
the demand from distant fctates
continues very active at good wages
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A TERRIBLE DISGUISE,
.
TIlE kspi-dicnt kesouteo to by a
noted ciuminae.
—
St. Louis Republican,
‘I don’t want you to mention my
name,’ said a gentleman at the City
Hall yesterday afternoon, ‘because a
small pox notoriety is not an envia-
hie one, and it is now some years
since I had much to do with the dis-
I was a young man whli a
mani:l for tiic stl ;dy of medioine, and,
having no means, I was compelled to
earn my living at the same time 7
was reading. It occurred to me that
if I could get a clerkship at one
the hospitals I might study *o much
better advantage and watch the course
of disease as well as assist in surgi-
operation*. I go" a job at Belle-
rue hospital. New \or.;. and ‘.vorzed
as an orderly or nurse, i ::en
pox became very prevalent, and I
was sent down to the
hospital on the end of Blackwell’s
Ulaad, opposite VorkvUle. Araonu
the patients was one man wno had
the worst case I ever saw. It win
frightful to see him and hear lira
rave. When he began to recover I
pail him a good deal ot attention,
and we became quite friendly. Tnere
was an air of mystery about the man
which rather puzzled me, but a/l.e
did not tell me muchaVnu Ids affaN
Devoted to News- Politics Agriculture aad General pragiess-
TOCCOA, GA., MAY 27 9 1882.
I did not- ack him to enlighten me
One day he took very sick and grew
rapidly worse. V sat by his bedside
by the hour, but he .had made up his
mind that his time had come, and he
was very uneasy, / was about to go
off watch in the evening, when he
motioned for me to bend over him.
lie grasped my hand in both ot his
own :
‘Promise not to divulge what I
am about to tell you until after / am
dead/
•] promise.’
Swear it,’ said he, faintly.
l l swear it.*
He was very weak and I could
barely hear what he said, when his
hot breath burned my ear.
T am --, the bank robber.’
What?’ I asked, dumbfounded.
‘Yes; 7 have been tracked for two
years and just hounded until I was
compelled to embrace the expedient,
What expedient?’ I asked. '
‘The detectives knew me so well
that I’coulcl not disguise myself and
J deliberately contracted small-pox
in order to get my lace pitted and
thus alter my looks. You /mow how
well 7 have succeeded, my face is
hideouslv podied, and I might have
had some rest from the detectives,
but 1 am going to die here,
‘He was too much exhausted lb
speak farldicr, and 1 bade iron lay
still and tell me raorc in the
On the morrow he was sinking rapid-
ly and hardly able to speak, but he
described a spot near astoria where
he' had Vmried ^5,000 a year previous-
ly, and asked me to accept it as
mai’K ot nis Iricudship. He o,ed at
noon, and two days Liter i went out
to Astoria and found the money, just
as he inul said i would. At first 1
(tid not know what to do with it, as
\* was undoubtedly the result of some
hank robbery, but I finally concluded
to keep it. for rn,y own use, I have
never told the story before, but ti.o-o
who knew the determination of the
man would not doubt the veracity of
m y story. No I I wdl not tell you
his name/
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ANOTHER A RHANSAS AFFAIR,
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Arkansas Gazette.
old bo-.v.legwcil Jake, a colored
‘'
man of h ^ ^ h 9 t ttn ^i ng U1] J extreme
blaclaiess llter ed thecoimty olerk s
aud said : '
‘Boss, I wants a par ob
15ocnse> J j SQ a o i 0 mjin> p ut j- SQ
v q ne ter marry one ob de youngest
*
gals in dis community.’ parents‘of
‘Have the the girl a«y
objections to the marriage?’asked the
clerk hesitating as to whether or not
the license should be issued.
™ aoau seen, so ley »e.‘
-Did you ask the old man's
sent'; v>
'A°, sah.’
‘How do you /mow, then, that he
does not object?’
•wed, yer seel has been callin
on de young lady for some time, and
ias night de ole man come in, tuck
down a army gun an said dat he
reckoned me an’ Lindy oughtcr git
married. Dis morn in' he come
ter m*, house w id de gun an sai-I
about in) goin at once an
git ten de license. I told him dat I
had a wife scutewoar- in de country,
but he cocked de ole gun an’ looAed
so sail like, dat I struck a trot tor
dis office.
you . ; a\ uung w .„ ,.e. o.d man,
; can t issue a license.
‘But, boss, dis is one ob dese
string:nt cases. De loddcr oo de
gulls standiu-out eornerob.e
house .w.....a, arm} s un. ksbCuei,
boss, for a. mao ‘ laJ t ''° j 1 jm
wives den it is lor a oman tei hab one
dead husband/
l-inait), the d in an witu the gun
was induced to come into tne otbee
and explain. Men, \ei see, boss,
he sab.,‘old Jake bat, been buruin-
my oi' an' mri,,‘ out d- bottoms ob
ray chairs long enough. He's been
eatin’at my house more'n a year,
my gal, and now I wants
hyn to board de gal awhile, Ef he
don’t I’ll hab to injure him.’
After awhile, however, the old
man agreed that if JaAe would pay
him $5 the affair would be settled
without marriage. The money was
paid ov(?r, and the two men content-
plate establishing a catfish restan-
ran:.
T i 1E P ECU LI A RITIES O F
SMALL-POX.
It is one of the most communicable
of all diseases, bjing both contagious
and infectious; that is, it may be
communicated by touching a person
who has it, or by touching a garment
that he has worn, or an article tlwit
he has handled ; or it may be’carried
in tbCqir, and thus coimminicated to
a person who never saw nor ever
came very near any afflicted with it.
it may come from handling paper
money ; it may be brought, by mail in
a newspaper or letter, or in a package
by express ; it may be caught lrom a
fellow traveler on a railroad, or from
passer-by in the street, or from the
casual visit of a friend. The germs
it will remain in bed-emthing,
carpets and the ft he tor months, and
perhaps ^ lor years; it respects no
season of the year and r.o spot on the
earth, it visits the tropics ; it has
slain iG millions in Mexico ; it nearly
depopulated-’Greenland ; it reaches
mountain tops, and breams out
lnul-oceun ; * it has no tayorod
local, ties . ,n. hole c,tv,h is its
home. Its most frightful slaughter
was in tbo seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries. But in those days theie
were no rallrords and no steam, and
but little commerce, no express
companies, and but little mail matter,
and but yen' little travel in any way.
In these days oi c'Maeie^a tutcrco.use
and perpetu u running to and tic, it
the disease were unenec-keu as it was
then, its ravages would soon depopu-
late the whole civilized worn! ; and
perhaps this proposition would remain
true if the word civilized "ere
out, for it is a wall estab-
tislled foct f 1 * 1 ."’"AA ALA
races ® rc <n u .®' “"‘ft 1 ‘
than tli0 vv: 1 i es are ai ‘^ 1
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UUel ^ to die lrom lts eiieC S ‘
TWO WAYS OF BEGINNING
LIFE. __T
indue time the cifcv girl becomes
e n<nmed to the man of her choice,
w p 0 . whatever Ills means, forthwith
proc eeds to buy her a diamond
The ^LLious courtship* Lnuev, is conducted in an
e,„l ibe byUUl
^ssea* is as elaborate as papa’s
means will admit. Tueyare married
in church with numerous bridesmaids
and flowers. The orange blossoms
and veil of the bride tremble with
only unrefined things
in thc house. Emotiba ‘has gone out/
After the ceremony the cou p ,e
iuto a hac* and ride around for a
whiie , an d then go back to the third
story at ‘mammas/ while*
ma rriage ceremony comes out two
weeks later. They cannot go to
church until aiter it is published,
go then and everybody shakes
hands with them, and the) teli lwu
they r p
huozicngic "lantern. Meanwhile thc
g}rl , narr i es , too. The
ceremony rakes place at home, and
shc lias a bridesmaid. She is engaged
witn a plain
t'U Al’diu- there
a supper, and titeii feh© young man
bids her people good-bye, and putting
her into his-buggy, drives over to his
home ^
^ a * a * from ebureii the following
^guday, even if the marriage notice
- out, and sometimes it does
g not
appear in the papers «t all: but
cvcr^dr knot- end calf to * <•
1 TERMS--$1
i 50 A YEAR,
jNU.
She is ‘awfhlly behind the
looks really happy, even
b it is the Lisburn tor brides to look
THE NOVEL BEATTY IN
CAPITOL.
SL Louis Globe Democrat.
At the Garfield tea party,
ieconL A hi the lotunda of the C
tnere was one beautiful stranger
who excited every one's interest. She
tab, exquisiteh slondei and
gi aceful, with fine, delicate features.
a creamy complexion and eves and
hair as black as midnight. Women
ot that raro beauty were only to be
in Spanish-Ametican countries
an <* approached to barely by the
iove b* creoles ot New Orleans. I he
unknown lady wore just the dress an
arfclsfc wouIcI 1,avc P nt berin—adeep,
gulden colored satin, with slec\c»
and draperies ot bhick ^ thread lace,
a large corsage bouquet of red
rosos ’ and her hair was caught baet:
loose knot ^‘ e
stopped betore live Kansas tab e and
s P° iC to - 1 p- A 06111 • nunei iatC.\
<in ent iusia..tic }Oun rt nuoi nis iei
to asK who.thc Mexican beauty was.
'*>o you know her. he said and Lie
inailoa C J Ul J. ' C J!
l0 P > ^. ( ^' , v b x ^ x
‘*
augoter _ in
^ aw, : t . ec.an, cl t..c
A * u * an ini...). Mis. vOii. xsas
a princess of the Cherokee A'atiou,
a ,,n,s,cal nawC oi }ha
garnet °.> m lai betore A an saeconveutionaiizea »F
‘ t " ; b,u 1-> 9 1 ° n °
. m most .>e., u du^ w omen o e seen,
° 1 ^ * . yy STRICT ^ I Y Tl’MPFH-
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‘Why,’ thundered an impassioned
orator at a temperance mass meet-
in- ‘in only one year, in twelve short
months, the' people of the United
States drank 2?,806,9IB gallons of
] jeer?an d 7,853,291 -gallons of
j. y , j[ ow much of that hideous
aggregate did you drink?’ he shrieked,
g] ar * ng aroun d a t the respectable
v j cs .p reg id eu t s on the platform,
An q - a tjie j m passive pUtise that
foU()wed the corrC8 p on( i ing secretary
arosCj autl 8a \a that with the exeep-
tion ° r H ’ e t0 " iC < ' r ‘ >1 ” sho ' V1 * sc,,m
take b-fore l.reaVfast and
the anti-malarial bitters that
Bolus prescribed (or her, and a little
pale ale for her digestion and a pint
of beer »t-night, which she eouidnt
close an eve in sleep without it,
may be an occasional drop of brandy
for tilC neuralgia, she had not tasted
a^rop since of spiritual she joined or the
boc.et) .
A,, d a great hush tell upon the
ing, hke the voice of a man who has
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ars ’_
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Tin-: Safest .Seat.—T he frequency
of colHsioa3 on railroads 1ms raised
the questi()tUt y/hich is the place
greatest seoority in a railroad train?
RoUro'd Jo urn-U gives the
following a9 an ans wer ; It is very
vvcll Anown tiiat the ear nearest the
0JJoille is expo sed to thc least dmU
and fchat \ tfc& rear than* cai . „f d train
g Cnera Vy Safer the front
safest is probably the last ear
onct i u a train of more than
cJirg ^ t j ierc are fe-wer chances
accident to this than any other. If
it is a way t-raiu at moderate speed,
« a »? tra '"' staQ ^ iB S stlU -» coll » on
is possible from another twin >»
rear: in which the last car
- ’ ue f shock. Again, the engine
am i the front cars of a tfAin will often
rtm over a broken rail, or a cow, or
stone, without detriment, while the
last car, having nothing to draw it
j a to thc line of the train, is free to
| e . lvc t i JC track. Next, to the forward
ear the rear car « probably thc most
unsafe iu the train. The safest seat
is probably near the centre of the last
car but one, and in a vei) long tiain,
in the centre* of thel.a« two «r
next to Mm 1W
OBEYING TuLIB WIVES.
There were five of them together*
and it was late, They had been
drinking, Finally, one of them
looked at the clock and said :
•What will our wives sav when wc
cOme home?’
‘Let them say what they want to.
Mine will tell me to goto the mischief/
responded No 2.
‘/’H tell you what we’ll do. Let us
meet here again in the morning, aud
tell our experiences Let the one
who has refused to do what his wife
told him to do when he got home,
pay for this evening s entertainment/
‘That's a good idea. IVc will agree
to that.’ So the party broke up and
went to thcir re *P ectlvc homes.
Next morning they mot at the
appointed place, and began to tell
their experiences.
Sat 1 No 1 :
‘When 1 opened the door my wifo
ffa8 awa ke. She said : *A pretty
time of night for you to be coming
hoinc> y ou had bettor go out and
sleep in the pig pen, for that’s what
u come to sooner or later,
ant/how.’ Bather than pay for all wo
had drank last night, I did what she
told me to. That lets tnc out/
A ext!
No 2 cleared his throat and said.*
»\Vhen I got home 7 stumbled ou a
c j ia i r> and my wife called; ‘There
you arG again, yon drunken brutel
You had better wake up the children
and stagger about for awhile, so they
Cftll soc what a drunken brute of a
f at j ler they are afflicted with.’ 1
thought the best thing I could do
under the circumstances was to obey;
so 1 woAe up the children, and stag¬
gered around until my wife hinted to
me to stop. Bhe used a chair in
conveying the hint. That lets ra«
oht/
Next!
Ao o apokc up, and said .
‘I happened to stumble o\er the
'
pan 0 f dcugh, ami my wife said:
‘Drunk again’ Hadn’t you better ait
down in that dough?’ So I sat down
in it, and that lets me out,
Next l
N o 4 said :
‘I was humming a tune, aud my
wife called out: ‘There you are
ft g a in • Hadn’t you better give us a
concert?’ I said ‘certainly/ and
'»B»” sin S as 10,1,1 ,s 1 coul,1 ‘ btt ‘
she told me to stop, or she would
throw something «t mo, so I stopped.
That lets me out.’
Next!
No 5 looked very disconsolate,
lie g:\id ;
‘7 reckon I'll have to pay. My
wife told me to do something none of
yuu would have done, if you had been
111 m v P lacc *
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‘."I'/lawil ’ • _ ‘So you thought 0 you
wooW ’
c(>mc , M)me at ) ast t N ow
hadn’t you better go out to the well
and drink a couple of buckets of
wter ^ F just^toastonish it'sdny your stomachy
funeral.’
AN UNFORTUNA1E YOUTH
WIK , MISSED MAKING A
FORTUNE EASILY.
, C - street ^ saloonVesterday saloon y™th with his h -
H^ ^
through his tobacco smoke aud lager-
laden sawdust.
•Hullo.’ cried a friend, ‘what's
wrong with yoti, Bob'? You look
pi„ e< ’
‘I've been thinlin^/ said the tired
and me lancholy young man, ‘how
different mv life would have been if
I ra been born witk a Uil/
.frith a tail”
‘Yes, with a tail. If it had been
j n) y j uc l to have a tail I’d been ro-15-
ing in wealth to day instead of sitting
p erc |, ft [f tired to death with hard
|. »
how in the name of zoology
wonlcl a tail help you out? astod
the friend, in amassment.
: *\Vhv, can't you see? Whenever I
‘
‘\ aonov ^ all I'd have to do
wnn p Ul 0 into a ca „ e or onto a
. ° ^ cxTiibit myseff. A man
bU a , ail wou!d the public
and set ail the science** sharps wild.
eatch onto thc tail.*’
J, «-r <h, ♦ ish*tb *41,1 th« "‘less* frier I respec^dlly, 7
i w had one
■ Uiyself
; see * u ’ t he wav vou put it.
have a-lass of beer?*
I ‘., r ( £ t i vounflt
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