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FRIDAY OCTOBER 15, 1880.
The Last I.vdigkity to Maine
It la now raId that Garfield will be sent
to Maine as a visiting statesman. He has
large experience in making aflidavits, and
can work up a beautiful case for Davis.
At a recer.i police trial in London two
individuals swore, under cross-examina
tion, that “they got their living by buying
cheap violins and by doctoring them up
to repiesi.it old ones, and selling them
such.”
The first sentence of death in Kentucky
of a white murderer of a negro has just
been accomplished at Shelbyville. The
ciime v. us particularly atrocious, the per-
pentrator being an cx-convict and the vic
tim a young girl.
Gen. Grant says that Hancock’s two
telegrams were sent at a cost of 8100.
Feriiaps their importance justified the ex
pense. The country cannot judge, be
cause tiioy never have been published.
They wore nJieial, and should be on file.
Let us have dm telegrams! , ,
Eli'EH Daxiei. Franklin, a Camp-
belliu: preacher, delivered a political ser
mon the other day in favor of his brother
Campbeilite, Garfield, at Fairview, Ind.
“Ill had the power,” he said, “which
Christ had over his enemies, no Democrat
would be ii-aie to vole at the next election.”
Georgs S. Waireb is being prose
cuted iu Philadelphia for marrying bis
niece. The Pennsylvania law on the sub
ject says that “no woman shall marry her
mothers brother,” and Walker’s iawyer
argues that It does not forbid the brother
to marry tue niece. A decision has net
been readied.
An aged miser was found murdered in
his bouse, at Niles, Mich., and $500 ot his
hoar*: was missing. For months the mys -
•cry of the crime was not penetrated. At
length a quiet, respected fourteen-year-old
boy of tire neighborhood began to spend
msney freely. Being accused of the mur
der, he confessed his guilt.
A rniVATS letter from Indiana says
that the Republicans are speeding an
enormous amount of money there, mainly
contributed by office holders, the national
banks, and brokers, in league with* John
Sherman. They make no secret of this
and openly boast that they have “fixed”
the State for a Republican majority.
Heavy Mast Year.—A Bowling
Green K-n.) paper says: This is a most
rema stable year for mast iu this vicinity.
The growth is soenormustbattbe brandi
es of the lives are aboiately breaking off
and failing i<> the ground. Every species
of mast, irom the dwarfish bazleuut to“the
gigantic oak, is burdened with Iruit of its
kind. '
On the Tram i*.—Mr. Hayes lias’ aban
doned Lis .civil service, reform, and, in im
itation of Grant, is going all over the
country exhibiting himself. He does not
create the tenth part of the enthusiasm
that Grant's menagerie did. The animals
au not to well trained, nor the equipage
so, gorg<sous in appearance. As a show,,
the Grant caravan was a success, but
Hayes’ effort is a miserable failure.
Georoe Washington Childs, mor
tuary bard, and Anthony Drexel, the
wcalhy banker, have.bought six hun
dred acres of land twelve miles from Phil
adelphia, and intend to make it a popu
lous suburb. The enterprise is not so
much speculative as benevolent. Persons
of moderate means can buy lots on credit,
and will be assisted to build houses. The
place U on the rennsylvauiaRailroad, and
will lie called Wayne.
A Proposed Present.—Hf. Alexan
der Williams, of Boston, has in his pos
session a massive walking stick which
formerly belonged to Tnoinas Hancock,
uncle of John Hancock of revolutionary
faule. It is in a perfect state of preservation,
and is more than one hundred and fifty
years old, and has the name of Thomas
Hancock on its finely carved head. Mr.
Williams proposes to present this valua
ble relic to Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock,
when be becomes President of the United
States. _
How Oub Colored Citizens Voted.
The Savannah llecorder (Norwood) says:
The negroes of Chatham county hart so
little confidence in Colquitt’s promises
and record that they, yesterday refused to
S t him but very little support. Look at
, colored vote as shown in the resnlt.
in many other counties also, among
them, notably Baker, Colquitt, Thomas,
Morgau, Fulton, Bartow, Webster, Chat
tahoochee, Echols, and others, the ne
groes voted very generally for Norwood,
acd they were more or less divided in
every county iu the State. The prepon
derance of the colored vote, however, was
for Colquitt, because of his friendly per
sonal relations, and so was a pronounced
minority of the whites.
To the Front.—Thomas A. Edison
and Menlo Park have been quiet, and
have been overlooked by tbe public dur
ing tbe great political excitement. Mr.
Edison, lwwcvcr, in tbe October number
of the Jforth Americttjt Jlevlew, comes to
the front again in the electric light, and
claims a success complete iu all depart
ments. And he talks enthusiastically of
the time when electrical engines will be
employed on the Pennsylvania railroad,
and says he can readily obtain a speed ot
fifty to sixty miles an hour with less
danger of accident than occurs with
steam; for the rails transmit the energy
that moves the train, and the instant
the engine leaves the " track this
energy ceases to be in communication
with it.
The Washington pieacnere have issued
a circular to the churches throughout the
coon try calling forcarncst prayer “that
God Will forgive our great national sins;
tim; the foundations laid by our fathers
and cemented l<y the blood of our broth
ers may remain unshaken; that the peo
ple may withstand temptation to wrong
doing on the day cf Lire election, and that
the candidates preferred by tbe majority
of the actual citizens of tbe republic—the
candidate who will be true to tbe genius
oi our institutions, to tbe best interests of
our nation and common humanity, and
helpful to tbe cause of temperance, puri
ty und true religion—may be elected, and
ijiat the political party may prevail whose
-uccess will most conduce to financial,
civii and inoral prosperity at home; to
j.ca hi and respect , broad, and to the fa-
v or of tho God of our fathers.” That is
cert licly a prayer which every Democrat
can offer. Its favorabie answer will be
me election ot Hancock.
The Georgia State Election.
Toe Moral to ee Drawn From It.
The only important moral to be drawn
from tbe election last Wednesday is to be
gathered from tho absence of votes, and
that, rightly considered, is alarming. Ap
parently uot half the people voted, and
the absentees embrace a very large pro
portion of our most intelligent and ex-
einplaty population.
It was tbe resnlt of a profound and un
conquerable disgust with the political
situation—a conviction that the politicians
have sacrificed the interests if the ^people
and the State to personal interests and
fends. It is the record ol a terrible judg
ment against the Democratic party—
“mene, mcne, tekel vpharsin”—“thou art
weighed in the balance and found want
ing.”
Never was such an indignant and dis
gusted people. The men of discord may
shout over or deplore the result, such as
it Is, but tbe men of sense, who arc able
to weigh tbe situation and to comprehend
its auguries, feel like putting crape round
their hats. Within our memory and ex
perience, which runs back in politics forty
years, we never saw a campaign so inef
fably, remorselessly and irredeemably
stupid, senseless and ill-favored in every
part, parcel and particular. If there has
been redeeming sense, virtue or patriotism
in it, it has been invisible to tbe naked
eye. We have been able to think of noth
ing so much as a dog-fight, and tbe loudest
yelpers have been tbe best fellows.
We suppose, however, that nothing bet
ter can come of a mere persona! fight,
when tbe attacking and repellent forces
arc confined to tbe argumentum ad homi-
nem. Of one thing we may be sure: that,
if tbe Georgia Democracy do not in tbe
future make amends for tbe past, their
course will be rapidly downward to tho
level of the contempt of all good men.
If tbe men cf age, sense, experience and
standing in the counties do not take direc
tion of pnblic affairs and bold tbe inflam
mable and irresponsible in check, wc may
as well “bang np the fiddle and tbe bow.”
Tlie Genius of Georgia is careful, consid
erate, conservative and patriotic. She is
not a good theatre for coup <Vetats, tricks
and surprises. We must move along with
justice, judgment and equanimity, or the
State will not long be moved by the Dem
ocratic party as it stands.
Hancock and Grant;
We are sure every man of sense in
America has been struck with the wisdom
and self-pcssessiou shown by General
Hancock when Grant’s brutum fulmen
telegram was shown to him. He was
calm as a judge. Not a pulse quickened.
Not a single word or gesture showed irri
tation. He had not a word of passionate
challenge or resentment. He must first
know distinctly what Grant had said
about him. The telegram was mere hear
say evidence. He was slow to believe
that any personal ill-will could have be
trayed the General into an attack so
groundless and unbecoming. When lie
could ascertain from tbe most direct
source exactly what General Grant de
sired or intended to say against him, he
would meet tbe charges with the utmost
■promptitude. Tillthen be bad nothing to
say.
How admirably this comports with all
that we have seen or beard from Hancock!
Tlie same careful, scrupulous, honorable,
high-toned gentleman and elevated pa
triot, with a massive head on his shoul
ders. A man not to be distuibed by pas-
slou or carried away by impulse—unsha
ken in the perfect integrity of his own
character and purposes, he feels superior
to malice or falsehood. We feel perfect
ly confident that this last and desperate
partisan assault will miscarry more fa
tally than any of its predecessors.
The Election Laws in Indiana.
Republicans Caught in the Act of
Importing Negro Voters.
One cause of the anxiety expressed in
reference to the result of the approaching
election iu Indiana is the loose and defec
tive character of the election laws in that
State. A sojourn for six months in any
part of the commonwealth, without regard
to immediate previous residence in a par
ticular township or county, is the only
qualification required of a voter. Hence,
any imported stranger has only to be car
ried to some locality where be cannot be
identified, and if lie takes the oath, when
administered, bis vote is forthwith re
corded.
It is easy to see, therefore, that any
number of colored persons ipay be intro
duced from the South, and voted at will
without dispute, unless proof to convict
them of false swearing " can be adduced.
That the Republicans are preparing to
utilize this foreign element is made suffi
ciently apparent by tbe following inci
dent, which we condense from tbe Courier-
journal :
On the 4th or October two negroes,
Berry Mosby and Richard Davidson, were
sent to Indianapolis from Bowling Green,
Ky., by Rev. A. Alicnsworth, a colored
Baptist preacher and Republican elector
from that State, and directed to report to
the Republican committee, who would
take care of them until after the election,
and pay them well for their services.
Alicnsworth told them he had sent many
others of their race to Indiana within the
last six weeks to vote for Porter, and that
it was a very easy way to make money.
Tbe affair camo to light in this wiser
On the trim from Louisville with the ne
groes was a Democrat wlio represented
himself to be a mail agent living In In
dianapolis and In full sympathy with
them. They were pleased with his ad
vances, and gladly accepted ol an offer
.from their new friend to show them to the
Republican State Central Committee
rooms. ~-
Upon arriving at Indianapolis, they
were taken'to the “Hotel Bat06” and pro
vided for.
Mr. Rice, secretary-of the State Central
Committee, was informed of their where
abouts and introduced as a leading Re
publican. Mr. Rico then presented Mr.
Neff, Warden Murdock and otbeis to tbe
negroes, as members in high standing in
tbe “God and morality party.” The two
negroes, completely deceived, made a
clean hreaat of everything, and told of a
number of their colored friends who bad
come to Indiana to vote for Porter. Many
more, also, were expected to follow that
week. Said Mosby, “There will be lots
of us here on election day."” They were
taken ostensibly to tbe custom house to
be furnished with funds and permanent
quarters, but in reality to tbe office of C.
B. Rockwood, chief supervisor of elec
tions, and greatly to the surprise of tbe
poor fellows, a demand made for their
arrest, on tbe charge of coming into the
State to vote at the election next Tues
day.
The over-scrupulous Rockwood, how
ever, refused to mako the arrest, on the
ground that the “fnfenf” to commit an
offense was not a legal offense, so long as
the act had not iu reality been perpetrat
ed.
At this stage of the proceedings a young
whipper snapper deputy United States
marshal stepped up to the negroes, and
said, “There Is no warrant against you;
you can go.”
The darkies then sloped incontinently,
despite the protest of the gentlemen who
sought to prevent a high crime against
the laws of the State. From the above,
it will be seen wliat a difficult task tbe
Democrats of Indiana have before them,
to prevent their State from being overrun
by subsidized, imported negro voters, who
will be made the willing instruments of a
corrupt party, to defeat tbe wishes of the
legitimate voters of the commonwealth.
A Mystery. *
Will Some One Please Explain.
In respect to tbe thunderbolt launched
on the 5th inst. by General Grant at tbe
head of Hancock, there is a mystery which
seeks explanation. Tbat assault was re
ceived at this office at 3 r. m. on the 5tb,
and was dnly published on tbe morning of
tlie Gth. It was, as all our readers, know,
the authoritative report of Dr. H. C. Fow
ler of his Interview with General Grant
in the study of the latter ou the 21st day
of September last, and was, according to
instructions, sent to tbe press on tbe 5tb.
Yesterday, our first opportunity to see
what the press bad to say about it oc
curred on the receipt of tbe Nashville
Daily American of the Cth instant; but to
our surprise that paper did not contain
tbe telegram or any reference to its ex
istence. The Chattanooga Times, of the
6tb, bad it, because tbat press is supplied
by tbe same line as we are. But tbe
American, which is connected with the
Western Press Association, had not a
word on the subject.
These facts set conjecture afloat. Was
that telegram withdrawn by one route,
and not by tbe other; and if so, why? Ev
idently, from Grant’s corrections of the
original, which were sent to our next edi
tion and appeared yesterday, some very
serious afterthoughts had come to Grant
or to Fowler, or both. Fowler, in his or
iginal telegram, had got what Grant said
very much confused and mixed up with
what Grant says he did not say, according
to his subsequent telegram, so tbat it
would take a very careful commentator to
make out, by comparing their telegrams,
precisely what Grant admits he did say.
Did some discreet friend of the ex-
President get hold of tbe original inter
view telegram, after it had been sent
Southward and before it bad been sent
West, and hold it midway between the of
fice and the wires? Did he then commu
nicate in ail haste with Grant! Did he
say, my dear General, this thing won’t be
gin to do? Besides patent errors in his
torical fact, it is full of a spirit which will
nurt you and ns, but won’t hurt Hancock
and the Democrats? You must stop it
where it is, aud was it stopped according
ly? These anil many other doubts and
queries suggest themselves to impartial
minds and await an answer.
About Indiana.
Tbe election in Indiana takes place next
Tuesday, and everywhere expectation is
on tiptoe to hear the result; for it is com
monly said that if Indiana goes for Han
cock tbe battle is won. A few days ago,
tbe Philadelphia Times sent an impartial,
long-headed observer to Indiana to ex
amine into matters. Wc think' it is tbe
same man who was sent to Maine, and
who astonished tbe people by declaring
tbat tbe difference would not be a thou
sand votes either way, and this announce
ment was printed when Blaine and liis
friends were claiming from ten to fifteen
thousand majority.
■ In tbe Times of tbe 5th this correspond
ent makes bis first report of Indiana. He
says tbe Republican committee are claim
ing a majority of nine to ten thousand,
but it is for effect. After conference with
tbe most intelligent Republican sources,
he says: “They (tbe Republicans) are
fighting not wholly without hope, but in
all probability with the fear tbat the best
they can do is to keep down tbe Demo
cratic majority and show a loss as com
pared with four years ago.”
Of tbe other side he says:
There is perfect confidence on the part
of the Democrats. Mr. English places tbe
probable majority for Landers at 7,000.
Senator McDonald, who is not given to
enthusiastic claims, says it can’t possibly
go below 7,000, and he would not be sur
prised to see it reaching away to 10,000 or
12,000. The Greenback vote, he believes,
will not exceed 10,000. Two years ago it
was nearly 40,000, and this difference will
divide with tbe largest share to the Dem
ocrats. Before the Maine election its drilt
was toward tbe Republicans, but it has
since then been going more noticeably
tbe other way. Weaver’s presence in the
State ha3 about broken up tbe Green-
backers’ organization. The few who con
tinue leaders in the movement are so well
understood to be following Weaver’s tac
tics to assist tbe Republicans tbat tbe’ fol
lowers are all brokefi up and refnse any
longer to bo followers. Tbe evident co
operation of tbe Greenbackers aud Repub
licans has been an advantage to the Dem
ocrats in having solidified the German
vote and bringing back the Democratic
Grecnbackers, wlio decline to be traded
off. It is McDonald’s opinion that the
aggregate vote will not be materially
larger than in 1878, although there will
be some increase. Estimating from the
rate of four years ago, the Democratic
part of the increase will be greater. Con
siderable account is made of the young
men who vote for the first time, who take
naturally to Hancock. Whatever may be
English’s unpopularity, it is of noaccount.
Tbe people don’t stop to think of it, and
are couiitiiui for Hancock or Garfield as if
they were in the canvass in November.
To the same purport IS a communica
tion to the Sun from a Democrat just from
Indiana dated, at tbe Astor House, 4th
instant. He says:
I am just from Indianapolis wherelhad
talks with English, Seirator McDonald,
Gen. Manson, Shoemaker (owner of the
Stntinel), and with all the leading Demo
crats. There is perfect harmony aud
more earnest enthusiasm than I aver be
fore witnessed. English authorized me
to say East that Indiana is safe .by a good
round majority; tbat the Democracy of
the State are running tbe campaign on
their own money, and have a perfect or
ganization in every town and-county.
Gen. Manson says: “Tell the brethren
North that Indiana will go Democratic by
15,000 majority.”
Senator McDonald is a cool, far-aeeing
man—perhaps the best-poated man in In
diana except English himself (whom I
believe to be tbe best " political organizer
and ablest manager of a campaign in
America), and the Senator aays tbe State
will go Democratic by a good, comforta
ble majority. It is conceded on all bands
out there that Hancock and English will
run ahead of the State ticket by from 6,-
000 to S,000.
Mosby will vote as be shot, aga'aa
Hancock.
After the Battle.
It affords us real pleasure to chronicle
tbe fact tbat despite tbe political excite
ment which has raged at fever heat in
this community for weeks, the election
for Governor, State bouse officers and
members of the Legislature, which was
held on Wednesday,passed off quietly and
wifcout the slightest disturbance or breach
of tbe peace. As we bad anticipated, Bibb
county gives Gov. Colquitt a handsome
majority, and the election returns from
the seaboard to tbe mouutains show tbat
the people of Georgia have indorsed and
triumphantly “vindicated” their able and
patriotic Governor.
And now “let the dead past bury Its
dead.” The supreme duty of aiding, at
this critical juncture in the election of thq
standard bearers of the national Democ
racy, leaves no room for further dissen
sions and strife among ourselves. A pure
ly personal contest between two candi
dates for the gubernatorial office having
been settled at the ballot box, it is the
dictate alike of wisdom and necessity to
bury the hatchet, and fuse once more as
a unit for the good of the country.
We have no disposition whatever to tri
umph over our defeated Norwood friends.
Indeed, the whole canvass was humilia
ting to every true Democrat, and we trust
its like may never be witnessed again In
Georgia. Tho very smallness-of the vote,
after the frantic efforts of so many speak
ers on both sides, is a withering rebuke
from the conservative element of the State,
How could they bo expected to evince
much interest in a contest so personal,
fratricidal aud possibly ruinous in its
consequences ? The sooner, then, every
incident and root of bitterness connected
with tbe late ill-stirred split in tbe ranks
of the Democracy is consigned to obliv
ion, the better will it be for tbe welfare
and happiness of our people. Now, tbe
great duty of tbe hour is to support and
work for Hancock and English. Let us
be “up and at” tbe common Radical ene-
At What Age Should Children Go to
school?
Here is a very interesting question to
all parents. The progress to maturity
may be more rapid in Macon than in New
York, but it is equally unquestionable that
our long summers are more exhausting
and our ill-ventilated school bouses are
vastly inferior to tbe airy and commodi
ous buildings devoted to education in that
city:
To the Editor of the Sun—Sir: Dur
ing my practice of medicine I have treated
many hundred children for various dis
eases, a great many of which were engen
dered by compulsory mental exertion, to
gether with hygienic neglect during
school horns. Although some chaildren
-may, at the age of five or sis years, be
physically strong enough to undergo men
tal training, yet from a physical stand
point the brains (cerebrum and cerebel
lum) of these little ones are uot sufficient
ly developed to endure a protracted and
irksome occupation until tbe uiutb or
tenth year. I consider tbe kindergarten
system, after Frobel’s, the best method in
bringing up children to a certain age.
They ought not to be subjected to so rigid
a discipline as is generally adopted in our
public schools, but should be instructed
after an easy, pleasant, and amusing
method (for otherwise it inayliare a reflex
action on the brain). There is too much
cramming in the present system; if the
brain is not ready to receive it is useless,
ahd to a certain degree even criminal, to
resort to compulsion.
As regards ventilation it is very imper
fect; so much so that, owing to the over
crowding of some of tlie rooms, tbe oxy
gen (which is the element in the atmos
phere, absolutely necessary to life) con
tained therein becomes speedily used up,
and Us place is taken by carbonic acid
gas (which is a product of the waste of
the body, and is exhaled through the
lungs). This consumption of oxygen aud
surcharging with carbonic acid produces
a vitiated atmosphere, which will poison
the system in direct proportion to the state
of vitiation and the amount inhaled.
Hence so many diseases of the nervous
system. The rapid and frightful increase
of insanity is greatly attributed to over
taxation of the nerves, and may in many
instances be traced back to early child
hood, as is tbe opinion of some of the most
prominent physicians and writers on nerv
ous diseases in Europe, such a3 Dr. Vail-
lant, Professor at l’Academie d9 France,
Paris; Dr. Erb, Professor of tbe Leipzig
University; Dr. Hasse, director of tbe In
sane Asylum iu Koenigslutter (who, by
the bj, treated seven pupils in one "day
suffering from nervous prostration due; to
mental exertion); Dr. Ziuu, from Ebtrs-
walde, who presided at tbe last meetsng
of tbe Association of German Insane Asy
lums, held in Eisenach, the other lay,
and others. All agree tbat a great chjnge
in tbe educational system Is necessary,
and will Lave to be insisted upon.
’ George Vallaint, M.D., Pb.D.
New York, Oct. 1.
The Irish Trouble.
The Irish news is alarming. Kents
seam to be tending all one way-to a
possible renewal of the struggle iorsepa-
ration and independence, which, as alight
against physical and political geognpby,
cannot win. Nature decrees the paitical
unity of tbe United Kingdom, and Hood
sbed for separation is lost. But it fe easy
to see how tbe anti-rent movement Aiust,
as things now tend, soon become tolora-
bly, If not actually, “another rebilion.”
Tho people banded together to reist tbe
collection of rents come in conflit with
the police, and the latter, reinfoccd by
the military, soon create a condtion of
guerilla war, as barbarous as it ,Vili be
unavailing—for all agree tbat lb rents
cannot be collected in tbat way. j
This brings a deadlock, which (rest be
met by negotiation—by hanonizing,
if possible, on some plan whict will be
sustained by Irish opinion, cr ley must
be broken down by forco—the sirn logic
of the bayonet. A military
Ireland for this purpose wouli
horrible to contemplate. It
tate Ireland, and demoralize .
the whole kingdom. Such
trouble on tbe back of Brills’
bilities and engagements abrid, would
strain national credit, confidecc and re
sources.
; A civil war, in any country,* tbe most
enfeebling of all conditions. It assaults
tlie foundations of a governmc-*, and par
ticularly would this be cleplqable while
involved in so many foreign explications
as now demand tbe attenion of the
British government.
As enormous as is the wqdth of that
government, it all rests oncredit. Tlie
single item to ber credit against- her
indebtedness is popular cofideuce. No
one imagines the debt of treat Britain
4-ill ever be paid, aud yet it U “good as
gold,” because - no one doXts tbat tbe
Interest on It will always be. forthcoming
at the day. But if the time should ever
dome wheu an accumulation of domestic
and foreign ills sliouid serisusiy threaten
to reduce British revenues to a poiut at
lyhich it should be Impossible to meet
interest, all that property represented by
tye public debt would be swept out of ex-
Lence.
Nor could tbat enormous fabric of
funded wealth endure tbe suspicion of be
ing iu hazard without disastrous conse- A Rejoinder to the Letter of General 'uecn successful. The result of yestcr-
nr,nrwu>o !„ » ■ day’s election, however, not only averts
this disaster, but will tend hereafter to
quences, world-wide iu their character.
The tranquillity of the United Kingdom is
almost as essential to the prosperity of
this country as it is to her .own. A civil
war or a serious disturbance threatening
it, will smite cotton and all our crops
with paralysis. We may very well,
therefore, “pray for tbe peace of Great
Britain.”
Lawton
Atlanta, October 4,1880.
To the People of Georgia:
I have seen in the Constitution of yes-
prevent any further effort to disrupt the
party, inasmuch as it shows that, party
The Tone of the State Press on the
Late Election.
’We’are pleased to notice so little of a
boastful spirit in the comments of the
Colquitt papers upon the result of the re
cent election, and the splendid triumph of
their favorite.
It should not be forgotten tbat tbe Nor
wood men form an important element in
the r nmocratic party, and both sides vo
ted the same ticket, save in the single in
stance of a choice for Governor. Moreo
ver, that unless all past differences are
forthwith buried out of sight; Georgia
may lose her present unbroken Demo
cratic representation in Congress, to say
nothing of placing in jeopardy the cause
of our national standard bearers, Han
cock and English. Besides, what is there
left to divide about since tbe one personal
issue has bien irrevocably disposed of,
aud iu the next gubernatorial race
Governor Colquitt, should he be desirous
of serving for another term, is ineligible
under tbe constitution.
Even tbe question of who shall be elect
ed to tbe United States Senate is. practi
cally no longer before tbe people, but de
volves upon their Representatives, already
chosen, in tbe next Legislature. The
time, then, is opportune for a perfect
-reconciliation of our late family quarrel,
which we trust will never be renewed
agaju, under any pretext whatever. Bet
ter consent to yield personal predilections
a thousand times than run the ieast risk
of disrupting tlie party, whose continued
success is essential to the future prosperi
ty and happiness of the commonwealth.
. • We hope then tbat the little exasperat
ing flings of our Atlanta contemporary
against the Norwoodites (albeit for the
most part meant in fun) will be continued
no longer. They are neither magnani
mous or becoming. And it must over be
borne in mind that party lines were not
and could not be drawn in the late can
vass, for the best of reasons, that neither
candidate had been regularly nominated.
Once more, then, we call alike upon Col
quitt and Norwood men to close up the
broken ranks of tbe Democracy, and let
us all rally as one man in tbe support of
Blount and tbe Hancock and English
electoral ticket.
Who is to be Believed?
General Grant, in his Warren (Ohio)
so-called speech, asserted that in fourteen
States of the Union, now under Dcmo-
cratic ruie, there wa3 no such thing as
protection at the polls in tlie exercise of
the ballot. Per contra, Senator Bayard
in bis late speech in Columbia, South
Carolina, emphatically proclaimed tbat
“to-day one of tbe dangers tbat confronts
us is the declaration of the leaders of the
Republican party that tlie safety and wel
fare of the people require the power to be
kept in the bands of tbat party. Under
tbat pretext they have resorted to official
interference with elections which threat
ens^ make elections no longer free.”
We of tbe South know that the noble
Senator from Delaware Is right; and, so
far from giving credeneo to the shameless
assertion of Grant, are living witnesses to
the fact that it was the speaker himself,
even the veritable aforesaid Grant, who
obstructed and even took possession of tbe
polls in several of tbe Southern States, to
the utter subversion of free local govern
ment. WIsat a pitiful object is an ex-
President of this great republic engaged as
partisan in a political canvass, and
slinging slanders at tbe heads of bis
former constituents and countrymen.
Ulysses Grant, by thus traducing tbe
South, and maligning a brother officer and
rival who proudly bears aloft the standard
ol the Democracy, has, if possible, fallen
lower than ever before in the eyes of all
decent people.
Ohio and Indiana
Are in a condition of absolute frenzy,
and it is doubtful whether Indiana will
get through election day without trouble.
It is confidently stated tbat the negro im
portations into Indiana now number 10,-
500, and as the effort to vote them will be
sternly contested at tlie polls, the danger
of conflict is apparent. The flood of money
sent from New York, Boston and Phila
delphia by the Garfield men within ten
day3 now amounts to about half a mil’ion
dollars, and there are ludicrous reports of
tbe scramble for it among the rival com
mittees of these States. The extraordina
ry importations of men and money into
Indiana seriously imperil Democratic
chances there, but tbe result, if the State
goes for the Republicans, will be devoid of
political significance other than that it lias
been carried by money and fraudulent
votes.
Senator Wade Hampton introduced
bis speech at Marion, tbe other day, with
this personal reminiscence:
My friends, in tbe good providence of
God I am spared to meet you onco again;
[Voice: “Thank God!” Cheers.] to look
into the faces of tlie kind women and good
men who extended the warmest sympa
thy to mo while I was hovering betweeu
life and death. I entered into tho canvass
not because I thought I was needed berc,
not because I thought I could do good,
but because I wanted to thank tbe people
wlio have honored me more than any man
under God’s sun. [Cheers.] I wanted to
tell the people whom I loved next to my
God that my last thought should bo of
them—of gratitude for their sympathy
aud kindness. [Cheers.] It seems tbat
in this meeting there is something
more than a mere coincidence.
The reverqnd gentleman wlio
opciioil oiir proceeding, with prayer
will remember. On tbe night Vm i ias
given up as on the point of death, when
the pains • of dissolution seemed almost
over for me, I received a letter from Mr.
Walker stating that the MenioUistConfer-
euce in session at Newberry bad devoted
an hour to prayers for my recovery. The
letter said that they bad done all they
could, aud that I must now exert myself
and determine to get well. And I did.
That night it seemed to me tbat I was
borne on invisible wings to every county
in South Carolina, where I saw great
gatherings of the people as of yours to
day, all prayiug for my recovery, and the
nest morning I told them that the crisis
was over and that I should recover.
The commissioners of the Freedman’s
Savings and Trust Company state that a
large amount (about one hundred thou
sand dollars) of the dividend of ,tcn pol
ecat. recently declared by them still re
mains uncalled for. Depositors are urged
to collect the amount’due them as prompt
ly as possible. Pass-books may be for
warded by mail or express or seat through
tank*
Fished in that paper on the 26th ult.,
in which the Geueral admits that what
ever may have been true in tbe past, be
is now a candidate for United States
Senator. But be declines in his commu
nication to lay down any platform
make any promise as to his course in tbe
Senate if he should be elected. The
General says be will not, for the purpose
of securing favor, make any promise
which he has no intelligent hope of.being
able to perform, and he therefore very ju
diciously declines to make any promise
at all. There is a single point in General
Lawton’s reply which £ think proper to
notice. ’ V •-.
In reference to my course on the recon
struction measures, General Lawton
roakei tbe point tbat I advised the accept
ance of the terms dictated by the con
queror too soon. He thinks it was better
to suffer and endure for a season than
promptly “to cast reproach tfpon the
memories of those who had fallen in our
cause.
After we had made as gallant a struggle
as any people on earth ever did make,
and were finally compelled to surrender
to overwhelming numbers aud boundless
resources, how did we, when disarmed
and hopeless, cast reproach upon the
memories of those who'had fallen In our
cause, by accepting the terms dictated by
the conqueror, who stood over us with an
army of one million two hundred thous
and men upon the muster roll ? If I cast
reproach upon the memories of our dead
heroes in 186S by advising tbe acceptance
of the terms dictated by the conqueror,
did not General Lawton and tbe Demo
cratic party cast like reproach upon their
memories by accepting the same terms in
1872 ? If the acceptance of the recon
struction acts and the constitutional
amendments was a reproach upon their
memories in 1868, and* tbe acceptance of
the same measures iu 1S72 was not a re
proach, will General Lawton inform the
public at what precise point of time be
tween 1868 and 1872 such acceptance
ceased to bo a reproach ?
How long are we to cherish the memo
ries of our gallant aud heroic dead who
fell in our glorious cause ? Shall it be
for four- years only ? If so, then I was
wrong in accepting the reconstruction
arts in 1868 and my opponent was right
in accepting them in 1872. But if it is
our duty and that of our posterity to
cherish their memories peipetually, as I
hold that it is, theu I ask my opponent
bow it could be a reproach on their mem
ories forme to advise an acceptance of
the terms dictated by the conqueror in
1868 and not a reproach for the Demo
cratic party of the Union to accept the
very same terms sin 1872 and reiterate
with increased emphasis the same accept
ance in 1876 and 1880?
If we had all accepted in 1863 we
would have been readmitted to represen
tation in Congress and relieved of all
semblance of carpetbag rule, and our
“prevent position wouldhave been asgood
as it now is” four years sooner, and we
would by tlie wisdom of our course in a
still higher degree have retained tbe re
spect of our enemies and of the world,
which lie says we now so proudly enjoy.
Let us, for a moment, take a’ practical
view of this subject and judge of the
merits of the act by tlie results tbat fol
lowed. South Carolina, Louisiana aud
Florida, in 1868, followed the ad vice of the
school of politicians to -which General
Lawton belongs, and tbe white people of
those States refused to accept the recon
struction measures or to take any part in
the proceedings under them. The result
was the government of those States wa4
placed under thcfcontrol of carpet-baggers
apd corrupt adventurers, where it re
mained till 1876. If they had followed
the example of Georgia and had taken
part in tbe reconstruction of their respec
tive States, as a large patriotic element of
our white people did iu this State, and bad
by that means secured as good a constitu
tion as we did, the government of those
States would have passed intb the bands
of their intelligent people as ours did in
Georgia, and there would have been no
corrupt returning boards in power in those
States in 1870, am! President Tilden would
have been returned as elected, and we
would now be completing a four years’
term of Democratic rule. And in place
of the depreciated credit which those
States now unfortunately have in the
markets of the world, they might stand in
the proud position occupied by our own
beloved State, and with credit as high and
unlimited as ours.
The contrast between the position occu
pied by Georgia and our sister States
above mentioned m a degree illustrates
the difference between the prompt accep
tance of the reconstruction acts advised by
me and partially practiced by the white
people of Georgia and the persistent re
fusal to accept as practiced in the States
above mentioned. Hid South Carolina,
Florida and Louisiana by “suffering and
enduring” for so long a term and losing to
the Democracy the presidency in 1870,
cast less reproach upon the memories “of
those who bad fallen in our cause,” than
did Georgia by accepting more promptly
and thus securing ber vote to the Demo
cratic candidates in 1872 and 1876 ? The
proposition in favor of prompt acceptance
is too plain for argument. To state it in
tbe light of cur experience for the last
twelve years is to demonstrate it.
Tbe reconstruction measures secure to
tbe colored race tbe right to vote under
tbe 14tli constitutional amendment; the
race with this right secured is to be count
ed in tbe representative population of the
States where they are located. This gives
to the South about thirty Representatives
in Congress and as many in tbe electoral
college, which she would not have under
tbe 14th amendment if the ballot bad
been withheld from the colored race.
This is one of the fruits of the recon
struction measures. Strike tbat number
of votes from the electoral colleges in tbe
Southern States, and every man who re
flects sees at once that the election of
Hancock and English would be an impos
sibility. It follows, therefore, that I was
not wrong in 1S68 when I advised tlie
people of Georgia and of tbe South to ac
cept promptly the reconstruction meas
ures, and thereby secure readmission in
Congress. Nor did I cast reproach upon
tbe memory of our heroic dead by my
course. Four years later the Democracy
did just what I bad advised in 1868, and
then repeated tbat act in 1876, and-again
in 1880. And without the benefit of the
colored vote, which was secured to tbe
South by the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments, tbe triumph of the Demo
cracy in the present election wonld be an
impossibility. In tbe light of all these
facts, I leave it to you, fellow-citizens, to
say whether I was untrue to Geoigia
when I told ber tbe truth, and, at tlie ex
pense of my popularity, gave ber people
good advice.
At it appears by General Lawton’s let
ter that he had. not seen the reports of his
speeches tbat appeared in some of tbe
newspapers, and as be denies tbe correct
ness of those be did see, in which he is re
ported as assailing me, I see no other
point in his published communication
which requires attention. I therefore
ibis communication with the single
General Lawton is satisfied
to my published letter, I
certainly liave v^gaaaon to be disatisiied.
i am, very respecw-niy, your fellow-citi
zen aud obedienuervai;/ ieiiow-cm
Jose**, E. Brown.
terday the reply of General Lawton tomy in the State is too strong to be re
communication addressed to you and pub- resuU . g a!i0 gpecifioa , Iy gratifying
to Governor Colquitt. He has been as
sailed, we dare say, with more bitterness
than has ever previously been displayed
toward any gubernatorial candidate in
Georgia. His majority shows the entire
confidence which the people of the State
have in his integrity and capacity, and his
“vindication” is thorough and complete.
It is a source of sincere congratulation
that the campaign is over. Its tendency
has been only to create animosities, ex
cite personal bitterness of feeling and lead
to estrangement between friends and
brethren of the same political faith. It
earnestly to be hoped that now'there will
be an entire acquiescence In the result
that words spoken and charges uttered
during the heat of the conflict may be for
gotten, and tbat the Democracy of Geoigia
will, with closed ranks, determine that in
November she shall maintain her reputa
tion as tbe banner Democratic State of
tbe Union.
London Fogs and the Death Rate.
—The kind of work done by the Meteo
rological Society of Scotland, accbrding to
their last report, aptly Illustrates the va
riety of ways in which meteorology is Mi
tering into relations with the every-day
business of life. The intense cold of last
winter flooded them with requests for in
formation as to the average damage done
to gas-pipes, drains, etc., by extreme cold,
and its effect on tbe herring fishery was
also an object of high interest to many
others of the society’s correspondents.
One of the most curious papers present
ed to the society last year was that of Dr.
Arthur Mitchell, upon Loudon fogs m re
lation to health. These fogs, he showed,
enormously increased the death-rate
all round, and tbe increase was
contemporaneous with a low death-
rate in other tovrn3 where
fogs prevailed. Asthma wa3 the disease
most fatally influenced by the great fogs
of November, 1879, and the February of
the present year. Deaths from bronchitis
and other lung diseases seemed to be in
fluenced by the fogs, but not in the mark
edly close and direct way characteristic of
asthma. But with regard to the whoop
ing-cough, the pernicious effect of the fogs
was noticeable in an alarming increase in
the mortality from this disease, an in
crease which did not abate as in the case
of asthma, with the temporary clearing of
the fogs. The deaths from rheumatism
and croup showed no relation to the prev
alence of fogs, and, generally speaking,
the persons who suffered most were those
compelled to earn a livelihood by outdoor
employment.—Examiner.
How She Snubbed Them.—A little
lady satisfied herself with a peculiar re
venge recently at the Grand Central Ho
tel in Tahoe city, on Lake Bigler, Neva
da. The place is a kind of Western
summer resort. The lady came one day
with her two children, all dressed verv
modestly and even plainly. The swells
of womanhood turned up their nosc3 at
her; she must be nobody, so she was giv
en to understand that she must consider
lierself snubbed. This thing went on for
some days, till at last she sent borne to
San Francisco for tbe rest of her clothing
and tbat of ber children. Next morning
she came to breakfast in a magnificent
morning dress made by Worth, and pro
fusely ornamented with diamonds, and
her two little children were dressed up to
look a3 pretty as pictures. Everybody
seemed anxious to say “Good morning,
Mrs. Smith,” but Mrs. Smith didn’t good
morning to any very cordial extent with
any of the snobs. She did wliat polite
ness required; but tbat was all, and was
extremely distant to all. She cut them
this way for about a week, then packed
up her nine Saratoga trunks and sent
them borne, and resumed her plain and
comfortable vacation clothes.
, The Science of Kissing.—Science in
the last few years has gained a terrible
foothold in this world. It has rattled the
bones of old fogyism, made pi out of tbe
worn-out theories, upset ideas which Lave
been established for centuries. Tbe lat
est and most astonishing feat that has been
developed is that there is a scientific mode
of kissing. The day when a young man
could grab a girl around tbe neck and
gobble a kiss in a rough but comfortable
manner, is past. The time when he could
circle ber waist with oue arm, and get his
shirt bosom full of hair oil and
piroutte his lips over every square inch
of her countenance, is no more. Science
has proclaimed against it, and man shud
ders, but remains silent. Tbe old style
of kissing, which sounds- like some one
tearing a clap-board off a smoke-house,
is now considered bad taste, and conse
quently is rapidly going out of fashion,
although the majority of girb admit tbat
science has cruelly destroyed all the com
fort of a long-lingering, heart-thrilling
kiss, and causes them to express no little
regret at tbe change. The improved
scientific method ol kissiDg is to throw
the right grm languidly around the fair
one’s shoulder, tilt the chin up until her
nose is pointed at au angle of forty-five
degrees, or rather until it has an aspect
resembling the bow-sprit of a clipper-
built sloop, then stoop slowly and gaze
about her lips in a quiet, subdued sort of
way, tickle her nose with your mustache
until she cries “Ouch!” This is scientific
kissing, but there is no consolation in it—
nothing to make a man feel like a couple
of gal vanic batteries were galloping along
his spinal column. It is fiat, lukewarm;
it lacks substance, and if not stale is at
least unprofitable.—Xew Orleans Times.
What a Colored Pensioner Gets.—
Dr. Boynton, U. S. Pension Agent at this
place, received, yesterday, a pension cer
tificate for Thomas Jeflerson, late a pri
vate of Company B, 52d regiment United
States colored troops, Who resides at
Vicksburg, Miss. He is pensioned _
follows: $20 per month from 6fh of May,
1800,'and $31.25 per month from 4th of
June, 1872, and $50 per month from 4ili
of June, 1874, and $72 per month from
June 17,1870. His first payment will be
to September 4,18S0, and amounts to $0,-
543.14, aud he will continue to draw S&W
annually. His disability is loss of both
feet.—Knoxville Chronicle.
The Savannah News on the &ate r .
natorial Election.
Theretunw so far received from the
guoeitutorial election hold yesterdiy, are
more grttifying than was ever anticipated
by the saDguine friend of Governor
Colquitt. The indications are that he
has been reelected h r i ea , t 40,000 ma
jority, and vl$o estimate, so
ing off, is likely tfl be increlSU. . j
further retunAcome in.
The result is-^ecially gratifying, inas
much as it sendSereeting to the national
Democracy that Jje Democratic party of
Georgia is invincibly Look at it as we
may, and taking tlie most charitable view
possible, tbe revoltof the minority of tbe
Atlanta convention 1 against tbe action of
that body, woul(have been attend** with
serious oonw quaere to the party bad it
Bill Arp’s Lecture in Columbus.—
The Enquirer-Sun thus speaks of the re
cent lecture of Major Smith iu Columbus;
Last night a shower came up about tbe
hour for attending the lecture, and many
were thus denied the pleasure of hearing
the distinguished humorist. Mr. Thomas
had previously engaged the opera house
for the purpose of delivering a political
speech, and as he could not be induced to
give way Major .Smith delivered bis lect
ure in tlie college chapel. Uis audience,
though not very large, was select and ap
preciative. His receipts were larger than
he reasonably hoped to receive under tbe
unfavorable circumstances.
His lecture throughout was chaste, in
structive and abounded with humor and
true wit, and was enthusiastically enjoyed
by the entire audience. His reference to
his courtship was a source of much enjoy
ment to the college girls, who were out
in numbers, and no doubt their hearts
beat approbation as be advocated earlv
marriages.
His delineation of tlie character of tlie
aristocracy of ante bellum days was the
type of the “Southern gentleman,” and
many in his audience were not too young
to appreciate it. Tbe lecture throughout
was highly entertainiug, and we trust he
may again call on us under more favora-
oi* circumstance* than those with which he
met on yesterday evening.
We loam that there is some prospect
that Mgjor Smith will be invited to deliver
his famous lecture m Macon, also, in the
interest of the Library Association. He
arr angenlSL*, w * n ^ welcome should the
A dancing idiot, ten yeanrsr
resident of Indianapolis. Ever sincelii
birth he has been going through the
tiocs of a waltz to silent music. h» is
never still in his waking loom. His
mother had danced to excess wa ball Just;
before he was bora.
MONEY TO CAEEY INDIANA.
The Thousands of Dollars Sent There
bX Kcpnbliean*.
Mr. W. L. Scott, acting chairman of the
National Democratic Committee, said to
the New York Sun of the 6th, in reply to
an inquiry about the approaching elec
tions in Ohio and Indiana:
“Ohio has long been a Republican Slate
in Presidential years. Our friends there
have hopes of carrying it next week.
While there are many indications that
favor their hopes, we shall not be greatly
disappointed if it goes Republican by
from three to seven thousand. Indiana is
a Democratic State. The people of Indi-
ana, if free to express their wishes, would
undoubted give a very large Democratic
majority. The only possibility of defeating
n? there lies in Republican corrup
tion and coercion. It is sim
ply a question whether the State can be
bought, intimidated or defrauded. I do
not believe it can, and in spite of all tbe
confidence of our opponents tbat they will
carry it, I look for a handsome Democrat
ic victory there on the 12th instant. I
know something of the extent and charac
ter of the efforts the Republicans are mak
ing. During the last few days $176,000
was raised by the Republicans in Boston,
$100,000 in Philadelphia, and a very large
sum In New York. Fifty thousand dol
lars was collected here by one person; and
the gentlemen who met at the Union
League Club iu this city a few nights
since, and constituted themselves a com-
initleee to raise funds in the interest of the
Republican party in Indiana and Ohio,
represented not less thru from two to
three hundred millions of capital. Two
paexages of $20,000 were shipped from
Philadelphia to Indiana within tbe past
ten days. Between 300 and 500 profes
sional repeaters have been sent from
this city, and one lot of 130
from Philadelphia. Tbe principal portion
of the latter are government employees
and persons employed by the city govern
ment in Philadelphia, all of whom are re
ceiving their pay while engaged in their
nefarious work. Tho meeting of the Boys
in Blue at Indianapolis is to be used as a
cover for assembling desperate characters
from all parts of tbe country, prepared to
do desperate work on election day. The
importation of negroes from all quarters,
even from comparatively distant points, is
carried on openly, and it is no secret that
all the power tbat tbe United States gov
ernment can exert in any way through its
agents is to be used to save Ohio and gain
Indiana to the Republican party. The
gentlemen who are raising these vast sums
for the October elections know tbat they
are not needed for legitimate expenses.
“I can stand in tbe centre of Wall
street and throw a stone that wiil reach
tbe offices of from five to ten. bankers and
banking firms, whose profits from govern
ment patronage amount to millions. One
national bank, with a capital ol $530,000,
within the last four years suddenly accu
mulated a surplus equal to several times
its capital. These banks and bankers
have been monopolists ol the gains of the
syndicates, and have made in a few years
fortunes, in comparison with which, tbe
gaius of Jay Cooke and bis associates
were small. I am credibly informed of
one gentleman, largely interested in the
manufacture of sugar in this city, who,
during thejpast month, has cleared over
$400,000, and who publicly states tbat he
will contribute $50,000,. and if necessary
$100,000 of it for Republican success.”
^ “Judge T. V.". Bartley, of Washington,
D. C., ex-governor and ex-chief justice of
tbe Supreme Court of Ohio, called at the
Democratic National Committee's head
quarters yesterday. Ho has made recent
ly an extended canvass in Ohio, and spok
en in many of its interior counties. He
said of the canvass in that Stale: ‘I am
iutimately acquainted with tho present
condition of the Democratic prospects in
Ohio, and it is uiy opinion, formed from
observation aud information acquired in
the State, that the Democratic party will
carry Ohio in tbe October election by from
five to ten. thousand majority. During
iffy absence I met many Republicans who
declared that they would vote for Han
cock, though they did not intend to vote
for the Democratic party. Gen. Hancock
is much stronger than the State ticket,
and will poll a decidedly larger vote in
November than will the State ticket next
Tuesday. The Democratic party was nev
er under such thorough and complete or
ganization, and so active and determined
and so unanimous as they are this fall-’ ”
Capt. Eads’ Start in Lite.
Last December, on the steamship Ger
manic, I played chess with the great civil
engineer, Capt. Ead3, stimulated by the
thought, that to beat him was to defeat
tbe man who had twice conquered the
Mississippi. But I didn’t defeat hint. • *
James R. Eads was bom in Indiana in
1820. He is slender In form, neat in
dress, genial, courteous, and nearly sixty
yeaisofage. In 1833 his father started
down the Ohio river with his family, pro
posing to settle in Wisconsin. The boat
caught fire, aud his scanty furniture and
clothing were burned. Young Eads bare
ly escaped ashore with his pantaloons,
shirt and cap. Taking passage on anoth
er boat this boy of thirteen landed at St.
Louis with uis parents, liis little bare feet
first touching the rocky shore of the city
on the very spot where be afterward loca
ted and built the largest steel bridge in
the‘world, over tbe Mississippi—one oftte
most difficult feat3 of engineering ever
performed in America.
At the age of nine young Eads made a
slfort trip on the Ohio, when the engineer
of tlie steamboat explained to him so
clearly thb construction of the steam en
gine tbat before be was a year older be
built a little working model of it, so per
fect In its parts and movements that his
schoolmates would frequently go home
with him after school to see it work. A
locomotive engine, driven by a concealed
rat, was one of liis next juvenile feats in
mechanical engineering. From eight to
thirteen he attended school; after which,
from necessity, he was placed as clerk in
dry goods store. • • •
Over tlie store in St. Louis where he was
engaged his employer lived. He was an
old bachelor, and having observed the
tastes of his clerk, gave him his first book
on engineering. The old gentleman’s li
brary furnished evening companions for
him during the five years lie was thus em
ployed. Finally, his health failing, at the
age of nineteen he went on a Mississippi
river steamer; from which time to this
day that great river lias been to him an
all-abso: bing study.
Soon afterwards he formed a partner
ship with a friend aud built a small boat
to raise cargoes of vessels sunk ,"n the
Mississippi. While building this he made
his first venture in submarine engineer
ing on the lower rapids of the river, by
the recovery of several hundred tons of
lead, ne hired a scow or flat-boat and
anchored it over the wreck. An experi
enced diver, clad in armor, who liad been
hired at considerable expense in Buffalo,
a3 lowered into the water; but the rapids
were so swift that the diver, thougli en
cased in the strong armor, feared to be
sunk to tlie bottom. Young Eads, deter
mined to succeed, and finding it impracti
cable to use tlie armor, went ashore, pur
chased a whisky barrel, knocked out tbe
head, attached the air-pump hose to it,
fastened several heavy weights to the
open etui of the barrel—then swinging it
on a derrick he had a practical diving
bell—the best use I bave ever heard made
of a whisky barrel.
Neither the diver nor any of the crew
ould go down in this contrivance, so
tlie dauntless young engineer, having full
confidence in what he had read in books, '
was lowered within the barrel down to
the bottom; the lower end of the barrel
being open. The water was sixteen feet
deep, aud very swift. Finding the wreck
he remained by it a full Lour, bitching
ropes to pig lead till a ton or more was
safely hoisted into his own boat Then
making a signal by a small line attached
to the barrel, he was lifted on deck and in
command again. The sunken cargo was
soon successfully raised and was sold,and
netted a handsome profit, which, idereas-
ed by other sucee***"! enabled energetic
Rads to build larger boats with powerful
“-Silver Spray Cologne b the moat
