About Georgia weekly telegraph, journal & messenger. (Macon, Ga.) 1880-188? | View Entire Issue (March 31, 1882)
t&fcovgla UStejefelg smfr Saucrcnt & ®|j?»*sjs»«g©R. *&e 8tUflr»ph an* %Usg<ttgtr FRIDAY, MARCH 81,1682. JjIt* report* from Washington raije hopes of reooTery for CJongreaaraan Black. Tbkbi is no parleying with or promise or the negro in the new party platform. This bring* the party into sympathy with the administration. Bjubwik is wrestling with the English sparrow fiend. The English sparrow will giro all nnderhold, and throw the oldest county in the State. 8nmnraD swears that he thonght it nec essary to gresae Minister Hnrlbnt. Sena tor Blair gave up his grease when he found an investigation was pending. “Hitbtt fiiMp" Mrs. Dr. Edson more than hints that old Bliss bulled the New York stock market on Garfield’s wound. “To what base uses we rouse,” etc. Tube was a lack, we may be permitted to remark, even a deaith of the colored colonel at the Markham House conference. His company is only requested at the polls. • A x>xt sewer on a New York thorough fare is nsed by tramps as a lodging house. Now let the AtlanlapolioemansearchMark Hardin’s ersilage silos, at the exposition grounds. The Republican Congressional'•immit- tee embraces the names of all the Southern contestants for seats in Congress. It would eeem that the rightful members are all to be turned out. Pabson Felton has abandoned the “poll tax iniquity." Perhaps the Parson has surreptitiously abolished it, while the atten tion of the press was distracted bypassing events. This should be looked into. Old man Grant and old lady Grant and all the young Grants are back in the WWte House. That rattling deal in Ixinisville and Nashville calls for retrenchment and reform. Crump will see to It ti at the old man’s toddy Is as strong as his cigars. The aroma of Peruvian Guano has driv en Ministers Hnrlbnt and White into re tirement. If Shipherd can be forced to tell all be knows, some Senators, Repre sentatives and other prominent officials will require whitewashing and disinfecting. Col. William Moose is disposed to deal gently with Ah Sin, because the Celestial is never seen hotding up a lump post. Still there is no reason why the lamp post should not hold up the Celestial, when ij oomjs* to k question of political economy. At a Philadelphia love feast, & happy brother blew himself off this way: “Breth r gen, my tonl is fall of joy. I feel as all Who are truly sanctified should feel—like a man who has just finished dinin f to fulness A good, fat, juicy goose.” “Amen!” was the fervent response. “The leading Colonels,” “coalescing lib- ftl Republicans," “hyphenated office seek; ,« “inde pendent JeffersonianDemocrats’ were all good, but when Dr. Fel’on rose np and referred to the “gentlemen” who met at the Markham House, he clothed the new movement in a garment the tail of which is liable to be trod upon. Fbom tho new party platform: “Every citizen of the United States is entitled to a full protection of his personal and po litical rights under the Federal law.” And ^et assassins, appointed by the administra tion countenanced by the new party, go forth stf)4 3fi$0t down a helpless old man ttud crippled boy. ^ ^ Tsx political caucus is only advisory in Is character—should have no binding fotco npon the actions and consciences of no citizens of a free government. This is the fint plank in the new platform, and it bad hardly rolled ont of the mill before Gartrell shouldered it and started for the gubernatorial chair despite the wishes of ihe new party. It seems that the colored brother is at the head of the government at last. The buck mulattoes really have supreme charge and control of the justices of the Supremo Court. Tho body servants run the con cern. Who knows, but that Aliunde Joe may have been bullied byhisTaiet in the tdecloral commission bnainess. “Coir” SnarMAs is ’ight-headed but the balance of the family seem to be light fingered. Judge Sherman had to resign Hme years since to escape impeachment, for tapping the till of the court. John h&s just been caught tapping the treasury till, and now U. 8. Marshal Sherman, of New Mexico, though an embezzler of tho funds Of his office, has been discharged without punishment. ! OMbomi comment has been occas- Oned by the fact that an University stu dent was caught eating tadpoles, and rai leg*. For our part we are inclined to be lieve that the you?gmanis a student of political economy, quietly endStvoring to introduce articles of food now: ainlng 1 1 waste in Georgia. The future may yet eee lie Georgia tadpole and sleek rat engaged n a highly realistic wrestling match with TTeW England mackerel and Western bacon. Don’t interfere with the young man’s scien- tlfic researches. It has been industriously given out that there were colonels at the Markham House conference who from extreme mod esty or other cause, were unwilling that ^heir names should meet the publio eye last now. ti’e have instituted inquiry upon this particular point, and have met with solne success. When ttfe roster is ar ranged, we will give it to O r readers. .Suf fice it to My at presect, that two distin guished colonel's were present; viz : Col. John Doe end Col. Richard Hoe. A. they have both won many suits at law in the courts of the State> Involving-large amounts of money, it is presumed that Col. i. Doe and Col. R. Roe will contrib ute liberally to the campai^ j fund. Stags Dkivku Paoe, who misrepresents a California district in the House, has been caught in a dirty trick. The Wash ington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, writes: Representative Page, of California, was In trusted as s «ub-comm!;tee of the committee to audit the expenses attending the illness and death of President Garfield, with the bills end Toucben tor the expenses, accidental and in cidental. of ihe funeral train to Cleveland. Mr. Page said today that he had collated and eggregated the hills in one lump account, and then had destroyed them all. He considered that was the best thing to do, a* he did not think it was the thing to have a scandal* over such a matter. Opinions may differ as to Mr. Page's right to take this course, but opinions ■will concur that it was the wont possible course to take to prevent a scandal. If Congress does its duty, Mr. Stage Dri ver Page ought to soon find himself in more trouble than with a runaway team down a mountain pass. d luiiunoj i ^^rier- ij — r.oKArri and Messksgebbe- ,ore iiiterc dug every issue. i is a superb one. full of in- rhis old and reliable paper mk in Journalism, and its d fuel.—Sumter Republican. and Mb>sk>t.kr is daily it,, It deserve* unbounded mlVasUg. I RASH ANDMR»:NorBi«the dished in Geonria ‘xebango —Greensboro ( X. Brer BsbMlaad Mr Farmer Han. We tiast oar readers may not hastily assume, that in a moment of desperation or aberration, we have made bold to in dulge in thatsincere flattery, which would urge ua to an attempt to faitate “Uncle Re mas” in bis familiar chats with the little boy, about the many prank* and ad ventures of Brer Rabbit. Our pencil has been sharpened for more serious, and yet to ns far easier work. In behalf of Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit, and the thou sands of little ones who are in real love with both, and of older beads which have found beneath the surface of “folk lore’, as Illustrated by the genius and careful industry of Mr. Harris, something worthy of study and reflection, we have conceived it no less a pleasure than a duty to have to do with one Mister Fanner man. Un owed by the unvarying sneerres which have attended Brer Rabbit, in ail his ef forts to baffle the skill of Brer Bar, Brer Fox and others, in the struggle for mastery, this Mister Farmer man, whose genius has been trained, as bis p :n has been tried, In the noble literary work of ambushing an unsuspecting public and dropping it into carefully prepared pitfalls of St. Jacob’s oil, haa made effoit to destroy Uncle Re mus with a flippant paragraph, as follows, in the columns of the Louisville Journal: It may be here remarked that ail the'many things written about the Southern darky, from “Uncle Tom’s Cabin" down to Mr. Joel Chan dler Harris' book, ore exaggerated travesties, both of the manners and language of the ne groes, Of coarse nobody who knows anything of life In the South ever believed in the absurd ities of Mrs. Stowe's book, which from Its title page to Its finis Is a gross and extravagant mis representation of Southern negroes and South ern society. But nothing better could be ex pected from one who from her cradle was tiughtto hate the South and its institutions. As for Mr. Harris’ book, I must protest against “Unde Remus" os a representative of the Southern negro race. No such monstrosity ever existed outside of Congo, and no such lan- gungc was ever used-by any plantation darky as Mr. Harris puts into his mouth. I can not possibly bring myself to bslltvethatMr. Harris is a native Southerner, or that he has given that study to the character li* attempts to Illus trate which should entitle him to write and publish a book on the subject. This Mister Farmer man If the first and only ambitious critic who has dared to put to print a word In disfavor of “Uncle Re mus.” Tho book itself has been before the public nearly two years, and in that time has passed under the review of the most cultured minds of this country and England, only to be pronounced perfect of its kind, at 11# (files and sketches which make up the bulk of It bfid before received tbe unstinted praise and Indorse ment ot tbe Southern people, as they came from the hands of the author. If these last cannot be said to be the best and most accomplished critics of all that appertains to the plantation negro, as to manners, habits, dialect and disposition, then this Mister Farmer man has made a discovery which entitles him to immedi ate and rapid promotion, from the writing of patent medicine advertisements to the eiltorsbip of the literary bureau of Harpers or tbe Century Magazine. That in tbe main the wonderful book of Mrs. Stowe was an exaggeration of the characteristics of both tbe white and black men in the South is not denied. Mrs. Stowo tvs* un familiar with her subject, and, seizing for illustration isolated cases, it was natural that exaggeration should be the 1 hnd- mgidep9ff|a intense enthusiasm. The dnimitiijtftio!) of her ImK «nd the at tempt to give It realistic form and feature In the hands of actors quite as ignorant as herself, and which has resulted in de tracting from the sireng’h of the absorb ing story, teems to have been no warning or lesson to this Mister Farmer man. He rushes in blindly to repeat her faults, and tbat too when he is not aimed with tbe unquestioned genius that made “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” familiar with tbe English speaking race. There was never a “Topsv” as drawn by Mrs. Stowe, or as Is presented upon tbe strge, but there have been “Little Evas” and “Uncle Toms,” and the thriftless and kindheaitcd master who brought misfortune and an- happlnjss to nil. As Legree, the slave- driver,was a Northern mar, perhaps Mrs. Stowe, or this Mister Fanner man can say if tbat portraiture of him be true, which unconsciously carries with it a de fense and vindication of the slave-master of the South. Mr. Harris approac-ied the task of plac ing the Southern plantation negfo in his rue niche in the history ol his times ad mirably equipped for the work. He was bom In the brightest and best days of slavery. He was; reared in middle Georgia, tbe home of a wealthy, educated and refined aristocracy of planters, among whom no disgrace would have been keener or more severely punished by penal laws and social ostracism, than neglect or cruel ty to the simple and happy children tbat a strange fortune had placed nnder their care. The county of Putnam, State of Georgia, furnished during the growing up of Mr. Harris the very best specimens of tbe Southern planter and tho Southern slave tbat might be found between Virglola and Texas. In such a community, daily thrown In contact and companionship with tbe negro, from the time he fished In the creeks with tbe boys, to the later days when ltt.was a proud privilege to carry a torch in a coon hunt ot to rifle to mill m an ox cart with the foreman of tbe place, it were strange that he, with a talent which has demon strated itself, should not have become fa miliar with tbe chancer, tbe supersti tions, the quaint temper agd peculiar dia lect of the old Georgia plantation negro. There was not a plantation that did not have an “Uncle Remus” among Sts bands. Not one tbat did not have little boys and girls who would steal from the big house after sapper to tbe blacksmith shop or tbe little log cabin, to listen with bated breath and wondering eyes to the venera ble story teller, as he reeled off one alter another, tbe wonderful adventures of Brer Rabbit, with Brer Fox, Brer Bar and other fsm'diar animals. Hero and there, still in tbe rural districts of the South, on a small comer of land with an old mule or a horse, and with tattered [ garments and careworn face, may be found an Undo Remus, whose confidence once gained, will delight to return again in memoiy to tho scenes of his best, his brightest aqd happiest days. The writer can draw from memory no reminiscence more tenderly nourished than that which clusters around the time, when he was unwillingly dragged to bed from these nightly seances to dream of tbe tales and to awake in tbe morning with an appetite tor more. And of tbe many friends of his childhood now scattered by chance, misfortune and death, be would greet none with a warmer welcome, than those who shared his enjoyment In the many tales of folk-lore. Protest r this Mister Farmer man may, no sneb dialect as is contained in “Unde Remus” was ever beard in Congo or any where else save on a Southern plantation, and from a Southern negro. Mr. Hairis is the fint and only peisonwho baa suc ceeded In patting in cold type tbe lingo, the patois, or if you please, the dialect of tbe Southern negro. By tome strange process, for which we cannot and aball not attempt to account, tbe white artists who attempt the delineation of negro character and dialect upon tbe stage, are miserable frauds and failures. Tbegenins of Milt Barlow In “Old Black Joe,” or Cal Wagner in “Tbe Little Log Cabin in the Lane” are pictures which relieve these feanul travesties upon tbe negro. The negro minstrel of to-day, with his -white vest, black clothes, diamond pins and bouttcnelres, is a burlesque on what the negro may become years hence. Tbe middle man with the big fiddle and bass voice, who puts conundrums to bones and tamborine, talks the negro dialect we find in newspapers and [ ariodl- cals. Mr. Harris in “Uncle Remus” gives ns the dialect tiae to nature, pure and unadulterated. And he has done something greater, something bet ter, something more than to delight children and to amuse older ones. He hss rescued from tradition and put into history all of tbe essential characteristics of the Southern negro, bis faithfulness, bis good natrre, his pride of family and bis nigged honesty and loyalty to his old mistress and old master. There is noth ing yet in English literature cr b'sto.y so creditable to the negro. No Southern writer. bat done better work or one tbat will transmit the fame of Its author farther Into the ccmlDg years. “Uncle Remna” la the connecting link between an old and a new civiliza tion, and we for one are more than proud that It has been forged by the brilliant genius and patient band of a young Geor gian, who as yet stands but in the rising shadow of his fame. We older ones, black and white, owe Mr. Harris a debt of gratitude, that be haa reached back, grasped from tbe receding glories of fasppy times tbe scattered legends of Southern life in tbe days of slavery, and bas woven them into an imperishable re membrance. But he is to find his great re ward in tbegrateful hearts of the little ones who are yet to come. Though we stand where the shadows grow shorter on the descending slope, tbe “Melodies of Mother Goose” have lost none of their quaint in terest and freshness to ns, and looking back over the books we have read and cast n0e, we are almost ready to agree with Bob Martin, that the Bible and Webster’s speller* are the only books which should ever have been published, except Mother Goose and “Uncle Re mus.” A little incident will best illustrate tbe great merit and success of “Uncle Remus” and Its capacity to enlighten and amuse children. A little four year old,during the past summer, fonnd her chief delight in listening to tbe stories from its pages, a* partly read and related by her grand father. When in the fall she started to her distant home, in the same car were a number of children of her own age return ing from a summer jaunt in the up country. They were happy gild amused with their toys and tbe passing scenes un til daylight began to melt into darkness. Just then this little one, perching herself upon a seat, and with a face and manner as grave as Uncle Remna himself, began to tell of Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox. In a moment the tired chil dren clustered about her, and with faces all aglow with Interest and wonder, begged for tale after tale,while their moth ers, convulsed with laughter at the com ical sceae, had difficulty to pack their pre cious charges away in their sleeping berths for tbe night. After such a tribute to bis fidelity and gecics Mr. Ilarris may well afford to meet with indifference this crude and, basly effort in his defense, against the carping criticism of the Mister Farmer man. Brer Rabbit has not been caught yet. The Baltimore Sun of Tuesday hss this Washington item: Senator Hill, of Georgia, was visited by a number ot friends to-day at his residence, No. 918 Seventeenth street. Mr. mil was seated in bis library, looking over his mail, including several Georgia newspapers. He was greatly annoyed on reading a paragraph which stated that he (Mr. Hill) had said that cancer was he reditary in liis family, a statement which Mr. If II could not hsvc made, simply for the reason that none of his family were ever afflicted with cancer or any other tranimissible ailment. As stated In the Sun ol March 10, In a special dlsnath from Philadelphia, the dis ease for which Mr. Hill wes operated npon was cplthalloma, as cancer of any mucous mem brane is technically called. Mr. lull's surgeon informs him that the canctr has been entirely eradicated. The Senator certainly looks well, articulates with remarkable distinctness, and is quite cheerful. He is not confined to the house, and ra soon as tho weather will permit he Intends to visit his surgeon In Philadelphia to show him the progress of healing made by the wound. An Atlanta special to the Now Orleans Times-Dcmocrat says: While tile conferetico nominated no candi dates, it is now settled beyond doubt that Fel ton will run for governor, and that Hon. Al bert Cox, of Troup-- county, will run for Con gressman ot large. Pou, of Muscogee, has an nounced himself an independent candidate for Congress in the fourth district, and Judge James Hook, of Augusta, will run for Congress in the eighth (Alex. Stepcns’ district). These gentlemen were at tho conference. An effort will be made to get Gartrell to run for Congress in this, the fifth ’district, instead of for gov ernor. If ho declines, Felton will hin for gov ernor anyhow, he being regarded as the strong est man. As tho author of .ihii dispatch Was of the conference it may be considered that he speaks by the card. The news about Cox nndPouis stale, but we have Parson Fel ton and Elder Hook definitely settled. The trouble is ooming with Gen. Gartrell, who hungers for gubernatorial honors, .and has displayed no appetite for a Congres sional contest. The prospqct for an inter esting time on the fint of June aro flatter* iug beyond expression. “Old man Gbant," between toddies with Arthur, is getting in some work for Ills friends. He wants to provide for his friend Chaffee, who is rich and unbelts liberally. A Jate Washington tslegrara says: “It is stated to-dny, in high political circles, that if Governor Pitkin, of Colorado, will con sent to appoint Chaffee, Senator Teller will at onoo be nominated for secretary of the interior. Telegrams opposing Chaffee’s appointment as Senator have been sent from here by leading Colorado Republi cans. Senator Hill and Representative Hill have warned Pitkin against appoint ing Chaffee. Senator Hill says he has no objection to the appointing of Teller as secretary of the interim:, and wonld not oppose him, but is satisfied that his people do not want Chaffee as Senator." Hesiy WMliwerth Longfellow, Before these lines meet the eyes of our readers the voice of tbe greatest of Amer ican poets will have been stilled in death Our afternoon dispatches convey the in telligence that Henry W. Longfellow hss received his summons. Hr. Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine, February 27th, 1807. He entered Bowdoin College at the age of fourteen, and was graduated in 1825. He gave at an early age promise of su cess as a poet and scholar, which bas been more than fulfilled, for hU fame is estab lished wherever tlie English language Is spoken or read. After a service as pro fessor of belles lettres and languages at Bowdoin College he went abroad, aj-and- lug tome years in France, Spain, Italy and Germany. In 1835 he took tbj chair of belles lettres in Harvard University, and with the exception of the time con sumed in another European tour, served for seventeen years. Since then he Las resided in Cambridge, Mc«s. His most prominent poems are “Evan geline,” “The Song of Hiawatha,” “The Courtship of Miles Standish” and “Voices of the Night,” and he contributed largely in the way of prose and poetic composi tion to leading American periodicals, many of which have never been collected in book form. During the days of the agitation of the slavery question, his pen contributed largely to tie public discus sion. He was a man of kindly temperament and of broad sympathies, and had endear ed himself to his people. Only a few days since tbe school children of the entire country celebrated his birthday, by reci tations from his poems, “The Hymn of tbe Moravian Nuns,” “Tbe Psalm of Life” and “Excelsior” taking prominent places in the exercises. His published works have passed through many editions, both in this coun try and in England, and hare called forth some of the most admirable specimens of cotemporaiy art in their illustration. * Death comes to him as tbe close of a long, honorable, nseful and happy life, and brings to his countrymen of all sec tions genuine sympathy and regret. Fosial^Bavlnas Banka. Among tbe numerous bills now drifting slowl^ through the red tape channels of Congress, is one which commends itself to almost every one; we refer to the bill establishing postal savings banks through out the United States. We bare not be fore us a copy of the document referred to, but the report made by tbe committee into whose bands it went has been re ceived. The general idea is to make the 5,490 money order offices of the United States savings banks, Id which tbe great mass of laboring people may deposit their earnings with absolute security. Summed np,the advantages of such a system are as follows: 1st. It wonld encourage economy and habi 1 * of thrift among laboring classes by the certain protection that would bs afford ed thereby to their surplus earnings, which, for tho want of arel’able cache, are now intrusted to insecure private banks of investments,or are secreted beneath floors, in chimney ere /ices, under slumps in fields and fores'*, or in other equally uusafa hid ing place, or, worse still, are wasted in ex travagance and dissipation. 2d. It would accommodate off clcsses in the many sections where no barks exist, and in all sections its system of cross-de posits and withdrawals, wbich/nable the deponfxr to make use of any post-office depository in the countiy, wonld commend it publio favor. D. It wonld tend lo force from weird hiding places, rod • > add to the circulation of the country, many millions of dollars now worse than idle, especially in tbe South and Southwest, where few banks exist. «l!i. It would promote loyalty and patri otism. Each doposito- would have a di rect and substantial interest in the stabili ty and prosperity of the government in trusted with tho safe-keeping and safe re turn of his treasure. 5th. It would pro'ict a class unable to protect itself—the toiling millions—against swindlers and robbers, fire and flood, un safe investments and nnsonnd banks; against improvidence, recklessness and dissipation. . . „ Gtb. It world siren's-lien the finances of the nation by giving it a first lien npon tbe accumulated proceeds of the industri'- of its own citizens. , 7th. It would go far toward securing the best possiblo service in post-offices, in the persons of postmasters and clerks whose ability to give bonds for tbe correct and faithful discharge of their duties would, with few exceptions, depend upon their in- I -grity, intelligence, and standing in the community. ■8th. It would, by absorbing a large por tion of the national debt, keep at home and in circulation a great amount of money now 6ent abroad to ray interest on securities hold by the foreign cred itors of the government. 5Kh. It would bo a bulwark of defense against panics and financial crises. Runs would not be inado upon post-offire banks, nor wonld their doors or their coffers ever be closed against a depositor’s draft so loDg as a dollar remained to his credit on his pass-book. Their funds would constitute a reserve upon which tho masses could implicitly rely in times of financial disas ter and business depression. Wherever tried the postal savings banks have proved of great advantage and have met with a wonderlul success. They are now In operation In the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Capa of Good Hope, Italy, Belgium, Japan, tbe Nether lands, France, Russia and Switzerland. The statistic* have not been received from the latter two, but very full reports from tho others aro at hand. The United Kingdom led off with tho system in 1601. At the close of 1680 there were in opera tion 0,233 offices, and there was on deposit $8,270,330.27. In all or the countries, the latter two c/cepted, there were in opera tion 11,032 offices at the close of 1880, and $18,604,140.61 on deposit. •ihe central figure of tho stage yesterday at the matinee was tho rosthetic maslisr who presided over the piano. Previous to nnd during the performance, clad in a swallow-tail coat, black namentionablei, a yard square of slurt front and side whis kers that rose above the desolate waBto of his cheek like a half submerged Mifsissip- pi sedgefield, he posed In the central aisle, in the orchestra, on the suburbs of the dress circle and about tho front door to tho great delight of the small boy. When he was rattling off bis piano accompani ments he looked like a camel-bach engine going np grndo, and bis habit of br uging a hand around over his shoulder with a sort of olap-a-fly-off-my-ear gesture when the fancy slrnck him to spnnk the lazy pi ano, raised tho impression that it was an engine laboring with a broken driving rod. The piano having been covered, he would lean back on the dingy edge of his collar in contemptuous silence sndsuffer the cur tain to be raised. As tho matinee tick ets were held at a dollar it Is supposed that the piano crusher was a side show travel ing on a percentage. Daxota wants to be a State, but Maine won't admit her until she settles her debts. Senator Hale presented a protest from the following sufferers: “First National Rank of Brunswick, Me.;A. A. Herriman, Maine; John H. Wallace, chaplain United States Navy, Annapolis, Md.: Municipal Trust Company of I ondon, England; Mrs. Eliza Jennings (by her attorney), holding $::i, 0C) of the bonds. Virtue in Virginia is r_ me in Dakota, it tbe Maine man holds the bonds of the latter. Br the Br, Benjamin. The raising of Benjamin H. Brewster, of Philadelphia, to the position of attor ney-general by President Arthur was well received by the country at largo. He was known to be an antiquated beau, fanciful of dress and vain of bis personal appear ance, which, hideous enough at all times, ia rendered more so by loud waistcoats, wrist frills and fingers crowded with rings. He was also' known to be very mean in his personal characteristics, bat to offset these weaknesses he had the rep utation of being an honest man and an accomplished lawyer. As compared to Wayne McVeagh, his immediate prede cessor, bis superiority was so marked that the public miud was satisfied. It was taken for granted that Mr. Attorney-Gen eral by-blmself and through b's subor dinates would proceed vigorously to purge the public service and to bring no torious criminals to accornt. This expectation has been disappointed. Mr. Attorney-General Brewster, with his blue coat, buff vest, and Immense watch chain, is the observed of all observers at the social eutertalnments at the capital, but as Attorney-General he has made no mark. Beyond a correspondence with a local lawyer named Cook, who had been employed in the star route prosecutions, and who claims that he was forced out be cause be desired and intended to convict, Mr. Attorney-General Brewster bas made no sign worthy of comment, until re cently. Within a few dSya past he has erupted like a patient with the email-pox. Recovering apparently from a case of absehtmiudeduess, and recollecting that he had done nothing in keeping with a partisan administration, he writes a let ter to a special subordinate whom ho had sent to South Carolina to prosecute elec tion indictments. Commencing with “by the by,” this subordinate Is instruct ed to proceed at once, and to proceed vigorously and to make the highest and most respectable citizens the first victims, If anyone in South Carolina has violated law, be should be tried, and if convicted according to law, should ba properly pun ished. But tbe law recognizes no dis tinctions between the high and the lowly, tbe proud and the humble in South Caro lina or any where else. But Mr. Attor ney-General Brewster seems to be oblivi ous of this fact in bta zeal to serve his party. At the time he was writing this “by the by” letter, a proceeding was be ing had in the court of the District ot Columbia, which demanded his serious attention. The cases ot some grand thieves were being sounded for trial. Mr. Attorney- General was absent, so were the thieves. A Washington dispatch furnishes the follow ing facts In relation to the proceedings: Thccasesof the United States vs. Thomas J. Brady, cx-Sermtor 8. W. Dorsey, H. M. Vail and others, defendants in the star route cross, wi called (n the Criminal Court this morning, and none of the defendants were in coart. The counsel for tbe defense said they were not pre pared to [dead. Colonel Bliss said the govern ment had waited long enough. lie understood that one of the principal defendants had shown his appreciation of the importance of the charges against him by leaving for Mexico. He stated that Steven Dorsey had not pleaded under bonds, and asked the court to compel his attendance. Colonel Ingersoll said there was no need of such proceedings. There was nothing in the charges to cause Dorsey's flight He is no more afraid of them than hanger is of a mince pie. Theprosecutlon, however, insist ed upon Dorsey’s arrest, and the court said that it was their privilege*to have an order is sued. The hearing was then postponed until Saturday next. Notwithstanding Mr. Ingerscll’s assurance that Dorsey is no more afraid of a trial than hunger is of a mince pie, the fact stands that minco pie is one of Ihe most dangerous devices known to modem cookery, and that an indictment which is sufficient to make a prisoner flee to New Mexico must Lave some element of dan ger in it, if tbe proper kind of an officer be in charge of the indictment. If Mr- Attorney General Brewster’s time is sp taken up with lunches, receptions, kettle drums and tho other idle put suits of Washington society, perhaps a “by the by” letter to the prosecuting attorney might hurry the distinguished citizen Dorsey back. •! ■ Ana while Mr. Attorney-General Brewster is handling ills letter book, a •by the by” communication might well be transmitted to bis home in the city of Philadelphia, It may not be an exagger ation to say, tbat at any given election In that city more frauds are perpetrated upon the ballot box, than In any other section of the countiy. Recontly the penltentiaiy has gaped to receive some of the stuffen and repeaters who were caught and con victed at the Instance of parties who do not sympathize poetically with Mr. Attorney-General Brewster. Notoriously among these was one of tho 800, a member of the “Old Guard” at Chicago, an honored recipient of one of the big brass medals. And, as Mr. Attorney- General Brewster penned his “by the by” letter, a dispatch of this import was being flashed from Fblladelplihla: Rev. Samuel Huff, judge of tho ejection In ihe tenth ward Inst February, has beennrrcstcd on the charge of fraud and forgery ol election papers. i There seems to he danger lest Mr. At- torney-General Brewster’s partisan zeal ball so exhaust itself In South Carolina that the star route thieves and tho Fenn- ■yivanla ballot-box stuffers may suffer fo.’ want of attention. To ona anxious young friends in tho eighth district we would point out the re cent example of Kaiser William. Some weeks since he declared his intention of surrenderingKsoffico* thus son Fritz on Ms 85th birthday, which came on Wednes day last. There was a big fro’ic, a great blowing or horns and guzzi ng of beer, but Fritz is an officer o2 dragoons still. The negroes have a superstition about snake-killing. No matt'r how bruised, battered and lifeless the snake may appear after he has been larruped with a fence- rail, the negro never believes it dead until after sundown. • ftne other night while the Rov. Sam Jones was mnking it warm for sinners in one of the city churches,, and an immense crowd had assembled, there was a stir abont tho doorway, which soon extended np the aisle. Ladies and gentlemen drew aside to let pass a hardened-looking wretch, who with downcast countenance was forc ing his way toward thepnlpit. Whispers and grateful exclamations rippled around over the finding of another lose sheep, and nil eyes were turned upon him. The prodi gal finally broke through the front fringe of the mourners and taking a seat, drew ont his note-book and began serenely to jot down occurrences. It was the Tele- gbapu's local editor, and the excitement (Med away in disappointed mrrmurs. BankebJamss, of Atlanta, doer not do hire lo babniied in his front yard or the uellar of bis bank. He wishes to be plant ed in the eountry. Banker James lias re cently invested in some convenient coun- Iry. fERSOXA JD. —Huritmt’a- resignation as minister to reru has been ccecpied by the RtsliM, —William-Black bas w.’-'Uen aucthe* novel. —Solon Cha«o will call bis new paper in Maine Them St tr:. , --Miss Longfellow, tfce poet’s daughter, ia 11ting uptlbmduaei -s icom *n tVa»lii.i(r- ton’s Mount Vernon. —James Gordon Bennett gave a ball in Park lecently U-..C cost Iilm about; 1,100. The dancers tarried nodi 6 o’ciocc. Mf. Algernon Saitoris, who ‘snow in Washington, will nr;cmp-iuv Gen. G •not aud Ills party on their 8ontbe.-n ton.-. —The President issued a formal order disapproving the sentence of .be combmat tal fromairesu* k£rC8 * C ftnd orde *hisdi»m’sail —A verdict of $500 hu been found Edmund Veres. olC.tcJan- don World, tor a libel oa Mr Pri -ha.i', a veterinary surgeon. ,„ir*Mr. H. T. Crosly, chier clerk of the War Department, has tende.-5d hi* resjgnndon. “ has bcon acceiHea —M. de Lesseps is at present in Eeypt. uls opinion Is wanted on the widening of Hie as** 5 —The San Francisco AUa says “his 5?r i ‘* Hoar which v'tt destroy pH his political aio^ j o! • tic ^-Mr. and Mrs. McDonald had a slrect fight withpistoH at New Lex,':-t-MS, Ohio, over tho powegfaa of their child. They had «u ecd {utic P one tC ’ bUt ncIt!,cr ' T '‘ J ' cd to give up the —The Britton family has for four cen- rniliom lived on charity In Gc.ui.in;ownTPa. Tlievrarenitor. who died a few yea ,-s a-o, ay I ninciy-six, ha-1 b«n a professional beggar sev- W* youngest incra'KvV n.-c now toddling from door to door wPit scrap baskeis. —The cabinet says tbe finding of the court in the Whittaker case mm be &t a«!de, tife r service lfr0marreSt ** dismissed from —Charles O’Conor is nicely settled in his.ncwhqsss at Nantucket, deep in liis books kJd-^fu.lwten^d? Q,,(0bI ° ST * r ‘ by 13 P"” 1 ' —The national bugolocist, Prof. Riley, E. r v^i s ‘SL , E m .V nltjr tro! ? ">« BtmUa fly for i''\ CT i\J’ caTf ' til® sun last summer bavin? baked the genus ont of exkicnce. —“Archdeacon” Dunbar, of London, considers the harp tho instrument cf ielig : ors worship. Accordingly ho has secured a otc- fcsslonal performer to play It at all bis services. r ,s «®»t*ed that the late Lord Lonsdale, with Lords Winchikca. Aylesford, eourtenay.and in tact nearly all the diwen- Tory pa“rty bankrupt En S“ !h I®", arc of the —Senator Bayard, on behalf of his col leagues, recently presented Isaac Bassett, door- ksspet of the Senate, with a handsomcgohl —Ex-Senator Bruce, the register of the treasury, has written a note to Senator Hoar expressing gratitude. In behalf of hk race, for liflf e n n d a ^«ffinr In!ttheC1,lnC?C .. r^* 1 , he * r «” »*ys the London Truth, « ^ week's ballot for Oxford and Cam bridge Club, Mr. Ashmead-Bartlett-BmdcU- Cputk achieved the unprecedented distinction of receiving twenty black balls." —Mr. Blaine’s statement that Garfield won the unprecedented honor of nineconseeu- tive elections to Congress Is corrected by the *t£h,i. ork , CThleh irive* the names of eighteen other Congressmen who were so hon- ore* I. Tbe Chinese Bill. Xftc Bart» Regular. "Thera ’e,o pig < dl< is going. I kcaF’ said Bill Soaker, as ho braced up against the sunny side Ot US ran OO. "l’erlnow an linnet man'll get a chance to wdrk now.” “Hello, Bill, want a job this Morning?’’ hastily inquired a business man. "Well, not tldsmorning. I guess. 'Sup all night; don’t feel well: had the rheumatism for a week: wife ain’t giving mo nourishing food lately: she's grown loxv; onlv goes out wishing to lee a week nowadays. Lcn* me a quarter.” But Bill was left to sun himself. Will He Have Bwlsesa There? Atlanta Constitution. A gentleman said to ns on yesterday that last -•car ho invited Mr. Stephens to go over into die Senate chamber at Washington. Mr. S.c- phens declined, scvlng that lie had never rrossed the threshold of the Senate ohamltcr nnd never intended to until he had official business In that room. * We understand that this is a fart, and that it has been one of Mr. Stephens' whims never to enter that enamber unless he went into it as a Senator.. Has Mr. Stephens given up all idea of ever crossing the charmed threshold at all? —Mr. Jonathan Chace represents the second Rhode Island district in Congress, no I* a devoted member of the Society of Friends, and so closely doc* he adhere to the non-com batant doctrines of the sect that be bas declined to nominate a cadet to West Point ■—Whole communities in the West are signing petitions for the pardon of Mason, the sjMMiuof c.uitMu. Because the Rev. S. S. McMahon, of Rising Sun. IniL, was the onlv msnfn the place who refused to sign, the senti ment against him Is so sirong that he may have to give uo his church. 3 —The late Judge Mason, of Iowa, planted a walnn: tree in 1RH. wh'eh he had cut flown In 1877 and coongh boards kent to make aim a coffin when he died. According to hi* wkhe.i. he was Infd away for hk loti* s cep in the coffin made ftom the tree he had planted thirty-eight yeass before. —It Is related of General Zachariah Dea*, wbo died recer ilv «n New York, a* an In stant* of hi* chtvidHc character. that slier the Itatlje of Chlcnmau-a he rein rood the bodrof the Federal General Ly.lc. under <bc protection of aflag ot truce. '•Ihe Federal line*, nnd af: rr- ws-d sent the sword of I be dead so'dler to his widow. —Philip Van Renseller, aged foity, a rich memlier of the Knickerbocker family, was found dead i-i hi* room In the Brunswick no-1 ’ where lie 1' vcd. with a Imi'et hole through his head. Hk wife nnd he had been together 1st the yilnstrels Tuesday night She occupied e suit of rooms on ’-e floor above while be lodged In the single room where found. —Hon. Ros-.cc Conkling, it Is now as- sc-tcd, does not want any office within the eift of the peop'eor the President at present Hk uian is to make MI the trocey he can by hk law practice In ihe fine in'ervenipg, and re turn to the Unf-od State* Senate from New I York nt the clcc.'on three rears hence—provi ded. of course, that the si.-fwatls cun then com mand tbe necessary strength. —Mis. Edna Bennett, a pretty San Francf. ro widow, has been t Iciimised and lo«t nil of her fine jewelry by nct-Kons who made her believe that the Duke of Le'eesier. who is traveling Incognito In America, had .'alien in love with her, and was anxion* for ai -ange-l menk to be made for tbe montage. 8he let her jeivcirrgo so that the monog-am of the Duchess of Leicester m'gbt be put upon it. —Alonzo Wright, a popular memberot' the Canadian House of Common*, has been I presented by lil* .ellow-'egk'rtors »-lth five Hundred phologranhs of hk own handsome features. The ntiologranhs will be (lk.-ib- niod among Mr. Wright’s friends at home. Al most every dring. from a woodchuck in a box lo gold-headed cane* are alve-.i So American statesmen, but American polllic* br* not yet reached the stage of rite chromo for constit uents. —Hoge. on trial for his life at Belle I font an ie. Onlo, was a handsome fcliow.anil wo men of the place mads much of him. crowd inground him in the conn room, piling hi* table wiili flowers, nnd some of them, though only slight acquaintances, kissing him when a verd'c.t of aronittul was rendered. —General Clay Green, who once was minister to Spain and who is now a plnn*er at Bolivar. Mis*., tells a SL Louis reporter Hint the floods will cause thousand* of persons <• cuii- errte permanently from the MMssippi bottom •ands. He add* that no one ever will know the exact number of tinman victims of the flood, because whole communities have been dispersed, never to reunite. —Heniy G. Rodgers, who was United Stale* minister to the Kingdom of Sardinia tin der the administration of President Van Buren,’ and one of the three su.-v'ying members of the Pennsvlvcn'a constitutional convention of 1837, died on Sunday night in the county airos- lionre at Lancaster, Pa., of. which institution lie had !>ccn an inmate for several weeks past. He wo* nearly eighty years old. —It Is slated by a French Journal, and affirmed ttt Ismdon, that the Prince of Wale* *>a'd a v'sl’.of eight and r orty hours to Paris iiio other da v for the purpose of regulating . onlo financial manor*. *nd that In Hint time he raised a loan of a million francs. Thoex- is'enco of cer in -xkcletons in the Prince’s ni-i'XK-rd, wb*ch ibis loan I* Intended to cover, is pinted at. A loan of £*).0C5. however, hoot I a pall* y ono alongside what other English princes have done. —At Pan, In France, recently died Col Adolnlius w. D. Burton, o: the English •'nr, who liad served in tire Eastera campaign nMMS-fl, and commanded the Hftii Dragorm Guards at the bn. Ie of Balaklava. He also look i»itin the siege of Sebastopol. Foe set' vires In the Crimea he. olita'oed themcd.il with three clasns. tbe Turkish medal the fifth clan of ilia O.rfcr of the Mcdjtflic. and the breve; rank of major. He was retired in Hi* nnd In rite fol'.owicg year was moreied. —A paper signed by 300 persons, in cluding the Earl of Shnftcsbnry.Karl Cnlms.Earl Aberdeen. Pnmucl Morley, Capons Farrar and Fleming. Bev. Chariot Rpurgcon and 273elcr- eSJ has been forwarded ♦> Moody and San- k'ev. at Glasgow, caking themi to spend a year in London in cr angelical work. —Gnv. Cornell, of New York, will not nllow Cnrpcmer’i fitlMenjah painting of Mr Lincoln lo >>c placed In ills room nt the Albany capitol. Mr. Cornell objected to the execution ns well as f> ihe sise. the canvas being eight feet iorg. The Scnato lias decided lo give the finance committee discretionary power to dis pose of the porimli. —The late Lord T.vtton Irft three un published nlavsl'ehlT'd him. and one of them on the subject of Brulus and Tarenin. has born submitted l-y Ihe present Lord LyOon to Mr. Irving, who will probably produce it at the Ly- oenm. Iteon Vis several very effective sitna- lions. Truth says, and a competent critic who has read tire manrserln-'-vronounccs it a better piny than the "Lady of Lyons.” —B'tliop Keene, of the Catholic diocese of Richmond, Va.. it Is stated, can no longer rend or write, owing to the condition ornk eyes, and k threatened with blindnes*. lie lift" consulted tiro most eminent occulists in the counter, without obtaining relie.. During the present Louie" rearon. however, ho is dcilvir. • in? a -cries of doctrinal di<eotir->s nt the Catli- edroi. which are aUrr.cting immense nudi cnees. —The Sacred College is about to be In creased by ihe nom’oa'jon of seven new mem- :>er* in tlio next Oon-.k.o.y. which wilt proba bly take place on ihe 31st i.iH.. T.ielr imn'r- are a* follow: Mo.isIgrorPie.ro Lnxynii. sec Hm' - o’ the CoKgrranziona Conatatnnnlr 1 . Monsignor Areelo Jacobin, narevnr of the Santo UtUla. and cousin oi Can 1 Jeeo-nnl. s reiaiv o.'sta e: MopMenor Fianokco lUcei,n maiordomo of his Holirw: Hi* Grace, t Air,,: U< veiend Edward Mc('n>>c. archbishop o' Dublin a.ib primaic of Ireland: ID* Grace. ■ Gharic* Martial AHeiuend I nvige.ie. .‘.roll bishop of Algiers: Hi* Grace Monsignor Dom I trie Acuntloi. p’.triarch archhkhop of \enlec; ItK r.—ceAton-dronr Joachim Llocb y Garriga, archbishop of Seville. What be Declined. Philadelphia Time*. The statement of General Robert E. Leo’s Ir>nd th t Mr. Lincoln once Offered him ihe "oiiitnr d of all the armies of ihe United States 111 tiio tic 1: has been questioned repeatedly and Home w. 1 n npon war history have made posi tive denial of the claim. Nevertheless, Mr. Liu..,in. through Franris Preston Blair, did offer General Lee the chief command, and tho fact i* established iff the current number of tlic 1 rtddt Timm by tbe Rev. Dr. J. William Jones, mere’ ry of the .Southern Historical So ciety. In bis article. Which deals mainly wilh tlie friendly relations of General* Scott and Ice before and at the outbreak of the rebellion, Dr. Jones produce**copy of a leUsrTwrittea by General Iao, wl ereln lie explains how tlie command was offe cd him. This important letter, which is In General’s Lee’s well-known handwriting, is dated at Lexington, February 25,1868, and I : addressed to Reverdy Johnson. Senator Simon Cameron, in a debate In the tJnlicd Slates Senate, had stated that Lee had sougi ; >o obtain the chief command, and tiiab being disappointed, he had “gone to Richmond and Joined the Confederates." Mr. Johnson, who was on ardent Union man, had repelled the charge, and Cencral Lee's letter was ore of thanks as well as of explanation. The Gloomy Kalght. Gath. While we were talking Mr. Itoseoo Conkling had tone up-stairs at the Victoria Hotel to call on his henchman, John F. Smyth. Conkling goes exclusively among politicians here, and it "oeins to he his onlv social amusement to con sider political revenges and chances. The miserable man has thrown away all the courte sies and consorts of lifofor polities, and dees not know wliat else to do. though ho puli on a 'iUle appearance of being a lawyer. It fs ap parent W any man who watches him that his heart fa in politics, and he has cowardly hopes —now flushed, now flat—of becoming Senator again by some miracle, or governor of the Stale, or anything to keep him in tho notoriety he has bad in the post. Two Truisms. Laramie Boomerang. Bob Ingersoll say* there J» no day so sacred but that the laugh of a child will make It still holier. Tbe s.uue thing fa true ofapluglmt. There fa no plug hat so holy that a. little brown-eyed, lisping child, with a good reliable carving-knife, cannot make It still holier. A Specimen Western Lseai. BUlXgein the Laramie Boomerang. A verv dirty tramp slept at the Mechanics' House Thursday night, and stole a shirt or two from ihe hou*e. He was suspected, and the owner asked to see the Miirfa, which the vag was then wearing. M-. Tramp, while ostensi bly nulling up Ms vest to prove his innocence, yanked loosaa six-shooter(liat you could throw a bsa-drrm into, nnd asked the owner if he “wanted to ace them very bad.” The man who owned the linen changed his mind nndcrlhe clrcnmaUT-ces, and went for an officer, who corralcd tlie pedestrian and put him in the ci.y muscum till further orders. Wasfalagtoo N teal Inga. Chicago Tribune epecia’. The developments in tho matter of petty stealings from tlie veterans and the disabled at the Soldiers’Home show more syteniatic rob bery than was at find supposed. It appears that the testimony of the experts called by the commit.ee has been gfven under the fear of discharge in case they orpesed any of the ir regularities of which they have had a knowl edge. The fact has now come out that not only were the gardens, orchard*, dairy and green houses drawn upon regularly to furnish private residences in tlie city, but that dally requisi tions have been made on the supplies of ice. In fact, there fa now pood reason to believe that everything connected with this great establish ment mid its extensive grounds which could be made lo contribute to tlie comfort, lnxuty or support of families moving in (he first circles has been drawn upon. HH El i T The President ba* approved the antf- polygamy WU. Tits Wisconsin Legislature bas defeat ed a bill to establish capital punishment. A Great modiste isrued the following d'rections fo.- wearing a new style of headgesr: “With tills bonnet the mouth is worn slightly open." Death-bed insurance has b«en judi cially kicked out of Ohio. The Supreme Com; of that Stale had the felicity of giving ihe final impulsion. * The elephant Jumbo ba* been confined fn the Iraveitng ear constructed for him, and be will be removed to the slearashtp docks for shipment to New York. A new bell, bearing the inscription, "Sinners, this bell calls you to the worship or Christ and nothing more.” has bce.t presented to .'jo Baptist Church of Dedham, Mass. The common council of San Francisco nrote*.* against the payment of the city's -as ulll as presented by the gas company. Ilia amount of the bill is J 22.’>,f JO .for the past year The Attorney General of Texas entered suit, on Tuesday at Austin, against tho New Orisons, Texas * Pnciflc railway, tlie Gould line, for forfeiture of c'isrior. tho company having failed to comply with its requirement^ That tbe Grangers are still alive in tho West is shown by their ownership of ninety KL* 1 . 16 In *' Icl 'igan, ranging in cost from i^U_to»3,Uia These arc used for the meetings of luo granges and rented out for other pur poses. “At thirty * man suspects himself a fool; Knows It at forty, nnd reforms his plans- At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pnsbee Ida prudent purpose to resolve: In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves and re-resolves; then dies tlie strae." A California, salmon, weighing eleven pounds, jwas icccntly caught in^the french Braid riverof North Carolina. He em igrated about three year* ago. when very small F&.cSmm£ e onT ,eei,0f UlU Un!tc * Suitc8 Waul street boys: It having'been reported among tiio boys that Johnny was busted, Johnny called in Tom and Sammy and showed tiieconienisof his pockets, consisting of 20 cpmtronics, 6 alleys, 10 agates and 8 Chin ese. Jo.inny is a nice bev anil bis credit is fully restored.—Boston Transcript. According to the census reports only eight State* engage in rice culture, viz.: Ala bama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi. Npr.h Carolina, South Carolina and Texas. Tbe "iroduct forlt>79 was 110,131 .nttf pounds, of Wl «c i nearly ono half wax'nilseti in Scutli Ckr- piloa, rrd a l.srre proportion of tbe o. her half in Georgia and Louisiana. A Memphis darkey who stole a mule tt'cd to engage a lawyer who once saved him .’.-om p-foon. Tho lawyer said he could no help him until he paid his feo in the former case. "Why. boas." exclaimed the disconso late darkey, “I stole flat mule ’specially to sell him r.nd pay you.” At last accounts he war still without a legal adviser. A native writer at sorts tbat there is rtirrely a rich Mahometan fn Lucknow who- does no; keep a training cMaldblimcnt. An jstatra’ned ouail is worth from one to four Mata hot w.icn a bird lias become a famous fighter l’.s owner ran pet rlOO for it any (lav. WsilmnMiail quails live proudly in gatidily- Ocoorated cages and in tiio pit evince great val or and dexterity. The latest census bulletin report* tiio total number of acres planted to sugar cane In thfa country in 1679 at 227,770 acre*, from which the product was ITS,872 hogsheads of sugar and 16^73^73 gallons of molasses. Of this Louisi ana produced 171.706 hogshead* of sugar and 11.6ro,2ls gallons of molasses. The onlv States tint report any product nt all are Alabama, Jtorida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tex is. Experiments made rear Pittsburg on the explosion of boilers have produced rcsulto which a scientific observer bas summarized by raying they amonnt to "a complete demonstra tion that explosions do not occur from low wa ter but are caused by a sudden bur-ting of wa ter into steam when a vacuum iu tlie steam de portment fa caused by the opening of the valve." unvmi Aon Gnlleau Weakening. Special to Chicago TH une. Gulteau, aeeoiding to Deputy Warden R. ta, who has chatgc of him, 1* bicakiug (loan. Warden Rom*, being r.«kcd (>night Low hi* prisoner wo*, raid: "Gni mu Is not so well as he has been. He weakened a gieut dc-1 las; week.” "From what cause I” "It was the Interview in some Chicago news paper in which Scovllle raid he was willing Gulteau should be itacriffced If thereby public attention would be culled to the necewi'ly for reform in the law relating to Insane ci imiuals.’- “Guiteau now remind* me," said tiie Wa-, den. “of the story connected with the barging of Modoc Capiaiu Jack. A* the noose was about to lie put about bl* neck-Captain Jock said: ‘Don’t hang me. Hang Scarfaccd Char ley. there.’ Tlmtfa Jusi the way with Gnlleau. He bflsnoobleciion to legislation on the sub- i ectof insanity, but he docs not want to be mng—nt any ra'e, not as an exnmp’e ot tbe de ficiencies of tbe law. He fa quite willing that Scovllle or anybody else shall be hung. Indeed, be said so the oilier day. In a poroxvsm ot fear, lie etied ont to one o, tlie guards. ’Why don’t they htng Scovllle rnd let me go? I am a high-toned gentleman .and he Is onlv a real ekia.e lawyer. The connirycan sprue him bettor thru it can spare met' ’’ “TUI* interview," continued Ross, “ihrew Gulteau into n fever, and he lias had the «ulks ever *ince. He fa not well. His nppciUe. which has always been very great, ha* entirely failed him wiihln tlie past week. There was a curiooa incident the other day at tiio jail. A man came to visit him wbo sain lie bail traveled ail ihe wav iiorn Tennessee just to take a look at him, and tbe tramp raid: -X spirted without a cent, I beat the railroad for tbe passage, and I have not a cent now.’ Guhcau was greatly interest ed in tiio iamp’n story. His experience in beating a rail'osd company seemed to recall pleasant memories lo Aiuhcaii, sntl when the tramp left Gulteau did not ask him to buy a photograph or an aukgraph, but gavelilma lud'-doilar, and said 'hat he hoped that would help lo get a good square meal. Tl-isfatbc first visitor Guiteau ha* had who was not In vited to purchase something." “Do youliilukGuiteau will breakdown on his way to the sen fib 1 d.’’ hi* keeper was rsked. "I thick that be will break down iben. oral before that lime. He is breaking down now. My impression fa tbat a* soon a* the court en bane decide* nyJoat him, he will bicak down entirely, and I think he will probably die ot inanition before the day set for his execution arrives." Hyrile Hathaway. Cnicago Tribune. "I can never forgive you," and as Myrtle Hathaway *i>ote tiicse words, saying tiic.n slowly, nnd wiili n mournful cadence ibat showed plainly how every fibre ot her be'ng, every pairing nerve in her Jllbc, slinpelv ' w*te ws i betng ti'Clclicd lo Us utmost tension by tho cruel ve'-gUtof woe that wa* bearing down upon her, she threw her aims Rrouud Rupert l'.io.uiui’s neck in a passionate abandon of grief Hurt knew no bounds. And yet how bcauti-ul she looked, as sbesiood there ilmt soft, sensuous day In June, when the sky wn* quivering nHh »uiquoi*o blocm and » hi'se red-aud-white cow Mood ouliiucd against she western horizon. Wonderfully i-'e’.r brown eye*shining through a mass of tarjjlrd Inti' that ddfiea over than. A wiroiud Ho- quivering with the sobs that shook he- s'i-.nt foamc. eoU. ncachv cheeks, dow-t w’.tic.i the tears—thore saline but uiieriirg cvh'euc-' pf a broken heart—were tailing like April rain*. “Anil fa there no receding from ill's resoivc, my sweeifi wb'spcrcd llujicrt, la so >, p'cad- Ing. Wabash-avenue tones, ns lie bent Iris young tuanly face oter the sartlv-beaiiiiful one below, amt lie drew the ’ihtmpi y-rounded fo.in of ibe sobbing girl still closer to hi* suspender: “You surely cannot mean, my love, for til's one fault, ibis little break at die tjune- tei-pole. to send me away from you forever out lute tbo dark, s f 'ilcs* future ot a ruined lonre over which yonr own fo'r baud* ibo*e hand* which can work nil ice-cream s;>oon with *uoh a tender pa>bos. nnd yet at such a fc.v--nl el'p— have spread ibe b'uck pall of the coldly-eiuel words you have Just spoken. Say ills only a bluff, tny dar'ing; that you do uol mean lire words you have spokoe—i-KjbUgbtiirg, carbolic acid words that have wiped from die slate Of memory '.he rose-tinted visions of a ba >py pa<( anil left in iheirplace only tlie dieatiiii! mon- sicrs oi remorse nnd anguish that iccr their h!-r,Ing heads amid a trackless waste o mini ti hup.-..'' A* lie spoke. Rupert had drawn Myrtle near er lo him, nnd when tbe last words fell in trembling hcccii 1 * on her er - her head h:\ri dropped upon lti* shoulder and Mie was «<ib- hing more vloU'iuly tiian eve-. When he had finished she looked up Whim wiili those du-ky brown ere*, from which tbe team were welling, nnd stilting by n mighty effort the «obs that were ooming ui*ck and iast from beneath her liver pad. Mpokc: “You know, Rupert,” she said a winsome, pleitiv-of-earanieli-titis-uetk look stealing gen Iv and uposlepla-lonsly over heroine, pa»- siottievs lace, “.hat for month* my If-e firs been wrapped up in yo.n*; - hat your sio-cess was my •recces-, vourgriefs my grief. You know mai lo tile fell, die golden-timcl fall, when 'lie leave-, are- {anting brown and .he wbice-ple te budding in tbe -rin'iy, I have promised •» :>e your Ihiiiut brioo—io iielp keep you broke ror .be tetinnee of vour 11 1'. Of cou-se it ri herd for me to give tu'* t’p. a put forever beli'nil me i'l die woodshed ot my soul .lie ^bright vis- io.-s n.'a haopy ,||>U"C that I had sei my o.nlte- o jo-* wiiliA'ou I l tile IxnUS Island* of a rioi- cago boat ding ’ ou*e. Bui my du.y's plrJn, end I mu -t not shrink from in Do not ritiuk ill'- b.vc fo • YOU ill's fed. it bas never been nl.ervd "i stars. l»o n»t press me fornnex- pianation. I can only say that any man who is sucker enough to b*ek. the favorite iu a ste- di.y wa king match i* not flv enough for me:" anil dipping In the parlor Myrtle began ring ing tiiat beautiful chant, “Do Not Fix tbe Gate in trimmer,” while Rupert, bl* proud spirit crushed and his heart desolate, started down town to get full. walk ont of a dHbon from the same door at which they entered they will soon be overtaken by bad luck. As some saloon* only have two floors- a front and back door—tilts supcrMition causes young meu a great deal of .rouble at times, as (hey oitcu find i; necessary to retire ,rjtn such place* through narrow back yards.— St. Louie Republican. A London telegram of 22d inst., says: Thfa fa the third day of lint Lincoln spring meeting. Tlie race for .ho Lincolnshire handi cap, distance one mile, was won by Count F. DcLatrangc'* five-vearold chestnut horse Pou- let. The second place was secured by Mr. A. Brow ford's fire-yea void ehc-tnui horse Master Waller, nn<i tliiri nl/icc I>y liu* nuiic owner's flve-Tear-oM gray liorac Burliaimu. Mr. P. Tx>nliard*8 flve-ycar-olcl b*y filly Amnza and four-year-old chestnut gelding Mistake also ran. A GF3TLEMAN who bu just made a trip down the Mississippi rircr told a reporter o* the New Orleans Picay une that In his opin ion the cause of the breaks in ihe levees Jf chiefly owing to tho carelessness of the people. When tbe levees are not cowred with water they arc driven over by henw vehicles and in many places broken through fn thi« way. Then when ho water rise? it bunts thiongfc the weak spots and floods the ncighlxnhood. The pec- pie reve** repair ihe levees in a dry season, and when tiie floods come they could not remedy tho dazrase. Tm: Senate committee on agriculture has reported favorably on the bill to make the- Agricultural Bureau an execitivc. deportment. It provides that there shall bo a rccrclary and an rsslstant secretary, both of whom shall be- praclical agriculturists; that there shall be flf© bureaus In the department* as follows: Lil and industrial education* rjrricultural prod lions, manufacture ami machinery, trail si kitten and trans/er, pcoiouical surrey from Interior Department. The duties and j»owe.~ of the department arc nudnlr to collect and disseminate iuformadon re'ating to agt\* -*• ltiml .Interests. The members of the crew of tbe Nor wegian bark SI Jon. at Boston, detract some what from the size of ihe telegraphic sto*y about their sailing through fifty miles of dead confish, but the truth, if their present story bo ime, is ttaitling enough. They say that they sailed through ten or twelve miles of floating dead flsli, the fish being of large *ize and visl- blcon hothsteesnf tbo ship as far «•» the eye could roach. An attempt was matte tocaleh one of them with a bwuJiook, but the vessel was sailing v> fast that it proved ifnpossible to do so. These mariners have no theory to ac- count for this fish fatalUt, but say they never saw or heard of tlie like before. Col. I3A.CBELDEH, who it preparing an official history of the battle of Gettysburg, with ft view of getting ihe fullest and mo>t accurate information, has called two meetings of the participants in the ba»lle to be held on the bat tle ground itself. Tlie fi-"t will take p?aco June 7, and ^ ilI im*1u<lesolriic!>nfthef<mfetl- era'u’ and Unlou armies who took part to the fighting at or near Peach Orchard, Wheat field. Devil’s I)cn f or Bound Top. Ti.c second will bo held June 11, arid will include those who were eugnged in the first day’* fwUtle. All vet erans of the Union and Confederate armies of any rank, who fought on then oc'-aMons, no invited to be present. tiraat at the Whits Hour*. Couri+vJoM nal. I’ve wandered to the White Hoi *«?, C I’ve come to you. my te»v: If you i — - There’s many an Ohio man Set twu’k sinee you got in : Your scheme N not unlike my j.Iar Go in, my boy, and win! If but the Demo*’!at*, mt boy. Shall wranglea« of yore. Without alloy shall couic your joy In autumn, : 8I, Ann* Dl«ktn«Mi m Hamlet, Gath. I went to see Anna Dickinson nlav "Hamlet’* on her opening night in New York. She bad a large house, and looked well in men’s trunks nnd hose—having no delicacy about her limbs, butlhfv were stout enough Her dress wax a sort of’ dark purple. She looked pretty old ai»out ‘he throat and cheeks but her preU/ brow and fine pair of eyes were admired. She was Ul at ea.se, nnd looked,«« she came on. like n person s<w>n to be shot. She put her hands on the small of her back, and played nearly the first net with them there, apparently afraid to put them forward: and when she did gesture, she use*! her hands and arms like a balance- pole to walk a tight roj© with. Her voice was letter than I expected, and for some time its soft cadence and depth ot tone wen* pleasing; but she soon lout the proper nlteb.and talked a kev or two above the people on the stage, and consequently the play ran more and mcreou her part into a hollow declamation—like ft woman on the top of th© house trying to be conversational with peooh? on the ground. She had no dexterity with her hands, her ■•word or her back; and ihe be** her friend# could do whs to applaud her for not falling, while a good many were !u a Utter, and other* went ont earlv in the play. The tpwftrte with this woman j* the same ns with Ml* Mary Anderson. She wa* not willing to work to the lower places and deserve to come up, but wanted to tden from socle*y to tlie top of the dramatic profeotiou over the heeds of Ibe la- borers. She wanted to gather to the mowey without >pending the sweat and bonding her neck to the stubbie*
