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^JASPER DAY-
Savannah's Tiibute to a Hum
ble Hero’s Worth.
___ THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH; TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1888.-TWELVE PAGES,
Association, Ladies and Fellow Citizens- lint Its star undimroed; modesty, with its I TUT AH,’ \ V it PT \ fU?
Your partiality has assigned me a most pleas- veil heightening the merits it could not X-LillU l\.±\SJ 1 Ij2\.L/1j
ing duty. Perhaps no comparatively obscure concea l; disinterestedness, with all its
name in the world’s history has ever gath- ? race " of } exouisite moral beauty; patriot-
ered about it, after the lapse of a century, lsm * the rightful king of the histeri
so general and tender an interest as that of a , . l " e 8 P>rit of a willing
Sergeant William Jasper. . domain the cause of truth and oi
pVERNOR
nine Ceromonles-Lnst Night's
* l " „ -The Volunteer*, in High
^Clover—Gov* Gordon Kisses
,he Original Thirteen.
£ I tplerrsm to Macon Telegraph.
February 22-The President
hU party arrived here at 8 o’clock, and
metbv a committee oi citizen* and the
* Thousands of people were present,
the train rolled in the Chatham Artil-
Id a salute and all the locomotives
, fsetoties in the city blew a welcome
’ Tbe people were particularly enthu-
ie over the President and Mrs. Cleve-
si they stepped from the coach. The
whterof Colonel Haines, general
”f the Suvunnah, Florida
P Western railroad, presented
Cleveland with a splendid
rt tion of flowers. The party was escorted
the long room of the depot, which had
prepared fsr the occasion and decorated
hotted plants of flowers and evergreens-
i!Lm! reception, lasting about ten
held in the day. About 1,000
le sere presented to the President and
Cleveland and other members of the
Carriages were taken for
A DRIVE around the city.
(routehad been published and was
,ied with people, notwithstanding the
tbits drizzling rain was falling. The
irsnd Captain Falligant, chairman of
ttn’i committee, rode with the Presi-
id Mrs. Cleveland. Other citizens
jb Col. Lamont and wife and Secreta-
itneyand wife.' The Georgia Hussars
o escorts. The cheering was contin-
indicating a hearty welcome. The Jas.
Booument festival being in progress, all
buildings were gaily decorated with
if. The only stop made in the course
tbe drive was at Tulin-
Academy of fine arts,
Cleveland had expressed a desire to see
lections of statuary and paintings
The deport was reached without in
oi soy kind worth mentioning. An
lteen spent in the drive and the
it expressed himself as being much
4 with it. "Within fifteen minutesafter
the depot the party was on its way
|tpeople were greatly pleased witli Mrs.
dind there was great regret that the
sad his party could not rrmalu
The Senatorial party reached here
. a. and left at 8:30 o. m.
RIVAL OF THE VOLUNTEERS,
-sau, Ga., February 22.—'Tlu-
hbe iealirstl *«.» l.rkUiauL
• is thronged witli vi
t trains this morning arrived in
■ebons and were heavily loaded to-
There are twelve thousand strangers
Icily. The Central train thin morning
ptinGovernor Gordon and staff and
Volunteers. Tlig Volunteers
let spon their arrival by the Chatham
By, whose guests they are, and were
fd to the artillery armory, where they
eskfas ed. They were then turned
the avannah Volunteer Guards
|on snd marched with them in the
and to the review,
I the review they were escorted
to the artillery quarters.
tre banquet. . , I
jot the Chathaius gave a magnificent
ft in honor of their guests. Plates
r*"" °ue hundred and eighty. Gov,
P wij present, and I.ieut. Conners, of
ptsnteen, occupied seats of honor at
Ml lapt. Wheaten, commanding the
■•"h the,rightful king of the historic virtues;
““ig martyr-
If we inquire for the reasons of thia pecul- ■ rcceivi "? its immortal crown in the mo
lar interest, we shall find it due to other i m *“ t of ‘ elf immolation. Although not
causea than those which ordinarily make 1 re P r , e " e "<ed to the eye in brass or chiseled
men futnous. There was nothing in Jasper’s "l 8 .,, 1 thcse virtues are to stand, as if with
biyth, education or circumstances, as far as 1 vi,ible Presence, around this statue of Jas-
these are known, calculated to arrest the *’, er ’and With inspired lips slmll speak to
attention or impress the imagination. He ., e ?°. uth t,us 8nJ colnin K generations,
did not belong to that class of men who usu- ,n voking them to a higher and more conse-
ally challenge the homage of mankind, and or8 ‘™ hfe with nil emphasis and eloquence,
whom the world ascribes greatness or
builds its monuments. He was neither
philosopher, nor orator,, nor law-giver, nor
conqueror, nor founder of empire or of state.
He was not the apostle of any religion, or
sect, nr creed, which bound ms followers to
gether and committed them to the duty of
perpetuating his memory. He achieved no
great triumph in politics, in war, or in lit
erature; indeed, none of those brilliant suc
cesses, in any line of thought or action,
which gild the names of great leaders and
fill the world with their praises.
He was horn in our sister State of South
Carolina of humble parentage, and died an
unpretending soldier in the non-commis
sioned
RANKS OF A REIIEL ARMY,
and died, too, in the very hour of disastrous
defeat. Yet, there stands not upon this, or
any other continent, one monument more
worthily erected than the granite column
and bronze statue which we are here to un
veil.
The reasons which called this memorial
ints being are numerous and of command
ing import. It is due first, to Jasper himself
—to the modest man who was a model of un
selfish devotion to his country, and yet who
steadfastly refused all offers of promotion
and every testimonial which titles confer,
and to which men ordinarily aspire. Ills
career, though brief and comparatively in
conspicuous, was a rare example of the most
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hasponded to the toast, “The Macon
•hour honored guests. A gallant
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• a. Ituhardson responded to the
[MUtyof Macon, her enterprises,
triad culture add lustre to the fair
W'»- ’ H wan one of the beat
“the evening.
’•General f 0. UuBIgnon, Colonel
c Mener Hon. W. U. Charlton
Uritt Adams Col. Clias. H. Ohn
• Lohert Falligant and Col. Win
w among the speakers. After
I*** volunteer* were escorted to
Sf left at 10 o’clock. Several
8 ttm *»* over to-morrow ami
■"IE UNVEILING.
FT parade and review and the
J the Jasper monument were the
•Of the day. The unveiling
‘Place at 11 o’clnek. Modi
. ‘ r? ,ch ,lle monument stands,
!“**• °f people. Military
“ lllln * "hleh took part in
ar °und the plat
rU„S U "' le, [" ,e montiment.
Jeliver »d the ora-
r ng of thr corner stone of the
’ t **• the orator of the day.
■ hall* '• /'°l |,,1 el John Screven
’ hrif »„ | 10ur
Governor Gordon’s speech
,, , ,be poaitiona assigned
" 1C unveiling of the
1 a...i * n< ? Month Carolina
‘I'**hnft ready to un
it *°Gl' The others stood
laiw iL '« we,t °* *lt* platform,
St th-®**' ,h8 ‘ tottered the
i ik, ur »tor gave the woril
[me aoanment to be unveiled.
»•»* flag, around the
Itheiu , l 8 ’'fT»n'l the young lit-
Nlhe ,he atatue. As the
I the w"?., an, ‘ continued ap-
T showed that the
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1 hooixo inn.
°1 the Governor’s speech,
Pi*' ,cw appropriate word.,
nument to the mayor and
‘tWA’“ d U *T’t tester,
patriort* lo “ •"** "'**•
MsSSWawAS#
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honor of the hatUe-scarreil
. - -L?! 01 ""* sainted each
kiss jP’, ,e «“tin* the thirteen
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uiio|iiluuu*| avail untie CAaiUJHC Ul IIIC IIlUHl.
|)lcndi<l ana romantic heroiiun ever exhib
ited in the humbleit ranks of armies. It
was chivalry without its plume; cour
age without its star of distinc
tion; martyrdom without its benedic
tion or sign of saintship. No note of
jiopular applause ever reached his ear nor
.hrilled his spirit nor strengthened his re
solve. No dream of a place in histury ever
disturbed his repose or excited his imagina
tion. The only reward he proposed for nim-
self seemed to have been the indulgence of
an instinctive magnanimity of soul and con
scious elevation of spirit, as expressed in
deeds of daring in defense of his country.
At Fort Moultrie, on the 28th day of June,
1770, he
|LEAPED THROUGH AN EMBRASURE, .
under furious fire and recovered, with its
shattered staff, the fallen flag of South Caro
lina. In Georgia, on outpost duty, he re
leased prisoners from the enemy’s hands,
and # distinguished himself in deeds of extra
ordinary daring.
On the 9th dav of October, 1779, at Sa
vannah, before ne had reached the age of
thirty years, wounded, faint and bleeding,
he pressed to the front and fell with the
Hag of Ids country in his hand, while seek<
ing to place it o'u the enemy’s entrench
menu.
1IU life was a noble illustration of all the
characteristics that adorn the soldier and
the patriot. It was an exhibition of all tbe
boasted virtue* of the knighthood of the
ol'h n tim< -. 1 ’attiotism burned w itli :i
lfast and undying tlame in bin breast,
ourage was of the uxunL heroin uml »•!**-
' 'M" ■ Hi- Ie»tywii« ns con-].inn-
In- splcmlUl ami untelfish valor. lie
little thought, when, with Ills dying breath,
lie said, “Tell Mrs. Klliott that I raved the
flag ahe gave na. though I lost my life," that
he was placing in the hands of the historic
muae one of tne rarest gems of chivalry that
ever sparkled upon her bosom. Indeed, hia
modest worth, his lofty courage, his self-sac
rifice, his disinterestedness and hi* touching
reverence for womanhood, in the hour of
danger and death, constitute* the very es
sence snd glory of chivalry.
THEY ILLUSTRATE THE TRUTH
that genuine greatness of soul is independ
ent of rank, of titles, or of station. In rec
ognition of this great truth and of his singu
larly high and instinctively noble qualities,
this memorial is most worthily erected to
Sergeant William Jasper.
In the next place this monument should
stand as a perpetual testimonial to the no
ble men and women whose spirit conceived,
and whose labors litre built it. History is
partial and exclusive in the selection of
subjects for the bestowal of its favors. Its
spirit is essentially aristoeratie. It delights
to play courtier, uot to privates nr untitled
heroes, hat to epauletted chieftains, to
monarchs and to great commanders. In se
lecting, therefore, this modest hero of the
ranks as your model “to give the world as
surance o'f a man,” you have honored your
selves ns surely as you honor him. You have
raised this monument not only to Jasper,but
to that vast army of unpretending heroes,
who, in all armies, have fought and suffered,
and without the hope of distinction, Imre
forgotten s*lf, braved dangers, faced death
uablauched, torn flags from the enemy’s
hands, and placed their own on hostile
breastworks, or gone down to unlettered
graves in the crash and carnage o' war. I
most heartily rejoice that, despite onr pov
erty, Southern hearts have conceived and
Southern hands completed this enduring
memorial to this distinguished represen
tative of a noble brotherhood who, in every
war, fill its ranks, suffer its bitterest priva
tions and face its fiercest fires.
Again I thank yon, my countrymen, that
you have thought sc worthy lo utter, in
your behalf, becoming sentiments upon an
occasion so significant and so replete with
patriotic suggestions.
But again. This monument will become
another bond of sympathy
BETWEEN IRELAND AND AMERICA.
Let us regard it in some sense as a memo
rial of the heroic and pathetic struggle,
waged for self-government by Ja-pcri* Fa
therland—that Niobeof the nations, “song
ful, soulful, sorrowful Ireland,” the echoes
of whose woes are in every heart in Christen
dom ; whose genius and courage have en
riched and ennobled every land and whose
irrepressible passion for liberty, growing
which no human can rival.
To conceive the thought of building such
a monument is to make a I. p iri ure in com
memorative usage, which no Inuguage can
too strongly commend. History, I repeat,
is always aristocratic. IU civic crowns are
too often bestowed on unworthy princes,
rather than upon meritorious representatives
of the common people. The world builds it*
highest monuments to power and raises its
triumphal arches to intellectual greatness,
and it builds wisely. But I wish to declare
witli especial emphaais that
YOU HAVE BUILT MORE WISELY
in erecting this monument to character, to
heart, to that better and higher part of our
humanity, which is the source of every higli
inspiration and noble action; the God-made
temple of human justice; the God-erected
altar upon which patriotism, truth, charity
mid liberty kindle their inextinguishable
fires.
I cannot consent to leave tbe thought
which I now seek to impress without sub
mitting one or two practical snggestlnn
My profound belief is that it would be
well for onr race if no notion, however bril
liant or successful, were deemed truly great
unless inspired by n great motive and di
rected to the accomplishment of an exnlted
end. I am persuaded that what the world
needs in this materialistic age is more of
heart, and the heart’s influence over man’s
cold intellectuality; more of soul and of hu
man sympathy, and less of sordid selfishness;
more of heaven and less of hadeB in busi
ness, in politics, and in all the relations ana
transactions of men.
My further profound belief is that what
this great republic roost needs is to develop
to a higher degree the sensibilities of the
people; to cultivate between parties and
sections the spirit of Christian toleration,
which is at once the highest attainment of a
perfect civilization, the fundamental lnw of
republics and the first essential of t heir
unity. We need to have onr political opin
ions,
TEMPERED BY A BROADER LIBERALITY
and softened by a nobler charity. We neefi
to have erected in this republic the standard
Democratic Convention to be
Held in St. Louis.
THE TIME CHANCED TO JUNE 5TH.
torgte Change
that City XVi
Call a
Call c
to St. Lou I h and
. Order—The
of The
1884.
fixed by the great countryman of Jaapcr—by
Kdmundl!urke,the greatest of Iri*hmen—that
■tandard which auggesta as the highest teal
of true statesmanship, a “heart filled with
sensibility.” We need to have those who
nmke our laws, shape our policies and lead
public opinion, expanded and lifted' to that
nigh plane of Christian politics, where the
“golden rule” is the eontfolltag jHHM fit
public conduct. It is not enough that po*
litical opinion shall he earnest and honest
Too often in all the ages has honest opinion
become the heartless instigator of high*
handed oppression. Honest opinion piled
the faggots around Latimer, and redder
this land with brother’s blood. Hon
opinion, in the forceful language of Lan
is an “Intriguer, gray with guile**—and the
"basebom accident of time and place.”
Honest opinion let ns have; ’nit let it hr tin
legitimate child from th<* holv wedlock o
heart and head. Let its spirit he magnum
mous toleration and its life fraternal love.
My rmmtrvmen, the occasion w hi -h eon
vencs us invites the reflections which I htvi
just submitted, and allures us to the con*
temptation of a tuture of greater concord
and more perfect unity. On the heights of
Hunker Hill, the gratitude of the north has
raised an imposing memorial to tilthWW
who fell there In defense of liberty.
after the lapse of a century, on the low lands
of Georgia, on the birthday of Washington,
we dedicate this monument to auother
martyr who fell in the cause of onr country’s
independence. Erected ou the same couti*
nent by the shores of the same ocean, to
heroes of the same war, whose services and
blood were a part of the price paid for our
common freedom, these monument* should
stand as effectual protests against sectional
animosities, forever appealing, in their im
pressive silence, fora Republic of concord*
uut heart* as of equal BUtes.
A l»TTi:U I’EL'D.
Washington, February 23.—The national
Dcinoatio committee met again in secret
session this morning at 10 o’clock. At the
opening of the sessions Mr. Scott, of Penn
sylvania, moved that the current business of
balloting for the selection of the city in
which the next Democratic national conven
tion shall be held, he suspended so that a
motion might be made to reconsider the vote
by which July 3rd was decided upun as the
date for holding the convention.
Points of order .were made by several
members, when Mr. McPherson, of New
Jersey, took the floor and de
livered a short but earnest ad
dress, in which he urged that there
should be no insistancc on technical points
and tha* the only consideration should be
the good of th? party, usd reminding the
committee that however attractive the Pacific
slope might be, Presidential elections hith
erto had been determined by the votes of
New York, New Jersey and Connecticut;
that on account of the proposed reduction
of taxation there would be need of
more work than ever before in showing the
people that ii u:> for tlitir interest that it
should take the form proposed.
After other remarks, a vote was taken upon
Mr. Scott’s motion, with the following result:
23 for and 24 against. The motion was de
clared lost.
Hallotting was then resumed for the place
for holding the convention. The fir.t ballot
stood: Chicago, 15; &in Francisco, 17; SL
Louis, 12; Cincinnati,2: Sew York, 1.
Second ballot—Chicago 1G; San Francisco
17; *St. Louis 13; New Y'ork 1.
senator gorman’s appeal.
At this point a recess was taken of fif
teen minutes, after which. Senator Gorman
rose to make an appeal to those who, like
self, had voted for San Francisco. He
had been of the opinion, as others had, that
bg to California, which was a part of
the territory acquired by a Democratic gov-
rnmont and which owed its birth to the
Democratic. party, political sentiment in
favor of the Democracy coaid be considera-
l»ly .“trengthone i. Tin Dmnnwat- had cur
ried California at the Stutc election and the
Kcpuldican it v in Oregon had In
duced, and he had believed hv holding the
convention In San Francisco Uie Democracy
would surely gain the electoral votes of the
Pacific Hiatts. He found, how
ever, that ninny Democrats whose views
deserved consideration, were of the opinion
that it' the convention were held More, some
oi the ablest nptl most Important members
of the party \\ raid be unable to attend. For
deaths of Mr. Wilson, of Maine, end Mr.
Thompson, of New York, late members of
the committee.
TIIR CALL.
A call for the convention was agreed upon.
It is substantially the same as that of 1884.
except that in conformity with the action ot
the last national convention, the territories
and District of Columbia were placed on the
same footing as States, the territories having
two delegates each. The following is the
call.
The National Democratic committee hav
ing met in the City of Washington on the
22nd day of February, 1888, has appointed
Tuesday, the 5th dao of June next, at noon,
at the time at the chosen citv of St. Louis as
the place of holding the National Democrat
ic convention. Each State is entitled to
representation therein equal to double the
number of its senators, and representatives
in the Congfess of the United States, and
each territory and the District of Columbia
to have two delegates.
All Demociatic conservative citizens of
the United States, irrespective of past po
litical associations and diflenreces, who can
unite with us in the effort for pure, econom
ical and constitutional government, are cor
dially invited to join us in sending deligates
to the convention.
William II. Darnum, chairman, Frederick
O. Prince, secretary National Democratic
committee.
The committee adjourned to meet in St.
Louis, Monday, June 4,1888.
WHAT IT MEANS.
Mayor Francis, of St. Louis, sent the fol
lowing telegram to President Cleveland:
“Congratulations to you and the Democratic
party on the time and location of the con-
venttnn «t St. Louis. It nicttiia that the fight
will he made squarely on the principles so
clearly, forcibly and courageously enunci
ated in your message. D. Ii. Francis.”
delegate*jfroi
their lirelerei
ing to h .h‘ ti
lde point. It had he
the Pa
e and ju
ti<
d to
i to yield
Prominent People of lUjrtlierwoori, S. C.,
Cunning for Knelt Other.
Special Telegram to Macon Telegraph.
Columbia, S. C., February 22. — At
Hlythcwood, this State, there is great ex*
citement on account of a local war between
the two families of Hogan and Hoffman,
both the most prominent people in the
town.
The origin of the trouble was the seduc
tion of Miss Hattie llogan, an eightccn-
year-old girl, by Thos. Hoffman. Misa
Hogan’s father discovered'the ltason, and,
at the point of a pistol, made Hoffman
promise to marry the girl, but on the day
of "the wedding the groom disap-
jH’ared, and shortly after Miss Hogan be
came a mother,
llogan searched for his daughter’s
betrayer for two weeks, and then returned
to Illythewood to hold the other Hoffman
hoys responsible, one of these brother be
ing the mayor of the town. Yesterday
Hogan held a pistol at Mayor Iloffiuaus
head while he horsewhipped Mm. He
then proceeded five miles to a mill where
another brother, Jack Hoffman, was found,
and while a friend of Ilogai
covered Hoffman with a Win
Chester rifle the enraged father wore
out a whip on him. By this time the Hoff
man family was aroused, and two of the
brothers, including the mayor, went gunn
ing for Hogan and surrounded his house.
The citizens telegraphed to Winnaboro for
aid, and a sheriff and a posse was sent at
once to Blvthewood. In the meantime the
judge at Winnshoro telegraphed to Mayor
Hoffman, not knowing that he was engaged
.. .1- * . ... - .» rail
stconKer through centurie. of oppression, i« I in the not, to prererre the peace at *11
•dfoot.
•* «k*
the crent phenomenon of history,
“TenJer, comely, valiant Ireland,” may
her murrection more ■needily break in a
blaze of triumph and of deliverance from
oppreuion. M»y it herald the erection of
another monument, built by her own *on>,
upon her own *oiI, to her own freedom, ard
to the conceded and inalienable right of
Irishmen to local self-government forever.
lastly, I interpret the purpose of your
monument to be the commemoration of those
noble attributes of character which Jaaper
so beautifully illustrated in hi* life and
death. “Godanve liberty and my country I”
was his exclamation as he rescued the nag
at Fort Moultrie. He declined a commission
because he felt that he could better serve
his country in his humble station. In his
dying hour he declared that the recollection
of his services brought a secret joy to his
hesrt when it was about to cease its throb*
forever. And aa he closed hia eye* upon his
struggling country he desired that hia father
be assured that bia son had died with a stead-
foot faith in an immortal life beyond the
grave,
XUCIt ARE THE EXALTED LitARACTBRUme*
and aentimeatt which thia monament ao»-
memorate*. Around it are to stand in
broken circle* all the virtue* illustrated in
| hazards. The sheriff’* poeae arrived in
time to arrest the mayor and take him to
jail before there waa bloodshed.
SL'ICIIIK IN PRISON.
JAILED MOONSHINERS.
They Are All Surry, Won’t I)o It Agnln,
and Want to Go Home.
Atlanta, February 23.—Some time ago
Judge \V. T. Newman, of the United States
District Court, instructed Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Phillip* to visit the Fulton
coilntv jail and interview,ill those confined
for violating the internal revenue laws on
long terms of six months or over.
They were questioned especially as to
their'guilt or innocence of, the charges
against them, and this morning the report
was made to Judge Newman. It is quite
lengthy, and contain- some interesting
points. Tltere were reported twenty-five
prisoners confined on long terms. Of there
all but one said they were
guilty of violating the internal rev
enue laws, and all but one expressed
their anxiety to Ire released. Thia one
said lie was afraid he would be returned
before his sentence expired and that he
would not get the usual bounty given
United States prisoners serving their time
out—a suit of clothes.
Twenty-four of the prisoners informed
the assistant district attorney that they
never expected to again engage in illicit
distilling, and that when released they
would return to their homes and support
their families in a law-abiding manner.
When asked as to the reasons that in
duced them to violate the laws, they cither
said it was on account of the sentiment of
their commnnity or ignorance of the law.
A majority of them gave the former as the
reason. They are all reported os farmers
with families, not in a well to do con
dition.
It is thought that Judgo Newman hod
the report made with a view of showing
leniency in several cases.
TIIEIll CARTING MATCH.
Mr. Bnkcr and tin* titock* Krotliers Add to
tlio City** Wraith.
Atlanta, February 23.—Tlio cases of
disorderly conduct against Ed and Porter
Stocks and Clmrjos F. Baker, which grew
out of a difficulty in which they partici
pated on the night of February 4th in a
street car on Whitehall street, wore called
in the police court this morning.
Ed liarbuck, C. D. Moon ami Ilamp
Strond, who were passengers on the enr at
the time of the difficulty, were the wit-
„ c . i ..{■nesses. The substance of their testimony
He was a .Scotchman, with the actualities was that while I!aker W[u ated in t!w> c / r
I'nele amt Niece, Wlio Itn.l Eloped Trom
Michigan. Die Rather limn Return
Pittsburg, Pa., February 22.—A dis
patch from Alliance, O., says: Cha*. Wing-
ard and Annie Fox, uncle and niece, in
jail here for eloping from Monroe, Mich. v
committed suicide by shooting at 10 o’clock
this morning.
The Michigan officer* had just arri
and had a talk with the prisoner-, \
asked a few minutes in which to decide
whether or not to return to Michigan with
out a reqnisition. The officers lelt the jail
to give them an opportunity to consult to
gether. Returning shortly, they found
that they had locked themselves in a cell
and had*shot themselves with a revolver.
The details of the deed will never be
known. Tbe arirl died Instantly. Wing-
ard Is still living, but cannot survive a
day.
ited, he said
nnics Binl our indiscreet
voting yesterday was cvi.
ence of'rni anti-adminlstm
c committee. It was not
Was concerned, and he did
not believe it to he true of anyone else. “I
ad mi: i - trot i* ,ii niaii." lie «.iid. “If
am not, I shield like to know who is.”Bena-
tor Gorman allowed it to be known, how-
ever, that he -till considered it the wisest
and safest to hold the convention in June.
Mr. Scott follow cl, and urged that the
time for holding tlie convention was of more
importance than the place. lie considered
it of vital consequence that the convention
should be held at an earlier day than had
been agreed spon.
GEORGIA MAKES TUB BREAK
Itnlloting then beg in, and when Georgia
was reached Mr. Wai-h rose in his place and
stated that he had thus far voted steadily
for San Francisco, lint he was satisfied that
that city would not lie selected. He would,
therefore, vote for St. Louis.
Senator Gorman, in accordance with his
remarks, voted for St. Ionia, and was foi
lowed by others win, hsd previously voted
for Cbicuo, including Ur. Scott and Mr.
Grubb, of Delaware. When Illinois was
reached, Judge Gaudy thanked tbe commit-
tee for the consideration shown Chicago,
but said he was quite willing that the eon-
vention should go to 8l Louie, which, he
said, waa the commercial capital of South Il
linois. Changes to St. Louis became very
general, and it became evident St. Louts
would be the choice of the committee.
During tbe call, Mr. Tarpie, in a brief
apceeh, withdrew San Francisco from the
conteet.
Mr. Tarpie, of California, C. 8. Thomas, of
Colorado, and Mr. Barbour, of Virginia,
spoke in opposition to the motion, but it
prevailed by vote of twenty-six to nineteen.
Kx-Senator McDonald moved that the date
ot the convention be changed from July 3 to
Tuesday, June 5.
A motion to amend by anbetituting June
20 for June 5 was lost.
Senator McDonald’s motion waa then
adopted by a vote of twenty-nine to seven
teen. The vote by States was ns follows: In
favor of June 5th, Alalia ms, Delaware, Illi-
nois, Indians, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky,
Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota,
Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hamp
shire, New Jersey, New York, North Caro
lina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Vermont, Wi-nniin, Dakota,
District of Colombia, New Mexico, Utah
Wyoming. Missouri not voting. All of the
other Stales and Territories voted against tbe
motion.
The voting then proceeded almost solidly
for St. Louis, when a motion was made and
carried declaring St. Lonii to be the unani
mous choice of the committee. Itefore the
break was nude the vote stood St. Louie 22,
San Francisco 6, Chicago Hi, New York 2,
Cincinnati t.
The vote by 8ut«’- was si follows: For St.
Louis: /Humana, Connecticut!, Delaware,
Florida, Indiana,Ki iitm ky, Ireui-iano, Mary
land, Maaaachnaetta,
Montana, North Car
Tenni --te, Texaa, Vot
Virginia, Dakota, 1’i-iri,■: i omnim.
Washington IViriioiy.j^B
1 . . » i i I l.if'.ima. i ..I..t.id... 11
Iiim:i, Maim 1 , Mi. Iiimui, Minnesota, V t
New Hampshire, flaw Jtner, Panzsay!
Rhode Ialand, Wisconsin, New Mexico
and Wyoming.
For’San Francisco: Colorado, K
Carlyle anil Ills Masters.
From the St. Loafs Republican.
The five years, from 1827 to 1832. were
the decisive years of Thomas Carlyle s life,
as we majr easily learn from Carlyle him
self—r ot in letters, biographies or in any
thing written by himself about himself—
for this is always more or less deceptive—
but in the history of his intellectual growth
unconsciously given in his public writings
during that period.
lie was then n young man, clean-shaven,
with a high forehead, high cheek bones, a
tiiin nose, expanded at the nostrils, thin
lip«, slightly drawn down at the corners,
and a moderately good digestion. lie had
not vet become unbearable. He did not yet
froth nt the mouth on slight provocation,
of Scotch blood, hut with no certain indi
cation as yet of poisibilitics of such de
velopments in-him as “llofratli Heusch-
crecke” and “Prof. Teufelsdrocckh.”
He writes in the F.ngiisli language inn
somewhat nervous style, but his sentences
are marshalled in tnglish fashion and
and move with the Knglish step, whether
they march slowly or advance to the charge
on the double quick. He has sonic sym
pathy for bis readers, and, endeavoring to
make himself understood, succeeds far
better than at any other period in his life.
If these essays and reviews, by which he
became known to the American public by
the edition of 1815, did not explain him,
it would ho hard to believe that they are
hits work. In ns far ns wo can know a man
by the company be beeps they do not ox
plain him i,.r they tell u- who hi- a—i
‘ ilc- were, who hi- friends were, wle, b
•dels and masters were.
He had begun the study of German lit
crature and was making the translation!
for the foar-volume- collection of master,
pieces of German fiction, which still keeps
Us place as an English classic mosaic of
German classics, though Carlyle waa mis
taken in assigning their relative rank in
German literature to some writers among
Ida own contemporaries. In making these
translations he allowed the bent of his own
mind—for he selected nothing that waa not
mystical, fantastic, transcendental, wierd
—one and the other or nil. He ran this
whole gamut from Mnaaeus, Foque and
Tieck to Hoffman, Richter and Goethe;
from allegory, tender, delicate and trans
parent, to the most elusive mysticism and
overwrought sentimentality; and in all he
found pleasure.
Contemporaneously with thia work, lie
waa writing the aerica of essays which be
gan with a review of Jean Paul Friedrich
Richter in the Edinburgh Review and
ended witli that on Goethe in the Foreign
Quarterly. It embraces studies of the
state of German literature, of Hoyne, of
the German playwrights, of Novalis, of
Luther’s hymns, of the Nibelungvn Lied,
of the German literature of the fourteenth
and fifteenth centuries, of Schiller and of
Goethe. From Goethe he borrowed most
of all in ideas. Schiller profited him lit
tle. 1 le admired the chastity of expression
and the classic grace into which Schiller
forced the reluctant and unmanageable
the Stocks brothers entered. linker w
wearing a silk hat, and I’M Stocks remarked
that he could mash linker's hat down over
his ears. Thi- remark led to linker and
Ed Stocks striking at cacti other in a
friendly manner. In the sparring match
Stocks struck Ilaker's hat on the top and
drove it down over his ears.
The two young inen then commenced
lighting, both of them drawing knives,
linker left the ear, and took a position ou
the back platform, leaving the door about
half open. Through this opening the
men cut at each other. Baker had Id-
coat cut in front in -cvcral places, and be
torn ent Ed Stocks on the nose, inflict
ing a painful wound. Porter, seeing that
hi- brother was cut, then, in some way,
tbe b:u k platform and cut linker
in tlio shoulder.
Judge Anderson, aft.-r hearing tlic testi
mony, iinpo-e.l a line of 825 on Raker, ami
required tha Stocks brothers to pay a fine
of $50 each. Porter Stocks demos that he
cut linker, and says that his broth: r cut
him. All of the parties have since made
friends.
A Dollar Factory.
Atlanta, February 23.—James T. law-
lie, colored, who was arrested by the police
yesterday charged with passing a counter
feit silver dollar upon Henry Lorilx, a
P’ddlcr, seems to havo had a partner in
the business of manufacturing and passing
counterfeit money. The police in investi
gating the case have ascertained that Les
lie had a partner in the person of Frank
Lucas, another negro, and that their base
of operations waa on Decatur street. A half
dozen or more counterfeit dollars have
been found by the police.
Lovejoy Sentenced for 1.1 To.
Atlanta, February 23.—The jury in
the case of Alex. I-ovejov, one of the De
catur rioters, brought in a verdict this
morning about 10 o'clock in the DcKalb
Superior Court. They recommend I-ovo-
joy to the mercy of the court, and Judge
Richard II. Clarke sentenced him to tuc
penitentiary for life. The case against
Henry I-ovejoy, another of the rioters, has
been taken np^
Malicious Mischief,
The other evening tbe large window
In ihe door and windows of the rcs-
ippl, Missouri,
law in Carolina,
Virgini U . .I
Utah
1.1.1, Ne
.u.co. .... , panes in the door anil windows ot me rta-
(.erroan tongue, but Schiller’s writings had j ||fn „ of Mr . Flanders, corner Second and
no such attraction for Jhtm as the injolu- w ., nut were -n^hed by somu
. “ * "" '“ “ rascal throwing rocks into them.
tion of ideas in the prose of Goethe, of
Richter and Novalis. Goethe made the
deepest impressions in forming his modes
of thought, Novalis and Richter in
giving him bis habits of expression. We
may judge of the strong hold Novalis took
on him by extracts from among those he
himself translated as admirable:
“Religion contains infinite sadness. If
we are to love God we must be in distress
(huelfbeduerftig). In how far thia con
dition answered in ChriatianityT”
“Martyrs arc spiritual heroes. Christ
was the greatest .martyr of our species.
Through himMartyrdom became infinitely
significant and holy.”
“Aa yet there is no t
yet there is no religion. You must
first make a seminary. (Rildungs-schule)
of religion. Think ye that there is re
ligion? Religion has to be made and pro
duced by the union of a number of per-
aona.”
“Spinoza is a God-intoxicated man.
“Is the devil, as father of lies, himself
bat n necessary illusion.”
“The Catholic religion it to a certain ex
tent applied Christianity. Fichte’* philoso
phy is, too, perha|M, applied Christianity.’
Iltti DAMACI*.
Young Carroll Gets Twelve Thousand Dot-
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oredto
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