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GALLAHERS INDEPENDENT,
IHJBbnHBO EVERY fIATVItBAY AT
QUITMAN, UA m
J. C. GALLAHER,
TRRNH OK JCUCMPtIORi
TWO DOLL A ICS per Ann* iw i Atloimy.
Fra* tho S. Y. Sunday Mwottrv.)
THE FORLORN HOPE.
HT #OB. . UAIHIKB, JB.
“What’s tiii bct won!, Bryco Gold
vloat TANARUS" aakod the tall, soldierly looking
vdd man, as the guide abruptly ruined in
hi* panting mustang, and lua]ed to the
ground bwride the slowly moving train.
'•How u the sign t"
••The sign is easy read, boss; it lays too
tdenty an' thick ter a feller to mistake.
M we don't smell powder burnt an' taste
•wbat TUpokoca is made ot afore another
nun, I’U eat my hat
•'Then yon think that they meau to at
%wck m r
“No I don't—l know it. 80 give Die
Wrd to whip up. We must hev water fer
tlie stock- an' its tibur, not hafe a mile
•ahead. You'll go into camp—coral the
wagons—git grub es usual; an’ then rig
up a place f<-r the wimmeu critters iu u
Wagon; aorter stuff the sides wid licddin’
—bat you know. I’ll take a ride ’round
ng'hi. Taint likely tlie varmiuts ’ll re.sk
an o|ien attack —thar best call is a night
dash -but its (test to be on the safe side.”
It was an emigrant train bourn! for Ore
gon. Tl.ua for they Inal not been molest
ed by the Indians, l>artly owing to their
livu strength, jau tly boeatue their guide,
ltryoe (hikklwt, wna ably MOOU<led by
Capture Hammers' y, a retired of'oer,
who had lieen elected “boss” of tlie tmin,
mid who kept his meu thoroughly tipou
the alert, so that surprise was almost im
)Minsible. Two days l*fore liryee Gold
dust told tlie emigrants that a dilKcnlt bit
of ground lay before tliem; a wide
“slough,” or wet prairie bottom, nearly a
score miles iu width, and beyond (Ids a
very difficult hill He said that he knew
of another trail, a few miles longer, but
which ci hi Id be traversed iu little more
than half the time it would take to (Mill
through the slough. He offered to lend
them by this trail if they should desire it.
Hut lie warueil them that tliey were in a
laid bit of ludiau country, and would be
far more liable to an attack when off the
tnaiu trail. The emigrauts laughed at this,
and so Brvce turned aside from the regu
lar route.
That same' afternoon Golddust found
fresh “sign," ami was soon convinced that
a war party of Arapahoes were lying in
ambush at the narrow defile the train
would have to pass through in order to re
gain the trail tliey had deviated from.
This resolution was soon taken. He would
Diake a wide detour, keeping upon such
as would oblige the Indians to make an
open attack. Thus it is that wo Jiud the
wagon train so fur from the law ton track.
It was quite dark by the time tlie corral
was formed. The train had halted beside
a broad, shallow stream. The wagons
were drawn end to end, forming a hall cir
cle, with the river bank, here some two
yards above the level of the stream, form- j
mg the cord to the arc. Iu this selection j
the genius ol the soldier shone out—not;
that of a scout. One versed in Indian :
wiles would have preferred corraliug the I
wagons out upon the open prairie where
there was no cover to conceal the approach j
of au enemy, even at the risk of suffering |
from want of water. And so Golddust ex- j
pressed himself when lie returned, but it I
was to late too attempt nny change. The >
Arapahoes were close at hand, anil beyond I
a doubt intended an attack before morn
ing.
"It'll l>c no child’s piny, hut I reckon
• m kin whip ’em, of we keep 000 l an’
•oake ov.ry pellet tell," said Bryoo.
The evening meal was hastily dispatched,
though few of the emigrants had much of
•u •pjietito, and then the wo
men and children were stowed nwny in the
wagons provided for them, the axles of
which had lieen protected by I adding
wiflieieut to check u rille ball. Then the
fires were extinguished, and, rifle in
hands, the emigrants took their stations
to await what the night had in store for
thorn.
The sky was clear and unclouded, and j
the nearly full moon had already ariaon. i
Whether this last fact was a blessing or j
otherwise was an open question to the j
emigrants, for if if served to betray the j
enemy in ease they attempted a surprise, |
ttwouhliikewi.se furnish sufficient light;
by which the death-dealing bullet or the :
scarcely less to lie dreadisl arrow could !>e j
directed with almost the certainty of one (
at midday.
It trns nearly midnight before anything I
■was seen of the enemy. Then the keen, j
restless eye of Oolddnst detected a creep 1
i’lg figure gradually nearing the corral. — j
He knew that this was a spy sent by the
Jkmpahoes to discover, if possible, wheth-,
<er the pale-faces were upon the alert. ;
Knowing that were he permitted to reach
the wagons, the spy could not. help but
team the truth, and tints give tlio alarm,
Bryce only waited until he was sure of his j
■nark, and then final. With a horrible 1
aji rick of agony, the spy tore and bit the
ground in bis death struggles.
The death shriek was drowned hy the
wiki, thrilling war cry of tho ArajmhpeH,
and the prairie seemed fairly alive with
warriors as they rushed forward, doubt
lens counting ujion crushing the pale-fiuies
at a single blow. Hut iu this they were
doomed to disappointment. They were
ruet by a deliberate volley that fairly stag
gered them, covering the prairie with dead
aud dying, sending the warriors howling
back beyond range.
■Don’t t’nr yonr shirts, boys,” cried
J’fyee Gohldiist. as a lond, triumphant
phoer went np from the emigrants.—
•"You’ll need all the breath yon kin git
afore day. This is ou’y a flash in the pan
to what’s bound to come. Next time the
varmints ’ll be in dead airnest. 80 look to
yonr weeping, an’ don’t holler too aoon."
Nearly an hour dragged slowly by with
out any event occurring to break the pain
ful suspense, though ini occasional signal
could be heard upon the prairie beyond.
But then one of the men stationed at the
upper end of the half circle called to
tiolddust:
‘‘lean see something block on the river
—and there’s another —two —a dozen !"
‘‘An’ byar the varmints come in front!
Sock it to ’urn, boys ! It’* life or death
now ! ’ cried Bryce, as theiArapahoes
sprang up from the prairie grass and
charged boldly upon the corral.
As before, n dazzling line of flame shot
along the entire length of the barricade,
and so deadly was its effect that the dcs
petate rush was momentarily checked.
Only momentorily, though. The next
moment there came a simultaneous shock
against the wogons, as the Indians gained
this shelter. Then the enemies were se
parated by only a few feet, and for a few,
fast, fleeting seconds there was a pause.
It was broken, however, by a pistol shot
from the corral, and as an Indian uttered
VOL. 11.
j his diath shriek, his companions strove
! desperately to reach the barricade. Did
j they reveal tlieir presence to the keen
eyed beseiged, a bullet WHS speedily sent
| upon it deadly mission. Did they at
tempt to crawl 1)0110111)1 or over the wag
ons, they were met by pistol shots, knife
thrusts, or blows from clubbed rifle*. Nor
were tlie defenders unscathed. More
than one still and ghastly form encum
bered the interior of tlie corral, while hero
and there writhed oue in mortal agony,
shrieking aloud, but with fust-weakeuing
accents, the names of his loved ones—of
those who were even then, ]>ereliance,
praying to heaven for his safety, that he
j might puss that terrific ordeal unharmed.
And tlieu, to aild to tlie horror of the
moment, a number of dusky forms began
elamberiiig uu the river liaiik. But Gold
dust was ou tlie alert, for he knew that the
dark objects discovered in the river were
logs, and half a dozen men led by him
beat down the Arapahoes as
fast as they lauded. For a brief space it
was a wild, horrible melee—desperate and
bio.sly iu the extreme. The report of
firearmsthe occasional ringing of steel
against steel as two foemen met in close
combat—the confused trampling to and
fro—tlio shrill yell of rage or of dentil ag
ony— the defiant shouts and some oaths
—the. affrighted screams of tlie snorting
animals, or (lie will of some terrified in
fant, all combined in one fearful chorus.
Then there conic a long-drawn, quaver
ing cry, and like magic tho savages van
ished, like hoar-frost before tho sun’s
warm breath. But there followed no ox
ultaut shout from the emigrants. As they
glanced fearfully around upon tlm forms
of their dead mid dying comrades, their
hearts were rent with mingled anguish
| and foreboding. They saw but too plain
I ly that another such costly triumph would
! be equivocal to defeat.
“Thar's on’y one show for us, boss,”
said Golddust, quietly to Hammersley.—
j “Wo must send n runner to the gov’ment
; train. It ain’t much tnore’n passed the
. slough, I reckon, an’ if we kin git word
| with ’em they'd send enough blmeouts to
corral tliese Injun imps right quick.
I “But where shall wo find the runner?
'lt would be almost Certain death for one
to attempt passing out from here,” gloom
ily responded Ilammcrsley.
j “I kin do't. I don't b’lievo the imps ’ll
; try ns again iu this way. They’ll wait for
day. Ef you kin hold out through to
; morrer, I'll hev the sojers here by dark,
't eny rate. Now lis’eti.”
The scout’s plan was simple in its
details. Ho was to don the head gear
and clothing of one of tlie fallen
Arapahoes, paint his face, aud thus,
creeping into the river, pass up it until
lieyoud view of those upon the prairie.
Though it would be easier to go down
stream, he did not think it prudent, us
the Indians would naturally keep a close j
look-out in that direction, foi this very '
reason.
Laws than half an hour was occupied by
Bryce in preparing for immediate depar
ture for his desperate venture, and then j
lie glided cautiously along beneath the i
brush iu the edge of the water. He Site- ;
eessfully reached the point he had set in
his miml ns the place where he would
cross the river, mid crawled up the bank. !
Ho almost bit his tongue in two trying to 1
choke down a bitter curse at his care- '
lessness. He found himself within arms j
length of a brawny Anapnhoe, who was ;
eyeing him suspiciously.
The savage uttered a few guttural
sounds, and then paused, as if for a reply.
It came soon. Bryce sprang forward and
clutched ins throat with an iron grip;
there was a brief lmt furious struggle.
Then the brawny limbs gradually relaxed.
But Golddust wus determined to run no
unnecessary risks, and pressed his long
knife to the hilt iu the Indian’s breast.
All around him was still. The struggle
had not hern hard, and with a lightened
heart, the scout glided on; when at a safe j
distance he broke into a steady, loping
run, nor did he slacken his pace until day
dawn, Three hours later lie was making
his report to tho officers in charge of the
government train. The forethought of
Hammersley had furnished Bryce with a
hastily written note, and his story was not
doubted.
Ten minutes later he was riding baek at!
tho hem! of two score boys in bine, who
gladly welcomed the chance of a scrimmage
with the redskins. Leaving the river,
they heard the sounds of tiling, and ad
vanced at full gallop. Never was arrival
more opportune. The emigrants were
hard pressed. The Arapnhoos were gain
ing the day. But at the impetuous charge
they broke and fled in dismay to be
slaughtered like sheep.
It was a black day in the annals of the
tribe, scarce a single brave ever returned
to his people to tell the bloody tale.
The emigrants joined the government
train, and traveled under its wing for
many miles, not leaving it until they could
[join a largo train; then their combined
force defied an attack, and their dcstina
-1 tion was reached without further trouble
with the prairie hornets.
JFrom the Sunday Telegram.]
BEECHERISM IN BALTIMORE.
A West-End Matrimonial Scandal—Hus
band Kinds the Door Iss-ked—Pecu
liar Position of a Minister
|
Baltimore is becoming popular for fast
ministers of the gospel, aud ere long will
contend for the palm of superiority with
renowned Brooklyn. Scarcely had the
Huston disgrace died out, when up turns
a minister in the west-end who has not
only disgraced his calling, hut forever
blasted the reputation of a hitherto highly
respectable family. The preacher in
question is married and father of several
interesting children. Among the mem
bers of liia congregation is a well known
commission merchant, who, Tilton-like
placed all confidence iu the wolf in sheep’s
clothing. It was no unusual thing for the
minister to call at tho house of the mer
chant’s as often as four times each week,
, principally during afternoons, his visits
! being for the purpose of conversing with
the wifo of the merchant upon religions
■ matters. The wife appeared to ho an
I enthusiast upon religion, und seemed to
never tire in hearing lier minister explain
[ what appeared to her, to be mysteries of
i the Bible. At times ideas would pop into
I her head, and if in doubt concerning their
i true meaning, a note would he dispatched
| to the minister with “please call thisuftcr
j noon. I have a question to ask you, one
! that has bothered me greatly to-day.”
i The husband entertained the highest res
! pect for the minister never once doubting
| the sincerity of his heart, but on the eoii
j trary encouraged his visit to the house.
QUITMAN, GA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1874.
"It was so kind in the minister to call and
see iwulamo when husband was at the
office engrossed in tlguros and large
profits.” But our minister has preached
Ids licit sermon in that once peaceful fam
ily. He has ruined tlie wife, blasted tlio
love of the husband, and placed the uuuiu
of the family iu disgrace. No names
will be given at present as we have every
aastiranoc that the clerical villain will lie
cited l>eforo a sound conference in a very
short time, aud that his priucqad accuser
w ill be the woman whom he has so foully
betrayed, she having resolved to place
lier shame before the world iu order that,
other females may eseiqie the “Honeyed
words” of the vile seducer, Tlio female
in question is of that easy, confiding dis
position which folk au easy prey to tlie
blandishments and soft words of such ex
ports iu seduction as the preacher iu ques
tion has proven himself to be. He so
wrought ujHin her feelings that she scarce
ly knew how oc when she fell, but having
fallen she was assured that no sin had
been commit ted, and her seducer actually
had the “cheek” to tell her that God re
cognised such actions as holy.
On Tuesday night last the minister
took tea with tlio lady and husband, tlie
latter having requested the presence of
the minister on the occasion as he, tlie
! Husband, intended that night to start on
I a business trip to New York. Twenty
I minutes before eleven o’clock was
' the time tlie train loft Clnuies-steet
| depot, and in order to reach that point in
time the husband intended to leave home
at half-past nine o'clock, hut becoming
j interested ill conversation with the minis
: ter, it was ten o'clock before lie started.
, Expecting to be absent two weeks lie
| took an affectionate leave of Ins wife, and
wus escorted to the street car l)v the minis
ter, who stated, after giving the “Good
bye," that lie was then homeward bound.
Upon leaching Oharles-street depot tlie
husband found that his watch wns not in
oilier, anil that he lmd missed the train.
Ho returned to his home, ami with his
night key quietly entered his dwelling.—
Upon reaching his bed-chamber he found
the door locked, and in an instant there
after a voice coming from the room assur
ed him that his wife was not alone. After
considerable hesitation and fumbling about
the lock, the wife opened the door and ap
peared greatly shocked when the husband
questioned her concerning the presence of
a strange man in tlie bcd-clnnuber. Of
course, she cried and said that her husband [
w ould kill her with such a cruel accusation,
hut when the husband passed into tho ad
joining room and discovered the minister
arranging his toilet, the wife had nothing
more to say. The husband did not, ns he
should have done, killed the false minis
ter upon the spot, but quietly ordered him
to leave tlio house, iu tho meantime telling
his w ife that for the ; resent she might oc
cupy the house, but that lie would take up
his abode at a hotel until certain legal
transactions shall have been adjusted.
On Thursday ifftcrnootl the wife furnish
ed her husband with a written confession
of her shame, and expressed her willing
m ss, if necessary, to appear before a com
mittee of the clmreh and lay bare nil facts
in tho case. In the meantime, the vile
wretch who has caused all the trouble, is
rusticating upon a farm near Frederick,
Md., he having given out to his congrega
tion that his health compels him to vacate
the altar for a lew months. The facia iu
tlio above distressing case have not been
given from street rumors, but were given
by the husband himself to a friend, and
ufterwurds obtained by tho reporter of the
Telegram,
Old Mrs. Boyce's Alliances.
A remarkable instance of the inconven
ient consequences that limy attend the
setting up of a qnasimutriraoniul relation
between a wealthy widow lady of seventy
two, ami a French gentleman of forty, |
was furnished ill the court of Vice-Chau- j
cellor Jlalins iu London recently, in the j
suit of “The Credit Foncier of England 1
vs. Boyce.” Mrs. Boyce, it appears,
hud tieeu twice married, and was u widow
with something like £IOO,OB0 —represent-
ed hy Government stock—standing in lier
name at the Bunk of England, when she
put herself, then (in 1800) seventy-tow
years of age, under the protection of a
French gentleman some thirty years lier
junior. Tho ceremonial consisted, ac
cording to the venerable defendant, iu her
having a ring placed on her finger by her
brother-in-law, a clergyman, now dcceas
i od, aud being by him formally consigned
to the care, of Monsieur Gautier. From
that time siie appears to have lived abroad
| with the gentleman, who lmd promised to
; protect lier from the Irish relations whose
■ importunity had induced lier to form tlio
determination of spending the residue of
her life out of England, and to have been
known as Madame Gautier. The Bank
of England hearing that tlio lady, whom
they believed to be a widow, had contract
ed a matrimonial alliance, declined to pay
lier dividends or allow lier to deal with the [
fund standing to her credit until it should i
be clearly known whcthcrjslie was really j
married. In these circumstances the holy I
was compelled to borrow money for the j
means of subsistence, although entitled to :
ail income of £3,(XX) a year, and the court j
was now asked by the Credit Foncier of ,
England, from which she had obtained
loans, for an order on tlic bank compelling
them to transfer to them the sums she had
borrowed. His Honor said the bank were
quite right to act, cautiously in cases of
suspicion, but as Mrs. Boyce had solemn
ly declared that she was not married to
Mosienr Gautier, was still a widow, there
was no reason why they should not treat
her as an unmarried woman, notwithstand
ing the fact that M. Gautior, acting under
the advice of M. Jules Favre, had declin
ed to make a declaration that lie was not
the husband of the lady who was called
Madame Gautier.
Thankful Gikl. —The Truckee Repub
lican tells the following nice anecdote of
the sweet simplicity of one of its girls: A
Miss in town, who reads the papers, re
cently perused an account of Professor
Denton’s lectures in Ban Francisco on the
subject of the "Antiquity of Man.” Tho
j Miss was very much interested in that
I portion of the lecture which describes
j man as having been a million years or so
1 ago nothing more than a cannibal, “bom
| naked in tho world, and in appearance
! hut little above a wild beast. ” After
1 reading this vivid description of our fore
[ fathers to her mother, slio exclaimed;
“How thankfull 1 am, mn, that I was
'not born a cannibal—aud naked 1 How
awful it would have been !”
-
j When a colored man gets too lazy even
j to steal watermelons, a vigilance cominit
[ tec waltzes him ouf of the country.
Swift Punishment of a Negro Murderer
in Augusta.
On Saturday night, tlio 15th inst In Au
! gusta, t’npt. A. F. lint lor, local agent of
| the South Oarolian Railroad, was return
ing home, in company with his wife, ou
a street, cor, At the corner of Marbury
street, when they were in tlio act of leav
ing the ear Unpt B. pushed an intoxicat.
ed negro wi o was sitting on tho steps ob
structing the passage, with liis hand, tell
ing him to get up. Gabriel aud Michael
Muller, both negroes, were together, one
sitting ou the steps and the other standing
ou tho platform of the oar. Gabriel push
ed Mrs. Butler back as she was in the net
of R ing assisted out, and Michael pulled
out a pistol aud shot Capt. Butler over
the left temple, tho ball pcnctrutiug the
brain. The negroes ran after shooting
but were pursued and captured by the
police. Michael was slightly wounded iu
the face before being arrested.
Capt. Butler was one of the best citi
zens of Augusta, and intense excitement
prevailed. His wound was fatal and he
expired at 10 o’clock, Saturday night.
Very soon after it was known that Capt.
Butler was dead, a large mini her of citi
zens, several hundred, assembled, pro
ceeded to the jail mid demanded that the
two negroes he turned over to them.
When they received them they proceeded
to the parade ground and organized a
court. Witnesses, who saw the killing,
swore to the facts ns stated above. Sen
tence of death was passed ou Michael
Muller, Gabriel was returned to the jail
to stand his trial for being nil accomplice
in tlie nmdrer. Michael was shot with j
muskets in the hands of tho citizens, as
many us two hundred shots having been
tired. This happened at 3 o’clock on Sun- |
day morning, only a lew hours after ho
killed Capt. Butler,
The fact that the citizens condemned
Michael to suffer death and returned Ga
briel to jail shows that they were not an
infuriated mob. Great deliberation mark
ed their movements. We have no doubt
but that they deemed it a solemn duty to
society, to kill this willful murderer, as an
atonement for the offense and as a warn
ing to his race, that they could not reckless
ly take the life of a white man without
having summary punishment mooted out
to them.
It is best in almost every instance to
give a criminal the right of trial by jury.
I But sometimes tlie circumstances of the
case demand prompter action. In this
tho negro Michael Muller fully deserved
the fate ho met at the hands of an out
raged community. Monroe Aduertiscr.
Going to Funerals.
Mrs. Harkins stopped in yesterday ns
she was on her way home from the fu
neral. She said the corpse didn’t look a
bit natural, and slio was almost sorry she
went. Mrs. Harkins makes it a business
to attend fujjovnls, and wlmt sin, says can
bo relied on. As soon as she hears that
any one is likely to die, she pays them a
visit, mid if death ensues and she can
get a chance to “sit lip with tho corpse, ”
she is there ou time, and she never leaves
until she has seen the grave filled up.
And Mrs. High is another. She doesn't
take the least interest in the spring styles j
or neighborhood scandals, but let any one j
die and she is all attention. She wants j
to know wlmt they died of, whether they j
were prepared; whether they mentioned
anything about her us they went off;
whether they kicked around or died quiet
ly; und if they requested to be buried in
nliito or black. Then she visits the
house of mourning. As she enters by the
hack way nho commences to get her
monrning look on, and by tho time she
gets through to the front room one would
think she had lost five children at once.
“How very natural seems as if ho was
sleeping," she whispers, as she bends over
the dead.
Then she takes oft’ her bonnet and us- ,
sumes charge of the house, sending word
to her family that they must get along
without her as heat they can until she has
performed her duty.
And Mrs. Johkins is another. If any
one dies without her having heard that
they were likely to go she can’t forgive
herself for a month. On tho day of the
funeral she sends her children away, has
Johkins bike his dinner to tho shop, and
she puts on black and attends. Blie com
mences to shed tears when she leaves
home, and only ends when she returns.
Bln: always secures the best seat in the
best hack, is the first one at the grave,
remembers all about the sermon. And
five years from that day she can tell who
cried and who didn’t whether tho corpse
looked natural or otherwise; how many
carriages were opt, and infact, all about it.
Once when I was down with fever the
old ghoul heard that I was going to dio.
She came over on tho gallop, and as she
sat down hy tho bed she said to my wife:
“Of course you’ll have a block velvet |
caffiu, trimed with silver nails, aud real
lace around the inside.
Then she wanted to know if I was pro
pared; if I wanted to request my wife not
to marry again; if I had ever cheated any
body and wanted to ask their forgiveness,
and slio promised me, one of the largest
funeral processions of the season; she was
awfully disappointed when I began to
mend, and she said to one of her friends:
“It's another o’ them cases where ho
was so wicked he couldn’t die I”— M.
Quad, in Our Fireside Friend.
• ■
Beecher.
The lost links in the chuin of evidence
against Hepry Ward Beecher have been
supplied in a long statement from the
“nmtiiul friend,” Moulton. ThedocnmoDt
fills two dozen closely printed columns,
coiihiins all the letters that liavo passed
j between the principles in this scandal
i during the past four years, and utterly
i demolishes the flimsy fabric of Beecher’s
i defence. Though all those years Moulton
i was the confidant of both parties, and he
[ labored with untiring zeal to hash up the
I scandal, for the sake of the community at
j large as well as for the innocent children
!on whoso heads the shame must recoil.
| To him did Beecher write:
Many, many friends has God raised up
i to me; but to no one of them has He over
given the opportunity and the wisdom so
to serve me as you have. My trust in
' you is implicit.
This trust appears to have remained lin
[ diminished until a couple weeks ago,
i when it was found that, if Moulton spoke
; at all. lie would speak the truth. Then,
l for the first time, Mr. Beecher discovered
I that his dearest friend was a blackmailer 1
| The charge is too ridiculous for a serious
' thought. Moulton could pay Beecher's
! salary without missing it out of his own
i income. But Flymuuth Church declares
!it does not care what Moulton says—that
j ho is unworthy of belief anyhow; mid it
proposes to add ten thousand a year to its
[ pastor's salary. But it is only a fe\V
week’s since that pastor himself, seeking
to conciliate Moulton, publicly pro
nounced him to be tlie noblest friend that
ever bleued any man on mirth. Ply
mouth congregation may choose to disre
gard evidence and smother doubt; tho
impartial voice of the country proclaims
that such u “vindication" is the clearest
proof of a consciousness of guilt.—-A’. V.
Irish World
Cuba.
After six years of guerilla warfure, the
Cuban insurgents do not seem to have
lost mi inch of ground, while the Spanish
authorities grow unmistakably weaker
from mouth to month. Cuba has always
been a Spanish colony, peopled by whites,
negroes, and a mixed race the last being
tho product of the intermixture of the
others. The colored element was held in
slavery down to the year IS<>B, w hen a
party of native abolitionists in the central
provinces of the island organized u vig
orous insurrection, proclaiming the free
dom of the slaves, mid raising the Mag of
mi independent republic. During the six
eventful years that, have since elapsed,
Spain has almost exhausted herself in try
ing to crush out the insurrection, but
without avail. According to the statistics
furnished by Gen. Sickles, late United
States Minister at Madrid, upwards of
one hundred thousand Spanish soldiers
have been reported as “killed, wounded,
or missing” during those six years. A
fearful holocaust; yet the insurgents are as
active to-day ns ever before, while the
Spanish administration in the island can
scarcely raise recruits even hv conscrip
tion. For some time hack those eon
scripted for military service could purchase
exemption for a thousand dollars, lmt a
recent decree by the Governor restricts
this privilege, and every man ou which
the lot falls to join the cavalry or colored
militia, must march unless he can find an
eligible substitute. Such stern measures
are an unfailing evidence of weakness. Of
course, the insurgents Imvo not been
recognized ns belligerents by any foreign
power, hut they have a strong body of
sympathizers in the United States, and it
is extremely improbable that they will
ever be subdued. For this condition of
affairs, and for the loss of her last Western
colony that is likely to result from it,
Spain has only herself—or, rather, her
Bourbon sovereigns—to blame, A states
man of any ordinary politieal prescience
could readily have foreseen that the
abolition of slavery in the'United States
would necessarily react on Cuba; and a
sense of expediency, if not of justice,
would have impelled a solution of tlie
difficulty, at. :e peaceable and magnani
mous. ihit t, 1 ■ traditions of the Spanish
throne were opposed to any such action.
The guidon opportunity was lost and the
Cubans revolted—with what result, so far,
we have seen. —lrish 1 YwU.
A Bucket of Whitewash.
New Yowl. August 28.—The Beecher
Investigating Committee have submitted
their report. They conclude:
First. That Beeelier did not commit
adultery with Mrs. Tilton at anytime or
place whatever.
Beeond. That Beecher has never com
mitted any unchaste or improper act with
Mis, Tilton, nor made any unchaste or im
proper remark, proffer or solieibitiou to her
of any kind or inscription whatever.
Third. If this were a question of errors
of judgment on the part of Mr. Beecher, it
would be easy to criticize, especially in tho
light of recent events. In such criticism,
oven to tho extent of regrets and censure,
we are sure no man would join more sin
cerely than Mr. Beecher himself.
Fourth. We find nothing whatever in
the evidence that should impair the per
fect confidence of Plymouth Church, or
the world, in the Christian character and
integrity of Henry Ward Beecher, and
now let tile jieace of God, that passeth all
understanding, rest and abide with Ply
mouth Church, aud her beloved and omi
rnent pastor, so much and so long ulilicted.
Hunky W. Sage,
Augustus Stokes,
Hknky M. Cleveland,
Hoiiace B. Claflin,
John Winslow,
B. Y. White.
Damage from a Comet.
In recent years we have seen a goodly
number of celestial vagrants known as
comets, wandering through the starry
spaces, and at each successive arrival some
dyspeptic genius has always started np to
demonstrate that “this one” must infalli
bly collide with the earth and demolish
things generally. Up to the present,
however, in spito of sneli frequent fore
shadowing of disaster, our old globe spins
along as ritual. No comet lias bumped
against us, that wo have any record of.
Coseqnently having had no actual experi
ence in the matter, astronomers find it
difficult to conjecture what amount of
damage, precisely, a collision would entail
upon us. Lust week however, a rough
guess at the mysteiy was made, under
somewhat curious, if not amusing, circum
stances. The city of Buffalo, N. Y., con
tains a branch of the Bt. George’s society
whose members are wont to have an annu
al excursion. This year they went across
the border to hauiilton, Ontario, which is
British territory, and there they received
a fitting welcome and a dinner. Of course
there was tho ordinary glorification of
“common origin, and “ties of blood,”
and “English civilization;” but the sum
mit of the ridiculous was not reached until
the Mayor of Hamilton assured his visi
tors that their visit would be a fresh bond
of international union 1 Mr. Bryan, presi
dent of the society, responded. Having
spoken of Victoria as “the model ruler of
the world,” and insisted on the neod of
fraternal peace between England und
i America, he wound up with:
j Well do I remember the sentiments
: pronounced by the lute Charles Dickons,
j the gifted son of England at the banquet
[ given to him at Delmonieo’s, iu New York:
, “Better a comet stiko tho earth than that
| tho present brotherly relation between
| Groat Britain and tho United States should
[ ever be severed.” And I heartily say amen,
(Great applause.)
From this conclusion, discovered by
I Dickens aud endorsed by Bryan, one can
i gauge pretty fairly the amount of damage
j that would ensue if wo caromed agqinst a
oomet. And probably they are right in
stating it would he better a comet should
strike the earth than that England and
America should come to blows. It would,
perhaps, be considerably better for Eu
gluud.lWs/i 1 Yurid.
"Koprophagan.”
Among the first champions to spring to
Beecher’s rescue, nt, the outbreak of the
scandal, was fho New York daily 11’,„■/,/,
and in its first fierce onslaught upon his
accusers, it hurled rock-splitting epithets
at tilton. At last ft exhausted itself by
calling him a “Koprophagnn I" The term
ought to demolish an ordinary breastwork,
or sink a limn-of-war; yet it did not an
nihilate Tilton, On tlie contrary, it
evoked Hureastie smilos in all directions,
and it wns proposed to give tlie nutlior a
leather medal, and some playfully enquired
when the classic World would lie printed
wholly iu groek, Now, tho World profes
ses to lie mi intensely moral sheet, though
its morality is of the kid gloved and high
ly perfume ! pattern—not for common use,
8o it returns to the charge and defends its
bantling a-; follows;
It would lie very easy to find a strictly
■Saxon equivalent for the sonorous Hellen
istic compound which has so started our
cotitempourics. And probably if a respec
table private citizen were to find himself
suddenly face to face with the necessity
of kicking one of these koprophngous
persons out of doors, ho might be tempted
into accompanying tlio action with short
Saxon instead of sounding Greek. But
the offence itself has not been common
among men of English blood or American
breeding. Tho sound-hearted, self-res
pecting, staight bitting race of which we
come lias not bred many Tiltons. It is
hotter, oil the whole, to use anew Greek
word a lien we are forced to speak of this
new nn-Amoricun crime.
From this it would nt first sight erom
that the Greeks must be very bad people,
and that "we” (tho American people)
might be equally bod only for tho infusion
of English blood iu our veins. A little
reflection, however, will exhibit things
in a different light, for the reader will
observe that the “crime” ahiilod to is not
tluit which is charged to Beecher hut mere
ly the publishing of tho story. Had Til
ton kept silence argues the’ World, he
would have acted like a “sound-hearted,
self-respecting man of English blood;” lmt
having exposed the shame, he is a Greek
and a “koprophagnn !” This last term,
plainly translated, menus "dirt eater;"
but the sensitive World shrinks from using
the English word, because, according to
its theory, a mail of sound Saxon instinct
would never kick up a fuss over such an
enormity ! The effort to vindicate Henry
Ward Beecher is certainly bringing io
light some very curious ethics. -Irish
World.
—
Many persons suppose that A. T-
Stewart lias reached a point in his busi
ness career where his trade is kept tip by
his immense stock of goods and tlie wide
reputation of his establishment. Nothing
could well lie further from the facts in tile
case. His advertising bill generally ag
gregate about 8500,000 per year. That
is and always Ims been the secret of his
gn at success.
A Curious fact has been recently stated,
that an Italian vessel set sail not long ago
from Macao with 633 Coolies on board,
destined for tho guano diggings in South
America. After a few hours at sea the
Coolies suspected their destinations, rose
upon the crew, and setfire to the s hip.
The crow fled to the boats, but there were
8,000 packs of fireworks on board, which
were set on fire, and blew the 633 Coolies
to atoms. This was lietter, it may be
supposed, than (lying in tho guano dig
gings. The Coolies were destined to a
very had form of slavery; and it is a strik
ing fact that they perished by a product
of their own ingenious industry. Thin
could not have been tho fate with Afri
cans bound for the laud of slavery, be
cause they were nover known to display l
tho ingenuity of invention, and would not [
have been blown up hy their own fire
works.
• -•■•
Aspersion, Detraction, Defamation, Blan
der, Calumny.
If I speak slightly of my neighbor, mid
insinuate anything against the purity of
his principles, or the rectitude of his con
duct, I asperse him.
If he ho a charitable man, aud I ascribe his
charities to a selfish motive, or otherwise
take uway tho merit of his conduct I am
guilty of detraction.
If I publish anything openly that injures
his reputation I am a detainer.
If I communicate to others tho reports
that are in circulation to his disadvantage I
am a slanderer.
If I fabricate anything myself and spread
it abroad, .1 am a culminator.— lt. (Jrttbb.
The tongue of the slanderer is a devour
ing fire, which tarnishes whatever it touch
es; which exercises its fury on tho good
grain, equally ns on the chaff, on tho pro
fane as on tlio sacred, wliicn wherever it
passes, leaves only desolation. — Massillon.
Wliat a world of gossip would be pre
vented if it was only remembered that a
person who tells you of the faults of others
intends to tell others of your faults.
Dr. South says: “The tale-bearer nml
tlio t:il,i hearer should be Imuged up both
together the former hy the tongue, the
latter hy the ear.”
There woijld not he so ninny open
mouths if there were not so many open
i ars.
Middle-aged young ladies aro looking
up in the matrimonial market. It is be
coming quite the fashion in England for
men to marry women older than them
selves. Thus the brilliant wifo of the
brilliant Beoretary for India, the Marquis
of Salisbury, is several years his senior,
and now tho Earl of Pembroke the great
est “eatoli" in England who is twenty-four
is to bo married to lady Gertrude Talbot,
who is thirty-four. Lord Pembroke is
the son of tlio late well-known Sidney
Herbert, and inherited vust estates of
both his uncle and father. Ho is the
greatest property-owner in and mound
Donblin, and has at least £IOO,OOO a year.
Lord Pembroke’s mother, Lady Herbert
of Lea, who is welt known ns an author
joined the communion of tho church of
Home soon after hor husband’s death.
—♦
In ancient days, tho people., of Grimsby,
England, formed an admirable notion of
wisdom required for corporation honors.—
The burgesses assembled at thechureh, and
selected three of themselves as candidates
for the mayoralty. The candidates were
conducted, with a bunch of hay tied to
each of their backs, to the common pound,
n which they were placed, blindfolded,
with a calf; and he who<e bunch of hay
was first eaten by the calf was thereupon
I declared mayor for the ensuing year.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS,
A Woman of metal—A belle.
Fifty ladies of South',jridge, M.i
smoke.
Sparking Sunday hight is played oul itt
Chicago.
“The light that lies ill Woman’s eyes' A
said to bo hclladoim.
A fashionable lady says hot hUalttllfi is
the latest thing out.
An Oshkosh Judge got font: liar* of
soap for a marriage fee.
A hidranoe to marrirge—Tho gov, ,a*
moot lax ou nmtchesi
A Bong Branch Irtdv bathes in t
stockings and kid gloves.
Homo ladies nso paint as fiddler- do
roaiu it aids them in drawing a bo*.
Tlie greatest, object of curiosity to 4
woman is the dress of another woman.
The old-fashioned woman’s crusail- \
tioy’s head aud a tine-toothed comb,
Jenkins thinks lie Will ho married ■„
since ho bus got tile refusal of u ltuiy‘4
hand.
The cmpreßs of Austria possess,-,- t
waist which only measures sixteeu in, lit.
(Confidential),
“Sweet Auburn,” a lovely village , f
California, has had half a dozen lovelon)
suicides this season.
The two tilings that ij Woman will •', .)
wild” over, are, usually, anew dress pat
tern aud a toothache,
Why does an engine resemble a Jroi.ujj
ladv ? Because it has a train behind ai,,f
pulls in tho nir (lmir),
Olio of the survivors of the I’iltsburq.
deluge says he is all right, lie him sun and
his In,Use und lost liis wife,
NO, 18.
As soon as a young woman gets
steady employment, she stops fainting
away at tlio sight ul' a mouse.
The >State of Florida furnishes the reff-r'
for every cedar lead-pencil made, whelm r'
it lie American or foreign made,
What shall it profit a man though h,*
dance with every girl at the picnic and hrr
wife finds it out the next day ?
The only Duke at Saratoga this font Is
a knock-kneed old chap eighty-two year*
old, and the girls can’t love him,
A Duluth woman had managed l.*
crowd eighteen rings on her fingers wlien>
a stroke of lighthing took her off.
A Detroit husband is in trouble for'
whipping liis wife because tlie baby di.f
not take a first-class prize at a baby
show,
A Delaware girl puts on great airs f
oause she ligs been the cause of five mi
eidos among tlio young men iu her neigh
borhood.
“My notion of a wife nt forty,” sniff
Douglas Jcrold, “is that a man shell!,l I
aide to change her, like a bank note, lor t\ a
twenties.”
The Si turdtiy liemew thinks i is n.j
take for women to bo umhitious. it is
greater mistake for the lteciew to think
so.
,Susie T,il,erty of La Crosse has thiite tv
lovers, and everyone of them cxclaiu, ,
“Give me Liberty or give me death !
And site’s a red-heudod girl at that.
An lowa womun who put vitriol on I• t
seal;) to removo tlio dandruff, says it u.
the daudruJFest experiment she ever ti j. ,L
A Philadelphia girl called a young map
a thief, and when requested by flic iilolHer'
of the accused to prove the barge, sail!
he hud stolen several kisses from her.
A young woman who wns recently "the
reigning belle of Boone county, Ky., t„ w
gets “tight” in tho streets of her native
village.
“And so yon go to Europe every smn--
mer ? Are yon never seasick ?” “Oh, no-
Pa thinks the steamers are so dangerous,,
lie always takes us hy the land route."
It was “darling George” when a bridal
couple left Omaha; it was “dear George”’
at Chicago; at Detroit it was “George?'
and when they reached Niagara Full if
was, “Bay, you.”
Let ns hear no more about broken!
hearts. A Now York physician positiv, ly
asserts that no woman ever died fi. n
such an affliction. It is liver complain*
thoy mistake for a severed heart
A correspondent explains that married
men have their huir cut short during tlio
vacation because they do not, in the ab
sence of their wives, need it to deaden tho
blows of the rolling-pin.
It is averred that the reason American
girls refuse to enter domestic Bervicu i
that they object to anything approaching
1 low menial work —what they want being
| hymeneal.
Caution to young men. Because yotf
find a young lady playing the piano in tlio
parlor, it is no sign that lier mother is not
at tho corner grocery running in debt lor
a peek of potatoes.
There’s a ten-tliousnnd-dollnr South
Jersy heiress who lias so many lovers sit
ting on tho fence, waiting for her to come
out nights, that site lias given lier culint
fortune to endow a lunatic asylum.
When a Tennessee husband will horse
whip his wife for washing potatoes in his
Bnnday plug-hnt, it is time to inquire
whether this generation of men isn't
getting to be too confounded high toned
for tlio age of the country.
Ono of the most vexutious things in tlio
world is to have your wife’s nuclo kicked
in the stomach hy n horse, will you
000, and then deliberately get w ell.
Tiie other day a man in Texas was (hiti
ed out of the church for calling owls “noc
turnal marauders.” They said they
would nut allow such awful profanity in
their church.
A peddler calling on an old lady to di. -
pose of some goods inquired of her if she
could tell him of any road to which no
peddler lmd traveled. “Yes," replied ale
“1 know of one, uud that’s the road to
heaven. ”
“I’m not in mourning,” said a young,
lady frankly to a querist, "but as the
widows are gitting all the offers nowadays,
we poor girls have to resort to artiliee.”
In London churches they are giving no
tice that “live minutes after the bells eeaso
to ring all pews are free.”
A Cincinnati physician was absurd,
enough to take some of his own niedicaue.
The coroner’s fee was $lO.
An establishment for the manufactory
of small amis will bo located iu the City of
Mexico by an American Arm.
The old papal town of Avington,Franco,
is preparing to celebrate the 500th mini'
versary of tile great poet Petrarch.
The Louisville baby who delivered a lec
ture on “Etiquette,” recently, has writteu
! a book on the same subject.
In Turkey, when any man is the author
of notorious falsehoods, they blaqken tli*
i whole flout of hu, house.