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IKE MM TELEGRAPH PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING AND TWICE A WEEK BY THE MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISH ING COMPANY. 563 MULBERRY STREET, MACON. GA. repoi; in effect Whitn Hou«e with a view to its pa.'sag* by discriminating i if South through "a provisio chong*?s th* law in regard to labor, which will keep out t dribble of • Immigrants who h r ; which •ontract v- little e start- Another Week of Thaw Trial By JAMES H. MOORE. 0. R. PENDLETON, President THE TELEGRAPH IN ATLANTA. Tho Tolograph can b* found on oalo ot tho Kimball Houoo and tho Pied mont Hotel in Atlanta. Mr. Lodge ly to ascertti structl to b< change. -Doe- It m cannot so i migration?" 'It moans the dispa questioned clc s- = : what he cor.- effect o! the NEGRO IN JAPANESE WOODPILE. Thera appears to be much reason in Senator Tillman’s declaration In dis missing the conference report on the Immigration hill that "If the man at Che White House had not taken It upon ftlmsrlf to meddle with everything In *he United States we would not have thin Issue here." The broad Issue to which Senator •Tillman referred teas the question •whether the contract labor laws ahould ®e so amended as to exclude the im portation of coolie* with a view to con- Htatlng California on the Japanese guestlon. Tho pernicious activity of fhe President In stirring up the State's right question of California to manage her own schools has entailed, It appears, certniis consequences to the Immi gration interests of the South, a misfortune which the trend of events seem to menace the placing on the The Southern Senators do not object fo the exclusion of the coolie? but In the conference report on the Im migration bill amendments have been Inserted intended to further restrict immigration in a way to put an end to the promising movement recently in- tfcat a State agent d and secure lin 'd Mr. Tillman. :• he cannot u-e other funds for that pur- vered Mr. Lodge. Senator Carter, of Montana, came to i the support of the Southern Senator' by* an emphatic objection on the score of White House legislation. "While it might be extremely Important to enact the desired clause regarding passports, he said, he deemed It of vitally more importance that the procedure of the Senate in enacting the laws of the country should be preserved. To do otherwise would be to establish a pre cedent which would be extremely dan gerous In the future. If a vote for the conference report Involved the ap- The secorfri week of the actual Thaw : trh.i has dragged. No perceptible | advance has been made in the produc- ‘ tion of evidence bearing directly on the : issue of murder. About the only thing ( that has been in evidence and made 1 progress is the "unwritten law" which the court does not recognize and which the defense has repudiated. Nothing really has been shown to substantiate either of the two inconsistent pleas of i the defense, whether that of insanity. which Implies lack of reason and in- ; dividual responsibility, or self-defense. : which involves premeditation and re sponsibility. in shooting White Harry | Thaw broke his pistol and held it up I to reassure the’ spectators and prevent a panic, thus showing that he had pos session of his * reasoning faculties at the moment. This is shown by the de fense itself and will outweigh in the argument a whole volume of hypo thetical opinions of experts on In sanity. A great deal of gossip, usually ruled out as hearsay evidence, has been , ed this line of questioning, wherein the objections of Mr. Jerome served his purpos almost equally well as answers from the witness, he politely recog nized the ruling of the court and turnpd to the production of expert tes timony to lay the insanity foundation. Expert testimony In murder cases is a comparatively new and unknown department of criminal jurisprudence and it is "caviare to the general." It is the luxury of the rich. Experts on in sanity. in especial, come high. Only rich defendants charged with murder can employ these high-priced profes sionals to watch them and note down their idiosyncrasies in- order to con struct the theory of insanity out of their "brain storms." "mental explo sions ' r thbir “peculiar glare" of the eye. and su< !i Hi s, whit h are summed up as paranoia Jtt exper’ language, mean ing. iii plain English, mental derange ment. In the poor defendant who can not employ, expert- these must pltss simply ns eymptorr? of felorlous mal ice, batted or jealousy indulged until a mania for murder Is superinduced, hut not excused because, for the mo ment. the murderer was mentally de ranged and did not net as a reasonable being - or as he would have acted In n normal state. Of course the expensive stuff of experts e:n;it-jcd to prove the defendant in-ane must be offset by the employment of an equally expensive lot of experts l\v the Slate to contradict Caught on | the- Wing t ' 1-1-1 ■! 1 I-t-1 I I 1 1 l "H 1 > 11+4 •H- found these on our trip through Geor- ultimate if not speedy freedom, to what in all probability is to come. It is not conceivable that Jerome will not And some method by which to impeach the truth of Evelyn's story. He is forti fied with a full history.of her relations with White and of the contest covering years between Thaw and White to ob tain and keep possession of her. Her story was too artistic and unsophisti cated to - withstand the probe of even a inild cross-examination. If she Is ever put to that ordeal she will go from the ; t ne enemy upp**vu ' ' -r-v.p j could get a quorum . , . , jvAvrtriirofi iustiflcatlon, excuse ory x^ason. • ' Hn-fngc?, and tlien tho regular pro- stand a broken and utterly discredited j J “ st M ^ was 5n (dotation of ail | ® f d , L r “ officer was absent and T. I., woiyan. It is to be feared that Harry r ~ Iee of war and contrary to the j (:urrrv was elected temporary presi- Thaw’s alleged love for her will not j () ‘ ktatc . s ‘ of humanity and conscience. I dent. Governor Brown survive it. Her own brother, it is said, ; The records show that under the in stands ready to give the lie to much . fluenee of a nigh of her story. Her own mother, who By JOHN T. BOIFEUILLET. Today is the forty-second (4-’nd) an niversary of the burning of Columbia. On February IT. 1865, Sherman s arms tered the city and reduced fcouth Coincident with tho burning of the capita! "f South Carolina, Macon was made the capital of Georgia remporari- ]v. The Legislature of the State con vened here at this time, forty-two years ago, by order of Governor Joseph E Brown that august body having ad journed at Milledgeville on November 15 iS6*k iipon thr approach of Sncr- man's arnn- on his march through Georgia, from Atlanta to the sea. The ex-ci time set by Governor Brown for the meeting of the Legislature was on,erea me tu. . * a <,h e s. I February 15. 1S65, but it was not until Carolina s beautiful ?aP ito l - February IT, this date, that the Senate The enemy applied the torch tu . ]d a quorum for the transaction »t— Avmum nr reason. lae i , . ,v.-'vrt rpartilar nrc- spread rapidly, end . .. - - - ■*•—>• and twenty-four j proval of the principle Involved, Mr. worked in by the politic and persistent i Carter concluded that he was perfectly primus on the ground of its alleged free to say he would vote against it." tendency to drive Thaw crazy and as Senator Carter further said <be hkd being competent in contributing to ; tbe oihe „ alld r . veap equally as posl- j consulted with many of his colleagues 1 s-ibstantiate that plea, bin the effect of j tKvJy and „ o doubt as hjnpstl y that the prisoner was sane. It therefore counts for little or nothing what the defense’s experts swear to since their testimony will be b.lanked by the opinions of an | equal number of experts who stand i ready and eager to testify to the con trary. The sum of the observations : of Dr. Britton D. Evans, the most ex it so far lias been chiefly to confuse the public mind and possibly the minds j of the jurors as to the real Issues and j legal principles involved. Under the influence of these sto ries. which may or may not be true; the truth or falsity of which is not j even in issue; which have no relevancy and had reached the conclusion that vote upon this question will result in the defeat of the conference report.” The Senate unanimously agreed to vote on the question before adjourn ment Saturday. The result of the vote was not accessible up to the time this article was put in type. The solution j of the question is one of much import- 1 to the act of killing except as affecting . pert of tft# defen?£ , s expert wItnesse ance to the South at this particular : the insanity plea: it is but simple’ juncture and it is to be hoped that the ; truth to say that the personality of has been placed in the most infamous light of all the characters in the in famous story, may insist on unsaying some things to rescue her own charac ter at the risk of giving oven Harry wind, the flames eighty-four (84) the one hundred (124) blocks of the city containing over five hundred (500) buildings and embracing the entire business quarter, were burned. The old State .louse containing the legislative library of twenty-five thousand (-5 000) volumes, five churches, the Ursulme convei . ^jm 'e const “ Derry'; liis- Thaw some little discomfort. The re- and t.te railroad ^ et V '. , , .... I read on the page.- o sources of the — — the nature of public, and Mr. Jerome might , . — the subject of this scandal further, it j tiort.” During that 5,*L srl '^® 0 ’pare of Columbia was outnea. 1 •*“ remains to be seen what course he I c j tv u . as f U u 0 f helpless women and ubmltted lengthy message in which he ; severely attacked President Jefferson ’ Davis and opposed his policies. He combatted the proposition favored by i ti■,"i — and Lee. of arming the slaves in defense of the South. The Governor urced the cal! of a. convention of the ,,f the Bouth. and while I have never read the exhaustive message of Governor Brown. T understand that one .of the proposed purposes of tho saM -convention Was to depose Mi. Dasis from the Presidency of the Confederacy and antagonize some of his fixed peii- xhe eves of the country was upon Macon ar the seat of the Legisla ture, and was watching to see how would treat the suggestions of the Governor. and views what would take if brought to bay desperate effort to combat the tri umphant progress of--the "unwritten law" not only over the minds of the jurors in this case, but over the public mind and over even those moulders of public opinion, the newspapers, which are supposed to possess the virtue atjd intelligence to discriminate between in the ; children and invalids, many. • were driven from their dwellings, to i which the torch was applied. An ef- : fort was made by Sherman to shift ! the blame upon Hampton by declaring i that bv that general’s orders the, cot- ! ton in the citv was fired, and the burn ing cotton was the cause of the enn- ! (lagration. But Gen. Hampton denied I most positively that any cotton was i fired by his orders. He also denied ! that citizens set fire to bales ot cot ton, and also that any cotton was on General Robert Toombs. General Howell Cobb, Benjamin H. Hill and I.. Q. C. Lamar came to Macon and ad dressed the members of the Legislature and the people in defense of President Davis They took issue with Governor Brown, and paid high tribute to the patriotism, honor and fidelity of Presi dent Davis. They opposed the calling of the < 'invention and deprecated any suggestion of a lack of confidence on the part of the Governor In Mr. Davis. The speech of Howell Cobb is said have been especially able, .eloquent and and take sides with the law and tho • fp.‘e\vhen the Federnis'entered the city. 1 -patriotic. It was deliverodjjt Rafatqn s statutes against the giving a,cose to j t£ Se ot'Columbia, both white and: : Hal m ^ black, have borne abundant testimonj on in. pan m m* ^ faet t j, at Columbia was burned I oration wa the doctrine of the vendetta and every man becoming a law unto himself. the conference committee. igurated to Induce immigrants to j b m wi)1 not go through as reported by the defendant In the prisoner’s dock has been shifted from Thaw to White. It is the slain that is being tried and not the slayer. White committed" his crimes and he paid the penalty of them, perhaps justly, though outside of the law. But the law selects its own process and its own executioners. When another takes the law in his bands and executes the alleged male factor without judge or jury, even though that other be clothed with the garment of a pure life and vested with a conscience void of offense, the law still holds it to be murder. Having been executed without a hearing. Stan- ’ ford White Is now being tried without the privilege of reply. True, his dumb lips can offer nothing in extenuation, I but we are told that the -very facts that rise up to give the He to the hor ror that is told of him will not be al lowed to speak; tpe woman who paints him as an ogre will not be allowed to be asked why she trusted him as a friend; all the alleged misdeeds of his life are to be spread out in unmiti gated colors. The evil he did is to be made the most of; the good is in terred with his bones. A. brilliant arch- i.f- to the Booth. This. It would np- fcnr. was done In the conference with rle. ign pr'sumably In the Interest of New England, and- it was proposed to i-i«h the conference report through without giving the Senators time even to read the report. The point is made that tills feature of the report is new :o»iicr which should not have been in troduce,! in the conference on the bill. Bcnators Bacon, of Georgia, and TIH- lneii, of South Carolina, were quick to detect the blow aimed at their section of the country and raised a vigorous objection to the legislation being ‘‘rail roaded" through without giving Sbn- stors an opportunity to learn what they were voting on. Both Senators Baron and Tillman declared they were uni opposed to the Japanese provision, but they were opposed to using pres- uie lo put through Congress otli- . i- matter materially changing the immigration laws and which they felt might he inimical to the Southern sec- lion of the country. They agreed that the restriction of immigration, pro vided in what is familiarly known as lae "Japanese coolie clause," is of great Importance. "Senator Bacon then began a speech that promised to go on without end,” says the Washington Post. Continu ing, the Post says: As a time-consuming device, the speech of tho senator from Georgia was wholly admirable. He spoke slowly, carefully measuring his sen tences which were often long— and entirely unmindful of the un easiness with which Mr. Lodge and Mr. Dillingham viewed the pro ceedings. He frequently quoted from long and dreary reports, and was pos- -•■sseil of enough ammunition to k> ep him going Indefinitely. After this sort of thing had gone on for -ome time, Mr. Lodge suggested that the remarks of the Senator from Georgia were dilatory. This may have been a correct observ ation. but It had no effect on Mr. Kacon, who proceeded calmly. In the oven tenor of hi? chosen way, -peaking, if anything, n trifle more slowly, and resiling from docu ment? in an exasperating and CENTRALIZATION AND PATER NALISM. One of the Lincoln day orators, ex- Ambassador Joseph H. Choate, quoted the following from Lincoln's first in augural: "To maintain Inviolate the rights of the States to order and control under the Constitution their own affairs by their own judgment ex clusively. Is essential for the pre servation of that balance of power on which our institutions rest.” This is rendered none tne less true as a principle by the fact that Lincoln ; himself departed from it In the midst | of war and revolution. No doubt it , would have been his policy under or- I , dinary conditions in time of peace, and ! ; we are glad the utterance has been j : brought to light and submitted to the j : consideration x>f the Roosevelts, the ‘ Roots, and the other apostles pf c-en- j ! traUzatton. The • centralization fad has reached 1 I the ridiculous climax of a proposition 1 I for a "national automobile law.” The ) ! "yellow rich." as Mr. Owen W is ter ! would say, who go lionk-honking over i 1 the country accompanied by. a great j clatter and leaving behind a very bad ; smell, would like to ride their machines ! j over Btate laws as well ns over State I i lines. Even a Republican member from ! Massachusetts, Mr. McCall, feels : moved to remark that "our citizens 1 may be trusted to learn how to spell 1 and to regulate their diets and their so far introduced, would not, however, appear to call for serious consideration by any one but an expert witness. It was soon after the killing of White that Dr. Evans began to take his ob servations. He noted "a glaring of the eye” in his subject. Thaw “watched” the doctor, who was watching him, “sus piciously.” He exhibited an “exagger ated ego:’’ he was marked by an "air of self-importance:” ”he was more dis posed to tell me what to do than to submit to me as an- examiner;” and finally and conclusively to the expert. Dr. Evans found “a depression” in the back of Thaw’s head and a “large pro tuberance below it.” the like of which he "had never met with before” and which he confesses stumps even him. (Probably the murder bump, never be fore located by phrenology). •A great deal of testimony—supposed ly evidence—has been put in by the defense. prASumbaly- to show' that Thaw was insane, but nothing that cannot be readily overthrown or laughed out of court. On the self- defense plea literally nothing has been offered. On the insanity plea nothing that is tangible has been offered be cause the defense has undertaken to l surely Mr. ID itllC lted i lutwhathe re- xnrded as the grave danger of the proposition announced by Mr. T.odgc that the onlj limitation to a conference committee was that it confined itself to ihc general sub ject when each house had passed different bills. At thlr point evidences nf ,i mild filibuster were Indicated by the de mand of a quorum by Mr. Culber son. This necessitated a roll call, ■ftcr which Mr. Bacon indl, ate.I that he should later read to the Senate the entire lengthy' confer ence report, as he was not permit ted time to read it elsewhere. There were provisions in the pro posed legislation, he said, w!|eh were of vital, even life and death. Importance to the industries of his State and other States in hi- seo- tloS) of ihe country. There is." he declared, an at tempt to destroy the possibility of securing any immigrants." "We all know," he continued “what has brought this report to the Senate. We know that a ,,.n- dilion of affairs which in no man ner relates to the Injustices to which I am referring, has attract ed the attention of tin whole coun try. and that there Is an acute sit uation. which It is proposed to re lieve by bringing in this report. \nd if the report were limited to that, so far as I am concerned 1 would have nothing to s.iv. "In order to meet this case of emergency on the Pacific .east a report is brought in which does not simply relate to that matter, but covers the entire field, and op portunity is taken to ,,-nact a dras tic rule, which wifi do great injus tice to certain parts of this coun try. and to make this acute situa tion the means or inducing Sena tors to vote for a report contain ing this injustice." , itect and respected citizen a perfect construct and cross to safety on a sort I Dr. Jekyll before the world—he was of bridge of Mahomet. They are as | not only a libertine but he was an in- industriously concerned in disproving : carnate fiend a veritable Mr. Hyde thaw’s insanity as in establishing it. ! behind the scenes, if Evelyn Thaw’s The object is to save him at once from j story is true. Robert Louis Steven- ; the electric chair and from the insane j son’s grewsomely unreal story must be : aS yi U m. Dr. Evans by tests after- j adjddged within the bounds of proba- ’ wards made assumes to give a chro- j klMy if all that she says is accepted I nological history of the origin and at- : as true - If it "'as all true it did not . tack of instantaneous insanity which I ^hirflnt Harry Th«i\\ ( in tlic sys of ths j (jotvaii Thmv fit tiif* mnmBTif Tip firpri baths without too much Governmental 1, . • .* ™ / , J seizea mau at tne moment ne nred ;i:n\. constituting himself hite s exe- the three determined shots into ' cutioner. Indeed, it did not need fojr 1 him to play that role. If White did j what Evelyn Thaw in the witness j chair says he did she heeded but to tell it to a court and jury to send : White to the electric chair. Why should Harry Thaw subject himself to I this peri 1 when by merely appealing to i the public prosecutor and repeating to In meeting and he not onlv ga%'.- him the story that Evelyn had told him. White himself would have sat In the dock charged with a capital of fense? assistance from Washington.” Mr. Roosevelt's support of a "na tional automobile law" may be confi dently relied on. because it fits his principle? and because no subject is too small or too “various" for his notice. The other day the President of the New York Mothers' Assembly begged him for a .subject for motherly discus- • one but discussed it himself. He pro- 1 posed "The Place of the Father in the Home” and very severely arraigned i those fathers who are weak and foolish and not tip to standard generally. It would appear that If the regulation of the American home should puss into the hands of our paternal "ruler" at Washington it will no longer be said that ‘everybody works hut father,' but rather that father shall do the work. If the other members of the family, however, indulge the fond hope that no chalked line will be prepared for When Evelyn Thaw was put on the stand to tell her all-important story there was not a shred of evidence be fore the court going to show that Thaw was not clothed in his right mind when he killed White. Dr. Wiley had stated that in his opinion because on some irrelevant occasion Harry Thaw got on a street car. threw up a window, threw it down, glared White’s body and the steady and sure ! convalescence of the slayer from that | point up to his present mental sound- | ness. And now the defense announces \ the remainder of its program leaving ! out the introduction of any more ex perts on the subject of insanity. They : will rest on Dr. Evans* flipisy and un- substantial showing. Why? Because : they are not interested in the insanity | plea further ihan as they may use it : to bring the story of Evelyn Thaw to ! bear on the jury for Its effect on that ■ body under the “unwritten law” the- ! cries. Delmas’ whole plan of defense | is built upon the effect of that story on the jury. Aside from this it has no consistency or system that cannot be easily riddled. The Baltimore Sun, in Illustration of Abraham Lincoln's "boundless hu manity and benevolence," tells this touching story: "After the battle of Antletam President Lincoln visited the field. As ho was driving with Gen. McClellan ove rthe scene of the battle the conductor and hope of successfully f overthrowing the j j a e President’s party passed a house This. too. explains the method in Je rome's apparent madness. He has little MASSACHUSETTS KICKS OUT OF HARNESS. A petition has come down' from the rock-ribbed Republican State of Mas sachusetts addressed to President Roosevelt, and to Congress, signed by Governor Guild, the President of the Massachusetts Senate, the Speaker of the House, and by 232 of the 280 mem bers of the Legislature of that State, urging an immediate revision of the tariff. A curious fact about this petition from Massachusetts is that it is -not the work of consumers. "The con sumers," remarks the New York Times, “never made any headway in fighting high duties, and the protectionists d'o not care a snap of their fingers for them. They have never been organ ized, they have always been easily fooled, their ideas were vague, and their convictions not very firm. Mas sachusetts wants tariff reform, be cause Its manufacturers demand free raw materials, and free coal from the maritime provinces. Manufacturers differ from the rabble of consumers in this, that they know with great precis-' ion tfhat they want, and they are able by organization to make trouble. Mas sachusetts tariff reformers have al ready made trouble for Senator Lodge, who may be expected, not suddenly but easily, gradually but none the less no tably, to change his attitude -of re sistance to the wiil of his constituents.” The “stand-patters” cannot pretend that they were not forewarned. They have observed the growing symptoms of this midsummer madness in Massa chusetts for several years. They have heard her complain before that pro tection does'nbt protect, and they have urged that she prayerfully consider the fact that her needs are less important than those of the country at large, (or rather, the stand-patters at large), whereat the proud old Bay State was very wroth. And now she evidently means to fight for her own interests and let the Interests of the stand-pat ters go hang. Really, this l’ooks like an opportunity for Mr. Roosevelt to return to his for mer enthusiasm for tariff revision. With the backing of Massachusetts and Iowa, and the possible support of the wavering crowd, would he not be sufficiently safe in defying the stand- pat crowd? _ musket — the other, is not a pleasant visitor to have about the house on a (kirk, win- •lv night." Sherman *n his memoirs says: "The army having totally ruined Columbia, moved on toward Wlnns- boro.” forty-two years Legislature refus- to' Gov ernor itago- bril- liant, patriotic and fiery editorial writer. Harry Flash, and Editor .T. 1 Tonly Siritli. of Atlanta, came near having pistols and coffee for two, in consequence of a hot controversy. Sherman said: "War is hell." And in burning Columbia lie suited his ac tion to his words. The FederaJs de A member of this notable Legislature was Lemuel Aired. Representative from Pickens County. He was the cen: tral figure in an incident thdt .aroused Yestorda.v I was conversing with a prominent lady of Macon who, with her sister, also a well-known resident of this city, were eye witnesses of tile burning of Columbia, and sufferers too from this terrible act. She furnished me with evidence of the process by which the Union was restored, in the shape of a copy of a letter which was found In the streets or Columbia imme diately after the army of Sherman had left the ruined and plundered city. The lady informs me that the original is still preserved and can be shown and substantiated, if anybody desires. Til panv of Torie.s and was owning alleg iance to the flag of the North rather than to the banner of the Confederacy. Representative Aired was put in jail, but was released upon a writ of habeas corpus Issued by Judge O. A. Lochran-'. of the Bibb Superior Court. About six years later, when ex-Governor Brown resigned the position of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia. Gov ernor Bullock appointed Judge Looh- rane in Brown’s place. Lochrane had been originally appointed by Governor Brown as judge of the Macon Circuit. Among some of his noted decisions was declaring the conscript law uncon- S LI US Lrt illldlCU, it aiij WUU,) It’ qi ■ ' o. • . , tv- Tn name signed to the letter was that | stitutlonal. T.t? cGnfi.mati i Jud 0 ° . , *Vio AT-* ...ii lormr ( nV of a lieutenant in Sherman’s army., and was addressed to his wife at Boston. Mass. I am indebted to the Macon lady for the following copy of the let ter which was handed to me with the request that it be published on this, the forty-second anniversary of the destruction of the fair and beautiful Columbia. I can add nothing in the way of comment on such a document. It speaks for Itself: “Camp Near Camden. S. C.. “February 2fi, 1865. “My Dear Wife: I have no time for particulars. We have had a glori ous time in this State. Unresisted license to burn and plunder was the order of the day. The chivalry have been stripped of most of their val uables. Gold watches, silver pitchers, cups, spoons, forks, etc., etc., arc as common in camp as blackberries. The terms of plunder are as follows: The valuable procured are estimated by companies. Each company is required to exhibit the results of its operations of tho Macon Superior Court . Tiy .ap pointment of Governor Brown, was pending in the Senate when he released Representative Aired upon habeas corpus, and thus lie might have imper iled his chances of confirmation. The Legislature adjourned on March 11, 1865. and passed into history cele brated ns the last that ever convened in Georgia under the Confederate Gov ernment, and Macon has the distinjtion of being the place where the final ses sion was held. Equal Rights Convention. Editor of The Telegraph: To an old Georgian it seems we have had enough of this free and equal doc trine dealt out. by fanatics to last at least one century. The sense in which Thomas Jefferson meant that all men wore born free and equal was by no means a literal one. The facts are. wo . are neither born free nor equal. Every a.t any given place one-fhth and first child born in this country is subject (o the servitude of its parents. This serv- their feet also, the a rude awakening. are like y tr effect of Evelyn's story on the jury. He can request the judge and the lat ter can so charge that nothing that has been said of White is to be con sidered by them as having any effect to excuse the deed of Thaw In killing him. but is to be considered only as to any effect it may have had on him to . Then why did Jerome deprive hint of his reason. This sort rhaw to tell h in which was a number of wounded Confederates. By request of the Presi dent the party stopped and entered the building. Mr. Lincoln told the wounded men that he would be pleased to take them by the hand. He sajd: 'The solemn obligations which we owe to our country and posterity compel the 1 | prosecution of this war. and it follows r story of legal syllogism, as a rule proves too i lbal ma ny are enemies through uncon- howlng much of a refinement for the popularly j troIlabIc circumstances.' and he said he constituted jury. And Jerome knows i bore titom , no maHce aild co „id take experience. Tho proof positive j them by |he hand wJth synlpat hy and good feeling. After a short silence the it by that Harry Thaw is insane things may be seen by th, long enough. us .va iris here Mas* Wonderful who wait The If you are not well and want to be, I take exercise on all-fours. Or so I teaches Health Culture, which de, lares ( i that "Nebuchadnezzar was a better i i man morally after he had been turned j enator was guing into details I out to pasture for a time and assuredly concerning industrial conditions In the South when Mr. Dillingham, in charge of the conference report, capitulated and the report was allowed to go over for the night In order to allow it to be examined. Judging from the warmth of Friday’s debate the Southern Senators discov- a better man physically." since "there \ is r.o exercise that uses so many mus- j cles and stimulates the Jungs, liver j and heart as does the all-fours exer cise." That may toe. hut those who wish to experiment would be wise to do so behind closed doors as well as considerate of their friends. quarreled with him. therefore the said Many Thaw was insane when he killed White. The manner in which Jerome I proceeded to. pulverize Dr. Wiley is a | part of the history of the case. If | there was. any foundation laid for the plea of insanity there was not a ves tige of it left when Jerome finished with the < allow Ev Without objection before the was made to render it competent? Did he lose his head In consequence of his l initial success or was he more deep and designing than has vet appeared in ■ hailed by him as a welcome escape, giving Evelyn plenty of rope? He ' could have stopped her at the first. He j <iid stop her Monday when Delmas at- ! tempted to have her resume her story. Justice Fitzgerald promptly sustained j his objection and ruled the story in- I competent until the foundation for the insanity plea was laid. Notwithstand ing the court ? ruling, however. Delmas was allowed to go on asking the wo man questions, elaborately framed for the effect to be produced on the jury, concerning all the escapades with which rumor connected Stanford choice falls to the share of the com mander-in-chief and staff, one-fifth to the corps commander and staff, one- fifth to the field officers of the regi ments. and two-fiftlis to fhe company. “Officers are not allowed to join these expeditions without disguising them selves as privates. One of our corps commanders borrowed a suit of rough clothes from one of my men. and was successful in this place. He got a large quantity of silver (among other things an old-time silver milk pitcher), rtnd a very fine gold watch, from a Mr. De Saussure at this place. De Saussure is one of the F. F. V.'s of South Caro lina, and was made to fork over liber ally. Officers over the rank of captain are not made to put their plunder in the estimate for general distribution. This is very unfair, and for that reas on. in order to protect themselves, subordinate officer? and privates keep back everything that they can carry about their person, such as rings, ear rings, breasl-pins. etc., of which if I ever live to get heme. I have about a quart. I am not Joking. I have at least a quart of jewelry for you and all the girls—and some No. 1 diamond rings and pins among them. Gen. Sherman itude is limited to 21 years and is sanc tioned by law, human and divine. Nor are we born equal, either physically, mentally, socially, financially, vertically or horizontally. All that Jefferson meant to claim was that no families were born by na ture to inherit office, as was conceded to the kings and lords of England. Our fathers endorsed this construc tion of the declaration of independence and were willing to be called rebels in defence. This equality fad Is not only false, but its-diseussion by unbalanced heads has brought trouble in the past and gives no promise of good in the fu- ] ture. The five varieties of the human ' race are not equal. They differ physi cally, mentally and in taste. We may go further and say that the two sexes of the same race differ in the sam« way. Man is physically stronger than woman, and his tastes are different. His tastes lead him to the hunting ground, to the battle field, or to the forests. Woman prefers the pleasures of home, the society of children and artistic decorations. No harm comes from discussing differences or peculiar- has silver and gold enough to start a ; itles. but when the races are to he would be It bank. His share in gold watches and chains alone at Columbia, was two hundred and seventy-five (275). ."But I said I would not go into par ticulars. All the general officers, and many beside, had valuables of even- description down to embroidered ladies pocket handkerchiefs. (I have my share of them too.) We took gold and silver, enough from the d d rebels to have redeemed their internal cur rency twice over. This (the currency) whenever we came across it, we burn ed. as we considered it utterlv worth less. “I wish all the jewelry this army has could be carried to the 'Old Bay State.’ It would deck her out in glorious style, but alas! it will be scattered all over the North and Middle States. The d—d niggers, as a general rule, prefer to stay at home—particularly after they found out that we only wanted the able-bodied men. (and. to tell the truth forced into the same mold and then compared or made to sit together, the trouble comes. The rule that-follow* nature nearest generally succeeds bcVr. Acting on this line we say let woman, Lucrecia like, be found at home, while man goes to the forests, to the hust ings, to legislative halls, if need be, to the field of battle. Let the races of men not be forced in touch with one another. Let them worship as they prefer with their own kind: let them have separate schools and separate cars for travel: not be cause they arc equal or unequal, it is j not a question of equality at all. It is / ; a question of difference in taste that -A ; conduces to the pleasure and safety of both. A healthier question for discussion is. which has filled best the place where Providence has placed each ol us. From 1861 till 1865 three classes acted well their parts, viz: The men. the youngest and best looking women.) \ the women and the serv Confederates came forward, and each , Sometimes we took off whole families « for this reason that he has given the i „ . | and Plantations of niggers, by way of - tor in a tea. pi t. i. . . gut,, tne , silently, but fervently, shook, the hand ! repaying the secessionist. But the use- of the President. Mr. Lincoln and Gen. i ! ess part °f. these w « s00 " managed to , . lose—sometimes in crossing rivers— McClellan tnen walked forward by the side of those who defense so much rope. But the defen Is not to be led into th'e trap. They buck at their own line of operation? and Jerome simultaneously shows' his hand to the public since the defense is on to it. He is willing to accept the insanity plea and refer the whole mat ter to a commission in lunacy, but this would be to "queer" the defense's en tire plan and purpose. White, down to the famous dinner given lo some of the "smart set,” whereat e girl in the plumage of a bird emerged from a big pie set before the guests. When Delmas had exhaust- If Harry Thaw and his counsel stiil could consider the welfare and future of the poor girl they have so far sacri ficed to save Thaw from any conse quence of his deed they would gladly accept this course as promising the temporary incarceration of Thaw, with those who are too severely wounded to be able to arise and bade litem be of good cheer, assuring them that every possible care should be taken of them to ameliorate their con dition. It was a moving scene, and there was not a dry eye among the Unionists or Confederates.” "It is estimated that eighteen thous and lawyers are practicing in New York." says the Savannah Press. They may have out their shingles but Del mas. from California, is doing the bulk of the practice just now. sometimes by other ways "I shall write to you agein from Wil mington, Goldsboro, or some place in North Carolina. The order to march has arrived, and I must close hurried ly. Love to grandmother and Aunt Charlotte. Take care of yourself and the children. “Don’t show this letter out of the family. “Your affectionate husband. "THOMAS J. MYERS. "Lieutenant, Etc. "P. S.—I will send this by the first flag of truce to be mailed, unless I have an opportunity of sending it to Hilton Head. Tell Sallie I am saving a pearl bracelet and ear rings for her. But Lambert got the necklace and breast pin of the same set. I am try ing to trade him out of them These were taken from the Misses Jamison?, daughters of the president of South Carolina secession convention. We part was reply. acted best? Which We pause for R. T. A. THE SAME ROAD. From tho Houston Post. You little bits o' fellers startin’ out along tho way That we started on our ownselves on a long gone yesterday. Yon will find your road the same As the one down which we came. Some stretches mean hard pluggln’ an’ some parts arc only play. You must gather op too sunshine | n each pleasant stretch you meet To take with you and twill smooth Qjc rocky stretches for your feet. And the wild bird's morning song You must eateli and take alone. For the days when birds ain't, ringin’ for to make your m-'rnin's sweet. .v If you feel you've done your duty whet) your "lay mo” has been said. You will find that you arc comfy In most any kind of bed. And when at the mornin's dawn. When you stretch and turn and yawn. And you scan Il'e's mad. you'll find it •tretchln' smoother out ahead.