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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, OCTOBER 18. 1881.
GUITEAITS OWN STORY.
MOTIVES AND CIRCUMSTANCES OF
HIS ATROCIOUS CRIME.
tacjdenu of Hi. Parly Life-HlTpolitlcl Experience
Hl ?? y*ri??u?? A p plio?? t i??n 1 for Office???When the
Idee o. Killing Preeldent Garfield First
Seised Him???Hi* Desire for a Wife.
Charles **uitcan, the man who assassllht-
e??l President Garfield, and who now lies in the
district jail under indictment for that great
and dastardly crime, lias recently narrated to
a correspondent of the New York Herald
what purports to lm the true story of his life.
The sketch is evidently compiled from a
series of interviews, the entire work being
dictated by Guiu-au and containing
many passages, particularly those relating
to ???the removal of the president,??? in the pris
oner's own language. He was bom at Free-
l?????rt, HI*, September 8, 1841, and as a boy,
says he knew Mr. E. li. Wushburneand Gene
ral John M. Scofield, then a cadet at West
Point. He went to school to Mr. Hurt-hard
now director of the mint. His father had
been a merchant, was clerk of the circuit
court of Stevenson county, 111,, and subse
quently cashier, for about twelve years, of the
Second national bank at Freeport. The elder
Guitcau was greatly interested in the publi-
eations of John II. Noyes, the founder of the
Oneida community, and was more or less
under their influence during the latter part
of his life; so much so that he opposed the
idea of a collegiate education for his son, and
finally induced the latter to join the commu
nity. This was in June, 18ft'). Here young
Guitcau remained until 18C5, when lie went
to New York witli the idea of starting a reli
gious newspaper. Failing in this he returned
to Oneida for a while in November, 18fti,
found himself once more in New York,
hanging around the quarters of the Young
Men???s Christian Association and attending
Plymouth church. In 18G7 he was admitted
to the bar in Chicago, got married and stayed
there till 1871, when he made an unprofitable
visit to California. In the meantime his do
mestic relations had proved unhappy, ami a
divorce had taken place, l.utcron he entered
U|h>ii the practice of the law in 'New York,
and in 1871 claims to have been ruined in
reputation and business by a publication in
the Herald which charged him with appropri
ating to liis own use moneys collected fora
client. He sued the Herald for libel, claim
ing $100,000 damages, but nothing ever came
of it. He was for many months in very re
placed circumstances, living from hand to
mouth, and finally got into the Tomlts on a
charge of false pretenses, procuring his re
lease through the agency of his brother-in-
law, Mr. Scoville, who is now his counsel. In
187.'?? Guitcau conceived flic idea of becoming
a great editor, and went to Chicago with
the intention of buying the Inter-Ocean.
This project, of course, fell through,
and in the spring of 187(1 he again
Duelled a law office in Chicago. About
this time Ue became a convert to the
. doctrines of the Second Adventists and pre
pared an article on the second coining of
Christ, which will bo found, with much addi
tional matter of a similar character, in a book
which lie afterward published called ???The
Truth.??? lie also devoted himself more or less
to lecturing on his new discoveries, hut his
failure as a theologian was as conspicuous *as
his failure in Urn law. His whole career.seems
to he a record of strange vagaries, impractica
ble projects and miserable disappointments.
Guitcau???s expeiicnoe as a politician, he
says, began soon after the nomination of Gen
eral Garfield -at Chicago. He was in New
York from the first of July, 1880, to March 3,
1881, and during that time around the head
quarters of the national and state republican
eommitteee a good deal, making the personal
acquaintance of many of the leading men of
the party. He invariably had with him his
epeccli, entitled ???Garfield Against. Hancock,???
which, according to his own story, was never
delivered hut once, and that at a colored meet
ing on Twenty-fifth street otic Saturday even
ing. It was afterwards printed, and copies
of it were sent to a number of the gen
tlemen who participated in the conference
at the Fifth Avenue hotel, abqut the <>th of
August. Tiiis was his first introduction to
them, and "they seemed to bo highly pleas
ed??? with his effort, but the objection urged
to scouring ills services for the campaign was
that he did not have a national reputation,
such as would attract a large hearing. Guitcau
says that he also sent his speech to < ieneral Ar
thur, Senator Conk ling, General Logan, Sena
tor Cameron, ???and all that kind of men.??? He
wanted to take the stump forGcneral Garfield
in August, and wrote to Mr. Itlainc and con-
salted with Governor Jewell about it, but the
disability mentioned above was against him,
although he says that Governor Jewell was
very kind to him personally. After the result
was known in November, Guitcau wrote to
General Garfield as follows:
We have denned them nil out just as I expected.
Thunk God I Very respectfully.
On \ i: its G r iteau.
THE AUSTRIAN MISSION.
Immediately after the Indiana election
Guitcau begun to think it time to look around
for something. He wrote to the president
elect, suggesting the Austrian mission. Early
in March he went to Washington, lie says, for
the purp??*c of getting an office. He had
nothing to do in New York except solicit for
some insurance companies. He says: ???1 ad
dressed a letter to President Garfield and to
Secretary Blaine sonic time in March. I should
sav, calling their attention to my services
(hiring the canvass, and to my early sugges
tion touching the Austrian mission. I heard
nothing about it until I noticed that William
Walter l???helps had been given the mission,
and of course that ended it. I then sought
the Paris consulship. 1 spoke to Logan about
it and he said lie would speak to General Gar-
. li???.j.i ;lJ ,d with Mr. Blaine. He tohl me that he
1 did speak to General Garfield, and that Genera.
' Garfield agreed to leave it with Mr. Blaine.
1 Law Mr. Biaino about it several times during
tlic deadlock in the senate, and Mr. Blaine
>aid that they had not got to that yet. Ho
was very clever at that time. 1 stood well
with him and with General Garfield, and 1 had
every reason to expect that they intended, as
soon as they got to it, to give it to me. Mr.
Walker the present consul, was front New
York and had been appointed by Mr. Haves
two years ago, ami I did not feel that Mr.
Walker hart any claim for the office, as the
men who did the business during the canvass
ought to be remembered. I have an impres
sion that General Garfield and Mr. Blaine felt
???is 1 did. Well, I called at the white house to
Leo General Garfield about it, hut I was unable
to see the president. I only called the presi
dent???s attention to the matter once, and that
w ts within two or three days after I reached
???^Washington. 1 gave the president my speech
???inil marked at tlic head of it: 'ParisConsuL
s j,i??? > i n pencil, and then drew a line down to
'in v* name, so that the president would retnem-
lier what I wanted. This was the only time I
had any personal conversation with the presi
dent on the Paris consulship. He took the
speech and I left him in the act of reading it.
. 1 there saw Mr. Morton, minister of France,
General Tvner and two or three other gentle-
men Thev knew me and I was cleverly re
ceived, especially by Mr. Morton. He asked
me about rav health, how I was getting along,
etc. This interview occurred about the 7th or
8th of March.
hETTKItS TO MR. BLAINE.
??????After Mr. Blaine was appointed secretary
of state, I bad not much expectation that I was
to get the Austrian mission, because I expec
ted that it was to be given to one of the Blaine
men; but I did think and feel that 1 had a
??? r j???ht to press mv application for the Paris
con e ulsliip. 'During the deadlock in the sen
ate I wrote Mr. Blaine several notes. 1 called
at the state department several times, but he
was generally busy, so I slid
what I iiad to by a brief
note. I always addressed him familiarly as
???Secretary Blaine??? or ???Mr. Blaine.??? After the
deadlock broke 1 saw Mr. Blaine at the state
department one day, and lie said he did not
think that the president would remove Mr.
Walker. Tiiis was tiie first intimation that
tiiey did not intend to give me the Paris con
sulship. I was surprised, and I said to Mr.
Blaine: ???I am going to seethe president and
try an;l induce him to remove Mr. Walker
and give me the Paris consulship.??? ???Well, if
you can, do so.??? said Mr. Blaine. I have
not spoken to him on any subject since. A
few days after I saw Mr.??? Blaine I called at
the white house to get the president???s final
answer. I sent in my card and the doorkeep
er came back in a moment and said: 'Mr.
Guitcau. the president says it will be im
possible for him to see you to-day.??? I there
fore sent him a little note and told him aliout
the Paris consulship. I never had a personal
interview with the president on the Paris con
sulship except once, and that was when I
1 lauded him my speech, and told him that I
would like it. ft was about the middle of the
week after his inauguration. The time that 1
was pre.'.-ing the Paris consulship terminated,
I should say, about the last of April. 1 have
never had any final answer either from the
president or from Mr Blaine. It did not have
the slightest influence one way or the other in
reference to my removing the president.
CONCEPTION OF THE ASSASSINATION.
"My conception of the idea of removing
the president was this: Mr. Conkling resigned
on Monday. May i(i, 1881. On the following
Wednesday I was in bed. 1 think I retired
about 8 o???clock. I felt depressed and per
plexed on account of the political situation,
and I retired much earlier than usual. 1 felt
wearied in mind and body, and was in bed
about 9 o???clock and thinking over the politi
cal situation, and the idea flashed through
my brain that if the president was out of the
way everything would go on better. At first
this was a mere impression. It startled me,
but the next morning it came to me with re
newed force, and I begun to read the papers
with my eye on the possibility that
the president would have to go.
and the more I read, the more I
saw the complication of public affairs, the
more was I impressed with the necessity.
This continued alsnit two weeks. I kept
reading the papers and kept being impressed,
and tiie idea kept bearing and bearing and
hearing down iqioii me that the only way to
unite t lie two factions of the republican party
and save the republic from going into the
hands of tlic rebels and democrats was to
quietly remove the president.
???Two weeks after I conceived tiie idea my
mind was thoroughly settled on the intention.
I then prepared myself. I sent to Boston for
a copy of my book, 'Tiie Truth,??? and I spent
a week in preparing that. I put some new
ideas in it and 1 neatly improved it. 1 knew
it would probably huvea large sale on account
of the notoriety that tiie act of removing the
president would give me, and I wished the
book to go out to tiie public in proper shape.
Another preparation was to buy a revolver
and to prepare myself for executing the idea.
Tiiis required some two or three weeks. I
never mentioned tlic conception to a living
soul. I did most of my thinking in tiie park
and on tiie street, ami I used to go to the
Arlington and Biggs house daily to read the
papers.
WATCHING AN OPPORTUNITY.
???After I had made up my mind to remove
him the idea when 1 should remove him
pressed me, and I was somewhat confused on
that. I knew it would not do to go to tiie
white house and attempt it, because there
were too many of his employes about, and I
looked around for several days to try and get
a good chance at him. One Sunday (the Sun
day before he went to Long Brandi) 1 went to
his church in the morning, and stood there
at the door a moment. 1 was a little late. I
noticed the president sitting near an open
window about three feet from the ground,
and I thought to myself: 'That would be a
good chance to get him.??? I intended to shoot
him through the back of the ltead and let the
hall pass through the ceiling, in order that no
one else should he injured; and there eould
not possibly he a better place to remove a
man than at his devotions. I had my re
volver in my possession when I first went to
tiie church. During that whole week I read
the papers carefully I thought it all over in
detail. I thought just what people would
talk and what an excitement it would create,
and I kept thinking about it all the week. I
made up my mind tiiat the next Sunday I
would certainly shoot him if he was in church
and I got a good chance at him. Thursday of
the same week I noticed in the paper lie was
going to Long Branch, and on tiie following
.Saturday lie did go to the Branch for Mrs. Gar
field's health. I went to the depot all prepared
to remove him. 1 had the revolver witti me.
I had all my papers nieely prepared. I spoke
to a man about a carriage to take me, as I
told him, over near the congressional ceme
tery. He said that lie would take me over for
two dollars, and seemed to he a very clever
fellow and glad to get the, job. 1 got to the
depot about!??o???clock and waited tiiere until
tiie president's white house carriage drove
up. About twenty-five. minutes after nine
the president and his carriage came up. He got
out of liis carriage. I stood in the ladies???
room, about the middle of theroom, watching
him. Mrs. Garfield got out, and the pres
ence of Mrs. Garfield deterred me from tiring
on him. Mrs. Garfield looked so thin and
clung so tenderly to the president???s
arm that 1 did not have the heart
to fire on him. He jiassed right
through tiie ladies??? reception room, through
the main entrance, and took the ears. 1
waited a few moments. I went outside the
lejvot and walked up town toward the Biggs
house and Arlington and tiie (Kirk. I think I
went to the park and sat there an hour or two
thinking about it, and I went to my lunch as
usual, and after my lunch I went to thclibra-
iv of the treasury * department and read the
papers as usual, and think I stayed there until
;5 o'clock on Saturday, and then went out.
AN ASSASSIN IN AMBUSH.
???I noticed it? the papers, ??? Guitea:. rnr.tir ?es,
"that the president would be baek the first of
the week; he did not conic baek that week,
hut on the following Monday- It was a terri
bly hot. sultry dav. I remember I suffered
greatly from the heat, but prepared myself
again and went to the depot with my revolver
and my papers, but did not feel like firing on
him. I simply went to the depot. I sat in
the ladies??? waiting room. I got there ten or
fifteen minutes before train time, and waited
and thought it all overandmade up my mind
that 1 would not tire on bin that day. Tiie
train came and he came, and th; president
and his friends drove up in his white house
carriage, and then Janies and Hunt went, and
then I went. 1 got in a ear ami went up
toward the Biggs house.
VIGIL OF A MURDERER.
"Well. I was wsitching for the president all
that week. 1 got up one morning at 5:.kl,
thinking I might get the president when lie
was out horse-ba ek riding, but he did not go
out; so 1 went back to my room, took break
fast. and let the matter drop until night. In
the evening I went up to my room and got
my revolver out. and carried it in my pocket.
This was either Wednesday or Thursday???I
think it was Thursday night. He went out
riding that* night. 1 was in La Fayette park
watching for him, and about 0:30 the carriage
drove up to tiie white bouse, and the presi
dent and some gentleman, and a young man
eighteen qj twenty years old, whom I pre
sume was the president's son, got into the
carriage. The young man sat with his back
to the driver, and the president and his friend
sat on the back seat. They drove out the
entrance nearest the treasury building
and passed along the east side" of LaFay-
ette square toward the Arlington and out on
Vermont avenue. I walked out of the park
pretty rapidly and I saw them from the comer
of the park. 1 hung around the park about
half an hour or so, and they did not return
and I concluded to let the matter drop for
that night, so 1 went as usual to my home and
went to bed. I went to the Biggs house and
took a room in the afternoon of Thursday,
and the event mentioned in this preceding
talk happened, I am quite certain, on Thurs
day night. On Friday night after I got my
dinner at the Riggs house I went up to my
room and I took out my revolver and I put it
in my hip pocket, and I had my papers with
me, and 1 thought I possibly might get a
chance at him Friday night. * I went into
Lafayette square and sat there, opposite the
white house.
IN TltF. SHADOW OF DEATH.
???1 had not been there a minute before I saw
the president walk out of the white house.
???Now,???I thought to myself, ???I have got a
splendid chance at him; he is all alone; tiiere
isn???t any one around him.??? He walked along
the ea.st side of the square and down H street.
T followed him. He went to Mr. Blaine???s
house, on Fifteenth street, and when he got
on the sidewalk opposite Blaine???s house lie
looked up, as if lie did not know the place
exactly, and then walked in. I was about
half way between H street and Mr. Blaine???s
house, "i went into the allay in the rear of
Mr. Morton???s house and got out my revolver
and wiped it off and put it back in my pock
et, 1 went over to the II street stoop, at
Wonnlcy???s, and waited there half
an hour,??? 1 should say, for the president
to come out. He came out and Mr. Blaine
with him, and I waited at M'ormley???s until
they passed by on tiie opposite side. They
walked down II street on tne east side of La-
fai\.t:e square and into the white house.
Blaine's right arm was looped in the presi
dent???s left arm, and they were engaged in tiie
most earnest conversation. Blaine was strik
ing the air every few moments, and the
president was drinking it all in; and
occasionally tiie president would strike out
his hand, thereby giving assent to what Mr.
Blaine was saying. This scene made a striking
impression on me; it confirmed what I had
felt fora long time, that the president was en
tirely under Mr. Blaine???s influence. 1 went
down to the Biggs house. 1 woke up about 4
o???clock Saturday morning and felt well in
mind and body. My mind was perfectly clear
in .egard to removing the president; I had not
the slightest doubt about my duty to the Lord
and to the American iieople in trying to re
move him, and 1 want to say here, as emphat
ically as words can make it, that, from
the moment when 1 fully decided to remove
tiie president, my purpose 1ms been just as
clearand just as determined as any tiling eould
be. I believed 1 was acting under a special
Divine authority, and this Divine pressure
was upon me until 1 actually shot him. It
was only by nerving myself to the utmost
that I did itat all, and I never had the slight
est doubt as to the Divine inspiration of the
act, and that it was for the best interest of the
American people.
. NEARING THE END.
???Having hoard on Friday, thatthe president
was going to Long Branch Saturday morning,
I resolved to remove him at the depot. I took
my breakfast at the Biggs house about 8
o???clock. 1 went into Lafayette square after
breakfast, waiting for 9 o'clock to come, and
then went to the depot. I rode in a 'bob-
tailed???ear. I left the ear, walked up to a
boot black, got lay boots blacked, and in
quired fora man named John Taylor, whom,
two weeks before, I had spoken to aliout tak
ing me out toward Congressional cemetery.
They told me that Taylor???s carriage was not
there, and finally I noticed a colored man,
and said to him: * ???What will you take me out
to the Congressional cemetery for?' He says,
???well, I will take you out there for $2.??? 1 told
him privately that if 1 wanted his services I
would let him know in a few minutes. 1
then went into tiie depot and took my private
papers which I intended for the press (incln-
dinga revised edition of my book, ???The Truth,
a Companion to the Bible,??????)and stepped up to
the news stand and asked the young man in
charge it' I could leave those papers with
him a few moments, and lie took them. This
was about twenty minutes after 9, and I went
into tiie ladies' waiting room and looked
around, saw that tiiere were quite a good
many people there, but did not see the presi
dent \s carriage. I examined my revolver to
see if it was all right,and took off'tiie paper that
I had wrapped around it to keep the moisture
off. I waited five or six minutes longer, sat
down on a scat in tlic ladies??? room, and very
soon the president drove up. He was in com
pany with a gentleman who, I understand
was*Mr. Blaine, although I did not recognize
him. I am satisfied it was Mr. Blaine, be
cause it was tlic same gentleman that I saw
with tlic president the night before, and I
know positively that that gentleman was
Mr. Blaine. They drove up in a plain sin
gle-seated carriage with one horse; this
gentleman. I think, was driving. Tiie pres
ident seemed to be in a very earnest and
private conversation with Mr .Blaine. They satin
the carriage I should say some two minutes when
they reached the depot, and finished their conver
sation. The president got out on the pavement side
and Mr Blaine oil the other side. They entered the
ladies'room; I stood there watching the president
aud they passed by me. Before they reached the
depot I had been promenading up and down the
ladies??? room between tiie ticket ollioe door aud the
news-stand door, a space of some ten or twelve feet.
I walked up and down there, I should say, two or
three times working myself up, as 1 knew the hour
was at hand. Tiie president and Mr Blaine came
into the ladies??? room and walked right by me.
HOW THE PRESIDENT FELL.
???There was quite a crowd a:ound, and the presi
dent was passing from the ladies??? room into the
main entrance through the door. I should say he
was about four or five feet from tiie door nearest the
ticket office. He was about three or four feet from
the door. I stood five or six feet behind him, right
in the middle of the room, and us he was in the act
of walking away from me I pulled out the revolver
and fired. He straightened up and threw his head
baek, and seemed to be perfectly bewildered. He
did not seem to know what struck him. 1 looked at
him: he did not drop; 1 thereupon pulled again.
He dropped his head, seemed to reel, and fell over.
I do not know where the first shot hit; aimed atthe
icular
. _ in his
he would certainly go. I was in a diagonal
direction from the president, to the northwest, and
supposed both shots struck.
THE ARREST.
???I was putting my revolver hack into my pocket
when the depot policeman seized me and said:
???You shot the president of the United States.??? He
was terribly excited; he hardly knew his head from
bis feet, and I said,???Keepquiet, my frieud; keep
quiet, my friend. I want to go to jail.??? Another
gentleman???an older man, and less robust???seized
me by the right arm. At this moment the ticket
agent and a great crowd of people rushed around
me, and the ticket agent said,'That???s him: that's
himaud he pushed out liis aim to seize me around
the neck, and I says, ???Keep quiet, my friends: I
want to go to jail;???and the officers, one on each
side of me, rushed me right off to the police head
quarters. i said. ???I have'got some papers which will
explain the whole matter.??? They let go of me and
went through me, took away my revolver and
what little change I had, my comb and toothpick,
all my papers, and I gave them my letter to
the white house; told them that X wished they
would scud that letter to the white house at once
and the officer began to read it, and in this envelope
containing my letter to the white house was my
speeeh, 'Garfield against Hancock.' I was telling
him about sending it at once to the white house to
explain the matter, and he said,???We will put you
In the white house.??? So I said nothing after that.
They put me into a cell: locked the door and went
off. and 1 did not see any one for ton minutes, and
then one or two parties came and took a look at me:
they were policemen and detectives and said, 'X
don't know him; 1 don't know that man; never saw
him before.???
"I waited a few moments longer and a gentleman
came???a detective, who proved to be Mr McElfresh
???and he was very polite and attentive. I told him
who I was and why 1 did it; that I had
some papers at the news stand; that I wished hfm
to get those papers and take them up to Byron An
drews and his co-joumalists; that the papers would
explain all about the matter. I also told him that
I wished to go to the jail at once, and he came in
and put the handcuffs on to me. And he and his
brother officers took me down the stairs and into a
carriage, and he and three other policemen drove
me rapidly to the jail. I met Mr Russ, the deputy
warden. McElfresh told him that I had shot the
president of the United .States, and he assigned me
to cell Xo 2, and I have been there ever since, except
when I have been to the wardens' room to be inter
viewed.
PURCHASE OF THE REVOLVER.
Guitcau bought the revolver before the president
went to Long Branch. ???I called at O'Meara???s, cor
ner of Fifteenth and F streets, opposite the treasury,
about two or three weeks before the removal. I
stepped up to the show-case and said: ???Let me look
at that.??? I saw it was a large bore, and he pulled it
it oat. I saw it was marked 'British Bull Bog.' and
saw that it was an unusual revolver, and he said,
???That will kill a horse,??? or something to that effect.
There were two alike, except one had an ivory
handle for $10, and the other a plain wooden handle
for SO: I got the best one for $10. I was very timid
in holding it. I knew nothing abont weapons at
all; I snapped it, aud said ???that will make a good
noLe,??? and kc said, ???oh, yes. that will kill a horse:'
he said, 'I never want a bullet like that in me.??? I
said, 'Perhaps I may get that some of these (lavs.???
Three or four days afterward I stepped " in
and selected the revolver with the ivory
handle and got a box of cartridges and a
iitile penknife, and he said he would give me the
ntire purchase for$10. I did not have the money
hen I first went in; l got it from a gentleman In
"he interim. He loaded the revolver, and said:
Put that right into your pocket,??? Said I, '1?? tiiere
any law here against carrying a revolver???? He said,
hollow of his back; I did not aim for any particular
place, but I knew if I got those two bullets in ' "
back
In the aourse of two or three days 1 went down
about 7 o'clock in the evening ana shot off ton cart
ridges. At tiie first shot I was aliout ten feet from a
sapling three inches in diameter, that was stuck in
to the raud. and I pulled and struck the sapling,
and it trembled like a leaf, and it made a fearful
hollow; I was terribly excited at the noise and
power of the weapon: thought I, ???That is a terribh!
weapon;??? it hollowed like a little cannon; it start
led me. I fired teu shots, and thev went off with
tremendous effect every time; it made a terrible
noise. One or two men came around, hearing the
report, and on the way baek I noticed a colored
woman and several other iieople. 'Hid you hear
that noise?' They said, 'On, yes; it made a terrible
noise.???
???I went dowu again the Saturday morning that I
intcuded to remove the president when he went to
Long Branch, and Mrs Curtield deterred me. I got
up aliout 4:30 and went down to the same place.
It was a splendid morning, 1 remember, and I shot
it off twice, using ten cartridges. ??? It made a terrible
noise, as usual. These are the only times that I have
practiced with a revolver. I then took it to the
house and wiped it nieely and took the cartridges
and rubbed them off, and I loaded it and put it Into
my drawer in my room, audit was in that condi
tion when I used it on the president. I took great
pains; put it in my coat and wrapped it up nicely,
so that no moisture could get to the powder, in or
der that it would be in a nice condition when I
wanted to use it. 1 took it out several times and
carried it in my hip pocket; but it was not fired off
after that until 1 used it on the president on Satur
day meriting, July 2.
LOOKING FOR A WIFE.
In bringing his autobiography to an end he says:
???And now 1 speak of two matters strictly personal.
First???I am lookiug for a wife and see no objection
to mentioning it here. I want an elegant Christian
lady of wealth, under thirty, belonging to a first
class family. Any such lady can address me in the
utmost confidence. Mymother died when I was only
seven, and 1 have always felt it a great privation to
have no mother. If my mother nad lived 1 never
should have got into the Oneida community, and
my life, no doubt, would have been happier every
way*. Nearly three years after I left the community
I was unfortunately married. At last I made up my
mind that I would sever the bonds, and 1 was di
vorced in 1874. X am fond of female society, and I
judge the ladies are of me, and I should be delighted
to find my mate.???
PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRATIONS.
???The second" subjeet in which he desires to take
the public into his confidence refers to the presi
dency. ???For twenty years,??? he writes, ???I have had
an idea that I should be president. I had the idea
when I lived in the Oneida community, and it has
never left me. When 1 left Boston for New York,
in June, 1880.1 remember distinctly I felt that 1
was on my way to the white house. I had this feel
ing all through the canvass last fall in New York,
although I mentioned it to only two persons. My
idea is that I shall be uominated and elected as
Lincoln and Garfield were???that is, by the act oi
God. If I were president I should seek to give the
nation a tirst-elass administration in every respect.
I want nothing sectional or crooked around me.
My object would be to unify the entire American
people and make them happy, prosperous and God
fearing.???
TWO WOMEN.
A grandma sits in her great arm chair;
Balmy sweet is the soft spring air.
Through the latticed, lilac-sliadowcd pane
.She looks to the orchard beyond the lane.
And she patches the gleam of a woman???s dress,
As it flutters about in tlic wind's caress.
???That chilli is glad as the day is long???
Her lover is eoming, her life???s a song!???
Up from the orchard???s flowery bloom
Floats fragrance faint to the dark???iiing room
Where grandma dreams, till a teudergracc
And a softer light steals into her face.
For once again she is vonng and fair,
And twining roses in her hair.
Once again, blithe as the lark above,
She is only a girl, and a girl in love!
The years drop from her their weary pain;
She is clasped in her lover???s arms again!
The last faint glimmers of daylight die;
Stars tremble out of the purple sky
Ere Dorn flits up the garileu path,
Sadly afraid of grandma???s wrath.
With rosc-i\ d cheeks and flying hair
i down by the old arm chair.
'???Grandma, Pick says, may we???may???I??????
???The faltering voice grows strangely shy,
But grandma presses the littld hand:
<???Yes, my dearie, I understand!
???He may have you, darling!??? Not all in vain
Did grandma dream she was a gill again!
She gently twists a shining curl:
???Ah, tne! the philosophy of a girl!
???Take the world???s treasures???it???s noblest, best???
And love will outweigh all the rest!???
And through the casement the moonlight cold
Streams on two heads???one gray, one gold.
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PLAIN, PORTABLE, TRACTION
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WHITE it MILLER,
Cor Broad and Hunter sts, Atlanta, Ua.
oct2???(lfim sun thursitwCm
COTTON gins:
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I HAVE ON HAND AND ON WAY, FRESH FROM THE
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etc., of various first-class makes.
I Sell Gins at $2.25 per Saw
Snperio r toothers selling at $3.00 to SJ-.VLper saw.
I can save you money on Engines, Cotton Gins, Feeders,
Condensers, Presses, Saw Mills, Shingle Machines Saws,
etc.
Give mea* trial is all I ask to convince you. All my Ma
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32 and 34 W. MITCHELL STREET. ???
HEGE???S IMPROVED
CIRCULAR SAW MILLS,
WITH UNITORSJVL LOG BEAM,
Rectilinear Simultaneous Set Works and Double
ECCENTRIC FRICTION FEED.
Manufactured by the
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HEGE???S IMPROVED SAW MILLS
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