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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION ATLANTA, GA- TUESDAY FEBRUARY 28 1886
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THE LAST DAYS
OF THE EXPIRING SOUTHERN CON
FEDERACY.
Tho Sudden Departure of air. Davis from Richmond
—Hie Letters to His Wife Reproduced — The
Negotiation* of Sherman and Johnston
to Adopt a Peace Armistice.
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The following con Code rate papers captured
at the close of the war have just been made
pnbHc:
MR. JHgySESON DAVIS—TWO PRIVATE LET
TERS OF THE DEEPEST PUHLIC INTEREST.
Danviixt, Vn., 5 April, ’G-j.-My Dear Wife; I
have In rain nought to get Into communication
with General Lee, and have postponed writing in
the hope tlmt 1 would soon be aide to speak to vou
with fume confident c of the future.
On last Sunday l was called out of church to
receive a telegram, announcing that General Lee
could not hold his position longer than till night
and warning me that we must leave Richmond, as
the aiuiy would commence retiring that evening.
1 made no necessary arrangements at my office,
mid went to our house to have the
proper dispositions made there. Nothing had
been done after you left and but little could ho
dons in the few hours which remained before the
train v. as to leave. I packed the bust aud gave it
to Jno. Davis, who offered to take it & put it where
it should never be found by a Yankee. I also gave
him charge of H «? painting of the heroes of the val
ley. Doth were removed after dark. Tne furniture
of the house was left, and very little of the things I
directed to be put up bedding and groceries were
saved. Mrs. Oinelia behaved just as you described
her, but seemed anxious to servo, and promised to
take care of Everything, which may mean some
things.
The Auction car returned account of sales 23,100
dollars—Goals not dispose of the carriages—Mr.
Graut was afraid to take the carriage to Uis house,
Ac., Ac. I sent It to the depot to be put on a flat at
the moment of starting it was said they could not
lake it in that train, but would bring it on the next
one—-It hf.s not been heard from since. I sent a
menage lo Mr. Grant that f had neglected toreturn
the cow and wished him to send for her immedi-
atlelv—
Called off on horseback to the depot. I left the
sc fronts to go down with the boxes and they left
Tippy—Watson came willingly. Spencer came
against my will, Robert, Alf, Y.1I.& Ives got drunk.
David Bradford went back from the Depot to bring
out the spoons auu forks which l was toldliod been
left—and to come out with General Breckinridge,
fciiicc then I have not heard from cither of them.
I had short notice, was interrupted so often, and
so little aided that the results are very unsatisfiic-
tory-
1 he people here have been very kind, and the
Mayor & Council have offered assistance in the
matter of quarters, and have very handsomely de
clared tlicir nnaboted confidence—I do not wish to
leave Vo., but cannot decide on my movements
until those of the army are better developed—I
hope you are comfortable and trust soon to hear
from you—
Kiss my dear children—I weary of this sad re
cital, and have nothing pleasant to tell.
May God have yon in nis holy keeping is the fer
vent prayer of your ever afleetionate
, Ilrsh.vND.
J. D. Howell Is here, though I have not seen
him; he A Joe Nick came together as n guard to
Treas’y specie-
Charlotte, N. C . April 23,1865—My Dear Win
nie : I have been detained here longer than was
expected when the last telegram was sent to you.
1 inn uncertain where yon are. and deeply' teef the
ncccfsity of being with you, if even fora brief time,
tinder our altered c ircumstances. Governor Vance
and General Hampton propose to meet me here,
and General Johnston sent me a request to remain
at feme point where he could readily communicate
with me. Under these circumstances I have
aiftir fall particuHr-t for h«m<> cure, froe of
: AadrasaProM'- <>■ I'OVv LEjA,Moodua, Conn.
Cored without the knife or loss of blood. Vastly
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PLAID SHAWL GIVEN AWAYJ,
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there ha* coro« Into our hand* a larrr
consignment of t’lald Shawls, |*rfr«-t
c<x*d.«, which wjprntKw to j-resmt to
xbe ladle* In tho Miowlog manner:
Send a* 25 rents foe ft *■•*. mbw-rip-
t:-n to Fans *»d IImmImM, ft
Jar if* 82 page illustrated paper, d<*.
Tut.d to Farm and 1 lomu-hold toplor,
StoHeaand general miscellany, and we
Trill send von one of three Ik-Bui lf«l
•hawla'I'REE l»y mail pctpald,
For we will send 6 shawls and 5 srat-
•criptlens to ono address for $1.00
Batiafftctlon guaranteed ' .
or money refunded. Addre*a A j
FARM AND HOt HEIIOLD,
Hartford, Com. ..4
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FOR ALL. *80 n week and expenses
paid. Ontflt worth Ja and particulars
free. 1*. O. VIGKKKY, Augusta, Maine.
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I Mention this paper.
231c':—tvkp-t e o w
v. ••........ .. in reply lo my inquiry
tl:at you were n: Abbeville, and tlmt lie would gt
to eceyon. My last di-patch w as sent to that place,
and to the care cf Mr. Burt. Your own feelings
will convey to you an Idea of my solicitude for you-
and your family .and I Bill not distress by describ
ing it.
The dispersion of Lee's army and the surrender
of the remnant v. Inch remained with hint deslroved
the hopes I'entertalaed when we parted. Had that
army held together, 1 am now confident we contd
have succes dully executed the plan which I
sketched to ycu, and vtonld have been todav on
the high road to independence. Even after that
disaster, if the n' ■- v. ) -straggled,” say thirty or
foiiy thousand in mmi’ t-r, ltad come back with
their anas and with a disposition to tight,we might
have repaired the damage; but all was sadly the
reverse of that. They threw away theirs andwrerenn-
contnlably resolved to go home. The small guards
along the road have sometimes been unable to pre-
v<r:t ilie pillage of ttalns and depots. J’aalc has
seirtd the cent:try.
J. E. John.don ami Beauregard w-ere boneless as to
rveinlting their forces from the dispersed rneti of
Lee’s army, and equally so as to tilth abilitv to
slrcck Sherman with the forces they had. Their
early idea was to retreat, of the power to do so they
Were doubtful,ar.d sybseqnoi lde-e;(ous from their
troops have materially diminished their Strength,
and 1 leant, still more weakened their confidence.
The loss of arm-has been so great that should
the spirit of the peple rise lo the oeeasion it would
not l c at this time possible adequately to supply
tl t m with weapons of war.
General Johnston bad several interviews with
She: man, aud agreed on a suspension of hostilities
and the reference of terms or pacification. They
are secret, mid may be rejected by the yaukee gov
ernment.
Ton-they are harel enough, though freed from
wsnton humiliation and expressly recognizing the
state governments and the rights of person aud
i toj city as secured by the constitutions of the
I’niied States ami the several states.
General Breckinridge was a party lo the last con-
• nltothm and to the agreement. Judge llengau
went With him and approved the agreement, though
not present at the I cmference.
Each member of the cabinet i- (ogive Ills opinion
in « riling today : first, ni«n the acceptance uf tin-
terms; second, upon the mode of proceeding If
am j.ted. The issue is one which it is very painful
for le.c lo meet. On one hand is the long night of
< (question which will follow tho return of our
iconic to the “unionon the other the sutiering
of thewomen and children aud cnruagcaiiroug the
few 1 ravo patriots w ho would still oppose the in
vader, and who, unless the people would rise eu
Id struggle but to die
of t pinion or of place. I have prayed to our
i lily Father to give me wisdom and fortitude equal
to the demands of the position in which Providence
hr.- placed me. 1 nave sacrificed so much
for the cause of the confederacy that
I can measure my ability to make any
future sacrifice required, and am assured
there is but one to which I am not equal, my wife
and my children. How are they to be saved from
legradatiou or want is now my care. During the
•uspenaiou orho-ti itleayou may liavc the best op-
toirunity logo to Mississippi, and tlicucc cither to
-ail from Mobile fora foreign port, or to cross the
river and proceed to Texas, as the one or the other
may he more practicable. The Uttle sterling you
have will be a very scanty store, and under other
circumstances w ould not no counted,but If onrland
can be sold that will secure you from absolute waul.
1 or iny-elf It may be that our enemy will prefer to
t nnish me; it may be that a devoted band of caval
ry will cling lo me. and that I r an force my way
aero* the Mississippi, and if nothing rail be done
there which it wtU be proper to do. then I can go
to Mexico aud have the world from which to choose
a location.
IKar wife, this is not the fate to which I invited
when the future Was rose colored to ua both, bat l
know you will bear it even better than myself, and ■
that of us two I alone will overlook back reprouch-
tully on my past career. 1 have thus entered on
the emotions involved ill the future to guard
against contingencies. My stay will not be pro
longed a day be)— ' ”—“ '
here, and there 1
will be with vou
rives.
Mis. Omelia behaved very strangely about put
ting the things you directed, ltohert says she
would not permit to pack, that she even took
groceries out of the mess chest when lie had put a
-mall quantity there. Little Maggie’s saddle wa-
concealed, and I learned after we left Richmond
was not with the saddles and bridles which 1
directed to lie all put together.
At the same time I was informed that your
saddle liad been sent to the saddler's aud left there.
Everybody seemed afraid or connection with our
property, and your carriage was sent to the depit
to lie brought with me: a plea was made that It
mild rot goon the cars of that train, but slionld
follow in the next: specific charge and promise was
given, but the carriage was left.
The notice to leave was given on Sunday: liut
few limns were allowed, and my public duties- im-
. clltd to rely on others; -011111 on nothing as saved
which you valued except the bus'., aud that had
to be left behind.
Mrs. Omelia said sli2 was eltarg-d, i the event
-of onr having lo leave, to place the valnaol -s with
tlie Sisters, and that she would distribute every
thing. I told her to sell what she could, and, after
feeling distrust, asked Mrs. (trout to obsrevc her.
and after Hint peeanie convinced that she, ton,
probably under the ipltucpoo of tier im-band, vn
afraid to be known as having close relations
with us.
Ktsi Maggie and Hie children many times for
me. The only yearning heart in the final hour was
1 eor old Kara wishing for “pic cake;” and thus I
left our late home. No had preparation for a
rearch for another. Dear children, I can say noth
ing to them, Lnt for you and them my heart is lull,
ir.y prayers constant, and my hopes are the trust 1
feel in the mercy of God.
Farewell, my dear; there may he hotter things in
store for 11s Ilian are now in view, lint my lore h- all
1 have to offer, end that has the value of a thing
long passe®-cd, nml sure not to lie lost. Oueo
more, mid, with God’s favor, for n short limp only,
farewell. YOVB IICHUim.
YTFAVH OF TITE lONFEDI’.P.ATF, CABINET.
When Mr. Davis aud Iris cabinet readied
Charlotte, N. C„ the president requested each
official to submit bis views in writing concern
ing tho military convention botweou General
given to the southern euiex on their submission to
the authority oftho United States. General Sher-
man seemed to regard the resolutions of congress
and tho declaration- of the president of tlie United
States ai conclusive that the restoration or the
Inlon was the object of the war, and to believe
that the soldiers of the United States had been
fighting for that object. A long official conversa
tion with Mr. Lincoln on southern afflolrs a very
short tune before hail convinced him that the
president then adhered to that view.”
WHAT TO DO WITH THE I-JtE3IDENT.
Tlie most troublesome question, according
to uoncral Johnston, was what should he done
about Mr. Davis aud tho cabinet. Tho con
clusion of tho council General Johnston sum
med up in this way;
“In the conrse of the afternoon we agreed upon
the terms expressed in tho memorandum drawn up
on the 18th. except that Generalh-herman did not
consent to include Mr. Davis and the oilierrs of hfs
cobiuel in an otlierwi-e general amnesty. This con-
sjoeratlon was miue.’ofcourse. General Sherman
did not desire the arrest of these gentlemen. lie
was too acute not to foresee the embarrassment
(heir capture would 'cause, therefore he
wished them to escape. Much of the afternoon was
consumed in endeavors to dispose of this part of
tlie question in a mmmerthat would be satisfuctorv
bpth to the government of the United States nml
tlie southern people, as well as to the confederate
president: but at sunset no conclusion had been
reached, and the conference was suspended, to be
resumed at « o’clock next morning. Thinking it
probable that the confidential relations of the sec
retary of war with Mr. Davis rn'glit enable him to
remove the only obstacle loan adjustment, I rc-
Sblct llm lji t'-'h'Srapli to join me as soon as pos-
THE AGREEMENT SIGNED,
j On tho following day the agreement was
signed, and the circumstances, General Jo'ju-
ston says, were these:
“General Breckinridge and Mr. Reagan came to
General Hampton’s quarters together, an hour or
tv.o before daybreak. After they had received
rrom me as full an account oftho dlscusaaltm of the
day beforeas my memory enabled meto give, and
had learned the terms agreed upon and the diffi
culty In the way of lull agreement, Mr. Reagan
proposed to reduce them to writing, to t facilitate
J. E. Johnston aud General Sherman. The
members of the cabinet responded, and on ono
point they wero all agreed, viz: that it was
uselots to prolong the struggle, and that it was
advisable to accept the host tcrm3 that could
bo secured from the victor.
Mr. Benjamin wrote:
In arccentconferencewiththc cabinet at Greens-
loiro, Generals Johnston and Beauregard expressed
the unqualified opinion that it was not in their
power to resin Sherman's advance, and that as fast
as tlicir army retreated the soldiors of the several
states in the line of retreat would abandon tlie
army and go home. We also henr on nil sides, and
from eiti7ens well acquainted with public opinion,
tlmt the state of North Carolina wilt not consent to
continue the struggle after our armies shall have
withdrawn further south, and this withdrawal is
Inevitable if hostilities are rc* timed.
This action of North Carolina would render It
impossible for Virginia to maintain tier position
in the confederacy, even If her people were uuaai-
inan- iu their desire to .continue tlie contest.^ ^
The confederacy is. in a word, unable to continue
the war by armies in the tield, and the struggle ean
110 longer be maintained in any other manner than
by a guerrilla or partisan warfare.
Kuril a war fine is not, in my opinion, desirable,
nor doe- it premise anv useful result. It would
entail far more at;tiering on our own people than it
would cause damage to tlie enemy, and the people
have been such heavy sufferers by the calamities
cf the war for the last four years that it is at least
questionable whether they would be willing lo en
gage in such a contest, unless forced to endure its
horrorsin j-refercncc to di-honor and degradation.
Mr. Brcckenridgo took a similar view aud
said-
I do not thsnk it would he possible to assemble,
equip and maintain an army of UO.OOJ at any point
cast of the Mis-i-sippi river.
The contest, if continued after this paper
is rejected, will be likely to lose entirely the
dignity or regular warfare. Many of the states
will make such terms as they may; in others sepa
rate and iuetlbctivc hostilities may be prosecuted,
while the war. when rewaged, will probably de
generate into thr.tirrcgnlar and secondary stage
out of wliiclrgrcatcr evils will ilowio tlie south
than to (he enemy.
For these, and for other reasons which need not
now be stated, I think we can no longer contend
with reasonable hope of success.
Mr. Mallory, in the course of liis elaborate
ly written opinion, made tho following points:
A guerrilla warfare might be carried on in cer
tain portions of our country for n time, perhaps for
years, lrnt while such n Warfare would lie more dis
astrous to our own people than it could possibly ho
to the enemy, it would exercise little or no influ
ence upon his military operations or upon litsjhold
upon the country. Conducted upon our own soil
our own people would chiefly feel its evils, and
would a flora it neither count jimncc nor support.
Guerrilla warfare never has been and never ean
be enrried on bv and between peoples of a common
origin, language and institutions.
* a * * c * *
You cannot undcrtlie constitution dissolve the
confederacy and remit the states composing it tho
government of the United States. But the confed
eracy is conquered. Itsdaysnre numbered. Vir
ginia is lost to it, mid North Carolina must soon
follow, and state nftcr state.nnder the hostile tread
of the enemy, must re-enter the old union.
Tire attorney general, Mr. George Davis,
.summed up tho situation as follows:
Persevering efforts for many months past have
failed to overcome the obstacles to tlie removal of
troops from the west lo the east of the Mississippi.
We ean therefore look for no accession of. strength
from that quarter.
If a returning sense of duty and patriotism should
bring back tlie stragglers and deserters in sufficient
era-to form a respectable army, we have not
ig them. Our supply of arms is
or man
- ■L, L ■ blockade of our
ports prevents their introduction from abroad, ex
cept in small quantities and at remote points.
1 n view of these facts our two generals highest in
command In the field have expressed in decided
trims onr inability loi —” ’
Observation has sat;
Virginia and North Carolina arc finally lost to our
cause. The people of the latter arc utterly weary
of the war, broken and despairing in spirit, and
eager to accept terms far less liberal than the con
vention proposes.
In tlie absence of it general arrangement they
will certainly make terms lor themselves.
Abandoned by our armies, the people of Virginia
will follow their example, ami > Will be impossi
ble to arrest the process of disintegration thus be
gun.
This melancholy array of tacts leaves ooen but
one conclusion. 1 am unhesitatingly of tlie opin
ion that the convent ion ought to lie ratified.
• Mr. Reagan agreed with iris colleagues and
gave this advise:
As you have no power lo change the government
ofthe country or to transfer the allegiance ofq-'y'
people, I would advise that you submit to i M, Jones,.or Florida, is paying court, in the daughter
ii-eciftl states, through their governors-, the qVr- ot Frniieis Palms, tlie C'riesus of Michigan.* Mhe-w:
tion as towheiher they will. In theexcrcueofthe'-r -• ■ •’ ■
reconsideration. In doing so, he Included the arti
cle for amnesty without expressions,
ilie only one not fully agreed to, this
paper .being unfinished when General
Lrcckeuridgc and myself set out to the place of
meeting, was to be sent to me there. W hen wo
met I proposed to General Sherman that General
Breekenridgo should lie admitted to our discussion,
as his 1 crsomil relations with the president of the
confederacy might enable him to remove tho ob
stacle to agreement that ivc had encountered the
day before. He assented and that gentleman joined
ns. We liad conversed on the subject discussed
Bic day before perhaps a half hour when tlie mem
orandum written by General Reagan was brought.
I read this paper to General Sherman as a basis
of peace, pointing out to him that
it contained nothing which he had not already
adopted but tliclangiingc that included the presi
dent and cabinet In tlie terms of amnesty. After
listening to General Breckenrldge, who addressed
him for six or eight minutes In advocacy of these
conditions of peace, General Sherman wrote very
rapidly the memorandum with the paper present
ed by me before him. He wrote so rapidly that I
thought at the time he mnsthavecomo to the place
A ‘ -xccptious.
in being
prepared to agree to amnesty with no exceptions,
his paper was different from mine ouly ’ ’ ’ -
Hiller. ”
PERSONS AND THINGS.
Cray Lock mountain, which is :t,."SOO foot
above the level of tho sea, is the highest point in
tlie state of Massachusetts.
February III Governor St. Johu opens tho
prohibition campaign in New Hampshire by a
speech at Manchester.
About sixty patents arc issued every year
to women iaventom. Last year the total number
of patents issued was 22,000.
Is Siam the eats have their tails hanged. In
this country the aim is to Dang their heads, but the
bootjack sometimes flics wide of the mark.
Sam Jones soys “from a governor down to a
dog pcltcr he would not vote for a man that
touched, tasted or handled whisky tosave his life.
John O’Brien, “tho man without legs,” and
Mbs Esther Bullock, a dwarf, were married at Co
hoes, N. Y., Friday. The combined height of the
couple is scarcely seven feet.
I)r. Peter Bursett, who died penniless in
New York ciiy Thursday, was married three times,
and each wife brought him a fortune of between
£100,000 and 8-109,600.
Miss Cumut Palms, to whom Senator
igofo _
cootcft by the confederate government they would
have no alternative but to accept tlie terms [ir e
pond or an unequal and hopeless war, and that It
would l<e needle s for them to go through tho forms
and incur the trouble and expense of assembling a
convention for the purpose.
To such an objection, if urged, it may he answer
ed that we entered into the contest to maintain
and vindicate the doctrine of state rtglitsand state
lovere-ignty and the right of self-government nml
that we can only lie faithful to the const itution of
tlie United states and true to the principles in in-j
jort of which we have expended so much Woo l
and treasure, by the employment ofthe same agen
cies toreturn into tlieold Union whleh weemployed
in rcpnralhig from it amlin forming onr present
government, and that if this should be an umvcl-
eome and enforced action by tlie state it would not
be mere so on the part of the states than on the
part ofthe president, if he were to-undertake to
execute the whole agreement, and while they
would have authority lor acting lie would have
none, .'i-.-''.'.-'
AM INTERVIEW WITH MR. REAGAN.
In a recent talk Mr. Keagan said:
‘1 do not know whether anything was said at
the meeting where the terms were agreed to about
slavery specifically. It was my purpose in framing
tlie article to preserve the autonomy of tho states,
the tights or property and persons under iho con
stitution amllaws ot tlie United States and states.
My idea was to preserve the institution of slavery,
as far as it could be preserved under the constitu
tion. We certainly understood the terms in that
way.”
GENERAL JOE JOHNSTON’S RECOLLECTIONS.
General Joo Johnston was seen it; regard to
tlie same matter. In iristalk with the reporter
he tells of the Information respecting his forces,
vvhien lie laid before Mr. Davis and his cabi
net. He says:
I represented f
would be the greatest of human crimes for us to at
tempt 10 continue the war, fur having neither
money nor credit, nor arms but those I11 the hands
of cur soldiers, nor ammunition but that in the
cartridge-boxes, nor shops for repairing anus or
fixing ammunition, the effect of our keeping the
field would be not to harm the enemy, but to com
plete the devastation of our country aud the ruin
of its people, t! therefore urged that the presiden t
■tumid exercise at mice Hie only function of g»v-
onimcnl still lu his possession, anil open negotia
tions for per.ee.
General Johuston says t hat the president w-w
finally pc’'traded to write to General Shermuu
proposing a suspension of hostilities.
DAVIS' LETTER.
The. ictlcr was iu those words:
The results ofthe recent campaign In Virginia
1-ave changed the relative military condition of
Hie belligerents. I am, therefore, induced to ad
dress you in lids form the inquiry, whether in or
der io stop further effusion of blood aud devasta-
tion ol property, you arc willing to make a tempo
rary suspension of active operations, and to com
municate to Lieutenant-General Grant, commaud-
tnglbc armies of tho United States, the request
that he will take like action iu regard to other
armies. The object being to permit the civil an-
•- - :dfu
thoritics to enter into the needful arrangements to
terminate the existing war.
A meeting between the generals was brought
about. General Johnston's account or how
they argued the situation, and how an under
standing was fiually reached, is as follows:
NOT RECOGNIZED DV THE UNITED STATES.
When General Sherman understood, what
seemed to have escaped him in reading my letter,
that my object was to make snch an armistice os
would give opportunity for negotiations between
the civil authorities of the two countries, he said
such negotiations were impossible, because the
government of the United Ktatesdld not aeknowl-
• go the existence of a southern confederacy,
l,or. ronseqnendy, its civil authorities as
and Therefore, ire could not receive
for raiismissioii any proposition addressed
to -• government of the United States by those
oh ..ling to bo the civil authorities^ of a southern
ei. federacy: He added, in a manner tliatcarricd
conviction of sincerity, expressions of a wish to di
vert from the south such devastation as tlie con-
tim.ancc ofthe war would make Inevitable, an,Ins
n means or accomplishing the object, so far as the
armies were concerned, he offered me snch terms
as those given to General Lee. I replied that our
relative positions were too different from those of
the armies In Virginia to justify such a capitula
tion, but suggested tlmt wo do more than ho pro
posed; that instead of a partial suspension of hos
tilities we might, as oilier generals had
done, aiiongc the terms of a permanent
peace, ami among other precedents reminded him
of tlie preliminaries ot Loc-ben and thedermsi
which Napoleon, then victorious, proposed nego
tiations to Ilie Archduke Charles, and the senti
ment he expressed that tlie civic crown earned by
preserving the life of one citizen confers truer
giorvtlian tin- highest achievement merely mili
tary. General Sherman replied with heightened
color that lie appreciated such a sentiment, and
tlmt to put an cud to further devastation and
bloodshed, aud restore the union, and with
it tlie pncperily oi the country, were
to him objects of ambition. We then entered
Into a discussion of the terms that ought to he
ARP AT WORK.
ENGINEERING ONE END <
CROSS.-CUT SAW.
Exercise ns a Cure for Rheumatism—The Sagacity of
the Farm Mule—How Boys Wore Boiixl to
Work in the Olden Time—The Difference
Between Country GHrls City Bellos.
Over one thousand persons, animals and
birds, including horses, elephants, camels, kanga
roos and ostriches, appear nightly in the'.elaborate
rantomime of “Aladdin and the Forty Thieves” at
Sanger’* amphitheater in London.
“Aunt” Sally Homan-Webb-Smith-Cur-
lis-Grey, the relict of five husbands, died at Sag
Ilaibor, L. I., recently. By her will she left her
projicrty (SlO.OOOi to tlie son of her second Uasband
whom she said she had overworked and ill-treated
when a boy.
Dr. Kneeland, in a lecture at Boston tho
othernight, gave the latest prices for wives among
tlie Knnthnl people. If the woman is young and
pretty, the husband must pay to her relatives from
#* lo Ifi. Divorced women are quoted at about 51.W,
and widows at seventy-five centscaeli.
Congressman Robertson, of Kentucky is,
the oddest member about his food, He is extrav
agantly fond of onions. Usually ho orders a large
dish of these vegetables cut raw and eats them all
\\ Itli wonderful relish. No matter how crowded
tlie house restaurant Is Robertson always has an
entire table to himself.
As a rule, England’s war veterans reach a
greater age than our own. Hancock died at fiJ,
Grant at K! and McClellan at GO. Lord Ktradbroke,
who served under Wellington in Spain 1810,
died recently at tlie ageof 92, and the, lie
himself lived beyond fourscore years,
Henry Ward Beecher told a reporter the
other day: “I don’t think there lias been such a
president as Mr. Cleveland since Mr. Lincoln was
in office, lie is an honest, sincere, straightforward
officer, in whom the country has confidence, and
tlie business men breath a sigh or relief when they
think tlmt ho is the chief executi ve,”
“S. L. G.” writes from Saco, Me., to the
Advertiser: It may help to an accurate idea of
the weight of ice which gathered upon trees du
ring theirecont visitation, to state that on Friday,
Jauuary 29th, a nearly upright sprout of about
oue sixth of an ineli iiidiametor.upou tieing weigh
ed with its evenly distributed coatage.wasfouud to
be thirty-six, or more exactly thirty-six and three
fourths, times heavier Ilian after the ice liad melt
ed off The next day the weight of a small pen
dunt forked twig, upon which in addition to a
coating similar to that first mentioned, there had
formed Icicles of various lengths, was found to be
oue hundred mid forty-three times greater than
tlmt of the tiare twig. The weight used being of
' tceiraal system, the calculation of
1-t; rctiy simple, liability to error
im iiumura.
eland is one of tho most
the metric
K'!™;
* UKSID
lie- ...tho .
oilier i
i saw in tlie presence of ladies,
dlt d upon him with a lady friend
tn:r vi; !• • tlally on business and partially to
he Facial .. i t a tlie president received us he was
very grai i ill and composed, but the moment he
discovered that we intended to delay and talk, O
hut how i;c blushed! and how confused he became
I was sorry for him and wo soon got away.” A
very handsome widow, vivacious and young, from
one of tho best southern families, spoke the above
recently to tho (Washington correspondent ofthe
Indianapolis Journal. “At first the president
didn't ask us to sit down," continued the lad;
“and we began to get red behind the cars: but I
nally he recovered, and he was as courteous as a
Frenchman. Any one could have seen, though,
that the president was all the time wishing wo
would leave. He doesn’t rseoiu . to know what to
say lo tlie ladies. 0, but what a lover he would
maker
“It is hot generally known,” says the St.
James Gazette, “tlmt the famous cream colored
horses which draw her majesty's state carriage, as
they have drawn the carriage of licr
before licr for tlie last century and a
the brecii for a very long period lias been at
Herrenbansen, a country residence tying a couple
of miles outside the Hanoverian capital. There
thirty or these fine animals, kept by the Prussia:
government on behalf of theexileddukcofCnm-
bcilaud out ofthe revenues of bis confiscated es
tates. Tlie breed has so long been earetotty kept
pure that it is rare (so say tlie attendcntsl for any
thing but a cream-colored fool to lie produced.
In Hanover, on state occasions, the king's carriage
was accustomed to be drawn by tho creams, white
the queen sat behind a team of bays. If thcaecount
of tlie stable autboritie* may be believed, t he foot
men who walk at the head of each animal arc not
merely ornamental. Except on state occasions
these horses never leave tlie stable: aud they are
kept In sueli gross condition that they need to he
watched, lest they should suddenly give way to a
desire for instant repose, and thereby disturb tlie
lIhIdIu T»mr»rot;® #if fhr» (IllW'n'S WlrtCPl’."
stalely progress of the queen’s cortege
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I’vo been doing nothing so long that I'm
not much account. I tried pulling ono end of
cross-mt saw today, aud it made me blow
like a porpoise. I had to get a substitute, aud
then I tried my favorite amusement of chop
ping with an ax, aud I conldent hold out long
at that. I took a walk over the farm, aud
when I got back I tumbled down on the bed to
rest, and Mrs, Arp asked me if I was sick. But
am going to keep it up until I get ray wind
hack. Exercise is tho best medicine in the
world aud tho cheapest. My fatlior said it was
the best remedy for rheumatism he over tried.
When tho pains struck him bad he would get
up and take a tramp over the farm, aud would
go in a walk ora fox trot, according to suft'er-
ing. Walking is very good for genteel exer
cise, but it takes a variety of work to bringall
the muscles - into play and make
tho whalo body strong. Tho cross
cut aud tho ax are very good.
Shoving a jack plane is first rate but if a man
wants to get tired all over let hint dig post
holes for half a day. Colie says that he
druthcr dig the holcs.thau set the posts. Coha
used to say postesscs, but tho children laughed
at him and ho dropped off a syllable. Soma
folks like one kind of work and some another.
The Irish seem to love a spade or a pick bet
ter than any other tool. Tho uegro loves to
plow and split rails. He Is perfectly happy
when following a mule on a hot summer day,
and happier still when tho horn blows for din
ner and ho can rido home sideways. The
mule is happy too, anil answers the horn with
a cheerful hray. It is astonishing itow much
sense an old farm mule has got. X knew one
that when it was most dinner time kept ono
ear hack towards the house when he was plow
ing the other way and kcptlioth forward when
ho was coming back. Ono day I blowcd tho
horn about eleven o’clock to sac
wlmt Beck would do. She was at tho
end of tho row, and it took tho darkey ten
minutes to 'make her turn round and go to
flowing again. But it is fun to see tho dar-
cics when a summer rain comes up. They
will plow on until tho shower comes and theu
mount and lope Home and get wet all over,
and by that time the rain is over and they
have to go back again. Tho darkey takes
more care of his head than his feet. He don't
want his head to get wet or cold. Ho sleeps
with Ills head to the fircand covers it up good
and lets his feet stick out any way. lie will
warm his bands before he will his toes. There
is one thing that a darkey can do lictter than
a white man. He can beat us making fires on
a cold, wintry morning. Sometimes when tho
wood was wet and tho kindling poor I liavo
worked over a fire a good while and almost
despaired of making it bnrn, hut a darkey
never fails. The fire seems to recognize him
aud I have thought that maybe it drew sonto
colored caloric from his carcass.
Work is more a habit than anything else. If
a hoy is trained to work he does not dislike it
when he is a -nan. I know this both from ex
perience and observation. My good father
made me work and I am thankful for it. I
never saw the day since I became a man that
I had net rather work than to study or go vis
iting or sit round and do nothing. Before
going to school and after it was out I had to
chop the wood aud feed the stock and make
tho fi res, and hoo in tho garden or weed
onions, and run errands and do a little of
everything, and it was good fur me. I walked
two miles to school, aud had a good time going
and coming, and at noon wo played town ball,
aud Saturday evenings we wo’.A P Jring or
picked chinkapins or topped trees for chest
nuts or gathered walnuts or went to mill aud
liad frolic enough to keep us happy. I see boys
about town nowadays who never strike a
lick that helps the family. They go to school
and then to college and then to the —
well, I won’t say. Some of them do
learn liow to play base bail and go front
city to city on a tare, aud that about finishes
tip their education aud prepares them for the
battle of life. The next thing is to skylark
around for a wife with plenty of money, and
if lie succeeds they live happy for a mouth or
so and then worry along. I saw a nice young
married lady yesterday—a farmer’s wife—and
her husband was plowing in the field, and she
said slio didn’t play on the piano now as much
as the cooking stove, and it was her chief joy
to have a clean room aud a warm tiro and a
good supper for him when became home tired
aud hungry. Tho lint housekeeping of a
country couple, who have to work for a living
is just splendid. It beat* going to Niagara or
Saratoga. One is all fact and tho other all
fancy. I wouldn’t givo two dollars and a half
for t o-iy girl who read novels till midnight
and sleep until nine o’clock next moriuug,
cat breakfast iu a wrapper and theu took an
hour to dress, and then spent the rest of tho
day in making calls qr receiving them, or in
tho milliners’ rooms or tho fashionable stores.
A young man who is hunting a wife as a
helpmate had just as well marry one of these
fine dressed figure frames we see in tho stores.
Bcttflr I reckon, for they would do hint no
harm if they did no good. They wouldn’t
pout nor have hysterics nor run away with
another feller; The best tiring fur young
people is to realize early that work is a bless
ing and not a curse. I mean useful work—
something that brings good results. Uuntin„
and fishing and baseball are very good, recrea
tions, and so is a crazy-quilt and music, but
such things aro for tiio odd hours ouly. A
young man uecd not ho dependent on his em
ployer longer than about two years. By that
time he can make himself so useful that his
employer will want him as bad as he wants his
employer. I know young men who have
worked up to a six thousand dollar salary.
Their employers know that when they quit
and go away a large trade goes with them. I
saw a young Roman tire other day w ho worked
for sovouty-fivedollars a mouth year before last,
and at the end of the year he modestly asked
for a hundred and they gave it to him, not
willingly but grudgingly, for capital is mean
and stingy, aud so tho first of last mouth ho
suggested that he thought he should have one
hundred and twenty-five, and it took them
threo days to digest it, but they agreed to it,
for that young man lias nrado more friends
than they have aud could set up for himself
and take his friends with him. After awhile
ho will get rich and then maybe he will get
mean too—I don't know—I hope not. It is a
pitiful spectacle to see a young man writing
all over tho country for a situation. It is
almost as had as begging. There are fifty
applicants for every place that is open aud the
l'oity-uiuc remain idle. But thcro is one
(dace that is always open, and that is on the
farm. A young man who will work diligently
on a farm for two years will mako more at ten
dollars a month than lie will at forty in a public
oilifco in a town or a city, for he will make char
actcr and good health, and get experience and
acquire a habit of work and ho will keep
out of temptation. Tho forty dollars in town
all goes for shows and frolics and etcotoras
and at the end of the year he has not saved a
cent. I never saw a boy work two years on a
farm but could get something olso to do if he
wanted it. Business men will take them every
timo in preference to tho soft handed, kid
gloved college boy—now- and then tlie
college boy makes Iris mark iu tho world and
rises to tho top of some profession, but it is
only one in a hundred and that ono woatf
huvo made his mark anyhow, colie_
or no college. Governor .Smith and Professor
White delivered themselves at tho agricultur
al convention and said tho darkey would not
work aud was getting more trifling every
year. Weil I don’t see much difference. There
are about as many whjtc folks doing no good
as there are darkeys. In fact, I am afraid
there aro more. * Bin. Anr
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SCIENTIFIC TRUTH!
EEGARDING THE FUNCTIONS O? ay
IMPORTANT ORGAN,
Of JHil'li the Public Knows Bit Little,
■Worthy of Careful Consideration.
To the Editor cf the Scientific American”
Will you permit us to make known to the
public the facts we have learned daring
the past eight years, concerning disorders
cf (he human kidneys and the organs which
diseased kidneys so easily break down? You
arc conducting a sc ientifli-paper, and are un
prejudiced except in favor of truth. It is need-
ess to say, no medical journal of “code” stand
ing would admit these facts, for very obvious
reasons.
H. H. Warner & Co.,
Proprietors of “Warner’s Safe Cure.”
That we may emphasize and clearly explain
the relation the kidneys sustain to the general
health, and how nine h is dependent upon them,
wepropoe. metaphorically speaking, to take
one from the human hpdy, place it in the wash
howl before ns, aud examine it for thodiuhlic
benefit.
You will imagine that wo have before ns a
body shaped like a bean, smooth and glisten
ing, about four inches in length, two in width,
undone in thickness. It ordinarily weighs iu
the adult male, about live ounces, lmt is some
what lighter in the female. A small organ?
you ray. But understand, the body of the ave
rage size man contains about ten quarts of
blood, of which every drop passes through
there filters or sewers, as they may be called,
many limes a day as often as through the heart,
making^a complete revolution in three min
utes. From tlie blood they separate the waste
material, working away steadily, night and
day, sleeping or waking, tireless as the heart
itself, and fully of as much vital importance;
removing impurities from (it gallons of Mood
each hour, or about lit barrels each day. or !»,-
125 hogsheads a year! What a wonder that -
the kidneys can last any length of time under
this prodigious strain, treated aud neglected as
they arc!
We slice this delicate orgnn open lengthwise
with our knife, and will roughly describe its
interior.
We find it to ho of a redish brown colon
soft and easily torn: tilled with hundreds of
little tubes, short and thread-like, starting
from the arteries, ending in a little tuft about
midway from the outside opening into a cavi
ty of considerable size, which is called the
pelvis or, roughly speaking, a sac. which is for
the purpose of holding the water to further
undergo purification before it passes down
from hero into the ureters, and so on to the
outside of the body. The-e little tubes
arc the filters which do their work automati
cally, and right here is where the disease of
tlie kidneys first begins.
Doing the vast amount of work which they
are obliged to, from tho slightest irregularity
in our habits, from cold, from high living,
from stimulants or a thousand and one other
causes which occur every day, they lieconto
somewhat weakened in tlicir nerve force,
What is the result? Congestion or stoppage
of the current of blood in tho small Mood ves
sels surrounding them, which become blocked;
these delicate membranes aro irritated: infla-
mation is set up, then pus is formed.which col
lects in the pelvis or sac: the tubes are at first
partially, and soon are totally, unable to do
their work. The pelvic sac goes on distend
ing with this corruption, pressing upon tho
Mood vessels. AH this time, remember, tho '
Mooil, which is entering the kidneys to be
filtered, is passing through this terrible dis
gusting pus, f r it cannot take any other route.
Slop and think of it for a moment. D i you
realize the .parlance, nav the vit ri necessity
of having ti e kidneys in order ? Can you ex
pect when they are diseased or obstructed, no
matter how little, that you can have pure
Mood and escape disease? It would be just as
reasonable to c:- ! cd, if a pc-;t-house wore sat
Jcross Brr . ’.v.arr ni d cenntte-c; tV.ru muds wero
compelled to go through it. : pestilential doors,
an escape from contagion and diar.i-v, :.s for
one to expect the !>! ..>! to escape p flutLeu
when constantly running through a di a:i,ed
kidney.
Now, what is the result? Why, that the
Moou takes up and deposits this poison as it
sweeps along into every organ, into every inch
of muscle, tissue, tiesii and bone, from your
head to your foot. Aud whenever, from her
editary influence or otherwise, some part of
tlie body is weaker than another, countless
train or disease is cstatflislted, such ax con
sumption. in weak lungs, dyspepsia, wbvro
there is a delicate stomach; nerreusuess, in
sanity, paralysis or heart disease in those who
have weak nerves.
The heart mustso-m feel tha effects of the
poison, as it requires pure blood to keep it iu
right a< tion. It Increases its stroke in number
and force to compensate for the natural stimu
lus wanting, iu its endeavor to crowd the im
pure blood through tills obstruc tion, cruising
pain,palpitation, ornn out-of-breath feeling.
Unnatural as this forced labor is, tho heart
must soon falter, becoming weaker and weak
er until one day it suddenly stops, aud death
from apparent “heart disease” is the verdict!
But tlie medical profession, learned and
dignified, call these diseases by high sounding
names, treat them alone, and patients die,
for the aitcrics aro carrying slow death to tho
affected parts, constantly adding fuel brought
from these suppurating, pus-laden kidneys
which here in our wash-bowl are very putre
faction itself, and which should havo been
cured first.
But this is uot all the kidneys liavo to do;
for you must remember that each adult takes
about seven pounds of nourishment every
twenty-four hours to supply the waste of tho
body which is constantly going on, a waste
equal to the quantity taken. This, too, tho
kidneys have to separate from tho blood with
all other decomposing matter.
But you say, “my kidneys are all right. I
have no pain iu the hack.” Mistaken man!
People die of kidney disease of so bad a char
acter that the organs are rotten, and yet they
have never thcro had a pain nor an ache!
IVliy? Because Iflic disease begins, as wa
have shown, iu the interior of the kidney,
where thcro are few nerves of fooling to con
vey the sensation of pain. Wily ■ this is so wo
may never know.
When you consider their great work, tha
delicacy of their structure, the ease with which
they are deranged, can you wonder at the ill-
health of our men and women? Health and
long life cannot lie expected when so vital an
organ is impaired. No wonder some writers
say wo are degenerating. Don’t you see the
great, the extreme importance of keeping this
machinery iu working order? Could the finest
engine do even a fractional part of this work,
without attention from tho engineer? Don’t
you sec liow dangerous this hidden disease is?
It is lurking about us constantly, without giv
ing any indication of its presence.
The most skillful physicians cannot detect
it at times, for the kidneys themselves cannot
be examined by any means which we have at
our command. Even an analysis of the water,
chemically and microscopically, reveals noth
ing definite iu many cases, even when the kid
neys are fairly broken down.
Then look out for them, as disease, no matter
where situated, to !>3 Jier cent, as shown by
after death examination, lias its origin in tho
breaking down of these secreting tubes iu tho
interior of the kidney.
As you value health, as yon desire long life,
free from sickness and suffering, give those
organs some attention. Keep them in good,
condition, and thus prevent (as is easily done)
all disease.
Warner’s Safe Cure, ns it becomes year after
year belter known for its wondcrtol cures and
its power over tho kidneys, has douo and U
doing more to increase the average duration of
life than all the physicians and medicines
known. Warner’s Safe < hire is a truerspeeifle,
mild lmt certain, harmlcxa hut energetic, aal
agreeable to tlie taste.
Take it wheat sick, as a cure, and never let
a mouth go by if you uo»,i it. without taking
a Tew bottles as a preventive, that the kidney*
may he kept v.t proper order, the blood pure*
that licaith a -ul ’. 011 g life mav he your blearing
It. H WARNER & OO.
t’lTZ John Pouter's friends count on ais
1 majority in the senate for the bill to restore him to
the army roster.