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You think he sings a gladsome song!
Ah, well, he sings ! but only see
How oft on glossy neck and breast
His bright head droops despondlngly;
Or note the restless, eager bird
When aree minstrel's voice is heard.
You think, because he pecks his grain
With vigorous mien and active bill,
This long captivity has trained
To tame content his roving will.
But watch as some wild pinion flies.
Flashed near bis cage, from summer skies :
He lifts his crest, bis eyes dilate
To yearning orbs of passionate Are;
His whole small body seems to thrill
Andvibrate to the heart's desire:
Tho deathless wish once more to roam
The broad blue heaven God made bis borne.
Mark, next, the weary pant, the sigh
Of hope deferred, that follows then;
Perchance your captive's pain Is deep
As that which haunts imprisoned men.
Pining behind their cruel bars
For sunlight or the holy stars.
Come! ope the door! he owns a soul
As tender, sensitive, and fine
As yours or mine, for aught we know.
And dowered with rights scarce less divine
Come ! let him choose, at least, between
God's azure and yon gilded screen !
Freed ! yet he flies not ! "Walt ! his brain
Is dazed ! he comprehends not yet
How earnest Is your proffered boon,
How surely his the glorious debt
Of Freedom and all freeborn things;
Wail! ha! he prunes his doubtful wings,
Hops perch by perch to gain the door;
Then, as if first conviction came.
Full-faced, and whispered, "Thou art free V
He darts without, a winged flame,
And soon from far, fair eloudland floats
The rapture of his grateful notes!
Independent.
CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.
The Murder of Jlr. Samniis.
In the year 1841, the now flourish
ing city of Steubenville, Ohio, was a
very small place. Its population was
noted for Its quiet and orderly char
acter, and there wasnotaslngle liquor
saloon In the place. Crime was very
rare, aod the Circuit Judges often had
occasion to congratulate the people
upon not having a Blngle criminal
case upon their calendar.
Inconsequence there was intense
escitement In Steubenville when, at
an early hour in the morning of the
17th of November, In the above men
tioned year, the report reached the
place that the corpse of a man had
been found in the woods within a
hundred yards of the last house of
the town, and close to the Pittsburg
turnpike, with every indication that
an atrocious murder had been com
mitted. The Sheriff, accompanied
by some fifty citizens, Immediately
hastened to the spot indicated to him
by the person that had discovered the
remains of the murdered man. That
person was a discrepit old woman,
who had gone to gather brush-wood.
No one would have suspected her.
uuder any circumstances, of having
had anything to do with the bloody
deed, and, beside, she manifested Buch
unfeigned horror to describing what
she had seen at the dismal spot in the
woodB that she was unhesitatingly
allowed to go about her business.
Upon arriving at the scene of the
supposed murder, the Sheriffand his
companions saw at a glance that a
terrible crime had been committed.
The dead man was covered all over
with frozen gore, and seven wounds,
apparently inflicted with a sharp
knife, were found upon his body. His
head was still covered with a nice felt
hat. His Jace presented a most gbaBt
ly aspect. A terrible gash extended
from the temple to the right jaw.
Another gash was in the forehead.
The victim was dressed in a substan
tial fur coat. He was apparently
forty-two 3'ears old. When his pock
ets were examined they were fouud
to be entirely empty. But close to
the body was found an old-fashioned
wallet. It was still open, as if its
contents had been taken from it, and
as if he who had emptied it bad after
ward thrown it away.
At a distance of about ten yards
from the corpse, near an old log, lay
a peculir-shaped fur cap. Itcould not
! hovo holnnrroit fo tho mnrrlprpri man.
for, as we have said before, he had
his hat on his head.
The ground was covered with snow,
and there were a number of light
footprints visible in It. These were
the only indications of the perpetra
tor of the horrible crime.
The Coroner was sent for, and un
til his arrival the Sheriff and hiscom
panions went to the Ohio Tavern,
which was situated at no creat dis
tance from the scene of the murder.
When the Sheriff told the landlord
about the murder, and described to
him the appearance of the corpse, the
landlord exclaimed at ono:
"Great God that poor fellow can
not be anybody else but Mr. Bam mis.
the Pittsburg cattle dealer. He was
here last night and took supper with
another man from Pittsburg, whose
name, I believe, was Belson or Wil
son, and who rode on toward Pitta
burg immediately after they bad left
the table. Mr. Sammis sat in the
front room with me and Jack Capon
for an hour yet, when the two went
out together."
Jack Capon was a dissloute but very
good natured fellow, about thirty
years old, who had a decided aversion
to work, and a still more decided pre
dilection for strong drink.
He could not get any whisky at
Steubenville, and honce' he often
walked for miles and miles in order
to obtain a "wee drop" of whisky.
When he was successful he returned
with his bat full of bricks to Steuben
ville, where he had frequently been
punished by tho "Squire" for intoxi
cation, with One and imprisonment.
Still, everybody liked him because he
bad an excellent, most unselfish
heart, and never forgot a favor done
him.
"What sort of hat did Capon wear
last night?" asked the Sheriff.
"Why, no hat, but a fur cap made
of beaver skin with two ear-covers."
"Was this tho cap ? said the Sher
iff, producing the fur cap which had
been found near the corpse of the
murdered man, and which he had
thus far been holding under his
cloak.
"Yes," exclaimed the landlord,
"that is Capon 'a cap, and no mistake.
Where did you find it?"
The Sheriff told him. Everybody
seemed horror-struck at the idea that
poor Jack Capon should have com
mitted so atrocious a crime. Men
were immediately dipatched to hunt
up Jack Capon. They did not find
him at his wonted haunts in Steuben
ville; but a man who was well ac
quainted with his habits said if he
could be found anywhere it would
be at the cabin of old Sim Brooks.
Brooks lived in the woods on the
Pittsburg side of Steubenville, about
one mile from the spot where the
corpse of Mr. Sammis had been
found. Like Jack Capon, old Brooks
was fond of whisky and ' the two
would frequently drink together un
til they were utterly oblivious of the
cares and sorrows of this world, which
as they thought, had not treated eith
er of them too well.
So to Brooks' cabin went the men.
They knocked at the front door,
which was locked. For several min
utes there was no response. At last
old Brooks himself opened the door.
They Baw at a glanoe that he was in
an alarming state of intoxication.
"Is Jack Capon here?" they asked.
"Ye-ye-yes," hiccupped Brooks;
"he is lying asleep yonder, behind
the stove."
Then the drunken old fellow went
back to his lounge, and a minute later
he was sound asleep agbin. The man
stepped up to Capon. He was drunk
also. His coat and shirt were covered
with blood. They exchanged signi
ficant glances and aroused him, not
without considerable difficulty.
"What do you want?" he asked,
yawning.
J 'The Sheriff wants you, Jack."
-The Sheriff?. -What for! 1halnt
doaeiBthTng.iMp& -' X
izrrliim.riaHusr,v -
W .
'Yoaaro sueoscted of havincr mur
t
d'ered arKmmlsro'f Pittaburgr"H
"Go away ! I murdered a Mr. Sam
mis? Y"ou must be loony."
"Look at yourself."
Capon looked at his clothes. The
Bight of the bloody stains on them
caused him to sober up at once.
"How did I get these stains on my
coat and shirt?" he stammered out at
last.
"Don't you know anything about
them?" they asked,
"No, no! You say a murder was
committed ?"
"Come, come, Jack Capon," they
replied, "you can't fool anybody by
pleading ignorance. What did you
do with your cap?"
He looked about the room.
"Some one must have taken it
away," he said at last.
"You left it near the corpse of the
murdered man!"
"Was it found there? Great God!
great God !"
He buried his face in his hands and
began to cry.
Then he followed the men, who al
so took old Sim Brooks along, willing
ly, to the Ohio Tavern, where the
Coroner had meanwhile arrived. The
Sheriff appeared Boon afterward with
some men who were carrying the gory
frozen corpse of the victim. Jack
Capon was conducted to the corpse.
As he caught sight of it he recoiled
in horror.
"It's Mr. Sammis," he gasped out.
"Poor Sammis, who has murdered
him?"
"You were last seen in his
com
pany," said the Sheriff; "your cap
was found near the corpse, your
clothes are blood-stained ; who but
you can be the murderer?"
"I am innocent!" cried Capon, des
perately. "I got tight at Brooks'. I
don't know how I got this blood on
my clothes, nor how my cap got near
the corpse. I have even forgotten
that I was with this poor gentleman."
The Coroner impaneled a jury, and
in the first place, took them to the
Bpot in the woods where the murder
had been committed. Jack Capon,
who had been, meanwhile, heavily
ironed, waB also conveyed thither.
The footprints near the point where
the corpse of the murdered man had
lain, were not very distinct, but they
seemed to correspond exactly with
the soIeB of Capon 'c shoes.
Returning to the Ohio Tavern, the
Coroner swore Sim Brooks, who, by
this time had become perfectly sober,
and who stated that "last night, about
10:30 o'clock, Jack Capon had come to
his cabin and asked him if he had
any whisky. He had given him half
a-dozen drinks, whereupon Capon
had wanted still more, but he had no
more. Capon had then shown him a
ten-dollar gold piece, and had asked
him if he knew where any whisky
could bo bought. He had answered
ff be would go to Mike Perry's he
might get some. There Capon had
gone, and returned with whisky but
without his cap, and with his shirt
and" the front part of bis coat all
bloody." Brooks added thai he had
asked Capon how he got that blood on
him. Capon was so drunk that he
could not give a very Intelligible ac
count of what had happened to him,
buthe had said something about hav
ing had a fall and hurt himself.
Upon hearing this evidence, the
prisoner exolaimed :
"Yes, yes, that's true I do remem
ber it now. I made a short cut thro'
the woods to Mike Perry's house,
where I got the whisky, and return
ed by pretty near the same route,
when I stumbled over something and
fell."
The jury rendered a verdict agalnBt
him, and he was committed for trial.
His pockets were then examined, and
the ten-dollar gold piece, which Sim
Brooks had mentioned, was found.
Capon said that Sammis, who had
taken an interest in him, had given
it to him. This was considered a very
flimsy falsehood, and everybody was
convinced that Jack Capon wa3 guil
ty. A messenger, with the news of
Sammis' murder, was dispatched to
Pittsburg, where it created profound
sensation. It turned out that the
murdered man had nearly $20,000 In
large bank bills on his person. Sam
mis' brother Mark, a wholesale gro
cer, and a very energetic man, accom
panied the messenger back to Steub
enville, and engaged special counsel
to assist in the prosecution of Capon.
The latter was tried and convicted,
but the jury having to fix his punish
ment, he was not sentenced to death,
but to Imprisonment at hard labor for
life.
Tne prisoner was overwhelmed with
grief because of his conviction. He
never tired of protesting his inno
cence, and his eyes were canstantly
red and swollen from weeping.
He was taken to the Penitentiary
at Columbus, where he was at first
harshly treated ; but his amiable dis
position was not long in making so
agreeable an Impression upon the
keepers that many privileges were
granted to him. These he never
abused ; on the contrary, he proved
an efficient assistant to the prison au
thorities on more than one occasion,
so that they wondered how this good
natured man could have been capable
of committing so heinous a crime.
Five years passed by, when an event
occurred which proved bej'ond a
doubt that Capon was after all an en
tirely Innocent man. A cotton brok
er, named Wilson, at Savannah, Ga.,
had long, been on bad terms with his
rWire. Piailly'h'e' cTmrgehlwItfi'
adultery, and sued for a divorce. Tho
wife thereupon accused him of having
murdered a man on the 10th of No
vember, 1841, on the day after leaving
Pittsburg, Pa., and of having robbed
his victim of $20,000 in $500 and $1,
000 bank bills.
She said that she had to wash on
the next day, wheu be had unexpect
edly returned to Pittsburg, her hus
band's shirt, which had been blood
stalued, and she had charged him
with having killed somebody. He
had confessed to her what he had
clone, and they had left Pittsburg a
few days later, and gone Kouth.
Wilson was arrested, and the au
thorities at Steubenville were com
municated with. The Sheriff who
had arrested Capon, and who was still
in office, came personally to Savan
nah with a requisition from the Gov
ernor of Ohio. When he had his first
Interview with Wilson, the latter,
who was terrified beyond measure by
the prospect of the scaffold, asked
him whether a full confession would
save bim.
"If you are guilty, it will maybe
be the only thing that will save your
life," replied the Sheriff.
Thereupon Wilson made a clean
breast of it. He said he had waylaid
Sammis, who had left his horse at a
house three miles from Steubenville,
and had attacked him with a knife.
Sammis had offered the most desper
ate resistance, and had compelled him
to stab him so often before he had suc
cumbed. When the Sheriff arrived with bis
prisoner at Steubenville, the exaspe
rated people there could be barely pre
vented from lynching Wilson.
The Governor of the State, upon re
ceiving a certified copy of Wilson's
confession, immediately granted a
full pardon to Capon, to whom the
legislature whiclThappened to be in
session at Columbus at the time, voted
the sum of $1,000 to indemnify him
for the sufferings he had innoceutly
undergone.
It Is needless to describe Capon's
joy at this unexpected change in his
fortunes. He returned to Steuben
ville, where the people received him
amid manifestations of unfeigned joy.
AC tne next term of the Circuit
Court, Wilson was sentenced to be
hung, the court saying that the enor
mity of the crime had been augment
ed by his cruelly suffering an inno
cent man to be punished for it.
Capon gave a proof of Ronuine mag
nanimity by going to Columbus and
asking the Governor to spare Wilson's
life; but (be Governor refused to In
terfere. So Wilson was hung at Steu
benville on the 4th of January, 1S47.
A breed of dogs without tails has
been discovered In Africa, and how
mischievous boys there utilize old tin
kettles and fruit, cans we cannot pre
tend to say.
Don't marry until you can support
a husband. That's the advice the
Barnstable Patriot gives the Cape
jglflff;
KINDERGARTENS.
Their Scope and Uses An Interest
ing Discourse by Prof. E. M.
Hale, of Chicago.
The popular mind has a strange and
erroneous idea that the kindergarten
is a Bchool. It is high time that the
public is informed of the nature of
the kindergarten, and the kind of ed
ucation which is given to children
who attend them.
The name of kindergarten means
literally child's garden or children's
garten. But garten in Germrn does
not mean the same thing as garden in
English. The name garten in the
German language means a place for
recreation. It need not be a flower
garden (bloomengarten), nor need it
have trees, shrubs, or gras3. If only
it is a place of resort where there is
amusement, enjoyment or recreation
of a harmless nature, such place is a
"garten."
The idea of a sohool Implies tasks
lessons and compulsory teaching.
The kindergarten is not a school in
that sense. The very idea of an in
fantschool is horribly grotesque! The
old theory that the intellectual powers
of an infant a child under 7 years of
age shall be taxed to lessons, is ut
terly at variance with all correct ideas
of infantile life. Admitting that there
have been children who read Latin
and Greek before seven , or were math
ematical prodigies at six, we can only
eay that all such are intellectual mon
sters, corresponding to those physical
monstrosities which sometimes are
born among us. During the years
from three to seven, the purely intel
lectual life of the child should lie dor
mant, its activities should be repressed
rather than excited. During these
years the education should consist in
physical culture, and the cultivation
of the perceptive faculties, While
rules of general morality may be in
stilled, all sectarian religious teach
ings should be sedulously avoided.
The true purpose of the kindergar
ten Is thus briefly described by Frabel
himself:
"To take the oversight of children
before they are ready for school life,
or exert an influence over their whole
being in correspondence with nature ;
to strengthen their bodily powers; to
make them thoroughly acquainted
with the world of nature and of man;
to guide their heart and soul in the
right direction, and lead them to the
'origiQtpfall life, and to union with
It'will bo observed that there is no
mention in this of reading, writing,
arithmetic, geography, history, or of
rules, precepts, etc. not a word about
books, or even of instruction in the
ordinary sense. But it means that the
child gains activity of the body, mind,
heart and the perceptive faculties.
Ab a phj'sician, I am naturally more
interested in the correct physical cul
ture of children, and I shall consider
the use of the kindergarten in this re
spect. Up to the age of three, the
mother, if she is capable of any care,
is capable of the care of the child.
Then if she possesses a well appoint
ed nursery, can spare the time, and
understands Frebel's method, she may
still undertake the education of her
children. But how many mothers
can do so? And if she does not, how
do tho children occupy their time?
Physical activity they must have.
Amusement they must have. And if
they are left to their own unaided In
stincts, what will be the nature of
that activity and their amusements?
We can imagine them, and every fa
ther and mother can describe them.
After the age of three the child "had
better be given up to the kindergar
ten teacher. What kind of a person
should a kindergartner be? Dismiss
from your imiginatlon everything re
minding you of a pedagogue of either
sex, and imagine a gentle, pleasant,
happy-faced woman. She must not
ouly be a woman, but she must have
a mother's instincts and feelings.
Her pupils are her children for the
time, and she must feel toward them
as such.
How many hours a day will she
have charge of these little ones? Not
more than three, How does this ac
cord with those terrible infantschools
where the little creatures were (are
they ever now?) obliged to sit six Ions
weary hours, with ouly one hour of
respite? Happily, those days of in
human torture are nearly over, not
only for little children, but for chil
dren of larger growth, even into the
'teens.
What do they do in these kinder
gartens? Thechildreu are not taught
any lessons, except so far as answer
ing questions go. 2or should we
ever try to teach a child of tender
years an Intellectual process. Do you
remember the time when you were
called up to stand by the side of the
teacher and repeat, parrot like, the A,
B, C, etc.? Have you not a dim re
collection that you wondered why you
should repeat the names of those
meaningless figures on the page?
There is none' of ibis kind of teach
ing ln;the kindergarten ; yet every
child who has been an attendant a few
months knows tho whole alphabet.
It learned the letters because it was
curious to know the names of the fig
ures on Its playthings. Aye, that is
the secret of the whole matter. A
child under seven years will learn all
about anything it plays with, if you
only.answer its questions.
How does the kindergarten benefit
the child's physical system? By pro
moting physical activity. Half the
time of the three hours is allotted to
such games as will bring the whole
physical system into play. In a well
conducted garten not a single muscle
Is neglected. The arms, legs, body,
and even the head are educated to
more activity, harmoniously and
gracefully. The tissues are kept in
almostconstantactivity.and a healthy
body is the result. In the early years
of life physical activity is much more
a necessity than in after years. The
old plan, bo inhuman, so reprehensi
ble, of cultivating the mind while the
body remains torpid, was the greatest
of all crimes. I regret to Bay it, but
it Is probably a fact, that the chil
dren's sobools of America are the
worst conducted. All the natural
Impulses of a healthy, physical life
are restrained under tho insane idea
that the children must be kept quiet
during school hours. The public ask,
is thero no restraint in the kinder
garten ? Certainly, but all Is so man
aged that the children do not know
it. The fifteen minutes' active play
disposes them to be quiet for the next
ten or fifteen minutes, but this quiet
is coupled with what seems amuse
ment to the child.
Under the plau of enforced quiet
duringschool hours, what occurs? A
stagnation of blood in the head.
Why ? Because the head or the brain
within it is the only active portion of
the body. The feet, hands, and ex
tremities of the average school child,
especially in our large cities, are cold.
They are not brought into active ex
ercise of a systematic character. Con
sequently the equilibrium of the cir
culation i3 destroyed, and vital heat is
not generated when it should be.
Physicians are constantly consulted
by anxious parents, whose children
have what we know aa "school head
ache." The child may appear healthy
In every respect, but complaiua of an
alinostconstant headache when In the
school-room, or when in attendance
on school. A few days out of school
causes the headache to disappear.
The school-room is usually overheat
ed, but the hot air does not warm the
cold extremities, while it aggravates
the headache. In a kindergarten, if
the rooms are well ventilated, no
headaches occur, because the body is
active, and the blood flows freely in
the extremities. The character of the
physical exercises in the kindergar
ten educates every muscle, and every
joint to perform all its natural func
tions. It cures and prevents all awk
wardness, for all natural motions are
graceful, and awkwardness abnormal
motions. Tho ceaseless activity of
the child is modified, hormonia and
educated, until all action is graceful.
The most awkward child soon learns
to walk, run, or move with all the
ease of a cultivated man or woman.
Inter' Ocean.
An Indian Funeral.
An extract from a Helena, (Mon.) Letter.
I went into the military camp to
get provisions ono day, and witness
ed the obsequies of a Crow chief, Luy
Horse, who had beeu killed close to
camp, in a battle with the Sioux, two
days before. He was burried in a
skin tent, or "tepee,' striped red ;
bow and arrows hung outside. Men
and women cut off their hair and al
so their fingers in honor of him. This
was a very curious custom ono that
is peculiar to the Crowy. When they
wish to show profound grief for a rel
ative or great chief they cut off a
joint or a whole finger. On this occa
sion, since the chief was a favorite, it
was computed that upwards of a hun
dred were cut off.
These people often make this sacri
fice in order to win favor from the
Supreme Being. Very frequently, If
a Crow has had bad luck in any way,
he will go on top of a hill and pray
for better fortune, and, offering to God
one of his fingers, he will hold it up
to the sky and cut it off with a knife.
Many of the scenes and ceremonies
whioh I have witnessed were of a very
striking character; some of them1 sel
dom seen or described by white men.
They are very interesting to me, be
cause I can trace among the Indians
the origin of many of tho arts and
practices of civilized life.
You probably remember in reading
Homer's "Iliad" that part of it where
Achilles killed Hector, and dragged
his body, tied by the heels, around the
walls of Troy? Well, I have seen
something like it. In '73, a party of
Crows went out from their camp,
(which was about five miles from us)
and met and defeated a party of Sioux,
one of whom was killed. The Crow
who killed the latter, tied the body
by the heels with his horse rope, and
being on horseback, dragged the
corpse In triumph to the camp and
several times around it. All theyoung
boys assembled, mostly on ponies, and
pursued, throwing stones and arrows
Into It. Then the body was set up in
camp, where they amused themselves
still shooting at it as a target, all the
time cursing and calling the Sioux
cowards.
This reminded me of (hat passage
in Homer, and I have no doubt that
Achilles' ancestors, before they had
cities, had lived in camps and drag
ged their enemies around in the same
manner.
Nothing could be more horrible
than tho appearance of that body,
covered with dust and blood, stuck
full of arrows, and bruised and bat
tered out of all resemblance to hu
manity. The extreme height of misery Is a
small boy with a new pair of rubber
boots and no mud or slush in reach;
The Proposed Democratic Rule.
The Democratic party has neither
the patriotism nor the ability to gov
ern the country. It may have great
men and great statesmen in Its ranks,
but they are certainly not prominent
in publio life. When it became neces
sary to form committees in the lower
house of Congress the poverty of the
intellectual resources of the Demo
cratic party in that body became pain
fully apparent. The Speaker, him
self unfit for the position to which he
had been chosen, in canvassing his
party associates found nothing but
mediocrity more or less conspicuous.
The alternative was presented of
placing in positions of responsibility
men utterly unknown, or men known
to be incompetent or untrustworthy.
Both horns of the dilemma were
seized by turns, and the result was tho
most extraordinary as well as the
weakest organization ever known to
tho popular branch of the National
Legislature. That it would break
down under the first assault of the
trained and skillfully -maneuvered
Republican minority, as it did break
down, was to be expected. That its
experienced leaders would find it im
possible to control the raw legislative
levies of Southern hot-heads was pre
dicted. The result justified tho pre
diction. Hill and Tucker and therest
disclosed the animus of the ex-Confederates
in a single debate, and the
Democratic party in the House wreck
ed itself on Andersonville and the
odious doctrine of State rights. From
the day on which Hill eulogized Jeff
Davis and defended the atrocities of
Andersonville, and Tucker declared
against the oneness of the nation, the
status of the new Democracy became,
so far as its present leadership is con
cerned, unalterably fixed. The man
tle of Davis and Toombs descended on
it, to be exhibited as a treasured relic
of the late Confederacy, and worn
boldly and with pride. What follow
ed i-s well known. The party was
quickly divided into two.columns, the
duty of the one being to make a pre
tense of economy, while the other
poured iuto the House bills for appro
priations to pay rebel claims. These
latter have already reached au aggre
gate of $50,000,000. Meantime the
"retrenchers" assaulted the army and
navy and the Military Academy at
West Point. As Floyd and Thomp
son, under Buchanan, in 1S59 CO, pro
pared tho way for the rebellion by
sending tho army to the remotest
frontiers and tho navy to the four cor
ners of the habitable globe, so the ex
Confederate Democrats of the House
have decreed tho destruction of both
tho army and navy by cutting off
supplies under tho hollow pretence of
economy ! Thus Southern Democrat
ic hate of the Union seeks its revenge
upon the army of the Union. His
tory repeats itself. The Democratic
party of to-day is treading In the foot
steps of the Democratic party of 1856
G0. It forgets nothing and learns
nothing. Bourbon to the core, it
flounders in the mire of secession fol
ly, which leads to defeat as surely as
defeat followed tho outbreak of 1860.
So mauifest are the present tendencies
of the Democracy of to-day ; as surely
do its steps lead to destruction, that
its most ardent supporters publicly
deplore the desperate character of tho
situation. The Louisville Courier
Journal thu3 trenchantly describes It:
"Yesterday the Democratic party
stood on rising ground. It was the Re
publican parly that was down and di
vided. To-day the relative conditions
are reversed. Democrats are at cross
purpose; Republicans are confident
and jubilant. We
must abandon bur provincialism and
cast out ourdemagogoes before we can
hope to elect a President, and, even
when we have done so, we must make
a judicious choice of a candidate."
But the wily truncheon-flourishers
will shout in vain. The demagogues
cannot be "cast out," for the Demo
cratic party wouldj In that event be
without leaders. But the worst feat
ures of the situation is tho fact that
Hill and Tucker represent tho real
disloyal sentiment of the Southern
wing of the Democratic party as Suu
set Cox and Morrison, of Illinois, rep
resent the corrupt ambition and aver
age incompetency of the little local
coteries of Northern Democrats who
manipulate the voters df the party.
In a word, the Southern Democratic
party is still filled with treason to the
nation, and the Northern Democratic
heart ia totally depraved by forty
years' of abject subserviency to Its
"masters" the Calhouns, the Yan
ce3's, the Davises, the Toombses, the
Hills, and the Tuckers of the South.
Hale, of Maine, wa3 right when he
declared that Northern Democrats
"dare not vote against their masters.'
We repeat: "The Democratic party
has neither the patriotism nor the
ability to govern the country." Inter-Ocean.
"Say, pop," said John Henry's
hopeful, the other day, "wasn't it the
prince of whales' that swallowed Jo
nah?" And John patted his head,
and gave him a nickel, and told him
he might some day be an alderman ;
and then as ho put on his slippers,
and found a small chestnut-bur in
each toe, he took that boy over hia
knee and wrestled with him.
"Exploring waist places," said John
Henry, as be put his arm around the
pretty chambermaid. "Navigation of
of the 'air," said Mrs. Henry, over
bearing him, and sailing into his ra
ven curls
Duel between Federal and: Confede
rate Scout Commanders.
On the 12th day of June, IS83, I
witnessed a duel between a Captain
Jones, commanding a Federal scout,
and Captain Fry, commanding a reb
el scout, In Greene county, East Ten
nessee. These two men bad been
fighting each other for six months,
with the fortunes of battle in flavor of
one and then the other. Their com
mands were camped on either side of
Lick creek a largo and sluggish
stream, too deep to ford and too shal
low for a ferry-boat; butthereabridgo
spanned tho stream for the conveni
ence of the traveling public. Each
of them guarded this bridge,, that
communication should go neither
north nor south, as the railroad track
had been broken up months before.
After fighting each other for several
months, and contesting the point aa
to which should hold the bridge, they
agreed to fight a duel, tho conqueror
to hold the bridge undisputed for the
time being. Jonesgave the challenge
and Fry accepted. The terms were
that they should fight with navy pis
tols at twenty yards apart, deliberate
ly walking toward each other and fir
ing until the last chamber of the pis
tols was discharged, unless ono or the
other fell before nil tho. discharges
were made. They chose their seconds
and agreed upon n rebel surgeon (aa
he was the only one In either camp)
to attend them in case of danger.
Jones was certainly a fine looking
fellow, with light hair and blue eyes,
five feet ten Indies in height, looking
every inch the military chieftain.
He was a man that soldiers would ad
mire and ladles regard with admira
tion. I never saw a man more cool,
determined and heroic undersuch cir
cumstances. I have read of the deeds
of chivalry and knight-errantry in the
Middle Ages, and of brave men em
balmed in modern poesy; but when I
saw this man Jones come to the duol
ists' scratch, fighting, not for real or
supposed wrongs to himself, but, as
he honestly thought, for his country
and the glory of the flag, I could not
help admiring the man, notwith
standing besought the freedom of tho
negro, which I was opposed to.
Fry was a man full six feet high,
slender, with long, wavy, curling
hair, jet black eyes, wearing a Blouch
hat and gray suit, and looking rather
the demon than the man. There was
nothing ferocious about him : but he
had that eelf-suflicient nonchalance
that said, "I will kill you." Without
a doubt he'waa brave, cool and col
lected, and, although, suffering from
a terrible flesh wound In hia left arm,
received a week before, ho manifested
no symptoms of distress, hut seemed
ready for the fight.
The ground Was Btepped off by tho
seconds, pistols loaded and exchang
ed, and the principals brought face to
face. I shall never forget that meet
ing. Jones, in hia military, boyish,
mood, as they shook hands, remarked
that
A soldier braves 'death for a fanciful wreath ,
When In glory's romantic career
Fry caught up tho rest of the sen
tence, and answered by saying :
Yet he bends o'er tho foe In battlo laid low.
And bathos every wound with a tear.
They turned round and walked back
to tho point designated. Jbned1-second
bad the word "Fire," and ho
slowly said "One two three Are!"
They simultaneously turned at tho
word "one" and inetantly fired.
Neither was hurt. They cocked their
pistols and deliberately walked to
ward each other, firing as they went.
At the fifth shot Jones threw up hia
right hand, and firing bis pistol in
tho air, sank down. Fry was in tho
act of firing his last shot, but seeing
Jones fall, silently lowered hia pistol,
dropped it t the ground, and sprang
to Jones' side, taking hia head in his
lap as he sat down, and asked him l
ho wa3 hurt
I discovered that Jone3 was shot
through the stomach, the bullet glanc
ing around that region, and coming
out to the left of the spinal column;
besides, he had received three other
frightful flesh wounds In other por
tions of his body. I dressed his
wounds and gave him such stlmulenta
as I had. He afterwards got well.
Fry received three wounds ono
breaking his left arm, one in the leg
and the other in the right aide. After
months of suffering he got well.
Neither of them asked fora discharge,
but resumed their places as soon as
they recovered, and they fought the
war out to the bitter end, and to-day
are partners In a wholesale grocery
business down south, doing a good
business, and verifying the sentiment
of Byron that "A soldier braves
death," etc. A Confederate Soldicr'a
letter to Chicago Tribune.
"Well, my brave fellow," said a vic
torious general to a brave son of Erin,
after a battle', "and what did you da
to help us to gain this victory?"
"Do?" replied Mike; "may it plaze
yer honor, I walked up boldly to won
of the inimy, and cut off hia feet."
"Cut off bis feet! and why did not
you cut off his head?" said the gene
ral. "Ah, an' faith, that was off al
ready ?" said Mike.
A citizen of Macon, Ga., who kept
up Lis New Year's calls until after'
dark, says that a dog on the front
stoop is a poor substitute for a door
mat. He doesn't remember whether
he sat down on the substitute or not,
but his pantaloons seem to be some
wba4 worn behjnd,
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