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And. worsalp the masters .they, humbly obey. -fSball they role the nation by Washington fooeded? Whieh way is their ineskefcs a p'intin to- The nBootloH, my frieoda, fcs of vital lmpor taaee; The oatioo is watting in acrioos scspeae; Euch voter can wieid a potttteol anskt; TheawteWlt, I ask, in yoar coentrya The he beiore tss h eteor and neelooded; Shall the BAttoM be raled by the bine or the gray? I eaodidty aak. fellow-soldier and voter: Whieft way is yocr mket a plntln' to day ? T 'ianetarj - GonjnnGtioiis. JL SATTIR5' A5D YE5TTS TO BE IF OCSrJuaOSOS' IF, TEE -p,iv. iaai. Do ?esafece,war aad EardiffEakes Pel- Aastfea: Accoeas of "Wait h to Ocrae. The close proximity of two or more planets is always looked upon ith much interest by those who are fond of star-gazing. And the minds of some persons not rightly instructed are filled ! with dire loretiodings at the thought of sneh a phenomenon on aecountof the notion that some sort of a pestilence or calamity wui accompany or soon follow , these planet-meetings in the sky. The ' word conjunction is often used to ex ' press tbe near approach of two trmore hntvenly bodies. In other words, they , apiiear near together being nearly in line of range while they are reaHy many millions of miles "apart. But i street ly this word relates to bodies hav ing the same right ascension or the same longitude, and thus may occur when they are several degrees apart, 1. e their latitude or declination may dif fer by several decrees say from a foot to a yard or more while their right ascension of longitude (distance from the vernal equinox) is the same. And when three or four members of the so lar system occupy nearly the same place in the heavens we are all justified in wanting a good view of the phenome non though it sometimes happens that we cannot get it. A good illustration of which Oiccars April 22. 1SS1, when Jupiter and Saturn will be in conjunc tion, and near enough to be seen in one fiehl of the teieseope. But they willbe as near the sen as to each other, which destroys all hope of seeing this inter esting conjunction. Phenomenon of this character occur everv vear more less, particularly of the smaller plenets. Mercury aad Venus. But as they are trequent ana otten too near the snn to be visible, we care but littieabout these conjuncttons as compared with the near approach of large planets, particu larly when three or more appear elose together. Xext year will be unusaallv fruitf 1 of conjunctions. In the evening of March 3. 1SS1. Ju piter. Saturn, Venus aad the moon will all be within a few degrees of eachoth- n, imu .rc a urpui 01 cetesuaiiisnts cwtae near togetaer; wnicn k just as which no one will want to miss sight ! reasonable a hypothesfe as that the eon of. Bet somebody thinks a calamity) junction caused the pestilence. of some kiml witt accompany or soon; jMlr r" ,7r .. xr "" "w"ti andbrtphmes. Well, I do not pre-; : w a m,uu,orHw iitue, is i pears to havs been deferred tailQ8 gmagte happen in the Spring and Sum-, At Constantinople in lll, 20 o W Jll1 ; a55 .have.no f?F of be-, pfe died of pestflence: and innine vears rag hnrt by the eoaiunctioa. However, another conjunction of the three bri-ht let as aH. with manly fomtude and planets occurred. In 1624 and in it4 easycaimness. quietly wait and see. i these three orbs of Heaven asain dis On March ol, in the afternoon, tie played their apparent love of each oth moon, Jupiter and satcrn will be in pr mmmnr Ttnr it t n zi I ? J -t i. r jr r ; i.uujun.t.nni, iiiiu. uiWUi IHKlIil2ni. GQ ,the-tthof ApriL they will meetagara. . U -T & Wi the .comes I wend again, the planets wfll be turther apart, and the meeting not so interest- ins:. On Jane-19. at 5 a. m., Teniis. Jiipiter and Xeptune will aprear near together. But I suppose the greatest effect f this conjunction "will be to in - duee aatatenr astronomers to look up Xeptune by means of Jupiter and Ven us -as guides in pointing at the far away pfciaet. July 2, I a. eel, Aiars and Jupiter will lie in conjunction and very close together. Bet being in daytime will be of no special interest without a tele scope. A very singular matter connected with this subject is the supposed con nection between pfcmetary conjunctions and pestilence, earthquakes, and other dire calamities which occasioaallvmun- iftst themselves on the earth. And one purpose ef this article Is to give the dates of several prominent conjnc- tions to compare with those of plague, battles, cholera, etc and see what agreement may exist between conjunc tions and calamities to the human race. The most ancieHt conjunction that I have any account of is said to have oc curred 2.441 years before the beginning of the Christian era, when Mercury, ilars, Jupiter. Saturn and the moon were all near together in the "Western part of the constellation Pisces. But as this is from the Chinese, and occurred before the flood, I leave it one side. I do not Snd any account of plague earlier than of Egypt, 1491, B. C, aad as they were load judgments on Pha raoh ami. his people, thev hartflv belong f to or sabject. I regret not having records of con junctions to compare with those of pfctgaes, earthquakes, battles, eke, re corded in ancient history. Soee of these were oi an awful devastating character among which may be Hten- tioeed a piagtte that occurred in aH parts of the world 767 B. C.r one in Carthage so terrible as to induce pa rents to sacrifice their children to ap pease the wrath of the sods. 544 B. C. In the year B. C. 430, Athens. Egypt. etc, were visited by a plague that caus ed terrible loss of life. Others of great fatality prevailed in Africa, Grecian Islands, eta, B. C. 1SS ; in the Roman Empire, A. D, SO ; again in the Roman Empire from 250 to 265, when for some time the deaths in Rome numbered 5,800 daily, and many towns were en tirely depopulated. Another of many years duration began in 5-b, prevailing to a great extent over Europe, Asm and Africa. And again for three years, aboet 748, the plagues e-tused fearful ravages in Turkey, Sicily and Greece. A number of earthquakes aad great battles are recorded, from the battle of Marathon, 49i) B. C, and the earthquake of Peloponnessus, 372 B. C, onward for many eenturies. Bat no date of either of these corresponds with the date of any plague. Xow, if certain, coujunc-1 tioms were found to closely precede and accompany the one, of eoerse they could not agree with the others. The nrst avaiSffiie record of a con junction was that of September 15, ilSo", when Mercury. Venus, Mars. Ju piter and Saturn wereaE near together in the Eastern part of Virgo. This is perhaps the most conspicuous and im-1 portant conjunction that ever occurred nothing short of all the long-known five planets appearing together as one sroup of brilliant stars. Xow, if con junctions ever did exercise any imiu eace in the production of war, pesti iettce or other calamity, we might ex pect them to have occurred at that time. I find no account of battles or prevailing pestilence that year. Bat history tells of an earthquake in Cala bria by which a city and all its inhai itants were overwhelmed in the Adri atic Sea.7 The day or month of the earthquake is not given, ami as the con junction oeeurtd in the middle of Sep tember, there are a&Mit three chances to one that the earthquake occurred be fore the conjunction, and hence could not have been caused by it. The plague appeared in Ireland in 1172 and 1204 fourteen years before and eighteen years after the great conjunction. r or many Hundred years wars pre vailed so nearly all the time, and battles occurred so nearly every year, that a scientific comparison of them and re corded conjunctions hardly need be at tempted. And I am quite sure that neither one causes the other any more than a certain star being over ones bead when he is born has an infiuence in forming his life-character. The extensive plague which ravaged Europe with vast mortality in I34if, it is said, carried away 25,000.000 souk ; but I find no conjunction within 16o years of that time. In 1506 a sweat ing sickness, fatal in three hours, pre vailed with fearful mortality in Loo don.7 The three most brilliant planets. Venus, Mars, and Jupiter, were very near each other in 1507, but in 1544 they were widly separated In 1511 they appeared near together again. But it was six years, tiH the mortal piagae prevailed in England tor anywhere else that I find account of;, viz. 1517, when history says that in most of the capi tal towns of England half the inhabi tants died, and Oxford was depopula ted. In 1524 a desolation plague mre- vaileil extensively over Central Europe, in which the deaths were manv limes ten. thousand. Inst Kara nurhn.- -., : .u .i. r-Llk'l". e, and a corresponding conjunction of j n2inarc Tt? anru 11rc Tnw, anJ wrmMMj i-wi f uuul:. Jra.&i.ij t M.k9M.TTt auu 4tnrn ava- "stot-b' rm r- anU --i-laM t L'uiuia n uiw .a. .Aaa. h run ri aaiiari x-omi. 1 1 f ;K e ,- 'jSB'rJI if eithcri w if hanik Ar.f,w ta. i.f i JZZ"ii .r'TuTl: mmMr i,vu i t nni wj a t i i rir-ii w t- it .T"ia, of tne year, in 1544. November II, - --w . ,.. . j ( Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn ; , appeared m the same region of the sky ' t T - -- "thu buu -aA.A. t and in tne spring of that year a small , battle took place at Ceresalo, in which Impenahtv was defeated bv the French. The sweating plague made its fifth appearance m. England, -iZT.1 9r 1552 Venae, Mars and Jupiter were again in conjunction But no one --. - thinks the fatal sickness in Great Brit- ain caused the three bright planets to Asain in 15S4 aad in 154S thee 1 same neavemy aoaies tonaed. beautrfui trios in the sky. But the plasae ap- -" r- .- -- "" iml ers eocrpanv. !;; -,- 9X. aru --.. ...... j:.j r -r don of "a great mortaKtv. Theent! ' pfasue of London commenced in 154 To make the true Maltese . -I thh the moUioll)-Stroke hfiy and farried away 70,000 lives in 16S5. The month, of the conjnnctioa in ll is not given; though admitting it to he December, or "with the beginning of l the mortal sickness, I certainly believe that the great citv filth and coesequent- Iv bad air h:id vastlv more to do with i producing disease than had the beaati-! fnl rrift of srar hti, nn in th vanH rf . . - r - juugea dvms ownrecoru, just tne prop- Heaven. But I suppose that thecMBrlJ &m lo eommend thS1 f fi2? ? ?" ed issue to the people of the state. , plague of l$GQo in London has grven ; v .r ; uL v. rise, in modern times, to the popular " , . .. j. i, , notion that pestilence and other calam ities hinge on a conjunction. "We wQL however, trace-the subject a little far ther. In 1725, March 17, Mereary,) Venus, Mars and Jupiter appeared in the same field of the telescope; bt it was five years before this date that the plague destroved 60.600 Rves in and. about Marseilles. The great earth- f quake of Lisbon, when 50,600 lives were lost in eight minutes, took place in 1755, thirty years after a conjunc tion. Another calamity occurred in 1760, when "a most awful plague pre vailed in Syria," but no conjunction re corded ffil December. 176, when Venus, Jupiter and Mars were very close to each other. In that year two or three buttles were fought at Choesdn and Gakitz. Betsnreiy the viadictiveness of the Russians was a greater asent in their productions than were the inno cent stars of 'Heaven. In 1S01, Octo ber 2, Jupiter, Venus and the moon were in close proximity, and Saturn was not far oL" But pestilential dis eases were two years before, and from one to three years after. The former m Barbary and Fez. where several: thousand people died every day for some time; und the latter in Spain, during which: immense numbers were carried ofL In 1S02. one year after the eon junction, yellow fever prevailed in Philadelphia. "" In 1S45, December 19. Venus Saturn were nearly dose enoegh to ap- pear as one star to tfaenaked eye. They were an mseresung signt in tne teie- , scope. A piagae is reported in Egypt in 1S44; ami in 1S4S-49 cholera visited Europe and America. On January 29, 1H57, the moon, Jupiter and Venus ap peared near together; but no sensible person supposes that eaused five months ai i rui jrwiir ruiuii iiui 111111 11 nra -"-f uc-emwu ,-"'ut1-- fc- readv oeen secured, ine commssioo vafled to some exten. in Italy and Lon- j ers were ij. boJWosed br' Mor don m k54. aai asim in 1S5 mtjoa a hfe frfeads bv dav and bv Cholera .. ....t,.. -""-" mgnt, until tnev were m efieet corn was no conjunction until the morning . pjj te Ye tI $i50.ao tor whatever of July 21, lS5f when enos and .Ju-1 the sma wa5( to Jhe Burlington &Me piter were so close together that they i soari 5-. It miat be verv per appeared like a single starto the naked tiseBi for tbe then jb of i B. eye. I do not find a pestilence, famine. & if they were in a confidimr m.od, or even a battle toagree with this date tiwrw mi r tbt hrm. Though battles, of course, were not far off on either side. And a famine oc curred ia. India two years afterward. In 1S70 there were several conjunc tions of two planets eseh. viz.: On February IS, Venus and Mars were in I conjunction, but they were ten degrees apart; tjnJuEeaTVIazs and Jupiter were near eacn other, and on Jnly 13 Venus aad Jupiter were nearly as dose. August 15, Venus and Uranus were nearly in line with the earth, and two weeks later. Mars and Uranus were still closer in range- Finally, for 1S70, the moon :md Venus and Saturn were in elose range with the earth on December 22. In the early morning of that day the moon passed eentrally over the son. causing a total eclipse in Spain aad Itaiv. Xow, as to whether these con- junctions had anything to do with the Franco-Prussian war of that year, the reader is welcome to his own conclu sion only do not f orset former failures of more important conjunctions to cor respond with terrestrial troubles. In short, I find tbe mK terrible and de cisive battles, and the greatest calami ties by earthquake, famine aad pes tilence, to have occurred, with very few exceptions, when there was no conjunc tion of special note. It may be worth whQe in this connection to give the dates of the -fifteen decisive battles of the world. as given bv Prof. Cryasv : Marathon. B. C. 40: Syracuse, B. C. 413 ; Arbeia. B. C. 341 ; Metenrus. M. C. 207 ; Tentoburg, A D. 7 ; Chalons, 451 ; Tours. October 10. 732; Hastings,. Oc tober 14. lm; Orleans. April 29. 1429: Spanish Armada. July, i5fcS; Blenheim, August 13, 1704; Pultowa. Jury s. 1709; Saratoga. October 17. 1777; Valmy. Septembers. 1792; Waterloo, June IS. ldI-5. Xot one of these corresponds with the date of any conjunction that I can find. In conclusion. I would say that in the days when astrology was studied and tne numan mtnu was lettered tnere was some excase for superstitious fears. Biu to-day. when the stdy of stac b a .iticHtc uiucn suwwa tne iiiimi taat made them is divine." there is no rea- . m utKrra.iMu -w-""!? i tee uamcatc vl tne xixstveoiv uoanr. W. Dawsox. "A "OsEserTatfTe"" Yee as. tse Sassa. Mr. William Walter Phelps, in a speech at Paterson, X. J., last week, avowed hhasdf stiE a consevative, as he had always been a radical, nev er ami nownere. -Sut. said he. I dont love the south better than tbe north: I dont love the eitaens of Miss-1 : -.-i....; ..., . !.., i, . -V- joceuv. muic wsu tne dbCMTic? Wl .tew , Je&ey and I ref use to sire him ,. -4c rx. t . : ti ' . r - j- - - err ti-Uho. it riLi t aaii ui iip nian . i, rtj-.Tr-ol v-K- - ,i - - ( " niuivi 1 iit fna, Miiim wir t wwa .. a. rii, . ZZZ. r T " 1'TTlrTll iu, f u; tt ZllSr ZlTT7-rZr rrr X wmmrzM v "a jvfi - icut . a wm vmKTMMmmm t ajaa . aa-a, yu4iru AAJ. aaBOJ nrtTilfllOBl halL confederate bv the side of mnoit' bnsadier. He shall have everv rent of a loyal American irfiAii. eitraec not he shall have ne more. j -r . , i. . , eem to claim more. We took them from the scagohl and pet them beck into the house thev sousht to born, and r x oj . .. i i i a. , xwt, .j wa jism ir aaicu- en. We found them bessars and took . tOOfc, them into partnership, and now they i; rl-: . ii. . . j . rT:i -ir-5- :ina S - i,T,a7rarr- IT wgaway and asked them to nde. aad Iiv'Sf Si.1 railroad "moaoporv SrK!.!?1! .-l- d the demeraaTSS- .iXi .. -wu.nsi.y OIWCUl LtT KJKU UKD better. -I want our skv brighteaed with both the north star aad the southern t cross; our valleys to laugh with the cane aau tae corn; our Mils to bear aad the corn; our hills to bear the orange and the ptae; bat if our obstinate countrymen will force a se lection, let the cane, the orange aad cress perish; let as save the earn, the pine and the north, star. eross- 3farsjns 3&nspdy and. Send Eeesi. The RefH&Hcan some "weeks ago hinted that Mr. J. Sterling Mor, who, as chairman of the democratic state committee, has attempted te pre i eipkate a "monopoly" and bood'Tiise rrT.'. . - r-, -V. -" I l LWWM.? U. EUV dU.V. J ,tiTt .aitf7mfny7 stf. .nA.-vvk.f- Miul 1 AB .! n auicu n nu izhhjvi7i t axiu. uuua ohKiin THrm U Ot- anrf & rul sponsibffity for this state of tM'SSSSSt 4L ,wwf -tnw witk tK-L,.: Jy cfcargedm the United States benaie i ,, 4 u.. ., j . u. S2Srte5!SgKtML! i;,- isii t.. i--l If Mr. Vest made anv such state- HMBCHHUtiWIlUKU " "! into the record of the Otoe coentv de - mecraey m general,, and into Mr. Mr - ton s reeoni in particular on tius suo - llZ?tl0lJ of the state jast how competent. CVII cicratkr Bai raKUa n kK4'ha-r"v ..J 2t.cii tuiu a. biuvvrv. au aubmruBT 44. rti. -ir lr.-. ; , -u, cvu;eu&t jij.. ja.uit.uu. 13 iia uic pio- n.nU.f.tl.A "Ti. "n-.,....;- t Z2 JXi wnrSrS democracy aceorditKr to the gospel of anti-bonding and anti-monopoly. To begin with the aid extended by Otoe county to the Midland Pacinc railroad company. "When the Midland Pacific bonds were issued bv that eoua- fty, Otoe county was a democratic county; the county commissioners; who issued those bonds were demo-j crats. and of the directors of the Mid land Pacific company at that time, sev en were democrats aad three were re publicans. Bat this was not the be ginning. Before the Midland bonds were issued, when Otoe county was democratic !20VJ in bonds (we be lieve that was the snmi were issued with authority to ise as much thereof as mieht be secessarr to secure an eastern connection for Nebraska City. rf rlri-i K;km Sao fbift wa iimnmmtw) f to be jtjb CitT? g j Coim ( rfl mnSs Sorn time after ir .k. TterH, .?- vun I .U.. .. .CLU-.U. v. U-U.1.. com pany reached out for the unexpended balance i5tMM0. we believe. The county commissioners at first refused to authorize this gift, their reason be-1 ittg that the eastern connection, for which the bonds were voted, had al- . I - wvrw. mmv w u.. wa. aww ana sum that the company received. There is a rumor, in the nature of an allega tion that the railroad company receiv ed ?im.fl00 oat of the $150,600. Per haps Mr. Morton, if he were in a con fiding mood, might tell the assembled democracy at Hastings next week what became of the remaining $50roM. Mr. Morton is a eapita&t. Some years after these cfaaraeteristi eally democratic transactions, the Burlington aad Missouri management cast an eye on tbe Midland Pacific property, and an effort was made by Mr. J. Sterling Morton, "monopoly at torney and railroad "botidT grabber and his friends to place the Midland road and property in the hand of a re- eeiver said receiver to be J. Steriins Morton on pretense that certain of the 1-5 ats had not been paid. Dr. Converse, then the manager of the Midland, bought iademnitv from this Lattaek by paying the sum of 12.000. Part of this sum went to pay the al leged indebtedness of the road; where the rest went to we shall not under take to state: bat this we are able to state that Mr. J. Sterling Morton i boasted that out of the cI2jtMK) he re ceived SSjOOO for "SKvoes" in Seward i county precinct bonds. Xow Seward j county bonds, if valid are a good in j vestment, especially if they cost noth ing, ana jar. j. sterling jdorton is a capitalist. All of this was democratic policy in Otoe county. Again, in addition to these eoonty bond issues, Nebraska City then, as now, largely democratic tawd ?0.0ft0 in bonds, to aid in the extension of the Midland Pacific road from that place to Brownvilie. We will not say that that exUtftskm has proved of no value whatever to Nebraska City, but we would not undertake to say more than that. Thus we have coentv aad citv. ' in Ocoe bonded to iooop.ty railroad 1 corpi,. and all under democratic Lng,,. with J. Sterling Morton m f 1HWHiy- f arfeman and -bowT bull- doaer-in-chief. Another little 'Bodes, aad we have done for the present. At one time the Midland Pacific company proposed to bridge the MxKoari at Nebraska City; an act authorizing sach strue tare was before congress,, and on the reasonable expectation of its passage the contracts for the work were as good as made. Aad now appears Mr. J. Sterling Morton and his inevitable -friends' in Washington, stop the pro posed legislation, organize a local com pany for the alleged purpose of build- tniv . iajpavixaca anI .a, -,- m r - , " 4Wa , S7 ., nrnht at " vr, I ' " T- - - HB I bHkM. u., fVr ,. .!, ,.. .. ...w;. .u.' lar-iZlJo rU rtJT! Mwm- - -aoa tj n bosvr iitu. .. armhf fha noi1 r 1 lumr a4 maj-aM mAa. , - -. . . Wi"Wam. WT fPcmk ariuaLl fck r- ittyyiM-g tor Mr. Jiortoa. n ue is - - . . ..-.-.a, , -. ,- .. Ul UKUKaJLUJl "? ! oas ot ab aaaes; aao. l at the same time, as a sort of verifiea- t sm vl mkb uMcraeiu. 10 ucouuee mr t j-- ,- " j r. 2LrSrS r-i - ihe ajefctacholy days' of aextweek. I ouu WUI SPK7 . I4. W1TC11 and will have aa. to anv re- "JUT-k- 1..;. i.i.- may mase to tae toresoimr inauines. in the way of explanations addressed ... .U UI I J .. ..- ; " kBC ncmocrao ot ujc t-.- tvf v,-- n,n evervbodv - k tn TTJ-VtJZJL l 5 ZZSZimZiZJitZr " wi laruKaKB ta ur: f -Tnonoporr -bonds, Mr. Morton I oahi not fail to present Otoe ,,- . M a!k ' . ft 1. V , i A ot utoe nave borne m uir: uic uwtac m transactions. Oww- RtpHbiitiH. Every bow and then a ear faOs Uk a4- r-ir ttl- xt-asx w - -wZS ""u. . o tne streets and Hurt? a man. some day one will fall and crash a dog. and then Mr. Bursa wfll take steps to have the whole elevator baseness pulled up by the reots. -.Vorrj&mcH Keratt. The young lady who married aer ; fether's coachman, says she was driven 'tfiit- HSS3FS GQ3QLi53). A Tff'r e TVjprtgp A22123S tS2 taEs of SezatK Test. Accnsa- St. Loete etohe-Democrat. The JoHowin letter from CoL Mosbv to Mr. B. L. Fletcher, o Teeeasen, Xb, who served with him in the late war. is furnished to as for psbficatioa: HongKoxg, July 20. ifcm B. Il MCfcCfiei, t -, L Esq.: Dear :he I have 'W1' ?"" -Eta aiawamiK to u x-..-vIwai.t v-naM t.i-Mp 7 Ti i I m. that aav command fought under the? - , 1 oi-. I i.1 T.K l. . r ' rr j C:" v . . i I'SSSiSZiZS u tZZZ ZlLZ i.. r r. w , a v. i ! whom hesiandered was on theosite crista, te -K. Uk.i T(lw wron. .Um ' " fcMC wrc. J-"tl nt ' CtSHIU US tBC BUUl 1 t fc a, L.v . -w ,,,,, 1 -i. OdEEtCHJ? US1 tDC UWJi. WAV 2CL CU Kllfi UK IB UK JiBJI VL .IWIiOnil ItliMMIUL lknew the ehargetobe fafee; they did not nave the chiralry to defend me. or rather the &ir fame of oorarBttybe- cauae with them the interests ox party are stronger than the interests of truth. No man who had the courage to face ns in a light, or whom the fortunes of war made a prisoner in our hands, has ever made snch an accusation aeainst ms. It is true that my notions of war were aot sentimental, and that I did net hok upon it as a tournament or pastime, bat as one of the most pr&eta ikal of human KndersakJBSS. I learn ed the maxims on which I conducted it from Napoleon, and not from Walter Scott. You may remember that some of your fiercest figatrngwas with the Cal ifornia cavalrv battalion which was ! stationed in front of Washington. When I was in San Francisco on my way acre MJiac mwea or ..went otuKij ojneets called on me in a body to pay j their respects and to talk over the bat I ties we had lost aad won. They wouM hartfiv have done so if. as a soldier. I had not observed all the rules of hon-! orabie war. My command, which was the 43d Battalion of rrginia Cavalry, was just as much a regularly organized portion of the Confederate army as the Stonewall Brigade. The Confederate archives contradict everything Vest i said. I served nearlv the whole of the first two years as a private in the cav alry, and then rose to the rank of Col onel, having received five promotions on the recommendations of Gen. E. B. Stuart and Gen. R. E. Lee, under whose immediate orders I acted. Their dis patches attest the value they pot upon my services; besides I had the rare hon or of being mentioned for good conduct three times in seaeral orders to the armv. There was no officer in that I army on closer or more confidential re lations with those two great soldiers I than I was. aad I reported to them av- erythiBg that I did. If any odium, therefore, attaches to me or my men, they mast share it equally with-us. Gen. Lee never re proved me but once. On one occasion. I went to see him at his headquarters near Petersburg. When he saw me hobbling along 00 my crutches toward him he came forward to meet me. aad said, as he extended his baud: "Col onel. I have never had but one fanlt to find with you: you are always getting wounded." If any man ever received any higher encomium from him than this, history has made no mention of it. About six weeks before the surren der I dined with him at his headquar ters, aad 1 shall never forget the affect ionate Banner with which he took! leave of me and captioned me against j any unnecsary exposure to danger. I received a great manv orders from him is his own handwriting; he very rare- ly sent me one throagh a staff otlfcer. ,. and oil eaa be kept ia theat with The best order I received irom him was ' oat any kakase. Tbe saving ia east ks one asumirtr me to tne command or the whole district of Northern Virgin ia. This was tbe position I held wbea the mournful tim5 came, -Yoaag Harry Percy s spar is cokL K vou desire to know the details of the organization of my coanaaad. I re fer you to the memoir of Scott, pclbhsh- ed by Harper. As yo are, no doubt, aware. I have (Uttered on question of poJHic poncy wren a large majority ot the people of the South ance the dose of the war. Every Confederate soldier who has dared to do this has lHefl treat-! ed as a deserter in war, deserving to be I shot. The Soaia has iautated Saturn in de-j voorag Ms own. children, aad no aaaaat of service or devotion to its f cause daring the war is now admitted f as proof of integrity of conduct or to extenuate the ooenee of defying the: dominant sentiment of the section It i I was for this mason that Wade Haaw-' toa, by wlhse sine I have Joflowed the ' ed Mr. Lawrence, -faot it's noase. The pteae of Stuart in the front of battle. ' principle is what I am contending for. conld sit sflently in his seat aad permit , -For heaven's sake, Mr. Lawrence, thki catmnny, attered by a man who what principle is there involved ia a was hiatseif a Confederate, to go on- position which induces you to destror reboked. bat I am aot the only soldier a profitable business, aad to try aa ex of tbe -Lost Canse" whose reputation ! periment which is doubtful at best? it has beea thought necessary to sacri-J "It is the great principle which is the dee to gratify the spirit of the party . ioandathm of the Democratic partv at rancor. Gen. Loagstreet, who in the the Xorth. It asks the beoaie to ia- I last scene of the great drama aucat b xttoc n. toe cew Ifhave said with almost as mach troth as Xey did oa the banks of the Beresi - t - - --- - , . i, - t w ,, ... a : 1 m -- aaar xvaau. - ----- an aiar; t-Kaaaax . - r - - -.-- - 1 1 beea d?covereil to have ." been i soldier at all. aad one of his critics who was- never distinguished r aaythine except his habit of keeping where there was bo danger of getting hart, has accused him of treaefaerr at t Gettysburg, while he was himself in the rear with the baggase train. As Loagstreet is now a RepabBeaa, L and his great antasoaist, Haacodlc, is the Democratic candidate, there ie no doubt that before the dose of the cam paign the southern people win be per suaded to believe that it was Hancock and aot LoMrsteeet who Iwi sh Vir-ia- hsin dK immortal charse da Twin &aever rank them oa sjoriaas paset with those who woa the toaaaefof , -itm z - -" i fvla loSri.MT. "HarHi ""nrTMh i n p n vcomlii tnm Trti with Pw rf k mbU tI m f tki f? ' Democratic papers Bowadavs. The r ... w .1 i V mr l other day a veradoBS Haxrisbenr b&-1 er anaoaaeed dat in PhibdlBaiA. per anaoaaeed that in Philadelphia; were twenty-four Hancock dubs, each 500 strong, aad composed exclusively of Union soldiers who heretofore have always voted the Republican ticker, Whereupon the Philadelphia papers de- dare that Colonel Forney is the alv Eeoabifcaa thev know in that ritv who! intends to vote tor Haaccdt, and he fc was never a soldier. Grant ThoEbera -LaBrie Teddf is responsae- for the- following: In. 1774. Dr. Webster was a-'popniar preaeher ef the E5rk f Scot&ad, in Edioburga. Basinets hroogst aim. to London, ami oe d&y whes. passing: the KoHtse of Lords, his enrktsity in duced him to make an efibrs to stap ia and see thern Xoos- wex- admitted, without an order, except seMemes.1 servants. "Websier beiBg- ignorHBt e the-rale, requested atintittiace. -What Lord do. yon betocg t? said the door-keeper. -To. the- Lord. Jehawah reped:Web 1 ster. 'The Lord Jehovah!" repeated the keeper. I have kept here for aeven years, b: I have nevsr heurd of sk t1 - ?.: te- & i seeier oa tae troac steos, "feere's. a ehap who ss he beJosss to the- Lord Jehovah; io voe know SKeb a Lord;3 "Xever heard of ham." saya Jack. "But." says Webster, wilting to keep up the illusion, "there is such a Lord." P5iSB In in." says Jack. ""I spse iVs. some poor Scotch Laid." This occurred at a pericd when there was not one in twenty of aK the mun metering aad raxat ifetricis in Bag land who couM read the Btbie or wrUe his. ora same. Sabhatk schools; wees intrednced in 17S0. Tke Peaaisy k Sfe. From the Boston. Advertiser. Xow we concede that if there is to be no forgiveness, or iacgetf ateess of sins in this world for the Democratic party, its case is hopeless. Tho smocvI of its Wwhlers that are wocsa tana crimes, and crimes that &fe woceetaan htaoders. woukl keep it down forever. Herald. This unfortaaate Prty never wishes. - iw, w ir W i. j 1 w -k, ; a. .v moment to be, aad by what it proposes to do. It never is bat always to be blest. It is willing to admit that it has j made mistakes; but Itbaohaclaeh&aee of heart, aad will do so no more. The old man who hard that his scapegrace son. sent West in the hope that with new scenes aad new associations old habits BHsat be brokea oa. had beea converted, sighed. -Ah! I trust Joan is xettiry converted, but I have harrow in' doekta. What is there ia the pres- f eat virtuous spasm oi the -Democratic patty that shows it to have met with a f change of heart? By what right can it claim forgiveness aad forswtf ateesa of its sins daring the pasty twenty years, if it bow has in view the eoav missioa not of the same, bat of other mere timely sins? Barrels "fc"k rtmPBg Barrels, made of palp are among the latest inventions, aad as describe by the Detroit TrOmm. they ar Kfcery to become an important article of coat merce. The advantages claimed are lightness, durability, aad eaeaaaees. The body of the barrel is all made m. one piece, from coarse wood palp. The pressure to which it is subjected is 4o tons. The heads are made of one piece in the same way. aad when pat together the barrels areexeeediaely ligftCstrong and satisfactory every way. There are two kinds, one for fruit, fioar and other dry sobtaaees. the other for oil, lard and liquids of all kinds. A floor barrel made mthis way aad filled ca be droo ped from a wagon to the pavetaeot without injury. Fruit packed ia these receptacles keeps longer than when pat up ia the usual war. being dryer aad excluded from the air. The' barrels for liquid substances are made by sab-ieetins- the first form to a simnl nro- aooas any per cent, seeps ar tmcta. for the formation of a iamy toaairetorebarrelB,tafcirete, bv g 33. process. process. A O&se k East. Mr. Lawrence entered his lory last week, and railing Tab i firmtnn n , enteral him to dttcbargeaXl the The foreman was astonished, aad ven- tared to soggort that he bad a flae set of mea. that besines wa never move prosperous, aad for the life of him he i could not see tbe aec&aisv for anv change. "Bat we most have a new deaL These men have beea faithfuL is is true, bat there are Iocs of men to fill thetr places. -I don't know aboot that." said the foreman; "and as for the sake of a change, I must say, if von will permit ate, that I kaow what you are soine to sav. iatarrant- ierrnst the nrosDeroas nnr of tlut asition, because the Beoublicaae have , beea ia wer twentv vears."" "Q. I seeTsaie". the foreman. 9m4mnJmnmt. Peace at Ahj rrke. Denver RepsMtcaa. 0, let bb have peace! What is the ase of remembering those dunes? It is only twenty-one years ago that Horace Greeley was indicted for the crime of pobfehiag and maihag the New York Tribune to Clarksburg; West Virginia, three persons of that city being inakt ed with him t br receiving it. The man. whe4rewrhendwdaeBtisBow aatem- f " w ---?-"- cwawiasc w xe- ber of Congrega and a candidate or re- eB-, Zyr -T? " CaiTla " ""wr fZLlT LT FffLT T Pf Dave Mo&bt. of thas city, was indKted r ar.i.L .. ..- t. i XMsi effing at jhd new; ucyta. cuvet ot tse jew i ocs. Trilmtt. Every man connected witk the proeorag of that iadicf eat ii ?" ? fcfce' 3t""! bow on the stoaw tor Hancock. Do 13 ak? h, ,. . ., T ' It issasd that a shark veiHnot itet ' swiatmer who keeps his. legs is motion. If you can. keep kicking longer tfeaa a shack can keep wa!rJg, youTi be all right. " "" ' "" To raft"? e wfc Tt ovir fe u p-rtracr ll tJiiMfeMfr-atliar ar up "a small pieces aad pet on in cold twuier.
