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AHd boost of the record of EKgHoh as well ;
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Burkfe.
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say:
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geeerais.
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RiaeltoBB. their seata la the Forty Sixth
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To ealogtza traitors KkelDavis or Bragg?
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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;
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The he beiore tss h eteor and neelooded;
Shall the BAttoM be raled by the bine or
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I eaodidty aak. fellow-soldier and voter:
Whieft way is yocr mket a plntln' to
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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. "
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To raft"? e wfc Tt ovir fe u
p-rtracr ll tJiiMfeMfr-atliar ar
up "a small pieces aad pet on in cold
twuier.