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VOLUME X.
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1871.
NUMBER 21.
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Coudeasel from Telesrams of Accompanjin; Dates.
Monday, Aug. St. The French author
ities Lave disurrw-d a Carlist littulioti for cn-
t.-rini- FrciK-h territory. .. .Tlic Secretary of
me treasury hits illieettd the Assistant
Treasurer at Xcw York to sell gold dur
ing the month of September as follows:
I,KJ0,(axj on tlic firt and second Thursdays,
arm .iu,rxx) on the third and fjurth Thurs
days, respectively, making in all :5,rK0,
Xt) Tlie Wisconsin Supreme Court has ad
journed lo .Sept. S, tints post.onin the de
cision of the railroad-Injunction case until
that time at least According to
the oflicial returns for the recent
Ohi electirn tlie clauc in the
new Constitution emiitt'n the ''rant of aid
to railroads is defeated hy a majority of
-I,tKK); the majority against license is 7,'Xi,
and afj.tiiist all other clauses !.7,'iH4.
Tcepday, Sept. 1. A London dispatch
says the panih Government luin appealed to
England to defer jreiiir a se'tlemeiit of
her claim for indemnity in consequence of
the Virjrinius affair on account of pending
nctrouaiions with the United States. The
Spanish Minister writes that Spain will be
hampered in dealing -with the latter power
if the American Government is aide to cite as
a precedent the payment of indemnity to
England Mount Etna is in a ttate of erup
tion (Jen. Custer's Black Hills exploring
expedition returned to Fort Lincoln on the
evening of the .Wtth ult., having in lifty-nine
days marched aliout !K) miles, and a part of
the command miles further. Glowing ac
counts are given of the Black Hills region,
gold having been found iu -Treat abundance
A dispatch from Shreveport, La.,
gives particulars of the alleged assassina
tion of a party of prisoners who were
being conveyed out of the country. It is
stated that a few days before the white people
at Coushatta had, at a public meeting, de
clared the county otlices vacant and made a
threatening display of shot-guns and bowie
knives. Six of the ollUials who remained at
their posts and attempted to maintain their
rights were thrown into jail, as were also six
of their colored adherents. They were sub
sequently being taken to Shreveport for safe
ty, when the- were overtaken, about twenty
three miles below that point, by forty or iifty
armed men. supposed to be Texans from
beyond the Sabine, who took the prisoners
out. of the hands of the guard and killed three
of them on the spot. Tlie other three
Ofc. aped, but were recaptured, and are sup
posed to have shared the same fate. The
prisoners requested to be taken to Shreve
port and selected the men to take charge
of the company that was to guard
them. It is said the citizens were satisfied
with their assurance that they would leave
the State, and did not desire to take harsh
measures Charles Foster has been renom
inated for Congress by the Republicans of the
Tenth Ohio District Information has la-en
received by the I'ostolHee Department at
Washington that on the th ult. a train
oiflRie Alabama & Chattanooga Railroad was
stopiw-d near York Station, Ala., by means
of a false signal, and that upon halting it was
taken possession of by a band of armed men.
who shot down the colored mail agent in cold
blood and without provocation. Official dis
patches have also been received stating that
on the 3Uth ult. a body of armed white men
surrounded a colored church in Lee County,
Ala., while services were in progress and
tired into the congregation and burned the
church.
Wednesday, Sept. 2. Hon. Marshall
Jewell lias taken the oath of ollice and en
tered uion his duties as Postmaster-General
. .Atty-Gen. Williams has rone to Long
Branch for an interview with the Pres
ident in regard to the alleged Southern out
rages A Woman's National Temperance
Convention is to be held at Cleveland, Ohio,
in November next. Ihe Women's Temper
ance Leagues throughout tlie country arc
invited to send one woman delegate from
each Congressional District. The date of
the convention is not vet definitely deter
mined on Congressional nominations on
the 1st: Republican First Iowa Dis
trict, Geo. W. MeCrary (second re
nomiiiation, which he has accepted);
Second Iowa, .1. (J. Tufts; Second AViseonsin,
I- B. Caswell; Twenty-seventh Pennsylvania,
C. B. Curtis. Democratic Twelfth Ohio, A.
I. Walling; Twenty-third Pennsylvania, A.
Cochran. Opposition First Minnesota,
Franklin II. Waite. Independent Reform-
Twelfth Illinois, J. B. Turner Recent tele-
rams from Shreveport, La., confirm tlie
report of the killing of twelve polit
ical prisoners while being taken from
Cou.-hatta, La., to Shreveport. Tlie six white
men killed were Northern men who tilled the
otlices of Sheriff, Tax Collectors, Register and
Deputy-Sl.eiiir. They were formerly Union
soldiers and held ollice under Gov. Kellogg.
The men who took them out of the hands of
the guard claimed to be Texans. The Gov
ernor lias called out an extra regiment of the
State militia to aid in maintaining order.
TiintsDAY, Sept. 3. The civil guard
over Razaine at St. Marguerite at the time of
his escape have been released from arrest
The Secretary of the Treasury has called in for
redemption .15,0oo.tKt0 of .VJO bonds of -the
third and fourth series of Feb. 2T,- 1V2, dated
May 1, Returns from the State elec
tion in Vermont indicate the election of Judge
Peck for Governor by the usual Republican
majority after allowing for a light vote
throughout the State. The House will be
largely and the State Senate nearly unani
mously Republican Goldsmith Maid trotted
ami!uin'':14nt Boston on the The
Ohio Republican State Convention, at Colum
bus, on the 2d, nominated : For Secretary
of State, A. T. Wikoll; Supreme Judge,
long term, Luther Day; short term, W.
W. Johnson; School Commissioner, Thomas
W. Howe; Clerk of the Supreme Court,
Rodney Foss; number of the Board of
Public Works, Stephen R. ITosmer all re
nominations except Johnson, who is nomi
nated for the unexpired term of Judge Stone,
resigned. The platform adopted demands
that the equal civil and political rights of all
citizens be enforced by appropriate legisla
tion; favors a tariff for revenue, with inci
dental protection to aid and encourage Ameri
can industry; denounces all forms of
open or covert repudiation, and declares
it to be the duty of the National
Government to adopt measures for
gradually restoring our paper money
to a specie standard without a shock to the
business interests of the countrj-, after which
banking should be free; dec-lares in favor of
National and State legislation to promote
cheap and prompt transportation; condemns
the recent alleged outrages and murders of
unoffending colored citizens in the South;
favors the restraint of intemperance and its
causes, to the full extent of the legislative,
judicial and police powers of the State
The People's State Convention of Missouri
met at Jefferson City on the 2d and nomi
nated William Gentry for Governor and II.
W. Headiee for LieutenantlGovernor. Res
olutions were adopted against any fur
ther, increase of the State debt; declaring
against all combinations which tend to
increase the cost of transportation leyond
a fair remuneration to carriers, and that
it is the duty of the legislative branch
of the Government to subject the rail
roads to such wise and impartial enact
ments as will protect the people, from extor
tion without impairing the rights or useful
ness of such corporations; opposing any fur
ther contraction of the national currency as
detrimental to the interests of the producing
classes. . . .The following Congressional nomi
nations were made on the 2d: Republican
First Wisconsin Litrlct, Chas. G. Williams,
renominated; Seventh Wisconsin, J. M. Rusk,
renominated; Second Kansas, Stephen A.
Cobb, renominated ; Sixth Illinois, Thomas J.
Henderson; Sixteenth Illinois, J. S. Martin,
renominated; Fourth Michigan, J. C. Bur
rows, renominated; Fifth Michigan, W. B.
Williams, renominated; Ninth Michigan, J.
A. Hubbell, renominated. Democratic Fifth
Ohio, A.V.Rice; Eleventh Ohio, J. L. Vance;
Ninth Kentucky, Hansen Cochran.... The
Board of Trade of Columbus, S. C,
have adopted resolutions denouncing the
attempt of certain parties, and particu
larly of John J. Patterson, to create a
false impression as to the relations
which exist between the white and colored
people of that State. They brand the state
ment that there is any danger of rupture as
false, and ask the national authorities to
cause an investigation to be made into the
truth of the statements of Patterson and oth
ers made at Washington.
Friday, Sept. 4. Secretary Belknap
has received a letter from President Grant,
dated Long Branch, Sept. 2, relating to the
alleged recent atrocities at the bouth, and re.
questing him to consult with the Attorney-
General on the question of distributing the
Government troops at the South so as to be
available in case of necessity. A conference
was held at the War Department on the Id,
and Atty.-Gen. Williams subsequently issued
instructions to United States Marshals in the
Southern districts where outrages are reported
to have occurred, calling their attention to the
acts of Congress for the protection of all citi
zens in their civil and political rights, and
stating that United States troops would be
stationed at convenient points for the purpose
of giving needful aid to the Marshals iu
the discharge of their oflicial duties.
Lieut.-Gen. Sheridan has issued an order in
structing Gen. Terry, at St. Paul, and Gen.
Ord, commanding the Department of the
Platte, to take measures to prevent gold-
seekers from passing over the Sioux country
to the Black Hills. ...The Indiana Women's
State Temperance Convention was recently
in session at Indianapolis, and a series
of resolutions was adopted, the chief points
of interest being an indorsement of the
general features of the Baxter law, and
an agreement, not. 10 support any can
didate for office, be he Republican or Demo
crat, not in sympathy with the temper
ance movement, and not pledged to sustain
and improve the Baxter bill in the next ses
sion of the General Assembly. The 8th day
of October was fixed upon as a day of humilia
tion, fasting and prayer. The following officers
were elected: Mrs. Gov. Wallace, President;
Mrs. M. M. Finch, of Indianapolis, Secretary,
and Mrs. Reed, of Richmond, Treasurer....
Congressional nominations on the 3d: Re
publican A. Simpson, Twelfth Illinois Dis
trict; Onyir D. Conger, Seventh Michigan
District, renominated; Gen. Goff, First West
Virginia District. Reform J. W. Wilkins,
Fifteenth Illinois District. Democratic Hon.
William Hartzell, Eighteeth Illinois Dis
trict; A. Mc-Kayow, Fourth OUio District;
Alexander II. Stephens, Eighth Georgia Dis
trict, renominated; William Walsh, Sixth
Maryland District; R. P. Bland, Fifth Mis
souri District, renominated.... The Repub
lican candidates in Nebraska are as
follows: For Governor, Silas Garber; Sec
retary of State, Bruno Izschuck; Treasurer,
J. C. McBride; Attorney -General, George II.
Roberts; for Congressman, L. Crounse; con
tingent Congressman, Pat. O. Hawes. The
State platform expresses a hope to soon see
the circulating medium of the country based
on a metallic currency ; advocates free bank
ing; disavows hosiility toward railroads, but
demands that they be made subservient to
the public good; favors national regulation
of inter-State commerce; opposes a third
Presidential term, and favors the election of
President, Vice-President and Senators by a
direct vote of the people. Gov. Kellogg, of
Louisiana, has issued a proclamation offering
a reward of $5,000 each for the arrest of tlie
persons implicated in the Coushatta affair.
The proclamation was accompanied by a
statement of the circumstances attending the
killing, showing that, in the opinion of the
authorities, the murders were the work of the
White League. Another account was pub
lished in the dcntpine of the 3d, which in
sisted that it was the work of Texan despera
does, and characterizing the statement of
Kellogg as false.
Saturday, Sept. 5. The Spanish Cab
inet has resigned and a new one has been
formed, with Gen. Sagasta as Premier. The
Carlists have abandoned the siege of Puy
cerda. Their failure to capture that post has
caused great rejoicing througkout Spain....
Tlie United States expedition to observe the
transit of Venus reached Cape Town, South
Africa, on the 4th of August. .. .A late Wash
ington telegram says no formal order will
be issued from the War Department
as to the distribution of troops in
the Department of the South, but
the whole matter will be left with the depart
ment commander, who will dispose of the
forces so that they can be used by the United
States Marshals in case of necessity. . . .Peek's
(Republican) majority for Governor of Ver
mont is between 21,000 and 23,000. The vote
in the Second (Poland's) Congressional Dis
trict is as follows: Poland (regular Republi
can), 5,749; Dennison (opposition Repub
lican), T.Otr.t; Davenport (Democrat), 2,022;
scattering, No choice, as it requires
a majority to elect; on the second trial
a plurality elects.... The committee, consist
ing of two Republicans and one Democrat,
appointed by thelast Minnesota Legislature
to investigate tlie transactions of the late
State Auditor, Charles Mcllrath, on account
of school and swamp lands, which were in his
charge as State Land Commissioner x officii,
have unanimously reported defalcation on the
part of Mr. Mcllrath to the amount of $$9,550
. ...The Wyoming election returns.nearly com
plete, give Steele (Democrat), for Delegate to
Congress, a majority of between 500 and tiOO.
The Democratic ticket is generally successful
throughout the Territory.... The Shreveport
(La.) Evt ninrj Teltyraut (Republican) of the
4th denies that that town furnished the
parties who committed the recent Cou
shatta outrage. It says emphatically that
Shreveport men were not coucerned iu the
brutality. The Timet of the same date pub
lishes a statement of a Mr. Abney, a lead
ing merchant of Coushatta, to the effect that
an investigation had there by a citizens' com
mittee had revealed a plot on the part of
armed negroes to murder indiscriminately a
large party of men, women and children in
attendance at a dance on the evening of the
27th ulL; that after this discovery a party of
scouts were tired npon by the negroes and
ne of the number was dangerously wounded.
The subsequent shooting of the prisoners
near that place grew out of this affair.
THE MARKETS.
September 4, 1ST!.
TfEW YORK.
Cotton. Middling upland, lTg.lT'.c
Lite Stock. Beef Cattle $11.2513.25. Hogs
Dressed, $S.7j3,9.50. Sheep Live, $1.00.00.
BBEADsTtrrrs. Floar Good to choice. $5.4osj
5.80; white wheat extra, $5.806.4 J. Wheat No.
2 Chicago, $1,153.1-16; Iowa sprinz, $1.13;1.17;
No.2Milwankeespring, $ 1. 21(5.1. 22. Rye West
ern and Slate, Rxa.v.. Barley . . .
Corn Mixed Western afloat, SiSiiSi; ic. Oats
New Western, 525e.
Provisions. Pork New Me8, t22.5022.75.
Lard 14hai4.c. Cheese 10'413c.
Wool. Common to extra, 45S)c.
CHICAGO.
Liva Stock. Beeves -Choice, $6.0f3.25;
good, $5.2o&5.75; medium, $1.255.(10; bntct"
crs' stock, $2.5!34.00; slock cattle, $2.VT
3.75. Hogs Live, $7.00fj,7.T5. Sheep Good
to choice, $1.00(4.50.
PaovisioKs. Butter Choice, 28ff?,3.-ic. Epgs
Freoh, lg'CdlSc. Cheese New York factory,
12'J&13c; Western, HVilic. Pork New Mess,
$22.50322.75. Lard ll?i'3,15c.
BiiEADSTtrrFs. Flour W bite winter extra.
$5.50,7.50; spring extra, $4.755.50. Wheat
Spring, No. 2, 944&!41e. Corn No. 2, 71
7!,ic. Oats No. 2, iViiVjC. Barley No.
94tWc. Rye No. 2, 77G.774C.
Wool. Tab-washed, 45Q.55C.; fleece, washed.
40Jrtc. ; fleece, unwashed, 27&-'Vc.
Lumber. First Clear, $50.0053.00; Second
Clear, $17.0n4!).50; Common Boards, $10.50
12.00; Fencing. $10.501 2.00; "A" Shingles,
$3.0O3.50; Lath, $2.00a2.25.
CINCINNATI.
BREADSTcrrs. Flonr $.r).005.15. Wheat Red,
$1.03. Corn 70Jc. Rye 85c. Oats 1443c.
Barley $1.001.02.
Provisions. Pork $23.00(&23.50. Lard
11&15C.
ST. LOUIS.
Live Stock. Beeves Fair to choice, $4.00
6.00. llORS Lire, $r..2.-,7.75.
Breadstuff's. Flour XX Fall, $4.254.75.
Wheat No. 2 Red Fall, $1.1 11.1 V't. Corn No.
2, 7K&72C. Oats No. 2, 43I5C. Rye No. 2,
77&7!c. Barley $1.051.10.
Provisions. Pork Mess, $23.00224.00. Lard
14Kit15c.
MILWAUKEE.
BREADSTUrrs. Flour Spring XX, $5.255.50.
Wheat Spring No. 1, $1.011.G2; No. 2, tti
Corn No. 2, (JHWlc. Oats No. 2, 40Tij
41c. Rye No. 1, WX&Slc. Barley No. 2, 9.S&
94c.
DETROIT.
BuEADsTcrrs. Wheat Extra, $1.2331.24.
Corn 73&74C. Oats 14&45c.
TOLEDO.
BREADSTUrrs Wheat Amber Mich., $1.08
ai.0H"4; No. 2 Red, $1.0K&1.08! 4. Corn
Mixed, 72&"2!ic. Oats 13'a t5c.
CLEVELAND.
Breadstuffs Wheat No. 1 Red, $1.1231.13;
No. 2 Red, $1.09(31.10. Corn 7tX377c. Oats
45347c.
EAST LIBERTY.
Live Stock. Beeves Best. $R.2V36.75 ; me
dium, $5.25f&li.0O. Hogs Yorkers, $6.2.V3
6.40; Philadelphia, $H.003.S.40. Sheep Best,
5.2535.50; medium, $4.00(2,4.75.
Tublic Debt Statement.
The report of the condition of the public
debt Sept. 1 is as follows:
Six per cent, bonds $1.213.2-J8.050
Five per cent, bonds 511,023,200
Total coin bonds $l,724.2.vl.250
Lawful monev debt $14,678,000
Matured debt 2.5:X.4I0
Legal-tender notes 3S2.ft7fi.6it7
Certificates of deposit B?-Sfj-'."J9
Fractional currency 4-i.7it7.tiTr
Coin certificates 2it.141.2UO
Interest 2!t.avi.5U
Total debt JS4.2t.571.77S
Cash in Trcasnry
Coin 571.Otti.n2S
Currency lti,61!,2:!2
Special deposits held for the re-
uempi Kill 01 triuin ier n viv ii,r-n,
- as provided by law
Total in Treasury
Debt less cash in Treasury. . .
Decrease during August
56.600,000
... $14ti.3!l3.1i0
, .. $2.140.17S.613
1.626.762
Bonds issued to the Pacific Railway
Coinpnuics, interest payable in
lawful money, principal outstand
ing $64,623,512
Interest paid bv the United States.. 21.32o,:S!
Interest repaid bv the transporta
tion of mails, etc 5,388.692
Balance of interest paid by United
States in..in
ROAD A(ETS.
MUionri Banditti Uertlvivua The
Jh men and Voun ger i llol a. Stage
In Full View of ilundrcili at Isling
ton, Mo. A Brave Oiil, ami How She
Secured tlie lie turn, of Some of tlie
Stolen Treasures.
The Lexington (Mo.) fatvi.snlias brought
the Younger and James boy to the surface
again by an account of a daring robbery which
they perpetrated at Nortli Lexington, just
across the river from Lexington, on tlie even
ing of Aug. 30. It seems that the omnibus
started from tlie North Lexington station for
the ferry, with eight gentlemen and one lady
on board. Just as it reached a portion of the
roadway where the sides were grown up to
bushes, three masked horsemen dashed out of
the woods, revolvers in hand. One stopped
the horses while the other two thrust their
heavy army revolvers into the windows and
threatened instant death to any one who re
sisted. One of them, who afterward proved to
be the mysterious chevalier Frank James, dis
mounted, w hile his brother held his horse and
stood guard. Frank then ordered all the male
passengers to get out and hold up their hands
so as to prevent tlie possibility of secreting
valuables or drawing weapons.
The command was promptly obeyed, and in
a moment eight very disconsolate-looking
gentlemen were ranged in a row by the road
side, with their sixteen hands held high in
the air. The foot-pads then went through
them. Just at this time one of the Young
crs noticed several persons who. had crossed
the river for a Sunday afternoon stroll, and
immediately gathered them in and com
pelled them to fall into tlie little muster
line which the rest were putting through the
banditti drill. Among those gathered in was
a Miss Ilamiett, of Lexington, who, with her
sweetheart, had crossed the river for a ramble
m the woods. She recognized the masked
horseman who was urging her and several
others along toward tbe 'bus, and said:
"I know you in spite of that dirty
old veil over your face." He asked: " Who
am I, then?" She replied; "Why, you are
Will Younger, and you ought to be
ashamed of yourself." " Well," he laughed,
"you are tlie same saucy girl you always
were." By this time they had reached the
'bus, and just as Frank James pulled a watch
and chain out of the pocket of one of the pas
sengers she stepped up, and laying her hand
on the robber's arm exclaimed: "Why,
Frank James, I'm astonished to see you have
come down to such small work. I thought
you never did anything except on a big
scale." He shook hands with her cordialiv,
and said: "Well, I am a little ashamed of it
myself. But," he added, "you needn't call
names quite so loud here.'"' Miss Ilamiett
then asked him to give back the watch he had
just taken. "Why," he asked, "is this man
any kin to you She answered that he
was, and she didn't want him robbed.
James promptly handed the watch to her,
but kept the chain, which was a hand
some and co.-tly one. " No," she exclaimed,
"give back the chain, too; I won't liave part
if I can't get all." After some ' little demur
ring he returned boyi watch and chain; and
at her request gave up another watch which
he had confiscated before she had arrived.
Prof. Allen, of Lexington, Ky., was robbed of
fifty dollars in money and a "tine gold watch
by Frank, and as he proceeded "to strip off
Allen's tine coat and vest Miss Ilamiett
again interfered, saying: "Oh, "Frank, don't
take that man's clothes. Your mother would
be grieved to death if she knew how you are
doing. I nursed you when you were wounded,
during tlie wt.r, and now I believe I had ought
to have let you die." lie rather sadly re
plied: " It's a pity you didn't;" but went, on
with the pulling-otr 'process, saying: "I need
some good clothes myself, and "mine will do
him to go over to town in." After the men
had been thoroughly gone through Frank
ordered the lady passenger in tlie bus to get
up so he could" see whether she had any
valise or other property concealed under or
about her. Miss Ilamiett said: " Why. Frank,
you certainly wouldn't disturb a lady!" "No,"
he replied, ""Miss Mattie, we never have done
that, and we won't doit now;' and the lady
was left unmolested. They realized by the
whole performance, in mouey, goods and "chat
tels alMtut $:,mx.
At tlie close of the impromptu matinee the
trio assured the fleeced individuals that an
attempt to pursue them would avail nothing,
as they were mounted on the fleetest horses
in Missouri, and they would be scventy-five
miles away long before morning. As they
started off they called back to Miss Ilamiett:
"Ciood-by, Miss Mattie; you'll never see us
again," ana quietly rode clown the river bunk,
in plain view of hundreds of ieotle who had
got wind of the affair and flocked down to the
bluffs on the Lexington side of the river,
Taken altogether, it was an exploit unsur
passed iu cool audacity, and in keeping with
the record of its impudent perpetrators tlie
James Itovs and one of the Youngers. Rob
Roy and Claude Duval must hide their dimin
iohed heads in the future.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Do a little well and you do much.
Tin; father of all corns Pop-corn.
White jet is becoming fashionable in
Paris.
The cost of living is paid by death at
the end.
tapeu containing many fine points
A paper of pins.
The Brooklyn Argus says that the
song of the moscpuito is " Hum, sweet
hum."
Cocgia's comet is now visible at Mel
bourne, Australia, and presents a brilliant
appearance.
Oct of the 10,000,000 women in Amer
ica there isn't one who won't scream at
the sight of a rat.
An old cynic says: "With many
women, going to church is little better
than looking into a bonnet-shop."
Even the fishes have their quarrels.
In Silver Lake, Yt., the pickerel and bull
heads are now in the midst of a furious
civil war.
A New Youk cook sa3rs he defies the
world to tell quails' legs from frogs' legs
after they arc cooked and now let's
have another civil war. Detroit Prcz.
An agricultural journal maintains that
alum water is quite as destructive to in
sects as Paris green, and, unlike the
latter, is not at all dangerous to leave
about a house.
" Women," says an experienced West
ern editor, " are the best subscribers in
the world to newspapers. We have been
editor for forty years and never lost a
dollar by female subscribers."
The proposition is made that a due
observance of the semi-centennial of tlie
Erie Canal be held. By means of "Clin
ton's Ditch" the waters of Lake Erie and
the Hudson River were mingled togeth
er on the 2(ith of October, 18J3.
Trinity Church organ has the repu
tion of being the largest American-
built organ in the United States. It is
undergoing extensive alterations by
which it will be further enlarged. Two
new stops the " trombone" and the
"vox humana" will be added.
The transition from depressing sad
ness to exuberant joy is often very short,
and this revulsion 01 leeling is expe
rienced in its most powerful form while
reading a long and harrowing account of
the violent deatli of somebody, and find
ing at the close that the victim was a
book agent. New York World.
The engineers stationed at the central
shaft of the Iloosac tunnel, in the em
ploy of the United States coast survey,
have recently been making experiments
for the purpose nf ascertaining the dens
ity and gravity of the' earth; the vibra
tions of the pendulum are counted at
the ton and bottom of the shaft, and tlie
difference noted.
Sixteen horses attached to hacks at
the Providence depot in Boston started
on a runaway the other day, and as they
all went up the same street things got
awfully mixed very soon. Two or three
of the foremost were stopped, however,
and placed across the street as a barri
cade, and a very bad accident was pre
vented, though some of the hacks were
smashed up.
The new mode of collecting on the
Hudson River Railroad, which went into
force some time ago as far up tlie road as
Spuyten Dti3Tvil, has been extended to
1 ougukeepsie. Collectors meet all
through trains at that 'KPt "d pro
ceed north and south wifli them. The
conductors on these trains now simply
go through cars and punch the tickets,
while the collector follows and takes
them up.
The pride of mankind is great. A
night or two ago a family in New York
was awakened by unusual noises in the
house, and, on turning out, saw the eld
est hopeful rushing about in his sus
penders, brandishing a new Wesson, and
shouting: "There's a man in the
house!" A long search failed to show
any foundation for the young man's
warlike demonstration, when he mildly
intormed the breathless and exhausted
tribe that it was his birthday. He was
twenty-one.
Twenty-two old New Bedford (Mass.)
rats were recently seen marching clown
the roof of a hotel to drink from the water
in the eaves-trough. Among them was a
mother who led five little rats by a straw
which she and they held in their mouths.
Reaching tlie edge of the trough she
placed them in a row; then the old one
took the first one, winding her tail around
it, letting it down to the water, and then
placed it to tlie right in the row of small
rats; then she took the left, and letting
it down to drink placed it to the right
again, and so on with the whole; after
which they all took hold of the straw,
and the mother, with the straw in hc-r
mouth, led them back to their hole.
Not long ago a physician of New
Bedford, Mass., was summoned in haste
to attend a patient at Naushon. On ar
riving at the island and inquiring for a
conveyance to the house he wished to
visit he was directed to a farm house
near by. Here the doctor found a man,
whom he requested to harness a horse,
at the same time in the interest of his
patient desiring him to be livelj. The
man pleasantly and promptly complied,
harnessed the team and was speedily
driving over the road at a good rate.
The doctor en route discussed farming,
and was struck with the general informa
tion and conversational powers of his
driver. On arriving at the house a half
dollar was tendered to the man but was
gratefully declined. "What is the name
of your intelligent farmer?" asked the
doctor alter he had finished his profes
sional visit. " What, the gentleman that
brought you - to the house? That was
President Eliot, of Cambridge."
The Pottsville (Pa.) Miners' Journal is
responsible for the following story : "A
Phcenixville maid, quite old, becoming
anxious aliout her matrimonial chances,
recently concocted a plan to deceive a
young fellow as to her age. This was
the way she tried it: The old family
Bible contained a faithful record of all
births, marriages and deaths. This
volume the maiden took to her chamber,
and, selecting the birth-page, she man
aged, by dint of scratching and writing,
to change tlie date of her birth to a period
eleven years later than what it had legit
imately been Tecorded. Then the Bible
was placed on the sitting-room table in a
conspicuous manner. That evening came
along the lover. He soon began to finge r
the Bible pages, and finally reached the
birth-record, where and when he discov
ered, to his surprise, that his Angelina
was just one year younger than he. He
thought it strange, as she appeared older.
He kept his mouth shut and continued to
fumble over the pages. Next he began
reading the death-list, and made the
very astonishing discovery that the ra
diant maiden, according to the Bible, had
actually been born ten vears after the
decease of her mother. The young man
quietly arose and bade Angelina good-by,
and now swears that "eternal vigilance
is indeed the price of liberty.' "
Speech of Ex-Clov. Nojcs, of Ohio.
In a speech on the leading political is
sues of the day, delivered before the re
cent Republic an Convention of Ohio, ex-
Oov. ISoyes said :
The Republican party of Ohio, conscious
01 tlie lutegntv of its purposes, feeling
just pride iu contemplating its past achieve
ments, has to-aav Hung its banner to the
breeze again, and now calls ujmu its friends
to raiiv once more under the old nag. It is
not necessarv for a party which has confess
edlydoneso much good to claim that it has
made no mistakes, or that all of its members,
leaders and subordinates, have been above re
proach. There never was a iHditieal orgaui
zatiou on the face of the earth which, after
fourteen years of governmental control, could
Justify such pretensions. We make no such
claim". But we do assert and maintain that
the Republican partv, as a whole, has been
pure, patriotic, intelligent and etHcicnt. It
has been tried as no other ever was tried,
and has proved faithful equal to the require
ments of every emergency.
In 1111 it received from the weak and tremb
ling hands of the Democracy all that was
left of the (Jovcninicnt, which was so lacking
in tlie respect of the world that it could no
where command respectful attention. Other
tuitions fixed their own terms in all negotia
tions; notably so with regard to postal con
ventions, boundary questions, the rights of
naturalized citizens, and the status of
independent States. Our treasury was
bankrupt after a long interval ol profound
peace; Government loans in lst0and 1N1 were
the order of the day; our bonds sold for ninety-four
in the open market, while purchasers
were few and timid; our treaty suggestions
were everywhere received with contempt, and
our army and navy excited the ridicule of
foreign powers; when a number of States
rose in revolt, almost before the rebel armies
were organized, England hastened to recog
nize the rebellious section as a separate and
hostile government, and did not fear or hesi
tate to furnish material of war to the insur
gents; a Democratic President, imbecile or
treacherous, had been looking on while rebel
armies were assembling and the nation was
being robbed in the preparation for civil war,
and. in pursuance of a heresy which is no
longer entertained, declared his lack of au
thority and ability to raise a tinker in defense
of the' Union; the monarch and statesmen of
Europe predicted disaster and ruin to the Re
public, as well they might, when it was as
sailed by one-third of its citizens, whom more
than one-half denied the right of the Govern
ment to coerce. It is difficult to picture a
eituation more discouraging or more appall
ing. 1 shall not dwell a single moment on
the events of the war. The "grand result is
known and read of all men. History has re
corded, and will continue for all time to tell,
what political organizations sustained the
war and what party discouraged and opposed
it.
When the war was over when the Union
had been saved and slavery destroyed our
debt had reached the startling figure of three j
thousand million dollars, to provide for the
payment of which required profound wisdom,
clear judgment anu undaunted courage.
Taxes were necessarily heavy and burden
some, and an army of civilians almost as large
as that of the disbanded soldiers was called
into requisition as tax-gatherers. Before the
war the civil administration was conducted
by comparatively few men, who could be
selected with care and easily supervised and
controlled, while for the last twelve years the
Government has been obliged to employ a
legion of subordinates, whose qualifications,
in the absence of experience, could not always
be determined. This should constantly be re
membered when here and there a case of olli
cial corruption is disclosed. It has always
been the habit, and undoubtedly will continue
to be, for the party out of power to assail the
administration of their political opponents.
It is easy for Irresponsible newspaper writers
and unconscionable political orators to charge
corruption and fraud upon honest and upright
men; and if these publishers of libels are per
sistent, and make their charges conspicuous
enough, they will find readers, listeners and
believers. I have great respect for the press
of the country, and recognize its mighty
power; perhaps I am as ambitious as most
men for its commendation; but I do depre
cate the license to which, in exceptional
cases, some of our editors descend lor the
gratification of personal malice and for the
advancement of party interest, at the expense
01 juscice, ueceiicy aim lair ueaiiug.
In less than ten years since the close of this
war we have paid off a third of the public
debt; have reduced the taxes :j00,KHl,X)(t a
year; have readjusted the relations of the re
bellious States;" have provided for the colored
race so far as the circumstances surrounding
them have permitted; have re-established the
puolic credit so that our Government bonds
sell for 10 to 17 per cent, above par; have of
fered large loans to European financiers at 5
per cent, with the prospect of a reduction to
4 at no distant day, and have so established
ourselves in the "respect of the world that
without war we can command reparation for
injuries and dictate the terms of just and
honorable international regulations. Any
unprejudiced man would say this was reason
able success in administration; that foreign
nations and bankers so regard it is certain,
from the estimation in which they hold our
securities, and the readiness with which they
listen to our suggestions. Now what have
we done or neglected which entitles the De
mocracy to assail us, or to succeed at this
time in tbe management of Government
affairs? "What capacity or disposition have
our opponents at any time displayed higher
and better than our own, which entitles them
to the confidence of the people? Is it not fair
to say that with them it is only a scramble for
place and power, an effort, by misrepresenta
tion and abuse, by subterfuge and fallacy,
without regard to unity or consistency, to
monopolize once more the honors and emol
uments of ollicial position ?
The speaker here called attention to
the conflicting declarations in the differ
ent Democratic State platforms upon the
tariff and financial questions, and con
tinued as follows:
I appeal to every intelligent man in my
audience to say whether more insane financial
schemes were ever projected in this country,
and whether a greater muddle was ever
known than that into which the opposition
have fallen in their wild reaching for straws
to save them from drowning. No two States
agree, and tlie leaders of the party in no one
State harmonize. Senator Thunnan, who
until recently was understood to be the leader
of his party, "not only in Ohio but in the nation,
adheres to the old Jackson doctrine, is opposed
to an irredeemable currency, and in favor of a
return to specie, while Gov. Allen, the new
leader, who, by his own admission in the con
vention last week, is before the people as a
candidate for the Presidency, is in favor of
inflation, and believes the present volume of
currency to be insuflicient to do the business
of the country. And so the convention declared.
And this is "the great national organization
that, with divided counsels on all impor
tant money questions, with its crude opinions
and wild schemes, proposes to supplant the
Republican party, and which promises to the
people of tbe United States individual pros
perity and fortune out of the conflict, confu
sion and chaos which would follow its acces
sion to power. Can it be trusted In-fore it
presents a theory of finance which will com
mand the respect, while it challenges the
criticism, f thoughtful men ?
While the leaders of the Administration
party do not entertain opinions precisely
identical as to minor details, they are sub
stantially agreed as to all-important and vital
issues. "While they recognize the propriety
and necessity w hich existed during the war
for the issue of a volume of currency that
could not at the time lie made redeemable in
coin, yet they believe in the ancient Demo
cratic" doctrine that gold and silver are the
money of the world "and. the fixed standard
of value; they believe that the normal condi
tion of a solvent and prosperous country is to
have its currency interchangeable for, and of
equal value with, gold; they oppose any and
every movement which is calculated to post
pone the day when in the United States a five
dollar bill shall be worth and will buy a live
dollar piece of gidd; they believe that when
that time shall come the fluctuations of trade
and in all business aflairs will Ihj diminished
in frequency and extent; that while stock
gambling and reckless speculation may find
fewer opiortunities for robbing the people,
legitimate transactions will prosper better,
and Ixith capital and labor will have a surer
foundation on which to rest; they do not te
lieve the time has come for a return to specie
payments, nor would they precipitately and
immediately, but gradually and in such time
as will create no violent shock to
business, nor interrupt the.- ordinary
course of affair?. To this end, while
the amount of currency should be
kept w ithin the limit heretofore fixed, name
ly, :'.s-.i,Oxt,0io, contraction is not necessary;
but the growth of the country, and above all,
and more than all, the increase of public con
fidence, will hasten the time we hope for
without interfering with the prosperity of any
class or condition of men. We shall have
little use for gold w hen we know we can get
it. And in order that this confidence tii.tv In
felt at home and abroad the Republican parlv
W In favor of maintaining the honor and good
faith of the nation uutai ni.-hed and inviolate
We believe in pining the debts of tlie conn
trv, precisely as honest men pay theirs, ex
actly in accordance with existing contracts
It has louu' been understood between the
bondholder and the I'ondmnkcr that our
bonds are payable in gold. 'Mils agreement
should be carried out to the letter, w hether
these securities are owned bv national baiihs
and foreign capitalists, or bv the fanner and
mechanic, who have purchased them out of
llieir hard earnings; the guardian, w ho holds
them for his orphan wards, and the widow,
wiio is helped lo live tiy trie sale of her cou
pons. If we higgle about this, and discredit
the bonds bv making the manner and picas.
lire of their payment doubtful, we put oil' in-
definitely the day ol currency redemption.
Last year we were overtaken bv a financial
crisis and panic, occasioned by the failure of
certain gigantic railway schemes and tin
liankruptcv of a lew large commercial
houses; these failures involved some of tin
banks and embarrassed or ruined a con
siderable number of business men; confidence
was shaken everywhere; banks closed their
doors for a time, and debtors were unable to
discharge their liabilities. It t the
troubles Had oeen added tiic eu 01 such a
currency as was in use before the war, win
can estimate or limit the disastrous conse
quences to the country? As it was, about
tlie only evil effect lias liccn lo render busi
ness dull and profits small. And this has
been in part compensated by the introduction
of economical habits among the people and
of more conservative practices among busi
ness men. 1 he enormous fruitlulness of t in
present year is calling the money out of the
banks, w here it hSd accumulated, and is M at
tering it over the country, when- it is needed ;
business is reviving again, and if wumiiipIv
hold things as they are, without any violent
changes, our troubles will correct themselves.
labor will be well rew aided, ami capital cm-
ployed with reasonable profit.
Another important matter demanding the
attention of the Government is that of cheap
transportation.
All classes of citizens and all sections of the
country are interested in this subject. New
England, chiefly devoted to manuiactiires, and
purchasing aunually Irom the We-t more Ihan
lr Kl.r kh l.iM hi l.iustiels 01 gram me ,-souin, wncre
the production of cotton, sugar and tobacco
is more profitable than the raising of cereals,
and whoso purchasing capacity, at fair rate.-,
ought to be ;KH 1,1 H H l,( H M) bushels of grain a
year the great West, mid especially the
',rriin vi-,itii.mir States fif the .1 ississi iui
1 . ,.- ........... - --- - ii-
Vallev. which send to market more Ihan
iH),H"iO,000 bushels a year all these want
cheap transportation lor the benefit of pro
ducer and consumer alike. Our exports ol
ire. ii, li,iv li.ntifire illilollllted to bill little
less than perhaps :i"i,0O0,(XM bu.-hels a year
but these exports are now rapmiv increasing.
Thehope,however,of our farmers is in the home
market, and the problem is how to reach if
without doubling and trebling the cost of our
products. Many influential and intelligent
Republicans arc" of opinion that Congress has
power to fix the rates of transportation
on all freights passing from State to IState,
under the general authority b regulate com
merce between the States, and I think the de
cisions of the courts warrant this opinion.
But the subject has not, until recently, at
tracted the attention it deserves, and it takes
time to perfect a comprehensive and
equitable plan a scheme just to railway com
panies, and just to farmers, for that is w hat
we want. There were in the last Congress
several significant votes, however, with ref
erence to the matter, especially upon the res
olution introduced by John 2- Smith, of this
State, and upon the MeCrary bill in the llou.-e.
Iu both these instances the Republicans were
generally found on the side of the people,
and the Democrats as generally w ilh the rail
way companies. A Republican Senate has
now a C'o'mmittee on Cheap Transpor tation,
who are giving the subject their most careful
and thoughtful consideration. It is proposed
in the best manner to protect the fanning and
mechanical interests of the country, without
oppressing or wronging railway corporations.
This can be done in various ways; by improv
ing the natural and constructing artificial
water-ways; by establishing competing rail
ways when necessary, and possibly by fixing
rates on existing lines if the courts per mit.
At all events the Republicans iu Congress can
be safely trusted to do the best thing avail
able whenever it can be determined what that
is. I do not join irr any wild cry about rail
way's. They have done too much for thi
country to warrant it. They should be fairly
dealt with and properly controlled in the in
terest of the people.
As I mentioned at the beginning of my re
marks, one of the important questions of this
time is the pacification and development of
the prosperity of the South. You all remem
ber the deplorable condition in which the
Southern people were left at the close of the
war. Their resources had been exhausted,
their credit was gone, their system of slave
labor had been destroyed, the colored people,
elated with their new-found liberty, hardly
felt like bending themselves to the same bur
dens they had borne by compulsion, and the
whites had not been educated or accustomed
to labor. To make the matter worse a lot of
adventurers, without conscience or character,
finding their opportunity in the conluscd
condition of Southern affairs, went down
from the North to secure positions they could
not achieve at home, and to better their own
fortunes by preying upon the poor remnants
of Southern prosperity. As was natural, the
bitterness and hatred w hich culminated in
civil war could not tie subdued so eas
ily as rebel armies; the old bitterness
lingered in many hearts. The Confederate sol
diers generally accepted the situation and ac
quicsted in governmental measures, but law
less bands of desperate characters roamed tie
country, and committed numberless outrages.
Notwithstanding all this, the Administration
and a Republican Congress, exercising for
bearance and generosity, foregoing punish
ment to rebels which might have been exacted,
controlling for the time firmly but kindly, re
establishing the old relations of the Mates at
the earliest possible moment, and giving to
each its normal and proper share in the gov
eminent of the nation, had so far succeeded
one year ago that returning prosperity was
beginning to gladden the hearts of the South
ern people, and there was every pro-pect of a
happy and glorious future for them. Then
came the Northern elections, which, iu many
of the States, resulted disastrously to the
partv in power. The worst elements of the
South, looking on, thought they saw in the
signs of the times indications that the Demo
cratic party, the old friend of slavery mid
ally of "secession, was about to get
control of the Government. Then com
menced the old lawlessness again, persecu
tion of the colored people and of the loyal
whites, and within the last few weeks this has
culminated in wholesale murder and the most
appalling outrages, like that in Gibson
Countv, Tenn., where sixteen negroes were
taken "from the Trenton jail, their hands tied,
and they massacred in cold blood by a mob.
This is but one instance, but there are many.
A reign of terror exists in many parts oMhe
South. In our neighboring State of Ken
tucky murder is as common as daylight, and
matters have reached such a deplorable crisis
that the newspaper press of the South is
sounding the alarm : and, unless a check shall
be speedily put upon these disturbances, a
war of races is inevitable. Let the Democ
racy once more get control of our Govern
ment and the South will be again dreuched in
blood, as it was from 101 to li. I beg
every lover of his country, every friend of
humanity who would deplore such results, to
stand firmly by the party in power, in the in
terest of good order and peace. We desire
nothing but the welfare of the South. We
would be more than just, we would be more
than generous to her people, but we cannot
look calmly on while they destroy each other.
The colored people, oppressed and degraded
from generation to generation, are ignorant
and poorlv qualified for the exercise of their
newly-acqiiired rights. They sorely need op
portunities for education and culture. When
separate schools can be maintained it is un
doubtedly better that the two races should be
kept apart; it would be more satisfactory to
both. All yve insist upon is that somehow
and somewhere every colored child in the
land shall have the advantage of free schools.
I see it somewhere stated that there are only
7 percent, of the people of Massachusetts wji
cannot read or write, and that recent-statistics
show that SO per cent, of all the crime in
the State is committed by this 7 per cent. We
all know that education contributes to virtue
and good order. To keep in ignorance a
large class of our fellow-citizens is the most
short-sighted policy and is suicidal in its
tendency. It is the genius of this country to
give every man a fafr chance in life, whether
he be foreign or native born, black or w bite.
And yet we find the Democracy of Ohio in
tlie exercise of their hatred, appealing to
the passions and prejudice? of ignorant
white men for special privileges to some
and for denial of right to others. Tim
Republican party stands for the equality of
all citizens b foVc the law, and especially
does it care for fhe p;- and toiling masses.
As if opposed slavery, so con - it oppose mo
nopoly and oppress'inn of lycry sort. The
eoh.rcd man should be permitted to cat. and
sleep an. I travel whithsoever he Mil, entitled
to the same privileges 11s others, and "ro
tcctcd bv the same law that is mcr us lib.
"
In conclusion, penult me to say that for
reasons, some of w hieh I hav e stilted to-night,
mid other which will be discussed during
the irpproachiuir canvas, I lii inly bebeve the
good of Lhe country requires that the Repub
lican parlv be continued in power.
If all the people of Ohio who think the Re
publican parly ought t-, continue lhe admin
istration of the Government yvill take the.
trouble to ote this fall, we shall elect our
State ticket, which bears the names of singu
larly unexceptional men, mid continue our
ascendency iu the Congress of the nation.
Ohio Republican State Platform.
oh-.it. 1. Tli.it we reiiMirni Hie principle"
iiml policy nf tlie Ih-piililn-an pa.fr ix anriiuiiiceil
In- its null, mill con cut i. in : that we are I'loinl
oi il history and meat serviee, mid we rei llly
ioiiiininil 1 he i-'or and Ion e liv which f' main
tained Ho- I nl. .11. iili.ili-le'd "lai.-ry. mid sccureu
iinil civil and political 1 iL'tits r. 11I I citizens.
W e demand that thee I itlils lie eiiloreed by n-
i-npi i.ite h rislat ion, so that 1 1 i lti.eiiH shall
Hiv e the e.pial eiij.il un lit of tin ir right".
II .. .1. ...... ...I ..I ..., lo.t.li.- n,.il liilelltr to
their i iui pies, the honest 1 ju-i'iitlmi ol'tli"
Iileil 'es made to tlie people, plllllv, 1 11 te-jri I y mill
eiuiioniv iu lhe discharge r t In ir otliciiil duties,
mid tlie 'prompt ami leailess e va nnnal ion ami
piiiiii-hin.-iil of those who Mol.ite miy ol tlieir
old i ':it ions.
Tlnit we favor 11 tarltr for revenue, willi Hilcli
inciiieiital proieetion as may aid und viicouriigu
Aiiiertriin imliiHlry.
:t. That u e d.-ti. 111 nee nil forms of open or covert
r.-pudi.-it ion, ami declare tli.it justice uud the
iihlie liiilli alike dei1111111ltl1.it rue iein 01 111"
nited Males he paid in accordance wild rim
letter mid spirit of the l.nvs lerwhlcli llicy
icre created, as ileclareil 111 the m l 01 1 onirress
.1 .March is. 1st!!; anil illsllie duly of lhe Na
tional Government to inlopl oncli measure" ai
i-1 1 it 1 1 gradually hut certainly rrMore our pnper
money lo a specie standard wit hour liiirk ti
the Ini-iiiesM interests ol the country.
I. That w hen t he eiiriein y shall have been ro-
stored lo a specie iiillie li.iuk 1 11.' should he liut'lo
bee. so Hint the ciictriiiliiig medium tuny expand
or cut rai l. 111 col ding lo tnc demand ol coin 111. li e
or trade.
r. That the peiiiiicrutic. parly, by its uniform
opposition to lhe iinproi.-ineiil ol our harbors
and our grent 1111 1 ional w mcr 0111 ses. lias rliown
it-elt incompetent to deal Willi the tllnlly
iinp.lanl question oi cheap ttJiirpoi I at ion ami
all internal iinproi einenls : that the cheap and
prompt traiispnrrarioii ol lhe prodiu Is ol industry
should be pionioted bv lhe National and Mute
oiei ninenls by iippropi I ilc le jilal ion.
ti. That we heart ilv Indorse lm- present Repub
lican t'oni-'ress in rcbcaiiiig tlie law increasing
ollicial salaries, in reducing t lie penses by iihiih
than jr-jn.imo.iiiHi. iu sn eesslnily resisting all
jnhs," ill abolishing I he xl 1 111 nyitiil g.neril-111,-1,
r of t he 1 lis trie I ol ( ol 11 111 1. 1.1. mid iu n-fumi
ng abuses I'enerully. whereby the IfepuullcMil
party proven to lie wormy 01 iue coniiuiious pup
port of the people.
7. That the recent outrages mid niunlerit In Hut ,
South, ol w h irh uiiolleiiiling colored cili.cns have
been the viclims, commute. I iu puisualice of lhe
noived purpose ot maintaining an exclnsim
w bite inan's I biveriiineiit," deiiiund. ninl here
by receive, the Indignant cnli'l. luiinl lull ol tlio
Repaid iciins of ( lino.
H. That rlie restraint of Inteiiipernncc und Its
auses. to lhe lull extent of the lerislnlive. jtnli
inl 11 11. 1 no! ice now er ol lhe Stale, und the loi fcit-
11 1 e of pa I die. trust lor i 11 toxica I imi. me drill a 11 (led
liv tin moral und material welfare of society and
In- Male.
!l. '1 hut we deprecate tlie action of the present
iener.-d Assembly in reorganizing tlie punitim
ml benevolent iu-t it lit ions .f the Slate lor
merely partisan political purposes, a" tending
inevitably to the miliaii incut of their tlUticiuy
mid uselulnes".
Egyptian Funerals.
A f oni!i:sroMKNT of the Cincinnati
1 nzi ftr, rit ing from Ivgypl, says:
"At the cemetery 111 t airo we hiiw a
uiK'i'al procession, und followed it out
f cni msit v. ILi f a doen men. somenl
them blind and each resting a hand on
the shoulder of another, led (he way and
hunted u melancholy nir. I hen came a
man willi a small cnflin, borne on his
.end, ami behind him were a lialf-doen
women and as many boys, the women
losely veiled, according to the custom
if tin: country. The procession did not
move in couples, according to the Occi
dental custom; there was no observance
of regularity, except that the nun were
111 front ot the colhn und tbe women ami
toys behind it. Tiny moved through
he country to a spot whe re a grave Had
icen opened; near it tlie women stopped
tnd sat down, and the bearers placed the
ollin on the ground, a priest uttered i
raver, and then tlie man who had
irought tire colli 11 a sort of oblong box"
with a shawl over it -removed the
haul, and look from beneath it the
orpse. It was that of a child nbouttwo
eiirs old, :nnl was completely wrapped
11 cloth and bound around wi!h cords,
somewhat as one miyht wrap 11 bale of
goods to keep it from falling apart. J ho
man advanced to the edge of tlie grave
ind placed the corpse inside willi very
little ceremony, or rather with no cere
mony at all. The women set up a
mournful cry, and one of tin; men of tin;
uly Hpproachcil us and luld our gunle;
that they wished us to retire. As soon
is the request was translated yve walked
aw a v, not without feeling that we. bau
been guillyof an intrusion. I have seen
several funeral processions in Cairo, and
iad previously seen them in Damascus,
Smyrna and other Oriental cities. At
all of them the custom has been tlie
ame, the singers preceding the corpse
and the mourners following it. The one
here described was the burial of the
chilrl of a poor woman, and there w as
little display and little ceremony. Some
of the processions that have come under
my notice were of considerable extent,
tlie singers or chanters numbering from
fifty to a hundred, und being accom
panied by mollahs or priests. The
corpse in such cases was covered with
rich shawls, and at the head of the cnflin
there was a small post to sustain the cap
worn by lhe deceased. In the tombs of
the wealthy these caps remain at the
head of the cnflin, and the visitor to the
tombs of tlie various Sultans of Tuikey
will not fg.il to notice how in variably the
fez is placed at the head of him who
once wore it. The coflin is supported on
the shoulders of four bearers, and there
is frequently a relay to take tlieir places
from time to time; and there is a large
following of friends of tlie deceased,
some on foot and some mounted on don
keys, and from time to time a sound of
wa'iling rises from tlie mourning party.
Suriie of the mourners are said to be pro
fessionals hired for the occasion, while
others belong to the family of the de
funct. The crowd in the streets does
not suspend its avocations or pay the
slightest sign of respect for the proces
sion beyond making room for it to pass.
And frequently persons in a hurry, and
wishing to cross lhe line of the proces
sion, do so without ceremony."
A Lesson in Jlanners.
IIahtiy sat at his father's side at a
friend's table. Somebody passed him
the bread. Harry touched a piece that
wii j dry, so he dropped it and took a
softer one.
" Zly son," said the father, reprovingly,
" never touch a piece of bread or cake
that you never mean to take."
Harry ate his bread ami remembered.
After a while the cake w as passed round.
When it came to Harry, the little fingers
made a quick, adroit movement, and
hauled oil' three lanre slices.
"Why, Harry!" cried his father.
"Well, papa"," said the boy, bravely,
"you told me to take all the pieces I
touched, and I touched all these."
"No, no. my son; I said to touch only
what vou meant to take."
" And that's just what I did, papa. I
meant to take every one, and I tried for
that other big slic e with the pile of sugar
on it, but I didn't quite get it."
- Everybody laughed, and the father
wisely concluded to give Harry his next
lesson in table etiquette at home,