The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, February 15, 1884, Image 3
--".rwWfc'wwTw ' 35z2J&fcas yteMriiw i w f r W fa J i ' i J THE RED CLOUD CHIEF. A. C. HOSHER, Publisher. RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA. THEN. Kofore I reed the waiter. It was my dreadful dcom Ti get my dinner later Than any in the room. I lasted willy-nilly. f tfiit I ued to dream. And everything was chilly 1-viepting the ice-cream. K-n mildly I protested. And ordered other things. He looked uninterested. -And thing sarcastic flings. Hi iiom? was e'er inclined up. He muttered 'neath his breath. I think heM made his mind up -l starve me quite to death. J never could restrict him; 1 suuddcred at his sneer In short. I was a victim Of dignified hauteur. NOW. Rut since I feed the waiter, file's never oufof sight: unto my wants he'll cater, Oppressively polite. He nums a tune ecstatic. While taking my behests. In manner most piratic He rolis the other guests. Around my chair he lingers. He smiles with all his might: Hi- tries things with his tinger.s. To make quite Mire the v're right. l--thetic his position It w-as.not so or yore. Ills accent is 1'arisaiu It never was he fore. The daintiest of viands I never sun without. All find their ivav to mv hands I'm really grow in? stout. NOW TIIEX Take warning from the pcet A quarter's all 'twill cost: 1 ou'll thrive if you bestow it. Withhold it and you're lost. llatT'j IS. Hm Ui, In Current. MADE OB MARRED. HV JESSIK KOTHERRII.L, .AtilAor of "One of 'Hirer." "Probation," "The mUf.eUU;' Etc. CnArTKU XII.-Co.vn.vcEn. Thus the weeks Hew on. and Grace, despite the vivid hopes and fears of her privaf life, continued a diligent student at the college courses. Occasionally she and Mabelle Fairfax would take their way together, to or from school and college: when the hours of their classes happened to coincide Grace could not reist Mabelle. despite her aetive dis 1 ke to the girl's sister, and all herwavs and works: and Mabelle aj)peared to derive a pleasure, intense, though al most timid, from the society of Grace. "She is a wonderful child," Grace pahl to Thekla one day. "I am cer tain .she is rea'ly clever. She seems to have read almost everything; she says, when her fa: her was afive s chad noth ing to do but read to herself ami him. I fancy she was kept in the background, and so had time to improve her mind, ami .-euse enough to do it. But she is awfully old for her age: she is only just sixteen you know." Indeed. Mabelle was in many re spects very old for her age, while in others she was really younir. A shad ow had undoubtedly brooded over al most the who!e of her young life, inter course with none but persons older than herself had forced some of her powers to an early maturity, while a strong, sweet and unseltish nature had (juietly received and accepted the burden of poverty and reversed circumstances, which to Angela hail appeared so great a calamity, Mich an unheard-of 'woe, that almost any means of escape from it presented .tself to her mind as legiti mate. From the first it had been Ma belle who had acted and done, who had devised wins and means who had faced the world; it had been Angela who had snatched at the gifts sent by the gods, while grumbling that they were not better Si'ice Philip's departure, Mabellc's spirits appeared to have revived somewhat- It would have been impossible toay what the child had in her heart whai vague icjoicing that Philip was out of harm's way. or what nii-iy hopes that in a ear's absence, amidst new and exciting scenes, he might, perhaps, unlearn something of the passion that had possessed him when he departed. When the time for lessons began aindti, Angela, like other people, was forced to work, and MabeKe's sad little face even began to wear a smile now and then. J,iko all heallhv natures, she turned gladly to work as a tonic and a bracing inl.'uence, and like niaity "nesperienccd natures, she Imagined tha what to her was so good and strengthening inu-t necessarily work wonders m even.-one else. Mabelle saw the relationship between Philip and her sister with her own eves, not with An gela's, and to those eyes it seemed a good and a beautiful thing that a man should go out into the world and work, and that the woman he left at home be hind him should not be ashamed to work, too, when the end in view was mutual union and happiness. So she looked at the matter. and imagined that o'her eyes would see it in the same light. She had been thinking the question over one afternoon, late in October, as she sat alone,' preparing her tasks for the following day. It was one of the afternoons on which Angela's time wns entirely taken up with several music ics-ons, and she would not be at home until nearly live. It was approaching that hour, and the room was growing dark, when Mabclle, unwilling to 'draw down the blinds and expel the list gle:yu of daylight, took her Sch'ller to The window," to catch the last pale beam of even, while she did her meed of translation for class. It was a passage from the "Jungfrau von Orleans "that she had just translat ed, and turning from that monotonous, if severely beautiful, verse, she opened the page at some shorter poems. The leaves fell apart naturally at her favor ite "Ode to Joy."' and be read the last verses slowly, "pondering over the end one of all. and thinking: "That i true poetry, and what u splendid man he would be who answered to the description.' With this she rested her chin on her ban 1. and locked steodily out of the w'ndow. She saw two persons coming ,j tj,t, street in earnest conversation. Mabelle' s eye wavered, her cheek paled, but she was'not near-sighted.and shy was hi her sane mind inposesiou of all her f:uulies. She knew it was no delusian- There was Angela, slowly advancing, and. that man who carried her roll of music and looked earnestly into her face was Mr: Fordyce. Certainly there was no possibility "of a mistake in the mat ter. They "advanced slowly, paused at the gate to exchange some parting words, when there was a shake of the hand, a look from the gentleman, ac companied by a bow in which there was more of good intentions than of elegant performance; an appealing glance from the lady. Mr. Fordyce walked briskly away down the street, and Angela rang tho front-door bell. "Wiry, child, you are almost in the dark; I can't sec my way," she said as she came in. "Do let us have the gas lighted, and some tea. I am dying for a cup of tea." "Angela, was that Mr. Fordyce who came with you to the gate?" "Mr. Fofdyce?' repeated Angela, in a changed voice, which strove to break into an indifferent laugh; "yes ma belli it was. Dear old thing he is! What then?" "Had he walked far with you?" "From Canton Road, just above the Berghauses. It was there I met him." "And he turned back with you?" "He did. Really, I have had enough of this catechism. You are not a cheer ful sister. Here am I, half dead with cold and fatigue, and you begin to cross question me as if I were' a witness sus pected of dishonesty. You do forget yourself strangely, sometime." She rang the bell sharply and desired the servant to bring some tea. Then she lighted the gas with her.own hands, and when Mabelle looked at her, she saw.a Hush on her cheeks and a light, as of triumph, in her C3"cs. The words of the verses she had been reading seemed to ring in Mabolle's ears. Was her sister without it that moral quality which holds compacts sacred ' Vows once made, kopt evermore: Truth maintained "twi.xt Itiond and foe'" Or was she one of those women who will puisne any by-path through life which promises most ease to the feet, and the pleasantet banks to rest upon. even though to do it she must go forever with "a lie in her right hand?" The tension of doubt and distress be came almost unbearable to the young girl. The cloud which for a fow weeks had been lifted, settled more heavily than ever over her head. Perhaps Angela might not suffer, but she did. Whenever she saw Grace, she felt an impulse to cover her face w th her hands; she wished hc could sink into the earth and be forever lost to sight. When she saw the letters in the thin foreign envelopes, with the outlandish stamp, and the round black address to Miss Fairfax, and saw those others with the sinalf, clear, delicate tracery, ad dressed to "Philip Massev. Esj., H. 15. M. Consulate, Y , China," Mabclle felt as if the world were upside down, were one vast, black, hideous lie, and she a part of it. For the lirst meeting between Mr. r ordyce and Angela, which hadshocked her and sent a cnill foreboding to her heart. was not the last: but. warned bj the result of it. Angela had never again allowed Mabclle a chance of expostu lating with her. Her affairs were cleverly managed. The girl could now only guess, surmise, suspect; wear out her heart with conjectures which she could not substantiate, and rack her brains with consideration of the prob lem whether she must leave Philip to his fate or betray what she thought of her sister, and possibly be found wrong after all. CHAPTER XIII. comix.':. With Faster, Avhieh the followingyear fell late, came a letter from Philip to Angela, breathing hope.high and strong. His work was nearby over; in a month or six weeks at the latest he hoped to be well on his homeward way. "Philip coming home! Just fancy!" cried Miss iairfax, with unusual ani mation. "Philip coming home? Oh! when?" crieil Mabelle, a liush crossing her pale face. t "Soon." he says. "In six weeks,"' replied Angela, with an un-jasv lawh. "Thank Heaven! Then all "will '"be well, and you will have no more of this suspense which is so trying and so hard to bear," said Mabelle," with emotion, as she kisseil her. "Trying! It is wearing bevond eerv- thing. It has reduced me to a mere skeleton, said Angela, whose face was certainly a little wasted, but lovelier than ever, and who-e dark eyes looked larger, more pensive, more mournful, if possible, than of old. In truth Angela was suffering. She was playing lor what seemed to her high stakes money, ease, position; immunity from "drudgery" and pover ty; exemption from the necessity of wearing cheap gloves and common, ill made gowns: from having to ride in an omnibus, or go on foot; from having to see women who were often ugly, old or vulgar, or all three, ride by in their car riages, while her lovely self carried her own parcels on the footpath. She was playing her game desperately, and. with an energy which she" could have given to no other object i:i the heavens auove or the earth beneath; and now this let ter told her that she was playing it against time, and with terrible odds against her the odds that Philip would return and openly claim her before the other man made "the offer for which she was waiting. When Philip had gone away, with all his hard fight before him, and his fort une to make, the prospect of what he offered her on his return had seemed elysium in comparison with her actual lot: but even yet Philip's fortunes were nearly all to make, and a hundred things might happen to mar their bright ness; whereas Mr. Fordyce, though el derly, slow and awkward, held in his hands all the things she coveted, and with a word eould make them hers. How was she to bring the affair to a "happy" termination: how continue to hooriwink Mabelle, deceive Philip, smile at Grace, keep Mr. Fordyce still in love, and still in good humor? She v. as not wrong when she said the pro cess was "wear'ng." Grace was overjoyed in the prospect of Philip's speedy return, but Mabelle's eager expectancy was tinged with a hcavv despondency the prevision of a coming catastrophe, which, strive as she would, she could not banish. "He will be here directly," said hope, "and all will be well." "He can not come for weeks yet," muttered apprehension, "and in a few weeks much that is bad and disastrous may happen." Between tUc two moods' tho girl was worn to a shadow, and sometimes al most hysterical from her agonized men tal debate as to what was best or most right to do betray her suspicions of her sister (for they were but suspicions) at the last moment, when all might so soon be put right, or maintain silence, though all should go wrong. CHAPTER XIV. CONFESSION. One afternoon, when the time of Philip's promised .arrival was drawing near, Thekla Berghaus went to call upon Grace Massev. She found her, as she had expected, at home and alone, with books spread around her and a sheet of paper before her. "What are you doing?" asked Thek la. "Are you busy? Do I disturb you. "You never disturb me. I was doing this work now, intending to walk up to your house this evening, but 1 am glad you came here instead." Take oil' your hat, and we'll have a cup of tea." Thekla did not decline the proffered hospitality. She put oil" her hat, seat ed herselt on the sofa and said: "I am glad I found you in. I did not v-rm in I ilifl nnr. wmr. ... -. ........ J w. .... .. ... ..WW ..M..W you to come up to our house to-night, or at all, until I had seen you and spoken to vou." "No! Why?" asked Grace, looking up in momentary surprise. "Bocause you would have discovered something which I want to tell you not leave you to find out." "All!" said Grace, sweeping away her books and writing materials as the maid came in with the tr.iy of afternoon tea. She said nothing more, but poured out some for Thekla, who sat looking somewhat nervous. Grace carried the cup to her, placed t beside her at the corner of the table, and laying one hand on Thekla's shoulder, said in a low voice: "Thekla, you have got engaged to some one! " Yes, 1 hive," replied Thekla, sud denly looking up, and throwing her arms round Grace's neck, she pressed it tightly with one or two convulsive little hugs; "I have. What have you to sav to it?'" "tell me first if it is Mr. Keich har.lt?" "It is Fr'tz Re'chhardt yes." "Then 1 wish you every happiness that you deserve, and if you get that you will- have no end of joy. Fritz "Ueichhardtis a good fellow. I "think he deserves vou, too. almost." "Thank you; I'll tell him so," said Thekla, beginning to stir her tea. Both girls had hard work to abstain from tears, partly because they irere girls, talking about an engagement, and partly because of a Hood of memories of hopes, fears and tender thoughts, which had agitated both theirhearts, and to which.'as they both felt, it would be terribly dangerous to make any al lusion. Thekla knew that Grace had ardently desired Philip to fall in love with her. and ask her to marrv him, and Grace i knew that she knew it. ("race knew that Thekla had more than liked Philip; that siuce his engagement to Angela "Fairfax she had sutlered. and that this engagement meant, amongst other Vnngs, escape from a condition which oppressed her: and Thekla knew that Grace knew all this. But they were both wisely silent on the subject. Grace poured out some tea for herself, and said: " I suppose it is only just settled, and if I had i ome unexpectedly this even ing 1 should have found Mr. Reich hardt there in his new and successful ro!c of accepted suitor and you wished to come and explain first." "Yes, that is all about it,'" assented Thekla; " but you will come all the same, and see him and me in that role. you speak of, wont ou?"' " With pleasure: but m that case I shall have to ask you to go away at once, ru le though it may seem, or I shall never have my Euclid ready for to-morrow morning." " I go at once." said Thekla, rising. "All. there is Mabelle Fairfax coming home from school. How wretched the child looks!" " Does she not? My heart aches for her. somehow." " Perhaps Angela bullies her."' "I haven't a doubt of it: but I know that when Angela is married to Philip there will be no bullying. "Nothing enrages him so much as to see weak things oppressed." lleieTnckla took her departure, and Grace was left alone, to return to her definitions with the reflection: "Site is quite right quite. But if it could only have been different'" CHAPTER XV. THE KM) OF A DREAM. It was half-past one on the following day when Grace Masscy and Mabelle Fairfax came .-lowlj'up Lawrence street together, returning, the one from school, the other from college! They had met in Carlton Road, and come on in company. " Philip will soon be here now," said Grace. "You must put ou a better face to welcome him, Mabelle. You look so white and washed out what they call fair pining,' where 1 come from." "Oh, lam all right," said Mabelle, with a sickly smile." "Has Angela heard from Philip again?" "Not since that day she had a letter saying lie was off to Hong Kong, a ml sailed" in two days: at least," added Mabelle. conscientiously, "she has not heard again so far as I know; twt I go off to school before the postman comes. Angela does not go out till later." " Yes. Ilv the ivav, I think vou have . - too long hours at school. W hen your holidays come you must pay us a visit at Foulhaven. " I am sure it" will do you good, and by that time, thank good ness, Philip's engagement w 11 be pub lie property, and it would be the most natural thing in the world for you to come. I hate all this secrecy, and I feel it an absolute wrong to mv father and mother; but surely it will all be over 'Ihope so," said .Mabelle, with a still fainter smile,- as they arrived, at houi'. "Get your dinner,"' pursued the prac tical Grace. "You 'look almost starv ing, and as for me, I'm ravenous." With a cheering ifod she parted from Mabelle, and went to her own quarters. The table was spread, and Grace, throwing off her hat and mantle, was about to ring the bell for dinner (for in Lawrence street that meal was usually taken iti the middle of the day), when a letter on the mantelpiece, addressed in her mother's hand, caused her to pause. She opened it, and was reading it. "Deaii Giiacvv Thanks for your nice long letter, and tell Miss licrghaus that " A ring a strange, trembling, yet loud, importunate ring at the front door, beginning, as it were, timidly, and then repeated loudly. So strange a sound was it that Grace forgot the "ravenous" hunger she had spoken of, forgot her letter, and stood still, her head raised, listening. Presently the front door was opened, and Grace could hear nothing that passed, only that the door closeuagain. and some one came in. Then it all seemed like a weird dream the parlor door was pushed open, and Mabelle stood there looking like some unhappy little ghost: she seemed to have shrunk away and become shorter, smaller, thinner, during the five or six minutes which had elapsed since Grace parted from her. Her face was white, her lips open, her eye3 distended, her whole aspect one of horror unmiti gated. "Child, child, what is the matter?" cried Grace, going to her and grasping her arm, chilled by thedook of despair in the young fa-e. "Don't touch me!" said Mabelle. in a hoarse whisper, shrinking away from 1 her. "I am not fit for you to touch, but you must know. Oh, she ought not to have left it all to me; indeed, she ought not!" In her quivering hands she held a pa per, which Grace, with an uncontrolla ble impulse to know the worst, took from her hand and read, to a broken accompaniment of scattered words and exclamations from Mabelle: "Dearest Maiieli.f. I am sure you will be surprised to find a letter instead of me when you return from school. Dearest child, you must try not to feel hurt at what 1 hac done, but you mu-t see that I ha 1 really no alterna tive. You must know how unhappy I have been in my engagement to Philip Sla'sey. As tho time approaches lor his return I feel that it is impossib'c I should ever be unltei to him it would be mi-cry: and the love which 1 have learned to feel for annthcr shows me pl.ilnly that to marry Mr. Massev would be the greatest wrong I could do. The gentleman whom I am now gomir to meet, and to whom 1 shall be mnrned this morning, is Mr. For dyce. We have looked at the matter in eery light, anil come to the conclusion that it was bc-t to liu married privately. I have written to Mr. M.issey at the hotel in I.on'lonat which he faid he should stay. I have Iett you plenty or money, dearest, to la-t while we are awav, and I will write to you as soon as possible, an 1 tell you our plan. Of course, when we return, your home will be with us. and if you are happy there I tdiall lcel that all the sacri liccs 1 have made lor you have not been in vain. An retviir, then. I will write troni Paris, and buy you something lovely there. "Your loving sister. "Angela." "The hypocrite!"" burst from the lips of Grace, as she finished; " oh, the heartless, lying jilt! Bah!" Further energetic words were on her energetic lips, but the dead silence which met her ears caused her to look up, chilled her in the midst of her fury of indiguation Mabelle was support ing herself with both hands against a chair back; pale, trembling, shivering from head to foot, and silent alwavs 1 . . ... .- silent. It seemed as it the iron of her sister's sin, and the shame of it, had en tered into her soul forever. All she could do was to stand like some creat ure which h:is sinned, and sees the mas ter's hand about to fall in chastisement stand and subm.t. The utter misery, the sick, trembling wretchedness of the girl smote Grace's heart. It was all in such contrast with her sister's base ness. to ee continued. Peculiarities of Razors and the ou Their (Miners. EfTecl "There it goes for the second time this week." petulantly ejaculated a bar ber in a down-town tonsorial parlor, as he held up n razor and looked at it in a puzzled manner. He stripped the blade and again applied it to the chin of the snap-bedaubed man in his chair. The facial contortions of the man, the rasping sound ami the look of disgust on the barber's face plainly showed that all was not right. He tried several razors, but they would not work. Then he borrowed a razor from the boss and succeeded in scraping some of the hair from the face of the customer. Judging from the remarks of the cus tomer after the operation was per formed, he scraped something more than hair. After the man left, the barber went to the boss and said: 'That razor has gone back on mo again.1 He spoke as though all hope had departed. "That's your own fault," coolly ob served the boss. "Didn't 1 tell vou tc put. it near the stove when we "locked up last night? You can't expect a razor to stand by you if 3-011 neglect tc treat it right." The barber went back to his chair and a reporter besought the boss to tell him something about razors. "Every barber has his pet razor," he "began. "Whenever a beard comes in that can't be touched by any of the regular working razors the barber takes out his box andpicks out his favorite razor. The barber believes that that particular razor will cut any beard, and j its previous performances makes this belief reasonable. Gradually he begins j to respect that razor and to -devote es-1 pecial care to it. When it goes back on him he is lost. He almost believes that I the razor is a thing of life. Why, J have seen barbers accuse another ol foodooiug' their pet razor." "What is the matter with this bar ber's razor? 1 see he is soaking it in hot water." said the reporter. "Cold weather and undue exposure. The edge of a razor is a very delicate thing. Heat and cold ailcct.it. Under :l strong magnifying-glass the edge of a razor wh:eh has been exposeil to the cold would seem like a saw. Hot water throws the little particles backinto place and makes the edge smooth. A sudden change in the weather always affects the razors in a barber-shop and the tem pers of the barbers." Chicago News. . Why should work people imitate the wind? The wind is always bus-, and, like a cheerful operator, it whistles at its work. Senatorial Speeches on the Southern Outrage Question. Tn the Senate on tho 20th ult. Mr. Sherman's resolutions 011 the Virginia and Mississippi elections were taken up. Mr. Sherman said that since the beginning of the pi esent session he had felt that recent events in the States of Virginia and Missis sippi were of such importance as to demand a full and impartial invcs'igatiou of the causes that led to them, the real facts involved, and the proper constitutional remedies to prevent their recurrence, and. if necessary, to further secure to all American citizens freedom of speech in the open assertion of political opin ions and the peaceful exercise of the right to vote. Now that sullicicnt time had elapsed to allay to some extent the excitement caused ly these events he hoped the Senato would inalte this investigation, so our citizens in every State might understand how far the National Government could protect them in the enjoyment of their rights: or if it was helpless or listlesa that, no longer relying upon the barren declarations of tlte Constitu tion, each man for himself might appeal to the right of self-defense or to the boasted American right or migration to more friend ly legions. The allegations in this resolution as to tho Danville riot or lmwtucre were, ho taid. founded upon statements in the public prints, supported by the oaths of witnesses, and their substantial truth is al9o verilled by the published state ment of a member or this body a Senator Trom the State of Virginia. The allegations as to Mississippi were lounded upon copious narratives in the public prints, proceedings of public meetings, and the act and f.iilure to act of olltccrs of theState Government, including Governors, Judges, courts ami juries. It these statements are true then in both those Suites there have been organized conspiracies to Mibert the freedom of elections, accompa nied by murder and violence in many forms. 1 Tnc crimes depicted arc not ordinary crimes. but those of the prevailing majontyto sub vert by violence the hignest constitutional privileges or citizens, and they could not from their nature bo inquired of or punished by ordinary tribunals. "If," ho said, "they are true, then in those communities the members of our party and our race have no rights which the prevailing majority are bound to respect." lie had no desire to open up sec tional questions or renew old t-t riles. Still, if thee allegations n ere' true, it would be a cow ardly shrinking from the gravest public duty to allow such e .cuts to deepen into precedents which would subvert the foumhitloii of Ke publican institutionsand convert our elections into organized crimes. , If tho events at Danville were the result of a chance outbreak or 1 iot between opposing parties or different races of men, they might properly bo left to be dealt with by the local uutttorities; but if riot ami massacre were part of the machinery devised by a party to deter another party or race from freedom of elections or free open expression of political opinions, then they eon-tit uted crime against the National Government, and tho highest duty of the Government was to maintain at every hazard 1 he euual rights ami privileges of citizens. If the'eveiitsof Coniah County, Miss., were mcrjly lawless invasions of indi vidual rights, then, though they involved murder, as well as other crimes, they should be left to local authority, and if justice could not Le administered by the courts and a citi zen was without a lemedy from lawless vio lence, then he must full back upon his right ot self-dereue. or. failing in that, must seek a home where his rights shall be respected or observed. Hut if these individual crimes in volved, the greater one of organized con spiracy of a party or race to deprive another party or race of citizens of the enjoyment of unquestioned rights, nccoinp.m.o 1 with overt ucts. with physical power sullicicnt to accom plish the purpose, then it bei-amo a National question which must be dealt with by the National Government. The war emancipated ami maJf citizens of live millions of people who had been slaves. No court ever denied the power of tho Na tional Government to protect citizens in tho essential right of lrceaien. No man should bo allowed to hold a seat in either Houe of Con gress whose election was secured by crimes such as are depleted here, nor was it suit'Cient to say the elections referied to were not Na- t onat ejections in tne sense tnat ttiey tun not involve the eleetio'i of a President or mem ber of Congress-. While the power of Congress over the election ofScnators, Itcpresentativcs and President extended to tlu making and altering of laws and regulations pass d by the respective tuates, and thcreto-e was luller than in respect to State elections, yet the Con stitution p.ovided that: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and ettects. aga-nst unreasonub.o searches a-id seizures, shall not be violated:" that "all persons born or natunilired in the United States and subject to tho Jurisdiction thereof ate eltiensof the United States;" that "no State shall make or enforce any law which shall a'iridtre the privileges or immuni ties of citizens of the United States: nor shall any State deprive any person ot Hfe.liberty, or property witnout uu.-process of law: nordeny any person within the jurisdiction the o'tual p.otectioa ot the law;" and that "the lights of citizens of the I ni.cd States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the L nited States or by any State ou account of rave, color, or previous condition of servitude." It Is also declared that "Congress shall have power to make all laws ncces-ary and proper to carrying into execution the foregoing powers and all other powers vested bv this Lnnstitution 111 tlie uoverumeut or t lie l nited States orin anydcpartmeiu oroflkerthcreof." Power is als given Congress to enforce all recent amendments by appropriate legisla tion. If the essential rights of citizenship were overthrown by the State or the people oftheStaie with the sanction of the local au thorities within the limi.s of the Mate, then Congress, as the legislative power of tho United States, s b uml to provide additional safeguards and should exhaust all the powers of tne National Government to maintain these essential rUhts of citizenship within the limits of all the States in as lull and complete a manner as it would guard or protect the un questioned rights of citizens oT the United Stales within the domains of the most pow er! til Nations ot the- world. He could ap preciate the changes that had occurred to the Southern States and that natural antagonisms would arise by tho emancipated slaves min gling in the 3ame community with their for mer masters. He eou'd pardon tho prejudices or race, caste, and. own localities, and the American people, he thought, had waited with great lorbearancc for the time when constitutional rights would bo respected without reganl to nice, color, creed, or party. If the time hail come when the members of the Itepublican party, throutrh whose agency largely the exi-tenco of the Government had been maintained, could not enjoy constitu tional rights, were murdered at the ballot box without fotr of punishment 011 the part of the murderers, were driven from their homes bv outrauc and terror, and that black and a hite alike were subjected to ostracism and Inju tee. and as n party disfranchised, then, indie 1. was a put; eat inquiry demanded and lull, open, manly assertion that rights and equalities should be maintained and enforced at e cry hazard. If the Copiah resolutions were the creed or the Democratic party South, then indeed was the war a failure. They seemed to htm the very germ of despotism and barbarity; aud yet he was assured by the gentlemen friendly :o them that they were the creed of nine tenth of the party in power in Mississippi. It was right that the groundwork of opinions so utterly repugnant to republican institutions should bo known. "In this investigation." lie said, "I would sek every palliation for excuse or tho con duct of the people complained of. I would ?ive to their motives and to the natural feel ings of mankind in their situation the most charitable construction. 1 would givo to them ali the political power they ever en joyed, and without uukindness, or pains, or penalties, or even reproaches: I would extend to them every right, favor, or facility enjoyed by any citizen in any part of our country: but when this concession is made them I would demand that in the States under their control the freedom and equality of rights and privileges guaranteed by the Constitution and laws to all citizens, white or black, native or naturalized, poor or rich, ignorant or learned, Republican or Dem ocrat, shall be secured by the Stato Govern ment, orlf not, that these rights and privileges shall bo asserted nnd maintained by tho Na tional Government. Upon this issue I would appeal to every gonerous-minded man, ta cvfry lover of his count rj't to every one who wishes to onjoy his own rights by his own flre Bido free from embarrassment, to stand by those who. yielding to others tho protection of the laws in the enjoyment of equal rights, will demand tho same for themselves and their associates." SESATOR 3IAHONE. Mr. Mahone's speech was similar in charac ter to the address he recently issued to the public concerning the Virginia situation. He briefly reviewed tho history of Virginia since tho war and said that at no tlmo in the glo rious history of Virginia, until the late canvass and election for the Legislature, had a senti ment found root with any party that political ends may bo achieved by such festering methods as gave rise to tho Daurillc massacre. The faction leader.;, for their own purposes, had set on foot a snotgun scheme to compel Irresolute and timid voters t indorse at the polls principles which already have been re pudiated. In conclusion Mr. Mahono said: "To discov er the gross violations of human rights whieh have been committed In Virginia during the 'ate political campaign and to find and apply the remedy T take to bo tho object of tho pro posed investigation. I have no fear the State will sutler by tho inquiry. On the contrary. 1 am confident she will cmcrje from it 1 ree from all stain upon the reputa tion of tho majority of her people.whlle uport the violent faction will he found tho respon sibility nnd blood of her murdered citizens. Here, where tho breath of freclom has ever inspired devotion to the God-given rights of men; here, in the Government founded on tho ever-living basis of equnl rights. Is the placo to set on toot an Investigation or such flagrant acts of moral turpitude and crime in contra vention of the Constitution and laws of tho Union nnd to reach out for the remedy." On the conclusion of Mr. Manone's remarks calls of "Vote" were heard, and the Clialr announcing the question to be on agreeing to the resolution, and the demund for tho yeas and nays made, without remark from any Democratic Senator, the matter was brought to a vote and tho resolution passed 2J yeas, -J uaya. A. Bit or Secret History. The following letter from Judah P. Benjamin, then United States Senator from Louisiana, to the British Consul in New York, was left among Thurlow Weed's papers, and is given in the vol ume of memoirs of his grandfather whieh Thurlow Weed Barnes Is now carrying through the press. It is re produced 'by the Now York Tribune from tho advanee sheets of that volume: New Yohk. August 11. 18C0. Dear Sin: I exceedingly regiet your ab sence from New York at this time, as the im portant object of my visit Is to have a person al and confidential interview with you. My apo!ogy for this breach of conven tional usage in presuming to address 3-011 without the formality of an introduction may be pardoned In consequence of the ery ex traordinary nature of the business which irf dueed me to approach you without the friend ly intervention of a third party. Indeed, it would not only have been unwise, but actual ly dangerous, for me to have even borne a letter of introduction. Having assumed the whole responsibility of this very critical step, I can not ue toy much caution and circumspection to insure my personal safety and the successful accom plishment of the mission I have In view. Therefore 1 prefer trusting my own judgment in approachin? a genteel stranger on such business to that of bringing into my service the scrawls of Governors or members of Con gress, with whom, perhaps, you nro as. little acquainted as myself. The oflicial confidenco whieh your Govern ment seems to repose in you. by intrusting to your chat ge its great commercial affairs in the most Important city on this continent, I think is sullicicnt to warrant main trustinir to your discretion, patriotism and loyalty a se cret of the greatest importance and interest to her Britannic Majesty's Kingdom. The present disastrous condition of political alfairs in the United States (which has no par allel in the past history of tho country) seems to have split the great Democratic party into many contending factions, all of which art so hungry after the public spoils that its disin tegrated parts render them an easy prey to the opposing Black Republicans. The doctrines maintained by the Republican party aro so unsuitable to the treat Interests of the whole South that an election of their candidate (which is almost certain) amounts to a total destruction of all plantation inter ests, which the South, as sure as there is a God in Heaven, will not submit to. Sooner than yield to tho arbitrary diet urs of traitor ous allies and fals- friends, who have proven recreant to the solemn ohliirati ins ot our old Constitution, we will either secede from tho Union and form a separate Government, or, upon certain conditions, at once return tc our allegiance to Great Britain, our mother country. Many, very many of the most wealthy and influential planters throughout the South have already discussed this alternative, in the e-ont of the election of Mr. Lincoln, and the nopularitj- of the proposition sterns to pass irom one to another almost with an elastic rapidity. It is true they hav,o made 1:0 public demonstration of their intent:ons, for such a course would be attended with direful consequences at this time, bet (Ac puir will be fti'.'tf rive befure Xorrmber. Gossiplmr newsmongers and babbling pot house politicians are not allowed to know what is going on in their very midst. Seleet dinner-parties cmio off every dar throughout tho whole South, and not one of them ends without a strong accession to our forces. 1 have even hoard some of them address each other by titles already. My object iu apprrashing you is to cultivate your friendship and procure your co-operation in aid of accomplishing this grand object of rcturnimr to the dominion of our fathers' Kingdom. Through yourkindness ami lovalty to your Queen, I am desirous of proporlv ap proaching her Ma'esty's Mini-ter at Washing ton city, with a view to tho accomplishment of this great end. If you will condescend to grant me tho necessary assistance for this purpose, you will son recen e the meritorious 1 eward of your most gracious Queen and the hearty cheer f rem every true ltriton's heart for having aided in the return of the National prodiiraK Reposing that confidenco in you which your position in l'fe warrants me" in doing, you must at present excuse mo for not slirningmy name for fear of an are'dent. This much you maykn'w: I am a Soutlnon and a member of Congress, whose untiring perseveranco will never cease until the object t have thus Jold ly undertaken is fully accomplished. Re so kind as to answer this as early as possible. Allow me a personal interview, and. if you can not come to New York, address your answer to "Renjamin," In care of tome one at yout office. The Sew Ohio Idea. The country has just been mado ac quainted with a new Ohio idea. The old, familiar one. related to the cur rency and was long since exploded. This fresh one has to do with civil-service reform and is fully as worthy of re spect as the other. Mr. Payne unfolded this civil-service reform Ohio idea (patented, all rights reserved) at a supper which he gave the other night to the men who elevated him to the Senatorship. In the course of some remarks to his guests he said: "Now. can this service (the civil-service) be reformed, and by what process? I answer yes. And the process is first by electing a Democratic President secondly Try a spitiless and rad-cal overhauling and purging of the present service. Then let care be taken that none but such as bear the Jeffer socian stamp of 'honesty and capacity be allowed to enter, and those only from the Democratic party, until its full ratable share enter to guard and protect the public interest." Verily thig is a dazzling Ohio idea. All that tho country needs to secure civil-service re form is a Democratic President and a fair divide! If Mr. Payne does not re ceive his party's nomination for the Presidency, after that, it certainly will not be because of his attitude on civil service reform.. The rank and file of tho Democracy have been anxiously looking about for a statesman Avith just these sentiments, one who would insist upon giving the boys a full ratable share' ' "of otticial pap. Of course, in de termining what was a full ratable sharo the fact would have to be kept in mind that Democracy has not had any sharo at all sinc 18C0. And that fact would suggest tiat, if the two parties are to stand on the same footing. Democrats must hold all the oflices for as long a period as the Democracy has been kept out of power a matter of a quarter of a century. Mr. Payne does not indeed alludo to this fact. But we feel sure that if ho ever gets to be President lie will interpret "a full ratable share" in a generous spirit. It is to be added that the guests ap plauded Mr. Payno to the echo, and that he hail, the magnanimity to refrain from formally reading -George H. Pen dleton out of the party. Ar. Y. Tribune Mrs. John Wood, of Brooklyn, gol the idea that her hnsoand had Sii other wives and went crazy. Brooklyn Eagle. I Xr I I"-.' ; 1 I M fWi K S. r f? tJUEJ-'J .'lr ?'??' - - - - " ' - .. "A . v, A--. '-. &&5g!kx. &iJr