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"? -n ' "Ji'li . y W l in i V V. r THE EED CLOUD CHIEF. - - A. C. HOSMEB, PiSlislier. RED r-Lorn. - XI',,''AICA -4 r.ll'SE BY TIIE WAY. -J?.an' " stand upon the -spot w here, wlien u nor. I plareJ, PI?" "i'011 t'a'clian-iil -erne w Men pas-im-years have made, ua. sweet, sweet tim". what pain it lie er will oiiiiu again. WJ?at thouK I '"Ink or namo attained. or wealth and lame acbicviHl, -And avu myself: "Havel not von More than my hopes believed?" in. sweet, sweet time, what pain It tie er v ill come again. Ah. vain, how vHinl the heart will know No jojs like those or youth: And name and tame can ne'er restore ue fc0''1 once wu te witn truth. h sweet. STcrt time, what pain U x e'er wih come again. Fond viions of thoe other day Itito my memoir roll. And all their wealth or hope and lore l'our full acros my souL Oh. -ueet. sweet time, what pain It ne'er will come aguin. Ah, could I be a b.iy onec more Ileneath these azure skies. Where tlrst m infant teet were set And all my treasure lies: Oh, meet, suoet time, what pain It ne'er wilt come a?ain. O, hope and loves that have their graves In far-off happy jears. My heart is sad and Ikws itelf Alio re your mounds in tears! Oh. sweet, sweet time, what pain It ne er will come amin. Julia C Haliy, in C1iicag CvrrtnL - MADE OR MARRED. BT JESsIE KOTHEItGILI., Author of -One of Three" "Probation." "Tht wtMcxsr tr. CIIAPTnu XX. Coxn.vrEtx Slowly Mabelle took her way through the garden gathering here anil there some s welly-scented ilower. arid linger ing amongst the many fragrances as if she could not bear to part from them. Then, by degrees, out of the garden and into the fint fields surrounding the house. No sooner had she arrived there than something jumped up aga:n;t her i dress, and looking down she perceived the fussy-looking person of Dr. Johnson, who had seen Iier proceedings in tiie hall from one corner of 'one eye. but who had only just persuaded himself to leave his delicious corner on the sofa, and who-e wriggling body and plead ng tail now said distim-tly: "You can nev- er think of leav.ng m behind! " "Oh, Dr. Johnson, you want to come, too! Well, you shall, if you don't run aiter the sheep,'" she observed, which observation the Doctor, perfectly com prehending, hailed with three active bounds and a mutry sharp, excited barks, while Mabelle's step hastened f itself somewhat in sympathy with the creature's eagerness. ? A walk of ten minutes along the well- known field-paths brought her to the cliffs, ami to the agreeable little hollow w ere she and Grace were wont to sit with their books and work, idling away the sweet, long, summer days. From this Lttlc cove one could look down upon the shore, and when the tide was high there was nothing to be seen lelow t.ut a heaving green depth, clear as crystal, and indescribably beau tiful. One might dw II for pages upon, the strange tints and shadow.-, the changing, mysterious 1-ghts andglcanis and Hashes o. foam, and sudden dark ness of that noble sea which washed the f cliffs a' -out Foulhaven. but that the de- scr'ption might wax tedious, an 1 could not give the faintest idea of the whole. Once, when some person was feebly and hopelessly quoting the words about "the light that never was, on sa or land," Mabelle suddenly burst forth: "But you are quite mi-taken; it is there! I have seen it. It is the green i light on the waves at Foulhaven." And the company laughed, and did not 1 e lieve her. i lit Mabelle spoke the words of truth and soi erness notwithstand ng. From where she sat this a'ternoon she could n it see, without standing up and entning her neck for the purpose, the two old stone piers to the soir.h, with each an odd, stumpy looking light ' -house at the end of it, between which the river r.tn into the sea. so that they helped to form a kind of harl or. in ami out of w hieh the fishing era t wont sail ing, sailing, every day, with the.r red brown or saffron-colored sails gently spreading to the 1 reeze. But she could see. as she lav 1 ack with her hands cla-ped 1 ehind her head, a little speck of the !; of the great hast Cliff, wnich I ' was so high and m'ghly, aud in stormy weather so gnm and terrii le. And upon that speck tood the defiant-looking ni'n of a very ancient abbey, ycleped X St. Ethclt'cla. " Go where one would in the neighbor hood of Foulhaven this frowning ruin conrronted one, and seemed to dom inate every part of the landscape. It looked grimly down upon the vovagors in ships at sea. while .the blue sky gleamed through the broken tracery of its fine old w inflows. By land, no mat ter where, west, north or south, though it might be hidden for a moment uy some lofty bank, some bend in the road, A or some "hedge of tree, yet, emerge once more and again you saw it, tower ing above everything1 else an ancient "uardian, endowed with the impressivc ness which only such strange, hoary buildings can have the survivor of a hundred kings, and the beacon for nrles around to those who "go down into the deep in ships." Now, Mabelle Fairfax lay baek and gazed at the gaunt old ruin and specu lated about it, and wove the webs of her hopes and fears, aud her wonders as to what life held for her as she watched whit clouds sailing seaward behind its Windows. How good they are to me'.'' she -thought. '-They actually want me to stav another month, and I have been iefe for three weeks aln ad! And how J should like it! August now. and they don't expect Philip home till October, so 1 have plenty of time to stay a month, and begone away forever so It long before he comes. Of course. I can' necr come here when he is at fcome: the very sight of me would make him furious. 1 should -think.' Here s'c sighed and ha f closed her eves, whii- herlhoughts wandered away upon other tracks, and Dr. Johnson sat beside hc blinking at the ruins of the abbev with his tongue out, and occa sion Jl'y turning his head and glancing at her "over ids shoulder with a half smile, as who would say: "We are well off together." Thus she had remained for some time, with her eyes now opu, now shut, with tl;e faint "breeze fitfully touching her clieek, and the deep, mysterious" mur mur of the ocean below, like a bas chorus to the joyful song of nature. "You might have called me when yon went out," cried the voice of Grace, ana Mabelle started, wide awake now, and sat up. "I would not have wakenetl yon for the world from such a refreshing slum ber," she said, laughing. "And you have alienated the affec tions of my dog to such an extent that he alwaysfollows you now, and never me. Dr. Johnson, sir. come here!" said his mistress, seating herself and holding out her hand to him. Dr. Johnson looked from one to the other, shuffled foolishly alout on his haunches, and remained where he was with a deprecating grin. " I'm going to tell Hermann that he must not expect -ou to be at liberty in the afternoon, as you take a slight sleep then," pursued Mabelle. "Hermann, indeed!" remarked Grace. It may here be expla'ned that Miss Massey" had completed her college course, passed her examinations with high honors, and been declared compe tent in knowledge to form the miuds of any young ladies in Great Britain and Ireland; had returned home,, express ing stern and unalterable resolutions to devote herself to a life of study, of mak ing herself a career in soiue form or other, and showing the admiring world what a woman can do; had gone to vis it her friends the Bcrghauses in Irkford. and after a prolonged stay had returned to Foulhaven, escorted b3 Hermann, engaged to be married to him. and looking rather foolish when questioned on the subject of her "career." Though it is very certain that had circumstances not destined her for the career of a wife and mother, this young lady might have filled with honor many another post. It was If) an approaching visit of Her mann that Mabelle alluded on the pres ent occasion. Of Mabelle's own life, it is only neces sary here to ay a few words. Three years ago, in her illness and sore dis tress, at the time when Angela had put the crown to her iniquities by marying Mr. Foidyee, Mabelle had so wo.ind herself about the heart and the affec tions of Grace M:is-ey that the latter could not desert her. despite her strong convictions on the subject of hersister's conduct. On Angela's teturn from her weddmg tour, she had, with her hus ban 1, taken up her residence in one of the desirable mansions frequently men tioned during the course of this vera cious narrative, and there she had re ceived what her soul or what she was pleased to consider her soul -desited, that is to sav, carriages and hors.'S, massive jewelry, and silk attire: luxury and ease to her hcirt's content, and slave y therewith. M. Fordyce viewed many subjects in a light other than that in which t. cy appeared to his wife's eyes. He was i ather fond of her: but there were moments in which he won dered why he had been so led away by the sentimental glances of Angela Fair fax as to make her Angela Fordyce. Nevei theless, his will was stronger than hers, h'. scheme ot life was rounded and complete, and.at forty-seven men do not easily begin to run in new grooves; they- are more apt to think that j'oungef "and more pliable charac ters should enter their grooves and abide therein for the rest of their davs. He d:d not caro for a gay or varied life: indeed, he was. ather austere in his notions upon such puints. Angela had fouud soon that life might be at once very luxurious, and both intensely dull and bitterly common-place and vulgar. Such was the life she had sold herself into: it was a bondage which did not grow more en durable with time, and the presence of her sister, which she had at first considered merely a matter of form, since Mabelle could net be le t alone out in the cold, presently became a great necess'ty to her. There was nothin i vulgar or common-place alout Ma belle. She seemed to cherish no resent ment toward her sister; she obediently went anil took up her residence in the dull, grand house where Angela lived with 'Mr. Fordyce. They never quar reled, or rather they had not quar reled since one occasion on which An gela, with the dullness of feeling com mon to nntures like hers, had tried to lead the conversation to the subject of the Masscys in general, and of Philip i'i particular, and then Mabelle hail said, her delicate cheek Hushing, and her gentle eyes flashing with an umi-iial lire: " Angela, let me tell you that if ever you utter Philip Massey's name, or that of his sifter, to me again, or whenever you do it, 1 will leave the room that in stant; yes, if a hundred people were sit ting watching us.' But Angela had never tempted Ma belle to earn her threat into executio-i. Mabelle had a k'nd of adoration for Grace Massey, and what she considered her goodness and generosity in condon ing the past, remaining her friend, and inviting her to her home. She had al ready visited more than once at Red L"es, and loved to go there, ('race was good to her, Ms. Massey was uniformly kind, and Mabelle had the greatest vqn eration for that simple-minded yet no ble matron, thinking of her as a kind of Yorkshire Volumnia, but gentle, genial and Cnristianized. Mr. Masey was fond of her. thev were all fond of her, and in return she loved them dear ly. As Angela's name was mentioned as rarely as possible, and as indifferent ly, the friendship continued, sunny and uninterrupted. "Since you went out.' pursued Grace, fcthe postboy has come up from the town and b-ought me a letter." "A letter! From Ph from your brother?" aked Mabelle. "From nry brother? No, child. Why are vou alw:t3-s imagining letters from my brother? I believe jou think they come in shoals by every post." "Oh. no! But sometimes I think how dreadful it would be if, by any chance, he should come home suddenly before I had gone. Can vou imagine anything more terrible?" said Mabelle. "sitting up, and looking at Grace with some ex citement. "Why? What would be likely to happen? What would you do, goose, under such horrible circumstances?'' " 1 am sure 1 "should sink into the earth whenever he looked at me, or rather. I should wish that I could," said the young lady, while a hot flush spread slowly over her face. " Pooh'." said Grace, indifferenthy, " I didn't know you felt so strongly on the suVect. And there is no neeih You are morbid. 2ow. don't jump up ami fee," -he atlded, stretching out her large, firm hand, anil detaining Mabelle, who had made a movement as if to leave her. "Mv letter was from Thekla." " ' " From Thekla! Oh. how is she?' "She is very well, and very happy, and she s:vys that if I will have my wedding after Christmas, she can and will come over from Frankfort, with. Mr. Kcichhardt and her bo and be present at it." " You will like that, won't you?" " I should like it better if it were not so soon, Lut I must have Thekla at my wedding, that is vety certain, if I have to be married ever so much sooner than I like: so I shall tell Hermann I have decided, but I shall let him know that it is for his sister's sake, and not for his." Mabelle laughed. Grace produced a long, pointed basket, like a canal-boat, containing knitting, and began to work diligently with the fingers which were never idle. "What a little lazy thing you are, Mabelle'." she exclaimed at "last. "I declare. I don't know when or where vou manage to a .'quire your stores of learning about all kinds of things. I believe you are much better informed than I am, really, despite my examina tions; but when you are here I never see you read." "1 have too much to do out of doors here, and I am too happy to read. It is when I am at home that I have time: plenty of time now.' " hv that 'now?' Hadn't vou alwavs time?"' "Not at first?" "Why, dear? Tell me." "But'if 1 tell you I shall have to talk a great deal about Angela." "Wei!, tell me about her, then,' was the answer, as Grace, ceasing her knit ting, propped her chin upon her hand, and looked with a long, steady, happy g:i7e across the sea, which kept up its murmur far below. She was in a pensive yet joyful mood, aud half she listened t- Mabelle's words, and half she give heed to thoughts of her own. "At tir-t, when Angela came home, and a'ter I had got better, I had very little time to mvself," said Mabelle. "She went out a great deal making calls, you know, and driving, and shop ping and '" 4 Showing off yes. I know." "Well, I'm nfra'd it was. And it was decided that as I was moie than sixteen I was not to go to school any more, so it really seemed as if my whole time was to be given up to An I mean to these stupid cal s. and visits, and thing-:. I could not study a'lylhing. Angela said it was so dull to have some one near her 'buried in a book: it made her nervous to sit in the same room with me while I was reading. I don't know what I should have done, but Mr. Fordyce really w.is very kiud. He fouud out my dole 'ul cae by degrees, and insisted upon my having some time to myself. He gave me a "little room for mv own. and aid in winter there wag aiwavs to be a lire there: and one da3- he got me a pas- for the College library that's where I get my learned books. Grace and he subscribed to Mudie's for me for new ones. I asked him what there was 1 could do for him. I felt so very grateful, you know; and it was kind, was it not"?' "Yes, very." Gra was obliged to own. "Because Angela grumbled dread fully. Oh, she does grumble some times. Grace. You will not tell any one I said fo. but she makes me fed somet mes as if I should absolutely like to box her ears." "Did ever anv one hear of such frightful thoughts? Well?"' "Mr. Fordyce aid he didn't know hc hail done anything that required payment, but that 1 e never refu e 1 a good offer, and I m'ght read the pap-r to him sometimes, and rite a few of Iii-s letters. So we began with that, anil now wc have got beyond the paper, and read very interesting books some times, voyages and travels anil hito-y. The only drawback is that Angela 3-awns so dreadfully, and objects to it so very strongly."' '"Why doesn't she put a stop to it?" " Because she can't," replied Ma belle; "Mr. Fordyce is quite the mas ter." She straggled to suppress a convul sive smile, but looking up, and catching Gra e's eve. it would out. Grace burst into a peal of laughter, in which Mabelie joiued. "In other words, your sister has overreached herse f, and has to submit to Mr. Fordyce, instead of his submit ting to her, as she intended. You will excuse my saying, Mabelle, that I am very glad to hear it." Mabelle smiled rather faintly, and at this moment the sound of a bell warned them that tea was teady at the farm; and, accompanied by Dr. Johns n, thoughtfully pacing before them, they repaired to that meal. CHAPTER XXI. COXETEnXATIOX. Saturday, the day of Hermann's ar rival, had'eome and gone, and brought him at the appointed time, and Sundav morning found him exceedingly hap py, and Grace no less so in pretend ing to make little of him. while in reality she made very much of him. Thus Mabelle found herself with a portentous amount of solitary time on her hand, to d'spose of as best she could. Fortunate-, at Foul haven, she was never at a loss for means to do that; the sensation of being in a place she liked, and amongst persons she loved, went a long way toward con stituting the happiness of Mabelle Fair fax. Accordingly she left Grace and Her mann to their own devices, while siie amused herself after her own manner, sitt'ng with Mrs. Massey in the painted chamber up stairs, and listening to the discourse of that lady; sallying forth, hat less aud bonnetless, into "the garden to gather a bunch of flowers, or walking about with Dr. Johnson following or preceding her at a sedate or decent p' ce: wandering out to the cliff, which last was her favorite resort. She ex perienced a profound pleasure in the mere fact of walking over the breezy, undulating downs, and letting her cot ton gown trail over the clean, short, crisp grass. Each time as she mounted the highest of the ridges, and the great, shining, glassy sea flashed like a beam of light upon her eyes, there came the same thrill of joy and wonder, the s:.mu sensation of longing satisfied in broad and ample measure by something to vast and boundless that no effort of lieis could ever compass its mystery and hitlden meaning; while the hoarse under ourrent of the ground-swell, and tli rhythmic break "of the waves on tht shore, never lost its stately music for her ear. As she sat. or stood, or lay npon the edge of the cliff, she might have passed for Wordsworth's "Louisa:" everything in nature was a ioy to her, and, as she watched and listened, the poet's word were fulfilled: "And beauty, born of murmuring scund. Shall pass into her face." Mabelle was not a homely maiden to look upon, but beautiful with a rare, delicate beauty of her own; and this beauty, which 'passed into her face dur ing tliese hours of converse with nature, only adjed another loveliness to tliat which was already there. Thus she had "passed the Saturday, ami Sundav came, and Mabelle. having been to church in the morning with Mrs Massey, and passed the afternoon in her favorite haunt, came to the houso in time for tea, and found Grace look ing out for her. "We have planned an expedition," said the latter. "Are you tired? or do you feel equal to a good walk?" "I feel equal to a good long walk," replied Mabelle. promptly. "So do Hermann and I, and we are going to walk flown to the town, and up the steps to the Abbey Church, ;o to service there, and then walk home in the gloaming, if vou are equal to it, that is." "Oh, delightful mot delightful! But woul! not you and Hermann prefer to go by yourselves?" "Hermann and I have had quite enough of each other, and want some other society.'. Hermann obligingly said he would rather die than contradict her. and Ma belle, reassured, announced that noth iug could give her greater satisfaction than the proposed expedition. It wa some distance from Re I Lees to the oil Abbey Church at Foulhaven, an 1 even step of the way was beauti ful. They forme 1 a very merry trio as they traverse 1 the up-and-down mad which led them gra lually into the town, and took their way along the banks of the river which flowed into the sea, and which here, inland, was crow :e 1 with bla -k hulls of ships sent in for repairs, and rolling over to one siile. stran led high and dry by the outwar l-set title, into the narrow, winding street, with the odd little lanes aud alleys lead ijg to the river side, till they arrived at the foot of the church steps, a long, inter minable llight of well-worn Hags lead ing up to the top of the East Cliff, on the highest point of which stood that ruined fane already spoken of. and just below it, almot oVcrhanging the sea; the stumpy-looking, ancient Abbey Church of St. Mary s. They climbed the step?, and strol'ed through the churchy: rd, passed the iuimi)erle.s5 headstones erected to the memory of such and such a one. "mas ter mariner." ru bk CfXTiNfi:i. Living en Knilroad-.' Theieisa dist'net railroad popula tion that is constantly growing. It is composed of commercial traveler, lectu.ers, s1 ow agents, actors and ac tresses. They eat more meals in hotel cars and railroad meal-stations than they do at home cr in hotels. They spt-nd more nights in sleeping car bunks than in beds. To a person who travels only occasionally it is interesting to not how tl oroughly equipped these professional journey er.s are. Upon en tering a slecp'iig-car e.v'ly in the even ing, lor instance, they remove their shoes anil put on slippers, hang their hats up and don silk traveling caps, take offtheir coats and put ou short sack coats or smoking jackets. In the morning, when the occasional traveler, obliged to wear the only cloth ing he has brought, goes to tiie toilet compartment in his coat and vest, aud thus straggles in an etl'ort to cleanse his skin without soaping his sleeves or his coal col'ar, these "professionals again excite his envy. They come along all smiles, having slept well, anil fce'.ing perfectly at home. They hang up their smoking jackets and display snowy night robes, ornamented with colored binding and biaid, and capable of being th own open at the neck and rolled up above the elbows. From a pocket in the suspended ,'acket one produces an ivory-backed brush and costly comb, a tooth brush, and perhaps a nickel-plated soap box. Another opens out a prettily embroidered receptacle, compo-ed cf mam folds, each one a" pocket and each one labeled. In these pockets arc a comb, a brush, a tooth brush, shaving brush, soap box, pair of razor cases, nail brush, whisk broom, hand glass and cologne bottle. The'r familiarity with their surround ings is as noticeable a part of theit equipment. A glance out of the car window is almost certain to reveal to them their whereabouts when they arise or when they are waked up, or are about to go to bed. They carry time-tables in their heads, and, give good advice as to which station has the best caterer. They are sociable and democratic. Four men who never saw one another before meet in a smoking compartment and know all about one another in an hour. The news in the papers takes on a new interest when they discuss it, because they seem to know a great deal about all parts of the co ntry, and to have many acquaint ances in all the big cities. They appear to read all the news, anu "to know which newspaper is most apt to have it and to serve it attractively wherever the train stops long enough for the news-boys to board it. X I. Slin m m If a razor, after being exposed to the cold, be placed! under a strong magnifying glass, it is said that the edge would seem hke a saw. Dipping it in hot water throws the little parti cles back into place and-makes the edge smooth. Indianapolis JoxrnaL The Kctr irrepressible Conflict. The Bourbon side has a ma-ked ad vantage in the debate on the subject of outrages in the South, because its champions assume the false to bo true, and then argue upon the false premises thus laid down. Thus, it is claimed by them that the Southern Democracy ac cept in good faith the am -mliaMits to the Constitution, as they claim to have accepted in goo I fa'tn the result of their appeal to arms. They say that of course cr mes are committed at the South as well as at the North, bat that these are not political nor to be taken as evidence of resistance to the accom plished fact of the equal and civil and political rights of all men. It is very difficult to argue with people who pub licly deny the truths which privately they admit- The Democratic party is at war with negro suffrage. It will conceal and condone any crimes committed against it. It has not votes enough to cope with it. and it does not mean to be out numbered by the aid of negro votes. It dare not attempt to nullify it in North ern States, although in several of them it often has the balance of power, but in the South the negro is no more a po litical factor than is the brute creation. All pretense that the fifteenth amend ment is respected by the Democratic party of the South is "a sham and an im posture. The States of South Carolina and Mis sissippi have negro majorities. Senators Butler and Lamar, of those States, arc able men, and as fair as it is possible for men to be in their situation. They knew that in 1857, when the Johnson Governments at the South were legis lated oat by Congress, they could ea-ily have been the leaders of honest majori ties in their respective States. The ne groes had then no carpet-bag leaders, and could have been molded to the will of the natural governing classes of the South. But, inflamed with the hope of retrieving the lost cauo through the agency of Andrew Johnson and his Presidential power, the Southern lead ers defied the Reconstruction acts of Congress, and made the Presidential campaign of 18C3 on the declarat on in the National Democratic platform that those acts were unconstitutional, revo lutionary and void, and rallied under the war"cry of their candidate for the Vice-Pre ddenuy that the President ought to d.sper-c at the point of the bayonet the State Governments recog nized by Congress as legitimate. The negroes were forced in the first instance by their old masters to follow tlj lead of new-comers, some of whom were no doubt unprincipled adventur ers. Sullenly the main body of the Southern whites refused to yield an inch to the march of events. The Reconstruction acts would never hive been passed if the John: on pro visional Governments had not refused to guarantee civil rights by ratifying the' fourteenth amendment. The fif teenth amendment would have been in definitely postponed or greatly modified but for the violence of Southern hatred of the Government, so badly mani fes'ed. The fifteenth amendment was adopted by the acts of State Governments which the Democracy of the whole Nat:on hail voted ought to be dispersed at the point of the bayonet as being illegitimate usurpations. It is the Democratic doctrine that nothing done bv a Repub lican Congress has any binding force in law. All laws enacted by Republic ans are . unconstitutional." and all amendments to the Constitution have been inserted irregul irly and in viola tion of that instrument itself. In short, the Government was suspended iu 1S61, aud there has been an interregnum dur ing the entire period of Republican Ad ministration. But the Democratic pnrtv decided m 1871 not to insist upon the extreme doetrine until it obtained poss&ss'on of all tho br.-.nches of the Government. Meanwhile it resolved to profess acqui esceticc in the amendments not to ad mit their adoption, but to su-pend open resistance to them. Upon the attitude of the Democracy toward these amend ments Roscoc Conkling gave this warn ing to the people in 18SU: T lier never j et naro said nor admitted thai the amendments vrero legally adopted. They did Siy in National Convention, in 1872. that thoyopiJOed reopening tiie questions Fettled by the amendments, and they did say. m lH7t'. that they would accept them, but that they wore legiilly valid they have never said. With a throuzhbrcd Democratic President, whatever mar hap'Hjn in form to the amend ments, ther will become more a dead letter than a quickening spirit. That t:c right of suffrage is a dead letter, so far as the million and a quar ter of black voters in the South are con cerned, is as mu.li a matter of history as that the Democratic party has for years falsely pretended t' the contrary. The Democratic editors and speakers of Mississippi and South Carolina freely admit that they terminated Republican rule in those States, not by honest vot ing, but by revolution. Senators La mar anil Butler could not, and prob ably would "not. deny that the confes sion is true. Nor tan they deny that the white Democrats of those States have firmly determined to rule them with or without lawful majorit es ntthe polls. The same is true of every Dem ocratic State in the South. Does any one doubt that Maryland, Kentucky or Missouri would reso-t to the shot-gun policy if the Repu dican party, contain ing as it does the most of the negro vo.e, were to seem likely at any elec tion to carry the State"? Th's is the despotism ot a faction. It is an open revolt against the Constitution. It is a total subversion of Republican govern ment in States, and is therefore a sub version of the Constitution of the United States. It has seized by revolutionary violence the House of Representatives and holds it with bloody Viands, as at one time it did both houses of Congress. Its 153 Electoral Votes, more than half of which are based on the foulest of crimes, both of fraud and of violence, are relied ou. added to 48 Northern confederates and accomplices, to insure Bourbon control of the chief Executive office of the Nation. This is fie situation which confronts tho Republican partv. If that party i-e-grsls its course on the negro question, let it retreat. If it sorrows for the white Southron, whose feelings have been hurt, let it apologize to him. If it is weary in well do ng, let it sav f o. If it can tolerate a d; crence of opin'on as to whether Bourbon outi-ages are wrong or not. let it givenotice to those I who can not, so that these may be re kasixl Iron association with the apolo- S'sts for barbarous and bloody crimes. , on the other hand, Republicanism, still means equality before the law, and the assertion of the majesty of that law when defied and trampled upon, then let the party speak out at the com ing Nation 2I Convention in tones thafc will be heard around the world. Then sneaks ami snivelers, who cringe be fore the foe and who whisper their dis sent into the cars of editors and corre spondents of Democratic and assistant Democratic newspapers when political crimes are denounced, as in the Sher man resolutions, will know that youaro not Republicans, and will go Jnto the Democratic camp, .where their syco phancy and treachery will be appre ciated. The despotism which, under the name of Democracy, rules the South and threatens to usurp" the Federal Government, justifies its conduct on the ground that negro suffrage can not be tolerated, and that its remedies are merely the exercise of the right of revolution. The Republican partv is sworn to uphold the laws it has enact ed, and to protect the rights of those it has declared citizens, lo fall short of this is to court dishonor and invite dis solution. The substitution of namby pamby issues about petty details of mere administration would be like call ing in a man'cure to treat a man for & fractured skull. The Democratic party has dedicated all its power and energy to the exclu sion of the negro from the body pol itic. The Republican partv is committed beyond recall to the policy of manhood, suffrage and National supremacy. Between these two forces there is an irrepressible conflict. The question is, not how the country shall be governed but who shall govern it. If it is to be governed by majorities of the whites in the several States, then the Republican party should abdicate or be kicked out- If it is to be governed by majorities of the legal voters in the several States, then the Democratic party, now in re volt against the laws, should be forted into submission. If the Republicans of the North will be as true to their cause as the South ern Bourbons are to theirs, the victory will be theirs without National Rcnublican. a single Dlovv. The Chalmcri-M.innin-c Case. In the contested seat case ia the House of Chalmers against Manning the committee reported in favor of giv ing n"ither a seat, thus forcing a new election. A major.ty, however, of the more extreme Democrats favored .seat ing Manning on the ground that he holds a certificate. The public will readily recall the facts of this case. Chalmers is the notorious "butcher of Fort Pillow." He has been twice seat ed by the Democrats after former elec tions, notwithstanding they were car ried by the most outrageous bulldozing, frauds and false counting. This time Chalmers ran as an Independent, while Manning was the regular Democratic nominee. The district is the famous, or rather infamous shoe-string district of Mississippi, so notorious for its many murders of Republicans by Democrats. As an independent Chalmers promised the colored Republicans to protect their rights, and many of them voted for him. He was elected by a large ma jority beyond any doubt. But the Clerk of one county seat sent in a false and fraudulent return givng the votes cast forChalmers to 'Vhamuless;" and on this the Democratic Secretary of State made haste to give Manning a certifi- cate of election. Then a State a state court interfered, decided that Manning was not elected, and iss::ed an order forbid ding the Secretarv of State to so certi fy. In defiance of this order of the court the Governor issued a commission to Mann'ng. In Man ning's reply to the declaration of Chalmers he squarely admitted that the votes put down in the false return to "Chambless" were really cast for Chalmers, and the return was "a cler ical error," of which he would take no advantage. He did not claim that the Governor's conmission was valid; and. when Congress met, he did not tile his pretended commission or certificate, aud therefore the Clerk did not place his name on the roll. Yet a minority of the committee, supported as the deb'ate shows by a number of Democratic members, are in favor of giving Man ning the scat to which he was not elected, and to which Chalmers was elected, on the thin pretense that Man ning holds a certificate, and Congress has ho right toreector gobeh':nd a certificate" no matter if it is dripp'ng with fraud, and notwithstanding Man ning himself does not claim that the certificate is valid! The ma or'ty of the committee, composed qf four Democrats and six Republicans, reported in favor of seating neither of the contestants, on the ground th.tt neither claimant presents a genuine jtnma facie title. The facts are that Manning was not elected; Chalmers has no certificate; and the election was so vitiated by frauds, violence and irregularities that the Republican party was entirely sup pressed by bulldozing, but for which neither Cha'raers nor Manning could have been elected. A resolution was offered by Mr. Curtin, of Pennsylvania, to recommit the case to a committee to inquire if either claimant had a certificate legal in form: that is to-give the seat to Manning if his certificate is techn cally. correct in form, and then let Chalmers contest and oust him. if he can, by and by after the usual style, after Manning has held t!.e seat, and drawn pay, aud misrepresented the district till some where near the end of the term. Among the supporters of this proposition was Mr. Randall. Its design is to follow the policy of always seating the regular Democratic nominee from the bulldozed districts of tho solid South: because if the Democrats give way in even so out rageous a case as this, they may let down the bars for the admission of Re publicans on similar grounds. Detroit Fost and Tribune. When Thomas Avery, of Bethany, Pa., was shove.ing a snowdrift from the back part of his yard he discovered, buried in the snow, a hen which had been missing for ten days. The hen had paeked the snow d wn and made a room the s7e of a l.tishel basket. Be yond the loss of flesh ineiUent to the long fast the hen was unharmed.- Pittsburgh Post. -1 rf k "V I 4 H c TfJ H 3 -fa y, a JM P Is"..- ,,f 'J i- rzf- Jrfe &i:; ""- ?? SHjy 1 1 wi 1 .: MbMBa