'
XESXIIfG HIS PHYSICAL CONOHIOS
'How Gen. Grant Proceeded to Ascertain Hit
Zrue Situation.
The current number oi tno cwnrnrj ati
azine. says a New York dispatch , has , in
part , a reproduction of a letter written by
< 3en. Grant to Dr. Douglas while on Mt ,
McGregor , and in the text of this partially
produced letter the general made refer
cnce to a "previous letter" in like strain
Che prompting causes of that previous lefc-
'ter and the letter itself are made public as
lollowe : Gen. Grant reached Mount Me
Gregor on June IGth , and that "night he
elept ten hours and well. The next after
noon the general sat upon the cottage
piazza alone and in deep thought. Sud
denly , as though after mature reflection he
had formed a resolve , the general sum
moned his servant and started down tho
steps and walked to the bluff of the moun
tain. There he sat upon a rustic chair
with his eyes bent to the earth , his features
drawn and an intense expression of intro
spection on his face. He had set himself to
do a test of his own strength. He wanted
n basis for n personal judgment of his
condition , and he found himself weak be
yond his expectations. He went slowly
back to the cottago and reached his room
discouraged and dishcartcd.and that oven-
ing , seated on the piazza , as the sun went
down the general wrote .1 calm statement
of his convictions us to his own condition.
' This lie handed to Dr. Douglas and it was
the "previous letter" referred to in thegen-
ral's reproduced letter in The Century. It
is here given :
Since coming to this beautiful climate
and getting complete rest for about ten
hours I have watched my pains and com
pared them with thbso of the last few
weeks. I can feel plainly that my system
is preparing for dissolution in three ways :
One by hemorrhage , one by strangulation
and the third by exhaustion. Tho first
and second are liable to come afc any mo
ment to relieve me of my earthly suffering.
The time for the arrival of tho third can
be computed with almost mathematical
certainly , With an increased daily food ,
I have fallen off in weight and strength
very rapidly for the past two weeks. There
cannot be a hope of going far beyond this
time. 'All that any physician or any num
ber of them can do for me is to make my
burden of pain as light as possible. I do
not want any physician but yourself , bub
I tell you , so that if you are unwilling to
havo me go without consultation with
other professional men , you can send for
them. I dread them , however , knowing
that it means another desperate effort to
eave me and more suffering.
PJ hns it was Dr. Douglas that night sent
for Dr. Sands , who came next day , and to
gether they consulted with the general , and
told him there was no danger of strangu
lation nor of hemorrhage , and exhaustion
was a question that could not be dis
cussed.
O VER THE CASH.
Comptroller Dunham Declares that
standing Debts Must bo Settled in Short
Order.
The annual report ofgFirst Comptroller
Dunham calls attention to the fact tfiat in
1SGS the first comptroller then certiGed to
balances due the United States from several
states and territories , respectively , for di
rect taxes due and unpaid , under the direct
tax act of Aug. 5 , 1861 , and such statas
and territories were accordingly debited on
the books in the office of the register of
the treasury , and says :
"It may be doubted whether any corpo
rate state was properly so charged , but as
the then comptroller had jurisdiction of
the subject matter , the statements made
by him of accounts of the above named
states and territories as to their indebted
ness on account of direct taxes are bind-
ingpn the present comptroller for the reason
indicated in the opinions in the Mississippi
direct tax case. Recently amounts havo
been certified to this oflice as due to some
of said states and territories from tho
United States on account of commissions
of net proceeds of sale of public lands
within the state , and for other causes.
The amounts as certified , instead of being
paid , have been ordered to be credited on
said indebtedness of the states and terri
tories as stated against them by the former
comptroller. Other states , it is reported ,
will present the same question as the
amounts may become due them for sales
of lands or otherwise , and the said amounts
will be credited as above indicated unless
congress will direct the money due and to
become due to said states shall be paid to
them without reference to the charges as
stated heretofore made against them by
the former comptroller. Discussing the
question of the old claims against the gov
ernment which are constantly being pre
sented for his action , the comptroller
suggests that some fixed period
after the right of the acclaimant accrues
should be subscribed by statute within
which the claim may be brought before the
proper accounting officers for their action.
THK SEAT Of
SRfeeUaneoiu Xaiters of Interest ft A *
Uonal Capital.
Acting upon the reports of 'agents In the
Indian Territory , Secretary Lamar requested
the AVar Department to remove the "Boom
ers" from Oklahoma lands. The Information
contained in the agents' reports is to the ef
fect that a lane number of persons are sup
posed to be "Boomers , " but claiming to be
freighters , crossing the Kansas border intc
the Indian Territory.
DELEGATE GDJFORD , of Dakota , in an in
terview , ' said : "We want to make a state
of Dakota and I am here to do all I can to
-that end. We favor the admission of Mon
tana also , and all other territories except
Utah. The big Sioux reservation contains
-36,000,000 acres , and there are only 24-
000 Indians upon it. Dakota people desire
this vast reservation opened for settle-
ment. "
*
IT is definitely known here that Gen. Me-
-Clellan earne very near being made a mem-
ber of President Cleveland's cabinet ; that
be was tendered the Russian mission and
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declined it because of business engagements ,
and that within twenty-four hours of his
-death the president had concluded to offer
/him an appointment aa a member of the
service commission.
DR. JAMES P. KIMBALL , director of the
mint , has submitted to the secretary hia
.annual report of the operation of the mints
-and assay offices of the United States for
the fiscal year ended June 30 , 1885.
THE total coinage value of gold and silver
-deposited and purchased at tho mints was
§ 94,830,976 against § 87,955,154 in the
previous year. The director estimates the
amount of gold and silver coin in the coun
try July 1 , 1885 , at § 20,000,000 , of which
of which $542,000,000 consisted of gold
.and $278,000,000 of silver. This amount
TOS owned as follows : by the treasury
-gold § 53,223,160 , silver § 95,119,065 ,
-total o ! $148,342,228 ; by national bankt
eold S165.545.8G7 , silver § 11,973,833.
Washington dispatch : Dr. Klmball , direc
tor of the mint , In his annual report of the
operations of the mints ' and assay offlcesJj
year ending June 801885 , shows the value
gold deposited to have been about $57 ,
000 , of which nearly $32,000,000 consisted
doiicstlc bullion. Of 133,000,000 of ell
bullion purchased for coinage , $32,000 ,
was of domestic production. The total c
age value of gold and silver purchased du _
the year amounted to about $95,000 ,
against about § 88,003,000 in the prev ;
year. The decline in the production of
on the Pacific coast , as shown by the co
ucd falling off of deposits , is $8,000,000
year , as compared with 13SL The coinagi
the year was $ . # ,801,123 of gold , and28 ,
959 of silver. The director estimate :
amount of gold and silver coin in the
try on July 1,18S5 , at $820,000,000 ;
000 in gold and $278,0:0,000 in silver ,
ditlon to the coin in tne country , there
t'jc mints and assay offices on July 1 ,
gold and silvtr bullion available for
amounting to $71,501,082 , which added
coin makes the total coin and bullion a
date , $392,500,519. He estimates the pi
tion of the world to have been , durin
calandar year ending June 30th , 1885 ,
000,003 in gold and $115,000,000 In slim
increase in gold ] roductlon , compared
the previous year of about § 1,03J,000 in
and a falling off of about the syne amou
silver production.
The Secretary of the Interior has con
the action of the Commissioner of the
Office In restoring to the public domai :
tract of land in southern California at tl
tersectlon of the Texas Pacific and Sou
Pacific railroad chants. The Secretary 1
decision , holds that the Southern Pa ific
Included only such lands as were not cov !
by other railroad grants , and there
could not Include the tract in question , wl !
formed a part of the forfeited Texas Pa
grant. The case had come up to the Secre
tary on appeal by the Southern Pacific rail
road company from the Commissioner's de ;
cislon.
JOURNEYING IN THE FAR NORTH.
An Account of the Terrible Storm that Re
cently Swept the Labrador Coast.
Halifax dispatch : R. T. Stupart , the
Hudson bay observer , who , with three as
sistants , abandoned his station at Stu-
part's bay the day before the steamer
Alert reached there , arrived in Halifax this
evening on the steamer Miranda from St.
Johns , N. P. Stuparl gives an interesting
account of the experiences he and his three
companions met with after leaving their
post. The men with him were J. W. Mc-
Daniels and J. W. Chaplain , of St. Marys ,
N. S. , and Henry Bennett , of St. Johns , N.
F. Each observing station in the strait
was furnished with eighteen months' pro
visions for three men and Stupart received
nothing additional for the fourth man in
his party. The consequence was that by
the 30th of August they found themselves
with a very small quantity of supplies left ,
and the country around affording no
means of support for white men , they were
compelled to make a move for other quar
ters. The Esquimaux were suffering for
food because of the failure of the fisheries ,
and he gave them what he could spare. On
August 21st all four left their post in an
open boat , taking with them twenty-five
pounds of meat and a barrel and a half of
biscuits , and started forUngavabay. After
a voyage of thirteen days , made under the
most dangerous and uncomfortable cir
cumstances , the little party reached their
destination. At Fort Collins they boarded
the steamer Labrador for Rigolot ,
which they reached on September 2Gth.
Thence they went one day's journey in a
sailboat to Indian harbor. On October
23rd the steamer Hercules took them to
Grady and then they came hence to Har
bor Grace , N.F. , on the steamer Vanguard ,
arriving last 'Juesday. Stuport reports
that on arrival at Indian harbor he found
that an immense amount of damage had
been done there and at neighboring places
on the coast by the terrible storm on the
10th inst. The gale was a terrific one from
the northwest , accompanied by snow.
When the steamer Hercules arrived at In
dian harbor she had on board three hun
dred men , women and children , picked up
at fishing settlements along her course ,
and when Stupart and his three men
arrived at Grady they found six hundred
more homeless people on board the
steamer Vanguard. Almost the entire
settlement of Grady , consisting of about
twenty buildings , were destroyed and
many other villiages suffered equally se
verely from the disaster. Every vessel
that was , at all close to the coast-
dabhed ashore. Although many of t
were afterward floated in a damaged d
dition there were about seventy that w
totally destroyed. The storm extem
over the whole length of the coast frj
Battle harbor north to Cape Harris ]
Stupart learned at Gradw that the ti
loss of life by tempest was forty-three si
he is inclined to believe that that figu :
reliable. He thinks that in any event
outside number of the victims cannot
ceed sixty or seventy. The greatest
of life occurred at White Bear isl ;
where , though there were only four or
vessels wrecked nearly all on boar ]
them , forty-five persons in number ,
their death.
CHRONICLES BY CABLE.
Miscellaneous matters of Interest Pertaining
to foreign Countries ,
Further evidence from JMondaly report tnc
situation unchanged. Active war prepara-
! -ns are still being pushed day and night.
The shah of Persia has refused to allow the
English escort to the Afghan frontier com
mission to cross Persian territory on their way
back to India
Bloody fights have recently occurred at
Bakes between the Russians and Moslem in
habitants , in which the Russians were de
feated , and a large number of them killed
and wounded. The fighting was stopped only
when the military intervened.
King Alfonso's health Is in a condition so
precarious that his physicians have ordered
him to take complete rest for one month , and
to entirely cease all state duties.
Ex-Empress Eugenia has asked fie pope to
advise a line of conduct on French rolitics.
The Pope is much perplexed as to what course
to pursue. Many Bonapar this would join the
loyalists upon papal advice.
An explosion occurred in a coal mine .it
Peschitza , Hungary , killing thirteen ana
Bounding twelve.
The Yorkshire colliers have decided to
strike against a proposed 15 per cent reduc
tion. As the preparation of the threatened
strike of the Yorkshire colliers comes to be
fully realized , increased anxiety and alarm is
felt. The belief has become general that a
strike cannot be avoided.
The English cattle companies decline
granting through rates to cattle dealers , who
are now boycotting the Cork Packet Compa
ny's vessels , unless they reglsler as common
carriers , which renders them liable by the
laws. The Cork dealers , therefore , decided
to work independently of the English han
dlers.
The London Daily News contains an edito
rial article on Ferdinand Ward , in which it
TUB PROGRESS Or DAKOTA.
As Set Forth in the Annual Report by the
Governor.
Col. Gilcert A. Pierce , governor of Da
kota , has made his annual report to the
secretary of the interior , showing the ma
terial progress of that territory during the
past year. A large proportion of his re
port is devotifd to quotations and com
parisons of facts exhibited by the returns
of the territorial census taken last sum
mer. The population of the territory is
now 416,000 , as against 135,180 when the
federal census was taken in 18SO. The
governor says the year has baen a very
prosperous one for tho territory. Nut
only have crops been excellent , but the
prices commanded have been very much in
advance of those realized a year ago. The
result is a buoyance of feeling on the part
of the people most encouraging and reas
suring. On the whole , farmers were never
so prosperous as at present. With the
singie exception of wheat the aggregate
yield of hinall grains for 1SS5 is largely in
excess of that of preceding years. The re
duction in the acreage of wheat was caused
by the low price of the staple in 1881.
Surveys for a number of new lines of rail
road have been made during the year , and
the governor believes another twelve
months will see many new enterprises of
this character under headway 'or com
pleted. The territory has developed a
number of manufacturing establishments
\\ithin the past few years , embracing
woolen mills , flour mills , quorries , brew
eries , machine shops , etc. Reference is
made to the constitutional convention
held this fall , and the governor bespeaks a
kindly hearing by congress of the appeal
for admission to the union made by the
people of the territory , and a long argu
ment is made insupportof the application.
Attention is directed to the necessity of
protecting the school lands of Dakota from
squatters , and it is recommended that the
territorial government be authorized to
take possession of and control them.
The existence of vastlndian reservations
is said to be the source of trouble and vex
ation , and the governor suggests that these
reservations be cut up and the land given
to the Indians in severally. Hope is ex
pressed that the government will reimburse
those settlers who went upon the old Crow
Creek reservation in good faith and were
ordered off by the president's proclama
tion. 1 he territorial tax levy for all pur
poses , including tho interest on the public
debt , was but three mills during the present
year , and the financial condition of the ter
ritory is said to be cause for congratula
tion. The immigration to the territory
and Mrs. John Scott , of East St. Louis by
her stepfather , a man named Williams' , to
raise , and with his consent they adopted
the child as their own , having no other.
The child was brought up and sent to
school by her adopted parents , who did all
for her they could have done in their cir'
cumstanccs for a child of their own. The
child had an aunt named Mrs. Mary Henry ,
who resides in Chicago , but for six years
her aunt never took the slightest interest
as to how her orphan niece was getting
along. The discovery one day , however ,
that the little girl who had been adopted
by the Scotts had fallen heir to some land
in Missouri caused Mrs. Henry to feel an
affection for her niece which she had not
experienced before. She had herself ap
pointed guardian for the child and then en
tered suit against the Scotts for possession
of her niece. The Suotts , who had learned to
love the little child , were much cast down
when they learned of the action of heraunt ,
but retained counsel and resolved to fight
the matter in the courts. The case came
up and Mr. and Mrs Scott , when placed on
the stand , told very pathetically of how
they had received the little girl when
almost a babe , and how they did every
thing in their power to bring all the sun
shine possible .into her life , and what a
great sorrow it would be to them now
after they had learned to love her as much
as they would have loved a child of their
own their was scarcely a dry eye in the
court room. They said they did not want
the little money that she had inherited ,
but they could not part with the child.
The little girl , a pretty and sweet-faced
child f about ten years , was then asked
by the judge which she would rather go
with the aunt or Mr. and Mra. Scott , and
the little thing , thinking that the judge had
given her the right to choose and unmind
ful of the crowded court room , threw her
arms around Mrs. Scott , and looking with
love in her eyes at her adopted father ,
cried out in excess of joy , "I'll go with my
papa and mamma. " "So be it , " said the
judge , "her verdict is mine. "
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MANAGERS OF THE CZ7ZE SERVICE-
intmenta bit the President of Commis-
fes
work of the
civil service commission with which he is in
full symnathv. Mr. Trenholm is a commis
sion merchant , about 50 years of ase. and
was warmly endorsed for the apnointment by
leading friend ? of the clvilervice reform
movement north and south. He is the son of
the late Secretary Trenholm , of the treasury
of the southern confederacy , and has been
brought into prominence lately by his address
before numerous bankers' conventions on tlie
silver question and h's writings on the same
subject , which have attracted wide attention.
Mr. Trenholm has always been a democrat.
MATTERS OF NATIONAL IMPORT.
As Set Forth In the Report of the Secretary
of the Interior.
In his first annual report to tho secretary
of tho interior upon tho operations oi id
labor bureau since its establishment , Gout
mlssionor Carroll D. Wright begins with
statement of tho organization of thoburoaV
and a roviow of the line of policy outlined
for tho conduct of its investigation. Tlu
principal features of that policy wero ths
refusal to recognize parties ; that thoburo.U ]
shquld be disconnected with politics ami
from a dependence on organizations'
whether of workingmen or employers , nncl
from the support of economic theories , JU'
dividual views or class interests. The com. '
missioner believes that this policy gen
erally has been approved through
out the country. The investigations
outlined related to the questions of
industrial depression involving a study
of their character , their causes and
whether , as to duration , severity aud
periodically , they are all alike in the grpafc
producing countries. Such investigation
included the question of the influence of
the depression on the cost of living , the ex
tent to which industries are involved , cost
of production as influenced by the use of
machinery and other kindred questions.
Between March 17th and June 27th ,
twenty special agents were appointed , and
at the close of the fiscal year fifteen of
these agents were actively employed in the
United States and five in Europe collecting
the information required. The results of
tho investigation will bo embodied in the
first annual report of tho bureau , which
will be submitted early the coming year.
The appropriation for the expenses of tho
bureau for the year ended June 30,1885 ,
were ample for its expenses and nearly $9-
000 were covered into the treasury. In
conclusion the commissioner says that tho
appropriation for the present fiscal year
will , in his judgment , suffice for the first
full year's work of the bureau.
THE PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT.
V Recapitulation of Figures Fnt Forth
for the Month of September.
INTEREST BEARINQ DEBT.
Bonds flt iy per cent S 2.50.00D.OOO 00
Bonds : it4 per cent 737.740.3oO CO
Bonds ftt 3 percent 134,190,500 10
Keiunding certificates at 4 per
cent 23,80000
Navy pension lund at 3 per
cent. . 14,000,000 03
Pacific railroad bonds at Cper
cent Gi.G23.512 00
Principal 1,200,778.102 00
Interest 'J,50 ; > ,04S 10
Total 81,270,374,11010
* EBTON WHICH INTEIIEST IIS CEASED SINCE
JIATUUITY.
Principal S 3 , M05 26
Interest 2D.334 50
Total 5 3,953,08970
DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST.
Demand and legal tender notes. $ 340.733.S41 & 3
Certificates of deposit 18.145,0000)
Gold certificates 10'J.020.7CO 00
Silver certificates 53,143,772 OJ
Fractional cunency less 8,37.1,93400
Estimated as lostor destroyed. . GK5llG,2SS ! 01
1'rincipal 574,012,5-35 88
TOTAL DEBT.
P-incipnl § lS38,5r ,003 14
Interest U.815.33J 00
To'Jil $1,848,310,333 74
Less cash items available for
redu Jtion of tlie debt S 233,864,475 27
Lessies'Tve hold for lo'emp-
tion of United States notes. . . 100,000,000 00
Total S 333.SU0.475 27
rotal debt , less available cash
items § 1.514.475850 47
Net cash in tl.o treasury CG.818,232 33
Debt , less cash in the treasury
l.'Nov.l.lSSo 1.447,657,56306
Debt , less cas& in treasury Oct.
1.1SS5 1,400,934,312 22
Decrease of debt during month
as sbown by this statement. . 13,276 , i .4 IS
CASH AVAILABLE FOR REDUCTION OF DEBT.
Bold held lor goM certificates _ _
actually cutBtii'idmir S 93,146n2 00
Cash held for matured debt and
interest unpaid 13,549.637 86
Fractiojal cuneuty " -3K 41
Total availablo for reduc
tion oi debt $233,834.575 27
RESERVE FUND.
ftpld for redempt oa of United
States notos. act of January
14,1875 , and July 22,1C82 $100,000.000 00
AVAILABLE FOR REDUCTION OF DEBT.
Fractional silver coin J25.295.S35 70
Hinorcoin 719.831 24
Total $23bS3,366 94
CASH ON HAND.
rtlflcatesheld as cash $63.432,364 00
Het cash balance on lund 60,818,292 33
rotal cash in treasury aa
shown by treasurer's general
account. 437,800.34159
Hot Increase in cash 3,864,341 54
Glotlioi * Glass.
New York Tribune : Visitors to the
Metropolitan museum of nrt have of
ten stopped to gaze at the specimens
of beautiful classware thereto be found
and have pondered if America could
produce such works. Contrary to the
general opinion the answer is that
this country can and does produce it.
Brooklyn has a glass manufacturer
who furnishes all manner of antique
glass , in iridescent colors , in shades ,
stained , and with an inward fire , im
itating rubies , opals , cat's eyes , pearls
and other precious stones , but woven
glass is made at Petersburg of the
finest imaginable texture. Said a
glass manufacturer when asked to tell
something about the latter form of
glass :
"The first processes of making wov >
en glass an ; the same as in making any
kind of colored work. The ingredients ,
sand , coloring , etc.are mixed together
"
and placed in the furnace to "melt.
When tho mass has about become
fused into a molten substance the fur
nace is opened and some of it is taken
out by two workmen , who stretch it
in the factory until it looks like a red-
hob rope from one-half to three fourths
of an inch in diameter. These ropes
are allowed to cool and then are taken
into the spinning room. In the center
of this room is an immense wheel of
woodeight and a half feet in diameter.
The periphery is afoot wide.as smooth
as the glass itself. At the side of the
wheel is a blow pipe" , so arranged that
the blow is ab right angles with the
wheel and blowing hot air. The bar
of glass as it comes into the room is
given to an operator who holds it in
this blow-pipe , and it melts. Another
workman takes a pair of pinchers and
draws a thread of glass from the melt
ing bar , and this he winds about
the wheel. Then the steam is turned
on and tho machinery begins to
revolve. The big wheel makes 300
revolutions a minute and draws a
thread of glass from the melting bar
continually. At first the thread is
thick , but it becomes more and more
fine until the finest silk is no more
fragile orgossamer-like. As it becomes
fine it loses its brittleness and becomes
more elastic and pliable , and gains in
tensile strength also. . When a suf
ficiently Large coil of thread has been
made it is taken from the wheel and
bound up in skeins , and then the ma
terial is taken to the weaving machine.
This is exactly like a silk weaving ma
chine and thecloth comes out in beau
tiful texture and color. The fine
threads of glass unite as do threads
of silk , and the fabric when done may
be of any color. Combinations of col
or can be used , and changeable goods
are more easily manufactured than in
silk. A staterobe made for a Hindoo
prince of this m.aterial was of gold ,
silver , clear and iridescent glass , and
when done was like a mass of minute
precious stones , more marvelously
beautiful than anything ever seen by
me before. "
Grant's Premonition.
jr. E. Seawell in the Century . Gen
eral Grant's reticence in talking about
himself has always been one of his
marked characteristics. The only oc
casion known to many well-informed
persons when General Grant was ever
heard to express an opinion of his own
qualifications was at a dinner he gave
at the White House in March , 1874.
There were but few guests , among them
Roscoe Conkling Simon Cameron and
Senator J. W. Johnson , of Virginia.
The last named gentleman sat next
to General Grant at the table. The
talk turned on the war and while the
others were discussing it Senator
Johnston turned to General Grant
and said to him :
"Mr. President , will you permit me
to ask you a question which has al
ways been of great interest to me ?
Did you at the beginning of the war
have any premonition that you were
to be the man of thestrucgle ? "
"I had not the least idea of it , " re
plied General Grant. "I saw a lot of
very ordinary fellows pitching in and
getting commissions. I knew I could
"
do as "well and better than they could ,
so I applied for a commission and got
it. "
"Then , " asked Senator Johnson ,
"when did you know when you were 1) 0
)
the of ? " 1)ii
man destiny
ii
General Grant looked straight ahead iit
of him with an expression on his in r
scrutable face that Senator Johnson
t
had never seen there before.
"After the fall of Vicksburg , " he f ,
said , after a pause. "Whenricks -
burg capitulated , I knew then I was to
be the man of the war , that I should u
command the armies of the United
v
States and bring the war to a close. "
had had great and notable successes
a
before the fall of Vicksburg. You had
fought Shiloh and captured Fort Don-
elson. " I
e (
"That is true , " responded General fc
Grant , "but while they gave me confi if
dence in myself , I could not see what fc
was before until Vicksburg fell. Then fcn :
I saw it as plainly as I now do. I
knew I should be commander-in-chief
and end the war. D
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How Croesus Lives at t3ie Seaside. in
The luxury of Newport life in the inw
large villas would be a revelation to w
the masses of people who have never ecA
seen the manneroflivingofourmoney- A
ed aristocracy. The houses them
selves are palatial. Recently I saw
a collection of tapestries ordered for te
a set of drawing-room furniture. eel
Each chair seat cost $200. The keep la
er of the Duke of Westminster place , th
Eaton Hall , I remember , points out thwl
to the visitor the drawing-room chairs , wl
which cost 150 each ; but the Ameri to i
can millionaire is even mere extrava se
gant in thematterofseats. The walls fo
of one large parlor here have been
covered this summer with a silken
fabric costing S28 a square yard. In
the arrangement of pictures , costly
brick-a-brack and furniture there is , mi
with very few exceptions , perfect taste , of ]
and with very few exceptions also ,
this wealth is so displayed that it
seems not for show , but for thegratifi-
cation cf the tastes of the villa owner. lai
It is estimated that $20,000 for mere in
living expenses are often spent in a
teason. Cor. Boston Transcript. in !
A IiiistFareivell.
ALBEKT 'PIKE'S TODOIINQ XETIEB TO A
DYIN'Q
Forb Smith ( Ark. ) Tribune : We
gladly give place to thefollowingbeau-
tifully-worded letter from Gen. Albert
Pike to Dr. Thurston of Van Buren ,
and received by the latter the day be
fore ho died :
WASHINGTON , D. C. , Sept. 3 , 1885.
My Dearest , and Best , and Truest Old
Friend : I have just received your lov
ing message sent to mebyMr.Sandels.
I had already two days ago learned
from our old friend Cush , who had in
formation from James Stewart , that
you were about to go away from us.
In a little while I shall follow you.and
it will be well for me if I can _ _ look for
ward to tho departure , inevitable for
all , with the same patience and _ equa-
nimity with which you are waitingfor
it.
it.I
I do not believe that our intellect
and individuality cease to be when
the vitallity of the body ends. I have
a profound conviction the only roal
revelation , which to me makes abso
lute certainty that there is a
supreme Deity , tho intelligence and
Lord of the universe , to whom
it is not folly to pray ; and
our convictions come from Him ,
and in them He does not lie to or de
ceive us ; and that there is toboformy
very self another , a continued life , in
which this life will be as if it had never
been , butl shall see and know again
those whom I havo loved and lost
here.
You have led an upright , harmless ,
and blameless life , always doing good ,
and not wrong and evil. You have
enjoyed the harmless pleasures of life
and have never wearied living. There
fore you need not fear to meet what
ever lies beyond the veil.
Either there is no God or there is a
just and merciful God , who will deal
gently and tenderly with the human
creatures whom He has made so weak
and so imperfect.
There is nothing in the future for
you to fear , as there is nothing in tho
past to be ashamed oi. Since I havo
been compelled by the lengthening of
theeveningshadowsto look forward to
my own nearly-approaching departure
I do not feel that I lose the friends
who go away before me. It is as it
they had set sail across the Atlantic
sea to land in an unknown country
beyond , whither I shall soon follow to
meet them again.
But , dear old friend , I shall feel very
lonely after you ar i gone. Wo have
been friends so long , without a mo
ment's intermission , without even one
little cloud or shadow of unkindness
or suspicion coming between us , that
I shall miss you terribly. I shall
never have the heart to visit Van
Buren again. There are others whom
I like there , but none so .dear to me as
you none there or anywhere else. As
long as I live I shall remember with
loving affection your ways and looks
and words , our glad days passed to
gether in the woods , your many acts
of kindness , the old home and the
shade of the mulberries , and an inti
mate communion and intercourse
during more than forty-five years.
I hope to be with you once more in
the woods , but now I shall never bein
camp in the woods again. The old
Friends are nearly all gone ; you are go
ing sooner than I to meet them. I
shall have a little longer , with little
left to live for , lovins your memory ,
and loving the wife and daimhter who
have been so dear to you. Dear , dear
Did friend , bood-by ! May our Father
ivho is in Heaven have you in His
loly keeping and give you eternal
: est. Devotedly your friend ,
ALBERT PIKE.
Lincoln's Sense of Justice.
? roin the Buffalo Commercial.
The Buffalo Historical Society lias
ust received a donation from General
Villiam B. Rochester , the Paymaster
General of the Army , at Washington , a
nost valuable historical curiosity and
elic of the War of the Rebellion. It is
onnected with the Administration of
'resident Lincoln , and contains two
1 his pointed notes , so illustrative of
iis sense of right and justice. It was
ithe case of a Captain Bourrya dis-
inguishcd Austrian ollicer , who was
ecommended to General McCIellan by
he President , and by the former as-
igned to the staff of General Blenker
i October,18Gland served until June ,
862. At that time General Blenker
rote to the War Department a-state-
lent of the facts and as to the ser-
ices of Captain Bourry , and asking
liat he be paid. The matter being
lid before President Lincoln , he wrote
s follows :
"I remember nothing of this case ,
tit I desire that is shall be investigat-
1 and that Captain Bourry be paid
r the service he actually performed ,
any. The Government can not af-
> rd to accept services and refuse pay-
icnt for them. A. LINCOLN.
"August 7 , 18C2. "
Then follows a letter irom the War
epartment stating the claim , and
lat the President desired the case
ivestigatcd , and referring it all to the
djutant General for information
hether this officer had been muster-
l into the United States service. The
djutant General , under date of Au-
ist 10 , returned the matter , stating
tat Captain Bourry was never nuis-
red into service within the knowl-
Ise of this office. All of which being
id before Mr. Lincoln , he wrote on
ie face of the paper as follows :
"I did not ask for information as to
riether this man has been mustered in-
service. Have we accepted his actual
rvices ? If we have , let him be paid
r them , unless there is positive law ,
; ainst it. A. LINCOLN. "
August 20.18G2.
Then follows , under date of August
! , a direction from the War Depart-
ent to Major Rochester to pay the
Eicer in full.
Sam W. Small , ( "Old Si , " of the At-
nta Constitution , ) recently preached
Atlanta to a very large audience ,
e was recently converted under r.hn
Eluence of Sam Jones.