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LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCE! MONDAY FEBRUARY 27 1882.
Lancaster -ntelligencct.
MONDAY EVENING, FEB. 27, 1883.
The Deferred Bend Scheme.
Tiie Reading court lias decided that
Mr. Gewen's deferred bend scheme is
entirely legal, and the judge seems te
think it quite impossible for any fair
minded man te think it is net. Still the
United States judges in Pennsylvania
have declared that it is net lawful.
"When judges disagree laymen are free te
make their own decision and in this
case we feel as confident as the Berks
county judge that, whether or no
the deferred bends are legal, the common
sense of people of ordinary apprehension
who have considered the matter will
declare that their issue would
net be advantageous te the Reading
railroad stockholders in the present con
dition of the company. They did very
well te open te it h chance for its corpor
ate life in its desperate condition when
the plan was first proposed. But new
when the company is saving mere than
its expenditure, it will be able te arrange
its dillicnlties by borrowing money at a
fair interest en a long lean, and no geed
reason can be suggested why it should
net adept this simple and old fashioned
way of getting itself out of the reach of its
creditors until it can muster its re
sources te pay them. The deferred bend
scheme occasions a sacrifice of the stock
holders' property, which is net demand
ed by the present condition of the com
pany. Mr. Gewen probably sticks te it
because he has made engagements with
the.-c who have taken the bends that he
thinks In: cannot release himself from.
But for the company's .sake we trut
that the United States court has taken
u correct view of the case and that the
appellate courts will finally se determine
We confess th.it the opinion of our
neighboring county judge, does net per
suade us that the question he decides is
decided right. We presume te doubt the
force of his opinieu as much as we d is
t.nle ils '.xm! effect if established. The
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judge piebably had geed intentions, and '
wanted!., decide as was best ler the ;
Heading company, since the law of the
;as:- was a toss up anyway, or at least a
little tee obscure for :i judge of the com
mon run. But when he decided as Mr.
Gewen could have had him. taking it for
granted that Mr. Ge wen war. right, wc
incline te think that he missed it and
put his loot into it se far as the stfeke!d-c-rs
are concerned who arc net subscrib
ers ie the band-.. Mr. Ge wen can err as
well ;i. any ether man and he has se !
demonstrated. He is a first-class man at !
getting out of a scrape, but if he did net ;
have a lair talent for getting into one. '
tee. I.u never would have been able te
demonstrate te the world the energy.
eledueuce. nluekand wealth of resources
which have wen him its applause in his J
,.Mt iwht r,. i.vistcncc
Tm: Republicans or this county con
template the adoption of new rules te
govern their nominations. The proposed
plan combines the main features of the
delegate convention and popular vole
systems, the intention being te elect del
egates and vole instructions at the same
time: every candidate te receive the
;-.elid vote of the delegates from such dis- j
tvictsas instruct for him by a majority!
se long as he remains before the c.enven j
lien ; and after he is dropped the next j
highest candidate in the district te get j
its entire vote ; the lowest te be dropped j
after each ballet ; no delegates te quit a J
choice of their district who get ten per i
cent, of its popular vote, se long i
as he is before the convention, and j
no name te b withdrawn which has re- i
ceived a plurality vote in any district, i
The delegates are te be apportioned upon !
a basis of one for each loe or traction el
ever 50 Republican votes cast in the dis
trict at the last presidential election.
The new rules have some of the merit.;
and iMiiifi of the demerits of both the
old systems, which they seek te combine.
Against them it may be said that they
are complicated, the resuit of their oper
ation will be hard te foresee and hard
te control, and in such cases the
politicians generally get the belter of Un Un
people. The new system is also calcu
lated te encourage numerous local can
didates, who will come out te carry and
control their townships and delegates,
rather than as sincere candidates. The
limitation of the new rules that none
shall vote "but Republicans in geed
standing, who voted the Republican
national or state ticket at the. preceding
general election," would, if strictly con
strued this year, for example, certainly
limit the right te these who went te the
polls and voted for Daily in 1881. Te be
ligible te participate in the primaries
under these rules one must have voted,
and voted the Republican national or
state ticket .at the preceding general elec
tion. Wii print as much of Blaine's eulogy
as we can find space for, considering the
late hour at which the copy of it was
received. It will be found te be far less
sensKtienal in tone than had been an
ticipated from the theme and the orator.
in justice te the truth of history the
" ex-premier " could net forbear allusion
te the factional troubles of the dead
president's party, and he can well be ex
cused for his reference te Mr. Garfield's
kindly feelings and unselfish purposes
throughout them. The eulogy, as a
whole,is in geed taste and less overloaded
with fulsome praise of the subject than
many ethers that have been spoken or
written since the cruel assassination and
agonizing death of the president. Es
pecially interesting, from Mr. Blaine's
long experience and party leadership Jn
the Heuse, is his analysis of service in
that body and his sketch of these who
have controlled its councils and led its
majorities. In its rhetorical features
the address of Mr. Blaine is net se strik
ing and correspondingly in better taste
than some of his previous public per
fermances, and he has certainly net
dimmed his reputation as a publicist by
this last effort.
Oun esteemed contemporary, tin- Xto Xte
iVa, offers SI. OeO iu all for the convic
tion of eleven persons for violations of
certain laws passed te purge primary
electien1; from such bribery, corruption
and return tinkering as have especially
distinguished these of its party in this
county. Although the rewards are net
limited te offenses or convictions occur
ring in Lancaster county they are pre
sumably se intended, and they are cer
tainly timely. Considering the impu
nity with which such efTense3 have been
committed in the past, we have no idea
that the Xcv: Em will ever be called
upon for any of the rewards, but it de
serves credit for showing a willingness
te pay them, especially as by se doing it
cuts loose from some of its recent re-form
associates who have done as much as
anybody te make the Republican prima
ries here ' carnivals of fraud.'"
Ir the Democracy of Philadelphia
have the geed sense te carry out the
purpose attributed te them te make up
a city committee of representative men
with Mr. Randall at the head of it they
may rehabilitate themselves in the es
teem of their rural brethren. Of late
the organization there lias figured most
conspicuously for its imbecility and gen
eral uselessness, if net for its treachery
te the cause of Democracy in the state
and of Reform in the city. The proposed
new organization contemplates the mem
bership of representative men, whe.even
if they were disposed te use It for fac
tional purposes, will net dare te se sink
themselves in the esteem of the state
Democracy. If Mr. Randall or anybody
else who is at the head or in the body of
this proposed reorganization should un
dertake te use it for any narrower pur
pose than the promotion of the general
party welfare he would very seen find
himself as illy thought of as are the men
who have in the past brought the party
organization in Philadelphia into dis
grace and contempt. Frem the names
mentioned for controllers of the new
committee we leek confidently for bet
ter things. Their regime cannot be
worse than that of McGowan or Bull.
Tin: Sandwich Islands elections have
resulted in ''the complete downfall of the
,M missionary influence."
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l in: nroeKiyn uiuurmau.s uavu ftuuaiuij
resolved te have no St.Patrick's day parade.
but te give a public entertainment and
devote the proceeds te the assistance of
the peer in Ireland.
! Tin: Canadian government, has never
met its Parliament' with the nuances iti as
i geed a condition, credit se high, ami the
i people mere prosperous ;"' and the nunis
I try claims th.it this state of affairs is grcat
1 ly due te the pietcctive policy of the
i government.
i
' K-ri.N.vr.ii Whyti:, of Maryland, is
said te be up in arms because of a re
ported coalition between German and
Bayard te cDiitiel the politics of Maryland
against. Whyte. Worse men than all three
el tUGSD might be engaged in better bnsi-
ne.vs than this squabble.
Tiii.ni: Is a chance that college rulHan
ism will come te an early end. In North
ampton, Mass., live students of Willis Willis
ten academy have been held in $100 each
j te answer three for kidnapping and two
i for ether hazing. Twenty-two students
i were held m "J 1 00 each for outrages en
j their fellows.
Ln a.selemn discussion of the growth of
miseguy in this country the Press of yes
terday gravely says: "The philosophic,
however, who array themselves against
the moustreu.-. porvcr.sieu of the evangels,
lament rather the abyssmal nothingness
into which the spread of this doctrine
must plunge mankind, than its passing
phases of immeasurable egotism." This
should settle it.
Pei.Y.'. vmy must go. The " Latter Day
Saints" of New England declare "aniii' "
it ; aud mass meetings in Tennessee.
Meantime the Utah Legislature demands
local self government, and a'l parties in
San Francisce unite in arranging for " a
srand mass meeting, irrespective of poli
tics, te be held next Sunday afternoon, for
the purpose of expressing the .sentiment
of the substantial business men of the
community in favor of the Anti-Chinese
bill new pending in Congress." This is a
big country.
PERSONAL.
Madame Akmixa Maxsfiem Uuur.ns Uuur.ns
DeitFr, the well-known singer, died yes
terday morning in IJosleu after a long ill
ness. Rev. M. K. SrncuMimiiesiN lectured in
the Channiug Memerial church, at New
port, Rhede Island, last evening ami an
nounced that he intended te start, a civil
service reform association in Newport.
Wi m.i Air D. Gkmmim., formerly lessee
of the Chestnut Street theatre, in "hila
delphia, and well known in theatrical
circles, died yesterday iti San Francisce of
pneumonia. He was 37 years of age.
Ex-Senater Coxklixe was at the Filth
Avenue hotel in New Yerk city yesterday yesterday
He had nothing te say about his nomina
tion as justice of the supreme court of the
United States.
Rev. Dr. Casi'eii N. Greueky. Profes Profes
eor of Sacred Rheterie in Lincoln Utiivei
sity, Chester county, Penna., died yester
day afternoon. He will be buried at
Bridgetown, New Jersey, Tuesday next.
ReuKiiT II. Pnuvx, president of the
National Commercial bank of Albany,
New Yerk, aud of the Dudley observatory,
died suddenly yesterday afternoon. He
was minister te Japan under President
Lincoln and was a candidate for lieuten
ant governor of New Yerk in 18C3.
Right Rev. Patrick N. Lyxcc, Reman
Catholic bishop of Charleston, Seuth
Carolina, died yesterday morning, aged
03 years. Deceased was a native of
Charleston, and was consecrated bishop in
18.18. He was distinguished for scientilic
as well as theological attainments, ami
was alike eloquent with the tongue and
the pen. His funeral will take place en
Wednesday morning.
The Walking Mntcli.
A "sacred concert " in Madisen Square
garden New Yerk, last night, preceded the
six days' "tro-as-yeu-please" walking
match which becau this morning. Thel
contestants are Rewell, Sullivan, Hart,
Hughes, Hazacl. Scott, Fitzgerald, Pan
chat, Vint, and Neremac. The audience,
both at the "sacred concert pregramme "
and at the start of the pedestriaas, was
very large.
KEWS OF THE DAY.
CRIME AND CRIMINALS.
l;;LNT DISAsTEKS AMD SfcNSATIO:S.
What
lias ltccn Agitating the Country.
J. II. Hughes, known as the " Fakir of
Ava," is dangerously ill in Trey, N. Y.,
from the bite of a pet raccoon.
Edward Moere, of Trenten, N. J., re
ported suffering from hydrophobia, died
at neon en Saturday.
Four gamblers from Detroit quarreled
en a railroad train near Shalford, Ontario,
last Friday night, and one of them, named
Jehnsen, was mortally wounded.
A respectable colored man named Hayes,
24 years of age, was shot dead while try
ing te make peace between several ether
colored men who were quarreling in Mon
treal en Saturday.
The president has signed the joint reso
lution appropriating $100,000 ter the relief
of the sufferers by the flood in the Missis
sippi valley.
J. O. "Wcldeu, a murderer and notorious
ruffian generally, was taken from the jail
en the night of the 21st iast. and lynched
by a mob.
At the Webster night school in St.
Leuis, en Fridav night, Wilhelm Manen-
thal, 12 years of age, stabbed another
pupil named Fucks, who had been mock
ing and maltreating bim. It is feared
Fuchs will net recover.
Twe men, named Moutray aud Massip,
quarreled about some property in Blanch
ard, Ontario, en Saturday, when Moutray
shot Massip in the breast and then shot
himself. Beth are fatallj wounded.
The bodies of the family buried under a
snewslidc in Big Cottonweed canyon, near
Salt Lake City, have been recovered. All
were found lying in their beds, aud it was
evident they had been smothered m their
sleep.
Jehn Kneppel, aged 30 years, a confec
tioner, living at 1,231 Olive street, Phila
delphia, cemmmitted suicide by stabbing
himself in the heart with a pair of scis
sors. D. J. Murphy, ux-dUlrict attorney, was
shot and perhaps fatally wounded by Jehn
Merency, a policeman, in the police court,
at San Francisce, en Saturday morning.
Merency, who had been a witness in a case
against a client of Murphy, was" referred
te by the latter as an Australian convict
and thief.
The prisoners in the jail at Lagrange,
Texas, attempted te escape en Friday
night. One of them get off, but another,
named llairisen, was shot dead by the
sheriff.
William Beecher, 23 years el age, quar
reled with auethcr man at Etna, near
Allegheny City. Penna., en Saturday night
and was stabbed te death by a drunken
man named Wolff, who came up and
became greatly exasperated because the
ethers paid no attention te him. Wolff is
in jail.
Samuel Hill, a quack doctor, was found
murdered in his night clothes in a ditch
near his house in Southampton county,
Virginia, last Friday night. The house
was binned. It is supposed Hill was
killed by some colored men in revenge
for the death of a patient for whom he had
prescribed, ami whom he was suspected of
poisoning.
A young man, named lJeermg, accused
of horse stealing, was taken from an
officer and lynched near Gatcsville, Texas,
a few days age. On Saturday a hundred
armed neighbors of Decriug rede tnte the
town and demanded the truest of the
lynchers " or they would take the law
into their own hands." The sheriff,
under this threat, arrested a man named
Leavitt aud his two sous, and at last ac
counts was searching for ethers of the
lynchers.
Lesses iy t'lre.
Mrs. Benjamin Finch was burned te
death in Prince Geerge county, Virginia,
en Friday nigiit by her dress becoming
ignited from an open lire at which she was
sitting.
The grocery store of Solemon Brethers,
in Savannah, Georgia, was destroyed by
iire last night. The less is stated at
$00,000.
The .steamboat Bertie Claiborne- has
been burned te the water's edge at Steel's
Bayou, Mississippi. The less en the beat
and cargo is S1.",000. A colored man and
three children were drowned.
The beet shop of S. Fuliain & Ce.. at
West Rrenkfitsld, Massachusetts, was de
stroyed en Saturday morning bj an
incendiary tire. Less, $10,000. A tire
man was seriously injured by a falling
brick.
Putnam . Brooks' confectionery at
Grand Rapids, Michigan, was burned.
Less, $10,000.
The less by the fire last Friday night
iu the building occupied by Aiken, Inscy
& Ce., iu Baltimore, is estimated at $27,-
noe.
Flout!, Explosion iiiuS Wreck.
The levee at Shawneetown, Illinois,
broke en Friday, and the tewii was flooded.
Michael Stulzman. the remaining victim
of the boiler explosion at Carlisle, Ohie,
died en Saturday, making in all six deaths.
The brigantinc Jehn Laughlin, of Phila
delphia, from Pcnsacela for Aspinwall,
with lumber, was wrecked en January
20th, north of Old Providence Islr.nd. She
is a total less, but part of her cargo may
be saved. Ilcr crew have arrived at As
pinwall. The levee at Friar's Point, Mississippi,
war, in danger. Tlie cattle at that place
were " wading about with only their
heads above water," and in many of the
houses net yet swept away the people are
forced te sleep en the reefs. Few houses
were habitable ou the In st fleer.
An explosion occurred en Saturday af
ternoon at the foundry of S. B. Sargent &
Ce., New llaven, by which live men were
injured, two seriously. The cupola man
allowed water from a hose te collect under
the cupola, which contained several tens
of melted iron and coal, and when the bot
tom was opened the lierv mas3 dropped
into the water, creating superheated
steam. The damage te ths building was
slight.
A five-story brick building ui St. Leuis,
occupied by ICreft, Helmes fc Ce., whole
sale grocers, tumbled down with a crash
at half-past two o'clock en Saturday
morning, and became a heap of ruins.
The less en building and stock is probably
ever $30,000. The building, which seems
te have divided in the middle, was com
pleted en the 15th of last month, aud its
walls were 22 aud 28 inches in thickness.
The cause of the catastrophe is a mys
tery. Twe Keveugtul Cooks.
In Clinten, la., twelve persons were
poisoned at the Central Hetel by drinking
milk containing arsenic. All will recover.
It is alleged that a colored cook who was
discharged from the house did the poison
ing out of revenge.
In Providence, R. I. six inmates of adis adis
reputable heuse were poisoned by arsenic
which had been put into the coffee by the
housekeeper, Dera Avery, or Higbee, who
has escaped. Twe of the women arc in a
dangerous condition.
A Canadian .11. r.'n Xepliew Shet.
Iu Montreal a colored Pullman car con
ductor named Barnes and a colored em,
pleyee in the Windser hotel named Chas
A. Smith had a quarrel in a saloon in
Notre Dame
street and Smith tried te
sheet Barnes. Jehn J. Hayes, a nephew
of Mr. Ryan, a member of Parliament for
Montreal, interfered, when Smith shot
Hayes in the mouth, the bail penetrating
his brain and killing him instantly, me
affair has created great excitement.
GARFIELD.
.ill:. ltLAINE'i TK1BUTE TO THE DEAD.
All Eloquent Eulogy of the Late President
at the Memerial Exercises ln tiie Na
tional Capitel Te-aay.
Washington, Feb. 27. When the
doers of the capitol were thrown open at
10:30 the galleries of the Heuse were im
mediately filled te their utmost capacity, a
large majority of the spectators being
ladies wearing black clothes. There were
no signs of mourning m the hall, even the
full-length portrait of Garfield, hanging
between the chairs of the presiding offi
cers, being nndraped. The three front
rows of desks in the chamber had been re
moved and their places were occupied by
a large number of chairs te accommodate
the invited guests. Members of the
Heuse were early in attendance, all dressed
in black aud a few in full evening dress.
The Marine band was stationed in the
lobby back of the speaker's desk, and
between ten and neon played solemn
music. Among these who occupied seats
en the fleer were Governors neyt, of
Pennsylvania, and Bigelow, of Connecti
cut. Shortly before 12 o'clock the diplo
matic corps arrived. Dr. Bliss was in at
tendance. Mrs. Blaine occupied a front
scat in tire gallery, reserved from friends
of the president. At precisely 12 o'clock
the Heuse was called te order by Speaker
Kiefcr, aud at 12:10 the Senate was an
nounced and all present rese respectfully
as the senators took their assigned seats.
They were followed by the justices of the
supreme court iu their robes of office.
Again the assembled multitude arose as
the president and his cabinet were an
neunced.
At 12:30 orator of the day, James G.
Blaine, arrival and was received with
rounds of applause. He was shortly
afterwards, presented by President Davis.
Mr. Blaine rose and proceeded with ini
prcssivemtss of manner and clearness of
tone te deliver his eulogy. He said :
The Eulogy.
Mu. President : Fer the second time
iu this generation the great departments
of the government of the United States arc
assembled in the Hall of Representatives
te de honor te the memory of a murdered
president. Lincoln fell at the close of a
mighty struggle in which the passions of
men had been deeply stirred. The trag
ical termination of his great life added
but another te the lengthened succession
of horrors which marked se many lintels
with the bleed of the first-born. Garfield
was slain in a day of peace, when brother
had been reconciled te brother, aud when
anger and hate had been banished from
the land. " Whoever shall hereafter draw
the portrait of murder, if he will show it
as it has been exhibited where such an ex
r.mple was last te have been looked for,
let him net give it the grim visage of
Melech, the brew knitted by revenge, the
face black with suppressed hate. Let him
draw, rather, a decorous, smooth-faced,
bloodless demon ; net se much an example
of human nature in its depravity and in
its parexyisms of crime, as an internal
being, a fiend iu tbe'erdiuary display and
development of his character."
Frem the lauding of the Pilgrims at
Plymouth till the uprising against Charles
First, about twenty thousand emigrants
came from Old England te New England.
As they came iu pursuit of intellectual
freedom aud ecclesiastical independence
rather than for worldly honor aud profit,
the emigration naturally ceased when the
contest for religions liberty began in
earnest at home. The man who struck his
most effective blew for freedom of con cen con
seience by sailing for the colonies in 1020
would have beeu accounted a deserter te
leave after 1C40. The opportunity had
then ceme en the soil of England for that
great contest which established the au
thority of Parliament, gave religions free
dom te the people, sent Charles te the
block, and committed te the hands of
Oliver Cromwell the supreme executive
authority of England. The English emi
gration was never renewed, and from these
twenty thousand raeu with a small emi
gration from Scotland and from France are
descended the vast numbers who have
New Eugland bleed iu their veins.
In 1083 the revocation el the edict of
Nantz by Leuis XIV. scattered te ether
countries four hundred thousand Protes
tants, who were among the most intelli
gent and enterprising of French subjects
merchants el capital, skilled manuiac
turers, and handicraftsmen, superior at
the time te all ethers in Europe. A con
siderable number of these Huguenot
French came te America ; a few lauded in
Nef England and became honorably prom
incut in its history. Their names have in
large part beceme augliciscd, or have dis
appeared, but their bleed is traceable in
many of the most reputable families, and
their fame is perpetuated in honorable
memorials aud useful institutions.
Ftem these two sources, the English
Puritan aud the French Huguenot, came
the late president his father, Abram Gar
field, being descended from the one, and
his mother, Eliza Balleu, from the ether.
It was geed stock en both sides noue
better, none braver, none truer. Thcre
was in it an inheritance of courage, of
manliness, of imperishable leve of liberty,
of undying adherence te principle. Gar
field was proud of his bleed ; and, with as
much satisfaction as if he were a British
nobleman reading his stately ancestral
record in Burke's Peerage, he spoke of
himself as ninth in descent from these
who would net endure the oppression of
the Stuarts, and seventh in descent from
the brave French Protestants who refused
te submit te the tyranny eveu from the
Graud Menarquc.
General Garfield delighted te dwell en
these traits, aud, during his only visit te
England, he busied himself iu discovering
every trace of his forefathers in parish
registries and en ancient army rolls. Sit
ting with a friend in the gallery of the
Heuse of Commens one night after n long
day's labor in this field of research, he
said with evident elation that every war
in which for three centuries patriots of
English bleed had struck sturdy blows for
constitutional government and human
liberty, his family had been represented.
They were at Marsten Meer, at Naseby and
at Preston ; they were at Bunker Hill, at
Saratoga, and at Monmouth, aud in his
own person had battled for the same great
cause in the war which preserved the Union
of the States.
Lesing his father before he was two
years old, the early life of Garfield was one
of privation, but its poverty has been
made indelicately and unjustly prominent.
Thousands of readers have imagined him
as the ragged,, starving child, whose reality
tee often greets the eye in the squalid
sections of our large cities. General Gar
field's infancy and youth had none of
their destitution, none of their pitiful
features appealing te the tender heart and
te the open hand of charity. He was a
peer boy in the same sense in which
Henry Clay was a peer boy; in which An
drew Jacksen was a peer boy; in
which Daniel Webster was a peer boy ;
in the sense in which a large majority of
the eminent men of America in all genera
tions have been peer boys. Before a
great multitude e men, in a public speech,
Mr. Webster bere this testimony :
' It did net happen te me te be born in
a leg cabin, but my elder brothers and
sisters were born in a leg cabin raised
amid the snow-drifts of New Hampshire,
at a period se early that when the smoke
rose first from its rude chimney and curled
ever the frozen hills there was no similar
evidence of a white man's habitation be
tween it and the settlements en the rivers
of Canada. Its remains still exist. I
make te it an annual visit. I carry my
children te it te teach them the hardships
endured by the generations which have
geno before them. I love te dwell en the
tender recollections, the kindred ties, the
early affections, and the touching narra
tives aud incidents which mingle with all
I knew of this primitive family abode.
With the requisite change of scene the
same words would aptly portray the early
days of Garfield. The poverty of the
frontier, where all are engaged in a com
mon struggle and where a common sym
pathy and hearty co-operation lighten the
burdens of earth, is a very different
peveity, different in kind, different in in
fluence and effect, from that conscious and
humiliating indigence which is every day
forced te contrast itself with neighboring
wealth en which it feels a sense of grind
ing dependence. The poverty of the Iron Iren
tier is indeed no poverty. It is but the
beginning of wealth, and has the bound
less possibilities et the luture always open
ing befere it. Ne man ever crew up in
the agricultural regions of the West where
a house-raising, or even a corn-husking, is
matter of common interest and helpfulness,
with any ether feeliug than that of broad bread
minded, generous independence. This
honorable independence marked the youth
of Garfield as it marks the youth of mil
lions of the best bleed and brain new
training for the future citizenship and fu
ture government of the republic. Garfield
was born heir te land, te the title of free
holder which has been the patent and pass
port of self respect with the Anglo-Saxen
race ever since Hengist and Hersa landed
en the shores of England. His adventure
en the canal an alternative between that
and the deck of a Lake Erie schooner
was a farmer boy's device for earning
money, just as the New England lad be
gins a possibly great career by sailing
before the mast en a coasting vessel or en
a meiehantman bound te the farther India
or te the China Seas.
Ne manly man feels anything of shame
iu looking "back te early struggles with
adverse circumstances, and no man feels
a worthier pride than when he has con
quered the obstacle te his progress. But
no ene of neble mould desires te be looked
upon as having been repressed by a feeling
of inferiority, or of having suffered the
evils of poverty until relief was found at
the hands of charity. General Garfield's
youth presented no hardships which fam
ily love and family energy did net over
come, subjected him te no privations
which he did net cheerfully accept, and
left no memories save theso which were
recalled with delight, and transmitted
with profit and with pride.
Garfield's early oppertuuitcs for secur
ing an education were extremely limited,
ami yet were sufficient te develop iu him
an intense desirote learn. He could read
at three years of age, and each winter he
had the advantage of the district school.
He read all the books te be found within
the cirele of his acquaintance ; some of
them he get by heart. While yet in
childhood he was a constant student of the
Bible, and became familiar with its litera
ture. The dignity aud earnestness of his
speech in his matr.rcr life gave evidence
of this early training. At eighteen years
of age he was able te teach school, aud
thenceforward his ambition was te obtain
a college education. Te this end he bens
all his efforts, working in the harvest
field, at the carpenter's bench, aud, in the
winter season, teaching the common
schools of the neighborhood. While thus
laboriously occupied he feuud time te
prosecute his studies, and was be success
ful that at twenty-two years of age he was
able te enter the iunier class at Williams
college, then under the presidency of the
veueiable and honored Mark Hepkins,
who, in the fullness of his powers, survives
the eminent pupil te whom he was of in
estimable service.
The history erCufield's life te this'per this'per
ied, prcsentsne novel feature-. He had
undoubtedly shown perseverance, self
reliance, seif-sacrilice and ambition qual
ities which, ba it said for the honor of our
country, are everywhere te be found
among the young men of Amsrica. But
from the hour of his graduation at Wil
liams onward, te the hour of his tragical
death. Garfield's career was eminent and
exceptional. Slowly working through his
educational period, receiving his diploma
when twenty four years of age, he seemed
at eun bound te spring into conspicuous
and brilliant success. Within six years he
was successively president of a college,
state senator from Ohie, major genera! in
the army of the United States, and rep
rcsentativc-elect te the national uenarcss.
A combination of honors se varied, se ele
vated, within a period brief and te a man
se yeuns, is without precedent or parallel
in the hiBtery of the country.
Mr. Blaine then passed into a review ei
Mr. Garfield's military career, aud his
services in Congress. Ofhischaii'Cterand
performance as a feprcscutivc he said :
There is no test of a man's
ability in any department of public
life mere severe than service in
the Heuse of Representatives ; thei-i is no
place where se little defercuce is paid te
reputation previously acquired, or te
ominence wen ontside ; no place where se
little consideration is shown for the feel
ings or the failures of beginners. What a
man gains in the Heuso he gains by -lieer
ferce of his own charaeter, and if h" loses
and falls back he must expect n mercy,
aud will receive no sympathy, ft is afield
in which the survival of the' strongest is
the recognized rule, and where no pretense
can deceive and no glamour can mislead.
The real man is discovered, bio worth is
impartially weighed.his rank is irreversibly
decreed
With possibly a. single exception Gar
field was the yeuugest member iu the
Heuse when he entered, and was but seven
years from his college graduation. But
he had net been in his seat sixty days
bofero his ability was iceegnized and his
place conceded. He stepped te the front
with the cenfidcr.ee of one who belonged
there. The Heuso was crowded with
strong men of both parties; nineteen of
them have since been transferred te the
Senate, and many of them have served
with distinction in the gubernatorial
chairs of their respective states, and en
foreign missions of great consequence ;
but among them all none grew se rapidly,
none se firmly as Garfield. As is said by
Tevclyan of his parliamentary here, Gar
field succeeded -bociuseall the world in
concert could net have kept him
iu the background, and became
when once in the front he played his part
with a prompt intrepidity aud a command
ing ease that were but the outward symp
toms of the immouse reserves or energy,
en which it w.as iu his power te draw."
Indeed the apparently reserved force which
Garfield possessed was one of his great
characteristics. He never did se well but
that it seemed he could easily have done
better. He never expended se much
strength but that he seemed te be holding
additional power at call. This is one of
the happiest aud rarest distinctions of an
effective debater, and often counts for as
much in persuading an assembly as the
eloquent aud elaborate argument.
The great mcasure of Garfield's fame
was filled by his service in the Heuse of
Representatives. His military life illus
trated honorable pcformauce, and rich in
premise, was, as he himself felt, pie
raaturcly terminated, and necessarily in
complete. Speculation as te what he might
have done in a field where the great prizes
are se few cannot ba profitable. It is
sufficient te say that as a Beldier he did his
duty bravely ; he did it intelligently ; he
wen an enviable fame, and he retired from
i
service without blot or breath against him.
As a lawyer, though admirably equipped
for the profession, he can scarcely be said
te have entered en its practice. The few
efforts he made at the bar were distin
guished by the same high order of talent
which he exhibited en every field where he
was put te the test, aud if a man may be
accepted as a competent judge of his own
capacities and adaptations, the law was
the profession te which Garfield should
have devoted himself. But fate ordained
otherwise, and his reputation in history
will rest largely upon his service in the
Heuse of Representatives. That service
was exceptionally !en;r. lie was nine
times consecutively chosen te the Heuse,
an honor enjoyed by net mere than sis
ether representatives of the meie than live
thousand who have been elected from the
organization of the government te this
hour.
As a parliamentary orator, as a debau r
en an issue squarely joined, where the pe
sitieu had been chosen and the ground
laid out, Garfield must be assigned a very
high rank. Mere, perhaps, than any man
with whom he was associated iu public
life, he gave careful and systematic study
te public questions and he came te every
discussion in which he took part, with
elaborate and complcte preparation. He
was a steady and indefatigable worker.
Theso who imagine that talent or genius
can supply the place or achieve the results
of labor will find no cuceuragement in
Garfield's life. In preliminary work he
was apt, lapid and skilful. He possessed
in a high degree the power of readily ab
sorbing ideas aud facts, and like.Dr.Jnhn
son had the art of getting from a book all
that was of value in it by a reading appar
ently se quick and cursory that it seemed
like a mere glance at the table of contents.
He was pre-eminently fair and candid man
in debate, took no petty advantage, stoop steep
ed te no unworthy methods, avoided per
sonal allusions, rarely annealed te preju
dice, did net seek te inflame passion IIc
had a quicker eye for the strong point of
his adversary than for his weak. r.m en
his own side he se marshaled his weighty
arcuuicnts as te make his hearers forget
any possible lack in the complete strength
of, his position. He had ahabit of stating
his opponent's side with such amplitude
of fairness and such liberality of conces
sion that his followers often complained
that he was giving his case away. But
never in his prolonged participation in the
proceedings of the Heucc did he give his
case away, or fail in the judgment of com
petent and impartial listeners te gain the"
mastery.
These characteristics, which mark.-d
Garfield as a great debater, did net, how
ever, make him a great parliamentary
leader. A parliamentary leader, ns that ,
term is understood whcicvcr free repre
sentative government exists, is nccessaiily
and very strictly the organ of his party.
An ardent American defined the instinc
tive warmth of patriotism when he offered
the toast, " Our country, always riirhf,
but risrht or wrong, our country." The
liarliamcntarv leader who has a body of
followers that will de aud dare and die ler .
the cause, is one who believes his party
always right, but light or wrong, is for
his party. Ne mere important or exacting
duty devolves upon him than the selection
or the field and the time for contest. He
must knew net merelj hew te strike.
but where te strike aud when te
strike. Be often skillfully avoids
the strength of his opponent's pe-
sitien and scatters confusion in his ranks
by attacking an exposed point when really
the righteousness of the cause and the
strengthoflegicalintienchmentarcagaiur.t
him. He conquers often both against the
right and the heavy battalions ; ns when
young Charles Fex, in the days of his
teryism, carried the Heuse of Commens
against justice, againr.t its immemorial
rights, against Ids own conviction!:, if, in-
deed, at that period Fex had conviction,
and. in the interest of n corrupt admiui?.
tratien, in obedience te a tyrannical sev-
crcigu, drove Wilkes from the sr:it te
which the electors of .Middlesex had
chosen him and installed Lui troll in deti -
aucc, net merely of law but of public de-
cency. Fer an achievement of that kind
Garfield was disqualified disqualified by
the texture of his mind, by the honesty of
his heart, by his conscience, and by every
instinct and aspiration of his nature.
TMr. Blaine then instituted a narailel
between the three great parliamentary
leaders the country had had Clay, Doug - Deug -
las and Steven?, of whomhe proneuncf d
Clay the greatest :
" Frem these three great men (.'a; field
dillVrcd radically, differed in the quahty of
his mind, in temperament, in the form and
phase of ambition. He could net de what
they did, but he could de what they could
net, aud in the breadth of Ids congres
sional work he left that which will longer
exert a potential influence among men and
which, measured by the severest trst
of posthumous criticism, will secure a
meie enduring and mere enviable fame.
" When war legislation, measures of re
construction, protection of human rights,
amendments te the constitution, mainten
ance of public credit, steps toward specie
resumption, true theories of revenue may
be reviewed, unnurrennded by prejudice
and disconnected
from partismism, the
iTil rill lin I'stimatfil at
speeches of Garfle
their true value, and will be found te.
comp.ise a vast magazine of fact and ar-',
gunient. of clear analysis and sound con ;
elusion." ,
(.Passing te a consideration of his nemi-
nation and canvas.s for the presidency, Mr. !
Blaiuc lr-ferrcd te the detraction which h i
had suffered, and said that under it h" .
never le3t his seIf-po:-scssien, did no ti'i
wise act and spoke no ill-considered word, j
"In a few instances the iron entered his j
-.-. ..... w. ....... . - -
soul and he died with the injury uufer-
gotten if net uufergiven." The orator re-
t'erred te the engrossing and often distaste
ful duties which met him in the prri
dency ; of his dispatch of business, his
clearness and promptness, and his desire
te go Seuth and meet the people.
He definitely counted en being present a1;
three memorable assemblies in the Seuth,
the celebration at Yorktown, the opening
of the cotton exposition at Atlanta, and
the meeting of the Army of the Cumber
turning ever in his mind his address for
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cash occasion, and the three taken to
gether, he said te a friend, gave him tha
exact scene and vcrcc which he needed.
At Yorktown he would have before him
the associations el a hundred years tnar. :
bound the Seuth and the North iu the
sacred memory of a common danger and a
common victory. At Atlanta he would
present the material interests and the in
dustrial development which appealed te
the thrift and independence of every hen.-e -
held, and which should unite the two
section by the instinct of self-interest an I
self-delense. At Chattanooga he would
re ive memories of the war Only te show
that after all its disaster and all its suffer
ing, the country was stronger and greater,
the Union rendered indissoluble, and the
future, through the agony and bleed of
ene generation, made brighter and better
for all."
The political events which disturbed the
president's serenity for many weeks bcfeie
that fateful day in July form an import
ant chapter in his career, and, in his own
judgment, involved questions of principle
aud of light which aie vitally essential te
the constitutional administration of the
federal government. It would be out of
place here and new te apeak the langaage
of controversy ; but the events referred
te, however they may continue te be
source of contention with ethers, have be
come, se far as Garfield is concerned,
as much a matter of history as
his heroism at Chickamauga or his
illustrious service in the Heuse. Detail is
net needful, and personal antagonism shall
net be rekindled by any word nttered te
day. The motives of theso opposing him
are net te be here adversely interpreted
nor their course harshly characterized.
But of the dead president this is te be
said, and said because his own speech is
forever silenced ami he can be no meie
heatd except through fidelity and the love
of surviving friends-: Frem the beginning
te the end of the controversy he se much
deplored, the president was never for one
moment actuated by any motive of gain te
himself or of less te ethers. Least of all
men did he harbor revenge, rarely did he
even show resentment, and malice was net
in his nature. He was cengenially em
ployed only iu the exchange el geed offices
and the doing of kindly deeds.
There wa uet an hour, from the begin
ning of the trouble till the fatal shot enter-i-d
his body, when the president would net
gladly, for the sake of restoring harmony,
have retraced any step he hail taken if
such retracing had merely involved conse
quences personal te himself. The pride
of consistency, or any supposed sense of
humiliation that might result from snrren
cning his position, had net a feather's
weight with him. Ne man was ever les
subject te such influences from within or
from without. But after most anxious de
liberation aud the coolest survey of all the
eircumstauces, he solemnly believe-',
that the true prerogatives of
the executive were involved iu the
issue which had been laised, and
that he would be unfaithful te his supreme
obligation if he failed te maintain, in all
their vigor, the constitutional rights and
dignities of his great office. Iio believed
this in all the convictions of conscience
when in sound and vigorous health, and
he believed it in his suffering and prostra
tion in the last conscious thought which
his weary mind bestowed en the transitory
struggles of life. Mere than this need
net be said. Less than this could net be
said. Justice te the dead, the highest
obligation that devolves upon the living.
demands the declaration that m all bear
ings of the subject, actual or possible, the
picsident was content in his mind, justi
fied in his conscience, immovable in his
conclusions.
Mi- Blaine paid high tribute te the pics
ident's religious character ; his return
from the range of speculation with fiesu
ness and delight te the simpler instincts
of religious faith ; his liberality aud tol
erance. In conclusion, after sketching
the events preceding the assassination and
the horrid deed itself, the orator indulged
in the following peroration.
Gicatinlife.be was siirpassinglygu-.it
in death. Fer no cause, in the very frenzy
of wantonness and wickedness, by the red
hand of murder, he was thrust from the
full tide of this world's interest, from it
hopes, its aspirations, its victories, into
the visible presence et ncaiii ami no urn
uet r.uail. .e
oust!. J.et alone ler me uim miei..
moment in which, .stunned aud dazed, he
could give up life, hardly aware of its le
linquishment, but through days of deadly
languor, through weeks of agony, that was
net less agony because silently borne, with
clear sight and calm courage, he looked
into his encii crave. What. blijht and ruin
met his anguished eyes, whose lips may tell
i what brilliant, brekenlans,whatbaUlcd,
high ambitions, what sundering of strong,
warm, manhood's friendships, what bitter
rending of sweet household ties ! Behind
; him a proud expectant nation, a great host
! of sustainiiiir friends, a cherished and
', happy mother, wearing the full rich lien
; 0rs of her early toil and tears ; the wife of
j his youth, whose whole life lay in his ; the
little boys net yet emerged from child
j heed's day of frolic ; the fair, young
daughter ; the sturdy sons just springitiL'
i into closest companionship, claiming every
j day and every day rewarding a father's
i leve and care ; and in his heart the
. eager, rejoicing power te meet, all de
J mand. Befere hiin, desolation and great
I darkness ! And his soul was net shaken,
' His countrymen were thrilled with in
slant, profound and universal sympathy
, Masterful iu his mortal weakness, he be
came tha centre of a nation's love, in
, shrined in the prayers of a world. But a I
' the leve and all the sympathy could net
, slnirc with him his suffering. He tied the
, wine-press aloue. With unfaltering front
j he faced death. With unfailing tinder
, ness he took leave of life Abeve the
J demoniac hiss of tin- assassin's bullet he
, heard the voice el" Ged. With simple
i resignation he Lowed te the Dirino de-
c:ee.
j As the cud drew near, his early craving
' ' ler the .sea returned. The stately mansion
et power had been te him tlie wcaiise'iu
, hospital el p;;
' taken from its
, ana ne neggcu ie i
prNen walls, from it:; op
pressive, stilling :ur, irem us iiemi:ie.-
ncai and its hepslessuens. Gently, silently,
the leve of a great people bere the pale
suffeier te the longed-for healing of thu
sea. te live or te die, as Ged should will,
within :;ight of ils heaving billows, within
scum! of its manifold voices. With wan,
fevered face tenderly lifted te the cooling
breeze, he looked out wistfully upon the
ocean's changing wonders; en it; far sails
whitening in the morning light ; en its
restless waves, rolling shoreward te break
and die beneath the noonday sun ; en the
red clouds of evening, arching iew te the
horizon ; en the scrcuu and shining path
way of the stars. Let us think that his
j dying eyes read a mystic meaning which
' enlv Mm rattf. :l!il nmtill" SO'.lI may k'lOW.
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Let us beliuvn that in the silence of the re
ceding world he hearu tiie great waves
breaking en a further shore, and felt
already upon his wasted brew the breith
of the eternal morning.
After the AiMrc.
The eulogy was crxiehidcd at 1:30 -. m.
As Mr. DIainc gave utterance- te the last
solemn words, the ipectaters broke into a
storm of applause, which was nut hushed
i f
or seni" moment's. The address was lis
t(.neil te with an intense mtciest and m
Kelenui silence. Benediction wan then
offered by Dr. Unlieck, chaplain of Senate
The MtuiHe band played the Garfield dead
marc:
' -n tlin invited "lies'3 ll'ftd
out of
tha chamber in the same
order in
which they had entered.
i The Senate was the last te leave, and tiie
i Heuse was then called te order ey tne
speaker. Mr. McKinley, of Uhle, ettered
a rcselu! ion of thanks te Mr. Blaine for the
appropriate memorial address and it was
unanimenslv adopted. The Heuse then,
j a3
t mark of respect, adjourned until te
morrow.
Si:iallj:ex In Mexico,
Twe thousand mero Italian emigrants
hiive arrived at Vera Cruz. There are
' niany cases of smallpox in the citie3 of this
' iepubHc. The secretary of the interior
has issued a circular te the governors of
Mexican states notifying them or the
spread of the epidemic in the United States
aud advising compulsory vaccinat'en and
ether precautionary measures.
MTTCB L.OCALS.
Here and There and .Everywhere.
Philip Bernard's cigarraakers, irrespec
tive of party, send 35 te the relief of the
sufferers from the cannon explosion.
On Saturday S. Hess & Sen sold 18 Ohie
horses for Jacob S. Feltz, Petersburg, fit
an average of $222 per head highest
brought 8232.
Jac. Ruttcr, of Intercourse, and Jac.
Bair, of WiUiamstewn, went through
town te-dav with forty hounds en their
way te thebig fox chase at Clem. Flera
miug's tavern, Neffsville.
A fire in Wm. Wehlseu's planing mill
boiler house, Woodward street, early en
Saturday evening, occasioned by a steam
pine or spark, was luckily extinguished by
a hydrant hose after burning the boiler
heuse reef. The American and Skifficr
were en hand, though net needed.
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