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TII ENMALL APPEA L
BY RICHARD WILTON, 31. A.
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The Commune
SkeWiles 0! the trailers
" A Communalist," in the fall Mal
tia:eile says: Permit me now to say
few words upon the principal men o
The current aceoul
the Commune
eoiee•nfng their private life is, to use a
mild expression, singularly erroneous,
and proves once more the weakness of
re-actionists ; for their attacks are di
rected upon the persons in preference to
the principle. NVllell political antago
nism degenerates into personalities, and
libel takes the place of frank and
straightforward polemic—when one of
the parties dives into his enemy's pri
vate life, and emerges from it with the
startling news that lie is a thief, and
draws front his libellous assertion the
consequence that Coe cause sustained by
him must, be in accordance with hi.
personal value—discussion becomes no
more than Jesuitism ; and thus 1 glad-
ify the system of those who have per
sisteutly slandered the insurr'ectiona
leaders of Paris. This tactic, it is true
is u etonnion one. Looking to pass
events we do not find, after a revolution
one leading man whose private eharac
ter has nut been sullied in the mos
abominable manner.
After 184 S, Ledru-Rollin and Louis
Blanc had to seller; after the 4th of
September it was Gram beau—that model
of honesty, disinterestedness and patri
otism. Now conies the turn of the mem
bers of the commune. Delescluze is a
convict, (A am bon a speculator, Felix
Pyat a jail bird, Vermorel and \'ulles
Bonapartist spies, Rigault a bravo de
lighting in bloodshed, the "ferocious"
Milliere one of those carniverous ani-
mall not yet classed in the zoological
gardens, the two Donibrowsk is In erce,-
naries, Miot a thief, Tridon a money.
seeker, Jourde a cashier who had run
away with his master's strong box, Dw
vat and Flourens ravin ,, madmen, Ves.
inter an ungrammatical twaddler win
had always been Unable to thstinguisl
between mem» and Muni, Courbet, the
painter, a systematic destroyer of works
of art, and all generally inspired with a
thirst fur destruction rather difficult to
explain. Varlin Was found with $75,000
in his pockets (even in bank notes he
must have had a cab to carry them.)
BilijOrny W0..7 taken in the Caine circum
ces, etc. Is it necessary to say that
these accusations are groundless? Del
escluze was not a convict; Tritium
i ianibon and Rigau I t were rich men;
\'erinorel and Valles (who both died
bravely) were not informers; and the
ferocious" Milliere was not ferocious
at all.
'Without speaking of the improbabil
ity of two spies voluntary dying for a
cause which they hated, and of the man
being a monster who fell with the cry
" Vise Thumanite !" I defy anybody
to prove the charges of dishonesty
against the Communal leaders whom I
have mentioned. The Commune, on
the contrary, showed itselfstrictly hon
est, and gave a signal proof of it when,
discovering in its midst a until named
Blanehet, who under the name of Pa-
Mlle had committed fraudulent bank
ruptcy, it ordered his arrest and for
mally expelled him limn the hotel de
Ville as Unworthy of thOnandate Which
his electors had given him. Whenever
there was the slightest doubt as to the
antecedents of any of the members, his
colleagues, both for his sake and for
their own, made a strict inquiry'
concerning his private life. Assi was
suspected, arrested, and acquitted, and
it was the same with Clement. To re
fute minutely what has been alleged
against those much calumniated men
would be too long. I will, however,
give a short sketch of the political
career of those who were the most bit
terly impeached, being the principal
figures of the revolution.
'Po the noble-hearted Delescluze be
longs the first place, and I cannot really
recall his memory without deep emotion
To him especially I think it my duty to
render a tribute of respect and admira
tion, and also to say what he was during
his existence. 'Delescluze was one of
those men who never traffic with their
conscience and who sacrifice every
thing to conviction. Delescluze s ex
istence proved a long martyrdom. A
barrister by profession, he devoted him
self to the press iu 113 u, and soon made
himself conspicuous by his radicalism.
After Barbes• attempt to raise Paris he
was condemned to three year's' impris
onment for complicity with the latter.
He suffered the whole tern of his im
prisonment, and in 1838 resumed with
more faith and ardor than ever the
propagation of Democratic ideas. Again
he mcarred condemnation and the sup
pression of his papers. But nothing dis
couraged him, Mid his bold polemic con
tributed much to the revolution of 1848.
After the insurrection of June of the
same year he was accused of complicity,
and sentenced par eoutumaee to six
years' penal servitude. Delescluze this
time escaped to England, and remained
there until 1854. At that period, iu spite
of the remonstrances of his friends, and
in the hope of raising public indignation
against the coup d'etal, be crossed over
to Boulogne. He was arrested almost on
his huting, sent to Paris, and arraigned
before a special tribunal to take his trial
1
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fat:participation in the troubles f June.
C 'udemned to transportation f r an in
de uite term, poor Delescluze had to
su Cr a martyrdom which f w men
mild have endured. He wall at first
taken to Belle 181 e, anti subsequently
transported from there to the bagnes of
Toulon and Breet, where he was chain-
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ed up with the worst convicts, cruelly
treated, half-starved and bard-worked.
Atlast they threw him into the hold of
a'transportship and senthim to Cayenne.
Delesdluze has himself related how he
made ty voyage four times without be
ing rem ved from the ship, the French
authorities cheerfully risking his death '
from the vitiated atmosphere of the hold
and the insufficient and disgusting food
allotted to him. Delescluze had, how
ever, enough moral energy to resist these
frightful tests, and was at last landed at
Cayenne. In this deadly climate he re
mained, treated as a convict, from 1856
to 1866 ; when he was allowed to return
to France, and immediately founded the
Revell, our most radical paper. Deles
cluze pointed out from the first the fatal
military propensities into which France
was plunging under the sway of Bona
parte; he predicted the war with Ger
many, foresaw its consequences, and
was, with Rochefort, the only man who
dared to express aloud his abhorrence of
During the first siege he denounced
11 the mistakes of the government of
tational defence, and the population of
'aril testified its gratitude by sending
inn to the National Assembly of Bor
leaux. He voted against the cession of
.orraine and Alsace, resigned his seat
n being elected member of the Corn
rune, and, after having almost Blend
led himself with the insurrection, died
on a barricade, unwilling to survive be
cause he thought that his death would
be more benelicial to his cause than his
life. Whatever may be said about hint,
his name romains unstained ; his mem
ory will ever be cherished us that of a
martyr of liberty and as one of those few
admirable and choice spirits who devote
their life and strength to the propaga
tion of a great idea.
Dombrowski is the type of univer
sal republican who curries ou s t-the theo
ry of lighting for the emancipation of
the people in whatever part of the world
he finds himself. Garibaldi is the
iiareation of it, and so wits Dombrow
ski. In aobsiiitit , ,, , his previous life, it
will be found well-filled, although com
paratively short. lie fought for Polish
idependence and in the Italian war un
;er Garibaldi. Dombrowski was in
'aril during the first siege, and Gari
Idi, who regarded him as his ablest
eer, asked earnestly for him. Instead
mplying with these wishes, Gener
al put Dombrowski ill prison. Ile,
las by his voluntary death, con
,unded those who accused Lim of tight
ig for lucre.
As for Felix l'yat., the "jail bird,"
Iris epithet,in ally case,isill-founded,for
ie has never been in jail. Always con
temned, he always contrived to escape
!election. During his long exile in
England he showed himself the bitter
est tmetny of the empire. Ile must
have been a studious thief, at all events,
for the habitues of the British museum
reading-room may easily remember a
Mall with handsome and strong, fea
tures, who passed there the greater part
of his twenty years' proscription in
study. Felix l'yat was born at Vierzou,
in tell!, and it is a curious fact that he
has made of his native town the most
republican place in France after Paris.
At the last municipal elections, which
took place during the late resisteuee of
the capital, V ierzon placed Felix Pyat
at the head of the poll. He was always
opposed to the coercive measures taken
by the Commune. and even tendered
his resignation when some papers were
suppressed.
I cannot leave the subject without say
ing a few words on Flourens and Duval,
not about their military capacity—they
had none—but on account of the great
part which they took in the outburst of
March I.S. No one has forgotten how
Flourens fought for two years in favor
of the Canadian insarrection, how he
was elected by the island of Crete a Wern
her of the Hellenic Assembly, arrested
by the Grecian authoritiesand sent back
to France. He went immediately after
ward to Constantinople, where he pub
lished a radical paper in the Greek lan
guage. Ile eventually returned to
France, but his denunciations of the em
pire brought upon him so many con
demnations that he found himself under
the necessity of going to England, that
everlasting shelter of proscripts.
after life is already known.
FrourenA was a very learned man, and
scarcely thirty-three years of age. He
had succeeded to his father's chair at
the Sorbonne, but his free opinions soon
deprived ldin of his seat. Flourens was
brave even to recklessness; he fought a
duel with M. de Cassagnac, the most
dangerousswordsman iu Paris, although
he had never touched a foil in his life.
, lie was much liked by all who knew
him for his amiability and frankness.
Duval was the type of the intelligent
workman. He was gifted with depth
of mind, wrote well and spoke still bet
ter. He contributed more than any
man to the revolution. As to Iligault,
I repeat what I said about him in a pre
vious letter. I always found him to be
a good and brave man, without the
slightest tinge of cruelty in his charac
ter. Although very rich, he had devo
ted himself to politics since 1811. The
Only fault I could find with him was a
want of dignity on certain occasions.
Torpedo Catching
'he Cornwall correspondent of La
II writes as follows :
" A torpedo in fine condition was
caught last week in a ground seine.—
The length of the fish was four feet five
inches, breadth five feet two inches,
and weighed over eighty-two pounds.
I was present when the fish was en
closed, and had the opportunity of see
ing the creature exert its electrical pow
er. The first sign we had of electrical
influences being at work in the seine
was the action of a surmullet, which
darted from the bottom of the seine on
to the surface of the sea, and a consider
able distance out of water, just like an
active pilchard or a herring. The old
est fishermen or the closest student of
natural history here had never known
the surmullet to perform such a feat be
fore, and we believe it can only be ac
counted l'or by the presence of the torpe
do. In drawing up the bag I recognized
him but refrained from any remarks be
ing anxious to watch results, of which I
soon had all opportunity. In the bug
also were about two hundred cuttles,
two hundred surmullets, and one hun
dred hollocks, and a few specimens of
several varieties of fish. As you may
imagine, there was no small confusion
among this fur from happy family.—
When the bag was tightened for landing
the cuttles were especially annoying,
every one being busily engaged squirt
ing liquid sepia. In the blackened
waters toe torpedo was lust sight of for
some time. After some of the fish had
been taken in the boat the sides of the
creature were seen, and one of the men
most active iu clearing the bag at once
gripped hold of him. It was only for
an instant he held him, as a charge of
electricity was suddenly sent by the fish
all through his lingers and up his arms. A
puzzled expression could be seen on the
features of the man, lie having no con
ception it was possible for a fish to give
him such sensations; yet he could not
tell what was the matter with his hands.
Again the torpedo was lost sight of.
Soon after its tail was seen by the same
person, who took hold of it and drew
the fish into the boat. Whether the
fish could not electrify by means of its
tail, or whether it refrained from using
its powers, I cannot tell. No sort of
electrical expression was felt while the
creature was held by its tail. When
It was safe in the boat one of
the men trod heavily on it to
kill it; this was the only attempt made
to do so, for the fish told all its own story
by making the man scream, and such
was the strength of the discharge that
it caused a numbness in his leg for twen
ty minutes after. I found the feelings
caused in the human body by the elec
tricity from this fish were very much
the same as being electrified by an ordi
nary electrical machine. When - the
fish discharged its battery, the muscles
on the surface of its body were sud
denly contracted. I have reasons
for believing that this fish had dis
charged much of its electrical power ere
it was brought to the surface, as I have
creditable witnesses who had a like ray
in a bag on a similar occasion, the shocks
of which were so violent as to knock the
men off their legs. In the boat were ten
men, and ere the fish was secured, each
man had his turn on all fours in the bot
tom of her. It took a whole night to cap
ture it, and the consternation and excite
ment caused by its first shocks among
the men were so ludicrous it would take
an abler pen than mine to relate the
story."
The first bale of new cotton from Ar
kansas has been received at Memphis.
It classed low-middling, and sold for 2.5
cents.
My Antt•Weeill Campaign
BY TILE HON. S. S. CON, V. C
I had been elected to Congress in
1856, on the Buchanan ticket. But,
somehow, I was a "Douglas-man,"
though hardly a man at that time in
political experience. Kansas, bleeding
and what not, was rantipoled after us
do our advent into Washington, in
December, 1857. I was among, indeed
the very first,to break the ice after Doug
las' anti-Lecompton speech against
the Kansas policy of the Administra
tion. It was also .the first:speech in the
new ball ; but is memorable to me for
other reasons. That speech cost me
much anxiety and a couple of postmas
ters. The same •• chop " which fed
some hungry partisans cut off others.
The attack on that speech was terrific.
Points of order bristled like quills upon
Shakespeare's pet. General Quitman.
Bocock, of Virginia, Jones, of Tennes
see, Judge Hughes, of Indiana, cl
first tried to prevent my speaking at
all. How I managed to get through, I
can hardly tell. I have a dreamy sense,
while trembling like an ashen, of being
recruited by the sonorous voice of Gen
eral Banks, and the rotund form of
Humphrey Marshall. They shielded
me on the points of order.
But all this is a . inemory. Hic jacct in
the Olobc.
After much acrimony, a compromise,
called the English bill, was introduced
by Bill English, of Indiana. I voted
for it. It was thought to be a safe 'ad
dle course; us Train would say, a tutiB
- ibis—you know the bird. Eheu !
Then began my woes. How little they
seem now, since the great events of the
war! I had run between two tires—the
Buchanan Old Lines and the Douglas
Young Americas. I have not bolted
much since.
My woes were worse when I reached
Columbus, in toe Summer of iSis. That
I was electeu that year, from the Capi
tal (Ohio) District, is to the a marvel. I
thick my youthful and unsophisticated
sincerity saved me. I had endeavored
to he very just.
flow I was elected is found in my his
tory. • When I began the campaign I
was met by the Republicans, denounc
ing the English bill and all who voted
for it. I was a most peculiarly blister
ed traitor. The repeal of the Missouri
Compromise was not so hard to nieet. 7 --
In my agony I sought seclusion. From
my father's farm, in Muskingum coun
ty, " I bid the lively scenes at distance
hail !" My father was a farmer, and
was then harvesting. Ile boasted about
a peculiar kind of grain. A relative in
a distant country had furnished a kind
of wheat, not from the Mediterranean,
but not unlike that cereal. One thing,
however, was sure about it—it was
weevil-proof. That pest had ravaged
the richest fields of the Late. Licking
and &dot.% valleys, my own district, had
suffered. Was I not then, as now, a
friend of agriculture Ask my last com
petitor, Mr. Ureeley, who disputed its
honors in the farming lands of New
York City!
Attempts had been made to prevent
weevil, to scare weevil, to obliterate
weevil. Birds had been allowed free
lunch on weevil. Every effort was in
vain. The weevil became the chronic
plague of Central Ohio. My own pa
rent had found the great panacea—not
panacea exactly, but prevention. How
I leaped to it! I mentioned that I was
a f. lend to agriculture, 1 think. Mil
lions would be saved to that occupation.
It was July. The harvest had been
gathered. Witereas the year before
there had been death, through the wee
vil, to all the paternal acres, my father
had found that the weevil had failed this
season in the most vulnerable spots. I
said, "good, this shall be utilized;
will not hide this wheat under a built
el." I forthwith requested my female
relatives to make sacks by the hundred.
I ordered several bushels of that wheat.
I had labels printed :
•-• • ''''''
, M. C.
ANTI -IV EE VII. WHEAT
I had, in my exultation, forgotten the
postal laws, I had neglected to advise
the Agricultural Department. I had the
sacks filled. I directed them miscella
neously all over the district. What were
Republicans or Democrats to me!
"Weevil or Anti-Weevil"—that was the
question.
I was threatened with prosecution by
the Federal authorities. But still the
weevil-proof wheat was carried over
Licking, Pickaway, and Franklin by
the score. The campaign waxed hot in
September. A Democrat had bolted,
and was to run against me. He was a
fluent lawyer, and quite ready to arraign
cue on Lecompton and the English bill.
Indeed, in our first "joint high" discus
sion, he did arraign me. But the grav
amen of his charge was that I had vio
lated the postal laws in sending out
among the farmers a bogus kind of
wheat. Ho harangued the people to
show that it was not antiweevil ; it was
full of cheat, weevil, and all sorts of un
clean things. My sacks were ransacked,
my wheatsifted. It was ground between
the upper and nether millstones of pop
ular opprobrium. The campaign grew
hot and hotter. I becAme alarmed.—
Posters were stuck on trees, sheds, an
tavern sign-posts, in all the township.
and towns:
" wEE:vm! wEEvII.! Dows TII TIII
WEEVIL CANDIDATE!"
Handbills were circulated, charging
me with an insidious desire to ruin the
agriculture of an honest, hard-working
people. Central Committees issued
private circulars and statistical tables,
explaining the deleterious influence of
the weevil upon the farming interest.
The staff of life was called in as a crutch
to help my competitor. Orators ha
rangued great crowds, in school-houses
and in town-halls, on the deleterious na
ture of the Congressman and weevil.
The first was an enemy to free Kansas,
and the second to fair agriculture. The
best talent of Ohio, then full of elocu
tionary genius, was evoked to show the
connection between Lecompton and
wheat—weevil and the English bill. •
My friends were in despair. ,Our
County Central Committees were de
moralized. Hasty meetings were call
ed. Men unused to despair—old Jack
son hickories, never uprooted in our
Democratic forest by any averse blasts
—shook their heads wisely, like Bur
leighs ; their young and sanguine can
didate had spoiled the campaign. It
was bad enough to be between Douglas
and Buchanan, and to take the fire or
both, and the Republicans also; but
weevil! weevil! was too much.
I tried to explain. Bah! I tried to
mention, in a weak way, that my pa
ternal relative had tried it, and
Bah ! I mentioned, ou one occasion
only, that I was a disinterested friend
of that farming interest which had once
elected me, and whose continued suf
frace and crops were dear to my heart.
Bali! what in the name of Jackson, and
so forth, was our candidate about when
he broke the postal laws to send his in
fernal wheat over the district? If it
weregood wheat even—if it were weevil
proof—how could the fact be proved un
til after the election, next year ! Heav
ens ! That had not occurred to me.
All over the district, where my wee
vil had gone, my sacks were emptied,
and bitter, vindictive partisan oppo
nents had filled the emptied sacks with
the scrapings of their barns, their bar
rels, their boxes and their bags. Affi
davits were procured by my frimids,
which stated that on a dark and rainy
night two Radicals were seen going to a
barn with a lantern, where they emptied
my invaluable seed wheat upon the floor
and filled the sacks with the awfullest
offal. Aly wheat, which was proof-strong
as holy writ, was dishonored by trifles
light - as air. It was shown up to preju
diced and gaping voters as 'cheat.
It was worse than chaff. I will not say
what these bitter partisans mixed with
my unadulterated seed. I recall spe
cially one orator. His name absorbed a
quarter of the alphabet, and he made the
weevirquestion paramount. Was there
any spot from Fallsburg to New Hol
land, running over two hundred miles
of arable land—from the hazel bushes of
Red Brush to the corn-fields of that
classic soil where Logan did not speak
what Jefferson reported—was there one
man, woman or child who had not heard
the voice of that orator denouncing the
weevil fraud?
But I look back with delight to those
friends who exercised their faith in my
agricultural rectitude. Faith is good in
the dark. As the election day approach
ed, this faith became more necessary.
Nothing would do but I must •meet my
opponent, in debate, on the weevil ques
tion. I agreed to do it. It was my sal
vation. Before the day of debate, Gov-
LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING AUGUST 30, 1871.
ernor Corwin was sent for. The cam
paign was in his vein. He seemed to
appreciate its points. He was a devotee
of that
—"Goddess fair and tree,
In Heaven yclept, Euphrosyne—
By men heart-easing Mirth."
He came. He had been Governor, Sen
ator, Secretary of the Treasury ; but,
most of all, he bad been, and yet was,
the rarest of all the Buckeye humorists
and crators.
First he went to Circleville. " 'What
shall I speak about'.'" said he to the
committee. That body in full chorus
responded, " Weevil. Our member is
dodging the Lecompton issue; he ig
nores the English bill, he seeks to de
fraud honest agriculture, by seeking
votes through Weevil. Governor, hold
him up to the scorn of an indignant com
munity." Cornwall liked the issue. He
told me afterwards that he enjoyed that
campaign.
Fellow-citizens,' he began, 'your
member has voted on both sides of the
Lecompton question. He desires you
to forget how he disliked Buchanan
and deserted Douglas. He would per
suade you that be is for free Kansas, and
that if the people can't vote directly for
it under the English bill they may vote
it down. How does he do this:" At this
pause the Governor produces my anti
weevil sack. He shows thechatt; cheat,
dirt, rust, and so forth, clandestinely
introduced for political effect, into my
innocent sack; and with one of those
wonderful grimaces and gestures,which
would have made his fortune on the
comic stage, he says : 'Your member
asks you to vote for him as a saddle-bag
candidate, on both sides of Lecompton.
low would he persuade you? "Won't
you take a little weevil?"'
The roars of laughter among my ene
mies were indescribable for noise and
extent. So I was told. I did not hear
him but once, and then hut a short time.
That was after he bad spoken at the
Capital.
When lie went to Newark to speak in
the Fair Grounds, I was so audacious as
to go out to hear. I hitched the horse
and buggy in the woods, crept quietly
under a slouched hat, and with a hick
ory tree as a barricade, I sat on the grass
in hearing distance. When I reached
the grounds there were five thousand
excited Republicans already assembled.
There is unusual commotion in the
throng. The Governor is driven up in a
barouche with six white horses On each
horse, above the ear, is a flag--" Down with
the Weevil candidate !" Banners are
borne into the masses, amid shouts, bear
nottos: "For Congress, Lucius Case,
e Farmer's Friend, - and the opponent
. -
of Weevil !" The stand, top, isornament
ed with flags. On them various em
blems and devices : "Bread is the Staff
of Life. Cox would poison it with Wee
vil !" "Sunset has (lone down behind
a Wheat Field!" "Free Kansas and a
Fair Harvest!" Quite a tumult arises
on the stand as the Republican mag
nates of that county rise to receive Gov
ernor Corwin. The band strikes up
"See, the Conquering Hero comes."
A chairman was appointed. I knew
him well. He was from Granville, a
Republican township, which always
gave over two hundred against me, al
though there were several churches and
a college there, and but one tavern,
where us liquor was sold except on the
sly. I may mention that I got some
support there from a water-cure. But
that man, as I said, was my bete noir.—
He had put questions to me about taxa
tion and ratio of representation, though
1 learned he never paid any taxes, and
only represented bankruptcy. Still he
was a class of politicians of the pietistic
sort.
I peep around my tree to hear his
opening. Hesays: " Feel leow-citizens :
Before Governor Corwine begins hisad
dress, I desire to propeound an interre
ogetry. Is there any one here in the
crowd who has any of the weevil wheat
sent out by our member of Congress ?"
[At this point a dozen sacks were pitch
ed on to the stand. I trembled for my
reputation.] " A committee (accent on
the corn) is sitting on the hind eend of
the stand examinin' the geuooiness of
this new-fangled wheat. (Cheers). We
will unmask this demagogue who sends
it out. He pretends to be the farmers'
friend. He is the enemy of their heomes
and hearths. He would crawl, like the
animales of holy writ, into the very
kneading troughs of honest people lie
has betrayed on the Lecompton bill.
(Cheersl. Is the committee ready to re
port? "
At this point the committee approach
thefront of the stand. They are led by
what Corwin use to call, afterward, a
Blue-Belly. He is a long, gangling,
Ichabod-Crane sort of person, with a
highly nasal twang and the sing-song
of exhortation. Before he begins, the
string band, consisting of three fiddles,
a fife and a tenor drum, strikes up "The
Girl I Left Behind Me." I sympathize
with the tune, but the music does not
soften the features of that Chairman.—
He advises the people thus:—" Mr.
Cheerman and fellow-citizens: The
committee appointed to examine this
wheat have concluded their labors, and
are unanimously of the opinion there's
weevil in it." (Cheers.) After which a
stray Democrat from Newton township,
a little lively on the subject of grain and
its juices, proposed to whip the crowd.
He was fur "Weevil, Cox and the ,Con
stitution, and could lam any "abolish"
in the meeting."
It is needless to say how the meeting
treated my friend and Governor Cor
win iu that report. The joke was too
classical. He pictures the condition of
Kansas—the blight of slavery on its
virgin soil, the men of blood and crime
—and rises to this climax at every turn ;
"and for these grievances your Con
gressman proposes—what?' To devas
tate dour fair fields with the weevil."
(Cheers.)
But I cannot dwell on this phase of
the campaign. I had to meet my com
petitor. How I met him I need not say.
When I was carried off the stand by an
enthusiastic and partial crowd, the last
I heard him say, in his closing quarter
of an hour. were the words, "WEEVIL,
itCrrii,WeeVil ;" while, hurling through
the air, at the heads of speaker, modera
tor, and committees, from the hands of
indignant Democrats,were innumerable
sacks of weevil. I learned afterward
that a census of that weevil shower was
taken, and some fifty more sacks were
miraculously taken up that day than I
had ever sent forth.
This discussion had changed the tide.
I gave an honest account to the people
of that wheat. I begged to allow the
genuine article one year to grow. I ven
tured to predict the future fields so often
devastated by this insect enemy of agri
culture. I explained learnedly that it
was a larva of the pentamerous beetles
of the tribe trichoptera. This was sat
isfactory. I described the snout of the
animal, how it digs into the innocent
grain, and how the grubs burrow, when
hatched, and consume the seed. Plac
ing my hand upon my vest, I told how
my heart yearned to eradicate this ene
my of agriculture from the wheat-field.
" What!" I exclaimed, " when I find a
class of wheat impervious to these ene
mies of your daily bread, am I to keep
it a secret? Never! Let Kansas be
blighted, and be bled with the foul curse
of civil conflict, but save, oh ! save, the
fruitful fields of lovely Licking! Why,
fellow-citizens, the very woodpeckers
(cheers for Cox) are the enemies of this,
your enemy. The red oriole and the
black bird (laughter) alike detest and
destroy it. I would rather vote for a
woodpecker (renewed cheers for Cox)
than a man who ridicules my feeble at
tempt to stay the ravages of this insec
tivorous plague! Let us raise, on our
banners and in our voices, the inspiring
battle-cry, 'Down with Weevil, and up
with Democracy!' (Cheers.)
It is needless to say that this shibbo
leth was caught up. Every Democratic
meeting and procession was made reso
nant with the anti-weevil cry. Every
hickory pole, rising above a sea of Dem
ocratic heads from a hickory wagon in a
Democratic procession, was surmounted
by a sack, inscribed with my name as
the anti-weevil candidate for Congress,
Squatter Sovereignty, and Good Crops."
was elected. I doubled my former
majority. The next year proved me to
be a friend of agriculture. My wheat,
when genuine, was free from the insect.
Millions have been saved to those coun
ties. That wheat is yet grown. Re
publicans clamored for it as children
for Mrs. Winslow's syrup, but it took
several seasons before Democrats would
allow their Radical neighbors to have
even seed wheat from my brand.
On my return from Congress in 1859,
after harvest I addressed a meeting, and
boldly put this question : " If my anti
weevil wheat has proved the salvation
of your grain harvests, so have my anti-
Lecompton votes proved to be the:salva
tion of Kansas. Is there any one here
who will deny that wheat to be weevil
proof? If so, let him stand up."
A fellow dressed in a wamus, from
the head waters of Black Lick, cried
out, " Not only weevil-proot but must
proof, cheat-proof, and darn my boots
if it isn't hog-proof too ! My hogs got
into the field the other day, and would
neither eat nor root!"
The Belles at Newport
A correspondent of the Boston Post,
writing from the Ocean House, -
port, thus glances at the belles of the
season :
The most striking ladies in the house
are Mrs. and Miss Zabriskie of New
Jersey. They are just from abroad and
have, of course, brought the very latest
fashions with them. In fact they are
very strikingly pretty, the mother a
brunette, with dark eyes and hair, and
looking not cue day older than her
daughter, a stylish brown-haired, blue
eyed girl. They of course attract a great
deal of attention from both their own
sex and the other, and accept all the
homage and admiration that is offered
them with a most charming frankness
and winning sweetness. But the belle,
the most genuine favorite of everybody
in the house and out of it, the girl whom
every new-zomer looks at and instantly
asks " Who is that ?" is Miss Florence
Craig, of Baltimore. She is slender,
graceful and cunning, and witches
everybody with her pretty, saucy, pi
quant ways. Her hair narrowly es
caped being red ; it is just the color of
a ripe chestnut when the burr first •
opens at the finger touch of the frost
and before the nut is turned to the
brown ; her eyes are blue, and are the
most mischievous, dancing eyes that
ever were put in mortal maiden's head ;
she never walks staidly and coin posed
ly along like most girls, but she is in a
perpetual state of being on the tips of
her toes with fun; she always looks as
though she was going to start off in a
dance, and walks as though it was diffi
cult for her to keep within prescribed
limits of Newport proprieties. She was
dressed the other night in a costume that
was exceedingly becoming. The under
dress was a reddish-brown silk, exactly
the color of her hair, the overdress a
(Acne silk looped at the hack ; the trod
dice was square and finished with lace;
on her head was a hat of some nonde
script shape, turned up on one side and
faced with the brown silk, while around
the brim passed a band of brown rib
bon, and at the side was the most self
assertive brown wing that could be ima
gined. Baltimore sends another belle
—the bright, pretty Miss Ludlam, a
friend of Miss Craig's. Miss Ludlam
has brown hair of a pale shade, and she
wears it looped up in heavy crimped
braids, while the front is ercpcd over
her pretty forehead ; her eyes are blue
and she has the cunningest man
ner of opening them, then dropping
the lids suddenly, while the bril
liant color comes flushing up to
her cheeks; she dresses in charm
ing taste, and develops as great
.a fancy for odd, " taking' hats as Miss
Craig does. Her sister, elder than her
self, is also very pretty, but more quiet,
and is almost as great a favorite as the
other. She is darker, with hair that is
almost black, and hazel eyes, with a
faultless complexion. Dividing the
honors with these Southern girls is Miss
Ella Hoffman of New York. She is a
very charming girl, a pleasing blonde,
but with more style aud grace than real
beauty ; she is quite tall and very dig
nified, giving tire impression of being
much older than she really is, for she is
only 16 after all, and thi; is her first
season in society. She "came out"
last winter, and, of course, was petted
and admired, but all the petting and
admiration does not seem to have af
fected her, and her graceful blonde head
is not at all turned by all the flattery
and attention she receives ; her most
constant attendant is her father, and he
seems justly proud of his accomplished
winning daughter. Philadelphia, not
to be outdone, sends some of her repre
sentative girls to swell the Newport list.
Chief among these are the Misses An
tello—bright, striking brunettes, with a
great deal of style iu manner and dress
—and Miss Dolly Miles, a piquant,
brown-haired, sixteen-year-old girl,
with a saucy nose and a mouth whose
sweetness atones for the retrousse fea
ture. Providence is always famous for
pretty girls, and Brown students gen
erally swear that every one is a
belle ; and as a specimen of her beau
ties comes Miss Chapin, a girl with
a splendid physique, carrying herself
regally, and having a clear, fresh com
plexion, with dark eyes and hair, which
she always dresses very becomingly.
There is a pleasure in looking at that
girl, she is so entirely what a woman
should be; pretty, graceful, self-poised
and intelligent; the other cities must
look to their laurels or they will be car
ried oil by Providence. From Western
Massachusetts comes Miss Atwater of
Springfield, a frank, ingenious, but very
mischievously-inclined brunette, with
fully-developed flirting propensities.—
She is just from school at Farmington,
Ct., and has all the ways and manners of
the young American girl fresh from
school. The world is very new and very
charming to her, and at present all the
people in it are conspiring for her pleasure
and happiness. Such merry times as
these girls have together ! There is no in
dication outwardly of any of that fierce
jealousy which is supposed to exist be
tween rival belles ; they all accept their
situations with a most charming grace
and resignation, and divide the avails- .
ble beaux among themselves with a per
fect fairness, such as is seldom displayed
by their elder and wiser sisters ; and if
black looks and cutting feminine sar
casms are indulged in, they are under
cover of the tent-like parasols which
they hold so uncompromisingly over
their heads in the morning, or in the
privacy of their own special rooms. Out
wardly, not sugar-plums are sweeter.
Lee's Surrender
It has been popularly reported that
the first interview between the two com
manders took place under an apple tree,
which has consequently been crowned
with historic associations. This is false.
The fact is, that, in the morning of the
9th of April General Lee, with a single
member of his staff, was resting under
an apple tree when Colonel Babcock, of
General Grant's staff rode up under a
flag of truce, saying that if General Lee
remained where lie was, General Grant
would come to him by the road the lat
ter was then pursuing. This was the
only interview under or near the
apple tree and it may be men
tioned here that the following day
Colonel Marshall, who attended Gen
eral Lee on the occasion, was sur
prised to find Federal soldiers hack
ing at the tree, and was amused at their
idea of obtaining from it mementoes of
the surrender. Obtaining news of
Grant's approach, General Lee at once
ordered Colonel Marshall to find a fit
and convenient house for the interview.
Colonel Marshall applied to the first cit
izen he met, Mr. Wilmer McLean, and
was directed to a house empty and dis
mantled. He refused to use it; and Mr.
McLean then offered to conduct him to
his own residence, a comfortable frame
house, with a long portico and conveni
ent "sitting room," furnished after the
bare style of the times.
The house was about half a mile from
General Lee's camp. The Confederate
commander was attended only by one
of his aids Colonel Marshall, a youthful,
boyish-looking scion of the old and il
lustrious Marshall family of Virginia,
who had been the constant companion
of Gen. Lee in all his campaigns and, as
his private secretary, had done good lit
erary service, in the preparations of re
ports of battle, Sc., which are now his
torical. With Grant, there were several
of his staff officers and a number of Fed
eral Generals, including Ord and Sher
man,who entered the room and joined in
the slight general conversation that
took place there.
The interview opened without the
least ceremony. The story has been fre
quently repeated that General Lee ten
dered his sword, and that General Grant
returned it with a complimentary re
mark. There was no such absurdity.
General Lee wore his sword, which was
not his usual habit; and ou the exchange
of salutations, Gen. Grant remarked, '6l
must apologize, General, for not wear
ing my sword ; it had gone off with my
baggage when I received your note."
General Lee bowed, and at once and
without further conversation asked that
General Grant would state, in writing if
he preferred it, the terms on which he
would receive the surrender of the Army
of Northern Virginia. General Grant
complied by sitting at a table in the
room and writing with a common lead
pencil, the note so well-remembered,—
Old and New.
sitteltivit?ce.
Blue Laws
Connecticut andVirginla In the Olden
The following is a transcript of some
sections of the primitive judicial code
which existed in the State of Connecti
cut during the time of its first settlers
and their immediate descendants, and
known as the "Blue Laws of Connecti
cut :"
1. The Governor and magistrates con
vened in General Assembly are the su
reme power, under God, of this i ode
.endent dominion.
2. From the determination of the As
sembly no appeal shall be made.
3. The Governor is amenable to the
voice of the people.
4. The Governor shall have only a
single vote in determining any ques
tion, except a casting vole, when the
Assembly may be equally divided.
•.3. The Assembly of the people shall
not be dismissed by the Governor, but
shall dismiss itself.
Conspiracy against the dominion
shall he punished with death.
7. Whoever says " There is a power
holding jurisdiction over and above this
dominion" shall be punished with
death and loss of property.
8. Whoever attempts to change or
overturn this dominion shall suffer
death.
9. The judges shall determine con
troversies without a jury.
10. No one shall be a freeman or give
a vote unless he be converted or a mem
ber in full communion of one of the
churches allowed in this dominion.
•
. .
11. No one shall hold any office who
is not sound in the faith, and faithful to
this dominion ; and whoever gives a
vote to such a person shall pay a fine
of one pound. For the second olrence
he shall be disfranchised.
. . .
12. No Quaker or dissenter from the
established worship of this dominion
shall be allowed to give a vote for the
election of magistrate or any officer.
13. No food and lodgings shall be al
lowed to a Quaker, Adamite, or other
heretic.
14. If any person shall turn Quaker he
shall be banished, and not suffered to
return on pain of dad h.
13. No priest shall abide in this do•
minion. He shall be banished and suf
fer death on his return. Priests may be
seized by any one without a warrant.
Pl. No one shall cross a river but with
an authorized ferryman.
17. No one shall run of a Sabbath-day,
or walk in his garden or elsewhere, ex
cept reverently to and from church.
Is. No one shall travel, cook victuals,
make beds, sweep houses, cut hair, or
shave on the Sabbath-day.
19. No woman shall kiss her child on
Sabbath or fasting day.
20. A person accused of trespass iu the
night, shall be judged guilty, unless he
clears himself by oath.
21. When it appears that an accom
plice has confederates, and he refuses to
discover them, he may he racked.
22. No one shall buy or sell land with
out the permission of the selectmen.
23. A drunkard shall have a master
appointed by the selectmen, who is to
debar him the privilege of buying or
selling.
24. Whoever publishes a lie to the
prejudice of his neighbors, shall sit in
the stocks or be whipped fifteen (13)
stripes.
23. No minister shall keep a school.
26. Man-stealers shall suffer death.
27. Whoever wears clothes trimmed
with silver or bone lace above two (2)
shillings a yard shall be presented by
the grand jurors, and the selectmen
shall tax the offender at the rate of
three hundred (300) pounds estate.
20. A debtor in prison, swearing he
has no estate, shall tie left out and sold
to make satisfaction.
:tu. Whoever sets tire to the woods,
and it burns a house, shall suffer death,
and persons so.viccfcd of the crime shall
be imprisoned without the benefit of
bail. . .
30. Whoever brings cards or dice into
this dominion shall pay a fine of live 0)
pounds.
31. No one shall read common pray
er, keep Christmas or Saints day, make
mince pies, dance, play on any instru
ment of music except the drum, the
trumpet, and the jew's harp.
32. When parents refuse their chil
dren suitable marriages the ma •trate
shall determine the point.
33. The selectmen, on finding chil
dren ignorant, may take them away
from their parents and pm them into
better hands at the expense of the pa
rents.
Andrew Jackson In Domestic Life.
An intimate political friend of An
drew Jackson, formerly President of the
United States, vouches for the follow
log:
Jackson never spoke an impatient
word to his wife, servant or child ; and
under his own roof proved himself
the gentlest and tenderest of men.
"There were two Jacksons," quaintly
writes a biographer, Jackson militant
and Jackson having his own way ;
Jackson, his mastership unquestioned,
and Jackson with a rival near the throne.
He had loved his mother living, and, all
his remaining life, revered her dead.—
He loved children, and they loved him;
he ought to have loved plants and flow
ers; he must have loved pets—every
true-hearted man and woman dots
love them. Before a blazing tire,
on a raw and stormy night in Feb
ruary' with a child on his lap, and a
lamb between his knees, Benton found
And announced to him his first hope for
military honor and glory. But fore
most among the milder, yet nobler of
his characteristics, was his delicate,
chivalrous, absolute faith in the virtue
of women. "In this," said one of the
earliest and most intimate of his friends,
"he was distinguishable from every
person with whom I was acquainted."
"And," said Benton, " it was innate,
unva-ying, self-acting, including all
woman-kind." Very rare and very ex
alted Is this faith. Want of it is the be
ginning of immorality. There is no
public, there cannot long be any private,
virtue where it does not exist.
A Husband's Revenge
The most difficult thing in the world
for a woman to do is to get ready to go
anywhere. And there is nothing a wo
man will resent quicker or more fierce
ly than an intimation that she may
possibly miss the train. Our friend,
Brayfogle, gives us an instance of this.
Mr. Bray was supposed to take the ten
o'clock train on the Bee Line, to visit
some relatives in an interior town.—
Having suffered on previous occa
sions for injudicious suggestions, Bray
thought that, for once, lie would let
things take their natural course. So
he sipped his coffee and ate his eggs on
toast, while Madame curled and pow
dered, and danced attendance on the
looking-glass, and tied bark on the back
of her bead. Then Bray sat by the stove
an hour and read the morning paper,
while the Madame still continued to get
ready. At last, just as he had reached
the final paragraph of reading matter,
and was beginning on the advertise
' ments, Madame tied her bonnet strings
under her chin,
took one long, linger
ing, loving look at the image reflected
in the glass, and sweetly announced :
Well, my dear, I'm ready!"
"Ready for what," asked Bray, in
well-affected astonishment.
" To go to the depot, to be sure," said
Mrs. Brayfogle, tartly.
" Oh !" said Bray, " forgotten.—
Well, Madame," continued he, looking
at his watch. " that train has been gone
thirteen minutes. Just keep on your
things, and you'll be ready for the train
to-morrow morning."
We draw a vail over what followed.
We are assured, however, that the next
morning Mrs. B. was ready an hour
ahead of time.
No home. What a misfortune! How
sad the thought! There are thousands
who know nothing of the blessed in
fluence of comfortable homes; merely
because of a thrift, or from dissipated
habits. Youth spent in frivolous
amusements and demoralizing associa
tions, leaving them at middle age, when
the physical intellectual man should be
in its greatest vigor, enervated and with
out one laudable ambition. Friend long
since lost, confidence gone, and nothing
to look to in old age but mere toleration
in the community where they should be
ornaments. No home to fly to when
wearied with the struggles incident to
life ; no wife to cheer them in their de
spondency ; no children to amuse them,
and no virtuous household to give zest
to the joys of life. All is blank, and
there is no hope or succor except that
which is given out by the hands of pri
vate or public charities. When the fam
ily of the industrious and sober citizen
gathers around the cheerful fire of a
wintry day, the homeless man is seek
ing shelter in the cells of a station
house, or begging for a night's rest in the
out-buildings of one who started in life
at the same time with no greater ad
vantages; but honesty and industry
built up that home, while dissipation
destroys the other.
It is to be feared that frogs are too
sensitive for their own happiness. In
the Lancet of last week is a report of a
lecture on experimental physiology by
William Rutherford, M. D., F. R. S. E.,
during the delivery of which he exhib
ited certain interesting experiments.
Observe this frog," said the lecturer;
" it is regarding our manomvres with a
somewhat lively air. Now and than it
gives a jump. What the precise object
of its leaps may be I dare not pretend
to say ; but probably it regards us with
some apprehension and desires to es
cape." The frog hid some slight rea
son for apprehension, for the lecturer
proceeded : " I touch one of its toes, and
you see it resents the molestation in a
very decided manner. Why does it so
struggle to get away when I pinch its
toes? Doubtless, you will say, because
it feels the pinch and would rather not
have it repeated. I now behead the
animal with the aid of a sharp
chisel. The headless trunk lies as
though it were dead. The spinal cord
seems to be suffering from shuck. Prob
ably, however, it will soon recover from
this. Observe that the animal has now
spontaneously drawn up its legs and
:Urns, and it issitting with its neck erect
just as if it had not lost its head at all. I
pinch its toes, and you see the leg at
once thrust out if to spurn away the
offending instrument. Does it still feel?
and is the motion still the result of the
volition '.""fliat the frog did feel there
appears to be no doubt, for Mr. Ruther
ford related that having once decapi
tated a frog the animal suddenly bound
ed front the table. He then returned to
the animal immediately under observa
tion, pinched its foot again, the frogagain
"resenting the stimulation." He then
thrust a needle down the spinal cord.—
"The li orbs are now flaccid. We nmy wait
as long as we please, but a pinch of the
toes will never again cause the limbs of
this ultimo! to move." The frog being
dune for, the lecturer continued, "
take another frog. In this case I open
the cranium and remove the brain
and medulla oblongata. 1 thrust a pin
through the nose and hang the animal
thereby to a support so that it can move
its pendent legs without any difficulty.
I gently pinch the toes. The leg of the
same side is pulled tip. I pinch the
same toes more severer•. Both legs are
thrown into motion." Having thus
clearly proved that the wretched ani
mal could smiler acutely, Mr. Ruther
ford observed: "the cutaneous nerves
of the fro! , are extremely sensitive to
acids ; so Cput a drop of acetic acid on
the outside of one knee. This, you
see, gives rise to most violent move
nients both of arms and legs, and notice
particularly that the animal is using
the toes of the leg on the same side for
the purpose of rubbing the irritated spot.
I dip the whole animal into water in
order to wash away the acid, and now
it is all at rest again. I put a drop of
acid on the skin over the lumbar region
of the spine. Both feet are instantly
raised to the irritated spot. The animal
is able to localize the seat of irritation.
I wash the acid front the back, and I
amputate one of the feet at the ankle.—
I. apply a drop of acid over the knee of
the footless leg. gain the animal turns
the leg toward the knee, as if to reach
the irritated spot with the toes; these,
however, are not now available. lint
watch the other foot. The foot of the other
leg is now: being used to rub away the
acid. 'lire animal, finding that the ob
ject is not accomplished with the foot of
the same side, uses the other one."
These experiments clearly demonstrate
that frogs, with or without heads, are
not only very sensitive but very intelli
gent animals, and, under these circum
stances, it might be as well not to tor
ture them more often than can be helped.
It is not very long ago that we remon
strated against the practice pursued in
France of dissecting live horses; yet it
would be difficult to prove that it is
more cruel to cut up a live horse than a
live frog, especially as the latter is evi
dently sensitive in no ordinary degree.
—Peril hall G'azdtr.
On the Pith of June last, Captain
James C. Hunt, First Cavalry, and
Captain W. 6. Fuller, Twenty-first In
fantry, with five mounted men, left
Camp Apache, Arizona, for a short visit
to the Zuni villages, or Pueblo Indians.
On reaching the top of one of the swells
an immense bear was discovered about
a mile ahead, evidently coining down
the trail to die river for water. The
bear at the same moment catching sight
of the party, turned oil to his right,
and was heading fur the foot hills some
eight or nine miles distant, as if desir
ous of gaining thei.imber. He struck a
gait apparently of the elumsiest kind
imaginable. but which, when tested by
the speed of the horses, proved that ut
least fur some distance a horse at full
speed can hardly keep up with a bear—
such as we find in the chain of the
liocky Mountains or the continuations
of that range.
By permission of Captain hunt, Cap
tain Fuller, with Corporal Ilyde and Pri
vates Armstrong and Haley, started out
their horses to overtake the bear before
he could reach the mountains or the
rocks and timbers of the foot hills.
With horses in good condition, and a
free use of spurs, after a chase of four or
hive miles they succeeded in closing to a
few rods' distance, or about thirty yards.
Captain Fuller by good luck first suc
ceeded in sending a ball through Bru
hind leg. The effect was to cause the
brute to run on three legs, with his right
hind leg held off the ground, crimsoned
with a free flow of blood. The bear at
first rather increased his speed, but the
wound soon began to tell on him, as he
attempted after gaining a little dis
tance to turn and bite at the wounded
foot. A shot from Corporal Hyde's
carbine again cut him across the ham.
The whole party, keeping up their fire,
had drawn up to within some twenty
yards of him, when he whirled short
around to the left and bounded toward
the horse of Corporal Hyde. The Cor
poral turned his horse and gave Min the
spur, but in a wonderfully short time,
considering the clumsy movements of
the bear, he overtook the horse and
caught him by the flanks. The poor
horse gave one desperate kick, for an
instant throwing o ff the bear, but in a
second more the horsewas pulled down
on his haunches, and with one motion
of his paw the bear knocked Hyde out
of the saddle. The horse galloped off
wildly, while the Corporal without any
weapons, was rolling on the ground
struggling for his life in an actual and
literal wrestle with a wounded bear.
It was a desperate position and U 7
equal contest on the ground. Captain
Fuller and Armstrong reined in their
horses, while within three yards of their
horses' feet was this enormous bear fe
rociously biting and tearing the limbs
of the unlucky corporal. The weapons
of the party had been discharged and
were empty; and with the coolest of
men it requires some little time to load
a spencer carbine or revolver while in
the saddle. Corporal Hyde struggled
manfully, striking with his lists and arm
down the mouth and throat of the bear,
while his own blood ran in streams from
his wounds. . „
The bear rose twice on his hind legs,
standing much above the corporal's
lead, and the two literally wrestled as
two men would in a prize fight. The
wounded leg of the bear was Hyde's sal
vation, or the claws in the brute's hind
feet would soon have torn out his en
trails. In ferocity and wildness nothing
could surpass the horrible appearance of
the brute, with bloody foam dripping
from his jaws, while the poor man called
to the party to help him for God's sake or
he would die. No one had a load to fire.
Armstrong, believing that there was a
load in his carbine, jumped antis horse,
and pacing the muzzle of his piece
against the side of the bear pulled the
trigger, and it only snapped. The next
Instant the,bear left Hyde and was
tumbling ADistrong, biting and tear
ing him as he had done with Hyde, who
was lying covered with blood a few feet
distant. It looked in this position of
affairS as if two of the party would re
ceive mortal wounds before the others
could assist therm But here Haley got
one load in his pistol and fired it at
the bear. The ball must have cut
him, for he bounded away from Arm
strong, and, with his leg held up,
again ran for the mountains. The
two men presented a dreadful sight,
with pale faces, streams of blood run
No Rome
A. Bear Fight In Arizona
NUMBER 35
fling down them, and their clothing
torn in shreds. After a few more shots,
and several attempts of the brute to get
at the horses, he turned at bay under a
scrub oak, evidently unable to go fur
ther, and ready to fight. Still the bear's
vitality was so great that a dozen more
deliberate shots were required, each pass
ing through some part of his body, be
fore his head dropped and he expired.
A Welsh Colony In Patagonia
Some correspondence laid before Par
liament gives a curious account of the
Welsh settlement on the river Chupat,
in Patagonia. A party of about one
hundred and fifty Welsh people—men,
women and children—betook them
selves to this unknown land in IW,t,
under thesuperin tendenee of Mr. Jones,
an independent minister of Bala, North
Wales, and, after many reverses, priva
tions, and desertions, and twenty-five
new arrivals, about one hundred and
fifty still remain, in good health and
spirits, and making fair progress. They
are separated from all mankind except
the Patagonian Indians ; and their occa
sional communication and cmumerce
with Buenos Ayres having been inter
rupted Cy a two years' drought, making
the journey impossible, her Majesty's
gunboat Cracker was sent round to
the mouth of the Chupat iu April to as
certain whether these adventurous peo
ple were still in the laud of the living
and doing well. The visit was most
welcome ; and but for the commander's
being able to spare them a considerable
quantity of provisions it might have
gone ill with some of them by this time.
They hail been without any description
of groceries for ten months, living chief
ly on bread, butter, and milk, and what
guanaco and ostrich meat that they
could obtain by hunting, their few ,:;em
cattle being far too valuable to be used
for food ut present. The men have
land allotted to them, on which they
cultivate wheat and a little barley, and
rear cattle and horses, and the women
manage the dairies. The settlement
extends for some ten miles along a val
ley of rich alluvial soil, only requiring
irrigation, which they are giving as
well as they can. A disastrous flood
was followed by the two years' drought ;
but, under favorable circumstances, the
virgin soil yields thirty-fold of wheat.
There is good promise of minerals in
the mountainous country from which
I he Chupat arises. Small vessels can
ume up the river to the colony,
but the bar is difficult, and, In fact, the
traffic with new New,(:ulf is chiefly by
road or track,of forty tuqes, traversed by
unshod horses. There are many thiugs
they have at present to do without.
They have no shop or " store," and are
very short of clothing. They have no
doctor; a mechan 12, a self-taught herb
alist, has charge of the tnedicine chest.
They have " no lunatics, blind, deaf or
dumb;" no poor law, no currency ex
cept ostrich feathers, no taxation. The
colony belongs to the Argentine Con
federation, and in the absence of any
representative of the National Govern
ment, they elect annually by ballot a
few municipal officers. They have no
prison, and, substantially, no crime;
the adult male population, or " mili
tia," on one occasion turned out en
masse to enforce settlement of a debt;
and this is the only display of force
that has been. They are on good
terms with the Indians, and traffic
with them. They have also occasion
al commerce with Buenos Ayres ( a
land journey of :100 miles, where little
or no water is), sending thither Indian
products, skins, ostrich feathers, &c.
The climate is very healthy, and the col
onists feel sure of success as an agricul
tural settlement, only needing—that
great need of a new colony—communi
cation with the rest of the world. In
future, the man-of-war going to the
Faulk land Islands is to call annually at
New Gulf and present the compliments
of the outside world, and make kind in
uiries.
Suicide of a Cantotrice—Momealtat of a
12112129
The New Orleans Picayune of the lah
reports the suicide of Amelia liarcia, a
young, lovely and accomplished rantatrice,
a favorite among theatre-goers in that city.
The Picayune says:
"It will be remembered that about two
years since she quit the stage and retired
to private life. She had become passion
ately enamored of a gentleman in this city,
and for his sake abandoned whatever of
fame and prospect of advancement she hail
in her profession. She occasionally ap
peared on the street, always radiant, always
beautiful, and whenever she came into the
theatre or public places of amusement she
was the cynosure of all eye*. She enjoyed
this public manifestation of admiration,
and sustained it regally. Had she never
been a famous singer, Garcia would still
have been admired for her splendid beauty.
. . . -
But it began to be whispered about that
her life was not happy. Society had its ob
servances that could not be:neglected. and
the pour singer, with all her beauty, could
not retain an allegiance which society do•
mantled to be broken. 'rho conviction
came upon her slowly, but it came at last.
m one of her passionate nature there seas
nothing loft for her but to die. It would be
wrong, if it were possible, to lift the veil
I rout those last boo rs of her life. Convinced
that the happineasshe had bartered au much
to secure was slipping from her grasp, and
the cheerless future spreading dark before
tier, she resorted to that Lethean cup, the
poison of the suicide, in which to drown
the senses of her misery, and the, joyless
life of a deserted and abandoned woman.
"It is said that the morning (SWIM two
weeks since) the final separation took place
—when her friend said good-bye for the last
time-4 ;arcia ordered her servant to go to
the drug store and fetch her some lamla
num. The servant, suspecting her design,
retuned to go. The command, repeated still
more imperatively, was disregarded, and
the servant with tears and entreaties be
sought her to refrain from her wicked in
tentions. It had 110 effect, however, and
she went herself for the poison. Ihi what
pretext she obtained it is not known; but
she did get it, and having taken it, died
from its effects. The residents in the neigh
borhood say that about the time the poison
must have commenced its fatal work she
went and seated herself at the piano,
and for more than an hour played and sang.
Her rich thrilling voice, rising to its fullest
compass, reveled in the sweetest music
they had ever heard. Strains of passionate
sorrow mingled with the sorrowful cadence
of a funeral dirge, as the dying cantatrice
sang her life away. Amelia tiarcia was
about 23 years of age, and a native
of the West Indies. her father was a
Spanish Creole, her mother a Jewess, a [m
uve oft lerinany. Her parents came to New
York when she was quite young, and she
commenced her professional career in that
city. She sang ono season at the Academy
of Music in this city, and one or two en
gagements at other theatres. She left the
stage, however, in MO, and has not since
appeared, professionally, in public.
American Cotton In the AFteendont.
The extent to which American cotton
has recovered control of the British mar
kets may lie seen by the subjoined state
ment showing the imports and exports of
all kinds of cotton into and from the Uni
ted Kingdom, Boni September 1 to July
13, compared with the corresponding pe
riod last year
1070-71. 1000-70.
I Inl.o - ts. Ex ports. 1m por is. Ex 1,011.8.
11111 es.;
Ani erioan... . 2,193,7 , 7 :150,1;31 019116 1)X8.07
Brun 111 s n.. .. 121,011 54,100 :175,3111 45,3111
Ear 491,2563,1.010,50:1 431,1014
Egyptian 727,120 I:1,010 101,30:3 1,115
iscolluneoLoi 101,766 21,470: 110.64:2 12,021
Total :i.921,791 923,512 3,13:070 :02,1311
The falling MI here shown in East Indian
cotton is very marked, reaching no less
than 244,58.5 bales. In liV39-70 the imports
of American cotton only exceeded the East
Indian 218,973 bales. In 15711-71 the excess
was 1,207,489 bales. In fact the imports of
American were two and a half times those
of the East Indian. Thus the forced and
unnatural production of cotton in India, in•
duced by British capital with a view to get
ting control of the cotton trade of the world,
has been succeeded by a great reaction. The
terrible famine in the cotton districts of In
clia,by which thousands perished,ha.s check
ed the cotton culture there effectually. A
large extent of new railway is being built
there to carry food into the cotton districts,
from other parts where it is abundant, and
to carry cotton to tidewater. But the North
American, of Philadelphia, thinks it will
be difficult to eradicate from the memory
of the riots the awful visitation of this ram. :
ine, and what caused it. Indian cotton is
still ranked as inferior to American, not
withstanding all the efforts made to Im
prove it, and the North American goes into
an elaborate argument to show that Amer
ican cotton will maintain in the future that
position in the world's market which it
held in the past.
The Persian Famine
The continuance of the famine in Persia,
first reported some three months ago, is a
strange commentary upon the administra
tive and economic_ government of that
country. We are told that In the province
of Khorassan the deaths average three
hundred daily, and so great is the distress
that the dead bodies of the victims are de
voured by the survivors. In addition to
the scourge of famine, the plague is now
gaining headway, and threatens to become
a widely extended calamity, and the Turk
ish government, as a measure of precau
tion, has been compelled to draw a sanitary
cordon along the border of its dominions.
of Liquors In the United
htnies.
Consnmpti
Leiter from Dr., Young. filler of till
.11urenu of fetntlatles.
WASJIINCITON, D. C., Aug. 21.—Dr. Young
has written the following letter:
• - -
WASIIINOToN, Aug. 16, 1571.
1 The Rev. Wm% M. TtlaYEn,Nre'y Of _Voss.
Temp. Alliance.
MY have the honor to ae
knowledge the receipt of your letter of the
4th inst., in which you request a statement
of the aggregate annual value of the sales
' of liquors in the United States, and in re
ply to say that I have not, as you intima
ted, made any official report respecting the
same. Tables prepared by me on the sub
ject were published in the Appendix to the
Report of the Special Commissioner of the
Revenue for 1507 ; but the facts were so
grossly misrepresented by many temper
ance men, es-en alter explanations were
made, that I am now extremely carelul in
publishing an estimate of the annual sales
of liquors. As a consistent temperance
man (and boy) for -11 years, my experienee
and 'observation have convinced me that
on this question, as well as on all others,
'honesty (of statement) is the best policy,'
and I have no sympathy with the perni
cious maxim that the '-' end justifies the
means." I wish to impress upon the youth
now fighting under' the temperance ban
ner, as well as upon all other persons, that
it Is always safe to do right.
Teuiperance, in common with almost
every good work, bass so tiered from the in
temperate zeal of its advocates, and I'ruin
no came to a greater extent, perhaps, than
front the exaggerated statements It alleged
facts. Whenever a temperance lecturer
tells the sellers and users er intoxicating
liquors that the annual sales amount to
front 1,615) to 2,000 millions sometimes it is
stated us sufficient to pay oil our national
debt, nearly 11,4eu millions. or sou for every
man, woman and child in the country),
every intelligent hearer knows that it is a
gross exaggeration, and has, therefore, no
confidence ill the statements of such a inan.
An enterprising rum-seller, whose victims
are exposed to public gaze, does more for
the temperance cause, l lirinly believe,
than an advocate who uses such exaggera
tions.
'rim tables above alluded to WON , esti
mates founded on tho receipts of internal
re ven uo of the sales of incrchttloh.ve,
liquors, by retail liquor-dealers, and
not of Moors abute. Cigars, tobacco, gro
cones, and other merchandise welt) inclu
ded in such sales, liquors being in many
instances but a small part. 'nu, estiumted
soles of such
genes, were as follows : In the fiscal year
1067, Sl,-1:33,•191,56: . ., and in istls,
635. I I hope the figures will not be tilllll.ll
as the values of liquors sold in the years
named.)
In the absence of a,N•tirate data, that lel
liming is an estimate id the sales et liquors
lit the t • illtod States during the fiscal yrer
tqided JUne :
I\'hiskey-60,060,00 0 gallons at
SO retail
Ito ported Spirits --
510 retail
Imported ill,ool gal
lon,
lon, at ;15 retail
Beer and Porter
000 Mils., at $2O retail
Native Brandies, Wines and
Cordials-quantity unknown;
estimated value
Petal s6oo,ikk 1,1
.1.4 a proof of the correctness Mille ilbOVe
it may be stated that during t h e last !local
year the receipts from retail liquor-dealers
who paid $25 each for license amounted to
Indicating that there were I ei,nee
retailers of liquors in the United States. fly
including Mono who escaped payintr
cense fees, estimated at 4145), the 0111111wr
increased to 1:.0,1)011, who, on an average,
sold at least $l,llOO worth or liquor each,
making t:1;111.14100,0011, as benn, stated. These
figures are su ficien tly startling. quad need
110 exaggeration. hinolecd
duilm - s. Thu minds if hew persons 4,11
comprehend this vast sum, which iv w,lr's'
than wmsted every year. It s o u Id pay for
100,0110,000 barrels of flour, averaging
barrels of flour to every man, woman, lino
child.n the
country. 'rills flour, if phie,d
in wagons, ten barrels in each, would re
quire 10,000,000 teams, which, allowing
eight yards to each, would extend 45,4e.i
miles, nearly twice round the earth or hull
/coy in the .Noon .' If the sum were Si notes
it would take MO persons one year to count
them . If spread on the surisico of the
ground, so that no spaces should be left be
tween the notes, Lis area covered would loi
20,146 acres, forming a parallelogram of
by a little over 51 'nib's, the wall: round
it being more than 221 miles.
As you have made zio inquiries in rola-
tlon to tobacco and cigars, I furnish no -
Ornate of the annual 0111,11111Iption of these
articles, but volunteer the it :urination that
the influx of Chinese has introduced a new
luxury; viz: Opium, prepared for smok
ing, the importation of whoth for the but
lisml year was :11:,,12 1 pounds, of the value
of ,51,926,91: - , With ardent wishes for the
success of the cause in which you are WI •
gaged, I am very respectfully and truly
yours, EntvAito
The Railroad Lease In New Jersey.
The leasing of the United Canal aml
Railroad Companies of New Jersey to the
Pennsylvania Central has excited much
interest and feeling throughout the State,
and a strong opposition is developed. A
writer in the the Newark Adrcrti,er discus
ses the question with great lengtb and
marked ability, and argues that it is the
duty of New Jersey to take possession of
the canal and the railroads, as the State i,
all thorired to by tho charters of these im
provements. These charters provide for
the acquisition of the State of the various
lines interested, upon an appraisomen twul
'at first cost.' The total cost of these lines,
stated in 1566, was 7 5 , divided
as follows : Cost of the Delaware an'' Rait-
dan Canal and appurtenances, .1:11,31:013 31;
cost of the Camden and Ain lioy Itwl road
and eouipments, t ,, !1, , 171i373 11 ; cost ol the
Now jersey Railroad and equipments, ss l,-
611,11. i 03. The interest on this total
amount, at Mix per cont., is a little over one
million of dollars, while the net receipts
for Dial wore over two millions, leaving
actual balance for the State of Sl:2;i I,Utiu.
It is claimed, also, that the State can, by
the right of " eminent domain," take pos
session of the roads, and this course is also
urged. Another plan is to refuso the cane -
Lion of the State to the lease. It is evident
that it strong spirit of opposition is aroused
and that there is to be something of astrug
gle for the possession of the pu bile works.
The policy of New Jersey has always been
to favor ,her own people at thee:WOW. ld
others. Thus, the charter of the Cannlen
and Amboy Companies requires a lower
rate of local than of through travel, and
even the legal rates of local travel have not
been exacted. he superior claiole or this
Jerseynnin to cheap transit have I/04.11
fully recognized. It is felt that in the
bands of a Pennsylvania corporation this
tender regard for New Jersey wilt not be
exhibited, and that everything will he
made subordinate to the I rposes and ob
jeete or tho new moneuuy power which
seeks tA, gain control of the transportation
business of the State, and with it the inci
dental power of directing, if not absolutely
commit :4r, legislation.
Murder and Suicide by a Lunatic,'
New Yong, Aug. 23.—This morninr,
Felix Sarey, a truck driver, aged de year.,
living in a tenement-house in East Vll
teenth-st., murdered his wile by cutting
her throat, and then made an ineffectual
attempt to kill his two children, Bernard,
aged 17, and Hugh, aged ii years, and
then committed Suicide. The Sons stale
that their father has labored under
mental derangement for over six months.
They have been trying for some time to
got him into the Insane Asylum, and ex
pected to he able to place him there yester
day, but it was postponed until to-day.-
The father evidently suspected the fact, and
appeared quiet last night. This morning
soon after the family got op the father took
a common table-knife and sharpened it,
but they did not interfere, thinking best to
humor him. As he went towards the
door his wife interposed to prevent
him going out, and a struggle com
menced. Both sons caught hold and at.
tempted to get the knife away and had
their hands severely cut. The father be
came frenzied drew the knife across his
wife's throat, and turned:upon the sous,
Who escaped. The father then drove the
knife twice into his own throat.
At an early hour this morning, Dennis
Daley, John Otis, and Catherine Ann Hes
ton quarreled in a saloon, corner of Bow
ery and Houston streets. Otis was stabbed
in the left breast and the woman under tl e •
left arm, the latter supposed fatally.
Disinherited Because of Polities
An oxcentric genius, strong in the Dem
ocratic faith, named Corned, died recently
at Oxford, N. Y., leaving several children,
two of them daughters and Republicans.
By a will the old gent cut off the two
daughters on account of their politics. Thu
following is toe disinheriting clause:
"sth. Believing that the natural conse
quences of actions based upon or dictated
by the political creed or belief approved of
or advocated by my daughters, Cornell:a
A. Wood and Ruby Houck, have been and
aro to largely increase taxation, it is my
will that the amount of taxes paid by me
since 1861, and to be hereafter paid previous
to my decease by ace, together with the
succession or other revenue tax or taxes to
be paid from or on account of property
now or hereafter owned by. me, be consid
ered as having been paid for or on account
of my said daughters, Cornelia C. Wood
and Ruby Houck, and it is my will and I
hereby direct that they receive nothing
from my estate, either real or personal."
The daughters aforesaid have now set out
to contest the will.
Cut Illx Throw/ with n Husking Peg.
A young man named Georgo Dunbar, a
resident of 15th and Brown streets, Phila
delphia, was brought to Norristown in a
wagon, by Mr. Bean, the landlord of
Trooper tavern, and two other young men.
He came in to the Trooper tavern bleeding,
having already made the attempt on his
life, the weapon used, as was subsequently
ascertained, being a husking peg. Upon
being brought to Norristown, he was taken
to the lock-up and a surgeon scut for who
found an incised wound on the side of
his throat,about an inch and a half long, in
the region of the jugular. The wound was
secured by sutures and adhesive plaster,
, and he is now doing favorably. Dunbar
was in the army during the late war, and in
consequence of 8011113 injury received in the
head, became partially deranged in mind,
and was discharged in consequence. tie
has not been able to follow any occupation
since his discharge from the army, but has
continued hopelessly insane. Tbe Burgess
communicated with his friends, and his
father and brother removed :Btu to his
home in Philadelphia.—Daily Herald,
(Norristown.)
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