TILDES IIKKOKK TflK COMMITTEE.
Home Very Hard Rap* at the Congres.
sloiml Inquisitors.
MR. TILDKS'S TKHTIMONY.
Governor Tilden (in a feeble, al
most inaudible voice) spoke a* follow*
in reply to the question;: of tbo com
mittee: —I have not had an opportun
ity to sec tho lithographic copies of tho
cipher telegrams (the publications of
the trauslation of tho cipher telegrams
in the New York Tribune); I mean
those relating to South Caroliua to the
6th of October, 1878; those relating to
the State of Florida, published on the
Bth of October —I read these transla
tions; I do not recognize among them
a single one 1 had ever seen in cipher
or translation, or the contents of which
had in any manner lieen made known
to me; with reference to those of them
that relate to negotiations to induce
the members of the canvassing ltnurd*
of South Carolina ami Florida, to give
to the Democratic electors their cer
tificates I swear positively I never saw
one of those telegrams, either in ci
pher or translation; the contents or
purport of any one of them was never
communicated" to me in any maimer
whatever.
I never had any knowledge, no in
formation ami no suspicion of this ci
pher correspondence or of similiar
correspondence, or that any such had
existed till it was announced in the
Tribune, followed up by the publica
tion of the same a few days later; no
offers, no negotiation on behalf of any
member of the Returning Board of
South Carolina, or the Board of State
Canvassers of Florida or any other
State was ever entertained bv my au
thority or with my sanction; no nego
tiations with them, no dealings with
them, no (Killings with any one of
them, were ever authorized or sanc
tioned by me in any manner whatso
ever; the first information I ever did
receive that any such negotiation ever
existed between any Democrats or any
member of the Board of State Can
vassers of South Carolina to obtain
their certificate for the Democratic
electors happened on the 20th of
November, 1870; I am not able to fix
that date positively by my own recol
lection, but I fix it from other cir
cumstances; it was the day I first
learned that Colonel I'elton was in
Baltimore; I recollect the fact ami fix
the date from the circumstances that
have appeared during this investiga
tion; on the morning of Novemlier
20, 1876, Mrs. Colonel I'ellon men
tioned in my presence that her hus
band had gone to Philadelphia; it was
a casual mention; 1 did not know
that he was going to leave the city
nnd I did not know that he had left
the city till she mentioned it, and her
mention of it was not such as to at
tract my attention particularly; a lit
tle later on the same morning I was
called on by the treasurer of tbo Na
tional Democratic Committee, Mr.
Edward Cooper, apparently on his
way down town, who then told me
Colonel I'elton was in Baltimore, not
Philadelphia; he told me that Mr. Pel
ton had received or was receiving an
offer on liehalf of somebody represent
ing or claiming to represent the Board
of State Canvassers of South Carolina
to give their certificate to the Dcrno
cralic electors for a sum of money
MR. TILDEX KMPIIATIC.
I immediately said (continued Mr.
Tilden with greater force) that no such
offer should be entertained ami that
no negotiation of that nature should
he tolerated; that not a cent should be
furnished for any such purpose; that
■Colonel Pelton should lie immediately
.telegraphed for to return to New
York; I did not at that time know
.that Mr. Smith M. Weed had gone to
tSouth Carolina —that he was there or
bud been there at any time; I had not
*een him after the election, and had
no knowledge of his wherealoiits at
that time; my conversation with Mr.
Cooper was very brief —the wholemut
k -r was disposed of within from five
14, tcu minutes; 1 made no inquiry
with regard to any details, and there
was no discussion between us; Mr.
Cooper cc tcurred with me entirely as
to the men.- ~re" to l *> taken : though
I took it for panted that he would
make every ne rewary communication
on the subject I . not leave it at
that; I obtained . h'. m Colooo
Pelton'a address iu Baltimore and
rauaecl him to be tele
graphed to in a perorate *7 manner to
return to New \ ork; my dispatch to
Colonel Pelton was in ordim T f langu
age; I bad no cipher, 1 could . rend
a cipher, and I could not transit. *e '" lo
cipher; it never occurred to me that
there was any reason for concealnu
my belief is that the dispateh W*
Colonel Pelton to return was scut in
my own name; I think I sent it or had
it sent within ten minutes aAer Mr.
Cooper left the house; Colonel Pelton
returned that night to New York;
with reference to Florida, I never
saw any one of the Florida telegrams,
cither in cipher or in translation; the
contents of no one of them, so far as
I know, was ever communicated to me;
I do not think the contents of any one
of them relating to the course of ibis
controversy thus far was ever commu
nicated to me, and in looking over
them I am not able to recall any one
of them that I had ever seen lcfore;
1 did not know, and was not informed,
that there had been any offer from
anytiody representing, or claiming to
represent, the Florida Board of Can-
vassers or any niombor of it to give
that vote to the Democratic electors
till nftcr the certificate hud l>ecn given
and the vote# of the electors dejMisi
ted for transmission to Washington;
my first information on the subject
was subsequent to that and after the
fith of December, 187(5; sometime af
terward Mr. Manton Marble returned
from the South; 1 don't know when,
but before I went to England, he call
ed ou me one day and inentioucd to
me as of a bygone affair tliut the State
of Florida was offered, or rather the
certificate, which would have yielded UH
the vote, but he said the offer had been
declined; sometime later in the sum
mer, about the time Mr. Marbel's let
ter on the Electoral Commission ap
peared, I made a remark to Colonel
Pelton about this oiler from Florida,
and he answered in u single sentence
that all offers had la-en declined; that
was all the knowledge 1 had on the
subject till the publication of the de
spatches; with reference to the State
of Oregon I saw none of these tele
graphic dispatches; 1 now refer to the
dispatches contained in the Tribune,
No. 44; I never saw one of them in
cipher or translation; the substance of
no one of them was ever communica
ted to me, with the exception of the
dispatch from Governor (Jrovor, stat
ing that he should give the certificate
of the State to the Democratic elector
Crouin; the substance of that dispatch
was communicated to me by sornelxsly;
1 did not know that it came in cipher
till after it np|>curcd ou the examina
tion of the Morton committee; in what
form that communication wus made
to me I cannot now state, but I was
made aware of the fact; several of
these cipher telegrams ap|>eared to
have been addressed to Coloucl Pelton
at No. 15 Grantercy Park, my resi
dence; 1 asked one of my young men
to look them over and tell me how
many there were of them; 1 think he
told me there were fifteen of the
Florida dispatches addressed to Col.
l'clton, chiefly sent bv Mr. Manton
Marble; as fur as I know and believe
no one of those dispatches was deliv
ered at mv house; l'elton's habits and
hours and mine an- entirely different;
I wa still Governor of the State of
New York, and had many executive
duties to perform; I was burdened by
daily receptions of people who came
to me from all parts of the l'uitcd
•States; 1 think from three to five hours
a day was the least time I was com
pelled to devote to these duties; Colo
nel l'clton seldom came to the house
till after I had been long in bed; he
was very busy at the committee rooms
and I saw very little of him, but I think
if any considerable number of tele
grams had come to the bouse 1 should
have found out the fact some how; I do
not believe any of these cipher telegrams
ever came to the house —at any rate,
they never met my eye nnd they never
came within my knowledge.
THE VISITING STATESMEN.
Only one word as to the gentlemen
who were sent Houth to the disputed
State* to watch and guard that can
vass on behalf of the democratic par
ty. That measure originated either
with Mr. Hewitt or General Grant.
Within a day or two after the election
I think General Graul wrote a letter
in which he proposed such an expedi
ent; Mr. Hewitt had either started
it before or embraced it immediately
after; 1 did uot select or fend the
gentlemen who went to these di*put-d
.Slates, and with few exceptions they
were not sent after consultation with
me.
Here Mr. Ti Idea's voice became
very feeble again.
1 did aot attempt to supervise their
acts; I did ant communicate with
them ; in no instance during the whole
of the time did I, directly or indirect
ly, communicate or correspond with
any gentleman that was in the South
on that business ; I never received any
communications from them or any of
them except one communication sent
by Mr. llamiall, Mr. <Htcndolfer, Mr.
Istmar and Mr. Wattcrson suggesting
some kind of proposition to lie made
by me to Mr. Hayes ; I never answer
ed that <lis|>atch, except verbally to
Mr. Otteudotfer ; after be returned to
New York he culled upon me; I was
very busy all the time; I look it for
grunted that these gentlemen under
stood their business and I did not un
dertake to direct them ; the idea that
they were my j<eisona! agents in any
sense has no foundation iu fact; they
were the representatives or delegates of
the democratic |>arty,chosen generally
by its organization ; no money, so fur
as I knew, ever went to one of these
States with any commission or autho
rity or contemplation to do anything
which these gentlemen ought not to do,
or to do anything hut defend the in
terests of the democratic party —to
watch and guard these interests against
apprehended fraud ; during the whole
i one from the 7th of November, IM7H
which was the day of the election—
to tbe 6th dav of i>eccmber in the
same voar, nmf which was the day on
which the electors met. and deposited
their vo es, I maintained a uniform at
titude; my purpose was that under no
circumstau oe* would I enter into com
|ietition to obtain tho certificate of the
cauvassiug boards in the disputed
•States, even those to which I believed
we were entitled, except by discussion,
argument, reason, truth, justice. Here
Governor Tilden's voice rang with ve
hemence. There never was a time, a
moment, not an instant in which I
ever entertained an idea of seeking to
obtain these certificates by auy venal
inducement, any promise of money or
of office to the men who had them to
give ami dixjioxo of; my purpose on
that subject wax j>erfertly distinct and
invariable; tbut wax generally a
xumcd by all my friciidx without dis
cussion ; it may have been xometinica
xo expressed, but certainly whenever
the slightest occasion arose for it to be
discussed it was expressed; it was
never deviated from in word or act.
MIT. TILDKN'H PERORATION.
To the people who have, I believe,
electeil me President of the United
Suites, to the four and one-quarter mil
lions of citizens who gave mc their
suffrages I owed 11 duty and u service
and every honoruble sacrifice, but not
a surrender of one jot or title of my
sense of right or my perxoual self-re
spect, whatever the disappointment to
those who voted for me, whatever the
public consequences of suffering from
a subversion of the electoral system,
by which alone true self-government
can lie carried on ; by whatever ens
uis try a different course might be ad
vocated or defended, I was resolved
that if there was to la; an auction of
the Chief Magistracy of mv country I
would not lie among the bidders.
(Applause.) I wax determined in
such nil event, or apprehension of such
an event, that I would meet such a
degraded condition of public affairs,
not by sharing it in any degree, not by
acquiescence, not by toleration, but by
an unqualified, jH-rpetual protest, ap
pealing to the people to re-assert, re
establish their great rights, the great
est of their rights, the right without
wliieh nil others were worthless —their
right to elective self-government.
WIIONE BOY IS THIS I
AN IXqI'IRY FROM ACROSS THE OCEAN
FOR A CHILI) TAKEN AYAY BY A
TRAVELLING HIIOWMAN.
HiiUdalphU Rtcord, Tho , U
The strange hixtorv of n boy taken
from his home in hnghiml has just
IK-CII dcveloj>ed by the Society to I'ro
tect children from Cruelty in thi* city.
In lHiiif little Hurry (filbert Gratton
livet| with his uncle in Loudon. Hi*
father and mother were both dead,
and Harry, then hut -ix years of age,
had no other protector liiau the rela
tive mentioned.
A showman, known a* "Monsieur
D'Atalie, the Man with the Iron .law,"
and a woman celebrated for her mus
cular powers, called "Angelo," pre
vailed on the uncle to transfer the cus
tody of the orphan to them. K*tii
after gaining |fOsse-aiou of the hoy the
man and woman came to this country
to give exhibitions, and immediately
I x'gmi the training of their new charge
for acrobatic feats. Not long after
their arrival in this country D'Atalie
ami "the strong woman" began an en
gagement iu this city, exhibiting at
such classic retreat* ax the Grand
Central Theatre, Fox's Variety Thea
tre. ami finally attached themselves to
a circus.
While exhibiting in this city the
man was arrested for brutally beating
the little fellow at the instance of the
St, George's Hocietv, and was put un
der hail. D'Atalie gave a lawyer
•*OO to settle the matter, "and bv the
advice of his counsel," the woman Au
gelo now nap, "D'Atalie left the city."
The boy wa* placed in the Northern
Home and kindly cared for bv that
institution, under whose su|iervision lie
ha* since remained.
Two years later D'Atalie returned
to this city and wax ngain arreted,
this time for jumping his hail, ami got
out of the clutches of the law officers
by paying $2,000. .Subsequently ho
died, and "Angelo" married a man
named Nat Austin living in Worces
ter, Mass., ami thus all former rela
tions between the little foreigner ami
his recreant guardians were severed,
lint, though separated by 3,000
mih* of water from his native land,
the orpalui huv ha* not IHS II forgotten
during all these long years.
A few week* aince the New York
Society to Protect Children from Cru
elty received a request through the
British Consulate General'* office,
asking the society to look up the little
fellow ami ascertain hi* present condi
tion. In the course of their investiga
tion*, they ascertained the location of
"Angclo, the Strong Woman,'' ami
asked the officers of the 8. I'. C. C. at
Boston to assist them. The woinnn
"Angelo" wa* interviewed, and from
her the novel story of the Iniy's expe
rience was learned, the woman making
the error of locating the hoy at tho
House of Refuge in thin city.
These fact* were transmitted to Sec
retary Crew, of the 8. I'. C. in this
city, and on hint devolved the task of
disclosing the present location of the
hoy. The records of the House of
Refuge bore no evidence of tin- littln
fellow's commitment at that institu
tion. By a fortunate circumstance it
was, however, discovered that the lost
hoy had lteen placed in the Northern
Home, and by that institution given a
Siod home with a family residing iu
ow Jersey. This information Secre
tary Crew at once telegraphed to tho
officers of the New York society, and
yesterday received in return a hnlf
dozen telegrams concerning the case.
The officers of the Northern Homo
say thai, as the boy was sent to them
by a decree of the Court, they will not
ferl justified in transferring hiin to
any other authority tliau that of the
British Consul. Who it is that start
ed this inquiry through the British
(Consul at New York, what steps will
lie taken to recover him, or what for
tune is awaiting the young alien, are
matters to be developed iu tho future.
UENEKAL NHEKMAN ON OKOICOIA.
HE THINKH IT IH A KINK COUNTRY FOR
No! T..KRNKRB TO EMIGRATE TO.
lxMtr to K4U.tr ll.iwell, oflli* AIUnU CoiiMUuUoo.
The reason why Georgia hax not
kept pace with such States a* Califor
nia, lowa, Wisconsin or Kansas ix be
yond question that emigration would
not go where slavery existed. Now
that this cause is removed there is no
longer any reason why Georgia, ex
pecially the northern part, should not
rapidly regain her prominence among
the great Htatesof our Union, i know
that no flection is more favored in
climate, health, soil, minerals, water
and everything which man needs for
his material wautx and to contribute to
his physical and intellectual develop
ment. our railroads, Hlreadv finish
ed, give your people cheap supplies
and the means of sending in every
section their surplus products of the
soil or of manufactures. You have
immense beds of iron and coal, l>esidex
inexhaustible quantities of timber, oak,
hickory, beech, poplar, pine, etc., so
NIT'OSSARY iu lIIIMIUITI factories and
which arc becoming scarce in other
sections of our busy country.
North (ieorgia i.- peculiarly adapted
to fruit orchards, to gardens and
small farms, and all you need to make
it teem with prosja-ritv is more people
from that class of Northern farmers
and manufacturers and that other
large cla*s of Luro|>cuii emigrants,
which has converted the great North
west from a wilderness into comforta
ble home* for it* million* of contented
JH-Oplc. I have ero-cd this Continent
ninny tinn-s, by almost every possible
route, and feel certain that at this
time tio single region holds out a*
strong inducements tor industrious
emigrants as that from Lynchburg,
Virginia, to Iluntsv'llc, Alabama,
right mid left, e nbr lC ig the moun
tain ranges and intervening valleys,
•■specially Last Tennessee, Nortli < icor
gia and Alabama. I hope I will not
give off< n-c iu saying that the present
|M>pulation ha* not done full justice to
this naturally beautiful and most-fa
vored region of our country, and that
two or three millions of |xwple could
he diverted from the great West to
thi* region with profit ami advantage
to all concerned.
I nrn from my recent visit,
that Northern profiuDil men, man
ufacturers, tnccbauics and farmers
may come to Atlanta. Home and Chat
tam>..pi witli a certainty of fair deal
ing and fair encouragement. Though
I a personally regarded the U-tc
noir of the late war in your region, the
author of all your woe*, yet I admit
that I have jut iiitve i over the very
ground desolated by the rivil war.
and have received everywhere nothing
hut kind and courteous treatment,
from the highest to the lowest, ami I
heard of no vioY ire to others for oj in
ions sake. Borne I'uion men s|M>ke to
nie of wx ial ostracism; hut 1 saw
nothing of it, and even if it doe* exist
it must disa|i|x-nr with the pmwnt
genera, on. Our whole fnimcw-nrk of
govern treat ami history is loumled on
the personal and jxtlitical equality of
citizens, and philosophy teaches ihat
social distinctions can only rest on
|x'n>onal merit and corresponding in
telligence, and if any part of a com
munity clings to distinctions founded
on past conditions, it will grow lex*
and lex* with time and finally disap
|war. Any attempt to build up an
aristocracy or a privileged el a* at the
Suith on the fact that their fathers or
grandfathers once owned slaves, will
result in a ridiculous failure nod sub
ject the authors to the laughter of
mankind. 1 refer to this subject in
cidentally herauxe others have argued
the ease with me. hut whether at
tempted elsewhere iu the South. I atn
certain it will not be attempted in
Georgia.
ST. V U.KSTINK.
HOW TIIK Ct'XTOM or SKXIHXO MIS
XIVK* OX llla DAY ORtOIMATBD.
According to some accounts Saint
Valentine was a Bishop, and to other*
a I'resbytci, who suffered martvrdom
alter a years imprisonment, A.lj., 2A7.
He wax probably canonized at an early
js'riixl. There is historical proof that
he was regarded a* a Saint about the
middle of the sixth century. Whntcly
states that St. Valentine was famous
for hi* love and charity, and that the
custom of sending valentines on his
festival txik it* rise from the*e traits
of hi* character. Other* affirm that
it was derived from the custom at
Home during the celebration of the
Lunereaiia, which always took place
iu February, when young women were
placed in conspicuous positions ftum
which the opposite sex chose compan
ions, a* chance directed. The early
Christians finding it impossible to sup
prexx this custom modified it, and ax
the frativa! of St. Valentine occurred
in the same month they amigncd it to
the day observed in commemoration
of that SaiuL Whatever nmv havo
leeu the orign of sending love-breath
ing and other missives on that day, it
has lieen continued in all Christian
countries, and seems not likely to fall
into disuse, and anciently articles of
clothing, jewelry and even heavier
materials wore sent as presents on this
occasion.
The numlter of letter* annually sent
on this occasion in the United Btatiw
amounts to several millions. The cus
tom of sending valentines impose* con
siderable cost on the Post Office Do-
Crtment aud additional labor on the
tcr carriers. Besides being a means
of harmless enjoyment, and in many
instances of strengthening the bonus
of friendship and affection, the manu
facture of these articles affords employ
ment to hundreds of women and others
who are unable to ohtuin a subsistence
by the more severe and toilsome pur
suits of life.
The Colored Man In Politics.
The action of a delegation of the
most prominent colored men of the
Houtli, iu organizing to investigate the
future of their race, hax evolved tin
very natural conclusion that the blacks
must segregate themselves from the
Republican party. To this result they
arrived after a calm, deliberate and
dispassionate study of the relations
now existent between their people and
that party ; they find that the Repub
lieanx have found that they ran no
longer uw- the negro, and so have no
further use for him.
The truculent will eventually IK;
always caught, woodcock like, in their
own spring. Oliver Morton, with re.
inarkable foresight, saw that the gift of
franchise to the negro would eventual
ly turn to the Is-iiefit of thcHouth, and
op|KHKsl it; hut the rapacity of Radi
calism grasped at an immediate gaiu,
without thought of future looses, and
awarded them suffrage for a few years'
brief power. Now they liud that the
enfranchised colored (spallation,
through its representation in Congress,
throws the balance of power into the
hands of the South, and through the
South locates the Democratic party
solidly above the lb-publicans. And
now it would, with the same swift di
rectness with which it gave suffrage to
the colored people, divest them of that
privilege, or fearing so to do, would
pi< k them up Ixsdily and scatter them,
Windom-like, to the northwest winds
—d > anything, iu fact, to remove them
and tin ir representative JKJWIT from
the South.
In fact the Republican party would
now show up in analogically the same
line of trade a* the negro marketers
iu slavery days —break up homos and
homesteads and scatter families.— and
' that, too. with the difference that in
j the slavery day* there was a legal
right to the unhappv people who were
j traded and battered off; but now they
are the equal* of all other men.
i The colored people will not have
thin w>rt of thing, ami w there dele
gations have decided that they are
citizens, to -tay where they iihuw, and
i not cattle, to In- transported f<r jsiliti
<-al purpose* by (Militifral partisan*;
and they have further found that their
proper home i. in the South, an<l their
genuinest friends—if even only
through policy, still their trawl
friends —an- the Democrats.
# ■■ ■ ■ ■
The Itarhanan Taper*.
| U a.l tift q litaynal'h ia lU* T4*frtf>l ]
In connection with thedeathof (Ten*
j ersil Cadwalader, of Philadelphia. the
more intimate friends of cx-Pn-*idt
Buchanan, Friday, mentioned their
curiosity to know what would now
become of the jmjM-r* of the last
| I K-mocralic President, a* they had
| Im-n informed that on the death of
jW. H. llced they passed into the
| batid* of General Cadwalader, and
that it was his intention to collate them
in connection with a biographical
, -ketch of Mr. Hu< hanan. It was in
timated that Mrs. Johnson (Harriet
I Cane; ha for several years been en
deavoring to secure possession of the
pnjiers, that they might IK- applied to
the purpose originally intended by
Mr. Heed. Democrats of the old
-chool who have found their way bark
to Congress or other }**itit>u* at the
•-apital seem to take much interest in
having Mr. Buchanan's memnrv vin
' di' au-l from the aspersions heaped
u|s>n his character on account of the
j want of vigor displayed at the close
I of his administration.
A Ising Forgotten herd Tarns I p.
A special dispatch from Washing
' ton says:
"An ancient and long forgotten
document ha* nx-entlv come to light
in this city, the discovery of which has
led to negotiations between the Portu
guese minister and the secretary of
state. In 17SW) congress passed an act
appointing Gustavus .Scott, William
Thornton and Alexander White com
missioner# to establish the temporary
and permanent form of government of
the United States at Washington.
These commissioners were empowered
;by President Washington to grant a
site on the public grounds in this city
for erecting buildings for the residence
of foreign ministers. The (Chevalier
Cyprian Ribcro Friera, minister resi
dent of the Queen of Portugal, signi
fied to the commissioners hi* authorisa
tion to accept a site for buildings to
lie erected for the Portuguese Legisla
tion. The commissioners, by deed
duly executed and signed and approv
ed by John Adams, President, and
Timothy Pickering, secretary of state,
granted to the Queen of Portugal, her
heirs and successors, in consideration
of one dollar, a trifle over two acres
of land situated near the west gate of
the executive mansion grounds, south
of the White House. The m-ords of
the transaction were buried in the files
of the state depart meet for years.
Some months ago the Portuguese min
ister discovered in the files of the lega
tion evidences of the grant, and the
matter was laid before the department
of state. A satisfactory arrangement
with the Portuguese government will
be made,"
Kind Inquiries.
Oou*in Kale wax u sweet, wide-awake
beauty of about leveuteen, and she
took it into her head to go down to
I>mg Inland to *ec norne relation* of
hern who had the misfortune to Jive
there. Among these relation* there
chanced to IKS a young swain who had
seen Kate on a previoun occasion, and
seeing, fell deeply in love with ber
lie called at the hon*e on the evening
of hi* arrival, and *he met him on the
piazza where *he wax enjoying the eve
ning air in company with two or three
of lier friend*.
The poor fellow wax *o bashful that
he could not find hi* tongue for *ontu
time. At length he stammered out:
"How'* your mother?"
well, thank you."
Another nib-nee on the [>art of Josh,
during which Kate and her friend* did
! the lx*t they could to relieve the mo
; notony. After waiting about fifteen
minute* for him to commence to make
himself agreeable, he again broke the
xpel I by—
"How'* your father?" which wax
an*wered in much the *ame manner
ax the (irxt one, and then followed au
! other silence like the other.
" I low'* your father and mother?"
again put in the hadiful lover.
"tpiite well, both of them." Thix
wax followed by an exchange of
glance* ami a suppressed smile.
'i hi* lasted Home ten minute* more,
during which Josh wax fidgeting in
hi* stroking hi* Hunday bat. Hut
at length another •jucxtion came:
"How* your parent*?"
Thix pro<luced an explosion that
made the wood* ring.
A Parim: Feat.
Not long ago a Mr. Andrew Wal
lace, of Niagara Fall*, rode hi* horse
aero** the ice bridge—a difficult feat
in itself—but not satisfied with thi*,
ascended to the summit of the moun
tain at the base of the American Fall.
The sight from the cliffs on the Canada
side, which wax covered with a large
crowd of visitors, was a thrilling one.
Slowly the home toiled up the steep,
xiipjs-ry side of the great ice cone,
winding round the footpath till the
summit was reached. Here, envclojx-d
in a cloud of mist, which concealed
the white cone itself, horse and rider
ap|K*red like some wicrd apparition
suspended in mid air. For some lime
the horse west cantering alsiut over
I the crest of the cone, where one lain?
I step might have hurled both him and hi*
rider into the fathomless, foaming gulf,
full seventy feel below. Presently the
daring horseman rode slowly down the
path, and, crossing the "ice bridge,
gained the Canadian side, lloth be
and his horse were completely drench
cd with spray. The intelligent, sure
footed animal, wlio played such a
prominent iiart in this feature of un
paralelled daring, was a moderate size
brown gelding, with four white feet
aod a snip on the nose. This is cer
taiuly a strong argument in support of
the theory that horses marked with
white are more intelligent than whole
colored one*.
TIIE FIRST STEEI. PEKR.— The in
ventor of steel j>en. have the Jovrnat
jof Commerce, is an American, and a
well-known resident of our city (N.
Y.), Mr. Peregrine Williamson. In
' the year 1800, Mr. W., then a work
ing jeweler at Baltimore, while attend
ing an evening school, finding some
difficulty in making a quill pen to suit
him. made one of steel. It did not
work well, however, for want of flexi
bility. After awhile be made an ad
ditional slit on each side of the main
one, and the pens were so much im
proved that Mr. W. was called to
make them in such numbers as to
eventually occupy his whole time and
that of a journeyman. At first the
business wa very profitable, and en
abled Mr. W. to realise for the labor
'of himself and journeyman a clear
profit of $6(10 per month. The Eng
lish soon borrowed this invention, and
~omc who first engaged in the business
realised immense fortunes.
IT was a colored preacher who said
to his flock last Christmas day : "We
have a collection to take this morning,
and for de glory of Ilcabcn, whicheber
of you stole Mr. Jones' turkeys, don't
put anything on dc plate." One who
was there says "KIKTV blessed niggah
in de church came down with de rocks."
.
A LUCKY family ia thai of the Bar
ings, The founder of their family
was a trader in Exeter, England, a
hundred years ago, and now the family
holds a baronetcy, a barony, bishopric
and an earldom, possesses immense
wealth, and haa sixty livings in its
gift- >
CHURCH at Somerville, Mass.,
were surprised one Sunday morning to
find the trees covered with sausages
and lard, but subecqucutiv discovered
that a tank had exploded in a pork
packing establishment.
"What," said an inouiaitive young
lady, "is the most popular color for a
bride f We may be a little particu
lar In such matters, but we should
prefer a white one. — Kbmirm Gatttte.
WiixiAM Atffltwt*. to sleepy room
mate .* "Come, John Henry, why don't
you get up with the lark, as I do f
John llcnry, : "Been up with
him all night,"