sHie tfnitvc democrat.
BELLEPONTE, PA.
Tho Lirgost. Chrnpoxt nml Best Paper
I'lMII.ISItKI) Ijf ORNTKK COUNTY.
AN ADDKKSS
TO Tit K
DKMOCRACY OF PENNSYLVANIA.
You arc again called upon In main
tain tho integrity of Democratic prinoi
pies, ami. by your action ami vote*, eg
tnhli-h tlieir auprctnacy in tlie State.
The lii to y and record of tho party in
all past time has been consistent, and
its force lias always been expended in
defense of the rights ot tho citizen,
guaranteed to him by the organic law
of the land.
Your fealty to the party is not the
result of subserviency to the dictates of
nny one man or set of men, but rests
upon conviction, that its policy and
principles, when fully carried out. have
ever contributed to the prosperity and
material wealth of tho State. To this
end it lias invariably resisted the en
croachments of political power directed <
against the rights of personal liberty
and properly. It is a fundamental
principle of the Democratic party, that
the majority shall ride—that the will of
the people, fairlv and freely .expressed
at the polls, is the supreme law of the
land, and should be maintained at all
hazards, and that any attempt to set
aside that will so declared, is a crime
against the State, and subversive of the
rights of the individuals constituting <
it. To establish a government based j
upon this principle cost the best blood ;
of the patriots of the Revolution, and i
base and degenerate would he their
children if over they should permit it
to he impaired. The highest privilege
that can he exercised by a freeman is
the right of the elective franchise ; its
enjoyment is secured to him by the hill
of rights, which declares. That "elec
tion* shall he free and equal; and no
power, civil or military, shall at any
time interfere to prevent the free exer
cise of the right of suffrage. 1 ' In the
exercise of this right, the elector is a
sovereign, anil a tame submission to any
encroachment upon it would speedily
hasten a condition of servitude. In the
exercise of the elective franchise, all
arc pilaced upon the same level, without
regiyd to the conditions of life or for
tune. The poorest voter, in the use of
this privilege, wields a power equal to
that of the richest and most powerful in
the State. The ballot makes them
equal, and its importance is of no great
er value to one than the other, and
hence—in the perfect security of its
free exero-sc to every voter—rests the
permanency of our system of self gov.
crnment. To its free and untrammcll
ed enjoyment the Democratic uartv
pledges its unfaltering support. Under
Republican rule this guaranteed right
to every citizen has been flagrantly vio
lated, not onlv in this, but in other
states of the Union. But it was the
heroic devotion of the Democratic par
ty in the last Congress that reaffirmed
and partially restores! the right of the
elector to a free ballot.
That was not a contest for political
supremacy, hut a struggle for a lost
right, and arcopiplished for the people
what in other times could not have
been gained without an apqioal to arms.
In this State, for years you have sub
mitted to the rule of the Republican
partv. and not only by intimidation and
fraud have electors l>eon deprived of
their suffrage, hut in more than one in
stance you have been disfranchised, the
legitimate honest, vote of the State hav
ing been counted out. More than one
State official has held his office against
the honestly (tolled vote of the people.
In the city of Philadelphia it is notori
ous that the most flagrant outrages have
f>een perpetrated upon the electors, by
rejeater, ballot-box stutrers, and the
paid minions of tho National govern
ment, and the right to a free ftnllot has
Wen trampled upon within the shadow
of Independence Hall, where the spirit
of liWrty was first given bjrth. I think
I mistake not the temper of the Demo
cratic partv now, in that, they will not
again tamely submit to such an invasion
of their rights, hut in the approaching
election they will see to it that there
shall not only he n free ballot hut an
honest count.
tither elements, equally dangerous to
the rights of the citizen and the pros
perity of the Commonwealth, exist.
The Renublican partv for years has
been in the keeping of an organized
ring, that ycnnrnt.dy has relieved the
masses of the party from the response
bility of taking an active part in its
management. It has organized its
State conventions, selected and nomi
nated candidates for high political po
sitions, and appointed Senators to rep
resent Pennsylvania in the Senate of
United States, used the power of the
lohhy to control important legislation,
and by the potent influence of money
nnd position, its baleful influence has
found its way into every fibre of our po
litical system. Whenever it became
necessary to accomplish a purpose, its
power waa irreaistahle. It pervaded
every department of the Slate govern
ment, and in the House and Senate
were found its efficient representatives.
In the lobby it was omnipotent. The
treasury was regarded as the object of
legitimate plunder, and the representa
tives of the people aa the mere instru
ments to give legal form to rohhery.
The most iniquitous measures were
conceived and executed. The sentence
of [tnlitiral death, without reprieve, waa
impoaed on any adherent who hesitated
to carry out the decree of the ring, and
his place filled by a more pliant and
supple tool. In the name of loyalty the
State was plundered. The public works,
coating the people millions, were given
away, and the treasury depleted by the
repeal of the tonnage tax. New offices
were created with immense emoluments
and a long tenure, to which they un
hesitatingly appointed themselves. Cor
porations demanded of the legislature
extraordinary privileges—they were free
ly granted—and in the exercise of un
warranted power, threatened the exist
ence of individual enterprise, and, in
deed, to rise paramount to constitution
al authority. The Republican party
was in the graap of the ring, and the
ring became, and is, the Republican
party.
It is true that corporations with care
fully guarded powers are necessary to
carry out great enterprises, hut in grant
ing privileges superior to those enjoyed
by the individual, the greatest vigilance
should he exercised by the legislature,
otherwise as all experience proves, hav
ing once entered the field of special
privilege, their rapacity knows no limit,
and they become engines of oppression,
crushing out evety interest hut their
own, "gathering where they have not
strewn, nnd reaping where they have
not sown." Recently their grasping
tendency of corporate power has been
displayed in tho great oil regions of the
.State,
This wonderful natural development
has attracted tlieie immense capital,
the necessary and legitimate result of
which has been to add largely to the
material wenlth of tho Commonwealth.
There the widest field for individual
enterprise has been opened. Thousands
of the active men, tho business men,
tho live men of tho country, of physical I
and intellectual energy, have been J
drawn to this center. To foster and ,
encourage this interest by proper and !
protective legislation, that the producer
may reap the legitimate fruit of his la
k >r ami capital, should he the first care
ot the Commonwealth, and yet, we are
assured by the appeals coming from
the people of that region, that the great I
carrying corporations in their discrimi- |
nation against tho producer and trans
porter have so paralysed the enterprise
of individuals, as to make them their
servants, "the hewers of wood, and the
drawers of water."
For these wrongs they must hold re
sponsible the Republican party, which
bus been in full |>ossession of the execu
tive and legislative branches of the gov- j
eminent.
To correct t.iose and many other
grievances, and the more effectually to t
guard the approaches of corrupt influ
ence upon members of the Legislature,
a new • Vitistitutiou was demanded. The
ring influence in the lb-publican party
arrayed itself in opposition to the pro- I
posed reform, but the people aroused to
a sense of its importance, carried the j
proposition by an overwhelming ma- '
jority. The new (Constitution was adopt
ed. The most stringent provisions were
incorporated in it to curb the encroach
ment of unwarranted corporate power, i
and seemingly impassable barriers rais
ed to prevent the approaches of corrupt
influence upon the representatives of
the people. The people felt safe in its
apparent protection, but how vain and
futile were their hopes. Chartered mo
iiopolies refused to submit to its require
ments, and the poisonous influence of
the lobby again found its way into the
halls of legislation. To the ring combi
nation in the State the Constitution was
but a rope of sand, ilf this the proof is
before th<v.|a-oplc—in the recent at
tempt of the master spirits of the ring,
those who are recognized leaders in the
Republican party, and who control its
conventions and nominate its ticket, to
debauch the members in the last Is-gis
lature in the attempt to pas the (4,000,-
miti not hill, is glaring evidence before
the people, ami mu-t convince every
one not blinded by party prejudice tiiat
nothing hut the utter exclusion of this
influence, nnd those whom they may
dn tate as candidates for official |>asition,
will save the fair fame of the Common
wealth and place the revenues of the
people beyond the reach of organized
corruption.
Hitherto the enemies of the honest
administration of the government were
insidious in their approaches to the
treasury, hut emboldened with long
sure*-** with impunity, ami the magni
tude of the prize in their recent attempt
ii|on it, they lost their usual cautmu
and hence investigation has disclosed
the actor*—the ruling spirit* in the in-
I iqtiity. Some have been condemned in
! ilie laxly of which they were members,
and others await their trial before ale
gal tribunal. Manifestly the days of
the |x>litical power of the ring in Penn
sylvania are drawing to a close.
The Democratic party occupies no
uncertain position u|>ou this question,
i but has placed itself on record before the
people, in tho late ( invention, in the
following decided resolution :
''Tmth, Thst the recent sttenipt, under
the personal direction of ruling Republi
can leaders, to dettaui h the Ix-gislaloro by
wholesale bribery and corruption, and
tke from the commonwealth four millions
of dollars for which its liability has never
been ascertained, is a fresh and alarming
evidence of the aggrrssiveness of corporate
power in collusion with |x>litical rings, and
should receive the signal Condemnation of
the |*-oplc at the polls,"
But what attitude does tho Repuhli
can parly, through its leaders, occupy
on this leading, vital question of wheth
er fraud or honesty shall he the rule in
the Htate ? It is a fact, and one which
every honest Republican must admit,
that the leadeis and controllers of the
late convention at llarrishurg, by their
action compel him as a member of the
party virtually to endorse bribery and
corruption, and to declare that he will
not have honest men in office. There is for
hint no escape from the position in
which they have placed him hut to to
pu-fiate their action by voting against
the candidate they have selected. A
distinguished Republican, struggling for
Ins political life with the ring, put the
question now fairly lieforc that conven
tion by offering the following resolu
tion :
"That In view of the developments of
corrupt practices in ronneetlon with the
Riot bill in the last House, we emphatical
ly reaffirm that part of tho platform adopt
ed by the Republican Slate Convention at
Lnneaster in 1H75, and which was adopted
bv the Republican State Convention at
llarrishurg in IH7'!, which demands 'hon
est men in office—men with brains enough
to know dishonesty when they see t( and
courage enough to light it wherever they
And it.'"
This resolution was rejecter! f The
presentation of it, it is manifest, was
anticipated, and the result shows that
the parlies in interest wore fully pre
pared to meet the issue. It was prede
termined that no action of that con
vention should in any way reflect upon
or condemn the corrupt practices nnd
means used to procure tho passage of
that bill, hut on the contrary that the
convention should be compelled to ex
tenuate rather than oondemn. To this
end the machinery of the convention
must be seized. To prevent the intro
duction of u resolution of tliia charac
ter, and to deny it even the grace of
being rend, parliamentary law must he
stricken down. Failing in tlii*, to
guard against the possibility of a mi
nority report which would develop Ihe
iniquity and spread it before tin- people,
a right, t he rule and practice of which
i* recognized in all convention*, must
he trampled upon. How well they ac
complished their work is written in the
proceeding* of that convention, and is
before the people for their sober judg
ment.
Mr. Harr, tho candidate of the Demo
cratic party, stands squarely on the
principles declared in the plattorm
adopted by tho convention. Ho i
tin- representative of no interest or sot
of men. Ho was nominated by the
united voice of tho parly j his record is
In-fore you clean and unsullied; hi*
competency i beyond di*pute ; he i* a
candidate for the mo*t responsible
office in the State, and ha* given a
! pledge in convention, to the people,
I that no other candidate ever did before :
" /feso/erd, That in 1). O. Itarr, this day
j (loiiiiiisti-il for -State Treasurer, we present
| a candidate entitled to the confidence of
; the people; and who, if elected, will keep
! tile public tin-n-y safely, tnake known hi- i
! places of d--|M*.jt, hold hi* books and
i paper* open to inspection, and preserve the !
j common wealth from any re|-tition of the:
I systematic embezzlement* of interest and !
I other spoliation* which marked tin- long
j ami scandalous career of the It-'publicui.
! treasury ring."
This i* the character of the candidate
mid the pledge lor tho fidelity ol hi- 1
tru*i that we confidently submit to the
people a* tho custodian ol their great
j e-l interests, the revenues of the State
J These arc tho issues ami they are
! worthy of your serious consideration.
I They involve the economy and honest
administration of tin-State government,
l hey are of vital importance to you n* I
a citizen, a voter, and a l'enn*ylvaniau.
i Their proper determination and direc
tion rests alone with you. The Reptile
lican party in the full and absolute
j )M>s*es*ion of the National government,
' in a period of profound peace, of i<oun
i tiful harvest*, of unusual development
lof our national resourres, hy the dii
honesty of thoe in official position, by
reckless legislation ami hy general mis
rule, brought upon the country hank
j ruptcy ami financial ruin which spread
like a pall over the land. Ita oppres
sive influence was felt MI every home,
ami it brought (odMM* to many a fire
side, A tlniver Al cry of ilistte** and
for relief went up from th<- people.
The appeal was answered l-v the Demo '
era tic party, and through all these
year* of depression, of widespread
financial distress, of the prostration of
! trade, it lias grown into strength. A*
, yet, without the j-ower to eradicate the
1 evil* the Hepuhlican party h inflicted
ii|>on the country, tho Democracy
stand* as a breakwater to reil the tide
of corruption, of extravagance and
; fraud, Republican mal administration
have imposed ti|M<ti u*.
Through the devotion of the Demo
orotic party to the welfare of the whole
people. *n l its sturdy resistance to im
pending evils, tho country is now
emerging from the cloud of financial
gloom that ha so long hung over it. ami
the sunlight of prosperity i* again be
{ ginning to shine upon u.
Will you now lake a step backward,
or. inspired by what has been accotn
plished in tho past, and in the bni>e of
the future, will you not go the )K>IIA at
the approaching election dttrrminrd that
i this revolution of reform shall continue
until the principle* ami policy of the
Democrotio party shall become the rule
MI Pennsylvania.
| Remember, Democrats, that one vie
tory foreshadows another and, there
| fore, in view of all these circumstances
which so materially albert the interest*
and welfare of the commonwealth, lot
it not l-e lorgotten that this contest is a
1 prelude to that great struggle in which
it will he imperative upon the Ameri
can j>eople to again deride whether un
lawfully enthroned corruption shall
continue to perpetuate the attendant
evils naturally connected therewith ; or
j whether the people of this great coun
try shall again arise ami through their
; protector, the Democratic party, in a
! mightier voice than ever before, dc
maud that their constrltitional right*
: and privileges, handed down to them
j hy tne founders of this government,
j shall once more la- restored them in
their original perfection.
Hy order of tho Stale Committee.
GEO. W. MII.I.EE, Chairman.
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The Yazoo Ituslness.
• Yt"m llw |Vm|.
-lust after the war a man named
Morgan, who had had some connection
with the F<-deral army, settled in the
county of Yazoo, Mis*., and married a
mulatto woman, engaging in politic* as
an advocation. Tho imputation of the
county of Yaaoo at that time, wa* four
fifth* black, and Morgan, hy thoroughly
- identifying himself with the negroe*. be
came their leader. Hi* word wa* law.
He found no difficulty in being elected
to any office he chose, and finally, after
• tying a number, selected that of Sher
iff a* being the moat profitable. Hi*
reign was a reign of terror. Thing*
went on frotn bad to worse, until near
ly every while man who did not profit
with an association with Morgan found
a refuge elsewhere. One day a man
named Dixon, who had been a Confed
erate soldier, and wa* well known a* a
desperate character, sent Morgan an
unsealed letter in which he tersely in
formed him that he (Dixon) was tired
of the way things had been going on,
and that he wanted him to "git out of
there." In order that he might know
ju*t what wa* meant, Dixon added a
postscript to the effect that if he met
alter the receipt of hi* letter ho would
shoot him on sight. Morgan wa* a
desperate man himelf, hut in Dixon
he recognized hi* master. Within the
time prescribed he found for himself a
new abiding place. Ihxon immediate
ly succeeded to hia leadership and ty
rannical domination.
The negroea feared him, but they
obeyed him. He ruled them a* merci
lessly a* Morgan, and by the same
mean*. One day he chased an offend
ing colored man to a cotton field where
thirty or forty other negroe* were at
work. The hunted man *a* him com
ing and fled to the river, Dixou rode
up io the gang unattended and forced
them by hi* will power alone to capture
tlio runaway, put a rope around hi*
ruck, and hang him to the limb of u
tree without any more ado than if he
hud been a mad dog. Two year* ago,
Dixon met a gambler who bud won
some of liis money ami *liot him down
without a word of warning. Hi* next
job was to puck a jury with negroes and
obtain an acquittal. Hy tiiia time lie
hud become a* great a terror a* Morgan
had ever been, and finally the white
citizen* of Yazoo ami the *lll rounding
country made common cause and drove
him out ol the State. Two monthxago he
returned and announced himself as an
independent candidate for sheriff. That
meant, if it meant anything, a renewal
of tho old scene* —violence, murder and
ruin. In sheer self defense, just a*
tin ) would have united against an in
sane man with a tuich in hi* hand, or a
wild animal, the citizen* of Yazoo coun
ty—without distinction ol polities or
color—canie together and informed
I'IXOO that lie would not lie allowed to
turn their peaceful community into an
other hell. In most countries such a
man would have been bung to the high
est tree or nearest lamp |H>*t, and but j
little note would have been made of it. i
Here, however, a quiet but determined
suppression ot him ha* been tortured !
into proscription of the worst grade, '
arid northern paper* have printed ceil- 1
uinn* of denunciation of what they ,
atyle "the Mississippi method." Citizen*
who have combined merely to protect ■
their fireside* from rapine and riot, are
assailed as luili dozers and Yazoo*.
The telegruph now bring* u* the news
that Dixon lia* been shot ill a per inul
encounter. There was a dispute, a pull
ing of pistols, one or more *hnl, hut
somebody wa* too quick for him and Dix
on fell dead, l'eriuip* this will he the
end ol the trouble* and consequent no
toriety of Yazoo. Possibly not. These
statement*, however, have been made
to u* hy one w ho had every opportunity
to know that they are true, and we
print them to show to otir readers, the
kind of creature* on whom the HepuL
licnii papers ol the North have been
wasting tons of sympathy.
Tile South and the Yuxoo Outrage,
re*a ill- N. V. W.*M.
I it too much to hope that there may
he here and there in the North a He
publican newspaper honest and manly
enough to do justice to the indignation
excited throughout the Southern Slate*
and expressed, a* our own column* have
shown, by the great majority of South
ern journals m regard to the deplorable
event* in the Yazoo country ? Tho
tone of tho Southern foes* on thi* sub
ject is most encouraging. It i* encour
aging in the lirt place because it show*
that violence ami contempt of law* are
regarded with at least as much abhor
rence in the South a* Ml Hhodc Island
or in California. It i encouraging in
lh' second place because it shows that
ihe Southern State* once more feel
themselves Ui he n-lf governing commu
nities and to be no longer morally or
materially dependent on a military head
at Washington. It ia encouraging final
ly bee au *e it hear* witness to „ real
quickening of the public conscience at
the South such as wa* to have been ex
pect'-d from the restoration to the
i South of self government. The South
depend* How,and the nation depend*
with it. for it* agricultural prosperity
ujion it* control of the loanable cipital
i which is only to l>e found in sufficient
1 amounts in the Kant, and chiefly in
New York. The stupid project of itti
I proving the moral condition of the
South by brute force originated in New
r.nglaml. and survive* still in Washing
j ton only a* a relic of the w*r tyid of tho
j methods of the war. It i* indeed a relic
i of barbarism, ami the Federal election
laws, the rejieal of which Mr. Hayes
i vetoed, are a relic of barbarism also.
, What is needed now most of alt is to
put the South, a* to it* Imme right* and
fireside rights (always remembering that
; slave labor and it* incidents have been
; nl-olished), back where it wa* down to
iB6O. This having l>een done, let fair
public criticism bold the South up to
thn standard which the public consci
ence enforce* in the North. He mut
bo nearly or quite bet eft of reason who
really think* that the Southern ;*tt
; can ho any longer comja-lled to tolerate
fraud and violence at their ballot-bole*
while other State* North ami Fast of
I them remain free from sueh demoraliza
tion. And he can scarcely have enjoy
<"l the gift of reason at all who fancies
that, if the Slates have not sutlii-icnt
; energy to maintain honest ballot boxes,
the Government at Washington can he
trusted to ileal more honestly with vot
ing matter* than all tin- State govern
ment*. Yet Mr. Sherman in Maine
could #ee no remedy lor a deadened
i public conscience in such isolated local
j itie* a* San Francisco or the Yazoo
country except through the application
■ of Federal fore* by Washington official*,
"(juestion* of money, labor or properly
sink into insignificance" in compari
son with maintaining thn Federal elec
tion laws, Secretary Sherman foolishly
said Hie other day at Portland. He
actually sustained the Daven|>nrt legis
lation as an "issue before which ques
tion* of money, lal-or or property sink
into comparative insignificance." And
this man is the Secretary of the United
States Treasury I
Da. LANDEREE, a Hungarian natural
ist, writes from Athens that a dead
African eagle was lately found at Mama,
on the southern tlreek const. Un ex
amining the bird an iron-headed arrow
over a loot long wa* found transfixed un
der one of the wing*. Evidently the
eagle had leen fired at and struck in
Alnca by some native, ami had borne
the arrow in its body in it* flight over
the Mediterranean until it h-il dead
frotn exhaustion on touching land at
Maina. '
The manager* of the Agricultural Fair
in Hta-iford county oiler diplomas and
premium* to teacher* and scholars. An
educational building, with seat* and
desk*, has been arranged in wbiehr lha
examination* will lie conducted.
"FRANCE ia growing rich A* fast a* she
ia growing republican," declare* a dis
tinguished European writer on finance*.
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Tn* man who dreamt he dwelt in
marble halls woke up and found that
the bed-e'.otbe* had tumbled off.
MKITKMIIKK.
II 11., In Hrrililwr fr K- |,t iiilx r.
The golden rod is yellow;
The corn i* turning brown ;
Tim tree* in apple orchard*
Willi fruil nr bonding down.
Tin- gentian'* bluest fringe*
Art; i -urling in tho run ;
In durtv |Ml< Ibo milk wood
11* bidden rilk ban spun.
The sedge* Ibiiinl tlieir harvest,
In every meadow nook j
A lid atcr* by the brook-ride
Make ater in the brook.
From dewy lane* at morning
The grape's sweet odor* rise ;
At noun trie road* all flutter
With yellow butter flier.
Hy all there lovely token*
-September day* are here,
With rummer'* best of weather,
And autumn'* bortof cheer.
Hut none of all thi* beauty
Which flood* the earth and air,
I* unto me the *ecn*t
Which muker September fair.
'Tir a thing which I remember;
To name it thrill* me yet;
tine day of one September
I never can forget.
A Wonderful Nctuda Valley.
i'tftn lilt* viftfinl* Klit* fjif in**.
Captain Rhode*, of K*rncroM:t county,
win# i* ,'u till* city, ia the owner of what
in known a* Rhodes' Silt Marab, but
wbi/ h i* a perlect lalioratory of mineral
wealth. The valley contains 4,110
acre*, it i* quite level and i* surround
ed on all ride* with high volcanic moun
tain". It it aituati d about fifteen mile*
nortbwert of i 'olutubui. Jn thi* little
valley I* a ruflicient amount of rait to
supply all the tnarkeU of the I'nifed
Slate*, if not the whole world. A foot
or two below the surface i* found a rolid
floor of pure rock rait, a> firm and a*
transparent a* ice. Indeed, when the
rand tliat cover* tlio surface i* stripped
off tlie rand below l.ear* a very close
rereinhlanoe to a field of ice. In many
placet hlfle rtrealm of water bubble
through the most of rait, and very fre
quently deep JKIOU are found which
look just like the air hole* in a frozen
lake. The rult made at the msrrh i*
perfectly pure. When a tract of the
ground haa la-en rtripped of the *urface
rod the rail water rie* over the bed of
rock salt to the depth of a foot or two.
Then crystal* of *ult begin to form on
the surface of the water, and a* they
form they sink to the bottom. If the
rait i* to i-e fine, for table U'*, the work
men stir these crystals about with nhnv
el* a* they settle to the liottorn, thur
breaking them up. For ue in working
silver ore ooarse salt is a* good a* fine,
and the solid formation may he dug up
with pick* if necessary, but tho loose
crystals are more readily handled, and
a* much salt <■! that kind i forme) a*
ran la* disposed of. Not only are there
inexhaustible store* of salt in the little
valley. I.**t immense store* of borax.
This liorax l of the finest quality
known, and two or three cent* more
per pound can Ire obtained for it in
Kurojte than for any other borax sent
to that market. Splendid *pecimen of
lineal, or natural crystal* of borax, are
found m the marsh imbedded in the
rlav near the surface. Immense quan
tities of sulphate of magnesia (epsom
rait | and sulphate of soda (glauticr
► alt) in a pure stale are also found.
Nitrate of jmtassa (saltpetre) ia found,
but the extent of the deposit i not
known. Common potash i* found in
great abundance, and among the curi
ous specimen* to he obtained are what
are railed "cotton hall*" (boreatn of
lime) and fibrou* crystalline borax.
Also, there is found an abundance of
*n unknown mineral. It is something
described in none of the looks. It
doe not apj>ear in the sbs|>e of crystal*
yet has a regular form of its own, pre
senting the appearance of branches of
coral. It is thought that this may be
some new salt. A quantity of it will
shortly Ire sent F.ast for examination.
Caesar, Hi* Men anil Hi* Arms,
Fttss rrs.i
■flMB ' A blest Human then living.
lad the |owcr of attracting and
attaching the ablest men to his service.
He had five years in which to look about
him, and to act at hi* leisure—as much
lime as had been given to i'ompvjr of
Ibo Fast, bike Potnpey, too, he was
left perfectly free. No senatorial off!
cent could incumber him with orders
from home. The ta-ople had given him
hi* command, and to the people alone
he wa* resjKinsihlc. Lastly, and beyond
everything, he could rely with certain
ly on the material with which ho had to
work. The Kornan legionaries were no
longer yeomen Uken from the plow, or
•hopkee|wrs from the street. They
were men more eonpletely trained in
every variety o( accomplishment than
perhaps ever followed a general into
the field, or ever since. It wa* not
enough that they could use the sword
and lance. The campaign on which
Cansar wa* aVauit to enter was fought
with spade and pick and axe and hatch
et. Cor|* of engineers he may have
had; hut if the engineers designed the
work, the execution lay with the army.
No limited department would have
la-en equal to the task* which everv
day demanded. On each evening after a
march, a fortified camp was to be formj
ed, with mound and trench, capable ol
resisting surprises and demanding the
latxir of every single hand. Bridges had
to be thrown over rivers. Skiff* and bar
ges had to be mode and repaired, capable
of service against an enemy, on a scale
equal to the requirement* of an army,
and in a haste which permitted node
lay. A transport service .there niu*l
have been organized to perfection. Hut
there were no stores sent from Italy to
supply tho daily wa*le of material. The
men ha<l to mend, and perhaps make,
their own clothes and shoe* and re|<air
their own arms. Skill in the use of
tools was not enough without Ihe tool*
themselves. Had the spades and mat
tocka INMMI supplied by contract, had
tho axe* been of soft iron, fair to the
eye and failing to the strokes, not a man
in Civwar'* army would have returned to
Home to tell the tale of ita dealruction.
How the legionaries acquired these vari
ous art*, whether the Italian peasantry
were generally educated in *uch ocru
pation, or whether on this occasion
there wn* a selection of (lie t,
of (hid wo have no information. Cer
tainly only it wax that men an<l inatru*
lIH-lIIS were MH excellent in their kind ax
honesty slid ekill could make theru;
and, however degenerate the patricians
and corrupt the legislature, there wu*
sound atolf somewhere in the Roman
constitution. No exertion, or no fore
thoiighl on the part of any commander
could have extem|>orixed such a variety
of qualities. I'nivernal practical accom
plishmenU muHt have fortn<-<i part of
the training of the free I toman citizen*.
Admiral.ln workmanship WIIH etill to LAV
had in each department of manufacture,
and every article witli which Cienar wax
provided must have been the bent of iu
kind.
♦
Though! She was llead.
I'RKI'AAIMJ ROA lUMIAI. WIIII.E THE SIP
POSED CORPSE IS 1.1 VINO.
FitUburf I'ikti, Auj(. '£i.
Sometime since Mrs. Iferdt, a widow
who resided on Third street, near Madi
son avenue, Allegheny, was stricken
with paralysis and became a great suf
ferer. Her ease gradually grew worse,
and although everything wax done for
her relief and comfort, there appeared
to be no favorable change in her condi
tion. 'ln last Thursday afternoon tint
; lady dropped into a sound sleep, and
those in attendance thought she hail
died. Indeed, her appearance indicated
death. Neighbors and friends who had
I been notified of Mr*. Herdt's demise,
I called to take a last look, and all de
parted lalmring under the impression
that she had really breathed her last.
Relatives weened over her prostrate
form and made arrangements for her
: funeral, which was to lake place to-day.
j (.'rape was placed on the door, the
: undertaker and an obituary notice in*
| serted in the fro/rfUi J'reun'l. Imagine
, the great surprise and sudden joy upon
, oliserving at a latter hour signs of* life in
the supposed corpse. The mourners
were seated in the apartment where
i the l>ody was lying when one of them
i observed great drops of perspiration tin
the countenauce of Mrs. Jlerdt. I>eem
ing this rather unnatural in a dead per
son he called attention to it, and it was
decided to send for a physician. I' .
!<ieobring * summoned, and ujion
j hi* arrival h at once noticed that the
lady was alive. Upon this announce
ment being made, the relative* wept
I for joy, and the house that was but a
few momenta before one of mourning
, was no longer such. Kvery attention
was paid the sufferer, hut alas I her end
was near and she expired yesterday
morning, six or eight hour* after the
doctor had pronounced her alive. The
case is ccitainl/ a remarkable one. and
will no doubt claim the attention of the
i medical fraternity.
W ucc* In Germany and I nited State*.
Vc m tic Ns* Ti.ik fuu
Hy the rate* of wages paid to work
:ngmen in Germany, compared with
those which obtain in the United
States, it appears that men engaged in
\ what are known as building trades, in
cluding carpenters, masons and paint
| ers, earn from #3.45 to s4.'Mi tier week,
the day'e labor covering ten hour*, ex
clusive of meal times. In New York,
; on the other hand, carpenter* are paid
j from # • to $l5. mason* from #l2 to #IS,
and painters from $1(1 toslf>, and rates
I in Chicago ranging from fifteen to thir
'tv per cent, lower, ltlacksmitlis and
baker* receive but s.'. .90 a week ia Get
many, wberea* the former would gain
from #lO to 14 and the latter from $5 to
in New York city. Still more strik
, ing is the difference in the case of print
ers. who al*o are paid only $3.90 in tlio
German Empire, against $8 to #IS in
; New York. Engravers, too, who are
here paid from $l5 to $25, can earn but
,$4 per week in Germany. In ljke man-
I ner. plumber* and shoemakers, who
j command $l2 to #l* among us, can
| i here secure no more than s3Art) to $4.32.
i A* for laliorers, porter* and those en
gsged In other callings which require
I little or no manual skill, they can earn
| only #2 (Ml in Germany against #(". to $'J
I in New York.
♦
C ut This Oat and Save It.
A correspondent writes to an ex
j change a* follows alout the flower of a
j well-known plant.
''l have discovered a remedy for con
sumption. It has cured a number of
cases after they had commenced bleed
ing at the longs and the hectic flush
wa already on the cheek. After trying
this remedy to my own satisfaction, I
have thought philanthropy required
that I should let it lie known to tho
world. It is common million, steeped
strongly and sweetened with coffee su
gar. and drink freely. Young or old
plants are good, dried in the shade ami
kept in clean h*g*. The medicine must
l>c continued from three to six months
according to the nature of the disease.
It is very good for the blood Vessel* also.
It strengthens and build* up the system
instead of taking awav the strength. It
make* go*! blood and takea inflamma
tion away from the lungs.''
It is the wish of the writer that every
|teriodica! in the United Stales. Ganada
and Kviroje should publish this reci|ie
tor the benrfit of the human family.
E*y thia up and keep it in the house
ready for use.
A Mage Conclusion.
A stranger was looking at the hig en
gine at the Hudson water works, and
from hi* general ap|*aranc the engi
neer took him to be a person of deep
i thought and a man to appreciate the
inerita of monster machinery. The
j stranger viewed the engine from every
side and angle, and aal down. Then he
reviewer! it and took another rest. Then
he walked around the building in t
wise way and come back for another in
spection. For two long hour* he hardly
held his eyes otf the ponderous machin
cry, but was at last rcadv to go. Taking
one last look, he walked up to the en
gineer and said : "Nav, mister, this 'ero
injin runs by steam, don't it T" "Why,
of course." was the answer. "Well, I
thought *o more'n half an hour ago,' 1
continued the man, "but iu just a* well
to be wire about these things. Them
are so many wind mills around now a
daya that one can't be oertein of noth
ing."