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TIIH AMEBIC AN DEMON.
We do not think that we could any
where find more acceptable political
reading than is contained in the fol
lowing extract from the letter of con
gratulation addressed by Judge Black
to the Lancaster Intelligencer:
"The American Demon, though not
without his faults, is nevertheless, a
sensible personage, of good judgment,
open to conviction, and a lover of fair
play, lie is not as jealous of bis politi
cal agents as he ought to be, nor as vig
ilant in guarding his inherited rights ;
hut he respects the memory of his an
cestors and has a due regard for the in
terests of his children. His blood and
breeding will never permit hitn to be a
slave in the household of which he was
lairn to he master. He is slow to anger
even against his worst oppressors, and
the most atrocious fraud does not ruffle
his temper; hut in the fullness of time,
quietly and without vindict vene.-s he
rights his wrongs. You need not he
afiaid that your appeals to his reason,
his conscience and his pride ot race will
be mudc in vain.
"If you are doubtful of this, think
what the people of the Union have
lately achieved. Ten years ago the
friends of liberty, regulated by law, had
only seven Senators in Congress, and in
the the lower house they were outnum
bered two to one. They had elected a
president sworn to preserve, protect and
defend the Constitution, for a compen
sation of twenty five thousand dollars
per annum, but the enemies of the
Constitution secured him to their side
by giving him, in the form of presents,
more than his legal salary would amount
to in four years. When the private
gifts ceased, Congress presented him
with an equal amount out of the public
treasury, and so his administration be
came an unti constitutional job from
beginning to end. The army and navy,
and all the executive departments, the
whole organized physical force, all the
offices and all the money of the nation,
were in hostile hands. Kvery atom of
this mighty power was thrown against
liberty and justice. The Southern
States were wholly deprived of their
autonomy, their governments crushed
out, and their people placed under the
absolute dominion o r notorious thieves ;
while in the commonwealth* of the
North, as well as in Congress, legia'a
tion was controlled by great ring* or
ganized to entich themselves by rob
bing labor of the bread it earned. • >ur
usurping rulers, entrenched in power
which they thought irresistible, asserted
that the Constitution hal been shot to
death in the war, that the States come
quently had no rights, and the people
no liberties which Federal authority
■was bound to respect. They claimed
the j>ower to suppress newspapers for
publishing the truth, to knock down
judges on the bench for administering
the law, to kidnap and imprison free
citizen* for expressing their honest
opinions. Pretending to leave us the
privilege of the ballot they used suc
cessfully every form of force and fraud
to intimidate voters, to stifle the ex
pressions of the popular will, and to
falsify election returns. Su|>eradded to
these indignities and outrages was the
pressure of a public debt so heavy and
public expenses so scandalously extrav
agant that taxes absorbed all the profits
of industry, whereby the rich became
richer and the poor poorer; wealth ac
cumulated and men decayed. tfoes
history tell us of any nation more de
plorably situated ? The outlook of Prom
etheus chained to the rock, with vul
tures gorging themselves upon nil the
lobes of his liver, seemed scarcely so
hopeless. Some of our best patriots de
spaired of the Republic and greatly
feared that the institutions established
by the fathers of the country were irre
coverably lost by the degeneracy of
their sons.
"In these most unfortunate circum
stances how did the great body of the
|>eople behave? The mighty and puis
sant l>emo< —he of the "invincible
locks"—what did he do? Ho took up
the huge burden of his debt and walk
ed away like Samson with the gates of
tJaza upon his shoulders. He soiled his
conscience with no thought of repudia
tion, but worked on with every limb
stretched and every muscle swelled, un
til he paid the half of all he was bound
for and made his securities for the oth
er half as good as gold. In the mean
time he looked after the corrupt combi
nations that were squandering the pro
ceed* of his lafior, and determined to
have a government that would fty
Miuie attention to his wishes, his inter
eats, and his rights. In spite of fraud,
falsehood and brute force, the numlier*
of the anti constitutional faction in the
legislature decreased until they became
a minority in both branches. At the
last presidential election their candidate
was defeated by an overwhelming ma
jority and could only be counted in by
a most impudent fraud. Was not this
much to lie accomplished in so short a
time and under so many disadvantages?
In similar circumstances the Roman
I'opului would have been (aa in fact it
was) utterly debauched ; and the spirit
of the Athenian Demo* would have been
broken or excited to rash and ruinous
insurrection by half of what we endured,
it is something to be proud of, that we
alone of all Itamocralio peoples restored
our institutions after they were not
only wrecked but rotten.
"These peaceful victories, more re
nowned thai those of war, have not
merely promoted in a general way the
great cause in which they were won, but
their direct and immediate fruits have
been most beneficial. Innumerable
swindles have been exposed and punish
ed ; unlawful combinations have been
broken up and many millions saved of
the public money. The carpet bag
thieves are "on the run" or else over
taken by the laws, and sent to the
proper penitentiaries. This venal crew,
which at one time rioted in full posses
sion of ten HUte governments, and oo-
copied the seats of sixty Representatives
in Congress, with twelve in the Senate,
have vanished from th political stage ;
ami many of tlnir oftii-inl abettor* in
the North have been scourged back to
to the powerless obscurity from which
they ought never to have emerged.
"Our struggles for justice in the
courts, the reclamation of our rights
through the press, upon the hustings,
and in the legislative assemblies of the
States and the nation, have produced a
striking moral effect on the minds of
our adversaries themselves. They have
not given up their despotic theory of
government, but their praetire is infi
nitely less cruel than it used to be.
They still assert that they took advan
tage of the military force which the
war gave them, to kill the Constitution,
and that they did actually put it to
death ; but they have left off the habit
of insulting its memory. They continue
to deny the rights of the States; but
they have quit holding them down to
tie plundered and trodden upon. They
declare with as much solemnity as ever
that our general government is not the
teiult of a compact between sovereign
.States, which bestowed upon it certain
rights specifically enumerated, reserving
all others to the States themselves and
t.ie people, but a self existing nation
with powers uncreated, uudefined, un
delegated, and, therefore, unlimited.
Hut the brutality with which this claim
of absolute authority- was enforced dur
ing the dark years which followed the
war has visibly diminished under the
influence of the popular protest and the
decisions of the courts. We ure no
longer reminded by the toad eaters of
the executive that we hold life, liberty
and property at their mercy. Military
communions and arbitrary arrests have
been frowned out of fashion.
"We do not know that the enemies
of constitutional liberty liave yet re
pented of their past misdeeds, but there
are only sotun remnants of their itn
perial system which they now openly
adhere to and expressly threaten to re
peat. The object of all these is to crip
ple and obstruct the exercise of the
elective franchise. They insist upon
the right of the Federal executive to be
represented at the State elections by
the bayonets of the standing army ;
they will not relinquish the power of
their hireling agents to imprison lemo
cratic voters without a warrant, ami
they strenuously refuse to part with the
privilege of trying their jolitieal oppo
nents by juries packed to convict them.
The people and the Stale* in the pres
ent <'engross made a brave struggle to
strike off these shackle* ; and the ob
stinate exertion of a fraudulent admin
istration to hold them on prove* that
the foul play of 1*76 will be, i( ;>o*iblo,
repeated in l>*0.
"At what time in the future the final
defeat of the anti democratic party
will make an end of all its tyranny
and corruption no one can predict at
present. Moral forces work slowly when
opposed by money and arms: but on
some day, not very distant, the organ
ized enemies of honest government will
be totally routed; and when justice
does overtake them the weight of the
iron hand will make full atonement for
the delay ol the leaden heel. '
l/ouioiaiia Intrigue*.
A New York HV/--/special from Wash
ington, of th lfith in*t.,says: Kx Senator
Wwt, of lrf>ui*ina, was today's distin
guished arrival. He come* io partici
patec|uietly in the Kay- Kellogg Sherman
conference over the charge* of malfeas
ance against Collector Badger, of New
• 'rleam. Some interesting developments
are expected in a day or two about
Hay's backer*. Since Kellogg opposes
him. and since Badger is the creature
of Kellogg, it is reasonably that Hay is
here in the interests of Wells and An
derson. respectively surveyor and dep
uty collector of New Orleans. It is
generally believed that the hurgain for
the I,oui*iana electoral vote was brought
about by a written offer on the part of
the Republican manager* to place the
patronage of the custom house during
the Administration at the disposal of
the*e two worthies, and that a contract
based u|>on that offer wa* the condition
of sale. When it wa* ascertained that
Anderson could not he confirmed as
collector the contract was awarded so
that the office should he filled by a
person recommended by himself and
Wells, and they were to govern the
custom-house conjointly, as though An
derson had been confirmed. The first
msn appointed collector on their rec
ommendation wa* removed at their con
nivance, charged with gros* incompe
tency. Their second favorite, George
L. Smith, was removed through their
own eflorts, charged with malfeasance,
and now it is probable that Badger,
like hi* predecessors, has incurred their
displeasure for daring to think, as his
predecessor* dared, that a collector in
name should be privileged to appoint
at least a tide waiter, 'i'he appearance
of Hay as prosecutor in this case, and
Kellogg as defender, can be explained
only upon the presumption of a rupture
between Hadger on one side and Wells
and Anderson on the other. This being
so, should Secretary Sherman be bold
enough to stand out against the demand
of Wells and Anderson for Badger's re
moval, he will be likely to find himself,
together with the whole Administration,
without Mr. Conkling's kind assistance,
sunk in infamy.
IT turn* out, n* we suspected, that the
telegram from San Kranciaco announc
ing that the |>eople were terriblv arous
ed over a threat from I'ennis Kearney
to hang or burn Wen. tirant, in effigy,
was a shallow ruse intended to work up
enthusiasm for "the greatest living
American." It it now slated on good au
thority that there was no such rousing
of the populace, and that llennis rnnd •
no such menace. The friends of Oen.
(Irani ought not to display such asinine
folly. The (leneral is in no danger of
being insulted in any part of the coun
try. Kven the inflationists, l,ogan,
Kerry and the rest, have so far forgiven
his betrayal of them as to treat -him
with respect. The men whom lllack
Friday beggared are not disnoaed to
bring Iheir old grievance to the point
at this late day. The soldiers whom he
kept in Southern prisons by refusing an
exchange don't love him much, but
they will keep tolerably quiet. The
yMt number of Union soldiers who
were interested in the Logan equaliza
tion of Bounty bill, took out their Kpite
at lII* veto, u* l.ogan did, by it few
heavy volley of oath*. Nobody i* going
to do nny hanging or burning of stufleu
old clothes, nor anything hall so tragic.
Tie people will treat the ex l'lesideiit
with all the respeet due to hi* station
thu station of it private citizen, lie ha*
too much seiiKo to expect, in hi* own
country, the silly honor* of royalty
which our diplomatic and con*ular ofH
cial* have virtually a*ked for him in
I'.urope and Asia.— \\'<uhingbm font.
♦
Speaker Randall In Montgomery.
On Tuesday week the Democracy of
Montgomery held their unnual meeting,
when Speaker Randall wit* present by
invitation and delivered a mo*t effect
ive speech upon the issue* between the
I'emocratic and Republican parlies. He
wa* most enthusiastic* lly received and
frequently uppluuded. The following i*
a brief abstract of hi* remark* a* re
| ported in a contemporary :
Speaker Uaiidall began by returning
I hi* thank* to the county committee for
| the honor it bad conferred upon him by
the invitation to meet the Democracy of
Montgomery county. He conceived ii
to be hi* duty to say a few brief word*
upon the political issues at thi* time.
I be platform adopted at the late con
vention wa* so clear in it* expression,
and there wu* *o little ambiguity in it*
terms, while it wa* withal so compre
hensive in it* declaration of principles,
j that lie might a* well rest the i**ue* ot
the coining contest on what wu* therein
contained. tin the statement* contain
ed in thai platform the contest is to be
decided. The Democratic party of Un
common wealth depended solely u|>on
thi* declaration. It had reached the
public mind and received the endorse
ment of the people, and it wa* a happy
| fact that their candidate w.-i* m exact
harmony with that declaration.
Their candidate, both in public ami
l private life, wu* in accord with it and
had given his adherence to its princi
ples and had promised in the event of
his election to be guided and governed
in hi* admini*tration thereby, "it
seems to me," continued the *|M-akcr,
( "that when we are appealing to our
I fellow men in thi* commonwealth, and
asking their vole*, all wo have to do is
to refer them to what the State conven
tion ha* said. But I may l>e permitted,
perhaps, to go a little further anil dali
orate in soine degree a* to the issues
therein presented. A great, and to my
mind, overshadowing issue between the
two contending parties at thi* time i
whether the army of the United State*
*hsll be used to subvert the will of the
people. The Democratic party, through
it* representatives in ' ongra**, ha* de
clared that no longer will the people
submit to have the army used in con
trolling at the election polls, but on the
contrary that the election* shall l-e free
and (air and no man to l-e hindered by
intimidation from exercising bis sover
eign right in casting hi* vote." The
speaker thought it was not necessary to
go back to ancient history to cite the
evil etFecls of standing armies, and cited
Adam* and Alexander Hamilton and
the Declaration of Independence at
some length.
The |)emor-racy have said to the He
publican party that the right of the
federal power to ap|>oint }er*on* a*
United State* marshal* to conduct elec
tion* in State* should not be any longer
submitted to. "and in this respect,"
continued Mr. Randall. "I may le al
lowed to say a few word* and I *|>eak
from experience. At the last election
there were in the eastern district of
Pennsylvania ap|>ointed at enormous
cost to the people 7.10 in the main to
intimidate people in my district."
The *|>eaker then went on to discuss
the third head of hi* discourse, which
related to jurie*. The Democratic parly
had placed statute* on the hooks which
gave proper jurie* for the administra
lion of justice to decide to between liti
gators a* to the rights of property anil
decide uj>on the rights of citisens. Bo
fore this Democratic reform these had
been ignorance instead of intelligence;
in this respect at least had the (,'onpres*
of the United State* gained a signal
victory, and if they would examine the
revised statutes they would find a
remarkable fact that in legislation of
this character Pennsylvania was made
an exception to the general laws and
that United States marshals could, in
consequence, exercise their discretion
in drawing the jury. In the eastern
district of Pennsylvania it was seldom
that a Democrat was seen on the grand
or petit .jury in consequence of the
exception. In that re*|>ecl they had
gained an aholute victory, and had sent
; to the jury box intelligent men who
could read and write and understand
; right from wrong, instead of ignorant
and depraved men as before.
Mr. Randall attacked Mr. Hayes for
i ihe exercise of the veto power, hy which
mean* he had prevented reform, but he
) had to hack down, and they virtually
prevented him from using the army at
the polls during the present election
year.
The question of resumption occupied
Mr. Randall's attention, and lie showed
its accomplishment to have been due in
large measure to the economy of the
I'emocratic Congress, which in four
years, beginning with the Forty-fourth
Omgreas, bad saved $84,(XX),000. "Re
sumption could not have been prevent
ed nny more than water could lie pre
i vented from ninning down hill. '
On the question of the civil service
Mr. Randall scathed the administration
unsparingly. Mr. Ilayea, the present
occupant of the While House, had
! promised civil service reform, hut would
they believe it, there were at this mo
ment "no le*s than filly-six prominent
men who hold public positions under
the United Slates government that were
! direotly or indirectly concerned in the
count of the votes of the States of South
Carolina, lout*iana and Florida, hy
1 which a president waa sealed in the
White House who never was chosen hy
the voire of the people, or hy a fair
' count of the electoral vote." (Applause.)
The Reason of It,
Nw (Jen. Hlalno and Had* in Maine,
Why are you cheering-thus?
Say* (Jen. Blaine, "The cause Is plain
Why we make all this fuss ;
For tbo' the foe we have not slain,
They have not slaughtered us."
The Ttinimany Society.
A TK AMI INCIUKNTH I'ONNKCTCU WITH
Tiir. lIIHTOHV or Tiir OHIIKH.
Kmiii ||r M 1,., ma f -rut.
The question* nre olten n*ked : When
wo* the Tammany society founded '! and
Whence did M derive it* tiunie ? ami n*
tlie recent l>olt of the HHCIIOIII* Irom the
New York Slate convention excite* a
new interest In it* hi*tory it may not be
ami** to republish the established tra
dition* concerning it* origin and appel
lation. The Tammany society wu*
founded in a* i* duly witnessed
by the pediment which surmount* the
front of Tammany hall. At that time
there were many St.Tammany societies
throughout the country, and there i* no
rcAHon to believe that the Mile *urvivor
differed from them in the original pur
poses of it* organisation. But the oth
er* died, and the New York society he
came a Democratic political institution.
Tammany wa* an old Indian chief,
whom it i* hy no means easy to identity,
but tie wa* he*t known in revolution
ary times a* an ancient I>laware
sachem, who came otf victorious in a
terrific fight with hi* *atanic majesty.
Tlio cotnhat wa* long and obstinately
contested, and up to the la*t moment
it wa* doubtful to which aide victory
would incline. Tammany wa* u skill
ful lighter, but hi* opponent was equal
ly adroit, and after the battle had lasted
all summer the combatants were some
what tired. They played ad havoc
wuli the fore*t, converting large dis
trict* ol it into prairie, mid such it still
remain*. At length, after month* of
severe fighting, the sachem threw the
devil squarely on his back, and, say*
the historian*, "would then and there
have taken hi* scalp had hy not suc
ceeded, owing to the victor's great ex
hauslion, in extricating himself and es
caping over into New York, w here he
was hospitably received by the natives,
and has ever since continued to make
til* home." The same historian say*
the Tammany society was, primarily, no
more of a New York institution than
the great Sagamore himself. Its origin
is to be traced to the patriot revolution
ary arm, which, having no patron saint
to fight under after tfie protection of
St. <ieorge was drawn to the enemy,
cast about among the country's native
men for someone worthy of cannoniza
lion, and naturally selected the roan
who had "whipped the devil" as pre
eminently deserving of being set against
him who had vanquished the dragon.
The l'ennsylvania troops of Washing
ton's command were to inscribe "St.
Tammany" on their banner* and they
selected the 12th of May, which tradi
tion assigned for the n<* saint's nativi
ty, for appropriate celebration. A wig
wam was erected, a pole, crowned with
a liberty-cap, and le-sring aloft a toma
hawk, wampum, and other Indian par
aphernalia, was planted in the earth,
and around this, after the representa
tive of the great sachem, who was per
sonified hy a comrade duly arcoulted
ami painted lor the occasion, had
emerged from the wigwam, to which he
again retired, and deliverer! a "talk"
full of exhortation* to lore of lilwrty
and courage in battle, they all danced,
with feathers in their caps and bucks'
tails dangling down t<ehind.
The practice spread throughout the
army ; St. Tamntany and his natal day
were lioth adopted ; forts were christen
ed with hia name, and the I2th of May
wa* regularly commemorated, until,
shortly belore the late war with tireat
Britain, by order of the Secretary, of
War, Hen. I'ear lorn, the festival was
forbidden a* tending to debauchery
among the troops. But St. Tammany's
early |>opij'.arity was not confined to the
army. Civilian societies bearing his
name sprang up in many localities.
The object was simply festivity. There
was a procession of men, women and
children, all decked out with bucks'
tails and other loreat adornments, to a
grove, where the wigwam and liberty
j>ole had been erected, and where, after
an address from St. Tammany's repre
sentative. the time was s|>ent in games
and dances on the green. At one time
it appeared likely that St. Tammany's
I Hay would excel thu Fourth of July in
popular regard, hut it lacked one en
during element of popularity—its ob
servance was not participated in hy
fashionable |>eople. The wealthier i>or
tion of the community turned un their
nosea at the vulgar parade, and as a
consequence the celebration cf the 12th
of May aoon died out, and the Si. Tam
many societies disappeared, except that
of New York, which still observes the
12th of May within the order.
The Drain I'rodnclng Ability of the
I tilled States,
In grain products ihe harvests of 1879
will be the most abundant ever gather
ed on tin* continent, above the (lulf of
Mexico, as far north as the Canada line,
ami stretching across this domain from
ocean to ocean. In the area between
the Mississippi river and the Atlantic
ocean the grain crop has been immense,
actually incalculable in extent. Rxti
mates can and will lie made of thi*
yield, hut they will all fall short of the
actual products, and that alone will lie
felt as an influence to revive prosperity
by every man who labor* for a living.
The receipts at the great shipping
point* are unexampled. Chicago, I'ole
do, Cincinnati, St. I/mis and a dosen
other grain <!e|>ou boast of their over
flowing granaries. Railroad* are taxed
to furnish the necessary transportation,
while everything that can float a cargo
on the lakes and rivera is loaded down
to the water edge with grain freights.
The corn crop leads all the other grain
product*. It will he the largest ever
husked—so large that its very cheap
ness will prevent thousand* of bushels
from coming to market. I.arge quanti
ties of it will be consumed as fuel in all
|iarts of the West. There is something
suggestive that %hile this continent
annually increases in productiveness
F.urope decrease*. In this increase we
do not count the addition of acreage to
the tilled soil of eaOh year, but only the
improvements made in the tillage of
sou that lias been under cultivation for
a century. The increase in this partic
ular far exceed* any that is made in the
old world. Last and this year's grain
crop* in Kurope wera a failure. The
reduction of yield thi* year is frightful,
putting many parts of the old world in
peril of a famine, which can only be
evaded hy drawing on the aupplive in
the United State*. Knglnnd, to day, i
dependent for her bread and beet on
the United .State*, Thi* i a very *ug
gestive fait. The United State* i* lit
erally becoming the granary of the old
world. It i* wh*t Kgypt wa to the
tribes of .ludah.
Biirdctte Does to Sea,
The humorist or the Burlington
Huwkrgr thus describe* the gradual ap
proach of sea-sickness:
"1 hecauic sensible of a kind of a sort
of languor that suggested n>|*w>. I
did not feel like standing up and sing
ing. I wanted repose. I wasn't partic
ular what kind of re|o*e. The riqxMe
of the grave would have suited me per
fectly well."
"But there was no grave handy.
And when J went out and looked out
to seaward and gazed ul the landless
expanse of angry, tossing waters, I
didn't see any material to make a grave.
And then, when 1 returned to the
stateroom, it began to dawn upon no
very dimly that the repose was about as
seldom a* the grave. The Oc.-an made
me feel as though I had swallowed it
whole, and I was afraid 1 would have to
spread a little to hold it."
"I believed I would retire and aban
don the struggle with my feelings, for 1
fell that I was on the verge of quoting
poetry. 1 tood on my feet and took
off aotne of uiy things. Then I leaned
up against the door and took off a few .
Then 1 stood on my head and gi off
one or two. Then I lay down on my
b*ck and kicked off the rest of them.
"Then I looked up at mv berth." •
"It wa* liisy feet from the floor, and
was still going."
"I cast an anxious, despairing glance
at it, reached out and dragged a travel
ling shawl over me, and tried to warble
a merry stave of a rollicking sea song."
"When I Isiught my passage of the
International Steamship Company I did
not contract to sleep in a skyrocket,
and that 1 should not get into my berth
until it came down close enough for me
to grab at it."
"The sense of utter forlornness, the
feelings of desolation and goneness ;
the impression, generally ooirect, that
every well |-er*on in the ship is laugh
ing at you; the saddening thought
that there i* no chance of 'Tying; the
depressing knowledge that there u no
help for it anyhow -. the confidence
that nobody is going to do anything for
you, and the philosophical resolution
that you don't care a constitutional
red cent if they don't; the hope that
you will be over it by morning: the
fear that it will last a week : the for
lorn ho|>e, now and then, that the pilot
will get frightened and tie the ship up
to a tree at some place, only lor a little
while ; the despairing sense of disap
pointment that *lcals over you as it In
come* evident that the pilot hasn't the
remotest thought of doing anything of
the kind ; and at last the fervent, earn
est, despairing wish Ihßt the l>oiler
will blow up, the ship strike a rock,
catch on fire, capsize, be run down by
an iron steamship, get struck by light
ning and sink in OUJ fathom* of w ater,
and do it all most j-owerful quick, too.
This is the final spasm.
"Why, even after I fell asleep I
dreamed that I wa* a boy again—a hap
py, guileless, barefoot boy, and that I
was in i'eoria, titling behind the wood
shed in the old yard on Monroe street,
where the post-office now stand*, mak
ing, in boyish solitude, my maiden ef
forts on my first and most surreptitious
segar. And I dreamed the segar was
just about half smokes! out. and wa* ly
ing on the chopping block (reside me,
and that the curtain had just rung for
Ihe second act."
A S*)gc Oin--n' Devotion.
The palace of a native queen of the
Marquesas group of island* in the Pa
cific ha* lately been visited by a corrcs
|<on<lcnt. who write# of the piare : "Al
together it ia a charming retreat. Saun
tering up the atreot, the queen'* house
wa* |Knnte<l out to me. and I concluded
to call on her majesty, The houae i*
built of aawed timber, and i* large and
airy, et upon the uaual paipai, an ele
vated piece of atone work, about three
feet high, and aolid a* atone can make
it, with rough hewnaatone step* leading
to the doorway. The queen waa not in.
but 1 wa* informed that *he could lx>
found at the king * grave, which wa*
pointed out to me, aituated on a knoll,
with atone *tc|* leading up to the top,
to the left of the houae and almoat be
aide it, a* it were. Ascending the atop*
I found her majesty aeatcd by a grave
or tomb, auperintending aotne workmen
why were building a large tomb of ma
aonry. The oueen wa* graciou* and
good looking, naving remnant* of beau
ty in her peraon, and aeeme<l to have
been very pretty in her younger day*.
She ha* a grave, benevolent expression
of countenance, and her demeanor be
ai>eak* ber rank. The king ha* been
dead about twelve vear* and ever aince
hi* death she ha* kept watch over hi*
grave ; the ino*t of the time ahe herself
keep* her eilent vigil over the re*ting
place of her love. A light i* alway*
kept burning beside the tomb, never
allowed to go out under any circum
stance*, and attended to by the queen'*
resting retinue, who live in a native
built houae adjoining. She i* now hav
ing a larger tomb built, and intend*
having the remain* put in it, together
with her child, when finished. She ia
al*o having a place built for herself and
her aon, now living. She wa* the sec
ond wife of the king. What more
touching spectacle than this quiet devo
tion to the memory of her love, by this
grave and *ad looking lady T Oenerally
the savages of the South Sea laland* are
not credited with having much senti
ment of feeling, or even affection j but
I think the itnpre**ion ha* arisen from
the want of knowledge of their domes
tic life. I have witnessed many in
stance* when maternal affection ha*
been exhibited and wifely devotion has
shodn itaolf to an extraordinary degree.
There wa* once a native woman who
*wam twelve miles with her husband on
her back to save his lire from his *ns
miea, and instance* are not wanting
where the wife has remained true to
her dead love during her life, refusing
to be oomforted by another affection."
The Ktnperor of Hermany has approv
ed the project of a world's fair al llerlin
in \m.
The Ex-Empress Eugenie Pretty Well
oir.
"Ilusard IW" ill lln eiiitaiMiM* Tlw-s.
Ibe -x Knipri-s* of Franco IN said In
IN*ODC'II ihi' ijitliMit wiilowi iii Knglari'l.
In addition to |iir Hungarian estate *h<*
ha* a urn lie in Spain ami a men place in
Switzerland, ittit hard cash IN what
come* most uwlul to dethroned sover
eign* who hope u> return, and of lIUN
the hmpre-* has long had abundance.
It I* estimated in rati* that he IN worth
at IPlat a million sterling. • inly recent
ly *he sold a large Mock of houne prop
erty in the Hue d'Alha, iii I'ari*, and M.
Boulter's houae, n well known f>oliticl
centre at the corner of the Hue do
1 Klysee, wa* her*, in her own tight,
and wa- Nold last year for £ I .V'K)O. The
death ol the I'rinco add* to her proper
ty. ince he left to her a considerable
amount ol landed property in Italy, a*
well a- the loulouae property, bequeath
e<J to him hy the grisly General who
had been equerry to the Prince when ho
imi>l h-d about the corridors ol the Toil*
lerie* nearly three feet high and weight
ed with the miniature uniform of a col
onel in the Gent fJarde. Ihi* vast
property wax no incumbrance to the
Empress a hil-t yet -h- i.n I a -on to live
and iw-heme for. It wm drained pretty
freely by the Honanarlint organ* of the
preaa in France. Ihe 'tfhr and tb
]'•!ys were lavi*hly aupjiorled by the
Krilpre**, and she al*o dtew handsome
check* in favor of the reduction of the
'itul/'U. The need for keeping theo
fire* warm i* now dead. The Empress
i* net likely to keep new-paper* alive
to wnik for good cousin Jerome ; *ho
will not, however, (ind her riche* an
eriibarra#incnt as long a* the prieata
have ready access to her. A new-paper
lupplic* large outlet* for superfluous
ca*h. but J think on the whole tli
Church can hold it* own in rivalry of
tin* character, and a good churchwoman
like the Empress. will not find occasion
to di-tre— herself for mean* of disposing
of the interest, and eventually tin* cap
ital, of a million sterling.
A Comprehensive View of the brant
Boom.
ft Jtn lis# N York £tetiU)| lUj
We rate the military •enricefl of Gen.
'rant very high. We rate hi* civil ad
ministration a great deal lower. It ia
identified in the public mind with a bad
school of |>olitic and with unscrupulous
politician*. These men and their prac
tice* incurred defeat after defeat for ihn
Itepublican party. lo*t it Uje conlrol of
both Houae* of Congress and brought
it to the verge of annihilation. The
mischief of the return of 'ieneral 'irant
to t>owcr i* that he would bring with
him the same clan- of politician*, if not
the very same individual* of the class.
Beside*, and even if these and other
conclusive objection* did not exist, wo
agree with 'ieneral Grant that two
term* in the office of President i* quite
enough for any man. • We be
lieve tuat the renoroination of General
Grant i* neither "expedient ' nor "ne
cessary." The movement to that end
i coincident with an impudent reasser
tion of themselves bv the most offensive
politician* of the Itepublican party—
men who have brought it to death'*
door and who would probably yet tako
it over the thre*hold but for the amaz
ing fatuity of the Iemocr*U.
A (nrldUk Industry.
The principal industry of the town of
West Falmouth. >liu., is tying business
tag with hit# of airing#, by which the
Ug# may l#> attached to articles which
r""|uire to U labelled. A correspondent
writing from that village "ays : "Those
tag- are cut elsewhere and sent in knilk
to Weal Falmouth. The atring ia alao
aent in skein*. The business here i to
cut the atring in suitable lengths, tie
one into each tag and return it to the
manufacturer in lloston. This sounds
simple and small enough, and yet it
furnishes occupation to between three
hundred and four hundred persona, and
involves an elaborate system of book
keeping. The business has been car
ried on by a woman for the last twenty
years. The orders which were onco
filled in a bushel basket now require
large freight loxes. and amount to an
aggregate of forty millions of tags in a
year. The little pink strings are reeled
off and cut in given lengths and bunch
es, each bunch having 101 strings.
These strings are given out by tho
1,010, together with a corresponding
number of tags, to people coming to tho
offioe for them, and are pan! for at tho
rate of twelve to seventeen cents a
thousand. Young children tie with
their mothers, and even old men. and
it is the great source of pin money in
the community."
The f rorililc
The actions of men often speak loud
er than words. A case in point is one
of several years standing, and the edit
or of the Nelinsgrove Tleo inquires in
this way :
"Why is it that whenever any of tho
I/ouisiana Keturning Hoarders get into
trouble they rush to Washington to see
Hayes and Sherman ? What particular
interest have th.we men in Hayes and
Sherman ? or what particular interest
have Hayes and Sherman in these Re
turning Hoarders ? This mutual de
|>endenoe between these parties speaks
loader than words. It tells the tale.
It tells plainer than language that thews
Returning Hoarders made a fraudulent
return of the electoral vote of Ixmisisna
in 1870, and it tells equally plain that
Hayes knows all about the theft and
recognizes the thieves and pavs them
hush money. No other men in the
whole country could go to Washington
and demand money from these officials
and get. They claim this monev for
services rendered, and Hayes and Sher
man pay it to keep the rascals quiet.
-———
Maine Viewed Oracularly.
Fraa He SnnUSss.
It must be con teased that Mr.
Maine's "winning hack"' process goee
rather slowly at this rate. In 18*6 the
Republican gubernatorial vote seas over
73,000, no* H Tails short of 70,000 after
two campaigns of desperate canvassing,
while the Hemocrat* and Greenback or*
go over 70,000. The (Maine style of
political morals and "splendid'' cam
paigning has cost hU party 10,000 vote*
in Iwo years.