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I'UHMBHBD IN CKNTHK COUNTY.
THE WIIISkKY IN'SI K REIT ION.
A CUAITKR or IIIBTORV.
From tl Nt York Hun.
The grounds taken by Mr. Hayes in
his vetoes and by the Republicans in
Congress with respect to the military
power may be summarized as follows :
The President may send the army
into any State to operate against any
portion of the people without regard to
tho civil authorities, either State or na
tional. He may do this at his own
pleasure ; ho is not required to wait for
the call of the Legislature, or of the
Governor, when the Legislature cannot
be convened, to put down opposition to
the State laws, or (or certificate ol
the Federal judiciary, notifying him
that the execution of laws of the
l'nited States is opposed by combina
tions "too jiowerful to bo suppressed by
the ordinary course of judicial proceed
ings, or by the powers vested in the
marshal."
The advocates fl{ strong government
sustain this |>osilion. It certainly, if
uccepted, would make the administia
lion strong —strong to such an extent
that life, liberty aud property would no
longer be held ill this country, except
at its mercy. The President would be a
military despot, whose powers would be
measured only by the number of his I
battalions. \V edo not propose at prts
ent to discuss the legality of this inon- |
stroux pretence. We refer to it merely |
to expose the audacity of the fraud they i
practise when they dare to quote the
great name of George Washington in its
support. Mr. llayes in his message,
Mr Conkling in his Brooklyn speech,
and many ignorant or reckless spouters
following their lead, refer to Washing
ton's so-called suppression of the Whis
key Insurrection as an illustration of
their methods. Let us lookout that
case.
In the four counties of Pennsylvania
lyiug around the head of the Ohio river
and in the neighboring counties of Yir- !
ginia there was developed in I7'.'-l
serious opposition to the Federal Excise !
law. It bore very cruelly upon the in- !
habitants of that country, and was in !
truth unjust and oppressive. Th>-y re- j
monstrated and petitioned in vain. The '
State took up their cause nnd pressed it
with the same result. Alexander Hani- !
ilton, Secretary of the Treasury, and
chief of the Federalist party, wax deal 1
to their entreaties, and his influence
• wax sufficient to prevent any modifica
tion ol the act.
The Ohio River was closed by almost
perpetual Indian wars. St. Clair's de
lect had sealed up Congress in that di
rection, and Wayne's campaign was in
course of preparation. YV ith the East
there wax no communication except by
pack horses over the rugged and dan
gerous trails across the Allegheny Moun
tains. To accommodate their produce
to this method of transportation to
market, the people were compelled to
make their grain into whiskey, and
almost every farm had its distillery.
Hut the tax ate up the profits. A gal
lon of whiskey worth a dollar in the
Fast was worth but fifty cents there;
yet it paid the same tax. For a long
lime there was no serious attempt to
enforce the law in this outlying border
land, and owing partly at least to the
neglect of Government, the farmers be
gan to distil without regard to it. Then
when alter a long time men were found
willing to take office in the revenue
service, and execute the obnoxious law
against their fellow citizens, the delin
quents were summoned to answer, not
before a court and jury of the vicinage,
but at Philadelphia, the seat of the
Federal Government. This meant wide
spread ruin to the people, as well ax un
necessary and cruel rigor on the part of
the Administration, and that was the
feature which provoked the few discon
nected act* of mob violence which Fed
eralist writers hare dignified with the
name of an Insurrection.
Out of forty warrant* at one time in
the hands of the marshal, thirty-nine
liad been peacefully served, when he
undertook to serve the last in a partic
ularly offensive manner opon a mnn
surrounded by friends aud neighbors in
n haryest field. The marshal wax com
|>el!ed to retire in some haste; the
house of the inspector wax burned, and
the officials, like carpel bigger* of these
modern day*, betook themselve* to
Philadelphia, where they assiduously
wnd malignantly magnified the disturb
ance. To the evil influence of these
"'exiles," backed by the ruthless pur
■pose of Hamilton, who saw in it the
V -opportunity he sought to exhibit the
•coercive strength ot the new Govern
ment, may be attributed the needles*
military expeditions and the brutal
outrage* committed upon the |>eople.
Washington was made to believe that
the whole Western country w*s ablaze
with actual insurrection, lie had only
the account* of the exile* and the artful
and effective report of Hamilton for hi*
information. Hut be moved with the
utmost reluctance. He did not claim
the power to hurl an army upon the so
called insurgent* without legal prelim
inaries. He was notified by the United
Mate* District Judge that he found
"upon evidence laid before him" that
the combination was too powerful to be
dealt with by the court*. Upon this he
called out the militia of Pennsylvania
and the adjoining States, issued a proc
Isolation commanding the evil disposed
to desist, and in conjunction with the
Governor of the Mute seat a commission
to them to bear their grievances, and
offer them pardon and amnesty.
When the Commissioners srrived
they found the people more than Wil
ling to accept the terms offered them.
They were met by a committee author
ized to negotiate for the so-called insur
gents. That committee reported their
agreement to the standing committee
+ at Brownsville, which promptly accept
ed it, and two week* later it was unani
mously accepted by a full congress of
delegates from all the counties at Park
inson's Ferry. Everything was acceded
to, everything promised, down to the
signing of individual pledges, on a given
day, by the whole population. If it
could be said that this was erer an In
aurrection, iln backbone wax broken;
the people were eager to support the
Government on the terras extended;
sheriffs volunteered to execute process
en ; tho really guilty took their rillcx and
tied into the wilderness, mid the coun
try wax a h peaceful and ax loyal ax it ix
to-day.
Hut the "exilex" wore not xntixfied.
They wanted to return in triumph, and
with power to wreak their revenge*.
Hamilton had another purpose—a pur
pose which he had cherished from tho
iirxt, and pursued with cold calculation
to tho end. Ho dotermined to mako
this the occasion of some signal display
of the "power of military coercion.
Notwithstanding the submixxion of the
people and the end ol the disturbance,
which lind been styled an insurrection,
tho army, fifteen thousand strong,
marched.und Hamilton marched with it.
George Washington never drtw any
paper with such anxious care as he be
stowed u|in his instructions to Gen.
Lee, tho commander. The militury was
to bo held in absolute subordination to
the civil authority. No man was to be
molested, except upon ft warrant tegu
larly issued. A l'nited States Judge
accompanied tho expedition to avoid
every excuso of military usurpation.
Hut these solemn orders were in vain,
t'nee over tho mountains, Hnmilton
pushed them uxide nnd ignored them.
Ho organized a commission upon a per
fectly original plan, of which ho took
the head, and at the tail of which ho
placed tho timid ami submissive Feder
al -Fudge whom he had jri hix train.
Tho other members were tho District
Attorney, tho inspector, oneof tho "ex
iles," and a light-horseman. They paid j
no regard to law or rules. They bullied J
tho witnesses, and even tortured them.
The examinations, many of thorn, were
for all tho world like those of Jeffreys
on the ltloody Assizes, just as the subse
quent military proceedings were like
those of Kirk. Occasionally Secretary I
Hamilton broke the monotony of these
brutal examinations by a secret inquisi
tion of his own, as in the case of Brack
enridgo, when no one was present but
the accused and his own self appointed
judge.
At length Mr. Hamilton found him- ,
self ready to make the "signal display"
of power about which ho was so much
concerned, and to strike terror into the
hearts of the unresisting people. The
night of tho 13th of November, 17'.*4,
was selected for the blow. It makes
the heart swell and the blood loil to
think of it even at this distance of time.
Hetween midnight and daybreak the
whole country wax raided simultaneous
ly by the dragoons; three hundred of
tho most respected citizens wore seized
in their beds, and hundreds of families
reduced to the direst distress. Hamil
ton had succeeded. Those were indeed
hours of terror. Tho strength of the j
Government was felt in a manner never
to be forgotten : and, ever since, that
has been known in Pennsylvania's his
tory nnd tradition as the "dreadful
night."
The prisoners were not permitted to
j ride their own horses or to supply them- i
•elves with any of the comforts or even
necessaries of life. They were driven
like cattle through the muddy roads,
and beaten nnd reviled at every step.
At night some of them were stalled like
beasts in stables, and one officer direct
ed the mangers to be filled with oats
and raw meal for their refreshment. In
the wet cellar of the public house at
Parkinson's forty were tied back to
back, and left to welter in mud and j
darkness, without food, light or fire for ;
forty eight hours. Their fellow citizens i
and the soldiers were alike forbidden to
relieve the sufferings of these unfortu- >
nale ;>eople.
All these men were taken without
warrant. The seizure was as lawless as
it was indiscriminate and cruel. It was
in flat violation of Washington's orders
but it waa in strict accordance with
Hamilton's notions of the powers of a
"strong government." Eighteen of the ;
prisoners were driven on foot to l'hila- :
delphia—a inarch of thirty days—and
paraded through the streets with slips
of paper marked "Insurgent" on their
hats. Against some of them the <>rand
Jury, foreign to their vicinage and j-o
--litically hostile as it was, failed to find
bills. None were convicted.
So ended the Whiskey Insurrection, j
The name of Hamilton, the Federalist, ,
was for many years spoken among the
husbandmen of that lonely land with
bated breath like that of f'laverhouse
among the Presbyterians of Scotland.
•>n the whole, wo should aay that the
"strong government" men of to-day
will take little by the reopening of
this dark chapter of our early history.
♦
How Many People llae Fifty Hollars.
Frmn lh- New York Graphic.
Some one said the other day that in !
the entire world the number of people
who had #SO or its equivalent in cash at
their command was extremely small;!
so small, indeed, that altogether they
would not outnumber the inhabitants
of the little kingdom of Helgitim, which
has a population of 6,000,000 souls.
Hut this estimate appears to be far be
low the mark in the light, for instance,
of (he fact that in the savings bank* of
France in 1877 there were dej>oaited no
less than 1153,800,000 by 2,863,283 de
positors, the average sum of each de
positor being about #f>o. The nurolier
of these depositors continually increas
es, and they are, to a very large extent,
members of the working classes. So in
Kngland, also, the number of depositors
in the (KMtal savings bank is very large
—not less, on the whole, than two mil
lions—and their deposits, on an average,
amount nearer to £SO, the limit allow
ed, than t%|so. In Scotland and Ire
land the savings of the people are large
and constantly increase, tn Germany
the people do not generally place their
savings in banks, but they have com
fortable little turns laid away in teapota
and old stockings. Thia also is the case
in France. In this country the number
of people who have #SO at their com
mand mutt amount to quite as many at
in either France. Germany or Great
Britain. The world of working people
it not nearly at poor at many imagine
it to be.
Hoya, it ia not funny to apeak disre
spectfully of religion. Harm ia done by
everything which tends to vulgarise it.
Everything that savors of levity, in con
nection with this subject, ought to ex
cite the deepest repugnance.
bishop Whipple nn the Indian Problem
and the Great Northwest.
Uyk, N. Y.,* October 28.—Bishop
Whipple, of Minnesota, delivered an
address last evening, in Christ Church,
upon the subject of Indian missions,
particularly the one with which lie was
connected. The Bishop said he was
once fold upon the steps of the Capitol
at Washington tliut his efforts in he
half of the Indians would lie a failure.
But he was not discouraged. His
duty was plaiu before him, his trust
was in Cod, and the result has been
the conversion and civilization of thou
sands, and the gathering together of a
church property iu his diocese valued
at $200,000.
Many of these converted Indians
were now preaching the Gospel, and
everywhere, even among the feathers
and war paint, there was a respect for
religion. The sjsaikcr paid a warm
tribute to the Indians he had labored
among regarding their honesty and
faithful observance of treaty obliga
tions, and lie more than intimated that
very many of the trouble* with the
red iiii-u were not the result of unfaith
fulness on their |uirt, hut a wing of
honor on the |iart of oyrsclve*.
(>n one occasion he visited uii old
chief, StO years of age, perhaps, or
over, from whose lips he heard a sad
tale of the wrongs his people liari suf
fered at the luiiais of the polo-faces.
Placing his hand in his bosom, the
aged chief drew there from a treaty
madejn 1*23 or '2-* i, with the authori
ties at Washington, which the Indian
had religiously observed until it was
broken by the white man. "The
white man lied," said the chieftain,
and the same "lies" were rejs-ated iu
the successive treaties that followed.
"I do not blame the gn at father," said
he, "but those who represented him.
They have broken what was solemnly j
promised, and the hurni that has fol
lowed the red man was not responsible
for. Here," he ccntinued, "you are
going to Washington ; take this pi|>e, j
it is the pipe of pence. 1 want you to j
take it in person to the great father: j
enter door after door, until vou find
him—trust it with no one else —and |
tell him it represent* a sacred oath of;
| >cace on the jarl of the Indians.'
Custer's massacre was the result of ,
treachery on the part of the white j
man. I lie speaker could not say pos*
itively what was the cause of the re- j
cent trouble with the I tes, hut iu his j
own mind there was something that
required an investigation on our part j
if we would chair ourselves with hon
or. Si far as his observation had ex-1
tended, and wherever he had la-en, he
lind heard the I "tes spoken of iu the
very highest terms as a race far above ;
tin- average Indian. In his own mind |
lie was not prepared to say they* were i
guilty, and some of our officer* in tbr
anny held the same views, t Ine ul j
our commander* recently told him
that it was no hardship to tight an
enemy, hut it was hard to fight against
the right.
The Bishop alluded to an Indian
fair to which he was invited and
which he attended. There wen- the
representatives of many thousands of
bushels of wheat, corn, potatoes and
other products, all raised by the civil
ised Indians. Indians waiter! uj*>n
the fair. Indians were the doorkeejs'rs
and Indians were the policemen, and
nil were attired in the American dress.
A Senator of the United State* wi
his companion at the fair, and both
were delighted with what thev saw ;
but what struck the Senator still more
forcibly was the solemn reverence of
the Indians soon after, when engaged
iu the worship of the Great Spirit.
Regarding the fertility of the new
Northwest, the Bishop remarked that
were the grain crop of the Atlantic
States to I*- an utter failure, the new-
North west could feed the whole coun
try and have plenty to spare. And
he made this further remark : that the
day was not far distant when the peo
ple of the wonderful region of which
lie was the missionary repn-sentative
'of the Episcopal Church would dic
tate the government of the United
States.
The |H-opl<- of the Atlantic States
had no conception of the vast and
powerful territory that lav beyond the
hanks of the Mississippi, A whole
cluster of the Northern States put to
gether would be but as a town com
pared with even some of the mission
ary district* of the new Northwest.
Emigrant* were (muring in from every
oiinrter —the States, England, Ireland,
Russia, and even from Iceland. Many
of these are men of broken-down for
tunes, but they soon recu|ierato and
become valued citizens.
One Thing Hemonstrated.
fe.tn th# Clofltol PhlwlMlw,
The election has dcmonstrati-d one
thing which ought to lie engraved on
the tablet of every Democrat's mem
ory and that is that so far as the Re
publicans are concerned their cry for
the soldier is merely a party rallying
cry—only this and nothing more. By
their Federal and other appointment*,
by their elections of Congressmen and
other officials all over the North, they
have shown that they are absolutely
nothing for the soldier except when
it is convenient to use him. They
reckon a red-handed, murdering reliel
guerrilla, like Mnsby, among their
saints if he becomes a Republican,
hilt denounce a brave ami gallant
Union soldier like Kwing as n rebel,
and a hero who was mutilated in de
fense of the old flag like Rice a trai
tor and vote for a stay-at-home. We
warn Democratic <lli*r t!*-y need ,
never expect any Republican sym
pathy for all they endured to make
a |H'ai*eful country lor uugrutclul
wretches who skulked in the rear and
ami office* in peace. The Re
publican* want all the? Deinocratic aid
tlwy eun buy, or hornw, hut will
never return any. The praise of the
soldier is not principle with them ; it
is simply hypocritical howl.
ONE OF iieiKUAli JACKHO.VH MEN.
AIIItAIIAM KVKNTI'TI. I.IKK
OK HHi YEAItH ASti WW INDIAN WIKK.
Just heyoml the Moosh? Ilivor, a
few inilca northeuHt of SertyiVufi, in the
primative village of Salem, tinge Jive*
a centenarian w hose history read* hke
a page plucked from one of the lycatli
crstoeki.ig romance*. Abraham John
son is now J (Hi years old —hale, hearty,
unimpaired in intellect, and gifted
with a remurkahle memory. His fam
ily record shot's that he was horn in
the State of Vermont early in the year
of 177:!, near Champlain. His
father was u Revolutionary soldier,
ami a short time before General Hur
goyue's surrender, October 12, 1 • 77.
Abraham Johnson wits ( aptaiu <>t a
company of Oneidia Indians in 1814,
under Gen. Macomb, who commanded
ut I'lattsburg in the absence oi (Jen.
Izard. He refers with gre-at nride to
the battle of I'lattsburg, ami shows
two wounds which In- received on that
occasion. One of them is a bayonet
thrust lx-low tlx- knw, ami the other a
sword cut on the neck, He savs that
after he was cut down by a gigantic
"Redcoat" ano.her thrust a bayonet I
through his leg to ascertain if he were
dead. He says he bore the punish
ment rather than suffer the indignity
of being taken prisoner, and was ac
cordingly left for dead. The Indians
carried their bleeding and battle
scarred commander to their village,
where he was nursed ami cared lor by ,
< hieidia, the beautiful daughter of an
Indian chief, whose gentle care soon
restored him to strength anil health.
Hut while she healed his Isslily
wounds, siic inflicted one still deeiicr
on the warrior's heart, ami he fell des
peratcly in love with her. She event
ually returned his affection, and they
were married after peace had Imi-ii re
stored between the t'liited States and
(ireat Hritian. Thcv made their home
in Sussex county, N. J., where the
dark-eyed daughter of the forest taught
her soldier husband how to earn a
livelihood by baski .-making. A daugh
ter wa lsru to them ami they naim-d
her Martha. Hie i- at present known
as Mrs. Kllworth, and liviw in lauka
wanna county. As year* went by
Arabam Johnson's Indian wite Is gan
to pine tor her obi home ami the rude
association* of her childhood. She
I gradually faibsl iu health, and tiuallv,
in response to her repeated longing*
for her people, her husband carried
her back.to the Oneida*, where she
died and was buried as became the
daughter of an Indian chief. Kittle
Martha found a home and shelter for
a time with an uncle in Sussex county,
hut when she grew no nhc joined the
(>neidn Indians, and lived among her
mother s kindred where she married a
man with the unromantie name of
Brown. After his death she married
Ellsworth, her present husband, and
returned to civilization. She i* a
proud of her princely ancestors as if
they bore the proud name of the I'lnn
tagenets, or owned the high ami haugh
ty spirit of the Tudors. Since the loss
of his Indian wife. Abraham Johnson
has remained single. He slill talk* of
<ieneral Jacksop to the day of his
■lcatli. Although cntitleil to a (tension
for his soldierly service* in defeuse of
the flag, he ch** not receive a jienny,
nod is permitted to remain a charge
on Salein township. He is probably
the oldest man in Pennsylvania.
•-- - -
NKNH to It MOTHER.
" I>ear me! it wan't enough for mc
to nurse and raisi- a family of my own,
but now, when I mil old and cxpi-ct to
have a little comfort here, it i* nil the
time, ' Send for mother!'" And the
dear old soul growls and grumbles,
ami dresses herself as fast a* she can,
notwithstanding. After you have trot
ted her off, and got her safelv in your
home, and she flit* around administer
ing remedies and rebukes by turns,
you fee! easier. It's all right now, or
soon will lc —mother's come. In sick
ness, no matter who is there, or how
many doctors ipiarrel over your case,
everything goes wrong somehow till
vou send lor mother. In trouble, the
first thing vm think of is to send for
mother.
Hut this has it* ludicrous as well
as it* touching aspect. The verdant
young couple, to whom hahv's extraor
dinary grimaces and alarming yawns,
which threaten to dislocate its chin ;
it* wonderful sleeps, which it accom
plishes with its ey half open, and no
iK-rceptible flutter of breath on it*
lips, causing the young mother to im
agine it is ilead this time, and to nhriek
out: 'Send for mother!' in tones of
anguish—this young couple, in the
light of the experience which three or
four babies bring, find that they have
been ridiculous, and given mother a
good many tmt* for nothing.
Dili you ever send for mother and
slie failed to come? Never, unless
Meknem and infirmities of age prevent
ed her. As when in your childhood,
those willing feet responded to your
call, so they still do, and will continue
to do as long as they are able. And
I when the summons comes, which none
vet disregarded, though it will he a <
nappy day for her, it will lie a very j i
sod one for you, when God, too, will .
send for mother. i
A ItOM ANTIC K I,OI'HMD NT.
i
A IIANKMOMK YOC NO LADV OF nrSI'KNMION ,
UKIIM.B KI/Ol'K* WITH A CCSTOM-110l SB
KM I'I.OYK IN OHDKN TO KM AI'K
A IIATKfI'I. MARKIAOK.
The great topic of conversation at (
Suspension Bridge und Niagara Kails I |
was the elopement on Wednesday j
evening, October 1, of a handsome'
yoimg lady with a custom house em
ploye named Frank Enwsou, both of
the former place, an element
of romance surrounds the ease, and .
makes it peculiarly interesting, it is
a case of a rich hut unfavored suitor, j
ay obdurate father, and a secretly |
la 'orc/J lover. The young lady is de
scribed a* being very handsome ami j
stylish, years of age, and one of;
belles of the village. Her name is
Miss Mary Saxe Colt. She has been
secretly engaged M'• Kawson for
some time, hut hi* attentions to her
had been bitterly opposed by her
father. A Buffalo correspondent of
the New York Tint'* says that it is
stated that Mr. Colt was under fiuan- j
eial embarrassment, and that he had
planned, in order to obtain relief, to
have his daughter united iu marriage
with a young man of Buffalo, Timo
thy Glaxsford, who, by the terms of a
will made by his father, (he was one
of the wealthiest gamblers in Buifiilo
when he died) is to inherit S3<),(MHI
when he become* 2o ye*ar* of age.
His attentions to Miss Colt were of u
persistent character, und he received j
every encouragement from his father, j
visited her frequently aud lavished
the most costly presents on her. Miss
Colt, however, did not entertain par
ticular favor for him, and never
thought seriously of the matter, be
lieving that she would c-M.-aj<e such a
| hateful marriage by some mean*. Of,
late Glassford had urged hi* suit more !
and more, ami great pressure brought
to Ix-ar to induce her to accept him.
Mr. Lawson was a Ixmrder at the Colt
mansion,and MissColtconsentiugto an i
elopemeut a* a last resort for peace and
relief, it was an easy matter to pack
her clothing in his trunk. Tlieu hi
announced his intention to g> home for
a visit of two weeks, and the trunk wa
taken to the dcjsiL. N>t the slightest j
suspicion wa aroused. Wednesday
evening the pair slipped away on the
i;2 r > train for Buffalo, where they lost
no lime iu getting married, and then j
went to New York, where thev w ill re
main during Mr. Eawsou's two weeks'
leave of absence. The rage of the
father of the bride is said to be ter
rific, hut the acquaintances and friends
of the bride and groom generally ap
prove their course. The unaccepted
suitor, Glassford, is said to be incon
solable. I .aw son is sjsjkcn of as an
excellent young man.
THE I'l'Tl HE OF MKMI'IIIS.
fmslli. lUJlinvr. S*in
The Memphis quarantine has l>een
raised at last by the appearance of
frost and ice. Since the disease broke
out there have been aloiut fifteen hun
dred eases, and ls twecn four and five
hundred death* there from it. This, ;
however, represents hut a small J*" - -
tion of the losses suffered by the afflict
ed community. Thousands of people
have been driven from their homes
ill to an ex|>eii*ive exile, the costs and
inconvenience of which they could ill
Isar. All business ha lieen susjiend
i-d for mouths, and the city cut off
from all but telegraphic communica
tions with the world outside. The
dreadful scenes of 1878 were repeated
in 187ff, on a smaller scale, to Ire sure,
for the reason that there were fewer
persons to tAke the disease. The ques
tion is: Will the yellow fever return
to Memphis in 1880? If it should,
the proposition to aliandoti the present
site of the city for one which is less
thoroughly saturated with the gerin*
of pestilence will probably bescrioudy
considered. < >ne of the best and most
energetic business men of Memphis,
who is universally respected and
trusted by the citizens of the place,
said not long ago that be liked Mera
| phi* very much a* a place of residence
aud to do busiueiw in, that he had had
the fever twice and considered himself
pretty well acclimated, hut if it broke
out there agnin next season he meant
( to depart permanently and take his
household good* elsewhere. He did
| uot find equal to the intense mental 1
strain to which such scene* a* he had
i l>een witnessing during the fever years
exposed ,him. Doubtless this gentle
man's feeling is shared by many more
business men of Memphis, and if the
city should lose in this way some of it*
most enterprising citizens it would
suffer from a greater calamity even
than the visit* of the fever. These arc
jicriodical and intermittent, but the
voluntary migration of a town's best
citizens is a permanent and total low.
Hence it becomes of the utmost import
ance for the iicople of Memphis to
know in good time —at ooce, in fisct —
whether the sanitary measures which
are being pursued there, and which
were scarcely relaxed during the height
of the pestilence, are of such a charac
ter and so efficient a* to insure the im
munity of the city from a return of
the plague next year aud its safety in
the immediate future, and until an
effective and energetic permanent mu
nicipal government shall have been
established. The "taxing district" of
Memphis notoriously ha* had no
l funds to expend in large sanitary op
• ration#, hor can much aid be ttxpet
ed from the national board of health.
Marly in the last spring, however, the
energetic citizens and buim-s in'-n of
the town took the matter in their own
bandit and proceeded to act independ
ently ot the erippled muuici|Ktl ma
chiue. 'lhey appointed cart-fully se
lected committees to lav out work and
nee it well "lone, to collect funds and
disburse them with intelligence and
economy. These committees were in
the midst of their work last summer
when the pestilence broke out. These
works include the closing and tilling
|up of several thousand vaults and
their defecation with lime and other
disinfectants, with the substitution of
earth closets instead of them. They
include the improvement of the sources
of the drinking water, many of the
cisterns being hopelessly foul. Mem
j phis cannot yet afford to construct
i js ruiancnt water-works, hut has a par
tial supply of water from Wolf river
I through private enterprise, which may
la; extended to general use, ihougft
the removal of the vaults and changing
1 of the cisterns may go far also to ob
viate future difficulties. The citizens
j have also undertaken and exja-et to
I complete by next seas';n the cleansing
|of the filthy bayou which traverses
the c ity, ami the removal of the worst
j of the rotten wooden pavements, with
j the substitution in their stead of ma
i eadarnized or sanded and graveled
| roadways. These various improve
i menu have been steadily pushes! and
will be energetically carried forward
during the coming w inter and sjiing,
so that it is to be hoped that 3J< luplm
may la- made secure against another
i visit of the dreadful plague until time
has la-en gained to jK-rmanetitly insure
all the Mississippi towns against the
yellow fever.
"SOMEBODY EOVEH ME."
A BTOKY W ITH A (,OOD MollAl. (OS
SBCTKII W ITH IT.
fr'/tn ).- I'litl*)* I|.liw Pre* I.il
Borne two or three years ago the
SujK-rintendent of the Little Wander*
t-r's Home, in U , received one
! morning a request from the Judge that
he would come to the Court Mouse.
He complied direetiv, ami found there
a group of seven little girls, ragged,
dirty and forlorn, beyond what even
he was accustomed to see. The Judge,
pointing to tbcm (utterly homeless and
friend less), said :
"Mr. T , cau you take any of
! these ?"
"Certainly, I can take them all,"
was the prompt reply.
"All! What in the world cau you
do with them ?"
"I'll make women of them !"
The .ludgc singles! out one, even
worse in apj*ranoc than the rest, and
asked again :
"What will you do with that one?"
!, "I'll make a woman of her," Mr.
: T repeated, firmly and hope
j fully.
j They were washed nud dressed and
provided with a supper aud beds,
i The next morning they went into the
- school-room with the children. Marv
was the name of the little girl whose
chance for better things the Judge
thought small. During the forem>on
the teacher said to Mr. T in
f reference to her ;
"I never saw a child like that. I
have tried for an hour to get a smile
and have failed."
Mr. T said afterward, hiru
j self, that her face was the saddest he
j had ever seen—sorrowful beyond ex
- i prewion ; yet she was a very little
I girl, only five or six years old.
After school he called her into his
office and said, pleasantly :
"Mary, 1 have lost my little pet. I
used to have a little girl here that
would wait on mo, and sit on mv knee,
; and I loved her very much. A kind
ladv and gentleman have adopted her,
1 and I should like for you to take her
place, and be my pet now. Will you ?"
A gleam of light fiittcd over the
poor child's face, and she began to un
derstand him. He gave her ten cents
and told her she might go to the store
mar by and get some candy. While
she was out he took two or three news
pajiers, lore them in pieces, and scat
toivd them about the room. When
j she returned he said :
"Mary, will you clear up my office a
' little for me, and pick up the paper,
and see how nice vou can make it
; look r
She went to work with a will. A
I little more of this kind of management
' —in fact, treating her as a kind father
i would—wrought the desired result.
: She went into the school-room after
dinuer with so changed a look and
j bcariiuz that the teacher was astonish
ed. The child's face was absolutely
; radiant. She went to her and said :
"Mary, what is it? What makes
- j you loolc so happy ?"
I "Oh, I've got some one to love nie!"
I the child answered earnestly, as if it
were heaven come down to earth.
That was all the sccreC For want
i of love that little oue'a life had been
so cold and desolate that she had lost
childhood's beautiful faith and hope.
She could not at first believe in the
reality of kindness or joy for her. It
was the certainty that some one had
loved her and desired afTection that
' lighted the child's soul and glorified
i her face.
i Mary has since been adopted by
• wealthy people and lives in a beauti
i ftil house ; but more than all its beauty
r and comfort, running like a goldeu
i thread through it all, me still finds the
■ love of her adopted father ami mother.