®&e Centre bellefonte, pa. The Largest, Cheapest and Best Paper PUBLISHED IN I'KNTKIC COUNTY. THE H ANCOC K BOOM. i|o GENERAL WINriBI.D SCOTT HANCOCK IIAITBNS TO BE THE BEST CANDIDATE, from Sp movement in his favor con tinues to grow from now until June 22 1(S s todily and rapidly as it has grown (or the past three or four weeks Gen. Hancock will he a formidable candidate for the Democratic nomination by the time the convention meets. There have been several conferences in tien. Han cock's interest held in this city within the put few days, and Gen. Hancock's friends are much encouraged by the re ports which have been received front ill parts of the country. They are par ticnltrly encouraged by the reports which come up front the South, and, indeed, thev seem to have good reason for their claim that the South generally is coming to regard Gen. Hancock as the strongest candidate, and that a very large proportion of the Southern dele gates will support Hancock in the con vention. One of the most eminent of the Southern Democrats in Congress, a "Confederate Brigadier," and a man whose name, if mentioned, would carry weight, has favored me with a very full, very interesting, and, in some respecta, very important atatement upon the question of the Democratic Presidential nomination, and the feeling of himaelf and other Southern Democrats upon it. At his request I withhold hia name, but am able to give the substance of his conversation, and, indeed, so nearly his exact language that he agrees to father the subjoined report of it: "For many reasons," he said, "I would have been glad to see the great wrong righted by the re nomination, re-election and inauguration of Mr. Tilden. There would have been a poetic justice in that which would have rejoiced the hearts of the Democracy. For a long time 1 be lieved that result would come about; but my last hope vanished with the crushing defeat of Governor Robinson in November. After that it was hope less to expect that those who bolted Robinson could in any event be induced to vote for Tilden. "Besides this, it has become only too evident that, if nominated, Mr. Tilden would loose several Southern States. The schism in Virginia is as bitter and as and hopeless as that in New York, with this difference, in favor of New York, that the entiie Democratic vote there could lie polled for any candidate from some other State who has never been mixed up with either faction and is not the nominee or tool of either, while the two wings in Yirginia are divided on a question of public policy. It happens that both the readjusters and the debt payers are opposed to Mr. Tilden. It is useless to explain why this is so ; it is the facts we want to face. Virginia was not at heart for Tilden in 1876 ; but accepted him, when any one of the other candidates would have pleased her better, on account of the sup|>oscd necessity of nominating him to carry New York. Now it is not Yirginia alone, hut the entire South, which is thoroughly disgusted with New York dictation and New York leadership, which have only led the party to suc cessive defeats. "Many Southern men are fully ready to* escape from the evil of a sectional division of parties by an alliance with the Republicans. Those of this way of thinking, and who will act accordingly if they see no likelihood of the election of the Democratic candidate, or even if that candidate is particularly distasteful to their constituencies, are numerous enough to carry with them snch Slate* ft* South i'arolina, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Texas. In these the parly can be held together by General Hancock's popularity; but as Itetween Tilden and Grant the latter would win. It would be easy against an unpopular Democrat or a weak can didate for Grant, Blaine, Sherman, or Washhurne to give such assurances to an influential body of the leading poli ticians as would secure the electoral votes of five or six Southern States. You can imagine the result if the lead ership of the negro vote were assumed by an even incor.siderivble number of native Southerners of the Wade Hamp ton stripe. The evidence that this is not an imaginary hut a real danger ia, to my mind, conclusive. I have inter course with hundreds of Southern men, and receive great numbers of letters, and the bulk of all I gather confirms the verity of what I have stated. "You can easily understand how widely the situation differs from that of four years ago. Then the whites of the South were united in bonds of steel—or letter call it by the law of self-preserva tion—to free their States from negro rule. Having accomplished that they fcr<- now tree to labor for other objects. One of those which Southern men deem important is the obliteration of the sectional line which now divide* parties, and which operates powerfully to the disadvantage of the South; no tably so with regard to legislation which affect* her material interests. Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas are especially sensitive on this point, and all the Gulf States in a lesser but still important degree. "Thus, you see, there are other dan gers which threaten the future of the Democracy, quite distinct from the Tilden and Tammany feud in New > ork. The tendency among Northern Democrats ia to keep their eyes fixed on New York, and so overlook what may prove Dial rocks elsewhere. They must widen their horizon or encounter the fall* of the blind. "Then I see it given out that no can didate can carry New York who is not acceptable to Mr. Tilden; or, that if he d not nominated, he must name the tsndidate. These outgivings only mean mischief. In their least nefarious as pect they mean tbst the set of politi cians who managed Mr. Tilden's cam paign, both before and after his election •n 1876—mismanaged it, I mean, fla grantly and grossly—must be permitted to act aa bosses for and absolutely con trol the destinies of the great Demo cratio party. They mean to realize in personal patronage and preferment on their labors (already tvell paid out of Mr. Tiiden'a private fortune, if report speaks truly) of four year* ago, which proved ao disastrous to it*. I can un derstand the purely selfish object of those who clamor that Mr. Tilden must name the candidate, hut 1 cannot imag ine any considerable body of Democrats can be imposed on by a claim so im pudently silly ami grossly preposterous. Nothing in the least like it was ever before lieard of in the annuls of the party. I hope it does not typify the degradation of the Northern Democra cy. The party will be infinitely better off with the PAltons, Finleys, Marbles, ami Weeds in active hostility than in any position of trust or leadership. "The other interpretation of what may be called tho standing threat ol the (Iramercy Park kitchen cabinet is that Mr. Tilden has the power and the evil will to defeat any candidate but one of liis own making. 1 do not be lieve Mr. Tilden means to set on foot any ell'orts that do not look to his own nomination. It is insulting to a man who is already under as heavy a debt of gratitude to the Democracy as it is pos sible for a man to be to impute to him a desire to defeat that parly in revenge for his own disappointment. A patriot who has been honored with great sta tions, and with the suffrages .of a ma jority of his countrymen Tor the greatest in their gift, to he capable of such malignity would be the basest of man kind. If Mr. Tilden is capable of rais ing a finger to defeat the nominee of liis party he is unfit to be President. It only shows the baseness of the crew around him that they can seriously put. forth such slutf as this. Mr. Tilden is not in the position of a Democrat who has served liis party and owes it noth ing. He is under obligations tohis party for high honors it has bestowed upon him. lam sure Mr. Tilden does not entertain any such traitorous senti ments. Hut as to the power, if he were as malignant as those who pretend to be his friends assume, no man or organi nation of men, without some apparent ' principle or issue to hack up and : strengthen thein, could exercise any 1 appreciable influence in taking votes 1 away from an otherwise strong candi date. The people are not such puppets :as the contrary theory would make them out. What I mean is that mere personal influence goes for little in great national contests, although forces like thoe I have described as operating in the South, and such its caused the bolt in New York last fall, can destroy a party's chances. "Governor Seymour, in a recent in | terview in the I'n*t here, has correctly stated this when he said the candidate had better not be identified with either of the warring factions, a thing just as true of Virginia as of New York, That ■ points to the only practicable solution >of our dilemma. If we can get a candi ! date otherwise strong, and not in auy way mixed up with either the Tilden or Tammany factions, all will rally to his | support. No single individual's dislikes can do harm, not even Mr. Tilden's. It is the inveterate prejudice* of large bodies of voters we must avoid antago nizing. "Now where is the candidate to be i found? Personally, my choice is Sena- J tor Bayard. lie is loved by the South, ' even where our people hare been in fected with greenback and silver the- I ories. Hut lam convinced that I shall | never see Tom Bayard in the White House if he is nominated this year—of which, by the way, there is not much ! danger. He is yet a young man, and I know I shall do more to secure his ; ultimate elevation to the Presidency by opposing his nomination at this junc ture. when it would be premature and unwise. Events may not improbably bring atioiit bis candidacy under more favorable conditions. "Gen. Hancock is, by all odds, the man for the emergency. He has no embarrassing record on the financial question—which is one of the all-impor tant requisites. His nomination will be tho best possible answer to the bloody shirt—this being the second in dispensable requisite to real availability. And then General Hancock's grand civil record splendidly answers the ob jections that are urged in some quarters against military candidates. His whole career is of a kind to excite enthusiasm in a political canvass. The independ ent voteseem* to be peculiarly attracted to him. I notice various independent newspapers out for him. A good many Greenbackers seem to be turning their eyes toward bim. All those things count, for there is such a thing as the independent vole, and we want to capture it. I don't see why Hanoock sbould't carry his own State, where 80,00(1 votes went to a third ticket, so that the Pennsylvania Republican Gov ernor was in a minority of 70.000 on the total vote. Such a State can only be faMy claased as doubtful, and sagacious politicians will make a fight for it. That State haa a Democrat in the Sen ate, and elected a State ticket in 1877. I understand tbeTilden-RsndallTßlioue, who are rushing en defeat in a hopeless effort to capture the Slate Convention, talk that Pennsylvania is hopelessly Republican. Such talk is sinister, and ought not to commend the leaders who urge it against those who actually have carried the State for the Itamocracy, and who earnestly mean to do it again. Senator Wallace is one of the most useful men in the Senate | no one is more trusted snd counseled with by his colleagues, and the abuse and defama tion heaped on him are atrocious, it speaks well for the Senator and bis friends that they do not retort in kind upon Speaker Randall. "Hancock's nomination would save us Virginia, because he is the favorite of the readjustees. You doubtless no ticed that the readjuster members of the State Committee announced at their recent meeting that they would support Gen. lianoock, but would not support Tilden. A number of llahone's most trusted lieutenants are strong Hancock men. The nomination of Gen. Hancock would insure us a soiled South, and without exciting jealousy at the North. And he must have great popularity at the North, unless your old soldiers and their descendants have feelings toward their military men very different from those which actuate ours. Why, 1 only need to read between the lines of radical journals, like the Tribune and Timet, to find in their studious silence about hi* candidacy, or equally studied depreciation, that be is the man they really fear. They do their best to create the impression that Tilden's nomination is certain, knowing that men naturally try to get on the strong aide. All tiie Republican* want Tilden set up again. But when an honest Republican givea me his frank opinion in private conver sition lie almost invariably,'say* : 'Han cock is the one of your candidate* who would give us the hardest race.' " LUTIIER. e FEDERAL INTERFERENCE. Kntui tho Baltimore American. The recent decisions of the Supreme Court affirming the validity of the Fed eral election laws are of far-reaching significance and importance. A* Judge Field, in hia dissenting opinion, express ed it, their effect is to confirm the as sertion by Congress of a power which is "destructive of the independence of the States in matters over which their au thority has iieser been surrendered." According to the law as interpreted, it is now competent lor the Fedeiul authority to degrade the States "to the level ol municipal corporations existing at the will of Conuress." This is tho doctrine of centralization as advanced by the radical wing of the Republican party in ita most ultra lorni. That it should have received the indorsement of the highest judicial tribunal in the land must he a matter of profound rpgret for every man who appreciates at its full value the fundamental principle of correlation between the State and Fed© nil Governments, upon which our whole I political system is based. Hereafter, unless tbe election laws are repealed, it will be within the power of the General Government to interfere in the most i arbitrary manner In all the election* for ; members of Congress and to punish vio lations by the election officer* not only |of Federal but of State laws. The effect ! of the deaision does not stop even here, for, as Judge Field remarks, "If the Federal Government may punish a vio lation of the laws of a State it may also punish obedience to them and exer ! ci*e a supervision over the legislation ol the States, subversive ol their reserved powers." Judge Field, supported by Judge Cli fford, made a strong protest against the decision of the majority ; and his dis ' xenting opinion is a clear and able pre j scntation of tbe theory which has been maintained by the Democratic party from the beginning, thai tbe enforce ment legislation is unconstitutional and I void, it is not encouraging to reflect that the Republican members of the court indorsed unanimously the stal wart view of the case and that a tribun al which should be above all political considerations has again divided on a partisan issue according to the party predilections of its members. The de | cision of the court, however, does not end the matter. An appeal may still be taken to the people, and among the questions to be submitted at the Preni , denlial election next Fall will he the paramount issue whether the centrali zation, which is proceeding so rapidly ■ under the lead of the Republican party backed up by a partisan .Supreme Court, shall be checked or not. For more than ninety year* the United .State* have grown and prospered without the laws which are now to be enforced and which the Republicans claim to be ne- I cessary to the purity of our elections. The Federated States have survived tbree wars ; they have grown from thir teen feeble colonies to thirty-eight i States, covering a larger cultivated ter ritory than any other power in the world ; they are to-day more pro*|>er ous, happier, stronger than any other people. Yet at this day— at the begin ning of the last decade of the first cen tury of their existence—their sovereign ty is denied and it is fought in a time of profound peace to bind upon them the shackles of a Federal authority, the exercise of which, even under the in terpretation of the doctrine of States' rights enforced by the war, can only I* justified by armed revolt. If this de ! cision of the Supreme Court be not nullified by tbe repeal of theenforceo a it laws, tbe autonomy of the different States is destroyed and the title "Unit ed States" applied to this country be comes an absurd misnomer. Under tbe ruling of the Court we are, in fact, no longer of Slates, but a strong ly centralized Republic divided for con venience into thiity-eight dependent provinces. THE qiEEN'N DRAWING ROOM. HOW lIRK NAJESTT AND THE I.MES OV lIER _ COURT ARE ATTIRED. Don-lon Cnrreepnedsae# Nfw Vorfc Time. Fashion and the tipper ten have been greatly fluttered. Her Majesty held a drawing room on Friday. She is only going to "receive" onoe more this year, it is said. Blood and mammon, there fore, crowded Buckingham Palace, and will do so again, to fall off a little when the Prince of Wales takes un the run ning for his royal mother. Her Majes ty, according to a semi-official modiste, wore a dress and train of black poult de tote and terry velvet, embroidered in black silk, and a long white tulle veil, surmounted by a coronet of diamonds. She also wore a necklace, brooches and ear-ring* of large opals and diamonds, the ribbon and star of the Order of the Garter, tbe Order of Victoria and Albert, the Crown of India, Louise of Prussia, Nt. Catharine of Russia, St. Isabella of Portugal, etc., and the Saae-t'oburg and Gotha family order. The Princess of Wales appeared In a dress of prune colored velvet, with pearl embroidery, train of Brussels lace, and no end of pearls and diamonds. She looked thin, I thought, and by no means strong in health. I saw her arrive. The Duchess of Connaught was resplendent io white satin, trimmed with duohes* lace and white rosea. She wore • tiara of dia mond* and a profusion of pearls. If tbe imperial atone ia really to be manu factured wholeaale by the' chemist, will these royal ladies replace it in their crowns and ooroneU? Will it be set aside, being no looger worth a large sum of money 1 Do they prise it for ha beauty? In the daytime there are oth er stones that eclipse it, undoubtedly. It is at night, when it radiates the glare of lamps, that it i* supreme in its beaufy and color. The dresses at the drawing room were richer and more magnificent than ever. Gold brocade was in high fashion. The modiste aforesaid awards the palm to the dross worn by the Countess of Clarendon, of which the coloring was Pompadour; it consisted of a close train and Directoire coat bodice of Louis XV. brocade, lined with pale blue satin and bordered with point a'Alencon, over a petticoat of ivory satin duchessc, with gathered front, trimmed with flounces of point d'Alcn con and lisse, studded with pale shaded roses to match the brocade of the train, which was ivory and pale pink ; tiara of diamonds and diamond ornaments. Lady Julia Womhwell wore a dress of old gold colored broche, trimmed with sutiu of the same color and old point lace; a train of dark green and gold broche velvet, trimmed with old point lace and bouquets of gold mulberries and folisge frosted with gold. Home of the elderly ladies in the enforced low necked dresses of the court looked cold and miserable. The queen will have everything done as it was clone in the Prince Consort's time, and no amount of criticism or appeal will induce her to modify the low-necked dress of pre | sen tat ion. I'.ut this is no reason why the Princess Louise should enlorce the same silly regulations upon Canada. So fit in is the queen in maintaining her reminiscences of Prince Albett's day that she discards a new railway on one of her royal journeys and travels one hour longer than necessary because it was the track she used when her hus band was alive. Natloual Debts of the World. A recent number of the Frankfort Zeituiig gives the national dehta of the leading eountties of the world for the year 1879, as compared with 1865. The general result is a frightful degree of increase, and it shows what a conserva tive people we of the United Slates are in the average, and how much more ca llable of securing otir own interests by self government than other countries are through the adventitious control of self-constituted rulers. In the period of fifteen years between 1865 and 1879 the debt of Great Britain has heen re duced .7.8 per cent., but still stands at $3,007,470,000, with a deficit of $50,600,- 000 to be met by the present chsncelor of the exchequer. The debt of France has increased 48.4 per cent., and is now greater than that of any other country, touching within a fraction of $4 000,000,- 000. The debt of Ifu-aia has increased 188.5 per cent., and is still growing rap idly, through the operation of causes over which the im|>eriat government has practically no control. The debt of Spain has increased 150 per cent., and now amounla t052,499 000,000, virtually an unmaiiagable sura for that impover ished kingdom. The debt of Italy has increased 127.2 per cent., ia nearly $2.- : 11U0,000,000, aud compels a rale ol Uxa i lion so enormous as to keep the people |in a state of chronic discontent. The i dept of Turkey hat increased 421.7 per i cent., and of the Turkish provinces 11040 per cent., proving all these coun tries to be bankrupt. The debt of Ger many has increased 71 6 |>er cent., but I ia villi maintained within very moderate I limits. Portugal owes $392,700,000, hav j ing increased her debt 100 2 per cent. ' The debt of the Netherlands has only been augmented 5.7 per cent., but that of Belgium has increased 148.7 per cent., that .State, however, having avail ; able valuable assets to show for it, in the i shape of the purchase of railroads and telegraph lines. The debt of Greece has been increas ed 158.8 percent., and the countiy is j about insolvent. The debt of Sweden : has increased •00.7 |nr cent., and that of Denmark 7.9 per cent., and that of Norway 176.3 per cent. Switzerland has increased its dehta from $714,000 in 1865 to $6,664,000 in 1879, an increase of 833.3 |M-r cent., incurred in the con struction of great public works such as the St. Gothard lunnel. The reduc tion of the debt of the United States since August, 1865, has been $761,319,- 350, or 27,0 per cent. In that year the public expenditures of this country were $1,21 (,704,199, of which more than half was raised by taxation. In 1879 the expenditures were reduced to $260,- 947.883. In all the Kuropean countries named above, however, the public ex penditures have largely increased in the course of the fifteen years, those of France rising from $449*820,000 to $567,- I 392.000, Greal Britain from $321,300,000 to $406,980,000, Russia from $245,616,- 000 to $511,700,000 and Germany from $151,606,000 to $314,398,000. The aggre gate of all annual expenses of the Ku ropean countries named, and including also Austria-Hungary, baa riven from $1,898,288,000 in 1865 to $2,788,646,000 in 1879, an aggregate increase of 46 per cent. The increase in srt ordinary txptnxrt of the United States from 1865 to 1879 ha* been only 23 per cent., while the same expenses in Germany have in creased 107 per cent, in the same time, yet Germany is the moat frugal govern ment in Europe. The steady reduction of the debt in this country and the constant solicitude of the people to prevent an inordinate increase in the average running expenses of govern ment are facta upon which our citisena can reasonably congratulate themselves. They show that self governmnnt ia not merely a name, but a thing of reason and judgment. Major liershberger, of Chamberaburg, now 69 years of age, ia applying for a pension. He served with the regular army aa a private and non-oommiaaion ed officer for fourteen years, and was appointed when holding the rank of Sergeant Major at the cavalry school, Carlisle Barracks, aa Rrillmaater at West Point. This was on the 29th of December, 1841, and he remained there until September 18, 1848. During his aervioe at West Point among the cadets he drilled were General* McClelland, Grant, Burnsidee, McDowell and Pope, distinguished Generals of the Union army in the lata war; and Generals Stonewall .lackvon, A. P. Hill, Long ■treat, Pickett, Lee and Gernett, ail leading Generals of the rebel army. The PitUburg CkronirU states that the Standard Company ia buying up every barrel of oil they can get bold of, and storing it away in anticipation of falling off in production, whan they will be prepared for the increased prices. THE CZAR'S BODY GUARD. SOWB ACCOUNT Or TBI! FAMOUS FINLAND HBO I BENT. The thanks and acknowledgments which the Kmpcror Alexander haw returned to the soldiers of the Finland Regiment of the Guard, who, hy the latest accounts received, have lost ten killed and furiy-seven wounded from the effects of the explosion, were cer tainly no more than the couruge and presence of mind they displayed upon this one occasion deserved. Rut this was not the first time he was greatlv indebted to the loyalty and courage of this regiment. On the 24th of De cember, 1M25, the Finperor Nicholas, who had up to this time inhabited the little Anitehofi'l'aluce in the Nevski I'ro.-pect, took up his quarter* with | bis wife and family in the huge Win ter I'alace on the Isaac Square. On i the day following he received a secret communication from the Sub-l.ieuten -1 ant Rostoftsor which might well make him exclaim, "What a beginning of a reign !" A plot was ready to hreak out in the \\ inter J'ulaee itself, and the regiment of Greuadiers of the Guard that was on duty aliout his j person had heen canvassed for days to 1 join it. No sooner, however, had he ! read R< s'oAsor'a letter than he saw | that not a mome nt was to be lost in getting rid of this armed band of con spirators who were his guard and might very likely Ik: his assassins, even ; if the revolt were precipitated by bis ■so doing. The nianceuvre was carried lout bv Alexis Orloff, Nicholas' right hand man, with consummate ability i and corresponding success. A num erous detachment of the Finland Reg iment of t cuards was sent for f rom their barracks in the dead of night ; ; their superior force overawed the I Grenadiers, who left the Winter Pal | ace without a show of resistance, the | newcomers taking their places. T his change—and curiously enough, if reports from Vienna are true, a similar change of the Guard was made a short time before the explosion, two I sotnias of Cossacks making way for ; the Finland Regiment—was not car | ried out one moment too soon ; for the i next day the shell hurst. And when the revolt had fairly liegun it was to this same Finland Regiment that Nicholas entrusted the care of his family. Taking the little Grand Duke Alexander by the hand, he said, "I | confide my son to your care; it will. |be your duty to defend his life." The ' rough Finns, it is said, were moved to . tears. They took up the child, then only seven years old, in their arms, passed him from rauk to rauk, aud ! swore to form a rampart of their | IxMlie* la-hind which he should be safe. I All this must have come back to the [Czar today, the baby Crarewitch of ! 1825, whe# he thanked the Finland Regiment for their devotion to his j person and house U|on their latest exhibition of loyal bravery. A Thrilling Incident la a Methodist Preacher's 111-No*. Many years ago the writer had a conversation with a Methodist preach er in the town of Clinton, La., who j told him that he was one of the I preachers sent by the Methodist con ference to preach to the people of Texas. He said he went alone on horseback, hy way of the Rod River; | that the fir.-t day after crossing the Mississippi he was overtaken by a horseman, armed with a ritle, pistol I and hunting knife. He was clnd in a suit of dressed buckskin, and was also going to Texas. He found hitu to be au agreeable, intelligent traveling coni|Nuiion,'well acquainted with the geography of the countrv through which they passed. Neither asked the other his busiuess, and they jour (ifeyed together several days, until they ' reached a new town in "Texas, filled with rough characters aud desperate men, many of whom had fled from justice in other States. Here he ecu eluded to preach his first sermon. Notice was posted to this effrct, and at night the log court house was filled ! with an audience of men solely. THE PREACHER said he gave out a hymn, and the audience all joined in singing it, and sang it well. But when he took his text and attempted to preach one hooted like an owl, another braved like a jack, a third barked like a dog, and he was compelled to stop. lie did not like to be thus thwarted in his purpose, and be again attempted to preach, but was prevented uy the same disturbance. At this juncture the preacher's traveling compauion, whom he did not know was in the house, rtwc in the center of the audi ence and said: "Men, this man catne here to preach to you ; you need preaching to, aud I'll be d—d if he shan't preacdi to you! The next one that disturbs him shall fight me—my name's Jim Bowie." AAer this announcement, the preach er remarked, he never had a more re spect At I audienet; such was the influ ence this man exercised over the roittds of these desperate characters. This was the preacher's narrative, and so characteristic was it of Bowie that there can be no doubt of its entire truthfulness. James Bowie devoted his life to the achievement of Texan independence—was made a colonel io her service, and with Travis and Crockett, heroes all, yielded up his life in the ill fated Alamo. Mrs. Dickeraon and a negro man, the sole survivors of this massacre, said that at the lime of the attack on the fort Bowie was confined to his lied by fever. He ordered a number of \q/ul ed rifles to be brought to his aide, and had the door no barricaded that but one Mexican could pa** through at a time. Here he lay and fired upon them until he shot nine. His body wax riddled with bullets, and, as if they feared him even after death, they repeatedly THHL'ST THEIR BAYONETS INTO HIM. Thus lived and died this remark able man. Travis, the chief in com mand, and his subordinates, Itowie ! and Crockett, were heroes in the true | sense of the word. Patriotism will mourn their fate, and memory bedew their graves with her tears as long as , geilerous blood courses through the veins of American freemen. There are several relatives of James Jlowie j now i csiding in Caifornia, and one, a noted lawyer, several years ago, took offense at an article published in a : San Francisco journal, which reflect ed somewhat upon the chaiacter of his kinsman. The writer of this arti cle was well acquainted with James Bowie, and always held him in high esteem, both as a companion and a patriot. ♦ . The I te Reservation. The reservation which the Utes are to surrender is nbout half a- large as the six New England Htate*. It ; w ill lie criminal folly if any further ! treaties are marie setting apart tracts j of the public domain for Italian tribes. Such contracts cannot be observed. They have locn made only to be bro ken, and all the violations of treaties have leeii on the side of the strong and against the weak. No part of this country can Ik; kept a wilderness to furnish hunting grounds for nomad ic tribe*. We might as well talk of keeping a public cow pasture in the I heart of a great city as to attempt to preserve vast tracts of country from the foot of the white man, while towns, cities and Slates grow up around such reservations. The trcaty-inaking pol icy should have been abandoned when the I'niou was formed. It was justifi able only in the early infancy of the country. The idea that Europeans were intruders on this continent, and must buy the right to live here, was a fallacy. In this world of ours no peo ple own a country any longer than they can hold it bj* force. This may he bad in morals, but it is true, and the history of all lands and all age* proves it. Most of the existing trea ties with the Indians must be annull ed. We shall do this by negotiations, not bv war. The red men must be come tillers of the soil. They must i have farms, not hunting grounds, allot ted to them. They must Ire taught to cultivate the earth aud earn their liv ing. Their absurd pride, or laziness, must give way to necessity. They must learn that he who will not work has no right to live on the pro ceedsof other men's labor. It will take time to accomplish this, and the people must be patient with the Indiaos, for it is not altogether their fault that they regard themselves as children to be supporter! by the (.iov ernment. They have been taught this vicious nonsense till they have le -! come fully imbued with it. — 1017-I 017- ton VoM. Had lieadinir for Boys* "The dime novel, which, by the way," remarks the Catholic Hcrietc, "has curiously enough lteen supplanted by the blood and thunder Ivor's pajs-r, was bad enough, and the boys' pa (vers are much worse ; hut the daily papers teach lessons of vice with a force and directness which was beyond the pow er of either the dime uovels or the boys' fiction papers. The most im pressionable boy of to-day is iuclined to skepticism ou the subject of Indian fights and the exploits of herculean burglars; but the pathetic incidents which surrotind the imprisonment of the picturesque murderer, who is visit ed every day by sympathixing friends, his every won! * and gesture being chronicled by admiring ncwrspaper renorters, make the youth cry out, 'This is fame indeed f' The newspa pers are photographs from life, while the novels are only 'after life.' The boy soon learns to read the latest divorce report, told with much piquan cy by the expert 'filler of space, and to revel in all t hose details which, in a book, would entitle it to be stopped in the mails as obscene literature. It is amazing that people can be so careless as to allow their children to read the details of crime* which they would blush even to name in ordinary con versation." •The Year lHftl. fhe year 1881 will be a mathemat ical curiosity. From left to right ami from right to left it reads the same; 18 divided by 2 gives 9 as a quotient; 81 divided by 9 and 9 is the quotieut. If 1881 in divided by 299, 9 is the quotient; if divided by 9, the quotient contains a 9 ; if multiplied by 9, the Srnduct contains two 9s: 1 aud 8 are ; 8 and 1 are 9. If the 18 be placed under the 81 and added,the sum is 99. If the figures be added thus, 1, 8, 8,1, it will give 18. Read ing from left to right te 18, and read ing from right to left is 18, and 18 is two-ninths of 81. By adding, di viding and multiplying nineteen 9s are produced, being one 9 for each yenr required to complete the century.