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VOLUM XXXVI. mat k lablretk, r: ON EVA* & 11.ILDRETH, 113 THEIR NEW STORE, ON 11 MAIN STREET, AND SECURE SOME OF THE TII!JY OFFER Elffi SHEETINGS, SHIFTING S, CASSIMERES, PRESS GOODS, WHITE GOODS, EMBROIDERIES, oN S , &c., &c., &c., &q,. &c. EVANS & HILDRETH Taylor k Co. I% WE A,RE RECEIVING OUR NEW v i SPRING GOODS, _WE HAVE i , i - BOUGHT THEM `, AT THE LOWEST PRICES - 4t..: _OF .THE ;SEASON, AND WILL SELL i'." THEM ° • Ing PRICES N ET EA E F 0 1 -It E IT ALr D. TAYLOR 8 co. I=Ell Soeig. %eV • JANZ U Pemisyhisabi Balladcl "If I could forget," said atie, " forget and been 'gain 2 We lee to Mall at the time, and, loirting back, so There's • quiet that's worse, i thiSik, Man many • spoken strife. And It's wrong that one mistake should change the whole life. "lberal' John, foreier the same; JO stead3', sober and lje never storms as a man who never crud u a , . child; • I r . Perhaps my ways are harar, but If he would seem to Clre, • There'd be fewer swallowed words sad a llghter toad to bear.. , Here, Cherry t--she•s (Muni me out, the ealtl raised In the spring, And a likely heifer she's grown, the tonna; soft. eyed thing! Jut the even color I like, without a dapple or speck,_. Oh, Cherry, bead down your Ites4 and let me cry Oil your neck ' "The poor dumh -beast she Is she never can know 110 0114 And It seems to do me good, the very shame of Om spells So old a W441:13.12 and hard, and Joel so old a man— But the thoughti of the old g 3 on as the thoughts of tke young began "It's guessing that wastes the heart, far atone than the surest fate: If I knew :he had thOught of me, I could quietly work and watt; And then when either, at last, en a bed of death should Ile, Why, one might speak the truth, and the other bear and die She leaned on the heifers neck; the dry leaves fell from the boughs, , And over the sweet late grass of tho meadow strayed the cows; The golden dodder meshed th 3 cardinal dower by the rill; There was autumn haze In the air, and sunlight low on the hill. "Ive somehow missed my time," she said to her• self, and sighed; • "What girls arc tree to hope, a steady woman Mid We, But the need outstays the chance; It makes me eq and laugh ' To think that the only thing that I an talk to now Is a calt." A step came down from the hill; she did not turn or rise; There was somethtpg in her heart that saw without the eyes. She heard the foot delay, as doubting to stay,or go; "Is the heifer for sale?" he said. She sternly sr.- ' steered, "No !" She lifted her bead as she spoke; thelveyes a mo ment met, And her heart repeated the words, `•lf ftrould only forget I" He turned a little away, but her lowered eyes could see His hand is be pland thitark from the trunk of a hickory tree. "Wily can't wo be friendly, Jane!" his words cause strange and shror; ": You seem to bear me a grudge, so long, and so long ago You were gay and free with the rest, but always so shy of me, That, before my freedom came, I saw that It couldn't be." Joel i" was all she cried, as their glances met ' again, , . And a sodden rose effaced the pallor of age and , n. . pain. , lie picked at the htticry bark: "It's a curious tholg to say: , But P m lonely since Plrebe died and the girls are i married away. ' . .. ...That's why thesit thoughts:eonsick; Pm a little too old for pride, V And I never could understand how love should Ns all one side; •Twould answer itself, I thought, and time would show me how; But it didn't come - so then: and It dosen't seem so now I" "Joel, it came so then !"- c rand her voice was thick with tears; "And hope for a single day, and a bitter shame tor . years!" Re snapped tbe ribbon of bark; he turned from the hickory tree; "Jane Wok me once in the face, and say that 'you thought of me ir She looked and feebly laughed: "It•p a comfort to knosi the truth, Though the chance was thrown away In the blind " mistake of Youth." "And a greater comfort, Jane," he said, with a tender smile, "To find the chance you have lost; and keep It a little while." She rose as he spate the words; t h e petted boiler thrust Her muzzle between the tutu, with an animal's strange mistrust; But over the creature's neck he drew: her to his breast: bone is never so old but It pulls with another best '7 • It's enough to know," she isld,;" to remember, not forget S " "Nay, nay; for. he rest of life we'll pay each ()M- I era debt " Simi had no will to resist, so kindly was she drawn, Anil she sadly said, at last,' But what will become of John ? Atimatle. 4Pglllxpgouce. I=! Mt. BLAINE SPEAKS. KM OREM PUT TO THE ROUT. A Wanly Denial and Complete Explaaatioa of the Charges Emanating from the °pretties Erma mid Politiciaaa—Docomeatary EwidellotlPrinia. the Bond Story to be Without a Particle of nnuulatioa la Put. Mr. Blaine has made a thorough refutation of the charges preferred against him by the Indianapolis Sen tinel some two weeks ago, ,and since reiterated by other Democratic pa pers.,i Rising to a question of privi lege in the National House of Repre- sentatives last week, the ex-Speaker said : The dates of , the correspond ence, embraced in my statement will show that it, was impossible to'make it earlier. • I shall be as brief as the circumstances will permit. For some. months past a charge against .me has been circulating in private, and was recently made public, designing to show that I had in some indirect manner received the large sum of $64,000 from the Union Pacific Rail road Company in 1871; for what ser vices, or for what purpose has never been stated. The alleged proof of this serious accusation was based, according to the original story, upon the authority of E. H. Rollins, Treas urer of the. Union Pacific Company, who, it was averred, had full knowl edge that I got the money, and also ution the authority of Morton,,Bliss & 'blinkers of New York, thro' whom the draft for $65,000 was said tp have been negotiated for my bene fit, as they confidentially knew. Hear- Inger this charge some weeks in ad vance of its publication, I procured the following, statements Itpm the PORo l l 4 4witoteve 0? Imre BM TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., TBUILSDAY MORNING, MAY 4,1576. quoted as taiing a definite *awl edge Against me: 4 ....., - emsox rAClrtc Itaturtoati CLNPANT. Roams, Ma b 31, Ude. lion. ornines o.ltinine : 1 Dann Emil In rapanse to your gutty I beg leave ID state that I bare been Treasurer of the tru ion Pacific Railroad Company since April 8, 1871, and bare necessarily known of all tsbursements made Since that.date. Dulng that nitre period, rland ups to the present time lam su that no mon ...' has been pad In any w y, or Loamy person, by the company In rhtch pm isms interes, tad In any manner !Marcie. I make this statement In justice to the company.; to you, and en myself'' Very respectfully yonre. - . 1 F.. 11 Itor.t.tirs. ICkw 'Vona, April 11, 11176. • H05a..1%. D. Blaine. Washington, D. O.: Dzau Ma . :ln answer to your Inguliy, we beg to asy that no drift; note, or cheek, or ot her evidence' of Tales has ever Fumed through our inks In which you were knowu' or supposed to hare ea y Interest of any kind, dtrecCer indirect. I We remain, very respectfully, 1 ' Your olredleut servants, liouros,lrtst CO.a Some persons on reading pe,kiter of :Norton, Bliss (k Co., sa d i that its denial seemed to be confined' to any payMent that -- h ad . passed through their "books," whereas they might have paid draft in which' l'was In terested, 'and yet no entry Made of it on their books. On this'erificism be ing made known to the firm, they at once addressed me the following let ter: NEW Ytrax. April 13, 1576. Hon. J. G. . Washington, DZA : it has been snwsted to us that oar letter of the 18th inst.ww . s not suatetebtly Inclusive or exclusive. that letter we stated that no draft, note, or check,or other evidence of visitor had ever mugged. through our books in which yon wen, known or supposed to - Italie any interest. diresit or ludi It may he proper for us to add tha3 nothing has been paid by us, it. any form or at any;.titue, to any person or any corporation. in which your ere known, believed. or supported to have any inte*st whatever., We retnalu, very resi)ecttully, Your obedient servants, ! ItionioN, BLISS & TIIE'STORY WITHOUT A PARTICLE OF EVIDENCE TO SUBSTANTIATE IT. The two Witnesses quoted for the original charge having thus, effectual ly disposed of it, the cbarge.itself re appeared in another form to this ef fectiyiz.: that a certain draft was ne gotiated at the house of Morton, Bliss Co., in', 1871, through Thomas A.. Seat, then President of the Un ion Pacific Railroad Company, for the sum of $64,000, and that $75,000 of the bonds.Of the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad Company were :pledged as collateral; that the Union Pacific Railroad Company paid the draft and took up the collateral; that the cash proceeds of it went to me, and that I had furnished or .sold, or in some way conveyed or transferred to Thomas A. Scott these Little Rock and Fort Smith bonds, which I had been used as collateral; that" the bonds reality- had belonged to me or some friend or some constituent of mine for whom I was. acting. I en deavor- to_state the charge in its boldest form, and in all its phases. desire here end now to declare that all and every part of this story that connects my name with it is untrue, without- a particle of foundation in fact, and- without a tithe of evidence substantiate! it. I never had any transaction of any kind with Thomas A. Scott concerning . bonds of the Little Rock and Fo e 'rt. Smith Rail road, or the bonds of any other 'rail road,' o 1 'ariy business- in any way connected isith i railroads directly or indirectly, immediately or remotely. I never tad am business transaction whatever with the Union Pacific Rail; road Company",or any of its ofticera or agents or I representatives, and never in any manner received from . that corepany,ldirectly, or indirectly, a single dollar in money or bonds or stocls or any, other form of value, and as to the particular transaction referred to ! I never so much as heard of it till nearly two years after its alleged occurrence, when! it was talked of at the time of the Cred it: Mobilier investigation, ,in 1873. But while my denial7oughV to be con cluisive I should. greatly regret-to be compelled to leave the matter there. I am fortunately able to sustain my own declaration by, the most conelu sive evidence ! • . THAT THE CASE ADMITS OF, TILT -MAN TESTIMONY CAN SUPPLY. • I If any person or persons know the truth or falsity of these charges, it must be the officers of the Union Pa cific Railroad Company. I •accord ingly'addressed a note to the Presi dent of, that company, a gentleman who has been I n Director of the com -pony from its origin, I believe ;, who has a more thorough knowledge with its business transactions probably than any , other' man. The corres pondence which I here submit will explain itself; and leaves nothing to be said. I will read the letters ~ in their proper order. They, need!no comment : I=Ell AV.olli:lelros, D. C., April 1Z 187 C. Sidney IDITton, SOT, President Caton Pacific Railroad Company : Haan Sin Yon hare doubtless observed the scandal now In circulation In regard to my having been Interested In certain bonds of the Little Sock sad Fort Smith itallned, alleged to have heed pur chased by your company in 1871. It Is due to me, I think, that some stattement in regard to the Pubject should be made by yourself as the edictal hind of the Union Futile Railroad Company. Very respectfully, BLAInZ. MS OFFICE Or UNION riel VIC RAILROAD CO., RIB YORK, April 18, 18711. Hon. Jams* 0. Blaine, -Washington, D. C.: DRAB Stu : I bare soar favor of the 18th Inst. In reply I desire to say that I hare this day written Col. Thomas A Scott, who was President of the Co. lan Peak Bailer ad Company at the time of the transactkm referred to, a letter, of which I send a copy herewith; On receipt of his reply I will close It to you. Very respectfully. • • •BIDYKL DittOir, President. OFTICIL Or UX/OX PAciric RAILROAD Co.. " . I Mew YORE. April IS, lee. Colossi norms Scott, Phfladeipkis t)Er►a Stu : The Press of the country are making allegations thit certain bonds of the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad ,Company. purchased by the Union Pacific Banned Company in BM were obtained from J. o.ll3talne. of Maine. or that the aesilsfa some form Arent to his benefit. and t that the knowledge of these facts rests with the oalceei of the companyand'yourself. These statements am Injitious both to SO. Blaine and to the Union Pa cific Railroad. There were never any facts to war rant them. and I think that a statement to the public Is due both from - you and myself. I desire. as President of the Company. to 'repel any sock in ference to the most emphatic manner, and would be glad to bear front you on the subject. Very respectfully. Stnxter PHLOX, President. , G TIFICZ OP UNION I PACIF: RAILIIOAD CO., - ) Nix You, April 22, ISM lion. lanai O. Blaine, Waskhigton, D. C.: DaanStn: Asti advised you some days ago, 1 wrote Col. Thomas A. Bella, and beg learn to en. close his reply. I desire farther to say that 1 wasa Difeetor of the company and a member of the Ex. tenths Committee In 1571, and te add my teatime. ay toast of Colonel Sears la rarUleattna of all that Is stated in the; eneloaed - ietter. Truly Yours. Illtisszw.Dtit.ow. President. Pnicsant.rB lA, April 21. 1571, Sidney President Usk* Petiole Rai.reeld COMIC,igh A t li ref*: • hie Dims Sin : I kin your letter ender date or Now York, April 11, Mk aortal= the P a t o et rho country ste sulfite argot that st Imhof rho EMU Sark sail Sort Rota Eartrood. perchoml by the traket radio Mahood Company 1111, mire iMirsis tree litte.4ll.o. Blerno. - sit Wine. Wine. Or Tat - SW patio la sow fano west to 1114 pf 11 0 -11o f ffef !re fit 14191111111131 . . . , . . '. 1• ( I Ir. 1 . . - REGARDLESS OF DERIINCIATION PROM ANY QIIARTER. • them t that It U year. desire. as Preald at of the cons p rf to repel any such- inference In the most em manner. .and asking me to make s state meat sword to matter. In reply, I beg leave to state that, much as I dislike the idea of entering into any of the controversies that are berate the public is these days of scandal, from which but few men to public life seem to be 'exempt, I feel it my duly to state that the- Rork Island and Fort Scott bonds purchased by the Union Pacific Railroad Company to 1571, were not purchased or received from Mr. Blaine directly or indirectly. and that of the money paid by the Union Pacific Bailment Com pany or of the avails of said bonds, not one dollar went to Mr. Blaine or to any person for him or for hts benefit in any form.. All statements tO the effect that M r. Blaine over had any transaction with them directly or indirectly, involving money or valuables of any kind, are absolutely without foundation in tact. I .take pleasure in making this ctateraeat to yon, and you may use it In manner you deem best for the interests of the Union raclibi Railroad Company. - Very truly, yours. - Tilowas A; SCOTT. • WHY A COMMITTEE OF INVESTIGATION And this closes the testimony I have wished to otter. Several newii papers, some of them doubtless from friendly motives, have urged that I should ask for a committee to inves tigate these charges. I might-have done that an d awaited the delay and slow progress that inevitably attend all ' Congressional ,investigations. Three and a-half years ago I moved a committee to investigate the credit Mobilier charges, and, though every particle and proof in complete excul pation of myself;was before the cora mittee in thirty; six hours after its meeting, I was compelled to wait for more than two months, indeed, sev enty full days, before I got a public -report exonerating and - ' vindicating .me from•the charges. If I had asked : for a committee to investigate the pending 'matter I should have been compelled, to wait its necessarily slow action, with the charges all the while hanging.over me unanswered, and pending the proceedings of in vestigations' which I had myself asked, propriety would have forbid den my collecting and,publishing the decisive proofs- Which I have now submitted. For these reasons I have deemed that the shortest and most. expeditious mode of vindication was the one which I was bound` tochoose by every consideration o( myself per sonally and of my' official relations. I have not omitted the testimony of a single material witness "to the transaction on which the accusation, against me is based, and unless I mis apprehend the scope and force of the testimony, it leaves no charge against me. In any and all events am ready to submit the whole matter to the candid judgment of the Mime and the; country, and if the House thinks the matter should be further inquired into, I beg to .express my entire readiness to give all the assis tance in my power to make the in vestigation as thorough, as right, and as impartial as possible. To giVe a seeming corroboration or founda tion to the story which I have dis proved, the absurd rumor has lately appeared in certain newspapers that I was the owner of from 4150,000 to $25'0,000 of the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad bonds, which 1 re-, ceived without consideration, -and that it was from these bonds ,that Thomas A. Scott received his $75,- 00a., The statement is gratuitously and 'literally false. No responsible author appears anywhere for this un founded story, but in dismissing it ' I desire to make the following explicit statement: More than twenty-three yearf ago, in the closing days of !Mr. Fillmore's Administration, the Gov ernment granted to the State of Az.' kansas some public lands within its limits, to be applied to the construc tion of railroads in that State. The Legislature, of Arkansas incorprated theAittle Rock and Fort Smith Rail road Company the same year, and' gare to the company a portion of the lands it bad received from the Gen eral Government to aid in the con struction of the road—about 5,000 acres to the- mile, I think-but the company were unable to raise money for the enterprise, though they made the most strenuous efforts, and when the war broke out in 1861, eight years after the State tad given the lands to the company, not a mile of the road was built. Of course, nothing was done during the war. After the war All the grants of land previously Made to the Southern States were renewed in gross. In the session or 1865-6, the Little ,Rock and- Fort Smith Comp:My again received a gmnti , from the. State, and again-tried to raise money to build their road, but 1865, 1866, 1807 passes without their getting a dollar. Finally, to wards the close of 1868,.,a company of Boston gentlemen, representing considerable capital, undertook its constniction. In raising the requisite means they placed the bonds of the road on the New England market, offering them on terms which seemed very favorable to the purchas., and offering them at a time when invest ments of this kinds wei e fatally pop ular. In common with hundreds of other people in New England and other parts of the country, I bought some of these bonds,not a very large amount, paying for them at precisely the same rate that others , paid. I , never heard, and do got believe, that the Little Rock Company, which I know is controlled ,by highly honor able men, ever parted with a bond to any person except at the regular paice fixed for their sale. The enter prise, though apparently very prom ising, proved unsuccessful, as many similar projects did about the same time. 1 lost a; considerable-sum of money (over $2.fi,000) by my invest ment, and I preaume Now England' made a net loss of $2,000,000 in eompleteing that road for Arkansas, as sbe has lost over $1,000,000 by similar ventures West and South within the last twelve years. In ad dition d t o my investments in bonds, I united - with others in raising some money for the company when it met its first financial troubles. Proceed. ings are now pending in the United States Circuit Court in Arkansas to which I am a party of record for the reimbursement of the money so 'ad vanced. All the bonds which I ever purchased I continued to bold, and when the company was reorganized in '1874 I exchanged them for stock and bonds in the new concern, Which I still own. My whole conneectiop with the - road has been open as the day. It there had been anything to conceal about .4.1 shoeld.neyer have touched it. Whenever concealment is desirable avolditiee is advisibl44 and:-J do not know any better test to apply, to the honor and !t, IMIL9W tiVW.ll9iti ,'.';;... 1. t..; ."..k ...Z : ~,', .WAS NOT CALLED FOR. MEM ill iMil • 2 41 . 1.81,1•0 TIIE QUESTION OE PROPRIETY invOlved in. a member of Congress hOhling an investment of this kind', it. 'hut. - be remembered "that 'the Janda were granted to. the 'State of Arkansas, and not to the railroad company; and that the company ,dc 7 rived its life, franchise,. and value wholly from the State, .and to , the Stag . the company is amearmble and SniOcrable, and not in any, sense to Coniresa. Since I purchased the bondichut one act of Congress has PasSirt in any way touching. the spb ject4ind.thst was merely to rectify a previous mistake in legislation. I .takit' it, when any security, from Go*niment . holids to town scrip, hi, offerid at public Sale to any one who can Any for it, every American citi zen fa free to buy., If you exclude a RePtesentatve from ;the investment on the groundthatin soninsecondary or liemote 'way • the legislation of ConOess affected or may affect the value of the L artiele,then_yon exclude ever 3, man en this floor, .not only. trod ; holding a Government bond or shkre in national bank, , but also fronil owning a flock of Sheep, or field of hemp, or a tobacpo plantation Or it'otton.bill, or an iron'furnace l forfora l these interests are vitally al l'eetnil by tie tariff - legislation on which we. vote at every session, and oh lila& ati important measure is evenmow, pee )(ling in the Committee of the 'Whole. In the seven inter. v'ening•yearii since the Little Rock and, Fort ,SMith bonds were placed on the market I know few invest ments that have not. been more af fectetl by the legislation of Congress: But This case does not require to be shielded by any such comparisons or citations, for I repeat that the Little Rock road derived all it had frent, the State of Arkansas, and not froutToffgress. It was in the dis creikin of Congress to give or with liokti'rom the State, but it was solely intik. discretion of the State to give or withhold from the Little- Rock Railroad Company. When the Lit tle Rock road fell into the financial troubles "of which I have spoken, there were'certain interests connect ed with it that were under peculiar embarassment, and that needed relief. There had been, at' diffetent times, very considerable talk Omit inducing the Atlantic and Pacific road (which on its Southern braneli was to 'be a connecting line Eastrind.West with the Little'Rock and Fort Smith and the Missouri, KanSas and Texas roads, whlC:i would be a..,'.i,-ponnecting line both North and South at the point of jUnction) to aid the Little Rock and Foitt. Smith enterprise by taking soma* of its securities, a practice very common iimong.• connecting . .roada. To *All these roads the completion of the Little Rock read was of very . great • importance. Accordingly.; in the' . Spripg of 1871, when only one cupcin had been pa.sed by the Little Roc* . Compahy on one series of its bonds, and none passed on the other, anti ;When there were sanguine hopes, of gutting the enterprise on its feet agaiii,E the Atlantic and Pacific Com paq took one hundred thousand of its lipnds and-onebundred thousand of its stock for the gross sum of $79,. 000,4 ind the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, if I remember correctly, took halfihe amount at the same rate. This' , ,W.Ss done not for the corpora.' 6ml:itself but for an interest largely engaged in the construction of the. road - 4 With the circumstances •at-' tending the negotiation with the At lantic and Pacific road I was entire ly familiar, and with several of its offinOrs I have long been acquainted. I MO knew of •the negotiation' with the. Missouri and Texas Railroad, though I never to, my knowledge saw :ally of its officers, and never had an interview with any of them on, any subject, but in the cause of both. roadis I desire to say that the bonds sold4o.thein did not 'belong to. me, nor ilid I have one dollar's pecuniary interest in the whole transaction with either company. The infamous insinuation made in certain qtmr tersithat I engaged to use my influ encel in , Congress for the Atlantic and!Pacific road, and also fOr • the Misilotiri, Kansas and Texas, in con sideration of their purchasing these seen:titles, hardly merits notice. The officers and directors of both compa niesz so far as I have known the one and heard of the Other, are high- - tonc,d,' honorable gentleman, and they would have justly_ spurned me froi their presence had.l been will-. ing loisubmit an offer 'so dishonor able=.and mutually degrading. I had no PeCiiniary , stake in the negotia tion; and I should have loVed infamy for Infamy's sake had I bartered my emironal and official honor in the transaction, and' I am sure that ev ery man connected with either com pany ,would - repel - the dishonoring suggestion as warmly as I do myself. ThOrhOle affair has no morecon nection' with Congressional legiala tiorilthan any one of the ten.. similar transactions that are cotigantly'ocenring in the business world Of a like character with the insitniation ju4t answered is that whioh; in an irte3ponsible and p finony- Itis way; attempts to conned the iferiihip of Little Rock and Fort . -Smitti,bonds with the legislation of last;*inter respecting the State god : eminent of Arkansas. There are sonic accusations which it is difficuli to repel with sufficient force because of their mixture of absurdity; de - - praity, and . falsehood. • I never heard this stupid slander . nntil in Stew days, and I vent* , .to 'say there lsnot a responsible man in the country of the slightest sense who canidiseem the remotest connection bet Ween the two things that are al leod to have an intimate and infa mous relation. :';SUMMINO UP THE STATEMENT. Let me now, Mr. Speaker, briefly summarize_ what I have presented: Pird. That the story of my re cem*,s64,ooo, or any other sum of money, or other thing of value, from therrnion Pacific Railroad Compa ny,idireetly or indirectly, or in any form, is absolutely disproved by the most conclusive testimony. LSecond. That no bond of mine w4eyer sold to ' Wilaittie and , PaOltle or the 3ilaiouri, Mums taut Railroad Company, awl that aqvikengicl Xll Qr. Q s ~. ,e EN Mil RE --I ,Pi . • '',-":- ''' . . • . -,- -.- 'tt: - 1 • • `::?1 .' ' ..,';..'• --, ',:••• , --- •- i•:t . . . , f r ' i. 4 .: --.., ... \, •„ .__ ;". , : : " , :l ., : : g . ..; -:,' _.":: :•.:::::: ,:,, ' r .t ,1/4,......... either of those companies ever went, to nirprofitOr benefit.; Third. That instead ; of receiving bonds of theiLittle Rock and Fort Smith road: as a gratuity, I never had one except at the regular mar ket price, unit that instead Of, mak ingo large fOutune out of that, coin pony, I haveincurred a severe pe cuniary loss from my investment in its securities; which I titilV retain, and out of s ube affairs as this grows the popular gossip of large fortunes amassed in COngress. I can !may expect, Nit.. Speaker, that any statement from me will stop the, work of those who,have so indus triously circulated these calumnies.' For months east the eflbrt has been energetic and,' continuous ; to spread these storiealn private circles. Em issaries of slander have' visited the editorial roodis of leading Republi can papers from Boston to Omaha, and wb iSpei e 0 of, revalationg to come that were tap terrible even to be spoken in loud 'tones. -And at last the revalatioas have been Made. r am now, Mir t i Speaker, in the four teenth year of a not inactive service in this hall. :I.have taken and haVe given blows: I have no doubt said many things [in the' belt of debate which I would now gladly recall. I have no doubt, given votes which in fuller light I ewould gladly, change, i but I have never done anything n my public career for which I :ccould be put to the' faintest blush in any presence, or for which I connot an swer to my :constituents, my con-i science, and the Oreat Searcher of; hearts. MN JUDGE THOMAS WKEAN. , , e Perhaps'no; man attracted as much homage froin the crowd. as Judge Thomas M'Kean,: then Delegate to Congress, andafterward Chief-Justice He • was .one' - ;pf the fait of the old stock.of Pennsylvania, of which one' or two :wed 'SpecimineS still remain, of abnormal size and strength both in mind and body. Judge M'Kean was over six •feet,: erect, 'even in old !age, as a pi 4 tree,' and noted for, the excepticipal stateliness of his carriage. Me always ware an immense cocked •hat and a starlet gown upon the bench, and, *hen he became Chief Justice, surrounded hiniself with all the state and pomp whkh-belong to the Judiciary,Of England. The Sher iff,' tip staves, etc., says David Paid Brown swelled the retinue of Judge M'Kean as lie passed in.-the process ion through the streets to open court Thomas 141.'.E - pan is acknowledge to have been an able laWyer and a patriot of inflexible integrity, but it was 'hinted py jealous compatriots that his stately and grin) reserve was assumed to hide his lick of good breeding. Ile - fought for the Declar ation, signet - 1j it, and suffered for the signing withilhis .usual indomitable firmness, being in 1777 ;hunted like a fox through the State, compelled to remove hi:; family five times, and hide them atilast in a little log house iu the wilderne.ss. Many .anecdotes remain of tlO great jurist, both as ChiefJustiOland Governor; which forcibly illustrate the change , -of mangers since then. when day ten a mob assembled outside of the prkne Court;lhe sent for the sheriff and commanded him to Suppress the ript , , r , • " I cannot do it," replied the tremb ling official. !1 " Why do not summon, your possee thimdered_ the scowling Chief Justice " I have sOMmone4 them, but they are inetfectuaV! Sir;. "Then, Sir i i; why do you not sum mon me?" Id •The sheriff stunned for a moment, gasped out "1 do summon you, Sir." 1!1 Whereupon - the gigantic' Chief Justice, scarlet gown, 'cocked hat. and all, swooped down on -the mob like an eagle;,'en a flock of sheep, and catching twaiof the' ringleaders by the throat, quelled the riot. • Another story is of an effort made by the Phila4elphians, when he was Governor, tO prevent his nomination of Tilghmand as Chief ,Justice. 1 1 A committee wts sent of Duane, Lieper and others, ..;IN•he announced them selves as representing the sevireign people, and the great democracy of Philadelphia; and declaring that they could ; never approve of this nomination.;.The Governor listened with his usual haughty courtesy, and bowingprolaundly, replied,." Inform your constituents that I bow with submisSion 6 the great democracy Qf Philadelphia; but, by God ! Liam Tilghaan shall be Chief Justice of Penasylsinia." And he lilPKean's!daughter, a .woman of great beauty, married the Marquis de Yroja, a Spanish grandee of blnest blood, but Whose pride of bearing, we are told,llnever. 'equaled._ that .of his plebeian father-in-law.--Prom "bid Philadelphia," by RERECC-4. HARDING DAVIS, in itarpea's Mag azine for 1114. "1:1:{0 1 1qii4 1 )*:(1):/Tti4e,:bi4f14 The editor of the Johnstown Daily Tribune, tells the following story of two distiniuished 'characters. The writer was On attache of the New York Tribune establishment at the time the incident occurred as related, and tells the story from personal knowledge? Vice fresi,dent Wilson and Horace Greeley we ,re alike in many respects, and in no one respect more than their dress.: Eskcially when the former was over worked. he was about as "Slouchy" las the "old phlosopher " dare be.. incident of the two has never 4en in print, we believe, but is good - enough to' be put there,. In the old Tribune ()like Horace Greeley occupied. a 'dingy little eight hy-ten officUl off the - main editorial room, at which he sat with his nose down on th#, lid for hours at a time, and gionndi out editorials by the column. That he might not be dis turbed by vOrd,politicians and other nuisances, he had , stationed on a stool just &Wide thedoor,' an at tendant whOe . - duty it *was to hear ..the eppliestions of all persons who claimed ad Mission. In the saMmer of 1867 there was stationed 'there a double-breasted, strop g natal 'um tho: nais of pfp! 940 PATTI9, - 41 0 1F • =I 82 par Annum In AliclvanceS sitting down with his nose on the desk, as usual, and • Ben was station on the stool . outside the door_ in , his accustomed place ; the editors were at. Work in the large room at' their desks, and a large, broad-shouldered man made his appearanee,looking as if he had just come out of one of the saloons on Chatham street. - :He staved up to Greeley.'s door, passed Pen us if he had a right to go in, bat the door was locked, and Ben being aroused by this time, asked what: he The visitor stated - that he would like.to see Mr. Greeley. ," You cdn!t see him !" bawled • Ben. " But my buidness is important," 'said the visitor. " That's what you all tutyl; but yon can't see him." _nuttily the visitor induced Ben to go into Mr. Greeley's cubbyi hole and inform him. Ben . opening the door, went up to Mr. Greeley, and in a, stentorian voice, while Greeley kept roguing his pen diognally across the page, bawled out : • "Mr. Greeley, there's an old - but& mer wants to see you!" Greeley, without taking his nos. off the paper, in his usual squeaking voice, cried out.: , " Keep .hini out—keep him out Pr Ben quickly turned to go where the visitor was, and in a bass Voice belloWed out : " YOu can't see ; him !" Vie visitor insisted and plead, and stated. that Ben did not know Whom', _he was. Ben said that he did,lfi; finally consented to try another tiine.l Ile'again. approached the philoio-1 pher! 'with the expression 4, 4 Mr. l Greeley, this old bummer Says must see you !" Again came from the top of the desk the same sentenee, repeated thousands of times before in the'same way : "Beep.him pat! keel - o,am out!" Ben again went back and informed tbe visitor that there was no alterna tiie, lie could not see Mr Greeley.' '" The editors were 'by this time at tracted by the conversation, and Amos.J. Cummings, who was night editeir, being at a desk near by, step ped tip to the visitor and politely said : ." Senator Wilson, how do you do ? Do you wish to see Mr. Gree ley._?"' The Senator informed `bim that be did, and Mr. Cummings open'ed the door, asked the Senator to step in, and the two going , up to Mr. Greeley, who was yet undistnrb ed, 11ir.. Cummings. spoke to Mr. Greeley and bt )stated that Senator WilsOn wis I to .speck to him: " Oh;?' drawled out the philosopher, "is that you Henry? Why, Ben told me that it was an old bummer wished to see me!" A OURE FOR STRIKES —This is the war between labor and Capital:, Cap ital eOntinually . withdrawing from ,healthful work because it is afraid of losing its price, continually at difference with its one friend, witfi out Whom it must perish ; Labor striking, demanding shorter time; more; 'wages, dictating imperious ruleS abOut piece -work and appren,- tices; quarreling with its one friend, without whom it must die or seek the poor -house. To adjust these dill ferences is the problem of the day. One way out of the difficulty is to make; the laborer a capitalist. The_ Savings bank is the chief aid in this direction. Let the worker put apart orhig earnings in a bank, and he be T comes a capitalist in a, small way; He learns to view the subject of teresCand dividends with the eyes of a lender, and he is straightway jeal- t ons of his capital l and ,its rights. He joins the other party, and, belonging to both, he the more readily sees that it is for the interest of both to work together. Education is offered, as another solution. Give the worki, ingrnan a business education, and he . learni* to see and uqdeastand lawi'that govern the movements of wages and interest. Filially, conies. the idea of co-operation—the givyg the taborer 'a.share in the guidance' and profits of the work, the union' . of capital and lati'or in any par-, ticular undertaking. I Co=opera tion is, in theory, the most sensible and the most just solution to this question that has been offered. 1 , ('or , ti FUN, FAOT, AND rAcetue. Tun only physician of a-town not far off-has moved away, greatly to the regret of the whole community. This sense of public ioss was thus feelingly expresser' by Mrs., 31—, a plump lady .formerly from Germany :- "Mr. P-------; 1 t'ink 'tia too pad ; de dochter come bear a youn* man, be stay mit us hero While he get all our diseases 'den he goes awaywith him;• sel 3 . , . ' A xof Erin in the army was once or . de "to lay on his aims,", as during the nigh an attack from the enemy might bo . In the morning he retired to the. Captain's tent in a great rage, sputtering: "It's a putty *ay this, ye have o' cuing business ; there first on my one arm and, thin on t' other all the night I 'laid awitke for yer to waken me; and divel a bit, did ye come !" , • 1 . ' - - -- - - • Jacon„ a German, handy at all kinds of work, called on his einployer fo• a sack of tlonr. (Flour comes to us in fifty-poimd paper sacks.) Both went to the store, Init found that only a part of a sack could be spared; when - the following dialogue' en sued.: "Jacob, have you a sack?'.' sir ! (with intense earnestness). I don't do no business dat a' way,! 1 I nom down here for settlement ; if I don't get what I don' want, I don't wantnottlngs." ' j Ati "OLD soldier very foiul of old rye, took' a -stroll one day among the adjacent reginienta, inquiring of the sutlers for whisky. -Finding one, at length,'who had the critter, he asked: "Well, how 4o you sell it?" "Seventy-five cents a canteen full .easb„ and one dollar tick."., Overjoyed Our veteran, not staying - even to try it, rushed back to .his Company's quarters almost breathless, exclaiming, "Boys! get yeur canteen; that"sutler sells whisky at seventy.tive cents a canteen cash, and one d'ollar never pay 1" I t NOM ON THE INTERNATIONAL LESSONS. Acts IV: 8-2a.--Goz.nsx Trxt: Prix. isvitisi • OSCOND cICASTER. Tit 1 • This lesson is' immediotely co n nected with the preceding. Wile Peter and John were sposking to tin people,'the prieats and the captain Of the LOvitia4 guard of the temple, ,ati4l,txto, S'aOduce9s suddenly came upon them, and arrested them, and cast tirm:into Prison, to await a public hearing hetes: the flanhidrin the next morning, ',This was seeraiSgly RD. 9rgMß l q, tiTlTttklet t* .-!. • i ' 4 ' fj" , MEI =I NUMPER 46. MAY 15,j8711. work aid w0r40't.P.0,0* , ,;;M: 1 0 , 49-ro F they seocd, took care of the iitaltof gold `the consequence ',wilt . that */*.ot side!: t*lrd the . word hoihntaC: fkithato the whekl unsofaii - nt:belimitn about tivithetisatik The at morning , the tiatii4drin This, national eeneed . „liras *Myelte4' the rulers, if.," the elders, Aheneditari representatives lamely and -Scribes (conserriators and expoun4oh of the;WO' "It is said to haire been composed ofMror enty.one' persons, indtall O. m, sot ante nil continuation, of the sew' side who smiSted.MoSes (Num. 11;16)s."7-X -slander.; Usually ;its sessiiibe Were Mkt in the Cruncil-ifonsa, within the temple , enclosure; but in great emeriincies:(gg Matt. 26) the meetings were held in tho' palaee of the High Priest. lt wai a grave.- and imposing body, and might well timidate r two such , means Peter and John. -- And there ins a time when such a pew ewe would have' cowed aid overawed ; MS them; but not , now. Tbosp righ‘ecsiaL men, led'and taught . of the spirit, axe as bold as a lien. So that, when \ placed in the midst of the Council and salmi by the.- High Priest: "hp the usaof whist mine. rions po4er, and es whose representatives, or by the; invocation of whosaname, have yon effected this extraonlinary cure ?"-- Peter replied in courteous, frank, faith ful and'hold preaTtation ot the truth as it is in Jesus. 1. We have Peter's discourie: vs. 842. The 'answer tntheir judical inteTrogatory, could not, but take the form of a sermon. This is Peter's fourth speech recorded in-* this booli. He was specially lijled with the Holy; Ghost for the occasion, accord ing to the promise %lark 13:11. He ill respectftil ("Ye rulers of the people, and. elders of ! Israel 1"), but cannot. conceal. his surprise at the trial - to Iwhich be and Jolm are subjeated. "If it be pOssiblei that I we have livid to see !the day when men are Failed in question for their good deeds; then be , it known 4" He had no idea of avoiding the great point, rm- • palatable as it was to his audience. They had crucified Jesus. His death was arm, Coral crime. But God had vindicated hiin by raising him from the dead, and froM bititiowedforth the poirer that they had seen! so gloriously manifested. It is plain that the man who had ;been healed was present, either of his own accord as a spectator,' or citedby the council as a wit.; ness, yr as a prisoner with the two 'air ties. _ . . And this fact tliat they-the.ruksrs of Isra. el, repriSenting .the whole nationhad rejected_l3esus aid compelled Pilaio to put him io deatli, - hitt that GOd had rised him from the' dead and made him a living source of power to plan, readied a ipik ing old Tastametit prophecy, (Ps. 118 1 22.) The ilguivi is that'of a stone cast aside as unlit for use by:the builders of a house; but after'v;rard selected as the head of the ' eorner;, e., for the angle; or juncture in the walla. *here "the main strength of thO structur a is supposed to reside. So Christ is the chief coruer:sione of the church of God, (Epli. 2:20): i And 'this! passage en .abqs Peter to bring his reasonituts and exPositioOS to a' practical comelulion. " Neither is there salvation in any•otb- Cr." "The systeM, of which he''''wai.tho ( cornerstone, was a system'Of salvation, and the only one which God had sane. gonad or, ievealed.” This was, a sharp They-rulers of the Jews— who, had put Jet* to death, must be saved by' him if saved at all. j _ Jr. We see the effect of Peter's sermon upon the Sinhehritt; vs. 1344. t They marvelled. The • cause of their wonder was the ,oldness of 'Teter and .Tohn (i.' e., not 'merely, bravery,- but freedom : and . readines3 of speech) in' view if the fact that, they were private individuals (igno- Irani men) and without schtilastic or' 4 rab - - binical hmrning. (ri4learned). g. They recognized them 'as disciples of Jesus. Literalls "ther.reeognized- them that they (onee)- were with Jesus.") " Wilde the form: and-manner of the men's Coursedis r betrayed their' , want Of education, and especially of Mhbinical training, its , Subsianc,e and its spirit seemed to indl. gate a higher source, and this «mid be found only in their Anterconme enth Ja• - bus, ',whoke extraordinary wish:menden -014'4 in teaching could tint; be *spitted, even byl his enemies."—Aierander. ' . They were struck dumb. With the'man ! :before their eyes, lim m ught there by the selves ei her as a prisoner -Or witimas—a - living, Speaking proof of all that the 'a n ything could they- find 'anything to answer? • 1 1 • 111. We see the conclusion at which they arrive. Vs. 14.18. First, they ex chided the :Apostles from the council, room.. This'was not an act of violence or even of Contempt, bqt usual,, no doubt, in 'such cask 'Then they conferred ameng themsel4es. . The, sum and substance of 'what they said is preserved in vs. 1847. [They could not deny , the miracle which'- , was already well known to all the dwell, ers in Jerusalem. Tint they might per, lhaps prevent any further spread of the doctrine taught by these men, and of the new religion they represented. So they , . Iresolvedi to resort to l threais; in order to intimidate them from speaking any morel in this name. Hence they laid, a command upon them, no doubt with accompanying: threats. It required no little courage and - faith to !disobey such an injunetien.- - have et reply ; of the Apps ties; vs.! 19-20. Their meaning 'probably is: "Whether it be right Jultore God (tte cording Ito his judgment) to, hear *Obey) yon More than God, you may judge ,for yourselves, and t ake the ceusequences your decision; but ite for us we cannot but speak !what (things) .we ~ sair and heard,"(corn..Tosh. 24:15). Ithrtl eduty of every ,riStian - ti t ', obey ititth govern 4 meat ii> its civil sphere. Bpf' wan it in vades the rights' of conscience 'and at- " tempts o control the soul'i, relatioas and Llets toward God, it is his ! duty to obeys - God rather than Man. "Heider unto Ctesar the things . that are' :and unto,Ged the things thatae God's." It - is worthy of notice here tha tthe Apostle simply declined to Obey. y They: . raised no. : standard of revolt, they mace:no issue of:_ the , peter of the Sanhedrin to ley each an injunction upon them. -They . ;quietly but firmly refuse to obey and st a nd ready to take, the consequences of ; their: rancid. Here w i see at the . very beginning the Power ef christianity to encourage_ and secure liberty, of thought, and 'aspect'''. OV. We reach the last point in,our les son, the formal releaserof the prisoners. Vs. 21 r 22. Adding still other ,t their inhibition of 7. 18, they rewd . them, tio doubt by a formal and jOdhedid - act. Their, inquisition utterly Iltiledto diSC cvet. any - grorind upon - which they could inflict punishment safely upokthem. - The state of -the popular mind' wits such that no , mere pretext orgy trumpedAi charge !would answer. " A ll men • find GO for that 'elicit _was done.' "The e rracle 'wasteitgreat and mated: so mu sensation beatae - It was the airs of a most that fiftt years ea, bad been a cripple from his bbtb.. te sides,'roan bed been well kipwcf among the people' during' moat of ; tibia time. It is plain 'that the Santiedilst - ' themselves : recotell•hini! as enciiirhati , they:4l seen daily - at the temple dpring many Yews- pealdes, it la fair tce., sup- . ROM th it all poSSPlllitneafla *l** lto. aoiloa &Wall :„a,c! • 101 4 ,16 thererote glut; it 'Tfitli OM lefi RES
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