Indianapolis Leader, Volume 1, Number 49, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 July 1880 — Page 2

TÜE INDIANAPOLIS LEIDER. BAG BY & CO., Publishers. INDIANAPOLIS, - - INDIANA

Entered u acond-clast matter at the Post OCBce at Indianapolis, Ind. Terms of Subscription : Slnglo Copy, 1 y, " 6 months, 12.00 . 1.00 3 montha, , 60 20 Club of rix, i year, each copy 1.75 ton, 1 year, each copy,.. ... . 1.60 GENERAL KOTES. Judge Hoadlxy, the Cto airman of the Cincinnati Convention, has sailed for Europe. Sxkatobs Blaine and Cameron are de scribed aa baring, delightful, horseback rides together at the White Bulphur Springs. Qxymxn Iubclla of Spain is very anxious that her eldest daughter, the Inanta Paz, ahoold at once And" a husband. The Princess Is now e yen-anil -twenty. Mb, Ole Bull will sail for Europe to-day to be absent for some weeks. He trill not be able te appear at the Poe benefit matinee at New York, as previously announced. Judo Jerk Black is In Paris, and helped the American colony celebrate the Fourth on the 5th. He made a characteristic speech, fall of political erudition, and was the same old Jere generally. The youngest official in the Postoffice Department is the postmistress of Sitka, Alaska. She la. the fourteen-year-old daughter of a territorial officer located at the Capital of "Our Arctic Domain J" ' ' The orange County (Florida) Reporter says that the orange trees are not growing aa rapidly as they usually do at this. season. The winter was too mild to check the growth of the trees at that season, and they are now taking the reactionary rest. The new oath for the French soldiers contains no reference to the Deity or the Republic. It will be taken on the 14th of July, as follows : MIn the name of the regiment, I swear on my honor to remain faith I ul to the Con atltutlon, and to defend this flag until death.' joHir Deojtes was a shiftless San Francisco shoemaker. The family larder became en tirely empty, and his wife said: "I believe you could get work if you wanted to, and If you dont do It I will commit suicide. Go out, and If you don't come back by 6 o'clock to tell me ouve got a Job, you'll find me dead when you do come." He returned at 7, and she was dead. Thx publio whipping post in Raleigh, N. C, has disappeared. Until a few days ago it stood near the Court House; and has been used of lata as a hitching post for country roadsters whose masters had law business on hand. Before 1868 it was the Connty whipping post. The stocks and the pillory which stood beside it were removed long ago, but the o d poet re malned. Lawrence Barrett has given up his trip abroad with his family this summer, and has settled down at his cottage at Cohasset, to rest, read, study, and prepare for . his fall and win ter work. He proposes to bring out several new things next season In rather elaborate style, and to secure what he has lacked be fore a superior supporting company. Queen Victoria Is said to pride herself ex ceedingly upon her beautiful collection of miniatures, and she is accustomed to boast with a laugh, that In this respect she has only one rival In Great Britain, and that Is the Duke of Buccleuch. The Queen maintains her fondness lor art, and though now over sixty, still sketches from nature with much skill and taste. Mr. Matthew Lynch, who was killed last week In New Mexico by a falling tree, left an estate of over M ,000 ,000. He was a Philadel phia a Roman Catholic, and a bachelor, who fought through the civil war, and at Its close went out to New Mexico with a small capital, which he used in purchasing a canal, supplying the mines of Elizabethtown with water. This started him on the road to wealth, and later he discovered the Aztec Mines, which yielded 60,000 a month. His heirs are two brothers and one sister. TKX election for President is about to come 'to ä choice In Mexico, and a revolution may confidently be expected by next week. An eleetfon there attracts Very little attention in the United States, because If there Is any one thing concerning which our people are utterly Ignorant, it is the inner affairs of the only Republican neighbor they have. They study the politics of England, France, Germany, and even 8 pain and Italy, but pay little attention to Mexico, their only neighbor on the South. Its politics have been so varied that the finest mathematical mind In the country could scarcely keep track of he number, va riety and Importance of its revolutions. Da. Oliver Wendell Holmes has written to a Ladles' Literary Club, at Cortland, N. Y., a pleaaantletter in reply to the announcement that they were about to discuss nls writing. "I have no doubt yoa will deal gently with me," he says. "If you were disposed to do otherwise I could help you very much, for I could polat out plenty of faults In my writing which many readers might possibly overlook. I began to publish too early, I fear, and many of my earlier productions would have been Just as well left In my portfolio. Perhaps you will say some of the latter ones, too; but lam quite willing to trust to your good nature. After all, the main point is not what are the least worth reading of an author's books or essays or poems, but what are the best, and are they worth readInf." This has been a year fruitful in canine sagacity. A Nashville physician is accompanied in his professional visits by a large dog, which watches over the horse and buggy. One night he left the horse unhltohed. and when he returned the horse had disappeared, but was found several hundred feet away, where the dog was sitting on his' haunches in front of him and holding the hitch-rein in his teeth. At another time the horse was standing unhitched hear a railway track, and took fnght at the ears. Before he could run far the dog bad caught the reins In his teeth, and soon topped the runaway. A Canandaigua mother thought her little daughter merited a whipping, and as she aimed to strike her, the Newfoundland Cog of the family caught the menacing arm in his mouth, but did not bite. The father, coming in at tnat moment, out of curiosity made a pretence of punishing the child, and his arm was arrested in the same way. - RE3ÜKE OF TQK WEEK'S MEWS. The President and family have taken up their residence at the Soldiers' Home, near Washington, for the summer. At the dinner of the Coed en Club la London, Friday night. De Lessens made another speech fa voTuag tae Panama Inter-Oceanic Canal. Mathlas Schmldtt, residing near Madison. Ind., who. for several years, has been engaged in the culture of willow, Is mysteriously mlssftig. It Is stated that the United States Government Is negotiating with the Porte regarding the safety of American missionaries in European Turkey, should trouble break out there. Carrie Mount loy, one of the beet known and most depraved prostitutes in Indianapolis, swailowed eight grains. of morphine Saturday night, with fatal eflect. Crossed In love Is said to bathe canse. Intelligence has been received of a sickening outrage committed bv Martin Lotte upon the person of his daughter, a child thirteen years old. The crime was committed in Nelson County, North Carolina. Secretary Schurz says orders will de issued Immediately to employ all necessary military force to prevent any occupation of the Indian Territory by the Payne expedition, or any almllar unlawful intruders. The vice commercial agent of the United States at St. Maro, Hay tl, informs the t e parrmen t of täte at Wasnlngton that dry goods of American manufacture are being imported throughout the Havtlan Republic on a large scale, rapidly driving out British manufactures. So much so. Indeed, that agents from England are being sent out to the West Indies to try to regain their lost market. The Haylans are predisposed in favor of American

goods. Four years ago American dry goods

were scarcely known on tne laiana. roe provisions consumed are from the United State Thomas Carson, of Angola, Ind., an old gen tleman of fifty-seven years, committed suicide by tafeln morphine, on Friday n'gnt. Temporary insanity, caused by ill health and financial embarrassment, is the supposed cause. Thenork packers of St. Luis. several of whom have a large trade with the German Empire, are considerably exercised over tne recent Imperial decree preventing the importation of the hog product into that country, simply on sanitary grounds. The weather all over Ireland, up to the pres ent, has been most favorable. It is expected that the potato crop will eucrnmus. It promises to exceed anything seen in Ireland since lüe period anterior to the mmlne of 1817. The root and cereal crops are also luxuriant Rev. Barn as Sears, DD., LLD., for many years President of Brown University, Providence, II I.., and subsequently manager of the George Peaboly lund lor educational purposes in the South, his home being at Stanton, Va., died at Saratoga, N. Y., on Wednesday, aged seven t y -sevf n. The North Carolina Republican State Con ventlon met at R;.l ?ign it Thursday, 1,000 dtl egates being pres- m. J J Youug presided. The platform indi rsts Gai field and Arthur. Judge Ralph P. Bjxton was nominated lor Governor and General Rnfu.s Bar ringer for Lieutenant Governor. Sara Bernhardt sails for New York from Havre October 1, with a compute oomp&ny, and will make her debut at Uootli's Theater November 8, in Adrian Lecouvreur." Jeanne Bernhardt Is in her sister's company, whose stage manager will probably be Belvaux, the stage mansger of Rachel's American troupe. Mrs. Stine Sefton, the wife of a farmer living norta of Greeneburg, Ind , ran a rusty nail In her foot some days ago. Lockjaw set in, and Friday night, alter aoout forty-eight hours of most inteuse suffering, death came to her release. She nad only bean married about a y ar and a half, and .'eaves a husband and one Child. The census of Chattuuo ga Is estimated at thirteen tionsand time bund red. In 1870 the City contained only six thousand and ninetythree inhabitants, having increased 118 per cent, in tha last decade, a tarter increase than any ether city south of the Ohio. The County now contains twenty-three t housand souls, an Increase or 80 per cent, since 1870. The official censui will probably give St. Louis less than 350,000 population. While the Supervisor has made no authoritative statement to that eflect. It Is generally believed to be the fact, ad no denial of it is attempted The additional list of 2 ,000 names, collect' d by the letter carriers, has not been ad't ' :j the official enumeration by the Supervisor. Miss Susie Peary, seventeen years old, a student in the Normal College, New Yor. yatuiday swam from the foot of Ninety-sixth strre , North River, to the dock above Fort Le.su distance ot more tha.i five miles. The tide and wind were against her. She had not tven In the watt r for two years to swim any considerable distance. Before long she Is lo make a tan mile swim up the Hudson to Yonkers. During a terrific thunder storm Wednesday afternoon the bouse of M. J. Deyton, between Sea Plain, N.J., and Ocean Beach, was struck by lightning prostrating most of the inmate. It is reared Mrs. Dayson received fatal injuries. All were in such a condition that It was necessary to carry them out of the house, Walch soon burst Into flames. The fire, however, was soon extinguished. Judge Lawrence on Saturday officially uotl fled the Treasury Department that he declined the office of First Comptroller of the Treasury, recently tendered hlra. The In crence here is that Lawrence believes he can de rat Keller for the Congressional nomination in the Springfield D strict. Theoffice is uow vacant, porter's resignation navixig taken eiiect on Saturday. Saturday morning at. 2 o'clock one of the batteries of seven boilers la Painter's Iron Mill, on the South Side, Pittsburg, exploded with a loud report, killing Fred G rafale, the engineer, and V m. Black, the fireman. They were boih buried beneath the debris and terri bly mangled. Urable leaves a family. Black was only eighteen years old. The mill had not started, ani there were only three men In the boiler room. Tbe other maa escaped. Saturday afternoon Mr. Nymphus Bassett. an elderly farmer residing five miles north of Shelby vilte, Ind., was struck by llzhtnloz and instantly killed. He had been plowing near nls Louse, aua noticing tne comli;g.ol a aucluen thunder-storm, unhitcned to return borne While letting down the fence gap near hi 9 barn tne fatal bolt descended, ana ne was leit dead, while his horse walked leisurely to the stable. Shortly afterward his body was dis covered by his family. Ingersoll on Shaknpeare and the Stage. Among the "letters from the absent" passed over by accident at the recent Booth breakfast in New York, was the following from Colonel Icgersoll, which, by the courte-y of Mr. Barrett, is now for th9 ftret time made public: Washington, D. D , June 11, 1880. Lawrenck Barrktt, Esu. My Dear Sir: Had it been possible, your kind invitation would have been accepted. Nothing could give me more pleasure than to be where a great actor is honored. We now know tnat a man able even to understand Shakespeaie is great, and that only a genius can clothe in living flesh, filled and thsllltd with life's hot blood and passion's flame, the migaty offspring of the world's bust brai a. To us, living' in au age approaching civilization, it is amazing tint the one complete aud perfect man, tbe one within whose heart all racej live and in whose brain wss stored the fiutt of all thought pst, the seeds of all to be, was called a 'sturdy vagrant" in the English law, while social y he fell below the dullest parson and the halt-fed footman of the lowest squre. And j:t to him all hearts were open as the sky, und nature to d her secrets with bis lips. His mind wai Ilse a sea to which all rivers ran, and from which now the realms ol tbougnt receive the dew and rain. In the drama the highest thought In every age tas found expression. While throne and altar forged and fastened chains, the poor slave heard upon the stage tbe actor curse the injustice of the world, an, wept with joy to see, even la a play, tne captive free In all tbe other walks of life, rogues, hypocrites and cowards oft succeed, but on the stage applause greets only those who represent the great, the loving, brave and true, or give to public scorn the very heart of vice. And now the actor takes his place among the benefactors of mankind. Heiulnge and ConJell, in tbeir dedication of the folloof 11T2 J, speak of Shakespeare's worrs as these trifles." Yet "these trifles" will outlive the pyramids and their dust They will be remembered as long as most things will be forgotten. Edwin Booth ba elevated and refined the stage. He has recognized the sacredness of art He ha become illustrious as an interpreter of "these trifles," and it should satisfy his ambition to know that to and with the speech of Shakespeare IiIm name and memory will be linked and mil gled forever. Thanking you once more, again regretting my inability to bo with you, and hopine tbe E ighsh wilt honor Mr. Booth as much as he has us, l remain sincerely yours, Robert G. Ingersoll. Cleveland (O.) Newa. Harry, brother of Hon" G. W.Williams, is in business in this city. The Garfield Guards 13 the title of a new military company in this city. Miss M. Henderson, of Wellington, is visiting Miss Cornelia Simmons of Newton streetExcursion to Chippewa Lake by the Star of Bethlehem Lodge, Ord er of Good Samaritans, August 2. Joe Mann is trying to run the colored voters, but he is no good, he has no influence, and very few friends. W. G. Rose, and Ainos Townsend, the present incumbent, are candidates for Congress, the former in the lead. Senator Bruce, wife and young Roscoe, are visiting their parents, Dr. J. Willson, of Perry street All looking well. Bishop J. A. Shorter will preside over the Ohio Annual Conference, at Columbus vice Bishop A. W. W.yman, transferred. A furniture war is the scene of operations between pastor McDade and his former members of the Hack man street Church. The colored people in Cleveland should read and subscribe for The Leader, and they can be had from Mr. L W. Turner, No. 35 Hackman street. Mr. Jere A. Brown is the turnkey at the jail, and the boys inside of the bars like him for his untiring devotion to them in his treatment of their wantsA good and lengthy contribution from the Cleveland correspondent and a live man to work up subscribers, would insure success for The Leader. The Forest City Sewing Circle. Miss, Leberdie Green president, are making grand preparations for a festival and bazaar, for the benefit of St. John's A. M. E Church The Ml Zion Congregational Church, Rev. R. B. Johns pastor, has been thoroughly renovated, papered and painted, and presents a fine appearance in the interior. Emancipation jubilee at Youngstown, 0, bv the colored citizens of Eastern Ohio and Pennsylvania, August 3. Uon. John P. Green, of this city, and Hon. G. W. Williams, of Columbus, will speak. U W, TvjtygE.

GARFIELD ACCEPTS

The Republican Nomination for President 6f the United States. . Oarfleld's Letter of Acceptance. Mentor, q., July 12. General Gar held has forwarded to Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, the following letter of acceptance of the nomination tendered him by the Republican National Convention : Mentor, O., July 10,1880. : De ar ma. On the evening or the 8th of June ast I had the honor to receive from you. In the presence of the Commit e of which you were Chairman, tbe official announcement that tbe Kepubllcan National Convention at Chicago had that day nominated me as their candidate for I 'resident of the United Rates. I accept tbe nomination with gratitude for the confidence It Implies, and with a eep sene of tbe responsibilities it impeses. I cordially Indorse tbe principles set fjrth in the platform adopted by the Con vention on nearly all the subjects or wnicn 11 treats Mv opinions are on record among tne published proceedings o' Congress. 1 venture, nowever, to make special mention of some of the principal topics which are likely to be come subjects of discussion, without reviewing tbe controversies which have been settled during tbe last twenty years, and with no pur pose or wish to revive tne passions 01 me iie war. It should be said that while the Republicans fully recognize and will strenuously defend all the rights retained by the people, and all tbe rights reserved to the States, they re ject the pernicious doctrine of State su premacy wnicn so long cnppiea we iunctlons of tbe National Government, and at one time brought the Union very near to destruction. They Insist that the United States is a Nation tion, with ampie powers of self-preservation; that 1M Constitution and the laws made In I ursuance thereof "are the supreme law of the land;" that the right or tne xsauontoueiermlne the method by which its own Lfjlsla tu re shall be created can not be surrendered without abdicating ot e of the fundamental powers of the Government; that the National laws relating to the election of Representatives in Congress shall neither be violated nor evaded; that every elector shall be permitted freely and without Intimidation to cast his lawful vote at such election, and have It hones' lv counted, and that the potency of his vote k' m i be destroyed by the fraudulent vote of au) othfr person. The best thoughts and energies of our people should be directed to those great questions of National well being in which ail have a common luterett; such efforts will s ;onest restore to perfect peace those who were lately In arms against each other, for justice and goodwill outlast passion. But It is certain that the wounds of the war can not be completely heated, and the spirit of brotherhood cm not fully pervade the whole country, until every cit'zen, rich and poor, white or black, Is secure in the free and equal enjoyment of every civil and political rlgnt guaranteed bv the Constitution and the laws. Wherever the enjoyment of these right is not assured, discontent will prevail, immigration will case, and Ihe social and Industrial forces will continue to be disturbed by the migration of labor and the consequent dim 1 nuilon of DrosDeritv. The Natioual Govern ment should exercise all Its Constitutional authority to put an end to tboie evil. for all the people. and aU the states are members of one body, and no member can suffer without in jury t j all. The mtsi se lous evils which now afflict the Soul h arise from the fact that there is not such fredom and toleration or political opin ion and action, that the minority party can exercise an effective and wholesome restraint upon the party In power; without such re straint party rule oecomes Tyrannical una cor runt. The prosperity which Is made pos sible In the South by its great advantages of soil and climate will never be .realized until every voter can ireeiy and sateiy supporx any nartv he pleases. Next in importance to freedom and Justice Is popular education, without which, neither justice nor freedom can be permanently maintained. Its interests are lntrntted to the States and to the voluntary action of the people. Whatever help ihe Natten can Justly afloid should be generously given to aid the Stales in supporting common tcbools, but It would be unj ust to our people and dangerous to our in stitutions, to apply any portion 01 me revenues of the Nation, or of the States, to the sup port of sectarian schools. The separation of the Church and the State on everything relat lna to taxation should be absolute. On the subject of National finances, my views have been so frequently and fully expressed, that little is needed In the way of an additional statement. The public debt Is now so well secured and the rate of annual interest has been so reduced by refunding. that rigid economy in expenditures, and . the faithful application of our surplus revenues to the payment of the principles of the debt, will gradually but certainly free the people from Its burdens, and close with honor the financial chapter of the war. At the same time tbe Government can provide for all Its ordinary expenditures and discharge its sacred obligations to the soldiers of the Union, and to tbe widows and orphans of those who fell In Its defense. The resumption of specie payments, which tbe Republican party SO Cour ageously and successfully acoompiisnea, has removed from the field of controversy many Questions that onz and 6eriousiy disturbed he creditor the Government and the business cf the country. Our paper curiency Is now as Na'lonal ai the flag, and resumption has not only made it everywhere equal to coin, out has brought into use our store or gom ana silver. The circulating medium Is now more abundant thau ever before, and ve need only to maintain the quality of t.11 our dollars to insure to laoor ana capital a measure of value from the uae of which no one can sutler loss. The great prosperity which the country is now enjoying snouid not be endangered by any violent changes or doubtful financial experiments In reference to our custom laws, a policy should be pur sued which will bring revenue to me Treasury, and will enable the labor and capital em ployed la our great industries to compete lair ly In our own markets with the labor and capital of foreign production. We legis'ate for the people of the United States, not for the whole world, ana it is our glory that the Auerlcan laborer Is more intelligent and better paid than aU foreign competitor. Our country can not be independent unless its people, with thetr abundant natural resourcn. possess . tbe requisite skill at anytime to clothe, arm and equip them selves for war, and In time of peace to produce all tbe necessary implements of labor. It was the manifest intention of the rounders of the Government to provide for the com mon defense not by standing armies alone, but by raising among the people a greater army or artisans, whose intelligence aud skin should powerfully contribute to the safety and glory of the Nation. Fortunately for the In terests Of commerce, mere is noiODger any formidable opposition to the appropriations lor the improvements of our harbors and great navlzab'.e rivers, provided that the expendi tures for that purpose are etrlctfy limited to works or National importance, ine Mississippi River, with Its great tributaries, is of such vital Importance to bo many millions of people, that tbe safety of its navigation requires exceptional consideration. In order to secure to the Nation the control of all Its wa ters, President Jefferson negotiated the purchase of a vast territo ry extenoing from the Gulf of Mexico to the Iaclflo Ocean. The wisdom of Congress should be Invoked to devise some plan by which that great river shall cease to be a terror to thoae who dwell upon its banks, and by which its shipping may safely carry the industrial products or 25,000JOO people. The interests of agriculture, which Is the basts of all our material prosperity, and In which seven-twelfth f our popu ation are en gaged, as well as the Interests of manufacturers and commeice, demand that the facilities for cheap transportation shall be Increased by the use of all our great water courses. The material lnlere(ts of this country, the traditions of its settlement and the sentiments of our people have led the Oovernment to offer tbe widest hospitality to emigrants who seek our shores for new and happier homes, willing to share the burdens as well as the benefits of our society, and Intending that their posterity shall become an undistlnguishable part of our population. The recent movement of the Chin se to our faciflo Coast partakes but little of the qualities of such an emigration, either In its purposes or its results. It is toj much like au importation to bs welcomed without restriction; too much like an Invasion to be looked upon without solicitude. - We can not consent to allow any form of servile laboi to be introduced among us under the guise of immigration. RecgoizlDg the gravity of this subject, the prtsat administration, supported by Congrees, has seut to China a Commission of distinguished citizens for the purpose ol securing such a modification of the existing trea y as will prevent the evils likely to arise from the present situation. It is confidently believed that thesa diplomatic negotiations will be successful, without the loss of commercial Intercourse between the two powers, which promlcei a great increase of reciprocal trade aud the enlargement of our marsets. Should these efforts fail. It will be tbe duty of Congress to mitigate the evils already felt, and prevent their increase by such restrictions as, without violence or Injustice, will place npon a sure foundation the peace of our communities, and the freedom and dignity of labor. The appointment of citizens to the various executive and judicial offices of tbe Government, Is perhaps the most difficult of all the duties which tue Constitution has imposed upon the Executive. The Convention wisely demands that Congress shall co-operate with tbe Executive Departments in placing the civil service on a better basis. Experience has proved that with our frequent changes of administration, no system of reiorm can be made effective and permanent ' without the aid of legislation. Appointments to the military and naval eervioe ar- ro regulated by law and custom as to leave but little ground of complaint. It may not be wle to make similar regulation by law for the clvU service, but wKhout invadlug the authority or necessary discretion of the Executive, Congress should j devise a method that will determine the tenure of office, and greatly reduce the uncertainty, which makes that service so uncertain

and unsatisfactorf. Withour depriving any officer of his rlgtts as a citizen, the Government should require him to discharge all his official duties wltfl intelligence, efficiency and faithfulness. To jelect wisely from our vast popular on those whe are best fitted for the many offices to be filled, requires an acquaintance far bayond tie range of any one man. The Executive shonld, therefore, seek and recelve the informatpn and assistance of those whose knowledge of the : communities In which the duties are tobe performed best qualifies them to aid In making the wisest choice. The doctrines announced by the Chicago Convention are net the temporary devices of a party to attract ytes - aud carry an election.

iney are aeiibertte convictions, resulting from a careful siucyof the spirit of out Institutions, the eveutsof our history, ana the best impulses of'our ifeople. j In .ray Judgment these principles stuald control the leefatiatlon and administration of the Government. In any event they wil guide my conduct until experience points out a better way. If elected it will be my purpose to enforce a strict obedienco to the Constitution and the laws, and to promote aa best I nay the interest and honor of tne whole country, relying for support upon tne wuaom or congress, tne intelligence ana patriotism of thepeple and tbe favor of God. witn great respect, l am very truiy yours, J. A. Uabfibld. To Hon. Geo. F. Hoar. Chairman of Commit tee. GARFIELD'S BRAVERY. A Soldier's Testimony. TMonr (Mich.,) Sentinel. The following is from George Q. Gard ner, Captain of the Fifth Wisconsin Bat tery, of Roeecrans' Army of the Cumber land: Decorah, Ia., June 18, 1880. Dear Charley Your postal card of the 14th instant asking me to refresh your mind as to the'dates, facts, etc of an inci dent which occurred during the war of 1861, and in which General Garfield was an actor and I a spectator, was duly re ceived, and I herewith attempt to comply with your request: After the great and sanguinary battle of Chickamanga (I think in the latter part of October, 1863), I was bound North on a twenty days' furlough. At Louisville met Generals Garfield andbteedman. Garfield was going to Congress and Steedman North on business. Garfield had been our commanding General's Chief-of-staff. and Steedman commanded a fine division in the same army. "We happened to bo down to the ferryboat in the same 'bus, on top which were Garhelds and Meedman s negro servants. It appears that, owing to the fact that the Emancipation Procla mation was not general, and did not at that time apply to Kentucky, that State's Legislature had taken advantage of it and passed laws authorizing the kidnapping and confiscating of every stray negro that the gangs of civil officers and citizens could lay hands' upon. OCfcers with posses were stationed at the levees, in structed and authorized to sieze all Negroes attempting to cross the river on the boats, no matter where they were from. When we went on the boat we were all in ignor ance of this state law, and of the fact that that a strong force of men were on the boat for the purpose of seizing any unlucky darkey who might be going North with Union officers. My attention was first called to the fact by hearing General Garfield ask a pompo'us looking man "What do you want with that boy? I looked out of the 'bus window and noti ced that the man, in company with others. was ordering the two boys to get down from tbe bus and go ashore with them. The man who claimed to be the Sheriff, said the boys could not go across the river; that he should take possession of them etc., and proceed to force them off the boat. At this Garfield and Steedman jumped out of the 'bus. Garfield was mad ; he told those insolent men that he had been fighting rebels in the field for two years, that he would now do some fighting on the water, and that if they did not leave the boat at once they would get hurt. He stood between the negroes and the officers, and shook his fist in their faces, and dared them to touch the black boys who had so faithfully stood by. him in the camp and battle grounds of Stone Kiver and Chicfcamauga. General bteed man was mad; he pulled off his coat, and marched into the crowd, Baying he would fight such a white-livered set of rascals with good relioh; Cbickamauga had no terrors for him. neither had kidnapers. It was an exciting time then. While Gar field and Steedman were getting the negroes awav from the Sheriff,, and his uc"uic3, wo iciiuno iu kiic uus nein getting our revolvers out of our valices, and we soon were out and forming a line of battle, one deep and far apart in the rear of Garfield and Steedman. The Sheriff finally exhibited a disposition to take the negroes at any risk. Garfield, followed by us Diue-coats, 1 movea on the enemy en force. They retreated ''right smart" to the shore. The Sheriff from his safe place on the shore ordered the Captain not to move the boat with the negroes on board. The Captain then came to Garfield, and told him that he, the Captain,' could not take the boys across the. river without incur ring a heavy fine, and therefore would not move the boat General Garfield said he would relieve him of responsibility, so he announced he would pilot the boat across if some one would volunteer to run the engine- Upon several of the soldiers agree ing to do it, the Captain caved and or dered the boat untied, saying he would take the darned crowd across, and stop the 'tarnel fuss. The boat started and the row ended. Garfield and Steedman were resolute and brave. Their bold and determined manner, no doubt saved, bloodshed as the kidnapping crowd were too much cowed to presist in their attempt to take the negroes. Had even one shot been fired there would have been a red hot time on the boat ; the blue-coats present and looking on were worked up to a good fighting condition. I am yours hastily. ' George Q. Gardner, Torre Haute News. MrsEmma Lamont, is quite ill. Mr. Jackson, of Lexington, was in the city last Sunday. Mr. Johnson,- of Washington, C. H. Ohio, was in the city last week. The concert given at the A. M. . Church last Thursday was excellent . R. Bagby, went to Indianapolis last Sunday. He will go from there to Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Field's, have removed to Urbana, Illinois, where they expect to make their future home. Mrs. Turnnerfäüd Miss Jjlammie Robin son, both of St Louis, are in the city vis iting friends and relatives. Miss. Bessie Bradford, who has been teaching in Lost Creek, for the past eight months ha returned to her home in Mississippi. Miss Katie Moody, Miss Caroline Moody and Mrs. Elizabeth Easter, all of Paris. Illinois were in the city last Sunday, the guests of Mrs. Eliza Chavis . VOLTAIRE. A Happy Man at Lockport, N.Y E. C. Williams, of this place, is rejoicimr over the recovery of his wife who has been an invalid for the past four years. She has regained her strength, her complexion is vastly improved, and sne has walked more in the past month and ia stronger and better than she has been in years. lie attributes these happy results entirely to DayVKidney l'ad. ' Until about six years ago nearly all the street bootblacks in Paris were women.

Now they have altogether disappeared.

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