Indianapolis Leader, Volume 2, Number 39, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 May 1881 — Page 2

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J. D. BAGBY, Business Manager. Intend as second-class matter at the Poitofflce at Indianapolis, Ind. TEBM3 OF SUBSCRIPTION. ttsf U Copy, 1 year... .......... ...... 32. 00 6 nontbs............M.......m....MMn. 1.00 " S months .50 Clsbs of slzl year, each copy.,.,,. 1.75 ten, 1 year, each copy ... .. 1.60 mTJTC? "DATJPD mJ D found on file at lillO 1 Al Fi Ii Geo. P. Bowell 4 Co.'i Hswspaper Advertising Bureau (10 Spruce St ) where advertising contracts may be made for it in KEW YORK 8nbcrlbe for the Leader. Let every colored man who favors the 1 er at ion of his race subscribe for the Leader; and let every -white man who believes that slavery was a crme against humanity and that it is the duty of the ruling race to aid the Negro in his struggle for moral, social and intellectual elevation do likewise. LIBKKIA. The following pertinent remarks touching Alrica and American emigration thereto, are clipped from the Cincinnati Commercial : "Mr. George R. Stetson, of Boston, has written some queer chapters about the Republic of Liberia, on the west coast of. Africa. It was founded by philanthropists in the United States, some fifty years ago. It was to bo a speck of paradise lor freed slaves from America. Good people were 1o send them there, set them up on a republic on their own hook, and then leave them as the leaven which should finally put the whole Dark Continent into a ferment of Christian civiliza tion. If the republic prospered, then finally, in course of time, it wonld at tain the true condition of Christian civilization, in which its Peniten'tiaries and Insane Asylums would be ST 1 m ä 111 1 .1 a . lar Detter miea than its Churches. Then it could take rank with the highest. "In the period of enthusiasm, the American Colonization Society spent millions of money on the freedmen's Earadise. As far back as 1859 they ad sent 10,000 American Negroes there, at an expense of $180 per head. About half of them went to a paradise by a shorterroute than even theColona? r-t , izaxion society areamea ol. Tney died. "In beating the American bush for emigrants to Liberia, tuneful agents harped much on the extraordinary nenness oi Aincin soil. It had only to be tickled with a wooden hoe, to smile back a iuxurant harvest. Fruits, crain and vegetables, all that made glad the human stomach, grew in unlimited profusion. This was one side of the story. The silvertongued agent told that side. The .ii . ... omer pan was that every foreigner who uracneaine coast ot Libera. iU. U 1 ! 1 .. ' Luuugu ue remain no longer than a week, is stricken down with a horrible miasmatic sickness, called thA 'acclimating fever." The blistering duu, aiiciuauug wiiu neavy rams, and the rank vesretation from tho very soil whose richness the agents exalted, are the cause of the terrible malaria- Ague gets the better of civilization. It kills every white man who remains there a few years." "The savage African aborigines do A. rtr noi appear to suner irom the malaria. junte me xionaa Indians, who are proof against mosquito bites, they an pear to be soaked so full of poison xnai it aoes not hurt them, But the American -born negro suffers nearly as much as the white man. The mortality of the fever may be judged from some facts given by Mr. Stetson. On one occasion a coasting vessel made a trip to the delta of the Niger. She had a crew of fifty-five persons. Of these, twenty-five died. Another vessel went to the same place with a crew of twenty men. Ten -of them died within four weeks." "It will be remembered that a passion for emigration to Liberia suddenly seized the colored people of Georgia and the Carolinas three years ago. They sailed thither by hundreds One ship, the Azor, took 256 emif rants from Charleston at one load, t was fine fun the starting. All shared the devout belief that they were going direct to the Promised Land. But all their hopes turned to bitterest disappointment. The disgusted pilgrims died off like sheep in a Colorado blizzard. In many cases of .Negroes emigrating to Libiriafrom America whole families died, not one being left alive. On family often persons from Georgia sailed in the Azor. Three died on shipboard and two at Morrovia. The other five begged money and fled back to Georgia, before the acclimating fever took them too. 3Iany others ot the colonists who sailed within a few years to Africa are sending for money to bring them home. Liberia, the country of fertile soil and beautiful landscape, is so sickly that the very horses and mules die that are taken there." "Concerning other aspects of life in the model nejro Republic, educational, industrial, social and political the testimony is no less emphatic. The term "lazy African" is probablv only uuderstood in its truest sense in Africa. Under the scorching sun the laziness strikes in. The climate affects even the industrious freedman from America. In time be too gives up the struggle and ceases to work. "He turns to politics as an easier way of getting a living. Ho necks 'them 'ere offices' with enthusiasm. Thus he, at least, shows his capacity

for the highest civilization. Liberian elections are quite as loud and lively, and as frequent, as in the great "moddle" Republic of the United States, which the little African one was patterned after. "Liberian exports have been steadily declining for a number of years. A bare subsistence is rot hard to obtain among the naked aborigines who now constitute 35-30 of the 'inhabitants. What is the good of working when one is not obliged to do it? "It is not agreeable to record the fact that slavery exists throughout the negro Republic. Its horrors down South never surpassed the like horrors among these Liberians whoso slaves are of their own color and kindred. "In other respects the Africans who rule Liberia have shown their ability to acquire a high civilization the very highest, indeed. They have got a bonded debt. It is so large a one that there is no prospect whatever that they will ever par it. Moreover, it is all owed in London, every penny. Putting the two facts together, and connecting them by a link of reasoning with a well-known peculiarity ot tho noble British natnre, it is not so hard to make a prophecy concerning tho future of this, the ono black Republic on the face of the earth. "Some very singular facts have been developed in the history of Liberia. Nobody was moro enthusiastic in the cause of African coloniza. tion from this country than the Churches ant? the religious community. Missionaries went there by the hundred, labored among the black savages, and died martyrs to thcij Christian devotion. Who does not remember for years 'Afric's sunny fountains' as the objective points of missionary work in America. "What has come of all this work, of tho sacrifice of all theso unselfish

lives? Christians everywhere ex pected the Christianization of all Africa as confidently as tho Second Aventists looked for tho end of tho world. The happy result never fol lowed. One of the wild Negro tribes that joined the Liberian Government was Mohammedan in religion. There arc forty wild Ntgro tribes in the whole country. Instead of these naked heathens coming under tho gentle influence of the Bible, the one ri i . , . .uonarameuan irioe among them is converting them to the faith of the Turk with amazing rapidity. There is actually a prospect that at no dis tant day a majority of the inhabitants of Liberia will be followers of tho crescent and tho Koran. "Such is stated to be the present condition ot Liberia. Instead of civ llizmg the native Negroes, there really seems rather to bo danger that the civilized Negroes who went there will relapse into barbarism. They are the merest handful among so many. They suffer horribly irom the climate, and are growing poorer and poorer. Meantime the insidious British influence grows stronger and stronger. English men-of-war cruise along their coast and lie at anchor in their ports. English goods go into their country in larger and larger quantities every year, and they are artfully inveilged moro and moro deeply into debt to Great Britain. The certain end does not seem many years off. 'Under the circumstances, Mr. Stetson, of Boston, considers it high time somebody publicly and emphatically gave the numerous American Negroes who think of migrating to Liberia the advice Punch gave those about to marry : Don't. A Remarkable Case an Incidentally Developed in Cleveland. Cleveland Letter.l There has just been tried in the United States District Court here a case which on its face was not much out of the ordinary, but which had one or two very remarkable characters connected with it. The case, as reported in the papers here, was simply: "UnitedJStates vs. William Jones, for unlawfully obstructing the correspondence of another and embezzling a letter. Found guilty." That was all that was said. William Jones, the defendant, is as black as the ace of spades; and, as his eloquent attorney said in his argument, "lie and his fathers for ages had felt the iron hand of oppression, lie was born on the rice fields of the South, and labored there for many years until freed by the great martyr President's proclamation." The history of the case is soon told. I relate it for the purpose of giving an account of the prosecuting witness. William Jones, the defendant in the case, is a resident of Salem, in this State. In his house lived a couple bv the name of Alexander, the husband, a black man, the wife, a comely young white, woman. At the time of the embezzling of the letter, Alexander was in a neighboring town at work, and his wife was said to be at home sick. Jones obtained from the Postoflice the letter from Alexander addressed to his wife, and detained it for a day or two believing, it is claimed, that there was.money in it, but, on finding out to the contrary he gave up the document, saying he had obtained it from a newsboy on the train. It is thoueht that Jones took the letter, believing tw aw. ander had remitted money to his wife in 4.1 A. V A 1 A mat way, anu mat ne would thus secure it. Now for a few words of historv nf the ecuting witness, Mrs. Alexander. This woman is a niece of Chief Justice Agnew, of Pennsylvania. She Im twn hmt)ora wn are prominent attorneys before the liar of Pennsylvania; is herself beautiful and accomplished, and a graduate of one of the best institutions of learning in the State of Pennsylvania. She was reared to luxury, and was the daughter of a wealthy father; yet she chose to leave all and elope and tie her fortunes to a worthless colored man Had he been wise, or cultured, or good, there micht have been some mr-mihln moan J - - - Jj v m a.a a. of explanation; but this man was none of these. He was one of the most worthless of his race; and yet she stuck to him and loved him, and has continued true to him until the present When asked by the District Attornev hnw she became attached to Alexander, she said: "?vfv father nnrl tnHiop n-ura omoct n j - - - - ...... ...ww.. IV IV V 1 vO.l lJ U1C and did not love me as I thought. I had pienty to eat ana wear, to be sure, but I was not content with this. It was a school-girl's whim, I suppose, but I made up my mind to marry the first offer I had, and get away from an unpleasant home. My present husband was the son of our washerwoman. He was kind and attpnti began to love him, and he saw it. We were doui inexperienced in life, but we decided to run away and marry, and did so. We have en very poor, and I have been sick a great deal; but I have never ceased to love my husband." A strong solution of caustic potash in alcohol will remove the hard crust off the cylinder-head of a steam' engine.

THE VOTE OX

MAYOR. 00 3 WARDS. 3 6 VJ 4 S o tjj a Q First211 1C0 153 '201 l'Jf. 21 w! 294 210! 2tlj 2l6j lS'.t; ZW 4lj 221; 21t! 401 ! 259! 2W! au I 474 m 2!W 3M7j 29!)i 21H) 327 207; 40S. 254 321 i 37 324 16'., im 220! 2tiH' 252! 2M; 270! 25 273 221 211 40 I 15 I 15 , 25' 5ii Second Third.. . Sixth.... Keventh Kighth Ninth Tenth Kleventh Twelfth Thirteenth.... Fourteenth.-. 20, 253 I 310 7 4 4 4 8 28 4 10 6 4 9 m ' 4 ' 23 7 9 r ifteenth.... Sixteenth... Seventeenth., Eighteenth... Nineteenth..., I Twentieth Twenty-first Twenty-second.... i wenty-thlrd Twenty-fourth. 1 2".3 Twenty-fifth Total Pluralities I6505 71S2. M7 TIIK ALDERMEN. FIRST DISTRICT. Charles M. Cooper, D., 960; James T. Layman, it., 1.XU3; ewton J. McDanlel, 93. Layman'a plurality, 853. 8ECOXD DI8TRICT. Frank A. Maus. D., 1,297; Dick D. Reuter, R., 1,42. e Kueiers majority, 14). THIRD DISTRICT. Frank B. McDonald, D., long term. 870: Fierce Norton. D.. short term. 872: Harry Drew. It long term, 1.S34: Urainard Rorlson, K., short term, 1,227. Korisou's majority, 955. Drew's ma jority, 904. FOURTH DISTRICT. Christian Clafly, D 1,273; Hiram Seibert, R.. l,4ts:. öeibert'8 majority, 210. FIFTH DISTRICT. John Newman. D., 1.820; John C. Waters. R l.ioo, J. K. uueii, 44. .Newman's plurality, 026. The Council. First Ward James F. Carter, D., 264; George weaver, u, 32a; iiuey, is., 38. weaver s plural ity 21. Second Ward Frank P. Woollen, D., 77; Harvey a. stout, k., 393; Ij. lice, u. stouva plurality, 3UI. Third Ward James Hyland, ID., 75; J. A Pritchard. K., 51: Williant L. White, N., 2; Robert L. McUiiat, 1. rriu-lianra plumlitv. 160 Fourth Ward Conrad Monningt r, D.. 157 A. K. Caylor, R., 2.'0. Altert P. Summers, 120: James Parker, 32. Caylor's majority over Mouninger, 6, No plurlitj. Fifth Ward Richard O. Johnson. D., 142: John R Pearson. K., :o9. Pearson's majority, 21 Sixth Ward Phincas'i. Jordoii, D.,12; looswell W ard, R., 44. ard majority. 318. Seventh Ward James King. D., 250; C. T . Re ford, R.. :t: L. J. Bullock, N., 24. Bedfords"! plurality, xl. Eight Ward-Ernst II. Koller, D., 318: A. J Many. R., 221; Thomas J. Sharp, N 5. Roller's plurality. 95. Ninth Ward Sidney N Johnson, D., 16;?; Philip Reichweiu. R., 172, scattering, 3. Reichwein's plurality 306. Tenth Ward Charles E. Hough. D., 211: B. W Cole, R., i57. Cole's majority, 4. Eleventh Ward Ross Clark, Ü- 16S; Isaac Thalmau, R., 379; George L. J I. Rice, 15. Thalman's plurality 196. Twelth Ward John M. Youar D., 143; W. II. Morrison, R., 433. Morrison's majority, 290. Thirteenth Ward William Powell. D..132; John R. Corrie, 439; Ed S. Pope, 7. Corrie's plurality. 300. Fourteenth Ward R. II. McNeils, D ,231; Henry J. Mauer. 341. Mauer s majority, 110. Fifteenth ard Patrick Harrold, D., 3C5, Frank F. Wesbey. R., 13S; Josiah fhook, 1. Harrold's pluralty, 227. sixteenth Ward James T. Dowling. D.. 319: Hugh Burns, lw, 211: Ezekel Flack, 7. Dowling's plurality, lui Seventeenth ward John ('. Purdy. P., 213; Peter F. Bryce, R., ZJO; Wm. Trimtert, 6. Bryce's plurality. 11. Eighteenth Ward Simeon Coy, D., 295; Ernest L. Hasseid, R., 219; II. N ChKlfeltcr, 2. Coy's Plurality, v. Nineteenth Ward Fred. Hartman, !., 351: 'E. P. Thompson, R , 310. Hartman's plurality, 41. Twentieth Ward Nelson Yoke. R., 381; Henry A. secnst, 1., 14. lone s majority, aio. Twenty-first Ward James Belknap, P.. 238; Edgar Brundage, R.,3;6; Patterson, N., 27. Bruuaage plurality, 71. Twenty-second Ward Will F. A. Bernhamer.D., 299: John Egger. K.. so l. larger a maiontr. 2. Twenty-third Ward Max P. Koeckert, D., 298, ea. 11. nean, K., 322; w llson, N.. 11. Dean's plmranty, 1. Twenty-fourth ward John A. Lang. D 54; r-rnest Knodel, K., 269. Knodel s majority. To. Twenty-fifth Ward Jno. W. Fultz, P., 41; James Costello, R., 225; Wm. II. Britton, N, 14. h ultz's plurality, 239. The Board of Aldermen. First District J. T. Layman, Francis W Hamilton. Second District Deck De Ruiter, George F. Wood. Third District II. E. Drew, B. Rorison. Fourth District Hiram Seibert, W. II. Tucker. Fifth District John D. Newman, N. D. Mussman. The New Council. First Ward George Weaver. Second Ward Harvey B. Stout. Third Ward James A. Pritchard. FoHrth Ward Allen E. Cavlor. Fifth Ward Jno. R. Pearson. Sixth Ward Boswell Ward. Seventh Ward Collins T. Bedford. Eighth Ward-Ernst II. Koller. Ninth Ward Philip Reich wein. Tenth Ward Barton W. Cole. Eleventh Ward Isaac Thalman. Twelfth Ward William II. Morrison. Thirteenth Ward John R. Cowie. Fourteen Ward Henry Mauer. Fifteenth Ward Patrick Harrold. Sixteenth Ward-James T. Dowling. Seventeenth Ward P. F. Bryce. Eighteenth Ward Simeon Coy. Nineteenth Ward Fred Hartman. Twentieth Ward Nelson Yoke. Twenty-first Ward Edgar Brundage. Twenty-second Ward John Egger. Twenty-third Ward Ed II. Dean. Twenty-fourth Ward Ernest Knodel. Twenty-fifth Ward John W. Fultz. CREAM OF THE "SPECIALS." Mile. Hernhardt Homeward Bound. A New York special of the 4th says: Besides the great number of people who gathered to see their friends there were a great many who came out of curiosity to witness the departure of Sara Bernhardt, who, with her sister Jeanne, M. Angclo. Mr. Harry Jarrett and the members of her companv, arrived nt the wharf shortly after 9 o'clock. Mile. Bernhardt went immediately to her stateroom in the after part of the ship. On the way she was much delighted with the display of flowers that had been prepared for her. The long tables In the large f aloon were laden .with floral pieces in beautiful designs. From her stateroom Mile. Bernhardt and her sister presently ascended to the upper deck, where they were the center of a curious throng. A large crowd of friends bade her adieu. and then gathered on the dock waving their farewells as the vessel passed out into the stream. Standing close to the rail the actress wrung her hands, kissed ihem and at intervals waved her handkerchief to those on the dock. Mile. Bernhardt, after a short stay at her homo, near Havre, will fill engagements in Brussels and London. after which she will return to her home for a long rest during the warm summer months. She said to-day that should she ever come to America again it will not be until after she has mastered the English language sufficiently to play in English. Since she came here she has been learning trie English language rapidly, and has found that she is apt in acquiring the proper pronunciation. She said she had almost memorized the part of "Beatrice" In "Much Ado About Nothing," which she admires greatly and intends to play. "If I ever pliy in Englisn," she safd, "it will only be in Shnkspeare's plays." As to returning to the Theater Francaise, she said nothing could induce her to make such a sacrifice; that now she is free to do whatever she likes, go where she likes, act what and when she likes, or remain idle, always making ten times as much money as M. Perm could offer her. She would not, she said, submit to being caged again for any advantage except the pleasure of being supported by a supeib company of actors. Awful Suicide With Coal Oil. From Pottfiville, Pa., comes the following dispatch to the Chicago Times, dated May 4: A suicide full of harrowine details occurred at Shenandoah, this County, this afternoon. Bridget Belaney, a widow, aged about fifty years, crazed by grief over the death of two promising sons, poured coal-oil over her clothing while no one was about her, and then set fire to it. In an instant she was enveloped in flames. Though her flesh waa charred to the bone she never uttered a cry, and Her condition was only discovered by a neighbor who saw her through the open door as she lay upon the lloor, with the Are dying out. The neigh oorhood waa instantly aroused, and the Deputy Coroner. Dr. I. II. snultz. summoned. It required but a hasty examination to prove that life was already extinct, and that her death, horrible as it was, was the act of a maniac. While the crowd was about the house the unfortunate woman's other two sons returned home from their work at the mines. The gastly acene they witnessed on entering the house gave them such a hock that for a time they were unable to speak; but their grief afterward found vent In the most

THE CIW TICKET.

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ZS! :ak). 35fi, 204! 224 381 1 iso; 24 4 32 7 4 4 5 8 29 4 10 6 4 8; 7 20 6 A 4 5 4 4 182 175 167 31 1 191' 374 175, 181 2:; 379; 337; 201 214! 374 171 ; 211 i 27j 401 401! 279, 136, 200, 245! n(J4 37x1 3771 354; 312! 222 219 1 6 8 1 29 I 4 I 11 ! 29 3ftf! 4 10, ; 340 10 219 233 381 191. 2x7 3 319, 309 4S3 4 4 9 8 2 5 9 1 20 6 r '8 8 5 8 11 2 20 4 9 7 24 7 3t0 2C7( Sill 2051 48l 207( 272 218 r' m I 299 472 17 5390 7880, I 'ls-.to;. 6115 7970 1 195V 30 6012 7913 ' T.tOll 310 5770 8U51 2345 412 agonizing screams, which were heard Rquarcs away. At the inauest, held this evening, they testified to the death of their two brothers, one in the mines at Raven Run some time ago and the other a few weeks ago of fever, and that since then their mother's mind has been seriously affected. Mrs. Dclancy had the sympathy of the people of the little mining city In her atllictions. and her sudden and awful taking off is the sole topic 01 conversation mere to-night. Hold in Wisconsin. A special from Fond du Lac, Wis., dated May 4, na s ; Some time since what was thought to be a goldbearing quartz was discovered a few miles north east 01 mis city, on the farm of N. K. Maxwell. A ledge 01 lime rock, varying from ten to fif tv feet, periendicular face, partially encircles Fond du Lac at a distance of from three to ten miles. It was at a point on this ledge, where quartz crops out under the limestone, that these specimens were found. At this point the gold-bearing quartz snows nine ieei aDove tne sunace 01 me ground, and reaches to an unexplored deoth below. Some secimens taken from the toi of the drift assayed iu Boston $11 per ton. On the strength of the first assay, made in Boston, a companv of Boston caditalists have secured a working lease of the farm. and have a stamp mill and the necessary mining macmnery now on tne road, rncy expect to be gin operations within the next sixty days. Dorsey Halber Paralysed. A Washington special gives a brief conversation between Dorseyand Attorney General MacYeagh, as m lows; Dursey then asked the Attorney Gcieral if there was any testimony already taken that implicated XI 1 III . Mr. MacYeagh relied: "There is." "Can I see it,"." asked Doiev. "Not at present." "io yon intend to iermit me to present my ansfr 111 11 . "Certainly." "When?" "After the Grand Jury shall have considered It." replied MacVtagh. with a cold gravity that had a ery paralyzing eitect upon Dorsev. He then piled the Attorney General with questions, desir ing to get at his opinion. Finally he asked Maceagh point-blank whether he believed that he (Horsey) was Implicated in any corruption in connection with the Star Routes MacYeagh replied, coolly: "From the evidence already taken. I do. ' A Te.Tible Fall and Narrow Kscape. A Baltimore social of May 4 says: Yesterday afternoon Mis Carrie Duce fell to the bottom 01 a sink in the yard of the house, a dis tance oi hlty feet, by the givi;ig way of the Moor ing 01 tne closet, which she had just entered. A rope with a noose in one end was lowered to the lady, who could be heard but not seen, with airections to place the noose under her arms. W ith admirable presence of mind Miss Duce did as requested, and was quickly brought to the sunace. sne was carried into the house, and Dr. Baldwin summoned. He made a careful examin ation, but whs unable to find any broken bones or otner senous injuries. The lady, however, was considerably bruised, and has sustained a great shock to her nervous system, rendering her hysterical at times. Her escape from death, either irom tne lall or 6Utlocation, was almost miracu lous. Reecher'a Arrest. A Philadelphia telegram of May 4 says: Henry Ward Beecher lectured in this city tonight, and in an interview regarding his trouble in Baltimore, reported by the Associated Press, says: "I was not arrested. They served a sum mons on me in some suit that llathway and Pond (his agents) can tell about. This is no capias; it is simply a summons, as you can see." Mr. Pond explains that "the manager of theA.rrieult Society of Cumberland had been grow ling about auegeu oreacn 01 contract by Mr. Beecher in noj lecturing for the State Fair a year and a half ago. lie aia not have any contract with them. We made th contract, and when Mr. Beecher found mat we aaa not provided Intervening appointments according to his contract witt us, hedecinea to deliver the lecture. This was long cuuugu ui advance tor us to give me 1 air people due notice. They, however, would nottaknhi name from their advertisement, and made use of 11 to draw people, who were very much incensed at what was cunningly given out to be a willful dereliction ou Mr. Beecher's part. The Fair Com pany have no cause of action against tis, but the public ought to have against them. This suit amounts to nothing, and the summons was only i?sut.-u ior embarrassment. Lew Wallace. A Washington Special of May 4 says: The President has decided to nominate General M!w Wallace Minister to Turkey. It is sunwsed that he will accept this. The position of Charge d' Affairs at Paraguay he did not deem quite up to his level. Ex-Representative W. W. Williams, of Indiana, is to be nominated as United States Con sul 01 Montevideo. Indiana Takes First Preminm. A Jacksonville, 111., dispatch of May 4 says: The event of the season was that of the seventh annual contest of the Inter-State Oratorical Association, which took place at the Opera House this evening, for the championship of the Northwest. The attendance was very large, the Onera House crowded .to overflowing. First honors were awarded to Charles F. Collin, of Indiana, and the second to oweu Morns, 1 Minnesota. Visitations of Providence. ! New York World.l This ia the season of the year rrhen minis ters most frequently stand at the heads of coffins, and before benches full of solemn mourners, to talk of mysterious dispensa tions 01 rroviaence. 11 is tue season in w hich men who were in their prime a week ao are buried to-day, when vouni men who were certain, 111 their own minds, of lengui ot uays, nurry suddenly to the land in which we are assured thev will remain young forever, while rosy children o the same wav witn a rapidity that is startling In all such cases the preacher varns the hearers to prepare for death; would it not be just as reverential and far more sensible to improve the optortunity to warn men that they should be more careful in preparin ior me: 11 is not, a visitation or I'roviuence that impels a man to go out into a V . damp breeze, even if he be warm, without being well clad. Providence does not require brisk young men, whom sprins sunshine tnrows into a proluse perspiration, to sit down Dy an open window to get cool, nor , . - does Providence prompt mothers to semi chil dren out in light attire tc plav on a dav in which the weather is not the same for more than two hours at a time. Providence never creates people for the purpose of coiuiiur to an untimelv end throu&rh their own irn urn. dence, and ministers are just the men who I should say as much to their hearers. Politeness of the Heart. St. James' Gazette. x nope, jegouve wrncs. "i am as much a Nineteenth-Century man as any; but i don t repudiate all the past. There were both good and chaaming things in it. and I would fain steal some of its graces to adorn our modern life. France will not be quite herself until she has allied the manner of the old with the principles of the new." And the outlines oi true politeness he notes in the behavior of a little boy. "One day, when he was onlv five, his mother gave him a penny to carry to an old infirm beggar whom they met on the road. The child took the coin, and as he dropped it into the outstretched hand he raised ins cap. Thanks to him, we can complete the thought of Vauven argues and eay, 'Polite ness is like great thoughts, it comes Irom the heart.' " "My brethren," said a Western Minister, "the preaching of tho Gospel to some people is like pouring water over a sponge it soaks in and stays. To olhera it ia like wind blowing through a chicken coop. M v experience of this congregation is, that it contains mere cmcaen COOPS than SDOnees " Andrew's Bazar. I

JOHN BROWN.

The Room In Which the Plot of Harper's Ferry Insnrrection Was Planned. Red Itrick Ilouse In Chatham Where, In All Probability, "IIU Soul is Marching On." Detroit Free Press. Excursionists from Detroit are well acquainted with Chatham. King street is at all times a busy thoroughfare, and with it Dctroiters are most familiar. If the visitor were to take this street and walk eastward he would come to a part of the town inhabited mainly by colored people, and he would see neat and often handsome residences, and a school house for colored children, that would do honor to any city. Nearly opposite this school house is a two-story red brick dwelling of quaint, old-fashioned build, whose length is just about the same as its height. The gables are bricked up higher than the roof, and a broad chimney occupies each end. The side is toward the road, and the five front windows are broad and rather low, while the paneling and moldings on the white door are unique and intricate. In this house were held secret meetings that doubtless hastened, if they did not bring on, the American Civil War. The house is owned by J. Holden, probably the best known man in Chatham, and a gentleman whose face is familiar in Detroit. Mr. Holden is a Louisiana Creole, and has lived in Chatham about twenty-five years. He has a fund of historical reminiscences, and when I told him the particular period to which I wished to direct his attention, he very cheerfully gave me every facility for writing this article. I mention this because, under the circumstances, most people would not have been so affable, as Mr. Holden has lost $15,000 bv the burning of his City Mills only a few" days ago. As we walked up King street to his residence he related the hitherto unwritten incidents that preceded Harper's Ferry insurrection. Our talk was rather interrupted by a rather curious meeting. We met a Yawcob Strauss darkey. Imagine a colored man talking broken Ger man: He was a negro with prodigious lips and narrow iorehead. Ihe Hps made cm for get every other feature in his face. "Hello, Africa, cried Mr. Holden, cheerily. "Had anything to eat lately?" "Yaw." said Africa, "I got me dem apple." And he held up a paper bag with half a dozen apples m it. "That won't keep you alive. You ought to ouy some bread. "Veil, 1 don't got some monev." 1011 will remember to pay this back when you make some monev." "Oh, yaw," said Africa, pocketing the half dollar given him and making a gro tesque now as he walked away. "He came from Gape Town, and I have been supporting him all winter and just got him a job in a stable the other day. He belonged to the British Marines, and was for a long time among the Doers, and that ac counts for his strange vernacular. He speaks iwer English," said Alrica s guardian, in answer to mv inquiries. "John Drown came here in the spring of iso, continued Mr. Holden, "and came to my house. He staid here for about two weeks. Some of the meetings were held in the Daptist Church, but the most important Committee meetings were held in John Brown's room." Here we came to the Church. It was quite a large frame structure, but as it had new siding, new roof and new furniture, there is little to remind the visitor of its former state. A few doors further on we came to the Holden homestead, with its neat front yard, white picket fence and comfortable appearance. Up a stairway from the front entrance we come to a door to the left that opens into 'John Brown's room," which looks out with its two broad windows toward the mountains where the struggle planned within its walls had taken place. "Drown s plan was this," Mr. H. went on. 'He wanted to inaugurate a sort of guerrilla warfare in the Blue llidge Mountains. He wanted to assist the slaves to fly to the mountains and get the most inaccessible po sitions they could. Haids were to be made on the plains below to get provisions, am munition and hrearms, and to induce other slaves to join the Mountain Republic. Brown expected to scatter this colony all along this range, and even if one section were captured or defeated, it would not materiallv affect the rest." "How long did he expect to hold the fort?" "He expected to hold it all the time, but those of us who were less enthusiastic thought it could be held till the attention of the country was called to a struggle of the colored man for liberty. "Mr. Brown had the whole government of this colony planned. The ollicers were ap pointed and all the laws were written out. They were written in such a language that even if they had fallen into the hands of the United tstates Government nothing treason able could be found in them. The Presi dency was offered to Fred Douglass first, but he refused, and it was then oflered to Martin It. Delanev, who also refused it. The fact is. Delanev was better at talkine than at acting, and besides he was precious careiui 01 Ms own satety. "Who ultimately became President of the Government in the clouds?" 'Nobody. The plan was exposed bv a for eigner who was in the plot. He was in Bos ton when it became known that he was going to turn traitor to us. Drown then went back to Kansas and I went to British Columbia, and was there when Brown made his attempt at Harper's Ferry to establish mountain government. At this time there were about 1.000 neirroes in Chatham, but only half a dozen or so were in the counsels of the conspirators. It was given out that Brown was an illustrious member of the Masonic Order who wasiniti ating the colored brethren into the mysteries in that second-storv front room. No letters were received or sent from Chatham. A messenger went every now and then to London, sixty-four miles, to the east, for the correspondence. Brown had with him his surveyor's instruments and passed for a civil engineer. Only one Chatam man took part in the insurrection; 111 is was usmirn Anderson, who died some He went with Brown, was in the light, and escaped to the mountains, through which he wandered for weeks and came haeV tr i Mint I.-, m -i ..iio.it living ciat,.n After mv interview with Mr Unt.ion ' t started out toward Buxton, the ereat Canauian raradise tor the colored man. As we lurked along over the terrible roads. u soinary iiorscman ovenooK us. lie was a l ; a i . , . stalwart negro with an intelligent face and rather long, black beard. "ihere s your man. lhat s Garrison Fhad, called after ilham Blovd Garrison," said mv companion. Mr, ishad had a black, fiat bag slung over us shoulder. He had just finished his task of taking the census of that part of the County seat. He rode up beside the buggy. and we had a sort of rough-and-tumble in terview over the rugged road. lie thought .Mrs. Jlolden was mistaken in saying John Brown went to Kansas after the visionary Government was formed. Brown staid in Chatham till awhile before the Harper's Ferry trouble, and left with An derson in a covered wagon. The Kansas story was given out to mislead. Anderson was a man six feet two inches high, and stout in projortion. Shad and he worked in the fields together. Anderson was a thoughtful man and very enthusiastic over the'project. He said when he came bacic that they had reute! a house near Harper's Ferry, and that they lay around all day and prowled forthat night. The men suspended a bag of bran from the rafters and whiled away the tedious hours boxing the bag and improving their muscle. A whitewashed house stands about four miles from Chatham, opposite Thomas Irvine's, and Ihi i th ShflH hnrnaotaaA Young John Brown lived there till the War

began, and here he heard the news of the hanging of his father. Young John is remembered by the inhabitants of Haleigh Plain as the shy man who avoided recognition. It is believed that this portion cf the history of the celebrated insurrection has never before appeared in print. A Scheme Started by a Number of Philanthropists to Instruct the Freedmen In Weaving, Carding, Dyeing and Other Branches of Skilled Labor. Philadelphia Times.l In the late Presidential election New Jersey went Democratic by 2,000 majority. How it will go in the near future time is regarded as problematical. There is a plan on foot to colonize two New Jersey villages with colored people from the South. Kadi village is partly situated in Camden and partly in Burlington County. These Counties arc now Democratic strongholds. So far as appears on the surface, however, political design has no part in the colonizing enterprise. It is said to have taken its rise with men like George G. Williams, of Columbus, O., Dev. Peter Ran

dolph, 01 Boston, Bishop Dickinson, of South Carolina, and Itev. Henry Highland Garnet, of New York, men whose feelings are humanitarian and who have an interest in the future welfare of the African race in this country. The scheme is intended to make a start in teaching the colored people industrial habits beyond the circumscribed limit of field work and waiting at table. It is promised to secure a large tract, where great numbers of colored ieople can have homes of their own and cultivate the soil, and this tract is to have large manufacturing establishments, including mills of various kinds, where colored people of both sexes, young and old, may find useful occupation and in time develop skill and become exrerts in weaving, carding, dyeing and a dozen other important branches about which the great body of colored ieople now know nothing. Such a piece of property has been ticked out and negotiations are in progress or its purchase. It appears that Edwin 11. Fittz, of Boston, representing the capitalists and public men interested in the project, has been in com munication with Maurice Haleigh, of this city, concerning the purchase of the extensive projcrty owned by Mr. Haleigh, on the lines of the Xew Jersey Southern and Camden and Atlantic Ha'ilroads. Mr. Haleigh owns 28,000 acres, including 3,900 acres under cultivation, upon which are located several cotton and yarn mills, in which are manufactured goods for the extensive hosiery business carried on by him at the warehouses on Bank street, in this city. The entire villages of 'aterford and Atsion, naim d after places in Kaleigh's native Irehiiid, are included in the property. There are over fifty horses, 15o head of cattle and a great deal of outdoor implements, which would be included in ili purchase. Besides the force of several streams there is steam power. In Yaterford there is a hosiery factory with a capacity accommodating 400 hands, a large suspender factory, a saw mill said t have cost $i,00 ami eighty dwelling houses. Atsion lias a flour mill, a saw mill, four stores, a cotton mill, said to have cost $150,000, forty dwelling houses, an engine house, estimated in value at $.',0,000. and a numberof farm houses. It is protend to buy. all this for the colony, and Mr. Haleigh has set his price at $1,200,000. A disposition lms been shown to accede to the terms, and the only point unsettled seems to be whether Mr. Haleigh will himself become a contributor vir share in the enterprise on a joint stock basis. Mr. Raleigh said yesterday: "There is no written contract, but I have given verbal assent to the sale, which amounts t the same thing. The tirst payment of $1.V,000 is to be made August 1, next. A similar amount is to be paid April 1, 1SS2 and .2T0,000 April 1, 183. The balance is to be placed on mortgage for six years. I am confident the im provements could not be replaced for the sum specified. I have no doubt that the sale will take effect." Some of the Devices Used for Removing Ink and for Concealing Forgeries. "Check raising is getting to be one of the lost arts," said an old detective, "and as checks are prepared now-a-davs they are pretty safe. There art- some of the crooked men, however, who know all the tricks of removing ink. I was once curious enough to learn how it was that thev could so suc cessfully alter a check. Different forgers use different methods. Our successful slock forger used equal quantities of lapis calaminarlis, common salt and rock alum, which he boiled for half an hour in white wine in 1 s a new pipmn, or ne used a line sponge shaped like a pencil, which he dipped in 1 - - . 1 . , i ..11 , equai quaimucs ui mire anu vnroi uisuueo. As he passed this point over the ink it came right out Sometimes equal quanti ties of sulphur and powdered saltpeter, bot-h distilled, were used. For a long time the police did not understand what, use was made of a little ball that new and then was found in the possession of a prisoner. This turned out to be made of alkali and sulphur and was used for removing ink. It is hard to find an ink that will not disappear under one plan ol treatment or another. I knew a check raiser -who had a small labratory. lie Kept bottles ot acid 01 all sorts and a case of camel's hair brushes. With a small quantity of oxalic or muriatic acid. somewhat diluted, and a camel's hair pencil he could paint out any number ot ink spots. One or two applications, followed by the use of a blotting pad, would restore the paper to primitive purity. It requires skill and an accurate knowledge of chemicals to use any ot these plans so .as to not injure the texture 01 the paper or discolor it. lithe paper is injured it is not so easv to write upon it again, but by the use of finely pow dered pounce, rubbed in lightly with the finger and burned with an ivory folder, the paper can be repaired. Common writing ink, however, is best removed by the use of oxygenated muriatic acid. "But the new style of checks, with the amount cut through the paper with a die, are nam to alter. Here is a checlc with a revenue stamp in old gold color in the cen ter, and broad lines of red ink are drawn close up to the amount written in. There is another broad line of red ink after the name of the payee. Up in the left hand corner, where the amount is in figures, you will see that the figures are also cut in between two stars, which are likewise cut through the paper. On the reverse side of the check just over these cut figures is pasted a pink strip which brings the cut figures out in such relief that they can not be altered with out detection. The only wav to alter that check is to take out the first written word in the amount in the body of the check, and the amount in the corner, and, after replac ing them with the raised sum. to inlay a piece of check paner in the place of the cut figures. This inlaying process requires great care and onlv one or two men in this country are apt to do it. The cut figures must be carefully cu out by a sharp, razor-like tool, and cut in such a wa-v thatJ.he ed?,es , te lK'tn,nr will be Deveiied. inen a iresn on ot cnecK paper must be shaped to the size of the oien mg and fitted in with its edges also bevelled The edges must be held together with a paste made of flour and strained resin, and carefully pressed. Smic iounce rubbed over the lines will conceal the patch unless there is a strong light, and then with the same die that bankers use raised figures can be in serted. The work is delicate and is not often attempted, a it involves the risk of ruining the check for the amount for which it is good. By the way, the cutting into the check had a curious origin. After a big forgery caused by a raised check, some one wrote a letter to the Sun, suggesting that the amount for which checks are drawn should be cut through the paper. The suggestion was at once adopted by a man who, I under stand, made a fortune from it A Dog that Acts Like a PoliremanOnly lie Won't Drink and is Fond of Janitors' Daughters. New York Sun.l Late on a wani August afternoon some five years ago, while the Captain of the Church street police station was leaning negligently back in his chair behind the desk, a chunky-built dog of solemn mein walked gravely into the room, and sat down in the middle of the floor with the air of a dog whose right to such a liberty was enureiy Deyona question. "Whist! Get out!" The Car tain yelled these syllables at the dog, but the animal never moved. Then the official shied a small paper weight at the dog, who looked up with an expression of-j grave disapproval and settled himself in his

former position, and paid no more attention to the man behind the desk. After one or two more attempts at Ii si od anient, the Captain fell into a reverie and left the dog in peace. Later the dog aroused himself, and trotted into the rear roon where the jx.licemen congregate. He walked about quietly until he found a position to his liking under the table, in the center of the room. He lay down here and went to sleep. At midnigiit the fourth section of the second platoon was rung up. The men marched into the main room and ranged themselves in line. The dog followed and took up his position at the foot. When t he roll was called the Sergeant named the dog Pete, and bade him go with the men. He followed them out, went around from one ost to another, returned with the platoon m the morning, and went to sleep under the table. Helays of men were called during the day, but the dog did not move. At (5 o'clock the fourth section of the second platoon was again called out. The dog marched in w ith the men and took up his tuition at the fot of the line. "By George!" said the Captain, "there's that pup again. Well, don't feed him, doorman, and he'll soon go away." But he didn't go away. He has never been fed in the station, and he has ahvavs acted thoroughly at home. "There's one ieculiar thing about Pete," said the Sergeant at the dek, yesterday. "He moves and acts exactly like a policeman. He never runs or jumps and plavs. but simply strolls along. He's fond of janitors' daughters, and will stand stock still in a shadowy doorway for hours at a stretch. Not a man in the Precinct has ever seen him eat, and I'm pretty sure that the general public never saw him drink. And then, what a clever dog he is! In the winter of '79, on the 10th of January, if my memory serves, Pttewas walking along Greenwic h street, on his way fiom ost to post, when he saw three men at the basement door of the bonded warehouses Nos. us, 100 and Iu2. A moment later and the men had forced tjie door, entered the building, and closed up their work so that a passing glance, could not detect that anything had been tnnitercd with. Pete lay down by the door and growled. After a while "Ollieer Dougherty came along, and, patting the dog on the head, walked on, exjecting the dog to follow him. Pete never moved, but grow led louder than before, with his eyes fixed like augers on that door. Doughterty tried to get him to move, but it wouldn't do. At last the officer saw that something was up. He examined the door, then rapiod for assistance, and the building was searched. Two of the burglars were captured. The other one escaped. About 3 o'clock one morning last winter, Pete was trotting along Broadway, when he discovered a broken pane of glass m a clothing store near Cedar street, lie stopped at once and barked like mad. Every man in the Precinct knows Pete's voice. Officer Donnelly ran to him and found that there had beeil a light robbery. Whether the dog frightened the thieves away or not. we never knew. Anoter time the dog discovered a tire at 210 Fulton sreet. Pete has never missed his turn on the second platoon, and has never gone out with any other than the fourth section in live years." Witberf orc-' Tact, LFrom the Lite of P.ishop W'i Iberforce. A new Church wa ab ut t be opened by the Btship, and a number of neighboring clergy were invited t he present at the ceremony. Arrangements had been made for the clergy to walk into the Church in procession in surplices, the Bidiop last. The procession was formed, all was read-, when the Rector came 1 1 the BUh j. saying, "All will be spoilt, two clergy are conic in black gowns; they declare they will wear them in the procession. They are come for the purpose of openlv showing their evangelical principles," The Bishop replied, "All will be well; they will go in surplices." The Rector assured the liishon that this

was impossible, and that any remonstrances he might make would only cause disturbance The Bishop, after again reassuring the Rector, said to the clergy, who were formed two and two, "Gentlemen are you ready?" and receiving a reply in the auirmative, hestepied along the raiik, and accosted the the first black-gowned clergyman with, "Good morning Mr. , will you have the kindness to read the First Lesson for us this morning?" Then, passing to the second with the request that he would read the Second Les n; the two lied to find surplices, and the procession went into Church with the two clergy clad as the others. 25 YEARS' EXPERIENCE! TIIE Indian Botanic Physician LATE OF LOXDOX, ENGLAND, The most tnccegful catarth, long and tliroat Ioc tor Id America, is permanently locntMl at tli ro r tier of Illinoin and Louisiana tretn, Irdiaiini Ii Indiana, wh-re lie ill examine all diwearee, Tic tell the complaint without atkiug a riiigle queiia 99Connltation Free, in either German or Englioh PERMANENT CUftF.N! Dr. Reeves warrant a pt-rmanont rnre of th following dineHnes: Piles and tumors, itchin-; anc protruding, cured without pain or itictrr.nietitn; can cers cured iu all their forma ithont Oie knife or M kness of tbe patient. The Doctor lias cun-d I on ilredt of this dreadful ranker of the lmtnan body. hull has Darned the arcumu'.at'd kill of auts. Ilia remedies excel anything known to medicrd sci ence, lie denes the world to tii ic him a case wh rt there is sufficient ritalitv to suvtain the Mttem, that he can not cure. Any person waning fnrtlier information or treatmeut, should give hin a call. KIk umatism cured and warranted to stay cured in every rase. Ill firms of ISIoimI and HUtn laease art) Fernianeutly C'nred I buch as tetter, salt rheum, scrofula or sytiliiTitic sores, strictures, seminal weaklier or sperm." t rlia a, primary and secondary syphilis, conorriiu-a. or chronic venereal, kidney or miliary dijeaws of euln-i sex. Tounsror old, do matter bow had. He dial Irn ret a comparisou with any pliyrician in America in cur ing the6 diseases. Ioa ol mauhood I colored. 1 he Doctor can refer to hundreds thus affected ho credit their present existeuce to being cured by Mm. All moles, birth-marks and freckles removed. Also, all the various diseases of the eye and ear. FOB TUE LADIKH OXLYI A lady, at any period of life, from childhood to the grave, may, if ill, suffer rom one or more of the fol lowing diseases, which .the Doc-tor will potiuvely curs: Liver complaint, indention of the ot..n.rh. nervous weaknesses, lunz disease, etc.. i.rc laiu of the vagina or womb, leucorrboea or whiles, autv-r sion, retroversion, antiplexiop. r-troid-xion.c r ulce r ation of this organ, sick headache, rheumatism and sciatic pains. Dropsy permanently cured in a short time without tapping. Call or write to tbt office, rar. Illimf and Lonlnlana mtreet. InlfnmD?tf ndlaut. Private medical aid. All diseases of a secret nature speedily cured. If in trouble call or rite r-rfectly confidential. ANT CASE OtWYIlIsKT HABIT CCBJED IN TEN DAYd.

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