Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 26, Number 27, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 February 1877 — Page 10

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tained that this tribunal is anything on earth but a legislative committee of investigation. At this point Justice Bradley interrupted I don't think there is a difference of opinion on that point. It is the universal theory, so far as I am informed, that the powers of this commission extend so far, and far only, as the powers of the two houses of congress. Mr. Carpenter In other words then it is agreed on all hands that the powers of this commission are political powers, are legislative powers, delegated by the two houses of congress. Your honors would have relieved yourselves from the infliction of the last twenty minutes if you had announced it early. Commissioner Hoar I did not under; stand that Judge Bradley announced the proposition that jou have just stated. Mr. Carpenter The proposition is to my mind self-evident and so fortified by the constitution that I will stop on a mere suggestion that Judge Bradley has made on the subject Justice Bradley intimated that the couniel had drawn his own inferences. Mr. Carpenter then quoted the language of the act creating the commission, and contended that it is the duty of the tribunal not to ascertain what appears to be the case, but who have been duly appointed. Mr. Carpenter quoted various authorities to show that the writ of quo warranto was not a criminal proceeding, although it is in that form, but it is in substance a civil one. Continuing his argument Mr. Carpenter said: Another question that I think is one of considerable di faculty, and that is what the statute of the läw was on the 7th of November last. The question is on the 1st of April, when the revised statutes took effect. Did they repeal all conflicting statutes, or was this act of 1870 saved from repeal by the act of the 2th of February? That is the question. Let me in the first place proceed upon the theory that the state on the 1st ,of April did rejnvil the election law of 1870. and then I will proceed on the theory that it did not come out iust as satisfactorily one way as the other. It is remarkable I know, but it happens to be so. Now if the act of 188 was in force at the last election, it is not pretended that there has ever been any canvass of the vote of that election according to the statute. There is no pretense of that. They acted on the theory that the other law was in force, so that if your honors shall hold that the act of 103 was in force because embodied in the revision taking effect April 1, and therefore not repealing the former act of the l'th of March, then this case to-night is precisely .in the attitude in which it was four years ago. At that time there came up from Louisiana regular certificates of its governor that so many persons had been duly appointed electors of the state, but the senate, going upon the theory which I maintain is the true and proper one, appointed a committee in advance to examine into the facta about the election of that college. They sent for witnesses and brought them here in large numbers and made an examination, and the committee rei ported on the subject, not expressing an opinion whether tbey should or no be excluded, but stating the facts that there never had been a canvass of those votes by any person authorized to canvass them, and submitted the question to the two houses whether the vote should be counted not, and the two houses, acting each for 'tself, decided they should be excluded. Now I ask this commission whether it will decide that congress violated its constitutional duty or usurped its power in holding that the vote should not be counted four years ago. That must be the conclusion that you are to hold, for you can not go back of the governor's certificate. When we come to the repeal of the act of

1870, the question may be raised whether repealing a law revived the original law, but in that state that fact is forbidden by the constitution, so that the subsequent repeal of the act of 1870 would not revive the act of 18CS. The act of 18G8 is lost entirely unless it is continued in force by revision. If the old statutes continued injorce, then the provisions of the act of l-O did contain the pro visions in regard to the electors. The act of 1872 did not except to fix the date, which was wholly unnecessary, congress having determined that. Now, then, I maintain, and here I cross patch of some other counsel, far more distinguished that electors are not state officers. They are therefore not included in those general provisions of this act of 1872. Another point I regard as entirely i -conclusive in regard t the action of this returning board in excluding voters. When the constitution of the United Btates says that the electors shall be ap- ' pointed in such manner as the legislature of ta state may direct, it speaks of course as an American state a state of this Union with the republican form of government. Congress could to-morrow take up the constitution of Massachusetts and inspect, and finding it was republican, reorganize that state; and when the constitution says a state in such manner as the legislature shall . prescribe shall appoint electors, it refers of course to that form of government which its legislature has restricted by its own constitution. It does not mean some Hottentot community. It means one of our -states. So I maintain that if the manner rescribed by the state of Louisiana or appointing electors is in violation of the constitution of that state, then it is not in compliance with the constitution of the United States. I claim that if I can show that the election law is entirely in violation of the election law of the state of Louisiana, it is entirely in violation of the -constitution of the Uuited States. I am now proceeding to treat the act of 1872 as -thougn it applied to tne election ot electors. This act creates a canvassing board to be apnointpwi bv the senate, and so far as anvbodv knows they hold their offices during their natural lives, as vacancies occur they have a right to fill the- They are a close corporation and as r. rchmore potent than the people of thfi state, if this law is constitutional, as the government of the United States is more potent than the lovernment of that state. Mr. .Carpenter then recited the provisions of all ana enumerated the duties devolving upon the board of canvassers. At this point Mr. Carpenter complained of feeling unwell from the close atmosphere of the court room, which had sometime previously been rendered very disagreeable by the smoke of candles, with which alone it was lighted, and the commission thereupon shortly before 7 o'clock adjourned -until to-morrow at 11 o clock. Sbeotln of Packard. Vrw Dpi Feh. 15 About noon to day, in an altercation in his office with a man who is unknown to the police on duty in the state house, Governor Packard was ahot in the knee cap. The party who did the shooting was fired npon by a bystander ana wounueu iu tu arm. A Times extra has the following: At half past 11 the vicinity of the governor's room in the St Louis street state house - ran? with the sharp . report of I tA i'tnl nhhta fired almost simnl ' tanemifiiv- and 4 in an instant there was ' intense excitement abroad and a rapid hur

rying of a crowd towards the gubernatorial apartment Here it transpired that Mr. Packard, while seated in his chair surrounded by a half dozen callers had been suddenly approached by one of the parties, who, drawing a pistol and leveling it at Mr. Packard's heart, at alraeat point blank range, pulled the trigger. At that instant Mr. Packard struck the weapon down and simultaneously with that movement the weapon exploded and the shot struck Mr. Packard in the knee. At that instant Mr. Packard closed ith the man and threw him to

the floor. Diligent inquiry failed to divulge the name of the man, anything about him. or anything about the cause of the attack. Report has it that he was a correspondent for a northern newspaper, but now all information is vague. STATEMENT OF AN KVK WITNESS. Two men, one of them the wounded man. who gave his name as Joseph Huttle, but whose real name, from papers found m his S obsession, is ascertained to oe v. 11. weion, and a slim, one armed man, who gave no name, called at the door of the state capitol and asked to see Mr. Packard. There was some demur about admitting them, when one proclaimed himself to be an ex-federal officer, and the other a discharged soUlier. Tliey were brought to the head of the stairs, where eldon represented that he was correspondent of the Philadelphia Press and desired to see Gov ernor Packard. With the name of Joseph Huttle he was sent in, but the one armed man declined to enter. Weldon reached the executive office, v. here he found Mr. Packard at his desk talking to Judge Boarman, of Caddo, who occupied a chair on his right. Weldon sat down in a vacant chair mmediately on Mr. Packard s left, and af ter an instant somewhat sharplv asked, When can I see you?" Packard turned and found a pistol aimed at his head. He immediately struck it down and the weapon was discharged, the hall striking him in the right knee cap and inflicting a s-light wound Mr. Packard immediately dealt the man a blow with nts nsr, struc ing him between the eyes, and knocking him down. Several parties in the room drew their pistols and fired, wounding the would be assassin seriously but not latally.- Of course a scene of intense excitement immediately followed. The one armed man was arrested and conveyed to the office of the superintendent of police, and Weldon was kept a close prisoner in the executive office. Mr. Packard was conveyed to his private apartment on the second Moor of the bunding where his wound was examined by Dr. A. W. Sruythe. t is not of a serious character, but might prove so if not carefully terided, and will ame mm lor several uajs. WHO HE IS AXD WHY HE HD IT. The man who shot Packard says that his name is William Henry Weldon. and that his home is in Philadelphia. He says further that he has a mother and sisters livng there. With regard to his attempt to kill Packard he says that there were four others with him who were to have assisted him in the undertaking, but that when reaching the door of the state house they refused to go in and left him to carry out the intended plan of assassination alone. "Weldon, if such be his name, is not as it turns out very seriously hurt. The ball which struck hira hit him in the left arm just below the shoulder, and seems to have come out at the lbow. It was thought at first that he was killed, bnt it seems he was only stunned and faint from the loss of blood. At half-past 12 he was so much revived as to converse with those about him. MORE ABOCT WTLP05. An extra of the Republican, in addition to the account of the affair at the state house this morning, which agrees substantially with that heretofore telegraphed, says of Weldon: When told that Governor Packard had saved his life, he seemed to break down, iaying, with a gulp, Did Governor Packard save my life? I thuuld like to see him; tell him I want to see him." He was neatlv dressed, with a good, intelligent looking face, dark hair and brown mustache. His face was cleanly shaven. lie wore a large and evidently new masonic badge. The run was evidently a stranger. Marks on his clothing indicated the truth of Lis statement concerning his name, as did also papers in his pocket and a masonic diploma, lhe as sassin gained admission to the governor' parlor by representing himself to be a corcorrespondent of the Philadelphia Press. A comrade was arretted and is now in close cus tody. Another succeeded in making his es cape. On the person of the assassin was found a letter from Charles H. Schwartz, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, September 29, 1863, recommending William Weldon as having been a pupil in his school: another dated at the same place February 16, 1867, recommending Weldon as an energetic business man of (-good moral habits; another dated Cincinnati April 20, 1872, recommend ing W. H. Weldon as an honest, careful business man, and signed G. M. Brown, formerly Brown A Coleman, Springfield, Illinois. ONLY A BRUISE. There was no blood drawn by the bullet said to have been fired at Packard. The re sult is only a slight bruise. WHY HB SHOT HIM. "Weldon claims to be the son of a Lutheran minister in Pennsylvania. Being asked his motive he replied, "Only patriotism." He had only been in New Orleans 24 hours. . Matrimonii! Brokerage. Special to the Cincinnati Enquirer. Liberty, Ind., Feb. 14.- The latest social sensation was the marriage last night of Mr. Billy Hnutn to Miss Phcebe Johns, both of Harrison township. Billy is a farmer, black smith and wagon-maker; is 70 years of age, deal, cranzy and unsightly, but is re puted to be worth not less than $30,000. Miss Phcebe is a big bonanza of 280 pounds burden, is only 17 years oia ana sweet as a peach ,and has had charge of the kitchen department at Mr. Powell Blade's for the past six years Since the demise of Billy's wife, which sad event occurred about two years ago, he has been casting about for some one to care for him in his senility, and at last offered to pay $5,000 to any person who would furnish bina the material for s wife. Slade heard of, this offer, and straightway saw the old man, who aasured him the money would be all right. Slade then saw O. Washington Johns, the girl's father, and gained his consent to the match for the sum of $2,000. He next sought the fat Fhceba, and after much persuasion she, too. assented upon condition tfia Slade would provide her with a wedding trousjant and the old man give her ;s deed to his farm. Slade did not'' ' want too much intimacy between the two victims, lest the girl would go back on it, so he arranged for a meeting at the Indiana house, in Cincinnati, where the old fellow popped the question and everything was fixed up. Last night they were married, a big supper was spreadand about 100 gue ts were present. , Miss Alice Miles,' 18 years of age, of Port Tobacco, Md., being jilted by her lover, cut her throat with ft razor; but the act beirg detected, surgical aid was called and her life saved. She belongs to the best society.

THE RAPE OF THE tOCK.

Senatorial Virtne Not Proof Against . Feminine Blandishment. Washington Letter to the Cincinnati Enquirer. Writing of Itoscoe's conceit reminds one of an adventure that befell a statesman of the same eminence and same peculiarities in New York some time ago. A mischievous little devil of a woman, a pendriver, who is as pretty as she is clever, heard the solon deliver an eloquent speech on the issues of the day at Cooper institute. c?he took the measure of the man. and fixed her bright, black eyes upon one curl that adorned his Jovelike sconce. She must have that curl if f-he died for it. She felt that it was the Samson lock of strength, and she was fascinated by the idea that she was the Dellilah to shear it from his head. That very night, before her blonde bead found rest upon her pillow, she wrote, over an assumed name, a love letter. It was so cleyeriy done, so light, graceful, witty and yet poetical, that it brought an answer. She was quick to respond, and a correspondence ensued that ended in a meeting. It was arranged that the statesman should pick up his mysterious love on a certain corner as he drove to Central park. It is hard to believe that an eminent statesman a solemn, steady man so marked in appearance and so well known to the public, should indulge in a mad freak such as this. But mark the motive. There was so much artless simplicity mingled with such genius in the letters that the solon was touched. He meant to protect this innocent girl from herself. Poor philanthropist! belittle dreamed that the infatuated fair one ha4 experienced tivo husbands, and was the mother of children. I do not blame him, for at the time of our little drama, the heroine was remarkably, I may say miraculously, youthful and fresh in her appearance. But our eminent friend was the soul of honor. His intentions were honorable. He stepped aside from his high duties, not to pluck a little flower, but to throw about that sensitive plant the shield of his moral nature. To this high-toned end he kept the appointment and found ;imsclf seated by a slender, curly-headed, black-eyed beauty, richly but faultlessly dressed, who stole shy glances at him, and was so very diffident that conver sation was rather difficult. At last the honorable soloa made a remark. It was uttered in his deep, mellow voice, and to the effect that the weather was fine. The little creature responded in a low, hesitating "Yes" that stole from between her ripe lips like a frightened mouse, and was accompanied by so sweet a glance that the statesman incon tinently stole his arm about her slender waist. And yet the stern purpose of his chaste soul held its own, and he asked her solemnly if she had duly weighed the cons quences of her wild adventure. Another mouse like yes stole out. He then went on to depict the ill results of such conduct. He did this quietly yet firmly, and as he spoke her lovely head dropped, and after a time her fair face was hidden in little hands and delicate lace handkerchief, and her lovely form shook with laughter. The moral statesman thought she was crying. What could he do but draw her closer to him, and while gently stroking her silken ringlets soothe her with soft, comforting words. He told her that he had seen much of this wicked world and how unprotected lambs were sacrificed by wolves. He said he was old enough to be her father, and was glad of the opportunity given bim to aid her as a father. All the while his arm and his face g)t close to the hidden one that now sobbed upon his broad, manly breast "What do you think of this now, my child?" he tenderly demanded. "I think," she responded, between her little hands, "that if we had more love and less morality, or more morality and less love, it would be better. They don't mix well." Had an ounce of dynamite exploded under that part of this statesman's person where the legs end and the body begins, it could not have astonished more, for there was the lovely face looking up to him not only without trace of tears but wreathed in smiles like a new-born Venus rising from a sea of skirts. "Come, now," she cried, her words rippling with laughter, "I am a mad girl, and I love you. I know that it is wrong that it is a sin but, father," and she put on a mock gravity that was perfectly bewitching, "you know" that it is a law of our being that the naughty is nice, because it is forbidden. But don't be alarmed. This is all my own doing. You are not leading me astray; I go myself. You can not make me other than I am, for you can not prevent my loving you, you great, good man and dou't you love me just a little bit?" Ah! what a coaxing, deliciously infatuating query waa that! The tempting little Eve holding out the forbidden fruit. But the statesman ma je a grand struggle. He drew her to hira and said: "You must think of this. You say it is your own act. Take 24 hours to consider of it. I will meet 3'ou on this spot to-morrow at noon. If by that time you yet persist " He hesitated, and she continued: "We will have more love and less morality. Now, my loved guide, philosopher and friend, I have a favor to ask before we separate." "Any th'ng on earth," he gallantly re-. 8ponded. "I want a lock of your dear, beautiful hair to wear next my heart." "Take it," said the gallant gentleman, removing his hat and bowing his massive dome of thought. A delicate pair of scissors, suddenly whipped out, was heard to snap twice, and the famous lock so courted fell in her fair hand, and was transferred to her pocket. The high-toned, moral statesman was startled. A lock, it was more like aecalp, and pulled his natover his troubled brow with a strange misgiving that all was not right. They separated, and the next day's noon found the eminent man pacing the sequesteted spot, watch iu hand, waiting for that fair vision that was soon to bloss his eyes again. Could those eyes have seen around a corner of a wall near, they would have encountered not one pair, but two, of laughing eyes, that watched as he paced impatiently to and fro with the vexatious thought upon his giant mind that be had been sold. Ah! me, we suffer more from our follies than our sin, and now he cursed him self for permitting that sirup sin to slip from him. Summer came and went. Great elections shook this country at home, and huge wars rolled over Europe, but never again came that fair vision to the statesman s vision. But in a beautiful little boudoir in New York, amid all sorts of artistic surrouudines, a fair journalist, one of the wit tiest correspondents I ever knew, is fond of howmg her visitors a huge lock of auburn under a glass globe, upon which rests wie Picard: "The rape of the lock." -.Watare'a Realorer. The best po hie thii g for a man to do wuru ii in; iu -veak too carry anytmng through, Is to go to vd and sleep as long as be can. .This is the GiJy recuperation of brain force; because during ieep the brain is in a state of rest, in a condition to receive the appropriate particles of nutriment from the blood, which takes the place of those which nave . oeen . consnmea on' previous labor, aince the very act of thinking consumes or

burns up solid particles, as every turn of the wheel or screw of the splendid steamer is the result of consumption by fire of the fuel in the furnace. The supply of consumed brain substance ca"n only be had from the nutritive particles in the blood, which were obtained from the food eaten previously, and the brain is so constituted that it can ber-t receive and appropriate to itself those nutritive particles during a state of rest, of quiet and stillness, of sleep. Mere stimulants supply nothing in themselves; they goad the brain and force it to a greater consumption of its substance, until the substance has become so exhausted that there is not power enough left to receive a supply, as men who are so near death by thirst and starvation that there is not power enough left to swallowany thing, and all is over.

THE ATIO.VAI. KIIAtlE. The Shabby Way tn Whirl the Washington Monument Wn Put Up. I Washington Special to the Baltimore Gazette. It is understood that an examination of the foundation of the Washington monument by the United States regular army engineers appointed bv cor-gress has developed the fact that it would he impossible to complete the structure in the present position. The original intention, it appears, was to erect the highest monument in the world, and, strange to say, the lowest and meanest spt of ground -,in the city was selected. The foundation is of a comparatively short distance from the Potomac river, and the first s-trata is composed of eight feet of clay beneath this is a strata of 10 feet of sand, so at a distance of 21 feet a solid foundation is discovered. If it were possible to put a concrete foundation 200 feet square, of the necessary depth, beneath the unsightly pile, it miprht he completed as originally des:gned; hut that is impossible. TLemonuraeat has already an incline nortliward ot nearly two inches, while the stone, the outer blocks not having been properly cut, has chipped off as the blocks settled. presenting a rough exterior and a blemish to the monument The expense of ascertaining the character of the foundation will be about $2.500, and leaving a balance of the congressional appropriation of $107,500. It is tue opinion of the engineer that a new design for the monument should be made, and that the structure should be erected at the circle at the intersection of Massachusetts avenue and Four teenth street, on the highest ridge in Wash ington, and where a monument of several hundred feet in height would be visible for many miles down the Potomac, which with the capital will be the first objects greeting the eye of the stranger approaching Washington by railroad. It is also suggested that the present monument be taken down and the stones contributed by states, counties, cities, towns and individuals be artistically used in the formation ot a base upon a broader and more elaborate plan than as at present used, the balance of the material to be used in the construction of the shaft, the . exterior of which should be of the finest granite, that the monument may be an enduring structme. It is stated that the edifice can be taken down at a comparatively small cost, and with the amount available a column commenced that will be creditable to the age and an honor to the memory of Washington. The present height is 174 feet 9IOKK OF THE TOOCEBS. Two Desperadoes Captured In Minne aota Thonght to be the Eneaped Worth field Robbers. ' Kansas City Times.1 . There is at this time a well founded suspi cion that in the two men captured in the Sni a-bar hills on Monday, the people have captured one, and perhaps two, of the Minnesota bank robbers. The discovery was made accidentally by a conversation overheard between the prisoners after their confinement in jail. What the conversation was, or how it was overheard, is a matter which is being kept carefullv secret among the officers. The first intimation of the real character of the captured men was from a remark made by De' Masters, the noted high wayman, who occupies . a cell near to Miller and Green. It will be remembered that De Masters is well acquainted with most of the wild young men in the eastern portion of the countv. and was captured -while plying his voca tion as a mounted nigh ayman last summer. Notwithstanding the fact that he has been in jail for so many months, he no sooner saw the recently captured men than he recognized them and accosted them from behindnis cell bars. This recognition led to, further inquiries being made, and a very strong suspicion was created that in the two desperate men who dared to chase Gardner and Minzen into their houses at the point of a pistol, and make pistol targets of boys within sight of Kansas City, are the two lost desperadoes from Faribault, Minnesota. This suspicion was strengthened last evening by th following fact: When the prisoners were stripped for examination, it was found that one of them had a wound upon the knee, just where one of the escaped Minnesota bank robbers was woun ded. The man, too,, answers '. the' , description of one of these men; and what is more, the man who wa' wounded in the Might from Minnesota. When attention was called to his wounded knee he declined to make any definite explanation. When these circumstances are taken into consideration, with the fact that all traces of the Minnesota fugitives were lost in northern Kansas, ana that these men are comparatively new arrivals in this section, this, together with the fact that they were armed with valuable silver-mounted pistols, presents strong circumstantial "grounds for the , suspicion that they are Minnesota fugitives. But these are only suspicions founded upon careless re marks let fall by the prisoners in jail. ,It may be a ruse, however, upon . the part of the men to attract attention Irom the more recent crime the shooting of Deputy Mar shal Hughes last Saturday night. It is the opinion of more than one shrewd officer that in Green and Miller the people of Jackson county have turned up the personators of the ubiquitous "James boya' Efforts are now being made to have the two men fully identified. ' ; ' 1 - , , i, .;,, Cronin'g Bagle. . (Washington Dlspatch.l If the commission ! refuse to accept evi dence, the democratic mind can settle down to the cruel reflection that Louisiana will be given to Hayes by a vote of eieht to seven ThenCronin' illuminated bogle is all that is left. It is large enoungh to hold the party and Tilden with it. but in the meantime the bridge may cave in 'by the weight of the eight men who will cross it; leaving seven on the opposite bank. n The VI Hal n Valentine. rw 1 . i . i- "1 Wells and Anderson, of the Louisiana re turning board; are in receipt of 'numerous characteristic valentines by tnall ' from all sections of the country; .'One from' Harper's Ferry to-day displaj'ect ',,, hideous pair j ot handeußs. a Rai lows, rope and noose, reidy for. a. victim. iWells clutched' his walking arsenal upon receiving It, fend asked, "Am I .1 V. -I i r . .li

FIELD ASD WELLS.

Oath Photograph the Two Gladiators of the Tribnnal. , G. A. T. to Cincinnati Enqmrerd The passage-at-arms between David Budley Field and old J. Madison Wells has been the episode of the week. Thev are old men -about or above seventy years old each and ot strong native constitutions, and equal, though unlike, physiques. Exposed to a trying southern climate and plantation work, Wells has grown aged more rapidly; Field is as tall as Saul, imposing in night, not gaunt or lean, fashionahlv made up and ii i j i i i . 1 . tu pieoseu wun mmseii, insinuating, plausible and elegant He is dressed with neatness: he has the professional man's eyeglass suspended, to his vest; he has a voice of silvery fineness, and he sits at the table and asks his questions conversationally, with a sweetness and leading meaning that is like a stepfather's flogging at once gentle and tantalizing. He has little or no scruple, and generally puts an answer into his questions. Versed in all the subtle ties of the cross-examiner, he impugns while he interrogates, he pinches while he smoothes. He is, in some measure, like Mr. Dickens's character of "Chester." patroniz ing and cutting, lofty and unfeeling, sweet and poisönbus. He has no natural courtesv and great refinement. He spares no sensi bility and offends no grammar. ' He can not conceal acrtain half triumph nor wholly disarm the suspicion of the witness, who inwardly muses , that; a' most capable scoundrel is fencing with -him. Old Wells is beefily made up, thick breasted, broad, heavy, squarish or substantial, shortish legs, with muscular power mot compactly uuiiuiKu up in ins arms, wrists and neck. He has a short, thick neck, and a deep head, with the skull square and thick and short gray hair and all over the strength of i ' low built bamson. He could defend . ruw.. or break a pillar. He could hold up a rock. uKe me nying mnsKateer, with his body, or drive a bowie knife into a fighting alligator. xie is a oison nite oia leilow, except for hair; his only beard is a rotee. cut close off alnnir the broad bottom of his chin. Sluggish power, readily turned to fue.'. abides in his countenance. He is almost habitually 6elfuppresed and toned down to a certain rus tic dignity and sobriety. He feels the governorship he once held. His intelligence is more than fair, but acquired through the senses. He has evidently read some and adapted more. He is a natural man of a scarcely civilized tvpe, with impetuous passions and dogged self reliance. He is chary of speech, trusting little of the low current of his thinking to the mill-tail of his mouth. He is yet plausible and slow of giving offense. He takes ottense with a gathering terror of countenance, and is a law unto himself. You would not meet him placidly on a lonely road any more that vou would expect John A. Murrell. You would leave his region if you heard he was gunning ior you. ne nas a long sense or, resentment: he will not scare: he sub sists like a mule. upon thistles and injuries, and grows fatter therefor. : He does not carry the appearance of these resentiments because they are too deen to live in his lineaments; they descend to the bone and are carried there like the hereditary i . . i . . . . firejuuices oi an inaian. ry contact tne ury is rekindled; the hell opens in his countenance; his encounter is deadly. The occasional laugh on Wells's face is like an Indian's giggle. It comes up Unexpectedly; it tarries a minute. He is respectful in his salutation, dtf erring to you, and shakes hands warmly. He loved the Union as he loved slavery a thing among hie rights, a part of his property, to be defended if he chose to do it. Having taken that position, it became one of his uncivilized traditions. His Union was a 'tiger: his party was his executor; his fidelity was lowering and dark a clansman's passion, not an affection. He rejoiced when the rebels were killed; he wanted the flag to drip bloody; he wanted the victory to be forever. When Wells encountered Field he felt his sensibilities wounded. lie felt that a man was underrating him. He did not comprehend a la wyer'8 way of fighting. His vanity of character and his savage personality were being punctured and played with. So the bid man of - three score and ten hated in a minute or two the-iother old man of three score and ten. I would liked .to see theni fight, those "veterans of two civilizations, the feeble arid the rough, the professional and the natural. , There is no telling who would hve -whipped. for roth are powerful: Field like a hound; Wells like a bulldog.' AS I have not a particle of intel lectual or moral respect for either of them, I should have looked at the fight anatomi cally, and Cried: "Hiss him, Legs! At him, Bull!" MORTON PHOTOGRAPHED. HI Personal Appearanee, Party Influence and Thirst for Power. Washington Letter. Next to Edmunds en the commission sits his late chief antagonist in the great debate on the electoral bill. Everyone baa been made acquainted with Morton's personal appearance. The illustrated papers have been tor years advertising him; and the pug nose, theneavy chin and the receding forehead are known to every school boy.. He is one of the most interesting personages in American public life. A man of wonderful vitality and infinite energy, he is bound to be the controlling spirit among the radical republicans UntU ,he is thrown overboard by his state or i is used .up physically. He came out of the late contest badlv battered, but he wasn't like Bret Uarte's fellow in the poem "and the subsequent proceedings.interested nim no more'V-he was up and doingat once. He had himself put on the commission where he'could continue the fight, and he saw to jt that ' one of, the men who had been pommeling him so .unmerciful ly should take a back seat. And though, it isn't a Mattering commentaryon the party, yet it is safe, to assert that Morton has three times the personal and . party following that ,,Conkling has to-day. r He ;iß utterly unfit for the work assigned to members of the commission, not because he hasn't ability and brains no one can doubt that he' has but because he is .thoroughly incapacitated from acting as a judge in the case he- .must pass upon; he has long ago prejudged every point to be settled , by the commission. But Incongruities, cause him no trouble. Ahything to beat the democrats ia the cardinal principle of his life and action. He is a bold man and in-telectually-a; strong man.' He. has ä morbid thirst for, . power, . and , realizes the fact that -..shpuld Tilden ; become president the. most prolific eource of his political strength would be taken from him. Hence his policy of counting Hayes in at all hazards and at every sacrifice of consistency, conscience and principle on his pbrt. . During the recent debate on the electoral question he based his opposition chiefly on the ground that the very terms and language of the bill made.it the , sworn and bounden dutv of the, commission to go back of J the governor's certificate and- ascertain ' what electors '""in 'tne contested - states were öulv appointed." The word "appointed,". feeisaid,, .waa ...of .;.courfle i" equivalent lb ' "elected." He contended that the bill should, ba.w aeade4 mm to limit the rtower of the commission to ascertainine whäl electors were. 'dulf .certified as. elect-, ed.". The bill passed without amendment. But Who now -expects Morten to stick to the

interpretation he unqualifiedly made ten days ago? No one; and least of all his party friends. Morton and Sherman are fighting the extremist battle hand in hand. Who will have more influence with Hayes should he become president than John Sherman? And would Morton be forgotten or cast off? No one has the temerity to say "yes." How do our conservative republican friends like the picture? .' A Oamln' railh. IJohn B. Cough's Lecture at St. Louis. A story was told of a street boy in London who had had both legs broken by a dray passing over them. He was laid away in one of the beds ot the hospital to die, and another little creature of the same clas was laid near by, picked up sick with famine fever. The latter was allowed to lie down by the side of the little crushed boy. He crept up to him and said, "Bobty, did you ever hear about Jesus?" "No, I never heerd of him." "Bobby, I went to mission school once, and they told us that Jesus would take you to heaven when you died, and you'd never have hunger any more, and no more pain, if you axed him." "I couldn't ask such a great big gentleman as he is to do anything for me. He wouldn't stop to speak to a boy like me." "But he'll do all that if you ax him." "How can I ax him if I don't know where he lives, and how could I get there when both my legs are broke?" "Bobby, they told me at mission school as how JesHs passes by. Teacher says aa he goes around. How do you know but what he might come around to this hospital this very night ? You'd know him if you was to see" him." "But I can't keej) my eves open. My legs feel so awful ba-L' Dr. says I'll die." "Bobhy.hold up yer hand, and he'll know what you want when he passes by." Theygbt the hand up. It dropped. Tried again. It felowly fell ; nck. Three times he got up the little hand

nly to let it fall. Burstine into tears he iaid: "I give it up." "Bobby, lend me yer hand; pnt yer elbow on my piller; I can do without it." So one hand was propped up. And when they came in the morning the boy was dead, with his hand still held on for Jesus. You may search the world and you cannot find a grander illustration of simple trust than that of the little boy who had been to mission school but once. Are we not cettins a surfeit of thifc babv literature with which the country is being nooaea; jno sooner has some writer struck the popular taste by chroniclinjr the uaint sayings of an exceptionally precocious child than imitators spring up in every direction, each bristlin with stones of a marvellous development in childish goodness and a premature wisdom which one can hardly associate, with laughing, careless infancy. L.iKe lennyson s hrooK, men may come and men may go, but babies go on forever. uh all the advance the world has made, they are still the same irrrepressible romping fearless, stubborn creatures as ever. And when we hear of them exhibiting preternat ural wisdom and uttering mysterious sayings, we always fear that such phenomenal taditsare premature, or that they have in many cases bnly been manufactured for the occasion. Those infant 'prodigies, boy orators and girl poets, who appear periodically before the public soon fade out, - and are either lost to view or else grow up to be ordinary men and women, with no suetrestiveness of the, genius from which so much was expected. There is nc thing sweeter than the laughter and prattle ef childhood, but they lose much of their beauty and freshness when you transfer them to the printed page; and though they may flatter the vanity of some individual parent, their continual record becomes monotonous to those who have no special interest in them. Baltimore American. Alice and Phoebe Cary were amone the noblest of American women. Their characters were grander than their poems. They had none of the petty jealousies so common to ambitious writers, but cherished only warm sympathies for all persons straggling to win literary success, and cheered them with loving words. They opened their parlor and spread a bountiful table one evening in every week, for their friends, and strangers, also, found a cordial welcome. But many of those who weekly visited, them, and took great delight in their society, never dreamed that behind the cheerful faces and merry words of these agreeable women were aching hearts longing for some word of sympathy. COXCERXIXCl RECORD. The Advantage or a Clean Esrntrbeon IlInMrated by an Old Time Incident. Did you ever stop to consider how much there is implied in the brief sentence: "He has made up a record"? And, if so, have you ever thought how much more infinitely much more is in the sentence when it is compounded into "He has made up a record and it is against bim"? A man may make his mistakes most of us do but a charitable public is usually ready to show a spirit of forgiveness and forgetfulness up to a certain point The point is not a very high one, to be sure, but then there ia a point to which men can go in their blunders and be forgiven. But after that has been reached, it is dangerous for a man to make a further record against himself, and woe be to him when a record has been made against bim by the action of his fellow man. I remember once to have been inspectirg an old bl ek letter record, which had been made up in . one of the "original thir;een" during the "fcood old colony times," and the obliging official who was standing at my side said, as turning a particular page, "Now. here is a record which has been made against a B rasier. This Brasier muat have lived a hundred and twenty-five years ago, but there is'a large 'amily of his descendants living In this county now." CMancing over the quaint old penmanship I ascertained that it was a very ugly record, for it contained an admission on the part of t ie dead Brasier that he had told a very mean, dirty and useless lie. Remembering the spggestiOn aa to his descendants, I was prompted to ask if they, knew of iL "Oh, yes; I reckon they do' was the answer. "Whenever one has' a' difficulty with a neighbor, that neighbor is almost sure to ask him, 'How long has it .been since vou saw 'your ' ancestor's . record? Yes. yes,, they keep sticking it at 'em on all convenient occasions." Peering over the official's shoulder during this recital and running my eye over the . page, the queer old fashioned characters se.med - to assume the most fantastic of shape and to fairly crawl and wriggle in their effort to proclaim the infamy of him who had bo long ago turned to dust. ' , . : . But suppose the record, .instead of being one oi infamy had been one of .merit. Suppose it -had recounted a deed of love or charity- or : benevolence.. Would its voice have sounded down to the present? W ould the neighbors and the associates of the present generation of Brasiers, on any occasion or under any state of circumstances, have said: "Ah! how long has it been since you saw your ancestor's record f ' Ah, nol The little black characters would have lain silent and voiceless covered by the ' dust of the revolving years and old Tom Brasier would.have slept on into eternity with no one,, tb. jemember . his , deed or to lisp , hia natae.M1,.. t.r i . -. vt i ..(! ilU I a terrible ; thing, indeed, to "have a. record made up against ohe. , Cnissnnu wx,Teb.(iö, 1S77.,,, J;, - ;; .': :

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