Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 28, Number 4, Jasper, Dubois County, 30 October 1885 — Page 3

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O, DOAKK, lHilit4r. JA&PKK, THE Tfcwe'R the uut wW tai's yen skate bis BtaiW llstHm ' 4 Uh mH yWfteeasasaW J wIhni you flat ki mm. Tfcwre' MM HHMtVW W R feer ttwt Or world , year U; year, Uruwuqr won ,MM he's h IMMt WH WMT. TkWe'S ttH) fvllOW With HMJMJrHH fUH HM And tbii limit wlw aka yen "What?" whoe'er nwrt1! HM Mwm W bomyour basic 4-bere's MM )MiM4r wM U eysriasMn; un--And the i1 who t amteratfVs f HH Worse and more! Them's tMt hmiw who tll the tats TltRt H J'BHr WH ! IBHKU.CWltf CURTAIN A Pmp at tho Way Justioo la Chanted. Soleiitlfln llHralir The Gttampl"" Kefaes at tUm YVriil IIw tk HHrglap I)1vMm Mia riHHiktr Tw, Mtirttarft Ht ' A little blue cloud of moke floated over tke head of a well-known criminal lawyer,of this ejty ygterday as lie sat in a big, 'soft, j hly leather ohnlr and dreamily pnflhd ttaWy wreaths and garlands from h lon olgar. His fat, red hand jbj,' VltU , dtamocck' drooped IfczlioTcr the creased sides of tlio chair, and every time tl:e wide bosom of his sli rt row mid foil r bunch of jewels twinkled aud biased, a fairy island in a white sea, beneath whicli a thousand dark secrets rolled like tha bones of dead sailors. Deep gray eyes, rosy cheeks and a thick, red heck, swollen with niusclos, lay against the d.trk brown back cushions. From the suowy on lis that elood tlie burly wrists a mir of large manacles of solid gold dangled. x From tke wsl's of the room a faded picture of Lord Chief-Justice Cockburn .stared at a faded picture of Keddy the 11 nck-iuith, and My Lord not Hat tcrcd by the comparison either."" A I the door was an old -fashioned little boy with keen eyes and a sharp nose. "Yorf," said the obstructor of the couro of justice, to a reporter while fanning the blue cloud away, "I've known personally nearly all the criminuls that 1 avc amounted to anything in the last twenty-live yearst Men of brain.? Well, i should say so. If the cntt.se of education had such men of heroism and genius enlisted on its side how nnioh better the world might be today, and how much poorer I might be! It's dremlftil to think of what wickedihhm there is In the world, and yet I long ago made up my mind that we had to bfar with it in a spirit of Christian fortitude. This is really a very phwant cigar," Here the lawyer orosied his legs and sighed with an air of delicioiH contentim'nt. The golden shackles jingled and twinkled as he gently rublxnl his olmbby palniH together and settled himself more cozily m the chair. MtTKKKKT KINDS Oi HIMIOLAKS. I long ago loaciiod to distinguish between criminals in a wy that the ordinary public seldom understands. Now,, take the burglar, for inistance. He is a tln, romantic figure, and yet burglars differ in their spheres, as Prof. Virehow, the great anatomist, differs from an erdiua-y coremjrV a-wistaiit In the lower walks of life we. have tbe common bnrglar, the tramping vagabond who breaks into a honw upon the mereehanee tht, tho iay be asleep, and that he may find something worth stealing. Sneh men sehtoni rise in life and are mere drags ttjion modern civilkaton. I always "think r of their poer tlawyers with a feeing of profound pity; Hardened as my irofiwsion waj? make.mo, 1, always hope to have some tender feelings. The dwnken ljifglitr conies next in tlM scale. He loafs around bar-rooms all day, swigs beer and whisky itirUl hht lirains are all fmleed, and at night he breaks Into some unprotected grocery Mora Now I com te a' very interesting class of people, who are generally aiaperoned by persons like a certain dear old l:Mly now m Canada Who shall bo nameless. These burglars send young women iu most cases their pwu sweetheart to Intelligence etticea in order to get situations as servants to wealthy families. These servants learn where the family valuables are kept, study the habile of their employers, and then, at the right hour, leave the door open. The burglar who works on this plan finds his task easy. Colored criminals use this scheme very "inch. You remember that it was only fow months ago that Gertrude Ash, ft colored servant, oooealed her lover in the house where she Was employed, sod thus enabled hint to steal what he Wanted., H , ,t tub mcm-Tcftocti tr.ixoyra. . ''fn there, are the educated, systematic birglar.the inen of .'scienye. Ah! What magalHcenV men I have known! These men never go Into a house on a ehanoe of finding booty, ihey first learn whnt kind or wealth is opt in tho hontcir Jf it is jewelry, they arrange their plane to steal jewelry; if H Is IxHidsiM m the ease of the great Lord robbery, 'they get ready to steal bonds. VYhen.they enter the house t iov do not setae tke ncrt'valnaWe Ji'ing they see, bur. work systematically toward the place where the jewelry or tlio bonds are kept The first thing a iHu offttiencrbiniM hi how to get out oHhe house he W going to roR One of the greatest hntflars that ever lived hl to me: 'Any median ie witk cool frves can break into a house, bnt It wkw a man ol brains to get wit.' The true burglar has arranged before he Jtws the hettee jet what he will do if oewU tlhMMiver the imrglary

m the ngnt oat, lock ttm nalt tW iron otrt o tne naatry wineow, ebntb Ike fenee and daek away In a carriage waking for him around the oornr. The man riiwtoikHt item wyrlu unless be has Mlflafii eaajda u warn him in ease) f etneKnojr. m, pular method of noattug theae wmtineLi k to bltW a room ipoite to the place wtom the robbery is to ooour. The sentinels have a wire with a h ami kerchief tied to it or aottte other signal by whlon the burglars au he waraedl Une seientihe man eomea repanHl to kill, when bo k c-ornWed js Ute most nteroiless criminal you can eaeounter. Hut be will never kill while there is a bone of es

cape. A man of ccieiu shrinks ivom ntnroer exoapt as tno very last means of avoid lag capture. Them is one little thing about syatemalio burglars which fow people know of. They never addrooa eaok other by their real names when engaged in a crime. The usual way is to give each one a number. Then ute leader ean talk without giving the peliee a clew to tlie identity of his confederates. He can say, 'Here, No. 1, you gag this man. No. 2, you bring that jimmy and Jantern into the next room.' " You see, fn order to carry out a big plan, seterjil wen iuust.be lu the onnjilnioy. and ta is to faay they conajtumk'sts with each other." ' tiik "Hose" bukglXk. "Who do you think is the best burglar hi the -world?" - "Dan Noble, lie is at present living against his will in England. lnn waa caught in an attempt upon the Bank of Kngland. You don't know whnt a man hewas." The lawyer shook his head sadly. "How about Hill Vosburgh; wasn't he a,olever burglar?" "Oh' don't,don't mention such a mau in the same breath with Dau Noble," cried the lawyer, with an expression. of pain upon nis face. "It simply disgusts, me. What! Rill Vosburgh compared to Dan Noble! A oommou sneak thief compared to, the king of hoieatists! Why. Noble could do anything. Many a time lie's sat In the very chair you're sitting in a'nd talked to me. Some of the great bank burglars become electrician and cliomisu A man who was once a celebrated burglar, but who is at present au honored physlo'an, told me when I wae defending him that he could go through a steel shutter with a phial of achl, a piece of silk and a sprin'ir saw just as if he was cutting through so much tissue paper, liurgulurs study electricity in order to cope with patent alarms. now "Mtn swag" is .msrosKD or. " But there are seme tilings in which the poor burglar ie misunderstood. He seldom gei the lion's share of the profit. Take a sample caee. I'M give you one founded upon fact that will illustrate soorcs ef otheri A burglar breaks Into a bilk hense and gets away with two or three oases that cost the owner, s;iy, f.'i.OOO. He has to pay at least two confederate. lief ore the burglary he had to hire a tloor in some cheap tenement houe and an express wagon. Tlie silk is taken in the wagon to the tenement house, for no receiver of stolen goods or feaee, ae we call . such a Krson, would allow so many goods to carted to the receiving place. It would attract too inuek attention. If the wagon and horse Wong to a trusted friend the burglar returns them; if no', he UjU them go in tlie street and deoc bother liis head about them. Now, the next thing to do Is to call In three or four fences to bid for the silk. It is a qprious fact, hut a true one, nevertheless, that when, a man is robbed lie always says that his loss is greater than it really Is. In this case the merchant claims that tlie silk stolen from him is worth over 9,00.), instead of $5,000, iU real value.. The burglar reade tlw newspapers, for ho nutet always keep up sharply with the news of the, day, and get from the merchant's misrepresentations an exaggerated idea of what his booty is worth. The first fence to arrive surveys the silk and sava,. 'Mine friendt, dose gouts are vort 5,0OO; I gh you $1,000, vor I haf to tallMror $7500 to a friendt of mine Who knows all, apont dot roppary.' The fence Is perfectly honest in ehis statement, but the burglar doesn't believe him and refuses to seiL ' WIIKKK TIIK DKTKOTIVK CONKS IX. "Now, what does the fence do? I don't want, to be too sxpliott , but the chances are that within a few hours a detective taps the burglar on the shoulder. 'Say, wasn't that a curious burglary la So-and-so's silk warehouse" says the detective. I don't know anything about it' nays the poor burglar, who k ow inwardly (fuakitig. ' Yes, you do, says the detective, 'and von' ve got the stuff. New X give yon till to-morrow to fork over tke stuff to the owner, or I'll odlar it and you, too.' Yon see, the detective doesn't know where the) silk -is hid, hut he pretends he does. What does tho poor burglar do now? lie either suds for the fence and sells the silk for whatever he can get, or he agrees with the detective to" return the goods to the owner for. sur $2,000 reward, if the latter Course decided upon, tlie public suddenly leant i' of a very brilliant piece of detective work through which two detectives have unearthed the headquarters of a gang of burglars. Tho thieve managed to escape, but all their swag was captured. Thus the silk is returned to the owner, who paya reward, in which the burglar and e fence share. You tee what a discouraging thing it' is to be a burglar. A BUH9LA.K AT 1IOMK. "A man like Dan Noble sometimes become prominent in his own community. .Dan lived in Klmira and owned trotting hones there. I have often heard It said that he was so popular In Klmira that the anthorrtles could not get a conviction against him there. Once when I wan on mytWay to Dinghamvon to get' a famous burglar out on bail I met Dan Noble on the train. He had a whole section in the oar, had H two .splendid dogs, ami was wninid upon as ft he was a Jftiaee, l told him Where I w going, and bo laughed. 'I'mbti my way to ay, residence,' be said. ' 'It's too1 bad that people will get themselves In trouble, isn't it? loMe, you will remember, stole over $7,000,000 In bonds from Mr. Lard." v a ramos or snrak tmikvk. "Who hi another remarkable orhnmnl el your aau.nalntoneeft'

"Cfcauntejr Johnston, He's .ds4 ww.M 11 lawyer tarned kia head away. Then there was a moment of silence. Then he ureeed a piece of bloUlngfV 4l. iip , "ChnjiBnjf, was the ntoefc tnulaent

aneak nnt that ever linsd.'! said. sc ltue4t'4M said. .UxirlrnuL frofe mmF is theway of the "tte Mfjoe enjer fOOUUJ siou, pud rat he difJI in t itr Well, that world. Chauuoey oooe robbed the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The story never name out but 1 11 toll it now. Kvery year the New Kngland Society had a dinner at the hotel. When the committee was arranging for the dinner one day in the little room at the back of the main oltlce Chauncey walked in. He was elegantly dressed and picked his teeth with n gold toothpick. The hotel proprietors thought he was a member of 4he oommiitee and the ounnnittoa thought he was one of the uronrUrtor. There is a safe close to the door of the little room, and Chauncey stole the first thing in, it he uouhl reach. When ha got home he found that he had stolen very valuable a)Ks belonging to an English clergyman. The clergyman went back to Jtagland amL. of oounje, put ih his elahu against the hotel. Mtortly afterward Chauncey visited the Yntii Auenue Hotel again! Jind mad another haul from the safe. Juht as he get to the sidewalk he fas grahhni by a big Irish porter who saw mm com nut tlie iol)bery. Well, Chauncey hired me and gave we the story. 1 uggested to the hotel proprietors that the Knglish clergyman ought to have his paprs, and they were returned, not, however, before Uhaunoey's aoeusem recommended the Court to give him a light sentence. QUICK WORK IK A HANK. yon toUc about the manner In which criminals get their liberty I can tell you .ome daisies. You've often netieedOliat the paying tellers' Windows m banks are guardenljy little iron or brass bars? Well, before Dutch Helnrich's time, the windows were entirely open. Ry the way, what a genius , he was." Tlie lawyer olosed his eyes in ecstacy and murmured the name. "Heinrich used to wait till the' teller of a bank had a good pile of money iu front of his window, and then ho would reaeh in, seize an armful if he could and get away so quickly that pursuit was hopeless, During the war Heinrich got away with two bags of gold from a Wall street bank in this lashion. He passed the bags to confederates, ;who managed to escape. Heinrich, however, was arrested. He offered to return some of tke gold if he was set at liberty. The President of the bank accepted one hag of gold and then hailed ileinrioh out The caee was before Justice llogaa, and I remember it very well. TWO MUKDKRS AT SKA. "I'll tell vou ol a tbing that saved a man's life, and I didn't even have to tell a lie to do it cither. In 1861 a man named Griltiu was mate of a big ship. He wanted to be Captain, and so he induced the steward, a man named lees, to help him kill the Captain. They rubbed blue vitriol on the edge of a drinking-glass, and in this way poisoned the Ca)taia. who died. The owners were notified, but instead of promoting Griffin they hired another Captain from the outside. Griltin was wild over his disappointment, and he killed the second Captain in the same way. Again the owners wcut outside for a man to fill the vacancy. The Mate made an attempt to poison the Captain, but the owners of the vessel suspected what was the matter and had the bottles of the two murdered Captains exhumed. Traces of poison were discovered and both Griltin and Iees were arrested. I confessed, ami when Griffin was tried in New York 1 defended him. The court was ia Burton's Theater, in Chambers street, on tne very spot where the American News Company's building is to-day. My wife wanted to hear me defend Grill in, and she qame to court with her little baby in her arms., Well, tlie trial went on. I made Lee'i, the steward, admit that he had terrible dreams, in which the scenes of the murder haunted him. Upon thismaialy I based a theory Oh at Les was the real and the jonby murderer, and that he was trying to implicate Griltin to save his owa neck. When I. got up to sum up the caee I- felt, sjbaky. X wanted to awaken some emotion in the breasts, of the jurors, and yet I couldn't see m.v way 'clear. While I was talking my eye ha'ppened to alight upon my wife iind baby sitting in a far corner of the room. It was an inspiration. , Pointing at them I cried: Ob, gentlemen! gentlemen! Will you male that mother a wfcicw and that mnooent babe an orphan? 1 Can you look upon thee guiltless ones and send this man to an undeserved death?1 t! n "The jury was mored to tears, and need not tell you that Grittfn's life wan saved.- My wife, who was too faraway to hear my words, never could understand why she suddenly became the center of attraction for all Ute eyes in the room. I nay as well tell you that Grlrtin was unmarried. The present Judge Andrews was Assistant United States, District Attorney In the ease. The baby Is new the, mother of five of my grandchildren. , A HANK Or KNGLAND BURGLAR. "Of course you've heard of McDonald, the greet Bank of KMland forger,, who Is now serving out a life sentence well, I knew him well. He used to pract'oe his profession in this city. He was a'mean man and would screw,' hie lawyer down to the, last cent. Sven hi abilities can never make me admire such a man. McDonald's greatest ransn was this: He.would biro I ehean house on South street, Which In those .days was a poor neighborhood, and would put upon the front of the house a sign, such as Muggins & Co., oommkuuon merchants, or Muggins Ac Co., shipping merchants. Then he would order whole shiploads of goods from Canada and other distant places. Sometimes Me victims would make proper Inquiries about JKuggins & Co. and would refuse to Mil lbs orders. Other firms would jump at the princely style of the orders and would send on the goods. Of course Muggins A Co. would instantly sell the goods, pocket the oash and disapiiear. McDonald got $1,700 worth of umbrellas from Spencer H. Sketith, a wholesaler. The swindle was discovered and MeDenakl was artestad. Although Mm nmbrsllss were taken to

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an assignment of them to ass. with some furniture he Donald was arraisraed betom DowUnirM ha the Tombs, charged." "flow? "Oh, a eonsMNUtasMseaf his Iwnonnnss Good benvesm, what a snsnthisr' "What ttt yon do with tarn an bmllawP1 " When I went to get them I Juan that Spencer H. pnstth'i tew vsr had nut an attachment upon them.' 1 cam red to compromise and take half of the umbrella, hut the other fellow woulda't give up one. The result was thai they rotted in Poltoe Headquarters, and, for all 1 know, the frames are there mow. THK STpKV or AM AUSf. , "Some criminals are well versed la law. I remember a case in point. A man named Page and a pal broke la to a house in Surrey, England, and got away with mass of valuable plate. They were urreitecl, and I had them bailed out Now alibis oonoooted by burglar are generally very weak, but Page was an extraordinary fellow, and he executed a very shrewd trick. He took two friends out in a buggy, drove them across London Bridge aid stopped a hotel called the JHepnant and tie. Tho three drank wine, and ;e swept the empty glasses from the who broke the gfnese.4. I did with my' cane,' said Page. 'Why?' said the' w altar.' 'Because I wanted to,' roared Page. The result was that Page paid for the glasses. He next took his friends to Morton, where they had dinner. Page gave .the waiter a bad Cnea, and, after a dispute, eubstlh1 a good coin. Then they went to Epsom, where ther entered a gypsy's tent and out the tent' strings. I would here observe that they got a beating which they didn't bargain for. On the day of the trial I'age swore that when the burglary was perpetrated be was at Kpson. He thin called his two witnesses, who told the story of the trip I have described, simply substituting the date of the burglary for the real date. The subtlest cross-examination failed to shake their testimony, for they only had to tell one little He and all the res was tlie truth." "Haven't criminals often suggested false alibis?" ' 'Yes but they are very unsafe. Besides that, they are Immoral. John Flood, the celebrated murderer, ones asked me. to take poison into the Tomb so that he could Vomniit suicide" Ybu refused, of course?" "What! in the middle of my cash? 1 should say so," "Homicide cases pay well, don't they?" 'Not as a rule. I was assigned by the Court to defend a murderer free of charge, and it cost my firm $1,800 in cash to foot the expanses. I never got a cent back. ' "Do criminals, as a rule, try to de eeive lawyers as to their guilt?" "An eld one doeeVt, bwt a now one does. It's always beet to tell your lawyer the truth." "Do they try to cheat lawyers out ot their pay?1' "Almost every man who m arrested for the first or second time tries to skin .his lawyer. He thinks It's a ohwer ' thing. Old criminals are sure pay. They know that if they cheat their ; lawyer he'll make it hot the next time they are caught. I've dealt with all kinds of criminals. Why, in the rerr ! chair you sit on, 1'vs seen Reddy the j Blacksmith Bill Tweed, Chauncey 1 Johnston, Dutch Henrioh Johnnv the !Mick. Billv Porter, Sbeeaey Mike, McDonald, Sharker, the murderer, Dan isobie, &pettceretta, too king of genteel naalefachsrs; George Howard, the murdered burglar; George Ellis, Mother Mandclbauni but hold on, where are you going, young man? Hold on, you are safe ure Ar. , Herald. A lH.bC8TftOYER. Mew T nTewnHi pTreit Arc KHtel Mr. C. H. Murray, of Dearer, writes to Prof. Baird the following: Ia the middle or latter part of June I think it was-in 188 I was prospecting on the headwaters of the 'Tttmiebe Creek, in the Gunnison Valley.Ckriorado. About nine o'clock in the morning I sat down in the shade of soaw willows that skirted a clear but shallow place in the creek. In a quiet part of the water, where their movements were readify discernible- were some fresh-hatched brook or mountain trout; and circling about over the water was a small swarm of moeouitoes. The trout ware very young, still having Ihe pelluoid sac puffing out from the region of the gills, with the rent of their body almost transparent when they would swim into a portion of the water that "was lighted up by direct sunshine. Every few minutes these haby trout for what porposo 1 do not know, unless to get the bene tit of more air would come to the surface rof the water, ss that tho top of their bead was level with the surface of the wator. When this, was tho case, a mosquito would alight, and' immediately transfix tho trout by msertlug his proboscis, or bill into the brain ot the nab, which seemed incapable of escaping. The mosquito would hold his victim steady until bo had extracted all the life juioes; and when this was accomplished, and ho flew away the dead trout would turn over on his back and Boat down the stream. 1 was so interested in this before unheard of destruction of ttuh, that 1 watched the depredations of these mosquitoes for more than half an hour; and in that time over twenty trout were sucked dry, and their lifeless shells sent floating away with toe current. It was the only ooeatkm that I was ever witness to the fact, and I hare been ueebU by inquiry to ascertain if others have observed a similar destruction of fish. I am 'sure the fish were trout, as the locality was quite near snow line, and the water very bold, and no other fish were in the stream at that altitude. From this observation, 1 am satisfied that neat numbers of trout, and perhaps infant ftsh of other varieties in clear waters must come to their death in this way;' aid, If the fact has not boon here" tofore recorded, It hi huportsnt to those interested in pisciculture. 3inUjit g eOjafcasenasUsi I 1 iBss pnyi I ISBrn pUsie te prove that flowers arc

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Bat nays: "Why sail upon us to help a people who ate not yet in that condttlon of leooaeOhv tkm to the North and the Nation which ean atone give assnranee that our gifts will not be perverted to the future Mir&amsaeat of the ssottois and the imperiling the peace of the Union?" 1 reolv: I no not bare discuss points at hums between political partsas, as they bear on the present attitude of the Southern people. But I ant pre-: pared to say, after a careful observation of political and other tendencies In all the Mates east of the Kooky Mountains, within the past five years, that, whatever of the old unfriendliness to American institutions or dangerous elittoal methods may exist in the nth, there are several causes of peril to the Ke public in our own Northern States of equal magnitude, requiring equal patriotism and wisdom for their management Within the life of my children our proudest Northern States may call for sympathy and aid on Virginia and the Carolinas in emergencies that appeal to the solid conservative American habit of thought and public administration. Indeed, in the swift coming issues of the future every State and section may be called, in truth, to come to the front and save the Union, as the North so grandly did a generation ago. Now my faith has never been shaken that the only way to prepare any portion of this Union to meet such peril or to perform Its ordinary duties is to give its children and youth the full benefit of our American system of universal education that training of the heart, tlie head and the hand, through our varied national agencies, which shall send forth every new generation competent to meet the demands of common life or rise to the emergency of any eriIous hour. And I urge our people of the North to their duty in this momentous question of Southern education, because I know the Southern. people hare well begun this work for themselves, and only need our thorough sympathy and aid for its fair advancement I could nil pages and volumes with incidents of porsonal experience to confirm whnt I say. Let me close this paper' by one true story of what 1 saw in the very heart of the old &outb-land: More than twenty years ago one of the bravest of the young commanders In the National army, Colonel Shaw, of the oity of New York, fell at the bead of his brigade of colored soldiers, in a desperate assault on Fort Wagner, during the siege of Charleston. He was buried with his men, and his body was never found. After the close of the war the families, in New York and Boston, connected with the fallen soldier, built a school-house in Charleston for colored effildren, "established the Shaw school, and for several years supported it as a private beneficence. Some five years since the use of the building wss gran tod tasthe public school authorites of the city on condition of the support of the school as a part of the jmoeral system of inetruofon. Later still the building was virtually given to the city, and all the funds of the corporation passed over for its enlargement; and now one of the public schools of Charleston bears the name of the New i ork Colaael who died at the 1iaa1 nt his black brigade forcing the entrance to that beleaguered city. Last April, for the third Usac, I vis ited the eitv, the guest of its govern ment; this time for the sole purpose of speaking to and advising with colored people. And I saw that nowhere in this country is there now a more thorough and honest purpose to give these people a fair elementary education than in the city that first threw out the flag of revolt and shotted the first run turned against the Union hi 1861. There are several large schools, supported from the North, which were vis ited. But the most interesting of all were the two great free schools, con taining two thousand colored children. many of their teachers representing tho old respectable families of the city. No portion of the public-school svstem re ceives more cordial and careful attention than this from tho able Superia tendent, the patriotic and energetic Mayor, and the School Board, whose President is the former Secretary of the Treasury of the Confederate Government My last visit was to the Shaw school, now a collection of several hundred children, with white and colored teachers; tne Prindpal, like the City Superintendent an omoer in the Con federate army. After suitable inspection I was invited to the great hall to listen to some exercises br the higher classes, prepared, as I understood, for their coming commencement exhibition., Tbe hirst was a recitation, by a hundred of the older pupils, from Longfellow's "Dulldittgof the Ship" Tuen a boy as black, as night, George Washington byname, was summoned from his seat to recite a pathetic poem: "The Dying Soldier." It didn't need oomment to show for whnt cause that soldier died; for the poem was a most touching story of peril and suffering, even unto death, for the saving of the Union. As the soldier nearsd his end he called to his companions for one more of the old songs of the village Sunday-school; and the whole body of children took up the theme and snag with pathos only heard in the tones of the freed men, tho dying refrain. The soldier breathed his last with a praysr for his country, when tbe entire crowd sprang to their feet and, kd by their teachers, pealed forth: brave. Two weeks later I stood at the other Mid of South Carolina in the thriving town of Chester, in another colored school, supported by Northern funds, for the higher and industrial education of eoloredyouth. Beside me was the excellent Mate Superintendent of Public Instruction. We stood in the halls of a great plantation house and overlooked a broad estate on a beautiful hilltop, now owned, and used for this end. That estate, in 1S40, was held by the largest slaveholder In Northern South Carolina, and here is tho offoial of the State bkJdinr Godspeed to the new work of uplifting tawhW It m

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Uskm, and X the Meats sm trvtoa: to turn back the for its accomplishment. So hilt In all the fifteen States wntoh 1 havetrao. sssd, and it will be, mere and mow m proportion as you and L the Nofftamm people and the Nation close up wtah onr brethren and sisters of the goats, land in a onion of beasts and hands hi the snrost, good, ohOureo's cause. JVem JL IK Jfato'a "ifesr Jmnanfm o 14s James." Tho burden of Senator Hoar's speech. In the Massachusetts Repobliean Convention and of the platform adopted by that Convention was that in Southern States whore It is the blacks are all Bopubltoana and the whites all Democrats the KspnbHeasm are not permitted to vote or that at ther are their votes are suppressed hi the count In this war it is that the Democratic party has able to tricot a President, to keep a majority of the House of Representatives and to main tain an unoue lotion in the Senate. . If these allegations were literally I the situation would be a bad one It hi deplorable enough in whatever light it msv be viewed. But the aisnnspaon of Senator Hoar and of Bepubiiean platform builders in general, while not entirely false, is hi many respects unwarranted. The situation at the South as regards franchise is entirely logical, it is easilv explained. Similar cood would produce similar results ht the North or anywhere else. A race emerged from barbarism, suffering from the degrading effects of three eonturtos of bondage, was unwisely made the political equal of a race which had one thousand years the start of it in everything pertaining to the science of go ornmenU Ignorant, superstitious, brutal, easily led and more easily duped, these people were for a time con trolled by adventurers from the North, whose dominion in the South was the . meet scandalous era ever known in modern history. The negro voted, out be did not rule. The plunderers who robbsd and impoverished the whites deprived the negro also of the means of gaining a livelihood, and were, in fact, his worst enemies. ' A state of society which paralysed industry, intimidated capital. nllwt muttons of semi-savage mtuoc ' with an idea thar freedom meant license and that toil was unnecessary, eon us es ted property and saddled the State 1.1.- 1 !.. ' I l 1., t .!J wiui uew wbiw ouuki jbu ui wm yn though arievoue ia its effects en the whites, was even worse in its influence on tlie blacks. In the disorders which preceded the overthrow of this vicious rule all fair men saw the inevitable consequences of misgovern men t, and it ean be said to the credit of the patty which is now deploring the absence of these conditions that one of its Presidents, Mr. Hayes, was most instrumental in relieving the South from that accursed rule which no Northern State would have tolerated for a month. From the fall of the carpet-bag rorernments two great facts have been constantly in view. One of these is tho extraordinary progress of the Southern people, both whites and blacks, ia everything pertaining to material wealth and prosperity. The other is that the negroes, abandoned by tlie sea-seeking adventurers from the North, have been left entirelv to their own resources by the great Northern party which claims their allegiance. It has never seat an orator to address them, a "barrsT' to organise them or political literature for them to read. For ten years they have had no knowledge of the existence of a Bepublioaa party, save where an occasional Chalmers might seek to gsiu their votes by appealing to their mers or their prejudices. They have become docile, industrious, progressive and prosperous. They are gradually obtaining a clearer insight into the responsibility of citizenship. They whs not all vote the Kepubltcaa ticket, but they will rote more and more numerously, if undisturbed, until at no very distant day the ratio of stay-at-homes will not be larger at tho South than it is at the North. The nosvvotinc males (of Rhode Island are proportionately more numerous to-nay wan tney are m any Southern State save one. As to the claim that Mr. Cleveland owes his deetion to the suppression of the colored vote it may be oeJlTs aouV lMuno)uv ntf ooe'n1 onuWJfoiun1 rleouu in ooir two Mates no tne neare males of voting age outnumber the whites; and, assuming that every biaok vote bad been thrown for Blaine and every white veto for Cleveland, thus giving Blaine the electoral votes of South Carolina and Mississippi,, the result of the election would not have been changed. The South is making rapid progress and the negroes are sharing in it fully. The question of suhVage is solving itself. Any atop backward would be fatal not only to the Si nth bat to the North. Ottos? iwraht Grant's Last Words. The last words written by Gsasral Grant ia relation to tho results of tho war which were read by his sen at Neoga, Htthois, deserve a place amsng the best utterances of his life. They show that the fraternity and tore ex hlbited for him at hut death worn worthily bestowed. " I feel that we are on the ere of a era, when there is to ha great harmony between the Federals and Coafedsrhe was. The era was reached at his grave when Federals and Contoderatcs vied with each other in honoring has memory. But how the language of this last message of the soldier to the people he bad done so much for oontraots with the malevolent diatribes of John Sherman. Grant's simple sad sincere words ought to mane tnese warriors m tti ot pence bitten with burg iwfrtof. lLw'. UaaJ W mU Ia he : . . . . .... - ' -fmaevureu into outtous an mosiml- av tides, and the hard shell that unom mo cartilage of the foot h nowaoM toge& a

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