Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1883 — Page 7

The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. G. E. MARSHALL, - - PtTBLISHD.

There are 5,257 tons of silver coin in the Treasury Vaults in Washington, valued at $114,969,197. An Alabama editor proposes an amendment to the Constitution making the Senatorial twelve years, increasing the salary to SIO,OOO a year, and making Senators ineligible to the Presidency. It is not generally known that Prince Bismarck is a timber merchant iij a large way, and a distiller in a still larger. At Varzin he has recently had a new distillery built, steam engines put up at an enormous cost, and the result is that over 90,000 liters of German eau-de-vie are turned out monthly. A Nevada man who has been mining in Mexico for two years has -returned home some hundreds of dollars poorer than when he left. He says he would have done well enough down in that country, but about once a month they were after Him for subscriptions. The men who called for the subscriptions came with shotguns. A Sunday paper at Washington claims to know that the face of Guiteau is in a jar of alcohol and his skeleton in a case in the Army Medical Museum, with the initial “B” written in indelible ink upon each separate bone for identification, and that the flesh was ere mated in the building after it had been stripped from the skeleton Nov. 22, 1882. The horticulturists of California lament a scarcity of Chinese labor, and exclaim, “What shall we do?” Go to work yourselves. A white man who works for wages on a California farm is expected to have his own blankets, sleepin the barn, and get his meals on a tin plate at the rear kitchen door. When works slacks up, he unavoidably become a tramp. And yet California is trying to attract white immigration. The Engineering states that a vessel constructed of paper was recently launched at St. Petersburg. She is driven by steam. Her dimensions are: Length, 25 feet; greatest width, 5 feet, with only a few inches draught of water. The recent trial of paper for railway material, the above journal adds, has led to its present employment. For many years paper boats, however, have been made and used in this country. A scheme is reported to be on foot, in the Chilian army, having for its object the conquest of the Sandwich Islands. Several hundred American and European adventurers are said to be organizing for that purpose. King Kalakaua is very unpopular among his for-eign-born subjects, who pay most of his taxes, and his little army of four or five hundred men is not worth speaking of. It wohld be a trivial exploit to dethrone him. In twenty-two years, ending with 1882, Massachusetts had 107 murder trials and 16 hangings; in thirty years, ending with 1880, Connecticut had 97 murder trials and 7 hangings; in four years, ending with 1877, New York city had 185 homicides and 4 executions. It would, perhaps, be a good idea for the States, in order to secure a consistant enforcement of their criminal laws, to so change them as to provide yiaAeaiKpenalty for jae#, person who shall, in cold blood, have committed twenty-five murders.

A competent authority estimates that new railroads will be built in the chief countries of the world during the next few years, at the rate of 18,000 miles per annum, exclusive of railroad extensions in Asia, Australasia, and the United States. India has in view a large expansion of her railway system; in Java, the roads are being annually extended; 1,220 miles of additional road will be built in Japan;a line from Constantinople to Bagdad, 1,488 miles in length, has been projected, and lines are being surveyed in Turkestan and Persia.

How tender is the heart of Mormon polygamists. At the recent Salt Lake City Conference, H. J. Grant expressed his supreme contempt for any man who would put away a superfluous wife in order to oblige the United States-Con-gress. He said: “When a man marries a wife, and neglects the. woman, and breaks her heart, he should be punished. I have seen many faithful women struggling Mong for* ten or fifteen ye«rs, aiid suffering neglect. The desire of my heart is to keep the commands of the Lqjd.” Mr. Grant has married often. / Attracted by the piteous howls of a dog, a Brandenburg (Prussia) peasant found a huge eagle on the back of a watchdog. The peasant ran to fetch a farm bailiff. When the two came the bird was hopping' round, badly dis-

abled. A shot dispatched him. The dog was found dead—torn to pieces. The eagle was black, with white shoulders, and was was is called an imperial eagle. On his left foot a gold ring, on which were cut the letters, still quite visible, “H. Ks. o. k.,” underneath which was the word “Eperjes,* and on the other side the date, 10, 9, 1827.” Eperjes is a town in upper Hungary, not very far from the northern' Carpathians.

They are beginning to marry here how “in the English style,? says the New York World. A niece of ex-See-retary Hamilton Fish was married on Thursday to a Mr. Roosevelt, in the St, John’s Episcopal church, Elizabeth, N. J. The ceremony was modeled after the English fashion entirely., The bride entered the church at noon, leaning on her father’s arm. She wore a $50,000 necklace, the gift of the groom. Her hands were ungloved, and she carried the family prayer-book. She was met at the altar by the groom. The aisles bf the church were strewn with autumn leaves. After .riKeL.Aereihpny was performed the couple knelt and Bishop. Tuttle, of Utah, pronounced a blessing upom them. This is understood to be the correct thing in marriage now.

A year or so ago a member of the Spanish Diplomatic service married a young lady of great beauty. Shortly after his marriage he was somewhat surprised to receive notice that he had been appointed to a high position in Cuba, and that he was expected to undertake his new duties without delay. The time was so short that he was obliged to leave his wife behind, and accordingly prepared to start at once. He hade farewell to his family and left his house, but instead of leaving Madrid be managed to miss the train and returned home somewhat late in the evening. On arriving he was surprised to find Duke de L. in possession, but of course took care not to express astonishment. Suddenly he rose and said he was going to see his wife, from which the Duke, in great perturbation, strove to dissuade him. The next evening the inquisitive Spaniard was found stabbed to death in his own room. An apology for an inquiry was held. Verdict, suicide.

The London Times is supporting the project for a memorial to the inventor of illuminating gas, William Murdock. It is related of him that when he was making his experiments with fish-skins to.be used by brewers as a substitute for isinglass, he went to London and took expensive lodgings at the West End. Absorbed in his new discovery, he used to go out with a basket, which he brought home full of fish; then he would flay the fish on his drawing-room table and hang the skins to dry on velvet sofas and silk curtains. When his landlady caught him at work there was a scene ; and Murdock, much to the surprise of his simple mind, was ignominiously ejected, after being made to pay damages. The Murdock Memorial Committee, which is to be formed under Sir William Siemen’s auspices, will endeavor to collect funds for erecting a statute on the Thames Embankment, and also purchasing Murdock’s house at Handsworth, which it is proposed to convert into a gas museum, with a library and reading-rooms, for the workingmen of Birmingham.

What is known as “standard time” is likely to be adopted on the entire railroad system of the country. The managers of 60,000 miles have already agreed to it, and .thexe have., tically no negative votes against the proposition. The whole country will be divided into five divisions—the Intercolonial, 60 degrees west from Greenwich; the eastern, 75 degrees west from Greenwich; the Central, 90 degrees west from Greenwich; the Mountain, 105 degrees west from Greenwich, and the Pacific, 120 degrees west from Greenwich. Each division, it will be observed, is fifteen degrees apart, which makes just one hour in time. At present there are fifty different standards of time in use on the various roads in the country, which causes much annoyance and trouble. By the new arrangement there will be but five standards, each one hour apart, which will greatly simplify matters. The adoption of standard time does not necessarily mean she change of the clock dial from twelve hours to twenty-four. It is thought that suggestion will meet with little favor.

There Was Something Wrong.

“This example isn’t right/*, is what the Free Press says a Detroit schoolboy said to his teacher, as he exhibited his arithmetic. “Why so?” ‘ “Why it figures the interest on S4OO at 6 per cent.” ' “Well, isn’t that right?” “No, ma’am. Pa always figures on 13 per there are twenty-four days over he calls it a month! I guess it is a misprint.” At Port Jervis, |ie whp has a fancy for it, may, at low watex, > stand on a rock in the river with one foot in New York, the other in Pennsylvania, and touch with his hajjd New Jersey.

THE BAD BOY.

“Hello, hello, hello!" yelled the grocery man to the bad boy, as he peeked through the window from the Jutside to see if any customers were in, ‘Come in and let me look at those bruises you are carrying. Great heavens! how did you get that italic style on your nose,' and did the same blow blacken both eyes?” and the grocery man laughed at the broke-up condition of the boy. “Oh, you laugh if you want to, but when you get walked all over by an infidel, and have some teeth knocked down your throat, you won’t laugh so much,” and the boy pouted as much as he could with his mouth swelled, and looked at the grocer as though he would like to tip the stove over. “What about an infidel ? You haven’t been fighting with a heathen, have you? Tell me all about it, because you are on your last legs, and confession is good for the soul. Reveal to me the cause of that leaning tower of Pisa nose and that hie jacet colored eye,” and the grocery man winked at a carpenter who came in to fill his tobaccobox. “ Well, you see one of the boys belonging to our gang of widow-helpers, his pa is an infidel, and he don’t believe anything, but he ean saw more wood for widows than any of the boys. He is a good fellow, only he does not go to Sunday-school, and don’t believe there is any God or devil or anything. He has made us boys tired more than six times, when we have been sawing wood, talking about things that we believed in that he didn’t. He said the idea that a whale swallowed Jonah was all bosh; and Elijah going up in a chariot of fire was poppycolic, and everything was wrong. 1 went to a Deacon of our church, a regular old hard-shell, and told him about the boy, an,d asked him what ought to be done about it, and he was mad at the infidel boy, and said he ought to be scourged, and we should smite him and beat him with many stripes. I asked the Delicon if it would be right for us good boys to pile on to the infidel boy, and< make him believe things if we had to choke them down him, and he said it would be doing a service to humanity, and would win for tis everlasting fame and glory. Well, here’s your fame. Gaze on my lefthanded nose and you can see the fame.. I tell you I don’t take no more jobs converting infidels. I want to do everything that is right, but hereafter, if an infidel meets me on the sidewalk, I shall go across the street and let him have the whole street. You see, we got the infidel boy up in the hay mow of the barn, and, while the boys were talking to him I slipped a clothes line around his legs and tied them, and then tied his arms, and we had him so tight he couldn’t wiggle. He tried to get away, but he couldn't, and then I commenced on him about Adam and Eve eating the apples. At first he wouldn’t believe anything, but I choked him until he admitted that the devil got them into a scrape. Then I asked him if he believed that the Lord cut a spare rib out of Adam and took a lot of dupt and puttied jt up and made Eye, and set her up in the sun to dry. The darned infwlel kicked on that and said he never would believe it, but I sat down on his stomach and tickled his nose with a straw, and finally he caved, and said he believed it, but he was mad, and tried to chew the clothes line around his arms to get away, but we held him tight. Then I tackled him on the children of Israel walking through the sea without getting their feet wet or catching cold, and he said that was a blasted lie. I gave him two minutes to believe that, and when the time had expired he said he couldn’t swallow it, so I took hold of his ears and tried to pin them together at the back of his head, and finally he weakened and said the story did begin to look reasonable, and he believed it. We were getting along splendidly, and I thought what a triumph it would be to bring that boy into Sunday-school a firm believer, a brand plucked from the burning. We took a recess, and played mumblety peg, all except the infidel, for ten minutes, and then I tackled him on Joshua commanding the sun .to stand still, and he said that was all nonsense, that it couldn’t be done, and I began to run timothy hay and tickle grass’ up his trousers’ legs, and finally he weakened and admitted that Josh was all right He kicked on Solomon having a thousand wives and said he never would believe a man could be such a blasted fool, but I took a hay rake and parted his hair in the middle, and filled the inside of his undershirt with oats, and when they began to hurt him he said the Solomon story was true, and he even went so far as to believe Solomon had 1,200 wives, sol got him to believe 200 more than there was, which is pretty well for an infideh, He wouldn’t take any stock in Jonah and the whale, until we<buried him up in the hay and made him believe we were going to set the hay on fire, when he said he believed that whales were used in those days to carry passengers, and were fitted up with state rooms on the inside. Then I tackled him on the Hebrew children being cast into the fiery furnace and not being scorched at all, but- he said he would believe anything but that, so I put on my roller skates and began to walk on him, and skate, and fall down on him, and he begged, and said, come to think of it, that fiery furnace story looked the most reasonable of the whole lot Then I thought he was getting to be converted enough for one day, and I untied the rope and let him loose. You wouldn’t believe a boy could be so base, but as soon as he was loose all the good work 1 had done on him seemed to be lost, and he became an infidel again in less than a minute, and scared the Other boys down stairs with a pitchfork, and cornered me, and knocked me down, and walked on me, and pounded me, and before he got through with me he made me swear that I didn’t believe anything in the Bible. He was just as mean as he could be, and I don’t dare be good unless I go off somewhere alone. I showed my nose to the Deacon, and told him the infidel mauled me, and the Deacon said I was no good. Bay, what would you do if you was in my place ?” “I would go and soak my head,* said

the grocery man. “You have got to learn one thing, and that is, mind your own business about your religious views. The infidel boy is as much entitled to his belief as you are, and the days dl choking your views down people who do not believe as you do are passed. After you get mauled a few times more you will be pretty smart. You attend to doing good, wherever you see a chance, but don't try to stem the tide of infidelity by brute force, and you will be happier. " “All right, that lets me out,” said the boy, as he looked in a mirror to see how black his eyes were, and tried to push his nose back square in front. “Hereafter people can believe as they please, but I will get even with that Deacon or my name is not Hennery. I bet you he knew that infidel boy was too much for me. Don’t it seem strange to you that an infidel boy should be endowed with muscle enough to knock a Christian boy silly. I can’t account for it. I should think the good boy ought to have the most muscle,” and the boy went off thinking how to get even with the Deacon.— Pecks Sun.

Pulling President Jackson’s Nose.

In the days of “Old Hickory,” the veritable, energetic, irascible Andrew Jackson, it will be recollected there occurred several events of thrilling interest. The old hero’s career in the War of 1812 with Great Britain was marked with events which will long bs remembered. His sturdy defense of New Orleans, the grand and successful battle before that city, were eminently suggestive of the terrible energy involved in Jackson’s composition and marked him as one of the foremost men of the then young nation. The people did not forget him. and ere many years elapsed he was called to fill the great office of President of the United States. What he did in that position is so imprinted on the historic pages of the country as never to be forgotten. They have come down the years in trumpet tones and are yet reverberating in the list of celebrities of the land. Andrew Jackson’s civil battle with the United States bank, his stern, unyielding and successful grapple with the secession serpent in the person of John C. Calhoun, and other noted displays of his indomitable will are proud incidents of his history and veritable laurels of his administration. Every true patriot loves to recall them to his record his approval of their value and importance. Of the many incidents occurring during the life of “ Old Hickory” was one which eminently brought out some of the main points of his character. When filling, we believe, his second term as President, his Secretary of the Navy, on the completion of one of our war frigates, planned an excursion down the Potomac and to some of the Atlantic cities. To this excursion the Secretary invited the President and his Cabinet. It proved a pleasant one. While lying at anchor, we believe, at Philadelphia, the people were permitted to board the vessel and examine its various points. Among other visitors was one Lieut. Robert A. Randolph, who had been an officer of the United States navy, but had violated some important order and had ‘ been dismissed from. his office. Gen. Jackson, as President, had signed and approved of the report of the naval court in the case of Randolph. He [Randolph] being of a determined, fearless nature, vowed revenge on the President when opportunity offered. Making his way into the vessel where the President was receiving calls, he impudently improved his opportunity by violently pulling the nose of the aged President. Before, however, Randolph could be secured he escaped to the shore and disappeared. At the time of its occurrence, the bold nature of the act of course made quite a stir in the public mind, and without doubt it is yet remembered by many of the present generation. —-Exchange.

Sardines Before We Get Them.

Nearly all the fish eaten in America as sardines come from Maine. They are small herring. Sometimes only a bushel or two are taken at a time, and at others so many as to endanger the net. The degree of dexterity with which they are cleaned is astonishing, especially as it is done by very small children. After this they are placed on large gridirons and suspended over a hot tire to broil. The boxes are prepared with attractive French labels iftdiestiiffg oiire-oih'bntMhw is-false, ar the oil is cottonseed. The packing is another operation at which little people are expert. A fish is seized in each hand and laid lengthwise in the box, first a head at the outer end and then a tail. After the boxes are full a small quantity of the oil is- poured in, and then they are passed to men who solder them tightly. They are next thrown into an immense caldron, where they are boiled two hours, thus completing the cooking process, and dissolving the bones of the fish. One of the establishments in Lubec prepares about 4,000 boxes daily, and there are nineteen such places in Eastport, besides many others at seaport towns. The actual cost per box, including all expenses, it is said to be 5 cents.

The World’s Supply of Amber.

This appears to be inexhaustible. The “blue earth” of Samland the most important source of supply—extends along the Baltic for sixty miles, and possesses a breadth of about twelve miles and an average thickness of ten feet. Runge estimates that every twelve cubic feet of this earth contains a i pound of amber. This gives a total of some 9,600,000,000 pounds, which, at the present rate of quarrying, is sufficient to last for 30,000 years. Amber is the fossilized gum of trees of past j ages, and, on the supposition that these j tree« had the same resin-producing ca- i parity as the Norway spruce, and that the amber was produced on ihe spot ] where it is now found, Geoppert and ‘ Menge, in a new German work, esti- * mate that 300 forest generations of 120 | years each mi/st have grown on the Samland blue earth to giveit its present richness in the product. It is much more probable, however, that the amber came from a large area, and has been collected in its present position by the action pf water. It is also probable,that the trees were more ree* inous than the Norway spruce.

THE COMING ISSUE.

Senator Mahone’s Address to the Public on Virginia Politics. The Results of the Recent Election - How They Were Brought About. A War of Races Inaugurated, and the Old Shotgun Policy Renewed. Senator Mahone addresses a letter to the Keadjuster party of Virginia, In which he sums up the results of the last election and reviews the history of the party of which he is the acknowledged leader. He recites the condition in which the people of Virginia stood at the time the Readjuster party catne into power, the Matus of the State debt, the embarrassment of the people in the way of taxation, the absence of schools and the 'violation of the laws, and says that the righting of these wrongs, the correction of these evils and resistance to the old Bourbon intolerance, made a new party in Virginia necessary. A GLANCE AT THE RECORD. This party in 1881 carried the State by a majority of 12,000, despite the grossest misrepresentation and the disqualification of a capitation tax. For two years this State administration has been in power and has been true to its pledges; the State debt has been settled without a taint of repudiation, and the State and the people saved from liability for $13,000,000 of falsely created principal and $35,000,000 of interest. When the Bourbons left the treasury there was $23,000 therein, with a floating debt of nearly $2,00J,0J0, of which $1,500,000 was due the public schools. The Readjusters, after two years of control, have extinguished the floating debt with the exception of $715,0(0, and now ba* a . million and a half in the treasuiy. The cost of maintaining the St*te Government has be?n reduced 30 per cent., and the burdens of the people have been lightened by the reduction of the rate of taxation from 50 to 40 per cent. Reforms have been made in the various branches of the State Government; the whipping-post has been abolished; the capitation tax, which prevented the exercise of the right of suffrage by poor people, has-been removed, and the laws of the State have been administered without discrimination. THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. In the matter of public education the following statement exhibits facts which in ail time to come will reflect honor on the Readjuster party, and. what is still better, will advance the State in the general enlightenment which makes civilization possible: Comparing 1879 with 1871 the Funders by their unfriendly legislation uni administration, reduced the number of public schools from 3,017. of which 70J were colored, to 2,491, or which but 89 were eol< r. d. They reduced the pupils from 131,088, of whom 33,976 we e colored, to 108,074, of whom but 5,208 were colored. They reduced the teachers from 3,034, of whom 501 were colored, to 2,-; 504. of whom but 94 were colored. They reduced the expenditures Jrom $587,172 for theyear to $511,902. Now, compare the Readj ustcr ru e of last year with the last year of iiorbon rule, and the books show the Readjusiers have increased the number of schools from 2,491 to 5,587; the number of colored schools from 89 to 850; the pupils from 108,074 to 257;082; the colored pupils from 3,03 to 4,538; the teachers from 2,501 to 4.538; the colored teachers from 94 to 644. The expenditures, from $>11,902, were increased to $1,157,142. The establishment of the first State Normal school for colored teachers in the United Slates is another milestone planted by our party on the road of progress. The railwaw mileage in Virginia has been increased 43 per cent.; the increase in freight carriage has been 82 per cent.; the increase in the number of passengers carried 78 per cent., and the gross earnings of the railroads in the State have increased 88 per cent, within the last two years. This has been secured, Senator Mahone claims, by a liberal and honest policy of administration and by the encouragement of commerce in the State.

He then passes onto the recent outbreak between the races, and says that when the Bourbon convention assembled at Lynchburg, In July last,, the adoption of the color line was openly favored, and that such a plank would be introduced into the platform seemed probable until the last moment. The Chairman of the convention addressed himself to the white people of Virginia, and the . newspapers recommended the platform adopted as a white man's platform. They made the race issue the only one of the campaign, and brought to the support of the Democratic party all the white Republicans who were prejudiced against negro advancement. In September the leading editor of the Bourbon party announced that the Democratic plan of campaign was “to buy all the voters they could and bully the remainder.” This plan was carried out. As one of the prominent speakers explained, “By the gods, this is a white man's country, and white men shall rule or the rivers will run blood.” Everything was done to arouse and inflame race prejudice, and it became necessary, as the excitement grew intense, to carry out what h#d been intended and intimidate the blacks. The Senator then says: Arms began to pour into the south side regions, the supply of small arms in our larger cities was exhausted, and the demand extended as far as Baltimore, until one Democratic headquarters within twenty miles of Richmond had forty stands of muskets and the Danville region was a walking arsenal. 'Tire er.p }ha4*"whlfe>»»n shoul4riile or die;’’ the announcement that a war of races was upon us, swelled in volume and ferocity. Threats of the lives of our leaders became more common than any other argument. Murder in cold blood began in Madison county. Days before it was repeated in Danville, rumors of the shipment of arms filled the air, and, during the fair week at. Richmond —iong before any outbreak occurred —the knowing ones were heard to whisper and mysteriously predict what might be expected at the proper time. In due time it came. With what premeditation and design it came, let any impartial man who read the Bourbon press and heard the preparations made for it judge for himself. Who provoked it? Who perpetrated it? Let the Bourbon journals themselves testify. With what purpose it was perpetrated let the thousands of lalse circulars turning it to political account, spread broadcast by the Bourbons almost before it occurred, and the effect they produced, speak as no argument can. The in Danville is dignified by Bourbonism with the name of riot. The facts, as gathered from ail sources, are that upon Saturday evening pwceding the election, just after the Danvi le negroes had received their weekly pay and were buying their Sunday supplies in a crowded market-place, a white man appeared, had an altercation with a negro and whipped him. The fight was ended, and no other negroes came to the rescue of the punished man. But the programme was interrupted by this circumstance. An armed guttering of the “best people” of the “best and bravest” was convenivnily near, and in a moment a murderous throi* poured out Of the building where they were assembled, opening a murderous fire u<x>n the unarmed, defenseless, and flying negroes. How many were killed no one knows, and no one will probably learn the truth, for the oondit.on of things st>ll in Danville is such that the truth cannot be learned. That they were sitoe in the backs like dogs while run ning away; that no pistol shot was flred by a blaek man: that no white man was injured, save by his own friends; that for days the poor victims were found dead in alleys, in warehouses, and under houses, like poisoned rats that had crawled away to die; that the negroes fled to the woods, to the State of North Caro Una, to the four winds of heaven; these are a few* of the facts of this bloody, wholesale murder, which was telegraphed far and near by Bourbons as an insolent uprising of the blacks against the whites. = Simultaneously with these bccurrences the crack of the Bourbon weapon 'engaged in political murder resounded, and the Bourbon knife sunk deep in the counties of Charles

City, Halifax. Hanover. f r ./U, K •• and elyewhcio. in ngilnix with Sab tat th day sympathies from the BOufbcn capital, and the race cry whs shouted with Liual ferocity intense enough to make Virginia t»« rival of any Southern State in her record oi bteo»bAed and lawk s->ne*s. These, fpllow-elti tens, were th'- >»oans resorted to. The effects wete al) that rhe bulldozers <ould have ho; cd for. Murders, deliberately p putted undent outed with remorseless mulignttv, were jo the- remote and ignoiant whi’es of the valley and f buth west as the unavoidable selfdefense of these wolves against rh'drlamb assailants. Without the means of informing themselves of rhe batenesa of thete falsehoods. thoiisitu is of otjr pa“ty, deluded and deceived, y eded to an Impulse of generosity so foully placed upiri, and flu the region whore these felonies were pettnljfcd, the murderer,! thcmMlvet ps-adtd the streets, armed to the taeth, unde: rhe pretense of preserving o:der, until, in the city of Danville. who. e 4 ameron received in 1384 votes numbering 7)9, und Wi e in 18)3 received 841 votes, an 1 where 1,879 Readjuster votes were enrolled, but twenty-six votes were cast for the coalition candidate, whose life was threatened, und whose coffin it is sail had been actually made and paid for by the party of honor and intelligence. In the counties of Halifax and Charlotte, adjacent to Pittsylvania, the policy of purchase as well as rioting prevailed, and while the methods were a little less violent, they were none the less corrupt. Thus it was that Halifax, with a colored voting population of 3,814. against 3.054 whites, afie<- giving John S. Wise 548 majority in 1882, gave the Hour-, bous 250 majority in 1883. Ar.d Char’otte,: with a black voting population of 2.055, and a' w hi to population of 1,398, after giving John 8. Wise 762 ma'ority in 1889, gave a Bourbon majority of 800 in 1883. That these majorities were honest no sone man will imagine. How _thuy wvrf‘ brought iifcout will in diw tiroo bo made apparent. * The above are ouly samples of the methods resorted to by the Bourbons. Bribery and corruption appear to have been the order of proceeding generally throughout the .Rate. In the h'story of polities in this Stat : the recent campaign is, thank God, without precedent, and to the forbearance and longsuffering of the Readjustors—to this alone—is due the fact that this State is not now bathed In blood. In summing up the results Of the campaign, Senator Mahone says: That the reaction will come, and that swiftly and completely, is nbt a matter cf doubt. It is true that Bourbonism has gained a triumph upon a campaign of falsehood and deception, by apjeais to p.tsslon and by a barlarous resolve to shed as much innocent blood as was necessary to its success. It Is true that by fair means and by foul it has proon cd a temporary majority. And’ yet it is equally true that the majority of our people are conservative ut heart and abhor tab ehood and violenc?. In conclusion I;e siys: The. scope of the Readjustee party has enlarged with its age anti growth. It originated In an issue local, and to some extent improper. With time, and the changing issues whic.i time brings, it has widened its sphere, and whilp Its original Object has become less prominent, issues of nations ism. of human rights, of liberty, of peace, of manhood, r-f republican government, have been forced u|X>n it by the fierce arc broad enough to be national, and it has the sympathy of every man in the n itiou who loves liberty and abhors the prOK-rfpt on and bigotry of caste, class and race prejudice which is the life of Bourbonism. lor myself, ns your Chairman from !be outset of th,s struggle, I have conceived that the true duty imposed ujon pie by the spirit of bur party was to wage undying war upon Bourbonism; not only as it onposed the debt settlement; not only as it is the enemy of education; not only as it is imbecile, hoartle-s ai d wasteful in admlnis r ition: not only as it is the enemy of fi ee t u rt. e: but as it is ■tie enemy of tl at trie Dembcracg which means that the Lumble and weak shall participate in and be protected by the administration of the government as well as the powerful and s ring. In the effort to perpetuate caste, class, and race ruin by crushing out by force, irat d or otherwise, the weak and unprotected in this State, the Bour! ois have mode a gulf -between ihemselv.s and the Readjuster party which shall yawn forever, for tbeycinnot brlJge it, and we will not. Let the fight proceed. If we are to be in the minority in the future, it Is a minority struggling for principles as strong and holy as when they were backed by a majority. The manhood which sustains them in defeat proves a sincerity and devotion which in due time must and will be crowned with triumph. But whether future triumphs come or not the blessings we have secured for Virginia are fixed and indestructible- Our enemies stand before us. We, know that they arour foes and the f< es of the Commonwealth: that they have in' the past paralyzed her energies, robbed her' treasury, defrauded and dwarfed her free Schoo's, strangled her suffrage, brought national hate upon her, adhered to no jrlnctpie, and made terms with any renegade or prostitute who would aid them. And that they have at lasl triumphed by murder and bloodshed that have disgraced the Btate. We know that we-have asked for and given no quarter in the past, that we will accept none, and promise none now. We Know that with Bourbonism before us we have an enemy to fight, powerful and dangerous to tfie interests of the State. We know that, masquerading in the stolen livery of Democracy, it is no true representative of Democracy, either In principle 6r personnel, and I believe the Readjuster party will, when it next meets in council, unite cordially and thoroughly with our friends, State and national, and make common cause with them against the Bourbons, their aiders, counsellors and abettors, State and national, by. whatsoever name they mav be designated. I repeat, therefore, that .the struggle against Bourbonism is to be renewed forthwith, and fz> fli?: death, and, as your Chairman. I call upon every loyal Readjuster In. Virginia to rally to the standard and reform to fight a new battle against their old Bourbon foe in the national campaign of 1834. Bearing In mind the ’ old watchword of a free ballot and a fair count, we have a right, to demand and. expect support from the State, and if need be from the Federal Government, in behalf of the rights of man, guaranteed by both fjpvernmente, and put at? stake to procure the ascendency of an unscrupulous party that sticks at nothing to acquire power. • William Mahone, Chairman, Peteksbl-ko, Nov. 14, 1883.

Plantation Philosophy.

A bald head ain’t al’ers de sign ob sense. De turnip ain’t so scund airter yer cut off de greens. I has know’d tender-hearted men dat would stan’ and lissen to a tale of dis* tress an’ cry, but at the same time da hil a mighty tight grip on a dime. I owed a mgn onct an’ when I spoke ter him about it he said, “don’t think ob that, fur it’s all rite,’’ but I noticed dat airter I quit thinkin’ about it, he tuck it up an’thought about it till it worried me powerful. Es a man thinks dat he’s done suthin’ funny, an’ yer laugh, it pleases him mightily, but es yer laugh at him fur doin’ suthin’ what ain’t funny he doan like it. All through life a man want’s his frens ter look at his own an’ not da own pleasure. De pusson what is only smart in one thing mav make a big success ob hisse’f, but he oughten’ter think bard ob people case da gets tired ob him, for we think more ob de mockin’ bird, not becase he can sing l>etter den any udder bird, but becase he’s got so many different songs. —Arkansaw Traveler. The once famous tribe of Cherokee Indians is now reduced to about 1,000 persons, and they suffer a steady decrease, which will extinguish them by the middle of the next century. . ,