Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 June 1887 — Page 9

AMERICANS ABROAD.

OUR REPRESENTATIVES AT THE COURT OF QUEEN VICTORIA.

4 Novel Knfcerprine of "Our Own Buffhlo Bill" Which It Attracting the Attention of the Britishers from Queen to

Peasant.

Our gallant and somewhat erratic countryman, the Hon. William F. Cody in one character, "Buffalo Bill" in another, has attracted almost as much attention in London «s a prince royal from some monarchy might, and we present herewith pictures of some of the men and animals who have helped make his show famous.

Mr. John Robinson Whitley, of London, is director general of the American exhibition there, and exerted himself to make Cody's "Wild West Show" an important part of it. Capt. Burnet Lan-

JOHN R. WHITLEY. dreth, of Philadelphia, did the organizrng work in America he is one of the noted firm of D. Landreth & Sons, dealers iu seeds, and won his military title by hnrd and honorable service in the war for the Union. He was also chief of the bureau of agriculture in tlio Centennial exhibition. The Indians, the scouts, the riders and horses are known to famo in this country. Even the tawny aborigine, Red Shirt, is a noted character in London for his quaint and ready replies to the questions asked by visitors. Mr. Gladstone took a special interest in him, and complimented his intelligence so far as to ask him what he thought of the British and Ameri-®^^"- BUB.NET LANDBETU. cans as brothers, to which the cautious aborigine rejoiued that he "had not noticed the brotherhood to any great extent." Not only do the illustrated papers in London give much space to this feature of the exhibition, but the humorists and comic poets have taken it up Punch and. Judy, the Puck and Judge of Loudon, revel in this new material for humor, and popular songs about the red

Americans are sung in the concert halls. In short, few American ventures abroad have received so much gratuitous advertising.

Mr. Cody first became noted for having killed 4,280 buffaloes in one year, and thereafter it was the thing for ivery titled for-

"BUFFALO BILL." eigner who visited the plains to employ him as a guide. But he soon proved himself far more than a hunter —an accomplished gentleman and man of the world. After an adventurous career as hunter, trapper, scout and guide, he became a ci.izen of Nebraska, member of the legislature, colonel of militia and aide do camp to the governor. Then followed an em of life on tho stage as hero in dramas portraying wild western life and displays of skill in shootiug. Through it all he preserved his dignity, and by a gentle and affable manner made many friends so Americans have a light to feel pleased at his success iu London, and that his show hns been patronized by tho queen and Prince of Wales and

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tiaS excited the lively interest of Gladstone. The American exhibition covers an area of twenty-four acres in the very heart of residential London. Besides the Wild West show there are the gardens, covering nearly half tho grounds, exhibiting American plants as completely as climate will allow, and the large building in which are specimens of American art ttnd machinery. The whole affair hns proved a very gratifying success.

Speaking bf the snow, The Burlington (Vt) Free Press says: Red Shirt, of the Wild West show, has "put his foot" into it again. After the performance in London before Queen Victoria and

Princess Louise, he was presented to her majesty, and under the genial influence of tho royal favor, thawed out oratorically. He said that he had come along way to see her majesty. He had heard of "the great mother, but never expected to see her." He was glad to see the squaw who

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was bigger than any man." As Victoria's proportions are by no means of the spirituelle order. Red Shirt's flow of complimuits was cut short at this point by a nudge from Hon. •*tr. Cody.

BUCK TAYLOR.

Two of the the most noted of the group with the show are Buck Taylor and his Texas horse and Nigger," a horse with along tuft of mane growing out of the middle wf his back, a» shown in the accompanying (jut.

THE LATE JUSTICE WOODS.

Fdur of the supreme judges are now ready for retirement. Chief Justice Wnitc, Judge Bradley, Judge Miller and Judge Field could leave the court room to-morrow, and they would receive $10,000 a year for the rest of their lives without doing a stroke of work. They, however, evidently prefer to keep their places than to letting others havo them. Few judges in the history of the court have been retired, and there is only one supreme court justice on the retired list. This is Justice Strong, a hale old man, who lives at Washington. Chief Justice Waite has already served thirteen years, Miller has served twenty-five years, Judge Field, of California, has servied twenty-four "years, and Bradley sixteen years. Of the other judges Harlan comfes from Kentucky, and ho has served about nine years. His age is 53 and he bids fair to live a loug time. Stanley Matthews shows little gray in liis beard and hair, but he is only 63 years old, and his term of service is about six years. Gray was commissioned in 1S81, and he is now about 00 years of age. Blatchford, of New York, isG7 years old, and he was commissioned in 1882.

Nearly all of the supreme court judges of the past have died in office. Not counting the present court there have beeu thirty-four of them, and they liuve as a rule lived long and grown fat

A Blatter of History.

Deacon Jones—Now, Brudder Jones, it am shua dat do culled pussens war white kase de Bible do say dat dey are de descendants ob Ham, on' he war a white man now de question am, bow did dey get black an' when?

Elder Jones—Well—er—um, de zact date I doan' recomember, but I er'spect it must hab been durin' de time when de hist'ry speaks ob de dark ages.—Jjidge.

Oen. Sherman smokes a ngnt domestic clear, limiting himself to three a day. Gen. Sheridan puffs imported, three for half a dollar.

Tho throat affcction from which the German crown prince suffers is not unlike, in some of its symptoms, that of which Gen. Grant died. It is a very serious affair.

The present cashier of the National Traders' bank of Portland, Ma, is Edward Gould. He has been cashier continuously for fifty-three yekrs, and is over 80 years old.

C. D. Hare, of Detroit, Mich., is the possessor of a document that he believes to be the original copy of Gen. E. Lee's farewell order to the army of Northern Virginia.

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Something About the Personnel of Supreme Court.

Justice Woods was buried at Newark, 0., Tuesday, the 17th, and nearly every lawyer of D&tional promincnco iu the Democratic party is named as a possible successor, and there is no more certainty in the prophecies than there was at the time the president selected his cabinet nor when he lately chose the interstate commerce commissioners. No one, in fact, knows except President Cleveland now anything about who will be appointed, though the appointment may be made at any day. The position of attorney general has been considered in times past A sort of stepping stone to the supremo court, and a number of presidents have attempted to make supremo court judges of their attorney generals.

President Grant nominated thr£e ex-attor-ney generals for the supremo court, and every one of them •was rejected. His first nomination was E. Rockwood Hear, of Massachusetts. who was defeated chiefly through the opposition of Conkling and Edmunds, and also Williams of Oregon, who acquired the title of "Landaulet" Williams from a gorgeous carriage which he drove while attorney general.

Grant nominated also Caleb Cushing, who had been attorney general under Pierce, and tho

JUSTICE WOODS. senate also refused to confirm him. Edwin M. Stanton, another attorney general, was nominated and confirmed, but he died before he secured the appointment, and the only atfcor/iey generals who have ever sat upon the "sa preine court bench Were Roger B. Taney, who afterwards became chief justice, and Nathan Clifford, who was attorney general during the administration of Polk. Levi Lincoln, one of the most noted lawyers of Massachusetts, was offered a position on the supreme cOurt bench, but declined it, a nd John Quinsy Adams also declined a similar offer in 1811.

TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JUNE 2,1887.—TWO PARTS —PART SECOND.

OUli,CIVILIAN, ARMY.

STRING ON THE SUBJECT OF f--' STATE MILITIA, A~* '•#»*. •. I A

Valuable Adjunct in the National Defense—The Southern States and the Annual Drill of Ye Olden Time—Camp George Washington. .%•.

The revival of Interest In the maintenance of an effective militia finds striking expression in the interstate drill this week at Washington. The difficulties experienced in organizing the affair show how badly our militia system had decayed, and as something of a guide for the future we may well review our past experience for it is a pleasing fact that from the very beginning America has been the land of the militia and th# volunteer. It is a very safe estimate that of the millions who have

fought for their homes or government since the first

s. E. WHEATLEY. settlement, not one in twenty was a drafted man or regular soldier. In fact, the elaborate militia system of our early history had its origin in a jealousy of standing armies—a very wholesome jealousy, inherited from England and intensified by our peculiar conditions.

At the beginning the settlers volunteered to fight the Indians every able bodied man was a soldier, if need arose, and the colonial militia was generally kept in effective condition. But the revolutionary war subjected them to much ridicule they were not fit to meet the British regulars, and immediately after the peace a vigorous reform was inaugurated. The congress of 1793 passed a very stringent act for enrolling every able bodied man between the ages of 18 aud 45 every man was to own his gun and equipments and keep them in good order, and they were exempt from seizure for debts and taxes. The whisky insurrection was suppressed by the militia thus organized. Feb. 28, 1765, congress authorized the president to call into action any part of this militia either to defond the country, suppress insurrection or assist officials in enforcing the law where the criminal combination was too great for the ordinary posse comitatus. All the states have adopted this provision, and instances of its employment have been painfully frequent since 1878. This country opened with a really valuable militia force. Great pride was takgn in its efficiency, and men of wealth and Bocfal standing gained promotion in the militia, with as much enthusiasm as do officers in tho regular army. But after the second war with Great Britain the system began to decay. The Federalist writers and orators ridiculed the militiamen mercilessly la a few instances during the war they refused to march, and the feeling was insidiously cultivated, especially in the north and east, that the whole was a ridiculous burlesque. But in the south and west pride in the militia long survived, probably because the volunteers of those sections had won some bright honors in the field. If any man objected, he was pointed to Tippecanoe and New Orleans as conclusive proof of what volunteer militia could do. The annual "muster day" in Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana and Illiuois, and perhaps other states, was a time of nubounded hilarity, increasing from year to year till the day assumed the character of the Roman Saturnalia. It was taken by consent that ordinary law was suspended. All laborers, slaves included, had holiday without loss of pay: no one was fined for fighting, swearing or getting drunk on that day, and not infrequently the majority did get drunk after the muster closed. And thus the system wore out in all the northern states. It haa beeu asserted by well informed officials that the three great states of the northwest did not contain 5,000 well drilled men on the 15th of April, 1861. The fact that Ellsworth's Zouaves could execute every movement in drill end manual excited amazement In 1890. But in the 'south looal conditions caused tho militia system to be retained in 6ome vigor end commenting oil this, there was universal prediction in the north that

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the would thereafter be *ept well organized. This prophecy was singularly falsified. The organization decayed much more rapidly after our civil war than after 1815 and in the average town of two or three thousand it is difficult to get 100 drilled and uniformed men for a Fourth of July parada This condition is felt to be dangerous and disgraceful, and many states are now taking vigorous measures to reorganise their militia.

Acting on questions arising in 1812-15, the supreme court decided that the president'

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h&d the ngnt to call out, act as commander in chief and name the general officers for the militia of the states, and the right has never since been questioned. Congress, however, fixed tho conditions very carefully by the law of July 17, 1862, and the right of governors of states to appoint all officers below the rank of brigadier general is now fixed. In practice the enlisted men elect the first set of line officers, and thereafter promotion supplies vacancies. And finally the supreme court (in Martin v. Mott, 12 Wneaton, 19) declared the right of the president to decide finally and conclusively whether the militia should be summoned, and place them under federal officers ranking their own. It is worth Dotinz, however, that the revived militia system in nearly all the states differs from the old system in this: the troops are not enrolled aud placed in infantry, artillery .or •cavalry by the state they volunteer under a general law, organize on their own motion, choose for themselves what branch they will serve in, then report, are accepted, and receivo their arms. But those arms remain state property, and bonds are given for their care and return in case the organization disbands. We have, therefore, a purely volunteer militia, to serve as nucleus iu case of a war. till the larger body of undrilled citizens

1QSSS HOUSE "CAMP GEORGE WASHIKGTOH." can be drawn upon aud so much latitude is allowed in uniform that an interstate encampment seems almost like that of different nations. The drill and encampment at Washington, which began on the 23d inst, has revived an interest in militia matters. We give herewith portraits of two of the active promoters of the encampment and drill, and also sketches of "Camp George Washington" and itB surroundings.

Commissioner Wheatley is the young commissioner of the District of Columbia, and he is the leading Washington city influence in regard to the drilL He is a big fat fellow, full of good nature, and possessing much executive ability. He is one of the pushers of the institution, and the success of the drill is largely duo to him. De Leon, the secretary, is a dark young man,, with gray hair. He is full of life and energy. He has written a book about the various organizations here.

O'BRIEN IN CANADA.

Wild Scenos Accompany the Irish Editor's Tour.

The Hon. William O'Brien, the editor of United Ireland, arrived in New York city on May 9, having for the object of his visit a speech making torn* through Canada, denouncing Lord Lansdowne and his eviction of tenants on his Irish estate of Luggacurran.

Mr. O'Brien's arrival in New jTovk was distinguished by a peculiar sceno on the steamer Umbria, by which he sailed, when the committee appointed to meet him went down New York bny for that purpose in a tug. He left for Montreal the same day. There ho received an enthusiastic welcome, and spoke to a large audience in the Montreal depot in reply to a speech of welcome deliv- HOX. WILLIAU O'BEIE^. ered by Mr. Clorau, which was greeted by cheers, interspersed with groans and hisses. He afterward spoke at Albert hall, and the enthusiasm of his hearers was intense.

On the afternoon of the 18th he, in company with Mr. J. A. Mulligan, tho president of tho Montreal National league, and Secretar}' Cahill, started from his hotel, the Rossin house, for a short walk, and were greeted with a shower of sticks, stone3, rotten eggs and other missiles, and with cries of "Kill him," "Hang him." "To the bay with him," etc. During the disturbance they were all more or less bruised, aud Secretary Cahill was seriously though not dangerously injured. He afterward spoke in Ottawa and other important Canadian cities.

The excitement occasioned by his visit to Canada is something unusual in that quiet country, and is calculated to create a hostile feeling between the league and anti-league population.

Complimenting Glover.

statesman from Gotham who visited President Cleveland last Saturday morning found him in unusually good spirits. The president furnished the reason for it by saying: "I entertained royalty last night, you know, for the first time in my life. 1 dined with a queen." "I thought you always did that nowadays," came the quick rejoinder from one of the visitors, to which the president gracefully smiled a silent acquiescence.—New Yotk Sun.

young correspondent wants to know: "What is the critical period in a man's lifer* Well, my boy it usually begins about six weeks after be is married, and lasts all the rat of his life.—Notes and Queries.

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The Old Marshall House Where a Brarre but Heedless Young Colonel Fell—A Monument Which Marks his Tomb at

MechanicsvSUe, N. T.

Twenty-six years ago. the 24th of May, the news was flashed over the conntfy that the gallant Col. Elmer Ellsworth had fallen, and soon the national-flag was at half mast in most towns, and in many the public buildings were draped. It was but an ordinary event of war, but the people had not yet grown used to such events. The body was taken to his parents' home at Mechtnicsville, N. Y., escorted by a guard of honor, and bttried with much ceremony amid the mourning of millions. One year aftierward the death of one man scarcely excited notice outside of the circle of immediate relatives and friends. But Col. Ellsworth's fame is immortal as the first distinguished victim of the great civil war A beautiful monument has oeen erected over his grave, and the old tavern in which COL. ELLSWORTH'S he was shot is HONUKENT. visited by many strangers. We present herewith pictures of hotel and monument from original photographs.

Elmer Ellsworth was bub 24 years old at death, yet he had acquired a national reputation by the splendid drill he taught the noted Ellsworth Zouaves, who exhibited in several cities the year before the war. Corn in New York in 189C, and too poor to get a classical education, he earned money enough to study law in Chicago, living in the most frugal manner. Personally he was pure as St. John, temperate and extremely faithful to obligations. But be was a military enthusiast from boyhood in the drill and discipline of soldiers. He early organized a company in Chicago, but they revolted against bis discipline and chose another commander. So he went to Elgin, Ills., oi-ganized and drilled another

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company and challenged the Chicago

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pany to a competitive drill, his company obtaining complete victory. Soon after he was made captain of tho Chicago cadets, which he developed into the noted Zouaves. His mother chided him for devoting so much time to military studies, telling him he would have to go to Europe, "where they always have war," to utilize his knowledge. He assured her she was mistaken, as there would soon be war enough here. A year after that conversation he was in Washington at the head of the New York Fire Zouaves. They were the first soldiers of the Union to invado Virginia, and the particulars of the colonel's death at Alexandria, Va., are well known.

GERMAN STATESMEN

How the Coalition of Parties Share th* Keichstttg Honors.

After the last elections for the Gerinan reichstag it was necessary to have a regard, in the division of tho parliamentary offices, to the fact that iu the place of the ClericalLibaral majority a Conservative-National-

DB. BUHL. FEIHEBB V. UITHUHE-BOHST. VOW WEDELL-PIESDOBF. Liberal majority had come. In accordance with this, a member of the Conservative party, Herr von Wedell liesdorf, was elected president. He had served in this capacity already in the previous reichstag. Herr Wedell Piesdorf was born May 20,1837, in Frankfort on the Oder, and received his university education at Heidelberg and Berlin. In the year 1858 he entered into state service, occupying a position in the Berlin city court. He had quite a successful career, and after holding various important governmental positions, in 1879 was elected a member of the house of deputies of Prussia. Since 1881 he has been a member of the reichstag.

Dr. P. A. Buhl, a member of the NationalLiberal party, is the first vice president He ni born Axis. 2. 1837. in Ett'insqn. near

Karlsruhe, rtudied at Heidelberg, and attained the degree of D. P. Afterward he devoted himself to the management of his estates in the Palatinate, especially to wine growing. Since 1871 he has belonged to the reichstag, and for the past few years has been a hereditary member of the Bavarian reichsrath.

The second vice president is Freiherr von Unruhe-Bomst, a member of the government party. He was bora Aug. 26,1825, in Berlin, thus being the oldest of the three presidents. He studied law at Berlin, Heidelberg and Halle, and then entered the service of the government Since 1867 he has been a member of the reichstag, and since 1873 marshal of the provincial diet of Posen. He is also very active as commander of the order of the Knights of St John. On the 2dth of March all the presidents were, on motion of Delegate Windthorst, confirmed by acclama* tion for the entire session.

AMELIA'S PALACE.

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Eighteen souls with but a single thought, Eighteen hearts that beat as one. But Amelia soon made sixteen other heart* ache—sirteen superfluous wives tako buck scats. She was young, artful perhapc, and just willful enough to give spioe to the old man's life and from 1866 to 1877 she was practically Brigham's queen. She was his sole companion in his carriage rides and theatre box and for her exclusive use he built the so called palace. Its reputed cost was $60,000, so it would not be much of a palace in an eastern city. Its style is hard to describe, being rather composite, as sho^n in our picture but the general effect is very fine. After a few rooms had been made ready for the queen, the remainder was loug in being finished—in fact the last touches had scarcely been given it when Brigham died in the summer of 1877, and his vast fortuno was scattered. The heads of the church, by some law known to themselves, divided his property among his sixty odd wives and children 60ine of the heirs revolted and brought suit a compromise was effected and the palace got into the hands of the church. John Taylor, successor to Brigham, occupied it awhile but he is now a fugitive, and, as some report, an imbecile, and the final disposal of the palace remains to be decided. Amelia lives quietly on her share of the great estate the

AMELIA'S PALACE.

legal wife has died since Brigham died Emmeline Free died twelve years ago of a broken heart and excessive use of morphine, and Brigham's large family is well scattered. A Mormon keeps his secrets well but as the laborer of that faith walks the street before the palace and thinks how many no account young Youngs have been enriched by the tithing, and how many men once boldly prominent in Salt Lake are now hiding from the United States marshal, he must think that "the Lord loves the Mormons" in a very peculiar way just now.

A Ciianco Meeting.

Omaha Lady—How strange it seems 1 Only a few years ago you were a mere child and now you are married.

New York Lady—Yes, I have been mar* ried three years. "Any children!" "Oh, no we live in a flat"—Omaha WorlcL

Little Pitchers.

"Ma, said baby at the supper table, "1 know why this cake is called angel cake." "Do you replied the mother without much interest "Yes it's because it's made by an angeL That's what pa told the cook."—New York Baxb

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Young's Reigning SnluiDi Elegant Residence.

Salt Lake City is not noted for general style, but it boasts a temple, a tabernnclo and a palace. Pictures of the first two arc common enough but the palace is unknown to most Americans, so we present herewith on c:igraving of it, taken from an original photograph. It is familiarly known as "Amelia's Palace," at least so known to Gentiles and the history of Amelia's reign is almost the history of the palace. Very queer history it is, too and Americans who realize in it? fullness what such a history means may conclude that some missionary work, contemporary with a more vigorous prosecution of the law, would be wholesome.

To begin at the beginning, Brig ham Young was born June 1,1801, was a widower when he joined the Mormons in 1832, married Mary Ann Angell soon after at Kirtland, O., and followed the Mormon migrations to Nauvoo, Ills., where polygamy was introduced (secretly at first) in 1843-4. Being among the first initiated he there married Clara Decker, Lucy Decker (divorced for the purpose from Dr. Seeley) and Harriett Cook. After reaching Utah ho married, in rapid succession, Harriet Bowker, Harriet Barney, Einmeline Free, Margaret Alley, Augusta Cobb, Miss Twis9, Clara Chase, and six or eight servant girls that were needed in the family. He then left off marrying for several years, as Emmeline Free had attained a great ascendency over him. She was a very sweet and pretty woman, and her ten children are rather the best in the family. But she grew old, and Brigham cast his eyes upon Amelia Folsom, whose parents had brought her from Portsmouth, N. H., her native place, when they joined the Mormons. She had an ardent young lover, but Brigham sent him on a mission to Europe, and in hl3 absence courted so successfully that Amelia consented to be his twenty-ninth Enough of her predecessors had died, however, to moke her the seventeenth in regular succession from the legal and living Mary Ann AngelL Bp Brigham'3 domestic menagerie was arranged on the plan of

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