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nn R Mews Lie ALEIGH VOL.XV.-87. RALEIGH, N. C, FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 13, 187. $5.00 PER. AOTUM CONGRESS YESTERDAY. i nr. aPPROPRIATIOX flll.l.H BE- roHt tiik i:mati. hlrllaiHl l'lthrHUltr Motaa PfiKffiUnp. U'4-.HIMOTOX, Jllllt li -SFATt- n.itr Reck offered an amendment in tli.' nature of asubniitule for the legisla : . and judicial appropriation bill. The , it-ii u duet not cuanse the amount appropriated but it intended u inipiuve in f.-riii of.lie lii'l. O dered io be printed and ieferre.1 o the C'oininiaee A .o;xpria.ion. Senator Wallace, from the Couimilleeoa Appropriations, ' oited w ithout amendment the House I dl making appropriations for eei.ain jik'-u i.al excuses, and staid be would t u.!fior u call it up for a- ion to-day. I'la.-vd on the calendar. Tae bill con-linu-ii? General Shields' pension of li"U pr iiioiult to Iiia widow nl children ..- Utken up. Au amendment was u i. tile S v Siur 1m gran lint; $."0 jr moinh o M.s. Fletcher Webster. Adopted. Senator Logan supported the bi'I a. id w.'ii.iiv e'lioi'.e! iiis late I', tf.i .. ie.ic. al Miie'J. A resolution .t.t ic-vl by NciiSior Re.varu wasadopted ordei in t le p. i.wcd i'or die ue f lht ( ui.iiuli. oil Military Attain the pa -i ors a. id prtweedina i.i the o, igimd Fuz John l'oruv ca.no. Senator Blaine called up the .McIonald bill and pro ceeded torv.dy to e.ialor lltb'a Ket li .f yesterday. He r-.d tiie . to'u. iin w hici Seua.or Hill tr:cd to liave ti .aunt-l lor the m- ion ordiaa.ice in die Gco.iria I on veiuion o l, and .tid h rllei't of the aim-ndiiieii.s iiich it p.omed t make n i.ie Cu,'t i.ui ion would ha e t.tn to extend sl.te.-y over eeiy foot of tm.o.y i.i be I'n'.ed N.ate. It a!o pledeu iteo.jjta o i-of ri.it with the led Si.fn a. id i bld the foi.H and odier Fede. al .-opi tv wi Inn her limit-, until die Atlanta Convention should decide whethe.- t.'ie should te ."Ih ir lu'I. This. Sena o Blame s.ud, .linwnl th.it Geo.gia wan ahead v in i.lollton. With refei e.nt th i etal i:.ry w jr lumiiif f.auittl i. eiiat.r lli'l. he said diat it wan m wtirdel:in :.. taiime that eev Federal swddie ri'iiun mi S.uihe.n soil, came .o in ," ttwi rre tion, and to punish him tn.rofor. Itw.u, he aid. a ne.i.nuie ( - -i inhly o tie red and w sei i w u hdraw n. .'ii.i..r Hill replied that N'luinr lllaine i. i I aaid nothing whit li tin nennilile ii. .it need irply. A true s..tu-iiieiil of fi.it had n. a-wi-tn-d linn. it. ill he w.-uld make no tiher :timwer. on im-t:-n of vim tr I-sinar i he Hoiiae bill for the apinmeni oT a t ominutnioti f..r the iinroenient oi the M iniippi Xi'T w a.n laWeu up, but without .t.ii.i tht reon llu vnu wentimo h.itn uine i u and :tt'.e.wad a.lui ntni. Hol--M.. Stephens, " ttr a, oi tiiHt tin. in ; ih- t!ay h w ouhl rejwrt fioni the i ouucutce on Coinage the bill in rel.t.iou to the t.ade do! lar anS w ou Id ank. a.-lion u;nu it. Mr. Mureh of Maine, Worn iumui-v on I'ublic liuil!iiiT. -. l-l a resolu tion for the in t.iain.u o. t.'e inI.. of rtiiiii ru'-iin, e.c., ' ab publn btnldiii'n if the o eriuueiit. with Jnjw ur i nit iilnM ."fi ai W .fillll ton ami other tie. I inter a point of or der made by Mi. itaiiield tiie it-oln-tion w aa reier i ' t 'tuiiiit.ee ' thu Whole A bid h.in lre;i . eportew f. oiu I'mn nnt;e ii I i ii n-e Ib-foi in ptnltiU Itm jl olllt Oi j o rlaunaiitn hv in. or coiitrai-.or niier the I 'rued Slaien from rntiibniiinr money f.t polbii-1 Utlns. I'll. 11U t pll tl toll of the iitoriiinit hour the bill w nil o w ithoiit a-tiu. The iluii thi ii look up the bill pro- , t-iiii for tleh eriuic o aiuuel Ird. Jr.. reveii r, of four fl.msj niuIi l"ajo lia UuhU, iiuw in the Treaaury, which 7v caplurtd during the w.r while h pthe-alel b the flank. f South Carolina with the lirltmh conulatcn at SaTanuh. Iteferre.1 to ttie Cnmmittce of the Whole. The Senate bill relallli to Jurors In the I'mtcd i.-ten turt wan tlieu einiderin. M,. Herlert, of Alalcima. by instruction of the Ju di iarr Cinniittee. moved an ameinl- Iltr-llt proVldllli that III S,ln-,HI f i:suieof grand and peut ju.-or, tho i ciwtk tn'iiiiiiiiwioiiiT shall not haw 1 rvol to lilcal attiliaiion. r. e. cle or. nr pre iou -tniti.ion of ci iuni L at noiely to the iialiticatifiia pre ribed by law. Mr. Conner, of Mu h iau. tlt-Hirc'l t nio e rel-iene of the bid to the Judiciary Commit lee, but w aa pr eiitel I a call for the prei tu tpietiion. The ilepublic.ms then rvfruinetl from otiu.and afier an hour (ent in a fruitie-ns all of tin Hoimo. A.l)ournei. f tar iMllrl-lirllos5 4 e. WtMiiMitnN, June 1-. The Com imtWe on lrtilfre and Klctions nv s lined the Sj.!..id-KclloW' m estima tion. Mr. aferrit-k aaid he bail no further use for !elcy, an he had him arretml for perjury. He i Merrick t had aaked the Uistrict Attorney the privilege of asnjstinln the rrne-ut ion should he l-e indicted. Mr. Hoar, allud ing tn the criminal charge, Kiil it wan au extraordinary pr cvedinj;. The hair uian was of ihe'opinion that t.'ie coui uiittee liad noilunj; to do w it la the mut ter, but Mr. Hoar thouu'ht it had. Mr. Hnntrn said. "When it tonnes up heie we can arirue it.'- and Mr. Ibar reiter atel .hat they would aruue it when it ft.. med projr. Mr. Meiri.-k ti I Io-I-jm-v was ne f In nniiMv. Mr. lba"r remarke.1 that ti e universal rule w that w hile any cause w as pemiinc ersninial pncen wan never imed aa a ui. ai.- of oercion of a itnm, and that when such witr.e-n was arrested, to de cline further naeutin until the cairne out of whih the offense are wa.n con-rlmle-l. The cdlUT here clonel. Tbr Fasllela Tnrf. !."si-. June l-The weather is f.ne and nrommevs t. le favorable for the ra-e for the io'd Cup which lakea pla-e to-day on At Heath. The fellow in are the prolable tarter: Count t .Iel-raiiKe 'a b. h."VerneU 1 1," lord HoMilwrrv brown c. iauehet." Sir ieri:e "betwynde'a . b. c. ,,Iard Clie," Mr. K. ; retton'a b. elt "Ivnomy," lrd Faluiouth" b. f. Janneltc, " ami Count F. lel-k-range's bl. c. "Insulaire.'" I.aTEB. The race ftr the id.l Cup at the A-ct meeting aa won by " Ujiiomr;" Inaulaire" nni"l, and " 1 ouchet" tbirvl. Instance alout twt naleis and a halt The raw for the lbiu Memorial Sun, diauncetme mile, waa wou by l l oiiiit F. lelamraiTe a four-year-c' l Theiiix;"" Crawford three-year- 1 I -out of Ilound"' comlnjc in I. an.1 W. J. Igh'a four-year-old 'ir JtspU"' third. Kigbtatartera. Barlal mt m JTetoal re. ot rataia. S. C. June 12. The re lusmaof lr. John T. Iarbj, Hit ml uut urun. whose death occu rred in Nw York laat Monday, reached this i!y u-lay and were interrtxl In Trinity hurrhyard. laltrMiaa Alaaaaia'a DekC Motnontiir, Ala., June 12. The t-ney to pay Alabauia'a iutereet ou h.-r lMndel debt due July let hua been forwarded to the National Hank of the State of New York. Interest di: o partiet liint in Alabama w ill be paid here and in Mobile, and the inouov ia now iiitheltank ot Molulo and Stiite Treasury for lh.it purpne. I n- ni 0 In land. I.oximx, June 11. The Time pub-Jinhe-s the following from Capo Town. tlatel May 2l: Two ehiefn and threw hundred of their followeis from liosu toland have len c-aptoied. A force of cavalry vi.nited I.nandula ni the Ulst of Mav and buried the lodies of tl.o r)- tlier who fell in the I att le of t he "Jd'tif Jaiitiair last. Forty wairons were recovertnl. Ieteeil its at Work. Xkw Yii;k. June 1 No a. rcs.s vet mai'.e in the Fonv-Mn-ond street mur tlermme, thei e beinc no evideuceaainnt any one. Full and concise statement from e i v memler of tiie htnisehold w ill le iaken a.n to their know Unlme of er.istinif teelinss ietw-een themselves and Mm. Hull. It i thought the mur der and roble v was an iuiib joli. The Fire Rerord. lftj.viLLE, Ky. A tire on Third Pi. eel near Waier street in thia city has tlotttioyed Milton J. Hardy t Co"s w bi.nky w are home, J. S. illit'a io baceo factory and Other property. The IInlo-Klllott Mateta. IxtxN, June 12. In the match for the acnlliiiij championship between Hanlanand Klliolt, to take place next Monday, to 4o on Hanlan is freely ottered, w hile o to 2 in wanted. Once .More on hie Way. Simla, June 12. Major Cavaciiao will ntart br Cabul on tbe :Sih of the present month So m Wholesome l.enon. Ibchiiioiu'i Whl . It in not a wholesome lesson to the youth of .he country thai such a career of tiu:Iimhiti knavery an Idltlelield led fo - year t after the war in to le.ar no other outward fruit thnu wealth and luxury. He and his paitnem in vil lainy rioted il i. ini; the poiiod of recon strtKiion in ill Kotlcn mains and wrecked the railroa.l ayntenin ami bank rupie.1 .he Treasuries of m ea: States, and yei it seeinn lie and they ate to o on iinwuipt of liiiui.iu justice, and to stand Inffore their lellow -men aa nioii umcntn of the profit and pleasure uf il!-doinu. Ii may b, indeed, that the Florida jude who ha released Little field from the demand made for him by the lioveinor of North Carolina, is te-huically rimht ; but if so. the law stands sadly in need of amendment. The s.jitutcn are vcrv fa.iliv under which adxentureis may, with im hi nity, violate the rights of entire com munities ami otleiid the moral aense of tne world ; and it is a weak ami vicious system under which our coining men are t Ik educated, when the wicked aie exhibited to them " tlou risli i Ii like the i; i eon bay tree." President - MaUli.c. I'ttftalo "otirii r. It would add trreatlv to the streiitrth and l .irnioiiT oi the I cmocratio p.u ty if its leader. i well aa the rank and tile, w ere to dinmitn the iUeiion of the next i'renidcntial nomination from their connii lerat ion. at lei, for four or tivo months to ohi'c. '1 hat 1 1 :-? ion cannot lsi.ndl be n':hs ik' or within the time named. "m,- feeble attempts, made during the I. est two yeais to fore stall thw action of the party, have failed entirely, and if" they bad any effect at all it was temisjrarily to injure tlio or m.u i .ti-.u. Three or four prominent lcmoi-ral w hone nmes were con nected with the I'resitlential oatididacv. h.i e amaiu and aain been pronounced J oi!t i-ally dead, ami yet eaa-h of them may suddenly pne a verv lively e rpse. It is a le -idtsl adantame tor a mreat olitical oranizition if it haa a choice of conspicuous men for ita high est honor men who in their states or sections eujov the coiinderc,. and n'.-tai-hmeir. of their partisan Iriends. Any attempt to prematurely dispose of the claims of su h men deserve censure, and is, uiortner. futile in most cases. The proper f"iirt of the Democracy in the selection of i;-; National standard Unrcr in lvs cannot osibly become clear pritr to next vir. After the fall elections we m.:y s.iiveythe iliticl field and form opinions an to the p-os-ptctn of the ptrty in tho sexeral tle batanle States, onivtheii will it be ceine practicable to lell what are live and what are dead issues. Anil not until then can the measure of the per sonal strength and availabilitv of the various candidates Ik intelligently taken. 1 ho present duty of lennHrats ex erv where is to nut their party in the In st posnil.le condition for the mouieu tons slruglf-s of the c juiing year. F.leptiauts as IlI I p rs. A i-irresHii.lent of the Philadelphia li etimm Telegraph in Itritish Iturinali w rites: "The other nmrninmat Hangoon lo ne.al (irant and party were invited to inspect a teak saw-mill, to see the wonderful intelligence of the elephants that are use. I to carry ami pile the logs. Teak, you know, ia a very heavy wood it Is "me great soiirof of revenue to Huriiiah but to work for his mahout the animal w ill lift the end of a heavy lom by b is tusks, placing his trunk on it to" keen 'it steady; thn gradually working liia way toward the center, finally balance, the log and carries it carefully to a pile even higher than himself; or if it is wanted to aaw the log, he will push it along beneath the circular sav, hi trunk interposed be tween his ftMit and the log. They will do almost anything, and from their tremendous strength you can under stand w dial thov can accomplish. At a branch mill at Montmaiu they breed them for this puroe, but it takes twenty years lefore an elephant can do hard labor. The Clxll Sabbath The Methodist ministers of Chicago have adopted a declaration presented nv liishop Merrill in regard to what therstvl" the "civil Sabbath." The declara'tien disclaims all design of crea ting any religious establishment con trary to the Constitution, and all ei iectalion of iol icing meu into the fer tertuance of moral or religions duties, but urires that the preservation of "the civil Sabliath," substantially as regu lated bv law, is indiensable to the moral, avcial. and physical welfare ef all classes, "and especially ol the In dustri d insulations. The closing res olution denounces the prevalent lethar gy in regard to the non-enforcemuot of the Suudav laws. What more ecstatic state of enjoy ment can be imagine! than to swing in the hammock on the cool rerandah.and gazing through the erfumed smoke of your cigarette, to drink In, as it were, the graceful evolutions of your mother in law aa she pushes and drags the lawn mower over the ground in a spiteful manner "to sbsme the head of the fam ily into trimming np things round the bouse, so's U look like folks." The Burlington Hawker has over beard a poor but earnest Iowa train p fav: "Build low roosts and nut out the moon, and 111 never beg for another morsel of food aa long aa I live." THE VETO MESSAGES. ItKI'ORT OF TIIE IIO IMF. Jl DICIA- RY COMMITTEE. Is the Opinion of (he Majority of the House F.n tilled to the President's Consideration? lion. J. Proctor Knott, of the House i J iitliciary Committee, submitted to (he 1 Io.ise on ednesday the Committee it-port upon the Presidential message vetoing House bill No. 1,382 known as the "Military Interference Bill." The document is six or seven thousand words in length, and takes up and ex amines in detail all the objections made bv the President to the bill in question It begins by staling that the danger to be apprehended from the presence of troops at the polls is sufficiently appa rent a.id has been repeatedly pointed out. Aa long ago as 1803 Congress found it necessary to pass a bill to ob viate it by strictly prohibiting military interference with elections except upon call of a State or to keep peace at polls. That bill was approved by President Lincoln and is now in force as sections 2,(102 and 4,628 revised statutes. The w ords "keep peace at the polls" were not in the organized draft of the bill, but were added in the Senate against the remonstrance of the majority of its supporters, who feared they would be misconstrued and used as a pretext to ovade with impunity the penalties pre scribed. To remove that pretext and prevent a recurrence of the practices al ready shown to be dangerous, the pres ent Oongrossin making appropriations for support of the army struck out the words in question. The President thereupon returned the bill without signature because in his opinion, first, it was unnecessary; second It would prevent civil officers from using civil force to keep peace at the polls, and third, the method of repealing the clause in question was not in harmony with Executive taste. The first two objections the Committee, for the pres ent passes without remark. With re gard to the third the report says the manner of repeal was in strict confor mity tn the Constitution and rules of the 'House, and justified by numerous precedents in the annals of Federal leg islation. The latest of these precedents was contained in the arm v appropriation ..... .. . .i i u : i . oil! Tor tne present uscai your uu u tho President signed without objection, notwithstanding the provision con tained therein prohibiting the use of the nrmy aa a pos.se vmnifatiui, "It might not bo improper, therefore, for the Pres ident to devote some attention to the consistency of his own record if not to the ordinary proprieties hitherto ob served by the chief magistrate in com ui'iuicaiing with the supreme legisla ture of the country." 1 The report then recites the prepara tion ami passage of a separate measure of tho same nature with a view to obviate the President's objections to the method of repeal, and says it, too, was returned without approval. It then takos up and examines, in course, the Presi dent's rea-sotis for vetoing the measure in question. With regard to tho first of them, that the bill is unnecessary, the report savs : " Whether the opinion of the majority of the representatives of the pwoplo is entitled to any consid eration at the hands of the Chief Ex ecutive is, of course, a matter to be de termined bv himself; but it is impossi ble to read "the two veto messages to gether without being struck by their marked difference in tone as regards this objection. The inevitable conclu sion to be drawn from the first message was that all authority to use uie arm. at the iolln, even in aid of the civil of rice rs was tacitly, if not expressly abjured. In the second message, how ever, there is n such disclaimer. It is ::dinitted that elections eught to be free b om miiitiii v i iterfci eii'-e, but there is no intiniatio.i that such interference would be unlaw ful. On the contrary, the inference from the soeond message is, that under certain circumstances it would le eminently proper. The en tire argument against the necessity of the bill is, therefore, left to rest upon the President's assertion that troops have not been ami will not be used to interfere with elections during his ad ministration. But his term of office will soon end and his opinions may change. Subjects of a dospot must depend for security upon the grace of their master; but a free people will in sist upon guarantees of positive law." The second objection of the President to the measure under consideration is that it would abrogate at certain times and places a number of ex isting la ws, especially section 52iS, revised statutos, which, he savs, was sanctioned by Wnshington; Jefferson, Jackson ami Lincoln, and contains the principles acted upon by the four Presidents more endeared than all others to the Ameri can people. With regard to this objec tion, the reports ys, if the President had examined the facts connected with the transactions to which he alludes, he would have found that neither of the four illustrious patriots referred to either did or proposed to do anything which would not have been lawful un der the strictest letter of the bill which he now vetoes. In proof of this asser tion the report recites the circumstances of the "whisky reliellion" of 17!3; the conspiracy of "Aaron Burr; the nullifi cation movement of 1S32 in South Caro lina and the outbreak of the late civil war." It adds: "A sufficient answer, however, to this objection is that it is untrue. The various statutes to which he refers, inc uding section olW, are as completely abrogated by the act ap proved by President Lincoln, l ebruary 27 1k, as they iossibly could have been bv this bill had the Presi dent signed it. A mere glance at the two measures will place this pro- osition beyond doubt in any candid mind. It is a matter of regret, there Yore that the President should have assumed a position so utterly without foundation. It should be borne in mind, however, that sections 2,u02 and u,r.26 neither confer the power or im pose the duty upon any officer of the United States to keep peace at the polls. Congress has no constitutional jsiwer to confer such authority or impose such duty; both the iower and the duty be long exclusively to the several States, as was distinctly held by the Supreme Court in the comparatively recent case of the United States r. Cruikshank etal 2 Otto., 551. The same principle was also enunciated by the same court in 142 in the case of Pennsylvania t-s. Prien: 1 Peters, Nor ean 11 said that the mere power to execute legal process carries with it authority to preserve ieace. If a marshal should be forcibly resisted in the execution of the process in his hands.the persons re sisting would, as held In the case pf the United States rs. Cruikshank, before cited be guilty of two distinct offences, one against theUnited States Inresisting Us pcess. and one against the State n violating its peace and authorities. The United State would have no more jurisdiction of the latter offence than theSuS authorities would pf the for mer That this was once the opinion of the present Secretary of State is show n by the following extract from his letter of instructions to the marshal of Florida, written by him August 20, 18(30, while Attorney General under a former adminis ration. "The special duty and authority in execution of the process issued to you must not be con founded with the duty and authority of suppressing disorders and preserving peace, which under our government be longs to the civil authorities of the States and not to the civil authorities of the United .States." It may be repeated, therefore, says the report, that sections 2,002 and 5,528 revised statutes do not athorize officers of the United States to keep the peace at polls, and they cannot be rationally construed to confer any authority of impose any duty. The linal objection of the President to the bill is that it discriminates in favor of State and against National authority, by making it lawful, under some cireu m stan ceta, to use the army to prevent violence in the conduct of State elections and unlawful to do so in the conduct of National elections. Upon this point the report says : " The com mon sense of the country understands that all elections in a State, whether for members of Congress or local officers, are by the same electors ; and those electors derive their right to vote, aa was decided by the Supreme Court in the case of Miner vs. Huppenseit, 21 Wall, 170, from the State and not from the United States. It is, therefore, as much the power and duty of the State government to maintain peace and or der at elections lor Congressmen as at elections for State officers." In conclusion the report' sums up with the reiterated statement that the Federal biovernuient has not and can not derive from Congress any right to preserve peace in a State, either at the polls or elsewhere, unless called upon by the proper State authorities, and that it is difficult to see how a distinct reservation to the President of power to suppress insurrection against a State when preperly called on can be said to derogate from the authority of the United Sta es. The report closes with the request of the committee to be dis charged from further consideration of tho subject. Butler haa Lost Faith. General Butler in a recent address al luded to the late Hon. Caleb Cushing's fear on the eve of the rebellion that "tho man on horseback might arise," and declared that "it is quite certain that this belief was not prophetic, and that such will not be the secondary effect of our great war." This is interpreted bv "Templeton," of the Harford ou- rant, to mean that Butler has lost faith in Grant's star, and that he contem plates the abandonment of the ex-l'res- dent. African Water Fowls. KichinonJ State. Two imported geese presented by George Stronach, Esq., of llaleigh, N. C. to Postmaster Forbes to be de posited in the Capitol grounds, arrived here to-day. They were placed in the basin of the southwest fountain, and at 2 o'clock to-day were swimming about and diving after the gold fish. They will no doubt stay there until some citizen partial to goose pie confiscates them. However, thev are rare birds in this locality. Confederate CJruy. Hy reuuest of J. H. Turner, Aurora, N. C Yon am 1ik vonr master, worn and old. And scarred witn wounus, my sun oi grey; I'll smooth von free of e:ease and fold And lay you tenderly away. But ere I hide you from my sight- Forgetting all mat s lost ana gone- Let me recall the visions bright I saw when first I drew you on. I saw a nation spring to breath, I saw a people proud and grand Do baule to the verv death For freedom and their native land. T saw a cause Dure of all harm. Thrice noble and without stain I gave for it my good right arm I'd gladly give it one again ! I saw across a stormy sky Tho bow of glorious promise gleam, And as its splendors blazed on high, Fade like the fancies of a dream. Then shadows such as might be felt, Came down upon our happy land, Ami yet we know our woe was dealt In wisdom by a Father's baud. Gray clothes, you fill my heart with tears. Though to my eyes they may not soring; Recalling our four glorious years, And all the memories they bring. Our cause is lost our hopes are fled, The land we love sits soro bereft, Lamenting for tho mighty dead You are the only vestige left. For all we hoped and planned and thought, For all we suffered and achieved, In our Confederate Gray was wrought Well may it be with laurels wreathed! Old suit, once more you will be worn, When I am in my coffin laid; Upon the resurrection nnJrn 1 wish to stand in you arrayed; When, with hosannas loud and sweet; Beatified with b'iss intense, Our Southern soldiery shall meet; Confederate in the highest sense. Grey suit, I look on you with pride: Such pride as manly hearts may take As with our cause identified, And doubly precious for his sake, Mv martyred General. For he wore Such clothes about the kingliest soul That God, from His eternal store, Enshrined within a human mould. I know he wears the garments now That mo.li and rust can ne'er assail A diadem upon his brow, To which our brightest crowns look pale. I know that in him angels trace Suchglorv as on Moses shone, Reflected from his Master's face, As close he stauds beside the thioue. Yet still I love, by memory's ray, To see him as he used to be, Clad in his well worn suit of grey, The synonym of victory. Tho greitest victory he wrought, Was when at Heaven's supreme be hest, The faith well kept, the good fight fought, He weut triumphant to his rest, Across death's river dark and fleet And storming in tumultuous strife, Forever left earth's noontide heat And rested by the tree of life. There's little left to live for now Old suit, for such as you and I, And, but to Heaven's decree I bow, I'd gladly, like my General, die. But long as God may choose to give The simplest duty as my task, I'm willing in his strength to live And try to do it. All I ask So, when my pilgrimage is made And I am numbered with the dead, To join inh .aven the old Brigade With Stonrtrall Jaekaon at its head. Fanny Downing. THREE-CARE- uONTE. OPERATING OX UNSOPHISTICA TED RAILROAD TRAVELERS. Reminiscences of the Great Three- Card Monte Sharp," "Canada Bill," llarvcst 8100,000. Philadelphia Times. Three-card monte is a swindling game at which it is impossible to beat the operator, and it his been so thor oughly exposed that there ought not to be any victims. Nevertheless the monte spider, seeking human flies of present wealth, dexterously handling his cards and skillfully talking the while, makes his living about as easily as he did in the days of the war, when money was so plenty. An old railroad conductor, now a passenger agent for the Chesapeake and Ohio Road, but who ran a train on the Baltimore and Ohio Road during the war, relates that he knew "CANADA BILL" to gather in $8,000 on one train from Martinsburg to Baltimore, a distance of one hundred miles. "Canada Bill" is a name well known to the gambling fraternity, although he who was known by that title was some years ago laid to rest. His death, which cut off from the earth the smartest operator of three cards that ever was seen, took place when he was a trifle more than forty years of age. "Just as well to die now," said he, when told that medicine could not save him. "Might as well cut the game, because the cream of the monte has been skimmed. There won't bo another war, and they ain't going to build no more Pacific Railroads, and it's hard for me to play for ten when I used to catch a hundred twice as easy." When his last minute came he sat up in his bed and called out: "Fifty dol lars to ten you can't pick up the ace," and then fell back dead. The visiting angel had turned tho last card for "Can ada Bill." SOME OF BILL'S EXI'KItlKXCBS. That is the story told of his last mo ments, and may be true if the old say ing has no exception that the ruling passion is strong in death. Bill's great boast was that he had beaten a minis ter. Chicago newspaper reporters of the year 1874 remember of tho excite ment the city editors of the papers there, except one, were thrown into by tho exclusive publication by that one of the story of a well-known Methodist minister who became a victim to "Can ada Bill's" wiles on a train on the Chi cago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. He had lost nearly a thousand dollars. Canada Bill did not bear the reputation of having been the most skillful opera tor. In the slang of his profession, "he could not ring in suckers better than anybody," and here is a sample of his proceedings that came under the ob servation of the writer a fewr years ago: The Illinois State Fair, held a Decatur, was just over, and TWK ORAXUKKS WERE FILLING THE TRAINS, homeward bound. Bill, wearing cowhide-boots and coarse clothes, got into tho train just moving from the station and attracted attention by saying in a loud tone, "Well, no farmer has a show with railroads. They kill his stock and laugh at him when he wants pay for it." "What's up?" asked his clever capper, and Bill related: "I brought three head of Durham calves down hero from Winnebago county and got premiums on all of them. I was having them put on the cars to send home" by this time the attention of every granger in the car was attracted 'when the consarned fools lets one of them break a leg on the bridge from the cattle pen to the stock car, and they had to kill it to put it out of misery. I wouldn't have taken 200 for the calf, but the railroad tells me I was ship ping at reduced rates and ain t got any claim." HOW HE GATHERED THEM IN. The conversation that ensued and tho statement that Bill had mado put him on the best possible terms and in the confidence of all the Grangers, and bo when he presently spread his overcoat and said first, "I'll sue the road, any how," and then, "I found this little game that'll be funny for the Winne bago folks, anyway," he had no lack of listeners and interested watchers, and after that is accomplished the work, of the three-card monte man is easy. Human nature, rich with avarice, does the rest. Bill drew out his cards and proceeded to tell how he had won $530, after losing $60, "just as easy," he went on, "as this. Now, here's the money," and he pulled out a pig-skin pocket book, tied up with twine, which he un did and exposed a pile of notes to the amount of several hundred dollars. "No discount on that; easier mado than turning a long furrow." His capper asked for explanation and Bill told him all there was in it and lost forthwith $20 to his accomplice. By this time HALF A DOZEN POCKET-BOOKS were out and bets came in freely. In half an hour the train reached Tolono, where passengers change for Chicago, and Bill, about 200 ahead, got up, re marking: "Well, gentlemen, I'm go ing to Chicago to see a lawyer about recovering for that calf. Good night." And before the astonished Grangers could realize tho situation ho had dis appeared through the duor. Half an hour afterward he was seen on the north-bound train, dressed in the heighth of fashion and looking like anything but the coarsely-clad man on the Wabash road. It is said that Canada Bill made $100, 000 during his career as a card thrower, but when ho died, in Council Bluffs, Iow a, he left just enough of money to give him a decent funeral. Like many of his profession, ho found at the farb table his greatest pleasure, and his win nings w ent from him more easily than they came. He was a great player of draughts, and won much money that way. Of his early life not much is known. He was born and lived for some years at Peekskill, N. Y., ou the Hudson river, just below Poughkeep sie. He was often arrested, but never stayed long in prison. After the war his lield of operations was mostly on the Pacific Railroads, west of Omaha. "But you know, pa," said tho farm er's daughter, when he spoke to her about the addresses of his neighbor's son, "you know pa, that ma wants me to marry a man of culture." "So do I, mv dear, so do I; and there's no better culture in the country than agricul tu re. "Jf a rtfo rd (Jour ant. Attacking the Lunatic Asylum. The medical profession of New York city are greatly exercised because of the recent action of oneof their number in assailing the management of the Lu natic Asylums throughout the State generally. It would seem to have had its origin in a quarrel which led to a lawsuit against Dr. John P. Gray, Su- Eerintendent of the State Asylum at tica, who published in the American Journal of Insanity Dr. Grissom's pa per recently read at Washington, in which Dr. Hammond was rather vigor ously shown up, and Dr. Hammond lost his temper and indulged in lan guage expressive of his injured feelings quite contrary to the spirit of the medi cal code of ethics. A lawsuit followed. Dr. Gray is arrested and sued for libol, but the case hangs fire, and then Dr. Hammond determined upon a raid against the lunatic asylums and their su permteudents. OLD PROPHECIES. Mother Knlpton and her Prophecy Thomas the Rhymer. Concerning "Mother Shipton's p.-oph- Carriages without horses sh d! go, and ending England shall at last admit a Jew, The world to end shall come In eighteen hundred and eighty- one "Texan" writes to the World from Lexington, Lee County, Tex., to ask who was the author and when was it published. 'lhis prophecy is an old friend of ours. It appeared in tho edi tion of Mother Shipton's proohecies issued by Mr. Charies Hindley, of Brighton, in b$ti2 a book purporting to oe an exact reprint oi a chap-book version issued in 1641, but really as old as 1448. It did not take long to expose tne irauu. xne earliest edition to be found in tho British Museum proved to be of 1641, and neither that nor any of tne later ones contained a line of any importance, being a vague jumble of local predictions, and not long after Mr. Minaiey coniessed that he had fabricated the "prophecy" of which our correspondent speaks, and ten oth ers, so as to make his book sell. Nev ertheless the prediction (which agrees with the Great Gallery of the Pyramid, interpreted by Piazzi Smyth and "Philo Israel," in declaring that the world shall come to an end m 1881) is very tenacious of life, and in company with Cotton Mather's boarus "rum me and sugar" lettergoes thegrand rounds of the papers with singular frequency. "Mother Shipton" as a prophet is very much without honor in her own coun try. She had predicted that when the dragon of JJow Church and the grass hopper of the Roval Exchange should meet London streets would be deluged with blood. But in 1820 these two fa mous weathercocks did meet in the yard of a stonemason on Old street more by token a you lg Irishman rode down lrom the spire-point of the church on the great copper-gilt dragon with out any resulting catastrophe. And only a month ago crowds of Mid-Som ersetshire folk assembled to witness the the fulfillment or failure of another of the prophecies, which had declared that at noon of Friday, in 189, Hani Hill, a prominent point near Yeovil, should be destroyed by an earthquake and leovil swallowed up by a flood. Many people left the locality, and more of those who remained removed their dishes, clocks and window-sashes so as to avoid by the shock. It is needless to remark that Ham Hill still stands where it stood and Yeovil was not drowned out, and the people of Zum- mcrzet have less iaith than thev used to have in the mystic Mother's words. An older and a better prophet, Thomas the Rhymer, has, however, been proved lrue I nomas indeed during the past lew months. Tyde, tyde, what may betyde, Haig shall be Haig of Bemersyde, he had declared something over six centuries ago, if the legend does not lie, ot the family whose tall, narrow, castellated tower stands on a rocky blutl ot the beautiful Iweed. a few miles below Melrose. Once upon a time the popular faith in t?he prophet was sorely shaken when Zerubabel Haig, the twenty-first laird, had pre sented to him by his wife twelve girls In succession, but then James Anthony Haig was born to save Thomas the Rhymer's reputation and inherit the property. His grandson, the twenty- fourth laird, Mr. James Haig, died in 18o4, leaving three daughters, the last ot whom, Miss Sophia, died on the 8th of November last at Rome. But this did not did not end the line. For the seventeenth laird, James, who succeed ed to the estate about 1602, had mar ried Elizabeth McDougall, of Stodrig, and had by her large family. He waa "a bad egg" or Haig and getting in to trouble fled to Germany, where. he died, and his widow married again, to the disgust ot her seven sons (there were eight of them, but the fifth died young.) who left Bemersyde and went to the Continent, six seeking service under the Prince Palatine, whose wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Jame VI., their mother had nursed, and one sailing from Holland for the East Indies. He was never heard of, and his brothers were entered in the family genealogy as "supposed to have been lost iu tho Bohemian wars ot lWO. ' George, the third son, however, it appears, re turned to Scotland and settling in Clackmannanshire begot a family now represented by Captain Arthur Balfour Haig, R. E., equerry to the Duke of Edinburgh. Him the three daughters of James Haig above mentioned, by mutual will executed some twelve 3-ears ago, made their heir, the estates never having been entailed, and bo Haig still itf Haig of Bemersyde. History of the Black Pearl. Another instance of the singular vicis situdes through which famous and cost lv iewels often pass is reported from Vienna. A few months ago, according to a late Berlin newspaper report, a Jew named Isaac Roth visited a jeweler at Pesth and asked him to appraise a small black jewel carefully wrapped in a piece of dirty newspaper. "That," said the jeweler, "is one of the greatest of rarities nothing less than a perfect black pearl; where did you buy it?" "A man left it with me in pawn ; what is it worth?" "There is but one dealer in the empire who could afford to buy Buch a thing Biedermann, the Court jeweler at Vienna." To him went Isaac Roth, and tho jeweler not believing that so poor a man could have come by the unique treasure honestly handed him over to the police on suspicion. Roth said he was a pawnbroker at Grosswardein and had heard tumult in the house of a neighbor named Gyuri, whose effects were being sold by the tax-gatherer. On going into ascertain what was the matter Gyuri had given him the pearl as security for a loan of 20 florins w herewith to pay the collect or. Investigation showed that the storv was true, and Gyuri declared that Count Louis Batthyany, tho Hungarian hero, whose servant he had been, gave it to him just before his execution as a reward for long and faithful service. Becoming indigent Gyuri took the gold setting of the pearl to a. jeweler and sold it, but retained the pearl as a souv enir, thinking it of no value. The En glish Goyernment heard of the discov ery, and identifying the pearl as one of three stolen from the crown jewels a century and a half ago, purchased it at the price of 20,000 florins. How it came into the possession of Count Batthyany cannot, of course, be ascertained, but, probably he picked it up as a curiosity and was as ignorant of its value as the dealer from whom he obtained it Such is the story which, if true, will make the recovered jewel rank in point of interest with the blue diamond of France or the twelve Mazarin diamonds stolen during the revolution of 1830 and never heard of again till the betrothal of Alfonso and Mercedes, two years ago, when an Amsterdam dealer came for ward to sell them as the agent for a person whose name he would not divulge. A HEAD SAWED OFF. e THE DOCTORS DISSECT TIIE MFR DEREK'S BEXA1X9. . Some Astonishing Things Which tho Post mortem Revealed-A Frac ture in the Skull Found. Philadelphia Record, 11th. Parr, the murderer, ended his miser able existence on this earth yesterday morning, and, as the good Deacon Thomas W. Price observed: "They say there is no hell, but there should be one for such beasts as that fellow." The doctors busied themselves in the endeavor to save the man up to six o'clock, and shortly after that hour his spirit tied. At half past two o'clock he was given a cup of milk and a shock with the galvanic battery. In about twenty minutes the physicians per ceived a motion of animation, as though consciousness was about to return. Parr slowly raised his arm, and in a feeble voice, exclaimed : "Oh, my I oh, my!" This was followed by a sigh, as if ex pressing that he had experienced great relief. The wretch then relapsed into a stupor, and did not awaken again iu this world. The cause of his death was prostration and the shock. WHAT WAS PUT INTO HIM. During the fourteen hours the medi cal men had Parr under their care enough of various remedies and drugs were forced into him to suddIv a small apothecary shop. Five hypodermic in jections of morphia were given him; nearly lorty grains of sulphurate of rinc were forced down his throat; about two quarts whisky, four or live ounces of turpentine, nearly one hundred grains ot carbonate of ammonia, a couple of pints of milk and two raw eggs. These articles were not all given at . once, of course, but are massed to show the quantity. THK DOCTORS CUT HIM UP. The medical men had an opportunity yesterday to carve Parr and learn some thing of his anatomy. Dr. Chapman, the Coronor's physician, conducted the post-mortem examination, which was held at tho Morgue. The dead body lay on a slab in the dissecting room. There was a slight discoloration about the throat, the ankles and the leet. The abdomen was swollen somewhat. "Now, this is no prize tight or a bull fight, and I want no levity," remarked ur. cnapman, in anything but an agreeable mood. . "Everybody mubt stand back against the wall except the doctors, who will come here on the platform." 1 he spectators, who comprised poli ticians, lawyers and reporters, became very obedient, and took positions with uncovered heads, while the doctor rolled up his sleeves, whipped out a knife and began to take Parr's scalp. Ho worked with a deftness and skillfulness aston ishing to the fion-medical fraternity. When he raised up the scalp, though, it was noticed that some of THE SPECTATORS SILENTLY SLID out into the yard to see whether it w ould rain or not, and others pulled vigorously on their cigars. Everybody began to accuse every one else of not having courage to stand the sight. It was not the most pleasant one could wish for, yet the discussions which arose concerning the skull and the heart made it decidedly interesting to the doctors and tho lawyers. Alter the scalp had been laid over the face, Dr. Chapman declared there was a depression of the skull on the left side, back of the ear. Then he fe.t on tho right side and discovered one there, but not exactly ot the same sort. Then Dr. Packard declared that the depres sion on the left side was the result of an injury. WAS PARR RESPONSIBLE? ! It will be remembered, during the trial. Dr. Chapman testified that Parr's skull had never been fractured, while Dr. Packard, as the expert for the de fence, persisted that the unusual de pression on the left side was the result of a fracture, and that it irritated the brain and caused the outbursts of vio lence. When the marks were found on the outside, and discussed, the doctors asked that the top of the skull be taken off. Dr. Chapman sawed and pounded, and in a few seconds Parr had the top of his head in the physicians' hands. "There ! there ! I told you so ; there's tho fracture," exclaimed Dr. Packard, as he pointed to an osseous formation ou the inside of the skull, at the bottom of the depression. "There has been a fracture, and it has entirely healed." Then all the doctors put the skull in the center and examined it carefully. Dr. Chapman persisted that it wan not a fracture, and was very decided iu hU opinion. THE DOCTORS DISAGREE. After they had gazed upon it intently, Coroner Gilbert, Professor Andrews and Doctors Smith and Packard were united on the idea that there had been a fracture. While engaged in conversation, aside from the others, two of the medical men present came to the conclusion that a man with that fractured skuh and pres sure upon the brain could be held re sponsible for murder in the second de gree, but no higher grade of crime. The doctors, also, say that if they could learn as to Parr's temperament in early life, they would doubtless find that before his skull was fractured Le was of a mild disposition, while since then ho has been in very passionate and violent moods. Parr's skull was very thick, nearly throe-eighths of an inch. This was the ( subject of groat surprise among the medical men. It was stated by ex- Constable Cunningham, who was pres- - ent, that he had seen Parr beaten with a blackjack for five minutes by a po liceman, and then he was not subdued. The brain was lifted out. and on ex amination was found to be healthy, ex cept the congestion which had been the . result of the convulsions on Monday. COMICALITIES. 'So it seems, arter all," said Mr. Addlebrane, laying down his Bible, "that the boss is the oldest of all the critters on the face of the airth. Afore even the sun and moon and all thar ' consternations was lit up, it tells of the ., shay hoss. Crackey! and who'd a . thought they had waggins that there airly and a shav at that! Well, it beats all ! " Boston ZYanscrlpt. The editor of the Burlington Hawk- eye says he will celebrate his Fourth of July in Canada. It is a foolish idea. The lemonade of Canada is bad and the peanuts execrable; while the firecrack ers and the orations are beneath con tempt. We do not wish to destroy our unhappy neighbors, but they have never celebrated our independence worth a cent. Buffalo Express. A contemporary recording the recent medical conventions held in Atlanta. a., said doctors were so numerous the little children put their tongues out whenever a biacic coat was seen coming down the street. Scene Hotel reading-room. Gen tleman: "I beg your pardon, but where in hell have I seen you before, sixT" Gentleman (looking up from paper): "I am sure I can't tell. What part of hell are you from, sir? San Francisco . i ews Jxer.
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