North Carolina Newspapers

r THE NEWBEBN I AN. Seth M. Oabpentef, Editoj. j NEWBEttN, M. C. , MARCH 20, 1880 THE GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. We haye read with mncli g ;nnine pleasure colored vritb admiration, the message of Governor Jarvis to the Legislature of North Carolina, now eonjened iri extra session. The message is written in a clear bold, lacid, graceful and fearless mirmer, and takes rank with the best State papers of these days.K Its nalient point is lofty patriotism free fiom A ' ! L? 35-i.l. J I . 1- - paniBan Dias, uicmieu uy iu re iui the old North State. ".It is a :aper, we can cheerfully ! recommend to the earefal perusal of our readers. It is a paper, which does in finite ""credit to the head and heart of Gov. il arris. It is refreshing in these degenerate days to turn from j the crooked ways of the professional politiciar, and Iisten'to the words of wisdom and patriotism with which this message ia replete. From beginning to end it breathes nothing but love for '. tforth Carolina, and an honest des.re to ad vanqe her interests. Without having time to review the message, we wish to say, that we most heartily endorse that portion of it, which recommends, "ths t jthe criminals, who are now an ex jense to the counties, be taken out of the Jail and put to work on the re ads"; and we congratulate the Governor upon: the wisdom, which influonced him fa selecting the Hon. Geo. Davis of Yilmington, and the Hon. Thomas Baffin of Hillsboro, to review the "Best proposition," and throw around it additional safeguards and guaran tees in protection j of th6 ; State's interests. We again commend to J . .. 1 t IV. Governor's message. . GRANT'S CIRCULAR. The circular letter following this article, ; incidentally, or we might say irlinf oil v nacccrl infn,rnr linna To even the casual reader the circular explains itself, and not only 'fore shadows, but definitely ; defines the line upon .which the coming campaign is to be fought. Not 'one breath of patriotism stirs it, but it is an insid ious appeal to all the baser passions of man, and a play upon the fears of the ignorant. The bloody shirt is again unfolded and flaunted, and under its wavings, the stalwarts and the timid alike, are again invited to march to victory. Instead of an nouncing some grand : Statesman like scheme for the development of the material interest of the entire country, and so captivate the Senses and the fancy of the masses, it is an appeal conceived in sectional j and partisan hate, to keep alive the slum bering and smouldering fires which burned so brightly in years agone, and left indellible marks in the ashes of Southern homes, and traces of grief in widowed and orphaned hearts. Instead of this circular an? nouncing some grand theory, where by the star of America Would be made to shine with an added lustre, we are turned aside from the pursuits of happiness and peace, and conduct ed by enmity and hate, we are hastened backwards down the paths of the half-forgotten past, and are bid to draw in draughts of inspira tion from the reopened "bloody chasm." And worse than this,! the specious pleadings of the Nihilists ana communists are invoked when the black man and the poor white man is appealed to, to free himself fronithe yoke "of the aristocratic fflw TtrV,r nnr f rrvl f li a cml.'rtn - 1 keep the mass of the people in a state of shameful ignorance.? j Ulysses S. Grant is the! chairman of the Committee, which issued this inflamatory circular. U. : Si Grant and a . Strong Government are jsy nonymous terms, and a Strong Gov ernment means Centralization and a blotting out of State lines' and Cenl trilization means Empire, and Empire means to the laboring man, both black and white, an indefinite boni dage and slavery, compared with which, the lives of the serfs of Russia were the lives of potentates and! princes. Should this contingency arrive, the American people mayi tamely submit for a time, but soon the liberty loving spirit, which actu ated the fathers of '76 will again re- assert itself, and then, so surely as the day follows the night, will come the "eventual war"of which the circu lar so flippantly prates ; and, so we see, that the election of Grant means war. v The circular says, "we want peace; and we will have it." We echo the sentiment and we say emphatically. we do want peace ; and we will have it, but not under Grant, not under Blaine, nor yet under Sherman. V.-':1. f O'Vi- r to wUI come to us j iiiV tiie Luiicot huiiti oi tho nuble j Bavard. Under his wise and ekilledj pilotage, with States craft at the helm, and with prosperous breezes bellying the sails,, we will anchor in a : haven of peace, prosperity and fraternal : love, where , all can meet upon an equality with an assurance of exact justice to the North, the South, the East and the West. The Union Veterans' Union, ("Boys fn Blue.") HEAD-QUARTERS Union Veterns' National Committee, ' (1870 1880.) No. 115 Broadway (P. O-Box 906), New York City. Gen Ulysses S. Grant, Chairman. Colonel Drake Kay. Secretary. Gen. F. E. Spinner, Treasurer. - Dear Sir : Your name has been suggested with an expression of con fidence that you would take an active part in the Presidential campaign of this year in your locality, and do all in your power to prevent our now prosperous country from falling into the control of that Rebel Democracy which, within our time, worked ter rible devastation through the land. This Rebel Democracy, unrepent ant, unenlightened and persistent, continues to force its old idea upon tie country, with the aid of its mer cenary allies of the North, who do not even assume a principle. It regards the result of the War of Rebellion as only a check, and moves on tirelessly, using the terrors of social and commercial ostracism for one qlass, and the rifle club and shot-gun for the other, to the capture of the Government and the establish ment Of State Sovereignty. I . This mean 8 eventual war. We want peace ; and we will have it. An overwhelming defeat this year will render useless the ? Lost Cause," and will afford an opportunity for the emancipation of the poor whites of the South, the protection of the blacks, and the paralysis of the aristocratic few who control that section and keep the mass of the people in a state of shameful ig norance. The letters and utterances of the leaders of this Democracy in and out of Congress, the defiant language of the. Southern press, together with information you . possess from other sources, cannot fail to have convinced you of this state of affairs. Tour co-operation can, therefore, be taken for granted. These head quarters are not ad vised whether or not you had - the good fortune to serve in the Union army or navy during the Rebellion. In case you did, you are asked to consider the inclosed letter as ad dressed to you personally, and you are earnestly prayed to act upon it promptly and vigorously. Should you not have) so served, you are respectfully requested to select the, most active, influential and patriotic veteran soldier or sailor in your ward, district or town, and hand him the letter and documents herein, urging upon himjthe need of immediate organization of a club, of which you would naturally become a prominent "honorary" member. In conclusion, you will confer a favor by replying to this as soon after receipt as you conveniently can, giving information of your action. Very respectfully, dear Sir, Your most obedient servant, Drake je Kay. '. A SUGGESTION. j Let the Legislature make an &p: propriation from the Insane Asylum fund, sufficient to procure a "Gem Puzzle" for each of its Democratic members who have Bills to offer, foreign to "the question ( for which they, were called to legislate upon; then after having been supplied with the little "Gem," let them march in a body, Indian file and to the tune of the "Rogue's March," to the Insane Retreat where, under the kind and skillful care of Dr. Grissom, it is to be hoped they will soon be restored to whatever little sense they may have been blessed with, prior to their election to the General Assembly. This being accomplished,-let them be quietly returned to the bosom of their respective families where they can be nursed in such manner as will physic out from their august bodies all the political aspirations with which they mayl be afflicted, and at the same time let them learn the fact that there is 'to be an election in November next, and, that the Demo cratic party is not , the only political organization in the State of North Carolina. .Give 13, 15, 14, a trial, gentlemen, it will be of vast benefit to you, to the party and to the State, particularly if you will but carry out to he very letter, the suggestions which we above make, in the interests of the party which you in Ge"heral Assembly now represent. . BAYARD. We publish to-day, from theTPhil adelphia Times, &. very interesting pen picture of Thomas Francis Bayard of Delaware. The Times truthfally says, Mr. Bayard is one of the few Presidential candidates who has become prominent in the race solely by his conservative and pat riotic record in the Senate during the- last decade, and he has the largest diffused and unorganized fol lowing; of any of his Democratic competitors. He is a statesman rather thin a political orgknizer, and his small State deprives him of every thing like a great central power to promote his interests. It is a healthy sign, however, that such a man is formidable as a candidate without the modern appliances of politics. OUR WASHINGTON LKTTKTJ. Washington, D. C, March 15th, 1880. During the past I week, besides listening to the Fitz John Porter debate, the Senate has ;done little beyond passing General BurnsidVs amusing bill to provide instruction" in moral and social science in th schoola of the Dis:rict of Columbia, under the direction of the Commis- sinner of Evocation. In the House Mr. Wood has explain the new ben permitted to FuudiDg bill, and has received a sharp intimation that the inaction of his committee in re--gard to the tariff is not acceptable to a possible majority of the House. By far the most important action, however, has been the passage of a bill amendatory of the act of March 3d, 1875, regulating the removal of cases from State to Federal courts. Its effect is not only to restrict the facilities afforded by that act, but, as one of its general supporters admit ted, to alter the Judiciary Act of 1879, by limiting the original cog nizance of the Circuit Courts in civil suits, whether at common law or in equity, so j as to exi-lude those in which a State corporation is a party except when arising under the putent or copyright laws. The vote to strike out this provision was yeas 35, nays 95. The tendency of the bill i8 still further illustrated by the fact that it was advocated at length by Mr. Townshend, of Illinois, who has a bill of his owu pending to re peal utterly the law , authorizing re movals, and whose grievance is the encroachment of the Federal upon the State judiciary. Those who expect an adjournment before the 4th of July will probably be disappointed. All of the heaviest appropriation bills are yet to be re ported. Besides these bills: the House has before it a vast amount of other business. There are in the Committee of the Whole House 109 bills and other propositions, on the House calendar thirty-two bills, etc., and over 250 bills on the private calendar. There are on the table over 100 bills from the Senate. Some of theBe bills are of great im portance, and members interested in them will make a fight for them even as Bgainst the appropriation bills. Among the most important bills in Committee of the Whole, are tie printing bili, the bill to r peal the tax on leaf tobacco in the bunds of producers, the bill to pension soldiers of the Mexican wjar, several bills re lating to coinage, and a large num ber for the construction of public buildings in different parts of the country. On the House calendar the bill for the relief of Gen. Fitz John Porter; the bills relating to 'inter State commerce and other important measures. Besides Jnis it is not un likely that in deference to the senti ment of the House, the Committee of Ways anrJ Means will be compelled to reverse its action and report some tariff legislation, relating especially to paper, sugar, and salt. Under thtf rules, precedence must be given to committees to-day to make mo tions to suspend the rules. PARIS LETTER. REGULAR CORRESPONDENCE : Paius, March 3,1, 1880. Accounts, received from Russia, in Paris state that almost the entire country is anxious for a change and more or less openly sympathizes with the revolution. One report, not destined for publication, says, that the revolution is now ripe, and that no human power can prevent its out break. What has already occurred is represented as a mild foretaste of what has yet to come. It is a mis take to suppose that the events with which the Empire of the Czirs is threatened will be confined to the large towns, such as St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Kiew. The s.'ime ex asperation against the maladminis tration and corruption of the au thorities exists in every town and village of Siberia, in every inhabited party of the steppes of Little Rnssia in fact, the most remote districts are not free from it. Prior to the inau guration of the Reign of Terror, Russian malcontents belonged to two. distinct categories. One of them comprised people who, though dis satisfied with the existing state of affairs and desirous for a change, hoped to attain their end by pacific means- They, nevertheless, had an occult literature of their own, and carried on an active propaganda amongst students and working men. This groupe included a large number of adherents belonging to the better classes, and professed to be opposed to means of violence for the r aliza tion of their theories. Latterly, however, they? have rallied to the other groupe of malcontents, which, sinee its formation, has been a party of action. They have always gone by the name of Nihilists. With com-r paratively few exceptions they be- longed to the middle and lower classes. They have also recruited partisans chiefly- in the universities and factories. Many of them are men of culture, gifted with an iron will, and ready for every privation and sacrifice in the common cause. The prospect of beii g transported in cages like wild beasts to Saghali-n, matched through the snow to Siberia, tortured in sorue prison eel!, or even exeented in the citadel of St. Peters burg, are matfers of small considera tion for the Russian Nihilists. Averse intelligence and honesty wcnld have sufficed to induce the Czar's councillors to warn him that nothing could be done by intimida tion and violence. Even the Russian peasants, who live far from the cent-res of revolutionary plots and con spiiacies, have an obstinate, dogged way of resisting the authorities, which is without example in any other part cf Europe. The Magistrates ap pointed by the Cz-ir fiud the peasants taciturn, and seldom, if ever, succeed in obtaining evidence from one against the other." On the approach of the tax-gathf rer the peasant hides all he possesses. Only lat year hideoijs stories were told of Russian peasants mutilating themselves in order io shirk the army conscription. Amongst thtmst Ives they are homer enough, bnt every means is justifiable in their eyes for escaping the op pression that poisons their very ex istence. General Loiis Mt-likoff may imprison, proscribe, aud execute; i but he will neither pacify nor terro rise. .The hydra of revolution has been let loose, and it bus an utjliuiit ed scope for action. THOMAS F. BAYARD, OF DELAWARE. The Brief bnt Brilliant Career of a Great Democratic Statesman A Pen Picture. of the Man and his "Ways His Early Manhood III Life at Home and at the Capital. When Henry Clay Kaid, "I would n.ther be right then-be President," the nentimeiit was applauded aud became hirftoric (alhfeit it was not original with him), b.nt there, was Rome HcepticiBin among his contemporait s as to his sincerity. There is a statesman of to-day however, who might sny it with per feet truth, and everybody who knows him would believe it. Indeed he has said it through every act in his capacity as a public man, and he is believed. That man is Thomas Francis Bayard of Delaware. Mr. Bayard is commonly esteemed a Southerner, and he is, if Delaware is fairly called a Southern State, bnt the fact is that he was born to the north of the most north ern point on Mason and Dixon's line, and only eight miles from the Pennsylvania border. Wilmington was his birthplaee. The date of his birth was October 29, 1828. I believe, with old John Randolph, that there, is something in the blood of men as .well as in the blood of horses, and, that blood will tell. It has told in the Bayard family The ; Bayards, of Delaware, are collateral descendants of the Chevalier Bay. ar:l, the last, as he was the biest, example of the institution of knight errantry, and to whom were first applied the wbrds, "with out fear end without reproach." The rii, rect ancestor of the Delaware Bayards was Nicholas, a French Ilncuenot, who took re fuge in America in 1647, along with the famous Peter .tnyvesant, the last Dutch (iovernor of New York. One hundred and twenty years after this emigration there aro.se in the new world a Bayard who made some mark in the world. This was James A. Bayard, first, (Asheton is the middle name of the James A.'s) who was the leader of the policy under which the election of Thomas Jefferson instead of Aaron Burr a3 President was assured. He was also one of the commissioners who negotiated the treaty of Ghent, and it was he who set to future Bayard the example of becoming United States Senator, having caught the idea from his father-in-law, Governor Bas- sett, who was his immediate predecessor in the Delaware Senatorship. The example, was followed by two of the sons of James A. Bayard, first, namely, Richard Bassett Bayard who was Senator from 1836 to 1839 and from 1841 to 1845, and James A Bayard, second, who was elected to the Senate in 1851, 18."7, 18G3 and 18G9. and twice re signed the office. So that, including th5 present Senator, a son of James A. Bayard", second, and counting in father-in-law Bas sett, the Bayard family has produced five United States Senators; and Thomas F. Bayard, to use a convenient figuro,,. now wears the Senatorial robes which have res ted successively on tho shoulders of his great-grandfather, grandfather, uncle and father. - ' .: THE EMBRYO SENATOR AS A PHILADELPHIA!. ' Tom," as he was affectionately called by all Delawareaiifi and a good many other peo ple, is not a self-made nisn in ihe common acceptation of the term. He is, however, not college-bred, but in the main self-educated. He got his schooling in a desultory way, in Wilmington, and studied for a while under the birch of the Rev. Dr. Hawks, who had a private sch ol on Long Island that was quite f anions in its day. It was expected that he would be a merchant, his elder brother, James A. Bayard, third, being set apart as the inheritor of the legal talent of his father and grandfuther.! So Tom went to Philadelphia, and, in the store of S Morris Wain, at the corner of Second and Walnut streets, was pqt in training for mercantile life. He "stuck close to his desk' four years, and there are people now walk ing Chestnut street who remember him! as a somewhat gawky but pleas.mt-maDnered and gtib-tongued clerk. The death of this brother in 1848, however, changed hhe course of his life. He wascalled home! to his father's office, began to study law, 4nd in due time was admitted to the bar. Then descended upon him the restless spirit which comes to all younr; men as, certainly a?i a moustache. Wilmington was a slow town for a young fellow who had tasted the excitement of city life. Beside, when he did a good thing he didn't get credit for jit. His father was the leading lawyer in the State, and when the firm won suit, peo ple alwayb said, "that's the old man." Tom concluded to strike out for himself and packed up his traps and came back to Phila delphia, where he hang out his shingle and practiced la w as he had opportunity, under -the eye of William Shipper). But this las ted only a year or two. His father's elec tion to the Senat9 and growing absorption in public affairs made it necessary for him to.callthe young man back again. He re turned reluctantly, but work soon told and it was not long before he was anpointed United jStates District Attorney. Then his professional life became a thing of sopie importance. His ability was demonstrated and commanded in the course of time both money and reputation. Politically he was a Democrat from the start and took an ac tive interest in politics, but he held no ofEce except 'that of District Attorney, which he received at the hands of President Pierce. . WHEP.E EE STOOD DTBINO T3I WAR. When the rebrtllion t-roke out his father was ODe of the corporal's gtaard who held the Democratic foit in Corit-recs, ted he might, in fact, have been called the corporal of the cnard. lorn however, &taveui at home and attended very closely to his grow ing practice. In JbGl he attt nded the ui et ch of icg on Dover gnen. and made the up which has been talked about jo mnch late. It . was cot considered a Kecessjon speech then, bnt si strong defense of the Union of the fathers. Like all the Denio- crats of those da-s he believed that meant disunion and was tor tht reason posed to war. The Bayard iLfl lence acinst secession, or Delaware, with war i i i PP Vas her strong Southern sympathies, would h&ve cast her lot with tie Confederacy and di vided with Maryland the disastron honor of being the batile-grouEd of t. con tending forces. This was shown whejji a commissioner came on from Mississippi and pleaded with the Delaware Legislature to pass an ordinarice of sectssion. The Bayard influence was omnipotent in that body, and under the Bayard inilne'pce the Mississippi was received with cjold courtesy end sent back to Dixie, having only his trouble for his. pains. "Adam E. King, who made a sure enough secession speech despite the protest of BHjard iuid others, at the Dover mass meeting, after ward entered the Union army, became a brigadier general and is now a stalwart Maryland Republican and office-holder. (Af ter that meeting vonncMr. Bnyrd was a r quiet observer of political iiff.urs, but; he was not unconcerned. At one time the troubles of the conntry so preyed upon his nervous organization that he fell really sick and had to quit work and take a Northern trip for chauge of air, : scene and thought. During this period Delaware paused into the hands of the Republicans, and he held a commission as lieutenant in a volunteer company under a Republican adminis tration. THE FIFTH SENATOR IN THE FAlrtl.Y. It was not tin til the war was over that Thomas F. Bayard's public career began. Considering that he ia now one of the fjest known, most honored and most influential men in the nation, it is: surprising to think that he has been only ten years before jthe country. When he eutered Congress, Gtant was already President, Conkling was !ap pioaching his zenith, BlHine was a Speer of the House of Representatives, Srynsonr was supposed to have quit public life, Han cock was when he is noy.- and Tilden kvas getting things in Nhape torial campaign of four for his 'nhefna vears Inter, w th a long look ahead to th Presidency. No body outside of Delaware had ever heard of Thomas F. Bayard. His! f:ither was inceiised at the exaction of the ironclad oth qf a man wh'se loyalty was not open to ques tion. When, therefore, it was submitted to him. he showed that h- could take it! by taking it and expressed his sense of the jnn oonstitutiorality and injustice of the re quirement by leaguing his seat. George li. Riddle was elected to fill the unexpired terra thus opened, but Riddle lired only a little while, and James A. Bayard was in duced to return and serve out the second unexpired term resulting from his own jre signsition. Thomas F. Bayard was elected for the succeeding full term, and thus it carne about that father and son were elected to thu Senate on the Mine day mid sat ia it on the same day, the one going out and the other coming in on the 4th of March, l8j;5), whi(jfc was also the date of the firs' inaugur ation of Ulysses S. Grant ph President of the United States. The senior Bayard still lives, full of years and honors, and expects to be gladdened by the sight of his sou in .he White Houe the first Democratic Presi dent in twenty years. .1 When Mr. Bayar.d took his seat in the Senate the Democratic restoration had hot begun. Both branches of Congress wj?re strongly Republican. Mr. Bayard's collea gue was W illard Saulsbury, who had sat there al' through the war. The other Demo cratic Senators were hardly eEongh in num ber to go around on the committees- They were Casserly, of California; Davis and Mc Creery, of Kentucky; Vickers and Hamilton, of Maryland, and Stockton, of New Jersey, nome of whom are there now. Thnrnian took his seat on the same day, as the suc cessor of Ben Wai'c Stockton and Sadls bur' were the Democtalie leaders, but the real inspiration of iie opposition lay in the brains of Trnm'nell, Schirz and a few other liberal Repnbiieans. Mr. hayard was given places at the tail of the couunittee on fin ance, private claims and revision of the laws. He settled easily into legislative methods and Soon became a master of them It was not h'Bg before he became a recog nized leader, and growing with experience has maintained his commanding position in spite of the fact that his party has been reinforced from time to time by men of the largest calibre and great attainments. It; is no part of my task to give the details of his work as a Legislator. Suffice it to say, that every body must admit, that no man jof the present -lay morel nearly approaches the stature and proportions of lii ideal Senator. Devoted to his party, he is more devoed to his country. In debate he is ever readjv, sometimes aggm-Hve, but always descriifiip ating and courteous, i In the discharge bf his committee work he is patient and thorough to a wonderful degree; there is io bill however trivial in its purpose, mislead ing in its tifls or obscure in its wordirifg with which lie is not fauiilar. Like. F-'lmiindjK, on tbe Republican side, he scents a steal r detects a flaw with unerring instinct, and lis equally prompt to put his foot down on the one as to expose the other regardless if whose interests may be affected. His repu tation for intergritjjr is absolutely stainless. A STAINLESS BEPUTATION. I i i One who has known him from boyhodd said to me yesterday in homely phrase, "Geld never made an ho'nster man than Totn Bayard." This integrity of rare quality s inherited. His father was of the few mein who passed through the Credit Mobilier scandal without the suell of fire on his garment. When a personal friend of the old Senator sent him, in all kindness, some of the scrip, with the renmrk that he coujd make a good thing out of it, the letter arid its inc'osure were returned with the state ment that a member of Congress Las rio right. to make any money out of anything which may come before bim in his legisla tive capacity. Tony Bayard would do the same thing and never expect it to be coun ted as a virtue In the councils of his parly his voice is always heard with respect, and ii his adVice is not followed, the party Js generally the wo-se for it. I need only in stance his opposition to the placing; of political riders on the appropriation bill at the extra session of last year. Fuck pic tured the Democratic party at that time as a donkey on tne edge of a precipice, with nothing but Bayard's grip on its tail o prevent the animal's suicide. The position he then took has since become the breast work of the party. In brief, the salient features of Mr. Bayard's policy during his ten years in the Senate have been his ad vocacy of nationality without centralization, civil service reform and honest money arid his opposition to machine methods in poli tico. The key-note of his conduct in all things is found in his remark the other day to one of the many friends who advised bita not to speak on the Fitz John Porter case, as it had become a political question, add his advocacy of Porter's reinstatement woujd be used against him as a candidate for the Presidency. "What do yon take me for?" was the indignant reply. "It is the right thing to do and I am going to do it. EAYAED AT HOME ASD AT WOBK. Physically Senator Bayard is a man of heroic build, but rather bony and angular IT "1 .1 .... - ne is aoove tne average neignt, ana even with his habitual stoop- looks tall. His clean-shaven face, with its broadly-markeid linesand wonderful capacity for the ex pression of emotion, is pleasant to look up on and wins favor at sight. His eyes ate steel-blue and move restlessly under a pair oi overnangmg, shaggy ryesbrows. Me a man of action and gestures, is given to pacing, and in sitting assumes the most convenient attitudes with frequent and un easy changes. He is a tirless worker and is in constant danger of working too mnch. After iservice as a committeeman in the in vestigation of dome custom house frauds in New York (the Jayne business, I believe), in which he became intensely interested, he became holl w eyed and haegatd and great ly declined in flesh. Hani work and anxiety during the extra session of 1879 came very nenr broking him down. He needs to put the breakes down on that san guine temperament. Mr. Bayard is seen at his best at home either in Wilmington or in Washington, suironnded by Ida family or in the midst of his dearly loved books. He married early. His wife was Miss. Louisa Lee. of Balti more, a dr.nghter of the junior member of the banking firm ft Johnson A Lee. They have had twelve cfciMren. r.nd ten of them are Jiving. James A. Bayard, fonrth. his eldest soju has been ensaged fori the last two years ith Clarence King's Geological Evpdition. Mr. .B iy;ird is an exct'ediriolv domestic person, ai d is renowned in Wil mington, as a model father and hnstand. ! lis summer home is a fine old-fa-hi-ned mansion, sitrjatt d in the ontskiits of Wil mington (on ( layton street), which was once the property of S B. Davis, the guard ian of Myra Clnrk, now known to fame as Mvra Clnrk Gaines It is a roomy house, furnished with a view solely to " otnfortiible living. Mr. Bayard's "den," or library, has all the marks of the working room of a man of literary testes. The walls are lined with bookshelves and the tatile is always covered with books and papers, which are confusion i'self to anybody bnt himself. The fl-wr. too, is strewed with books and newspapers. The visitor ala s find the host at work, bnt never too busy to tlk. For Tom B iyard is not only the socl of hospitality, 'but one of tj'be most fluent talkers you j?ver saw. When be gets very much interested he is apt to walk up and down the room with his bands in bis pockets and indulge in a mon ologue. His words flow lik waier fr m the mouth of a pitcher, and if taken down in short-hand they will lie found to make perfect sentences and notably ffor the dis play of a rich vocabulary. It is much more satisfactory to hear him talk Jthun to read his. manuscript, for his chirogi aphy is very hard to decipher, and the abbreviations and luck of punctuation (for he writes as he talks, at race-horse speed), make it an enigma to those not very well acquainted with it. In the winter, the Senator lives in Wash ington, occupying his own bouse, an -unpretending brick structure of three stories aud a mansard roof, on Massachusetts avenue. Within it is full of the cheerv light of home and rich in the indescribable little things which-give an air of comfort which is little short of luxury. A vine-cove red- piazza adds to" the attractions of the place. Al though the house is unpretending in itself, it is in a notable neighborhood. It stands in the circle in tho middle of which rises the newly erected Thomas statue. On either side ofMr. Bayard, live Senator Edmunds and Justice Miller, while among his near neighbors ire Ex-Mmister Schenck, Sena tors Morrill. Hill, Colonel McPherson, Blaine, Allison, Randolph and Windom, almost a little village ui some of the best known men in the country. . The life of the family is of the simplest. A card re ception or two and a! out the same num ber of formal dinners make tip the elaborate entertainments of the season, although the number of informal entertainments is al most as unbounded as in the hospitality of Senator and Mrs. Bayard. A SIMPLE REPUBLICAN GENTLEMAN. No one is more popular in Washington society, however, than Mr. Bayard, and add ing to his genial, manly qualities a thorough acquaintance with the Fiench, he is one of the most sought-after of our pnb ic men at the dinners and receptions of the diploma tists who make their residence hero. He lives, however, the life of a very simple Re publican gentleman, with good taste and unostentatiously. He gives bis hospitality to his friends, and never turns his home in to a place for the intrusion of vulgar poli tics, where he may advance his interests by entertaining a horde of people in whom he has no interest save as they may advance his own. With all his goodness of heart and integ rity of character he is not a Pharisee, but a prime good fellow. He is not even a member of the Church but is a devout re specter of religion, was baptized by a Meth odist and his family are Episcopalians. His only enemies are the professional politicians. They cannot understand and never will that this man acts only on principle and is not swerved by any consideration of expediency, but they thoroughly appreciate his contempt for their methods. I happen to know, that one of the most eniment capitalists in the country has placed his bank account at Mr. Bayard's disposal in canvass for the Presi dential nomination. The reply wb: "No; if the people want ma for President' they must nominate and elect me." Ho will not even authorize the organization of his friends for ante-convention work. This may be Quixotic but it is characteristic, and there are several hundred thousand peo ple, pot all Democrats, who think this is the sort of man to make President of the United States next year. M. P. Handy. Wilmington, Del., March 11,1880. Metropolitan Iron Works. Canal Street from Sixth to Seventh, RICH MOM). ENGINES, portable and stationary, SAW MILLS. GRIST-MILLS, BOILERS CAST INGS of BRASS and IRON, FORGINGS &c, MACHINERY for Gold and Coal Mines, Blast Furnaces, Ac We call special attention to oar IMPROV ED PORTABLE ENGINE, for agricultural and other purposes. The Boilers of our Agricultural Engines are provided with bur Patent Premium SPARK EXTINGUISH ER, a device by which the Sparks are forced o pass downward over a resorvoir of water and effectually extinguished without the nse of wire gauze. Ours is the only arrange ment of this kind which affords free access to the boiler tubes for cleaning from each end. The officers of a large number of the best Insurance Companies pronounce this Spark Extinguisher perfect in its onera tion. , New styles SMALL LOCOMOTIVES for hauling lumber, and . - wwo UUUU tramways and narrow gauge railways v vxtq Planters regard our GINNING LNGINES superior to any in use. Setfa for illustrated Catalogue free. Other things being equal encourage Southern institu tions. Repair work solicited and promptly done. Shafting, Pulleys, Ac, for Gin Houses. . Manufacturers of Jones' patent Tobacco Lump Machines to work by hand or power WM. E. TANNER & CO. WWPBAUGHAM- Controlling Ag'tfor W. E. Tanner 4 Co., Richmond, Va.in Eastern N..C ; office at Washington, N C Refer to the following prominent citizens of North Carolina, who (among manv others) are using our machinery Col. T. M. Holt, Pres. State Ag'I. Society, Haw River; W. S. Battle, Esq., Rockv Mount; S. Johnson, Esq., Littleton; Noah IJ.iggs, Lsq., Scotland Neck; T. W Battle Esq Pocky MountCol. R. W. E2 1 w l-CW' rflwool, Fleming twIftc're3h5nSt - T- errv! A. CRUTAIX rt . . i . ' v- ture lor Scrofula. -A! : --." -IT-'-. Wra. Joe. Person's Tlcl In a Idition 'oi th.. t. . 1 . . vkln.itue qu luie-i i t tl,i , 1 I SJ-1. nn act of just kv '.to ie ,;i Hili- l-K-y wiki 'i epulis. ; bi n !it o! 'liose w ho in , ! . Titfjis'.ir:' in stiO h.. . i r t f " ' v., i , t., r - Jflll '.I!". Mil. t MS OI II ft;. I roperl'.es ni in ii V ( ;i , , Ui d it say I hut th Wv by it use. , ' e h .vf for sevl ra! n i times, as an i p. t'uj i an A, !)) ! v. t I, ben. fi;. We n.-t i.i.lj L n .I :-i. , . lUf M"i Ol IO. a Mas il.acte i;-t i -using t- ; tned i. in. a iw. ,1 v w g -od j petite rel'fhe 1 to. .1. ' ,,,,) ; it wflll Ati.l tlnu luw t o At n w" rni o ii.,r m 1 u- r.n- .J.,. u , luark-tt-l pr) ertv ot h, Ti,t- u ii v A CVKK Vol; li Vjl sj i . 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