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,, . VOL.I111, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 7NO28 WHITE CAP KNIGHTS. A REGULAR BAND OF MASKED VIGI LANTES IN INDIANA. The Law Ignored by a Band of Rulans Who Seek to Make the Punishment Fit the Crime-Death for Serious Ofrenders. The White Caps are to Southern In diana what the Bald Knobbers were to Missouri. Not so desperate in character as the latter, their organization is iden tical and they have equally set law at defiance. The headquarters of the White Caps are in Harrison county, Indiana, but the organization extends over into Crawford, Jefferson and half a dozen other coun ties in the oldest civilization of the State. There is not a more intelligent, peace able or orderly community in Indiana than Harrison county. Corydon, the county seat, was the first capital of the State, and its court-house, built in 1811, was for four years its capitol. The country is rich and schools and churches abound. A branch railroad has oeen built to Corydon, and its citizens are prominent in State and nation. In spite of all this, the White Caps, or "Knights of the Switch," as they are sometimes called, have existed for seven teen years. The courts have been set at defiance, fails have been opened and prisoners liberated or pnnished. Men, women and children have been dragged out of bed at dead of night, and i eir homes burned before their eyes, while they themselves have been whipped, tortured with fiendish ingenuity and made to flee the country. Like the Bald Knobbers, the pro fessed motive of the White Caps is the punishment of crime more swiftly and fittingly than can be accomplished in the courts. For this reason there has been little outcry against them, and even when public indignation has 1:een aroused by some unusually flagrant act, nothing has been accomplished. The identity of White Caps has been revealed time and again, but not one has ever been brought to punishment. There have been many attempts by grand juries to indict the offenders, but so far taey have been ineffective. For years aud years hardly a circuit court is hekt in Harriso n county that the jury is no: in structed to investigate some case of re cent occurrence, but White Caps are on the jury and in the court room, and nothing has ever been discovered in this way. There have been but few confessions of membership; but one of these f:rn ishes information of the regular natare of the organization. The White Caps, or "Knights," are organized with regu lar lodges. There are signs, grips and pass words-crude, of course, but sufficient for the recognition of and for communication between members. They meet at appointed places, but not often at the same place, and but seldom in a house. S. _-ed groves are their favor ite resorts, and h re they assemble upon notification of the leader of the loge. Councils are held, expeditions determ ined upon and punishments inflicted. The sign for the assembling of these "lodges" is the laying of crossed fence rails in the middle of the road. The earliest known band of this or genization was in Scott township, Hiar riGoR county, seventeen years ago. James N~. Kean, a small farmer, accused of petty thievery, was tied to a tree and severely whipped. He was their first 'detim, but cases were frequent after 'that. Of late the White Caps have been very active. The latest outbreak was in Jefferson county, two miles from the sziall village of BSrooksburg. A band of mss ed men last Friday night broke into the farzulhouse of Stout Brenson, dragged him from bed with his wife and child, removed the furniture from the rooms, burned the dwelling and quietly disap peared. Neither Brenson nior his neigh bors can assign any reason for the out rage, 'out it is supposed the White Caps were headed by a personal enemy. That the parsy was from the organization was shown by their wearing the whute masks which have given their name. The Knights were guilty ten days ago of a serious offence. At midnmght a band of some twelve or fifteen white suasks visited the house of Jos. Lynch, a farmer who lives near Leavenworth. -They broke in the doors, seized Lynch and his wife, entered the room where slept his daughter Mary with her three brothers and dragged the whole party into the front yard. The two .younger boys broke loose and fled into the bushes. Five men held Lynch and the older boy, and the remainder whipped the two women with stout hickory switches. They mounted their horses when sufficient punishment had been inflicted .and quietly rode away. The home of Lynch was visited and his 'w.ife was found at work laying a rai] fence ini front of the house. Her boys were aroud the house, and Mary got up out of bedto stare at the unaccus iomed visitor, Very shabbily dressed were all. Mr. Lynch was at work at a neighbor's, and his wise was so fright. ened that she trembled from head to fool when guestioned, thinkig the reportei was one of the Knights. She said the Caps had been there 'week ago and whipped her and Mary, but she couldn't remember anything. When any trouble camne her heart bea1 so fast that it choked her and she fel down like dead, and that was the way with her that night. She was evidently afraid to tell anything, but after lof persuasion made the following state mnent: "I've lived here all my life, and I be long to good people, but I've had a hari time. Mr. Lynch owns a tarm ad, I get this place from my mother. W ev< had trouble and sickness. "My girl Mary got into trouble, bu the young man said he'd mar:y her They were to be married in the fall, bu my son Willis got indicted and the: couldn't be. Then they were to be'nar ried in the spring, but his family mad< such a trouble they couldn't. 11is nami is Bryant Green, and he is the son o Wesley Green, our nearest neighbor. H< .ays he'll marry her yet. "'The othe vemnn Andy Green Bryant's young brother, came over an borrowed our shotgun. That night th 'vigilance' came and they whipped m and whipped Mary. I don't know wh it was. They whipped us in our mgl: clothes. First one and then auothe lashed us both. Mary's so awful hui I'm afraid she'll die. I guess there some people want our little propeety an are trying to drive us away." Mary Lynch is not more than sever teen years old and rather good lookinE She could tell no more than her mothei Wesley Green, father of Bryant Greer was found by the rnporter and said the the Lynches kept a bad place-plavin cards and 'whooping' on Sundays. Th vigilantes, he thought, had done righ in whipping them. Mrs. Lynch was respectable woman, he guessed, and th 'cutting up' had only been going o: seven or eight months. Public opinion in the neighborhood i much divided over the matter, but th general opinion is that the Knights ougin not to have done the whipping. The whipping of women is too frE quent in the Knights to be pleasani Generally their victims are charged wit: unchastity, but it is admitted that ther have been cases when whippings wer given as the result of disappointment o In Blue River township Lem Arnol< lived a couple of years ago. He was ar parently stout and healthy, but wa accused of shiftlessness and letting hi wiie haul wood. That winter a band o the Knights visited him at midnight took him out of bed and hauled up : good supply of firewood. Arnold dreN the sled in h night shirt, and althougl he was liberally whipped to keep up th, circulation he died a few weeks altc ward of consumption brought on by th exposure. In the same township lived Henr: Long, a lawyer, accused of being a dis turbing element, especially at elections He was brought to trial before a magis trate. While the case was in progress i band of masked men with their coat turned surrounded the house. Lon sprang to the door, and shot dead th, first man who entered. The victim proved to be a respected Frenchma named M. Henriot, whom the mob hai forced into the lead. Long tried < shoot again but his pistol failed him He made a dash through the crowd, bu received several shots, from the eff'ect of which he died next day at Corydon None of the band was ever brought t justice. Corydon was once captured by a ban< of the "White Caps." In May, 1885 there was talk of corruption in the coun ty offices, but to the demands for inves tigation no attention was paid. .0 Saturday evening two men rode int< town about dark, saying they had com to see the ku-klux. Soon horsemen be gan to ride into town from every road In half an hour between two and thre< hundred had gathered upon the public square. The men had their coats turned and all wore white masks, with a dozer other forms of disguise. All the horse had white masks over their heads, witi holes cut for their eyes and ears. -! number of horses had white strips tief around a fore-leg. The band rodi through every street in the town in mil itary order, then once around it, anc then disbanded. Two or three were ob served to ride into a livery stable ani leave their horses. The next morning letters threatenins tc . rn the town and kill every one o: the officers unless an investigation waj ordered were received by the count3 commissioners and several of the pronmi nent citizens. An investigation was ordered the ner week. Discrepancies were found in th< treasurer's and auditor's offices. Treasur er Bowling turned over a large sum o: money he had collected, was sued on hi: bond and $600 more was recovered. ThN records in the auditor's office were miuti lated one night, so a complete investiga tion could not be had. Auditor A. W Brewster, however, paid over $2,00( which it was thought he owed th< county. John Jacob Miller, a well-to-do farm er living near Corydon, was brought be fore the grand jury as e.ne of the mob He refused to testify and was ordered t< jail for contempt. He secured a de miues1ak with the Judge and thi poeuigattorney, however, and tha yre a eoked. Miller went homi and nothing more was ever done in th, case. IThese instances could be multiplie by the score. Queerly enough the In canians seem not to be much oppose< to the "White Caps" and conclude the; rarely make mistakes in pnnishmaents The more thoughtful, however, admi that the organization is sometimes th weapon of private malice and that gres wrong is done. Still, nothing is done t break up the "Knights." Virginia Politics. It is understood among the Virgini politicians that ex-Governor Camero: and Senator Riddleberger are ecting i lose concert in the maturing of plans t thwart General Mahone's ambition t succeed Riddleberger in the Senat< Among other reports is one that the contemplate making overtures to th~ Democratic managers in Virginia for joint combination against Mahone. Bu although this rumor finds ready credene in some quarters, those in a position t know do not believe it to have the lea< foundation. Whatever influence tihe tw young leaders have must be in the rank of their own party, and there can be n inducement for the Democrats to mak any personal alliance with them. ThN they both are resolved to leave no mear untried to defeat General Mahone is tu doubted. All Virginia politicians of e: perience agree that if a Republican Les fsiature is elheted General Mahone: bound to be its choice f ar Senato: Probi~by the best course S. Camero and id'dieberger and their supporte> will be to pursus z course of master] inactivity, but they are too much inte ested to adopt such a course ais thi The Virginia Democrats express the u most conadence in their own ability i carry the Legislature. In the meantin General Maoie, vwho is apparent] keeping perfectly quiet, is undoubted) hard at work laying his own plans i.; will be prepared to spring them in h Dr. Pieree's - Favorite Prescription" the dei!ilitated wvoman's best restorati itonic. ' NO DANGER OF AN OUTBREAR TIHE REPORTED NEGRO INSURREC TION IN LAURENS COUNTY. Holding Meetings at Midnight--No Au thority for the Dire Threats Said to Hav4 Been Made--"Principlcs" of the "Co Operative Workers of America." (From the News and Courier.) LARENS, June 20.-Colonel J. H Traynham, of the Governor's staff, an Captain L. E. Irby, of the Lauren Guards, have returned from Ceda Grove, Young's township. Colone Traynham refuses to be interviewed, bu he will proceed to Columbia and repor directly to Governor Richardson to morrow. Captain Irby, however, is un der no obligation to report officially, ani has very kindly furnished me such in formation as he had. There is no doubt that some of th< negroes are organized, and that the3 often hold meetings between midnigh1 and daylight with the greatest precan tions at secrecy, sentinels being station ed at convenient distances from th< rendezvous. The various dire threate that have been so widely circulated car not be traced authoritatively to the or ganization. There will be no outbreali unless the negro leaders shall act rashly, as the whites preserve great caution. ] neglected to say that the meetings art held near the lines of Laurens and Greenville counties, on the Greenville side, The organizations are known as the "Co-operative Workers of America,' and are the offspring of the Hoover in fluence, and many believe they are foi the purpose of extorting money from the ignorant negroes. It costs each membei one dollar and fifty-five cents to take al] the degrees, and one dollar and fifty cents of that amount is forwarded tc Hickory, N. C. Several packages ol money have been sent from Simpson ville, Greenville county, and Woodruff, Spartanburg county, to Hickory, N. C. I have secured some of the literature of t'e "Co-operative Workers of Ameri ca, issued "by order of the executive board, H. F. Hoover, president; W. R. Killian, vice-president; John F. Ross, general secretary; C. L. Hawn, treasur er: J. A. Bolch, general auditor; Martin Nolder, general committee agent." Un der cover of a small pamphlet, signed as above indicated, I glean what purports to be the principles and objects of the organization. "It is the proper object of government to make laws that will secure the great est good to the greatest number, on the basis of absolute justice, with an aim to ward universal liberty. "For many years our government has been run to the advantage of a few, fox the benefit of a privileged class-the moneyed aristocracy, while the masses, the useful people, have hard burdens hard to bear." The objects of the organization are declared to be: "To elevate and dignify labor; to se cure to the laborer a just share of the products of his toil; to instruct him in a knowledge of his rights and his wrongs, and his duty to his country and his fel low-man; to use all rational means to better his social, moral and financial con dition." To accomplish these objects they de mand: "The establishment of bureaus of abor statistics; the abrogation of laws hat do not bear equally upon capital and labor; the adoption of measures providing for the health and safety of thse engaged in mining, &c.; the en atment of laws to compel corporations o pay their employees weekly in lawful money; the enactment of laws providing for arbitration between employer and mployees; the enactment of laws to prohibit the hiring out of convict labor and to work convicts on the public oads; that the importation of foreign :onvict labor be prohibited; that the poll tax be repealed; the establishment of a free co-operative school system; the abolition of child labor in mines, work shops and factories." They demand of Congress: "That the p)ublic lands, the heritage of the people, be reserved for actual settlers, &c.; the establishment of a national monetary system; that a graduated income tax be levied so that the greater the income the higher the rate of taxation; the enact ment of a graduated forfeiture Act to be levied on the estates of the rich at their death; that the government shall organ ize financial exchanges, safe deposits, ke.; that the government construct pos tal telegraph or telephone system, &c.; that United States Senators be elected by the people; that the Government es tbish and maintain a free ballot in every State of the Union; a radical re duction in the fees, salaries and per quisites of government oficials is de manded; that the hours of labor be re duced." Then they say: "We are opposed to war, and consider strikes as dangerous to society, hurtful to the participants and contrary to the interest of good government." They promise co-operation with the Knights of Labor and all similar organi zations. Colonel Traynb'am's. -port. After stating that, in obedience to the order of the Governor, he visited Cedatz Grove on the 18th instant and inter viewed several prominent men in regard to the matter, Colonel Traynham says: "There is no doubt as to the existence of an organization among the negroes in that county. The object of it I could not ascertain with certainty. The ne groes hold their meetings late at night, say from 12 to daylight. No person is admitted to them except members Or parties seeking to become members. While the object of the organization is not known, the opinion prevails that it is in the nature of the Knights of Labor. There is some excitement among the whites in the community, but I could not learn of actual threats coming fromx the negroes, although there are some rumors of threats heaving been made. Some of the whites are of opinion thaI the negroes are not working as well as they have been, and it is reported thai some of them have said that there would be a change of things about the 4th o: Jul. Under this state of facts I fee. l INVENTOR KEELY'S 1UTOR. e He Says it is Nearly Finished--Renewing e His Past Promises. t Inventor John W. Keely has just r issued a printed card of instructions to t those who may visit his workshop during s the hour set apart for visitors. In it he I says: "I am now engaged in what I term the process of 'graduating' or adjusting my engine, by which I mean securing a regulated and uniform specd or motion of it. This, when effecteU1, will finish my work, which will be known as the t -Sympathetic Etheric Motor,' and my new force will then be adapted to com I mercial purposes. Visitors will observe, t on entering my shop, my power-devel I oping structure, termed the 'Sympathet a ic Etheric Liberator,' which hangs sus 2 pended on the second floor in a tubular ring, and from which a wire of small s diameter, and made of alternate sections B of platinum and silver, extends to an at t tachment affixed to one end of the shaft of the engine which I am graduating." . He then goes on to explain the ad vantages of his "liberator," and to ex 1 patiate on the arduous duties he has e been compelled to perform to reach the e successful control of the motor on which r he is working. He repeats the promises he has made for the last ten years to ex I plain by diagrams, etc., which he shall - publish to the world, the wonderful s mechanism of his motor-when he has s completed his present process of adjust f ment. The Cotton movenient. From the New York Financial Chron icle's cotton article of last week the fol lowing figures are ga-hered relative to the movement of the staple during the . past week: The total receipts rtached 3,549 bales, against 4,032 bales last week, 7,599 bales the previous week, and 9,765 bales three weeks since; making the total receipts since the 1st of September, 1886, 5,183, 468 bales, against 5,232,830 bales for the same period of 1885-6, showing a de crease since September 1, 1886, of 49, 362 bales. The exports for the weekreach a total of 8,528 bales, of which 2,887 were to Great Britain, - to France, and 5,641 to the rest of the continent. The total visible E upply of cotton, as =ade up by cable and telegraph, for the week is as follows: Total of Great Britain stock 870,000 bales, total of continental stocks 392,600 bales-making a total of European stocks of 1,262,600 bales. The total visible supply for the world is 1,993,970 bales; of this number 1,246,370 are American and 747,600 East Indian, etc. The imports into continental ports during the week were 25,000 bales. These figures indicate a decrease in the cotton in sight of 70,917 bales as com pared with the same date of 1886, and a decrease of 3,300 bales as compared with the corresponding date of 1885. The receipts at interior towns for the week were 2,421 bales. Old interior stocks have decreased 4,661 bales, and were 62,164 bales less than at the same period last year. The receipts from the plantations, being the actual movement, not includ ing the overland receipts nor Southern consumption, of cotton that reached tiLe market through the outports for the week were 3,549 bales. The total re ceipts since the 1st September are 5,181, 506 bales. Cotton in sight 6,309,293 bales, being a decrease, as compared with last year, of 110,012 bales. Mr. Ellison's cotton figures, brought down 'to 1st June, give the taking by spinners of Great Britain 2,514,000 bales and the continent 2,627,000 bales, a total of 5,141,000 bales, against the total of previous year of 4,558,000 bales. The average weight ot deliveries in Great Britain is 440 pounds, against 454 pounds during the same time last year. Conti nental deliveries average 436 pounds, against 447 poundr last year. In reviewing the speculation in futures during the past week, the Chronicle says: The speculation in cotton for future delivery at this market has been fairly active for the week under review, but the course of prices has continued quite unsettled, besides again showing some irregularity as between the current and the next crops. A feature has been the: weakening of the speculative confidence in September deliveries, which was at one time very strong. Thus on Satur Sday there was an advance for every -month except September and October. SOn Monday a general decline took place in the latter dealings, due in a measure to sympathy with the coffee market, with jwhich many members of our Cotton Ex Schange hold close relations. On Tues t day a steadier opening was followed by a fresh decline, and then a partial recov ery. W'ednesday the market was active, but closed slightly easier. On Thursday a better report from Liverpool and im proved tone and values in other specula tive circles gave renewed apirit to the a speculation for the rise in cotton. Fri 2 day there was a sharp decline, with the a close at about the lowest figures, due 3 again, it was almost uniformly admitted, 3 to sympathy with the decline in coffee. Cotton on the spot has been quieter. Y The purchases for Russia embraced 2,000 e bales additional tak ,' on Friday after S'Change. making 9 0"' bales in all; after l which there was a fair demand for home e consumption. tTiuE PIIuLAurruH Turns wants to Sknow, if the proposition to return the sbattle flags to the States by whosei esoldiers they were carried raisect such ani outcry, what will be the effect of the s proposition now made by the soldiers of the Philadelphia Brigade to return to the veterans of Pickett's D~ivision thel flags captured from them at Gettysburg? Wha will General Fairchild and the other excitable patriots have to say to this? Will they declare that the soldiers who stood at the stone wall on that criti cal 3d of July when the course of history was decided, are now no better than "rebels" and "cowards," and the like? IOr will they not be forced to acknow ledge that the real soldiers, the men who did the fighting, believe that the war is over and the Union restored, and that if anybody should be called hard names, it is the "demagogues who will not let us have peace?' Let your talk be. alay adptearcfuly to timec and place. Don't prate abouti is homeopathy to a doctor. or the blessings of re celibacy to a young lady engaged to be unable to make any definite recommen dation and submit the whole matter to your better judgment." Altogether a False Alarm. CoLmiA, June 21.-In accordance with instructions from the home office, I went to Laurens yesterday to investi gate the rumors which have been so wildly circulated as to an uprising of colored farm laborers, and I came back to-day satisfied that nine-tenths of the reports have been without justification. The negroes have been tricked by Hoover and men of his stamp into en tering a labor association, which is use less to them and which they do not un derstand. Hoover holds the ices and they hold the meetings. They have a blind idea that joining such an organiza tion will help them financially. If, as is reported, not 2 per cent. of the negroes in that section work for wages, it is im possible to see what good a strike would do them. They contract to cultivate the crops for a share, and as the crop is al most laid by now a violation of these' contracts would simply save money to the farmers. As to the talk of insurrection the peo ple in the town of Laurens have no faith in it. It is impossible to trace the rumors to this effect to any authentic source; There is less uneasiness and concern in the town of Laurens on this subject than there is in Charleston or Columbia. All work is going on quietly in the section alleged to be threatened and the concurrent opinion of every one I spoke to in Laurens was that nothing could be ascertained or seen by going thus far. The section where the labor organiza tions exist is near the Greenville ai2 Spartanburg lines. The whites are in the majority. There is no county in the State where the negroes have been longer and more completely within the control of the whites than in Laurens. An insurrection would simply mean their own obliteration. Besides this, there is no issue which could so excite them as, to make them desperate. There is no! conflict of wages, such as led to the rice field strikes of 1876. They have the prospect of gathering the finest crops they have had for a decade. Their fu ture is full of hope for material success. The sum of the whole matter is that the negroes have been kept so complete ly under control in Laurens county that organization of any kind is unusual to them, and the fact that have now or ganized for an undefined agrarian pur pose is enough to make some foolish or unreasonable people imagine vain things. The people of the town of Laurens are infinitely more concerned in the build ing of their cotton factory than in this thing, which is a sensation to those at great distances from the scene of the re ported trouble. Your Laurens correspondent has for warded so full an account that it is un necessary for me to say more than this. Colonel Traynham, of the Governor's staff, came down to-day with me from Laurens. He refused to make any state ment for publication, but intimated that I had about heard all the facts from Captain Irby. My talk with Captain Irby assisted me in forming the conclu sion set forth above. Colonel Traynham made a brief verbal report to the Governor this evening and went to bed. His Ex cellency could not be found at home, nor would he be seen for a moment at the meeting of the trustees of the Uni versity, which he is attending and which will last for hours yet, but it may be confidently assumed to-night that Col. Traynham's conclusion agrees substan tially with those of Captain Irby, and that neither he nor the Governor is alarmed at the prospect. A11 (uiet in Spartanbu'rg. SPARiTANBURG, JIune 21.-Further in vestigation to-day strengthens me in my opinion that the negroes of this county do not contemplate a strike, or any vio lence. They are not fools enough to walt until their crops are nearly finished with the finest prospects they have had for years, to begin a revolution that would daage them in every possible way. JOHN SHEIDIAN, HIS MOUTH. Talk With a Cincinnati Newspaper--Out lining 1? is Presidential Canipaign. (From the Cincinnati Enquirer.) "I notice that your brother, the gen eral, has written an interesting letter to his comrades of the Grand Army at St. Louis," Isaid. "Yes, and don't you know I like that letter a great dealV" "Then you approve of the sentiments it expresses?" "Most certainly, and all thoughtful men will take the same view of the sub ject when they reflect calmly upon it. The incumbent of the Presidential office' is entitled to the respect of the people, unkss he is guilty of some offense against public morality and the public interests. Men may very properly differ with those in authority as to political views and measures of public policy, but it will not do to carry these differences of opinion to the point of treating a President with discourtesy and disre spect, simply because there may be men1 in a public assemblage or on a public occasion who differ with him politically, or upon the advisability or non-advisa bility of measures of public policy. He is first entitled to that courtesy that is due to every good and law abiding citi-, zen on Ell occasions, and second to that respect which belongs, under the genius of our institutions, to the position of chief magistrate of a great, a prosp~erous, an educated a civilized people." I"Do you hold to the opinion that if the Force bill had passed Congress the alleged suppression of the ballot in the South would have been prevented?" "That is something that io man can tell. We can form no adequate idea of what the result might have been. But I have very serious doubts ab~out the feasibility of the general government protecting individual rights or prevent ing individual wrongs where thte local government is not willing to interfere in behalf of the citizens. Free speech, free ballot, and the exercise of the gen-I eral rights of citizenship are not what may be termed constitutional rights, but inherent rights, and if they are denied in a comnunity, the general govern ment can not interfere, unless the State authorities invoke that interference. The failure of the-State to call upon tue national government debars it from in terfering in behalf of those who are wronged."' "Wil you plase illustrate that idea. Senator?" "Let us suppose a case here in Rich mond county. Suppose, for instancE that a majority of our people shoul, combine together to deprive the Qual ers, or the Catholics, or any other re ligious sect or denomination, of th right to worship occording to their re ligious tenets and forms; denied then the freedom of spech and the right o assembling, and the State took no ac tion, the general government would havi no right to interfere and protect then in their rights." "But would it not be the duty of thi State to protect them?" "Undoubtedly. But suppose th< State should not discharge that duty No appeal would lie to the general gov ernment. It could not interfere unles the matter should rise to the height of : rebellion against the laws of the Unitei States or an invasion of its territory fo: a hostile purpose. A community ma be in rebellion against the laws of State, but the general government car not interfere to crush out that rebellior unless the State government invokes iti aid and assistance." "How, then, would you remove the wrongs which you claim exist in por tions of the South, and how would yot prevent the suppression of the ballot, which you claim is suppressed?" "I would propose a remedy, but I doubt whether the Republican part; would come up to it." "What is that, Senator?" "I would have Congress enact a lar fixing the time, manner and circum stances of electing members of Con, gress, defining and providing for th< rights of every citizen at such an elec tion, and putting it wholly with the gov ernment for the conduct and regulatior of Congressional elections. In othei words, the entire supervision of the elec tion of members of Congress should b with the United States government." "But is there any warrant for that im the constitution?" "Clearly; that principle has been de cided by the courts on several occasions, and the Supreme Court has laid dowi the doctrine unequi;vocaily, and its de cisions are in the line of its establish ment. With such a statute enforced, there could be no abridgement of the elective franchise, no sappression of bal lots in elections concerning the interestz of government. Then, if communities, or ever States, should attempt to de prive citizens of their rights of franchise, the government could lawfully interfere, put an end to it and rehabilitate every citizen. With the right of every citizeb to cast his vote and have it counted fox members of Congess aad electors for President clearly established and en forced, the same right at-State and local elections would soon force itself, al though there would be no government interfererce." "Then you would have the same law apply in the choice of Presidential elec tors that applied in the election of mem bers of Congress?" "Certainly, an-d why no?" "Du you think, Senator, that Congress called in extraordinary session?' "That is hard to tell, but 1 should not be surprised. It is true that if the President should call an extra session of Congress it would be a reflection upon himself, but the financial condition of the country demands an early assem bling of Congress." "How would Congress improve the financial situation?" "By reducing taxation and preventing the accumulation of an unnecessary sur plus in the treasury. if we go at the rate of accumulating over $100,000,000 aniually of useless and unnecessary revenue, and locking it up in the treasu ry, all our industrial aznd commercial in terests will be jeopardized." "But how can taxation be reduced?' "By a revision of the tariff and modi. fication of the internal revenue laws." "Will there be a revision and modifi cation of the tariff laws?" "There will doubtless be a reduction on numerous items." "Where do you think the reduction should be applied?" "I think that there should be a de cided reduction in the tariff on sugar, and then a bounty should be paid on American sugar sufficiently generous tc secure the production of all the sugar in the United States that our p~eople may consume. We have the best soil in the world for the sugar beet and sorghum cane, covering almost limitless areas, and we have a larger area adlapted to the cultivation of West India cane as in Louisiana. We ought to produce all the sugar we consume, and we may readily do so by a judicious tariff and liberal bounties to producers." Money M~ade in Cotree. Among the people in Wall street who do not put on- mourning over the breaki in the orices of coffee in Ne/ Tork and in wheat in Chicaigo are the followers of Henry Clews .' Co. Mr. Clews said re~ cently that his firm had paid out to cus toxaers over JO0,00.0 in profits on coffee dieais, and that the dieclixje iu wheat had male a diifrence of over s1,500,000 in the credits of his alleie. "W do a strictly commnissionl business," said Mr. Ciens; "bu we do not propose to allow om eustomners to buy or sell through this house unless in our judgment they wiii realize returns for the money they wil invest. A week or ten days ago the re';esentatives of onec of tL .cal agen eics caune to me and said he had been deiuted to get the opinion of the princi pal brokers of the street upon the situa tion and prospects. I told him I was a bear on everything, and told him why I ibelieved stocks would go lower, and why the wheat corner and the coffee corner had reached about the limit. He~ iaughed and said I was alone, for all the mn he had scen believed in higher prices all around. I have not seen him since. but I feel much liue laughing my. self to-day. It is not luck; it is the re. sult of close study of the situation. History repeats itself hero as well as alsewhiere. It has de- .s o now; it will lso hereafter andI we have not seen~ the fou-st prices yet. Wheat will go mu ich lower, for the Chicago comier peo ple are knocked out for -:t least a year to zome." iTVrow theC Powder OJveriardI. Were thrilling words, spoken at a time of great danger. The lives of all on the vessel depended upon prompt action. Your life may be blessed and prolonged by the prompt use of Dr. Harter's Iron Tnic for that blood trouble. * LONDON'S NEWEST LION. BUFFALO BILL'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY FOR PATRONS OF THE WILD WEST. t A Sample of the Yarns He is Telling His 1 Royal Friends--How He Got His Title f Other Facts in the Career of Mr. Cody. I was born in February, 1842, in the State of Iowa. I need not go into detail respecting my family, and can dismiss my youth briefly by saying that when I was not on a horse I was just being thrown off one. I soon became a pretty smart rider, and my practice with a gun was pretty good, too. I was 12 years when I killed my first Indian. It hap pened rather sudden. I was waiting out by the river, near Fort Kearney, one night about 10 o'clock. My companions had got on ahead somehow, and I was 3 quite alone, when looking up toward the bluff bordering the river I saw, illumi nated by the moon, the head and shoul ders of a live Indian, watching me with evidens, interest. Now I had heard many stories of the doings of the red men, and had also been inculcated with a thorough distrust of their ways; so, quickly coming to a conclusion as to what 1 shoutd do, I brought my gun to my shoulder, and aiming at the head, fired. The report sounded louder than usual in the silence of the night, for it was past 10 o'clock, and was followed by a war whoop such as could only be built up by an Indian, and the next instant over six feet of dead Indian came down splash into the river. Soon after this I went to business. I took to the plains, and in the employ of Messrs. Russell and Simpson, soon learned the ins and outs of the wild life led with horses and cattle-driving teams, riding express ponies, and getting to know the land. Among other things, I somehow found out how to hunt buffalo, a sport second to Lone, if you know how. I shall never forget the faces of five officers I met on the prairie once, now many years ago. They were after a herd of buffalo. So was L We ex changed views. I gave them my ideas, they gave me their sympathy. "You surely don't expect to catch buffalo with that Gothic steed," said they. "I am going to try," I said. "You'll never do it, man alive," said the captain. "It wants a fast horse to overtake buffalo." "Does it?" I responded. "Yes, but you can come with us, if you like." And I did like. There were eleven buffalos in the herd, and while the officers rode straight at them, I headed the leaders and got up to them with ease. The horse which my companion had been chaffing was the famous Brig ham, who knew as much about the sport as I did; he speedily did his part of the business. A few jumps brought us up to the herd. Baising "Lucretia Borgia," my trusty weapoL, I aimed at the first animal, tired and brought him down, Brigham, like the ideal animal that he was, carrying me rapidly up to the next brute, not ten feet away; and, when I had dropped him, bounded on to the, next, and so on, until I had slain the, whole eleven animals, and then my horse stopped. I dismounted to regard my work with a feeling of satisfaction. Those officers rode up shortly, and I shall nevc- forget their expression as they surveyed the work of five minutes. lying around. My horse Brigham was an excepio ally intelligent brute. He took the keenest delight in sport, and invariably ftook pains to aid me in getting game. Allihe expected of me was to do the shooting. The rest was his ,work. He would always stop if the buffalo did not fall at the at the first shot, so as to give me asecond chance; but if I did not bring him down then he would go on disgusted. It was in 1867 that the Kansas Pacific track was in the buffalo country, and the company was employing over twelve hundred men in the making of the road. The Indians were very troublesome, and it was not always easy to get sufficient supplies of fresh meat for the men. It was about this time that Messrs. God dard, the contractors to the constructors, made me a handsome ofier, provided I would undertake to hunt for them. They required twelve buffalos per diem. The work was somewhat dangerous, owing to the Indians, but the terms were hand some-$500 per month. I took the offer, and in less than eighteen months, dur ing which time my engagement lasted, I killed 4,280 buffalos single-handed, and had many scrimmages with the In ians, and hairbreadth escapes. It was during this period of my career that I had my celebrated buffalo killing match. with iU-Comstock, the noted scout,. then at I rt Wallace. The terms were settled as follows: We were to hunt one day of eight hours, from 8a. m. to 4 p. m. The stakes were $500 a side, and the man who killed the most buffalo was to be declared the winner. The contest took place twenty miles east from Sheri dan, and many thousand people came from all parts to see the sport. We were fortunate in finding animals, and had plenty of sport. We made three runs each, and I killed sixty-nine buffalos, my rival being content with forty-six.. Not a bad day's work, a day which is t.n historical one for me, inasmuch as tdnce then I have invariably been referred to, in all parts of the civilized world a Budahlo Bill. Walking down Broadway is very pleas ant when. you feel well, and T-- K nver jelt better than when his ?riend asked him how he got ovcrjhat severe cough of his so speedily. "Ah',my boy," said T-, -*G. 31. D. did it'." And his friend won deron what G. M1. D). meant. Hec knew it did not mean a Good Many Doctors, for 'r- K--had tried a dozen in vain. "[ have i:' said he, jgst hitting the nail on t.ie hea~d, "you mean D~r. Pierce's 'Golden DIedical Diseovery,' or Gold Medal De served as my friend J- S--- always dbs it." Sod by druggists. The ideal of the American is not yet right. Our almighty preat man is the al mighty smart man. We need to teach morahty as much as Greek and Latin. The most dangerous man is the smart man