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VOL XLI ^~ ^ ^ WINNSBORO, C.^ WEDN1<:SI)AY. AUGUST 10. 1887^ ^ - ' .NO. 2.. | THE 1XTER-STATE ENCAMPMENT. a gi:kat gathering >kai: he City or si'Ai:tax!jui:g ; V. t'other at Kir->t Inauspicious? bat j ^ :?j-.!i:es :it La*t~T!ie Iraogu- , cf ; t::io)iics-A i'artinl j.ist ?>f the Ex- | Other of iiitefc.-t. The Ir;ter-State Farmers' Summer En- j campnieiit was duly inaugurated at i ^ Spartanburg on Tuesday, the 2nd inst. j The bad weather naturally diminished j ' the crowd at lirst in attendance, but when the hour for opening arrived there was a goodly crow-.! in the pavilion provided for their accommodation. At 12 o'clock the Hon. John Vv. "Wofford called the meeting to order, j The stage was occupied by the following j i. named gentlemen: Is. F. Walker, 01! Spartanburg, the Kev. I!. H. Ileid, the { Hon. J. Vv. Vvoiibrd, Dr. (J. E.Fleming, ; Col. A. P. Butler, the Eon. K. S. Bedon, of Colleton, T. J. Moore, of Spartanburg, the lion. 1). 11 Duncan, of Spartanburg, 2>Ir. ?. L. Koehe, Prof. i). A. DuPro, J. H. Montgomery, B. F. Montr^omery, one aged Jarmc-r iron: Texas, and other distinguished citizens. Owing to some error Bishop Duncan, who had been selected to deliver the. opening prayer, did not arrive until after t)ip. rnno- of the 7>roC?CdinfiS. The prayer was, therefore, oilereii up by : the llev. It. H. Keid, of lieidville. It is estimated that the audience num ' bered not less than two thousand persons, among 'whom were a very lurg-j contingent of ladies, chitiiy from Spartanburg. Upon motion of 2>Ir. John V*\ \Yoffbrd, w ho stated that tht re was no likelihood of the presence of the commissioners from the four other States, Cap:. X. F. ? T. T 1 iT Waliicr was caneo zo uie * ? In assuming the chair Capt. Walker delivered a short and sieving address, in I which he pledged himself to further in every possible way the objects of the Eucampmc-nt. He also introduced the Hon. D. li. Duncau, v.ho had been choien to-deliver vhe address of welcome. 31r. Duncan addressed the meeting as ? follows: ' ' THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS. Mr. Chairman arid Gentlemen: I have! tbc honor, iu tlic name of ail citizens of ! Spartanburg county, to bid you a warm j welcome to this Encampment. We siziccr.-iy hope that the delibera-j lions and discussions which will occupy ; l the days of your sojourn here may be i inarmed by great go'od to all who pay- j pjR ticipate ami to all who witness your j Hk. labors. May your gathering be acoom-j ponied in its influence anci practical re-; BL suits with the largest amount of inteiiiH gent information and exposition in the : arts and wozk cf that great science which & joa represt nt. Upon this ail growth : m Always the largest contributor to the ; v R happiness of the people at heme, agri- ! 9f culture has made this, the greatest of re- ' HB publics, renoicni^LahruA/? > ? ?*r?7v?rrr?Cu'GC^s'to"the sustenance and comfort: Hp of the millions of other lands. If the pursuit of knowledge, the labors of the . workshop, the whirl of the factory HF * wheels, the busy industries and coinmer||r cial interests by land and sea, lag and ^ languish, it is only because the valleys arc not covered over with corn, because ; U ei'j is no fatness in thy pastures, be- \ Cc.~" he cattle do not rejoice upon the , .:d the earth fulls' to yield her in- ! V-j are the mors rejoiced cn this occa- : became of the evidence we lmve of i the awakening and awakened interest in ) your avocation, which now seems to be taking in importance precedence of all other questions. How shall the largest j intelligence and the most reliable ex 4^ perimental knowledge be invoked and j enforced in behalf of tending this gar-! | /-vf oct!-Vi rrlii/'h rlwivt'TCf! to thf* ! , VI VHJ.UU1 ? -? J first farmer of creation with, the com ^zii'2. to kec-p and -dress it ?a proposi tioii "not new, indeed' Older than all others, -and jet, strange to say, it has now . less of intelligence, pressing and push j; than any of those things which command | the time and talents o! men. i ( g- " "rVJule it is true that the agriculture of J' H| % fixieasi ^ ccantr. Is ^ondaciou on a j , HK scale unknown in ancient or in modern < * times, yet in these important depart- ; ments of knowledge we are singularly j deficient. No other^ field holds out a , more inviting prospect to the diligent and the enterprising, a lik-wark wiiich j may fill the noblest ambition. There is < no closed door to the followers of this j art. As illustrated from the days of j ? Wo^nvriorr/vn nnwri ir> &'.?ocess i " -o-~ . Df the poor-farmer's boy of the Valley I of Virginia with his reaper, endowning | ( seminaries, orphans' homes and univer- J sity professorship?, there is no temporal ; Interest oi humanity -which exceeds in ; importance that ox your pursuit and ail ' others it has outlived. "It survives ! Turk and Time and Goth." ' Upon it the merchant and mechanic, the bench t nd ( bar and the forum and camp depend. ! \ ' Xndepdj $5 h^o psen said, r'Th? necessi- ' ty of this art is evident, since tiiis can 1 live without all otix-rs, and no one other without this. The principles of it being the principles of all nature, eartb, tj'aier, air and the sun and the sea, it!: comprehend* of philosophy more than ] profession, czi or Science hi the ' ^?Jd ?e?fdes/' it - jbefc xae QsOljyoiir attention lo what an : able essayist wrote t>vo hundred years iff ago. He said: "Who is there among onr gentry thit do?s not entt"tain a dancing-master foi his chiiiren ; j soon I as thej" are able to vraik, but did ever f any father provide a tutor for his son to instruct liim betimes hi the nature iai that laud he intend j-io. - - tkt to blare Lira?'"' THai iw a ctiper-Iuity and thus a great defect in our manner of education, and therefore I uouid wish W ^ (but cannot in these times much hope to see it) that one college in each universiY ty """ere erected and appropriated to this <* study, as well as they arc to medieine iiiid ibo civil lav. There would be no iie.;d cf niakiTjj a body ot scholars and feilov.-s with certain endowments. It would putlice, if after the manner of stalls in Oxford, there were only four 1& professors constituted to teach these BBB four park: First, ilotion and all things icl&t&g SO :t. r-econo:. jrusiuxajjc. iypjk !?hird.' GiirJcts, orchards: yiney ards and HP woods, fourth. Ail parts of rural gp economy, which would contain tie gov& eminent of bees; swine, poultry, decoy i j f ' ?*v,i'r with the suortd of birds, <tc., tOfcv.? * 3 ^ > the field and domestic conservation -auu | uses of all that is brought in by Indus- j ^ try abroad. The business of these pro- j fessors should not be us is commonly j practical in other arts, to read pompous i and superficial lectures out cf Virgil's i Georgies, Pliny and Yaro, but to in- j s:mv. their pupils in the whole methou j "* -J 1L.'^ 3 ? i i 2.11a C'>" rse ox txiis stuu\, uu uuc wii- j f v- accession of scholars upon a| ' .tc taxation for their diet, lodging jSpr , ;niing would be a sufficient conW : revenue for the maintenance of the jzoa>e and professors, wiia should be I k i ! men not clevorer for the ostent voxi of ' critical literature, but for solid and experimental knowledge o: the things they ; le-ch."' "o those thoughts, two hundred and ilrrty 3 cars old, little of value hits been ! added on the part of those who have] essavtu io vrrito aad speak much upon j this all important marU-r. The louder ! is th'it so much has been coneieved, so j nu:c iius ueeu aciuovcu. The first agricultural society incorporated in America was that established in omits Carolina. in ITS', called "The Society foe the Promotion of Agriculture, " stating that its oivjvct'; i;:?.-!uded the institution of a farm for experraans in agriculture raid the importation and iisfcrjiutiov. of loieign protractions suitcd to the climate of tiio Siute. lie* who was first in the hearts of his country men, in almost his last utterances to -tr.vjn, with prophetic earnestness ur-.ed upon the founders and repre^entaii-.? Tr.rnrr ih;<3 orrpftf. matter of agricultural education as one of the fore-most demands of the times. The national interest and importance of his language is in proportion. As the nation advances in population and other ttirrairsstaiifies of mat.iritv. this truth, be comes more apparent and renders the cultivation of the soil mere and more an object of public patronage. Institutions for promoting it grow up supported by the public purse, and to wLat object can it be dedicated with greater propriety? This species of establishment contributes aoubly to the increase of improvement by .stimulating enterprise and cxperi ment, and by 'drawing to a common j centre the results everywhere of inui-1' viduul skill and observations and spread- j lag them thence over the whole nation. ! O - ,.1, iU.?. I LJApiTJL J.VJLICC JLiUtli cUf.v ?*1<J very che&p instruments of immense nationui benefit. A few years afterwards the founder and great apostle ox the Democracy, in his distinguished inaugural, speaking of good government, placed in the circle of our felicities the encouragement of agriculture and commerce as its handmaid, a well disciplined , militia, our best reliance in peace and for the fir*>t moments of war, and v.e welcome them to-day as one of the j JeHVrsonian platform planks in rccogni- j tion of the fact that the tillers of the ! t - 1 J5-J*.?3 T- ... 1 >ou urc reauy, as its ue;oiu:ers, icu , needed to bccorae the heroes ox the lield and camp. I not trespass further upon your cime, upon raorc interesting exercises. VJiovv me to repeat the cordial salutations of the committee and people whom I represent. Desiring to do ail in their power to liil the days of your sojourn in , uur midst with the fullest esjoyment i ami t>roSt. vre feel Mire that in the i preparation of the second Encampment , t-xperienee will pliminaio very much of , what we are conscious are the imperfec tions and shortcomings of this, the first., j AX ESSAY ON 11EZS. ' The only other address delivered dur- , ing the day was thai: of Mr. T. J. Moore, ! of Spartauburg. "Bee cults re"' was the ; subject of his essay. Mr. Moore treated : [lis subject from a practical standpoint j , And in an eminently enttriainiag ma > ! tier. He illustrated Lis methods (f j juiiure bv his own patent hives and aoiabs. wL'Hili ol' ea^y construction, ind can be made at a very slight expense. Mr. Moore's address closed the speak- j tag of the day, upon which the meeting . i'jjourned. VSEUIKG THE ATiUACTIONS. ; A vf a>? a rl*i.> r?v ">ri>i LCi. iiaucvu ? ind 'entertained themselves by visiting ,1 the stores of the merchants on the ' grounds, the State exhibit and the art c jaliery on the second i'ioor of the J pavilion. The Bute exhibit was com- j plete in all its details, containing speci- ' mens of everything produced or raised ? in the State, - It was filled with visitors. ' The art gallery contains exhibits of paiiitiag and crayon work, sculpture, fsnrw n<w:lfi and nniltmsr. The creater * part of the work in painting is by Miss Alicc Duncan and Mrs. Gwyun, of Spar tanburg. There is also a fine display of ? pastelles by Miss Mildred Scrii'Cr,- J. I'ni02. Among the Contributors are 1 ^liss Carrie Duncan, Miss Eiiie Lec, and Miss Mildred Thompson. There is also some creditable work in sculpture by Mr. O. A. Waiden, of this county. , The art gallery also contains exhibits i ' A organs and pianos by Mr. Tv.itty. I( Fhe vrost end is *:iiie<3 with machinery 1< j^hibxts from Wilson k Itykar, of Abbe- J i riile; C. P. Poppenheim, of Ch-rlestou, j ; ind i>. W. Moore, of this city. Among ' the most energetic exhibitors on the grounds is Mr. George McMaster, of , M-jMaster & Gitbes, of Columbia, who 1 iiavc a large display of agricultural ma- [ 3hiiiery, such as Van Winkle gins, Bar- \ bonr cotton seed crushers, Deering " naowers. hay rakes, &c. '2i?Z M1LXTAJtil vU->TiTiiLN?. ^ Owicg to the delay of the train on the ( Spartanburg, Union and Columbia and i the Air Line, only the following eompa- ] then arrived the first day: The Sumter t Guards, 27 men, (Japt. Simeon Hyde; 2 the Manning Guards, 27 mtD, Capt. A. Levy; the Fort Motte Guards, 23 men, Cap?. B. 31. Clafy; the Edisto Eiiles, of Orangeburg, 20 men, Capt. O. 2>L Bants- { Ler, end $hg ijetyberry tUwes, To men, * Capt. 0. -L. Sehumpert. The Morgan 1 Rides, of Spartanburg, Capt. E. Baeon, alhUt in A along tlic distinguished officers pros- 1 ent were Adjt. Gen. Bonharr, Brig. Gey. ] E. N. Eichbourg, Col. H. L. Faney, '1 Col. W. C. 2IcGc.w53, c1 viae governor's I ] staiT, Cant. X If. Per?in; of Abbeville, ' aide-de-camp to Gen. Hiclibourg, and ' Col. Geo. Iv. Wright, oi Columbia. There are one hundred and twenty- ' four tents now on the grounds. The^e }: wera secured by Gen. i>onnai?. rrom the |" wsr department, and although shipped <: from Philadelphia only a few days ago | arrived in good time. Gen. Uonham ' says that Col. Luddingtcn. through i wiicm the te.its were obtained, adt-ed with commendable promptness in respouse to telegraphic requisitions upon him, Gen. Richbourg issued special orders to company captains, instructing them C- -3 J frv,. to assume uuillllulllu *uiu ivi | guard duty. Aaout ttio tJatbermg. A 3 the weather clearcd up, the crowd incr-: ased in size, so that on the second daj of the Encampment the estimated number present was over 0,000. X orth Carolina was well represented, there bein^ present farmers from Polk, tLenderson and liutliertorcl counties. Most of these ;-re t-no^mped pp,t in the groves that surround the "Farmers' City. They brought with them all their domestic impedimenta and prepared for a -i. i inr^tinite length, if necessarv. v* - * There was also a large increase in tne attendance from all parts of this State, and especially rrom Charleston and the low-country, there being prominent and representative planters from all the sea islands, Berkeley, Barnwell, Hampton and Colleton counties. There was a big crash under the pavilion when the usual morning meeting was called to order. Ail the seats were occupied, and the crowd overflowed in all ' ' * 1 -3 1L ~ 1,* 22.^ u r iU ~ i directions ueyoiiu me .uLLiius ui uue i i building. The Hon. J. M. Walker pre-1 j sided over tlio esvarcises, winch wove j | opened 'with prayer by the Kev. J. TJ. ! | tfeid. Among the distinguished guests i ;it the Encampment, other than those j ! previously noted, were the Hon. J. J. ! | Hemphill and Superintendent of Education J. H. Kice, who were invited to seats upon the stage. THE SPEECHES. x ae nrst au.iress at me morning ses- j sion was delivered by State Chemist I Philip E. Cbazel on the subject generally ot' the official inspection of fertilizers ?the principles which underlie it and the practical difficulties which stand in the way of a recognition of its value by the farmer. The second address was delivered by Col. A. P. Butler, State Commissioner of Agriculture, who prefaced his remarks by congratulating the Grange upon the success oi "this great meeting-" lie said that it had probably surpassed in uumbers and in work of practical value to planters any similar gathering that has ever been liciti in South (Jaroiin. lie considered the present sueccss of the Encampment the most convincing proof of its permanence as an institution. Coi. Bauer's address was devoted to the discussion of the bars to the progress of the farmer. Ke denied that tne farmers of the Shite are being impoverished by anything emanating from the executive, legislative, or judicial branches of the | State Government, and that if there | were anything that it could be promptly I removed. Summing up, Col. Butler suggested as remedies for present uitlicuiti&s the diversity of crops, the practice of rigid economy, the improvement of the tenant system, more independence of factors and merchants, intelligent use of commercial fertilizers, improved methods of agriculture, and the use of improved implements. The next address was that of the Hon. D.P. Duncan, who regretted the absence of Col. Lipscomb, who was, as he said, the originator of and prime mover in the enterprise. President Duncan's speech was devoted principally to a discussion of the best methods of educating .y.iuuvio iiuu uuuuieu. J i was a i carefully prepared essay, of which it I would be impossible to give in a para-! graph or two an intelligent idea. After the above address closed there j was a stock show, and the State agricultural exhibit occupied the attention of i1 the visitors until the afternoon session, j1 Governor Richardson attended the j < meeting and was of course called upon tor a speech. He was introduced j Wirtitnrslv 1>V Mr. X 7<\ Wnllr^r liivm i which Govt-T' or Kichardson responded, i congratulating tlie State Grange upon the splendid attendance and expressing : the hope that with each returning En- ! 2&mpment its proportions would in- j urease, and that the farmers, of whom he < was proud to be one, would receive in ? the coming years the full benefits of the ' L-ntc rpri se. [ Applause. ] < The Hon. J. J. Hemphill, in response .o a call, delivered a humorous and iaking little speech, which was repeated- 1 j cheered and applauded. < Secretary Ludwig, of the North Care /.mi State Grange, addressed the meeting on the subject of what the North ( Jarolina State Grange was doing. J OTHER FEATURES. J i The feature of the outdoor sports on j Wednesday was the opening game of the jasc ball tournament between the c Jrangeburgs and the Spartans. The jame was wit: essed by about four hundred persons, all of whom were com:'ortably seated on the grand stand; The 'oliowing were the battevies: Orangeburg, Kittrel, pitcher; Lightfoct. catch- ^ :v. Spartanburg, Thompson and Smith, pitchers; Hammett, catcher. lutireil struck cut eight men, Smith four, rhompson three. The game resulted in 1 i victory for Orangeburg by a score of s ) to 7. Official scorer, Ivohn. Umpire, a Jennings. 1 The result of the glass ball tourna- nent was in favor of the Newberry team, a Lhe scores and the competing clubs are ?. is follows: Newberrv, 33: Walterboro, I * 2; Glenn ^prinjs, 30; Spirtanourg No. i s *2u: Spartanburg No. 2, 29: The three u arizes were: Newberry, SOU; Walterboro, < >30; Glenn Springs, .?20. 1 THE MILITARY DRILL. The lirst brigade drill was commanded c jy Gen. Biehbourg, Capt. S- E-'icon t >lScer of th-3 day. " '" ' ; The- fpllewins companies participated: 1 iumter Guards, Bdisto Bifles, Fort t Vlotse Guards, Greenville Guards, Butler C iuards, the Morgan BiHe%and Newberry r Liifles. " s; The parade was witnessed by a very j arge concourse, and was performed in a c nanner-creditable to the military of this a State. An inspection of the Morgan c titles was held by Adjt. Gen. Bonhsm. t ^ xnonj the exhibits oi machinery ] srhieh were placed in position Wednes- x. lay were the Eagle Screw baling press a >f F. \V. Wagener ?fc Co., Charleston, a 3. C.; Wood's harvesting machinery, of J tlavsick Falls, X. Y.. and the exhibit of t he piedmont wagon factory, of JEicko- a 7.S.C. - ' 1 * |2 LADIES IN* rNXFOBii. A very interesting feature of ihs !t;n-J .jam^msn* tt&w tiriiiess ana nag ami :t luc court-house, given under tlie uispiccs of the Helen Chalmers Literary a Association. The court room was a i scene of brilliant decoration. The booths 'J ;vere presided over by young ladies in \ rarious national costumes. Th? Jjfczia- iince vt" rr.rac'^ai'i;/ l&tge, as'-ihe affair I c *&s gxveif 'for the benefit, of spartan-! t yarg's lavorlias, the Morgan Rifles. The j ' lag""drill was executed by the following 1 foung ladies as sponsors for the com- c panies: Sumter Guards. Miss r.n:e:;?hie [ s y.einiteh- ITcrt kioite Guard's, Miss ^ tier'aa Allen; Morgan Kif.es, Miss Nellie j: Li ford; Jiutlor Guards, Miss Fannie Blake; Greenville Guards, Miss H. Era- erson; Manning Gnaids. Miss Oiaiice Colton; iidiclo Ki^es, Miss "Mildlud ' Thompson; Laaiehs Guards, Miss Carrie ? McMakin; Newberry i]ii'es, Mis- I id en ! McMakin; ^Richland Volunteers, Miss J Becsie Meaccj North Carolina troops, * Mits Sady Hardy: South Carolina, Miss 1 Eelen Russell; Georgia, Miss E. B. 1 Chase. The ilag eompanv w*>.? "nde. ecr-imandof Cr.rjt. ~r. tne'uniform } bci^g a blue sinrt and bcdv with white 5 trimmings, and. black ieit hats with < black plumes. The evolutions oi their gal'ant military sisters were largely chc.'red by the various companies present. | IC is estimated with every show oi rea- [s son" that fully 10.000 people passed through tije streets of the'junkers* City en riiur^d^y. Certainly there appears 1 to he no limit to the energy displayed by tlic farming classes in the endeavor to at ieast visit the Encampment, TiiCIC ' a;e instaaces of mAn, women and chil- ; dren who walked from fifteen to twenty ' miles during the night to rcach the ci*y. ( Taking the Lncamp'aent ail in all, it is i + ? ? ? ?1 - ? C? amIU f *rs -ha! iwo o r\ i somexnmg novel xu ouulu \_<aiv.LLuu., ?-<.>.<. some of the old men say that it has been the first time in this State that a successful effort has been made to p.ttyaot *nd hold together for such a length of time so many thousands of the farming class. There is, indeed, no telling how long the multitudes will remain in camp, for they have come well provided for any emergency. The woods around the city are uiive with men, women and children, | tome of them having found acc';inmoda-tions in the wagons and others sleeping out under the open sky, which for the past two days has been particularly favorable. THE LAST DAYS. As to the character of the crowd it is possibly the most raotlev that has ever come together in South Carolina. All classes are represented and the visitor can see almost, everybody from the Governor of the State to the bootblack from the neighboring rival city. The plain country girl and the belles, of Gafihey City, Laurens, Union, Spartanburg, Greenville and other centres of fashion are to be found indiscriminately mixed in the crush at the art gallery, or iu the pavilion, or in the State building vooiris, or in the inter State booth of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, where iced waters and tracts are dispensed with equal liberality. This booth, by the way, is one of the prettiest ct"VnAtn v. -e /"\n rrrr.iir\ilo otw! n*oc fivnnt-_ ! uiiuviui'.'j tiiv ^i.a-.io ituo uvv/i ed under tlie direction of ??Irs. W. K. Blake, i'ae president oi' the local union. The morning session began at 10 o'clock, President Duncan in the chair. This day had been devoted to the exercises of the State Agricultural and Mechanical Society. The president invited ail the fanners to visit the fair next fall. An instructive essay was read by Mr. John P. Townsend, the well known stock raiser and cotton planter of Edisto island. on the future of the sea islands. A great many of the points made were all .of a revelation to the up-country farmers. The next address was by Mr. E. T. otackhouse, of Marion, on experiments with the cotton "plant. The deduction being that the farmer who makes a living at home, and makes cotton u ~urplus crop, is generally solid and safe. Then came an interesting discussion of the question whether it pays the farmer to substitute cotton seed meal for his cotton seed as a fertilizer. Among the speakers were Chancellor Johnson, of Marion, Messrs. 2d. L. Donaldson, of uxeenvuie, iioiicviao.il, oi urangeourg, and W. Jennings, ol' Berkeley, who maintained the negative 0: the question. The affirmative was unsuccessfully argued L>y Mr. Peterkin, of Orangeburg. This inauguration of gs.ii'>ral debate has been looked upon by the promoters jf the enterprise here as the beginning jf the practical school work and education jf the farmer, and will be developed with wonderful results at future c-ncampments. Col. W. D. Evans, of Marlboro, read a !>apc-r on tiic duty of the farmer as a citizen and as a legislator. Mr. D. Iv. Xorris, of Anderson, discussed in a very ibie paper the necessity oi diversified igriculture. Experiments with the corn plant, by Mr. li. P. Perry, of Greenville, contained many suggestive points and Drought about another experience meet.:ig, the debaters being Capt. C. Petty, jf Spartanburg, Messrs. C. Dixon and 1. McBee, of Greenville, C. Turner, of Spartanburg, and li. T. Hawley, of l)arington. The session closed with an excellent and humorous speech by Col. f. G. Mclvissick, of Union. Priday was "Governor's uay." The opening address being made by Gov. Richardson. Among the other addresses ;vas one o? tho'Suojecw ox sij^nal sorvieo n y is bearings on agriculture, by Capt. LI. Graham, of the U. S. Signal service. Camp was broken unci the military ;ompanies returned home Saturday. A Startling Prediction. T'.ro hundred Tears ago in China there vas just such a cr^zo about natural gas :s \?c have in this country to-day. (ias veils were sunk with as much vim and ngor as tac Celestials were capable of, jut owing to a gas explosion that killed :evtiv.l millions of people and tore up md d est rayed a large district of country, earing a large inland sea, known on the naps as Lake Foo Chang, the boding of.! my more gas wells vras t-Lon ?nd' there prohibited"b-; la\f. 'It seec:s: according & thfj 'Chinese history, that many large md heavy pressure gas wells were struck tnd in some districts wells were sunk : pite near to each other. Gas was iguteu as soon as struct, as is uone m . his country. It is stated tiin; one weE !. vith its unusual pressure, by*' induction >. back draught, pulled down into the larth the burning gas of a smaller well, 1 esulting in a dreadful explosion of a ' argc distiicfc, destroying the-inhabitants hereof. Lake Foo Chang rests on this listrict. The same catastrophe is immiicnt in this country unless the laws re-' : trict further developments in boring so 1 nany wells. Should a similar explosion >ccur there will be such an upheaval se s will dwarf the most terrible eaith- ' makes ever known. The country along he ._,as belt from Toledo through Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, will be ripped ip to the depth of 1,200 to 1,500 feet .no flopped over line a pancake, leaving , chasm through -which the waters of : '.<ase JL.ic wilt come .howling dbwn, : filing the Ohio'and Mississippi valleys; md Motticg them out' forever.?Cinoin' j lati Commercial Gazette/ An Aristocratic Idiot. The semi-idiotic English nobleman so ibly caricatured by poor Sothern is by 10 means a creature of the ima<nnaticii. Lne writer once attended :: fanay^d+ossed w?.U ?d":er; to. v.ince 'Euuaxd, of SSaxo?veimc-v,"the commander of the South yn. forces in England. One of the rnasers of ceremonies was L;,rd Arthur Sey- . nour, a person who might well fori is,* or tne original of T>u::<ivia?y. &' inissbie^or.qo-c&i lieutenant 'informed the ip'rlg of nobility that one of the guests roi? r.f+ivc/1 oo .Tn^oc T.ovz-1 iithur was pleased, to consider this ir. >ad taste, and attempted Lo'flnd tils r:ai;inaiv arch traitor." Inuring bis :8arch. he ~c?.?ie acycss the Writer ;nu ilie following ooiiverdatioa. ensued "Vouaii mane' is?er?L., I beieve?" "Yes, my lord," replied tlie iuiable individual addressed. "Well, I im aw told tuat aw. a person is present* ivlio aw is dressed as Judas. ?.n*2 p.osl^f ;ively lias tb.e tKe ikLfcy pieces ci ;sSvah ' l?; I c.'.* if nxzr iltl-r* A .1 ***** "" .UVO vi'?'LA JU-iXpewilence to eawwy eilvah lieah! Why ;ho dayvel couldn't he aw bring sovereigns?"?Philadelphia North American. -i' Sfivery \\ on:sn Knov/.t Them. V lie human body is rnucU like a good .,iorI;'or watch its ^avshients; if one px;;V>o Jcv oi- too fast, ao follow all the Sihers, and bad lime results; if one organ ji" M't oi organs works imperfectly, per<xr<"n of functional efforts of ali the or_r.u:c is sure to follow. Hence it is that the uumerou? ailments which make woman's [ife miserable are the direct isa^c. ci" Vue abnormal action o: ;',,e uierme system. For ;d; U,ut auiaeVofrs ciass of symptoms?and bvery woman knows them?there is one unfailing remedy, Dr. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription," the favorite of the ser. The red met; aicon the war path. Sheriff Workhaui arrived at Aitkin, .Minn., from the ZNIille Lacs reservation, lie reports tbem with half moons in their face ieady for war. While the Sheriff and posse were going out they were watched by a dozen Indians with rides. Three Indians have been killed and more are to follow. na?c? ? f ? ? - ?c A QUEER CREATURE. COLD AND SHIVERING IN MlDSl'M3DEK--WAKM AS A FllITTKK , When the I'leak 'Winter Comes-Jeau Kocet T<>lls of the Peculiarities ot iti.s Physical Make-nj>?A Puzzle to All the Scientists. "Wabash, Ind., July 2-L?The people i of "Wabash -will not soon forget the awlul heat of last Saturday and Sunday, when the brassy skies looked down upon the white limestone which glowed in the h ji sunshine and sent up currents of heat, if i anything taore unbearable than the J burning rays that descended from above. ! On the evening of that sweltering Sat- j urday your correspondent met a bc-icg j so strange and out of harmony "with his surroundings that a repetition of Lis wonderful story cannot fail to interest tbc reader, even though that reader may take no thought, of its scientific phase, which, if it has a counterpart in the whole world of experience, is unknown to the writer. Just at dark, the writer, as he was passing the Wabash depot, trying in every possible way to keep coo],- noticed a large-sized man standing near the depot building, apparently just iliiXYCU. Uii iXU 1UUU1UJlUg LliUJLL. JULC iUUilCU lite a laboring man, and would not Lavs attracted attention anywhere except for one thing: He was dressed in lieavy winter clothing, such as no sane man would have worn with the thermometer at 9U degrees, as it was then. Was he an invalid,' whose blood was too thin and poor to be affected by the terrible heat, in common with his fellows? He was too vigorous and healthy-looting, and thai; theory had to be abandoned. Was he a tramp, whose wardrobe did not afford a hot weather suit? He did not look like a tramp; besides, he had on surplus clothiner, even to an overcoat that he might have carried. He did not look heated. On the other hand, he had much the appearance of a man chilled and suffering -with the cold. Kis overcoat collar was turned up about his ears ard his hands were thrust deep into his pockets. The correspondent bad not watch him long until he grew curious ' and concluded to investigate the phenomenon. He accordingly took a posi- : tion rear the stranger and remarked, i while he fanned himself vigorously with : his straw hat: "'Tis warm to-night." ] "So thev tell mo." reolied the man in 1 broken English, with a mixture of1 ] French; "I do not know." i "But you certainly do not have to be ! i told that it is hot to-night," said the cor- i respondent, who was faintly suspicious I' that the straDger was trying to'"guy" : him. A closer inspection, however, t showed him that the man was not suffer- 1 ing from heat, warmly as he was dressed, 1 for ther? was not a particle of perspira- j tion about him. "I have not been warm a since last winter, except when 1 was by i a warm stove or in bed," said the Strang- i er in a serious tone that banished the i idea he was joking. 1 "Mr'rrc-is- a strange case, "he continued. ; ~ WwEiIu vTu iMtxs c-0 T?.j it is not 1 long?" ' a "1 should certainly like to hear the aJAOtVAJ Ui iiiUU WU.U XZ iiUd . to-niglit, dressed as you are in heavy woolens," said your correspondent. 4 < Well, then, I was born forty-two j years ago this month in a northern c province of France, in Alsace, of peasant ] parentage. There is nothing in my his- a tory that is of interest, but there is t something in me that has interested many?a peculiarity that has puzzled j science, and is without a parallel in the / whole world, so far as I kne:? ci < ever heard. The pecuyarUy 'consists In \ the fact vrncn'oiHers are \fenu I am ( cold, "and yiae' Y-ers*. I shiver with cold f ;,nder a hot v>uiy sun, and swelter with c heat arnid the snows of winter. Mr nnmn , is Jean Rocet, and my father was a r laborer in a brewery in Alsace, and had s a large family, of which I w?? ^ youngest, except cr.c, a qjs^er, who was j born tliiOy ycirq' id tor. Xone of my \ Lroyhdrs' or sisters possessed my peeti- t iiarity. My mother tir%t discovered that \ I was not 1;1;0 Qci.er children when I was \ about one year and a half old, before I t can myself remember. My parsnts and j the neighbors were greatly puzzled at t the phenomena, but not more so than j were the scientific men who examined c me in later years. I was the wonder of s our neighborhood as I grew up, fc~ v while other children in tinier' went T about in vtiolens," and shivered r with bold bit that, I played by the roadside wearing thin summer fclothing, while my body was flushed with heat and raj J face suffused with perspir?^*02. '\Yhen summer came and birds saag/and q the sun's aercerayg beat upon the white c roads of Alsace, an my little companions a frolicked upon the "fprep^ aw*rd and i waded the bro??, I c+ild with the cold s an.;} sought warmth indoors. The seasons -t weyejucfc vevei-ded for me." j 4'But when you touched the ice . and \ snow, were they not cold to you?" was s asked. : /'Yes, as they would be tp. you sn the l summer tir.o. Tie frozen ground, too, i ya^coidj bUt'the ioy atmosphere that 1 swept over ix was eiming 10 me as air sirocco. What was most peculiar, per-J c haps, was the fact that the lower the; t thermometer sank the w*rr:er j. go*, and \ the higher it iiio eoKfer it 'seemed c to ^e, is "proVe to you that it -was not i imagination With me, feel of my hand," 'J iiaid the stranger. The scribe touchod 1 it. It was as cold as ice, and tli3 ^ae;cu-' > ry stood at 96 deg-eec. i "X lived in' Akade sniii about ten years f ago/ vrhe? 1 eame to this country to | work at my trade, that of a stone-cutter. I lived in Jersey City until a few days ago, when I started West. I am un- l mairied, and have never had a sick day 1 in my life. That is my history and, as :< you see, uneventful enonghj except ior ; this peculiarity j* uiy physical make-up, [ enras1 winter into summer and I balmy summer into dread winter." I ; "But can you think'of no explanation J for this phenomenon? ctoscientiac ; men say of it"'" * ' i "joining that is not guess-work. It ; is said'that "a few days before T was tlie hot July weather ira alsaco was broken in upoxi by a severe storm, in i i .v - - * . i Yi Wii me elements were strangely mixed. Thunder and lightning, combined with hail and even snow, swept in I a furious torrent over Alsace, and con- 1 tinned for more than twenty-foui hours. : Scientists connect tho 9-.orm with birth 1 in explanation cu my' peculiarity. But, 1 a:t?; -Xti, ihat explanation reets upon un- ' proved theory. I only know the fact. , I do not attempt to explain it." f r Your correspondent iho fact, and j j was himself ar^a *eu to a see a man who j coric; ca e<tsiiy defy tlie power of Uid |, Solls inliuence. < * * * * "Prcmit i'/irvtiRf'of DOWCT ID cither S?a, Loweycr induced, speedily and < permanently cured. Book for 10 -cents in stamps. World's Dispensary Medical As- < sociation, 663 Main street, Buffalo, N. Y. ] 'Gumption" is derived from gum and ; shun, and a girl who has gumption is one < who shuns gum. < * i TJi?;i'o!f?>:i ! From the Me-v York Financial CLron1 icie's cotton article of July 30 the foliow! ing figures are gathered relative to the j movement of the staple during the past j week: j Fur the week ending July 29 the total receipts reaciiec> oaies, agaiuss 3,295 bales last week, *,000 bales the previous week, and 1,261 bales throe weeks since; raakiiig 'die total receipts since the 1st September, 1880, 5/204,679 bales, against 5,298,(572 bales for the same period of 1835-6, showing a decrease since September 1, 1886, o? 93,993 bales. The exports for the week reach a total of 22,115 baits, of which 15,597 were to Great Britain, 2,200 to France, and 1,288 to the rest of the continent. The iniports into continental ports were 8.000 UciiCC. . There was an increase in the cotton in bight of TZ.Wj bales as compared with, the saaio ditto of l^^an increase of 30,547 bales us compared*with tlie corresponding date oi and a" decrease of 313,878 bales as compared with 1884. The old interior stocks have decreased during the week 1,330 bales, and were, Friday night, 30,GS7 bales less than at the same period last year. The receipts <ir f.l?A simii1 towns have be&n bales less than the same week last year, and since September 1 the receipts at all the towns are 71,287 bales less than for the same time in 1883-6. The total receipts from the plantations since li.t September, 1886, aie 5,181,556 bales; in 1S85-6 were 5,310,443 bales; in 1S84-5 wt-re 4,727,276 bales. Although the receipts at the outports for the past week were 2,581 bales, the actual movement from the plantations was only 1,330 bales, the balance being taken from the stocks at the interior towns. La&t j ear the receipts from the plantations for the same week were 1,876 bales, and for 1885 they 8G6 bales. Up to June 30 the receipts at the ports this year were 66,907 bales less than in 1S85-6, and 473,960 bales more than at the same time ie 1881?3. This statement bhows that tLe receipts since September 1, up to last Friday night, were 91,80S bales less than thoy were to the same day of the month in 1886, and 182,380 bales more thau they were to the same clay of the month in 1883. The Chronicle says that the speculation in cotton for future delivery at New York was fuirly active for the week under review, but tue course oi prices was ] cjuitc unsettled, deveiopieg at ticicbs>om-j \ irregularity, as between this i^iiu the aext crop. On Saturday the heat and the half holloa} caused an almost complete desertion oi the Cotton Exchange it'ter the first call. On Monday the market opened panicky, but the decline in this crop was fully recovered; on Faesday, however,- this crop was iower md the next dearer through, manipula- : ;ion to scraeeze Southern operators who . lad been selling freely, putting out fall i; incs of conb\iels, una ut the close some pressure was shown in Jaly eontaicts, vhich was more conspicuous on u'ednes lay, when there was an advance {falong .lie whole line." Thursday there was a nateriai decline in tuc neat crop, the >uil movement of the previous day getin^ no support from any quarter." On ?i-idiij Augurt opt+cz*:; .Icchr-cd ?.l points md the nest crop -w^s ntuuii deiasasaaL_ i Tilciits of Ssiiiill Fowls; The advantage oI small breeds of hens : 3 thus presented by Hie American Agritulturist: Though small in size, [.he ' Leghorns and Hamburg's grow rapidly md mature early. IL requires 1 ime before a largo fowl aikvi^s ifc ize. The advantage pi ihi s'^uli breeds j s tli?.t tl.ej y,er.;^:t' us to niftSo a "short ; 'Ut ' to the laying poinf, though they ; nay be deficient In weight. So far as uic cost is concerned, i", has been lemonstratcd that it requires no more < ood for a large fowl than a small on?; ; :ompared with the product. Thci is, we ' i :an produce as many pounds of Leghorn ; neat j\s we can o; Cochin meat with the i &mo proportion of food, but hi laying i jUKUUe& LUC O JLU? \' J c/ix;cud itlC SU^CllUl) i ,'s they 310 usually non-sitters, and liy i aigc ' eggs. Another advantage with \ hem is that, being small, a largo num- i' >er can be kept togetho?, us they require ! ' ess room on the roost. Being active, i . hey do not become excessively fat, and ! f allowed to run at large they will pick ip a large proportion of their food ng favorable .seasons. Being usually :iean-legged, they arc not as subject to j cab1^ lege- as the Asiatics, and if kept ] rarrarn winter they will Liy about as 1 veil during the cold season as in su$i- j Qer. I i Sii-vy 01 iiux? ii &?$$ ' jasper Brjan, living cv?t aa the river, iast of town j rvl&tcs ? remarkable inci- ' lert beV-vee?i<i pig of his and a rattle- ( i>ako. A tine sow and pigs used to go j n the river swamp, and frequently the 1 ow would appear ior her slops with czz '! >ig short, which so worried -jrieii-i . 3ryan that he mustertU i^s ts? mid vent in seurch ot wiie caasy? ci the aber.es yi vho jllgs. He had not been in he swamp long before he was start!'*' >y the peculiar sound of the rattles, and ' rinn invfst,ii?afciAn . lad swallowed a pii<. b:\t iiiq little jrunter, not being ^aiisiied with the 6nlin-J2?<iic, bud actually kicked its feet hrcugV tile belly of the snake and was' ' talking about trying to iind its way out \ >f the woods, with it-?. b,eud ntiil inclosed, j a the lower pari 01 >ke snake's body. ' Che 32fl^e w^s promptly killed, and ! pu2,d to contain sixteen "rattles. The j >ig was carried home and is doing weil. , ?Mavshallville (Iowa) Times. j A Frigiiitiifd Jud^'i*. Judge Sloan, of Golcoiid'i, Hi., was cut- ; ing weeds near his hocse the other even- ' ag. and. cut fil the head of a big rattle [ The same blow threw the snake uu? the air and it fell about tho Judge's ;eek, abovjt which it coilul with a convul- , ivc grasp, at th?. same time keeping up its ^ r.tilc. A colored man pulled the xniy of the frightened Judge and assisted ;im t<> the iiousc, where it was scsae time /fore iie could co^vii)^ hiitv>cil that the >i< ;iu wLU'U ?as .-.au.ai'c.1 on Lis face from i;,. b.A:y \>i I he .snake was not :&< result of . vouud.?Chicago Time*. .More Delay for F'rellcr'H Murderer. A. dispatch froru ^ilocK Wan?l. Long blaud Soyrvi, 3tai.es that P. W. Fountlcoy. r-iic ox the attorneys of Hugh M. jiocks, tiiiu* Maxwell, presented thy c;.<* f his clu-;:!. to Chief Justice V/aite, of the 'r.ited States Supreme C'.ntrr. who is stopping there, a-ni obtained from him a writ >f err.'U i:i the case. Tiie effect of this j ..ri;<r will !),. !a hrl'ior t!if> r-:u,. of 1.'-bin oformer before the tsiinr^uc Court for rearing ou conslitutioiiai' points, and will tct as a v.;pjisode:is and defer the exeeu- ; icz Brooks, which was set for '.be iJOtii j )f this month. A nod cu^tc.mor?The purchaser of so-Ja i tvater a stick in it. Bvcry man lakes care that Lis neighbor ;iiali not cheat him. Bui a day comes"when ic begins to care thai he does* not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has ->V><in<rnr1 Viic mirtfit.Mrf intn >i fTifirint nf ;he sun. ! ASSASSIN GUITJEAU'jS ANATtJ I.?<I ileiuarkable Succession of >Iisf?rt:n:c That Ha i e . Followed His Withering Curse. Washington, July 30.?After the as j sassin Guiteau had been convicted an*. : sentenced by the court to be hanged fo: killing President Garfield, he stood u: in his place and pronounced a withering curse on every one connected with the "T* .14-+1 a rr*no f /\n /vli4- ^ 4 Lilc-1. 1TOO Ui AC cU time. It was regarded as a fitting climax of liis ravings throughout thai remarkable case. Guiteau declared thai misfortune would attend every one connected with his trial. Since then Guiteau's curse has impressed itself upor tlic minds of superstitious people by "the i jugular manner in which it lias apparently been fulfilled. The. jury was composed of twelve strong and healthy men. The foreman ?as in comfortable circumstances anc was estimated to be worth ?50,000. Witiiin u year after the trial he lost his money and is now reduced to the level of a day laborer. i'our members of the jury are dead, aiid nearly every one has been visited with some kind of misfortune. District Attorney Geo. B. Corkhiil was removed from office, his wife died and his own death followed before the cud of another year. Mr. Scoville, Guiteau's brother-in-law, who with Charles H. Eeed defended the | prisoner, was divorced from his wife and lost all of his property, President Arthur, who refused to grant a pardon or new trial to Guitcau. was defeated for renomination and slowly failed in health, and died last winter. Mr. Blaine, who was a witness against Guiteau, was nominated for President, oat aeieatea. John A. Logan, another witness, is now dead, stricken down in apparent health. Dr. D. W. Bliss, Garfield's physician, has been in very poor health for two >ears, and it is thought that he will never be a well man again. David Davis, who appeared as a witness, has also join id the great majority. Judge John K. Porter, of New York, one of the government counsel in the Ciise, has practically retired from the practice of his profession. The guards who kept watch over Gai j tvuu in the jail have nearly ail lost their positions. Judge Cox, who presided over the trial, lost his wife. The downward career of Charles H. Keed, of Guiteau's counsel, which culminated in New York a few mornings, ago, oj iiis attempting to take own life, adds another name tc. the iist of victims 'of Guiteau's osathema. The only conspicuous exception is found in Waiter Davidge, of the government counsel in the case. Mr. Paviuge has apparently been more p/osperous bince the trial than before. lie stands at tho head of the Washington bar. The defeat of the Republican part'/ in f Hoi recalls the fact that Guiteau pre- j dieted its defeat. >}r. I^andaU'.-* Great Dh\\ Pittsburg, August 3.?To-day was a | roTTotter day in the history of the iiancail c :v.1, nf PT'trN-rf w; fo, oil .'vHegheay county. ThcTeTc ciiampeirc ail Silver Lake Grove was without doubt ] finest alTair of the kind ever giver, by ' [ olitical organization in this county and was completely succpssivA in every particular. Fully (Vv^C p^crpie participated. At i ;j'cIoyk the distinguished guests of the :.j'isioat Samuel J. Kandall, Ex-Lieutenant Ur'^ryst Chauneey F. Black, State Chairr.i'.a Dallas Sanders and Chief Pension L' ; rk Murphy, arrived in carriages drawn L>y feu? white-plumed horses and escorted ijy the Randall Club ao'.\ iae Cathedral 13 tad. They wer$ carted, shaking hands as Lhfcv to the platform of the grand vision. The crowd followed and called "cc au address, but in this they were disapiv?:,a*ccd, as the committee had decided that it was to be a strictly social affair, and no speech-making would lie indulged in. The r ;ests, however, held a sort of informal ,< vee on the platform, receiving and shaking a tods with the crowd, which pressed afaoiit hem eager for that honor. At five o'clock .he entire party was grouped on the plat 'orm and photographed, afUr which they uuwn io a, mui^aiiicent repast. lu the evening tiic time was spent in ;l:-nein?. Mr. Randal!, with Mrs. Annie r'<?Iey, of this city, led the grand march, :: which there were 163 couples. Later >'. (lanced a quadrille, hiving the same :i-Iy for a partner. He stated that he had i!>t danced for twenty-live years, but he sad no. trouble in getting through the figires of the danca The balauce of the ivening wf?s devoted to social intercourse rCtirely, and after a fine display of fireL? orks the paity returned to tbc city. Letters of regret were read ?resik-iu Cleveland, Ex-Governor Pattison, Lfovcraor nm ana over ss,e aunureu ctner prominent Donj.9C.faia, Mr. liandall will ctve iot ^ vrip up the Monongahela tous VftS truest of Captain O'Ncil. t+fi ccai will go up to the headwaters and .' ::I rctura on Friday. The -Curse of ^><oHjjiuinuatioii."' Wc motive that the excommunication of 5 'T. McGlynn has induced sonic of our c-n: t- r prising" con temporaries to republish the form of excomaiunicaiion which is to be f:>undiaSte-ue's veracious history of "Trisi;\:u Shandy." This document has appeared >u more ihuu one occasion, and its publication as the genuine form used by the Church ii i.s always been promptly refuted. Neve: liiciess, some secular papers have repeated it :it this lime, neglecting, either through j ignorance or malice, to, ittibute ii to its i ! rue source. It wai widely published about \ i he time of Victor Emmanuel's excomtounii:;::ion, and his Eminence Cardinal Gibbons refers to it in his book, "The Faith of Our Fathers,'" in these terms: The "curse'' is attributed to the Holy Father, and is fuimin::red against Victor Emmanuel. In this lualhema '"cursing" and "damning" are j Li/japed up in wild confusion. When this j lose forgery appealed., an article exposing ; uho falsehood of the production was pub | l:^h?4. We fear, however, that m:my read ! ?!wslanderous charge who did not read its i refutation. As to this "curse" against Vie-! Lor Emmanuel, so calumniously attributed \ to the Pope. I state here c'i^tincUy and pes- J itively that its atuh;?is not Pius IX, nor! any Roman ^osuill, nor any Catholic y.i icst j or It is lo liev. Laurcwe Sterne, j ^mister of the Established Church of Knir- j land, and to his romance .,-r "Tristam Shan-! dv" that !he Erjlisb speaking world is in- i debied fojj tils infamous compilation.? I Hull '.ru,rc CaUwlic Mirror. llow to w.ecu*<? a Good Stand oi Turnip. A a old and experienced farmer irives us ! the following rule for securing a good stand j of turnips: Prepare the land thoroughly i and lay Oit the rows ready for sowing the j sec.', then wait until a rain has formed a j orust and cover with fresh, moist earth, i The moist earth will germinate the seed, j ;tnd the roots will penetrate the underlying crust !>y the time the plants are up. thus .^curing enough moisture from below to supply the plants in case the weather should ivnrmrrli tA Athorrtrtcn A -? Vk*.J ^ V<U^i f.Wv. *1^' other safe rule, it is. said, is sC- roll she LtjJ well after sowing turnip see^., 'Jius securing good rooting before the plaaiseome up to be killed by tho hot sun.?Anderson -I&iirstal. > | PATRIOTIC EX-SOLDIERS. ' * 1 " j THE XATI >XAL VETEEA> ASSOCIA| TIOX UPHOLDS THE PRESIDENT. r | General Kosecrans Presents to Him Some ,, ? 5 Stroii;* Insolations?Members of tlic ? r ! Grand Army Dcnonnced for Their Jfar3 { row-MintJed Partisanship. \ I * ? ; Washington, August 3.?Gen. Eosel erans. recently received from Charles & Whitehead, chairman of the committee " on resolutions of the National Veteran V; i Association, Des Moines, Iowa, copies ) ! of tbc resolutions adopted by that asso- . elation repudiating the utterances of . certain members of the Grand Army of : tho llcpubiic in co:";iiceticn with the pro: posed visit of the President to St Louis tviiilc the Grand Army of the Eepublic ; encampment is in progress there; com-. mending the President's veto of the dependent pension bill, and condemning the ellorts of those who seek by the rebel flag episode "to rekindle the flames of sectional hate and contention as unmanly, unpatriotic and meriting the contempt of intelligent men." The resolutions also compliment Gen, Black's administration of the Pension Office. Gen. Poscerans was requested to deliver copies of these resolutions to both the President and to Gen. Black. To-day he called on the President and in presenting them said: OZX. r.OSECEASS' AZ>DHESS. "Sir. President, at the request of the National Veterans' dissociation, of Des iloines, Iowa, in mass convention assembled, on the loth day of July ultimo, I have the honor to present to you this engrossed copy of the resolutions then passed, declaring the views of those veterans respecting the attempts of certain oilieers and members of the society of the Grand Army of the Republic to prevent the President of the United States from accepting hospitalities tenI.t* 4Isn r.-^ CU T -* uu&u lu i 11 i uj LI.U uujr VJL K2II. JUULLLS UU' the occasion of the meeting of the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, which had voted to bocome her guests. "As a member of that society it affords ! me pleasure to perform this duty and to state my concurrence in the sentiment ! expressed in those resolutions. I am pleased to say that I believe the general I tenor of these resolutions is in accord f with the views and feelings of the vast majority of the members of the Grand -inn/ oi mc itepuouc as to tiie ioyai respect due the Chief Magistrate of the Union, and as to the impropriety of denouncing hira for doing what he behoves to be his oiliciai uuty. I feel equally assured that those sentiments will command the assent of that much larger body oi ex-Union soldiers not belonging to the society oi the Grand Army of the licpubiie who are surviving members of the real Grand Army of the Republic* which, after having saved the nation's. life, dissolved and joined the great industrial body which assures the wealth, , the glory and the prosperity of our / country." ' " TMC fSffimwi'? nivriii. President Cleveland, replying to Gezl Rosecrans, said: "Without reading the resolutions presented by you in such a gratifying man ner, I have only ic say that, judging from the tenor of your remarks, the action of the veterans mentioned is in the direction of acknowledging the duty which devolves upon them as veterans,. to emphasise the value of their servicesin the field by patriotic service at home,, and to demonstrate the same braveryshown in battle by a courage no less conspicuous when called upon to defend ana maintain me irecaom ana patriotism which in peace is the safely of American institutions. Understanding tlois to be the purpose of the resolutions, lam glad to reccive ihem at your hands." Gen. licsecrans to-day sent the following note to Commissioner Black, with copies of the resolutions: "General: In compliance with the request contained in the accompanying letter from the chairman of the committee on resolutions, it affords me great pleasure to present this engrossed copy of the resolutions expressing the sentiments of the Democratic veterans of the National Veterans' Association, of Des Moines, Iowa, in mass convention assembled July 15, 1SS7. SCCTvlXG GEN. TUTTLE. ''These resolutions are replete with patriotism, good sense and just denunciation of tlie disloyalty to tne country and treason to the spirit of the society of the Grand Army of the Kepublic manifested in the recent attempts of certain officers and members of that organization to raise for partisan purposes an outcry against the Chief Magistrate of the nation, and to prevent him from accepting the hospitalities tendered him by the city of St. Louis at the same time that the National Encampment of that order had accepted her invitation to a generous welcome. No less gratifying arc- the declarations of the resolutions, characterizing as wnoiiy ineompatiDie with that loyalty \viiiek is one of the three fundamentals of that society the attempt to use its voice in denunciation of the President for the discharge of a painful duty according to his judgment and conscience. "When it is remembered that largely more than one-half the rank and file of the Union army, probably of those enlisting for the three months' service and certainly of those who came in after warus* were enuer juemccrauc or merely Union men, it will be plainly seen why the G. A. li. as a Itcpublican machine was a miserable failure; why it at a later ' time only revived when non-partisanship was made fundamental; why the hypocrisy of violating this principle by taking small partisan advantages hi the ehoicc cf its oilicers, posts and commanderies and the paying of special public favors aqd honors to comrades of the liepublieun persuasion had hitherto created such -< disgust of its spirit as to prevent the society from including double and possibly triple its present membership and commanding universal respect for tbat icif-conirolling loyalty which covered with glory its members during the dark 'days of war for the Union. "The resolutions well say that if this pirifc of partisanship cannot be restrained it will 'oe a matter to be considered whether the survivors of the real Grand Army of the Republic would not better have some other organization. "I take pleasure in noting the just comment lUtion given in the resolutions to the administration of the Tension yji:;cc jjiuc'j yni t: :vw of Pensions: loaio truly, "W. S.'Kosscsaxs." 31r. Whitehead in his letter to Gen. Eosecrans asks the Geueral to" present these resolutions in the name of at least ten thousand ex-Union soldiers of Iowa. There is a good deal of puffing done during alter-dinner speeches at the clubs, ii the cigars are good.