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r VOL. XLIY. , ' WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1888. NO. 33. I * * ' WAR TALE IN CONGRESS. i M TBYING TO REVIVE ISSUES THAT r OUGHT TO 1SE BUKIEIX A Forensic Conflict; Bet-ween Senators . Ingalls and Blackb orn?The Kentnckian k Gets the Better of the Tilt. ^ On Tuesday the 6th inst. the United States Senate had tinder consideration ^ the dependent pension bill. After brief speeches by Senators Berry, Manderson, Sherman, Teller and Beck, Senator Ingalls, the presiding officer, having called Senator JPlatt to tiie unarr, pro- [ oeeded to address the Senate, the gallek ries being crowded to their full capacity. He said that considerations of decorum and propriety (perhaps excessive and overstrained) had deterred him. from participation thus far in the debates of the Senate. He had, therefore, been surprised, one day last week, on return? ingto the chamber, after a brief absence, to learn that the Senator from Missouri (Vest) had referred to him in terms not complimentary in a debate in which he had taken no part, intimating that the people of the District of Colum bia were incapable of disinterested pa- j triotism and that the veterans of the Re-1 r public were a mob of sordid plunderers. As to himself, he would say that the nomination and election of Grover Cleveland had made the nomination of any American citizeD to the Presidency respectable. There was no man so ignorant or mean that he might not aspire to nomination to the Presidency by the Democratic party. [Laughter and applause.] He regretted that the Senator from Missouri was not in his seat to-day. He should not imitite that Senator's bad example, and would confine himself, so far as he was concerned, to that SenatfYT'c anfAhiooTft-nhv. That Senator was born in a State that had not seceded, the State of Kan tacky, and had represented in the Confederate Congress the State of Missouri?a State which had not seceded. It would be gratifying to the historian to find out how he had been admitted to represent a State which had never seceded. But that was matter for ancient history. The Senator from Kentucky, (Blackburn) had also referred eneeringly . to the super-loyalty of the soldiers of the Union. He did not challenge the honor or courage of these Senators in their devotion to the South and to the Soathern Confederacy. They could not be suspected of insincerity. They had gone into the Confederacy because they wanted to go; because they believed that slavery was better than freedom, and castacxri/i'n Wiar +.V>an nrvrm Tt, TTftc curious that Confederates from UnionStates were a little more pronounced, a little more aggressive and a little more violent in their denunciations of the .North than Confederates from States that seceded. He did not know where the Senator from Missouri had got the figures from when he stated that bnt 3,000 of Lee's army had surrendered at Appomattox. If that Senator had pluck-ed a few of the plumes from the dazzling tail of his imagination and had stack them into the wings of his judgment, he would have flown a more accurate flight. Instead of 8,000 men with muskets who were in the final crash and collison of t the war there had been 73,911 men. The Senator's mathematics were certainly giddy. But one parallel was to be found to the extraordinary inaccuracy of that statement, and that was the same Senator's statement that of 2,300,000 soldiers of the Union army more than one-half had applied for pensions. Such speeches as those of the Senators from Missouri and Kentucky were intended to catch the Confederate vote, and they -would catch it. They were "centre shots," striking the bull's-eye every time and "ringing the belL" [Applause, vigorously suppressed by the Chair.] He wanted the Senators on the Democratic side of the chamber to understand that their disguise for opposing pension bills was so exceedingly thin that nobody was deceived by it. It was not a question of cost. Hie South did not love the Union army, neither did the Democratic party. Senator Morgan reminded Senator Ingalls that the Democratic party had nominated and sustained a Federal officer, General Hancock, for the Presidency. Yes, said Senator Ingalls, it did support General Hancock, and it also supported Horace Greeley, attempting to fool the North. It also nominated and supported that other ally of the Con"d mrtp.1 qiiqti ftn/vh J.CU.URK/J, UCVlgO JJ. m.vwv.n.1 .. ? pretensions are altogether too diaphanous. They require to have the drapery removed for inspection. In 1886 there was in Atlanta a grand historical occasion, when a statue to the ' memory of an honored Senator was to be unveiled, a man whom he (Ingalls) honored and respected, and on that occasion the ex-Presi.lent of the Confederacy was invited to be present. Men flocked to that array as they go .to a banquet, as waves come when navies are stranded, and the city was decorated with Confederate emblems to make a Confederate holiday. He quoted from a speech TW* of v? n troil vnnr tllA U1 IU:? VilOUJ OV UAO HUA W* ?w J Hill stafcae at Atlanta in which Mr. . Davis was spoken of as one whose "gray haixa were crowned with deathless love," and as one who, "though an outcast from the privile^js of this great Government, is the uncrowned king of our people." He did not propose to rehearse the zeply of Mr. Davis except to quote one uentenc3j in which he referred to Senator Hill as having "mashed the injurious Yankee, (meaning, he supposed, their friend now in Florence.) He spoke of the same orator. CGradv,") having gone to New York, and New "England soon aftowards, and made speeches there, pouring out his 'treacle, cold cream and honey and maple syrup all over the North." When, he asked, was that orator sincere? When did he speak the sentiments, feelings and conscience of the Southern people? Was it when he delivered that oration in Atlanta on May 1,1886, or was it when he spilled oil and . : wine over all the imerican people of the "" North? Coning back to the opposition of Southern Senators to pension bills, he said he did not blame them for it. He ofteu wondered how he would have acted if the relations had been reversed, and if the Federal Government had been overthrown. He did not fcaiieve lie would have felt comforted in voting pensions to Confederate soldiers. Ee believed he should have been a conspirator against the Confederacy to the end of ha days. But he should have regarded as the dim at of ei&ontery, as the very apex and summit of hardihood and audacity, (he would notsav of pusillanimity ^d doshoror,) if after he had "accepted ptedon and had had his disabilities removed, and had taken the oath of allegiance to the successful Southern Confederacy, he had denour ced (day after day) the efforts which those Confederates made to reward their own soldiers, and if he haggled about the price which the conquering country should have seen fit to bestow on the men by whose arms it had conquered. Be did not think that the North was [ at all deluded by the pretensions of the I Senators on the other side. It was a little singular that in all the years "which had elapsed since the war there never hod come from one of the States that had been in rebellion (so far as he knew) a Union soldier as a representative in either branch, of Congress elected by Democratic votes. The Democratic party in those States never had blundered in sending to Congress or electing as Governor a man who had not served in the Confederate army in some capacity. That had been the supreme test. When he looked over the rolls of the Senate and of the House and reflected how few of those who had served in the Union armv were found in the councils of the nation he "was not surprised at witnessing such demonstrations as were witnessed when pension bills were up for action. Criticising the statement of Senator Yest, that of $883,000,000 paid out in pensions $290,000,000 has been contributed by the South, he declared that such a statement was a "glittering generality." He doubted whether the South had actually contributed ?290,000 instead of ?290,000,000. But even if the South had paid $290,000,000, it was very lucky that it did not have to pay all the pensions. Instead of grumbling and complaining that it had paid ?290,000,-. 000 it ought to be thankful that it did not have to foot the "entire bill, as France had to do after the FrancoPrussian war. Spnar-or Tncalls dAnls/rpri +,tiafc the movement for pensions was not going to stop nntil the arrears of pensions were paid; until the limitations were removed and until every pensioner was paid from the day of his disabilities, or, in case of a survivor, from the day of the soldier's death, and until every surviving soldier of the Union army was placed on the pension rolls for service only. That was, he said, when it was going to stop; and if the other side did not like it, they might make the most of it. [Very general applause on the floor and in the galleries.] SEXATOK BLAOKBTJRN'S EEPLY. Senator Blackburn rose to reply and said (after the confusion succeeding Ingalls's speech had subsided) that he was at a loss to account for the course of the Senator from Kansas in dragging him into the tirade in which he had just indulged. He was sure that he (Blackburn) had never boasted his identification with the military service and had never referred to the fact of his having been a Confederate soldier. Unlike the Senator from Kansas, he (Blackburn) thought his military service too modest and zoo humble to prove a subject of interest to the galleries. He did not need to be told by ^ that Senator that Kentucky had always been loyal. That Senator knew that he (Blackburn) represented a constiuency which had sent three men into the Union army for one man that Kansas sent, and it was not without pride that he recalled the fact that of thirty odd States then in the Union, Kentucky was the only State which had, without a draft, suppled more than her quota of men to both sides during the struggle. Why the Senator from Kansas should have travelled out of his way to make an onslaught upon him he did not know. He did not know that he (Blackburn) was a necessary connecting link with the Senator's acceptance of the Presidential nomination." The Senator from Kansas doubtless did ki.o-y that illness in the family of tiie Senator from Missouri naa taken him a long distance from the city, and that he was to be abseht for some time on that account. He did not intend to be involved in any controversy with the Senator from Kansas, but he protested against the lack of fairness evinced by that Senator -when he undertook to deal in such fashion with men who had simply stated facts and submitted data for the consideration of the Senate on the pending bill What connection, he asked, had the speech made at Atlanta, 1.1 ?T J 4. T> UL LJJLC spccuu. inauc au jljjlwjuju UI non York, by a gentleman who had never been a member of either house of Congress, with the pending bill ? When the Senator from Kansas undertook to speak of the Chief Executive of the country in the terms he had seen fit to employ and which, he took it, were deliberately prepared and conned, he (Ingalls) certainly conld not take issue with him (Blackburn) if he concluded that it was not entitled to response or reply in the presence of so angnst and distinguished a body as the Senate of the United States. What cause of grievance the Senator had that warranted him in applying language to the Chief Magis trate wmcn wotua not De permissioie on the hustings (iie -would not say that it would be disgraceful even to be employed by a fish-woman) he did not know. Eut when that Senator undertook to denounce the Chief Executive of the United States after such fashion as to deliberately declare that no man afflicted with 'ignorance so profound, with obscurity so gross, should consider himself as unfit to become the President's successor, it did seem to him, Blackburn, that the dignity of the Senate Chamber refused permission to respond. He was not here to defend the President from such unwarranted attacks. He knew but one sin which the President had committed in the eyes of the Senator from Kansas. That might an unpardonable sin. It was that having defeated the Senator's party at tViA r>olls he har? oiven to the American people for three years past so efficient, so honest, so clean-handed an administration as to doom the last of Republican aspirations to disaster. [Applause on the Democratic side and in the galleries.] But the Senator irom Kansas had even gone farther and done worse in his intemperate zeaL He had not spared the sanctity of the grave in his frantic efforts to stir up prejudices between sections already reunited. He had dragged up for abuse and villificaticn before the American Senate such men as had burnished with their unblemished swords the brightest pages of American history. McClellaa and Hancock were to be denounced in the Senate Chamber as allies KJX UUV VVlU^UVJLawo* TI vIAO.V4 AV uvv MMf w | been in better taste (at least more creditable to the courage and candor of the Senator) if he had made such a charge ; before both of these men were bnried ? In galls (from his seat:) "I did, often." [Murmurs of applause and laughter.] Blackburn: "Then, so much the worse for the Senator from Kansas. What warrant or ground had he for that, except that they were both different from himself?at least in political faith, if Imav we not lionft alsn"! in many other regards? Hancock an ally of the Confederates! Was he so regarded and believed when, weltering in Ms blood on Cemetery Heights, he refused to be removed fmra the field, and persisted in giving orders which checked the last advance of Longstreet's irresistible bnttalions? Was it this man, who was honored by the American people, whether Republicans or Democrats, up to the very date when he had accepted the nomination of the Democratic party, who was to be spoken of as an ally of the Confederates? The Senator from XTAT^OOO r\G ?Vi A ?T*/"\YY"? t VJ. tiuu XAVUi Jr f Missouri, and says that he rests his co; plaint upon that Senator's autobiogi phy. I believe it is generally asstun that the gentleman writes that- bit interesting history for himself. In loo ing over the short but conspicuous brilliant autobigraphy of the Senat from Kansas, I find that he "was net the army in 1861. He certainly was n in the army in 1862, because he said ] was in the State Senate of Kansas in th year. But he was in the army from 18( to 1865, and in what capacity? One wl had sat ann tn fhft SATiafj might suppose that he was controlling great army operating in the West, if n< in the East also. I saw the bronzed ar weather-beaten commander of the Ame ican- army [alluding to Gen. Sheridai who had occupied a seat on the fio< during Ingalls's speect,] sit here in th Chamber and blush in modesty at tl humble part which 1b found he ha played in the "war of ike Rebellion" i comparison with that .of the Senate from Kansas. What vas that Senator occupation in a military capacity? B was a judge advocate of the Kansas Vo unteers. [Laughter.] "While Gen. Black, commissioner c pensions, was bleeding on the Kansc frontier; while McClalan was commanc ing the army at Peteisburg; while Har cock was weiiering ir his blood on Ceir etery Heights at Gettysburg, the Sens tor from Kansas, alravs behind the rea of the army, was prosecuting Kansa jayhawkers for riflirg hen roosts. [Lorn laughter and applaise.] Now what ar you to think of the arguments of a Sen ator who will leave his seat as presiding officer and coire to the floor in illustra tion of a partisan zeal, which, I am gla< to say, I have never seen equalled, at tacking all decent people from the Presi dent of the Urited States down, civilian as well as miliary men, and letting n< object escape "he venom of his tongue One would ssy that he was a cynic despising mankind?perhaps because h< had a suspicbn that' mankind is no enamored of Hm. "But neither President nor soldier living or dead Confederate or Federal except he accords with him in politica convictions, is safe from his unjust anc unfounded atticka I do not want to b? put in the position of an opponent oi ; enemy of pensionng honest Federa soldiers. I have ns-er opposed pensioning men who have ervecl in the Unior army, and who wer< incapacitated from supporting themselves either by disease or wounds; and I !o not know a Confederate who has dae so. "The Senator tel3 us, in that haste with which he ruaes to conclusions, that no Democratic ;onstituency in the South had ever elecsd Union soldiers to either house of Cogress. I do not know that it is matrial to answer that assertion, but there is not an atom of foundation in fact for the statement. mu _ x ~ ^ m j. j. - n j_ne otate ox ?exa sent to congress term after term a extinguished soldier in theperson of Govrnor Hancock. The State of Arkansas ent in recent years from a Democratic onstituency a Union soldier to represeD her in the other House of Congress.would like to know if the late Governr Walker was not a Union soldier ancLn honored Representative in the otir branch of Congress from an ovewhehningly Democratic district in le Old Dominion? Did not the Senatr from Kansas remember that withiothe last six years, (and for six years, )the State of Kentucky kept continDusly in the other PfVvnBA rti rVmoToeo rfiafrinoTiicViA^ "FVrl eral general duringhe war, (alluding to Wolford,) who washot out of his saddle more than half a dcen times, and who always came there s the candidate of the Democratic pay, elected in a Democratic district? I.o not care to follow the Senator (time frbids it) through all the inaccuracies of ds utterances. Party man as I am, partim asIcoDfessmyself to be, I do sincere' trust that I may never find my ten of public service prolonged to that ty, nor my life extended to that hou when, without warrant. without factso support it, with out truth at my bss, I will turn deliberately to traduce ad abuse the dead, who while living rere honored by all honorable men." joud applause, which the presiding o?5<r again checked.] w ar ExcelUt Advice. "We welcome very success in the construction of ajtton factory in the South. The wdd is not yet half clothed, and theras work enough for us all in providin.ihe cloth. The Wonderful supplies oyour oak bark will draw to you tl hides for tanning, whether you will r no, until through the diversity everif agricultural labor, TT?V?,i/?h 10 Knm r\f yf.tr rAnrliAmfl onr* rrixivu uwxu va /v-wj j j vux ply of hides will ake you exporters of finished leather, isides supplying your own wants. Of hat should we build our factories ex<xt we had the abundant supply of mthern pine? Your wealth of hard-w>d timber compels you to develop all b arts of the woodworker, sending .e partly-finished material for the prent to the North to be completed. Anyou will have to send till the men in fe work shops of the South have leard the fine art which accompanies theomprehension of the difference betwe. a C9nt and a nickel. The factorv, th mine and the metal works have thertrue place, but their importance mu not be exaggerated. The collective wk which can be carried on by the facjorprinciple of great subdivision of.labo:and by the bringing together of largaumbers of people under one roof or ider one control now gives occupation less than one in ten of all those where occupied for gain in this couutry, le workers numbering about one in evy three of the population. The oth nine work with brain or hand where le work is to be done, i and ea:-n one mends on nis own personal capacityfor his success. The product of the liiy exceeds that of any single branch othe textile industry, and it is nearly eqruto that 'of the whole. The value of tl hens' eggs consumed every year in tt United States is greater than that of g iron. "We must maintain the true baace of power in industry, as in politicand in the science of government. 1 these lesser arts chief attention shouloe given in a country which has beero long devoted almost exclusively to sae of the cruder products of agricture."?Edward Atkinson in The Sou. L Dejjj Mb. Eitob:?Won't you please tell your male aders that ?3 will buy a fine, strong ai serviceable pair -of pants, made to :aer by the N. Y. Standard Pants Co. )i 66 University Place, New York city:By sending 6 cents in postage stamps o the above firm, they will send to anjaddress 25 samples of cloth to choose om, a fine linen tape measure, a full t of scientific measurement blanks another valuable information. All goodire delivered by them through the U.. Mails. A novel and practical idea, .dvise your readers to try trie nrm. Jey are tnorougniy reliable. Yotirs iuy, * V ILXiIAH YA>DESErLT. The number osomen who care to vote is about equal toie number of men who i like to put the b$- to sleep. V 1 | 1 - it LIBBY-AS A MUSEUM. :aed EX-PRISONERS OF WAR OBJECT k" THE 'J3AXGE. iy or Q Southern Sentiment Against Kemovi 0^. Objections from Captain Stewart?1 Old Pilt to be Used as a Musenm. at fKrom tbe Chicaao Newso 33 "When the ever-vigilant American sp 10 ulator first tnrned to commercial accoi ^ the thrilling epochs of the war by rop dncing them in panoramas lond prote id were not wanting. "Reviving d? r" issues," "Prolonging sectional hatred "The degradation of hallowed men is ries," were some of the pet phrases ie those who found fault with the schen ^ It is needless to suggest which view )r the case triumphed. The sentiment 's ists were routed, and another generati je of Americans has lived the war seer over again on canvas, while those w invested in the canvas have been nea: Is buried in art avdenche of dollars. ' The objections against perpetuati i- the memories of the war have aga?'n coi i- to the front, only in. a more intensifi r form, since it v proposed to transf s Libby prison to Chicago as a busine 3 enterprise. The arrangements for ti e transfer have been pra jticaily complete - A recent dispatch from Richmond sa S that an architect, after careful examin - tion, says the building can be tak< 3 down and removed to Chicago at a mu< ^ smaller cost than the first estimate. M - W. H. Gray, of Chicago, was with ti s architect when the latter examined tl 3 building last week, and when the Rici mond people found out that Mr. Gn ? had the money in his pocket to make tl 5 first payment on the property their pn t tests began to accumulate in earnes The Richmond State was one of the fix > to voice Southern opinion. Amor > other things, the State said editorially i 1 a late issue: OrUMlUi Or A SOUXHKItt -TAJf-liK. ^ "To set up Libby prison in a Nortl [ ern city and to have thousands of peop] . inspect it under the guidance of mere* t naries whose daily task will be eiaggers t tion, is to contrive a new means for ii , tensifying whatever remains f hostilit " to the South. The Southern peop] have heard many a recital of the sufiei , ings of Point Lookout and Johnston' Island, but they want none of the re , minders of those prison pens set up i their midst. They have no desire t perpetuate animosity and unforgivenes , toward the people of the North. "If itbsnot too late?and we trus that it is not?let steps be taken at one to prevent the removal from this cicy o an object that should have been razed tthe ground long ago?a removal that ca] result in no good, but, on the contrary ls^raugnt witn evil to .trie coming gen ations of otir common country. N< project that could be conceived by thi worst enemy of the American peopL could be more dangerous than the re building of this old and crumbling prieoi as a temple of South hate." In another issue the same paper said "The objection to the removal o: Libby prison may be said to come fron a sentimental idea. To set the building up in Chicago, to put wax-figure senti nels in gray uniform about its doors, t< placard here and there a cell to tell i story of brutality, will be still further i: - :i/u ; lieepmg wiwu bcuenie, lur tiiexe 13 111 sentiment about this. It is confessec that it is for cool cash. There were daring raiders on the Northern side whose fervid imagination schemed the capture of Libby prison, the release o: the prisoners, and the demolition of the structure, But th9y could not take ii down. It still stands. Yet now we are to have a demonstration of the power o: a few thousand dollars, greater than the valor that through sentimental promptings resisted this removal, and we, oi Bichmond, of the South, are asked tc bow down, grin acquiescence, and discarding sentiment, hail the enterprise that will make a part of the furniture oi Tjost, Han.cfi a drawinsr ftard for ? show, while rabbles, for only ten cents, can see the the exhibition and go awaj with a full appreciation of how lost indeed is that cause when its' very public buildings are carted off a thousand miles and set up for sport or jeer a." USION MEN' AGAIN"ST THE PROJECT. The protests are not all, however from sympathizers with the Lost Cause. Here and there a Union officer, whost memories of Libby are principally tho? of personal suffering, has joined in the protest. The ground taken is that Libbj orison is one of the saddest memories oi the entire war. To turn into a museum for the delectation of the vulgar crowd a building sacred by reason of suffering and martyrdom for the holiest of causes would be wrong, is the plea of the Northern officer who doesn't want to sec Libby prison moved. Here is whal Captain James Stewart, of Pittsburg, the last Union officer to evacuate Libby, says in a recent interview r "To take it now and turn it into a money-making show would be an insuli to the South and a degradation to the North. I saved the old building once from being destroyed by fire, but if il I was rvnlv for a mnsenrn that I saved it ] am never going to claim any honor 01 credit again for the act. There -was a lot of suffering in that old building. Thousands of soldiers in this broad country were made old men before their time, and almost as manj ipore gave up life within those fou: walls. The memories of that time anc of those horrors are dead, even thong! they never can pass from our minds, anc to take that prison up to Chicago anc turn it into a war museum would surely create bad feeling and open up olc wounds. The citizens of the South are against it, and surely the North shoulc not encourage it." In a letter to the mayor of Richmond, Captain Stewart also says: "Pew, I wil venture to say none, of those who art concerned in the scheme, had anythint f a A a trri4*V? /\l/3 T .t ViVvrr nvi'n rr fimo V UV UV muii ViVA JLUVWJ UUXXJU^ W-.J-M.W -. was used as a prison. I am well ac quainted with a large number who wer< confined within its walls, and I do no know one who approves of its removal It would be no longer 'Libby prison. There would be no James river, n< Belle isle, no other landmark. Neithe: the remains of 'Pemberton' nor 'Castii Thunder' would form the association that were wont to greet our eyes whei inmates of far-famed 'Libby.' Thi prison without its associate surrounding would not be 'Libby' to the 'boys ii blue' who were from time to time con lined within its wa.ls. It might serve t* collect dimes and dollars as a ghastl; circus exhibition to fill the pockets o ?MJL?LI jj, cycvcuatvio Uigj that iiave conceived the selfish and de spicable idea of violating the sanctity o the soldier's sufferings and to many th very spot of their death." A UXIOX VETERANS OPTS'ION". The oldest ex-prisoner of var i ,, Chicago is Mr. Lee Mayer, of L. Simo; & Co., Monroe street Mr. MayeT h been for the last four years vie#* jrei dent of the Veteran Union I?I TO is one of the very few Union officers nc residing in Chicago who were impriso: ed in Libby, and his incarceration : that prison was one of the longest&1 namely, eleven months. He spent twe: ribf! ty months, all told, in various prison He belonged to the Twelfth Pennsy vania Cavalry, was wounded and ca] ec- tured at the battle of Winchester, ar 3 ; v - i _ i ~r "? - - ** x ? ^ uuimg xus stay at xiiDDy escaped twia but was recaptured both times, once t r0" bloodhounds. He was one of the famot sts 109 who made the tunnel escape, bi ad belonged to the unlucky fifty-five wh g ? were recaptured. He finally escaped i ' Columbia, S. C., just prior to Sherman 10" capture of the city. of Said Mr. Mayer yesterday to a Dail News reporter: "I am opposed to an ' such scheme as bringing Libby priso of to Chicago, and I should suppose an al- ex-prisoner of war would be. This mai on ter was talked over among the veteran last Sunday, and the sentiment seemei ies to be unanimous that it was an unwis ho step. No ex-prisoner of war would car :ly to have the horrors pi twenty-five year ag? revived, as would be the case in thi instance. Although they might not have's been in Libby, still an ex-prisoner wh ae has suffered at Andersonville or Belli ecj Isle would have his own imprisonmen er vividly brought to remembeance ,ss Speaking as one who endured imprison ^ ment in Libby, I never care to go int< ^ the details of those horrible times. Th( * actual starvation, suffering and filth en dured are not pleasant to recall, but the] can hardly be exaggerated. What, then 2k is the use of bringing the old building v hore to serve as a perpetual reminder o: these things?" xe ' The shade of pain in the speaker'! I1. eyes softened, and he continued, with t smile: "As a commercial enterprise, I shoulc expect it to be a failure. After being lt taken to pieces and re-erected in Chicago sj it will be practically a new building. " There will have to be new mortar used, [? and I suppose is will receive a fresh coat of paint. This will not be the Libby prison of history. If they turn it into a museum and charge an admission fee there will have to be something inside le beside the bare walls. Why not get 5- some ex-soldiers who have* passed Ihrougn Andersonville, or other prisons, fiome without arms or legs, and show J 1hem as curios? But, seriously, the effect e of making a show of Libby prison and r- ]x>inting out to visitors the particular '8 rooms, etc., where our officers endured i- their greatest hardships, will be injuri^ ous, and not calculated to make the two o participants in the great strife mutually ? forgive and forget.'' it Political Driftwood. 6 Gen. Stewart L. Woodford- a nromi * nenfc Republican of New York, is in 0 Atlanta on professional business. In an a interview on Monday he said: "I am de> voting my time to the practice of my profession, and as a man cannot well 3 serve two masters, I let politics severely e alone. As a Repnblican, I have no B means of knowing anything about in" ternal differences in the Democratic 1 party, so I canDot tell yon whether there is any truth in the stories abont opposi: tion to the President in New York. I ' know that Governor Cleveland?I mean 1 President Cleveland?is very strong with 5 the business men of New iork, the men " with whom I am particularly thrown. ) Many Republicans, like myself, while 1 differing from him upon political 1 grounds, admire him for his honesty, his > integrity "and the faithfulness with which * he performs his duty as he cotfceives it; 3 and the opposition to him at the coming 3 election will not oe 01 a personal nature 3 at all?it will be purely political." ^ There are solid indications that the 3 Iowa Republicans and Prohibitionists of k the same State are on the verge of dis3 solving partnership. The Republicans * train with the Prohibitionists in the day i time and with the whiskey men after " dark. The Prohibitionists are tired of ~l this double dealing and propose to herd ) alone in the future. p Facts About Dogs. t Ex-Representative Horr, of Michigan, says "there are 11,000,000 dogs in this r country." 'Tis bat a few years since the . Secretary of the State of Ohio reported . that 40,000 sheep were killed or destroy5 ed by dogs in that State the year picvi^uo. jl i-ic uug kjbaro vj. Georgia also reported that 28,000 were killed or destroyed in that State year i previous. Vermont had in 1850 1,014,.. 122 sheep; in 1886 but 378,174. This J great reduction has been going on under J different tariffs, not only in Vermont but J in all the New England and many other r States, and dogs are the cause of it. E Now comes a Senator of New York State ?Pratt or Piatt, I think, is his name? and says that "two-thirds of the sheep industry of his county has been destroyed by dogs." Sheep raising is one of the important industries of the country, and the farmers have long sought protection from 5 dogs, but don't ge:i it. Annihilate them , and 11,000,000 more sheep than we now have will be added to that industry, and t reduce our meat bills 15 per cent., and ' woolen fabrics will be cheaper also.? s New York World. - Conspirators Arrested. ! Chablestox, S. C., March 7.?J. H. Bond, Mrs. Julia Bond, J. O. Bond, Dr. I L. M. Shafcr and his son, R. E. L. 5 Shafer, with others, were arrested here to-day upon the charge of defrauding r the supremo council of the Royal . Templars of Temperance out of $20,000, [ by feigning the death of John 0. Bond, t who is really alive. Mrs. Bond and I John O. Bond were discharged from I custody upon swearing that their names r on all of the papers are forgeries. Dr. i Shafer and son, J. A. Robinson, and J. } A. liobirson, Jr., were also arrested oil [ th.e oLa :ge of defrauding the same organization out of $20,000 by certifying to the death of the fictitious John R. [ Lyman. Dr. Shafer and con and John ? H. Bond were committed to jail in de' fault of bail. The Robinsons are out on [ bail in both cases. Dr. - James P. Bond and Thomas Bond, who figured in the a Dudley case, are also indicted. The ? conspiracy is one of the most remarkable ever known in this State. ? Eva Morris, the woman who played "Mrs. Lyman" in the fraud practiced by the Bonds of Charleston, to get insurance I money on the life of one Lyman, has made 3 a full confession. The two Bond brothers 5 and Dr. Shaffer have been arrested in 1 Charleston, and Morris is in jail in GreenB ville. Other developments are expected. 0 i m 1 St. Patricks Day is to be made the oc" casion this year in London of a political 0 demonstration, in favor of home rale of F a more extensive and representative chai* acter than any which have hitherto been 1 held on this ainiversary. # The Presbyterian Mutual Assurance Fund, of Louisville, has made an assignment. Assets- in the mortuary fund were *2o,000. The liabilities are between $50,jOuO and $00,000. q ">The Emperor William of Germany n laie&atS.30 o'clock on Friday morning. I I I . ' . . . . as ABOUT HEADACHES. aje Common Causes of tlie Common Coi ^ plaint of Everyday Lfcfe. n. (From the Cassell's Family Magazine.) in Probably one of the most comm< ? headaches, if not the most common, a" that called nervous. The class of pe j_ pie who are most subject to it are ce d- tainiy not your out-door workers. . id ever my old friend the jjardener had hs e, a headache it would not have been or y of this description. Nor does Darfr is the plowman, nor Jarve::, the 'bnsmai it nor Greatfoot the ganger, suffer froi o nervous headache, nor anyone else wh it leads an outdoor life or who takes pient 's of exercise in the open air. Bat poc Mattie, who slaves away her days in y stuffy draper's shop, and Jeannie in h? y lonesome attic, bending over her whit n seam?stitch, stitch, stitch?till far int y the night, and thousands of others c inHrtnr ornrlrino' r>lacc oro mai+rro>t s this form of headache. Are they alon cl -in their misery? No; for my Lad; e Bonhomme, who comes to have her bai e dress fitted on, has often a fellow feelinj s with Jeannie and Mattie. Her, how s ever, we cannot afford to pity quite s< e much, because she has the poster U 0 change her modus vivendi whenever sh e chooses. t What are the symptoms of the com i. plaint that makes your head ache so - Yon will almost know it is coming 01 3 from a dull, perhaps sleepy feeliEg. Yoi 1 have no heart and little hope, and yoi - are restless at night. Still more restless j though, when it comes on in full force , as then for nights perhaps, howeve; j much you may wish to, scarcely can yoi f sleep at all. . "How my poor head aches!" This 3 you will say often enough; sadly tc i vourself and hopelessly to those nea: you, from whom you expect no sympaI thy, and get none. And yet the pain is ! to bear, although it is generally confined > to only one part of the head. The worst of this form of headache lies in the fact that it is periodic. Well, as it arises from unnatural habits of life or peculiarities of constitution, this periodicity is no more than we might i expect. i If I just note down some of the most , ordinary causes of nervous headache people who suffer therefrom will know what to do and what to avoid. I will then speak of the treatment. Overwork indoors. Overstudy. Work or study indoors, carried on in an nnnatnral or cramped position of body. Literary men and women ought to do most of their work at a standing, lying down now and then on a sofa to ease brain and heart and permit ideas to flow. They should work out of doors in fine weather?with their feet resting on ~ J L1~ JJ J a uutu-u, uv\> uju Liie eartu?auu turner canvas irT wet weather. It is surprising the good this simple advice, if followed, can e:Tect. Neglect ol the ordinary rules that conduce to health. Want of fresh air in bed rooms. Want of abundant skin exciting exercise. Neglect of the bath. Over-indulgence ih food, especially of a stimulating character. "Weakness or debility of body, however produced. This can only be remedied by proper nutriment. Nervousness, however induced. The excitement inseparable from a fashionable life. THE WEIGHTS OF BRAINS. A Stndy that Is Important Because-of Its Bearing on Our Mentality. (From the Denver Republican.) The study of brain weights is inter esting because of its bearing upon the question of intellectuality. The average human brain weighs forty-nine or fifty ounces in the male and about forty-five ounces in the female. Great brain weight is not always associated with intellectual vigor, as is shown by the fact that an idiot is known to have had a brain of over sixty ounces in weight. But notwithstanding the evidence of such cases as that of the idiot referred to, great mental power is generally associated with a brain weight exceeding the average. Cuvier's brain weighed sixtyfour ounces; but Gambetfc.'s brain weighed less than the average woman's brain, which is, of course, peculiar because of his great intellecfcualitv. A strange problem is developed fcv a comparison of the average weight of the male and female brains -with 1;he minimum weight of each within the range of intelligence. The average weight of the female brain is about five ounces less han the average weight of a man's brains. If the weight of the brain were an infallible gauge of intellect the average woman would, so to speak, have five ounces less intellect than the average man. Bat the weight of brain in a man below which idiocy exists is about five ounces higher than it is in woman. This is what presents the problem. If, say, thirty ounces of brain in a woman save her from idiocy and thirty-five ounces ade xe^uiaii/e in a man, vrxiao ueuuLues ui man's average of five ounces of brain weight in excess of the average in woman? The conclusion seems to be that a smaller quantity of female brain is essential to intellectoality than of male brain. This is equivalent to saying that the female brain is of a superior quality. In contradiction of this the fact may be cited that in comparison with men but few women of great intellectual vigor have appeared in the world. If the comparison just made held true & woman with a brain of fifty ounces ought to be the equal of a man with a brain of fiftyfive ounces. Three Squatters Murdered. Wichita, Kansas, March 8.?Wm. Ant werp, Julius Quinn and Joseph George, living in Indian Territory, were burnta out of a log cabin on Sunday night and shot down by a mob of cowboys concealed in the underbrush. The murdered men recently went to the western part of the Territory and took .up a site for a claim on Rabbit Ear Creek, which they expected to make entry upon when the Territory is opened for settlement! The land they squatted ou was in the range of a cattle man, George H. Delaney. Delaney tried mar y ways to get the squatters to leave the country, but failed. People in that vicinity charge Delaney's men with complicity in the murder. A carious political complication is in Portland, 3Ie., where the Democrats are ardently supporting Neal Dow, the famous prohibition apostle; for mayor. They say they want to have prohibition given a fair trial before the county under the personal management of its most zealous advocate. The New York Herald continues to expose the "trusts" and combinations. The latest is a triple headed combine of the makers of watch eases, makers of works and jewelry jobbers to keep up prices to a specified standard. Another "trust" is that of the three leading spool thread manufacturers of the country who are working together to maintain prices. " TALMAGE TALKS OF SONG. n HE WANTS MOTHERS TO SING FO THEIR CHILDREN'S GOOD. )n 15 The Temptations of the Street Can b 0- Overcome in the Nursery?What Song: ] for the Sick and Destitute?A Patheti Home Picture. td In his sermon at the Tabernacle las ie Sunday Dr. Talmage said: '' *1'It is not so much what you fonnall; 2 teach your children as what you sing U p them. A hymn has wings and can fl; 1 everywhither. One hundred and filtj * years after you are dead, and 'Olt ;r Mortality' has worn out his chisel in re e cutting your name on the tombstone. ? your great grandchildren will be singing 0 the song which this afternoon you sing A T7r?riT? lifctlo nriM rrafTnerar) ahnnt. mm 5: knee. * "Oh, if mothers only knew the powei f of this eacred spell, how much oftenei the little ones would be gathered, and al] 0 our homes would chime with the songs 3 of Jesus! e "We want some counteracting influence upon our children. The very mo" ment your child steps into the street he steps into the path of temptation. There 1 are foul-mouthed children who would 1 like to besoil your little ones. It will 1 not do to keep your boys and girls in > the house and make them house plants; > they must have fresh air and recitation. r God save your children from the scatii1 ing, blasting, damning influence of the streets! I know of no counteracting in5 flaence but the power of Christian cul) tore and example. Hold before your : little ones the pure life of Jusna; let ' that name be the word that shall exer[ cise evil from their hearts. Give to your 1 instruction all the fascination of masic, morning, noon and night; let it be ! Jesus, the cradle song. . "This is important if your children ! grow up; but perhaps they may not. 1 Their pathway may be short. Jesro may ; be wanting that child. Then there will be a soundless step in the dwelling, and the youthful pulse will begin to flatter and the little nands will be lifted for help. You cannot help. And a great agony -will pinch at your heart, and the cradle will be empty, and the nursery will be empty, and the world will be empty, and your soul will be empty. No little feet standing on the stairs. "No toy scattered on the carpet. No quick following from room to room. No strange and wandering questions. No upturned face, with laughing blue eyes, come for a kiss, but only a grave, and a wreath of white blossoms on the top of it, and bitter desolation, and a sighing at nightfall with no one to put to bed, and a wet pillow, and a grave, and a wreatn of white blossoms on the top of it. The heavenly Shepherd will take that lamb safely anyhow, whether you have been faithful or unfaithfal: but would it not have been pleasanter if you could have heard from those lips the praises of Christ? I never read anything more beautiful than this about a child's departure. The account said: 'She folded her hands, kissed her mother good-bye, sang her hymn, turned her face to the wall, said her little prayer, and then died.' "Songs in the night! Songs in the night! For the sick, who have no one to turn the hot pillow, no one to put the taper on the stahd, ho one to put ice on the temple, or pour out the soothing ai?A.\JKAJ lAVj ULUiA^J. VUU V/UVViAUl TT V1U yet songs in the night! For the poor, who freeze in the winter's cold and swelter in the summer's heat, and munch the hard crusts that bleed the sore gams, and shiver under blankets that cannot any longer be patched, and tremble because rent day is come and they may be set out on the sidewalk. "Christ is the everlasting song. The very best singers sometimes get tired; the strongest throats sometimes get weary, and many who sang very sweetly do not sing now; but I hopeby the grace of God we will, after a while, go up and sing the praises of Christ where we will never be weary. You-know there are some songs that are especially appropriate for the home circle. They stir the soul, they start the teais, they tura the heart in on itself and keep sounding after the tune has stopped, like some Cathedral bell which, long after the tap of the brazen tongue has ceased, keeps throbbing on the air. Well, it will" be a home song in heaven, all the sweeter because those who sang with us in the domestic circle on earth shall join that great harmony." Large Gift for Negro Education. The trustees of the Methodist Church yesterday were in secret comcrence in regard to a recent windfall in the shape of $180,000. About a year ago Dr. E. ?L Gammon, a superannuated Methodist clergyman who had made a large fortune in the manufacture and sale of agricultural implements, and whose sympathies became awakened in favor of the education of the colored peoplo of the South, in connection with the Freedman's Aid Society, founded a theological seminary for the education of colored preachers of the Methodist faith near Atlanta, Ga. It was named the Gammon Theological Seminary, and the Rev. Dr TTiirVi^lrl- t.ViA snn-in-lAW r>f fchff bra ted .Bishop Gilbert D. Haven, was chosen d*a%of the faculty. Mr. Gammon had already given ?20,000 to the university, and, though he has no children, he has grandchildren. Last Friday he wrote to Judge M. B. Hagans. of this city, the president of the board of truetees of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and told him that he had made his will and intended to give $180,000 to the trustees for the maintenance of the seminary. The trustees gave Judge Hagans full power to act, and when he told Mr. Gammon that he had not much confiin tth 1 la +V?af. n?JWj UJ. IMJ MVV^UVUVIJ set them aside, and that the lawyers generally got'the greater part of the funds, and one bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, Mr. Gammon decided to pass over to the trustees the amount Defore his death, and made the assignment accordingly. The trustees of the church an i "he Freed man'a Aid Society agreed to accept the trust and yesterday afternnnri onnfprrc-r! in reir&rd to the matter. Within the next ten days everything will be satisfactorily arranged.?Cincinnati Enquirer, February 15. A Horrible Murder A horrible murder is reported from Pickens county on last Sunday night. Tom Alexander, a very well-to-do white man, living in the Crow Creek section of the county, quarrelled with his wife about putting wood on the fire. The wife struck at Alexander with a stick of wood, whereupon he seized an axe and dealt her a blow behind the ear. After the woman had fallen, he cut her throat from ear to ear with the same bloody axe. Alexander was a witness before the cororer's jury and testified that he killed his wife, but did so in self-defence. Dr. Earle, who examined him, expressed the opinion that bodily af Iiliction had made Alexander of unsound I mind. ' ?i?a^?M? ???a??I A REVOLUTIONARY RELIC. Discovery of Hidden Treasure That BT? Been Sought for Years. E . Several thousand dollars- in old gold coin in earthen pots were exhumed by Lorenzo Mears, on his farm in Accomao county, Va., last week. A tradition in -* the neighborhood says a large amount of c money was concealed on the farm during the American revolution by its- Tory it proprietor, who, having gone to England during the war, died there without fixing the spot where he had buried the money. f Not many years ago some of the d?- * d scendants of the old Tory proprietor j came over here and spent several hun- 6 dred dollars in making excavations in a 7 fruitless search for the money. All the 1 ground around the old house was thrown . up and deep trenches were dug around the yard, signs of which still remain. It ' is said that these Englishmen brought ?> I over with them an old negro who had r been a servant of the Bevolutionary pro. prietor, and who professed to know where his master had buried the money. The Englishmen finally gave op Uie search and went back to Eagland. I Nothing more was heard of the treas1 ure until Mears accidentally struck upoa. 1 it while planting some fence post around the yard. Mears tried to keep'the matter a secret, bat a little boy who lives with him went to the neighboring village of Pungoteagne and let the secret out. He informed some persons there tiaat bis "Uncle Benzie" now had piles of money, having -recently dug up an iron pet full of gold and silver which two stout men could hardly cany. Mears Tviil not talk about bis find, but to-dav showed several gold coins to his neighbors. These coins are old English money, some of them being stamped with the image of Charles XL, others with thai of George HI. The place where the treasure was found was one of the oldest on the eastern shore of Virginia. Two hundred and fifty years ago it was seat cf the Qaeen ' of Nandua, an Indian beauty, who ruled over the savage tribes that inhabited that region. Near by is the burial ground of the Nandua Indians. The creek has cut away the earth till many of die skeletons are exposed to view, and as the bank caves in from time to tima the bones fall down into the water and drift with the ebbing tide out into the bay. Some of the skeletons are of giant size, and many of them are buried in coffins that were . . _ hewn out of solid logs. These whiteniDg iU J J- I XT > on.ucuj.up, ao tuojt prufcruut! iroia me siae of the cliff, present a ghastly spectacle, SLAVE MARTS DEMOLISHED. Evidences of the Old Older of Thiogs Being Abolished. Workmen have begun the demolitioa of probably the most historic building in Nashville, that known as the old alave . mart, on the southwest corner of Cherry ana ueaar streets, in oraer to begin the * ' . i erection of a large block* which will , r: ^ comprise a hotel, stores and offices. The buildiDgs extend from the old Freedmen's bank building, on Cedar * ~7 , street, to the corner of Cnerry street, and thence np Cherry to the alley. This block is an old landmark, having been erected away ba^k in the thirties. Since the war t'iie corner has not bcrne the best reputation, as several very serious affrays have occurred there, and at times a portion of the block was used as a dive ? by rough characters. Many a raid has r . been made by the officers on the dens located in the block. The block is historic, beeanse used as a slave mart before the war. In the rear of the build ing there is a high brick wail enclosing a court -where the tlaves used to exercise and where they were exhibited to purchasers. The iron bars are still on some of the doors, and the windows bear evi- . . -T'r^p dene? of the character of the building. The main auction room opened out on Cedar street. This, however, has been divided into small stores. There was, in olden times, two other slave marts? ~ one on Cedar, between Cherry street and the public square. This has been tibm away and aii evidence of it destroyed. The other one was on the corner o? Cherry and Dead wick streets, and the ' high wall that surrounded the court now stands. m .? * The Jiew Revenue Carter. . " ' *? The following is the text of the recent bill introduced by Congressman Dibble, and passed by the House of Representa uves lor i iie construction ox me new cutter for Charleston harbor: _ . ~-5 That the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, if so much be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise ||g appropriated, for the purpose of building a new revenue cutter to be stationed at Charleston, South Carolina, for service on . 4 the south Atlantic coast, in the place of the Unfted revenue cutter McCulloch, now iu so dilapidated a condition as to be unequal to the lequirements of the service. Tbe opinion of Secretary Fairchild of the treasury in reply to an inquiry made by the committee on commerce, to whom the mat- ~^sl ter was referred, was substantially as follows: You are respectfully informed that the McCulloch patrols the coast of South CarAlino f fA the assistance of commerce and the protection of the revenue. She was purchased from the war department in December, 1S68, and had l>een known as the Mosswood in that service. This yes-sel was recently examined by the superintendent of construction, and consulting engineer, United States revenue marine, who roucd her hull very badly decayed and boile.r almost worn out., the engine being the only part capable of beine repaired at mederate *cost for continued service; they therefore report that she is 'in || such general bad condition, or so illy adapted to the service, - they are of the opinion sne is not vrortny ot naving any large sum of money expended on her for repairs, and recommended that she be replaced by a new vessel of modern type in * . every respect at the earliest practical date." It is believed that this vessel can be replaced by a new one of suitable form of construction for the sum of $75,000. The bili submitted is herewith returned ? for such action as may be deemed proper in the premises. ?. The promptness and dispatch with which * this measure has been accomplished by Mr. Dibble will be certainly remembered ana appreciated Dy uie people ot Charleston. ?Charleston Sun. Died According to Agreement. Chicago, March 8.?A very sensational suicide was brought to light in the Japanese building in iS^te street this morning. About 6 o'clock the janitor noticed a light in the rooms occupied by the manicure establishment of Mrs. Cobb, and forcing his "way i.ito the place he found the body | of Miss Gracie McCullen, the manager of the manicure rooms, seated in a chair. When the coroner arrived and took pos- . \ cacciAn <rvf ? taaw V? a f A v/a. tj.iv wvui xjc iuuuu ocvcm letters. One was from "W. S. Hartwell, the ex-auditor of the Northwestern Railroad, j who committed suicide yesterday morning. _ 1 It was written just previous to his death, ;:nd in it the writer said that when Miss McCullen received the letter he would be ' 1 dead. -n Another letter, written by Miss McCullen, said that she died in pursuance of an agreement with Hartwell. A clean shirt is not a bad bosom friendj