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VOL. XV. P~1IUh1ENS, S. Ui., TIIS1)AY, JT, ,l MOUNTAIN MEAIDOW. ONE OF THE ATI'ot'to't's t'IM11ES OF TIE WEST. A Story 'Thrillinigly Retold--Nearly (ne u1111. dred Emnigrant" Mlaughterd and $70,O(N) .Worth of Properly Stolen.-'TIhe lieN Ilorri bly Mutilated, Itte. In a work relating to Indian history, by J. P. Dunn, Jr., recently published by the Harper's, the Luthor gives a vivid and authentic sketch of the atrocious f Mountain Meadow massacre, the thought of which excites burning indignationl to-day, although nearly thirty years have passed since this dark stain im American annals. As illustrating the savage spirit which incited this horriblo Crime, the - writer quotes from a sermon of Brighm Young, published in the )esertet News just prior to the wholesale murders. Young tells his congregation: "I could refer you to lots of instances where men have beent righteously slain in order to atone for their sins. I have seen scores and hundreds of people for whom there would have beent a ebance (in the last resurrection there will be) if their lives had been taken and their blood spilled on the ground as a 1i1mokinsg incense to the Almighty, but who are now angels to the devil until our elder brother, Jesus Christ, raises them uip, com)iluers death, hell and the grave. It is true that the blood of the Son of (od was shed for our sins, but men commit :sins which it can never remit." It was during the zeal which Young thus wrought amoig iis fanatics tlat the massacro occurred. During the sun1 mer of 1857 Captain Fameher's train, numbering fifty-six men aid sixty-two women alkd children, most of whom were from northern counties of Arkansas, at tempted to cross the mountains en route to California. At Salt Lake City the train was joined by several disaill'eted Mormons. In the train were thirty good wagons, as many nules and horses and 600 cattle. Their route lay through southwestern Utah, where the Mountain Meadows are located. In these meadows they camped on the 4.th of September. Here is, the national divide. ''hey were on the edge of the Pacific slope. They just began to realize their hopes, for they could almost look over into Cali nia, their ''promised laud." Oin Monday morning, September 7, ais they were gathered about the camp fire:, a volley of musketry blazed from the gulley through which ran the streamu that watered the meadows. Seven of the cx pectant, travelers were laint and sixteen wounded at the first tire. The men had been frontiermen too bug to 33ECOME PANIC STIIeKIN. The women and el ildren hurried to cover and the men returinemd the tire, much to the surprise of the masking assailants, who had expectcd to enljoy an unresisting massacre. 'llhe assailants were made imp of Mormis mnasked as Indians of Palm, Utter, Upper Pi-jEads and Lower Pi-Eads, and all led by John11 D. Lee, a Mormon elder. The response that the bloody wretches received to their fire drove thom back and they sent after reinforcements, and while waiting for the sanmo anmnsed themselves by pitching quoits, and occasionally shooting the cattle and firing uponi the wagons, which the travelers had to draw around them as a barricade and defemso. On Wed nesday" a young man namied Aden, a son of a henteiky p hysieiam, together with a companiion, succeeded in eluding the vigilance of time masked savages amid get ting out of the meadows oni their way to Cedar City, where timey hoped to secure aid. At lticlards' Sp rings they met three Cedar City men, Will iam C. Stew art, Joel White and 3enjamin Arthur. As they stopped to water their~ horses, Stewart SHOT AND) J(ILED ADEN, and White attempted to kill thie comi panioni, but succeeded only ini woundinig him, when lie escaped and made his way back to camp. His report tilled the emigrants with despair. Aden's father was known to have saved tihe life of a Mormon bishop, anid yet his soni hiad becai assaussinted by a M~ormnon. Already they had pierced the nmsks worn by many of their assauiant3 to discover that they were white macn-were indeed Mon mions, fifty -four in nunmber. Th'le Indians niumberedf 20)0. Th le besieged pr1eparedl a statement of their dlesperaite commlitio,n, giving as their belief that the Mormons were their real besiegers, directinig it to Masons, Odd Fellows anid leading religi ous* denioinationms. Wit hi this statement they dispatched three of their best scouts, directing themi to California. Thie scouts did not succeed ini (ldinig the vigilanmce of the murderers. Tlhey were runi down by Ira Hl-atch, ma Mornmon amnid a leaderm'i of a band oif Inidians, in (lie Sanita Clara jinountains. Two 01F THEM w~EnE MuUEaiED as they slcpt and( thme third was wounded, and a few days afterward aissassinmatedl. While time Mormons were awaiting re inforcementsm they knelt and foimied a prayer circle and asked1 for dlivinie gumid anec. After prayer onie oif their leaders, Mayor iHigbee, said: ''1 hamvo the evi dence of God's approval of our umission. It is God's wvill thant we carry out our ini structions to thme letter." In carrying out theso instrutionis they found it necessary to make use of tih< I)basest treachery." This they didl bym eiam of a white flag borne by Lee and William Iateman. "T'hey represented to the be sieged that time Indians wore terribly ex cited andl thirsted for revenge because of the loss of some of thoir cattle, and they promised protect,ion to the emigraunts ii they would unlconiditionmally anurrenider. There wmas no altermnative. Thei suppillici of thme emigrants were giving omit, and inasmuch as the Mormons were the only white people in Utah, there was no hopt for mercy from anmy other source. The. terms wore acceptedi, and on the1( morn-. ing of Frnidauy; Septemmber 1.1, thmey gavc up all their guns and aniununmition, "ani( then placed tiemnselves wholly in th<~ power of those whose appetite for b)lood. ihed had but just been whctted. They mna,lhtd1 out from behind THE~ilB D iflRIcADlEs. The scene that followed is thins de. scribed by Mr. Dunn. ."It is just afternoon and1 tIme day i bright and clear. Tramp, tramp, tramp, they nmarch down from the campin 6 place. The men reach the militia and give three hearty cheors as thny take thei' p laces, amrderer and victim, side by side. Tramp, tramp, tramp. T pzo jrouDdiDR~ the Dpint of the x~g riyhwl A 1:Inrc at lie 31ide of Lifet of Ilie lldtwsa rgi.uln Fan)lie"a. (Fromt the Philadelphia Time.) Virginia's "first families" can be found all over the State, but nowhere in such purity andc1 antiqutity ats iln Stallord colun ty, the home of (overnor Lee. The county is not very large and by no means prosperous, but it stands first as the ex ponent of all that is conveyod by the ex pression ''F'. F. " Nearly every fami 1y here can trace its origin by lineal descent to the first E;nglisl settlers, while not a few can speak of their grent great-grand-fathers and grandmothers as lord and lady so-aid-so. The county is named after the famous earl of Staiford, and not a few of its people are descenided from the family of that nobleman. Be fore the war these peoplo lived in the style of nobility, if without its name, and now that the course of events has reduced their means they preserve Eng lish customs in all except the splendor which only wealth can afford. In the first place, each family has its little domain, and, however small, it has an imposing English name, just as if it were anl eardom. Somerset, ]iichiland, Aberdeen, Lennox and Waya:ide are a few of the names of small farmii houses nestling inl the Staflord pines and sulr rounded by thousands of acres of par tially cultivated lands. These houses are frame, generally two stories high, and the poorest of them is surrounded by a lawn, through which runs one or more carriage drives. One would expect to see castles when coming in view of the beautiful lawns and the centuried oaks, and would feel disappointed at the little whito houses at the end of the drives: but there is a sort of rustic harmony in the picture after all. Seated in the veran dahs at evening and looking out, on the oak-canopied swards, you would forget the absence of the castle, and, if you were an Englishman, fancy yourself amidst the lime trees on one of the grand old estates across the water. TilE nOME OF (iOVERNOn LEE. The former home of Governor Lee is called Richland. It is like all the estates in the county--a two story frame house, a large lawn and several hundred acres of anything but rich land. here the Governor's ancestors have lived for hin dreds of years. Of course, the Lees can trace their descent to titled Englishmen; at least, all books of heraldry make it out so. At a distance of a few miles is Somerset, the home of the Moncure family. The present Mrs. Moncure is a granddaugliter of the famous Lady Spotswood, whose portrait hangs in the capitol at Richmond. This family has lived in Staflord county for nearly two hundred year:. All its deeeased meml bers are buried in the graveyard at Aquia church, and a tablet near the pulpit coin tains the rather royal inscription: "Satcred to the memory of the raec of Mloncure." There are about one huu dred and fifty members of the fanily inl the county. The women, taken all in all, are the most beautiful the writer has ever seen within the same area. They seem to have inherited in a remarkable degree the queenly beauty of Lady Spotswood and some of them bear a close resemblance to her portraits. The Waller family, a little further up at Wayside, is related to the Lees and trace their origin to the sanie source. The first of the Scotts came to Staftlord from England to take charge of Aquia church. lie was one of the unfortunate class known as noblemen's sons, and was assigned, as is usually the ease, to the mnlnstry. One of his descendants is Congressman W. L. Scott., who passed his boyhood on the Stafford hills. Mr. Scott lias not forgotten his old home amnidst his Pennsylvania millions. A few months ago lie sent twelve hundred (dollars to the Inastor of Aquia church for the isrpose of repairiing the old build ing, and is niow conitempjltiing a trip to the home of his distinaguishied ancestors. The names of all the families whlo have lived in the counity sinee the anite-lievo lut.ionary days woul fill a half cohunni of the Times, and although they eanniot all claim titled progenitors, they are thle very first of the ''1F. F. V.T" SOME NONSENSE ALLJ:EPE. A groat (deal of nonsense hats been written ab)out these "'first families." They are usually represented as thriftless, vain and scornful to all outside the magic cir cle of their society. They lack, it is true, much of tho energy a'nd goaheadi tivenecss of the Northern man, but it must he remembileredl that most of those yet living were brought up under conidi tions that pasralyzed energy. With large estates antd hiundreds of slaves they hiad no0 notive for exertion, and now t.hat the war has swept awvay all their wealth, they must change theiir very natu rcs b efore they ean become the pushing b)usiniess mon who bunild upl comimunlities. The niew generation is growing upl quiite dif ferent, anid it is more than likely that when they come to the fore the Vrginia farmer wvill 1no longer let his acres lie useless or half cultivated, "The faict is that the landholders in Stafford county are yet in a dazed state over the results of the war. TIhey can hardly realize the change, or if they have they think it is too late in life to start out afresh. As to the "'proudl, scornful women"' of the "F. F. V.," it is a pity to strike a blo0w at the p)ictuires which ihave beeni drawn by imaginative writers, anid whtichi have long been regardo(d as genuine in the North, still the pictures have no p)rototypecs in real life. Fveryone has read thoso fanciful stories ab out rich and cultured Northerners sucing for the hand of poor Virginia- girls and being refused, solely 1becauise they didi not be long to the "'F. F. V." Tihese tire veriest bosh. H-ere animg the very toldest Vir giniia families there are many marriages eveiy year be(tween~i Northernt meni and Stafferd woimn and v'ice versa. The society line differs from flint in the North only3 in this part icuar , that liere wealth wi~ithlout enultutre is institicienit to gaini entrane inito soeiety, while ini other placees it is sometimes quite siinicienit. On the other hand, culture, even if un accompaniied with ia dollar, will openi to a iumn the best houses in the county, purovidiung, of course, that lie hats the usual recommiienidation of respiectablility. L1Icl Willie prayed long anid inecfctu ally tor ai lifttle bruot her. At last lie gatve it tip as "nso us,.'' Scont after hIs mot her had thle lea(sur e of showhig luim twIn hai hies. Iii looked at them a moment anid then exlaimued: "1 low luicky it was thait I stonned praying! There mIght have been IILEA.lt IN (ON(:I E8. I rsoninl ('hanrneteri,aic,, of 1'ntrick li-ry, 11nantiltona, Lee-, W)ebs ter, C'lay, anid Sergenst h'. 1*rcrutinN. (ien. 1'crley l'oore. in the Cunuftaqum.) Patrick Henry, the great Virginia ora tor, called in his day "the ])emo tiencs of America," is decribed as having been nearly seven feet high, with a slight. stoo) of the shoulders, his complexion dark, sunburned and sallow, his fore head high, his blueisli-gray eyes over hung by heavy eyebrows, aid his mouth and chin indicative of firmness. His delivery was natural and well-timed, and his manners were dignified. le spoke with great deliberation, never recalling or recasting sentences as he went along, nor substituting a word for a better one. His voiec was not remarkable for itx sweet.less, but it was firm, and he never iidtulged in conltiniuous and deafening vociferation. E,verv schoolboy is familiar with his wonderful appeal to Congress to oll'er armed resistance to (1reat Britain, ending, "Give mne liberty, or give me death." Richard Henry Lee, measured by the classic stanlard of oratory, was the Cicero of the Continental Congress. 1'he cultivated graces of his rhetoric, we are told, received and reflected beauty by their contrast with his colleague's grand er eflusions, his polished periods rolling along without efh)rt and filling the car with the most exquisite harmonlly. Samuel Adams, of Massaclmsetts, who had been known as 'the great incen diary" in New England politics, became the guiding intellect of the Congress. Yet it does not appear that. either lie or his colleagues took a prominent part in the debates--wise counsels, perhaps, ac complishing as much as eloquence. He was at that time fifty years of age, and his form was slightly bowed, while his long locks were gray, but his clear blue eyes flashed with the fire of youth, and courage was stamlpel on every feature. Alexander Haniltont, of New Yolk, small in stature, possessed a mind of im mense grasp and unlimiit-d original re sources, of such rapid thought that he seemed at times to reach his conclusions by a species of intuition. He would catch the principle involved in a discus sionl as if l)y instinct, and adhere rigidly to that, quite su-e that thereby the de tails were certain to be right.. Rufus King, one of his colleagues, was the pos sessor of aln ueoninonlly viforous mind, highly cultivated by study, and he spouke with dignity, conciseness and force. His argunents were so logically arranged that as they had convinced him they carried convietion to others. John liutledge, of South Carolina, was probably the most cultivated orator in the Continental Congress. II is ideas, iansey tells us, were clear and strong, his utterance rapid lit distinct.; his voice, action and energetic manner of speaking forcibly inipressed his senti ments on the mnds and hearts of all who heard him. At reply he was quick, instantly comprehending the force of an ob jectionl and seeing at once the best mode of weakening or repelling it.. During the first fifty years of the ex isteuee of the ''Senate and House of iepresent atives in Congress A ssenbled,," unler the Constitution, there were no verbatim reporters, and the Congressioni il orators loured forth their breathing thoughts and burning words in polished and eloquent language. ]Busiess wias transacted in a 'oniversat ional maunne, and wihen set speeches were occasionally muade they were listened to wit,h atten tionii. The first writteni spmeech readl in the United States Senate was by the lIon. Isaac lill, (of New Hiaiipshi'ie, aL firm supp)horteAr of Geni. ,Jackson. When about half through lie suddenly lost the tIhreadu (if his dhisco urise and sto pped, evi demitly embarrassed. lbis waife, who sat in the gallery almost directly over him, compruehended the situationi, and said ini a vce heard all over the Senate Chamn her, "'Mr. H ill, you've tiurned over two leaves at once" He[ imimediatel y cor reeted his mistake and proceeded wvith his remarks amid a roar oif laughter-. 1Daniel Webster was not an extemplo raneous speaker, and he always prepPared immiself with great care for his spieehes in tIe Senate and his arguments before the Supreme Court. Always enreful ab out Ilus pesomnal apipearance whenm lie wvas to aidress an aiudience, lie uLsed1, after lie lad reached tIhe zeniith of his fame, to wear the costume of the Britishi Whmigs--a blue dress-coat with 1brighit buttons, a bull' waistcoat, black trousers, and a high, white cravat, with a stand ing shirt collar. A man oif conmnanding piresenice, with a well knit, sturdy frame, swarthy features, a broad, thoughtful forehiwad(, courageous eyes gleaminmg from b menath shanggy eyeb rows, a quand rang ular breadth of jaw-hione, and( a moncth whlichm bespoke str-ong will, he stood like ai sturdy Rouulhead senmtinmel oin guard lb-fore thme gates of the Constitution. Holing in profound contempt what is teramed sp read -eagle orr tor-y, hiis only ge-sticulationis were up-and-own motions of his right arm, as if lie was heating out with sledge hammnei-s his forcible ideas. Henry Clay wasui formed b y nature for a popilular oratoi. li e was tall andu thin, with a rather smiall head and gray eyes. If[is nose was straight, his upper lip long and his under jaw light. His mouth; oif ge-ner-ous width, straight wh-len lie was silent, and curving upl at the corniers as lie spoke ori smliled, was singular-ly wa in ning. When lie enchlanted large audii ences his features were lighted upl biy ai pleasimg suiule, the gestuores oif his long mrmus wiere gr-ae-fuil, and1 the gentle neenmt. of his imellow v'oice were p)ersua sivye and1 wiiing, or terr-ilie in anger. IIlis friends were legion, and they cluig to him with unidying affetion, while his ataigoniists neveri madi(e peace withI him. JIohnu Quincy Adatllma wrote in his diary that the " oratoical encouniters 1betweeni Clay and Calhoun are tillhputian mi micr-y of th e orations against Ctesiphon and tIhe (Crown ci the debate of the second Phil I ippic." Sergeant Smith Prentiss was undoubht edly~ the most eloquent man who ever (11 add5esse tIe United States H ouse of Represeiitatives. A carpet -bagger from Mamne, lie wient to Mississippi p~oor amid friendless, and not only became foremost among her sonsa, but acquired a national reputation, IIe was, ideed1, ai remark las sorved is a screen for. the Mormons and Indians for the past weok. A raven flies over them croaking. What called him there? Does ho foresee that he shall peck at the eyes of brave men and gentlc women who are looking at him? The wagons with the wounded and chil dren are pasning the hiding place of the Indians. How quietly they lie among the gnarly oak bushes! But their eyes glisten and their necks stretch out to see how soon their prey will reach them. The women are nearly a quarter of a mile behind the wagons, and the men are much further behind the women. A half-dozen Mormon horsemen bring i the rear. Tramp, tramlp, tramp! The wagons have just passed out of sight over the divide. The meni are entering a lit tle ravine. The women are OPI'0si" TlE INDIANS. They have regained confidence, and several are expressing joy at eseaping from their savage foes. Sec that man on the divido. It is Higbce. He makes a motion with his arm and shouts some .lling which those nearest him under stand to he 'do your duty.' In an in statut the m1iilitia men wheel and each shoots the man nearest him. The In diais spring from their ambush and rush upon the women; from between the wagons the rifle of John ). Lee cracks, and a wounded woman in the foremost wagon falls off the seat. Swiftly the work of death goes on. Lee is assisted in shooting and braining the wounded by the teamsters, Knight and McCurdy, and as the latter raises his rifle to his shoulder he cries: '0 Lord, my God, re ceive their spirits; it is for Thy kingdom that I do this.' " ''hie tomahawk, and blhidgeon, and knife soon completed the bloody work begun by the bullet, and in a few minutes after Iligbee's signal not a man or woman was left alive. Two girls were missing, and were soon found concealed in some neighboring bushes. Two of the Mormons-and Lee was one of them--dragged the trembling and HALU' DEAU GInLS from their place of concealment and ravished them, then Lee ordered them1 killed by the Indians. An Indian chief objeeted, saying "they were too pretty to kill; let us save them." While this objection was being made Lee held one of the girls on his lap. She threw her arms around his neck and implored for her life, promising she would love him always if le would but let her live. Ilis answer was to psihi her head back with one hand, when, with the other hand clasping a bowie-knife, he cut her white neck through to the spine. This finished the slaughter as awful as were the Sicilian vespers. The bodies, horribly mutilated, were left upon the meadows a prey for wolves and buzzards for weeks, andl it was not tutil some mouths had elapsed that the whitened hones were gathered together and buried. Sixteen or seventeen children, ranging in age from a few months to eight years, were divided up among the Mormons, and so was $70,000 in proper t-,y which the emigrants possessed. Th1e little children were subseqluently secured by Gentiles and restored to Arkansas, but the ''strong parental government" has never compelled the cut-throats to disgorge the $70,000 and restore it to the sIuvIvOl-s OF TnE MASSACnE, most of whom have always been in des perate need of it. A strange secuence to the awful mas sacre is the fact that Mountain Meadows, from being a verdant spot in 1857, in viting the fatal halt and rest of the cni granlts, has become sterile and barren, literally the abode of desolation. The only atonement ever offered for the crime was the shooting of Jolin D. L,ee at the scene of the massacre on March '23, 1877, nearly twenty yesi after the crlime was committed, and after lie hiad confessed [liat on that bloody occasioni lie himself took five lives. Thec responisibility' for the crime was at every Mormon ofhCial's dloor', and Birigham Young was their chief. They ought to have all swung for it. Presidenit ,John Taylor, George Q. Cannon andl other Morimin leaders ought now~ to be arrest ed and tried, not for polygamy, b)ut foir the Mountain Meadlow miiasacre, anid ought to be hung. They could all he conivicted of being accessory, not only after, but before the fiact. ls Lnger fleer an intoxicnant I A stone cutter, whose ofilce adjoined his stone-yard, was seated in his office when a friend called iupomi him, and they di scussedl several topics togethler, among them the question as to what extent lager beer was an intoxicant. The stoiie cultter maintained [hat beer was not in toxienting, while his friend mnaiintained the opposite. The stone-cutter said, there is a man at work in the yard (pointing to a brawny-chested German) who could drink a bucket (three gallons) of beer at one sitting and feel none the worse for it. The friend doubted, and( a wager was made and the workman called, who when asked if lie could drink that bucket (pointing to a large water bucket) full of beer at onc sitting, r'e plied: "'Vell, I don'd knowv; I lets you kno1w after a vile." Th'ei German went away, and after remiaining fifteeni maintes, returned, and said1:'' "es, I can trink (lot peer." 'Thle bucket of beer wias procedt aind placed before the Gor man, wh'lo very soon1 absor'bed the last drop, anid arose fromii his seat, wiping his muthl with his sleeve, and was walking away with a firm step), when his empi~loy er recalled haimt and( said to him; "'See here, my frienid, anid I have some curi osity to kno1w why you did inot drink the b eer when youn were fi rst asked.'' T1hie Gernman replied: ''VeIl, IL don'd know (lot I could trink it, so I vent out und trinik a buced, den I know I could do it."-W-i., in Harper's Magazine for ~July. A Fi~nr Ixachange. Mr. Warner Miller' is very mumch alarmed about the rice birds. Th1ey are', ho thiniks, destroying abouit $7 worth of rico for ov'ery acre raised. It is a1 little atran go, if this be so, that tihe Senators from South Carolina and Loisianma <ti not comeh to the front. According to the best of our recollection, the State of New.York is not much given to the pro duction of that cereal. As a genieral thing, local interests are looked after by thiose who are supposed to have some first-.hand knowledge of the subject. Perhaps Mr. Miller will take in Land alligator foee, and that hereafter one 'of the T?aimetio or Magnolia Seonators will lo1, mto wood..- ip.-Ohi.,g. able orator, his intellectual endownients p)resenting a remarkable exaimle inl which great logical powers and the most vivid imagination Were imppily bIlended. As Dryden said of Hlalifax, he was a mian "Of piercing wit and pregunmt thoiught. iEndued b y nature and hy leaaIing taught To Iltve assembliaes." The great secret of his oratorical success was his readiness. I l never seemed at a loss for an 'p)igriam or ia retort, and his impromptu speees were the best. Thomas Corwin, of Ohio, was noted for his humorous spceccln-s, especiall one inl which htle merilessly ridiceid a lawyer holding a militia cnaitIission, who bad undertaken to criticise the mair tiatl exploit-s of (ten. liarrison. .it was with him, however, a sthject of regret that he had ever said a funny thing in debate, and lie used to advise his young friends never to make humorous sp)cech es. "A man," said he one diy, "m11ust he funny or wise. You will rise higher in the long run to be wise. 'This repu tation of mine for lninor hangs aibout my ieck like the body of death. It is the Nemesis which will haunt iame to my grave. Shun it while you may." Steplhenl A. I )ouglass was a short, thick-set mal, with a florid, cleal-shtvell Comlitenlaice, iandl at nertuvus ii aiunmer. which nale lin atitactive to friend anal toe, antt gainietd for him the soiniat of "The Little (iant." -i1is iiind was capa ble of grasp inag, amylvzing iad ciieicitt mig the most abstracl, an d dillicutlt sib jeets. 1He had a deep)-tomtd voice, atnd his gestures were energetie and some what graceful. We 1nay not h:tae the e<las of Pat riek Henry, Saiuiel Adiais, .lohnI itledge, Webster, Clay, ('alhaimil or Plreitiss, lit as it whole tlie ('1ongressiaoin: aiiaor of to-day is far superior to that oat the n rti. or the distant, past. Verlatiin rea tat ing hans proved ia great injury to Coti gressional oratory. li the thlein time the Senatttors and Bep)re,eitat iVes wo)ub1,1 listen to those who were site:,king witlh the attention of asse iia;ics of trin:ed crities. When verbatit reports of the debates were nmade and printed, the"e Congressionial listenaers were no longer to be found. A Stinator or liel,reseiit:tive who had Carefully lreatred hiimself would, as lie comtinmenead his ;lspehi, see his audience t enagiied in every other way than listening to Iaas accents. S,)mIe wo)uld be inl grmps clattiing, others would be reading newis)apIs or lboa ks, alnd the rest inditinig epistles or iiiret.ing public documents to their ctntituents. It would 1be ditlicult for him to a:1v winIt lie had intended were then)t inther stilimIns by which his tingie a n his patience wtere rendered iiie' 1iaustil, -i tlie reflection that ailthougli his wVoids were tailing liiele". upt:ni the e rs of his osteisible audiecie tIiy wa iild e re:t,a by attentive ^onlstitue ints at homie. I. i: to them that speccles inl Coing;re.,s have been addressed since the iit rodiltion of verbatim reportini;. (on gre:.:ilen Whi> were moted fm their chel, tte. n it ha home stumpl have fltoitaered th1roluglh written platitude.; "at the cptitital, often prepared for theim Iy selit jourialist foI it stitted Col)ensattoion1. T IE I1ltlitn I lat1 '1:. 11e it at F'ir.41 Amn..1ill -Then) Ge4.- 1.1runk nil i' l'anr,e.I Ilume". hvery city ini the caintry iiiil u ala anonlg its iihaliit:ants ai chis: of individti als known as whiskey poes. The whiskey I)oct. is at very adeceCnt :tort of a lerso,n until he gita drunk, aid then if IL house suddnily f[ll on ha iti he wuhtild nt be inissed. W1"hei he lIads himlself with ani alcaliolie stiuilnniant he likes to stani in aar room :uii itnaie po)et r;V to an aduirin;g mid hil ,tilcts ental wfiich div'ide their appralaiaina1 aetwlen 'ihela dirinks lie pays lair imdt hais ftLights oif fancy. (hn suchl acciasitans fthe whai',kt'y 1poat sars hifa upinto) the baliu empa)yreian andlt sitates ' tirat fntaun fthe stars, t i asa a general thing rieitis ataime little lpoemia of his own1, whlichi is very lanI, mial thenii expilains theheaimity tatfith' thoutight, whlich is a gaood deal worse.5~' .lie is never at hisa best, haowever, ui il lie e)xpresseto halis comimaiinis a deire' to kniowa the niamei t oflt the:ithlatr (at anl anioniymouls poiemt wh aitch haeaI dchm-l a toa lbe lte suimeiist anid maost ftciataag fthing ini the EnglislaInguiai, iand tiat-a prao eteds to uich fte i,ema in a gmve :ui mea'siuredt tonte. ]Iia u ne is''j soaleman, his eyes ree'k with sadnlIess, maaalahis g tures are like flhose taf a mani who tinks that this woriltd is t a imlt :al 1hitter pall. Wheni hl it' he thet flr'ecs'fitaa it- wantaf to knowal if ft' ptaema ia anot suitjma and thait it is flt' awefteat fltu: thtat avia smol(te thirm ('als, anal thaei ft' u lhake poet, enitlmsed lay thir i!msi'am, ttia sects th e pioeml, takest' if t tip:tas it wierei, paicks oaut the pathlos, wl hieh at th a d'chi-es goes staaight to thae hari, tahows haow true 1.o life it is, hiowi if. inva aIhe flt'auil, and finally hae weept's and aats to it hei hari keeper to set ont once naa,re fIle t inat't ti-e of insptiration. At.first the whaiskey 1(1 is tathert atmusimg, buat ini the couri.s: tat t iam li gets ias tdrunak as that proversbial batiltad 01w1, jumlies a hitefiry in a ntiadlin waly ad baecomeis so grail.a iriikena andl itdiotic that hais fr'iands realiza the aneces sity of caritiang haima tif to b;s li hme in ordler to prtevet taimt falling into fte tm brace of thae plice. isthalltery nat itit Itnh <a't'' ra'. If there is itne thaing mot(re t hant anthI er calculatedl fto shakihe dtown athe f tttteriing reminanmlt f ih which ia still lift fto tha woa'rldl it is that reearchestlaa oft ietleIt ia tltolgisfs. Genationif ofit Ennlihi:h mula, Americias anal it, ia d tiinmshd sttanigrs tali pa,ing thie u1tial fi aatfi ii respaet aid cuiiosaity itt ' maat afordi-on Avon hiatve exttiede their irinmgili'i ti, Shaotftry, iad aifter gazingia tat t he' tat ine w1heren Anni Hilhmay t wast hiith toa lhorn, wooedtis iandwo hAu av i''ni ai tway happ)ly imn thae belief fhlmt tht Itad 'tea alhe u.pot whaere Shaakeisparae wastake ini jutl a anrty othaer nmati inight have b et nI. IBut nihow somne raciorda sarebert' ai dliscove'trs tlaait Williama Shaaxhert marra'ied Anniie W\lndteley, of 'iT'mlet ( ratft an, anda explhains thant by a a "uiiouis meh(taonomvtt aco inmon tat the t imaes" Whteltey is mentia. 1,y a funnay wiay of h aIhttaway, wherei'as i'emloe (Graftoni eot ainos ano cou lndi. I ltencte Shottery hut anotIahng toa do with M~rs. Shakesearte. Naoboidy gains ama thing by the discover'y, if it is tine; hint, ton thin otht'r banad, comtmn deeceney de'. muandas thant it shiouldi hiave bteen left' huid deni till the poimnt conmierning the ideti.. 1yo hakespearco and Bacoan hafs bieen finaly leardun.... 11 Maln r iL.-t A 111-ni'"ro:l EO1iN. WIitI141holnet Dl. I. linnha n MonIIIded on 'e ernl Im porinnt ocaions. (olonel ). U. Sloan, of the National, lts at historic horn and ol beinlg asked the story connected with it furnished the following sketch: You ask me( for a2 history of the horn I blew as the cars brought, Jelferson Davis into the tnte City of the South. Well, to begin, this horn has been in iy possessin i a cIuarter of a century. Notice these sml:dl perforation1s through the shell. See how the worins have eaten it. Yet it retains its original mel low tone. This born was presented to mle by at 1nu who never saw or heard of ime inl his life; by at man I never saw or iea'd of till after his deatl. His ltle wa,s Kirkpatrick. It came about in this way. The gentleman lived near Charles ton, S. C., had been ia great hunter, was on his deatibed, and said to Strohecker, of Charleston, who was sitting by his side: ''Strohecker, there hangs a horn; I prize it very highly on account of its supenior tone; I feel that I shall never be able to solund it again; the delights of the (baso is all over with me; Stroheck er, take that. horn 11and give it to some good luinter for me and tell him I bc <lneathed it to him 1 as a dying gift." Strohec'ker promised, and thus 1 became the favored one, and 1. trust, if departed sp irits have cognizance of what we do here below, that the soul of liirkpatrick is satislied with his legatee. I have winded this horn in many ia hunt on1 the Blue lidge mtotnltains with that patriot, the 1est of muen , Wade Ihu1ton, with Alick 1 bIskell, the Taylors, Calliouis and oth c'r.i of Sothl Carolina's noblest sos11. I nllllde the seacoast welkin ring with this b1orn onl that mneloralb,le evening of se c'cs"ion ill Cha1rlestonl. I sounded it on Atlania's hills for Democratic victory 1 and1 Grover Cleveland, al 1 made it re- I sounll with IlIsty blasts on the triumphal i elitr y into the city of Atlanta of our old ('onfederate captain. I was1 a i:seccssionist inl the will, a South 1 Ca na recel, 1bit 1111 under reconstrlc- 1 tion n1W. 1 do not feel that 1. coml inittd treaiison1 against the general gov- I einllllent. If so, our fathers did the samle 1 inl the Rievolution; the samnle cllacss ex istc'dl, 1lilt anll inserutable I rovideiiee gave sucress io the one and defeat to the oth er. (lcscd doeth all things wel. 1 am1lt at Union 1111111 110W, andll should 31:s:saehisetts or South Carolina secede, I. Wuild ) help whip them back. '11he lost cause is dead and buried now. I revere its isites, and love the grand old chieftain who will soon follow it to thati h our'ne froml whence no traveler retunrnis. I honor him be ese le never flinched or fauiltered froin1 what lie believed to be h Iis dutty; 1 honor him because he wats ve stic11h and true to his trust. But we f -el that we are againl back in the lh 1:: of ur ftthers, and are here to otay; we feel Ithat the great i mner with its stars arce o(url stars, its stripes our Siril's; on"" 1m1oie we ('11n place our InIls ulp>n our011 hearts and say for the sthr-span,gled banner: ''Long, long may it wave," etc. Ilenceforth, its foes are our foes, its friends our friends. d1elieisonl Davis is no lohnger its foe. It was not thatt, hie loved the great federa t ion less, butt Ihat, ie loved the priicip les If 1t0 ('oifederne- mlore. Yes, I. love :1id honor this dying her, but (od for hidl that inl So doing I. shiotlld cast t I shaIle of dishonor or disrespect o1n my ('ounIt ry's flig. I teel as8 if, 1by th2e irn?, cst inilsil:.e of Ily natture, 1 coul grasp :ul,l hear1 aloft inl miy r'ight, hand mly ('1111lIry Scolors, ma witli my left hand 1 put ito ani1 honorab le grave thme loved i 1111na1 of .ell('r:,on a1vis, whlo soon must go. I cnterlainl no fe-elings of anlimlosity f11:s. i look dt-a\Urlheru 1upol1n. ohe with pi<1h'. They1 ar a( 1 gr'eat Ipeople11, a1 mo(st won1derfuil people'It. Ie 41.11s togt2h bihi up1 1a \nwr2id;an :overnmen('It so grandi(, 2 so1 gooud 11hat 1 lie hiIaivns ma12 y smile upon )1 12s, ma21 lie wlel wvorld gaz/. upon11 it, ini < Ilont t his hlorl I hotpe to1 1blow, it agalinl ni IM for .12 ( irovr C .levelan,d, 01r somle Ilhe l >enI 1( -n1I4' t.i( I nideni11t, 2(nd( if de( imwillows for1 11110he day'(113. O.neo be love then2, hlowever', I will take it dowvn Iodo, a1 name14 (of irriesistible love to very sonk (of South Calrolina and every bw who worC thed gra2y. D). U. SLOAN. --we. 'lh' (court1 (If ('banIcery in2 New dersey los juost. renidered an opinion 0 holding tImt a1 witn1e1s iln that~ State whlo swears1 by1 tllw 11ible is not)1 1)ound( to kiss the Tim1 only(easo she1 ga1ve fo the r.10iefusa*l was 21 that: hado "nIever' kissed1 the bl k." 51w was2( al1loweld by) the 1master21 2 toi t1s1ify, 1but.2 a2n)1tion waIs sublsequlent-J ly nauh-1, to sIirike (o1t her1 testimIony. 1 lb-re, is the, luw, 22s htid dlown 11y Vice: I d, (12 thle lilk- is ca11llioni by3 the witne11: tI witness5 I that: will spea:2k the1 truthI. Th rlit is form1)1I. 112 801l1m111 i)'invocation, 22lir1na2 11211 or1 dtelarat.ionl 1s 1th1 subsitance. AllI else is shardo,w. Th111 wilt aii> iniis ase wasSt sworn1112 with 11(r hiand uonl 1121 h1 < TI here can1 b)0 nio ldoubt lit, that2 it shel n22u1 a false state Ilwnlt wilIlully she is liabhle to indictmient tflr pjurJ12y. '"Ibit it is sa'idt that thius may be true un)1 yet thle cionisciencee of the witness not lit boiIiil, whIich is thte ob)jec1t of the lid th vi 'it ness hitiself rega(ird it? She is presun1221ia >ly awitniess, for' i: thing to thle .:onti rary' apears. She acecept5l the form it ,l jict ilons2, e2xcept kissing de bible. IlvIy ihi: act lon 1her par't the com-Ut is jus5 12ury, that( the witniess in(tenlded thlat heri [1onscence(' should 1be bound. Speaking from the, forumIlll of her' conscience, she declare 21:1utt2( it wias not) e'ssenitial to kiss till booitk inI order to imlpose upjonl hierself 2211 thet obhligaltionls of 1an 02ath."'--New Yorik lliraldl. A nmat I imniall authority says: "'Thetse twoIl s 8Wilt be1 sfef to follow ill all but . 21 fe:w e'xceptionaLl cases.5 : irst, for a wo 12)(1 to) refus marr11112iage with aniy man11 2 wh is12t ohjeeted t.o 1by heri malo re.latives 2 11rovIidedIi they 2are reaiso)naly we'll ac <puliiiid w ith thle oblject of srnppjosed I all'e(1etin; and1 , seconIdly, fori a 1:an2 to ringe.~ to a1 woma who12 V ( is no0t approved by his sister', or' if hie has nonoW, by his I1 j(idiii lady friends, 1XCAVATIONS AT POMPEII. ABOUT OaE-THIRD1 1 OF TIE CITY UW ('OVEREID. Whlait in to be Seen In a City Hurled by a Vol. cano--Wonders In Marble and Bronze, Skele tone, Frec*oc., Etc. A correspondent writes as follows to the New York Journal of Commerce: 1t seemne odd to speak of a dead city as i growing one. But that is exactly the ease with Pompeii. There are many cities in Italy that do not grow half as fast as the one buried by the ashes of Vesuvius 1,800 years ago. A person vis iting it at intervals of a year notices a, marked enlargement of its boundaries. The Italians, you know, are the cham pion diggers. They make the shovel fly when they attack the grave of Pompeii. We saw a gang of them at work there. A Government overseer watched them like a hawk. He wanted to be suro that they pocketed no jewelry, coins, or ob jects of art or utility yielded by the ox cavations. The only produce of their toil in that lmne as we stood by was a bit of iron, which the guide called a hinge, and the fragment of a small marble col mnn. The spades busily plied were gradually bringing to light a beautiful houso. The floors were mosaic, with simple but graceful designs in scroll iat torn-nearly as fresh of color as if laid yesterday. The walls bore frescoes of Fainter tints-grinning' masks, fawns, mpids, birds, fish and fruit. It had )vidently been the home of a well-to-do itizcn of Pompeii. The nervous move nents of the workmen betrayed their tmxiety. They were hoping at every noment to make a valuablo "find." Per laps they might hit upon a great iron hest, studded with round knobs like a )oiler, and full of gold, money or orna nents, or they might strike another vomider in marble or bronze, or they might b startled by coming suddenly lpon a skull or other human remains. [n the latter event, the work is suspend xl till a careful inspection is made. The responsible and intelligent person n charge proceeds to ascertain if the lead Pompeiian has left a mould of him telf or herself in the plastic ashes. If to, he prepares a mixturo of plaster of I'n ris, breaks a hole in the crust, and dowly pours in the liquid till the mould s full. When it has hardened, the cast .ng is tenderedly removed. Lo! there is I rough image, showing soeie poor crea ture in the agonies of death, prone oil the floor, face downward. Thus, most usually, were the inhabit ants of the looned city caught by the destroying angel. The skull, or leg, or arm, or whatever other part of the skole ton has not relapsed into its original <lust., may attach itself to the plaster cast in the proper phltee, or may requiro to be joined on by a pardonablo "restora tion." In either case, the effect is thrilling in its horrible reality. Nothing in painting or sculpture can shock the beholder muore than these self-produced ud truthful statues exhibited in the ruuseun, which is the first, and most nteresting thing shown to visitors. But, liotugh neither gold nor silver, nor the ninutest scrap of a skeleton, nor any hing else of importance was unearthed or my benefit, I quitted the new exca lations with rictance to exatilo those >arts of Pompeii with which the world s already famtiliar through the ledium )f books antd picturt"s. .1. found myself 1uite at home in the bakery, the win? itop, at the oil mnercalit's, at the houses >f JPansa, of Sallust, of the ''Tragic Poet," and the rest. The high stepping tones across f lie streets looked familiar, Ls if I had trodden them before. The leep ruts cut by the carts as they groan.. d up the hill, comning fronm the ancient gtlabia, were like friendly lanidmnarks. So ul.y have literature and airt umade us ac jlamited with this dlisinterredl cit.y. Th'le guidoe tells me that only about mne-third of P'omnpeii has yet been uin ~overed. 1 take his word for it. Ho is dlso of the opinkion thmat the btest parts of thxe city have already been dlug out. lie avidently wishes that the work would itop. lie is very humanhil ini this, for ho hinds it tiresome to show peop)le about the present Pompeii. Treble its size, Lnd his labor would bo0 threefold. And lie is forbidden to accept mone '. But I imagimo this very stern p)rohibition does tot prevent personis fronm offering him ~say) a couplle of francs on ''the sly," or uim from acceptinig them. 1t maiy b,e trute, ats our gluido insists, liat the tempi1les, forums, b)aths, theatres, md (kfno houses now above ground suir >aiss anything of the kind that may here tfter lbe discovered at Pompe1)ii. But tho [talian Government is not disposed to ake that for granted1. Lib)eral sums11 aro rearly ap)prop)riatedl to) push5 on tho work. Et bears fruit. A new tenmple or amphi, heatre may miot be struck every year, mlt something is constantly being turned 11) to instruct the world in the manners md1( customs of the old R1omans, so well effhected ini the representative city of 'omnpeni. Of b)ronzo or stone statutes, ioutsehiolt imlOnlnnts, and tools of ~radles, the yield is immense and steady.. theso may be counted by the thousand ni the splendid mnuseunm at Naples. One aan see so man,y articles of luxury and used exactly similar to those ho buys nowadays, that he is fain to pautLse and try to remember what besides the steam engine, the photog-raph, an:I the clectrio telegraph we mnoderns have invented. There being no mtore 1001m at Naples to store these treasutres, the exicess of them is huddled together ini the courtyards and houses of P'ompe)ii herself. It is estimaitted that at the p,resent rate this mine of antiquities will nmot be worked out in lifty years. An amutsinug story about Mr HI. 0. lichuards and Mr. 11 erbert Gladstone is going the rounds(l. "DoIJpend upon01 it, haira' anid gentlemen,"' said Mr. Rich ard s, at thme close of a speech at Southiend. thueother nighit, ''we shioutld never hiava, he urd of Mr. UIcrbert Gladstono if it had to. been for his father." And it is defually said that Mr. Richards was uin ,bsc for some moments to iuderstandi ViAy the audlience roared.-London igaro. A ('orre(spond(ent wishes to know how ditors spend their leisure hoturs. Leisure ours? Oh, yes, they sp)end( themt catchlD6 p with theIr work,