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'p .* zOr:: ~C J~ N 1 . C ~ 7 ' L R S A , O T B R 2 , 8 6 O 4 ~ < MR. DAVIS MAKES RmTOIT'I'. dtt1IiN; '1o Tl 8iiLlis o1 Gi W. T. $IIKCIMAI N. 'he resitdent of the Confederay lte Ilisltor in Kefutatton of the Charges of Shermaln, an . Fact. as to the ,nte Wpr Hetween the State, ''lie Baltimore Sun prints a letter, fiv _c(Iimns in length, from ex-Presiden Jerson Davis in relation to the lont a ding controversy between himsel a enoral V. T. Sherman. The let tet"i ted Beauvoir, Miss., Septembe: 1886, and begins as follows: t various times, and from many o Difhends, I have been asked to furnisl to Gon. W. 1'. Sherman's so cU iort to the War Department wh$e to United States Senato orderec pri Executive Document No. 36, Ftfly-oighth Congress, second semion. 4 have boon compelled by many causeF to postpone a reply to these invitations, and have in some instances declined, foi ' the time being, to undertako the labor. A continuing sense of the great injustice , done me and the people 1 represented, by the Senate making the nalicious as sault of General Sherman a public docu i mont, and giving to his slander the im portance which necessarily attaches to an executive communication to the Son ate, has recently causcd the request for a reply by inc to be presscd with very great earnestness. For this reason I have decided to furnish a reply for pub lication in the Baltimore Sun. The his tory of my public life bears evidence that I did all in my power to prevent the war; that I did nothing to precipitate the collision; that I did not seek the post of Chief Executive, but a.vised my friends that I preferred not to fill it. That history General Shermin u:;y slan .epudsly assail by his statements, but he pnnt alter its consistency; nor can the Republicans of the Senate change its un broken story of faithful service to the Union of the Constitution until, by the command of my sovereign State, I with drew as :ter ambassador from the Unifed States Senate. For all acts of my public life as P;esident of the Coniederato tates I am responsible at the bar of istory, and 'must accept her verdiet, which I shall do vithout the least appre hension that it will be swayed from the truth by the malicious falsehoods of General Sherman, even when stamped as an executive document by the United States Senate. Mr. Davis then recites the statement piade G nerll Sherman lef ore a gath p,ng of ex-t7mion soldiers in 1854, that ho (Sherman) had seen a letter from Mr. Davis to a United States Senator, ii which he (Davis) said that he ''would turn Lee's army against any State that might attempt to secede from tie South p n Coufedergey." Mr. Da)vi,; then rluofcs is letter to the St. Louis t:epub lican, printed at that time, denyiog the truth of Sherman's statement and the interviews had subsequently by reporters with f4hernan, to whom the latt< 1 said: !'This is an aflilir between two gentle iupn. I will take my time about it imd wfito to Mr. Davis myself. We will set f4othe'matter.bettween us." 'It ishardly necessary for me to say,' toptinued Mr. Davis, ''that General Sherman did not write to me, and we had not settled the matter between us $hcriyige th} I t;ettleil it by deupuime.: ng hus statement as falso and hin'elf as a slanderer. There the matter would have rested, so far as I was concerned. But when the War )epartmnent of the United States was made the elsLodian of * his slander and Republican Senators be * came its endorsers, and the stat'ments uado at Frank Blair l'ost were lifted , to ofilpial imotne, ithbecanm r duty sJibce :a mnysel f and to the people 1. rep fesented to follow the slanders with my~ denial arnd to exp)ose alike its author and ins endorsers." Mfr. Davis reviews at length the pro green of the controversy, reciting the de nial of every Senator from the Souther: ~t4tes that he had received such a lettem a s that'spoken of by Shierman, aind ac 3usm6~ Sherman of first tryi to suibsti 'tp p letter fromn Alexander 11. Stepheuin tHerschel V. JIohpson for' the allegnd Davis lejter; then of representing thai he Davis letter was lost in the con fusior gf the rebelliopr archiyes in (ho ;r~ D)e partment, and finally of pretending~ thai he had seen the alleged letter at Isareigh, N. C., and intimating that it was ad. dressed to Governor Vance. Mr. D)avn qunotes the putbhlied denial of Governoi Vance that he had ever received such 'letter from him, and says: "My alleged Raleigh letter has novel peop fonn l. Sh want says it wre soni . ol N as'vle Savannah, WVashington and St. Louis, and mary have been1 finall burned in Chicago in the great tire os 1871. But in its travels nio other persor but Sherman saw it; not a single oflice: at any headquarters has b)en produlcer who read it, aind it passes belief that hi tlie excitement of tile closin g days of th O a'ridl'during rmy imprisonment,;:whei every letter of mlinie was carefully ex ammned to find( evidence uplonl which t< ponvict and destroy me, not an oflicer a llthesp~ hetadquarters should hlave rea< j)4 1e$tpr. Egory fair-mindail raam ue phrefore concelude tha~t (Generad lierma: stated at the Grand Arzpy 1o6t a .wilfr and deliberato falschoodt, and that hi motive had its inspir atioun in thatt meni notice which has characterizedf his act and writig in other respects towardl tht Southern people. The so-cal led histo r eal statement concerning the publi letter to the War Depart'ment i1 head in that executive document ph i the following statemient. "lhat I(h1 a)hdseen papers wvhich convince ~e that even Mr. a%v*s, 12eaiien j of ti, uthern Confederacy, had, durihg tih proigress of'the war,' changed his State ihi doctrines, and had threatened t ofhoOnngdercy tte?n p to s~ ~@pfroni that gover.nment' With tl mental process by W*iiO4 Opneral She man is 'convinced' I have nto concerj but the 'papers' in which ho alloged ths 'I 'tlfreatened' to use force against tl Staltes of the Confederacy ought to I tangible and produceable, anid in c 'h$toria statemnent' thre Senate oughti jigvo demandeod thxe prodluction of proof kind on failure to producot them and aft< denial by the Senators who S4hermr alleged had received them, such 'hisstor cal statement,' already branded wit falsehood and unsupported by evidelc< ought to have been rejected with oni wonder how it got before the Senate. J is apparent that .this so-called historie statement had been seen by Repubhca Senatois, and that they were not ign rant o' its real character when the Haw icy resolution was under discussion ii the Senate. Those Senators then kie that General Sherman had, in his lette: t of January 6, 1885, to the Secretary o: War, changed the issue between us fron one of veracity to a rambling, shuflling discussion of a 'conspiracy' and of 'con spirators' in the winter of 1860-61, and that which at Frank Blair Poet may havc been 'a white lie,' not intended for pub lication-came before the Senate as 'i historical statement,' bolstered with oth or falsehoods equally without foundation or support in anything written or uttered by me. It now survives as an 'executivt document' of pioturesque prevarication. I know nothing of any 'conspiracy' oi 'conspirators.' There was no secrecy about any of the political affairs which led to the secession of the States in 1860-61. It was the opinion of the con ference of Southern Senators in January, which is introduced in this historical statement as evidence of 'conspiracy, that secession was the only remedy left to the States; that every effort to pre serve the peaceo had failed mainly through the action of that portion of the Republican party which refused all l)ropositions for adjustment made by those who sought in January, 1861, to justify confidence, insure peace and pre serve the Union. In the same month in which that conference was held I served on a con mittee raised by the Senate to seek some possible mode of (luelling the excitement that then existed. That com mittee was composed of the N ree politi cal divisions of the Senate, and it was considered useless to report any measure which did nut receive the concurrence of at least a majority of each division. The Republican Senators rejected every proposition that promisetl pacification, and the committee report ed to the Sen ate that their consultation was a failure. Was there less conspiracy in the Repub lican Senators combining to prevent pacification than there was in the South eri Senators writing in a conference to advise conventions of their States thrt their cause was hopeless in Washington? "As to the epithets which Senator Sherman, in debate, applied to myself, as hie mode of retaliation for my (lenun ciation of his brother, I have been' com pelled to prove General Sherman to be a falsifier aid slanderer in order to protect my cla(1actex and reputation from his wihfut and unscrupulous mendacity. If his brother, the Senator, felt the sting of that exposure, and his epithets are any relief, I am content that he shall go on the record as deuouncing me as a 'traitor,' because I have poved his brother to be a liar. "T.'his himturic statement miilt havc been enlarged and extended by the Sen ate and maide to embrace the deliberatt misrepresentation by General Shermau of a communication to him by Col. J. 1). Stevenson in regard to Albert Sidney Johnston's command in San Francisco. in a li tter to Col. Wi. H, Knight, of Cincinnati, Ohio, dated October 28, 1881, (1eneral Sherman asserted 1 tat Col. .J. 1). Stevenson, now living in San FLaneisco, has often told me that he had cautioned the government as to a plot or conspiracy through department coin mander Albert Sidney Johnston to do liv,i possessio:n of the forts, etc., to men in California sympathizing with the rebels in the South, and he thinks it wais by this advice that President Lincoln sent General Sulter to relieve Johnston of his command beforc the conspiracy was consummated. That statement of Sherman, the veteran, Col. J. I. St venson promptly andl emphatically de ied(. Gteneral G*rant himself has not bieen exempt' from' Sherman's malice. To Colonel Scott Sherman wrote: 'If C. J1. Smith had lived Grant would have disapp,eared to history.' The renmarka bile statement was published by General lFry and pointedly and emphatically denied by (.-eneral Sherman. Prompt to slander, Im is equally quick to deny hQ language. iTe letter of Sherman dated Septemlber i, 1883, was written to Col nelI Scotti now of the war record oflice. The dlenial of Shermaun hias caused the puiblication of the letter and the eozposurc of his hyp)ocrisy in his recent 14gdatoa of the de,'d chieiftaiin. 'The deliberate falsehood which Slier. mian inserted in his oflicial report that Columbia, S. C., had been burr edl by General Wade Hampton was afterwarth confessed ini his~ 'Memoirs' to have been 'distinct.ly charged to General Wadt Hampton to shake the faith of his peophc im him.' Even when confossinve one fslsehood he deliberatoly'ediped aA othir, fimd on the samoe page of his 'Memoirs said that the lire 'was accidlental,' when le knew from the letter of General Stone,. who commiandled the p)rovost guard in Columbia, that the fire was not acciidental. How much more lie Rup he may in futuro 'Memoirs' or 'state m.ent''roveal. O2an any l1ah imaginie n le'ss morial character, less conception of tiruth, less regard for what an oflicial re p lort should contain than is showni by > Shermian dleliberately concocting false 1. 1hoo( for the disTionorable pur>pose o1 I shiaking the faith of thle peoplp C Soth I. Carolina ini theitr f,l low-citiemn Genieral i Wade Hlamplltonm? I have in this vindi 1 cattioni, not of myself only, but also ol 5 thle people wvho honored me with the ihighest official position in their gift, s beten comipelled to groupt together in e istn es(1 of epated falsehoods deliberate -ly spoktent anid written by (General Shier. c moan thle Ulhair P ost shuueler- of myself, *f the def tatio'' of character Cf Gen?eral s Albt ert bittney ii ohnsaton, the disparage J1 mocnt of the military fame of Genera Ii G:rant anmd the shjiunefuil aiid Corrup) 'charnge against ieneral II amnptoin. I havi d prepared this exaLmIiaion anid ex posur: 0 only b)eatise tile beniate of thie = Init<x e States ha given to Shermati's slande 's the endorsement ,vhich gives it whtateve o claims it may hs ge to atten and of nowe cal ysmp tlib statemient as fahst e hafvmngprove/.t t'author to be aji habit u ial Blkyndeo: 44d 404 hay i g n piartisa , nate to rua e page fo'r this notice c ipersonal tirade, wvhich -was neith<e 0 offiQial reporttor record made during tht icW ,aat ejj t to be recivc(l .n kin andnW hihw i- -uar " n t of Jai TWO COTTON MIRACLES. TlE M AsoN IIARVEMrEI A11 T11 MAsON (1N. Ii An IntereNting Exhlbilton of the Nev Machinr at Wunmter Ve-sterday-Plcking Two Thouean Pou,nde a Day. (N ws and Cou)ler, Oct',ber 14.) A practical test of the Mason Cotto; Harvesting machine was made in Sumte yesterday bo' .o a committee of thre from the New York Cotton Exchange and committees from the Charlestoi Cotton Exchange, the Agricultural So ciety of South Carolina, the State Agri cultural Society and the State Board o Agriculture. The committees were ac companied by the board of directors o the Mason Cotton Harvosting Company The New York committee arrived a Sumter at 4 a. in., by the Wilmington Columbia and Augusta Railroad, and th other committees arrived at 9.30 a. m. by the Central Railroad of South Caro lina. About 10 o'clock the whole part1 drove out to the shops of the Masol Cotton Harvester Company, which art located about half a mile from the hotel On arriving at the shops the committee: and other guests passed half an hou: pleasantly in examining the tools anc machinery with which the shops ar< equipped, and in having &plained t< them the several processes employed ii turning out the wonderfully ingeniou: mechanism which is used in the harvest ing machines. Everything being in readiness one of the Harvesters was pulled out of th< shop, two horses were hitched to it, a cotton field negro jumped into the seat, and the machine, followed by the visit ors, started for the cotton field, about one hundred yards off. To an observer of the machine, whc had never seen its mode of operation, i1 wouid seem absolutely impossible tc carry it over the cotton plants without tearing them all to pieces. Consequent 1y when the maci.ine was driven into th< field and started down a row of cottor plants, the faces of the visitors sliowec how much they were surprised in seein that the plants passed through the ma chincry without injury, while at the same time they saw a constant stream of cotton pouring into the bags which ar( suspen(led at the back of the machine. After running it over the field for somc time it was suggested by the committee: that the operation of the niachiue b< tineed in order that they might arriv< at an idea of its capacity. This was ac cordingly done, and as fast as the bag; were filled others were substituted unti a halt, was called. The cotton was the) weighed in the presence of all presen and showed a picking capacity of 2,00: pounds a day. The cotton plants fron which this cotton was picked were no fully fruited and it was the general opin ion that in the rich fields of the fa South and Southwest the capacity coal he counted upon to be maclh greater The machined-picked cotton was thei taken to one of the Mason Cylinde: Gins, which was in running order on th< place, and was ginned out in the pres ene of the company. The Gin workec superbly, and everybody present was de lighted with its capacity, with the beau tiful condition of the lint cotton turnet out, and with the perfect safety to the ginner with which it can be operated. Several members of the different con mittees bundled up samples to take hom< with them, that they might show th( cotton whiich they had scen in a fe minutes picked from the field by one oj Mason's machines andl converted initc such beautiful lint by Mason's Gin. An hour or two more was spent at th< shops examining other Harvesters oj va rying styles and in (different stages of eomletio,n, when the party drove bucl to the hotel. A t 4 o'clock Shoe party all dined togeth, er at the Jervey Hotel. Among thos< present was Mr. Wi. L. Langley, of Nev York. This gentleman, who is a mec chanical engineer, and hearing thatI conmmittee from the New York Cottor Exchange had tieen appiointid to coin South aind witness a gractical field hes pi the Mason Cotton Harvester, cani down alsao as the representative of North ern capitalists who own large plantations in Texas, and who for many years hav< been endeavoring to secure a p)ractica cotton harvester. In respionis to a toast Mr. Langley took occasion to say thai he had b)een more thian pileased with wvhat lhe had seen; that40 hi.ad 'neve seen tg new miahine tested with such suce cossful results, and that he was p)replare( to report favorably to the gentlemeri whom lie represented. lie was satisfiet beyond pireadventure that Mr Masor: had discovered thes correct p)rnciple, ain( that ho believed that he had solved th< problem thait cottoni could be and would be in the future picked by miachini-y. T1he visiting committees were invite( to stay over at Suimter and witness a ts of the Cotton Harvester b)y moonih in ordler to.show them that the Inch can be utilized iat niight as well as b day. The committee;, however, found r impo)ssile to remain over. TIhe Mason Cotton Harvester and th< Mason Cylinder (lin will be exhibited a the State Fair of Georgia, commnencing at Macon ont the 27th inst., aind at th< Alabama Stato F"air at Montgomery commencing oni Novembher 8th. TIlE HiARvEsTEn~ AND ITs ImToRiv, Th'e e'hibit i'ln dt Snnter yesterday o thet Mason Cottoni IHarvestinwg Machine' b eforwe commiuittees aippoinited to investi gale its practical opera'Ltionl and repor upon its success and usefulness, Is signal event in the hustory oj the devel opi,ient of ani iniventiofi which ranks ii I iminortancee with those great habor-saving machines which have, moore the~n al r other influmenceis cu m.ini~ed, con,trilstc< r to the rapjid coniversion of the vast waste of theo'Aracrican Continent inito fertil ,fields and tloutrishingu citi',, anid hav exei'ted~ mo powerful an influence in shap1 i ing the destinies and advancing the civil f ization of all the countries of the world r TIhe Cotton Harvester did not spring~ e like Minerva, fully armied froma the bran Vt of genius, hut has been slowly qiua pain e ifully devoped step by utop, frota th w first crude coniceptioni of the inventor ti y the p)resenit practicad workinig mact'nt .8 It will doubtless go on in ther.'mo, marci i- of progress until perfection is reached. It has now been several years since was generally known in thin Stato, and in fact throughout the Southern coun try, that Charles T. Mason, Jr., of Sum ip ter, S. C., had invented a contrivanc< for picking cotton from the field by ma chinery, without injury to the growing plants or to the immature fruit. Thi d contrivance was the employment of t pickingstem, or finger, about eigh inches long and about an inch in diame ter, on the surface of which were ar rat ged small teeth or barbs, so pro r tected by adjacent guards as to provenl e the teeth from coming in contact wit any material except fibrous substances. This principle of picking cotton by a Ih sense of tou h, as it were, is the ossen - tial feature of the Mason Harvester, _ without the employment of which it iE self-evident to any one who has paid any tttention to the subject. at all that thc picking of cotton by machinery would f be an impossibility. Having tested by a number of experi ments the correctness of this Principle t of discrimination between fibrous and non-fibrous material, the inventor gradui ally developed the, stem from its first imperfect and costly form of construc tion to its present beautiful and ellicient - condition. The evolution of the picking stem is in itself one of the most interest ing and striking features in the develop mcnt of the Harvester as a whole. The first stems were made of wood and were simply small cylinders having grooves cut in their surfaces, in which grooves r teeth were set, which were protected by the shoulders on each side of them. These stems were made by hand with great labor and included various forms of the same principle. Later on the in ventor adopted a metal cylinder with elliptical perforations in its surface. In these openings teeth were set so that the points were disposed evenly with or slightly below the surface of the open ing. 'hen came the style of stem which is now in use, being constructed of a metal envelope, the teeth being punched out of the metal itself and being sur rounded by an opening which guards the teeth from coming in contact with anything except it bo fibrous. Very clear and perfect cuts of several of Ma son's picking stems were published in the April number of the Southern Bivouac, together with a very interesting description of the whole machine. The teeth in the stems are punched by a special machine constructed for the pur pose by the Pratt and Whitney Compa ny, of Hartford, Conn. This machine f is capable of punching four thousand teeth a minute, and cost the Mason Cot ton Harvester Company several thousand dollars. IHaving solved the problem of picking out the cotton from the growing plants without injury to plant., boll or bloom, the inventor went to work to apply the stems to the plants by automnatic 1 mechanism, so that when the stens had h picked out the cotton from the bolls t they would at the proper moment re lease it, so that it might be deposited iu sacks provided for the lurpose. t Several diflerent, styles of machines - have been constructed. The particulai r style of machine which was exhibited at work in the cotton field to-day is known as ''the Radial Steim Machine.'' In a strongly constructed frame of hickory and ash are placed two pairs of eylin ders, from which radiate the picking stems above described. The machine is mounted on two iron wheels similar to those used in mowers and reapers. The machine straddles the row of cotton plants, the wheels lassing along the alleys. Therefore, as the machiincs move forward through the field the cotton plants pass backwards through the ma chine between the two pairs of cylinders mounted with the picking stems. The cylinders are mounted on vertical shafts and rotate backwards around their shafts at the same rate of speed as the machine nmoves.forward. The stems, being jour naled inito the cylinders, revolve back wards with them at thec samie rate of speed as the cotton p)lnts move back ward. Thums, when the machinie starts to operate uponi a row of cotton plants, the horses which pull it enter the alleys on each side of the row, the stemns begin to revolve backward with the plants, and, wvhile they p)enetrate every part of the bushes, th ey do not in any way jostle or tear the plants. Now, in a<kdition to the backeward miovemnent of the stems with th .plants, they have an indeplendlent, individual rotation on their own axes first in the direction of the~ points of their teeth , so asto catch thme cotton, and then, as they pass (out of the pilant, in (hheeroEirectioni, so as5 to throw the cotton off by centrifugal foreg, When the cotton is thrown otV it falls oni a con veyor,. l'hih conveys it to a carrier belt, which in turn plicks up the cotton aind th rows it over the back endl of the ifm chine into bags suspiended in position to receive it. \Vhen the bags are full they are dro,pped and others arc placed in po sition. The machines are so light, id thei niachinery moves so easi,y ihait they can be drawm\ by either' one or two hor~seg. Tihe use of two horses has been found1 preferable, however, for the rea son that they pull1 more evgul a While the macL(hinery, m ordler to per formn the work successfully, must he made with great care and1( exactnss4, yet it is b)y no means comp,licated1, nor easily dlerangedl. Tfhe pulblic, no doubt, think that the i nvenition has been dleveloped very slowly. This, in a certaLin sense, is true, but in add(ition to the natural dilli culties which have beget the inventor at (every turn, it should be known thant thp company has bien ugini alnd again h~uaaer b pirati('al aitnypts to inter fore W'ith their p)atents. The compamny f has, however, fought out every case, ,both in the patent oflice and in 0 - courts, anid the result hw: b.~een that it hswon eley useo upl to the present inne andl hats now a long list of p)atents - which cover so b iroadly every ess'enGal (detail of the machines that then invention may b Tid o thoroughly p)rotected. The foIlowin is~a list of the patent.s I already Issuedl to the og yi h United Statet, ecnp~yi h 3 No. 293h,h4*. ... ..... ..Fe. 12. 1881 - No. 21)3.485- . .... ....Feb. 12, 1851 - No.311,344--..........a 20, 189 .No. 3I2,0t--..........Feb. 9A m; ', No. :531,514 -- . . Lie , 1885 -............4...... .. ... . ..July 6, 15811 e gN o. 314.,312.--. . .... ..uly 13, 18861 a Other patents are, (of cour:- i;ending, .andi, as conimual sppovem6rils are be hi mg nu,do all tho time, new applications for patents arc being continuously fied. .t IIn addition to thes United utte patents the compauy has obtailned - patents on the invention i Egypt, - Brazil, British India, Turkey, Mauritis, 3 Cape Colony, Mexico, and indced all the - cotton-growing countries of tho world, f and in those countries also, such as G Great Britain, where agricultural ma- c 1 chinery is manufactured or likely to be E manufactured. These patents and all future improve- < ments on the Cotton Harvesting Ma- s chines made by Mr. Meson are owned I by the MqZson Cotton harvesting Corn- c pany, in which Mr. Mason has a large < interest. The President of the comp ny o is Mr. Theodore I). Jervey, the senior \ member of the old firm of Wm. C. ee a and Co., and also collector of customs at '1 the port of Charleston. The company, a Up to the present" time, has been rather a a close corporation,, Illnleriing only v about fifteen stockholders, three of u whom are residents of New York State, g and the remaining twelve are resilents ii of South Carolina. Among its stock- o holders the conpany nunbers some of 'a the most proiniinent and successful busi- i ness and professional men of ('larleston. to - --- -~ -- - - I TIIE MTAIIs ANb ,1IPi~iT. it Ifniilcd 1)own on an.tI AnQrie'nnl V ee by Ihe a ('nl,tnln of linritih Nlk I.-1 rt,,". 1'umpll- l entlonN A broand, llAnw.x, N. S., (ctobeir ii.-- Itv far t> the imost" serious event in intrtJatioiraal i affiirs since the abrogation of the Wash- di ington treaty occurred at Shelhiu-ne to (lay, when Captain Quigley hutuled dewin the Unied States lag front t e A m1erican im vessel Marion Grines. At lnidnight Thursday the Gloucester schooner ran m11 into the entrance of Shelhurne harbor to escape the fti y of a heavy southeast gale. J< She anchored eight miles from the cus- lit tom house. The storn inmoderating at l daylight, Captain Landry hove anchor W and was about to proceed on his voyage '\ when ho was boarded by an armed guard Wt from the cruiser Terror, and, suojuent- M1 seized for not reporting at customs. sh Captain Laidry's protests, tiit tlie cus W toi house was eight miles distant, that e) it had beein closed eight hours before lie \\ anchored and would not h open for M four hours after he sailed, anud that he lt had had no Con1uuliieation with the I tit shore, were of no avail; a line of wIOU L, was imposed by the Ottawa authorities. yt Consul General Phelan wired the Mimis ter of Customs the trivial nature of the 1 alleged offense, and asked for a reduct ion w of the fine. This was refused. hit pending the inst r ictions of tlie ( louces- is ter owners regarding the l>ayinent of the hue the Marion (irints was allowtd to lii ride at anchor under the bow of the hi cruiser, instead of being decked and ii pilaced in charge of armed guiarls, as is Captain (uigley's habit vitli captured American vessels. Ilt This morning Quigle observed the al American flag flying tren the inainutst d of the Grimes, upon ehich had b,een ii placed the Queen's broad arr~w. Quigley was astonished at the Yanhlee skipper's tc audacity, and immediately sent to in- nl quire if had been released fron ti ens- 11 toms authorities. On receiving a nega- li tive reply he ordered the American skip- it per to haul down the United States flag, C as its isplay wis a giross imrl)1opriet,y 1i when the vessel was ii the custody of i British oflicials for a breach of British a law.W Captalin Landry accordingly ituled s: down his flag. 'he A_i Rrican skilper went ashore, conversed with his friends, re saw the degratdation to which lie 1had( Pl been subjected, and innediately rcturined tai to his vessel, and was again in the act I te of hoisting the Stars and Stripes when | i:i 'the Canadian tar onice more hailed liini, it : and learning that the vessel had inot yet li: been released by t he customsl dep aart mont, peremuptorily forbade huiini hoisting (' his flag. pi1 Landry replied that lie hadl a perfeet 0i right to fly his Ainerican flag over ani inl American vessel and thait. (Quigly or1 no other nman could prevent. him , a1m1 ihe fm th erefore hauled thle Stars and StipI s to la the masthead, 2ni ThFlis greatly eniraged Quiigley, who liem- I mediately boarded the ( ;rimelts with an12< iamed guiard anid vigorously remiontstra2t- 1(2 edI with the' Amnericani skip1e uponhlJi thle vi fooihesof his~ proceedinigs, whieb tii wouldprobbly-esualt in the loss of U.i w] vesland lbring abou2t intlei.Gnual un2- gr Stars and1( Stripes fromt the maiisthiead, 222- 01, rove the flalg halyamds of thet schoin )#' h~ and2( cameDt ashiore, andl the)7~J abjr..-t ii rues thI was1 subsequently b),i;hgh t o ai wharft lawl ( lalced in2 '.hargle of 2a guarIId, Iw (1ia1in Landr11y is retieenlt aboumti ti" 1' acetionl, bit Consuol ( hlieral P'ho.!: hie camtte very indignanit when' II go l e lerpic itr1 repiorts reached h.im this afterniooni, 11211 re: regalrI it 2as the most hiigh-handled og. pht ilage yet perpetratedh. lHe imitately mi telegraphed the fatt !( Se3cretary ha' y2a( rd.2 WAsuilm0rtON October 1 2.- Advices re%rmed at the D epartmi eint oif State thi~S morninag co)rrob)oralte the puiblished re port of1 te haullinig down2 oft the Amio canx flag on the Ai1mo'io2nn schIooner MaI rioun hrimos, at Shelburne, by Captain 9 uiley, of the Canadian cruiser Tlerror.1 in2 'ilhe action of the captain oif the Marion hie Grimes ill runinig upi the (co lrs while wl the vessel wais in the cuistody5 I (f Caniadi1n i v officers is dhepreated iat the dleparti tent. fi. Assistnlmt Secretary (of State P orter to- btI (liy said lhe hie.d receivedl from C onlsul sa filcts of thet case(, but ill alction 122ad beeni 10 taikeni and lie dulidiot kno2w t h:d there Pu wo(ulld be. "it 5("21' to me,"' saidl hie en "'thait it ! r.y be construed inito a rtlil- or uion agilimst this goverinment for the di plaeing of the Stars and2( Stripes on It e pI topnmast of an Englishy vess't in heliring F 1 Straits niot long2 o.2 "('. All Founad he. iiI1gul, IIIrectory. IDid you ever lookI inh> the city dlire tory With h. 1>an iipation (If lumindigan thong amulismy?i Perhlap no5!2 t. Th le driver5 thumbd 1 t elves (It the big bomok thie other (liy. itd thuii i what2 he foumi: VitobIf luAgo is 212 enlgraver 1)2 Sdlgwiek j strePt (eorge Washiingtoni is followinug thle meek and( lowly ocupation (If 21 hiost- ' Icr, and1( Andrewv duckson enitm hair p on) 1 Ptolk street. dohin Browni's lawy ((a be moIuldlering in th" gq1vo, but the ,lohni BeI : :'' s 1 Lake street is a pretty li ely inu(fi'aan, Coesar dIrives a way(~i and2( llrutus is an Elk 1rove~ gyovui laboer. Alonko anid Par.g; iio on Xyest ti llrnstreet. (4ango I eral tI ko fr-anee the miunbiler of sicides is t I ~alarnungly on the inCrease, in 1851 p thr eeten suicidles to every 100,000 I , mbab11hitanlts, btut in1 188 ther weres twenty to the samfle nmnhoibr, as the sta- Ia fishes show. iiUnnf initerile ,'ed-. l'aliolle Vindi nt(,, Our i'u,biie Kchool Kysten. 'Tlhe (linese quarter on Mott street is ;etting to look as much like a Chineso ty as Saeramento street in San Fran isco. In New York the Chineso are tilly protected by the police, and most >f tiet are earnest scholars in Sabbath chlools. 'lhey are watched over care ully by the churches. There is no species f icent,ioisness visible in the entire uarter. '1lhcy have their Joss houses r (od houiscs where they go to pray, as e go to our churches. Their faith is bout like the Unitarian or Jewish faiths. 'hey believe inl one God, who has such ttril)utes as omniscience, omni ipresence ndt1 potentiality. ''hey reject all prophets ho claim to have a spiritual con ection with God. They say (Jod is too reat to nccd a propllhet or assist it. Their food is usually rice, peanute, l, sugar and cheese. They live on iout eight cents pcr lay, and are Lalthy and fat. They are a:l learning talk English. They never fight un ss lirst assaulted, and then it is for pro etion. The Irish are lighting all t'unid thein, but the Chiinaman is only cturious spectator. lestorday an Irish an and his wife were lighting in front Ihe . oss houe1'. A reporter asked one the t.wenty h('liiunien who was wat'h g the serilluinagc why the Chinunen lnt't fight too. '''ou wantee know why Ilishman and heli1a man likee tigltee?'" asked .lohn, oiding the spirit of the (lestion. ''No, I want to know why you China el (lol't fight?'' ''1lislan tud Melican man,'' said >hn, still avoiding the question, "him htee 'cause lie llaid of him wifee. elican velly fond stay out latee. Him fee get hcapl nad-talka a poka-say, Ie givee him tit'-takee piltchee lice tta-say, 'Me coolec him oi.' 13ineby lhian n11111 comue home, takee oil him tae, stealee upstay--say, 'Me foolee ole >mtan.' Alle site him wifee open him e --say, 'lia! why you be so latee? t lua tine you think him be?' 1)en elieain mnl hin say, 'You betta leavee 1 Ilne -mec velly ld 111111. M "e htee alle night--- I'atsee Hogee--1'addy I 'in. \le heap sabe Sullivan--knockl ui out. in i inuintte. Me sabe Muldoon givee you fall-bleakee you neck. mn let up; mec velly tough lan-muchee lsce man Sullivan.' " ''What does his wife do then, John?'' lIed the relorter. " I )en iiin wifee catehee poku. Ilittee in velly hald. 1"lo licee wtata all ovel mt. .1akee Iima wipe de il. Melican an yelle, 'Miidda! Ii! Ii! pleece!'' ''And then what?'' 'Nexa (Ity Iewsp apta heap nmchee lkce, v(ly baid on Melican manii elieai titan, him go Chicago, get voice, catchiee nudda wifee, sabe heap nliy, all velly 1napec." ,Thlre 111)1parently bright young men itally failed in their civil service exami itionts for position; in the Custom .o2use last week. The young Ill 110w y their failure to the fact that they did >t atten(1 the public schools, bunt, being dholics, they tttende(d privite Catho seL.ools, w hece t hey were not taught uroughly. One candidate who failed, Mr. \Ic('ullough, was very indignant. 1;11 1 asied ii im if he 1laiied the civil r' ice exaliners, lie sai(: No, sir; I do not. 1 b)lamie my pa its for taking 111e out of 0111' splendid 1)1h1 selools, where everything is ight Ihhirough the Normial school sys- t t1, aln1 wVhiere all the teachers are Nor il school graduates, and sending me to elm 'I where 1 was taught more re ion than geography."' "'hen you do not think the average 3 thlolie 'chilireb schooll is as gooid ai ic fr a 122>y to get 2an( ieuetionl i 1s r r'glar111 Aimerican puiblic school?'' J "C(ertainly I d1o 11o1. I shalhl lu-m-e.- I r11h send' myi, cIhldren to tiIn' New Yorkl I ibi i( schowols. I am22 a ('athiolie, buit ] I 21ot willing to (ipp2le 22ny chiildren22 a18 nlyselftv been211(2 er2ippledh. If I had tl ne" to o1ur) liblic $(chools1' Iol wow ine the Custoi .'22 luse atIe2 .'..,0 per (r. vIsl 5''I* 'ale in\2 my exandna.- 8. a(l22nd2 I2ego back ('422 '2to teil place 'i er, I only make' 1 . Nwe u(2 toy whokI 2 idtes2at iite ager 'aythlie tho 1) t '88rfe the s i fallsh(ined t(lby-' ilow 1 tra2hIers, will' l'r. bl to pudestec air, 8holies arie 2hurting our l lae. o\n are 2'l"" 212(r hicltey m25 theiiuk uhrough '"nmee21'd 'heni' ence, il tolthe pub. lee2, and 22tfit .,arsflves to colf ihcthe .1 s fihetwol. fra fer ofm totaeda at ieitarl~l 211ns andgoitio Aeit sc: ( h hools coheres, be's lli t enn2be thoedeal that. av O theOI tus 221 oth fAOdge of alway elnuctedi f lf a'r dozlen orl who'of the members,11 msieo h.rhipic 2 is lwa~ y necepted,f en lifirected 1111it,1~ ln ntAwl,l sat 21tory ilto the othrst tNumrou mem 1' rs harlyH leir iseltvaess the c41rhir, neeI or suchthavty illt eve'nalows oposit1 fins t which~2 the amre oedt ss, b1ecroi a lawir bode paed oncey rd, anthich shuy alo hinktot unwie iil- inle. IfThe ailnce,(in s,chcn 2ion, i a101 titteonession of icom Ience, lthougthe oe aiing nliot sioi 2ch frm la of abiriili~ tyasfrfhiom4 a1 rticlarey when lanh amithron exisys to me Optit thLog ofng the uent ofnuch med prmmne1s auo4\y xcsso CUPID IN THE TREAUURY DEPARTMENT lie Is the Mean, of Refbrming a Brght Youg Man and Making a Pr by Girl Happy. (From the Waahington ItpubUan.) "The life of a government clerk is at best a monotonous one, as in nearly .all the departments the clerks have th4 satne routine work day after day," said a ven erable Treasury clerk, "and when there is a bit of gossip to relieve the monotony of his life it is taken up with a relish and retold till it blossoms out in many differ ent forms." "What is disturbing the monotony now?" inquired the reporter. "Well, I am getting to that.. Six years ago last March a bright-eyed, rosy checked young fellow of twenty-two re ceived an allointment through political intluentce in the division I am employed in. You know that was before the days of civil service reform. He was quick and intelligent and it was not long be fore he was as familiar with the work as the oldest clerk in the office. For a week or so he was a most efficient clerk and always on time. With sorrow I began to notice that he was becoming dissi pated; that his work was behind, and instead of the frank, independent ex pression that he had when he came in the office was a careless, devil-may-care sort of a look. I remonstrated with him anl told him he would be dismissed, and justly, too, if he did not shake the com pamons lie was associating with. -'His only reply would be: 'I can take care of myself; you needn't fret about mne.' His downfall didn't surprise me much, for I had seen a number of young men go just his way who had como in the departments honest, sober young Fellows, and leave it broken down in icalth, and careless as to how they made their living. Things went on this way intil the present administration came tito power, and the heads of th odiffer mt bureaus were changed. Consequent y a great number of now clerks came in. tmong those was a pretty young lady vith largo brown eyes and a fascinating 'mile. I lie clerks, both male and female, mmediately took took to her, and she tecame a general favorite. The young nen in the office never lost an opportu ity to have a few minutes' chat with ier, but that is as far as it over went. l'houghi she treated all pleasantly none vere ever invited to call on her. The young fellow 1 spoko about had gotten o that lie sel.iom had anything to say o any one. In the course of time ho iiade the acquaintance of the pretty voung clerk, and that evening one of he older ladies, with the best intentions in the world, told the young lady not to L;et too intimate with that man, as he was considered a 'rounder,' or in other words, dissipated. "She said she liked him and thought there was a great deal of good in him if he had the proper encouragement. He seemed to be a gentleman and that if he did anything wrong it was only through carelessness. Alter this the two young people were together constantly when not at the oflico and a most wonderful change came over him. Ho stopped drinking, attended to his work with a will and when not somewhere with her f an evening stayed in his room and read. I was pleased to note the change mnd knew that all would come out well. The had only been in the oflice about ix months when lie came to mle one day 111(1 said lie was going to resign, as his ialary was not sullicient to support a vifo as he would like to, and that he had ecurod a p'ositi n as book-keeper in a vholesale grocery house in Now York. lc wont away and I heard nothing from mim. We often spoke of him at the flee, but no one ever dared ask the oung lady clerk about him, for they re tombered how she went for the old lady rho spoke of him to her. Several weeks me wa srprised when the young tdy caime to me, tin the young man l,a efore, and said she would be pleased if would sew'l her resignation to the ecretairy. I asked her jokingly if she - as4 gomng to lbe mairried. She blushing. a'tdmuitted she wats, but would not say ) whom. I suspected and felt pleased. 'his morning she andi her husband called ai see me, and( it proved to be the young ian 1 suspected. Hie told ime that he ad buon very fortuntate since leaving bto ofilee, mand was no w head book-keeper or the concern to which lie went from hie dlepartmuent, and attributed all his uccess to thme p)retty young bride at his ide. They left this evening for New 'ork, where henceforth will be their Oo. I do(les my heart good to see a mrriamgo like that." -- ---=-- --.--- - A1 'Tat Thuti IIad 'To ne the Last. A pamrty of gentlemen at aBirminghamu etote were telling stories one night re-~ ently, of famous shots and how many nuails, partridges, ducks and other birds iad been killed at a single discharge. Liter listening to what seemed a wilil xaggeration by different, narrators, a tranger who was p)resen)t volhnteered his xperienco of his only use of the double arrehed gun aa follows: "I went into the fietld one day totr ~unning. VTo only game discovere vas an immense flock of black birds.I hiould say there were 10,000) in the flock. lowly 1 crawled up toward them, and vben~ not nioro than four rods away the )irds rose mn a solid mass. I fired both >arrelsi, and howv many do you think I ailled?" Different guesses were made by the arty, ranging from twenty to one hun tred. "Not one," said the stranger, "b'.'6 I went out with brother to lock for geeIta nd we p)icked1 up four bishols of legs. I1 had shiot a little under." It wtas the last story told.-New Hlavena News. -Auost every millionaire in Chicago is fat or heavy, booanse, of a big frame. Sid Kent, though, whno isi ratedl at $5, 000,-. 000, is thin, sma1l, wiry, and so nervous that ho can't keep still long enough to hattvo a photograplh taken. --In London, it seems, but little can l>o done without the p)olico. A young lnicidle was left han ging the other day >y p>eople who saw h in swing, because, avmng never seen anything like it be ire, thought it safer to wait. But the o,y in the meantime dica. 'Tle A tlanit ic Coast Line railroad author ie.s have sent a check to Mayor (Courtenay,. r Chamrlestomn, for thme hand some sum of 3,708 for tIme relief of the earthquake sul 3rers, that being thte net amount realized y the excursion of October 2.