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p/ VOL xv11. PIOI NS, S. C., THUSDAY, MARCH1 WAR TALK IN CONGRESS. TRYING TO REVIVE ISSUES THAT OUGHT TO BE BURIED. A Forensic Confllct Between Senators Ingalls and Blackburn--The Kentuckian Oeta the Better of the Tilt. On Tuesday the 6th inst. the United States Senate bad under consideration the dependent pension bill. After brief seeohes by Senators Berry, Mandorson, Sherman, Toller and Book, Senator Ingalls, the presiding officer, having called Senator Platt to the Chair, pro ceeded to address the Senato, the galle ries being crowded to their full capacity. He said that considerations of decorum and propriety (perhaps excessive and bverstrained) had doterred him from participation thus far in the debates of the Senate. He had, therefore, been surprised, one day last week, on return ing to the chamber, after a brief ab sence, to learn that tho 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 )istrict of Colum bia were incapable of disinterested pa triotism and that the veterans of the Be 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 citizen to the Presidency respectablo. There was no man so igno rant or mean that he might not aspire to > bomination to the Presidency by the Democratic party. (Laughter and ap plauso.] Ho regretted that the Sonator from Missouri was. not in his seat to-day. Ho should not imitate that Senator's bad x example, and would confine himself, so far as he was concerned, to that Sena tor's autobiography. That Senator was born in a State that had not seceded, the State of Kantucky, 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 rtpresent a State which had never se ceded. But that was matter for ancient history. The Senator from Kentucky, (Blackburn) had also referred sneeringly to the super-loyalty of the soldiers of the Union. He did not challenge the honor or courage of theso Senators in their devotion to the South and to the Southern Confederacy. They could not be suspected of insincerity. They had gone into the Confederacy because they wanted to go; because they believed that slaver.y was better than freedom, and secession better than union. It was curious that Confederates from Union States 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 but 8,000 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 imaginatiou and had stuck them into the wings of his judgment, he would have flown a more accurate Ilight. Instead of 8,000 mon with muskets who were in the final crash and collison of the war there had been 73,911 men. The Senator's mathematics were certainly giddy. But one parallel was to 1)0 found to the extraordinary iuaccuracy of that statement, and that was the same Sena tor's statement that of 2,300,000 soldiers of the Union army more than one-half had applied for pensions. Su:h 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 buill's-eye every time and "ringing the bell." tApplause, vigor ously supplressed by the Chair.] le wanted the Senators on the D)emocratic side of the chamber to understand that their disguise for op)posing pension bills was so exceedingly thin that nobody was deceived by it. It was net a question of cost. The South did not love the Union army, neither did the D)enmocratic party. Senator Morgan reminded Senator Ingalls that the Democratic party had nominated and sustained a Federal oilicer, General Hancock, for the Presi dency. Yes, said Senator Ingalls, it did sup port General Hancock, and it also supl ported Horace Greeley, attempting to -fQ.ol the North. It also nominated and supported that other ally of the (Con fedoracyv, George B. McClellan. Such pretensions arc altogether too diaphan ous. They require to have the drapery removed for inspection. In 1886 there was in Atlanta a grand historical occasion, when a statuo to the memory of an honorgd Senator was to be unveiled, a man whom he (Ingallsj honored and respected, and- on that oc casion the ox-President of the Confed. oracy was invited to be present. Meu flocked to that array as they go to a banquet, as waves come when navies art stranded, and the city was decorated witlh Confederate emblems to make a Confed. crate holiday, lie (quoted from a speeclh of Mr. Grady at the unveiling of thc Hill statue at Atlanta, in which Mr. inavis was spoken of as one whose "gra) hairs were crowned with deathless love,' and as ono0 who, ''though an outcasi from the privileges of this great (Gy ernment, is the uncrowned king of omi people." lie did not propose to rehears< the reply of Mr. D)avis except to (juot one sentence, in wich ho referred th Senator Hill as having ''mashed the in jurious Yankee, (meaning, ho sup1posed their friend now in Florence. ) .*g>k of the samne orator, (Gbrady,) having gom to New York, and New England sooi afterward1s, and made speechea there pouring out his ''treacle, cold cream am) honey and mall syrup~ all over tin North." When, he asked, was thia orator sincere? Whaen did ho sp)eak th sentiments, feelings and conscience o the Southern peop)lo? Was it when hi delivorcd that oration in Atlanta on Ma' 1, 1886, or was it whens ho spilled oil am wine ever all i,he moricen peop)le of th North? C"ming back to tihe opposition a Southern Senators to pension bills, h said ho did not lame them for it. 11 often wondered how ho wold hay aeted if the relations hadl been revyers,ed and if the Federal Government had lbee overthrown. He did not bolieve bi would have felt comforted in votin pensions to Confederate soldiers, .U believed he should have been a conepir ator against the Confederacy to the end of his days. But he should have re garded as the climax of offYontory, as the very apex and summit of hardihood and audacity, (he would not say of pusil lanimity and dishonor,) if after he had accepted pardon and had had his dis abilities removed, and had taken the oath of allegiance to the successful Southern Confederacy, he had do nounced (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. Ho did not think that the North was at all deluded by the pretensions of the Sonatora on the other side. It was a little singular that in all the years which had elapsed since the war there never had come from one of the States that had been in rebellion (iso far as he know) a Union soldier as a representative in either branch of Congress elected by Democratie votes. The Democratic party in thoso States never had blun dered in sending to Congress or electing as Governor a man who had not served in the Confederate army in some ca pacity. That had been the supreme test. When he looked over the rolls of the Senate and of- the House and re flotted how few of those who had served in the Union army were found in the councils of the nation ho was not sur prised at witnessing such demonstrations as were witnessed when pension bills were up for action. Criticising the statement of Senator Vest, that of $883,000,000 paid out in pensions $290,000,000 has been con tributed by the South, he declared that such a statement was a ''glittering gen erality." He doubted whether the South had actually contributed $290,000 in stead 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 Franco Prussion war. Senator Ingalls declared that the movement for pensions was not going to stop until the airears of pensicus were paid; until the limiiations were removed and until every pensioner was paid froiu the day of his disabilities, or, in ease of a survivor, from the day of the soldier's death, and until every surviving soldier of the Union army was placed on tho 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. LVery gen eral applause on the floor and in the galleries. J SENATOu BAOKIURN's REPnY. 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 ho had just indulged. Ieu was sure that ho (Black 1 urn) had never boasted his identifica tion 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 too humble to prove a subject of interest to the galleries. IIo did not need to be told by that Senator that Kentucky had always been loyal. That Senator know that he (Blackburn) repre sented a constiucncy which had sent three men into the Union army for one man that Kansas sent, and it was not without pride that he recallel 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. WVhy the Senator from Kansas should have travelled out of his way to make an on slaught upon him he did not know. He did not knowv that he (Blackburn) was a niecessary connecting link with the Sen ator's acceptance of the Presidential nomination. The Senator from Kansas doubtless did know that illness in the family of the Senator from Missouri had takeni him a long (distance from the city, and that he was to be absent for some tinme on that account, iIe did not initend( to be involved in any controversy with the Senator from Kansas, b)ut he pro tested against tho lack of fairness evinced by that Senator w~heni ho undertook to deal in such fashion with mn who had simply stated facts and submitted data for the consideration of the Senate on the p)ending bill. What connection, he asked, had the speech made at Atlanta, or the speech made at Drooklyn or New York, by a gentleman who had never been a membier of either house of (Jon gross, with the pending bill ? When the Senator from Eanens under took to speak of the Chief Excutive of the country in the terms lie had seen lit to emp)loy and w.ichl, lhe took it, were dleliberately pr1ep)ared and conned1, ho (Ingalls) certainly could not take issue with him (Blackburn) if he concluded that it was not entitled to responso or rep)ly in the presence of so august and dishi-xguished a body as the Senate of tlho United States. Whant cause of grievance the Senator had that warranted him in applying language to the Chief Magis trate which would not be pormissile on the hxustings (lie would not say that it would be dlisgracefuil even to be em piloyed b)y a fish-wvoman) he did not knowv. 14at when that Senator under took to denoiunce the C.hiief Executive of the United States after such fashion as to dlelib)erately dleclare that no man a Ill icted with ignxoriaco so p)rofouind, with obscunrity so gross, should conisider himself as unfit to become the P'resi (dent's successor, it did seem to him, Blackburn, that the dignity of the Sen ate Chambher refused piermission to re spond. lie was not hero to defond tile IPresident from such unwarranted at tacks. lie knew but one sin which th( I 'resident had committed in the eyes o' the Senator from Kansas. That mighi 'lhe an unpardoni)abhe sin. It was thai I having defeated the Seniator's piarty al 3 thle polls lie had given to the Amiericar peop)lo for three years past so etlicient, so honest, so clean-handed an admainis trationl as to doom the last of Reopublicar 1 a'qpirationis to disaster. I Applause or a the I )emocratic side and in the galleries. ,lht the Senator I rem Kansas laud over i g'no farther and done1 worse in his in ii temperate zeal. lie had not sp)ared th< z sanctity of the grave in his frantic effort C to stir up nynuindian betmenn sectio already rewnited. He had dragged up for abuse and vilification before the American Senate such men as had bur nished with their unblemished swords the brightest pages of American history. McClellan and Hancock wore to be de nounced in the Senate Chamber a4 allies of the Confederates. Would it not have boon in better taste (at least more credi table to the courage and candor of the Senator) if ho had mado such w charge before both of these men wore buried? Ingalls (from his seat:) "I did, often." [Murmurs of applause and laughter. I Blackburn: "Then, so much the worse for the Sonator from Kansas. What warrant or ground had he for that, ex cept that they were both different from himself-at least in political faith, if (may we not hope also) in many other regards? Hancock an ally of the Con federates! Was he so. regarded and believed when, weltering in his blood on Cemetery Heights, he refused to be re moved from the, field, and persisted in giving orders which checked tho last advance of Longstreet's irresistible br t talions? Was it this man, who was hon ored by the American people, whether Republicans or Democrats, up to the very date when he had accepted the nomination of the D)emocratic party, who was to be spoken of as an ally olf the Confederates? The Senator from Kansas complains of the Senator from Missouri, and says that he rests his com plaint upon that Senator's autobiogra phy. I believe it is generally assumed that the gentlerman writes that bit of interesting history for himself. In look ing over the short but conspicuously brilliant autobigraphy of the Senator from Kansas, I find that he was not in the army in 1861. He certainly was not in the army in 1862, because he said he was in the State Senate of Kansas in that year. But he was in the army from 1868 to 1865, and in what capacity? One who had sat and listened to the Senator might suppose that he was controlling a great army operating in the West, if not in the East also. i saw the bronzed and weather-beaten commander of the Amer ican army [alluding to (on. Sheridau, who had occupied a seat on the floor during Ingalls's speech,] sit here in this Chamber and blush in modesty at the humble part which he found he had played in the "war of the Rebellion" in comparison with that of the Senator from Kansas. What was that Senator's occupation in a military capacity? He was a judge advocate of the Kansas Vol unteers. [Laughter.J "While Gen. Black, commissioner of pensions, was bleeding on the Kansas frontier; while McClellan was command ing the army at Petersburg; while Han cock wais weltering in his blood o'n Cem etery Heights at Gettysburg, the Sena tor from Kansas, always behind the rear of tho army, was prosecuting Knsas jayhawkers for rifling hen roosts. [Loud laughter and applause.J Now what are you to think of the arguments of a Son ator who will leave his seat as presiding officer and come to tho floor in illustra tion of a partisan zeal, which, I am glad to say, I have never seen equalled, at tacking all decent people from the Presi dent of the United States down, civilians as well as military men, and letting no object escape the venom of his tongue? One would say that he was a cynic, despising mankind-perhaps becauso he had a suspicion that mankind is not enamored of him. "But neither President nor soldier, living or dead, Confederate or Federal, except he accords with him in political convictions, is safe from his unjust and unfounded attacks. I do not want to be put in the position of an opponent or enemy of pensioning honest Federal soldiers. I have never opposed pension ing men who have served in the Union army, and who wore inicapacitated1 from supporting themselves either by disease or wounds; and I do not know a Con federate who has done so. '"Thle Senator tolls us, in that haste with which he rushes to conclusions, that no Democratic constituency in the South had ever elected Union soldiers to either house of Congress. I do not know that it is material b> answer that assertion, but there is not an atom of foundation in fact for the statement. Th'le State of Texas sent to Congress term after term a distinaguished soldier in the person of Governor H ancock. Tholi State of Arkansas sent in recent years from a Demiocratic constituency a Union soldier to represent her in the other House of Congress. I would like to know it the late Governor Walker was not a Union soldier andl an honored Repre sentative in the other branch of Con gress from an overwhelmingly D)emo cratic (distriot in the Ol Dominuion? Did not the Senator from Kansas re member that within the last six years, (and for six years,) the State of Ken tucky kept continuously in the other House of Congress a distinguished lFed oral general during the war, (alluding to Wolf ord,) who was shot out of his saddle more than half a dozen times, and who always came tbere as the candidate of the D emnocratic p)arty, elected in a Doem (oiratio (district? I (10 not care to follow the Senator (time forb)ids it) th rough all the inaccuracies of his utterances. P'arty man as I am, p)artisan as I confess myself to be, I do0 sincerely trust t.hat 1 many niever find my ternm of puliic service prolonged to that day, nor my life ex tend1ed to thatt hour, when, withlout wa: rant, without facts to support it, with out truth at nmy hack, I will tun dlebb erately to traduce and abuse the dead, who while living were honored by all hionorab)le men.' 1110114d apaplause, which the presidling oflicer again checked.|I lh)ruu MI . Enrrion: --Won't y'ou p)lease tell your male readers that .3 will buy a line, strong and serviceable pair of pants, madeo to ordler by the N. Y. Stani dlardl Pants Co., of 66 University Place, New York city? By sending ; cents in postaIgo stamps to the above firm, they will send to any add(ress 25 samples of cloth to choose from, a flne linen tape measure, a full set of scientific measuire nment blanks and other valuable informna tion. All goods a c dlelivered by them through the U. S. Mails. A novel and practica! idlea. Advise your readers to try the firm. They are thoroughly re liable. Yours truly, T1he court of appeals of New York las just decCided(, in th case'of 'Thomas Gun. ning who left $5,000) to lhe spient for masses for the souls of some (of his friends and for himself, that such a be a <quest cannot hold good in law. LIBBY AS A MSEUM. EX-I'tISONEILS OF WAt OBJECT TO TIIE I;IIANOE. otthern Sentinet Against Removal Objectloa from Ca,tain Stewart--The Old Plec to be Use ayI a Museum. (From the chicago News.) When the evor-vigilant American spec ulator first turned to commercial account the thrilling epochs of the war by rbpro ducing them in panoramas loud protests were not wanting. "Reviving dead issues," "Prolonging sectional hatreds," "The degradation of hallowed memo ries," were some of the pet phrases of thoso who found fault with the scheme. It is needless to suggest which view of the caso triumphed. h'lIe sentimontail ists were routed, and another generation of Americans has lived the war scenes over again on canvas, while those who invested in the canvas have beon nearly buried in an avalencho of dollars. The objections against perpetuating the memories of the war have again com to the front, only in a more intensified form, since it was proposed to transfer Libby prison to Chicago as a business enterprise. Tihe arrangements for this transfer have been pra3tically completed. A recent dispatch from Richmond says that an arehiteet, after careful examina tion, says the building can be taken down and removed to Chicago at a much smaller cost than the first estimate. Mr. W. It. (iray, of Chicago, was with the architect when the latter oxamined the building last week, and wi n the ticl nmond people found out that Mr. Gray had the money in his pocket to make the first payment on the property their pro tests began to accumulat. in earnest. The Richmond State was one of the first to voice Southeru opinion. Among other things, the State said editorially in a late issue: OPINION OP A soUTIIEIIN PAPIn:l. ''To set up Libby prison in a North ern city and to have thousands of people inspect it under the guidlanco of merce naries whose daily task will be exaggera tion, is to contrive a new means for in tensifying whatever remains of hostility to the South. The Southern peoplu have heard many a recital of the sutY'r ings of Point Lookout and Job ston's island, but they want nonu of lc re ninders of those prison pens set up in their midst. They have no d iro to porpotuate animosity and 'infor iveness towar the people of the North. "If he not too late-anl wo trust that it is not --let stel)s be taken at , once to prevent the removal from thi:. ,y of an object that should have been ra-24 to the ground long ago---a removal that den. result in no good, Iut, on the contrary, is fraught with evil to the coming gen ations of our common country. No project that could be conceived by the wort enemy of the American people could be more dangerous than the re building of this old and erumiblinlg prison 15 a tn:l)le of South hate. In another issue the same paper said: "Tue olbjectionli t the removal of Libby prison may be said to comie from a sent.iulmntal idea. To *ot the 1building up in Chicago, to put wax-figuro senti nels in gray uniform about its doors, to placard here and there a cell to tell a story of brutality, will be still further in keeping wit Ii the scheme, for there is no sentiment about this. it is confessed that it is for cool cash. There were daring raiders on the Northern side whose fe vid imagi nation schemed the cap)ture of Libby prison, the release of the pirisoners, andl the demolition of the structure, But they coul not take it doewn. It still shands. Yet now we are to hiave a demonstrationi of the power of a few thousand dollars, greater than the valor t,bat through senimiiental promp)t inigs resisted this removal, andl we, of lieicond, of the SouthI, are( aisked to how down, grin acquiescence, and1 dis carding sentiment, hail tihe enterprise that will miake a part of the furniiiture of the Lost (Cause a drawing card for a show, while rabbldes, for only ten cents, ecn see thle the exhib itioni and1 go away with a full appireciationi of how lost ini-; deed is that cause wheni its very public buildings are carted oif a thiouisand miles and set up for sport or jeers.' UNION MF.EN A' iAINsT TnEi i'IRoJFa"T, The protests are not. all , however, from synmpathizers withl the ILost Cause. H ere and there a Unio1 nolieer*, whoiso memories of Lidby are p)rinc(iplly those of puersonlal siu l'ring, has joined in the protest. Tbo ground takeni is that ibilby p)rison is one of the saddest memories of the entire war. To turn iunto a muiseum for tihe delectation of the vulgar crowd a building sacredl by reason (f sufl'ering and1 miartyrdomi for the holiest of c'aulses would bie wrong, is the plea of the No rthiern oflicer who doesn't want to seo Libby prison moved. II erc is what Captain .h>mues Stewart, of IPitt.sbu rg, the last Union otlieer to (vacuato Libby, says ini a recenit, intci view: "Ti, take it now and t urn it into a muoney-nmaking shiow would be an insudlt to the South and11( a dlegradat ion to the North. I caved the obld b)1 uiig onice from beinig dlestroyedl by fire, but if it was Onily for a mu seia i that, I savedl it I am never going to claim any honor or credlit again for the act. There was a lot of sunfring ini that old buihiinig. lThol isittids of soldijers i ti s b road contry weie made old men be fo their time, anid almost as many mocre gave up life within those four walls. The memories of that time and( of those horrors are deadi, even though they never eani pass frcom our muinds5, andl to take that prison up to Chicago and turn it into a war tousotnm wouildt surely create bad feeling and op'en up old wociunds. TIe citizensc of th lii outh are againist it, anid silrc; the North should rnot enlcoulrago it.'' Ini a letter to thle i mayor of Ileichimond, Captain Stewart "l'i.> says: "FIe w, I will venture to say mo me, of thosei who arc concerned in the s lheme, had anythiing to dto with old I aol.: '1urOe the time it was used as a prison,. I am well ac quainted with a large numbher who were conifi ned within its walls, and I do not know oue who approves of its removal. It would ho 1n0 longer 'Libbiy prison. There would be no J1ames river, no Blelle isle, no other landmark. Neither Thunder' would form the assoolations that were wont to greet our eyes when inmates of far-famed 'Libby.' The c prison without its associate surronndings would not bo 'Lil>y' to the 'boys in blue' who wore from time to timo con fined within its walls. It might servo to I collect dimes and dollars as a ghastly circus exhibition to fill the pockets of sharp, unprincipled speculators-men 1 that have conceived the selfish and do- t spicable idea of violating the sanctity of e the soldier's sufferings and to many tho a very spot of their death." c A U1ON vjSTEnAN'H OPINION. The oldest ex-prisoner of war in Chicago is Mr. Leo Mayor, of L. Simon & Co., Monroe street. Mr. Mayer has been for the last four years vice-presi dent of the Veteran Union League. H1e is one of the very few Union oflicers now residing in Chicago who were imprison- s od in Libby, and his incarceration in that prison was one of the longest namely, eleven months. Ho spent twon ty months, all told, in various prisons. He belonged to the Twelfth 1'ennsyl vania Cavalry, waH wounded and cap tured at the battle of Winohestor, and during his stay at Libby escaped twice, but was recaptured both times, once by bloodhounds. Ho was one of the famous 109 who made the tunnel escape, but belonged to the unlucky fifty-live who were recaptured. IIo finally escaped at Columbia, S. C., just prior to Sherman's capture of the city. Said Mr. Mayer yesterday to a Daily News reporter: "I am opposed to any such scheme as bringing Libby prison to Chicago, and 1 should suppose any ex-prisoner of war would be. This mat ter was talked over among the veterans last Sunday, and the sentiment seemed to be unanimous that it was an unwise step. No ex-prisoner of war would care to have the horrorm of twenty-livo years ago revived, as would be the case in this instance. Although they might not have been in Libby, still an ex-prisoner who has suftored at Andersonvillo or Belle Isle would have his own imuprisonlnent vividly brought to remombeauco. Speaking as one who endured imprison ment in Libby, I never care to go into the details of those horrible times. The actual starvation, sulfring and filth en dured are not pleasant to recall, but they can hardly be exaggerated. What, then, is the use of bringing the old building hore to st ryo as a perpetual reminder of these things?" The shade of pain in the speaker's eyes softened, and he continued, with a smile: "As a commercial enterpriso, 1 should expect it to be a failure. After being taken to pieces and re-erected in Chicugo it will be practically a now building. Thero will have to be new mortar used, and I suppose it will receive a fresh coat of paint. This will not be the Libby prison of hitory. If they turn it into a museum and charge an admission fee there will have to be something inido i>esido tne bare walls. Why not got some ox-soldiers who havo passed thro.gli Andersonville, or other prisons, some without arms or legs, and show them as curios? lut, seriously, the effect of making a show of Libby prison and ointing out to visitors the particular rooms, etc., where our ollicers endured their greatest hardships, will b injuri ous, and not calculated to nmako the two participants in the great strife mutually forgive and forget.." Pol iticall Ii ft ooil. (len. Stewart i. Woodford, a promi nent liepublican of Now York, is it Atlanta on professional business. In an interview on Monday lie said: "1 am de voting my time to the practice of my profession, and as a man cannot well serve two masters, I let polities severely alone. As a lBopublican, .I have no meanus of knowing anything about in ternal diflerences in the Dlemocratic party, so I cannot tell you whether there is any truth in the stories about oppjosi lion to the President in Newv York. 1 know that (Governor Cleveland-1I mean President Cleveland-is very strong with lthe business men of Now York, the men wvithi whonm I am particularly thiruwn. Alany liepublicans, like myself, while difflering from him upon piolitical grounds, admire him for his honesty, his integrity and the faithfulness with which he performs his duty as lie conceives it; and the opplositioni to him at the coming election will not be of a personal nature at all---it will lie piurely political'"' There are solid indicatious that the Iowa ilCepublicansi and Prohibitionists of the same State are on thue verge of din solving partniership. The R epumblicanus train with the Prohibitionists in the day timiio and withI the wimPkey men after (lark. The Il'rohibitionists are tired of thmis double dealing andl propoese to herd alone in the future. -art--A-ont. nog . IEx-Riepresentative Illorr, of M~ichuigan, says "there are 11 ,t)00,000lt dogs in th is coiunity." 'J'is huit a few years siico the Seeretary of the State of (Ohlio reported that .10,000) sheep were killed or destroy edl by dogs ini that State the year p)revious. Theuc Secretary oif the State oif Gelorgia also repiorted that 28,000) were killed or dlestroyedl in that State year pirevious. Vermont had ini 1850 1,01-I, 122 sheep; in 1880 but 378, 171. Th'lis groat redution lhas beeun going on uder different tariffs, not only in Vermont but ini all the Now England and many other States, and dogs are the cause of it. Now conies a Sonator of New York State -- I ratt or P lat t, I thin k, is his name mand says that " twoi-thiirds of the sheep indulistry of his county has b een (destroy edI by dogs.'' Shueep raising is one oif the importanit industries of the coyuntry, ando the farm ers have long sought protection from odogs, but (don't got it. A nnihilate thcem anid 11,000,0)00 muore sheep than we now have will be added to that industry, and reduce our meat bills I5 po(r cent., and w(olen fabrics will lie cheaper also. New York World. St. Patrick's D)ay is to lbe made the oc casion this year in Londlon of a political doemonstration in favor of home rule of a more extensive and rep)resentaitive chat - actor than any which have hitherto been held on this anniversary. Western p)rotectioniists have agreedl on a concerted movemonit to attack the con stitutionality of all laws for the license of liquor tralil, and will begiau in New York and New Jersey test -iason which will bie carried before the United States Suprma Court. ABOUT UEADACIIES. lonimon Causes of the Common Com plaint of Everyday Life. (From (he Cassell's Family Migazlnc.) Probably one of the most common eadaches, it not the most common, is hat called nervous. Tho class of peo l0 who are most subject to it are cor inly not your out-door workers. If ver my old friend the gardener had had headache it would not have been one f this description. Nor does Darby, Io plowman, nor Jarver, the 'busman, or Oreatfoot the gauger, suffor from ervous headache, nor anyone else who ads an outdoor life or who takes plenty f exorcise in the open air. But poor iattio, who slaves away her days in a tuffy draper's shop, and Jeannie in her OnOsome attic, bend ing over her white earn-stitch, stitch, stitch-till far into he night, and thousands of others of he indoor working cla:s are martyrs io his form of headache. Are they alone u their misery? No; for my Lady lonhomme, who comes to have her ball tross fitted on, has often a fellow feeling vith Jeannie and Mattio. Iler, how vor, we cannot aflord to pity quito so auch, because aie has the power to hange her modus vivendi whenever sho hlooses. Vlat are the symptoms of the corn daint that makes your head ache so? (ou will almost know it is coming on roni a dull, perhaps sleepy fooling. You ilve no heart and little hope, and you .rc restless at night. Still more restless, bough, when it conies on in full force, s then for nights perhatps, however nuch you may wish to, scarcely can you leep at all. "low my poor head aches." This ;ou will say often enouglh; saudly to rourself and hopelicly to thotyo near ou, from whom you expect no sympa hy, and get none. And yet Ilhe pain is o bear, although it is generally confined o only one part of the head. The worst of this form of headache ios in the fact that it is periodic. Well, s it arises from unuaturid habits of life )r peculiarities of constitutionl, ihis oriodicity is no more than we miglht >xpeet. If I just note down some of the most )rdinary causes of nervous headlhlto )eolle who sufler therefrom will know vhat to do and what to avoid. I will beii speak of the treatment. Overwork indoors. Overstudy. Work or study indoors, carried on in in unnatural or cramped position of body. Literary men and women oughi to do most of their work at a standing lying down now and then on a sofa t< ease brain and heort and permit ideas tI flow. They should work out of (oors it fine weather-with their feet resting oi a board, nit on the earth-- -and undo: canvas in wet weather. It is surprisin the good this simple advice, if followed can ellect. Neglect of the ordinary rules thi cornluc'e to health. Want of fresh air in bed rooms. WVant of aludtit skiu exciting ox 3reise. Neglect, of the bath. Ov er-indulgtnce in fotd, especially of t stini ulaling clrrater. \% eakness or debil)ity of Is sly, how ver prodtiuedt. ''iis can only be enedied by pr 'per n utrilelt. Nervousness, however induced. The excitement inseparable from a ushionablo life. - -- --- ---" TIil1 WIIIT'r Ol lIltAINS. SStaly tii it Is imlrtiit lOsIteI of Its Itenringr t tr Montaullty. (Frniu I11 l -i I it%( t ncan 1.1 Th'ie study oIf blrain weights is inter ~stin:g becaluse (If its h earing u pitn the inestion of intel lectuality. The average mmanhli brain weighs forty-nine or fifty mnihcos ini the mle and1 abou lIt forty-flive >unices ini the femaitle. U*:eait blrain veight is not1 al1ways aIssociaIted with in ollectuaul vig(or, asM is showni by the fact hbat an1 idio 'Iis kno IwnI to halvel had a tra in of ovser sixty ouniees ini weight. miehi (ases as thalt ofi th1e idio4 t refeirred :4o, greait moinital powVer is genelirllly asso ,i,tetd withi a Irint weigh t -xceeinjg the Iveraige. (Cuii'er's b raini weighed-i sixty weighed less than 1 ho aver-age wVomlan' blrainI, which is, (If coulrse, plecuilir bei ~ause of hiis great in:tellectu:ality. A parVIis (If the averalge wet~igh t ot tIh: mumill weight of ealchi withinh the ranige (of feniale bIraini is aboueit five ounces lesf han the average we iht (If a man': bIrinis. If the weight of theu' brain wort ani inifallib le gaugIO (of itellect the aver age womanlLI wouhIl, so to speak11, have fiv<t* ounihces less intellect, thani the averagt belo(w which idlil cy etX is abo5ult ut fiv< (Iunes hiighler than it is ill wonulmlh. TIhi iswhiait prlesent5 the prIol eml. If, :;ay thirty ounlces (If braini inl aI womatih 5ay her from aiiocy and thirty-five ounce are re<t isito inl aI man, what becomes (I ni's average of five oese (If bIrail weight inl oxcess of theo average in w(o mani? TIhet conicluisioni seems1 to bo0 tha a smaiuller quanlhtity of female braini oIssenltiail to mntellectuality than of mal brin. TIhis is eqJliuivlenlt to saying tha tile female brain is (of a suplerior qutality In conitraictioni (If tis thle facet may b< Citedl thait ini compilarison with menII bu1 few wVomenh (If great initellect ual vigo: haive appeaClred ini the world. If the comn palrillon jus5t maiIde held trueIa woma(rfil with ai brain (If fifty ounIces (oughit to, bs theI equl of a manlI with a braini of fifty fIve ounces. A cuioulhs poIlitical complication is ii P'ortlandl, Mue., where the( )emlocrats ar< ardlently suppo~)(rting Neal I )ow, th< famous pIrohlibition aplostle, for miayor T1hoy say they 'wanlt to have pIrohIibitiol given a fair trial before the country un1 d(lr tile personal management of its mosa zealouis advocate. The Neow York I lorald conitinuest t< expose the "'trusts" andi combIinaticIs Th'Ie latest is aI trip)le headed comnbir.o e the makers (of waltch cases, maskers c works andl jewelry jobblers to keel) n prices to a specified standard. Anothe ''trust" is that of the0 three leading spo( thread manufacturers of the countr who are working together to maintai pices.n TALMAGE TALKS OF SONG. IIH WANTS MOTHERS TO SING IOR THEIR CHILDREN'S GOOD. The Teuptations of the Street Can be Overcome in the Nursery-What Song Is for the Sick and Destitute--A Pathetic Home Picture. In his sermon at the Tabernacle last Sunday Dr. Tahnage said: "It is not so much what you formally teach your children as what you sing to them. A hymn has wings and can fly everywhither. One hundred and flity years after you are dead, and 'Old Mortality' has worn out his chisel in re cuttirg your name on the tombstone, your great grandchildren will be singing the song which this afternoon you sing to your littlo ones gathered about your knee. "Oh, if mothers only know the power of this sacred spell, how much oftener the littlo ones would be gathered, and all our homes would chime with the songs of Jesus! "We want some counteracting influ ence upon our children. The very mo ment your child steps into the street he steps into the path of temptation. There are foul-mouthed children who would like to besoil your little ones. It will. not do to keep your boys and girls in - the house and make them house plants; they must have fresh air and recreation. (lod save your children from the soath- . ing, blasting, damning influence of the streets! I know of no counteracting in tluence but the power of Christian cul ture and example. Hold before your little ones the pure life of Jusus; lot that name be the word that shall exer eise evil from their hearts. Give to your instruction all the fascination of music, morning, noon and night; lot it be .Jesus, the cradle song. "This is important if your children grow up; but perhaps they may not. Their pathway may be short. Jesus may be wanting that child. Then there will be a soundless stop in the dwelling, and the youthful pulse will begin to flutter and the little hands 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 ho 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, coic 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 wreath of white blossoms on the top of it. The heavenly Shepherd will take that lamb safely anyhow, whether you have been faithful or unfaithful; but would it not have been pleasanter if youi could have heard from those lips the praiscs of Christ? I never read any thing 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 fbce 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 stand, no one to put ice on the templo, or pour out the soothing anodyne, or utter one cheerful word yet songs in the night! For the poor, who freeze in the winter's cold and swelter in the sumnner's heat, and munch thme hard crusts that bleed theosore gums, and shiver under blankets that cannot any longer be p)atehed, and tremble be (ent1so rent (lay is come and they may be met ou1t on the sidewalk. "Christ is thme everlasting song. The very biest singers sometimes get tired; thme strongest throats sometimes get weary, and many who sang very sweetly do not sing nmow; but I hope by the grace of (God we will, after a while, go up and sing the pratiseu of Christ where we will unever he weary. You know there are soume songs that are especially appropri ate for thme home circle. They stir the soul, they start the tears, they turu the heart ini on itself and keep sounding after thme tune lha stolppod, like some Cathedral bell which, long after the tap of ti'. brazen tongue has ceased, keeps throw 'ing on the air. Well, it will be a home song in heaven, all the sweeter be cause those who sang with us in the domilestici circle on earth shall join that great harmony." Large OIft for Negro Ediucationm. TIhme trustees of the Methodist Church yesterdlay were ini secret conference in regard to a recent windfall in the shape of 3180,000. A bout a year ago D)r. E. IL. (hammon, a superannuated Methodist eI('ergy man who had made a large for tune in the manufacture and sale of agri cultural implements, and whose sympa thies became awakened in favor of the education of the colored people of the South, in connection with the Freed - man11's Aid Society, founded a theologi cal seminary for the educationi of colored lpreachers of the Methodist faith near SAtlanta, (1la. It was named the (Gam nimon Tlhieological Seminary, andi the R1ev. ,lr. Thirkiehl, the soni-ini-law of thme cole ) rated Jhiinop Gilbert D). Haven, was chosen deanu of the faculty. Mr. Glam mon had already given $20,000 to the university, and, though ho has no ohil tdron, he has grandchlildren. Last Friday he wrote to .Judge M. Ii. Ilagans, of this c ity, the p)residlent of the board of trus tees of the Methodist Episcopal Church, andI told him that he had made his will and iintenided to give $180,000 to the trustees for tIe maintenaneo of the semi nary. The trustees gave Judge Hagans full power to act, and when he told Mr. Gammon that lie had not much contl .. donce in wills, that Courts frequently t set them asidoe, and that the lawyers gen erally 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 be Sfore his death, and made the assignment f accordingly. The trustees of the church p and the Freedman's Aid Society agreed r to) accep)t thme trust and yesterday after >1 noon conferred in regard1 to the matter. y Within the nioxt ten days overything will n be satisfactorily arranged.--Cinomnnati Iinnnirar February 15.