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BY E. B. MURRAY & GO._ _ANDERSON, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1879. VOL. X1Y-NO. 48. THE SUPPRESSED ?LOVERJREP0RT. aimions on Millions of tho Public Funda Sto len and Squandered-fraud Absolutely Unchecked and tho National Finances at the Mercy of Thieve:) and Itobbera. To-day tho Slur prints a document which deserves tho thoughtful considera tion of everv citizen, no matter what may bc bis political predilections. It is tho report of ibo Congressional committee of wbicb Hoi.. J. M. Olovcr was chairman, wbich committee was empowered to in vestigate the affaira of tho Treasury De partment and ita numerous ramification:-, including tho Secret Service and En graving Bureaus. Republican influenco of tho strongest character bas been brought to bear ou the members of tho committee aud upon Congress itself to prevent publicity ueing given to the his tory of tue shameless mismanagement of tho national finances wbich tho commit tee discovered. Tho result was that, not withstanding Democratic activity, the re port of tho committee waa suppressed in Congress and every effort to bring it to light bas met with tho most violent par tisan opposition up to the present time. Tho record of infamy and corruption in the national treasury and its various bureaus, under tho management of John Sherman and bis immediate predecessors, is a startling one, and bas been fully laid bnro by tho committee. Millions upon millions of dollars of tho people's money have bean squandered and stolen ; the department bas been made a tool for most infamous purposes; secret issues of money have been made to carry elec tions for tbe Republicans; all avenues that might lead to exposure have been closed, and honest, conscientiousiofBcials dismissed; the Southern people have been shamelesslyjplundercd by Sherman's treasury ring; mints have been a mine for official thieves, speculators and de faulters, and tho country has been flooded with counterfeit paper whenever such a course served the purpose of tho ring and its dependants. The report, moreover, sbowe that there is absolutely no check or safeguard against the perpetration or repetition of tho greatest frauds in tbe national finances under Sherman's man agement, and closes with recommenda tions which cannot but be deemed neces sary, under the circumstances. The report in substance ia ns follows : The document opens by stating that Rulo 103 of the House, adopted during Madison's administration, directs thia 1 committee to iuquiro and report whether ' tho expenditures of tho Treasury De partment arc justified by law ; whether I the claims satisfied are supported by vouchers establishing their justness, , whether the moneys disbursed have ' been so paid in accordance with appro priation laws, and whether any and what i provisions are necessary to provide more ' perfectly for the proper application of j the public .moneys, and to secure the government from demands unjust in ! character or extravagant in amount; to . report from tima to time whether any ?nd what retrenchment eau bo made in the ' expenditure of the department without ' detriment to the public service ; whether ' any and what abuses exist in tho failure j to enforce the payment of moneys due the United States from public defaulters or others; whether any offices iu tho ; department have become useless or un necessary ; and to report on thc expedi- j ency of modifying or abolishing such of fices. Uuder this rule little was done for a 1 long timo, and wbon Mr. Glover was ? placed at the head of the committee in ' 1877 the gathered wrongs of years had to bo inquired into. The committee had been habitually packed by Speakers Co!- i fax and Blaine with do-nothiugs. Janu- i ary ll, 1878, the House instructed the committee to .proceed with rta duties I (which it had sometime before begun), ' and empowered it to send for persons I nod papers (compel attendance of wit- < nesses and production of documents ! needed as evidence and to pay the atten- < dant expense), and to examino all the i a Hairs of tho treasury for such period as < thc committee might deem necessary for < its. own guidance or the protection of the i pul?c interest and the exposing of any < frauds or abuses. The necessary author- < i ty to pay a clerk aud exports was, how- ? ever, by the intrigues of interested par- 1 ties dofayed till March 7, when tbe ses- ? sion was more than half gone. Never- < theless, the work was pushed as fast and < far as circumstances would allow. < The treasury at Washington contains J over thirty bureaus aud divisions equiv- ! aient to bureaus, charged with important 1 functions and tho overnight of more than 12,000 employees. Tho scope of its pow- 1 era extends from New Brunswick to Cal ifornia, from thc Mexican gulf to the polar ocean, and those powers are in their exercise often despotic to a degree that admits of tho suppression of proof of official misconduct. Beside these thirty-odd bureaus at Washington, tho Treasury Department contains sub-treas uries at Baltimoro, Boston, Chicago, Cin cinnati, Now Orleans, New York, Phila delphia, San Francisco and St. Louis. It also contains mints at Philadelphia, San Francisco, Camon, Denver and New Orleans ; .assay offices at Boise, Charlotte, Helena and New York ; a chain of cus tom houses aud customs officers stretch ing across the continent from Eastport, Me., along the frontiers of New Bruns wick, Canada, Lakes Ontario, Huron and Superior, the frontiers of .Manitoba and British Columbia, to Port Towscnd on Puget Sound, Washington Territory, ihunce northward along tho Pacific coast to the Ae'*vtic sea, southward to tho boundary of Lower California, eastward and southward along tho frontier of Mexico, eastward along the shores of the Gulf, southward to Key West, and thence northeast along the Atlantic coast to Maine, with an organization embracing also the interior States of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio. Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont and West virginia, with tho navy and special "revenue marine'' fleet of thirty seven vessels to enforce the customs laws -tho treasury having charge of build ing, equipment, repair, purchase and aale of these reveuue vessels, and of the examination, admission and government of cadets therein-a network of assess ors, collectors and other internal revenue officials reaching over the wbolo country, with tho United States army and tho Federal courts to uphold them ; tho con struction, illumination, inspection And. superintendence of 660 lighthouses, and of tho light vessels, beacons, buoya, sea marka, fog signals, and of the arrange*. a***'* for saving lives daring shipwrecks ...long the entire coast and on many rivers; tho inspection of steamboats and boilers on every coast, river and lake in tho United States, including 4,000 vessels, and examining and licensing 14,000 pi lots, engineers, etc ; hospitals and physi cians for 18,000 sick or disabled seamen, located at Now York. Ban Francisco. Baltimore, New Orleans, Louisville, ?tost?n, Chicago, Mobile, Detroit, Key West, Portland. Me, Pittsburg, Nor folk, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Galveston, Cairo, Savannah. Washing ton, Evansville, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Bingbampton and Newborn : tho Uni ted Stales Coast Survey, whoso opera tions extend over tho Interior* "And alon tho northern lakes; the supervision of the seal fisheries and other mattera iu Alaska; the registration, enrolment, documenting and mortgaging ol' ??.OuO American vessels, the entry and clear ance of 31,000 vessels yearly from and for foreign countries, and the admeas urement and tonnage of all these ; twenty "special agents" engaged in detection of smuggling and frauds; a Secret Service, employing many persons professedly in detection of counterfeiting. The treasu ry is charged with the custody of funds held in trust by the government for In dian tribes; with the organization, su pervision and winding up of 2,000 na tional banks ; tho publication of charts of tho "Coast Pilot ;" the custody and manufacturo of Btandard weights and measures ; the engraving, printing, issue, redemption, destruction and entire man agement of over $2,000,000,000 of public debt and $700,000,000 of paper currency; the coinage of 80,000,000 gold and sil ver dollars yearly ; the construction and custody of nearly all public buildings ; the preparation of the statistics of com merce and navigation; tho collection of hundreds of millions of customs and in ternal revenue yearly from the people ; the final scrutiny and settlement of all the expenditures of Federal government, and the keeping of the government's ac counts. Since 1861 over $13,000,000,000 have pasGcd through the treasury's hands. In 1877 tho "Graves Committee," ap pointed by Secretary Sherman to exam ine the Bureau of Engraving and Print ing, reported that "in tho Treasury De partment espec'ally the efficiency of tho supervision of its chief authorities is greatly impaired by tho vastness of the field which its administration covers." In 1874, the Committee of Waya n.ud Means reported to tho House, in connei tion with tho Sanborn case, that the res ponsibility for official acts is very loose and easily evaded, subordinates being able to control matters supposed to bo decided by superiors. Secretary Boutwell re ported in 1869, regarding a Bingle branch of the department, that "it is impossible for the Secretary of tho Treasury to give to tho various questions that arise in the management of the system the attention which is essential to the service." ?lNECTJBES BY THE HUNDRED. In tho Bureau of Engraving and Print ing it was found that snortly before last year's elections nearly 300 needless em ployees were put on tho pay rolls. In stead of the bun au costing about $150, 000 in the fiscal year 1878, aa has been publicly represented, it really cost tho government in various ways $800,000. _ About a million and a quarter of pub lic money is permanently invested in the bureau. The cost of the bureau for tho sixteen years of ita existence is so mixed in the treasury accounts with other matteretbat lt could not be precisely ascertained without the labor of a number of compe tent clerks for many months. Accord ing to the best attainable information at i> ?fJ?/,000,000 have been spent on it, much of which has been wasted or stol on. The report gi ves a list of expendi tures which are officially shown or ad mitted to bo needless or fraudulent. This, the report states, is by no means the whole loss, but simply what could be ascertained in the time at command. Tbeamountoverdrawnand wasted in 1878 is ascertained from the figures furnished by the chief of the bureau to tho com mittee, and from the bills rendered by and paid to the bureau for work for oth er bureaus, reaches the enormous sum of $200,230.69 THE "DEY PRINTING" FRAUD. Thus nearly half appears to be waste iu a "reform" administration of tho bu reau. If previous management was no worse-and it in known that it was no better-about $12,000,000 have been ivasted or stolen. The "dry printing" fraud was an effort to print fractional surrency on dry paper by hydrostatic pressure. In this attempt $300,000 were ivasted by a professed inventor named stuart Gwyn, and it now turnB out on in spection ot the secret archives of the Pat ent Office that the then Chief of the Bu reau, Sp?ncer M. Clark, was. part owner with Gwyn in the worthless patent, for ieveloping which he paid Gwyn much if this money. The "waterproofing" fraud was a pretense to make greenbacks ind fractional currency waterproof by lipping tho paper into a mixturo of wa ter, castile soap and some other ingredi ents. This bath had no good effect, and the mixture cost about five cents a gallon, while from fifty to ninety-five cents a gal lon was paid for it. For the red ink used for printing the scalp, ou notes from two tc twelve prices were paid. The Internal Revenue Bureau, the Bu reau of Statistics, the officers ot the Ma rino Hospital Service, the Lighthouse Beard, and other parts of the department have at times been crowded out of tb< treasury building by tho wholly unnec essnry enlargement of this unnecessary burea", wbich has no authority of lav (beyond yearly appropriations) for it existence. This crowding out bas madi tho government pay large sums in ren for outside accommodations, which wer BuperfluouB, because the Currency Print lng Bureau was not needed at all, ree ponsiblo parties having always stooi ready to do in a way, safer, cheaper am finer, all that the bureau has done. Fo the same reason no nsw building for tb bureau was needed, and the approprie tion of $327,639 which waa forced throug tho House under the previous qucatio without. Heb?*- in tbs confusion attenc ing tho close of tho session in June, 1871 is a clear waste and loss, as is also tb $50,000 obtained by the same means la; February for moving the bureau froi tho treasury into the new building. Ft the first half of the fiscal year 1879, om ing December 31,1878, tho cxpenditun of the bureau were nearly $800,000, ? about double thoso of the previous year and the bureau, by misrepresentation! obtain appropriations of about a millie for the present year. This presents strong contrast to McPherson's claim i havo spent but $200,000 a year and i have made Urge savings. Large sun have been yearly asked and obtained fi "new machinery/' and some of this m chinery ia stored as useless, yet the d mand for fresh appropriations goes c yearly, though the bureau always clair to be bettor equipped than any priva establishment. The bureau also bas < band engraved work enough to suppl in printing notes and bonds, the gover raent'a needs for fifty years to como, y large sums aro yearly spent on cngra ings, though the engraving division the bureau is practically useless. EXTRAVAGANT AND CORRUPT OFI CIALA. Ainong tho very first reforms made i ter the "reorganization" of the bure In May, 1877, when Edward McPbcrs took charge, was tbe.purchase of on e pensive carriage and norse ($420 for t former and $225 fay tho latter) and t employment of a man as driver, whe pay ($1.50 per day) was increased by allowance of 87} cents each day as exl time, and the cost of tho carriage a: horse, as well as the monthly livery b of the latter, (amounting to $20 { month,) were paid from the appropr tion for labor and oxpemrc* of engravi aud printing the securities;?* iba ernmont ; tho whole reserved exclusively for the private use of the chief of the bu reau, except for tho few hours the driver actea as messenger in the office. When McPherson entered on his du ties be mado requisition on tho custodiun of tho building tor the construction of a now offico and! fittings for the same. A portion of the money appropriated Tor "labor and expenses of engraving and priuting" was diverted from its legiti mate channel and disbursed under tho direction of the custodian for this pur pose. The printing of bank notes has been taken from the Comptroller of Currency, iu violation of law, and put into this cor rupt bureau. Tho priuting of tho backs of greenbacks, fractional currency and bonds bave been taken from responsible and skillful engravers-also in disregard and violation of law-and is now all done in that concern ; and the revised statutes have been tampered with to m uko it seem lawful. This concentration of the printing in the bureau has been condemned as every way wrong by ro Eeated reports of investigators. It has cen excused by falso pretenses of cheap work. September 25, 1877, in response to ad vertisements inviting proposals for printing the black backs on national bank notes, bids were received from en gravers, and when opened were found to range from $12 to $8.94 per 1,000 Bheeta. The chief of the bureau offered to do tho work for $8.92, two cents lower than tho least bid, and tho work was awarded to Ibo bureau. An inspection of tho bills re?.dcred un der this arrangement showed that while tho bureau charged $8.92 nor 1,000 sheets for tho first printing, it charged $14 for tho green printing on tho backs, and $20 for tho faces ; boing together $41.92 per 1,000 for tho three priutings, instead of ?29.78 ns, on tho basia of this bid, it should havo done. The bureau also ob tained, in violation of law, tho printing }f the black backs of tho legal tenders by putting in an absurd "bid" of $8.27 per J ,000 impressions. At this rate tho :ompleted notes should not havo cost iver $37.66 per 1,000 sheets: but the ;hief admitted that it was $49.79, and his >wn figures revealed tho fact that it was ?101.151 Tho bureau accounls aro not io kept as to show the cost of printing my kind of obligation, and these facts iad to be dug out. The nccounts had Uso been falsified in various respects. 1 Fnct Which PrcTcntc? ar? Awful Judicial Crime. The general public, while rejoicing >vcr the capture of Cox, despite the stu jidity of our own police, whom he does lot seem to have feared in the least, as fe returned to this city after the murder, ia? but Hule idea of tho awful judicial :rime which his arrest and confession lave averted. The reporters of tho dai y papers who have been engaged iu vriting about the Hull murder have been olerably well informed from the begin ing of the nature of the cb?>in of eir :umstantial evidence which .ho police vere weaving about tho aged Dr. Hull, mt they were pledged not to reveal tho nore important links until the inquest lamped them with an official seal. Now hat tho murderer has been found and ionfessed bis guilt, those in tho Beeret of he operations of the police ure fairly ippalled at the possibility of the crime, inder the name of law, which tho escape if the negro Cox would certainly have >recipitated. Tho circumstantial evi lence against Dr. Hull was apparently if such a conclusive nature that in thesu iays of hanging on suspicion it is diffi :ult to conceive of a jury which would lot have felt bound to convict him. Lot era of his dead wife were found proving hat the couple had been living for many rears on terms of almost open hostility, ind that Dr. Hail, aged aa ho is, was us ually jealous of his wife. Hero the mo ive for the murder was supplied. In'the oom of the Doctor a half burned caadlo vas found. It was different from any ?Hier candles in the house, aud the drop ings on Mrs. Hull's sleove were of tho arno material as that of this piece ol ?andie. In addition, tho piece of candle howe J that it had not burned in the or Unary way-Btauding upright; tho ap learanco was exactly such as would have icen created by holding tho candle down o the eyes of the murdered woman HUB is a fact which was not brought oui in the inquest for obvious reasons. Thc lolice diet not propose to "givo awi^' heir theory until tho proper time arriv id. It is terrible to think of the jud?ela irimo which would have been enacted ii his city had Cox not been captured ai ie was and our theoretical polico hue leen allowed to place their "theory"" ii ho form of circumstantial evidence bo ore a jury. Dr. Hull would certain)} lave been hanged for the murder of hi vife.r.nd another victim to circumstantia svidenco would have been sacrificed Dhe murderer, too, had it in his powei ml for his ignorance, to havo escapei ustice and offered up Dr. Hull as a sac rifice. The "best police forco in th ?.oriel," intent on gaining a reputatio for shrewdness which they do not po; tess, allowed just enough to be printed i the newspapers to let the whole worl know that Dr. Hull was suspected, an that the evidence against him was ovei whelming, as indeed it was "thcoret cally." When the jewelry was found i Beater, they t>iupiaiy asserted that D Hull had cent it there to throw them o the track. Fortunately for tho ends < justice, Cox cannot read, and he kno nothing of these wonderful "theories" < tho police. Had he known of them 1 could and probably would bavo said tin Dr..Hull gave him the jewelry to dispoi of. This would have vindicated oi Solico in their "theory," and the ag? octor would have hanged, while tl murderer of his wife would have goi tree. Tho lesson of all this is thnt cireur stantial evidence, however conclusi' apparently, is not evidence upon whh it is safe to decide tho fate of a bunn life. Dr. Hull has been waved from tl Tallows simply because tho murderor his wife could not read, and, therefoi did not know the deep "theories" of tl "finest polico force in tho world."-N* York Star. PANIC IN CHESTER.-Tho Chest State Bulletin gives the particulars of panie in Coleman's Hall, at that plat on the evening cf the 30th ultimo seems that iu tho second scene, when S Clifford produced a chemical stage ligl lt grew so. magnificently rubesccnt tl some fi re-fea ,ng mortal screamed "fire and tho large audience, thrown into uti confusion, enacted a accQo indescribab Everybody rushed for the staircase, a in the stampede femininity was for ot disregarded.. Some of the males actus ran over tho ladles, and excitement v on such a frightful verge that tho coll ted part of the audience stood in hi horror of an accident. A few lad fainted away, and some of tho aten BOX jumped ont of the windows, withe injuring themtclvas. Quiet bras fins restored and tho entertainment went i - A faxraer/e tcK*~potatoeV THE DEAD PRINCE IMPERIAL. Indignation of tho English 1'eoplo at the Wanton Sacrifice - Lord Chelmsford De nounced In Unmeasured Term?. LONDON, June 24, 1879. Shanie and indignation havo taken the placo oi dtrpriso and horror regarding tho sad de ttli of tho Prince Imperial. The first thoughts in the public mind were tho probable political consequence? and sym EUby for the widowed and now childless mpress. Rut at present the feeliug up permost in tho English heart is ono of shame for tho blot cast upon tho English army by tho want of proper guardianship over tho young Napoleon displayed by his superior officers whose guest ho was, but . mostly by tho ignoble flight of bis ?tom rade in arms. Lieutenant Carey, and the other English soldiers with bim.- In mil itary circles in England nothing has for years, if ever, created such a sense of dis grace. The papers are filled with letters from army officers expressing indignation at tho conduct of their fellow officer, and urgently demanding an impartial investi gation. " Uv is a fine young fellow," wrote the L>J":O of Cambridge to Lord Chelmsford, at tho time the Prince went out to Zululand, " full of spirit and pluck, und having many old cadet friends in the artillery be will doubtless find no difficul ty in getting on, and if you can help him iu any way pray do so. My only anxiety an his account would be that bo is too plucky and go-ahead." Tho Duke also ivroto that tho Prince wished to serve in '.ho army, but the government would not permit it. BRITISH HOSPITALITY. The Princo, therefore, went out as a spec .ator and a guest. In spite of the above .vnrning tho young Bonaparto was allow ed to go into the heart of the enemy's :ountry with a ueagro escort of less than i dozen men, who, when reprised, all icampered away and left their g?'cst and :omradeto follow on foot as best be could. Perhaps tho soldiers whoso bodies wero bund by that of the Princo did dio in his lefeuco. Later accounts will tel!, and ivery ono hopes they did, for English ?onor is nt stako and Lieutenant Carey lid Ettie for ita glory. What a chanco his was for a man to have earned tho hanks of a nation and tho personal grat tudo of the heir of the Bonapartes, not o speak of moro substantial rewards in ho shape of the Victoriii Cross and pro notion. There were models of bravery br Lieutenant Carey, but unfortunately be 8ttuTof tho hero was w anting in'him. ' Such a story," writes a gentleman to the Telegraph, " reddens tho cheek of every Englishman - ayo, and every English vornan - with unutterable distress and udignation." WHERE THE RESPONSIBILITY RESTS. It was possible for him to seo servico without risk. The Prince would have teen the last to sanction Buch tender caro. Ie was brave to recklessness, and would ; lave smarted under any more restraint , han is customary in similar cases. Ho fas not serving in tho army, however, .nd his placo should have been by tho ido of the commander-in-chief or Qen ral Newdegate, into whoa?, care be bad ?een put. The News, citing a supposed lurallei coso, Bays that, " If a son of Gen ira! Grant or o> Marshal MacMahon had teen allowed to bo present with the in ti sh army in South Africa under cou litions similar to those under which the Mnco Louis Napoleon accompanied it, be sense of caro and protection due to a ;uest would have involved precisely the ame obligations toward cither of them as oward thc Prince." To show you bow his part of the incident is regarded by he English army, it is only necessary to [uote the end of "the letter to tho Stand :rd from one who says, " Up to this time ve have sustained many military disos- , ers and huve made many military blun ter.-', but never before this occasion havo blushed to sign myself a British officer." \.n ther signs himself "A Much Ashamed Englishman." Tho Standard, in printing hese two communications, says it does BO ??ith pain, but that " it is useless to cou cal the sense of humiliation and shame finch is felt throughout tho length ami ireadth of the land at tho maunor in finch the gallant young Prince was do ailed for a most dangerous duty, and vas then deserted by his escort upon tho irst intimation of the fact that tho Za us had surprised them." THE INCOMFEfENT COMMANDER. A proof that Lord Chelmsford never, eal i zed the importance of the charge :ommitted to him is tho matter-of-course vay in which his official dispatch is writ en. To him it was an " unfortunate af air," as ho described the Isandula mas acre, and when he meeta tho " brave " 3arey and the other survivors of this later ill'air, he will probably say, "Thank you di very much for your very gallant - >rudenc?." Sir liar tie Fiero and tho .olonists aro still less considerate. Dot: ild Currie & Co. offered to have their teamer stop at St. Vincent in order that he news might bo telegraphed to Europo rom there instead of later from Madeira, mt the colonial government paid no at entiou to the offer. Yet another exam* de of disregard of propriety and good ?ste is the anounccmcnt that tho festiv tics connected with the return of Sir Bartle to Cape Town would not be inter uptcd. becauso tho Prince Imperial did lot hold an official position. Sir Hattie ios. been, you doubtless know, making n riumphal tour through tho colony. He vos to make a grand entry intn C?po L'own, and theio was to be a great pro cession and banquet. Triomphal arches vere being erected when tho last mail eft, though where the causo for triumph s nobody in England has been able to liscovcr. The glad music in celebration d' the unknown triumphs of Sir Hurtle Frere will be mingled with tho requiem >f tho Prince Imperial as his body is car ried on its way to England. No wonder British pride is wounded. AN ARMY OFFICER'S LETTER. To give you an idea of the indignation that prevails I may sri ve tho letter of a British officer to the Standard, He says : ' The report of tho incidents connected with tho death of the Princo Imperial will cause a deep sensation, not only of ?orrow, but of shame, throughout tho British army. In the first place, it was in act of thc jaost extraordinary reckless uess to send two young officers miles away from the support of tho British column, with a scouting party of six irregular troopers, white men, and a Kaffir guide. So great bas been tho dread felt by the authorities for the Zulus that they suffer ed our dead to lie at Isandula for four months within sight of a military post, and during this tune only ono scouting party ventured lo pay a flying visit to tho place; and yet these young officers were despatched many mites into an utterly unknown country with only six troopers. It would in any case have been an act of unpardonable recklessness to despatch this little party upon such an expedition, but the recklessness is a thousandfold more serious when it is remembered that une of these officers is tho Prince Impe rial of France. It ia clear that in his caso the greatest caution should have been observed, and that ho should have been tho very last person chosen for a service of extraordinary danger..? Does any cue supposo that, bad tho Duke of Connaught been present with .tho force, tho Quartermaster General would have despatched him ti pon such a duty as this ? Yet he sent tho Prince Imperial, tho heir to tho throne of France* the guest of England, a lad new ti soldiering, who could havo known nothing whatever of tho duties of scouting and tho care neces sary to ho observed upon such an expe dition that on whicn he was engaged. Nor does tho officer who accompanied him appear to have been more instructed in his duty, if it bo true that the party unsaddled their horses and sat down for un hour iu tho henrtof Zululand without even taking tho precaution of putting a man on duty to act as a scout. CA8E3 OP HKBOI8M. " But, sir, unhappily, this terrible blu. - der of a British staff officer iu high posi tion is not tho only, nor iudecd the most lamentable and disgraceful, feature of tho affair. Englishmen cannot rend ibo ac count of tho struggle itself without a deep iccliug of shnmo. Tho pnrty hal just saddled their horses when tho alarm of the Zulus was givou. Each leapt upon his horse and galloped for his life. There was no thought of tho brave young Prince; no ono looked round to seo if tho whole party Wero together, or had a thought for any ono but himself. Con trast this selfish flight with some of tho heroic iucidents of the prcscut campaign which have been published. Think of Major Leet, at Zlobane. hotly pursued by the Zulus, yet stickiug by his dismounted friend, Lieutenant Smith, who rnn by his . sido holding ou by tho saddle, aud from timo to timo turning round, shot with his revolver thoso Zulus who carno within ' assegai reach. Hotly pressed, and with , Smith's strength failing, Major Leet made 1 a great effort, nnd by main force hauled ! his comrade up to his horse behind him and bore him off in Bafety. Think, again, of Captain Brown at Kambula, who - when a volunteer who had dismounted to fire was uuable to regain his seat, his ' horse being frightened by the advancing Zulus-rodo back and hold the man's horso and assisted him to mount when ( tho advancing line of the Zulus was just closing round him. Contrast these cases ( with the sauve qui peut of tho officer and men r, ho accompanied tho Prince I m pe- ; rial. Nor was the desertion and panic merely momentary. Wo aro informed that it was not till they reached tho deep cutting, 800 yards away, that they looked , around, and finding the Princo's riderless hon v following them, concluded that ho was killed. At that timo no Zulus ap pear to have boon closo on their tract, but not one of them thought of turning horse to seo if the Prince was near. Had they done so, had they even waited for a miuuto, they would havo saved bia lifo, for it waa in this very cuttiug that his body was found. Ho had apparently kept ahead of his pursuers on foot thus far, and had tho horsemen waked-still more, had they ridden back to meet him - he could have been saved, rs Lieuten ant Smith and the volunteer above spok en of were saved. TUE FIRST BLUSH. "No comment on my part can deepen the feelings of shamo which every officer in the British army must feel at perusing this narrative. It is but too evident that the persistent maintenance at his post of a commander-in-chief wholly unequal to the position has acted most deleteriously upon the Btaff officers aud troops employ ed under him. Tho one have been alter nately incapable and reckless, the other havo imbibed that overwhelming dread of tho enemy which has distinguished Lord ChelmBlbrd's operations ever since the fatal duy of Isandula. Had the young Prince who bas been sacrificed to the recklessness of a British Btaff officer nnd and to tho want of calm cool courage on tho part of thoso who were with bimbeen a subaltern of our own army, tho occur ence would have not been less disgraceful, but it would borve been less notorious. As it is a noble young princo has fallen a victim, and thc circumstances will be dis cussed and criticized by every officer in Europe. It is needless to Bay what the comments will be. Up to this time we havo sustained many military disasters and havo made many military blunders, but never before this occasion have 1 blushed at signing myself, sir, your obe dient servant, A BRITISH OFFICER." MARRYINQ THE PRESIDENT.-A tall, strong, healthy-looking young woman, with a straw hat jammed over her eyes and with a long linen duater over her dress, called at the White House, and said she wanted to see tho President. She sent in her nnmo as Emeline Noble. Tho President admitted her, and when she saw him she said : "When ar? you going to marry me?" Tho President saw nt once that ho had a crazy woman on hiB hands, and replied: " Why I have a wife already." " But," said Miss Noble, "I understood you wero not living with her now. I wrote you three or four letters offering to marry you, and as you did not .answer, silence gives consent, so hero I am." Tho President said ho had to go down to see Mrs. Hayes, and ns ho got out of tho way of the tall, strapping, young woman ho called two police officers, who took charge of her. Upon taking her to tho station she was found to have $250 in her pocket, while her appearances showed that she belonged to people of comfortable means. She was sent to tho government insano hospital, where it was found that her people resided at Fremont, Ind. They telegraphed to have her sent ou io ihem ana tney would pay all ex penses.- Washington dispatch to the Chi cago Times. _ SITTING BULL ON THE FOURTH. This is a great day for tho palo faces, in which they moko much noise with their mouths, and burn up what powdor they have left from killing off tho Indians. It is a glorious day for whito wind-bags where they fire off long words in pow wows. They make much talk of tho wri ting made in tho great wigwam many moons ago, which says "all men are born free ana equal." Tuut does not mean tho Indians. The Indians aro not men, The falso faces aro free and equal tc shoot and cheat the Indians. To-day the white wind-bags talk of a great chiei who never told a lie. He never had anj children liko him. Every palo face th in ki he must lioenough to make" up for it. Foi overy troth ho told ono Indian agent tole a canoe full of lies. If I were an Indiar agent I should say I lovo the Qrcat Fa thor, who never told a lie. I shouic ?ay I lovo the pale faces. I should sa) I love the palo face soldiers. I ehouh say I love to bo driven from my reserva tion. I should say I love to see my peo {de killed and starved. I should say ] ove the wind-bags aud their long words I am an Indian and can not toll a lie. '. love fire-water and scalps. Let tho pal face army be reduced to 10,000 men. Le the Indian agents be reduced to one mau Let that one man be roasted over a slot fire. I have spoken. I am dry.-Net York Graphic. ~!r WWRIA KNOWN.-Many grocer tc. Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder s the same prico of the cheaper kinds, an as they pay more for it, make less mon ey; hence they never sell Jit unless th purchaser demands lt. Pure articles ca noti bo made aa cheap aa thoso that ar adulterated. '? . ? ' ? . . '" A MA.N W-TUOUT A SOUL. The l?xtrao rill nary Revelation of a Noir .fork Phyelclan. A letter fvom New York has tho fol lowing : Yesterday your correspondent called Dr. Clarence Bigelow's attention to an article printed recently in tho city news papers, descriptive of an Australian dis covery whereby cattle can bo frozen, laid away for weeks, and then brought back to lifo and genuino activity. The purposes of this discovery is to snip live moat in ico boxes, and kill it on tho allier si jo of tho ocean ofter it ia thawed nit again. In this way the cost of food md attention can be dispensed with while at 6ca. In caso of emergency a nan traveling from California can buy a Irsi-class ticket for himself, and ship tho .cit of tho family, including tho mother-1 n-law, in patotit refrigerators. At the omiiuui! of his lourney ho could restore lia children to their youthful vigor, and lia wife to her proper station nt the vash-tub or cook-stove. Your correspondeut asked the doctor vhnt ho thought about it. "It is nothiug," said ho, "to the croat irowning effort of medical scienco that I ritnc8scu a few night since." "Pray, what was that?" was asked. Tho doctor reflected for a few moments, nd then he spoko as follows : "When you publish what I am about o tell you it will sot tho whole country inging. Accompanied by my friends, udgo Warren and Dr. Chambers, I rent last week to one of the uptown hos itals, whither wo had been invited by 'rofessor Dorcmus and tho house physi ians. On our arrival wu were shown at nee to the dissecting room. At tho foot f an amphitheatre of scats stood a long lblo on which rested some immovable bjoct covered with a sheet. Most of the eats wcro occupied by medical students -om Bellevue mid Roosevelt Hospitals, iysolf and party were assigucd to chairs n tho platform. Shortly after 8 o'clock ie white sliest was removed and I saw n tho table tho nudo body of n mau. 'resently Dr. White stepped down by ie table and said : "My friends, tho body boforo mo is int of a man who bled to death. He ES employed in a planing mill on Weat ix teen th Btreet, ueur North River. He ?ll against ono of the swift revolving iws, ouo of tho largo arteries in his arm as severed, and the bleed, which io life, owed outboforo assistance could arrive." "The doctor paused," continued Dr. bigelow, "for a few moments, looking, leanwhilo, attentively at tho body, ben bo continued: There is a mere essation of life, because the blood was ?verted from its natural channel. I cen i8cover no injury save the severed, arte r. It is absolutely necessary to the sue ess of tho experiment wo are about to itness, that the organs of " tho body a uninjured, for any material injury to ny organ-I mean vital organ-would reciuuo the possibility of its performing s functions, since science cannot restore ie organ. But whore tho action of thc rgan is interrupted by some cause that oes not materially injure tho organ, I ne uve the organ may bc again compelled tc erform its duty. AB the great wheel ol mill may bo stopped by shutting off thc ator, so may it be made to revolve min by turning tho water on, thus tut food which turns the wheels of the bod) aving been diverted, tho wheels atop ed. I claim that this body may ut rought to life. Whether the BOUI ho: Dpartctl and canuot bo brought back, oi hetber tho mind eau be restored I can ot tell ; but I believe I can again set a erk every material organ of this body have carefully closed up the severa rtories.' "Ho then called upon Prof. Dorena od Dr. Chambers and myself to assis im. Au incision was made in thc ody just above the heart, and tho von: iva and great coronary vein wer urst open. lu these openings were iu ;rted small silver tubes. On tho lef f the table stood two galvanic batterie: . alight cut was made just above th uxui' of the four inferior cervical nerve nd another above the first dorsal nervt 'ho conducting wires of tho four respot ve batteries were placed in conncctio dth these cuts. A small pairof belton as inserted in tho mouth of tho corp; nd Dr, Chambers took charge of thea rof. Doremus was placed in charge < lie batteries. "At this moment attendants led tv? ill-grown living sheep into tho room, ar ta signal from Dr. White, stood thc ear thc table. Moanwhiie I had, und istructions, connected two hollow ru' or strings to the silver tubes abe u lentioned. The other ends were sot mncctcd with large arteries of the;-:o tv seep. The two tubes throbbed as tl arm blood of tho sheep boundi trough them. It was a breathless m tent, and as wo leaned forward our i ..rest was painful. Dr. Chambers bcgi ) work tho bellows, and tho lungs io body slowly responded. Three iur minutes of tho most anxious si enso ensued, as Dr. White lent over t ody, pale with excitement. No mo> lent could bo seen save the slow risi nd falling of the chest of tho mai ody. Two minutes more and one of t heep staggered and fell. "Rising erect, and Boizing some inst] lent*, Dr. White called out : " fNuw, professor I" "In an instant tho powerful current bo two batteries were turned on, u it lt a sudden jerk tho body sat uprig Quickly forcing it back, Dr. White, w ho assistance of some of tho younj ien, withdrew the tubes from the ve nd closed up the small porforatio ?ho wires wero disconnected and tho I ows removed. Tho respiration still c inned 1 Tho pulso beat -faintly 1 1 ornso was alive 1" With each recurring sentence the d or had tightened his grasp of my a: io leaned toward and fairly hissed be words: "The corpse was alive 1" Ai while he continued, with more mode lon : "Tho incision above thc heart was v loscd up and the body carefully remo o a bed iu an adjoining room. But rork was not over. All night long we n tho room, all of us troin time to t beling tho pulse of the now living a .nd at times administering small qu Ules of stimulant, not only to him o ourselves. Our pationco was well yarded ; every momcut tho pulse g tronger and tho breathing dee l?verai times the mau openeeT his e mt apparently took no notice of t hing. At daybreak, when Ju Yarren and I left the place, he was sb f)r. Bigelow was asked if the man till living, and was he getting on i ^'"Oh, yes ; ho ia living. Tho ext neut I have described to you took p nat Ave days ago. I have only this ucnt returned from tho hospital, ann's wounds aro L'oaliog, and bi hie to movo about tho room." . "Does ho feel all right, and will 1 ,blo to go to work again ?" "I am afraid not." H? spoko in a toubting tono of voice, which rove bo Act that th ore waa more of tho i Hy.; than Bigelow had yet related. Pressed to tell the fall facta ia tho case, he said : "Well, the man eats anddrinks ; seems to be afraid of other people, or more cu? rious than afraid, ana is affected strange ly by tho heat and cold. But he can neither read nor write, does not know tho us? of books, plates or knives and fork*. He is not able to talk, but eries out loudly, or jabbers in au inarticulate manner. Once in awhile a word can bo distinguished, but the man does not ap pear to perceive any difference between it and his jargon. The animal life has been restored, but not the spiritual. The mind with all its component parts has gone, I fear never to be restored." This is, indeed, a wonderful achieve mont of ocienco. It may seem too won derful for belief, but your correspondent can vouch for the great respectability of the persons named. They aro gentle men of high Btsnding, and tho proof ig irresistible. A SECOND TRIAL. It was commencement day at Q-Col- . lege. The people were pouring into tho * church as I entered ft rather tardy. Finding tho choice seats in the centre of j tho audience-room already taken, I press- y ed forward, looking to tho right and to tho . left for a vacancy. On tho very front * row of Beats I found one. ?, Hero a little girl moved along to mako n room for mo, looking into ray face with *_ largo gray eyes, whose brightness was a softened by very long lashes. Her face r n'as opon and fresh as a newly blown roso before sunrise. Again and again I ^ Tound my eyes turning to tho rose-like n Taco, ana each time tho gray eyes moved, ^ linlf smiling, to meet mine. Evidently i( .he child was ready to "make up" with ne. And when, with a bright smile, she _ returned my dropped handkerchief, and [ Baid "Thank you I" wo seemed fairly " ntroduced. Other persons, now coming _ uto tho seat, crowded mo quito closo up ?, igainst the little girl, BO that we soon cit very well acquainted. j5 "There's going to be a grent crowd," ?i ibo said to mo. "Yes," I replied ; "people nlways like g o seo how school-boys aro made into ? nen." * j. Her faco beamed with pleasure and <] >rido as she Baid : b "My brother's going to graduato ; ho's j joing to speak ; I'vo brought these flow. ~ irs to throw io him," r They wore not greenhouse favorites ; c ust old-fashioned domestic flowers, such Q LS wo associate with tho dear grand nothora; "but," I thought, "they will t) :ecm sweet and beautiful to him for his e ittlo sister's sake." ? "That is my brother," she wont on " minting with ncr nosegay. , "Tho ono with tho light hair?" I E inked. j, "Oh, no," sho Bald, smiling and shaking a 1er head in innocent reproof; "not that Q mindy ono, with red hair ; that hand- i ? orno ono with brown wavy hair. His 8I ?es look brown, too ; but they are not- ? cy are dark-blue. There ! bo's got bis mud up to his head now. Hou seo him, loa't you?" lu an cager way she looked from mo f, a him, ana from him to me, as if some lJ mportant fate depended upon my identi- V yiiig her brother. ' "I see him," I said. "He's a very n ;ood-lookincr brother.'" "Yes, he is beautiful," she said, with S irtleas delight: "and ho's so good, and ? itudica BO hara. Ho has taken caro of * >f mo ever nineo mamma died. Here is tis namo ou the programme. Ho is not ^ he valedictorian, but has an honor for " ill that.'' {? I saw in tho little creature's familiari- J? y with these technical college terms that jj ho had closely identified herself with 0 1er brother's studies, hopes, and success- ? ?. J "He thought, at first," she continued, 11 'that he would write on tho "Romance P ?f Monastic Life." a What a strange sound thesolong words c ind, whispered from her childish lips. D !Icr interest in her brother's work had '". itamped them on tho child's memory, ' ind to her they wore ordinary things. J! "But, then," she went on, ''he decided f hat ho would rather write on 'Historical a Parallels,' and he's got a real good ora- c ion, and he says itbeantifully. Ho has mid it to mo a great many times. I most know it by heart. Oh 1 it begins t io pretty and so grand. This is tho way I it begins," abo added, encouraged by the i interest she must have seen in my face : j 'Amid tho permutations and combina- i ?lons of the actors and the forcea which fi make up the great kaleidoscope of hiato- 1 rv, w? often find that a turu of destiny's t liand-" a "Why, bless tho baby 1" I thought, c looking down into her bright, proud face, s I can't describo how very odd and selfish c it did seem to have thoso sonorous words t rolling out of the smiling infantile mouth. 1 Tho band striking up put an end to i the quotation and to the confidences. AB tho exorcises progressed, and ap proached nearer and nearer, the effort on I which all her interest was concentrated, ? my little friend became excited and rest- J less. Her eyes grew larger and brighter, j two deep rca cpots glowed on her cheeks. ? Sho touched up tho flowers, manifestly - making the offering ready for the shrine. 1 "Now, it's his turn," she said, turning j to me a face in whlnh prid?, cut: dciijrht and anxiety seemed about equally min gled. But when the overture wasplayed -, through, and his name was called, the child seemed in her eagerness, to forget j mo and all the earth beside bim. kfhe rose to her feet and leaned forward for a . better view of her beloved, as ho moun- . ted the speaker's stand. I knew by her \ deep breathing that her heart was throb bing in her throat. I know, too, by the way her brother came ap the otcps and to the front, that be was trembling. """>.? hands hung limp; his face was pallid, J and tho lins blue us cold. I felt anxious. ' The child, too, seemed to discern that j things were not well with biro. Some- 1 thing like fear showed in her faco. ' t Ho mado an automatic bow. Then- a ' bewildered, struggling look came into c his face, thou i, helpless look, and then ho stood staring vacantly, like a som nambulist, at tho waiting audience. The j moments of painful suspense went by, - and still ho stood as if struck dnmb. I I saw how it was ; he had been seized with * Btage-fright. . Ala?! little sister 1 She turned her \ large, dismayed eyes upon me. "He's for? * gotten it," she said. Then a swift change * carno into her face; a strong, determin ed look; and on tho funeral-like silence of tho room broke the sweet, bravo child voice : e "Amid the permutations and combl nation? of tho actors ?nd tho forces walch mako up tho great kaleidoscope of histo- . ry, wo often nnd than a turn of destiny's ; hand--" 1 Evory body about us turned and look ed. T?.c breathless silence; tho sweet i childish voice : the childish face ; the t long, unohild-liko words, produced - a s weird effect. But tho help had ,como foo late; tho unhappy brother was already staggering I ini humiliation front the Tftngo. The t baud quickly struck up, &WjtffiA of Uvoly music wore rolled out to c I gave the little ??nter a glauco iii which I meant to abow tbc intense sym* Bilby I felt; but abe did not see me. or eye:?, swimming with tears, wero on '*'$m her brother's face. I put my arm around -;2$H ber. Bhe waa too absorbed to heed the caress, and before I could appreciate ber purpose, she was on her way to the shamo-stricken young may sitting with ^?ffl a face like a statute's. When be saw ber by his aide, the sst face relaxed, and a quick mist carno into his eyes. The young men got close to? Sether, to make room for her. 8ho sat own beside him, laid her flowers on bis knee, and slipped her hand in his. I could not keep my eyes from her sweot, Eitying face. I saw her whisper to him, o bending a little to catch her words. Later I found out that she wes asking him if bo knew bis "piece" now, aud that he answered yes. When tho young man next on the list had spoken, and while the band was f-? playing, tho child, to the brother's great v* surprise, made her way up tho stage :''||g* ?teps, and passed through the throng of ?>TOfessors, and trustees, aud distingrdahed , visitors, up to tho college president. "If you please, sir," ehe said with n ittle courtesy, "will you and the trustees et my brother try again f He knows bis ?ieee now." For a moment the president stared at ter through his gold-bowed spectacles, nd then, appreciating the child's pcti ion, be smiled on her and went down nd spoke to tho young man who bsd ailed. So it happened that when tho band lad again ceased playing, it was briefly nnounced that Mr.- would how oliver his oration-"Historical Paral BIB." II 'Amid the permutations and corabi ations of the actors and tho forces thies, make up tho great kaleidoscope of istory-.*** Thia- the little sister whis ered to him as ho rose to answer tbs ummons. A ripple of heightened and expectant aterest passed over tho audience, and ben all eat stone-still; os though fearing 3 breathe lest the speaker might again ike fright. No danger I The hero in he youth was arouGed. He went at his ?ieco" with a sot purpose to conquer, to -edcom himself, and to bring tho smile ?ck into the child's tear-stained face, ^watched the faca rlnrin? tbs spating, /ho widrf eyes, the parted lip3. the wbote apt being, said that tho breathless audi neewaa forgotten, that ber spirit was loving with hU. And when the address was ended, witb tie ardent abandon of ene who carches nthuBiasm in the realization that he is ghting down a wrong judgment and onquerlmr a sympathy, tho effect was Bally thrilling. That dignified audience roko into rapturous applause; bouquet!) itended for tho valedictorian rainoGllko tempest. And the child who had elped to save the day-that one boamlug ttlo face, in its pride and gladoe&s, is jmethiug'obe forever remembered. if, Nicholas. - The sin of cruelty to animals is ag* ravated by two circumstances. First, ?io obligation under which we lie to the umb creation, which are our servants. Ve owe so much to tho horse, the iule, the cow, the faithful watch deg, nd wo ought to treat them kindly, say, ratefully. The want pf these and other nimals, would be n felt calamity. Bat .o want to remember that the ein is ag ravated by their silence. Tiley are umb. If you aro ill-used, you can cry ir aid, and secure it. If you are hun ry, you can cry for bread, and get it ; ut the poor dumb beast cannot ask for )0d, nor appeal for protection to the of* cer of a law court. Hence ?he crime f a man who ill-uses his beast b eggra ated by the most contemptible coward :o. If thebullyor blusterer in a fit of assion. strikes his equal, be may receive blow in return, or be may bj severely bastisedfor his temper ; or if anantago- . list, through self-respect, ~nly, sees fit to dminister a dignified rebuke, he still gets he worst of the encounter ; bat the Ul? ised beast cannot thus retaliate, there are the cruel monster who mercilessly buses the beast he drives or rides ls the leanest of all cowards. - A few months ago a young man, tow a resident of this place, married, jost week he received a package contain* ng a note and a cigar. The note ex* damed that the cigar was a wonderfully me one. Tho unusual character of thu ?til, coupled with the faut that tho young kusnand did not recognize the name cf he donor, aroused bis auspicious, and ho howed his present to his wife. Sba rc Xized the writing as that of a former ir; She proceeded to invest?gate tho . ligar, and found several grains of atrvch line concealed in the end. Tho fellow tas not been regarded as quito in his ight mind of late. mW i -- Tho futuro King of Italy, Victor emmanuel, Prince or Naples, got mad it a little playmate the other day, and ?ried out : ,rIf I were Klug I'd have your lead cut off." King Humbert sentenced dm to eight days1 confinement to hw oom and deprivation of ono favorite duh it each meal, and further ordered no nllitary honors to bo paid to him during mother period of similar duration: POPULAR FAV0R?IE8.--The ? Floral Riches Cologne Water, Alista Bouquet md Pet Bi>so handkerchief extracts, made >y Dr. Price, are becoming popup fa* mritea. Dr. Price's FloralHtches ia tho ineefc cologne or toilet water made, ano s In high repute among clergymen, pub ic speakers and invalids for ita flue igreeable and refreshing fragrance* - Darwin is as straight as a dart and is robust as an oak. He loo KS hale and .carty enough to Uve l?? years and more. lt Is said be now conflues hw ambition to he completion of two worin ho Ml.oe* ran. One is the life of his gnmdfether, vho waa an illustrious doctor, and the >iher is a work on vegetable li?. CELEBRATED.-Two articles have nado the nome of Steele & Trice celo irated: their Dr. Price'a Cream Baking ?owdert and Special Flavoring: E*U*J*. rhese preparations aro, without question, ho finest of their kinds in the world, ano hey will eventually be used as ?LU W rom one end cf our country to the oth ir. .. . M ' _. - Col. Robert G. Ingersoll say? : "J** ne prophesy : In five years from WW; io man of intelligence in ^o United States will preach the infamou?- i?ccmno ?f eternal punishmect" A Rood ? nen will be pradkwjr, IMW .reaching it, we fear, within m< teriod._ - Tho Po icalth than b ?alka in the-1 omewhaS ~ ,-Mr. KU bav