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-?-?? -'----, . -:-;_ ? ? ??1 ' '? i1""!1 ". i1 BY E. B. MURRAY & CO._ANDERSON. S. C., THURSDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 2, 1879. VOL. XV-jSO.1-2. n.ltr/..^ W-TM-?J - I ? .mn ima IUH UCeiUIR Ul UrCTUrU, North Carolina. Pursuant to previous announcement, the citizens of Transylvania County met this day in mass meeting for the pur peco of advancing tbs interest of tho Belton, Williamaton and Easley Railroad; which is to pass through tho Blue Ridge Moun tains at Eastatoe'Gap, and down the French Broad Valley via Brevard to Asheville. There were also present citi zens from Buncombe and Henderson counties, in North Carolina, and Pickens and Anderson count'ci, in South Caro lina. Tho meeting v/r.? called to order at 12 o'clock m. by Hon. J. A. Paxton, upon whose motion Ephriam Clayton, of Ashe ville, was caliea to tho Chair. D. F. Bradhw, of South Carolina, and J. A. Forsythe, of "North Carolina, were ap pointed Secretaries. On motion of Mai. T. H. Russell, of South Carolina, Col. R. E. Bowen, President of tho Road, was called upon to address the meeting. Col. Bowen was greeted with applause, and very concisely and eloquently laid before the meeting a history of the enterprise from its inception to tho present time. He spoke of his effort and failure to ob tain a charter from the South Carolina Legislature for a Narrow Guage Road through the Sassafras Gap ; of thc sub sequent passage of the charter of the Eresent Road and the fortunate discovery y Capt. Wm. T. Kirk, Chief Engineer, of the Eastatoe Oap. He assured his au dience that South Carolina intended to build tho Road to the line, and asked North Carolina to put her shoulder to tho wheel and meet us. He said the Road was now an accomplished fact, and ere long the whistle of tho locomotive would bo resounding over the fertile Val ley of the^French Broad, bringing wealth and happiness to its citizens. Maj. Thomas B. Lee, who had been employed by the Company to assist En gisccr Kif & to make a ro-survey of the \ route across the mountains, was then In \ traduced aud read the following report: \ BBEVABD, TRANSYLVANIA. Co., N. C. September 15th, 1879. To the President and Directors Belton, Williamslon and Easley Railroad : GENTLEMEN : In accordance with in structions received from you, I havet ir company with your Engineer, Mr. W m. T. Kirk, made a full and careful recou noisance of the route of your proposed Road from Belton, S. C., to Asheville N. C., crossing tho Blue Ridge Moun tains at tho head of the Eastatoo Creel into the valley of the middle fork of the French Broad River. From Belton to Easley, (25 miles), t smooth and continuous ridge presents it Belf, which can be graded at very ama! cost. From Easley to tho foot of the moun tain grade, (19 miles), the ridge is de viated from and eeveral streams, waten of 12 Mile Creek, are crossed, causinf some heavy work, particularly betweei Town Creek: and 12 Mile Creek. Proba bly a cheaper route can be had West o this by passing the ridge lower down and running up a tributary of 12 Mill Creek to Moseloy's Gap near Holl; Spring. From the foot of the mountain grad' to the top of the Blue Ridge at Eastato< Gap, (IS miles), the work is heavy am expensive, but accessible al all points The curvature ?6 iarge, but need not ex ceed a radius of 578 feet at any point easily passed by locomotives and not a ail uncommon on Railroads. The grade are remarkably light, not exceeding ?uv cnty-five feet per mile, the average grad being about sixty-five foot per mile This will enable you to pass tho divid with a cut about forty feet deep. Th descent from the Gap to the Valley c Hie French Broad River is comprised i a section of six miles, and involve heavy v/o.'k, yet lighter and freer froi rock than the ascent on tho Eastern slop cf the mountains. This section will rt quire a grade of seventy feet per milt This, however, may be reduced to sixtj five feet by lengthening the line, but do not think this will be advantageou but would rather advise shortening th route, (which can be done at great ri duction of cost,) and using a grade < seventy-five feet per mile. The descei from the mountain may be mado o cither side of the middle fork, possie over ground very similar in jharacte but it will probably be found that tl route on the Eastern side is shortest ar cheapest. From tho mouth of the mi< dlo fork to Brevard, and down the Wes ern bank of the French Brood to ti crossing of this stream abovo Ashevill many small streams are passed, but soi presenting any berious difficulties, yet ii creasing largely the cost of the wor The grading here is light. Five mil below Brevard an alternate line presen itself, which by many is regarded shorter and cheaper than the one I ha suggested down the valley of the riv? It begins at the ford of Davidson Rivi leaving the valley of tho French Bro and passing up a small stream for ti miles to a high divide between thia ere and Boylston Creek, a stream ronni nearly parallel with tho valley of t river for some eight miles. The pi Iioscd route crosses this divide and f ows the valley of Boylston Creek neal to Mill River, wheo it passes into t river valley again after crossing tho M River. This route should bo carom examined by an instrumental survey 1 fore ita merits or demerits eau ba pas: on. It will probably require a grade seventy-five feet per mile for two roil and a heavy rock cut before the valle} the Boylston can be reached. Accompanying this I submit an ei mate of coat of grading your Road fr Belton to Swannanoa Junction ne Asheville, a distance of 99 miles. I hi estimated labor at one dollar per d Tho estimate is an approximate ono, t is made on a comparison of cost of li already constructed over country preci ly similar in character to that over wh yours passes. lu conclusion, gentlemen, permit to add my testimony to the skill, ene and indomitable resolution displayed your Engineer, Captain Wm. T. Kirk finding out and bringing to the notice the public this roble ovor the Bluo Ric the lowest and rapro easily passed tl any yet found. \ Respcctfally submitted, Trios. B. LB^ Civil Enginee After concluding ibo reading of hit port, Maj. Lee atatedtthat the grade tho Road could be reduced to sixty feet to the mile, and that the cost of j ding could be done with convict laboi ono-fourth the estimated cost, $90,500: V Col. W. 8. Pickens, of 8?uth Carol was next , introduced, who made an quent and forcible appeal to thc cit! of North Carolina in bahaltyf the R assuring them that the bali had 1 properjy put in motion, and aa they to do was, by a small effort, tr&eep i motion and roll it or. to complhion. Gen. R. B. Vance, Renrese%ati\ Congress from North Carolina, *ha introduced, who made an exhaumyo eloquent appeal for tho Road, flb North Carolina would do her dun the Road should bo built. \ Maj. T. H. Russell, of South Carl Capt. Nett Atkinson sud Col. Hate worm carolina, were then introduced, who spoke in the order named. Three gentlemen all spoke eloquently and en* cou ragingly. Col. Bowen then read tho following letter for tho information of the meeting : INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Sept. 9,1879. H. I. Epting, Esq., Willianuton, 8. C. : Di:AB. SIB : Your lotter of 15th ult. haa been received. I have delayed an swering it for some time in order to ns cv tain whether circumstances would per mit me to accept your kind invitation to ?ttend tho meeting of your Directors on the 16th ; but I regret to state that pro engagements of different sorts will render it Impracticable for me V> be with you on that occasion. I shall take great interest in the enter prise vou are engnged in, as I believe it will become a part of one o' the most needed commercial thoroughfares in this country. The discovery of a cheap and Eradicable route through the Blue Ridge as long been a desideratum, and I am glad that your Engineer has discovered a passage way of light cost and easy grade, and withal lying almost within a direct alignment between Chicago and Port Royal. What is immediately needed is the completion of a line road from Au fusta via Enoxvillo to tho Cincinnati outhern Railroad. When this is done, you will have all the needed connections to Louisville, Cincinnati, Chicago and all parts of the West and Northwest. There aro already two first class railroads in operation, betr, -. a this city and Chicago, and within a year or eighteen months it is quite certain the third will ho completed, beeiden a r arrow gauge road, which will add considerably to the trade that may bo directed to the South east Atlantic seaboard. The Cincinnati Southern will be com pleted and opened for business to Chatta nooga about the 10th December next; and it will only require the building through tho Cumberland range of about forty "unley to connect that Hue with Knoxville, and about sixty miles to effect direct connection with Louisville and the West, on another and perhaps moro direct route. When these are completed, it will then be early enough to build the straight link from Indianapolis, crossing the Ohio River at Vevay, to Lexington. Kentucky. Then by effecting eoms considerations, or trade arrangements, the grand line from Chicago to Port Royal and Charleston will become an accomplished fact. I understand that the Louisville and Nashvillo Railroad Company seriously contemplate putting.their short line, now completed to London or some other point in Kentucky, through to Knoxville, a distance only of sixty miles, and that this will be dono within a year or two seems quite certain. If, then, your line can be got under headway in the meantime, I Bee uo great difficulty in the early com pletion of the great thoroughfare that the peoplo of your section and far seeing ones of the West have so long desired. Such great natural advantages for na tional and international trade as the South Atlantic Sea Ports, especially Port Royal, offer, can not remain much longer unutilized, as they are the proper gateways for the immense traffic of the West In dies, South and Central America, as well as Europe, the importance of which, un til very recently, has been but feebly comprehended ; and I have a strong ap prehension that the road you are about to build wiil become an important link in the future great thoroughfare, over which the traffic to the heart of the coun try, and over which a largo shore of the products of the West and South, will pass to the Bea board. The late prolonged financial depression caused a temporary suspension and delay in effecting the much desired connection by rail between tho Northwest and the Southeast, as foreign capital could not bo commanded for so great an undertaking. Had the panic not occurred, I am of the nr%\ninn thal, tbs TOSd WOUld erS this hr.VC ' been far along towards completion. I Under the present condition of affairs, you are taking the most certain course to succeed-that is, taking the matter in your own hands, and Btarting the work i and pushing it forward to the extent of your means. . If you should not be quite ? strong enough to finish it, what you have done, on a well-chosen and feasible route, will insure what other capital may be ; requisite. I hope to be informed from ; time to time of your progress, and shall < take a deep ioterest in the enterprise. i Yours truly, W. 8. HAYMOND. Col. R. W. Hume, of Brevard, then i offered the following resolution, which I was unanimously adopted-: 1 Resolved, By the citieena of Transyl- . rania County, in mass meeting as sembled, that we do most heartily en- i ?loree the proposed Riailroad through the < Valley of the French Broad, and hereby pledge ourselves to contributo all the : means within our ability towards Its com- i pletion. Upon motion, the Pickens Sentinel, ( the Augusta Chronicle and Constitution- < allot, the C?hnrie-wn News and Courier, . the Columbia Register, the Greenville ' News, the Abbeville Press and Banner, i the Abbeville Medium, the Charlotte i Observer, the Anderson INTELLIGENCER, I the Anderson Journal, the Asheville i Citizen and the Asheville Journal, were i requested to publish these proceedings. On motion of General R. B. Vance, tho meeting adjourned. E. CLAYTON, Chairman. D. F. BRADLEY, ) FLMM. .M J. A. FORSYTH^ J Secretaries. The following is an estimate of the cost of grading Road from Belton, South Car olina, to Asheville, North Carolina, (S wannan oa Junction) : fl ll ft II II II sir S o ?o co a o go ?9 H. O CB OB OK " B " B g 3? CP sf? IP WP 8 i> tV> gr i fa s- ?3 gs -3ti 1 ?B to3 2. KS -3 18 i piwiSlfElillii \ iprmm?inlFnr . I . I If I ?I l -if f i i ri i i m irntni! H ni! i H III 11 ti rn i nm. i l y 1 f 1 fi 8_8 8 8 S 8 8 I a 2 f" 1 a SE $ ? S ? ? s sis f 8 8 8 8 8 83* I 2 tS 8 ? 3 SS 38 81 . 8 31* - Some one in Georgia has invented a new style of boy's trousers, which is highly recommended. They have a cop Ser seat, sheet-iron knees and ar? riveted own in the seams, and have water-proof pockets to hold broken eggs. Tn t?mpnrls* wifh your health instead nf promptly using Dr. Bull's Baltimore Pill?, is not indicative of much thought ful re*?. Sold by all-druggists. STORIES OF A MILLIONAIRE. Daniel Drew, Subitltnt*, Cattle Driver, Stock 8 poe ula tor, Methodist and Bank rapt. Ckmdented frorr. the New York Fliper*. For forty years Daniel Drew was the most grotesque figure in Wall street, lie I was in middle life when b . gave "the I boys" bis first "pints" on "sheers." When a raw country lad bo began to ! drive cattle from bis native village to the ? New York market, and subsequently opened a stock-yard, kept a tavern and made afortune in the steamboat buaiuess. Shrewd and UH ?rate, reckless and timid, good-natured and unscrupulous, some timesgenerous aud always treacherous be made from five to fifteen millions out of friend and foe, only to lose them ali anddie a bankrupt. If Hogarth could have lived in Wall street during the past forty years "Uncle Daniel," with seamed face and twinkling eyes, with the stealthy tread of a cat and the bland air of a country deacon, would hav been the central figure in his cartoons. He was in bis seventh year-the same age at which Cornelius Vanderbilt bor rowed $100 of bis mother, bought a boat and began to ferry marketmen from Staten Island to the Battery. Daniel Drew did not borrow his small capital, he earned it by enlisting as a substitute in the State military, which had been called into service. The regiment was called to Fort Qansevoort, on the Hudson River, opposite New York. About three months after his enlistment hostilities ceased between the United States and Great Britain, and tho regiment was mustered out. "I want my substitute money, mother," said he, one morning after bia return tc the farm. "I am going to buy cattle and Bell them in New xork." "Are you sure you will not lose money by it?" Mrs. Drew was as sagacious and cautious as the mother whom Commodore Vanderbilt delighted to honer all his life long. "I am sure I shall make money." He did make money from the Btart, bul he had to work terribly hard for it. He was in the saddle day and night, pur chasing cattle in Putnam and Duchess Counties and driving them to the city after nightfall. He was an excellent judge of cattle and a shrewd buyer When his competitors began to multiply and cut down his profits no enlarged nil field of operations by making Ohio e base of suppty. He needed capital anc he had no securities to offer for loans He went to Henry Astor, John Jacot Astor's brother, the Fulton Marke butcher, who had recently retired fron business. "PU take the risk," said th? capitalist, after the plan had been un folded. It seemed to be a foolhardy crackbrained scheme. It took' nearly sixty days to drive cattle from Obit across the Alleghany Mountains to Nev York. Out of a drove of 800 head 200 o 300 would frequently be lost on the way in the forests and mountain fastnesses Cattle, however, were exceedingly chea] in the Ohio valley, and Drew's profit were BO large that no was able in a fev years to repay the borrowed money am to extend his operations to Kentuck; and Illinois. He is said to have ;beei tho first man to drive cattle over the Al leghany Mountains. A newspaper correspondent who vial ted him soon after the bankruptcy pre cecdings were announced, found him ea ceedingly communicative. "I bad bee wonderfully blessed in money-making, he remarked. "I got to be a millionair afore I know'd it hardly. I was alway pretty lucky till lately, and I d! m think I could ever lose very extensively I was ambitious to make a great fortun like Vanderbilt, and I t_,ed every way knew, but got caught at last. Beside that, I liked the excitement of makin money and giving it away. I have gil sn a good deal of money away and ai glad of iL So much has been saved an j now. Wall street was a great placo fe making money and I couldn't give n the business when I ought to have don so. Now I see very clearly what I ongl to have dono.. I ought to have left tl aired eight or ten years ago and paid u what I owed. When I gave $100,000 I this institution and that I ought to !m\ paid the money. And I ought to ha\ provided for my children by giving the anough to make 'em rich for life. Ii stead of that I gave my notes and on' paid the interest on 'em, thinking could do better with tho principal m; self. One of tho hardest things Pve ht to bear has been the fact that I couldr continue to pay the Interest on the not I gave to tho schools and churches. During the last year or two Mr. Dre spent considerable part of bis time in tl city. Mr. Drew was, perhaps, the olde: looking man in Walt street. His ey never lost their fire, but bis face w teamed and scraggy. Some of the vete ans say that he used to drive down to b office m a one-horse chaise, looking f all the world like a countrr minisU Ho dressed plainly, if not shabbily. E wardrobe is valued in tho bankrupt schedule at $100, exclusive of a gre lealskin overcoat, worth $160. Even a millionaire he bad the tastes and ha Its of a drover. His dry, sedate mann seldom varied. Stock speculators wc "the boys" and the victim who came bira for "pinta on some sheers" was "r son." He talked with a nasal twat like a countryman. Stop speckerlatii don't tech Erie with no margin," was t consoling remark which, if rumor m be trusted, he made to some Method brethren who had taken "pints" and I their margins. While his wife was Y Ingina house, at Union Square and E Seventeenth street, waa always open Methodist clergymen and laymen, the Schedule of ni? persona! property tho fcatry, "Bible, hymn hooke, <S $150.''. His temperament made bin: "bear;" he was as short-sighted as Co modorOVanderbilt was far sighted; aimed at immediate rather than ultim: results. "Yeas, I skinned the boys," used to say. lu the end he was "akinnc himself. A Blsuppolated Husband. How many young husbands have bc waked fran their dreams of domes happiness and prosperity by the anxii care of a sickly wiro 1 The home is i the elysium the lover had so fondly r tured. Its atmosphere ia gloomy w invalid comrJtfnU. Sweet-winged h( that at first brooded on its hearthotc soon fled, aaa an ominous brid there instead, Woaking of diaappoi ment. The maW Hule household off! that should be tl\ delight of the wife perform are conH|d to strangers. 1 nome soon bcco?hj one only in nai and the dieappeWd husband se Sleaaure and society elsewhere, and g ownward step by\Hep, from vice, vice, until the rula ? Complete; -=d because a wife lu*. Jost her hes and with it ber tenner and all th sweet womanly graces Ui ni can alone tain tho love the maida had won. Pierce's Favorite Presciptle? ts an < cacioua remedy for the \&\n\\ dian and weaknesses incident! - th. ganism. It is both a tonicand\nerv: strengthening the parts aa wei! Vj re -~ \ The Outlook for 1880. i Tho Hon. Isaac M. Eaton, of Kansas, prominent member of the Natioual Dem ocratic Committee and a shrewd politi cian, was interviewed in Washington the other day, and gave the following ex ftrcssiou of his views as to the political litare: Instead of the outlook of the Demo cratic party being discouraging for 1880 from the result of tho elections which have taken place this year, and from what we know of the organization of the Stales which are yet to hold elections, it is anything but discouraging. In the State of Maine, which is termed the star which never sets for Republicanism, for tho first time in twenty years they failed last year to carry the popular vote of the Stats. This year they have failed again, notwith standing the extraordinary efforts that were made and the immense expenditure of money. In California there were no National issues at slake, and the Republi cans there are in a most woeful minority, having elected their tickets by a plurali ty of votes. When tho Presidential con test arises the issue will be confined to but two parties, let them attempt to dis guise it as they may. The nomination of Mr. Tilden at St. LOU?B was an unfortunate one. The present division in New York in the party ho alone is responsible for, al though it does not result in a division of the party, as his bolt did at Baltimore, in 1848, against Gen. Cass as the Democrat ic nominee. Tho party is a unit in New York both as to their platform and can didates, excepting upon Governor, and with that exception there is no doubt but that tho Democratic ticket will be suc cessful. This bolt of Tammany is not from the Democratic party but a revolt against Tilden and his methods in that State. The election of the balance of the ticket will demonstrate that the Democ racy of New York next year can cast the electoral vote of that State for any can didate they may nominate, except Sam J. Tilden. In regard to Ohio it has been confi dently claimed that Foster will have e walk over in that State ; that Ohio is be ?ond all question, os they claim, Repub Ecan. Tho elections in that State foi tho last six years do not by any mean; establish that claim. lu the election of 1873 the Democrats carried the State by electing William Allen Governor; ic 1874 the Democrats again carried thc State ; in 1875 the aid and assistance of th* moneyed power and a falsa issue raised on the school question just on the eve ol tho election enabled tho Republicana tx carry their State ticket by a small ma jority; by leos than 5,030 in a poll ol 600,000 votes. In 1879, with an un pop ular candidate for President in tba State, he not being in accord with th? opinion of tho masses of the people ot the money question, tho Republican: elected their Governor in October by thc Btnall majority of 6,000 votes and thei Presidential electors by 7,000 in a pol of 666.000 votes. In 1877 the Darno crats elected their Governor by a majori of 23,000 votes. In 1878 the Republi cana elected their State ticket by a plu rality of 8,000 votes, being in tho minor itv in tho State of some 35,000 votes. I will be seen by reference to the votes o the different counties of tho State that two-thirds majority of the Greenbacl vote came from tho Republican part) If tho opinions of those having the coe duct of the Ohio campaign in hand i worth anything at least 25,000 of thoa votes will be cast for Ewing, and th balance of their vote for Piatt. None o them will be cast for John Sherman' candidate for Governor. More than thii the Democratic porty hos never had s perfect an organization in Ohio, or an Dther State, as it has for the present can: paign. I am informed by the chairma >f the executive eouiuiiiip.e that tb anthusiasm for Ewing and Rice is creal Br thau bas been manifested in the Stat for the last twenty-five years. It is in possible for me to see from the surrount inga how the Republicans can carry tb otate of Ohio this fall, with all tho ui if money which they can put into tl jan vasa, under the stringent election Ia if that State. Without Ohio what eartl ly show have the Republicans to eic bheii President in 1880? The Demi :rats can do without the vote of Ohio bi :ho Republicans cannot. Even in Massachusetts the outlook fi the Republicans is even worse than I Ohio. The conventions held within tl sst few days pretty clearly show th Butler will carry the State. If bo do :ho head of tho Republican column go lown and its defeat will be inevitable 1880. THE OLD FOLKS.-Do young peop iver think that they will bo old ; th they wlil soon feel that the grasshopp s a burden and fear is in the way ? On i few short years ago that aged man ai eehlo woman wero young~ strong at nil of life ; their loving hearts we rushing with tenderness and care for tl ittle ones who now stand in their place Donotjostlo that aged couple out ?.our pathway, but rather lift them wi ceder care over tho rough, declinii road. You may have forgotten how th ceptyour tender feet from stumblin ind with care they watched your o rancing steps. But they have not fi cotton, and tho time will come when y viii be forcibly reminded of it, by t ove you have for your own little on A7ill they hand you tho same bitter c o drink that you put out for that ag allier and at ricken mother? Veri 'with what measure ye mete, it shall neasured to yon again." Think of t mxiouB days and nights your mother b matched by your tuck bed : rememt i?T !o?Iug care; her patience and lo uttering with your fretfulness, and tb et the blush of shame dve your brc hat you should be impatient or unki o her now that she is old. Old fol ire such a trial 1 Yes, they know hey feel it I and so will yon be such rial to your children in the days ti ..ill surely come ; aye, and you will nember, too I ^n How HE CONVINCED THEM.-I lov. j, W. Th recamo? ton certainly t lerslands all the arts of an old Tex n his speech defending Ed. Bomar, iainesville, after having spoken ab n hour, be said : "Gentlemen of the jury-It is said he prosecution that because thedtcea ras in his shirt sleeves when killed, ad no pistol." Here Mr. Th rock morton pulled off oat and stood before the Jury in birt sleeves. "You would say," continued 1 'hrockmorton, "that I am not armed ause I sm in my shirt sleeves. Lo< o you see my arms ?" cried he, hold p lils bands. Nc signs of arms could be seen. Mr. Throckmorton then drew a pb rom under his left arm, another fi oder his right, one from each boot, i huge Bowie knife from the back of eek, placing them upon the table. "You see, gentlemen, though in birt sleeves, Y could be well armed. Thia was a clincher, and it carried oint,entirelydcstroying thc argumen bo prosecution. THE TAMMANY SOCIETY Fact* ILS cl Incident? Cona cc tod with tho Hi* to ry cf th? Order. The questions are often asked: When was the Tammany Society founded? and whence did it derive its name ? and as tho recent bolt of the Sachems from the New York State Convention excites, a new interests in it* history, it may not be amiss to republish the established tra ditions concerning its origin md appel lation. The Tammany Society was founded, in 1789. as is duly witnessed by tho pet'.tment which surmounts the front of Tammany Hall. At that time there were many St. Tammany Societies throughout the country, and there is no reasou to believe that the solo survivor differed from them in the original purpo ses of its organization. But tho others died, and the New York society became a Democratic political institution. Tam many was an old Indian chief, whom it is by no means easy to identify, but be was best known in revolutionary times as an ! ancient Delawaro sachem, who came off victorious in a terrific fight with bis satanic majesty. Tho combat was long and obstinately contested, and up to the last moment it was doubtful to which side victory would incline. Tammany was a skilful fighter, but his opponent was equally adroit, and after the battle had lasted all summer the combatants were somewhat tired. They played sad havoo with the forest, converting largo districts of it into prairie, and Buch it illili remains. At length, aftor months of severe fighting, tho cacti o ni throw tho devil squarely on his back, and, says the historian, "would theu and there have taken his scalp had he not succeeded, owing to the victor's great exhaustion, in extricating himself and escaping over into Now York, where ho was hospitably received by the natives, and has ever sinco continued to make his home." The wime historian says the Tammany Society was primarily, no more of a New York institution than the great Sagamore himself. Its origin is to be traced to the patriot revolutionary army, which, having no patron saint to 6ght under af tor the protection of St. George waa drawn to the the enemy, cast about among the country's native mon for some ono worthy of canonisation, and naturally selected the man who had "whipped the devil" as y ve-eminently deserving of being set agamst him who had vanquished the dragon. Tho Penn sylvania troops of Washington's com mand were the first to inscribe "St. Tammany" on their banners, and they selected the 12th of May, which tradition assigned for the new saint's nativity, for appropriate celebration. A wigwam was erected, a polo, crowned with a liberty cap, and bearing aloft a tomahawk wam pum, and other Indian paraphernalia, was planted in the earth, and around this after the representative of the great sachem, who was personified by a com rede duly accoutred and painted for the occasion, bad emerged from the wigwam, to which he agaiu retired, and delivered a "talk" full of exhortations to love of liberty and courage in battle, they all lanced, with feathers in their caps and bucks' tails dangling down behiud. The practice spread throughout the army ; St. Tammany and his natal day were both adopted ; forts were christened with his name, and the 12th of May WBB regularly commemorated until shortly before the last war with Great Britain, by order of the secretary of war. Gen. Dearborn, the festival was forbidden, as tending to debauchery among the troops. But St. Tammsny's early popularity was not confined to the army. Civilian socie ties bearing his name sprang up in many localities. Their object was simply fes tivity. There was a procession of men, women and children, ali decked out with bucks' tails and other forest adornments, to a grove, where the wigwam and liber y-pole had been erected, and where, tiler an address from St. Tammany's representative, the time was spent in ramea and dances on the green. At oue time it disappeared likely that St. Tarn ay's Day would excel tho Fourth of July in popular regard, but it lacked one mduring element of popularity-its ob lervanco was not participated in by ?nshionabie people. The wealthier por ;ion of the community turned up their loses at tho vulgar parade, ard as a con sequence the celebration of the 12th of Vlay soon died out, and the St Tammany moieties disappeared, except that of New York, which still observes too 12th of May within the order. A METEOR WOETH TALKING AROUT. -There being some talk in this city yes ;erday about the big meteor that passed >r.. Salt Lake a few nights ago, Hop Sing, bead mah in this city of the Chi loae company of that name, became in ores ted in what was said. He began to ell something about a groat meteor that ell in China ages ago. and finally said io had it all in a book at his place in Chinatown, and would translate'the ac lount to the bast of his ability if the re wrier would accompany bim to his muso, an offer which was accepted. A: lop Sing can not speak English very luently, even when discoursing or ordi lary. subjects, it was hard for him to ex >ress himself when ho tried to translato he account of the strange occurrence re orded by the Chinese scientist. What io was able to impart was briefly as fol ows : Ages and ages ago a great meteor ell in China, in the Province of Che Ceang. It came from the heavens in a lanting direction, and was apparently ifty feet in diameter. Ic lighted the ountry for a distance of 200 or 800 miles round. It did not explodo. but passed uta the ground entire. It buried itself J u a spur of the Nau-ling mountains. )n tho slope of the mountain it entered ros a large village. The meteor passed ver this village at a height of about alf a mile, and so gr-?: was the beat rom it all the buildings in the place urst into fi?mes simultaneously. All be people in tho town were roasted, and isny in the country in the track of the leteor between the town and face of the lountain. The aerolite made an im icnae bole in tho side of the mountain, ut of which issued flames for several ays; then great volumes of stream cured fourth, and, finally, a large steam f water. The stream of water is still owing at the present time, and forms ne of the tributaries of a river that eir ira the sea near Ning-po. That, now, ras a meteor worth talking about. THE METZ AND STRASBURG CATHE RAL3.-Work, which has been in pro ress on tho restoration of theso famous lonuments of Gothic art ever since they rere injured during tho Franco-German 'ar, is now going forward with rapidity, f has been decided that an entire new >of shall be built for the Cathedral of lets, tho cost to bo at least 400,000 larks (about $100,000.) Of late, the aintcd windows and the arches of the iforium have been the chief subjects of ttention. At Strasburg the repairs a. J ppro?ehisg their completion. The gild ig of the great doors of the main en anco bas been undertaken by a Parisian aid-worker, who, with a staff of assist ais, has for some time been engaged on Iber parts of the edifice The Great Fraud. While Mr. Hityes ia preaching against State* Bights, in lull accord with the stalwart policy of consolidation, Mr. Jua? tico Mille.-, of thc Supreme Court of the United States, not only does not deny that he said Louisiana voted for Tilden stud therefore elected him, but ho has gone to tho extent of permitting an elaborate explanation or his opinion, Mr. HordhotT, at Washington, sends to tho Herald the following interesting re port: "Mr. Justice Miller said that it was generally understood and believed that on the popular vote as returned in Louisiana the Democratic electors were chosen by from 5,000 lo 10,000 majority a fact which noithor Secretary (then Senator! Sherman nor any of the Repub lican visiting statesmen to Louisiana in November, 1876, ever denied. It was a matter of common report and entitled to all the belief that such statements usually receive. Whether the result would not have been different bad t ho ra been no intimidation of cit i/onu in tbat Slate boforo and during election day in a matter which he does not enter into. The State of Louisiana, in the exercise of ita sovereign right, or to make it moro Democratic, in maintaining State Rights doctrino under tho Constitution, had enacted that a returning Board Bhould have tho power to examine the vote of tho State and oxerciso an arbitra ry control over the election returns, so they might bo rejected or passed, accor ding to tho judgment of a majority cf its members, the Constitution declaring that "each State shall appoint in such manner as tho Legislature thereof may direct a number of electors," and tho Returning Board, having been invested with an ex traordinary power, did declare what votes should bo received and what rejected, and in so doing reduced the popular vote. Timi euch autnority should be conferred upon a board of five men alone concerns the State of Louisiana. It might by its legislative enatcmoi'.t liavo given it to two or fo ono man, and such an act would have remained unchallenged un der the Constitution and the laws. Hav ing given it to a returning board their decision was as fina! as any act limited in the rights of a State. Whether the trust was honestly or dishonestly dis charged from their decision there was no appeal, and neither under the Consti tution nor under tho laws of tho State of Louisiana was thero any remedy for al leged venality. The act of the Louisiana Returning Board was a Slate's Right act in its supremest sense. Tho decis ions of the Electoral Commission were based upon the snvero'gn right of a State to legislato as it chooses on all malters expressly declared by the con stitution. Now, whether the popular vote of Louisiana in favor of tue elec tors named on the Democratic ticket was changed by the Returning Board in favor of the Republican electors was a 3[uestion which could not have come bo oro the Electoral Commission, whatever may be tho privileges enumerated in the bill creating that body. Tho oath taken by each member of tho commission left no ground for political or personal prefer ence, for all questions submitted to the commission wero to be determined "agree ably tn the Constitution and the 'awe." The Constitution is tho highest Isw of tho land, and when it was determined that the Republican electors bad received the highest number of votes according to the decision of a board which was under tho Anal arbitration as to what votes had been counted, it was impossible for bim to have reached any other conclusion than the one recorded. Neither is to be forgotten that the act creating the com mission was passed by n Hourn of Rep resentatives having u large Democratic majority and a senate Laving a large Republican majority. Politically thc members of tho commission were equal ly divided ; judicially thero were honest differences of opinion among the mem bers selected to represent this branch of the Government. Tho result reached by tho majority was that the decision of a State authority in the selection of Presidential Electora IB under tho Con stitution and the law:j conclusive, and the opinion then expressed by Justice Miller he still holds unchanged." In the faco of this how can Mr. Hayes have tho audacity to preach agafrist State Rights, by the supremest oxercise and stretch of which ho is President to-day? In thc face of thia, how can Republican platforms proclaim that thia] os a Nation ana not a League. The very chief men vb o used State Rights to make Mr. Haye J President aro now going about the country damning the very doctrine they upheld in 1876. Not only was the States Rights doctrino upheld by the Republican members of the Electoral Commission in tho cane of Louisiana, but* also in that of Florida. It is a "damnable heresy" when it puta their man out, and a "palladium, of Pherty" when it puts bim in. Woo unto ye, 3cribes and Pharisees, hypocrites I-Au gusta Chronicle and Constitutionalist. KsETiya BOARDERS. - " Another boarding-house busted up, I see," sighed a venerable Detroit landlady, as she laid lown her paper. "Well, it must have been extravagance on the table. That's tvhat bankrupt? seven out of ten, and :vcn then the boarders are crying 'hash I' ind complaining of poor meals. Now [ run a boarding-houso for twenty-two yearn, and I made money and heard no complaints. How did I do it? Why it's all in planning. For instance, a leek piece of mutton can bo cut to look ?ike a rib roast, and a littlo extra fire oakes it just as tender. Lawd save you t ['ve been compliment!*" ? thousacd times >n my selection of chi ico spring lamp i/hen tho meat was mutton four years >ld, and the toughest part at that I Tho dea of spring chicken on a boarding house tame is absurd-aye I almost vicked. In my palmy dayB I could take i tough old hen, pound thia body with rotate mashe for ten minutes, and set icforo my boarders a feast to make every ?eart glad. Now I'll venture that there iren't ten landladies in tho city that can lake a pig's head and alice off the meat na manner io make everybody believe hat he has the choicest cut in a pig's jody, and it's a wonder to me that there iren't more failures. Lots of landladies my nice, fresh butter, and thus tempt a nan to eat five or six biscuits or half i loaf of bread. What economy I I al vays had my nico butter on the table at ireakfast, when we had little but toast, ind tho boarders got along on old butter he other two meals. It is all in the ?tanning. I used to hove beef steak very morning. Three mornings in the reek I bought Sirloin, which is very, dee, yon know, and other four morn ngs I bought neck-pieces and rubbed tho ase-knivea over the grindstone. Give a barp knife and a tough steak and ho'll lever make a complaint-never. Ho'll mt tho blame on his teeth, and the more teak he leaves on his plate the moro abit pie you have for dinner."-Detroit Tree Press. - The man who saw Grant's vessel i rat and was first to proposo three cheers isa already filed bis claim for a post ince. At least tho Baltimore Gazette ays ec. Is he an Ohio roan ? The Ftafc ??Interviewer.? Old Mn. Annie Royall wu the first American interviewer. Of this we sup pose there can be no doubt. 3he made a tremendous impression in those days when women were proverbially demure, when the few female lobbyists wore scooped hats and long veils, and were even in that dress considered immodest. There was never any one like ber before her day, and she had no successor. A rough old customer, a regular Suwarrow in peticoats, such as Byron describes the old chap to have been, Mrs. Royall thought nothing of collaring the Freai deutln Lis sanctum, or of invading the Senator in bis innermost retreat.. They tried to laugh ber down, but she was too terrible for ridicule; abe wielded a sharp pen; she had stout lungs and a formidable voice, which was perfectly masculine, commanding eyes, compact form, a Coriolanus carriage, and when angry was dreaded by ber victims as if Bhe were an Hyrcanlau tigress. Thia old lady died on the lat of October, 1854. at the advanced ago of ninety-two. She. fmblisbed is Washington two weok y papers called "The Huntrw" and tTPaul Pry." devoted to personal and political sketches of men and things about the city. Old Mrs. Royall deserves to be per petuated, if for uo other reason tb* J as a part of American romance. Only think of it-asiate as the May term of the Washington court of 1829 she waa indicted as a "common scold,". .?blch re sulted in a fine of $5 in the August, fol lowing. Her maiden name was Annie butler. She was of irish descent, al though born in Western Maryland. When in ber sixth or seventh year she was seised by Indian warriors out of the cornfield and carried by them to their Ohio homes, where she romoinml until her fifteenth year, and, of course, acquired the habits of these savages and had no earthly chance of any ordinary or even Christiau education. The way she met her husband was romantic Colonel Royall, a native Virginian, it seams, knew tho facts of the abduction of Annie. He was a widower and much older than Bhe, and doubtless remembered lier appear ance when a child. Traveling in Ohio ho visited the Shawnees, Wyandottes, &c., and among ono ot these tribes acci dentally discovered her, obtained her liberty, sent her tc school for two years and married her. She hadan rlcgant home until her husband's death in 1815 or 1816, when the litigntiou with the heirs that followed that event reduct.1, her to such poverty that when she ar rived in this city, in the frll of 1823 she had scarcely shoes to her feet. She found patrons in an humblo family by the name of Dorrico, where abe, fortunately, stopped to warm her feet. Mrs. Royall was distinguished by hatred of what Bhe called shams and hypocrites of all arts, and she was "death" on intemper ance, although she loved ibo pipe and indulged in tobacco. She was perhaps the original crusader in the matter of intemperance, although she did nr?t pray in front of "corner groceries" nor whis key saloons. But that abe was aggres sive In all warfare may be gleaned from the fact that an impotent and irritable clergyman in the heat of passion once threw ber down stairs and broke hoi leg. Old Mrs. Royall hated effeminate young men, and she said : "Why do they want lazy, sinecure places undsr gov ernment? Why don't they hoe their own ro ?" Indeed, she long antedated Horace Creely with tho admonition. "Go West, young man." She was dreaded as a blackmailer; she was solicited ssa writer of paffs ; sae mode a noise over the whole land, for the sting of an asp was in her pen, and her little handbill newspaper was a perfect sensation in those quiet days of tho Republic Where her newspaper files are it la probable no one knows ; perhaps nono of her works exist. She hounded, annoyed, flattered, pryed into the affairs of all the promi nent public men of ber day-in fact, she was a perfect disease. All doors were open and all locke (to speak poeti cally) wore burst opel: by her when she resolved on an interview. The comic element In ber strangely contrasted with those grave days, when the Washingto nian and the Jeffersonian dignity espe cially pervaded the Executive chambers and tho Senatorial halls. HE HEARD Too MUCK.-Lewis Gay lord Clark, tho editor of the Knickerbock~ sr Magazine, used to tell tbe following story with great delight : Some twv milea np the river from St. Johnsbury, Vermont, is aprimativosort of a little village called "Tho Centre." Hear not long since, the rustle youth pf the vicinity congregated to dance "and dance they did," said our informant, "with an unction unknown to your city belles and beaux." One interesting man havintr imbibed too freely, became "fatigued" fn the course of the evening, and wisely concluded to retire for a short rest. A door ajar near the dancing ball reveal id invitingly a glimpse of a comfortable ' bed of which he took possession, with the prospect of an undisturbed "snooze." It happened, howbeit, that this Was the "ladies^ withdrawing room" and no loonor bad he closed bis eyes than a pair >f blooming damsels came in and began adjusting there discolored ringlets, the Jim light of the tallow candle not disclos ing the tenant of tho bed. The girls had tongues like meet of their "sex" which ran this wise : "What a nice dance we're having! Save voa heard anybody tz\y ?jftbl?g tbout "me, Jane?" "Law, yes, Sally. Jim Brown says he never saw yon look so handsome as yon lo to-night. Have you heard anybody tay anything about mer" "About you 1 Why, Martin. I heard foe Flint tell Sam Jones that you vere the prettiest dressed girl In the room." Whereupon tbe dear things chuckled md "fixed up" a littlo moro, and mado ?ff toward the ball-room. They had : ard ly reach od the door, wu cu our hair 'onscions friend raised himself on bis dhow, and quite Intelligibly, though lowly, inpaired: "Have you heard anybouy say any hingabout me, gala?" A DISTINGUISHED MAN.-One or the ocre tari es of a missionary society? a dit ingnished mao, was about to preach to ? colored congregation, when he was in? rodeoed by the regalar minister of tho horeb, a black man. in these words: 'Now don, braddon. Pao beah to info'm ou dat bruddah Blank is g wine to .reach to yon to-day. He la do secretary f do missionary society, a distinguished n' a eloquent man-in fact, my breddan, ie is a soundin' brass an' a tinklin' cym al." - In tbs struggle of life tho hero and he coward, tho conqueror and conquered, oed sympathy equally. Often the mina rhich upholds others needs itself to bo pheld ; the honest heart that sectus so .old and true is fainting from secret sor ow, dying from some littlo wound which ympatby could staunch. Sank by ? Sea Monster. Tbo steamship P. Calarie, which ar rived at New York from Rottcndam Tuesday, bad on board Capt, L. C, Lair sen ana the entire crew of a Norwegian bark which was lost in raid-ocean under rjmarkablo circumstances. Capt Lar sen's story, which is fully corroborated ? by bis men, goes to show that the ac counts wb' h have been given to the public fro: timo to time of dangerous sea monsters' inhabiting the ocean, are .jot wholly false. Either tho origiual sea serpent, or some powerful submarine creature of the race ran into the. bark Columbia on Spete:<iber 4, lu lat. 47 deg. 82 m., and lon. 43 deg. 54 m., and injured that vossel so that she sank within a short time efter ehe had been struck. The bark Columbi? left: 2 london for Quebeck, in ballast, on August 8, and met with variable weather until the morning of tho 4th i rut., when she was salting et the rate of from six to seven miles aa hour before a fair wind. The sea was not very rough, and the bark was carrying all nail and heading west ward. The captain was on deck ; at five bells in the 1 morning watch! when e tremendous shcok, which shook the bark from stem to stern, wp:r suddenly felt. The men who were asleep ia their bunks . were awakened, end, thinking "that the foremast bad been carried away, sprang on deck. Capt Larsen and three of his men ran to the port side and saw the water discolored with blood, while the . tall and fina of a huge monster were soon splashing about in the sea, which had . become violontly agitated on that side of tho vessel. At ibis moment ona of . the crew cried out that a leak had been , sprang, and captain Larsen and the car penter hurried down into the hole to see ff the bark bad Buffered any injuries. In (Ka rui.t lu? -Wnt.l ?U~u? f-' U?.t-_ j-.-. ?- -. , .wv WVIT water mark, they found that four, planks had been crushed in for a space of about four feet long. A large hole had been mado, through which the daylight above the water could be plainly seen. The water waa pouring rapidly into tho yes-, sel through this hole. Several attempts, were made to stop it up. but the captain soon found that it would be useless to remain below any longer. In the mean time- the mea on deck und become terri bly frightened. Somoerled bitterly, while omero hud become so frightened ny their unexpected encounter with tho sea mon ster that they were for* the time being al most helpless. When Captain Larsen roached he deck he directed his mea to get the boats in readiness for abandoning tho vessel. Tho log book, instrument* and a' few clothes with some provisions, were bundled into two boats, which were j put over tho side as soon os the excited sail ors had placed a little fresh water in 'Them. The water casks had been uto wed in the hold, into which tho sea was pour ing so rapidly that not more than one day's fresh water could bo saved. For tunately, the sea was not rough and when ibo boats bad been launched the entire crew abandoned the bark. The larger boat was commanded by Capt. Larsen, while Mr. H. Pederser, the mate, took charge of the smaller one. At 12 o'clock, an hour and a half ofter the vessel had received ber death wound from the seo monster, tho boats rowed sway. Shortly ofter ooo o'clock the bark sank out of eight. When aban doned tho water in the boid was within two or three feet of the deck beams. Capt. Larsen told a Timei reporter ib:-.t he was unable to give a full description of the monster which had sunk his vessel. Ita fins and tall could be eeen os they splashed the water, bat he only got ? glimpse of oportion of the body. Cns Or the Bail?n ot first thought it might be a whale, but no whale had ever been known to ??nfc a vessei. A whale could not present any array of tail and fin reaching from the fore rigging to the main rigging of a vessel of 462 tons tegister,but this meeter did. What: little was seen of ita back waa much toe round for that of o whale. It would certainly require an -animal of enormous sire and strength to make the hole in the bow of the Co lumbia. What became of the monster after it had run into the bark is not - known, as the crew left the sida as soon M lt was discovered that the vessel was sinking. Then they became too much occupied in getting things tn readiness to abandon the bork to observe what comae their submarine enemy bad pur sued. No traces of it "were observed trhile they were in the boats. IN TOE ABT GAIXEBY.--It waa a la lly with a check shawl, a reticule and a squint who flounced out Of tho art" rooms On yesterday afternoon with a remark that "Ifs an outrage* that them there Ag gers ain't got no clo's on." Her husband, a af-op-thouldered man' With a low-crowned, wide-rimed soft hot, a rumpled necktie, long coat short "pants'' and a beard under bis chin, ro monatrated. "Don't make a foolnyerself right afore forike" said he. But the dame waa angered. "It's o sin an* ? shame," she persisted, and her off eye twitched further out of true in the excess of ber indignation. "It's an insult to every woman that como? here, an' what they've got on is wuss "n though they didn't have nothin.' " "Will yo keep still?" mildly pleaded the old man. "No, I won't," euid she. "An, the ?coner yon take me ont o' this Sodom tn" Oomorrir the better for both on us, I guess/'-Chicago Time*. OAnnVrfQ CONTEALED_ WEAPONB.- . [loveru?r Bi?vk?'um, of Kentucky, in its inaugural address, paid bits respects 0 the bad custom of carrying concealed veapoRS. His own State has been an especial sufferer irom ? tho evil habit rho Governor says : "It is a matter of deep regret that BO nany of oar citizens indulge in tho rep- , choosiblo practice ol carrying concealed weapons. This will bo discountenanced >y all good men. * * We have 1 law against this detestable practico, indi hope H will be rigidly enforced. ?Tuno itnould bc exempt nom if, woolner dgh or low. The safety cf our people iemand this. Many a helpless widow ind orphan plead for it Let us not be leaf to their cries of distress; human Ife mast be protected." -- Gen. Ord, of Texas, recently Bent to be Springfield (Mass.) armory a piece of i meteor picked up in Mexico some time igo, with th* request that it bo mado in ti a sword for b'< ; ?elf. The piece ?? corm vosed of iron utsinly, but it is so soft iud brittle that the workmen find it very lifficult to harden the metal caf?etontly * br the blade, though they will probably >? abls. to finish lt IU good shape, j. ? T-Ooe of Horace Greeley a Ichera, ?ritten some twenty years ago, in regard o the Maine politicians, has recently teen going tho rounds. He aaya of them hat they aro "thievish ?nd ' b?ffg^ly-;? >oor lot and will swallow all tho funds bey can get hold of." , , He thought ho heard "the angles sing" tat lt proved to be a chorous of yells from be next dw children. He grew dy?P? ate, procured a bo*?* of JDr. Ba? . lyrup and aontjt to Mrs. S. wita ms ompllments. ' He WM a batch': tor.