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BY E. B. MURRAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. C, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 26, 1881. VOLUME XVI.?NO. 46. WHY TH E Y DID IT. The New York Senaten State their Rea? sons for Resigning. Albany, N. Y., May 16. The following is the letter of resigna? tion of Senators Conkling and Platt: Washington; May 14,1881. Sir?Transmitting as we do our resig? nations respectively of the great trusts with which New York has honored us, if; is fit that we acquaint yon, and through Sou the Legislature and people of the t?te, with the reasons which in our judgment make such' a step respectful '^?nd necessary-;V ?' Some weeks ago the President sent to the'Senate in a group the nominations, of several persons for public offices; already filled. One of those offices is the ' collectorshi p for the port of New York, now held by General Merritt, an? other is the consul-generahhip at Loo* don, now held by General Badeaa, another is that of charge d'affaires - to Denmark, held by Mr. Cramer, another is the mission to Switzerland, held by Mr. Fish, a son pf the former distin? guished Secretary of State. Mr. Fish had, in deference to an .ancient practice, placed his position at the disposal ot the new administration, but like the other persons named ho was to remain at his post Jf permitted to do so. ?All of these officers, save only Mr. Cramer, are citi? zens of New York. It is proposed to displace them all, not for any alleged failure or any alleged need or advantage of the public service, but in order to give the great office of collector at the Srfcof New York to Mr. William H. ?bertson, as the reward of certain acts of his said to have aided in making the nomination of Mr. Garfield possible. The ohain-of rewards thus proposed was broken by General Badeau's prompt? ly declining the acceptance of the office to which he was to be sent These nominations summoned every member of the Senate to say whether he advised such a transaction. The move-, ment was more than a surprise. We bad been told only a few hours before that no ' removals in the New York offices were soon to be made, or even .considered, and had been requested to withhold pa? pers and suggestions bearing on the sub? ject which had been sent to us for pre? sentation should the occasion arise, un? til we had notice from the President of his readiness to receive them. Hearing that the Vice President was equally sur? prised, and had been equally misled, we went to Mr. James, the Cabinet officer from our State, and learned that though ho had spent some time with the Presi? dent on the morning of the.day the nom? inations were sent in, no disclosure of any.' intention to send tbem bad been made to him, and that he first knew of the matter by heresay, following the event. After earnest reflection ana con? sultation, we believed the proceedings unwise, and wrong, whether considered wholly in relation, to the preservation j and integrity of the public service and the public example to be set, or in relation to the integrity of the Republican party. No public utterance of comment or cen? sured was-made-by either of us in the Senate or elsewhere. On the contrary, we thought the President would recon? sider the sudden and hasty step, and would, at least, adopt less hurtful and objectionable, modes of requiting per? sonal or individual service. In this hope the following paper was prepared and signed and presented by Mr. James to the/President, who was subsequently in? formed *'that you had authorized your name to be added also: "To the President: We beg leave to re monstrate against the change in the Col lectorship of New York by the removal of Mr. Merritt and the appointment of Mr. Robertson. The proposal was wholly a suprise. We heard of it only when ? several nominations involved in the plan were announced in the Senate. We had only two days before this been informed from you that a change in the customs office at New York was not contemplated and quite ignorant of a purpose to take ^any action now, we had no opportunity, until after the nominations, to make the suggestions we present. We do not believe that the interest of tho public service will be promoted by removing the present collector and put? ting Mr. Robertson in his stead. Our opinion is quite tbe reverse, and we be? lieve no "political advantage can be gain? ed for either the Republican party or its principles, believing that no individual has claim3 or obligations which should be liquidated in such a mode. We earnest? ly and respectfully ask that the nomina? tion of Mr. Robertson be withdrawn. Chester A. Arthub. J. C. Platt. Thomas L. James. ROSCOE conkling. This paper was presented to Mr. James on Monday, the 20th day of March.] Knowing the frequency with which every one of the twenty Presidents of the re Eublic, and markedly the present incum ent, had withdrawn nominations on less serious representations, we did not ap? prehend such suggestions would bo treated as an intrusion or an evasion of the prerogative of the nominating power. Immediately the public press, especially in articles and dispatches, written by those in' close and constant association with the President and. with an influen tiaTmember of the Cabinet, teemed with violent denunciations of the Senators from New York for "opposing the ad? ministration" and "dictating to the Pres? ident." Persons who visited the Execu? tive Mansion reported tbe President as resentful and impatient of hesitation "to advise and consent" to what he proposed. We had made, we have made, no assault upon,anybody. We have at all times re? fused to answer questions by the repre? sentatives of the press, or to make com? plaint'or comment or denial of many truthless charges against us by officious champions of the administration.? Indeed, beyond confidential consul tatio us with brother Senators and officials, we have said nothing until now on tbe sub? ject, nor have we, or either of us, pro? moted the deadlock in the Senate in order to prevent or influence action on any domination. Nor havo wc so etat ed. Immediately after the nominations were made, Republican letters and tele? grams came from every part of the State from its leading citizens protesting against the proposed changes and con? demning them on many grounds. Several thousands of leading mercantile firms of New York, constituting, we are informed, a majority of every branch of trade, sent us remonstrances; sixty of the eighty one. Republican members of Assembly, by letter or memorial, made objection; Representatives in Congress, State offi? cials, business men, professional men, commercial, industrial and political asso? ciations are among the remonstrants, and they speak from every section of the State. Besides the nominations already re? ferred to there wero waiting tbe action of the Senate several citizens of New York named for offices connected with Courts, District Attorneys and Marshals. These were all reappointments, most of them had been originally commis'..oned by Mr. Hayes. They were certified by Judges of Court and many other emi? nent persons who attested the faithful ?ess and merits of their services and recommended their continuance. They were not presented by us. We have not attempted to dictate nor have we asked the nomination of one person to any ofEco in the State. Indeed with the sole exception of the written request set forth above we have never expressed an opin? ion to the President in any case unless questioned in regard to it. Some days ago the President abruptly withdrew in one and the same act the names of General Woodford and Mr. Tenny the two Marshals. This unprece? dented proceedings, whether permissible by law .or not, was gravely significant. The President had nominated these offi? cers after they bad been weighed in the balance. Their official records were before him and had been fully scruti? nized and approved. It must be pre? sumed that he thought the nominations fit to be made and that it was his duty to make them. There is no allegation that he discovered unfitness in them afterwards. It could hardly be that he had discovered unfitness in all of them alike. What then was the meaning and purpose of this peremptory step ? It was immediately stated, as if by au? thority and seems to be admitted, that the purpose was to coerce Senaters to vote as they would not vote if left free from executive interference with the de? signs of Senators touching matters com? mitted by the Constitution to the Senate exclusively. It had been suggested in addition that by recalling those nomina? tions and holding them in his own bands the President migbt, in the event of the failure of another nomination, use them to compensate that failure. If it can be supposed that all these public trusts are to be or would in any event be made per? sonal perquisies, to be handled and dis Sosed not only to punish independence of enatorial votes or action, but to liqui? date personal obligations of any individual however high in station, the conditions are. equally vicious and degrading, and their acceptance would compel represen? tative of States to fling down their oath and report for duty at the footstool of executive power. Following this strict and sweeping executive act came ominous avowals than dissent or failure to consent would be held an act of offense, exposing all Senators from whatever Scate to executive dis? pleasure. Thus we find ourselves con? fronted by the question whether we shall surrender to the plain right and sworn duty of Senators by consenting to what we believe to be vicious and hurtful, or an administration which we helped' to bring in, and the success of which we earnestly wished for. Every reason and motive which can enter into the case we I know. No theory adopted by any party i requires such submission as is now exacted. Although party service may be fairly considered in making selections of public offices, it can hardly be main? tained that the Senate is bound to remove without cause incumbents merely to make places for those whom any indi? vidual, even the President or a member of his Cabinet, wishes to repay for being recreant to others or serviceable to him. Only about two years ago the Senate advised that General Merrittbe appointed Collector at New York. It is understood that among the Senators who so avised was Mr. Windom, now Secretary of the Treasury and head of the department whose subordinate General Merritt is. Another Senator known to have given this advice was Mr. Kirk Wood, now Sec? retary of the Interior. It is said that, like the Postmaster General, from our own State, these Cabinet officers were not taken into consultation touching the removal of General Merritt, but their sworn and official actions as Senators is none the less instructive. That the Secretary of the Treasury of the late administration, up to its expiration, less than the ten weeks ago, approved Gene? ral Merritt as an officer, is well known. It is nowhere suggested that citizens had petitioned for bis removal, or that any official delinquency on his part is the reason of it. In place of an experienced officer in the midst of his term, fixed by law, it is proposed to put a man who has no training for the position, and who cannot be said to have any special fitness for its official duties. In the inaugural of President Garfield, delivered on March 4, stand these words: "The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regula? ted by the law for the good of the service itself, for the protection of those who are interested with the appointing power against waste of time and obstruction to public business, caused by inordinate pressure for place, and of incumbents against intrigue and wrong. I shall, at the proper time, ask Congress to fix the term of minor offices of the several ex? ecutive departments, and prescribe the j grounds upon which incumbents shall be appointed." How good the distinction which makes major offices a prey to "intrigue" and wrong aud shields minor officials from like havoc, and whether the collectorship of the country should belong to the exposed or to the protected class need not be decided her. Assum? ing General Merritt to be an officer of average fitness and honesty it might be reasonably argued that all Senators should with alacrity advise his displace? ment by a man of obvious superiority. Probably it might be said that all should advise the selection in General Merritt's place of a man who without superior j fitness had rendered his country or even I his party conspicuous and exalted ser j vice. The case in hand does not belong to either of those two classes. The voca? tion of Mr. Robertson and bis legisla? tive and professional experiences and surroundings do not denote superiority in the qualities, the knowledge, the busi? ness habits aud the familiarity with the revenue laws and system of the United States which might make him more com? petent than General Merritt to collect the vast revenues aud administer the vast business pertaining to the port of New York. Certainly he cannot in this re? spect be held an exception to the rules of right and consistency on which the constitution and laws have placed the public service. We know of no personal or political service rendered by Mr. Rob? ertson so transcendent that the collector ship of New York should be taken in the midst of a term and given to him as a recompense. Mr. Robertson is reported by the New York TYibune to have declared that his nomination was a "reward"?a "reward" for his action as a delegate to the Nation? al Covention. If Mr. Robertson in his action was influenced by a sense of duty, it he voted and acted his honest convic? tions, it is difficult to see what claim he has for any reward, not to speak of so great a reward. The action of which an estimate is thus invited is surmised to be this: Robertson and sixty-nine other I men accepted from a State Convention a a certain trust. They sought and ac? cepted the position of agents or delegates to the National Convention. The j State Convention declared a plainly stated judgment and policy to be j observed and supported by those whom it commissioned. To this declaration all { selected delegates gave implied consent, j but several of them in addition made a most specific personal pledge and en-' be assigned the position gagemeot to exert themselves in fgood faith throughout to secure the nomina? tion of General Grant. They made this pledge as a means of obtaining their own appointment as delegates and they did, as we both personally knew, obtain their seats in the National Convention upou the faith of their personal state? ments of their earnestness and fidelity. The obligations thus assumed were un? derstood to involve integrity, as the obligation of one who receives the proxy of a stockholder in a corporation on - the pledge and promise to vote as his princi? pal would vote. Whether Mr. Robertson was or was not himself bound not only by honor and implication, but by ex? pressly giving his word, becomes quite immateral in view of the claims made for him. It is insisted that he organized the vote, or, as it has been sometimes stated, "he was the leader of the vote." That is to say that he invited, persuaded, induced others whom he knew had given their word and obtained their seat by bo doiug to violate their word and betray not only the Republicans assembled in the State Convention, but the Republi? cans of their district as well who had trusted in their honor. Whoever coun? sels and procures another to do a dishon? est or dishonorable act must share with that other the guilt and should share the odium justly attaching to it. We are therfore wholly unable, upon whatever ground we pot it, to see justification for ourselves should we become parties to using public trusts which belong to the people to require such service to such modes. But the appliances employed to effect these results set up new standards of responsibility, and invade, as we believe, the truths and principles on which sepa? rate and co-ordinate branches of the government stand. A Senator has his own responsibility. lie is amenable to his Slate and to the body of which he is a member. He is bound by his oath to "advise and consent," on his conscience and judgement before God, whatever or whoever else may constrain him. He is to be exempt from executive menace or disfavor on the one hand, or executive favor on the other. Long standing on the orders of the House of Commons has been a declaration that a member shall suffer expulsion who even reports the wishes of the executive head of the government to influence the votes of members. The British Constitution is not more jealous than ours in this regard. To give advise, and honest, independent advice as to an appointment -proposed, is as much the right and duty of a Sena? tor as it is'the right or duty Of the Presi? dent to propose the name. Be his ad? vice one way or the other it is no more an act of disrespect or treason to the nominating power than the verdict of a juror or the decision of a Judge. The idea that the Senate is simply to find out what is wanted and then to do it, we cannot believe safe or admissible, and ! thus far uo party has dared or descended toset such a test of party fidelity or alle? giance. In this instance such promi? nence has been given to the subject and such distrust has been expressed of the correctness of our positions, that we think it right and dutiful to submit the matter to the power to which we are alone bound and ever ready to bow. The Legislature is in session. It is Republican in majority, and New York abounds in sons quite as able as we to bear her message and commission in the Senate of the United States. With a profound sense of the obligation we owe, we, with devotion to the Republi? can party and its creed of liberty and right, with renewed attachment to the great State whose interest and honor are dear to us, we hold it respectful and becoming to make room for those who may correct all errors and interpret aright all duties which we have miscon? ceived. We therefore enclose our resignations, but hold fast our privilege ' as citizens and Republicans to stand for the constitutional right of all, and of all representatives, whether of the.States, the nation or the people. We have the honor to be, very respect? fully, your obedient sevants, Rosco'e Conklikg, Thomas C. Platt. To his Excellency Governor Cornell. Kvgistered. Four young men, clerks aud students, while on a summer vacation tramp through Northern New England, engag? ed for a guide to a certain romantic forest waterfall, a boy named Forrest Graves. Forrest was a fine, athletic fellow, who could outwalk and out climb any ama? teur in the mountains, and his moral courage was quite equal to his physical health and strength. After he bad guided the young men to the waterfall, and they had satisfied them? selves with sight-seeing, they invited him to lunch with them. "Thank you, I have my own lunch ;" and the boy went away by himself. Later, when full justice had been done to their repast, add a flask of brandy had furnished each of the young men with a stimulating draught, Graves was called. "You must drink with us, if you will not eat with us," now, said the owner of the flask, and the most reckless of the party. "No, sir, thank you," was the boy's courteous response. "But I shall insist upon it." "You can do as you please, and 1 aball j do as I please." The young man sprang to his feet, and | with a bound stood beside the boy, too i much absorbed in his own purpose to j heed the quivering lips and flashing eyes ' ofanother. "Now you are bound to try my brandy. I always rule." "You can't rule me." These words were scarcely uttered when the flask was seized and hurled into a stream, where the clinking of glass betrayed its utter destruction. Then a clear, defiant tone rang out: "I did it in self defense. You had no right to tempt me. My father was once a rich and honorable man, but died a miserable drunkard, any my mother came here to live to keep me away from liquor tili I should be old enough to take care of myself. I have promised her a hun? dred times I wouldn't taste it, and I'd die before I'd break my promise." "Bravely said. Forgive me, and let us shake hands. My mother would be a happy woman if I was as brave as you. I wouldn't tempt you to do wrong. I shall never forget you nor the lesson you have taught me." The most reckless was the most gener? ous and seeing his error apologized frankly. How many boys need to bo kept from strong drink; and, alas, how many men aud women ! Who dares tempt them ? Let it not be you aud I.? Youth's Com? panion. ? A negro boy, aged eigbteeu, at Ho? mer's, La., who admitted that ho had outraged a negro girl aged eight, and afterwards murdered her in the most brutal manner, was taken from Bernville parish jail, at Sparta, on Saturday night, 14th inst., and shot to death by a party of fifty men, mostly colored. ! t LEITER FROM DIXIE. Miss Frauds E. Wlllard, President of the National Temperance Union, Gives a Northern Journal an Account of her Lec? turing Tour in the South. Dear Independent :?It is now about two months since I l.ad the good fortune to begin a Southern trip, ordained by our National Union, at its annual meeting in Boston. Maryland and the District of Columbia were left behind soon after the presentation of Mrs. Hayes's Testimonial Portrait at the White House. Clear heads and hearts are busy in both locali? ties, moving forward the home protection cause My associate, Mrs. Georgia H?lse McLeod, of Baltimore, a native of Flori? da, a life-long teacher and whilom con? tributor to The Atlantic, had opened the way by means of letters to the press and to leading ladies further South Appeals j had been made for money to help defray expenses, for, if successful, this embassy of a stranger must be free from all pecu? niary taint. Letters of introduction were k'ndly furnished by leading clergymen (South) of all denominatious. Prayers were offered by our local unions from one end of the country to the other for success of this effort to plant the "W. C. T. U." in Southern soil, and without misgivings the attempt was made. Many good and thoughtful people had predicted that this would prove "a fool's errand" number two. A letter from one leading Southern city had declared that the triple disadvantage of (1) sending a woman/ (2) a temperance woman ! (3) a Northern temperance woman ! stamped the embassy a failure from the start. (But, please observe, this letter was from a Northern man.) But, bless God and their kind hearts, the Southern people have received me as a sister beloved for the work's sake. Already some of the chief towns have been visited in every Southern state save Texas, Arkansas, and Tennessee (from all of which except tbe first earnest invitations have come and engagements are already made for their acceptance). And what is the report? Just the same that it would have been if an equal number of Northern states bad been visited?viz., the utmost kiud ness from the friends of temperance, cor? dial co-operation from the most liberal minded of the clergy, and independent of the press, and on the part of women a sisterly welcome that crowns Frienship's casket full of choicest jewels. Indeed, the South is far more like the North than in my ignorance, I had supposed. ''They're just like our folks" was my con? stant mental ejaculation, tbe almost en? tire absence of a foreign population lend? ing color to tbe home-like illusion. It had been said that the opposition to hear? ing ladies speak was deep and resolute. This is not so. Churches were opened as a rule, no less freely than at the North. Ministers of different denominations con? ducted the devotional exercises, and the audiences were large and to the last de? cree sympathetic and kind. When mem? bers were called for and papers circulated with the pledge for men and women, the | response was much more general than with us. It is true that on the Sabbath pastors do not yield their pulpits, pre fering an afternoon hour for the temper? ance meettng: it is also true that, as a rule, we have spoken from tbe chancel, and in a single instance no pastor was present; but this has sometimes hap? pened at the North, and Sunday is with ministers a busy day. It had been said tbat the expectation of securing associated effort on the tem? perance line from Southern women was quite Utopian ; but, instead of this, they have been uniformly earnest and respon? sive, beyond what is usual at the North. True, they have given immediate notice that they could not speak in public, which is the smallest part of the work; but, at the same time, have entered with tbe utmost intelligence and heartiness into our plans for securing pledges, S. S. and juvenile societies, the circulation of leaflets, lending out of temperance books, planning for public meetings, to be ad? dressed by gentlemen, etc. But when I have noticed the marvelous facility of utterance, the varied vocabu? lary, the delicacy of appreciation, and rare insight of these ladies, I have felt tbat in it all was a prophecy of such achievement in the art of public as well as private persuasion as would dim the laurels of their Northern sisters, if a sacred emulation did not rescue us. I could name women in all the chief cities of the South who are no less worthy to be the leaders of a people than was De? borah of old. They feel the stirrings of benignant power; the mother heart in them reaches out with a wide blessing for humanity. Even from their point of view?con? cerning which we have freely spoken? the war was not an unmixed evil. It helped to individualize each woman's character; it taught the stern, but royal lesson of self-help; and, with the spirited gentleness aud docility which are a sure sign of the highest breeding, many of these women, who had hardly ever wait? ed upon themselves in the smallest par? ticular, took up difficult tasks, to which they brought no training, but in which they have grandly succeeded. Some are teachers, some journalists, some artists, and not a few take boarders or keep hotels. The unwritten annals of their 1 heroism, often whispered in my ear by friends, have dignified my estimate of human nature. Nor do I find the bitter? ness toward the North which was de? clared to be so characteristic of the wo? men who loved "Tbe Lost Cause." They approached this whole question of the { war from a standpoint altogether differ? ent from our own. They believed in the j inalienable right of a Stale to secede from the Union. They had never been taught, as we had, from pulpit, press, and plat? form, to spell nation with a big N. But, whatever may have been the case in earlier years, sober second thought has Bofteued either them or us?or both, per? haps ; so that we can agree to "pres3 for? ward to the things that are before," with hands clasped in loving sympathy. It had been said, "You must not speak for the colored people;" but in almost every city we have done so, with the free con? sent of the Southern friends under whose auspices we came. It is true that social ostracism of the noble men and women who came South to teach and preach to the freedmen is no' yet at an end; but its features are greatly modified, and the larger towns and more enlightened of those "to the manner born" exhibit least of this narrow spirit and character. Prejudice (pre-judgment) is not a sec? tional growth. Both North and South, it is the parasite of a certain class of mind. Its objects differ, but its animus is everywhere the same. Of Southern manhood it is needless to say more than that the suppositions of a lifetime as to their courtesy was realized. "Sir Charles Grandison" has been my host, and "Col. Newcome" has introduced me to my audience?leading me gently forward, as is the custom here, ana Bay? ing more kind things than I shall merit in a thousand yenrs. Gov. Colquitt, of Georgia, welcomed me in his own (Meth dist) Church one Sabbath evening as I was never welcomed anywhere, and Elli? son Capers, rector of the Episcopal .Church, GreenvilleS. C.; Bishop Wight man and Stevens, of Charleston; Drs. j Vedder, of the Hugenot, and Chambliss, I of the Baptist Church there; Dr. Hay j good, of Emory College; Col. Price j Williams, of Mobile; Mrs. Judge Sharkley, of Jackson, MiRS,; and a host ' of others have lent their influence and aid with a cordiality never to be forgot? ten. The temperance questiou will win in the South earlier than with us, if we are not on the alert. They are not handi? capped with a foreign population. The colored people are well disposed and teachable. Their legislatures have out I ranked ours in the gains of the last ses? sion. Ministers are more outspoken and the press less timidly mindful of "our German friends." The trip 1 have de? scribed will extend over two months, and forty towns or more in fourteen states, leaving a W. C. T. U. in every place where none bad yet been organized. Another time I wish to write of Sidney Lanier, Joel Chandler Harris (author of "Uncle Remus") Randall (author of "My Mary? land"), Mrs. Sallie F. Chaplin (author ' of a Secession novel), Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson (author of "Beulah"), Father Ryan (author of the "The Sword of Lee"), Geo. C. Cable, Atticus Hay good, and other gifted Southerners. If this sketch seems rose-colored, remember that "we only know what we have lived." If it flaunts not the ruby flag, reflect that it was not written by a Uuited States senator. Surely, the day hastens when, joined in the splendid fight against a common foe which is the scourge of all our homes, the daughters of the North and South will smiling say, each to the other, what then the sods will joyfully repeat, " With all thy faults, 1 love thee still." Montgomcnj, Ala., April 2lst) 1881. Lady Physicians. A St. Louis doctor factory recently turned out a dozen female doctors. As long as the female doctors were confined to one or two in the whole country, and those were only experimental, we held our peace and did not complain, but now that the colleges are engaged in produ? cing female doctors as a business we must protest, and in so doing will give a few reasons why female doctors will not prove a paying branch of industry. In the first place, if they doctor any? body it must be women, and three fourths of the women would rather have a male doctor. Suppose those colleges turn out female doctors until there are as many of them as there are male doctors, what have they got to practice on ? A man, if there was nothing the matter with him, might call in a female doctor, but if he was sick as a horse (if a man is sick he is sick as a horse), the last thing ho would have would be a female doctor. And why ? Because when a man has a female fumbling around him he wants to feel well. He don't want to feel bilious or feverish, with his mouth tasting like cheese and his eyes bloodshot when the female is looking over him and taking account of stock. Of course these female doctors are all young and good looking, and if one of them came into a sick room where a man was in bed, and he had chills and was cold as a wedge, and she should sit up close to the side of the bed and take hold of his hand, his pulse would run up to 150, and she would prescribe for a fever when he had chilblains. Oh, you can't fool us on female doctors. A man who has been sick and had male doctors knows just how much he would like to have a female doctor come tripping in and throw her fur-lined cloak over a chair, take off her hat and gloves and throw them on a lounge, and come up to the bed with a pair of marine blue eyes, with a twinkle in the corner, and look at him in the wild, changeable eyes, and ask him to run out his tongue. Suppose he knew his tongue was coat? ed so it looked like the yellow Turkish towel, do you suppose he would want to run out over five or six iuches of the lower part of it, and let that female doc? tor put her finger on it to see how furred it was ? Not much. He would put that tongue up into his cheek and wouldn't let her see it for 25 cents admission. We have all seen doctors put their hands un? der the bed clothes and feel of a man's feet to see if they were cold. If a female doctor were to do that it would give a man cramp in the legs. A male doctor can put his hand on a man's stomach and liver and lungs, and ask him if he feels any pain there; but if a female doctor should do the same thing it would make a man sick, and he would want to get up and kick himself for employing a female doctor. Oh, there is no use talking; it would kill a man. Now, suppose a mau has heart disease, and a female doctor should want to listen to the beating of his heart. She would lay her left ear on his left breast, so her eyes and rosebud mouth would be looking right in hiB face, and her wavy hair would be scattered all arouud there, get? ting tangled in the buttons of bis shirt. Don't you suppose his heart would get in about twenty extra beats to the minute ? You bet! And she would smile?we will bet $20 she would smile?and show her pearly teeth, and the ripe lips would be working as though she were counting the beats, and he would think she was trying to whisper to him, and? Well, what would he be doing all this time ? If he was not dead yet, which would be a wonder, his left hand would brush the hair away from her temple and kind of stay there to keep the hair away, and his right hand would get sort of nervous and move round to the back of her head, and when she had counted the beats a few minutes and was raising her head he would draw the head up to him and kiss her once for luck, if he was as bilious as a Jersey swamp angel, and have her charge it in the bill. And then a reac? tion would set in, and he would be as weak as a cat, and she would have to fan him and rub his head until he got over being nervous, and then make out his prescription after he got asleep. No ! all of a man's symptoms change when a female doctor is practicing on him, and she would kill him.?Peck's Sun. ? The discipline of the military or? ganizations that attended the Galveston Mardi Grass was very rigid, and was main? tained during their stay in Galveston. One of the privates, somehow or other, got under the influence of strong bevera ges and was parading Galveston avenue when he saw bis superior officer ap? proaching. The soldier fled into an alley and hid behind an ash barrel. The officer passed on, but next day he called the soldier to appear before him, and asked: "How did I come to see you hiding behind an ash barrel ?" "How did you come to see me ? You happened to see me because 1 was bigger than the barrel. If the barrel ha<f been bigger you would never bad seen me." "When you get home I will have you court mar tialed, sir, and shot. Yes, sir, shot to death with musketry." "If you do, I'll be darned if I don't reeign and bust up the company. Now you just draw out your musketry." ? Johnny, who has been soaked by the rain the day before : "I told you the rain would make me grow; these clothes are loo small for me.'' TUE NEGRO REPUBLIC. Some Plain and Startling Statements About Affairs in Liberia. From (he Cincinnati Commercial. Mr. George R. Stetson of Bostou, has written some queer chapter's about the Republic of Liberia, on the West coast of Africa. It was founded by philanthrop? ists in the United States, some fifty years ago. It was to be a speck of para? dise for freed slaves from America. Good people were to send them there, set them up in a republic on their own hook, and then put the whole Dark Continent into a ferment of Christian civilization. In the period of their enthusiasm, tbe American Colonization Society spent mil? lions of money on the freedmen's para? dise. As far back as 1859 they sent 10, 000 American negroes there at an expense of $180 per head. About half of them went to a paradies by a shorter route than even the Colonization Society dreamed of. They died. In beating the American bush for emi? grants to Liberia, tuneful agents harped much on the extraordinary richness of African soil. It had only to be tickled with a wooden hoe to smile back a luxuri? ant harvest. Fruits, grain, and vegeta? bles, all that made clad the human stom? ach, grew in unlimited profusion. This was one side of the story. The silver tongued agents told that side. The other part was that every foreigner who touches the coast of Liberia, though he remain no longer than a week, is stricken down with a horrible miasmatic sickness called the "acclimating fever." The blistering sun, : alternating with heavy rains, and the rank vegetation from that very soil whose richness the agents exalted, are the cause of the terrible malaria. Ague gets the better of civilization. It kills every ! white man who remians there a few years. The savage African aborigines do not appear to suffer from the malaria. Like the Florida Indians, who are proof against mo3quito bites, they appear to be soaked so full of poison that it does not hurt them. But the American-born ne? gro suffers nearly as much as the white man. The mortality of the fever may be judged from some facts given by Mr. Stetson. On one occasion a coasting vessel made a trip to the delta of the Niger. She had a crew of fifty-five per? sons. Of these, twenty-five died.? Another vessel was sent to the same place with a crew of twenty men. Ten of them died within four weeks. It will be remembered that a passion for emigration to Liberia suddenly seized the colored people of Georgia aud the Corolinas three years ago. They sailed thither by hundreds. One ship, theAzor, took 256 emigrants from Charleston at one load. It was fine fun?the starting. All shared the devout belief that they were going direct to the promise land, but all their hopes turned to tbe bitterest disappointment. The disgusted pilgrims died off like aheep in a Colorado blizzard. In many case3 of negroes emigrating to Liberia from America whole families died, not one being left alive. One fam? ily of ten persons from Georgia sailed in the Azor. Three died on shipboard and two at Monrovia. The other five begged mony and fled back to Georgia before the acclimating fever took them, too. Many others of the colonists who sailed within a few years to Africa are sending for money to bring them home. Liberia, the country of fertile soil and beautiful landscape, is so sickly that the very horses and mules die that are taken there. Concerning other aspects of life in the model negro Republic?educational, in? dustrial, social, and political?the testi? mony is no less emphatic. The term "lazy African" is probably only under? stood iu its truest sense in Africa. Under the schorching sun the laziness strikes in. The climate effects even the industrious freedman from America. In time be, too, gives up tbe struggle and ceases to work. He turn3 to politics as an easier way of getting a living. He seeks "them 'ere offices" with enthusiasm. Thus he, at least, shows his capacity for the highest civilization. Liberian elections are quite as loud and lively and as frequent as in the great "moddle" Republic of the Uni? ted States, which the little African ono was patterned after. Liberian exports have been steadily declining for a number of years. A bare subsistence is not hard to obtain among the naked aborigines. What is the good of working when one is not obiiged to do it? It is not agreeable to record tbe fact that slavery exisli throughout the negro j Republic. Its horrors down South never surpassed the like horrors among these! Liberians, whose slaves are of their own j and kindred. In other respects the Africans who i rule Liberia have shown their ability to acquire a high civilization?the very highest indeed. They have got a bonded debt. It is so large a one that there is no prospect whatever they will ever pay it. Moreover, it is all owned in London, every penny. Putting the two facts to? gether, and connecting them by a link of reasoning with a well-known peculiarity of the noble British "nature, it is not hard to make a prophecy concerning the future of this, the one black Republic on the face of the earth. Some very singular facts have been de? veloped in the history of Liberia. No? body was more enthusiastic in the cause of African colonization from this country than the churches and the religious com? munity. Missionaries went there by the hundred, labored among the black sav? ages, and deid martyrs to their Christian devotion. Who does not remember for years "Afric's sunny fouutians" as the objective points of missionary work in America ? What has come of all this work, of the sacrifice of ail these unselfish lives? Christians everywhere expected the Christianization of all Africa as confident? ly as the Second Adventists looked for the end of the world. The happy result never followed. One of the wild negro tribes that joined the Liberian Govern? ment was Mohammedan in religion. There are forty wild negro tribes in the whole country. Instead of these naked heathens coming under the gentle in? fluence of the Bible, the one Mohamme? dan rribe among them is converting them j to the faith of the Turk with amazing j rapidity. There is actually a prospect chat at no distant day a majority of tbe inhabitants of Libera will be followers of the crescent and the Korau. Such is Btated to be the present condi? tion of Liberia. Instead of civilizing the native negroes, there really seems rather ] to be danger tbat the civilized negroes who went; there will relapse into barba- j rism. They are the merest handful among so many. They sufTer horribly from the climate, and are growing poorer and poorer. Meantime au insiduous British influence grows stronger and stronger, English men-of-war cruise along their coast and lie at anchor in their ports. English goods go into their country in larger and larger quantities j every year, and they are inveigled more i and more into debt to Great Britain, j The certain end does not seem many years off. I Under the circumstances, Mr. Stetson, of Boston, considers it high time some? body publicly and emphatically give the numerous American negroes who think of migrating to Liberia the advice Punch gar* those about to marry?Don't. Weary Women. Nothing is more reprehensible aud thoroughly wrong than the idea that a woman fulfils her duty by doing an amount of work that is far beyond her strength. She not only does not fulfil her duty, but she most signally fails in it, and the failure is truly deplorable. There can be no sadder sight than that of a broken down, 07er worked wife and mother?a woman who is tired all of her life through. If the work of the house? hold cannot be aecomplised by order, system and moderate work, without the necessity of wearying, heart-breaking toil ?toil that is never ended and never be? gun, without making a life a treadmill of labor, then for the sake of humanity let the work go. Better to live in the midst of disorder than that order should be purchased at so high a price?the cost of health, strength, happiness all that makes existence endurable. The woman that spends her life in un? necessary labor is, by this very labor, unfitted for the highest duties. She should be the haven of rest to which both husband and children turn for peace and refreshment. She should be the careful, intelligent adviser and guide of the one, the tender confidant and helpmate of the other. How is it possible for a woman exhausted in body, as a natural conse? quence in mind also, to perform either of these offices? No, it is not im? possible. The constant strain is too great, nature gives way to it. She loses health and spirits and hopefulness, and more than all, her youth, the last thing a wo? man should allow to slip from her; for, no matter how old she is in years, she should be young in heart and feeling, for the youth of age is sometimes more attractive than youth itself. To the overworked woman this green old age is out of the question ; old age comes on her, sere and yellow, before its time. Her disposition is rjined, her temper is soured, her very nature is changed by the burden which, too heavy to carry, is dragged about as long as wearied feet and tired hands can do their part. Even her affections are blunted, and she becomes merely a machine?a woman without the time to be womanly, a mother without the time to train and guide her children as enly a mother can, a wife without the time to sympathize with and cheer her husband, a woman so over worked during the day that when night comes her sole thought and most intense longing is for the rest and sleep that very probably will not come; but even if it should, that she is too tired to enjoy. Better by far let cveryting go unfinished to live as bestshe can, than to entail on herself and family the curse of overwork.?The Housekeeper. Babies in Bags.?All the old nurses in town are laughing at a certain new mother because she ties down her babie's long clothes when she sends him out on the street on a cold or windy day; but the idea is as sensible as it is original. The long clothes of a young baby, no matter how carefully it is bandied, have a ten? dency to crawl up to the little chin, or get into a bunch under the little arms, causing much discomfort and leaving the tender little feet bare and cold. Now a string or a pretty ribbon, that can always be hid by a cloak, tied around the long skirts just below the little feet, prevents the baby from getting into a bungling bundle, keeps the dainty skirts smooth and gracefully arranged, and the little one from taking cold. Why not put the baby in a bag at once, and be done with it? Well, why not? We are sure that the helpless little creatures would feel far more comfortable tied up in bags than they do now done up in the awk? ward bundles known as "baby clothes." The "bag" should be roomy, of course with a drawstring at the top and another at the bottom. 2s o embroidery, no ruffles, and no sleeve ? Yes, just as much em? broidery and just a3 many ruffles as you please, but no sleeves, unless the bag is made to open behind. The fashion of dislocating a baby's shoulder by bending back the little arm, to force it iuto the sleeve of a garmentmade to open in front is both useless and cruel. No wonder the little things scream and kick when they are being dressed. Talk about a Dress Reform Association for women! It is reform in baby clothes that is mo3t needed, and if a fashionable mother could be found brave enough to tie up her baby in dainty bags during the Winter months, all the mothers in the land would rise up and call her a silly $?oose. But they would follow the fashion ! There would be another advantage in dressing ba bies in bags, which wise mammas would not be slow to discover?nursing would be made easy for papa. Men do make so many excuses when they are asked to "bold baby a minute;" but the most pre? valent excuse of all, "Oh, I'll get his clothes all mussed up," would be out of order if they would carry the baby in a bag. The baby could not "get out of it;" neither could papa.?Neu: Oilcans Pica? yune. ABeautifuJvSentiment.?The follow? ing may have been in print before, but it is nevertheless beautiful aud worthy of reproduction: A man without some sort of religion is, at best, a poor reprobate, the football of destiny; with no tie linking him to in? finity, and to the wonderous eternity that is within him; but a woman without it is even worse?a flame without heat, a rainbow without color, a flower without perfume. A man may in some sort tie his frail hopes and hours with weak, shifting, proud tackle, to his business of the world'; but a woman without that anchor which they call faith is a drift and a wreck. A man may clumsily continue a kind of respon? sibility or motive, but can find no basis in any other system of right action than that of spiritual faith. A man may craze his thoughts and his brains to such heri? tage as fame and reputation may stretch before him; but a woman?where can she put her hope in storms, if not in heaven ? And that sweet truthfulness?that abid? ing love, that endearing hope, mellow? ing every scene of life, lighting them with the pleasant radiance ; when the world's cold storms break like an army with smoking cannon?what can bestow it all but a holy soul-tie to what is stronger than an army with cannon? Who that has enjoyed the love of a God-loving mother but will echo the thought with energy and hallow it with a tear? ? The alarming statement is now made, ou the authority of a New York physician of more than forty years' practice, that for the first time in the history of that city true spotted typhus fever, which only originates where great filth abounds, has made ita appearance without being traced to importation in the shape of ship fever. This is an an? nouncement which is well calculated to intensify the excitement regarding the terrible filth of tho street"? of the me? tropolis. News and Gossip. ? Crop prospects over tbe wholo of Texas are reported most promising. ? Locusts have made their appearance in Howard county, Arkansas, by tbe million. ? Tbe prospect is good for harvesting 1 the largest crop of oats ever produced in Chester county. ? Robert Lincoln, Secretary of War, is being put in training as a presidential candidate for 1884. ? Arkansas is crowded with men buy? ing up the timber lands. Thousands of acres are sold weekly. ? The acreage in cotton in Kershaw county is said to be the largest ever known to have been planted. ? The wool trade in Corpus Christi, Texas, in twenty-three vears has grown from 5,000 to 700,000 pounds. ? Almost every county in Tennessee has taken steps for the improvement of the public roads, under the new law. ? The negroes of west Tennessee have again taken the Kansas fever, and are leaving by the hundreds almost daily. ? The Petersburg (Va.) Butter-dish factory gives employment to forty-one hands and turns out 25,000 dishes every day. * . ? The end of the Texas and Pacific railway track has been pushed over thir? ty miles to the westward of the Colorado river. ? A Delaware editor, who is also u physician, oilers as an inducement to new subscribers to vaccinate every one who will take his paper. ? There are 340,000 orange trees in Putnam county, Florida, and about 40, 000 are now bearing, the product from which last season was 0,500,000. ? The new Czar leads a very simple life. He rises early and breakfasts with his family, and then puts on his boiler iron overcoat and takes a walk in the back yard. ? Scene at the White House: Enter messenger ?" Conkling has. resigned I" Enter second messenger?"Platt has re? signed!" President Garfield?"Well, I am resigned." ? An agricultural paper advises farm? ers to "never milk while the cow is eat? ing." But it is while the cow is drinking, evidently, that the city milkman gener? ally does his milking. ? Redmond, who is contiucd in the Asheville tN. C.) jail, is still suffering very much from his wounds. Three balls that the physicians could not ex? tract are still troubling him. ?? It is said that if red oak bark is kept in the chicken trough at all times it is a sure cure for chicken cholera. As the disease is very prevalent at present its efficacy can be easily tested. ? It is reported that three of the sub-" scribers to the Grant testimonial fuud, namely, Mr. Thomas Barbour, Mr. John Hoey and Mr. E. S. San ford, have thus far declined to pay up and that the fund is thus $15,000 short of the promised ?250,000. ? After the evidence was in, a Gal veston Judge asked the accused, who was charged with stealing a watch, if he had anything more to offer. "I did have an old "watch to offer you, Judge, but my lawyer borrowed it and hasn't brought it back yet." ? A gentleman recently provoked a one-armed organ grinder by asking him if he was a survivor of the late war. "Why, you fool!" exclaimed the irate musician, "don't you see that I sur? vived? Do I act as though I was killed in the war?" ? If any persou will invent a machine for implicating a California jury tbat will return a verdict of murder in the first degree where the victim is worth $100,000 we will guarantee that , the in? ventor is likely to go down to posterity without ever seeing the machine put to a test. ? Recently a number of Italian work? men were repairing the track near tho Manhattan Beach Hotel, when a few dror-3 of rain fell, attended with a single flash of lightning. The men at tho time were walking along with their shovels over their shoulders. At the flash the last one in the line fell dead, and the one in advance shrieked with fear and rolled over. He was scorched and stunned, but not seriously hurt. ? Judge Robertson is a man above the medium size, with a full head of grayish-white hair, and a large tuft of goatee upon his chin. He has bluish eyes, regular reatu;es, and is a man of considerate, attentive, respectful and re? markable power of thinking on his feet. He does not carry a soul crammed with hostilities. Tbe great mass of questions that may arise Defore him, he will have to decide as they preseut themselves to his reason. ? Stammering, according to M. A. Cheruin, generally originates in a sud? den nervous shock which the victim of tbe affection has received in childhood; sometimes it is a habit which has been acquired by the practice of imitating other persons who stammer, or by con? stant association with stammering mem? bers of the family. Professor Chervin resorts to singing, or the use of the ca? dence for preventing stammering, and has been very successful. Whipping bos sometimes been resorted to. ? When a jury was being impaneled to try a liquor case at Troy, Kansas, last week, the attorney for the prosecution promptly objected to a certain juryman. "What in the world did you challenge that man for?" asked one who was inter? ested in the prosecution. "Why," re? plied the lawyer, "a man with such a face and nose will never bring in a verdict against a man for selling whiskey." "Well," replied the other, "you have put off one of tbe strictest church members and most radical temperance men in the county!" ? A remarkable case of abstineuce from food is reported at Battle Creek, Mich. Last October, Mrs. Henry In? gram had some teeth pulled, and this brought on nausea at the stomach and inability to retain food. The woman is is still alive, having eaten or drank noth? ing since October. She is nourished by being bathed in beef tea, milk, etc., which acts by absorption, the quautity absorbed from these baths being nearly a quart a day. She feels a sort of hunger, which is soon allayed by a bath, after which she feels as if she had eaten. A bath of water will quench her thirst. Her stomach is said to be totally paral? yzed. ? The Presideut, as has been men? tioned, is determined to use to the ut? most all lawful means at his command to suppress the institution of polygamy in Utah Territory. One of the most im? portant aims in this connection will bo to stop the continued large immigration of Mormon proselytes from Europe.? The Mormon apostles and agents are constantly at work among certain classes of the peasantry of Europe, and it is through recruits drawn from thence that the Mormons are principally able to keep up their strength. The Secretary of State, by request of the President, "will take this subject into consideration, with a view to ascertain whether some method cannot be devised to remedy the evil.