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WAR S'l Senator Vest/s Narro"i i J ai i St. Louis Washington, Feb. 25. -Colonel j Alexander Jones, of Independence, do., on a visit to Washington, leila ! thc following story of thc last hours j of the Missouri legislature at the breaking out of the Civil War and j Senator N est's celebrated speech in that body, with his subsequent flight to the Confederate lines and his che {ton hy twenty-two members of Col onel .1 'iics's regiment to thc Confcd irate Congress. Said the Colonel . "'ll is a long time av'", bul I think j ! can (jive it to you. 1 had been with General A tc li ison in the border] troubles in Kansas l'<?r .- une time anti was pretty much used up, so I thought I would take a rest for the winter at ieliersoii City, amusing myself hy listening to the exciting debates in the Legislature which 1 knew were bound to follow. There were some very bi;- men in that body of State lawmakers. Among them was George ?Vest, a young saddle bug lawyer from Boonvillc, who at that time was open ing a modest law oflioe with fair pros pect?* for his future. '??Claiborne Jackson was Governor and was-as pronounced a pro-slavery l>cniocrat. as Vest. That remarkable war Legislature, which has gone into "history,was composed of 1(?0 meiu bers, %^ ?well AB 1 can remember. Of that/ncmbcr twenty-two were Union mevand opposed to Missouri being iefcin out of tho Union on snap judg ment by Vest and his followers in the L?gislature, with Governor Jackson ou me outside to back them up with his official approval. Tho situation was becoming daily moro serious around thc capital as to the future of Missouri. "Governor Jackson and General Sterling Price made a visit to St. Louis to confer with Captain Lyon of the United States Army, then in com mand of tho arsenal and forces at that place. The interview between these gentlemen and Captain Lyon was uoi satisfactory to tho ai. Ho gavo them two hourB to get out of tho city, which they did by taking a special train to Jefferson City, stopping long enough at each of tho railroad bridges to burn them down. They did not leave a bridge between St. Louis and the capital over the line they traveled "It was deemed advisable to arm tho members of the Legislature with .muskets and ammunition sufficient to resift an attack by the United States forces. It was agreed that the mem bers should be equipped for battle as required in the army regulations. Accordingly euch member was fur nished with a musket and cartridge box filled with ammunition. Thus armed, they oontinued to legislato with their muskets lying across their )ap9 and oartridge belts around their waists ready for a fight or a ruo, whichever was more prudent and de* airable. ".While this was geing on inside . the Capitol building, Governor Jack son Was on the outside with his pis tols strapped to his waist and a rifle on his shoulder, while the bridle of j his horse lay across his arm. 11A few days after the attack on the Sixth Maseaohussetts Regiment in Baltimore by the mob Vest arose in his seat and, after he had stacked his musket, he thus addressed thc House : M 'Mr. Speaker, I noticed in a morn ' ing newspaper a dispatch whioh reads as follows (holding up the paper): "The bodies of the soldiers that were killed in Baltimore, belonging to a . Massachusetts regiment, have been placed on ice aud shipped to New England for burial." I say, Mr. : Speaker, if this Yankee Government expeots to put the body of evory sol dier who is killed in an effort to ?oeroe the South on ice, Linooln had better make a contract for Greenland's Icy Mountain and that d-d quick 1 The undertakers will need it all be fore they finish the job of burying the iead.' ''About the time he closed his re " marks a messenger rushed into the 1 House of Representatives and hand - ed a telegram to the presiding offioer, who passed it to the clerk and asked ? him to read it to the members of the 5 House. The dispatch waB as fol lows : " 'Captain Lyon and' Frank Blair '-are en route to Jefferson City with 1 three regiments of troops to capture ? the Legislature and hang all the aeces . sionista of that body.' "'Thank. God for that 1' exclaimed ' one of the union members from a back . county. 'A few pairs of plow lines "well used on some members of ' the House will do the Union ciuse "\ * some good.' , \ '"The wildest-excitement prevailed, vittembers reaohed for their muskets; iK)meiere for defending the State H^nse, while the majority thought . f rude nco thc botter part of Valor and OR i BS. kv 3?scLipe I.iVom I3eing ged. Republic. favored going further Routh, lt lo >k ed like a speedy ad j'-urn ment would take place without voting the presid ing officer the usual vote of thank-. After thu panic had partly subsided, it was ascertained thc message was a hoax iutended to tesl the courage of thc legislative warriur-1. I ''Shortly after, however, th-' news j reached Jefferie II '.'ny that Colonel j Lyon bad actually captured Camp Jackson and lE??l j>r?>u? : and was ! then moving <>.? lo Huon ville. I herc j wa-* a general panie, and every man struck out for his own safety. N est ' arni ' ?' ?vernor Jackson were the li rs I tn make the break, and a bee-line f<>r the southern part of the Stale, win rr they thought they would be safe 'from danger. The Co vernor, with as many mem bers as could keep up with him, halt ed at Ncoslio to hold a meeting of the Legislature. They took possession of the Presbyterian Ch ut ch of that town for a legislativo hall, and herc thc j remnant of thc spirited and dctcr I mined body of war statesmen met to consider what was best to bc done to pull Missouri into the rebellion. "They had not moro than gotten down to business when old Jim Lane swept down on them from the Kansas side and put thc Governor and bis Legislature to inglorious flight. There was no safety for them except in thc rear of General 1'rice'a army, as the I war began to closo down too hard, I and there was bloody fighting ali arouud. The moving Legislature bo came tired and demoralized. Some of ? them joined Price's army and others scattered out over difieren?: sections of the country. "There was such an army of camp followers and loungers banging arcaud Price's army that tho old General issued an order compelling er cry able bodied man from Missouri to either enlist in tho Confederate Army or leave tho camp. This order I ell heav ily on George Vest, for. said he : '! am not a soldeir, but a statesman : I am not built fur a soldier.' .'However, the orders of cruel war had to be obeyed, and Vest left us. He spent bis last night in camp with me, and early the next morning start ed out in tho direction of Arkansas. I did not bear of him again until in Richmond, when, one day, much to my surprise, one of the boys came, around with a small printed handbill, which anuounocd that George G. Vest, of Boonville, Mo., was a candidate for the Confederate Congress. "There wero several boys fro na Vest's district in the command, so ire got together and cleoted George to Congress without any billot-box stuff ing intimidation, lt was a fres bal lot and a fair count, and that is the reason why George was so much in favor of fair elections since he won | his first congressional honors by a fair honest count, for twenty-two of us did it, and old Governor Jackson put tho great seal of the State of Mis souri OU his certificate. "MT. Vest had many hair breadth escapes and adventures trying to rcaoh Richmond, tho moro serious of those being with Confederate troops. Some times he was taken for a spy, and at other times had great difficulty in es caping from impressment as a soldier. He rode into tho camp of tho Six teenth Missouri command, neav Fort Smith, Ark. He was greeted by the boys as 'A damned Yankee spy,' and preparations were immediately made to swing him up. Vest protested who ho was, and excited demands for his papers, with a rope dangling in the hands of tho soldiers, drew from him the following: " 'Boys, I am from Missouri, and have been elected to the Confederate Congress at Riohmond, and hare is thc certificate of Governor Jackson.' "The document was immediately scanned and Vest's life was savod. One of the soldiers, remembering some of the proceedings of the Legislature, of which Vest was a member, carno forward and said : " 'Boys, I know this little rascal. He is the ohap who raised so much hell in the Legislature among them Union fellows. He is the one who told them Yanks that if they expect ed to pot all their dead soldiers on ice, Abe Lincoln would have to make a contract for Greenland's loy Moon-, tains.' "At the conclusion of his speech Vest wai? lifted from his saddle, and greeted by a rebel yell, as the boys bore him triumphantly on their shoul ders LO the teat of Colonel Jackson, who was a personal friend of the Con federate Congrecsmau eleot. "After leaving this camp that was the last the Missouri boys ever saw of George. Ho remained in Richmond uatil thc dose of the war, whore ho was admired for his ability." I?IMHIM ?I t.r It.tUli H. Tiic battle ol Borodino, fought bc twieiithc I'renell and ibu Russians near Mo-eow in l-l-, wa- the uio?t murderous Gght, not only of the la^t century, but, perhaps, of thc last 500 years. The records rdiow that Borodino en gaged annies of from 12,000 to 130, 0UU on each side; that there was but one day of vigorous fighting; that the French, after pouring a most murder ous cannon Gro upon thc Russians, ! advanced upon the Russians'position, were repeatedly repulsed with terrible loss, and finally rushed thejfsoldiers of the czar off their feet and out of tho vantage ground. Thc eFrench won, but lost 12,000 killed'?on thc field and 28,000 wounded. Fifteen thousand Russians were Blain >"and 30,000 wounded. Oat of about 250, OUO men who nude up the contending armies, 85,000, or :?1 per cent-more than one third, were struck by bullets, bayonet * or swor is. At Waterloo about 15,000 mon were killed or wounded out of perhaps 200, . ?Iii) engaged. Vt Gettysburg about 100,000 fought and ?,.;<:h anny had, approximately, 2,900 kilh-dand 1 1,000 wounded. In th?; Wilderness prob ably 200,000 men were in action and the ii^bt-which lasted a week or more-resulted in n combined loss of about 8,000 killed and ?10,000 wound ed. Borodino, a fight now almost forgot ten, which bad no influence on the history of the world, and which, so far as actual results went, need not even have been fought, was the blood iest of modern battles. Napoleon's victory availed him nothing, for be was burned out of Moscow anyway, and tho Russians simply sacrificed men in thc vain attempt at a triumph which thc snows of winter soon brought them anyhow. Tho tmoEt gory of battles was also the most use less, and is now JUC of the least re ! membered.-Chicago Journal. Illustrious Turncoat" "Times chango and we change with them," is a Latin maxim that finds its best illustration in the political career of great men. Napoleon, began a revolutionist, the protege of Robespierre, and ended an emperor; Cmsar began a patrician and eur1, .a a plebeian. History is full of su.'h changes. In our own country there ure some notable instan ces. Andrew Jackson started a radical States rights man and wound up by threatening to hang Calhoun for his' nullification doctrine. Charles Franois Adams, abolition candidate for president in 18-18, and minister to England under Lincoln's administration, died a Demoorat. George W. Julian, abolition candi date for vice president io 1852, died a Democrat office holder, under Cleve land. Charles Summer, first Volition sen ator from Massachusetts, and Lyman Trumbull, the first anti-slavery sen ator from illinois, both voted against Grant. Horace Greeley ended up aa a Dem ocratic candidate for president. Dana by whose orders Miles put irons on Jefferson Davis, supported Tilden. Boutwell, Grant's secretary of the treasury, left the Republican party, and Benjamin Harrison at the time of his death, was not in sympathy with it. Ben Butler, who refused a place on the ticket with Lincoln, was after wards olooted governor of Massachu setts by the Democrats. , Governor Hoadley of Ohio, landed, as a Democrat, in the governor's chair two j ears af tor quitting the Republican party. Chief Justioo Chase, thc first Re publican senator from Ohio, died a Democrat. Wo mention these illustrious "turn coats" for the encouragement of any one that contemplates a change of po litical base.-Webster's Weekly. Cures Canoer and Blood Poison. If you have blood poison producing eruptions, pimples, ulcers, swollen glands, bumps and risings, burning, itohing skin, copper-colored spots or rash on the akin, muooua patches in mouth or throat, falling hair, bone pains, old rheumatism or foul catarrh, take Botanic Blood Balm (B.B.B.) It kills the poison in tho blood ; soon all sores, eruptions heal, hard swellings subsido, aches and pains stop and a perfeot cure is made of the worst oas es of Blood Poison. 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I I Though many people, who do not think very deeply, always have been prone to combine the idea of great wealth with happiness, the less super licial at all times have realized that a rich mau is not necessarily a happy one. Io the fables of all nations wc find stories dealing with thc anxiety of thc rich man that he might bc deprived of his wealth, how he trembles at the thought of robbers and burglars, which his imagination makes bim see every where. To be true, this kind of fear and anxiety was of a very primitive na ture and is unknown to the rich of to day. And still even thc rich man of to dav, in spite of Hafcs and banks and steel vaults, has bis fears aud anxietj and to be sure ut keeping what^ h< possesses or even add to it he mus' possess personal qualities which an not given to every one. Thc person who is unable to follow economical and political events an< arrange his holdings accordingly mus go backward and at last jose hi wealth, no matter how his i" . ^ne i invested. It is by no means a p?fatj,xof ai exaggeration to say that, after all, n investment is absolutely safe. Government bonds may be convert cd and pay leas interest, and in eas of war and revolutions lose all value Municipal and railroad bonds, an still more, all kinds of industria stocks or stooks in banks, derive thei value mainly from the ability of th managers of these concerns. Even real estate in city or countr may decrease in value from politice or other reasons. The rich man who can or will d nothing more than cut coupons c collect interest must always suffer b the idea that something may happe to make him less rich or even poor. I know of many rich people whoi this fear makes exceedingly unhappy who live in continuous dread of Socia ists and other advocates of social ri forms, and who for this reason b< come prey for the advocates of ri aotion, of politicians who play upo their fear as upon a musioal iostrt ment. Others, and I am glad to say quit a ?arge number of rioh people, ha^ arrived at the oonolusion that thc owo their wealth to society, and thi for this reason they have duties t society, duties which some think th: they can fulfill by magnificent charil on a large scale; others in actual sooi and political activity. Here is where the personality corni in. The rich man who dreads or is ii ! oapable of every effort and respont bility is always under the spell fear of what migut Lappen in the f I ture. ? In later years it is rather eurprisii I to notioe the number of rich peop who have recognised the teachin, and doctrines of socialism, and \ i have no right to doubt their sinonT even if they have not made the st in full and given up their wealth f the benefit of their follow-men. They are either like the man wi sets fire to thc grass around his bou when he sees a prairie fire coming, "like a man who jumps in the wal that he may not be soaked by a threi ening shower. It may be considered a fact tb the possession of wealth carries wi it a certain amount of uneasiness a anxiety, and the question is then th Does the possession of riohes cai with it sufficient enjoyment to ooti terbalanoe this anxiety? This is by no means oertaic; it hardly even probable. In the first place, what is riche Who is a rich man? The primiti definition is this: The man is ri who possesses more than he rea needs. This sounds simple onoug but what does a man need; what < the necessaries of life? Also this question suggests a rea answer. The necessaries of lifo consist of those things for whioh a man ha physical craving. But as this cravi is of a subjective nature, the neo saries of life are different to differ? people. To the onlooker a certain pen may seem rioh while he himself v sw?sr that he has absolutely no mi than he actually needs. Among New York multimillii aires the man is considered poor w among Germans is considered v< wealthy. Ooo thing is olear: If the owo of great wealth were phiiosoph with ides1 opinions and conception life and its purpose and object, tl they might truly be called happy i worthy of jealousy from those ? are poor.. . But where do we find these philo phioal millionaires or millionaire pl osophers? Hardly ever in real life. The rioh . man is not content w being able to satify his physical i organic cravings; on the contrary, pends most of his time in increasing i- needs, bis demands; and a* soon i us mun begins to crave more iban what is necessary to maintain life, these demands grow with ever-increas ing rapidity-se quickly, in fact, that there is something in the saying that the rieher a man gets the less bc is able to satisfy his wishes. All human needs may be divided into individual and social needs. Tho first aro those which a human hoing has because he ie a living being and which he would have even if he were marooned on a lonely island. The second he feels because ho is a member of society, and these are con tinually growing within him. The rich man lives too well; that is, he does not live weil at ali. Even the moat temperate rich mad eats more than is good foi him be cause the enticing dishes and table before him always tempt him. ?u his dining-room and sleeping room thc rieh man suffers through what he has. In the salon be suffers through what he hus not, but what he wishes for. He is not satisfied with being ad mired by those who have less, ho wants to inness those who have more, and this desiVs urges him on in the social race, which ixhausts brm like an overtrained raoe hor.T*' Think of the life of American mil lionaires at Newport, think of th many sleepless nights they spend in their efforts to excel one another to attract attention if only for a mo ment. "A dog would not be satisfied with such a life," they would undoubtedly exclaim with Faust if they knew Faust, whijh most of them do not. At present a person must be enor mously rich to keep pace with the leaders. The moral satisfaction which the higher developed character considera infinitely muoh higher than the phy sical satisfaction in the way of food and clothes, the glorious feeling of power and influence, is already under stood by tho modern oaptain of in dustry and the trust magnate, who thinks, works and acts, but not by the passive millionaire idler of New port. Money is a powerful weapon, but in the eyes of man it is not the man who guards the arsenal where wea pons are kept who counts, but the soldier who uses them and wins the battles. It is the personality which gives money its social value.-Max Nordan in St. Louis Republic. The Worm's Punishment. A father had been leoturing his son upon the evils of staying out late at night and of getting up late io the morning. "You never will amount to anything," he continued, "unless you turn over a new leaf. Remem ber that the early hird catches tho worm." 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