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MR. UAVIS MAKES RETORT. r. ItKPLYISU TO TIIK HL4KOBHM OF UBN. V%. T. MIKUM v\. * . t ■ H?... ^ • TIm PrMUenl of Ike Confederacy Cite* HUIory la Reftilaife* of the Chargee ef Bhernae, and Facta aa lalhe Late War Betweea the Htato. The Baltimore Him prints a letter, five columns in length, from ex-Preeident Jefferson Davis in relation to the long standing controversy between' himaolf and General W. T. Sherman. The let ter i*dated’feeauvoir, Mias., September 23,1886, and begins as follows: “At various times, and from many of my friends, I have been asked to furnish a reply to Gen. W., T. Sherman’s so- called report to the War Department, which the United States Senate ordered avc Document No. 36, Forty-eighth Congress, second session. 1 have been compelled by many causes to nostpone a reply to these invitations, ana haVe in some instances declined, for the time being, to undertake the labor. A continuing sense of the great injustice done me and the people I represented, by the Senate making the maucioua as sault of General Sherman a public docu ment, and giving to his slander the im portance which necessarily attaches to an executive communication to the Sen ate, has recently caused the request for a reply by me to be pressed with very great earnestness. For this reason 1 have decided to furnish a reply for pub lication in the Baltimore Sun. The hu>- a .of my public life bears evidence I did all in my power to prevent the war; that I did nothing to precipitate the collision; that 1 did not seek the post of Chief Executive, but a .vised my friends that 1 preferred not to fill it. That history General Sherman may alan- deroualy assail by his statement?, hut be eannot alter its consistency; nor can the Republicans of the Senate change its un broken story of faithful service to the Union of the Constitution until, by the command of mv sovereign State, 1 with drew as her ambassador from the United States Senate. For all sets of my public life aa President of the Confederate States I am responsible at the bar of history, and most accept her verdict, which I altall do without the least appre hension that it will be swayed from the truth by the malicious falsehoods of General Sherman, even when stamped M an executive document by the United States Senate. Mr. Davis then recites the statement made bv General Sherman before a gath ering of ex-Union soldi* n, in 1A H 1, that he (ohemany had seeb a let Ur from Mr. Davis to a United States Senator, in which he (Davis) said that he “would torn Lee's army against any State that might attempt to secede from the South-' been cal statement,’ already branded with falsehood and unsupported by evidence, ought fo have bean Tejected with only wonder how it got before the Senate. It is apparent that this so-called historical statement had been seen by Republican Senators, and that they were not igno rant of its real character when the Haw ley resolution was under discussion in the Senate. Those Senators then knew that General Sherman had, in his letter of January 6,188S, to the Secretary of War, changed the issue between us from one of veracity to a rambling, shuffling discussion of a ‘conspiracy’ and of ‘con spirators’ In the winter of 1860-61, and that which at Frank Blair Post may have been ‘s white ]ie,’ not intended for'pub lication—came before the Senate as ‘a historical statement,’ bolstered with oth er falsehoods equally without foundation or support in anything written or uttered by me. It now survives as an ‘executive document’ of picturesque prevarication. I know nothing of any ‘conspiracy’ or ‘conspirators.’ There was no secrecy about any of the political affairs which led to the sooesrion of the States in 1860U61. It was the opinion of the con ference of Southern Senators in January, which is introduced in this historical statement as evidence of ‘conspiracy, 1 that secession wss the only remedy left to the States; that every effort to pre serve the peace had failed mainly through theJWJtion of that portion of the Republican party which refused all propositions for adjustment saade by those who sought in January, 1861, to justify confidence, insure peace and pre serve the Union. In the same month in which that conference wss held I served on a con mittee raised by the Senate to seek some possible mode of quelling the excitement that then existed. That com mittee was composed of the three politi cal divisions of the Senate, and it was considered useless to report any measure which did not receive the concurrence of at least a majority of each division. The Republican Senators rejected every proposition that promised pacification, and the committee reported to the Sen ate that their consultation was a failure. Was there lost conspiracy in the Repub lican Senators combining to prevent pacification than there waa in the South ern Senators writing in a conference to advise conventions of their States thrt their cause TWO 00TT0N MIRACLES. TKB MX MX HARVBttTKR MASON CUN. AK» THE Aa latMwsUas Kxhlfcktoa the New Machlaea at Suiter Yntertay-Pfektss Two TheoMaC — PsaaCe s Pay. (N ws sad Courier, October 14.) _ A practical teat of the Mason Cotton Harvesting machine was made in Sumter yesterday before a committee of three from the New York Cotton Exchange, and committees from the Charleston Cotton Exchange, the Agricultural So ciety of South Carolina, the State Agri cultural Society and the State Board of Agriculture. The committees were ac companied by the board of directors of the Mason Cotton Harvesting Company. The New York committee arrived at Sumter at 4 a. m., by the Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, and the other committee* arrived at 9.30 a. m., by the Central Railroad of South Caro ling. Abont 10 o’clock the whole party drove out to the shops of the Mason Cotton Harvester Company, which are located about half a mile from the hotel. On arriving at the shops the committees and other guests passed half an hour pleasantly in examining the tools and machinery with which the shops are equipped, and in having explained to them the several processes employed in turning omi Asf wonderfully ingenious i|s used ‘ BARNWELL, 8. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1886. m , in the harvest- whieh net. veryttmg^'oOlng in readiness one of the Harvesters was pulled out of the shop, two horses were hitched to it, a cotton field negro jumped into the seat, and the machind, followed by the visi on, started for the cotton field, abont one hundred yards off. To an obaCrVer of the machine, who had never aeaa its mode of operation, it would seem absolutely impoouble to carry it ov*r the- cotton plants without tearing them all to pieces. , Consequent ly when the macLine was driven into the was generally known in this Stats, and, in fact throughout the Southern coon- try, that Charles T. Mason, Jr/, of Sum ter, S. C., had invented a contrivance for picking cotton from the field by ma chinery, without injury to the growing plants or to the immature fruit. This contrivance wss the employment of a pickingstem, or finger, abont eight inches long and abont an inch in diame ter, on the surface of which were ar- rai ged small teeth or barbs, so pro tected by adjacent guards os to prevent the teeth from coming in contact with any material except nbrons substances. Tins principle of picking cotton by a sense of ton'll, a* it were, ia the essen tial feature of the Mason Harvester, without the employment of which it it self-evident to any one who has paid any attention to the subject at all that the picking of cotton by be an impossibility. Having tested by a number of experi ments the correctness of thin principle of discrimination between fibrous Mid non-fibrous material, the inventor gradu ally developed the stem from its first imperfect and costly form of construc tion to its present beautiful and efficient condition. The evolution of the picking stem is in itself one of the moat interest ing and striking features in the develop ment of the Harvester as a whole. The first stems were made of wood and were simply small cylinders having grooves ~ irfac Cape G ... r cotton-growing oouatrie* of the world, and in those countries also, such as Great Britain, where agricultural ma chinery is manufactured or likely ufactored. These patents and all future improve ments on the Cotton Harvesting Ma chines made by Mr. Mason are owned by the Mason Cotton Harvesting Com pany, in which Mr. Mason has a large interest. The President of the company ia Mr. Theodore D. Jervey, the senior member of the old firm of Wm. C. Bee and Co., and also collector of customs at the port of Charleston. The company, up to the present tune, has been ratber a close corporation, numbering only machinery would about fifteen stockholders, three of whom are resktents of New York State, and the remaining twelve are rosidenta of South Carolina. Among its stock holders the company numbers some of the moat prominent and successful busi ness and professional men of Charleston. eir coum! was > in Waahuurtem? *■** • nd ttarted down a row of cotton “ITT ST 1 p*-*’ of ***» Sherman, in debate, applied to myself, ' “° w muc ' t ^‘ >y w ‘ re ‘‘ u n , «’““ , d in seeing they as hia mode of retaliation for my denun- I wWk!?,* ciation of hia brother, I have been com-1 ®* ua *^7 wl .. ut surprised ■through injury, while the at polled to prove General Sherman to be a faUjfUr my character and reputation from hia willful and unscrupulous mendacity. If his urotheiT the Senator, felt the sting of that exposure, and his epithets are any relief, I am content that be shall go on the record as denouncing mo as a ‘traitor,’ because I have proved hia brother to be a liar. • • • i i u 'This historical statement mivht have ! * “T Confederacy. _ Mr. _ Davis then | ate end made to embrace the delibotate the same rime they saw a constant stream of After running it over the field for some time it waa suggested by the committees that the operation of the machine be timeed in order that they might arrive at an idea of its capacity. This waa ac cordingly dona, and aa fast aa the ere lilted others were subeutatod until called. The cotton waa then weighed in the presence of all present and showed a picking capacity of 2,000 pounds a day. The cotton enlarged m id made to and extended by the Sen- oapaetty of i quotes his tetter'to the HL Louis Itepob-) misrepreae^UtionTy “Gei^il 'SW^ i W* • The ootto ? frum bean, printed at that tune, denying the j uf t communication to him by OoLJ w bteh this cotton wxa picked were not truth of Sherman's statement and the | D. Stevenson in regard to Albert Sidney interviews had subsequently by reporters! Juhnston’sottttmnd in San Fratuhaoo. ! u _ ,, with Sherman, to whom the latter laid:) In a 1 tter toCoLWm. H. Knight, of ?° Qth Jbe capacity could j'Thia is an affair between two gentle- Cincinnati, Ohio, dated October 28, 1 ** oottntod u P° n be much tepn. 1 will take my time about it and | 18H4, General Sherman asserted that write to Mr. Davis myself. \t e will a*-; CoL J. D. Stevenson, now liviag t)e (be matter between us. 1_ -- “Tttt cut in their surfaces, in which grooves teeth were set, which were protected by the shoulders on each side of them. These stems were made by band with great labor and included various forms oi the same principle. Later on the in ventor adopted a metal cylinder with elliptical perforations in its surface. In these openings teeth were set so that the points were disposed' evenly with or slightly below the surface of ths open ing. Than came the style of stem which is now in use, being constructed of a metal envelope, the teeth being punched out of the metal itself and being sur rounded by an opening which guards the teeth from coming in contact with anything except it oa ' fibrous. Very dear and perfect cuts of several of Ma son's picking sterna were published in the April number of the Southern Bivouac, together with a very interesting description of the whole machine. The teeth in the sterna are punched by a special machine constructed for the pur pose by the Pratt and Whitney Compa ny, of Hartford, Conn. This machine is capable of punching four thousand teeth a minute, and cost the Maaou Cot ton Harvester Company aeveral thousand dollars. ” ! ride Having solved the problem of picking ' out the cotton from the growing plants without injury to plant, boll or bloreom, the inventor went to work to apply the stems to the plants by automatic mechanism, so that when the stoma had picked out the cotton from the holla they would at the proper moment re nt K STARS AND sTRIPKS . Ilsialrd b»mm om aa AoirHcaa VcmcI by the Captsla of a mutes Ysud—Sertsw* t omfU- rsilon. Abroad. Halifax, N. 8., October 11.—By far the most serious event in international affaire since the abrogation of the Wash ington treaty occurred at Shelburne to day, when Captain Quigley haolod down the United States flag from the American veaad Marion Grimes. At midnight Thursday the Gloucester schooner ran into the entrance of Shelburne harbor to escape the fm y of a heavy southeast gale. She anchored eight miles from the cus tom bouse. The storm moderating at daylight, Captain , Captain Landry abont to pn o-ed c waa boomed by ai on his voyage when he was boarded by an armed guard from the cruiser Terror, and, subquent- ly, seised for not reporting at customs. Captain Landry’s protests, that the cus tom house was eight miles distant, it had been closed eight hours before he anchored and would not be open for four hours after he sailed, and that he me had had no communication with the shore, were of no avail; a • fine of A400 fully by the churches. There Is no species of licentiousness visible in the quarter. They have their Jons or God houses where they gn to prey, as we go to our churches. Their fsitn is about like the Unitarian or Jewish They believe in one God, who has such attributes as omnisoieiioe, omnipresence and potentiality. They reject all prophets who elate to have a spiritual con nection with God. They say God ia too great to need a prophet or assist ant Their food is usually rice, peanuts, oil, imgaa, and cheese. They live on about eight cents per day, apd are healthy and fat They are all learning to talk English. They never fight un less first assaulted, and then it is for pro tection. The Irish are fighting Ml around them, but the Chinaman ia only a curious spectator. Yesterday an Ink- man and hia wife were fighting in front of the Josa house. A reporter asked one of the twenty Chinamen who waa watch ing the scrimmage why the Chinaman didn’t fight too. “You wan tee know why Hittiman and Melican man likee flghteeT” asked Jokn, avoiding the spirit of the question. ‘‘No, I want to know why you China men don’t flghtt" “Iliahman and Mel' John, still avoiding the ftghtee 'smae he field of MelioaM young fellow of oeived aa Appointment fi influence in the division I am in. You know that waa beta of civil service reform. He and intelligent and it wee not long be fore he was as familiar with the work as the oldest clerk in the office. Fora week ha wm sort of a look, and told him he would be jaatiy, too, if he did net care of myself; you needn’t but about me.’ Htt downfall didn’t sarpriae me for I had i ▼ally food stay oat ‘Me givee him fit wata—say, ‘Me ooolee him Meliean waa ini pool'd by the Ottawa authoritiea. Consul Geoend Phelan wired the Miais- **.’ Bimeby I *«" . W off him I '7» I shoe, stealer upstey—say, ‘Me foolse ole woman.’ Alle mm# him wtfao opm him | 1 Ha! why yum ba so Melican man him my, ‘You betta leaves I K# -— man in 1 nitytol him’ -tZT Ihmlkh. —d mmlsm m to how Ihmr mnin ut— ut— 1 their living. Things wont on tide w^y _ T until the peasant adsahtitentton same itotuL. Um >»to power, and the heads of th edtfte folly fruited and it was th*' general opln- ] 0< ?**"* ruc j^ d : ion that in the rich field? of the far style of maohinp which ter of Customs the trivial nature of the alleged offense, and asked for a reduction of the fine. This wm refused. But pending the instructions of the Gloooes- tor owners regarding the payment of the fine the Marien G runes wm aliowsd to at anchor under the bow of the of being docked and in charge of armed guards, m ia 'a habit with captured This morning in flag fly i hardly necessary for me to say, Mr. Davis, i- continued Mr. Davis, “that General Sherman did not write to me, and we had not settled the matter between us, otherwise than I settled it bv dt-noonc- irg Hi- statement m tai** ami himself as A slanderer. There the matter would 1mm rested, so far m I wm concerned. But when the War Department of the United States wm made the custodian of hia slander and Republican Senators be came its endorsers, and the statement* rnod* at Frank Blair Post were lifted into official importance, it becam. a duty uiikp to myself and to the people L rep resented to follow the slanders w ith denial and to expore alike its author ani his endorsers.” ' lb. Davis reviews at length the pro- grem of the ooatrovefsy, reciting the de T EW of every Senator fro m the Southern that he had received such a letter that spoken of by Sherman, and ac- of lint trying tosubeti- n letter from Alexander H. Stephens to Henohel Y. Johnson for the alleged Davis letter; then of representing that the Davis letter wm lost in the confusion of the rebellion arehivM in the War De partment, and finally of pretending that vhad seen the alleged letter at Raleigh, N. 0., and intimating Hut it_ was ad- dreoaed to Governor Vance, Mr. Davis quotes the published denial of Governor yanoe that he had ever received such a letter from him, and mys: alleged Raleigh letter has never in Sa»i „! Francisco, has often told me that he had Motioned the government m to a plot or conspiracy through deportment com mander Albert Sidney Johnston to de liver pooanreipj of the forta, ale., to men in Culiforoia sympathising with the rebels in the South, and he thinks it wm by this advice that President Lincoln sent General Suiter to relieve Johnston of his command before the conspiracy wm consummated. That statement <H Sherman, the veteran. CoL J. D. Ste venson promptly nku emphatically de nied. General Grant himself has not » en exempt from Sherman’s malice. To Colonel Soott Sherman wrote: ‘If C. J. Smith had lived Grant would have disappeared to history.’ The remarka ble statement was published by General ry and pointedly and denied b Rh«rp\an aaya it wm sent Savannah, Washington and IS ."when ex- wbich ] to . St Louis, and may have been finally burned in Chicago in toe great fire of 1871, But in it* Ravels no other person but Sherman saw it; not a single officer aft anv headquarters has been produced WhoreaditaaditpaasesW that m fbe excitement of toe closing days of the jrur gad during my imprisonm every letter of mine wm car to find evidence upon convict and destroy me. not an officer gll these headquarters should have read tittt latter. Every fair-minded man must therefore conclude that General Sherman stated at the Grand Army Post a wilfu ad deliberate falsehood, and that his afttve had its inspiration in that mean ictioe which bar characterised his acts Md writing in other respects toward the .jfeatoernpeople. The so-called bistori- ool concerning the pnblic policy of the Executive Department of ton Confederate States, as Shermans letter to the War Department is headed SSjSutemcn^ihS^ShOT Wren) hod ftpeu papers which convinced SetoaUven MuDavisPresideiit of toe doctrines, and had threatened to cm—even Lee’s army—should any by which General Sher- ‘ I bat* no oo which he alleged be counted upon to be muc The maeliincd-picked cotton wm to* 11 taken to one of the Mason Cylinder Gina, which wm in running order on the place, and wm ginned out in the pras- cnoe of the company. The Gin worked superbly, and everybody present wm de lighted with its capacity, with the beau tiful condition of tire lint cotton turned out, and with the perfect safety to the with which it oan be gumer ’ Several members of the different mittees bundled u with them, that idea to take home ipsnmi they might show the ootton which they had seen in a few emphatically denied by uenerai anerman. Prompt to slander, tie ia equally qpiok to deny hia language. The letter of Sherman dated September 6, 1888, wm written to Colo- Soott, now of the war record office. The denial of Sherman has caused toe publication of the letter and the exposure of his hypocrisy in his recent laudation of the dead chieftain, “The deliberate falsehood which Sher man inserted in his official report that Columbia, S. C., had been bun ed General Wade Hampton wM confessed in hia tifemoirs’ to have been ‘distinctly charged to General Wade Hampton to shake the faith of his people in him.’ Even when confessing one falsehood he deliberately coined another, and on the same page of his ‘Memoire’ said that the fire ‘woe accidental, ’ when he knew from the letter oi General Stone, who commanded the provost guard in Columbia, that the fire wm not accidental. How much more he knew he may in future ‘Memoire’ or ‘state ment’ reveal Can any man imagine a leas moral character, less conception of truth, lem regard for what an official re- rt should contain than ia shown by deliberately concocting false- for the dishonorable toe faith of the peo] Carolina in their fellow-dti Wade Hampton? I have in this vindi cation, not of myself only, but also of the people who honored me with the highest offiaial position in their gift, been compelled to group together in stances of repeated falsehoods deliberate ly spoktai and written by General Sher man—the Blair Post slander of myself, the defamation of character of General Albert Sidney Johnston, the disparege- f the militorr lame aFfienSoi minutes picked from the Add by one of Mason’s machines and converted into such beautiful lint by Mason’s Gin. An boor or two more wm spent at the shops examining other Harvesters of varying styles and in different stages ot completion, when toe party drove beck to the hotel. At 4 o’clock the party all dined togeth- HotcL Among those er at the Jerrey present wm Mr. W. L. Langley, of New York- This gentleman, who is a me chanical engineer, and hearing that a committee from toe New York-Ootton Exchange had been appointed to come South and witness a practical field test of the Mason Cotton Harvester, came down also aathn represeDtativeof North- mentof to e military Ion | Grant and the shameful and corrupt charge against General Hampton. I have prepared this examination and onl; f because the Senate of States has give# to Sherman’s the endorsement which gives it whote claims it moy have to ottonond of P© to mislead in the fulure. Having specifi cally stamped the statenwat aa false, having proved ifts author to be a - end net having a !or tott i era capitalists who own large plantations in Texas, nnd who for many years have been endeavoring to secure a practical ootton harvester. In response to a toast, Mr. Langley took occasion to my that he hod been more than pleased with what he hod seen; that he had never seen a new machine tested with such suc cessful results, and that he wm prepared to report favorably to the gentlemen whom he represented. He waa beyond preadventure that Mr. Mason hod discovered the correct principle, and that he believed that he had solved the that ootton could be and would in the future picked by machinery. The visiting committees were invited to stay over at Sumter and witness a test of the Ootton Harvester by moonlight in order to show them that toe maehuie oan be utilized at night ss well m tor day. The committee, however, found ft impossible to remain over. The Mason Cotton Harvester and the Meson Cylinder Gin will be exhibited at the State Hsir of Georgia, commencing at Macon on the 27th inst, sad at the State Fair at Montgomery, commencing on November 8th. TEN H ABVS8TKB AltD ITS naroRT. The exhibition st Sumter yesterday of the Mason Cotton Harvesting Machine, before committees appointed to invest! gate its practical operation and report upon its success and usefulness, is a signal event in ttn history of toe devel opment of on invention which ranks in impottimee with those gret^toorwaving machines which hove, more than other influences combined, oontribr to the rapid conversion of the vest wastes of toe Ajaetiaaa Ooutinent into fertile fields aad flourishing cities, sad hasp it, so tost it might be depoetted 1 seeks provided for the purpose. Several different styles of The _ ted at work in the ootton field to-day is known m “ths Radial Stem Machine.” In a strongly constructed frame of hickory and ash are placed two PM« of cylin ders, from which radiate the pirkm# stems above described. The machine ia mounted on two iron wheels similar to thoM used in mowers and reapers. The ■eehniB straddles the row of coll on plants, the wheels passing along the alleys. Therefore, m the machines move forward through toe field the cotton plants peM backward* through the ma chine between the two pairs of cylinders mounted with the picking stems The cylinders are mounted on vertical shafts and rotate backwards around their shafts at the Mine rate of speed m the machine 1 moves forward. The stems, being jour- ' naled into the cylinders, revolve back ward* with them at the same rate of speed m the cotton plants move bach- ward. Thus, when toe machine starts temperate upon a row of ootton plants, the homes which pull it enter the alleys on each aide of the row, the stems begin to revolve backward with the plants, and, while they penetrate every part of the boshes, they do not in any way jostle or tear the plants. Now, In addition to the backward movement of the stems with I the plants, they have an independent, indmduil rotation on their own axes— M and Quigley observed flog flying from the of the Grimes, upon which had placed the Queen’s broad arrow. wm astonished aft the Yankee audaeily, and ii quire if had been tome authorities. On receiving s nega tive reply he ordered the American skip-1 no* attend per to haul down the United States flag. | CsftholiM, M its display wm s gross whan the tsmsI wm in the British officials for s breach law. Oapftaiu Landry accordingly down his flag. The American «he Iron Mubjocted, ani immediately returned to ids vessel, and wm again in the iflt of hoisting the Stare an. I Stripes the Canadian tar once more hailed him, 7* uni my, ‘i rally bad ftghtee slle night Pstses Hog**-Paddy I Lyan. Me L<«p Mbs Sallivwn knock yttaoutiaiai —ffiree you tail-Mesas You let up; ms rally tough “Whet does his wife do asked ths reporter. “Den him wifee him rally held. Flo | him. lakes him wipe de I man ywlte, Modds! fi! ftl -nd than what?" Nm* day ■BjnKy bad , all vsily sod learning that th* been released by the customs depart- that he had right to fly Elia American American vessel and 4H*a other man could prevent therefore hauled the Stan and the masthead. This first in the direction of the thsif teeth, so a*,to catch the then, m they pass oat of the plant, in toe reverse direction, so M to throw toe ootton off by centrifugal force. When the ootton is thrown off it falls on a con veyor, which conveys it to a carrier belt, which in turn picks up the ootton and throws it over toe buck end of the ma chine into bags suspended in position to receive it When tod bags are fall they are dropped and others are placed in po sition. The machines ere so light and the machinery moves so easily toot they eon, be drawn by either one. or two Ironies. The pse of two hones hM been found preferable,-however, for the rea son that they poll more evenly and the machinery, in order to per form the work suooeesfully, most he made with great care and exactness, yet it is by no means complicated, nor easily deranged. The public, no doubt, think that the invention has been developed very slowly. This, in a certain sense, is true, but in addition to the natural di coitus which have beset the inventor aft every torn, it should be known that the company has been again and a_ harassed by piratical attempts to inter fere with their patents. The company has, however, fought out every esse, both in the patent office and in ths courts, and the result has been that it hM won every ease op to the preamt time and baa now a long list of patents which cover so broadly every essential detail of the machines that the invention may be said to be thoroughly protected. an iy boarded armed guard and vigorously remonstrat ed with the American skipper upon the foolishness of his proceedings, which would probably result in tbs toss of his vessel and bring abont international un pleasantness. Quigley then lowered the Stan and Stripes from the masthead, un rove the flog halyards of toft schooner sad WM subsequently brought to a wharf and placed in charge of a guard. Captain Landry is reticent about this action, bat Consol General Phelan be came very indignant when the telegraphic reports reached him this afternoon, and 1 regards it m the most high-handed out rage yet perpetrated. He immediately telegraphed toe facta to Secretary Bavara. WASHDiOTOit, October 12.—Advices received oft the Department of State this morning corroborate the published re port of the hauling down of the Ameri can flog on tor American schooner Ma rion Grimes, at Shelburne, by Captain Quigley, of the Canadian cruiser Terror. The action of the captain of toe Marion GrinuaIn runningnp the colors while AS ■ forbade him hoisting i raged Quigle; ed the Grim os with an ey, who ita| k ZS. _ Me to s school where I wm ligton than geography.” “Then you do not Catholic church school place for a boy to get an our regular American public inquired. “Certainly I do not I shall forth send my children to the New York public schools. 1 am a Catholic, but I am not willing to cripple my children M I myself have been onpptei IT I bud ue to our public oebook 1 would BOW in toe Custom House aft $1,600 per C ir. Instead I foiled in my exam mo- n and I go back to a menial pi so* where I only make $600. No boy who graduates st the avenge Catholic school,.. where they have old fashioned books.ijg** old fashioned *y*tems and solemn end | d ®V shallow teachers, will be Iffq Sfi setnee Catholics are hurting ourselves, keeping ourselves in the mud ignorance when we could go to the be schools without money and wh price, and fit ourselves to cope with ths rest of the world. If we want to taka at » ,.,t. nr QH A Tata That tistTs Bates following is a list of ths to the srasp^fiy already issued United States. No. 886.03* No. M8.4M. .m.4 patents totog Oct 2, 1888 ....G..Feb. 18.1884 No. 98V.486 Feb. 18,1884 No. tll^...; .Jan. 87,1885 ~ •4,1885 the vessel wm in the custody of Canadian officers is deprecated at the department. it Secretary of State Dorter to day Mid he hid received from Consul General Phelan a dispatch narrating toe ion hod been facta of the ease, t taken and ha did^not but no action know that there would be. “It seems to me,” Mid he, “that it may be construed into a retalia tion MMinst this government for the placing of the Stan and Stripes on the topaust of on English vessel in Behring Straits not long ago.” ^ All Fms4 is UMcsfs’a IMrectary. Did yon ever look into the < tory with the anticipation of fi thing,amusing? Perhaps not The driver thumbed the leaves of the big book toe other day, and this te what ha found: Victor Hugo tew engraver on Sedgwick street; Cteorge Washington te following the meek end lowly occupation of ahest- ler,. and Andrew Jackson cats hair qp Folk tenet John Bmwft’e body n i;jm - \i iiYQiy poucenmn. and Brutus te I