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THE BATE BILL ? 0 P&B8ED THE UNITED 8TUK8 J SENATE FRIDAY. I Summary of the Provisions of the Bate Bill as it Finally a Fasted. c After 70 days of almost continuous deliberation the senate Friday passed the railroad rate bill by the oraotloal- i ly unanimous rote of 71 to 3. T.ie three negative votes were cast by Senator Foraker, Republican, of Ohio and Senators Morgan and Pettus, j Democrats, of Alabama. There wa? a somewhat larger attendance of senators than ususal, but the at ten 1 dance In the galleries was by no J means abnormal, and there was no ! manifestation of any kind when the 1 result was announced. There was, ] however, an almost general sigh of relief among senators. The bill has J received more attention from the ' s.nate and from the oountry at large 1 than any measure that has been before congress since the repeal of the ' purchasing clause of the Sherman act tn 18P3. 5 SUMMARY Or T1IK MILL. } The prinoipal purpose of the rail- t road rato bill passed Thursday is to < permit the Interstate oommeroe com , mission to fix rates. The provision < conferring this authority Is found In i the fourth section of the bill and , amends section 16 of the interstate . commerce law so as to accomplish that result. That seotlons directs the | commission to Investigate complaints j of unjust and unreasonable charges on the part of oommon carriers In the transportation of persons or property or of regulations or of practices af- , feotlng such changes. It also authorizes an luqu ry as to whether the rates or practices are "unjustly dls crimlnatorv or undulv Dreferentlal or piejudiclal or otherwise 1" violation of the act, and In case any of these conditions are found to exist, the oorrmission is empowered to determine and prescribe what will be the Just and reasonable maximum rate and what regulation or practice Is Just, reasonable and fair. Further, authority In given the commission to enforce its orders and they are to go Into effeot within SO davs and continue in force for two years unless suspended, modified or set aside by the oommlsskn by a court of competent jurisdiction. Other powers conferred by this 8 colon are: to apportion joint fares, establish through routes and max lmum joint rates and prescribe theli division and to determine the compensation to be paid to shippers doing service for carriers. Section 16 cf the present law is so changed as to pro vide for an award of pecuniary damages to oomplainants found entitled and In case pa>ments are not promp tly made in accordance with this BaitrH t.ho hiinaflolarD <u untlnvrlioil ti\ w '? vt Viivy i/v/tivii V<?I j in uviuiiwiifiju wu file bult Id a Ualtid States circuit court to compel compliance. The findings of the commission is to be recclyed as prima facie evidence of the facts in such suits and the petitioner Is absolved from all liability for costs Another provision renders legal the service of the orders of the commls sion through the malls and provides that these orders shall take ?ffjot 30 days after service unlc&s suspended or modified by the commission or tuspended or set aside by the courts. A penalty of $5,000 for eaoh offense in dis obedience of the order is imposed, and the penalty is to accumulate at the rate of $5,000 a day in case of oontlnuous violation. Orders other than those for money payments are to be enforoed by the federal oourts through'wrlts of mandamus or lnjuno tion and in case of appeal to the supreme court, these cases are to be given precedence over all others except those of a criminal character. The bill was amended by the senate eo as to give the United States olr cult courts jurisdiction to entertain suits brought to annul or change the orders of the commission and also to provide against the granting of interlocutory decrees without hearings and making appeals from such orders direct to the supreme court. Other provisions extend the definition of the word "railroad" so as to make it include switches, spurs, tracks, terminal facilities, freight depots, yards and grounds and defines "transportation" so as to make it embrace oars and other facilities for shipment or carriage, "irrespective of ownership or of any contract," the Intention being to make the railroads responsible for all special oar service. It >s made the duty of carriers to furLish -uncial car service upon reasonai le r (Aue t. b.utiitt amendments include oil pipe lines, express companies and sleeping oar companies under the head of "common carriers" and make them amenable to the requirements of the bill. Other senate modifications prohibit the Issuance of passes or the granting of special favors to one class o( passengers over another, prohibit railroad oompanles from transporting commodities produoed by themselves; require oomblnes to put in switches at reasonable rcauest of shippers; prohibit the granting or acoeDtance of rebates, and reinstate the Imprisonment penalty for violation of the law. There Are aiso changes in the law relative to the reports to be required of oo mm on carriers, and a penalty of $100 a day is imposed for failure to cod ply with the report requirement. , flhd commission is given access to the aooounts of the companies affeot d by the act, but examiners are forbidden under penalty of heavy fine and long imprisonment from divulging ( be facte ascertained. Fines of 9500 or eaoh failure to keep proper ao* ount is provided. A falsification of ooouots is made punishable by fine n .nd Imprisonment. Circuit and distrlot oourts of the Jnlted States are given jurisdiction >ver all oomp alnts by the commission if failure to oomply with Its orders 0 md suoh oourts are required to issue ^ vrlts of mandamus compelllug such tompllance. fc KILLfcD H1M4&L1? * r ro Avoid Boln( Ar routed tor Bobbing ^ Ills Bank. a Irwin Tucker, president of the o Savings bank of Newport News, Va., t yimmltted suioide in his room over 8 :he baDk in Newport News Saturday. * lust as Chief of Polioo Reynolds of o [.hat olty opened his door to arrest Q itm upon a warrant oharging him . with defaulting in the sum of 910,000 Pucker heard Chief Reynolds ask a a aegro porter on the outside as to the n iooatlon cf his room and standing in E front of a mirror put a bullet through Q lis right temple as the door was thrown open. ? The first suspicion that Tucker was c i defaulter was received Saturday t morning in a note written by the d uioide himself. This note was found ^ ihortly after the doors of the bank were opened Saturday, It having been j; placed on the desk of oashler R. t Jarter Perkins Tucker admitted a that he was short in his accounts and 4 said if any attempt was made to arrest him he would commit suicide. Immediately the directors of the t bank were called together and a t hurried examination resulted in the fj issuance of the warrant. It was sus- C pected that Tucker had left Newport t News and the police of Norfolk and t other neighboring cities were asked to i look out for him. a r "U. I I J.. .V. 4. 4? 1_ _ vjLJici xvoyuuiuB i/iitju wKiiu wj m?Ke i an investigation of Tucker 8 bachelor apartmenis over the Savings bank, where the tragedy occurred. Antxaminatlon of the safety deposit boi in the Savings bank revealed the fact, that Tucker's life was insured for 30,000, whioh will oover all of his alleged defalcation. The Savings bank of Newport News was largely natronlz .d by the laboring classes of Newport News. President Tuoker was about 40 years of age. He wan the son of former Mayor John 8. Tucker of Norfolk, now a retired lawyer of Washington, D. C. Woman'* I'laoo. For hundreds of years woman was very much eircuinscribed in her sphere , 1 of usefulness. She had to trod along ] In the same old tracks that her moth- 1 ers had trod In or be astroclsed by so- ? clety. Our fathers thought their 1 wives and daughters just a little too J good and fine to come in contact with ^ the rough edge of the world, and hence j the circumscribed sphere in which our t women were allowed to move outside ] the home circle, where in every well < regulated family she reigned supreme. 1 Woman, in a general sense, was regarded as inferior to man in mental as well as physical strength. Our fathers were not altogether to blame for that. It came down to them from the ( days of Adam. lie did not have the chivalrous feeling for women that every true man should have, or he < never would have attempted to shield himself by casting the blaine of their 1 mutual sin on Eve, saying "It was J th woman Thou gavest me!" Adam was not only a coward, but an ungallant coward, or he never would ( have dodged behind Mother Eve's , ivt.t.v.cnnta in truinir tn oqvn hlmonlf |/VVVJ WU*VU lit \JA J Itlg fV OUIU IIIlUAUlli j Time has changed all that, we are i glad to say, and today woman is re- i garded as man's most intimate friend and safest counsellor, and if he were 1 asked who it was that inspired him to all that is noble, true and beautiful in this life, and with a hope of a better | life, in the world to come, he would answer as before, but this time with- i out the stain and shame of cowardly i equivocation, yet truthfully and joy- 1 ously, "It was the woman Thou gavest me." Woman, the grandest and noblest work of the Creator's hands, is | man's equal in every thing, and man s superior in many things. Teach your { KauO noA< h n ??o a ! ?/" *?ar? ?? ?-? '1 uv/joi luvuubiai tu iiv>uui aim icvere wo- j manhood, and thus inspire them toall i that is true and good. Promptly Declined. A dispatch from Washington says Senator Tillman has refusod to engage In public debate with Booker Wash lngton or even appear on the same platform with him. Managers of a spiritualists camp meeting at Anderson, lad., have arranged a nice little 1 symposium on the race question In < which they were to have participated. He sent the following telegram to the 1 managers: "I am Informed that ar- 1 rangements are being made for a debate between Booker Washington and < myself at your plaoe. So far as Wash 1 lngton following me is ooncerned, 1 1 don't care, but I will not meet him on 1 the platform. If It Is a negro equality 1 orowd that I am to talk to I prefer 1 canoelllng the engagement." The 1 manager wired an answer to the effect 1 that the plan to have Washington < present will be sbs.n^on?d, ] WantM to *o Hack. ] Col. J. 0. Haskell, of Columbia, i has announced himself as a candidate for the Senate from Rlohland County I on an anti-dispensary platform. Col. i Haskell Is a brother of Judge A. C. Haskell who lead the bolting lnde- , pendant movement against Tillman when he was first nominated for gov- ( wrnor. 1 V ?' TH1* AMD MOW. lepablloana Using Demooratlo Platlorm aa Their Own. Id 1806 the demooratlo oat loot onvention adopted a platform, one of he planks of which follows: 11 But for his decision by the supreme court the adverse decision on the Income ax) there would be no deficit In the evenue under the law passed by a lemooratlc congress in strlot purau* .nee of the uniform decisions of that ourt for nearly one hundred years, hat court having in that decision ustalned constitutional objections to ts enactment which was previously iverruled by the ablest Judge who had ver sat on that benoh. We deolare hat it Is the duty of congress to use ,11 the constitutional power which r nalns after that decision, or which nay come from Its reversal by the ourt as It may hereafter be constituted, so that the burdens of taxation nay be equally and Impartially laid, o the end that wealth may bear its lue proportion of the expenses of the [overnment." That plank was denounced bv re mblloan editors and republican ora iors, and democrats were oalled "anarchists" because they presumed to 'oritiolse the courts.'* The editorial remarks of the New fork Tribune mado after the election ?f 1896 were fairly representative of he tone employed by republicans generally in the treatment of the Ihioago platform, and particularly hat plank above quoted. The Tri)une said that the democratic move nent of 1896 was "a malicious oonipiraoy against the honor aud integrity of tlie nation," and added: "lis nominal head was worthy of he cause. Nominal, beoause the wretched, rattle pated boy, posing in rapid vanity and mouthing resound ng rottenness, was nottbe real leaner >f that league of holl. He was only a juppet in the blood-imbrued bands of , the anarobl8t, and , the evolutionist, and other desperadoes >f that stripe. But he was a willing puppet, Bryan wae, willing and eager Mot one of his masters was more apt han he at lies and forgeries and bias pheraies and all the nameless iniquities of that oampalgn against the Ten Jommandments. He goes down with the cause, and must abide with it in the history of infamy. He had less provocation than Benedict Arnold, ices intellectual force tnan Aaron burr, less manliness ind courage thar hff arson l)avls. He was the rival of them all in deliberate wickedness ana treason to the republic. His name oelongs with theirs, teither the mosl orilllant nor the most hateful in the [1st. Good riddance to it alt, to con ipir&oy and conspirators, and to the f >ul menace of repudiation and anarchy against the honor and the life of the rapubllo." On April 18, 19oO, Theodore Roose volt eleoted to the presidency oc the u tinea soaies as a repuDL'CiQ, sent to ongress a special message dealing particularly with the deotsiou of FedBra) Judge I. Otis Humphrey in the beef trust case. Mr. Roosevelt referred to the judgment In the beef trust case as "a ralsoarriige of justice." Mr. Roosevelt also said "1 can hardly believe that the rule cf Judge Humphrey will be followed by othei judges." Referring to the tendency if the times, Mr. Roosevelt said: ' The danger nowadays is, not thai Innocent men will be convicted of crime, but that the guilty man wil. n:o soott iree. This u especially the ease where the crime is one of green and cunning perpetrated by a man of wealth in the oourse or those business operations where the code of conduot Is at varianoe not merely with th< code of humanity and morality, but witb the code as established In the law of the land." Referring to Judge Humphrey's decision Mr. Riosevelt iald: "Such interpretation of the law comes measurably near making the law a faroe." The plank In the democratic national platform of 180<i for the adop lion of which democrats were denounced as anarchists is decidedly tame in comparison with the lan guage used by the president, elected as a repuoilcan, in oonmentlng upon the decision in the beef trust case. In 189fi democrats pointed in a mild way to the fact that ttc court's decision in the income tax case was out ot harmony with tne uniform decisions for nearly one hundred years, and ex pressed the hope, by Implication, that the ourt as thereinafter constituted might reverse the dechlon. J)ut Mr Rjosevelt was not at all mild In nlr? arraignment of Judge Humphrey's decision. "A miscarriage of justice he called it, and no added ' such interpretation of the law comes me as .... U1 . n... -1.4 1 a .. uiauiy ucai ujakiuk hue U?W aiarOQ." Yet some'jof the very lepublloan editors who la 1896 denounced &8 "an srohlsts" democrats who had Indulged In the very mild reference to the lu sooae tax deoislon are now enthusiastically commending the president of the United States, who was elected as i republican, for the plain language tie used when, in a special message to wngress, he condemned Judge Humphrey's decision. Recalling the terrible accusations made against them In 1896 bv the very men who are today "out Herodlng Herod," a democrat must vigorously plnoh blmseif to be assured that he Is not dreaming. An old physician once declared that half the sickness in the world was mused by "stuftiing" and the other lalf by "fretting." ' ^ *0 4 THE PLANET MERCURY. Ilk* V?bi and For Like Cbbm, It la Now a Dead World. Mercury Is a body devoid, practically If not absolutely, of air, of water and of vegetation. Consequently It Is Incapable of supporting any of those higher organisms which we know us living beings. Its surface Is a vast desert. It is rough rather than smooth. Whether this roughness bo due to mountains proper or to craters we are too far away from it to be able yet to say. The latter is the more probable. Over the greater part of its surface change either diurnal or seasonal Is unknown. Three-eighths of Its surface Is steeped in perpetual glare, three-eighths shrouded In perpetual gloom, while the remaining quarter slowly turns between the two. The planet Itself, as a world. Is dead. Interesting ns Mercury thus proves to be, the Interest as regards the planet Itself Is of a rather corpselike character. Less deterrent perhaps is the interest It possesses as u part of the life history of the solar system, for tidal friction, the closing act In the cosmic drama, has brought It where it Is. The machine has run down. Whether It ever supported life upon Its surface or not, the power to do so has now forever passed away. Like Venus and for like cause, It Is now a dead world. And It was the first thus to reach the end of its evolutionary career, earlier to do so than Venus, inasmuch as tidal action was very much greater upon it than on Venus and consequently produced Its effect more quickly. Mercury has long been dead. How long, measured by centuries, wo cannot say. but practically for a vory long time. Venus must have become 8o comparatively recently. Both, however, now have finished their course and h tve In u most literal sense entered Into their rest. SEEING SICILY. Not to Know This I?lan?l In Not to Know Greece. There are some lands which have always laid a spell upon the mind, upon the imagination, upon the heart. Greece, above all other countries, has entranced the mind. The Imagination has ever loved tlio east?Egypt, the Indies, forgotten Asia, the almost as mysterious Asia of today. For most of us the home land Is the country of the heart; for many, It may be, It Is Palestine, where was lighted the fire at which the hearts of Incalculable millions are still warmed. Others are content to say with Emerson in the fine essay on "Heroism," "That country Is the fairest which is Inhabited by the noblest minds." But, above all other lands, there Is one which has at once impressed the mind, the imagination and the heart of western peoples. When a famous poet declared that on his heart would be found engraved the word Italy the words voiced the emotion of a multitude in every country of Europe and in the great northern continent oversea. To see Sicily, the old "Garden of the Sun," as the poets have loved to call It, i Is not to see Italy, though there may be a measure of truth in Goethe's remark that not to know Sicily is not to know Italy. In a sense one might more truly say of Sicily that not to know it is not to know Greece. In nnother sense, however, we have In this most beautiful of Islands the lntensifiontion of Italy. Whatever Is most Italian is in evidence here, though it Is Italian of the south and not of the north. What a gulf divides them is known only to those familiar with the whole peninsula.?William Sharp in Century. "nalla" Not Irish. Those who arc not Irishmen sometimes trespass on Irish property. A | French cure, preaching about sudden .death, said, "Thus it is with us?we go to bed well and get up stone dead!" An old French lawyer writing of an estate he had just bought added, "There is a chapel upon it iu which my wife and I wish to he buried, if Clod spares our lives." A merchant who died suddenly left in his bureau a letter to one of his correspondents which he had not sealed. Ills clerk, seeing it necessary to send i the letter, Wrote at the bottom, "Since writing the above I have died." A SriiHinpnl and an Antoarnph. A certain young lady, so the story runs, wrote to F. Marion Crawford, the novelist, requesting that he send llOP 11 hit nf Ront linniil ' n n/1 1,1a f, i,f/-V graph. The reply was: Pear Miss A.?When you request a favor that Is of interest only to yourself, please inclose a two cent stamp. There's your sentiment, and here's your autograph. P. MARION CRAWFORD. ?Collier's Weekly. A Simple Precaution. Landlady (of country Inn on the eve of a popular holiday to her daughter, who is kneading the dough for a cake) ? Itesei, you'd better put a couple of eggs and a hit of butter into the cake. It looks as If we were going to have a storm, and If the townsfolk don't stir out tomorrow we shall have to eat It ourselves.?From the German. lAngnnve. Language is a solemn thing. It growa out of life?nut of its agonies and ecstasies, its wants and its weariness. Every language is a temple In which the soul of those who speak It is enshrined.?O. W. Holmes. Feminine Fineane. Duffer?My wife got a flver out of me today with one happy remark. Puffer? Let's have it. Duffer?She told our boy Willie that she was his nearest relative, but that I was his closest.? Indianapolis Star. Every day is a new life, every sunrise but a new birth.?Jordon. ' ^ f .O SAVED BY COURAGE. An Exciting Adventure With n Mnort Chieftain. ^ Mr. Itecke, the uuthor of "Notes \ From My South Sea Log," tells of his a tutor, who seemed to him the most u heroic man In the world because he ^ had been through the tirst Maori war (] and because of an adventure which ^ there befell him, und which ?s given as follows: Poor Guy?such was the tutor's name 11 ?was a lieutenant, and he and two ^ companies were captured by the e Maoris. They were taken Inside the p stockade, and the chief, taking up one o of the captured seamen's cutlasses, felt r its edge and then fixed his keen eyes (j on the young officer's face. "I shall not harm these two men of yours," he said slowly. "They shall go safely back to your lines If"? He ' paused, and a grim smile distorted his tattooed face. 1 "If what?" asked Guy calmly. i: "If you will stretch out your right a hand so that I may cut it off at the ^ wrist swiftly, no further harm shall ^ come to you, and you, too, shall go free." "Will you keep your word?" "Aye. I, Te Atua Wera. am no liar." Guy nodded, quietly took off his cout 1 and held out his left baud. n "Strike," he said. r The chief again smiled. "Thou art 1 as cunning as thou art brave. I said j the right hand." r Guy let fall his left and extended his ^ right arm. Te Atua Wera stepped , hack a pace, raised the cutlass?and struck the point of it into the ground. 0 Then he bent forward and gravely ' rubbed noses with Guy, e "Go," he said, "hut come hack no 1 more." So Guy and the two sailors t were allowed to return to Despard's u lines unharmed. r SHORT LIVED DOCTORS. v DlnfMfii Which Are Mo*< Dentil r < ^ (he lMcdlcnl 1'rofeMNlon. The diseases which claim the most U victims nraoiiK physicians relatively to ^ nil mules are gout and dialnites, and v there is a high relative mortality from t diseases of tlx? nervous system, clreula- j tory system and kidneys, says the Bel- j eutiflc American. From the nuture of his habits the n physician is not subject to accidents, and, though he is brought into contact with Infection to a greater extent than c other men, his preventive means are & successful and his mortality from in- 0 feet ion is very low. Freedom from pro- longed muscular strains and high blood ^ tension apparently saves him from u arteriosclerosis; but suicide claims ^ many and so do the drug nubits ac- . quired by the nervously exhausted. It has been said that three-fourths of J French morphine users are physicians. The cause of the physician's early death is evidently the excessive nerv- v ous expenditure, insufficient rest and defective nutrition, inseparable from s his calling, with its broken and restrict- ^ e?l sleep, irregular hours of work, rest and meals and worry when lives depend upon his Judgment and the lack a of a day of complete relaxation In each \ week. The physician who sees his pa- I tients every day in the week, month r alter month, and cannot learn to forget 1 them when be goes home merely burns c the candle at both ends. He violates c the law observed by every animal, that c there shall be short periods of moder- ^ ate exertion Interrupted by longer periods of rest when repairs are made. It , is not too much work as a rule, but ^ cattered work, which prevents rest. a I I.oiik Speecheii. f Much merriment has been caused by 0 the discovery that In the Egyptian "Book of the Dead" an ancient declared he had "not iulllcted long lectures" on his hearers, but this Is curiously match- e ed hy a plea for his soul uttered by 1 Hugh Grove (loyalist) at his execution ' May 10, 10t>5 (Vol. 3, Thurloe's Col- t lections): "Good people, I was never r guilty of much rhetorick, nor ever loved p long speeches in my life, therfore you j cannot expect either of them at my fj death. All I desire is your hearty j prayers for my soul," etc. In view of the Egyptian discovery e this seems a very close second for Eug- (' land.?London Notes and Queries. b e Our Flmt CoIun. ) The first coins really deserving the name o. United States coinage were ^ struck off as "pattern pieces" by Ben- j jamin Dudley at the instigation of Itdhert Morris and were laid before congress in 1783 as specimens of what 0 the coinage should bo. They were a b "mark" and a "quint" and thus de- t scribed: The "mark"?obverse; an eye, C the center of a glory, 13 points cross Jl equidistant n circle of as many stars. e The "quint" is similar in design, the ^ value on reverse being noted. <i Care far IIyi?o<*lion<lrlH. y A young lady of Cardiff who fancied 1 lie was ailing went to the surgery of ii the family doctor and commenced the interview with. "Doctor. I'm dying." "Oh, indeed, I can recommend a very respectable undertaker," blandly responded the doctor. She felt quite well 1 after that.?Cardiff Mail. ii Oar SnrroandlnffR, Even the strongest of us are not be- 1 yond the reach of our environment. No matter how independent, strong " willed and determined our nnture, wo ^ are constantly being modified by our J1 surroundings.?Success Magazine.' Everytlilnfc Retnmed, ^ "Are you beginning to get any re- ^ turns from your literary work?" ^ "Yes, Indeed. I'm not getting any- ^ thing else."?Kansas City Times. v v Oh, what men dare do. what men may do, what men dally do. not knowing what they do!?Shakespeare. P c -- )' : ' ( ' Keep tbe Record Stralgbt, A short time ago the Connecticut Association ' f ex-Union Prisoners of V adopted a resolution protesting gainst the proposition to build a moniment toCapt. Wirz, the commandant luring the war of the prison at Anlersonville, Ga., where thousand Fedral soldiers were contintd. The propsition to build the monument origilated witli the Georgia Daughters of he Confederacy. The Connecticut x-prlsoners protests against the "perpetuating or thus honoring the name f one than whom history lails to eeord.a more maligant tiend;" and leclares that "at this time, when the titter memories of the past have been oftened by the lapse of years, it can ^ te productive of no good to our united 1 ountry to endeavor to drag from ob- f ivion the name of the blackest and nost infamous character in history, ,nd thus to attempt to rebuild seeional liris between the North and South,las this project, if carried into fTect, would most surely accoinpish." As t he News and Courier says it dees tot matter to Capt. Wirz whether a nonument is erected*i6,his memory or tot. It would not add anything to lis glory or take anything away from lis reputation. He has been cruelly nisrepresented and he paid the penaly of his life at a time of great popuar madness for his faithful discharge if duty. He is called a "malignantlend." a "murderer," and "the blackst and most infamous character in listory;" and a monument must not te erected in his honor. But a moniment has been built to General SherII!) |i t llO m !1 tl mlift /lirl nrtf 1 ? V..V/ n.iu U1U IIVJU Ullljf IUISreat Drisoners.but made relentless var upon defenceless women and chilIreri.fc . r . ^Thirty years ago Bfjjflfcdl, of Oeoria, ?made' !aTspeech in the United itates Senate at Washington, in vhich'he reviewed the unhappy hisory of Andersonville and placed the dame for theh,errible sufferings of the federal prisoners there precisely vhere it belonged, upon the Federal uthorities at Washington. The federal Government made medicine ontraband of war?"I am not aware, aid Mr. Dill, "that any other nation n the earth did such a thing before -not even the Duke of Alva, sir." Vhen "the Confederate Government inable to produce medicine, according o its right under the laws of nations t undertook to run the blockade and ts ships were captured and its medclnes taken. When it was suspected that the vomen of the North "would ciury lUinineJand other medicines of that ort so much needed by the Federal irisoners'ln the South. Federal otlleers vere charged to capture the women nd examine their petticoats, to keep hem from carrying medicines to Oonederate soldiers and to Federal prisoicrs, and they were imprisoned." The federal ^Government made clothing ontraband of war, and refused to exhange prisoners with Abe Confederacy >11 the ground that the exchanged Confederates would only strengthen ho fnrnno* r\f 4 tin ?.. J ? 1 1 ...? HIV iv/1VV/O^v/i iiic ciiumy iii one Tit 1CI. Phe fact is the Federal authorities,, bandoned their soldiers who had falen into Confederate hands to their ate and hanged Wirz because of their iwn cruelty to their own people. In spite of their heartless ^desertion their soldiers who were in Confedrate prisons, the facts show that here was less morality among the federal prisoners in Confederate hands han there was among the Confederates who were contlned in Northren irisons. In the report of Mr. Edwin A. Stanton, the Secretary of War unler Mr. Lincoln, made on the 19th of uly, 1866, he showed that of the Fedral prisoners in Confederate hands, luring the war only 22,576 died, while f the Confederate prisoners in Fedral hands 26,436 died. In round numicrs, according to the report of Sureon General Barri^, there were 220,00Confedeiate prisoners in Federal tands and 270.000 Federal prisoners in Confederate h. nds 22,000 died, while f the 220,000 Confer crates in Federal lands over 26,000 died. The ratio Is his. More than 12 per cent of the Confederates in Federal hands died, nd less than 0 per cent of the Fedrals in Confederate hands d ed* This aye The News and Courier, is the ecord and it condemns the North utterly and forever. Hut the war is over nd we must let it go. If anybody vants to build a monument to Capt* Virz, let him build it. It will do no larm. Oovtiri.umnt Mftua It may not W*known to some of ).ir Folks that the Government of no United States is making a minite survey of the entire country, and i issuing complete and accurate naps of the parts surveyed?including every road, every farmhouse, very cottage, creek, together with vater shed and elevation;?and that* hese maps are for sale, so far aa irlnted, at a merely nominal prloe?a ew cents eaoh. The person to write 4 i ? u ior lmormation is Ohas. D. Walott, director of the United State leological Survey, Washington, D. ). It may be that youi partioular elghborhood has not yet been sureyed and map|>kd, but perhaps it is; ?e have tnlrt von bow to flr?r< out. Some people ask your advice for the urpose of working it off on others as iriginal matter.