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CW K D N N )A 7 tL GREENBACK LEADERS. --0 8 0ArIETHING An30UT IRNDLfBoN, ALLEN AND EWING. "Gath" Sketches the Henchmen of the Greenback Giant and Mentions SMal ler Fry--Reminiscences of the Period When the Giant was Nothing More Than a Rag Baby. [ Lbrresponlence qf (he New YUrk imh1es.3 George Pendleton is a singular compound of tihe Southerner in bearing with the Yankee in business. The latter qualities lie gets from his mother's family, the Hunts, of New Jei soy, who alone left him anything. The Pendle6on's, were Virginians, who were, as Federalists, sent to Georgia early in the history of the State, and there Pendleton's father was born. His grandfather wias the second of Alexa.der Hamilton at Weehawken when Burr accomplish - ed his revengo. Old folks in New York say it is the tradition that Hamilton was sacrificed to the mis taken ardor of his second, who BMW ought to have seen that by a duel Burr risked nothing but his worth less life and gained a full revenge, while Hamilton risked infience and happiness and laid his life upon the miserable altar of the duello. Pen dleton, says tradition, should have seen that Hamilton meant to throw away his fire and Burr meant to murder. Yet the second, perneat Od with the silly vanity of courage, brought the statesman 3n hsitating ly into the presence of the assassin. Crossed witi the quiet, acquisitive stock of the North Jerseyman, the son of Pendleton has become a diplomatic and cordial yet somewhat subtle compound of the knight and the trader, and the ideal of a per soial "difficulty" has never crossed his mind. On several occasions, it was told, when Pendleton's friends were incensed at Tom Hendricks for selling Pendleton out to Sy Inour at Now York, Dan Voorhees -filled himself with grog and resent - ment and started out to find Pen dleton and whip him. Voorhees used to tell how he appeared at Pendleton's lodgings or office ready to do insult, and on the oponmg of the door a hospitable face appeared, and on it a most lovely smile, over beaming an extended hand, "Come in, Dan ; we'll have a drink, old fellow 1" The rougher nature gave way at once, and the finer one never knew he had been in danger. "I have seen Pendleton full as a gnat," said his paternal friend, "and lie never ceased to be the gentleman. Articulation might be next to gone, but the bearing was the gentle man's. It never crossed his mind that he could become the subject of a h6stile message, and all fighting is foreign to him. Although liberal in entertainment, he is the devil for business. The idea of his robbing the Bowler family is absurd, for they and Pendleton own the Ken tucky Central Railroad, wvhich Pena dleton is trying to keep together to pr1event two spendthrift members from scattering the pro- *rty. P.endleton has grown gray serving his family. Ul9PR1OFITADLE DAYS IN oHIo0. George Pondleton was about to appear before the Democratic Na.. tional Committee in 1898 with every prospect of a nomination. Four years before he had inn for Vice-President behind McClellan. His friends knew that, while he had railroad property and real estate, he was without ready money and would be in need of it for. hospitality, headquarters, rent, etc. Fourteen of those gentlemen of Cincinnati Subscribed $1,000 each (or $14,000 in all), and sent it to Mr. Pendleton with their compliments and without his suggestion or expetation. The Convention passed away and the! indomitable Vallandigham saw his rival's plume trailed in the dust, which arose at the cheering of Sey mour's name. Had Vallandigham been the candidate and the recipient of the p)resent, no more would have been heard of the money, for Val. was famous for ten cent collections on the system of Kearney. and died i11 sp)angled with alms. Pendleton, however, sent each of his donors a beautiful autograph letter of thanks, .and enclosed in each a bill for $1,000. They all respect him now, but McLean and some others think he is too fond of aristocratic society and of the pursuit of family inde pondence, and they accuse him of having stated at Nashville that the Greeniback issue had been overdone. "1PendIeton," said Washivuton Mc Lean, about a year ago, "you and I don't belong to the same party." Meantime John McLean, son of the old manager, pays very little att ention to his father's hobby, ex cept incidentally to accede to it. "IL don't publishi a Greenback paper," he says. crisply. "I give all the news. Here'a the bill of fare you can find anything on it from soup to raisins." George Pendleton always mcets an opponent more than half way; he has many kinds of property and is the director of a bank, formerly national, which has changed its charter, however. The Greenback scheme has cheated every politician in Ohio who ever sought to tarn it to per sonal advantage. Pendleton took up originally that branch of the scheme which as.rted the inten tion of the five-tventy bond act to be the payment of their intorost in greenbacks. Hon. Edward Mc Pherson, of Pennsylvania, told me in 1867 that it was the correct view, and the payment of the interest in gold an assunption and an after thought. If McPherson has for gotten it, I have not. He said it to me in the o:ice of the Clerk of the House of Representatives. John Sherman winked at the same view in 1876-7, in order to beat the Democrats at a Congressional elec, tion. Sherman seems to have no conscience at all on the money subject, and it is equally strange that such a weak creature as Hayes should have been the hero of the battle which whipped Bill Allen, and appeared, for a time, to have Rettled the Greenback controversy. General Garfield said to me, however, returning from that campaign "Nothing is more delusive than that the Greenback chimera is buried; it has enough vitality to give us trouble for years to come." ALLEN AND EWING. Bill Allen was in high dudgeon with his nephew, Allen Thurman, for failing to give him stalwart assistance with the greenback ques, tion and support him for the Presi dency in 1876. Allen is a rich farmer and herder, with a voice like a herald. He is dogged enough to believe the greenback gospel fully. Ton Ewing is inferior in the world. ly sagacities to all these men. He is just ignorant enough to go furth or than any of them. There is plenty of him about the whole school. Allen, Pendleton and Ewing are liberal men in wish and action. Thurman is selfish; and is accused of being- a social toady, yet his ability is so superior, being broad, based and rooted in the law, that he is the greatest acquisition the Greenbackers have yet made, and has got a long way the start of his compeers on the Presidency. Like Saul, of Tarsus, who persecuted the Christians, he now takes precedence of the Greenbackers at kingly seats, and McLean says lie will be nomi nated for the Presidency, unless Tom Ewing and others get up a row and Butler slips in. Pendleton, also, is inclined to take up his ser vices for St. Greenback. In point of hero -worship every one of these men must defer to B3utler, who possesses the Rupert qualities, as Kearney says. Tom Bayard is coming into p)romninence as the only anti-Greenbacker who is not scared worth a cent. Perhaps, as Ben Willis told me last night, the ticket of the future will be Butler against Bayard. _______ A JUDoE WVHo UTs ON AIRs. - Judge Beck even carried his whim of p)rofessional propriety so far as to prohibit swearing in court, and is said to have fined a lawvyer who swore at a witness during his cross examination. Another peculiarity of this judge is a dislike of seeing attorneys, when arguing a case before him, pass around a bottle of whiskey, and he is said to be violent ly opposed to lawvyers treating the jury to drinks while a trial is in progress. Judge Beck is said to have violated common decency by refusing to proceed with a case until the attorneys engaged in it should put out their pipes ; and a community once rose in indignation when he ordered a lawyer to move his feet from the judge's desk. C7hicago Legal ew. Senator Jones, of Nevada, al though a popular man with both parties, is having considerable diffi oulty in bringing about his re-ele-., tion. The great trouble with Jones is that, although he is rich, there are other men much richer than he desirous of senatorial honors for a week or so, in order to accomplish which they have to take the whole term. TiE SUFFERING IN THE SOUTH. The yellow fever is steadily do. creasing in tho South, in spito of spasmodio returns of its fatal enor gy at a few points, but the need for relief is still very nearly as urgent Ps ovor. As Secretary McCrary says in his letter to Mayor Latngdon Pof Detroit : "At all afflicted 1)oints save Now Orloans and Memphis, the suffering and want aro great, and I think increasing ; and1 oven in those citios tmjore help may be requircd in tho near future. You can searcely go amiss in sending aid." This i's only too true, for the disorganiza tion of society and industry is not less droadful than the pestilence itself. The suffering and misery of the poor are made worse by this I disorganization and by the death of so many strong men, whose fainlies are now helpless and not able to support themselves Business is in a stato of stagnation, work often cannot be found, the fever has in many cases paralyzed the impulse of industry, and these causes will continue to unsettle affirs and aggravato the public distress for many weeks after the pestilence disappears. As Mr. MeOrary well says, "you can scarley gv amiss in sending aid."- lttinore Sun. How THEy MARRY AT RENO.-Judge Richardson doesn't pretend to be a parson, and therefore isn't as well up in the marriage ceremony as the slimy supporters of a decaying hierarchy are. The young couple stood up before him the other even ing, and the judge inquired in a cross-questioning tone of the groom: "Are you a citizen of the United States ?" The groom took hold of the waist band of his trousers and tugged, saying : "I voted for Tilden, Judge." "Why, James !" faintly exclaimed the blushing creature by his side. "It's a fact, Emmer," protested James rather indignantly, and glar ing at the Judge. His Honor coughed and demand ed severely : "Do you, sir, as a citizen of Nevada, and a lawful voter of Reno, solemnly declire tbat you will for sake all other evils and cleave to this one ?" "I've money to bet on it," ro, sponded the groom, growing pale, but placing his arm around the waist of thle shrinking bride. "Then," cried the Judge, bringing his fist down on his desk, "God has joined you togotbor and -- the man that puts you asunder. The fee is just what you like to give, young follow." it was pretty liberal, and the court sot them up and kissed the now wife several times besides. Reno Gazette. TRETING.-"Treating" is defined by the Canadian election law as "the giving or providing, or paying wholly or in part any expenses in curred for any meat, drink, refresh ment, or provision to or for any person, in order to be elected, or for being elected. or for the pur'poso of corruptly influoin cinag such person, or any other person to give or re frain from giving his vote at such election," and is made punishable by a fine of two hundred dollars. A similar p)enalty attaches to brie bery, which includes whether the promise is intended to be kept or not. Furnishing vehicles .o 'bring voters to the polls is likewise made illegal. How THEY SERvE REPORTERS IN GERMANY. -An interesting case is up before the courts of Berlin. A paper printed some news that the authorities believed could only have boon communicated to it by a clerk in th)e postoffico department, and in violation of his oflicial oath. The department investigated the matter and summoned the reporter, wvho de clined to say where he had obtained his information. The reporter was thereupon clapped into prison, and there the courts have decided he must remain till he has answered the question or it has been .with drawn by the department. SPECIAL NEws FROM SoU'TH AMER-. CA.-The elections in the United States of Colombia have just closed peacefully, and the regular revolu tion is being organized without any alarm or trouble. The new Presi dent will be shot to-morrow and tranq~uility will be restored. The peope ofSantandor have just adopted r.esolutions expressing their esteem for and confidence mn the old P'resident whom they shot yes., terday. There is no interruption to business.-Burlington llawokeye. Subscribe to TzzE NEWs. AND HP1MALD.. Song of the choose: "Will you lovo me when I mould ?" Prof. Elliot, of the Treasury Do partment, computes the population of this country at forty-eight mil lions. Emperors are nervous nowadays. A man was arrested in Vienna for attempting to throw a harmless bundle into the imporial carriage. "I havo somewhere pawned my wdding ring for drink," is an ad vertisement in a German paper. "The holder will pleaso send me his address." Grifflin, Georgia, young ladies carry a piece of wax in their pockets at all times, so that they will be "heolod" for any dance that may occur. Bob Toombs says that "the jack asses in Georgia will elect old Alex. Stophons to Congress as long au he lives, and after his death will elect his administrator." Webb Hayes' Fremont girl lives two miles out of town, and many a Sunday night has Webb-footed it out there to see the little duck. Vincinnatti Saturday Night. A Boston Democratic ex-mayor says of the political prospect, that it's pretty much as it is when he buys his whiskey-he "hopes for the best, but is prepared for the worst." Tennyson is an incessant smoker. He uses a clay pipe of the old;fash ion, with a stem a yard long, and smokes common Virginia pigtail tobacco. He never uses a pipo the second time. The Burlington Ilawkeye says that the "grand old Republican party" is for "honesty in public dealing." Does our highly re spected contemporary allude to faro dealing ?-Atlanta Constitution. None but a mother, tender and loving of heart, who has just traded her husband's $27 overcoat for a sixty-five cent image of "Samuel at Prayer" can realize the Congress man's love for his coutry. The man Fvho declaims against the railroads and says they have ruined the country, and ought to be wiped out, makes the biggest kind of a fuss when the train is ten minutes late. "You have not soon much service in the field, I believe, Colonel," re marked a Chicago woman to Fred Grant. "No," replied Fred, "but whenever I put on a. pair of pa's spurs I feel just as good as if I had." In the State of Alabama the no groes chew the tassel of the fir tree instead of tobacco, and seem quite pleased with the substitute. Well, does not the old adage say, "Bo fir-chewers and you will be happy" ? A young man and his sweetheart created such a commotion in Water. town, N. Y., the wook of the fair, by ridling about town, he with his arm about her waist, and she throwv ing kisses at the throngs that fol lowed, that the chief of police threatened them. The Poetoffice Department has ruled that a husband has no control over the correspondence of his wife. But this decision will not provent a man from carrying his wife's letter in the inside coat pocket three weeks b)eforo mailing it.-Norris town iierald. Certainly, the size of families, from wvhatever cause, has been greatly rneduced in this country dur ing the present generation. Where there used to be eight, nine and ten children, there are now not more than two, three or four at most, two being what may be called the regular number. Into the store of Al. Wilkin who "sells hoots and shoes" stepped a girl who is visiting friends here. "How high do thme numbers of your ladies' shoes run 1" she asked. "Seventeen," replied Mr. Wilkin. The angel sighed wearily, dropped into a chair and hold out her foot. "Build me a last," she said.-llawk.. eye. A boy gave his teacher this illus' tr ativo definition of responsibility : "Boys has two, buttons for their s'penders so's to keep their pani.s up. .When one' button comes off, wh,y there's a good (1eal of responsi-. bihty on the other button." A. W. Strange, Esq., Lynchburg, Va., writes: "I use Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup regularly for a tickling cough,at night. It gives relief and nuts me to sleep. 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