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E BH1.WE SCT SA) 13,'11 P $0. ESTAB-LISHED 11865. -N.-VERx,SC,THURSDAY, A-UGUS SHACKLING JEFFERSON DAVIS. 0 The Officer Who Did It Describes How It Was Done. [From the Leavenworth Times.] t The following letter was received by r an ewployee of the Times from his father, an(' is of such interest that we give it to the public: ROANOsE, S. D., July 4- P My DEAR SoN: There has been much t said and written about Jefferson Davis 9 in relation to putting fetters on him at Fortress Monroe, Va. Some state ments are in part true and others are false, and some say he never was u shackled. u On the morning of May 23, 1865, I was detailed as officer of the day, and after guard mount I reported to Gen. n Nelson Miles for special orders in re gard to the three State prisoners, Jef Z5 0 ferson Davis, C. C. Clay, and John Mitchell, who were confined in separate gun-rooms or casemates, the embras ures of which were closed with heavy b iron bars looking out on the moat or a ditch, which is about sixty feet wide. The first room or casemate had but g one door and two large windows facing* the inside of the fort. The gunroom d d had two doors leading in from the casemate. Thesc were closed by heavy s iron grated doors and locked with pad- t locks, and at each door in the gun room with the prisoner were two sen- r tinels with loaded muskets, and in the casemate were two more sentinels and y officers of the guard, all of which were under lock and key, the officer of U the day having charge of the keys. 0 The guard was relieved every two hours, and that could only be done in t] 0, the presence of the officer of the day. h The windows of the casemate were also grated with iron bars. The pris oners occupied every other gunroom, and the guards not on duty the inter vening ones. There was a special guard mounted of eighty men for those three prisoners, and the commandant of the fort could L not give any orders of any kind to that E special guard; in fact, he could not come within its lines. There were four 15 sentinels on the parapet overhead, four r4 on the glacis beyond the ditch, and E six in the fort in front of the casemates. 3 The above statement is just as I found e things the day that Davis was shackled. a I reported to Gen. Miles as the new officer of the day. The General said " he had special orders for me as to Jeff a Davis. Having heard it rumored that n morning that Davis was to be put in is irons I sad4aUph-_General: "I thi 4 I can guess what it is, General." "Well, h what is it, Captain ?" "To put irons on V Davis. He said : "That is it." I said: s< "When do you wish it done ?" He o said: "The irons are not ready." Then a] I said: "Had we not better put them ir on toward evening ?" He said "Yes," P and I could send .ny orderly to the a, blacksmith's and have him meet me at aS tbat time with the leg irons, and at fl the same time he (Gen. Miles) showed te me part of a letter he had from Secre.- 01 tary Stanton, in which he said that if W he thought the safety of Davis required st it, he could put irons on Davis, or B words to that effect. The matter was T left optional with Gen. Miles as to sc whether Davis should be put in irons o1 or not. Just before the sundown relief I sent fo my orderly out for the blacksmith to meet me with the leg ironsat casemate. re Soon after I went down I found the SI smith and his helper there. I then un- s locked the door and told the guard to H let them pass that is, smith and hel- bi per. St As I entered the gunroom Davis was 31 sitting on the end of his c,>t or hospital li( bed reading his Episcopal Prayer Book, w: and as he looked up, I said: "Mr. ch Davis, I have an unpleasant duty to in execute." At the same moment seeing the blacksmith with the irons, he said!: Ci '.You do not intend to put fetters on M1 me ?" I '.;id : "Those are my orders." ro He said : "Those are orders for a h slave and no man with a soul in him to would obey such orders." I then 31 s idd: "Those are my orders." Mr. be Davis said : "I shall never submit to th such an indignity." He then asked m if Gen. Miles had given that order. hI Mv answer -:as in the affirmative. He of said he would like to see G3en. Miles. I ce rep)lied that the General had just left ne the fort. Davis then asked that the to execution of the order be postponed, St and I should telegraph to the Presi- hc dent in his name, I said : "Mr. Davis, Or you are an old soldier and know what rie orders are. It is .needless to say that "s5 an officer is bound to execute an order ele given him." Davis said it was obvious of that there could be no necessity for bri such an order to make his imprison- pri ment secure. I said : "My duty is to on execute this order, and it is folly for ] you to resist." Davis's answer was do thiat he was a soldier, and he knew ref how to die, and, pointing to a senti- bu nel, said : "Let your men shoot me at ab once." en A few moments after that he placed his foot on a stool; his ouiet manner Ma led me to think he would not resist. I thi then said : "Smith, do your work." hii As the blacksmith stooped to place the the clasp of the shackle around his the ankle Davis struck him a violent blow th< that threw him on the floor. He re- wr covered and at once made for Davis tio: with his vise and hammer, and would to I have struck hi:n if I had not caught cor his arm as he was in the act ofstriking. thi A moment after that I saw Davis and hit one of the sentineis struggling, both th: having h.ld of the musket, Davis just to below the shank of the bayonet. The Ifor next instant the sentinel had wrenched beE the musket from Davis's hands. I then at ordered the soldier to his post and re- Iof iw there would be trouble, so I rdered the officer of the guard to go ut and get four of the best men of the uard with outside arms and have aem reDort to me at once. A few iinntes afterward four stalwart sol iers made their appearance. I said: Men, I wish you to take Mr. Davis, -th as little force as possible, and lace him on th-,t cot, and hold him iere till the smith is through with his -ork." As the men advanced Davis struck 2e first or foremost man, but all four istantly closed on him and shoved im on the cot. Davis showed unnat ral strength ; it was all the four men >uld do to hold him while the black nith riveted the clasp around his an le, his helper holding a.sledge ham ier. The other clasp was locked on ith a brass lock the same as is in use a freight cars. I ordered the men to ieir quarters, and as they passed out avis lay perfectly motionless. Just ; I was going out Davis raised from is cot and threw his feet on the floor, ad with the clanging of the chains he ive way. I will say here that it was aything but a pleasant sight to me to -e a man like Jefferson Davis shed ing tears, but not one word had he to ty. Two hours after I called to relieve ie guard and found Davis lying on his )t. I said: "Mr.. Davis, you can't ,.t well that way ; if you will give me our word of honor that you will give o more trouble in this matter: I will ilock the shackles so you can take T your clothing." "Captain, I assure )u thel-e will be no more trouble. I ien unlocked the shackles, he taking T his clothing, and locked it again imself. JEROME TITLOW, Late Captain Third Pennsylvania egiment, Artillery. "Civis's" Reply to )r. Macuue. To the Editor of The Herald and ews: I have read in the Xational conomist, of August 1, Dr. Macune's most ungentlemanly" (to use his own ,nguage) and vituperative reply to a cent article of mine published in The erald and News as well as in the ews and Courier. The Doctor was idently very mad when he wrote it, d had laid aside, for the time be ig at least, those excellent traits as a Dhristian gentleman," which we are 5sured he possesses. At this we are >t greatly astonished, for the criminal apt t'.. ..ink very badly of the detec w,yeiho hunts him-dowand rings m to bay. Hence Doctor Macune's ry poor opinion of U. S. Hall, of Mis uri, of Mr. McAllister, of Mississippi, Mr. Mcrath, of Kansas, of "Civis" id others who have been instrumental exposing his venal transactions with at. Calhoun in Georgia. I would k you to republish his article entire, illustrative of the character of the an who has been proved guilty of at mpting to sell out the Alliance to one Jay Gou 's railroad attorneys, and hom, notwithstanding, our farmers ill persist in following so blindly. ut I think so respectable a paper as de Herald and News would object to iling its columns with such a tirade 'calumny and vulgar personal abuse: a field in which I have no thought of lowing him myself. My article, be it remembered, was in ply to an editorial of Dr. J. Win. okes in the Cotton Plant, in which I owed, not by the evidence of Mr. all or other enemies of Dr. Macune, it by the admissions of both Dr. okes and Mr. Latimer, both Dr. acune's defenders, and both I be ye members of the famous Ocala 2itewashing committee, that the arges against Dr. Macune were true every particular. Dr. Stokes says in his editorial, "Mr. lhoun had the money to loan; Dr. acuine wanted to borrow, he did bor w of MAr. fClhoun, (sic); and neither nor Mr. Latimer, both in a position know, and both anxious to screen iune, pretend to deny that he did th borrow the money and receive e free railroad pass over the Rich )nd Terminal system. Could we ye str')nger or more positive evidence Dr. Macune's guilt? Then, after re ving these personal pecuniary favors, did, as is notorious, all in his power get Calhoun elected to the United ites Senate, thus showing that Cal un, though a young man, like old kes Ames, of Credit Mobilier noto ty, knew where to put his money > it would do most good." My arti was a mere sifting of the testimony others, so to speak; and this was in ef what it established. I have not ~tended to know anything of my n_ personal knowledge. n his very ill-na;ured reply Macunei as not pretend to deny or attempt to ute anything whatever in my article; t confines himself to low vulgar lse of "Civis," as if that wvere his ire stock in trade. ell, now, I would like to inform Dr. Ecune that abuse from such a man as s Georgia transaction has proved n to be, does not in the least disturb mental equanimity of "Civis." On contrary "Civis" is rather proud of enemy he has made, and~ enjoys the thing and squirming and contor 1s of such a man under the exposure >pen day-light of his venality and ruption. It shows better than any og lse could that "Civis" has bit i in a vital spot. Truth hurts worse1 . fiction sometimes, and this seemis be a case in point. Macune had dly hioped that his conduct had ni so deeply covered v. ith whitewash )ala that no more w';uld be heard t. But instead he finds that in a - hort months the wvhitewash is all gone; and that under the exposures made, not only by his enemies within the Alliance, but also by the still more dangerous admissions made by his friends, his inconsistency, and unrelia bility, if not corruption, has been more widely published all over the country than ever. No wonder then that the Doctor is mad. As the natural consequence of this exposure, together with the visionary financial schemes of the Alliance and its tendency to the suppression of free dom of thought and action among its members, we see the formidable revolt against Macune's leadei ship in Texas, where he is best known. We see Mis sissippi, after an unusually thorough canvas on both sides, carried over whelmingly against him. We see an officially annou-ced falling off in Alli ance strength here in South Carolina, where Stokes and Talbert have under taken to "out-Herod Herod." We see whole sub-Alliances throwing up their charters, and abandoning the organiza tion in disgust. We see a big Alliance meeting at Prosperity the other day carried overwhelmingly by Senator Butler against that ridiculous humbug invented by Macune-the so-called sub treasury scheme; and that too in spite of the efforts of both Stokes and Talbert to sustain it. These, and many other signs of the decadence of the Alliance, we see all over the country as the result of its most unfortunate control of such tricky politicians as Macune, who have "bamboozled" the over-credulous far;n ers and wormed themselves into its leadership. It will have to shake off such leadership, or its days of useful ness aie over. Civis. HE DIED FOR LOVE. The Agent of the G., C. & N. R. R. at Flshdam Takes His Own Life. [Register, 7th.] From a gentleman who came down on the Asheville train last night it was learned that when the train reached F ishdam the people were found to be in considerable excitement by a suicide that had just taken place. Mr. S. R. Lewis, a young man about 25 years of age and ageut of the Georgia, Carolina and Northern Railroad, had been pay ing attention to a young lady and made her proposals of marriage. Her refusal, couple with the jeers of some of his young friends, so preyed on his mind that at last, yesterday afternoon, he went into his office and shot himself in the head with his pistol, death result ing almost instantly. No further par ticulars were obtainable last'night, but the above are no doubt the main facts of the tragic occurrence. A Fish Line Made of Women's Hair. LAMBERTVILLE, August 5.-James Thorne, the village barber, has just completed a novel fishing line. It is composed entirely of woman's hair of every color and shade. Whenever a customer with particularly long hair came to have her hair dressed he would beg of her a few silken threads, which he would carefully lay away and work up at his leisure. This has been going on for five years until now twenty-five sections, fifteen inches long, have been completed. Each section contains 100 hairs. The sections are so nicely joined that it all appears to be of one shade. The line is surpri singly strong and light and will hold as much weight as any first-class line. Thorne exhibited the line to some friends yesterday for the first time. THE STATE ALLIANCE EXCHANGE. Manager Donaldson Denies the Rumor That It Has' Sold Out. LSpecial to the State.] GREENVILLE, S. C., Aug. 1.-A re p orter to-day interviewed Hon. M. L. Donaldson, manager of the State Alli ance Exchange on the report published: in the Cheraw Reporter that the ex change had been sold out at the Spar tanburg meeting to the Union Cordage Company, of New York, the organiza tIon which is trying to gobble the busi ness of the Southern Alliance ex changes. He said there is no truth in the report, and that the South Carolina exchange is in no way connected with or obligated to the Union Cordage Company, or any other mercantile con cern. H e was asked about the Rev. J. A. Sligh's recent sly visit to New York and said that Mr. Sligh had not done anything except what he was author ized to do. A Pointer that would guide, unerringly, into the hieaven of health, all that are on the, troubled of impaired womanhood! [t is nothing less, nor could be nothing more, than Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre scription-frail female's faultless friend -time-tried and thoroughly tested. Internal inflammations, irregularities, isplacements, and all ill-conditions peculiar' to woman, controlled, cor-t ected and cured, without publicity, 1 by this safe, sterling specific. Purely egetable. Only good can come from, ts use. The only remedy of the kind arranted to give satisfaction, or money r efunded.t oing North to Confer With Republicans S I CHARLESTON, S. C., August .-I i lendrix McLane, the organizer of the i White Republican League in this State, r eft here for the North to-day. Be said Le wa going on in response to an invi- e ation to mieat some prominent white t Rpublican leaders. He expressed him- t elf as being much gratified with the uccess attending the movement thusC ar. Mr. McLane's trip is surmised to I >e concerning the next delegation of i south Carolina Republicans to the Na- s ional Convention, and may mean the t ,rrangement of a combination of the wo of the wings of the party in this ~ state. I Mrs. Jones hasn't a gray hair in her I iead and is over 50. She looks as younug s her daughter. The secret of it is, ~hat she uses only Hall's Hair Re- V THE SUB-TREASURY MODIFIED. Col. Ellison S. Keitt Suggests that States Borrow from the General Government and to Loan Directly to the People. ROSE MOUNT, GLENN SPRINGS, S. C., July 30.-The advocates of the sub treasury scheme have never claimed that the bill prepared by the legisla tive committee and introduced in the House of Representatives by the Hon. Mr. Pickler is perfect. All they de mand is the principles in the bill shall be retained. Having demonstrated in a former article that every principle contained in the bill is in full accord with the Constitution of the United States, I will now proceed to show how the scheme can be put in full operation without the erection of ware houses or the appointment of agents by the general government and leave the States with all their rights and dignity unimpaired. I will speak alone of Soutb Caroli na, and what I say of her will apply to each of the other States. The National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union demand a per capita circulation of $50. How is this money to be had and how aro the people to get it into their hands? The Supreme Court of the United States has de clared that the Government of the United States, being a sovereign power, can declare anything money and from it there is no appeal. Whatever the general government declares a legal tender in payment of debts is money. South Carolina basin round numbers 1,000,000 of people. Fifty dollars per capita in circulation will put $50,000, 000 into the hands of the people. Let the general government print $50,00), 000 of legal tender notes receivable for all debts, both public and private, and advance them to the State of South Carolina, taking her obligation for them, cbarging the State only the cost of printing the notes, which will be a small fraction of 1 per cent. Let this money pass into the State treas ury. Let one-half of it be loaned to the people on real estate property re stricted and secured at 2 per ct. per an num for ten years, the interest and one tenth of the principal to be paid back to the government at the end of each year; the other half to be advanced on any )f the five staple products, cotton, wheat, corn, oats or tobacco for one year on terms absolutely safe. This will give the country a currency both inflexible and elastic and will meet all the demands of business. As the pop ulation increases let the amount of money in circulation correspondingly increase so as to make it stable. These notes based on the credit of the nation will be good anywhere in our borders. The government of the United States will be absolutely safe as the property of the whole State will be security for them. The State can suffer no detri ment as the property of each individ ual will be responsible for what he or she borrows. On real estate no one person should be allowed to borrow over $3,000 or less than $100. Fifty million dollars loaned out to the people by the State at 2 per cent. will yield a revenue of $1,000,000 which will mean all the expenses of the State government and relieve the people from taxation. This can be operated by the State treasurer and the county treasurers. Make it mandatory on the county treasurers to report at the end of each day to the State treasurer with penalties so heavy and certain as to prevent any failure to do so and the State treasurer to publish at the end of each month the exact condition so all the people can know what is being done. Each State will be responsible only for the money she receives and loans to her people,and can keep a close watch over it. Let us have one dis tinctive American money, which will be good everywhere in our borders, and we will not be affected by any financial disasters that may befall other nations. I'here will be no need for government ware houses or agents. The people of each State will manage their own tffairs without any interference from >utside. If this plan is adopted the :ights and dignity of the States will emain unimpaired and the people will save vast sums they now pay to banks mud corporations in interest for money, ond what they pay will go into the itate treasury and save taxation. The >resent financial system is based on the yonds of the government. The last of hes bonds are due in 1907. With their >ayment the last of the national banks vill disappear and with them the pre ent financial system. We can not be ;in too soon to inaugurate a new sys em, one that will benefit the whole >eoie. Associate Justice Gray, in delivering he decree of the Supreme Court of the Ynited States in a case involving the 'alidity of the legal tender act, said: The court says in conclusion, congress, s the legislative of a sovereign nation, eing expressly empowered by the con titution to levy and collect taxes to ay debts and provide for the common1 .efenzse and general welfare o: the] inited States, and to coin money and egulate the value thereof and of for-1 ign coin, and being clearly authorized: > coin as incidental to the exercise of: tiose great- powers, to emit bills of redit, to charter national banks and to rovide a national currency for the: thole people in the form of coin, trea ary notes and national bank bills, andi de power to make notes of the govern ient a legal tender in payment ofi rivate debts, being one of the powers< elonging to sovereignty in other civi zed nations, and not expressly with eld from congress by the constitution,t e are irresistibly impelled to the con-f notes of the United States the quality of being legal tender in payment of private debts is a means conducive and plainly adapted to execution of the un doubted power of congress consistent with the letter and spirit of the consti tution; therefore within the meaning of that instrument necessary and pro per for carrying into execution the powers vested by this constitution of the government of the United States." The above extract from the decision of the court shaws clearly that it is the duty of the general government to pro vide a currency for the whole people. The condition of the country de mands that it be done without delay if the financial disaster that is now impending is to be averted. The plan suggested is simple and the writer believes eminently practical and will meet every demand. Respectfully, ELLISON S. KEITT. COLONEL KEITT'S SUGGESTION. [Greenville News.] The sub-treasury scheme seems to be flexible enough to suit anybody and elastic likewise. It started a few months ago as a full fledged bill before Congress with details, provisions and appropria tions all complete. It has gradually contracted and twisted until it has now become a mere abstract principle and that not very well defined but supposed to be that more currency is needed in the country. It is stated in to-day's dispatches that the Kansas Alliance is repudiat ing the whole thing. We are not sur prised by that, for we believe as cool head, sensible men study the thing they will be more and more convinced of its folly and danger. Nor are we surprised to find a thinker like Colonel Keitt, whose letter is printed to-day, abandoning many of the essential feat ures of the scheme and suggesting some widely different methods. All of us can agree that our currency and the manner of its distribution re quire legislation. It can now be con trolled by a very few hands; and, as Colonel Keitt shows, in a few years the retirement of the United States bonds will make some new basis necessary. Our financial system heretofore has been a series of makeshifts and experi ments, some successful and others un successful, but all temporary. W must have a permanent and settled system. Work for all time can not be scram bled through in a hurry. It can not be done by crazy enthusiasts or vulgar po litical schemers or noisy howlers. Nor can it be done by excessive_caution or timid ~oiriitin ortb Creckless-and insolent bigotry that regards every thing new as being destructive. We believe the new currency system will be a compromise, probably the combination of the best parts of half a dozen or more schemes and proposi tions. Every suggestion in that line ought to be studied closely and with the guidance of common sense and sound principles to see what good there is in it, or if there is any. The sub-treasury idea as originally suggested appeared to us to combine all possible bad and dangerous features, methods and principles. It provided for the dependence of the people direct ly upon the central government, for de basing the currency by establishing it on an uncertain and fiuctuating basis, for putting the farmer and the govern ment together in the hands of the spec ulator. Its every provision was full of opportunities for fraud, favoritism, plundering and tyranny. It could not do what it intended to do. In princi ple it was class legislation of the worst kind; in actual operation it would have ruined all classes alike. Colonel Keitt evidently understands some of the most glaring and serious faults of the sub treasury scheme and offers a plan for avoiding them. He proposes to have the original transac tion in currency, involving the first removal of the currency from the gov ernment printing house, between the State and the central government-a loan and borrow between two separate and sovereign powers. That is un doubt'edly a very great improvemeht on the old scheme. If the citizen is to look for financial help anywhere out side the usual channels of commerce he had far better look to his State than to the general government. The general idea of all these plans is to shut out the middle man between the government which manufactures the money and the people who use it The purpose is to make the flow direct and easy and to have on money as lit tle tax as possible in the way of interest and commissions for bankers and others who handle it in its progress Colonel Keitt's suggestion is to make each State the banker for its people, receiving and using for the people what profit is made. Of course a host of objections to Col. Keitt's scheme and every other based on that principle are immediately sug gested to the mind. One of the first is the lack of a foreign currency-some bhing to do our triding with other peoples with. We can by law make mything currency in our own coun ry, but w'. can not force it for accept mece by the remainder of the worid, tnd that fact would probably give us ;wo bases of currency, the one availa >le for foreign trade stea'iily increasing md the other steadily! decreasing in ralue. Beyond-this is the peril of mak ng any government the creditor of its eople. Again it would be practically mpossible to adjust the ebb and flow f currency se accurately as to prevent! rious inequalities and disturbances mad discriminations in favor of one see ion or person over others. One of the, irst results of such a measure would be: o o rich, men to invet in lands in-j1 scead of buying securities or loaning their money out. They would look tc rents or to cultivation on a wholesale plan to pay them profits on their pos sessions and the small independent far mer would become a thing of the past. Nevertheless, Colonel Keitt's idea is a long step away from the sub-treasury and toward sounder and more demo cratic principles, and we are glad to see it. THE HISTORY OF A POEM, It Forms One of the Most Touching Inc - defts of the Civ11 War. One of the finest poems in the mod ern literature of song is that one known everywhere by its first pathetic line, "I am dying, Egypt, dying," And which was written by Gen. Wil liam Haines Lytle, on the eve of the battle of Chickamauga. We are in debted to the late Col. Realf, poet, au thor and soldier, who shared the for tunes of war with his friend, Gen. Lytle, for an account of the pezuliar circumstances under which the poem was written. Col. Realf shared the tent of Gen. Lytle on the night preceding the battle. The two friends were both given to writing poems at such times, and each had an unfinished poem on hand. They read and criticised each other's efforts humorously for some time, when Gen. Lytle said with a grave smile: "Realf, I shall never live to finish that poem." "Nonsense," said his friend, "you will live to write volumes of such stuff." "No," said the general, solemnly, "as I was speaking to you a feeling came over me suddenly, which is more startling than prophecy, that I shall be killed in to-morrow's fight." Col. Realf asked him to define this feeling, and he said: "As I was talking to you I saw the green hills of Ohio as they looked when I stood among them. They began to recede from me in a weird way-and as they disappeared the conviction f!ashed through me like the lightning's shock that I should never see them again." Gen. Ly'e was a native of Ohio, and dearly loved his birth-state. Col. Realf laughed at his friend, and rallied him upon his superstition, but acknowledged afterwards that helbe came so thrilled himself with an un. natural fear that he begged the general to finish the poem before be slept, that suqchfinefork might not be lost tthe world. In the small hours, Gen. Lytle awak ened his friend from the slumber into which he "ad fallen, to read to him that beautimal poem, which must live as long as our literature survives. Imagine the scene. The two' men united by the bonds of friendship, of congenial tastes, both ready and wil hing to face death on the morning in its direst form, scanning by the light of their tent lantern each other's features, when the finished poem had been read aloud. Col. Reaif said that his own eyes filled with tears, but the general said not a word, as he placed the manuscript in his- pocket and lay down to hisilast night's rest upon the earth. Before dawn came the call to arms. When Realf next saw his friend he~ lay cold in death among the heaps of slain. Then he thought of the poem, and searching the pocket where he had seen him place it, he drew it forth, and for warded in to Gen. Lytle's friends with his other effects. We give the poem in its entirety, feeling sure all will renew their admiration of it, when they read rnder whait tragic circumstances i 5 was written : ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA I am dying, Egypt, dying ! E bbs the crimson life-tide fast, And the dark Plutonian shadows Gather on the evening blast. Let thine arm, 0, queen, support me, Hush thy sobs and bow thine ear, Hearken to the great heart secrets Thou, and thou alone, must hear. Though my scarred and veteran legions Fh .r their eagles high no more, Anu my wrecked and scattered galleys Strew dark Actium's fatal shore; Though no glittering guards surround me, Prompt to do their master's will, I must perish like a Roman Die the great Triumvir still! [Let not Cesar's servile minions Mock the lion thus laid low; Twas no foeman's arm that felled him; 'Twas his own that dealt the blow is, who, pillowed on thy bosom Turned aside from glory's ray is, who, drunk with thy caresses, Madly threw a world away. Should the base plebeian rabble Dare assail my fame in Rome, Where my noble spouse, Octavia, Weeps within her widowed home. Seek her! Say the gods have told me Altars, augurs, circling wings ['hat her blood with mine commingled, Yet shall mount the throne of kings. s for thee, star-eyed Egyptian ! Glorious sorceress of the Nile! ! Light the path to Stygian horrors With the splendors of thy smile. ive to Cinsar crowns and arches, Let his brow his laurel twine; Ican scorn the Senate's triumphs, Triumphing in love like thine. Iam dying, Egypt, dying ; Hark ! the insulting foeman's cry ! They are coming ! Quick, my faichion! Let me front them ere I die. th ! no more amid the battle Shall my heart exulting swell; sis and Osiris guard thee Cleopatra-Rome-farewell. -(GEN. WILLIAM H. LYTLE. Much injury is done by the use of ir itating, griping compounds taken as ~urgatives. In Ayer's Pills, the patient as a mild but eff'ective cathartic, that an be confidently recommended alike r the mot delicate patients as well as NE. POPE N. CROUCH SUICIDES. He Could Not Face the Disgrace and the Troubles Whieh Surrounded Him, So He Took Refuge in Death-Augusta's Gambling Hells Got His Money. [Augusta Chronicle 4th.] Mr. Pope N. Crouch, of Joinston, S. C., a drummer for J. L. Friedman & Co., vinegar dealers in Paducah, Ky., committed suicide at the Planters Hotel Tuesday night some time after 1 o'clock. The dead man was not discovered until 1.50 o'clock yesterday, when the startling discovery was made by the bell boy, John Jones, who went with the chambermaid to the room to clean it up. Jones saw Mr. Crouch lying in bed with his right arm under his head. and the sheets covering him to his waist. He touched Mr. Crouch, and finding that the man was cold and stiff, he hastily informed the clerk, Mr. Lyeth, and he, with Mr. George Green, went up to the room. They turned Mr. Crouch over on his back. His limbs were rigid, and he had probably been dead at least six hours. In the bureau they found an empty bottle of morphine, and two letters sticking on the side of the glass. The empty bottle of morphine revealed the method of his death. There was a label on it, but there was no name to give a clue as to whom the bottle was pur chased from. LETTEE TO THE DRUMMERS. One of the two letters was addressed "To My Dear Drummer Friends," and the other to his wife, Mrs. P. N. Crouch. The letter to the drummers was opened and read. It was an appeal to them to look after his wife .and baby, and closed by saying that troubles that he was unable to bear was the cause of his rash act. This letter showed that the case was one of suicide, which up te that time the gentlemen were not certain about, as Mr. Crouch was known to be afflicted with heart trouble, he having had a severe attack at the Arlington hotel during the Drummers' convention, mention of which was made in The Chronicle at the time: The letter to his wife, which evident ly gave the cause of his rash act, was not then opened. Mr. C. H. Moorman, of this city, a brother-in-law of Mr. Crouch was sent for, and Coroner Clarke was notified. Mr. Moorman also sent for Mr. S. L Crouch, a brother of the dead man, who lives in -Harrisburg. NeItr-MrM Crouch could throw any light on the cause which led to the suicide. Mr. Moorman thought that Mr. Crouh had leftithe city Saturday,ashe (Mr Crouch) had told Mr. Moorman he intended to do so. THE CORONER'S INQUEST. At 5 o'clock Coroner Clarke held an inquest, the only witnesses being Mr. Lyeth, day clerk of the hotel, Mr. King night clerk and the bellboy, Jones. Mr. Lyeth said he had not seen Mr. Crouch since Sunday, at which time he had registered at the hotel. The de ceased did not seem to be inthebest of spirits. He then told of the finding the body and the ietters. Mr. King stated that when he went on duty Sunday night he saw that Mr. Crouch was registered. About 12 o'clock that night Mr. Crouch came with a "how are you," and asked what rooms he was to goto. Mr. King told him the same one, room 31, 'on the first floor. Mr. Crouch then told Mr. King not to put his room down on the register opposite his name, as he did not wish his brother-in-law, Mr. Moorman, to know he was s'till in the city, as he (Crouch) had told Mr. Moorman that he was going out of the city Saturday. Mr. King consented to do this, and Mr. Crouch, requesting to be called at 6 o'clock, went up to his room. He came down at 6 o'clock and went up the street. Monday night he came in about the same time, and after some conver sation with Mr. King he went up stairs to bed, first, however, leaving a call for 6 o'clock, as he said be wanted to get off on the South Carolina train. Tues day morni-g he came down as usual, and again went up the street. THIRD AND LAST TIME. Nothing more was seen of him by Mr. King, until Tuesday inight, about 1 o'clock. When he ente'ed the hotel, he said: "How are you to night, Mr. King," "I am well; thanks. How are you?" replied Mr. King. "I am feeling very well," said Mr. Crouch. He then asked Mr. King for some writing-paper and ink, stating that he had some letters to write before going to bed. Ordering a pitcher of ice water, he went up stairs. When he entered the room, he remarked to the boy. "This room smells mighty bad." The boy said it was the new furniture. Mr. Crouch then closed t he door, with out locking it. This was the last seen of Mr. Crouch alive. He failed to leave an order for his usual early call. LOST MONEY GAMBLING. The letter to his wife was then opened by the coroner and read, It revealing the story of his misfortune and the I cause for which he took his life. t The letter was nine pages long, the substance of which is as follows: MY DARLING WIFE AND BABY:- z When this reaches you I will be in i eternity. It is now past midnight. a When I kissed you and baby last Satur day morning and promised to return t Saturday night, you little thought it t would be the last time you would see s me. If I could only see you, kiss you y and bid you farewell before my end, I s could die mnpeace. Iam sosorry thatl I am leaving you in such a bad coaidition, y but I could not stand the disgrace and p nmortfixcation. ri He then stated that his downfall and 14 death were due to the gambling hellsof Augusta. He said he had lost $200 since Satu day, and$400 besides in the past mont. He mentioned four gaming houses i Augusta at which he had lost money, and advised his wife to employ alaw yer and recover it, as the law was rigid against such gaming houses, and she could get back the money, which would greatly help her in gitting along. He had intended to be a better3M and live right if he could have gotten through his present trouble, but he could see no way out of it but In death. A PRAYER AND A WARNING. I hope God will take care of you, and. forgive me for this rash act. I have asked my drummer friends to help you to run a boarding house. I pray God to save my soul. The letter closed with the words: . "Let this be a warning to all young men, and that they never touch card." The coroner's jury, after hearing0ii evidence and the letter, returned aver diet that the deceasedeame tohig-death from a dose of morphine, and that it was suicide. His body was then taken to the train. and carried to his home in Johnston S. C., for burial. Mr. Crouch was 33 years of age, born and raised in Johnston, S. C., and was well known in Augusta. Hewas adark brunette, weighing, perhaps two h dred pounds. Grover Cleveland. Elephant, in N. C. Herald.] Amid the upheavel of the political elements Cleveland stands silent and alone. Cold and indfierent to every thing, base must even that partisa opponent ofhibewhohasnotahary and stout admiration for him. The solitary grandeur of his firmness, his., calm and imperturbable integrity are a study for friends and foes alike; and more thought should be given to his position by every sensible and honor able citizen. To say he is stubborn is the heightoft folly-it is not worth notice. To :my he is mistaken is almost an egotism for Carlisle says he sides with thecrowd - as against Cleveland only on accountof "political necessity." Yes, 'alas, It is "political necessity"' that by far too many prominent public' characters will bow before; and they will trim their sils to suitthebreezeof. popular clamor. He has been charged 2 with bigotry. Wo1made thatCh. Dana. If.the world was find to peerofMr. Danain sorethini6 his equal would never be found. Fn reckless and envious assertion he Unks foremost among the editors of thris planet. Time will vindicate Cleveland-and don't you forget it It. He is the only independent politician In America. Women aa maebasi. We are alws.ys glad to chron5ile new Idea, especially when itl3aposesd of such great merit as that whichis no resene tosnthe num be o emrstsFamily which has just arrived. One ofth leading articles is a gameof aeaa aR played out on paper by means offid executed illustrations with epii descriptions of each move. Those who have attempted to explain th of baseball to a sister, wife,. or know what an almost hopeless task It was. Now here is the wholeingi done for you, andsocleverlyandeleary, that after reading it awoman wlba anxious as any one ot the other sex to see a match, and she will never say, "Well! what is there in a anhw?" The article will save yc hours of explanation, an shwa whic strives to giethe pubi what they want. Tis August nume is certainly very attractive. "AHap Day at Cairo," with it. beautiful Ii~ trations, gives a splendid ldeaof home life in Egypt; "Snmmer's Bird" is one-' of Olive Thorne Miller's charmingd as fascinating as tenis: there are ab sorbing stories and beautiful poems; aRl the numerous departments are ovm flowing with good and soasonable thigs;andinaddition there armover two hndred fine Illustrations, Includ ing a beautiful wrater-color of "Swal lows." It Is published by W. JennIngs ' Demorest, at 15 East 14th ist., New York. Price 20 cents; or $2per yea glad tosupply~ ni sdt.mwlb The Biggest Engine in the Werld. [From the Philadelphia Press.] It isnot strange at all that the big gest enginein the world is exercising j itsponderous strength in Pennsylvania. "The President," as it is called, Is con stantly at work pumping water from the zinc-mines atFriedensville, Lebigh * :ounty. Its enormous power Is that of : 5,000 horses, or as it is computed, of 15,000 men. In the same county there~ s still preserved at Hokendauqua the~ irst engine ever used In Lehigh, and et up at Allentown by Eli Sager 838. 'Look me in the face! My name is 'Might-have-been!' am also called 'No-more,' 'Too-late,' 'Farewell!" The poet who wrote the above, must taye been in the last stagesofeonsump> ion. Perhaps he had only learned, oT he first time, that If he had taken Dr. leree's Golden Medical Discovr in tis earlier illness, he would never hve eached his present hopeless conditin! Vhat can be more A than akeen ae~ lization of what "migh: ha.e1gei Physicians now admnt t Lon is simply scrofbia In ieking the lung-tissues. It ' dfe to allow the blood to ure, and it Is especially recklues ach a plasant, :1prmless hr. Pierce's Golden Medicas till drive every taintoscrlltaoihu urity from the systemse,C mnt of healthy, ~ c to ~Ad hog h