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ESTATSHED 186 NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1891. 1C.0Y SHACKLING JEFFERSON DAVIS. The Officer Who Did It Describes How It: Was Done. ~'9 [From the Leavenworth Times.] The following letter was received by an employee of the Times from his father, and is of such interest that we give it to the public: ROANOKE, S. D., July 4. MY DEAr SoN : There has been much said and written about Jefferson Davis 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 shackled. . On the morning of May 23, 1865, I etailed as officer of the day, and after guard mount I reported to Gen. Nelson Miles for special orders in re gard tc the three State prisoners, Jef 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 iron bars looking out on the moat or ditch, which is about sixty feet wide. The first room or casemate had but one door and two large windows facing the inside of the fort. The gunroom had two doors leading in from the casemate. These were closed by heavy iron grated doors and locked with pad- 1 locks, nnd at each door in the gun room with, the prisoner were two sen tinels with loaded muskets, and in the casemate were two more sentinels and officers of the guard, all of which were under lock and key, the officer of the day having charge of the keys. The guard was relieved every two hours, and that could only be done in the presence of the officer of the day. The windovs 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 not give any orders of any kind to that special guard; in fact, he could not come within its lines. There were four sentinels on the parapet overhead, four on the glacis beyond the ditch, and six in the fort in front of the casemates. The above statement is just as I found things the day that Davis was shackled. I reported to Gen. Miles as the new officer. of the day. The General said he had special orders for me as to Jeff Davis. Having heard it rumored that mornin z at-.Davis was to be put in irons .T saidtntheGne,1. *M I can guess what it is, General." "Well, what is it, Captain ?" "To put irons on Davis. He said : "That is it." I said: "When do. you wish it done ?" He said: "The irons are not ready." Then I said: "Had we not better put them on toward evening ?" He said "Yes," and I could send .ny orderly to the blacksmith's and have him meet me at that time with the leg irons, and at the same time he (Gen. Miles) showed me part of a letter he had from Secre tary Stanton, in which he said that if he thought the safety of Davis required it, he could put irons on Davis, or words to that effect. The matter was left optional with Gen. Miles as to whether Davis should be put in irons or not. Just before the sundown relief I sent my orderly out for the blacksmith to meet me with the leg irons at casemate. Soon after I went down I found the smith and his helper there. I then un locked the door and told the guard to f"'~et-them pass that is, smith and hel per. As I entered the gunroom Davis was sitting on the end of his cot or hospital bed reading his Episcopal Prayer Book, and as he looked up, I said : "Mr. Davis, I have an unpleasant duty to execute." At the same moment seeing the blacksmith with the irons, he saidi: '.You do not intend to put fetters on me ?" I said : "Those are my orders."1 He said : "Those are orders for a] slave and no man with a soul in himi would obey such orders." I then: s idd: "Those are my orders." Mr. 1 Davis said : "I shall never submit to 1 such an indignity." He then asked: if Gen. Miles had given that order.) My answer was in th - affirmative. He said he would like to see G3en. Miles. I replied that the General had just left the fort. Davis then asked that the I execution of the order be postponed, and I should telegraph to the Presi- 1 dent in his name, I said : "Mr. Davis, you are an old soldier and know what orders are. It is needless to say that an officer is bound to execute an order< given him." Davis said it was obvious< that there could be no necessity for 1 such an order to make his imprison ment secure. I said : "My duty is to< execute this order, and it is folly for you to resist." Davis's answer was< that he was a soldier, and he knew2 how to die, and, pointing to a senti- 1 nel, said : "Let your men shoot me at once." A few moments after that he placed his foot on a stool; his quiet manner led me to think he would not resist. It then said : "Smitb, do ycur work." I As the blacksmith stooped to placet the clasp of the shackle around hist ankie D)avis struck him a violent blowt that threwv himi on the floor. He re covered and at once made for Davist with his vise and hammer, and wouldt have struck him if I had not caught < his arm as he was in the act of striking.t A moment after that I saw Davis and 1 one of the sentinels struggling, botht having hold of the musket, Davis justt beclow the shank- of the bayonet. The f next instant the sentinel had wrenched 1 the musket from Davis's hands. I then ordered the soldier to his nost and re-< aw 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 outEide arms and have hem report to me at once. A few ainutes afterward four stalwart sol iers made their appearance. I said: Men, I wish you to take Mr. Davis, vith as little force as possible, and lace him on that cot, and hold him here till the smith is through with his vork." As the men advanced Davis struck he first or foremost man, but all four nstantly closed on him and shoved drm on the cot. Davis showed unnat iral strength ; it was all the four men ould do to hold him while the black mith riveted the clasp around his an zle, his helper holding a sledge ham ner. The other clasp was locked on vith a brass lock the same as is in use n freight cars. I ordered the men to heir quarters, and as they passed out )avis lay perfectly motionless. Just s I was going out Davis raised from is cot and threw his feet on the floor, nd with the clanging of the chains he ave way. I will say here 'iat it was nything but a pleasant sight to me to ee a man like Jefferson Davis shed ling tears, but not one word had he to av. Two hours after I called to relieve he guard and found Davis lying on his xt. I said: "Mr. Davis, you can't -est well that way ; if you will give me rour word of honor that you will give io more trouble in this matter I will ulock the shackles so you can take >ff your clothing." "Captain, I assure 7ou there will be no more trouble. I hen unlocked the shackles, he taking )ff his clothing, and locked it again iimself. JEROME TITLOW, Late Captain Third Pennsylvania Regiment, Artillery. "Civis's" Reply to Dr. Macune. To the Editor of The Herald and ews: I have read in the National Economist, of August 1, Dr. Macune's most ungentlemanly" (to use his own anguage) and vituperative reply to a .ecent article of mine published in The Ferald and News as well as in the Kews and Courier. The Doctor was .vidently very mad when he wrote it, nd had laid aside, for the time be ng at least, those excellent traits as a 'Christian gentleman," which we are ssured he possesses. At this we are aot greatly astonished, for the criminal s apt to think very badly of the detec + - dowi and ->rings :im to bay. Hence Doctor Macune's iery poor opinion of U. S. Hall, of Mis ;ouri, of Mr. McAllister, of Mississippi, )f Mr. McGrath, of Kansas, of "Civis" Lnd others who have been instrumental .n exposing his venal transactions with Pat. Calhoun in Georgia. I would isk you to republish his article entire, -s illustrative of the character of the nan who has been proved guilty of at ;empting to sell out the Alliance to one >f Jay Gould's railroad attorneys, and whom, notwithstanding, cur farmers till persist in following so blindly. But I think so respectable a paper as [he Herald and News would object to oiling its columns with such a tirade >f calumny and vulgar personal abuse; -a field in which I have no thought of ~ollowing him myself. My article, be it remembered, was in eply to an editorial of Dr. J. Win. stokes in the Cotton Plant, in which I howed, not by the evidence of Mr. al or other enemies of Dr. Macune, >ut by the admissions of both Dr. stokes and Mr. Latimer, both Dr. tacune's defenders, and both I be leve members of the famous Ocala whitewashing committee, that the harges against Dr. Macune were true n every particular. Dr. Stokes says in his editorial, "Mr. alhoun had the money to loan; Dr. Viacune wanted to borrow, he did bor .-ow of Mtr. Calhoun, (sic); and neither 1e nor Mr. Latimer, both in a position o know, and both anxious to screen acune, pretend to deny that he did yoh borrow the money and receive .e free railroad pass over the Rich noud Terminal system. Could we ave strr>nger or more positive evidence >f Dr. Macune's guilt? Then, after re eiving these personal pecuniary favors, e did, as is notorious, all in his power o get Calhoun elected to the United states Senate, thus showing that Cal ioun, though a young man, like old )akes Ames, of Credit Mobilier noto iety, knew where to put his money 'so it would do most good." My arti le was a mere sifting of the testimony f others, so to speak; and this was in >rief what it established. I have nct >retended to know anything of my >wn personal knowledge. In his very ill-natured reply Macunei !oes not pretend to deny or attempt to efute anything whatever in my article;: ut confines himself to low vulgar buse of "Civis," as if that were hisi ntire stock in trade. Well, now, I would like to inform Dr. facune that abuse from such a man as' his Georgia transaction has proved im to be, does not in the least disturb he mental equanimity of "Civis." On he contrary "Civis" is rather proud of he enemy he has made, and e'njoys the rithing and squirming and contor ions of such a man under the exposure o open day-light of his venality and orruption. It shows better than any hing else could that "Civis" has hit riim in a vital spot. Truth hurts worse an fiction sometimes, and this seems o e a case in point. Macune had ondly hoped that his conduct had >een so deeply covered with whitewash t Ocala that no more would be heard >fit. But instead he finds that in a 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 conseqaence 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 leadel 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 announced 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 farm 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 HisOwn Life. (Register, 7th.] From a gentleman who came down on the Asheville train last night it was learned that when the train reached IF 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. [Special to the State.) GRIEENVILLE, S. C., Aug. 1.-A re porter 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 trurth 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. Be 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 heaven of health, all that are on the troubled sea of impaired womanhood! It 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, displacements, and all ill-conditions peculiar to woman, controlled, cor rected and cured, without publicity, by this safe, sterling specific. Purely vegetable. Only good can come from its use. The only remedy of the kind warranted to give satisfaction, or money refunded. Gong North to Confer With Republicans CHARLESTON, S. C., August 1.-I Hendrix' McLane, the organizer of the White Republican League in this State, left here for the North to-day. He said he was going on in response toan invi tation to meet some prominent white Republican leaders. He expressed him self as being much gratified with the success attending the movement thus far. Mr. McLane's trip is surmised to be concerning the next delegation of South Carolina Republicans to the N~a tional Convention, and may mean the arrangement of a combination of the two of the wings of the party in this State. Mrs. Jones hasn't a gray hair in her head and is over.50. She looks asyoung as her daughter. The secret of it is. that she uses only Hall's Hair Re THE SUB-TREASURY MODIFIED. Col. Ellison S. Keitt Suggests that States Borrow from the General Government and to Loan Dircctly 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 South 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 has in 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 $50,000, 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, charging 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 of the five staple products, cotton, wheat, corn, cats 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 ba.ed 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. There will be no need for government ware houses or agents. The people of each State will manage their own affairs without any interference from outside. If this plan is adopted the rights and dignity of the States will remain unimpaired and the people will save vast sums they now pay to banks and corporations in interest for money, and what they pay will go into the State treasury and save taxation. The present financial system is based on the bonds of the government. The last of thes bonds are due in 190'7. With their payment the last of the national banks will disappear and with them the pre sent financial system. We can not be gin too soon to inaugurate a new sys tem, one that will benefit the whole peole. Associate Justice Gray, in delivering the decree of the Supreme Court of the United States in a case involving the validity of the legal tender act, said: "The court says in conclusion, congress, as the legislative of a sovereign nation, being expressly empowered by the con stitution to levy and collect taxes to pay debts and provide for the common defenzse and general welfare of the United States, and to coin money and regulate thie value thereof and of for eign comn, and being clearly authorized to coin as incidental to the exercise of those great powers, to emit bills of credit, to charter national banks and to provide a national currency for the whole people in the form of coin, trea sury notes and national bank bills, and the power to make notes of the govern ment a legal tender in payment of private debts, being one of the powers belonging to sovereignty in other civi lized nations, and not expressly with held from congress by the constitution, we are irresistibly impelled to the con luion that impreane nnon trasury notes of the United S 'es 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 r 2aning 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 shows 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 disa3ter 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 contractedand 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, abandoiing 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 C'olonel 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. We 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 conservatism or the reckless 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 tho 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 doubtedly 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 r d 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 thing to do our trading with other peoples with. We can by law make anything currency in our own coun try, but we can not force it for accept ance by the remainder of the world, and that fact would probably give us two bases of currency, the one availa ble for foreign trade steadily increasing and the other steadily! decreasing in value. Beyond-this is the peril of mak ing auy government the creditor of its people. Again it would be practically impossible to adjust the ebb and flow of currency so accurately as to prevent serious inequalities and disturbances and discriminations in favor of one sec tion or person over others. One of the first results of such a measure would be stead of buying securities or loaning their money out. They would look to reuts 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 dents of the Civil 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 pe.uliar 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 1 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 Atartling 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 weira way-and as they disappeared the conviction flashed through me like the lightning's shock that I should never see them again." Gen. Lytle 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 he slept, that such fine work mightnot be lost to the world. In the small hours, Gen. Lytle awak ened his friend from the slumber into which he had fallen, to read to him that beautiful 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 ling 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. Rlealf 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 be 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 Ge... 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 under what tragic circumstances I was written: ANToNY AND CLEOPATRA I am dying, Egypt, dying ! E bbs the crimson life-tide fast, And the dark Plutonian shado-vs Gather on the evening blast. Let thine arm, 0, queen, supp,ort 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 Rear their eagles high no more, And 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 Cresar's servile minions Mock the lion thus laid low; Twas no foeman's arm that felled him; 'T was his own that dealt the blow His, who, pillowed on thy bosom Turned aside from glory's ray His, 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! ..ay the gods have told me Altars, augurs, circling wings That her blood with mine commingled, Yet shall mount the throne of kings. As for thee, star-eyed Egyptian ! Glorious sorceress oft the Nile ! Light the path to Stygian horrors With the splendors of thy smile. Give to Ctesar crowns and arches, Let his brow his laurel twine; I can scorn the Senate's triumphs, Triumphing in love like thine. I am dying, Egypt, dying ; Hark ! the insulting foeman's cry ! They are coming ! Quick, my falchion' Let me front them ere I die. Ah ! no more amid the battle Shall my heart exulting swell; Isis and Osiris guard thee Cleopatra-Rome-farewell. -[GEN. WILLIAM H.. LYTLE. Much injury i: done by the use of ir ritating, griping compounds taken as purgatives. In Ayer's Pills, the patient has a mild but effe& ive cathartic, that can be confidently r commended alike for the mos.t delicate patients as well as the most robust. ME. FOPE N. CROUCH sUICIDES. He Could Not Face the Disgrace and the Troubles Which surrounded Him, So He Took Befuge in Death-Augusta's Gambling Hell Got His Money. [Augusta Chronicle 4th.] Mr. Pope N. Crouch, of Johnston, 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 Gren, 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. LETTER 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 troubler 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 to that time the genlemen 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? couvenion, 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. I Crouch, a brother of the dead man who lives in Harrisburg. Neither Mr. Moorman nor Mr Crouch could throw any lighs on the cause which led to the suicide, Mr Moorman thought that Mr. Crouch hac leftithe city Saturday,ashe (Mr Crouch) had told Mr. Moorman he intended t< do so. THE CORONER'S INQUEST. At 5 o'clock Coroner Clarke held am 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 hi had registered at the hoteL. The de ceased did not seem to be inthe best o spirits. He then told of the finding thi body and the letters. Mr. King stated that when he wen on duty Sunday night he saw that Mr Crouch was registered. About 12 o'cloc! that night Mr. Crouch came with "how are you," and as5ked what room he was to go to. Mr. King told him th< same one, room 31, 'on the first floor Mr. Crouch then told Mr. King not tA put his room down on the registe opposite his name, as he did not wisi his brother-in-law, Mr. Moorman, ti know he was still in the city, as hi (Crouch) had told Mr. Moorman tha he was going out of the city Saturday Mr. King consented to do this, and Mr Crouch, requesting to be called at i o'clock, went up to his room. He cami down at 6 o'clock and went up thi street. Monday mght he came in abou the same time, and after some conver sationi with Mr. King he went up stair to bed, first, however, leaving a call fo3 6 o'clock, as he said he wanted to gel off' on the South Carolina train. Tues day morning he came down as usual and again went up thestreet. THIRD AND LAST TIME. Nothing more was seen of him b3 Mr. King, until Tuesday Inight, aboul 1 o'clock. When he entered the hotel he said: "How are yoi: 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 fo, 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 sn'ells mighty bad." The boy said it was the new furniture. L. 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 f.r-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 cause for which he took his life. The letter was nine pages long, the substance of which is as follows: MY DARLING WIFE AND BABY: When this reaches you I will be in eternity. It is now past midnight. When I kissed you and baby last Satur day morning and promised to return Satur lay night, you little thought it would be the last time you would see me. If I could only see you, kiss you and bid you farewell before my end, I could die mn peace. Iam so sorry that I am leaving you in such a bad condition, but I could not stand the disgrace and mortfiication. He then stated that his downfall and death were due to the gambling hellsof Augusta. He said he had lost $20 since Satur day, and$400 besides in the past month. He mentioned four gaming houses In Augusta at which he had lost money, and advised his wife to employ a law yer and recover it, as the law was rigd 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 betterman 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 WARNMNG. I hope God will take care of you, and: forgive me for this rash act. Ihavo.. 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 a card." The coroner's jury, after hearing the evidence and the letter, returned aver dict that the deceased came tohilest 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 3 years of age, bom and raised in Johnston, S. C., and was; well known in Augusta. Hewas adark brunette, weighing, perhaps two hun dred pounds. -"Ver CWVIan. - 1 LElephant, in N. C. WaId.] Amid the upheavel of the political elements Cleveland stands silent and alone. 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