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THE HAPPY MAN.
A PARAPHRASE.
The sapphires ore thy two blue eyesSo lovely and so sweet;
Thrice happy Is the hnppy manWhom lovingly they greet,
Thy heart, It Is a'dlamond,That noble lightning throws ;
Thrice happy Is the.happy manFor whom It throbs and glows.
And rubles are thy crimson lips.None lovelier might ono reach ;
Thrice hnppy Is the happy manWho gets of them love-bpeec- h,
It I but knew tho happy man.And met that favoured ono
Alone, alone In tho green.woods,Illshappinchs weredono!
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OUE WASHINGTON LETTEK.
Notes on tlic'IPresidents How Theyhave been Traduced and
Maligned.
Jno. 0. Adams Andrew JacksonMartin I Van Buren.
Washington, D. C' Sept. 8th, '75.
Jno. Quincy Adams.Tho olectionjiof Jno. Quincy Adams
wua attributed by some to tho treach-ery of Henri' Clay, while others saidit was owing to tho fact that Craw-lor- d
his formidable opponent, wasrighteously though regretfully defeat-ed owing to the fact that his healthnnd mind had grown feeble, thus in-
capacitating him to hold the reins ofgovernment. Certain it is, however,that Adams' election was, at best, anaccident, and this fact encourageduud provided ground-wor- k for viciousattacks upon him as a man and ollioi-si- l.
Ho was careful in organizing hisCabinet, and did form an able one,with Clay as his Secretary of State;but this did not secure him immunityfrom violent opposition, though pro-
bably no President ever dreaded andfeared opposition more than he. Thefact of his soliciting Clay as his Sec-
retary of State, gave color to thecharge of his bargaining with Clay,and his enemies made the most of it.A strong effort, nearly successful, waBmade to withdraw from the Executivethe distribution of official patronage,and every measure resorted to calcu-lated to lower the President in the es-
timation of Congress and the people.But Charles Francis Adams has late-ly written a work entitled Memoirs ofJohn Quincy Adams, which fully es-
tablishes the fact that in his day thepress teemed with invective againstthat dignitary, and that in 1S25-2- 9, vi-
tuperation was largely indulged in byeditors and speakers opposed to theadministration. Charles Adams quotesJohn Quincy : "No man in Americahas made his way through showersofribaldry and Invective of this charac-ter more frequently than I havebreasted It."
To cap tho whole wo have Indubita-ble proof that John Quincy Adamsretired as did John Adams, sick atheart and sorely distressed, conse-quent upon tho criticisms which hadfallen upon him during his term ofofiice. In modoru parlance "hecouldn't stand grief.'
Andrew Jackson.As stated in our resume of President
Monroe's rule, Gon. Jackson wrotehim suggesting and urging that poli-
tics should not be permitted to enterinto the distribution of tho oflices,yet when Jackson succeeded to powerhe outrivaled all his predecessors indecapitating the official heads of thosewho had been provided for by Presi-dents, from Washington down, andproviding for hisown political friends.During Washington's term of officethere were 7ii?ie removals; of theseone was a defaulter. In John Adamsadministration of four years, therewere ten removals ; one of these wasa defaulter. In Jefferson's of eightyears there were thirty-nin- e removals.In James Madison's of eight years,there were five removals, of whichthree were defaulters. In JamesMonroe's, of eight years, there wereit"c removals, of which six were for
cause. In J. Q. Adam's, of fouryears, there were two removals, bothfor cause. Total removals by the sixPresidents, seventy-fou- r. Tho num-
ber of appointments made by Gen.Jackson during the first recess of theSenate was one hundred and seventy-six- ,
principally of political opponents.Of course this wholesale decapita-
tion of officials caused considerableIrritation, which was augmeuted byJackson's extensive disposal of exec-
utive patronage of members of Con-
gress. Jno. Q. Adams was called up-
on for a report as to precedents in thismatter, which brought out that underWashington ten were appointed ; un-
der Jno. Adams, thirteen Jefferson,twenty-fiv- e; Madison, twenty-nin- e;
Monroe, thirty-fiv- e; Jno. Q. Adams,five. During Jackson's first threemouths he appointed twelve.
Then Jackson iDvited criticism byhis Inconsistencies. When he hadrupture with Calhoun, a letter writtenby Gen. Jaokson to Gen. Hayne waspublished in which the writer en-
dorsed Hayne's speech on Foot's reso
lution. The resolution of Poote's re-
lated simply to publio lands, but thedebate thereon branched outward,embracing tho fundamental princi-
ples of the Government. Hayne as-
serted that nullification was a powerinherent in a State, which she was
privileged to exercise irrespective of
the pleasure or will of the general
government. Jackson, with his ownsign manuel, wrote Hayne declaringthat ho had promulgated the trueprinciplesof our Government and thathe would have his speech printed onsatin and hung up in his obamber.
To show how the press belaboredJackson we quote from the RichmondEnquirer, edited by Ritchie, on thereceipt of the news of the General'saction in executing tho prisoners al-
luded to in our sketch of the Presi-dential days of Monroe: "Thus hasan American officer destroyed thelives of two of his fellow courtiers,without any rightful power, withoutany adequate motive, arid with suchindecent precipitancy as hardly togive time for prayers in the intervalbetween judgment end death. Hu-manity blushes at the reoltal, and na-
tional pride sinks in the'iAmericanheart, oppressed with the load ofebamo and grief. He has abrogatedthe known laws of nature, and pro-
mulgated a new code of his own, con-
ceived in madness or folly and writtenin blood. He has, in fine, violated alllaws, human and divine, and violatedthem with impunity."
Jaokson is the only President fromWashington down to Grant, who hasever been violently assailed on thefloors of Congress. His political andmoral oharacterwere there canvassed,and in lauguago more forcible thanchaste.
Parton In his,biography of Jacksonsays: If he were asked what kind ofa man Jackson was from what he eli-
cited from inquiry, he would suy thathe found him to bo "a patriot and atraitor. Ono of the greatest Generals,and wholly ignorant of the art of war.A writer, brilliant, elegant, eloquent,without being able to compose a cor-
rect sentence," or spell" a word of foursyllables. The first of statesmen, henever devised, he never framed ameasure. He was the most candid ofmen, and was capable of the profound-es- t
dissimulation. A most law-defyin- g,
law obeying citizen. A sticklerfor discipline, he never hesitated todisobey his superior. A democrat au-
tocrat ; an urbane savage ; an atro-
cious saint, deified and vilified."In closing our account of Jackson's
career, we do not propose adding tothe load of censure piled upon himrelative to his propensity to iudulgein duelling, blasphemy, licentious-ness. The record is complete enoughwithout It, and we turn to his suc-
cessorMam in Van Buken.
"Little Van," met with a storm onthe threshhold of iiis administration.In 18.31 a newspaper was establishedin Boston by Win, Lloyd Garrison,for tho purpose of advocating Imme-diate emancipation. Tho legislatureof Georgia offered $5,000 for the ab-
duction and delivery in that State ofthe editor of that paper. A grandjury of Alabama proferred an ludict-me- ut
against the "Emancipator," apaper published in New York, andthe Governor of that State made a requisition upon Gov. Murrey, of NewYork, for the delivery of tho publish-er, to be tried as an offender againstthe laws of Alabama regarding slave-ry. Gov. Murrey declined complyingwith tho mandate. A vigilance com-
mute of Louisiana offered a reward of$50,000 for the delivery of Tappan, aconspicuous abolitionist of New York.A public meeting in Petersburg, Va.,drafted a memorial to postmaster Ken-dell- ,
interdicting the transportationof anti-slave- ry papers through the TJ.
S. mails. Kendall replied, regrettingthat he could not comply, but expres-sing tho belief that postmasters coulddecline shipping "incendiary docu-ments." At this time Van Buren wasVice President but dodged voting up-
on questions bearing upon the outrag-eous propositions of the fire-eatin- g
Southerners. Van Buren, however,was calculated on as an ally by eachof the contending factious. For atime, however, this emttte was smoth-ered by the breaking out of what wasdenominated the "Patriot War," anincursion of "American Patriots" intoCanada, to produce a reform in Cana-dian Government. Van Buren issueda proclamation warning Americansubjects from participating, but wasaccused of playing double and reallyfavoring the success of the revolutionists.
Van Buren sought abut was met on every hand with op-
position. His administration washeld up before the people as a re-
proach ; his extravagant expendituresof public money, and the loss sustained by the country through the defaultand irresponsibility of officers ap-
pointed by him, were freely circulat-ed. Added to this was a pamphletpublished by Wm. Lyon McKenzie,in which a large private correspon-dence was published, demonstratingthe iusincerity of Van Buren and his"foxy" characteristics; his dodgingthe when presented to him bythe slave oligarchy rendered the hierarchy opposed to him, while the anti-slavGr- y
people feared to trust him. Inhis endeavor, therefore, to sit on twostools he fell between both of them,and although he did not cease strug-gling for the Presidency after his retirement, he never attained muohimportance even as a candidate.
The English language was bank-rupted by the press and orators of thecountry in disparagement of "theused up man." and he fell a victim tothe power and influence of criticism.While the South disowned him theNorth characterized him as "a North-ern man with Southern principles."
A STOET FOR HUSBANDS.
Andrew Lee came home from hisshop, where he had worked hard allday, tired and out of spirits; camehome to his wife who was also tiredand out of spirits.
"A smiling wife and a cheerfulhome a paradise it would be," saidhe to himself, as he turned his eyesfrom the clouded face of Mrs. Lee,and sat down with knitted brows andmoody aspect.
Not a word was spoken by either;Mrs. Lee was getting supper, and shemoved about with a weary Btep.
"Come," she said, at last, with aside glance at her husband.
Andrew rose and went to the table.He was tempted to speak an angryword, but controlled himself and keptsilent. He could find no fault withthe chop, nor tho home-mad- e bread,nor the fragrant tea. They wouldhave cheered his Inward man if therehad been a gleam of sunshine on theface of his wife. Ho noticed that shedid not eat.
"Are you not well, Mary?"These were the words on his lips,
but he did not utter them, for the faceof his wife looked 6o repellant, thathe feared an irritating reply.
And so, in moodysileuce, tho twainsat together until Andrew had finish-ed his supper.
As ho pushed his chair back hiswife arose and commenced cleariugoff' tho table.
"This is purgatory!" said Leo tohimself, walking the floor of their lit-
tle breakfast room, with his baudsthrust into his trowsers pockets andhis chin almost touching his breast.
After removing and taking thethings into the kitchen, Mrs. Leespread a green cover over tho table,and placing a fresh-trimme- d lampthereon, went out and shut the doorafter her, leaving her husband alonewith unpleasant feelings. He took along breath as she did so, paused inhis walk, stood still for some momeutsand then drawing a paper from hispocket, sat down by the table, openedtho sheet nud commenced reading.Singularly enough, tho wordsupon which his eyes rested were"Praise your wife." They rather ten-
ded to increase the disturbance ofmind from which he was suffering.
"I should like to find some occasionfor praising mine." Howquickly histhoughts expressed that ed
sentiment! But his eyes were on thepaper before him, and ho read on :
"Praise your wife, man, for pity'ssake; give her a little encouragement.It won't hurt her."
Andrew Leo raised his eyes from thopaper, and muttered, "O, yes, that'sall very well praise Is oheap enough.But praise her for what? For beingsullen, and making her home thomost disagreeable place in tho world ?"His eyes fell again to tho paper.
"She has made your home comfort-able, your heart bright and shining,your food agreeable; for pity's saketell her you thank her. She don't ex-
pect it. It will make her eyes widerthan they have been for ten years ;
but it will do her good for all that, andyou too."
It seemed to Andrew as if this sen-
tence was written expressly for him,and just for the occasion. It was acomplete answer to his question,"Praise her for what?" and ho felt Italso a rebuke. He read uo further,for thoughts came too busy, and in anew direction. Memory was convinc-ing him of injustices to his wife. Shehad always mado her home as com-
fortable for him as she could make it.and had he offered the light return ofpraise or commendation.? Had he ev-er told her of the satisfaction he hadknown or the comfort ho had exper-ienced? He was not able to recall thetime or occasion. As he thought thusMrs. Lee came In from tho kitchen,and taking her work-ba&k- et from thecloset placed it on the table, and sit-ting down without speaking, beganto sew. Mr. Lee glanced almoststeathily at the work in her hands,and saw that it was the bosom of ashirt which she was stichiug. Heknew that it was for him Bhe was atwork.
"Praise your wife!" These werethe words before the eyes of his mind,and he couldn't look away from them.But he was not ready for this yet.He still felt moody and unforgiving.The expression of his wife's face heinterpreted to mean ill-natu- forwhich he had no patience. His eyesfell upon the newspaper that was ly-
ing spread out before him, and he readthe sentence, "A kind, cheerful wordspoken ia a gloomy house Is the littlerift in the cloud that lets the suushlnethrough."
Lee struggled with himself awhilelonger. His own ill-natu- re had to beconqured first ; his moody accusingspirit had to be subdued. Hethoughtof many things to say, and yet hefeared to say them, lest his wifeshould meet his advances with a rebuff. At last, leaning toward her andtaking a hold upon the shirt-boso-
at which she was at work, he said, ina voice that was carefully modulatedwith kindness :
"You are doing your work beauti-fully, Mary."
Mrs. Lee made no reply. But herhusband did not fail to notice thatshe lost, almost instantly, the rigidearnestness with which she had beensewing, nor that the motion of herneedle had ceased.
"My shirts are better made andwhiter than those of any other manin the shop," said he, encouraged togoon.
"Are they ?Mrs. Lee's voioe was low and husky.
She did not turn her face, buther husband saw that she leaned alittle toward him. He had brokenthe ice of reserve, and all was noweasy. His hand was among theolouds, and a feeble ray wa9 alreadystruggling through the rift it hadmade.
"Yes, Mary," he answered, softly;"and I've heard it more than oncowhat a good wife Andrew Lee musthave."
Mrs. Lee turned her face toward herhusband. There was something lightin her eye. But there was somethingin the expression of her countenancethat puzzled him a little.
'Do you thinkso?" sheasked, quitesoberly.
"What a queer question !" ejaculat-ed Andrew Lee, starting up and go-
ing round to the side of tho tablewhere his wife was sitting. "What aqueer question, Mary!" he repeated,us he stood before her.
"Do you ?" was all she said."Yes, darling!" was his warm-spoke- n
answer, as ho stooped downand kissed her. "How strange thatyou should ask me such aquestion."
"If you would tell me so now andthen, Andrew, it would do me good."Mrs. Lee arose, and leaning her faceagainst the manly breast of her hus-band, stood and wept.
What a strong light broke on themind of Andrew Lee! He had nevergiven his wife even tho small rewardof praise for the loving iuterest shehad manifested daily, until doubt ofhis love had entered her soul, andmadis the light around her thick withdarkness. No wonder that her facegrew clouded, or that what he con-
sidered moodiness and ill nature, tookpossession of her spirit.
"You are good and true, Mary, myown dear wife. I am proud of you,and my great desire is for your hap-piness. O, if I could always see yourface in sunshine, my home would bethe dearest place on earth."
"How precious to me are yourwords of love aud praiso, Andrew,"said Mrs. Lee, smiling up throughher tears into his face. "With themin my ears, my heart can never lie ina shadow.
How easy had been the work forAndrew Lee! He had swept hishand accross tho cloud' horizon, andnow the bright sunshine was stream-ing' down and flooding that homewith joy aud beauty.
"Why don't Yon Respond 1
Old Judge W- - -- ,of -- , in theold Domion, is a character. He wasfrequently lawyer, legislator, judgeand leading politician among the oldtime Whigs, of blessed memory; but,alas ! like them his glory has depart-ed, and, like many others of his con-
freres, has "gone where the woodbinetwineth." Notwithstanding tho lossof properly, and tho too free uso of"applejack," ho maintained the dig-
nity of ex-judg- e, dressed neatly, car-
ried a gold headed cane, and when hebad taken more than his usual allow-
ance of his favorite bevorago, ho wasvery pious, at such times attendingchurch, and sitting near the stand aserectly as circumstances would admit,and responding fervently.
Oa one occasion a Baptist brotherwas holding forth, with energy andunction, on the evils of the times, andin oneof his flights, exclaimed, "showme a drunkard."
The Judge rising to his feet and un-
steadily balancing himself on his canesaid very solemnly, "Here I am, sir,here lam!"
The Elder, though a'good deal non-
plussed by the unexpected response,managed to go on with his discourse,and soon warming to his work, againcalled out "Show me a hypocrite.Show me a hypocrite ! Show me ahypocrite!"
Judge W again arose, andreaching forward across a seat whichintervened, he touched deacon D- -
on the shoulder with hls'cane, andsaid: "Deacon D., why don't you re-
spond ? I did when they called me."
What is it which has three feet andno legs, is all body but no limbs, hasno toes on its feet, no head, moves agreat deal, and never uses its feet forthat purpose, has one foot at each endand the other in thecentre of its body?This is a queer creature in some re-
spects, and is very popular among theladies and some men. It never walksout, but goes with one foot where itshead might be, dragging the other be-
hind. These feet have nails but notoes, no heel and no bone in the foot.
A yard measure.
The new cattle distemper in Eng-land is called the "foot and mouthdisease." The same thing ha pre-
vailed in this country among states-
men for years past. Its principal fea-
ture, and that which gives It its nameis that the victim can't open hismouth without putting his foot intoIt.
The happiest moments In a woman'slife are when she is making her wed-
ding garments ; the saddest when herhusband comes home late at nightaud yells to her from the front stepsto throw him out some key-hole- s, as-
sorted sizes. Detroit IUee Press.
Fully two-thir- ds of tho letters thatreach the Dead-lett- er Offlce get therebecause women have an insane desireto write a beautiful, fine band.
OUR XEW YORK LETTER.
Heat, Dust and Peaches Business-Co- st
of Coming to New YorkCrime Ralston, the
Dead Banker-Polit-ics.
Correspondence Nebraska Advertiser.
New York, Sept. 13, 1875.
HEAT, DUST AND PEACHES.
Fervid heat and intolerable dustmark tho opening of September, andraise many a longing sigh as we readof the frosts and bracing weather Inthe Northwest. Water-cart- s peram-bulate the streets all day long, icecream is the staple article of diet, andthe baskets of spotted peaches leftby tho glut In the market, raise but afeeling of satiety. The genius whowould invent a way to get rid ofpeaches here this year would callforth the thanks of dealers. It is un-
fortunate that they can't bo sent byballoon to tho desolate West, whosepeach orchards bear uo longer. Theywould serve a doublo purpose bb bal-
last and freight while the cool-
ness of the upper atmospherewould preserve their freshness in highflavor. Peaches might be sent overuight from Now York to Chicago, andthe prevailingodor of the markets andwharves considerably improved there-by. Venders hold very fair fruit atten cents the half-pec- k, piled andrunning over, while the baskets areselling from fifty to' sixty cents.Peach ice cream is a popularjdelicacy,with the comforting persuasion thatpure fruit is used for flavoring it.While speaking of the products ofthis part of the country, it maj' bementioned that clamsare unusuallyfine this season, a faotwhioh rejoicesthe hearts of politicians mightly.
BUSINESS.
Were tho season as propitiousin business as it is in nature, therewoulld be nothing left to wish. Buttho ghastly list of failures In eachmorning's papers makes businessmen look sick ; aud there Is a cleuoh-Ing- of
bands and looking out for theworst that Is not healthy in tho chilland fever weather of Septemher.The only people who look at all atease are the bankrupts. The worstis over now with them, nndthere remains the fresh start, sot offby the prospeot of hoarding carefullyall profits'for yearsTto come, to pay Infull the creditors who compoundedfor 50 cents on the dollar.
Every day brings its regular list offailures. This week the' great bookfirm of Lee & Shepherd, Boston,went under, taking with it their NewYork house, liabilities, $600,000, as-
sets not 3et known. But It Is to thocredit of our business men that theyare doing everything in their powerto raise the fallen firm and set it onits feet again. The publishers in NowYork, who are tho principal creditors,say to them "Pay what you can andgo on," which they will do. This iswhat honesty and Integrity is worth.Lee & Shepherd fail from no fault oftheir own, and they struggled despar--
ately for three years before they wentdown. They lost $225,000, In goodhard earned money, In tho Bostonfire, aud tho depression in business,and the shrinkage iu values, finallybrought them to their knees. Thethousands of people who have readOliver Optic, and tho other authorsthey have brought out, will bo glad toknow that they will probably resumein ten days. Such men cannot longbe kept down. Friend Pitts, tho well-know- n
Broadway ladies' furnishinggoods man, went by the board Wed-nesday, and Thursday, Union Adams,the bettor-know- n mens furnisher, fol-
lowed suit. These are the best known,but there are a dozen a day in theCity.
But despite this the business menfeel a slight revival of their hopes.Whether it will last, remains to boseen, but It is certain that there is anIncrease in business for the last week.There area great many merchants inthe city, and they are buying thoughnot extensively. They peem to be"sorting up," rather than buying fullstocks, but even that is bettor thannothing. The wheels are moving, ifthey do creak.
But I do not believe that New Yorkwill ever again have the trade it onceheld.
IT COSTS TOO MUCH
to come to New York to do business ;
and for a part of their loss of trade themerchants may charge tho hotels audthe parasites that hang about them.For instance, if a country merchantcomes here, ho wants and ought tobring his wife. At any hotel he wouldcare to stop at, the rate per day is $4.50
$9.00 for the two and as ho can'tget a waiter to do anything decent forhim without a fee, his daily expenseswill mount up to quite $12 per day.If he wants to go to a theater, he isswindled out of $1.50 for each seat,and as for a hack to go to the Park, $S
is the lowest and $10 aud $12 are common. In short, a ten day's stay woulduse up the but-en- d of $250, to eaynothing of the expenses of comiugand going. Everybody digs Intohim, for they never expect to see himagain.
Of course they can't afford It, andof course they don't. They go toChicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Tole-do, and the other big points in the in-
terior, where $50 will go farher than$150 will here. The hotel and res-
taurant keepers dont seem to realize1 that the war is over, for they are
charging war prices for eveything.Tomatoes ore not worth twenty-fiv- e
cents a bushel in tho markets; but ata first-clas- s restaurant you are madeto pay forty cents a plate for sliced to-
matoes. Beef is as oheap as dirt, butnevertheless a decent steak at a res-
taurant costs you from GO cents to $1.75,and the proprietors never blush. NewYork will never trade again till allthese thiuga are reformed.
CRIME.
The records of the week read likeone long list of horrors. Burglary,murder, and suicide follow each otherso rapidly, that it needs strong nervesto read the dailies with tholr list ofwoo. Since New York abolished thesystem of Metropolitan Police, ap-
pointed by a board ",con trolled by theState Legislature at Albany, too faroff to bo influenced by small local in-
terests, and put its safety Into thobauds of low ward politicians, whocontrol present police appointments,that safety is sot much better thanthat of ancient Sodom not wishingto speak harshly of those who havesuffered their fate. I mentioned "aweek ago, this iucldent: On a rainyevening not long since, a gentlemanwas walking down Lexington Ave-nue, one of tho quietest streets of thetown, was set upon by two roughs,one of whom snatched his handsomewatch and ohain worth five or sixhundred dollars. The gentlemanseized tho thief, nnd was gotting thebetter of him, when tho policeman ofthe beat came up to tho help of thothelves, and began thumping himover ,the hoad with his club, till howas forced to let go his hold of thorobber, who fled with his booty. Thogentleman made his way down-tow- n
and entered his club covered withblood, his head cut opon by the po-
liceman's blows, a pretty picture forcentre of civilization in the nineteenthcentury. When he went to the In-
spector of polico for redress, he wascalled on to Identify the policeman ;
but as on the night of the assault thatworthy had been wrapped in Have-loc- k
and waterproof, it was impossibleto detect him and all the comfort thecomplainant had was a jeering laughfrom the inspector, and tho brutal an-
swer that he must have boon toodrunk that night to tako caro of hisown watch, aud lost it.
Occurrences of this nature are ng
alarmingly frequont. Thopolico nssert that tho increase of crimeIs attributable to the number of menout of work, but they'llo when theysoy so. Tho work done by foot-pa- ds
and burglars shows tho work of skilled men. The fact Is the police are Inpartnership with" tho thieves. Noneare caught. Tho burglars who killedNoo are still at large, and no cluo hasbeen found to them ; and the samemay be said of every case that has oc-
curred. Tho Investigation now Inprogress, it Is hoped, will do some-thing toward remedying this perplexed condition of things. No decentman feels safe at night In New Yorkwithout his pistol or sword-can- o. Thoonly hope of a better state of things Isto have the present grow worse, tillhonest oitizens are obliged, in self-defenc- e,
to assert themselves, and takethe rulo out of the hands of tho d,
reckless class who have gothold of it. If good mon are too buyor too careless to look after publio interests, there are plenty of worse oneswho are glad to do so.
The Death ofRalston,the San Francisco banker is not felteast as It is In the State where he wasa leading power. When the news ofthe failure of the Bank of Californiaand the terrible death of its Presidentcame to the city there was a flutter,but that was 'all. California docs herbusiness direct with Europo and Asia,without the Intervention of NewYork, and failures there have but lit-
tle effect here. A few houses havinging branches in San Francisco werehurt, and the Chinese residents of thecity were touched, but nothing serioushappened. Had such a failure occurredin St. Louis or Chicago, it would haveshook things.
Politics.John Morrissey has locked horns
with Taramauy In dead earnest, audthere is going to boa struggle. Theprize-fight- er and gambler heads onofaction of tho Democracy in this city,and a much worse man beads theother. They hate each other so cor-
dially that I don't believe It possiblefor them to get together at all ; and ifthe respectability of the city had senseenough to take advantage of the situ-ation, they might capture It and gotdecent government once more. Butthey won'tdoit. They have thoirgoodsto sell, nud Saratoga to visit, and pri-
mary meetings are annoying thingsto manage; and so they will stick toto their merchandise and let thethieves govern them. At least thisis what thoi always have done, and Isee no indications of a change for thebetter. Possibly the condition of thecity may spur them to action, but Irather think it is not quite bad enoughyet. Nothing less than a Tweed canmake it hot enough for them.
Pietro.
"Never mind, sonny. The rainmakes boys grow," remarked a Mas-
sachusetts tramp the other day, whenhe took a silk umbrella from a lad inthe midst of a rain storm.
"Have animals a sense tf humor"asks an owlish exchange. Certainlythey have. You'll always find thatjackasses are ready to laugh immod-erately at the poorest jokes.
HANGMAN'S DAY.
Six Men Hnng on One Scaffold All
Meet their Fate with Stoical In-
difference Some of them
plead Innoconce A Missou
rlan who has killed
more than lie lias
time to men-
tion.
Little Rock, Ark., Sept. 3. Adispatch by courier from Fort Smithto the Atlas, forty miles distant fromtho nearest telegraph station, statesthat the hanging of six men at thatplace to-da- y passed off quietly. Thocondemned men wero brought out athalf-pa- st nine o'clock and ascendedthe scaffold at ten. All showed nerveand refueed to make any confession.Moore said he was a game man audwould die game. Fooy said he was asanxious to go ns the spectators wore toeee him go. Wbittlngtou said nothing. Evans also ald nothing. Camp-bell and MarkiUor Bald they'were in-
nocent.Tho six men-wer- e sentenced at the
last term of tho Federal Court. Therewere eight sentenced at thesametime : one was killed afterwards whileattempting to escape, aud the sentenceof the other was commuted to impris-onment for life. Tho namoB of thosewho wore hung wero Jas. H. Moore,white; Daniel H. Evans, white; SainW. Fooy, quarter Cherokee ; Smokerthe Mankiller, a full-blood- ed Chero-kee; Edward Campbell, colored , Jno.Whittington, white. The gallowswasoroctod inside the walls of theoldfort, the platform being fourteen byfifteen feet.
Smoker, the Mankiller, the fuHblood, was but eighteen years old; hohad a wifo and ohlld. On the first ofSeptember, 1874, he murdered ajwhlteman named Wm. Short. Ho stoutlyasserted his Innocence In a writtenstatement. Ho charged the witnesswho testified against him with por-jur-y.
Ho had very black hair, wasstoutly built, low forohead and "staredhis fate in tho face" with tho usuallndlfference'of tho Indian.
James H. Moore wos twent3-seve- n
yoars old, tall and flno-lookln- g, holdand daring. He was n native of John-ston county, Mo., but removed toTexa3 when a child, whore ho grewup on the frontier as a murderer, high-wayman and horse-thie- f. When cap-tured aml'sentenced to be hung, heboasted that ho had killed eight whitemen, "and Indians aud negroes toonumerous to mention. He olaimed tobe the best shot In tho west. Ho hada wife and onejehild living in Toxas.As a desperado and outlaw ho was thobost representative In the lot.
Samuel" W. Fooy, quarter bloodCherokee,fwa3 a native of Ft. Smith,twenty-oigh- t years old, well educatedmarried and had three children. Hisfamily resided near Webber's Falls.In July, 1S72, he murdered a youngman named Neff for three hundreddollars. Ho confessed tho crime.
Daniel II. Evans was a haudsomeyoung man of twenty years, a nativeof Tennessee. He had respectableconnections in Missouri, Tennesseeand Texas. Ho murdered a mannamed Seaboltln November last, nearEnfaula, Creek Nation. He admittedthat ho had associated with outlaws,and, in connection with two others,robbed a wealthy man in tho CreekNation of $32,000. $25,000 of which hesays is burled In Basque county, Tex-as. He saj--a he stuck a pine knot inhis victim's flesh and set it on fire tocompel him to tell where his moneywas. When he was sentenced hesmilingly rose and thanked the courtfor the courtesy shown him.
Whittington was;a nntive of Geor-gia, Taylor county ; was thirty yearsold and had three children ; he mur-dered a man named John J. Turner,in February last, In the Chickasaw na-tion ; the son of Turner appearedabout the time of murder and captur-ed him; bodied penitent and resigned.
Campbell, the colored boy, was agedtwenty, and a native of the Choctawnation ; he, in connection with twoothers, killed LawaonRoss and MariaMoKinney on the 13th of February,1875. Some trouble arose between thoparties at a prayer meeting, when thethree went to the house of Roas andthe woman and shot them.
All six of these parties were launch-ed into eternity at the same time.Marshal Fugan and his deputies su-
perintended tho execution. The gal-lows was erected close up and in frontof the old building. Just over thetrap was a strong rope, aud the beamwas framed on postB aud firmly braced.The six men wero placed In line,standing side by side.
A North'CarolIna editor will dresshis paper in mourning for $10 if anyone dies, aud his liberal terms haveendeared him to the heart of a wholecounty.
A Boston murderer, in consequenceof his poor health, wants his execu-tion delayed.
A little girl of four or five 3'earsasked her mother ono day if she hadnot seen Col. Porter.
"No, my child," was the replj, "hodied before 3ou were born.''
"Well, but, mamma," she insisted,"if he went up before I came down,we must have met'.'
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