Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 15, 1881, Page 2

~ - THE DEAD AND LIVING Washington's Grief for Garfleld and Regard for Arthur. The Feeling of the Colored Peo- ple Over the Tragedy— 1'he Stricken Family How the New President is Gain- ing Friends Washington Correspondence Philadelphia Pros The degree to which our colored population have made the prevailing grief pre-eminently their own is ¢ acteristically dramatic somati half ludicrous, They make up forty per cent. of our numerical whole. They come in like a Greck chorus to supplement every siately or startling scense with their quaint, original views and exaggerated emotions, Wo divide very evenly with them on the great occasions that attract tho gilded crowd, we taking the inside and giv- ing them the outside. We eat the pulp of the _orange and cast to them the rind. But they take their mea- gre, shabby. portion with an esprit de corps that puts the murdering soul to shame. When the Fourth of July came, which you know the capital spent in unwonted, supernatural quiet, one poor colored mother, too ignorant and remote to have heard that noisy demonstrations had been forbidden on the streots by the city authoritios, was, nevertheless, a law unto her family in the matter. Her little ragged urchin had had a bunch of fire-crackers given him that he was just going out in great pomp and glee to fire off with his comrade-urchins on the pavement. ‘John Wesley,” slie ejnculated, laying a vigorous hand on his shoulder, “do yopu tink I'm gwine to hab you squeechin’ around on de streot wid yer firin’ when do President’s chillun is a weopin' and « mournin’inde White House? T’ would- n't be becomin', Here, you (opening the back coor), go way wid you into de back yard, aud don't. let me hear a whimper from ye." And: John Wesley went, mmuid, a shrewd aud capable old Washingtonian _ sepvant and a devout, womber of the Ausbury Colored Church (M. E.), where they get the Holy Ghyst power every watch-night and jump a foot high from the floor, has taken the national burden very much to heact, It was hor rare good fortune to be introduced to General Garfield ouce when serving at a wed- ding which he attended here when he came on after his nomination at Chi- cago, and the fact has made her an oraclein high-toned sable-circles. It has taken a great- many ‘‘Oh! my bressed Lord'sl” to get her througn the three sorrowful mouths. When ‘Coup’s Circus marched into the city yesterday . [she = said, ndignantly, ““What's dat; tomfoolery comin’ into dis town for, when we's jess had a fu- neral in ebery house?” ¢‘He'd better a-died when le was a baby,” she muttored to herself this morning in my chamber, breaking a long silence. “Whot Martha,”' T asked. officer last spring, and who have call ed upon him recently at the residenco of Senator Jones, say that few gentle men of such ecleganco of demeanor have ever filled the presidntial chair. When King Kalakaua, his prime minister, and his Jord high chamberlain paid respects to him Wedneaday, Senator Ingalls had just called, and by request of President Arthur he remained to as- sist in entertaining his bronzemagesty and suite. He says nothing could be finer than the president’s manner to- ward them. Senator Jones' residence noar the capitol, now the private headquarters of the administration, is owned by General Benjamin F. But- ler, who built it five or six years ago. It is situated on the brow of Capitol Hill, a solid, attractive mansion of slate-colored stone, with a wide baron- ial hall in the centre. The internal finishing and the furnishing are very handsome, and whoever goes thore gaina an impression of the atmosphere of statcly courtesy thut surrounds the master of the house. Senator Jones personally has the confidence and respect of all factions and of both wartics, President Arthur cou Imvu chosen more favorabl under which to come at th into Jus new honors, This will be a consistent and self-respecting adminis- tration and cne that will know how to command the respect of the people, a factforAmericans to congratulate them- selves upon. You cannot conjure in a dead man’s name, and it were child- ish to attempt it. As to the retiring cabinet, sometimes called ‘‘the ideal cabinet,”” it was really an cxperiment- al cabinet, and would undoubtedly have heen reconstructed in part by President Garficld before January had he lived. T am one of the many who will bo personally sorry if Secre- tary Blaine retires, and who also re- gret unfeiguedly that Attorney Gener- ul and M#s. MacVeagh are no longerto beapart of official Washington, Mrs. MacVeagh has shed lustre on the worn paths of this ephemeral whirl that is called “high life it Washington."” Sincere and gracious and kindly, there is a ‘‘noblesse oblige” about her man- ner that is quite the antipodes of the crude assumption of superiority that we often have to tolerate in the wives of mew cabinet officers, those whose early cnlture has been detective. THE LADIES OF THE ADMINISTRATION. While the politician are onthie anxious seat to know who are to be the in- coming cabinet, a lady correspondent may be pardoned an'equal solicitude a8 to who will be the incoming ladies of the administration, they whose re- coptions and otheér social observances must form the staple of many de- scriptive letters to our papers, Much regrot i expressed, especially innaval circles, that Mrs. Arthur, the gifted and beloved wife of the president, could not have lived to preside over the executive mansion. She was a daughter of Lieutenant William L. Herndon, United States Navy, who served in the Mexican war, and after- ward acquired new laurels by his ex- ploration of the Amazon. Captain Davis, United States Navy, who was o midshipman under him on a cruise in the frigate Constitution, described him to me as a msn rather small of statare, with large, intellectual head HA THE OMA and it appeared that there was indeed reason to fear the town would be the scene of blood-letting on the Fourth. Arkansaw Jack, The Kid, Seven- shooter Jim and others, all nlrinkin;f men, would be in from the range: and Baker Andy, with his arm in s sling, had declared his intention of getting even with certain_ones on that day. Indeed, his grudge against cortain ones was well-tounded. Falling under atable in & drunken stupor, it was at onco found by those present, only less drunk than le, that Baker Andy’s right arm was broken. At this they pulled and twisted for sev- eral moments, then hound it in barrcl staves with a half inch rope; and thus Andy found himself when the sun, hours high, had blistered his face, and his boarders, one after another, had come in for a breakfast and dinuer, that were yet to be prepared. For a week the arm was held as in a vice. Then a doctor happencd along who, after exam n, pronounced the un- expected decision that the arm was not broken or even hurt, except by the npvel treatment, In the mean time Andy’s means of getting a living had vanished like snow before a warm rain, He was very indignant. “They'll get a oyster under theeye, T bean thinking,” he said. On the third day of July the ‘‘boys" came in from the range. As they rode down the street —burros, mules and other pack animals ahead loaded down with camp plunder, and each with a very smutty frying pan atop the lond—the friends of the party fol- lowed to where a stop was sure to be made. Greotings were exchanged in & hearty manner. ““What luck, Jack?’ 0, I've some tasty-looking ore in my pack. She shows metal, you bet!” “That's what she do,” said Jack's partner. “‘Soo anything of Daye?” “What—Dave Melcher! He's in Quartztown, Dave's got a fine thing at last.” “T'he h--1he has ! mo one-half of the made.” ‘‘Got any papers?” ‘No."” Dave promised next claim he. “You'll ba struck by lightning be- fore you get nnxth\ng out of that prospect, Ireckon,” * There was but Little unpacking be- AILY BEE It is noon in the town of this sketch Up the steep hill come oxen drawing the heavy ore wagons. They barely meve, Ang(hn'r drivers’ whips sound the sharp alarm with every foot that is conquered. A dog with as- sorted sizes of tin cans at his lreels whirls through the one street of the camp, There is a mild clamor of bells calling dinner. All this makes an aggregate. of sounds loud enough to awaken a man who soon steps to the door of a Mexican hakel whore liquor is sold - a guardiente, A conspicuous tuft of red hair, much awry, bristles from his forehead. He looks up and down, blinks and rubs his eyes; inquires the date in curt Mexican with an Irish flavor. Being told, his hands go up to his head with a smart slav, “And I went in here for a' Mexican deputy on the avening of the third!” How sad, how true! Judge Ryan had been the only man to ‘‘celebrate” that Fourth in the camp; had, indeed, in his own words, been hell-arious! Years of Suffering. Mrs, Barnhart, corner Pratt and Broad- way, Buffalo, was for twelve years a suf- forer from rheumatism, and ‘after trying every known_rvemedy without avail, was entirely cured by Thomus' Eelectric Oii, 10e0d Lw _— TRUE TO HER TRUST. . Too much cannot be said of the ever faithful wife and mother, con- stautly watching and caring for her dear ones, never neglecting a single duty in their behalf. When thoy are assailed by discase, and the system should have a thorough cleansing, the stomach and bowels regulated, blood purified, malarial poison exterminated, she must know that Electric Bitters |, are the only sure remedy. They ar the best and purest medicine in the world, and only cost fitty cents. Sold by Ish & McMaho 2) TACORS ] TRADE fore by common consent, ohe and all stepped into & saloon. The tired ani- mals strayed about, picking at grass, while within their owners discussed the probable attractions of the Fourth —the first the camp had ever known —and the liquor, “Any money in the camp?”’ asked one, “The company pays off to-mor- row."” “That'll do for me.” Ah! what w joy they felt at the prospect ‘before them. Not a man had any fear, though battles have been fought with less bLloodshed than might be: seen in this little camp, crushed into a crevice ot one of na- ture’s deepest wrinkles. How they slapped cach other’s backs from good feeling; how warn-hearted each felt; there wasn't a dog ‘‘tin canned” i ——— all that day. “‘Lmoy,” said the think you'd bef ster, *T 8 P to the “De man dat shot de President,” she wered, addivg energeticaly, “Deyld botter him' oved to we cullud wimmin, “We'd take care of dat brudder, Weo wouldn't leave enough of him to hang.” AN AYFECTING INCIDENT. If the phencmenal outflow of hu- man sympathy, v hose tide has not yet fairly ebl shall tend to make us who have helpea to swell it kinder and better toward other henrts that bleed, well and good. But if we sub- stitute our share in it for those nearer but equally sacred duties; if we say to the afflicted poor arcund us, ' “It is Corban, a gift, by whatsoever thon mightest bo profited by me,” then wo are a wretched sct of frauds in God's zight. T call to mind a noble nature of whom it is far otherwise. Ona dark day in cur President's fate the the first duy on which we heard dis- couraging news from Elberon, Gener- al Walker, Superintendent of the Cen- sus, was passing homeward heavy- hearted from his oftice duties, for he loved General Garfield tenderly. By chance he saw within an open door- way a tiny coffin, tho coffin of a 3-year-old octoroon child whom he sometimes had stopped to speak n kind word to as she J)lnyed upon the street. The little maid soon knew his cordial voice, and buta few days before her death sho lad rushed from her basement home ‘to show him her new doll, her modest contribution to the census. He in silently where the coffin and stood beside her little, waxen' body. I met him there, for the child was a pet of mine, my lowly little neighbor. I held her in somo such rd as one might hold a neighborl kitten, little thinking how soon death would endow her image with his own majesty. The General spoko softly and reverently of the little spirit, then told me in few words of a daughter of the same age whom he had buried, and ashe named her I noticed the quick tears spring to his eyes, ,Soon he bowed and passed out as quickly as he entered. An hour later a servant brought to the house of mourning with a card addressed in his hand: writing, a rich and costly floral wreath, an offering as elegant as if made to the child of his nearest friend. They laid it on the plain little coffin, and it rested there with tender grace ~—as royal a gift in_its way as was the Queen's wreath [lator saw on the stately coffiu of our President, “‘In. asmuch as ye have done it unto one of these, {a have done it unto me;” and in the ingdfir_n that %nylfi:ink Chx‘:lht were upon His sacred ~vestments the !urfunu of those flowers of chari- y: THE NEW CHIEP MAGISTRATE, 0ld Washi n congratulates it ullnfh:nav rosident who will at- tend nbus:h ::'( u‘I::‘: u(nErlipr chief am el L) Plsco] historic, that fmulup:hl)«; executive mansion, with Lafayetto park lying between. President Ar- Was at service there the morning of gmnl'.flulcld;l funeral, and is soon select & for permanent ocou- pauey. 'l‘#:r: isa deal to ad- mire and be loyal to in the courteous, d new president. ‘Before long nariau, but kindly of heart, and ?I‘U Christian;/ much beloved pn lis rother officers, and both low! d venerated by the sailors before the mast, In his day the rank of lieu- tenant was relatively higher, for the grades of lieutenant commander, commodore, rear admiral, vice ad- miral and admiral have since been added to the service. A captain could in those days command a squad- rou. But the pay of these gallant men was meagre, Lieutonant Hern- don, with his splendid record, had but $1,600 a year on which to support a growing family, and being invited by George Law to take command of one of his steamers to run between Cha- gres and New York, at a salary twice as great, he asked a gentleman, who is my informant, now a pay-director in the navy and at that time a power pnder the Pierce administration, to request leave of Secretary Dobbin for him to make the tran fer. The leave beinsg granted, he was given command of the George Law, which had been refitted and her name changed to the Central America, but she was old and inadequate to the strain of that long and dangerous route, On a home passage to New York, in 1854 or '3b, in a fearful gale off Cape Hatteras (if my informaut remembers the locality. correctly), she went to pieces, and her gallant commander, intent on saving the lives aboard, so far as possible, in preference to his own, took off his wateh from his person as the last crowded boat-load was moving off, and saying to a trusty subordinate, ‘‘Give this to my wife,” he calmly went down with his ship. A monument to his heroism is erected on the grounds of the naval academy at Annapolis, Mrs. Arthur died eatly in 1879, ~ Her son, now 17 years of age, inherits the stature of his father and the winsome blonde beauty of his mother, A daughtor of 12 is the remaining mem- ber of the president’s household, EmmA Jones, and spectacled ayes; a strict dilcifi:' Life in & Mining Camp, Dotroit Froe Pross. A tuft of hair, red, flared up from a hoad otherwise bald and nfiiny a8 polished marble, A red shirt, panta- loons of ‘‘California broadeloth,” heavy boots, a broad-brimmed hat, held in the hand for the present mo- ment—this was yesterday, you remem- ber—-made up the ouwward presence of him who was the only judge of the town of ——, However, in these timos wo are all near uuighlmn, and it will not become any one to name names, even of unfeeling collections of l!otlw ll:lriuk :l:r wood. *Well, judge, you're looking sorter o du’ dge, y g ‘‘Thomas, me boy, let me see you one minnit,"” The two stopped a little to one side u{ the streot currents that flowed, with more or less friction, in this min- mg"'[::'mp. 3 ; 8 my intention to kape the pace always,” said the judge, mln a r';::n- ness of brogue that eleven years from Cork had robbed of the true flavor. *‘Now, the company pays off on the mornin’ of the Puur?l‘x—‘undenhndl ‘The hoys will be hell-arious. What do yeou think of me appinting noine or tin 1 N‘:nutn bo ashamed Wh have to office wit! the grudging welcome that ullud'nn deputics for the dayi” m;‘l{.:lluw, judge, it would be jist the ‘:Thin 1 name you for ene t'wunst.” The talk continued some minutes, means,” B 0, Robert, do you think any wi be killed, as there were at Christmas time?” Mrs. Postmaster spoke in real alarm, € Ot course I don't know, Lucy. Judge Ryan has appointed several deputies, and—" %0, Judge Ryan! I believe he'd get drunk bimself if he dared.” The postmaster wisely refrained from argument, and their talk took other subjects. All day on the third the judge was most active. He was everywhere. Not a deputy had a chance to feel faint-hearted, Beforc one re- alized it the tuft of red hair halted before him, and the judge braced him from every side. An at- mosphere of moral courage surround- i w A pt 'night.” ed him wherever his small but vigor- ous figure was seen. Whitewinged peace seemed {or once to be preparing the holiday in the camp. And yet many felt it to be but the lull before the storm, they were sure must break out. They who had that feeling were, for the greater part, mostly women—women of & kind who did not see the ‘‘fun’ there was when a crazy, drunken man emptied his re- volver of 1ts cartridges, impartially sonding them sometimes among the just and the unjust. “Whin the first ‘pop’ is shown, go for that man t' wunst; kill him if you must, but kape the pace.” It was the judge's—or, shall ~we sayl—peace ory. But man proposes and God dis- poses. At 6 o'clock p. m, on the third, when 300 tired men, smutted with gunpowdor, bespattered with candle grease, and with fingers stiff from holding drills or striking them, came up out of their damp holes in Silver Bearing rock, the Jjudge was not in sight. *‘Ah! where was he?” was an anxious question. At 10 o'clock that night, when the depu- ties met, not one could say he had seen him for soveral hours. "Had he been ‘‘made way with"” or shut up somewhere! This last suggested a cowmic picture, with a very wrathy per- son in the foreground, but no picture in the lnius could dispel the very great anxiety, The deputies began to lean on each other for moral support -and found none, There was not 80 little as a tuft of red hair to be had for their encouragement. "The peace body, as a whole bogan to dlgixnwgnm; its backbone was weak- ening fast, bending now; would it break? It did break—and then so crumbled and dissolved that the judge himself could not have made it whole again, ““I don’t reckon Fourth of July is healthy in this section anyhow; and I aim to have bizness out on my ranche to-morrow,” said n deputy. “Did you have a hard day, and was anyone killed, Robert?” is was on the Gth, and the two were riding to- ward home. “Not so very; of course we worked hard” (a man's way ‘of fibbing), *OFf course,” “And then, too, what helped some, the uolupnn{ didn't pay off after all.” _ ‘'Oh, that was . And so0 the judge had all this trouble for nothing.” “'We can't find the judge.” FOR RHEUMATISH, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, Backmchp, Soreness of tho Chest, Gout, Quinsy, Sore Throat, Swell- ings and Sprains, Burns and SATURDAY OCTOBER 15, Buidock P BrLoop BITTERS Mre. J. 0. 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