Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 1, 1885, Page 4

YHE DAILY BEE.| @mana Ovrion No, 14 axp 918 Fanwax By, ew Yonx Ovmon, Roox 65 Tarsuxa Buno- e, liehed overy morning, wlh onday moraiog asiy pu [ Aoy The Weekly Bee, Publihsed every Sundsy. The Tabe state. THE MURDEROUS APAOCHES, It was supposed tbat General Crook's lenient polley towards the murderous Apaches would have the effect of keep- Ing them contented and peacefal, but it ssems that they do not appreciate kind treatment. The recent outrages com- mitted by a portion of the Chirleatus Apaches, under the leadership of Gero- nimo, have led to considersble criticlsm 9 | of General Orook's policy, and there Is & eations relating be News and Editerial smblage Should e sddressed o Ahe Kniten oF TR [~ WoRDORSS LETTRRS. YEE BEB PUBLISHING €0, Props. R ROSEWATER, Eprrom L, T Mansger Daily Olroulation, 2.5, B 438 Omaay Neb. OUR LINCOLN BRANCH OFFICE We have this day established in the clty of Liucoln a branch office of the Omaha Daily Bee. We recognizs the tact that Lincoln is not only a growing and prosperous olty, but that it is also sn important news center. The object of locating » branch office there 1s to supply the readers of the Bze all the news that oan be obtained at the state capital, which will be recelved in Omaha by mail and telegraph. Ouor Lincoln burean will be in- charge of Mr. Charles W. Gonlding, an experlenced newspaper man, and we can assure the readers of the Bzr that henceforth they will besupplied with al the state capital news, together with much other interesting Information from that quarter. Tur census takers will bo eure to find the irrepresaible dog at home. —_— TENNYSON'S wreath upon the coffin of Viotor Hugo was much more appropriate than an effusion of Tenoyszonlan poetry would have been. SuNDAY base ball playing has recelved a black eye in Cleveland. The statute forbldding such sports on Sunday is being striotly enforced. THE police court {s now located in a business building and will as wusual, be conduc ed on business principles. The offenders must elther put up or be shut up. Boyp WINCHELTER, the new minister to Switzerland, is not the Inventor of the Winshester rifle, but asa poker player, ke has repeatedly rifled the pockets of many an adversary. AvorHeR party of Mormon converts, 400 in all, has just landed in New York, The question seems to be not so much whether the Mormons wlll go, asit is whether they will ever stop coming, Some one has ditcovered that the eagle on the “dollar of the daddies” colned in 1878 has eight feathers in his tail instead of he usual number of seven. This {5 a republican dollar—aors of elght to seven affalr, Tuk fuveral of Victor Hugo, in Parls, to-day, will be a great event. It will be patticipated In by the wrlters, orators, statesmen, palnters, eculptors, actors, singers, and the people generally of the Feench capital, YouNa SPRECKLES, son of the sugar king, is now on trial in San Francisco for hls murderous assault upon M. H, De Young, of the Chronicle. Ina case of this kind a great deal depends upon “sugar,” and the chances ara that it will be a contest between money and justice, with a favorable prospect for the defeat of the latter. — e AurnouGE Mr, Hay, awslstant post- master general, Is sn invalid, he can chop off the heads of postmasters just as readily es & man in perfect health. He recontly decapitated eighty-elght post- masters In one day, and it is intlmated that he hopes to be able to make the average number one hundred a day. The democrats think he ls the right man in the r'ght place, Eionr weeks after the Kansas prohib- ftory liquor law went Into cffect the thirly one licensed drug stores of Topeka recorded eales cf 11,866 pints of liquor, Apparently the effect of prohibition has been to turn the drug stores into saloons, to cut off the eale of malt liquors, and io double the consumption of whisky. In 11,866 plots of liquor there ara at least 90,000 drinks, aud that s doing a pretty brisk buslness for the Kansas capital. Tue broach between Governor Sher- man and Auditor Brown, of lowa, may poesibly be healed at an early day. The governor has redaced to writing the charges agalnst him, and has defined exsctly what ls necessary to be done on the part of the auditor to be reinstated. 1t bas been stated that the audltor would, if an opportunity were given him, make the proper accounting required by law, and it would seem that If he does this the governor will end the controversy by reatoring him to office Tue governor of Massachusetts has s'gued & law lmiting the charge for tele- phonea to threo dollars per montb, snd requliing telephone companies to furnish telephones to anybody who will pay for them, Heretofore opposition telegraph companles have not bzen allowed to use the telephone or have messiges scn’ by telephone to thelroftices. Ard yet there are s:me people who malntain that the legislaturoe bas no right to regulate the rates of public corporatlons, such as tele- phone, telegraph and railroad companies, and to prohibit discrimination on the part of such corporatione, whose legal exist- ence ls due to the leglslature. vigorous demwand that he shall now pun- Ish them for their orimes, and not let them go unwhipped of justice as he did two years ago, These Indians are the worat savages in America. They kave caused more troublethanany other Indlans in the west, and although whipped Into submlssion time and time again they will not stay whipped, Thelr perlodical ralds have been without any oanse except thelr natural love for bloodshed, and no part of the country ever suffered so much from Indigp ralds as has the wsouthwest from the Apaches, While we are[not.aware of the immediato cause of the present outbreak, we are pretty well convinced that It is simply due to thelr restless spirlt and their love of roaming adventura with the return of spring., It is two years since Geronimo and his followers made thelr last ratd, They were qulet last year, for ln the early spring they came into_the reserva- tlon upon the invitation of General COrook, They ot once settled down Into an apparant peaceful condition, and gave evidences of a desire to become civilized, In this they were in every possible way encouraged by General Crook and his offiers. It was at the request of Goneral Crook that the hostiles were per- mitted to remain on the resetvatlon un- der police control. The Chiricahuas, some five hundred in all, although nomi- nally held as prisoners, were allowed to retain thelr arms and ponies, and were in no way punished for the crimes they had ccmmitted. They were treated with the greatest consideratlon, and thelr conduct during last year led General Crook to say in his repert: The results have bsen such asto warran) the most hopeful anticipations.__The_two chiefs, Geronimo and Chato, who last year were our worst enemies, have this year made the greatest progress and possess the best tilled farms, The other Apache bands con- tinue to do excellently well, and with the ex- ception of a few who did not receive seed in time, or whose farming lands were injured by freshets, have produced large crops of vegata- bles and cereals, the surplus of which will be purchated for cash for the use of the military posts upon the reservation, I regard this as one of the most important features of any policy which has for its object the advance- ment of the savage beyond a state of vaga: bondage. He must be made to work, and he will do that with u full heart only when he gees that he canalways find 8 ready cash market for the fruits of his labor. General Crook’s policy may be the most practical and more likely to produce good results than any other among the great msjority of Indian tribes, but with the savage Apaches gunpowder in liberal doses Is about the only kind of treat- ment that will make them good Indlans. *The only good Indlap is a dead In- dian,” is a saylng that is particularly ap- plicable (to the Chiricahuas. General Crook no doubt will capture Geronimo and hls band of fifty followers, and it is hoped that when this reeult is accom- plished the marauders will be treated as any other murderers. It will not do to let them go unpunished again. They have forfelted every claim to mercy. “ANINGLORIOUS COLUMBUS.” We have recalyed » copy of Mr, Edward P. Vining’s great and scholarly work, “‘An Inglorious Columbus,” in which he eeeks to prove that Amerlca was dlecov- eredin the fifth century by Hwui Shan and a party cf Buddhist monks from Afghanistan, This volume of nearly eight hundred pages is the work of sev- eral years of close study, deep thought, and thorough research, No man but a great echolar and a philologlst could have accomplished the task, and Mr. Vining may well feel proud of the result cf his Labors. He certainly nas made a most valuable contributlon to literature, which will altract marked sttention, In the preparation ot hls work Mr, Vining bas made a special etudy of the Chinese languege, the intricacy of which would bave dlecoursged any one but a man of indomitable perseverance Former writers upon the subject of the discovery of Amerlcahave pald but little altention to the histery of the country lying In the direction and at the distance from China indlcated by the Chinese as the locatlon of the lands to which they gave the names of “Fusang” and the “Country of Women.” These lands, according to Mr, Vining's map, were in Mexlco. A careful examlvation of the description of this region of the world, glven by other authorlties, and their comparlion with the detalls of the Chinete sccount, and with the minutiae of Asiatle civilzation are almost the only mum" a3 Mr, Vining informs us, by which the troth or falsity of the Chinese records can be established, The compsrisons of this pature, made from such data as he has been able to ob!aln, revesl so many peculiar colncldences and remove 80 many difficul ddes over which earller Investigators have etumbled, that the bypothesis that the Chinese account was derlved from a traveler who had visited Mexico is, In the words of the author, ‘‘rendered almost infivitely more probable than any other conjectura that can be entertained upon the eubject.” While it is true that objections slill remain, Mr, holds that the few slate- ments that it eeems difficult to cxplain aro far ootwelghed by the evidence presented by the numerous dotsils of the account which ara proved tolbe true, The story of the early Buddhist traveler, Hwal Shen and his party of misslonaries, is kandled by Mr, eome Vining THE DAILY BEE---MONDAY JUNE 1, 1885. Vining as a lawyer would bandle a oase beforea jary. He states the facts which he expects to prove, he then produces the evidenoce from all Important witnesses and authorities, and finally mikea his de- ductions in his recapitalation. The ovidence in favor of this dlscovery of Amerioa 1s glven In great detail, and in so entertalning a manner that the atory will be found deeply intereeting from be- ginning toend. The recapitulation is cer- talnly very convinelng. It is shown that Hwui Shan In his oapacity of a mla- sionary, was oarrying out the command of Buddha to his disciples to preach his dootrine to all men without exception, This was the motive of hls journey to Mexico. The route via Ohina, Cores, Japan, the laland of Saghalien, the Kurile, and the Aleutian Islands to Alnska, and thence down the American coast, 1s shown to be a practicable route for one man or a small parly of men to take In an open row-boat or a small sall-boat. There Is but one place at which the voyager would be out of sight of land, and then only for a few hours, Furthermore, each step of the journey Is well known to the natives, so that an ardent missionary, determined to ocarry his doctrines {o the ut- most limits of the earth, would merely bave to press on from one lsland to another—being told in each of another {sland lying farther to the east—to ulti- mately find himself in Amerlea. Incl. dentally, this alongshore route shows pretty conclusively that America could have been, and no doubt was, first peo- pled by adventurous Inhabitants of the Old World. There exists In Mexlco a traditlon of Hwal Shan's visit. The re. liglous cnetoms and beliefs of the nations of Mexico, Yacatan and Central America, their pyramids, their architecture, thelr arts, thelr calendar, their daily practlees and habits, as they existed at the time of the Spanich conquest, certainly show that there must bave been some com- munication between that reglon and Asla, The people of Mexico must surely have known something o Ausiatic beliefs, customs and clvilization from some source, such as the wandering misslonarles under the direction of Hwul Shan. Mr. Vining expresses the hope that the proof that he has presented in sup- port of his assertion that Hwui Shan discovered America a thousand years be— fore it was known to Europeans will be found sufticient to induce the world to glve to this faithful missicnary of the Buddhist falth that honor to which he is entitled, 8o that he may no longer remain “‘an Inglorlous Columbue,” So far as we have been able to ¢xamine the evidence, we think DMr. Vining has made out a very good case for his client, and we belleve the great majority of persons_ who closely in- vestigate the proofs, as produced by hini, will come to the same conclusion, It will richly repay any person to carefully read Mr. Vining's work, The reader will find in it a great deal of instructive knowledge and much interzsting infor- matlon, The charge that it is a dry compilation cannot be made against ‘‘An Ioglorlous Columbus."” GaMBLING on the duratlon of ilfe, which has become a very popular business in Pennsylvania, has been pasted mpon by the supreme court of that state, which holds it to be illegal. A had his lifo in. sured for $2,000, paid assessments on the policy aggregating $185,20, and then sold and aesigned the policy to B for $65, the assignment being recognized and approved by the company. B continued to pay assessments till A’s death, to the amount of $56850, B and A's ad- ministrator both claimed the money due on the pollcy, though the latter conceded that B was entitled to the $65 he pald to A, 18 well as to the amount of asszssment he bad paid, $715.53 In all, 1t was ad- miited that B was nefther a creditor of A, nor his relative by blood or marrlage. The lower coart decided in favor of the administrator, and the supreme court af- firmed the desieion, holding that the rule appliceble to this class of contracts rests on public policy, which forbids gambling; the sale or purchaee of a policy In geod falth is of no consequence; the mischief resulting from such sale 1s that it {s con- trary to public policy and the jast prin- ciples of life insurance. Tuk scheme for the abolitlon cf slav- ery in Brazll s nct one that commends iteelf to people that believe that all men should be free. The plan is to geadually encancipate the slaves by a tax, the pro- ceeds of which shall be pald to the elave- holders for the slaves that are glven their freedom from tlme to time, This sys- tem might be well enough were it not for the fact that it will require too many years before all the slaves wlll be eman- cipated, The slaves ara to be registered, with a declaration of the valua of each slave regletered, subject to a yesarly de- precistion of 6 per cent, making the maximum value of slaves of 60 years at 200 milrels each. Slavesover sixty years of sge will have no monetary value, but will be obliged to eerve for a term of three yeare, Only a small proportlon of the slaves that are alive to-day will ever become freed men, unless {hey live to be 03 years of age. Tue general Indignatlon at the ap- pointment of the notorious R. L, Mead to be postmaster at Hszelburst, Missls- elppl, has been so great that Postmasier General Vilas hay yielded to the pressure and requested him to resign, The excuse made In bebalf of Mr. Vilss in making this appolniment is that he was unac- quainted at the time with Mead's alleged complicity in the Coplah county outrages and in the murder of Matthews, the former postmaster there, This is a very poor excuse, indeed, for the killing of ! Shelton Clipper, Matthews was oae of the most cold- blooded sffairs ever committed, and no orlme was ever given greater publiolty through the prees or more commented upon than thls politieal murder. Mr. Vilas muet, indeed, be a man who pays but very little attention to the important news and affales of the day. Tre latest style of msiclde /s the high jump, The fatal leap by Odlam from the Brookiyn bidge was followed by an attempt on the part of a poor man named Flelscher, who was ont of work and dis- couraged. He was prevented, however, by the police, and when the public was Informed of his circumstances, subscrip- tions to the amount of several hundred dollars flowed In upon him, and now he Is a happy man, The latest attempt of thls kind was more successful fatally. A Oa nadlan named McComb, on Friday, jumped from the banks of Niagara Falls, and broke his neck on the rocks a hun- dred feet below. Some one ought now to jump from the top of the Washington monument, and we should not bs sur- prized to see rome disappolnted office- neeker try it. Ir is now claimed that the man who planned the hali-breed rebellion in the Northwest territory was Giabriel Dumont, Riel's lleutensnt, He is sald to be a very sbrewd man. When the re- bellion collapsed, he saw his opportu- nity to get away and took advantage of it. His arrest in Montana followed, but as it was unauthorfzed, and as the Canadlans don’t want him, he has been released, He can now become an American citizen, a8 Riel did after the Red river rebellion. The Domiolon government probably wishes that Dumont had taken Riel along with him, This would have re- lieved the government of eome consider- able embarracsment. THAT circular issued by Postmaster (ian eral Vilas makes republican offico-holders™ squirm like eels in & pot. A taste of what the democrats got twenty-four years ago will do them good, Tco steady a diet of sweet— meats is ivjurious,—Boston Globa, The republicans, however, upon losing control of the government and baing ejected from office, do not go into re- belllon, as did the democrats of the south, who had democratic sympathizers all throogh the north. ExacrLy what is to be accomplished by the natlonal bureaa of labor, beyond the collectlon of statis'ics, and the creation of a big bill of expense, Is somethlng that we have not yet bsen able to find out. It is certain that the bureau can in no way ameliorate the condit'on of laboring men and wcman, not one in a hundred of whom wlll ever ree or take any Iuterest in the columns of figures that wlll be published as the result cf the work of this bureau. TaE festive grasshopper is not likely to visit the grain'‘fields of the west this season, even if he has put in an appear- ance at the Chicago board of trade. When the Euaropean war-clond rolled away the speculatcrs, naturally enough, looked;around for some other disturber of prices, and they picked up Mr, Grasshop- per. He can dlscount any ordinary war- cloud in the game of affecting prices of grain, Mgs, Jony L. BwLmAN,' who brought sult for divorce on the ground of cruelty, has been beaten in court. It is not the first time that she has been beaten, but it doesseem an act of cruelty on the part of the court to compel her to remain the wife ¢f a man like Sullivan, Cuaries FranNcis Apams s on his way to Owaha from the west. Manager Callaway and Mr. Kimball have gone out to meet him and Inform him that they have had the Unlon Paslfic headquarters painted red in honor of his visit, Tuere is a great deal of talk about restoring the navy to its former ¢ fliciency. ‘We cannot see much use for a navy ex-— cept for style, and the vessels that we now have answer very well for that purpoge, Tue recont census of Washington shows & population of 220,000. The enumeration, of course, ‘Includes the tens of thousands of office-seekera that have made tho natlonal capital thelr headquarters since the 4:h of March. STATE JOITINGS, Wayne has contracted for a 85,000 crime cooler, A line of railway is talked of to run from Beatrice to Fa rbury, The license record shows that Fremont has & population of seven dogs, The new lutheran church at Dakota City, was dedicated on the 24th, A lige of stages has been established be- tween Chadron aud the Black Hill Hastings is doing a lively business in real estate; $100,000 changed hands on the 23d. Fairmont declded by a majority of eighty to invest 810,000 in a system of water works, Fullerton 18 considering the adsisability] of substituting brick for frame school buildings. Hersberg, the big stock grower near North Bend, shipped on Monday last 423 head of fat cattle. Fullerton’s new jail was dedicated last week, A corn and ocorned doctor was the first occupant. The two men accuted of murdering Pro- vence in Custer couaty, have had their tiial postponed till July, The new Corgregational church at Fremont will be dedicated to-morrow, Rev, Shernll, of Omsha will proach, Blairites are bound to abandon the tele- phone, preferriog to walk a mile 1ather than tear their lungs *‘helloing.” Iialns in the White river region are raid to be ample thus _far this season for all agricul- tural needs and purposer, The assessed valuation of Ainsworth is $560,462, an increate of nearly four huadred thousand dollara over last yeur, George H. Robertsor, of Atlantic, In, is preparing to establish s banking house at Lushyille, in the White river couutry, The Rimrock Borealis is the latest new paper venture in northwest Nebraska. It is published in Rimrock, Keya Paba county, “There is no denying the fact,” says the *‘that the abolition of ealoons here does not diminish the qnantity or qual- ity of drunkenuess on the strosts, " A gang of eleven beastly tramps wero run 1 at North Platte_ for committing a nameless aasanlt on ons of their number, The sheriff had a lively time corraling the crowd. The 1. & M, is offering excursion rates to Grand Army men to the national re-union at Portland, Mo, The train will leave Omaha and Lincoln on the afternoon of the 18th, Conductor Canningham, of the A. & N, was nipped bstween two cars while making & coupling in Lincoln. Two nibs were broken, but no serious internal ijuries were sus. tained, The Fremont Weekly Journal plant has been transferred to North Bend, The change of air nec ssitates n ohangs of politics, and it will support Cleveland and a postoftice hence- forth. J, T, Cullen, the Plattsmouth masher, was convioted of bigamy and sont over the road. His Wahoo wife was unaware of the fact that he had a wife in Plattsmonth, A large number of teams, men and ma terinl, have besn unloaded at Alma_the past woek for the construction of the Burlington & Missouri river 1ailway branch up- the Prairio Dog, Blawott & Balding, the noted importers of Percheron horses at Fremont, added a drove of 107 fino animals to their stock last_week, Two head were lost on the tnp from Fraucs to this country, The Papillion Times is ready to unlooso its piae strings and contribute $200 toward the establishment of a canniog_factory, starch factory o distillery there. Now, lot the mil- Tionnires speak. G. N, Pate, of Red Willow, convinced the local bank that he had cattle collateral and sccured a loan of $200, Investigation showed that hls stock was in his mind, and he is now in jail awaiting trial, A twelve-yoar old girl at Fontanelle, fow days since, converted her father and mother into grandparents, They lost a valuable hired man the day provious, No great loss without some small gain, The State Medical association met Tuesday at Grand Island and had two very interesting sessions, Tho attendance at_both day and evening meetings was good, A banquet was given at the hall in honor of the occasion, Two young fellows of David City were out walking when they saw an animal they sup- posed to ho a badger, They tried to catch it —and they did_catch it all cver them, 5o that they had to bury their clothes six feet deep. The 12:yearold son of Isaac Pollard of Weeping Water, is suffering _from a “bone tumor” in one of his lega, which necessitates the amputatron of that member at the knees, 1t in feared the boy will not survive the am putation, D. 0. Quinn, the absconding Singer sewing machine sgent, who loft that company iu the lurch at Nebraskn City, has been discovered w Dundas, Ontario, The offenso not being extraditable the governor refused the requici- ton asked fer, urance Wahoo Many of the more choico claims on the Santee reservation are said to have brought good prices, As under the old ruling, where there are two claimants the land is bid for some quarter sections in this menner golng as high as $6 to $3 per acte, The state papers almost unanimously com- mend the Omaha stock yards and slaughter houses, The importance of the beef packing interests to the stato at large is fully _appreci- ated, It means a home market for Nebraska stook, saving the farmers and ranchmen large sums in freight ratee, A Miscouri Pacific freight train was wrecked on the trestle bridge near Weepiog Water last week, George Rothrick, head brakeman, jumped from oue of the cars to the ground below, aud was severely shaken. Sev- eral barrels of whisky were tappei in the wreck, A Cass county father sends word to the engle-syed peelers of Nebraska City to arrest a party by the name of Bradshaw with his three daughters in his possession. The childless dad protests against the villainous vrinciple of monopoly instituted by Brad- shaw, Bill Wagoner, of Nebrasia City, cultivated an acquaintance with a widow of sixty, pos- seasor of a neat_but lonaly home and some cash. He made her his better half by the usual process, coaxing her to sell her home, pocketed the proczeds and left the country. He was overhauled and turned over to the grand jury, Dry Creek, the place where nine immi- grants were drowned by a suaden flood last weel, i9 six miles west of Uambridge, on the Burlington & Missouri, The freshet carried away the railroad bridge across Dry creek, d & considerable portion of the track de- taining the train the train over twelve hours. It is said that foarteen soldiers were drowned at the same place by a waterspout in 1871 and were not afterwards heard from. The supposed existence of coal fields 1u Kuox county is again attzacting considerable attention, not only from residents ot that county but a large company of Iowa miners arrived at Niobrara last week for the express intention of prospecting for coal. After look- ing over the county they found that near the mouth of Soldier creek the indications were very favorable, and they took their machinery and have already commenced work. Dan Melntyre, a contractor on the railroad, was ehot in the thigh by Pat O’Donnell, at TRushville, on the 234, during a drunken quar- rel. Molntyre insisted that he was a desd man, ana was lsth to be convinced that he had no bones broken—only a bad flash wound — 80 ha sisted that the boys should chip in a dollar each and at once buy him a cork leg, 80 ho could walk out and whip the man who did the shooting, At last accouats the wounded man was do'ng well, e —— The Crpture of John Brown, From an azcount in the Juno Century of John Brown et Hsrper’s Ferry, writ- ten by one «f his prisoners, who was in the eugine house daring tie insucrec- tion, and afierward held tho rank of captsin in the confederate army, we quote the foliowlng: “When Lien.erant Stusrt came in the mornicg for the finsl reply to the demand of eurrender, 1 got up +ni went to Brown’s side to Lear bis answer, “‘Stuart asked, ‘Are you ready {o sur. render, and trust to the mercy of the government?' “Brown answered promptly, ‘No! I prefer to die here.’ “‘His manner did not betray the least fesr, “‘Stusrt stepped aside end made the signal for the attack, which was ln-umlfl begun with sledge-hammera to breal down the door, *Fioding it would not yleld, the soldiers selzed a long ladder for a batter- ng-ram, aod commenced beating the door with that, the party within firlog incessantly, 1 had aselsted in the bar- ricading, fixing the fasteninge so that I ©ould remove them upon the first effort toget in. Bt I was not st the door when the batterivg begen, and could not get to the fasienings until the ladder was used. I then qulckly removed the fasteniogs, and after two or three strokes of the ladder the engine rolled pertlally back, maklng a small aperture through which L'eutensnt Green cf the marines forced himeelf, jumped oa top of the englae, and etood & second In the midst of a shower of balls, looking for John Brown, When he saw Brown he sprang about twelve feet at him, and gave an underthrust of his sword, striking him about midway the body and raislng him completaly from t1e ground. Brown foll forward with his heid between his koees, and Green struck him eeveral t!mes over the hesd, and, as I then sup- posod, split his ekull at every stroke, ““I was not two feet from Brown at that tlme, Of cource I got out of the bulldiog as soon as possible, and did not know till some t!me later that Brown waa not killed, It seews that In maklng the thrust Green's sword etrack Brown's belt and did not penetrate the body. The sword was bent double. The reason that Brown wes not killed when struck on the nead was that Graen was holdlag biy sword fu the middle, striking with the hilt and making only scalp wounds,” [LINCOLN'S TERMS OF PEACE. Tntenslig Wer Siories T4 by fhe Lo Mr, Gamnell, Andy Johnson's Determination to Ar rest Gen, Robert K. Lee tor Complicity in the Aseassi- nation — Gen, Interference, Grant's N, Y, Sun. When the Jate Mr. Gatrett, prosident of the Baltimore & Oblo Railroad com- pary, withed for a little rest or recrea- tlon he was In the habit of causing his privats car to be attached to one of fhe tralns rocning wost or south, and with his wife and perhaps ancther friend or two he made an excoreion. At such tlmes Mr. Garrott left hls business be- hind, and, though deemed a wan not given to much conversation, yet he then often narrated eome of his experlenoes, especially of the time of the war and immediately subiequent thereto, in a manner that was sbsorbiog interesting, Two years ago the writer met Mr, Gar- rott upon one of thess occasions, The con. versation turnedupon the south, its riske and its loszes entalled by inauguratiog a clvil war, end as some of Mr. Gravett's reminiscences have a special interest just at this time, I bave wrltten out from notes made toon after the convereation what he said. In speaking of Mr. Lin- ooln, President Garrett sald: “I never travel through the south with- out thinking what a dreadful climax for the eouth President Lincoln’s assassina- tlon was, During the war I often met Mr. Lincoln on businees pertaining to our railroad, aud In the latter part of his ad- ministration he used sometimes to speak to me of what ought to follow the return of peace, which he saw could not long be delayed, Had Mr. Lincoln been able to carry out his policy, and I think that the man who proved cqual to that would have been equal to all that followed, there would bave been real perce, and an early revival of prosperity in the southern states, It was a frightfal retri- bution that followed the murder of Lin- coln; but, after sll, I think as I lock It all over, that it was in ono senso the re- sult of the sbort-sightzdness of some of the leadersof the confederacy. I meen thav all that hoppened after Lee sur- rendered, including the sssassination of Lincoln conld have been avolded, bad the confederacy not failed to make terms at the peace conference at Fortress Mon- roe. Every man of capacity ln the south knew at that tlme of that conference what the Inevitable was to be, excepting Mr. Davis. Now, I know it to bo a fact, that when Mr. Lincoln was asked reapecting the terms of peace that would be demanded by the federal government he just tore a sheet of paper in two, and wrote across the top of it just theze worda: ¢ On the part «f the Unit ed Statee: *r'te Union preserved. *'Slavery abolished, Then pointing to the blank space be- neath, he eaid: ‘There, let them write thelr own terms underneath that.” Mr. Guarrett said that many of the southern lesdera felt that the federsl government could properly atk no less than that, and that the confederacy could ask no more for itself. Peace ought, they folt, to have been established then, Gen. Lee, with whom Mr. Garrett was on terms of special latlmacy after the war, grieved greatly becauee the peace conference was a fallure, for he could only look forward te us:less shedding of blood after that. “In fact,” aaid Mr. Garrett' ‘Gen. Lee, llke Gen. Joe John- ston, realized, as a milltary man, that after the fall ¢f Atlanta the end of the confederacy wes near at hand. Like Johnston, and every other great general in the south, Lee urderstood thas with the defcat at Ge.tysburg and the surren- der of Vickeburg, the only military pol- icy left for the south was that of defense long enough to obtsin terms of peace that would nct be humihiatiog. With the fall of Atlanta it was plain to Lae toat the terms of peece would be just what the federal government chore to make them, and, as a military man, Gen, Lee told me that he often, though un- ofticially, protested to the clvil authorl- ties that further prolonging of the war meant only unnec:esary loss of life and deetruction of property. His pleay, however, were wholly without avail. Mr. Davis seemed to be convinced that the confederacy would tucceed in estab— lishlng itsslf, There was much of the highest importance of the inner history of the last year of the rebellion that has been lost by reason of Gen. L:e’s failure to write a histexy. 1In the very last in- terview I had with Lioe he was a gueat at my housein Baltimore. He had been telling me some ¢f thai inner hisfory, showing, in his view, the war bad been unnecetarily prolonged. I told him that he ought not to allow those facts to be lost to history, and that he ought at onca to begin the preparation of an ac- count of the war from his uuderstandiog of it that shoold be complete, and should, without hesitation, tell the whole truth. He told me that he follyintended to write such a beok, but he thought that it wat too goon then todo so, sald, much valusble matter, many dccu- wmenta that would throw light, taken In cornectlon with other facts that he per- sonally knew, but which did not appear of record, on the last year of the war. I urged him not to lose a moment, but to begin the work at once, and before he left me he promised to set about it as soon as possible, It was not long after “Idon’t think,” ccntinued Mr, Gar- rett, ‘‘that it was ever known how near Lee came to baing arrested as one of the coneplrators in the plot to aseassinato President Lincoln and his cabinet. know that Andy Johnton in some unac- countable way gt the idea in his hesd that Lee was in that conspliacy. Some- Ho hud, he |, that he was stricken with his last {llness. | body had told Johneon somethiog, 1 have ressons for belleving, that led him to think g0, Johnson wanted Lee arrested at once, aud I know that he propoeed, if Lee was found gullty, to have him ba- headed. Johnson told me that Loe couldn’c be hanged, shouldn’t bo shot, and he would order him beheaded. A warm fiiend of mine and of Mr. John- eon’s, who kne ¥ what wes going cn, can e to ma in great haste, knowing 4 had long been a personal friend of Gen. Lee's, aud was alsos warm frlend of Gen, Grant. This gentleman sald that Lze was in great davger of arrest, and that In the then exclted state of the country it was herd to tay what might hsppen. 1 at once telegraphed to Gen. Grant to meet we, and etarted for Washiogton. 1 met Gon. Graat & few moments after my er risal there, 1 told him what was In Johnson's mind. 1 have seen men black with anger, but I never saw such anger a8 Grant then showed, He was not pae- eionate, but ho was terribly angry. Bald he: ‘This {s Iofamous—infamcus! 1 will theow up my comm!ssion if there is the slightest attempt to do it, and if there bo the shadow of a clroumstance to justify even the falntest suspicion sgainet o I throw np my commission, too. It's as impo:sible for Loe as for me, “I aatd, ‘Can’t you eseo President Johnson and his cabinet acd tell them what you have told me." Ho msid he would, and he lost no time in doing 85 He was very stern with Jobnson, He said that If Leo was fnsulted by threat of arrest he would throw up his commission at & moment's notlce. ‘Lee has given mo his parole, sir,’ said ho to Johneon, *You can trost every Weet Point cfficer who glves his pirole.’ Grant was so onmnest and angry that J h son was im. pressed, and he was a little frightened, too, by Grant's threat to throw up his commlissicn, The matter was dropped but there I8 1o doubt but for Grant's actlon Lee might have been at serlous perll I myeelf told Loe about it after- ward. He wes deoply touchod by Grant's conduct, Afterward, when Grant was resldont, Lee oalled cn bim st the white ouse, and was recelved with great con- ideration and courtesy by Grant. “‘Gen. Liee had very many flattering and highly remunerative offirs after the war, that I personelly knew about; but he told me that he baliaved that he atill owed a duly to the south, He believed that eduocation was the great need there —ah education, ton, whioch should tcach the young the du'y ¢f loyslty and love for the federsl unlon, and he determined to devote the rest ¢f his deys to the sim- ple work ¢f a toacher. Wo had very great diffioulty in Inducing him to take the preeidercy of the branch road of the Baltimore and Ohlo railroad bullt down Into Virglna, for he fasred that ite dutles might impalr hls usefulness at the college.” ———— Confedera Charge at Gaines’ Mill, ¥rom Gan Fitz John Portcr's contrl- butlon to The Century Illustrited War Series In the June number we quote the following: ‘‘As if for a final effort, as the thades of evenlng were coming upon us, end the wocds were filled with smoke, limiting the view thereln to a few yarde, the enemy sgain massed h's fresher and ra-formed regiments, and threw them in rap!d enccerston sgaintt our thinued and wearled battallons, now almeet withont smmunition, and with guns so foul that they cculd not ba loaded rapldly. In preparation for defeat, should it come, 1 }ad poeted artillery in large force just in rear of our center and left, roady for any emergency—and especially to be used againet a soccessful foe, even if his de- struction involved firing upon scme of our own retreatlog troops, as might have been neceseary. The attacks, though coming like & scries of apparently irre- slatibls avalarches, bad thus far made no inroads upon our firm and disclplined ranks. Even in this last attack we succersfully realsted, driving beck our assailants with immense loss or holding them beyond our lines, except in one instance, near the center of Morell's line, where by force of rumbers and under cover of the emoke of battle our line was penctrated and broken; this at a point where I leaet expected it. This was naturally tho weakest pcint of our line, owing to the closer proximily of the woods held by the enemy. Under this cover they could form, and with lees exposurc in tlme and ground than else— where, and launch their battallons in quick succession upon our men, 1 be- lteved I had guarded against the danger by strongly and often reinforcing the troops holding this pmt of tha line. Here the creater part of McCall's and Slocum’s forces were used. Just praced- ing this break, to my great surprise, I saw cavalrg, which I recognized as ours, rushing in numbers through our lines on tho left, and cerrging off with rudden fright the Jimbers of our artillery, then prepared to pour their Irresistible fire into a pursuing fce. With no Infantry to support, and with apparent disastor before them, such of the romainder cf these guns as could bs moved were osr- rled from the field; some deliberately, others in haste, but not in confusion.” The Last e ——— The Cost of Fallure, Paltimore American, Tho appointment of the Hon. R M. T. Hunter to & $600 office—c>llector of the port of Tappshannock, Va,—is ore that 1llastrates the adveralties tha' reces- slon brought upon some of the most dfe- tingulshed men of the south, At the date of secesslon in Virginia, Mr. Hunter wss one of the foremeet men in the Unted States senate. He hed narrowly miesed nomination for the preeldency. He reaigned his seat in the eenate when Virginfa seceded, and entered the cop- federate cabinet and ehared the downtall of the confederacy. Although a man of rare abilitles, he has been in retircment ever since; and that he has been in straiteued ciccumstances s evident from the fact that he receives this emsll cflice on his own applicaticn, ————— In the district court &t Dubuque, Taes- day, the css> of Mrs, Margarct Evorett came up for trial on three charges of sbortion. By consent the jury returned u verdiot of goilty in each cate. She was sentenced to eix months 1n the state pen- itentiary. 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