Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 28, 1894, Page 10

10 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1894 HEROES IN BLUE AND GRAY Romantic Career of a Young Private Who Has Fallen Heir to a Fortune. 1S FATHER A FAMOUS MAINZ GENERAL Penston Bureau Facts and Figures—Death of n Man Who Partook In the Cap= ture of Jeff Davis—A For- tunate Escape. The War department has granted a dis- charge to Grover Flint, who for some time past has been a private in A troop of cavalry, stationed at Fort Meyer, to allow him to become pos: essed of a fortune that is supposed to equal at least $260,000, says the Washing- ton Post. His life story reads like a tale from the ““‘Arablan Night The young man, whose baptismal name was Flint Grover, is a son of the famous Major General Grover of Maine, who served with signal distinction during the late war in the battles of Willlamsburg, Fair Oaks, Cedar Creek, Shemandoah Valley and Winchester. His mother was a daughter of the learned Dr. Austin Flint of New York, who stood as the recogniaed head of his profession in this country In his babyhood the boy's mother died and his grandmother adopted him with the understanding that he should beccome a joint heir with his uncle, Dr. Austin Flint, jr., of New York, now a leading man in the medi- cal profession. er these circumstances his surname and given name were transposed and he became known as Grover Fi'nt. Partaking of Lis father's martial spirit, he enlisted in the cavalry with the idea of be- coming an officer under the law that allows privates to rise to commissions. He has been in the army for two years now, had passed the preliminary examination for his commis- slon and was about to have taken the last examination had not his grandmother died in Boston a short time ago, leaving him the greater part of her fortune. The exact value of the estate cannot even be approximated, but it is surmised by those who have been in a position to know the affairs, of Mr:. Flint that it will amount to upwards of $250,000, as there Is a mansion on Fifth avenue in New York, an uptown man- sion in Boston, and large investments In bonds and other securitie: Austin Flint, jr., the son of the deceased, will probably contest the will, although over- tures are being made for settiement. The will in question was made in Washing- ton in June last, when Mrs. Flint was very 1ll, and it Is said that on account of her er- ratio and eccentric actions during the past tew years, and especlally at the time in que tion, a good case can be made for the break- ing of the wiil. The lucky heir, Grover Flint, graduate of Haryard, was for some time in charge of the bureau of the New York Herald In Paris, and has done some excellent literary work. 'Since joining the army he has seen tome very hard service in the deserts of Arizona and New Mex.co, having been among the Indians. Officers of the de- partment express the conviction that he would have passed the examination and be- come an officer had he mot been favored by this windfall. PENSIONS AND PENSIONERS. The report of the commissioner of pen- sons for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1894, and which is just out, presents some very interesting reading and figures are shown and facts brought forth which will prove of consequence to a goodly number of old soldiers and others concerned in the pen- sion department of the country. One of the cases which has attracted the widest attention and which has caused the most stir in the immediate headquarters of the pension bureau is that of Charles D. Long. Mr. Long s a pensioner and one of the Judges of the supreme court of the state of Michigan, and has upon the rostrum and through the press unstintingly denounced the bureau and William Lochren, the commis- sioner, for alleged arbitrary and illegal pro- coedings In the reduction of his pension. He bas also brought suits against. the com- missioner to prevent him from making such reduction. This pensioner was and has been for some years pensioned at the rate of $72 per month for total and permanent helplessness. The fact that he was and for a considerable time had been one of the judges of the supreme court of Michigan and discharging the duties of that office, and that he was a man of apparent vigor, having the full use of all his bodily members except his left arm, which had been amputated, coming to the kuowledge of the bureau, it was considered that he was not in such condition of total and permanent helplessness as entitled him under the law to the $72 rate. On the foregoing information Judge Long was notified by the pension commissioner that his allowance would be cut to per month. The case was taken into court by the Judge and is now pending. Commissioner Willlam Lochren in conclu ing his report refers to this case as follow “It s quite clear that under honest but mistaken interpretation of the pension laws by prior commissioners this pensioner has obtained from the treasury more than $7,000 to which he was never lawfully entitied. Should he make good his assertious that he will take this case to the supreme court of the United States, he may, when it shall ‘Do finally decided, consider the propriety of returning this money to the treasury. Some interesting figures are presented in the report and in a statistical way show that the uumber of pensioners on the rolls June 30, 1893, was 966,012 During the year fol- lowiug that date 39,085 new pensioners were put upon the rolls; 2,398 who had been pre- viously dropped wers restored and 7,951 wero dropped for death and other causes. The net Increase of pensioners during the year was , and on June 30, 1894, the number of pensioners on the rolls was 969, 544, This is classified as follows: Widows and daughters of revolution- ary soldiers..... s Army invalld pensioners. s Army widows, minor children, ete. Navy Invalid pensioners . Navy widows, minor chil Burvivors of the war of 1812... ... .. Widows of soudiers of the wir of 18] Survivors of the N Widows of M Survivors of the Indian wars (1 Widows of Indian war soldiers. Army nurse X Act of June 27, 1890; Army invalid pensioners. . Army widows, minor children, efc.. Navy invalid pensioners Navy widows, minor children, etc. The appropriation for the payment of pen- sions for this fiscal year was $165,000,000. There was also paid into the treasury, to the credit of this fund, sums aggregating $10,173.70, matnly from recoveries of pen- sions and attorneys' fees paid (o persons afterwards shown not to bs entitled thereto. ‘The amount of money paid for pensions dur- ing the year was $139,804,461.05, leaving a Dalance in tho treasury of this appropriation &t the close of the year of $25,205,712.65. It will be noted that there are ten widows and two daughters of revolutionary soldiers now liying who are on the pension list. The daughters were pensioned by special acts and are aged $1 and 79 respectively. The widows range in age from 78 to 93 years, so | be scen that not mary more years will revolutionary peusions be paid. All these women live in the east, none being farther west thau Tennmessee. A peculiar fact s that none of these widows were liy- ing at the time of the revolution, and must necessarily have married while themselyes quite young to men who wers considerably past middle aj Of the forty-five surviving soldiers of the war of 1812 who are pensioned, none are less is a post than 88 years old, most of them are above | 95 and cleven are 100 years of age and over, David, MeCoy of Redland, Cal., belng 104 years old. DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE DIRS. One of the cavalrymen who captured Jeffer- sou Davis, the president of the southern con~ foderacy, (n 1865, bas at last gone to his final yesting place, says the Seattle Post-Intelli- gencer, having died at his farm at Langley, on Vashon island. The ex-cavalryman wa Oharles T. Cowden, well known in this city, where he has been ideatified with fraternal socletics, with the milltia and with political ¢tiroles for a number of years. Cowden was a native of Grass Lake, county, Mich., where he was Lorn September 4, 1842. He was among the first to_respond to President Lincoln's eall for volunteers at the outbreak of the war. He enlisted in the Fourth Michigan eavalry, served all through the war, participated | numerous battles and was with General & man on memorable march from Atlanta to the One of his proudest achlevements occurred when he was with Lieutenant Colonel Pritch- ard’s command In the vicinity of Irwinsvilie, Ga., on May 10, 1865, when he with fou others captured Jeft {s when he was trying to escape ingloriously in female at- tire, In 1868 Mr. Cowden moved to Virginia City, Nev.,, where he had charge of the Fourth ward school for & number of years. In 1880 he came to Seattle, where he became a real estate dealer. In 1886—at the time of the antl-Chinese troubles—he was made captain of company D, Seattle Rifles, under command of the late Colonel J. C. Haines. | In 1890-91-92 he represented the Seventh | ward in the house of delegates.. He also was bailift in Judge Hanford's court. The causo of death was heart disease. Mr. Cowden never fully recovered from the hardships of army iife, and has been but little better than an Invalid for years. ~ The past two months he has been very ill, but he kept on his feet, owing to his indomitable pluck, up to a few hours before he died. DIDN'T SPEAK AS THEY PASSED. An interesting unwritten incident in the war has been related to a Cleveland Leader man by Captain Levi F. Bauder, who was chiefly concerned In it. It was at the t'me of (La second battle of Mannassas and the rebels had cut oft the supplies of the federal troops. “I was in charge of a wagon train, consisting of fifteen or twenty brand new wagons, with shining covers, and all full of ammunition,” he said. “We camped for the night in a clump of trees, and slept roundly. In the morning we awoke to find that there was a terrible fire raging vear us, and as soon as we had awakened sufficiently we discovered that what was burning was a large number of railroad cars full of supples for the union troops. “There was no trace of the army to be scen anywhere, and we scon learned that General Banks' command had made a long detour off in the direction of the Potomac, and gone, after setting all their stores on fire o prevent their falling into the hands of the confederates. We saw we had been overlooked, and that the best thing we could do was to get out of that part of the coun- try. After getting some breaklast to steady our nerves we took the straight road toward the other side of Bull Run, where the rest of the army had gone. Unlike the others, we made no detour, but went straight ahead. We proczeded leisurely along for about three miles until we came to a place where the woods came up to within a short distance of the road on either side. “There we suddenly saw a large number of men stretched in the shade, but paid no particular attention to the circumstance. This lasted. for about an eighth of a mile, when we saw a mansion by the road, where ‘the yard in front was filled with officers and artillery. No one paid the slightest atten- tion to us, and we thought no harm, until suddenly, from the heights in front of us, where our own division was encamped, we saw a signal flag waving de:perately. Not being a signal officer T continued my way in quiet, until a mounted officer suddenly dashed down the NIl toward us. He drew near, whils we were still within hailing distance of the officers at the house, and informed me that it T valued my life and reputation I had better make haste and reach the heights Then I woke to the fact that my little com- mand of a handful of men had taken a wagon train worth $100,000, and which the rebels would have given their heads to got, straight through Longstreet’s corps in broad dayl'ght. I ordered my men (o move on at the top of (heir sneed, and within a few minutes the train was going down the hill at a gallop. “The men we had passed then began to take a closer notice of and suddenly a brigade of cavalry started after us. Away up on the heights opposite I saw at the same time a battery wheeling Into position, and as the cavalry approached us on a charge six shots whizzed over our heads straight into the cavalry. This stopped their advance and we gained our army in safety, where I was given the strongest cursing that man ever received, 1 believe. The property I had saved for the union force was exceedingly valuable, but the fright I had given the officer in command was such as he did not care to suffer again. 1 did not laugh for a month after that occurrence, and it was a long time before I was able to see anything funny in the escape which we had had.” THE NEWSPAPER PRESS. Marvelous Growth and Distribution in the United States. No newspaper can live without the fullest opportunities for its distribution, says a writer in the Chautauguan. Many have died because the facllities in this respect have been denled them by competitors, In 1840 the twenty ven dally newspapers of 1810 had grown to the number of 138. The era of railroads had appeared. Ten tho number of daily newspape very rapld growth. Ten years later th increased to 587; ten years later, 57 n years later, 971; ten years later (the year 1890), there were 1,700 daily newspapers, and three years later the figures were 1,855, Now any ose who knows or has studied the growth of railroads in this country can see an intimate relation to it in the growth of the newspaper business. In 1844 there came the telegraph as a fac- tor in newspaper growth, Within the last ten years the telephone has entered enormously into the making of news- papers. Inside the offices, of course, the first great improvement was the substiiution of steam for hand power in running the presses. That made larger editions possible. Steam came into use in 1835. In 1847 there came the so-called “lightning prossez” «nd ten years later there came the perfect Ing presses. In addition to the 1,835 daily newspapers published in the United States on the 1st of January, 1894, there were 31 papers pub- lished ‘every other day, 235 published twice a week, 14,017 published every week, 85 every two weeks, 349 twice a month, 3,125 overy month, 307 every two months. Altogether there were 20,006 papers in existence on that day in the United States against about 150 in 1800. Of the daily newspapers, the first of which was printed in this country in the year 1782, not more than four are in existence today of those which saw the ho- ginning of the present century, and of these the oldest Is the North American of Phila delphia. The total issue of the publications of the present day in this country is proba- [ bly not far from 4,000,000,000 copies a year, and of this amount New York City probably furnishes nearly one-fifth, UNCANNY SPOT IN A CANON. A Cave in the Sierras Where Thousands of Bats Of all the strange places to be found in the remote recesses <f tho Sierra Nevadis none Is any stranger than a bat cave in Kaweah canon. There is nothing particu- larly strange about the cave itself, says the San Franciseo Call, but the fact that it is the dwelling rlacé of thousands of web- winged animals makes It a most uncanny and unusual spot. The cave Is in -the wall of the canon, not far bick from the wates in the rainy season, and there Is nothing about the appearance of the opening to at- tract attention during the day. But ap- proach the place at abcut dusk and s black stream of shadowy forms will be seen pass- ing in and out of the open'ng, accompanied by the most’ pecultar od<r in the world and a soft, rustling sound. The bats have been asleep all day and are going in search of focd. To enter the cave in the dgytime fs not a difficult task, but it is somewhat un- pleasant. The opening s large and a man can enter im an erect position. About ten fect in the entrance makes a turn and an inky blackness exists. Go a little farther, as to be away from the air at the en- trance, and a most disagrecable odor strikes the nostrils and every few feet one treads upon the bedy of a bat. While the cave is in darkness a profound silence exists, but strike a lght and a sound like a waterfall is heard. Thousands of bats that have been asleep at once awake and commence to fly in circles sbout the cavern, which can be seen to be very large. Round and round they go, increasing in speed every moment, and the odor cf the cave becomes more and moro disagreeable. When this happens it is a wise thing for the explorer to make his escape aud postpone further investigation until_pight, at which t'me the cave is de- sorted. Even the dead bats on the floor il disappesr, having been ecaten by the others as 500n as they awoke. A LEADER AMONG LEADERS Winning His Spurs Amidst the Trained Gladiators of War Times. CONGRESSIONAL CAREER OF H. W. DAVIS Nurtured on Kebellious Sentimonts, He Rose to Eminenco us n Defender of the Unlon—Sketeh of His Life by Ex-Senator Dawes. (Copyright 184 by MeClure.) Henry Winter Davis was also a congres- sional leader in watt times, but of altogether different type in personality and in quality and in method leadership from that or\m r. Stevens, whose public career we have been considering. He forms, indeed, a striking contrast with the venerable Pennsylvanian at almost every point of view:in which his public lifo is presented. There was no ri- valry in the leadership of these two men. While no one claimed for the young Mary- lander the place due to the Influence and power wielded by his elder associate, whom he loyally followed, still all readily accorded to him the rank of a great leader in times when guidance was most difficult and the hazards of leadership were greatest. His public service was not entirely con- temperaneous with that of Mr. Stevens, he having entered congress in 1855, four years before the se-entry of Mr. Stevens, and hav- Ing left it at the second Inauguration of Mr. Lincoln, March, 1865, three years and a half before the death of Mr. Stevens, including two years of private life. This service may well ‘be divided into three distinct periods, each having characteristics pecullar to itself and requiring an order of talent for leader- ship quite its own. These periods were that which embraced the repeal of the Mis- souri compromise and the Kansas-Nebraska act, the war perlod, and that of reconstruc- tion. In each of these periods Mr. Davis was & conspicuous member of congress—dur- ing the whole of the first and a considerable portion of the other two. He was born and reared in Maryland, a slave state, educated to the law in Vir- ginia, and settled in his profession in Balti- more, doependent upon the support of its citizens for success, but slavery never found in him sympathy or encouragement, and the slaves he inherited from his father he man- umitted as fast as they cams of age. DAVIS'S CONGRESSIONAL CAREER. He wis elected to the Twenty-fourth con- gress largely upon a local issue in which the supporters of law and orde using for that purpose the Amer- ican party organization, prevailed with him as their candidate over that violent and lawless element denominated ‘Plug Uglies,” which at that time infested the ci of Baltimore, threatening the jeace and per- sonal security of its citizens. He occupied, therefore, upon national iesues a position in- dependent of both political parties and fr to consider every question upon his convic- tion of its merits. From a standpoint, there- fore, of his own choice, he entered actively into’ the debates and contentions which in that congress prepared the way for that greater conflict which followed took rank, although a new member, the ablest men in the body. In the succeeding congress he rose to the position of a conspicuous leader, which he maintained through all subsequent years of nis service. Ho was a man of rare qualities for leadership, in all of which he was unlike the great commoner who cime upon the scene in the congress which followed. Mr. Davis was a young man in the prime of life and intellectual vigor, with spurs to win and ambitious of success. He was el gant in person, of polished maners, and a fav- orite in every circle. He was a scholar of the highest culture and of the most varied at- tainments. His diction was direct and in- cisive, his rhetoric fauitless and affluent. As a debater he had no equal, and as an orator but few. Into what ke uttered he put the fire of an untamable spirit and the vehemence of an unalterable conviction. The loftiest pretensions collapsed at the touch of his lance and the most brazen assurances quailed under his denunciation. among ~| Such a one could not fail to be a leader if he had discretion and foresight. The locality which he represented. gave ad- ditional weight te the arguments he used. He spoke from within a political zone in which the sentiments he volced found little echo. Questions concerning the local troubles which had brought him into the public serv- ice obtained little or no consideration in con- gress and he at once plunged into the debates upon the great na- tional issues which were beginning to put aside all other questions and were soon to involve the nation in a gigantic war. He saw plainly that slavery lay at the founda- tion of this great political upheaval, and could not ba ignored in Its discussion. His Instincts and the early impressions of slavery which had led him to eschew, from the out- set all personal responsibility for it, deter- mined his attitude in the consideration of all questions growing cut of it. The con- sistency of his course in this respect through- out his entire public service, though marked with different degrees of progress in the rapid march to the grand consummation, yet attests the sincerity and the courage of his convietions. DAVIS' POSITION AND INFLUENCE. The position which he took at this time became of great importance in determining the attitude of his own state in the contest which scon followed—an importance almost pivotal, It was early seen by both sides of the conflict which was then approaching that upon the action of Maryland hung the custody of the capitol and government ar- chives, and the de facto government of the nation. And it was never doubted that the trembling balance would have turned against the union but for the untiring labers of a band of faithful unionists, of which Gov- erncr Hicks was the offielal head, but Henry Winter Davis the master spirit. His large and controlling influence in the direction of ths public current at home, as well as his share in the shaping of congressional act- tion, rises at once into a national leadership | of great importance, and justify the claim for him of that position among the public men of his time. During the first four years of his public service, debate in congress gathered around the repeal of the Missourl compromise and the Kansas-Nebraska complication, which were preliminary in the series of measures leading to the civil war. These measures were promoted and opposed at first from the standpoint of old party lines, but parly or- in_the attempt to throw the welght of their political power on the one side and the other, and new formations of political forces, for the dstermination of these issues and the ques- tions arising out of them, crowded old party leaders and thefir machinery out of sight for the time being. Those who at first debated with Intense earncstness the question whether slavery | was a national or a state institution were unconsciously hurried on to the consideration of the value of & union unaiterably deter- mined to be of the one or the other of these two character union with slavery here- after forever nationalized or forever local- ized. Mr. Davis did not for a moment hesi- tate on which side of a line thus drawn to take his position, and henceforth, during all of the remainder of his public service and until his death in the midst of a great wn- finished work, he was an active and effective leader in bringing into organized epposition all those opposed to the surrender of the public domain to the dominion of slavery or the government into the hands of those who would barter the union itself, if need be, to secure that end. The Thirty-sixth congress, the period of preliminary skirmishes, of battles before the war, was that in which he did most effective work in bringing together in unity of action all those actuated by a umity of purpose in the maintenance of the national union at any cost and the confining of slavery to its original limits as the only means of assuring the perpetuity of the government. Here he found himself by the side and co-operating with that other great leader whose work We have been considering. Mr. &tevens, al- though advanced in years and with slackened physical power, had nevertheless brought from bis retirement all s meatal foree, un- impaired by age, and a will as umbent as ever. From that moment the opposition to propagandism uwoder whatever banner or name it had hitherto acted, put itsell under one camumon lasdershio sud suidanca onnas. and at once | ganizations of the past soon broke to pieces | ing with formidable front the further pro- gress of the slave power toward universal dominion. DAVIS' POWER IN DERATH. It was in this congress that (he opposing forces tried thelr strength and tested the temper of their weapons before entering upon the final wage battle. There has not been its parallel before or since for tempestuous and angry debate or unbridled rage of passion and madness. Into its excitement Mr. Dayis entered with the confidence of a trained gladiator, and he held his place so long as thero remained a combatant willing to meet him. However much he loved these contests It was still a great cause which inspired him and for which he contended. He was eldom turned aside from this main issue by the detail, work incumbent on con- grossional - life, and there was as little opportunity ag there was disposition tor ono , 1f him to familiarize himselt wifh ‘fi«- current business of the house. He' 'hif a wonderful command of himself anfl al his faculties when on his feet, and e marshalled them each in Its place with®milMary precision and authority. The one latk of his oratory was persuasive- ness. His wtatament was precise, clear and convincing. He demonstrated as in the sun- light, he seattered sophistry as chaff, his denunciatien of Injustice and iniquity was terrific, buthe jpersuaded, enticed, charmed to his side. nefody. He attacked the judg- ment and the censclence of men, and having carried these owtworks he was content; the responsibility was no longer with him. In- doed, he was a¥ his best when he was flere- est and when, the torrent eof wrath was fullest. Expediéncy was a word he nevar used, and tima servers and hypocrites he cast out as umelean birds. These Roman qualities, nevertheless, begot antagonisms wtich continually beset his path and fettered his progress. He was not always fortu- nate in avoiding them among his own friends and coadjutors, and he never con- ciliated them among opponents, but quite as often courted and weleomed them. Una- voidable antagonisms in great crises must be met and dealt with, but unnecessary ones are to be shunned or cast aside, as useless frelght is thrown overboard in a storm. Herein this great orator and leader failed and was thus always handicapped with un- necessary weight. Much of it was una- voldable, but some of it was courted and to that extent was a fetter. DECLARATION FOR THE UNION. Beforo the end of th» Thirty-sixth con- gress all issues converged into the singie one of the union and slavery as it is, or dis- unfon and separation of the slave states from tho ree. South Carolima had declared her independence of the union, the flag had been fired upon by public encmies and a new gov- ornment had been installed at Montgomer: Actual war and treason confronted the na- tion. Maryland was rent in twgin. His own constituents were divided over his course in congress into hostile factions wrought to a white heat, and foes behind as well as in front pressed him sorely. But his courage did not weaken nor his zeal abate. He pledged the loyalty of his state to the flag of the union, and he was soon called upon to redeem that pledge. On the morning of the 15th of April Presi- dent Lincoln issued a call for the assembling of congress on the 4th ot July to deliberate upon the emergency. On the afternoon of the same day Mr. Davis announced himself by card a candidate “on the basis of the uncon- ditional maintenance of the union.” The fight with him was at once transferred to his own district, and was most flerce and bitter. All the hostilities possible of o bination were arrayed against him, testifying in their intensity to his fidelity to the union and his value to the cause. Although beaten by a small margin at the end of a campaign of unparalicled bitterness, he nevertheless o upheld the natlonal banner before the people of Maryland, and so aroused their patriotic spirit that the strength of the union vote dismayed its enemles and made thelr future ontrol of the state well nigh hopeless. IHe came back, however, at the end of two years, having received the solid vote of the union party of his district, and entered with greater zeal and fresher force than ever upon (he work he had temporarily left. PUBLICLY CENSURED. It was now midway in the war and in the administration of Mr. Lincoln, and a period of great depression among loyal men. A series of disasters had attended our arms, disheartening in the extreme. And men patriotic at heaft, not a few of them, began to long for ‘a cessation of hostilities and to calculate conditions of peace. The reappear- ance cf Mr. Davis upon the scene was timely and inspiring. Coming from a slave-holding state, which sympathized with the rebel- lion, and full of faith In the justice of our cause, his words came with double force to the faint-hearted. For this reason he en- countered the most bitter opposition at home, and the legislature of his state passed a res- olution of censure, or, as he said, “‘decorated him with their ‘censure” for want of loyalty to the southerd cause. THE VALUE OF THE On the 11th of April, 1864, when the pub- lic pulse was at the lowest ebb, and the clouds were thickest and the future the darkest, Mr. Davis pronounced an oration on the value of te umion which, for inspiring eloquence, grandeur of diction and power of a great master, is only equaled in all our annals by Webster's reply to Hayne. The occasion, one of the essentials of cratory, surpassed that of the great orator, for what Webster merely feared and predicted, Davis actually confronted and witnessed. It is now thirty years since (hat great speech was delivered, and few of those who lis- tened to it remain, but with them the scene, the impression and the effect are as vivid as if it were but yesterday. Its reproduc- tion here could not fail, even after this lapse of time, to profit those who might read it, however, much would be lost for want of the fire, the vehemence and the lofty mien of the orator. I shall make no apology for the space occupied by the mea- ger extracts I cannot pass over: “If it be said that a time may come when the question of recogniziug the southern contederacy will have to be answered. * ¥ When the people, exhausted by taxation, weary of sacrifice, drained of blood, betrayed by thelr rulers, deluded by demagogues into believing that peace is the way to union, and submission the path to victory, shall throw down their arms before the advancing foe: when vast chasms across every state shall make it apparent to every ey when too late to remedy it, that division from the south is anarehy at the rarth, and that peace without unlon 1 the end of the republic, then the independence of the south will be an accomplished fact, and gentlemen may, without treason to the dead republic, rise in this migratory house wherever it may then be in America, and declare themselves for recog- nizing their masters at the south rather than extermivating them. Until that day, in the name of every house in the land where there is oue dead for the holy cause, in the name of those who stand before us in the ranks of battle, in_ the name of the liberty our ancestors have confided to us, I devote to external exe- cration the name of him who shall propose to destroy this blessed land rather than its enemies. But until that time arrives, it is the judgment of the American people that there shall be no compromise; that ruin to ourselves or ruin to the southern rebels are the only alternatives. It is only by reso- lutions of this kind that nations can rise above great dangers and overcoms them in crises like this. It was only by turning France into a camp, resolved that Burope might exterminate but should not subjugate her, that France is the leading empire of Europe today. It was by such a resolve that the American people, coercing a eluet- ant government to draw the sword and stake the national existence of the integrity of the republic are now anything but the fragments of & nation before the world, the scorn and the hiss of every petty tyrant. It is because the people of the United States, rising to the height of the occasion, dedicated this.generation to the sword and pouring out the blood of their children as of no account, and vowing before high heaven that there should be no end to this conflict, but ruin, absolute, or absolute triumph, that we are now What we are; that the banner of the republic, still pointing onward, floats proudly in the'face of the enemy. * * * It io only by, the earnest and abiding resolu- tion of the people that, whatever else shall be our fate, it shall be grand as the American nation, worthy of that republic which first trod tha pa of empire and mads Do peace t under the banner of victofy.d. that the Ameri- can people will gurvive in history. And that will save us. shall succeed and not fail. I have an al coufidence in the firmness, the patience, the endurance of the American people, and Mving vowed to stand in histary on the great” ve (0 accept nothing but vietory or rat Jyictory is ours. And if, with such herole ve we fall, we fall with bonor and tranamit the pame of liberty aame UNION. HOW IMPORTANT — When buying a carp et to have one that is satisfactory bothin style and quality. The best makes cost but little more, they are worth the difference—better wool, better dyes, better work, gives better satisfaction, We are offering in our Drop Pattern Sale some of the very best makes of goods at about 24 price: Drop Patterns Best Ingrains - . Why “‘drop patterns,” “ " “ “ Body Brussels because Tapestry Brussels 45¢ yard b A 85¢ manufacturers “ have dropped them from their line and we cannot duplicate them=-= you may find some better patterns in our stock. but no better goods, See these as early as you can, it may save you something. Orchard & Wilhelm CARPET CO. 1414-16-18 Douglas St. Complete Drapery Dept. 2nd Floor. mitted to our keeping untarnished to go down to future generations. * * ¢ If we must fall. let us stand amlid the crash of the re- public and be buried in its ruins, so that hi tory may take note that men lived in the middle of the nineteenth century worthy of a better fate, but characterized by God for the sins of their forefathers.” DAVIS AND LINCOLN. One element in the leadership of Mr. Davis was the positiveness of bis convictions and the persistency with which he asserted them regardless of personal conscquences. Men love such leadreship, but it has its limit- ations. I have already alluded to the an- tagonisms which gather around the path of this leader. In the closing months of this, the last congress in Mr. Lincoln's admin- istration, very difficult and delicate questions sprung up over the restoration of states or parts of stales to their old relations to the union in the rear of the retreating rebel force Upon_ these questions the house, follow Ing Mr. Davis, who was chairman of its committee upon that subject, differed directly with Mr. Lincoln, claiming for congress ex- clusive jurisdiction against a like exclusive claim on the part of the executive. This difference, persisted in and pressed with all the energy of this bold and uncompromising leader, became serious and at one time threatened disaster to the cause. A bill was carried through congress under the lead of Mr. Davis taking the whole matter out of the hands of the president, but was Kkilled by a pocket veto. This action of the president aroused the hostility of Mr. Davis to the extent of an open rupture and declaration of war. Backed by the devoted following of a major- ity of the house, he threw off all restraint and appealed from the president to the peo- ple in a manifesto which embodied eve thing extreme in his nature, concise, clear, denuinciatory, menacing, declaring the act of President Lincoln ‘rash and fatal, a blow at the rights of humanity and the principles of republican government,” and reminding him that the people were supporting “a cause and not a man,” that “the authority of con- gress {s paramount and must be respected,” that the executive must “obey and execute, not make the laws,” and ‘‘must suppress armed rebellion by arms and leave political reorganization to congress.” Upon this appeal the people decided In favor of Mr. Lincoln, quite as much because with him there was safety and without him ruin as upon the abstract merits of the ques- tion itself. But the controversy showed the qualities of leadership which gave to Mr. Davis the power he exerted in the house of representatives, almost from the day he en- tered it. RETIREMENT FROM CONGR! He retired to private life at the end of this congress and dled very suddenly, after a few days illness, on the 30th of December following. Fhe public had not been apprised of his illness till it was startled by the an- nouncement of his death. There was uni- versal mourning and the feeling of a great public loss found expression in almost every quarter. Al criticlsm and harsh judg- ment was silenced in the recollection of great deeds and patriotie service in hours of greatest peril and need. Mr. Sumner prepounced his death a national calamity, and Mr. Blaine, who served witn him in the Thirty-eighth con- gress, has left this testimonial on record: “Had he been blessed with length of days the friends who best knew his ability and his ambition belleved that he would have left the most brilllant name in the par- liamentary annals of America.” Although he died in private life, at the request of congress at its next session his former colleague, Hon. J. A. J. Creswell, afterward a senator from Maryland, and a member of the cabinet of General Grant, pro- nounced a eulogy upon the character and public services of his assoclate and per- sonal friend, in the hall of the house of rep- resentatives, the scene of his labors & triumphs, which was listened to by the inet, judges of the supreme court and bath houses of congress, and was by special reso- lution of the house entered upon lie public records of that body. L. DAWES. 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One to use in the manufacture of & certain The game laws prohibit any person eggs of any song or wild bird sclentific purposes. pressly state that only persons above the age tributing the cause of their scareity to the season with the aid of six boys and several bird dogs, is reported to have collected 10,000 eggs Such wholesale destruction of the eggs of one of our most valuable game birds should not be tolerated for any purpose whatever. ing or needlessly destroying the nest or except for " Furthermore, they ex- rly accredited 18 years, baving certificates “granted by the prothonota any county in the commonweait allowed to take the ege poses, and man, art has undoubtedly oecus from Tuthleas mrw-n of the ph &t w) offends ' IN ONE OF OTHERS WE EVER SAW. ' shall be for sclentific purs such persons are required to give a bond of $50, to be forfeited it the holder of the certificate violates the purpose for which it was issued. 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