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Posting the Accounts. 1q reviewing the expenditures of the Government in receut years the Phila delphia Inquirer strains hard to prove that the Democrats are entitled to little or no credit for the reductions since 1877 when they had the first majority in the House. " After comparing the ex penditures the Inquirer says: These figure?, when carefully scanned, Indi cate that while the Democrats bad the control oi the National appropriations they have take a oil! ouwyear anil aided on the uext, and so the real reduction ot' expenses has been very small. They have by their acts shown that, if la Hull power, thy would b- apt to take in at the spigot an I let out at the buns'. Their i?teii of eeoU'>mv is not a whit better than that of the pour Indian who cut a piece o3 the too of his blanket and sewed it on tlio bottom to make it long oaou;;h to cover his feet. This is probably very smart, but let ?s see how much truth there is in it. The total ordinary expenditures of the Government in the five years preceding the control of the finances on the part of a Democratic House are as follows: 7S72 p....t...?HW.i?T,211 57 jst:j lsi.t-.v'.LTi w ls>7t ii9,u?>.:9; ot 1S75 INI, :> 4,7s" US ls7t> 177,::07,ix-7 tl Total ?s9D,270,7.?4 -U The ordinary expenditures in the last live yaa$> under Democratic control of the appropriations are as follows: W77 ;...61-,l,:a),!W:; i". 1S73 l.VJ,tOS.8Si 2s 1379 ]k;,CJMMS7 M. WUM7 17 IM1 K7.0Sl,li5.? OS Total. fSOO.&S.lU Si This shows a reduction of 889,4*22,- I 640. 11 in the ordinary expenditures of the Government iu live years since the j Democrats obtained control of the ap- 1 4 propriatibns. The saving by Democrats amounts to fonr times the entire debt of 1 Pennsylvania, or one ami a half times the municipal debt of Philadelphia. Yet the Philidelphia Inquirer wittily , tells its readers, in the face of these ? great results of economy, that the Dem ocratic idea of economy is not a whit , ?betterthan that of the" poor Indian. A ^a,viug of ninety millions in live years is probably a very small matter in the es timation of the Inquirer, but it is a j great thiuc for the great body of the taxpayers, to whom it gives assurance of still further reductions of their bur den/ Until the Democrats secured a major ity in the House the expenditures of the Government were steadily rising iu arithmetical progression, except in 187 6, when in lacing a Presidential election it was found necessary to make a slight reduction in order to" save ap gearafces. During the '' live years of ,epublic:tn appropriations with which we have compared the live years of Democratic control, James A. Garfield Chairman of the Hdiise Committee > on Appropriations.- Thnfe the responsi bility for waste and extravagance rests not only on the Republican majority in Com*re- ?> but is brought directly home to their candidate for President. While ranking a reduction of nearly ninety million dollars in the space of live years the Democratic Representa tives in Cougress were just and liberal in their appropriations for the wounded and deceased soldiers of the Union, as the official records demonstrate. The total amount of ?p{>ropriation? for pen- j sions in the five Republican years men- ; tioned above are as follows: - 1S72 $2).050,000 lS7:i :S).4SO.0>O 1874.. . a).4-O.CO!) w.-? :?."so.9W 1876..:. .... .. O0.0d0.t00 ^otal $141), 930,000 | TTie"-%R]iropriations for pensions in the five Democratic years are as fol lows: ^ 157 7 v : sa>,533.:>oo j 157 8 ;. > 1S7'J ? 1.574 i isso ; k 5B^SV.?9 ' 1SS1 , 44.230.1M) ; Total ?187.021,274 It is thus seen that the Democrats in i Congress, while lessening the Govern ment expenditures nearly ninety mil- j lions iu live years, have in the" same time increased the pensiou fund more than thirty-nine million dollars! The j reduction of the lavish and wasteful ! expenditures creatcd by the Repub licans in Congress has enabled the j Democrats to make this liberal endow ment to the pensioners without increas ing the burdens to the tax-payers but while greatly diminishing them. ? Bar- 1 risburg (Pa.) Patriot. Republican Legislation. The Republican Convention which ?nominated General Garfield as its can- , did&fce for President declared thai, it , was contvint with the record of its par ty as a defej^ler of the Constitution of the TTaUed States. General Garfield, as its candidate and the expositor of its creed, has, since his nomination, assert ed the claim of his party upon the grati tude o^the people for its services to the cause of Constitutional Government. Let us test the validity of this claim. Not to go too far back, begin with the j act of Congress of May 31. 1870, en- , titled, i; An act to enforce ?he right of citizens of the United States to vote iu the several States of this Union, and for j other purposes." It was a piece of Re- j publican legislation. When it was j enacted General Grant was President, Schuyler Colfax was Vice-President J and James G. Blaine was Speaker of the House. The whole machinery of < legislation was in the possession of the Republican party. Peace had loug been restored, all the Constitutional amendments had been adopted, and nothing remained to be done except to give full etYect to the Constitution ac modified by the amendments. Instead of perfor.-uiug this plain task, the Republican party, anxious to se cure its tenure of power, determined to retail^ power by any legislation, enact ed under the color of these amend ments. whieh might suffice to subordi nate the State Governments to its polit ical control. The act of May 31, 1870, was a contrivance invented to accom plish this purpose. The statute in question began by re peating the substance of tho Fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which hail been shortly before formally declared to have been adopted. This prelude was plainly un necessary for the purposes of the act. It was intended only to mask the changes made iu our system of Govern ment by the. sectious which followed. The second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth tmd seventh sectious aiforded the means of subordinating elections held in the States for State officers to the control and discipline of Federal laws and Federal officials, and of bringing such elections under the direct and complete control of the Federal power. These sections were used for this pur pose from the year 1870 to the year 1875 with signal success. A Republi can President and a Republican Con gress looked on and insisted any change iu the system thus created, and subor dinate Federal Courts and officers aided diligently in upholding and executing the obnoxious provisions. In 1370 an opportunity arose for testing the con jititutiona'ity <>f these innovations. The Supreme Court, notwithstanding the | pronounced political opinions of the majority of its members, declared that Congress had no power to enact laws regulating State elections held for State officers. The conspiracy against the rights of the people, which had been safely managed for live years, came to an eud. The gross outrages committed upon individual liberty under the eolor of these provisions, and the graver usurpation of unconstitutional powers,, remain to be punished or atoned for. The Republican party has shown no sense of the great wrong which it has done. It hus left the unconstitutional provisions which it enacted standing on the statute book as a precedent for other laws of the same character and as a public menace. That unrepealed act is full of instruction, its underly ing principle is the true platform of the Republican party. It is a party which desires the complete subordina of elections in the States to Federal laws and Federal supervision. It is a i party which hopes to reduce the States to mere territorial subdivisions, ad ministered by governments municipal in their character aud scope of pow ers. It is a party which aims at the concentration of a National and su preme sovereignty in the hands of Con gress, provided Congress is Repub lican. That these bloody instruc tions have not already returned to plague the inventors, and that no \ attempt has been made to put them to that use, is proof that the knowledge of the Constitution and the respect for it which may be looked for in vain in the history of the Republican party may be .confidently expected from the Uem- j ocratic party. ? X. Y. World. Under Which King, Bezonian? A recent number of the Burlington Hawkeijc contained an editorial appeal to the young men of the country, which greatly pleased many of our most high ly esteemed contemporaries of the stal wart type, and which they have quite generally copied. "Young man," says the Bawlxye, "you may have heard that there is to be an election in this country pretty soon. It may be that you have never before voted tor Presi dent. In that case, it is time for you to be making up your mind how you i will vote next fall, and with which | party you will work in the meantime. ; Which is it, Garfield or Hancock? Will i you be radical or conservative? Choose | you between the two. And if you choose to go with the Democracy and vote for Hancock, let us see what kind j of company you will have on your way 1 to the polls:* The man who murdered 1 General McCook will vote for Hancock. Every man who rejoiced at the assassi nation of Lincoln will vote for Hancock. Every man that ever put ou a Knklux ina>k and assisted in dragging an old negro out of his bed at midnight and hanging him, will vote for Hancock. ! General Butler, of South Carolina, the | Hamburg butcher, will vote for Han- , cock. The man who shot General Me- j Pherson will vote for Hancock. Barks- ! dale, the Yazoo County murderer who killed Dixon because he wanted to run for the same office, has declared for Hancock. Ciurie, the Texas assassin, who shot an unarmed actor just because it was his day to kill somebody, has been acquitted by f. Texas jury, and i will vote for Haneok. Jeff Davis says | if he had a vote he would cast jt-for j Hancock. Boss Kelly will vote for ; Hancock. Every swindling scoundrel that is running a' moonlight still and de frauding the Government and shooting the revenijsy officials in the mountains of Tennessee will vote for Hancock." , Aud now, young man, admitting that all the above-named persons will vote for Hancock excepting Mr. Jell'ersou Davis, and even admitting that he would if he could, this for the sake of obliging the lluwktyc. let us look to the other side of the house. "Which is it. Garfield or Hancock? Choose you between the two." Shall it be Gar field, who fell before the wrath of his own constituents, charged with bribery, conceit and perjury, or shall it be Han cock, who fell bleeding at Gettysburg? Shall it be Garfield, who was badly smirched by the Credit-Mobilier scan dals. and who sold his influence as Chairman of a House Committee to a pavinir ring for 85,UOO, or Hancock, whose record is stainless, whose char acter is above reproach? Yes. young man, choose you between the two. Anil if you choose to go with the Republic ans and vote for Garfield, let us see what kind of company you will have on , your way to the polls. Mosby. the guerilla chieftain, the j most bloodthirsty and heartless of the ? villains who hunted down Union sol- | diers. will vote for Garfield. Eph Holland, the notorious jail-bird, i thug aud ballot-box stuffer, will vote ! for Garfield. Boss McMane will vote for Garfield. Boss Shepherd will vote for Garfield. Joyce, the convicted whisky thief, will vote for Garfield. Will Keriiau, the blatherskite, drunk ard and hired slanderer, will vole for Garfield. "The" Allen will vote for Gariield. Seeor Robeson will vote for Garfield. , Every swindling scoundrel that was . engaged in robbing the people of mill- I ion's of money through the nest of ring frauds under Grant will vote for Gar iield. All of the Credit Mobilier-stained " statesmen." including Colfax and i Patterson, long since driven from public : life by an outraged people," will vote for ; Garfield. Dick Harrington, the safe burglar, will vote for Garfield. Chase, Hathaway, Pond, and their j i associates, now in the penitentiary at i j Concord, would vote for Garfield if ' I they could. Jake Rehm will vote for Garfield. Moses, the carpet-bag thief, will vote , for Gariield. Old Mad. Wells and his gang of for- * i gers and Returning-Board rascals will i ; vote for Gariield The man who led on the rebel army, ! which tried to kill Hancock and capture ; Philadelphia, will vote for Gariield. Belknap, who robbed I'nion soldiers' j graves of their head-stones, atul lied ' from the Capital in disgrace, will vote 1 for Garfield. And last, but not least, the seven t men, who, aided by Garfield, voted to ; | legalize the most stupendous fraud on j j record, and stole the Presidency, will j ; vote for (larlield. And so, young man, j we might go ou and fiil column after column. lint w<- have already given i the names of several men, not saints, ' who will vote for Garfield. But we ask | ! you to look further. Study the prin i eiples of tlie two great parties. Com ! pare the recftrd*, both civil and mili- ; ' tary, of the two candidates. Turn your | ba<*k upon the man who would re- j I kindle the fires of sectional hate, and j vote with that party anil for that can- , j didate whom you believe will know no ' ! sectional lines, but who will labor for a j ! reunited country, for peace, happiness i and prosperity, and a government in j j accordance with the Constitution.? j c Pes'. John Sherman, Dewa?osue. According to Shakespeare, ?'one man in his time plays many parts" on the world-stage. Mr. John Sherman is hired and paid by the United States Government to act the part of Secretary of the Treasury. But Mr. John Sher man is possessed with a mania for act ing, and insists on appearing in many characters besides the one in which he is cast, in spite of the civil service or ders of the troupe to which he belongs. Last night he performed at Cincinnati, in Pike's Opera House, as Demagogue, and with remarkable success. The , character fits him exactly. He had j only to be himself all over and all the i time to till the bill. PI is performance was ostensibly a speech for Garfield; it j was really an assault on a majority of the American people and the credit of i the American Government, in the inter- , ests oi the Republican party in gen eral and Mr. John Sherman in particu- ! lar. Mr. Sherman began by claiming i that the present prosperity of the j country is owing to resumption, which is owing to Republican legislation, car- j ried into effect bv his own amazing j sagacity and adfiiinistrativo force, I against the persistent opposition of the i | Democratic party at every stage; and! I also tnat if the Democratic party gets ' control of the Government it will undo : ! all that has been done, confuse the | finances, bankrupt the Treasury by paying bogus rebel claims, and para lyze industry and beggar everybody. ! Of course, Mr. John Sherman knows better. He knows that such representa tions insult the intelligence of the people ; to whom they are addressed. He knows : that they " are false. He knows, | and every other intelligent Amer ican kuows, that the present pros- j perity is not owing to Republican legis lation, but to the industry, thrift, and j enterprise of the American people, and ' the bounty of Heaven in unparalleled yields of cotton and corn and wheat, which have found a market in the famine-stricken countries of Europe and have turned the balance of trade in our favor. The Republican party is solely ! responsible for the commercial and financial crash of 1873, whose depress- : ing e fleets lasted five years. That party passed the Resumption act in 1874, to satisfy the demands of the peo pie, but had no faith that its terms could be complied with. Resumption would not have been reached at all but for the returning prosperity of the country in consequence of the extraor dinary demand for our great products abroad, anil the remonetiz.it ion of silver by a Democratic Congress over the veto oi' President Hayes. And so on to the end of the chapter. Mr. John Slier- 1 man's claim that he and the Republican party have created the prosperity of the country in opposition to the Democrats is only paralleled by the preposterous representation that the continuance of. this prosperity depends upon keeping , him and the Republican party in power, i According to his remarkable statement, the value of every bond depends on Garfield's, election. As there is no ! likelihood of Garfield's election, what, then, are American securities worth? And what does Mr. John Sherman, j Demagogue, expect .that Mr. John Sherman, Secretary of the Treasury, will ;ram by such a stab at the credit of the Nation? It would be easy enough . to follow him through the mazes of his : haran jue and expose the unscrupulous audacity of his misrepresentations. But j it would be lost labor, as 110 one will j believe what Mr. John Sherman, Dem- ' a<ro;nie, savs. ? N. Y. Express. OO ?? The Confederate Brieadiers. The list of "Confederate Brigadiers," that is, of prominent . Southern men now in public life, but formerly more or less prominent in the* Confederacy and its armies, is going the annual i rounds of the Republican press. This prominence is taken for proof of some- j thing devilish in the conduct of the Southern people. But, as a matter of t fact, the "Confederate Brigadiers" were and are their ablest men, and, just like any other community, without regard to the point of the compass, they choose their ablest men to repre sent them. With the exception of \ Postmaster-General Maynard? the most prominent Republicans from the South ern States are "Confederate Briga diers," Key, Longstrect and Mosby; and the man from the South the Re publicans are most apt to compliment for his fairness and moderation was once the Vice-President of the Confed eracy. The reason is not hard to find. The "same talents and force of charac ter which made them prominent during the days of the Confederacy keep them so now. If the Republican party should. ; by wisdom aud moderation, ever suc ceed in dividing the "Solid South" into ! voluntary and spontaneous party divis ions, instead of into violent and facti tious ones as at present, the prominent , Republican leaders there would, if they had not by that time died out, be "Con federate Brigadiers." Otherwise, the j party would be led, as of yore, by its " scallawags." JLhat there is nothing wrong, per se, in being a " Confederate Brigadier" is shown by the honor which the liepubli- ; cans pay to those of that obnoxious brand who unite their fortunes with that party. If the " Confederate Briga dier, -simply as a Brigadier, is an un trustworthy man, he must be untrust worthy, even though a Republican. If ! he is not in himself obnoxious, then the choice of him by the Southern people has no other significance than au iudi- , cation of his talent and influence as a man. Hence, publishing lists of such as are elected to Congress is not an j argument, but an appeal to passion, and an attempt to excite prejudice. ' This is all the more evident, because : no effort is made to cite any proofs of the present disloyal conduct of the j " Confederate Brigadiers." They have voted all the Government supplies; they have increased the loyal pension list; ; they have admitted no "rebel claims;" j they have done what the loyal majority failed to do? diminished the current ex penses of the Government. So that the publication of the statis tics of the "Confederate Brigadiers" is j simply a revival of the war spirit, au appeal to war memories, an irritation of ancient wounds, which, when in- j dulged in by a "Confederate Briga- j dier," is considered proof of total de- , pravity. Such is the power of self-de ception. moreover, that in many in- j stances those guilty of this iucousist- j ency probably do not dream of it nor can they be persuaded that they are slultilied; but, imagine, perhaps, that they are doing their country service by thus keeping wide open the gulf be- 1 tween the North and the South. ? De troit Free Ireas. Despite the wonderful perfection to which lithography unci similar pro cesses tor the reproduction in lac simile of documents, the numerous lives of General Garlield that have thus far been indicted on a credulous public have no copy of the General's $0,000 opinion as to the merits of the De Golyer paveiu .'tit. Jefferson, Jackson, Hancock. In the history of the Democratic par j ty there have been two eras in which I the bohl and vigorous assertion of its distinctive principles has been the sal vation of democratic republicanism in this country. Those two epochs arc the proudest in our National annals. No patriotic American can recall the names of Jefferson and Jackson, and the events of their Administrations with out a glow of honest pride. And no American who is not at heart a mon archist, who is not in favor of such centralization as invariably tends to the one-man power, fails to pay the tribute of sincere resoect to those illustrious Democrats and the great works which they and their iutluence wrought. Hated as they were in their times. | visited with unstinted abuse, deluged with calumny to an extent unknown in the latter half of this ccntuiy, they have nevertheless taken their rightful places in history and in the respect of their countrymen, No man now ques tions their ability, their integrity, their patriotism; and there are very few who do not concede that the ideas to which they were devoted, tiie principles for whose maintenance they breasted the storm, were not essential to the main tenance of our institutions on the broad ; and enduring basis of "the utmost in i dividual liberty consistent with the highest general welfare." Jefferson, the founder of the Demo cratic party, and t he men allied with him, made a bold and successful light against those monarchical principles, which, under another name, came too near molding our Government into a despotism. XYc get some idea of the intluence of Old World institutions, cus toms and habits on the American mind a Century ago, when we read that it was seriously proposed in 41 the Con gress" to fasten on the President the awe-inspiring title of His High Mighti ness. Ami even in the Constitution of the United States, after the confederate system had proven a failure and beeu condemned, we still see too much of that settled distrust of the people which many of the fathers entertained. Os tensibly building the Government on the right of the majority to rule, they so constructed that a minority may law fully prevent the majority from ruling for a series of years, as has more than once been demonstrated. The veto power is another feature of the anti-democratic, or monarchical spirit. It is the one-man power 111 its most offensive shape, and if we are not prepared to admit that the majority ought not to rule, this prerogative should be so modified that a majority in Congress may make laws despite the Executive. The provisions for electing a Presi dent atul Vice-President of the United States still more forcibly illustrate the then prevailing fear that the people would go "wrong and destroy the Gov- j ernment if they had a chance. The people were to select a few very wise and very good men who were to de cide, intheir superior wisdom and vir tue, who should fill the two highest oOices in the Republic. It was not deemed prudent to trust the common people to select these officials. There was to be an intermediate authority to save the people from the danger of mak- J ing a bad choice. iN'ot against the individual features of monarch)*, or centralization ? they are 1 same thing in effect? but against its spirit, Jefferson and his party rose up to light. They fought the good light and kept the faith. They vindicated manhood. They set up the rights of the people. They struck down the grow ing danger of the hour. They gave the country a strong impetus in the I right direction. They made splendid history. When that sturdy patriot, Andrew Jackson, came to the front our Gov ernment was being run, as the Repub- J lican party has run it. in the interest of capital as against labor. There was corruption ou ever)' hand. The ruling power in Congress, in the Cabinet and in all the channels of Government was money. One great fiuancial institu tion was the real controlling power. Jackson, the bravest man ot his age and as pure a patriot as ever wielded power, struck down the giant that had usurped authority. In all his acts lie carried out the idea that this was a Government of the people, not of a corporation, not the tool of consoli dated cash. He believed in the people, for he was one of them. His Adminis tration is the pride of all men who are capable of appreciating genuine Democracy when inspired by the lofti est patriotism and nerved by the reso lution of a hero. The condition of the country to-day calls for another era like those which we have noticed. Centralization needs suppression if our institutions are not to be radically and permanently chang ed. If the right of the people to manage their local concerns is not to be lost, not to become as extinct as the dodo, the Democratic faith must be re asserted with Jefferson's directness and vigor. Ami. if the country is not to be at the mercy of corporations and bond holders, ii' labor is 10 have an}- chance against the exactions of capital, if mo nopolists are not to fatten on the spoils of honest industry, we must have a re assertion of the faith, and a reproduc tion of the courage, of Jackson. And, with t he hour, the man has come. The Hancock era?the era to which this patriot soldier and statesman will give his historic name? is to be a fitting successor to those of the two il ustrious Democrats whose Administra tions were the most brilliant in our history. The election of Hancock will banish the infernal bane of sectional strife. It will unite the North and South in fraternal harmony. It will send to the rear those corrupt and cor rupting influences which have domi nated wherever the Radical spirit has had full sway. It will bring out new I issues on which there can be no sec tional lines and no color line. It will be the one thing needod to give us free dom from all those bad influences that came as the result of the war. Peace and prosperity and a career of unex ampled development and progress will be the conditions of that brighter and better epoch which will begin with the inauguration of President Hancock. ? Washington I'ost. Some Republican papers continue ! to make much ado over Hancock's lack 1 of a civil record. They bad better di rect their complaints to Garlield's superabundance of record. The trouble I with him is that he has entirely too I much record, and all the fine promises for the future are vain beside the black record of his past. ? St. Lovis Bcpubli I can. ; The Republicans who hare jeered ; at Senator Davis for "sitting on the fence" will doubtless regard his change ; of posture as indefensible. But it : places him on solid ground, and in an impregnable position. David Davis not the sort of a man to got into a moral ' 'ii'agmirc. ? Ejxhun'j X TERRIBLE TALE. I )\ j The Wreck of the Vera Cruz :s? Tolil by a ' Survivor? Thrlllliiar Scene* on Hoard th* ] Doomed Steamer. i A. R. Owen. Chief Engineer of the i steamer Vera Cruz, destroveil in a liur j ricane off the coast of Florida, and who I was one of the few survivors, has made ! a graphic statement of the disaster J which has been published in the N. Y. j Herald, and from which we take the fol j lowing extracts: ?'Tbo real blast of tho cyclone struck us on j t hi* port bow at about twenty-live minutes to I two p. rn. Saturday, and lifted the ship almost 1 on her beam-ends.' From this timoiibccamo next to impossible to walk about without clinging to chairs, tables, and other stationary furniture of the cabin, and as cli moveable objects in the saloon were quickly thrown from port to starboard, walking was exceed ingly dangerous. The wind was at that time northeast, and tho vessel was steering south by east. " Duringthe evenimr three skylights in the main saloon were carried away, and tho waves poured considerable water into the saloon and staterooms, setting all adrift. Hy midnight the passengers were generally sitting upon or l.viugontlie lloor of the saloon conversing with and assisting each other, yet good cheer was the rule, and many were theexch niges of ' wit and humor between them all. The serv ants, us they passed around them, added to the good feeling. Major-General Torbert. United States army, had been washed out of bis state- j room (No. 5s which was the lirst 011 tho port ' bow, early Saturday evening. He then came tome in the saloon-room Xo. 27. Ho had been thrown against a table in the afternoon and hud cut his right check, which troubled him considerably, as it bled freely, but he was in J ii is l est and kindest humor, speaking a cheer inu word here, assisting a man there, and at tending to tho women and children every where. lie lay on the saloon lloor for a part of the night, but was tlooded out, and thi-n camo and laid with nte, bringing his water proof, which we threw over us to protect us from the water dripping in from tho top and sides. At one o'clock p. m. the engine-room was dry. Tbo drag was put on, but it reversed a id was useless. It was not gotten ready un til this time and was too small for service, even if in proper order. At two p. m. the j ship took a heavy sea and the water put tho | fires out. immediately stopping the engines. " The donkey-engine then started, and was going when the ship sank. The Purser camo hurriedly below, calling for General Torbert, aud said that the Captain had sent him to tell the passengers to come and assist the crew or tho vessel would go down. We immediately got up. I went to tho deck and to the floor of the enulne-rooin. where I assisted to pass tho buckets for an hour. Captain Van Sice was in > line near the top passing water while 1 was 1 there. It was of no use. Tho sea was con ? tinually breaking over the vessel and coming down in large quantities betweon decks. Tho I donkey-engine win working, but not to any | purpose. After this I went to tho saloon and | told General Torbert that we were going to I pieced and fast tilling, and nothing remained but for us to get life-preservers upon tho I women. General Torbert's face hurt him so } that he did not go to pass buckets. ! "There was no such thinir as excitement 6n board? even the children were q ilet and rea sonable. Each assisted tho other in arranging life-preservers, and General Torbert was liko a sunbeam, laughing ami joking with all whilo I ho assisted them. The storm at this time was I most terrific. Such waves, wind and rain can never be described. The ship listed to her : beam-ends at every wave, aud it was just possi | ble to crawl from onu place to the other. Tho I storm was so thick that wc could not see 100 I yard , ahead, and the roar of the wind and I beating of the rain was like the rattle of miis | ketry. General Torbert and myself were ly ing in my berth talking and quietly awaiting j the worst, when, at twelve minutes past four j a. m., a sea broke into the engine-room and 1 through the saloon, making a crash like a lmtterj* of artillery, and striking terror for an I instant into every one, dashing saloon passen j gets, tables, doors and tho looso furnlturo to gether and into water a foot deep. j "The General came to me immediately after this with Master Wallendge, about nine years I old. and said: ' Uomeo. you and I must take j this little boy and care for him between us." I 1 allowed that be had but fifteen minutes to j live, and argued that It would be mercy to let , the little lcllow go down with the ship, but the I General kindly insisted, and said, 4I cannot leave this little fellow behind; you and I must save him. Take him until I uome back.' The [ next minute the sea came into the saloon more | terrifically than ever, lilting it waist-deep in j j water, and smashing the most of the port side. The little fellow and myself were rolled over among tbc chairs and tables, and I lost him, but he was picked up and brought to his father. I called to General Torbert to come to the deck with me. He said, 4 1 will go aft j and meet you above.' I never saw General Torbert again alive. i 'I tie passengers now crowuea iuio mo ?ociiil ball, which was at the top of the saloon- ; steps. Hero they said farewell to each other. 1 I ? e adjusted their lite-preservers. and cxtcnd j ed sympathy one to the other. Never before, perhaps, was there a set ol' passengers so quiet aud uncxcitcd under circumstances so appall 1 :{I'-x'u>d(-:r Wallendge brought his little boy to me and said, '.Mr. Owen, I willgive you j-1, (WO in gold if you will take my son and i get hun to land.' 1 said no; I did not expect I \? . l?vo '"'mites after the ship went down, i J l told him it would be a mercy to himself and ins son tnm down as quick as possible, l told I film 1 could see nothing to hope tor in a storm like this. 1 said, 'Let us look at it as if our characters on the world s stage were about i ! ended. "Miss Sadie Fay asked mo in her sweetest manner to take care of her, but 1 said to her and the others that there was nothing to be done but to stick to the ship until we were washed from her and then to cling to the frag ments as long as possible, and this plan was J carried out by every pa>senger. The Captain was seen just before the sea smashed in the port side of the upper decks, at twelve min utes past four a. in., but whether he got ex cited and jumped overboard or was swept awav is not known to any of us. '?Mr. Parris, the First Officer, the Second Mate, and one or two more of the crew took to the starboard-bow boat and were killed be fore the boat could bo got free. Mr. Miller and his engineers stood by the ship till she sunk. Ihe Quartermaster, William O'Neal, and a sailor, name unknown, stood at the wheel until the ship sunk. The Captain never came near the passengers during the storm, nor did he send to inquire into their condition, and it may be sincerely hoped that no other passengers may be left to so thoughtless and indifferent a man. It was six a. m. when the ship went down, breaking in the middle, and tilling the sea with fragments of stores, trunks and merchandise. "To say there were ten million pieces of wrecked stores all clashing together live min utes after the ship went to pieces would be gross exaggeration, but even with such a statement no idea could bo conceived as to the state of the case. Men, women, children, horses, cats and rats mixed in aud went iu, | through and over this mass. The waves were ! lilty leei high, not iu swells and ridges, but | m peaks like sugar-loaves. Four peaKs bcat ! ing ilka surf, tore into each other. Wtien wo | went upon one it was not to go down on the I other side, but to be turned over ut the top ; and sent rolling through the air at the op posite one, and so back and forth. This liuti.1 I about two or three hours, after which tho ! waves took a more natural character, and came in swelling r.dges, and we whirled down and over them to the opposite side. ; "General Torbeit w-as picked up by Charles Smith, one of the crew, about tifteen minutes alter the ship sunk. He was then weak, aud could crawl on tho fragments of the wreck only with assistance. When th<' fragment on which he was tumed over, u minute later, Mr. Smith came up on another piec ;. and never saw I he General again alive, 'ihe wind was so teriille that when a plank, rait, bo.t or trunk would reach tho top of a wave it was whirled through the air with a force terrible to behold. Among the living aud dy.ng 1 never passed a person who was not bleeding from some wound indicted by passing fragments, and half of them were dead or dying within ilfteen minutes after they look to the waves. This was most ap ; palling; and sad, indeed, was it to sec those hero c women struggling against timbers, i waves and fate. I passed Mr. vVallcndgo ami son ten. minutes afterthesinking. They were about ton yards apart, clingingto different Pieces of the wreck, and the little fellow ? looked as calm and handsome as when playing j in the saloon two days before. His father was depressed, but only lor his son; no thought of himself entered h;s head. Would j to God that 1 could have done something for them both. Thus could I tell something about each passenger, but as I did not know their name? 1 cannot enter into details. "Tho stewardess was jammed in the saloon among doors and tables, and sank with tho ship. She was crying bitterly uud appealed to t me lor helj), when the water poured in upon her like a Niagara. 1 stood by the mainmast ! till ttic water rushed in over the hurricane , deck, and then I climbed up the rigirinir ? twenty-live feet and was washed off bv the waves. An instant after fragments of the j wreck piled iu and over me. i was stunned by a blow across my head, cheek and eyes as I i climbed first upon one thing and then upon another, lor half an hour I rushed up one I mountain ol water, then down another, until finally 1 caught hold of a piece of tho shin J about twenty-live feet long by ten fee: wide This was the port side of the dlning-saloon. I Itirough one window was the he-id I and shoulders of a man, Thomas Gram I bool. caught In tho wreckage He j asked me to break tho frame and -at I him < ut. but, as that was impossible. 1 shoved h'in oown. and he came up through the nevt . opening. W o now threw off our life-preservers | and stuck to the fragment of wreck, through i thick and thin, lor twenty-l'ourhouis. Lluriii" that time we were at least two-thirds under . water. In the night we were both completely l blind from the salt deposited in our oy ,J > ? hen wf struck the surf, at four o'clock a m' I uow raft wpnt ,0 Pieces, nnd wo . turned over a< many as six times before c; niinir to the surface. Wo were la.rd.d at Mr. I Hotel uhr s larm, near Daytotia. Volusia Coun ty, sixty miles south of St. Augustine, and j twelve nines north < 1' Mosquito Inlet. Princess Louise is coming back tc ' Canada before "winter ?ets in. ?It is well known that fashion in woman's costume is a most sordid and merciless speculation which, while it hoards the wealth of a Nation, robbing toil and poverty of their pittance, coi? sumes human energies, perverts all functions, occupies the most of woman's time, makes her a specimen of folly, and beguiles her to all this by appeals to her vanity and assurances of that ap proval and love which is her banc, and should be her disgust. ? Mr.i. Tillotson, I in Dr. Footers Health Monthly for Sep tember. Tiik advantage of good manners to the individual who happens to possess them is very often overlooked, and the success of a man in life is wrongly at tributed to luck when it should have been ascribed simply to his atl'ability and politeness. A hundred anecdotes have been related which prove the fallacy of the common idea and show how men have been "raado" by man ners; but perhaps not any of them ex ceeds in interest that of two notable English characters? Raleigh, whose cloak is familiar to every child-reader of history, and Marlborough, whose tremendous victories might never have ! enriched; our military annals hnd he not first earned Court favor ami pro motion by his consummate address. [St. Louis G lubo-Pemocrnt.l An Tiij?Icn?j?iit Youthful ISecuIlcctlon. From earlyyouth I had been a sufferer with | severe headache, writes C. W. Eck, Esq., pro ! prietor of the St Louis, Mo., tit. Louis Co ! Wacchter. Many remedies, by the use of which I endeavored to obtain relief, proved ineffect ual. At last some friends recommended the Hamburg Drops to me; and since I used them I feel better than ever, and no sign of the old headache has appeared" again. [Cincinnati Irish Citizen.] Mr. C. 0' Cai,i,aha>*, of 171 Sycamore street, i is another grateful witness to the infallible i power of St. Jacobs Oil, which he tells us has i made a new man of him. Made Xcw Again. St. Ca.thari.ves, Cnt. E. V. Pierce, M. D : I have u=ed your Favorite Prescription, Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Purg ' ative Pellets, for the last three months and find myself ? (what shall I say) ? "ma de new I ai/ain," are the only words that express it. I ! was reduced to a skeleton, could not walk ! across the floor without fainting, could keep I nothing in the shape of food on my stomach. J Myself and friends had given up all hope, my 1 immediate death seemed certain. I can ncv i er be too th inkful to those who recommend j ed your medicines, for I now live (to the sur | prise of everybody) and am able to do my j own work, f (L?sire to make this statement I- in order that those suffering may not despair I until they have given your remedies a trial. Yours resp'y, Mrs. War. D. Ryckman*. Dlvi<lciid-I*ayln:r. The following is found in the columns of the titandard , New Bedford, Mass. : " Par j ties, after using Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, pronounce it the best dividend j paying (in health and happiness) property | they ever handled." ' Rf.dpixg's Rcssia Salve, the most wonder ful hea. lug medium in the world. Price 25c. Brick Dcst Deposit is a symptom of serious Kidney Disease. Hunt's Remedy cures it. Wilhoft's Fever and Ague Tonic, the , old reliable remedy, now sells at one dollar. The Frazer Axle Grease is the best and only Genuine. We know it. The man must be polished who would re flect so as not to offend. ? Boston TranacriyA. A vert respectable eternity might be made up of the time killed by idlers in this world.? JV. 0. Picayune. "On, look at the donkey I he's been de stroying that hill of corn !" exclaimed Mrs. Suburban, indlsinay. "Confound him?" said the husband, flingiug a stick at the animal, "he's acorn-summit ass!" The scream thac Mrs. S. emitted, previous to going off in a | faint, frightened the beast more than her husband's stick. ? Boston Transcript. "Head it up," !?? tl?c Infest bit of gentility, ami Hit* ninn who says It wishes you to stop | talking. ? Burlington Hawkey e. Spellixo reform is greatly needed in Russia. Nine-tenths of the Russian lau gtasre looks as if it had the jim jams.? Chica go Times. Do Ton know flies play "taj?" You watch a cluster of them some drowsy after noon as they circle and dart under the chan- ] delier and you will see them at the game. Tliev play just as boys do. They keep going I pretty uiiich all the t.me, and lunge forward | to trap each other or dodge aside to avoid each other with marvelous rapidity. Once in a while one will go and sit down for a mo ment, too tired to play any longer, unless an other fly should happen to get pretty near him with his back turned. Then ne will dash forward and hit the unwary one a rap that takes away his breath, and'then sail off and lauirh like a lunatic over it. Then some one of the number will get his back up and go oil in a hull. The whole performance is dread fully natural. ? Columbus ( Ga .) Enquirer- Hun. "Is it cheaper to board or keep house?' asks a young wife. It is cheaper to move. ? | Chicago Tribun'.. The writer who suggested the advantage of taking time by the forelock, forgot that he was bald-headed. ? X. Y. Commercial Adver tiser. "Strive to make a good impression where over you go," 6aid Jones, as he pulled his foot out of the mud ? 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