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THEBATESVILLEgJARP. ----‘■y- if'-* A. DEMOCRATIC JOURNAL. PUBLISHED EVtCBY THUbA&Y, BY ? FRANK D. DENTON. TERMS: One copy, one year, in advance $2 00 One copy, six month® 100 Clubmates—Five copies, $9 00. Tencopiefe and one extra to getter up of club, $lB 00. POETRY. ' A BUTTEROUP. A little yellow buttercup Stood laughing in the sun; The grass ail green around it, The summer just begun; Its saucy little head abrim With happiness and fun. Near by—grown old, and gone to seed, A dandelion grew; To right and left with every breeze Ris snowy tresses flew. He shook his hoary head, and said: “ I’ve some advice for you. ** Don’t think, because you’re yellow now, That golden days will last; I was as gay as you are, once, But know my youth is past. This day will be my last to bloom; The hours are going fast. “ Perhaps your fun may last a week, But then you’ll have to die.” The dandelion ceased to speak— A breeae that capered by Snatched all the white hairs from his head, And wafted them on high. His yellow neighbor first looked sad, Then, cheering up, he said: * ‘lf one’s to live in fear of death, One might as well be dead.” The little buttercup laughed on, And waved his golden head. —ST. Nicholas for December. WHO KNOWS 9 What come to the rose? Who knows?—who knows? Why^jiißt like a nun this morning She dripped Jier head as if she were (lead, And the world scarce worth her sebrainfc! But now—but now! Can you tell me how? A hundred leaves are a-flutter, And fall apart till the red, red heart Its secret of secrets can utter! O radiant eyes! What subtle surprise, What marvelous light, 1 wonder, Like flash of a star, lias come from afar 'To sparkle those blue depths, under, And linger the while your lip’s sudden smile With joy past expression is laden— Did the sun kiss the rose? Mayhap—but who knows What wrought this sweet change in our maiden. —lioston Transcmpi. MISCELLANY. ~ ENGINEER THORNLEY. His Premonitions of Danger and Their Fatal Fulfillment. “ There are many deeds of heroism performed on ‘ our modern highway,’, by men in all positions,” continued En gineer Josselyn, “ and if the records of their heroio deeds and noble self-denial ! were gathered into a volume, they would I compare favorably with, and deserve a place by, the side of the chronicles of the heroic deeds of the middle ages. “ When will the traveling public do I justice to railroad men? Whvwill the} not realize that lint for the devotion to duty of the men they deride, ami profess to look down upon because, of ‘theif be ing * rough railroad men,’to travel by rail with safety would be impossible. A man to whom you willingly trust your life is surely worthy of respect; ami yet, after every day making us the custodi-' ans of their lives and property, the I greater part of the traveling public class us as ‘rough railroad men,’ and put us without the pale of society; because of the rougher element that is engaged in ; the army of men required to operate our 76,000 miles of railway, we are all placed ' under a ban, as it were. ‘•Thia should noHns. We have men occupying portions of all grades wj," are, by education arid instinct, gentle men in every.sense of the word, and lit j to grace any walk in society with their ' presence. “ Such a one was my old schoolmate ; and friend, Jack Thornley, engineer, who died that others might live, while ; pulling a throttle for the old Central Ohio. “ Dear old Jack ! The prinee of engi neers, as he was called ; generous to a fault, a genial, whole-souled gentleman. Mis death was a sad blow to his friends and family, for he was an affectionate husband, and the loving father of three little ones, who tilled his happy home with cheery, gladsome music from morn till night. “ lie always had an idea he would die on the foot-hoard, and I shall never for get his telling me of it, for the first time, at his home, and the preparations he had made so that his family should not want for any thing. ‘“I want to tell you, Gil,' said ho, • of what happened me the last trip out; and tell you that I feel that the sands of life have near run out for me. You know that I left here on the night express, and what a big train I had— five coaches, three sleepers, and a baggage and express car, all well loaded. I was over half an hour late when I pulled out, but deter mined to make my meeting points if it was in ‘ the Sixty ’ to do it. “ ‘I had been making good time, and when we passed S , I was running about forty miles an hour. Just as we struck “the straight,” east of S , a strange feeling, as of impending danger, came over me, and then I seem ed to feel that if I wished to avert some dreadful calamity I must stop. I spoke to my firemen, to turn my mind from it, and theiyipened out a little more; but still thatreeling of dread oppressed me. I could not shake it oil'. It grew strong er every moment. I could see nothing ahead—no signal of danger— and a^the track is straight to Lena curve, I could have seen any light, however small. Qf course, as it was dark as pitch, I could not see the rails beyond the range of the head-light. I got down on the step on both sides, and listened to the working of tlie engine, and tried her in every way, but found her all right, anti again tried to drive off the feeling. I thought that if I were to stop, And nothing" was wrong, I would lay myself open to the ridicule of all, besides losing valuable time, and as I whistled for Lee’s siding, I made up my mind that I would not give way to superstitious feelings of dread, but take my chances—as we all must do —and strive to go in on the dot. “ ‘But do what I would I could not rid myself of the conviction that if I wished to save the lives of my passen gers I must stop. I finally grew so nervous that I told my fireman that I was sure something was wrong ahead, and that we would stop, and while I was tinkering with the engine he must take a torch and run ahead through the cut, which you know is right at the curve. You Sed what a cowari I was. I wanted to cover up my true motive for stopping by conveying the im pression that there was something wrong with the-engine. . X y 4’ ■ 5 Batesville Guard. vot. i. BATESVILLE, INDEPENDENCE CO., ARKANSAS, AUGUST 30, 1877. “ ‘Of course, Tom thought strange of it; but be is not one to say any thing agiUßSt orderg, and I s^at off and called I for fibrakes. *We stopped . Within ■it train-length of the entrance to the cut, and taking one torch I got down with my soft hammer and wrench, while Tom took the other and ran ahead into the cut. “ ‘I was parrying the questions of the brakemen, who had come ahead to see what was up, and the conductor was just coming forward with his lamp, when Tom came running back, and as soon as he got within range of the head light, I saw that something was wrong. In a minute he was beside us, with a face like a corpse. ““‘Great heavens, Jack!” he ex claimed, “it’s well for you that you did stop. Right in the center of the cut a big stone, tliat will we.gh a ton, is lying on the track, as well as a car load of small stones and earth.” “ ‘And so there was. The section hands at N were sent for, and we fell to and cleared away the slide in an hour; but despite our busy work I could not help thinking that I had received a message from the other world ; and as poor Brown had almost the same «w --rience a few weeks before he was killed, the feeling has been on me ever since that lam not long for this world. I have always felt that I would some day meet with a violent .death, and now 1 am qartain of it.4f Mg 11 fl I", “ I tried to argue mnrx^AWtlhfk no tion; telling him that his liver wasn’t in good running order, and that although his premonition of danger on the night in question was one of those inexplicable somethings which have never been ex plained, the same thing having occur red to ethers who had lived to a good old age, it did not follow that he—as : well as Browm—should meet with an . early death because of that premonition. “ Butsay what I would, Jack held to it that he had not long to live, and re quired me to pyoniise that I would see his washes id regard to the disposal of his pr«]ferty for the benefit of his family carried out, and look after their welfare as much as possible. Os course I readi ly gave him the promise, but more to relieve his mind-—as he seemed so earn est and anxious about it—than any thing , else. “A month had passed, and to all ap- i pearance Jack was in good spirits, and seemed to have forgotten his gloomy I I forebodings. One morning, his wiu was i out on the Fast’ Line, leaving at 7 :30, [ with the through passenger from the i Chicago Connection. It was always a ' heavy train, and gouerally heavily load- i ed. In tßis instance it’was carrying f more passengers than usual, owing t</an convention of some sort in the East. But I •the Sixty* could handle them and make good time with her seven-feet drivers । and Jack on the foot-board ; and, as the I connection was nearly an hour late, i Jack declared it his intention to ‘make it up’ in the run of 137 miles. As the running time wits forty miles por hour, | you may know that he would nave had to 'drqp her down’ to do it. “ But fate had ordained that ‘the ' Sixty’ and her noble engineer should never complete that trip—that the career of both shlmlff TSfidTrTndrm'TEacWffg 1 the terminus of the road; but that they : st* mid be the instruments of saving the i precious liyirs of the crowded couch# behind (hem. “Six miles end of B , there was at that time a covered bridge over a I stream known as Bitter (’reek. At this I point it runs between very high banks, i and the distance from the bridge to the rocky bed below is full fifty feet. The approach to the bridge on the west side is a very heavy down grade, at the top of which, and about 3(R> yards from tm bridge, is a sharp curve, so that the | bridge can not be seen on that side until the curve has been turned, and the train : is on the grade. “ The bridge was a very strong one, and it was the custom of all the engi- . I neers with heavy trains to give them a I ‘lively send’ down the grade on that 1 side, so that they might have ‘a run at I the hill’ on the other. “Jack had been making splendid time all over the road, and when they , stopped at B , he had ‘ made up’ 20 . minutes. The next stop was at O , j 20 miles distant, and as they pulled out, , Jack avowed his intention of making the run in 25minutes; so you may know I that he was ‘ sending them,’ when he | (lew around the curve above Bit ter Creek bridge. The fireman, being I on the inside of the curve, saw around it first. Before they struck the grade, he saw that the bridge was a mass of flames from shore to shore, and, giv ing one waridng cry,leaped from the en gine- “Jack immediately’ shut off and call ed for brakes, and then reversing, pull ed her wide open on sand. He had ev ery opportunity to jump off and thus Satte his life, but he knew that only the most strenuous exertions would prevent the whole train from running into the burning bridge and to certain death,and he determined to save the lives of his passengers or lose his own in the at tempt. The conductor and brakemen did all they could to stop the train with thejprakes (that was before the era of air-brakes) and then leaped off. But great-hearted, brave Jack Thornley’ re । fused to desert his post, and while still i doing all in his power to avert the ca tastrophe, calmly awaited the result. i “ One last look at the bright sky I above, one last thought for Ins dear wife and babes, and into the fiery fur nace he ran; the charred timbers gave way, and the engiue, baggage and ex press car went plunging down the blaz ing wreck of the bridge, and were dash ed to pieces on the cruel rocks below. “ What a narrow escape was that of the heavily loaded coaches, which, with brake*:tightly set, remained on the very verge of Die frightful chasm! And how the passengers blessed the memory of him who had so nobly stood at his post and sacrificed his life for them. And when his remains were rescued from the burning debris below, they were rever ently carried to the train, while eyes all unused to weep were suffused with tears. “Dear, noble Thornley! His fore bodings of a violent death had been ful filled. There are, no doubt, many still living who were on the train that terrible day, and who still bless the memory of one of nature’s noblemen.’’ — Btilurduy Night. DBVOTED TO Ttfß INT eMISTS OP iNDBPENDDIfCE COtrNTY AND NORTH ARKANSAS. I NEWS SUMMARY. I PERSONAL POLTTIMB I P Jqdge We|t, the Bepublidlm nominee for- Governor of Ohio, opened the campaign by a speech at Bellefontaine oa. the IBtt. He considered flie labor problem as the one most difficult of solution now befofe the country, and favored the voluntary adoption by em ployers of a graduated scale of compensa tion, conditioned on net earnings, with a fixed minimum nite of wages. E. K. Smith, Surveyor-General of Mon tana, has been suspended upon charges of misdemeanor in office. Gen. Terry and Capt. John McNeil, of St. Louis, have been appointed by the Secre tary of the Interior commissioners to visit Sitting-Bull in Canada and arrange for his return to the United States. Minister Lowell has arrived at Madrid and had a very friendly reception from King Alfonso. Secretary Sherman said in his Mansfield speech: “The President authorized me to say one thing, and one thing only, for him and in his name, and that is that all reports that impute to him ahy participation what ever in the nomination of candidates on your State ticket, or any desire or purpose to influence in any way the Senatorial con test in Ohio, are utterly groundless. These are your matters, and I can assure you, for him, that he has not and will not interpose in any such contest between political friends.” The Man land workingmen have organized a political party. Gen. Grant was in Copenhagen on the 18th, the guest of his brother-fn-law, Dr. Cramer, American Minister to Denmark. President Hayes and party were at Mount Washington on the 20th. Public receptions were tendered them at Rutland, Brattle boro, Windsor, and other towns in Ver mont. The President declined an invitation from Gov. Connor and Senator Blaine to visit Maine, on account of previous engage ments. A London dispatch says that Gen. Grant has sent word to Garibaldi that he should be very glad to visit Caprera during the au tumn. COMMKBCE AND INDUSTRY. The GoveuuiueHt canal around the Des Moines Rapid* of the Mississippi River at Keokuk, lowa, is so far completed as to ad mit the passage of boats, and was formally opened on the 22d. The land case involving the title of the State of Kansas to over^ii,oflb a<Tcs df land, being an aggregate of the grant to the State under the act of 18111, admitting Kansas into । the Union, has been decided by the Interior Depart mi nt in Xa3 (>r of the Slate. The three principal oprHUorsiu a gang of ,forgerv, wlxnm operation^ have been am ducted on fhA most extensive scale and ex tended to all Parts of the country, ucre arrested In - CuMJgo on €he 181 h. Their names are T. J. Henderson, alias Steven*, a wealthy grain and stock speculator of Chicago, E. B. Weston, formerly a real dstatu agent ^f thw same city^ ami Nelson 'A. Greiner, As Minnesota, said to be likewise a man ot w«ahh, and formerly a member of the State Legislature. Among the most suc cessful forgeries committed by this gang were one of a $27^)00 check purporting to have been drawn by Winslow, Lanier A Co., New York, which was paid by the Third National Bank of tlut City, and another purporting to have been drawn by the New York Life nn tlic Union Trust Company or New York, for '540,000, which was also paid. The aggregate amount of the forgeries committed by this gang is believed to exceed a million dollars. When arrested they had in their possession all the implements n^essnry to carry on their vast schemeM of swindling, including a number of genuine drafts from which all writing had been obliterated except the chashier’a signature. Weston and Greancr were arrested in Chicago and Stevens in Grand Haven, Mich., and all three were taken to New York City. The coal miners’ strike in the Lackawan na, Lehigh, Luzerne and Wyoming Valleys o( Pennsylvania threatens to become gener al, the total number of men at present lock ed out being estimated at from 25,000 to 30,000. Th<* strike al present is founded upon a demand of a restoration of May wages, or an advance of abodt 2h percent.on present Wage*. The operators have ofivTed fb restore May wages should the present price of coal be maintained until September 1. This offer does not seem to be satisfac tory, and has been rejected. No serious troubles have yet occurred, but a collision is imminent at any time, and a large police and militia force are constantly on guard. The United States revenue officers in Ken tucky have recently been making desperate efforts to break up illicit distilling in that State, which is said to be quite prevalent. A number of serious collisions have occur red. Over 100 arrests have been made. The Western Union and Atlantic and Pa cific Telegraph Companies have been con solidated. All earnings arc to be pooled, extra offices abolished, and former rates re stored between competing points. The ninth annual session of the National Board of Trade was held in Milwaukee, be ginning bn the 21st. The wheat crop of the States of Ohio, In diana and Kentucky is estimated by the Cincinnati Commercial at 00,000,000 bushels this year. The average crop of these States is about 42,000,000 bushels. The Minnesota wheat crop is estimated at 31,000,000 bushels, against 18,000,000 bushels last year. The canal around the Des Moines Rapids of the Mississippi was formally opened on the 22d. The canal is seven and half miles in length, and 300 feet in w idth, with three locks, each 350leet in length. It was com menced October, 1867, and has been in prog ress most of the time since. The improve ment has cost over $4*000,000, and is the most important one on the Mississippi above New Orleans. A general strike of coal miners in the Irwine District, Westmoreland County, Pa., for an increase of wages, took place on the 22d. CKIMKB AND CASUALTIES. C. E. Hedges, of Sioux City, a Govern ment cattle contractor, was recently found killed on the road between Forts Raadall and Sully, having been shot through the bead, it is supposed by Indians. A wagon containing three men was run into by a train on the Louisville, New Al bany and Chicago Railroad, near Layfayette, Ind., on the 18th. George Foulk and Wil liam Blond were instantly killed, and Frank Cole fatally injured. Mrs. Kate English, of Pittsburgh, Pa., was 4 fatally burned on the JDth by the upsetting of a kerosene lamp, and died on the same day. ‘ At Oak Mills, Atchison County, Kansas, on thq night of Sunday, the 19th, Robert jScruggs went to the house of his father-in- Inw, Jasper Oliphant, and demanded to see his wife, who had left him some time previ ously on account of his ill treatment and gone to her father’s. Mr. Oliphant refused to admit. ; his son-in-law into the house, whereupon the latter drew a pistol and shot Mr. Oliphant in the breast, killing him almost instantly. The murderer fled, but was soon pursued and overtaken by a party of neighbors, who under took to arrest him, whereupon lie again drew his revolver and shot one of the party, Jacob Graff, killing him instantly. Scruggs then ran and escaped from his pur suers, but subsequently went to the resi dence of a Justice of the Peace and volun tarily surrendered himself. The following morning a crowd of about fiO armed men surrounded the house where Scruggs was in custody, forcibly took him from the officer and going to the adjacent woods hanged him to a tree. . Both Oliphant and Graff were old and esteemed citizens, while Scruggs was a drunken, quarrelsome, and generally worth less fellow. The body of a man supposed to be J. H. .Mackey, of the firm of Lewis & Mackey, lawyers, Brooklyn, N. Y., was found in the woods near Newport, Ky., on the 19th. The skull was fractured and the body badly de composed. Tt was Identified by papers found in the pockets of deceased. At Omaha, on the 20th, during the preva lence of a thunder-storm, a row-boat on the river,containing a party of live persons, was struck by lightning. George Sladge was in stantly killed. Mrs. Heger sprung from her seat, threw out her arms frantically, fell backward into the stream and was swept out of sight. The remainder of the party, one man and two women, drifted safely to the shore. A panic occurred on the steamer Phil. Al len, just as she was preparing to leave Mem phis, on the 21st, caused by the blowing out of her safety-valve. A number of passen gers jumped overboard, ami others from the boiler-deck to the lower dock, among them Miss Ella Lapaugh, a correspondent of the New York Bun, who was severely injured. None of the others were hurt. Stack Foster, colored, who was charged with murdering bis father-in-law, near Cortland, Ala.,recently, fled to Memphis. On the 22d an attempt was made to arrest him under a requisition. lie ran from the officers, when one of them tired at him witli a icyolyer, the ball striking him in the back and passing through the heart, causing in-' stant death. Seventeen lives were lost by the sinking of a steam collier in Newcastle Harbor, New South Wales, on July 15. MISCELLANEOUS. The United States Consul at Havana, by letter dated Augffst 7, informed the New Orleans Board of Health that up to that date 12 easea of yellow fever had boon re ported in tliat Imrbor, four of Which had proved fatal. He adds: “The diseaae may be considered epidemic to a limitrd extent, but of a mild type compared with the former season.” * The mining town of Gayville, D.T., about two miles from Deadwood, Wa.4 almost en tirely destroy ed by tire on the morning of the ISth. Out of alraut 3W houses, only two were, saved,, A dispatch from £alt Lake, 20th, said that the hostile Nez-Perec Indians were encamp ed in force at Hole-in-the-Rock Stage Sta tion, in Idaho, about 90 miles north of Port Hall. They had dustruyed the telegraph । lino in the vicinity, and stopped all travel ovcf the road. A number of friendly Sho- ' shones and Bannocks had gone forward to join Gen. Howard, who wa* in pursuit of the hostiles. Agrand Indian council is to be hold at Spokane Falls, Idaho, for the purpose of quieting those warriors wh» have not yet joined Joseph’s band, but it is feared might be easily persuaded to do so. About 100 chiefs nnd head men are expected to be present. The negotiations on the part of the whites will be conducted by Col. Wil kins, Indian Inspector, assisted by Capt. Wilkinson, Gen. Howard’s aid-de-camp. Prof. Hall, of the Washington Naval Ob servatory, on the night of the IGtb discover ed a satellite to the planet Mars. Its time of revolution Is about to hours and Its dis tance between 14,000 and 15,000 miles. l*rof. Hall thinks he has also discovered a second and smaller satellite to the same planet, but will need further observation to fully con tirm this. This discovery is considered by astronomers as among the greatest telescop ic achievements of the century. The Lakeside House, a summer hotel on the Third Lake, Madison, Wis., was burned on the morning of the 21st. The contents of the house were all removed in safety. About 100 guests were at breakfast when the tire broke out In an out-building, but there be ing no tire appliances it was not possible to save the hotel. Loss, about $16,000; insured for $12,000. A $75,000 fire occurred at Anoka, Minn., on the 20th, a large amount of milling prop erty being destroyed. WAK NEWS. A dispatch from Bucharest, 17th, says it is reported that the fever epidemic in the Rus sian army in Bulgaria is increasing. The troops are also in want of food, and they re fuse pay unless they can receive it in coin of their own country. They threaten to sur render to the Turks unless they are paid in the coin demanded. The present state of affairs in the army is very alarming. The Russians, numbering 35,000 infantry, 10 regiments of cavalry and 110 guns, on the IBth attacked Muhktar Pasha along the whole line extending from Magarajikh to Yakinlar. The cannonade begun at 7in the morning, and at 6 in the evening the Rus sians retreated in good order to their en campment, pursued by the Turks. The Turks lost 165 killed and wounded and the Russians 1,200. A Constantinople special, 21st, says the Porte has ordered the immediateconcentra t lon of 50,000 militi^ pf the second class at Adrianople, Sofia and other points near the scene of operations. The official Russian Press Agency authorizes the statement to be published that the Russlau losses in the two battlee before Plevna were from 8,000 to 10,000 men, half of whom were killed or seriously "wounded. About 5,000 are in hospitals at Sletova, Simnitza and Turnu-Magureli. Os 200 persons attached to red-cross ambu lances, 40 were killed while collecting the wounded. The Turks made a determined assault upon the Russian works at Schipka Pass, on the 21st, and claim to have driven the Rus- , sians from the Pass. ■A guillotine that has cut off 22,000 French heads is exhibited in London. ’ 4’ ■F■ ’ ’ MORE RADICAL BIOGRAPHY. Gen. Boynton Contributes Another Inter* esting Chapter—How Grant “Gave Away” the Evidence against Babcock—The Kind of Evidence that Secured His Acquittal. [From the Cincinnati Gazette—Radical.] Rye Beach, N. H., Aug. 11.—A private dispatch from Washington brings the in formation that ex-Special Agent Moore has printed an affidavit assuming to set forth the circumstances of the attempt at blackmail which Tie had before charged on your cor respondent. When a copy of this bit of un adulterated perjury comes to hand it will receive attention. Meanwhile a story of the Babcock whisky trial in St. Louis will illus trate the kind of service Moore was accus tomed to render his employers, and his ca pacity for perjury. EVEREST, A GAUGER, who, it was discovered, had been a witness to the mailing of money by Joyce to Bab cock and Avery in Washington, had left the country, and it was expected by the defense that he would remain absent until after the trial. He was most respectably connected, and finally, a short time before the case was called, he was induced to return and ap pear as a witness. When he arrived in the country those engaged in preparing the Government case fortrial met him in Phila delphia and ascertained what his testimony would be. His statement, which he after ward made on the stand, was to the effect that on a certain occasion he had been sent by Joyce t o the. bank to exchange asl,ooo bill for two of SSOO each; that Joyce had then, in his presence, inclosed one of these bills in an envelope addressed to Avery, and the other in one addressed to Babcock; that while he had actually seen the note inclosed in the Avery envelope, he had only seen Joyce’s motions as inclosing the other in the Babcock envelope, and did not happen to follow a note into the letter with his eyes. According to his statement both envelopes were then dropped into a street letter-box near Joyce’s office. This evidence was deem ed very important by all engaged in prepar ing the Government’s case, and a strong effort was made by all of tnepi to induce Secretary Bristow not to communicate its purport TO PRESIDENT GRANT. In spite of all the false stories which gained currency during the trial, and which arc still current in some quarters, to the effect that Secretary Bristow was conspiring through the aid of these trials to break down the personal and official family of the President, it is true that up to the time men tioned he had regularly and promptly in formed the President of every item of evi dence affecting either his Secretary or his personal friends in St. Louis. As regularly and as promptly all this information had been given by the President to Babcock, and through him of course it at once found ts way to the counsel for the defense. So when this important evidence of Everest’s, show ing the direct payment of money to the Pres ident’s Secretary and to the Chief Clerk of the Treasury Department, came into the possession of the Government lawyers and the officials of the Department, a concerted attempt was made to prevail upon Gen. Bristow to withhold all information in re gard to Everest from the President. He met all their arguments with the statement that, while he was well aware that the President’s belief in Babcock’s innocence was constant ly sacriticing the case of the Government against the whisky thieves, still, asaCabinet smcer, his first duty was to the President, ami if the case was lost through its BETRAYAL TO THE DEFENSE, the responsibility would rest with Gen. Grant. And so the. Secretary made known the new evidence which had been discover ed, and in less than twenty minutes after it had been communicated at the White House Gen. Babcock appeared at the rooffi of So licitor Binford Wilson to make Inquiries in regard to Eveiwt’s statement and where abouts. The appearance of Everest was the cause of great anxiety among the members of the Ring, and when the nature of the evidence he would give became known to them they were in great consternation. It seems to have been recognized at once as a case de manding the SERVICES OF MOORE. He was then on duty about the Custom house in Baltimore. He came to Washing ton without leave, and it was arranged that he should go to St. Louis ami meet the testi mony of Everest. As the latter could only swear to actually seeing the five hundred dollars enclosed in the Avery envelope, and not to actually following the other five hun dred with his eyes into the Babcock envelope, the defense decided to set up the claim that the Babcock envelope was only a blind to deceive Everest, and that as a mat ter of fact no money was put into it by Joyce, leaving the presumption that the latter had pocketed it. It was arranged, therefore, that Moore should swear that the seconder third day after the date fixed by Everest for the mailing of these letters at St. Louis, he, Moore, happened to be in Gen. Babcock’s room at the White House when Babcock was opening his mail, and that the latter, after opening a large envelope in his presence, called his attention to the curious fact that the envelope in Joyce’s handwriting con tained no writing, but simply A PIECE OF BLANK PAPER. Moore arrived in St. Louis and unfolded his propos<»d evidence to the counsel at work at that end of the line. These gentlemen, or some of them, were also of counsel for Av ery. The latter at once said to Moore that his story was a very good one so far as Bab cock was concerned, but that it would sure ly convict Avery, since it would establish the fact that the mail containing the letters Everest had described reached Washington, and the presumption would be that Avery received the letter which Everest swore hail been sent to him with the SSOO in it. This made it necessary to adopt a different line of defense, and the letter-carrier was found, who afterwards swore that,on the day Ever est claimed that the letters to Babcock and Avery were dropped into the street-box, he, at the request of Joyce, unlocked the box and gave him back two letters addressed as described by Everest. The part that Moore had prepared himself to play in this matter became known through the indiscretion of one of Babcock’s counsel in Washington, who, when the telegraph brought the report of Everest’s testimony, could not refrain from telling in Newspaper Row’ how complete the answer of the de fence would be to his embarrassing evi dense. When the letter-carrier was pro duced instead, the Washington counsel was greatly nonplused, but soon ascertained that it was Avery’s interests that rendered Moore’s proposed perjury unavailable Moore left his post without leave to at tend to this business, and sent in vouchers for his expenses to St. Louis and return. These were disallowed by Solicitor Wilson as being irregular, impudent and outrage ous. At a subsequent date, however, they were paid in pursuance of ORDERS FROM THE WHITE HOUSE, and thus the Government was forced to pay the expenses of a witness called by the de fense to defeat a most important case. And further and most disgraceful, the payment was to a witness who deliberately prepared himself with perjury, clothing himself with it as a portion of his outfit, and while a Gov ernment officer charged especially with the detection of fraud seeking to use it to de feat the Government in attempts to uncover and punish fraud. No severity of language can emphasize such facts as these. H. V. B. Maine offers a bounty of $5 for every dead bear, and last year paid out $2,725 under this head. It is claimed that when bears are scarce in the State ad venturers go into Canada, kill all they can, and, bringing their skins home,de mand the bounty. The county of Pembina, in Dakota Territory, is one-fifth as large as the entire province of Manitoba. Every foot of the 18,000 acres of land in it is of the finest quality, and the population of the entire county is less than 2,500. NO. .34. THte VIEWS OF SENATOR BECK. Against the Electoral Fraud—Against a ‘Great Regular Army. . [From hfs Speech at Maysville, Ky., Aug. 4.] The wrongs, the frauds, the usurpations of the Radical rulers have been so often and so successfully exposed that a large majority of the States and people have condemned and repudiated them, and to-day a Demo cratic President would be presiding over the Republic, but for the most scandalous and unblushing fnmd ever perpetrated in modern history, which was only rendered possible by the most shameful cowardice and imbecility on the part of the Democratic leaders. We have again verified the adage that “an army of stags led by a lion is braver than an army of lions led by a stag.” But our principles are not impaired, nor our positions weakened, either by the frauds of our opponents or the cowardice of our lead ers. “ Truth is mighty, and public justice certain;” even those who profited by the wrong have been compelled to do homage to the justice of our demands, and remove the iron heel of the Federal soldiers from the necks of the last of the prostrate States of the South. All the leading Republican papers are de manding an increase of the Federal Army. To all such ideas the Democratic party are absolutely and unalterably opposed. No evil can be Worse than that proposed by the Republican press and party; it is an end of liberty regulated bylaw; it is the boldest and most unblushing demand for a central ized consolidated Government which has yet been advanced. An army, such as is de manded, under a President like Gen. Grant, would become at <mce masters of the situa tion. When it strikes, as it is far more like ly to strike, than any other organization, the death-knell of liberty will have struck; the Praetorian Guards will name and niaintain the Emperor. I know of no instance under Radical rule in which Federal soldiers have not been the ready tools of their masters. Gen. Terry de stroyed the Legislature of Georgia, Sheri dan and De Trobriand crushed out liberty in Louisiana. All were ready to march on Washington, and eject, if necessary, a Dem ocratic House of Representatives last winter, under the lead of their masters. Wehave had enough of Federal bayonets regulating State affairs, and will not lay the liberties of the people, their constitutions and rights at the feet of any dictator. It is the height of impudence-for a party that, has striven to break down State authority, that has absolutely prohibited in many of the States the arming and equipping of Slate militia or volunteer military organizations, to pretend that the men of the State are not to be trusted with preserving the peace within their own' borders. Do they pretend that the material of which the regular army is composed is more patriotic*, more intelli gent, more devoted to maintaining the rights and preserving the lives, liberties, and prop erty of the people than the citizens of the respective States who may be organized for that purpose? They read history strangely if they arrive at such conclusions. The Dem ocratic party stands by the Constitution and all its provisions, aud will provide means to enforce them withouttrte danger of a great standing army. The framers of tlwit instru ment were wise enough and far-seeing enough to provide for all suoll eontingen ciesas have rectyyjy.jq^en. The neglect of and contempt for its provisions, under the consolidating process of tho l<«dJcaV, has caused the disgrauuXul, sMmes., w« Jiave just passed through. Article 2 of the Amendment V» th* Con stitution adopted by the first vides; A wMf regulated hißitia 'being necessary to tl>e security of*a ifr*m State, the right of the people kqep and bear arms ahull not be imringed. Mr. Jefferson, ih hik first inaugural nd* dress, among other invaluable principles which he laid down for the guidance of the people, said: A well regulated militia is our best reli ance in time of peace, and for the first mo-, ments of war, till regulars may relieve them. Warned by the lewmns o^thepast,and rec ognizing the wisdom of the fathers, the Democratic party will do all that is necessary to organize and maintain in each State a“ well regulated militia,” with officers iq all re gards equal to those in the regular atmy, who will recognize their obligations as citi zens even when acting as soldiers, and with men far superior to the mass of the Federal soldiery—a militia that w’HI have the respect of the people, and which will enable the State authorities to suppress promptly all sort# of lawlessness. We make no war on the regular army, as such. We resist the uses to which it has been put, and we will abolish it altogether rather than see them repeated. The ballot box must be kept sacred from the bayonets; State and Federal legislatures and Courts must not be broken up bv Federal soldiers, no matter who orders these things to be done; but we will maintain such a standing army as will protect our frontier, guard all the' Federal property, and do all that the individual States can not and ought not to do. That done, a militia organized, equipped and paid by the State, composed of such mate rial ns each State has in abundance, will not ouly never strike except for liberty ami law, but will be both able and willing to sup pressnll who oppose or seek to overthrow either. The Battle of Gettysburg. The August number of the Southern Historical Society Papers contains let ters from Gens. Early, Long and Fitz Lee, Col. William Allan and Col. Walter 11. Taylor, on the causes of the Con federate defeat at Gettysburg. These are written in replj' to a series of ques tions propounded by a distinguished foreign military critic. There are, of course, striking difterences of opinion. Gen. Early holds that the failure to carry Meade’s position at Gettysburg was due to the failure to support the several at tacks made on the 2d and 3d of July, and to the delay in making those at tacks. Gen. Long holds that the advan tage of position on July 2, and the op portunity to defeat the enemy in detail, were lost by the tardiness of Longstreet. Gen. Fitz Lee contributes the Con federate defeat to the absence of Stuart’s eaval ry from the army, the non-oceupa tion of the hills south of Gettysburg by Ewell on the afternoon of July 1, and to the delay in the attack on July 2. Col. Allan believes the Confederates would have been successful: 1. Had Ewell and Hill pushed the enemy over the top of Cemetery Hill on the first day. .2. Had Longstreet reached the field earlier on the second day, and secured and held “Round Top.” 3. Had Ewell made his attack on the sec ond day at the same time as Longstreet, instead of later, and then not “ peace meal,” so that Early was beaten back before Rodes was ready to support him. 4. Had Longstreet and Hill attacked early on the 3d, as was first designed, while Ewell was engaged. 5. Had Ewell and Hill made one prompt effort in sup s ort of Pickett at the proper moment . n the letter the policy of invading the North, and of fighting at Gettysburg, are likewise discussed.— Charleston (S.C.) News and Conner. During a Jate thunder-storm at An trim, N. H., some persons who were driving put their horse and wagon in a shed, which was soon after struck by lightning. On visiting their property they found the harness stripped from the horse and torn to shreds, the mount ings scattered,yet not melted; the thills broken and the horse turned facing the wagon, but uninjured. TH EBA^ES VILLE GUARD. 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We were married yesterday, weren’t we?”— Rochester Democrat. “ I’m a poor man and my father was a cooper,” said an opponent of Tom Marshall upon one occasion. “ Doubt less his father was a cooper,” replied Tom, “ but he put a mighty poor head on to one of his whisky barrels.”— New York Tribune. They have recently found near Belle fonte, Alabama, some tracks which they think must have boen made by a giant, They are 18 inches long and eight inches wide. The fact of the business is, some Chicago woman has been strag gling through that country.— Courier- Journal. This lady and her daughter, as every body knows, spare no effort to repair the ravages of time in their faces, and are not always successful. “I saw Mme. E.,” says a friend ; “ how old and worn she looks.” “ Yes; poor woman. She is beginning to look as old as her daughter.”— Paris paper. “blue grass” poetry. Cream and peaches once a week, Kiss your girl on the right-hand cheek; Apples green and apples dried, Kiss her on the other side. —Ashland Review. That evinces wretched taste- Take your girl about the waist, Tass her to her pink toe-tips And plant it squarely on her lips. —Frankfort Yeoman. Yesterday morning six car-loads of mules passed through this city from the West, en route to the Eastern market. The door of the first car was dragging along by one hinge, the other cars had no doors, the air was dark with flying splinters, one of the cars had about three square fefet of roof, one of them had two boards left in the forward end, two of them were trundling along on one pair of trucks, and one ear had nothing left of it but the hole the end window used to be in, and the cargo was doing its level best to kick the hole out. Nothing so awful lias been seen in Burlington since the strike.— Hawkeye. An inventive genius has devised some thing the value of the services of which to the eause of religion it will be simply impossible so. overrate. It is a patent ever)as|ii^, reyeysible church festival vade mecum,' the component parts of which are chamois leather,- gutta per eha and llaua^L. Cut in large squares and sprinkle,<l A powdered sugar, it makes an admirable substitute for sponge-cake; in ftu^rsrwith a straw bej^y aud, some saleiatus to every square yard, it can be used as a short eake; and then in the winter it may be eut into; small oval bits, .and, being servpd up with plenty of pepper and some bbiling milk, makes a nutritious and economical. oyster-stew. The in ventor thinks that with twenty square yards of this valuable article, costing less than .940, a congregation of 700 people can give four successful festivals a year and net enough money to lift the church debt and buy a new melodeon for the Sunday-school.— Chicago Trib une. ■■ ——. ♦ . ♦ The Man With an Item. “ Want an item?” “ What is it?” we inquired. “ I’ve got the dumdest item you ever hern tell on. I struck an ile’-well on my lease Monday, an’ she flowed a stream 100 feet high straight up for half an hour. Then she kinder died down. One of my drillere was standing over the hole when she suddenly squirted again, an’ blast my eyes if it didn’t take that driller right up with it. The stream was a powerful one, you see, an’ he went up 100 feet. You’ve seen those little balls as dance about on top of those little spurting fountains such as they have in the cities? Yes; waal, that’s the way this thing acted, and there’s that air driller right up on top of that 100-fut column of crude ile, aud he’s dancing about like chaff in a fanning-milL What do you think of that ’un?” “ Haw long has he been up there?” “About four days and four nights.” “ He must be very hungry by this time. Doesn’t he come down to get something to eat?” “ Why, we tins just put a plate of hash in this stream of ile and it takes it up to him, you see. And its mighty handy, as he finds his vituals already greased, and he doesn’t need any but ter.” “ But he must have frozen to death by this time.” “ Why, man, we’ve sent him up on the same stream bed and bedding, a small stove an’ wood, an’ we’re going to build him a small house, and then he can live there as comfortable as a Prince.” His face was as innocent of deceit as a piece of tanned leather, and when he asked to have his name put down as a deadhead subscriber for information he had given we didn’t have the heart to hurt his feelings.— 0(1 City (Pa.) Der rick. How to Improve an Old Bureau. If any of our readers have an old fashioned bureau, very old and plain, without veneering, such as our great grandmothers used, we can tell them what to do with it. First get it painted black, have it well done by a competent workman, and let the first coat be rub bed in with sandpaper. Then the sec ond coat of black will look smooth and glossy. When it is thoroughly dry you can proceed to ornament it with pic tures of birds, flowers, butterflies, etc., carefully gummed on and arranged as your taste may direct. You will find the pictures generally sold in stationers’ stores under the name of “ Scrap Book pictures” are best for your purpose,and they cost very little. If you take pains with your work you will find it quite Oriental in its effect, and ybu will wish for more bureaus to ornament. Try one, at any rate. Any plain, old-fash ioned light-stand or table maybe adorn ed in the same way. But remember one thing, never use pictures with any background, as .landscapes, groups, etc. The effect will be destroyed if you at . tempt this. Your pictures need no back ' ground but the black paint.— Exchange. ■-ii. .»