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Caught Again.

Andrew johnson insisted that Gen.
Grant on certain memorable occasion
violated his word and took strange lib
critics with the truth-and worse still for
Grant, he proved it by four gentlemen Of
veracity, members of his Cabinet. 1t
would seem that Grant does not improve
in his habits in this respect.
In his Indianapolis speech, Gen. Grant
said that he had 10 intention of coming
to Indianapolis until be met Senator
Morton at Pittsburgh, by whose sole
persuasion he was induced to make the
Indiana visit The Cincinnati Enquirer
says it is well-known fact in railroad
circles that two of Pulman's fine Sleep
ing coaches were dispatched from Har-
risburg to Baltimore the Saturday previ-
ous,there to await the Presidential party.
One Of them, Known as the President
Tom Scott's, was assigned for Senator
Morton, and the other (the Jewett car J
was placed at the disposal of President
Grant. These two cars, containing the
royal and San Domingo party, left Bal
timore on Thursday night at ten clock,
and in due time arrived at Pittsburgh
jointly, 1t was here at Pittsburgh that
Grant says he first met Morton, when the
fact is that they had planned the whole
trip days before and actually rode from
Baltimore together. Grant is not much
of an orator, and says but little, and ii
seems cannot get that little right. d
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A Medley Of Nl0narcis.

SIhe treaty of the High Commission
has one peculiarity which is worthy Of
special notice. Although that extraort
dnaryscmbassy was eteatedio close up
all outstanding differences Between the
two Countries no single QUESTION has
been distinctly and definitely dettrifiin-
ed by it. Every CAIN, disputed right,
or contested privilege has been referred
10 some arbitration or commission, i'll
which the United States figure as one
party, against four or tive ~throuehopt
iMonarchs are to fix the measure of our
grievances and,in fact, TO decide wheth-
er they exist or not. They constitute
the tribunal of last resort, from which
there is 70 appeal. We are bound in
advance hy the fiat, whatever it may be
AS this mass Of majesty, TO whose
tender care a. Republican Administra-
ton has consigned American citizens,
may create confusion in the popular
mind, the Washington Patriot deems it
desirable to abstract from the ,oyerpow;
ering treaty a brief that will present to
view at a glance all the matters and
monarchs as they Happen to appear on
the scene: ''t-@ q. .....'''4
Alabamq CYdin,s-Five arbitrators, to
be named as follows: One by the Presi-
dent of the United States; one by her
Britannia Majesty; one by his Majesty
the King of Italy one by the President
OF tile Swiss Confederation, and one by
his Majesty the Emperor of Brazil. Two
Presidents ard three Majesties.
Board Of assessors to determine Va.
HdHy and Amount Of Glaims-Three, to
be named as follows: One by the Pres.
| idcnt Of the United States, one by Hel
Britannia Majesty, and one. by the repre-
sentative at Washington Of His Majesty
4 the King of Italy. One President and
two ,Majesties. ''
Claims of British Su6jects-Thret
! Commissioners, to be named as follows
One by the President of the United
States, one by Her Britannia Majesty
and in case of disagreement, one by tht
/ representative at Washington of Hi!
Majesty the King Of Spain. One Pres
ident and two Majesties. 2'' 4.. @
!, 10 determine Price TO be Paid Eng
land for Fishing Pririleges-Three Con
missioners,to be named as follows: On,
by the President of the United States
i one by her Britannia Majesty, and, il
lease Of disagreement, one by the repre-
sentative at London of his Majesty tn
4 Emperor Of Austria and King of Hun
gary. One President and two Maiesties
i TO Determine the Title Of the Amer,
can Island OF San Juan His Majest
the Emperor of Germany. One Males
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A Candid Admission.

WENDELL PHILLIPS, who has more
boldness, and less cunning, than his
brother Radicals, declares publicly that
the Ku Klux bill was passed to aid the
Radical party in the next Presidential
election, and warns GRANT that. lie must
not hope for reelection except through
its rigorous enforcement. PnILLIrs de-
clares that GRANT must ''stretch the long
arm of his power into the center of the
Southern States, and control their affairs
by military force if he hopes for Re-
publican victory in November 70,
PHILLIPs states that in saying this be
is using the exact words of "the Senate
rial counsellor who stands nearest.to the
right hand Of GRANT" SO it seems that
all the time that Radical leaders have
been publicly disavowing such a motive,
they have frankly admitted it to each
other in their private conversations.
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Kyl.KlelX RslStneSS.

The Charleston Republican, ar earn
est administration paper, begins its edi-
torial remarks, on the 4th instant, with
the following statement: evidence ac-
cumulates of the probability that dcs
perate men in various parts of South
Carolina are using the guise or at least
the name of the organization known as
the Ku Klux Klan for their own person
al revenges. " And after recapitulating
some of the, evidence upon which this
statement is based, the Republican con-
cludes with an appeal in which the I'm
ion League and the Ku- -KluX are signif-
cautly blended: "We have evils to cor
rect-enough heaven knows but many
of those evils will vanish the moment
We put away all secret political oreani'
zations-all, Union Leagues with the
Kur KluX-and when Democrats and
Republicans. as citizens of one common
land, go to work openly and patiently
Cor reaching the better dcstinies which
are clearly within our grasp
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Read and Ponder,


a,"I Icoasiter it one Of the most pressing
needs Of our days that. ace should dretura
to the sound-practice q: constitutional
government. I'he safeguards Of cur com
mon rights and liberties contained IN the
Consultation are too sacred and ualuable
a boon 10 be permanently .ieopardized in
prociding. for a passing emergency, IT.
time that The Americaa people open their
eyes to the dangerous character Of this
tendency, and that neither great name
nor an atject appealing to our sympathies
should be permitted to disguise it. Asfor
me, L haze seen the aDorking Of i,respon
sible porer and personal gorernmeat an
other countries, and L may assure my
constituents that ,ohile I am a citizen Of
this republic L shall struggle to the last
gasp against its Introduction here
CARL SenUz at st Louis.
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Read This.

Henry George. of California, a gen
teman of some literary distinction, who
is acting with theaDemocratic, paper de-
signated as a renegade Republican"
replies by saying:
IL was a Republican; 1 am Demo
crat; yet strange as it may appear to
people who attach supreme importance
to names, without understanding about
principles, my political opinions are sub.
stantially the same now as they were
then. The difference is that different
issues are at present before the country.
That whereas mans opinion upon one
set of questions determined his party
then, mans opinion upon different
set of questions should determine his
party now. ~ ~ But agreeing as we
do upon all the practical questions now
before the country, it would be as SEN
sihle for us to quarrel about our past
differences as it would be for US to re-
fuse to work together because we could
not agree as to every question which
might possibly arise in the future"
There is q world of sense in this, for
the appreciation of class of bide bound
partisans who act as if the sole duty Of
a party was to keep itself in minority
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Barring OutrageS--Unifed States
Cavalry Routed Lieutenant
} Cushing Killed. 80 t' .aaHtl

SAN FRANcIsco, May 14-A forage
train was attacked near Camp Verde,
Arizona, and a Mexican was killed and
another wounded, and eighty-seven cat
tie were captured. On the 5th instant,
Lieutenant H. B Gushing, with twenty
men Of the Sd cavalry, were routed by
Cochise, noted Apache chief, with, one
hundred and fifty warriors, at the Whet-
stone Mountains, southeast of Tuscon.
Cushing, who was one of the most eff
cient officers in the Territory, and one
soldier, were killed. The remainder
were compelled to retreat to Camp Crit
tenden. Captains Stanwood and Moore,
with forty men, gave pursuit to the saw
ages. who are committing numerous
murders. -.
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The Scene at the Fail of the Col
al.,se Hmn Vend8me, ,; ss..

.PARlS, May 16-Therc was trenen-I
dous scene at the fall of the Column
Vendome this afternoon. The fall was
announced for 2 o'clock, and all baco-
nies in the Place Nendome were throng-
ed with ladies. The Rues de la Paix and
Csstiglione were crowded. Three bands
of music arrived while workmen We're
engaged in shipping the base of the col
umn. NJ. Abadie next arrived and in
-spected the. windlass. The excitement
was intense. Roehefort next arrived, and
the people crowded around him, giving
him loud Cheers g.. F1 p, ..g'
Soon all arrangements were. compile
ted, and bugles sounded, as if a column
like the walls of Jericho was to fall from
a blast The cable stretched and tight
ened, the column stood firm, the windlass
broke, and the pulley flew into the air,
and then descended, striking sailor and
wounding him. After this accident, Aba.
die declared that he needed two hours in
which to repair the tackle. IA The odds
rose that the column would not fall at a
quarter past five clock and when it was
given out that the column would not fall
before seven O'Clock, ,ageneral expression
of disapprobation went through the
crowd, and Abadie was accused of COM
plicity with the Versailles Government,
and threatened with the guillotine. So.
Attwenty minutes past FIVE the cable
was again stretched for the work of de-
molition. Suddenly, to the surprise of
the spectators, the vast column mored
and swayed 1tneXt swept magnificent.
| ly down, bursting into fragments as it
struck the earth. 1t fell iengthwise in
Rue de la Paix, exactly ON the manure
cushion prepared for ii, splintering it
with a dull, heavy, numbering sound,
while thick cloud of dust and crushed
and powdered masonry rose in the air.
The crowd, as soon as the column fell,
gave tremendous shouts '.Vive Ia Com.
mnne," and the bands played the Mar
sellaise Hymn. When the dust cleared
away there lay the glorious column shat
tered to pieces, its bronze and masonry
in two masses together in the middle, and
the statue of the Emperor, several fee.
from one end Of the column, with the
head knocked off. The crowd rushed
forward to callect the frag gments as rel
les, and the Guards were unable to resist
the rush. Next orators commenced theiI
speeches, indulging in all sorts of ex.
travagant language. The statue of the
Emperor was treated as if it were the En-.
peror himself The National Guards
spat into its face and struck it with theil
rifles After the ceremonies were con
Guided, the crowd dispersed and the sol.
dicrs moved off,waving their red flag and
giving expression to their joy by con.
tinual shouting.
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Game Of Grants Friends blocked
- 5''' '' al S0St0es b35 E.-.. t.'.

The Presidents party was rather bad
ly beaten in nice little fight at Boston
for Commander of the Grand Army of
the Republic. Logan, who is not very
warm in his affection for the Grant mil,
itary ring, did not want to be reelected
as Commander, and he didn't want, as
the report goes, any Of the Grant crowd
elected. IIeasanton was anxious q tc
serve i'll Logan's place, and the Presi
dent was willing. Chapman. also wan
ted TO be Commander, lie being also 6
friend of the President, but Peasantor
was the Grant candidate, SO it was un
derstood. Burnside, not an ardent ad
mirer of the President, was also, can
didate, but did not have votes enough
Logan, however, threw his weight into
the balance, and Burnside carried off The
honors. How can be be punished
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condition q the soatI,.

A Connecticut gentleman, who lives
at Brindetown, North Carolina, near the
scene of reported Ku-klux outrages, in
private letter home to friend, ,sunder
date, of the 9th of April, which is pub
lished in the New Haven Connecticut J
Register, says: tasis'id4ts- 1'slVAII
q "The people of the South are to-day
the most peaceable and law-abiding peo.
pie on the face Of the earth, ii we ex.
cept, perhaps, South Carolina, and that
no, true exception; they, too,s desire
peace. There was not a. Ku, u,klux, in. the
Statenof South Carolina till arms were
put in the hands of the whole male pop
ulation of halfsayage negroes. They
were armed for the purpose of bringing
about the state of affairs that didsfesult,
and when the arms were taken away
from them quiet wes restored, md then
commenced operations both there and
in Washington to stir up strife again
The Republicans dare not allow ms to
have peace"
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Alleged Inllliillan
A E.ii.lc BOY Six Years Old Pcnned
81 Up for over a Year.
i From tho Pittsburg Commercial Z


Mayor Brush has had official cogni.
zance+of a case of the most inhumalf
treatment to child it has been our lot
to record for some time. The parents
are George Cahoon and wife, keepers Of
small bakery OIL Grant street, and tie
little fellow, who is six years old, has
been pcnneiI up in an old kitchen, i'm the
rear OF the houscfor over'a year, 3hav-
inc never been allowed during all of that
time to 90 outside of its walls. The
people residing in the vicinity notified
His Honor, that the-child had not iheep
seen for over year, and they believed
he was penned up. Clerk Patterson and
officer Dressler visited the promises and
found the lad in the condition statedA
He said he stayed in the kitchen all day,
and at night Aeptin lumber ROOM
Although SIX years old he does not look
to he over three. '.'''. :''' 1887.
Clerk Patterson had the boy thor.
oughly washed and provided with new
suit of clothes, which the tailor stated
were the smallest he had for boys four
years old, and they were far too big
for the little unfortunate.
The father says the little boy annoyed
''the people up stairs and because OF
his wife being his stepmother he had to
pen him up. The Mayor told Caloon
and his wife they botE deserved to be
imprisoned for life for such inhuman
treatment. They proposed, in case the
Mayor permitted them to take the child
to allow it exercise, but the Mayor de-
clined the offer, and gave. the, boy into
the custody of Mrs. William A. Heron
who visited the Mayors Office with {
carriage, and removed him to the Homo
for the Friendless. J'.,. O.. -''
The neighbors say the last time tht
boy was seen out was year ago, wher
another of the children died. After th'
! funeral lie was never seen, Still anoth
er child disappeared from home, it il
sai0, and she is now in the family of :
! gentleman in this city, who is taking
good care of hereotThe little boy vii
also be.Mell taken care of,as he has beer
! placed in the hands of kind and merci
full friends, ca ELE $50 - euza falT-,
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EE-The better-informed portion of

EEThe better-informed portion OF
the Radical press Welcomes the British
Treaty cautiously. The Newark Ad.
vertiscr, the accredited organ of Scna-
tor Frelinghuysen, says, guardedly, that
sits first impression is that it had better
be ratified 1t disparages some of its
provisions in this fashion: f--.,.9..a
The United States has the free nayi
CATION Of the St Lawrence. f-.s.
Canada has the free navigation of
Lake Michigan, good quid pro quo.
American vessels may pass through
the Welland and st. Lawrence canals, as
they always have done, by the way, be-
cause Canada wanted the tolls. .
And finally pooh-poohs the retroactive
concession of Great Britain as "one of
the choicest bits Of roundabout English
which has ever met our eye" c.r
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~We Americans are so extrava-
santly liberal that we are apt to consid-
.er prudent contributions mean. But the
contributions made by the members OF
of a deputation composed of the first
nobemen and gentlemen Of England to
the Pope are SO petty that the most dis
Greet American tradesman would con
slider such sum too shabby to offer his
pastor in season of great emergencies
The sum each one brought was $3.50 or
ESQ! Why Duke Torionia pays the
Pope regularly 10000 francs month.
And last year Mr.. Oliver, an American
from California, private gentleman,
brought to the Pope, in the most unos-
tentatious, simple manner. brick OF
virgin silver, valued at $4,000, in the
name Of his wife, children and self
Rome Letter, r,,ii ~ .;....,i t,4,. arp
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4 Remarkable Case--A Man Graf.
ted like n Tree.

Says the Sedalia (Mo.) Times: The
.casc5of Geo. Gardner, of this city, who.
.as our readers may remember, had his
foot'crushed on the Missouri, Kansas,
and Texas railroad, some time since, has
given rise-to an experiment and a re-
suit in surgery of great interest to The
profession and destined to command the
attention of scientific readers every
where. A report Of the case will doubt
less find its way, to the. medical Journals,
sb,t'we may without impropriety give an
outline of the experiment.
1t has always been difficult to cause
the healing of wounds where any large
surface of the skin was gone, as moth
ing oht skin vii! produce, NEW skin and
this only for short distance (less than
aninch) round the mapginas~Hence, in
making amputations it has always been
considered necessary to preserve a
''hap" of skin to fold over the exposed
end of the limb in order to form GOV,
cring of skin and good "stump." But
in Gardner's case the patient was too
weak to admit of .amputation, and it was
q question of life or death to save the
ankle joint and to form skin covering
for the crushed and mangle0 stump.
This was done by q wonderful process
viz; by transferring or grating on the
wounded part from time to time small
portion of skin from another part of TIE
body: Pieces of skin not SO large as q
grain of wheat were taken from, the pa
tents arm and grated on the lacerated
stump, where they took root, as it were,
formed nucleus for, growth, and grad.
ually spread till the whole. surface was
completely covered with sound and
new intigument Of skin, and the young
man has good ankle joint anG a beau
tifnl stump. The surgeon in charge
(whose name we are, not, at liberty t.
use) does not claim to be the discover
4 or of this treatment, the credit of whicl
is due to a celebrated surgeon of Paris
M. Reverdin we believe. But tn,
present case is believed to be the mos
I clearly defined and emincntly successful
one yet treated in the United States, anC
as such. will undoubtedly excite mucl
Interest in scientific circles. ,. g... e..
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ESM Mr.. Preston H. Leslie, Of Bar
rem county, the Democratic candidate
Cor Governor of Kentucky, is thus spo-
ken of by the Louisville Ledger: "He
has been in public life many years, hay-
ing frequently represented his county in
the State Legislature, both as a Repre-
sentative and Senator. During the war
he was politically ostracized on account
of his Democracy, but in 1867 was elec
ted to the State Senate from the district
composed of the counties of Barren,
Metcalfe and Monroe, and in the sess-
ion Of 1869, was elected Speaker of that
body. In February he succeeded to the
Gubernatorial chair, by virtue of his
speakcrship, on the resignation of Gov
ernor Stevenson to take his seat in the
Senate. In all the relations of life he
is without rcproach. He is & man of
great energy and strong physique"
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Failures of the Last Cili0 Legisia.

g aN Sd 81 - ~ 81.
The Republican papers are endeavor-
ing to rid their party of the unpopulari-
ty Of the late ,Legisla,ure Lfathissthey
viii be unsuccessful 1t is folly tolat,
tempt to convince the public that the
Democratic party is responsible forthe
failures, of a Legislature wherein the
Fifteenth Amendment was ratified by
majorities in both houses There were
a number Of good men in that body;
but all their efforts to hurry the work0f
the session, and to secure the adoption
of needful legislation, was vain. 1t is
true, there were a few steps toward re-
trehchment accomplished. So ,alsosa few
salaries were reduced, but the YGrk in
this direction, was not half what it ought
to have been. There is need for a much
more general curtailment than has yet
been made. If one half the Republican
members had been friendly TO measures
of this character, there were more than
enough Democrats in either branch
ready and anxious to push them for
ward to success Ne,cark Adcocate.
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Henry Ward Beecher's Step.HIOth-

Corresponient of the Boston Journal. M
Itiis well known that Mr.. Beecher
keeps. "a reporter in his church. The
form OF Mr. Ellenwood is as,welfknown
as that of the Plymouth pastor. He has
sat fer years at little table in front Of
the platform, and takes down everything
Mr. Beecher says-his notices, PRAYERS
rand sermons: These Mr. Beecher re-
vises before they are published. SHARP,
racy,f humorous utterances, keen re-
marks, sentrfHes thrown off in tAe-heat
of speaking, witticism that shake the
Plymouth audience as the forest leaves
are shaken by the wind, arc often miss
ed in the public report. Many of the
illustrations lose much Of their point;
because no reporter can take down the
manner of their utterance.
Last Sunday morning he brought his
mother onto the platform. He describ-
ed her as a.woman of great excellence,
but asa great martmetij Strict in her
religious practices and teachings, and,
like the mistress of DOtheboy's Hall;
she gave her children weekly stiff dose
of the Catechism. She was the pink OF
propriety, and held in adherence all
vain and trifing amusements. DR..
Beecher had q weakness-that of play
ing on fiddle. He mixed up Yankee
Doodle, q round country dance, and Old
Hundred, and he did not exactly know
where the one began and the other end
ed.
| One day he was amusing himself OF
| his f;lvorite instrument, and struck up ;
genuine jig, hieh,unsanctifed, had beer
running in his head ever since he was {
boy. just at that moment the mothe
came in, and catching the inspiration o
the tune, placed her hands on her hips
and actually danced minuet. Mr.
Beecher described the scene. He step
J ped back on the platform, placed hi
hands on his hips, and showed the audi
ence how his mother did it. He desert
bed the CONSERVATION of the children =
He clasped his hands, rolled up TIL
whites of his eyes like regular Ma.
worm, opened his mouth, drew down hi
4 lip, and stood the personification of rus
! tic horror. The whole scene was ire
!, sistably comic He wound up with th
moral that if his mother had dance,
more and piled the catechism less h
would have had q happier childhood.