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An Old Story Contradicted Again.

am no admirer of Jeff. Davis. ]
an Yankee, born between Saccar-
appa and Gorham Corner, am full Of
Yankee prejudicos, but think it wicked
to lie even about him, or, for that mat
ter, about the devil.
was with the party that captured
jeff Davis; saw the whole transac-
tion from its beginning. now say
and hope you will publish it-that
jeff. Davis did not have on, at tho
time he was taken, any garment such
as is worn by women. He did have
over his shoulders waterproof arti-
clio of clothing g-something like a
"Havclock." 1t was not in the least
conccaled. He wore q hat, and did
not carry pail, bucket or kettle in
any way.
To tho best of my recollection, he
carried nothing whatever in his hands.
His wife did net tell any person that
her husband might hurt somebody if
he got exasperated. She behaved like
lady, and he as gentleman, though
maniicstly he was chagriDod at being
taken into custody. Our soldiers be-
haved like gentlemen, as they were,
and our officers like honorable and
brave men and the foolish stories
that went the newspaper rounds of
tho day, telling how wolfshly he de-
ported himself, woro all false ] know
what l am writing about. ! saw JET
ferson Davis many times while he
stayed in Portland, several years ago;
and | think | was the first one who
recognized him at tho time Of his ar
rest.
When il was known that he was
certainly taken, somc newspaper cor.
respondent-I knew his name at tho
timo-fabricated the story about the
disguise in an old woman's dress. l
heard the whole matter talked over
as good Joke, and the officers, who
knew better, never took the trouble
to deny yit. Perhaps they thought the
confederate president deserved all the
contempt that could be put upon him.
think so, too, only | would never
perpetrate falschood that, by any
means, would become history. And,
further, would never slander q wo-
man who has shown so much dcvo-
ton as Mrs. Davis has to her husband,
no matter bow wicked ho is or may
have been.
defy any person TO find single
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-07-23

Tho driving park at ST. Paul. MinD.,
was the sccne of an extraordinary trot
Mr. Martin Delaney matching his
sorrel marc, a small full blooded Nor
gan, TO trot two hundred miles in
forly.eight hours for tho small stake
of $500 Tho st. Paul Press says:
The trot was commenced yesterday
at twenty minutes past 4 A. NJ, Mr.. j.
Cummings holding tho ribbons. Tho
marc started out at the ratio Of moro
than ten miles an hour for the first
two hours, and was gradually slowed
to about an average Of ten miles an
hour. At fivo minutes past ten sho
had completed tho first fifty miles,
making it in some five hours and forty
five minutes. She was then given
rest Of three hours and hall, and was
started at little past half past ono
on the second fifty miles. AT hall past
seven she had completed it, having
made tho first hundred miles in fifteen
hours, which leaves thirty-three hours
for the completion Of tho other hun.
dred. She made the last mile of hor
first hundred yesterday the fastest OF
any-five and ono half minutes
Those who witnessed the feat say that
the marc showed no sign of fatigue,
mover sweat n hair, and trotted off to
the stable TO feed at tho cLd Of her
days labor as briskly as though she
had Just como from the barn.
On Thursday morning when taken
out of tho barn at five o'clock to CON-
plctc the trot she seemed little sore
at first, but soon warmed up and CON-
menced her days work with wonder
full case. At ten o'clock she had com.
pleted thirty-one miles, and was with
drawn until four minutes past twelve
p. NJ. After this rest, in which she
manifested no signs Of wearincGa, she
made her next seven miles In ono
hour and two minutes. No pains
were taken TO keep regular account
Of her rate Of speed, but in general
terms it averaged through tho day
about six minutes and five and one
half seconds per mile for the first fifty
miles, and seven minutes and two and
one-half seconds for the second fifty
miles. Aftcr,tho rest given the mare
from seven until nine o'clock in the
evening-all parties on the ground
saw that she would make her 200 miles
easily. Shcpursued her even gait, and
q few minutes past one o'clock in the
morning completed the lace, making
her last mile in nine minutes thirty-one
seconds. Thus she won the wager,
and in three hours less than the tirne'
given her. She trotted off the track
seemingly unconscious Of the marvel
she had performed.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-07-23
Anxiety About Children.

Parents, whose prudent care for
their children we would not diminish,
may intermit much Of the solicitudo
with which they are apt necessarily
to worry themselves. This gratui-
tous anxiety often, moreover, defeats
its own object. 1t renders tho child,
by constantly reminding it of the risks
to safety, unnaturally timid, and pre-
vents that calmness of mind and de.
velopment of animal courage essential
for the prudent avoidance of and bold
resistance to danger. The overwatched
children are notoriously those who are
the most constantly exposing their
health and lives to hazard. They are
80 accustomed to move at the will of
another that their own violation loses
its power to great extent, and be-
comes hesitating and uncertain. Their
muscles, accordingly, act with little
precision, and render the step falter-
ing and the hold insecure. The child
who is left free to run, climb and jump,
though he may apparently expose
himself to thousand risks, generally
escapes danger by his habitual readi-
ness of expedient and practical pre-
cision of movement. The freer child
ren have, moreover, the advantage of
protecting themselves by various
means of security denied to those
kept under too close supervision
Swimming, riding, running, lcaping,
using frearms-not to speak Of wrest-
ling and fighting-all Of which may
in their turn become important means
of safety, are tho ordinary acquisi-
tions of the emancpated boy, but sell
dom of him who is subjected to an
unceasing parental control. 1t is Oh
vious, too, that the greater freedom of
the ono is more favorable to health
than the constraint of the other 1t
is equally advantageous TO the morals as
to the physical health aud develop
ment that tho parent should not al
low his anxiety about bis children to
become too apparent, or to interfere
too much with their freedom of con-
duet. The solf-relianco and independ-
cnce of character which are essential
elements of all human excellence are
to be acquired only by learning early
to act from voluntary motive. lfthe
parent fixes himself as finger-post
at every turn, the child will hardly
ever find the road of his own accord,
and must necessarily lose his way
when deprived of his habitual guide.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-07-23
Customs of the Roman Stage.

Tho customs of tho Roman stage
in Ciccro's time have been likened of
late, and not inaplly, TO those of the
French theatre at the present day
The general public of Cicero's time
was swayed by an extraordinary pas
sion for what we might now call the
ballet, form Of entertainment adapt
cd by its licentious pranks and jests
to the very lowest strata Of the Ro-
man population, from which indeed
many OF its peculiarities were taken.
The classic tragedy and comedy still
existed, il is true, but was little to the
taste of the masses-viciated as that
taste was by triamphal PROFESSIONS
and gladiatorial combats, unless rem
dered attractive by gorgeous scenery
and dresses, aud magnificent decora-
tions. This is evident enough from
Cicero's letter to his friend Marius in
which he alludes to the play OF Pom
pcius, and among other things men,
lions that bis pleasure in it was en-
tirely destroyed by the fact that it
was so overloaded with scenic splon-
dor. "No less than six hundred
mules" he says, appeared upon the
stage in 'Ciytemnestra, and both cav
airy and infantry in the Trojan Horse,
with the greatest variety of weapons.
The public fairly revellcd in wonder
ment." This passion for shows was
even more Unsuitable later, when llo-
race lamented the degenerate tasto Of
the public. In Roscius' timo cult
waited people took an interest in the
plays Of Plautus and Terrence in
deed, most of them knew tho dramas
by heart. They did not 60 to the
theatre, therefore, TO witness tho DO
velopment of the plot, but sought
their pleasure purely in a dnc artistic
rendering Of the diflcrentparts. Cic-
eros letters show not only how great
was his own enthusiasm for tho per-
formancc of great actors, but also the
lively interest bis correspondents felt
in the Roman theatre. Caesar gavo
great offence to many people by his
habits OF inattention in the theatre,
and by reading and answering des-
patches there; and Octavius studious-
ly avoided falling into the same mis-
take. Long listening to orators OF
oonsumate excellence had cultivated
the Roman eur TO such pitch of del
icacy and precision, that, like the
Athenians, they would detect the
slightest fault in enunciation and
rhythm. Cicero says in his "Para-
Jokes :" at an actor lose the measure
of passage in the slightest, or make
the line ho qtters a syllable too short,
or too long by his defamation, he is
instantly Kissed off, tho stage" Mis-
conception OF the authors meaning
was punished quito as severely, how
ever.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-07-23

CARAT.-The word carat, used to ex-
press the fncness Of gold, is SO called
from an Abyssinian bean, which from
the timc of its gathering, varies very
little in it's weight, and for this reason
is used in Africa as weight for gold,
as il is in India for gems and pearls.
1t is, with us, an imaginary weight,
used to express the proportion OF gold
in a si~en n,ass of motal. Thus, If an
ounce of gold is divided into "a parts
or carats, then gold 20 carts fine is
that in which 20parts are clear metal,
and parts silver, copper or some
other alloy.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-07-23

A HAPPY LIMIT. - Senator Matt
Carpenter, in defending his course in
taking the $4,000 back salary grab,
claims that bis charities amounts to
upwards of $500 in year. In fix
ing upon this amount as the probable
sum of his animal charitable disburso-
mcnla, the Senator doubtless congrat-
ulated himself hc was doing an excel
lent thing; tenth was tho maximum
free offering Of the Israclites. ln tho
language Of the lobby, Matt could SEQ
that much in charity with the stolen
salary in one hand, and ego something
better.Y =
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-07-23

WHAT THOSE GRANGERs MEAN
George Kimball, of Kansas, has been
sick and unable TO do his farm work
this spring. Seventeen of the Bur-
roak Grangers rugged their teams op
Monday and broke up twcnty-seven
acres Of ground and left it ready for
planting. There is something prac.
teal in that kind of Grange-work, and
it has a smack of brotherly kindness
in it that would mako almost any half
decent man want to be farmer and
o Granger.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-07-23

MAKING PAssErs.--Basket making
is one Of tho new industries of Apple
ton, Mich. A factory erected there
last year made up to Jan. over lo0,-
600 corn baskets. One hundred hands
are employed, and they can make an
average of a basket minute. They
also have q saw-mill, which cuts up
their hard wood into splits, with a
capacity of 100000 feet per week. a
large chair and bodstead factory,
owned by james i. Atkinson, is near
the basket factory. Water.power IS
used sixty men arc employed, and
they expect to make this yoar, 4O,oVo
chairs and 10000 bedstoads. There
is also in Appleton an iron 'furancc,
papor.mills, woolcn-nill, and seyefa'
Touring milla,
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-07-23

LIFE IN KANsAs,-We notice that
tho Governor of Kansas has offered a
reward of $500 for the apprehension
of the Bender family of butchers
This is at tho rate of about S25 q
head for the murders they have com
mittod. Life is cheap in Kansas
But sometimes they pay as high as
$1,000 for single vote for a United
States Senator in q close contest. II
is we'll that State is liberal in some
direction or othor. 1t was baptized
',blceding Kansas by eminent New
England Pbilantbfopists and "Chris-
tian statesmen"
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-07-23

SOME RoPE.-Thc Hazard Wiro'
Rope Works of Philadelphia have fin.
ishod wire rope for the Central
Railroad Company Of Now Jersey, to
bo used on the Inclined plain at Ash
Icy, Luzerno county. The rope is
two and half inches in diameter,
with hemp centre, is four thousand
seven hundred and sixty feet ip
length, and weighs twenty-five tons.
Its cost is about eight thousand three
hundred dollars.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-07-23

Punch is responsible for the follow
ing; Q-What is the difference be.
tween fixed stars and shooting stars 7
A-Thc one are suns, tho other dar-
ters.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-07-23

Peace and virtue, like the evening
star and the sun, are nevcr apart.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-07-23

OF all fields, bonciiccnce yields the
greatest harvest.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-07-23

American girls arc identified at
Vienna by their massive braids.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-07-23

Murmur not, are ills reparablc, tits
ungia.eiul If remediless, tits vain.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-07-23

Wisconsin has $4,000 more mcal
than women. 4
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-07-23

Quilting parties arc now called
"picce" jubilees-
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-07-23

The poor mans s,ory--thc garrett.
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The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-04-26

OUR personal thanks are due to The
Wing for the compliment intended in the
following paragraph:
It is but justice TO THE JOURNAL to say that
whilst as n Republican journal it is, perhaps,
necessarily with this party yet we are aware
that ii is not of them--its aims are higher, and
none will rejoice more than we shall should it
succeed in elevating the great body of the party
to its own far more liberal and enlightened pc.
sition. HH.... 4.
Now, in the same spirit of frankness
which prompted the above. we will inform
our contemporary that, as to our higher
aims and purposes to elevate the party
with which we are identified, we have the
approval and entire accord and sympathy
of nine-tenths Of the leading Republicans
in the state. They are not only of us, but
with US, in the advocacy of liberal and
enlightened policy for the Republican party
of Virginia. We neither wear horns nor
forked narrative" if we know ourself;
and should the state fall into our hands,
politically, for the next four years, we shall
endeavor to extort a still higher compli-
ment from our friends of The Wing. 4
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-04-26

A NEW and important railroad law has
recently passed both houses of the Ohio
legislature. which prohibits absolutely the
lease of one competing road by another ];
providing that the assent of two-thirds of
the stockholders shall be required to make
valid lease of the connecting road which
does not compete that the rental shall
not be less than the next earnings of the
road for the preceding fiscal year that
any stakeholder objecting to a lease shall
have the right within sixty days to demand
pay for his stock at price not below the
average for the previous six months, and
that the lessee of road shall give I'M
doubted security for the performance of the
lease. This law is unquestionably a
good one. 1t protects the rights of
minority Of the stockholders in any rail-
road corporation and at the same time
guards against the creation of monopolies.
Let have us something of this sort in Vir-
ginia. a&
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-04-26

originate the wars which break out in va
rious localities in the Great West from
time to time. With them there is no ces-
sation OF hostiiities unless it is enforced by
the army. General Crooks recent vieor-
Gus campaign against the Apaches and
Comanches in Arizona, who number
nearly ten thousand, and only two years
ego were the terror of the frontier, has
brought them to complete submission.
After they had inaugurated war there
was no talk of peace until they were taught
the sharp lesson of defeat. Now they are
to be placed on reservations, and with
the example of the past to hold them to
their promises. they will be apt to re-
main quiet for years to come. This was
the proper way to deal with the warlike
tribes, but as we have less than twenty
five thousand soldiers in the entire Indian
country, the army would be incompetent
to conduct general war. The Sioux,
Cheyennes, Piegans, Crews, Blackfeet, u ties
and Arrapahoes, who roam the plains Of
Dakota, Montana and Wyoming, are
nearly forty thousand strong, and
they are ripe for fight at almost any
time. The recent murder of railroad sur.
veyors in Western Kansas is an instance o
their bitter feelings towards the whites
General Crook will perhaps have leisure L
pay attention to them shortly. There j:
but one way to "treat" with them wher
they are bent on red paint and the war
path. ..
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-04-26

We took none but telegraphic stock
in the late report that Sir Samuel Baker
and his party had been murdered in the in
terror of Africa by the natives, having
learned to distrust rumors of accidents TO
African explorers. The expedition is now
reported as progressing safely. Nobody
can read Bakers previous accounts of his
explorations without conceiving hearty
admiration for him, and it becomes
all the greater when he is contrasted
with other English African travellers, whose
envies, fippancies and concets seem more
petty than ever when contrasted with the
simple and straightforward way in which
this modest and single-hearted man has
told the stories of his strange adventures.
Such character as his, intrepid, resolute,
persistent and unselfsh, is one of the
choicest fruits of British culture, and it is
a possession and an honor to all mankind.
The news of his safety, and that of his
brave and faithful wife, by whom he is
accompanied, will be received with hearty
satisfaction throughout Christendom. q
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-04-26

AN eight-hour law was thought by the
workingmen of the country to be all that
was needed to enable them to do eight
hours work without giving up their ten
hours pay. But laws are no more omni-
potent for trades-unions than other people.
They have such law in New York, and
yet employers have disregarded it or paid
their employees by the hour, and the law
lies dead letter. To compel its enforce
ment, the workingmen's association have
directed the formation of league, to con-
sist of two members of each trades-union
in the state, and to bring the question into
the courts, if their rights, or what they
deem such, cannot be reached in any other
way,
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-04-26

THE immigration movement from
Europe has family set in, and it is expected
that the number of persons landed on our
shores between this time and cold weather
will be unprecedented. The Cunard
steamship Olympus arrived at Boston on
Wednesday with over thousand steerage
passengers, the largest number ever
landed there from a single steamer, and
the steamship Palmyra of the same line,
which was despatched from Liverpool on
the same day with the Olympus, was
hourly expected with more than half as
many more.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-04-26

THE New York World abandons the
idea of organizing a new party, and has
run up its Democratic colors and nailed
them to the flagstaff. 1t insists that the
Free Trade League shall at once be revived
within the Democratic party, and emphatic
cally declares that ''no honest free trader
can act with the Republicanparty." Very
well. Forewarned is lorearmed; and if
protection and anti-protection is to be the
future battle.cry, we know which will win
in Virginia.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-04-26
u,HIs rs oGIvE N a5gg I, ~ ths ., -

THIS Is TO GIVE NOTICE-That on the nth
Il day of April, A. D., 1873, a warrant in
bankruptcy was issued out of the District Court
of the United States for the Eastern Dis
trict of Virginia, against the estate of
Silas Roork, of Essex county, and
State of Virginia, who has been adjudged a
bankrupt on his own petition: That the pay
ment of any debts, and the delivery of any
property belonging to said bankrupt, to him or
for his use, and the transfer of any property by
him, are forbidden by law: That a meeting of
debts, and choose one or more assignees of his
estate, will be held at court of bankruptcy, to
be holden at Tappahannock, Va, before John S.
Braxton, Esq, Register, on the 10th day of May,
A. d., 1873, at IL o'clock, M u ls53Id1 sa
-s DAVID b. PARKER, -
an 1s-F2w u. s. Marshal.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-04-26
The DanvlIle Tsallroad and Uncle sam.

Colonel Hinton, the accomplished cor
respondent of the Boston Globe, who al
lows no important fact to escape his no.
tice, thus states the case of the govern
ment against the Danville railroad:
"a suit has been pending in the United
States Circuit court of Virginia, at Rich
mond, to compel the payment by the
Richmond and Danville railroad compa-
ny to the United States of the sum of
81 900 900, alleged to have been loaned
by the Confederate States to that compa-
ny to aid in building the Piedmont rail-
rad, railroad running from Danville,
Va, to Greensboro, N. G. The Secretary
Of the Treasury ordered stay of the suit
until the matter could be investigated by
him. 1t turns ont that the loan of bonds
of the Coniederacy was authorized
but never accepted. Colonel Bu-
ford, president of the Richmond
and Danville railroad company, within
the past few months, fortunately found the
bonds and exhibited them to the Secretary
of the Treasury. They did not have the
endorsement Of the president of that COM
pany, and, Of course, were never used by
them. Hon. +. G. Banfeld, solicitor Of
the treasury, has notified Colonel Buford
that the suit against his company will be d =
continued, and he will not be troubled any
more with claims of the government for the
Piedmont railroad. This notification is
subject to the ratification of the Secretary
of the Treasury. 1t is claimed that Colo
mel Buford has produced evidence incontro-
vertible that the Confederacy did not build
the Piedmont railroad, but that the RICH
mond and Danville railroad company did
build it and paid for itwith its own money.
1t is now carrying mortgage debt of 81,
100000, incurred to build that road.