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suppose, that he was then British sub
ject that he returned after the war to
this country; that he became mighty
Mayor of London and took seat in
Parliament for Davenport, borough
in Devonshire. AS soon as | met him
here he recalled to my memory the case
of my Pennsylvania friends and told
me more than had known before of
their narrow escape. 1t seems that
Stanton was bent on leaving them to
their fate and irritated at me for med.
ding with thing that was none OF
my business. Puleston told him it
would not be safe to disregard my ap.
peal and that | had the case in such
shape that | could hold him (Stanton)
responsible for the death OF every man
who might be lost in this way. had
said that their blood should not sink
into the ground without a cry to heav.
en-. Stanton Immediately after this
post hoe and propter hoe, as | think
and as Puleston thinks-took the
measures necessary to save them.
This is all | can tell you about the
affair. kept no copies OF my letters,
and | am almost certain that they were
not filed, though | never inquired for
them. | do not recollect the ground
upon which the Confederates at first
refused to exchange the prisoners, but
am sure that it was easily shown to be
untenable, and it was afterwards aban.
doned by themselves. | believe your
brother and his comrades owed their
lives to the justice and humanity .of
Mr.. Puleston, without whose prompt
and efficient aid all efforts OF mine
would have been unavaiiing.
| am, with great respect, yours, etc,
j. S. BLACK.
TO GEORGE +. BAER, Esq, Reading, Pa.
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WOMEN IN THE FAR WEST.

Louise c. Jones, IN Lippincot
Beginning life in a new country
with small capital involves many
years of hard work and strict economy,
perhaps privation and Loneliness. This
comes especially hard on the farmers
wives, many of whom have grown up
in homes of comfort and plenty in the
older States. Ask the men what they
think of Iowa, and they will say that
it is fine State; it has many re.
sources and advantages there is room
for development here the avenues to
positions of profit and honor are not
so crowded as they are in the older
States a good class of emigrants are
settling up the State that, on the
whole, Iowa has bright future before
it. But the women do not deal in
such generalities. Their own home
and individual life is all the world to
them, and if that is encompassed with
toll and hardship, if all their cherish
ed longings and ambitions are denied
and their hearts sick with hope de-
ferred, this talk about the undeveloped
resources of Iowa and its future great
ness has no interest or meaning for
them. In their isolated homes on the
bleak prairie they have few social op-
portunities, and their straitened means
do not allow them to buy books or pic
tures, to take papers or magazines, or
to indulge in many of the little house
hold ornaments dear to the feminine
heart. What wonder, then, if their
eyes have u weary, questioning look,
as if they were always searching the
fiat prairie horizon for some promise
or hope of better days, something fresh
and stimulating to vary the dull mo-
notony of toily
There's a better time coming" the
farmer says. "When we get the farm
paid for we will build new house and
send the children to town to school !"
and so the slow years go by. If every
new country is not actually fertilized
with the hearts blood of women, the
settling and development Of it none
the less require the sacrifice of their
lives.
/ see many women who have thus
sacrificed, and are sacrificing, their
lives. Their faces are wrinkled, their
hands are hard with rough, coarse
work, they have long ago ceased to
have any personal ambitions but
their hopes are centered in their chill
dren. Their self-abnegetion is pathetic
beyond words.
After foothold has been gained In
new country and a home established,
q generation, perhaps two, must pass
away before fine type of humanity is
produced. The fathers and mothers
have toiled for the actual necessaries
of life, and gained them. The chill
dren are supplied with physical COM
forts. Plenty of food and exercise in
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BAYARD's BUGLE FOR HANCOCK.

Mr.. Bayard made a great speech ut
the ratification meeting, Wilmington,
Delaware, on Friday evening. In
speaking of General Hancock, he said /:
The leading candidate. Winfield S.
Hancock, is a man who in a lifetime
has not had word said against him.
He is not an untried man. II shall
show you that he has been tried, trust
ed and shown himself worthy of public
confidence in way that has seldom
fallen the lot of men in America. In
1868 he was mentioned as candidate
for President, and Delaware voted for
him. He was voted for again in 1876,
and now, coming again before you,
after being in the white heat of party
examination unscorched, he has been
nominated unanimously for the Presi-
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dency, and naught has been said
against his fidelity, honor or patriot
ism. Now, why was Hancock nomi-
mated :? He never held a civil office,
/ hear remarked. True; but he has
military record as brilliant and unsul-
lied as any man who ever lived. Why
have the Democrats nominated mil
itary man? 1t is because General
Hancock has proved that God gave
him the same character of conscious
self.control which he gave 10 George
Washington. [Applause. My friends,
this is not the heated utterance of q
stump-spcaker; it is the deliberate
statement of Il man trying to speak
fairly.
Nothing has tended to corrupt men
so much as love of power. Our Consti-
tuition intended to check this, but diff
ficulties arose which gave men the
power to protect people. They have
been too prone to use it to extend their
own authority. 1t was George Wash
ington who swayed the nation and who
controlled the government but when
he might have continued to WELD such
power he laid it down and returned to
his home. 1t was that act which made
him famous for all time. Where is
another man who would have reln-
quished such power which he might
have retained | wish you to recollect
what | am about to say-for it is the
keynote of this mans strength as a
candidate. lie had great power-the
power of the military, which then was
great. What was his course? When
asked in Louisiana and Texas to ar
rest men, he asked where is the judi
cial process? when asked to try by
military commission he pointed to the
court house. When asked to take the
property of others he inquired for con-
stitutional right"
Senator Bayard then spoke of the
rarity of men possessing this power
and refusing to use it, and said : ain
this case we see man who has had
the tempting bait of power before him,
but who puts it aside and says: i am
military man but | hold civil law
higher and respect the Constitution,
which | have sworn to support His
powers were ample enough, and he
had the same powers to oppress the
people as other Generals had, but he
refused to unnecessarily use the mill
tary power in time of peace. Com
pare him with that other general, in
New Orleans, who besought the Presi-
dent to issue a proclamation of out
lawry to extend over five States which
were included in his domain. Make
the proclamation, and leave the rest
to me- he said and the Republicans
endorsed his course. We have seen
the results. During the great strug-
gle from 1861 to 1865 there was little
law, nor could there be much but, the
war ended, there was no more need of
military law. Yet the Republicans
endeavored TO retain that which Gen
eral Hancock discarded"
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the pure air give them stalwart frames,
good blood and perfect animal health,
but there is a bovine stolidity of ex.
preston in their faces, suggestion Of
kinship with the clod. They are hon
est-hearted and well-meaning-stupid,
not naturally, but because their minds
have never been quickened and stimu-
lated. They gropc in blind way for
better things, and wonder if life means
no more than to plough and SOW and
reap, to wash and cook and sew. Per-
haps one out Of every hundred will
break from the slowly-stepping ranks
and run ahead TO taste of the springs
of knowledge reserved for the next
generation, but the vast majority will
go down to their graves without ever
attaining to the ripeness and symmetry
of fully-devcloped life. Their chill
dren, perhaps-certainly their grand
children-will attain a fine physical
and mental type.
What character shall / choose as a
typical Iowan? Not the occupant Of
the large brick house with tall ever
greens in front which meets my sight
whenever | look toward the country.
An old woman lives there alone, cx-
cept for a servant or two, having bur
led her husband and ten children.
She is worth 100000, but can
neither read nor write. Her strong
common-sense and deep fund Of ex-
pcrience supply her lack Of education,
and one would not think while listen
Ing to her that she was ignorant Of
letters. Her life has been one Of toll
and sorrow, but her expression is one
Of brave cheeriulne,s. She and her
husband came to this place forty years
ago. They were the first white settlers,
and for neighbors they had Indians
and wolves. They entered most Of the
land ON which the town now stands,
and when other settlers came in and
the town was laid out. their land be
came valuable, and thus the founda-
tion of their fortune was laid. But as
riches increased, cares also increased F;
the husband was so weighed down with
responsibility and anxiety that his
mind gave way, and in fit Of de
spondency he committed suicide. The
sons and daughters who died, with the
exception of two or three, were taken
away in childhood. So the large man
sion, with its richly-furnished rooms,
is shut up from the sunlight and rare
ly echoes to the patter Of childish feet.
The mistress lives in the back part,
| but exercises a care over the whole
house, which is kept in state of per-
feet order and neatness. Though she
has lived on the prairie for forty years,
yet the expressions that SAVIOR of her
early life in a densely-wooded State
still cling to her, and if you find her
in her working-dress among her flow
ers, she will beg you TO excuse her APP
| pearance, adding, Il look as if | was
Just out Of the timber"
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Washington in Van Buren's Time.

Trom Anonymous Writer in the Atlantic.
Congress had It's comedies a. well as
It's tragedies, and the leading comedian
was Thomas Corwin, n representative
from Ohio, who was type of early
Western culture and born humorist.
He was a middle-sized, somewhat
stout man, with pleasing manners,
fine head, sparkling hazel eyes, and
complexion so dark that on several
occasions--as he used TO narrate with
great glee--he was supposed TO be of
African descent. There is no need
of my working" said he, for when.
ever | cannot support myself in Ohio,
all / should have to do would be to
cross the river, give myself up TO
Kentucky negro trader, be taken
South and sold for a field hand" He
always had story ready TO illustrate
sub ject of conversation, and the dry
manner in which he enlivened his
speeches by pungent witticisms, with
out smile on his own stold counte-
nance, was irresistible.
His greatest effort was reply which
he made to Mr.. Crary, of Kentucky,
who had undertaken to criticise the
military ability of General Harrison.
John Quincy Adams went over to Mr..
Corwin's desk, and advised him TO
reply; without success at first, Corwin
saying that he was something like
Balaam's ass-he could never speak
unless kicked into it." The next
afternoon, however, he did reply, and
his speech, rs a model of humorous
retort, has never since been equaled at
the Capitol. His description of Mr..
Crary as he appeared on parade as
militia general, and after the fatigues
of muster, when treating his brigade
to watermelons and whiskey Mt cor.
ner grocery store, as the ancient he.
roes assuaged their thirst from the
skulls of their slaughtered enemies.
was delicious piece of satire. Then
turning to the history of General
Harrison, Mr.. CorwiuTave an eloquent
picture of his patriotic services with
convincing force. No member of
Congress ever received such personal
discontinue from speech. and Mr..
Crary never recovered from Corwin's
onslaught. Even at his home the
farmers always offered him water-mel.
ons in their season, accompanied. by
quotations from Corwin's speech. lie
retired from public life an extinguish.
ed orator.
President Van Buren, endeavored
to restore the good feeling between the
administration aud Washington $50.
eiety," which had been rupturcd dur.
ing the political rule of General
jackson. He gave numerous enter
tainments at the White House. and
used to attend those given by his
cabinet, which was regarded as an
innovation, as his predecessors had
never accepted social invitations. Tx.
President Adams, the widow of Presi-
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dent Madison, and the widow Of Al.
exander Hamilton each formed the
centre Of pleasant coterie, and the
President was open in the expression
Of his desire that the shcmbers Of his
cabinet and their principle subordi.
mates should each give a series Of din.
ncr parties and evening reception.
during the successive sessions Of Con.
gress.
The dinner parties were very much
alike and those who were in succession
guests at different houses often saw the
same table ornaments, and were rery.
ed by the same walters, while the fare
was prepared by the same cook. The
guests used 10 assembly in the parlor
which was almost invariably conpect.
cd with the dining room by large
folding doors. When the dinner wa.
ready the folding doors were thrown
open, and the table was revealed
covered with dishes and cutgla..
ware. A watery compound called
vegetable soup was invariably served
followed by broiIed fish, oyerdone
roast beef or mutton, roast fowl or
game i'll their seasons, and a great
variety Of puddings, pies, cake and
ice-cream. The fish, meat and fowl
were carved and helped by the host
while the lady Of the house distributed
the vegetable, the pickle. and the
dessert Champaign, without ice, wa.
sparingly' supplied in long, slender
glasses, but there was 40 lack Of sound
clarct. and with the dessert several
bottles Of old Madeira were generally
produced by the host, who succinctIy
gave the age and history of each.
The best Madeira was that labelled
The Supreme Court" n their hon.
ors and justices used to make direct
importation every wear, and sip it a.
they consulted over the case, before
them, every day after their dinner
when the cloth had been removed
Some rare old specimen, Of thi, ~.
preme court wine can still BE- found IN
Washington wine cellars.
At the evening parties the carpN
was lifted from the room set apart tsr
dancing, and the floor was chalkcd in
order to protect the dancers from s!nr
ping. The music was almost iuyaris.
| bly, a first and second violin. with
flute and harp accompaniment.
Light refreshments, such a water ice.
lemonade, negus and small cake, werr
/ handed about on walters between eve.
ry two or three dances. The GROWING
glory of the entertainment, however,
was the supper, which had been pre-.
pared under the supervision Of the
hostess, aided by some of her intimate
friends, who had also loaned their
china and silverware. The table va.
covered with alamode beef cold roa.
turkey, ducks and chickens. fried and
stewed oysters, blanc mango, jellie,
whips, floating islands, candied or,
anges and numerous varieties of tart.
and cakes. Very often the young men
after having escorted the ladies to
their respective homes, would meet
again at some oyster house, to go out
on lark, in imitation of the young
English bloods in the favorite play Of
Tom and Jerry" Singing, or "a.
ther shouting, popular songs, they
would break windows, wrench Of
knockers, call up doctors, and tran.
pose sign-boards; nor was there
night-watchman TO interfere with thei,
rovstering.
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A WAR REMINISCENCE.
LETTER FROM JUDGE BLACK on THE
EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS IRON
SOMERSET COUNTY.

EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS IRON
SOMERSET COUNTY.
To the Editor Of the Times.
On the 4th of October, 1862, Colonel
Imboden captured companies b and X,
Fifty-fourth regiment, Pennsylvania
Volunteers. The Confederates held
them as hostages for their partisan
rangers in our hands. Company B was
from Somerset, Judge Blacks native
county. Several months ago wrote a
short article for Somerset paper, Civ
ing a general account of the efforts
Judge Black had made to save their
lives and obtain their exchange. sent
Judge Black copy of the paper and
asked him to give me all the particu.
lars. l enclose you Judge Blacks an.
swer. Yours truly,
GEORGE +. BEAR.
READING, Pa, June 10.
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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-01-22

Of dues Of dormant oranges, offered
By Caldwell, % Falls, was referred to
Committee on Good Of the Oder.
RESOLUTION offered by w. w. Clark.
Of Freestone, in regard to the Sunday
lsg, was read and referred to Commit
tee on Good Of the Order.
The memorial II Cook county Pc
mona Grange sskIoe that some step be
taken 10 buns the producer and con-
sumner Il crops nearer together, wss
read and referred 70 Committee on
Good of the Oder.
Resolution of g. ". Eyerette, in re-
gard TO the Resgsn bill, wss read end
referred to Committee on Good of the
Osder.
Resolution Of I. NJ. Carson, endorsing
the Sunday law, was referred to Com
mittee on Good Of the Order.
Resolution offere by y. G. Leaver-
ton, in regard t. the dues of Waller
Grange. was referred to the Commit
tee on Finance
The resolution Of 3 other Perkins,
in regard to the remission of dues OF
oranges in the drcuth-stricken dis
trict, was referred to the Committee OF
Good of the Order.
A resolution by BIO. Fyke, in regard
to memorslizing Congress to make the
Commissioner on Agriculture a Cab.
net officer, ETC., was referred to the
Committee on Good of the Order.
A motion to dispense with the formal
entering and departing from the hall
was adopted.
Bro. ]. Z. Gray, on behalf of J. D.
Templeton, Esq, Secretary of State,
presented the State Grange with 6
copy of the Revised Statutes of Texas.
The Safe Grange, by unanimous vote,
adopted and returned thanks for the
same.
Upon motion, the Grange adjourned
till tomorrow morning at 0 o'clock.
r. T. KENNEDY, Secretary.
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AProsperous southern City.

Augusta, Ca, is an example of wha t
a Southern city may become with it's
reasonable advantages turned to good
account by its cit z,ns. rs population
by recent direct Dry census is 81 900,
which does not include the 5000 to
1000 souls in the adjoining villa ges.
The January dividends declared by he
three factories, five banks, two rail-
roads and other institutions in the city
amount to a large sum and show that
Augusta is a money as well as a manu-
featuring centre in the South. The
Granite vile cotton factory declares q
quarterly dividend of per cent. on its
capital of 5000, coo; the Augusta Man
ufaciuring company declares quarterly
dividend of 2 per cent. on its capital
of 5000. 900; the Langley Manufacture
ing company declares a semi-annual
dividend Of per cent. on 800, 900.
The banks declare semi-annusl divi-
dends of 2 to 8 1-2 per cent, and the
railroads semi-snnual dividends of 3
and 1-2 per cent. The city paid out
$50, 900 interest. and 1926, 900 princI-
pal on its debt; and the gas company,
street railroad companies and other Sc
curities held in the city paid, it is esti-
mated, $105, 900. The whole is thus
summed nm nv the 0hrlaicls.
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mISCELLA NEOUS.
CTATE OF TEXAS-CoUNrY OF

~ Travis.
To the Honorable County Clerk Of Travis Coun-
ty and said State:
The undersigned would respectfully announce
the following estrays, to-wit:
brown horse, or years old, branded Ii on
left shoulder, slightly blind.
gray mare, l4h bands high, branded c on
neck and Y with half-circle below it on left
shoulder, about years old.
bay mare, with spring colt, about 1f1s hands
high, branded p II connected, p inverv d, on
left shoulder. about 10 years old.
! dun horse, IA hands high, or Z years old,
branded 8 L on left shoulder and NJ on left
thigh; wore bell.
brown mare. IA hands high, or years old,
has yearling colt.
! sorrel mare, Z or 8 years old. branded Il Z
connecfed 7 inverted.
white mare. z or years old, branded T with
bar above on shoulder and II on jaw.
white mare, years old, branded T II on
shoulder and Ia on jaw.
tyearling, no brand.
colt, no brand.
l bay mare. branded A T connected on shoTl-
der.
/ bay horse, branded W on thigh, Y on jaw and
on hip, or years DID,
II brown mare, branded { on left shoulder,
ID hands high
bay mare, branded on left shoulder
gray horse, II years old, bra. ded with hat
circle below on left shoulder, 4 NJ X with l. be-
low on left hip.
/ brown mare branded ] l. on shoulder.
/ black mare. branded door key.
brown mare, branded o with half circle
above on left thigh and o with half circle above
on lett shoulder.
! sorrel mare. branded mule shoe with hori-
zontal above on left shoulder.
eorrel mare branded V with bar below On
left shoulder.
sorrel mare, branded Ii with inverted on
left shoulder.
brown mare, branded W on thigh snd round
heart with half-circle ab que on left shoulder.
! blue year-old FLY. 10 brand.
The above HOSES were ranging about Brown d.
ing Bend, % miles above Austin.
GEORGE NJ, HEISSNRR.
Janlw3t County Commissioner.