National Republican., 1883-10-08

whero and sec all that can be seen. They
have gone through most of the departments,
and they are quick 10 understand and appre-
ciate what is shown and told them. They arc
delighted at the treatment they have received
in the United States, and they appear to DO
greatly impressed with the greatness Of the
country. high government dgnitary asked
the leader of tho delegation the other day
what had impressed him most deeply since
his arrival hero.
You havo wonderful country, mar
velous people, splendid cities, and model
government was the reply, 'and | have been
amazed and interested at what have seen, but
nothing has impressed mo so much as your
grain elevators. They are wonderful monu-
ments of your commercial greatness
"If that answer doesn't show intelligence
of high order then l am no judge. Tho
United States will be great gamer by tho
establishment of commercial relations with
Corea. 1t is rich in precious metals, and it
will not be many years until tho country is
opened up. Tho Coreans havo inherited the
theory of exclusiveness, but they are progress
sive, like the Japanese, and now that the ice
is broken they will not stand in the way of
hublOudl COIlHleTClAl auVhuCcHOuu.
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The Avenue Mans historian friond relates
tho following scrap of war history, which he
said has never yet found its way into print
and which came to him from an authentic
source, the narrator being gentleman who
was employed in asecret service of the confed-
erato government in the days that tried mems
souls:
During the war Columbus, Ca, was one
of the main sources for the supply of hats and
caps and small arms worn by the SOL
diers of the confcderacy, and its bank
was one of the principal repositories of
tho government at Richmond. Tho
town was not q, any railway, although SOW
oral lines ran close to it. The union troops
never knew of its real Importance until
very nearly tho end of the trouble, and they
never disturbed the peaceful quiet Of the
place. It was on account of its situation and
surroundings that the powers at Richmond
selected tho Columbus bank as q safe place
for depositing handsome emergency re-
serve of gold and silvor coin. A
largo balance was kept on hand oil the time,
amounting occasionally to millions. In the
latter days of the rebellion the balance ran
low, but to the very last considerable sum
remained in the vaults to the credit of the
rebel government Although union troops
passed to and fro within q few miles of tho
town several times it never occurred to them
to occupy it, and the business of making hats
and pistols and sabers went on without inter-
ruption. At first the president of the bank
carted his cash into the woods every timc the
union forces came near, but when he found
that they never molcsted the place he ceased
to take this precaution, and kept the coin in
tho vaults.
Just before the ending of the war it occurred
to union colonel to occupy Columbus and
he did so. Tho lemon had been pretty we'll
squeezed by that time, however. The money
! was nearly exhausted, and the sword and hat
factories were only running spasmodically, so
the invaders got very little for their pains.
What little there was on hand was taken
though, and the factories destroyed. The
town was as still as grave, ard the workmen
had all vanished. The hats that were made
then in the latter days of the war
were worn home by the "Johnnies, "
and the small arms as we'll. The
capture was made on the very day that JEFF
Davis lifted his balmarol too high. and the
treasure remaining in tho confederate depos-
itory was transported to Washington. 1t now
lies in security in the treasury vaults
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The man "off" the avenue felt constrained
to remark last evening that there is som,
queer teaching in tho public schools of the
district.
"In one of them in the west end," no said
"a large class of little boys, all of whom can
spell and read, have been making capital
letters on their states since the beginning o
the session, and have never recited lessor
in spelling or reading. This may be an i'm
proved method, but fail to SEQ it,"
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Democrats in Washington are ostentatiouslN
flourishing kilograms from Tiden's friend
in New York, and from John Mclean, o
the Cincinnati Enquirer advising the giving
of large betting odds that Hoadley will bt
elected governor of Ohio. Democrats will
memories recollect that they were similarl,
advised in the fall of 1889 to bot 500 to $4,
that Landers, the democratic candidate
would be elected governor of Indiana, and b
bet with an obsolute certainty of winning
. are slow to act on the information gratuit
ously volunteered, although they are givei
to understand, "on tho dead quiet" (adp.
, that Tilden is pouring barrel of money int,
the campaign.
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A reporter called on Mr.. John S. Barbour
chairman of the democratic state central com
mittee of Virginia, yesterday to interview hin
on state politics. Mr., Barbour was Mortified a
the thought that bold, bad, gall gifte,
newspaper man, and particularly represent
ative of an opposition paper, should expec
him to talk politics on Sunday. II
assured the reporter that he belonged t
higher order of civilization than d
men who talk politics on Sunday, and that
gave up that day to better things presuma
bly, meditation and prayer, although he di
not say So Perhaps it was meditation, d,
: mocracy. and prayor-a pious and suitabl
Il miscellaneous Saskatchewan mental cock tai
$ Mr.. Barbour said that he preferred to let h
views be expressed by the ballots of the goo
democrats of Virginia on election day.
It MAI. NICKERsON HEARD FROM.
He Declines 90 Come from Canada AN
:. Report In Person.