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and drilled it to a high state OF efficiency,
and early in September was on the Rio
Grande, in the army of his father-in-law,
Gen. Zachary Taylor. A few days later he
bore conspicuous part in the siege and
storlning of Monterey, and, as commissioner,
aided in drawing up the terms Of capitula-
ton.
Five months of comparative quiet followed,
and then came the browning glory of his
military career, the achievement OF which,
more than all else, fixed him firmly in the
affections of the southern people. aided him
effectively at each turning point in his suisse
quent career, made him secretary of war and
finally president of the Southern Confeder-
acy. This was his gallantry, GOODNESS in dam
ger and soldierly skill at the battle Of Buena
Vista, Feb %, 1917.
In July, 1916, Mr.. Davis was in congress, in
September he was leading his regiment
against Monterey; in February, 1S47, he was
at Buena Vista, and July Of the same year
found him again peaceful planter, the regi-
ment's term of service having expired. In
August, 1917, the governor of Mississippi ap-
pointed him United States senator to fill
a vacancy; the legislature in 1913 reelected
him to complete the term, and in 1850 re-
elected him for full term The ever mem
orable congress of 1s49-'51, at its long session,
had adopted the noted compromise meas
ure,n but fully satisfied neither party.
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The inaugural address of President Davis
was read with breathless interest i'll every
part of the country, as, In the prevalent
Ignorance and confusion, men sought in il the
indications OF peace or war. But it was not
In the power of any man, however wise, at
that time to give assurances. The most sig
nifcant passage in it, perhaps, was this;
1--WE have entered upon a career Of indie
pendence, and it must be inflexibly pursued.
Through many years of controversy with
our late associates of the northern states we
have painly endeavored to secure tranquil
lily, and obtain respect Tor the rights 10 Whienl
we are entitled AS necessity, not of choice,
we have resorted to the remedy of separation,
and henceforth our energies must be directed
to the conduct of our own affairs, and the
perpetuity OF tbs CQnntfederacy which we have
formed
Commissioners were sent to Washington
and fruitless negotiations conducted. Be
tyeep the Inauguration and the LIST of April
public opinion in both sections turned to the
contemplation Of war. In vain did Elesiden5
Lincoln proclaim that he s'certainly had no
desire and believed he had no authority to
interfere with slavery" In vain did Presi-
dent Davis reiterate that he longed to avoid
the effrlsion of blood On the 18th of April,
1861, ths var began with the attack on Fort
Sumter.
1.-The uprising Of the northn-that most
marvellous of all recent popular phenomena
followed at once. The uprising of the south
was aoapeely, if at all, less prompt and ulani-
NOUS, save in the northern tier Of states
Virginia seeded April II; Tennessee and
Arkansas followed May 8, and on May 20
N9rth Carolina completed the list of eleven
Confederate states. hay % tho Confederate
government was transferred to Richmond,
and President Davis followed in few days
His journey was continued ovation; his
speeches were chiefly exhoptatlons 70 unity
and courage, with brief arguments which
were merely variations of the clause in
biz first message to congress, April 30,
VIZ, Gan we ask is TO ,he let alee4Ae-that
those who never held power oyer US
shall not attempt our subjugation by arms.
This We Will. we must. resist to the direst
extremity"
At Montgomery the congress had already
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THE coNFEDERAcY FORMED.

Jefferson Davis Sees Washington for the
Last Time.
South Carolina led off in secession; Mis-
sissippi soon followed, and five more states
1t is idle to recount the futile attempts at
compromise Senator Davis was named one
of the committee of thirteen in the senate,
but asked to be excused on the ground that
propositions for compromise at such a time
ought to come from northern men, and
men whose party standing was a guar
antee of good faith-a position highly praised
in the north at the time. A little later he
consented to assist, saying:
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COL. JEFFERSON DAVIS.

His Heroic epd Successful Action at
Isueua Vista.
While Mr.. Davis was active in congress IN
July, the First regiment OF MISSISSIPPI yoiua-
teers enrolled for the Mexican war elected
him their colonel. He resigned at once, over
took his regiment at New Orleans, organized
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CONFEDERATE CABINET AND VICE PRESIDENT.
The result was the famous Foote-Davis
gubernatorial campaign of 1851. The Union"
party, as it was called, carried the state by
1850 majority on the convention question,
but Mr.. Foote'S majority for governor was
but 999-a remarkable proof of the popular
ity of Col. Davis. He had resigned his seat
in the senate, and now remained in retire
ment till 1852, when he canvassed several
states for the Democratic candidates.
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pany, but soon re-
tired to private life,
to emerge only at
long intervals, each
time to receive re-
newed expressions
Of affection a n d
sympathy. A be-
quest by a southern
lady gave him a
lovely h o m Q at
Beauvoir, Miss, on
the shore of the
gulf. The loss of
his son, a manly
gentleman, by yell
low fever at Mem
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1.-THE LOST CAUSE.U
The Confederacy Overtllrown-Twenty
Years in Peace.

The Confederacy Overthrown-Twenty-fi
Years in Peace.
Nevertheless hope and confidence were
strong President Davis first state papers
showed great ability, and he assented, some
what reluctantly, to a CONSUMPTION law,
which was among the first acts passed by the
congress. 1t excited much opposition, of
course and little later the habeas corpus
was suspended in a district ten miles around
Richmond. and military police organized
under Gen. Winder, which continued during
the remainder of the war. The summer
closed favorably to the Confederates though
they regained little OF none of the ground
lost in the spring; and in December Presi-
dent Davis made a tour of the western
camps, from which he returned greatly en-
couraged. In April, 1868, he issued rather
exulting address to the people, but the
claims in it were just. The Confederacy was
then at its maximum as a military power
The disasters of that summer from Gettys-
burg to Vicksburg need not be detailed.
The year closed under the black shadow Of
coming doom.
The real greatness of jefferson Davis shone
conspicuously as disasters thiclzened. He
resolutely defended his appointees, and as
sumed the responsibility wherever it was not
clearly theirs He regained the hearts of
the people and almost nullifed the opposition
in the congress. A committee of investiga-
ton entered upon its work in hostile spirit,
and ended by indorsing almost every one of
tho presidents acts, and even exonerated
him from serious blame in the matter
of Commissary Northrop. He exerted
himself heroically in preparing for the
campaign of 1864, and it opened with
some slight successes. All the rest Of the
year presents painful record of desperate
struggle against the inevitable; every vic
tory was barren, every defeat irremediable.
AS the ship of state sank deeper in the vortex,
mutual recriminations naturally multiplied.
The removal of Joe Johnston, the enterprise
of Hood and the restoration of Johnston, the
shelving" of Beauregard and the break with
Governor Brown, of Georgia-there is not
space to discuss them. Are they not argued
and reargued at length in the nlagazines2
Gen. Hood came nobly to the rescue by as
suming full responsibility, and Governor
Brown was so far reconciled as to cease seri-
GUS opposition.
FLIGHT AND CAPTURE.
The wild projects in the Confederate con-
gress in the winter Of 1876 were but the
frenzies of dissolution and despair. Military
re rnallu 6noiGa1 avlrUth ipc and in
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them this fact was ever prominent: A man
lost by Grant could be replaced if desired by
three; man lost by Lee was final loss.
On the Cd of April, 1865, seated in his pew
in St. Raul's church, Richmond, President
Davis received the dispatch from Gen. Lee
announcing his complete discontinue. At
p. m. the president, cabinet and other off
Gals left for Danyille, at which point Presi-
dent DAVIS issued his last proclamation his
last state paper. Ten days later he was at
Greensboro, N. c.. week later he halted at
Charlotte, where he first learned that $780,
900 reward had been offered for his capture
es an instgator Of the assassination of Presi-
dent Lincoln. All men now admit that the
charge was false.
Another week found him almost alone, q
fugitive in the forests of Georgia, with his
wife and a few devoted adherents. On the
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blow; but his wife and two daughters re-
NAMED to him. Of these the younger,
Varina Davis, observation-disclosures as Win
ME, is styled 1.-THE Child of the Confederacy, F."
having been born in the presidential mansion
in Richmond during the war She has lately
shown literary ability of high order, and
may yet rank among the noted authoresses of
America
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-12-13
VOL. "a.
JEFFERSON DAVIS
DEAD!
A Long and Eventful Career in
Business, War and Politics.
FOUR SCORE YEARS AND MORE.

The Two Kentucky Boys, Lincoln and
Davis On the Northern Frontier-A
Cotton Planter-Enters Congress s. The
Mexican War-President of the Southern
eracy-Imprisonment, Release and
Old Age.
More than eighty years ago two Kentucky
boys, born in widely different social spheres,
entered upon still more widely diverse careers:
Abraham Lincoln, in Hardin now Larue)
county, and jefferson Davis, in Christian
now Todd county; Lincoln born February
10, 1909, and Davis on the Sd OF June pre-
cedirg.
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SelDi-IADlQ2l Auction Sale,

and will close out to the highest bidder all our
winter goods. Our object is to carry over nothing,
and have fresh goods every season, and sell the bal
lance that is left, at Auction, the end of every
season. And they will have to 60, no matter what
price they bring
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FAVORABLE SYMPTOMS
HIS LAST WORDS

Att o'clock Mrs. Davis administered
some medicine, but the ex-President de-
clined to receive the whole dose. She arg
ed upon him the necessity Of taking the re-
mainder, but, but putting it aside with the
(Contdnued on Second P@ge.)
Telegram-herald., 1889-04-24

opening whilo another judge turns the
crank. As tho ballot disappears bell
rings, and 4 printing mechanism marks
the ballot with its number or other
device in rod ink, and the slip Of
paper then falls into the bottom OF the
box. where. with its predecessors, it IS
plainly visible. II on the count two bal
lots are found foldc together, or q ballot
not marked with the rcd stamp, it is
thrown out "a fraudulent, because the
mechanism will mark but one ticket at
a time. and that, Of course. tho outside
one As originally designed, this ma
chine was intended TO number the ballots
consccutively, but that would not do for
the reason that II destroys the secrecy Of
the ballot. inasmuch as comparison of
the number of ticket with the poll
sheet would reveal tho candidates for
whom any given voter had cast his prefer
ence.
Nearly all Of tho patented ballot boxes,
or voting machines, IS the patent Office
calls them, aim at similar results. Tho
turning of a crank. marking or number
ing Of tho ballot. ringing Of n gong and
detection Of double voting are features
common 10 the vast majority of them.
Some novel mechanical methods are en-
ployed, and in n few the mechanism
greatly resembles that Of a town clock.
Clocks arc actually introduced in several
machines. "a in the invention Of T. r.
Hester. Of Napa, Cal, whose device calls
for al "auto-rcSister signal time lock-
on the compartment containing the bal
lots, and another similar tiInoIock on
the compartment containing the dial
plates which record and exhibit the
number Of votes cast for each candidate.
~. +. Furnell. II Silver Hill, ". Va.
patents machine In which tho names
Of al tho candidates are placed on con
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t-r tIe s.t@s ca entering t'oo4sa
ta-s stie ua-9cks tie lzechArls9a ana
ll4zes Is p1ss.a-s f1f iiaa fa so.e. I1~se
Is = kla9b f.E e-11 eAn3l1ats. tal tbe
slteg csg. set az ets ens kleb 4f rlEae.
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exp1s<i ~ yls~ and - "a ~ el gbe
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3 kleo registers Q vote fsE tle candidate
assigned T. g. Isgleates - tlc voter f-4l
lis sQte Is res .sieTed. registers tha vote
60 pgolC index. flngs . be.i and aet4-
sts. tae entire l,ck-hg apparatus AS
tie voter u4kss bis czll t4fo4Eh assean1
Stale the mechanism IS l.,cks,l l.ll smother
voter enters sle tlEss slle ana t4us un-
L0ck- 10
IAls Is aA very pretty ana convenient.
5lt after voter hl1 pulled knobs fsr
thirty six presidential ele>tars. q lae.l-
beT ~ congress. Two or three ssl4Jels
ard representatives iu lhs legislature.
Judicial county. city ana township
ol1cers. perhaps - tho number ~ atty
os sixry lA ali. lie woul be N danger II
becoming wear.ed and ta5 voters await
lag their turn IL the stlie would oo Likely
O. loss patience and commit fracture
Il the peace. one wonders that the able
inventor did not add mechanism for
PFC pity arresting and turning over 10
the police any man who might attempt
70 pull more than his lawful number Of
the knots
Three or four of the patents embrace
devices for automatically displaying. IN
large figures, the number Of votes east
for each candidate. 20 that AZ any mo-
ment bysranaer. by merely glancing a,
the machine. could tell how his party OF
favorite candidate was fariug This
would greatly facilitate the gathering Of
election returns for afternoon newspa-
pers. and would often enable them 10 de-
termine the result Of local election
many hours before the closing OF the
polls. By these devices the ballots are
counted as deposited. and when the polls
close the result Of the days work is IN
stantly displayed in plain figures Inas
much "a the use Of such ballot box as
this would deprive the free American
citizen OF his inalienable right OF staying
down town till midnight Of an election
evening 10 hear returns, IL Is not likely
TO meet with universal favor.
WALTER WELLMAN.
Telegram-herald., 1889-04-24
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nous Australian law uoS b-ins used as
a nlo1ri hs the ballot Feforners II Amer
ica
john W. Bushy head formerly chief
~ the Cherokee nation. has spent the
vinfe n Washingtoa watching the in
tsrests = Ai5 people .n tho Oklahoma
question. ana many people on meeting
Nr blshYheaI lerc were amazed % dis
cover tl4t. though a. Indian. he wears
neither blanket Lor head feathers. anu
a. vlthal. = Iaodesl. intelligent gentle
man. speaking Eas..A perfectly. and
weaving such clothing as other gentle
men wear. Ia this ho is not in advance
OF h.5 colntryuen. almost all Of whom
speak ANA read anl Write English. take
English newspapers and magazines.
teach English exclusively Ia their
schools. play pianos and organs IN their
pretty homes. which arc neatly car
pctcd ali decorated and altogether
maintain q civilization in nowise differ
ing from ,hat If their neighhors in Kan
SIS. Missouri or Texas. Referring 20 the
eiection laws of his nation. e1-Chief
BushVhcad said.
we havo never had anv election
frauds OF troubles in our nation. Our
election law - perfect for our use. though
/ suppose it Is too simple tor the require
ments Il moro complex political COM
inuuitics. Our elections Tor principal
che. assistant principal chief. members
Of tho national council and other officers
are held on the first Monday IN August.
Every male citizen. IS years old or up
wards. a resident of tho district six
months. OF sound mind and not convict
ed of felony. is allowed 10 vote. You
VII notice that . young man OF IS or l9
con vote with Us. because we believe a
youth ol chat 2~e as competent To cast
On intelligent ballot as the average citi-
zen Of moro mature years. Our young
men axe naturally better educated than
our older men, and are quick, bright and
thoughtful
Ten days prior to the election the
clerk = tho district appoints two clerks
and two superiutondents O. election, aud
furnishes them with blank rolls and en-
velopes. lie must also post IN some con
spicuous place ia every precinct in his
district ,ae names Of oil persons put in
nomination for office. III, rolls used in
elections state tho offices 70 tc filled, the
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Seeing England Without Being Seen-Find-
ing shows Without Being shown.
fsrNcinl I1-r.snnndence

Ing shows W Nitnout Being shown.
Special Correspondence
SAC HARBOR, April 1s.-Lived two
years in England. From Dover to Scot
tish border. Among high, low, rich,
poor, good, bad. Indifferent, publicans,
sinners, aristocrats and plebs. In Lon
don. Liverpool. Chester. Halifax. Hud-
dersfeld, Greenwich. Maidstone, Dover,
st. Marearet's, Deal, Southend, Har-
wich, Yarmouth. Cnister, Durham and
other places now forgotten. Expense
per year, 500. Clothing and amuse-
ments included. Camped all over Lon
don. At Bloomsbury, Stepney. Nine
Elms, Canterbury, Kings Cross and West
minister. Names Of parishes. London
= nest Of parishes. Except old London.
as 1.-The city" Stayed from a week TO
month in each. Hired lodgings. Among
poorer class. Expense from Sl.50 TO
$3.50 per week. inclusive of attend
ancs." meaning your cooking, boot
blacking and other small services done
by the landlady. Found most lodgings
neat Somo not. When not, were very
bad. Took the chances. Fell among
next to thieves n few times. Was never
murdered or robbed. Protecting PrOvi-
dencel Don't recommend my example
"a safe. Saw no Americans. Didn't
want 70. Wanted To SEQ the English
And how they lived. Landed in London
from Liverpool at Euston Square rail
road station. Total stranger. Left
trunk at station luggage room. Two
pence per day. Slung satchcl on shoul-
der. Walked out OF station. Didn't
know where I was going. Didn't want
to. Lost right away. Knew money in
pocket would buy beds. suppcrs and
breakfasts. Found myself first in
Hampstead road. Next Tottcnham
Court road Moro English names Of
place. end in ham" than any other ter
minal. Next found Oxford street Name
looked familiar. Began to feel myself
really in London. Followed Oxford
street to Holborn. Snme street in sub
stance. Change only in name. Confus-
ing place. London, for streets. Name Of
street gives out all at oncc. Another
succeeds in place. Numbers Of houses
give out IN similar manner. Give Broad
way seven different names from Battery
to Fifty-ninth street and you have an
idea Of London why regarding streets.
Holborn runs into Poultry street. Poul-
try into Thrcadncedlc. ThrcaGnecdlo
close u Bank" meaning Bank of Eng
land Only one bank in England That's
"Thc Bank Everything in London
convcrgcs TO Bank. Bus drivers six
miles away CRY out Bank Bank.
Bank London cast Of Bank little known
TO four-ffths Of Americans who visit
there. Best part Of London Tor seeing
real Lonionor. Distinct race. iIun-
dreds q West End aris'ocrats never in
their lives az East End" Never viii
DO. Think Of it as thoy do of Timbuctoo.
PRENTICE MILFORD.