Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-21

message had been sent, and upon my telling
him that he had better stop it, he said
couldn't scare him, and let it go. The re-
suit was that it was sent to Newfoundland
and telegraphed, and, though never heard
that Napoleon III. answered it, l have no
doubt he received it. About six months
later the treasurer of the company, Mr.. y.
H. Palmer, wrote me, telling me he thought
l ought to divide the expense of the message
with B. T. Woodward, the manager OF the
Denver office. and, inasmuch as each OF us
had had our little joke, we should each pay
our little bills.
Il stated the case as have given it to
you, and the Denver office had to pay the
whole. Whether Governor Gilpin paid 1t
or not, I do not know. / asked him about
it one time, but he seemed bored, and was
very reticent My idea is that he came into
the Office, and being told there that the cable
was completed, had dashed off this message
and handed it over, never supposlng that 1t
would be sent. Theprobability is that when
he found it was sent he paid the bill.
AN oLD-TIME TELEGRAPHER.
Editor Rosewater was one of the most re-
markable telegraph operators in the country.
He was in the South at the time the war
broke out, and was alterward employed here
at the War Department under General Tom
Eckert. While in the South he reported
one of Jefferson Davis speeches which he
delivered at Stephenson, Ala, while he was
on his way to be inaugurated as President OF
the Southern Coniederacy. In this speech
Davis set the country on fire by saying that
he intended to carry the war into the North.
Davis afterward accused Rosewater of being
a Northern spy in referring to it.
He also reported a speech of Howell Cobb s
which was made the night after President
Lincoln was inaugurated, in which Cobb
said: ''If our wives and daughters cannot
whip the Yankees with broomsticks, want
this generation discontinued" AT the time
that the war was over Mr.. Rosewater made
an offer to the Brazilian Government
to erect telegraph lines and a system of ca
bles for their empire. Baron Lisboa, who
was then the Minister of Brazil at Washing
ton, submitted his proposition, but the reply
was that there were only five miles of rail-
wav in Brazil, and these ran from the city
of Rio Janeiro to Dom Pe1ro's palace and
the country had no use for telegraphs.
PoLyGANY IS VERY DEAD.
1 met John T. Caine, the Mormon dele
gate to Congress, and Mr.. S. f. Richards,
who is the principal lawyer Of the Mormon
Church, last night. Mr.. Richards has just
Court, in which he told the Judges that
polygamy was so dead that it could never
be resuscitated, and both Caine and Rich
ards said the same thing to me.
1.-THE people are thoroughly in earnest
about the matter" said Mr.. Richards, land
there has not cen polygamous marriage
in Utah for more than two years. 1t is
contrary to the rule OF the church from now
on, and the people are well satisfied with the
change. For myself think it has improved
the condition OF the Territory. and L think
it will be to our interest in business and
other ways. 1t will make the Territory
more desirable to immigrants, and it GER
tainly ought to remove all objections that
the people OF the United States have to the
Mormon Church"
evil Utah apply again for Statehood?''
I asked.
mo, it will not" emphatically answered
the Hon. John T. Caine, Utah will never
ask Tor Statehood again without the United
States gives a decided intimation that they
desire to receive it into the Union. We are
the only part of the United States which
bears it fair share of the taxes and gets only
kicks and cuffs for its pains"
THE ToGA FROM WASHINGTON.
The Washington Senatorial race is be-
tween Senator Squire and ex-Congressman
Calkins, who cut such a prominent figure
some years ago as one of the members from
Indiana. Calklns lives at Tacoma and
Squire is one of the big men of Seattle.
Both are strong men and both are much
alike in physical respects. Both are tall,
big-boned and strong-limbed and the COM
plexion of each is as rosy as that of 16-
year-old Irish maiden.
Both men are pugnacious and was Cal
ing al fhof L..
into public life. Sixteen years ago he was
making about $50, 900 a year as an Indiana
lawyer. He was satisfied with the law and
he did not want to go into politics. But
one day he picked up county paper in
which he was doomed for the nomination on
the ground that he was the only man who
could carry the district. The compliment
tickled him and he wrote to the editor and
thanked him but said he could not think of
being a candidate. He had sealed the en-
velope an was patting himself on the back
for being great man as he glanced over
another paper. The editor of this paper
stated that "Calkus was a very good young
man and with little patience and consider
able study, he might sometime be fit for a
Congressional candidate. At present, how
ever, he was
ENTIRELY TOO FRESH
III MS W SSt tuS anu LOat
he could not be elected if he was nomi-
mated" "This notice." said Governor
Calkins in telling the above story, "made
me as angry as the other notice had made
ME pleased, and 1 decided to show that ed
itor that could get the nomination if 1
wanted it. 1 wrote different letter to my
editorial friend and went into the campaign.
was nominated and defeated, but got an
other nomination later on, and this time 1
was elected"
1 found Senator Teller at home last night,
He is not whit grayer than when he was
in the Interior Department under President
Arthur. He has been reelected to the Sem
ate and he has come back with the de-
termination to pass free coinage silver bill
Said he: 81 have no doubt but that such a
bill will pass this session or next, and it
would put silver up to 129."
FRANK G. CARPENTER.