the carolina watchman vol vii third series salisbury n c october 12 1876 no 52 carolina \\ atchman wkkki v 3 i hl'lnkk ed an.l rropr ftsu 1 t k _ brcner assoc it im si bsl kii'tion kates : m tear i ' uce - j :[■[ i ' •, ;) \ ! btising rates : ,. .], one publication tl 00 j '■■■'' u ". u '- i us 1 o.l usora rear filial d emo cratic^r sf o rm tide /•■ r trcsident samuel j tilden nl new vork for vicc-presiih nt .* thomas \. hendricks 0 i m • i a s a . stateticket for governor .- zebulon b vance op mei kl.r.m'.lt.i /•'• governor : thomas j jarvis of it 1 / statu v ea u v 1 m worth of rasdoliii foe s ■ joseph a eng le hard of n w ii soy :.. i - iml el l love thomas s kenan of wilson i s pul •' ' -' re f linn : .). ('. scaubrough or 1 ihxstox /■* i i d m.»v .!. 1t0ates ov ei rut ord for con ■ ■-- 3d hi let alfued m waddell of sew iianover fur c t k district josel'h j davis 1 :: vxk i iv fo < ' ■ . - blh !' a m scales of ciuij.ford / '■ is 6th disirict walteh l steele of richmond /•' congress ith ditttricl william m robbins iredell for congresi sth districl robert ii vance of buncombe electors at 1 rge 1 i fowle ot wake j ii leach t davidson district elk tors net lewis c latham hn district john i w i ten in district john 1 st.w fori ith district fab ii bcsbee in district f c robbins 6th district r p waring 7th rtotrict wm b glenn bti district a c avery platform ofthe democratic par ty in north carolina adopted by the democratic state con vention at raleig-h on 14th june 1876 whereas the republican party ol we uuited state fur tlio last sixteen yewj bag had the complete control of "* government iu all its depart ments ai lby its disregard ol constitutional limi tation ; by its unequal and oppressive juttiou ; by its extravagant ami waste •™ expenditures ; by its unwise and mis clnevou financial policy by its uncxam p e d official corruption pervading all chea of its administration has rr iglit disgrace upon our govemuihiii an * unparalleled distress upon our people wrefore i sisolved l 1 that in this centennial yew of our existence we invite all patriots to ffoore all dead issues to disregard the prejudices engendered by the past events an l to quite with us in the effort to restore ttbltitaiional honest economical and l**8 administration 0 f ,|, ( . government j llj thus promote the g neral wi ifare and ppoetm of the couulry ,. k^'c 7 , 2 that we earnestly and cor •"% recommend the adoption by the p fco p.e of the amendments to the consti by the ( lonvention of 187,5 q thus largely reduce the expenditures our state and county governments and m phfy thoir administration so that we j be enabled to establish a thorough m enlarged system of public schools for benefit of all the citizens ef the state waived j that notwithstanding our peated disappointments and impovished fjodition we still cherish the north car i>ua pro j ect g0 long abo . ed for by more . & h saunders fisher wm ii thomas others of uniting the harbors of beau a rl t wlngton with the great west v a tt the completion of the western por «» carolioa railrpad u paiut licck and dicktown and of our unfinished rail roads we pledge the continued use ofthe convict labor of the state and of such other judicious legislative aid as will se cure the completion of these great state works at the earliest practicable period resolved 4 that the people of north carolina now have it in their power by ui earnest determinated and united effort to relieve our people from the evils of re publican misrule extravagance and cor ruption and restore the prosperity of our state resolved 5 that we denounce official cortuption wherever found and we hold honesty to be the first and highest quali fication for office card from ex-gov holden raleigh oct 4 1s76 to lhc editors of the raleigh nctcs gentlemen i find in your paper of yes terday a card irom rev c t bailey from which 1 make the following extract on my way to the baptist state convention in fayetteville 1 was introduced to ex-gover nor ilolden during the session of the con vention i was invited to dine with him nnd ac cepted the invitation i spent the afternoon with liim returning to the baptist church after tea our intercourse was free and agreeable 1 fe gave tne an account of his religious experi ence and of his political troubles he stated to me that the plan of the " kirk war origi nated with the executive committee of the republican parly at washington in the inte r.-.-t of the party that he was oi posed to it hut wns allowed no discretion in the matter ; that it was decided by that committee to inau gurate and prosecute the campaign as he lid it thai if lie did not carry out the wishes of the pai ly he and the state were to be crushed ; and thai if he v a successful in ihe execution of iheir plans he would probably receivo a cabi nel appointment i s . e secretaryship of the in ti rior y iv i am . bliged tosaythat there is nol . ni word of truth in the above save that part of it which refers to my introduction ti mr . at the uap'.i state convention ii :- mh that in november js7 i traveled with mr bailey ti the cars from raleigh to fayetteville i was conversing with dr brooks and the cars were near new hill when mr bailey whom i did not know per sonally came down the passage talking hu uorously and attracting attention i was in t rod need i him we sat together and con versed for some time how long i do not re member 1 do not remember in what way or by whom political matters were introduced l.u i may lake it for granted that 1 did not iiivt allude to these matters in a conversation with a stringer and a minister if the gospel i cannot recall distinctly what was said by u we talked fi eel y doubtless about several iiiing and when night fell which could not have been long afler we begin to converse lhe min isters and laymen san spiritual songs and hymns as liic cars sped on in the darkness and i lnis the conversation must have been arret ! ted 1 was the guest of judge buxton while in fayetteville by request of judge buxton's family i was free to invite friend to dine with me and a day or two after we had reached fayetteville 1 invited mr bailey and he dined wilh us as staled ab ve as lie says eir in ten-ourse was free and agreeable but i am ure the accounts i gave him of myself were not thrust upon him or even volunteered by aie for such is not my habit i did not state to him that the plan of the kirk war origi nated wiih the executive committee of^the lli publican party in washington in the in terest of the party i could not have done so because mil her iu 1870 nor afterwards did i have any correspondence or conversation with that committee as to the manner in which 1 should discharge my duty as governor be cause under my oath of oliice i was not serv ing political committees but the people of the state because when 1 went to washington j early in july 1870 my mind was made up as to the course i should pursue and r went tliere to consti ll the president and members of con gress and not any committee and because the executive committee at washington could not have known the condition of things in this stale in 1870 to such an extent as to authorize them to tendef me any advice on the subject which advice if tendered would have been promptly rejected for after the whole military movement was over and i had been impeached and removed when i reached washington in february 1871 i found out three northern public men who fully comprehended what had bei n done and who strongly sympathized with me namely president grant < iov morton and henry wilson 1 repeat i consulted with no committee iu is70 as to whal i should do and when i got to washington in 1871 1 met no committee to report to them what had been done or lo receive their congratulations vn.i i declare positively i do not remember to-day the names of the gentlemen who constituted the national executive republican committee in the year 1870 1 admit however and indeed claim that in 1870 1 telegraphed or wrote to members of congress to the senators from this state to tbe president and to the military officers earnest ly calling their attention to the condition of a flairs in this stat and urging them to come to my aid in dispersing the ku-klux but these were all public functionaries and not the na tional republican committee whose duty it was to respond to my call as they did re spond i did not tell mr bailey that i was op pose to the military movement whicli i put on foot in 1870 it is probable 1 told bim what i have said to hundreds and what thou sands four people know that i was reluctant to move iu the matter that 1 had issued five proclamations during the space of eighteen months invoking public opinion against the ku-klux and urging and beseeching leading members of the democratic party to aid me in restoring peace to the state by arresting and preventing the whippings the tortures and the murders that were being perpetrated and this fact thai i was thus reluctant to act and that i acted only in the last resort stands out con spicuously in all my proclamation messages and letters from my inaugural addi ess up to the time when i declared the insurrection at an end in alamance and caswell but the idea that 1 opposed what 1 did strikes iue as absurd neither did i tell mr bailey that if i did not thus obey the committee thus referred to i and the state were to be crushed how could a committee crushed the state w hy no party of itself could have crushed the state congress could not have crushed the state the president could not have crush ed the state even europe could not have crushed the state for the united stales could not have allowed it i beg mr bailey's pardon but it does seem to me that this is the most absurd of all his statements i may have told him that i felt in 1870 if i did not act as i did the peace of society and the property of the slate would be broken up and destroyed : but surelv i could not have told him that 1 would be crushed and the state would be crushed if i did not obey the behests of a distant and irresponsible political committee nor is it true that i told mr bailey that i expected lo receive a place in the cabinet pro visli-1 i executed their plans or any plans i was never promised a seat in the cabinet i have never desired to be in the cabinet i would have not resigned my place as governor for any place outside my state if i said sec retaryship of the interior to mr bailey at all it must have been a slip of the tongue it i.s likely that during our conversation i may have told mr bailey 1 had been offered by the president the mission to peru which 1 declin ed but i never told him that i was promised or that i expected any office from the authori ties at washington as a reward for any action of mine as governor with referrence to the murder of john w stephens mr bailey says in referrence to the death of stephens i un derstand from him that the republicans had much to do with that crime that the prosecu tion of those who were charged with it was dis continued because testimony was either elicited whicli would implicate or criminate prominent members of the republican party ; that these fears were awakened in part by the discovery of the coil from which the rope was cut which was found on the neck ofthe murdered man in reply to this i have to say that mr bailey utterly misunderstood me i have un iformly maintained in private and in all my proclamations messages and letters that john w stephens was murdered by kti-klux in open day in the court house in yancey ville during the progress in that building of a democratic meeting 1 knew perfectly well while conversing with mr bailey that juslicis pearson settle and dick had held a supreme court in chambers in raleigh in august 1s7u that they examined many witnesses in regard to the murder of stephens that as the result of a patient hearing by the court and full ex amination of the witnesses judge pearson said as to the time oflhe murder we are satis fied it was committed while the meeting was going on upstairs the deceased having left the meeting and come down at the instance of wiley ;'' that the testimony that the deceased was seen after six o'clock in the public square walking to the east and turning the corner of the railing and then going south is unsatisfac tory ; that tl-.ere is no trace of his ever com ing back to the court house or no evidence tending to show that he might have be n kill ed outside nnd his body brought am put in that room an.l the chief justice concluded by saying no motive is assigned for this murder except political animosity the cir cumstances show thai it was done on premedi tation with fatal rkill and by a numbi i of con spirators either taking part in the killing or keeping watch or being en the lookout to whom the unsuspecting victim was led up for sacrifice and the chief justice held three bf the supposed murderers all democrats to bail in the sum of live thousand dollars each to answer the charge at the next term of the superior court ofthe county of caswell well now in view of these farts how could 1 possibly have led mr bailey to understand that i held the opinion that the republican had much to do or anything to do with that crime i may as a candid man have given mr bailey who was then it stranger lo out people and onr history the two beliefs or ideas that existed in regard to the manner of ste phen's death namely lhat democrats said lhat republicans murdered him and that republi cans said the democrats murdered hini nor i.s it true that i meant to leave the im pression on mr bailey that ihe prosecution of those who were charged with it was discontin ued because testimony was either elicited or likely to be elicited which would implicate or criminate prominent members of the republi can party the truth is in the then condi tion of caswell and afterwards up to the time when amnesty was granted to all the criminal kii-klux it was not practicable to obtain from any grand jury in that country a true bill for the murder of stephens no republican cer tainly so far as i know feared the coiintiu uances ofthe prosecution against the murderers nf stephens and the truth is the difficulty was that the prosecution in legal form could not even be begun 1 have never heard of fears be ing awakened in any republican by the discovery ofthe coil ofthe rope ■.*,::*. an allusion to my political disabilities iu mr bailey's card may leave the impression for impressions it seems sometimes become substantial things that i had applied to him tn aid ine in setting my disabilties removed such impression would be unfounded 1 met mr bailey either in his office or on the street and he mentioned the matter to me 1 invited him to my office and we talked the matter over that was all i have luen very care ful not to ask for the removal of my disabili ties at ihe hands of democrats 1 have sent in i no memorial to he legislature or convention j on the subject i was particular to remind my friend badger when he put in his bill for my relief that i had not asked him to do it though 2 thanked him as i did mr bailey for the in terest he manifested for me 1 ihink i did i nothing in 1s70 which deserved impeachment i feel that i was unjustly convicted and to ask pardon would be to confess my guilt as a matter of grace and kindness ihe democrats mi^ht relive we without askinc for il but i cannot expect them to do it they would do it in virginia or georgia but ihey will not do such a thing in this state consequently i did not break my rule on this subject by appealing to mr bailey for help **—*•** # •:<• very respectfully w w holden tiie speaking at smithfield bill smith delivered into jaevis hands our correspondent with the guberna torial candidates was unfortunate enough to mail us from smithfield yesterday a quantity of blank paper instead of his report of the debute gentlemen arriving in the city however tell us something of this the largest crowd that has ever attended a political speaking iu that coun ty was present governor vance spoke lirst and judge settle followed the discussion was of about llie usual charac ter wiih the usual results gov vance made a splendid point on pill smith he charged smith with bridling men and he us did so a man jumped upon lhe stage grasped his hand exclaiming : ies he did ; ho bridled iii-j to that very tree yonder pointing to a certain ree captain jarvia spoke when vance nud settle had finished and was followed by bill smith bill in his trip over the mountains had beeu offering 500 in gold as a reward to any rain who would con front hiin with the charge that he smith had run him with dogs during the war he offered the same reward in his speech at smithfield whereupon capt jarvis trolled his man out a man name morgan took the stand and told the crowd how bill smith had chased him ; he narrated the time place and all the circumstances of the occurrence and bill smith wilted even as did jonah's gourd the general impression was that if he had had his horn by him he would have crawled in it and curled up to hide himself from the derision of the people capt jarvis said to the man : wouldn't you like to have 500 iu gold ?" tijij man replied r yes i would ; i baven'tgot a cent in the world but horn-blower didn't shell it out tuesday was a disastrous old day for bill it was too bad that he should have been so swept up right in his own strong hold too ; but bill oughtn't talk so much with bis mouth raleigh neus time to pass round the hat a young lady who heard the recent speech of judge fowle at shelby says when he came to the slavery of the jones county paupers and made such a touching appeal to the people of the wc-t to rescue their brethren of the east from the horrors and outrages of radicalism i had to cry i couldn't help it and i sobbed so loud that i felt ashamed and looked around to see whether any one else was so affected right by my side sat a countryman in his shirt sleeves and as the tears rolled down his cheeks he would quietly wipe lliem off with his sleeve and listen again to the deep pathos and thrilling eloquence of the speaker he said well 1 have voted republican ever since the war but will never do so again they ought to take up a collec tion to carry this state right and now is the time lo pass round the hat i'm a poor man aud work baid for my living but would give ten dollars for my share " — charlotte observer rnif[»inii the following table taken from official sources shows the debt of the states nam i*d at the close of the war also on ti r lst january 1s72 after seven years of radical carpet-bagger rule think of it ! overtaxed people ••! v is tern north carolina that during this sex en years of republican way a debl nl twenty-four millions of dollars has been placed on us l it any wonder that the people are impoverished and laboring under terrible depression when they see their substance eaten up by taxes levied on i hem by carpet-baggers and other corrupt officials can any one wonder that north carolina site in the ashes of her poverity to-day without money without friends and almost without hope ! business is dead starvation faces many women and children have exhansted the last oil out of the cruse and the last meal out of the barrel and still after all these troubles which have been brought upon us by this party setlle and smith are now callinj upon the in n of ibis stale to vote them into nffiee and to con t in ue this reign ol honor god forbid ! humanity and every consideration of morality and benevolence lorbil i ! the state must be redeemed the remorseless spoilers must be overthrown north arolina — debts and liabilities at the close of the war — principal s9 690,500 interest 81,261,316 whole aniouni 10,951,810 debts and liab.i ilies january 1 187*2 34,887,467.85 south carolina — debts and liabilities at lhe close of the war 5,040,000 debts and liabilities january i is72 39,158 914 47 georgia — debts and liabilities at the i-.lose of the war nominal debts and liabilities june 1 is71 50,637,500 florida — debts and liabilities at the close of ihe war 221,000 debts and liabilities january i js7:j 15,763 147 54 i arkansas — debts and liabilities at the close of ilu war 4,036 952.87 debts aud liabilities january 1 1s7.2 19,761 265 g tennessee — debts at the close of tlie war 20,105,606 66 debts and liabili ties jan 1 1872 s45.6ss,263.4g louisiana — debts and liabilities at the close of ihe war 810,099,074 34 debts and liabilities jan 1 1872 50 540 30g 94 texas — debts and liabilities at the close of the war nominal debts and liabilities jan 1 1s72 820,461,010.61 alabama — debts and liabilities at tho close of the war 85,939,658.87 debts and liabilities jau 1 1872 38,382 967.31 for the two hundred and eighty-four millions of indebtedness which have been thus piled upon tbe above named nine states they have absolutely little or noth ing to show no great works of public improvement have been carried out the money has disappeared as completely as if it had beeu sunk in the middle of the atlantic ocean this is grantism in the south for if it had not been for the as sistance which the grant administration gave these bold robbers and their succes sors they never could have carried out their plundering projects the other evening a young lady abruptly turned the corner and very rude ly ran against a boy who was small aud ragged and freckled stopping a soon as fi\\e could she turned to him and said : i beg your pardon indeed 1 am very sorry the small ragged and freckled boy looked up in blank amazement for an instant then taking off about three-fourths ofa cap he bowed very low smiled until his face became lost in the smile aud answered vou can bev my parding and welcome mise and yer may run agiu me and knock me clean down and i won't say a word after the young lady passed on be turned to a comrade aud said halt appologetically 1 never had any one ask my parding and it kind o took me off my foe t . ' '— in dia napolis herald a country girl coming from a morn ing walk was told she looked as fresh as a daisy kissed by the dew to which she innocently replied ; you've got my tiiim right daisy ; bu his is'at dew !" a visit to swanethia even more interesting proved a visit to swanethia which our author paid in the company of a russian colonel on a tour of inspection the swannety are a for bidding-looking set of men often wretched ly clad but all armed with rifles and other weapons their women are coarse of feature with high cheek-bones the only redeeming point about them consisting in maguificent busts the habitations con sist of a large windowless apartment with a hole in the roof for the smoke to escape in which the family lives with cows dogs and poultry a stone tower some sixty feet in height and accessible only through a hole far above the ground is attached to most of these dwellings and serves as i place of refuge when murder has been committed and the blood money has not yet been paid murder is rife among these uninviting mountaineers and is the result in moat instances of jealousy a fact not to be wondered at if we consider that in consequence of famale infanti cide there are no more than seventy-four females to every hundred males the dances of these people are described as uninteresting ; but a sort of blind man's buff appears to be deserving of translation to other climes the two performers are attached to strings tied to a peg firmly driven iii the ground ; and while one at tracts attention by rubbing two small pieces of wood the other armed with a stick endeavors to catch him and then exercises the usual privilege of a success ful player and belabors his fellow the russian government interferes but little iti these mountain districts and crime even murder is allowed to be settled ac cording to the customs of the country e ich village is governed l.y a native chiii and liis assistant these officers are elected by universal suffrage ballot pa pers are unknown and vox populi makes itself beard by universal clamor not tin frequenlly joined in by women the descriptions of some of these elections are among the best things in these volumes and cases of the idol of the people refus ing to serve occur frequently — the antlienocum give it to them warm here \* an anecdote told by one minis ter to another a certain presiding elder who was noted for being seldom up to time seldom very animating and seldom very brief once kept a congregation wait ing a long time for his appearance and when at last he did come he preached them a very prosy sermon of unushal length on the text feed my lambs he had not yet finished when that origi nal old minister known as camp-meeting john rose from a seat iu the congrega tion and said : bro her i have had some experience in raising lambs myself and i have found that the following rules are absolutely essential to successful lamb raising : first give them their food iu season second give them a little at a time and third give it to them warm ilapid milking the question has been asked how long it takes to draw a quart of milk from a cow and it it can be done at tbe fate of a quail a minute i was talking with tny nearest neighbor about it last evening lie had never timed himself at tbat work but thought a quart a minute was a little more than he could do he would try it with his three year-old heifer in just twelve hours from the lime he milked her iu the morning i was to milk my f inr ear-old at the same length of lime after morning milking ; the pails to be weighed when empty and to allow two pounds of milk to the quart ; one to hold the watch while the other did the milk ing of his own cow the result of it was that his heifer two month 1 : from the time of dropping her calf gave twenty-two pounds time of milking eight & one fourth minutes my four-year-old five weeks from calving gave twenty-seven pounds ten ounces ; time ten and one-half min utes our respeel ive ages are sixty two and sixty-six years at the morning milking tny cow gave twenty-five pounds fourteen ounces ; for tlie day fifty-three and one-half pounds — couniry gentle man watering horses an english horse lover writes tn a contemporary : i wish to add my testimony as regards the necessity of watering horses sufficiently fur twenty years we have kept in onr stables an average of ten horses we have never known a day's illness among them — several are over thirty and capable of any amount of work we attribute this entirely to my daily visit to the stable when i always find either a trough or pail full ol water within reach of each horse by this means i know that at least once a d iy they are able fully to quench their thirst i never had deal ings with a coachman who did not think it a risk to l"t his horses have morn than a modicum of water i would just add that we have no sueh a thing as a bear ing rein iu our harness-room anil i al ways drive without winkers tpsemicms awarded at tiik cen tennial — philadelphia sept 28 — the following awards were made to-day : john f taylor charleston s c steam and hydrailic cotton press • tappen & steel petersburg busley's power bail ing press ; d a anderson richmond photographs knoxville marble company colored marbles ; john c meyer new orleans badges jewelry and gold work : f ii burk & sou mowing west vir virginia oak sole leather ; madison comi ty pottery company richmond va pottery wallace bros statesvilie n c indigenous plants used in medicine ; mann & valentine richmond valentines meat juice miseries of childhood one of the greatest of the petites mis eries of childhood arises from dress a boy may suffer dreadfully if his clothes are of a peculiar cut or a shade finer than his fellows i have known a boy mine miserable because he was compelled to wear a collar of a peculiar and picturesque cut and one of my gloomiest periods of mortification hangs around a sash that i j was required to wear which was consid i ered unreasonably broad the undying j laughter of a scornful schoolmate still rings in ray ear when i came home and complained of it i was made to wear ' it to show me that i must be indifferent to ridicule ! as if a child of beven could conquer and kill that emotion ! the deci sion was very unwise forit simply caused me to suffer and took my miiid from i greater and better things " dad the sash been removed 1 should have forgotten all about it as it is it ins become the shirt j of nessus and clings tightly to me throngh life a lady told me a few years ago that s she felt she had made a fatal mistake in not allowing her daughter when a little g'nl to have a hoop-skirt all the other children had them at the dancing school and looked as she thought ridiculously like ballet-girls so she sent hvr child in ' among them in a lanky robe which made her look very unlike them the child was thus rendered conspicuous a::d un happy she wept and implored and implored and begged to stay at home but was made by her btroug-miuded pa rent to go and endure — after she bad greatly suff-rc-d by this process her mother di-c ivered her mistake and fonnd that the bubject of dress was hereafter to be her daughter's one subject and inter est while a certain bitterness had ctept in to the great injury of an oiiginally amiable character there is danger always in thus asking of yonr children a virtue too great for their years that we create the very vice we seek to cure if children are dressed like their fellows costumes assume i.s proper subordinate position it is the skin of the part said a famous trage dian and it should be like the skin rit tin«r and not otherwise if that lady who denied her little daughter the hoop skirt had been aski i herself to go down broadway in the bloom<*r costume she would have r belied decidedly and yel she demanded of hr r liitle daughter n courage ten times as great and inflicted a suffering immeasur ably greater for children can stiff r there is an intensity about it like their appetites it has not been dulled by repetition one ofthe few privileges of growing old is that we cannot suffer so keenly we know from repeated blows that time will cure us we net not to care — hm oh ! the strength of youthful grief what enormous vitality it has ! bow protean its shapes i am never astonished when 1 i hear of youthful suicides the absence of the fear of death so peculiar to youth for we get accustomed to the sweet habil of living and bate to change but youth has formed no such habit — the absence oi this restraining principle and the love ol ' change conspire to make suicide possible then the vision of what jrrief is the ter rible curtain that mercifully hides the fu ture drawn all at ouce the pang thai rends the heart as we recognize the friend j uutrue the promi-o broken the future ; void — no wonder that the river seems sc j merciful the knife so kind the poison sr ! sweet ! youth has no philosophy — m ; e w s ui a ftjii ton's journal for sep tember lady harriet ackland lady harriet ackland has alwayf been numbered among the most celebra ted women of the american revolution her name is associated with all that i pure heroic lovely and of good report ' and though a foreigner by birth and edu 1 cation and the wife of one of americ i'i ' '. foes she is no unworthy subject for ai 1 ' american woman's pen beautiful ac 1 complished bionght up amiiist all the ie linements and luxuries of a noble eug i ish home she gladly left home kindrei and country to follow the fortunes oi hi • husband major ackland when he wai i ordered with his regiment to america ii the war between england and her colo j nies she accompanied him to can uia ii 1776 and the next year she was witl : him or rather near him during the bur • i goyne's disastrous campaign ending i i bis defeat at saratoga she made thi journey from montreal generally in a li | tie two-wheeled tumbrel over almost im : passable roads iu constant danger of l - . iug overturned or left behind by tht ex hausted condition of her horse om ni-j-ht while the army was encamp sd in i its advance on fort edward the tenl in i which she was sleeping was suddenly ! wrapped in tlmies their pet newfound : land dog who had followed tbem from their home and was the sompanion ol i their fortunes upset the light the majoi and his wife were saved with difficulty losing many nece.-sarv as well as valua ble things in lhe burning tent iu the : battle of the i'h of october major ack land commanded the grenadiers and was in the most exposed pan ol the field his wife with madame de reidesel and iln wives of sc-v.-i.il other officers was at ■ a farm-honae close by the scue of action and wailing in agony which passes de scription for news from the battle field before long general eraser was bi i in fatally wounded aud lady ackland wan informed that her husband was also i badly wounded and a prisoner in the american camp at this sad news the ' heroic wife's determination was a i n 1 taken and when at once her mind was made np she lefl no stone unturned to any il her pui basards * i : : i hor husband and to nurse him back to health if possible and if he must die to soothe and comfort his las moments she sent to general bur soyne through bis aid-de-camp lord patereham a m g his permis sion to pass throngh the/british lines and sake . him .;'- • io give her what help and protection he could in her hazardous journey general burgoyne could scarcely bc ! lieve that bhe was in earnest ; ihat a deli cate woman worn wiih suspense and anxiety with want of food and rest should be ready to start iu the middle of a dark and btormy night to traverse un known roads in the drenching rain to deliver herself up to ty wiihout knowing into whose i 11 is she would tall l.u in vain be - mght to dissuade ber from her purpose one only image filled her heart that of her wounded per haps dving husband and to reach him ind minister to his sufferings sh was ready to encounter any danger run any risk lhe assistance i was able to give her general burgoyne writes waa small indei i : 1 bad ni i rven a cup of wine to offer her all i could furnish was an open boat with a few lim s writti a on wet dirty paper to general gates saving who she wa and earnestly n commending her to his car and protec lion a soldi r's wife gave her a izliss at brandy and water whicli sent some warmth through her weak and cl frame amisd the storm and darkness he entered an open boat accompanied by mr brundenell a british cha own english maid and her husband's bi rvant who had been himself wounded while searching lor his missing master ou the battli field they weal down the river in a violent tempest of wind and rain and reached the american outposts jusl before daybreak half dead with cold j and faligue the sentinel hearing the ■ sosr 1 of oars challenged the invisible . hoi and gn at •' is his surprise when he heard whom the i it contained and on wh it mi . i in she had come he sent for the officer ot the guard who happened to be major dearborn belore he would permit the passengers to land touched by such a proof of wifely devotion and he roic courage major dearborn invited the whole party into his guardhouse where he gave tbem im food they bo much need ed and whore they warmed and dried themselves by a blazing fire and most con irtiug ol all to the poor anxious wife was the assurance of her husband's afe tv iti the morning m pr dearborn cs corted her to the quarters ot general gates who heated her with the greatest kindness an.l consideration openly ex pressing his admiration of her nobl conduct she was conducted under es cort ;■) ber wounded husbaud wh in she found most carefully tended by tbe american surg ons c very was greatly hastened by tbe presence and loving care .•! the devoted wife who bad run such risks * join him as soon as !.-• was well enough to trav el he was removed to albany whither his wife accompanied him and where they shared ihe graei us hospitalities ol i madam schuyler neither major ack land nor hii wife evi r forgot this generous • treatmeuf which the british soldier ■- • deavored in some way to return while ou ; parole in n w york by doiug everything i in his power to cheer and alleviate the ■ condition i american officers prison ) ers iii th mntrymen in > deed his gratitud ms actually • result d in hi d atli s ■ i after his ex - chan ope he was in vited to a 1 ■ „~ milil iry dinner altogi th er c tnposed of 1 sera in tho coin • f conv me of them a lieutenant ll kc in the most bneering way i ameiican troopp 5 changing thi m among other tilings with cowardice this ot course reflected indirectly on the bravery ol the english \ troops who had been defeated and cap • tnred by these so-called cowardly rebels and w is keenly 1 -■ sented by m»j . or ackl v who as g nerous as be was brave had alwa d ine justice to hia vie tprinus foes high words passed between lieutenant lloyd and himself and in spin i mutual friei i settle tin i cl ge was the ' c ons indiscreet w-.r.ls . they met at an early hour in ihe m irn ' ing and major ackland fell at tbe first tiie dyint immediately tha ( terrible new .-* ••• - canti usly , and as kindly as i ssible to the poor wife ba the maj r bad made all hi pre par itions so secretly ha 1 no eus | - f til ... - . | lived her ol reason at fi is a i n - iun ttic ; grad melancb ly remained i . : : ..- state foi two y its . then idowlj r g iin & hi r health ji i reason sh • it-tin d from the gay world al the expiraii n of s yea mimed ' the ll v mr brunei ■ ■ hind and .,-: rilous expos ! ditirin lhat gl • imy - tormy night l ;. ,.,,;,,, ,., <, ,.,., ,|| she survive i . him many yea - in advanced ag ; but tin name ol lady harriet aek ' : laud will ei r oci ipy a conspicuous po uition in the annals o the american i ivolutioti mn hal ■ < '■■ potter's 1 ,,-■ i ik m tb - nat . - "- ''■■■ ' m users blaine moi ton to ml v 11 v oo vere driven to make some concessions to the reformers in theii platform and candidates but in . their principal ; tribu , .. consists in i ckless de lation id mr nid - - they fight ; h.-ir inai i battle on theol i issued north against s uth ■■ .. tl i ... .. |, ,| ii iy - ■ the triumph of b.l * - ""- bejwl