The Kansas Pilot from Kansas City, Kansas • 3

rapidity with which manufactures of vari- great trust in his integrity, as a man of and abroad, a true solution of your great industry is found. The farmers of Kansas Franklin's Religion. A correspondent of the New York Evening Post, who has been studying the fife Franklin, writes. ing that it was essential to be able to write making their journey to the north, he made his wife put her hand in a poulticed sling, and if the name was wanted for a hotel register the clerk was compelled to write it- On leaving Macon the pair first went Savannah, thence to Charleston by steamer, to Wilmington also by steamer, then to Fredericksburg, Petersburg, Eich- He also received letters from. Senator Sumner and Vice President Wilson.

Craft first went to Savannah and there saw a man named William Thompson, who had leased a plantation called Hickory Hill, on the Charleston road. Craft agreed to take the place from him, and the first year a very good crop was raised. He then went to Macon, and while there heard a plantation could be procured in Bryan county, and he agreed with Mr. Ulmer to buy the place something like $3,000. He then came north and borrowed $1,500, which Mr.

Sewell collected and sent to Savannah. Unfortunately, the money was not forthcoming at the time promised, and Ulmer used this as a pretext for not letting him have the place. The money was returned the north and paid back to the subscribers by Mr. Sewell. Then some ill- THE IMMORTAL BOY.

Time works strange niarrels since I trod the green And swung the gatos, what wonders I have eon I But come what will- the sky itself may fall As things of course the boy accepts thwm all. The prophet's chariot, drawn by steeds of ilonio, For daily use our traveling millions claim The face we love a sunbeam makes our own No more the Burgeon hoars the sufferer's groun What nnwrit hintoriea wrapped in darkness lay Till shoveling Kchliemann barod them to the day I Your Kichelieu says, and says it well, my lord, The pen is mightier than the sword Great is the goosequill, say we all; Amen! Sometimes the spade is mightier than the pen It Bhows where Babel's terraced walls were raised, The slabs that cracked when Nlmrod'i palace blazed, Unearths Myceme, rediscovers Troy Calmly ho listens, that immortal boy. A now Prometheus tips our wands with fire, A mightier Orpheus strains the whispering wire. Whose lichtninc thrills'the lair winds outrun ous kinds would spring up throughout the State. I am one.

of those who believe that we shall soon bo very well provided for in tlu3 respect. Only a lew days since I was astonished to see it stated, in a commercial journal, that 80 per cent of the grain received in New York the week previous, arrived bv water way. The Hon. Nathan Cole, of Missouri, a member of one of the largest commission houses in St. Louis, and one of the best informed business men in the House of Representatives, assures me that a line of barges i3 now carrying grain from St.

Louis to New Orleans for six cents per bushel, and that when the jetties shall have prepared tho way for the passage of Boa-going vessels, which in all probability will bo very soon, bills of lading will be made from St. Louis to Liverpool direct. for from fifteen to twenty cents per bushel. j.ne immense agricultural and other re sources of Kansas aro coming be well understood throughout tho whole country. xne iast and boutn are rivals for our commerce.

This rivalry, naturally enough, finds its way into Congress; andhence.we shall find a tendency upon the part of that body to be liberal in the expenditure of money to open water way for us wherever may be found practicable. And so it is that the pending "River and Harbor Bill," which passed tho House some weeks ago, and Is now pending in the Senate, and win doubtless become a law this session, provides large appropriations for a thor ough survey of the Missouri river and the removal of obstructions to its navigation: also an appropriation for the improvement the Osage river; also for a survey of tho Kansas river to Junction City; also for a surveyor tne ArKansas river up to Wichita. We shall hear a few "Wiseacres" at home railing against all thr oroiects. and we shall be told, by tlitfra, that they are chimerical schemes. This class has lived in all ages to proclaim, with an air of great wisdom, the impracticability of pro jected enterprises which have nevertheless resulted in enriching and blessing mankind.

do know that any of these measures are practicable. I believe all of them are If they are, it is difficult to estimate their value to our people. hether they are, or are not is the question which Consrress has determined to solve. If canal or river navigation can be opened (and that it can be I nave no doubt) to us bv the Arkansas. the Osage, tho Kansas or tho Missouri.the interest involved will justify tho expendi ture of the money required to receive it.

and there is little room to doubt that Congress will foster the enterprise, if found to be practicable. If these schemes are practicable, and are prosecuted to a successful issue. Kan sas must inevitably become ono of tho fore most manufacturing States, as well as the greatest of the agricultural States. The banks of these streams will be dotted with manufactures of almost every variety and degree of magnitude. Fouring mills, with capacity to manufacture daily from twenty barrels to ono thousand barrels or Hour, will spring up.

Immense distilleries will be operated, with equal, if not greater prolit than anywhere else; and extensive starch factories will be built for tho manu facture of our corn product. It is not im probable that we shall produce, this year, hundred and liftv million bushels of com, and within tho next five years we are not unlikely to reach a production of three hundred millions to four hundred millions of bushels. The consumption of this at home, by manufactures, stock-feeding, will not only be found very profitable but almost a necessity. The millions of hides shipped annually through and from tho State will be manu factured into leather, in mammoth cstab lishments. The extensive manufacture of boots and shoes will follow.

Woolen mills will be in operation, with capacity to manu facture the immense wool product of our own btate, and 01 that vast wool-produc ing section west and southwest of us. We are already, as you are aware, operatin. profitably some small woolen mills, but with the facilities I have mentioned I know of no better field in this country for the, profitable prosecution of this enterprise on the most extensive scale. We shall then manufacture our own wagonw, carriages and furniture, riot only, but also to supply the heavy trade west and southwest of us because tho material requisite will be accessible to us at rates that will enable us to compete with the manufactures East of the Mississippi. For the same reason we shall be able to manufacture our own barrels for our mills, distilleries, packing houses, vinegar factories, butter, etc.

But I will not en-largo upon the subject. The man who fives In Kansas five years hence, will enjoy the transportation facilities I have referred to and witness an activity of manufactur ing enterprise winch it would be difficult to make him believo probable. There are no better water-powers needed than are now to be found in Kansas, already referred to in some localities by Col. rhillips and Mr. Haskell, in their arti cles hereinbefore mentioned, and to which will add very many of tho counties in Southwestern Kansas, notably, Reno, Sedgwick, Cowley, in fact nearly the whole Southwest is very well supplied with water-power, and afford facilities for profitably operating flouring mills, woolen mills, starch factories, distilleries, and very many other manufactures.

I wish to call especial attention to the disposition of our immense corn crop. The fact is we consume very little of it ourselves. Wo do not distil it, nor manufacture it into starch, nor feed it to stock to any great extent. It has always seem ed to me most improvident to dispose of our corn at from fifteen to twenty-five cents a bushel to be shipped abroad, when from fifty cents to one dollar a bushel could be realized by feeding it, during the fall and winter months, to hogs and cattle. It has always seemed to me that if our small farmers would buy up cattle enough in the fall to consume their surplus corn product, and turn them off fat in the spring for good prices, always commanded by fat stock at that season of year, they would realize such, pronts as must inevitably soon enrich them.

In this connection I quote from a letter which I have just received from Hon. Victor E. Piolette, one of the most intelligent, accomplished and extensive farmers in the State of Pennsyl vania, and who has long ben Master of the Pennsylvania State Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, and whose abilities have often brought him prominently before the public for high honors, being only a few days since among the most prominent before tho Democratic State Convention for the nomination for Governor. Speak ing of our products, he says: The wheat crop win Dear transportation to our export markets, and Eastern States that do not produce this cereal in quantity to supply their population, 1. ne rapid de cline in the average yield of wheat in all the States should admonish farmers in possession of a virgin soil, that it is true economy to plant this great staple sparinglynever to tho extent of decreasing the annual yield.

A systematic rotation of crops is the true mode of farming, and should not be departed from. Corn is an important grain in a wise ro tation of crops. The proper disposition of corn is its use in rearing and fattening do mestic animals for market. The farmers of Kansas should use all their corn in rearing and fattening cattle, sheep and swine. This will market it to the best advantage.

Sheen husbandry. It appears to me would be profitable in Kansas. Wool would bear transportation to the differeni manufacturing cities, and it will not be many years before St. Louis and Chicago will be manufacturing woolen fabrics to the same extent as Philadelphia and Boston. Cattle, horses, hogs and sheep will con Bume your corn and forage, and in rearing and fattening these for markets at home do the are est est I so to a truth.

He is a fanatic, vain and garrulous, firm, and truthful, and intelligent." I have written of these matters, which historic and known to the world, in the hope that it may serve to stimulate the people and authorities of Kansas, where memory of John Brown is cherished with peculiar veneration, to some action looking to the bestowal of proper and per manent nonors upon mat memory, isy means, let his be one of the statues which our young State shall contribute to the National Pantheon, the old hall of the House of Representatives. It may be that the influences which seem likely to dominate uongress in the near future would refuse to receive the gift, preferring accord to the martyr the opprobium which belongs to guilt, rather than the glory which attaches to lofty purposes and heroic achievements. But surely, that emergency, Kansas could find some niche in her own Capitol to be honored by the effigy of a man whose brieif residence within her borders has added measurably her fame. PROF. SYMMES ON THE OPKN POLAR SEA.

He Contrasts Jits Father's with the Newto nian Theory. the Editor of Louisville Courier-Journal. As I am akin. a- an effort to have the Symmes Theory" thoroughly bv the Howgate Exploring and so few persons understand whatVat theory I will undertake to state it is, and show the difference between it and the Newtonian theory. According to th New tonian, it is one vast solitude of eternal ice, clear up to the 50th degof north lati- twl, Aoeoi'Jinc tJ i irr7 is, my iatners uapt.

Vnhn rWu Symmes) the explorer will fin i that nf he passes the 80th the waatner grows xuiiuj. wiiuii 13 nio si ist deg. he win nnd some open water anat qUan uues 01 wuu ammais, ana b0me water fowls; when the 83d degree is reached he will find tho nnon Pnlnr Sna n'nnn will find the open Polar Seathat 2'noo nines diameter, ana, ne win eo out lv LiicLb nra 1111 1.1 1'7 nt3a.Li. Warm ana genial, ne win nna tne Country that the Symmes theory says can foun(i nr icuu ui timuci, laie rivers and ncu lauu, auu uio iiuiue oi irn'rg wild ani mals than can be found anywhere else in cllk in, emu me iia i ikj io mibundance JNOW, SIT, 1 propose to give thn prneri. ence of many explorers in the Worth and they don't prove that there ij more truth in the symmes theory than ik tho tonian, then they may say, as they said of mv father during his life, that his tneorv is "reared upon tho baseless fahric of a vision." I will briefly state the expripupa nf Capt.

Parry, who made five Vovas-e? un there, and after the experience he had I do not think any man can doubt a moment which theory has the most in it Parry knew nothing of the Syr-ug theory, nor did any of the exploierg wyi mention. You will bear in mind that 'oil tho ot. plorers start to go to the Nort pGie an(j expect to get there on ice. hen Capt. Parry made his third voyage, wlg prol vided with reindeer and sleds, so that he could travel speedily over the, jce to the Pole.

He could not get his deer beyond 81st degree, for the much ope.n Water he encountered; but ho went on, his men propel his sleds (which wre small boats on sled-runners) and whe he came to open water he used the littft, boats to ferry from one cake of ice to tht next, and the further north he got the water he found, and the milder grew the weather. When he got to the 82d degipp. he found the ice only four feet thick, nd his only safety a storm in pulling boats or sleds upon a cake of ice and thUs outride the storm, and he began to feel abme alarm but he went on, and when he gol Up to 82 he found the ice only three feetJhick, but he encouraged his men to go oli north, as he thought the ice would certninlv Wt lie could not nnd a cnko 01 ice Lftiat would I bear his own weight, and the sum so hot as to melt the tar out of the seams of his boats, and small flies came on Hoard, and all open water north of him, sor he had to turn back, and came safely hcfne. How does that agre with the Synmaes theory? Capt. JKoss, who made two Voyages up there, says: "I stood on tho lank of the open sea when it was calm and ijlear of ice, and experienced warm wmds fcoming directly from the that melM the snow ana ice acout mm ana rar south 01 mm.

How is that for the Symmes theory? Dr. Kane's men found open water when up to the 82d degree, and "climbed a mountain 500 feet high, and gazed out on a great waste of waters and not a speclt of ice to be seen, and a wind coming direfctly from the north that blew a gale part of the time lor three days, ana came so warm as to melt snow and ice far south of liem. iney round water-fowls abundance. and their nests so plenty on the mountainside that they could have gathored a wagon load of eggs." They sayr. extensive grassy plains, and gpthered many kinds of nowers.

Capt. Hill wentinto winter quarters with his vessel at 80 degrees 38 and from thence took a sled-ride directly; north, and did not go but fifty miles befoiMie came to an open sea, and encamped on' the bank of it and spent two days, and while there wrote his last dispatch to the Secretary of the Navy, in which he says; "I find this a much warmer country than I expected, and it abounds with life seal gaine, geese, ducks, musk cattle, wolves, foxes, deer, bear, rabbits, partridges, teeming with snipe and plover, and all kinds of wading birds." Does not all this go prove that there is more truth in the Svrumes theory than the Newtonian? Yet who knows any thing about the Symmes theory, that has been lymg dormant as it were smce the death of its author in 1829? He petitioned Congress in 1822 and 1833 to fit out an ex ploring exdedition for him, and in his peti tion said: "I will go as far north as I can get with the vessel and then go on shore and go north by land, and will follow in the wake of the wild animals that go north in the fall from Greenland and return back there in the spring fat and fading their young, ana where they go 1 csniohowand they will show me the weyXia the new world that I say can be that I intend to call Symmzonla. Congress thought his theory wud and visionary, and laid his petition on the table: but now thev will htouc Capt. How gate at an expense of to do the XI-I AT 4. SI J.

posed fifty years ago. Howgjte is to land his men as near the eist degree as he can, and then go by land in search of the North Pole; but instead of reaching the Pole he will find his way into Symmes' Hole, or all the experience of explorers will amount to nothing. There are 1,131,000 Square miles of this world lymg the north yet undis covered, and I want to accompany the Howgate expedition so that there will be no turning back when it is found that the Newtonian theory will not carry the ex ploring party on ice to the North Pole, but into Symmes' Hole," where the climate ia warm and genial, and where the big trees and the vegetables and flowers grow that come floating down from the north and lodge on the northern coast oi Spitsbergen and Norway. All explorers in the extreme north will tell you that such is the fact. Where do they come from? Certainly there is no country laid down in the Newtonian theory from whence they, could come.

Yours with respect, Amebictjs Stmmes. A return recently made shows that only 68,753 of the five million iuhabitants of Ireland are landowners, and of the former number 36,143 are owners of less than one acre The total acreage is 20,162,060. of to as of not consult their true interest in purchasing the coarse cattle of Texas to fatten. They should rear their own, and 'of best meat-producing breeds, which the Durham cattle, without a doubt. European countries will continue custo mers for our cattle, swine and finally our horses.

The animals 01 the most profat to farmers are those that mature in the short space of time. The Durham breed of cattle; the Berkshire breed of hogs; sheep that produce the combing wools and larg weight of meat, are certainly the ani mals required npon the rich lands of Kansas. Tho Percheran breed of horses make a cross with our native horses, far more val uable than any of the trotting stock that has engaged the attention of some sec tions of our country, to its manifest injury." There is not an organized county in the Southwest, and I doubt if there be one in the whole State, that does not offer to such a farmer as Victor E. Piolette the opportunity to invest capital in sums of from live thousand to ono hundred thou sand dollars in agriculture, with a cer-taintv of marvelous profits; and to agri culturists of that type, with such capital, Kansas is the most inviting field of which have any knowledge. Thos.

Ryan. FXCURSIOX TO HARPER'S FERRY. ItemtHtecenceaof the John Brown Raid. Ward Burlingame in Atchison Champion. Washington, June 4, 1878.

I had long had a great curiosity to visit Harper's Ferry. The memorable foray of John Brown, with its tragic has rendered the place historically inter esting to everybody; but John Brown was intimately' associated with the early stmgglo for freedom Kansas, and im parted so much of his own religious zeal that struggle, that the place where he offered up his life in an ill-judged but no-blv-purposed effort for the relief of those held in bondage has a peculiar interest for citizen of that State. Hence it was, that taking advantage of one of the many cheap excursions provided upon Decora tion Day, 1 was enabled to carry out my long-cherished purpose. Harper's Ferry is some fifty odd miles from Washington by the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. It is situated at the con fluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers, on a point just opposite the gap through which the united streams pass the Blue Ridge, on their way to the ocean, The Ridge here is about twelve hundred feet in height, showing bare, precipitous cults on either side of the river, and ex hibiting some of the most beautiful and imposing natural scenery to be found any where in the country east of the Rocky Mountains.

The town was originally built on two streets, stretching along a narrow shelf between the base of the bluff and the rivers. As the population increased, the town gradually straggled up the steep bluff, and, in detached villages and scat tcred residences, occupied a level plateau some four hundred feet above the level of the streams. The place has a population of four or five thousand, I should judge, and aside from the features of natural scenery by which it is surrounded, is rath er uninteresting, having an antiquated, dingy and rather squalid appearance. The fine arsenal and government workshops formerly in operation here were destroyed during the war, and as they stretch along tho Potomac in front of the town, their mouldering ruins impart a melancholy aspect to the picture. The rivers are in themselves beautiful.

The water, when not swollen by heavy rains, is of a transparent blue, and rushes with rapid current over and among the rocks which were scattered profusely over the beds of the streams. I suppose this mountain range was called tho Blue Ridge because there is nothing blue about it just as the crack band here is called the Marine band because it never goes near the water xnero tne neigiiLs tu pie- cipitous as to afford no chance lor vegeta tion, the rugged rocks are of tho ordinary complexion, and where they are wooded, the foliage is of a deep and vivid green There is an extensive water-power which was formerly largely utilized by the gov ernment. Everything at Harper's Ferry is associ ated with John Brown. Even the old citizens of anti-war times, who then con sidered Brown as simply a thief and a murderer, and who probably think so still, are rather proud of the distinction which his great raid has given their place, and they indicate with evident gratification the leading points of operation, as well of Brown and the immortal twenty -two, as the several hundred valiant Federal soldiers and milita who finally overcame the Spartan band. The arsenal which, as have said, is now in rums, was nrst cap tured and occupied by Brown.

Driven from thence he occupied the httlo engine house near by, which he defended bravely until all of his force save threo or four were either killed or desperately wounded. This historical structure now bears the legend, in flaming white paint, "John Brown Fort. It makes one's blood boil to re-read the accounts of Brown's stubborn fight and capture. The blood-thirsty cruelty dis played by tho Virginians would have bet ter become tho Sioux or Modocs than the boasted chivalry of the "Mother of Presi dents." One can understand how, while the actual contest was in progress, the people, wrought up to fury, could take part in deeds of unusual atrocity; but how a civilized people could be guilty of such acts as were perpetrated by militia and citizens upon disarmed and wounded prisoners, is more than I can conceive. Here is an extract from a report published in Southern paper, which will give some idea of the savagery which prevailed: The dead lay on the streets and in the the river, and were subjected to every in dignity that a wild and madly excited peo pie could heap upon them, uurses were freely uttered against them, and kicks and blows inflicted upon them." The huge mulatto that shot Mr.

Turner was lying in the gutter in front of the arsenal, with a terrible wound his neck; and. though dead and gory, vengeance was unsatisfied, and many, as they ran sticks into his wounds or beat him with them, wished that he had a thousand lives, that all of them might be forfeited in expiation and avengement of the foul deed he had com mitted. Leeman lay upon a rock in the river, and was made the target for the practice of those who had captured Sharp's rules in the fray. Shot after shot was fired at him, and when tired by this sport. a man waded out to where he lay, and set him up in grotesque attitudes, and finally pushed him off, when he floated down the stream.

His body, and that of Thompson, which was also in the water, were subse quently brought on shore, as were all of them except a few which were taken by the physicians. it will be remembered that Brown him self was brutally cut with a sabre and re peatedly stabbed with bayonets after he had surrendered, and then he was hurried to trial before he was able to sit up in tiourt. xnis courageous, mud-mannered. conscientious, but perhaps rather fanatical man, whose treatment at and after his capture was a disgrace to the civilization of Virginia, was thus spoken of by Gov, Wise, the chief instrument in hastening the execution: "They are themselves mistaken who take him to be a madman. He is a bundle of the best nerves I ever saw, cut, and thrust, and bleeding, and in bonds.

He is a man of clear head, of courageous forti tude, and simple ingenuousness. He is cool, collected, and indomitable, and it is but just to him to say that be was humane to his prisoners, and he inspired me with but are the all to to To is, 111 if From a child Franklin was so fond of reading that all the httlo money that came into his hands was always laid out in books. And the first collection of books he ever made, the very nest-egg of his library, was of John Bunyan works in separate little volumes, a purchase induced bv his love of the "pilgrim's Progress." That and "Plutarch's Lives," with the book of De Foe's, called an "Essay on Projects," and another of Dr. Mather's, called "Essays do liood, gave rum, he says, a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of his life. It was "his bookish inclination" that determined his father to make him a printer, and he began his journeymanship under his brother James at the age of 12 years.

At the age of 15, "after doubting by turns on several points of principles and morals," he found them disputed "in the different books he read," he began, he says, to doubt of revelation itself, till he became a thorough deist, and at the age of 19 he wrote a pamphlet to prove the doctrine of fate, from the supposed attributes of God. But, in 1730, at the age of 24, ho wrote a pamphlet on the other side of the question, "which began with laying for its foundation this fact, that almost all men in all ages and countries have afe times made use prayer." His earlier pamphlet "appeared not near so clever a performance as he once thought it," and his doubts now took the form of self -doubting. He "doubted whether some error had not insinuated itself unperceived into his argument, so as to infest all that followed, as is common in metaphysieal reasonings." At the ago of 58, in 1764, we find him writing to his daughter Sarah: "Go con stantly to church, whoever preaches. The act of devotion in the common prayer is your principal business there, and, if properly attended to, will do more toward amending the heart than sermons generally can do. For they were composed (the prayers) by men of much greater piety and wisdom than our common composers of sermons can pretend to be, and therefore I wish you would never miss the prayer days.

I pray that God's blessing may attend you, which is worth more than a thousand of mine, though they are never wanting." From this impressive record we pass on to the age of 78 in 1784. We find Franklin reviewing the course of his own and his early partner, Strahan's, prosperity, and the causes of the success of the American revolution. "But after all, my dear friend, imagine that I am vain enouarh to ascribe our success to any superiority in any of these points. I am too well ac quainted with all the springs and levers of our machine not to see that our human means were unequal to our undertaking; and that, if it had not been for the justice of our cause and the consequent interposition of Providence, in whiSh we had faith wo must have been ruined. I had ever before been an atheist, I should now have been convinced of the being and govern ment of a Deity! It is He who abases the proud and favors the humble.

May we never forget His goodness to us, and may our future conduct manifest our grati tude." Let me close this notice of Franklin's religious convictions and habits with a quotation from his speech in the federal convention at the age of 81 in behalf of his motion for opening with prayer, after four or hve weeks spent in contusion of coun sols and without progress. Let the focus of this lens of opinion and advice be direct ed upon our present congress after nearly a hundred years. In this situation of this assembly, said Franklin, "groping, as it were, in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights to iUuminate our un derstanding? In the beginning of the contest with 'Britain, when we were sensi- tjio oi oange TTB naa aauy prayers iu xnis room for the divine protection. Our pray ers, sir, were heard, and they were g-'a ciousiy answered. All 01 us who were en gaged in the struggle must have observed frequent Instances of a superintending providence in our favor.

To that kind providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of es tablishing our future national felicity. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend Or do we imagine we no longer need his assistance? I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probablo that an empire can rise without Mis aid We have been assured, sir, in the sacred wri tings, that 'except the Lord build the house, thev labor in vain that build I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without His concurring aid we shall sue ceed in this political bunding no better than the bunders of Babel; we shall be divided by our little, partial, local inter ests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing government bv human wis dom, and leave it to chance, war, and conquest. therefore, beg leave to move that henceforth prayers, imploring the as sistance of heaven and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business, and that one or more of the "clerary of this city be requested to officiate in that service.

The only notice by Dr. Franklin of the result of his motion was that of simple as tonishment, thus: xho convention, ex cept three or four persons, thought pray ers unnecessary! A REMINISCENCE OF SLAVE TIMES. The Romantic Story of a Runaway Slave. Wm. Craft, a colored man, and formerly a slave, has brought suit against the firm of Nay lor of Boston, for damages, He alleges that they have generally circu.

lated a report to the effect that he is an imposter. The Boston Advertiser, in an account of the trial, which is now taking place, gives the following interesting testi- William Craft, the plain till, was then placed on the stand. He testified that ho was born in Mason, in 1826. His first master was a merchant named Craft, with whom he lived until he was 15 or 17 years old, at which time he was learning the trade of cabinet-maker. At that tame his master became financially embarrassed, and he and his sister were sold, the latter passing out of his sight forever.

He passed into the control of an officer of a bank having a mortgage on his old master property, and continued at his old trade until he ran away, in 1848. He agreed to pay his mas ter so much a month for his labor, agreed with tho cabmet-maker to work for him at a certain price, and then made an arrange ment with a hotel- keeper across the street to wait at table during meal hours for his board. By working late at night at his trade he managed finally to accumulate sufficient money to pay his wife's expenses while escaping from slavery, and also to have a little money in his pocket when he reached Boston in 1849. He was married in 1846 to the maid of a lady in one of the first families in the city, and he escaped by his wife disguising herself as an invalid gentleman while he pretended to be the valet. Up to this time he had received no education, except that he had by stratagem learned how to road a little, lor it was un lawful in Georgia for slaves to taught now to reaa and write.

However, know to A He he all as mond, Washington, and Baltimore by rail, ana nnaiiy on to fhuadeiphia the same way. Craft related one incident that occurred on the way from Baltimore to Philadelphia. man got mto the car which he was riding and asked him where he was going. said he was traveling with his master, who was in another car, and that they were going to Philadelphia, when the man ad vised mm to leave his master, and said if was inclined to do so he would direct him to a hotel where everything would be right. Craft said nothing, but on getting into the city about 4 o'clock hi the morning of Christmas day, 1848 they went to the place recommended by the stranger, his wife going to a bedroom, while he remained in the sitting-room.

He took out his pistol and laid it" on a table, and then called lor the landlord and told him they were runaway slaves from Georgia, threatening to shoot him if he betrayed them. "I do not know that would avo shot him," said Craft, "but I told him so, anyhow." The landlord laughed, and afterward caned in some gentlemen to whom the runaways told their story. They saia tney were on their way to Canada, but the weather was so very cold it was thought desirable not to make the attempt then, but to go to Boston. A Quaker jjentleman offered them a refuge at his farm on the Delaware, and thev went there and remained for three weeks. While there one of the young ladies of the family taught them to read and write a little, and that lady 13 now the wife of Mr.

Lewis, who is in tho office of Messrs. Naylor in if he is not a mem ber of the firm, and with whom Mrs. Craft had always kept up a correspondence. Arriving Boston, they attended a few meetings in the neighborhood of the courthouse, at the request of some of the anti- slaverv people, and alterward the witness opened a store in Federal street, where he carried on the second hand iunuture business until a Mr. Fay, of this city, called to see him, with a gentleman from Macon, named Isaac Scott.

Scott knew him while he was in slavery, and also owned a broth er of his, and asked Craft if he would not like to buy liim. Craft then thought it was time for hiin to move, so he went on to Cambridge street, and pursued the same line of business. Meanwhile, although he had married his wife according to the laws of Georgia they thought the ceremony had better be repeated here, and, and accord inglv thev were again married by Theodore Parker, who was the only clergymauinthe city in whom he had any confidence. He remained in Boston until the fall of 1850, when the fugitive law was enacted, and Georgia officers came here to arrest him and his wife. They then took the train for Portland, the rlev.

Samuel May goin with them, and then took a steamer for New Brunswick, and thence to Halifax and to Liverpool. This was in the latter part of tho year. There they presented letters to Miss Harriet Martineau, who invited them to go to her place at Ambleside, and treated them kindly, suggesting also that they should attend a school. They con sented to go if they could find a school where they could partially pay for their education, and they hnalrylound that Ladd Byron had such an institutiou under her care. Mrs.

Cratt did needle work, and he made and repaired furniture, their work going in part payment tor their education, while their mends paid the balance. They wrent tc London after this, and Craft began doing 'ousiness in waterproof articles, and in 1859 or 18G0 he was appointed, through a number ot influential gentlemen in Lon don, with indorsements from the British government to the king of Dahomey, on the west coast of Africa, to try and induce him to indulge legitimate commerce with the hope of superseding the slave trade. for some months. He told him of his mission, and the king said the articles of European manufacture he obtained came through the slave-traders, and he had no means of getting them except in supplying slaves for them. But if tradiner-houses could be established he undertook to engage in legitimate traffic.

Human sacrifices, he said, were made in his country, but as they were among the traditions of his kingdom ho could not do away with them if he felt inclined to do so, but he said he had power to regulate them, and from that time they have been less, as he had promised. The result of the interview was that the king was willing to substitute the palm-oil trade for the slave-trade, provided he could get what he wanted. Craft returned to England, and at the suggestion of Sir Koderick Mur- chison, President of the Royal Geographical Society at that time, and also Dr. Hodgkin, who was very much interested in Africa, he made a statement of his visit, and a company of merchants was formed for the purpose of engaging in the African trade. These gentlemen got Craft to go out to Whydah as their representative.

He estabhshed a house there, and also other houses on that coast. The trade went on very well for several years, and he remained there until 18C7, when his health became poor, and he desired to visit his family in Before he lelt he informed the king of Dahomey, and he was much annoyed at the proposition. There was a running account between the king and the company, and at the tho tame he was behind-hand to the amount of about $5,000. He said he had no money, and it was not the oil season, and if Craft would wait until the next season the account should be settled. This the witness could not do, and the first thing ho knew he woke up one morning, and in the yard surrounding his house there were about sixty slaves chained together, which tho king had sent in payment of the claim.

The messengers refused to take the people back, say ing therr own heads would not be safe if the king's decre were not obeyed, and, besides, tho people would only be offered up as sacrifices. They were fled for some time, aud then Craft took them to Lages, where there was a British colony, and they nCIC bUCU BCD. L1HJ KUVniUiUCUllltt proving the action of Craft and giving-Mm a statement which he has in his possession now. The English merchants were annoy ed at the return of Craft, and deducted from the money duo him on commission on tho goods the sum the king could not pay. Craft remained until 1869, when he returned to America and told his English friends he thought he should run a school here.

They thought he and his wife would be good people to return to Georgia, and out of consideration for ser vices rendered in Africa and England they gave mm and his wife a sum of money, and papers of recommendation. Among those who interested themselves in the plan were the Bight W. Forester, M. Thomas Hughes, George Thompson, and Miss Martineau. The man was to purchase a suitable plantation and get a certain number of people together as the nucleus of a colony, the people to work on the land and pay part of their products for the use of the land and for the benefit of the school.

Craft remained in Boston until 1870, and in the month of April he went south. While here he saw Samuel E. SewelL William Lloyd Garrison, Mrs. Child, Wendell Phillips, George S. Hillard, James Free man Clarke, and a large number of other ladies and gentlemen to whom he stated his Intentions, and all of them thought his plan was a good one, and some them assisted him with money.

There wa3 really no systematic plan at that time, and these friends said. "We shall be glad to have you do whatever you wish," and the money was given with that understanding. for to in disposed persons set Hickory Hill on fire and everything was destroyed, the children escaping only in their night-dresses. This caused a loss in crops and money of about in 1871 Craft was in Savannah and saw Col. E.

C. Wade there, and promised to lease Woodville for 1872-73-74, and in 1872 he got a man named Charles Deiamotte to loin him as partner in the growing of the crops. This is the place held by the witness now. It is nineteen miles from Savannah, on the Atlantic and Gulf railroad, and when Craft took poses-sion it was in a wretched condition. There were no fences on the place, the houses formerly used by the colored people had rotted away, and the place was ail over grown.

The men went to work and cleared the land, built fences, repaired some of the houses so that four families could live them, and planted a very decent crop, laying, as they hoped, the foundation for future prosperity. Unfortunately, the crop did not turn out well, they lost money, and Deiamotte became dissatisfied and withdrew. About the close of the vear some of the friends of Craft pressed him to accept the appointment of representative of America to Liberia, and he went to Washington and had an interview with President Grant on the matter. For some reason, however, the present incumbent was retained in office, and when Vice President Wilson asked Craft what he was going to do now he said he was going on with his old plan. Mr Wilson then recommend ed him to go to the north and see his old friends, and he did so.

At that time there was not a free school, he believed, in the country; he was certain there was none for the children of colored people. Mrs. Craft taught a few children in her spare time, and her daughter taught occasionally. Interesting Reminiscence of the Battle of Atlanta Information Wanted. During the battle at Atlanta, in 1864, at midnight, three Confederate sol diers called at the house of Mrs.

Wm. McNort, and stated to her that one of her comrades in arms had fallen in the battle of the day before, and that the mother of their dead comrade had, in tears, exacted a promise from them, when she yielded Mm to the cause of the Confederacy, that should her boy fall the strife they would not permit his remains to be buried in a public cemetery or be lost on the field; that in pursuance with said promise they had, from where he had fallen, three miles away, brought his remains, and asked the privilege of interring' them her yard. The kind lady permitted them to do so. They wrote the name of their comrade, his mother's, and her address and their own, and left them with her; but in a few days her house and its contents were burned to the ground by the Federal soldiers. The three men were never heard of by her afterwards.

She believes they were numbered with the dead of the next day's battle. Their names and the address of "the mother of him whom they so tenderly burled have passed from her memory. She can only remember that his name was Murphy, and she knows he was from Missouri, and thinks he was from ideas and valtses obtain with the Parisian young lady, and you may talk by the hour without fear of being referred to mamma or Bummoned far breach of promise, as ytnrw4o-jEiiland nowadays. The Paris young lady not only talks, but does so well. She dances divinely, and is not found spending most of her time in the cupper-room cramming herself with cut lets and sherry, and in a perpetual defense of her hunger, with thousands of excuses from a tight shoe to the "lancers.

I have known more English girls driven into starvation by the "lancers" than by total abstinence for a day. Why not be honest, and, as Dean Swift said about the brandy and water, say you "like it?" There is no logical relation between tiaht shoes or lancers" and ham sandwiches and cham- gne, that I can clearly define. No, cram is the cause. Dissecting the of the Race-Horse McWhirter. LSt Louis Times.

After the crowd had departed. Gen. Bu- ford and Lieut. Gov. Brockmever secured the services of a couple of men and had McWhirter resurrected.

Mr. Brockmeyer then very neatly ampu tated both fore legs at the knees, using an old and favorite hunting knife for the operation. Only a cursory examination was made at the time, but the legs were brought to the city and will be made the subject of careful dissection and examination. Mr. Brockmeyer is an enthusiastic anat omist, and says it would be a shame to let such a case go without seeking to discover the cause.

With so much money invested in blooded horses, he considers that it is an act of duty to the turf man for somebody to make a thorough inquiry into the causes of McWhirter breaking down. General Buford promptly gave full per mission when tho matter was suggested to him by Mr. Brockmeyer, and the latter has undertaken the work. Plates will be prepared showing the condition of the various parts, and it is probable some exceedingly interesting discoveries will be made. This is the nrst tame that a horse has literally "run his legs off" on a track, and Mr.

rJrockmeyer proposes to find out how and why it happened. Ladies in Highland Kilts. Of course, my readers know, writes a London correspondent, that fancy dress balls have become a popular institution in England now, and that women of all ages have been clamoring for invitations to these gatherings. The concoction of the of excitement in many homes; but the last craze in the matter of fancy dress costume has brought about many hot words and quarrels in hitherto peaceful households. The most fashionable: covering I can hardly say dress that a lady can now wear on these occasions is that patronized by the Highlanders.

The Highland kilt has been worn with great success, I am told, bv several ladies of distinction. One of these ladies appealed to a friend whether he thought it wrong to put on the Highland costume, and the friend answered that the importance was not in what she put on, due in wnat sne toon on. 1 cannot and will not believe that such a bold and daring form of fancy dress would ever become popular among good and modest girls; but that it should have found favor in certain sections of even aristocratic society does not seem surprising after the recent revelations of eniinine frivoUty in high places. The schooner Eothen, fitted out for the expedition that is to go in search of Sir John Franklin's papers, is ready to sail. Captain James F.

Barry will be in command, and Esquimaux Joe will be one of the party. The expedition will will aim to reach the point in the interior where the Esquimaux report that Franklin deposited Ms papers. And hold the hoars as JOBhua stayed the sun iwui, in iruin, we naruiy nna a place For those dim Actions known as time and space. Still a new miracle each year supplies-See at his work the chemist of the skies, Who questions Sirius in his tortured rays And steals the secret of the solar blaze. HuBh I while the window-rattling bugles play The nation's airs, a hundred miles away 1 hat wicked phonograph hark 1 how it swears I lurn it again and make it lay its prayers 1 And was it true, then, what the story said Of Oxford friar and bis brazen head? htlo wondering science Hands, herself i flexed 1 At each day's miracle, and asks "what next?" The immortal boy.

the comiiiu heir of all. Uprinss from his deBk to "urge the flying ball," Cleaves with his bending oar the 'glassy waves, With sinewy nrra tho (lanhinc current braves. The- same bright creature iu these haunts of ours That Kton shadowed with her "antique towers." Boyl Where is he? the long-lunbed youth inquire. Whom his rough chirs with manly prido iu- sntres Ah, when the ruddy cheek no longer clows, When the bright hair is white as winter snows, vv nen tne aim eye has lost its lambent name, Sweet to his ear will be his school-boy namet Nor think the difference mighty as it seems Between life's morninu and its evoninff dreams Four score, like twenty, has its tasks and toys In earth's wide school house all are girls and ooys. from lit.

Holmes' Phillips Academy Poem. KANSAS. Its Mantifitcturtny Ilmou rrra and Ailvant' aye. BY IIOS. TIIOS.

KYAN, IIorsE of Representatives, Washington, Juno 1878. From tho Atchison Champion. Some tune ago you requested mo to write, for publication in your paper, such nn article as would, in my judgement, tend to "direct public attention to the fields afforded in Kansas for the invest ment of the activities of en terprLso," and I promised to comply should i miu lime to do so. My colleagues, Phillips and Haskell, have already responded to a similar invi totion. I have read their very interesting articles to find that they have brought conspicuously into public view the immense resources of our State, My very excel lent friend.

Col. Phillips, also pointed out the importance of manufacturing our own products. In this he is undoubtedly right, but tho iact is, wo do not manufacture those products which wo cer tainly may with great profit. My information from home leads mo to believo that this year we shall probably harvest thirty-five millions or forty millions of bushels of wheat equal to about eight millions of barrels of flour. A barrel of Hour may bo shipped to tho seaboard, or to any of tho intervening markets, at about one-half tho cost of shipping the grain from which it is manu factured.

At least I am so informed by a gentleman or high character who has been operating extensive merchant mills in tho West for many years. Merchant flouring mills in this country usually have from threo to ten run of stone, with capacity to manufacture from sixty to two hundred barrels of flour every twenty-four hours. The famous Washburn Mills, of Minne apolis, recently destroyed, were tho larg est In this country, having forty-two run I am told that these aro to bo with a capacity of fifty-one run being one in excess of the largest in the world. It is difficult to assign any sufficient reason whv we ought not to Hour our own wheat product, especially when wo con sider the immense difference in the matter of transportation. Whv wo should ship twenty or more millions of bushels of wheat from the State to be floured abroad.

when it could bo floured at homo at about tho same as anywhere else, and tho flour transported to market for half what it costs to transport tho grain from which it Is manufactured, will be very difficult to explain. I don't supposo thero 13 a mill In the State with capacity to manufacture an av-erago of one hundred and fifty barrels of flour daily, (possibly there may be one at Salina) and doubtless I am safe In saying that thero is not milling capacity in the State to manufacture ono per cent, of our wheat product of the present year. Tho maximum capacity of the average largest steam flouring mills in the United States will not exceed two hundred barrels a day, or about sixty thousand barrels per annum. In fact, tho number in this country having this capacity is very limited. And yet if I have not overestimated this years wheat product of Kansas, it is sufficient to employ over a hundred and thirty of such mammoth mills.

This would give employment to many millions of capital. Even if tho half of that product were floured at home, it would save hundreds of thousands of dollars to producers and would bring into action among our people millions of dollars in the prosocu-, tion of the enterprise. The gentleman to whom I have referred, said to mo that since ho had been lnformod of tho magnitude of this year's wheat product, and of the possibilities of our State in respect to grain productions, ho had given tho subject much attention, ad had reached the conclusion that it was the best field in America for capital to en gage in tho most extensive manufacture of flour. "But," said he, like it still better if you had ample water-way transportation to the seaboard. Your im mense traffic, and its remoteness from the Atlantic coast, must inevitably invite the liveliest competition in the matter of rail way transportation, which of itself is an assurance 01 tne lowest possiDie rates, And railway transportation is indispensa ble, because it affords speedy intercourse with all the great markets.

But there is verv much connected with this business, ns well as most other manufactures, that makes tho slewor and cheaper method of water-way transportation of immense ad ntage." I believe the fact is that every well con ducted flouring mill In the State Is paying a laree profit upon the money invested and I doubt if there is any other business in Kansas that pays so well. In connection with the magnitude of this wheat product, let it be borne in mind that we have not yet reached to ex ceed a one-fifth development, and we may never reasonably expect, within the next five years, to harvest an annual crop of over one hundred inillions of bushels t.wntv-five Der cent, more than tho Uni ted States exported in 1876. It Is undoubtedly true that manufactures In Kansas would be greatly stimulated by a sufficiency of water transportation have been at much pains to talk 01 our resources and facilities for manufacturing our various products, with men of large experience, and I have found it generally to be their judgement, that 11 we naa aae ouate transportation to the sea-board, we would ourselves bo astonished at the it of a.