Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 12, 1872, Page 2

THE CHICAGD DAILY TRIBUNE: SAUE DAY, OCTOBER T2, T872. - LONDON. M. Stansfeld, 2 Whilom Radi- 5 cal, Flouting Rad- Sir Charles Dilke as the Ghief’ of English Republic- i anism. | The €lub System Tnder the Operation of the Recent Liquor- e Legistation, 3 { l Exposure of Sieerage-Pas- sage Miseries. . From Our Ouwn Corrcspondent, . ‘Loxpox, Sept. 26, BEGINNING TO STIE. The stagnation of the couniry is beginning 4o “be disturbed; but, as it is from above and nok below, the agitation will probably not amonnt to very much. We Lave 3Mr. Siansfeld, m. Forster, and other Ministerielists, ~ddressing public meetings, and strivingto sbow that they have been faithfol to their Liberal profes- sions; but thers = is° no one loud political “cry.” The Nonconformists hold s con= ference at Birmingham next.weel, and will stoutly endeavor to mske the disestablishment of the Church the mext leading reform; but, samehow, the populer mind holds back from them. Some day, the Establishment will be reslly in “danger;” but tho masses do not enter into the little prejudices znd jealousies which characterize those Who 2t present conduct the straggle. Afr. Gladstone, if spared to -public life another dozen yeers, may one dsy take in hand the dis- establihment of his Church; but one can eee o immediate prospect of suchastep. A Con-; servative mood is on the country. -Even in pro~ «fession, there are in England nearly as many Conservatives as Liberals, and not & few of the 2o-called Liberals might as well be on the other wide. This temper reacts mnpon the chiefs. % There ia & singular instance in the case of MR STANSFELD. T Among the young men who were brought into public Jife by the infiuence of Joseph Afazzini 18 the present Cabinet Minister, 3r. Stsnsfeld. Passionately devoted to the eminent Italian, and Imbibing his leading idess, Mr.Stansfeld was ready toimmolate himself for the good of his country. The opportunity came.and he decided 1o benefit himeelf vo hily by it, instesd. So Tong as Maczini lived, Stansfeld—thongh not often, perhaps, after beginning of his 6t~ cial career, seeing his former prophet—kept up a sort of Radicaliem, and, by judicions nods and - winks to the people, contrived to leave the i~ s pression that he was ready for something. much lder, and that, if they waited, they would see what ‘s mine he would -gpring. Despite such sneers as that of-:Mr. Dierae who described Mr. Stansfeld P®- *‘an in- telligent mechanic™ (the expression being +Intended to apply to physical as well 23 to in- tellectual characteristics), there were credulous , Liberals in tho provinces who looked upon Afr. -Stansfeld as the fature Liberal chief. -Last + session should have undeceived them. and his s speech to-day onght to have no effect. No Whig Duder Secretary ever showed more zeal in flont- -ing Radical proposals than did the quondem ‘member of the Society of the Friends of Italy, of the Anti-State Church Association. . members of the Government, rof & Radical turn, stayed away ‘when awkward questions arose, but 3fr. Stans- 2eld made it a \point to be in_ his place and to throw a vote against his old friends. It isa sign of the death of pnblic men in England that gen- £lemen of this calibre should represent impor- . fant constituencies, and hold 2 place in the Cab- inet 28 personifying the sdvanced Liberalism of. :the time, SIR CHABLES DILEE. . If modern Radicalism is mnfortunate in the weak, forlorn-looking Mr. Stsnsfeld, English' Bepublicanism 18 no happierin Sir Charles Dilke, Jn B ce, the Baronet bas greatly/ the ad 3 but ho cannot speak s well as the other, nor has he the tact of the Yorkshire member. Sir Charles Dilke was intended by Natare to be s quiet, sensible men, following bis_literary tastes, and keeping to the society which he _is fond. is sgreesble, well read, and familiar with Continental Iife.. But he hss noneo f the it of the agitator. He has neither the Iungs, e confidence, nor the moral power of the men who produce strong convictions and who lead ethers on to action. The task for the Republi- can missionary in England is s stupendous one. All the habits, tastes, and apparent interests of the country are egainst him. He wars against .3 faith,—a religion. At a moment of seem- ing su sudden imcident will s his sbsolute fallure. This unobtrusive young men, in_shortly-cut black hair, with his head slightly bent forward, and s low voice.—the pro- ‘prietor of twoliterary journals. and a Baronet,— ‘surely, never wes there greater incongruity than to find him referred to as the Republican chief. However, the role which he hastily and thought- Tesaly fell upon seams to have become his fora while, and, consequently, we zrelooking to see schat prospects he is going to open up for us in ‘his coming 2ddress at Glasgow. . NEW CLUES. ‘The stricter licensing law now in vogue. and i which excites the publicans o fury agzinst Alr. - Gladstone, will' have the ~ effect of . increasing the number of clubs. On the . face of it, there scems nnfairness in the privil- accorded to the latter institntions. Afan ‘hour when all public houses are closed, you msy Eee gentlemen ascending the steps 7 of the splendid club-buildings in Pall an in the smoking-rooms, :" youwonld find men sipping their Cognac or * gin-sling,” without a thought of the law. The poor man feels the contrast, and chafes at.it. Some of the clubs are very late indeed. The Carlton and the Reform kcep their doors open ‘until sn hour after the Houss of Comman rises; 2nd, 28 some of thesittings, last season, extend- i edfo3and £ oclock in the morning, you may (imagine how fagged were the servanis of the - club. Indeed, onone occasion, the women who ‘k “clean the rooms before the opening of the clob were on the scene ere the b g was ehut. In some places, the workingmen's clubs have ‘; beer on eale, but the magistrates are suspicious '}2 sbout it. The attempt of some beer-house keepers to carry on their ordinary business | under the_ name of s club, and g0 to se- ! cure its privileges, has made the adminisira- “tors of the law distrustfal of clubs at which strong drinks are sold. But there are middle-cless clubs, as well as those for working- men. Several years ago, Douglas Jerrold, Mr. Dickens, and other literary men took some -rouble in establishing the Whittington Club, Spening it to ladies a3 well a5 gentlemen, and at 7ery low prices. - The scheme strugzled on for s time, but was never a success. I do not hear, 2mongst the new schemes, of any that provide ‘or the admission of women. There islittle prof- : le say, in their patronage; To make a ' dub pey, the members shonld_either agree to \eavy entrance-fee and a substantial yearly sub- swription, or they must eat and drink very freely. Women do neither. Amongst the numerous abor- ive schemes for clubs which I have known, was he Milton Club. The institution with this ; listingoished name started with the absurd ? pistake of imposing a theological creed upon its - gembers. By that means, it became narrowed a - ato the meet{ng—phm of sectarians, clericaland 3y._ Now, the excellent ministers of the Inde- endent and Baptist denominations would onbtleas like a good dinner as well as anybody ; ut the "'wlnnmg principle” hardly puts the 14 -1 possession of the means to enjoy themselves frequently st the club rates. = When they isited the club, they confined their meals to rodest proportions,—the profit of the same be- \g fractional. I onée questioned s waiter who ‘ -ent there for a while from onc of the big clubs, §:..2d then returned to his* former post, about the " "atter. His criticisms were amusing, “Some- mes, &ir, not s bottle of winoins day! Per- aps fow glasses of ale, and, as a luxury, & . «ch man from the country hed half s pint of N Jfl' ‘You nsver saw such a set. As to din- ar, they mostly had joint and cheese. Cook- i 1g was throwed away on ’en.” In short, the { GOlton Club did not pay its czpenses, and grag- - ally came to grief. In the case of ‘mmeufisni tbsl smlal!er clubs, a erson contracts for supply of everything. \-a concert with the committee, a teriff is. », and the coptractor takes all the trouble off 16 committee’'s hands, I beppen to be a ‘member of a nice little club in which this system vening there is & tsbls is carried cut. ‘Every e . d'hote,-2nd the club is open to the members’ for brealkfast and luncheon. Buf things are nof on the scale of the great clubs, 2nd one is not often tempted to exchange the many advantages of the Tafgar institutions for the * snuggery” of the litile one. Then there are geveral associztions of friends, ceiling themselves clzbs, having no local habita- tion of their own, but renting 2 room in s_well- Inovn tevern, and keeping it for their ex- clusive use. Some of the clubs enjoy- ing a sounding name are, in reality, the hirers of o room in . s hotel There i8 no objectior in the world £o the plan. They admit whom they like, and csn form 3Matusl Admiration Societies at will. Just now it i3 this order of club which I expects f0 see in- cresse. "The Iust project of the kindsillustrates what T hava written. ~ It is as followss THE QUILL CIUT. A few literary men and others, Whasé Work or pleasure draws them more or less frequently to the middle of Londoa, Eropose to ich 3 e club, to go by thename set'at the head of this metice, or by some other to bo hereafter gelected. We 2hink that, ander {he recent liguor-legislation, clubs bzve become more and mors 3 necessiiy fo men with 3 turn for Kberty, Cross ‘Temple and lights disyppesr vy one int hie hotels nd restaurants, is 3 melancholy ex- pexience; and the ides we set before you Js intended 2o remove the newly<reated element of melancholy from our existence. We do not contemplatie grand be. 2 ‘but wo think we msy Incke a clésn start 25 6oon a3 thirty ar forty congenial individuals are found to promise cnp guinea entrance fes, and two gunieas annual subscription inadvance, Weinaythen securea ToOmin or mear the Strand; and withont making any ehow, or running inio debt of =ay Eind, e may obiain mzny of the privileges of 3 1aore ex- pensive clubs; and, in particalar, sccommodation by day and night. Some of the best existing chubs have started in an equally unpretendicg mwanner. If gen. Jemen willing fo f211 in with. this noiion -§ill send their n2mes 2o the Secretary protem., he will commu- nleste with them assoon as thirly members are se- cured, and summon 3 Teeting for business. Then follow a few names, with-that of an Hop. Secretary pro fen.. E STEEBAGE-PASSENGERS. A gensation has becn caused smongst intend- ing emigrants by a letter published in the Daily News, describing # stecrage-passage, ritten by & gentleman who underwent the mis- eries of the voyage, in order that he might seo what they were ik6. The appearsnce of the narrative bas called forth a_variely of commu- nications, in which the writers burst out with the story of their own sggravated sufferings in undergoing a similar experience, Tho discus- sion cannot fail to do good, though some of the ship-owners, by threats of actions, are trving their best to stifieit. The press do nothing liere in the way of exposing an abuse, withouc threats of actions-at-law: and, unless consider- sble ingenuity is displayed in the mode of put- ting the cace, 8 jonrnal is very essily hit. OUR SOUTHERN POLAND. North Carolina Under the Eule of Grant’s Myrmidons—A Baptist Asso- ciation Broken Up by the Military, and Women and Children Arrested at the Point of the Bayonet. From the Wilmington (N. C.) Journal. The followingletter, received iast night. comes {rom 2 gentleman of the very highest character =nd position, and well known to us peman_lgf. His statements may be relied npon as strictly true: On Ssturday. the 21st instant, 8 great oute rage was perpetrated in this comnty by officers and goldiers of the United States Government: While the King's Mountain Bsptist Association, a body representing over 3,000 communicants, was insession at Bethlehem Church, one Newton TLong, = Deputy United States Marahal, and one Arclubald Moss, who seemed to have some au- thority from 2, rode up, accompanied by a squad of armed United Sttes soldiers detailed from Colonel Hart’s command in Lincolnton, surronnded the church and forbade the ple toleave. Long and Moss were both drunk, and Long cursed and swore very freely. The pro- ceedings of the Aesociation were completely broken up. The pastor of the Church went out and endeavored to persnzde them to leave, and on their refusing to do so, the Sheriff of the county arrested Long for disturbing the relig- jous assembly. The soldiers cocked their guns ‘upon the Sheriff, and commanded Long to come out. Efforts were made to induce them to be- Dave, and they were promised they would not be arreated for further violating the laws of the State and of the United States if they we quietly leave the church grounds. They rode off in the direction of thespring, and many members of the Associetion returned to the house, think.i'ng they wera gone. Bat they soon returned, zn were galloping over the church grounds with their guna and pistols, and brokeup the Associa- tion thateveming. When the people started EBar home they fonnd the roads picketed by soldiers who were under Long's command, and even women =znd children were arres with guns g pointed at them. amd compelled to-wait the Plessure of this fellow Long before they conld get home. 3loss, Iam informed by an eve-wit- Tiess. cocked his pistol at & young lady who was driving off in a wagon, =nd threatened to shoot her if she didn't stop at once. The whole pro- ceeding was an outrage upon religious liberty, trated by ofiicers xnd soldiers of the Unit- ed States Government. The excuse they ren- j dered for their conduct was that they were searching for one Mayberry, who was charged with beiug 2 Eu-Klux. The Bridges at Rock Island. A Frow the Rock Tsland (IIL) Avqus. The old bridge has been abandoned by the Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Com- pany. - The last passenger trains passed over it on Seturday night last, and Mondsy mornin ‘oth freight and passenger trains commen: crossing the new bridge. ~On the same day the gap in the new bridge over Sylvan Water wes permsnently closed—the swing bridge was re- moved, znd the old treck and slough bridgs will be used no more forever. The workmen com- menced taking down the old slongh bridge to- =¥ (Oct. 8), and_as soon as it is removed will begin the remorval of the bridge across the nimin channel. This sudden ebandoning of tho old route across the Island was cansed by the unsafe condition of the bridge across the slongh, and a desire tohave the wooden structure over both river and slongh removed before cold weather Soied Chnors Seoroesy a_ e Tl £ more _ vigorously in e p in ibagnwintfl' Trains _ will than 3 stop at the old depots and the old order of things will prevail in both cities until the com- letion of the new depot here and the depot znd foterin Davenport. Putit is expected that be- fore winter the new arrangement will be inaug- arsted. The passage of trains over the mew bridge is conducted with great care. Red sre cuspended st either end of the draw, and trains come to a fall stop and await the placing of white flaga in _place of the red ones before going upon the draw. Heretofore it has been customary to make up trains for the East here, and for the West in Davenport. Under the new regime it will be vice tersa, the Eastern bound trains being made up in Davenport, and ihe Westward in this city. RS be 0 bridgo across i of 1873, ol this point will undoubtedly be among the things that were, and steamboatmen will rejoice in con- sequerice. : The Faith of a Detroit Girl. The Detroit Free Press xetlyztm; i folloring story of a marriage in city a fewnightsago: “1t geems that John Doe and "Roe hind been ‘engaged’ for a year or more, he beinga Tailroed man, and she & fine girl of eighteen. A day was set for the marriage, and Jobn spent about two hundred dollars for new clothes, en~ graved of invitation, and preparation for abanquet. It had been announced in church that the marriage would {ake place at a cerfain ‘hourin the morning, but it didn't. Tho evening before the doy set down, John called at the house, handed the bride elect the invitation cards, and went off with his heart as bigasa tornip. He had only been gone o few minttes official, 2nd in less than half'an hour they were married. When the inwited guests sssembled next morning Mary Boe was in Chicago on her wedding tour, and John Doe was just starting for the depot, a butcher-knife hidden under his vest and the butt end of a revolver to be eeen in his hip poclet.” The German & Tuarn-Verein? in War. The ¢ Tarn-Vereins,” or Gymnastic Societies of the Germans, many of which have been ac- climated in the ‘Unitéd States during_ the %erfi.c: lox‘utl:; ali:alh e Fdl’!m:hm- ecent rep 0w the part pla; uring the war by these valusblo institutias o ing of the youth of Germany. The 1,051 lance department. Of the whole number, 1,243 Were wonnded, 191 died through fatigue or sick- ness,. and. 617 were &lsin in battle or died of ‘wounds received -there. . The American or Eng- lish Torn-Verein were not backward in furnish- iug their contingents to this braye band. wh;nmogd lover came o the house, w:_‘sszi""d 334 the British No ; American Bmtf The 1:2 and astonished, and pleaded with such eloquence iy tan Dat 4 ihat the girl fook fy ‘arm, wont to 8 proper | or has its chief place of business in New York ten or twelvo years, appear to huvo done i erland “in the tutions for the train- 1119 of them as assistants to the ambu- NEW YORK. Wall Street Hinis. { How Mr. BoutweH is Menaced. From Our Orn Correspondent. NEW YoRE, Oct. 6, ‘Wail street i8 10w in a wondering mood over the alleged fact that Jay Gould and Smith, the celebrated stock-conspirators, have really more power in financial circles than the United States Government. = | Butfor the interference of the banks, these Zellowa wonld have made a panic two weeks ago, and they were only suppressed by the illegal re- 4 fusal of the banks to honor their uwn ceriified cliecks. THIS Syrr, who belongs fo the former house of Smith, Gould & Martin,is an nninteresting person,small and withont dignity; but hebasa geniusfor making money by irregular processes. He is the owner of the two trotting horses, Goldemith 3Ma2id 20d Lucy, but affects to own anly ene of them, 50 that they are msiched for trotson ail | the great tracks of the country, and the raco canbesold onteither way. Mariin is alsoon the street, and his house figured sctively in the | Bluck Friday operations. H : GOULD BORN AGAIN. i Jey Gonld has an interest in five Wall street | houses, being a silent partner, to the extent of £20,000. in each. This gives him an immenso power in transactions. He. has an active intel- lect, and the Wall street morality ; but his char- acter hag already been tumbled to the lowest depth, 5o that he is comparetively indifferent fo <hat people say of him. He worships money, and has the temperament to mskeit. Heisso ool 2nd quiet that he has a considerable amonnt of respect amongst persons who do not like boisterons wars. A few ssy he is a useful friend, and that no person who hax purchased or | 1 | ‘301 gccording to his directions has ever lost | 2 anything. It is the darling hope of all Wall | street gamesters to get 50ld on the run, as dur- ing the ays of the war, and immediately ing the psly d: it th » and immediately } following it. The bears in the street say that gold will yet stand 50 per cent preminm. It is now between 14 and 15 premium; but a movement of 3§ per cemt can .make or ‘mer hundreds of fortunes, and the Administra- tion is now manifesting its antipathy-to A.T. Stewart by permitting Lim to. p2y about 339,000 aday for ng:ld for cnstoms duties. The cotton crop, which is our chief article of export, is now coming to market, and this accounts for the re- duced price of gold: bat the **bears™ in the street allege that, although AMr. Boutwell has nominally $75,000,000 in the Treasury,. he hus really = . ONLY FIFTEEN WILLIOSS ) there which belng:o the Government. Twenty- five millions of what he.possesses are merely deposits, and certificates for the zame circulate on the street, and may be presented at any time. ‘Thirty-five millions, in ~addition, represent merely the accrued iterest nearly due, but not | at the moment payable. Here, then, are £60,- 000,000 apparently the Government's, but really the property of the people. The banks of New York hold two-thirds 28 much gold 25 Mr. Bout- well with all his bragging. > BESUMPTION OR PANIC. People who, during this campaign, have been showing fear of Horace Grealey, 50 he 'wants epecie-payments vesnmed at the earliest date, may vet find it to their disadvantage that . we are allowed to go on in this condition, owing Europe 21,300,000,000, which she hes invested in our State. corporate, and Nationzl bonds. and | demanding $90,000,000 % year to pay this intarest, | while, at the same time, our imporis exveed our | exports enormously. The precious metals we | procuce have their effect to prolong our credit, and we have sent sbout $57,000,000 of gold abrosd:this year. Bat, if thinga shonld go Just | as the A istration like, who is. able to say, | during the:next four vears,—witha Secretary | who does not want specie-resumption. but pre- | fers to use his Tressury balance to fight mrn- Xind,—what possibilities msy come tous? All Europe is Emhling perpetnally in American se- curities. ;-‘:ia, t‘hua xllolsl finctuating ;&Luck ;e i POBS is the subject of ing every: in the ik murtete of Berlin, Flenne anklugt,Am sterdam, Peris, and London. Yet, some time ago, when there was an unusual demand for thig stock, it was found that but 75,000 shares existed in the City of New York. while there are adoat of Erie 700,000 shares. The low rates of interest prevailing over Earope, and the active demand for money in this conntry, have had the effect of making Europeans—particularly since the close of the war of the Rebellion—rmsh im- pulsively for 2l sorts of - American secarities. bonds of all kinds are in circnlation on theother side of the ocean, many of them frandulently mesuming to be introduced by our Government. WHAT MIGET HAPPENX if several of thesesmall securifie-':lua to fail ! 10 pay interest, and cause & precipitate return of ! the ‘bulk of our stock, and bonds to Ameri- ca, to begold in the market, or payment com- pelled? Thers sre many things in our favor,—such a8 _ emigration,—but we v e dence to ghow that it took but the downfall of a distant insti- tution, like the Obio Lifeand Trust Company, to malte a pauic which was a critical point in the ‘history of the Christian race. Al ur destinies at thio present time are in the hands of H THE SEANEST A¥D LITTLEST it of mankind. The Secrefary of tie Treasury is | relied upon asif be wers a Colossus, wheress, | 353 A T. Stewart relates, he bas no_finencial ¢ policy at sll, and no rules of circumstantial period in onr materiel and financial y, 2nd has met with luck up to this time; but it may be doubted whether there is really one zble man in the Federal Administration. We are just hearing from Japan what character of people we sent abroad there,—selections. as they were, from our (Svil Service. The Japanese have coma t{o understand them within x very faw months, and wa shall have lost our influence in that distant Occident almost 28 5000 a8 e got in thera. : 35 ‘I'he Administra‘ion banker just hera in New | Yorkis HENEY CLEVE, | 2 man genersily presumed. anrongst bankers, to ocenpy.a feurth or fifth rate gnition Dy circum- stance, and a sisth or tenth rate position by natnre. A few dsys 2go a geutleman gotz notification from Clews’ honse that ihe Govera- ment would buy $4,000,000 of bonds on certain | day. Heplaced no' feith upan this cue, because | he sup, thatit was an attempt to inveigle him into a speculation. The dey arrived and the Government bought just tEat amount. The &enuemsn who had hezrd the news in advance en ng\ug‘:gm M. Clows’ profit was npon obfaining owledgein advance. He found that it very nearly paid all Mr. Clews' political assessments during the Presidemial campaign. TO BE THE GO 'S BAN] in our times, implies no real relisbility, since 2r. Fish and Mr. Boutrwell struck_down the old house of Baring, which had attended to our af- fairs for ninety years, to give the bnsiness foa person who apparenily ‘mado his appoarauce; ike Harlequin, from & box of paper-collars, pamely: Mr. Clews. As a_gentlemsn in New York defines Clews, he i a finsncial adventurer and a political upstart. IT IS A SINGULAB FACT ¢, amongst moneyed men, importers, &c., Of New York, two out of the four houses deemed No. 1 here, throngh vhom to purchase foreign City, although its title impliea & nearer relation to the Dominion of Canada. To ghow how thoroughly the tyranny of the Administrakion has extended to all private busi- .| Tess, I may say that one of the leading import- ers of New York remarked, a few weeks ago: <] ghall eupport Mr. Greeley,—at least;} shall vote for him,—and I think his election will ben- efit all interests. Bat, if I wereto be an Elector at Large, or to work actively for him, this Ad- ministration would make the thing cost me. $500,000, in estortions, delay, and unanticipated ‘movements and changes of various kinds which they would stimulate.” This is the sort of Adminiatration which pro- poses to keep at the head of affairs. How shall e fare when the same superstition may strike Europe, thet perhaps the nation of men on which iées: confidently relied has 5 branches number 81,737 membars, of whom come down, durin 14,909 were called under arms. e numbers eral Grant’s Administration, to be direct of the remainder went into the field as volun- by 8 set of pigmies, whose policy, finance, and s{hohmhip}’lfix Geperal Grant's militery sci- ence, consist in fighting things out by © ihe fores of s ATTRITION, if in no other way"? s Attrition is the lowest grade of science, and is ‘merely animal friction. We are Row conducting finarce and diplomacy by attrition, which is the . best we know. Gara. —_— A ROWMAHCE IN A DIVORSE COURT. A Member of thec English Nobility Separates from his Wife, and After- ward Falls in Love with Xis Daughter. From the Toronto Leader. A most extroordinary case has recently been Leard in the Cour} of Divoree in London before Lord Penzance, the Judge of the Conrt. The Hon. Henry Loftus, the nephew of the Marquis ‘of Ely, hashad -his domestic circumstances re- vealed to the world, ard it would have been well for him and for his own family if he had con- his gorrows in his own breast. In'1851, Henry Loftus held a commission as Lientenant in Her Msjesty's Life Guarde. and i was allowed by bis uncle, the Marquis, £800 per annum. He was very bandsome, about six feet high, with large bl eyes, bleck eyebrows, and was an exceedingly well-built man. At & ball givenat M{[.?memton'a e became acquaint- ed with 2 es Adeline Montgomery, whose father had boeen chief atfache to the British Em- bassy in Paris. Aftera few months’ acquaint- ance they were married, and Ir. Loftus sold his commission and went to reside in Brussels, income being too small to_ enable him 10 live in England in the style in wiich be had been ac- i customed prior to his marriaze. About fourteea months after his marriage his wife ga\'ecd }l;:gehm a_beautifal child, who was chiigten ine Montgomery. - They had a bLandsome Louse on the Took Hantiine, sad e ed in the first circle of society. ‘Ehey oftendined witlrthe King and Queen of the Belgians at the palace of the King. 'They became acquainted with a Baron Steiner, a young and handsome Belgian, who wrote beaufifal love sounets, and was af the same time an accomplished musician. r. Loftus occasionally visited Paris, and some- times made short visits to Loudon, Baron Steiner was, like Dean Swift, a great zdmirer of female besuty: Lot onlyin the abstract, rs. Lof:us was ¥ handsome woman, 3 very fair rep- rosentative of the highest style of English beauty, aud, in Barou Steiner's leisure hours, and thoy were many. he composed some very beantiful sonnets apiressed to the beauty he 50 much admired. He wrote them partly for amusement, aud partly to gratify the vauity of 3Mre. Lofius. Tu August, 13 cursion to Paris, returned ~unespectedly to s, and ke found the Paron Steiner in the drawing room with his wife. 'he Baron was belf jntoxicated, and. under the influence of the chiampaguo be bad been imbibiog. he shoved ! Loftus the last sonnet he had addressed to his wife. Tt was animpassioned sonnet, and Loftus tore it to piegpy, and kicked Steiner ont of the house, The Baron, sinng by the indignity, chal- lenged Mr. Loftas to mortal combat.” Ar. Lof- tus accepted the challenge—seconds were cb- tained, and in the _euburbs of Matines, which is situated a few miles from Brassels, they met. They nsed pistols, Steiner was shot throogh the brain, and Iay dead o the'feld. Mr. Loftus returned with his secocds to ru He informed his wife of the result of the duel. She heard of the Baron's death with composure, bat she burst intoa flood of tears. 1In a defiant {one she said to her husband, **Itis better wo part.” A decd of separstion was drawn up, sud Mr. Loftus returned to Loudon. Mrs. Loftus re- mained in Drussels. gavo up the honss they had occupied, bus hired » less expensive house, and lerdsughter Emmeline was ker especial care. As the motler grew in years she became incapable of controlling her passions. On two occasiors she burledat her daughter a_carving kaife, which fortanaiely missed her. When Emmeline Loftus arrived at 18 yoars of age shelsft her home. and, proceeding by irainio Ostend. took the stesmer for Dover, aud three liours sub- eequently was alone in the greatcity of Londen. Here ghe_ obtained s situation 233 governess. In Septetnber, 1870, she was walking in Regent's Park, London, whete shomade the acquaintance of a gentleman 44 years of age, osshe was seated | on,.one of the iron seats in the park. 1t was alf eventful day for her. Slewas sbso- lately tired of the situstisn she had taken. It { wasa very handsome mon that sccosted bLer, though not s young one. He proposed marriage. Eut betore the ceremony had been_performed she was instelled s his mistress in Hans place, Sloane sireet, YLondon. Daring the time that she was confined fo her bedroom by mickmess, Lher lover, finding her keys, opened her writing desk and diseovered some photographs.® A he i ‘was examining them he discovered ore that was unmistskably the photograph of his wife. Hi ruched into the bedroom with his photograph in his hand, and frantieally inauired who it Tepre- sented. The girl was very low at the time, said it-was the picture of her mother, with whom she Dbad quarrelled. -~ Then I am vour father,” he exclsimed. He hed hitherto dizgnised Jis real name to her, living with Ler in the name of Henry Houghtou. Shortly after her recovery it was sgreed that adivorce should be immediately sought for, and Lord Penzance, being zequainted with the facts, granted one. Mr. Loftus having obtained 2 Iarzo sccession to his fortune, provided hand- somely for his daughter. Bat the end was not yet. Heresolved to havean interview with his wifo, who was stillin Brossels. and to whom, throngh his baokers, he regulariy forwarded the amount agreed on in the deed of separation. By the death of the Mzrquis of Ely and his grandmother be had bocome worth £15,000 a ear, but his wife was living in Brussel on what €he considered & miserable allowance of £400s year. On his zrrival in Brassels he stayed at the Hotel Bellevue, the best hotel in Brussels, ai addressed 3 letter to his wife, who was living in the Rue de Waterloo, asking her to consent to a0 interview. It was impossible that, 33 an Eng- lich member of aristocracy, she conid object to grant an interview with her husband, although they liad been separated for £o many years, He told her the sequel of his life after Lie had sep- arated from her. Jr. Loftus's wife listened 1o the history with patieace as it was told to ker by her husband. EANT g "As Loftus was leaving, having sisted that this unfortunate daughter was well provided for, and drawing in etreng language s picture of his i is wife asked Limif he would live aswin 18 With Ber 43 her husband. Alr. Loftus told her it was impossiblo nnder the circumstanoes. There was no possibility of bridging over the chaem, and théxr misery thoy must both carry to the grave, Mrs. Loftus did not believe in this, and as Mr. Loftas had no evidence against his wife in reference to 2uy improper intrigues with the Baron Steiner, she commenced & suit against the Hon. 3fr. Loftus for a restitution of conjugal rights; and, under the peculiar oy, stances of the case, secing that Mr. Loftus had committed no crime of which the Divorce Court could take cognizance, Baron Penzance had no alternative bot to reinstute Mio. Loftas m her orginel marTiage rigi An English License Law, ‘Among the noticeable laws passed by the late English Parliament wes oue entitled & Licensing Act, which the Queen remarked ‘*constituted a sensiblo improvement of the existing law” on that subject. The debate on fhis act took a wide range, snd the whole subject of checks and guards neceesasy to bound and circumscribe the sele of liquor was thoronghly ventilated. The opinions vibrated from stringent rules to almost free trade, =ud 8 vast amount of facts was devel- oped bearing upon the subject. After thewhole matter had been carefally and exhanstively ex- amined from all points of view, the Licensing law of 1672 was passed, which, among others, has the following requirements: InLondonall pub~ lic honses must be closed at 12 o'cloc®, those in the country at 11. There is, however, a_digcre- tionary power given to Magisirates and police authorities to permit later hours for the accom- modation of persons attending theatros, mar- kets, or those following a night-calling, like rinters. On Sundey the low is more stringont. {n London all public houses must be ahut until 1p.m. Fromthet hour until 3p. m. theycan open, when they must cloge azain till 6, and the final hour of closingis 11. the country tho hours for opening on Sunday differ 2 Littls from London, but the differenceis slight. The li- censing country magistrates liave the power of slightly modifying the hours, so that a traveller may find one public honse in % town open as late as 11 on 2 Sunday night, but notafter that hour. In sll towns of less than 2,500 inhsbitants, all public houses must be closed by 10 zt night, and from this there .is no deviation. Greater ‘powers are given to landlords, s well as greater sponsibility. The sale of liquors to children under 16 years of age entitles a penalty of 20 shillings f0r the first offence, and twice that sum ror the second. Avy landlord who permits drunkeness or riotons conduct in his house is lisble to a fine of £10 for the first, and £29 for the second offence. The rame penalties apply where diereputable persons are knowingly per. mitted to frequeut the premises ; while geming ia prohibited in all public houses by still mora severe penalties. A nerw feature of the act is = All offences are indorsed on the backof ihe licenses, and & certain number of offences for- feits license, aud rendors the holder ineapable or holding znother for a certsin number of years. Another offence o which heavy penalties aro affixed. 18 the'adulteration and sale of adulterat-"| ed liquors. The ac says: “I any person mixag ‘with any intoxicating liquors so{d by him 69, Mr. Loftus, afier a short ex- | | i i i 1 | i act, or knowingly sells or exposes for sale, any iqtor mixed with such deleterions ingredient, he 6. for the first offence. to » penalty of £20, imprisonment for one month, with or withont kard Izbor; and for all subsequent offensesa penalty of £100, or imprisonment for thres months, and to be disquelified for a period of from two to ten vears, and in auy case to forfeit the adulterated liquor. Where any person holds & license and is convicted of any of the above- nameg offences, he is liable to loze such license, and the premises are liable to bo disqualified for {from £wo to ten years.” The police are author- ized to obtain samples of any liquors on the premiges of any dealer, and submit them for analysis to a pablic chemist. If found epurious, thoso vending them are subjected to heavy pent alties, and their licenses revoked. This provision of the lnw meets with the hearty commendation of all the friends of the bill, who declare thst thosa selling liquor should no more be. allowed to di of a bogus article than a butcher should be suffered to rotail foul meat, or a baker unhealthy bread. On the whole the law is satis- factory, and much good is enticipeted from the’ enforcement of its provisions. —_— OAKES AMES AS A SPECULATOR. His Career in Congress—A Disgraceinl Exhibit—His Election Sceured Solcly by Money. The ial Boston correspendent of the Sgringfiad Republican gives a carefal review of the eareer of Oalies Ames as » Congressman, in which the following occurs: Oncein Congresge and being = rich man, hohad zo trouble in ng a re-election, and when the war was ove. went into the Pacific Rail- rond specalation, along with his friend Alley, also a member of Congress and a millionaire. How early they began their questionable financier~ ing about it they kmow better than anybody, except perhaps General Butler; but it is common report that when Butler wanted togo to Con%reu from the Essex Distriot, in 1806, he went to Alley and convinced him that Lie knew enough about Alley’s Pacific Railroad operations to make it advisable for Alley to withdraw as a Congress candidate in Butler's fayor, and soon afterw: according to the same rumor, General Butler ‘accopted a retainer from the Union Pacific Compeny, and has kept still over since. Ido not vouch for the truth of this, but there i3 nothing in the reputation of Ames, Alley, or Butler to make it improbable, and it is confidently asserted. Now we come to another branch of the Oakes Ames scandal, and one about which there can be o doubt.- Having s large interest in the Pacific Railrosd and its collateral smeculations, into which the public money was going by the million, and being a member of Gongress from the Pilgrim Father District, Mr. Ames saw fit to gethimselfsppointed on the Honse Committeo concerning his railrond, and oventually became chairman of it. This in itself, unless a man werd as scrupulons and sensitive on such points 28 Washington, was & gross scandal ; it is like a man serving on & jury to try his own czse ; and should have excluded Ames from Congress ever aftorward. But by time he had resolv- ed tostay in_Congress till his railrocd job was fairly through, and he made it impossible to nominate any other Republican candidate in his district. At the last election ther was a strong feeling against sending him back ; so there was in136%; and if be had been a paor man, he would not bave got the nomination or the elec- tion in either vear. Dut we had then reach- ed the millionairo era in_onr politics, when s man who is wortha million can get him- gelf nominated to almost any ofice. And 50 Ames was elected, and is now in the middle of his last term. Whether he has attempted to ‘bribe members of Congress or not, his last fiva years in Congress have been scendalous for his open and notorious seltishness in looking after his railroad interests, while nominally serving the public. To be sure, other Congressmen havo doue the same; to be sure, the Pacific ; Tailroad was, 28 Ames maintains, a great public work. Butit was also. a great privete joo, and both Ames and Alley deceived themselves, with- out deceiving the pubiic, if they suppose that their fellow-citizens belicve that they helped on the railroad mainly as & grand National enter- prise. It ws to them puroly a matier of busi- eas; they ave both traders by nature, not legis- Istors, and they had no business to mix up their ‘private affairs with the public interesta asthey With the last phaae of the Ames scandal, made pabiic by his own letters; I have t-oubled mysalf very little, though it ‘seems to be the worst of all.” Hsving long 2g0 made np'my mind, on exi- dence quite Batisfactory, that Mr. Ames was un- fiv to represent a Massachusetts District in Con- gress, becanso he -was treating #'source of revenna for himself and frionds, I did not care much about the details. But I do not see how he is to escape from the dilemma in which hisTetter to 2'Comb and his late public denial place him. No ordinary or reasonable construction of the letters to M’Comb relieves Lim from grave cuspicions of briberv, nor does the carious or evagive langunge of his public de- niel. Besides, wherover there is any conflict be- tween the two, ihe public will believe that a let- ter written to a busineas agsociate, in confidence, is more to be credited than a letter to the public, written for the express puspoga of defending the writer from charges made against him. ‘The Commosucealth, in its forcible-faeble de- fence of Alr. Ames, whoseems to have made that paper his official organ, lets ont some dam- aging things wizhont helping its client 2t all. It sdmits. for insiance, what conld not beds- nied, that Ames’ letters to 3T'Comb are gen- uine, and- that :::{ need an explanation, which, in his public denial, JIr. Ames has not seen fit to give. Tho Comunonweaith 8ays, in behalf of Ames, that in **placing " stock where it would & protect " the Pacific Railrosd spscalation, he only meant to pleco it ** among financial men of credit and character, in different States, whose roputation at home or _elsewhers would give confidenco to the wholc enterprise.” If the facts soon tobe disclosed donot make this statement seom very ridiculous as well s false, Isballbe surprised. The eame ingenuous edi. tor, who does not seem to understand the force of langusge, eaya that McComb's pencilledlist of Congressmen ‘i}‘mn'artcd" the wish and_meau- ing of Amea. If thatis allhe can say, he will not help his client much. HOW HARTRANFT WAS COUNTED IN. Daforities NManufacturcd [in the Most Barcfaced Manner—The Retuns Grossly Tampered with by the Grant Officinls. Piiladeiphia (Oct.8) Despatch to the New Fork Tritune, ‘The city returns began to arrive at the Liberal headaguarters at abont 8 o'clock. As soon astwo or three warda hed been reported it became per- fectly evident that the Hartranft clection man- agers were manufacturing majorities in the most outrageons manner. ho had becn at the Men w polls all day, aud who had consolidated the carefully kept tally lists kept at the precincis in their wards, and who bad come in an_hour before with assurance of heavy gains for Buck- alew, were astounded to find the . officials re- portlug immehse Hartranft majoritics. All confidence that these®officials would limit their frands so as to bring them within bounds that would not be scandalgus and evidently criminal, vanished atonce. It became spluin that they meant to take no risks on the State, and would put the city vote large enough to overcome any poseible adverse vote in the coun- try. *We are sold ont,” was the disheartening rémark that passed from mouth to mouti. Well anthenticated reports of frauds continue to come in. A number of respectable gentlemen, swell known in their precinots, bring information to the Liboral headquarters that they and others wero prevented from voting by the Judges, on the ground that their names hiad alrcady been voted on. “Thoy were all Republicans, but had declared their intentions te vote for Buckalew. In the {vo wards where the negroes chicfly live, the policemen stood at the polls, put a ballot in every megro’s hand when he ¢ame up, and made sure that he voted it. The frauds which have been most effective, however, have been perpetraied in the count, ‘which Lias been entirely m the hands-of the cor~ rupt city authoritics. Theze men had eve ing at stako on the result. They understood very well that an honest Stato Administration would bring thoir crimes to light, and they were deter- mined to win at any cost. The repeaters were busy between 4 and 6 o'clock in many of the sirong Republican wards, aud succeeded in geiting in a large number of votes. The connivance of the police in theso frands was disgracefully ap- parent. Policemen in citizens’ clothes acom- panied geogs of repeaters, and in some-cases vouched -for their residences and occupation when they were challenged. Up to about 4 o'elock_the prospecta for Buckalew wero very bright in all parts of the city. Tho votes were apfi:xenfly in, and there was a lull in all the polls. The Hartranft men, who, by their control of the police and the city fire alarm tele; were sble to keep much better infomemh& the Liberals, brought ont their reserves at this crisis. The repeaters staried on their ronnds. In somo districis. the Democratic Inspectors, grown tco mnfidflnl::g the few attempts to com- mit fraud, had relaxed their vigilancas, in others they had been bribed, and at many polls their objections were overruléd. The enormously ex- & public trust as- -eny deleterions ingredient mentioned in the | cessive registration furnishied names for the re- esters to vote upon, and there were always %nnt men ready to insist that they knew them and that they were citizens of the precinct |_where they pretended to live. THE OLD CATHOLICS. The German Reformers in Session=—e “English_and American Delegatess What is Being Recommended, Cologne(Sept. 19 and 21) Correspondence of the London Daity News. - Ihave just returned from the preliminary , held in meeting of the Old Catholic Con; d alarge of the Hotel Vienna. e meeting ‘wasg for the purpose of welcoming the deputies and guests, about 400 of whom have arrived. Among the dignitades of the varions churches egent I mention the following: From Eng- and, there were the Bishops of Ely and Line coln’; from America, the Bishop of Maryland; from Hnflmdhf;]ha Archbishop of Utrecht; be~ sides many. English and _American clargymen. Dean Stanley arnved at Cologne last evening. The first of the foreign guests to speak was tho Bishop of Lincoln, in French, but o later gave his thoughts in English, which was hnns!abe% like the words of his bretbren of Maryland anc Ely, by a gentleman’ present. The Right Bev. the Bishop of Alaryland said:— “T come, & poor infirm man, under the pres- sure of the solicitude of hundreds of my breth- ren, to represent the earnest anxiety with which they are watching the wonderful origin_and growth of this movement, for which hundreds and thousands of hearts in the Catholic Church in our country—which claims to be Catholic be~ catise she adheres to the truth of our Lord—are praying. They adhere with the brethren here to the truth in its simplicity, to the truth in ita fulness, to the fruth in its clearness, as our Lord gave it, and with which the Church was charged, to hand it down and to apread it through all mankind. Therefore, they have had the deepest interest in this movement, and in the men whom God has raised up in His own ood time to originateit. Hundreds of churches ve had prayers in America during the past iwo weeks in order that the blessing of God from on bigh might rest upon this meeting and objects. And it was to express this, and the sympathy of American ch en for their brethren in. Germany, that. I was forced to come.” The resolutions which have been sdopted by tho_ Old Catholic Congress are divided nnder sevéral clasgifications. 1. Those ralating to pas- toral organization. 2. Those relating to the question o fthe reuniting of the separats Chris- tian Churches. 8. Those relsting to the rights of t.?; 0{3' ‘-glthclics i3 ngninsg the u(:‘-ovam— ments. -With o very few excoptions, the se rate resolutions were adoptes umnimanfi;: althongh interesting discnssions on many points ‘were elicited. There are some further Smpoai- tions relating to the o3 ization of the Catholic reform movement, and the mezns of agitation for the same, which remain for discussion in a third assembly of the deputies. They refer chiefly to the organization of the Reform Com- mittees, the constitution of communities, and the use to be made of the newspaper pressin advocating the eause of reform. - The following resolutions were adopted at tha second meeting of the Assembly of Deputies, and relato to the question of the reunion of-the Christian Churches. v “The Congress reiterates the expression of Christisn hope for a reunion of the now divided confessions, 88 contained in the MMunich pro- grammes of Whitsuntide and September, 1871, t expresses the wish that the theologians of all confessions may direct their attention to this poiat, and elect s Committee to which the com- mission is given— _ . “1. To putiteelf in communication with the already existing (or those in course of forma- tion) societies for the removalof church schism. “2. Tomake andinduce scientific examina- tion “kgg“d 0 existing differences, and to show ‘the possibility of their semoval, and to promote the publication of the results of these examinations in theological scientific works and journals. j %3, To promote, bymeansof popular writ- ings and csséys, the kuowledge of the dactrines, usages, and condition of the separated churches and confessions, the proper appraciation of the existing points of unity and difference, snd to derstanding of, and interestin, this desirable approach.” A NEW WAY CF KILLING TIGERS. Strycnine Pat to Good Use. An English tiger hunter tells the Indian . Pioneer how to kill the * Royal Bengals™: I use the old Kentucky ye&n‘fle.i S0-bore, which 1had with me in Toxas and Colorado. ~ Since then I got it converted into a breech-loader, apd it now takes three and a half drachms of powder, anda hollow picket nearly three diamoters in length, made of thin steel and coated with plauinum to give it weight and enable it to take the rifling. Thero is a small screw-plug in the base, which cen be taken omt. The cases, which are very long, and the pickets I am obliged to get from Springfield, Mass., as there are none manufactured in England. ~ Well, the secret of my b:ggix;cnto 3 certainty every tiger I hit with s single b i i et from this pea-rifle 15 this, that I fill up thehollow in tho picket with 9 or 10 grains of sirychnme of Scheele's strength. That 1. I reckon, an overdose, as I believe one_grain of this strength would kill a ‘sfier; but I give him to the extent the picket will hold. With this bullet 50 prepared, it does not mat- ter in the slightest dogres in what partof the body you hit the tiger; all that is necessary is that the bullet penetraté the skin somewhare, and if you sit down and mol‘(‘:flvm‘rigf, asl generally do after firing, yon will find the ani- mal Iying dead in {from ten minutes to an hour or 8o, accarding, 1. fancy, s to whether tho fickei breaks up at a e or a small vein. \When found, tho tiger is frequently as tiff as if Lo had been shot two or three dsya previonsly. Itis vory curions to watch the effects of the Btrychnine, which appear to vary a good deal. On one occasion I came on a tigerthat Thada few minutes before wounded in_the fleshy part of the hind leg; he was standing motionless, with- his legs spread out like a four-legged stool, and panting like an express steam eny . I -did not mind going up_to s few yards of hi 88 T had my three-barrel breech-loader In my hand; but he, nevertheless, took no notice of me, al- though he must have seen me. then went ly nesror, but he never moved, and at Jast, not wishing to keep the beast in pain, I went nE into a tree just above him, and punched & neat hole in his skull with a solid picket from the Kentucky. On several other occasions I have seen & tiger which I had wounded, while walking throngh the junglo apparently all ight, but falling into con- vulsions whenever a twiz or branch of atree which howas passing under touched his back, To show yon how infallible is this method of Killing a figer, I onco fired at a tiger dashin; across meat foll tare, and made sure I h: missed him, but the same evening, after I had retumed ffom shooting, & cowherd xaported a desd tiger in the jungle where I had been. I instantly ropaired to the spot by torchlight, for fear somo dhers might eat him, and at opco saw it was the tiger I had fired at. After at least a half an hour's search for s bullet-mark, we at last found the picket imbedded in one of the joints of his tail, with- in about one foot of the tail of it. I learned this idea from an elephant hunter I met at Ntetwe, in Soutlern Central Africa. He told me he had frequently bagged. uleg}mts by this means at from 400 to 500 yards, but he used s very heavy rifle, and I fancy his shells would have held 20'or 25 grains, at least. I had no op~ portunity of trying it there myself, as I had no means of ‘obtaining strychnine. Of course, if you take to my pbl:g, yghu. l:l!lst d(fi “b gxdyn wigg every animal you bag,—that is, collect wo %nflrlymm himyou.\a di!:gnul::mr h:: skin is off,—al- iet to the great of the 68, Iman; of whom are as fond of tiger's flesh as he aumez times is of theirs. “Paris a Humbug.» The Rev. J. H. Barclay ventures to differ from the sopuhr estimate. He writes to the Luther- an Observer: ; ¢ Jf there is an’ unmitigated humbug on the face of the earth, it is Paris. - People viait it be-" use it is the fashion, and learn to murders fittlo Freneh and to praige delightful Paree, as they pronounce if, becanse it is the fashion. Pawmis has its beatties ; it i8 a fine city, but there ig a wearisome sameness about its streets. Uni- formity becomes tircsome. Uniform, 28 & rulo, in height, uniform in style, the xfiinnxdmot everywhere prevalent. No one can erect an edi- fico antil submitted to the royal architect, who insiste on certain rules, ono man power, the carse of nations and churches. There is mnot in Peris, except her _opera house, & single building to Bennett’s Herald offico or the Park save in extensiveness, and you are safe in the conclusion ‘that when Earopean visitors aro going into ecstacies over the second city in the world, it is g:.l fashion, and that explains and covers a great ““If Paris is over-estimated, much more is her armya swindle. Tho Prussian victories lessened considerably in our estimation. We saw, prob- ably, finr? thousad of the flower of the army, viz.: the Versaillea troops. They Were walking awsaken end to maintain in wider circles the n- |- scarecrows; they were the slouchiest, dirtiest worst-dressed, meanest-drilled troops I ever Baw on e. Our cherished dream is gone; the days of the Old Guard are over. The it of the great Napoleon may well turn sorror m. I{::ham is vgmugx'x] on the banners of ce, for the 3 6] L. R or o chapis toft of the o1d army. i 183 a went in the broiling sun to the Hotal valids, the asylum of the old soldiers of Napo- 1eon, and the place where his sehes repose, and so we compared France, not with others, bnt with herself. In the hospital andaromnd ths gronnds we 8atv veterans of 90 years of age, whe put to shame the best blood of modern 8. Men who had fought through the suns of Egypt, and the snows of Russis, od and weather- beaten, but still eroct as pines, broad-ghoulder- ed, stern old soldiers, who recall tko glory of the Old Guard,—thelast lingering 1 of aonce powerful nation. We could not but think of what these old men must have felt for.the humiliation of tkheir land, how they must have Dled at the degeneracy of fhe moderna. . “ And what 15thematter with France? Where- in lies the secret of her overthrow? It is con- tameg in two words,—ignorance and licentious- THE BOY KING OF BAVARIA. ¥ie Plays at Government, and Makes 3 Business of Music and Romance. A correspondent of the Bosten Adcerliser writes from Berlin during the Imperial fetes = - The pretty boy who is now on the Bavarian throne was carried away for & time by pairiotie feelings, and behaved extremely well. Ho is, however, a fantastical yputh, 58 brain mnst have. been .somewhat deranged by too much music and romance, for even his best friende must allow that there is somewhere a screw Ioose in his head. - About the Governmens hs does not care much; it is a bare to him, is glad if Ministers take thaitroubls from his shoulders. He has,-however, s great idea about s rank as a King, and especizllyabout his fami- 1y, and is very sensitive on this point. The Ro- man party, knowing this weakness very weil, made use of it, and not withont success, {or the liberal policy in reference to the Roman Church, inaugarated by Bismarck, axd sustsined by ths. late Bavarian Minister, has changed remark- ably. The honors which were showered mpon the Crown Prince of y when inspect- g troops in Bavaris, and in which the whols people took part with' all ir hesrt, were most welcome to the Tlkramon- tanes, é:i . tb%ymhurt and hufl'mxded the King' very m and the more as ha is not very - lar. No wonder; he doeanothing to desorve he: love of his peo};}:‘.lmflhi_s shynezs and i ‘manner s sscribed to indifference. During the whole French war he did nol once visit" his brave army. He is idling - away -his time with fantastical and personal ursmits. Sensible Bavarians shrug their ehonlders impatiently in speaking of him, and in comparing him with the manly fature Emperor of Germany, he is {windling away toan almost contemptible nothing. (The Gor- man Crown Prince lod the Ba ‘traope, fo victory, + and his noble and prudent behavicr in referance to them, especiallyia the baitles of Weiesenbonrg and \Vo(:rtb, has von their whola heart. lMoreover, hdis frea 2nl open spcken,. naturally friendly to every one, without an air of ostentation, end, in a word, forming a striking. contrast to the shy, hermit of Bavaria. Ths love, or rather at ent, of ths Germans for their Princes is, however, \-ai‘grea.&, “and the Bavarians would pardon their King a great deal if he would continue going with the spirjt of the time; but should he really lean agsin td'the Bo- man pacty, and listen to their temptation, itis Dot impossible that the Bavarians might ons day’ discover that they conld do’ much better without 2 King who neither cares for his peyple nor for higflo’mmmen(. s Yty Nowadays it is generally belisved thaf have to porforea dafias e King ¢ G berg was always led by his Ulranontans ad- visers, snd the time msy come when some paliti- Z}; TETe may emesp him away, topetter with insignificant person wearing the grand. ducal crown of Hsssp; Darmstadt. gflae nearest relationship to greatand mighty Emperors is no . lorger a protection. Crowns ers meintained on B by the lova of the eo ds o people ad stzeng- armies. Germany was 100 wil 5 mdcim interest on the issues of the gost which wero preparing i Bavaris, and it créate: eneral indignation when g dzeided Uliramodtene gnlr. Von Gaszer) was requested to form 2 pew Cabinet. While this mapoplar gonlleuan,as rying in vain o induce some other persous ta enter his Cabinet, 2nd to swip witirhim-against. the current of thefide, Coufit Taufkirchen, the warian Minist ‘Rome, was caused {dcome- to Berlin, whkero him had some coaversajons which mnst have been rather explicis, Briue- hurried to Munich, where ho awived cx the aight of the 5th insf., and hadZin the merning; zmeet- ing with the Secretdry of State (Von other personsges. The result ig the kil of the Dliramontess embryo minisiry, snfit is ssn’gpused ‘that tho’ present” Minister of Finance ab] on Ptfretzschaet) will become President ¢f the inet. Ve _RED BILL: " TragicDeatnofa Missouri Pesperndo. 0O ; cola Correspoilicnce.of the Seiatia Sz, On last Friday -morning some of our giizens were startled atthe cryof * aman shoil” A majority were expecticg it, 50 it was o news to them. On Friday last Cooper's Grand Mehagesis and Circus was in town. cnd, as isTusuelinguch cases, the more reckless sort of R A st Tiberty to do s they pleased. Formon the pams of jWilli past & young man by - Sanders, more generslly kmown amorg our . citizens 25 ®Red Bill” has been |publicly and oponly defying the fbwn. jis ofiter,., and * éverything ~ connected _theregifh, aad scaring our Marshal and _his {Dopaty antil o Macsbel had visions of death oorver b - left the presence of his wife. Such being the - case, he went before ihe Town 'Board and told them he was afraid to hold the offico, and there~ fore wished to res;fl&sfl.is Tesignation was ace cepted, and the ex=. hal, who had once-bee fore resigned for the same rezson,—great bodily fear, or something of the kind,—wentgladly on way. A young max by- the name of Joha Wilsen, formerly of Warsaw, Mo., was arpointed, ead . all wont well until Fridey mornicy, vhen San ders came to town and got drank agd com: menced to intimidate the peopl, u:qho‘wq : wonttodo. . pth Banders, from the appointment of Wilson. had - bad feelings townrd him, and bad repetedly fold Wilson that he (Sanders) would not be arrested by him, and would threaten him. Sanders al- ways walked with his hand on his revolver, . ‘which was sometimes drawn on perss withenb any provocation. B r some threats of Sanders, an Fridy; Wilson undertook to make his 2:Test,. wben Sanders presented his derringer and threstened - death to the Marshal if he did more. Wilson, being - unarmed, wont out of the saloon, and as he d.ig 3 €0, said to Sanders, “Bill, I will arrest you yot,” and geing to the Mayor, 3 wawwant was placed in the Marshal’s hands, whothen procured « adonble-berrelled shot-gun and, carsfally loadin, both barrels with squirrel shot, ho went in search * of Sanders, and found him af,the! fookof the stairs leading into the old Herald ofico. He de- manded his arms, saying that he had a warrant for his arrest. Sanders instantly diow his pis- tol and attempted to shoot; at the same tima Wilson told him to drop his pistol, knt ke gave 1o heed to the wnmm% and hed it almost on a » level with Wilson's breast. when Wilson fired one barrel of his gun. the shot enterng on tha Tight side, back and on = level withthe right ng&ple,»md, passing through, lodged in the laft side a little below the point of eniranze on tha other gide. e fell, éxclaiming. “Iamadead . man!” He was then iaken in charge by friends . and four surgeons summoned, but déath kad entered in at that wound, which was it an” inch and a half across. He lived thirty minutes, * and remarked to some to take heed, that whiskey had brought him to what he was. ‘Wilson gave himsel up to the Saeriff, and has been around town ever since. The symmathies of the people are with Wilson. Ciicuis Court - meets to-day, and something mey be done. Good for Wilson.” Let all such men be served the same Way. Extraordinary Mecthod of Bringing & Drowned Man to theSurface. Stophano Landucci, an Itzlian gardener, was ** drowned while bathing in Lake Merced last Sun- day, says the San Francisco Chronicls of Aug. 81, His body was not discovered until Wednea- dny, the two men who searched for the corpse . baving failed to discover # by the ordinary means. Having heard that aloaf of fresh bxaufi into which quickailver had been inserted, woul drift sbout on the surface of the water,and finally eink over the dead body of the drowned, they procured a large, fresh loaf and plsced in it four ounces of - guicksilver. The loaf was thrown on tho waters of Lake Merced. The bread immedistely moved against the wind, which was blowing strong, and kept on till it reached a certain point. The loaf then ptop= ped and suddenly sank, and came to the surface - 2gain, and with 1t tho dead body. The men whe narrate this 5 - remarkable story are Vincino Morino.- - sid Francisco de Luea. Thay are well knownto our Italian population. Their story ia substan- tiated by others.