Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 13, 1872, Page 2

w0 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY; NOVEMBER 13, 1872 P ————— e S ] WASHINGTON. Greeley as a Defeated Man--- His Illustrious Pre- decessors. The Third Term---Growth of the Federal Villzge. Fro.n Qur Own Correspondent, 'WASEINGTON, Nov. 7, 1872 There will be a good deal of coarze haw-haw, and I told you o, over Mr. Greeley's defeat; ‘but those who supported him have no apologies tomake. TINTS ABOTT THE FLOOD. The escellence and discipline of the Dero- oratic party behaved with chivalric courtesy io thefr old critic ; but the Democratic rank and file, particularly in the cities, had lost interest in National politics, and had been corrupted in the localities. Witness the extraordinary epectacle of the pegroes voting for Jimmy O'Brien for Mayor, in the great negro ward of New York. Tne immemorial prejudica of Celt to African had been lost in the civic debauchery of the party. i At no time has thera beea less movement in affairs than during the campaign. The Cincinnati Convention believed there wasa conecience in the conntry, and appesled to it. The time was in- auepicious, for in place of a censcience, thers was general prosperity, except in theSouth, and, even there, Texas was doing finely, and Virginis well. The harvest-time of the year is not well adapted to penance and prayer. But, 28 to the grand loyalty of Repubiicans to their party, fadge! Up to the nominaticn of Mr. Greeley, from one-half to two-thirds cf iks whole vote of that party looked on beamingly with this sort of encouragement: © Boys, do the beet you can, and we'il consider it!" But, no matter whom the nominee, the country was ‘tound, on recossideraticn, to turn its coun- teaance from him; and this it did witbout acy ill-feelng for Greeley, but from the hesitaticn, or, as Shakspears has it, “the regard” with whish greet enterprises turn their cwrents awss. ETCHINGS. The personal staks which the averags man has in the Presidescy, in humdrum times, i8 small. Itis less than that wkich the sverags manp has in the fate of his soul, nciwithstszd- ing the preackers’ nng bassoon. Without a pow- erfol incentive, he will vote to sustain tkingsas they are; and the machinery of tha party in power, used without extraordirary corrupticn, i3 & part of the framework of things. The intri- cate machinery of city politice can be disturbed by buying some of the engiceers, as was done in Philadelphis last October: but to move upon the surface of the whole country, even with such machinery as Napoleon III, had, will tax any po- litical treasury. Napoleon's widest inetrumen- tality was a rhyme, aa follows : Francale, vouley vous du bon? Choisez Napcloon ! Literally translated, this reads: Frenchmen, business do you waat? Choose the eafe President, General Grant! Every sensible man who iz called npox to look npon Greeley's supporters as the enemies the countrs may ask himself whether Le rTe- mired no oppoeition whatever tc the faverite of 3)8 harveet-time # If electione are F:md thicgs to have ; if they stimulate that intellectusl con- tention and discuesion of ffairs which bring the ublic eye up to inguiry and jndgment upon the %-ovemmem,—soxzebn ¥y bad to oppose the omiesions and commiseions of the last four years. It was better to lead that opposition from the men and opinions of the New Dispea- sation than from the old Bourbon standpoint. Whichever candidate, Greeley or & etraight Democrat, would have got most votee, provided he got defest, was of secondary cou- eequence. The abler men of tho DemoCratic me muet now perceive that their kind of 1 owing in the cities, and the old class of preju- Gices they encouraged, bave 1o sianding in the court of American opinion. But, if this election encouraged General Grant to put his relatives into office, if it dismsayed opposition to jabbery and official ineolence, and proved that nobody dare challenge the bull-pups, then the day of Liberal victory is not long delayed. GREELEY'S PERSONAL STANDING. Mr. Greeley, with his croes-fire 1ecord, and sombre vehemence of attack, was an easy candi- date to_put upon the defensive. But he kbas distinguished himeelf in the campaign s a man. of upusnal bonhommie, breadth of leadership, and faithfulness to his platform snd eupporters. ‘Amongst the testimonials o the life of Greeley is the fact that he was nominated at all for the Presidency ; for neither amongst the elected nor the defeated candidates for that ofiice, since the country began, has any man been put for- ward by & party who had not occupied some eminent position, or many such, in National station. That a journalist, who bad served part of a term in Congress, and never reached posi- jon even in the State Legielature, sbould be nominated by the perty which bad voted for the victors of New. Orleans and Antietarn, and great Gov- ernors of States, like Cass and Seymour, was an. anomaly, even in our politica. To appreciate the man’s exceptional position, we have only to look over the editoral and publishing school, and aek what man besides, 1in letters, could have been mamed for the place? Indeed, one's ~vanity might well be satisfied with tho most ignominious defeat for such & Magistracy, 3Ir. pub- an Buren, after the most eminent Yic stations had been attained by him, inclasive of the Presidenc, ran again at the héad of the emall Free-Soil Democracy; and AMr. Fillmore led a forlorn hope, after having once inhabited the White House. William Wirt, who was not only one of the most efiicient public attorneys, but ono of the most popular literary men of his day, received only 7 electoral votes (Vermont's) out'of 286, although he started with spparently fair prospects. DEFEATED MEN, It is an open question 28 to whether the list of defeated candidates does not present superior ‘biographies, and not inferior administrative tal- ent, to the list of Presidents. Henry Clay, whom Mr. Greeley followed g0 sturdily through repeated dieasters, ran against J. Q. Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, and Polk. In the light of time, he looks the figurc of a Magistrate and a eat party-leader better than at least three of is succeseful rivals. There would seem also to have been the same inequality belween William Harris Crawford, who was abandoned after being nominated in Congressionzl caucus, and John Quincy Adams praferred. Adams was a good deal like Greeley in some of Greeley's moods; he was alternately a Conservative and & Redical, a Federaliet and 3 Madisonian Republi- can; he clamored as much on the Right of Peti- tion as Mr. Greeley upon Impartial Suffrags, striking the same chord for years. Although a finely educated man, Mr. Adams had neither the magnetismnor the management for a first-class Magistrate, while Crawford was the firet intel- lect of Georgia, and had been Foreign Minister, Acting Vice President, Senator, and Secret: of War and the Treasury. He was of a super! Scotch type of manhood, six fest three, strong in constitution and mind, and always calm, gra- cions, democratic, and popular. 1t would bother & critic now to know why the Whig party dxo?ged Mr. Clay for “0ld Zach.;” and why “0ld Zack."” beat Lewis Cass, who was a wonder and » tradition amonget men, having been the great pioneer Governor of the Northwest, valor- ous in action, faithful and patriotic, and hon- ored with the highest Statc stations. So aleo with the success of Franklin Pierce over Win- field Scott. PHILOSOPHY. On the whole, I recommend good humor. To our Democratic friends, 1 suggest a stanzs frem the hymn-book : Aebamed of Grecley? Soczer far Let midnight blush o own a stat. Let this tuy deep thavkegiving 20 Greeley was not acbamed <f me ! E THE TEIRD TERY, Therois nothing in the tlird-term cry, al- though & third term might not be in vain if it would make a demand for one term. Had An- drew Johneon stood any chacce for a re-election befare the people, Coniwes would havo exerted itself immensely to make cne term the standard of official responeibility., Tt would be easy to prove that the cry for a third term is an old one, herstofsre restrained by the self-respect of our Presidenta. ‘William Wirt wrote a letter to Joha T. Lomax, Nov. 15, 1882, eayicg: ** I see that General Jack- son hes been already nominsted by one of the Northern papers for a third term. My opinion is, he may be President for life if he chooses.” Jackeon had the patriotism to chooze to be no wiser than Washington, and Lis message in 1831 makes favorable reference to the restriction of the oflice to a eingle term. Jefferson was also solicited to accept & third term; and W. H. Crawford introduced a resolu- tion to that effect into the Georgia Legislature, which passed both branches. Jefferson followe ‘Washington's example, rebuffed the solicitous office-bolders, and preferred instead the com- parative indigencoof o remainder of days too well applied to the public happiness, Mr. Lincoln barely lived over one termj;but the consistency of biography would be taxed to imagine his homely greatness seeking to set an examplo of a third term of office. The fact that the subject is mentioned at all in this period is proof to posterity of the ehamelessness of our of- fice-holders, and of the treagon lgs.insl: theRepub- Jie, which many of them would huzza for if they dared. The Rebel Constitution of 1861 provided fer one term of six years, and in that respect it is worthy of imitation, Had the term of Grant expired in 1876 instead of 1874, the measures of Reform prematurely announced at Cincinnati would have leavened the Republican party, or, by that time, have triumphed over it. THE BIG DISTRICT APPECPRIATION. Zpropos of ihe alleged expectation of the Board of Public Works, to get $5.000,660—some eay §10,000,000—from the present Congress for this District, I may say that tho.total of public expenditures for this Distriet, inclusive of all the public buildings, had been' 341,000,000 up ‘o the close of 1669. It has probably amounted ‘o £50,000,000 by eubsequent expenditures up to 1872. For the eale of city lots in {Lis Diatrict, tke Government bad received $750,000 vp o 1334, and had kept as reservations, or given away, lots to the value of $200,000; while, in the same time, it had voted the ity $430,000. ‘The original public papers and farniture, re- moved from Philadelphia to Washington in tke year 1800, filled one sloop ; the furniture for all the Departments was coataired in it: and twelve boses—five small ones and seven large— contained all the archives. Fifty-four pereons then comprised ths Government, from the Presi- dent down to messengers. At the middle of May, 1801, thero wero one short of 600 bouees in Washiogton City, of which 101 wero Lrick houses, The population grew ouly about 550 per an- pum for ferty yoears; and, belween 1810 and 1850, the annual increass was above 1,500. Be- tween 1850 and 1860, it was 2,000 per snoum. 1n 1360, thero wera 61,122 peoplo in the city, sod 455,080 in tho whole District; the Washingion negroes, free and lave, then cumbered 14,316, Fho population in 1370 Lad increased _to 109,- 192in tko city, and to 131,700 in the District, acd the negroes had rieen to 43,404. Thera sre probably mors negro Louseholders here, in Tatio, than in any cther city in Christendom. By 1875, tke Centennial year, Waehington will con- tain—with a broader local epirit, it is to be hoped—200,000 peogle. For a Capital City, it has pome cxtraordinary idess in political czonomy. Instend of beating dewn the local license laws of the neighboring territory of Maryland and Virginia, and eending icdustrions commercial travellers through them, it ponnces on New York and Baltimore drzm- merg, acd charges them §200 for eelling with- oui license. Gara. = EXPEDITIOUS WODE OF EXTINGUISHING FIRES. T the Editor :f The Chicage Tribus Sim: As ikis is the ueual seagon for fires, and every item giving means to pul them o1t quick- 1y will be treasured, I secd you tko foliowing, culled from W. A, Weedsbo's “Year-Book of Fharmacy acd Information:” “An apetbecary at Nantes happezed to have a large quaatity of benzine in his cellar. Eig clerk, goirg down carelessly, set fire toit. Fail after pail of water was thrown upon it without producing any desired cZect, when the apothe- cary {ook up a veszel containing ammoria, and d tpon the fro tho contents. To his az- ment the fames were quenched 8s if by magic.” T'do ot expect that oar Chicago ladies will send for their smellng-bottler 19 quench the bad master: botit is worih whils {o know that smmcnis is good for exutguizhing fires. Re- epecttully youre, N. W. Kixo, Chemist, o W - ¥ Fxb 3 Cs1€460, Nov. 1 A Quarter of o Ceniury in Darkness. From the Boelon Transcript, Abont twenty-5vs years ago, Mr. Daniel A. Drown, of Fcrtemouth, . H., graduated with honer st Dartmouth Ccllege, and was about to enter ¢ tko duties of a protesscrahip tendered hiz, when a eevere inflammation attacked his eyes, which Laa lasted to this day, and blasted his youthful hopes of 8 bappy and useful life. For a long while ha and kis family battled with the diseaze, and the moderate competence of his father was expended in vain efforts to reeloro thie, his ouly eon, to hesith and.the world, But after several years spent in sea-voyagee,and coneulting the most eminent coulists in this and otber Isnde—and when Lope loog deferred had made all their hearts EicE—tba pocr_ruflerer sought what zelief ho could find in a dsrkesed room, and thero he has remaired for more than twenty years, once in a while venturing to elroll out for & few moments in the mooolight, snd atill ratber to look at nature in the sachght, and in eitber case paying a fearful peaslty of in- creseed anguish for tho indulgence, 88 ths most c1quisite pain pierces his eyes on the leaet ex- posare to the light. So eensitivo are theso organs, indeed, that mot only is Le forced to keep his room darkened to a degreo that can elmost Le felt by his visilore, but he must aleo wear thick bandages over his eyes &ll the while, and is constantly wetting these. When firat taken Mr. Drown was a powerful and athletio man, but this enforced sedentary mode of life has worn npon him sadly, and ho is now bat & wreck of his former eelf. But through all he has maintained an astoniehing degree of Chris- tien resignation, equanimity, and cheerfulnesa, such as should put to the?blush many of ne who complain much more Joudly of trifies in compari- son with hie trials. He posseses much literary and poetic talent, and either by writing in the dark, through wires, or by a closely-shaded lamp, has written considerable for tho Portsmouth press since his immurel, and sevaral yeara ago ‘publisked, in this city, & volume of poems, with an_introduction by his fellow-townsman, B. P. Shillaber. Mr. Drown, since the death of his father, hes boarded in the suburbs of Porte- ‘mouth, and is now living near Ryo Beach. —_— Work for the Academy. The London Echo's correspondeut in Paris writes: “ The French Academy will be very busy this winter. No fower than four new ‘im- mortals’ have got to go through the ceremony of taking their ‘arm-chair” Firss of zll, there will be the reception of the Due_d'Aumale, zice L. de Montalembert; next. M Littre, zice M. Villemain; then M. de Lomenio, vice Al Mar- mier; and finally, M. Emile OLivie, nice Lamar- tino. The literarr merits of the Duc d Aumale are certainly not insignifizact, to wit., his His- 1oire des Princes de la Maxor. de Conde, but it would not be unjast to eay thut heowes his elee- tion to the Academy chiefly 10 his name. The ¢immortals’ have & g5od deal of human natare left in them, and like to adopt a title when it can o done decently. Moreover, like all Fronch- men, they are fond of o bit of opposition now and then. Urnder the Empire they clected Jules Favre, and now under the Republic they bestow their favors on the Duc d’Aumale. His Royal Highness will have to eing tho praiges of the historian of the Afoines d’ Occident nud of Sainle Elisabeth de Hongrie, and the champion of liberty of conscience and instruction. He will ind, in the account of the struggles which, as- sisted by Lacordaire and Lamennais, Montalam- bers had with the Government of Louis Phil- ippe, many a page of which it will be difficult for him to handle; but, 28 he is not deficient in tact, T dare say he will overcome the difficulty enccess- fully. The eulogy of Villemain, the Spiritualist, by M. Littro, the Positivist, will not be less in- teresting. But the great eventwill be the rece tion of gl Ollivier, who owes his clection'chiefly to that Empiro which is now eo unpopular. Daro he enter the Academy with those fatal words, “ Ceeur leger,” on his consoience? How can he paint tho life_of his friend Lamartine without condomntng himself ? Perhaps, however, there may be a change of Government between this and then—who knows ? e eichi T = S The Champagne Crop. It will be held to-be dismal nows by many who think they are in the habit of drinking champagne, that an suthority likely to bo trusi~ werthy eends Iugubrious tidings Irom Chalons abcut the crop. This writer describes tho barvest 25 scezcely a third of the avorage yield, adding ;‘snd, this, too, aftera ccuple years equaliy 2d.” Avesult of this grievous state of affairs is, that wine is sent out when only a year old, whereas it used to be kept till three, four or five, and of course suffers accordingly in quality. The demand is enormouely in excess of the supply, notwithstanding that within tho twelve months eight milions of bottles have left Epernay, The present harvost is all be- &poken, and there is, consequently, every,resgon why our local manufacturers of soi-disant Clic- quot shonld make preparation for an sétive and profitable scason, knowing, as they so well do, that, as ono of the fraternity expressed it, ‘‘any- thing that pops,” has & weil-wired cork and a gold-embossed label, does just as well with many of their connoisseur custcmers a8 though it had crossed the Atlaatic. 3 In one district along the banks of the Marne where, until lately, they only raised s cheap red wine, the failure of white Wines, and the in- creased demand for them during the past three years, has induced the proprietors to change the color of their vintage, and the rerult hus been enormously remunerative, NEW ORLEANS. The Infamous Election Laws of Louisiana. Commercial Spirit of tho Crescent City- What Sho Has Dene to Stimlate Troduction, The Texas Faoific Rafiroad---Sleam Motor on Street Railways--» Cctton and Sugar. From Qur Oun Corregpondent, New OBrEaNs, Nov, 6, 1972, LOTISIANA—THE ELECTION LAWS. You wiil prokably kave to wait for some time el before sou receive the official report of our Loutsan elections, held last Monday. These well aigh unbearable delays sre s part, and only a part, of the fruits of the infamous Election laws under which this people groan. If delay were all, we conld the more easily submit; bub it is the purpose of the unnecessary delay that renders us 8o uncomfurtable. These Election laws of Louigiana wero made by bad men, ander vicious dictation, to defraud honest citizens out of the deareat right belonging to them a8 such. Thedelay bodes no good. A writer in the Picayune this moraing expresses, in simple hcaest phrase, the sextiments of our people. in- terrogativeiy, in thia wise: * Howmuch longer do you euppose the people of this city will toler- ate guchdsiavin counting the votes? BSuppce they skould arise 1 their terror and might, acd hurt somebody 2 Would they be to blame ? And, if they shouid not thus act, ia there still, any depth of degradation to which they may tot deecend? If they con eubmit to such viia wrong axnd dieregard their rights, wounld you not supposo that they had reached the lowest @eep of degradaticn possible of attainment by poor kuman nature ?” _ NEW OBLEAYS COXMERCIAL SPIRIT. As tha commercial interesta of Chicago and New Orleans sre, toa great extent, concurrent, souwill ba pleaced to learn that the latter geems, rotwithstanding all discouragements from Joeses, puklic frauds, and misgovernment, to be arousing Lereelf for honorable competition with ihe ctker greal business marts of thia conntry. Mush might o truthfully eaid in apelogy for Ler apparen: eupineness during tke past nino years; but Iwill now sllude to bat one cause for it which every intelligent and ikcughtfel mind will, to & greater or Jeas de- gree, appreciate. The war left Lonisiaca, Ar- Yansae, Miesinslppi, and the whole country commercially connected, by the usual relations between producer and factor, with this city, nearly bereft of the resources ea- sential to the cultivation of the soil. A Jarge majority of both eugar and cotton planters had ey with which to pay Iaborers, or to buy cs, working animals. agricultural imple- or provender. Ic moet cases, tho corn and the cotton-seed to plant the limited sreas, attempted to be cultivated, 32 wellas &l elao rLecessary for the enterprise, bad to Lo bought with morcey furnished by the factor at the very beginzing of the vesr. **The March to tho Een,” with all ita terrible concomitants, bad, in eftect, ewept over the Southwest, as well as through Georgia—Texas only excepted. Add to tkis univereal destitution {he no legs mui- formly experienced difficulty of adjusting the labor of tha conntry tothe ends of its agri- culture, wader the einieter interferences of a Lungry clase of adventurers, whose sim was to fieeco alike sll but themselves, and who are now everywhero known and despised 88 **carpet- buggers; " and you get some insight into the 1¢ze0ns why the planting interest not only re- quired aid to mske & recommencement of cotton aod sugar culturo in 1£65, but has been com- elled, ever eince, to call upon the merchant for (kc stsistacco. In 163, '66, '67, the crops, from want of due culture, the vieitations of the caterpillar, snd perbaps, in some degree, to ctber azd Latural cauzes, were very deficient ; and the omerchants of New Orleans LOST HILLIONS OF DOLLARS that they bad, withont euficient security, ad- vanced to make them, Thisisa very guarded statement, and millions more may bo allowed for losses mnco that time, evon though the crops, since aud including ihat of 1868, have beon better. lndeed, the process atill goes on, and there appears to be no other way by which to keep the country in cultivation than the eup- ly of money by the banks and the merchants of Néw Orleans. The former, of course, have long cessed to desl directly in thia way with the Ehnter, leaving the onus to rest, as, in fact it loes, upoan the cotton and euger factors. But the merchants, in order to do this, must have the meny of the barks ; and thus, in the end, and every year, it all goes to_buy from the West mules, pork, corn, hay, agricultural implements, and other necessaries to the production of a Southerr crop ; not to be returned till the end of the year, acd Dot then, nnless success hus crowned the enterpriac of the borrower. So sou perceive that, if New Orleane has not built rail- waye and established ocean steam-lines, she hag at jeast not been chargeable with hoarding the capital she anleuee; but bks, in the most atriotic and beneficent munner, employed 1t to ho purposes of preventing the country, from becoming a wilderness, feeding its agricultural populations, and furnizhuwg to the factones of the civilized world the staple thai now cicthes €0 large & part of the human raccs. TAILROAD MATTERS. Now, though still lcaded down with the same ponderous necegsity of keeping the country in cultivation, the merchants of this city have come forward and subecribed tho sum required from them to complete the railway to Houston, Texus, and will doubtleas also speedily take the requisite measures to build the branch from Ver- millionsille, 10 Lafayettc Parish, to Shreveport, in Caddo, the last being upon” Red River, am ths eastern terminus of the Texas Pacific. This Pacific Road seema to be in_rapid progress of construction frcm Aareball to Dallas, and even west of tho Jatter town, eituate upon the Trinity River, in Texas. You have seen so much about this road—which, but for scheming epeculators, would have been completed befora the war, that Iwill not elongate this epietlo by raying more than that it now seems to be & living, pro- gressive thing ; and it is sincerely to bo hoped that hcreafter the mention of the * Southern Pacific Railroad,” or * Texas Pacific Railroad,” will elicit something better than a eneer or an imprecation from finger-burnt etockhoiders, their heirs and assigna. STEAM MOTOR ON STEAM RATLWAYS. 1 am gorry to noto that the horse disease is so rapidly invading tho Weat, and that in Chicago you are msing oxen instead of horses. Should it reach us, wo ehall bo s little better prepared for it, in one xespect, than othercities, by reason of our ‘‘thermo-specific,” or detached steam motor on our sireet raills. Our little steam mules do their work so well, and withal so much cheaper than animal mules and horses, tha they leave nothing better, 88 we are at_present in- structed, to be desired. During his late visit, Governor Sprague was greatly interested in this new mode of using steam_without_furnaco or boiler, and having, with General Beauregard, critically examined it, expressed his entire ap- proval of our New Orleans discovery. COTTOX. Our cotton comes in moderately, the recoipts being go far 79,000 bales, in edvance of the same time last year, with prices roft, and to-day a little drooping, We do not expoct any perma- nent advance before tho New Year, as thero ‘must bo a pressure upon this market before that time of {bo bulk of tho crop, The weather, ever eince picking began, has been uncommonly. favorable for gathering, and_that operation is congeguently quite forward. Fromlettersalready received, I nots indications that our American spinuers are likely to fall into the same error, for -which they have Leretofore severaltimes Fnid dearly i, ¢.; relying npon the emaller mar- :ets, end’ picking up odd lots, while leaving Txropean buyers to secure their stocks from an ample supply during November and_December, when the best of the crop is on ealo here. Thig policy has geveral times cventusled in very neacly o destitution of etock in the New Eng- land mills, and I believe, onco _in the neccesity for bringing cotiou from England. In the spring, they pay very full prices a8 the penalty for their delay. Our crop over the cottou bill of this country will, if closel; icked, reach 8,500,000 of bales, and, I thinl k will searcely fall below that in any probable event. If any sharp, patent-seoking Jonathan will in. Yent & real cotton-picking machine, he can at once grow rich, and we will agree to concede him the palm even over ounr discoverer of the fireless locomotive. BUGAR. Our eugar crop, on the confrary, will be very moderate, probubly much short of early esti- mates. But little has yet come to market, and prices are good. Thesd are likely, under all the facts connected with the sugar production hera and elsewhere, to be well sustained. i IMPROMPTO. —_———— A HUSBAND'S VENGEANCE. An Italinn’s Assassination of Mlis Wifc and Her Lover. From the New York Sun, Nov. 9. A Sun reporter went to Dover, N. J., yester- day, to escertain the details of the shocking tragedy which was enscted thero on Wednes- day morning. The reporter learned from the lips of Giovanni Barrotti, who is at the point of death, the circumatances under which he wae stabbed by Louis, the husband of Barrotti's besutiful housekeeper, Johanna Moosi. The story is one of tragical interest. Giovanni Barrotti, who i8 an {atelligent and apuenally good looking young man, left Italy some five years ago. e came %o New York snd etayed here two years. He had friendsin Dover, N. §., who wrote bim to come snd settle thers, Barrotti opened a shoe store in Dover. He had great success. He kad o pleasing manner, seemed always good natured, and was liked by everybody. About five months ago be weab to New York city to engagea housekeeper. Hoa heard of an Italian widow who was looking for just such a position and engaged her. Sbe went with him to Dover. He became greatly attached to her. Everybody noticed that he was very devoted to ber, and that he treated her more’like s wife thana servantoera housekeeper. Johanna Moosi was a brunette, petite, plump, well formed. She had = fine ex- pressive face, olive complexion, largo black eyes which always looked bright snd cheerful, an exceedingly pretty mouth, Emall kands, small feet—she wes the very typo'of an Ilalian beauty. ._ Giovanni's friends spoke with enthusiasm of Jckbanne's beauty, and congratulated hir upon having secured so agreeable a housekeeper. Giovanni langhed when they rallied him on hig * pretty housekeeper,” as_they used to call her, auld said ehe was merely his eervant—that was all. They lived very bappily. Johanna wasa good housekeeper, ui Giovanni uged to sayhis boro had never been so bright and o bappy. Giovan- ni's_friends, when they wero in his house, no- ticed that her ayes followed him in his elightest motions. Ho never left the house without her; ehe naver went anywhere without him. ~ As the story went, they were soon to be married. As soon as Giovanni could get monay enough he would take his Johanna back to his native vil- Iage, near Rome, for, as ho frequently eaid, ho could never forget his native land. On Wednesday morning he wes, as usual, in his shop, langhing and joking. Two men en- tered. They had just anived in the morning train from New York. One, Louis, was a small, wiry fellow with a vicious faco; _tho ather, Phi- lippi, was a big, burly Italien with & stolid ox- pression., Giovanni looked up. Ho saw the man who was to murder him, and bads him, pleasant- ly, * Good morning." . é “ Good morping,” Louis sgid, in. Italian. And he added, *May I comein?” “+Certainly,” Giovanni replied, in Italian, greeting the visitors in the most cordial manuer, for he was always glad to see a countryman. « There was nobody in the shop but Giovanni. TLouis looked around as though ho was looking for somebody. He cast furtive glances at Gio- vanni, and eat down in a chair. *I'am looking for an Italisn™woman by the reme of Johaona Moosi,” Le eaid, aftera pause. Lt e ‘+She lives here, #ir,” Giovanni replied; in his clenr,,rmgxng voice. *'Are you acquainted with Eer # “Yes, I am,” Louis_eaid, eyeing Giovanni askance, *:I want to eco her.” 11 call her,” Giovanni eaid, readily; and he went into tho back roor and called, ** Johanna, Jobanza.” “I'll be down in o minute,” ehe answered. ¢ She'll bo down in » moment,” Giovanni eaid, relurning to the shop. L Louis was whispering to Phillippi in a very etrange way. Giovanni thought nothing of it, Lowever, and whistled a barcarole. Light footeteps wero heard. * That's Johan- ns,” Louis enid, and ho arose to greet her. She etepped in with a emile. She stopped atill when gho eaw who it was, and exclaimed in an impas- sioned voice: * For Heaven's eake, it ishe!" - She turned, seemingly, to go back. “ WWhy, what is this 7 Giovanni ssked, witn as- tonishment , *‘ what does all this mean 2" Louiz stepped quietly up to Jobanna, who was in a flutter of excitement. Ho looked her sten- dily in the face. He took bold of her hand and. gaid, * You are my wife.” - ¢ {¥hat's that " exclaimed Giovanni, amazed. “ What'a that you have been saying " “T say that you are my wife,” Louis said, ad- dreesing himsélt stll to Johanna. *You don't eny it 3" & Johanna ehook her head. ** Louis," she said, “Why do you persecute me? Why do you fol- low mo intesd of leaving me alone?” - Ho lsughed. * Youare my wife,” he said, “and 1 want you to live with mo as my wife. I have come here to take you back with me to New York.” “Tgowith you!" she exclaimed. * Never, never!” And turning to Giovanni, who looked on in silent amazement, *‘This is the man who in- veigled me from Italy to America, and then stole sl my valuables and all my clothes to buy him- self drink. I go with you? Never, never.” “+Well,” Louis #aid with a ncer, * you are my wife. We bave never been divorced.” “1 was your wife,” she eaid, in her impaa- sioned way, ‘'but ever sinco you stols my clothes,—ever since you drove ine out of your house and would not récognize mo 8 your wifo, 1 have not been_your wife, und I never, never will be—never!” *+ Let mo speak to you alone,” Louis oid. I want to talk to you. Let us goiutoaroom where we can be alone.” **No, 1 will not,” she said; *‘I know that you have been wanting to do me gome injury.” **Why. 1 would not for the world,” Loais said. “Jonly want to tulk to you privately.” Sho would not go, and then he implored ker 1o grast Ium thir fayor. - Giovanni eaid, ‘ Jchaone, if this map 1e sour husband, and be waots to talk to you, you Dad better go into tho next room.” She Leeitot- ed a long while, and finally cousenled. The busband snd wife weot iotu tho next room, and remsived closeted for shout five minutes. Thep they csmo back. Joharra was erying, and- Louix’ Tdec WIre BR eXpréceiis of bitter dieappointment. . E * Well, are you going 2 Giovanni zeked Jo- hsnna, 10 & tone of anxiely. She’cried. * No," sho eatd. cannot, ! connot go-with him.” i 1 bave just been toling Phillippi, Gigvani £aid, quietly, ** while you tio werk t tho otber room, that 1 sm going to taks Johanna any how 1o New York in a few days. Sho wll be there with her relatives, and you can see hor there. You cau have & better chence to talk to her there, and if she then consents to live again with you, Il right. (His voice was slightly trem- bling.) 1do not want to etand between husband and wife.” = 3 Louis cast a furtive glance at Giovanni, but made uo reply. He put one hand into his pockut and xid, locking his_wife straight m tho 3o, 4 8o you wilt not go with me.” H i “Teannot,” she eaid, sobbing, “Tcacnot.” “ Well, you'll sce me to the fiopr, * Louis said. “Oh, yos,” she said, with a faint emule. Sho went a8 far s the door. Thon Louis, who bad suddenly becomo very pale, said : ** And you wul not bo my wife, naver 2 g Sho was about to answer, znd opened bor lips, but quick as a flash Louis threw his left arm round her neck, and with his right hand planged a long knife into her mouth. ** Oh!" sbe eried, as the blood gushed out zad streamed over hor bady. She had strength enough to throw her arm round him. seemiugly to support herself oo the man who was murdering ler. Lous raised the knife and stabbed her again, this tims in the Leart. e “ Stop ! stop !” Giovanni cried, springizg to the door. W 1t wae too lats. Tho murderer held hir victim inhis grasp. Defors Giovanmi could prevent him the knife again flashed in the air, aod again it was buried 1n_the woman's heatt. Fluluppi, the murderer's companion, stood by lus eids, looking at the spectacle. Giovanni, who was_a powerful maa, cluichsd the assasein's arm. For o moment tbere Wasa chaxce that the murderer’s instrament might he wrenchied from_his hand. But no. Louis was too quick for Giovannl, Ho freed hie arm aud the ‘krife descended into the ltaliae's hearb. Giovanni uttercd a faict ery and staggered. The woman had rolled down' the stcop, snd was thora lying doad, bathed in her blood. She had died almost instantly. ¢ _Lows did not stop as he looked back npon his victim who wae Iying on the stoop—his own wife —hosecmsd to gather new strengih, and agein b raised the knife, and again it diszppeared in the breast of Giovanni. He would have fallen, but Louis Leld him with one arm, still stabbiog him with the other. The knife svas iuvariably pointed to Giovanni's heart. 1t secemed as though Lonis wanted to cut his wife's lover's heart out. - Grovanni, after the first wound, shouted to Phillippi, who was coolly standing by, **Quick, quc e cri “take the knife away from him.” But Phillippi would not, He stogd there ¢ Jcenmct, I .new branch of economic industry. ‘gr%il_a“t}y, 28 though plessed with his friend's The neighbors now ran to the spot, and the asenssin and his friend fled. They were soon secured. Louis, on entering the police station, cursed every one who approached him. Ho wah ironed, and taken to Giovanni's house. There, on & mattress, lay Giovenni, at the point of death. He bad lived longer than Jobanna, Jhoso form b clasped when ho foll wounded on the stoop. Ho had felt her dying breath, and had kisged her when it seemed that he himself could live not a moment longer. But ho was alive vet, and conscious. He identified Lonis and Phillippi, and both were taken to Morris- town. There they sre in jail. . Theso are the main facts as the dying Italian gavo them last nightto n reporter of the Sun. Barrotti was very low. He couldecarcely epeak. His bandsome face looked wan, pale; his fiery black eyes wers sunken, but had still a famnb luatre. “Ho eaid that three days ago Johanna re- ceived an anonymous letter from New York ask- ing her to visit that city, and to take out a di- vorco from ihe writer. He thought this was very strange, a3 Jobanna could not have com- plied with the writer's wish. even had she been desirous of ro doing, not knowing his address, The reporter asked him why Louis went to take Jobanna back with him if ho wanted to be divorced from her. _‘**Fool, fool,” Barrotti replied, awallowing a Piece of ico which a friend put into his mouth, ©1 think it was all an excuse. Peoplo say sho bad plenty of morey, and that he had none.” Reporter. What separated them ? Berrotti (faintly). I think the first trouble wasthat before bie married her be told her that Do bad plenty of money, and promized to eend Sor ber child and her sister in ltaly—she ¥as a widow in Italy when he married ber—and sha bad to give him money on the very dsy of Ler mrriage to get drunl with. Reporter. Did you think when he came thab he was going to stab you ? Barrotti (with a quick flash of his black eyes). If 1 had thought that, by Heavens— Ho did not finish. Ho was too weak. He gueped faintly for breath. Reporter (after Giovanni had recovered a lit- tle). Did #ho ever tell you anything sbout him ? _ Giovanni (faintly). No. Ob, o, oh! Ithink it was impossible, impossible to kill a woman— and thore was no occasion. no occasion, Lsaw him stab her—I eaw it. Blood camo from her mouth like 2 river. Reporter. How long did she live ? Giovanni (bis mouth_quivering). In about two minutes the wes cold, Tho reporter bade the ding man good bye, and went to the undertaker of Dover, where he saw the corpso of Johauna. It was in a plain, wooden box. The body had been washed, but the faco was covered with thick streaks of coagu- lated blood. She wes once beautiful, nud nos, what o ghastly picture. Even the beantiful flowing hair was clotted with blood. The corpse was dressed in the clothes which were worn by e ber at the time of the assassination. She was buried yesterday aftornoon. Giovanni asked what they bad done with bis Jobanna, The an- Bwer was that they had buried her. —_—— Wtilization of Iron Siag. A writer in the Now York Tribune, atter de- scribing various methods adopted in Europe for utilizing iron slag, thus speaks of what the French iron masters are doing with it: Neither of the previous processes, however, are of d0 great importance as that invented by M. Minary, director of the worksin Franche Comte. This method is not to employ the slag directly to form artificial stone or pressed bricks, but to reduco it to s fine stato of division, in which it becomes capable of a great variety of uses. The channel through which the molten tlag flows from tho furnsco is made_to termin- ate in & running stream of water leading into a 1t or excavation. On striking the water, the ava-like streem of slag is blown 2nd broken into a sort of fine porous gravel, which the flow of the water then bears along into the pit. Mean- while, the iron grains contained in the slag, which previonsly were eeparated by crush- ing, are now eorted out by this water rocess, sinking to the bottom by their weight, inetead of being carried on with the rest. ‘The glag sand, sccumulating in the pit, is charged thence,into wagons or railroad cars, by means of su endless chain and buckets, driven by an en- gine run by hot gases from the furnace. The cost of this procees is only eome seven cents per ton. It renders the siag easily transportable, and dispenses wilk muc Jabor and attendance, and with many special tools for handling it. The artificial sand or granulated slag thus produced is found to bo not merely easier and cheaper to get rid of, but applicable to a number of valua- ble uges. " Tho first of thesd is for casting-sand; and pigs made in guch a *‘bed” come out exceed-~ ingly bandsome and bright. 'Thie material is now very largely used for thia_purpose in some parte of France, Belgium, and Prussis, especially inthe Siegen district. The next step was & patural outgrowth of the last, viz. to use the finer portions, separated by giftivg, to eand the molds for fine castings, Here, ugain, it was found cleaner and better than common xand, and the castings were improved. Another uee for this artificiul gravel is for bailasting railroad tracks. Tho sugmes- tion has heen made. and with a good desl of force, that a materisl found so good for such a purpose abroad might be uséd to advantage with us for our drivea and boulevards. The granu- lated slag is very porous, packs well, and balds very little wet. _Again, the slag-send is found to form un excellent concrete-like mortar; and not only 80, but 1t 18 capable of being used for cement. Thin lust, Professor Eggleston regards s the most important point of all ; aud hobopes to make further iuvestigations and gain fuller details on this subject during his preeent visit abroad, which he will be able to et forth on Lis return. At any rate, we learn that first-class ce- ment can be thus produced, from almost any rlug, at o small cost, und that a large manuface tory bas bewu srected for this purpose, after long and full esperiment, at,one of ihe leading Ger- man works. The artificial sand is also found to be a good materiul for bricks. The attempt 16 make bricke directly from the slag, by presoing 1t m moulds, bad bad but a limited success av best, but this granulated slag, mixed with 2 hitle lina and dried 1w the sun, yiclde a light, warm, acd pleas- aot brick,” at » very small cost. At the Georg- Marieu Hotto, 1n Hauover, this brick is now uged almunt exclusisely for the buildiegs of the works. 1f, inctwad Gf meie sun-dryimg, thess bricks wero masded over with the granulated Elag snd bnroed in s kiln, out of out of direct contact with the coal, they become enamelled oa the rurisce. Tho color of this glaze varies with the cowpusition of the sleg. It wowd eeem as though tLis wmight prove a very valuable inven- tion, not awly for coarse pottery and tiles, but for ornamental brick-work. Increased atten- tion is beginning to bo given by American architects 10 this style of coustruetion, which is susceptible of much variety, and somotimes of much beauty, as it is abundantly shown in the 01d World, and notubly in some medinval struc~ tures iu Northern Italy. If it were found pos- siblo, a8 certatuly scems to be unow proved, to manufacture enamolicd bricks of differeut colors cheaply by means of this hithierto waste muterial, it way well be of great consequence in Ameri- cap urchitecture. Other uses for this slag-sand are alo deacribed, huch as wmploying it upon Iand for the lime and silica coniained, manu- fucturing firs-brick, &e., but upon these there is not epace to dwell. Lnough has been smd to show that recent experimeut acd discovery abroud bLave opened the way to & npumber of valusble economies sod improvements, which it is highly denirable that we on this wide of the water should be 1eady to adopt ar socn _and as far as circum- stanced will warrant, We may hupe that when Professor Egleston veturns, this autume, ho will bring with Rim & now store of information in regard to thzze eplerprises, and a further snp- pig of tlustrative speciment to add to those that L6 has already gathered in the School of the minee, to show the methods and results in this Meantims, would it not be_well worth while for zome pub- Hc ot corporate bodics 1n this country, or some of onr industrial societies, to muke the subject ons of cspecial sttention, and, perhaps, to ofter prizer 161 Buccessnl 6Xpenments 2 Nzw Yous, Oct. 27, 1672, e = The Moral of Marbles, Last Sunday a worthy fathcr of a numerous family was tzking ong of his littlo ones, a child of suven ycars, tochurch. Ontho way, the nttle fatlow r=ct a playmate, and stopped to play markles. A quarter of an hour after, his father gaw him coming to him bathed in tears. +¢ What is the matter £” he asked. « Papa, L have lost all my marbles.” ! & Of course, God punishes you for not going to church.” “But, paps, neither did Joseph go—and he has won'!” I A Little Boy Devounred by Eogss From the Lezington () Prees. A son of BIr. Eugene Darnes, and grandson of Charles Herndon, ¥sq., of this county, met with his depth yesterday afternoon in & mosy shock- ing maunor. Tho littlo bog. who was about 8 years old, was going homs from, echool, and in passing though a lot of bogs, with pigs, on his Yather's place, it is supposed ho stopped to play with some of the pigs, when the infuriated hogs rushed upon him and devoured him bodily, saving his head and_ehoulders. No one was noar tho scene of this most awful tragedy, and congequently no assistanco could be given him. THE LOSS OF THE MISSOURIL. Statements of Survivors. From the New York World, Nov. 9. arrival of the Morro Castle from Ha- we are enabled this morning to present details of the terrible disaster which overtook the steamer Missouri, of the Atlantic Mail Lime, on the 22d ult. Five of theeurvivors of the ill-fated vessel bave arrived in this city, and thus far ihey are ignorant as to the fate of most of their fellow-safferers. THE EFFORT3 TO SUPERESS THE FIRE. Samuel Cone, a seamsn, gave the following account of the disaster: 1wason deck hauling out the reef-tackle of the fore-topszil when the alarm of fire was given, and in about two min- utes afterwards somo one eung out thatit was **all right,” and a few secondslateranotheralarm was given. Iwent with the second officer and gotthe hose on the donkey-pumpj; after that I went Lo get the hozo on the main deck pump, but I found it had already been snacbex ang the pump was playing on the fire, and then I went and Jent a hand at this pump, but I had pumped but a sbort time when the fiames broke out, covering a space of about fifteen feet on the starboard side of the eleamer, making it im- {osslhle to get off on that eide, The next thigg beard was an order from the Captain to tha Engineer to stop his engine, and then came the crder to get out the boats. Thero was no Tanic, and all the passengers and crew behaved well, ond did their utmost to get the boats overbord eafely. 1twas a hard job in that sea, with tho ship Tolling Leavily ; of_conrse as soon as the engino was stopped she fell off into the trough of the sea. There was o small boat on the burricans deck, and we dragged that to the lec quarier and Jaunched it end first and let ber bang by her paiter. We then lowered the port sfter-boat. 1 helped to do this myself, and next, 1 believe, the starboard after-boat was lowered, Wo raw her afterwards bottom up, with two men banging to her. After the port after-boat was cut adrift ahd swamped, Tmdde for the boat we Dad Jaunched over the lee quarter, and got into ber. There were twelve of us in all that got into her, which was as many as she could carry, and sho was cut adrift. We pulled up towards the ahip for ebout two bours, but we could not make any beadway against the sea. The first boat which %fi off nine men in her, but she swamped. We lay around the ship till a quar- ter-past 11, and then, seeing mobody to whom wo could render any assistance, we pulled away for land. The ship, in the meantime, was a mass of flame. TrolastIeaw of the Captain he was on deck with Mr. Cleveland, tryiuf,;l to get the forward port boat in the water. I had to jump overboard then to save myself. We finally landed on Great I\u.%\u Key at 6 p. m. The place where the fire broke out was in a locker in the pantry. We could not_have taken any more in our boat. If anybody had offered me 350,000 I would not have taken bim in. A man i8 afool not to_save himself. When I jumped into the water I had no shoes on, and I hurt my feet terribly while walking on_shora with the thorns, which were sharp a8 needles. By the vana yesterday, "HOW FIFTEEN LIVES WERE SAVED—STATEMENT OF RICHARD MURPHY. 1 was second panjrymen on board the Mis- souri. At a quarter before 9 o'clock on the morning of the 22d the sea was running very high, and a strong breeze was blowing from the northeast. The passengers wers all. at break- fast with the exception of thres, who bod theirs late, and wero tardy in putting in an appearance at the breakfast table. I was busy in my pantry when one of the saloon-boys came in for the basket nsed for carrying off the dirty plates, He stooped down and ~opened the port locker, where the basket waa kept, when a tlame burst out and scorched him on the face. He jumped back and called out ¢ Fire,” and one of the pantrymen got & bucket of water and shot it through the opening. This settled the flame for a moment, but to make the matter doubly safe, 1 tore up the carpet that covered the pan- try-door, which was soaking wet, and thrust it in the locker. This seemed to overcome the flames effectually, and the ealoon-boy, who had meanwvhile rushed into_ the saloon ghouting “ Fire,” returned and quieted the pasgengers by telling them that it was a falae alarm. ihen walked aft to the engine-room and look- ing from the gang-way eaw_ into the pantry, and was surprised to find it filled with fire and emoke. I rushed up stairsto the upper deck, and on my way up Eaw a colored lady and five’ children’ near the head of the stairs. I rushed up stairs partly on account of the dense smoke and partly for the reason that wanted to give an alarm. ~ Captain Green had. evidently heard of the fire, for he was talking to Captain Culmer about it. = By this time all the Eussengerfi had rushed from the ealoon and were urrying about and falling over one another in their endeavor to reach the upper deck. In’ less than ten minutes from the time that I first saw the fire that part of the ship nearest the antry was burning fiercely. As I said before, %nptlin Green was in conversation with Captain Culmer, and as I ran past them I heard the Captain say something about stopping the en- gines. few munutes lzter, and, coming pear him again, I heard him say that bhe was going to get the boats out. Every- body seemed excited, but thero was no confusion. Of course, we all eaw that we would have to take to the boats, the passengers and crew divided themselves into_squads, and each squad kepttlose to & boat. X have no ides how many women wero on board, the .only female passenger that I saw being the colored woman and her five children. The fore-starboard boat was burnt before she could be launched, and the aft-starboard boat was pitched out bottom side up. She dnifted off with one seaman hanging to her, and another man jumped overboard and swam to her, The last we saw of them was the two men clinging to the keel of the boat. As thers was no possibility of her righting, these men must have been drowned. Noticing Cap- tain Culmer working at 2 boat I lent & hand, and after a few geconds’ work we managed to drag the boat, which was & new ome, and lying loose on the deck, over to the leo quarter, where we ~pitched her into the sen, a painter having previously been fast- oned to her. Captsin Culmer, who was merely s passenger on the boat at the time, but is also the Captain of o fruit schooner trading between Neszau and New York, jumped overboard with tho other eud of the painter 1o his baund, and, swimming slongeide, clambered into the boat, and then kept her within a short distancéot the Missouri. Five of the crew and six passengers theo jumped off the Bissouri and swam to the boat, Captain Culmer helping them in. Had it vot been for Captain Culmer'’s brave conduct we would all have perished. Captain Culmer took tbe belm, aud we tuen pulled towards the aft port boat, which had been launched and was half foll of water. In the boat.were -the porter, barber, two oilers, and three firc- men. Having two buckets in our boat, we throw them one to bail out with. ~ We then laid on our oars some two hours, but, as the gen was running tremendously high, we were unablo to see anything of the other boats. Tho Missouri, soon after our leaving Der, was burning in overy part, and at about 3 o'clock the magazine exploded, but that caused but little difference in the appearance of the burning steamer. Mr. Culmer, who had charge of the boat, steered her towards the land, which was sighted at 4 o'clock. Ou getting neater we discovered breakers, but our helmsman selected apartof the coast which was free from surf, and at 6 o'clock, without having had anything to eat or drink through the entire day, with very little clothing on, and that little wet through, we safely beached our boat on a desert place called Great Inaugus. Tired out, most of us lay down to sleep, while others walked up and down through the night. In _the morning we all roamed about over the island to find some- thing to eat. We succeeded eventually in strik~ ing & sugar plantation, where we gota little sugar-cane, At half-past 3 Wednesday after- noon we sighted a schooner, and immediately got into our boat and pulled foward her. Captain Culmer fastened a white shirt to 2 stick and waved it as a signal. We rowed alongside, and were at once taken on board and treated with great kindoess. The schooner we found to he the Spy, bound from Nasssu to Great Harbor. ‘I'hat evening we reached Great Harbor, when we were taken care of by an old gentleman who was known as the Magistrate. Ho sup- plied us with sbirts and pants, aud we stayed on board the schooner until Friday even- ing, whon we started for Nassam, which we reached st 8 ovclock on Monday morning. Mr. Sanders, the American Cousul, Lindly took chargo of us, and kopt us there one week, when we worv put on board the Morro Castle last NMonday, and arrived here this after- noon. 1 afterwards heard thoro were forty-fivo first and second-clays passengera on board. Some of the passengers, rescued in our boat, saved their money and jewels, as in several cases they bad not”come in to broakfast when the fire broke ont, and, hearing the alarm_whilo in their cabins, they seized_their valuables, at least those near at hand, and rashed upon deck with them. I have no idea what our cargo con- sieted of. This was my first voyege in the Mis- sowri, and I heard somo of the passengers say that she bad been seut to sea too soon after coming from the repairer's bands. The last I eaw of Captain Green was his using an axe to %ncézk away & chock from under ome of the oats. Tennyson. g A pleasant reminiscence of Tennyson is given by James T. Fields in his_now lecture on the poet laureate. On a certain occasion Mr. Fields went to Tennvson's house at Faringford rather late in the evening, and remsined until mid- night, when he arose to depart. Tennyson ac- cuglg’mied him to the door, and proposed s stroll across the downs, although thenight was as dark ag pitch. Providing themselves with stout walking-sticks, they sallied forth, nevertheless,. and went stumbling along in the darkmiess. Presently down went Tennyaon on his kneea With his nose to the earth, and therehe remained. until Fields asked him the cause of his action, when he lifted his bead and exclaimed: * Vio- lets, mon! Down on your knees snd tako & smiff, too; ye'll slesp all the better for it.” Down went Fields, too, with bis nose to the earth, sniffing with all’ his might; but presently the Iudicrousness of the situation forced {rom him ?ptefll of laughter, in which Tennyson joined lustily. PERSONATL. Gladstone, the British Promier, is confined to his houge by illness. ol —Senator Sumner has Jeft London to visit soma {riends in the country before his departure for home. He eails in Thursday's steamer from Liverpool for New York. His healthis slightly improved. N 5 —At the funeral of General Aleade, in Phila- delphia, Monday, General Graat, in citizen's dreas, rode in an open carriage, nccompanied by George H. Stuart, and other gentlemen. Geo- erala Sherman, Sheridan, and other army officers sppeared in foll uniform. The proizession was & very imposing affair. " —1t was only by accident that the Y'ste Colonel - Albert S. Evans took paseage on th o ill-fated steamer Missouri. Ho bad intended Js aving be- fore, but, learning that some Mexican friends, Senor Maucillas and wife, wero going om thak steamer, bo concluded to accompany tham for the eake of companionship. AMr. and Maucillas also periehed. —The appointment of Solicitor General oy the existing vacancy will be given to J. J. Rob = erts, of North Carolina, now reporter of the Sn- preme Court of that State. General B. H. Bris- {ow, lately Solicitor General, has assumed tha Prezidency of the construction company just org;nize:l for building the Texas Pacific Kail- road. —The Supreme Court of Illincis has just stricken from the roll of attorneys practising ims that Court the name of E. H. Palmer, of Clin- ton; Deitt County. The matter has been pend= ing'for 2 long time, and is now finally decided. The charge against him was, we believe, with- holding money collected from & clieut. He was Qéhemto_‘cwor candidate for Clerk of the Suprema ourt, PR S GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. The loss by the burning of the City Flour Mills, in London, Eng., Saturdsy night, was $500,000. Ono fremsn was killed and several ‘wounded. —Professor Law, of Cornell University, hags discovered that the horse influenza ravaged Greece in the year 412 B. C. —A. F. White, a well-known pork merchant of Madigon, Ind., was ‘thrown from a load of hay, yesterdsy morning, his hofses taking fright, and was instantly killed. negro who nearly murdered a young white lady of Ballard County, Ky., & fow daya 250, was taken from the jail at Blandsille lask Sunday night by citizens and hanged. —By order of the Mexican Government the tariff ‘of 1856 remains in force until the Slst of December, 1872, and the privileges of the frea zone bave been fully restored. 2 2 —The Coroner'’s jury in the Van Smkelggrn;_- oning case in Brooklyn, N.Y., found that Catherino Van Sickel died from the effects of goi&oning by arsenic administered to her in tea ¥ her husband, John Van Sickel. 8 —The ligbilities of Bowles Brothers, American. ‘bankers, in Paris, who have suspended, are heavy. - The losses by the euspension of - the firm will fall chiefly nupon American tourists in Europe. —The revolters of Ferrol, Spain, have beem tned by court-martial and sentenced, one to desth, twenty-nine to ten years’ imprisonment, 2and one to six years. Four were acquitted, sod 300 had previously been transported to a colony. —A man named Waggoner was shot and kilied at Fulton, Tenu., by John Bell, & boarding- house keeper, while eating breakfast, for mai- ing remarks in regard to the fare. —The Mauritius has been lost in the North Channel off Port Patrick, Scotland, and twenty~ three perzons on board drowned. This may be either the ship Maaritiug, which cleared from Glasgos the latter part of October for Demerara, or the steamship Mauritius of Dublin. - —The Memphis Criminal-Courtis meking war on gaming-houges. A number of keno estab- lishments have been raided upon, and the pro- rietors and players arrested. Mayor Johnson gas been taken into custody for licensing them, and has been held to bail for violation of the Gambling-laws. —In the Criminal Court, at Decatur, Ind., on Monday, John Straight was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for ahootin%hni_s ‘brother-in- 1aw, F. Richards, with intent to A petition. will be circalated asking & pardon for him. It is }:alievzd that the shooting was done in self-de- ence. —Colonel Lamar, the editor of the Savannah Advertiser, in & late Atlanta letter, gossips as follows: -*“The repundiated bonds are to be res- urrected, and there will be a powerfal and well- organized effort made to reverse the verdict of the late Legislature on this subject. More than a week since an agent fully accredited.left ¢ Frankfort-on-the-Main.” He will be reinforced in New York, and if a million or so spent will givo lifo to the nine millions repudiated, tha ‘money will be at the command of those who can control votes.” —The damages sustained by Americans on the ‘Mexican frontier within the last six years are estimated at six million dollars. Besides this, over three hundred American citizens have been killed by Mexican marauders. All .tha ‘facts. touching this destruction of life and property will sppear in the forthcoming report tor Congress. —Here is 8 Toxas item. The assessed valua of “stock,” as rendered per each county, it £30,936,651, being 93,200,000 in excess of tha value of all the town and city lots in the entirg State. The total merchandise, the total money on hand and at interest, and the total miscella= neous property of tho State amonnt to $32,« 638,962, —Tho Eansas City Journal of Commerce Bay& that it is cortain that the slaughter and packing of beof at that point will fali far short of the business in that line done last year. Only.cna firm is doing any considerable amount, and they will not dispose of more than twelve of fifteen hundred head. er i e A Young Farmer Tarred and Feath< ercd. b J From the New York Sun, Nov. 7. d Mr. C. H. Kelsey, a well-to-do farmer of Hua= tingion, L. L, 32 years of age, Tecently becsma infatuated with & Miss Julia Smith, ®-young" woman possessing property valued at $30,000, which was willed to her ber grandfather. Mise Smith has lived with hor grandinother, Mrs. Charlotte Onkley, and.is engsged to be married to s Mr. Sammis of the same -town. Br. Kelaey, it is eaid, wrote her many letters, fol- lowed her about on every possible occasion, and even went x0 far as to enter her room, by meana of a ladder, through the window. _3fiss Smith is snid to have {requently rebuffed him, but all ta no purpose. Mr. Sammis and _others requested Mr. Kelsey to quit ‘snpoying Miss Smith. On Tuesday night, seeing that tho infatuated young man conld not be persuaded by kind words to desist from his attentions to Miss Smith, some ten or twelve men, disguised, captared him, cut off his hair and whiskers, and fornished him ‘with & coat of tar and feathers. e S The Iorse=Disease—There is Nothing' New Under the Sun.?? A correspondent of the Boston Advertiser says: “An engraving in a venerable copy of tho ‘Editio Princeps’ of ¢ Dryden's Virgil 'Tep~ resents the effects of a digease amoDE Ani~ mals, and in the backgrounds gang of men ara soen stoutly dragging bome sn immense load of hay, while the sick beasts are lying about, dyipg, if not dead. The well-remem- Dered pu#ssge in the poem maoy interest the publio: [Extract from Dryden’s Translation of the Georgles— ‘Third Book.] The Victor Forss, forgetfalaf bis FC The palm renannces, aud abhora the elr Ho paws the Ground, and on his hauh- ‘A doubtful Sweat in clammy drops 2,i8 Parched §3 bia Hide, and rugged sre iy &3, Buch are the Symptoms of the young .¥se, But in Time's prucess when his paios increass ‘He rolls his mournfal Eyes, ke deeply groans With patient sobhings, aud with manly Mosns, ‘He heaves for Breath, which from his lungs supply ‘And fetch'd from far, distends his Iab'ring side, . o hiurongh Palate his dry tangue succesds, ‘And roapy Gore he from nostrils bleeds. “Tho poet recommends a ‘drench of wine, given through a homn, for which the New Enge lander naturally substitutes hard cider.’” Trwo young men of Valparaiso, named Drago and Pomeroy, in the m{’y part of the season made a wWager on the Presidential election and diew upa written contract, binding the losing par< ty to wheel the winning party from Valparaiso to Chicago on n_wheelbarrow. The distance by road is fifty miles. Drago beton Greeley, and Pomeroy on Grant. They left yesterday at 1 o'clock, accompanied by several young men in 8 carriage.: The wheelbarrow was gotten up for the occasion, with springs, well-cushioned, sil» ver mounted, and large wheel. i