Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 27, 1872, Page 2

2 — .THE -CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, NOV BER 27, 1872. THE SOUTHWEST. Sketches of its Pioneers. Wbert Pike, Sam. Houston, Kent Toland, David Crockett, Burr and Wilkin- s, Solon Rorland. Ancedotes and Memorials of Them--Blood and Politics Texas-Way--Lives of the Filibusters. From Qur Own Correzpondent. WASHINGTOX, Nov.-18, 1872, Aleiter which I eent you yesterdey on the Bourhwestern States—notably Arknnsas, Texas, and the Indian Territory—suggests thet T also furnish some personsl story upon the ekeleton thero delineated. ALBERT PIEE. The chief literary spirit of the Southwest is ~Albert: Pike, who lopg resided in the Indian country and 2t Little Rock, but now lives in “Washington City, and practices bofore the In- Gisn Department. He is an author, s lofty Ma- son, an Indian by adoption, snd a ekilfal law- Jer, whom large wants turned aside from suthor- ‘ehip at an nntimely period. Ho s8yE, in & bashful preface to his book,— now long out of print,—such 28 a man might write removed from mankind : ¢ It is some time sinco I have seen the works of any poot; and +the things of my memory have become 80 con- #used with those of my own imagination that T am at times, when sn idea flashes upon me, un~ «certain whether it be my own. * ¥ * These poems have been written in desertion and loneli- ‘ness, and sometimes in places of fear and dan- ger. My only sources of thought and imagery Jbave been my own mind, and Nature, who has appeared to me generslly in desolate fashion' and niter dreariness, and not unfrequently in “the guise of sublimity. I have acquired, by wild and desolate life, 2 habit of looking steadily in npon my own mind, and of fathoming its re- sources; and perhaps solitude has been the cre- ator of egotism.” The reader may be reminded, by the ebove, of 4he apology of Joaquin Miller, ‘“the Poct of the Bierras,” who follows Albert Pike, afier -thirty years, in a similar track of deser} litera ture; but Pike was a classical exile secking to reconcile an educated taste to wild regions and wildfellow-men. The politician, the Indian’s ‘lawyer, and the poet are produced alternately in hisbook. The first and longest piece in it is called “Narrative of & Journey in the Prairie,” and is descriptive of & party which left Arkan- eas in 1831 for Santa Fe, and waudered on the desert. In the Narrstive we come to this pas- eage, chowing an instant conclusion like rome Nimrod's on the historic trail: ‘It was on the heads of the Del Norte that Gen- eral Pike, then = Lieutenant, was taken by the Mexicans. Has it ever been satisfac- torily known why he was there? I think not. «He could not have been mistaken in the river. +He knew it not to be the Arkanses, and he knew Auimeelf to be in the Mexican Territory. Was he not geeking & place for the army of Aaron ‘Burr to enter and subdue Mexico? He was no traitor, I know; snd peither, in my opinion. was Burr. Neither ever aimed to raise a hand Bgainst our own country.” Iproduce this extract, which wes not germane 2o Albert Pike; mesantime, to show thai this &libuster in the Southwest has been both the poet's and the politician’s herp there since the dsys of Burr. Ascloze as ihe alchemist stood to chemist or the Miseissippi River gambler stands to the modern mining operator, stand Burr and his filibustero posterity to the Jeflersonian statesman. The one was the overreacher soeking toanticipate the reacher, the political adventurer inshurry to get in before suthority. Burr's line includes gwkson, ‘Houston, Quitmsn, and ‘Walker, The lawlessness they performed on the grander scale found a popular constituency in that less than semi-scrupulonsness which took the land of the Indien and the Spaniard as far a8 the Bio Grande, but has left tho curse behind it of 2 posterity which will not brook the law’s delsy nor the insolence of office. To go ahead and grasp a province, is old and easy; tocivilize the spirit which grasped it, is_the problem be- fore us to-dsy in Texes and Arkansas. FIKE'S PARTY. Now ses, directly after the above patient and minute narrative in hunter's prose, lga same In~ dian spirit of Albert Pike, with one foot in New England and one amongst the Cherokees, sing to a robin redbreast (‘““the only one that ever ‘teard thera ™) : Hush! where art thou clinging, ‘And what ert thou singing, Bird of my own native land ? ‘Thy song is as sweet As’s fuiry's feet Stepping on silver sand. Or this pantheistic spirit celebrating his foe- man in the song of the Nabajo: . . Up, then, and awa? Let the quiver bofall! And as s00n a5 the stars make the mountain air cool, The fire of the harvest shall make Heaven pale, And the priesthood shall curse and the coward shall And there will be counting of beads then to do,— 4nd the Pueblos ghall mount and prepsre to pursue; Bt when conld their steeds, 50 mule-footed and slow, Compare with the birds of the free Nabajo? 5 Through the prose of Albert Pike one seesthe acute mgper’a spirit, and in his poems the same melancholy-eyed man sitting in the wilds of the Bouthwest, relieved from the stimulus of his ‘new-found friends, saying, oven_at Little Rock, and doubtless with momentary sincerity : Onco more unto the desert! There T ask nor wealth, nor hope, nor praise, Nor gentle case, nor waut of caro On my dark ways; Out to the desert ! from the sway Of falsehood, crime, snd heartlessness ; Beiter a free life for 3 dsy Than years like this, We owe to Pike the only one of those deep, mild, &L Southwest : Eastward you can trace No stain, no 8pot of cloud upon & eky Pure 35 an angel’s brow; The winds have folded up their qulck wings now Andall ssleep high up within clond-cradles lie. Beneath the trecs, the dark end massy glooms ‘are growing deeper, more material In windless solitude; the flower-blooms Thickly exhals their thin and unscen plumes Of odor, which they gave not at the call Of the Hot sun; tho birds all sleep within The shaken nests,—ull but the owl who booms Faroff bis cry, like one that ourns strange dooms, ‘And tho wild wishtonwish with Jonely din. There is & deep, calm beauty all around, A massive, heavy, melancholy look, ‘A unison of lonesome sight and sound, Which touches ustill we can hardly brook Our own sad feelings here; Tt cannot wring from out the heart a tear, But gives us heavy hearts, ke readifg some sad etical picture of nt sunsets of the A SOUTHWEST HUMORIST. I madesome inquiries at Little Rock ebouta character of whom I had rcad this description in an Arkeneas household book : “ Every reader of the Spirit_of the Times,” eaid_the description, “ must have occasionally Iaughed overcertain highly humorous pieces that have from time {o time often appeared in thet paper, over the signature of ‘Pete Wetstone, of the Devil's Fork.” The author of the afore- said exquisite wit is Kent Toland, of Botesville, Ark, in every way one of the most remarkable men in the West: for suchis the versatility of s genius that he scems equally adapied to ev- ery species of effort, intellectial or physical ‘With a like unerring aim, he shoots a bullet or & ‘bon-mot; andwields the pen or the Bowie-kmife with the semethonght-swiftrapidityof motionand energetic fury of manner. Sunday, he will write an eloquent dissertation on_religion; Monday, he rawhides a rogue; Tueeday, he composes a sonnet, set in silver stars and breathing perfume of roses, to some fair maid's eyebrows; Wednes- dsy, he fighta 2 duel, and sends_s bit of lead ~whizzing throngh the head or heart of some luckless desperado ; Thureday, he doesup brown the personel character and political conduct of Benators Sevier and Ashley ; Friday, he goes to thie ball, dressed in the most fiinical superfluiry of the fashion, and ehines the soul of wit and the sun of merry badinage among all the gay centlemen, and the king supreme of all tender Bearte among the ladies. And, to close the tiumphs of the weck, on Saturday night he is off thi miles ' to a country-dance in the Ozark Mountaius, whero they ¢trip it on the light fantastic toe,’ in the famous jig of ¢double shuffle,’ around a roaring log-hea) in the woods, all night long, to the tune of ‘The Buffalo Bull Came Down the Monnteins—Lon; Time Ago.’ And thus is glorious Kcnt entitle: @ the 1 minde 50 of universsl versatility,—~a myriad- Protens of contradictory ~characte i meny-hued a8 & chameleon,. fed on dews, an { suckled at the breast of a rainbow.” The prose of the matter reemed to be, that Toland came to Arknnses Territory at the 2ge of 18, and joined tho Whig sido, under Robert Crittenden, brother of John V.. Crittenden. Politics ran high, close, and hasty; and Toland wrote, sang, and spoke 50 well, and was yet 80 ymmgéjbluuda and slender, that it was thpught the ordinery challenge 2nd posting would scare him out of the way. The nephew of Governor Pope, the Demooratic Jeader, challenged hit,—a fine, trained, black-eyed duelist. They fought at twelya paces, above Little Rock, on the bauks of the Arkangsas, and, etthe fitet fire, Toland’s ball passed through Pope's liver. That shot killed the one man, and made the other s desperado and a frivolous fellow by turns, with spells of filoom &and nnhappiness between, —thé sensitive uelist’s fate. He was ready to pick quarrels, 2nd he wore a knife aud pistols, and shot ‘“en gight” and in public placcs. Ho went to the Legislature several times as & member, but nev- er bad euy influence there; for the man who is always sensitive about hia courage misges his ca- Teor, THE FIRST SLOODSHED AT LITYLE BOCK. “An account of the firsb at_Arkansns duel was published in Nodk's Wee]dy Register. It hngpr_med in 1830, Robert Crittenden, who was a Whig, canvessed the Territory sgainst Con- way, Democrat. In the crude stato of Arkansss soclety, it was felt that on the result of the experiment depended for & gener2tion to come the political complexion of the State. The two oppononts avvided each other, making different circuits; but the wolfish people demanded s debate, and it was finzlly appointed for Little Rock, Tho time ws swiumer, the spot & pine grove. Bofore this time the partisans of the contestants had made the campaign infamous by abuss and pereonal aceueation. People from e remotest parts of tho Territory were present, and the capacity of inns and lodging-houses was exceoded, 80 that many wild people camped out in e sufrounding woods. Convey tarried on the_debate after the spiribin which it had pro- ceeded, catering to the common taste. Crittens den sa1d, duriag his Becond speeon, that 16 lan- age was tolerable that cquld net be sustained y the Code of Honor. At this the inflamed Conway interrupted him with denunciation and invective, and Crittenden stopped tho discussion, and sent tho challonge the same evening. They met next morning in the presence of 28 many people as had listoned to the discussion. Crit- tenden’s second was Ben. Desha, of Kentuclzj Conway’s, Colonel Wharton Rector. Arkansss might hbave been said to be nssombled. A quarrel of an hour aroao over the grehmmaxlus, and Crittenden lsy quiet on & lankot, while Conway excited himself. As they stood up to fight, Conway looked the swarthy Tennesseean, stern and premeditative; Critten- den, the fair-haired, spirited Keutuckian, Degha avo the word, loud as the proclamation of the w. Conway fired first, and cut & button from Crittenden’s coat. The next minute he fell heavily to the ground, shot through the heart. Mr, Crittenden set Arkansas an example. i SOLOX BORLAND. An Arkansan who became notorious the world over for & brief time was Sclon Borland. The incident which give him such wide blame was the bombardment of San Juan, or Greytown, in Central America. The event happened in 1854 in the time of Franklin Pierce. Borland was a native of Virginis, educsted in North Carolina, and he went fo Arkansas under the patronage of Ambrose H. Sevier, to edit the Iatter's political organ. His superior_training i:.:: him the adventage, and he adopted the Ar- a8 Code a8 eesy enough to conquer Dy, Bo ‘bitions career, until he superseded Sevier in the Tnited States Senate. Toward the close of his term, the modern organizing politician appeared in the person of Robart W. Johnson, ¢ tho most successfal public man we ever had in Arkansas.” Johnson hald the State henceforward until the Rebellion, and_ Borland lost “both his news- paper pre-eminence &nd his geaf. In theso gloomy circumstances, he was offered the Governorship of New Mexico by Frank Plerce, but preferred_instead the post of Envoy to Central America, with ower to make treaties. He wasa strict i- est-Destinarian, and contemned the British Mosquito Protectorate under which the Town of San Juan held a sort of nude munfcipsl inde- pendence. Some guarrels took place betiveen the town and the Americans on shore, and & British Lieutensnt, who had a ship at hand, made him- Belf dutifully officions. The toyn refused to pay some American obligations; the natives were accused of stesling and of dodging responsibility, 8nd the Americans of murdering a negro river- captain, The murderer fled to a steamer, and Borland and the passengers protected him from arrest. The town suthorities then sought to ar- rest Borland ashore, and a ““regular™ Arkansas meles took place, during which somebody,— maybe - the “Britisher, —threw & bottle marked Barclay & Porkins,—thet bot- tle wherewith the Briton, refreshed upon ita_contents, has conquered India, Abyssinia, and much of the globe. Mr. Borland could not resist this weapon which came in such & ques- tionable shape; it was outside the Code. He therefore sent for the only thing equel fo the occasion: ship-of-war. Tho Cyane cameup promptly, commsnded’ by J. 8. Hollins,—the ame who afterwards appeated off Southwest Pass with the first ram used in the war. The Commodore consulted with Mr. Borland and Mr. Fabens, the Cousul. Everybody knows Fabens as the_friend of Baez Beventeen years afterward, and one of Mr. Sumner's Santo Do- mingo * jockeys.” An Americau Envoy Extraor- dinary from ‘the Town of Little Rock had been struck on the face with an empty bottle. This ‘bottle had nob only been thrown, but the con- tents proviously drunk, As fhere was nobody tobe ‘posted™ for a coward, and nobody conld read itif were, there seemed to be nothing to do Dt to bombard Greytown. Mr. Fabens, however, with un eye to business, first made a formal demand on” *the authori- ties™ for the immediate payment of $24,000, be- gides an apology for t#s finknown person who had fired the bottle labelled Barclay & Perkins. The offer waa declined, as nobody in San Juan Jmew how to make sn apology. Commodore Hollins immediately thereupon hitched up his ‘breeches and mustered his crew. He served the British Lieutenant with a proclamation on board his ship. The Licutenant's name was Jolley. Jolley doggedly replied that his vessel was too weak to engage with the big ship Cyane, but he mournfully **protested,” on the grounds of en outraged civilization and certain valuable Brit- ish property in the place. Hollins and Borlend Teplied that thoy also Tegretted that Jolley had not twice theéir armament, 80 as to conclude an interesting neval engagement, Then followed an actof tonching chivalry. The Little Rock party sent & boat and crew ashore to assist Brit- 18h subjects in removing those valuable effects. ‘We may hope that some tender interchanges of confidence took place in this pause,—soy the opening of some of Barcley & Perkins' beiweon our kindred races. - ¢ Onthe 13th,” saysthe officialaccount, * at 9 oclock, the batferies of the Cyane were oponed upon thetown.” For seven hours we shot away shell and ball at the expense of the Government. Mr. Borland looked grimly on the scene, and wrote meantime an ofiicial account of it, which filled the ‘{fi“ Bob Johnson's soul with appre- hensions that his Arkensas rival would yet “ turn him ” in the State. They buricd the poorliftle ‘mud-hive, and set fire to what 1n it was too mis- erable to fall down ; theman who threw the por- ter-bottle might Liave felt that his crime was not without its compensations. After the place was a1l down, Licutenant Jolley declared it to be un- der his protection, and the Englieh Government held o deep and solemn inquest upon the case, But, as for Little Rock, vhon the news gob there, in a month or go, who shall describe the enuine agitation? The first question was: g{aw did Borland behave? BSeveral challenges aresaid to beve been pessed to the man who asked this. Next, Hud anything like it been done since Jackeon took Pakenham and Houston chewed up Santa Anna ? The Johnson faction, at this presumption that Jackson ever had an equal, were equally ready to fight. octor Borland came home, but found the political field occupied ab every point, and he Temaved to Memphis to edit the Enguirer thero. Notwithstending any peculiaritics iu the above description, he was'a self-relient, capable, and quiet man, Ho joined the Rebellion and was mada a Brigadier General; for ho had been both an officer and s prisoner in_the Mexican War. Percecuted by a wound, he retired to Texas early in the struggle, and he died there in 1864, A daughtor who survives is said to show his Lit~ erary capability. * AUSTEY AND WILEINSON. The father of the Southwest was Moses Aus- tin, a native of Connecticut, who settled & Texzs grant with young men from the Lower Mississippi Valley, and was the successful com- petitor over James Wilkinson and Asron Burr to mn%ilpnte the Anglo-Saxon occupation of North- ern Mexico. Wilkinson was an extraordinary character, and the first Governor of all Louisiara, inclusive of Arkansgs, which he received from the French in 1803, ‘a8 Commissioner. He had been the founder of the trade between this regicn under the French and the Kentucky towns, even prior to Washington’s Administration; and, after balking Burr's plans to seize Texas, and seeling to get possession of it for himself, ha died at last, ngar a quarrelsome but vigorous life, near the City of Mexico, just as be had secured a grant of land in Texas to compete_with Austin’s colony. With youth upon lis side, he mignt ! and folfilled the ambitious dreams of Burr. that he wrote and fought on the line of anam-- hevs apticipated ‘thiere the carcer of Houston, o BAM OUSTON. k In tho yedr 1829, Arkonsas Territory wes visited by anobler refugee than commonly came to its seclusion. A voluatary exile from the Executive Mansion of Tennesses, followed by the fury of & political press, and that pablic, fult of unchari- tablo interpretation, which belioved the worst, Sam Houston had resolved that the sun_should forever ¢hine upon hig back, and the Fastbe forgotten in'the misery of his spirit. A Gover- nor, elected at the age of 34, by 12,000 majority, he had proved the reverse of the couplet: Att hath no charity for him. ‘Whom love has satisfled. Hehnd married a younger iddy, and, after three months of living togéther, they separated. The reesons neither ever gave. All Tished for- ward with A rerson, and that the basest; bup none giessed the shortest one 3 thit the woman did not love him. Y.ike Hester Prynne, impldred by the preacher, in public, “to tell the name of leér bbtrayer, when the preach- er himsplf a8 that, it might bo caid over SBem Houston: * Hewould not Bweak | ‘Wondrons strength and generosity of man's heart, He would not speak!” He resigned his office, bowed his head, and, in the splendor of a young career, departed for the désert, He landed at the mouth of White River, and ascend- ed the Arkansas to Little Rock, but not to tarry and take rootagain in ;flibflc station ; for appre- liending this, the political papers even there defamed him. Mcny years before, he had been adopted into & Cherokee tribo, and o had come to clein its sympathy and brotherhood. Four lundred miles by land and water he pushed up toward the Falls of the Arkansas, snd B father, Oolooketa, the Chief, hastened likewise to ap- proach him, The young Governor of Tennesses Btood before the savage, and was gredted by his Indian namo:, .. Lo ¥ b C_olenneh;“ said the Chicf, ‘“you have be- come & great_Chief among your people. You have suffered thére, and have turned your tlmugnts tomy wigwam, I am glad of it. It was dons by the Great Spirit.” For a little space, Houston relapsed into the Indian’s own smnkau and moudlin gorTow. His strong nuture revived again, and he became the Indian champion ot Washington, and the scourge of the syindling agents and traders Who imposed upon them. They revived at this Cap- mfm the slanders of Tennesaed, but. his scars had healed, end would fiot blued znew. At last, an Ohio Congrossman slandéred Andrew Jack- son in his name, whom Houston revered. Then iliere was an affray on the Avenue, and nearly simnltaneously breaches of the Congressman's hosd and of the * priviloges of the House.” “For this offence they tried the man of misfor- tune on the floor, in Police Court, and wherever he could be dragged ; but he compelled a ver- dict of character at the hands of the very cock- sparrow who had defamed him. Then, shaking e-dust of Washington from his feet, he re- turned’ to the wilds of Arkensas, and read Horsce till the beauty of life and carcer were ‘born again, and, with a freshed spirit, he saw his opportunity in Texas. To_thst great new State he became deliverer and President, and, with magnanimons patriotism, he led tho con” quest to the Capital and the Nation which had cast him off. ANDBEW JACKSOX AS A SOUTHWESTEDNER, Tt may often puzzle the household man of the North to know why Andrew' Jackson, with his ‘mixture of popular and despotic qualities, over- threw tho dignified dynasty which presided from Washington to John Quincy Adsms, snd kept the affections of two-thirds of the country in fact and memory, He was tho spirit' of the Sonthwest. He represented all the trans-Alle- gheny conntry south of the Ohio in its chafings against restraint and for development in the rovinces of the Indions and Spanish. Asron urr, an acute politician, without Jackson's steadfast and candid face, had attempted tolead this apirit, comprehending it ; but a groater pol- jtician drew him back, and his own sinister na- ture and vices entombed bim alive. Yet, a8 to 1mere purpose, and in many respects of episode, Houston’s success and Burr's dream are parts of the same thing, and time _and candor won at San Jacinto what got for Mr. Burr m{! the posthu- mous plandit of Mr. Parton. Houston, like ‘Burr, was driven from his high dignities to the ursuit of ambition in the Bouthwest, and, as B rovenged himal? in mortal duel upon Bam- ilton, Houston rescnted his persecution npon tho Dody of Congressman Stansbury. Later opinion inclines to the bolief that Burr's design was no worse than to cross the Sabine, backed by the riflemen of tho Southwost, wrest Texas, and New Mexico from the Spanish, and, by the popu- larity he shonld scquire thers, return sgai toward political dominion at the Democratic Capital of Washington. And, thirty years after Burr fled from New Orleans, pursued by Jeffer- son’s vigilant office-holders and dragoons, Hous- ton returned wounded from the battle-field of revolutionized Texas, to be received at New Or- leans with almost idolatrons mnsic, and prond and tender care and affection. Like Burr, ho believed that the annexation of the regions he had reduced wopld make him President ; but he was comparatively unselfish and untrained. And the mild 0ld man, overawed by thelater great mutiny for a Southwestern Empire, died poor and doposed, like Burr, but unhaunted by any victim of perfidy; and it has been said that ho left his bride in Tennessee, and submitted to slander unparalleled, becansd he would not force himself upon & woman whose heart was another’s, 1f Texas was won, 88 some say, by ‘brutal mesns, it hold the ashcs of as gallant & countryman as the General who took Quebec, or the Knight who recovered Jerusalem. PRENTISS AND QUITMAN, Every man who admires force of character and gallaniry in the objective view will bo affect- ed by the deeds of these Manifest Destinarians of the Southwest, Nor can any fail fo admit that thoy forced the boundaries of our Emtpm!, and fought with the valor and devotion of the Tartar. They reasoned solely upon the Imperial Jecessities and mental supremacy of the Ameri- can; and many of them were Northern men, Who adopted the Southern views and habits, an often excelled in them. In Mississippi, 8.8. Prentiss and John A. Quitman, Northern school- teachers,—the one from Maine and the other from New York,—renched the -highest distino- tions under all the codes which prevailed there ; and their lives, already fairly and fally, if nob Critically, wiittén, will puzzie and excite 3 calmer poaterity than ourselves. Fire-eaters of opposite _parties, they had no mean emulation for & fictitious or_irrelevant ancestry, and could nearly say, with Albert Piko: “ My father was o Sourneyman-shoemaker, who worked hard, paid his taxes, and gave all his children the benefits of an education.” The devotion of Quitman to what-was then called in the- Bouthwest *“the American idea ” cannot be lightly treated by sn age which loves to read of Mr. Prescott’s, Mr. Helps', or Mr. Parlman’s _heroes. ~ The spirit of Cortes might have broken the tomb in envy to sco Quitmsn fighting his way to Hons- ton’s side in Texas, or through the house-walls of Monterey, or carrying the Belen Gate at the City of Mexico; and, as Governor of the cap- tured Capital, he was tho embodiment of fendal vigor and domocratic wisdom. No wonder that ‘Mississippi Tose in his rear and made him also its Governor. Yet, even there; the caprice of popular constituencies, unevadible 28 in the North, hunted him into retirement for a diffor- ence of opinion, and the euccessor of Cortes Dowed his head as if his King had frovned. We are at present on easy terms with oursclves in the North, and rather belittle the times to which wo refer; but the history of America will con~ sider the period of our extonsion into Louisiana and Mexico as_solicitously a8 the period of Emancipation. In the human diary, nothing but su,%cess succeeds, particnlarly with Nations, and obody moralizes till they fail. We do not need this by _the late spectacle of the highest Europesn civilization endorsing tha glave-cause, then uppermost in man, and the orthodox Gladstone's hearty, but premature re- gnition: ‘Jefferson Davis has made & Na- €O tion!” DAVID CROCEETT. 5 In the year 1835, the news-budget from Little to be reminded of Rock relatos that, amongst the hundreds of peo- g}e, “moatly from Tennessee, Alabams, and orth Carolina,” who Were passing through that place for Texas by tho great military road, crowding the ferry, and escorting large droves of negroes, ‘as many as threo hundred passin over on one Sundey,”—were Colonel Davi Crockett and his followers. + Crockett was st this time nearly 50. The son of an Irish tavern-keeper on the roed from Vir~ Eini: to East Tennessco, he grew up nearly il- iterate; but his hunier's habits, whimsical will and peculiarity, and a cerfain buffoonery not without shrewdness, made him the leader of a reckless settlement; and, in course of time, when even such a society required organization, Crockett became o Megistrate, was sent to the Legislature, and three times to Con, 8, He was rash enough to oppose General Jackson, the idol of the Missisaippi Valley, and this sealed his fate in Tennessee. Shonldering his rifle, and following his politicel supporters, he re- paired to Little Rock, and, after & brief delay, pushed on to -Texas. At the capture of the ‘Alamo, the following year, he was murdered by order of Sent Anna, and his ashes were exhsled into the flavor of comic almanics for twenty years. GATE, —_— BUILDING INSPECTORS. To the Editor'of The Chicago Tribune: Sm: I Baw in a recent number of Tz Trrs- URE an editorial on the subject of preventing fires and enforcing the fire-ordinance. If s few more cfforts Jould stir up the Common Council from the apathy they seemingly have settled down to, it would be a hopeful sign, certainly. Some of the wise recommendations of the Mayor's recent message to the Council have failed to elicit any considerable action in better enforcing the ordinance, or providing the means for royonting fires, Would it be well to con- tinus airing the subject, or wait till another fire destroye the better part of some of our large cities? Why will not the-Council adopt some preventivé means beforo andther calamity over- tikosus ? _ NN A detail of & sdore or two of policemien, to ex- amine and watch in certein localitios, that fire be not thrown around indiseriminately, would do much toward preventing fires this winter. Bug you cénnot expect the fire-ordinance will be en- Forced Dy the police, though itis their duty in law, becouse it is out of their line of business, and while theyare mostly good officers in the en- forcement of the laws thet come within their ITiceof duty, they do not understand how to de- ect the various ways builders have and practice in violoting the Building ordinanco, or the fire- ordinance 11 relating to building: - o enforce that ordinance, fl.mnecassnr{i to employ_threo Inspectors, who shall be practichl mechanics and industrions men. They shonld Tndergo & proper examination before the- Board of Public Works, and have it undcrsiood that their place depended ufivn their application and adufltntimx to their work. There is no reason why three n kind, paid perhaps $1,200 & yesr (adding $300 more for the use of o horse fo ride), should riot thoroughly enforce the fire-ordinance through- out _the eity, 8o that there nced not be an un- punished violation of the law once & yesr. Crxcaco, Nov. 25, 1572 H.C.8. PERE HYACINTHE'S WIFE. The Love Story of Two Continents Told by lemselvul.y . (Nov, 4) Paris Correspondence of the New York World. ) T went the other day to see DMme. and Pore Hyacinthe Loyeon. From the Amer- jcan nowspapers I had learned that the wo- man for whom the first preacher of Franco had gacrificed Church and almost State had a © his- tory.” Bhe had been divorced from s former husband, had been & fsshion-letter writer of an inferior grade, had been a vender of corsets in Paris, an adventurer of varied success, & Catholic and Protesiant by turns, an nnsucceseful jour- nalist, end had been born in Ohio— which last statemont seemed to be the only one to be Tegarded with favor. “With all due respect for the American pross, I did not be- Tieve it. The history and the marriage were puxadoxical. Pere Hyacinthe had been over- rated, or my countrywoman, Emilio Merriman, had been shsmefully treated by the careless ens of American jo ts.. I liked the ere’s spunk in marrying, snd I thought he had shown taste and good Senee in marrying sn American. I wanted to tell him so, wanted to e hiswife, and so I went to see them. Sending my card to Jme. Loyson, the servant showed me into a little parlor, very plainly but noatly farnished. A copy of the New York Jn- dependent and_ Christian Union, containing com- ‘ments on tle Pere’s marringe, were on the table. There was & fine photograph of Dollinger, & gift from that German reformer to Emilie Merri- msn. On tho mantel were medallions in plaster of Pere Hyacinthe and Professor Draper, of New York—both exceedingly well executod, and the scnlptor Emilie Merriman: i In o fov moments Alme. Loyson csme in with & pleasaut, cordial greeting—the parior she thought a little cool, and would I not come in her room whero she had s fire? So she led the way to a small cosy apartment, where an easy chair and & writing-table lent on air of comeort combined with business. Tho conversation led at once into French customs, French society, and travel. I mayas well write it down thus moment, for I am eager to say it: I was charmed with the woman, snd understood per- fectly how Pere Hyacinthe or any other man would bave sacrificed a very congiderable smount of things sacrificable to win her. i < In person, she is tall, well-proportioned, with hands to delight & Sculptor, not émall and char- actorless, but large 83 & Madonna's should be, and white, soft, snd shapely as love could mould, and strong and tender as love could de- sire. ~She Las o handsome head, dark- brown beir, smoothly coiffured; dark- brown eyes, full of sweatness and: intelligence ; 4 fair, fresh complexion, sn en- chanting mouth; and éxquikite teeth, That the Pers bad an oye for personal charms it were uso- Jess to deny; theb he had a heert for the charms of mind and heart of corresponding value is equally true, for his wife, with nothitg of the air of & “bluo stocking,” is intelligent to an un- usnal degree, and converses with an eass and elegance romarkable in an American woman, re- markably well a5 most. American, womon con verso. Bhe betrays not the least indication of gmallness or_{rivolity. There is s largencss, gincerjty, and carnestness of purposein all che .Bays and does ‘tliat"is° mosk winnin| Kb She is thumughlgreb’gmns without cant; ber miad, heart, and_person_form one complete har- mony. ‘Andthen she is_sSo genuino, &0 froe from artificial hams_of dress. or .manner, that you, at once feel at rest in her pres- ence, and 'do not begin_ to wonder how ghe would look if-she had rings in her ears, her hair put up 1n pulls, or her waist lnced in one of - those patent corsefs. Bhe is simply the delightful fact of & large-hearted, high- minded, kandsome, and loyal woman, whom God has callod to be a heroine, and who snswers in {full to all the demands of heroism, which is very, Vory raro, Aftor relioving myself of 'all that, 1 sm conacions of conYeyiug a very meagre ides of the women who robbed me of an hour that ‘afternoon ip giving mo in return & yoar's worth of the chatter of commonplace women. Aftor being presented’ to the Pero later, T remarked fimt% waa proud that he had .wedded 'an Ameri~ an. His foce lighted radiantly with a sweet emile ay he replied that he wes also. Pere Hya-, cinthe, by tho wy, whilo spesling German snd Ttalisn well, speaks no Engfish, which surprised men of this me somowhat, snd I yenturod o say to Mme.- Toyson that, one “would think he had learned English in their courtship duys. - ¢Ab, T think we had no conftshi) in the usnal acceptation of thatterm.” she replied. %o gaw oach other rarely, and the question that filled our hearts was cne that made us sad rabher than joyful.” » “You first 8aw him in Notre Dame, did you not?” “Oh, no; the firat timé I saw him—and sho smiled s she bogan the history, as all women must when vecalling tho begianing of » Lappy destiny—** the first time I saw him was in the little convent of ——.- Thut was five years ago. Ihad heard of Pere Hyacinthe, but as I was Btrongly opposed to Romanism 1 had no desire either to 8oe him or moet him, although freufly interested in religious movements. But I bad a./ Iriend who was a Catholic, who prevailed upon e to go with her one morning early to the con- vent; the Pere was to hold a service there for the nuns at 5 o'clock,-and I went. I can assure you I was not much impressed in his favor. He then woro the rough dress of the monk, his head was shaved and ho was barefooted, I met him again afterwards and 'was more favorably im- pressed with the map. I wasin Rome when he was called there by the Pope, and saw him more thero' than at any other time or place. But the whole life of Catholic monks yas to me so hor- xible. Titory humsn feclig, humsn eympathy, and personal .individuality was 8o ntterfy Te- pressed. I Rnow the Pere's sister. She wasin & convent, but” she never conld see_her .brother alone. Two others must be #ith her when he came to see her, and she could never look in his face; ‘unless he closed his eyes, and she the game when he looked in hers. He wa3 not per- mitted to ride in the same curriage with his own mother. It all sesmed g¢ terribly unnatural such a persistont effort to mot out of the heart and soul all human loves al feelinlf:‘." % A Catholic gentleman was telling me_the. other day that the Pore's narriage hag had no. effect whatever upon the Catholic priesthood; that none havo expressad either sympathy or congratulation. Is this true?” I asked. 4 Quite the revorse,” sho replied ; **but it hag not appesred on the surface. Not a day passes but the Pero receives liters and personal visits from priests who declare themselves anxious and ready to follow his example. One was_here only to-day with woman whom he had loved {or years, {ni had notdared to marry. It is his intention now to do 8d.” 4You think the Pero’s example must produce & revolution in the Catholic Church, do you not ” . Jadging from Bardly bo otherwige. 7 . tTe intenda to preach again soon, T belisve #Yes, sometime noxt month ; but no decisive ar:sngyemence as to place have 38 yet been Zades s The Pere, as his wife calls him, wes arrayed in the customary black dress of & non-profes- sional gentleman, but beéars in his handsome face an indescribable something of the air of a priest. He is one of the finest of conversation- alists, Heis winning, strong, earnest, and full of feeling. His warm human sympathies must Déve s bim & dolighttul confossor. Al mo! I should think s priest of sensibilities would fall under tke burden of the confidences women our into hik sonl. It is said men confess also, gnt—the « confidences of a priest,” has one ever written then. George Satd, who, since she has been grand- mother, has become rewomsnized to & charming deeree, publithed some woeks 820 in Le Temvs Jresent: indications, it can (tho publication of which was interdicted) a capi- tal letter upon the Pore's marriage. ooy she had not loved him much. She had 8 fri oo of the first actresses upon tho French stage, whom the Pere had converted, and Mme. Sand had found it hard to forgive him that deed. But her friends importuned ‘her to give her impres- gions npon the priest’s marriage, and I cannot refrain from quoting some of “her paragraphs. Shesays: * Ho denies the infallibility of the Popo; he battles against the Church gfficials; he marries. I find him at once sincere, frank, and brave. Ilove his courage, and am fouched by it. I read the decleration he has pub- lished; I recognize- it-as the language.of of & man of heart and goodness. It s & ve wholesome and very beautiful page of tho religious history of our dsy. The fury it hag roised does not reach me. This vain wrath of the ses, its froth and_fonm, do 1ot prevent me from sceing the new isle_which rises to the sur- face, and the waves which roll around it cannot submerge it, It isa small bit of land, a narrow refuge, perilons, dificult_to reach, and from which retreat is impossible, It i8 3 new point of doctrine—s little church founded, which in onedey will have its own importance. Who Enows, if this will notbe absyenin which Cathol- icism will take refuge in its turn to battle againat death 2 For its hour approaches, 8::!13 the pilgrimages, the miracles, the jove- ments of caves, snd wonderfal wa- ters, the ! invasion of olitics in the sanctuary, are ite funeral knell. en 8 religion can no longer satisfy healthy soul it is finished. It isno_longer only a question of time. But Catholicism cannot, neither ought to, disappear abruptly. Precipitated by the demon- strations of Lourde and of Salette, 1t will be re- tarded by some generous ottempts, some truly roligious efforts. New heresies will be pro- cleimed, and groups of priests will proclaim their right to marry. A new Pope will arise who will not without scruple allow himself to be in- vested with infallibility. He will convoke a new council, & veritable conncil, whichin view of the imminent ruin of the religious edifice will re- sgolve to make large concessions. If the council dareg not lay its hand upon the dogma, it will allow such tolerant interpretations thereof to the priests, so that, like the decree of eternal damnation, it will gradually become only & of prur. %The marriage of Pere Hyacinthe is a grand church scandal, and the mkfiio“ press_with its ordinarycleverness gives it all the retentissement possible. -The great criminal who is thus placed ‘before public opinion with the resigned assar- ance of an honost man, ought niot to be too an- becanse of the noise. He has a conviction that we do not share. .the power now ag then to call himself priest and Catholic. “Thopehe will have numerous adherents, for, without being either Protestant or Catholic, Iseo, 28 all the world can see, the fatal am ghamefnl consequence of the .celibacy of priests, Let them marry, then, and confess no l{nm’t; ! The Pere Hyacinthe; willhe still con- egs 2 “Thatis the questiop. I8 the secret of con- fession compatible with the pouring out of con- jugallove ? If I were Catholic I should not torment myself with it enormously. Discretion is easier than continence; and-I would say otherwise to my children, ¢Have no seorets to0 delicate to reveal ; you will have no fear of the tittle-tattle of the wife of the cure’ ButIam convinced thst the pious women who will follow Pere Hyacinthe in his_new career can still open to him their souls in &ll_secarity, and I hope he may have sincere and faithful penitents. ¢ This declaration of Pere Hyacinthe is truly very besutifal and touching. Is it simply from talont ? ono asks, Noj; talent is only truly beautifal when in the service of a beautiful sen- timent. There are in this lotter some heart ejacalations, some cries of conscience, Which enetrate tho conscience and the heart. There 18 an idea of true love, s respect for naturein its divine gense, a chastencss of vemera- tion for marrisge which is removed from all sensuel ideas, which extinguishes the emile and brings forth tears. It is verygrand, and that page, written by priest, will remain, perhaps, 58 & sort of new evangel for the fature membars of, anew church. Priest and married, Pere Hys* cinthe—let us restore or leave to him his title of priest and monk—will be able to marry other priests, and put in peace their regenerated con- sciences.” The whole history and result of this Franco- American marriage, from that meeting at “5 Oclock in the morning " five years ago until its consummation in England, hss been dramatic and interesting almost be- ond precedent. It is a “Tala of 'wo Continents,” of which the sequel will never end—a “coatinued story ” resching into eterni- ty. Iam sorry to feel obliged to add, for the further enlightenment _of the stupid fools in which the world abounds, &_special and precise negative to the unhistorical peragraph with which this_letter_oponed, that ““my-heroine " was neverdivorced, mever Wasa corset sgent ow ludicrous, that & woman full of ardor for e emancipation of her sex from all dehm'tufins and belittling confines of mind or heart shoul be ndealor in. body-killers!), never a fashion- writer; ood, bad, or indifferent, but has dabbled in litetatare and art to & gmhifging degree, at least {o bier frieuds, and 18 & daughter of the Empice Stato. God bless her—thera! OBITUARY. Sir John Bowring, LL. D., F. B. S, From the New York World, Nov. 24 The death of this distinguished man, which oceerred on Friday, leaves a gap in the ki of the practical Teformers of England. Few more universally accomplished men have ever lived. He was ot once a great linguist, & trav- eller of more than ordinary sagacity, an sccom- E‘i»hcd diplomatist, an sble economist, & well- 0¥ jurist, a zoologist, and & poet. 1t is ex- tremoly doubtfal.in which calling he wonld have 1ad the most ‘brillisnt' fature, provided he had been restricted to one profession. He had the industry and enthnsiasm to succeed in any un- dertaking, and his career shows that he had the sbility: 1o deal with tho most diverse subjects. Sir John Bowring came of am ancient Davon- ghire family, and Was born ab Larkbenr, near Exeter, on thé 17th of October, 1792. A little over 80 years of sge et his death, Bowring had been a contemporary and companion of some of the greatest men of his time. He was_ & young man whon Napolcon was defeated at Waterloo, anda man of 60 at the death of his conqueror. Bowring's family were Unitariana; he was of pure Puritan -stock. He esrly turned his at- tention to the laws against dissenters, and was a leader in the moyement for their re- peal. Ho hsd a marvellous facility for ac- quiring languages. As has been well said, bo lhas enriched the English' tongue ith admirable tranalations of the popular poe- try and ballads of most of the nations of Europe. Under this head may be placed his ‘‘Specimens of the Ragsian Poets " (1821-23), * Batavian Anthol- °§§§;)°“2* 3 “.Spemgw;:m:f the Polish P(guls n A orvian Po ongs ™ - ¢ Doofry of the Magyars” (wsoffi e Gromany Anthology ” (1882), and ‘‘Ancient Pootry and Romances of Spain™ (1834). Besides his appre- ciation of .the poetry of other nations and per- sons, he was a poet himself. His ‘ Mating and Vespers » (1833)—an ori volume of devo- tional pociry—has been rvedly popular in England and this country. ¥ 1822, Bowring met Jeromy Bentbam, and the acquaintance then formed Tipened into an inti- macy only broken by the death of, the great re- former of jurisprudence. He eagerly accepted ‘Bentham’s utilitarian principles, and was porhaps their most efficient and influential expositor. He-| was first editor of the Wesiminister Review, de~ voted to the popularization of Bentham's views in_economy, . jurisprudence, and politics. -He ‘held this &mal for five' years, 1825-30. Bowring tranilated into English Bentham'’s ** Parliamen- tary Sophisme.” In 1848 ho published asplendid edition_of the collected works of Jeremy Ben- tham, in eleven large yolumes. This hasre- mainad ihe standard edition up-to the present timo, and is likely to retain that position fora long timo to come. . Bowring turned his_attention to economic gucsuons, and early took sides with the exireme ee-traders. “He will be remembered as one of the counsel of the celebrated * Anti-Corn Low League.” His khowledge of trade statis- tics was intimato and_extensive, and successive Whig Ministers, from 1832 onward, cmployed him as Commissioner to ‘meke gpecial inquiries into tho customs and internal revenue laws of the various countries of Europe. Among those he roported on'were France, Belgiunémnfly, Syitzerland, tho States of the German toms Union and the Levant. Bowring sat in Parlia- ment s member for the Clyde boronghs from 1895 to 1887, snd for Bolton from 1841 to 1849. While serving as irman of the Parlia- mentary Committee on . Colonial Accounts e made recommendations to the House of Com- ‘mons that have led to the most extensive re- forms, He introduced and carried, in face of the opposition of the Government of the day, a resolution that the 5:0“ rovenues of all taxes should be paid into theexchequer without reduc- tion,—a fruitful principle, which hus formed the oundwork of the new system of accountancy 2 the British Trensury. Bowring was always “liberal” in the broadest semse of the word. The Mansten presented him-with s service of plate for his successful endeavors to freo them from feudal tyranny. He acted as unofficial rep- resentative of the Maltese, and they, too, recog- nized his disinterested ability by presenting him with & service of plate. He wrote in.Spanish sgainst the Afncan slave trade, and translated He believes to have both into French Clarkson's “Opinions of the Early Christians on War."” I Y In1849he received the lucrative sppointment of British -Copsul at Canton, Ohina. In 1834, while in England on leave of absence from his g(m’ ho was knighted, and promoted to be Her ajésty's Plenipotentisry in. Chins. .Bhortly bofore his return Sir John Bowring made o s{.ueEeh advocating arbitration as & means of set- tling international disputes. Not loog after his return to China disputes arose which culminated inwar. SirJohn gave the order to Beymour to bombard the forts.” Lord Palmerston spproved this vigorous action, but the House of Commons passed_a, vote of censure, and the Minister was recalled. "In 1859 Bir John retired from active diplomatic servic on o pension. Ho had pre- viously negotiated a treaty with Sism, 5 task in which several predecessors had failed. Ho wrote an account of his visit to that country under the title, “ The Kingdom of Siam and its Peo- ple,” published in 1857. In 1859 he publishedan account of the Philippine Islands. 1861 Sir John was gent to Italy to report upon the state gt the commercial relations of England with Sir John Bowring's wifo, by whom he has had several children, is one of the foremost English advocates of woman's enfranchisemont. = Ho himself has tsken a very sctive part, evenin recent years, in advocating reforms of the most liberal character. Ho has been & conatan at- tendant upon social science congresses, and hasread many papers before them. He wasa contributor to many periodicals, He was an casy, fiuent writer, who collected materiala on method, and elaborated them when he had leisure, He received the degree of LL. D. from the University of Groningen, in Holland. Ho was a member of the Royal Society, and corre- spondent or honorary member of most of the literary and many of "the scientific societies of Europe. He received a dismond ring from Alex- ander the First for his Russian anthology, and )f)or hl;-:wliu %n_ E%Butzg: some of whigf have een translared in Datch, a gold medal from the King of the Netherlunds, — © —_— 'ANOTHER MURDER. A Cuban Shot by Xier Husband-Do= mestic Unhappiness and Separation After Thirty Xears of Wedded Lifes= Flight and Capture of the Assassim. From the New Fork Times, Nov. 24. . A terrible domestic tragedy was enacted yes- terday, in the private residence No. 817 East Fifty-first streat, caused by conjogal nnhappi- ness, and which will undoubtedly result in the death of a woman at the hands of her husband. The victim of this latest ebullition of ‘emo- tiopal insanity,” a8 the mania for blood-spilling isnow termed, is Mrs, Josephine Martin, a Cuban lady, sbout 47 years of age, and the perpetrator is herhusband, Francis , 3 Cuban cigar-mak- er, sbout 57 years of sge. Thp familyand friends of' the parties were unusuaily reticent in regard to the canses which led to the tragedy and tho circumstances attending the shooting,. but from what conld be learned bythe police and the re- orters, it appears thatabout three years ago cis Martin and his wife, Josephine, arrived in this city from Cuba. The couple, Who had been married for over thirty years, had not lived happily, and after they arived in this city Mra. Martin determined that she would not live with her husband any longer. What causes led tothis determination are not known st present, and as the fomily hsve refused-to give sny in- formation on this point, to either the police or reporters, it cannot be con- jectured; bat Mrs. Martin took up her Bbode with a married daughter, living at No. 817 East Fifty-first street. @ 8on-in-law refused to give his name to the reporter of the Times, who called at the house during the evening, and said that the family had determined to keep the affair as_quiet-as possible. He, however, stated that his father-in-law had not done any work since he arrived in this city, but had been supported by his son-in-lsw and_other members of the family. The son-in-law refused, however, to state where his fatber-in-law had lived. Though Mrs. Martin persistently refused to live ~ with he was allowed the rivilege of visiinog her at the resi- ence of his danghter, where she was living, and she took care of his wardrobe, at- tended to his washing, etc. Martin was in the ‘habit of visiting his wife at least twice a week, snd he never aw her but he implored of her to live: with him again, promising to amend his conduct, 50’ that she would not have any resson to complain of bis .treatment- in the future: MMra. Martin, however, did not apparenily place any confidence in his promises, and nfifi per- sisted in her refusal.’ weighed heavily on the mind of the husband, and be became moody:and despondent, and reckless in his habits. . At about 1 o'clock yesterday. Martin called at the house indicated, and asked for his wife. The servant who answered his summons showed him into the parlor, where he was joined by his wife. After the usual greetings, Martin asked his wife if she had his shirts ready for him. Mra: Martin replied that she had just finished mending them, and, summoning the servant, sent her up-atairs for the shirts. The servant returned in a feww moments with the garments, and noticed Mr. Martin and his wife talking ex- citedly in Spanish. She left the room, and, after ghe Teft, Martin began in his unsual strain to beg his wife to return to live with him once more, but Mrs. Martin again and sgain persistenily refused. Mactin thereupon becam temibly exited, and, livid with rage, g at hig wife, canght hor by the throat, endeavored to strangle ber. A desperate struggle ensued, and the woman finally succeeded In breaking from his grasp, and scresmed for help, Martin retreated a few stops, and, drawing & revolver from his pocket, fired a6 his wife. o first ghot took effect in the woman's right - leg, inflicting a very severe wound. As heraised the gmtol to fire again, Mre. Martin throw up her right hand t0 guacd. her body, and, “when s fred, the all passed through her right wrist, shattering the tones. At this juncture the servant girl, alsrmed by the sound of pistol- shots and the screams of the unfortunate wom- an, rushed into the parlor. As she entered the room, Martin fired a ghot, which took effect in the woman's right bresst, causing s wouad which will prove fatal. The unfortunate wom- an sank to the floor, and the servant rushed out into the street, crying ° Murder!” ®Police!” At the corner of Second avenué and Fifty-first street she encountered Patrolman Goubleman, of the Nineteenth Precinct Police, and informed him of what had transpired. The ofticer huiried to the house and found that the murderer bad escaped. The policeman _started in pursuit, and overtook Martin in First near Forty-ninth street, where he was walking nEidly down town. He was'taken back to the house, and thence to the East Fifty- ninth Street Police Station, where he was locked up by oxder of Captain Gunner. He appeared to be quite cool and collected, and declined to make any statement i regard to the affair. He talks very little English, and no person was allowed to converse with the joner. In the meantime, the family and some of the neighbors had entered the parlor and found rs. Martin lyisig on the floor, weltering in ber blood. A surgeon was summoned, and on ex- amining the wound in her breast gave it as his opinion that the bullet had passed through the Iungs, and was necessarily mortsl. Agsinst the advice of the surgeon, Mra. Martin. was placed in B carrisge sud taken to the stétion-house Where ghe was confronted with her husband, and identified him a8 the man who shot her. She was then driven back and placed in bed. The pistol used by her husband was found concealed in an ash-barrel in the sub-cellar of the house. 1t is a five-chambered, self-cocking revolver, and, when found, three of the chambers were empty snd tho otheraloaded. b ‘he woman g ‘in & very critical condition, Coroner Schirmer was notified, and proceeded to the hous, where he took the anie- ‘mortem deposition of the dying woman. A Hleavy Contracte From the Dubuqus Times, . Tast Fourth of July, & young man- in the em- ploy of & wholesale honsein Dubuque, in conver- sation with his employer, waa induced to enter upon a simple task, st what seemed & high sal- ary. He was offeréd $500 per snnum, in addi- tion o phat he was then receiving if ho would merely barry from any place on Main street to the river shore, and throw into the Mississippi the first week, one single shot, No. 6; the sec- ond week, two shotg; the week, four shots ; the fourth week, .>ht shots;“and 89 on, donbl- ing the number of &hot cach week—the young man who tdok the contract to find the shot. Well, he enterbd upon his contract, The first month, a8 will be noted sbove, his work was ensy—simply to go to theriver four times, cArry- ing with_him the sggregate fifteen No. 6 8hot. The ‘fifth week, he carried 16 shot; the sixth week, 32; the seventh week, 64; the eighth week, 123; theninth week, 256; the tenth week, 512; the eleventh week, 1,024; tho twelfth week, 2,048; the thirteenth week, 4,006. AL this junc- tare, both' from curiosity, and to save the labor of counting tha shot, which was getting to be troublesome, 'ho weighed his 4,096, shot, and found that they balanced just 13{ pounds. He had now carried and deposited something less than- three pounds of shot. He congratulated himself that this was earning $125 very easily. The fourteenth week he deposited—still donb- ling the amonnt—3 pounds; the fifteenth week, 6 pounds ; the sixteenth week, 13 pounds; the seventeenth week, 24 pounds; the eighteenth week, 48 pounds, Tha! brings himto date. ese constant. refusals - avenue, | This week, the nineteenth of his contract, he made s liitle calculation in regard to the matter, as followa: * z : He finds that next week, the twentieth of hia contract, ho_will have to deposit 192 pounds the twenty-first week, 334 pounds; the twe: second week, 768 pounds; the twenty- 1,536 pounds; the twenby-fourth week, 5,072 pounds,—something over 13§ tons; the. twenty- fifth week, 8 tons; the twenty-sixth week, 6 . tons; the twenty-seventh week, 13 tons; tho ' twenty-sighth week, 24 tons; the tweniy-ninth week, 48 tons ; the thirtieth week, 96 tons; the thirt; 192 tons; irty-first week, the thirty-second week, 384 tons; the third week, 768 tons; the thirty-fourth weel 1,536 tons ; the thirty-fifth week, §,072 tons; the thirty-sixth week, 6,144 tons; the thirty-seventh weels, 1,223 tons ; tho thirty-eighth week, 34,- 576 tons; the thirty-ninth week, 49,153 'tons; the fortieth week, 93,304 tons; the forty-firat. week, 196,608 tons; the forty-second week, 893, 216 tons ; the forty-third week, 786,432 toria; the forty-fourth week, 1,572,86% tons; the forty- Afth week, 8,145,782 tons; the forty-sixth weel 5,291,456 fome; the forty-seventh - week, 12,532« 912 tons; the forty-sighth week, 25,165,824 fonss the forty-ninth week, 50,821,648 tons; the fif- tioth week, 100,643,236 tons; the fifty-first week, 201,286,593 tons; the fifty-second week, 402,573, 184 tons. . The young man has thrown up his contract. s GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. The Secrotary of the Iron Association makes the number of blsst furnaces built, building, or projected, this year, in_the With » capacity of 400,000 tons. —The hog crop of- Lentral Illinois, to be mar- keted during the preseat packing season, will, ‘both in number and weight, exceed that of any previous season fOr many years. . —Indianapolis boasts of a contractor who can neither r write, nor fignre, and yet can ac- curately estimate the number of brick for a wall of given dimensions, and the cost of construc- tion. —The St. Cloud Press tells the story that par- ties returned from the Yellowstone expedition in that locality, stone. —Lst Thursday, in the District Court of Jof- forson County, Kan., & divorce suit was called, the case heard, and the decree of divorce granted. In the space of twelve minutes thereafter, the divorced lady led 8 confused and blushing young man to the msriage-altar, &nd wes remarried. —The Sheriff of Faribanlt County, Minn., is an_original chap. He isalso & good collector, but he Bometimes mokes strange returns.. . Here . is one, fileds fow doys ago: *This i3 & dead beat. Says ho pays after harvest. You can re- turn it then, and I will try him s clatter. I will catch lots of thess chaps with their breeches down when they get to hauling wheat to mar« Eet.” — Green 1. Douthitt has instituted suit in the Lafayette Cirenit Court, Mo., against forty-two. of tiib citizens of Washington, Davis, and Free- dom Townsbips, for_assaulting and_ otherwise mistreating him at the time of the shooting of Bis 6on, David E. Douthitt, and Ben. Wilson. He asks for £50,000 damages. 2Tn Obion County, Tenn., o few days since, two brothers, named McComber, mill-proprie- tors, had aquarrel with an employe namsad Sannders, and one of them shot him in the side. Sennders, in return, shot both, killing one on tho spot, and injuring thoe other 60 badly that he ‘hag since died. * —Congress, it is said, will be asked to lock after the 'Zalf:ma Tne‘rEIA:”u E'th!e d:mzen:fi of Hhat liyperborean Tarritory, or ab lesst a portion of theg, complain bittar?y of the Seal E&hg Company. This corporation they charge wil usurping sn_saggressive rule, out all competition in trade, and ruking the land over e thetr chartersd sway extends with a rod of iron. —They have curious customs up on Lake Su- perior. Recently & Mr. Pennock induced the |, Ontonagen folks to believe that he had discor- ered o tin mine on the north shore, but, when the time came to show it, his memo; roved treacherons. He was thereupon tucked into jail a few rlais to clear his intellect. That sc- Zomplished, he was taken out by the gentlemm complainant, and & party bas again started ouk <o raise the tin. ’ ZAn ambitious youth in Charlestown, Mass., having little money of his own, but arich father, recently conceived the brilliant idea of giving a grond party at which all the notables in the country should bo present. Heaccordingly seat notes of invitation to distinguished men in the States of the Union, including President Grant, Secrotary Boutwell, Charles Franais Ad- 2ma, and Horace Greeley, aiso enclosing his own: photograph. His orders for hall deco-ationis: Trere Liberal, smounting to 812,000, flowers alone- fo the' amotnt of 95,000 being included. The owner of the hall refused to sllow its use with- out tho payment of $300 in advence ; the young man's fatier refused to furnish the money, snd the magnificent party fell through. The old entlenian, however, had to spend s few hun- edsin telegraphing the invited guests not to come, instead of & fow thousands for dsucing. PERSONAT. fodbastig Congressman McCrary, of Iows, is i 5t subject : * Why 7" i Chief Justice Cartter $96,000 residence m Washin, —Georga W. Friedley, bein, the tallest mam 6 feot 31%), was elected President of theIndiank. - enate. —FEberhard Friedrich Walcher, the grest master-builder of pipe-organs, died at Ludwige-—" Among_other burg, in Wartemberg, recent. § & was that ab. ly. gfle‘imced organs built by him oston. —Stewart. Gilmore, of Allen’s Grove, Bcoti County, Iows, a well-to-do farmer and 2 man of intelligence, who is 41 years old, and has resided. in eaid county twenty-six years, enjoyed his first- | nide on a railroad on Saturdsy evening lask: - —Lord Kinloch, one of the Judges in the First. Division of the Court of Sessions, Fdinburgh, Scotland, has_just died in North Britain. His. Lordship had been in infirm- health for some time, and went to stay st Hartrigge, near Jed- Dburg, where his death took place somewhst sud- denly. Ho was called to the Bar in 182, and raised to the Bench in 1858. o —A French journal sums up the ages of the men now high in France and French politics : Henri V.is 51; Napoleon, 68; the Count de Parie, 84 end 1T Thers 75.. Of the Orlesns Princes, Nemonrs is 57 ; Joinville, 53; D'Aumale, 4. _Prince Napoleon 15 49 ; the Prince Tmpe- rial, 16, Of tho statesmen, Remusat is 4 ; Gir- acdin, 66 ; Dufanre, 78 ; eux, 75;.Jules Fayre, 62 ; Jules Simon, 57; Louis Blane, 585 end Gambetta, 35, r —The Topeka Commonwealth ssys: “Major General Pope and staff, together with anescort under command of Lientenant Lewis, left Fork Leavenworth this week for a tour thr New Mexico. The officers who sccompenl ral Pope wera General Williams, Adjutant General 04 Chief of Staff; Captain Haley, A.D-C.; Dr. Perine, Medical Diregtor of the Depariment 5 Colonel Chsndler, Department Quartermsster,~ and Major Swain, Judge Advocate. We under- stand that the mission is & very important one, and that the tour ‘will be absent about thirty days. Theescort will be incressed by the addition of a companyof cav~ alry from one of the frontier poats.” ZSir Alesander Cornewall Duff-Gord gentleman well-known in Earopesn soci just died in England. He was a Commissioner of Inland Revenue of Greet Britain. ir Alex- ander was the eldest son of the Iate Sir William , Duff-Gordon, a cadat of the House of Aberdeen. His mother wasa daughter of the Iate §ir George Cornewall, AL. P. He was born in the year 1513.15, . snd succeeded to his father's title in 1828, +as for many years a clerk in the Treasury, and scted as Private Secretary to at lesst- one Chancellor of the Exchequer. He became 3 Senior Clerk in the Treasury in 1854 and & Com- missioner of Inland Bevenue in 18567 he was also Assistant Gentleman Usher of the Privy Chamber to her Majesty Queen Victoris. Lady Duff-Gordon will be_remembered under her maiden name of Miss Lucy Austin, as the aathor of several clever and entertaining works, inclad- ing 4 The French in Algiers” and as the trars- Jator of Moltke's * Russian Campsignon the Dnmflm’" and of Ranke's “‘Ferdinand snd Maxi- milian,” The titlo passes to_the late Baronet’s c;g}_v son, Mourice, who was born in the year 9. & Doctored” Butters A gwindle which entirely throws in the thads the various modes of fraud popularly attributed to the cute Yankee Eedlez, has_been discovered in San Francisco, commission firmt in.ihat city lately discovered thst some of their cus- tomers were exasperated about something sad goon sun icious and gx:wy—lmhng boulders and bricks wore brought in and depos- itedon their counters by persons who'stated that they found them in firkins of batter they had bought of the firm, and these persons nob. unnaturally indulged in remarks that could nob be deemed com; to the butter deal- ers. An investigation was at once ado, ¥hen it was discoveres that & consignmentconsisting of twenty-eight firkina of what purported fo be s choice product of thedairy, was largely. “dw- tored” in this substantial manner., Some of the firkins contained from ten to fourteen pOInds of rock and brick., Measures were a% op:;e taken to trace the ingenious vallainy t0 it8 proper source. United Btates, 73, report that, during the time they remained . chips of wood -turned to will include s visit o all the - military posts of New Mexico. General Pope— - ’ B