Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 17, 1872, Page 2

2 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRI BUNE: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1872. WASHINGTON. House and Senate-—The Be- heading of the Girondists. Our_ English _Gousins === Froude No Go. The History of dJennings -.- “Eighty Years of Repub- lican Government” ~--Itcims. From Our Own Correspondent, WASHINGTON, Dec, 10, 1872, Tke business and portraiture before Congress &re ot of a3 much interest as outside affairs. The city never looked so well, and they are in- vestigating how this came to te; and all the Tobbsists are here, looking beautiful, and happy to make your acqusintance, The President recommended almost eversthing in his message, 60 that the uses of government are more ulti- form and muddled than ever before. The pres- ent ehape of this Government is like Polonins’ cloud, which got to resemble almost everything. Like the show-elephant, it devounrs- anything, from gingerbread to hay; and one of its great enterpriges 2t present is tho laying of a pneu- matic tube between the Capitol and the Govern~ ment Printing Office, in which iron spheres, to ‘be filled with stationery and books, will go bowl- ing along, blown by the gentle zephyr. The Congressman at the end, supplying the wind, may a7, a8 his speech rolls slong, nearly the words of Waller : Go! lovely prose ; "Tell him that wastes his time and me, That now he knows Yihen I resembls him to thee, How grest a bore he seems 1o bo! FIGHT BETWEEN THE SWILL-CARTERS. The vigorous efforts of the two papers, both deily, tc attract some sttention here by pretend- ing to be the President’s pulse, has apperently failed. The printer's organ cried in vain,in double-leaded elangwhang : “Depose! depose!” The clerical organ trimmed to the wind, and tempered it to the shorn lamb, and seemed to zey: “Punishnot these young and reprehensi- le ones!? Banks was not allowed to resign. Famsworth, Blair, and others gave nobody.that opportunity. Ben Batler, however, was some- where in the bush, taking aim, and keeping np that old fight behind the school-house with TFernsworth. Chandler was coming over to the House side, gunning for Blair,—= sublime sub- Jject'to be carved in low relicf on his brass statue of greatness, where the inscriptionis already re- eolved npon: Here lies the second Zach.: ‘He stuck to his {riends, such as they were; And persecuted his enemiies, which was of no'conse- mence, He waa heavy onthe Americanie, and history can never do justice to his motives, GARFIELD O THE TWO BODIES. General Garfield said,as to the difference in charity between the House and the Senate: “1t reminds me of the picture Macaulay draws of the exhange of positionsat one time between the Whig and Tory parties. He likened it to the fight between the man and the sneke, which raged so long that the snake got the man's tactics and npature, and the man the enske's after awhile, and they came ount of the fight with the snake bifarcated and hu- +manized, and the man a crawling thing, which hissed and elipped off on its ear. The Senaie used to be the more dignified, mature-minded, end conservative body of the two, slow to act, 2nd careful of iis motives. It has engaged at different times in conflicts with the House, and e have exchanged natures. Now the House is tiberel, magnanimous, and in favor of old rela- tions and tolerznce ; while the Senate has grovn vindictite, unsparing, and hes visited personal displensure upon its independent men, and i8 clamoring for us to do the zame.” “This =1l comes from the presence in the Senate of three or fonrmen of extraordinarily mesnna~ he pouter-pigeon man; old Zach., who rot responsible for his_conduct; the lean and catious Cemeron ; nud, it is said, George Ed- onds, of Vermont. After these come the de- jected carpet-baggers, who ought to be teeching &chocl in the South at £25 per month, instead of giving away its patronage. ~ O. P. Morton is said o beweary of quarrelling, and better disposed. k¢ condition of politics here is not_encourag- ing. The Senate has become steadily worse, sear afier year, corrupted by the offices it gives, andby the perfectly wicked conntenance it turns to every proposition of reform. - — CLEWS AND WHEELER'§ GO. For some time past, we have been hearing & great deal ebout the vast natural gagacity and experience of William A. Wheeler, M. C. from New York State, on the Feman frontier. Appar- ently dissatienied with the extent of his notor~ iety, Jr. Wheeler took paine, the other dsy, to advenee it by Introducing s kundred-million-dol- lar'bill as the swelling prelude to the imperial theme of himself. He didit gently, and with< ont a ripple of Lis nzare brow. He asked to heve incorporated ‘The Governor and Man- agers of the Exchequer of the -United States of America.” Bince Proctor Knott’s speech on Du- luth, or Connor's addrees on the contested elec- tion case, 00 singlo effort Lo been 50 mecess- fuk A project of this sort was mentioned, to me by & Rochester (N. Y.) ex-Member of Congress, last Sear,—Freeman Clerke. It is probably s part of the impertinence of the Henry Clews gang, of New York, to get control of tlie finances of this couniry. Bome organized effort is necessary to be made in behalf of the people against some rapacious and dichonest bankera of this country. These fellows sre the vastest and most real corrupters of the public business, and they perform upon such a ecale that the common critic cannot keep pace with them. The lawyerswho comehero aro generzlly their emissaries, and the lobbyists merely represent in energy which these bankers put down incapital. To turn over Goverument ands, as ifit weroa piece of patriotism, and Tive npon tho loan of public deposits; to advance means {o conspirators to seize the public taxes, and crawl about for information to operate upon ; {8 snch the great banker of modern days? ' Can much money make a man no nobler than this? OUR ENGLISE PAUL AND BARNABAS. It secms to be general opinion in Cox':fi-mas that, if Mr. Froude has got a tail, he would do well to run home with it and make it as little COREDICNOUS 2% ible. Hecame to this conn- try generally favored, although less wide]g kaown than the publishers and critica - woul ppear. A reaction existed against Irish Tunicijal politics in our cities; and the big ec- ieaficnl movement of the King of Prussia, snd of Dollinger and the secular Catholic party in Europe, had excited some sympathy amongst @s. Dutit was goon evident that Mr. Froude 26 not amongst us as_s literary man, animated by the catholicity of = historian ; but that he oc- cupied a sorb of emissary relation to the British Government, either sclf-assumed or commis- sioned. He struck us as occupying Mr. Parton’s literary position toward the Danich Treaty, or toward Butler at New Orleans,—half-tooter and half-suthor, and with a contingent fee some- where about his broeches. So, while Mr. Fronde was filling his bellows and éxpanding his Trogship, 80 85 to meke it appear that he hed & big errand indecd smongst us, to which the Epizootic was nothing, a greatmany people were ilently taking down their histories of Ireland and arbitrating in advance between the parties. Soms such genial little book, for example, 28 W. C. Taylors Irish History, written by & Clurch of I:ngland man, and republished by Har- per & Brothers, probably on advantageous terma to the antbor, in 1833. There we read enongh of centuries of selfieh, shameless, bloody rule to pearly explain the blind stupidity of Fenianism. And, by the time Mr. Froude got up and pro- ceeded to sneer (the favorite form of English ]agic? at tho whole career of an unfortunate people, whose Chrietain saints were the apostles to Switzerland and Germany, while the barbar- ous pirates of the North were laying the heath- en timbers of our racc, we felt, from knowledge, that he was epinning a yarn for a specinl pur- pose, and puiting incongrous things and infer- cnces together, not warrauted by the books. His trip here Las heen 2 failure to move any great mass of sentiment, and he willdo well to get Jome with his reputation ss a general historian gafe. The other man, Burke, has *‘ turned him ™ in the srgument. Wy, at any rate, does Mr. Froude want us o mix in with the sorrows of England on the Irish guestion, who are so much engaged with carpet-baggery and bothers of our own ? AND TIMOTHY, TOO. ¥ It looks to me, in & dispassionate mood. es if none of : the Apostles- from the other side were making much headway in American sentiment. Hero is another “ gweet boon,” ng Mr. Artemus ‘Ward described -himself, proposing -to take Ar. Greeley's placo at the heufo! New York journal- ism. Iallud to Mr. Jennings, whose happy en- gagement of Mr. James O'Brien, Irieh patriot, ave & tabular consequence at one time to the New York Times, en Mr. Groéley died, the haste exhibited by this gentleman to climb to vhat s grest Spiritualiet (r. Stephen Foster) called ““the apex of being in the scala of confir- mation,” filled me with that impulsive curiosity which i8 always of use to my countrymen. . Said I: “Perhaps I have missed & great name in the rolls of theday! Let ¢ Jennings’ be look~ ed up in all the books of reference, from the Blue Book to the Patent Office Catalogue!” THE SEARCE FOR THE GREAT ARRIVEN. Couriers were despatched in ail directions,— £ome mounted on mules, some on jackasses, and other’s going afoot. Affers week's indefatiga- ble hunt, they all assembled before my house, &t lunch-time, one day, preceded by a band of music, which played alternately « God Save the Queen ” and * Croppies Lie Down.” I appearod on my door-step, armed with a poker, and asked what, in the name of sense, this great outpouring might mean. Each courier advanced with a small red book in hia hand ; one man found his at the Library of Congress, and all the rest dis- covered their's at & trunkmaker's. I opened the fly-lesf and there read: “ Eighty years of Re- publican Government in the United States. By ouis J. Jennings. London: John Murray. 1868. The right of translation is reserved.” _ Having satisfied myself that this was & book of the great man overdue amongst us, the hose dis- persed the mass-meeting, and I fell to examining this book by candle-light. THE WONDROUS BOOK OF MICHAEL SOOTT. I soon perceived that it was one of those books an Englishman is alweys trying to_write, 28 if he had an indigestible copy of De Tocque- ville on the stomach,—that *brilliant and su- perficial book,” s one of the grest race has Eaid; meaning thatit must boso becauso & Frenchman did it. The Jennings book was Dretty well written, however, and full of prigged quotations, going £o establish & vague notion of the suthor that something was necessarily gong here because one don't do it at 'ome, you know. 1 soon found myself comparing the editor of the official organ with the author of this book, to see what he is going to do for us as a substi- tue for Uncle Horace. And in some respects, if the New York Tines' opinions be those of the correspondent at the head of it, he performed & ievously dishonest course in not supporting orace Greeley in 1872, OF X0 CONSEQUENCE. Here is the first striking sentence : “The form of Governmentis, in truth, of Iittle importance to America, 80 far as it pres- ent prosperity is concorned, Call the nominal ruler King, Emperor, or President, and the material interests of the people must still flourigh.” ‘Well, there is a good deal in a name. Wapre- fer tocall him President, because we don't see where the flunkey could come in on that title, nor any Black Usher of the Crimson Red. It's 2 prejudice of ours that Horace Greeley had. To resume upon the Jennings theory of gov- ernment : “WWhat was so much sought after by the early statesmen, or which was go s)grecimm to the peo- ple, as the maintenance of State independence? Tt was the very life-blood of the syatem. But Do, a8 immediately after the War of Independ- ence, they are willing to sacrifice almost uverr thing for the sake of securing an irresistible En\\-ar at some central point. e Constitution a3 been expressly absndoned, but the homage of the lipa is still paid to it.” ‘This is better writing than we see in the New York Times; but, to do hisbest in style, he must Tite believingly, a8 we suppose Jennings did in 1868. He is a good deal hampered now. His opinion on the nfht of secession was not go dif- ferent from Greeley’s that he should have abused his senior so. He saya (p. 23) : ““The doctrine that the States were left free to choose whether they would remainin the Union, or detsch themeselves from if, was never !cfntedI though it was occaeionally contradicted, until the Bouthern States unwisely precipitated the decision in 1861, * * * Slavery wasabol- ished by the vote of the Slave States ; but negro- enfirags and the disfranchisement of white citi- zens was forced upon them egainst their will, and in undoubted contravention of the express guarantee of the Constitution that each Btate shall be allowed to choose its own form of euf- frage. ‘The Union before everything.’ 8ays tho ‘American,—before States, before the Consita- tion, before even Liberty itgelf.” Not, however, bofore Jennings, if you please ! The great arisen editor says thus of Mr. A. Johnson : “)Jr. Johneon had not been long in office be-~ fore the facts which were bronght to his knowl- cdge, a3 Chief of the Nation, convinced him that the South needed no additional stripes to reduce it to submisesion, Its load was already ater then it conld beat. * * * Tt was useless for Alr. Johneon to boast of his humble origin and his carly struggles. Tho Nation took no pride inthem, ® ¥ * If the people do mot like mechanics to be their great public offi- cors, they need not go to that class for them. * * The constant cry which met Johnson's ears was : ¢ We will not ‘be robbed of our victory ; the South shall never make snother attempt to divide the Union.! % % * Jtigno honor to be & member of the Civil Bervice in America. Any man who en- tered upon’ the Presidoncy with his mind im- ‘bued with the precepts of the Constitution and the teachings of the Fathers would ruin him- gelf ina twelvemonth. The re-eligibility of the President may be one cause of the gradual ce of the office! It is to the interest of the President to scheme and manceuvre for a second term.” Mr. Jennings then expresses his belief in & single term of ofiice, and in the sholition of the Electoral College system (pp. 56, 57). He has thrown & great deal of mud upon people who believed the same thing. SOLID CHUNKS OF WISDOM. As we o onin thisbook of the second Greeley, we see & vast amount of skepticism, as if the author were looking for & conacience, and was afraid of losing the successfal gide by Yenturing onone. He pronounces an American Cabinet an engine of corruption, and suils in to theSen- ate as _tho resl appointing power. He says: ¢ My, Madison contended that the President would never dare to remove a faithful public sorvant ; but this was nothing more than & per- sopal impression.” ¢ In Congress, no one can afiinm that either property or intellect ia ade- quately represented.” . ‘The above remarks few thinking poople gain- sey ; but what is Mr. Jennings doing toward the independent spirits in Congress at present ? He said, four years ago: Tt is impossible for & man of inde&endenc opinions to obtain a seat in Congress, He must be ‘indorsed’ by a party, and slavishiy adopt all the views of the party, or it is useless for him to contest an_election. Should any sccepted member exhibit an opinion of his own in opposi- tion to the general gurty, he is practically driven out of its ranks, and he 1s is assailed on all sides with & virnlence and unscrupulousness unknown elsewhere ; he inevitably fails to receive a futura nomination, and thus he loses the next election. Within the walls of the Legislature, everg;nico is raised ageinst him ; and, outside, he to confront the unprincipled assaults of the com- bined agents of a faction.” £ Hore we think we reach a definition” of Jen- nings and his paper. A man who can think this in 1868, and lead the Tom Murphy rabble of men, with shoemakers’ faces, in 1872, can never be the independent and courageous successor of Horace Greeloy, even if the comparison were not pro- posterous on all grounds. TAKING BACKWATER. : After Mr. Jeunings has argued, in a sidewise way, forruined Btate nights, be denounces the country because *.each State has power to make 1aws for itself, and there is no uniformity in the regulation of Society.” In the noxt turn, he de- nounces Congress for “having swept away, by its owm fiat, the whole Judiciary system of ten States.” Yet he says that the central Supreme -Court has nothing to do but to stand helplessly and look on at the miscarriage of ite decisions. Mr. Jennings then charges that the office of Sen- ator of Pennsylvania_had been bought and sold for gold,—which he will not now dare to repeat on the same holder of it. A whole chapter is de- voted to_party government_as the corrupter of 2]l the interests and institutions of America. *Freo srgument and discussion are easily sup- proseed in the popular branch of tho Legisla- ature, and a tyranny, unheard of under other Constitutional ‘Governments, is imposed mpon tho minority.” We are excited to know that this is the sume Jennings who libelled Schurz and Trambull all the lust campaign, and was the londest flunkey of party tyrauny. We can well un- derstand, in_this connection, & passage on page 159: ““An American politician must be discouraged and humiliated when helooks round upon themen with whom he is obliged to act, and makes himeelf acquainted with the condi- tions upon which this support and fidelity must be purchased. * * * The pross is active and woll supported ; the emoluments at the disposal of the g;u‘ty in power flow safely into distant channels ; and the man that does his work knows that he is sure of his poy.” At the same time, nobody in our journalism previously had remarked over a dead lion's grave, with the indecent haste of unworthy rivalry: “The consequences of BIr. Greeloy's death cannot be over-estimated to the Now York . have already died-from the disease. Tribune.” For what may be_the consequences of Mr. Jennings' living to the New York Times? . VEAL-PLE FROM BOW-BELLS. . Very amusing is Mr. Jenninge' solicitude for & National religion, instead of *“an inferior order of menin the priesthood,” as he found here, ‘“ghut out from every hope of advancement,” and, indeed, generally rising from the poorer clasges of artisans. Here seems to be-s descrip- tion of the eloguent Dr. Nowmsan. “In no coun- try in the world is the pulpit used for hustings pllugosas 80 Bystematically as in America, and With such genenflfincourngement of public ap- proval. The Almighty is constantly exhorted to compass the return of the popular candidate, and the misery and discomfiture of his rival.” Now, in v_:hamart of the country did Jennings hear anything like this ? It isout of whole clot And thisalso is an exaggoration: ¢ The Chap- Isin in Congress during 1865-67 prayed dail against the President, that he might be humble! and cast down, and that his own party might be covered with grest glory.” Then we get a icture, after the style of Dryden's Hind and anther, of the drunken Northern soldiery car- rying off the Southern * Establishment's” sacrod plate. As to popular education, ** There is no people who reng 80 muchand knowso little- as the ericans ; and the school-systemis a merely experimenta] thing, and everybodyadmits that Massachusetts began wrong. - ORIGINAL BODSERVATIONS. Finally, we are sseured, in this desp amiofifin- al study of the Republic by itsnew official editor, that the South isonly “ ten or eloven millions of. white citizena living under military surveil- lanco in a grest camp.” A big camp, indeed, with thirty men guarding all Alsboma at Jen” ninge’ advice. ‘¢ The South is excluded from the Territories.” Merciful Heavens! ‘¢ Except in this attachment to the National ides, the Union has Jittle hold upon the Pacific States.” *The accuracy of Calhoun's positions has never been disputed.” *The Tribune is the most powerful organ of the Radicals.” ¢ Every one engaged in~ American politi is aware that Mr. Lincoln and his Cebinet, with but two excep- tions, wero convinced that the South must eventually triumph.” * The Northern people cannot keep the Southern benecath their feet forever, if their favorite. ent with reference to Ireland be worth m)fihmg 4 The ordi- pary, business-loving, peaceable citizen gees, in the new protectorate of the negro, o sourcs of endless {uture disaster, * * ~* The Nation at large would sooner submit to a single Dicta- tor than to & million in the persouns of black men. * * * The American peoplo have not yet decided to make negroes their rulers; and a cm;t'est to settle that issue has still to be fought out.” All this for half-price by the editor of the official organ, and much more of the same sort, written in that kind of lost, foggy, tevern-parlor tone of querulousness which sesms to come into the lungs with London smoke. It is well to ask whether & person go facile on his pivot can ever ‘become a leader of opinion in this country. A BEPRESENTATIVE ENGLISH PUBLISHER. It had generally been su;iyuaefl that the United States contained the least considerate book-publishers in the world ; but the exploits of one John Camden Hotten, in London, are now gaining & world-wide reputation for mean- mness in pirating and mnkmghnpnc hal the writings of “Mark Twain,” Mr. Btanley, and however, that & dog others. The diacovug, may publish books in England, ought not to be new. Ten yenrs 850, one of the largest publish- ing houses on Fleet_streot, and, indeed, in all London, was that of John Maxwell. He had & set of high artists, all sgog to write books of travel in places where the writers had never troddon; and, whenever auother publisher Dbegan a promising magazine, the large resources of this place wemgut forward to handicap it. If Mr, Smithstarted the Cornhill Hagazine, Maxwell followed with Temple Bar; if Bradbury had Once a Weel;, Maxwell clipped it with Twicea Week. Somebody's Shilling Magazine was followed by this man’s Siz-penny Magazine. Bankru once or twice ; of doubtful “‘pay” to his authors; and agort of Boss Tweed in periodicals an Dbooks, this man may, for aught L know, continue to live and crib. We are getting s good deal of advice now-a~days from people who have come amongst us to correct our journalism, manners, and biography ; and it is by correlation that wo instance Hotten and Maxwell as harpies of the blood-royal on the other side, - THE INTERNAL REVENUE. The bill devised by Douglass, the present Commissioner of Internal Revenue, to dispense with Assessors, has gused the House, an: enerally commended by the Democrats. Mr. fxym, of Pennsylvania, nppeared to object to it on the gromnd that some Assessor or other ‘would lose his head. The Internal Revenue sys- tem has been generally well conducted, conaidor- ing that it has collected sbout 9375,000,000 & year. S THE SOUTH. The following is the condition of Lhing: in the South: Clayton has squarely carried Arkanens by the co-operation of a eufiicient number of Democrats, In Alabama, ‘the points at law are with the Democrats, and at fact with the Re- ublicons. The Democrats did not carry the oo conteated counties by any honost count, as is apparent by the testimony of several Demo- cratic lawyers there, that the Secretary of State issued the certificates in those cases without shadow of authority, In Louisiana, Warmoth and the Custom House gang are equal cumber- ersof the ground, despoilers of the Common- wealth, and disturbers of the peace. The State ought fo bo remanded to military suthority, as ininsurrection. In Texas, Davis will probably ‘be impeached for, rulmgx like o barbarian. In South Carolina, the white people aro botfer satisfied with Moses’ election, because he is a native of the State, than if Tomlinson had won. Mississippi enjoys fair tranquility, and ropudia- tion in old days has ~saved her from the second plunder; there, also, & native is the ruling spirit, and strangers do not dominate. North Carolina has got a man in the Senate of inferior power to Vance, but probably a person the mode of whose elec- ombril) moke bim the conservator of tho bos interests of both sides. Georgia is quietly locked up in the arms of the Conservatives, ‘Where it will stay for the next ten yoars, ITENS. The secretary of War has done = just act to the memory :‘?‘)Iajor General James Wilkinson, of Maryland, once Commander-in-Chief of the American Army, by asking that his remains be taken from an unnoticed correr of an abandoned church in Mexico City, and buried in the United Btates National Cemetery there. = Tho Soldiers’ Home at Washington City bas added the superb Harewood grounds fo it by purchase, thus spending & part of the fund which Butler and others wanted to gobblo up. This purchnse gives Washington n National Park rarely exceeded in the country for shade and drives. The late Chief Justice, Roger Taney, has ‘been commemorated, within the past fow weeks, by & public biography of his life, and now by & statue at the City of Annaspolis. Two new statnes will be put In the eculptor's hands for this city before March 4; the subjects nre Far- ragut and John A. Rawlina, GATH. B A Large Colony of Saxons Comingto Michigan. From the Grand Rapids (3fich.) Eagle, From tho Michigan Wegisciser, 8 paor, pub- lished in Hamburg by Mr. H. Allardt, Emigrant Commissioner for this State, we learn that & large colony of emigrants from the neighborhood of Dresden are preparing to come to this State. The proposition_is to buy a whole township, lay it out in Iots and farms of different sizes, and settle about 500 Fenple ot once. The farms are to contain from 10 to 160 acres each. The loca- tionis not yet determined upon, but it is the desire of tho managers to be near some place which will furnish employment to such of the colony 25 are not needed on the land during the- first winter or s0. Three gentlemen have been appointed to come on and select the location. They are a store- keepor named Wehner, s shoemsker named Mueller, and a baker named Roetsch, all from Dresden. They left Dresden Nov. 6, and took passage for New-York in the steamer Cambris. They were provided by Mr. Allardt with letters to Gyovernor Baldwin, Mayor Ortmann, of East Saginaw; William L. Weber, Land 'Commis- sioner of the Flint & Pere Huqfiatta Railroad ; end Hon. William A. oward, Land Commisgioner _ of the Grand ~Rapids dio; Railroad. It is calcnlated na that it will cost $100 for the passage from Dres- dento this city, if the emigrants come singly, but a large number can make arrangements which will reduce the cost _to $80 apieca, The first party of the colony will leave Dresden on the 18t of April, the second party on the 1st of July, and the remainder will come Nov. 7. The three agenta who aro sent to select the location are suthorized to buy the tract and make all necessary arrangements, 8o that when the first parry arrive they can at once go on fo the land. —Champ, Vaughan has assumed the editorial control of the Denver Tribune. —Another rumor comes in regard to the dis- ease among the deer. Some claim that huntars arriving at Delano state that the deer are killed without difficulty, and many are found which On the other hand, gentlemen who have just arrived from_the “deor country” say that the ramors are simply fabrications, “and have no foundation in fact, while others offer a liberal reward for sny nmlutnri‘:fidence that a strange disease ia decimating this, the greatest favorite of the mame of Minaesota.—5¢. Paul Dispatch. - BERLIN. The Miseries of Crossing the Channel. Experiences of a Man Igmorant of Ger- man, on First Entering _Germany. Life in a - German Family--- Gungl’s Concerts. From Our Own Correspondent. Beaury, Nov. 16, 1872, It would never do to pass from England to the Continent without making & few remarks on the little OYAGE' ACROSS THE CHANNEL. The two hours occupied in crossing from Dover to Calaia are very rarely forgotten by travellers, for most tourists deem it- utterly impossible to imagine any way of spending that amount of time in more abject misery than it can pe spent upon the Channel stcamers. Everybody has written about the small size and wretched ac- commodations of these miserable little boats; everybody has wondered that two so great ma- tion 28 the English and French have so long submitted to sach an uncomfortable and utterly insdequate mode of communication between them; and all the world knows that the Channel is the most disagreesble and trying, of all waters on the face of the earth, for those who are inclined to sea-sickness. 8o I will say noth- ing further about these things; but there is one little peculiarity in the management of these boats that I must mention: As soon a8 the boat has loft the wharf, while she is yet in still water, and before any one has begun to be miserable, the stewards make their appoarance with & quan- ity of AMPLE WHITE CHINA BASINS, which they set down before the disgusted trav- ellers. Now, thess basins are very suggestive, —most unpleasantly so, in fact. They have sbout them an ominous look of evil to come., They seem to speak forth, in accents not to be ‘mistaken, the sad history of the meny former tourists who have leaned over them in misery. ‘Everybody knows that, if you “Tell a man he is & thiof, he will be hung ;" and that is very mnuch the effect these odious basins have. I verily believe that some people might escape that dread monster, sea-sickness, if these hid- 6ous basing were not thrust 60 esrly right under their noses, s if there Was no possible doubt that, sooner orlafer, every onewould need them. There is misery enough in crossing the Channel without any unnecessary addition to it from the inconsiderate acts of men who ought to know better : and, Ido hope, that in tho course of time, this barbsrous custom will be given up. ALAS FOR LOYERS who cross the Channel together ! Thore is no room for rormance hore, I sawtwounfortunates sitting together on deck. Their position seem- ed, at first sight, romantic, tor the gentleman’s arm was around the lady, and ber hesd rested upon his shoulder. On closer inspection, I ob- served o basin between them, resting partly upon her lap and partly upon his, and, slas for romanco! the besin was far from empty. Their faces wero very pale, and they did not look happy; however, they were misorable together, and their fate was, after all, happier than that of those who must use a golitary basin, and have no sympath; in their sorrow. ig is only one of many su touching scenes; and the only consolation in the midst of this misery is in thinking that two hours must end sometimo; when it does end, it is really marvellons to see how quickly every one's epirits rise. Having safely reachod the Continent, Iam next going to relate the oxperiences of a man WIO KNOWS NO GEBMAY, savo the little which he, in common with most American youth, hea read at college—when he comes'alone to Germany. Thatman is myself, and T had never spokon & word of German until 1 entered Germany. Every one bad said to me, #If you know_French, you can get along per- fecily well. Everybody spesks French on the Continent. Being porfectly familiar with French, I expected no ditliculty in making myself under- stood everywhere; but I was disappointed. 3y first d.isag:eable exporience occurred at the dopot in Berlin. I had been travelling sbout nineteen hours stesdily, with mnothin bat & square chunk of brea and & litle ham eat, and was naturally in an extromely disagreeable frame of mind. Itmight even say I was cross and savage to the very vergo of ferocity, My firat desire on my arrival was to get a good dinner at some hotel. Consequently, the instant the train stopped I was off, l;mpm- eck in hand, toget my trunk, which I had bad checked through from London. I found an official who appeared to exerciso somo superision ovor tho baggsg, and I at once presented him with mti‘chec , AN implied, in looks if not in words, that I desired my trunk instently. The ofiicial looked at my paper check right sido np, and he looked at it ‘rong eide up, and he looked at it sidewnys, dur- ing the timo of which long examination I stood fuming with impatience beforehim. At last the ofticial looked at me, and let fly a whole volley of German right in my face, I did not understand one single word he said, but began to porceive there was some mysterious reeson why I could not %st my trunk. ~ I saw that the official and I must understand esch other in some way. “Oh!" {hought I, ““of cotirse he speasks French. They all do.” “Parlez vous Francais, Mon- sieur?" 1 remarked hopefully. TTTER BEWILDERMENT overspreads the official’s countenance. A little bit dashed, but by no means discouraged, I ro- peated my remark in an undertone,—official probably had not heard me. Bewilderment still. clonds official's countonance. Somewhat less hugufnfly. Tmeokly asked, “Do you speak Tng- lish, sir ?” Official looks at me as if I were & natural curiosity just escaped from.some mu- seum. He evidently thinks I ought to be in & strait-jacket. Being urged forward now by the sharp spur of neceseity, I sacked my brains to find enough Gorman to inquire if there was onein the place who spoke English. Tho offi- cial's countenanco nstently brightened at the sound of his native tongue. His look of appre- hension vanished, and he evidently began to think me a man like other men, excs%l: in regard to the feeblenees of my German. Responding to my question with & yast amount of ** Ya's,” he led me away to & restaurant in & remote part of the building, where he trinmphantly pointed ount to- me a waiter, whose knowledge of our mother-tongue was supposed to be quite unlim- ited. It was not unlimited, bnt he did at last mansge to make me understand that my trunk was_in snother station at the far- ther extremity of the town. There waa nothin forit but to pocket my disgust, take & cab, an g0 to the other station, whioh I accordingly did, and there I found myt which was soon placed in trinmph upon the cab, and I arrived at my hotel one hour later than I expected to. I have never found out to this day why my trunk was not at the same station with myeelf, and L never expect to. Idare say that, in_their mys- terions and fearful ways of dealing with baggage on this side of the water, thero was some good reason, but what it was 1 know not. Ny frat quest in Berlin was to discover A GEBMAN FAMILY with whom Imight live while I was trying to master the German. After some difficulty, T suc- ceeded in finding just such = place og I dosire —=a family where several Americans had stayes before me, and had found it very pleasant. I was soon safely ensconced in my new quarters, which I found very comfortable,—much better than I had been led to expect. 3ly spartment is not luxurious, but it is nicely furnished, large and airy. In one corner stands one of those huge German stoves, made of earthenware. It looms up like & shining, white fower from floor to ceiling, and presents a curious though not altogether disagreeable appearance. These stoves are very economical. Theymake & fire in them earlyin the morning, and get the whole immense fabric thum:&h!y eated through, and then the heat lpsts all day, and is slowly given out from the polished surface of the earthenware. The heat is, however, dryand close, and to me, at least, rather unpleasant. On entering into s more minute inspection of my domains, I failed to find several things which I knew I should need. One of them was alamp. How to provide mysslf with such s one ag I desired, was the first thing to be consider- ed. I boldly determined toenter at once upon & CONVERSATION WITH MY LANDLADY, . in order to make my desires known. I tremble when I think of it,—I, the man who, six days before. had never Bpoken & word of Germsn in is life, fo enter upon s conversation; involving perhaps many intricate details, with alady who could speak not one single word.of English ! The dlady appears, and, as I hayve sum- ‘moned her, I feel it incumbent upon me to open the conversation. I say, ‘‘Good momning.” I must have said it right, I think, for the land- lady responded in similar words. I feel much encourage: eat confidence to state my desire for a I get the sentence all right umtil I come fo the word for “lamp” and then I bring up short, and cannot continue, The" landlady looks expectant. Bhe evidently thinks my sentence incompleto. I think so too, but cannot complete it. I besitate; landlady grows a little neryous; conversation s decidedly at a standstill. WWhat is tobe done? Happy thought! Have a small dictionsry in my pockef. Look np the word for “lamp.” I remark to the landlady, “Plensa wait a-minute ¥ (N. B.—L am familiar with this phraserin German). The landlady sits down and waits calmly, while I turn oyer the pages of my dictispary. I find the word, put it into my sentence, and_hurl the whole tri- waphantly at land\ady. No immediate snswer from her.” Perhaps-ehe did not hear. I hurl it again, louder. The landlady looks decidedly confused; evidently she has not understood. My courage begins fo-fail again. Another happy thoufll;b—to show the word in the dictionary to the Iandlady. Acw!flinrily, I find my word sgain, put my finger at -the 'plwe, and -point it out to landlady. _Victory —landlady under- stands at once. I hi not pronounced it right; the “a™ ghould have been s little broader; but never mind; the landlady understands, and we even mansge to weather in safety a few sentonces moro of conversation; after which I retire in great- content from the field, feeling I have won & vic- tory. In a little while, & very excellent lamp ‘makes its appearance, and also a fow other com- forts which I desired are brought me, and I he- gin to feel guite at home. Another character now appears upon the | scene,— “ ERNESTINA,” THE DOMESTIO. Think not, on account of the romantic sound of that name, that its owner is beautiful, or po- etic in the slightest possihle degres. No; L never felt any inclination to relieve Ernestina of the burden of my breakfast as she boreit into my room, and lay it upon the table myself in or- dor to save her tho trouble, nor to perform any other romantio or chivalrona servico for her. No; Ernestina, in spite of her sentimental nzme, is exactly suited to her place in life, Her aspirations are nob lofty, nor are her powers of 'mind great, but she does her humble worx well, and is o good-patured German_ girl enongh. I have come gradually to the conclusion that she is. FOND OF PERPENDICULAR LINES, and this is why I think so. When she sets my room in order, she will invarisbly place justas many of my books one on top of the otherascan ‘be made to stand in that position. When this pile is complete, she elways puta it as near the Ccormer of the table as possible, in order, I think, to gratify her eye by continuing .the perpendic- ulsr ling through the books right down_to the floor without any interruption. This gives m table the appearanco of a vast plain with s hig tower flhona end. Moreover, she delights in placing little ronnd boses, and the various arti- cles of my toilet-table, in the same precarious position ; may, worse, I have never seen my pet inkstand,—2 little round, Russia-leather oné,— mounted upon_ the summitof s high tobacco- box, and both ézlmed. upon the topmost point of avery lofty desk. This trait of Ernestins's character is certzinly original and worth men- tionng, SFA Ly The first event in my doy here is always tho odvent of BBEAKPAST, which is brought to my room at whatever hour I dosire to be awakened and leave my couch of fenthers. The first breskfast my eyes fell upon here was not luxurious,—not by any means. It consisted of a few alices of coid, smoked Ger- man sausage, and somo bread and butter. _Only that and nothing more! However, I was at that time not well versed 'in the pames of German _eatebles, snd did not know mesr enough German to scold; g0 I ate my sausage in quiet, vowing in my mind that my firat task should bo to learn the names of German articles of food. Now, I have Dbettored my situation very much. I have~good coffee and eggs, and often some very tolerable meat beside. 3 My days are fianumfly sery fully occupied, from morning tll night, with work of ono soré or another. At 3 o'clock we have DINNER, which the whole family partake of together, and Tot eoparately in their own rooms, as they take ‘breakfast. The dinner is never luxurious. It consiats of two courses at lesst, and, excopt when sausages aro the only mesb,—which has happened once or_twice~it is eubstantial enough, and generally well cooked. After din- ner wo Bit round the table aud talk, while the gentlemen moke, and tho ladies busy them- selves with knitting or some_similar work. I s00n mastered German enongh to join in the conversation, and now I can understand and speak snficiently well to enjoy it very much. At 8 o'clock comes supper, and, after it is fin- ished, we again gather round the table and' talk ~ery gociably and plessantly. Occasionally wo have s little music, when conversation flaga. One of the gentlemenin the house plays the piano vory well, snd 1 myself play Somewhat upon the flute, so that we have really very emjoyable duets. Then I retire to my room, and, with the 0id of vory excellent cigars, and with the companionship of Schilk Goothe, manage to spend the rest of the even- ing very pleasantly. So the daysgo. One is very liko another, and the life cannot be called oxactly exciting, but.it is comfortable, and the Germans are a very hospitable peopls, and do- their ntmost to make strangers feel at home among them. s Sometimes I go to GUNGL'S CONCERTS, which take place ina large concert-house, on one of thoprincipal strosts. These concerts are what are ed family concerts, and thoy present a curious and thorouglly German scene. The large hall is filled with tables, sur- rounded by chaira. At one end is s raised stage, upon which sits the orchestra.” Around each table sits & German palerfamilias and his fami- ly; mother and daughters kmitting or sewing; end all of them drinking beer ont of hugo glasses. Bofore the evening is half over, tha clod of tobacco smoke becomes 80 denso that the orchestra is seen indistinctly as through 8 veil, or as if there were a thick fogin room.’ In agallery above, which goes aronnd three sides of the hall, sit the bet- ter and wenlthier clasees, also drink- ing beer, smoking. and working. The heat of the place is something terrific, but they do not seem to mind 1t in the least. ~On tkocon- trary, if any one dares to open a door or & win- dow and let in a breath of fresh air, a shudder of horror immediately pervades the feminine ortion of the audience, and black glances are girsc&ed at the bold man who has dared to com- mit such an enormity. The music 18 PERFECTLY SUPERB. The orchestra seems to go of itsolf into one heart and one sonl, and hardly to need a condue- tor. Gungl stands with his back to the orches- tra snd his face to the audience as he leads, and I believe that is the universal custom here, thongh it does not seem to me nearly as convens ient a8 the American snd English fashion. How- ever, they seem to manage very well in theirown way, for the music is certainly perfect. The only trouble with thesé conceris is, that a little too much light dance-music is played at them. Gungl himself writes a great many waltzes and polkss, and I asre say he likes to hear them played often. In my next lotter, I will sy something sbont the opera and the various other amusements of Berlin, whichI have notleft myself space enough to describe here. W.C.L. e Discovery of a New and Economical Fucle. From the San Francisco Alta California, Dee, 5. On Mondsy and Tuosdsy aficrnoon s large number of citizens, by invitation, visited the ‘brass foundry of Mr. W. T. Garnett, on Fremont street, for the purposo of witnessing some ex- perimenta with a new fuel recently invented and patented by Dr. Ireland, of Watsonville, 1 this State. They were shown into that portiom of tho estsblishmont occupied by the furnaces, and in one corner found a brick furnace some eight feet long and six feet high. On the top of this wes an iron fank holding about ten gallons, which was filled th crude potroleum, From this tank & pips sbout an inch and & balf in diameter led into the side of the farnace. A small jot of oil, not larger than a small goose-quill, was_permitted to flow out of this tube; s light is placed beneath this jet, and it immediately ignites. . Another pipe about an inch in diameter leads from a steam boiler stationed some fifteen feet awny. This pipe leads o Emall jet of stesm upon the burning oil, and the moment the steam strikes the oil the oxygenin the waterissot free and ignites with & tremendous roar, generating in s very few mo- ments s most intense white heat. . From this small gource the entire chamber of the 1’m—1m':3,l which is some two feet by five feet, is filled Wi a flame 8o brilliant snd dazzling that one caunot aze on it for more than a moment at a time. Phis flame possesses_all the hest of an oxy- hydrogen flame, and beneath its fierce power the hardest metals melt in & fow moments. The inventor of the spparstus by which the elo- ments of heat, which mature g0 generously vrovides, can be utilized. is a very modest -and .immediately proceed .with. er or- man, saying that he did not want to bring his discovery befors the public until he had fully demonstrated that it wonld do all he claimed for it. He says that the cost of his furnaces will be only a nominal sum—that they will be within the reach of overyone who owns's quartz ledge, while the amount of oil consumed in twenty- four hours will not exceed ten gallons, at a cost of 32. The doctor has_every_confidence in his discovery, and declarss’ his ability to furnieh “fuel for & voyage of ome of the Panama steamers to and from Panama for the insignificant sum of $200, while the entire qmfi%wfll not weigh {0 exceed twenty-five tons. He further aays that at an expense of $5 gm- dsy he can run farnaces that w?fi emelt one on of ore every thirty minutes, If only one- half of what is_claimed ‘can be accomplished, the discovery will prove of incaloulable advan- tage to the mining interests of the Pacific coast and will' create & revolution in steam travel thronghout theworld. THE LATE S. N. PIKE. Reclaiming the Jersey [Marshes—A Four Years’ Successtul Straggles From ths New York World. The career of Samual N. Pike, the builder of ogen, houses, is associated with 80 many events of public interest that hia death deserves more than or notice, Mr, Pike was eminently ‘what is called in cant parlance s typical Ameri- can. His life was spent in a succession of busi- ness enterprises, some of whichinvolvedissues of immense importance, and.while they had self- interest for their motive power, contributed nev- ortheless in their resulta to the public good. Such, certainly, was his reclaiming from the soa the marshes between Jersey City and Newark, known a8 the Jersey Flats. There are probably fow travellers who do nof remember, when crossing this tract of country befors Mr. Pike had begun his. nndertlkm'hg, ‘how at high tide the entire expanse seemed like a large lake, and a8 far as the eye counld reach hardly mfihm could have been seen but water, through whic] tie em- ‘bankments of the various railroads twined their way. At low tide the water receded, exposing a mass of mud 4,000 acres in extent, which ex- haled noxious vapors to the air aud was produc- tive of all manner of disease, Numerous were the endesvors to putan endto this state of things and to emulate the Hollanderin wresting his dominions from Neptune, but none were successfol till Mr. Pike, fresh from ro-building his Cincinnati Opera House after its destruction by fire, with characteristic energytook hold of the work. It was no light undertaking in & ecuniary point of view, even af the start. &'he owners of the vast tract of mud, conscious of its immense _ value should it over be reclaimed, were not disposed w?m with it on easy terms, and Mr. Pike did 1ot become ite purchaser st a emall outlay. This was in the fall of 1868, _ At thaf time the entire tract, extending from Bergen Heights - to the suburbs of- Newark, five miles in length and thres in width, wes nearly completely covered with water at every high tide. . Before twelve months had elapsed,by & of dyking which hes seldom had ita par; 8 considerable portion of the land was reclaimed, and stood high and dry out of reach of the waves. The rivers which intersected this region, and whose overflow caused all the trouble, were the Passaic and Hackensack, of each strong embankments were reared at every necessary point. A species of iron plate wae used in the construction of the dkyes, to rovent rats and_other rodents from making oles in the embankment through which the water conld find its wsy. This tho iron plates prevented, and in the Pas- gaic, where the .current was stronger, large stones were placed along the dyke to prevent the earth from being washed away at the . All this time the land was being intersect~ in every direction by drains which carried off. the water from the Burface. Where the water remained in too great quantities to be dis- posed of in this way, it was dyked off from the Test of the land, channels being left throngh which it conld find its way to either of the two rivers, till with the aid of other appliances its entire removal could be effected. . Pike was his own engineer, and superintended the entire work himself. Nobwithstanding the slow nature of the undertaking, and the thorough- mness with which it was performed, it was com- pleted in something lesa than four years. As a proof of its thoroughness msy be taken the fact thet during the spring of last year, when the tide rose um y high, and the-cellars on Front and other streets near the water, in this city, were flooded, the Jersey Flats, which for centuries before had been under water, were not affected in the least. The cost of the work was commensurate with the grandeur of tho undertaking. An enormous -pum- ‘ber of men had to be employed, earth andstones to form: the embankments had fo be brought from a great distance, the appliances for driving | piles snd other tools employed were all of an ‘expensive character, and before it was completed more than 1,000,000 had been expended. The property scquired, it is needless to say, is of immense value. There are 4,000 acres, estimated at an exceedingly . moderats compuia- tion to be worth on _ an_ - aversge over $2,000 an -acre. -Indeed, sixty acres on the side nearer Jersey City have alreadybeen disposed of to the Pennsylvania Railroad as a gite for repair shops and car factories at the rate of 83,000, and this is said to be by far the least valuable of the whole. The Passaic’ River is navigable for a long distance by vessels of con- siderable size, nnd the land possesaing wharfage it banks must at no distant.day be of immense value. o GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. There are 1,200 miles of railroad in Nebraska. —The Uniox Depot at St. Paul will be occu- pied Jan. 1. : —Hamline University is to be located between 8t. Paul and Minneapolis. —Genersl J. W. B. Browne {8 ac ed at Memphis of the marder of Captain J. T. Adams for seducing his daughter. —Earle P. Mason, of Providence, R. I, bas purchased the Southbridge, Mass., print works, or $150,000. ; —All the Georgia papars are publishing notices of the death of * Unclo Ned,” of Savaunah, & ne- gro, at the age of 112 years. —A Buffalo paper annonnces that by the re- cent burning of an ice-bouse here, 20,000 tons of ice were ‘ reduced to ashes.” —The old Dathousis College is to be sold and s fine new building erected in the suburbs of Halifax for simila; rgnrpm!a!. > —The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions is tohold its annnal meeting of f;mr days at Minneapolis, the 1st of October next, —So far, £45,810.29 have been subecribed toward the rebuilding of the Methodist Publish- ing House at Nashville, Tenn. Of this amount Nashvyille subscribed $33,044.67. —The last Legislature refusedsan approsn‘w— tion of $600 to aid the Vermont Historical So- cioty in the publication of the third volume of ita collections, now ready for the press. —Itis groyused that the Second Connecticut Regiment shall go to Washington when General Grant is reinsugurated, and- they probably will if $12,000 can be raised to pay the billa. 1t is rumored that a tourist’s hotel, costing $100,000, is to be built on the Canadian shore of the St Lawrence, opposite the Thousand T o th ding Aug. 1, 1873, th —During the year ending Aug. 0 whole number of barrels of lager beer pro- duced in Cincinnati, was 436,483, or 13,539,973 ons. —1t is stated that the great bell for Cologne Cathedral, to be cast by Herr Andreas Hamm, will be composed.of the metal of twenty-two cannon, taken from the French and presented by the Emperor of Germany. —The towns of Tioga and New Chicago, in Kanses, the other day, after having disbanded, Telapsed, and resolved into_their original ele- ments, effected & consolidation under the name of Chanate. —A curious job was put through the Cincin- nati Council the other dsy. The amount of it was a doration of £5,000 and a school-house gfl.fi: its furniture, to the managers of St. Xavier'’s olloge. —Of eighty-eight counties in Ohio only four’ can boast of & population exceeding 50,000. These ara Hamilton, 260,370 ; Cuyahoga, 132, 010; Montgomery, 64,006, and Franklin, 63,019, Seventeen counties have diminished in popula~ tion since the census of 1860, v —A long, red worm, resembling in appearance what i termed j'hhugflnnd—leg%:d worm,” is formed in corn raised in wet lands in Northern Kansas, and, if eaten by horses or cattle, proves very fatal = —It has been discovered by Minnesota farmers that two acres of sunflowers will supply. » family with fael fihronéh & long winter. The wood of the stalk, and the oil of the seed, it is said, mako roaring and cheerful fires. —In the “‘exchange” column of the Queen appears the following queer advertisement : “A plece of Queen Victoria's wedding-cake, cut off and tied up by the ate painter in ordinary, and written on by him, to be exchanged for & dining- room table-cloth, or low tea-table, gilt legs, or good exchange'desired.” 4 —During tis month of November the ship- ‘ments of Jullion from the mines of Ely District, pet Wells, Fargo & Co., smounted to $508,086.19. This, says the Pioche Jecord, is about the usua average, and will go far towards awakening capi- talists end the mining population generally to the value and importance of the district. An Englishman, in s letter to tha New York and all along the banks_ ‘World, sompliments us after the following fash- ion: “You Americanshave not succeeded in producing as agresable s social average asis common, not merely in Great Britain, but thronghont civilized Europe. Younare a great, an enterprising, s wonderful, but nof a nice people.” He proproses to show us, also, how the National er suffera from “‘rampant: intgm'dnnlmm and disregard _to. the rights of others.” —Colonel J. P. Barnum, of Richmond, Vt., in: the tin ond hardware business, has forged the indorsement -of - his -father-in-law, “Joho A.. Beers, of Monkton, to s considersble amount, and has left the country. His lisbilities are: o i?’om'party of Georgia in 1871 —The taxable pro eorgis in 1871 was, $210,602,211. is year it is $226,6683,263, show- ing an increase of 316,061,052. The taxes tha present g-gn— for. Tfienaml urposes will reack: about $600,000. The specific taxes will amount to abont 8100,000, and the tax for public schools: ill be about the same, —Tho Supreme Court of Virginia has decided that the action of the General Assembly in. March, 1872, by which the conpon featurs of the Funding law was repealed was unconstitutional. The effect of this decigion is to make conpons of bonds issued under the Fund.ingl:ct receiva- !4: for Staie taxes, as was contemplated by that act. —An interesting case involving the responsi- bilities of transportation companies, was decided at Norwich, Conn., last week, in the snit bronght % Will.i;mt I’J- Brown rt;adreawardééfio from .omas Pitt, for prope: lestroyed by a gang of ronghs fanded by his on Mystio Talasd in March, 1870, to witness the Edwards and Coltyex fight, ' The Conrt decided that as he had res- sonable ground for Ap{;ehnud’mg that the land- ing of these men on the island would result iz the destruction of property, he was, therefore, liable for $450 damages. il —The clergy of Brooklyn are exercised abouk. the recent hanging which ocourred in that city. In the course of his discourse one of them re-- ‘marked that ‘* there was no excuse for the pres- ent horrors of hanging, the prisoner, the priests, the .reporters taking - notes of the dying man’s agonies. There was nc reason why the public should know any. thing about it. Let him be cut off by a silent, ly dmi“ Let there be no priests*about ta harrow up his sonl.” y —The accident to the steamer Sacramento, I the sixth occurring to the Pacific Mail Company’a steamers within a few months. These are as follows : Beinville (chartered), burned atses; Americs, burned at anchor in’ Jném; Arizona, broke piston-rod and towed into San Francisco ; Orizabs, machinery broken, andshe is now being searched for ; Sacramento, stranded and lost 3 and Guatel , stranded and lost. Thus, two bave been burned, two stranded, and two have broken down at sea. —The Duluth people are amazed and excited st a phantom echooner which was seen. sailing over the icy waters of Lake Superior, apparently endeavoring in vain o make land~ ing, which was imposaible becanse a wide mass of ice reached from the shore eight or ten miles out in the lake. Nobody lmows anything ahouts the vessel, which is considered to be in anmn- fortunate fix. A heavy gale to break up the ice is what is wanted to secure communication with the stray ship. i —Miss Maria Huntingdon, s Georgis girl of 17, who is stopping in & Broadway hotel in New York, was engaged to be married to s clothier named Conklin. A few days ago she quatrelled with him, and immediately went to an Episcopal” minister, and got married to another man named Walker. By the time husband and wife reached home, she changed her mind agein, and kiss -him oncs, and told him never to see her more: Then shs 8] ried to Co in as scon a8 ehe 18 free. of eminent business men, appointed for the pur- ose of investigating the system of Tribi of ommerce, a3 ths%exi.st in France, with & view- t0 its adoption in Great Britain, have presented. a report tating that the establishment of such &. tribunal in the city of Lohdon has become a matter of commercial neceseity, and recommend— ing that the requisite Parliamentary notice be given accordingly. The mercantile classes of New York ars also, we observe, advoceting the. adoption of 3 similar systom. —Beard, Moulton & Co.’s safe in the ruins of their store on Summer street was not reached until Wednesdsy. Of course the contents were- valueless. New brick sidewalks have been laid around Washington square, which hes risen io the dignity of a firs 8 trading district. A range of brick barracks extend all along the south side of Hartford street, and the entire site of Fort Hill has undergone a transformation truly surprising. A large quantity of woolis still being taken from among thernics of the ‘warehouses, in a damaged condition. It is, how- ever, baled up and carried awsy. Yesterday workmen wers digging ot on Washington strect blazing cloth, which burned up elmost ' imme- diately on exposure to the air. -One of the win- dows of the Transcripl building remains une cracked, and the sign is as legible &s ever.—Bos- m’fxfih i quarters of th 1872, —In the firs e quarters e yeor 1872, the imports of the merchandise in{o Greas Britain were of the declared value of £262,674,- 664, an increase of mearly twenty-one millions over the value of the corresponding period of the preceding year. The imports from foreign crease of ten and three-quarter millions; and from British possessions £62,979,956, an in- cresse of above fen millions. The exports of . British and Irish produce and manufectures in the first three quarters of 1872 were of the de- clared value of .£190,314:662, an increase of nearly twenty-four and ee-quarier millions over the corresponding period of 1871; to for- eign countries, £145,155,511, an incresse of shove seventeon millions; and to British pos~ sessions £45,159,151, an increase of seven and one-half millions. dover Theological Faculty, maps ouf a future for the “ 0ld South.” He wonld have it held by the present pmgn'atom and their successors as a Christian Chorch. He would have stated or oc- casional religions services. He would have it opened on State auniversaries. He would have annugl courses of ‘‘Old Bouth lectures,” an- - nually collected into a volume, and_published. He would have memorial tablets inserted in the walls. And‘ lastly, he would have the church kept for # unforseen cxigencies.” These, he says, are as likely to occur in the future as in thepsst. In such exigencies, the associa- tions of the piace may yet again link the liberty of the nation with its most sacred religious in- stincts, and with the most profound type of its religious faith. In short, Prof. Phelps wants the “ 0ld South ” for a Yzakee and Congrega- tionsl Westminister Abbey. —_————— PERSONAL. Afrs. Carl Schurz and her son are in Jackson- ville, Florida. —Admiral Porter bas invited a large party to meet General and Mrsy Grant at dioner om Wednefidag‘" ~T. M. 67, the *‘ oyster man” of Wash. ington, D. C., died in Baltimore, 12th. = Atbert G. Porter, of Indianapolis, is named for the new additional Judgeship in the Indiana Bupreme Conrt. —3iz. Risloy. tho father of 1iss Olive Risley Seward, i8 to be married in the spring to & Cali~ fommia ider. o —Olive Logan (8ykes) is to retire ente Iy from the Jeckira Beld this smm wil hereafter regide in Paris. —Charles P. Sykes, for many years publisher of Pomeroy’s paper in New Yorl, has bought the Now York Argus, .~—L. D. Evans, Chief Justice of Texas, isin Naw Orleans for treatment, his eyes beinginsa hopelessly bad way, 5 —Dr. i::flg;’l‘. Allen, of Eprings;l& T, has een ap, surgeon in charge o Maring Hospital at 8t. Lonis. —William MLGwin has just returned to Calis fornia, from Europe, where he bonded his mire for 21,000,000, - Oh—Tl!x: gev. N.d:V].flT. Root, B;dnr of Bt. P;l;l’! wrch, Portlan e., isin the small-pox hos pital there. His wifels with bim. . © > —The Bev. James D. Eaton, of Lancastar, * Wis., has accepted a call from the Congrega tional Church in Portland, Oregon. —Judge Samuel H. Huntington, of Hartford; Ct., for sixtcen years the Clerk of the Court Claims, at Washington, has resigned. —Mrs. Fremont is described a8 having grown stout and gray, and never, in the days of her girlish beauty, Was 8o fascinating as at the press ent time. 2 —It is understood in Capada official circle: that” Hon. Mr. Langevin, C.B., snd Hon. ‘a Mitchell will shortly be placed on & par wil their colleagues, Sir Francis Hincks and Si George Cartier, in titulary distinctions, and they will be called to the rank of K. C. M. G. —Daniel Dougherty, the legal adviser and con= fidential friend of the late Edwin Forrest, hss entered a caveal in the office of the Register of Wills, at Philadelphis, to take no action in rela~ tion to the estato of Mr. Forreat until further notice. This, it is understood, has been dona in order that the regnlarly-attested willo the de- ceased may be prosented. Bamor has it that t58 divorced wife of Mr. Forrest has a claim to ber dower, and will press the same urgently. Wien the divorce took place an alimony of $3,000 per snnum was allowed, and of course thig ceases with Mr. Forrest’s death. It is also stated that in all the transactions that have been madsTe: garding Mr, Forrest's proj a reservationtiad tobe made relative ig MWd -ifz% i tied for a divorce, aad is to be msre - iste English papers say that a committes D countries were valued ab £199,694,703, an in- —Prof. Austin Phelps, spesking for the An- ..