Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 19, 1873, Page 6

¥ - THE CHICLEO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JAN RY 19, 187 e e e e . e TERMS OF THE TRIBUNZ TERMS OF SUDSCRIPTION (PATATLE TN ADVANCE). Daily, by raesl..... 512,00 | Sanday. eo.s i-ed S50 ey 2250 Parts of a year at the same rate. To grovent delny and mistakes, bo sure and give Poet Ofiet sddress in Tall, fnclading Siate snd Conats. ‘Remittances mas be mnde cltior b draft, express, Post .Otico PXdCT. or in regisiered otters, a3 ousrisk. : se2ts 70 cor sUDsCRizES, Pails, deliversd, ndey exeeptod, 25 cont: week. Bellr doliverea, Randsy Taciadod, 50 conte per woek Addrens THE TRIBUNE COA! S ner Medison oo Dessboste Chieaeo, fll BUSINESS NOTICES. DR, SOHENCK'S ADVICE TQ) IS PATIENTS. Fenmeriy t No. 22 Bond-st., New Vork.—In what I stall 2 10 y0u 10-45y 1 atend o use the plainost words I can K b that 500 can ail understand my meaniag. Tenall ot fage tho tachnical . torms of modicine, mor induigein tions. < my remodies I claim, under God, 1o bo sble to cure A stranger might natarally and proper! does it bappen that sun can truly preten ‘fmoro abouttho terrible ‘discaso than all tho Heate and - odgcated minds which have ecarefully oade it rtudy foy sevoral bundred ears " “Tids wouid boafalr ‘question, an: er. 2o or lsposing causes aro: Ot mmption 18 hereditar In a wondor. neritanco, Coneimplion b taia 12 pen (ho ofl- o A rery ofton swopt away, and hand thio prodispost- “tion down to their childrea. 92 &ola. By thts we do not mosn those changes of o8 ofion produce inflammation, but long con- Tiomod nmd steads cold, so that a condition of dobility 15 produced. -Indood, whatever tends to prodace long-con- Tinncd debility will, i some persons, penorate onary tiomsaiaption. ~ Prominent among thoso influences are Sasnficient diet, liviog in an onwholosome alr, sedent Hnbtia, riof, anxlety, disappnintment, whother of the alt Tections or in business, and all other depressing emotions 2o abuso of mercaiy, and tho influence of woakening "] Bleo agrec with the best doctors as to Lho MAN- focted. Palmonay Con- ‘Taborculons Consumption, by 00 150 L0, S e s roun W] ho bisod. isa. ereiied T tho sabstance of the lungsby gepuaited To tho, FubuAES, Sor of tho.diseaso. T e e ofion deposited at once. Each ono undorgoes e e o, whicn I will not now explatn to sou. and A fior producing inflammation of the partsofthelaogs next Toft endsin u‘f:munne oponsapasssgointe o broehial Toft eads tn mleoratlon b mooth 5 o' whoro 1 el 250 riperiod now bocomon iy & oa groat, many of thoso littlo casities, h gradually upito and leave groat boles tn ngs. {ioaE 2top can be pat to this process, it will go an uatll e atantn of tho lungs isconsumed, and death ensuoa. 5 F wonres, 1 agreg with tho Faculty tpon the symptoms ‘o disesso; tho short, dr, hacking ‘o, gradually increasings then shurt uickon! ‘then fovorish sensa- o Uiy m: palse, and Lidat in the palms of tho cats; ehas ins in .and d’u\lun;'-;dnu,ardmd ‘horrid monster. tovs o e e Dot oo o com to tho TREAT. raculty 0 thesa points. But whog wr,ca ] AENT of the dlsb‘:zw 1 differ from it totally. _The doctors Pters Palmonary Consumption esunot b cared. Thoro~ _%ore they donot do anyth ‘mory than sootho the pa- T il to 1ho grave, aud scera quite reckless of tho incs they give ko thet the ‘pationt is kept comforta- e aey, aven if bis lifo 1s ehoricncd. _ As soon as o e bogin 1o appoar in the lungws of the patient, ft is bl b e sth mauy Ieading phyulcians to bey e D whlikoy 1n incroasiug quaptitzes, until tho o uf oxoossive dram-drinking aro added fo the rar- thodisease, Now, leay 1 ‘parucular dise Darochilly ond fover ¥ ~Whs, by toiog A doperionce demonstrated *thet it was s for tnat, dirciso. 1n just thatway Icameton Dhomisags of emedies ihat o speciis Tor disoases of ho Tunghe I, Consumption 13 hereditary in my family. 2 dehee, Juother, brothers, and sisters til diedof it. 1 e imot ‘b Inst stago of 160 sumo downward Srosidentially lod to experiment with o b mons roagdivs-Mandrako ~Pills, Seawa B O 4 Palmonic.Syrin. A8 tho rosalt, 1 am to- i peact heslthy and welghtog orer 62 potnds, B Rt sursd mg bas curod thoassnds all over tho wholo O thoas r-sults uro nol accidental. Thorais y ram counts o bl uake tuberculousde ce of the lun; “Thiamust bo stopped, or doath will surely foliow. 1t will ot be onough to got Fid of the tubercles deposit- 53" nd“ilcal’ up “the sores sirca e, but, Something must bo done to etop furthor doposits. APhat shall tbat be? The rogular Taculty sa5 nothing can bo done. T eay, purify, ap the blood unttl it becomes s0 boalt Y Tuako tubercles. Cau this bo demef ~Yes! B; Tho castost and mest natoral way in the world. = Take 3 mon such as 1 see mooy o-cay. He shows to ‘before me A b many tallible sicns, that con- o 15 foel tho oxpericnced Popiion b Hloand withioat appotite. V7o sumption bas “otin Now s03 what I ntend to do. Sret. T proposoto cleanse his stomach and bowels of thioly dead, s, Clogeing matter. This I shall do with Tas Mandrako Pills, whicl are tho best cathartic pills in not weaken or [nlfis. They, act 5] o ‘the liver, rousing it oot of the dull, torpid state, and P omoting a full, froo flow of healthy bile, without Which Thero can be no perfect digestion. Now that the stomach and bowels aro cloanse ‘what next? Creato an appetite. TThis 1. do by my Sea-weed Tonic. ‘The eifect of this medi- «cine is wonderinl. Unlike a tompsrary, stimalant, which o reaction leta thio organs aflected sink lower than bo- 'Lhis not only tones up the stomach, but it ving for food roturnsin 3 for food, and " ative apparatus nady Lo mako awgy wilh It. WWhat You can, any one of you, answer the question. Pot \anjry -stomach a8 ‘abundant sapply of sa. i 10 bo convorted - by the ‘strange chemistry of digostion into rich, red blood. This 4} titnulate tho heart into stronger sction, and it will a foller currentout through the nmrhshlnll% will tako the r:lhcc of tho thin, blug, fisttence soon - ou know I lay great Peoplo dio of con- 3 feoble that thes cannot Throw off tho dead mattor which sccumnlates L tlie lungs, il thes asu so stufied and suffocsted that breathing can nolonge: goen. almonic Syrup is the best oxpectorant known; 1t the food, sud throngh the blood goes directly o tha lungy, attacks and lopsens up the yollaw, foul, rotc Tipened | tubercles,” and rrongthens and stimulates the bronchial tubos and cozt- air passages, until they got, Strong, cnough o'fiit it out, and expel ¢ by apitting. Thon tho lungs ot over thelr soroncss, and have a chanoo to rest aod eal. Sosou sco that I have not only ehown that my modiciaes dosctualls curo consumption by experimont, but it slso Foems plain that thoy, or szinething like them, would, from the naturo of the cexe, do €0, Tieh 1 had timo t esplain to you mors fally how they gperato through i the diffarent stages of the discase, T'eish you conl2 followmo whileT explained to sou’ tho wondorful mechanism of s But T must siop. “Twura it all up in this: Binod, gord blood make Mandrabo Pilfs, Sea-weed T¢ Qsed accoming to dlrections, enable this to be done, 500 500 ac hore looking at me anxiously: I pity you from the botion: of my heart, and wish to help you. Per- ight disorder whi iy 6muxgi'mz oxnosara to cold damp. fh opposed to any patient of mine going oat into raw ai Do, ano bt - Al (bat may s frosh to tivo. Koap son rooms &nd breathio a dry, warm alr, iy venturo out In the very plossattest weathor. 1hopa Zo3ind sou bave improved whn 1 soe you agan. Siy medicinos aro sold by all drugglats and doalers thiroughont the country. SCHENCK, 31, D. The Chivago Tiibnne, Sundsy Morning, January 19; 1873, BTREET VIADUCTS. The plen of inducts at all points where rail- ronds cross tho stroots within the city has so for progressod in public favor that it may now be sheamed to bo the fixed policy of-the city. 1n the contracts made with tho ‘city for tho ad- 1wicsion of new lines of railways, this condition cf viaducts at stroot crossings has been incor- porated, and it will be found that all the rail- roads will in timoe discover that they had better pay tho cost of constructing s viaduct af’ every cressing, than to endure the interruption to bueiness, and tho danger sand cost of ac- cidents. Tho construction of viaducts at cach of the strect crossings on the woet side of the river was for & long time vigorously opposed by the railroads, but no one can nowlook at fhat part of the city without perceiving that, in the absencoof such viaducts, _ the useof tho railroad track would long since lave been sbundoned, or tha use of Erie, Lake, Randolph, Madisos, Adams, and Van Buren streets would have *been stopped to the gen- erzl public. No ong esn look at the Halsted etrect viaduct Without' being convinced that hero cun be no safety to lifs, and no cerisinty in the use of the strects, 80 long a8 the railroads end the etreets are upon the same level ab the croszings. The necessity for a serics of these visducts cver West Kinzie street at all tho cross- Jdugs _of steects Tuoping morth and poath will bocoms obsious to any peron who sttmplta 1o crom that pireet in a carrisge. Ths comatrstion of those yisducts haa aacther good cfoct, of forclng the 0 bt el more Troqueniy, so st wholy Sl | Tmainly agreo with the medieal | possible on a fewer numberof general thorough- farea. Besides those vizduets slready conatructed and in couree of preparation, the Board of Public Works of Chicago have prepared o partial list of viaduets o be built within tho next three years. This list is to be continued until such time as all the streets crosecd by therailroad tracks sbell bo eovered by visducts. Tho list ab presont stondsssfollows: ~ T be Built in 1973—Tolk and Bateh atrasts, Twalfth 2nd Brach rizeets, Siztoenth and Canal sircels, Sange- mom ond Kinzie strects, North svenuo snd Cherry stroets, Hawthorno avenue, Halsted and Efnziestrects. Tho last twoof tlcse ore’ alresdy provided for by ordinance. o be Built in 1874—DBlue Taland avenue and Siz- teenth sireet, Ialsted strect and Chicago avenuo (twice), Eightoenth street ana Stuart avenur, Halsted street and the t, Louis & Alton Railroad, Desplaines and Fourth streets, State strcet, Wabash svenue, Michigan avenue. j Tobe Duiit in 1875—Take and Rockwell -streots, 2Madison and Rockwell strects, Washington sad Rock-" Well stroots, Ashland svenuo and Kinzio street, Centre avenuo and Sixteenth street, s 1t should be borno in mind that we have by no ‘means resched the whole number of railroads which will want entrance’ to tho city. The necessity for baving many of theso conten- trated upon the sume stroet is even now folt ; but it will bo more scriously felt ten or twenty years hence, when the number of railroads will be double or more what it is mow. The result of this system will be the ex- tension to the railroad business of the amplest facilities, without the dangers end interruptions which are-inevitable when the, tracks and the streat ways are on the samelevel. & will permit wainterrupted travel upon the stroets, and will of necessity reduce largely the expenso of railway managoment and transfer within the city limits. Tho railroads can well afford to pay the whole cost of these viaducts, in consideration of the exstraordinary facilities they will afford for tho movement of trains in the ¢ity. THE APPROACHES T0 XURDER. The inadequacy of ‘tha provailing penalties to check crime is just now an important subject of consideration in soveral States of the Union, in England, and in one or twa of the Continental countries. Whils it is true that the average pro- portion of crime to the extent of population re- meing about the same in epochs of five or ten years, thera aro intermediate periods when crime increnses at & fearfulrate, and criminals develop & racklessness that has something like an infoc- tion about it. Such a period isnow felt to be upon us. * The State Legislatures of Tllinois and “New York in particular, with a epecizl view io the demands of Now York City and Chicago, aro called upon to gmend the statutory practices and penalties in such manner as to provide a surer | retribution for the crime of murder. Tho hope is, that the laws of murdortrialsand appeals may bo amended that speedy justice will be moro practicablo then it isnow. Tho objectin view is {0 provide & more certain meens for euforcing tho punishments alroads, prescribed by law. Thore is a feature of criminsl law aud its ex- ecution, however, which secms to Lave escaped the attention of those who have taken the mat- terin hand, though it is intimately connected with the crims of murder. This comprises the . present inadequacy of punisbment prescribed for crimes of violenco that fall short of murder, and also the failure to enforco the extreme pen- alties ‘that “may bo dealt out to offonders guilty of this class of crimes. Reference is ‘mado- to those offences against the peaco of the community, or the rights of individuals, whick lioin thio direct rond to murder. Tho law of murder lays so much stress upon the intent to kil that the intent iteelf is as essential to tho crimo as the act of killing. The crimes in which the intent is fally developed, though the act of Xilling is accidentally wanting, are allowed to pass with elight punishment, if -mot condoned altogother. clear the way for an increase of murders, OUR NAVY EXHIBIT. bisces 1,993 oficers and employes. Chaoplaing of the first, tired officers in tho Navy is 219. . Minnesota, Niagara. The second-retes number 35, ready condemnod, or will bo ber 24, of which throe are to bo rebuilt three are condemnad. Of the fourth-rates, stations as last yoar. der by o mero chanco that tho blow, orstab, or shot, did not touch a vitsl spot, they are either pormitted to go unpunished or aro treated with penaltios so light as to terrify ‘meither tho culprib nor the dangerons azd violent classes to which he ususlly belongs. A few weeks ago, there was & case of killing in England, in which four ruffians, with the familiar eagerness for s fight peculiar to certain parts of largo communi- ties, attacked an inn-kecper without cause, and pummelled and kicked Lim to death. It was as plain & case of murder as if the killing had been dono with knife or pistol. The jury failed to treat it so, however, and an English journal, gommenfing upon the caso, says that it is = traditionsl practice of juries to re- gard killing with blows or kicks as different from Lilling with knives and pistols, and to recog- it would bo well .have any Navy tc$ increase, nize the distinction in their verdicts. Tho prac- | and no Navy. tico is tho result of the mistaken clemencywhich — ia found equally in tho law and in its execation, A MODEL FATEERIN-LAW. that is extended to acts of violence that do not prove absolutely fatal. A man maybe a confirm- ed wife-beater ; may be brought up on thocherge ropeatedly ; may gradually wear outa Wwoman’s life by sbuse; may bring her to death’s very door by Lis violonce, and yet the ordinary police court punishment is a fine with & weok or & month's labor in the Bridewell. Fights occur every day, the result of anprovoked Mobilier clotheg:line, there is nono more £oi broken ; shorten his life by soveral’ yoars; may lsy him | scsndal, no family of bresd, yet the crime comes under tho head of common assault and battery, 1§ recognized simply by a fine of €15 or £20, or Bridewell servico to correspond. It has- slwoys been s matter of surprise that 80 many pistol shots coutd be fired, and 50 fow peoplo hit, but tho lower Courta takeno vigorous messures, and tho law pravides no sdequato penalties, for controlling the tendency to usefire-arms. If & man ehoots onca and fails to kill, his treatment under the law is such as to encourage him to shoot sgain when aoccasion presents itgolf, and to bold out an inducement to his fellows “.'r shoot likewise. Yet it is obvi- ous that there are no maans for praventing or checking tho crime of murder that would be s0 efficacions ss those which would prevent or check tho approaches to murder. It is to be hoped that this phaso of crimizal 1aw will receive the consideration of the Tlinois Legislature, when it takes up the revision of the 1aw relating to murder trials. Tho laws prescrib- ing the punishments for crimes of violence that do not sctually result in murder aro ot only too lenient in thomselves, but they are dofectivo inleaving too Lroad o liconse to tho Justicos' Courts In which thoso crimos aro trisd. If tho number end viclousness of as- near Wall streset. ing’to Brook's. _ronte kud without qustanteo by bynd oz note. railronds to concentrato their tracks as much a3 ‘[ eaulta. Hloks, fights, and brutel sttacks can be Gecreased, the number of murders will be do- arensed in proportion. Thoey msy be decreased by providing soverer perzlties and soverer exe- cation than are now awarded in theso cases. When the dangerous and violent classes learn {lat they cannot resort to bruto forco, endanger- ing human life, with any more immunity than they csn commit theft,—and certainly the pun- ishment in the former cases ought o hold its proportions with the pnishments of the latter, ther there will bo less danget of fatal resulte,— and rarer indulgence in the crimcs that lead to murder iteelf. Tho bills which have been out- lined g0 far seom to be confined to a limitation of the power of the higher Conrts in reviewing murder trials, Therois, however, a still greater necessity for limiting the power of the lower tribunals, in which crimos of violence aro per- mitted to escape with such slight penaltics as The advance’sheots of the Navy Register for 1878, which is now preparing at tho Navy De- partment, farnish gomo interesting. particulars concerning our National marine, which are more than usnally important in view of the proposi- tion which has been mado to increase the navy Dby tho addition of seversl sloops-of-war. The personnel of the Navy and Marine Corps em-’ The Navy consists of 1 Admiral, 1 °Vieo Ad- miral, 14 Rear Admirals, 25, Commodores, 50 Csptains, 90 Commanders, 147 Licutenant Commanders, 210 Liontenents, 100 Masters, 50 Ensigns, 150 Midshipmen, 15 Medical Directors, 15 Modical Inspoctors, 50 Burgeons, 80 Passed ‘Assistant Surgoons, 55 Assistant Surgeons, 13 Tay Directors, 18 Pay Inspoctors, 60 Psymasters, 80 Passed Assistant Paymostors, S0 Assistant Paymasters, 10 Chiel Engineers of the first class, 15 Chief Enginecrs of the second class, 87 Chiof Engincers of tho third class, 99 Firat Assistant Tngincers, 80 Socond Assistant Enginoers, 23 sccond, and third rhtos ; 7 Professors of Mathematica of tho firet, gccond and third rates; 2 Becrotaries, 22 Naval Constructors, first,” eccond, third, end fourth rates; 7 Civil Engingory, 57 Boatswains, 88 Cap- tains, 89 Sailmakers, 80 Mates, 87 Cadot Mid- shipmen of the first ciass, 51 Cadct Midshipmen of the second class, 60 Cadet Midshipmen of the third class, 70 Cadet Midshipmen of the fourth class, 15 Cadet Engineers. . Tho Marino Corps consists of 1 Bngadier General, 1 Colonel, 2 TLieutenant Colonels, 4 Majors, 20 Ceptains, 30 First Lioutenants, 30 Socond Lieutonants; slso 12 retired Marino officers. The number of re- The first-rato steam frigates this year are the Colorado, Franklin, Wabash, snd of which | tion as to his relations with Credit Mobilier, 21 only nro rolisble. Tho remaining 14 areal- | rathor than with Colonel M'Comb's character, 28 soon as they | the decision was eminently proper. Mr. Brooks roturn from their cruises. The third-rates num- and | standing or falling, it cannot be donied that, as ono | father-in-law, he has beon magnanimous aud jsthe flag-ship of the Porb Admiral of Noew York, one is rebuilding, and two are on the Bra- zilian and Asiatic stations. The eight sailing- vessols, first class, third-rates, aro on the samo Of the third-rates, soc- ond class, eight. aro virtually out of service, being either condemned or in ordinary, which means that that they are laid up torot. Of the iron-clads, the Canonicus is out of commisgion for thie present. Tho Saugus, which recently attempted to go from Philadelphia to Hampton TRoads, was compelled to put back, owing to tho " inefficiency of her pumps and & mistake which 1i2d been mado in pladiog her turret. ThoAjax, Mahopac,- Manbattan; and Canonicos are be- lieved to be worth, repairing. The Terror, ab Key West, will be brooght North if itiis as- certained that she can make the voyage.” The othor iron-clads remain -in stafo quo. Bome of | dignified, It is rero enough | thom can flont, and somo of them can not. There that theto are any convictions, followed | js a report that ono or two of thom canmake an y by fall punishment, for the crimo of ssssu & | ocean voyage, but the report needsconfirmation. with intent to kill; yet*no large city passes o | Nothing will be done to them unless Congress! day without rows or riots, shooting affrays or m\um appropriation for that purpose, and serious fights, maiming and shedding of blood. | as there are but very fow of them worth ro- Though all theso events are removed from mur- | pairing it is not likely that any sppropria-} tion will bo made. The deplorable condition. of the Navy is not very flattering to_Nationali pride, but at tho samo timo it does fiot formish | i ¢jseir performances, and to prosct fo tho any conclusive reason why Congresa ehould go}| public what thoy promise as nearly a8 thoy can, to work to increaso the Navy. There is nothing* in the naval records of our ship-building to indi- cato that tho proposed incroaso wowld not fur- nish anotler ssorbment of unsoaworthy vessels. ! Before wo tall much about increasing our Navy to ascertain ‘if ~wo)| tablished. and beforet| wroto o let out contracts indiscriminately it wonld bo well to nscertain Yy economical experiments hether we aro ablato build & vossel that can| 7¢ jg probsble that Mr. float and bo vailahlefornaval purposes. Morey | mpon enough hos been squandored in building vessels to rot at navy-yards, or to bo sold to second-class Powers. At prosent, we hivo 2,000 naval officera In all the Congressional linen which is justy now hanging out for an airing upon tiw Crodit § pieccs. The iloadl woro fising togo her over tho theatro, and tattered than that which is marked on the comers with the monogram of Mr. James Brooks, member of Congress from New York, and fother-in-law of Mr. Charles H. Neilson, who does business in Pino street, near Wall streot. Tt will bo romembered that, when the attacks, in which the victim may bave his hond | charges were first mado, and Mr. Brooks' name may sustain internal injuries that will | was connected 'with tho Credit Mobilier man was so loud in sssev- |/cault’s performance, up 80 a8 to keep him from work and deprive his | erations of innoconce. Ho called everybody \with the to witness that ho was & terribly alandered man, and | and before he got through his epecch he called Divine .Providence: to. witness that ho had touched not, tasted not, handled not the unclean {hing. Somuch eloguence has never before boen: expended in the service of private indignation.! The stock of denialywould havo sufficed for the soven cardinal sins. |, It sent thrill of satisfac- tion through the cotmiry. Here, at least, was one man the insides off whoso hands wero white. No certificates had \found their way into his pockets. Credit: Mobilier gold had left no yel- low stain on his‘porteraonnaie. He had a son-in- 1aw, to bo sure,; who dil business in Pine street, This son-in-law might have bought CreditMobiliexs stock, but that was noth- Ar. Neilso o now contuss to tho front. It is Mr. Noilzan's geod fortune ghat ho has a father-in- 1aw who iz always putting: him in tho wayof good investmen(zs, althongh ho only recalls this par- ticular insstence of the ‘fatherly intervention. 1tis Mr. Brooks’ misfortune that he haas eon- in-law W) 0 has put Aim into & very tight place. Tho mar mer in which . the q\m-imluw was pu§ into th'm particular good invesi'ment is croditable to tho, father-in-law's genmeroyty, which was fhe 1. “e family no collaterals aro wantod. | The son-in-law o * +wo Credib Mobilier cortid- cates, one for 100 shares &> ~ng for 50 shares, the latter derived from the forms.. Hewas cortain that the-father-in-law advunced i~ money and put him into Credit Mobilier ; that the dividends came to him and he ro- coived the money.~ Tpen the son-in- 1aw’s memory growa treacherous. He does not romember who gave him the certificates, nor how he got them, nor how muck premium he paid, nor whether the father-in-law'bed any- thing to do with the last fifty shares. He does romember, however, that he began to receive dividends shortly after getting the stock, and that ho received one dividend amounting to £9,000, and tnat ke paid a portion of thomoney to the father-in-law, who had advanced tho money without note or bond. Ho 2iso remem- bers that, in scitling up with his father-in- law, he tumed over seversl shares of stock in tho Union Pacific Railrosd which ho had got as dividends from Creif Mobilier. It wss a roundsbout process. Tho original money went from father-in-law to son-in-law ; from son-in-law into the hopper of Credit Mobilier, from which it came out a3 Union Pacific stock ; then back to the son-in- 1aw, and once more to the father-in-Iaw. Thero ia n grim sort of humor in the manner in which Mr. Brooks tries to dodge after his son- in-aw gets him into the Gorner, and in the suc- cessful way in which he gets N'Combed down. Whichever way ho turns ho gets peppered with the Colonel's small shot. Tpon the waiving of any further cross-oxamination of tho son-in-law for the day, Mr. Brooks.springs & quostion of high morality and offers a first-clnss character, shich ho would liks to compare with Colonel AComb's charscter, elthough what particalar connection the comparison would have with Credit Mobilier ia vory difficult to sce. Homight with thosame proprioty have com- menced canvassing tho committee-room for subkcriptions to his nowspaper, or offored to measure boots with Judgo Poland. Novertheless, A’Comb was ready to accommodate Brooks in tho matter of charactors, or anythingelso. When Mr. James Brooks desiredto summon certain witnesaes to prove that M’Comb kad & bad char- actor, Ar. A'Comb suggested sevoral other wit- nesses to help him out. Then, to make things even, he wonld also be glad to offer & fow names of gentlenfen who could tell. s thing or two about Brooks' character, and expressed s sincoro desire also to compare charac- ters. - Judge Poland, however, could mot seo that thoso witnesaes would have anything to do with Credit Mobilier, and declined to enter- tan Mr. Brooks® desire to havo a championship match ‘with Colonel M'Comb for moral charac- tor. 1Mr.James Drcoks being under investiga- must stand or fall by tho' Credit . Mobilier, but, munificont, beneficont and benevolent, to his -gon-in-law who docs busiuess in Pino street, near Wall stree i “ A Casc of Patriotic Bosh. -The Etening Journal of this city insists that ,tho theatre-going public of Chicago shonld stay taway from MoVicker's Theatre during tho en- gagement of Mr! Boucicault and his wife, be- cause, italleges, Jr. Boncicault was a Rebel aym- {pathizer duzing the War of the Rebellion. Mr. {Boucicanlt was evidently inclined to treat -this effort to finjure his eogagement with silent disdain, or, fmore probably, with secret amuse- mont st itsabsurdity; but he has been duly in- terviewed, tand the pump-handle process suc- ceeded 1n gtting o very sensiblo treatment of the matter/at his hands. Mr. Boucicault denics the right ,of aaybody to gauge his literary st- tainmentajor artistic attractions by his personal politice, now or in the past. He takes the only /position which an sctor, an suthor, or an artistishould assume,—namely, that he does not live 'wpon public favor; that he works, and works hard, for the money ho earns ; that audiences are large or small, ‘| remuneratise or unprofitablo, according to their preferences or whims; and that neither himaelf nor his profession can bo reasonably called upon to shape personal or political -convictions to suit the public. The ides that actors or singers are public sorvants is true only to tho extent that they are roquired to conform to publio morality thusgiving what the people havo puid to hear orseo, Having done this much, tho actor is ot responsible to tho political whims of any partio- ular epoch, couniry, or temporary excizement. Tho fact of Mr. Bouciciult’s sympathizing with the Rebels does not seem to be well es- He recalls the circumstanco that he tho play of The Octoroon " in 1859, This drama has been ranked with Mrs. Stowe's novel of “Unclo Tom's Cabin™ in the work of popu- larizing the movement for abolishing elavery. Boucicault seized the subject as omo full of popular interest snd suscoptible of pathotic- treatment. But hes immediately received ~warning from the Sonth, .28 did Mr. Jeffexrson’ \who plsyed the part of Salem Scudder in’the idrams, that thoy must not show their faces in ‘tuat part of the country. - M. Boucicault was acting in Londor, during the War of the Rebel- Tion, and produc d the “ Qctoroon” smong other Americar fiag and the English flag and the manager fixeda ‘Jonfederate flag over & picture of the “Octorocn” in the lobby. So far from \gratitying thoTicbel eympathizers in London, ; theytook offenc? atthis dispositionof their colors ithough it is now made & pretext in this country | for decrying Mr. Boucicault as & Robel-sympa- {thizer. This is the gentleman's own version of {iho matter. e Sonceive, Lowerer, that it has {Rothing to do with tu.= patronage which tho pub- f 1ic shou'd or should not hestow upon Alr. Bouci- Fhether ho sympathized Robels or not. Asan Irishman, abda resident of Loadon, he hads perfect right to bestow his abstroct sympathies where ho pleased. Coming to this country 88 an actor snd suthor, e is commercially in the position of a man who ‘has wares to sell, and the poople will buy, or re- fugo to buy. according to the quality of the wares. If Mr. Boucicault has powers to pleaso Lo public, bo will and should attract good cudi- ences, 8o long as hie does not obtrude any offen- sive personal sympathies upon the public. If Bo does not poetiess these qualties, ho wonld fail 1o secaro attention in spite of the most asaidu- ous display of potriotism. We fancy that the wUnion Bpy,” with all the real and mock heroiem displsyed in the melo-drama and the lady who pexformed the heroine's character, +was patriotic cnough to suit the most exacting; yet we believo tho *Union Spy™ never attained fame or fortune. ‘Discussions of this natura are not novel ; and, in the heat of public oxcitement, there have been instances in which great injustice has been dons to gfixtu of merit on account of their political “affnities or associations. Bat at- -tempta to work up opposition on account of old prejudices aro rarely successful, snd al- wiys sbsard, Mr. Boncicsult may possibly bave favored the election of MMr. Greeley during the Iste campaign, though it is probable that, as an actor and & literary man, he thought very littlo about it onoway or the other, It Mr. Boucicault did favor Mr. Grealey's eloc- In | tion, this would, of course, xive additional calor +a the charge of Rebel sympathies in the minds of many ;2nnlo. They are not of & class, how- ever, that would vo =pt fo attend Mr. Bou cault's performances in any case, fortunaieiy It him and bis mansger. Those peoplo wko pat- ronize public amusements, have heard of 3Ir. Boucicazlt as o versatile and: sccompliched Aramatist, whose writings includo helf a hundred plays, renging from *London Assarcnee,” and “ 0id Heads and Young Hearts,” through the ro- mantic dramas euch as * Tho Corsican Broth- “ers.” and “The Willow Copso,” down to tko sen- sational school, of which “The Flying Scud,” ¢ Formosa,” and “Tho Streets of New York"” arosamples; but it is not probable that half & dozon of theso people ever thought, or will ever care, whether Mr. Boucicault's gympathies wero with the North or the South, or with France or Prussis, during tho two latest ‘warsof comse- juence. meng é ‘Tho full textvf the recent allocution of tho Pope, the publication of which has brought 8o many German papers into trouble, is printed in tho English papers which arrived by tho last mails. The perticolar passago which has given g0 much offence to the German Government is ay rollows : Our grief at the Injuries Inficted on the Church in Ttaly ismuch aggravated by the crucl persocutions to Whith the Church ia subjected in the German Empire, ‘Where not only by pitfalis but even by open violence it 1a nought to destroy her, becauso persons who not nly “do Dot profess our zeligion, but’ who oven 20 ot know that religion, arrogato to themselves the ‘powor of definini tho teachings and the rights of tho Catholic *Cliarch, These men, besides heaping cal- timny upon ridicule, do not blush to ottribute perse- cution to Roman Cathiolics; they bring such fions against tho Bishope, the clergy, and .- Beople, because thoy ‘will'not profor the laws and the Church. faira ahould recolloct that nono of than tho Roman. Catholics render unto Cmsar tho {hinga which are Cwsar's, and for that vory reason render untoGod the thinga which aro God's. For publishing tho sbove, severa! German newspapers have been suporessed. In addition to theso allusions to the conrs of the Gorman Government, the Pope is very severc upon the acts of the Italian Government, and declares void every soquestretion of Church property un- der tho laws of tho italian Government. Heis also grioved that Switzerland appears to be pur- suing the same path 18 Gormany; that in Spain tho Clorgy Dotation law 15 opposed to the Con- cordats and to justice; aud that the Armenians of Constantinople poreist in their rebellion, and hiavo by stratagem doprived the Roman Catho- The only comfort which the Popo can discover is in tho constarcy and netivity of the Episcopate and the clergy of all thoso countries where, jointly with tho faith- Tave defended the rights of tho lics of ' their immunities. ful poople, thoy Church. ————— Thomostserions iunovation which has yet been mado on the conservatism of the Chinese Em- pire was recently anuounced in & Hong Kong journal. The statcmont of this journal'is tothe effoct that certnin gentlomen have gone from Chins to England to purchaso tho rolling-stock and equipments mecessary for the opesation of one Lundred miles of milroad, to be 1aid down in the Flowery Lingdom. It is byno means ‘promature o assert that tho introduction of the locomotive in Chiin is destined to work & It has been stated that tho ruling suthoritics favor thia project bocause it will open tho country moro thor- oughly to tho influenco of the Government, and that tho officials at Pekin il be better ablo to control those distant Provinces which heve wouderful transformation. Liitherto sot many of the royal edicts at defiance, and governed according to their own notions, owing to the extremo difficulty of communica- tions. What tho Pekin Court fatters itself tho Iocomotivo is going to accomplish for the Goy- ornment, it will also sccomplish for China in goneral by bringing it into communication with tho outside world. The xapid advance of the Russion railroad systes:s hss already brought Bt. Potersburg almost to the very doors of China. Tho locomotivo has slways been the avant courrier of civilization, and when once it commences to hrick ineide the Chinese walls, the wall must fall assurelyns tNe wallsof Jericho came down at the bidding of Gideon's horn. —————— Tho Archbishop of Canterbury has recently made himself the lagghing-stock of England. Reflecting upon the persistent bad weather, he made up his mind that it was due to the fact that the clergy had ot been using tho prayers for fine wezther contsined in the Liturgy with sufficiont diligence, and thereupon sdministered to them s eharp robuke. Now, howaver, & celebrated writer on draizage shows that & cessa- tion of rain at present would be a nstional calamity, o8 the oxcegsive rainfall of tho last month is only the natural compeneation for tho oficiency of the former yoar, and that the wells aronot oven yetup to the mark of s suflicient sup- Anotherwritorshows that the public health ‘because the rains are flush- A clorgyman Las answered the ply- is greatly improving, ing the sewers. Archbishop very pointodly by declaring that ho has not used the prayer and will not, because ho believes the Almighty knows what is wanted in. the way of weather bettor than the Archbishop of Cantorbury. There isavery general feeling that it is nothing less than an absurdity to request Divine Provid®nce to alter the laws of natore which ho himself has fired. —_—————— With & proper regard for the morals of our people, we advise them all to road their Bibles carefully, and gome sermon on the enormity of profanc swearing, befors thoy go to tho City Collector’s office to pay their taxes. Unlesa thus prepared beforeliand, the footings of tho several {tema will be tomptation toprofanity which many will be unable to resist. Of the justice or the pecessity of the present taxes we have nothing to ssy hero. Tho robates of the last yesr, owing junctions horetofore sued out to defeat tax collection, have forced our city officials to make an unusual levy for the year 1872, Let us bear it as best wo may, hoping for Jower rates in the fatme, Bat it is to bo hoped* the Courts and the proper officers will follow the 1aw so closely that all persons will have to walk up to tho Collector’s office and settle. Let the rich be made to pay like their honost and poorer 1o tho firo, and the i fellow-citizens. A prayer was offered in Washington, somo days ago, for tho moral improvement of editors, and now tho Now York World suggests that no Totter opportunity than this will be found for Professor Tyndall's pro- Tho details of spplying We cditors might bo permit- themeelves on the side of their choice. This would be tho most interesting portion of the experiment. What proporticn of editors would rango themselves on thoside to be prayed for, and what pmpgrtion on the side to do without prayer; snd whether tho former would acknowledge themselves falliblo and wicked, and tho latter thereby confcss that they are past praying for, wonld bo as important as testing the merits of posed prayer-gauge. this gauge ore suppose that ted to rmogo not - suggested. the final results of tho test. gt o The Houss Committce on Post Offices has resolved, by an unanimous vote, that the Poat- master General's decizion that letters mailed with an ingufficient stampage should bo charged fall double rates, iaillegal. The effoct of. this will bo thatthe law will be made more explicit. Under Mr. Creswell's docision, the stamps tire postage, are lost, and the whole postage, doubled, is to be collected. —_———— Foreign mails bring the-intelligence of the death of Most Rev. Father Jandel, General of thDominican Order of Preachers, at the Con- vent of tho™ Minerva, in Rome. He was one of the earliest acsociates of the celebrated Father Lacordaire, who introduced the Order of Friar Preachers into France. Hos filled various high: offices in the Onder in Fronce, until 1862, whon ho was called by the Pape ta the dignily of Mag- ter General of the whale Ordas, accuss- faithfal ‘of thie State to the Loly commandments of tho ‘Tho men who are at the head of public af- thelr subjocts better PLEASANTRY It LITERATURE. BY PROFESSOR WILLIAM MATHEWS, OF THE UNI- VERSITY OF CHICAGO. . An Enghsn e tinog'af tha character of English literature at this time, complaing that periodical writing, which flourished so vig- orously st tho beginning of this century, i noarly o lost art. This kind of writiug, ho 0 marks, ceatnre what conversation is to speechi; it should not be too personal, nor 168 | ecientific, nor too earnest, but 3, mixtnre of all those, tho play uf fancy over all'subjects, light- ing up horo and there their depths, but not gruppling with them,—pouring itselfsbroad, bui not contracting itself to any too determinate aim. A fatal defect of Eoglish periodical literature to-day i 1ts excessive gravity; the impulse of the English mind being almost en- tirely toward concentration, and ecarnestness, and definitencss of thonght. Tho effect of this is to quonch all lifo and spirit, a8 cortainiy a8 doos carbonie acid gas. .*“Does laughter or light satiro,” nskn the critic, “ evor ring _through the solemn precincts of Macmillan? Do the apos- tles of the Forlaightly ever introduce a joke into their evangolical discourses? Mr. Frederic Harrison, it we romember right, attempted it some little timo ago; but ke did it with so pro- ternatarally a solemn tone, and with such car- nestness of asgeveration that he reslly did not mean to joke at all, that all fear of the risk that tho attempt might be ropeated was at onco re- moved.” The justice of this criticism will ba admitted, we think, by all who are familiar with the peri- odicals of the old country. Fothing can be more solemn than their ordinary tono. Iu ig rarely that even the ghost of a joke lLaunts their pages; and when a bit of plensantry doos stray in, it scems accidental, and os much out of placo a8 on a gravestons or in aledger. Tho periodical writors of to-day have plenty of in- tonsity end fiery earnestness, much acuteness of observation and large atores of knowledgo; but they are Leavy and elophsntine; they lnck flexibility, lithemess, aond vorsatility; and in the power which is so strikingly exemplificd by Shakspeare's fools of saying wiso things in & sportive way,—the power B0 often seon in Lomband Hood, of conveying a deep philosophical verity in jest, uniting the wildest merriment with the truest pathos and the decp- cst wisdom,—in short, in that genial, lambent ‘humor, of which Shakspeare was the Pope and Sidney Smith the Chief Cardinal, s humor liko summer shect-lightning, that hurts nobody, aud illaminates overything with soft, bright flashes, —they secm almost wholly wanting. Wo must go back half s century to the days of Horaco Smith, Maginn, and Leigh Huot, it we would enmjoy in English periodicals that agreesblo trifing which, 88 Goldsmith ]eays, often doceives us into instruc- tion. = Tho solomnity of their successors, which is certainly not the mask of dulness, tempts one to cry out with Cicero, © Civem me- hercule non puto essa qui his lemporidus ridere possil: on my conscience I believe we have all ‘Torgotten to lsugh in theso doys. History is elways repeating itsclf, and we find by Gold- wmith’s ““Essay on the Present State of Polito Learning,” that tho same fault characterized the literagure of England & hundred years sgo. . Ho complains bitterly of ¢ a disgusting solemnity of manner” na tho besetting sin of tho prose- “yriters and poets of his day. The finest: senti- ment and tho woighliest truth, he urges, moy put on o pleasant faco; bat, in- stead of this, *‘the most trifling performance smong us now assumes all the didactic stiffness of wisdom. The most diminutivo sonof feme or of famine has his we and his us, his firstlys and his secondlys, as methodical as if bound in cow- hide and closed ig clasps of brass. Wero these monthly reviews and magazines frothy, pert, or sbsurd, they might find some pardon ; but to be” dull and dronish is an encroachment on the pre- rogetiva of a folio.” American literature is not amensble to the cliargo of oxcossive gravity; ournewspopersand ‘magazines have plenty of comic matter, only it is apt to be of & broad and extravagant kind. o have profossional wits and humorists who furnish funzy articles by the colamn,—me- chanical jolkers, who turn out jokes es tho pat- ont bread manufactufacturer tarns out loaves; but what we neod is, not moro wits, who can spin out jests as 5 juggler spins endless ribbona from his mouth,—writers who csa make us Iaugh, and pothing more,—but’ thoso who can treat tho gravest themes in playful manner, intermingle, s did Pascal and Syduey Smith, pleasantry with logie, bind tho rod of the moral- jat with the roses of tho muse, and hide withthe ivy wreath tho point of the Thyrsus. Can aay man doubt the inestimable value of such writers to a’community? Even tho coarsest wit has its uses. Thero aremen whose risibles can bo tickled by no other. To laugh, thoy must hear or rend gomething “dreadfally funny,”—some- thing s irresistiably mirth-provoking s Sir Toby's catch that could “‘draw three souls out of one weaver.” Charles Lamb tells of such & man,—of such gravity that Nowton might havo deducted from it the law of gravitation. Batthe mass of men do not want their pleasantry in s lump, but as sauce and seasoning to more Bolid dishes. ' In the highest order of wit there is an essential olement of truthfulness. The profounder tho truth, the keener and more t2lling the wit. The truo humorist is no provoker of barren lsugh- ter,—mo cynic, heel-biter, or liboller, who, be- couge his own cup of happiness has been soured; is bent upon filling every other man's with gall and wormwood, but & genial, loving roformer. People breatho more freely when such a man is “around ;" for they know that wicked mon’ will fear him, weak men will fool stronger, and quacks will no longer have things al their ovm way. Crisea are continually oceniring in the history of society when it can bo delivered from peril only by the Damascus biade of tho wit. Evils creep in unawares ; some good bat foolish man perpetrates a deal of nonsenso which is tolerated and even adiaired on account of his goodness, and fixed 28 an institution before its inconvenienco is suspected. Somo isolated and pampered truth, detached from its relations, weighs down society liko & nightmare, till its disproportions are shown up by the wit. Tho causoof good enso, virtuo, and decorum has been indebted bardly more to tho orator and the moralist than to the satir- ist who has set folly, crime, and impropriety in & ludicrons or beteful light. Tho ‘“roar of lsughter” has heraldod tho defeat of moro er- rors than the roar of battlo. Woe to the cheat, the dunco, the wind-bsz, whon & great lsugher is let loose on the plsnet! Bad customs, which all thooretically condemn, though society may still condome or. exact them; acts of wickednoés whose very daring securcs them oxceptional impunity; all those polite delinquenicis that ~ shelter _them- selves undor tho garb of decency, and that flourish most rankly in the most advanced peri- ods of civilization,—against theso it is that the _humorist hurls his shafts, and society crics “All Hail!" to its deliverer. & ‘What moralist in old Rome did so much to re- press the vulgar insolence of newly-acquired ealth,—the airs and pomposity of the parve- nue,—as Horace when hobade him take mnote, 28 he stratted slong tho street, Tt ors vertst hnc et hue euntium Liberrima indignatio 7 Did sny Aristippus, with his bran-bread and gaw-dust theories of diet, do so much to lessen the luxury of his sge as the sarcasm tnat lurks beneath the poet’s bombastic sccount of a banguet, or the epic grandiloquence of the monster turbot? Would Luther’s battle-aze, ‘mighty though it wee, have struck 8o fatal blows at Popery had it not been preceded by thokeenar- rows of Erasmus ? Or would nat the monks and | pricats have made a far moro desperate resist- ance had mot the’ Epislolae Obscurorum Tiro- rum, keenly satirizing their vices ‘before they placed on 8 letter, if insufficient to. pay tho cn- logic, had ho not £lso showerad 1 feathered shafts of histidicale? Who E;Tic:hb' that -the brillisnt and spasiling satirist o the Dunciad, the “littlo wasp of T‘rickzu!u;vl vongefnl and venomous though he was gy ‘more to provoke a fcc! of revolt mr' con tempt against tho vicss of his timo than all thy dictates of morality, or tho denunciations of thy pulpit? How many match-making mother, 7o paused as they hava followed the misers, Lie spisodes 0f oonrtha “Marriage g 1y Mode?” And how many & Fould-bo-nus e man in ourown dsy, tickled with vanity g inclined to vulgar ostentation, has ;:‘:: 5,::] pellod, by the kean irouy of Thackeray, to avei the l::ormws of gentility,” sud, by liviag insid of his income, to kecp out of . sfifi)‘!" 3 P tho *“Book gy e yeomaa sorvice which that prince of wi; Sydney Smuth, dld to Catholic Eml;nnup::l:: ;‘ his “ Lotters to Poter Plymiey,” is failiar all. By what syllogisms in Barbara or Celaren conld he bavo eo effcctualiy annihilsted the in. ' fluenco of Percival and Canning, as by declari of tho latter that *“whon hoi¢ jocular, he i strong ; when ho is serionz, ho s like Suupsry ina wig;" and by holding up the formerty ¢ ridiculo as the projector of * the great plan o conquost and constipation,"—aa tho statermy 4 in whose mind was first engondered the idey of destroying the pride and plasters of France —and “who would bring the French to reason by keeping thom without rhubacb, ard exhibit to mankind the awful spectacls of a nation deprived of . neatral “salts?” It was b yesterday that duclling was prevalent throughout the civilized world. In vain the polpit thundred, mud the prass denounced the practico ; Christian men still cone tinued to exposo their lives for tho merest trids, to tho sccident of & lucky shot. It.wmsonly .- whon tho * code of honor ” was made tho battof ridicule, and 80 became contemptiblo in the syes of those who were its slaves, and who were mots gensitive to sarcaem than to logic, that they ceased to make their bodies targets for the bul- Ieta of any bully or braggart who choso to con- sider himself aggrieved, or whom & eraven fear of public opinion impelled to send a challenge, Dut we need not cross the Atlantic for illustr. tions. Who has forgotien the powerfulsid rendered to the North in onr lats civl war by “Petroleum V. Nasby,” of the *Con- fedorate Cross-Roads.” Though he essumed the cap and bells, Rabelais was not more teribly nearnest. As ono of his admirershas well syd, whenover his loud and often boisterous laugh sion in some dark corner of the land. Likethe gravo-digger in * Hamlet,” he made fun, but ks Kopt digging graves all the while. His rib-tisk. ling irony cheercd the patriots as well a3 oo founded tho Copperheads and the Rebels. Presi- dent Lincoln found relief from the wearing sux. jeties of office in rending tlo letters of this Toledo blado. Grant declared thatho “conlfnt get through o Bundsy without onme;” i Becretary Boutwell publicly attributed the over- throw of tho Robels to three great forces—tke Army and Navy, the Ropublican Party, sadiks Letters of Petrolenm V. Naaby. * What was the sccret of Dr. Nott's power or bad men,—what, but his contagious, resisiless humor? “Ho would disperso any mob soaner than the Mayorwith his drilled police. B would meet them armed with clabs, looking lean, hungry, and defisnt. In fivo minules they would bo seen droppingtheir bladgeons, ad dispersing in roars of laghter. Then let ts laugh. It is the chespest loxuy man enjoss, and, as Charles Lemb says, “is \orths hundred grosns in any sisto of th market.” It stira up tho blood, er pands tho chest, electrifios e mefve, clears away the cobwebs of the brais, snd gives tho wholo system a shock to which the ~voltaio pile is as nothing. Nay, its deliciousal- chemy converts evon tears into the quintessencs of merriment, and makes vrinkles themselres oxpressive of youth snd frolic. Americas especially, neod 16 laugh,and tolsush dliee Tho demand for humor is great among us; ud the supply is not equal to Llie demand. Mostet s are over-worked, and the excess of workre:- ders imperative theneed of incrensed phy b balance it. Nature prompts the over-workal men to seek an atmosphore of mirth as snulys sho sends the deer to the salt-lick, Wealth, i gonnity, wordly wisdom, and popular infornx tion sbound among ms; bmt our social sl Iacks the oil of joy; and hencs woneed loci- tivatogood humor, 08 DeQuincey comicallyineal- cates murder, 8s “ one of the fine arts.” We aro awaro ihat thero are some owlish and eminently respectsblo people who srosversate merriment and to tho pleasantry that provokss it. But whats world this would bo withi Isughtor! To wlat a dreary complexion shoud o all come, weroall fon and cachinnation e punged from our solemn and scientific plae? Caro wonld soon overwhelm us, the heart woekd corrodo, life would bo all relievo, and ol the Tver of Lifo would by _like tho Lakeof & | Dismal Swamp ; we ahould begin our dsys ¥i 5 sigh, and end thom with groan; whilecsds™ erous faces, and words to the tuneof “T# = Dead March in Ssul,” would mako up 80 Sholo interlude of _oxistonce. Hume, B2 Lictorian, in examiniogs Fronch ‘manusi® containing accounts of somo private distus ments of King Edward IL of England, fod A among others one articleof acrovn pattt % somebody for making the Eiog 1sugh. Cod THis Majesty havo mado o wisor investmes! Even that grimmest and most saturnine of wth Dean Bwitt, calla Isughter * tho most inooxe! of dinretica.” Let us, then, indulge frecls & the rationality of lsughtor. In the words of ] witty Maginn, let our Christmas laugh echo 3 Snint Valentino's day ; our laugh of Sainé i entine till the lst of April; onr humor till May-day, and our sy ‘merriment ! Midsummer. And 80 let us go on, fram 1o holiday, philosophers in Iaughter, & least, till, at the expiration of our cetury, we dieth death of 0ld Demoeritus ; cheerfal, hopofily =4 contented ; surronnded by many s frieods without an enemy; and romembered priscipely because we have never, either in lifo or desth, given pain for & moment to auy being thatlind. NG e The St. Louis Board of Trade mrnryu_dd; potition to Congress, asking a app! et £200,000 for the improvement of the e St Galona River, in tho Stato of Miseis T Seasons argod in this memorisl are, thst 8 vater in tho river is so low that tho packstt® $ho Missisaippi River cannot reach Galens; §f this improvement wero mado, 3137E® of grain, tlour, bogs, aud cared meats, 27 ing a market in Chicago, will be ts Louis. Itis alsostated tbat there ig, Galons, o region fertilo in zinc 0re, 4,000 tons of this oro was sent last year Sallo for smelting, when, i;e the river navigable, it could havo been cad Touts, 8 Louio therstoro uk:‘d cnug appropriate £200,000 to disort trade IO, o Chicago to that clly. 1is inlsifl® the memorial that Galona has s fine Fouse and & bonded warehouse, but -h-fl: ticular connection there is between thest the trade in zinc oro and hogs is not #¥ L, Louis has not yet petitioned for 83 8PPr T T R o SN R IR porth and 13 o1 [d » w v A for improving the Illinois River. Al ! The town of Boonghar, which W 7S] ¢ o ith such te7 | estroyed by an earthquake, b loss of lifa, ialocated 114 miles north bay, with which it is_onnected by BI% telograph. It is an appendsgo of £ Fb, City of Barods, which is sa independent 855 i bouud to the British only by ofeBSiTO T fonsivo treaties.. Tho town was Hklf lated, and situated in tho midst of svey Py tive country, which in point of m:ehgf commercial yesotrces is one of the most o tant localitios in Tndis. Rico, m»lze;“: o barley, indigo, sugar-csne. opium, D are raiscd in great guantities, sod o [ £ oould be denounced, been widely circulated, and prepared the way for the Beformers ? Might not the Jezulta have daflod tha clab of Peacals 3Dy 7 qtsb? Grags are indigenous. Nearly ail Grest Bfl‘;. supply of nitre and nitrate of sodi came the looality of this unforbunate toWae | ;‘ | was heard, thero was suro to bo & faneral proes- | RPN Y -’ B A A T A inth B0 E SRR BN E PR e R HESLOADNONE QRNCOORIINOSD Mih EYEO SOSBEIDCR YRR COWRE S P Lo 3 [0 0 e b ® 4 RPIsPIomE