Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 28, 1873, Page 13

Don't sneor at my subject bocauso somobody ¢lio hind somethiug to say about it onco Lofora, Woonu't all bo tho original invontor of tho ‘wooden nutmog, and the * Dove-Block Toa- ' Parly " provokes this. I mn sick of Woman's ,“ Rights.” From tho timo whon, in tho gray Qawn of the young world's morning, Evo, with tho blush of shame deoponing tho carmine of Lhior fair, round choek, hor purity staiued and hor innocenco sullied by contaot with ain, hold ont to Adam tho tomptation bonenth which he fell, to this day end this Lhour, woman's influenco, for good or ovil, has boen the mightiest power man his over known. 1t ia notin motherhood alone—holiest and most honored position thoughitbe which she csn evor fill—that hor influcuco iu folt, but in overy rolation she sustains, ns friend, wifo, slstor, In private, soclal, domestic, or public 1ife; in the world of lettors; in tho fine arts ; oven iu the strifo and bittor autagonisms of politics, hor in- fluence hins welght. . Do you imagine, becauss sho does mnob stand in tho halls of Legislature or Con- gross to .pload for the Right with words ‘whose porsuasive cloquence might move a nation to tonrs, or rouse it to rovolt and plunge a world jnto a reign of terror; becauss sho may not bo nu Blizaboth of Bngland, with the power and will to sond to tho seaffold who- over stood in her way ; because shoe is nota Joau of Are, to lead her armics to victory beneath tho snow-whito baunor upon whoso silkon folds deft fingers had wrought tho bine lilies of “La ‘Bollo France;"” becauso lore, in our most glori- ous of all fair landa that tho sun ovor kissed, sho may not tramp with the jostling crowd to tho ballot-box, shoe has no power? Do you think, because sho is not an oilico- holder, or oftico-soekor, eho must be indifferont or ignorant whethor the land wo love i lnshed by despots or cursed by laws that mark our votera fools and our rulors knsves, or whether thoso who sit in high placos love justice nnd remember mercy ? ‘Chat sho uns political in- Hlaence is but too well nttested by tho records of our lato war, every bloody pago of which bears witnoss ; and did not Washington swarm, in those dark days, with:gpies in petticonts, whose influence but too often, alas! cost our country its treasuro of toars, and blood, and gold ? Snmson was not, unfortunately, tho lnst man to whom some velvot-lipped Delilah whispored, with toars in_hor beautful oyes, and_tresson in ‘hor hoart, ** If thou hadst loved me, thon wouldat havo told mo wherein thy strongth lny," The world looks back admiringly at tho bold, snvage prowess of Mark Authouy ; but doos it forgot that Cleopatra, with the dusk of tropical midnights in tho mass of lor waving hair, and their splendor in tho radinnce of her starry ayes, enslavod and lod captivo this man with hor su- perb beauty and atrongth of intollect. s Of tho Constantines, through a long line, from Couatantine I, * the Great,” down to Constan- tine XT1., Inst of the Byzantine Emperors, nuct one-—monarch, warrior, or religious reformer— who wns not aided by, or the vielim of, n woman's influence. ~ Héw wae it with tho Omsars; with Charlemaguo; with Justininn ; or with Alboin, of tho dny TLombards, who Tnid down his Jiipgdom, bhis honor, nnd at last his life, for & woman, whose ovil influcnce, too strong for lim to resiat, lod him to ruin ? But, to bave its full force upon the world, her influcnco must be used throngh othor, purer, and safer cheanels; for, bid her to the polls, and give her vote its full power: place every oftice at her command ; removo all that 1mpedes her way; lot hor il any or ovory position under the sun; and, whilo it will give lier froedom of sotion,—tho main point, 5o far ns I can judge, thnt tie Womau's Rights advacales dosiro,—ib will Jower her in tho csteom of tho world, leav- ing hor name & by-word, snd hor aim a mark for contempt, . Woman's Rights advocates sncer at our lowa 48 mon make them: what aro thoy dnlnfi that Efivfls evidonee of ability to improve them? Loy sneor at somotf. at its costuption and dis- wpation ; what ars thoy doing to purify or ele- vato it? Thoy deuounce ity restrictions, and chafo undor its roatraints ; what grounds hos it Tor & confidonce that shall induce it to Telox the tension of its hold upon them? What is their influence but a viler poison than ever stung him who touched tho shirt of Nessus? What tho re- Bult, 8o far, of their labors, but the opening of looumerable Pandora's boxes, whence swarm tho brood of ovils thoy have spawued ? Moro than balf the’ wrongs. thoy assert that woman suffors were concoived in the brain of Ehis class, who, most guilty of all incondiarics, build fire¢ in the beart’ or imagination of {hé mass of the women of America, heap up the fuel of fancied wrongs and abuse, and delibor- alely light tho funoral-pyro of penco and happi- Zess In muny o homo, Loy prato for Womnn's Tights; they clamer for political equality ; they rive because thoy do not hold government of- fices, nnd movye heaven and earth with remon- skances ngainst what thoy aro plonsed {o torm tleir bondago,—thoir abject slavery; thoy agk to: tho ballot s u child cries forn toy—they, whio tu7o not euough of discornment and far-sighted jutgment to weo that, when flufi' overlock wouan's influence,—nand it is not half the power +it night be, but when thoy overlook it, oven as it i1 now,—in their headlong rush to secure Wonun's Rights, they lay down a blade of D= mosus steol, strong and fluoly cwmpored, to takoup asword of tin, " Wanan holds to-day thio higheat position to ehicl her foot can over climb, because there i nothiyg highor, except in intollectual or moral doveltpmeut, for her to nspire to, How rash to Dbarterher birthright, her richost heritage, her priceles dower,—thiat which crowns lor more sregally ‘han royolty could do: woman's injlu ei:ce,~1er the incomparably wenker axd inferior power underatood by * Woman's Rights," ‘Wrougstheroe are beyond doubt, and changey needed thot should have been undertalen loug a0 and thage roforme are such 08 cane di- rcetlyin hor sphoro.—wrongs of & sodal, not pelitical nature ; the tyrauny of fashioL ; ¢l pitiable accident of birth ; the contomptibli ayis- toxacy of money ; thn affoctod horror of iLosa who, having beon bedged iu on every side, have never yet broken the world's moral law, or vho, heving sinned against it, have been able t0 lids thoir transgrossion from all but the Eye kit never dlumbors, = Wutlo it is impossible that anything coug vo done ut the polls to remedy those thing, thero {8 no day, hour, or place, whero womaus ingtuonce may not bo doing a stendy work, \ 1t ronches from the throuo to the dungeon,~ from the motropolis to the squattor's eabin; i iu neknowledged by evory hoart, operatos in oy- ary clicle, and helps to'mold every destiny nnd chinracter, Victoria does not moro surely, nor half go arbitrarily, rule England to-day, ag wom- au rales Americn, Lot hor voico bo ruised, as it should e, againat the evils that curse socic. ty; lob Ler protest, clear, oarncst, uud firm, e' hewrd in favor OF truth, purity, and right; lot hor rofuse to countenande by hor presonce places of amusoment of & doubt- Tul shntnoter ; lot her rofuso to tront with marks of especial favoritism, as is unfortunately the custom, men on whose brows sin, and vice, and corruption have ot their scal; let hor mako moral and intollestual worth tho passport to her rogard, instond of money; and & roform would begiu that would soon tell whother hor influence wad to be lightly regarded. Now, mothers smila indulgently as their sons sow with s _too Javish profusion their wild oats ; but, in the doys to come, it will wring thoir hoarts - with anguish; and wives will shed bitter tears when the sheaves of the mbundant harvest are gathored home, Young ladies encournge their lovers’ tondoncles to w *fast life " by wim- oluted astonishment, and arch reproof that con- trudicts itsolf; and wake up to tho result am they ult by a drunkard's or gambler's dosurted beavth, Whoy spenk with levity and unpardone able irrevorence of overyihiug they should von- erato and rospect, and opon thelr eyes wide with borsor when they find that even thoy eannot command tho respect of those whom they buvo taught to respoct uothing, At lust, soured, o bittared, morbid, with wounded pride, disap- oited ambicion, vesrning but diesntis- ed hearts, suffering from & ceuso they but half undorstand, they cateh, an drowning men do at Huraws, at the vuguo, misty, andefinable thoory of Womun's Rights ; beounzs shomost rabid of its oxpouents, the firmest of ;ts adhomutu' 3 . positive, in thalr igmoranco, ll.‘j":-ffnéz n:luulu bnunl mgg}atflmdu to woman, hig nd ornel solfishingss, tonndation of nil thole misary. ! o 41O o Lknow e well uy e'cm do Lt such soutiments wo not popular, und will nof. muke me Boy but I m‘athhahm to |ull|, 08 Ju issed the yvesolution wo froighted with woe fo; :LDI'I]II of C{m\“ulkl!lfi:ilt 5 Jm)i would ufn:' ikem no mor tow until they would sulitieal oquality.” ’ ¥hald Hinu Llove the work of woman's olevation no leus 4inn thoy do 5 but I want reavon, noteaprico, to jovern us. T want thom to tix thoir marl, ot 42 81 equallty with mon, but above, boyond himg sad, when woman has horsolf atialued to this, itituslly, morslly, and Intelleotually,—vh Bt ad il i chl ot e Nt a8 to those who nesa and nnrm{mon of thto age, as yon somo- tlmes neo n sinr shino thrungfl o Tift In the clouds of a wild, dark night,—I bnve little foar bt her fufiuonco will eouro hor all tho Itights sho deslron. CQARNED B, FUEEMAN, e g * HORRIBLE BUTCHERY. A IReminisce ¢ of tho Olden Time in 2K Wenye Livtngnton ¥ in Princeton (Ky,) Juanner, In prosenting the following narrative, I havo 1o depend nupon me{ memory fortho faets detailed to mo more than fitty yonrs ngo by powons who wero fully informed on the mibject, aided at tho prosent by two other persons _nov: liviug, who wera thon very young, and ndistinct ns to_their recollections of the utrango occurrencos, Tt ad- dition, tho rocords of the Livingston Circult and County Courts furnish some further light, Bomo time Lotweon tho yoars of 1805 nnd 1800, & gontloman by the nuino of Dr. Clnrles Lowis wflh bis family movod (rom Virginin and sottled on o militory tract of land on the Oblo River, somo five or six milex above the town of Smith- Inud, n Livingston County. Hiu family con- sisted of his wifo, throo sous, Lilburne, Charlos, und Isham, two daughtors, an somo ton or mora alayes. That part of tho county was thon” o wild, and its population nlmren. 'he Doctor selected the place to build, olonrad niny thio forest, and electod log cabing for tho whites and blacls of tho family, oponed 1p o farm, put it in cultivation,and gave his resl- donco the unmo of Rocky Hill, 1fis eldest wou, Lilburno, wes slso o married man, hoe and his wife rosidiug in his father's family ot Rocky Hill, In 1807 the Doctor’s lady dlod’; soon nfter her doath Mrs, Lilburne Lowis also died ; thoy were buried at Rocky Hill ; the graves wero {n- closod by a post-and-rail fonco, 'I'ho whole of the white family in tholr intercourse with the inhab- itanta bad made tho improssion that, in point of liternry attninments, elegunce of munnore, nnd ae- complishod demennor, they hind 1o equals in the county, und had oceuplod us high poaition pnd a8 great socinl ndvantages as any in their native Stato, It was thought, howover, that tho slaves wore treated with cruel woverity, In 1800 Lilbwrno was married to o young lady of fho county, Miss Lottio ~ Rut- tor, ler family of high standing, and hersolf roputed fuultless in form and besuty and of proposgossing accomplishmonts, The Doctor obaut that time lefs Rocky ITill with his dpugh- tor, aud went to Balom, ,or that noighiborhuod, loaving tho farm and most of tho slaves with his threp sons, Lilburno having talon his bride thoro. It was soon reported that the marringo turnod out to be_an uubappy ono, Mrs, Lowls from somne causoe bocomiug exilromoly unhappy ; it was supposod on_account of tho barbarous troatmont of the slaves, In the yoar 1811 she gove birth to a son. On the 16th duy of Docem- ber of that year, sho noticod unusuat deportment and privato consultations botween hor hushand and his two brothers. George, & half-grown boy, a waiter about tha house, who had repeatedly run away when whipped. {hat_ovoning was wail ityg on tho table at supper, and let_some arti- clo of furniture fall and break. Isham Lowia looked at tho othior two brothers scross the tablo with o significant nod und said, *Thot will do.* This was noticed by Mrs. Lowis. Imme- diatoly after tho meal was ovoer, it being dark, the brothors left tho Liouse, repaired to one of the negro cabins, had o largo hickorv log-fire made, aud summoned Goorge and all the rost of the slaves to that cabin, When ull wore in, the object was oxplained to them by Litburne Lowiy Lo the offect that their disobedient conduct ha been such that it bad becomo necessary to kill ong of them that tho test might know their fate unlees they ncted botter in the future; told what Georgo had dono, and that they wora gomg to kill and burn him up. An ax was brought in, Goorgo tied and Inid on the floor, and ono of the nogro mon directed and forced to chop off each hand and onch foot, tlien each arm and log half- way to the elbow aud knee, and o on, until the Dody was zoschod, . Tiia brothiocs: atond prousd with pistols in hand fo shoot tho negro with the ax if ho failed to obey. The horror commenced wheon tho firsb blow sovored a hond, and the shrioks of tho victim renched the onrs of Mrs, Lewis, Bhe beeamo pauic-stricken wilh terror until bor cries woro henard by all in the house whore tho murdercrous butchory was going on, Tho amputation proceedod as dirceted; oach plece a8 sovered wns cought up aud thrown on tho firo. Beforo life was oxtinguished tho head wag chopped from tho body: then it and body cammlumy to tho flames, All remnined i thoe cabin_until the entire mass nppearad to bo con- sumed effectually. The door was then oponed, and tho servants admonished that if any of thom should aver whisper what Liad taken place thoy would bo served in tho samnoe way. About 2 o'clook the three Lrothers left tho cabin and started to tho dwelling, On {heir way thoy wero startled by what appenred to them to bo fho Lieavy sound ot distant thunder. In an instant tho earth benenth their fect heaved and swelled, ond shaok with such violonco that tho parties could with difiiculty keep from falling, Charles eried out, * Ob, biothors, the judgmont of God is upon us!1" Lhis was the first shock of tho great ecarthquakes of 1811apd 1812 in tho Valley of tho Missiusippl. ‘Thoy hurricd to tho Bouco, sud found Mrs. Lowis Iying on tho floor stupefied with torror. A Qoorge, boing o house Loy, was soon missed 1y potucan In o bAbILOr. vistting tho famtly. Answers to inquirics about him were not satis- Tactory, 'Tho othar scrvants when interrogated expressad by looks that were interproted to monn that they kuow somethung that thoy would not tell. Eventuslly, in nmonth or sonfter, a dog was found gnawing a half cousumed humen foot nonr tho premitos. A gentleman by the namo of Josiatt Hibbs, with others of the neigh- bors, Ju the nbsence of tho threo brothers, wourched the enbin where the tragedy was com- mitted and found the burnt hones of & hu- men frame. ‘ho Lowlsos wero arrested, and gavo bail for their appesrance ut tho entning torm of the March Cirenit Court, at which Lil burno and Isham wore indicted for the murder of George. In tho mountime the relations of Mrs, Lewis, learning sho wus living in great foar for her safety, wont after her, and took hor aud hor child to lier father, Tho two Lowises in- dicted were again allowed bml by the Court, It secms shortly after Lilburne and Clarles ngread to commit suicido within the inclosure sur- rounding tho graves of their mother aud Lil- burne's first wifc, On tho Oth of Avril follow- fng, Lilburno made his will, and, after disposing of his ?ropurlv, Lo mado at the end of it the two following requosts : Tooky Hiwr, April 9, 1812, 3z, Samuel loCanly: Lave fullen o Vietm to my beloved but cruel Letitla, I diain the Lopo of Leiny united with my other wifo in leavon, Tuke care of thia will and cowmo hore, that we muay be decently burled, Adion, . G B EL.T. ‘Within this inclosure myself and my brothior request o be interred fu the same cotiin, . Rocxy Ly, April 10, 1812, Ay BELOVED BUT GHUEL LetiTia: Recolve {his uh o plodgo of my forglvenosd to your counectton, Tho duy of judgment is to como, T owo you no malice; Dut did ou account of your abseuco aiid my decr Ity #ou Jumes, Adicu, my love, Liruunse LEwis, A sorvant wis immediatoly dispaiched with this will to Smithlaud, nnd delivered it to 'Squire deCanly, who, on its recoption und reading (ho roquost to him, hostened, with others of his frionds, to tho place designated, and found Lil- burne dead within the inclosure, shot through tho hieart, surrounded by u pool of blood, mid Clinrles ou the outside with two ritles ; ho atated Lilburne had accidentully shot himself while uuking proparations for the fulfillment of their rposo for both to dio ut the same time. ‘That o sight of Lis brothor struggling in doath had diterred him from his purpose, Lilburne was burlod boside his tirst wife, -~ Chavles and Inbam {le} from the country, Isham wes never heerd ofafter; Churles bat_once, thon smong tho trops ot tho battlo of Now Orleans, Thefr fathor, Dr, Cburles Lowis, had a publio sale gold_all his pordonul proporty, sud wont bael to Virginia and died, Ars, Dr, Charles Lows was tho sister of Prosident Thomns Jof- forsw, Tho old farm at Rocky Hill {8 waste.and overrown with brushwood, brambles, and other wildlorese growth, with nothing to point to the placeo! tho dead, e u ‘Che Eigin Marbles. b From the New York World. Bléckwood for Decomber 4 remarkable for on artiob by W, W, Btory, the distinguished sculp- tor, oatitled * Phiding nud the Elgin Marbles,” Eversinco Lord E!I{m brought to London the mutilited statues that enco adorned the pedi- mont of tho Partlienon, It bns been ncoepted ng nn usdoubted fact thut thoy werg wrought by the chisol of Phidias, ‘Scores of culti- vuted men have sought in vain to dis- cover the oharm of the battered forsi and dilapldated norses which malko up tho collecs tion, but thoy have not ventured to plead gullty of the crimoof fuiliug to adwire the work of Phidies, Mr. Ruskin hunsclf, who, In hiy ¥ Moderu Puintors," critloised the want of truth to uaturo apparent in the hond of 0no of tho Bl- rin horses, uniformly spenks with vast rospect of thero murbles as ¢ the undoubted work of Phid- ian” Thut thoy do preuont traces of un origingl. Iy suporh bonuty i the_conenrront tostimouy of nll urtinly, and’it wonld be presumption to von- tradiol the unanimous vordict, Bull we hava Lhe right to prosuwe that the universal praise ywhich they bave recoived Is dua in some dograoo {o the infliencs of tho mighty name of the grout Athe- ulan seulptor, Hut now comen Mr, Story, and demoustraton— for hiy prynment amounts’to o domonstration-- that Phidias was not the author of the Elgin wmarbles, Thora 15 a total want of any evidouce in favor of the thoory that ho was thelr author, THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER %8, 1873 e EEEEEEEEEEE——— oxcopt.tho aesertion of Plutarch that “Dhiding w0 appointed by Pertelen nu‘mrin(nndont of nall the public edifices, though the Athoninna had other ominont architoets ; " aud oven thin inauf- flelont renson for nuerihing to Phidins tho carving of tho statuo that ndorned the Parthonun I8 nallified by Plutarch's furthor statemont thnt *'tho Parthonon was butlt by Calll- cratos and Totinun,” ~ Whatever alao can bo gloaned in rogard to the Elgin marbles from the anelont writors goes to mhow that Phidias had no share fn }!rmhu:lm( thony, Btrabo men~ tions ** tho Parthonon, built by Ictiuus, in which in the Minorva 1 Iyory, the work of Phiding," Il vory caro in_necribivg the nuthorship of o winglo statuo in tho Parthienon to Phidins i di- reetly oppored {o the Uiwory that (ha long list of statuos in the podiment of the building wero the work of tho same artisl, There is, moreovor, abundant evidenco goin to show the impossibility. that Thidias coul luve enrved the Tlym anurbles, At the time when the Parthonon wns buildin ho was ongaged on the stutue of Athena, a worl that, taken In connection with his dutics ry Superiutendont of I'ublic Works, must hnve fully occupled hin thne, Lako othor seulptors of tho duy ho must kavo hown out his own slatuo in- #itead of confining himself, ns do modern seulp- tow, Lo tho worl of modoling in eclay, If Lo mndo tho statucs now in the British Musoum, Wwo must supposo that ho worked with a rapidity which no sculptor of to-day could emulate, in spite of the immouse labor and time paved by commilting tho morely mochanical parts of tho worl of marble-cutting to hired workman, In short, Mr. Btory shows that Phidias could nov l:avo oxecutod the statues which wo know como from hig chisel, and alsq the Blgin mar- Dis, withont having llved o mudh longar poriod than the 72 years whioh the best nutlioritios ivo as tho duration of his life. When, Yn nddition to this foct, wo remembor what wo Liave Loon told by Greok writers of the ohar- ncteristies of hia etyle, and noto how completely wanting the Llgin ‘marbles are in these char- acterintics, tho conclusion seoms fnovitable that Phidins was uot their author. In Mr. Story's opinion, they ave probably the work of roveral difforent senlptors whoso names have now beon forgotten, "Tho curious fenture of the caso iy the unques- tlouing credit which haa hithorto been given to tho nseortion that Phidies either desigued or ox- ceuled the statues in queation, Thoro is not o partiolo of proof to show that Lo wes their author, and thero {8 positive evidenco that he wasnot, And yel it has been left to u eritic of tho-present vear to quontion s authontislty, and - to dispel tho illusion which has wo loig holped to gain for them tho reudy admiration of the world, . e g, ABOUT TO BE BURIED ALIVE. Remarkable Escapo from n 'Terrible Denthe Erom the St Josepl (Mo Gazetle. In tho northern part of the city lives o car- ontor, with his family, who aro notivos of E‘rnuca, und have been in this country about olght years. Ono of their childron is a littlo girl numed Mary, and the subject of this singu- Iar story. The ohild was born in Paris, aud wns 11 years old on tho 26tk day of Junolast. She Epeake French, Gorman, and English fluontly, sud in couvorsation exmbits an uuncommon intonsity of moutal action and vividness of montal yislon, Sho fs fair complocted and vory bosutiful, with lustrous oyos, sunny hair, und s look of spiritual maturity 1n her countenance, Sho has sometines said that sho could ses the forms of porsons who lhvo diod, and, s hor sincority could nob bo doubted, this occasionod somo alavm in tho minds of her parentu, ‘The hoalth of the child has ot been good for soveral monthy, and, on Saturday morning three weeks ngo, sho stuitled Ler mother by waying thnt sho could sea hor dead mistor Louike, who camo nesr lor in an angel form aud spoke to her, tolliug hor that sho would malko hor woll so that sho would nover bo siok any moro, IHor mother tried to persunde hor to dismiss the subject from her mind, but she could not stop talking, and con- tinued, doscribing bov sister, saying that sho was stauding near dressed in’ pure white, ler faco bright und sbining, lor bl illuminod with silver lght, and_golden dow-drops drippiny from bor widgs, Sho could atso seo hor den brother, who camo closo to Lor sister's side, Whilo talking her strength gavo way, and sho sauk nway ad iu doath, The worst forebodiugs of the paronts had been realized and they prepared tho body for burinl. No physiclan Lud_been called, an'thoy supposed that death hnd already fallon upon their child, It was abont 10 o'olocic in themorn- ing when the apparent death oceurred. Tho Lody was kopt till Sunday afterncon about 4 o'clock, uearly thirty-six hours, duriug which timo no sign of returning life had been noticed. I'ho finnl look =& the remans was taken, the cofliu was sealed up and placed in the henreo, ond the littlo cortege started for the grave, the patonts following tho hoatso in n carringo, After procecding some distance, and coming down on Third strect, the guick ear of the sad- dened mother caught the echo of a familiar cry, and she gavo oxpression to her suspicion that it camo from the coflin of hor child, Hor snspicion wag overruled, bué in a fow moments a sccond ery was heard, and, in complianco with the wish- og of tho mother, the hearse was stopped and tho cofiin drawn out. ‘I'ho struggles of what was supposed to bo the Lifeless body could now Lo plaivly henrd, Tho coflin wa4 quickly opened, and the child found to bo alive, to the awmaze- mont aud unsponkable delight of the parents, In her struggles she bad nearly torn from hor- solf her douth robes. She wns quickly taken from the cofiin and ear- ried 1nto tho houso of u French lady at hand, whero they bathed her in vinogar, Sho recov- cred hor strength rapidly, and in a short timo was taken to tho home which she had left only & fow hours betore an appuient corpsa. Binco that time sho bua beon a8 well a8 for tho last fow months, lor parents muke every ffort Lo Xoop her mind from roverting to tho terrible apisode in her young life, fearing that thoro is o fourful fascination in it to her, Bho saya that while others thought her deud, sho could feel thoir toucl and hear distinetly all that was enid, but could not move o singlo mus- cie or mnko the elightcst sign, Bhe Jmew when they dressed her for the cofiin, when sho was laid init, and heard the terrible lid fostened down, but could not make o motion, and was ut- torly powerless until the hearse had gono some distance, when the physical forceawere proba- }:Iylflut inmotlon again by the motion of tho ve- iclo, Sho describes with singular onthusitem and powor, for one so youny, tho beatific sights that sho suw while entranced, many differout beings appearing to her in wondorful benuty. B AR rdett-Coutts on Cruclty to TMorses. From the Liverpool Fost, Lundy Burdott-Coutts, ulwnys on the nlort to reliove misery and to Jesson tho sum of suffor~ ing in the world, has_cutered a protest against the inlumanily of tho tramway arrangoments in Edinburgh. During o sojourn thero, this keen-oyed, netive-minded lady has observed that poor skeloton horses bave to drag the cars up ll, and ean only b mado to do so by tho stimu- lus of puin, ** Knowing,” as sho says iu that tone of confldenco and intimacy which nl- waya charactorizes lovers of the brute erention, ‘“that o horse would rathor die than not do its worls," sixa can cstimato what the animul en- dures when it needs to bo gonded to tho tusi it las to porform. ‘'Lhe Boroucss has observed that aoimals aro kindly treated in Edinburgh, and ehie tho more zoalously Pmlnuta agalnst tho trontmont of tho tramway horses, bocauso the ufntum Jovelops habits of activo urunl‘l’y. aud “fu disregord of the physical condition and mon- sntions of wontlent crenturcs,” Oun the samo principlo, Lady Burdett-Coutts' protest s worth quoting even whore such cruelties aro uot com- won, in ordor that luman suscoptibilities may bo cultivaied, and that we may all bo ns_rondy ue thus public-spirited Indy to raisc an indignant ‘volco at the fivat ight of brutality townrds dumb orentures, It sounds frank and natural that sho talks of horsolf nsyall her lifo uceustomed to horaes, und tho publio will like her Jetter to the Booratary of tho Bcattish Soclaty for tho Pro- vention ot Cruolty to Animals all'the better bo- causo she introduces futo it s reminscenco of the colebruted man whose name sho bears. "Ny father,” snys she, **way celobrated {n the ]umllug-flulv.f for his rlr]!ng of u rofusing horso, 1Tis hand and his sympathy with the animal, his kuowlodgo of its powers, ‘onabled him to take wany o diflenls fonce ond ride 'aoross many an awhward bit of country, T'lie poor tramway horae §s 03 difforont from his bonutiful and thoroughbre liorses ae the jnds aro from the ne- complishied ridor of now more than fifty years ago, 5till, the horso aud the ndey know ono snothor; nud u gaod rider who handles his horse ekillfully und sympathetically may often accome pilah even tho henviest work’ with lesseued suf- foring.” Bir Francis Burdott, the great country gentioman Radical, was long tho idol of the Lnglleh poople, aithongh now it is an effort of mewory to mun woll-{luformed peopls to re- momber the muln poiuts of his history, 1hose who troasuro blflgruq}l[ufll recollections will de- rive pleasuro fiom Lady DBurdett-Coutts' filial remenibrances, Lady i Buzainen Piace of Confinemont, T'hy fsland of Bt, Marguerita, Wh s Dazalno is to bo confined, {u ono of tho tvo I .in Iulauds onthe Mediterranoan cosat of 1zmi00, Tue Inrgor of theso lulonds s BL. Mnrfi;unrfla, the smallor 8t, Tlouoral, Bothuro fortified islands, and havo beon ugei by difforent Fronch Govern- monts for many yonrs, a4 o placo of seclusion for Mlate prisonors, ‘Iho fortross on Bt. Mar- guerite, Lo which Inzaino is dostined, 1 famod tory ns ono of tho placos of the imprison- ment of the " man with the fron mask,” ~ Whilo confined thore, ns the romancoe goes, he wrote Tus story on ono of the miver plates ou whicls hin meals woro rerved, ond throw it overhonrd, A fishorman pleked it up, but bolng unabla toread, Drought it to the Qovernor of Lhe castle, 1u cone soquanco of this inetdent, tho prisoner wns ro- moved to tho Bastilo, whora ho disd, In lntor dayn 8t. Marguerite has only been brought into notice a# tho temporary ablding-plnce of some of tho Communist prisonera. l‘rubl\hl.y.mg tho French nlways have ati oy to tho listorfeal fitness of things, Marshal Bazulue may now oceupy tho #amo apurintents onuco tonavted by tho privoner, whoso story in ono of the saddost, ns wall ag the most romentio, oplavdes of modorn history, yelcs i ik, THE MODERN BORGIA, An Intorview with flra. Shorman in Prinon. Coyrespondence of the New York Express, A hundred plessant drives ho nround Hart- ford, which woro constantly tempting mo into tha open afr during s visit which I made to that lovely city during tho last nutumn, Ono of theso drives lod mo towards Weathersfiold, whero o rango of stono buildiogs, hnlf buried in treos ond frouted by a greon lawn, rominded mo that tho State Prizon of Connaoctieut was in that re- glon, and that probably this was the building, A very courteous ofiicor volunteored to take us through the prison. Tho oceupants woro all at work in tho tl‘lllrnnt shopa, and seomed com- fortablo onough. The bullding was neat and ordorly, aud the discipline seomod regular and cousistent without being xovcie, oven cruol as it Wi yenrs azowhen I was fu the same pslson for sn hour or two. Thon no prisonor was pormitted to Iitt his eyen or spenk without apecial permission. I was glad to soo tho changes, Now tho inmates scomed like mon with feelings, hopes, and some rights, Thon they were automats, with every lLuman foeling buried so deop in misery that nothing human was . visible but tho forms, “Did I wish to spenk with auy of tho prisonors?" Yes, onc,—Mra, Sher- man, o Connectiout woman, who had confossed to polsoning her husband and othey persons, in Deruf- nyour or two ngo. I hadn curiosity to sce this woman, and hoar from hor own lips tho history of hor crimos, which had always scomed to mo without motive and the nets of ‘an insnne pexson, Tho officer led me slong corridor pierced with small colls, ono of which was occupied by Mra. Sherman, It was wonderfully neat, and womie nttempls at ornamont wore on tho whito: washed wall,—n fow plmtnamfihs in framos, and u tiny engraving or two,—while the cot seemed Bllnd bigh with o regular New England feathor- ed, which loocked perfectly comfortablo, Passing this corrider, wo ecntered a small room, with a full-sized grated window looking out upon the grounds. Boforo this window, with lier foot on tho troadlo of a sowing-machine, sat & slim, spare woman Em‘hnps 50 yoars of age. tho vory pletura of a staid and most raspeetablo mis- {ress of somo plonsant farm in fha country. You cangoe dozons of such womon, apparently, going to clnsg-mootings nud toachlug Bunday- achools all over Now Englaud, every Bunday of your life. Thero did not seom to ba nn ovil pas- siou in the woman, as she sut there quietly at her work, more like a matron of the last half csntury at her flax-wheel than a criminal endur~ ing sontonco. ** Horo is o Indy," enid the ofticer, ** who would Jiko to talk with you, Mrs, Sherman, if you havo no abjection." 8ho_tool hor foob from the mackine, partly turned in hor chair, and Kfted hor oyos to my face, calmly, mildly, and with & cortain look of andncrs. Thioss oyos, Iurgo and darkly brown, must have been beautiful in her youth; now thoy were simply pathetic. I"wne at somo loss here, Ilad this woman boen & Queon, wich one foot on the throne, I should have found uomnfhin,} to sny ; but thore, Dbound hand and foot by the faw, I felt it almont cruel to force a conversation upon her, so, undor Bomeo emberrassmont, obsorved : ‘I am acquaintod in Derby, tha place where you lived.” A gleam of new interest came into her eyos, ggd sho searchoed my face us if trying to remom- r mo. . “You will not know me,” 1said, “Itislong ?ln‘ucuul was thero, but it ‘wasa pleasant place en. *Yes,” shio said gently, ‘it was a ploasant place. Wou't you sit down? " 1 took a soat by tho window and talkoed a little nbout her work, which, she said, was not bard, and overybody was very kind to her. I asked ber it sho folt tho contiuoment much. 8he said, “*No, not_very much now; I onl want to do the best T can. It is_right that should. Thoy do not malte me suffer more than I deserye.” This indirect allusion to her crime opened & way to the subjact I wishod to speak of. Other- wise, I fancy, she would have romained une questioned, - **You feel, -then,” said T, “how wrong you wore 2" : She lifted Lier oyes suddenly, as it wondoring af the question, “ O, yes ; I know it all now.” “Dell no,” 1 4nid, “were you, in fact, fully conecious how awful the crling was, or were you sstray in your mind " T must hayo boon,” she answored, shaking Lior head, * or I novor could hinve done it." ** Did you know—did you realize Low terriblo it was ¢ * No; never. I never seemed to understand it tll my trinl. Then I did. Not before,” “ From tho evidenco, you did not seem to bear malico ugainst uy of thiese porsons,” I said. “Malico!" sho repeated, with emphasis; * no, no; I nover lLada grain of ill-fecling towards any of them. I don't know what I did it for ; but it wasn't anger. I nevor wanted to hurt any of them. It didu't seem to measit Iwas hurting any of them. I caunot understand it myeclf.” * Wore you not nfraid of discovery 2" *No; I'never thouglt of that, ‘“Not when the oflicers came to arrest you ?" * No, not then. I only remember wanting to Ikeep iy friends from Learing of it, and thought Icould. You wee how foolish I was to think that; but it was what tronblod me most. I did not seom to care for tho rest,” ¢ You have rclativos that you love, then 7" Hero great toars gathoved under her eyelids, and rolled down her cheeks, and hor thin lips quivored as sho spoke. *“You: my son~a dear, good son.” **Docs ho come to seoyou ? I8 hio kind 2" “*Oly, yes ; bio comes a8 ofton s he can, s alwaya been good aud kind to me,” I hind no beart to pursuo the subject. What- ovor this woman's crimo lLiad boen, hhe was not dovoid of foclings that commanded respect, but she wont on of her ow accord, sayving : _“1did slmost all they chargod me with, but I did not roulizo that it was mo that did it It seoms lie & dream. I do not realize much about it,"” “Bus how did you know how to uso the poi- son? Homo one must havo lnught you,” “Yes; Ar. , of New York City; o told me how to uso it, where to got it, and everything at fhrst, After that I did not need to bo told.” Ste mentioned n full nomo hero, nud come plnined o littla that it hud been kopt out of hor centesslon,—u paper.I had nover seoi. *+ o first Buggested it to me,"” sho added, *or I-should never Liave done jt—naver."” Iurosoto go, Bho looked up wistfully and #aid, “Thanlk you, for coming." 1 ropliod thod I was glad to sco horso com- fortable und no uubmlmfi\'« to & punishmont that did not seom vory sovere, - ** No," she unswered, * Everybody is kind to mo. Tde not suffor for nuymlufi.‘, T'am willing to do anytbing that they think besr, for since my trialIvenlize how dreadtul iu the thing I lwvoe done,” AsI went out of the room this strange woman $urned to her work agaln, and whon I looked Dack from tho throshold sho was bending over hor worls, us perfoct n pleture of the staid New Englaud womun o8 ovar graced s farmor’a houses hold. Hor hatr, of a very dark browa, with but littlo gray in ir, was combod smootbly over her tomples aud douo up in n twist bohind ; hor prison dress might have passed for that of au{ machanic's or farmer's wife about hor household worl, and she looked to me like o womau_wloso naturo it would ba to_distribute Soybrook plat- forms of faith inotead of poisons, 1Tud I boen n Juror,—which, thank Hoaven, i out of tho tfllus- tlon, imlug & womian,—Mry, Sharman would have had w falr chanco of ncquittal on tho honest Frnvlty of.her faco alone, und I should have hooun awfully ushumed of mysolf whon over- wholmod by her own confossion, Marke Twain apd the Nobility, Thi followlng lettor was recently nddressed by Mark Pwain to the London Morning Post, anil thint papor pablishes 1t s & ** curious specimon of_transatluntio puttory " ; Bi: Now thel my leotwring ongagemont is duuwing to its close, T ind thut thera ik ono uf- traction which I torgot to provide, and thut is tho attendunco of some great membor of the Qoverumont _to qlvo distinction to my enter- talnmouts, Striotly speaking, I did not routly forgot this or ‘underrato its importouoe, but tho truth waa I was afrald of it I was o nftald of it for tho reason that those great por- soungon hinve so many ealla upon thoir timo thut they eannot woll sparothe tima to ait out an ontortainmont, nnd I knew that 1f ono of thom wara to lonve bis box and rotiro whilo I wan lec- turlng it would seriously smbarraks me, I find, howavor, that many people think I onght not to allow this lack to oxist any tongor ; therofore I fool compolled to roveal n thing which I had in- tondad to keep n seeret. I enily appliod to o ‘rlrl\' b tho Tinst Bud who s in tho samo line of huiniess ns Madamo Tussnud, and he ngreed to Jond mo o couplo of Kings and some nobillty, nnd Lo enld thoy would sit out my leoturo, and not only pit it ont hut that they “wouldn’t evon lonvo tho pluco whon it was done, but woulil just wiay whore hey were, perfectly infatunfod, and “walt for more. Ko I mnde n Dargain with him nat once, and was pofny 1o nnk the nowspapers to menon, i tho usual columy, Uit on wuch nod such un evonmng Ils Majesty King Honry VIIT.' would houor my on- tertninmont with bfu presonce, and thint on such and unch an ovoning i Majosty William the Conquorer would bo presont, and that on_tho atceoeding evening_Moron and Aaron would bo thore, nnd o on. I folt onconrnged now, an nitendnnes 1o that would make mny entortain- mont all that conld bo dosired, and, besides, I would not ba ombarrasyed by tholr golng nway Defore my lecturo wea over,” But now misfor- tuno camd?. 1n attompting to move Houry VIII, to my leetiro hall the porter fell down stairs and utterly smashed him wll to ploces; in tho coursn” of moving Willlam the Conquerer, somothing let go, and all the sawdust burst out of Ium, aud ho collapsed and withered nway to nothing before my oyes. Then we col- Inred samo Dulics, bub thoy were so seedy and decayed thnt nobody would over have belioved in their rank ; and wo I gavo them up, with al- mont n broken hoart. In my troublos 1 had nothing i the world loft to duI|1ond on now hut Just Mosos nnd Aaron, and 1 confoss to you that §t wauall I could do to keop tho tonrs back whon I cnmo to oxamino thoss two Imugos, and found that man, in his unn%mronchnbln ignorance, had hoen oxhibiting in Whitochapol for Moses and Aaron what any educated person could oo ot o glnnco, by the ligature, wero only the Siamese Tivins. You sco now, sir, that Lhave doue oll that n man could do to supply & complained-of Incl, and if I hovo failea £ thiuk T ought to be pitiad, not blamed, I wiskIcouldgot o King some— whoro. just only for o littlo while, and I wounld taka good care of him, and sond Liim homo, and pay tho cab mysolf, Mank TwArx, Lonpoy, Dee; 10, BUTLER AND HAWLEY. An Inctdent of the War, Cohtmbia, 8. C. (Bee. a1y, Corresponndence of the New & ork Sun, . Coming on the train from Wilmington this morning I fell in with Col, Seward, of Orient, L. I. Howas formorly on the stafl of Gon. Jogeph R, Hawley, of Qonneeticut, . ., **1 thought that Joo held his own vory well in his vow with Batlor,” suid I, Howard brnced his lnces against the car-seat in_front of him, aud lsughed. “Yes,” ho ro- plied, ** Ben forgat what had happeued down on the Jomos River when lo woko up Joo Hawloy in that Springfiold specch, That wes tho first trouble betweon thom."” *What was it 2" I inquired. *1Vell,” snid Boward, ‘‘you kuow that Butler had about 40,000 men at Bormuda Mundred whilo Grunt was fighting Lco in the Wildornoss, 1f hio bad been protopt and bold ho might havo gono into Richmond liko s book. But he got “hottled up,’ 68 Grant enid, and that was the end of him. 'Chen Grant took tho moat of his troops sway from him, leaving with him about 4,000 or 5,000 men uuder Geus, Terry and Hawley. 1t eut Butlor up terribly—knocked lis military dignity into o cocked Bat. So Butler got his back up, and determined to do somo- thing on bis own hook, He bad his engineors cut a new road through the woods, which would bring him out_in tho o&wn cauntry batween Potersburg and Richmond, He ordered Haw- loy’s brigade to maxch over the road during tho night, expecting that Joo could reach the opon country by doylight, aud theu assault and cap- turo Potorsburg. Hosent Foulz with o regi- wment of eavalry around tho othor side of Petors- Dburg to mako an assult on tho works soutl of that city, at the same time that Huwloy struck it on the noth. Well, Juo started off with his Drigada during as durk a night as ever you saw. It was the night thot Grant was fightng Lec at Cold Harbor, I remomber that wa could hear tho guns of that battle. Bub Joo found that Butler’s road was wondorfully and fearfully made. It was hacked out of a thick forest. His ougiveors had loft the stumps two and threo foot bigh, It was almost imposeibla for Joo to got bis butteries over them. Ho worked 1ike o Leaver, but at daylight Lo was not more than hali-way to the open ground, Butlor hontd of it, and sont a mossaga to Joe, wanling to know why in hell lio wasn't in the open coun- {ry. ‘D—— you! said Butler, *don't you Lkuow that I have removed Najor-Genotrals for lesa thon this ?’ Joo sont badk word that he was deing ths best iis could, and if it was not satis- factory to Butler ho could romove and bo hanged to him, It was well along :oward noon whon Joo struck the opon country. Thoro was & line of works extonding toward Potersburg for mileg, It would have taken soveral hours to reach the elty in u straight maveh. 1t was 8o fur awny that you could wot seo oncof its olmrch-ateegluuq and you kuow tho city s _on risiug gronnd at that. But Joo obeyed orders, Xe carried lino aiter lino of works at the point of the bayonet, but the cily seemed as fer off 08 ever, Aboul sundown Xnutz's cavalry formed a junction with him. Kautz roported "that ho had asenulted the works at different plates, aud found them woll manned. Ho ¥nad baoen ru&mlnad ou overy &ide. A ulroag force was already massing in front of Hawky, and common pru~ denco dictated a roturn to camp, It was late at night when tho troops 1oachied their quurtors. Joe ent down without gofug to bod—liy 1ews- paper Life lind mado Lim 1 8ort of & night-owl— and wrote out his official report, sendlug it to Butler ns soon a8 it was dnished. Next morning an orderly cawe to the tent, und snid that Gen. Datler wanted to seo Gen. Hawloy fmmodintoly. Irodoup to Butlor's hoadquarters with Joo. Joo got off his horse and went iuside. I ye- mained without, I could hear thom at it ingide. Butlar was roaring at doo, and browbeating Lim as though he were 1 witness in a rape ease.: Tvery ouce in o while Butlor would shout, ‘You ey I your roport #o and so.' Hawloy would answor, *You misquoto my Toport; 1 sty no such thing,' Then Dutlor wonld swear and tallk about the Major-Generals ho had removed, For a long time Joo kept his tompoer, Thou the lie direct was given, It was too much. Joo went for Boujumin, 1o caught him by the coat col- lar, and shool the stufling out of him. I was thinlung about goltg in when Joe appeared at the doot of tho tont, IIo was ad calii s n sum- mer ges. ¢ Come, Soward,' ho enid, ¢ let us go, Iuhall bo removed if I stay hero mueh longed’ And wo went baclk to our quarcers,” ‘* What did Butlor do about 1t ?" I usked, “Why, tho hullking -coward did nothing,” Seward answerod, * [lo was ashamed to have it known, Mo took the licking like a dog, and nover opoke of it afterward, When Dutler was for the first time attompling to get tho nomination for Governor of Mussnolusotts, 1lawloy opoued wpou him in the lnrtford Cowricr, Dutlor at- tompted o roply in his spoeeh ut Bpringfield, Ho begau to ridienlo Joe's military record, but ono of the Couran! reportors corked him up by ris- ing in his soar und calling Lim a liay. Then Joo thraw oditorinl vitriol on him, and since then tho fight has raged with moro or_less iutensity. Lver pince Huwloy licked him Butlor hos ex- prossed the most profound contempt for news- paper mon, But tho meancst thing hoe ever did was his action toward Chaplain Thomas. You've lLieard of that, Laven’t you " #No," I responded ; “ what is it 2" ** Well, Thomus was a Chaplein in our brigade. Homa roportor from tho Now York Herald usked him what he thought of Dutler, Thomas suld ho was & good lawyer, buta mlfiht_v poor Gen- oral, 'The Herald man printed the story. Soon aftor that Thomas disnppesrad, His™ frionds looked for him high and low fora long timo, Bix wooke. aftorwards lo was relonsed from u military prison, where hio had been kopt in olose confiuomont by Gen, Butler on acoount of his oconversation with the Herald reportor,” —. — o ‘Fhe Ledochowslkl Caue, - A Berlin letter to the London Standard, under date of Doo, 1, hus the ollwing : « The thunderbolt hus fullon fu_Poson at lust, Arolibishop Ledochows!l has recoived a formal swminons to lny down his oftico within tho space of aight days, or Lo hold himself in readiness to flm‘"fl' befors the bur of the newly-establlsbed coleslasticnl Comrt, In Vorlin, In fact this contumacious diviuo wuay o overwhelmod with finos and with sentoncos of imprison- mont I dofault of poymont, that ho had becomo wmoro difienlt oustomor to deal with in his lunt stago than in his first, Tho authorities had luid hands upon evorything worth seizing in his houee, and doubtless had no wish to renort to the rempiuiug ltornative of personn] duress, Al go, in putsusnce of Articles 24, 26, and 20 af the luw roferring to the disolplinnry power of A st Vorsailles, ‘I'ho Sunday's foto brought down the olorgy, the Arehbishon has been sorved with an inthmatiou to roulpgu his post, a preliminary torunulity to tho bringlug of ‘tho tso bofore this Eevloslastical Court instituted iu virtuo of the samo law, no othor tribunal in the kingdom huinfinompuwnb to try the mattor, Asthe in~ timation wus sorvod ou the 24th of last month the olghit duys' graco oxrve to.inorrow nlght, aftor whioh_dute’ tho Taw Wil tako ith conrac, e ground upon which this stap has baon taken 18, that the continunueo of ho Archbisbap fu-hin pnatoral ofilen 15 ‘incompatible with tho main. ounnco of publie order,' n ense for which spocial provieion is mado in the ensotment nbovo mon- tioned. Tho Court to which the question.is now to o refarred—for thore eau bo lfttle doubt that the Arohiblshop will hold out to the lnst— consints of olovon mombors, six nt lonst of whom must bo logally-qualified Judges; but n orum is formed by roven membors, provided that four of them belong to thologal profeseion. Tho party arraigned hns, of conrso, the right Lo logal nssistance, but tho sontonco of tho Court is it nll canos tinal, “* Tho Archbishop's spocial organ, the Iuryer Zoznanski, m aunouncing the stop taken by the civil authoiitios, ndds that the two chaptors of QOnosen aud of Posen wero convoked .in liot haosta on the following morning {o the Archie- piscopal residonce, T'ho conforonce lasted for uwo hours, and, although tho particulars have not transpired, it is cortain that both those Todios oxpressod tha firm resolvo to atand by thelr suporior, *Tho declsive momont hag, thon, ub lnst arrived I' cries the Catholie print 3 ‘In golemnZmoment, in which it behooves all of 1A to ahow, by our mpitit of zenl nnd obe: dienco, onr worthiness to «hare in the sufforings ondured by our boloved Archbishiop.! And then followa the oxpression of o ploua hopo thal the avent may not load to any doplorable outbrealk of popular rosentmont, * The letter in which the Popo oxhorts the Archbishop to lold out_to the laat In his struggle with tho Prussian Govorn. ment hns, courso, no immedinte rofes of onco to tho matter in biond, s tha doo mont itsolf is dated tho 5th of Novembor, al- though it may bo considered as anticipativo of somo such olimax, which, as you wiil romembor, was currently roported to bo in contemplation about a month ago, Tho Hoverity of the Press Inws 18 such that na paper has ‘ventured upon the publication of more than a fragmont or two of this lottor. **Binco tho abovo was writton,sll doubt,if any oxistod, respocting tho courso tobo taken by the Archbishop bLas boon sot ot rost by o telogram from Poson to the offeot that Jie has alrondy mado known his intention to P-Iol:l to force alono. From this it may bo inferrod thut hio will take no farcher notice of the intimation to rosign or of the summons to appoar bofore the court in Borlin, He insista upon o forcible ofectment, sund his wish will doubtless be gratitied, 8o fur ull is simplo enough, but what noxt? The question is sn em- barrassiug one to answer. Isupposo that tho Govorument seca its way through all this, but ono would sny nt tho firat hlush that it has been surprlsod by Toul weathior, whilo 08 ot it hna not hed tho time or tho forethought to layin its stock of winter gear. It is possible, and by mony regarded us probnble, that, us a counter-move to tbe deposition of tho Arch- bishop, the Pope will Iy the wholo diocess under an_intordict,—n moasurs the effects of which, upon u fanatic Dolish poasantry, must nok ba judgod by a purely Barlin standard, Aff |, tho oftices of Treligton, with the excoption of baptism, would be at once susponded through- out tho condemned district, The church bell would no longer call the congregation to prayors ; thoro would be no marryiug or giving n marringo, and for this want the State hns, pg wo know, mado no legal provision; the Tust sucramonts would no more bs convayed to the bedside of the sick aud dying, and the wretch who hay shufiled off this morial coil must bocon- signod to bis mother carth with no more core- mony than if hio were_a dead dog. It may bo doubted whethor the Papacy will, after all, ven- ture to incur the odium of o rosort to this' bar- barous form of roprisnls, with all the foarful consequences which it would entail, But the thing 15 at all ovents possiblo, It has been talked of boforo, when tho strifo was in a far milder stago than that which it has reacued ut prosont, uud it is Linted at now, in the hopoe porhapa thnt the prospect of such a threat boing carried out may induce the Government to give waoy at the eloventh hour,” — e Eazaine’s Advocatcs The following description of M. Lachaud's dofenso of Buzaino apvears, undor duto of Dec, 8, intho Paris correspondonce of the London Daily Telegraph : “*Yeatordny's Introduction to the defense ba- ing univarsally sccopted ug more proliminary fetiowug, ovorylody s ou tho tl[li-f.op of expec- tation for to-dny's orutorical display, Luglish- mon will ask why the trisl was continucd on Sunday, nnd especially why tho ihat day of tho weok was chosen for tho_ oponin of Maitro Lachaud's = speech. I doubi if any Fronchmon lviug can give nany. satisfactory roply to the quostion. The Lrial hag Licon going on ever since the boginning of Octo- bor, the sittings have been suspended nlmost overy 'Chursday, forno obvious reason excopt that of giving o doy's Jmnau{ to all_concorned, and yet at tho vory termination of tho case it i thought nccessary to sit on o Sunday a8 woll na on every weol day. The same rort of phonom- onon is frequontly observed at the Assembly, After o quetion has boen stlowed to dmg wemily along for many weoks, somecimes for months, Deputies suddenly take it into their” heads that it must be soteled right off at onco, and they docido on tho torribly inconvoniont procoss of s night witting an influx of Sunday visitors, and n good deal of confusion was tho rosult. Tho gendarmes who aurrounded the edifico wore unusually strict in the porformnnco of their dutics, The are gon- erally vory polito, but they scem to have beon embittered by their work to-day, and I heard sevoral complaiuts of their behnvior, I met o friend wandering about in a atate of great in- dignation, for tho gondurme hud not only re- fused him admigaion, but_had talkou his card from him aud torn it up, I feel bound to add that the Due D'Aumale has & much livelier no- tion of hospitulity—sequired, probubly, in Bug- Iand—than_ most of bis computHots. T happen to know several Englishmen whe, taking advan- tago of o former ncquaintance, have applied to him for ticltots, nnd in uo instance—in my knowl- edgoe, ot lonst—have thoy been refused., If all Trenchmen wero Jike the Duc D'Aumale in this rospect, how populur Frauce would bo! T must plead guilty to being thus far much disappointed with tho dofongo of tho mosb elo- quont of Fronch burristors. His reputation led me to expect » finer oratorical display. He un- questionably possesses many qualitications of an effective speakor, but in the end ho fails to produco the anticipated tosult. Mis speech does not haug togethor, Tacts uro introduced with muel dramatic skill, but the deductions aro feobly drawn, and ' they thereforo do not carry conviction to the listener's mind. dosoribed his porsonnl appear~ ance ot tho openiug of the trial, but I may ngain remind your readors that bo bears o striking resemblunce in face to a well-known En- glish confrero, Sorgt. Purry. His feutures ure rogular and oxpressive, his forchead high and broad, scantily covered with light hair. His ayes would bo flue were thoy not doformod by what must Lo denomivetod u squint, in spito of which immouse disfiguremént thore is o hright- nees in tho speaker's look which rivets the lis- tonor’s attention. He holds himsolf very oroct, and uses more ection, and of a moro domonstrative description, than ig habitusl to our Bar. Ko has sev- eral gestures which are quito peculiar to Inm- solf. ~Thus, when ho spoaks of France, or of any specially noble abstraction, he strikes his forehead violontly with his open palm ; whon hoe oxprosses disgust, or disappoiutment, or auger, ho claps his bauds togethor several times in rapid snccossion, while every now and thon, at tho climax of some oratorical period, ho bonts Lis bronat with such E‘uod will that tho blows resound through thoe bhall He sometimes fiuta an oratorical full stop to a sontenco y tbrowing down his pooket-handkerohiof upon the table beforo him, und he takes it up again to half hide his mouth when ho lets fall some light syllables of jzony, But Maitro Laohaud's strongest point is his voice, Of un- usual r.-omYuua, t is oqually strong in overy part of the rogister, and it is marvelously under the spealior's coutrol, Somotimos emitted with stontorian Eownr, hig tones instautly afterward siuk to & whispor so light as to be almost inaudi- ble ; now woft, low, and rich, his voico snddenly swells into an organ of tonfold trumpot power. This extraordiuary vocal fuoility hus doubtless mmlm:a him into oxaggerations which havo vory 1ikoly now becomo & second naturo to the popi~ lar burristor, und bo often reminds ono in his startling changos of a vnntrilognlub rather thun of an orator, 1 should add that hig artioulation 18 peculiarly distivot and puro, und that he nev~ or pauses in soarol of n word, e speaks quito extempore, without any notes except the docu- ments ho bhas arranged to read out; and the quick glancos be porpotuully throws ut Judges, prosecutor, and audience, as Lo walks to un 1ro behiud tho chair at which hotakes hus staud, show clenrly onough liow olosoly bo watches the effoct of every word upon his hear- org, Whon ho funcics that tholr attontion fs flagging, o solzes the baok of tho ohnir with both hands, gnd rapsit against the ground, shriokiug meanwhile at the top of his voice, thai loanlug forward and hissiug out some date or Daro fuot in & stuge whispor.” It will be roadily doducod, from thoso dotalls, thut Maitro Tuchoud's mannor Is erinoutly theatrical, e is ewsontinlly an sotor—gifted, versntilo, power- ful—but always and manifostly au aclor, M olocutionary skill scems ta Import, at firat Lenr- fng, a fuller sense to Lis words than thoy 13 nnrkable for fluency than for olo- quoney, o weallh of Svords wovms to b in. oxhaustible, but yon wait in vain tor au originnl itlon,iiaud youusoon discover that the fecile thoughts are clothed in conventional phraseolo- #¥. It is vasy to realizo that u discourse framed ot auch raw materinls fs not likely to oxercive anyavary.wonsldprablo influeuce on tho hnrd- hoaded Goneraly, wwho sture in unmoved nmnze- ment at Maltro Lachaud's impotuosity, nnd it Ia not with rhetorienl flourishes that tho solid walls 3{ Pourcot's slern indiciment. nro to bo blown lotn, O NAVAL MATTEDS. ‘Wamtinaron, Dee, 27.—Orders have been issued from tho Navy Dapartment to discontinue tho recruiting dopot nt ‘L'oledo, Dotroit, Now Or leans, Baltimoro, and varians other points which were opened at the bogiuning of the comn- plication with Spain, The numbor of men {nthe novy ia now 10,000, and it would bave beon nn casy maiter to hip 20,000, or oven 30,000, had tho publlo gorvice roquired it. Tho regular (nnval) mmlun{; utntions at Boston, Now Yorl, Philu dolphin, Washington, and Nowport will be con- tinucd, thongh their onlistmonts willbo con- {incd to ablo-bodlod seamon, to keep that class up tothe required numbor, such mon bein always neoded fn tho servico. Laudsmen ang other recruits will not be necapted. Tho enlistments for tho Marine Corps have licen stopped. Tho corns s bolow tha number anthorized by law,~2,600 enlisted men. ‘I'ho Monitor Montauk, at_tho navy-yard since }ho ‘War, will o taken to Now York' and fitfed or sen. P SO S — NEBRASKA ITEMS, Speetal Dispateh to The Chicago Tribnne, Ncurasga Crty, Nob., Dec, 27.—The lee- Dridge nt this polut {8 safe above and below the fotry, but tha river is open where tho two bonts are runnlug, No intorruption of transportation of vnra has yot ucenrrod, 1U'ho whent, corn, and pork trnde is in ahealthy condition. ‘o rocaiptaaro ot #o lurgo a8 Liers- tofors, but ara gradually incronsing, ns tho ef. focts of the panic woar away, Business is lively acd goveral trade is reagonnbly active. Spectal Dispatch to The Chieago Tribune, Lixcory, Neb,, Dee. 27.—Lhe Iatost advices {from tho Kepublican Rivor country stato that Jarge numbers of Pawnco and Otoe Indinns nre nssomblod abont ten miles apart, and _aro grad- ually caming togelher,with tho avowed intention of clonniug oue another out. e g oy INCINNATI ITEMS. CrvomNATr, Dec., 27,—Four huudred and sixty thousand hoga have been stuughtered in Cincin- natl since Nov., 1, against 850,000 for tho corro- sponding poriod of Inst year. The Board of Trado tc-day adopted o resofu- tion qmtcnling against tho ropesl of the Bank- upt law, espoclally the involuntary clause, nud recommending amondmonts reducing exponsos of ourol’ciuri; tho laws by reducing the fees of ofticors, and that Sce. 39 be amouded to make it thirty instead of fourteen days m roference to suspension of commorcial papor. i - WENONA COAL-MINING ENTERPRISE. Special_Dispateh to Phe Chicayo I'ribune, . Wrxoxa, IlL, Dee, 27.—O0no of tha most prom- inont eoul companies in the Stato iy correspond- ing with our citizens with a viow of siuking a shuft horo enrly In tho spring. Tho voin is fonr feot in thicknoss, and thero is pothing iu tlo shapo of water or gravel that will intertero with the worle, The city authorities and citizens will donato the conl under 100 ncres to manufactur- ing ostablishments, A. M, Hamilton offors 00,000 tons of conl {o uny company that will uimc a shalt, and othor citizons aro just aa ltb- eral, —_—_— SUICIDE. CrevELAND, Q., Doc, 27,.—At fiftcon minutes bofore 12 o'clock Mr, Charles Stiteon, an old and Illghli‘-rnupunted membor of the Clovelsnd Bar, shot himself with a double-batrcled pistol, the ball taking effect in his tomple. Ho is now dying, Financial embarrassmont is said to be tho causo, P New Yonrr, Deo, 27.—Capt. Holbrook, of the Staten Inland polica, attempted suicide this ovon- ing by shooting. He is not likulrv to recover. Dlzmnauc troublo is the cause nssigned for the act. —_—— THE SILK DUTY. New Yomr, Dce. 27.—Tho Patorson sflk- woavera ara advocating the reduction of the tar- iff on thrown silk from 35 to 16 per cont, and the matter will be prossed before Congross, o e s THE POLARIS SURVIVORS. Nuw Yonx, Dec. 27.—The survivors of tho Polaris Arctic Expedition will meet in the Metropolitan Hotel on Tuesday next, and poti- tion Cougress for additional compensation, owing to their impaired health. — . OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS, Loxpox, Dec, 27.—Steamship Virglnia, from New Ycrk,’ has arrived out. % e IKANSAS CITY LIVE-STOCK MARKET. Spseial Dispa e Chicago Tritune, aan Cirv Bev, ot Guteots THote s, a1a s ehijments, 91, ' Better fnquiry for fut buteber's an native und Texan utock cattle ; *also, marked improvos ment n fat shipying stoors atid cot. Trices clored firm on all grades, Sales of flesby Texan stock ateors 8t §2.05; Colorado nnd Texan atecrs, $2.40; through Texan wlock stecrs, 3 corn-fed ntecrs, $3.U0. Hogs—Recelpts, 836, Laked at u pbado lower price, All offerings light. Cloing prices firm at §4,50@4.80. Total slaughtered to date, 101,000, sgatust. 60,000 tho same {imc last year, T'wo honges Bavo closed oporun tions to-dny from tho Ught supply, The lnrgest Lousea #tlll continue, S —— Fhe Sandwich Islands, A correspondent of the San Francisco Chroni- ‘cle, who writes from Honolulu under dato of Nov. 26, givos some particulars concerning tho witbdiawal of King Lunalilo of his proposition for n reeiprocity treaty with tho United States. He writes: . “King Lunalilo on the 14th of November no- tified United _Stutes Ministor Henry A. Pierco, t!{rux“:h tho Dopartment of Foreign Affairs, of Hi ajesty’s withdrawal of the proposition of tho trenty of reciprocity formally made last July, giving a8 bLig rcasons that somo cizbt months had olapsed sinco tho cesalon of Ponrl River Harbor, in _counection with_raciprocity, way first publicly discussed, and over four mouthy since a direct proposition to nemotinte upon that basis was communieated by authority, notwithstonding which, it was not” yot known Whether or not the Administration at” Washing- ton were favorably disposed toward thenieasuro. His Majosty's advisers had also becomo convinced " that a tronty of reciprocity with tho Unitad States, upon the busis of cession of tho Poar] River, would fail to get tho support of the Logislaturo. Our Minister, acknowledging the receipt of tha lotter, rofrained from making any further ro- uponso to the reasons given for withdrawal, and only gave, as his opinion for the npperent delny of tho United States Government in ite decigion, that it was due to tho great importsuco of tho subject, roquirmg time for the final decision, and aleo the interruption of the mails betwoon San Francisco und Honolulu, The advico of tho Ministry having -boou earried into offect, thoy prowmptly resiguod; but, at tho urgent soficita- tion of the King, withdrow tneir resignationa. ‘There was considerablo astonishment and indig~ notion manifested by the public whon thu actlon of the King and his Ministry beeame kuown. Thero appears to be & suspicion amon, the natives that tho reciprovity trenty woul5 eventunlly result in sunoxation, whils tho for- eign olement, lod by the Chambor of Commerce, hay spurred the Govorument to adopt the treaty without delay, While tho ovortures to tha troaty Dave boen going on, nothing bns beon dono tu Pearl Harbor, nothing has been invested or rigked, savo discussions on the subject, So far &8 wa can learn, no harm will result to individu- als by the withdrawal of tho troaty, but it cxnnot bo donied that tho action of the King and hiy Miniatry Lns shown a laok of statesmanship and diplomgey." —— e The Barings ¢ Everywhere,” Lord Houghton, in his monograph skotch of tho late Tady Ashburton, mentions that sho ex- clajmod, fu reference to the wonderful influence of her husband’s lnmll{. ' Thoy aro evory- where," Aud, indeed, thls statomont is amply attested by the position of tho family at tho rosont time, which the recont donth of Mr, I, aring, who twico refused Cabinat appointments, sud might have bed o Peerage, rocalls, Tiwo members of the family slt in the House of Lorda, aud ono of these is Vieoroy of India,whilo a third is Bishop of Durham. Nor is only the mulo portion of tho family ropresented in the Poorago. for the Duohess of Gratton and tho Dowagor Marchionoss of Bath woro also of Lhe stopk of theso morchant princos. Since the pussago of the firat Reform bill no fowor thuu #even Barings have est in the House of Com- mons, One groat accrot of the succoss of this houso Tus been that its membora have stuck togother, A Baring wonld malio eny sacrifica for a Bnrlngl When dfi'o digastor threatoned the famous esta) Lshmont in Dishopsgato years ugo, Lord Ash- burton was ready to fhing bis titlo doods and (he rausures of DButh House and the Grango into tho scales to turn the balance in their favor, rightly couvey, for Le la mote re-) Thare is no such polioy for a hmu[: which wants to ‘gebon" topiusud as * to etick tagether,’