Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 28, 1873, Page 8

—_————— TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE Z7RAS OF SUBRORIFTION (FAYADL X ADVANGR), ()| Bunday,., Ralpdnet. SO0 Walag: Parts ol p 5oar At tho samo rata. ©Offico address fu fall, including Btata and Countr. Romittancos mey bo mads oithor bydratt, oxpross, Post Offieo ordor, or in rogtatored lotters, at our TRRMA TO OITY GUBACIMBERS. Dafly, delivorod, Bundsy oxcoptod, 25 conte por wook, Dolls, dolivorad, Bunday included, 50 conts por wooks Addross THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cornor Madison and Doarbors TO.MORROW'S AMUSEMENTS YIOKERS THEATRE Mo g atiars Hvos or, Tho Gey La n_atrot, l {QOT.Y'S - THREATRE—Randolnh stroot, botweon Olark oud Laallo, **The Gonova Oross AOADEMY OF MUSIO—Hlstod stroot,botswoon Mad- A. Bothorn. sson andMonroo. Engagomont ol E. “+'Gur Ammorioan Cousln.' GLOBE THEATRU-Desplainosstraot, hetwoen #ron and Washington. Engego) Dargon. ** Itieing of tho Moan. MYERS' OPERA-HOUSE. Monroo straot, botwe Denrhornnnd tato. Bituatrals, ** Sliplo Simon, s, "Minstrolsy and comical HALSTRD STREET OPERA-MOUSES Cormor Hal stcd aud Harrison strcots. Mackivoy's ** Now Llibo con, e BUSINESS NOTICES. READQUARTERS FOR BOYS' OLOTHING. o 0. SOLLINS, 181 and 184 Otark-s The Chisags. Tiibume, Sunday Morning, Docembor 28, 1873. +85:00 o pravent delny and mistakos, o suro and give Port e Ulitoago, 11k Votwoon Bulol” Barry. Mad- ont of Miss Avgusta Atlinglon, Jotton, and’ Komblo's committeos with whioh Lo hing come In contnct, Mr, Froncla A. Hoftman, Jr., wWent nlong vory swimmingly, aud rodo his suddon wave of popit- 1ar notorloty with ominont succoss, until Friday night, whon he drifted into.tho rooms of tho Roliot Socloty, ‘Mr, ‘Francls A, Hoftmon, Jr, hind during tho weel pronounced tho Reliof So- cloty to Lo tho befe noir which stood In the way of asslatanco to the workingmen ; lind domond- od that its fundsshould bo tarned over tothocity authorltlos for miscellancous distributiony aud had intimatod that the Bocloty liad no such smount as it claimed, thoroby leaving it to bo + | inforrod that somo ono Lad beon stealing, It wag unfortunato for Mr. Francis A. Hoffman, Jr,, that hio wont thoro and indulgod in his long and empty harsngue, ne it resultad in Mr, Dox~ tor's taking Lim, figurativoly, botweonhis thumb and forofinger and onufing him out. Ho got into the hpuds of & man who don't searo woll, and who conld goo through him, and ho didn't leave enough of him to bo visiblo to tho naked oye. Tho evidonco shows that Mr. Franols A. Hoftman, Jr., was satiaflod, and ncknowlodged boforo ho loft the room that Lo nover hoard of o cnso whoro an applicant to tho Roliof Booioty failed to racolvo Lelpj nnd, in fact, that Lo didn't know anything abont tho Bocloty, and should from that moment ** rotiro to that privacy from which ho wag cslled by the voieoof the peo- plel” Attor which, liko Oatoline, ** AUi#l, ez~ cessit, evasit, erupit.” # And this is the end of Mr. Francis A, Hoffman, Jr. Tho rocket has burst and tho stick hss plunged into tho ground. Ho hias had his little dny, snd, tho trufh must bo told, has cat a very sidioulous figure. Tho most that ho can do ls to 1old his poaco horeaftor and dovoto himeelf to on i THE ESSENCE OF THE WHOLE MATTER. The proceodings of the joint mooting of the Mayor, Common Council, Committoo of Work- ingmen, ond of tho Rolief and Aid’ Bocloty, on Fridny night, were productive of good. The principnal and most Loneficial rosult was the de-- niollshing of all delusions, shams, and misropre- fontations, and cstablishing to the nt!a(ufiuon of everybody concernod the following facts 1. That tho City of Chicngo kas no mony ab 13 command, oven if it had authority, to'expond for public worlks, nor to sdvanco to workmen out of employment. 2, That the Govornment of fhis city is not conetituted for tho purpose, noc has it any au- thority to ongago in monufacturing or other ‘Dbusinees; that it caonot earry on any publio work iteolf ; that whon public works ara noeded, anid the monoy {8 Taised for that purpose, tho samo must bo lot by contract to the lowest bidder, 8. That tho Relief and Ald Socioty have tho menns and machinery to roliove overy ‘ense of setual want in the city, upon being informed "of tho facts; that whonevor it is brought to their knowledge that any person or family is out of employmont and in need of fuel, olothing, or supplics, the Bocioty will furnish tho same until such timo a8 tho destitution ceases, or employ- ment is found, E Nor, hero are thio plain facts ; and sinco there can bono such thing a8 starvation or suffering for want of food or fuel, all furthor talk of co~ ercing tho city authoritios and tho public gon- erally.is usoless, and can'serve no ond but a vi ciougone, Tho workmen who wereinduced tosond | they adopted two plans of cconomy, One waa diligent study , of tho law, ond make nimeelf a8 profioiont n8 possible in that respootablo, ‘and very - important vocation. The only bonofit which: has rosulted from his suddon raidnpon tho city Is tho dis- covory of tho fact that tho vouchora for tho ox- ponditures of tho Socioty aro in its safo, ready for examination, and the cash’ on hiand is rondy for count &t any timo. This, however, is only an acoldent of Mr. Francis A. Hoffman, Jr's, weok of public notoriot; THE ENGINEERS’ STRIKE. On Friday, striko of lodomotive-enginoors o= énrred on tho Pltteburgh, Fort Wayno & Ohi- oago, the Pitteburgh, Clncinnati & Bt. Louls, {ho Clovelanid & Pittsburgh, tho Erio & Pitts- ‘burgh, and porhaps other roads belonging to the Pongsylvania Contral combination. It waa ro- ported thiat tha atriko hind oxtonded to tho Ohi~ eago & Northwestornand tho Tllinofa Contral; but {his turns out to be anerror, no difffculty. having oceurred botweon cithor of those companios and thele cinployos. PR | Engiusers are omployed at varying ratos, from $2.76 t0'88.50 por dny, according to tho skill of tho enginoor and tho charaoter of tho sorvico. ho labor id arduous, and, involves much ro- sponsibillty. Itis o constant strain upon mind and body. It will bo seon that tho wagos of theso mon range from $21 to $27 por weok, for arduous Isbor' and in & most responsible poai~ tion, but the work is not rogilar or coritinuous, the * time * mado by engincers not excaoding an’ | averago of nino months in & yosr, When the ~ | railroad companies .were struck by the panic fatho reqiscst to the Common Cotneil probably | a Yodction of ‘their sggregato forco of lands, olioved' that that body was ablo-to grént it They are now undecoived. We havo no, doubt £hat thoy ave honest and ponceably disposed; and for that ronson wo tell the city authoritiea that there can bo no further spology . for buncombe spocchos or poltering promiscs. . Fortunatoly tho workingten themselves ean sco throngh all guch stupid polaver, aud they ontertain for it. | fiablo. suitsble aud | hearty contempt The answer of the Meyor aud Council having bern givon, and the facts being admitted on sl hands, it only remains for them to progerve tho ponco, if attacled, - Tho rosumption of work by several of the closed faotories will furnish considerable relief ? Other employ- ments,s st presont femporarily suspended, will very soon after New Year's. follow sult. The outdoor work must, 88 always the cose in Chicago fu the wintor, bo sus- Tho wintor, so far, his been sn un- pended. 1 ususlly mild one, and tho ‘severity, when comes, cennot lnst much over two months. During those two months overy workman out of omployment, in actusl want, con obtain the and that . this needed assistance from tho Relief Aid Socioty.© It ia fortunate agency of roliof oxists, and that it ke the menns to reach overy case’ of sctual want. Tho whole matter hind now beon fully dis- cussed. All persons know and underatand wh the city cannot do, end what tho Roliof and Ald Socloty can do; Thoro is no room lotk for tho who would raiso tho cry of ¢ Bread or blood,” because bréad can ba had without blood, such a cry I8 raised it will bo the duty of tho Mayor to take prompt monsuras for tho presorva- tion of order; and, it ho performs his duty promptly and_firmly, ho will find oil tho assist- anco lie noods e——— EXIT BEOFFMAN. The brief carcer of Francis A. Hoffman, Jr., i n suggestive ono to othor young gendemen vaulting ambition, who mount into dangorous | of intelligence, ability, and experionce. Boven chariots without knowing Low to ‘drive. diod to-dny. Ono wook ago Baturday, Mr. Hof man was dolving away in thio obscurity of & law- | ghall be reduced to §5¢ & month. ' Tho Ohieago, ' Burlington &: Quincy’ Railrond acted wisoly in oxcopting tho enginaora, from " tho roduction of sagos, aud tho other companies will find that office, lika thousands of othors, making, o haye no doubt, an honorable compotence, but unknown outaldo his littlo cirols, On Bundsay, therd Was & Ho i biad Just ono littlo wool of publio notorloty. As o publio man, ho was born Inst. Sundoy, and. and the othor n roduction’of 10 por cent of the wages of the remaindor, including the engincers. Assuining that the svorage earnings of thoso mon aro $80 per menth for nino months in tho year, their total wagos is $720, This tho Com- punies proposed to roducs to 8648, or an avorago of 864 por month. Wo think that the protest of the engincors againat this reduction -was: justi- No man whorever rode on o railwsy-car can bo brought to underatond that $60 por month the year round is excessive wages for the man on tho engine upon. whose skill, intelli- genco, sobriaty, and eloopless igilanco dopond the lives of the pnssongors and the property of tho Company. Nor do wo think that the railroad companies can expeot tho sympathy of the pub- Mo in a contest with the engineers upon the is | naked question of tho differenco botwoon an averago pay of €60 and $64 per month to the | locomotive-engincers. It is immaterial that the it | company can find ‘men fo run their ep- gines ot even lower wagos than thoy offer. ‘The public baye a right to demand that the traine | runjby these companies shall bo controlled by dompotent men, by mon whoss intalligence, | fidolity, and experience ara worth at lonst $00 & ns | month the year round, . We can understand the necessity of tho railroad companies in reduoing the rates of wagos to the large force of mon in at | their employ ; but in this reduction thero must be, of neceesity, somo discrimination. Onc-half 50 | the porsons in the service of the companics aro laborers aud olerks. For the prop dischargo pid quired, and thoro 18 but littlo responaibility. In tho enso of tho ongincors, thera is o wide differ- enco. Upon them dopends tho safety of every “tkain. Thoy aro esgontial to tho oporations of tho rond. Tho horrible sacrifico of lifo at tho Bag, in Auguet last; ond the pocuniary loss to tho compsany, ought to bo o warning to all rail~ rond companies that, whon thoy sond traing out, of |-{hoy should -bo put into tho hands of mon Hunmed and twenty dollars a yoar, or an avor- .agoe of 60 o month, will not bo regarded by tho public as 80 oxcesalvo that even under tho prog- ff- | gute of s financial panic tho wages of engincers sudden commotion ind Stirring up of various | ang wool's lnterraption of businoss will infict n clomonts, ‘and, in some mysterlous manner, Mr. Francis A. Hoffmon, Jr., appoared upon ¢ rurfaco na tho organ-of -the unintelligent and’| angystomatio demand upon'.. tho municipal- Monday: morning, tho wholo com- munity was mado *awsro of tho oxit- ouco of Mr. Francis A, Hoffman, Jr.,—of which fact bofova it. had hoen profoundly igno~ xant,—and read witli moro or less of covstorna- Sty. tion his rapacious domands, - his startls groator loss than onn ovor bo made good by tho ho | proposed reduction of tha pay of engincors. 1t tho Pounsylvanis Company wore not 8o heav- ily wator-logged with stock dividonds and other fletitioua liabilities, it would bo abundantly able togo thiough the prosont crisis withont roduo- ing tho wagos of its ongincors, And it ls n fair - queation to nsk, whother it is right to snddle upon thom the cost of paying dividends on moon- ng | ghine capltal when timos become go hard that thoorics, and bis eanguinary propositions.. Tho | it cannot besaddled upon passongors aud freight, rocket was g0 dazzling that it blinded at flrst, and oven tho eity anthorftios shivered a little this sudden vision of tho International, typified by Mr, Francis A, Hoffman, Jr., begging with ono band and threatoning with the othor, Dur- ing nis litlo week, Mr. Trancla A, Hoff- bluster and capacious in throat, but ;8¢ the samo timo mau, Jr, has boon large in mmngnenimons; He hog not meskncred the ol fathors, ravaged tho store-houscs, nor burned thae city, 08 wo wero led toinfor ko might have dono hnd bie but advisod differontly. o has mor- oifully hold ruch a catastrophe oloof ; but, upon tho strongth of thi rosorvo, Las talked long and loud, and dlctated. to Mayor and Aldormen, to the press and to tho oltizens, and to tho various ab | + Woman's righta ovidently provail in Asbanta, It ia statod by s correspondent of the London Daily News that it ig only tho women whoaro of any rosl nge in tho Dritish baggage-train, Thoy mako capital carriers, aud crowd forward to en- llst, Eschof thom, although carrying n box of sumunition on hor hosd, and & baby on ity | bor hips, keops well up with the lino of march ; and tho only condition mado by them is that thoir anclont prérogative of whipping the mon who bught to havo gono to battlo but did not, shall not bo disturbed, In Daliomoy, tho King's body-gusrd is composed oxolusively of women. In many othor respects, it seems evi- dont that Ashantge and Dahomoy are $he vory of tha dutica of those no special fitnoss ia | paradise of woman's righits,—* whoro ovory prospoct plensos and only man 1 vilo," ererm———— OAPITAL AND INTEREST, Ono of tho quostions which address thomselves diroctly to workingmon la, why {s 1t that iutoreat on eapltal, which i moroly tho savings® of Iabor, should bo porpotual, whilo tho product of labor itaolf is consumod daily? In othor words, why 18 tho 950 which ono workman anvos out of his onrnings perpotunl i §ta existonco, and prodiie- tivo of an income, while {ho labor of anothor workman onda with the consumption of ita pro~ duck? Tho portion of wagoes snved oxiste for- ovor as o productiva fand ; while tho portion not savod porianios {n’ the daily consumplion of tho laborer. b It may holp tho oxplanation of this matter to romind tho rondor that cnpital is not alwaya money. Any thing which hos valuo, such as all kinds of matorials, ools sud machinory, food, furnituro, Lousos, is capital. Tho pdsscssor of tools and machinery possesscs capital equal to the valuo of tho labor nccossary to produca thom, This capital s made productive by tho in- oroasod amount whicl, with their aid, tho worl- man onn produce. If, howover, tho workman otn accumulate 8100, saved from his carnings, ho can Jond that at intorest, year after yonr, aod wove b yoturned to ldm intect, o sddition to an sunusl eum for it ueo. This procoss i capsblo of belng oxtonded for hundrods of yoars, and still the original capl- tal remaing, and continnoa to yicld to tho ownor anincomo. It is urged by somo that thie fanll wrong ; that thore is no justifiontion for this perpotuity of ono form of tho product of labor whick: doos not oxist in any othor. Wo print in this Isatio of Trie TrivuNe tho sdmirablo essny. of M. Bastiot on ¢ Oapital and Intorost,” which wo ospecially commond to those who havo any doubts on this subjost, Tho esssy is written in a plain, homely style, and tho illustrations and proofs aro of & kind that can Do easily undor- stood by any roador.. Itis ospeeinlly applicable {o'tho cironmatances which oxist iu this country to-day. Doprived of all value, savo for immediate con- sumption by the producor,. capital would coaso to bo created, bocauso no longer eapablo of boing ueed, Without coplial, of what avall would Inbor bo oxcopt to produce the food nocossary for copsumplion from dsy to day? Each man would consumo all he prodoced. It intorest bo | donlod to capital, we showld bo denied thoprivi- loge of borrowing 8s woll as of lond- ing. Thero would bo no accumulations for old ngo, and ‘the - stimulus for - saving would be taken awny. It is the iutorost, the ront, the bire, or compensation which o man re- colves from tho uso of tho proporty hoe hss sc- | oumulated that ia tho grent inducomont to Inbor at all, Tho moohanic canuot work withoub tools ; tools aro capitsl ihich ho must eliher borrow or purchase, 1f hie havo to borrow thom from anothor, it is but right that ho should pay tiomothing for thoir uso. If ho purchaso thom. on crodit ho should pay something for the use of tha capital. ‘Tho flluetrations given by Das- tiat of tho eack of corn, and the plano, and tho bouse, will carry conviction to any ressonable mind that capital in any othor form than money is ontitled to compensation for its use. In tho caso whoro capitsl 18 ropresonted by ‘monay, it is objocted that by its nature It cannot foproduco iteolf lilo the corn, nor ssslet labor Iiko tho plane; it counot multiply itsolt; snd that tho romunoration it domands 1s shoor ox- tortion, But when the money ia borrowed to prrchase the corn, the plano, or the kouse, the trananction 18 not substantially changed; and, it tho borrower is thus cnabled to obtain profits which ho could not have made without it, the loan of the monoy has Borved the same purpose that would have been acoomplished had the thing purchased boon loancd diréotly, Interest, or rent, or compensation, or hiro, whothor .of capital, in the form of housos, or tools, or mate- rinls, or eash, {a but tho remuncration which the borrowor makes for the sorvico ho has received from tho lender, which sorvice, in his own esti- mation, waa valuablo to liim—else ho would not have boen a borrower. e —— A NATIONAL BENEFACTOR, In thoso days of dogonoracy, dishonesty, fraud, and corruption, it is refroshing to road the rec- ord of tho life of Johns Hopkiue, who died in Baltimoro Inst weok., In his eiglteenth year (1812), he onterod morcantilo lifo a8 n olerk in tho counting-room of his uncle, and vory quickly mastered the busmness. In 1810, with tho con- gont of his uncle, he formod o partnership with Bonjamin P} Moore for tho purposo of carrying on the wholesalo grocory business, In 1823 the partnership was dissolved, and Mr. Hopking called in to his ald two of hie youngor brothers. The business was rapidly developed,and soon ox- tonded thronghout Maryiand and Virginis. Mr. Hopkins romaiued with the firm twenty-five yours, and thon rotired, o wealthy man. After, his rotiremont, Lo bocamo Prosident of tho Morchants’ Bani of Baltimoro, & position which Lo hold up o the timo of bis doath, Tn 1847, Doing alroady o latge stookholdor in tho Balti- moro & Ohio Raitrond, lho was induced to bo- come n Diroctor, and, in 1855, ho was appointed Chairman of tho Finance Committeo. Thoso oro tho principsl ‘ovents in Mr. ‘Hoplking' busiuess lifo, but, of themselves, thoy conatitute no spocial claims to remembrance, . | oxcopt in tho Gity of Baltimoro, Of that city Do-was tho grontost bonofector, No one labored 80'onrnostly and successfully as Lo to opon now channels of commoroial intorcourso nnd to no- commodate tho growing trado of its merchanta; and, in 1857, whon tho Baltimore & Olno Rail- rond Company wee ombarrassed with monolary difiioulties, he pledged his whole private fortuno for tho support of tho Company, and ro-cstab- lished its credit on afirm footing. As n banlk oflcor, ho wag n closo obgerver of young mor- chants, and always come to thoir assistance whon +they woro worthy of {6, E “The most boantiful featrire of his lifo Is shown in tho fact thab,during his struggle for wealtli, Lo did not forgot the claims of boneflcenco. Yor {ifty yoars Johns Hopking has boon distrib- -uting hls great woalth in chavity, without lot- {ing ono hoend know what the other was doing, Although his name was acarcoly horrd of outside Lis native city, io was constantly ongaged in works of private charity. Duthedid not confine himsolf to privato charitios, o was a large- hoarted mav, cosmopolitan in his {astos and foolingn, and conceived great onterprises in the interosta of humsuity aud education,to which he determinead to devoto the bulk of his fortuno, which, at tho timo of his doath, ‘amounted to over $8,000,000. In his will ho hay sot apart all hia Intorest in the Daltimoro & Ohio Railroad, amounting to $2,600,000, in =adition to 400 mpores of ground, to the ostablish- mont of tho Johns Hopkins University, which will have the largest endowmont of any collogo in tho United Biates, The University -has alrendy boon organized by tho appolntment of Trustoos § and Mr. Hopkina . bas provided for troa nobolarahip for poor and dosorviig atudonts from Maryland and Virglnin, and also-for tho’ ostablishmont of & botanioal -and’'agrionltural | aoliool upon tho grounds. D adaltion to this gront ontorpriso, bo Lins sot naldo proporty to tlio valuo of §3,000,000, and thirtcon’noros of ground, whiok ho purchasod for $225,000, for the cotablishment of & hospital on tho largost and mont improved seale. Durlng his lifo, and untit tho hospital bulldings shonld-bo comploted, ho pinced $100,000 por' aunum ot tho dlsposal of ho Trustoos to carry out his wishon, and from tho rosources of tho -proporty whichi thoy will now redolyo thoy aro privilegod to spproprinte 820,000 por annum -to the ' maiutonanco of tho Colored Orphang’. Home, which will nccommo- doto 800 of that olags, while tho Hospltal will nltimately accommodato 400 patients. Tho total appropriation made by Mr. Hopking for charity out of his fortuno is over, 86,000,000, At tho samo timo, ho hag amply provided for his surviviog rolntivos,~bo himsolf nover hsving boon married, Noman could coveb n prouder rocord, Ho roachod tho allotted age of man, aud dlod without a blomish upon hia namo. Ho eaw a1l s family connoctions rigo to on ‘honorable compotence. Whilo disponsing bloasinga to the poor with Invish hoad for lalf & contury his own fortune steadily grow, aod the broad which hio cast upon tho wators thus'rotirned to him. ‘Ho asalstod morchants, locatod trado, bilt gront Dighways of bransportation, nd eatablished the commerelal importanco of “Baltimoro by his sagneity, prudenco, and far-sooing, caloulations. Avd all this wes ‘dono with such.modesty and privaoy that his nsmo was bat little known outeldo of his nativo city. Finally, ho orowned his noblo bonofactions by establishing a unlvor- sity, Lospitsl, and orphans’ homo, with such splondid endowmonts: that thoy will porpotuate his unostentations charity, tho ‘roctitudo of his. quict ‘lite, and tho silont but'stondy good which Le nocomplished in -bis -busy- life, - Tho good which such mon do liven aféor. thom ; and such a lifo as that of Johne Hopkine, ‘erownod’ with. privato and public blessings, Which wo re nctively bostowod during his litetimo, ‘and abundant in good deods, the rosults of which: will’ live aftor ‘him and koop his namo frosh in momory, shinos’! with & wonderful lustre iri’ thoss corupt days, snd seta o copy which many anothor ‘might f6l-_ low. : ; The New Orleans papors of tho 1dth contain accounts of &, maaquerade ball given the night bofore by tho oyprians of..tho city. - Tho ball commoncod at midnight, or juat on the verge of- Sundsy morning, - Tho Herald, i, spenking of it, says AR SRR T + Tho large hall of -the’ Honsa of Ropresentatives was brilllantly Mghted, | Gov. .Kollogg, whon appliod to, 1 himsclf givon special permission to Liavo the ball tako placo thero, - --It had nover oxhibited a gayer, if Iess Innocent, apectacle, - Thoso who wero chasing tho merry houra with flying feet’mado no protonsions to virtuo; but thoy wero sincoro in, their enjoyment if. open in tholr wickedness, -- i ‘Wo prosume that, in point’ of corruption, the assomblago of . oyprians- was no -worse, perhiaps not eo bad, 8 the politicians who usually mect {horo ; and, thoreforo, tho sotion of thie Kotlogg Government in allowing the oyprians to hold tholr rovel in thio Hall of Roprosentativés doos, not disturb political procodents in that city, nor contaminate thoe locality. King" Bill of tho Bandwich Islands, itis stated by tho Honolulu papers, cannot live but a ehort time. As ho hng no direct heirs, a strife has slioady commenced in rogard to succession to tho Throne. Conspicnous smong tho aspiranta are David Kalakans, o native, and Mra. C. R, Biehop, s Yankeo womsn, who, it is ‘stated, is working g0 vigorously that' sho ~slready Las noaly all the hatives in her favor, and- is likely to give tho Sandwich Tslandor o haxd chase. THE CRIME AND SENTENCE OF BAZAINE. Sinco Marshal Bazaine hns been condemned to denth,-and his -sontonco commuted to twonly yours' seclusion on o small {sland in tho Mediter- rancan, many have have.jasked. thomselves whather tho sontonce of the Court that tried bim is o rightcous one; whother it was dictated by asonsa of justico, or a fooling of wounded national pride; whother Bazaine was o traitor, or only & scapegont. Ttis Dot probablo that the trial ‘brought to light auy evidence which the French public wero not In possession of hortly aftor Bazaino lad capitulated; and, of ovidonce ‘hoaring on his caso, thero lins beon, sinco tho 28th- of Octobor, 1870, n supply fully. 6qual ‘to- the - domand. On that evideneo publio opinion in Frauce had tried sud condemuod him' e : LONG DEFORE . lis Court-Martial had eo mnuch s begun.ita scesfons, Of Bozaine's action, or rather inac- tion, from the dsy on.which ho took ,charge of tho Army of the Rhine, thero woro thousands of witnossos, His Cenorals, Lis officors, his mon, tho inhabitants of Metz, knew ounough .of his course, snd mado onough of it kuown, to onable the French nation to promounce on it, and say whotbor ornob ho _had done all thot ho could tb savo Franco from ‘purt, at losst, of tho disgraco that has fallen upon hor, and from tha’ losa of her most valuable stronghold, Shortly beforo tho sloge of Motz, Bazaino was namod Commander-in-Chiéf. of ‘tho Army of tho Rbine, in placo of - Loboeuf, rosignod. Tho now Commnudor . wag & grent * favorito with both army and poopls, and his appoint- mont was universally halled with dolight. ‘It is probablo that, af tho oponing'of tho war, Da- Zzoine was MORE POPULAR - than eny other Fronch Gonoral, MaghMahon not oxceptod. " 4 K * Ho was famod for his coolness onthe flold of battle,’ for his bravery, and creditod with tho ability’ of conducting military oporations on & largo scalo, These qualitips’ ng”ono called in question, and thoy ara not doviod him ovon how thiat lio is fallen. Ho stands convioted, nob bo- ¢ause’he could not, but because ha“twould not,— at all oventa becduse ‘ho did ‘nat,—endoavor to savo Motz. 'Thoso most intimato with hin, and” who understood him best, nccuse him of LACK OF READY DECISION and rapldity of oxocutionj of a wavering and tomporizing disposition; and it ig said that his lioutonsnts in Moxico nover received on order from him without oxpecting’to havo,_ it counter- manded o short timo aftor, 2 Tlis conduot, from tho day bo took chargo of the Army of tlio Rhine, fully corroborated this opinlon of lus charaotor. Thia vacillation, couplod with o too grest and vary unwiso love for the Traperial fawily, and’adhorenco to Mon- archy, snd o hatred of Ropublieaniem, wore probably tho causo of all his errors, The faols allgo o show that i ? 1IE WAB NO TRAITOR} Dbut that he was wantiog In deolsion; that ho thought of Napoleon first, sud then of Tranco or, fathor, that ho labored under tho illusion that Napoleon was France. o § Tho position aesignod Bazaine by tho Emporor was no casy one, Ono blundor aftor anothor had Loon committed singo the war began, and the German invasion loft bim litfla timo to repair the evil thathadboen dono He was appointed on the 12th of August, 1870, and waa attacked and campelled to fight on tho 14th, Even thus carly his vacillation and Indecislon becamo apparent, The battlo of Borny was fought on the 14th, .The Fronoh maintained their positions, Bub PHE CHICAGO DATLY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER' 28, 1873, Dazaino, who should have marched to join Mac- ‘Afahon, lost & day. For this hois not blamed, Dut thoro wad » furthor dolay, which it is olaimed 1a duo partly to his indecfeion and partly to his misaungemeont, Had he beon quickor to ninko up his mind what ho had botter do, and quiclkor t0 oxcouto what lio Jind' decldod on, ho might havo joined MnoMalion, and provontod, very ponlbly, tho catastropho of Hodan ; for ho had undor his command 170,000 mon. Tlo move- mont of bis troops, howover, was impedod by tho blocking np of tho ronda with army-haggago, —n thing which, undor the command of an ox~ porlencod Gonoral, could liappon only through OULTADLE OAMELUSSNESH. * ‘Wholo columns of tho army waited & wholoday for a0 opportunity to movo. A battory of arifllery mot at 8 o'clock in the morning at a cortain plice was found thoro at 8 o'elook in tho aftornoon, not having moved w'foot, * Tho dolay was 80 unncoessary thnt sua- plolon wae ewalkonad that tho Marshal did nob intond to join Maochahon atall. Cortalu it ls, Lo noted a8 if ko did not kuow which ho should do: join him or fall back on Metz. Al that MacMabon recoived from Bazaino was a mos- ango a8 ambiguous ad an ancient oraclo, inform- ing him, in eubstanco, that Lo might possibly join him, ond that possibly Lo might not. Whothor it was only his native irresolution, or the disposition with whieh ho i credited to walt for somothing to turn up, or that ho aid not wieli to bo hampored by the prosonce of the Em-- poror, or to bo subordinato to'MaoMahon, an oldor officor, if ho joined him, will never bo known. TOT IT 18 KNOWN that ho might havo joinod MaoMahon with 170,000 mon, and that, it ho hod Jjoined him, tho story of Sednn might Lo the roverse of what it i3 and hie would bo suffiiciont to condemn him, at loast, in tho oyes of Franco. ‘This, howover, 18 not tho ground of the acou- sation agalnst bim. It is that ho loat Motz ; that ho copitulated withont having domo nll that Thonor and duty domanded of him; thatho made virtually no defonso nt Motz, snd surrendored it *" ALMOST WITHOUT A STRUGGLE., * The guilt .or innoconce of tho Marshal must turn on the answor to tho inquiry, whother ho oxhoustod his resourcos bofore onpitulating, or mada overy ronsonablo effort to ayold surrendor, | ‘Thirtesn days after tho begiuning of the in- ‘vestmont of Motz,~that is, from tho 1at of Sep- tombor, 1870,—DBazaino consod all actlon. This was vory nearly two months boforo the capitu- Intfon, . Ho managod to support his vast srmy inside tho walls for well-nigh aixty days, and yot ‘novor mudo o Borious attompt to ralso tho siege | Siiroly, such behovior is inexplicablo when it is known that he had noarly, if not moro than, 160,000 men, tho very flowor of tho Fronch army, under his gommand. Any engagements lLiad with the onomy during all this time wore mor ekirmishes, tho numbor of killed varying from one to loss thon fifty. * & v The Prussian forco about Motz was somo 200,- 000 mon. But Bazaine, with 150,000, and tho ad- vantago . of position, with provisions for two months, and tho ‘munitions -of war whioh had beon accumulating within tho walls of Motz bince 1816, was moro than n mateh for the Do slogors. Ho took no advautage, Lowever, of his position, and ) ) AUADE NO BERIOUS ATTEMPT ‘to raiso the sioge. Itis hard to boliavo that e did oll that lonorand duty required of him, ‘when ho turnod over to the enemy five forts, 648 piccos of cannon, the war-material which for fifty- five yeors had boen accumulating nt Motz, the contonta of tho arsonals, and ol his men. . In- atend of two montha of inoction, he might have fought dosporately for s weal. Had ho dono 8, Franco might still be in porsession of Motz. But tho nows of the disastor of Sodan seoms to havo paralyzed his srm. - Napoleon's dofast was to Bazaine the dissolution of the Empire and the annihilation of France. His awn succoss aftor Sedan would havo been tho succoss of the Ropublic. Ho possibly did not dasira to soo tha Ropublis win whon the Empire bad loat. - Ho forgob.that, bowevor dynastios might chango, ho | still owod allegiance to Frauce, Thare is ground even to beélieve that, in the condition of affaira aftor Sodan, hio began to TIUINK USELE FIANCE. It mon bave read him sright, ho considered his army, oftor the Lattles of Woorth and Sodan, the only organizod power inFrance,—nnd it was the only power,—himsel¢ ho know to bo its Com- monder. It is surmised that Quixotic visions mow dancéd boforo his oyes, that, whon ho had surrondered, bo would bo pormitted at lonst to take his army with him, to maintain order in Trance, to ro-cothrono tho Emperor, to protect tho hoir-apparcnt to the Throne, sud the Emprose, his mother, That Bazalne con- gidered himaolf inferior in suthority to no one i France at this timo, is evidont from his con- duct, He would have nothing to o with tho de facto Govornment, and preferred to obtain orders from tho Empross at Londonor the Tmperor at Wilhelmehohe, In cortain nogo- tiations with the Prussians, which fell throngh, ho sigued bis own namo opposite the pho-, tographed authorization of the Princo Imprial, at & timo whon the Emporor himsolf was liviog, ‘Lut the Empire at an end. When bo wanted to know what-was going on outside of Motz, ho inquired of Princo Frodorick Charles, who only {nformed him that Emperor William was mov- ing on Paris, encountering no interruption or apposition, and that tho Republio was unablo to’ rally Franco. Whatovor tho cause of Bazaino's inaction; whether or nat Lo had instructions from Napo- loon to koop his army togotler, at all hazards, in the intereat of tho Empire, or that ho hopod to bo proclaimed Regent Limeolt ; whotover tho explanation of his strango conduot, it is IMPOSBIDLE TO EXCULPATE IIIM. Thero is not oven the palliation that ho eaved tho lives of his soldlors, ‘Their very numbora Drought on diseaso. Small-pox, dysontery, and typhoid dostroyeid more than might have been Jost in ono battl, whict would, it may bo, havo dooided the fato of Metz,—perbapa snved it, If Dazaino's own roport oan bo bo- lleved, of ,tho 160,000 mon Lo surrendered to Gormany only 05,000 were fit for active sor- vioo st the timo of tho surrender. Thou- gands died within tho walla, Thousands pave diod sinco of dlsonsos thon contracted, and which they would not have contractod had their Commandor beon less inuctive. Thoussnds agaln found tholr denth from oxposuro ftor tho éapitulation, whon they foll into hands that cored littlo for thoir lives. Nights spont in tho mud and tho rain, by mon weakoned by tho anxioty and purposeloss Iabor of months, woro moro disastrous In_ tholr effeots than tho shot and sholl from n bundrod guns. Bazaino's conduct, whilo it lost to Franco lor groatost stronghold, did not chont death of a single vietim. It looks as if Bazaino QOT ONLY WIHAT NIE DESERVES when ho'was condomned to denth. o is no ‘mora scopogoat, 1t is probable, hiowover, that ho wag no consolous irnitor. o was condemned for an offense whioh bo kuew to be eapital : for capltulating without doing all ho oould to avold it, It s impousiblo to read the history of tho gloge of Motz, and not say Amen to tho sontence of his Judges. Bortine A Gormnn travolor, writing of England in 1835, contrasted the deafening noise in London atroots with tho stillness of tho City of Dorlin, whare tho, crios of childron at play wore tho most obtrusivo sounds which met the onr. All thls, says tho Pall Mall Qazclle, is now changod; andit Wil goon Do uacessary, according to & Gorman papor, to relleve tho mp(dly-lnerunulufi traflio in tho alreets of Dorlin by undorgrount railways. It is calonintod that in Boviin, o city containing & populstion of 000,000, thore {8 & duily siraulation af po fower than 19,800 horaos cm‘ialoyod in the cenvoyanco of goods, and of 1,200 Tiding-horses, 8,000 droskiop, 186 omni- busos, and 860 tramway omnibuses nnd car- riagen, which provide meaus of locomotion for tho inhabitants of tho onpital und of the 14,000 straugard who daily arrivo at and start from the soven raflway atations iu Borlin, Besidos these, 1,200 carts and 2,200 trucks drawn by dogs pnes dmmgh tho gates of tho oity twice & day. A b i) v abe DY PHOY, WILLIAM MATHEWH, OF TIE UNIVKRSITY OF GIIOAGO. 3 Among the odditios and occontricitios of hu- man naturo thoro sro ‘fow more singulir than {lio dispoaltion which wo ofton sgo ‘in ‘mon who have boon ominently sucoossful In.any calling to concolva thomsolves to havo boon designed by unturo fok ¥ : ' SOMETING QUITE DIFFERENT. "Thoro is hardly o pursult or profeselon in which somo "porsons moy not bo found, who, though highly skilled and distinguished thorein, yob fanoy that thoy could have attainod far higher distinetion had - they followed soma ather wallt in life moro congonial to thoir tastos. Itis aaid that Canove, whonover tho convorsation turnod upon sculpture, would fotoh .o freshly- ‘bodaubed tablot, and oxhibit it with a smile of paternal pride. The witty Douglaa Jorrold wantod to; writo o trentieo on natural philosophiy ; tho Fronoh palntor Glrardot valued Liia wrotchod vorses far more highly than his magnificont picturos; and Dr. Thomas Brown, in thinking of hisown taatelces offusions, doubtlesn ofton oxclaimed, ¢ How ewoot an Ovid in a mot- aphyslcian lost.” David rogrottod having spont hia lito in puinting; it was Qiplomnoy, ho thought, that ho ought to havo studiod, Laving beon intonded by nature to change tho politics of two homispheres. The colobrated-comio nc- tor Liston, who nightly convalsod London with Inughtor by his delineations, and whoso face was ono that s sensitivo sculptor would almost faint to look upon, belleved that tragedy waa his truo vocation, and that nothing prevented him from shining thoroin but hia droll and mirth-provok- ing visage, Anothor London comedian, oqually famous, belioved himeslt fitted to dozzle o8 Romoo, but for tho mccldont of & woak log; ond an Irlsh comedian, whose faco, figure, manner, and ovory motion wero irresiatibly ln- dicrous andl provocative of merriment,—rendor- ing it impossible for him to wink orstir o musclo without convulsing tho gpoctators with Iaughtor, —yot bolloved most firmly that high tragio parts wora his forle, and that, whilo howas tiokling the sides of hin andionce a8 an Irish bog-trottor or sorvant, ho should havebeen oxciting their hato as Shylock, their tears as Werner, or tholr YLorror as-Afacbetl. L = .Even when thoy do not altogother.beliove that. they have missed their truo vocation, men of genius often fancy thomsolves strongest in those dopartmenits of intelloctusl offort 3 WIERE THEY ARE WEAKEST, .~ and waato precions houraupon some art in which thoy aro doomed to lasting medioority. Mon- taigno calls attontion to tho fact that Julius Cmsar i8 ot vast pains to make us undor- stand . his invontions in - bridge-building wnd war-ongines, while -he' I8 vory sucoinet and reserved in sepesking of the rules of his profession and of his military oxploits.” Bir Walter Scott believed himself do- signod by naturo for s soldior, and thet his Iasmenoss spoiled an oxcollent lifo-guardsman. Milton proforred * Paradise Regainod" to any of his other pooms; and Shakspeare, * indiffer- ont ta tho fate of his dramag, belioved that his sonmots would immortalize himselfiand the mystorious **W. H." Byron was proudor of his Hints from Horaco" than of *f Childe Har- 0ld;” and::Compbell, was distressed at the | thought of his tombatona being inscribed to.the momory-of the author of tho *“Tho Ploasures of Hope," when * Gertrude of Wyoming " was his mastorpieco. Goethe used ropestodly to eny: # Ag for what I.have done as's poot,-I tako:no pride in it whatovor, | But that in’ my .contury I- am .tha only .person. aho knows .the truth in the difflcull solence.:of . colors, —of .thet, I eay, I am not'a little proud. Thore .I havo n consclousness of superiorl- tyto many.” Not less naive was the.roply of.. Michael Angelo, who, when ho proposed to forti- 17 his notive city, and was told to stiols. to bis painting and sculpturo, observed that these were hiis rearentions,—what ho really . undératood was architeoturo. F Perhaps no mistake tonching our follow-mon i 13 MOTE COADMON than that of judging of the ordinary feolings and babitual disposition of o writer by tho , tono of Dis productions. Especially is this true of - wita and himorists, who, though able to mako others ‘merry, have thomsolyos ofton beon profoundly melancholy, No doubt thore ia o thrill of ploas- o, rising even to ecatasy, at tho firet flashing & droll idon on the mental horizon ; buttho elabo- ration of it in writing is often to tho last dogree irkeome and palnful. Many a rib-tickling pro- duotion, whioh is 8 source of axquisito enjoymont to tho public, has beon produced in an agony of montal misory, st tho expense of the author's bappiness and of his life. The gayest and most sparlling cssnys are ofton but the result of = tomporarily succossful effort to cscaps from the gloom of mental dopression, or from the pangs of » gangrenod and festored epixit. No others aro g0 keenly alivo to the enjoyment’ of tho lu- dlerons ns thoy whoso ordinary feolings partake deoply of the tragio; they fly to'it as an cacapo from the monotonous gloom snd wearing agony ©of thoir habitual thonghta; thoy oling toit with {favorish fonduess, from’ a melancholy anticipa- tion of tho gloom which will be felt in contrast at tho doparturs of mirth. In such ciroum- stances jokes may be said to be e COINED FROX THE MEART'S BLOOD,— mirth to bo distilled from tears, Who, that Is not familiar with Cowper's blography, would dream of tho oircumstances undor which * Join Gilpin * waa written? Tho poet seéms bubbling ovor with animal spirits; yot, in tho very hour ywhon hio throw off this pioco 80 stooped in fun, he was in & stoto of ‘mental gloom bordering on madness. Thore is, indeed, hardly o verse of Lia which ho did not compose for tho same roa- son that {ho}painted or planed,’ mado rabbit- hutehes or tamed haros, to geb rid of his molan- choly thoughta. *Iwondor,” says tho poot in o lotter to Mr, Nowton, “ that o sportive thought should over Imook at the door of my intellect, and still mora that it should gain' admittance. It is as if Harloquin shiould intrude himeolf Into tho gloomy chamber whoro o corpse s dopogited in slato. . . . But tho mind, long woaried with “the samencsa of ‘s ‘dull,” dreary prospoct, will gladly fix its oyos on anything that moy ‘makon littlo varioly In Its contomplations, though it wore but a kitton playing wWith hor tail.” IT NAY DE DOUBTED whethor Shakspeare, in Lis youth at lonst, lived g0 constantly in tho sunshine as wo aro apt to imagino, ~ Mony of his sonuots broatho tho epirit of hoppless dogpair. Ho lamonts bis lamo: nosa ; doplores tho nocosslty of ** goring his own loughts,” and making himsolf ©a motloy to the viow ;" anticipates a “ cofinod doom ;" aud uttors o profodudly pathetic ory for ! restful death,” s Thore bave beon writors who scomod to possess tho powor to obarm only in_proportion. to tho acutonoss and intoneity of thoir own sufforings ; tho beguty and power of whoso minds wero dis- played only whilo tho work of death was going oh within their disoased frames,—like the dol phin, tho richness and splendor of whose colors with & most tragieal countonanco.” Tho gayost flights of **Don Juan ” originated in the - e (QLOOMIEST AND MOBT DESOLATE houra of tho moibldly-sonsltivo’ Byron, whon, liko his own Manfred, hio ‘‘folt his nout was obb- ing from hirh,” and his body, **1imb by Y, do- stroyed." Burnh confossed, in ono of his lotters, that his doslgn in seoking soctoty was to fly from constltutional melancholy; but they who wora fascinatod by his wit, or ontranced by bin clo- quenco, littlo thonght thot oll his livelinoss, Ikeonness, and onorgy sprang lesa from an anxloty for displny than from a horrorof wolitude. * Even fw'tho hour of sociel mivth,” Lo tolls us, *“ my gayoty is tho madness of an intoxicated criminal . undor tho hands of tho oxcoutionor.” As the nightingalo i said to sing tho most sweotly with tho thorn in its. broast, so tho- most oxquisito songa of poets have often been prompied by tho soutoness of their porsonsl sufforings, As Bholley says, thoy are —cradied Into pooiry by wrong; Thoy learn in sulloring whnt Bi'n, Teackin aong Tho most facotious of oll Obnarles Lamb's lot- tors was writton to Bornard Barton in s fit of THE DEETRST MELANCHOLY. TIn his correspondones ho often alludos to his ox~ quisita “Tlin" nnd ofher ossoys 88 *wrung . from him with slow pain.” “IX wish all tho ink in tho acoan drlad up,” ho says, ** and would lis- ten to the quilla slirivoling up In the candle- flamo like parching martyra.” Blanchard wrote the firat threo, and the bost, of the inimitable “* Caudlo Loctures,” whilo tortured by the gripe of povorty, and when his wifo Iay at tho point of death,—a blow the polgnency of which led Dim to put an ond to his ownlife. Corvantes, Molioro, and neasly all of the most eolobrated - humorists, wero melancholy mon ; and thoir dis~ mal experioncos remind us of the comro actor, who, haying eplit the eldes of tho DPariefons with his fun, seked a plysician to proscrite for his profound mele sancholy, and was told thore was but ono ouro,— to go and soo Carlini. Alas I" was tho reply, “I sm Corlini.” Wo all know the story of Thomna Hood ; how he got his broad ‘by puns ; pnid his butchor and baker by painfully-clabore atod jocositios,—of nll businesses tho moat droary, and tha ono which gives iy TIIE MOST GNASTLY ASPEOT . to human life. In him it was tho thinnest of partitions that divided toars from Isughter ; bis wholo 1ifo was an illustration of the truth that ‘Thore'a not a string attuned to mir! Tiaa not 1ts cliord o¢ molanchioly, i In short, the ‘‘ quips, and cranks, and wanton wilea” of an suthor's writings afford but a doubtful koy to the state of his feelinga ; and it 'would seom na if, in almost’ overy caso, tho da- licious humor which 8o charms us in his pages gushos from him liko tho swoot gum from n wounded treo. THE - RAFFERTY CASE AND THE SUPREME < COURT. : "Lotter from Gen. LN. Stiles, To the Editor of The Ohteao Tribuns: i Bm: Io troating tho lato action of the Supreme Court Judgesasan outrage, are you quitesnre that you have discovered tho trae theory to account Tor tho prosont status of tho Rafforty caso? It 18 tolorably cloar, I think, that public opinion is in-tavor of hanging Rafferty till hofs dend; yot it may bo fairly doubted . whether any consider- nblo number.of the people are as yet in favor of hanging oven him, excopt of- ter sa trial according to tho princie ples, the rules, and forms of law. Whether ornot ho has had such a trial, tho Suprome Court proposes to dotermine at the oarliest prac- ticablo moment ; and, as it is desirablo to doter- mine this quostion first, and hang afterwards, thoy have orderod » suspension of further pro- coodinga in tho menntimo, which Is Iawful, usual, and just. If, in obocienco to popular clamor, or through mistakion zoal, any of tho woll-ostablishe ed principles of law sre dispensed with in Rofforty's cnso ln ordor to beng him, tho Qoor fo- oponed for tho disponsing of thom to save from hunglnisnmn futuro criminal ‘who shall accupy o much higher social or politis cal position than doos Rafferty. 1¥ia idlo o nagamo tan, 1a tho. granting of tho suporsedens, the Judges were ihuonced by any maudlin eympathy for Rafferty. There I8 nothing in the charactor or antecodonts of cither of thom to juatify such s suspicion. Doyou oall to mind the conduct of Judgoe MoAllister whilo prel‘dlngjnovur tho Rocordor's Court in this city ? ong tho hundrods of criminals of all grades who wero convioted in his Court, ona only succooded in gecuring any reliof from tho Bupremo Court. - Ho bolioved in convicting men according to law, and ho mado every lawyor wha racticed in his Court, including tho Stato's At- rnoy, undorstand this. It secms that ho still entortains that beliof, and that two other Judg- o8, ot loast, are disposed to agreo with bim. It theso Judges, knowing the satate of public fooling 08wl s vou and I do, havo, novortheless, unawed, doted up to their highest conyiotions of duty, thoy dsservo a grateful rec- ngnition of it, at loast from such newspapers 28 Tre TRIDUNE. Ihave intimated thet n difforent theory than that of outrageous conduct of Judges would ac- count for the failuro so far to punish Raferty, whose guilt, ns you wall say, ia catablished by “anqueationablo proof.” But Tho ~unlnwful killing of o buman boing, —mot of murder; s the Inw now stands, and has stood for many years. This law was not made by tho Judgos of tho Bupremo Court, but for thom, and for all other porsons, Thoy made no. new law, nor did they , ivo tho old law n now interpretation. In Raftorty's first cnso, they announced s rulo or Princlp o of law which caused no- sstonishment n the mind of anylawyer familine with-tho Jaw of homicido, I will not undertake to answor the various popular objections whioh might bo urged against this position, ns, 4 Whothor Rafferty lnew that the warrani was void,” ato, Thoy havo no legal foundation, Rafforty's offenso undor the Inw ias mansiaugi- ter, and not murder ; and so snid tho Supreme Court in tho opinion to which I have roforred. The truo course for the future action of the Bato's Attornoy wos clearly marked out jfor him in that opivion. Instend of following it like o true lawyer, lio scemed offended at what ho wea disposed to treat as an imputation upon his own want of capacity, and 80 ho apponled ‘from tho Supremo Contt to tho populaco, And, though o majority of tho people just now soom disposed to sustain Lis position, it gives us but sorry assurances of futuro confldence cither In tho protecting o nvungll‘ug “nrm of the Inw whon thus wielded, Tho hanging of Rafforty, with 6 good_doal of talk about ‘*Bridgoport roughs and red-handed ‘murdorers,” may servo to divort atteution from tho numorons acquittals which ata boing aecurod from day to day undorour vary oyes, aud by moans unknown to the law. Ends may thus ‘bo subsorved, but they will not bo thoso of pub- lio justico, ad tho Btato's Attornay, after Rafforty's first {rial, taken his position in accordanco with that of tho Supremo Court. which would hava been & truo aud manly a3 well as o lawful ono, the con- fidouce of the public in'him and his zcal would long boforo this havo mado them contont with knowing that Rafforty was picking stouo for life at Jollof, zattior than looking eagotly for the time whon Lo would bo twisting, struggling, sud gurgling at axopo’s ond in mid afr, Brmes, L N. Perfection in Dross. From the Golden Age. y Ono peouliarity of tho fashionable woman in, Franco is that slo must havo drossos for every- thing. It io hardly o fignro of spooch to sy that aho would not approaoh lor Crontor withoul boe ing attlred commetl faut, It Is o part of hot ro- liglon always to bo purfectly woll dresand. Boma aro oxhibitod only whilo the unhappy fish lies panting on the deok, and the blood awifily coursea §t8 voins amid the throes aud sgonies of doath, It has beon truly romarked of Butlor, tho gatirist of the Puritans, that nothing remaing of his private higtory but tho rocord of his mis~ orios ; and Bwitt, wo aro told, was’ NEVER KNOWN TO SMILE, Tt is well known that tho fantastio doggorel of tho Inttor was composod whilo ho was tho proy of misanthropy and discontent. The last nino yonrs of bis life woro. ‘draggod ont in intoneo montal and bodily suffering, sud Lo died, asho hnd feared and half predicted, **1n a rago, like o poisoned rat in a holo." Gay, the carcloss laugh- orof “Tho Boggar's Opors,” lved a ed life, aud wrote for his own opitaph these ssddost of Tinos: Life {s » jest, aud all things show it ¢ T thought &0 onve, but now I know i, When Goldsmith was composing one of his morrlest comodios, ko was harassod by dobf, and wrote to a friend y ' Hota 1'am, studying joste caplo say that it is tho wholo of her religion, ut wo aro not 50 maliclona s that, And this maniq for perfection fu costumo is just a8 in- tenso amony tho membora of the domi monde a8 iu logitimate circles. A curious atory which o have hoard told of tho motorious Comtesso do M—, and whioh we boliove lins neverappearod in print, is a falr fllustration of this point. Tha I{mnnn whom wo havo mentioned {8 o vory well nown member of that fair, frall, and brilliant splioro known as tho dem1 mondo. 8hels oqual~ Iy colobrated for the homeliucss of hor features and the porfection of her costumo. One fino day hor carriago atopl)\u for a fow moments in ono of the drives of the Dols do Boulogne, was, prosontly surroundod by a oriticlsing orowd suolt a4 only Parls could mustor, and toall of whom, sho was known Dy reputation, Comments wore; 2ree upon her porsonsl np%enranou. ollof which| sho Jguorad with importurbablo s frold, Sud-! denly ono of the crowd exclaimod, loud onough' for all to honr, © Mon Diou| how ugly sle sl *Yes ; but how per!_untl{ well drossed," ox- | olaimod tho Comtesse, without for an instant | loding countonanco, and with that inimitablochis | which {8 inborn, not aequired, and of which tho | true covotte is porfoot mistcosy, | ilty of what ? -