Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 2, 1874, Page 2

w 30 DAILY TKIBONE: FRIDAY, JANUARY 2 1874. WASHINCTON. ome of the Nooks of the Gmpifnl. The Peaf-luto Collége---llydrogriphic o _ fice---Yealilaling Appara- Rise of Sinecure Gifices-—Congression- al Humor. From Qur Own Cerrespendent. WasmIsGTON, Dec. 26, 1873 “¥When ou wonder why our couatry is not gov- erned better, you ghould ;pack your carpet-sack and come on to Washington to sce how much of it there is in the way of government. Ilave been Tere the better part of the time since 1862. and, sliongh doiog nothing else to speak of except runpiog about, inquiring. and pryieg into places, I presume that four-fftis of tueso Bureaus and nooks are yet stracge to me. Some time ago, & medical friond came to take me riding. and we stopped “before & beautiful justituion in the environs, composed of & num- ber of villas, ofiices, and of one great Gothic hall, ornamented witl mosaics in different colors, snd with aline of low arclies of the Venirian style. “What is thiz 2" enid I to the Doctor. This is LATDET'S INSTITUTE FOR DEAF MUTES. They coma here from all parts of the country,— Congress appropristing largely for the institu- tion, and receiving tuition for one mute from each constituency. Amos Eendall originated #ho scheme, upon the discovery that some deaf and dumb children were baing abused by a show- man who brought them to Washiogton. Young Guallaudet is the nephew of the great Gallaudet, of Hartford, the pioncer of the edacation of mutesin America, and tho pupil of the Abbo Sicard. ‘Youog Gallaudet has been shrowd as vroll as enthusiastic ; his mother is a mute ; and, Dy inducing large appropriations, bo has pur- chesed a very large tract of valuablo land right bero from the Brentwood end Kendall Green es- 1ates, worth, probably, $200,000.” Wa went into this building, and, to my great surprise, I found myself, in about five min- utes, delivering a lecture on phonography,— Gallaudet interpreting it with Lis thumbs, and the boys spplanding at the right places. Direct- Jv, ono fine-looking fellow walked up, took the chialk, snd wrote: I am the Washington corre- enondent of & newspaper at Aurora, Iil., and read your letters every week.” Not long ago a newspsper man came to the ity, and asked me to walk through the Capitol with Lim. After a while wecame to & door marhed “YLEATING AND VENTILATING APPARATTS.” Descending a series of_stairs, wo found quite another world in the boweis of tho carth, as Jdificrent from that above as_the bold of a slup, Sith its conl-bunkers, army of firemen, farnaces, boilere, and eugiues, is different fiom the engers' cabina. zut:fol enzines, painted to rosemble marble and stone, were working with noiseless celerity; sreat fans and fiy-wheels were spiupivg 1 ihe Sir; enormous exbausting vessels wore sucking tho impure sir from tho halis above, while <hafts opencd under tho grasa-terraces without admitted cool, fresh air, which was propelled isto tbe Legislative Halla Probaply bLalf a miliion dollars bas been spent for the ventilat- T epperaius slone, under the Lwo wings of the buuainz. My compamion was astonished. “ieeveue! ™ he swd, *it's plain where the moucy goes, in such’ 3 mighty pile as this.” ‘\notuer dav, I was walking in &n unfroquented portion of tha city, when I came to an old ma built prior to the_year 1800 by a great Vir- sia slaveholder, 2ad at oue time.made the scutive Alnusion, after the British burat the White House. 1 hed often paseed this house,—massive, an- tique, assumptions,—and bad noiced a Lit:lo sign over the front porch, Beying: ** HYD2OGRAPHIC OFFICE.” Seid I to my companion : R “-Lot us g0 1n and face these Buresu-crats, and #ee what they are up to.” Within we fouud oversthing polite, disteut, and inysterious, as they do things in tho Navy. A sense of ave crept over us. Wa felt that we were barbaric intraders, and in one of those gveat public chanties where every negro waiter gcems to 8how some of the divinity which doth liedge s Bing. Wo insisted on going througl tho place. Our audacity wae met with speechless astonishment. We found the Admirsl, or Com- modore, or whatever ho wes, sitting in the top port somewhere, in a Toom per- foctly circular, _and he told us woat it was all gbout. It wasa chart-making estab- lisbmont, presided over by s naval chap, with any quanuity of compass-regulators, iustru- ment-maiers, diaugbtemen, aad printers. They do not map out our harvors, but muke the maps for oceau-sailing, and for foreign ports, and waters, and archipelagoea,—~holding 1t to be bolow the dignity of our Government to Qge tho charts of any other nation; and to such a degiee do they carry {his assumplion that they ill take o foreign chart and have it re-engraved, s0as to ualicusalize it. Iconfess thatIlhave lost gome of the ultra-national prids which will ctand on o point of etiquette like this. If the Enplishmen, or .the Portuguese, have already mapped some part of the ocean, I should uso hiis chary, sud save the tax-payer something. TILE DINOETALITY OF OFFICE-HOLDING. Wkcu any public oflice becomes once estab- iehed, it refuses to coase to exist long after 1its s dope. And henco the Government iy carrying at this day s large number of instita- tiony = hich are of but little practical value, and support & £et of respectablo oicials who' aro never devoid of a plausible argument for their judefinite continuance. It I were ealled upon, 1 could name a number of such coucerns, per- {sctly worthy in themselyes, but quite costly, Seme time ago, au article was published in the Atlantic Monthly, conceived in a provincial spirit, zssailing things in generul here. I found that the writer was a relauve of an official in the Coast-Survey, an inetitution of tho lingering or- der; and the opportunity was a good one to” ex- poee such o glass-house, the pensioners whereof Threw stonss. Irom that day to this, tho Conste Survey peopls o, like the Lovite, 03 tho " oiler eide. - I csli the attention, a secend time, of Con- Fross, to an iusdiation - which was begun in 1511, and has now been nearly sixty years sur- Sesing the comst of the United States, which bas housed itself in 3 fino new building, of which a large part is composed of Litchens, bed-chambery, drawing-roows, and dormitories, mamtuned without provision of law, for the benetit of various individunls, & COMETH UP LIKE A FLOWER. The history of puolic inetitutiohs is emall, hugiunings, perseveiauce, sudecits, tinally re- spectability, sud at last immortality. ot mauy years 8go. s lobbyist and printer, by iho mame of Wendell, built s large Lrick Louse here, expocting to control the printing of the oficial party-organ, and incidentally to get bind- ing. foidiug, &ud 8o forth, from a Democratic Administration. - Little by little that otice has crept slong, seizing this perquisite and tbat, unul it has become a vast departmeut, with architectural pretousions, crammed with presees, deusely inbabited by men and women, apd fuzlly it has plocked the debates of Cougress out of the time-honored estallish- ment of the Globe, and, in order to have © recson for never surrendering those debates, the Superintendent bovght 87,000 pounds of ixpe, 5o that Lie can eay trinmphastly, ** If sou talio these debates away from me, you will loee 1his type-metal.” Now, the franking' privilego is demanded anew as & mainstay of this print- ing-office; bat the Government, in making the chauge, bas lost control of the sterevts e plates of all the former Congresses, and this vast Priuting-house. which Las no equal in the world, Tontrcls the Typographical Association of the Capitol, where the rates of composition are }igher thuu elsewhere in the country: and it woald bo possitle for this printing-ofiice to moke the publication of an opposition journal impossible st tho most vital pot where tho Government ehould be challenged. - There is 8 aily need hore of a trong, critical nowspaper ; for Congressmen aro mast controlled by a jour- a1 abich geuerally circulates right wheio they make thelawa. . I ncud gono further with this gubject, al- tLough 1 might gboy you how modesily public constructions were begun, and bow at last 1 vast ofice Las coms into existence, filled with draugbtsmen apd —sschitects, which 18 at this time Luilding moro than thirty ciroctures, eome of which cost as-much as £9,000,0(0, and haif-a-dozen will cost, when Radid - te getlior, $30,000,000, whicks equal to twomenilis', or one-sixth of (ho annual expences cf all the Federal Goyernment. ‘bating' maintai i in the chair of his suecessur. 6 right of tho General Govornment to o turnpike-road from the Cumberland to the Ohip River; but, in tho course ot time, tho indofinite ramifications of the land-graut- railroad system capturo Congress itself and de- bauch whole States, PROTORTION OF CORRUPT MEN. Oneof the best newspaper-correspondents in this country, as well 25 one of ths most modest men in hig profession, H. V. Redfield, of the Cinciunati Commercial, recently wrote as fol- & a6 lase, that there is no conddance to bo placed in Congress when thers is money involved. About half of the members have u price on their hends, and all that is necoseary Lo put through any moasure is to put the money i the xig:ixt place.” T do not kuow that I ever wroto g0 sxecping a charge as this; and yet, who that is acquainted ith tho facts can gainsay it ? A man of a sincere, pure, and agoressive character in Congress is slways unpopuiag, and, if Le pays more heed to public opinion than to Congreasional opinion, ho is always called » demagogue, or a suesk. or a hypocrite, When Judge Hoar was Attorney-General, he was fairly hounded ont, and then repulsed from the Su- preme Bench. to which the President bad nomi- Dated him, on account of his Puritan integrity :m? impatienca with peculators and party enmi- nalfs. OEY. BUTLER, whom I think, considering lus influence, to bo the worst man in publio life, opeuly addrosses Congresswen, biddiny; them to * stand together ™ against both tho press and the public. The Gread of this man is such that, some time ago, the officers of the Soldiers’ Home Lastened to buy s large piece of land adjecent to their grounds, which are virtually a city park, in order %o koep Butler from getting a bill through Con- gress compelling them to give their lazge fund to the volunteer arylums, of which Le and the politicians had coatroL. i Thie rund was entirely madeup of donations taken from the common soldiers of the regular army, who sacrificod a fow cents of their monti- Iy pay in order to be ‘iusured a comfortable re- treat in old age. To save the money from such confiscation s might ~lhappea to it, the Governor of the Soilirs' Home paid nearly $300.000 for a piece of gronnd not requi- site to his mstitution. It will be a fino orna- ment, however, 1o this city. Tho most remarkuble fact shout these swin- dliug schemas is, that they are uniformiy abet- tod by the very politicians who aro most diligent to widon the field of human Lborty. It is ex- traordinary that Butler, tho sutbor of the salary- g1ob, the defender of Ames and the Credit Mo- bilier cualprits, the sdvocats of greeaback yepudintion and o hundred other fantastic Iallacies, ehouid be the peculiar champioa of the Cuvil Rights bill. Bat thus human pature goes. 1t costs nothing to bave liberal principles, and it sots off with & certain blazoury the morsl darkness of one's material career. BEFLLCTION. : Wo cannot have agaiu the governmental sim- plicity of old times, and it is no: necessary that wo shonld. The inatitutions of government expand and become extrvagant relatively with tho people. But the tersor of our period i3, ihat corruption and cxtravagance exist together, abetting each other, nutil at last we linve such monstrous declarations 8 that of John A. Kas- £on, that Conzress would vore itself inforior to the Cabivet, Lxecutive, and Judges, by raising their salaries Ligher than its owu. " A gentloman who loug boarded at the most ex- travagant and foppish 1on of Washington, one day took his guarturly bill to the lanaiord, snd waid ¢ *¢ I was absent ne“lf the whole of ¢wo months from your house, but { do not wish you to make avy doduetion for that. I do think the circum- stance, however, should have bad enougl weizht with you to maite you omit the charge of 51 ex- trs every time you sout & cup of tea or coffeo 10 my room.” The landlord answered, in an insolent way : “ Judge, when I was 8 boy, I was vers good at addition and maultiplication, bus I never learned how to subtract.” That is the way with Congress, which has boen voting money silco 1951 with such profusion thatit does ot know how to rospond when the Secretary of the Treasury asks it to cut down the estimates. It cannot even b salarics of members dishonorably augmented. CONGRESSIONAL HUMOR. Tho aggregato humor in the history of the Aworican Congress, although no vers great pro~ portion, is prohably as notable as any legislative humor in modern nations. It is & good sign When {here is some fun going on ; for you heer Mtle sbout jokes 1 the passionate and {ragic careers of uations, s when the Girondins vanqueted togethar and tbe Jacchbins sent them to the scaffold, sud when Jacobius in turn were subjected to the same trestment, without a Jok on the part of the majority, Probably the old iish Parlament, with all ‘its corruptions, afforded &8 much badinage and bauter 88 any Jegislative sssembly equally willing to sell_its own existence. Tho American Congress is just now in the trapsition stage between the border of gro- tesquerie of men Lke David Crockett, James Mullens, and ono of the present meimbors, Will- iam Crutchtield, and the more retined humor and keen attorney’s eatire of men like Noak Davis, Ben Butler, and * Sunset ” Cox. Som>- times o kindly man, who doos not,suspect his own ignorance, comes amongst us, like Nr. Whaley, of West Virginia, who gravely roso aud objocted to secing Ar. Et Al recciving £0 many appropristions without explanstion. Indeed, ihere 18 nG eort of man more apt to make fun than the moun?ain-Unionists of the South, wlo aro gencrally allowed to stay there by reason of their quaint good-nature.” Old Bourbon dis- tricts of Ohio. Kentncky, and Egypt, oficn pro- duce a good-uatured, worthless sort of Con- gressman, like the lnte William Mungen, who Slways brought his fiddle to Washington with him from the Hoop-Pole Dietrict, aud almosc overy night went out with certain hoon fellows to give ** The Arkaveas Traveler,” with accom- pamiments of anecdote, Proctor Knatt, of Kentucky,who distingnished himself by a speceh on Duluth, was good ab Lmnml—cnricatu:a 2s well, aud one of iy well- inown sketches was mado at bis desk, when, Batler and Schenck, after o Jong quarrel, arosa in Congress and exonerated each o:her. Knatt drew a picture of these redoubtable worthies throwing their arms arouud each other's necks in a close hug, while meautime Batler was lifi~ ing » pack of cards out of Schenck's coatteil-pocicet, and Schenck oxtracting s spoou from DButler's. Knatt's speech on Dulath is said to have beon written in good- Lnmored eatirc by Guthrie, Beck, Breckintidge, and other Kentuckiaus, who bad made unprofit- able investments in Sugerior City, tho rival of Duluth, Just bafore making the specch, tho Kentuckiavs, to whom thiswas asora tople, had the orator put the juko uponthe place acrosy the way. Wiilard Saulsbury sod James JMcDougall wero often very amusing men by the ineoler- euce or unespected Incidity of their romarks. Soulsbury almost equaled that great dring joke of * Artemus Ward,” where Le lefs o largo for- tune; which had po existence, to friends in Eu- rope and America, and set_them hunting for it. Saulsbury forgot when his term in the Serate had expired, a¢ noon on the 4th of March, and, Tetaining his seat, procezded to make a speech Ano:her Senator rose to a point of order. ~*What is your point of order?" said Sauls- bary. “The gentloman is mot a member of tha Senate.” Sanlsbury sat down with a twinkle in hie eyo, and, turning round, said to Garrett Davis : +1 hiad torgotten all about it. I was going to give Chaudler h—roI " Gari, S S S — A REPENTANT KLEPTOMARNIAC. To the Editor of The Chicano Tribune: Sm: A few, evenings since, some ouo took away froma yard near Asbland avenue some beading and linen-garments, Yesterday morn ing they ware returnod to the owner's door, neatly packed. Doubtless the kleptomaniac, or whatever other term may be applicsble to the case, will enter on the new year with a clean ‘breast and a clear cougcience, Surely, such an acc ought to be recorded, that others under similar circamstances may ** Go and do like- wise.” The owner dosires to return his thanks ; and, if the person that took the property will send bim liz name :2d address, he will in re- turn be rewarded with a New Year's present. A CONSTANT SUSCRIDER, Cmcace, Dz, 31, 1874, o e A Eoston Linc of Ocean-Steamers. Firout the Boaton tilube. Sir Hugh Allan, upon ius condition that the Portlsud & Ogdensburg Road ehall becompleted, and & new route thus opened between Doston a:d Montrea!, has promised to eatabhish & per- manent line of steamships betwaen this port and iverpool. The new line would be vis the East- ern Railroad to North Conway, nd toe excellent terminal facilities possessed by thot road in East Boston will afford every convemence for the transhipment of goods fo Canada and the West. sir Bugh Allan thinks, evidently, that sucha line of steamers could not fail to bo well supporied, with 1 new route open to Montreal, and ibe Hoosac Tunnel route to the West ready for In Monroe's Administration, Copgress was gos | travel, 2 T1e people might us well understand, first | with the j COLORADO. The Las Animas Land.Grab. ln'dignn'fion and Excitement “of the Settlers, Close of Mining-Operations for the Winter. N Spectal Corvespondence of The Chicado Tribune. Caxox Crr, Col., Dec. 20, 1873, Thero is a sound of wailing and goashing of teeth among the actual settlors of tho new rail- road-town of LAS ANTIAS, . the county-seat of Dent County, and eituated near Fort Lyons, on the south bank of the Ar- kaneas River, 100 miles east of Pueblo. The town, as located, stands upon what is known a8 the Las Avimas grant,—a tractof land containing 4,000,000 acres, and ombracing, in fact, nearly the whole of Southern Colorado. A synopsis of the early history of the grant would occupy.too much epace, and fail to interest the gencral reader. When New Mexico was ceded to the United Stateg, these lands, which Lad previously been donated by the Spanish Government to certain individusls,—much after the same fosh- iou tast King Charles employod -in thoe early sattlement of the Colonies,—passed along with it; but, in the majority of cases, the rights of tho grant-claimants or their heirs bad al- ways been protected by the General Gov- ernment, 2nd these extensive tracts, embracing the most fertile agricultural and stock-grazing lands in the Territory, were never considered open for pre-emption or homestead-entry. The greater, or at leset tho most desirabla, portion of the grant is Leld by what is known as porsons who havo obtained tities from the original grantees or their hoirs. No other kind of settle- ment was allowed, and NONE AUT A DERIVATIVE TITLE, could be obiaincd. For some years past, and in order to avoid the endless litigation which this state of affairs must give riso io, efforts have been made to induco the Gguuml Government either to confirm the grant in controversy to the original claimants, or buy them out entirely, and then throw the whole tract open for public settleinent. Pending these negotiations the Town of Las Animas was located, while a large number of =ettlers squatted on tho richest land2 up and down the river, and quietly waited for developments, or until the business between the heirs nnder derivative claims and the United States Government had been satisfactorily ad- justed. Theza people all suppoted that they Lad 3 good thing, and rightly they were entitled to it. 1t was impossible to get titles to tho fends through tho regular channel of the Land-Ofico. It was equally 1mpossiblo to obtsin & valid title fromthe derivative claimants. Theoply thing to be done was to Wait; and 80 extensive farms and towns wero muried out, and men sottled down with the couviction that they would have the first chance when the market did open. But this fanciful dream of secunty has been rudely Gispelled, and the squatters are now alive to the fact that, while they havo been asleep, other chiaps, locs houcst, to bo sirg, but far sharper, have jumped in aud GOBBLED TIO: SPOILS. TIn other words, they have obtaiued patents for several quarter-sections of land, embracing not anly tiro_ prosent towa-site of Lus Ani- mas, but the richest botlom-lands on both eides of the river; sud tho ein- gular fact is, that all the pateats ate Tssued to non-residents, and the cldest aud most respectaolo intabitant of Bent Counly is unable to cstablish their identity. Wbat sccret influ- once was bronght to bear in Washington to ob- tain these patents remains o profound mysiery ; but it is popularly belioved that the Deaver and Puoblo Land-Oilices are mixod up in the trens- action, aud that the Kaosas Pacitic Railway comes'in for a largo slice. The EXCITEMENT 18 AT FEVER-HEAT, #nd, should one of the authors of tha job pre- sume to set his foot upon the disputed territory, ho wonld soon become o targel for Tevolver- practice. The old settlers of Las Animas, ‘who Laove g0 long romaived in the peaceful occupa- tion of what they regarded as their lsud, will _resist to the lsst extremity. Scores of aMidavits, setting forth all the facts, are now rushing forward to \Washington, while & petition Witis over 400 names attached will bo suomitzed to Congress. This petition, which is signed oy all classes of citizens, sets forth, in suistance, that & large number of patents to lands in Bent County have been wrongfully andillegally isaned to certain and divers persons, to the wjury of a Jarge number of sottlers theroon, and under cir- cumatances indicating CULPABILITY AND ORIMINAL AISCONDTCT, on the part of some oue or more officers of the Government intrusted with the custody and dis- posal of pubtic {ands situate in saidcounty. The petitioners further stato that, instead of obtain- ing eaid lands in & proper_and legol manner, putents for the same wore issued to persons who were not only non-residents, but also utterly un- known in said county. The docament concludes Dy asking that thezo patenta be dociared fraudu- leut and be set aside; that tho Trights of settlers and_other claimanis be protected, 28 though sd patonts Liad nover boen issued ; and that the guilty olficiuls, if any there be, be publicly disclosed. This atter may pot at- tract much attention on the part of the Eastern reader, but the subject is oue of great impor- tance to Soutbern Colorado. It has not come ton hiead yet, aud, like the shecp and cattle war, vou may expect to hear tho thundor of artillery ai any moment. JINTNG-OPERATIONS have sbout shut down for the winter, and the minors are flocking to the valleys and towns, in quest of cleaper board and warmer weatlier, When it is understood that neatly all the richest silver mincs are above timber-line, and that the gnow_in that " Jocalty often falls from 10 to 15 feet deap, it is not herd to imagine rather a low state of affzirs for the thermometer. A few sturdy old veterans, who hava been out here ever ainca Pike's Peak wasa yearling,stick lotheir cabins ; but the majority detest the fumes of whiskoy-punches afar off, aud strike out for the haunis of civilization. ~No matter how much goli-dust or eilver-bullion the miner has upoa 2 tho mince, ho never goes back with sny, Lut is liahle to be indebted o hia landlord, in tho spring, for board. Ho squandors bis sub- etance al tho saloon or faro-table, or wastes it in riotous living. Not one miner in & huudred makes a lucky strike, and not one in a thousaud Leeps his money after Lie geis it. DBut still TIHE LIFE IA8 ATTRACTIONS which cannot be resisted, and the poor devil who Lus labored for months or years without 1nakiag o dollar still keep.d pegging away, in_tie hope taat fortuno will relent at last and ehow im s rake. Ho may endure privationa innu- maorable, bis peison may be clothed in rags, and bis bowels may yearn for food; but the poor miner will mever give up, sud will dety Death himsell for gold. Give & Colorado miner his choice between a vills on the Hudson and a “‘pay-streak” of two inches on tho mounain, and be will choose the laster. THE WEATHER hero continues splendid, and_flies are bumping againet the window-panes with all the vigor of August. Parasols are fashionable on tho street, ana linen-dusters have not boen discarded. In fine, tho climate could not well be improved ; and et 'the_averago_ Coloradoan is not happy, but would like moro fross and less dust. R. ———— THE FARRERS AND THE PLOW-MAKERS. T the Editor of The Chtcano Tribune : Str: You have already said and published a good deal in explanation of our State Railroad law. Dutthe now Sght that is breaking out all over the State, from head to foot, between tho farmers and the plow-makere, suggests to mo a new point, and, by analogy, = remedy for the farmers similar to the blue-mass they took to reliovo their systems of the indigestivle rail- roads. Hore zro the makers of plows and other agri- cultural implements declaring, as they cer- tainly have a right to, that they will not sell to any one except through their regularly-suthor- ized agents. Tuenm up hop balf the Granger Societies in_the Siate, a8 they cor- tainly bhave & rizht to, and resolve that thoy will buy no new reapors, horse-rakes, improved plows, etc., but will use their old * traps ” for enother year er two, unless makers will gell to them at cost and shipment. Both ate right. “ Pay whatI ask for labor and materials, or go without them. ' Sell mo new things for what I think they are worth, or I will use the old ones.” DBut tho Grangers gay these plow-makers are * monopolists.” Why may not the plow-makers say the Grangersaro ** monop- olists too ? 18 not one class 2s much a combi- nation to have ita'own way and bring its patrons to its own terms 28 is the other ? I cannot see that either isa ‘* monoplint.” One hasas clear a right to fix its terms of nule us the otber bas to fix its terma of purchase. It 18 on_both sides simply the assertion of the sound prerogative that * Control belongs to ownership.” ~And yet there is no.difference in principle between” the nssertion of rights by either, ond tho sound, old-fashioned policy of Teaving rallrosd-men’ also to control what they own. 1f ever justics, and con- pistency, aud common _sense are EO unfortunate ag to_be elected members of the Legislature, that body will also see it in this light. But the remedy: The railroads mado their own rates for doing work, and left people to take it at that price or let it alome. ‘The farmers qidp't like it, aud prevailed opon the Legislatare to direct tho Governor, by his appointees, to put such & price upon_railrond-proporty as would Buit the farmers. Of courso, there was no shad- ow of “ monopoly ” or unreasousbleness about that. Now then, again, the plow-makers have wiciedly errayed thomselves againat the farmens by venturing to esy through whom and at what prices they will sell their own masulacturcs. Rho remedy is simplo, and has the graovo of pre- codent to run in ; lot the gntemnr Legisiature tako its chuzk of chalk and go over tho list of farm-tools, from reapers to dung-forks, and ibe freo principle of ** Anti-Monopoly " again SWipe its fect on the tyraut ** Monopoly.” Yours trul 1L M. BEwARD. Cidiaco, Dec, 31, 1675, THE HELEN JEWETT MURDER. Dec. 21,1873, 2 BooxTox, N. To the Editor of The Clucago Tribuncs Sin: Irecently read, in the Newark (N.J.) Journal, en article copied from your paper, en- titled *Tho Helen Jewott Murder—A Sirango Sequel—A. Lawsuit Growing out of the Half- Forgotten Case.” In this article Tue TRIBUSE is made to say: ** Holen Jowett was a beautiful woman of locse morals, and tho supposed mistress of Richard P. Robnson, & young man of & good Cohneeticut’ family, One’ might his bouse was barned down and Helen Jowett's murdered body wes fouod in the ruins. 1t was supposed that the hotso was fired to obliterate all traces of tho deed. Robinson was arrested on suspicion, sud placed on trial for murder. Ee was befriended in his trouble by Jr. Joseph Hoxrie, his em- ployer, a morchant of New York, snd subso- quently a member of Cougress, now depeased. Robinson was acquitted.” Now, £ do nos kuow whence you obtained your information, but this I dokuow, Luat there are many esrors m the above etatomont. I was driviug & howse and cart in New York st the time (1837), aund was in the houso, and in the very room, in which the murder was committed, on the morning of the second day thorcalter. I here- with utate tne facts of the case sd I recollect tuewm. Lickard P. Robinson was a young man, pre- possCsBING 10 BPPLAIANCo, sod Lot WOre thau Yours of wge &b she sime of the muraer. ko bt in modern parlance wowd bo termed a fast youug man, He was living a8 s cloil witis bis iuole, Joseph Livxsie, who at the time was doing a lmge busiuees in_tue diy goods and clotling line, 4t No. 101 Miaiden lauo. * Helen Jewest waa a girl of the town, Laviug her head- quarters st Madamo Roseana , Townsend's, Nos. 16 and 18 (I think) 'Lhomas strect. She W84 young, haudsomo, aud bighly nccowpliehed, In the way of dash and cuspley sae eclpsed everything that appeared on Lroadwsy, being lwiys the * observed of all obuervers.”” Robius o ot acquainted with hor, aud soon obriiiued the favor of her smues. He visited at her Lome, aud often ncoompanied her to places of smusement. e no doubs found her au expen- sive article of attiuction, and Lossibly WAY LAV tapped bis uncle’s till to rawo the ways aud means for her suppott. ; Aud now the scvne changes. Oune night dur- ing the winter of 137, ihio ocoupauid of the owusend wansion were a:oused by the smell of omething burning. Search was made for tue fire. ‘Pho door of the room cecupied by Helen was forced open, aud shere lay the mangled bedy of the poor girl, eu- veloped in Humes, ‘Lhe firo had no extended beyoud the bed-clotlung, and Was soon extn gusaed. Tho whole —Loaseaold wero soon Grawn 1o the scene of the mumuder, and every- thing was in commotion. LRobinson was at ouce suspreted as the murderer ; the police wero summoned to the scens ; aud eoriy uext morn- fog ho was nrcestod av bLis Loarding-house in Dey street. He was goon atter wmdicted for tbo murder, and committed to the Old Briaowell ot the day of trial, "o day of trial Yinally came on. Robinson bad ull the way aloag manifested the utmest in- difference as 1o his fate, Mr. Hoxsio nad em- Dloyed two or three of the most eusnent Inwyers in the city to defend him, and, if I recollect Tightly, the grea: Ogdeo losiman was oue of tuom. The tnal commenced. For the prosecu- tion, the woman Townteud testified that Robin- sonhad been s frequent visitor to hor houso daring the threo mouths previous to the mur- der, end that Miss Jewett wes the at- traction. The girt who Lad charge of the street-door on the evening of the mur- der swore positively that she let Kobinson into the Lousa at 11 ¢'clock that evening. 'L'wo giris who slept i tho room adjoinug iestitled & at Robiuson, or some otber geutlemau, eatosed Aliss Jewett's Toom at about that hour; tnai, about an bour theieatter, they beard loud aud angry talking iu the £s2:6 toom, which consinuzd for some considerabie time, wuen it ceased and all was quiet. A hatchet. smeared with blood, s found 1 the back yard on tue morniag atter tho murder, and a gentleman's neck-seart was Tound hanging on the feuce in tho rear of tho vard. Soit was eelf-evident from the srart tha tho murderer had paesed out through the back Yard, and thence over the fence, sud through a ¥ errow alley leading into Baielay street. Lho batcbet was identified by Xir. Hoxsie's porter as being the one used in bis store, and the scarf Was oworn 1o by some one a3 baing the samo on lio bad seen worn by tho prisoner. Here tho prosccution rested, and the faze of Robinzon gcewed to bo zealed and s duom certaiu. Bue notbing in this worid can_bo counted on as cer- tain, unul it has taken place. \['fio dofense now opencd; but tho prospect before them looked gloomy enongh tu dispel tao last 1ay of Lope. Witress afier wituces was brought upon tho stand, sworn, aud_esamined ; Dt taeir testimony did not amount to mach thai "} was favoravle to tao prisoner. At length » geatleman of tho name of Robert Farlong was brought forward and placed upon the siand. Mr, Futlong was tlo proprietor of o first-class fiouse of eutertainmanc lucated on the coruer of Pine and Nassau streets, and was well kuown to most of the down-town mercnants and their clerks, and thoy all wondered what be could posaibly know about tho case. He swore posi- tively that he was well scquainted ywith Bobinson, aud that he camo to his place at about 11 o'clocit onthe evenivg of tho muider, called for re- freshments, and remained there for over two hours. Mad & thunderbolt descended into tbe court-room, it conld mnot lave cansed a greater sensation among the audience than did this snuouncement. An alibi Lad beeu proven by o gentleman whose character was above reproach, Robinson was acquitted and borne out of the court-room in triwwph by Lis friouda. AMr. Hoxsie failed in business shortly sfter the termination of tais trial, aud was ever after- wards what might be termed a poor mau. e was pever a member of Congress, although he was p candidate on_several occasions, I first saw him during tho Harrison campaign, in 1810, He was the most courtly-looking wan I ever saw in my life, tall and straight ns an Indian, with s semal countenance and & heat a8 white a3 suow. fio was sn cutertaining stump-speaker, sud could siug tho song ecatilled, ** Van, Van, He's 5 Used-up Man,” a8 1o other man could sing it, He died in 1870, at the advanced nge of 75 years, Mr. Furlong's business began to drop off afwer 410 trial ; ke became gloomy aud dejecied ; bu health began to fad bun, snd Le sttempted 1 sea-voyage in the hope of its restoration. Whey the vessel was somo threo days out at ses, b one night jumped overboard, sad wus drowued. Modims Townsend broke up houselicepi soon sfter the murder, aud retired to priviy, alany tashionable ladies of the highest stondyy attended the sale of her effocts, and the turbitre in the room in which Helen was murdeed broaght fabulous prices. Yours truly, L. 8. Lyox, Ex-Cartmm, —_——— — Another African War. From the Pall Mall Gazette, Dec. 15. The Cape mail brings the news of amiher Afiican war, Intelligence had reached Cape Pown a few days before the steamer sailed'tuat adisturbance hizd occurred in Natal in srac- quence of a Cafiro Chief named Langalzetcle refusing to register his firearms. Aftersome delay the carbineers wero_dispatched tointer- cept him, it being eapposod that ho Woud ew- deavor to escape ncross the Drachenberg where the troops were compietely surrounded by tno Caflres, without provisions. In trying & fighs ) their way out three monwere killsd, oneof them being the son of the Colonial Secretary, the Hon. Maj. Erskine. An extm of ino Natsl Colonist publishes the following : *By a telegram from the Colonial Secretary we learn thal there is news from the expedition, Langalibelele's tribe broke throuzh unexpectedly, after o _skirmish, in which tho Colonial Secretary's son SEmmne) and young Potterill and Bond were killed. The troops are in prsuit. 1t is wished that the intelligence should be. koown to. provent undue. alarm.” Threo natives in our eervice, it sppears, were kiiled, and five horses. The carbincors wero re- duced to great Gersita for want of provisions, and had to kill o beast and eat it raw. Iler Majeaty's ship Rattlesnake arrived at Table Buy on the 17th ult., from Sinion’s Bay, to be held in readiness to convey troops to Natal should tueir services be roquircd. The High Commissioner bad medo arrangements for the immedinte de- parturc of a part of the Eighty-sixth Regiment, if necossary, but it was believed that tho lalf- battalion of the Seveoty:fifth Regiment in Natal woull bo sufficient, unless the affair as- wumed greater maguitudo. . It was paid that the Lieutetant-Governor was going to the disturded country, sud thas the colonists ganerally were enthusixstic in support of the Administeation. —_——— ILLINOIS FARMERS' STATE CONVESTICN. Comments of the Press, From the Altan {1l Telegraph (Lepubdlican). It is very sstonishing hat such intelhgent, considerate, and Iaw-abiding men as the great body of the Illinois farmo:s aro should 8o far forget what was duo to themselyes and to the laws by which all of our lives aud property are protected. a8 to re-elect the notorious S. il Smith Secretary of thoir association for another vear, at their recent meoting held ot Docatur. No_ sooner was the act dono than Smilh arose 2ud thanked the body for their support, and re- marked that Le considered it an indorsement of bis Winchesier speech. 1n thai spoech he connseled n- promizcuous hanging of al railrosd men snd monopolists. As no ono objected to this clum, we sappose that his Winchester remarks are approved,—that they aro, in fact, a refloction of the seutiment repre- sented at Docatur. Yet we know that the groat mass of the ngriculturiats of tlis State respect the laws, and would shriuk with horror from the carrying ozt in practice of such dangerous and incendiary langaago as that used by Smith in bis Winchester speech; yet, if they permit themselves to beled by political dcmagogues aud unscrupulous politicians into au_indorse- ment of snch sentiments, they must not be sur- Emndif they are denouncod and held respousi- lo for the inevitable results of such demoraliz- ing aud dangerous utteraces as thoso proclum- cd by Sith, From the Ottawa (T11.) Free-Trader (Independent). "Plia resolutiony finally adopted attest the ag- grepate sound, solid good zeuso of the body. They aford indeod & marvelous proof of practical intelligence of our people, aud tho readivess with which, out of seemingly chsotic confusion, they cau eliminato the truo and valu- able. Nover was o new party in tho first stages of its formation 6o utterly at loose ends as this Anti-Monopoly P, Tho mass of them felt and knew that thers was a great wrong some- woere; that from gome cause monopoly bad got tbe upper hasd of ihem znd was cating ount their substance; that Dboth the political parties in some way were lesgued in with the bloodsucking monopolista and corruptionists, and yet whete to strike, and liow to compass tho overthrow or amelioration of thess evils, was 8 problem few dared to tackle. Yet, after less than a vear's desultor discucsion, during which hundreds of the most visionary and sensclesa sciemes and projects have bean presonted, discussed, and cast ssido, & body of nien unskilled in debatu or the arts of parliamentary menipulation, quietly meet and, With sover, dignificd deliberation, pro- ceed to construct s platform which is both o model for ity general eound- ness of pruciplo aad the térseness sud admirable cogency of its language. While it is such an one as nither of the political parties wll be inclined to adops far themselves, ic is vet ono in_ which they wili find few poidts to sssail. . . . . Esccpt 3 squint in fa- vor of some monsensical _ cucrency ex- pansion schemo in the ninth resolution {hich must Layo been so_adroitly emuggled in 43 Dot to have been perceived), the platform s thoroughly sound, sensible, and reformatory. In ehort, the convention has struck ouc in the truo direction, and, if tho road iz followed wich diligent determination, it csnnob fail to lead to 110 goal all so earnestly dosiro to reach in reliof from tho oppressions of monopoly. From the Petersburg (Ill) Republican (Republican). Tho Farmers' Aescctation, in cutung louso from old party-ties, havo taken o step that msy lead to tho formation of a new national party. We ore not prepared to say now that there i3 no pecessity for a new party. 1ho Republican party has done the country noble service, and Will 6o much more; but whether it will purgo itself of the vers many bad men mnow fastened on to it and bringing it into contempt, is o question. Op_ the meeting of Congress there Wns a chance for the party to do something to reliove itself from the actions brought on by its eaders in that body, but so far the whole time Las been taken up in haggliog over the matter, and trying to evadoit. 1t will not satis(y the botter seatiment of the party by charging tho Democrats wich a part of tho re- epousioility. The Itepublicans havo & majority, and could have defeated the steal in_tue first place, and could repeal the act now if they so Svished ; but it seems they 8ro 100 cOTrupt to do saything of the kiud, _Hence the party saffers, at it justly should. The farmers. 88 we havo said from tae beginning of this movemant, have Just causo for complaint, and the sarest way for them to get relief is to unite and demaud the election 1o ofice of nono but thee who will looi after their ivicrests. From the Centealia (T11) Deméerat (Tndependent). o bare seidumn Lad the pleasure of oLserving and participating in 50 complimentary and rickly desorved a result ns was the unammous re-clec- tion of W. 0. ¥lagg snd $. AL Smith, Exgrs., to the oftices of President and Secrotary of the §iate Farmers’ Association, at the anuual meet- ihg last woolr. Mr. Smith especially has, daring t1 past year, been decried. lied about, and per- secuted by tlio opponents of the Farmens' ove- ment all throuzk the land, and for no other rea- oo under the beavens than that ho was an hon- cst, thorough-going. and sctive worker in {ho canss of reform among his brother farmers. Tnspired with o zesl that kuows no abatement il the objects sought bhave been reslized, {hess two worthy and talented adyocatesof an ulmost holy causo have mightily nided in putting inco oficea of bhonor and emoument hundreds of their co-workers 1n tnis State. And it is re- freshing to know that scarcely oue of these hun- dredaastended the Decatur meeting to Bupport their se-election. It was the spontsncous con- viction of the delegates, expressed in the happy Well done, thou tood and faithful servanis; enteryo into tho joy of tire farmers’ honsenold. From the Watseks (TiL) Times (Independent). This action makes the leaders of the old polit- icalparties stand aghast. The hope that the Tamers' Movement ** would goon biow over,” aud the cectaiuty that they are hereafter to be Tefarped to the quiet of privato life, fills them with trombling and indignation ; and their curses aqinst the - potato-bugs” and *lung-eared Jeeknsses,” us thoy were wont to term tho farm- 2o, are deop, if not loud. Tha event is 1n itself aheroic one, and in keeping with thu determiua- tion of tho men who are rexolved to bring about adifferent state of things in the management of tho affairs of the nation. . . . . Honest men ve now abaodoued all hopa for reform by tithier tho Republican or Democratic party. The correption, the fraud, the peculation, the rings, the Credit-Mobilier, the ralary-steal, alarmed ¢.ory ouo, end tho éry for reform was asked of the party in power. The auswer came from vy either defeating or hagzling over the repeal of the salary bill, and the piaciug of Credtt-Mobilier representatives or saliry-robbers at tho nead of the committces, thus insulting the demands from sn outraged people,—the Democrats and Ropublicaas vying with ono another in the dis- play of their indifferenco to even honest de- cency, by upholding and voting for the ackaowl- edzed rascals of their own patties. Surely the timno has come {or a new pariy. From the Sprinajield ([il.) Journal (Republican). "Tise Journal is not disposed to witihold com- mendation of much of tho utterauce of the Decatar Convention, as contained in the plat- form thero adopted. Indecd, tho main planks of tke platform are of good lumber, and have proved serviceablo, in loug use by the Re- publican_party. Few of tae resolutions adopted by the Farmers embody views that havo not been previously expressed by other parties, and most of them put into_successful operaion by tho Republican party. But the mere professidns of & new party bave rightly come to be regarded as of much less farco than thoso of & party baviog the ability and desiro to make its promises _goo: kg te b State Farmers’' Association seems to have entared the political field, and relics upon legis- laticn and political action generally. It bases its claims on public support upon ita platform, ang ita professions remsin to be tested. If the farmers thus _actively enter tho political field. their party, like others, will be judged by its Repoblican party, _carry out its pro ises, or, like th party, become a popular by-word for profvssion retbor thau ~ practice. Corsideriog the utter- ances of the Di Convention as those of a party, though it t apparc::t whether the farmers at all generaliy accept the new depal ure ; they furnish a theme for conment and caiti- cism. The platform ecems to us to lack tan; bility. Just as good resolutions as those adopted at Decatur havo been seeu era this, and the men who framed them treated them a3 scaifolds to build their political fortunes, and when they reached office ooolly ignored them. It rematus tobo scen whether tue **new departure " mou, if they enter the ficld as a political party, ‘will do likewize. By their acts wili they be jucged. From the Chester (IlL) Valley Clarion. Had a liberal spinit prevailed as the Decatur Convencion, there was the grandest opportunity beforo thetn of oigamzing a succeseful party ever presented in this country; s party upon whiclt all classes of the peoplo, irrespeciive of past_political pradilections, classes, or_croeds conld minss their forces for victorv over ths sal- ar-grabbers and other robbers of the nation; & party whose representatives would go forth with capecial instructions to right the wrongs of the food-producer, the artisan, snd tho luborer. Wo regrot, however, to slate that this was not done ; and, like all movements wherein the moving power 15 actuated by seltieh purposes only, this Farmers’ Movement will be obliged to give place 10 & party of tho peoplo forall the people; for the welfare of the naticn, farmers included. From the Danville (11t.) Commercial (Republican). ‘I'ie Granges, by their cobsiituiou, are pre- cluded from taking port as an orgauization in polizics; the Association of Farmers' Clubs 1s ruo almost, if not entirely, in the interest of politiciaus of the various creods who bavo left thair party for che party’s good. Cousequoutly, quito & contrast will be noticed between the two seta of resolutions. The platform of tho Grangers we can indorse unquahidedly; tho res- olutions of the Association a:e such 53 we can comirend heartily, with the exccption of tue second in yumber, which condemus aad de- nouuces the old politicsl paitics 28 un- worthy the coufidence sud respect of the people, and declares that *‘we are absolyed from all allegiance with them, and sbould act with them no longer.” This, of coucse, meany & mew party. Aud upon what basis do the farmers propose to form s mew party? What distioctive principles do they give asterance to whica either of the old parties are not willing to accord, aud which the farmers shemaelves are not able, if they soe fit, to forco into the platformof eithor party iu any couasy or Siate wost of the Alleghenies orsout of Aason snd Dixon's line 2 Upon this platform tho Decatur Convention proposes to organize a new party—n _new party bused mpon uo uew principles, without a mew ides, and which follows after and copies the re- forms which have already been inaug- | urated by the Ropublican paity. The Gran gers, on the oiber haund, like wise mon, sieer clear of all political action, and in their courso will re- ceive the hearty support of the newspaper-prees without regard to political predilections. It the farmors want to make their impress upon the legmlation of the dar, they need not leave the patty which, ou_national questions, meets with thicir viows, but in thoir owh party caucuses aud conventions come out1n full force and zee that men after their own heart are nom.uated for of- nee. They have the numbera to exercieo a con- crolling iunuence upon all nominatirg conven- tions, und all they need to do is to excrcise the power they possess. They nced only blame xficmselves if demagogues get the upper band of them. From the Genesen (I:L) Repubifc (Erpublican), Sore-headed puliticians—men wio have tried their fortunesin the old parties and faied 1 both—are conspiciious in the Aszociation ; wlile that clags of people, if admitted at all, aro_kept well under in the Gianges. 7The political hacis bad o good deal to say in the Decatur meeting. Mauy of them think they sce daylight—that is, a way to oftice—throngh the Farmers* Movement, =nd they improve overy opportunity to make hay whilo the sun shines. ~ Geatlemen of tis etripe had things preity much their own way af tho meeting under consideration, ‘The Con- vention did mnot orgenize & new politi- cal party, es omuny espected snd noped it would do, but it was resolved that the Association cut looze from both the old partics, and, as we naderstand it, until farther uotics, carcy on o sort of guerrilla warfare. Tuis is to be prosecuted under the direction of a com- mittee of thirty, which is to meet in the mouta of Mayof each year todecide on the political yrogrammme for the ensuug summer and fall, in othier words, to lay out work for the masses of the dpeople, and to instruct them Low to vote. Under this arrangement the masses will have an casy tume of it. Tue politicisns perform the Iabor. Ahey lay the plans, do the headwork, manago the business, leaving mothing to Lo done by tho people but to vote us the Commit- tce dictate. The idea is a novel one, and perhaps it will work. How the masses them- selves will like the pian remains to be geen. Tho Asscciation is to be composed of farmers. In the discussion of the provis- ions of the Constitution i1t was given out by some of the more maguanimous of thoe leading lights that these other industrial classes could voto with the farmers on eiection if they-chose to do §0. 'This is & concession on the part of the As- sociation that will bo duly appreciatod, we have no doubt. From the Toulon (11l.) New Era (Iniepenient). The Farmers' Couvention took & lovg stop forward in boldly and strongly declanng tho Tecent bistory of both political parties of such & natura as to render them no louger wortby the eupport of bonest, respectablo men. It vir- tually declares in favor of taking political action 88 & State organization, and sppointed a com- mittee to take charge of this part of the business. “L'heir platform moy be regarded a8 the avowad principles of the new party that is now certsia to take the place of the uld Democratic organiza- tion, just a8 the Republican party succesded the old Whig. From the Princeton (IIi.) Lribune (Independenth, 1t was the duiy of this Cenvention of farmers to moro clearly deiiue sheir position, 10 moro clearly dofino the hines cf demarcation, and to mup out the position occupied by the Anti-Mo- noyoly forces. It was also the tluty of this Con- vention to concentrate and solidify the various elements, which, althongh composed of thesame constituert parts, sad diawn or drivea by the same impulse in the sama geweral direction, bad no as yet combined into = harmonious whole. It was the duty of this Convention to draw up aud present to e world a delaration of Anti- Monopoly priaciples. and to put forth a plattorm unequivoesl in its expressions, broad aud liversl in its ideas, requiriug_from its supporters an uprescrved and unhesitating comphance with the roquirements of bonesty, end enuaciatiog os tho bases of all law equal and exact justice for all. special privileges 1o nono. Tiis they have done in tho most able rud satisfactory mauner. From the Freeyort (1L} Lulletin (Independent). The farmaers, 1o couvention last week at De- catur, atruck the rght chord when they resolved that at the ballot-box was the only place to se- cure s roform of tho evils and wrongs that are oppressing tho industry of this nation, Ttis well to organize Farmers' Clubs, Farmens' Asso- ciations, Grauges, etc., but repeated and stated ‘meatings will ot do much other thua to pesfect the organization aud secure unity of action, and that accion can only be exorted at tho ballot-box it it would avail anything. 1f the farmers Would eradicato the corruption that now per- meates overy depar.ment of the Civil Servico of this nation, the ax must be laid at the rout of the evil. Let the poople organize their Congressional and Legislative Comimittces, and theu tarough them organize for the contest noxt fall, and beforo tis ides of next November thoy will have full and complete control of the law- mnking power of both State and Nation. Let the work be organized now. From the Carlyle (Iil) Onion Banner (Independenn. Thie resolutions adoptedas the platform of the new party do not contain cne solitary extrava- gant demand, but are moderate in tone, yet lirsa. They are couched 1n uim;}la Iaaguage, sad are bnef and to the point. ho organization Las formally cut loose from Democracy and Repub- licanism, a8 exemplified 10 high places just now, snd declared it wil havo no fatare alliance with either of them; their apologists were received with as little faver, in the Convention, as. their candidates will be received at the polls in fature elections, by the great body of voters whom the Convention represented. From the Decatur (Iil.) Maonet (Independent), We question whethec therc has been a body of men in gession in this ccantry for mauy yesrs, who have given to the world a platform that Las in 1t 8o hittle equivocation, and so much of what really is the popular will, as is to be found in tho resolutions presented to this Convention by its Committee, and adopted with but elight modifications. They bave the true ring. There is no attempt to deceive, or carry wator on both shoulders, for the eake of effect. They go k- foro tho world as the fearless, outspokien senfi- ments of & body of reformers, and whether - dorsed or not by tho people, they must hate recogaition for candor. : From the Earlrille (11i.) Transcript (Tndepeadent), Tho Conveution at Decatur, which represontid betwoen 800 and 900 farmer’s clubs in Ihinck, deeds, not by its promizes. It may, liko the i was the ablest and most important Conventon of producers, probably., ever Leld in tha Staten, Tt was characierized tusonahost as o Liberations by wisiom und moderation ; at tha eame time it was radical aad bold in grappling with the questions which the preseat condition and needs of the farmere of tho West, have brought before the pulic mind. . , . . Thé declaration that “* W will act no lenger with tha o1 political parties” is emphatic and unequivce cal, and means business. The dass of thy Bo- publican party are nambered. NECROLOGICAL. The Dead of 1573. . From the Cincinnat: Gazette, L Tho curlrcn: }'cnr(k; LOW €0 near its closo that © properly may catalogue the names of its moss distiuguished dead. Bach enumerations are veiy linble to b defoctive. while it is not always 215 to draw the line between those whose repu~ tation i3 of public interest and those who, no less morally and intellectually deserving perbaps shonid be left to be remembesed and sorrowed for Ly friceds and relatives alone. We prosent the-followicg list, therefore, without claiming for it any great completencss, expecting ouly that it may offord some sppropriate idea of tha 0 ravages of the desi = F’w‘ A the destroyer among . InJanuary there died the ex-Emperor of {] Frencl, Napoleon IIL ; Sir Edward Bulwer L)l'l: ton, the novelist; the Rov. Adant Bedgwick, the eminent English geologist; the Dowager Em- nresg Am of- Brazil: tho Hou. and Rev. Dapiiss W. Noel, who siariled the aristoc:atic religious circles of Enzland in 1649 by leaving tho” Established for tho Baptist Church, aud James Hannay, the English novelist. Among those dying in February wero the Dowagor Empress of Austria Ceroline Augasta, widow of Francis I, who died in 1333; ox-Gov. J.W. Geaiy. of Dennsylvania, Caroline Chese- b;\:‘,uflnue of the ;aleémumm( the female suzhorn o erica, and Gustave Riclurd, th t Fronch artit, d, the eminen! Bishop McIlvaine, Judge I II. Leavitt, Vis- count Assing:on, Speaker of the British_House of Commons ; 'Charles Knight, the English author aud publieher ; tho Marquis Chassclan? Laubat, o distinguished Frencn stalesman ; ‘Amades Thierry, author of the History of the ?n;lfla ;wDumcmdc(i, Dum{"lli, the once” famous tatian tenor. sud Prince Nicholas, brother of ti King of Sweden, died in March, Hepeti The necrology. of April inclades W. O. Ma- creads, tho actor ; Justus Von LicLig, tho world- renowned chemist ; the wifo of President - eras, of Spain; Geurge Bhes, the great railrond operatar, of Springfield. Mass.; aud the English Earl, De la Warr, who committed suicide in cor- soqueuce of an°unfortanate attachmont. May there died W. H. lcGaffey, the oda- cator; tho Eacl of Zotlsnd; Chicf Justico Chage; Oaskes Ames, of Credit Mobilier no- toriety’s Jobn Stuert i, {he economist and radical thiker ; Joel Purker, D.D., a promi- nent Presbyterian clergyman of New Yok the Rev. Jobn Atwood, a Daptist minister of Now Hampsinre, noted for having been throsn overboard, in 1830, by the Democracy of hiy State, after haviog been nomirated by them for Governor—his offenso Was writing an anti- elavery letter ; Daiol Pratt, the pionecr manz- facturer of Alabama ; Thomas ltotineon. Canon of Rochester, & promiuent divine of the In-’ glish Establishment ; Alexander John Couza, Prince of Moldavia and_ex-Hospodar ; and Al- eseandro Manzoni, the Nestor of ltalian anthore, _in June there passed away Count Vennaille, the eminent French naturalist; Monsfield T. Walworth, tho novelist, who was killed by bis own son; Datazzi, one of the leading statesmen of rogenerated Italy ; Prince Adalbert of Prus- sia, famons &8 a naturalist and trayekics2 Yon Ranmer, the German p (Tt ; Hozace F. Clark, the great railroad operdtor; Lewis Tap- pan, memorable in tho nunads of philanthriy Hiram Powors, tho sculptor; Proeident 8. 5k bot, of Deuiton University. Ohio, and Jeeso I Gians, father of tho Presdent of tho United States. : July witnessed the dopastare from earth of G..Wilson, member of Cougress from bt of Samuel Wilberforco, Dishop of Wincheater, who was killed by a fall from uis horse; of the sarcastic Lord Westbury, ex-Chancellor of Greal Dritain; of Baron Wolverton, andof Mrs. Clivo, uthior of that fin novel, * Panl Ferroll," j Tn Angmst fourdistingnished American clergy- men, thres of them quite nged, departed from their eartbly labors; B. S. Storrs, D. D. of Braintree, Mass., and Gardiver Spring, D. D., ot Now York, both of whom had been pastors over, their respective churches more than sixty yenrs; the Rev. Jobn Todd, D. D., of Pittsficld. {Ium, author of The Student's Manusl_and Index Rerum, and Solomon Howard, D. D., ex-Preai~ dent of the Obio Univereity, at Athens. Tn SeptemberCount Charles Lsterbazy com- mitced suicide & Vienna; Gen. Ed. 8. scCook was murdered al Yaukton, Dekota. The wife of Princs Bismack; Dr. Aug. Nelaton, the famous rench surgeon; J. J. Custe, the Frouch patur- alis:; F. Guerrazi, Dictasor of Lome under the Republic of 1843: Prince Croney Chauel, whe cluimed to be the lawfnl King of Hungary; snd Clara Mundt, the novelist, berier known under hiex nom de plums of L. Jiublbecs, also died during this montk. Sir Edwin Ladsecr, the great painter of animals, died on the 21 of October. o waz followed duting e same mouts by Rorert Bigsby, the Eogluh antiquarian ; Silas Totten LL. D., one of the oldest ministers of the Awmerican_Epiecojal _Church ; King John, of ; Sir Heny Ilolland, {he octogenanan phyeicisa and traveler, and Cyruz sield, tho Joston capitalist aud liberal zetor of puble institutions. Le death list ¢ November is vory long. Tt includes Sir Wiiliaa Bovill, Chief Justics c? Engiish Cours of Common Pleas; Lows Gay. lord Ciark, of Knidierbocker [awo ; Jobn Early senior Bishop of tia Methodist Epitcop:al Cly South ; Laura Keeio, the actress who=c pk: President Lincoln ws witnessing on the cvening of bis cssatsinatior; Gen. W..J. Harfce, of tactic and Confederito fame ; H. C. do Bbam, a lezding New York nerchant, aged 803 Mrs. B. E. Leo ; Daoud Pasa, the Turxish etatesman ; Gon. Delafield, of hio National Army; James H. Lucas, the riche: man 1n St Lows; L. L. Dischofisheim, tho Paris banker 3 ex-Senator Jobn P. Halo: Contantine Cossi. the Italn tculptor;_and_es-Srator and Gov. Richard Yates, of Tlliuois. During the presctt month there bavo died Bichop Armitage, oftho Epiacopal Dioceso cf Wisconsin; Ciarles Yealister, oue of the Pea- body Trustrecs, andoxtensiveiy and favorably Lnown in this city adi Philedelphia; James W. Jonston, Equity Juige of Nova Scotia; Am- brose White, the wupgcuarian merchant 2f Philadelphia ; Louis igassiz, who was soon lul- lowed by lus daugblr-ic-law, ko Lad worn liercolf out in minitering by Wi eick bed ; Samuel Nelson, exsustice of the Suprome Court of the Urited itates; John S. Hopkins, the Daltimcre mullionire and pbilanthropist, 2nd Frederick Dent, fahes-in-law of President Graat. A" fow days of the dejarting year still remain, but, though few, tkey tay make fearful gaps in sccial, literary. and pliical circles, avd add somewhat to tho lis: wlich wohavo given above. Those who have compaed the aununl necrolo~ gies of tho last doeade ¢ two will concludo that, whilo the death-roll \f 1973° contains two or threa names of first-ciad importance, it has not, thus far at least, closediho eartily carecrs of a¢ mauy celebrizies as eithé 1532 or 1509, and per-. Liaps of several othes yers witkin the last quar ter of a century. 3 : : Brigham Yonay’s Eavorite Wile. St. Louin Glabe's Inzerevneith Ann Eliza Yours. o large is his Litle hmil{ circlo? e had i .cicen wivesaniil 1 left, aod fortp five chul tron. Tow docs bo suppzt all of them? Weil, the most of therd support themselves DBrigham compels than todo it. For iastance, be only allows enoutlh to each one to purchast the baro pecessarid of Lfe—calico dresees! b z Women in Utal havothe mms prido and smbi- tion abont their persmal appearanse that they have anywhere ecle. If they waat auy thing better, they are compelled to taid in boarders’ or dc sewing OF !umeMfi of that sort. That is the way ke ireats al of them but the fasoye, Amelia Fulsom. She dresses in eilk and saln, eats at tue EsIO table With him, aud does nching all day. Tho rest eat in the Fame diningroom, and taey are com- pelled wll‘oak on. Fulom cando aorthing sus likes with him- - 5 i It would be interestirg to know which of nm: teen wives was able tc capture Brizbaiz, 4B maintain an -c-ndgg,c; over him. How isshe able to mauage him? By her temper ; sho hw nlxuwfn] temper, a0d £he cau scold lnm into mythiag. To she good-iookirg? No, rbe i8 nggb s:’d over 40 years holz.l. Ttey eay 1 am J Yy but that is not the csse. i 2L Well, then, does ber chwms lie in. nusl‘n!cil! lect? No, Iain't jeslousof ber 3 Lit, She i8 the reverie of roficad—indeed, eno is the CAT estand most valzar of all the wives 08 2 Youvg. Her reputation is Lad—tbat i& & Wi bad uatil sue married Brigham. 1 -lon:l Ln‘k& repeat what is said of ner all ovef ‘}5,‘, v.Ls §ito rrlos bim by berstrong will snd bad temper. How does he mansge tae rest of bi8 wives e 11 Jeeps them at & distance, sud oo familisf- ity i8 allowed from them. ‘They dout dn;a B Saeak to him except now and then whon Be extra mood matored. Drigham bas beed & SO0 Geal of o flirt in his dex. 'Thero 18 DO 8CUte T 0 Lis meannees toward his wives, because | cnormously wealtby. 1 H i BEaRS R Dk s i el 3 E, f L NIRRT o SR W .. ¢