Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 2, 1874, Page 5

b 2, THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, JANUAKY H S R RS LIVE STOCK. Busiress of 1873 af the Union Stock- Yards. The Banner Year---Large Increase in Receipis and Shioments, valuo of Receipts, $91,321,162. From the dotailed snd hi_ghly interesting an- pasl report of George T. Williame, Sccretary of the Tnion Stock-Yazds sod Transit Compaay, we compile the followizg .lables, showing the movement of live stock during the year 1873, It wiltbe secen thatin compecison with last year thero 15 an incresse of 77,333 cattle, 1,085,427 hogs, and 144 borscs, and a decreaso of 15,447 sheep. Tho largest ‘monthly receipts of cattle 55 940) were in _June, and of logs (605,771) in Devember. Tho emallest roceipts of cattlo Sero in November (37,712), and of hogs in August 234.145). The averzgo weight of tho hogs reccived ehowed s increase in J:nnary, TFebraary, Juze, and August, and a geerease in the othier months cf the yesr. Tho Lighest average Lbis sear was in April (213 1bs), aoa last year in Jay (223%). Sincothe openiog of the Tnion Stock-Yards, Dec. 3, 1865, tho fotal receipts bave been 3,071,051 cattle, 37,703,013 bogs, and 2,208,108 sheep. To the Chicago, Burlington & Quncy Road Lelongs tho eredit of delivering at the Yards the lergest smount of live stock, viz.: 289,040 cattle, 1,494,333 hogs, 87,203 eheep. Tha largest East~ ward shipmenta were by ibe Lako Shore & Mick~ joan Soutborm, ¥iz.: 173,510 cattle, 1,018,418 hog, and 5,035 sheep. Ar, Williams estimates the value of the year's peceipts as follows : 264,360 1,000 575,000 2,028,502 01,371,163 Following is & comparative statement of the roceipts and Ebipmenis of 1372 and 1873 : Sheep. Horses, 10,211 12,145 201,334 20,289 5144 16,477 Sheep. Horaes. 145,016 10,627 115,235 18,540 Hogs. S350 2197557 261,963 The following tables show tho receipts and shipments by tho different railroads during the r 1873: T st Cattle. Hogs. sheep. Horses. Cieago, L & Pacific. 120,498 84,383 41,443 3,560 iinais Central 5,143 725,845 $9,964 8,238 i, Burl, & Qaincy . 230,010 1,404,343 87,203,550 CilcopokNorthwestern, 83,322 661,207 4,851 4,602 hicago & Alton... 4,022 Fits. & Fort Wayne X ¢h, Ceatral A5l Southe! 5195 61,428 4,337,750 291,734 20,289 GHIPAENTS Pt u ey Fitua, L Chie B I & Pacific. Liinols Central..... Chle,, Burl, & Quincy. . 10,2 icago & Northwestern 8,602 Chiz, Alton & St. Lonis 12,195 . 4 ©., Dadv. & Vincennes, 471 574,181 2,197,657 115,235 18,540 The monthly receipts and shipmentz were as follows: BECEIVED I 1670, Cattle. ~ Hoos, Sheep, Horsex. 520 SGL25 5%l % ity 201,734 Sheen, 158,9: 148577 574,181 ' 115235 18,540 The monthiy averages of tie hogs recoived at :5191 vords during the years 1872 and 1873 were an lows : 1872, 1813, Increase. Decreasc. 233 E3 2867 =1y Stieep. 209,420 180,83 210,573 840,07 25 5,239,186 4,246,800 5,390,912 Grod Tot3,97,951 15,700,013 2,268,103 LOCAL ITEMS. Tho suit against 5. J. Walker by the Cook Count7 Xational Baok, mentioned in yesterday's Tr1suNE, has been withdrawn. Dr. Jolm D. M. Carr was made the recipient - Of 2Leautifully-mounted male skeleton yester- da5,~the gift of several professional fricnds, Atabout 10 o'clock yesterday forenoon, John oo on, u porter at the City Hotel, fell to the tr0a0d from sn open window in the second story of that building, » distacco of about 20 feet, dresking 8 leg. Tho limb was set by Dr. An- 1w, and the patient is doing well. 0Ou account of sudden_ sicknoss, Mre., Amelia fenzg, the nineteenth wife of the Prophet, will S2uable to keep her eugagement to lecturo 3ere 1his weelk. Wilfim! Frederick Poole, Esg., the newly- , thectd Librarian of tho Public Library, left Cin- __—;l‘-'m yesterday ovening on his way to this Tt Rockford Female Seminary remnion will beld at 4 o'clock this afternoon in Parlor 23 rsd Pacitic Hotol, entrance on Jackson streot. L& 'adios wuvite their geuticmen friends to call %20 early hour in the evening. w3 owner is wanted for a quantity of silvor- e, poons, Torks, and Lnives, supposed to be {j2ed, which wer iaken fromn iwo men named gty tod Blackmoro. - They wero arested | taken 1o the ory, Wl i Aspeganto b mory, where the property Amea named Henry iving at ] ry Engel, living at No. 146 H!:lhomevnmuns, Vas aceidentally shiot 30 the s fllr-bou; 12:30 o'clock yesierdsy morning. m-'v']‘)"’l! going home with is wife, and while Imkllu‘&smn sixeet, noar Clybourn avenue, some e 041 person, probably whiio ushering in the IZ Year witls o senseless discharge of firearms, % ome by Vi -. Hei €E001Y e bl icer Weber, and Dr. Hei. Shs Sherif of Kemosha Couaty, Wisconsin, Doy aus, City yestorday and srrestod a man "ohn Farron, fbr bigamy. It seems that " 0 has lived for thie last four yeers in Cieve- B here io has o wife and thros chil- second oSt 8pring he sent to Ireland for his mmn‘ & youog lady aboui 18 years of ‘,f:;“,fl the came to this country, setiling, by nd .8 2drice, ot Kenosha, whera' bo followed Lm“’m‘f‘? her, His wifa recently began to Chrigtrap 008 that sll was not right, snd e laft Claveland tolook for her hus- band. Hearing of her arrival in Ienocha Ifonday, and of the issue of a warrant for us z1zest, he came to this city, but was captured on tho streer yesterduy a0 Sheriff, who left for home last night wich Lis prisoner, About 11 o'clock yesterlay forenoon a horse belonging to Hartman Bros., liquor dealers, ran avay With a light wagon, and, at the corner of Harrison and Halsted streets, the thills struck horse belonging to the Amcrican Express Com- pany aud Lilled hin. Thealarm from Box 303, about 7_o'clock yes- terday evcning, was turned in by Officer Thomn owiug to the breaking out of flames in the two- story frame barn in roar of No. 206 Henry street, owned by Edward McGraw. Dimage about #1505 B0 izsurance. Tho barn adjoining, in rear of No. 20t Henry sircet, owned by Henry Ray- maker, wasdamaged to the amouut of about §23 3 no wsurauce. The firo broke out in tho loft. Cause unkuown. About 8 o'cloci vesterday zfternoon, Dr. Me- Donald was called to nttend & vioman nemed Jennio Manchester, at No. 122 Pacific avenue, Sho was fouud to be dving from tha effocts of poison which sho Lad taken somo time previoue. It was too late to save her, and gho died about 4 o'clock. She wa3 & prostitute, about 24 years of ege, from Verons, Y., and her real name was Fogotty. She had ently made her pronarations for suicido with great deliberation, She had drawn ber money, about $60, from tho bank, and left two notes staling hier intention of committing suicide, and asking to be buried in her best dress, with her bracelets ou, One note was to her Iandlady, aud tbe other to her lover. The Iatter had tuken her to the Firmen’s bay, Tuerday evening, but had neglected her for another girl, and sho could not stand the _desertion. Tho poison taken was eicher landenum or morphine. The Coronor way notified to bold an inquest g NEW POINT. Doecs “hie Statute of Limitations Re- lieve Mr. Gaze trom Liability to Criminal Prosccution? For the last tvo or three days & rumor has been circulatiug around town that Mr. Gage's dofeleation, in its criminal aspects, was barred by the statute of limitations, A reporter of Tre TrmoxE was detailed to trace this ramor to some respousible source, and. after diligent in- quiry, he ascertained that it had its origin in the following section of the Statutes of Illinois : DIVISION XVI—LIMITATIONS OF INDICIMENTS AND PENAL ACTIONS, No rerson or persons shall be prosecutod, tried, or punished for any offenso denominated by the common Iz felony (trenson, murder, arson, and forgers cx- cepted), uniess the indictment for the same shell be found by a grand jary within three years next after the offense shall huve been done or Committed. Nor all cby person be prosecuted, tried, or punished for any misdemeanor, or othier indictable offense Lelow tho grade of felony, or for any fie or forfeiture un- der uny penal statute, unless tho indictment, {nforma- tion, or action for the sume ahall e found or justi- tuted within one year and six months from the time of committing the ofiense or incurring the fine or for- feiture: Prov.ded, Thit nothity herein coutained chall extend to any person tieeing from justice: -And provided aiso,that whereany suit, information, or indictment for soy crime or misdemeanor, is limited by any statuto tobe brought or exhibited Within any other time than ia bereby limited, then the samo shall be brought or exhibited within the time Hmited by such etatate. The point raised bysome of Mr. Gaga's friends is, that the defalcation was actually comuaitted more than eighteen months ago, and that it is not a folony at common law, and that, conse- quently, no indictment can be found. The city charter, however, declares that tho sct of lending, oOr converi- ing to his own uee, any of the city money, shall be deemed an embezzlement of the ambount of money £o loaned or used, and further declaresthat the embezzlemont shall be a felony, and the question in dispute scems to bo whether the charter provision supersedes the common law definition of fejony, 80 as io placs the act of defaleation in the list of offenses iu which pros- ecutions are limited to thres years, instead of those limited to cighteen months. LIABILITY OF CITY AND VILLAAD TREASUREES. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Bm: I noticed in Toe TRIBUNE of the 27th inst. an account of an interview with State’s Attorney Reed by onoe of vour reporters. In this interview Mr. Raed says that David A. Gage, the defanlting City Trossurer, may be proge- cuted under an indictment had before the Grand Jury, for embezzloment, I think not. All the City of Chicago can do in the premises is to sue Mr. Gage and his bondemen, in an action of debt on his bond, for tho recov- ey of the ex-Treasurer’s deficit. This conclu- sion I aurived at soms time azo, whilo interested in a ca8e of & similar character. Chap. 23, Sec. 15, pago 135, Vol. 1, Gross’ Statutcsshas reference only to Stats, county, and township ofticers, and does not, and cannot be construed to, include officers of cities or villages, A city or'village, 8s & body corporate, stands in tho some relation to the State of lilicois that any other corporction does ; and where & corpors- tion, whether municipal, manufacturing, or otlierwise, tokes bond with secusity from its Treasurer, to secure it from loss, to tha bond alone must it Jook for indemuity ; therefore, in my opinion, tho cage is ** The City of Chicago ve. David Gfi'w*z:, et al., in Dcbt,” and not “Tho People of the State of Illinois vs. David A. Gege.” Respectfally, Prc. Nrwau, Douglas Co,, Iil,, Dec. 20, 1873, THE BRICKMAKERS. 'Tho brickroakers of the North Side held s meeting Wedneeday afternoon in the Staats-Zei- tung Building. ‘'There wero prosent Strauss, Habn & Co., Louis Mueller, Louis Rarstens & Co., Frank Ammon. & Co., Gundenmacher & Prauchmann, Chatles & John Lababn, Fritts & Nuesser. Fritz Labahu, Lemke, Schmidt & Zitz- many, Rubl & Heivmann, H. Koeritz, Lemko & Tiller, Christoph Legtmeyer, and Mueller & Meyer. The meeting resolved that they woald call upon sl the contractors to whom they had furnished bricks to close up their accounts with them within thirty dags, aud that they would pub all thoee who did not do this within that time on s black-list, and hand it over {o the archi- tects, aud inform them that the brickmakers would not furnish theso pooplo with any more brick. Au sssociation of brickmakers was_also esiablished, and a place of mecting selected, nt Room 12, No. 193 Washington street, It is be- lieved that the South and West Side brickmalkers will s00n take similar action p—— THE LATE GEN. SWEET. Officers of Internal Revenue, and other friends of the late Gen. B. J. Swecet, Depnty Com- missioner, ate reouested to meet at the Grand Pacific Hotel this evening at 8 o'clock, to make suitable arrangements for tho reception of Lis remasing, which are expected to arrive on Satur- day. R A The Niagara. Among the many sound institutions represented in this city, we would call the attention of our patrons to the “ Ningura” Fire Iusurance Company, of New Tork. From its sdvertisement in snother columan will be noticed that it has twenty-three years' practical cxperience, and poseessed of cash ussets amounting to $1,230,0. The Nisgar sustaine ca enviable reputation tironghout the United States, and is known 48 3 cougervative aud thoroughly reliablo Company. Its record in all thy great fires of the past twenty years, and notably Chicago and Boston, counot be overlooked for liberality and promptness tothe suf- ferera, Iis representative fn this cityis Mr. James B. Flosd, whose ofiice is 2z 168 LeSaile sireet, Bryan Block! A. C. Downs & Co. This Well-xnown house, in retiring from the”dry goods trade (now located at 424 West Madison street), Iinve made still greater reductions, a6 tho_entire stock must be sold out by March 1. Is includes cloaks, euits, shawls,” dresa-goods, flannels, blankets, ems broicerics, trimmings, hosiery, gloves, underwear, Urders cre taken daily to manufacts e3,at ,the 10w prices offered,and perfect-Biting garments ure guatan- foed fn oll casen. Velvet cloaks a spacialty, and ma~ terizl brought i 0 make up, or cutting and fitiag, dono promytly. e Change in the French Church Service. The Pall Mall Gazelle notices that the Arch- bichop of Peris has ordered a reform in the Chureh service which is not withont its political significance. Ever since the vear 1753 the Gal- lica liturgy has been in foree in the capital and msny other parts of Frauce, but Moasiguor Guibert has directed that it shall be replaced by tho Romen liturgy. According to M. Edmond About, the formes was much more snited io the spirit of the age and to the country, 2 doable merit which bas led to its condemuztion’by maoy Ultramontane - Bishops. It is eupposed that Mousiguor Guivert bas simply obeyod or- ders frow llome in ihe matter, As for M. Ed- mond About, he regrets the condition of clderly priests suddenly called upon to bresk the babils of o lifetime, and of religious booksellors who will be left with the old Gallican liturgies. miz- £als, etc,, on their hands. The Archbishop, be it remarked, has selected 1. Mame, of Tours, and M. Le Clere, of Paris, to priut the new liturgies, etc. 3. Edmond About hints that it is nog likely that those publishers shonld nave been accorded the mouopoly withous a quid Pro quo. COUNTY * CHARITIES. Visit to the Insune Asyjum and Poor- Elouse. - i The arrival of New Year’s Dayis an event which always creates considerable stir in the county buildings at Jefferson, ns on that day the newly- clected Warden of the Insano Asylum snd ex- ofticio manager of the various charitable in- stitutions which are here congregated, and other cfiicers, enter upon their dutics. Duriug the past year the iustitution has been under the management of Warden Lines, and yesterday that gentlemau yielded the place to the newly-clected - Warden, Kimberly, who will wavage it during the current year. The occasion was tsken advantage of by the Committee on Lublic Charities of the County Board, who, etartinz at 10 yesterdny mornipg from the County 'Agent's office, drove outto Jefferson and inspected the Asylum sod Poor- Honso, The party consisted of County Com- ‘missionegs Harris, Johnson, Russell,-Lenergan, Herting, Busse, and Burdick, When they arrived at the Asylum they wore taken 1n charge by Warden Kimberly and Dr. Tope, who has been for four years resident physician thare, and shown around the place. Iho Insane Asylum and adjacent buildings bave been so frequently writton up thot a detailed do- seription of them is unneceesary. The visit of the Cowmissioners wag, Lowever, mado moro interesting by the fact that the recent addition of another story to the Asylum is almost completed. Of the extremo neces3ity for thus increased spaco the Commissioners bo- came pwars before they made o very thorongh investigatiou of the premises. All throngh tho Asylum it was painfully evident that morc room was wanted. Outside of the hardly completed new story the number of patients’ roows is only 143, while the patients nuwber not less than 265, sothat almost every room ismade to accommodate iouzs, —on arraugement which is anything Tue new story, which will give odditioral accommodation to forty-six pationts, will Do ready in sbout six weeks. uch In its arrangemens it is the samo as the lower ones, being .divided into two wards, iu cach of which are 4 dining- room, sitting-room, bath-room, water—closet, wash'room, clothing-room, and twenty-three patients’ rooms. The most noticeable festure of the new addi- tion is the amuscment-room,—a bhandsoma apartment measuring 45 feet in length by 35 in width, in which it is intended at some future period to have a billiard-tablo for the use of the mele patients, and a pisno for those of the ten- dersox. The room was inaugurated New Year's eve by & danco, which was sttended by about 75 of the patients and 25 of the attendants, and proved o highly-enjoyable affair,—so enjoyable, in fact, that some of the paticnts thought that 2 oclock in the moming was too early an hour to givo up tue fun, 2ud could not bo persuaded to retire until the gas- light bad been extinguished and tho ball-room plunged in datkness. Tho best resalts are au- ticipated from the use of tho amusdement-room, and the Warden hopea that the =ddition of tho billiard-table and piano will be made before long. : Ugna ‘bugbear which has troubled the Wardens from the opening of the Asylum bas beed very effectually disposed of,—that of the lighting of the placs by keroseno oil. 1n sddition to tho this means of many shortcomings of A illuminetion, the foar of ocxplosion and subsequent fire was & sourco of ever-present trouble. The evil has been offec- tually remedicd by tho purchase, at & costof £3,300, of an Illinois pucumatic gas-machine, whick supplies gasoline gas o 500 burners, ava cost of 21.25 per 100 cubic fect. The Commissioners took a trip through the Asylum, and found everything in good order, and when the inspection was ended ther were unsnimous in their opinion that the building was far too sme!l for tho work in it, but, at the seme time, they did not dee how the thing could be remedied at present. The grounds wero found to be in good order, thougli there was abundan room for the talent of the landscape-gardeuer, the 160 acres of Pprairio, in the contre of which thu Asylum is situated, being as fiat 2nd baro 8 the day it was ficst fenced in, with the excoption of the land in the immediate vicinity of the buildings, whih ig seb with trees. It is bardly fair to sy that nothing has beeu done to beautify tho place, as tho sum of £100 has been granted by the Com- -miesionels and expended on the planting of ebade-trees. The Commissioners’ wulk through the County Poor-Houso astonished such of t*em as bad pever visited it before. ‘To give a Lwr ides of this institution it must be stated that some twenty-five years ago the original brick building was erected. _Since then, as oc- casion required, frame addilicna huve been 'made toit to the number of five or six. In this collection of houses are kept 70U odd mea, women, and children. There are to -be found the maumed, tho balt, the blind, the sick, the superannuated, the deaf and dumb, the Lroken down in mind and body, all crowded together in ill-smelling rooms. S0 closo aro they paked that st night tho floors are covered with beds, wi buuks are built on which a second tier of sleepers may bo accommodated. The ar- rangement of the Poor-Housois vers systom- asically made, the different classcs of paupers being kept together in scparate rooms, accord- ing to sex, age, and their various sicknesses. One feature in tuis building, which should at oncomeet with the atteation of the Commission- ers, is tho total unprotectedness against fire. There is absoluiely no machine of auy kind to put out an incipient_fire, whilo the cousequen- ces of oce which had such Leadway that it conld not be got under coatrol are too fearful to con- .template. At about o'clock the Commi sioners departed, apparently bhighly pleased with what they had sezu, eud with their minda fally made up that whatever imnprovements may be needed in the Asglum or Poor-Houso shall bo st once sttended to. —_——— JOHN JONES ON THE COLORED RACE. Last evening John Jones, County Comnmis- sioner, delivered & lecture before the United Fellows, 1 workingmen’s association, in the hall at the corner of Van Buren and Clark strects, in which he gava tho history of the colored race in America, from the day of their first landing Lero, and describing tho patriotio part thoy had taken in the Revolutionary and other wara, Ho concluded his interesting remarks as follows : T will now attempt to show that wo bave made as good & record since our emancipation a8 any other class of citizens in thie country, We have made our way from the cottcn-pstch znd sugar-farm, to tho Iegislative balls of both State znd mation, OIr peoplo areto be scen in oll the relaticus of life, in spite of the prejudices of the country, which, thank God, are rapidly fading eway, I expect to seo the time myeelf, when the colored men of tho Soutl will be_the cottoft lords and Lankers of that favored section of tho coun- try. We are making rapid strides in acquiring educa- 1ion and weslth. Our children are going to achool. We are buying resl sstate snd paying for it, both North and South, znd these, my friends, constitute the fize road 10 Guccess, To succeed i5 to be in the right place at the Tight time. Lat uaimitato Ozkes Amea in one respect only, that s Iot us put things whero they will do the most good. We started out eleven yeurs ugo witl nothing Dut our bands, and with the bitteres: prefudices the world ever knew against us, Tio bund of every man scemed to oppose us, and we had scarcely suilicient clotiing or food 'to supply tho natural wants of life. But with ol thess weights and limils what do we now behold? Everywiero tho Dlack man_has fprung of his own freowill and determinztion, in spite of Chiurch and_ State, from tho Fosition of slavery and its consequences, {0 the bar, the pulpit, the lecture-room, hy professorehip, tho degrecs of M. D, und D, D.,’snd to the bur of tho Supreme Court of the United States. His eloguence elcetrifies thousands of listeners ; his pen instructs the million ; his merchandiso travels over ses and hind ; his propesty s reckoned by miliions ; his etrong arm upliolda tho American Guvernment; Lis patriotism cannot be made to blush, for there is no black trexson, Allthat weask, §s to_ be paid the regular market prico for our work, I thank God that there are no Communists among us, demanding other people's Iabor and blood. We work for all we get, and do not propose to quarrel with our neighbors” Locause they ‘may have more than we have. We must also have our civil rights; they must not e mithheld feom us any Touger 7 {hef ate cesentisi o our completa freedom, and Tere and now sny tkat, 1f the Ropublican party, to which we are attached, canrot pass Ar. Sumuer's Civil Rights bill while that party i3 in the majonty, we, a8 colored men, must call iu guestion their sincerity and friendship towards us, ¥e ure not demazding what fs kaown a5 social rights, These social relutions lfe enlircly outside the domain of legislation xad politics. They are simply matters of taate, and thus I leave them, Gentlemea, I congratulate you upon the success of this organization, ~Association is ono of the firet 1aws of the Human Constitution. Tnion is strenzth, ud division weakuess, 1 would advisoour young 1men to form a Tiilltary company and prepare them- sclves to defend the princdples of this Government, if need be, with thelr lives, The time will com2 3gain when our Gofernment will want ol _of her sons to de- fend her in maintaining ber principles. Tac Datch in Achecr. The Pall 3fall Gazelle mentions that its re- ports from the Hague give purticulars fall enough to enable usto judge that tha Dutch Governrent has taken paius to insure itsalf agamst a second failure in Acheen. The ex- pedition which has sailed in two parts from Beravia, carried 11,000 of the Duich Eaat India troops, including all the elito regiments describ- ed some time sines by us, with 1,200 marines, The flaet consisis altogether of nearly sevanty vessels, counting transports, and twenty-four of these are powerful stesmers. Gen, Van Swieton appears to _have carried his headquariers with the cecond convoy, and to have been pre- ceded by his second in command, Licut.- Gen. Versyck, the two divisions of the fleet having a rendezvous fixed off the Acheen coast. The roports made fo Batavia by tho _recon- noitering vessels of the blockade squadron de- clare that the enemy has been busily entrench- ing all the probable points of debarkation ; and this operation has been purposely undisturbed, it is stated, by the Dutch steamers, it being boped that the troops may turn theso works or the flect overpower them, whercas similar im- pediraents inland wonld, be likely to give mora serious trouble. Part of the care of Gen. Van Swieten has fo be directed to the prntwuué [14 the ney ally of Holland, the Saltan of Edi whese vicinity to their territory ezposes him to the attacis of the Acheencse, and who has callod for aid ngainst his own subjects, whom ho bas apparently not been able to convince of tkiadvlmlnges of the protectorato ho has in- voked. —_— ECONOMICAL GOVERNMENT. Or tho Science of ¢ IZepairs.”? ashington Correapondence of the Cincinnati Gazette. Tho followiny outlines for 8 now play are sub- mitted to the writers of American comudy : SCENE 1—The Tressury Department workshop. E“Wi a messenger, with spoke of a earriage- wheel. Meagenger (to Foroman)—Xr. Saville [Chiof Clerk] wants this spoke repaired. TForoman—All right. Single or double team? Mossenger—Double, of course, stupid! Do ¥on suppose the Head Clerks of our Departmont drive their wives or sweethearty around in one- horse drays? Foreman—Do I look like a fcol? Don't some of 'em heve both kinds ? aud when only a spoke i8 sent down, how’s a fellow to know which kind they aro out of ? Y ¢ Messenger—Oh, I 8eo, your head's lovel. Hurry the thing up. It's wanted beforo the Tolidays, when there's nothing to do, tnd plenty of time to splurge arouad on tho avenue bright aftornoons. And then their New Year's calls, you know. Foreman—Tell Mr. Saville we'll do the best wecan; butthere'sa great press for ropairiug just now. We've got a pair of shafts to repair, doublo team; and & Iynch-pin, nin;{l: dray ; and a set of wheols, landaulet, silk upholstery, to out- ghine Department of Justice; o0, you see, we're pressed, but I think with the extrn force of * temporary clerks” just put oo in the black- smith-shop, we czn come in time. Aessenger—Well, I'll tell the boss you'll be on time for him. Foreman (looking at the spoko)—Double, you say ; best Spanish soat cushions. brown rep up- holstery and linings, silk cartuins, circalar glass front, gilver trimmings, monogram on doors ? "All xight ; will bo on time. Sceye 2—Same messenger at 2 saddlet’s, on Beveutconth stroot. Messenger—Here is 8 buckle that tho Treas- ury Department wants repaired. Saddler—Can't undertake it for twwo months. Messenger—Two months! Theé panic don't seem to have affected your business. Saddlor—No, indesd! There will be no avic for us as long as the Troasury reserve olds out, but that's got down to seventeen mill- ions, I hear. Mossenger—That's <o, but I hear ’em talk up there about gretting in enough more from taxes before that's goue to keap things'moving Snddler—But I can't repair your buckle this time, becnuse you see I've got & hitch-strap to mend up into ‘s doublo set for one department, and & girth to repair—singlo set, gold-monnted, you know—for another, and threo sets, ono sin- sle, but eplendid, 2nd twa_double, samo sort, for soma of the bureaus, and’ all ta be dune by New Year. P Messangor—Who can doit? Somehor, this ‘buckle hus £of to be fixed, and, since every ono clse is going to ehine oat New Year's, my hosa shan't ook dim by the sido of any one of ’em. Whero can I tuke it ? ] Saddler—There ain't & placo in town can do it for a month. Every manin tho business has got more mending than he can possibly do. You £co this new-fanged luw about unexpended bal- aucos keeps the Larness and carriugo business brisk, 1f they don’t spend it all, they Lave to turn what's left in; aud you know nothing goes 50 hard here iu Washiugios a8 tarning auything into the Treasury—turning out is popular enough ; and, by the way, that reminde me, just let mo chanue that bucklo of youra into this splendid reads-made Goublo set, and I can send the whcle thin up at onco— Megeenyer—But this buckle is silver, and your et is wold mounted— Saddler—Wlat of that? Iow long bave you been a messenyer or & temporary clerk? What nse do you suppose I have for the gold buckle I am taking out? Just take this with you, and when you get the herness aund the bill for re- pairasvhy charge it both; you ece ? Meusongor—Surely. AMako out vour bill for repairs of harness, sud send to the chief clerk direct. Good day, sir. Scexe 3—A fashionable t2ilor's on the avenze. Enter driver and footinen in lisery. Driver—Here is somo cloth apd silk Missus the Sceretary sent down. and won't you pleaso meas- ure me and tho footmau hiere, and repair Missus’ two liveries—long. double-breasted, big gold- buttons, broad collar, decp cufls, lived with this here blug silk, quilted in, you know, and Missus eays be sure and have it beat the turn-out of the Attorney-General all hollow. Axnd repair us both o pair of tight breeches, with buttons down the Missus says, while you ara at it, just 63 o couple of cockades for our hats, zua get all this mending done as soon 18 yon can and before New Year's, without auy fail, because wa've got to stand around among the other Sec- retaries’ teams at the Presidont’s reception. ‘Tailor—All right, We're mighty hard pushed with our repairs,—ten sets, as I'm alive,—buz tell AMra. Secretary we never failed ber before, and we won't this time. Thoso temporury clerks thoy sent us are protty spry with their nesdles, Footman—Fix "em up bully, boss. Driver—Sond your bill up to the Disbursing Clerk, cud maka it ont for repzirs, do you uu- derstand ? Tailor—Of course I do. That's the usual way. Tharo is precions fow of 'em has it done any other way. Scexg 4—Norfolk Navy-Yard. Inier messen- ger with a small piece of live-oak in bis huud. 7 Mesveager (faluting Commandany, aad band- ing him the block of oak)—Sacretary Robeson wants this ship repaired. Commandant (to marine on guard)—Take this Iupatic out of {ho yard. ¢ Messenger—Horé is lotter from the Secre- tary which I forgot. ; Commaudant (rerds)—Confidential. Navy DiranTaENT, WASHINGTON, D. C, Stm: Tho block the messonger will hand you is, or it it is uot no wmatter, a picco of the sloop- of-war Galona. Cougress is stingicr than over, and I couldu’t got new sloops authorized, but I id get 23,500,0)0 for * repairs,” wnd so am go- ing to “* ropair " six of our old sloops, and yon can fix up the Galena, Take tho piece I send andspike it on sumowhera, Make the new ship —vwhen repeired, I mean—909 tous, and employ lots of men whilo .the Congressional election is going on, 80 thut Platt will be suro to get-back. I'vo got o, quarter of tho two housos lixed up with this gort of thing—Mains and New Hamp- shire at Portsmouth, Hooper and Twichell ab Boston, and A0 oa round to Sargent and his set at San Fraueteco. (T'o the marine)—Nover mind taking this man off, (To an orderly)—Givamy compliments to tho Chief of Conatruction and Repaira. {Enter Chief Constructor.) Commandant—The Socretary wants this piece of the Gaiena repaired. Chief Covstructur—Aye, ayo, sir, Steam or sail? How many tons? Pleass send down length of keol, breadtn of beam, snd displace- ment, and I'll teli the foreman to call all hands and clear out the yard ready o begin. Commandant—You seem to understand this sort of thing. Constructor—ave, saye, sir. When Robeson makes an_ appointment. Lis selects men wiao un- derstand his ways. isa good thing. It will keep us besy repairing for two years at Jeast, and when a shipis once lannched, she'll have to bo fimished, uo matter who 1s Secretary. Whoeser couciudes to write tho play can to the number of scenes by tollowing the mes- gengers around to gas-fitters, where single-burn- ors can be repaired into parlor-chandeliers, £nd to farniture establishments where a setof castors can bemade over into elegant drawing-room sets, and then if the whole pluy is written upon the tucory that exaggeration i almost, if not quite, impossible, it will roflect one side of Wash- iugton curzcy. —_——— . A Very Romuautic Story. A correspondent of the St. Louis Dispalch has scot the foliowing docament whiclh, ha says, was given to him by & nalive of Maine, who was fa- anilier with the circumatsnces of the murdoer thercin datailed, wio koow ths murderer per- soually, who was an oficer ia a 3aine regimont duritg the war, and who, after tho war. removed to Western Miszouri snd engaged in a profitable and extensive business : “Xore than twenty sears sgo, V. a young physician of excellent standing in tha City of Augusts, Me., murdared Edward Matnews, o rich cattlo-draver, by enticing bim alone tat) bis offica to take & drink of brandy which be had Cootidge, Court™ life with very considerable ac- 1 1¥74. mized with prussic acid, and then, to make sure work of the man who had befricnded him cn many ocessions, he beat him on the head with a hatcher until life was_extinct. The body was discovered, and Coolidge wes arrested on suspicion, and, after a long and exciting trial, and upon the direct evi~ dence of a young student of his by the name of Flint, ho was convicted and sentancod to one vear's eolitary confinement, and then to be hung, uring bis confinement, his sister, a young and beautiful girl, was permitted to visit bim, but Lis health zradually gave way, and befors the year expired bis deati: wag avnounced, ho was buried, 2nd for the time forgotten, -The Warden of the prizon resigned his_position, married tho young lady above referred to, and moved to parts unkunown. Not loug after the gold excite- ment opened in California, & gentleman who was conversant with the case, and” who had fol- lowed others to the gold mines, sent back his doposition_that he bad seen and convereed with V. P. Coolidge. This caused considerablo excite- ment, and the body supposed to bs Lis was ex- bumed, und his own father testified that it was not his son.. Oficere were at ouca put upon his trecky by Mathiews’ friends, but were unsuccess- {ul, and until & fow days sinco nothing has ever becn heard of the musderer. Recontly a party traveling throngh Missouri met & gentleman who know tho early history of the. matter, and was at the trial, aud ho stated he bad met Coolidge frequently within the last two years traveling under an assumed 0; _that he recog- nized bim at sight, sud charged him with being the man ; that he at first denied it, but finally acknowledged his identity, sod in- formed bim of all the important facts connected with the escapo as followd : Ho ate very sparing- Iy, foigned sickness, and finclly & body was pro- cured from Portland and interred as his remains, and ho was furnished with money and started for New Orloans, where ho remaired but & short time, andleft, und since that time has been trav- eling almost constautly, never stopping long in auy one place ; aud tho gentleman referred to a9 baviog met him in tho northern part of this State gave it as his positive betief that, from the description of the leader of tho Towa train-rob- bors, it was no other than the escaped mur- derer.” g CRUISING ARGUND CUBA. Spanish Coolcry—Gorgeous Fish. Correatiandence New York Times. It actually takes 03 many doye to get from Battibano to Saniingo de Cuba as from New York to Havana. I started on Wednesdsy and arrived here on Monday mornity, and yet tho distance can hardiy be more than 400 miles, We stopped st Cienfuegos, at Casilda, tho port of Trinidad; at Stunes, the port of Espiritu Santo ; at Santa Cruz, and-at Manzaoillo. ~ As we often remawwod for half & day waiting for freight to come down by tha little railroads with which the ports and cities in rear are connected, it is mot suprising that we were go long in_coming 80 ehort a distaoce. Dut the Spaniards, conscious that their line is not the speediost, and that they chergo somewhat roundly, have done their utmost to please. The Villa Clara is a8 well built, spacious and pleas- ant o boat as any of those which navigate our Americun rivers, Thereis uot, indeed, the same gorzeousness of decoration ns on thio boats of the Sound, but Lho cabins are ag large, if not larger, and overything is_kept perfectly clean. Tho great attraction, howover,is the table, which is really unsurpassed. = The Spanish cuisine was perfectly unknown to me, and whon 1 firat sat down to breaktast I looked with some suspicion upon tho dishes, thinking there were mines of garlic and of red pepper in_ theso appe- tizing “ plata,” Bu this proved erroncous, aud I found that the cookery of the Spaniards wa3 10 longer what it had been in the davs when Brit- ish warriors espoused the canse of Queen Chris- tiva. Every meal was s succession of surprises. Tagouts ot the most exquisito flavor were suc- coeded by fish most delicatoly cooked, the intor- vals being filled up by large prauns, called here * camarmes,” or ‘langustinos.” The materials sre, however, rather peculiar. Tho waiter bronght me on the first day a ragont, served up in the red earthon platter in which it had beau covked. Itwas delicious, but peculiar—savory, but glutivous. I questioned *my neizhbor wio wad & French tobacco-planter of Cienfuegos, and All tho best *“plats™ are scrved in earthen platters in the same stylo. Aud, from whet I saw, I should judge that the favorite morsel of our Spamsb friend wes saltcod stowed in vin- egar, with rod peppers, tomatoes, onions, and occagioually po:atocs. = The wine used was Catalau. Sometimes it was tolerable, oftener detestable, and it wrs 4 suspicions fact that the Captain himself never dravk it, always taking English paloale. Oncof the strong points or tlus line 18 that you may order whatover you liko, and, if it's'on board, you have it gratis. And, 10 do them justico. they iavarisbly keep whatever they think will be called for. English ale, brandy, wine, ctz., are always forthcoming on demsnd. This style of business is practica- blo among 2 class of passengers almost entirely Frenchrand Spanish, Tor they are noted for their sobriety. Buc I fear if it were tried on our river boate, there would be an inevitable banlruptey of the proprietors, to say nothiug of other con- sequences. A lifo such as this—plenty of good things to eat and drink, a heaveuly climate, a ses, of em- erald, aud an azure sky, ‘and nothing to do— srould probably swt the great majority of men in imagination, but iu reality it is not the para- diso oue thinks it. To the tired man of busi- noss, however, motinng can be moro pleasant than the every-day existenco of these bonts, “Thero s just enough oxcitement to please, aud thero is 1o sworTy, But for tho man who is not tired and who desires to work, enforced idleness is eagthing bat a pleasure, and I was traly glad when we aurived at Maazanillo, and saw in the distance beyond tho town_tho filmy masses of the distant mountsine. Here, in the tropics, everything is seen throush 2 sitvery veil, nnd thi3 indistMctuess is one of tho chief charms of the sceneys. At Menzanillo the town lies upon the slope of o low hill, a_distant spur of the mouutain chain bevond. Everytbing hero is distinctly murked, but beyond there s a haze which slternates from dreary gold to palest sil- ver, Looking from the town upon the sea, tho horizon is mado more nexr by the shimmering atmosphere through which the low islands gleam sometimes when the sun's rays strike apon a ock ; but oftener tl:ey seem to sleep up- on the surfaco of the waters. The water scen from the distanco is all iu streaks of varied crald greon whero deep, and of an cly bright huo where the shallowness of the sea permits the white sand of the bottom to influence the lo2at color. Wherever there is o Eand-bar or a reef, thero you seo a gleam of viv- id purplo fading off ioto a. clear brown. And tins von seo on every eide, for Manzauillo is well protected by the ses itself. The chanuclis marked by 3 number of stakes, surniounted by things that look liko white inverted pails, and on the top of esch is o marioe bird busily fishing. The fieh pertaico of tue genersl gorgeouscess of color. If you look down into the waser you can sea threo kinds of fish circulating round the steamer's stern. Ono is tho necdle fish, 1 whuch lools like & combination of ecl and sword fish. Its snont is elongated to an onormous length, tapering to o delicaze point, The edges of the suout, the tail. the lin, and astreak on each sido of the backbune are of a most inteuse Dlue. It is bluer than ultramarine. or lapis- Jazub. This fish is_good to eat, rud the Span- iards lovo it mnch, and say it is muy bueno. The mecond is tho percado dnsdo, which is actually tike o pink Ssb, with gilded tail, fing, belly. and head. Tn the contro it shines with the glittor of dulled gold. Tbhis also is o mag- nificont fish to eat. The tnird is like a flounder, brown in color, with huge gogg!s eyes of yellow, and streaks of deep blue around them and on tlio checks, liko a flounder tattoced. * —~——— Bismarck. Princo Bismarck, acording to Galignani, has undertaken to obtain the adoption by foreign powers of German as tha latiguage of negotia- i He had not hitherto endeavored to im- t officially, but had confined himselfs to i-oficial propositions by his agents. He hes just himself commenced the struggle. He sent anotein Gorman to Princa Gortachakofl, who replied in Russizu. As the Emperor Wilbam's Prime Minister does not understend that Ian- guage, be had to send for a_tranalator, and the opposition journels of Berlin stzte that he was mach irritated at the result of his experiment. Subjowed is o nota which Bismerek lately ed dresecd to the Alonitcur, of tae Gérman Em- pira: Vanzrx, Nov. 29, T reiterats my request that persans -sho address private Iciter: o me durlng my leave of absence will excuse me if they do mot receive eny reply. Iam boand to devote :very day, va an average, several the task of smding proper answers o coni- sione, of a polifical charucter, cominy from jJ2reons who are known, or whose position autliorizes themn to wrile 10 15 Vox BrsuAncs, po s - b | Death of the Bix ihinoceros in the London Zoolszical Gardens. Fraz the Lendon Seiss, Dec. 16. The *Zoo™ is m mourning for one of its hugest and oldes: inbabitunts. The grest rhi- noceros, whica Liad beey. from its esrlizst days & conspicuous object in the elepbant house, hzs at Inst succambed to the scyshe-bearer—or who- ever the rhinoceral typical representative of ! death m3y For twenty-four years the crea- turs Lad lived in comfortable quarters, ond withstood the rigors of an Ecglsh climste; for twency-four years it had, day atier day. partakes learped thut this delicate dainty was cow-heol. | of its piain meals of hay and similar food, and dag after day for twenty-four years it had thrust its snont as far as possible between tho massive bars of 1ts den, and opened its capacions jaws “to receive the gratuities of its admiring vizitors inthe shapo of buns and biscmits, oranges and apples, and other tit-bits. The rhinoceros is liaklo to sudden outbursts of vio- lent temper, and the late ismented individual wes no exception to this general failing of its race. Several years ago, ina furious atiack on the rails of its den, it broke its jaw, and was for some time in rather s dangerous condition. It, however, survived the accident, and bas_cafely passed through the vicssitudes of English weather, and it may bo considered that twenty- four years is about the average length of life emong this specics of pachydermata. Tho hip- Ppopotamus has bred in the gardens, but no suc- cees Las atfended the attempis to breed tho rhinoceros in cuptivity, their violent tempers rendering it dangerous for them to be tempora- rily housed together. The skeleton and skin of tha deceased creaturc are to be preserved, and valuable preparations will no doubt be made. —_—— FEMALE INGENUITY. Hlow, It Is Szid, Dudley, the Mail- Robber, Was Caught. 5 Tho following. from the Pittsburgh Leader, may be of intercst to our readers who have fol- Jowed the bistory of tho doings sud capture of Wales and Dudloy for robbing the mail-trains of tho Lako Shore Koad - Astory is now told in connection with the ferzeting out of Dudloy that makes quite inter- esting reading, whotherit's tiwe or not. This ia what it isin substance: The detectives had beon for months in search of Dudley before they wero uble even to get on o dofinife trail. Ho Iad been balf over the country, but he covered up his tracks so well, by meaus of his aliases, that he baffled the ~detectives to keop track of him. At last, howover, they ascertained that ho was somewhero about Doston, and two or threo weeks wero spent by tha detectives in tho endesvor to find him, with- out effect. It being known that MMrs. Dudley has eisters living lere, it was at once conjec- tured that there was soma correspondence going on between them. TLe detuctive stationed at the Pittsburgh Post-Office was instructed o Xkeep watch, g0 that, should any of Mrs. Dudloy’s relatious mail any letters, the address upon them could be seen, aud in this manner the alias of Dudley could be discovered. Nono of the fomily came o the Post-Office, however, but this only gave rise to the belief that the con’usyom!znca was carried on clan- desti Then & ney plan twas Lit mpon. The services of & female detective from Finkerton's agency at Chicago wero ee- cured to endeavor to discover this correspondence. What occurred then is thus told: ‘The female detective took rooms at the St. Clair Hotol, giving publicity to tho state- ment that sho was waiting for her husband—a wealthy merchant from the West—to join her, preparatory to a journey to the East. Knowing that Miss Alice Sheridan, Mrs. Dudley’s sister, was engaged at u store on Market street, Mrs. Holton, as the dotective called herzelf, visited the establishment and sought out Miss Sheridan, who waited upon her a differont times_while sho made extensive purchases. . Hortou was free with her money at the store, and at the same timo, with all the adroitness of ber pro- fesgion, ingratiated herself into the favor of the girl. During the following two weoks Mre, Holton and Miss Sheridsn became quite inti- mate; attended church together on Bunday, nad occasionally visited each other for the might. The dotectivo became well zccustomed to Miss Sheridan’s habits ; fouod what time she took 10 Terself, and whet ‘was devoted exclusively to the store, and watched coustantly for lettcrs that came’ tb her or were written. One day ehe dropped into the store, justas Miss Sheridan was going ant. She joined the youug lady, and the two walked dowh to Penr. svenue, and up {hat thoroughfare to Ninth street, where Miss Sheridan deposited three letters in the corner- box. Asscon as possiblo afterward, Mra. Hol- ton sepatated from her companion and hastened to the Pdst-Office, satisfied 1n hor mind that her work wag accomplished,—not losing sight of the fact that tho Penn sod Ninth streets box must Lave Leen chosen as the depository of the letiens for some special reason, others being fo much more convenieat. At the Post-Otlice, Col. Stewart, then Postmaster, was informed of the fact that the letters had beeu dropped, and at & oace sent & carrier to remove ths contents from tho box. Twelve or fourteen letters were bronght into his private oflice, but tha detective, with almost intuitive kuowledge, picked out tie threo without au instaut’s hesitutiou. Oue was ad- dressed to Mr. Parcell. Boston, Mass. Under permission obtained from the Postmaster-Gen- eral, this letter was opened and found to be from Miss Sheridan to Mrs. Dudley. Informe~ tion was at once forwarded to Col. Eldridz who praceeded to_Boston, and, with detectivo help from thess who had been 'stationed here, waited at the Post-Oftice for Ar. Purcell to call for the letter, which bad been properly forwarded alter being read. The remainder of the story was told at the trial,—how, when Mr. Purcell camo, tie denied Lis identity until confronted with Mr. Loomis, bt until now tho means of discovery have not beon given pablicity. e Rty The Every-Day Habits of Paris Busis nesy Men. From Belgravia. Business in Pans commences at o _very much eaglier hour than in London. By 7 o'clock in summer and § o'clock in winter, business men wito want to see other business men, stock- broleers who want to seo their clients, or mer- chants who want to conclude bargains, are up and on foot. Tne banks, it is true, do not open until Y o, m., but in all the great financial catab- lishments the heads of oflices ara at their posts, the lotters are opened, aud the campaizn of the day decidod upon, an hour eaclier than this. From 8o, m. to noon is the busiest time of tho day. At the latter hour all who have not to bo present at tho Bourse go to breakfast, and consider that their hardest work is over. With business men in Paris, broakfast is the heartiest meal in the day and the timo spent 2t it perbaps the most en- joyable of the twenty-four hours. They do rot burry themselves. Having been up eince 7 or 8, and takiog nothing more rubstantial than a cup of caffee and a roll, they arc Lungry cnough by noon to do full justice to what is set beforo them. With Lats aud overcoats bung up, nap- kins deliberately spread on kuee 2ud generally takic-it-esuy nppearance, they xhow & marked contrast to o London city man, eating bis lunch- eon against time and injury to bealth, if not shorteninz his days by the mannerin which ho gulps down bis food. In Paris the dejeuner is o rest to the day's labor. The worst of the work ia then over, what follows i3 merely child's play 10 what has gone before. Letters have to be written or signed ; thoresalt of tho day’s Bourse will have to bo discussed, and plans for the next day have to bemade. But the real hard work— the talk by which & man makes this bargain, concilintes that creditor, or goty substantial se- curity out of that debtor—is ov nd tho Fans- ian workiug brain is relaxed sad relessed from it worry for the day. The habiio of the busi- negs men in Paris aro as difforent from thoso of a London city man s it is poscible to im- agine. The Loudoner who, day after day, breakfasts at 8:30 «. m., goes iutd tawn some four or five miles by rail, works incessantly from 10 2. m, to 4 p. m., and then returns home to eat a lato dinaer, go to bed, and recommence aoxt dzy the gelf-same round of horse-in-the-miil work, can hardly be eaid to lead n joyous exist- ence—at least not in thoeyes of a Purislan man of business, who would alnost as s0oa be con- demned to penal servitude a8 to lead such & mo- notonoas life. The Bouree may rige or fall; ex- change on London muy be favorable or the con- trary; the price of articlesde Faris may be quoted_at remunerative priccsor at a dead loss in Berlin, your Paris man of business, in spite of whataver may Lappen, stops work at 5 P. ., the ** absinthe hour,” as it is called, when overy right-minded ¥renchman deems it his pounden duty to proceed to his favorite cafe and there, with either absinthe, vermuth, bitters, or some other stimulant to appetite, to prepare his elomach for tho great affair call- ed dinper, which follows about an Lour leter ; for a little moderate aud temperate pre- prandial drinking is quite 28 essential to the comfort and well-being of the Gaul as was the after-dinner port to the Englishman, or s is the sfter-dinner toddy to our friends north of the Twoed. —_— A Fated Ship. The London Zelegraph of Nov. 25 saya: “ On Tuoeedsy last, in the ‘ Captuine’ Room,’ at Llogd's, there took place a wingalar sale of a still more singalar ship. The vessel submitted to pablic suction was a fine sea-going bost, Clyde-built, 738 tons gross, and 502 registor, fit- ted with the mont improved machiuery. Not only the hull, but the masts, yands, spers, rig- giug, eugines, and expenaivo ¥aloon and cabin fiztings, were offered to the bidders. In sbort, this wtaooch Glaswegian steaufer was knocied down, lock, stock, and barrol. A vass crowd filled the Captaine’ Room when the suctioneer cscended tho rostrum. The conditious of sulo wero resd, and tho upset price of £6,500 was put on the ship. Notwitbstand- ing the large number of epectators prescut, there were but fcw bidders: the competition wa3 langaid, sad at the ead of nine or ten minates came to & stop, when the falling of the bammor proclsimed that the bonny Clyda-built steamer had been knocked down to s frm of Spanush wmerchants In Graceshureh street fox £7,05). Had (Le vessel been an ordinary ona she would probably have fetchod 2 much larger sum: but in her case her singularity was rather a doprassion thau au advaatage to ber sollers, and ber rarity did rot impart richness to her ap- praisement. It may be mentioned that the sals had taken place under an_order of Mr. Joucs, the Marshal of the High Court of Admiralty, anit that the vessel Wwas no_ other than the ever-infamons Murillo. Judgment, it will bo remembered, went by default agaivet thz owners of this motorions craft in- the two suits brought in tho Admiraliy Court by tle owners of the ill-starred Nortaficet ; and oo the occasion of that judzment some very stroog re- marks emanated from tho Beach as to the cou- duct of tbo Spanish Captain, who, in steamicy away from tho vessel ho biad run down, without tondering tho slightest. aseistance to har drown: u.!E'pu:cugm. Liad, tho learned Jndgo eaid, ex- hibited the Lrutality, unrelieved by the courago, of apirate. With such a character {o bring inte the anction mart, is it to bo wondered at if the Murillo brough{, comparatively speaking, litle under the hammer? It is not, course, the scrow-steamer's fsult if the Spaniard who commanded her happened to te cowardly and selfsh. Yot sailors are proverbially superstitious, and what British tar would like to ship on board the murderons Mu- rillo? The sicamer will no doubt be rechris- toned,and overy poseible means will be takon to obliterate the memory of her former career; but there i3 blood upon her head, sud is thero notan old tradition a3 to the indelibility of blood-staing? If nautical folk loro stll away tho opivions of English seafaring people, they will think tho Munllo as unlucky o craft as the celebrated clipper New Orleavs, tho lines of which were laid ou Friday, which' was launched on a Friday, whose Caplun's name was Friday, and which went down on a Friday, with all hands, forevermors.” R e Nir. John Dright and ¢'The Residus um.» A Lancashiro paper publishes o letter pur- porting to come from Mr. John Bright in answer to 3 request that he would state wnether, aud upon what occasion, lio had called the work~ ingmen *‘the residuum.” The sasertion that bo had dono 5o on somo occasion had been made Ly a clergyman named Read. The fullowing is guid to bo the text of Mr. Bright's reply : RocupALE, Dec, 9. 187, Dgan Stz: I thank you for fending me a copy of the Hyde amd Denton Chronicle of Saturday - last, where I rcad a passage in a speech of tho Hev. A. Read, of - St. George's, Hyde, 10 which you have called my attention. T need hardly tell ‘you that the statcment of this slapderous clergyman is false, and that if be is mot u-singularly-ignorant persou ho must know it to bo false. If I bad applied the word ‘“residunm” to the workingmen of En- gland,” if I had deemed or called them * the dregs of the population,” stould T have given much time and Isbor and man¥ years of my life to procure for them the right to live by the free exchange of their in- dustry, nd the right to vote that they might share & the government of their couatry? Ido not remembst tho time wLen, or the speech in which I used thu word “residiom,” or I would refer you to th paeage. You would at ouce eeo how utterly unjust and false is the coustruction which Mr. Read hus put upon it. I do mot kuow what Mr. Rtead is in hia pulpit, but I would advise him to stay there, where he cannot be coutradicted, On the platiorm he is, what 18 not nocommon in the hot partisen priest, ignorsul and seurrilous, and 3 geido whem no sensible man would wish fo follow, ilis congregation should pray for him. 1am very truly yuurs, Jomx BmiGET, Tarl Russcll and the Pope, rou the Pall Mall Gazette, Dec. 15. Sir - orgo Coryer has rent for publication, with Earl lussell's permission, the correspozd- ence which has pagsed between' the noble Earl and himself, on” the subject "of his lordship's consent to take tho eluir at o meetingto express sympathy with the policy of Prince Dismasek agaiust lome. In answor to Sir George's re- Inoustrauce against such a proceading, Earl Rus- sell wrote tha following latter = PEX3ROKE LODGE, Richmond Park, Dec. 4, 1873, Dean S Geonrox Bowyzn: Iam very rorry to d; fer from you iu tho step which T have taken, ‘of cow~ senting to preide at a meeting at which it will be pro- posed {0 express our symupathy with the Emperor o Germazs in the declaration he bas madu in Lis lettcy to the Popo. I conceive that the time has come, fores seen by Sir Robert Peal, when the Roman Catholic Church disclaims equaly, and will bo Actisfied with nothing but ascendandy. 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