Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 30, 1874, Page 3

. time, It was by many dog THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1874. 3 LORD MINTO. Renflnlscenses of tho Tast Century. Anecdotas of Varlous Distinguished Individuals. Fyom the Saturday Revlew (Tondon). In the yoar which wmll/nmmd lhé Deolaration of American Indopendonce _ Gilbert Eiliot, tue oldest son and Lioir of Bir O\Ihefl’Emcbf a_Scot tish Baronct, nnd an offshaot of tho old Dordor family of tht name; a nophew also of Audrow Elliof, somotime. Lioutonant-Governor of tho Proviiice of New York, toolt his seat a3 » mom- bor of tho British Parlismont. 1Ia had rocontly vomplated his oducation at Christ Church, Ox- ford, and wns gainin diatinction at the Bar, yonng man nflbruwduoau nnd obsorvation, lio Waas alao well bred sud solf-possossod in polite socloty, nud_soop found Limsolf woloomed to Lhie mout nristocratio sud fashionablo houses of the metropolis, Tha deathof his fathor o fow months lator having put bimin posscesion of the family title and catatos, his profosaional carcer torminated; but his ambition for politi- cal and social dlstluotion wad on th othor hand atimulated, nnd Lo wos considorad by tho influ- ontin]l mon whoso acquaintanca he gained an eminyo statesmian of ~moro than ordinary promiso. 3 At the ontset of the Amorican war ho was o decidod Tory, but before its closo lie had bo- como no 1oss decidodly a Whig, and, though barely 30 yonrs of yonrs, was alrondy tho warm Pond and eondjutor of ' Burke, Fox, Windliam, Groy, and othor Whig londors, wha roliod much upon his judgment and pract{csi common senso, (0 had tho honor of being assoolated with thom a8 o mansgor of the impeachment of Wnrren Huastiugs, aud was an effctive sponker and party managor {u the Houso of Commons. In 1783 ho was twico an unsuccessful candidato for Bpenker of that body. When the Whigs became divided bytng ovents of the Frouch Royolution ho ad- herod to that portion which sidod with Pit in advocating war with Franco, The Primo Minis- ter wolcomed bim to tho Minatorial ranks, and on the annexation of Corsica to Grost DBritain o was gout thore as Vicoroy. On bis return to England in 1797, ko waa creatod DARON 3INTO, and two yonts lator ho nndertook s spacial mis- sion to V’lannn. Upon tho donth of Ditt ho ao- coptod oftico in the coalition Ministry of Gren- o and Yo, but soon aftor was apointed Gov ornor-Genoral of Iudin, a position which ho fillod with credit for soven years. He diod in Juue, 1814, a fow dayas after Arflvln;i in England. From the lottors of Lord Blinto, writton pro- +vious to Lis departuro to Indin his grand-nicoo, tho pronent Countoss of Minlo, hos_ oompiled & worl in threo volumes 31"“ o vory livoly plo- ture of English political and soclal lifo from the closo of tho Amorican war to the death of Will- {iam Pitt, a period of twenty-four yeare. From 8t, Potersburg, whither ho had gone in the summer of 1781, to accompany his wifo's pister, Lady Harris, wifo of the British Ministor, 4o Iinpland, Lord Minto, thon Sir Gilbort Elliot, writes &g follows to Lady Elliot concerning the EMPRESS CATHABINE IT., tho famous Somiramis of the North: L “Wa followod the Empress in her walk, which condueted us toward a couple of barges, Tho ‘Empross enterod one of theso and named ber company, After Harriot and Sir Jumes wore placod, 1 was surprised with this frosh honor, nnd was called to & seat in the barge. Tho com- pany conaisted of eight In all. I eat oppositeto tho Empress, and if I bad listened imprudently to my ambition, I might, by atrotohing & point, ‘hnve touched her Impertal knoo with mino. To Do serious, her whole bonavior wes infinitely gracioyg. ~Her countensnce and conversation are .u&m, ‘marked with undorstanding, sud her manner lsmmflutoly that of a womanof fashion. 8ho bas the talont of dolug two things which ara soldom dono together., With the groatest easo a civility in her bohavior, sho nevor losos any port of hor dignity ; ond with the grostest dig- nity I have over aoon in her manrer, slo puts Ther company perfectly at thoir easo.” Tho next great personago introduced to tho render is i MIRADEAT, whoso schoolmate Sir Gilbert had been for & year or two in Franco when they woro boys, and ho 1n the summer of 1788, after s life of siu- ular vicissitudes, was living temporarily in ondon, Tho old boyish friondship was cor- dislly ronowed. Lady Liliot wae then staying with'her children at” Dath, When Sir Gilbor joiued Lis family thero ho took Mirabeau with im, but the visit wns not successful, ‘‘ He ‘made such hasty love to Harriet Loty Hurris), whom he bad little doubt of subduing in 2 waok, and 80 totally silenced my John Buil wife, who undorstanda s Frenchman no bottor than ifolly housemaid, snd 6o Eeared my littlo boy witis caressing him, 80 completely disposod of mo from brealfast to suppor, and so nstonishod all our friends that I conid hardly keep the poacoin his favor.” And when, some montha lator, Mira- ‘oau proposed to join the Elliots at Minto, the family seat in Beotland, tho improssion of Lis wisit was atill so strong that Lady Elliot insistod on two rooms being prepared for him at the gamo-kooper's, as sho usld no power on earth #hould induce hor to admit him under her roof. Horo is a picturo of Sheridan avhia bost (1787), dolivering his famous EPEEQI ON THF. IEOUMS, “8horidan opened hia charge aud spoke exactly five fiours and a balf, with such flupncy aud rapidity that 1 thiuk bfn speech could not be Tesd in double that cea the most excellent and sntonishing performanco X ovor hieard, and aurpasses all T over imagined posslulo in cloguetce aad, ability. "Tls 18 tho universal eense of all who heard it. Yon will conceive how sdmirablo it wus when I toll you that he surpassed, I think, Pitt, Fox, and oven Butko, in thelr finest aud most brillisut orationa. The con- clugion, in which the wholo force of tha case wea col- Jected, ind whero bis wholo powers woro employed to. thelr utmout stroteb, ond indeod his own feclings wound to tho utmost pitch, worked the hougo up into such a paroxysm of passionate entbusiasm that tho smomont ho sat down tzor Wwas & universal Alioitt, nay, oven clapping, for lalf o socond; evory man was on tho tloor, and all his frionds throwing themuelves on bls neck in raptures of joy and exultatlon,” FABNIONADLE. EVENING PARTY LN 1787, “From the opera I wonb to Mrs, Crowo's, swhioro thero was & largo party, and ploasant peo- lo among thom—for oxamplo, Tom Polbam, Rrandy, Ma. Bhoridan, Lady Palmorston, &o., Ee.—Dbowides all of which wore threo young men #0 drunk os to puzzle Lhe whole assombly. They svoro Orlando Dridgemau, Chaxles Groville, and a Mr. Gifford, who is lately come to & good cutate of abont £5,000 a year, the whole of which 11018 la tho act of spending in Anc or two yoara et moat, He never utterod i word, though as drunk 08 the other two, who woro bolh Tiotous, and bogan at last to tallr 80 plain that Lady Francis and Lady Palmorston , flad from their eido-tablo to ows, and Alrs. Shoridan would hayo Tollowed them, but did not make her escapo till hor arma wero black aud biue aud hor apron torn . A TRUDE OF THE PERIOD. 'On Thursday I dived ot Muudy's with Mrs, Gally, &o., und & Misy Bowdler, Sho is, I be- liove, & blue stocking, but what the color of that part of her drosd is iust bo moro conjecture, ua You will essily beliove when I toll you that, talk- ing of tho oporas, aud, among tho rost, of the dancors, she #sid b novor looked at tho danc- Ing, but always kopt hor oyes shut the wholo andelicale sho could not henr to look.” M08, BIDDONS AT 32, * She {8 very beantiful in u room, but of the strong, powerful sort of boauty that reminds une of 's Lundsome Jowess. ~ Bhe does not epesk much, and that modostly enough, but in a slow, sot, and studicd gort of phraso aud accent vory liko the most fumiliar pasaagos of hor activg, but still in & degroo Lhoatiical,” . Fifteon years lator, in 1802, Lord Minto mon- thous luivg Logsd Mra, Siddons rend tho Digs trossed Mother,” Tho groat aotross, who hud soighod suprome upon ths Tinglall stago for twonty years, sitting now st a ronding desk, and doprived of the nceestories of sconery, costine, nnd foot-lights, was a8 much distrossed aa the mosc timid debutante, * Blo was 6o norvous and frightonod that thero was no jml?-iu,; of her powers: she literallyread the greatest pust with- out any attempt at more.” DINING QUT 1IN 1788, *We sat till pust 11, by which time ail the company wero in_ spirite_excopt mo, who, by (h‘inl&lug porty drank what I ploosed—that is to &2y, had not, tho_olreulstion of my bottle to dravmoon, I find tho leant quuntity of claret always nffeats my stomach, aud consequently inks my apivits Inatond of tho usul olact of arine, which I belleye Iu this agoe is an advau- tago, for all thomen driuk abominsbly, How tho guen of business and tho gronl orators of the “Houao of Commons coutrive to rouoncile it with their publio_exortions I caunot conceive. Tox drinks what I should call a great deal, {hough Le §8not_reckoned to doso by bis compauions Bheridan exccesivaly, and Groy moro than any of them; but it s in a much more gontlemanly way than our Beoteh drunkards, uud s always sc- companlod will clover, livoly cgpvarsation on rubjeots of importupce, Pitt, Iain told, drinks’ s miuch 1o anyboly, genarully wigro than uny of bis compauy, and "that heis & pleasant, con- wvivisl man ot table,” The spring of 1788 was momorable for the comuencemant of the TRIAL OF WARKEN MASTINGS, Aligh weated » prodigious axcitomodt, mealy flmn[ and ywhon nsked why, sho said it waa go [ on nccount of tho groat oratorical powers of tho conductors of tho {mpeachmont, 1t bocamo all at onco tho fashion togo to Weatminator Hall to ligton o the matchloss oloquence of Burke, and Tos, and Shorldan. Tho following . oxtract {ll;‘:lutmtoa tho enthusinsmn which animated tho ndlost . “Thoy aro drossed and mobbing It in Palaco Yard by 6 or half-past 6 (in the moming) and thoy sft from 9 to 13 bofore businoss bogins. Aftor soolug Mrs. Mgrrico safe in the il 1 como in -to_dross ag o mnnagor; 80 thnt Duteinoes is rathor an oporation, Soms people, aud, L beliovo, evon womon—I mesn ladios— havo slopt at tlio coffes Liousea ndjoining Weat- mnstor Hall, that thoy may bo suro of gotting to tho door in time. ,” ., . Binco writing tho abavo I havo boon to tho Hall, We stood an hour aad o balt in the strost 1n the mob, and at 1nat tho press was go torrible that I think it pos- siblo I might haye saved, if not her life, at lonst & limb or two. I could not, however, savo lor cap, which perished fn tho attompt. Shoon wero, howovor, the prinoipal and miost goneral oss. Boveral ladios wont - in batefoot § othiors, aftor losing thelr own, got tho stray Bhoos of othor peopl o, und wont fu with ono rod and one yollow shoo,” - Shoridan’s spocch at tho trial scoms to have oroated o profoundor impression oven than that above roferred to, Mon aud womon wopt copls ously over the grand climaxes of the spenler, andat its conclusion Burke caught him in his armain o trankport of enthuslnsm. It was on this oconsion that Gibbon listencd with omotion 0 Lo rolates in bis miscollancous works, to thab nesngo, dolivored * in tho prosenco of tho Brit- sh natlon,” in which Shoridan, nftor doclating that tho facta which ho had to rolato wero * un- paralloled in atrocity,” added that ** nothing oqual in crimimlity was to bo tracod in an- clont or modern history, in the corroet pes riods of ‘acitus or tho luminous pnges of Qibbon," It is raolated that tho historian, nat~ urally highly flattored at tho complimont, asked o friond, sitting noxt {0 him, to ropeat ox~ actly what Shoridan “had sald. "bb," was the roply, “ Lo snid something about your volumin~ ous pagos.” A yoar lator tho natfon sras shakon #o its con— tro by the oxcitomont growing out of tho King's tomporary insanity, which it was at ono timo thought might prove incurable, Tho plottings and countor-plottings botwoen the Court sud tho _Anti-Court party, ropentedly alluded fo l:g Lord Minto, llustrato the Dittornoss of o THE QUARREL BETWEEN GEORGR NI, AND THE TUINCE OF WALES, thon a mattor of painful notorioty throughout tho Kingdom. Ever sinoo tho accossion of the Houso of Hanover to tho Dritish throno, it seoms to Liavo bacomo a_gotiled rulo that tho roiguing soveralgn ehould quarrol with tho holr ngpnrunt, and at tho prescnt day it i notorious that Victorla and hor eldeat son have not alwaya been in accord. The proiligacy and exiravagance of tho Priuce of Wales doubtloss did much to alionate bis fathor's affeotions, but Lord Minto insists in mnany passagos of i correspondouca that this rosult was also duein gront moasuro to Queen Chatlotto’s unnatural hatred of hor malo offspring. Ho nleo intimates that sbe porsist- ontly widenod tho broach botwoon father and son in order to strengthen and confirm hor own influenco ovor the formor, Tho King aad tho Court being Tory in tholr politics, tho Princo aud lis brother, the Duke of Yor, wors of courso violont Whigs, and Lord Minto ' scoms to bave baen ona of their most trusted sdvisors, Io the midst of tho fierco wrangle over tho Regoney bill in Parlinment, the King bogsn to mond, and his recovery was tho signal for an outburst of boistorous loyalty, which was pramgtodmom, vorhaps, by distrust of the son than by aftection for tho father. - By tho middle of March London was nightly blazing with flumivations, while hor groat thoroughfures Bwmrmod with nolsy crowd of patriotic sub- jeots. Lord Minto vouchos for the truth of the Tollowing story: THE PRINOE OF WALES MODDED " On the day of tho illumioation tie Princos dined with the Irish Deputies at Lord Hort- ford's, The Princo and the Dulo of Yurk went away togethor in the Princo's concl, and wore going to the opera, In soma of the narrow strects the coach was slopped by other nnrflnaua, and the mob soon knoew tho Priuce’s. They called ¢ God pavo the King ' while tho Prince, lotting down his glassos, jowned shem in ealling vory hoartily, and boiloood ¢ Loug livo the King I' and so forth, with the mob.” But ono man callod out to him to cry * Pitt forever!' or *God_bless Pitt - The Princo said he would not ; but called out ¢ Fox forover!' sud ¢ God bless Fox!' Tho man, and I belicye somo oth- ors, bogan to insist on hid saving * Pitt forover |’ and I beliove ho said ‘ Damn Pill—Fox forover I on which a mau pulled the coach door open, and the Prince endoavored to jump out among them in ordor to_dofend horsolf ; bub thio Duke of York kopt him bacl with ono arm, and with tha other struck tho man on tho hoad aud called to the coachman to drivo on, whiol. ho did ata groat puco, the coach door. flapping about as thoy went ; and so they got to the opora.” Lord Blinto eoms to have had a more charl- table opinion of the Prince than was ootortained by the majority of thoso admitted t6 his confl- dence, ‘“Ho i out of luck,” he writos, *for not boing oxtramoly popular'; for tonth part of his popular quelifics, and indeed of his good qualitics, haa mado the fortunesof many Princos sud favorites of the poople., In alfter lifo ho considerably modified his opinion, A fow weeks aftor tho Kiug's recovery his soo- ond gon, thae Duke of Yorl, fought a duel with &, r. Lanox, attached to the Coutt party, 10 which e narrowly oucaped serious injury. Itere ia an sccount of his irst Intorview with his august pa- ronts aftor the affair: EING, QUEEN, AND S0, ' “Tho day boforo yosterday the Duke of York wout himaelf to the Kiug and Queen. Ho saw the King firat alone, who way oxcussively pifaot- ed, sud showod the strongost marke of agitation and tendernesa for lum on this ocoasion ; but what is romarkablo is, that the door being ajar, and the Queen in tho next room, tho King siolo gently to the door and ghut it to, that ho might not Lo seen or hoard in theso oxprossious of natural affection. When tho Quoon cume in, she took no notice at all of the transactiou, good or bad. Charlotte bus tho brooches, but God forbid I should ever know it othorvise than by report.” 'Phat life and property were not very scoura in Tondon in tho last doeado of the eighteonth contury may bo inferrcd from tho following ac- count d TIE MONSTER, “Tho grant t«qflc at presout (April, 1790) is tho man callod the Mouster, who goos dbout stab- bing women. No loss than fourtson women, Bome of whom are of fashion, have heen attacked aud wounded by him, Groat rowavda are offered for his approhiension’; Lo i eupposed to be wad, and to biavo rocoived soma injury from your sos, which ho takes this method to rovenge. Ho is #aid to succeed in clearing the streots of women much better than Bir . Dolbden, who brought in 2 bill for that purporo laat year, Sir Sampson Wright says thero ave now 4,000 banditti about Loudon that ho knows of. _Thoyrob in tho mid- dle of the day at Charing Oross.” Renwiok Williama, the so-called Donstor, was triod and convicted in London n few montha afterward, In connaotion with this subject we bave tho following account of E A BTRANGE INCIDENT whichhapponed to Lady Minto herrolf,then Lady Etliot, wile lier carriago’ wag stauding ot the door of one of the great London shops, in & crowded thoroughfure : **Wiule hor sgister who accompanied hor was speaking to n ehopman st ono window of the gnrriage, o gontleman, perfectly woll knownto Lieras & membor.of socioty, rodo up to tho other at which eliosat, and stooping toward ber, but without a sign of rocognition, or a depracatory or oxplanatory word, snatched hor puwieo from ont tho carrizge basket and rode away with it at full speed. Liody Efliot never saw it again, In’ after yoars she_was wont to tell tho story ns an instanco of tho dosperate coursos to which tho gombling monis of tle day drove its victims, but nat even to hor children did sho over confids the namo of the {ndividunt who hnd placed him- self at hor moroy aud was saved by her silonce from overwhelming disgraco.” MAVAME DE BTAEL, “1 was fuvited on S\lmh[y ovoning to Madame do Finhaut's, s Fronoh bol csprit and friend of Windham's, to moer Madamo de Stasl, Bho iy ouo of those wowen who are greedy of admira- tion, aud lay thomselves out for it in all m?s, purchasing nu¥l quuntity of anybody at any price, and, among othior priccs, by & trafio of Tudtual flattory, Sho is also to Liave the wholo conver~ uotion to hersolf, and to be tho contre of every company eho 14 in." STATUESQUB DRAPEDIES. ‘“At & ball givon by Lady Abarcorn, there wero twolve lndics in the garb of utatues—that fs to gay, with the fih’d]e clovo up to the broast, aud the drapory falling, or inteuded to fall, statuo- fashion, below, Lhoy were not uncovered, but, by sl accounts, it produced almoat all tho effeot of nukoduoss, * Goorgo Ellia asked Mrs, Poole, who: was ono of them, whotnor sho was reslly ss naked ns she appoared to be, and sho anid she roally was very near. Peoplo sald that womoen obsoryed that men would not como to their au- wewmblies or soclaty unlesa they had guming or gomo othor atronger Inducement, and that they try this cheapor sud safer mothod of attraoting thiora, “The rtyle now oortainly makes private soclety tauch more liko a wasquerade or publio place, whore you soo & mixture of 'pmw oand im- puves, and tho latter pursuling their business in tholr own way.” Avthe Frouch revolution guthored strongih tho emigres bogan to pour into Fugland, and thoir habits and mannors provoke conslderablo criticinm from Lord Minto, Horo in a ploturo of an unfortunate mnan of anclont linongo wlio had flad from. thio guillotine, loaving o Lefploss tam- ily behind him: . FILTIY HADITS OF TRX FRENOT REFUGLRA, “Tho situation and misfortuves of theso poo- o aco roully intorosting and affooting. T novor now such dirty bonats, howovor, men and ‘womon, gontlo and elmplo, Bobville lodgas in a nn‘nctly now, nica-looking Liouso, almost in tho olds, and hns tho first floor for himeolf and & friond, It might bo as sweot and comfortablo 08 ho likes himuolf without nuf uxponsog but o Rlll of water dud a broom, was obliged to old my handharchiof to my noso whilo I was in lis draiving-room, and his bodroomwas tao Qithy to go into; but I saw thot, for economy, tis and his friond (a man) slosp togothor. “Ihis mau, however, Lna a largo houso with & docont :on;}nc in Normandy, ond Isof » vory good amily While on his misslon to Viouna Lord Minto bad tho opportunity of mooting many distio- gwiskied mon, and of none of them has ho givon amore extraordinary scoount than tho follow~ ing in » lotior writton from Pragus: FIRLD-MARSUAL RUFARNOW, “Imust not on any mooount be quoted, but i fu tho most porfost bodlamite that over waa sllowed to bo at large. I nover saw anythiug ao stark mad, nud, 08 {t appoars tomo, so contempt-" ibly in overy respoct. Lo give you somo liitlo notion of ‘his mannora, I went, by !pfohlt— ment, to pay my firsb visit, which I was told ‘would be ohly ono of corenfony. was full-drossed, of course, and elthongh I’ dld not expeet him o’ bo 8o, I was not pro- pored for what I saw. Aftor walting a good whilo fn the anto-chamber with some mides-do~ camp, a door opened and & little, old, shriveled oroatura iit & pair of red breeches and his sbirt, for all clothing, ‘bustled up to mo, took ma in his srma, and embraced mo withhis shirtslocves, mndo me a utrlng; of higb-ilown, flummory com- limeuts, which o concluded by kirsing mo on oth clhiooks, aud I am told £ was in luck that my mouth ogcaped, Ilis shirt-collar was but- tonad, but ho had no stocke and it was mado of matoriols sud of a fashian, aud was about a5 cloan and white as you mny hiave sgon on somo Inborors at homeo. On his arrival here ho was walted on by the commandant at tho head of tho Auatrian ofilcors, and reccived thom oxactly in tho samo attire. ®Ilis wholo maunor aud conversation nre as mod as bis first appear- auce, and indeed thoss about him seom con- acioua of it, for nobody is sulforod to 500 him nlone. Ho is slways attended by one or two nophews, Who nover tako thoir oyos off him, and so00m to mo to keop him in the sort of subjection that o keepor gonerally docs. What ho snys is by no means intolligitile,—at lenst it roquiros a good deal of thought and ingeuuity to got n monning out of it. \Vith all thia ho 18 tho most ignorant and incapabla offlcor in the world ; doos nothing, and can do nothing himeelf, hardly ovor lowing whatis going forward'; nover looks at o map, nover visitan post, or recon- noitres tho ground ; . diues at 8in the morn- ing, goes to bod for the rast of the day, gots up muddlod and orazy for a_fow hours in tho ovon- ing oud has owed his wholo euccess in Italy to tho oxcollont Austrion officors who servod undes him. Indiffficulty and dangor ho totally losca Lis hond, nnd lots himsolf. o lad vory submis- sivoly; tho danger ovor, ho bogins to Vapor and tako all tho honor.” The ploturo of England'a great naval horo which follows, if loss ropulsively colored thaa tho lust, is still not a flattorivg ono : NELSON AT HOME, T went to Nelson's on Saturdey (March 1802) to dinnor, and raturnod to-duy. i tho f noon. Tho wholo cstablishmont ‘Eud way of lifo 18 such as to make mo. angry, a3 woll ns _molancholy; but I cannof altar i, and do mot feol mysolt obliged or at Jiberty to quarrel with him_for his woakness, thoufih nothing shall over induce mo to givo tho smallost countonanco to Lady Hamil- ton, 8ho looks ultimataly to the chaneo of mar- Tiago, a Sic W. will not b loufi in tho way, and 8ho probably indulgos a hopo that sho may sur- vive Lord {lul!on; in the moanwhile sho and Bir Willinm snd the wholo sot of thom are living swith bim ot his oxponso, Sho is in_high looks, but more immonso than over, 8he goos on cramming Nolson with trowolfuls of flm.mr{ whioh ho goos on takiug 19 quictly as 8 child doos pap. Tho lovashie mnkos to lim is nob only ridloulous, Lut disgusting : not only tho rooms, but the whole houso, ataircaso and- all, aro covercd with nothing but pictures of hor and him, of all slzos and sorts, and ropresonta- tions of hig noval actions, coats of arms, pioces of plate in his bonor, thoe flagstall of * L’Oriant,’ oto.,—nn excess of Yanity which counteracts its own purpoge, If it wos Lady H.'s houso thoro might be o protonso for it ; to mako his own house o mora looking-glass to view himself all day is bad taste.” Of Lord Minto’s acquaintanco with LITERARY MEN, save those living in tho world of politics or Jashlon, his corrospondenco affords but slight hiats. Waltor Scott was au occasionul visitor at Blinto Castle, and was excoedingly ' popular with tho younger iembora of tho family as o toller of atorios of hobgobling spectres, aud border fouds. A groat part if not the wholo of his *‘ Domon- ology and Witchoraft " was writton thore. Lord Minto also_bofriended Csmpbell on several ac- caslons, Family tradition has it that the poct wason o visit to Minto Castle whilo engagod upon his “Lochiel's Warning.” Lying awake ‘'ono night, with his mind full of the aubject, the famous linos occurrod to in; *Tis tho sunset of lifo gives mo mystical lore, And coming cventa cast thelr shiadows before, He aroso listantly to write them down, and to his disgust found ‘neither pen nor ink in his room ; b foaris thoy might vanish from his memory before tho morning, and feoling that they wera too good to bo lost, he actually rany up tho servanty, and did not return to bed unti 110 Iind fixed tho linos on paper. Wo close our_extracts from this Interesting ‘book with one illustrating a peculiarity of the Dukn of Gloucostor, cousin and son-in-law of Goorgo IIT. : A ROYAX, TORE, - #7 dined and slept on Baturday at Sir Goorgo Shoo's: o grent company, with the Duke of Gloucostor st tholr hoad.,. 'A8 80on ag tho oloth was romoved, Windbam foll fast asloop,—go sound that an hour afterward I attempted in vain to arouse him by epeaking pretty lond near bis ear, but nothing moved bit. ‘his continuod till wo retired to colles about 9 o'cloek, whon tho Duke of Gloucester singlod him out and took Jrim into & cornor of tho drawing-room, Every- body immodiately withdrow into tho next roam, with tho door opon, aud loft the poor sbrickon door to his fate, rejoiced that it was not oureolves, Ito remsined under this pro- tracted oporation till past 12, We conld oo him {from the other room without boing seon by tho Duko, and wo_wont by twos to obsorvo the pic- ture of suffering and misory which his wholo figare snd fnce oxhibitad, Tho Duke of Glouces- ter is famous for intlioting this sort of slow tor- ture, Sir Evan Nopoan dropped dowa the othor dnf under {t, on tha dor, apparentiy dend, and, Deing revived by cold wator sprinkled on_ hin faco and by cordils, as toon as ho waa & littlo rocovored the Duke loak him again” —_— Logislation in Leuisianz. T'ram the New Orleana I'icayune, And now comes a Sonnator nlmbly to the front, and relatos. that a certaln bill upon_ whioh ho hud his oyo has nover yob passed, even though it has boon enrolled, siguod, and *pro- mulgatod in the ofMeial journal, "Phio gontleman, Sonator Wharton, upon boing: approachod by a reporter on tho subject of a cortain bill which had been thus promulgated, rolates tha following story, o that thowe of the Northand Weat * who run may road ™ how our loginlative bodics do things in this *free and onlightened Htate ' “You soo, tho bill, No, —, I knew had a job inft, Bo I'wont tomy friondannd wrote ‘out tho numbor in large figures, and plased it on the desk, 50 that whou It was brought up they could sl shout* No' and dofoat the moasiiro, “Woll, I waited and waited, but no bill eame. The morning sossion was.over, aud we 0ame to tho evoning. Btill I watohod, but it wos not bmugl!;\t up, and accordingly noxt day, whon I mot tha Socretary, I told bira that tho bill had not passod, ' Yés,' o swore it had, and though I protested, n fow days after I saw it In tho ofii- cfal journnl, Now, I havo got seighiteen brother Houators, all witnessos that tho bill was uever touched, and, as I am going back noxt session, I Propose to show the wholo matter a dead swin- dlo, Tho bill may be o good_oue snd sll that, bub what I objeos to is, that it should bo signu& and paonmlunteu 04 & faw whon 1t was not even passed,” . e Only an ¥nch and a MHnlf of Lund. Fram the Sun Franefsco Chronicle. D‘n Aouday aftornoon in the Iiftosuth Dis- drloé Court & Judge, n Olerk of tho Coutt, & Bherlft, & shorthand reportor, throo luwyars, plaintiff, two defendants and six’witncases asslstod'by an sudionce of outsiders, conkumed half & duy jn dotsrmining who owned s ploco of und “an dneh and A half whie, and n thirty feet runuing down to. uothing. The lund was iu the rear of ‘a lot on ‘Lehamu strost and worth at the utmost not to oxcocd five dollars, This important snit was an ao- tion iu_ojsctmont brought by Daniol Russell sgoainat Fortman & Aars, tho browors, It ap- peured that the defondunts bad a survey inade, sud mora than iive yenrs bofora this snit was brouglit put theis buljding ou the line both pas- 4log biad agréod to, and that the Emnmr bad an fuch of tho dofondants, 1ot in tha front, which moro than componsatod for tho Tosn in tho roar, Bo tho Court told defondants to go in poaco, and mado plaintif pay tho costs, "o’ ondod tho nmallest ojoctmont auit over brought in this country, 3 THE CRESCENT CITY EXPLOSION. Arrival of the Wonnded Nurvivors in Ste Lonis—Norentives of tho Disnster. Lrom the St, Lonts Globe, March 28, The Clty of Vicksburg arrived at tho foot of Pino straot yestorday morning about 10 o'olock, liaving on board tho survivors of the oxplosion of tho fll-fated Crescout Oity. Boveral among the survivors havo mndo stata- ments of tho oircumstances immedintely pro- cooding tho explosion, but not even an indofiuito thoory or oxplanation'of tho oause s boen von- tured on, A @lobe reporter, Capt. Holl was_ an old and _exporionged rivor- man, and, withal, an intoligont @hntlomou, thought, porhaps, homight bo able to throw some light npon whit liag boon enveloped in outlro myatery, aud thorofore souglb him out, 1ia atatomont 18 of such an interesting charac- tor, and covors. 80 many polnts of. the trip and the acoldout uot horotofore alluded to of ex- plained, thut it is publishod in full : Tho Croscent Oity waa runuing at & vory good rato of spoed -on Tuosday morning, Maron 48, when wo ronchied tho foot of Montozzeuma Bar, near Trinr's Polut, aud nbout 10 miles bolow Helena, Avk, 1t waa about 0o'clack in the morning. I was in tho pilot-Louso, togothor with fivo other poraons, they bolug George Van Houghton, Goorgo Lancaster, Pat Bacon, Albort and G, W. Hall, I wantod to Bpenk to o person whom I gaw on tho bauk and know, aud wad i‘“ut on the point of going out of the pilot~ ouso, nud had my hand ontho door-knob whon the ehack came, The lurboard bollor oxploded, and tho forward part of tho boat appoared to sink down st once. In a #ocond tho starbosrd sido of tho boat bugan to sink, and tho jack-staff ralacd up and flew back with tromondous forco, thus indicating that the boat had brokon in two in tho middls, sud was porting. Tho ronr pact of tho boat bognn to sot- tlo immedintoly, and in_about ouns minnto I felt it atriko the bottom. The tap of tho pilot-house was blown over to tho starbourd side, and I went up over ono corner of the walls of tho pilot- Touso and foll smong the dobris, whilo tho brokon timbors and rubbish woro still falling up- on tho lower deck. The framo that hold the pilot-houso wheal was vory strong, and whilotho uppor portion of the wheel was blown of, the lowor'portion remained. Fragmaents of the boilercamo crashing through thio pilot-houso, A pioco struck my oar, spht- ting 1t and fracturing tho projecting part of tho skull Just bohind tho oar, When I all to tho lower dock among the mnes of broken rubbish, 2 heavy ploco of timber foll upon my right leg, and I found it so_ontangled that I could not ox- tricats mysolf. The pilot-house stove had also fallon near me and sot {ire to tho timbors, My clothing took fire; my pants and boot-log had burat noarly off, and mysel? sovorely burnt, and I was still unablo to got the timbors off, HMIIIE that I would burn up, I drow out my knifo su was gotting roady to'saver my log at tho kueo whon thio boat suddonly settled enough to allow tho timber to float, and I was thus rolievod, I suppose I was blown, Eurhnpu. forty feot into the air, but I rotained my consciousncss and presonco of mind, and boliove that L saw as much of the accidont as any one could Liave soon under tho ciroumetances, I will also makoe o statomont as to the condition of tho running power of tho boat, its manage- mont, and the causca that led to tho explosion. Tthe boat was n long time in making tho up trip from New Orlenns, aud somo liave regarded this ag an ovidouce that tho machinory was not in o od and safe condition, and not flt to bo used gr?r-thn transportdtion of pussongera, I nm cor~ tain that this is & mistako, and that tho machine- ry was perfoct and th a4 could havo beon. 'The Orcscont City mado very good time while running, and'the slownoss of the tnp is altogather agcribable to the many delaya to which she was snbject. She loft New Orleuns Monday, Marol 16, aud came 10_Graou- ville, juet abovo the city, that night, Hero sho lnid “up during the uight on nccount of tho fog, starting .Tucsdny morning at -pst, & o'dlock, iaking my bargo in tov. Auother flathoat was takon fn tow at Greenville and carriod to Donaldgouville. She had to lay up another night opposite lleudorson's Landing to fix a wrist that bad becomo looso. Thoy had to build up a big fire and beat tho crank and tighton it up. The next lay-up was at Oakley, Twhiore wo b to remain sl mglit, on Acedlnt of the fog. Ican tostify that the’ officers of the hoat wero very caroful duriog tho ontiro trip from Now Orloans to the timo of thd axplosion, Thoy uPpnnrcd tobo careful with the boilers espacinlly, and every few hours Icould hoar them blowing out the ateam and mud from tho mud-drums. 1 kopt s watchvon my barge all night, and was npa grent doal, and I noticed that tho 'ofticars of tho Croscent City mud tho watchoa woro fully up to their daty, Capt. Hall expressed his opinion of the ceune of the explosion, and gives & thoory whioh soema to be very plausible, and rory bo &n explanation | of an event that Lns shocked tho ontiro conutry, Ho spys that it i8 o woll-known chomical fact that cortain kinds of water gouerate gus more rapidly than others, and thin occmronce is fro- quently noticed at the confluence of rivers, or wharo water flows into & river from swamps and marshes, This suddon goneration of gas in boulora lins froquontly boon tho canse of explo- sious on owr Wealern rivers, and espeoially during tho spring when Ligh' wator i8 prov- alent sud thero 18 o great desl of mud and impuro mattor in the vivers, His theory is that & lorgo amount of gas Liad collected in the boiler, fuduced by the finpuro wator thay wero nayigating, and, the boller bocoming heated in somo placos ubovo the water-line, the gag ig- nited aud tho explosion followed. Helind known o stoamboat enrrying only sixty pounds of stoam to explodo from gas this way, Tho statoment of tho serond engineer, P, H, Dacon, who wos on watch at the time, is also of intercst and importpnce. Ho statos that ho was at the engino five) sinutes bofore the explosion, and exzumined tho guuge, and that thoroe was 140 pounds of steam on, aud tho water flush, Ho could give no dotinito explanation of tho oanse, but Lind an idea that the boilors must huve glven way, and thus produced the oxplosion, He hod just blown out tho boilors, and he folt nssured thora was not enough mud toload to such an nceident. Tha wator was clear aud tho boiler apparontly tight., e eays that it came 8o suddonly and unex )uulnfll{( that it will bo impos- siblo to form auything like o dofinito judgment a8 to the onuso uatil the wator goes down and tho Doiler and mnchinory of the sunlken boat are ex- amined. Whon the shook camo he was blown upward with the pilot-house, snd foll closo to Vuu Houghton and young Hail fu tho dobris snd among fiying timbors, Stiflod by the bissin stenm, 1o loaped into the river, and was roscue by partiea in o skiff, He-saw Cupt. Dawson on tho hurricane-deck ?ush .g4 tho oxplosion came, 2nd thinks ho must liave beou torn to frfl(imnms, and that it will be impossible to recover hie body. Jim Edivards, the carpentor, was working iu tho rear of tho boat, and wna stunned by the ahock, Ho thought' thie hog-chaing bad givon way, but, discovering that the boiler: had ex- ploded and tho boat was snking, b quickly mado bis cacnpo to tho barges. He ocould givo no {doa of the cause, and hud obsorved uothing wrong with tho mnchmu?. Of coursu the wildest oxcitemont provailed, and thoso who re« tainod thoir cousolousnexs Ery thnt the sight was torniblo, nud agonizing beyond - description, 8hockod and convulsod by s tromulous explosion; and exposod at once to the imminont and inmo- diate peril of buraing and drowning, tha sitna« tiou can bo ronlized ay boiug .one of oxtrome aoguish to all who woro pormitted to. survive, Lo’ thoso who woro cnt off #o snddoenly and without - premonition, aud tpm:ami, within a moumont, from the wators of tho grest Missiu- sippl to the banks of that dark river whoso watera ig death, there was no pain. ‘Tho resouo of thowo who had escapod was mado by tho atoumer Phil Alloo, which bhud passed up only a short timo beforo, nnd on hearing the nolio returned with nll possible spood, The sur- vivord wero takon on bourd and lundod at Mem- phis. Horo the City of Viaksburg toolk them in chargo and brought them to this city, At the prosent it does not seem that blame can bo attachiod to any partioular poraon, and the ac- cidont seems to be one of thoso which appears to bo without & known cause, and will probably al- ways romain iuvolved in mystery. ks - Whe Sinughtoring Procesy in Texas, From Fultow’s Letlers to the Balttmore Awmerican, Our Balthnore butchera would bo us much startlod as I was at tho wholesale procoss of killing carrlod on in the ostablishment. The ordinary plan of drawing tho stoor down to the black am]l atriking him on the hoad with an ax, i# 100 wlow for thio wholesalo butohory darried on hioro, About ono-doxon hiead are driven Into » small pen, juat nfilolontly large to hold that number olow ! Ylolwd, and & gato farced to bo- Lind them, This pon has an o{)nn slat plutform aoros tho top of it, upon which two men aro stationed with poles with shiarp-pomntod lnivos fixed ou tho oud of them, With a rapidity so~ quired by long practice, they luuxiu thoir speats into the nocks of the “affrightod and suruggling aulwalg, cutting the jugulur voin, uud onch successivoly fulls as if” atruok down with an ax, Tho blood spurts ont In streams ay if from & dozeu fountains, and in less than a wjuute tue whole pop-full aze down quivesing howover,” kmowing that’ o managomont 48 careful | in the throos of death, and covorod with blood, Tho door of the pon loading into tho rendering- room ia thon thrown opon, the animala drawn out in succousion, a knifo raplily splits the kin around tho ueok and down tho stomach, A rope i8 nttachod to tho uppor part of tho hido by a nlnmr, to the othor ond of which i s muls, which'lolsuroly walks off down thio yard enrrying tho skin of tlio animal with him, and leaving tho earonsa atill quivering with animal lifo. - A tacklo Lolsts thobody up to'n levol with tho mouth of ono of the immonno canldrons, aud in loss timo than wo have talan to desoribo the process, it 18 in tho socthing and boiling moss. ~Thero are four or flveof theso cauldrons, onch large onough to Liold & dozon baoves, and _thoy nro kept con- stantly golng during o kllllnq’ somson, Tho tnilow I drawn off into largo hoguhonda, and the remning of theso groat soup-kottles arg cari- ed ont on to what ia enlled tho * hash pilo,” con- sleting of bonos, Liotns, snd tha auimal mattor, lmu: ‘,}“”h oll tho fatty subatanoo has boon ox~ trnoted. e sl PROY. PEPPER. A Sitotch of Miiw Caroers From the American Atheneiim (New York). PROF. PRPTER In tho London population of about thres mill- fons, thora aro not moro than twenty porsons bearfug the name of Poppor: in Ireland, how- aver, they aro to bo counted by hundreds aud lhounnmé. Prof. Pappor, tho subject of tho prosent momolr, doos not trace back his family troo oither to Bngland or Iroland, put to Hol- Innd; from which country Linancostora orrivod in Liondon in tho rolgn of King Charles tho IL Tt ia probablo that tho name of Popper is & corrup-~ tion of tho Qormaou Pfoiffor, which hss boon changed, through tho procoss of law or phonetic docay, into tho designation of the familiar con- diment, Prof. John Henry Popper is tho fourth son of tho lato Chorles Bafloy Poppor and Ao, his wife, Ho way born in Woatminstor, whero his father wna well known and resposted as &n | ominont contractor of publicworks and govornor of many publio chnrities, having boen elocted to the dignity of Chlof Burgoss of tho anclont City and Libortioa of Westminator. Boing one of elovon children, it was undor- stood that ag fortunes could not be furnishied for 80 many, all would have to work for thomsslves, Consm}nnmly, Prof. Popper recoived & liboral oducatiod, commoucing school at five years of age. Ho went first to o preparatory ostablishe mont at Brighton (as o was thought to bo con- sumptive), then o a_colobratod achool for tho sons of gontlemen, called Lionghborough Houso aud fiually to King's Colloge; in whioh lns placo it was gettled that he waa to study for tho church. Horo, rosiding with the fellow~ studonts who mot frequently ot coch other's houses to try chomieal expori- monts, Prof. Peppor Locame imbued with an intonso love of goiouco, tastos which an hldu]gnut fatlor wisoly Indocsod by plaging him with Joha Thomns Goopor, Profossor of Chom- iutry and Physlca ot Grainger's Medical Behool. In this institution ho enjoyed for fivo yonrs tha thoroughly practical tenching of bis fespectod maater, working stendily in “the ]nburuwr{l, tho clnsg, and losturo-rooms, and attonding withl Lis toachor many of tho mora important civil and criminal trinls whore scientific evidomce was ro- uired. Prof, Cooper was not onlya good clhomist, but & most clever mechanlcian, aud in the well-appointod workshop atlached to tho laboratory, many instruments, and espocially as- tronomical ones, wore mado and used, as” Mr, Cooper was a very clover obsorvor, and oujoyed the frioudship of mon of aimilnr tastos, including Brunel, Faraday, Sir Jumes Bouth, Wollaston, Whoatstono, and Browstor. On tho occasion of the sudden illnes of Prof. Coopor, Ar. Poppor, at tho nge of 19, was callod to tho hodsido of hia master and asked o con- tituo the courso of chemicnl lectures to the studonts of tho Modioal. College. To this Mr. Toppor glaly agracd and spocdily mado a posi- tion and namo for himself 08 o cloar, simple, unaflooted exponont of soleuco. = Whon tho Itoyal Polytocinic was oponed in thio yoar 1840, Mr. Peppor assisted Prof. Coopor in proparing his lecturcs, tho first givon at that tomple of scionce; and some yoars - later was appolutod Drofessor of Chomistry, having under his control & very fino labora- tory, farnishod by tho Direators of that institu- tion, tho whole authority and management of which wero ultimately intrusted to Prof. Popper. Al the Polyteohnic_ Lo eatablishod & most suce Ccossful serics of dlonday evoning loctures for tho working classes, who were admittod us bona fide workmon at halt prico. Ho organizod classes for tonching chemistry, phyaics, Fronel, Ger- man, and mathomatics at vary low feos, 60 23 Lo induco huudreds of shopmen and others to om- Eloy their sparo time tn o teoful maunor, All is offorts in this dircct.on wore undor tho specinl patronngo of tho late Princo Albort. During o poriod of about twonty yonrs Prof, Poppor has boon known thronghout Buropo and many parts of America as 8_popularizer of sci- enco, stauding, 28 it wore, botweon the public and the discovorios of groat scientific mou, and maldng tholr valte and importanca approciabla by the least informed on sclentific subjocts. Prol, Poppor has probably loctured toa larger number of hoarora than any scientific contompor- ary, and hisaudionnon reachod their highost point whon le first applied or used on a grand soala tho illusion which now_gaes by tho name of Prof. Peppor's Ghost. It was from & toy modol wade by AT, Dircks, sud offored proviously in vain to several public ontertainors, that Prof. Peppor worked ont tho ilusion whioh produced 60,000 in one year at tha Polytechuio, and en- ablod mang othior persons to reulise fortunes, so that {t may bo estimated that this illusion has roalized in England, Fronoe, Gormany, Russis, India, America, Australia, atc., n sum of ot least a quarter of @ million pounds slerling. “'he Ghost illusion, with many oftier intorest- ing sciongiflo_discovorios, are all oxplained in Prof, Popper's popular worke on_scionce, pub- Jishod by Messs, Rontladgo and Mosars. Werno, of London and New York. Prof. Peppor lins Jactured to tho Quoon, tho lato Prince Consort, tho Princo of Wales, and othor membors of the® royal family of England, and has come to Amor- ien to locturo, and. to establish, if possible, o Polytachnic in Now Yorl. In the eourso of lus journoy through tho Statos he will collect all the information e can procure on the advanco of solonco and soiontiflo manufsatures in America, with a view of publhling a work on this im- portaut and great national subjoot. Trof. Pappor hopes vory shortly to bo in & po- gltion fo announceytha names of wealthy Amori- can gentlemon who will ald and support him in Dhia offorts to fonud in this city a place of ration-- ol scieutific outortainmonts, shmilar to thoso at the Polylechuio in London. Iia address Is at thoe Astor House, whera all communications aro rocoived, Other members of Prof, Pepper's family have mado thoir mark in the world in other branches. His brothor, Xr. Richard Whoal- er T'homas, has made valuable discovories in connaction With the art of photography; and his uncle, John Tarte, rotired Eomo yoars ago with o handsome compotoncy from the oditorship and part_propriotorship of s paper whick once com- potad succossfally_with the London Times, to- wit ¢ tho Morning Merald. Prof. Poppor's loctures sre charactorized by a romarliabty ploasant and graceful dolivery, ex-. trome lucidity of explanation, and the almost In- varisble succcss Of his experimonts, In_ his Daunds the most dificult and abstruso probloms of acienco bocomo intelligible to auy ouoc of or- dinery eapacity, and, owing to tho'possession of theso qualitics, Prof. Poppor hns dono more to pnpulaflzn selonce than perbaps any other of ita many oxponants, Two looturcs have alrondy beon givon at Stoinway Lall, aud have been woll nt- tonded. Further opportunitica will ba afforded of improving our acquaintanuco with tho lecturer ot Irving 1all during -tho eusuing week. A course of lectures is also being delivered at_tho Collego of St. Francis Xavior, Wo wish Prof, Popper overy 8uccoss in Lig endeavors to gatah- Jish o Poltechnic il tution iu this city, a8 wo feol assured it could not fail to oxercise n healthy iufluenco on the eduoation, not only of thoe rising generation, but of those who have alroady sg- sumed tho {oga virilis. ———— Tho Prussinn Ieadsman, Tho latest arrivel of a distinguished forolgnor in Amorion {a the hondsman of His Mnjesty the King of Prussia. This publio functionary has taken up his residence in Now York City. 0 14 only 66 yoara old, but Lns, during i careor as exocoutionor, cut off forly-gix heads, A roportor from tho Slar ntorviewed 'nim ro- coutly, ‘Tho hoadsman snid : “Ilard timos and ridionloua obloquy causod mo aud my threo daughters to leave the old country, By ‘hard times’ I meau the new crimival code of Gormauy, Nothiug could bo moro ill-advised than that. I and my four vollaaguea thought o as soon a8 the Gora man Parlinment was foollsh enough to paes it. Whot hes boen' the consequences? Why, pir; in tho past twolys monthe thero havo heen moro murdors committod in Burlin alono than formerly, whon wo woro about, wore porpe- trated in the wholo monarchy, But, uir,” ho ndded gorrowfully, ‘‘all this s~ prinoipally tho fault of Iy Majosty the Emperor. Old William diglikos to mgn doath-warrants. IIo studies avor them too long, and, worst of all, ho nover wauts o woman fo bo Lohoaded, 'Two years ago I had an old girl who had xio!snnnd her bugband, Juat whero I wanted hor, I weutwith my *im- plomonts’ to Culon to diupatoh hor, and, fust whon I arrived thore, e tologram arrived "thero from Borlin commuling her uIaull?\lco to ponnl sorvitude for lfo; ond had alroady cut off her bairl* Our roporter thore- upon _vontured to question Low tmany besda My, HehasSenbarg had out of destingly obtalnin Yot me seo,” eald tho ox-headsman, connting his victims off on uis fingers, * forty-five—no, forly-alx.” “Tlow many of thom woro womon ?" aalad tho roportor. ** About a dogen,” said Mr. Scharffouberg, **and I wish thero had boon loxs of thom. They gave mo moro troublo than_ nlt the men I had fo put to death; Why, the lnst oraon of that kind 1 hind to ationd to was anold iady with hor som. l‘hriy bnd poisoned tha satlor'to ot i monor. T thongultho mtor ought to havo haor head cut off first s but the clorle of tho cotrt, s meddlesomo sort of follow, diroctod me othorwigo, and soI hadto ‘out’ isohnnldnn) tho young man firat., Ilis mother ook It vory badly, 1Icould hardly got her in ‘gond shapo’ on tha blook.” “What whore your emolumonts in Prussia?’ nsked tho roportor, © “*'Throe hundrod thalora for onch hond ent off,” ropled tho ox-hoadéman j * and, besidos, T had in iy dintelot oll tho skinving of fallen cattls, Ihad, howover, monoy of myown, both my {;\'nn(f{nther and fathor having been in the sama businens, O, thoy had a good timo of it; my grandIather alona had ovor two hundred excou- tions ! *Two hundred exocutions! " Yoe," ho sald proudly, * nnd bialt of them ho broke on tho wheel." “Did you over bronk anybody on tho wheel," asked thio roportor, * No,” ho roplied, * the worat I did wes cut~ ting witl the sword, and littlo dla T ko it ¢ for it is an uncortain woy of dolug it. ~Give mo tho axe, and tho hend flios off liko nothing.” * And you say tha now German codois bad ?" ssked tho reporter, *Why, of courss,” snid tho old hoadsman. ' Vory bad! Very bad] Just seo what thoynro doing in Borlin, Ono marder a day, and not an oxceution for six months. The Emporor is too soft-hoarted. 1Mo will pardon thom all, That's not the way of doing things, In 1847 I ‘cut’ nine follows in the Marion Worder Disttlat, and wo nover ind & murdor sinco, Thoy do things batter fu Poland. They whip there the fellowa 10 bad that thoy do not know whero thoy aro.” ‘-tnuc thoy do not kill thom?" enid " tho ro: portar, ** Do not kill thom|* exolaimed the 6ld heads- mun, ueornfully. “*Fow of them do anrvive, in- dood! 'fho Russlan lash is ns good a8 an ax. But bardly anybody hears of “the cufprit’s death,” ) Mo reporter bad had enough of tho heads- man’s oxporlences and opinions, end bade him good-night, TIVE DOLLARS OR FIVE DAYS, Mow n Went Troy Justice was Vies timizod. From the JWlutehati (N, ¥:) Tinea, . An incidontocenrred at tho Stato Fair Grounds, Dotwuon Troy and Albauy, last fall, which thé Times {8 tho first to publish. A polico force was placed about the grounds to provont pooplo from kealing tha fonces, thoro- by dopriving tho Agrioultural Socloty of tho prico of admission. 'I'he second day of {ho fair n policoman frrosted o man in the act of clan- admittanco to tho fair s:mumla. Tho prisonor was brought .boforo ustico Grattan of West Troy, who, by-the-by, i ono _of tho most wholo-souled Irishmen in ‘Wast Troy, . The Justice wns sitting in his offico whon the policoman ontored with prisonor in chargo. #Your Honor,” énid tho officer, * I Lava & man whom I arrostod in trying to scale the fair- gronuds fance.” ““Stand up, sirl” said Mis Honor to the pris- onor in his usual megisterial dignity. ¢ What wa8 you trying to stalo in for, yo villain? " Trisonor—* Ploaga your Honor—" * Hould your tonguio," snid IidHopor, bring- ing his fist down upon the table with a heavy thud, **Mr, Oficar, state to the Cooxt what dia- bolical act tho villainous ragcal was ongaged in when you nabbed him," Oftlcer—** May it pleass the Court, I was on the north inside fence of the fair gronnd by a tree. .| I obsorved tho prisoner skulking about outside, ond I thought ho moant mischiof of soma kind. 1 8tood bohind the tree whon the viilain, not seolng mo, jumped tho fenco. I immedintoly collared Lim and brought him bofore you, your Lonor, That's the man,” Justico—* Yo Lnrd-hearted monster, you, Aint yees ashamod to bo robbing a paor Agrioultnral Hocioky, yo villaiu? Tho Coort fincs you 85 or flvalq‘nys, and may the Lord Lave morey on your aoul. . Prisonor—** But, your Honor—" ¥ Tustico—" Not & word—yoes pays tho fiues or yeos goos to fail.” 3 Prisonor—** But, vour Honor, I haven't only 850 which my {o_oorruuthnr gavemae to pay a noto with to-day,” You wouldn't take that from me when, if the note is not paid, my otd mother will ba suod to- Py Justice—* You've hoard the sentence of the Coort. -Unless you pay you gaes to jail for five e v, Prisoner—* Listen, your Honor—" Justico—*Mr, Officor, this coort is adjourned ; tako churgo of the prisonar, and unless ho pays in five minutes ‘jug’ bim,” The prisoner, sooing that the Court was inex- orablo, pulled uphis Hight trowsarlog, drow out o fl‘PW of paper from bLis boot, which, after un- rolling, was found to conttin a fifty-dollar greenback, Ho pasaed {t to the Justico, who ro- turned him forty-five dollars in change. Tho Justico placed the groonback in his wallet, and the officer and prisoner withdrow, ‘The next day the 'Squiro went to the bank to doposit, whon tho casbior politely informed him that tho €50 groonback was o counterfoit, It immodiately ocourred to His Honor that the 'lmgu'? olicor and prisonar wera * disty swind- or. Binco thnt time the hare mention of “five dollara or five days " in Justice Gratian's henr- ing subjects the audacious man who dares utter it to & fino for contempt of court, Pl sl D i Qucen Isabelln’s Wasband, It is bavoly four yenrs sinco Don_Francis do Assiasis, consort of Quoen lanbelin L1, of Spain, rosided in the most sumptnous apartments of tho Royal Palaco of Madrid, Tho royel ox- ehequor was alwnys nEan to him, and ho gratitlad Lis expensive tastos by purchasing large num- bers of the finost horaes in tho world, aud by ne~ ?mrlug tho masterpieces of TFrench and tohan ebenislerie ; forming, in tho courso of a fow yoars, o lttle museum of curiously wrought and exceedingly costly writing dosls, inlald with penrls and procions stoncs; oany clinirs, npon which ingeniua cablnet-makors had spont yeurs of ausiduous Jabor, aud work-boxes and caslicts of surpassing benuty and enormous yoluo, Whon thoroyal family was so summarily expoliod from Spoin, Quoen Isabella had to loavo most of her valuablos in Madrid ; and her unfortunate husband arrived in Bayonne, ou his way to Parig, with & few trunks containing Jittlo bovond his porsonal wardrobo. Hliu horsos, hin dismonds, and his above-men- tionod cotloction ‘of costly articles of artlstio ebenisterie had romained in Madrid, 'W'ho horses wero copflscated by the new Govornmont for military purposos. . What beduma of bis din- ‘monds” bus never beon ascortained; aud his *mugoum” was dostroyod by tho indignnut populaco whon, upon invading fhe Royal Paluco, thoy found that Don Francis do Asslssis in ‘beon o rockiess a8 to havo placed on & splondid Murillo in his sitling-room a papor targot, at whioh he had fired numerons shots from an air- EiumL almost dostroying the suporb pniuting, inco 1870 ho has "been living obsenraly in Vi- onna. GERMAN OPERA. M'VIQKER'S THEATRE, {ONDAY, Maroh %, To THURSDAY, April 5, and ’ Yo M oy TN AT B e MASANIELLO, Ty o LIEDENK RANZ, IIANS BALAYKA, (Jumi;mmr Chiorus of Sovonty Momburs, Oroliostra of Foriy-five, - Now Costumos Row Sonry and. Avelgtuionts, - Popules Bricor- ud $1,00 rodorvod, and $1.00 and 76 ots. admission, —Li- Pulwfi. Tua. Noxb waok~JANE GOOMBS in & sorios of bt Kront olinracters: & NEW EDITION OF CHROMOS! TIE POPULAR OHIROMOS, “BAW RECRUITS,” “WASIING DAY,” and “IROWING DAY, Just roproducod, To ba glven away by tho GREAT ATDANTIC AND PACIFIO TEA CO., 118 West Washington-s 133 Twenty-sooond-at. BOKERS BITTERS. Ioware of Conntorfolts. ERACTIONAL OUR: mwéf; Psfikages FRACTIONAL GURRENCY FOR BALR AT . IRIBUNE QEFICE, st SUSEMENIRG, o i M'VIOKER'S THEATRE. MONDAY, MARCEL GO, And SATURDAY MATINEH, MASANIELILO. Grand Opein in 5 Acts, 13y AUBER, porformod by tha LIEDERKRANZ. HANS BALATKA, Conductor, With sn fmmonso cast, _Uhorus of Bevonty, Orbestra of Furty-flve, NEW COSTUMES, NEW APPOINTMENTS, NEW SOENERY, POPULAR PRIOES—Rovwrrod Hoats in P‘fl“fl.‘l‘:fl Drase Ofrolo, and Haloony, 81.60; Admisslon, 3100 lory, Rosarvad 1158 "Enlrr, Mdiaiision, 76 donts, This, MONDAY Trantng. March 0, tho Groatost Ollo Fint apooabtir st TS BOMO v . A4 Gy {;5({;»1},;1«5"1 MOULIONT ‘and ATAX, THH DR Firnt, s a; .. Ol VR ia s M RO DTy, Quoon of orio- tal b 3 WApacialenpsgimanyat e var célobritod Athlotes,the Y. PAGK roat Post TTorn Gl WA o iy o 1. OTRIARDON, tho RO AL g R AT o cvor-nasniar 1 3 RIYNOLDS BROTHEIS, and tho LEON BROTHIRE in thu groat Olio Biil. ‘ 5 Sl fo Somalide with tho famous Ravol Tabloauk : A “TEHR BRIGANDS,”? TAST Bxtns TADIER Niais_Tueniny, Maroh 01, 1trovran LADIES' Niaur—Thuredny, April 9. ADRUIRE FORGLAR SATINER-Welnoaday Hext, at & ADELPII GARD-The wondorful gymasstio foats of Zigring, Monlton, aud Afve Aro iteamed Hio ariaiis lculfl of tho nge. The Olfo BUll may cafoly challenge th world. Ko mMI{ rpocinl act stara havo perhaps nover, in auy theatro of olther Uontinont, appaared ins ainglo par- "~ GLOBE THEATRE, LAST WBEK OF TEB Jee Bros. and Chrisde’s GREAT PANTOMIME TROUPE. EVERY BYENTG and WEDNESDAY and SATUR- XY STXTIN K s, Goon 1o Fut's tost Howsntiom Humpty Dumpty ABROAD. ACADEMY. OF MUSIO, SECOND AND LAST WEEK of Amerioa's most Bs- ‘Witching Songstress and Contedionno, Mrs. Jas, 4. ] AT RS And iae Gomic Opora Gompary: st pradustion ta G- 2ago of thia faious Buropoan Novelty (kdaptcd from tho £Sneh oxprosswy for Mra, Oates), aatitiod o DEADAM ANGOTS CHTILD, tto, 11 1 o S, intod WAl helfinas. Costiate, Sow Seouts BR. focts, and H]!_A‘Xk"nl Musio. MYERY OPERA-HQUSE, Monroo-st., bot, Doarborn and State, ringtn, Cofton & Kemble's Minstels. An entira chango of programmo, Firattime of tho Orl- ental burlosque BT OVUN TTE AXTNIE: Tho Rajirond Juzetion, To Blacl Beipado. Walting far A West Sido Stago,” 2y Only Friend. ~Nowcamb, b, Oourtwright, Lindon, Arliugton, Cotlon, and Komble ia wovaral Nor Spocialtfos, Esory lsoalug, _Matinos on Baturday. HOOLEY'S THEATRE. MONDAY, MAROH 20, Reappearance of John Dillon azd Hoolsy's Comedy Company, 'mr.xxsm' OF MR, RUSSELL BOGGS. A gTOAt AL Fiest timo this soason of Dartloy Camp- boiyd Uoautitit Deamia, T RIS S0 With Now Sconory snd a poworful Cast. KINGSBURY MUSIO HALL, PEPTERS GHOM, TO-MORROW INIGEIT. NEW PUBLICATIONS. Tho Best Horel of 1 Seasn. D. APPLETON & €9, 540 & 551 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, PUBLISH IN A FEW DAYS, A DAUGHTER OF BONERILA, By CHRIBTIAN REID, Anthor of **Valario Aylmer," '‘Morton Houso," ote,, Onovol., 8vo, Tlustrated. Paper covors, 81; clotl, $1.80. +Tho charaoter of Norah,' tho piincipsl Loroing of the now nuval catitlod * A Daughter of Lohowmis,’. in & revelation, It §3 by far tho tinoat doliucation of foinnle obarastar which hins apyosred frowm this gitted writer," D. A. & CO. also publish BY THE BAME AUTHOR, Al Hlustratod. I VALERIE AYLMER. 1 vol, 8vo, Pa. DO CIVOTS, SI.OOé cloth, S1.60. IT. MOR'FON HOUSE, 1vol., 8vo. Papor covars, §1.00 ; cloth, S1.50. III. RIGHTED AT LAST. ‘8vo. Papor . oovers, 51.00 ; cloth, $1.60, IV. MABEL_ LBE. 1 vol., 8 vo, Paper Govor, SLi oloth, SL50. V. HBB-TIDH, AND OTHER STORIES. Papor doveri, 1 oloth. SLEO. V1 NINA'S ATONZMENT, Papor cove ors,$1; oloth, $1.60, Eithor of the ahiove sent froa by mail o any addross in thie United States, on recelnt of tho vrlco. BOOTS AND SHOES. Bankyupt Sale OF STOCK OF BOOTS & SHOES, &€, AT BVANSTON, ILL. Unilor tho order of the Conrt In tho mattor of John O. Tussoy, & bankruot, tho atock in trado, fixturos, and tind~ iugs of safd Fussey. ns spovified Iu au fnvontory’ ‘{errora or oiiisslons to bo allowed) in the hands of tho uindo: od. Bt tho storo tatoly accupfod by enid Fassey Jn kv nnd aleo ono horeo; part of the o/foots of said hankra Al bo #0ld to 1ho hixhest and bost biddor. aled blde upon tha nmount as apucitiod in sald inventor, invitodupta Monday, tho Bth Agrfl noxt, st 16 o'clock a, ., fllklllllr for cast ot 4 ad S moutia’ nogatiabla paver, witl ap: yrovod sogutity (poei(ylug matnts of sseutiiyl o tuo bid: dar may oloot, subjrct Lo the annroval of tho Court. W. 5. SCOTT, Provislonal Assignes. e ——— e STOOKHOLDERS' MEETINGS. e of e S, Lowis, Jacksonvilie & Ciieaga Raitroad Company. Citteaco, 1il., March 10, 1874, Tho annual mooling of tho Stack and Bond holdors ot this Cdmpany for tho vlostion of Diractors for tho onsulng year, and for the fransaction of into bus 2tiae apurops Tous: wlll be bold at 1 Ublcago & Alton Itail, rond Comipany, I Obi onday, tho Sth day of ‘April nox, batwesn the hours of 10 s, 1. and 4 o'aloc] s 10 transfor hooks will bo olusad at thn olosa of bust: nas liours un tho ay of Ma ho. o Kot foree™ ROBERT H, NOLTON, Sed'y. NOTICH. The anutial menting of the Stockholders of tho Caln- mot and Chicayo Caual and Dock Oompany will be held 2% tho itieo of the Copany, 1)) Denrturniat., "o WHDNESDAY, April1, 1674, st 10 o'cloalk u, . A. B DOWNS, “BUSINESS OARDS. W.C. WATTS & CO., 21 Brown's Bulliling, Yivorpoal, Bollelt consigumonts of Prosisions, Lard, to., and oxo- cut urdurs tor tho hurchass aud rale of ‘ssmo’ for fature ipmant or dolivory, ° Advanoes mado un couslgmnunts, Il infoemation iffordul by ous (Honds, Mosers. Foi hy No. 25 99 Wiuim-st., Now York. “W.F. Stetson & Co., Deanlers in Patents and Patentod Articles. Over Quinoy Markot, Boston, PROFESSIONAL OARDS. DF . OLIN, DR. A. G. 187 Washington-st. The oldeat and longeat-looated Physiolan in tho city in the troatmont of all Chrapio sl Dissasnn Qall o writes