Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 12, 1874, Page 1

* VOLUME 28, CHAMPAGNE WINES, THE TEADING BRAND OF THE TIMES. onlet &(C° JF. RIFTFIIL.AIRIDE SO S, Sole Aaents, IWO. 4R ‘V'E.EFE:Y-ET:, INEW ¥YORK. LRY. New and Beautiful Designs received daily di- rect from the Manufacturers, especially for the Holidays. C.D o098 ST.AT -7, HOLIDAY GOODS: Tnion-Square, New York, Are now receiving their importations for the Holidays, and will open New Goods each day for some weeks, - * Their stock will be larger and richer than @aver before offered by them, * Early selections are recommended, as having tho advuntage of tho first choice, and the avoidance of the hurry and confusion of the latter part of tho geason. Purchases reserved until the delivery is or- dered, During the month of Decembér, commencing on the 7th inst,, their store will remain open in the evening, CHRISTHAS PRESENTS TOKS, GAMES TRIOKS) GAMES; AUTOMATAN BOPR WALKEI, Branch, 23 Unlon-Squaro, Now Vork, CHRISTMAS TREES! Bplondid Evergroons, all sizes, good and eheap, ¥. K. PHOENIX, Bloomington, TIL. OCEAN NAVIGATION. Nationel Tine of Steamships INOTICH. ithe te hi lwaya be d Bailing from el‘:’WN DAY an BATUI ing from N, York for Lendon (diroct) svoey fortalght, : steorage, ab greatly gl b . “Oabin parssge, Fon, Sy curroncy ! ovkiee: soducod ratea. m tokots at . Drafts for £1 and, upward. . B, LARSON, Westorn Axont, Northeast cormer Olark and Randolpheate. (opposicanew Bhorman House), Uhlcago. " STATE LINE, Nsw Yorlk to Glasgow, Liverpool, Belfast, and Londanderry.—1liesa slogant, now, ‘Olydo-buiit {tosmora wil sall from Pior No. oo, North 1iiver, as foi- STATR OF NEVADA. TATI QF IN STATE OJf n%ffi%fi And every Wodn tor, takt throngh riaato .’1]1’;:»'."-1:’};?653::5 Britafs 5o ard! ottt o passas o AUSTIN ind upward, For f; BRI o Gl & pasage aprly s AUSTIN Bloorace Ofioe, No! 45 firoadway.. Atoorage ua i aaby auy otlior Jno. N BRI 1 Wontorn Agant, & Clark-ate, CHISIR0, Great Western Steamship Line, Trom New Yoik to Bristol (England) direct. Carowall, Caply Btamyor, Saturdsy; Doc. 10, Grest fnloridlasas S8 Bfoornzo, 830 0, 8157 Btoo 3 . ADily a1 Goa't Fralghy Dopos passengern 1t Irelang A88AT, N. I, BagaMas. T.J. Ponren, Beapriotor. For full' {nforitiation addross J. Lidgerwood 3 toadinny Ne VL. Glshmers sl ovisy tnecuisy OO 100 | FRACTIONAL CUREENGY $5.00 Packages FRACTIONAL CURRENCY IN EXCHANUK FOR Bills of National Currenw,' TRIBUNE OFTICE. N. W. CORNER WASHINGTON, OPPOBITE FIELD, LEITER & 0O T e v THE CORNELL WATCH COMPAN OF 5AN FRAKCISCO, CALIFORKIA, {Fitiof Gricool, pamnlactarers of Ko, sod oy Northwostern Statés to ltoom Na, 8 i 3 Northwosteen Statés ta ftoom No. 8 Tribune Building, RNITURE., GE0; GILBERT, 267 & 269 Wabash-av,, Dosiros to eall the attontion of all detiring any articls asuslly found in & comploto “FURNITURE HOUSE” o0 lock s comlto Lo vrory dopaeiment. Tapecia ontion fas baon Alvun te SOtiIne (oxethos s bo and varlod assoriment of FANGY DLEGES of 2 oot “Turmiture for the Holiday Season.” Jnrdiulers, Faney aud_Inlaid Tables nnd Stands, Worl Stands, Parlor and Library Tables, Fancy Chairs nnd Ottamans, Gonolny Dusicul Stands and Cases, rick and rares Faot Ticats, Eutrltolres, Brontes &ic. & Togother with s ful lino, of PATLOR, g o SilaiRh, " BV NG-RGos P RARY “FURNITURE,” Allof which will bo sold at prices that will closo them out durlng tho month. An fnsnoction of our toows s soliclted. ~Wo {ske ploasure i siowing our good: GEO. GILBERT, 267 & 261 Wabnsh-av, EEASHION ABLE E URNITURE. W. W, STRONG TURNITURE €O, 266 & 268 Wabash-av. BUSINESS CHARCES, ~ FOR SALE. DAILY NEWSPAPER In an Interior Town, The .oni olltng Iutorest inn Morniog Paper. % d tunity. = Parvti il R :\mfi“s:{,‘ b0 £0 810,005 0A SN Seea nor npbiys Adi C. A.COOXK & CO., Newspuper Advertising Agents, Chicngo, Til. b i e bbbtk 5. 3 Proposals for Wronght and Cast-Tron Wavk for the United Btutes Custom-Houso and Pust-Otlice, 8t. Louis, Mo, % USNITED HTATES CusTou.Housr Axp 08 T-OFFICE, 8T, Louy, Ma., Offiea of Hupotintendont, Nov. 18, 151, Gealed Proposala wiil bo racaiveid at the ilco of the fiu({mr{i ula’m‘lm‘llmunuldlfim‘ ll)l (lm“l‘.';llll: dey u‘l‘ D“i(fll‘“u"lfi 74, for furoithing, dellvaring, ftting, and putiing 1n pinin the Wronaht and Uascelcon Workh soatneiie s Rolied.(ron Heams of vy a4 Gaat-tron Coluuius, &e., of insamout, all us cxhibited o tho Denvine, dosoribed 1a the Spucifications, and oaticd o (1o Hohodula, Copiesof the Drawingr, Spooliications, and Hehsdulo mny bo Lad on upulication ot this oilico, All scaffolding requirod by tho contraotors to put the work i place wifh Vo furalinad bytlio Govarninoat freo of ahuvzo, hut wiil bo urcetod by tbo contraoton Prupusals will be miade by the plece or walght, for the warious itam of work & cnlled for in 'tho Bobedale, work will tiot bo subdividod amonyr difierunt bidders, but il ba canidosad fn tho wgucopte. Wi witin of ths Hotlod Iicams of tho Basenvnt Floor must to delivercd aud ot in posltion within threo months fram dute of ac- geptuacg ot prupuesl, aai the Caltmnd of”Tiieniont and rat Fivo o of Fl i forr months from 1ame date, S B CqUIre by the Superiatondont omd (i prmmsy o Vork, P areite will bo mado monthly, deiucting 10 yor centuim untl thio fiiad completion of tho vontruots AR hids unat bo accombantod by n ponal of twa arsans, 1 100 sum of Twonty-fvo Lhotsand 20,(11), that the Biddor will usupt and perfurm tus vontrach 1€ wnedud him, tho sullicioncy of tho nae curily to b cortited br the Unitod' Statas Judge, Olork 5f thn Unitad itates Couirty or the Distriot Attornoy uf vwherels tho biddur rosidos, rtinont Torervos tho right t rajoot any or all docmod for the intuiust of (ke Government Every bid must ba iada on the nrinted form, obtatnod at thia nilico, and mus sonform in ovory Tewnoct (o the roquicumants of tbis advortiouwient, or 1t Wil at U considorad. Prapasats wil 1ot ha rocnivoid from partios who ara not thomutolvox engagod I tho manufkoture of Weonht and Gnai-Tron Worly and wio liave 5ot thu neovssery fachitiis tor, aut. fho work, 4 il b Inalosod £ & sented envalopn, Indorssd e and Geu.lron Wark fur o "Uniled luus Pogt-Otdca, KL, Louls, Alo,, THOMAS WA, Huperin PESVNDIN SO A ‘small Famify i h ot . Tar %, RGN »fluf 2 B féf’t‘xxfifi?&'-;(i'?:‘l g wll Vi, ) LIRLY Yo U505, Hed for ioautcay 105 Decion Weduoaday, DIAMONDS. DIAMONDS, The dlscovery of diamonds In Sontb Afries, and the consoquont throwing on the markot of quantities of stones, mostly of Inforior qualities, has so doprossed pricos that thoy are now lowor than at any tima since 1818, First quality white stonos, sach as aro known as **Flrst Wator," and the best of tho aocond quality, aro pow fn ‘DHico tar bolow thoir roa) valuo, At theso low pricos wo have addod larxely to our stack of thesa grades, and now offer tho largest stook of scleatd stones in thia country, Purchasers wihing to selocs from unsot stones will ind ‘overy sizo and wolght {n genoral uso, and will roccivs our beat nasistanos and advloo tn making solections. oo ol Indis atones alono inve boon butlittle affacted, Thoy ars rarely mot with, and only in the hands of .| connolsacurs, bo they doalers or not, who, knawlng thoir rarity, aro not willing to part with them at lass than full valao, ' Durlag extonsiro doaliags for many years, we havs col. Toctod, and aliars add 4o our eolloction of this clars of stone when opportunity offers, o thatws are gonorally prepared to faralsh epocimon stanes. Tho matkot {5 full of tho lowor grados of Afrfon stanes, and many aro tompted to purohaso them en ao- count. of thelr xeoming low pricos; but wo advlsa onr aistomers to avold them, as it Is diffcult to namo a price atwhloh they would bo cheap, TIFFANY & 00, Diamond Merehents, UNION-SQUARE, NEW YORK, SILVER AND PLATED WARE., Silver Bridal (Gifts, The Gorham Company, hmvmunnl. LsTADLISED 1831, No. 1 Bond-st,, N. Y. Rich Bridal Gifts---Testimonial Piecos---Fam- ily Silver---Forks and Spoons---Services for Tea, Dinner, Lunch, &e,, &o., of Sterling Turity only, Those desirous of obtalniug astlclos of Solid Ellvor, bearing the Gorhsm Sterling Stamp (Llon, Anchor, and the letter G), wh'ch fa & positivo guaranteo of parity, may do £0 through the leading Jowolors of this clty upon terms 9 favorablo aa {f obtained from the Gorbam Com- pangdl 2 t. FLOUR. FILOUR. THE STAR & CRESCENT MILLS. Choice Flour at Retail, STAR & CRESCENT Cuest Minnesota Wheat), $6.00 Warranted to mako b pounds moro hread, and of botlar quallty thau any Wintor Wheat Klour at tho prico. THAYER'S EXTRA (Wiite Winler Wheat), $7.50 Equal to any Winter Whoat Flour in {his markat. PATENT FLOUR (Very Choice), - - - - $9.00 Delivored In ans part of the city freo of chargo, or shipped io any address ia tho conntry ou roceipt of pricon. Qualily uarantyod. Frenh-ground 'Winter and Spring Grehom Buckwhont Four, Oat Moal,’ Fifio Whits and Yollow Corn Moal, CLTNVION BRIG@S & HEERMANS, EINANCIAL, DI SAVINGS Chartered by the Exolusively a Statg of Witnats. Savings Banl, 105 CLARK-ST, Hletlodist Charch Block, Tays B1x per cent compound {ntorcston dopnsita, Pass hooks fres. Ay man, wowan or child can doposlt, Tiis Bauk Is deslgnad to sncourago !lvlnrul howerer madest tho atount; and attends av cheerfally to thoso having ‘mall sums a3 to peravnn of 1nrger means, SCOVILLN, Prossdent, KELSEY REED, Manngor, NoTE-Doposiis made uow zro put upoy futorest the first of noxt month. $1,000 T0 LOAN For thron yeats, at 10 por cent, ongood renleatate, — JURNER & MARGH, 03 Washingtonat. BARGATIS N LADIS 078 MUFF AND BOA-Lynx, Marten, French Seal, o Astrachan-for $10, : $60 SEAL SKIN MUFP AND BOA for $20. TANDSOME SEAL, SACQUE for $35. SPLERDID SETS MINK from §15 to $40, N. TERTABLISHED 18G6.1 A H MILLER, & T3 A7 T A p I T, [} on. en State and Dearborn, ] UNTRER'S CANDIES ! Culobratod thraughout tho Unlos, Expressed toall paris ALt ocats & pound (3 nuand nhd apwaris.) Adizoss GUNTIFE, Confantiou, U 'OUKHOLDERS MEET Third National Bank. Gitfcauo, Doo, 12, 17 ‘e annusl meeting of atookholdurs of the Thirl tlonal Harix, lor the purnong of elceting Diroutors fur tho :NI\I\I\K ‘h?lhulfl atibe gh% Dm"tlc .llnu‘rlvll!!‘li ¥ of sty ezt Dot e hours v ottt R PRRONN, e Duily CHICAGO, SATURDAY. DECEMBER 12, 18 GOSSIP FROM 'THE CAPITAL. Official Literary Style---Re. publicanizing the South. How Shall We Be Happy Without Our Conveniences ? The Currency Question, and the Job- bing Spirit in Congress, “Gath” in Reply to Soms of His Crit- ics--The Buzzard of Democracy. A Noted Gambler Secking a Locatlon for a Capltolino “ Hell» Mrs. Southworth, the Most Popular Novelist in tho Country. Iiss Braddon and Her Publisherses Pierce Egan and Sylvanus Cobb, Trom Our Oun Correapondent, Wannixozox, Deo, 8, 1874, All the Honds of tho Governmont bavo my sympathy when they begin to writo, and with some of thom it is tho hardest duty of all. OFFICIAL LITERAGT BITLE. Old Lewis Cass, who tind sorred everywhero botween ltasca Loko nnd the Cbamps Elsaco, nlways thought it n mystorious gitt, and writors, by livolihood, ** mediciuo-men.” James Due chaoun spont hin latter years in pursuitof o biographer, aud boarded him the botter part o the ycar, supplylog his finest Dird-in-Hand whizky meanwhilo. Tho biographer went into o decline, but the book never passed into moro than ono uebula, John Jzcob Astor expived in o vaguo beliof that tho poot, Iitz-Greone Hale leck, whom bo hed indifferently cared for, would write bim up a hoavonly credoutial. Men of ao- tion splash with tho pen. When Adax strives some rock's vast welght fo throw, Thio Line, tao, labors, aud tho worda move slaw, ‘Lho Prosident's composition is bis own, inimi- {ably; not ologant, nor niways, ab first sight, pergplcnous ; but genuine, and without tho os- tentation of gomo rulers, who thinle thoy must writo liko heroes or writing-masters. ‘Tlio bent pen in tho Administration was that of Bancroft Davis. Mr. Fisl's eon-in-law, Bid- ney Wabster, inalgo o foreiblo writer of editorial, frequently contributing, as ono of the editors told mo, to the Now York World. For romo {imo Caleb Cushing was tho Administration Bo- bemian, writiug everywhero, and on abstrusoe mattors of lnw and treaty, na woll 2s on the mo- mont's spur ; but it was writing mithout focling or precision, sud oxhibited tho dull indusiry of the druage. All genuino composition, if above tholovel of mero communieation, reveals the spirit behind it. Amongst the roports, Bristow’s Las - MOST CITABACTES, 08 has he amongst the Sceretaries. It has beon loug sinco a Becrotary of tho Treasury nddreased us in this way : **T'he general deprossion foifowing the late financial panic has compelled tho people to lesson thoir individual expenditures, and tho Government should not be glow to follow their examplo. Tho present condition of tho reve- nties requires tho utmost econowy in public ex- ponditures ; and the most careful scrutiny of the estimatoa bicrowith transmittod 18 invited.” Tor » Iong timo tha touo has been: * An ap- propristion for the purposo is most earnostly re- quested.” ** Oblige me by roducing those enti- mutes, it possible,” enya the uow Secratury, Thero aro in tho Cabinet two politicians, Jow- ell and Roboson, typlcnl of their two Statos; one man of polito affairs, Fish; ono faithfal party-disciple, Williams ; ono chiof clork, Delk- nap ; one young man of more latené strength and breadth of viaw, porhaps, than any, in Dris- tow. For inatance ; he mnde the romark to a friend of mino, ouly a fow days ago: Those Southorn States onght to havs been Re- publicanized from tho top, as we do in Kentucicy, inetead of from undorneath, Not even in South Crrolina cnn you long pravent intelligonca from governing. In Kentueky, the only State whore the party made gnins, wo have always kept our organization sociaily respectablo, and considored that a brd Ropublican was less to bo oxoused then o bad Democrat. It has always been my belief that, by manly donling and fair-play, wo shall make Kentucky & Ropublican Btato. The Old Whig elemont thero lua no business in the Democracy.” ¥ Mr. Fish, of oqual breadtl, recontly dined at his family-tablo avernl of the South Caroling tax-payors, like ex-Gov. Aiken snd Manning. Whon I wa in South Carolina, I ssw Robel ofil- cors of high atanding who bad come in contect with Grant, nod apprehonded, for the first timo, that thera might bo n Republicaninm in the North diffexont from ke camp-following around thom, TUL DUSINESY of Congrena will probatly tho tochnical and its action timid. Bocause tho Listoryof the country in not now political in its nspects. What is going onisalew of economics, a systam of Provi. Qencos ou tho vestest scnlo, aimed st modern socioty, both in America and Hurope. Popular education =nd democratio freedom have advauced the rato of univorasl enjoyment ut enormous cost to all classes, particularly to the middlo olass,~thnt olnks whith extonds from huwbandry und mechanics up to tho professions aud to reutiers, or livers on fixed incomes. This clugs has reaped littlohenofls from high ratos of interost, whils yot mainly tributary to tho enor- moua cast of comforls, suck as rallronds, ges, beating apparatus, sowers, pavemonts, polico, tho poor-fund, echools, fira-departmonts, and whatovor increnss bonded dobts, taxation, and tho numbor of public oftiefuls, Of courao, the middie clnas visits tho cont of jte moreased comforts upon the poor class below it; and both koep tully for the sparao rieh class at the top, THE QULHTION, Hhereforo, befora socioty, is this: How shall wo Eo happy without our convenionces? This is o Quoation on which ngroas can ubiod 1o light, beenuna it §8 gn individual mattor, It is yob at overy hearth-ulono, an invinciblo gest,~n Bphinx wish a wise, mild, but not n Lelping faco, sav1vg to tho Widoiw Smith and Gien, Jonaii: * Ab th{n AFcum you cannot live, ~Sixpence incomo: outgo sixpunce half-ponuy: totusl, mivory!™ Congrogn might tun tho papor-balloun to n #pecio-bottom. 1o mnight assert, as L boon dona Lefore, but nover by o goucration which ought to hinve learnad tho legdon so well, that tho nystem of fattoning by cutting atouks from vach othor's bodies, callod " Protoction, is o dolu- slon; and that Irotoction enough oxists for overy socloty, in ity dispereion, Distance, nob acgropation, Iy tha truo law of ‘Troteotion, To anve transportation is impulsion onough to bogin to manufacturo and preduca for onvsall, Tho dilferanco In prica s Lo bo hinlancod by tho laws of growth, sugacity, and skill, whioh, ?ivlng tho older tociely tho ndvantago, give It also all the wealknusn of long possoesion, Tho Proeidont han woll:assortod the Injury of pepor-money, aod the uoceseity for gatiing rid of it and its brood af worponts, That vicious systom of issuiug ono's note, and uprosing upon it, becomos monstrous o & publio seslo ; aud at Jast, liko chuil, tho greasy imago ratroats to its Lougo, aud uoy even the “promises of tho uation, ~-TWELVE PAGES, will stir abroad, Papor over-issuo han all the norvousnoss of gold and ailver, withont thelr Lodily ntrengih, Gold can take logs and run aviay to othor Janda; but the punics of paper Lido at homo, liko Mchotls airy aaggor : Wa havo thea not, and yot wo seo theo atill, Thou marshal'st mo tho way that I was going; And auch an instrumont T was 0 uso, Mino eyca ato mado the fools o’ tho aflicr senson, Tho theory of Inflation js, that, by creating & thousnnd mico, instead of & hundrod, thoy will loava thoir holog and como forth. But, at the stamp of n mun's faot, a thousand mieo will ran liko ons, Monoy is micoe, and neods confidonco boforo it will loavo its Lioio, no mattor how much of it you creatn. CONGRESS ITIELF JODBING, Thero syould bo somo solution of tho currenoy tgmsuau it Congress wero s body dolegated to think, conaciontiously, for tho conmituencios and tho futuro of tlio country ; unfortunately, Uongreesmon aro generally spoculativo epirity, who hiave elected lfiumulvon bocause of the lin- miront hazard of thelr own investmonts, and thoss of tho friends with whom thoy bavo pool- od. Ttis beeauso thoy are speculatorn, roquiring Goverumont protection by logislation, that many of them oxpond g0 suols timo, comfort, and monoy, to geb to Cougress, sud worlk on tho spot ogaiust nuy long-hoad- od logislation which might break up thoir movotary partnorsbips in the distant State. Hoveral of our Congressmon nro loaded down withland, fancy stocks, manufacturing stocke, ond other things absolutoly doad unless an artl- ficial activity can bo givon'to tho ourrcnpy and irado, bo it ovor sa short. Thou, unloaded, thoro i3 many o man now in Congroas who would proflt Dy tho recont fouy dobato uud tho purll of tho Preront period, and bo an advacate of spacio for oll timo to cono, Upon such mon,- tho Prost- dent’s rocommendatious fall with. poenliar tan- tallzation ; end chey regard him ns sooking, in somo viay, to deatroy thoir families and their compotenco, Jt has beon knld Lhat Grant ownod fuxueso and rolling-mtll stocke, 11 ho did, would he invo votoed tho Inllation bill 2 Inat act an- swory olandor. 'Tho next Congrens will bo poor-~ or, and without tho personul roasons for desiring awilation that tho proseat bos; butit will havo bohind it o moro reclless end obtuso constitu- ency, alrondy whetted for choup—if necousary, for Fmtulmun-—“ monoy.” Tho courso of tha dobnto on tho curroncy ihreatons both parties with the long-naticipated croas-aplit. T'ho Ropublicaus nro less approhioa- sivo than tho Domacrats, as their tenura hero fa sbort; whilo, next Decotuber, tho Issue, gather- ing strongtls, will bo_fonght out by ombittered cowbatauta In the Congorvativo ranks, Tho iden that money i3 of nstional mnnufacturs, and not civilization's, consont and ity own intiorcut value, s broud-sprond, ns woll a3 tho iden that artiiiclal nonoy posscsses o superiority becauno it will not “leavo the country,"—i. 0., bo ro- coived boyonil our terrltories, Thio dobate has airendy becn_opened an tho eido of inflation by Kelley and Butler. M, Kol loy {4 loaded down with real eatate fu West Phil- adolphin, and with & record in bohaif of evory fallaoy that his boon_exposed by comuion sonue, o was ono of tho Credit-Mobiiier fellows, and puved himsolf in a rolativoly obluso constitunncy by muoh bollowing on things of great nssumed potentiality. Driven in with Butler, and yoked to Lim, it soems probable that tho nes uad tho jackal will bo placud togethor in tho subsoquent opinion of wiser mankind. g EATEN TAW, Ths village Domocrntic organs appesr to bo bowildored at tho attention I am payiug thoir pacty. ‘Phoy will slways find somethityg fresh v thie corraspondonco. It dealn witls tho majority, always, oud tprofers the Dowoctatic party at o oafo distanco” from the spoils, ns ic profers tho nlry buzzard to wheel gracefully in tho sky, bal- anced thoro on his own hungor, rathor than tho sume buzzard vomiting aronnd the public mar- Tet, I nm always in the Opposition. T liko life, When I eawo 1o tis city, the Ropublican party way nlmost unchalicnged. In tho fury of tho Twpeachrmoot trial, I challonged it, About 1,000 columns of bato wereforthwith put to my crodit. In ziie couruo of timo, it becamo fashioniable to gloan bobind tho swatho I bad reaped, and o bundred chaps aro pooking away at the romaius of the Ropublicen purty, wcluding young Peclk- enifl and his_pal, Dlueukin, I nin tired of it, When Tray, Biancho, and Yweothoart burle at Royalty, I exclaim, with Lear: Buniblo , firod spout, rain | T fax not you, y it nutludnces ; You atcc me no gubscripition; why, then, let fail Your borriblo pleasure, A friend sent me, Lho othor day, n lot of scraps 1from the Domocratic papors, showing mo that I am uot, lite Leats, one whoso nnme was writ in wator. Tas La Crosso Dentoeral pleassutly in- timatos that I nm n spittoon. Well, then, in that offics I would bo gorgeons avchitecture, and tho wholo editorinl stalf sbout of tho size of quidy apit into Vesuvius, In that nowspapor uhoot for all tho nuisance of an Leraio porid, thio offal corner on tho fied of Agincourt, whero tho dying Lincoln was derided us tho imponi- tont thief derided his Eavior, one fears to bo favored, and asks, liko thioso cloven Apontles who heard thet ono of their number would go over to thorabble: “Lord, 18 it 12" 1t Abou Ben Adbiem had lived ju this age, ho would havo nnked to bo written down unbeloved by all tho Democratic prose, in order that, in tho angel's books, he might lesd il tho rest. Hero is o #nail, too, in thoLogunsport Pharos, —a paper which nitractod me becauso of tho im: propriety of vlanting o lighthouso on the rl‘m rie, and bewsuse it scomed egotistical spolling of Fuir Asa. 1t says that this correspondence is 1o grout shiakes nuy way, boeauso it is forninat tho icturn of tho coagnlatod ignorauce of the country to power. Not g0 did the FPharos think on the follawing dato, &fter 1 declined to ba puid anything by it for any service whatsoover : &ouansron, Fob. 14, 1074, Gat(h), Washington, D. C.: Diar Stn: Whilo T am somowhiat disappointed thnt you did not writo for me, 1 am extremely grsteful 10 you in suggesting a corrcspondent ut W, SOF 1y nowse paper, My purpose wan to hova o letter fro; 1ol with (b cupitats ut tho-buttom, - G A you' kuow Mids —— could not do thot, T ain 4 clode- communnist in the theory that women will mako aur very bust correepondons 8o far as frealiucss, goeafpy, and roadablo loficru, aro cuncorucd; and, wero I tho mansgor of & duly wovstaper of Seputdiion, would ewploy them § Lit, op an obscuro sheet liks mine, no roputation 18 to bo made by thoe correspondent, but o\'crfilmlug for tho paper. Repuiation is no the Joss im. mor l!p‘nxl of & uowspapor than mau; heuco I want wome of it, Onco It was my duty to writo for o dafly nowspaper a xeriow of a lectiro deitverod by you fu 1d0, for whicl you were pleased to presout yous complimexts throuly amutuul friend, You have doubly repald mo for titt reviow by your very ldud lottur, sid therefors Sudebts edly, I ain yours, Rurus Maarz, Now, thoFharos wenis eomo roputation, and Ligy got it. Deconcy, evon amongst monkoya ! NOTIOE Tt anybedy fs congratuleting himself thet T belowg to either party, ho may dismiss his fears, I'mado tho mistako to beliove, eurly in lifo, thut nations wero gm‘nmml golely by patriotisum ; that gront men did not oat, any mors than calves in lova ; and that, to bo porfoétly understond, ono's horo must bo aiwaya right, and that hero's oppo- nonta slways crimiual, * In that opivit tho powu- paper-corrospondont always boging; he drifts to soneation ; all the overhianging sky is ohot full of i signal rookele, to mnko sacioty lip anohor and talko punic; then, ha drops to haughty, com- plircont Phariseclsm—~in ono or two intances Pechsniflsm,—and moans and taosns ; nost, ho assumes tho detoctivo lay, und emoils oggy, and Fuuuuu oflicial rogues; at last, ko gois giay- 1ended, and tho faco of hia God f without i dewrr to bim. e i as wearyns Faust's blaclk dog;; and hohind him, ns ho panses into tho misls of age, childven gambol, zud tho suu nhines,and the young wortd 14 full of hopo. I'ho Democratic pnrty b alarmingly near at hand, 'Taat Huo of batflo is deflnod tuo woll, us its yoll, supprossed ooly by almost murtial eom. maad, osorpes the approaching column hero and thoro, with drmns mufiled and standards droop- ed, it Is no Joss the old army of ** Wa-Uns,” with tho rabbla of the world for ita camp-followera, ‘This party, which rules tho nation to-day, you oun gut ont, not Nking it. Bt whon, O fathor of an infant £on! whon cun you, by the noro ox- progsion of your will, gol “out of power that purty whone humanity wau the houso of bondago which fears tha ringing of school-bolls, und would binve divided tho vory canopy of God futo Dits of golar eolf-soveroignty, as the soldioryof Pilato dividod the mantla of their Lovd ? 'Iho Ints election was Lhe most signal dleasing tha Itepublican perty has recelved sinco thio do- fLoction of Audrow Johnson,—whieh morely nd- vancod tho resulls of the W by antagonizivg o Congresn lukewavm to univereal vights, John- EOh Wi 0f maro wio goiig belowards than batks ingy for Congress then ran the wigon upon him, The ‘Domoviacy, altogother useless for years, Tas rerved (Lo grno purposo which Sheridan con- eoded to Mosoby in his Vallay cempaignts * Ho kapt my rear woll up,” sad Kherldan, * und pro- vontad straggling.” The disaster nt the polls by done moro: it hay Lealed dissensions, mado thinking reupectable, and taught the Ropablican party that palronngo i8 not govermaent, Any- thing short of the mastory ul the whols Govern. mient by tho reactionary orgnnteution i it, was, & (ko momont, a cuutionary ovent, bocause Ro- publicanism hisd bocome too much Domacratic, and, inatend of tho genorous formont, it was a serios of crystallizations of old dry in every Btato, administorad npon indlvidual opinion, roading pooplo out of tho churel, narrowing tho circles of thonght, dropping ronio of the commandments, and pormitting nobody to sauco bagk at tho crodd. ; Tho presout chastinomont s in the lino of ro- yislon, " roduction, and roformation, without brivglog despair upon any vast intorest rataed to humnn cousideration by the loss of hnlf-a- million brave mon's iiver. Alroady we sco tho Domocracy coming for- ward with ita habite, in tho riss of tho rough olo- meont hore. JOUK CHAMBERLAIR, tho colobratod gambler, whoso club-housa at Long Branch, and Now York faro ostablishmeont, Lhave boen writton up in all the press, has spent much timo of Iato in Wnalington, ssokiug quar- tors to commouco o stylish gambling-holl if ang- bm!f will accommodato him with o praper house at tha fashionablo ond of the town, o endonv- ored to got tho Washington Club; but Gaov. Shopherd, nscortaining for what purposo it was to be usod, put o veto on tho matter. Io nlso inquirad fnto tho feneibility of gotting M, Xnapp's colobratad residonico, #oon to bo vacatod by tho Dritish Ministor for thio grand now adtab~ lishment of tho Logation ; but coucludoed tha {t was too far out of the wey for hiy pur- onos, Again, it was relatod that ho bod gocured tho houso of Mra, Driggs, tho pungont lady-correspondent (“()llvm'?, on_Capitol Hill: but, whethor this way too far from tho mighty centro of hon- vivants, or the propriotor deelined tho bargain, i8 not fmown. Mra, Brigge was tho wifo of o faithful ond pradent cmployo of Congreas. Liviug plainly and nsing thrift, ho committad to hin widow a pleasnat Jittlo forfuno, which, in an imagluativo mood, sho invested iu o slanch, old-limo mansion attached to largo grounds, onco tho homo of John B, Clayton, whilo Sena- tor and Bocretary of State. Timo showed tho widow, Liowover, that hor lonoly condition waa. dll-adapted to o great, roorly mansion in a par’ of tho town whera tho population grow onl, apace, Anothor literary Indy amongat us, 308, BOUTHWORIH, bas s collago in Goorgotown, built partly on bonma, agaluat the side of an_oxcoodingly steop ll, which drops from tha rocky heights of that borough to tha bank of the Potomuc, 200 feat bolow. In this poatical apot, undor a skylight in tho roof, the writor of tho most popular works fiction in this country as for years resided, maliing & good living with Lior po, and bringing up an oxnm;lvlmw fawily. She is reprosented to be a naturally bright woman, with meagro op- portuniltos for education, but with Inventivenoss and wkill in rattling hor romantic peoplo through n groat varicly of changes and adventuros, un- #il, ab Inat, virtuo ws rowardod, and the clrculat- in librarfos rush to rond tho conolusion. ANEICDOTZ OF BRADDO. T was in England in 1863, and was omployed to buy advance-sheets of 3iny Braddon's ‘sorinl atorios for au American publishior. At that time Ibecamo awsro that Miss Draddon was roally Mre, Dlaxwell, or ought to bavo boeun; for thoy hved under tha samo roof at Windsor, and Max- well bod abuoluto cuntody of ber manusaripts cud copyrights, Unwilling to deal with o socond party, and slow to nocertwn_tho facts of thoir quagi-mavital yelationship, I offonded Maxwoll by questioning his_authority, and refused to uceept letlers from iy Braddon written in the third person, which tho publisher might himself havo ‘iudictad, But, nappening to renow tho solicitation in Paris, at the Windsor Hotel, I atumbled into his bedrooms, and soon became asvaro that hin righta wero unbounded. It was no affair of mine. and was recatled to me only the othor day, whon I read that tho noclety of Rtichmond Hill, ncar Londou, had put 3iss Braddon under tho ban at suddenly ascortaini what I had fousd oub twolve yoars ago. vis that Maxwell hind soparated from his wifo,—n relative, I believe, of tho great dramatist, Shori- dan Knowles,—and assuged tho guardinnship of his favorite anthoress. When tho resl wifo died, the aurviving pair clunsily adverthsed their union, and this led to inquiry and scandal, as aforosaid. Ine wo 809 that litorature is very ofton mod- oled upan the privato esperlonco of its com- posers. A rumor that the fist Mrs. Maxwell had Loen sont o » lnuatic asylam, incrousos tho resomblauco of Miss Draddon's liaison to tho slory of *“Lady Audloy” and other of hor Lauuted peroines, who bave modo blood run cold in_all tho fomalo boardiug- aehools, Btll, Mia. Maxwell, now righted and noknowledged 28 auck, may assort tha hor mia- tako I 10 worso than thab oF o great contotapo- rary, Mtn, Liowes: nor of Goorso Saud, who nl- most outranks Madamoe Do Stacl amonget the litorary women of Franco; nor of Mrs. Shelloy and her mother; nor, as somo intimate, of Dicl- oun himself. Indeed, wo may go back to Shak- upeare, and wondor whother the gontlo Will was not too onrly for tho parson whon emitten with the elderly charms of Ann Iathaway, Dut to regnmos: Whilo negotinting for tho advance shoofs of Misa Braddon's works, Maxwaell said tome: “I should like very much to bo the publisher {a En- glaudof tho advauce-sheata of Mrs, Southwarth's novels.,” Burprisod ab this, T oxclaimed: * I she Inown over hero?” *Bcss your sowl,” eaid Jaxwell,~ha was an Irishman,—*sho iy tho moat popular of all American writors on this sido of tho wator,” 1 bolioyo that the ropors of the Chicago Public Libyary tells tho samo story. Mrs. Southworl ranks abova Hawtliorno, Mrw, Stowe, and Foui- mora Coopor, iu tho apprecistion of the modern novel-reader. ADDENDIS. At tho time I have meuntioned, fammat Bilt Ings, tao Dooton artist, was a neighbor of mine in London. Ho was eent to seo Viereo Egan, n compounder of tremendous fietions for tho Ln- glisl mariket, and he toid no that ho found Egan m o small dwelling ot telington, ar some of the northern suburby of London,—3 lurge, cocknoy- flod mau, on good ter:ng witl himself. o ox- claimed, in tho courso of tho negotiations, {hat ho hind moro readers than Dickens. 'This mado us gmilo: but I am not sure that, tho time, it wag not the fact. Your raltling novelotia- writor muss not pooli-poobied. ‘Chers is Bylvanus Cobb, In our eatly dnys,~gsy twen- Ly yours ugo,—who ontranked him in or young, yoarning hterery mind? 1o cnst no euch deadly pightsbado ag Hawthorne, Ho did not bob into sotial quostioun, like Mro. Stowo, 1le wroto vight on, red blood avd patriotism: and it is o sad thing thut, ot this tino 1m our lives, wo can- 110t otijoy the triumpl of such undonbted virtioe a4 ho doplets, with the zcost of former days. ‘The respoctablo story-paper, however, hau come to bo sobcited by Tongtollow and Jonn Ingolow; ond Cliarles Keado bimweelf writes for tho duilies, at auch a figura por column as pales tho inefiectual tlro of tho racontoir of battles, orevon of nuch uidoubted explorers ay Stanl Gara. e s A IBad Shot—A Boy Misses n 'Turlkoy nad Rty Blis Mother. From the Adrian (Mich,) Press. Ou Baturday, the 15th ult, a0 urchin pamed Couso, of no yery pious proclivities, aged about 18 years, reelding in the Towuship of Huron, in Monros County, coucolived the iden of having n turkoy for suppor, So hio londed an 0ld ritlo and went out into tho garden. Bolecting ono which ho_thought would malte pot-pie, ho carofully waited till the bird was between himsell sud tho honeo, whon bo raised tho pondorous weapon aud blazod awsy. The turkey dodged the bullat, which went througl the vide of the house, knock= ing o bole In a 50-cont wateriug yot, and 't tho boy's motbor in tho left leg, brosking it, and uplintering the bone, and burying itself i tho base-board, on the other side of the room. piceo of tho bous was knocked ontirely out. Dr. Lobdell, of Fiat Rock, wascalled and attond- ed to tho woundad womun, 'That boy didn't have any potpie for supper. Tho turkoy wont to 1008t aug the boy went to bed, ‘Tho youth hus made Lis marlk quits early in lifo, and yomarked s ho went to bod that he was sstonishied that **one butlot coull eut up all that kind of a dido," 11is mothor will horeaftor bait & fish-hook whon she wants a turkey tor supper. ‘Cerrihlo Lndinn Fight, From the Uirginin (Nev,) Enterprise, Wo yestordny met Capt, lob, who was in a fonrful stato of oxcitomont, Great riugs of white wero visibla around Lis conl-black oyes, and his pomatum-stilfoned scalp-lock was agi- tated a8 lsthe napen intho breoze, o said thora had hoon o torriblo fight hetwoon twa young Pluto bravos at tho camp in tho eastorn suburby of tho ity. According to Capt, Licb, as wo undorstoad hiy ulor{. tho two braves gob down on all-fours on two Tittle billacks nhout 20 yurds apart, and then ran at ouch othor, meoting and butting hoads, intho hollow betwoon the twao ridgoes, ~ AL the third ronud thoy teloscopod, and in order to saperato them it was found neaeseety to cut off tho Lends of both mon., Wa may not have caught the exact moaning of all iob said about tho ight, but in substance it was about a4 rolated abovo. NUMBER 112, STOLEN PROPERTY. A Comparison Between Rehm and Washburn, How the Formor’s Statement of Prope erty Recovered Was Swelled. Diffloulties Under Which Washburn Labored, And Yot Ho Got Back as Much as His Successor. The Mavor, in his rocent message to the Coune ¢ll, undor the hoad of “Tho Polico Dopart- ment,” stated that the amount of proporly re- ported loat and atolon during tho jast municipal yoar was ©101,014, aud tho amount recovered 8190911 ; that, in tho months of Maroh, April, July, and August, upwards of 320,000 worth of proporty, which had been stolen several months provious but not roported, wos restored to its ownord. Ho thon sald: *‘This, with tho fact that tho entirc amount of proporty stolon within the lnst sonr I8 o littlo ypward of one-halt of the provious yoar, issufiicient oxplanation of the amount of proporty recoverad. which closery spe proximates tho amount stolon.” fyis showing is coriainly o vory creditable 2 ,,f;‘n,“ botrno; butthab it is queationable is 3l the ‘4 ;i , TMLED BYATEMENT of Supt. iy, “lslied tue Mayor, but nob usod by him, ™ ’/p’, ~ent is a8 follows : 9, yrevorted Property stolen, veconered. 338,015 31! 713 10,704 16,46¢ 30,038 21,609 1 Seplomber 1 Qctober, W 16050 Novembor, eees 22,063 Totahuusssanns, L 8101,403 $100,011 The first month (Docember) properly belongs to Mr. Wasliburn's adminisiration, since Mr Rtolimn did not roliove him until tho 25th. It will bo noticod that, an goon as tho prosent Supers intondent of Polico got fairly sottiod, THE ANOUNT OF PROPERTY REPONTED GTOLEN docrensed rapidly, only 814,051 being roportod in Tobruary ngainst 825,824 in January, and that with tho oxcoption of April and May,—thore was o olight incronso over March,—the sum dee creasod ateadily until Soptomber, when it “ccmmencod” going up, abd_ nearly doubled in two _ months. It wilk also bo soon that in Fobruary, March, April July, and August, nen.rly twico the amoun property reported as atolon was tumudl}y . in othor words, rostoredto tho ownors. Thls fact 1may seem a little singular, but it is s~ counted for by Supt. Rohm in this way: * It wag stolen whilo Wasnburn was in oflico, and wo re« covered it.” This may bo partially true, for if ix a fact that Dotootive’ Dixon recovored a lszge amount of property which had boon stolon gov- oral months botoro Mr. Nehm took charge. The decreaso of the amount of property ,restored since Auguet, howevor, RLVEALS THE BECRET bhidden in tho figuros, and accounts for the very creditnblo showing. Provionsly, Xlr. Rehm had added to tho credit eido of the account the valua of tho horses aud buggios found by policomon in tho strocty. 'llieso roprazent about two-fifths of the wholo amount of ** proparty recovered *'; therofore, instend of recovering £178,643 (loav- ing oue Docember), ho rostored only $107,184 (egaingt $162,485 stolon), for scarcely an{wcr thoso horses and buzlflou\vumm ortod aa ** hav~ ing beon stolow,” and, accordingly, thoir valua was pot put in tho debit column. It is by this moans that Supt. Rebm makos such an excellonk oxhibit of his work. Asan illustration ; 82y $20,- QU of proporty s roported as having boen stolon in Docomber’; tho detectives would recover not moro than ono-lalf (and if they did that thoy would bo doing well)—$§10,000. Daring ihat month horses, buggios, harness, ole., ropresonting & monoy value of $8,000, might be picked up by patrolmen. The toame havo not beou stolen, but have walked off from tho places whore their owners left thom un- hitened, This §8,000, recovered, though not reported o8 having boon sfolen, or oven ns lost, is addod to tho $10,000 recovered by ' tho dotoctives, and tho account sfonds thus: Debit, 20,0003 crodit, 316,000 5 and o porson in reading Mr, Itohm'a aunal revort would beliovo that ho was an ox- coilont officer, sinco ho restored to the owners nenrly all of their proporly, wherees, in fact, 810,000 warth_of tho proporty is sl miseing, and is hiddon by tho horsos and buggies. MR NEWM MIMSELE thought auch o showing was unfair, snd in August last he gave orders to his clorks nat to mefudo the horsus, oto., iu tho eredit acoouut, and this being dono, the result is Acon in the threa followiug mouths, whon tho property rocovdred isa littlo wora than one-hnlf of that zoported s having beon acolon. If this Lad boon dons in tho provions mouths, there would not have beun *“yacovored ” in fivo montls out of soven more property then wao approprinted by thioveu. THE LAST REYONT OF D11l WASUDURK, from Apnil 1 to Nov. 30, 1878, was as follows : Property recovered, Ul 00 Those fignros show that $156,204,74 more of proporiy wus siolon during tho last eizht moutis of {\'nuhbum‘s adminigtration than during the unmxs’mndmg period of Mr. Rehm's ; avd that Mr. Washburn recovered a littla moro than ono- half of tho proporty voported stolen, Duving the Inst eight mouthe My, Rebm recovered, ine cluding the horses and buggios, $11,924 more than 1vns stolon. . From thiy, ons wonld naturally be led to bo. evo OIE OF TWO THINGS: , That the dotectives did nut do their duty while Washburn was 1 oflice, or that thoy have boen vory diligout since ho rotired, The first is un- doubtodly truo, but the second questionable, sinco thoe figures for Hoptembor, Ootobor, and Navember of thia year prove that no more prop- orty, proportionately, was recovored thau under Washburn, who usad ‘ secrot-service” men, be. cause he could not depoud upon the rogulnr at- taches of hoadquartera, Anothar thing which detrsots from the ro. markable showing of Supt, Roli is the facs that Wagkburn DID NOT GIVE NINEELF CREDIT for all tho *stuil™ ho restorud to ovners, In ong instance ha returnod ®100.000 in honds, and in another 810,000 in wotos of + hund. 1iad thoso beon added to tho credit sido of the nccaunt his exhihit would have boon ay decop~ tive ng Mr, Rtehm's ; but, thoso bonds and notes baving been stolon in anothor Sdate, snd not placed on the debit slde of tuoe sheet, Lo right tully canio to the conclusion that ho had no right to offset with lunm] SHI;‘.UUO of property stolen from rosidents of this city, . S b romormbored “thnt Supt, Ralim bas asmerted, for two mouths past, that burslaries and robberies havo not incicased in Chicago ; that the nowspaper statoments to the contrary wora falso. Whethior ho spoko tho truth cun bo soen by n glance at tho subjoined fguros, takon from the statoment ho furniehod Mayor Colvin Proporty roportod lost and stolon: Auguet, 10,0305 Hoplombor, 815,318 Octobor, 15,464} Novomber, $22,308—an incroase of noarly 100 per cont in two months, T'rom the forogoing, it fs ovident that, whila moro projorty, owing {o the aputhy and idle- nens of subordinates, was stolon under Washe- burn, o recovered, without compromising with. thioves, as much proportionatoly as Bup, Holim ~ hos wsinco ho dropped tho stiay horees and buggles ; aud also, that tho olaim of the prosont Supnflnlnnden\. that he is aaucgan and Washbura was a faliure, is dlsproved by 'big owa figures,