Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 26, 1874, Page 5

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1874 e e e e —————— e e e e Vo doproclato very moriously, and onhanced afl tho oxpongos of the Governmont, increasing tho cost of tho Warand tho National debt porliaps hundrods of millions, and Inflicting upon the country for fen years sinco tho ond of tho Ilo- bellion all tho evils of an irradeomablo, uncer~ taln, and fluctuating polioy. Wo alwnys regard- od this mot 08 a breach of falth on tho pait of the Governmont towards the noto-holder, with out justifiontion, apology, or mnocossity, Our correapoudent would perpotuato this not of bad faith on the note-holders forover, it his theory * waro truo, e RELIGION AND 80IENCE, HigTony oy Tnx Conrricr DETWEEN RRLIGION AND Hoienoe, By Jony WILLIAM DRArE) ol, XII, of tho Tuteruatioun! Scicntifie Surles, $1,75, Now Yurz; A‘llugnlnn & Co, Chicago: Jansen, McOlurg ‘Fhis book might b ealled & History of Civiliza- tion. It sketchea tho play of the two groat foreos of Consorvatism aud Radicalism from tho timo of Aloxander's conquest down to to- day, Prof. Drapor's scientific zonl for olassi~ leation has lod. Lim, however, to iden. tity all Congorvativo agoncios with Ialiglon, and all Radical forces with Beleuco, This is misleadiug. It obliges him to consider tho great Btrugglo between Sastorn Christisnity and Muhometantsm as o conflict betweon Religion nnd Sciongo. It was a purely religions fight. Its Iudirect fnfluonce upon the advancoment of Ycionca canuot oxcuse the fncorrectnoss of the clnsalfication. Bo, ngain, the Roformation is treatod ns s scientific rovolt against Religion, nlthough it is afterwards exprossly stated that tho Reformod Church was nt first r8 hoatilo to sciontific resoarch as the Catholic Church had over beon, This curious classification is partly sxplainod by the fact that Prof. Draper through- out troats ** Religion"” as cquivalent to Roman Caiboliclam. Thie narrows tho book, but makes its conclusions safor. Horo adverso criticism must ond and praiso bogin, The book is o marvel. It pletures, in limpid prose, the riso of Science from Ptolemy's great school at Alexandria; the vigorous growth of Obristianity,— growth ®o vigorous that it is elight wonder that it has boon called miraculous; the conflicting claims to the posscssion of all kuowledge made by the Pagan (i. e, tho scien- tifie) and tho Catholio world; the coliision of the two powers ab Alexandria, with its rosults of tho destruction of tho schools, tho burning of tho great library, and the murdor of Hypatia; and tho six great conflicts which have, since thon, crippled Latin Christisnity. The firat atruggle was over the naturo of God. Tho myatics of Asia st first monopolized thig quarrol, Itonded with tho Mahometan conquost, which robbed OChristinnity of nine-tenths of its poseeseions, and four of s five groat Copitals, I'he Church loat Carthage, Aloxandris, Conatan. tibople, and Jerusaloum. It keptonly Romo. his conflict was, a8 wo have eaid, purely re- ligious, but it resulted in such an enormous de- volopment of acientific resoarch, especially in the Moorish achools in Spain, which drow scholars from all Europo, that Draper asserts that Christianity ins only roached to-day the in- telleetual excollonco which Arabiem attained 800 yeary sgo. Tho nature of the soul was tho next battle- ground. Tho fight over it loosened the fotters tho Church bad placed on thought, and 8o indi- rectly aided Beionco; but it forged one now and terrible fottor in tho shape of tho Inquisition,— a0 fniquity which shinca In history by tho light of the 82,000 laming piles it built about as many liviog berotics. Thoro is, properly spesaking, no eciontifio view of tho nature of the soul. This struggle, too, was a roligious one, which aided Beionee only by throwing the apple of discord ‘nto the camp of Rehgion. s In sketching the two religio-sciontifio contro~ ‘versios over the nature and the age of the earth, Prof. Draper writes in bis happicet vemn. We know of no book which gives, in such short Bpacs, such s clear idea of tho great discoverics of Selenoe and of thoir consequences. The man who sighs, in those Darwinlan days, over his lack of knowledge of tho natural sciencos, can- _not do better than to study tho Kosmos as Dra- per nketohes it in this part of his book. The fifth conflict was over the criterion of truth. The partids to this still rest on thoir mums, The Catholic yiclds submlission to an Iufallible Church sod au infallible Pope; the Protestant bows hefore an infallible Bible; tho Beientist finds ultimate truth written in the Book of Nature. Readers of Mill's indictment of Natare will bo tompted, perhaps, to ask whether the Scientiat does not pay overmuch def- erenco to something which is surety not infallible. Might it not be as woll to use tho Book of Nature with somo referonce to its Author? Draper’s scheme for the complote reconciliation of Prot- satnntiem and Science 18 tho rejection of the Pentateuch by the former. He makes a strong wrgument, drawn mainly from Chnstian sources, againat the authenticity of tho five books. The sixth and Inst conflict is that which now perploxes the world: Is Nature ruled by Provi- dence or Law;? * Providence,” says the Churoh. ¢ Law," replies Science. Draper declares that Law has already won the doy. Two supplementary chapiers discuss the vexod questions of what Catholicium and Beience bas done for civilization ; and the last chapter is de- voled to the imEendlns: crigis, It bints at o re~ ligious war in the noar future, sud betrays, per~ ,)mlm, an unduo readiness for the fight to bogin. ‘L'hia is the skoloton of the book. Draper bus ‘covared the dry bones with & wealth of illustra- tion. and a multitude of facts, and a besuty of arpument, that make the volurae o fascinating study, It {s, 60 far, tho most valuablo book of tho season. —_———— INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL CONGRESS. v the Kditor of The Chicago Tribune : CoNguLAT DE FRANOE A CittoAco, Dec, 23,—An international Congress of Goography snd kin- droad seiences will bo held in Paris in 1875, The .Vice-Admira)l de la Ronclere, Prosident of the Fronch Geographical Hoolety, informs mo that Al spplications for admission muat bo sent be- tore the 1st of Fobruary, 1875, 1 am instructed by the French Foroign Depart- ment to give all necersary particulars to any de- siring information upon the subjact, Le Vice-Coxscy, E. Cannzy, DBecchor~Tilton. * From the New York Tuues, Dec, 24, Judgo McCuo, sitting at tho Spocial Torm of iho Brooklyn City Court, grauted yosterday, on spplication of Mr, Beocher's counsel, an order .sawpolling Mr, Tilton's counsel, in the suit of Tilton againat Beochor, to show cauwse, boforo Baturday moraing a¢ 10 o'clook, why tho_ordor grenting & bill of partioulars to tho defenso 1hould not bs'anforced. A reprosentative of the Times called last oven- Ing upon Mr, Roger A. Pryor, ono_of Mr, Til- | Jon's counsel, nt hiw residenca in Willow street, Brooklyn, for the purposo of ascertaining his viewa in connection wlth the motion made yes- ferdsy by Mr. Boocher's counsel boforo Judge McOue. Ar. Pryormado the following stuto- nenl, which fully explaing AMr, ‘Tiltou’s pres- mfi pl?umonm the euit pending l'gdnar. Mr. echar *‘the notice of motion ia a surprising ona for iwo reasons: first, becauso, in Mr, Beecher's #ditorinl published thin mumfug, he aliows that he 1ntends no restriction on the plaiutiff by tho bill of partioulars, but solicits and ohallonges the Ireest and fullest Investigation: aud, sccandly, because I am not awaro of any precadont for the roposed ordor, If the ordor bo granted, which do not autfoipote, the plaluti®t will not go to trial under it, but will appeal, {f necd be, to the court of ultimate resort, Should tha arder, however, bo finally afrmed, which I caunct conceive to bo possible, I for ono should adviso Mr. Tilton to discontinue Liu oivil euit and fight tho battle on tho erim- Inal iudictment. Tho issuo in tho criminal prosecution ls preclaely fdentical with that iu the civil action, namely, whetlor Mr. Boecher bo in- nocent or fiumy. but in tho trial of the criminal caae Mr. Tilton will not bo embarrassed by any bill of partioulars. True, tho onus will be'upon him to prove thetruthof Llschnrgoe. ‘Lhat burden he willingly accepts, aud {8 propared to support. Indoea, v, Tilton hiss from tho boginulng boen avarao to the clvil action, becauso it bore the ap- pearanco of o demand for money, If the other sido would agreo to try the criminal caso, Lo would atipuiate lmmndla:alir to diswliag tho el actlon, to whioh party Iv respousiblo for de- lay, it ia an [ndisputable fact that hitherto avery motlon for delay hins boen mudo by the defend- sut, Whorews the plaintl Lss invarlably ans nonnced himsolf rondy for immodiatotrial, The adjournment of tho causo to January was by order of the Court, mado on its own mation, and_without the n)l[vllcmlinn of either party. Untiltho canso bo ealled for tral on the nd- Journod dav, thore can bo no delay, and it Is not yot {ntimated that the i)lulnufl will' not rospond " roady® onthat dny. Ile {8 ready now to try the cnuso, na such cansos have hithorto beon triod, without restriotion s to theadmission and offect of his ovidence, o will not ba ready to try tho caueo within the prosent contury if he is to bo Dbrought into court in vinenlis, and berofs of tho Louatlt of his ovidence, Should ho not bo ready to fry the civil caso {n Januory, ho will bo ready for and will urgo a trial of tho Indictmont. ‘That will show he does not shrivk from sn immediate and thorough vestigation," It I8 undoratood that the motion mado yestor- day will bo argned on Saturday by Messts, Morris and Pryor on tho patt of Mr, Tilioa. PERSONAL, Minnie Hanek, the Amarican prima donns, has achioved greas succoss in ** Migoon," at Berlin. | Aloxandor McCluve, ox-lrapeze performer, used to play billiards with Kalakaus, and dis- count Lim for tho drinks, John Kugy, of Council Blufls, enconragoes sohiolarship by ridding the world of such of his ohildran as will uot learn tholr lettors, Alag for tho romanco of school-girls! J. IL Montagne, the English actor, turns over all his Tove-lotters to Roso Massey. DBeechor turned hiy over to lis wifo, and so would Monlague, but —. Qirardin, tho journalist, whon 4 yeats old, aslked for & pair of epurs “to moke a woise.” And that's whot Lie has boen trying to do for 66 years sluce. The lon. B. F. Allen, of Chioago, offers to cancel tho debt of the Central Iresbyterian Church of Des Moinos, equal to about 60,000, for 210,000, Two notod improvemeonts have followed tha do- clino of immigration. Castle Garden {8 being ro-floored, nnd tho New York ferald has to em= ploy homo talont. Bir John Lubbocx thinks that nobody ought to rogord gcience with distrust. Bir John's scicuco was extifbited recontly in n tame hornot which was universally distrusted. Hiram Waldridge was announced to take chiarge of tho Tolodo Commercial. Sinco the oxposure of Spiritualism Hiram will find it difiicult, for Lo liog boon in Ieavou some yoara, A Cloveland girl who mystoriously disappenred tho othor night wasn’t enten up by o panther nor drowned in tho lake, T'noy found her in Buffalo four days aftor, and sho wss marriod to & man § feot high, The toacher of n school in Burritt, IIl., in~ siated on the children prononncing Ilugh Miller Hug Miller, and the little girls’ mothera think it timo to quit, especislly a8 ho spells koroscne with an initial e e, Gonzales sued tho Now York & Harlom Railrond four timo for §5,000, and threo times tha caso has gono to the Court of Appoals. It goes again the fourth time. Tho acerued costs mako up a protty handsome figuro. 5 Herr Georg, who *‘wont for™ Bismarck tho other dny, despises soap. He was formerly Dol- lingor's Socrotary, and his voneration for holy water provented putting it iuto practical use oftonor than was absolutely necessary, Oskey Hall would rather be a chief editor than Prosident of those United BStates, Thevo is & now papor toba starfed in Calumet whon tho lotus blossoms, If Mr. Hall keeps his eyos open, the droam of his life may be realized, 1t ia said that Danicl Wobster nover was guilty of paying back borrowed monoy, and if this fact was what mado him famous wo know of & thou- sand men who will in time begomo bright stara in the galaxy of fame.—Detroit Free Press. Miss Sally Tucker, of Hamilton, O., s leotur- ing in Franklin County, As 8ally ia young, handsome, and amiable, we wouldn't bo sur- prised to bear that some gallant Hoosier had Pucker for botter or worso.—Indianapolis Her- ald. Georgo Jobnson returned to Oshkosh, Wis,, tho other day, aftor an abeonco of twenty-threo years, to find his wife married to anothor follow, and his danghter the wifo of the other fellow's son. Ho told tho other fellow ho could keop her, Jonathan Cushing, of Bridgewater, Aass., who is now about B3 years old, bonsts of haviug ridden to school iu 1802 with Relief Jacobs, who afterward becamo thowifo of Bhoriff Bumner and mother of Charles Sumuer, Miss Jacobs drove and Lo sat behind hor on the saddle. 3Ir, Jnoob Vanatta, one of the candidates for thr United Statos Benatorship in Now Jorsey, announces that neithor himself nor tho railrond companies with which ho is coonected will spend any monoy to securs his olection, If he ig in earnest, this looks like o withdrewal, Mr. Bates, of Plymouth, England, recently gave a large Bum of monoy to bo distributed to tho poor. Onoe Afothodist ministor sont back the shara intended for his poor on the ground that for avery one person satisfied two would be dis- satisfied, o muat have rather o mulish flock. Tho Rov. Gilbert, of Baltimore, proposes to ihe Rev. Daniol Sommor to submit thoir diffor- ences to & committoo, Gilbort is to charge Som- mor with slander, or Sommer to sccuso Gilbert or immorality, #s tho challenged party shall choose, Bommoer will probably make it lot for Gilbert. At » competitive examination for a prize for $ho beat composition ot a grammar school in this city, ona of the effusions handed in contained the following passago: ‘*A man who has been born and bred in tho lap of luxury 18 more apt to sug= cumb to bed-bug poison than tho hardy pioneer of our Western forests.” Oliver B. Btout's mother-in-law, of Indian- apolis, when sued by him for alienating his wife's affections, retorted that Oliver made love to the colorod holp and came home drunlk every night. For sheer vindictivoncss thoy do beat tho world, that's a tact. And they do not eare what they say oither, A Boston young man who eloped with the daughter of hia mothor's washerwoman, threo ‘months ago, taking the contonts of his father's o0ash-box, roturnod the other day, but his father, instead of killing tbe fattod calf or taking the opposite course of disinheriting the young man, conflned bim in tho house and gave him & sound horsowhipping. A man named Newbegin, who dled at Pocock Island, Me,, four yoara ago, and was buried, hag tarned up 88 & “matorfalized" spixit, and ro- fuscs oither to demateriulizo or say whare he has been these four years, He has mado s Newbe- ginning of life by quitting whisky and suoing Lis former partnor. Aeybody can guesa bis last ‘boarding-house, Dr, Mary Walkor aud a Western man wont in- to o cabinot at a public seance in Wushington with tho modium, After a whilo she came ou and soid hor dend sister Lad Liseod hor., The ‘Westorn mag sald ha would swear he hadn’t, and wouldn't i ho could. The audience yelled * Not guilty " without loaviug tha box, and mada other pleasant comments on Dr. Mary Walker's impruey. dence. Alady on Beacon HIIL was tho happy possessor of ona of thoso pretty Darlor orusments, & globo full of old fiah, $he uarmed oug of the luryeht of the fihies enry Ward nud auother Tliton, In momout of oxe waperation, tho othior day, Honry Ward nto Tilton np, Lucklly there wag 10 *mutual friond ¥ fn the case, else, porliups, e would have shared the samo fate,— Tiostan Glaoe, ‘That was Henry's game, but Thoodore made him so slek that ho gove up playing Jonah's whale, A Now French Toy. #The Prisonnr's Bacapo " is thonewest Fronch toy, On a littlo tower stands a little man of tan, drossed oo o Mavshal of France, and hotding & 10po in his hands, Touch a spring and the Marshal launobies boldly into space, slides down tho cord und lands in n'boat, which comes labor- g out from rooks of tiu over u cardbosrd son. Just as tho Marehal drops sboard, a soldier in upiforin looks trom the tower in evidont slarm, ‘Cho bost moves back to ita station, and all may be bex&m sgaln if tha joko inouusldered good euougln 3 A STOLEN STATE. Somehody Has Run Away with Sovereign Louisiana, The Returning Board Now Ap- pears o Be the Supreme Power, A Report Noticeable for Omis- sion and Confession, Why Gen, Emory Is Distasteful to Louisiana Republicans, His Removal from New Orleans Earnestly Urged and Considered. Gen, Sheridan Is Thought to Be About the Man for the Place But Lo Is Too Fond of Chicago to Bo Avail- ahlo for the Purpose. Pinchback Will Resign if He Can Have His Pay and Mileage. THE BOUTHERN REPUBLICANS LATORING FOR TUE REMOVAL OF GEN. EAMORY. Special Dixpateh to T'he Chicago Tribune, WasmiNarox, D. C., Dee. 25,—Tho Southern Ropublicans {osist that tho Prosident Lns defl- nitoly promised that Gen, Lmory suall bo ro- mavod from command in Louisinns, and Gen. ‘Porry be ordered to supersede him, by Jan, 1. Tho complaints against Gon. Emory on-the port of the Southern Republicans are of long stand- ing, Deforo the Penn imsurrection the com- plaints were frequent. Durtvg that rovolu- tion noither the [President mor any of his Cabinet woro satisfled with the admunistration of Goo. Emory. Tho abjoctions in no way offect Emory's charactor ag a man, but refor to bis indecision of character and lack of executivo ability, It was an absenco of those qualities that, during the Mcknory-Penn omouto, forcod from the Prosident bis noted telographic order to Emory, “Put down the in- surrection nnd report sfterwards,” Tho Bouth- ern Repiblicans also chargo that Gen. Emoty has such personal and {omily relations with Southorn LDaemocrats o to DIBQUALIFY JIX for hoarty co-operation with the President in supporting the Kollogg Government, At tho outbreak of the civil war it was gonerally sup- posed tnst Emory would join the Bouthorn forcos, and it is said that & poculinr chancoalono provonted such action on his part, 'The Loulelana Republicans alao object to Do Trobriand, the subordinate officor whom Emory hag designoted s Commandsnt of the City of Now Orlenns, Thoy say that Dolrobriand is himself o croolo, and that ko is o boou compauion of the White Loaguer lead- ers iu all social festivitics. It is understood that if tho chauge ia made it will show that the Prosident has piectically abandoned any expoc- tations of nction ou_the part of Congress defln- ivg tho status of Louisiaua and the Keilogg Government, 'Tho Prasidont, whother or not fin erred in first recognizing the Kullngfi Govern- ment, wsista that in thoe abacuce of detinito Con- gresutanal setion ho bas uo sltornative but to continuo his executive recogoition of that Gov- erument. TIE FEALS OF FUTURE TROUNLE in Louisiann, in the event of the continued sup- port of Kollogg by the President. are not dis- pelied, and it 1s for this roason that a thoroughly oxperieuced milltary commander of high rauk i3 devired st New Orloans, Tho President once thought of designating Gon, Sheridun for that position, but Bheridan, when last here, very carneutly protested against aoy change in his' assignment. Tho represoutatives horo of tho Conservativo party in Lousisna ore endeavoring to have tho Coupregsional Committ&o invesligate the action of tho Roturning Board, Tho Republicans wil try (o have them visit Coushatta. Ivis said thot ; TPINCHDACK has agreed to immedintoly resign after being seatad, i7 the Senato will soat him and Sny him his salary sud milenge, which amounts to 318,000, [0 the Aroeiuted Eress.] i A STATEMENT #Y THE REYURNING DOARD. New OnLEANS, Doc, 25,~Tho Returning Board, in closing the labor of canvassing and compiling tho vote of the Stato given at tho election ou the 2d of November lust, sny: It is but {uuc and proper that the returning officers should givo » statement of the difficuitics attondant ou their Iabora, and the principles 1aid down, drawn from Inw, to direct thom in the dischargo of thelr du- tios, In tho first placo, this olection was very loosely conducted by the Commissioners of Eloc- tions ; s0 much g0 that at one-tenth of the polls in tho Stato the forms roquired by law wero not observed. The law requires tho Suporvisors of Regiatration to forward to the returning oflicors, first, n list of tho votes kopt by the Commissiouers of Election ; gocond, o statemont of persons voted far, aud the number of valea received by each ; and, third, tally-shects, all of which the Commissionera of Election are roquired to furnigh tho Bupervieors, and they to forward thom to the roturning ofticors. 1n many cases NO LISTH OF VOTERE WERE KEPT by tho Commisaioners ; or, if thoy wore, they wore uot forwardod to tue Teturning oflicers by the Supervisors, and many that wore forwarded to the RRoturning Board wero not signed or sworn to, os the law requires, In many cases thore was no statoment of persons voted for and tho number of votes received by them torwarded to the Roturning Board, aud many that wore ro- turned were notther signed nor sworn to; and in mapy cagep thore wore no tally-shoets forwarded to tho Roturning Board to cuablo thom to toat tho ncourncy of the stato- ment of votes. In somo instancesonly the tally- sheets wero returned to the Returniug Board, without a list of the votors or a statoment of the votes, and they not signod or sworn to as the law roquires, ''lhis belng tho case, it hooame noces- Bary’ t[l}mr, papors recelvod from polling-places o should b CAREFULLY EXAMINED, ‘Thoro were over 850 polling-places in the Btate, andthero was & long list of candidates, B il became s vory laborious duty, which occupied tho Board neurly & month, laboring from 11 u. m, tod4p m, sud from 7 to 11 p. m., overy doy. Tho lnw requires that, in such canvass nnd compilation, tho roturning ofticers shall observe the following order: ‘Thoy shall compile statemonts from all polls or voting places at which thoro shall havo beou & fair, froe, and puacosblo roglstyation and olection, When- over from any poll or voting place thore has been auy riof, tumult, acte of violeuce, intimida- tioa, disturbances, I:r‘blng, orcorrupt influences, which prevented or tendod to praventa faix, froe, and poncesblo vote of all qualified electors ontitled to voto at suub, the returning officorn shall not canvagy, count, or computo the state- ment of votes from such poll or voting wlace until the statoments from all other polls or vot-~ fug places shall have boon canvassed nud com- pited, Lho returning oflicors shall then * PHQOEED TO INVESTIOATE the statements of 1iot, tumult, oty of violonce, intimidation, srmod disturbances, bribery, or corrupt intlueuces at uny such poll and voting- place, Tho Board haa followed this roquirement ,0f tholaw, aae it was their imporativo duty to do, aud, fu oxmnining the procesdinga of Commnia- siouors of Election forwardod to 1t by tho Bupar- visory, when eithor of tho couusel mjipoiuted Dby tho political I:nrtleu objocted tothe count of any poll, und laid beforo the Board any ovidenco to” sustain wuch objection, wuch polls wore pusged ovor and not ‘canvasaod until tho Board had complled the voto from all polls not objectod to, In she progrdes of tho oxamluatiun # large numbar of polla wore objsated o, tus oluding somo twonty-seven parishes. Tho t,'ruuudu of objection to some of tho polls wore he failuro of n Aubstattial complianco with tho Inw In conducting tho election and making tho roturns to tho Bupervisors. In others, that re- tuins of tho Commissionors ITAD BEEN CHANGED aftor thoyhiad boon made to tho Buporvisors; that n greater number thau thore wore votors had bon roturned roglstorod, or that thoso voting wera compolled to voto difforontly from what thoy do- ulrm}. 1Ind tho Board dectded that anything lile & ntrict complinnco with tho forms of "tho law in holding thoe eleotion and making returns to tho Supervisor would o roquired, tho effeot wonld havo boen that so many of the polls would lLave been thrown out thab thoro would liavo boon no olaction in the State, Tho Board thou adopt- ed o rulo that, whon o Bupervisor bad roturned any ovidonca showing that an clection was hold, although it bo only n tally-shoet unsigned or awoin to, in tho’ nbsonco of suy evideuce of fraud or {utunidatton IT WOULD COMPILE. TIE VOTE a8 shown by such ovidence or documents, This docisfon disposod of & good many protosts to tho recoption of polls, but when tho substantinl forma of Inw lind not boen obsorved and ovidonce ot fiaud or intimdation waa produced, the fail- ure of substantial compliance with tho forms of Inw was cousidered n badge of fraud and the poll was rejected. Wa beliovad this to bo n juat and reasonable rule, aud tho Board utrictly ad- hored to it in tho cases of Carroll, St. Hel- ona, and 8t Jomes Parshes, whoro it was charged and proved that the roturns mndo by tho Commissioners to tho Supervisors had been changod after they had como into the hauds of the Bupoivi.ors, Tho Board took ovidenco to necertain thq truo stato of the vote, and mado the compilul éun accordingly. The question {{\lmud apainst the grostor pumber of polls was o CHARGY, OF INTIUDATION to prevont votors fiomn voting, avd forcing them o voto againat thoir wishes, — ‘Fo namhl{;h this chargo, n grent mags of affidavits were takon, somo nfimmnbln to wholo parishes, and somo to particular polls, and n mass of countor afidavits were nlso filed, Tho goneral fucts proved on this ro\m catablishos that, mbout Aay, 1874, military organization known na the Whito Longuoe was cstablished in_the Stato, which ex- tended to overy parish in the State and perment- ed overy nolgliborhood j that the object of this organization was to TREVENT COLORED MEN FROM VOTING unless they could bo controiled to vote the Demo- cratic ticket, and provent them from holding of- fico ; and, further, to compel Ropublicana bold- iug oftice undor tho present Btale- Governmeut to sbdicato their oltices, and to provent tho Rte- publican party in this Btate from organizing with n view of concentrating their party at the Iate election, and to expel tho white Repnblicans fiom the State unless thov would desist from organizing the Tepublican party this Btate and withdiaw from tho active support of that party. The meaus takon by this White Loaguo organization to accomplish the above puiposes iy shown to baye boen by threats that if the colored voters did uot voto the Domocratio tickot they should be expetled from the plantation on which thoy wero farmiug, be deprived of their crops, be ex- cluded from renting lands hereafter, or of being employed, snd deprived of ratious or credit to obtain them: and leaojug colored mon were THREATENED WITH DEATL if thoy persisted in organizing the Republican party, and white Republicans wero threatened with porsonal viotence, progeription in businoss sud socially of themmelves and families, snd with ~ banging, if thoy peraistod in organizing tho arty with view to tho late elections, This organization, in armed bouds, in many parishies in tho Btate carried their threata of personal violenco into effect by killlog some Ropub:icans, whipping and 1li- treating others, and compelled parish officors holding offico under tho presont State Govern- mont to abdicato their offices. This was par- ticalurly the case in all the Red River parishos, most of tho Techo parishes, and in the parishes votween Rod and Ouachits Rivers. And tho above acts, 1osoried to by this White League or- gonization to enrry out their purpose, were cloar violations of both Stato and United States laws, and would subject the porpotrators of thoso nots to imprisonmentin the Ponitoutiary. O ODIOUS ARE THEY to the sense of the people. Thoeno acts of in- timidation, which provent a fair, froo, and pesce- able election in the Parishes of 8t. Mary and Crant, were s0 gonoral and overwhelming that tho Boatd felt compelied to throw out every box m thess pnrisbes, aud in many other parshes where thero was satisfactory proof thut intimi- ¢ation had beon usod at donifi'un(ud polls g0 a1 to prevent a fair, frce, and ponceablo elec- tion at such polla. They were excluded from compilation as tho law reauites. When tho fiiends of & political party, such g8 the White- Lengue organization is, clearly and gencrally violuta tho [aws of the country to control an oloction in their intoiost, it is but Iust und profi- ar that whon they aro shown to have brought such asts to bear on an elaction, they should not bo permitied to pront by it, aud SUOIL 18 TIE INTENTION OF THE LAW, - The Bonrd, howover, in this eago did not exclude any poll from compilstion excopt ou satiafactory proof thnt such violation lind beeu_porpetrated, and that it had the effect of intimidating o suf~ flcieny Lumber of voters to changoe tho result of the election. As all theao ncts to produce in- titnidation had beon porpotrated in favor of tho Domoeratic party ana against the Ropuvlican party ; the pells excluded from compilation gen- erally gave majosities in favor of tho Dot cratio party, and thewr exclusion frorp com ion rotuced the vote of that party, and in somo 1nstances had tho effoct of returning Roproscuta- tivos and osher ofticors of the opookite party differont from the roturns made by the Supervi- sord, 'This is the natural rosult of an illegal at- tompt to aceomplish such an object, aud is NO FAULT OF THE 1HOATD. Tho counsel of the Domocratic party protested syainst the counting ot certain polls in the Par- whos of Natchitoches ond Bossier, on tho ground thet Umted States troops wore oxpected at the piolls on tuo day of election, or did notual- Iy visit the polls on the day of olection, in order to agsist tho United States Morshal to acreat por- sous charged with violation of United States law, aud tbat, in consequence, & great numbor of Domoorats did not attond tho polls and voto for fear of arrest by tho United Stntos troops. Tiven it such facts had boou fully proved, as al-» leged, wo do not seo that thore wasany violation of law in United States troops doing so. Cortuinty, n person chargod with a erime againet tho United States law _canuot say o is intimidated by tho fact that & United States Marshal was trving to arrest biwm, It {a bis own fautt i Lo je guilty, and ho oannot urge bis crimo aa & protaction, and porsons NOT CONBOIOUS OF THEM GUILT would not fleo from the proseuce of a United Stated Marshal aud his posse of United Btates soldiers, ‘This was prepostorous, and we did not consider this n good ground of iutimidation, ‘Iherg wore no roturns of the election from the_Parish of DeHoto by tho Supervisor ot Registration as tho law roquired, Porsons intorested produced tho Clork of tho Court, with sueh papers a8 wero by law intrusted to bim, and offerod thom as roturns from tho paris] ‘I'he Boord decided they could not rocaive, ca vass, and compite such roturns, The partics in- torested appliod to the propor court for o man- damus to compel the Bonid to rocolve the can- vass and compile those returng, bub upon teial tho Court € BUSTAINED THE RULING OF THE D0ATD. The smmo principls was acted on in tho Tewre Bonne case, There way no Bupervisor in the Parish of Winn, the ono appointed for thut paristy baving beon oxpellod fron tho parish, and an un- nuthorized persou sssnmed to act. ‘Lhey could uob 10coguize Buch fawlessness, The Board sub- mits to tho Legislature and peoplo of this State, tho result of their investigation, with a conscioue- nnb»thu(haykn\‘npropeflild\mhnr edtheirtraat, (Slgued.) J, MADIBON WELLS, President, THE NOARD ADJOURNED Aubject to tho cull of the Promdont. Gov, Kel- logg; states that tho roturns show three lopnble- an snd threo Democratic mewbers of Congrosy, I'ho House of Represontatives i8 nearly, it not uite, a tie, ag Goy, 1lakn and other Conserva- tivo Republicana will probubly remaln neutral, ‘he Constitutional smenducnts are deohured carriod by about 10,000 majonty, Dionville Purish, which gave Grant and Kellogg 600 votes 11872, and Dubnclet no voto this yenr, ia not counted; and Grant Parish, tho sceno of the Colfax masuucre, 14 aleo thrown out, thaugh 1t gove & emall Ropudlican majorit; st gl silonte A Portrait of the Pompadons. The Abbe do Mennaval, of tho Parizh or 8aint Plillip du Rouls, in Puris, was, bofore taking ordary, attachod to th French logation 1u Vien- na, Whilo looking fu o nhn[)-wlndnw ono day in the Austrian Capital, he naticad u miniature of & vory pretty womun, which he bought for 16 froucs, This was yoors ngo, but whou recently oxamining the picture, which had fallon from its frame, ho fouud on tho back the inseription: “ Yortruit of Madsmo de Fompudour, givon Lo L, do Kaunitz,” The Abbo spoke’ of hus intor- oating discovary, aud whon Mudumo Rotheohild hioard of it, sho oftored him 1,000 fraucs for the miclaturo, Tho Abbo accepted the ooy, and tho monoy is to bo given to the Archbishop of Daris, and i to bo usad towsrd bullding the Church of the Sacrod Ifoart, st Monmartro, “Thus has the mlutross of Louls XV, contiibuted toward buildlug s chuvoh 110 years miter Ler doatln ™ WASHINGTON. Audacious Smuggling on the Canadian Frontier---Prohibitory Measureg The System of Appraisementin Chi- oago Vindioated. The Eighth Judicial Bar to Choose Judge Howe's Successor. REPORTS OF AGENTA ON THE NORTHERY FRONTIER: Special Dispateh to Phe Chicago Tribune. ‘Wasmivaroy, D. O.. Dee, 25,—Tho roports for another weok have been rocoived from thoe spec- inl sgents dotalled to examino tho mothods of transportation of merchandise in bond over the northorn frontior. Tho reports show & remarl- ablo chinngo atnco tho agonta wore firat Aetailod. The first roports showed that two-thirda of tho cars wora run In dircot violation of law. The present roports show that ono largo firm have arrangod & dummy door on each onoof thoir cars 80 that by romoving two sorows tbe goods could bo romoved without interfering with tho sonl lock. Roports havo beon mado showing that some consignorn of whoat in bulk delay tho train in Canada and bag the grain. Ono train from tho Weat was stopped _yestorday for that renson, a8 tho law forbids any chango in ‘tho form of morchandise pouding transit. A tolographic ordor was sout from lioro to-day relensing the train, with the injunction that that practico must be discon- tinuod, It is claimad by somo of tho ofiicinls of the Treasury Department thac the continuanco of tho importation of goods in bond is discra tionary with tho Sccrotary of tho 'I'ronsury by rendon of provisions in the lnw which declared that_such importations mny be mado. provided tho Government is protected from smuggling. TUE METUOD 0¥ ATPRAISEMENT IN TUE CHIOAGO CURTOM-HOUSE, Spectal Disnateh to Phe Chicaco Tribune, Wasuinetoy, D. C., Doe. 25.—~Tho report of Day, one of tho Now Yorl appraiscrs, sont to investigato tho mothod of appraisement in tho Chicago Custom-ITouse, baa bean recolved at the I'ronsury Deopnitmaent, Tho roport states that no just criticism cau be made upon the system of ~ appraisal as at present maunaged at that offico. The examinntion was rostrict- ed to the prosont mothod, and did not embrace the past, Lorin Blodgett, Olief of tio Customs Division, to-day informad Dey that his report was satisfactory. ~The wholo trouble avidently arose from joalousy on the part of Now York importers. TIHE VACANT JUDAESIIIP, The President is understood to aporovoof the plan of tho Wisconsin Congresslonal dolegation, which proposea to lenve the choico of the suc- caesor to Unitad States Tudge Howe to the Bar of tho Eighth Judicinl District. CAPIURED, The Desperndo Rodifer Caught After a Daring Strugele—Twenty Against Onc, From the Loufavitle Courfer-Journal, Dec, 25. About 11 o’cluck yostarday morning a strangor ontercd tho dopot and storo-room of Mr. Mats Coombs, in Memphis, Ind,, 16 miles from tls oity, and bought %0 couts worth of crackers and cheose. After making the purchaso, ho stood by tho xide of the countor and began to eat tho frugal ropast, ‘There was somathivg in the looke nnd appearauce of the strangor which would at- tract attention from & careful observor of per- Hons. Ho was s fine looking man, and his koen gray oyos flashed nround the small storo, taking 1n all that was to bo soon. In the store as tho timo were Dr. J. M. Roynolds and Mr. John Coombs, Dr, Reynolds eyed tho stisngor cloaely, and the stranger obsorviug it averted Lis hoad.” Dr. Roynolda gave a sign to Coombs, when tho lavter nppioachiod him and the following conversation in a low vaice took placo: * Have nuy convicts escaped from the prison in the last day or two?” sud Reyuolds to Coowmbs, *I don't know," wan tho reply of Coumbs, * but hero 18 o copy of vestorduy’s Courier-Journdl ; that will tell’ you.” Dr, Reynolds took tho paper and commoncod glancing over it. Ina fowx momants o laid it down in a hasty manner and started townrd the door. In tho moeautime tho stranger bad sented himself and was busily engaged osting his eruckiors aud chaese, Dr. Roynolds left the storo and sont a Loy after Mz, Melvin W, Weir. In a very shors time Mr, Weir arrived and Hoynolds told bim that there was a mau in the storo who suswored tho description of the noted Rodifar, the escaped convict, Woir had seen Rodifer ouly a short ime gince, whon 1o was being brought from Terre Lauto on tho cars to Jeffereonville. Tio kneyw that if the man was Rodifer e would know bim; 8o bo started in the store. Just ns he got oppoeite tha man raised his oyes and mnEud sharply at Weir, who looked searchingly at hun, ‘There could be no migtake in the looks of thetwomon as thoy glared at each other; the reeignition was mutunal and instantangous. Woir know thiat the mun before him was Rodifor, the escaped conviet, aud Rodifor kvew that he was recoguizod, Woir wheeled around and left tho store, Rodufer, for it was he, immodiatoly followed him out. As Woeir camo out of the door hio met.Constablo I, Iuckelborry, who wus standibg on the platform, and eaid to him:3 “ {Tuctkelberry, thut mon,” pointing to Rodifor, wha.‘iu the wenntime, had como out, *is Rodi- for.” At this yemark Rodifer drow from his side ocket n large carving-knife, with & 10-inch iade. 1fo at first acted as though ho would place Limself on the defousive, but n moment's rellection seomod to chunge his tactics, aud ho turned and ran, with the lmifo clutchod in hig hand, Mo was clogely followed by Dr. toynolds, Jrmes Ileiston, Mel ‘Weir, ana Clint Thompson. Rodifer rap like n deor duwn the Charlostown pike and through tho yard of Aleck Ball to an glioy. Welr ran into "his house, nexi door to Bali’s, and got his revolyor. When ho came out Rodifer was runuing down tho alloy to & street, closaly pursued by o number of citizons. On this streot was n bluckemitli shop, in front of which was hitched o horso belonging to William McClure, of Henryvillo, IRodifer eprang up to the side of the horseand slashoed away with his koife nt the bridle-roins, severing them from their fastening. The next moment ho was ou the back of the animal aud off like the wind, During this timo half of tho population of Memphis were alarmed and in pursuit. Twool the pursuers had also prooured horses, and tho rece was excitivg. Wair with sevoral others had armed thomselves and wore about soventy-five yards behind tho flying fugitive. T'ho citizens on horsebaok wero oloso on to Rodifor, having tho best horsos, Todifer kept down the pike, urging his Liorso for- ward to ull tho speod that it was capabto of. priok- ivg the poar anital fu the fluuk to make him go fostor, Beglug that bis pursuers woro gaiming upon him, Rodifer mada for the woods, Ho bad just reached the edge of tho woods, when he suddonly wheelod aud turnod lus horse squaro around, facing all of his pursgors, Ho then firmnly grasped the rein with his loft hand and beot his body forward, and stuck the knifo in tho flank of his hiorso, which cnusod him to plungo madly forward and come tearing down upon hia pureuers. ‘Chis bold and unoxpected niovementstartlod his pursuors, and, boforo thoy could rocover from thelr wurprise, Rodifer wns right in thelr midst cutting his horso in the fiank and domng bis utmost to rido through the party. An oye-witness of tho econo at this timo de- serlbos Rodifer as looking more like n demon than a buman creature. He bnd raisod himeelf up in the stirrups, and seemed determined to run the dangorous guuntlot. The hordo and its daring rider wore surrounded by this time by fiftoon or twenty men, who wore armed with clubs and brickbats, and sevoral with rovolvers. The two men on borseback ware by Rlodifer's side, atriling at him, Rodifor still kept cutting his horso and making superhuman exortions to forco Lim thraugh tho crowd, which was overy moment irowing larger, At this juncturo n man nanied Willinn McCluro struck Rudifer » powor- tul blow with a club serosu the neck auil shoul- dors, 'The blow roomod to stagrer Rodifer for & momont only, and bo still kept urging uls horno onward, A son of Dr. Applegato about this time struck Itodifer a terrific blow In tho gmall_of the buck with a large olub. 1! causod him to ory out with paiu, ~Just then wvo pistol-ghots wore fired, and " the poor horso gave & bound to the nide of the rond, stumbling, and throwing Rudifer off, Ho foll, or ruthor, Jumpod on his_foot to tho ground, Five or six men here rushed up to him with loaded 1ovolvers, Molvin Weir piaced a rayolvor at his breast, and told him to givo up, Rodifer cust n look at tho men avound biw, threw his kaifo on tho ground, and sald, **1t's no usoy I surrender.” Ho was fn- mediately tiod and takon back to tho town. Waen tho noon tralu on tho Joil, ltead came down ho was taken on the oars by Moelvin Woir, Dr. Roynolds, and Clint Lhompson, aud by thoso threo mon safely dolivored over to Warden Bhulor ot tho 8tate’s Prison In Jofersonville yos- terday, aftorooon, aud recelved tho rewurd of 9200, On uls way down in ne oars, Dodifor wan } moroso and sullon, snd had but lktlo to say, 1o confossod tho robbery iu New Albany, ‘Tuesdn) night, and_atated that ho slopt on tho knoba nfl night Wodnesday, 1o wauted to know how much roward bnd boen offered for him, and whon told, sald thot ho was glad that hus eaptors would got it, aud that ho did not blame thom. 1lo gald” that ho would escape again if Lo got o chance, Mo rofused to tell whoro ho stayod tho dny of hifs eseape, Groab oredit Is duo tho good pooplo of Momphis, Ind,, for their gecuring one of tho most desperato mon in tho Western country, * AN INEXCUSABLE BLUNDER. Four Men Killed In the New IScrgen 'Tunnel Shafts From the Neto York Sun, Dee, 24, Shaft No. 6 of the Delaware & Lackawanna Raflroad tunnel is about midway betweon Ho- bolon and Jersny City, It haw tho reputation of belng worked with eriminal carolosaness, und the acoldont of veaterday morning was tho result of o blundor, A party of night workmon were go- ing down tho shaft at 1 s.m, A bucket bind alroady been lowcred twice, taking down four men oach timo, and meveral more stood nround tho sporturc awatting thoir turn, ‘the fron bucket, which was about 8 feot in dinmeter, was attached to & wire rope by o hook. The bucket-bandlo was smooth, well worn, and without any ring into which the hoolk conld bo passod, whilo the guard originally ate tacheil to the hook had boen broken off and’ not roplaced. Thera was thus nothing to pravont tho buckot from slipping over tho hook. Tho mouth oI the shiaft was vory narrow, so much o that, when the bucket was lowered, tho men alanding upon its edgos hiad to bend their bodios inward to avold striliog tho sides., 'Tho plat- form upon which tho men stand above tho shaft being raiked about 12 fect from the gromnd, is nxruuud to tho wind and cold, and tho tuon aro usually anxfous fo get down into the shaft, whera the temperaturo is warmer, , Yostorday morning the usunl friendly compo- tition to be first down was shown, and when tho bucket camo up for tho second time threo mou solzed tho ropo aud stepped on the edge, Thoy woro James Hurng, Damel Muiphy, and Martin Sullivan, John Berger was oo tho point of step- ping on also when s man bobind him complainad that ho biad crushed his finger, and Borgor turned round to look at it, Bornard Kirloy at once took iy placo, and the onginoer bogan to lower tho bucket. I'be buckot had not moved 6 inchos downp- ward whon ono of ils bolts, as far os could bo nscortained, caught in the woodwork above tho shaft, and sustained it just long enough to allow the ropo to becomo slack; the hook swuug nside, and i n momont thobuckot droppod lika a stene, the four mon following it tothe bottom. The workmen who had proviously been low- ered were tuuncling about 150 foet from tho bottotn of the shaft, whou thoy heard tho ciash and saw the showor of sparks mado by the fron bucket atrikiug therocks bolow. A second aftere ward tho dull thud of the falling Lodics was heard, Two of the men approached with a ltght, snd, soojug tho motionless figures lymp there, bocame frightencd and ran _away, Other men went to tha bottom of tho shalt, and tho rope haviug been by this time deawn up and sent down ngain with n second bucket, Bullivan, who wtill broathied, was plucod in 1t, but before ho was brought to tho surfaco he was dead, All the Teat wera killed instantly, Tho fecling agaiust tho contractors, Messra. Waelsh & MeAndrows, was 8o strong that oilicers wora stationed on tho spot to prosorve ordor. All yostordny groups of men complamned of tho carclessness and opparcut disrozard for human lifo that had cnused tho calamity ; nor was this fecling nllayed whon later in tho day My, Wolsh camo to tho shalt and scolded tho foremnn for duluying the work by allowing the men to como up. I'he mon say that thoy are obliged to work in shatt No. b at'the peril “of thoir lises; that tho wiro rope used to lower thom down is al- ways old stufll that has been condomped for othior uses ; and that sinco last July not a singlo new ropo has beon used, Whon “ouo beconies #0 badly worn that it really cannot bo used any lun‘:ur, 1t Is replaced by one not much botter, Y'his aceidont, whieh occurred through the ab- sonce of the guard on the book, they sny was predictod long sinco, bt tho contractora troated oll complaints with indifferouce. While \vnrkinfi in the u’]ml‘t they are coustantly throatened wit! a tarriblo daoger: tho roof {s very bad, and uotbing will induca Mr, MoAndrows to havo proper praps provided. 'The consequenca is that it {8 & no uncommon thing for o ton or moro of earth to fall in. 1t may bo romembored that not long sinco n peteliod and worn-out boilor burst on the samo works; and one of the coutractors, oa loarning that o man had boen killed and a bellows blown to piecos, romarked that the bellows cost him £80. Another boiler is in uso with eight flues already burst, and tho whole apparatus isin s promising condition for an explosion. — Germany and the Vatican, Following oro the wordd of Prices Bismarck, uttorod in tho sitting of the German Varliumeut, Dec. 6. in relation to tho resolution to cancel tho post of Buvoy to tho Vaticun. Princo Bismarcl said: “The Popo being n purely rehgious chfof, thero was no accasion to keop a Enrmu.non: pohitical yoprosentative at his Court, Lhwgs, in- dead, might have been loft in statu quo bad not the F!‘enonb Pope, a truo member of the Church Mtitaut, thought 1lt to rovive toe anciont Birug- glo of the Papacy with Temporal Power, and mors ospecially with the Gorman Ewpire. Tho Bpirit ummnlimf tho Papacy in tho campaigu was too woll known “to roquire cow- ment; Btill, ho would tell tho Xouso » story which lad been long kept secrot, but whicl, afier all that bad happencd, had bettor bo mnde pubhe. In 1869, when the Wurlemburg Government bad occasion to complain of tho netion of the Papacy, the Wurtemburg Envoy at AMupioh was instructed to make ropresentations ; and 1u o conversation which passod botween the Envoy and tho Nuuclo, the lattor said the Roman Chureh was freo only in Ameries, and porhaps England and Bolgium, In all other countrios thie Roman Chureh had {olook to revolution us tho solo meana of securing hor yiglitful position, This, they, was the view of tha priestly diploma- tist s¢atloned ot Munich In 1869, und formerly roprosenting tho Vatican at Daris. Wali, tho rovolution 8o ardewtly desired by tho Vatican did not come to pase, but wo had the war of 1870 instoad, Gentlemen, L am in possossion of con- clusivo ovidones proving that the wor of 1870 was the combined work of Rome aud I'ravce ; that the Ecumenioal Council was cut short on acconut of the war; and that very differont votas wonld have beon taken by the Council had tho French been victorious. I know from tho vory bost sources tuat tho Emperor Napoleon wag dragged futo tho war vory much agaiust his will by the Jesuitical inflnences rampant at his Court ; that he strove hard] to rosit thiose inftu- onces ; that in tho cloventi hour ho determined to maintan poaco ; that ko stuck to his doter- minntion for half un hour, and that ho was ulti- flmtuly' overpowered by porsons representing ome,” —_— Archbishop Manning and the English Universiticn. A correspondenco has been publishod between the father of an Osford undergradunto aud Archbishop Munning. Tho young man had been two yoars n momber of Now Colloge, Oxford, when lie became a convert to tbo Roman Catholio faith, e wished, a8 did nlgo Lis father for hitn, that he might continuo his university course, ow ho camo to chaugo his courso is told in a lettar to his father, m which ho says : “8inco I waw you Iluve beon in Loundon to Boo the Arghbishop of Westminstor, and to leurn from him the mind of the Church ns rolating to my futuro course, When I had lud the wholo mattor bofore him, I assure you that I was much swprised to hear that the Holy Boo s ex- pressly condomned the Buglish universitios as dangerons to faith and morals, This being tho caty, the Archbishop could only give mo one yeply to my question—an unconditionul negative; nnd s I bavo submitted my Judgmont to that of tho Church, the only courso for me is to acquicsce fu his opinion,” Upon this tho father wroto to tho Archbishop to loara whethor his son has rightly nudorstood tho Arohbishop's monuivg, und ho adds: * I can searcoly think it possiblo that o Church pro- fossing to encourugo learning should object to o young man of 21 comploting his ecduoation at & univoraity from whioh all Bacturian tosohing is excluded.” A repty was recelved from Areh- bishop Manniug’s eecrotary, in which, without an express sfiirmution of tho corroctuess of the Hon's Foport, tho futher 1y ;ilvnn to understand that the Church does probibit Catholics trom studying at Lnglish univorsities. 'Tho lottor ln'oouad-l 1 "' The Archbishop desires to expross, hrough me, his senso of tho trinl you havo a: this time to boar, Tho cause af it cannot bo ro. garded Ly Lilm oxcopt a8 a benediction for your #on; novortheless, ho eannot refrain trom’ ox- p\iuuu'lng his sympathy with you, who fool othor- wise,” . ——— Novel Expedieont of Buevieged Men. A private lettor frem au oficer ut Tort Bill, Iudiun Torritory, givos tho fotlowing accouns of an ingenious nxpedicut adopted to ald sowmo oldlors in w strait: ¢ Corporul John Bmith, of the lortioth Infautry, with fonr nien, wis ome ployed_on Home dotail somo 25 miled from thin post. While thus eugngoed Lo was surprised by a l)od_v of somo hnndrad or more mountod Indinns, ho thinks eithor Kiowas or Comanchos, from this_roservation, Aa thoir purpode was unmis. takably hostilo, bo and his mon lost no thno in taking to the only availablo choltor, an old bullalo 3 wallow, whore, in & vory uncomfortable, con- strained position, they managed to protoct thels bodios and keep thoir cnemios at & distanco for tho day sud night. Tho nuext morning, howevor, thalr sufforings for want of food and water bo eamo rathor sorious, and somatblug had to by dono, Gor!mrnl Smith wna equal to tho oceasion | taking apicco of his own white shirt, tho only substituto for Impor to bohad, ho wroto & not describing their situntion, seoured it with care 1o tha neck of a small, shaggy mongrel dog which Lid followad them from the fort ; then battorin) up a canteon, ho faatonod it to the suimal's tal and lot him go, Tho dog, to quate the Gorporal’a own oxpreagion, ! just humpted himsolf,’ Tho Indiavs, takiug it to bo a moro act of bravado, I prosumo, made no nnoml}t to stop him, and within two honrs from tho timo ho started tho dog reachod tho post, Buccor was immoadiately sont, and the brave Corporal and his comrados brought in, the Indiana makiog off at tho first sight of the roscuo party, attho distanco of govoral miles.” * AN OLD WOMAN'S STORY. ‘Tho fate of nn Old Merchant—EXl Nephews Saw flis Blend OKf. I'rom the Levant Herald, A singular trial for murder has taken plroo & Missivria, and hns euded in the acquittal of the prisonors—two brothers, who wora acoused of tho murder of thoir uncle, & rich old Odessi morchant, Tho ald man, lmvlng rotired from sctivo lif sud wound up his business, rotured fron Odessn somo yonrs ago and sattled down ic Mspivrin, his native town. Iero ho gave much i charity to tho poor, aud behaved handsomoly to il nophows, with whom he lived, and whom Iio helpod out of poverty into a respectable po- gltion in local trede. ‘I'hroo years ago the old man suddenly disappeared. No serious_inquiry, bowever,wna made to nscortain what had become of him. 1lis nephows mado liboral donstions to the churchos, nod_inborited, or rather appro- printed, tho old man's woalth, Probubly thoy would nve heaon lott entirely undisturbod {n tho cujoymont of their riches but for a circum- stuuco whicl, for & tino, must hava caused thom. somo trouvle and anxiety, * On o certain day in Lho early part of this year an old womnn asked for an audieuco with tho cadi, nad, on being ndinitted, made o doposition a8 follows: ** It was n dark, stormy night,” tho old woman said. **The wiud bad 8ovoral times blown in my window-sash, putting out my lamp, and causing tho ombors of my 1iro to fly sboué the room. Suddenly, amid the howling of the storm, I hoard ashriok, thon & moan, ~Strange ! gounds followed, which scomed to como from the house of my naighbor, the Odessa worchant. 1 crossed mysoelf, and drank o littlo raki to keep up my cournge, and then I romembered that thoro 'was n crack in tho wall of my clouet, through which I could sco into the house of my neighbor, tho merchant. Thither L wont, and applicd wy oye to tho crovico i tho mud wall, and this iy what Teaw: “Two mon wore prossing down a pillow upon the faco of snother man, whomn they kept pros- trato, and o wornan way holdiug a light. The old man—I recognized bim—wns very strong, for ha ovorthrew bis nephews, although his throat was cob and blood gushed from the wound, Ile would bavo escaped, but the woman struck hinx in tho fuce with a chair, His hond was bent backword, as thongh ho could uot keep it*in ite placo on account of tho gash across his throat. Btill his oyes flashed lifo; ho staggored toward tha window; but thore ho was again struck down by hia nephews, Then thoy sawed away ot bis throat till the bead was eoparated from tho trank.” Tho accusor wont on o say that sho threaton- od tho murderers with & disclosure of the crime which sho had witnossed, but that thoy promised her * hush-money ;" that, ss she was poor, 8ho ngreed, in_cousidoration theroof, to hold her tongue, and that sho washed tho blood from tho floor of the room whero tho old man had beou put to death. 'The *'hush-moncy,” however, hiad not been paid, and, as sho was starving, sho detoritined to make known herstory. Tho story swas made known iu March or April, but no pro- coedings woro taken until August, The accusod parties were then arrested, and confined in Zap- tieh *“Oda.” Tho old wowan, too, w@ put in prison, and was flogged and balf-smothured be- tween maitresses night aftor night until tho triat ended, and the persons whom tho vox poputi_ still stigmatizes ay murdorors Sore da- clarod innocent, ——— e e SPECIAL NOTICES, Schenck’s Mandrake Pills Will bo found ta possess thoso qualitios noccssary to the total oradication of all billious attacks, prompt to atart; thio ssorotlons of tho livor, sud givo a hioalthy tonoto tha entirosystom. Indood. it ia no ordinary discovery fn mod- cal sclence to havo fnvontod & remody for tiesa stubborn complaiats, which dovelop all tho rosults producod by & horetaforo feoo uso uf calomol, a rineral justly drosded by mankind, and acknowledgod to ba dostruative in tho oxtromo to tho human systom. 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