Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 10, 1875, Page 9

THE CHICAGO DATLY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, 1875.—SIXTEEN PAGES. = e e S T S 9 P e a——— parmless so long as it is confined to one or two institutions; but the danger is that indi- vidual success may lead to the establishment of similar institutions, with the possibility of such results as we have indicated above. 7THE GAMBLERS AND THEIR PROTECTORS. There is 8 well-grounded suspicion in this community that the gamblers enjoy the pro- tection of some person or persons connected with the police force. If there were no other foundation for it, the simple fact would jus- tiy it that, in spite of rigid laws making meegionfl gambling a Penitentiary offense, gnd the leasing of houses for gaming pur- poses punishable in like manner, the gambling-places were never 50 numerous, cpen, snd aggressive as they are to-day. Certainly this could not be so if the police did their duty ; we could scarcely conceive of its being so if the gamblers were not sctually protected by the police or some one Ligh in suthority. ‘We, therefore, commend this suspicious relation between the police and the gamblers to the earnest attention of the Grand Jury now in session. TThe Grand Jury might begin with an in- vestigation into the case in which Sergt. 0'Coxxos, of the South Side police, cuts so bsd & figure. An arrest of five gamblers was ‘made sbout the middle of December, at the corner of Clark and Monroe streets, a locality which has become so disreputable that no lady can pass without subjecting herself to the danger of insult, and no man without running the risk of being robbed. The five gamblers (among the most notorious and vil- lainous in the city) were brought be- fore Justice Borpes, and secured 8 continuance till Dec. 24, Before that time there was a mysterious disappear- snce of the case from the docket. Sergt. 0'Coxvor says that, having had a conversa- tion with Cept. Buckirey abouta Supreme Court opinion, they had both come to the conclusion that the arrest had been made il- legally, and that he thereupon went into Court and had the case dismissed. Justice Borpey, on the other hand, has no recollec- tion of such & dismissal, though he remem- bered the case perfectly well. Wo prefer to rely upon Justice BoypEx's memory in 50 un- ususl a proceeding. Besides this, the arrest was not wade by O'Coxxoz, and it was not his business to dismiss the suit; and, if it had been, we do not knovw that a Police Sergeant is the proper person to decide er cathedra upon the spplication of a new decision of the Su- preme Court. . The case is 8 suspicions one, end it should be used as the basisfor the gen- eral investigation of the alleged teciprocity between the gamblers and palice. Perhaps the Grand Jury can arrive at some less damaging explanation of the immunity which the gamblers enjoy from arrest end prosecution on account of their nefarious business, * _ There is another feature of this gambling- business which the Grand Jury ought to take op® They should take proper evidence, and indict the owners of 2l the buildings which wre rented, in part or the whole, for gam- blmg purposes. We do mot believe there is one among them who does not know the - purpose for which the rooms are rented, especizlly since Tee TrIBUNE gave a list of these gambling-houses not lozg since, and the names of the o'wners of the buildings at- tached. The law is perfecily ciesr, and tha indictment of a dozen or two of- our -“first citizens” who Qerive their income from the fleccing of dupes in the hands of gamblers might help to bresk down the evil We are in favor of every lawful mesns by which gambling can be suppressed ; and, as it is evident that we cannot hope for it from the police, the citizens should take the matter iJnhmd themselves by and through the Grand ury. M. 0. WALKER'S WILL. . The breaking of the late AL G. WALREE's will, to which the refusal to admit it to pro- bate is equivalent, is a matter :for general congratulation to all the parties interested. The will was a revival of the old system of entailment, and an assertion of the question- able privilege of o man to exercise control over his worldly effects for several ;zenerations after he has passed away. Mr. WALEER pro- md to control his property for two genera- Lons st least ; and, if he counld have done so with the obstinate and litigiouss & pirit which L exercised during life, there is 110 question but this control would have beer: very abso- Inte and arbitrary. The original -will gave all the property to four executors (A essrs. MARE Benvzes, Roveer Hirx, Hesny ‘K. Waros, aud Joms A. Tyrrery)to hold indzust for the following purposes: To pay Mrs. - Masrma C. Ht!zms. Mr. Warser's houseke:eper, an an- anity of $400 during her natura. life, and to tach of his two sons the sum of $800 a year dwring their natural life. Tnder: certain con- 53hflns,nnd after the lapse of :s, certain pe- ziod, the trustees were authorize 1 to increase the sons’ annuities to §5,000. P rovision was msds for successors to the trust, and the estate was {0 go to the heirs of the sons; in case of the death of either, to 1.he heirs of the other; in caseof the death «if both, to beset aside, after an.accnmuleidon of the Tents and profitsfor twenty-one yet ws after the deccase of the last surviving son, to such educationsl, scientifie, or literary institution 85 the trustees might designate. This will was refused admittane» to pro- bate on the following grounds: Fi rst, it was set up that Mr. WarkEn's marrisges absequent to the making of the will (he havirig secretly married Mrs. MorTox, his housekee] ver, short- Iy aftervand), vitisted the will Vihile this Wes troe, it was held that the codicil to the will, made subsequent to the mer siage, ren- dered not only the codicil but the vwill itself valid. Judge Warrace, however, s:fter hear- Ing the testimony in the case, hi s decided thet the soundness of Mr. Warxes' s memory & the time of adding the codicil. was mot Proved, and he has, therefore, refu scd to 8d- Mt the will to probate. The. counsel for contestants spplied for the appoint- Went - of Gen. CrETLAIN 88 s Iministra- dor, end the appointment would laave been Sonfirmed were it mot for the refi isal to Sl the exurbitant bonds (§2,400,000) & emanded. 4n appeat to the Circnit Court will probably £ the bonds at a more reasonabl e figure, tud the evident disposition of all - parties to Xmpromise promises & solution of the diffi- ®altie: iz the case without further “litigation. 1t is in the interest of all parties «concerned Yhat there ghall be no more law preceedings. . Ikomost estates, the valus of Nir. Wars- X8 seems to have boen grossly ex sggerated by popular report. It was geners lly repre- sented g8 worth from $2,000,000 £ $2,500,~ It now appears that tlie actusl Ylue of all the property does not ex- 260d £1,000,000, and there are debts : amount~ 1510 500,000 to be deducted flaerefrom. litigation were continued the samount ly accrning to the wife and two sons € 'mdml}emmdinnry, if we 1 oay judge Y the. counsel fees already allow:ed by the Sowt. Though the entire proce edings in the case have not occupied ten days, three lavwyers for the widow have been allowed $3,000 each, or £9,000 in all. If the unsuc- cessful attorneys are to receive these ex- orbitant fees, it is fair to assume that the con- testant’s counsel will be pnid still more liber- ally. The light of this experience ought to teach the widow and the two sons to with- draw from litigation by common consent, have the debt peid off as rapidly as possible, and be happy with a proper distribution of ‘what remains. BOOESELLERB, A Hrronr oF Booxsrirzms, TRE OLD AND TAE NEw, By Hexar Cunwex, With Portraits and Illosirations, 12mo., pp. 483. Landon: Chatro & ‘Winders, A more attractive title in the catalogue of new publications has not appeared for many a day. It promises a history of books and of authors 23 well 28 of booksellers, for the one is inextricably interwoven with the other. Tho progress of the book-trade ia identical with the progress of literature, and, when we hare fead the story of the origin and ‘growth of the former, wo have learncd how ithas fared with the latter in tho same country aud period. Upon the enterprise of the publisher, almost as mach as upoo the genius of thoman of letters, has depended in ‘modern times the spread of learning and the ad- vancement of culture, Although the titlo does not indicate the fact, when we take up Mr. Carwen’s volume we find that the historyis limited to English booksellers. Ttopens with achapter upon * The Booksollersof Olden Times,” which skotches briefly the condi- tion of tho book-trade in old Rome and in Paris inthe thirteenth century, and then traces its riso and its career in ILogland down to the present century. The information com- priged in this account is less full and detailed than wo conld wish. 1t covers the most inter- ezting pericd of the industry, and’the one of which the fewest particulars are current; and et the points on which the curiosity is most alive are passed by with a bare allusion thatadds little to our enligbtenment. Thersa may be no just ground of complzint that the history of the trade is meglected for that of the book- eeller, but tho fact is disappointing. We are quite 28 much interested to know where the Srst book-shops in London were situated, and what were their size, and style, and character of patronage, and modes of conducting business, as waare in the personal career of their owners. But the intelligence regarding these matters is meagre. In fact, after perusing the Cchapter from which so much was to be hoped, our ides of the progressive.development of the English book-trade, during tho four or five centuries preceding our own, is not in any comforting de- gres expanded or defined. After the preliminary portion, which occupies but 78 pages, the book 18 devoted to a history of the most eminent publishing and bookselling houses in the United Kingdom. Among these are classed the well-known firms of the Long- mans, Constable, Cadell & Black, Jobn Murray, William Blackwood, Chambers, Knight & Cassell, Honry Colburn, the Rivingtons, the Parkers, Edward, Moxon, Eelly & Virtue, Charles Edward Mudie, etc., ctc. Huch grumbling may be heard in England regarding the sclections ‘made for the illustration of the present businefs of the book-trade ; but this concerns uslittle here, when a kpowledge of the respective claims to celebrity of tho groat English book-houses is very restricted. So long 28 the histories them- selves prove entertaining,—which they certainly do,—the American reader will not be inclived to criticise the author's judgment in the choice of subjects. TLe germ of the modern book-trade is discov- ered in the system of barter which prevailed between mouks in those beuighted centurics when monasteries were tho only reposi- tories of learning, aud men Wwho spent their livea in s cloistered seclusion were the only scholars and writers. Through- cut the Middle Agos, books were confined to monastic institutions, for there were no read- ers beyond their quiet prociacts. The great ‘mass of the people were sunk in ignozance, and if cne of the titled-classes conld spell his name, it was a rare accomplishment. War was the popular trede of the layman, and the art of bookmaking was left to the fow intelligent and industrious cenobites who found a solaco in maltiplying, by the slow process of the pen, tho scanty books-of the time. These precions pos- sessions were accumulated in rich convents, and wero sold or lent from one to aziother, and cop- ied by transeribers, whoee woris would be more properly called painting than prioting. ‘When the universities arose, the demand for books incrensed, and a regular class of copyists +was established to supply the wants of scholsra and professors. A trade grew outof this demand and supply, and those engaged in.it were called Stationarii. Some were itinerants, and others sold their wares in open booths or stalls. A part of their business was to hiro oui books to read- ers who could not afford to buy them, and ex- orbitant prices wero asked for the loan, not of entire volumes, but of detached parts and frag- ‘mentary manuscripts, - The Stationarii throve best in Paris daring the twelfth and thirteenth eenturies, when the University was at the height of its popularity, and drew students from all Europe. In1292 the book-trade of the city employed - twonty-four coprists, seventeen bookbinders, nineteen parch- ment-makers, thirtoen illuminators, and eight simple dealers in manuscripts. The manufac- ture 2nd circulation of Looks slowly 1ncreased, and, when printing was introduced, in the ff- teenth contury, it is said that upwards of 6,000 people fullowed tho business of copying avd 1l- luminating. The invention of printing, the dif- {fusion of Greekmannscriptsconsequentupon the downfall of the Byzantine Empire, the discovery ofthe contirentsof the Western Hemisphere, and the Protestant Reformation, gave a vast stim- ulus to the thirst for knowledge and to the call for books. At first the printers united in their pursnit the trades of the publisher and thobeok- geller, and not only constracted their types and presses, but bound and sold their printed works. Caxton, who brought the art of printing into En- gland, employed his press almost exclusively upon transiations. Wynkin de Wordo, his suc- cossor, extended the range of his publications, and mcluded among them Accidences, Lucida- ries, Orchards of Woras, Promptuaricsfor Little Children, and so forth. With the spread of the Reformation theregrew an immense demand for Bibles, and 826 editions or parts of editions were publithed in the seven- ty-four years between 1526 aud 1600. The number of printers who flourished in Eogland and Scotland, beginning with Cax- ton in 1474, snd ending m the vear 1600, amonoted to350. In 1403, a half-contury -be- fore the invention of printing, the Gaild of the «“gtatiodiers, or -Text-Writers, who wrote and sold all sorts of books then in use,” was estab- lished in Loadon. The corporation bad no con- trol over printed books until it received its char- ter from Queon Mary, in 1557, which granted the Society the right to seize and destroy ail books which, in their modeof publication or contents, violsted oy statute, opposed tne doc- trines of the Catholic Church, or infringed npon the monopoly of the Guild. The original charter was renewed by Elizabeth in 1583, by Charles IT. in 1684, by Wiliiam and Mary in 1690, and vir- tually exists in the present day, But its powers were “too sbsolute to be sustaived, and Eliza- beth herself was one of the firet to cripple them Ly granting to various printers the exclusive right of issuing certain publications. " The acknowledgment of ocopyrights began in 1558 by the “entrs™ of copies at Stationers’ Hall. This practice was otiginally nnsccomps- nied by the delivery of =zny books; but, when 8ir Thomas Bodley became Librarian 24 Oxford, about 1600, he persuaded the Company of Sta- tioners in London to donate him a copy of every ook printed. This voluntary offering laid the foundation for the Licensing act of 1663, which mterdioted the iseue of s book withouat the li- cense of the Lord Chamberlun aod an eairy fn the Stationers’ Registers, and fix2d the number of presentation copies at three. In the reign of .Queen Anne, the property of cc pyright was se- cured for fourteen years, and gra iually tho num- ber of compuisory presentation ¢ )pies was fixed at eleven,—forming a heavy ta< on expensive books. Of late years the numbe1: has, however, been reduced to five. The * earlicst men of lotters ” in England wore the dramatists, but none in Elizabeth’s age derived much profit from their fniblished works. James Howell, the author of the * Epistolm Ho- elianm,” and Thomas Fuller, wers among thoe first book-writerawho worked in vhe servico of the publishers. Bafore them, nnthors of noto were men of “wealth, or songht their raward for a successful book in tho patronage of the great, Ono of the earliest records of the purchase of an original work by & printer, is thass of the copy- right of ** Paradise Lost,” which wis bought by Samaoel Simmons * for the presentsmin of £5, and £5 more when 1,300 copics of the fivst impres- sion slould be sold in retail, and the Jiko sum at the end of tho second and third editions, to be allowed as aforesaid.” Tho smalt quarto edition of tho poe, 1n Eplain binding, was sold for 8 shillings, and the first impression was seven years in gelling, and had five new title-pages meantime, Milton received thn second £5 in 1680, and for the considecation of £8 his widow relinquished all claimon the copyright. This £18 wau the sum total obtained by Miiton and s heirs for the great epic pocm of the modern age. The first eminent English publisher was Jacob Tonson, who acquired’ fome aud fortune by printing and selling the works of Dryden. He boegan business by vending second-hand books, and gradually ventured into tho issue of plays. In conjunction with Levalle, he bought * Troilus and Cressida” for £20, bringing 1t out n 1679, and was thence, until tbe death of Dryden in 1700, the poet’s sole publisher. Tuo connection between the two was, onthe whole, amicable, although Dryden was a dilatory writer, and Tonson, of necessity, a perpetual goad. Dry- den's profits from his translation of Homer were some £1,200 or £1,300. For his last work, “The Fables," he received 10,000 guiness, with the promise of 50 more on the beginning of the sec- ond impregsion. Tonson has the credit of cre- ating » popularity for *Paradise Lost,"—which he issued in soveral editions on the recommen- dation of Dryden,—and alo of rendering Shak- speare accesuible to the public. Ho died in 1786, worth £80,000. Bernard Lintot acquired colebrity along with prosperity as the pablisher of Pope. In 1714 he ‘purchased from the poet the translation of the Tliad, for which he gave sltogother about £5,323. The equivalent he returned for the Odyssey amonnted to mearly £5,000. Lintot was an adept in the art of managing critics, a8 we learn in s letter from Pope to the Earl of Burlington, wittily relating a conversation had with the pub- lisher. **Ican silence the most formidablte of them,” was the boast of Lintot,—* the rich vnes for a sheet apiecs of the blotted manuscript, which costs me nothing; they'll go aboutto their scquaintances and pretend they Ladic from the author, .who submitted to their cérrection ; this has given some of them such an air that in time they come to be consulted with and dictated toas the fop cnitic of the town. As for the poor critics, T'll give you one instance of my management, by « which you may guees ot the rest: A lean man, that Jooks like a very great scholar. came to me t'other day ; he turned over your Homer, shook bis head, shragged up his shoulders, and pished atevety line of it. *One would wonder,” says he, ‘at the strange presumption of some men; Homer is no such easy task, that every stripling, every versifier'—Ho was going on, when my wife called to dinner. *Sir,’ said I, *wall you pleaseto cat & pidca of beef with me?’ ‘Mr. Lintot,” eaid he, *Iam sorry you should be at ' the expense of this great boox ; I am really con- cerned on your account.’ ‘Sir, I am much obliged to yoa; if you can dine upon a piece of beef, togethor with & elice of pudding.’ ‘Afr. Lintot, I do not say but Mr. Pope, if he would condegcend with men of learning—' *8ir,;the pudding is on the table, if you please to go:in.’ My critic complies, he comes to a tasto of Your pootry, and tells me in the samo breath that*the book is commendable, the pudding excellent.” Edmund Curll, a contemporary of Lintot, ac- quired an unenviable distinction among the booksellers of the poriod by his reckléss disre- gard of the laws governing the tride and of the simplest rights of authors. Our author prefaces a considerable account of his doings by the odd remark that * It is not s little comforting to find that the oblcguy with which his name has ever been assoeinted was really merited;” aad with “this we leave bim. In the latter part of the seventeonth centary, Thomas Gay became fa- mous as a publisher of Bibles. The privilege of yprinting the Scriptures had been secured, since Elizabeth's time, to the Queen'sorKing’s printer and the univereities, and the abuse of the pre- loufed monopoly was apparent in exorbitant prices and gross carelessness in typograpby. In the reigu of Charles L. an edition was issaed in which the word nof was omitted from the 'seventh commandment; and in an edi- tion of 1653 ome of the sentences fall- ing from Chnet's lips read: *Eoow ye not that the unrighteous shall inherit the King- dom of God?" But good Thomas Guy suffered no errors in his impressions of the Bible, aud grow rich in the pursuit of a lucrative trade. He exponded his large fortune in giftato pub- lic charitios,—among other tkings, founding ** Guy's Hospital,” and endowing various slme- houses and libraries. The circumstance which strikes us most forcibly in the life of erratic John Dunton is his sending to bis wifo sixty letters in ono ship, while absent from her in America. Itis noed- less to add that John Dunton was an author as well as publisher. Along in the eighteenth century, Samnel Richardson, the father of the English novel, figures prominently among the booksellers. In 1754, at tho age of 69, he was chosen Master of the Stationers’ Company, and the sole fear of his friends, on his elovation to the dignity, was, that he would not “play the gourmand well.” Omo of the enarliost of Johnson’s publishers was Edward Case, who establishe 1 the Gentleman's Magazine. the first in tho long traia of English serials. The initial number was issued in 1731, Eighteen yenrs after, the first popular review was started by Ralph Griffiths, In its palmy daysthe Month- Iy Review paid 4 guineas a sheet to.its most dis- tinguished writers, sud Goldsmith was one of these. The name of Robert Dodeley, tho editor of A Collection of O1d Plays,” must not be omit- ted in 2 moption of the publishers of the John- sonian ersa; nor that of Thomas Codell. who wade an enormous fortune out of the Works of Robertson, Gibbon, Adam Smith, aod Black- stone, of the copyright of which he was the pro- prietor, For the *‘History of Cbarles V.” he paid £4500; aod on Gibbong' *De- cline and Fall of the Roman Empire” he is said .to bave cleared £60.000. Joseph Johnson was Cowper's pub- lisher, and it is stated that £10,000 was the tradesman’s profit on his works. Cowper's first volume of poems fell dend on the marlket, occa- sioning Johnson a logs which he generonsly bore alone. In gratitude, Cowper mado him a pres- ent of the * Task,” which proved a great suc- cess. Jobnson received for his * Lives of the English Poets ” 400 guiness, and Mrs. Radcliffe obtained 500 guiness for the * Aysteries of Udolpho,” the largest sum that had then been given fora nmovel. It is worth repeating of Jaes Lackiogton, one of the last of the great booksellers of the eighteenth century, that when he ontered on his career of prosperity he left the society of the Mecthodists, with whom he had formerly besn connected, becsuse he thought it incompatible with his dignity to continue the association. Indeed, bessys, ** Mr. Wesley often told bis society in Broadwent, Bristol, in my hear- ing, that he could never keep & bookseller six months in his flock.” When Lackington's in- come permitted him to get up a carringe, ho Lad 1nscribed oo its doors, s & continued reminder of she source of his prosperity, the motta, « Bmall Profits Do, Grest Things.” Auother adago he was forl of Tepeating was, I found &1l T possess in emall projifs, bound by industry, and clasped by zcanqmy." It is pleasant to find that, in his old age, Lackington rejoined the Mothodists, and builk and endowod three chap- ols as penance for his unchristian conduct to- ward the sect. But we have lingered so long among * the booksetiers of the olden time," that we shall be compelled to defer until a future paper our gos- eip with the booksellers of the present century. PACIFIC-COAST RACES, Tar Narrva RACES OF THE PACIFIO STATES oF NORTH AxEnzca. By Husenr Howe Baxcroer, Vol L WiLp Tripes. New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1874, Mr. Banceoft’s is an ambitious and laborious undertoking, To write o series of works on all things or most things pertaining to the aboriginal inhabitants of the Pacific States,—a name by which Mr. Bancroft dosiguates all of the terri- tory bordering on tho Western Ocean from Alas- ka to Darien, including Moxico and Central Americi,—is no small task for one man to ac- complish in- a,life-time. The magnitude of the work may be divined when it is Lnown. that the above ' volume of noarly 800 pages larze octavo, and de- voted exclusively to the Wild Tribes, is only one-fifth of the whole. The second volume will treat of tho Civilized Nations, and the three re- maining volumes of theirytholdgy, Languages, Antiquities, and Migrations. From what Mr. Baocroft tells us in hia preface, we Liave every reason to believe that he bas had access to all possible sources of io- formation on the snbject which he treats. Be- ginning in 1859 to collect material for his work, he assures us—aod his book affords presumptive internal evidenco of the fact—that he has se- cured evorything “in America within his reach and calculated to throw light on the history of the races of the’ Pacific Stater. Hy visited Europe twice, and spent two years of regearch ou the Continont, on matters conpected with his subject. When the Biblioteca Imperial de Me- jico, belonging to the Emperor Maximilian, was sold, he secured 3,000 volumes on topies connect- edvith bus lierary underlaiing. When, in 1869, he bad accumulatel 16,050 books, pamphlets, and munuscripts, be, sided by s numerous corps of assistauts, bsgan the work of which the first volume is before us. 1Mr. Bancroft certain- ly deserves very great credit for undertaking so peculiar a labor,"and we devoutly hope he may successtuly carry it ont. Barring s fow defacts of style, and a few grammatical errors, which any author is liable to fall into, the first volume is an earnest that, if he completes his enter- priso, ho will do 80 acceptably to students of history and ethnology, as well as creditably to himself, Besides the ethnological introduction, the prosent volume conlains chapters on the Hyperboreans, Columbians, Califor- nians, New Mexicans, on the wild tribes of New Morxico, and on the wild tribes of Central America, respectively. The Hyperborcans are those races which inhabit the tefritory north of the 55th parallel ; and the Columbians those who live between the G5th =nd 42d parallels. The Californians inhabited California and the Great Basin; the New Mexicans include the natives of the Colorado Riverand Northerh Mexico. Their names sufficiently explain the habitat of the other tribes. The Eskimos are the firat to whom we are introduced. We miay 62y of the descrip- tion given of them by Mr. Bancroft, what may be said with equal justice of his description of all' the others, that it is graphic, and, judging from the numerous quotations with which ho fortifies hus position, accurate. Our anthor's descriptive powers are by 1o means small. Take this picture of the Eskimo land: Before them (the Eskimos] is a vast, unknown, icy | ocoan, npon_which they scarcely dars venture beyond the sight of land; benind them, bostile mountains, ever ready to dispute encroachment, Their very Alother Earth, on whose cold bosom they have been born, age after age, throuzh countless generation: is almost impenetrable, thawless ice. Thelr days, an nichts, and seasons, and years, are not liko thore of other men. Three months of sunless winter; three ‘months of nightless summer; six months of glimmer- ing twilight, About the middlo of October com- mences tho long night of winter, The earth and wea put on an icy covering ; beasts or birds depart for rigions sheltered or more cougenial; humanity Luddles into sublerraneous dens: all Nature sinks into repose. The Little heat left Ly tho retreating sun 800n radiates out into the deep bius realms of pace ; the temperature sinks rapidly to 40 or50 degrees bo- low froezlug ; the air is hushied, the ocean calm, the sky clou An swful, painful stillness pervades the dreary solitude. Not u sound is beard ; the distant din of bryy man and the nolscless hum of the wilder- ness alike'are waniting. Whispers become nudible at- & considerable distance, snd an insupportable sense of loneliness oppresses the inexperienced visitar. Occa- sionally the Aurora Borealis flashes out in prismatic coruscations, throwing a brilliant arch from East to Weat,—now ' in variegated, oscillations, graduating through all the various tinis of blue, and green, and violet, and crimeon; darting, flashing; or streaming, in yeliow columns, upwards, downwards ; now blazing steadily, now inwavy undulations, sometimes up to the very zenith; momentarily lighting up in majesti grandeur the cheerless, frozen scenery, but only to fall back with exhausted force, leaving a denss obscurity. Nutures electric Jantern, suspended for » time in the frosty vault of heiven,—munificent Nature’s fire- worke, with tho Polar owl, $he Polar bear, and the Polar Tan, §) tators, « In January, the. brilliancy of tha stars are dimmed preceptibly ai noon; in February a golden tint rests upon the horizon at the same bour; in March, the incipient dawn broodens; in April, the dozing Iskimo rubs his cyes and crawls forth ; in May, the snow begins to melt,—the impatieat grass and fowers arrive as it departs, In Jue, the summer has fairly come. Under the incessant rags of the never-setting sun, the snow apeedily disappears, the ice broaks up, the glaciul earth softens for o depth of one, twa, oF three feet; circulation is reatored to vegetation, which durfug winter had been stopped. Ses, and plain, ond rolling steppe, loy amda their scamless #hroud of white, and a brilliant tint of emerald overspresds tho landscape. Nature, with one robounding cry, leaps up and cly ber hands for joy. Flocks of um,p' lured from their winter-homes, fill the air with their melody; myriads of wild fowls send forth their shrill cries; the moose and the reindeor flock down from the forests; from the resonsni sea comes the noise of spouting whales and barking & dismal, cheeriess region blooms lifo equsled ouly by the shortnessof its duration, And, in token of & just sppreciation of the Creator'a goodness, this animated medley—man, and besst, and bird, and fishes,—riscs up, divides, falls to, and ends in eating or in being esten’ Mr. Bancroft is very minute and reliable in his information on the personal adornments, dress, dwellings, customs, babits, implements, com- marcial customs, social economy, amusements, etc., of the Eskimos, as indeed ho is of all the tribes which he describes. We notice some little difference between the accounts given of the Es- Iimo method of salutation by Mr. Bancroft and by 8ir John Lubbock. The latter writer says that an Eskimo, in some tribes at least, salutes bis friond by pulling his nose. Mr. Bsucroft in- forma ns that eafatations are made by rubbing noses together. Bancroft is probably correct, having derived his information from Kotzébue, who, spesking of the Eskimos, says: *They came up to the one after the otber; each of them embraced me, rubbed his nose hard against mine, and ended his caresses by spitting in his *hands and wiping them several tihes over my feco.” Other instances of similar differecces betwoon our author and other well-known writera might be prodaced. To give an adequate ides of the contents of the book, abounding, as it does, in facts, it would be necessary to reproduce it. The me- chanical getting up of the book is very creditable o the publishers, — . The Iate Gen. Moraax L. SxaTe, one of the bravest officers in the army, sod one of the moss gallant scldiers sent out by the State of Illinois ~to aid in suppressing the Rebellion, had s grim sense of humor which frequently developed it- eelf in his manunor of inflicting punishment. He had a way of making « very little punishment go o very long way, aod sppearing terribly stern and threatening. A eorrespondent narzates su inci- dent which indicates & sense of bumor in this particular way, On one occasion his command ‘w8 embarked upon a Alississippi eteamer, ** The City of Memphis,” on their way to take part in | the attack on Vicksburg, and thers were his headquarters. The boat was tiedup for the night, and was still lying go in the morning, when Gen. Swire, coming on deck, observed a foraging party approsching. At that time there were positive orders against foraging, and all offenders were severely punished. Cok. SaoTm ordered the arrest of tho offenders. Wd tureat- ened them with condign punishic Y. They made the excase that thoy had only ju. - entered the service, and this was the first tiw. they bad | ever disobeyed orders by foraging. *Tne first time,” gnmly mused Gen. Switx, “aod you allowed yourselves to be caughtthe very fist time, did you? Thatis far worse than the disobsdi- ence of orders,” and he had them all confined in the hold, from which they emerged shortly after, convinced that a poor excuse was by no means botter than none. _ PERSONAL, A vew comedyin five acts, by Mr. Albery, will bo the next novelty at the Olympic Theatre, London. Dr. Harriot Keziah Hunt, one of the first lady- doctors in this country, left it optional with her ‘patients, by her will, whether they would pay up or not. The Rev. Dr. Lange, of MMuscatine and Cleva- Iang, is identical with the Rev. Dr. Miller, of Dresden. ' His crime is said to be of a terrible nature, The Paris Constilutionnel says: **3I. Bis- marck endeavors to maintain radicalism among us, a8 an heir would encourage his uncle’s bron- chitis.” A concert was given for the prisoners at Sing- Sing on New Yesar's morning. One would thinlk this just the best place in the world for a vocal concert.- AMrs. Ann Eliza Shanley, of the Scandal City, & distingwighed soprano sioger in St. Joseph's Church, bhad a quarrel wita her husband on ac- count of a young army-officer. Father Boehm, of New Jersey, will be 100 yeers old on May 1. He will then _be content to mova if {Le spiric wills ; otherwiso his present earthly tenement will not be for rent. Thete's 8 row in Cincinnati. The brewers are mixing rice aod corn-meal with their malt, and citizens complain that thirty glasses of it are ‘more than they can dnnk a a timé now. The fact that Byerly was a Pennsylvanian by Dirth does not alter the fact that his assault upon Warmoth was a specimen of Southern chivalry. He did in Rome a3 the Romans do. The Hou. Samuel F. Patterson, Speaker of the Penosylvania House of Ropresentatives, is the son of W. Patterson, Speaker in 1834, and nephew of Finley Patterson, Speaker in 1845, They have three local Banyons in New York,— Messra. W. £. Demorest, Patiick Toner, and Lawyer Wolll,—who insist that they aro Assistant Aldermen, though the law says to the contrary. Tom Hood's sister, Hrs. Broderip, is going to publish a notice of his posthumous contribution to Belgravia in the Gentleman’s Magazine. Bhe's not the woman to Jet her broder rip by any means. i A Conneoticut Elder, doubtless for the purpose of explaining his continued presence on the up- per crust, sermonized at New Haven, New Year's eve, on “Hell Closed for Repairs.”—St. Louis Globe. Tather Bishop, a Massechusetts Spiritualist, says thatin six vears there will not be s wicked person in existence. What fearful mortality will ocenr in the City of Brooklyn and among office- holders generally ! From his position in a proscenium box at the variety sho#, Mayor Colvin was heard to mutter, *Cap," *Can.” Then he growled ont, ** I ean't after all,” and went in behind the scenes where ho could !—Chicago Post and Mail. Capt. Wemner, of the German Navy, who played & prominent part at Carthagens, and was first tried by court-martial and then raised to the rank of commander, is shortly to be raised to the rank of Rear-Admiral. Charles L. King, of St. Louis, shot Miss Dora C. J: Broesmer because she would pot marry him. This thing muat be stopped or the women will be retalinting, and then what will our ‘widows and orphans do ? 4 The Chicago Times is exhorting the Mayor to suppresa a certain theatro in thatcity on the grounds of its alleged indecencies. It is really ehocking to think how indecent Chicago would become but for the Zimes.—Detroit Post. * A young man at Mt, Vernon, this State, pub- jished a ‘*‘personal” soliciting correspondence with *young, cultured:ladies.” But the type fiend set it up colored ladies, and now that un- fortunate youth is receiving tender missives from every dusky maiden in the'land. The Dayton Journal nominates r’hil Sheridan for tho Presidency. Phil would be a lively President, and if he was interfered with he would take strong measures with the * banditti.” Still, we think a little civil wisdom mught be of some service.— Cincinnati Commercial. Four members-elect of the Pennsylvanis Leg- islature have died sinco the November elections : Dr. Hunter and Farrer, Republicans, and Bat- doef and Wolf, Democrats. It iga stand-off. Two others arc reported at the point of death. Such mortality i not withou: meaning, but 1t wiil not deter candidates. The tag of the play at McVicker's is, “*I shal see you again, and know youn.” Looking rue- fully round at the few people in the house last night, Mr. McVicker added, to the audienco: «And it would pot take long to get well ac- quainted with all of you.” *tAunt Clary,” an ex-slave, died in Caldwell County, N. C., the other day, aged 117 years. Bhe lived -throngh the Revolationary Was, bat during the last teh years her intellect has clouded, and sbe could recall no anecdotes of G. W. duriug her term of service in his family. A correspondent of the Boston News, writing abont Mrs. and Mr. Haiet Beecher Stowe, says: '*The besatiful simplicity your corre- spondent so tonchingly depicts in Mr. and Mrs. Stows, has given place to a very worldly-wise shrowdness. They both understand tho value of money now.” This time it is the Rev. Luke Miles, pastor of the African Methodist-Episcopal Zion Church in Norwich, Coni. He has ** stepped down and out™ with & considerable sum of money belonging to his congregation, which was raised for the build- ing of a new church. There is said to be a *‘lady in the case” aiso. Mmo. Labrichamp, of Paris, gave s dinner- party to some friends, during the eourse of which her infant son and nurse disappeared. An excited search was made for the missing boy, when a Commissionaire nanded s servaat a liftle vial of red liquid laboeled ** The blood of Pierro Labrichamp, 1874.” The Democratic leaders are putting themselves clearly upon the record in favor of the brutal condnct of the White Leagners. In 1861 they sent greeting to ths rebels. Now they groet the party that justify ihe murder of colored people, and seck to nullify tbe Constitutional amend- ments.—Cincinnali Gazelte.. The present popular madness is to travel long journeys on foot, on horseback, or with a wheel- barrow accompaniment. A better starting-point than Chicago it would be difficalt to find, and to walk to the Pacific is 8 feat worthy of the high- est ambition. We should like to make out a list of pedestrians to make the journey. Seymonr, Ind., is a reckless town, and grows worse daily. Seven vears ago they hung the Renos there without a trial, aod now Miss fin- nie Clarence, & “‘respectsble orphan,” rafies herself off to Lynn Falkoner for 50 ceuts. She realized §9 by the operation, for eighteen young fellows threw dice for her st the above 1ate. A fashionable anthor took & novel to the Paris Francais for publication, and was cordilly re- ceived. Calling again, his manuscript was coldly returned to him. The editor told bim to look at page 37, which he did, and found the follow- ing: *“Here ho was seized with an irresistible tendency to elomber. Was 1t surprising? He had just perused two columus of the Francais.’ The laat article which Gerrit Smitly wrote was for the Chicago Advance, snd in it he took strong grounds against the Prohibitionists. He gsid: “Let me here remark that, whether lager o or be not intoxicating, I would not have the Goveroment array itself against German ‘beer-gardens.” The reason he gave was that beer-drinking was & soclsl enjoyment of the Garmans. BLACK MARIA. A Voluntary Ride in That Homely Vehicle. How the English Institation Is Arranged— - Attempted Eseapes. Summoning the Prisoners from the Bull-Pen. to the Van. The Man Whose Friends Did Not Turn Up. ¢ Incidents of the Ride. Most of our citizens, especially those who paas ‘daily about noon along Madison street, are familiar with the dingy, breakdown-looking, four-borse omnibus which does duty as a con- veysnce of each day’s quota of the city’s 2ddi- tion of prisoners to the Bridewell. The vehicle is moat commonly known and recognized as the “ Black Maria,” and is chiefly distingnishable - from other carriages of its order by its outward shabby air, want of gaudy parti-colored scomic effects upon its sides, and by the utter absevce of glass windows, where- by all knowledge of its interior and its occupants is effectoally shut off from outside gazoand communication. Such,in brief, ap- pears to the uninitiatel the Black Maria of Chicago. 2 To it paasengers, of course, THE VIEW FROXN THE INSIDE i8 equally limited and uncommanicative. Any glimpse of the outward world is only attainable through a small upper portion of the door at the rear, which is protectsd with wire netting, but without thé canvas curtaina which cover the gides. These, where windows ordinarily are, are composed of strong wire netting. The internal arrangements are as usnal in ordinary 'buses. ‘This Black Maria 15 : » IN STBONG CONTRASY with vehicles for similar purposcs in England— from which it derives itaname and nothing else— and other European countries. Here the pre- vailing and mo:t sulient fanit would seem to be insecarity, of which, as will shortly appear, ad- vantage has been taken to attempt escape while in wrapeitu. European prison-vans, as they are more enphoniously termed, are constructed much after the fashion of Case & Martin’s well- kaown pastry wagons, oanly, of course, largerin every Wy, and of far stronger materials. The sides therein devoted to the carriage of tempting but dyspepsia-engendering condiments, are, in the prison-vao,divided intocompartmeatsor cells, each barely large enough for a single prisoner, the doors of which,opening upon the middle pas- sage, can be scarcely locked. Each cell has a small grated upper hole cpening into the centre aisle for ventilation and light to its occupant. The front is entireiy closed, and the exit at the Tear is provided with a door of iron-grating, which, when prisoners are being conveyed. 18 bolted. In its travels the van is gaarded by three picked officers, beside the driver,—all in uni- form,—two_of whom sit on top, snd the third, usually s Police Sergeant of intelii- gence and pluck, occupies the inside passage, and has charge of the keys. Allarc well armed. The vehicleis painted black,—hence the adjective in the name,—but by what caprice of eximinal wit or sarcasm * Maria” is added it would be difficalt to determine. It would naturally be supposed that, with all these extensive precautions, ATTEMPTS OF PRISONEES TO ESCAPE from the van, or of outsiders to r.lease them, ‘would appear to be so_completely foolhardy as to be nover entertained. Nevertheless such have been macde. Memorable is the one which occurred some eight years azo in Manchester, England.” The prison-ven, contuining some notorious Fenian prisoners who had been remanded to jail, was proceeding to the Bridewell in the outslarts of that city. With consummate military exill an attack was made upon it at a point of the road overarched by & railway viaduct. -Suddenly, and after little ado, the van was stopped at the point of the pistol by the assai’ants, confederates of the priconers, and the outside guard was overpowered, This accom- plished, attontion was directed to the Bergeant inside who had the keys. That officer, bravely refusing to give them up,was shot dead, tho keys obtained from his body, and tho desired prison- ers released. Subsequently some of the prison- ere were recaptured, the assailaats caught, and three of them expisted upon the scaffold,—the death of the Sergeant who et it at duty’s call. To return to Chicago’s Block Maria: Some threo yoars ago -it was proceeding to the Bride- woll with its complement of prisoners, one of- ficer being, as usual, inside, as escort, and the driver outside. .All weot weil until the open prairte was reached, when two desperadoes com- menced ATTEMPTING TO ESCAPE by breaking up the floor of -the conveyance. Percelving their designs, the guard called upon them to desiat, but, disregarding his commands, they continued their operations. The officer drew his revolver, but was daterred from using it by the crowded state of jthe omnibus,—a fact of which the outlaws took advantage by coolly pursuing their intentions. Seeing this, the con- ductor got out and stopped the horses. Mean- while tho breach in the floor was widening fast. ‘The departure of the prison-vso is esch day tele- phed to the Bridewaell, and the officers there, Boing. Zorowarned, are ‘on the lookout for i when it attamns open ground. If any trouble oc- curs, the Black Maria is_provided with a signal. On the occasion in quostion this was displayed, and help was at once dispatched, which arrived just as the prisoners crawled throagh the hele they had made. Beiog duly handcuffed. they were eventually landed safely within the walls of the prison. - With the view of obtaining an altogether NON-COMPULSORY KIDE v to tho Bridewell in the Black Mana, the wriler one day Jast week sought the fladison Street Police Station. Wending his way to the saw- dusted, plaster-cracked upper room of that building, which is_devoted to the daily adminis- rations of tho bliad police goddess, he found the room tenanted only by the officers of the Court. i Scully, his morning dis- pensations i oVt was loungiog goos-naturedly in front of his bar—of Justico, of course. Tho clerk was busy Tmaking out the commitments. The ouly trace of the late witnesses of the morning’s work was a faint odor, which was neither Jockey Club nor anything else ususlly dispensed in botiles over a fashionable druzeist’s marble-topped connter. In a few moments Black Maria drove up, ita ar- rival being the signal for the gathenins of o crowd of nondescripts upon the pavement in front of the station. Soon the genial, robumst “ Conductor” of the machine presented himself in the Court-Room, to whom an iatroduction, without the_intervention of police aid, was se- carod, and his cousent obtained for the contem- plated excursion. After anotber short delay, tho necessary docu- ments for the transfer to him of the prsoners waere daly prepared and handed over. PROCEEDING TO THE * DULL-PEN,” aportion of the room partitioned ot an the right, he opened the door, and, looking at his papers, begau calling the names of the unfortu- nates whose flagrancies entitled them to :;mmm‘ in the Bridewell. **PAUL PITCHFOBE,” bawled the Conductor, that being his free trans- lation of an unpronouncesble foreign patro- nymic. g ’g::t stepped s young Swede, who was evi- dently a siranger fo tho ways that aro dack but who appeared to take his_prospective incarcera- tion with unlimited sang froid. He was passed toan officer who weited for another; iike Oliver Trwist, he wanted more. . “Hercules r-r-r Crusoe,” shouted the Con- ductor. - Another Bwede, with less bravado, walked oat and took his place beside his compatriot. **BRIDGES O'FLANNIGAS,” was tho third call. A fomale figure, with the conventional dirty— white cloud aronnd her hesd, of the truly Milesian type, responded. Then began the wail a8 of some strong swimmer in hus agony.” + Sure,” addresaing the conductor, * ve wonld Dot be afther tsking the'likes of me, wheu I can pay me foin ? +* Then why don’t you pay?” was the answer. * Sure, an’ I have siot for the onld man, an’ he'll be bero goop and pay the dhirty mouer.” *¢ Well, X can'c wait for you or suy old man. Pass on,” said the inexorsble Charon. * Where's the Clerk ? * Where's the Justice ? Tim'll be here in a minit. Cushla! wait s itile,™ plesded in accents wild the er. Not angrily or Y, frmly, ahs was placed in line, she wringing her hands and howl- ing a8 vigorously as if she were attending the wake of the |aat of the Irish Kings. At this juncture came in an officer accom- panied by the husband of the female dervisl, who proved to possess only an-arm auad a half, the missing fraction having been lost iz his adopted country’s cause. The scens which eu~ sued could not"have been excelled in demon- strative affection by any which were enacted by them in the days they were young together, and, innocent of tracs-Atlantic benzine, they wan- dered together over the hills of the ** ould sed.” The veteran cf war and of domestic infelicity oxpiained he kad . NO MONEY to liquidate biz npouse's fine, but his ** pinshun ™ was lying 0 24 odice down town, which he would obtain ard do the fair thing, if they would only let Triuget off. A compromise was sccordingly aff2ated, and she was left behind. THE NEXT 8HOUT irto the bull-pen called fortha young man of tolerably respectable appearance, savug that he look?d as if he been passod through & washing-machine without ~being cleansed. His face was grimy aod wo-begone, his hands would have taken all the tricks, if dirt bad been trumps; hi clothes were wrinkled from having been slopt i all night, and his oncs jauaty stff romnd felf hat had perceptible traces of sawdust upon it He felt his degradation to the core. Ho was ak together pitinble. He had Leen feasting tha night previous on the fat of tho land aud the firiest of liquids, and was now tasting the husks, and drinking the dregs resulting from a jame boree that had left him financially high and’ He had not even 23 wherewith to appease ou raged justice. He pleaded. ** My friends do not know where I am. Ifl can send to them thoy will pay my fine.” Ad- dressing the Conductor he1nquired, ** s this the way they treat people hero? Icanmot get x ‘messenger.” . . **Thoy do pretty much as they like hers. Gel into line.” 3 meaduy and ruefully submitting to his fate, ke obeyed. The next, and last, was a young man who had evidently been thers before, but presented ng appearance of betenging to tho altogethervicions class, In fact, the wholo batch was as uninte: esting and uncriminal looking a lot as ever w: seen. They were mere waifa of crime, not it foliowers. They were marched down and out two by twa each pair in charge of an officer, the conductor. writer, and & fow etragglers bringing up the rear. The crowd on the sidewalk divided zo lel them pass, and gazed 1ntently into their faces. The dilapidated swell hung his head. The noisy youngsters who were fighting for the possession of the steps of Black Maria were with some difli- calty dispersed, and the prisoners duly ushered in. Asthe writer stepped in he was uncom- fortably conscious of boing viewed a8 no better than the rest of them. and overheard the very audible inquiry of a bystander, * I wonder wha$ that last fellow is going up for?" TWO OTHER OCCUPANTS, ‘both women, were found in the van, this making only six jn all as the morning’s producs of the police courts. For the paucity of members ihe conductor was somewhst apologetic, declanng that they sometimes had no less than forty pas- sengers, though how that quantity ool bo stowed away seemed very much of a mystery. There was another point 2180 on which he scem-~ ed to think an apology was due; that was the absenco of the enstomary Bridgeport stench. **In cold weather,” he said, ** the smell ia not 50 bad, but in summer it is pretty tail. fremem- ber once carrying out a Times reporter, and he bad tocave inand ride on the top, which I thougirt rather poculiar, as I thought from his occupation he would be nsed to bad odar.” Of the two women already in the Maris, oo ‘was a middle-aged Irish woman who resolutely kept the further end from the door and nevex turned her head. The other was A YOUNG GIRL, not over 16 years of age, rather pretty, with tha conventional striped blue-and-white dress of & Jfemme du pave of the lower class. Her hat sat. jauntily on her head, though suffering from rakizk dinge in tha crown. A light cloak but illy protected her from the severe weather. Ha maust have been a stoic who could have withheld his pity ; that it is at a first glance. Looking ut lier there, with little trace of dissipation in iu: fair young features, she was plainly a novice, .ond a8 such a fitting object o{ charity 3 that is, a8 long 28 she held her tongue. Sha bad suuggled berself comfortablyinto the corner, near the door, when the crowd entered, but sho was bade make way for the wisitor. THEX SHE OPENED OUT. “Iams_ hairpin, Iam, and Il not give way for anybody. 1 can drink more whisky and do more fighting than any white gir! in cago.” These were caly a tithe of the qualities which sbe profezsed, and in which she apparcutly gloried. And ‘she womnd up her. disgusting diatribe with the expressed determina- tion of returning to her lifo of shame when her time was ‘worked out™ at the prison, Placing her feet on the opposite seat between two of the male prisoners, she at length lapsed into silence, but not befora all trace of compassion for her had beon almost en- tirely eradicated. And yet this was hor firat im- risonment, and she still wanted four years of ing ont of her teens. Meanwhile the Black Maria moved on its wag. With the excoption of the women, every oya was strained to catch a glence of the outward world through the opening in the door. *Pitchfork™ produced his only modicum of tobmeco from & seedy tin box, and even it had done duty before, a8 waa evident as he showed his neighbor by his side the empty box. The forlorn one settled his ba: down uver his eyes, turned up his coat-collar, and, plinly carsing his unlucky stars, doggedly withdrew into his shell of bitter tboaghts. Craning the neck to look outside became too painfal to be puraned long, and, before one-balf the distance to tus prison was reached, the whole party BANX INTO MOODY SILENCE. JTust, however, as the carriage turned into the prison-gronnds, the damsel of the blae-and- white dress inquired how much farther it was. Being informed it was about 2 miles, sha Vented her dissatisfaction ina few expletives, which were scarcely uttered ere the door of ths prison waa rezched, and the prisoners wero max ghalled into the Saperintendent’s office. IERE THE USUAL QUESTIONS a8 to the age, nationality, occupation, previous iuprisonment, etc., of the prisoners were asked, and their answers duly recorded. The culprits wore assigned to their respective wards, none being more abashed, at the last moment, than the brazen one of uabashful 16. This eaded Black Maria's trio for the day, to which it mnay bo added that its horses wera scarcely unhitched before the friends of the poor unfortunate swell came to his rescue, paid bis_fino; and, baving just sipped of the first fruita of prison-ife, he gieofully doparted. asad- der, and it ia to be hoped & wiser, mag. Hchant, Barmers & Moot SAVINGS BANK, 7 Clarkst, 0ld Gu‘m}{nnse < THE BUSINESS OF TH1S COR- PORATION is confined exclusive- 1y to the receipt and care of Save ings Deposits and Funds for In- vestment. No commercial or gen= eral banking business transacted. SUMS AS SMALLAS ONE DOL~ LAR received from any person, and a bank book furnished. MARRIED WOMEN and minor children may deposit money so that no one else can draw it. INTEREST at the rate of 6 per cent per annum, ispaid on sums of One Dollar or more. 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