Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 31, 1875, Page 4

I i si a i a a ae te lk Sond) Sept ee a THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JANUARY 31, 18 75 FRANK AGNEW. The Recognition Given the irish Element. Toterview with the Father of the People's Party. desing on Agnew. AGNEW'S APPOINTMENTS. . MRED THE IRISH GRUMBLE? Since Frank Agnew was inaugurated Sheriff ‘of Cook County, ana his numerous assistants ap- pointed, thero hss been several changes made. ‘The following list will show the names of thdBe now holding positions by virtue of Mr. Agnew's appointment: Deputics—T, ML Bredley, H. B. Galpin, A. J. Com rigan, Charles Vargis, G.A. Korn, T. H. Smith, ‘HL Tierney, Michael Mulloy, onald, Wiliam Fogerty, ‘7—Jokn Dosle; assistant Jailer, James Mo- Hale (at present susyemted); Clerk to the Jeil, Luke Agnew ; Watchmen, George ‘Wolf and Jobn O'Conne!l. ‘Daiise—criincl Court—Ernst Hummel, Timothy Corcoran, Geoige B. Hutchinson, Jemes 0. O'Neill John Sweeney, Michael O'Brien, Joseph T. Conley, and sepetfe_Ctrent” Court—Hi, HI. Scbaenbere, J, P. au! uct Court—1 en! . P Duntam, C. A. Farnswarth, N, C. Hill, J. W. Conneti Thomas Flood, John MeGovern, C. F. Billiuga, ©, J. Pr can ed cca ae Baii.fe—Sup ror Court Edwin B, Longley, George A Diiuhem, Juseph Santa, Isaac Russell, William H. Langley, Willism K. Morris, Thomas G. Kearns, 1 HL. Diver, Jemes Dooley, and James Sharkey. ‘Bairye—County C.urt—Soth F, Hanchett and Cheries E. Mocre. The abovo men constitute the psy-roll of the Sheriff, and will receive their salaries for the month of January next week. Of this number, Capt. J. W. Connett was appointed Bailiff in place of Henr7 Osterman, on the 29d inat.; Tim- othy Corcorar, in piece of A. Probathan, the 18th inst. John Doyle, Jailer, m place of Peter Hand, the 29th inst, In the case of McHale, tho Assistant Jailer, his resignation ig in tho hands of tho Sheriff, but not ze accepted. Tho resignation was tendered ow- g to the ind'ctment peudiny against that off- ciat for sasaulting the prisoners, MoMsnus and Callin. ‘NATIONALITIES. ‘Mr. Agoow's assistauts 2s above can be classi- fied as follows : Twenty-nine Irishmen, fifteon Amercans, eight Germans, two Norwegians, and one African, making in all fifty-five. Convty Treascrer Miler will disburse near. $6,040 in paymeut of th. rol! which will go in to-morrow. PES iNTERVEW WITH MR. HESING. ‘VIEW OF THE SITUATION. Yesterday’s Post and Mail contains an inter- view with Mr. Hesing in reference to Agnew's course in dieregarding the German element, which will be reed with interest : Beporter—Is the action of the Sheriff in the distri- ‘ntion of petronage almost exciusively to Irishmen Rely to couse + ‘DISH UPTION OF THE PARTY 713 which bind the Irish und Germans together? ‘Ie, Hesing—That {2 a mstter Ido not know much about, I think, however, there will be no, serious re- sult, B.—What do yon think ot the manner in which the Sheriff has m: de bis appointments? Mr. H.—Wel , be as suited himself. B—Have yo { not @O:.ICITED THE APPOINTMENT of somp ot your friends, and been refused? Mr, H.—i bave not, Mr. Agnew has not mado s single appoint nent at my request. I don’ do things that way, Ibwve signed some petitions, but I never msde s request tc hzvo a friend of mine appointed, ‘B.—How was it sbout the APRODNTMEST OF HAXD? Mr. H.—Well, I ave learned that Peter Hand had been sslected und recommended for the position of aller by all tke re putabie Irisnmen of the city, long before the ma-ier came to my kmowledge, 20 tliat ho could not have brn a selection of mine. He is a political friend of mine, however, and I signed the petition for hie appointment, That is all 1 thought that as the paition of Jatler bad always been in the hangs of 2 Garman, that it ought to remain there, aagecialy whimi we bed an Trish Sheriff, —What do yon think cf HAND'3 REMOVAL? Mr, HI think Hsnd isentirely blameless, I was once the Sheriff of Cook County, end bed cborge of ‘the jail, andthe aw then, under the old Constitution, not only Aid -20t prohibit’the sale of liquor to prieun- exe, but mads. it incumbent upon me to farnish them with beer ami{ ale. In the new Constitution some of the temperar co enthusiasts smugzlod a provision into the Constitu’ jon prohibiting the sule or distribution of any Kind of Uquor, [Mr. Hesing i+ unji-s!tonably inlareported here, “Te Jogislation ba, r-feiu to 3 con tained isa a L:w passod in 1872, introduced by thst orlg- inal Dernoor at, Uncle Joun Casey.) Hand conmulted me about ff, “and Ttold him it was not » vioation of ‘B.—Has £ gnew ever celled on you inrefereno> toany fis p20 anmenta 7 ‘Mr. H.— { have occasionally sent a note to him, tell- sng him I vranted to sce him, He has been here occs~ sionally to jee me in response to euch invitstfons, but Thave new r requasied him to make an sp) for me, B.— Wha: do you think of the APPOINTNENT OF DOYLE ax Hand's successor ? Mr, H.--I understand he is a brother-in-law, or something of that kind, When Agnew his been here I have alway s counseled him to apj.oint good men, end of bummers and rutians, B.—Did he follow your advice? ‘Mz. H.-—I should think not, i? ‘& MORE DISGRACEFUL MOB ever war got together, Iunderstand he has filled the offiowa with his relatives, and they have pynducted things in shameful manner. I am (old that the sub- ‘ailers Dave smuggled in whisky to the prisoners and made them drunk, Hand has been obliged to remain at the ui almoet day and night, inorder tb protect Aguew!. reputation, and keeping’ everything ronning im order, When be reported the disgraceful proceed- ings of his relatives the Sheriff could no: stand it, and. had Jfand removed. Iam told thst these have been known to BREAK OPEN THE HOSPITAL-ROOX im fee night, where the county supplies were kept, take the liquor therefrom, and ‘ill the jeil with the noixe of their orgies, They hsve become beastly drunk ‘with the liquor thus obtained, and have ‘eazed them- eelves in the jailer’s rooms, making uso of the spit- toous there, “Iam satisfied that Jailer Hand has done Dis ‘duty fai and well, and 1s in no wise respon- adble for the state of things reported at the jail, The troable is, bo has discharged his duty too well. He hati Jost bis officia! head by it, The fellow in the jail ‘thit peddles peanuts, newspapers, matches, and pep- ‘per in the jail, by jon of Sheritl Aguow, 4u the iran who bas farniched the Hquor to the prisoners, HAND's BEER. B—low mash beer did Hand farnish the prison- a Yr. H.—TI am tnformed, and be'icve, that all the beer ‘that Hand furatched tho prironers. over 250 in num- Der, world not exceed 4 qacrts per day. This amouut ‘would not certainly make very many men druck. Tho satutes hrve been changed Within « sort time, and Hand did not know he was doing anything wrong, and his action was based tpon an old-time custom. ‘B.—Then sou do not hold yourself responsible for the appointments of the Eberiff ? watz Ze (marmiy}—By no means, I consider my- e YATRER OF THE PEOPLE'S PARTY, but I xm not reepousible for Agnew's crowd. R.—How came you to support such » man for the Slice of Sheriff 2 Mr. H.—1-did not know so much about bim then. Since the election I have learned that he is a man that herdly ever goos home to his family: that helays around drank most af the time, and spends his nights on Fourth avenue. He Bie promise and does not keep bis engagements. At this stage of tho conversation a look of disgust passed over the face of the diplomat, and he jabbed s toothpick into his gume nervously. ia HESINO'S INTENTION. “Fem to publish a statement of my relations with the Sherif,” said he, and shall in that state. ment infirm the public of the exact situation of things. ALI will that atotement be published, Mr. Mr, 8.—We ybably it will be ready by Mondo} E.—2t seers since the election of the Sheriff that he Bas igjiored the claims of the party thot elected him fad Was apporuted bie friends to fill the offices, ‘Mn. H. (with empharis)—He has not appointed hie Pricade, His friends procured his election ; he has ne over their and has filled the oXices with ‘Yayorien, ‘B.—What will be done about this thing? Aer, ,—Time will OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS. New Yors, Jan. 30.—Arrived—Steamships Spain and Java, from Liverpool; Victoria, from Glsegow; Glamorgan, from Cardiff, and P. Osland, from Botterdam. Pemaprirara, Jen. 90.—Arrived—Steamship Penneyivagia, from Liv R Loxpox, Jan. 80.—Steamship Denmark bas arrived ont. ‘i $2,500 FOR AN INJURED REPUTATION. ‘speewad Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Saxposcy, O., Jan. $0.—At the October, 1874, term of the Commcn Pleas Court, Mra. Amanda Condes, of Vermillioa, fifteen miles from here, brought suit against George ‘Taylor, of Ver- falilion, for slander. Taylor spoke disparaging- ty of ber character for veracity. She fled @lsim for €5,000 damages.. The jury rendered @ Yevdiot in her favor for $2,500. Taylor gave notice of 8 second trial, and the caso was to come up fortrial on Monday, Feb. 1, but the matter bas beeu compromised by Tazlor paving plaintif $2,590. Botn parties are of the bost families in the county, and the affair creates univeraal comment, THE GRASSHOPPER SUFFERERS, Another Appens for Aid—Seed-Grain the Principal Want. Srovx Crry, Is., Jen. 80.—At o meeting of the citizens cf Sioux City, held in respouse to a call of the Mayor, 20 Executive Committee was ap- pointed. They iseued the following apres! for the purpose of procuring assistance for tho settlers in Northern Nebraska, Southern Dakota. and Northwestem Iowa, rendered deetitute by reeson of the ravages of the grasehoppors : ‘The Committee realize that the ovorshadow- ing demand of the settlers is for seed-grain, while some are in need of clothing aud pro- yisione, and contnbations in that line are s0- licited. The wherewith to seed their lands in the spring is a want much more general, andone that will tax all our resources the utmost to supply. ‘There is wo reason to doubt that, if tho settlers can procure seed, they will be enabled to place themselves in independent circumsiances, for there is little probability that the pest will return to destroy their crops this year, ‘The territory for which this Commitiee feels called upon to put forth efforts ‘s mostly confines to the Counties of Cedar, Dixon, Knox, and Dakota, in Neorasks, and all the gettlod portion of Southern Dakota, That portion of Iowa most in need of assistance is situated in the Upper DosMoines Valley, though somo help will undoubtedly be needed in Tows counties nearer Sioux Ci Sioux City is the distributing point fora Isrge oxtent of ter- ritory, and is the watural centre for orgauized work of this character. With a reuliz- ing sevse of this fact the efforts of ‘this Committee sre put forth. The Committes, therefore, appeals to all good citi- zens to do what they can in this emergency. Contributions of grain, money, provisions, or clothing will be thankfully acknowledzed, and judiciously used. The purpose of tho Com- mittee is to help these people to help them- selves, and the aid is asked in the name of the peopie, who ask no other assistance. Upon application to the proper railway oflicer, the Committoo baa reason to believe that all freinbt consigned to the Sionx City Executive Relicf Committee will be billed frea. Parties living caat of the Mississippi might contribute, ag geed-wheat can be procured in the West, while those in Jows can send seed or monoy. A barrel of seed from any farmer will Mayor H. L. Wanyes, Chairman, E. E. Lewis, Secratarv. E. W. Ssmsee, Treasurer. Gronsr D. Peneins, ert. Geant Mansz, PB. W. Perrcmanp, Jorn BRENNAN, a Executive Rolief Committes. FLRES, CHICAGO. ‘The alarm from Box 772 at 8 o'clock last night was eaused by firo in the Novolty Bsby-Carriage Works, Nos. 495, 497, and 499North Wells street. The loss on buildiag amounted to $509, and on stock and machinery $5,000. The proper-y is insured in twenty-two companies for $26 000. The fire originated in the blscksmitiung depart- ment. : The alarm from Box 546 at 6:15 p. m. yester- day, was occasioned by the discovery of fire in the two-story frame cottage house No. 113 North Lincoln street, owned by Mra. Moloney, and oc- evpied by Mrs. Brown. Loss on Luildine, $200; Joss on furniture, $200. Insured in Home, of Rew York, $1,000. A defectiva fiue cansed the be thaukfully received. Gigued) AT MANAYUNK, PA. ‘i Pamaperrars, Ps., Jan. $0.—Preston & Ir- win’s mill, at Mensyunk, was burned this morn- ing. The lossisheavy. Three huodred hands are thrown ont of employment by the fire. In- surance $38,000. AT SPRINGFIELD, MASS. Sramorretp, Mass., Jan. 8i).—Maynard’s to- bacco barn, with stock, was burned last night. The loss is $60,000 ; insured. NEAR QUEBEC. Querzo, Can., Jan. 30.—The Beauford Female Lunatic Asylum, on the Montmorency road, burned last night, and threa patients were burned to death, AT ARGENTA, ARK. Lrrrz Bocs, Ark., Jan. $0.—The machine, car, blackemith, and puttern ehop of the Mem- phis Road, in Argenta, opposite this city, were bummed about 10 o'clock this morning. Loss $20,000 ; no insurance. CASUALTIES, FELL INTO A WELL. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, LaSacre, DL, Jan. 30.—Yesterday afternoon Charles Strout, aged 18 sears, stepson cf John W. Edmonds, a farmer in the northeact part of the Towaship of LaSalle, attempted to descend into a new well by means of arope, and some- Ew Jost bis hold, and fell to the bottom, a dis- tance of over 30 feet, sustaining two severe com- pound fractures below the knee of one leg. STRUCK BY A TRAIN. Special Disrateh to The Chicaco Tribune. Arpretox, Wis., Jan. 30.—This ovening, about dark, an old. man named Finnegan was on his way home, and got within a few steps of his house, which is near the crack of the Chicago & Northwestern Railaoad, when a wild train on that road came through at a very hich rate of speed, and before the old man could get out of the way, be was struck by the train, and received in- juries which are believed fstal. THE WEATHER. ‘Wasarxatox, D. ©., Jan. 30.—In the Gulf States, Tennessee, Ohio Valley, and Upper Lake region, rising baromoter, falling temperature, northeast or northwest winds, clear or ciesring weather. In the Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri Valleys, and the Northwest, failing and low tem- perature, uorcherly winds, high barometer, and clesr weather, followed by fa'ling barometer and winds shifting to south oF east. MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE. Coruxsus, O., Jan. 30.—T. W. Poland, of this city, bas mysterionsly disappeared. Ie was Inst geen on Wednesdsy walking on the railrozd- track, near Panos. He is about 37 years oli, stout build, hae biack beard and hair. Ho is supposed to be insane. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. ‘A courtezan, nsmed Fannis Rogers, com- mitted suicide yesterday at Omaha. It is said ber right name 18 Alice Tsylor, and that she came from Rochelle, Ii. ‘The Arkangas State Grange adjourned sester- day. The following otficers were elected for tho ensuiug yoar, Join T. Jones, Master, reelected; SOT. Edis, overseer ; E. D. Bovd, “Treasurer ; John §. Williams, Secrotary ; L.'B. Mitchell,- ‘Treasurer. ‘The Arkansas State Board of Finance pub- lishes a call to the Holdera of Arisosas bonds aeking a correspondence with a view to the con- solidation avd settlement of the debt outstand- ing against the State. A couvention of bond- holders is snggested by a resolution of the Gen- eral Assembly. ‘The cash receipts of the Kansas Relief Com- mittes to this date aggrenate $21,707.42, and the disbursemente $20,712,67. ‘The outstunding Lille against the Committee amount to over 72,000, jeaving (be organization nearly @1,000 10 debt, A considerable quantity of supplies is coming in dally from Illinois, Indiana, and Loma Garibaidi. Garibaldi, during his visi: to Nome, will reside {ns one-story house ontide of Yorts Pia, The ground-floor is a species of wine-shop ;- overhoad are the two modest rooms, simply furnished for “the hero of two worlds.” The old man in- stracced hisson to rent just such a smai!} foot- hold, aud under no circumstances to accopt any of the luxurions offera of accommodatious ehow- ered upon him az 20on aa his visit to the Capital was mooted. He desired especially to reside near the city gate by which the troops captured Pome, aud whieh was battered down by the can- non of free italy. The cook of the wine-shop, contrery to ont has laid in a most fancy stock of eatables and drinkables thet could bo ob:ained in the markets of the “Rotanda,” for which he does not intend so charge the Genersl the first centisimo. Garibaldi is 36 good a god for tie real working-people throughout the Peninsala as there over was in the worshipfal Gays of Athons and Dalpba, He sent through Henotti his thanks to Parliament for. his pau- sion, seepeotiully destiood. THE CRIMINAL CALENDAR. Preliminary: Examination of Sawyers the Piermont, Ne Hey Murderer. Express “Robberies Yesterday in New York and Utica, Wintermute, the Murderer of McCook, to Have a New Trial. ‘THE PIERMONT, N. H., TRAGEDY. Special Inspatch ta The Chicago Tribune. Havennt1, N.H., Jan. 30, The preliminary examination of Sawyer, charged with the mur- der of Mrs. Emersdn, at Piermont, on Friday of last week, was bogun late this afternoon. Jobn Flanders, ‘the nearest neighbor of the Emersons,” living 36 rods away, and was the first man on tbe grounds, heard tho report of a gun and hastened to the seene. Met Sawyer on tho way. Asked what bas occurred. Asked three times before receiving an. answer, Sawyer then re- plied, “‘Jobony’s vife has shot herself; blown her head all to pioves.” “He saw Saw- yer and Mrs. Blair, with whom Fianders lines, leading Emereon toward Mre. Blair's house. Sawyer waa supporting Energon with his arm thrown around Emerson's body. ‘Mrs, Blair testitiod that che saw Fianders and Sawyer meov ia tho road. Sow Flunders etar toran toward Emerson’s. Sawyer came to the back door and said: ‘Jobnny’s wifo bas shot Ler head off. Come over as soon a8 you cxn.” He then went back toward Emersons. As soon ‘a8 possible I etarted for Emerson's. I met Sav- yer and Emerson coming toward my houro. Emerson asked. Sawyer, ‘Is she dead?” Sawyer made no roply. Witness sak~- ed. Sawyer if che was dead He said yes; there wassatream of blood 2s high as the plastering and as large as your arm. I asked bow it could have happened. Sawyer taid the muzzle of the gun was sod here (indicating the spot as under Jeft ear), and that sho must have fired the gun with her foot. I asked, how could she bave got her foot back into thooven? Ho said sho placed her foot in tho oven with the same motion with which she firedthe gun. Saw- For anid ho wes in tho house within five minutes of the tame he heard the report of the gun. John 1. Emorson, the hnsbaad of the de- cenged, testified as to his residence. Sawyer called on us at Piermont the day after we commonced housekeeping, and stopped or thrae days. Went out to my father’s after that; remained at my father's moat of the time until the Monday be- fore my wifo was killed... He wos thrashing at my father's that Monday, and he made the ro- mark that he wanted to come to my house again before he went back to Lowell, and os my ife was to be absent next day T thought be might 28 well come and stay with mo as at any other time. He came homa with me, and {also brought my brother's gun home with me, as he was going away, and wished me to take caro of it This gan was loaded Wednesday night. as there was a cat my wife wished to bave killed. I told her I did not wish to kill it, and Sawyer said: “If you will load the gun I will shoot her.” I loaded the gnn, and he said ho would shoot ber on the first opportauity. This waa in the evening, and the gun was put back into the front room. CINCINNATI CRIMINAL ITEMS, Crsoussati, O., Jan. 30.—At an carly hour this morning Officer Stillman was cailed upon to quell 2 disturbance ats ball in Hopkins’ Hall. Astampede occurred, during which the officer was knocked down and shot in the thigh bysome unknown person. At the Nationsl Theatre this afternoon, watchman Kelly was ehot in the lez by one of a party who were creating a disturbauce. No ar- reste. Beroard Linge, aged 16, to-day enticed Louis Kittering’s “ httle danghter ‘sged 6, into an outhouse, and attempted ‘to commit rape. The child's screams alarmed father of the child, who gave Lingea severe thrasbing and tured him over to the p John Sutlivan, who recently rape in Charcor} alley and communicated a loathsome disease to her, was captnred at Cynthiana, Ky., to-day, and will be brought here for trial. EXPRESS ROBBERIES. Unica, N. ¥., Jan. 30.—f'ive masked and arm- ed men bonnd and gagged the watchman in the ‘American Express Company's office. early this morning, and then carried of » bag containing the night-train packages. Loss 1s believed to be emall. New Yorx, Jan. 30.—The announcement is just made that the office of the Adams Express Company, in this city, was robbed on Bunday sss of the following bonds: Twenty-ceven South Carolina. consolidated bonds dated Jan. 1, 1874, of €1,000 each, nom- bered 1,068 1,091 inclusive, ' 1,219, L211, and 1,212; ‘alao, two bonds’ of §500' each number 995 and 265; six consolidated Virginia bonds $1,000 each with first conpon due July 1, 1835, Nos. 14,650 to 14,655, inclasive; four coupons due Jan. 1, 1875, $39 each, from Misgouri State bonds, Nos. 3,723, 8,725, 3,726, and 3,727. a WINTERMUTE ALLOWED A NEW TRIAL. Snectal Dispatch to The Chicago ‘Trioune, Srovx Crry, Is., Jan. $0.—The Supreme Court of Dakota Territory, at Yeniton, to-day ren dered s decision in the Wintermute case on the motion for a new trial, ordoring the arrost of judgmont of the Court below and granting him » new trial, fixing the amount in bail bonds at $20,000. Wintermato was tried Jast spring on & charge of murder, for killing Gon. McCovk, and convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to ten years imprisonment. Since that time he has been contined tn jail at Yankton, ‘The decision of the Supreme Court creates astonishment there, and the feeling of indigoation ia freely expressed. ATTEMPT TO KILL TO CONCEAL MALPRAC- TICE. Parenson, N. J., Jan. 30.—Tbe jury in tho case of Dr. Richards, who was tried for assault with intent to kill a pationt by administering ex- cessive doses of Morphino to conceal matprac- ties, after five hour's deliberation, brought ino verdict of guilty of simple assault. Tho parents of the boy who wasinjurod by the doctor bad proviously obtained a judgment in a suit for damages. DESERTS A WIFE AND FIVE CHILDREN. opectat Lnepatch to The Chicage Tribune. Rusuva.te, Ind., Jan. 30,—James 8. Osborn, s farmer 45 years old, from Andersouville, Franklin County, this State, eloped last Wednes- day with Mies Alma Faarste, aged 15. Oxborn Teaves s wife and fvechildren, one of whom 18 married. Thay left here on the aftesnoon freight for Indianapolis, It is supposed that they wont South, HORSE-THIEVES HUNTED DOWN. Spectal Dupateh to Tha Chicaca Tripune, Wavsraay, Ll., Jan! 30.—Sherif Buell, of Lake County, hes worked up the horse-stesling affair with his usuat promptitude, and found Nick Ehle's horse in the Town of Benton. He alao caused the srrest of Mike Cronan, of Wau- Kegan, who.waa thie evening delivered up to Sheritf Lucas and taken to Kenosha. HELD FO ARSON. Cixvetaxp, O., Jan. 30.—Bernard Boucher, who was arrested on a charge of attempting to set fire to the United S:ates bonded warehouse on Thursday last, bad a proluoinary examination to-day. THe was bound over to appear beforethe Court of Common Pieas in the sam of $6,000. —— Englaud’s Shattered idols. Wo have already mentioned that the Conserva- tive Quarlerly Review, of London, is to attack Greville's Memoirs, correct whatever mistakes they may contain, and preach 8 sermon agutaxt gossip and scandal, The London correspondent of the New York Times writes:, ‘‘Itis known that the publication of the Journal has given great offense in high, indeed, in the highest guarlera, andit has become the fashion to talk of itaya ‘abocking’ and ‘shameful’ violation of thesanctity of private life—the sancity of the private life of George 1V., for oxampie—and the obligations of official confidence. ere au there, no doubt, there are referencesix 1.0 book which might ax well have been veiled, but is surely @ monstrous and absurd hypotbesia tat a century 6r 80 ought io elapse before aucli of the thing am the bare and ecidid pruilignoy Congughame—the whole tumly r ou} hher lndyship's harlotry—should be set before the world. Itis not all nice, of course, for tho most noble tho Marquis of Conyngham, K. P., G. C. ., P. C., and tho reat of the fumily. The historical tacts cannot be suppressed, even in order to make life comfortetie for an amiable nobleman. In tho future interests of morality itia just as welt that the exiatence of a Nemesis ‘of reputation sbould be forcitiy iprevsed on the minds of great folse, who fancy they have a nght to the protection of secrecy for their muedeeds merely becuse they do not happen to be exposed in the Police Court. Nowbing can be more sickening than the cant which is just now being talied about this book, Everybody bas read it, and enjoyed its malicious candor;, but, atter the pleasure of perusal, it is thought to be correct to hold np the hands and ery, ‘Oh, dear, how naughty to tell such things!’ No doubt Groville's way of studying Princes is not exactly that of Mfr. Theodaie Martit’s. Still, the Grevilles and St. Simons have their place with other scorpions of fate in tho oterual fitness pf things.” FOREIGN. SPAIN. MOVEMENTS OF THE ROYAL ANY. Maprm, Jan. 30.—The operations of the Army of the North againat the Carlists are progrossing. Gen. Morionez is making s flank movement with ths tight wing by way of Sangnesa, 25 miles sontheact of Ss araplons, while Gen. Primo de fivera is marching ap tho valley of the Csrascal to attack at a point between Tafalla and Pamplona. 1 by way of Loosarcos, and is threatening ketella, 26 mites southwest of Pamplona. Gen. Loma je threnteniug the cannon foundries of the Carlists in the Province of Guipuzcos. The garrison of Bubso ix acting against Dorango. Gen. Vallegos is mar:bing into Biscay. ‘The headquarters of King Alphonso are ure at To- BECOGNITION. Lonpox, Jan. 30.—Rasaia bas recognized King Alphonso. ,, Se: RUSSSIA. 'TTME PRINCE OF MONTENEGRO CONGRATULATED. Sr. Perenssure, Beysia, Jan. 30.—Tho Czar has sent a note to th Princo of Moatenegro, congratulating him uyom the peacably solution of the difficulty which sroso botweea his Gov- ernment and that of Turkey from the Podgoritzs affoir. SS . THE TRANS'T. OBSERVATIONS SUCOHSSFUL AND OTHERWIEE. San Francisco, Janu. 80.—Drs. Poters and Harkoess, of the American expedition, wero tlie ouly successful observers of the transit of Venus in Now Zealand. Tae. obsorvations at Hobart- town and Campbelltown, ‘Tasmania, were ob- structed by clouds, rind ‘the observers lost the fiest part of the transit. The German party, et Au Islands, betJ a successful observation. pate ate ae ITALY. VICTOM: AND JOSEPH. Rowe, Jan. 30.—Iing Victor Emanuel gave an nudiance yesterday tp Garibaldi. ——o— GIERMANY. ADJOURNMED If OF THE REICHSTAG. Bentry, Jan. 90..—The Reichatag closed its session this evening}. Tho Bauk bill was passed. —————— GREAT SRITAIN. ‘THE FORTITC OMING ROYAL 3fESSAGE. Loxpox, Jan. £).—The object of Qacen Vic- toria in convening a Cabinat Council at Osborne is to have a disens pion on the Roval message, to be wabmitted at thre opening of Parliament. —_—_—__—— RELIGEDUS MISCELLANY. TUE cry. a The Michigan Avenue Baptist Church hss held meetinga evory week since tho “Week of Prayer.” Much interest is developed. Several conv-irsions bave taken place in the North Star Brptist Church. The Rev. J. M. Whitehead, the pastor, is carrying on the meet- ings sone, ‘A fellowship “meeting was held in the Congre- gational Chura » st South Chicago, last week. ‘The ecesions were con‘iucied by’ the Rev. Mr. Huntington, of ‘Oak Park; the Rav. Mr. Pack- ard, of Evanst¢ jn; aud Alr. Willisms. Grace Meth: :dist Ep‘scopal Church and the New England (ougrogitional Canrch will unite this woek for t ho holding of two union services, tie pastor of t he former, the Rav. C, E. Felton, and the pastor of the New England Cuurch, the Rev. Mr. Chav. iberlain, officiating. ‘The Rev. Dr., Everts, pastor of the First Bap- fist Church, y teached a forcible sermon Sun- day on the gra wing heresy of open communion. The sermov was based on the toxt, “Now, I co:nmand you, brothers, m the namo of oar: Lord Jesos Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from ¢ ory brother that walketh disorderly.” Some of the points rade were that the Church was = family, and had ariz,fit to say who should aud who ahonid not onrer it. Close com:nunion was sim- ply close baptism or a defense of baptism by im- mersion, The) Doctor dwelt upon the dangers to tha Churcl: which must grow out ofa relaxa~ tion of its doy érines. IN GENERAL. ‘The Baptiat.churches of New York are ssid to be in dept to the amount of $500,090. Tho Baptist 8 of Rhode Island will devote tyeir centennial fiiads to the ondowment of Brown University. Agrest royivalin the Presbyterian Church at Mankato, Mi en., has added sixty persous on pro- fession of fa: 4h to the chureh. ‘The Congr egational Charch at Waucosta, Wis., dodicated a r1aw house of worship Jan. 13. The editice ia of wood, and cost $2,000. "The secon fl meeting of the series of Univer- salist mass «:onfereuces will be held m the Uni- yersaliat Ct iucch at Racine, Wis., commencing Weduegday., eb. 8. Pho Cor rgregational Church at Champaign, TIL, the Rew. W. G. Pierce, pascor, have 60 far progressed. with their $20,000 edilico as to hold services in, the basement. In Baltimore, Reformed-Epiecopal services have been opened by Bishop Cummins. It is expected that a church will be organized, as the meetings are thronged with beare-s. Nearly : jll the annuat Conferonces of the M. E. Cbarch ‘South (thuty-four out of tlurty-soveu) have vot 2d upon the more stringent geueral rule in rogarc! to temperance, and tho vote stands 1,090 for, and 1,480 against, the reform. Sever: 11 influential membors of the Jewish con- gaticins of Montreal, Canada, have seceded, and apy punced their intention of forming re- formed synagogue. The ritual to be adupted is that io avein the two reform synagogues in London; eet Duririg the year 2874, according to the * Bap- tist You Bool,” that deuomination has gained 53 saso piations, 999 churches, 756 ordained min- isters, and 127,692 membera; making gran totale cif 243 associations, 21,150 churches, 15,354 oodatiseld ministers, and 1,761,171 church-mem- erg. The statistics “of the Mothodist Episcopal Church for 1874 are jast published, Theyshow: raveling-vresoaers, 10,854; _local-preuchers, 19,581 ; Bendav-echools, 18,628; oliicers and teaoho te, 200,492 ; scholars, 1,363,876 ; members and probationers, 1,553,521; churchos, 15,010 ; probatdo value, $69,253,815; parsonages, 4,893 : ofa pupbevle vaits of $9.604,230 ; total ameunt raised or varionschurch and bonevolent objects, $937, 6156. The Rey. Dr. Storrs, of Brooktyn, is delivering a series of lectures tu the students of tho Union Theolegicst Semarary on ** Preaching Without Notes” Ho usys the habit of presching from manuseript is an Englizh and Atmericun usage, and is wot practiced generally througbout Chrietandom. In Germany aud France the cus- tom is almost upkuown. The namber of ex- temporaneous preaphers in this country is cou- atantly increasing, Among the best are men- tioned the Rev. Dr.Jobn Hall and tho Rev. Dr. Chapin. : A french Flatrimoniai £rouble. Aman andhis wife who had been murried ten years disagreed and determmed to separate, The terms of the separation were to be decided by the Justice of! the arrondiasement in which they lived. The were Parivinus. ‘Have you apy children?” aszed the Jutge. ‘Yes, mon- sreor.”. “How many?” ‘Thee: two bors and as girl, and i, ia with them that lies onr difi- m3 Wishew to have two of them; so lave You agreed to avide by my de- cision?” “We Stave,” waid doch of them. ‘Vory woll, my friends,; I condemn you to bave anoth- er child, so tha’; cach may havatwo, Wher you have obtained ‘that vou may return to me.” The matter was tht:o sdjourued for the time being. ‘Two years af] srwards the worthy mazistrate, who, in the mj antime, bad hoard nothing of the Dasband or WFo, mei the former. **Ab,” said he, “how objnt tho separation?” ‘Still im- posite, monriivars iustead of four ehildren, we ve five.' : : Another division has moved |: IXTEEN PAGE NINEVEH. Its E'ast Glory and Present Desolation. The Rise and Fall of tho Assyrian Em- pie—lIts Record in Sacred and Profano “ History. Kings of. Nineveh---Wars with the Jews---Final Destruction. From the New Fork Times, “ Rtow the word of the Lord came unto Jonah, saying; Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and c)-y against it, for their wickednoss is come up biofore me. . . . Now Nineveh was an excec ding great city, of three days’ journey.” In tlais command to the prophot we have the earl 2st Scriptural reference, in point of date, to the City of Nineveh after the mention of its foundation by Nimrod. Jonah prophesied in tae reign of King Jeroboam the Second, Kinj; of Isrsel; and, though tho date can- not bo exactly set, it was probably between the years 860 B.C. and 700 B. C. when the com- mead was given him to denounce tho Assyrian capital, and in its streots to foretell its impend- ing destruction. It was then rapidly’ reaching 28 : HEIGHT OF ITS PAIDE AND MAGNIFICENCE, and the terror of the prophet on receiving the commund to testify against it, avd his flying io ‘Lhe oppouite direction to Jaffs. may fairly be in- ‘terpreted as indicative of the awoand fesr with which it was regarded by the Jewish nation. But the command being again repeated, “‘Jonab arose and went unto Ninevel, and began to enter into the city # day's journey, aud he criod, aud sa: forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.’ Tbe repentance of the people turned aside the Divine vengeance for the time, and the city wae spared. It wasto reach a greater height of pride and glory, to ex- tend still wider its dominion, before the river which flowed by ita walls should rise and throw them down before the besieging armies ; but the day came at Inst. ‘* Tbe gates of tho river ghall be opened,” cried the Prophet Na- bam, “and the palaces sball dissolve away’, ‘That day came about two centuries after Jona bad called its inhabitants to repeatance. The city was takon, sacked, aud destroyed; and when the “Ten Thousand "marched by the Tistis on their memorable retreat, two centuries later, the city was ompty aud void, ita walls wore crumbling to ruin, and they paluted it ont to Xenophon as the ruined: city of Mespila. The Assyrian Xm- pire bad run its course; the capital ‘MAD LOST EVEN ITS NAME. Of the date of its origin nothing certain bas yet been detormined, though fatare discoveries may do something to clear up tho darkness in which it is now obscured. Theologians say that it received its name from Asshur, the second sou of Shem; while the city was fouuded by Nimrod, 120 years after the Deluge. It is rather singular tha: ono of the latest, as it is one of the most interesting of the tablets found in Nineveh, gives us & remarkabiy full and graphic account of the flood and the building of the ark. The record is w:itten in the first first person, as if by Noab himself; and agrees in nearly all respects with the Biblical accoant. That Kinga resigned in Asayria twelvo centuries before Chrigt we Lave the Ass;rian records them- uelves to pfova. From these records, necessari- ly fragmentary and incomplete as they are, » chrouological table Las been compiled of the various Kings who reigned from about 1250 B. °C, t0 699 B.C. Among these we have Pal, or Tiglath-Pileser, Sargon, Sennacherib ear~ haddon, and Sardanapalus, or Baracus: Tho last is supposed to be that Ring who, when the combined urmics of tho Meles and Babylonians stormed the capital, in B. C. 606, made of his palace, his treasures, and his wives ONE GHEAT FUNEDAL PILE. That the Empire was destroyed about that date there is scarcely any doubt; tnd as by two Egvp- tian tablets of the fifteenth ceutury B. C., itis found tast Assyria and Nineveh then oxieted, it is safe to assume that the Empire Iasted at least 900 years. Aftor the sacking of tbe city by the victorious armies of Meaia, Nineveh was almost unknown and forgotten; though tho largext of the great mounds, in which the palace of Sen- nacherib was buried, was used by more than one people as tho wite of a castlo, if not a town. BSil- vercoins of Maximus and ‘Trajan have been found hore, which were strack ov the spot; and the Persians beld the placa for many years. Bat, in the end, all men deserted it; it became an ‘atter desolation; sad Ninevah was one of the great cities of Scrinture which our eacly text-boois used to tell us had perished from the face of the carth: Even its site became a mat- ter of conjecture. ‘More than two canturies ago an English tray- oler, Sir Anthoy Shirley, visited the spot. In bis book of * Travels in Pers:a” he write: Nin- iue (that which God himeolf calleth that Great Citic) bath not one stone standing which may ive momorie of the being of a towne. Una fioglish mile from itis a placo called Mosul, a small thing, rather to bs a witnesses of tho other's mightnesso and of God's judgment, than of apy fashion of magnificence in it- aclie.”, Forty years or 80 ego 8 countryman of that traveler, who held the piace of English Consul at this little town, sot about ex- ploritig the great mound of Koyunjik, on the op- posite bank of the Tigris, bolieving that he might possibly find there some remains of the once preat Assyrian city. His discoveries have identified the name of Layard with Nineveh for alltime. He ’ BROUGHT THE BURIED CITY TO LIGHT, after thirty centuries of the darkaess of the grave; and giuco that time scarcely a year has passed without some addition buing made to our imowledge of @ nation of which before we bad only the scanty ree.nds given in sacred history. Vory bttie was known of the Assyrians till in pushing their conquests westward, they caine in contact witth the Jews. Divided, as that nation then was, into the independent Kingdoms of Isreelcnd Judea, no effectual stand could bo mado against o powerfal and united 8 nation as the Assyrians. Their fame had preceded their arms, because the date at which Jonah was sent precaded that st which Paul is mentioned as bavitg como up ageinst Menahem, King of Isracl, who paid tribute of ao. thousand talents of silver and secured the support of the monarch “to confirm the Kingdom in his hand.” After this, forty or fifty years, came Tizlath-Pileser, in the reign of Pekah, who spoiled the towns of Samaria and carried of the people captives to Assyris. Aitorward he assists Ahoz against Pekan and the King of Syria. Next we have Shalmanesor exacting trib- ute of Hoses, King of Israel, who sends secretly to Egypt for assistance, and Shalmaneser dis- covering this, takes Hosca prisoner and keeps him in confinement. Somaria is again besioged. and after » three yasrs’ resistance is taken and the people carried into captivity. Itis against this dependence on,the King of Egypt for agsist~ ance that {yatah denounces, calling on Larael to dapend not on Kings, but on THE TRUEGOD. Un to this time it was the Kingdom of Israel, or Samana, which bad suffered from the power of the Assrriaa Kings, and paid tribute to them. ‘The Kingdom of Judah appears to have escaped, aod even to have received assistance in tha war aguinst its rival; but after the death of Shalmanesar, Sennacherib, who succeeded him, came up against that Kingdom, probably bo- cause tribute had boon rofused him by its Kins, Hezesish. This appears to havo been about B. C. 613, I¢ is more than probable that both Israel and Judea had paid tribute to the Assyrian Kings, or atleast ‘dove homage to them, long autsnor to any meation of the fact in Scripture Judea being the more romote being under the lighter burden. But Sennacherib was a con- queror who pushed hue attacks much farther than his predecessors, and it was probably the refusal of Hezekiah to pay on increased tribute which provoked him to atuack his country. He camo uo againet Judes. and nis ex- pediticn, recorded with minutenesu in the Sorip- tures, Lappene to be recorded with similer ex- sctitads by the Assyrian King on the walls of lus palace. He took all the fonced towns of Judea, according to the Hebrow chronicloa. On the ‘Agayrian palace we have thie campaign illustrat- ed iu the most spirited style of the native artists. All the operations of a siege are depicted with the utmest minute- ness. Lattering rams are being emploved to make ‘breaches in the walls, from which the be- siege/l are defending themselves with the great- ost diterminaticn. Some of the defenders are using their bows and arrows, while others throw burning brands on the enginca benesth toset fire to them. The besiegers area rolling up macaines fiom which their archers can shoot on the same level as the men on the walls. Ouc part of the town is takeu. A procession of cesptives is seen iseuing from the gate, Iu the foreground the captured are seen impaled on staices, whilo the soldiers are bearing off tho heads of the alain. The victory was in atl cases ON THE SIDE OF THE ASSYETANB, and Hezekiah, to save Jorusolom, sent messen- era to Seopacherib, offering submission and an lemnity. Hoe was ordered to vay 400 talents of silver and 30 of gold. 80 exactly do the As- syrian and Hebrew accounts of this expedition agree that we find this very sum set dowo in the Assyrian annals as the indemnity which Sen- nacherib exacted. Beyund this puint, however, there is nothing written by the Assyrian King. Tho reagon is obvious. Af.er he had subdued Judea he returned to Nineveh; aud Hozekiah appears to have sent secretly to Egypt for as- sistance, as Hoses had done before him. Though nothing is said of this in the Bible, such must be inferred from what followed. Sennacherib, awaro of what had been dona. (ho probably bad epics at Jerusalem), immediately sent another army uuder three leaders against Hezetish. (Second Kinga, xvii,, 17.) lo the conference which took place outside the gate be- tween these Captains andthe Jewish messen- gers, RabShakeh says: ‘Speak ye now to Hezekiah: Thus saih che reat King of Assyria, ‘What confidence is this wherein: thou trustest ?” . . . ‘Behold thoa trustest: upon the ataff of this bruiaed reed even upon Egypt ;” and he speaks with scorn of tho de- pendence that can be placed on Pharaoh. The Jewish messengers beg him to epeak in the Syri- ap language, that the mulutudo on the wall may not understand bim ; but the Ausyrian scornfal- ly roplies that he bss been sent to speak to tho men upon the wall, and to threaton them with FAMINE AND DESTRUCTION. ‘The terror and grief of Hezexiah when bis mes- sengers revurned to him ia graphicaliy depicted. He seeks the prophet Isaiah, who returos the answer 83 set forth in Chap. xix., 20-34. The referouce to the “remnant that is escsped of the houae of Judah,” which “sball yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward,” is asignificant mdication of the terrible destruc- tiou which bad been made of the nation in the first campaign. Nevertheless, the Lord will have pity on this remtant, and ‘+ Ausyriaa shall not come into this city, nor shoot an ! sbicld, nor cast a bank sgainatit.” ‘ And it came to pass that night that tho angel of the © ough s setves as atill having faith in Ki Lord went cut, and smote in the camp of the ‘Assyrians a bundred four score aud five thou- sand.” It shoal ee remarked here oar in the language of the East, a plague ‘or pestilence, a deutro} ing wind, or any other great natural de- structive agont, is generally spoken of aa the aogel of the Lord. It is, therefore, quite in accordance with the meaning of the sacred scribe, to interpret this passage as meaning A SUDDEN PESTILENCF, or malarial fever, gach ag might arise from the marshv aud-swaip ground uoar which the Assy- sians crore encamoed. As beforestated, nothing of this campaign and its awful termination is re- corded on the walis of Sennacherb’s buried palace, Naturally, ho would uot desire to pnt it on record. He retreated from be- fore Jerusalem, retarned to Nineveh, and was atterward assassinated m the temple | of his gud by his two eldest sous. Aiti the’ murder they fled, and Esar-Haddon, bis youngest son, ascended the throue. Tno com- plete destruction of Isracl which Ivaish foretold came upon the nation under this Kiog. He car- riod off the remnant into Babylon, which ha had annexed tg Assyria, and the Jews for the time ceased to bea nation. United, they might have withstood the power of the Asavrian Empire, but, divided mto the two rivsl Kingdoms of Judea and Isracl, alware jealous, and trequently at war with each other, they fell before its con- solidated strength. ‘Tue destruction of Ninoveh was foretold by the prophet Nahum, who prophesied betweea the years 720 and 693 B. C. When be foretold its fall, it ia clear it had attained tuo heigut of its pride and poser, and was hastening to mevitable decline, steepad in corruption and bloo3. =“ Woe hin ! the : arrow thero, nor come before it with | | i | introduced yesterday, were paseed withont op~ ' i i i i { LEGISLATURES. ; Ramsey Absolves His Friends tron Caucus Obligations. Bill King Called Upon to Explain or Resign. No Change in the Senatorial Sit- uation at Madison. MINNESOTA, BILLS RECEIVED.” Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, 8r. Pavz. Minn., Jan. 30.—In the Senate billa were passed authorizing Ramsey County to issue 250,000 twenty-year bonds to fund the floating debt; fixing the time for the District Court in Otter-Tail County for the second Tuesaday of November ; authorizing the St. Anthony Water. Power Company to issue preferred stock an. tharizisig town insurance companies : _ BILL KING. : Joint regolutions were introduced requesting | William S. King to appear before the Ways and Committee to clear himself of the charges, and make a full expose of hia knowledge of the Pa citic Mail subsidy bumnesa; or, failing in that, to resiga his election to Congresae A mo- tion to iay on the table was lost—7to 30, In tho Ho.se, resolutions of a similar position, though some membors expressnd thom- » bat that he ought lo explain hiozelf without dolay. THE SiNATORIAL CONTEST. _ The vote iu le Convention to-day bad little siguiticance: Ramsav had 47, Lochren 52, Davia 23, Pillsbury 13. scsttering, absent, aud paired, 12. Clarke, of Hennepin County, sovounced in Convention that Ramsey had absolved hig " frienda from any farther allegiance to the csacus nomination, Ramsoy leaves for Washington to-morrow af ternoon. Except for ths sirife between St. Pant and Minneapolis, each being determined to have the Senator dovoted ro its intereste, » compro- mise wouid probably be made next week on some Republican uot involved in the Davis and Bam- : eey division. i H 1 t i to the bloody city,” he cries, ‘it is all fall of lica | and robbery; the prey doparteth not.” The sculptures whica recorded tho Assyrian cam- paigns, no leas than the recorda written on them, ghow tho BLOODTHIRSTINESS AND CRUELTY of the nation. Caot:ves are depicted being flayed alive, having their tongaes torn out, their brains besten out with mutets, impaled, their | eyes thrust with spears, and other abominable cruelties. One of the inscriptions reads: “* Their men, young and old, { (Asshur-nasir-pal) took prisoners. Of some I cut off the feet aud hands; of others I cut off the noses, ears. and lips; of the young men’s ears I made a hea of the old men’s heads I built a tower; I exposed their heads ag a trophy i front of their city. the female children I barued in the ames.” Ia the tone of this record there is simply triumph expressed ; it dces not appear to have occurred to the Boyal conqueror that ho did snything in committing these revoltinz crelties but expresa the complete and utter triumph which he ob- tained over his enemie3, ‘the Jewizb records seom cruel enough sometimes; but of the God of the Hebrews, mercy and loving kindness were attributes. Among words seom unknown. They themselves foand no mercy when tho day of their deatraction camo, In that time when the river rose aud the wails of the city were overthrown, the combined ‘Medean and Babylovian army entered sod UETERLY SPOILED THE CITT. The terror snd coniusion attending that entry were foretold. ‘*The chariois shall raga ip tne streots; thoy shall! jostloone another in the broad ways; they shail seem like torohes; they shalt rou like the lightnings, . . .’ They shai! make baste to the wall and the de fonse shall be prepared . . - Stand, stand, sball they cry; but none shall look back; .-. . the horseman liteth up both the bright sword and the giittering spear, and there is a multitudeofsluin; . . . there isnoend of their corpses ; they atamble upon” their corpses. . . . ‘The fire shall devoar thy bars, . . . She is empty aud void and waste.” When Layard drove his tunnels ito the mound which covered the gate, the hteral fulfillment of tho prophecy was seen. Corpses there were at the charred remnants of the gateway ‘the fire bad devoured were thrown up at every stroke; and Nineveh is empty and void and waste to thisday. The once powerful city has become a place for poula of water, for a hab- itation of beasts—an utter desvlation. Uninflammadie Wood. Fiom the Phaladelphix Ledaer. : The British Admirality bas been engaged re- cently in testing soma wood preparad bys new process designed to reader it uoinflammable, Setisfactory results were obtaiued as to tue re- sistance the wood offered to tho action of fire, pnt a serious objection to the nse of the prepar- ed wood, for onval purposes, at lonat, waa ite greatly-increased weight ana the oost of ita pre aration. Ia Chicago public trial was recently nado of a cement or paint which also gave satis- factory results, and which were commented on by the yeiger Asitis only applied to the sur- face of the wood it can apparoutly offer only a temporary pretection from fire. dr. Pelag Woerne, s German chemict of this city, his discov- ered a compound for preserving wood from fire, which is designed to overcome this objection, a3 itis made to enter and fill up ail tne pores of the wood. Letters patent have been issued for this compound. Small aplinters cut from the hoart of wood prepared by Mr. Werne’s process failed to burn whon put.ina flame of gas, al- though they were coasamed by the heat to which they were subjected. The wood, if thrown into shot fire and witHdrawn, will be chatred, but will carry no spark. It may.be destroyed by fire, but cannot be ignited. Ir is proposed that lum- ber aball be prepared by this process and worked up by the carpenter or bailder afterwards. The process requires that the wood shall be immersed in a boil:og solation for several hours until it is thoroughly impregaated, sud thon dried. The cost of preparation where only email quantities of wood are troated at a time is estimated at half cont a square foot for 1-inch plank. ‘This cout might be reduced in practical operations, bat, if not, it would add from 10 to 20 per cent t> the cost of lumber ordinarily used in dwelling- houses, —_—— Spurreon’s Odd Notions of an Allus- trated Lecture. London Correspondence New York Times, Ashe procosded with his lecture, Mr. Spur- geon introduced candles of various kinds and dimensions, in all sorts of candlesticxs—from the sordid ginger-bottle of the poverty-stricken hovel to tho magnificent candelaoram of the wealthy ritualistic church. Soma caadles (sa he pointed out) wontd not buru, otbers buroed too quickiy; and if it cou!d have been conven- iently managed, a candle would doubtless have been exhibited barniag at both ends. Symbol- ic lanterns were also dislayed. and the lecturer explained that one battered Jantern with a very bright light inside was no worse, but a gresd deal better than another luntern equatly bat- tered, but whose defects were not so apparent by reason of the dullness of tha flama with- in. Suilicteatiy acquainted with Christmas pieces to be aware that they are expected to ead with a great blaze of light, Mr. Spargoon brought his lecture to a conclasicn witha grand illumina- tiou, in which figured the humble rasisliylst, the nightlight a3 used in sick-rooms, the txliow can- die of low life, the middle-class “composite,” the wax taper of polite society, with candelabra lamps, and lanterns of alt descriptions and pos- seusing alleorts of mystical signitications. On tho whole, buvever, the meaning of the final tableau wae—the light of Christianity burning in various forms and with various degrees of purity andinteusity. Mr. Sparseoa’s very origi- nal lecture was go mnecesful tuat it is to be re~ peated several times. It is not, perhaps, an ex- citing, nor even a vecy refined entertainment, | Bat it is amusing, and that is more than can be said of the various pautoraimes aad burlesques bronght out in honor of the present festive Ben- sou, the Assyrians the | The male children and | i | Pati [To the Associated Press.) 8r, Paot, Minn., Jan. 30.—In the House of Representatives thia afternoon, the following | Shee and resolution passed, after a long de- aie, with but ove didwenting vote? 5 Waoenzar, The proceoding now pending at W: ington ia the matter Imown aa the Pacific Mail cor- ruption investigation point to the Hon. William S. King 2s one who wre an officer of the National House of Representatives sccepted money 28 8 consideration for bis services in aiding the par~ sage of the subsidy bill to the Pacific Mail Steamahip Company; and, Wurmets, ir, King having beea elected 2 man- ber of the Forty-fourth Congress from the Third Dis- trict of this State, the people feel that his usefulness will be greatly impsired, and di-honor cast npon ths escutcheon of Minnesota unless he at once rectify bit pouitton; therefore, ae it ‘resolved, That the people of Minnesota, in Legislatare assembled, demand of Mr, King his immediate appesranc before the ‘Invest:- gating Committee iu Wushington City, and that Le there state to such Commitee what has been bis connection with this great nutional exxndal, and tharo~ Uy vindicate himself ; or, failing therein,'to pisce his reaiguation as Representative of this commonwealth in the bands of the Governor, Senator Ramsey leaves for Washington to- morrow evening. avd wiil take no further pert in the Senatonal canvass, which he leaves whol- ly m the bauds of his fliends, who are at liberty. to withdray bis name whenever in their jade- ment the inteceats of their pa:ty can be subsary- ed thereby, een, WISCONSIN. ONE BALLOT FOR SENATOR. Manmox, Wis., Jau. $0.—One ballot was taken "for Souator to-day, Carpenter received 51, Bragg 44, Cole 18, J. J. Goppy 8, Atwood 1, Bunn end Cameron 1, This small vote is the result of sev- eral members obtaining leave of absence and going home, but pairing with those who re- mained, There is absolutely nothing new in Senatorial matters. ‘he anti-Carpenter men are firm in their opposition to him, bat are willing to write on apy good, sound Iepublican the Carpenter menmsyname. - Strange Story About 2 Bible. From the Pull Malt Gazette. Everybody has heard of the three wise msn who wenttosea inabowl. Theplace where these worthies of nursery-literature Hoanshed before the unfortunate shipwreck which terminated their bistory waa some few sears ago the scsne of an ovent, orto speak more accurately, it is eaid to have been the scene of an event, which goes far to prove that the centuries which have elapsed siuce the maritime venture jost msn- tioned had not added to the wisdom of the pleco. The Church was being restored, so we are in- formed, and the woodwork, as is usual in such casea, was being removed and sold, to be re- plaesd, no doubt, with the * gothic” of Soctn- ampton street, when a grocer in the village bought for a few shil.ings an oaken reading-desk and the Divle chained to it. For some time be used the leaves of the Bible for trade purposes, andthe desk and chain went the way of old wood and iron. Ba: a friend, a bookseller, sug- gested that the Bible deserved beter treatment, Lo was pat ints communication with an eminent collector wno gave bim £30 for what remained, Tria turned out to ba 2 copy, so runs the tale, of the Great Bible of Henry VIIL in « perfect state—it was perfect when the Church sold it— worth about £250, at least that may be called roughly ita value; but ss many years have elupsed since one was sold it is very possitle that twice or even thrice that sum might hava been reached in an auction room, Our object is not to spread idle gossip, bat to give Lhe autho:= ities of a highly-respectable Lincoloshure parials, with a purely gothic and thoroughly * rertored” chure’s, an opportunity of denying the truth cf aramor which does them more credit than evea the exploit of their thréo wise men of ald; for, as the horalda say, ancient disgrace, so it be an- cient encagh, is better than eyea mode.n honor, be it never so great. + : + Madacascar. The English newspapers publish s proclams- tion isaued by tha Queen of Mudagescar, dated Antananarivo, Oct. 2, 1874. ordering the liboration of all slaves imported into her King- dom since the date of the treaty of 1865, en! into with Great Britain for the suppression of that traffic. The following is a transiation of the document: ‘ I, Rauovalomanjaka be the grace of God and the will of the peopie, Queen of Madagascar and defender of the laws of my country, ave made an agreement with my rela tions across the seas that there shall not be sl- ° Jowed to be brought isto my country people fom acroes tho sess to 00 made viaves. And on account of this, I command that if there are any Mozambiques lately coma into my country since the 7th of June, 1805, which was the year of the completion of the agreement with my relations across tho aeas, then they are to become “‘1#an BY ambaniandro” (a phrase applied to the tree anhab- itanta of Madagascar); and if they wish to dw in this land, then they may do so, and be of the number of free people; and if they wish to re- tura across the sez from whence they came, then they are at liberty to go. Andif there are any who conceal Blozambiques ately comes to be slaves. and do not sat them at liberty to become “‘igaa ny ambaviandro,” they shall bs put is chains for ten years. Says Ranovalomanjake Queon of Madagascar, etc., etc. This is word of Ranovslomanjaxa. Queen of Madagsse car, says Raintlaiarivony, Prine Minister and Commandsr-in-Chief in Madaga-car.” pared tip rcacetcea An Army with Saintly Namese Panama Leticr to the San Hrancico Chroncle, Tiis Holiness the Pope must read with rare pleasure the solomon acts of the fee and in- depeident Republic of Ecuador. His faitbfal devotee, President Garcia Moreno, has, a8 inet members, learned Jesnits, and they bsvé prevailed upon Moreno and the Republic's legislators to enact a certain class of laws, whereay relision, momlity, and order #6 to be preserved, The firet snd most 5° markable edict ia that whicl divides the army into four divisions, with such fancifel titles in detailas ‘Division of the Sod of God, “ Division of the Good Shepherd,” “ Holy Lao- cers of Death,” ‘Warriors of the Blessed Vit- gin,” etc., etc. In thas organizing the army, the Republic was first, with great comp aud sol, emnity, put under the protection of “Sacred Heart of Jesus.” Preaident Moreng is Commander-in-Chief, ahd every’ oder snd soldier {8 sworn to upaold end defend the “Holy Roman Catholic Church.” The organle zation of thia army baa cacaed derision amovg the other Repnbiica of South America. Scme journals, however, look upon it in a grave light, and consider that it is the renewed effort 0! clerzy to get political as well aa relisious power in their hands. They have thoroughly s<co! plished thia in Ecnador, aad, it being #0, what to binder them from pushing their conqnests ime to neighboriag Republica? As will be seem hereafter, they are making the efulb