Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 6, 1875, Page 4

4 THE CHICAGO DA —S——_ PORK-PACKING. How Hogs Aro Slanghtercd at the Stock-Yards, The Various Steps in an Interesting Process, A Reform In the Method of Killing Suggested. Yho Workmen and Their Dutics. ‘The important fact that Chicago has been nni- sreraally conocded the honor of belag the largest pork-packing city in the United States, since the season of 1862-'3, when the packers cut up tho then-enormous number of 970,204 hogs, ts woll Imown to tho majority of persons who poruso the Chicsgo dailer snd tnke an interest in the prosperity af tho cify. Tho result of that evont- ful packing aeagon was the distancit g of Cincin- pati, which, up to that date, bad long held un- ;-packing metiopalis of THE LIONTRIXG PROCESS by which s tog is slaughtered, cleaned, quar- tered, and salted, is, however, a genoral mystery to those who are vot immediately concerned tn the business. This ignorance is partially due to tho fact that tho Union Stock-Yards, where tho bulk of tho slaughtering ia done, are nituated so tar from tho Lusinoss contre that oud can eol- dom flud an opportunity to spara the time pec- ensary to be inducted inta the mysteries of tho operation. To witness tho entire process of willing and packing, ono must not only devote a whole day to it, but ho is obliged to WADE IN WARM ILOOD SOLE-DEEP during a partion of hia observations, This fv not a very encouraging prospect for one inclined to timidity, and there are vary fow who are over desirous of vonturing on the undertaking. The gmount of information, Lowover, which one can Biean io & thorough survey of tho Stock-Yard region, will more than countorbatanco any little inconyenfence which the puisuer of knowledge may encounter in bivtrip. It is therofore pre- sumed that the readers of Tue Tainune will ind hiterost ina shortaccount of tho way in which She work of hog-sluughtering is conducted. THE PACKING BRABON proper begins tho Jat of November and lasts until the end of Fcbrusry, ‘There are eight pack- \ng-houses now in opesation nt the Stock-Yarda, Give of which do bueinees on direct English ac sounts, the moat being racked ma bulk and pondition mest suited to foreign taste, ho bog market is prinuipaily supplied by the States of Lowa, Nebrasise. Kaneus, and Ulinois, nl- though tha Noliaska supply this season hos vuled weal owing co the recent grasshopper dovastation, which hes forced the majority of hog-raivers in thot State to ship their bogs tu Towa to be fattenod. An most cases tuo hoga are sent to the Stock- Yards in Jote of three or four carloads, con~ signed toa commiesion-merchautor broker, On thew arrival at the yards THE HOGE ARE HUN ON A SCAT in batebes of about filty, the weiguing apparatus being surrounded by a strong paling, aud tho sseizht of each scnle-full accurately noted. ‘Tho entire drove ie then placed in sectional pena in the yard proper, aud a certificate of their gious weight given to the draver or broker, an the vase may be, This individual thon prucecdy to aa: cortaiu the STATE OF THE HOG MARKET, and, if his observations prove fuvorablo, he sells tho stock at tho provailug price. If he finds, however, that tho marketia dull, and is of tho opimion that, incleding the expense of foed- ing and pennage, bo cau comoand a bigher proit by holding off bo refuses to soll, and the hogs await a riso in the matket, Hoge, however, wre seldom held jong at tho Stock-Yardy by the drover, ax the cost of their keeping is quite a considoration where tha Sroepect of A small profit 14 concerned. On receiving 6 bill of salo for the hogs, the packer massox them into ave drove, to bo BENT TO THE SLAUGHTERING: PENA, and here the Inst troubie of the poor piggies and the genuine oxcitement of the observer begin. Following in the rear of tho drovo sro the sual Stock-Yard concomitantain the form of pork speculators, drovers, ond & heavy aprinkling of shepherd dogs, whoxe duty it 18 to guard clovely the eheep-pens, Tho pscking-house sleughtering-pen of exch firm ia tufticientiy large to wccommouate a duy's killing. Into this incloauro tay hogs are drivan, anid Joud oaths sud cries of ‘not, soh” fram the drivore, sho are kept continually on the alert. by refractory swine, which perhaps have a vague understanding of the fate in store for thom, The slaughtering is performed in mout ofthe packing-houses in (he top story of the building. ‘ho hogs ure FORCED UP A SLIOUTLY-INCLINED BTATIVAT by the monotonous yelling of tho drivers, ‘the etuira wre attached to tho side of the Luilding, beug boarded on the outside in order tbat tho hogs, ou once enturing tho corral, way be prevented from returning, Ou ariving at the top of the stairway, the gravters find themeelves ip au immense pen, Which hus an openiug at the farther oud, As the pen fills up, the foromost hogs are pusned into A SMALLER INCLOSUUE by the irrcnistible toico of the advancing drove. Dore a» sad tate awaits them, ‘the ipner aparece ment is euiliciently largo fo accommodate abour two dozen hogs, and i occupied by n mau who is styled “the catcher," The duty of this individ- ‘ual is to seizo each animal in turn by o bitd leg, aa fast as it enters tho pon, and attach to it o eban about 3 feet iu length, aad, in the lane guage of the catcher, termed a shavkle. Tho shacks ia then attached to » pulloy operated by steam power, aud tho hog fa qrickly drawn up to # distance of about 5 foot irom the floor. and awid a Babel of squealing the end of tho chain 1 dropped into a grovve rot on & m1 sive iron bar, besweon 9 gud 10 foct in length From the smallor pon to tho salt barrel hia pig: ebip practically ceanes to oxist, a8 hoisno sooaur gnting upon the bis, kicking and uquealing, than e iB LECKIVED LY THE BUTCHER, OW “ eTICKEN,” who, armed with o ponderous knife, uf razor. like slurpness, doftly #uvers the two principal arierics in the hay'a throat #6 lo slides along the rail, ‘Tbe ‘siicker” is assixicd by o boy, who Meadies each enimal for tho fatal ¢arust. Trom tho sticking-pen the bop ia pns-ed alung the aueclined rail to the scalding vat, which bus s trap-like entrance, on the sido of which are placed slauting rollore. Tho hoz's Jeg is thero roleased from the eb 6, aud tha body falls into the sealding vat, which is about 20 feet long, 8 feet wide, and 7 fost desp, By Wie momentum, and the belp of workmen, armed with long poles, the now inanimate carcags is horne sieadily along to tho end of the vat. ‘Tho object of this forcivie pasungo is to effectually loosen the bristios, in ordor that the scraper ean easily romovo them. On arriving at the end of tho vat the hog ie lifted upon un elevated nitrfuce by 8 semicirentar rake, which operates like the ty of & printing-press. At thia point ‘THE LITTLE ADUY OF SCRAPES recolre bitw, and he ix hustled along the scrap- aug-board by workmen who are experts in tha business, Tho scraping-board ix nbout 8 feet wide aud between 20 and $0 fout long, and io some hotyos bas a large bulge in the centre, ont of which is cut au opening euflicicntly large to allow within it the free motion of a half dozen scrapers. By this means the lower wud of the board is kept continually supplied. As tho hogs pass under the bauds of each peraper, they sre divested of « porticn of their biietiou, und, by tho time tuey reach tho terwminns of rhe norutley bourd, they preseut rather Lieached appearance, regulting from the incesyaut use of knives, acraperd, apt cold water douches, the water being suppliad by olarse pips which ring direutly over the sernp- i Frow the hench ” the hog is SEIZED UY THE WEADER, who (us his name itnplivs) iy kept busy aticing the heads of as they pasa through bis banda, Jae Load uro Lurown toa boy, who, with @ fow hiltrul pasgus, extracts from them tho tongues, From this point the vow bendlcas nase of pork, after having a gumbrel-stick insorted under the tendons of its bind lege, is swung upon a wheel thetiunson aciscular ruil, aud which, like tho slicking-bar, is ehgbtly inchued, TUM DIKEMBOWELING PROCESS fa then quickly perfurmou, while tho hog tw yet upow the rail, aod tho eutFails deposited upon a bench which in surrouvded by cutters, who Bap. rate the fatty substance frum tho waste matter, The ditfereut patts are then dumped intu boil- ing-tanks, the fut of the hog being thoroughly steamed down, aud tho lard obtained by the process san. into, large tioned tauke to vocl, Vith the exception of the small intestines, which ate converted into sausage coverings, the offal is ut through a boiling process which prepares it for the fertilizer, the modua operandi of which ’ has been thoroughly described in Tuk 'Trinune of rocent issues. rom the gutter the bog is sped around the circle" to THE SPLITTING-POE and, by a balf dozen blore. the backbono is neatly ha’ portions shot along tho Tho coiling of this dops fnnning grooves, wicit Spart to allow of the putin ss belong inn fa them. ‘The pure fat. sven ta make ivaf lard, is then stripped M1. a wo hind-quarteys ef tha hogs, and in this pcvition they are lett unitl cool snough for entting purposes. THE MAQNITUDE OF THE OPERATIONS above described will not probably be realized by the reador until bo Is mado aware of the mai velonaly short space of imo which is consumed in their excention. Onty about eight minutes are occtipied fiom the time that tho hog entors the ré.cking-yon until bo fa over into the coulliy room, aud halved, which might almost lead a person to infer that tho hog wae literally packed into the walting-barrel boefero the echo of his Jast Hqueal bad died out, This ie not tho caso, but it is none the less truo tha: the first detail of slaughtoring could ba Inrgely improved npon, thus avoiding ao amount of actual cruelty which ia produced under tha present metho, THR PLAGRAST FAULT of the systein iu this: ‘Ibo aticking-ber {n all the paotiog-honaos averages about 8 feet In length, And will accommodate about eight hove at a tine, A how will reach tho soaiding-vat in nine recouds fromthe tino that he is atuck. aud from this point he immediately drops ixto tho boiting water, {tis not within the bonnes of roason to auppono that an animal of any kind will blced to denth in vlae seconds, oven were all its principal arterioy sovered: aud the fact that thrav-fourths ef the hoge aro partially boiled to denth is sunply revolting. ‘Tuo self-evident cruelty could bo eanily dune away with by — extending tho sticking-bar to twice its nousl longth, and tho. quieknoss of the oporation wontd not bo ras turded, a8 the bar once loaded could be kopt in that condition without difficulty. A day 18 the timo usually aliosted for the pork to cool, when it is removed fiom tho coaling da- partmont nud carried to the cutting-block to be quartered and divided into pieces for ineus pork, different kinds of middles, whoulders, and hats, aiter which they ao weighed, and either salted away in the packing-rooms for future speculae tive pales, carted to market for immediate city delivary, or packed into boxea or batrola for shipment abroad. THE WAGER RECKIVED BY TAK WORKMEN range irom &4 to 12 sbilinys, the highest rates, agito from the forewen, being paid to tho * head sealer” and * putters.” ho duty of the for- nor j3 an important one, asthe water must ba kept at a certain temperature which will scald the hog to nilow of tho bristles beng romoved without boiling hin. TIL! APPEARANCE OF TNE once dn operation is a currons ove, and tho interest of the svone is eubanced by the continuous piyueal- ing concect. of the deomed torcera ut the head of tho proceseion. Tho workers are coustantly euyoloped in a beayvy cloud of steam avising from the flowing blod aud the sealding-vat, effectually blinding for motnant the observer who 18 pot accustomed to tho vapor, As thecyesof the forzer-on become habituated, howaver, bo can dimly discern a con- tinuous ling of barrel-shaped objects ralting down tho scrazang-board, and in the rear of thin wheacd a reguiarepiash and aq ered guiglo, winch indicat hind, iy directed, fd coting-room, ded mith lar ouough IN PERSONAL APPEARANCE the slaughterers resemble the American abor- igines of tho forest, and it cam properly be said that, sot of by their glistening knives, shining clcavors. aud clothing cavered with conguluted blood. they ara a *!bicady mob.” Another torea is employed, whose duty i: is to rewure the collected otal, aud keep the ditterent dopariinents in a cleanly condiiion, TRE ARIAT of the hogs aro sold totho brush manufacturers for & conts # head, and the tongues and feet ava saved for pickling purpcecs. From this acvouut it will be seen that the pro- cess of hog-slougbtering iv Chteago has boon worked duwn ty adegroa of perfection which cannot be materially fnupzov upon except id tho titue allowed for tho bleeding procexa. ‘ha mode cf slaughtering at Bridgeport is anbstan- tially the samo aa described above, avd each accocding season witnesses eons vital improves toxntin the patent. Most ot the Lridgeport packers are siowly immigrating to thy Stock- Yards, which offer superior pennage capaci and are more couvenient for shipnors, being 6 ated at the jnnetion of all the principal railroad lines which enter the ity, — TRIAL BY JURY, Bmlery A. Storrn Keplica to the Critl= cismin oF n Correspondent, To the Kuttor of The Chicnge Tribune: Ciicaco, Feb. 4.—The spirit in which your correspondont “Homo Albua” bas criticised through the columns of Tue Trincxy somo por- tions of the lecture recontty celivered by mo bo- fore the Law Sctiool on tho “ Origin, History, and Merits of Trial by Jury” is in tho main fair, ond mony of the suggestions emtadicd in hie communication, whethor on the whole thoy are to bo vonuidorad as sound or unsound, aro well worthy of disenasion. Your correspondont evidently did wot bear tho lecture, and bases his criticlsin upon it entirely upon the report in ‘Tne ‘Tinos, which, while substantially correct, dues not protend to give aven an ontlive of it as a wholo, After haying discuused the origin aud history of jury triala, I quite briefly touched upon tho merits aud defects of the syatém, are guing lhat, while jurora frequontly erred, while the concinuious which they reached wera fro. quently erroneous, yot that no better ovatem for the trial of quections of fact had over, au oxperi- ence demonstrated, been devised. That we Lave at times Incompetent, ignorant, aud, porhaps, corrurt, jurors PHOVES NOTOTNO against the system. For that reason alone wo would not abolish jury triale, Preclaoly the samo line of reasoning would lend to the over- throw of cur entire judicial nystem, for, taking the country ut largo, there can bo found many ignorant and incompetent and a few corrupt dudges. That ve bave unfit men for jurors falls fat short of proving that we ought to dispenss with jury trials, ITinsisted that Lf proper caro wero taken iu the solection of our jurors mavy of the evils of which complaint ja made would bo yomoved, and that the fault had rested in some meaauro, at least, upon the Conr:s, who wore fre- quently too ready to exuuge from servico upon juries competent aud intolligent men who had bacn summoned fer that purpose. Onur system of deliveriug to the jury WBIITEN INSTRUCTIONS prepared by counsel also touded, as I argued, to thinlead and confuse them. Thera instructions are lu the nature of abstract legal propositions, All taken together thoy scarcely if over furnish ucomplete view of the entire cage. Vroparad by counsel. thoy are intended to present simply 40 touch of tho law ua will bo advautngeous to them, Tho result in that they are often conilicting, and darken rather than enlighten the judgmeut, and furnish no sulid or watixfactory baste npow which the fury may staud in endeavoring to reach a vedic’. Lam not able to determine from his eo:xamnal- ion what mothod of iuutiucting the jury © Homo Albus" favors. He criticises miue, bat proposns nousof his own. Bly suggestion was thatthe Court should charge the jury, and that the charga thua delivered shuuld be written, ‘Thus & coherent review of the entire case could bo furnished the jury; aud, in order to avoid dill- cullios in waking up a bill of exceptions which wre frequently oncountorea where the charge is anocral one, my proposition was that is should be in writing, so buat there could be no mistake wa to what the charge ia tact was. Your corre- tpondent queetions * the reliability of a written charye by a Judge whoso ideas are so contused £6 to charge on both sides of the samo proposition without knowing it.” But the dilti- ealty is thut iv balancing conflicting lostructions presunted iim by counsel on both aides the Judge tm much wore liablato elurge on both nided of the same proposition than he would bo af the chargo wero written by bimnelf, ‘That even good Judges do under the proseut absurd eyetem ive CONFLICTING INSTRUCTIONS is too woll kuown to ovory practicing Jawyer to require proof, Casex of that character abound In our reports, ‘Cho bupreae of this Btate, ina eace reported in tho Gd Ullnow Ropores, com- mmenting upon tho iuetrnetion given by the Cirenit Judge, say: "hese instructions ara in direct opposition—what could the jy do? ‘Vhoy must wolect between thon, and they proh- ably relied upon the first invteuction. ‘Chis was ot Lhe law, aud was ix violation of the statute,” Again iu GL Iinoia Heports, 333, the Bu- prome Conrt, criticising the instructions by the Cireuit Judge, soy: But even bad it stated the alu correctly it would only baove contradicted the fut instruction, and ib would not have appeared which the jury followed.” ‘These are by vo mozus iaolated Cases, Ther ure of very frequent occurrence. ther of the Cir- cuit Judges who gave in the osses reforrod to these cuuilicting inatructions was quite capable of writing @ cluar aud consistent alarge to the jury. Moraover, wero this duty Imposed upon tho Court where it bolongs inmead of being whift~ ed to counsel whera it docs not botong, the Court vould ba compelled to give mitch closer alten- tion to tho trial as it progressed than they now do, and would undoretand both the facts and tho Jaw iofiuitely botter. [quite agroo with “Ifomo Albus” thatthe proper plsa is to have cloar- headed Judges, Buttoabalieh jury trigle will hardly slevate the understanding or clear the hoad of an otherwinn muddle-hoaded Judge. Tclauued that much of the fault found with Jurors could be truco directly to EnhoRS BY THE count, for which tho jury could be bold inno wise re eponriblo, I also insisted that withiv their pyhero the errors of juries were less frequent than thoee of the Courta; that jurors mado fowor mistukes in deciding questions of tact then theCourte in deciling quostions of lay. To this opimion I still adhere, notwith- standing the fact that vour corrospondunt nn- rorts that “by far the larver portion of apponls from jury trials are rovoiacd snd remanded by onr Stipreme Court.” A very elizht exsmination domoratrates how ntterly groundiesa the state- ment is, 80 Car at loaat ns estanlishing tho snpe- riority of the trial of questions of fact bya Court, inetead of by a jury, is concerned. In tho sixty-first Iilinala Itenorta thero wera fifty-six cavds reveracd. Of thene, thros wore reversed onthe ground that tho vordict of the jury was against evidence; two wero reversed because the finding of the Court was against evidence ; sud fifty-one were reversed bocause the Courts erred in rulings upon questions of law. Inthe gixty-eecond volunio thore are reported oighty- two roverenis, Of thoce, four woro roversud because tho verdicts wore againat evidenca and sevonty-eight on the ground of errors commit- ted bythe Court, In the sixty-third (the last) volume of our State Reports, there aro eighty-one reversals, Of there, ten are ou the ground that the verdict of the jury was againat ovidenco. Eight casos tried by the Court, s jury baving been waived, were rovoraed on tha ground that the findings Wore against evidence, and sixty-thres beciuso of errora committed by the Courts in rulings upon questions of law. Thus, out of an aggro- gate of 21 canen reported its the Inst threo vot- utnen of our State Renorts, 202 were rayorued for errors mady by the jury. Tho record cortainly does not furnish vory strong roesons for abolivbing jury trials and submitting the detormination of queationa both of the law and of fact to tae Courts. It would rather geom to indicate that, whilo wa are onvay- edinthe work of reform, it is barely possible that (io Bench muy ba improved. Tow iMogical it won'd be to insist upon this showing tuat we ehoutd al h our judiciary, Dneed not enlace upan, these facts cortointy demonstrate that che time hae pot yet acrivod when it wont be safo to impose upon our Judges any aldi- tional labovs, and that the dotermination of quertions of law correctly is about all that ought to be requized of them, and is quite ex moch as they are capable of doing. “Homo Albus” acome entirely to mbsappre- bend my purpose in CONTRASTING SURNIES WITH JUDGE. He inquiros whether | would not advocate “in complete changa of ayatem whereby our legal disoutos eball be submitted to the revou lavrvers io the liral isatance, 2ad if thetic "preatics sands fail to do tao can-o justice, then to twelya fur ore.” Cean hardly ‘sttppose that tho inquiry 18 sariousty mado, but T will novertheless answer it seriously, What [advocated in the locturo criticise], nad now advocate, ig as completo a #everance as possible of the fi ops of Court zad jury, contiping the Jucy exclusively to the doteripination of questions of fuct and the Cont to the divimons of questions of Inw. Iam weil convinced that the interests of justice are con- served by observing these distinciions, and thet in tholong min nothing but harm will eusne from either Caurt or jury trenching upen tho prevines of the other, ‘Lhe question was not whether Juries ebould be permitted to interfera with the Court in the decision of legal questions, but whether suflicient reasons could be found for doing away altogether with our present system of determi contested facts by trial by jury. Your correupondent zeem. to except tomy asser- Hon as reported, thet “the Judgoa had tenfold moro dangsrourly heen the ministers of den- potiem than juties had beon .uefarious or cor- rupt.” The assertion may scom tobe s strong ona, but it is true novertheless. Iz was mate, not tosbow that juries suould neurp the fune- tiona of the Court, but that it woula bo entirely uugate to permit tho Coures to usurp the fauce tions of the jucy, Lsperienze teaches a very nbarp lesson in this respect, and the judicial bis- tory of Enland, aud, indeed. of our own cona- try, ehowa that Judges, like all others, will auisa power when they deom it safo to do se. ‘The record ie a etarthng ooo, but it 14 always useful to retortoit. Jt stows that for over ii0 years in Great Biitain the Judges were tho willing, piant tools of power, and wrought incalculable muischiot, LET US LOOK AT IT BRIEFLY. Robert Tentian, who wan beheaded in 1339, was for many years Lord Cluef Justice. !lin biographer says of him, ‘Me had no rule of Judgment but tho occasion it was to serve, ani he knew no occasion which ho could not render builable to law, Ifo was too ignorant to be serv= iceablo even to the wretched politics of that y further than by blind compliance.” , Who flonrishod to 1490, tu doscribod us one ‘who, by all surts of mean- neasea, frauds, aud atrocities, aided by natural shrewdness, or rather low cunning, had coutrivud ta raiso himself from deep ob- scurity to be nn puinue Judge of the Kiog’s Beuch, and in tbat situation bad ehonn hinwelf ready to obey every moudate and te pan- der to every enprice of those who could give him ati! nighor elovatioa,” ": Chief-Jcstica Fits James is portrayed es one “owed us a vile inutrument, to apply the crimi- nal law for tho pleasure of the tyrant on the throne.” Chiof-Justica Montague Was 8 BubBer- vient tool of the Government, aver ready tudo hia mauter's biddivg. Lora Chiet-Justica Wray is acknowledged to have boon a great Judge, yor itineaid of him that “hetweoo the Crown and tho mubject ho by no means showed the indv- pendence for which he was cclobrated botween subject and subject.” Chief-Justicen Loy, who Nouvished during the refeu of James L, was oo Jawyor, but a subsorvicus tool of the Crown. Sir Nicholas tlvds, one of tho Chtef-Fustices ap- poloted by Charles £., received bis appointment tor the mere purposo of romanding to prison those who had rosisted the payment of tha ulegal loans oxacted by the Crown, Sir ‘Ubomus Rich- urd4on was a still moro pliant tool of Chatlea, Lord Chief-Justico Brumpson, who picsided over the King’s Bouch during the yroiga of tho same monarch, wos an able lawyer, Lut waa appointed for the ex- press purpose of — aswisting Charlca 1, tu raige taxes withont the authority ot Parlia- ment. Beforo him the famous ‘ship-monsy question arose upon the trial of John Uamypden, who had refused igs paymont, He: was promi- nont in the infamous Star Chamber in the proso- cution of the Biebop of Lincoln. Chicf-Justice Hoath, the lust of tho Chief-Justices ducing the reigu of Charles I., earned hie place from his iniown recoguition of the extreme claims sot up a4 to to the extent of tho Royal prerouative. Chief-Justice Glyn, who flourished in 1612, is doscribed ag “ apotitica! intriguant, busy, bus- tling, and unscrupulous,” Chief-Justice Foster, the rat Chief-Justice after the Restoration, was appointed purely for politicul reasoua ; was # thorough bollevor in tho doctrina of the Divino rignt of Kings, which be enforced upon the bench, Ohief-Justice Hyde was furious in bis efforts to suppress what he called the licontiousuuss of the preva. Crificium of any act of the Government, oven of tho mildest character, aa numed in his eyes tho crimo of bigh treason. Ivis suid of Chiof-Justico Kelynge that ‘be mado up by hus Joyal zeal and aubseryiency for bin want of learning and sound sense.” A party of maen having been ongaged in tearing down somo brothels which were a great nuance in the neighborhood, Kelynge iu his loyal xeal consid- cred this on ‘encroachment of Royal author- ity,” aud directed those concerned in it to ba in- dicted for high treason. ‘This was accordingly done, aud the prisoners were all tried and cou. vieted upon the law au laid down by the Chief Justice. fe compelled graud jurors to tad bile contrury to theirconrcionces, Ha finod = jury for acquitting a prisoner charged with attending @ convonticlo, aud imprivoned thew nutil the tines were paid. A prisoner being on trio! for wurdor whom he suspected of boing & Dissoutor, and whom jie lied a grent desire ty hag, he fined sod imprisoned wil tho jury because they bronght in a verdict of mannlanghter againat his direction, Chief-Justice Raynsford, s not very able, but not autticiently pliable Judgo, was renrovod, to mule way for tio infamous Herogga. ou whose subsorviensy relinuce could be placed. fo wae Nnally regarded with uch horror by Juries, and they were xo much inclined to’ go syeinat his dis rections, that the Government found be would obstruct, Instead of fucllitate, thelr designs against the Whig leaders, wud that was neces- wary to getridof him, He was acoordlvgly ro- moved, and Sir Francis Peraberton was appoint- oc in hia plsco. Be endeavored to earn the grate itude of the King by bis azatous efforws tu se. cure, in deflauce of ull lav and usage, the indict. ment of Shaftesbury for high tresvon, He called tho witnesses upon whose evideuce the (rraud Jury were to act into open vourt, und resorted: tothe mout vuworthy acts of intimidation aud eajolery to obtain tho tinding of w true bill. fhe jury ignored tbe indicusont, and Stinftor. bury was saved, Yet even this measure of ser- vihiy way not enough, Having subsequently prealded with some degroo of impartlality at removed, For the undisgutaed purpose of aiving jude. ment for tha destruction af the charters of the City of London “as antes to tho extabliehmout of despotism over tie lat Ednwnd Saunders was appowited Chiof Justica by. James il. ' ihe accomplishol the task efrctnally, and would withont scruple of remorso have given any othor Hlegal judgment required of him vy a corrupt Government.” Hanudera was succeoled by Jef- froys, than whom no more corrupt, brutal, or ins famote Judge ever disgraced the Dench. Com- bine all the blunders and crimes of which Juries have ever been guilty, and thoy cannot compare with the atrocities of this brutal Chief Justico. The atory of hia ‘bloody assizen” fa the most ehamoful of any which blackena tho pages of En- gis history. Jeffreys threatened aud. stormed ot the jaries, he lived liko a ruMan, and ho died as be doseived to die—lilo a doy. Bir Edward Herbert waa appointed by James IL, to succood Jeffreys, and rololy witu a view to recure a Judicial declaration of the power of the King to dispense with cr suspend an act of Par- liament, and the Chiof Justice fully avayored tho oxpectations which had boon formed of him, ‘The last Chief Justice under the roign of dames was the servile, corrupt, ignorant, and prottigate Robert Wright, Ifo if was who presided at the triat of {he ssvon Bishops for a saditions libol, ancl usod eyory afurt to sovure thoir conviction, Tho jury, howsvor, roturnod » verdict of “Not guilty." The Iine of corrupt aud profligate Judges eoased upon the accession of Willian of Orauge. But nevorsholoss over UVEN CONFESARDLY UREAT AND UPRIGUT JUDAER the Crows enomed to possess & vory positive in= fluenco in all State trials, Lord Chief Justive Mayaiond was the losding authority in support of the doctrine that tho truth of tho matter as- sertod to bs itbelous ia immaterial; that libel or no libel ix n pure queation of Jaw for the Conrt, thus loaving tho fury to dud only as to the fact of publishing. Thess questions wore presented upon informations for asserted lbels concern: some acy of tha Governmont, eomo crit upon its polloy, or argument in favor of ita po- hueal yeform, Tho Judges almost Invariably aided with the Governmout against tha press, tho poople, aud tho right of fraa discussion. Lord Chief Justico Lee. who succocded Ray: mond, held the same doctrine, although tho jury brought in a vordict of not guilty directly in tie teeth of his charge. ‘That grout dudgo, Lord Citof Justieo Mansiiell, persistently aduored to. this rule, and, on the famous informatinns for hbel tried bafoce bit, oxcladed froin thn coneid+ eiation of the jury the question of intont. Lho Judges, on tho outhroak of tha French Revolution, wont so far as to hold that pruat showing that tho matter was published in the ah- eonce of tite publixher, without his knowladgo, and even aginst his express directions, was lu- admismble, Lord Keonyou was equally vigorous in tus raliags in all Stato informations fur lool. Ife vot only carricd tho doctrine to its fullest length, bial opposed the pas:ago of an act of Parliament sub:nittivy the question of intent to the jury. Bat, nussithstaudiog the zeal of the dudges, oonvictions coul4 not bo srcuved. Le- twroen the Crown, represontud by the Judges, aud fie righ: of a free press and free rpecch, stood the juries. aaditis to Chem that tuele picsorva- tion was due, ‘Thin het is by no meuns complete, sullc:ently forinijable to admonish us of the danger of trusting to the Co: the detorminn- tion of the question of guilt ay innuceues, Our own country furnishes aoundart examples oi appointments to judicial positions ns a re~ ward for politicnl services alieady rendered, or with a view to Judicial aerviess ty be readured, CHIEF-JUSTICH TARRY wag not appointed be-nuse his porition as n tar yer or ad a juvist st the timo of his appointment na Chief-dustica warranted it. He had rendered impertant service to Jackson and Ins Adninis- tration. le had done for tho Proaident waa but few could be found to do, aud his ap pointment as Cuief-Justice was his reward. It may, honaver, now be truthfully seid that our Judges are, as a rule, eminently upricht. pare, and incorruptible men. thoy aro ewayod by tho gams motives Which ‘other men, The poseessivn of unlim- ited power would render them dangorova and despotic, as it bas others; and if we would con- tinge our judiciary pure aud uprigh’ wo mill withhold front thom the power to decitlo the facts, or to interfere with juries in the decison of thous questions, Mr. Furtiythe, in his este Lrated work, tho © History ef ‘Trial by Jury," in pointing out tno diiforanco between alt othor jusio! tribune's and the Kuglish trial by jury, av shown that in other tribunals, no matter of how many ineninera they might be comnosed, the whole judicial authority boing vested in them, power gradually shipped frora the hands of the jury and was more and mote cuucentrated in tue Judges. Avd of couree (says Mr, Fornythe) this change waa favoret by the Crown, as it thereby galued the Important object of Laing able, by means of erexturca Of ity own, to dispose of tue lives aud Mkertios of iL auljects under the giuseof legal forma, “Henco arore in Europe, upon the ruins of tiv old poputar tribunals, tho system of single Judges spootuted by the King ant deciding all matters of fact and tow, and fe brought with # it odious {rain of recret procesa and. inquellortal examinations, But the result was lu. evttable. Thu anclent couris of Scandinavia and Ger- many carried in their very constituiion te eleniont of thefy destraction, and this couriuted in the fact that the whole jndicial power wad in the handa of persons who had no upeclal qualiticationn for thle oftice, HE JURY WERE ORIGINALLT called in to mid the Court with information upon questions of fact in order that the law might pe proporly apphted, avd thta Las coutiwued to Lo their provinces tothe present day. A trial con- ducted upon: this system, the Court declaring tho Jaw, for the guidanco of the jury and the jwry fluding tho focts, tias survived Inindreds of Years of experience, aud it is certain it eaunot ha dispensed with, Jacompetent Judeew and ig- norant Jurors furnith no eubstantial reason for abolishing either Court or jury, but rather ad- monich us to bo more careful in our selection of both, ‘ifomo Albus” thavka Heaven, King Alfred, sud myself for tho system of jury trials. Just Low muck Hoeven bad todo with it Ca not able to discover, but it is corfsin that King Alfred bad little or nothing to do aa the founder of jury trials, ‘Che tradision which traces to him the origin of jury trisis is as mythical a6 the f Romulus aud Remus by the she-wolf, but “Ifomo Albus" evidently credits tho fabio. Mr, Croay in his famous work on the Englieh Constitution says: *Ivis to ba hoped that fow educated mou beliove wi the ins th of triat by jury having been tavented by Alfrod." But the moat serious objection raised by your correspondent ia with referouce to my allusion to but it is THE DRED ECoTT CASE. Tqutte well understand tat strictly the Court did not decide that negroes bad no rights which white men were bound torcspect. What I did way was that no jury bad ever yet Lecuxuized such doctris but that a Judge had. in tho couras of lie argument to slow that nogrsen, whether Lond or freo, were not snd nevor hud been rogarded 4 citizons, Judge Fauey, after re- eurring ta the Governments aud inatitutious of the thirteen Colonies when they separated trom Great Pritein, and to the stute of public opinion in relation to that unfortunate rece which pre- vailed in the civiized and enlightaced portions of the world at the time of the Doclaration of lodependenco, says: ‘They had for more than acentury boforo baen regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with tho white race olthor in social or politicat relations, and wo far inferior that they had uo rights which the while mau was bound to re- spect, and that the negro migh’ justly and lawfully bo reduced to slavery for his benefit,” Judge Taney aluo saya: ‘This opinion was et that time fixed and universal in the civilized portion of the white raco, + And in no nation was this opinion firmly fixed or mote uniformly wctad upon than by the English Government aud Euglish people.” * Homo Albus” claims that this is not decision, bus thut itis MERELY MisToRy. But it so happens that on this vory history is the. dootsion based that the neyro wus uot 8 citizen. Now, if at the time the Constitution wan made, the negro, bond or frev, had no righta which white mon wore bound to respect, when and how did bo acquire uny euch sighte? The language quoted may be called © history,” or whatever aay one pleaues to style it, but where history ripeos into decision, an in the Dred Beott case, and fur- nishes tho basis upon which the decision reste, dt would soem that there coutd bo no very serious misrepresentation in anying thal Judge ‘I'suey did recognize that in thia country thu negro pod sevacd no tights which the white man was bound to respect. But Judge ‘Tunvy mukea this sweoping atatemont applicable to. all ne grtoes, He substantially devlared of them that at the time tho Colouien deelared thvir in- dependence the uegso tight justly aud lawfully ho redneod lo slavery for the white man'a beads fit, and he saye thut this opimon waa fixed and untvorsal ln tho civilized portion of the white taco, WHENE WAS To FIXED? And upon what authority doos be rout for bia assertion that au Opinions) atrocious was Uni- versal? ‘The Culouies were jroverued by the common law, and they vebomently demanded all ite privileges. Nvither tho Englieh Government, nor the English people, uor the English Courty, acknowledged thie dovtrine, That slavery was tolerated in the Colonies was true, and that the lave trude was cariod go by them is alo true, ib to easy that » black man in Evgland could at any time under the taw Lave been reduced to alayerv, ox ¢hat ho liad no rights which the white tun was bound to senpock la to belie Lustory, Beate trials, ho was deemed untrustworthy, and ; ILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1875.--TWELVE PAGES, Nay, mora. Years before the separation of tho Colonics from the Muther Country the Buelish Conris had declarod that the mouient a slave touched British soil ho beeame ® free mat. In 1750 James Somoract, n negra, being in a | niato of siavory in Attion, was carried from thence toJamatea, where by law alavery wan Pertnitted, aud there wold ann slave. Ilia master brought him over to Eneland, intending evon to return with him to Jamaica, While confined on board aebip in the Thanies that bo might bo eacriod back, bo claimed his troedon, aud. being brought up under a writ of liabeas corpis, tho Court had to determine whethor ho was ontitled to it. Lord Mansfield anid: What ground is there for saying that the stains of* alavary 18 now recognized by the law of Bogtsnd? that trover will lle fora alave? that a slave torket may bo entabliabed in Snithticht 2 T cate not for the sup. Povo dicta of Jiulges if they be contrary to all prinel- ile, ‘The osaca cited wore probabil understood, nts, they ara to be «isi cuaned in Hogland, Tho alr of Engkind ong been coo pure for il every man tx freo who bresthea It. Every man who comea {ute Engiand ia entitied to tho protece tlon of Eughiiah law, wantever opprossion he may heretofore Nave enfored and wh.tover may ba the color of iia akin, Lat tho nepro be discharged, This was in 1736, twenty years boforo tho Oolontes dectarod thalr independence, and st that tone Judge Taney says tliat tho opinion that negroos had no righis whith white mon wera bound to respect wos ‘fixed aud universal in the civilized portion of the white raco.” Does this doctrina thus eloquently announced vy Gord Mauafield look an if this Infamous opinian was ‘tised” in England, oraa if i¢ waa uni- versal theto? ‘Cao right of porsonal tiberty of the nogroa Somerset thie groat Judge com. manded his shite maser to respect. Obvservo thac Judge Tanay doe not say that this waa tho opinion of the civilized world convorning tha negroin Africa, Tlo doos mot say that it wou universelly coneldored that thera he had no nights winelt white men wero bond to reapec:, but it is doctored to bave been trua of tho black manoyverywhers. It van NOT TRUE IN ENGLAND. Thore every while man was bound to respoct tho tights of every black man, aud every maa sho camo to England wag ontitled to the protection of its laws. Observe further that Judgo Taney makes special point as te the condition of tha black man in Enaland and the state of public opinion there at thastime. Heads that in "bo nation was this opinion moro firmly fixod or more unifernily acted upon than by the English Government and English people.” Even as against the Government itsslf no negro could have been held in slaveryono instant. Ho could not ayo Leen aneated or imprisoned without Jogal cause shown, anc there was neither law nor edatom whico would have wersanted the elighest intertoroneo with his personal fiberty upon any other ground than would have applied to any Bvitiah eubjsct of any calor or nativity, THR VAIN AND ONLY CONSTRUCTION to be put upon tho language thus empieyed by JTudgo Taney is, thas ths condition which he de- series woa the legal condition in whieh the negro wan then placed, Ho nsgerts that in En- gland at tho time of which he spenka, and for acentiry proveding, th? nozro might justly and lawfully. be roduced to slavery “for the benallt of the white man.” Upon this nasertion docn hs bane his opinion that tha negro was not a citizen. ‘Iho assertion waa glaringly and une qualificdiy falso. ‘That euch a statomont, oinsnating from the Chiof Justice of the Su- preme Court of tho United States, should ' tlre ths Northern heart" was cot atall to bo won- dered at, Itehocked and outraged the moral senso of tha wholo civilized world. *! Homo Athos “ may live long enough to share this feol- ing with tho reyt of maukind, Exeny FS ee a | LONG AND SHORT. Tt waa dieappointing, certainly to say the least of at. I bad missed the train by half a minute, a8 ® portor—ayparontly te porter of tho etation—kindly oxviained to me, slthough I wae niready Informed of tho fact, thanks to my own unaiaed powers of observation. I hind ar- rived in timo only to hoar the lond ringing of A, Sronus. the bell, the parting weream of the ongins, aud the grinding and gronuing of the train us it passod out of the etatioa,—slowly at fires and painfully, with much aathmalic paatiug, then mere and moro rapidly, as though it had drawn along breath, and made up ite mind for very quick rio indeed,—thoro being no other courso open to it, A frsutic whirling in the alrof col- orod fights, 2 flual scream ia tho distance, and then it was complutely gono,—-tho red lamp be- hind it, which had been glaring upon me after 5 malign and bloadshot fusbion, quickly fading aud dimming Into # moro spark, and at last dying out and disappeariug altogether. It was the more vexatious, that the dog-cart in waich Thad been borne to the station had yanishod. ‘Ihe driver bad feilod to appreviate my position. He was drovsy, I bad noziced, and, no doubt, anxious to got home ugain and tobod. Ihad been staying, I should mention, at Roso Tall, tha country seat, in Yorkehiro, of my old friend Richard Ito, und I was journoy- ing back towardu London. It was lato at night, very dark, and rather cold. There would be no other train for somo hours, I was left stranded at n lonoly country atatiun, with very undecidea views as lo how i should dispose of myself, and of the monsure of timo that had, like an incon- vyenlont liability, suddenly devolyed upon mo. LE handed over my luggage to the clargo of tho porter, oud then, acting npon Ing advice, 1 quilted tho ‘station—he polo of it disparngingly os a placo whers no dink could ba obtained—in wearch of 8 Uailway Hotel, which he described as being in the immediate neighborhood. 1 found it with Uitile diticully; a new ouildiug—in appearance something between en ordinary pubiic-housa aud what ructionsers call "a villa rosidence.” It. smeit atrongly of size, and point, and varnish ; & potent flavor of damp mortar porvaded it very vompletely, Mowever, it afforded me rofuge nnd shelter, advantages by no moans to bo ua- derrated, in view of tho apocial circumstances of the one, @ Loutered the coifee-room—n lofty chamber with mnp-like damp-stuing upon its plain un- painted walla, very barely furnished, aud faebly lighted by awingle jet of gun issuing from an ugly rectangular erraugement of piping sue perided near the ceiling. Lrang the bell, and orderod somo hot brandy-aud-water. {did not really need refreshment of any kind, still less of that porticular kind, for Thad but tately quitted Roe's hospltabio table; but “tho good of the house” had to Le considered. Boroovor, » feel- jog of depression was fast coming over mo. The room Leing very clouded with tobarco emoxe, Idid not ut first perceive that s man, a stranger, was sitting in an obscure cornor, read ing, or affecting to read, a newspaper widoly- extenged before him, the while he smoked furiously, 1 took out my ciqar-case. It soemed to he onv of thavo occasions when it behooves a man to smoko ay 4 mutter of self-defenue, I raised my hand to obtain alight from the fas jot above me. Lfailedtorench it, 1 waa not tall enough. “ Allow mo,” eaid the mun bebind the news- epers bi ‘thereupon a long arm was strotched forth. In smomout he hauded me » flaming spill. My surprise was so great that 1 was uuable just at first to avail mynolf of his polite attention. Ho had but half rison from his seat with « rort of uncoiling actlon. Tt was clear to me thut he waa of most prodigious ataturo. * A giant !” Texclaimed rather abruptly than politely, . “Just 60." ho suld gloomily. “Yes, I'm afraidwo, The fact cou hardly be disguised. I must admit that Lam ogiaat.” Aud he hid him. self aguin behind bis newspaper. Aud now L felt aswurod that he was not really reading it, for Tcoutd sea that ho hold it upside down. No doubt his head was rather emall in propor- tion to bis etature. Giants’ heads ure usually emall, Tthink, And it was not an impressive head. It was indeed 2 rathor weak, eheepish- looking bead, with s vacaut facial exproscton, sloping torchead, retreating mouth und chin, and biank watery bluo eyes, Ho was not a giant to inspire tecror, fle was mare likely to onllst sympathy and pity. He wore the depressed, cownd air of meeknets maltreated, and humility Gutraged. Ifo sevined to mo, if J may say so, a giant who had buen * put upon.” He was quite a young man, with ainall duty whivkors, and wy colorless downy beard, He had blushed violent- ly du syeuking to ur. ; 2 fel cuttous concerning bite. It wus so atranye, meeting ao monstroua a orenturo, ut that hour of the night, in that lonely Yourke ehie Reilway Tua. ‘Thera was sumothing alta xothor very quaint, as I fauciod, attending upon tho circumstances of our cncountor, “A dark night.” [ obacrved presontly, by way of raving something. é “I'm gind it's dark,” be said. fis voico wun of agreeable toue, though it mighs laok furce aod firmuess somewhat, ' Dark- hous suits mo best, If ever you should chance to become an obdject of exhibition,” he added, afier a puuse, * you'll understaad the advantage ofdarkuess. Dovw it rain, might L ask?" Ttold bin thut although it did not sotually rain then, Uthoughtit throstencd to bo rainy bofore loug. “hope it won't rain.” besad, “for I'vou long way tog, audiniay caso, you know, sa wimbretis ian’’ of much use. Tntean as regards ono's Ieee,” Tundorrtond him, The legs of sich aman most always be remote from the shatter of hiv umbrella, Ho nighod heavily, Ho mnt the newrpapor fromm fiw, and, leaning hia cl-ows upon tha table, rested lila bead upon hia handy, Ho lind ceased lommoko, Anompty tumblar stood befora him, Ho atghed again, and then he yawned. Ile looked very woary nud wo-begone. It evar sormul to mo tbat thore wore tears in bia eyes, “Trust bo going noon, I nuppose,” he xnid after a while, Tentrented him to rematn, if but fora little longer. Lexvlained to him tho sceident thet de- tafuast mo, until the next train for Luodon should stop atthe adjoinny etaion, I plainty stated that ho much interested me. 1 begped ‘perinine sion to havo his glasa refitted. Ho amica, blushed a bright rose color, and consontod, “Tam happy tomect you," he said, timidly, but pleasantly, “Indeed, I don't mind sayitig its a conifort to meat any ono who dos nu: want to pinch me. tones if fm real. ('m sure you're not ono that would wish ty stick pins in my calves, to mako sure (hat I’m not walking on etitts hidden imeide nty trousers. Int that's a way the liritish public lias, cir, sometimes to a mort inconvenient oxtout. Imay say that Svo suffered very much from tho inquisitive and tho jucredutou# nature of the Dritial pubic.” * And do yon foet bound to endure such trent. ment? Are you never tempted to use your gi strongth tyranuourly lite a glant? ? “Shalspearo! X understand the allusion. But you seo, ein, I'm an object of exhibicion, tn that capacity 1 have toundergo publiczty, aud all it brings with it. Punches boro, and pokes there, and, 19 I've stated, ptun rin lutemy calves. And then Lhote's the question of remuneration. f must nat make myself too cheap, I can't afford (o exhibit gratis. Yot it'a tryimg work, I do besure you, hiving cooped up ina van, Ile try- ing oven to dwarfs, and fat \adies, and albinocs, aud boa-constrictors, but toa party of my sizo, jas, Kimay env, cruehing, Whatever you may be, ‘ni, or In whatever position of life you may find yoursalf, never wish tobos giant. ‘Toke tny word for it, it's a trying sisto of things, sud giants aro subjected to more invonveniouces thon pooploiu general aye anv idea of, Air and exorcise I must have, end so I walkat night, from villago to village, or from fatrto fair, Tace-course to race-course, as tha cuge may ho, hoping that I may bo observed su little ns possible. For, you know, when folzs have scon you outside of your caravan for noth- ing, they cau’t bo persuaded to pay monoy to seu you ivads of it, That's human nature, I oup- pose. But, as Lesid before, it's a trying life, ur Don't wish to be a ginnt, vir, whatovor you may bo wishin yourself to be.” Tmay note that Thad nover, at any period of my Ife, wished to bo a plai, and that Iwas fully convinced of tho futility of wishes of that kind, Further. TE tuay state that lam of but htaited height—I think, 6 feat 2 inches only. according to my latest measuremont—and tuat, if vol abao- lutely aatiaiied with my diinonsions, Lam at any rato resiqued to thom. But, necessarily, I had never, oven in my wildest dreamy. contemplated exhibition of myself in the ehnructar of a giant. The ginnt was ® pleusant-apoken young man; but ho was much oppressed with x sense of bis uuperior proportions, by no means inclined to vaunt bimnself on that svora. Indeed, wb was vbvioua that his size was s nietter of keon dis- tress tu him, L had not been prepared for s giant of this meck kind. ‘To tell the truth, 1 had not considered giants much as » subject of sindy. Such intormation as I possoesed con- caning thom—-if it cau be called informa- tiou—was derived, I think, from carly poruaal of nursery literature. T must bave sald as auch to my uow friend, for presently, I remember, ho was discoursing with somo energy on tho injus- ties that, time out of mind, bad been dona to persons of his size. Thad by chanea, sod bait- jovoauly, mentioned the roll-kuown wor’ called Jack tho Giant Killer. My new frieod de- nounced it gerionsly as 8 most pernicious vol- ume, Ho stirmed that it had done » groat deal of mischief. He then sxked mo if I Lelioved it to bo w faithful record of netunal wyouts? i was scarcely proparod with ananswer. I said, after some delay, that it seemed tome that many of the circumstances movtioned in she book wero of an incrodibie kind; that, sup- posing some truth to be contained in tho story, it way yot much mtermixed with ficsion, and that exaggermtion and exliavagance wero certainly apparent throughout it. “It has been the misfortuno of us giants that we have always been written about by divarfy,” ho said, 'Ithassuited thei to deal with us witha view to their own greator glorification, Thay havo inisropresontad uy, I muat say. most shamefully, Unforlunately, we havo usually been inclined towlence, We havo rarely bien authors; wo ate reldom great talkers. 1 never yot knew or hoard of a giant wao had ever printed or pub- hwhed auyrhing. Suppose some of us had raid oureny or written our opinion on tho subject of dwarfs, don't you think dey would havo looked very suuil? Aset of upscarts! ‘Fuoey think of nothivg but their own sgyrandizemout ; while their disregatd of truth is roally seandalows. This Jacie the Giant Killer must havo been s dua, Only a dwarf could havo beon so boast- ful. so self-sutisfivd, and, I must say it, 80 falao nad treacherous.” ‘Tbe giant was now speaking in a very oxcited manner, It seemed ev though much peot-up thonght. regording the injtines borne by his kiud, was at longth finding expression, “ Why should te have troubled hinaelf about the giatits 2" ho rosumed. ‘ Did they over do hia any harm? He calls thom caunibsis! 1 warrant thoy nover wanted to eat such @ little whipper-unappor os he was! And, mark big treacuery aod cunning, and hia base ingratitude! dlow did he got the better, for instance, of Cor- moran, sait to be 18 feot ingh and 3 yaide round—a” gross exaggeration of course. Thera uever was s giant of tuat size or anything like it; search all the caravans in Kurope, and youwonldn’t find sucha one. How did ho ket tho better of Cormoran, I was avking? Why, he dug a pt and Cormoran fell into at, and thon Jack took what [should calla mean advantego of Lim: hit bim—when ho was down—a blow on the hesd with: a pickaz, end kilfod him, Then thoro was that Welsh giant bow was hotreatcd? A kind, hospitable, trustful soul, who brought out, for tne breakfast of him- self and lis shameless guests, twa great bowls of hasty puddivg—clearly the Welva giaut at any rate wus 110 canuibal, Then another giant, one with threo beads, if I remember rightly.— a plece of wild extravagance, of course, for Whoover saw a giant or anybody olse with threo heads ?-—but this otber glant Jack overcomes by basely protonding to be his cousin, forsaoth, Cheating the poor crenture ont of bis coat of darkness, Jack, being Invisible bimsolf, cuts of tho legs of bis benefactor! Was thera ever conduct more infamous, or cowardly, or inhuman? Was thers over a more wretched little monster than this Jack? And yet the story of tho misorablo ump's exploits, as they are calied—tiauds snd crimes I should rather vay,—ls put into tho lands of children; is a work highly ostoomed, au Tam informed, in most respectable nurseries, Can purents wonder thut ther offspring should oftontitnes grow np decoitful and presuniptuous, cruel and ungrateful? What wo waut, sir, is the story of Jack rewritten bya giant. ‘Take my word, sir, that would be a book of genuine worth, {don’t say that it would bo brillinot. Wo giants do not protend to be brilliant, The flretly glistens—not theelephant. Wo are plain, sinple, straightforward, truthful folk; there's notuing low or moan about us. We ara Atrong~ dy opposod to emallnoes of every kind, ut wo'vo beea peaceful, pationt, long-suffering ; too much so nad too long, I fear, We've let things take their course und eaid nothing, when wo ought to Lave said something—a good deal, in- deed ; and go we’'yo somehow como to boa per. secuted race—despised aod uuderrated., Tho dwarfs have bad it all thelr owa way, aud now they crow over us and treat us conteimptuously, ‘Tho {net is, wo've not though: enough of onr- wolves, and have allowed people to overlook us, At's all wrong, sir, take my word for it—though Psat pretend to be the man who can put it ight,” His fuce was flashed sa he concluded, and bis forehcud was moist, Iie paused for breath as it soumed, and then be was moved to eurprian ag his own anumaton, at the length of his speech, He looked at me upologatically. “I did not intend to speak so warmly,” he said, © Dut your sir of sympathy tomptad me to expresa myself more fully than is usual wito mo, AndI dwa I lose patieneo whon E think of the errors that have wo lous provailod on the subject of gianta—the injustice we have suffered at all sands, Verbape,” be added with a emily, ax, With bis foretinger,—{t was about tho nize of ona of those candles of which four wake a paund,—be tapped lightly his tumbler, which was now empty, “Yerhape this oxtra glass of grog hes uado mo too loquacious, 1 beg you willptedon mo if mich bas been the nuao, or if #7 violence of apoech has given you any offe~*u,"" 3 : His clues was again ompty. I insisted upon ity belog Uilea. Ho made many objections to ths course being adopted; but “when tho Scandy-and-water had bean duly placed before him ho did not besitata to consume it. Thon he gave me certaly particulsrs of his own career. He was of humble ongin, he frankly admitted, and had oven in early life worn tlio quaint ciews of a charity-boy. His father was by trade @ shocmaker, sud his mother bad gaiued a livelinood by charing, ‘They were parsons of average stature only, and it was not until ho had attained the ago of 14 that bis own height had become at all romarkabte, had with much suitdonnens geawn tale taller, He oven pretended to say that | crearo tu hisight had Loon distinctly perceptitis Then T And nin ge ty close obearvers of bim, had yontured to aver that nbsntutoly nce bla grow. Te bod one or two trades, but without avail. hoot found with his vizo. Pople all deviated thab ho ‘was tuo voung to ba 60 tall. Ho w, like a largo pioce of furniture in» small houme Atnom could not be found for bim. It wan neces, nary to take down doors to let him in or ae At ina’ bie fathor, who was impatient by natu sud often inflamed by drink, sald augniy, “Hang the boy! He can do noihin’ Dnt grow tall;" and, — withous furthe apecch, turned the youth — into thy Htroot. Io then lived as he canld, which, at times, nan vory badly indecd. Ilo was often, at ho enid, very empty—and. always vory tall. ‘Iq suffered more from omptiness, ho novded mor Ating than most people, o sing to bin oxcey:tional sizo, Atlnst anituation aa polboy wag offered him fn 6 publio-housy * out Whitecbapel waz." It was hold Lal *n giant pola" —aube wan styleg in the neighborhogd—would attract visitors to the bar of the oxtablishimont, and that great con, sumption of liquor sould rowult therefrom, Tho oxporimont disappointed — oxpeciatio howovor. ‘Too mony, {ft aoamod, avoid divursement and yet gratified their eurtority by peeping in at tho chink of tho doorway, ‘ang viewlug tho “giant pota” for nothing. Th tha end tho finn had accobted a pornianent and more profitable omployment, and attached hime nolf to w caravan traveling the country from fae to fair, and market town to market town, Lone dou he rarely vinited,—although now and they he had been much tempced by handsomo offag to appear upon the ataco pantouumen ay Christmas. Upon tho whole, he preferred thy oountry, “*Tt's dull, but then porbaps it snits me the Lottor on that account, for, yousce, I'm dull too," 1 doprecated euch ao statement. I toudoreq him hearty thanks for his most intelligent ang interesting conversation, “T's very kind of you to exy so, alr, bat the British public hns quits mado up thoir minds that wo gata arondall lot,—and that section the mattor,—for it's never any good whatover argn. {ng against tho British public. If ono can't agreo with it, ono must slut up, and that comcg to much the samo sort of vbing., I'm dull to Login with, aud now I'm duller than I'd any right to be owing to—oning to peculiar circum, stances." Hforo, much to my surprise, he burst intos sudden flood of tears, L fiad noticed proviously that his articulation hod thickened. Something—no donbt the bran At anv raty Many thoy contd besn ont to Fault had dy-aud-water=-had bad to do with this, indus iug, perlaps, 1 addition, a certain disposition to Kottimnental emotion and oxprevsion. Btill, the nitnt could not be raid to bo intoxicatod, Ha waa oxcited, an much, I think, by the uousus! amount of narrative ho bad delivered himecit of, end by the sound of his own voico, as by any otliee cans. hy" Tenid toh ive: “ Weep nol Bal jim, scarcely kror hat Cvaid. iis * Please let'me,” ho answored faobly, “Ty doen me ga much good. I'm very unbappy, Eo. ous of tho most miserabloof men. I'm in avo,” “Weill, and why not?) Buraly aman of your magnificent proportions neod uot despair of aug. cees, Surely auy woman—" “jp ly plain that you do not know Mise Tide Gler,” ho interrupied, Leonfosaed that, to my sincere regrot, I did not eujoy that privilege. “And, of course, you don't know Jockers Van?" Tsnid I thought not. “It ever you como scrosa Jecker’s Van, ak to sve Alise Tiddler. In poirt of favt, you'll aco ber without asking, if you pay your admis slon at the door, Aud you'll see mo. But thats nothing. I'm nobody. Besides, you have acen me. Lut Mixa Tiddlor will surprise you. You'll flud hor a rest treat. You seo in hor, mr, a perfect woman. ‘They call her the Poruvian Poacl, or the Princess of Ellin But that’s only Jockor’s way. Sho's English, and speaks no language but her own; but sho epeake thet vory freely, especially when sho’s roused. I's nonyense about Peruvisu ; as 3 matter of fect, she was born in Pimlico ; and siie’s never grow aninch since sho wus 437 years old. Amazing "tit? And dolightful J cat it.” dwarf!” “Wall, what people call a dwarf. Porfectlon in s emall compass, that’s my view of acer. ‘There's nothing of tho dwarf really about hoz, when you've once overlooked her small siza And then how charming she ia! But you must seo her to approciato ber. Tor my part, 2 love hor to distraction. Ican’é cali it by any otber nutne.” It was plain that he loved, as a gist might bo oxpected to love, in ao large way, As ho spoke he trembled, swayod to aud tro, indeed, and turned up his eyes {ns Janguisuing’ fashion that had something aluiost of craziness about ft. This giant in love was rather a grotesque wort of orcaturo, it must be confessed, “ And Miss Tiddler is obdurato ? " T inqnired, Bliss Liddlor is adamant. Slies Tiddler will not linten to mo, or listens to me only to mock me. In plain words, she obaffe me,” “What is bor objection to you as a suitor?” “Well, hee objections aro of a bf gonoral kind. But chiefly she finds fa with my size. ‘the fuu sho makes of me ongthat account! It's wondetul sto heat her. I laugh in spite of myself. I Isugh ab myeelt, ia fact. She's so clever and says such sharp things. Still it's hard, you know. I'voa difiiculy in belleviug that it’s roully so ridiculous to bo go tall as sue makes ttoutto be. But sha thinks its very ridiculous. imdecd. Porbapa it appeara so to her, you know, sho being so littl, And thon she calla me atnpid.” “Bat that may not be euch a bua sign, Dw heard of many lovers who like to ba ealiod ‘stupid’ by their mistresses. Very likely ite mero playfulocys on ber pat, that concoals some measure of true affection Lot ¥ 'T'd think so ifI could, but I ean't. No, she thinks mo toll and stupid, and I fool that she's right. lam tall and atupid, and that's the fact. re alter it if Icould, but I can’t. I'm sure lt be wory glad to change places with a brighter aud shorter man, But I can't grow brighter, try hard asI many; and Ican’t grow aberen though I'vo tried that tuo.” ‘You've tried to grow shorter 7” “Yes, over aud over again. I'm forover try ing to grow shorter, I curry heavy weizlts oo wy head; lift that box for imstauco.” As be spoke be drew frou bouecath his chair a substso, stantiat-looklug black box with iron handles, tried to rniso is, but I failed oumpiotaly. I seamed to be of enoraoas woight, "Irs walked miles and miles with that box on mr head. It coutaing pig-iron. I thought thatib might compress me, But it hasn't as yo so far as I can aoe. I've tred sil manott of ways {ndeod of packing myself into a awalle #paco, but all tu vain. Miss Tiddler only lsught at mo, ‘Come to ma whon you're shorter, Dud! (sho always calls mo Doddy—it’s not my r name, which ia sometbing very different, but somehow it soems to please her to oail me thi —and I don't object; how cun L?) ‘Come tomt when you'rs shurtor, Doddy,’ sho says to ms ‘and then, perhaps, wo'll eee about it.’ Sbt only gays perhaps, you observe, No, sho never means itto bo; it ‘uever will be.” Ho sighed heavily and noisily. “Tuo plats truth is, thw T'm too long, and sho's too short," “Yeu, 1 supposo that's tho loug and the short of it,” T eaid abruptly, For & moment he sesmod burt at what be might reasonably have thought to be levity 00 my part. Still iis look was moek aud ditfidenh “+F must go,” ho said, riving, *1'vo ars miles to walk to-night, with my box on my bei ‘Thank you for listening to me, for your 650+ pathy, and—good-bye.” “ Gut you won't really resign all hope of wih ning Misa Viddler ?” fo looked at me despondontly, shook bit hoad, but said uothing, iss Tiddler may yot bs “Don't despair. h yours. Romembor, after all, extremes mosh “Sho's not short enough for that, even it talleuough, Although I'm a giant, 1 cau's think of borasa dwarf, She's req) ly a ery provy wze, AndT love ber! How I love her!” Hosaying, he grasped my hand bighaly and palotully. Bly tlagers soemed quite csanchel a is, ‘doy crackled hie dry twiga ay be com pressed them, I had never nuakon bands with@ fiaut before; I never will again, Ly lant ylimpee of him revealed a aurpricom ly tall, gaunt figure wtridiug sovoss the oped country. ‘The rising moon clongatod bis sha ow with an effect that wax euggestive of cariealay Ifo carried his bos ou bw head. He proceed rapidiy, yet not, I thlak, vory regularly. Ou it soomed to mia that he was slaggoripg, like on intoxicated; und once, I thought, he calie oe tome. But ttoccurred to mo, afiermarde, a tho sound I had beard was, ia truth, rather hicenp than an artionlate ory. bet Tuover nav him again, Tecan add no fut “ particulars touching bis career. I can aapply ho proper tarmiuation to his love story. ae er'd Yan [did chance to moot at a lator perins} but that exhibition did not thea number er itu attraotiona eithor Miss Tiddlar, tue dwast, hor lover, the giant, bel For my part, on taking loave of him, 1100, but to think of’ returning ‘to the railway stalon thore to await the arnval of tho craiu that ee to tuke me back to London. 1 had frst, eo over, to pay a rathor Leavy bill for braudy-# water consumed at the Railway Hotcl.~. Year Round,