Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 13, 1875, Page 5

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SAT IBRUARY 18, 1875,--TWELVE PAGES, FOREIGN. Tho BI for the Creation of a Senate Rejected by the French Assembly» Propositions to Dissolve and Go to the Country Not Agreed To. The Ministry Sheltering Itself Be- hind MacMahon's Sword. FRANCE. ENR SENATE Pitt. DEFEATED. Loxpox, Feb. 12,—A Paris correnpondent says that the points of yerterday's vote {u tho French Aasemtly ou the aimendmont to the Senate bill providing for the manuer of olecting Senatora are, that it breaks up tho majority of Inat woek, and that it restores to the Bonapartiste the ground which they had lost, Aftor the vote which makes the Sostate dependent on universal aulfrago, the only modification poesible is tho re- striction in tho list of citizons eligible to tho Senatorahiy. ‘This will £0 obviottsly lead to the election of ox-Imporint functionaries that it fe expected the Committeo of ‘Thirty will withdraw tha bill this evening, The consequence will probably bo # dissolution of tho Assembly. Laven. Pants, Fob. 12.—tn tho Assembly considora- tion of the Seuate bill was rosumed. Gen, Do Chauey ancendod the tribuue and ani * Dresi- dont MacMahon hax not authorized Ministers to interfere in the debato on the Constitutional Villa ; but the volo of yesterday alters tho ua- ture of the Conetitutions proposed, aud deprives tho constitutional luv of that charactor without which tho Conggrvativo interoats will bo ondan- gorad, ‘Tho Government inust defend the Con- ecrvative intorosis. It cannot agree to yeater- day's resolution of the Ansembly, and infortn: you of tne bofore the rerolution 18 made final, The snuouncemoat caused B profound sen. sativn, and was followed by antormy debate, M. Charuosron, of the Hight Centra, denounced the gotes of vouterday as Corntmunictia revengo, and warned thy Doputies that it was loading the counts taan abyss, Ile declared that ho aud dint frends, nih ones tho tnird reading of 5 ended. mete i iat offorod by M, Bardoux, of the Tacft, providing tat eye Department elect threo wucrs, was adopted. Seiitin one meorparsted with tho amendment of yerterday. which provided that Honators should bo chusen by the eaine electors np Doputies, and entire amendment was then adopted ag a aub- fur the first clauge of the bill, by a vole aves to 253 neve. mainder of tho bitl, including the nig introduced by the Loft, defining tho qualiications of persons oligible to Sovatorsbip, Was adupied, clause by claude. A motion was thon mado to proceod to the think reading of tha bill, ‘This was rejected, ou a divison of the Houye, by a vote of 345 yeas to $57 nays, ‘Cho Sonate bill is, therofore, de- feated. ‘M. Brisson, of: tho Extremo Left, declared that the Assetabiy had praved itself powerlces, and moved that the election for s new Assembly bo holt on tho 4th of April, 1875, ‘M. Waddington, of tho Left Centro, argaed that the last vote hnd only dofeated ono of the mauy plans for organizing a Sevate, aud he ip- troduced a bill which provides for the appoint- ment of Sevatora by tha Assembly, Councils General, the Catgnies, and the Iustitute, ‘Mf. Vuntrain, Conservative Republican, aub- muitied a biil proposing the fection of Senators py a method similat to that employed {a the sicction of President in the United States, He ax oppoxed to a dieyolution of the Ausembly. ‘The Duko do Cazos declared that tho Minis~ ters held themeclves respoueible for the declara- tats Which thoy had been authorized to make by Marshal MasAlshon, through Gen, De Cissoy. Ho pointad out the dangers of dissolution, aud seminded the Assatably of the pledges it had giyou in regard to tho coustitutional law. ‘M, Gambetta made » epecch, in the course of qwhich ho assorted that tho Constitution wonld have been voted if the Ministry had not Kheltered itself behind MncMahon's aword. Ie attributed tho failure to princely ambition. abaud Js ‘Tour, Minister of the Interior, poted dissolution, ‘A dowand fora vote of urgency on M. Brea- son's inotion was refused by 200 yeas to 407 nays. Tho billa submitted by MM. Waddington and Yantrain wero referred to the Committee of By hirty. The, Assembly adjourned until Monday. ‘THE ,WDIPEEEN LIDEL Cagy, "Phe trial of “the action for libel brought by Gen, Wimpffen against M. do Caveagnac, editor ot La Pays, for utatoments made in that journal concerning the plaintiff's conduct at So- dan, was opened to-day, Gong, Ducrot, LeBran, Galifet, and others, wero oxamined. Gen, Ducrot teatifed that it would have been poseiblo fora partof the army to roach Mozierea if Gan, Wimptfen bad not impedod its ryetreat. The plan euggeated by the latter tooub through the German lives was impracticable. No euch attumint could have succeeded. It wad the "Emperor who cnused the white fag to be holsted at Sedan. Ife did eo to aayo bloodubed, ————— CHINA. EXOPTEMENT REGARDING THK IMPERIAL SUCCES- BION, Suanantar, Fob, 12.—A fesling of uncertainty prevails with regard to the succeusion to the Im- perial throne. Although the son of Prince Chuu has been olocted under the titlefof Kwang Sew, it is thought poxatble that this arrangement may be disturbed. The rumors that the Em- press A Lon ‘fe committed enicitio after the death of the Emperor wera untouvded. She is ro- ported to be enceints, Should tha iasue bo a non, ho will be the legitimate herr, In_tho event of his accession to the throne, tho Em- prens-Mother and Emprese-Dowager would ho appointed Joint Regents during the Prince's munorily, —_-— GREAT BRITAIN, PECHIVE POLICY OF TH NOMF-RuLERE, Lonpoy, Feb. 12.—Tho Dublin Jrishman saya the Home-Rule membora of Parliament propose to formally submit a demand for the repeal of thoact of union, and on its rojection thoy will withdrawin » body from the imperml Parlis- ment. Z oo SPAIN. BELNFORCEMENTS CALLED OUT. Manni, Feb, 18.—A docreo hay boon Inaued calling ont 70,000 men forthe army. Fifteen thousand of these are to bo sent to Cuba, Ex- emption may be provurod by tho paymont of 4,000 rons, Tue Bank of Spain has advanced the Goyern- mote 100,000,000 reals, ——— GERMANY, AN ANTI-POTATO EpIct, Benxi, Feb. 12,—Taho state Council has do- termined to prohiit tho {importation of Anierican potatoes, — en THE OHIO BAR. Corvmnus, O., Feb, 12.—An adjourned meet- ing of membors of the Mar of Ohio waa held here to-day. Several important umeniinents to the laws regulating the judiciary wore agrecd upon, embodieu ma bill which will bo presented to the General Avsembly, with a request that it be pasted inte nlaw, It wae decided to request the General Askowbly to subunit au amendment tu the Constitution tor the ubolition of District Courts aud the transfer of aecertain portion of the dulics of those courts to the Supreme Court Judyexs, aud uv currexponding reduction of the numper of Common Dicas Judges, Singer Whe Now Orlenus Milllonaire-Panper. A New Orlesna correspondent describes a visit to old Vraneols Lacrolx, the milliunulire- pauper, whose perelsteut refnwal to pay the taxcs imposed upon his immense estates bas aude bim an object of pity. Living in ono of thove qualut novke for which the French quarter of Now Ozleansis celebrated, ho ia prs. tseed of property valued at over $1,000,000, He is on old quudrvon, With @ sharp yolce aud blavi, glistening eve. Ho was clothud ins. suit of duty cotton cloth, the duly dresa in which he ever uppears. In tho room with him was his wother, a woman said to bo 110 years old, Boe side the fire stood un old-fashloned deak with yizeon-hules filled with musty papera, An tron safe and a fow rickely chairs completed the furviture, Forty yoara ago he Was tue fashionable tailor of New Orleans, and mado money with surprising rapide ity. The French .dandles of the city pover thought of wbowlug themeclvos on the atreots anlcsa their lean lege tors eucascd in a air of Eacroix'n trowsers, By thelr inhonage fe became wealthy, nud, tuvesting his monsy in real estate, which doubled i value, he was soon amilionniro, Ono peonliatixy of the old iman was Ina aversion to paying taxos, and four yeare ayo his bill for unpaid taxes amounted to up- warda of £35,000, Having tinally been pers muaded to pay a portion of them rathorthan allow the praperty to be sold, he ‘uated #30,0U0 to his on for the purpose, ‘Tho youug man took the money, aud, entoring & gambling-housn, lost every penny of it, Iacroix cnraod Tia Kon and drove bim from tho house. Thou ho sank intow stata of inaction, and bis taxca accumulates, nutil last sprig they amouutod to &y0,(00, ‘Then a part of bis proporty wan xold. Ho mada no effort to rortoom it, and still he sits and al- lows his property to vangitiah. CASUALTIES: DEATHS FROM THE COLD. Prom the Buffaia Exmieat, Leb, 10, Yorterday morning Mr. Wailany Peacock, of Gowanda, who is mailagent on the Buffalo & Jamestown Tuilroad, brought the news to this city that threo men had boon so badly frozen while proceeding through Cattaraugus County a6 to entige their death, The victims aro Mr. Na- thaniel Kisarstead, Mr. @, Wood, sud s man named Snyder, all rosldonis of Loon Contre, Cattaraugus County, Tho two Inst named werd go hadty chilled or frozen on Thnreday Inst that they died on Sunday, and Mr. Kiearstead, tho wag chilled to insonsibllity on Saturday, nso died ou Sunday, It appears that tho threo mon wore gummoned to appoar at a nitting of the court nt Little Vatloy, a distance of 1btmlea from Leun Cen- tre. Onrrendars are aworo that tho weather was Witter cold, [tis eaid by goad authority that tha weather ling not boon so wevero in Cattaraugis County betore for n ; Mr. Kooaretead, Mr. Wood and M der loft their homes in Koparate sloigha, ahd ronched Little Valley safely, On Thursday Mr. Wood and Mr, Styder, having finished their businesa ab Lrtla Valley, started to return. When thoy reached their hoqes they wore terribly bonumbed, sud diod ou Sanday, Mr. Kienratead did not finish hia busi- nose Dutt Saturday, and in the vourse of the day ho took bis seat it tho utter and started for home. Ho was not Been again tuntil eyehing, whon the horses altavhed to hia cuttar ontored tha yard of his regittenco. Mr. Kiontstead waa then found sit- tug upright, but in an iuaonsiblo condition, ‘Lhe member of the Lonsehold was promptly carried into the housge, and. in apite of all that could bo dono for him, died tho next day, ON THE PEORIA & ROCK ISLAND, Specrt Dispatch to The Chicaco 7rioune, Pronta, Hi., Janu, 12.—Dy an accident on the Peoria & Rock Island Railroad, near Dunlap Sta- tlon, oarly this morning, tho mail-train going north was throwo from tho track and pltchod down a small embankment. Ono coach was com- plotoly overturned, and all tho paseongers juni- bled up together. Fortunately but fow wero hurt. and nono sorlously. Noury J, Hudson, of Peoria, bad his collar-bone broken, aud William Perry, of Minsouri, had bie bead badly brulaed and tuco severely cut. TWO FATAL ACCIDENTS, Special Inanateh to The Chicago Tribune, Exynia, O., Fob, 12.—Samuel Gray, a freight conductor on the Lake Shore & Michigan South- orn Railway, fell from s train vear Olmatead Falls, thia afternoon, and received injnries from Which ho will probably not recover. Whon found bo was nenrly frozen to death. Tred Schiebley, = Gorman farmer, living about 12¢ mniles cast of town, whilo endoavoring to jum: ona passing freight-train. got his foot crushe under a whee), aud was taken with lockjaw and died to-day. INDIANAPOLIS ACCIDENTS, Special Dispatch to The Chrcaon Tribe, Inpranavoris, Fob. 12,—Charlle Crappor, ® lad 13 years of age, was fatally {ojured ine run- sway acoidont to-day. Robert 8, Moore, passing along the strect, was esught by,tho bumper of s car aud rapidly pushod into @ private lumber-yard by a Paohandie engine, and so badly hurt that he will die. KILLED BY AN EMERY WHEEL, Sweciat Dispatch to The Chicaue Tribune, East Saginaw, Mich., Feb, 12,~John Waltz, an employe at Jose Hoyt’s planing-mill, was in- stantly killed thia morning by the burating of an emery wheel, a pléce striking lim in the left temple nnd crushing through his skall. De- ceayed was 25 yoara of aga, aud leayos a wife and one child. COAL-MINE ACCIDENT. Special Dispatch to The Cheeane Tribune, Lrxconx, Ill, Fob, 12.—A young man by the namo of Pholps, a on of Dr. Phelps, of thie city, was badly burnt about the face iu the coal shaft on Wednesday last by going into an old deserted room with lighted lamp, coming in contact wah the gaa, doing considerable dumagoe te the mine. TWO WOMEN BURNED TO DEATH. Cinctnxati, O., Fob. 12,—In this city, on Providence street, yesterday, Mrs. Sophia Cowan, 73 yeara of ago, was burned to death by ber dress catching firo from a grate. Mrs, Mills, tho wife of s prominent manufacturer, waa alsa fataliy burned from tho samo cause, ON THE M.. K, AND T. RR, Special Diepatoh to The Chicano Tribune, Kayaas Crry, Mo. Feb. 12.—A frelght train on the M., K. &‘T. Railrond was wrecked early this morning. Seventeen cars wero throwa off the track and demolished, No ono hurt. NASHVILLE, Whieky Excitomoent—sonator John= son—Dowtitutton Moportetle Specutt Dispatch ta The Chicave Tribune, Nasuviu.e, ‘Veun,, Feb, J2.—Much oxcltement among distillers ju this district was produced to- day by dispatches {rom Northern cities, sunouno~ ing the withdrawal of whieky from bond on ao- count of the prospective passage of the Ways and Moana Committea bill. In consoquonce, 1,050 barrela wero withdrawn, Remaining in bond, 6,000 barrels, all of which, it iu thought, will be taken out within the noxt ten days. Mr. Jonson has been provailed upon by his friends not to give a logislativo banquet. A lettar raccivad hero to-day fron 146 colored persons residing in the Nath Diatrict (Ruther- tord County) aumotunces many on the puint of starvation, with the whites no% in muck better condition, and not ablo to rendor thorn assist- anco, ‘Tho drought of last season la assigned a5 the cause. HYMENEAL WOR, ot an Commissary asuare & Fort Loave enworth Beiles Specutk Dinvutch to The Chicago Tribune, Leavenwonsit, Kan. Fob, 12,—Fashlonable circlos aro iu o great flutter over a secret wed- dug which was solempized last night without the knewledgo or consent of the Liidu's parents, ‘Tho principals word William Hosmecke, a Clerk an the Commissary Departmant at Fort Leuven- worth, aud Mins Craucer, aged 17 years, daugh- tor ofa wealthy morchant, Aftor tho ceromuny tho couple went tu tho residence of the parently aud antieuneed their marriays, flermecko was prompily expolled from the house aud the brilu detained, Tho lawyerehayo hold of the affair how. Hermecko's couniel aro endeavoring to yet his wife away on a writ ofhabeas corpus, aud the other side are taking stepa to arrest Ior- lnecko for bigauy, complaining that he was once quarried under the mete of Charles Lamar. Mere iueeite 14 wh eacullonl guitareplayer. Bag ace A Daubury Mat ‘Eriee ta Wowann Pockets Prom the feomury sews, ‘The mont ditiiculs thing tu Tout id a woman's pocket, ‘This is especially the cane if the diese is bingy Up tue closet, aad the man is iu a burry. We think we aro esto in saying that ho shyays is ing hurry ov euch au occusion, ‘uo owner of the dress is in the vitting-ruom, veronely en- gromeedina book, Uoving told hia that the article Which be is in quest of win her drow pocket in tho clowot, whe has discharged her whole duty in the mutter, sud can afford to be kercne, He goes at te task with a dim cons acluisneds taat ho bas beew there before, but saya pulling. On opening the cluset dour and duding hinvelf coufrovted with a number of drevsos, all turned invide out, and presenting a Most formidable front, he Lastens back to ask, “Which dreve?” and, boing told the brown ue, ond olay sexed i who bad wo many dreswes that there uced bo any great effort tu Gud the mabt one, ho returns tothe closey with alacnty, aud buon bad his huude on the brown drosw. It is ine sido ont, like the rest—a fact he does not notice, however, until he baw wade several tu- offectual attempla to got bis Land into if, ‘Yhen Meach a ho turns itaround vory oarefaily and parsen over tho pocksl @nveral timer without being awaro of it, A nervons moving of his hands ana.an appearance of perspiration on his fore- head aro perceptible, He now diver one hand in at tho back, and, Fooling around, fiids #8 place and procecda tooxplore it, whon ha discovers that ho is following up the inside of 8 lining, The nervousness incicaaes, also tho porspiiation, Tie twitches the dreas on tho hook, aud auddonly the pocket. white. plump, and exasperating, comes to view, ‘Then lie sighs tho reliat he feels, and ja mentaliy yratefil ho did not allow himself to uno any offensive oxttoaalons. It ie all right now, There is the pocket in plan view,—uvat only the ineide, but the otttside,—and all ho bag to do Isto put hia tight hand) around in tho inside and take: outthoarticle, Thatia all, Hoe eant help but smile to think how near ho was 10 getting mad. ‘Tuen ho pulé hia hand around to the other sido. No doce not fecl the opetng. He pushes a dittle torther—now lio has got it: ho shoves the band dun, and ia very much surprised to see it ap- rear opporite his kueves. Ele hag madoa mistauo, le tries agaln; again ho feels tho ontrance and ghdes down it, uvly to appear again as before, ‘This makes him open his eyes and atraighten his Taco. Ho feals at the outside of the pocket, hinches it curiousty, lifts it up, shakea it, aud, after peoring closely about the roots of it, ha rays, “]y gracious |" and commences again. Ha does it calmly this time, becauas hurrying only makes matters worsa. Ho holda ip breadth attor brandi. geos over them enrefuily, gete his hand firat into a lining, then tuto the air again (where ft always surprises him when it appears), snidually into a pochot, aud ix about to cry ont in triumph, when ho disgovers that it {¢ the pocket of nuother dvews, He is nad now ; the closet sir almost stitles ‘him he is 80 norvons ho ean bardly contain him- self, and the pocket looks at him #0 oxasporat- ingly that he caunot help but “plng "it with his clinched fist, and immediately does it. Boing romawnat refioved by tus porformance. he has ‘a chance to took abont him, and goes that ho has put his foot through a bandbox and into the crown of his wifo’s bonnet; baa broken the briin to his Pauama hat, which was houging in the amo cloror, and torn about a yard of buyle trimming trom a new cloak. As all this troablo is duo diroctly to bis wife's infatuation in han. ing up ner dresaes inside out, be immediately starts after her, and, impotuously urging her to tho closet, excitedly and alasost proiancly int- mates hie doubts of there being a pocket in tho dregs, anyway. The cause of the unhappy disns- ter quietly iisorts Ler hand inside tha robe, aud directly brings it forth with the sunght-for or- ticle iti itsclaup. Ifo dooan’t know why, but this mekes him maddor than anything elec, The fron and Stecl] Company Elects a New Set of Dircctors—Excitement in= cident hereto, Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Joxier, Feb. 12.—The following will appear in the Joliot Republican to-morrow : The meeting of tlie Joliet Iron and Steel Company for the election of Directors and the transaction of auch other business ax rhauld come before the moct- lug, took place at the office of the Company, iu Chica- go, Wednesday afternoon, ‘The mocting was one at great intereat, ae great tn- terosts wero af stake, Though not generally wnder~ stood in Joilet that it was to be a fleldeday or that any feriols contest wan to take placa, our Jollet reprenent- alivon, smuong whom were W, 8, Brooks, Nobert Wala, F. We Woodruff, and C, Uradford, soon ancertained tho fact after thelr arrival ia Chicago. It was found that thera were two tlekets in the fleld, one which may be called as repreeentative of the Eastern stocxnolders and the other uf Western: stockholders, Prominent smong those who rep- resented tho Enatern ticket, and favored a change 10 the management, were Il, 8. Fay, of Boston, and Thomas Blakoy, of Philadelphis, Those reprosenting thn Western ticket or the late management wereJohn G, Geott, of Bt, Laute ; FE, Hlucklay and A. B, Mock~ ‘of Cbleago. The rteotivg waa called to order at 2 o'clock, and Mr, Rufus J, Lockland called to the chair. The annual report of the President, John G, Scott, of St. Louis, wan presented, repcesanting that the Com: pany under bis management had been prorperous, snd that tho operations of the milt sinca Octo- Der bad been aUocoseful and profitable, ‘The Company had. paying contracts on hand which would keep tho mill in operation for eiz months, After the hearing of the report election~ eoring commenced, ‘Those in favor of retaining the prosent Doard of Diractors prosenited tho folowing ticket « John G. Boots, of Bt. Lovie; G. 1. Ohurtis, ¥. 1. Koy, and J. Mf. Walker, of Obicago; J. 1, Gare, {y. WW. Bishop, Aurora; and W: 8. Brooks, opposition presented the following. tlokat : 0. B, Filley, Bt Louis + W, 8, Brooks, Jollet : James Yickards, Marquette; John Orerar, Norman Williams, and Nathan E, Piatt, Chicago; Jerome I. Oase, Racine; Richard 8, Way, Boston ; aud Thomas Blakely, Phila aelphles in latter ticket was elected, and iho meeting ad- Journed, ‘The firm of A, B. Meeker & Co., tt is reported, havo been acting as commission mon for the Company, buying and selling, This morning » ropresentative of that firm appoarod upon the xceno at the works of tha Oompany and placed uite a large police forco over the material of the Company, it is alleged, to prevont any au- lawful seizure of the products of tha works, in consequence of tho chango in mansgemont that is supposed will occur, ——__+—__—. VIRTUOUS ROCKFORD, pypectal Lrispatoh to The Chicago Tribune, Rooxronp, Dl., Feb. 12.—Tho can-can troupe, of Chicago, advortised some daya since to give on entertainment in Brown's Hall to-night, and obtained and paid for a Moenwo at the time of billing the city, To-night, about 6 o’ctook, Mayor Woodruff informed the proprietors, Harrison & Farnham, that they would not be permitted to porform, and that their lHconso had been ro- yoked, and ordered the City Marshal to enforce hia order and arrost the company if it attempted toexlibit, For this broach of contract the pro- prictoia havo sued tho city, laying damages ot 5,000, and have employed Warnor & Lathrop, of this city, to prosecute the caxe. ecb biter ny TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES, The balance in the Michigan Brate Treasury is 91,420,880,40, tho largest eum over hold by the State, Tho following woro yesterday elaoted Directors of the Milwankes Iron Company: Alexander Mitchell, John H, Twoedy, Charloa £. Mey, Jobn L. Van Dyke, J.J, Hagorman, of Milwau- koe; 8. B. Burt. of Now Bedford; O. W. Potter, of Chicago. ‘I'he Directors elacted the follo ing olfcors: J. J, Hagorman, Prevident: Ale: avudor Miteholl, ‘Troasurer, and John MH. Vao Dyke, Seuretary pro tem. a THE NATIONAL GRANGE. Onanuzstoy, 8. O,, Feb. 12.—The National Grango last night adopted the roport of the Committoe on the annual address of Master Adama, indorsing hia recommondation that suboriigate Granyos ba foatorad by tho National Cirsngo, and that manufactured in the South bo encouraged. Wee eed OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS, Quetnstown, Feb, 12.—Arrivod, steamer Tle Anois, from Philadelphia, New Yonx, Feb, 12,—Arrived, ateamship Abys- tinia, from Liverpool, New Your, ob, 12.—Arrived, ateamor Italy, from Liverpool. oo What Cows Are Good for, Kram the Hochester Union, From tho Utiea Observer we learn that Ira 8, Burdick, of North Brookteld, Madison County, N. Y,, realized from two cows during the yoar ending Jan, 20, $220 from butter sold (530 pounds at 40 cents), $84.32 from cheeeo, aud $1 for milk nold, making £30002, The simount of eash realized the year provious wae 8290 or 3300, Ouo of the cows cane In Jun. 2), 1674, and the othor Jeb, 15. Almont wimultaneously with this comes & re- port through the Buffalo Courier that Mr. Oliver Lruuson, of Ellery, Chautauqua County, made nnd nuld the past seavon 4,440 pounds of butter from sixteen cows, OF an Byerage Uf NOY pounds to the cow, ‘tid was oxclusive of the milk, cream, und batter coneumed by the fami His entire production of buttor wil average him 85 vents For pound, or 4 trifle more than €105 each vow. Jt is almost nunecessary to add that to attain these resnits 1b is ouly uocosuary, in the fret place, to have good cows, and, i the second pluce, to feed thom well. Of course itis requis vite to understand Low to handle the alle aud cream properly aud advantageously. a Suglund'’s Southern Emplree England's Empire in the Southern Me:nisphere 0,000 wquare milex,—the ee of the United States loss Alasks, ‘The white population of Australasia, a6 ineno great islands are called, was, iu 1850, avout 240.0100, Now it ia but a little less than 200,000. Yietorla has yrowa from 77,000 to 782,000 in those twenty-Hye years,—s ten-fold growth. Quevnalasd has grown from 9,000 to 126,000, Taamania, wlich poet gar lation too small to be counted in 1450, haa 100,000 now. New Zealaud hes grown ton-fuld lu a uattor of @ contury, from 28,000 to 200,000. ‘Tho populution of Australasia iv largely Eugtish, and sirougly Protestant. Emigration has been freely encouraged. Severs) of the colonies are no longer penal, and the actual number of crime tuala on the islands is vory emuall. NO ', NEB, A Rallrc © Frontier, The Mili cers, and Its ‘ nt, A Tonoh ~ ': ‘at Was Not gether Wolcome, ‘Spactat Corresponence af The Chicago Tribune, Noni Puatrs, Neb., Fob, 6.—It scons lonely out here on theso broad prairios, aftor so much enjoying city tifo in Ohicago, The yoiva of tho orator has no pent-up halls to echo through, and tho groat ateam-ho;ae sorocchos to uo bare walls of masonry 86 abo plunges thraugh apace. High epiros plercing the spaco above us wo iniagine. Afterdark, the homesick man wandora out to saunter through the Dalmor, Sherman, Tramont, aud other hotals, hoping to moet an old acquaititanca on tho rogister. The timo carries Lim on In his rovories, and tho Post-Ofice corner grocery ‘“bags" him in toa good warm stove, whore Las congregated the people of town. Unheralded ea from whenco L camo, thero were courtcons auswers to inquirica, THE PLOrLE composing the greator portion of the population of the towne aloug the Union Favifio Railroad are of s good class, Mostly young mon, vigor- ous and enterprising, they have put the seed Iu the ground aud propose to make or break in this great valley. Nobody ig wealthy, and no- body paupera. There is o population of 15,000 in the towns on tho Platto Rivor, snd im ordinary times here 1s not the por cent of poverty among them as yon will flud in Chicago, Tho Grasshoppeta were vot vory particular about caste or oulor whon thoy visited here, and suc- coded in their work moat conspicuously. They were not ploased with their vislt, because of tho searcity of vegetables and ginin iu thia rogion, Thore is found, however, to be cousiderable BUFFERING AMONG TUE NAW SETTLERS, by reason of tho unprocodaptod cold winter. They wore unprepared fora hard wintor, It is estimated that $3,000 worth of seed grain will be ueoessary to supply the doflcioncy awong tho grasshoppercd people of Linovlu Geunty. Only about oue-fourth of this iy thought to be asked for of Cnarity. It has seemed to mo tha farmors living in the river tier of conntica in thig State aro remiss in their duty ia not wdoretofore offering freely of their abundant crops of 1874. ood, grain, and vego- tablea could be contributed by them tos vast amount. Buabel, pound, or mack donations could be conveniently handled and sont to beady quarters, oun LocaTION, ‘Tho first California gotd-hunters crossed the Platte River at this point, and proceeded up the North Fork. In 1860 tho track of tha Union }'n- elfic Railroad was completed to hore, aud till July, 1887, for eight months, the terminus was fot moved to any polot farther west, Thenamo of North Platte was given this station. It fa at tha junotion of the two branches of tho Platte Hiver, and is situated betwoen the two streams. ‘The Railroad Company put up exteasive shops, round-house, hotel, and various other buildings, second in size to only those in Omaha bolonging to the Companys A large tract of ground was divided into lots, and the Company st ouce became intercsted in mak~- ing a thrivlog town cf North Piatto. ‘Uho build~ ings for ‘railroad purposes erected hera cost 400,000. The Company kecp employed on trains, in yards, aud shops, about 100 mep, who muke thelr home in North Platte, We are half way fromthe Eastern terminus to Choyenuo, and the od of both tho cast and west ‘suua,” ‘Tho Company, in Isylug out tho town, innde tho customary donation of church, sehool, and print- ing-office lote, ‘There is yet 4 large aprinkling of » troughs” in tho town, and they aro tho suurco of considerable annoyance. 0 scarcity of trees in this vicinity for straightening purposes has been s dis*dyantags to men loving tho sport of hanging, snd thoy are scarco. Threo cbnrches, Baptist, Unitarian, and Episcopalian, @ $17,000 brick Bchool-house, aro the public imildings. Ono thousand people inhabit this city, aud a citizen jaforms me that 300 of them came in during Isat year, The United States Land Office is hero, “Cho land diatrict embracca all of Western Nebraska, and, dospite the grasa- hoppers, the prospect for a big rush this year is good. The opublican, Crow, Medicine, and other Jarge branches in the southwoat, wator a grand country, woll timbered, ‘The North Platte valloy extenda into Wyoming, and many settlers came in there last year. Of course, thia must be claimed as A RAILROAD CENTHE, for Nature pojuts ia that diroction. There is tho enterprise hore to accompliuh dificult under- takings. A road from Sioux City is coming. "Tho road from T'exss via Junction City, Kansas, is promised us in eighteen mouths, ‘The narrow- gauge from Leayerworth, Kanans, la encouraged to come up the depablioan River Valley to us. and we look hopofwiy upon onr future, Tho stage-cosch haa lost ita occupation upon thia great desert, nnd fhe vino and fig treo bloom under tho hand of isdustry, This bas for threo years been A SUN-POBT TO FORT M'PIERSON, with one company (il) of the ‘Lhied Cavulry ata~ tioued here. Melterson is at Old Cattonisoud, 16 miles east, where three companies, under Maj. Dudley, of the Thrd Cavalry. have fora long time been stationed Capt, Mite ls post com. mander hore. Large and commodious officers’ and v#oldiera’ barrake and houses and baron ayo aituated just joining town on the west. Lients. Paul and Gvatzka are Capt. Mille’ Lion- tenants. ‘I'he threaimen have proved thomeelves able and trustworthy wervants of the Govern- ment, All are yourg men, and schooled to duty, Daring tho past wittor there has been consider- ablo excitement aiong citizens and soldiers. The post authorities came into posyession of facts indicating FRAUDULENT TRANSACTIONS by acitizen or eltizins. Ic was tha buying of conl from an Acthy Assistant Quartermastor named l’ago, and n¢ report being imade af it to Capt, Milis. After the aceidontal discovery of this cousidorable fiaud, Capt. Milla at ouca in- stituted saié agains! suspicious parties. Pago was Sowerdly euorgh to turn Btato's evidence, wwasring to the alleged trausnctious, giving ce- tails, Comntissione Tenniaton bound the two perdons iniplicated cver for appearance at court, Yage way put underguard at tho post. On ‘Tues- day night, the 20th 4 Pago inade 8 sneceasful effort to eucape frou continement, and js now at large. We ware foia week almont under the military authority, ‘for Capt, Efilla was vigilant in lus dearch tor Page. This proceeding at the Coptain incensed mity of our gitizens, for o uutubor of their bunges were soarched for tho autusing mau, aud, t¢ add to the uuplougautaces of the vltuation, A SUOTING APWAIR regultcd from the chive after a dosortor at night. ‘Iho patroliug soldérs were ordered to fre on Vago after tho wigral waa piven, if necessary. ‘They excecded theirordors while after tho do- Kefter, and several @rbine-bulie passed tuiough tho walls tuto the roms of two or threo revi- dences, ‘Che ularm dn our streets was intense, and by_10 o'clock bat night {ndignation was high. “The barrow woapya of two persons wad ground for investigaion, ‘Tbie was Triday night, the auth, On Monay Capt. Mills receryod or- ders from tho Heergary of War to yocute this post til tho uinzensvl North Platte saw Ot to respect tho sulborit tho United Btatos troops in the diacharge of heir duty. Preparations to nuove wore at onco commenced, but the order wes countormanded on ‘Thursday night. To-night, about 1:50, thero drove up to the post a wagon contaldng tho man Pago, with bis toet 60 badly frozen 76 could uot walk. lo had elthor goue alone jr been taken to tho Cut canyons, some 20 niles south, aud thero re- malned till he cout ondure it no lunger. Io tells various stories but his word iy uot of much account, Two papers sre published in North Platte, viz.: tho Repubdlicau straight Ropablican, si the Nebraskan, a} attompt at indepondent jourpausn. Que Bev. ———= Fatal Duel Betvoen Pruasian Offie certs A German correspudent of the Continental Jerald writes; *loubsermuch baw been the scene of a dol beeen two young Prusdun officers, whieh unortanately ended fatally. Lieut. you Garnier, tho was Killed, aud bia op- ponent. Bub-Lieut, tan yon Holzhausen, both clouging to the Socnid Battalion, Forty-suventh Reyimont, bad quarried iu the Ollicors’ Club at Strasburg, aud on ow occasion the Licuienant had used dnwultloy e:prossions to his subordinate iu the presence of cunmon boldiers, ‘I'he affair was laid bofore tho Council of Honor," conslst- ing of saperlor otters, who decided that the insult was grave enough to werrant ao hostile meeting, The duel came of on the 7th pat, ab 10 paces, and in tue preesues of Prope Wiuesses ald seconds, scoordingly ibis stated that Von Garnlor was adverse to the duels ing on raligious grounds, boing a vory strict No- man Catholic but he well know thntif he did not comply with the ordinances of thn Council No would have to loavo the aorvice with ignom: iny. You Holghausen was weil practiecd in the uso of the plato), antl mortally wounde:d his d= yornary at the second discharge; tho latter expiring aa goon as he had partakon of tho Iast rites of hia roligion, You Garnior wan of a Hi- losian family, avd was oniy 24 yeara of ago. Ho had taken part fn tho cAmpaings of 1810, 1870, and 1871, and had boen decorated with the Iron Cross, ‘She termination of the duel is more to bo regretted as lils mother is & willow, MO ete THE INTELLIGENCE OF ANTMALS, A Story of n Dog nnd 2 Inckiinw, Fram the New York Kurnina Post On tho morning of the day foNowing Christ. mas, four yenrs ago, the portor of tho atoro of Messrs. Hoot, Anthony & Co., No 69 Liberty ntreet, on opening tha front dgor fonnd ovory- thing in confnmon; tho floor was hittored with toold, all bottles, steel and fron wedgos, aud black muslin ty tho pleco, Further ox- amination justified tho irxt snrpiclon that burglars -bat been at work. Koya had Leon fitted to tho sutside locks, on the ove of a holiday, so that tho robbers bad an en- tite day Sunday and tro nights in whict to worl, Once inside the building they wero met with tho unexpected diticnity of deciding which of tho five antes bofore thom contained tha prizo, For- tunately, the burglars hogan operations on arate whieh “probably over coutalied a cont of monoy, being evidently attracted by ita grit sppearauce, and tho fact that it wan hidden away in a dark corncr of tho atoro. A vast amount of Iabor was wasted upon this old eafe, and the rago and disappointment of the robbera, whon they found out thoie mistake, wero vented upon tho hartuless booksand papers which it contained, Thoy thon bean to work on another safo, which contained in thoea times of revenue stainps what was equivalent to 317,+ 000 in greenbacks. Adjoming the store of Messrs, Root, Anthony & Co, hives, in his bacholor rooms, the wall- known reataurant keeper, Mr, Sutherland, who attbo timo had pet jackdaw thnt was more than wenally amusing by his antics, Ifo was ever roady to catch ponnior, pick he 0: linnd tritles, of indulge in imisolil of any kind. rom somo cause, olther & sudden gleam of — intelligonco or his obronio desire to motddle in every one's busi neva, Onrly in the morning the jacitdaw, with Joud cries and screama. darted out tha window iuto the back yard of Stoot; Anthony & Co, ‘Tho casient way for Mr. Sutherland to obtain his pot svas throngh tho store in which tho burginrs word still at work. Sud, as bo thotight ho lad board noises on tho promises, which ho prestimod were made by the portor, ho stepped into tho atroct and tried the store door, At tho samo tine bo saw aman a few yards off nove uncanily away. Aftor vigorously shaking tho door and heating no ronpovss he returned to hiv own promises, aud sent a man to olimb over tho wall into the roar of the adjoining promises aud cap- tura tho fackdaw that #o provokingly liept bo- yond reech, Tho burglare, now sntisfed that thoy were dixoovarod, procipitataly flod, locking tho door after thom; and thus the $17,000 of revenue stampa wore saved fo their owners, On last Curistmas morning Mr. Sutherland was disturbod in his sloop by tho most extract dinary conduct of his pet dog, Lrownie, a little Scotch torrier, s great favorito, nnd upuanally intelligent. ‘Ibis littio creature, after business hours, has the run of the entire interior of tho yuilding. On the morning alluded to, Mr. Sutborland was awakenad by Brownio, who ofl- ciously poled bis cold nove jato bis master's faco, for which proanmed impartinouco bo was rudely brushed on the floor. The dog, however, instantly roturned to the obargo, and very earnestly bogan opening his master’s eves with hia toe-nalis, This brought Mr, Sutherland to hie feet and souses, aud also to the conscious- ness that le was partly suffocated bya hot smoko that filled tho room. Instantly compro handing: huis daugor he gave the alarm, whoo ex- amination ehowod that tho firo was audor tho floor of the printing-oflice of the adjoining building, ocoujed by Mesers. Itoot, Anthony & Co., which fire was soon oxtinguishod by tha local patrol, and with, comparatively speaking, o nominal loss. ‘Tho fist time the promises wore protectod from large robbery by tho unaccountable con- duct of a Jackdaw; tha second timo from de- structive fira by tho intelligenco of tho little et, Brownie. Tho poor bird has gono to tha oppy hunting-grouuds, but Browuio lives, aa active, mischievous, useful, and comically hand- somo as evor, waiting for s gold medal from tho Humano Society. CIVILIZING ALASICA. A Statemont of the Need of the Natives about Kwenty Chonsand Soule Wanting Missionaries and ‘Keachers No Noed of ‘Troops. Pontuanp, Oroe., Jan, 25, 1875,—Dezan Sin: In Beptembor jast (1874) { called togethor at Fort Urangel o meoting of the chiefs and the Joading heads of familina, who were senombled for trade and other pur- sults connected with transportation to tho Cnssisiar, by way of tho Stickeen iver. At the muoting, from what I approximated by varions reportd from all tho accosalble sources, I infor that tho uative aboriginal inhabitants wore about 90,000 Boule, extending to 64 dogrees 40 minutes to Unolaska, moatly settled in villagos slong tho shores, upon felands, estunries, ete, in locatities bout adapted to thoir special pursults, fiehiog, hunting, fur-trading, eto. Yho chiofs and others present ut the meeting purported to represent about 8,000 souls, They volunteored the offer that ff teachers, mipistors, oto., ware sont to instruct them thoy would bulld cbtrches and sohool-houses at thelr own cout and labor, which thoy are compotent to do, as they are all oxpertin Jog architectara on primitive prinol- ples, ‘hoy havo long been envious of their neighbors on tho Britlah side of tho line, at Fort Simpson, known as tha Motin Katia tribo, who baye advanced in olvilized habits and education by the efforta of English Protost- ant miselouaries quite up to the standard of tho older Christian communities of the soacoasts, They have a church, school-houge, eto., all eroctod by Indian labor, and now have native pastors and school-toachers severally minietor- Ingto them. Tho assembled chiefe roquosred mo to prepare & potition for them to the Great Fathor at Washington, to which they attuchod thoir signs manual, asking for ministors and school-toachera to ba gent smong them. ‘This potitlon was placed in the hands of Maj, M. P. Borrs, Collector at Bitka, and, 1 suppose, bas reached the Prosidont before now, 1f Government and missionary aid is axtended toward the people for civitiziug purposoy, it should be ine form aomowhst modified trum tho formula now in use by the Indian Dopartimant, ‘Thoro should bo no attempt mado to aggre- gate thom on reservatlous nor to obango their pursuits, but only to increase their industrioa. They have already utilized tho climate and to- pography by the seleotion of villaze sites whero fur trading, fsbing, hunting, ste., cau be most advantageously couductad, All te troops sight, under stich cireutalances, bo withdrawn from Sitka, aud a revenue cutter to crilao along tho const, calilug from timo to timo at the several villago stations, asthe British oow haya tho eorvica on thelr side of tho line among the sama poople, would kuep smuggling in bettor check than now, roatrict the whisky trafflo by tho coasting schooners now in the business, and fisure good order, equst or Detter than at present. ‘he two compnuios of artillery at Bitke have no Influence smile beyoud thoie parade ground, and wo far as oxerting o Falice influence over the Torritory they would equally effective 5,000 miles distant. Youra rospecttally, Tourn A. Cann, Doputy Collector at Unsngel, Alauku Torritory, To the Hou, B. P, Binith, Cormzalasionor of Iudian Af~ falry, Washington, D, 0, a i FiresProof Clothing tor Womon. Hrom the Metropolitan, During the past year, tho nauat let of acci- dents arising from ekiria takin fre haa bean given in the newspapers. jadion gassing or satel nvar an open tite of coal or wood ; chil- dren left to their own devices bofore the mursery Krate, snd actresses swinging thoir trains too near the footlights, have all contributed their sad stories of doath or disiiguroment, Moved by the reiterated reports of such cususitios, Queen Victoria, some years ngo, requested Prof, Graham, & chemist of high standing, to institute experiments with a view to finding some method of rendering cotton fabsics fire-proof, It was admitted that while 3 might be com- municated to other fabrice, cotton alone flashed into flame upon the slightest provecation. The investigations of Wrof, Graham, aided by two distinguished Gorman experts, resulted in » recommendation of cortain salts of ammouia ag moat olfective for the desired purpose, aid not ac all injurious to the goods. Sulphate of ammonia in solution, contaiving 10 per cent of theeall, recelyed pieces: of finished muslin that wera dried rapidly in « machine kuown 88 “hydro-extractor.” The fabrica thua trested proved wholly unindaw- mable, while their colors were undiminished, ve where madder had been amploved as a dye, deveu that tint was only modiled elightly, and rendered lees gaudy by the operation, Just a8 women would sponge cloth before trausform- {og into germanty, lob thea Weab new wuslin io the ammonia salt relerredito, The soiled arte olen alrondy made up should, after washing and drying as usuni, be mubjosted to another dip In tho sate Dorove lroning, aud thoy aro thot Lita proof, TWO MUNDRED YEARS AGO. A Memorable Yenr in the Annelise ef New Huagiattde From the Boston Aitoertiser, In the annain of Now Mogland the year 1076 is searely lens momorable than the yoat 1776, In the Bummer of thntearlior yanr began that iifo- and-death strngglo known th our history as Phil- ip's war. At that timo tho united Colonios of Masnachwsetts, Plymouth, and Conuectiont did not numbor more than 60.000 inbabitante, if thofo wore Ao inany; and tlicso wero scatterad through abouta hundred sottiemonts, separated frum one another by thick foraats, but uane of thom romote from tilo-water. 1b was not quite forty-llvo yours sinco Winthrop and hits senoci+ ates hat founded Boston ; and a9 poacafal tind eon the ralations betweon tho colonists and the Tnusans that Lucrosso Mathor says tho flest blood aver shed on tha soil of Mnagachiinotts, “in a way of houtility,” was iu duty, 1076, about threo woeks after tho begining of tha war, when # patty of Indians murdered aovyernl uf tho wtinbstants of Mendon. Almost from tho first attempts bad been made to civil+ ive aod Chriatinniza the Indiaus; the Bible had beeu tratslated into tho Indian languago, in- dian scholars had boow admittot to Harvard Col- lego, and wite and. just lawa had boon enacted for regulating ths intercourse with tho natives, sud for proventivg tho acquisition of thoir lauds by mete advontusers sud speculators, I think Lean olaacly say,” wrote Gov. Winslow, of Ply- mouth, in May, 1676, * that before theae presont troubles broke out the Muglish uid not possesa one footof jandin this colopy but wit was fairly obtained by honost purelinae of the Ludian proprictais.” Asimilar remark would probably apply with nearly equal forco to tha ethor ovlonics: It was under these circumstances that the war wan bog on the Zh of June, 1675, Old Style, by at atiack on Swanzoy, in Vlymouth Colony, aud was waged by the sovages with rolentlesa oruolty for more than a yoar, until it was virtu- ally torminatod by the deata of Philip, on the itu of August, 1076, at Mount Iivpe, in Rhodo Island. During this period about 610 of the colo- niata wore killed in battle or barbarously mur- dored, whilo others, like Mra, Rowlandson, wifo of the minister of Luucantor, were carried away to captivity more horriblo than Mouth 4 and about ag many buildings, mostly dwolling- housos, wore burned, Of the soltlomunts in Plymouth aud Massachusutts, about tio- thirds woro more or loss damaged by tire, aud of this numbor ten or twelve wero totally de- stroyed and wero dogertod by thoir inhabitants, Tiven after the doath of Phiip, the war lasted for many months iu the Eastern sottlomonte, iv what is now the State of Maing, aud thore ib was only torminatod after many moro lives Lad boon sneriticod. Uf to these losses wa add the oxpens- es incurred in carrying on the wor, we shall bo abla to forta some falut idoa of the dillicaltios under which tho mon of that day lavored in lay- ing the foundations of their Commonwonlth, ta an official letter, written in 1879, it is stated that tho disbursemonts for the war amouuted to more than £100,009 ; and it has been ostimated that the debt of Plymouth Colony alone oxceedod in amount the whole value of the personal property of its inhabitants, Tho colonlata saw vory oloar- ly that iv that war there was uo truco: they must citbor conquer or bo exterminated, Lt was tho fashion tn the last generation to spouk of Philip a8 % recognizod soveroign, asa wiso and patriotic statesman, who, with prudent forecast, saw tho impending destruction of lis psopls, or their awit expulsion from the homes of thoir ancostors by the advancing tide of En- glish colonization, “Not thus did ho seom to the mon of his own timo. Not thus doos ho appear to thosa wha atudy the original sources of information, or who endoayor to make thomstlyes acquainted with the uuchaug- iug sloments of the Indian charactor. Chureh, who eaw him after hia death, says 9 was naked, sivo his stockings avd a pair of sort brooches, and adds, in very intelligible language, “‘adoleful, great, naked, dirty boast ho look’d like.” And tho most candid and best- informed of our later historians, Dr, Paltroy, soya: “Tho title of King, which it haa beon customary to attach to lis namo, disguisos and tranaiigures to the view tho form of a squalid gavage, whose palace wad a aty; whose royal robo was e bear-skin or a coarse blanket, alive with vermin ; who hardly koew tho Juxury of an ablution; who wos often glad to asappoase appetite with food such ae mon who aro not starving lostho; and whos .na- ture = —_ poBsca: just the capacity for rofloction and tho dogroo of refuement which might be expected to be dovoloped from the montal conetitution of bin race by such » condition sud such habits of life." Thore is no evidence whatever that in ahrewdness, executive capacity, of personal bravery, he was superior to any of the othor sachoms who took part In the war; andit is even a matter of some doubt whether ho was himuolf present at any of the conthets with the Kuglisk. Tho war wad in fact & gonoral uprising of the neighboring tribes, of which Philip's tribo, tho Wampanoags, was Dot the most poworful or the most influoutial, sud was inspired and guided quite ag much by other sachems aa it was by hint, It is _undorgtood to bo the intention of ‘the Tthode Island Historical Socioty during the aum- Mer and fall of thia yoar to colobrate by s sorics of exctirsions and commemoration addressos those incidents of tho war most closely connect- ed with tho history of theirown Stato. It will be matter for regrotif in Massachusetts, which was tho chiof sotor and the chiof suiferer in this perilous strtsgeley—at Swanzey or Mendon, whero the first blows were struck ; at Ipawich, where Lothrop and Apploton at Deoerflold, whore othrop the — flowor of Essex. woro cut off; at Plymouth, where Church was born and pont bie estly life; at Taunton, or Hadloy, or Brookfleld, or somewhere else,—thero aball not also bea fitting commemoration of those bravo and true mon who, in the day of small things, confronted the unseen foo, aud saved tho English colonies from oxtinction. All honor to the mou ‘who fought at Lexington, and Con- cord, and Bunker Hill. But while wo celebrate thoir constancy and their bravery in the times that tried mon's souls, let us not forgot that just 200 yeara ago their grandfathers also passod through the fiery furnace, If wo owa muvh to the mon of 1775, wo owe not leas to the mien of the oarllor time, St A farmor’s Battie with a Gonr. A Oumberland County, Po., papor says; “Mr. William Sadler, of Camp Hill, was attacked by his Berkshire boar, which had beon kept penned up, but broke out on Saturday morning. After a xovord ight, Me. Sadler was seized by the ankle, thrown down, sud dragged about 20 yards, to a placa where the water is about a foot deap. The housc-dog, hearing the struggles, broke hin chain aud went to hig master's axsist- ano, ‘Tho dog is a targe one, of the bull-dog species, and Immediately seized the boar by thie oar with auok feroolty that Bir, 8. was rolessed, and onabled to crawl away from the coutost, neatly smothored with mud, though not much burt, An hour later, after bolng thoroughly washed, be found bis iste sagallant eleeping, as though ho waa juuocont of bad intentions, Bat Mr, &., atill smarting from tho effeote of the Into skirmish, took aim, ood thore waa a wasto of 800 paunds of pork.” 2 lived, avd or all, cgi ee Three Noted Tinlisne, Garibeldi’s routine bill of fare is tho follow- ing: Mreakfaut, coffes and bread; dinner, soup, one plate of meat of fish, fruit; supper, none, Pius (X. is similarly # frugal eater, differing only fromm the flrat tu being 9 wine-bibber (don’t call him a drunkurd). Vietor Emaniol Is a hoavy over of food and wine, eating indifferently of ‘most things, from tha trips and garils of Vied- mont to tho snakes aud muscles (Lurullian style) of Romo, iuclusive, Alltucda ara at pros- ont happily livia in the Jattor olty, after much hurly-bucly and battles fought and won, and the caricaturisty deplot them tugethor, arm in arm, wanntoring through the Corso, with toothpicks in their mouths, ae ees Petor Cooper's Enriicat Substituce tor WorscePower on the Canala, At the recent meeting of the Cheap ‘lranspor- tation Ansociation in New York, tue vonersble Voter Cuaper pays the follawing account of lis earliost plan for propolliny canal-buate; Aly interest in ¢be canal iy as old as the canal itaolf, Before the water was Int into ft, Tmade an ex- erimont to slow how all sloyated watersou the ine of the canal could be used as® motivo power for towipg tho boats, To do thi, 1 made achain of two milca loug with py own banda, Mero aro two links of that chain. I plant- ed two posts on tho Hats of the Esat River, extending for oue mile from Bellevuo dock along the shore of tho East River. My poate wore 200 foot apart. On each post I placed two wheels with deep-grooved surfaced to bear up the chain, On the dock at Bellevue I built a reservoir for water 12 feet aquare and 8 feot deep, and flied i¢ with wator out of the river. I then erected an overuhot water-wheat 9 feet in diameter. Ontheshsft of the water-wheel I placed a croched whee) stmitar to the holut- wheola in stores, On the shaft and around tho crotched whool I pasted my chain aod support- ed it over the whole line on the grooved ‘feels fastened to poste 200 fect apart. 7 ohali gate ont by passing it eronad a whe far end, and by somasoting the two chain. With this arrangatmans I propor Clinton ata Alfced Polly hla @cratee, 0% others, 2niltes 1u elovon mintiton, “Newtteet has boon made to put th thing in praction ett rome 10 years since, when Mr. Wolsh of ite Camdon & Amboy Unnal, conceived the ides th ‘i ho mace 6 valuable discovery, and put the ‘thine in practico, aud found that hsit the tmgte ravad in gottlog the boats through the locke’ Ho ten went to Washiugton to take outa nt ont, whoro fe found that tad taken apa for'the samo Unig Ufty-thrce years before ee LS ENGLISH WORKMEN IN COUNCIL, Proceedings of the Congress of 1 WradeasUnions of Grent Britain, Currrayoutence af the New York Wort, Livraroon, dan 21.—The seventh aonnay Connreas of tho ‘Teades-Unious of Grey Beitnin began ita seesion hero on Monday Thoro wore nbont 200 delegates ‘preset? roprosenting eighty-four different societies o: associations, in which there ara Gloag, mombers. ‘Tho proceedings of the Congress a of somowhat moré political importance tine usually attaches tO those pathorings, itithente tho lentorg of tho tradca-tinions’ haya f° tho most part belonged the Lihent party; but at the Sata olections man: of tho mon proved that thes had strong Consery ative predilections, and » certain number of th, loadors now betiove that the Conservative part under Mr. Disrach’s loadership, wilt prove mag, more disposed to logislate for the real intorenty ofthe artisan claga than tha Liberate over more Mr. J. Fitzpatrick was choson Pronidont of ti Congreas, and the first business of importancy was thio reading of tho roport of tho "Pari mentary Committe of 1873,” tho Parliamonts; Committes consinting of antmbor of men appoin ad by the Congress cach year ta lobby at Weal, minster for trades-union logialation. ‘l'ho repor hogan by saying that 1874 Lind boon an eventful yoar, ‘Tho struggle of tho agricultural laboresy ad not been aucccastul, although tc had accom, plished some boneticial reaults; tho atrikes a tho minora, iron-workers, and others against re, ductiona in wages had also boon only partial) sticcessful, The year, however, had bean matked by very fow sirikes among tho better paid classes of artianns, The Parliamentary Com. mitteo at the opaning of lant pession had pra, ned snvéral bills which thoy thought might jo passed, but tho appointmont by tho Goyer. mont of the Labor Lawa Commission thren alf thosa measures overboard. The Governmont's purpose in appointing this Commission way to have tho whole subject of tha tabor lows thoroughly oxaminod, in oder to deal with their reform in oné compreheneitg moasuro; but this doos not sult the riong of tho Pantiamontary Oommittes; and the con. sont of the two workingtnon motmbors of Parl. mont—Macidonald and Burt~—to sit on the com. mission, was made tho subject of worera con. demoation, ‘Ihe riposs sbneliited by suhruitting & programme of parlinmentary action for tha aes. alow of 1876, On the socond day of tha Congross the Chain man mindo s apecoh devounuing Lue appointment of the Royal Comuiisaion on tha Labor iawe sand the foy-note wa this atruck of a dikcuealo, which, after varions attempts to stitlo It, culm. natod In nt oxtraordivary ¢ond, And camo ties breaking 1p the Congress inn row. Barto of the mombers of the Parllamentary Committoa were accused of trengon,” aud of having sold thei influence for monoy: and Messrs. Macdonatt and Durt wero violantly donontoed, They wery both prosont, and dofonded thomselvos ‘vith auc. cosa, but tho wholo eceno was & Rood illustr. tion of tho unohyiablo position which o repre sontative in Vartiamont of a class interast mut oconpy. On the following day, yesterday, tha coutlict wae rouowod, aod it cndod in tho o. Plusion of Mr. Cremor, the dologate who hal firsts modo tho ¢chargos against the men. bors of tho Parlismontary Committee, While tho discussion upon the qtreation of Ils oxpulaton wus going on, Mr, Oremor, who way tho delegate trom tho United Society of Caron ters, London, expelied himsolf by declaring tht ho would sit there no longer, and, snatching up his hat and umbrella, be retirod amid hisses. ‘The motion for his expulgion was then adopted by a very large malority. ‘Along discussion followed upon # resolntlon which, after declaring that 9 look-out by en. ployors, was s conspiracy against the Jaw, pro posod that a fund of $10,000 should bo raised to prosocute, for such a conspiracy, the South Vales coal masters. The moro sonelbio of the dologates opposed the resolution, and it was finally with drawn. The Congress will remain in session during the romainder of the weok. TEZCUCO, An Anciont Mexican City. From the forthcomina Volume £1, af Herbert Bew croft's Natice Races of the Puetje States.” ‘The city noxt In fame and rauk to Mexico Te nochtitlan was Tezeuco, which Torquomids affirms containod 140,000 houses within acircum. foronce of from3 to 4 longues. It waa divided into six divieloos, and croased by & sorios of fine straight atreots lined with ologant buildings. Tae old palace stood on the border of the lake upoos triple terraco, guarding the town, aa it wore; tht newor structure, in tho conatriction of whict 200,000 man had been omployed, stood at th northorn end; it was & magnificent bulldiog and contained 400 rooms. ‘Tho clty waa the sell of refinement and elegance, and occupied rel. atively the same position in Moxico as Pat does in Europa. Tho atyle of architecture for houses did nol exhibit much variety —tho differonco bottece oné house and snothor belng chiofly In exteat and matorial. The dwellings of the nobles welt situated upon terracos of various heights, which in swampy places like Mexico, rested upon ties of heavy piles, ‘Thoy wore usually a groupot buildings in the form of 9 parallelogram, bulk of wtono, or in Moxico of tetzontli, joined mith fine cement, and finely polished and white washed. Every house stood by itself, separated from ite nelghbor by narrow lanes, aud inclosed one or more courts which extonded overt largo space of ground. One story was tht moat common form, and there aro 00 accounts of any palaces or private housed exceodihg two atories, Broad steps led up tht terrace to two gates which gave eutrance to tht courty,—ono opening upon the main streot; tht other upon tho back tang, or canal, that often ly beneath it, The terrace platform of the houses of chiofs often bad a wide walk round It, a0 was ospocially spacious in front, whero thore 14 occasionally a small oratorio facing the entrance. ‘Chis atyla was particularly poticed on the eit to coast. ‘Lhe court was surroundod by numero! portlcos, decorated with porphyry, Jasper, a alabaster ornaments, which, again, led to variow chambers and halla, lighted by largo windows ‘two preay baila and several recoption-room wore situated in front; the slesping-chambem kKitohen, baths, and store-rooms were in the rear, forming at times quite complica fubytinth. The court was paved with tlagest stono, tcuselated marble, or bard coment, polish: od with ochro or gypsum, and usually contained 8 aparkling fountain; oocawionally there ¥1 flowes-garden, in which # pyramidal alter an air of wanctity to tho place, The stairey which lod to the second story or to the roof wit often on the outside of tha house, and by I grand proportions and gracoful form coutnbated not a little to the good appearance of tha hous ‘Yno roof was w fiat torrace of boame, wilh $ slight slope towards the back, covered with # cont of cemont or clay, and aurrounded by a bib tlowonted narapet, surmounted at times by amu turrota, ‘There wero gouerally fowors in ol Upon the roofs, or evan asinall garden ; andbet the members of tho houseold assembled ia tho cool of the evening to enjoy the fresh st and obarming prospect. Home houses had gt lertex, which, hike most work added to the sla structure, were of wood, though supported upod coluins of matblo, porpbyty, or atabanter. 7! pillars wore either rota, Or square, aud were genorally mouolitha ; they were without bato of capital, sbougls ornamented with figaros oul. low relief. Buildings were further adorned wih elegaut cornices and stucco denlgne of flowers and animals, which wore often palnted with brill fant colors. Promiveut among these figure ¥# the coiling serpent before mentioned. Liatelé aud door-posts ware also elaborately carved. ‘Phe interior displayed the same rade ms«ull- conce, The floora were covered with bark sinvoth coment tike the court-yard and streets rubbed with ochre or gypaura, aud polishod. glosuy walls wore pajuted aud hung with cotton or featker tapestry, to which Las Casas adds vor plating and jowely, Tho furmture a scanty, Itconulsted chiefly of soft mats "1 cushions of palm-ieayoa or fur, low tables, ‘ous email stools with palm-leat backs. The ‘wore mata Pited one Upon avother, with & block or & palm-leaf or cotton cushion {ot es pillow; occasfonally they wore vishod with coverloty and canopies of a ton or feather-work, Vasoa filled with amolder ing incouve diffused therr perfume through oe De, chambors. ‘Tne rooms which were used Io tor wore provided with hesrtha and fire- el and wero lighted by torches, There were rg doors, properly called such, to the house | oe whore privacy was required, @ bamboo of witht work woreen waa stiapanded across the entrano® aud secured ab night with a bar. To this Lie astached a string of shell, which the visitor “a tled to the host or hiv atteudanta to the tranco. ‘I'he interior rooms were soparat 4 hangings, which probably also served to beta) the. wikdows: of ordinary deeills 8, sltnough nepardal tecall ston awered tha purpoas of windoweglase 16 OW! parte of some of the temples Se er wee ge New Ae wires ii i