Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 14, 1875, Page 2

; 3 i THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY FEBRUARY 14, 1875.—SIXTEEN PAGES. 5 s FOREIGN. disclaline Lo keep them mindfn] of the thristian - daty of w ness, + Let him who thinketh he gtendeth take boed lest ho fall.” * JAXE GREY SwIBSHELA. —_— 7 2 MRS. TILTON. . A BAP AT KEWSPAPER REPORTERS. o e Edutor of The Chicaae Tribune : Omeaso, Féb: 12.—We have all resd of;-and| svopathized with, the old -gentleman who, to please ‘himself,” was jogging atong mounted on his-donkey.~ On meeticg aoother traveler, that individual enggested that the donkey being so emall, bis. rider. ongit to get off and carry the donkey. The old gentieman, wishing to please, immediately got off'and followed' the sngges- ticn. But soon snother traveler hove in aight, and objected. to thet manner of traveling, and wrished the old gevtlemen_to reverseit. He, stili beisg of an obliging disposition, of conrre camplied. Well, it scems io me that the ?aw;- reporters are just abont as hard to pleaze. n}:ei’nua.uoa. ook at the Tilion and Beecher critiiame. A short time-sgo, they criticised Mr. snd Hra. Beecher for-going over aad wlaking hands with 2od speaking & Eindls word 10 Mrs. Llizabeth Tillon. Now, thes find fault that they do por. Furet; it was not in good tastes xow, he ignores her. A person ig to be pitied who'fslls into the ‘ungloved hands of a news- r reporter. And then how slightingly eomo of them speax of AMrs. Thlton. That therois rvowethiog truly womaaoly, loyable, and very jovely. in Mre, Tilton, Icannot put believe. when twosuch menss Mr. Thecdora Tilton and Mr. Menry Ward Beechor pay tribute (o her worth,— yiten who are 20 ntterle unlike in every partien- fer 28 these two are. Napoleou Bonsparte's for- sunes began to wane when he separated himself from his good wife Josepiuno; and Mr. Tilton | wiil find, probsbly. thet- his have not been Lettered by the courde he has pursued. E. s ? “THE TRUE STORY,” -~ + AS READ BY MR. EVAETS. From the New Xork Sun, Feb. 12, i Hr. Tilton had testified that what isknowp as | * The True Btory "—= docament wriftea by him efter the Woodhall pablication sud shown o the Bev. Dr. Storrs and others—was not in his posses- , mion, oxcaptng = few of the last leaves. Hia wifo had taken the rest 2wy, snd had told‘hun i that she had destroyed it Defore tho recees fr. £varts had requested him to bring these | Meavos-with: hies, and upon resuming -his seat | e took them: out of bis pocket. Then . evarsbody was astonished 1o see Mr. Evarts | stand up with & banch of foolscsp eheéers in his | bands and ssy, “Ar. Tilton, plesse listen to ¢ what I shall now read, and esy whether you rec- | oguize it x5 *The Trae Story ?'” This tarned | ont to be a copy, with-many mistaker and omie- | wions, of ‘the original document.” How it was @ obtained the 1awyers for the defense refuse to tell. The probability seems to be that somec- body with whom Mfr. Tilton left it for pernsal copied it hurriedly, and has Jarnished it for use in the trial. ! Mr. Evarte’ mode of yutting the copy in evi- - .dance was to read a parAgrson, ask the witcess ‘whether ho remembered that as part of ‘what he | had written, and 60 on -with euccesaive. para- { ha, There was nothing new it, or different m Ar. Tilton’s description in bia earfier tesH- ! mony. It began with sayiog thst, aczinst the | will of his wife. gnd for s few personal friends” | be wae.going to put the real facts into writing. The following i8 a coutinuation : BOWEN'S BEVELATIONS. 2.bout tenar eleven veurs ago Heary C. Bowen, far ‘whom I was then working s subordinotein the /ade- | wdeat office, toid me one evening, when crossing the | ‘allon ferry, (hut Henry Ward Brecher was guiity of | adultery, and this brgad in Indianspolis sud was con- | #inued in Brookiyn. (he yourn 1560 and 1870 | 3dr. Bowen repeated the sccusation not less than 100 times, and frequently exhibiting a_deep sense of per- sonal fnjury; sowetimes raying1bat i ho was s0° minded he could drive Mr. Beecher from his pulpit. During & pare of this time Mr. Beecher was ihe edilor 1o charge of the Jadependent, and 1 was lientemaut, Aftorward bs retined, and I succeeded 10 the chair, | Toth before Mr, Beecher's retirement and afterward, | M. Bowen was in tho habit of saing, *+ The pastor of Piymoath Church wes £ davgerous visitor smong the : Zemales of his congregutiun.” This statement 1 slways | ‘heard with unwilling cars, having Do more taste for | scardsl then than now, end would not ncte it bere va- ' lesx is was 002 of the JiTota 0 which the ensuing his- | tary tamms, Ar. Fullerton demsnded of Mr. Evarts an ex- Placatiou of whst document he was reading. 3r. Evar:s replied that his questicns were in order. Mr. Beach argued that the original onght to | be produced, or its l0ss proved. i Judge Neilson ruled ‘that the procedure was vegulsr, and so Mr. Evarts went on reading the document Uy piecemesl, at the end of each quo- tation asking Mr. Tilton whetber he had written fi. In some instances Mr. Tilton replied *yes," fn others that he could mot recollect, andin ! others he pointed out errors. His lawyers re- pestedly told him not to make any explanations about it, but {0 simpiy avow or ditavow the pas- | sages. He would not bo controlled, however, Iavking acsin into intractsble bebavior, This cama asxt; AES. TILTON'S CONFESSIONS, &3 » further stalemens sl more unwillingly open, et Decesaary to the explanstion of the subsequent complication of cirz T must say thatin the gummer of 1870, 8 fom montha sfier 1 bad undertaken, in sddition to odiling the independent, the editing also of the Broakiyn Union, Mra. Elizabeth B, Taltom, my | wife, made to mea communication concerning Ar. | ‘Boecher, which, t0 use Ler own words, lest I should wrorg him by using mine, she afterward noted down 10 a \pemarandurr, as follows: = Mr. H, V. Beecher, oy friend and pasior, solicited me to be 3 wifa to him, together with all that this imples.” Tborrow the sbave fact from my wife's handwriting, and forbid m-sh;um?:pwngnm& point either (o blacken 1t ar lighten it. My wife's mother now bezan to plsy an important part in my relstions to Mr. Bowen and Mr. Beecher, | and in reladion (o thoss Fersons to each other. { 12y was for sears in & chronic Fiste of approhiension i wnd ervousiess, and one of oor physicians, the lita | Dr. Barker, of Brooklyn, recommended several years Ago that she be taken and eent to an $nsiftation for the insane. Among her eccentiicities which are allnded 10, 10t 10 reproach their suthar,—whom diseasn ehoold Taigely excuerate from censure,~was an sttempt, about that tima, frequently, to take tha kife of ber Bus- | band, the Hon. Nathan B, 'Morse, by clewhing his | throst and strangling him with such powerful cluteh that her waa loosened with difBeuity by the jn- mutes of the boune, and Ler fury extinguiched with chloraforz. This resulted in a fined separation, * The Troe Story " went on to say that, in her AMr. dal, and of Mss._ Stanton. that Afrs. Tilton, had. oonfessed to her ; also. th Mrs. Tilton and . Mr. Beechflr, already in evi- dence : . i P, TILTON TO,ME. MOULTON. Moulfon : My Drar Farevp: PFor my husband’s sake and my cluldren’s, I hereby testi- fy with all my woman’s soul thatTam innocent of the crime o impura condoct. allaged. against. me. Ihave been to my busband a trne wife. In hislove I ask to live and die. My early affec- tion for him still burns with its maiden flame, 2l the--more - for-- what-—he~ hss borng for my..eake, with private and public wrongs. His plau to keep ‘bick " scandals loug 2go threatened against me Y never ;gm:vou, aud the- result sbows it- upavailing. Batfew men-hayarisked somuch, a8 he. has. sacrificed for others ever..since. the conspiracy .began against bim. two vears ago.” Having bad. power to strike others, Lie Las “fotborneé to do it. and allowed .himeelf.'to be injured instesd. NG wound 1o me is 80 great as the impression that be is smong my . accusers; 1 -bless him. every day for hus fsith in me,.which sworves not, and 10;{ standing my champion. agsigst all adser- saries. 31K, BEECHER TO MB. ¥OTLTON. My Drar M. Moorrox: I prompily comply with your sugeestion of ‘giving an explicit denial t0 the stories which connect my nsme. criminally withMrs. Tiiton's. ' The very thought. of being obligea to say apything toclenr her fair fame shociis me, and I have nti:llbbrtn acced under ad- vice in refraining. Vel 5 & g};flr ‘Wanp BESCIER. LYy, Dec. 9. Broo: 4 I solemnly, deny the scaudalons . cbarges made agamst me and Mrs. Elizabeth R. Tilton., Especiaily and emplistidaily 1deény ihat thore has been any criminal intercourse,-or any color i of resgon for such s charge. 1y acquaintance with Mra. Tiiton hiss inspited mo with the high- ! est esteem for bLer modesty, proprety, and womanly graces. I sutuorize her' or her husband or “children to use this flouh?‘.inn‘ Gesire to state, in addition, that Afr. Til- ton dnring the whpole of -this shamcfal scandal | Las unifarmiy spoken in-the bighest terms_of his wife, 2od has_shown to ‘mo the strongest proofs of frisndship. ® A SURPRISE TO THE PLAINTIFT. Mr. Tilton esy# thet Le cancopcaive of no possibde way by which Mr., Baecher's lawyers cduld - have obtgsined what ~théy say -is a copy of ‘“The’ Btory,” except throngh’ Mrs. Wilion. " The frazment of the paper tihat he produced ' he found in her desk aftershe quit his home. It is poasible, thougk, that ome of the persons to | whom:he-lent the story may havs made a swilt copy of it without his knowlédee. ~ The plaiatifi’s lawyers say that very litilo can como. of *The True Story,” asits rt was made known long before they knew that it was. in existence. The defense, however, say that it will be sure to turn the tide, and that it is one of -their siore of thun- aerbolts. BESE)E TURNER. THE YOUNG LADY'IN \TROUBLE. New Yomx, Feb. 18.—Bessie Tarner, sum: moned 23 a witnesa for the defanse in the Tilton- Beecher trial, is now: in DBrookiyn, and reports hersslf in want aod unsble o obtsin. work, owing 16 the odinm resting on her name. Pariisans of the defondant, she eays, have asaisted her by giving ber some sow- ing and copyiug, but she’ wents-to pet away from Brooklyn. &nd out of the whole affair. CASUALTIES. A RAILROAD BRIDGE GIVES WAY.. Special Duvatel to The Chicaan Trioune. Drcatug, L, Feb. 18.—The .accident which occurred on the. Illinois Midland , Railway, night before last, created considerable excitement, the more 80 becsussit - was impousible to gain correct information in relation to the matter -antil- to~ day, the employes of the road seemiug: deter- mined to' keep the matter to themselves. The train was proceeding on its way, being about an hour belnd' time, when ths. bridge over the Little Embarrass River gave P e Ve e Yo At by the T gage-car. the engine being ‘det y the for- tunate breaking of the coupling. Thomas Clif- ford, the conductor, Hilmer, » brakeman, Mc- Donald. the ‘beg, an,%nd Capi. C. F. Eme ery, grain dealer at' 0%, this connty, were all Tore or less lx:jnxajl. but none fataliy. A BROKEN-RAIL. * Bpecial Diroatch ts The Cldeace Tribune, . Proxu, T, Feb. 18,—An the Eastern bovhd freight’ train on the Toledo, Peoria & Warssw Road was nearing Sciots !ast night, & broken rail pitehod several cars, including tha cahoose, into a diteh, 2ad injured the following persous, nons, however, very seriously: Jobn Smith, head cat; Willixm Crook, Eeokui, arm hurt and rib broken : James MoClure, Keithsburg, . Mo., hurt internsl- ly; Alexander Allison. Good - Hope, IIL, mjared in the side snd badly broised. A train. was at once dispatched from Warsaw with- several sor~ geous on board, bat when the scene of the acei- ! dent was resched . the . injurcd ones had been taken care.of by the Sciota doctors, and every- thing was all right.- Trains are funning now on. time. CRUSHED TO DEATH, Dupateh ¢ The Chcaco Tridbune, Bpecial Norwarx, 0., Feb. 13.—Walker Bate, & resi~ dent of Norwalk, was Lilled in 3ilan, 4,miles north of here, this afternoon. He, with othecs, were engaged in repairing machinery in a grist- mill, of which be was owner, when a boiler fall on him, crushing him in a- terrible manner, kill- ing him instantly. > BURNED TO- DEATH. Special Duvateh o The Clicago Tridunz, Drerraos, O., Feb.: 13.—1his- moroiog, Ars. Cline; an 01d lady of 85, whilesorting clothes and emoking at the esme time, was burned =0 badly 23 t0 cause her death this evening. It is.sup- posed that a spark fell from her pipe and com- municated to her clofhing. She was an old resident aad as estlmsbla [ady. STEAMER SUNK, Nrw OnvEass, Fob. 13.—Stesmer Flets, bonnd for Opelousas.siruck a snag near Donaldsonville, Fridey morning, and sunk in 8 feet of water. ‘The bost snd cargo will ba saved. Nalives lost. Value, $8,000. Insured for $5,000, Insans periods, Mrs. Morso's * ingenuity: of statement against her relations was cunning and malicious in the extrems,” thus implying, with- aut explicitiy eaying, that she was respomsible for the scandal reports. Italso referred to the fact that Mrs. Beecher was the writer's enemy, and had forbidden him to coms to her house. THEE TEOUBLE WITH BOWEX. Then it went into thedetails of the business between Mr. Bowen and the writer, of the tripartite covenent, and the arbitration which ended in the payment to him by Mr. Bow- on of §7,000. In this part of the worn-out nar- rative of the Bowen-Tilton trouble, in telling bow Mr. Bowen bad decided to be the editor of at least one of his Own newspapers, waa the sen- temce; * I took off the crown, Iaidit at his feet; and said, ¢ All hoil the Kivg.’” The audiencs laughed st the extravagauce of the hngufi snd Xr. Evarts asked the usasl gues:ion, * Di you write that ? & +1 don's remember it,” replied Mr. Tilton, «but it sonnda just Like mo. I guess I musf have aid ic.” The plan of incorperating parts of the docu- mente m queetions, and asking Mr. Tuton whether he remembered to have written them, 'was pursued to the end. Once Mr. Tilton asked Judge Neileon for instruction as to how he onght to reply, explaining that bo confd not re- membsr the exac: wording, and yet wes unsble to repudiate ssutences that might not have-been in the original * True Story.” His Honor told kim to base us anawers entirely npon his recol- loction, 2nd not npon his reasouing or his sup- tion. The uext point with aoy freshness init was whers 3lr. Tilton, said in the stary that Mr. Houlton, on returning from an interview with Mr. Beecher—the famous ** pistol scene, " though ot so described in this place,—had descrived it 20 him, and he bad taken down the narration 1 shori-hana as follows : THE INTELVIEW WITH RYECHER, ¥ called. 3¢ Mr. Scecher's. Ife wus not athome, I 1eft my card, Preseatly his on Gme ‘after ‘e, eaying bia motber kpew where his father was, and tbat e wonld go-for him. I went back to the Louse, end Mr. Beecher came in, He invited me zp stairs, Ttold him he wonld nrobably consider it tue ntrangest interview be ever had with morsl man, Sad I, . .1 with to foll you firet how ininctely I recallect your. conversation of list eveming. 1 came to you ax & friend, meaning to yun_as. good service es ever any friend did to another. Onthe way tomy homeIasted youif any one had seen the Jetters tieaides yourse'f—ihe letiers of Thecdoro Tilton demanding sour retirement from the puiglt, -Tou exid nons ssve_one- besides mysell. T sexod wes that cne’ 8. C. B. You mado Do reply. “You recollect it, do yon pot 27 You sid, ‘Ido.’ T Aon prees sny spswes from you, NOW, 38 {ar 28 Yon. dom’t answer 13¢. you doa’t respond 10 the friendship which T profess for yow.' " Mr. Evarts—Now, if Your Honor pleage, Iam sorry to £ay that that is all L bave of the True Sistement—the True Story ” in avy form. Mr. Fallerton—I am sorry to say that it does 1oL 2ppear to be, in part. the ‘Troe Statement.’ Afr. Evarteresd the few lesves of the original dooument that Lod been furtished -by Mr. il Zon. They contained the denial of Mrs. Panlina Wright Davis thes he hed circulated the scan- ———— CANADA, : The Amnesty Bill Adopted in Parlin- ment, i Special Dispateh to The Chicage Tridune. . OtTAws, Ont., Feb. 13.—The dobats-on the general amnesty question in the House of Com- mons was brooght to a close abont half past 2 o'clock this morping. After all had spoken, the Premier made a brzef and trenchant reply, and at twenty. minutes to 2 o'clock the members were called in. Mr. Maxson's amendment xas-then voted down by—nays,. 21; ° yeas, 152. Mr.' Farow thea = moved = an zmendment to add certain additional evidence of the commubications between Arobbishop Tache | ‘members of the present Goverument, which eing declared lost, on a division, a vote was taken on the original motion as follows, nacaly: Yeas, 126; osse, 50. Sir John A;Macdouala left tha House whea the first division was called, but catered when the final yote wha taken, bisen: trance being gtested with lond, iromical: cheers. He voted agamst the motion. ——— THE WHISKY FLURRY. Special Dixpateh to The Chicago Tribune, Crxcixxaty, Feb. 13.—The specnlative spirit n whisky was at fever height hers to-Gay. Dar- ing the weel: 856,540 gulions have been-takenount of bond, on which $249,578 was paid. Of this sum, £130,918.20 was paid'by one firm. The ten distilleries- of this district’ are now producing 40,502 gallous per day. At tho session of ‘the Chamber of Comraerce to-day a proteat agsinst the proposed increased taxation of spirits wes unanimously adopted. The protest recites that spirits having paids tax cf at least $11,000,000, which passes throngh tho hands of dealers hore (and the stand taken héreagainet fraudnlent govds absoiutely gnaran- toes this 2mount to the Government),the addition of 80 cents per gellon tax wonld 1equire thiscity to bear the burden of sdbplsing munes for nearly £5.000,000 additional taxes, and would requir® at least &2,500,000 more capital, and a8 this'mone? i8 sent directly away-from the city, it wonld draw hearity on the banking capital needed” for other branches: of busineas. e Chamber is alsg parsuaded that the increased tax would encoarags frand in toe collection of the revenuatax. BAD FOR, THE DEBTORS. Yaxwrox, D, T., Feb. 13—Consternstion has' beou cansed by the discovery that the late Legis-~ 1ature, by accident or by design of some mem- pers, inadvertently- repeafed \tho exemption Inw- by which- personsl properiy can’ be held. Homesteads are etill exempt as before, but mo- item. of personal property, and the last guils or garment can be . .tsken for debt. This creates great alarm, for, althouzh it is geperally concoded that the Exemption law waa too liberal, great suffering wounld come from’ the enforcement of the collection of debis with~ out any exemption whatever. ~ Tollowing cards-of:| * | I | { | Hills at Alvano, when we diverge.to the sontb, ! * MONTE CASINO. The. Scéne of Longfellow’s . Last 3 Poem, | The Trip from Rome to the Monastery-=~ Places of fiassical and Medieval Interest. The Abbey, Tts Founder, and Its His- tory---A Rare Collection of muctipffs.. Written for The Chicago Tribune. One of the latest productions from the pen of Longfellow is & _very pretty. little descriptive poem, in the Atlantic Hfonthly for February, en- titled,* Monte Casivo,” Thinking that a more definite description.of , THAT CELEBEATED MONASTERY, a8 well a8 the other placea. mentioned in that poem, might be of general intereet, X herein give 8 brief sccount’ of s visit paid to that locality not long ince : We lest the *“Eternal City™ by the morning train that passes gver the ynncipal highway con- necting Romo and Naples. It runs through one of the most intereating regiona of Italy. The sconery in e ingly- beautital ; while-rnined cities, dilapidated fortificstions, and medieval castles meet the eye continually. Tothe classical Btodent it is » field of enchantment, for every mile is marked with historical reminiscences. Along the ronte ware.many.of the principal cities of the Latins, the Valsci, the Hernici, and Cam- paniang; . " "On Jeaving Rome, we_crosa. the piin Iying | between that-city and the - mountains, known a8 “the *“Campagna;” tha cars running nearly par- allel to the ruined sepulchres of tha celebrated Vi» Appia, until westrike the bass.of the.Albsn passing Buccessively the beautifully-situated towns of Caatla Gondalfo,. Albeno, Arricia, and Gepazeno, nestied cosily dlong the slopes of Monts; Cavo,. which; rises. majestically above the . surrounding. country, crowned by its whiteswalled ~* convent, but once stood a grand. temple to. Imperial Jove, Sunny memories of delight{nl days speot in vis- iting thess: charming :scénes, 1 company with our well-kpown Chicago- scalptor,. V——, and family, bannt my mind a8 wo glide past and enter the Town of Velletri. This was an ancienc ity of the..Volscians, but. contsine litile of interest to the travefer, except 1ts ruined medie- val walls and towers. Boyond, we enter the de- files of the: Volscian: Mountsns, leaving the Pontine Marshes ‘to the.right, an the other sido of which gleams the blus- Mediterranean. Vel- montone -is the next town of importance, most picturesquely -perched. on -zn 1solated voleanic eminence.:- Here we enter the Valloy of -the: Sacco, which is bounded on esct eide with monntaine upwards of 4,000 foet in. height, * where modieval towns are ‘white on-evers hill-eide, and: where avery mountain-crest.ia an Etrurian or & Romaw wall.” Hero_stauds, on- the left, the .ruined -castle of Piombinara, which. Jooks: down upon the spot where * MARIUS WAS DEFEATED BY STLLA. Soon we pass antique Sepui perched ‘on- the side of the mountain, whereshe last Tarquin founded 8 foitress-to -keep in check.Rome's unpleasant neighbais,. the, Valsci and. Hornici. Exteasive rnios of the. mpst massive polygocal style etill are traced.. Four miles farther. and There is Anagui, whore Pope Bonifsce ‘Was dragged with contumely from bia throne, This was the ancient eapital-of the Heroidi, and dosenibed by . Virgil.as a wealthy city. In tle middle nges it was a favorite residence of several Popes and Anti-Popes, and where' some SiX Or BoVen were- born. Awmong.-thesa Jast was Bonifacs V1IL., .mentioned.ia the poom. He Q‘m‘reled with that powertnl family, the Colopuas, and with Philip-le-Bel of France, who, united, sent their forces against him., The gate of Anagnl was opeued to them by treachery; she French and their allies entered thecity, Sopl. 7, 1308, crying, **Vive 1a Roi de France, et ‘meure Bonaface!” At the firat alarm the” Pope had -pat on bis robes; and was sitting in the Pontifical chair when -the conspirators. entered. They. weore: 8o struck with his. age and venerable, appesranca that the boldest of their party was awed, and.no one ventared to lay bands. on - bis person. Afier three davs the people recovered - from their.sarprise, drove out the:allies, and- set-the Popo at. liberty, Hastening to .Bome, he threw: himself under the protection of the Orsinii, the bereditary enemies. of the Colonnas. He was, however, 8oon found poisoned io his bed’—a mode of disposing of inconvenient. persons. quite com- mon in thosadays. % Beyond Anagni we pess several stations more ar Iee; !imp?:gep" uufilh era 0, whero s renegads Wis cach A voach ab Frest mmum, ‘Whien Manircd, by his men-at-arms hetrayed, Spurred on to Benevento and to death. The post bere rofers to the period- when Charles of 'Anjou invaded the Kingdom, in 1266. The Count of Cagerts, Manfred's brother-in-law, who was jeft st Ceprano to defend the passaze of the Garigiano, retired at the spproach of Charles, and the atrong fartress of Rocca d’Arce was also TREACHEROUSLY OB COWARDLY SURRENDELED. This. place .will be remembered by former tourists as the fruntier tdwn between tho Papal and - Neapolitan States—s division that, since the unton of Italy is completed, no looger exists. 1t is situated on ** The Liris, nuree of rushes aud reeds,” which, a short: distance below, on its * junction = with the Tolero, becomea the Guriglisne. The view—extending down to Monte Casino on one side, aud up the Valley of the Liris, embracing .the picturesquely-situ- ated Town af Rocea d'Arce, with the distant, snow-capped peaka of the Apruzzi Apepnincs, whils some six or seven towns are romantically. perctied along the spurs of the mountains— makes .this, takon togetler, extremely.iatereat~ iog. Bevond Ceprano comes Isoletta: then Rocea Bureea, with its fine old ruined castle ovetldoking the town,: Here the celebrated Thomas Aguinas wasborn. Thep There {8 Aquinum, the did Volsclan town, ‘Where Juvensl was horn ; And, & few miles.farther : ——TUplifted like » passing clond That pauses on a mountain-summit high, 3lonte Casino's content rears its proud Azd venersble walls againet the aky. The cars stop &t San Germano, or ancient Casi- E:m. and visitors alight hore who wish' to vigit 3 $ MORASTERY OF HMONTE CASINO, ‘which is situsted oo the sammit ‘of - the monn- tain, back- of the town, and- between 2. and 3 miles distant, This Casinum would be of itsglf a place worthy. of = visit, for irs extensive remains of antiguity; but its more- interesting peighbor absorba the mind of the traveler, 'to .the: neglect of thesa: lesser objects of interest. ., We climbed the.* stony.pathway ™ lesding to its gate, not ‘‘on foot,” bui astride s small donkoy, which bore us slowly and patiently-to its portal, when we eatered the grandast.mo- ngstic establishment in._Earope; founded: many centuries ago by Si. Benedick, who, **fleeing from tho gates gf Rome,” sought these. moun-~ tain-solitudes, ‘Ehd 1aid the foundation of an institntion that s exerted a wide-spread in- fluence thronghout : Christendom . for hnndreds of yeara. Tho monastery.is s. massive pile of great extent, but exceedingly smplo-in style. of. architectore. The ‘entrance—a low, rocky pas- sage—ia eaid to have been tho cell of its fonnder. Xo part, excent this, of the original struoture, or the sevéral that sucfeeded it 1 the.middle oges, Temaina,—the preseot buildiog fmving. been completed in 1727, The arrange- ment i8 by couria conpected . by arcades. The central” ove has a fine fountain of: Iving: water, adorned with statues of 8t. Benadick and his sister, St.Scholastica. A square place:bigher. n}), Aipcl‘?sz&&y colnn;m from an sucient templo of Apotio once Elood here, now is i by the church. Over the lloor?' seguping A-LATIN INSCRIPTION- records: the foundation of: the. Abbey, and its subsequent vicissitndes up-to the yoar 1649, “Tbe church built. by St. Benedick was destroyed towards the end of the sixth contury. by the Longobards ; rebuitt in the eighth By the Abbat Petronaces; burat bythe Saracens in 383 ; repaired by the. Abbot- Johannes, aud ngain re. built by the Abbot Desiderius in1065. It wascon-. secrated in 1071 by Alexander IL It waa totally destroved by an earthquakein 1349, and restored in 1365 by Urban V. ' In 1649 it fell down in con- sequence’ of the mnegligence of the workmen during some repairs. Towards the close of the geventsenth. centary it was cnce more rebuilt, with greater magnificence, in its preseot form. It-was completed io 1727, and consecrated by Benedick XITL.™" The centra door is of bronze, cactat Constane where ! tinople in 1066, and is Inscribed with s Jist;’ laid with aitver, of all tha posseasioos of t! Church at that date. The intenior is not. sur- assed in magpificence, and in elegant and cost- ry decoratious I3 excelied by none 1 Italy,. ex- copt, perhaps, St: Peters aud St. Panl's, at TRome. 'fhe floora are of Florentine mosaics, and the marbles are of- the richest < TINGS. ere, with two or three exceptions, nothing won- derfnl 88 works of art, bat very iterssung, The prncipal ooes in fresco record the ‘mopastic vir- tues ‘snd" miracles of 8t. Benedick. = ‘They were executed by Giordano, in 1677. - We found in the refoctory.a fine work by Bassam, representing the. **Miracle of the Loaves sud Fishes.” Beneath the high altar, rich in marble ;decoration, repose the romains of St. Benedick himseif and his saintly sister. We take it for granted that they were good people. There are soveral objects of inter- est in the sacristy,—croziors, crosses, ivories, &c.,—oue very remarkable crozier by that artistic fiend, Benventto Cellini. 7 In. the library-we wera shown -mapy. ancieni and valusble;productions. This-waa tha sanctu- arv whero many treasures of Greek and. Laf litersture was preserved during the, dark agés. Even in the oatly times of the mopastery, capies of the: RABEST CLASSICAL MANUSCRIFTS were copied by the wonks. To the Abbot De- siderius, to whom the institution owes much of its glory, the world is indebted for the preserva- tion of the Idyls of Theocritus and the Fasti of Ovid. The collection ccntains about 10,000 volomes. “ The'' oldeet". mapuscripts are: A translation of Origen's Commentaries on St. Paul's Epiade. to_ the Romans, of the sixth century;a Dante of the fourteenth, with marginal notes; g Virgil of the fourteenth, copied from snother of tlie tenth, in Lombard characters ; original MSS. of. Leo Ostiensia; and the visiou of Frate Alberico, which some sup- pose to have given Dante the idea of the **Di- vioa Commedia.” = The archives comprise s rare atd valuabls col- lection, containing.about 300-original. diplomas and charters- of, Emperors, Kings, Dukes, and Barons, beginning with Ajo, ong of the Lom- | bards, in88%; a&nd a completa series of all the bu'ls of the Popes relating to the mon- natery, from the eloventh * cen- tury. These, in themselves, would form a volnme of wonderfnl interest in the political and religious history of the middie ages. Alto- | gether, this is one of the rarest and most pre- cious collections 1n the world. In the cloisters we found a part of the building devoted to a col- lection of antiquities, gathered maiuly from an- cient Casinum. ¢ Wo,wers treated.with . GBEAT.KINDNESE AND COUBTESY. by the brethren, althongh :we wers known to be heretics by our not conformiog. to the religious * obseryandes of-the- place, - A comfbrisble room i was aliotted us, and good substautial food pro- - vided, with wine ad libitum, They have been noted for hundieds of yeara for their hospitality + to strangers, and they take a pride in doing all they can to preserve this reputation, The Banegmtineu of Monte Casino have for oAy years occupied s pecaliar- position-in the ecclesigstico-political, world. Lone before the ovents of 1859, it was tha rofnge of liberal and ; constitational opinions. Whilst, under the dark : rule of the Bonrbaus, the clergy of Naples ac- ! quiesced in their. despotic rule, the Abboy of : Monte Casino msintained & noble independauncs. i The inmates of the monastery number about 197 in holy orders, abont as many novices, and | 150 pupils' who receive & general education. In their palmy days, the revenue derived from their yast possossions amonntedyto 100.000 yearly, but are now about £20,000." Like all the mones- ! tic institutions ia Italy, it will soon pasy away as + ench, bt will probablv still continue to exist &s . an educational establishent. Just before sunset wo were taken to the dif- i feront poiuts of view pesr the; convent, by-a | young monk, who - pointed out the princapsl ! points of intereat. "THE PROSPZCT WAS SUBLDNE, and with an eager eye wo toox, in the whole field of Nature inone of ner lovliest moods, a8 it-lay { before our vision. To the wes: snod south ex- ( tends the bioad valley of the zliding Garigliano,. { with its numerous villages, separated from the gea by o range of |hils, with here and there a blue gleam of distant water. To_the, esst. lies 8an Germano, Valley, beyond whicly, vise tbe rocky. summita of the Abruzz ! while;to the noith. lies'a wild, mountainous dis- | trict. The peak of Moote Caira rises, back of | the monastery, to the height of 5000 feet, and iis said to command oneof the finest views in 1taly. - We coula ecarcely imagine that it could be much finer tian the one extending beforo us, although comprehending & much wider scope of, | territory. ; After a refresbing night's sleop, and an.ample breakfast, wo'bsde the’ worthy Fathers farewell,« snd, makiog our way back, stopping now and then to admirs the sconery snd make s few husty pencil-sketches, we reachod the Sau Ger- mano station_in time to catch the first morning train for Napies. E. R. ) CRIME. L FALSE PRETENSES. s i 8recial Dispateh to The Chiwcaco Tridune, { Fomr Warxe, Ind, Feb. 13.—Great excite- | ment was. cansed hero-to-day by the report : of the burniog of s Chicago,theatre dnd ‘loss of several hundred lives, Thers was ia ‘great rosh for- the morzning papers’ : upon their, arrival, and, when the discovery ‘ was mads that.the: whale- report was: aimply a. Times hoex, indignation was freely expressed. . The Times is universnlly condemoed, and the evenine papers only express the general. fegling inthe demand that its editor be'legally punished i for obtaininz monoy under false pretenses. BanFrascisco. Feb, 13,—Philin Lovy nas ar- rested this afternoon ov & reqmisition from Gov. i Tilden, of New York, cbarged with obtaining goods under false prstenses. Ha was taken * trom the New York offizer, under s writ of habess corpus, and jailed. i t HELD_ FOR MURDER.. Svecial Disvatch to The Chicaac Tribune, Quorxer, ItL, Feb. 14.—On the evening of the | bth inst., O.W. Hart snd: Charles Weller visited | David Gatloups. Dusing their stayWeller insult- i od Mrs. Gallonpe. Both men Were ordered ont of the house, when -Hast-atruck Gelioupe & blow on the head which fractured bis ekull, aud from- the- offect’ of which the injured mao died this. morpinz. Hart is fore- 'man of Cole's circus _establishment, now quar- tered in thiscity, He has fled; but Waller has i been arrested. STABBING.ATFRAY IN COURT, CixcIsyaty, Feb. 18.—The Commercials. ' Huotmgton (. Va:) special says daring s civil | suit in court thera to-day, whila Q. Dannells,; {ooe of the witnasses, was tesifsing, Dr. Biitler,one of the partied to the.suit, called him » damned liar, Dobuella s:ruck. Batler, and was instantly stabbed-in the bowels:- by the.Iatter. Bautler is under arrest awaiting the result of the wounded man's-injuries. - - g i ROBBERY AND INCENDIARISM. . Special Dispatch to The Chicago. Tridune. Eansas-Orry, Mo., Feb. 13.—A. band. of- bur- glars robbed Thomas Castle’s grocery and dry poods-store, at- Raytown, last night,- of $80; also, the Masonic Lodge of €15; then burned the building; which, with Castle's, stock, was worlh $5,000., Insured for $1,000. No .arrests. THE FALL RIVER WZAVZRS. Fart Rrvee, Mass,, Feb. 13.—A larze meeting. of weavers washeld this evening. A resolution was passed denonncing the recent repor!s of the meeting a8 published: in. Boston, and a motion. was, camied - to exclude. all reportera from fature meetings. Letters from operatives in other cities were read, encouraging tbo. -Fall River weavers to continue, and pledging. aid. A letter was also resd from . . Ar. erlain, . Labor. Re- form cundidste for Governor, expressing swggnpn(:hy. and 'assuring- them that the strike sbould’ “be. coneidered at . the Labor Con- vention- to .be held -in Boston nest week. One spenker declared that. if the mann- factorers': QM. 1ot mccede. o their demeads within a week, the two weeks' mnotico ,mast-be given in other milla. Thia was received with npplause, The meeting expressed unani- mously- its. datermination to adhere to the pur- pose of the strike. . ——— OCEAN STEAMSHIP- NEWS, | NEw Yomr, Feb. 13.—Arrived—Steamships Belgic, fram Liverpool and Persira, from Havro. Lrvenroor, Feb. 18.—Steamship Jgva. from Nl;‘gv Yoz%'bu l;nvbud gh. . 2% -Yo! ‘eb, 13.—Arrived — Steams] Co‘?nwa‘.‘g, 1“@%3::%1, et ety Hp NEw. Yorg, Feb, ived, st i of Avrcep, Trom Lverpay Seamslip Oity THE LOUISIANA. MUDDLE, New Omreaxs, Feb. 13. —The Conservative caucus met to-day, snd immedisteiy adjomrned il Monday. Nothing was.done, the Conserva- Liwea, :uung till. their agents: Teium.from Wash- KILLING: PIGS: AT PARIS: Sir- me:s Head’s: Account: of ‘2 Visit to the Abattoir des ; Coohons, . - white. Pig-Killing by the French Meth- od Quite.a. Polite Affair. T the Bditor of The Chicaco Tribune: The scconnt in Tag TRIBUSE, last week, of the boainesy of pig-killing as practiced in Chicagzo, cslls to-.mind.a.description. of-the . manner. in which the same work is dooe in Pams, 28 given by Sic Francis Hend, in bis “ Faggot of Frepch Sticks.” The contrast.of the modes of operation may very well be taken nsiflustrative of the car- acteristics of the two cides, and Sir Frascis Head's pleasant and .attractive stvle of writing forms an equally refresbing. contrast, to the sep- sational and bombastic language whiclh is so. much in vogue at the presont dsy. As in all probability the majority of your readers hdve never seen the book, which is nowoutof print, and the description is one that will sell repay. perusal, I transcribs it for their benefi. C.- THE. ARATTOIR DES COCHONS. On descendiog from an omnibus in: which I bad been rumbling atong sideways for three- quartens of_ 3 hour, and which st last dropped me considerably beyoud the *Barriere de Mout- mattre,” I'was told that in tiventy minutes I could wallks to the Abattoir dus Cacbous, or nig slsughter-houss, which I waa desirons to viit. Now, I atways found tbatthe people of Paris, out of sheer kindness, and to prevent me from putting myselt’ to the expense of - & flaore, inva- riably cheated me in their estimales of distance, andaccordingly it took me nem! of an hour of mv fastest walking to re paint of my destinatiun, a spot which nutillately. must have been iu the country, but which is o among new builldings, which ate rising up around it in all directions. THE ESTABLISHMENT, from the outside, was completelyconcealed from view by a bigh wall, iclading & square, each side of which was'about 150 yards tong: I-walked round two of them without.beiug able to find auy entrance ; at {ast, 1n the third, I cams to some lofty iron gates and s bell, which I toqk especial care to tongh {;end{ain the French style, and not to throw it into hysteries by an Eoglish pull. On being admitted by the. conciarge.—who, a8 soon as ehe had opened the door, popped into her hole 28 easily as she bad popped out of iti—I saw be- fors me, andon each side, & number of [ow baild- ings, with a large clock in the middle to keep them all 10 order ; and I was looking at the vari- ous arrangements when the Buperinteodeat of the establihment walked up to me, and, after listening to, my wishes, told' me very formally that be was not permitted to show the place to any person whetever without an order. To be denied seeing. what was lternlly. be- fore my eyes wag 8o cruel a disappointment that I was determined if possible fo attawn my object. The Superintendant was &. very. large, powerful, and, notwithacanding his_ocoupation, 2 good-humored-looking . man. _ He, however, swurdily repelied all my reasoning, that becanse Ibad been permitted to ses the slaughter- houses of oxen, sheep, calves, &c., I hoped not to be refussd to see that of pigs, &e., &e., &c., by replying that I could easily obtain an order. Howeyer; whea-I toid him to look at me and . see bow tired and hot I was, I observed that I dealt him a heavy blow; and I had no sooner quickly followed it np by reminding bim that, besidss oeing very tired, I was a stranger,—a word that sctd like,a talisman upon every.class of society in Pans —than he smiled, shragged up both his shoulders, surrendered at discretion, and #aying very kindly, ** Allous, Mansienr,” be walked - his office, came out again with soms keys in his band, and then with the utmoat kindness con- ducted me OVER TIE WHOLE OF THE BUILDINGS. As wa were wallung along, I asked him to he 80 good 88 to explain to me what was the foands- tion of his establishmont. As if I had touched a vital spot, he immediately stopped short, look- od: ma fall in the. face, aod with great dignity. explzined to me in tha following words theaxiom or. principle of. the whole concern: ‘*Bir, no- body bas.a right to.kill a pigin Pads!"- Said I to myself: ‘" How I wish that. sentence were writfen in gold on our London .Mxusion House.” We now reached & long. building, one story high, not uolike a set of huoting stzblea; and, on'the, door of. No. 1 being opened, I'saw befére me a- chamber veutilated like a brow-honse, with a wiadow at each end, aud paved with flagstoncs,. the farther ha'f of which ¥aa covered with o tnick stratum of straw, as axeaf, clean, and un- s:amed agif it had just, come from theé flail of the thresher. Upon this wholesomo bed there Iny, fast asleop, TWO. ENORZOUS WHITE. HOGS, evidently too fat even to dream. They belonged to no political party; had no wanta; no cares; to thoughts’; no more idea, of to-miorrow thian if they had been dead, smokeéd, and salted.- 1 never before had an opportunity to see-nny of their rpecies o clearly: for, in England, if with bend-. ed back and knees sn iquisicive man tries to look into that hittle low dornutory called & stre, the avimal, if lean, with & noise becween a bark und a.grunt, will probatly jump over him; or, if fat, ho lies 80 covered up that the intruder bas no space to contemplate him; wheress, if the two pigs lying before mo had been in my own | smudy I contd not haye seen them {o greater. ad- | vantago. Without distorbing Lbet, my condnc | 5 torclosed the door, aod we thea entered No. 3, | 38, and 4, which I found-to be equally clean, aud | in which were.lying, in different atitudes, pigs | of various sizes, nlf_hcidlyeu]oving the kand of | apoplectic slumber 1 have described. He would | kindly bave opened the remainder of tbe doors, | vocas I had seen sufficient to teach me, what ! will hardly be believed in Eungland, tnatitis | possible to have a pig stve without any disagres- sble smell, I begged.him ot to tronbls. himself to do so; and accordinglv he was' condacting me across the open sqnare whea I met several men, each wheoling in ‘s barrow a large jet black pi this skin of which appaared to be lightly mottled ; io cireles. As they passed me, there parsed also = stight whilf of em ke; and I was on the poinc ! of soking o few questions on the subjeck, when | I found myaelf. : 2 4 | WITHIN TH¥ GREAT SLAUGHTLR-HOUSE ° | of the establishmeut, a large barn, the walls and | roof of which wore a8 black as. soot. The floor was covered for ‘soveral ioches with burnt black straw, and unon it lay bere and there's large black lnmp, of the shaps of a hage hog, which it really wya. covered over with the ashes of the, straw which had_just been used to burn his coat from his body. Yo vein I looked' bencath my fegs nod around we to discover the exact spot where all this murder had been commitied ; but nowhere could I perceive a pool, alop, or the smatlest vestige of blood or anything at all resembliog it. In short, the- whole floor was nothing bat & mass of dry, crisp, charred remains of burnt atraw. ~ It was certainly an odd-looking, 1lace; but ~ ¥ NO ONZ COULD ZAVE GUESSED to.be a slaughbter-house. Thero was another. mystery to be accounied for. Ia.England, when anybody in one's little village. from the worthy Rector at the top of the hill down to the hiile ale-honse keeper at the bottom, killa a pig, the enimal. who has no idea of *“letting couceal- ment, lile & yorm in'the bud, foed on his damask cheek,” iuvarizbly explains to every persoa in the parish,—Dissenters and all,—pot only tho tiansaction, but every circumstance relating to it; and accordingly, whether.you are very, basily writing, reading,” thivking, or ialking sboa} vothing at all to Iadies in bonnets siiting on your sofa.to pay.yan-s morning : visit, you know, aud they know perfectly well, though it is not deemed propar to make.auy_aliasion to it, the begipning, middle, and end, in short, the whole progress of the deed.. Yor, first of all, a httle petulant noise proclaims - that .somebody, some- where, i8 treing to - catch a pig; then the animal begius all at once, with the utmost force of his lungs to. squall out: ‘' They've. caught me, they're pulling at me, they'ra tryivg to trip me up, afellow is kneeling ou me, thev're going to make what they call poik of me. Oh: dear! q;e{'va done for mo (the sound gets wenker). [ feol exceadingly: unwell: I'm getting faint; faivter; fainter still; Isban't baoble to squall much longer (a long pause) ; this very long It~ tla equsH ia my last; it’s all over; I'm dying;— dying—I'm dead 1" Now, daring the short period I had beenin the establishment, all the lplgm before me had been killed; nnd aithough { hed come,£)* no other earthly purposg bat to look and fisten; \ lthough ever since I had entered the gate {111 —to con- fesy the trmah—expected to hear a 3{11al, was surprised I bsd pot heard ons, and was 10t only ready but equally saxions, with the fidality of sbort-hand writor to have inserted in mv bote- book in two lines of treble and bass tho ermallest «quaver'vr demisemiquaver that should resch my oars,—vet I baid s > NOT JEARD THF, SLIGETEST SOUKD of discontent!” However. while I waa angrossed with these yarious reflections, I beard soms foot- sieps datside: a-msn within opened ‘the door elightly, and- through the :aparture. in - trot:ed, Joaking s little wild, a large; looes pig, whese clean, delicste skin, physicaily-as well as morally, formed a striking contrast with the black ruins around him. 1’3 few gecords he stopped, put his enoat-to: the ground to.smell it, d;é’ not | i sgem. to like it at all, Iooxad around: hii one after another, at the Suparintendent, at ms, and. the three men in blquaes; appearcd mis- trosfful of- ua all. and, not knowing which of us to.dislke most, stood 3 'if to keep us all a¢ bar. No sooner, however, hed be asetmad this theatri- cal attitude than s man who, with Ius eves fixed oo hiwm, had been hotdihg in both hands the ax- _tremity of & long thin-handled round wooden t, “walked up to mallef striking OSE BLOW OX NIS FOREREAD, -the animal; without making the- smallest- noisa, | Tolled over on the black, carred dust, senssles, ‘and, excapting & slight convulsive kick of bis upper bind loz, motionless. Trwo assistanis im- ediately stepped forward, one . with a knifa ia hand, the other with & sorf of iran frring-pan, which he put under the pig's neck; his throat wa3 then cut ;- not & drop of blood was spilled ; but as soon aa'it had ceased to flow it was poured from the fryiog-pan mto & pail, where it was au;;ed" by a stick, which caused it.to remain id. iy Leaving the poor animal to be singed, by a ‘portion of the heap of whiie straw in s far cor- ner; I followed the men, who, with barroxs, bed | come again for one of the black corpses lyiog on the ground, nte TARGE. LIGET, AIRY BUILDING, 28 high a8 a church, aa clean 2 3 dairy, and with wiudgws sad doors on all sides. [u the ceotre was d beauufal’ fountaiu playing, with watar- cocksall around the wails. Bythisample supply proceedine from two larze ressrvoirs, kept con- etaotly fall by steam-power, the flag-stones were Isept perfectly clean. As fast as tho black pigas were whealed in, they were, bv a running: crave, lifted up by the hiud legs until they appeired suspanded in zows: Their iusides were here taken ont and carried to a set of stoue tables, where they were clesued by the assistanse of the water-cocks, and besame the properiy of the cleanera. < The bodies were then scraped until they became déadly white, iu which state, to the number of aboat 300 per week, they are restored at night to their respect~ ive owners in Paris. By the arrangements I have describsd, con- ducted by ona Superintendeut, tour surveilisncs or. foremen, and the necessary. mumber of. slanghterers, wheelers, cleanors, snd scrajers, the poor animals, instead of being maltreated, balf frightened to dexth and: then inhumanlv killed ; instead of inflicting upon all elagses the sounds and demoraliziog sight of a pig's death ; instesd, of contaminstiug the air of the mekro olis,—undergo the treatment I‘have describe for the knowledge of -whick -1 am indebted o the politeness of the official who. so kindly ex~ poanded to me the meaning of -that golden Inw, **Nobody has a right to & pig ia Pany.” TFIRES. AT INDEPENDENCE, KAN. Special Dispatch to. The Chcagn, Lxavesworte, Kan,, Feb, 13.—A fire at Inde- | pendence, Kan,, yesterday moruing, made aclean sweep of one entire block in the centre of. the town. The total loss is abon: $150,000; insurance, $30,000. The firms burped ont; were: Stad & DBrinkman, groceries; Clifford & Honson, . harness; J. H. Case, etoves and tinware; Angust Zntz) cigars; Ailler & Co., grogeries; Donaldson, Scullelery, Panl & Co, groceries; Bcblogs, clothing; Roodger, con- fectionery ; Dales, druga; Concarmon, boots and shoes; Kramer, batcher .and harness; Shick & Co,, boots and shoes; Clifford & Horns, harness;. Badin' Bros,, general merchandise; Henry Baden, cigars; Shanks & Co., Boots aad ahoes. In most inatances.thestocks of merchan- dize were eaved in & damazed conditfon. The fire originated in_btad & Bnnkman's a:ore, ot 4 2. m. The town preeents a mournful aspsct to- day. Stocks of merchandize are piled op in in- describable coafusion in.the streets. " AT BAY CITY, MICH. Special Dispateh to The Chicago, Tribune. East Saeryaw, Mich., Feb. 13.—~The Rixth Wnrqi school-honsa in Bay City was totally destroyed by fire this morning. Loss, $13,000. Tosured for $7,000; 63,500 in, the Phenix. of, Hartford, and tie same amount in the North American, g NEAR. YOUNGSTOWN, O, Sveefal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Yoososrows, 0., Feb. 13.—The’dwrlling- honse of- Thomas P. Jones, 4 milea north of this city, was consumed by fire Iast night. the in- oates barely escaping with their lives; anc say- ing but little. Losa. about. $2,500. "Insured in Covhecticut Fire Insurance Company, of Hart- ford, far 32,000, 3 AT DANVILLE ILL. Soectal Dispaten to The Chizago Daxviiee, DL, Jeb. 13.—Afire was discov- in:the dwelling-bouse. of Samuel Hurley this morning a¢ half-past 8 o'clock, and béfore asgistance could be rendered the house was. al. most entirely consnmed. Loss probably @700, which was cavered by insorance. ; AT FORT SILL. Sr. Lovrs, Mo., Feb. 13.—The Wichita (Kan.) Beacon learng from & -gentleman wha left Fort Sill ilast Ssturday tha the greater portion of the barracks at thax post ate burned, and almost all the Jadiau prisoness held there hava escaped. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Capt. W. K. Barnoy, s young snd. highly- respected oitizen” of “AMad:aon, Wis.. died very snddfi;ly yesterdsy morning of congestion of the o Ay Sl Fonr thousand seven hundred and. fifty hoge, weighine 1,340,400 poands we:s spipped from Iowa City, Ia., during the month of Janamary, averaging $6.30 per owt. The greatest number of hogs ever kil'ed in one season byauv ooe firm in Cimcionati. js 70,690. This was done by R. Beresford & Co., who quit yesterday. Average weight, 20 tbs. Charles Rafert, an cld employe of the Indisn- apolis, Pern-& Chicazo Railroad, for twenty Jeamat the dspol in Tndignagolis, foll dead st residence last mglht. The causs is supposed to be heart-diseass. & - Mayor Bloom. of Towa City, Ta., received the money from the contractors, and will pay-the mien “emploved upon the Iows Santhwestern BRaulroad next. Monday iu that cicy. The' bridge over the Wapsie River has jnst oeen completed ready for the ties. The 'road from Chanton fo Towa City is to be ready for thie iron in March. The partial stoppage of iron and coal works, and tne stagoation of business generallv, have caused great destitution at Youngstown, O., this winter. Over. 800 poople sre fed da-ly at the soup-houses, ' To replenish the exhausted fands of the Committee, a grand charitv ball will be given at the Opera-House on the 26th inst,. for which extcnsive preparations are being made. A verv brillisnt meteor passed over Iowa City on Friday evening at 10:30. ~ Its course was fron sonfheast toward the northwest. Xt was wp- parently abont half the diameter of the moon, and accompanied by, a baautifnl train. The color aod vividness wers about like that of molten iron. Whilain viaw 1t vae 8een ta separats inta many fragments, sud, after aboat three minutes, the report of-tbres explosions were heard, re. sembling, s some gaid, the rumbling of thun. der. The reporia were much louder west of Towa City than at thak place. A etranger emplayed in a pork-packin) tisbiment £t 8, Paul diod on ey, STe: ool given his name and received letters from Cam- bride, Mass., a8 John. G. Morrow. Papers found amonz his effects show that his real name swas John Troyfard, and that was his name 1n. Cambridgea, although letters, evidentls from his wife, are addressed to Morrow, and he carried lettors of recommendation from & firm of pork- packers at’ Cambridge, recommending him by the pame of ‘Morrow." The la-ter letter is prob- sble genuine, oxcept that Morrow 1a substitied in.place of Troyforg by an expert erssare. B THE TOBACCD. TAX. . Rrcuxorp, Va., Feb. 13.—1t view of ipated increase of the tex on Lulneco,r ffl:::"f:; been & rush op the Internal Revenne eitice for tobacco stamps for the pass two or three days. One hundred thousand dollars worth were sold ta-diy. —_— Something New in Gloves. A fashion writer in the Hornet savs: * T must Iention a novelty in gloves—s new creation of Mme. Alexindriss, our colebrated ‘gloviet.! I do nos know whether that word-is perfectly En- giish, though why wa shonld nok say *glovist® 28 well as florist I cannot fell. ‘Let ua-create the word. thep. That agreed, I proceed: to asy that onr great “glovist’ haa just brought out & new glove which ehonid-make fureur daring the. next season. It is of ~white kid, 2nd is embroidered ronnd- the top of its arm with o.wresth of. flowera. formiog o brace- Iot, ' It 18 intended t0 ba wozn with batl dresses, 0d the ball dieisps should be trimmed with flowers to.thatch the: embraidery an the gloves. I tlus fashion-take, and it is expected it will, we shall n6 doubt be. having sloves. next em- broidered with gold, silver, pearls, and precious stopes, a8 iu the. days of ths Medici. Batat Trasent the embroidery takes the semblance.of a b f flow #_nd it is. both. novel and him from~ beRind, and, Another Serions Political Crisis i Frazce, The Recent Action of the Asembly Favorable to the Bonapariists, . FRANCE. DISSOLUTION OF THE MISISTRY. Panis, Fob. 13.—~The Gaulois seseits that s the close of yesterday's sitting of the Ansembly the Ministers inslated upou resigning, and that President Macdahon sccopted their resignations. The Gaulois ssya that the President has sum. moned the Duke de Broelie to form a new Cabis net in conjunction with De Faurton. . THE SITOATION. Loxvpoy, Feb. 18.—A special from Paris savs that the greatest uncasinesa prevails in that city in consequencs of the grave political sitnation. The Chamber caunot muaie a Constitution, sod it will not diesolve. President Mac'dahon won'd Dave resigaed if the Senate bill had been,prased- or amendsd. Tho Doaspartistg guia croacly by shese complications. B ublicans * wil makeé no._ further concessiona. & % i, GERMANY. DISMATICE AND MAZZINT, Loxvoy, Fab. 18.—The Flareace' Epdoa haa. published s correspondence purporting to ba be- tveen Mazzini and. the Prussian Government. It containg a letter written by Mazzini ta Bis marck in 1867. The latter is warned of tha existence of an alliance between Frande and Italy by & concession relative’ to Rage. France has secured Italian aid in the cage of a war with Pruasis, and Mazzini. offars, it-farnished with 1,001,030 lire a2d arms; to trus. trate the scheme by effecting the restoration of . Italv. He declares his information is truat. worthy, but he is unabla to give aatharity for it. The Cologne Gazelts is inclined. to belisve the g‘c.rgcnpondqn:a, but tha Derlin press repudiate s —_— SPAIN. PAZAINE ' INSULTED. Bavoxye, Feb. 13.—Ex-Marshal. Bszsine ss rived at Santanier vesterdsy. Tha Freochreei. dents having asked for and obtained permussion of the suthorities to serenade him, used the op- vortunitv to hiss_him and indulge in insnlty cries.” Tha crowd was dispersed by tha police. SOMETHING ABOUT- NEWSPAPERS. To the Edikor of The Chicago Tribuns = Crcaco, Feb. 12.—The ** Subscriber for tep’ ¥ears to Tnx TRIBURE," who Writes, in the Zimes of to-day, that *Tmx Tarsuve, of this eity, wondors that the daily circulation of the Times hag run up to 50,000 or 60,009, woald not proba- bly have written his little know-nothing-ism if he bad known more. This eveniog, as I wens home, I went into & news-shop om the Sonth Side to make a small parchase. A pilsof Times were onthe connter, but no TEIEUNES that Teaw. The provrietor said to me, ‘Do you read the Times?™ T answered, ** Very seldom.” He eai folding one up. ** You can take ous. if von like.’ I never had a TRIBUNE given mavet. Thia probas blV'? may account for some part of tha Times' cixe calation. The eame ‘Subscribsr™ fluds fanit with * Gath” and **Doctor Syntax.” Had the Times such correspondonts cn ita staff, who conld serve up such epicurean feasts, it would be contant ta bave; and not to brag about what it has not. For one, I never take up that dirty t withont Isving it down again in disgust ; and ooly whes Tsz TRIBUNE is not to bo had do T over read it Curs will bark and endeavor ta attract atteo. tion by their noise. Their reward is nsually s kick from passers-bv. I am, S A Somsmisee or ELevey ¥rams. —_—— THE DAY. onxING, Light on the tonmost hills now takes her stand, A * jocund Morn " trips blithely to awaka Lifefrom reposa. S Witk vigor all Afii“flfim trang arm, a1l regwd, at Edjuvenate, goes forth bogol - S % i FQON. Hest naw her farascs fires has lighte? um,— All Nattre garps for brath, Sweating trm bofl, Laborkis {orehead wiges. Light, bes monk dajling Flashéh star 1 % EVEISG. comes in gray, and Light rettren, ks il Diciward glancs, D] Ing, an D 5 ,u,-w;—,p*ezmmmfi tain-top abe takey Her way, Tabor has paused. Cesing from tafl, Homeward hs moves, and now kis chi fl;rmm 32 Plenty and Peaced ' 03 FIGET. Night draps her £ablo pall o'er all the ea And D rkness sbrouds sawith :uu-—su?’ioaql This lower world, Now Silence stalks abroad © Finger ou lips, with noiseless step she moves, And'by herside, Stillness and Cabm.© And now Pesr out the eyes of Heaven, curio:sly Grzing from far, watchful of gentie Sl ‘Who rocks the Cradla of 3 World and Fatigue torest] i Cmicaso. J. W. Drogneses Anecdotes of George 1T, Charles Knight, the origlmtgrof the Pe Magazine, was the son of a baoksetler i Wind: 8or, near the Roval palae, to whose whoss shop the King Irequently came to look over tha ney noblications. Qua summer morning, befare: shop was fully opened. the voica of the sxng was heard uyder the windows, calling, ** Enight! Koight!” Enieht!™ His fither came doun 38 8000 &3 poaaible, and found the Kinz deply ab- sorbed in reading & work which had come dosn s parcel from London the evening befors. What was nis horror and consternatioa to dis- cover taat the King hai taten up Thomas Paine’s " ¢ Rights of Man.” io which the author defended the French Revolution, and attacked tution of monarchy. The Bm to read for half an hour, at the expimtioa of which be laid down the book and left the shop withont a word. but afso without offease, for ha continued to be 25 friondly aud frequecta visitor a8 before. Mr. Knizht also reporis thab the King waa as much.amused a3 sny one at 108 canicatures of the dav, in which by waf broadly burldsqued, sud that he was quis capable of being used:- at Poter PRindar’s poems of the * Apole-Dumplinzs sqd Farmer George.” He was indeed, in private Life, a5 2008 patared and amisble a gentlemsn as ever mis averned 8 Krngdom or spiled a family, Me night tells an smusing staryin poing. Qus evening, after having joined the familyin e drawing-room, the King went back to the library where Be had been writing, and found the Wil candles’ stil’ burniny. It was 3 cuviols the palace, 33 of great hoiwes zeneraliv in. thab day, tliat a wax candle shoald never bo ighted & second time,-and the unconsamed portions were usually the peryuisites of somse servant oc of of the honsehold. These particalar waz caz blnzing away in the King's library wers tha p7- quisitas of the King’s' page. named Clsits, whoxn the Kiog met on bis return to the drawing- room. * Clarke, Clarke,” said the King.in- it rapid manuer, ** you should mind your per gites. 1 blew out the candles.” Tt costi® Eoglish people at that time £10,000" s yeszto provide Windsor Caatle with wax candles. The government of the Boval houschold waa S8 sasteful and corrupt as the Governmenk of 9 City of New York used to be. & = —_————— . Burying Panpers. It is protty gonerally known that paupersd® not bava s particalarly joliy time in lifs, sad that, i death, their €8 are * raftied O¥er tho tones ;" but it has been feft to the Purish of Walton, Eng., to deal with their remawp3io® pecnliacly wholasale manner. An Inspector oo~ der the Burials act, who has beea lookmg intd the matter, reporta that there ara 104 graves!d urying ground of that pariah, lndbmf the b fewer toan 2,000 corpses bave been them, being an aversze of twentv-seven io 3 grave. Tho lowes: number of bodjey io 008 grave was eight, and the highést ninely-savex There cortainly is oo arzumeut for cremstian’ thess facte, but the rPad Mall Gazetle 18 watrical, peraaps, whan it says that, howsver I voiting these details appear at firat sight POOr Are 80 accustemed to be indecently huddist togethar during thair life:ime, that it 18, perisps oniv consistent to huddlo them sogethes Witk similar ndecency when they are ik A lady once conaplted Dr. Jobnson ontheds- gree of turpitude to be attached to ber o8 E e Diies] e lepends unon the weight of the bo remember my schoolfeliow, David' G ': was always s little fellow, robbing & dozen T orcbards- with impnoity ; but the frst.tms- climbed up an apule-tree—tor [ was alwayss hes' ‘boy--the bough broke with me, aad it “!?d [l Jndgment. ' Teuppess that is why Justice 8388 - Tesentod with a pauc of scalos!™ S