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

14 S e e INDIA. Bew the Trip Thither May be Most Pieasantly Made. The Fair Towers of Bomfiay— Railway System ofglndia, Aillahgbad, Cawnpore, Lucknow, Delhi, Agra, and Benares, Bathing Festivals—Wonderful Efficiency of § the Civil Bervios, Special.Correapondence of The Chicaoo Tribune. Derm, Northern Ingis, Feh: 22, 1875.—The date of this finds me away up in the Northwest Provitces of India, and 28 & few details regard- ing this stranga old mogul city, and its surround- ings, and my journev bither, may interest some of your readers, I send you this leiter, which you are st liberty to msert in your nswspaper. ‘By way of prefaco let me say that I left Paris in November last, intending to returu to America by way of the East. Pofore ledving Paris I fortified myzelt for my long journey by witnessing at the Porte St. Martin Theatre a representation of Jules Verne's famous new comedy, called ** Le tour du ‘monde en quatre-vingt jours.” This lsughable and absurd piece was nightlyfcrowded with the theatre-going Parisians, mantof whom accepted ita grotesqua caricatures of Oriental scencs as {faithful descriptions of life in the East. Here let me say that, althongh ° © THE TOUR 0F" THE WORLD oan unquestionably be made in eigaty or ninety dars, yet it is to be hoped taat asy of your resd- ers contemplating such trip will allot at lesst four to mine months, or even longer for the Journey. It makes no difference as regard com- fert end expenso whether they make San Fran- cisco or New York their point de depart. If - tonding to go westerly, they should leave Ban Francisco no later than September. Traveling leisurely thocy ‘would thus reach Egrpt in Fetrusry; that would uot be too late to per- mit of an ascent of the Nile by steamer to the $ret cataract, and s subsequent trip to Holy Land. If the eastward ronts is chosen, by sail- ing from Now York, say, in May, Jane, or even in Jnly, & hasty but satisfactory visit could be paid to most of the countries and chief cities of Euarope west of Russia, and, io the latier case, the departure from Egvpt for Bombay should not be postponed later than the month of January, snd India, China, and Japan could then be leisurely viait- ed. and the Eastward-bound tourist conld arrive in San Francisco in May or Jane. The Londoo tourist offices, as well as the leading Eastern steamship lines, issue ‘‘aronnd the woild tickets 7 st slightly reduced rates. There is, bowever, as it seems to te an advantage in pur- chasing one's ticketa from placa to place. Itis ‘truo the expense is somewhat groater, but the traveler can in this way alter. his route 29 he sees fitt The sctual price of a first~class steamer and railway paseaze around the world need not exceed 1,000, and if no la- dies arb of the party the second-class railroad compartments in Indis will be found comforta- ble encugh, and their rates are aboat ope-half of first~ciass fares. Hotel fares are about the Eame price &s in America, ranging from $2.50 to @4 per day. 1 left Suez for Bombay on the 22d of January bL the Peninsular & Oriental steamer Ehiva. The two leadingJines of STEAMERS TO INDIA AND CHINA are {be Peninsu'ar and Oriental, which carries the English mails, and the French Messagenes Muari- tmmee. The French steamers are very large and excellently managed, but unfortunstely they do ok touch at Bombay on their way to China, only &t Iden, Ceylon,sand Calcutts. The through and way fares are zbout the same by either line. After leaving Snez, land is sighted neasly all the way down the Red Ses, & distauce of 1,400 miles. The shores sppear rocky and barren, with little or no wndication of life onshore. _Sailing vessels and even the fast clppers from England to the Esst, atill go around the Oape 88 in the days be- fore the Suez Canal. The only sail we gaw were unwieldy felunccas, with Moh: pil- gnms on board bound to Mecca. Itis said that the heut is 0 great in this ses from April to Boptember thet it ia dangerous for Earopeans to attempt the “”-‘ff during those months. The beat in July, vight and day, averages from 95 deg. to 120 deg. Doring the Lot seasoo many Dativa firemen on these steame:s die from the effects of the ternfic heat, and during the bot months the firemen are let dosn to their Work Dy s rope passing around their loins. and when fairly exia and ready todroo with the heat, they are hioisted agein on deck, mogs dead than alive, and, qurnttes of water beung thrown over them, they gradually revive sufficien:1y to resume another hour’s work. The vovige down the Red Sea, even in the winter mouths is ofien unpleasantly warm, and caution in always required to guard one againstsun- stroke. “In our own case the weather was srmply delichtful, the cights delicionsly cool, and ouly st wid-day did we find the sun on deck undsr the double can¥as awning, too bot for comfort. BOMBAY ¥as reached the thirteen dayatler leaving Sueg. Cnforfunatply we ‘came to anchor about 10 p. 0., and the approack and entrance to this worid-renowned an 1‘izeam‘d’nl harbar wae quite lost toua. Tho barbor apoesred very full of shipping, mostly Englsh and Europesn vessels, the Amencan flag appearing |a.nfuily in the minority. Onall s.des, bothin the harbor and on shore, were signs of gieat co aumeical act.v- ity, Bil beo as - olsewhers in Ori- onial seaports; s new.comer s 8pt .to over-estimate 0 comuercial activity about him. Onental towns are always Like ant-hilla, swarmirg with life. 1 waa told by an officer of the Yecineulsr sud Orental servics, thac one burly Anglo-Ssxon navvy i s English seaport would do &8 much work io a dsy as eigbt natives here. ‘(he City of Bombay requires no'lengthy desciiption. Itis = fine, large, bustling, prow- ing commorgial city of ciose ot to 1,000,000 in- habitants, and-is the great exvort cotton port of Iodia. The streets in the European querter are lined with elegant Government buildings, and the warehcnses, stores, and residences of ita merchant princes. Its native quarter con- ssins nise-tenths of the porpalation, and is proba- bly ar Oriental aud native in 1ia appearance asit ®as three centuries ago. The city sfands in sght of the Western ghaut range of mountains, 20 8 number of islands joiced by ceuseways. and & looz peninsuls. It.is flat and 6o low as to be Booced in the tains, vet 18 healthy, being open ‘o the eea Lreezes. It is well supplied with aster oud gab, omnibuses, acd has, I was surprised to see, a well managed and well-pasing live borse-railway, It 6 sid to be. most _expensive 2ty in Indis for a European, and I am quite pre- pared to believe the statement correct. Indif- Terent board at the best hotels is from 24 to 85 ver day, Bmall unfarnished houses easily rent for {roth 100 to §500 per mapth. One-horss aba in Bowbar are called ghairies, two-horse aacks are czlled sbigrams, sod their native drivers tout for custom with all the pertioacity wnd sharpooss of their white confreres in Amar- iz, The round-the-world traveler, giviog from four 10 cight weeka to Indin, wil S8 n5 diiacs of particalar interest worthy & visit after quit- fing Bombav uniil the marble falls of Jubbul- pore are reachod, 600 milea esst of Dombey. Allabiaiad, 240 miles farther on, is the great alay caniro sad. Junction of ‘the Indian ral waye. is ‘TEE CHICAGO OF INDIA, and some of the recent speculations, the rapid increaso, and great activity of real estate iu &u pretty aod growing inisnd town, would giadden the Leaits and stir up the bicod of sny of our Chicage real-esiate men, were they only hers to fake a hand'in. ) One's reccucieved notions of India are some- what 1ndely diepelied in this rapid railwsy jour- ey trom Bmbay to Aliaaalad, Ihad pictured to mvsclf the gaavery of the grea* GLant raage, whien' ‘we prssed over and through in a coupla of hours after leaving Bombav, af wilder and grander tiao the Sieiras of the Pacific Coast. But the Glhant scenery is not very striking, and woald be called very tame in comparison with the scenery of our Sierra Nevada or Rocky Mountain scoserr, Enoving that the total popnliation of the whols of Hiadostan, 1nciuding the oatlying Provinces of Cestimers and Nepaal, was not far from S00,~ 000,000, T kiad fancled thas every square mile, sod ovea every ejusre sore, of ground, after ving Bombal, would be teaming with human of THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, MAY 2, I375.~SIXTEEN FPAGES life. Imagines my surprise st observing hardly a vestige of ife or cultivated tand all tgu dreary distance of 840 miles to Allshabod. Every 20 or 80 miles we guud 2 small railway station, with §s pretty liila garden bloominz with flowers, but the villspes we:e. few and very far be- tween. We naturally torned to & fellow- assenger in the train with us, who Eni regided thirty years in Iudia, and asked him whe. e thess tciliog 800,00,000 kep: themselves? Were thoy of flesh and blood lige ourselves, or ‘were thev creature#® of the imagination only? He informed mo that the central provinces of Indis, aud especially that port:on through which we pas from Bombay to Allshabad, wern very sparsely popuiated, but thai in the Northwest Provinces and +hs tecritory along the banks of thie Gauges. 1 the Bengal Presidency, I should find my doubts removed. - Alfter passing the Ghant range we came upon » dead level country, which extends all the way to Allababad. The Indian jungle of which we bear and read so much, coosists, a8 far as we could perceive, of only a few scat'ering shrubs and stunted bushes, with nere and thare scatter- Ing patches of hardsood timber. The scenery :;mmdl me muca of portions of the Btate of ato. g ‘We are very apt in America to boastof the great extout of THE BATLWAY SYSTEM of our nqw and growing country, but hers, away off in far away Indis, ars gigaatic trunk-lines of raileays which bid fair to eclipse even our own. Tho length of India fiom north to south may be taken at 1,800 miles, and its average width al perhaps 1,000 miles. Yet within this area have been consiructed, 1o the saort space of eighteen vesrs, o less than 5,500 miles of railways, tho toral cost of which haa not fallen short of $500,000,000. The average cost per mile has been $35,000. Theso rosds bave boen, 1 should judge, well and thoroughly constract- ©d, and are nesrly 2il ufiing good dividends. All these ramiways bhive been built by private English compaumes. C. C. Coftin, in bis interesting book, * Oar New Way Round the World,” telis us that *‘the Eughsh Government aided these companies, by making over the land .for a term of ninety-nine vears, and alio guaranteeing 5 per cont interes; during the same pexiod on the money Epsot in con- straction. All income is paid nto the Govern- ment treasury ; after meeting the working ex- penses, tns remainder is devoted to repaying the 5 per cent interest guarsuteod for the current sear. If thero is a surplus one-hslf is divided between the stockholders and the Government, toat for the Government being for arrears of juterest accumulated while the road was under construction. When all arresrages are paid the companies are to racieve 10 per cent., but, shounld the income exceed that rate, the authorities will bave power to lower the fares. The property is io revert to the Goveroment at the end of ninety-nine years. Either company might surregder its Tianchise after thres monthe’ operation, aud the Govornment wust, take the 8t its origi cost.” This system of buildicg railwaya has so far bere in Indis proven s suctess. Whokuows but what the same would wo:k egaaily well in the United Btates? The Indian railways are well ond economically ruo and managed, and uearly all paying 200d dividends. Lust year the leading line, the Eaet Indian Kailway. which ruus from Caleatts away ncr:h to Delli, and osos and controls 1,500 miles of railway, eatned 15 per cent, of which two-thirds went to the Gor- ernmeny under the law jue: detailed ; but last year ita receipta wore exceptionally great, ow- .ing to tne evormons shipments made over its Lines to the famine distnicts. Railway traveling 1n Indis'at this season of the vear 1a not fatigu- g, and may even be termed laxurions, The firat and second cars, or wagons, are targe, cless, and airy, quite double the size of English or French raulwsy compartments. aud 10 general internal arrangement on the Swiss_eystem. = Although.the famous Puliman cars, the comforts and conveniences of whicn [ have to describe daily to iugnjring fellow-travel- ers, have never been introduced hers, yet each tirst-class compartment oh the Indian railways can, by letting down & few straps, be converied into fairly comfortable sleeping cars. No linen or bedding is furnished, but clean snd well-sece washing and retiring rooms are attached to each fizst-class compartment. The main profit ‘of the railway companies comes from their third and fourth class pative pas- sengers. Al the npatives, rich and poor, huddle and herd togetber like 80 many cat- tle in these low—class wagons. and every train sppenrs loaded wita them. I was told that wers 2 fifth or even a sixth class car farnished they would seek it for econumv’s sake. ¢We wers very fortunate in arriving at Allaha- bad during the great seacly HINDOO BATEING FESTIVAL. Allahabad lies at the junction of the two great sacred streams of India, the Jumua aod the Gzoges. Next to Bepares, lower down the Gan- ges, it is the epot the most sacred in the world to the devout Hiodoo, To. this city or to Bemares he drags his weary and enfeebled limbe, or is brought by his relatives snd friends to dis, aud from hence his soul, as they thiuk, will go straight to beaven. We gave directions’ to our Hindoo guide at the botel to wake us eurly to witness the early morn- ing bathing scenea on tne sacred river; and, taithfnl to his ivstructions, we were turoed out cf bed at 5 a. m. A loog drive of 4 miles brought us to the junction of the Jumna and (Ganges, and here ane of the acrangest and most interesting sights met my eves. The banks of the Ganges, on cither side for a distance of 4or5 miles below its’ juncuion with the Jumna were Bwarming with naked Hin 008 of both gex~ es. It is DO eXnggerstion to say tuat thers were io the water and on shore at teast 100,000 na-~ tives. All were bathing or getling ready to oathe. ‘We procured a boat sud were slowly oushed op and down the stream, and we wore thus emploved two or three hours in the profit- able mavner of observing these etranga veople.” I trost I snall not sheok you, gentle reader, when Isaytoat hers were 100,000 naked. or nearly naked, of all ages, sexes, and condition, gathered from all parts of Indis, either m the ‘water or sporumg sbout on shore. mos: of them as destitute of clothing as ouor first parents, bat there was nothing immodest or valgarin thewr proceediuge. 8o serious, 50 earncst, and 8o de- voot were all their ways and sctions, that the looker-on wotlg soon feel that blusning was un- called for; in fact, 8o contagions was the ex- ample of these devout Hindoos, that I speedilv doffed my clothing aud tried the efficacy of & dip mysolf in these sacred but muoddy waters. The sculptor or paioter wonld hers have foond abundsnt material for study. It certainly gave me s good :{%-omnity to study the pbyeique of these swarfhy races, a0d I will give yon the result of myotservations. The men ara neaily all undersized, fow or none being_over 5feet 8 ioches; sinews, lithe, and graceful in their motions, but, sabsirting as they almost -entirely do on rice, I do not imagine them to be very muscular. The women under 20 yvedirs of age were mostly well and plamply made, with rounded aud shapely liobs, and manyof them elaborately tat.oed.—fsce, arms, limbe, and Lips. But here, asin Egypt, early marrizge aud early child-birth cares, speedily tronsforms them ioto uely, lean qid hags. After 0, and even after 25 yoars of age, many of them becoms foarfully ugly. Here, as else-. where in Oriental countrice, the female is obliged to perform all the tiresome, bard drudg- ery of the honsehold. No wonder her beaugy speedily fades away. 5 BEFARES. In orderto see Benares during the yearly bathing festival, we went thither direct from Allahabad. Heare i this old sacied city of the Ganges were the same bathing. scenes, only on & smalierscale. Space forbids my giv.ng details in thia letter of the wonderful old Hindoo tem- ples and palaces that line the Gangesat Senares, _ It 18 o interesting sight to observe the fuue:al piles for tho dead, who are here, a8 el-ewhers slong the sscred siream, carefully burot, sud their ashes thrown into the Ganges. the relatives standing eadly by, sod watching the process with the deepext interest. X The great object of interest at Benares {s un- questionsbly the old monkey tempe, shich has been 80 often described by passing traveiers. I shall not go through & description here, and will only say that the temple and grounds ars over- ran with filthy, duty monkeys, who are here troated with the most_ intense veneration by the e worshiping Hindoos. - Beturning by rail to Allahabad, our first stopping-] on our way to Northern Indis was at CAWKPORE. Thers is nothing to interest or detain the trav- eler bore except from its conpecton with the memorable Indisn mutiny of 1857. My steps were naturaily enongh here turned toward the garden, and grounds, snd cemetery, connected wizh the Memorial Well, where tho Sepoys com- mutted their worst atrocities upon the belpless women and children. This famous well stands smong remains of iotrenchments thrown up by the Sepoya, and over it is erected a besutiful, marbie statue of Justice, holding the rods in her haods, aod looking down, a8 if her gaze woald piecce the marble covering of the weli below her fest. and see lying there, stiff aud cold, tho bodies of the murdered victims. Around tae base of the status is this inscription : ** Sacred fo the perpetual memory of & great company_of Chris- tian people, chiofly women xnd cbi dren, who noar this 8pot wers cruelly massscred by the followers of the rebel Nans-Dhoondoport, of Bithoor, and cast, tho dring with the dead, into the wal below, on the 16t of July, 1657 The city of Lackaom, which fies on 3 acknow, whi a branch line of railway 41 miles from Carnpars, is nost to Agra and Delhi, ons of the ot interesting rlicss in Northern Indis. The pigh which sur- passes all others in interest in Luokaow, is the Ke-idenov, tua scene of the bravest aud most determined de:ense in the snna's of the India muunr. Ihe remains of the Bailay gate adjoin- 10g, also tell & hl&nl great endarance, Tue outer gate and defehses of the Residency, where Sir Heury Lawience 80 long and 80 heroicaliy de- fended the woweo and children from the hands of the devilish Sepoys, &ud where he met his death, are now entirely gone, but portions of the walls, parapeta. and numerous bmldmia remaio exactly as loft by the rebels. The Residency grounds are moat besntifnlly kept, the scene of all this misory and bloodshed, terror and sus- gunna. is now a chermiog peaceful garden, ren- ored doubly picturesque by the ruins mow so carefully preserved. Slabs are erected in and ontside” the various bmldioj for the edification of visitors. ne points out the room whero the brave Bir Henry Lawrence was struok down ; anotber shows the apartment in which, after two days of great agony, he expired. The remaina of Sir Henry Lavrencs ato buried within these grounds, and on bis tombstone are these simple, touching words, " dictated by him wheo dying: * Here lies Henry Lawrence, who tried to do his duty. May the Lord have mercy oo his soul. Born 28 July, 1806. Died 4 July, 1857.” . AGRA AND DELHL Agra, which contains pow only a population of §0,000, was foimerly the chief seat of the Ewperor Akbar, sod siands on the soath bank -of the River Jumoa. The most conspicnous ob- ject is the fine old red granite fort, about 2 miles In circuit ; also Shah Johan's palace, the Pearl Mosqus, of pure white matble; the mausoleum of Acbar, and lest, but not least, that most won- derful of all the buildinga of Eastern lands, tha famous Taj, or Mausoleum, bt by Shah Jehan, in the begiuning of the seventeenth century, for his beautifal” Queen Zumanee. This is a graceful domed - structure of polished white marble, a8 fresh as whea first built, carefally fimished in evry part, and decorated with rich mosaics, on a white ground inlaid with jasper, agzate, cornelian, and other precious stones. The mausolenm stands on & marble terrace 400 ‘foet square, 60 feet high, with minarets 100 Teet bigh at_esch corner, over which.rses the gilt contral dome 260 feet high, 70 feet 1a diameter, Abont 20,000 men were emplosed on this werik for twonty-two years, and it. cost $15,000.- 000. Delbi, which occnpied so cobspicuous a position during the Iudian mutiny, contains to- day s population of only 150,000. It lies 1,000 wtles northwest of Calcutts, and 870 miles from Bombay. The modern City of Delhi was built by the Mogul Emperor in the vear 1631, The ancieot city, the rains gf which are still to bo seen, was founded 3,000" yesrs B. C., and con- tained a population of over 2,000,000, Before closing my hasty and 1mperfect acconnt of my journey thus far in Indis, I would say that one thing above all others forces itvelf upon tho attention of every mpartial traveler bere, and that Is, astooishment at the spectacle of* this vast and mighty Empire of India raled, and, s 1 think, so well an tqulu:llf governed by only & petty handfal of 150,000, all told, of En- glsh aud Europesus. Throughout the whole ex- tent of this Empire thers are only abont 6(,000 Eoglish croops. They are, however, 80 sand- wiched in with pative regiments that the effec- s and available forces a: the command of the Iundizn Government is muoch greater. H. RAILROADS. PENNSYLVARIA HAILROAD DIVIDEND. PritApELPEIA, May 1.—The Directors of the Penoxylvania Railroad Company, at their meet- ing to-day, for the purpose, declared s semi-an- nual dividend of 4 per cent, not, as usual, 5 per cent, it being coosidered a wise and prudent measure to retain au increased proportion of the net osroings to provide means for improvements and additions to the road and its ejmpment, which will be taxed to the utmost during the Centennial year. This reduction of the dividend has been generally discounted, so that the an- nouncement will be measurably without effect. THE WEATHER. Wasmxaroy, D. C., May 1.~For ths Upper Lakes, risiug barometer, northerly winds, sta- tionary and higher tomperatare, with clearing wp;tz:x following"the high winds of Saturday nig] Cautionary signals contioue throughout the Iake region. ? CHICAGO, May 1 Time, _{Bar. Thr|Hu| _ Wind um?lxr'm.r. m.29.3% 97, 100,N., fresh. m, 257 85 10|N., brisk.., 00, ., brisk.. 41| 85 1 333 b midsl 83 100N, briske, 900 p, m,29.65| 32’ 100|N.¥¥., fres 10:18 p. m.,29.681 36, 100|N,W.; fresh. Maximum thermometer, 38; minimam, S& s GENERAL OBSERVA TIONS. Cmizago, May 1. Weather, (itain Wind. (N. Y., fresh.|Threatening 4 [3.E.,"freah..[Clear. N W., freab.|T g| . W., gentie|Olear, 81N, W., gentls|Cloudy. 28| E., gentielClear. 4|¥, géntle,....(Clear. 27|N.'W., brisk.|Ciondy, 53 N W, bris* (C budy. SN, fréah.... [0 Frsaaia. Leavenw’th i i ‘ 2 ABCELLANEQUS. “Special Disvaten to This Chicaoo Tribune. FReEPoRrT, IiL, May 1.—Wioter has returned to celebrate May-day 1o hyperborean style. Early this worning a Boow-siorm eet in and continued over the northwest dection of the State till near noon. Tne thermometer stood at 29 above this morning at chis point. The westher Zontinues ;-.wt‘n.uu blustering, with an ugly slush under- 00! Spectal Disvatch to The Chicago Tribune. EasT SaurNaw, Mich., May 1.—The Enow- storm which bus raged all dayin this section bis pot been exceeded in severity by any that bas occurred dufing the wihter. Spow has fallen 5 or 6 inches deep here, and js still tall- ing, although theterrible violence of the storm has partially abated. Curs on all lines of streot- ralways are blocksded, The wind has blown a perfect gale all day. Cutters have taken tae place of wagons_on the streets. At Midland the snow is 7 inches deep, with good eleighing. At Chippewa. Farwell, Reed Citv, Evart, and Orieot, oo the Flint & Pere Mar- uette, norh, the storm has been terrible, and rom 4 to 6 incnes- of suow has fallen. At Flint the storm is reported the worst of the season. Tra:ws baso arrived avont on time up to this evening. B Svecial Dirvateh to T'he Chacado Trivune, - Rocmronp, Iil., May 1.—It commenced snow- ing at an early hour. this moroing, aud fell to the depth of 4 inch:s. It in.now about half melted off. It is snowing azain to-night. THE ART OF Rwusic. New Yore, May 1.—The American College of Music will be organized ina few days, under the recont act of the Legislature relative to mu- sical colleges, schools, end acedemies. It is of gronud have a8 a site for the been offered at moderare pri Pproposed college bu:'din, but no final action can be had until the Board of Trustees is named and the required legal formalities are complied with. Home of the best-snowu ond wealthiest citizens of the city have applied to be, suroiled amoog the first patrons of the ivstitution, zad 1t is anserted that they staud ready to wndorse it With # large sum of mones. Dr. Elmer atated yesterday that letters had been received: from Dot less than 100 American students n France and Getmany, expressing cheir intention tostuly in the college a8 soon &s it is ready for the re- ception of pupils. —_— SUDDEN DEATH. * ToLgvo, 0., May 1.—J. J. Prior, plaving with the Lotta troupe, fell dead of heart diseasein the dressing-room at the Opera-Houss during the performance of * Little Nell” this evening. Helived in New York. k) DEAD ! Dead! That s the wora That rings through my brain tl it crazes 1 Dead, while the Maydowers bud and blow, V1 the groen creapa over the white of the snow, ‘While tho wild-woods ricg with the song of the bird, And the flelda are a-bloom With daisios. i, ' th Lfo's glad passion shaken ; The vagubond weeds, with thelr vagtaat train, Laugh I tho sun and weep in the iin, The blue ky amiles like the €38 of Godr. Only my dead do not wakes, et T e o 2 darimess and poude Wiy should ihe Ziver, fhs sty end the S8 Baotle of summer st Jor o e, | Wale 3 stro liesrt, wito ita tirred, ¥ hios boatiet tha elerce yondeds 0 2 e T we ts supernal 2 Ere the soul may read what Tay Spirit satth ; Ehat must fada ta not 186, but death, Lift up thine eyes, Osonl] Bs strong ] - For Deatb i the Life Eternal 1% . M. E, Biaks in the Independent, » THE GREAT SCANDAL, Mr: Beecher’s Memory---Why It Cannot Be Defective, f The Defense’s Declination of the Offer | to Allow Mrs. Tilton to Testify. Tracy’s Worriment when under Cross- Examination by Beach, A Card from Tennie Olaflin Relative to the Ronssel Prooession, ME. BEEHER'S MEYORY, To the Rditor of The Chicaco Tribuns: Cm104G0, May 1.—There is-one phase of Mr. Beecher's statement as & witness which, though often referred to by writers on the case, haa uot yet been presented in its full significance. I mean his alleged forgetfuiness. The memory of what is personal, every intelligent person knowe, is tepacions accoraing to the sensivility of the individual, and the pro- found and vivid impression made by the particular fact or expression af the time. ‘There are no natures capable of sach deep and lasting impreasions a8 the poetic,—those charac- terized by extraordinary imagination and sensi- | tiveness. Whero thera is counected with this faculty and temperament an ardor of affoction, self-respect, n&: regard for public opinion; a8 there usuallylis, the. impressibility to what ia personal, whether for good or for evil, will be : proportionately stronger.” With a person of this type, tho mental pictures of what is past in his ; vital experience are clear, strongly colored, and ineffaceabls. They become, 8a it were, “part of the furniture of the mind, and, though not al- | wavs in view, instaatly appear whentbelawof as- saciation permits the disclosurs to (he conscious- ness. Wherever the afections bave been enlistad or one's honor assailed, there f@getfulness of tha fact is impossible. The reality that produced the joytal or the painful emotion burns its fao- { | | i i simile into the soul as in. letters of fire. The circumstances, oo, that sre intimately connected witn 1t, stand there in the memoryin & glsre of light. A man might as well attempt to separate the sense of sight or of touch from his being 88 to ersse theso pictures of memory. The ‘more he triea to do it, the more vividly they will glow before h'm. TLet any one review his past experience; and just what hurt him despest, or helped and bloat | bim most, 18 what he flist and vest remembers. All the great crises of his.fife are recailsd with- out efort. Hs sees, 24 tu & panorama, the rac- ord of his Jova and griefs, the bright things xnd the dark of his Life; and, if aoy faca wus par- ticularly dear to bim, or especially offensive,—if be was over a:rangely beset or graciocsly deliv- ered,—the portraiture 18 thers, and will not die. Itis folly to say thatone of s warm aod imaginative nature can forget what sppesied strongly to his hovor or his heart. Such persons may not recall names and dates, the drv_atste- meuts of b.story and science once studied—s great deal that belongs to the ordivacy roatine of life; but they nover cease {o recollect ail that , is woven into the imagivation aud the atfactions. Mr. Beecher is & maa of this postic type. - Hia - temperameut is, ardeut, his imagination vigor- | ous, and bis heart capable of being deeply touched. Does anybody supposs he does not re- | member his feelings as he once stood in West. mivster Abbey; the drift of his thonglit as he rose to plead the cause of the Republic in Lon- don; how the glorious scenery of Bark- shiro used to move him; - and what | be i in bis Indiana pastorate? Could he wnob accurately describe his emutions and hopes 28 his tirst child was placed in his arms, and when he buried bis beloved dend? Theman who can tell us so graphically how he canght his firat fish, aod how the song : of the eauy bxrds of spring affected him, can surely remember what has had the miost signifi- © cant reation to hig matare manhood. With | such a wonderful gallery of mental pictures ' as his, from which. he draws so liberally in_ bhia - writinga apd sermons it is not poskible that the vital facts of tho great scandal are not as clear in his wemory as toe ' sun in a cloudless sky. Coustituted as he i and the subject of an experieuce which, by h own confeasion, has been &0 distressing, e can- not erase from his mind, .if he would, busn- g record of the truth. g do not need to go into details. One of- the most damaging evidences agaiust Alr. Beecher 18 his own denial of remembering what, by the very lawof Lus being, he could not forget. If there was no otber testimony sgainet his moral integrity, this would be enough to impair our ! confidence in bis sincerity. ¢ THE DECLINATION BY THE DEFENSE OF TEE OFFER TO ALLOW MBS TILTON TO IESTIFY, "New York Sun, Apri 30, We are told that the aefonse are not going to | call Mra. Tilton! ‘They will pot éven offer her as a witness] What does this mean? What ! other witness could be so valuble to Mr. Baecher, if he is a guiltiees man, as tais woman ' with whom he is charged with Luviug offended ? | He says that his relations with her, 8o far from ! belug crimiual, wera altogether delicats, | pus-orly, spiritoal, and respectful of ber wifcly tiguity; that st the allexed improper interviens he committed 1o offense sgainst law, religion, or property, but brayed with ber aud fortified her soul with piona con- versation. Now, if this is so, who is 8o well qualified 88 the woman with him incalpated in thé wroug alloged. of criminal conversations to wipe awdy the odions coloring which Tilton givea to thess pious interchanges? Her story told on the witness-stand could nos fail of hav- ingadeep effect oo the jury and the public. Even Mr, Beecher's evidance socured no wider | strention or closer scrutiny than would be given to that of thisfcc\ued wife teatifyiog on his and bher owh bebalf. If Mis, Tilton is not offered by the defense, tus public can draw no other conclusion thsn that they dare not risk her acceptauce 28 & wit- ; ness, It Mr. Beacher ia innocent of the wroug * charged, then this vilely slandered wife should bo given the opportunity of at least showing her readjvess to swear to the facts ond clear heraelf from reproach and ber alleged paramour from infamv. The failure of Mr. Beecher's counsel to do thus, on the theory of his guliles«ness, 18 1nexplicable. On’ the theory of his guilt, it is _eaxly expla ved. & Lasp teh to Cincinnati Commercial. i Broorryy, April 80.—The direct testimonv for , the defense had just been all got in, and Evarts had uttered tiie fo:mula nsual on such dccasions, *-We rest.” We were sbout to take a recess be- fore entering on the robattal, when Beach re- quested a moment's delay, rose slowly to his feot, und ina low tone, but with digoity, com- postre, aud great imoressivensss addiessed the Court on the subject of AMrs. [iltou’s admissi- bility a8 & witness. He referred to the lezal as- , pects of the question: gave his op'nion that gho was 8 competent witoess; said her production ! rested enturely in the discretion of tne parsies to | the liligation, and closed by expressing the con- | sent of his sido to her appearance. i Mr. Kvarta at once made a lerse, loftly de- | chination of the offer, which was .prohibited by ; the law, by the policy of: the law, and by the ! public scnse of the wisdom of that poucy. No | moro testimeny was needed by co defense, th | 1 i i volume and force of whose evidence were al- ready complete, The temarks of Mr. Evarts wers brief, but ho took occasion to make s sin- | -gu'arand suggestivo observation in the course of | them, to the affect that, if her testimonv wers admugted, it ‘ would tear to pieces the last shred of hope for the fuiure of this family.” ' This seemed to point to the possibility of a i reanion between Theodore and Elizabeth. and it | waa observed that- the plaintiff took on an ex- | cited aspect a8 the words fell from the lips of Mr. Evarts. 5 - - 'There was & brief response by Mr. Beach. In this he wads alluon to the above ovwervation thus: *“ very much. might be said upon that | subject, six, 8 to how mich of the garmant of | respec:ability is teftin the present condition and attitade of this family; and as to the respon- sibility, Jet it rest where it may for the presenta- tion of the scandal.” 52 ‘When the short argument ended, Judge Nail- son merely referred to the statute appiicablo to the case, and Bxg:essod his gratification that the lady was not to be called. e " TRACYS GROSS-EXAMINATION BY BEACH. New York Herald, Avril 30, Gen. Tracy’s cross-examination waa the lead- ing feature of yesterdey's procesdings in the Brooklyn trisl. Truoy was a voluntsry wituess. o appears to have taken more than s profes- | siopal interest in the ca=e from the very begin- i ung. He was as much the bosom friend as the : professional advocate of Mr. Beecher. In the | early stages of the scandal he promised ' Tuton not to take sides siost him - in case the scandal went into s Court of ; Justice. His explanation of breaus this | proouse was that be gave this assurance 01 on the ground thet the latter advanced only becharge of Imvroper advauces agaiust Mr. Boechar, but iater on, when ' this charge resulved - or auy part of this march. , Theodore Tilton anyhow. Hs and I always quar- ! roled, So I ovjectto being made ‘s party with i trolied by the Beochior pariy. L = —= i itaelt into one of adaltery, he changed his mind, | i aud considered himself no longer ound bv his ledge. Tracy conld hardly have conzratulate flimssll on offering his services as & witoess for tho defense, Besch, wi hont th parent effort, worried Tracy untit he turned red in the faco. He said he went to Boston to con- i fer with Gen. Batler about the scinial, without the concurrence or mstructions of 3ir. Beecher. **Did you know vou were going to Boston with the concarrence of Mr. Beecher?" I cannot szp definitely.” - *:Qh, defimitely!” oried the counsel, in dis- t. Rus! Tracy reddened up to the eyebrows. Later on Beach remarked that the answors of the wit- ness were uufair and evasive. “ When you koew that Mr. Beecher had wif drawn hus objection to your going to Bostoo, did you not know that you wera going with Lis ap— proval?” Auother evasive answer was given, Traoy growing redder 4nd red.er, and more and more confpsed. The witness dodzed a direct re- ply, and the irrevorent in ths sudisuce laughed 8 good deal at the lawyer-in the touls. It wasa sceno of singalar perplexity. *Do you rememoerif Gen. Butler told you . what the charge against Mr. Beecher was " Wituess replies, I don’t remembec.” Bench, who is looking toward the western window, his profile to_tne witness, turns roand and gazes seurchingly at Tracr, and savs, io a low tone of voice, and With a look of profound astonishment, *You dou't remember 2" No, tae witnass could not remember 1f But'er said anything of that Beuch pauses, bis whole demeznor ex- pressing the profoundest incredulity. dience, and then he returos to the witness with the same queslion, and mests with the self-same soswer. Peopls think that ‘U'racy would have done better it he'had remained silent, and never offered himself as a witness. Beecher is clearly huct in tha -house of his friouds. ! overweening conceit in his- ability to forward Boecher's case 18 sadly sha:tered by the cross- | oxamination. Beach, in receiving 8 reply from the witness which made mention of Gea. B. F. Batler, ob- served, “ Who is B, F. Batler?" and the audi- euca felt cxtremely tickled at the igoorance and slmplicity uf the Iawyer concorning » charsotar 50 notorions 8 the “‘*hero of New. Orleans.” When Beach s:00d up to oross-examine Tracy, i quite a little scene occurred. The fitst ques- | tion, and a singular one to begin with, was, *Did you stand up, on Mr. Tilton's cross-exammatiom. and uuggoutguzanom toJudge Porter?" This was pat to the wil evident to every one thers were Lightnings in the a:r and that Boach was full of the purpose of haviog Tracy's scalp. Tracy answered back in Beacher's tragic manver, ** No, sir, never. Then Beach lified bimsolf up to the fall limit of ‘his atature and laid hold of tho witness with a cold-blooded determioation, snd pressed hi: close on the point wnether be ever hold a con- sultation with Beecher as to the plea to be ioter- posed on behalf of the defense. Baeach was bent wu avenging his friend Fullerton, and Tracy was piainly nervous st the prospect. He way | asked aoout the pledges he gave Tilton not to take part agaiust him 1n case the scandal went into court. Be adoutted having given the pledgo with the construct1on on it that he was not to ap- pear agaiust Tilton ia case the scandal went into couart. Then Tracy was put in an ugly box when Beach pressed bim on the question of why he broke his pledgs to Tilton. " Tracy's original ex- cuse, as given to Tulton, was, that, whea he (Fil- ton) preferced & direct charge of adnltery against . Beecher, n place of one of improper soliciia- t1ous, be (Trasy) thought himsolf juutified 1n re- linquishing Tilton and taking up with Baecher. . Tracy was anything but & happy witness at this stage. TENNIE CLAFLIN ON THAT PEOCESSION. New Yosx, April 23.—70 the Elilor of the Herald : There seems to be & deteraination on the part of the defense in the scandal trial to'in- fringe upon.the part that belonys to ‘me in tae grand &ommnnu prozession of January, 1872. L bad the honor to lead that procession and to carrv the red flag theewhole length of: its march from 1ts devarture from Cooper Institute until it disbanded in Union S8qaare. Icaa’t for the life of me imagice t benefit * Brother™ Shearmsn expects to gam for Al Baocher by attempting to rob me of. ail I pever liked him in any way in this procession business. Whether the testimony thas bas been produced to this effect resnita (rom an oblhiquity of phrsical or mural vision of course [ am uoable to deter- mine; but that it is to one or the otner of these canses to whioh 1t is due, I do know, Encel neither walked bavide nor immediately bafors or bebind Mr. Tiliou that day ; nor did I ride any pact of the routs either with him or anvbndy else ; nor waa he near the head of the procession dur- ing sny, part of its march; neither did Mr. Tiiton rida home with us in a carrisge and alight from the same with us st our residence, as_was testitled to by Mrs. Palmer on Monday. Bat I do not wonder at her mistake, siace fact and fancy are 8o Etrangely mized up throughont her entire testimony that it would bave been singular had this escaped the general muddle. Bat what is the use of spending time snd in- curring exponse ahout sometbing of which there ' is not even & question ? Why don’t they go back to the pictorial weeklies, and there obtaln the illustrated faots as well as tns truthful reports 7 If Mr. Beecher's innocence depends uvon prov- ing toat Mr. Tiiton shared the honors of that procession with me, he might as well ** step down i and out,” and make no more [uss about it." Tes~te 0. CLAFLIN, - No. 25 East Fiftieth strest, THE DEECHER PARTY IN COURT. Now York Sun, The attendance at the trial 18, to a great ex- tent, mauaged by the leaders of Diymouth Church. . Taree-fourths of all the ticketa pre- sented at the duors are those given oat by Jr. . Shearman, and the holders of them take their chances for admission to the seats of, the Court- room alloted to ordinary visitqrs. They are, s & rule, members of the rnk and mi of Plymonth Caurch. Acother and more lightiv-favored class of Mr. Beecher’s friends are cared for in a different way. Four rows of seats within the railng and the best s to situation of anv except those used by the las- yers and newspaper reporters, are wholly con- Mr, Jacob B. furray, who i6 & weul:by liquor-dealer, and one i of the bandsomest members of Plymoath Chiurch, bas practical charge of chis part of the_canrt- room. At the beginoing of the triat Brother Hallidsy filled this posicion of usher, and later Mr. Caldsell took his turn -at the post. Mr. Murray 15 absolute in h.s control of these covel- ed seats. Whoover gets into 0:e of them anin- vited is at once told to get out, and the police enforce obedionce to the usher’s command. In the. absorbwg das of the tral these Plymouth cbairs nombered from thirty ta forty, but now they are feuer in consequence of the legsoned atiendance of the brethren. Afr. Murzay takes his place upon the opening of the doors, wearing. a8 adjunsts to his careful attire, a banch of flowers on the lappel of his coat, aad light-colored kid' gloves. - Ha receives the mag- nates of bis oburch smilingly, and assigns them ' ssats, The cards of emiuent visitors sre often havded to hum by the door-keepers, and, seem- ingly Judgiog promptly of tholr dsirabiliey aa ! mombers of the Plymouth group. be decides without heaitation about rscawing‘ them. This explains why 60 msoy men of distinction sre mentioned in the trial 1eports as sitting with defendsnt. A GLOWING TRIBUTE, b Just for ons moment cas: your eyo-ball-bim on that sturdy man of God, Henry Ward Besoner; a bully boy fn wll tiats good and great snd magnauimous aad [ . Bat a fall-treasted, high-toned, thorough-bred Jack in all that pertains to msn of the wurld, women of the world, and_children of ain.—New York Star. The above glowing tribute to his' pastor and confidential fr.eud is frum the chasts pen of - tue deeply spiritual ex-Brother Joo Howacd. If it Beems to the ordivary reader flippant to the po:nt ot profan'ty, he must remember tbat the lan. guage of Plyxoath, of which Joe 18 t1e mouth- - Piece in the press, is new and-strange ; and tnat expressions which peoplo op low planes of spir- ituality regard ag shocking, are to him snd tue bretarer full of relixkious meanmng. The Piymouthi.es a’e not amenable to the old-fash- . ined 1.8 £ anguage or propriety. Ihat is why every teeling heart believea what they say.—New York Sun. EFFECTS OF THE TBIAL, Brvoklyn Arpus. * Cross-examinations ” are now of daily oo- carrenco in Brookiyn families.. For instance, tho other dar at the breaklast table of & woll- ing colloguy took place : ater Famulias. (in a stern voice to a- pretty daughter aged 20)—Julia, who was that young man that was hers las? pight ? Julta (with deliberation)—A friend. Father—How Iata did he stay ? * Jalin—T don't remember. ‘ Father—What 15 his name? Julin—I can’t recollect. Fa:her—Whera does he live ? Jalia (quickly)—He's moved. Fatner (reprovingly)—Don't answer me in kaowa resident of Pierrepont street the follow- that evasive manner. Did he kiss you before | leaving ? = X Yoang stster who had been reading the Teial (turaing to rich old-bachelor uncle)—I object: the question is ** leading.” ‘ - Father—I insist upon an answer, yesorno; and will put toe question in another form. Was there any salutation of the lips 7 - 7 N * Julia (abeentiy)—-My memory faily me in mat- elightest ap- He looks ! up and down, bis eye wanders all over the au- , Tracy's | ness threo or four times, and 1t was - [ ters of detail, although (with » | might have beb e of the d | thia poiat the breakfast eaded. A SOUTHERN | Many Persons Murdered and Two { Families Ruined to aAvenge an Ine sult to a Gentleman Boelonging to | Neatner. A correspondent of the Atlants, Ga. Herald writing of Tallahassee, Fla., gives the follow- ing: ‘g‘Da you see that rageed hole up there over | the farder fiy bush?™ asked Mr. Zabrau. who | might be described as a hauglity posteript to the VENDETTA. when the qusation was r 0 the humble but raspec-able business of washiog i dishes rt the Brown Hotel, at tue supper-iable 'of . wwch, after & dov's {1 ‘sat delicionsly _ pickhng i i orange brandy and building up my celinlar tieane ! with sosked biecuit. Upon my apswering the Auestion, which really did oot need sn answer, bu. was thrown out by the crafty old gabbler as a lanso-rope with its_interrogating lco{z at the end, he wound his clip-towel reflectively-around . his neck, and, sitting down, . remarked: ** Woll sir, if_all the blood that nas shed in the quarrel ! in which that hole was -made was smeared on these walls, it would redden uptbis whole roon, I cao tell you." The sanguinary seduction which tha old fellow had astfully putinto this statemeut won me, and, pusbiog him s glass of braudy, 1 asked him to tell me all about it. Then and thore, i tbat musty aod half-ruined hotel, with its wild and riotons memories, the old fellow told mo a story that for fierce . galiactry snd chuvalric recklesaness . puts fiction to shame. ‘Ihe actors in it, all of them of sunny and beroic temper; of large wealth, of blne blocd, and of ilistrions lineage, are dead, but their descond- ants yet live in our State, and.stand high among the highest. The pames of the partics cun- cerned a1e changed, for obvious reasons, but the facts are in substance and result just as ye heard them. 1 i *¢ In the Seminole War,” éaid Mr. Zabran, ovi- dently ambliog down 8 long-worn groove of cou- versazion, **Col. Graham_cumannded & crack regiment. One morving Le received a messige from hia wife anoousnciug that she- was on the eve of confinement. He at once recaired to her bedwide. The day after ho left’the camp a bat- tle took place. Shortly afterward an aruicie ap- peared in the Augasta Chronicle and Sentinel re- tlecting upon the conrago -of Col. Graham, and intimating that his resson for leaviog camp wss not so much fondness for his wife as for him- self. The paper contaning this cu'ting and * eruel articie cama iuto tho camp bafore Col. Gra- | ham'a return, and st once became s subject of convereation thronghous the camp. Capt. Henry, | aplordid young follow, who way an aid upou Ccl. Grabam's etaff, felt that an insionation | against his Colonel was an insult tc himself, and boat once repaired to Augusia, determined to protect the howor of lus ascsent friend with his i own life, if neceseary. . He demanded from tie | editor of the Chronicle and Sentinel the author of tae cffensive artic'e. It turned vut to be Gen, Fitzgerald, of Florids, s warm and devoted friend of Capt. Henry's. Bull feeling that iv was his duty, dieregarding {riendship jnst as he had disrezerded fear in the defeuse of his Cul- ouel, ho sent a peremptory challenge to Gea. Fitzgerald. > He received a reply, stating that Gen. Fitzeer- ald would be pieased to anawer the demands of Capt. Henry if he should be so fo:.tauate as to survive tbe duel he was ju-t about to eneage in with Capt. Wilhams, who had also made the article agaiost Col. Grabam acanse of com- laiot. Upon inqnity it transpired that Capt. illlams, another aid npon Grabam's staff, had vreceded Mr, Henry ia his trip to Augus'a, and determined mmself to defend the imputa.ion against his commander.. Capt. Henry . had oo alternative bit to await tho resolt of the encounter between Fitzgerald and = Williams, tho of which were that they shoutd fight with bowie-knives. The meeting came off. ' The left hands of the combatsnts were clasped to- getherina and dead-game grasp, and the + keen, long knives, the most terrible weapons be- fore whick a mad can be_brougut, were placed in their hands. At s sigoal the koives were perpendicalarly along their legs. At the mext ! words they were raised into the air, and tha ter- ribje fencinz began. 1t is a brief bat terribie i struggle. The koives cat, and gashed, and whizzed through the flesh of the combataats, | pressed and sparkled against each other; mow | borfed and mnow whipped out with blmsh : moisture on the blades, until Capt. Williams i fell, backed almoat to pieces. Gen. Fitzgerald | escapod almost without iajury. He (hen turned his atcention to Capt. Henry. He chose a8 the wespons for this second com- bat a murderous weapon, now happiiy obaolete, but then' kmown 2s yaegers. It is & broad- mouthed, fannel-shaped, smooth-bore gan, that will ca,ry & handfal of s3ot, and will bt _every- thing the neighborhood of ite aim. At the meeting Capt. James, Heury's secocd, was to give the word. As_becalled ** Wheel," the two men torned, bur Henry stumbled, and his gun weut off into the air. Gen. Fi zgerald took cool aim, fired at the word, and Capt. Henry dropped dead. Now two gallant young fellows had fallen .in_defense of s chivalnc spint, bemg led to, their death in defending the hovor of & comrede. And yet the ter- rible vendetta was hardly opeued.” Col. Junius Henry, the brotner of the slain man, was then | in Louisians, and heard of his broher'a death. He claimed that he bad been wantouly killad, nolding that Gen. Fitzgerald should not have fired wheh he hav seen his brother's gun shot, by accident, simlessly into the air. He started st once for this place for the purpose of aveng- ing his brother's death. He came at once to this' hotel. Gov. Brown, who kept the bouse, mec hum at the door, and at * once diviniog the purpose. with which. he had come, begzed him to be cool and gaiet sbout it. ' On the very night he pot thers, he was sittin; neat the firepiace yonder. with a large “clo around bim and his head bowed down upon_his hanca. In a few moments some ons brushed by bim ratber roughly, ng his head quickly, Le sew that it was Geon. Fitzgerald. In an iostant be was ablaze with excitement, * aud rising excisimed, ** You bave murdered my brother, (8.1, snd now do you pre-ume to insult me ? Druw and defend yourself, sir | " As quick as thought Fitzzerald drew a six-bar- reled pistol snd fired, tesfing away Col. Henty'a thud fluzer, juet aa the latter poured a broad- sido into him from o horseman’s pistol, lodgiug ball in bis side.. The fire was repeated, each time bitting its mark. - Col. Henry was then ont of emmuvition, being armed only- with . two borseman’s . pistols. He threw back -bis long cloak, however, drew his bowie-knife, and closed with ha sntagonist. . In s - few: scotbing . strokes . Gen. Fitzgerald .was cnt to.- the floor, and his opponment pulled ¢ off. by the crowd. In .that melee tlat bullet~ hole was made up there. General Fitzgeraki way taken home, and gradually recovered, vol. Henry, embittered by the conflict he had h}éfi:enthim word that he would kill him on sigl ' In about three months Firzgernld recovered and appeared on the streets. Col Henry | loaded his donble-barreled stot-gun, it is sad, puttng in a bullet which had been cnt out of | his brother's body by Mre, Gailard, whose. hus-. band had beeu bis second, and who had bimself since been killed on accoant of his participation in this duol. Gorog to town he met Fitzzeraid. and caling: on bim to defend himself, drew ; down sud fired. The firss barrel tore away | Fitzgerald’s sboulder, and. the second was ! lodeed in Lis heari, kifling him ontright. Col. Henry shortly after. wens to lexas. He had been there but a short tima when he heard ¢ tlat » man named Btesart had made some die- | i Emging remarks concerning his .action in the litzgerald matter. Meeting Stewart on the prairie one day, he handed him a letter- contain- ing the offensive Jangusge, and asked him if he was the auhor of 1t. Stewart at once drew. and fired npon Hemy. .Heury's guo was lesning against s tree near by. Bafore he could resch it he was carrsing four of Stewart's balls. Jorking up bia gun, he fired twice at Stewat, killing him : instantly, putting nearly for:y backshot in him. Col. Henry waa sbortly” afterward killed bimee.f by the fiiends of Mr. Siewsrt. Ho was being carried from the scene of his conflict - with Mr, | Stewartins blpnket. beiog too badly wonnded to wall. when he was set upon Ly s partyof ! Stowart’s friends, and his body literally riddled with bullets.” . This feud. involving the death of 80 meny superb_men, and bankruoting two powerful families, is but one of a thousand that might : be traced throngh the system.of Southern go- . i ciety. We buve followed only one brasch ! this fend. Doubtless, were ail the resulte, . i * rect and indirect, followed out, it would be found : that the publication of thai article caused the i death of 8 score of caivalric’ gentlemen. Aud { one peculiar fostars of it is that the man cons ¢ cernimg whom all the trouble arose was not in aoy of its fights, and that every drop of blood that was shed was 1o defense of s frieud or & comrage. Itisa L:-Flendld tnibute to'the- gener- osity and high epirit of the chivalry. .’ =i SRt Two Preachers nt Once. & | The Melbodist Church in Nottingham, Mani- | toba, recently had s dogble service of a most in- , ! felicitous charatter. A quarrelhad dividea the | | congregs‘ion, and each party claimed to be dom- | { inant. .Escn bhad & Dew. minister, and the ; | two clergymen were on hand. to begiu therr | ession of } mvself in | labors. ' The frst to arrive took i the pulpit and the other sat behind the chancel lifoof a gentemen, and who was at the time ' glmrmndm' engaged in o rambling, | conditions” ' b rail. The man {n the pulpit gave cut a hymg, sod the other gave out auother, and both wep sung confusediy by tho rival 80ctiods uf the sg. sembiy. Theu the man bebind the riling start. ed off on his; sermon, and tha other began 10 read a cliapier of Scriptnre. When tue reading was over and It was plaiu that the preaching mg going to Jast much lonzer ths partisaos of thy reader sung auother hvmo with a lond orgap a0, companiment. The musical noise drowned tng voice of the clergyman in the pulpit, but whey 1t waa over Be wa3 found to be preuching righy along a8 though nothiog unasual bad bappened Tue clergyman in the chancel, less cool, was ng. able to fix his thoughts 00 & 'discourss, and ag remained rilent and baaten. At o closs of tay extraordinary ceve a deacon explained that jj bad been euacted ** under legal advice and tg. farther tne cause of Christ.” ~Itia more e anderstand about tho'lezal advice than how guey ; belligereat proceedings wers calcalated 3o ! “*further the cause of Christ.” e IMPORTANT CATHOLIC CONVENTIOY, All the German Catholic Relief Socie. ties of the United States to Meet ng Cincinnati—Sixty Thousand Peopie Expected to Attend. 5 Gincinnati Commereial, Apr 30, On the 16tk of May the Central Union Catholic Relia? Association of the United S:ateg will meet iu annual convention .o this citv, aad remainin sesaion tour dsrs. This is probably tay' * strongest Catholic benevolent ' organization m the conptrv.. Overeixty flourishing soaieries, - seattered all over the United States, belong to it, and its membershiv numbers nearly 70,000. Its objeot is to render aid to neces. sitons German - Ostholica, and lendp helping. -hand to needy emizrants s they gr. rive on our shores. For the lateer ps thera are sgencies established in all the nring. pal seaporis of the country, and, for the formar, the most perfect arranzements have been made, It is a colossal mutual aisl socieiy, supported. by ihe stated daes of its members, and doing mr maod. There ara eighteen socioties of the ar. ganization 1o this city slose. The President i Senator Spannhorst, of St. Lonis, who Las served oight terms in the Missouri Legislatue, and is now a member of the Constitutional Convention of that State. Tbe Rov. Father Schwennixer, of this 'city, is Recording Secietsry; our Sheriff, Tred.. Springmeier, ia Treasarar; apd Pragk {ofEaer, of Buffalo, N. Y., Corresponding Secrs. tary. Father Schwenniger i8 also President of the Emigration Society connacted with tha ape ganization. | ¥ The last convention was held at Rochester, N. Y., and was very largely atteaded. Every af- fort it being made by the German Catholica of Cincinnati to make the gathering bers this yesr raud success in overy patioular. Thare will e over fifty socisties of otner cities repre-entsd, besides our own eighteen, and it is confidently expecteg by those woll postad that tha convan- tion briog, in momovers of the society sod o their frionds, over 60,000 paople £o the cizy. The Tocal committees &8, of course, as busy &8 bees just now, peifocting thew arrangements for rthe» oproger recoriion and entertainmens of this large number of visitors. . The foliowing is a list of the socioties exvected to bo. present: St. Bonifacius Romasn Catholio Bensvo'ent Aszociztion, Minster. O.: 8t. Marsin- 1y, Ironton, O.; German, Readiog. O.; 81, Bon- ifacius, Piqua. O.; Si. Lamentins. S§ John's: ¢, Uarl Baromens, Knights of St. GeoYgs, Holy . Triory Church,” Knights of Bt. George, St Emmangel's Church, snd three other socsties, {rom Dayron ; St. Franz Xavierus Boman Catho- lic Benevolent Aesociation, St. Joba's, St. Man. tious, Knights of &t. George, Columbus, 0. ; : St. Benedictus, 8t. Bernard, St. Aloyains, 8k ! George’s Young Men's, . Covington, Ky.; St i Paul's, 8t George’s, Hamulton, 0. ; St. IsB.—n ns, ! Clullicothe, .O.; St: Joseob’s, Grand Rapids, Mich. ; St. Martinus, St. Josevh's, Newport, Ey.: St. Joseoh's, Lafayeite, Ind.; St Lawentios, Lanvrencebarg, Ind.; St. Jose h's,_ Aurors, Tud; St Joseph's, Indianapolis, Ind.; Bt Joseph's, Pcoria, Ill. St. Aodrews, St. Lane der Liebesbund, 5t. Anthony's, St. Alfonsus Lisbesbund, St. Bonifacius, Bt. Franz Xavier, 8t. Carl der Grosse, St. Ludwig's, S:. Martinze Bruderbund, St. Jobaon, Baptista, Romsa Catho- lic Knighte. in nniform, Knights of St. George, St. Leopold’s, of Lowsville, Kv. ; St. Franciscas, of Louisville, Ky., (Califorvia); St. Jogeph's. of Louoisville, Ky., (California): 8t Bonifscius, - Edwardaville, 1il. CiE Nearly sil the societies will briog their own bands with them. and with their rich regalis, fAying banpers and inspiring music, will makes gorgeous pageant. . Amoang ths distinguished Church dienitariss expected to be present are Bishop Tcebbe, of Covington; Bishop McWade, of Rochester, N. Y.; Bishop Boltes, of Alton, IlL; aod Bishop Borgess, of Detrott. The sacietiea’w1il convene at 8 o’clock_on the morning_of Mav 16 (Pentecost morang), at’ Mozart Hs'l, when they will be welcomed to ' the city by Mayor Johnston sod otber citizens, - High Maes will be celebratod at Trinicy Chinrob, i and » grand procession will taka plsce in the afterncon. The church services will be conduct- ed by Archbishop Purcell and tha Bishops named above. ‘After the' procession the convention will proceed to business, and on Tuesday -night the foreign gocieties will be bangueted by their Cincinnati hoste at the Lookout Honse. AN ASSASSIN’'S CAREER, A Terrible Story of Bloodshed. * A lottor fiom Corsica informs us that a msn calied Alberti, after a loog career of blcodshed, has at_leoeth faileo a victim himself. In 1838 Atberti set fire -to some weeds in his flo'd. The fire spread and burned a little bit of & neighboc’s crop. The sheghard. Casimiri, saw the acci- deot, and told Casanova, the proorietor of the damaged field, what bad bappeoed. An acnon ensued, and Alberti, fived 10 france, -vowed mortal batred sgainst the Casanovas and the Oasimiria. The next day he shot Casanova and took to the tbickets, after the national custom, and there he waged war with the gen-—1'armes, - shooting more than one. Alberti, once & bandit, begao to levy blackmail, bot in & very polise mapner.. Alberti next came across Germaui, the brother-in-law of Casanova, and shot um ; then he shot the litle boy of (asimiri, as he was sitting on a rock, lo: king after tus fatber’s catile. The boy not having been. killed by the bullet, Altcrti fivisbed him off with hix poniard, striking his victim with such force that the blade, after having passed through his body, was broken op the rock. Alberti’s wife, in so- cordance with tho national traditions, kept het husbaod supplied with ammunition and food. Bho was ooe day insaited by a Casanova, and the next day the w81 er's grandfather was ahot &g _he was plowing bis field.. No one dared ta touch the body, which, after some davs, was carried off and buried by the gens-d'armes. ~ Aiter the assassivation of Germani. tne second brocher of the, viciim® jomed in the puorenit. of the asvassin, and acfed as guide to the gens- d’armes. but without success. Of s sndden he * renounced tho idea of revenge. and received word from Alberi that he might go about his daily occunation without fear. - A faw dava af- terward Germaoi met Alberti, and received:the . discharge of a blunderbnsa. Though wounded 10 four places. be made & mirsculous recovery Hearing of what had happened, the third Gep mani, who had been sentenced to ten years for atabbing, who had comoleted nis time, but who . was still kept under ‘the eye-of the police, mansged to leave France and got back to Cor- sica. On bis arnival He at once planged into the tbickets 10 quest of Alberti, and then come menced a sortof three-cornered dael, Iike that in « Midshipman -Ea 7. The gen:—i'armea wers in pursui: of both bandits, who protected them- - Belves azmnet the gens-d'armes. who leftjAlbertl and Germani little: time for popping at esch - other. Germani, by the wav, had commenced operatiocs by shoating Lucscci, the uucle of Al bertr's wife.: While 'ttus warfare wos guiag op, Alberti came across Casimiri, the eheplierd, who had given evidence azainat ' him, sud Casimi nas immeadiately disposed of.. - Fir ling ma:ters gr.wing too hot, Alberti deter . mined to Jeave Corsics for n whle, but haviog beard that a man called 8antini had assassinsted bis father-in-law, ha deferred sailiog until he could revenge himself, He passed the might of March 1 a¢ a emall village, and after 8 copions breaktast néxt morhing started for the thicket. &:wenr. overcoms with' eleep, he threw bim- f npor the. ground before reachiug shelter; . and, wrapped up in his clonk, closed hiseyessod no more. The brother of Casimnn came e bandit, and ipstantly dirpatched him, supposed that Alborti had been provi- .In'a faw vears we ehall probably hesr of Al berti's son kitling a yon; mani or Casimiri. - The L terrible pf of the busiuess is shat these vendettas spring up upon such shight pro- vocahions. * Tn.the case of Alberti, & fine of ten francs-wai produc.ive of a dozen murders. LThere are sull several. bandits in the thickets, ! among them the brotbers Bellacoccis, who took + to tha thickets. sgoner than serve in- the srmve They.are -mach lited In the counsry and follow the example of Robin Hood, 88 far a8 oaly tak-~ ing from the rich to give to the poor is_conoem= . ed, nor will they to'erate any other brigaudsin their neighbortood. — e - ANDTHER ARCHB3ISHIP. ey o New Yorz, May 1.—Cardinal McCloukey. the Papal Ambassador, some Bishops, and is namber of tha clergy of this city, lett to-day for Bestot, . where, to-morrow, Bishop Williams 'iu'h-u& tothadigaliy/af A Avchiiinop. ™