Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 6, 1875, Page 13

. WASEINGTON. The Sioux and Cheyennes Bid Good-Bye to the Capital, " yhe Government’s Ultimatum Made Enown t6 Them in Brief but Forcible Termse A Young Chicf Admits that They Were Led Astray by the Scheming Interpreters. Birt Director Linderman Speaks Confi- Gently of the Good Time Ceming. When the Jingle of Silver Change Shall Again be Heard in the Land, Asd the Odor of Fractional Carrency Be Known No More Forever' THE SIOUX, A FINAL CONFAB. Byecial Dixpatoh 1o L'he Chacaoe Tribune. WasrINGTOR, D. C., June 5.~Shrewd frontiers- men who have been hers watchicg the Biack Hiils pegotiations, predict that the Sioux, the troops, and the gold pioaeers ars Likely to soon axcbangs shots. If plain talk will excite Indisa wrath, the Sionx bave heard encugh of it. The st talk of the Commisaioner of Indian Affairs with the Chiefs was very blunt snd forcible. Conxwissioner Bmith told them that if the pros- ot expedition under the guidance af Gen. Cus- ter sbonld prove successful in their search for precious minerals, they would BE FORCED TO GIVE UP THSIS TITLE to the Biack Fills, and that now was the time for them to secare good aud favorsble terms from the Government. This decarstion doubtless sottles the question a8 to the Cuater expedizion. Ths Government expects that it will go,snd that the Sionx may be compelled to nlan‘\)l:nh their trexty nght to what are suppcsed to be the de- mands of sdvapciig civihization. THE IXDILNB WERE DIVIDED IN THEIR COTNCILS. ‘Thia is oublless the priucipal reason why they did not s:gn the agreement. ‘Lhis division is iliucirated bv the sueech of ¢ Face,” une of the warriors, upoa the Eed Clood sgeot. ¥ace ad- éresung Red Cloud seid, * 1 told you just how that mstier would be when wo commenced it. We came bers with divided counci's, we havo sccomplished nothing, znd _have no oneto blame but themmelves. The Red Cloud Agentis a good man. Heiss brave, trus man. We tried to break hum down, but we could Dot Te:sthe mao we onght to take back with us aod keep. We have tried him. lam s young man, ard I bave suflered & great dealinmy al- forta to protect the Agevcy.” L3 te 4 ssocratea Press) SAYING GOUD XL Wasarsoros, D. C., June 5.—The Indiana ealled st the Iuterior Department this morniug toaay *good-by" to the Commissioner, when a short interview took place. They expect to start home to-mght. Tne Cheyenve River ludians will stop for a few days i New York. The agents will return with them, though it 15 under- tood that the resignation of Agent Suville i at tae disposal of the Depariment, ‘When the Indisns enterea the Intorior Depart- ment, the Commusaioner said: *‘1 understand tbat some of you want to speak this moruing, snd I :uuld Bo giad to hesr anything they have 10 say. BED CLOUD DEAWS IOS RED BANDANNA. ~od Cloud—** My friend, we are going home to-day, ana the Youny wen yon ses bere want to sinke haods with you and bid you good-bs. We €2ma, ai8o, to ask about something we have not beard about. I would like to askabout the pay for thuse wbo came with ms, the iuterpreters, and all the Incisns” 4 BHOT AT THE BQUAW-AEN. . The Commissioner—** Thers are some things tobe oaid about those men who have come wlong that I would rather not be obliged tomsyto you. They have not coms by the wish” of snybody but themselves, 50 far as 1 know, and they have been sources of mischisf a0d troublo ever since they came here. Lhey ROt you to inmist on going (0 the Washington House, and tasy gotsome of you to go there after I hnd told you is 4’2 proper place for you. Tney have led you into bad practices since Jou have been here. "They are not interpreters atall. Todd Randall when he came to interpret {for Bed Cloud broke down, and Red Cloud tried 10 get soms eise. Laliadan. the only ors who «<ud doty to you as interpreter, was employed by me. He is 3 gooa terpreter, but AI: LIKES WHISKY 80 well that he hroke down. He got s0 drunk Tcould not see him for several deys. I shall pay Lim ror what be did, and eend him home. Bandall will alec be puid. * Ticza otber men who bLave deceived rou, who have kept vou from do-~ ing your duty, and bave led you ssiray, bave no clum for anyihing, snd they may be thankfal toat they are not driven out of the country. How are you to trust thess men when they go bomae, toteil what was done here—men that will o 2 they can to defeat the best interests of the tnbe, &l bring you into disgrace mn Wash- ingion? Wiatdo you wans of them whea you get home 7 MOW TIIS 15 A PLAIX TALK 0 you, bus we mav just as well talk of things 2s they are, ruther thian we should decerve one sn- other. Kow these men have the impudence to :umn and ;.Ikl me ‘otm'v them for thas eort of ernice, and leave it to you to judge whether 1 bad bester do it or not. That is -udgfhu is to be ssid on that subject. I have told your agent to spead for you, in getting such presents as yon want,” €25 apiece. This 18 in ad fition to what you Tave alreads received in Wuta of clothes and other things that your Bgont bought for you. Iwish I could make it mure, sad do for vou what you ask in that Tespect, and furnish each of you a bhorse, with saddis and e}mpmenu. but that I am unable to do, b!c:nu have not money to make the pur LITTLE WOUXND SPEAXS. Little Wound—+ You tell the truth when yon ®ay that you did pot invite the intorpretsrs to Come slong with the Indians. We have heard that before, but if wo Lind come with oniy these inter- preters bdongm“f 10_onr delegation, these three 2nterpreters would dispute 8 10 Wbat we said- Vs invited thesa three to come, ia arder to be Tithesses on our retwn s to what was done. As for myaelf, I am not influenced by thess men. Ihey wunied to come along with me, and now they asy we have decsived them, and between the ¢wo they are falling to the ground. They Lismo us for ot getung paid. We came here at 4be invitation of the Precident, and we expected 20 go bome with horsss, squipments, and guaus, 20 that onr people couid receivs us giadly, If wo go without anything of this kind, ::en ws acrive thers the poople will Iaugh st XD GU¥B OR SADDLES. The Commissioper—"‘I would not give you fubs if I could. if X could give you hormes and @addles I would, but I have no power abous it. L eanot do it, 0 it is not worth while for me to 4woonrage you in any way to axpect it. - The Oommissioner then addresssd Sitting Ball, Wying: I have heard with grest pleasure of Your conduct, and of the conduct of one or two -bthers of the Red Cloud Agency, I hve heard Lrom your agent, and from mulitary oficers a¢ s agoncy, of the grsas service you hsve rav- Jerod ths' Governmeat. You have proved fourself tc bo s very brave and true 842, & friend to your own peopls mnd to the : Your good conduct has besn reported ® the Pragident, aod I am instracted by him o <% you a takun of his regard. THE CHEYENKES alled on Commissioper Smith this afternoon, M4 compleisad considarsbly sbout the failure of e Governmect to do anything for them since mnval hers, ssyiog tue Indians that did t got treated worst by the Government. Kan Dan said if he bad lexrned to lie like Tail sud Red Ciond he would have fared tler from the Government. Lowe Lorn tod to Mra. Kelly, saying: *¢ Thas fady that aver there our people once did & wrong to W8 can never psy her for. If you can -3 ber for us I wish you would. * Mrs. Relly's sband aad little dangiter were Kiiled by the 80d herself takem caplive s few years ago. After hand-shaking the Indisoa laft, and wili Wz bome by way of New ork. A PREARLXTATION. oo Precidant prosauted Siting Bull with s 0 fila, sicoly moanted. and incloved in & iy dias, o heds sisuslicpd. Bursbandag “THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JUNE 6, 1875.—SIXTEEN PAGES. the lock is engraved : * Sitting Bull. From the President, for bravers and friendebip.” . Tne Cheyeune Tudians requested ths Commis- wloaer to apouint the Rov. S. D. Hinman acd the Dev. J. P. Newman. Commissioners to go out aud aud in negotiating the Black Llil's mattar. THE COOD TIME COMING. A8 SEEN E¥ DL LINDEKMAN. Special Dispateh to rhe Chueass Tridune, ‘Wasnixarox, D. C.. June 5,—Ur. Linderman, Director of the Mint, is of the orizion thal the subetitution of silver for fractional currency can probabiy begin carly mex: fmil g bases his opimion upon the concurrent operstion of two favorable conditions: First, tho decline in the value of silver, and second, tao appreciation in valos of the legal tendor notes. No declwe in the valae of silveris already realized. Tao re- duction of the premivm of goid seoms much lees certain. Dr. Liudermon summarizes his view iu thees words: The redurdant cu =t onr cormercial centres may ressonsbly be expec soved through the gradual rovival of business, Li ‘b there ave alresdy tamistakable indicstiont, =u early relaxation of theepecial causesof the increated gold premiam Leing provabie. Au apprecizon in the . value of greenbacks may reasonabiy be locked for befors the close of the preacnt year, and erpeciully if the cottch crop ehould prove to be 2 good ouc. TIAL INCEEASING PEODUCTIUN OF SILVER, and the plethora of that watal existing in Germsny, France, and {he Netherlunds at the bresent time, afford tho United StatesZan czcelient opportunity of retaining on favorsbie terms from the production of its mines & supply of that metal suficient to tuke the place of tho fractionsl currency, and if §i shall bo fourd Ly the tims the requisite guaatity of coins can ‘be prepured with whicli to commience the redewplion of fractional Dotes, that the smout of legul-tender notes outetanding & 09 Jargo Loadwit of the retention of silver comns in_circulation, it may be nacessary for Congreas to provide for tae RAPID CONTRACTION of suchnotes. It is mot proballe, Bowever, that o mors raoid retiremef® of legalender thau fu provided for under existing liws will be neosars. On the contrary, if the substitution be cormenced With a f4ir stock of coin on hand, snd the coinaga of fractional foces be pusiied vigorously thersafter, enough of the iszue will romain in ¢ lation to mert the sclual requirements of the pubiic far cnznge, The ifaus of fracional rotes has mo doubt becn, for the iasc two years, in cxcess of the requircments to the extent of probably $.5,(:40.0, whick amoutt must bo withArann and canceicd s’ eariy 3s the law and the accumulstion of a sudicieat zmount of silver coin 1o tako its place will prrwit, The publisbed ofiicial statements show that ke redemption and re- Rewal of the fractioual notes aveiuge stoit THAREE MILLIONS TER MONTH, and the total amouat outstanding ut trou $(0,000,000 10 $45,000,00¢, from which it wouid appesr that it hus 10 b reuewed every fiftarn mouths. When the ax- pense of keeping this prper curren-y in good condi- tion is considered, tae Fropricty Gf substituting si.ver far it as early c8 pracueable will ciearly appess. gl NOTES AND NEWS, TILE AGESING PACKAGE. Wasmmerox, D. G., June 5.—The thief who stole the packsge of bills from the United States THE GREAT SCANDAL. The 8tory Mrs, Tilton Told to Her Sister- in-Law Richards. What Mrs. Tiiton’s Brother Was Relue- tantly Compelled to Belleve, Her Immeasurable Love for the Rov, Henry Ward Boccher. New York Sun, June 4, The bitter attacks of Ar. Beccher's lawsers ond fricnds upon Mrs. Til'on's brother for ap- pearing a8 a witaess for Mr. Tilton and testify- 10g agsinst his own sister, have influenced a rentieman acquainted with all the facts to ex- plain Mr. Richards’ peculiar position. In con- versation with & reporter yestordsy, he . dotailed the conoection of the Rich- ards fomily with the scandal. After little Taoul's desth, Mr. Richards, in visiting his sister's house, as his testimony when called to the withess-stand the flist time shows, froguently found 3r. Beecher there, and he becamo 1mpressed by the geaeral manoer of Beccher's bearing that his visits wero not purely pastoral, Finally he determinod to spesk to Titton, and one moroing early in 1570 he went to the Union office and dixclosed his apprehonsions to him. There waa no occasinn, he thougbt, for anything moro than that Mr. Beocher's visits to Tiltou’s bouse should cease, and Lis revclaticns aud fears did not a%ect Tuton with alarm. The brother was satisfiod, and remained passive uotil after Mrs. Tilton’s siloged coofession to her husband, whick T:lton theo repeated to Lim. This tumo Mr. Rickatds was incredulous, for it soems 1hat his regard for bis sister had not al- lowed bim to attribute to her anyibing more than possible breacaes of proprioty; and, with- oul credsting Tilton's story fuily, ho INFLUENCED KIS MOTHER, Hre. Morse, to question lus sister. Hor an- nouncoment, atter a faw days iutervening, that Mre. Tilton coofessed her intimecy with Ar, Boecher, mnressed fichards strongle, without couviaeing kim. He waited for further proof, or for his sister's denisl. Ho no iongerpressed an investigation, bat waited unuli tho fa.l when Sirs. Tilton visited him i bis boms in Mobtclair. Tuon he told his wifo that she must talk wich Llizabeth, for he could not, and ssk her what tho stories they had beard from Theodore meant ; but the days of the visit passed by, and Mra. Richards' courage failed bor whenever she tried to bronch the subject. On the list day Treasury Department & few dsys sgo remaios undiscovored. Gen. Spinner seoms worn out with anxiety. Charges havo been wmade that several banks which sent packages of money to the Treasury bave been reported short in their remittances, and baoks have been required to make up deficits. ‘dreasury oticers ray that such digcoveries bave been rare, and the evi- dence is coaclusive that the banks had mado miscounts. New Yorg, Juns 5.—The Park Bank ackoowl- edgea the receipt of $47,000 from the Tressury Depatiment ot Washington, 1o duo course of business. \Whethur ths package at haod is the ono seported lost, or whe.her the ongigal has been replaced, is ot known. Wasauxarox, D3C., Juno 5. —The package of $47,000 receivad by the Park Banz, New York, wa3 sent by the Treasury to re;lace tho one lost. RAILROADS. AN IOWA SCHEME. Svecial Dispatch to The Chicaco Tribune, Davexrony, I, June 5.—The copaolidstion will soon be completed of ihe Iows, Minnesots & North Pacific Railway, acd the Jasper County Coal 2nd Raulway Compeny, of which Mr. F. H. Griggs, of this city, is President. The plans in- clude the immediate buiiding of the Yonroe and Newtoa Division of the north and south road in Jasper County, upon stock being taken by the people fo the amount of $i0.000, A large amount of work has alreads been doue, and it is proposed to complete and oparats uie road ns soon a8 poesmble. It will tap rome of the rich- est coal country in the State, and wil Le & feedar t0 the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific at Newton. THE SOUTHERN MINNESOTA. Br. PavL, Mion,, Jupe 5.—Last Aogust the United States District Court entered & decree of foreclosure for the sale of the Southern Min- nesots Railrosd on petition of the mortgage bondholders. The road was st once advertised 0 be sold by the Master in Chsvcery, which sale has boen eleven times postponed. The new sivertisement fizes the date of salo for the 25th of Jupe, and it is expected that tho road will be booghe by the Alitwsukes & St. Paal Raiircad Company. The rosd hss scarcaly ever paid run- ning exponses, aod is immeugely in debt far the principal of its bouds snd back intersst. ; THE W P. TERMINUS—A NEW PHASE. Special Digpatch Lo The Chicago Iribune. Omana, Juoe 5.—Application was mada to-day by the attorney of the Union Pacific Railroad to Judge Muler, United States Supreme Court, holding Circuit Court, for an injuunction restrain- ing Douglas County from collecting tax on the Miesouri River bridge separats from the rail- rozqd. Judge Miller granted the injuoction. It is said that the grest question will have to be decided hereafier. ‘THE ERIE RECEIVERSHIP. New Yorx, June 5.—On the petition of Hugh J. Jewstt, the Recerver of tha Erie Railway Com- pany, Judge Donahue has granted an order em- powering the Beceiver to pay the taxes and the charges upon and to work the coal mines referred o in this petition; to perform any law- ful contracts, to scll the socurities referred to when, in his judgaent, the interests of all partien will be promoted thereby. —_— WOMAN SUFFRAGES IN BHSOURL B7. Lotis, June §.—Tbe Comuittes oo Efec~ tors and Elections of the Stats Constitational Coovention, in making their report to the Con~ vention, offersd a sugplemental report, recom- mending that the quesiion of womsn suffzage ‘e roferred to the Committee, on separste propo- sitions to bs voted upon when the Constitution is sobmitted to the people. A lengthy debate followed, ~A “motion to table the propositon failed, and, after it became evi- dent that the sense of the Convention wasto deal with the question io such a Way as to lcave its supporters no excusa to bring it up again, the recommendation ¢f tbe Committee was adopted, and a provision for woman suffrage will be submitted to ths people a3 a ssparate proposition. —_—— BLACK RILLS GOLD. Svecial Dispatehto The Chicaoo Triduna Brorx Crry, Ia., June 5. —Winget & Chapman's Pony Express brought in to-dsy some of the finest spacimens of gold quartz ever seea in this country. The picces of rock found contain one- eiggth to one-half gold, Miners here from Colo- rado and Californin sy they never saw speci- meos of equal valus in that country. The quartz was obtaived from a party cf five, who had been in tho Hills sinco &larch last, but were oblizad to come ous, s the Indians becamo 80 troublesome sud thoir party was #0 small they conid not safely remein. They say there are milas of Jedge Lke the specimen they brought. i A $1,250 LIBEL. Bsecial Dispateh to The Chicaze Ty{dume, Lrzavexworta, Ks., June G.—B. P. Castle, of this place, bronght suit some time ago sgainst D. W. Houston, late editor snd publisher of the Commercial, for libel, on account of certain let- tars and editorials published last winter. The case waatriedin the District Conrtof this connty, end the jury this morniog brought in a verdict for Castls. fxing the dumages at 31,260, Castle in an iosurunce agent, and the principal libel irinkes. ioveiini somying et 2o 8 with baing & defaulter, T Caaus SUICIDE. Cotenexats, O. June &—H. Bohmeidel, s German, 45 yesrs of age, residing on Hughos atreot, committed auicido laat mighs by shooting himselt through ths heart. The cause is un- known. Nxw Yorx, June 5.~Cspt. Willism H. Brown, o;: ‘[’:{.»d Fifth e:nlry, Un.l::dmflmu army, | suioidé yestarday aals dends in this citp, # 3 Mrs. Richards aod Mre. Tilton drove fogether to tho depot. Tne exact date is not known, but it could not hase beap late in tho full, for the leaves still hurgon the trees. As they rode sloug Mcs, Ricuards told her what ahe had hieard from Thaodoro aud Mrs. Morsa, and implored her to tell ber the truth. She spose earoestly #nd kindiy, and Mrs. Tilton, burzuing into toars, confeesed then to her sister the crime sho bad commitied with her psstor. Shs defended ber act &, she could. She told of Paul's death, of Mr. Beecher's sympathy with bor i her nf'lll[:— tion, his grest kindness, his interost in her oo cupations, bL's encourazcment of her literary as- piiations, and the love sho bore him, 85 that she thougbt she was doing but Little to repay hira when sbe yielded up ber body at bis reguest. 4 I LOVE HIN,” SHE CRIED, ;-nd will die raiker than Lave harm come to . Her pathotic story greatly moved Mra. Rich- ards, and she offersd such ¢ongoiation and ad- vice as spe in Ler bowilderment could ; and then she tenderly baae her good-by &t the depot. A day or tno later o letter passed from one sistor to tho other, but it hias either beeo lost or has been stowed awny by Alr, Richads to keep tho written coufession from the public; but, as it bas kojt its indelible impression on Ars. Rich- ard’s mind, she recalls it ss an sfectionate, plainiave_burden, espresaive of tho wiiter's grief, and assuning her that though sbe bad al- ways loved ber a8 a sister, sl:0 now worehipes her ten thonsand times more for baing the uoble woman who cou.d listen to the story of her ein, understand her positivn. and forgive herso lovinaly. The let er was couched in beauuful language, and abounded iv thoso pretty extrava- gancies that mark most of Mrs. Tilton's compo- eitione. After boanag of this confession made to bis wife, Mr. Richards becamo cobvinced of bis sister's sin, and counselied with ber as to her fature course. Tbeir conversation was uoie- straioed, and tho roferences to her guilt con- tnosl; and from the first the brothers advice wag: *You roust mever denyit. If it becomes known to the world, all you can do is ao acsnowledge the transgression aud Lve it orn.” Even then he felt that her love for Mr. Boecher would permit no such course ae he wiahed her to foliow; and as he bocawme assursd in further communication with her tuat she had resolved upon a futuro based, as he believed, upan TUNTEUTH, ho avoided her presence and she his. Be could not sauction her propo-al, and his brotherly heart bore such love for lier that fo relieve her- self of the emparasment which his socety reated, be left her unbampared by bis advica, Ho seldom saw her, and_their occasional moetings wero constraned and unpleasant, 2 1he ecandal was made public, the Committes of Plymouth Church was in sexs:on, and he was summoned to appear befora it ; b.t previous to fio’.ug ha went to bis sister and asked her what o should do. She told him tbat ho must go, that his refnsal would be her condemnation, but that he must tell nothing. Ho thereforo wont before the Committee aud shiclded his sister in the only way Le could. Tho Commuttes asked him whethier his sister bad over confessed her adultery to bim, and he refused to anawer, for ho could not eatisfs his conscicnce by tha evasion to which somo witnesses whose knowl- edfa equaied his own had resorted. When asked the same question by the Committee, they replied 1o, basiog the denial on the fact that Mrs. Tiiton hod not used the specitic word “adultery.” When the trial came on, Mr. Tilton knew, for it had been & matter of family discas- siop, that Ar. Richards bed koowledge of the Scaadal trom ihe rst from his siater's Lps. Mn. MCKAJLDB':TEII!D)’Y. THe was summoned to appesr a8 & witness, He could not gisregard the order, nor could be teil other things tban those Lo know to be trae, Re was apared the pain of 1ebesraing his ea- tiro story, aod the lutlo that ho was in a position to tell from his own knowledge scemed very trivial in comparison with tho secret apd the details which had been confided to him. Thero was only the story of his opening the parlor door, of Mrs. Tulton's abrapt and precipitate moving from the part of the room in which Mr, Baechor sal. It was because 1t seemed slight, and tat- tling-like, snd bypercritical, that Mr. Ric in detailing the scene used these words I don’t think I can With justice to myself describe this acene unless I put what I saw in connection with wnat I Lad heard about Mr. Bescber in my long lmowiodge of bim ; what I¢2w might not e of any special moment as:de from theso other thinge, 20d it might not be of any moment at all in any view.” His dosire waa not, as his enemies declars, to ropeat the rcandals in court for the purposs of blackening his sister’s natme, but to relate those atories be bad heard of Boecher’s life, which eo impressed h1s miud with the character of the man that he folt he sbould be pardoned for be- ing unable to bsnish from his memory the soem- iugly trivial oconsrence which he described. Tha picture was : DEEPLY COLORED =t the time by Liis fears, ana the suceeeding con- fession of his sister hed indelibly set it. He had Dot seen his sister sinco the day in last summer on which she told bitm that be must go before the Commitieo, and had beld no communication with her. Ho gave tho testimony which he wes obized by tho law to_give, and the noxt day came s mesezge from his sister, sent 10 bim by word of mouth. “ Tell him that yesterday I buried my only brother ;" and on thst day sha want to Montclair, for the first time in months, but not to her brother's houss, and hold & lsves on the church staps the succeeding Bunday. *The position in which Mr. Richards is placed is one that those who reproach him cannot be- gin to reatize,” continned the gentleman who furnistied tho above facts. **Ho loves his sister dearly, and one dsy while Lo was attonding ocourt, waiting to be sworn, he snd I walked down past his old home, ho pointing ont the paths by which he 2nd hismster used together to g0 to school and to church. There wers tears in s eyas as ho spoke affectionately sud lovingly of her. Ha would save bar if he conld, but bo feels assured of Her guilt, snd can tell nothing but the truth, if he speaks a! ail. * WHAT ME. RICRARDS HAS BORKE- “He has volunteered nothing to the public and never -will, but be has borne withont a muormur the sigmaa that have bean showarsd upon him by his neighbors as well 23 by his onemies. “There 1s ope man in Montelair who & littls more than a year ago lost two of his ohiliren malignant soarlel fo man Richards was the only one who dared attend the funeral. He went ajons, and, unas- sisted, carried the littls cofins to the hearse. He provided the money needed to narss the sick and bury the desd, sod to this day has not boeen repsid. Yet this man rushed into priot to prand Richards as pusilianimous and weak: tneed. " "”Sfm morning of the publicstion of the let- tertbat Alrs. Tilion handed to Judgo Neifson, the gentleman who farnished this iuformation to the Sun camo down from Montciair with Mr. Richards and calied his attentien to the let- ter. Mr. Richards wculd not believe it to be aa- thentic, for ho said thet it was not possible that his sister was reckless enough to chellesge the flo0d of ovidence which only hor silenca had so fax restrained. *Snould’she give testimony now 10 her iunoceance, mv Ji;8 oud those of my wife wonld bo unsealed by the forco of the law, and su wou'd thoso of o:ners to whom she in her remorso confessed her sin.” THer owa chitd would be compelled to roheacse tbo mother's shame, for it is koown in the family that Floren~a heard from her mcther the ssmo story tha Mrs. Ricbards ulgo heard. Iu s mo- meut of anger Mrs. Morse reverled the secrot to the voung girl, and she tbou rushed to bor mother, snd in aogush ssked whcther she must behove the . terrible story, and tho mother conld nov bid her to disbelieve it. Tu conclasion, toe informant explained his po- mition as that of ono who knew the secrets of the "Tilton and Richards families oo the best authori- ty, and who was impelled to tell the story to free Mr. Richards from the imputations unjustly cast upon him. TRIAL NOTES. A canvass of opivion among the fifty-seven Journalists smploved in reporting the trial yes- terday, showed tuat forty-two rogarded Mr. Beacher pe guilty, eleven wers noa-committal, and four were convinood of his innocence. The story that Mr. Fuiterton bas withdrawn from the case 1s unirue. The part of the work atlotted to him is done, aud there is no need of his attendanco until after the summing up. The indications are that Mr. Beach will be heard by but & small porcentage of thoso who ex- pect to beor him. A vast number of admission ticketa ars hoarded in suticivation of use thon, and whep it is considered that the Court.roow will only hold 300 versons besides the lawyers and repor-ars, whosa seats are reserved, the im- pending dissppointment may sasily ba forescen. gt e S CRIME. POST-OFFICE ROBBER ARRESTED. Coiciavazy, O., June 5.—Iaformation has reached this city of the arrest, a few days ago, at Charleuton, Mo., of Heory T. ilanker, on o charge of embezzling Government money from tho Post-Ofice st Hoily Sprioge, Miss. Detect- ives have beea on his track for some time, apd finally succeeded in ef- fociing his espture by closely shadowing bis siscer, who resides in’ this city. Manier ie- sided fora time in Chicago. from whick: place he fled to escape creditors. Alterwards, it is al- legad, he swindled the Fitat Nationwl Bank of Cauo out of 81,70, on a forged check. Io has travelod under a nuwmber of aliases, and has several wives scattored throughon: the Western country. Ho was Postmaster at Holly Springs, and, it is stated, took several thousand daliare of Governmen: money from thers when he de- camprd. He is now on his way to Holly Springs in charge of Government officars. THE SILK SMUGOLERS. New Youx, June 5.—Wilham H. Talcott, buyer for tho sk department of H. B. Claflin & Co., was to-day srrested on & warzant issuod by the United States Commissionor, based on au afii- davit made by United States District Attorpey DBlisa.” The affidavit seta torth that ‘Zalcott dia knoaiugly buy sod teceivo, and aid in the buying and seliing of sk goods which had been smu, gled. Blies farther says the grounds of his formation are tie declaration of Tulcott, ovi- denze of one Jackson and othors, eud records ¢t the Custowm-Houre. 'Taicott wass held in €L,000 bal. Hoisce B. Clatlin aud Jabn J. Doualdsov, of the firm of Cladin & Co., became bis bondsmen. Lliss says Talcott purchased about £400.000 sorth of eilks from one of the alleged smugglors—Lafayette Graaf. Talcots bas besu indicied by the Grand Jury, but 28 yet the indicumout bas not been filed. THE BRANDT CASE. Dxs Morxes, June 5.—1he arzument upon a motion by lszac Brandl's attorney for arrast of Judgmene was conauued morniog. Genm. Given conciuded for tho State, and was followed by Col. Goode iu bus_cloging argament for tho aefense. At tna close of Col. Guode's arza- meut Judge Leouard medo a brief resuwe of the case in a few lan words, and overruled the molon in arrost of judgment. Tbe case then came up to be heard upon defeadsut’s motion for a new trial. Col. Gaode opeued for the defonse. and was followed by Goo. Given. At tlus pomnt the Court ad- journea till 1:30 p. m. Tais aftornoon Col. Goode made his closing srgumont, whereupon the Judge sonounced that he would tske the cass under advisement until Monday whea the decision will be given. DAKOTA CRIMINAL ITEMS. Yaxxroy, D. T., June 5.—In the District Court to-duy, Jane Proteau, colorod, was sentenced to two years in the Ponitentiary for shooting Chtrles Brooson, who, it 8 clsimed, was trying to effect an entrauce in her bouse. A petition is :eing circulated asking the Governor to pardon or. P. P: Wintermute was srraigned on the indict- ment for the wusder of Gen. 3leCouk, sod ask- ing time to auswer, was commutted to jal THE BOND FORGERS. New Yoxg, June 5,—Valentine Glesson and Charles Ralston, {wo of the alleged sccomplices of the notorious Spence Pettis in his extensive bond forgerios, have been arrested at the auit of the New York Guaranty & Indemnity Com- pany. Tho action is for the recovery of £75,000 sdvanced to Ralston for the gang on forged bonds of the Buffalo, New York & Erie Rallway Company. CONTEMPTIBLE. CreveLAxD, June 5.—Lawyer J, B. McLangh- lin was yesterdsy fined §25 for contempt of conrt by Judge Yonng, of the Police Court. To- day MeLoughlin, wmooting Judge Young oa the street, asgsulted and kuocked him down, Mo Laughlin was arrested, aad pus undor bail to TRIAL OF AN EXPRESS ROBBER. ), X., June 5.—E. Johnsop, ons of the gang who assauted and robbed Express Messenger Brady on Madison street last Febru- ary, waa bronght befors Judge Flippen, of the Orimiual Court, to-day for irial, and a plea of insanity waa eutered by his counsel CAPITAL SENTENCE, Mmoorerows, N. Y., June 5.—Mark Brown, convicted of the murder of 8. Gloester Carr, st Palvis, Sullivan Coanty, las: October, has been soatanced to ba hanged July 81, at Monticallo, THE WEATHER. ‘Waszrsarox, D. C., June 6—1 a, m.—For the Lakes, rming barometer, cool, olear weather, and wosterly winds. IACAL OBSERVATION, Umiaseo, Juze §., Time._|Bar.(Thr|Hu] Wind. __[Ram|if ther .19 Cloudy, 2. freen... 2t BOIN fresh.. &) 8 | et 56l ealk, ight.. thormomeler, 83; min, thermometer, 53 GENEPAL QLSERVATIONS. Cirzaco, June 5. Statwn. Bar. ZVKFI Hind, Hawn| Weather, Drockin'rge| 0.2 | 4., gentle.. Clieyeme.o.|0.23] £03. Sentia: Chicago....[30.07) B[E., light. Cincinuati, 5003, T3(6, W, I a.’s0/ezi 628, Nicobar Dandies. The export of old bata to the Iudian Istands is & new branch of trada worhiy the attantion of ;toldclo’” men. The inhabitants of the Nico- bar Islands, a gronp in the Indien Ocean, - south of the Andaman's, hava an extraordinary fancy for such cast-aff bead-ge; in old bata1s oarried on Nicabar, the much desired head-pieces beivg paid for in cocos-nuts. A tall chimnes-pot 13 the favorite kind amongst the Nicobarians, and the acme of fashion ia considered to bs s high whita hat with 8 Dlack hat-band. This is woith from fifty to aixty eocos-nuts, and worn by the Kicobarisn daody when he goes oo} 8sbing, the irl.;:h.“ his altise candlsiing solsly of & wals~ ar, and a regalar trade botween Calcotits and Io A BLANK INJUNCTION. And Yet 1t Ended an Ecclesias- tical War, The Majority in the Ada Strest Church Badly Hoaxed. Alvways Examine Legal Documents, The peopls of Chicago, including the eutire newspaper-reading community. have had ocea- sion to congratulate themsolves that, among the great pownts upon which we aa a city have been abie to kesp ®b with the times and to meintain an Honorabls rivalry with the cities of ths world, we. hava not beon without our Church war, the chronicles of Ada Streat Churoh, during a period of sbout s year, supplying our local history with ood full volume of ecclosiastical conflict. This long, bitter, and tirosome contest bstwesn op. posing bodies in the divided congregasion of Ada streos appoared to have reached, long ago, a0 apparent termination in the cessation of sctual and practical hostilities, and caased to bo 8 subject of parration and out of comment on the part of the newspapers. Receat ovents, however, have developed the fact that & true spixit of war and a living cle- ment of discord have continued to exist within the church during tbe lony stillness that succeedod tho last mamorablo battlo of opposing tougues, snd though the main facts in the pub- lished fiisiory of this great Methodist war may still be famitiar to the community, 1t 18 neces- sary to remind the, reader of THE LZADING CONSECUTIVE EVENTS embodied in that history in explunation of a scence which took place at the Ads Strest Cuurch Wednasday eyening, ponding the annual elzctionjot & B. azd of Lr.t.es —arcena th ¢ has boGu Lhe causs of grest merriment w church cur- cles, and which 18 wocthy of record both asan ec- closiagtical coup d'ots, sod 8a ithe most ludicrous practical joke that ever brought con- fusion upou a Presiding Elder and sn assem- biod congregation. The Ada Sireat Cuhrch war was begun two yours ago, upon the adveut of lbe Ilev. Dr. Dandy, 10 whose appointment to the pulpic the moat deternuned opposition had been made by 3 considerable number of the congregatio, in~ cluding Mr. Lra Brown, the financial pillar and origual builder of the church, Bubsequent to the fostalling of Dr. Dandy, which was offected in spite of protests enough to take the bair off 80 iron statue, the spirit of tho opposi- tion seoms to have grown largor and more gen- eral, and to have wncluded s cousiderabls num- ber who were at first indieront. Ira Brown con- tioued to figure 8 uhe head and froot sna genor- al oretor of tho disaffected eloment. Cuarges of gencral ungoaliness were preferred sgaiuwust b, and Mr. Brown was BLODGHT 70 TRIAL, and placed on his morits as a lost eheap bofore & jury of twelvo good snd lawful bretucen of the cougregation. Fortunately for his mds of tho Louse, Mr. Drown was scquitted after a loug sud laborious t.ial of tae charges preferred sgaiuse hum, a0d waa no sooner wside the fold agaio thun {10 concocted the idea of FivIng & double confirmation to the verdict by procesd- ing to bouuce tbe pastor himaself. Charges were accordingly preferred, and Dr. Landy began to kuow how it was’ himsolf. Tae jury found nm lacking 1 tras inwardness, sad concluded that hus ratiroment to s country par- 200age wanld ve in the general interosta of Moth- odist sod of religion. The pastor accordingly vucated the Ada street pulpit. but the troubles of tho church had meaptune golten into the civil coura. It secms tuat, shortly afier Dr. Dandy carme. ap effori was made to oust tho existing Board of Trustees, of which Alr. Browa was a momber, by the electioa of & mew Board. This clection was ignored by the Brown Buard, who contisued to sct withont ollicial rec.gnition of the members of the now oo, and the vaudity of the election seems afterward to bave beeu denied by the civil courts, who 18aued a0 injunction restratuing them from interforonce with the finauces of the church. Bat, not- withstandiog the odict of the Cuurt, tha new Boaxd contiuod to ASSERT IT8 OFFICIAL EXISTEXCE, in the moral, theological, and ecclesinstical sonso, and the two oppoving Boards hars conn- ued siuce to reproseut the spirit of war, wiitein the meantime s pesce party seems to have sprung up in the church, whose mission has been the perpetual overture of peace and reconcilia- tion. A new election of Truste:s being in order, ‘hursday week hasing boon designated sa the day of elect:ion, the terms proposed by the Brown party to the Peace Cowmission wers the 1esignation of both the cld Boards and the pomipation of members outside the contost,—or, the designation by the Brown Board of five membars of the 1illegal Board and ono other, who was recognized 88 s violent pattiran of the so-called illegal Board, who suould by the act of resignsiion become in- eligible o3 members. It seems that neither proposition vas acceded to, and the dauger of the legal re-sloction of the sileged illegal Bosrd uuder the co-operation of the Presiding Elder, A. J, Juikive, bronught out the Browvn party in large numerical majority _ the night appointed for the election, The Flder announced accordiug to the rule of the churcl, 2 Nominating Committeo of five persona~—hia own name sud those of lobert Vasoy, Cbarles Palmer and Jobn Doran, all supporters of the alleged illegal Board, apreariog on the committes. On the announcement of the names of the commit- tee Mr. Brown insisted ugon A POSTPONMENT OF THE ELECTION on gronnds which he desigrated as thoss of equity, justice, and law, uatil the succeoding ‘odnesday. Elder Jutidus Dboing per suaded tnat this wes the law, annomnced the postponement. In the mean time the Brown party recognized thoe insvitable, and pre- pared for it. Tho Committee in whoso hands repased the results of the Quiney eicction were compossd of the Coptains. and leaders of the opposition. Resigoation ‘now became a daty, bocause it was a grim necessity. The Courts would not interposa the nuthority of judicial writa and wandates. Accordiugly, resignation became tho duty of all. And when tho congro- gation coovened LAST WEDNESDAY RVEXING the introductory and primary procosdings wers to all prectical intonis sad” purpoces those of brethron dwolling togetber in noity. The sky was very clear, and po breoze of opposition die- turbed the concord of the meeting. The Elder inslructed the Election Committes o retire and do their duty. and just st this poit there was & whisper, a quick movement by & modest and re- tinng member of the Brown 'side of the house, who stepped Lks s spirit to the mde of the Presiding Eider, aod whispored in his ear—it was an ominous whisper, a whisper of imponding danger, vory much like the gentls mutter that ansounces the coming of thuader on o sammer day. The aimple fact is, be told the Presiding Elder to beware—that AN OFFICEE OF THE LAW was then in the church, in whose hands was s dreadful injunction which he-was about to lay “upon the Elder and the oongregasion if the il- legn] election was proceeded with. The Elder looked thoughtfcl—be even looked puzaled. The probabilities ars tho warning was too sud- den and too overshelming, and that his per ploxity pravented prompt action. Ho may have imagined bimself to have beea voy indiscrest, indeed, in sending the Commuittes out for de- liberation. Bub be besitated. He negiected to take acuon notil too late. The officer of the law Tided to hismde like s second gbost, and from Eis higovercost estracted & documeat that looked to the boholder as if it contained an awfal judg- ment sad 20 awful malediction. The officer read it with o faneroal voics. It waa worss than & judgment, 1t wes worso thana maiediction. It as ap injunction. The Presiding Eider quaked ; the congregation gasped witt. amszement ; the old Hoarde of Trustees looked oo with an espression of calmness and wisdom and sopreme estisfaction, liks s patty of learned jurists. The duty of sction in the premises, howaver, lay with the Presiding Elder, and bs bsd bt one duty to perform. His duty was to bow before the law of the 1sad, and be bowed. He annoonced to the congregation that THE ELECTION WAS OFY; that there had been an informality; that it was always a duty to proceed with cicumspection and cantion in matters of prest public moment: that the probabilities wers that the elect:on would come off at s futurs time, but that all he could do now was to duschsrgo the Commuttes and dismiss the copgregstion. Neither tuo Eldor nor the Committes had taken time to read tne injunction. They wers apparently eatisfied with heenor it resd, and bad s horror of look- ing into it. 1f they hsd ouly road the ominous sod dreadful document, they might have felt strangs, bub bt frightened. It Was & barmless document. 1t was no docament ot all. It was not an injunc- tion. It was only ono of Judge Willisms’ blsaks. 1t pad not been filled ont. It had not been officislly signed. Is was all tha sama, e It hsd dous ita work. Althouxh sigaed plaoa Jim Crow,” 1s hes upest tha alacticn, and div- m-ud the congregation. Calls ware made for Brown and others to rise and ex- plain. Bat they did not rise, sud they did not explain. Thoy wers -not there. Just at what time on the following day the Presiding Llder, the Nominstiug Comumittes, and the congregation,—including both the con- tending factions,—discovered tko ttne charactor of the injunction and the enormity of the joke ; that had "been verpetrated wpon them, does not acpear. And, though a fecling of merriment is the reault of the discovery in goneral, there are, 0o doudt, & few who do no. thomseives make say reference whatever to the injuuetion, snd who prefer, alao, that others should not refer ta it in their premence. The egsentil oil of the entirs joke, however, 18 in the fact that, previons to the reading of the injunction by the officer, toe old—so-called illegal—Poard, in anticipation of carrying the election their own way, had unanimcusly tendered their resignations—a step which they could not but have lameated after- ‘ward a8 decidedly premature. CHURCH AND STATE. Reply of tho Prussian Catholhic Bishe OPs 0 the Ministeriul Rescript. TEPLY OF THE BIsHOPS. Pawrs, May 20.—The following are the prin- cipal passages of the reply of the Prossian Bish- ops to tha Ministerial Rezcript of the 9th of April: The May laws contain & whole series of provislons which conflict with the existence and coustitution of the Church founded by Curlst, rob it of the inde- pendence which God desigued for if, aud convert it into & mere Stato institution, That in other German or foreign countries a whole series of iaws systematic- ally dextroyiug the indejendence of the Church ia willingly recognized, and even obedienco sworn to themn, by Catholic priests and suthorities, is L0 us an unknown fact which has been frequently assorted, ic- dead, but never ias becn, :nd never will be, estab- lished. We hate nevar demlod, but rather hsve al- ready exproaaly deciared, thas there are various pro- Yirious contained in thess ecclesiastico-palitical Laws a5 10 which an understauding botween Church and Stats he be, apd on vurions occasions {n German sod foreign Btales has actually besn, arrived at. Weshould have huiled with joy overtarea to such an understanding, aud we shoald sl joyfully | welcowma koytitiug of tio kind. As long, bowoyer, a8 provisions in the eaid luws are mainiuined vhich in- Jure the existence of the Church, and destroy its Di- Vinely-intended indepondence, sa undorstanding and restoratica of peaco Latween Cuiurch and State sz Dot possible, even with the extremest complisnce on the part of the representativos of the Charch. . . . cannot be denied that in tho recent ecclesiastico-polit ical Jawa there are mauy provisions by waich the dise semination of Divine truth is at least indirectly fur- bidden under cortain circumstances. Thus the Royal Upper Tribunal Lias declared preaching in s church, & spiritual exerclse of oNice in the menss 'of the May laws, punishible with fing imprisonuiant, internment, enr, i the prisst in question ' ean slow ro Stite authorization, Xow, ue} that anthorization depends on conditious whush serionsly impair the independenes of tha Church, and caumof, iherefare, bo compliod | with without violation of conecicuco, thesd laws cone tain provisions which in certain cises wmount o o probubition to preach the Gospel accardiug to ecclesi- | satical order. S0 also with the =dministration of the Holy Sxcraments, . . . We have nevermude obedi- ence to the laws of the State dependent on * the Fupo's | 800d p.casuro.’ As regards the laws in question, we Taised our voice sdalust thera tn full sccord with all fuithiul Catiolics in Prusaia and the whole world long beforg avs verdict on them from the Papal See had come to our knowladgo, solaly o the ground that » number of ths clauses wero irreconcily blo with tho existonco of the Catholo Chureh and with our couscicnces, oreover, ws bave pr: ve 1in our Memorial that the Stala did not sbow fuyar or iberality towarda tho Cailolic Charen by the dutations in question, but merely performed & skrict obligation, undertaken according 3o the cited ex- | pression of s Prussian Minister of State, under pledzo of tae hovor of Prussia., 'Thu reserigt appeals fnally to those Bislops who in 1870, befare the promulgation of tie Vatican Decrees, urged that thode decrses 1afght be muda carizel out of, in cortain querters, gainst the Cbureh, and the guestion is ssked hens, ! whether thiey might not, perbaps, kave preserved the country {rom the presoat cunfusion and strifo by the faithful 3ud firm uttorancs of thelr couvictious. We Toply (iat, afier the dicloion of the Qicumen- icul Council, for us Dishora, a8 for every Catholic | Christian, the truth expreased by the Council is a ; dogmuatic article of faith. It is supposed, therefore, | tlst we might Lave refused submizalon to this docres; | thiat is Bimply to_expect from ws upostasy from the | Catholic fuito. -Wo canzol alo omit saying that the attituds and conduct of the Blahops in question at the Council was quits different to what is siated in the Minietarial docutnent. No Prussfan Bishop had auy idesof predicting such circumatsuces as the present xy consequences of tho Vatican decrees, Tho decrees have 1n 1o way altered tho relations of tbeChurci o the State aud kave, consequently, giter no occasion for the bl referred {0 in our memorial 83 asourve of indescribu- ble grief end trouble. One proaf of this is that, in other countriex, eome radical cantons of Switzerfand and the Graud Duchy of Baden excepted, ruch troubles sud atrife as in Prussia have mot happened aficr ‘he Vatican Coundil. Nobody, moreover, who clearly understands our ralations will Aind occaston for the new laws In the Vatican Decrees. Even hus Excel- lency the Lmperial Chancelior and 3inister President Bismarck connot have done 8o, for otherwiso he would not bave declared in the Chamber of Deputies on the 3uth of January, 1372, with regard totbe decrees of the Vutican Council, that evory dogma belioved by millions of citizens muss be secred in tao 6708 of evers o4 tion to the dsnger of out of the Vatican Decress predicted thros years later, With equal comscientiousness and candor, the preseat melancholy position of the Prussian Futhorland as the necessmry consequences of the legislation of 873, Together with all the Prussian Bishops, they expressod an earnest desire o averc {hom, aud to retain the existing relations, woll ordared by Constitation and law, which bad till then in Prus- aia formed the basis of 5 al co-existerca of the arious confessions, and of 3 bagpy understanding betwoen ths State and Church autliorities. Had thoss requosts snd representations beon considered, the country would not be now suffering under the melan~ choly circumstances deplored by the Governmant and by us, for the removal of which we daily supplicate God with urgent prayers, firmiy conviaced that the Holy 8o would never ba’ nciepocad to mootall ras sanable demands of the Govecnment, TELEGRAPHIC BREVTIES. ‘The new steamer City of Now York, belonging to the Pacific Mail Cumpany, was lsunched at Cheater, Pa., yostorday. City of Moxico sdvices state tha efforts are being made to eatablish a line of stesmers be- tween Vers Cruz and Galveaton, making the run in sixty houra, The Detroiv Commandery of Knights Tem- plar gave an exbibition drill in Union Squars, New York, yesterdzy afterncon. The Knights marchea in proceseion from their botol in fal uniform with the Palestine Commandery ss escort. After the drill they proceeded to the Jersey City Ferry. The Commencement exercises st the Prince- ton, 1IL, High School took place on Fridav. The : gradusting oxercises were very fine, and weie attendod by an immenas throng from the city aod country. In the eveniug the alamni held a social at Opera-Hall, whuch was largoly attandod by tha elits of the city. pcnizloe £ IS known in Tracadie deacended from one or the other of thess men. : 'The opinion there is that the disease is not contagious, but simply hereditary. The peopls bave no droad of it. and persons engaged about the lepers for years pever contract it. Not ouly do the lepers warry smong themsolves, but such is the feeling among the poor Faench in Tracadie that there is Do repugnance in many cases smong perfectly healiky people to taking lepers for busbabos and wives. The taint geperslly manifests itself in svery alternats genera:ion. In this way the disease has become permanently seated in the locality, while the general poverty and not very cleanly habits of the French popu- lation tend to excite sod inteusifv it. It fimat showa itsalf in the form of small, white zpots on the breast, then ibe face assumes s puffy ap- K:xruzw. and there is much pain, langnor, sod owsiness. The fingers become crooked, the neck awells, the limbs show all the symptoms of dropsy, the nails fall off, and at lsat the throat and Jungs are attsoked, aod the sufferer dies, a mere mass of loathsome disease. I:s duration varies from five to twenty-five years, according 0 the strength of tha constitution. Leprosy 15 not nearly 80 rars a disesge ss is generally supposod. It is on the incresse in many of the British dependencies. In some parta of India 0aa person in every himdred ia s leper. and 10 soms parts of the West Indies, ss well as i the Sandwich lulands, it is also very prevalent.” MORE POISGNING. A Mether Drugs Her Little Danghter and Hersell, and Atiempts to Kil Her Husband. Another hornble perpetration, aiin to that of the fearful Malinski poisoning case, han occurred in the West Division, but es yet no fatal resuits have oconrred, though the lives of s mother and & little child have nearly sbbea out, and it is doubtful i they can survive. The former is the perpetrator of the crime—that of poisoning her child and bhezsel’, and stabbing ber husvand. The FANILY OP JOSKPE LYY, an expressman, live in a sqoalid sbods in rear of No. 12 Daane, 8 short theroughfare near the Wisconsin Division depot of the Northwest- ern RBailway. Lee isan Englisbman of sbout middle age, and formerly kepc a saloon on Clark. street, near Polk, and a dive on Pacific avenue. He is well known to the Armory police for many acts in violation of the law, and his wife has the reputation from the same quarter of baing A JABD WOMAN. For some time pas: toings have been going all wrong witk: Los and hit faaily, and yesterdsy abous 11 o'clock hia wite, ander & £t of dojso- tion, probably scoeler: . forewd or eoexed ber littlo dacghter, Auuvie, 3 yoars old, to tase % large doss of turpenting and whisky, with tho very ovideat imtention of killing her. She thon, to zccomplieh ber fian- Qish dexign, £o well contempiaced, took & dogse af poison, and with ber only child LAID DOAXN TO DIE. Lee, returning bome at noon, discovered the canditiou of thiogs a: oncs, from tho facs that his wifo had intimated personal violonco,and went for Dr. Petorson. When ho arrived with thac pbyaiciap, the woman, though then lying by her cbild, snd the latter soforing irom ted hr interaperance, coovolsions cansed by the deadly dose, aroso and attzcked her husbaud with s butcher-knife, cutting him severaly | on the night log, and causing the blood to flow freely. I¢ wzs with dificulty that Dr. Peter- o, .:ged by neighbors, couwld apply restars. ves THE INFUBIATED WOMAN and her child. Tho mother, fearful that her murderous act would fail, wss de- tormined tc dis, and resisted of- forte 1o save her. At 1 C’clock Shis morning the woman and child wero in & critical aod al- most Liopeless condition, sud if they ace saved from desth their recovery mil bonler oo the muraculous. Loe is unable to Ls about cn s count of his wounds. . . THE METRIC SYSTEM. Cenvention Agreed to by the Internae tional Commissicn. Pants, May 21.—The Interustional Commis- Eion on tho Motrio Bystem has agreed to s Con- vention which has beea sizned by the repressnt- atives of Franco, Germany, Austria, Belginm, Spain, Russia, Italy, Switzerland, and the Unit- ed States. Othor Powers may hereafter adbect toit. By Clsuse 6 the Iaternational Institute i intrusted with— 1. AIl the rompariscns and_verificstions of the new prototypes of the metre and logramme., 2. With the proservation of the international prowotypes, 3, With periodical comparisons of natfons] standards with tisa international Lrotoiypes and with thelr witnesses, @ well us of those of thermometrical standards. 4. With the compari2on of Dow prototypes with fundamental standards of weights and mesrures which are not ‘metrical, emploged in varions countries and in science, 5. With the seating and compsrison cf standards and scales of pracision, whoss verificanon may be demand- od either by Governments, or by sciontifla sactetios, o even by artists and savants. The expenss of building the Irstitute and the purchase of instraments and sppareas is uos to oxceed 400,000¢. The annasl expease befors the distnibut:on of the etsndards is reckonmed at 75,0001., snd afterwards st 50.000f. Tho staff for thae firet period includes a Director, with two first-class asaistaats and four under-assistante, their aa'aries, rockoned in the above estimate, amounting to 45,0001, & year. During the seo- ond period this staff will be greatly reduced, snd their sslaries cost anly 25,000f. The International Committes is to be compos- ed of fourtesn mombers belongiog to dif- ferent States, to be renewable by haivaa. The oxpenses will be divided in proporsion o the population of the variony States. Countries whoso representat:vos huve nos signed the Coa- vention will be charged » fixed price for the standards which they haye asked for. Tbe In- ternational Commities is suthorized to somati~ tate itaelf st once, and to make all the necessary preparations for patting the Coavention into force, without uodertaking any expenss before the ratification of the Union, ~The Convention | consiats of fourteen clausos. The regrlations are twonty-two in number, sod the temporary ‘reaty coasisty of six clauses. The whole docu- ment is signed by Herr Foerster (Germany), err Hert (Austria), M. Bias (Belgium), Gen. Zbaney (3pain), Mr. Vignaud (United States). M. Dumas (Fraoce), Sigzoor Govi (Italy), M. Wild {Busais), aod Herr Hirsch (Switzerland). AR EMIGRANT ROBBED. Poter Brens, » German emigrant, was robbed “REST. In Memory of Mre. E. A, N. * Rext1” was the cry of her mortsl patgy— A cry that went Up, not sent o valn; ¥or Ho who “ givea His baloved slosp * == Gave ber immortal, sure rest to keap. ’ A fair whita ross in her narrow bed, Bhe looked, with lilies about her spresd,— { The flowers she loved of all tie best, Bweat valloy-lilies, hosped on ber breast, 1 thought, gazing on her sulptured face, Perfect and swoss with 3 namaless grace, How alight the change sho must nnderge To be s Angel,—ws Joved her sol . And we wept that ono o fair conld die; Bhe was 50 purs that we questionsd, Why? The answer came in the pusce 80 aweot That wrapt her about frum head o foet. Bhe never would cry agoin for rest ; We koew ber soal was whita as th Great tarong that, stans ‘Worahip bus Him who is God aions, ” Too white, perlisps, for this life's demand ; Too gentls for touch of human bands ; oo oving for us to understand @ Tntil we dwell in the holy land. . Tender snd gweet ; falr 85 flowar; ek, with the spirit's richest dower § Holy 84 only s womsn can be Wi trusts in humanity ublerly. o when Y question and dumbly cry, Wy must s best-loved, the mest perfect, dis? Tbe answer comea now ix her partect rest, With swoot valles-liliex heaped on her breast. Cxoaso, LL, May, 1575, JULIETZE K. PRRSCOT, —_— Leprosy in Canada. Toronto Glube, In the Arcsdiso nilisge of Trecadie, near the month of the Aliramichi iiver, thera have been Jopera for tho fast eiglty or pinety years. A bospital for their benefit is supparted by the lo- cal governmont. The leprosy which they saffer is elephandiasis grocorun, 8o called from its ton- dency to maks tho Lmbs swell to elephantino proportions. This diseass is undera! t0 have been brought thers by a French vesssl which, ou its return-voyage from Smyrna, touched at the Island of Mitvlene and took in & quantity of clothing 2ad somo other stores, and an her way to Baubaris Jalsod, & French military port. 8he ‘was wrecked near the mouth of Miramichi. The peoplo in tho neighborhood played the part of wrocsery, and helped themselives to thé clothes esst aahote, which were supposed ts be tainted with leprosy, the consequence 4be dissese reom heote cut lepers trom AL Ksinee. And Shat aeazy leper of 85 in silver cown by Jobn Connors, au ex- presaman, who drove bim up Michigan avanue, from the Contral depot, last night. Ofioar Luoy caught Connors as he wes enoapin; THE DANDELION. Gay littla Golden-Hrad Jiveil v:ithin a town. Full of Lusy boboliuks itstag 2 snd down, Preity nelghbor buttarcups, crey suntis clavess, And ahy grougs of daisies all whispering like lovers, A town that was buflded on the borders of a stream, By the loving nands of Naturs, when she waks from Winter’s dream,— nxmnwi Rearing fairy houses of nodding grass and fiowsrs, Crowds of talking trumble-bees rusing up and dews, Wily listls mlmpl?}‘—d‘”’ b:l! hl-l;‘; ifl;fl, Dage of g ust, always in o horry,~ Byt e iianny 10l of T aad Sty Gay little Goldwn-Tesd fadr and faiver graw, Fed with fecks of sunshine aud sipe of balmny aw,= Swinging on er alender foot all ths happy day,~— Csitaring with bobolinks, goaips of the May. Underneath her lattice, on starry Summer-aves, By and by a lover cars, wita bis harp of leaves, Woosd and won the maiden, tander, sweet, and sy, For a litste cloud-hawme hs was bailding in the aky. Aad oug breszy morning, on » steed of Ha bore little. -H’l‘.doulfll Mfll’l‘l‘l‘:h.z; But still har gentle sptrit, 2 puff of airy down, Weadars through tho mazes of that busy little tows. — An Impertutbable YWitness. Mr, Dallas, once Vice-President of the United States, while racticng law, was counsel in & rase in Philadeinhis, and Mr. Scheerer, s noted politician, was called in a8 a witness. The tollow- ing questions were pus by alr. Dellsa: * Mr. Scheerer, wars yon in Hamisburg ls=t June?” ‘*Last Juns, you say, Mr. Daifas?” ¢ Yes, Iast June. Don't ropeat my queation, but an- uwer it.” After somes minntes of study, the an~ awer came: “No, Mr. Dallas; I was oot ic Har- nsbarg last June.” *Wars you Harrigbarg last Juty:” Hers ho reflacted sgaio, sod slealy said: © No, Mr. Dallas; I was not in Harris~ burg in July.” * Wers you thers last August, Mr. Schearsr?” The wilness azain meditated, andsmd: **No, Mr. Dallaa; I was no: thers in August.” “Ters youn thera in September?* Here Mr. Beheerer reflocied longer than befors, sad rephed: “No, Ar. Dallas; I was not in Harrisourg in Beptember.” Mr. Dallas banams tired of this bacren reult, aud, raising bla yoice, sud: *“Mr, Schosrer, will you Use Court g et A 2 e u“‘;h-m. “ A Y 74