Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 5, 1876, Page 11

S Ekacannn e S i i i e S ki b+ i o e i b e i e THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE : SATURDAY, FERRUARY 5, 1876-TWELVE PAGES. EREE-TRADE AND PROTECTION Bome Polits fn Behnlf of the ¥ormor. tathtr,” yot yori '*dd bolleve in brie whicli wift enablo our picoplo to romalh i tho market tin- dor all cirewnatanens, Hera Is au explicit con- {tadiction, Yovi do nat beliove in & prolubilory {ariff bocauea it prohibus, yet you do heliova in ono becsuse it prohibita, Probition is what f"“ waot, but you deny It A Trohibitlonist, o bs cobalatont, “must ba for prohitiition all around: for, if ho yield ono point, ho Josed ll, aid theroby Junlruyn the principien of hia policy, Wo turn "agslo_to the A Communication Which 8 Protectitne ist Paper Roiustd to Print, Hi-piato monopoly, dut tako off tho duty im- — xmnd o ‘{ml?‘rl\‘:l‘u' nnd‘ymll will “':"'"5“" thnt 5 téano Tribune: onopdly bralieh down ; for thon othor firng, aa "é?:l::::%fl;.v_"-;-uz: tom‘c‘n"'(uhlc-uon totue | re8 unu!filu 8 {lin ubo tn Now York, wiil engago in thatmportation of tiu-plate, thero bolug auin croased dontand on Aceaunt of thio cheaptiaes of tha comtnodits. And, shoutd the angmantation of tho domand o ralso the prico .ha to suable our homo tanufacturers to éompeio with the forerguer, thon tho objuck of tho Prutectiontst wi|l have boon accomplished, and the conenmern will not bo taxed for the beneilt of the pro- ducots. Bpeaking of “ills eamo monopoly fes: bire," you mty, “Tho ‘iing’ evdlem of dolig busivgss (8 tho rulo; fien comfietltion ja tho excobtion,” htid, fusthor, ** feco compotition 88 myths It {8 ono of the linpos-ibilitles of trado.”” Who have helped on this moropoly of “ying symem " of dolpg businers? If whom havo the poofplo bieen oducatod 1t the dark art of +gchomes,” *‘combinations,” and * adultora- tiona?" Aro not aar “*statesmen,” in and ont of Congress, our paetlo-cconomtsty,nnd many of our oditors, greatly rospousiblo for this blaci cata- Jogne of deceit, robbery, and gorruption? The TProtectioniste, having brought the country to thin droadful ntate of affairs, now turn about And say, Deedudo theso things cxiat, wo must keep on in the same downward road, by oracting and snpporting mors monopolles a8 & maonna wich whteh to break down Anglo-Amorican mouopolies. But, all other arpumonts (falling, yen mako thia fina, but fatal, arsault unon the Froe- ‘I'rade columus: *that Froo-Trado Implica an oqual knowledgo of tho facts in regard to prices, amopg the peoplo at large.” 'C'his 14 a fatal ad- minsion, becanso tue peoplo at large are impoiied Ly solf-interest to seok “‘thie facts in regard to pilces. Froo-Traders rmpnuo to enlighton thiy solf-{uterest.” Drotectionists endeavor o keep thom 1n the dark as rogards fitices and their fn- terests, They puint to protectod indastricy, and eay, *d00 what wo havadonel Wo kiave built up thieso great mauufacturers, giving employ- mant to thousaila at increased wages,” ‘They bold out that decditful thing * bigh wagoes,"— forgotting that labor iy nob an ebject, but o mcans ; that men labor for resulls, not for the sako of ]Almriniz. Tho peoplo fall to &o6, belg ULlinded and urr{n oo by the mophistry” of Protectimiate, that these inductrios aro not forcotl npion thio cotihtiy for tho Louefit of the labonng clasaes, but to enrich tho manufaclurers thomesives, They do not see— thanks to thelr I'rotectivo friends—that they contribute moro 1o theds mouopalics 88 cone Aumors than thov récoive in increassd wagos, Yor wages do nok i:.éresso propottivnaltv with tho prices of commoditios, AR thie consusd of 1870 sliows, T'lte wages of tho 8,00:,000 who labor royn about 80 per cont from 1860 to 1870, whilo pricoa roao atiout 60 yor ceut. You say your op.nions aie based upon tho #nctual oxperience inithis country.” Would it not be well o oxtend your bmmn strocture so a4 to inslude the actusl experiance of ather cofinttles? Prices nio tie most doceitful of =il s guthority ™ on which to baso * economic proo- lems,” Somotimes prices ] when tho tarifl is raigod ; at othera they riso whon tho dnty 14 te- duced. **Tho actual mothods of doimy Lusi- ners” aro, welling in tho doarcs! markot, and li\lyli’ng in the clhicapost; no other than Lroo ‘rado, You fall fnto & groat error whon you msy “Frog-Tradors bogin by ‘suppositg ’ & caso.” They begin by Inying down tho geheral laws of Putitico-Economica, and tlion illustrate thow by +guppotad * cases aunlagous to tho quostion At isauc, Wo attemyt 80 prove nothihg by analo- pica, for logic toaches ug thw contrary; biut on~ deavor to point out thosé laws of order aud aves tem In aceordanco with which soclaty moves, aud ask (Government ot toopposy thom by diverilug the industrica of tho peopla into” uunatisal channels. Theso laws aro diecoverod, not mvented, Tho Protectionista thiuk thoy can supply & bettor systom than that doveloped by Nature, Lhoy ‘*dig out tho facta"—pervorted fucts—produced by Governmonial ‘suterferouce, Wa ghow how their **facte” demonstrate tho absardity of their doctrine. They bulld upon tho ** solid fouudation" of human lass ; we rost upon naturnl laws. Thov succced by shuwing “isots" that linve beou forced our by contra- vening natural lawa; we will succe~d whonever wo cau gel tho pe xrlo to aoe that thoso ** facts™ reprasent ouly half-truthy. Lhoy show tho pros- petity of ono class; but they do not show the burdons ippored upon the olher clasa, Freo-Trado is no *‘thbory;” 1t b A right,—an inberent right, if our peoplo bave auy Inberout rights. Governmout can 88 justly Impodse a taritf on sunlight #s it can restrict ua in the exorciso of the richts of Freo Trado. The Froe- “'rader baa no theory, beeauss bis principlea are opposed 10 all thoory. The exposition of natural lawa I8 not thoory., Ile makos war upon & Ecening Journal 18 & rojoloder to that paper's comments on & short lottorof mino publishod Nov. 17, 1876, Having occupled noorly a enlumn {n ronly to my queatious, they uow declina to rint this lettet, This, I think, ls hot falr troatmont; hionce I make complaint t6 Titz Tutbuxg, And ask sou to givome a héarlng, it you doem my argumonts worthy of contideration, A papor of tho Journai's rospectabitity should not bo permitted to go on sdvoeating themo Pro- tection stenrdities witbout bmng stoutly op- posed. 1t I can bul incile Tur Trwuss to take hold of these Journals soptisms, arid exposd fhem to tho notbinking public, T wiil bave ac- compilshéd my abjoct, Very rospactfully, A, GiLnesod, To the Edttor af the Chicauo Evenina Journal ¢ Ciicaao, dan, 1.—Your reply to tho queation propoiindod by the writer somo wédky ago, cloarly shows that yon soo ouly the bnheflts of Piotcetion, while voi Iall to look further aud goarch deeper for ita ovil an diffuscd through- ont {be whole. Yon viow this question from tho produoer’s standpoinr, failing to take into ac- connt that thero ate nlao consumors. ~ You pre- eent trutbs, but thoy aro lucumploto traths, But wa kil nut oceuby Youk space in discusnting tho factd bibhght out” by the foiced Industries, fur with theul you ran place the Froo-Trader st & great disadvautage, You meed oiut . out ounly two or {(hroo cages i it appoar that vour pringiples aro actuobatrdted, while ho basto employ #n eluborato analybls to uncover tite evlls that lie Didden o every pare affected by their applioa- “tion, In order, therofero, tu bo idaistood and bave falr plny, we will gu back to (rat onnciples. We fiud wen in the stuto of assooiatiun, 'Lhay apnociats o that Lltey may bo enabled to satiafy Leir soolal dueires, to lollow thdir favorite pur- suits, snd to sccuro protection for lite aud piop- erty, Bich an sesociation of indivldunly, cach ising \lpali)\[h)[ uls fudividuality, avd con- ibutiog b Lo the geneiel good, becomios o nationality, When these contrlbutions aro so organized as to_gain tho cottnt and suppors of e conttibritors, thoy coalesea iito & power which 18 wirlded foy tno well-Lélug of the whole. This power {3 called Govérnment, i Au dutulligent peoplo are 1eost Lappy whon thoy onjoy tho greatoet hborty, and they have tho preateat lberty whon theg are permitied ficcly to ongate in tlioso puruits which will give them thao latxent totun fur thelr labor. Tha beet Governtnent in that Uovornment which gives tho best security to person and rcporty, st tho least, expenso, and wiin tho anp.mnbia_lunurmcu to ita citizons 1n tho onjfymnuv. of.their chusen puisa.a. Thon fo folfows thut tho Govornmeul of such u penplo smust bo ond. which confines ita operations within o prescribed sphioro of action,—baing the exerciso ut o cotitribntory power Lo protact life and proparty, adminlator {unlluu betweon its cit— izens, and lovy taxca for 1ta own support, 1t .theso- propositions ato truo, thon the functions of Governmaont nro thoso of A Amlicn, &nd tho peopls aro suprome,— all baviog its protection, and, at tho tamo titmo, ebjoyink equal rights aad privivgoes, Maviug dofined tho objects and Functiona of tho boat Governmont wn association of intelligent iudividuals can possess, lat us sce what aro gomo of tha prisileges thas they cojoy. First—Every poisoa cau act 64 Jio pleases, 4o tong as Lie” dpes nob igterlm—o withh tho satao cightn onjored by o.heth. Sécond—Every peisou can follow whotevor pursuit will Lo him scein mosl conduclyo to liy prosperity and happluess, Third—All movopolies will be kept down by com atition ; or, if such avils should spring up, b8 pbofils 31l bo free to root theat ont. Foufth—I{ thd peopld with to exchange tho products of their Jubor for -the productions of puotuer cuttatry, they mil bo untrainmeind to tho axeroine Of thai tight, Fifth—"Thelr induatried will bo diverrifiod by patural causes, sud nous foiced upon thetn by taxing consunota for the Lonelit of pruducers. Sith—I'rau-1ride will be their gteat boon, snd Prolection known by thewn only lowt arb, o LY You witl admit that our Government {s baued upon these fuiidamental flrluciplen; but deny tno }.00plo tho exercisn of the nylits and pusl- logea tioming frum them, *Yom will adm:t tho right of free epsoch, a fros rogs, free religiou, aud freo schools Lut donv hie right of freo compatition, froglabor, sud free sxflango. . % theory: and, wero . that theury—I'rotection— You il admit thet the peodo have cer- | {HGX from tho minds of iue anm, his work tain . foallowdblo rights, | ainong Wich | would bo dono, ‘Llicre are no Abolitionista now, aré life, Mliberty, ond: the puredit | qyefe work boing fimebed, thoy have passed off of happineds ; but deny thom tho right to follow their natural inclinatious, aud tu eugage in thoso eallings walch nill give thew tho greatest re- sulte for their lalior, You will admit that this isa Governmeat ot the pogpln, by tho psoplo, for the poonlo; but ou hold {tiat the Govorbmcnt should imposo axes for the benollt of sho fuw, tothe dotritmont of the many, y You will sdit llm'evurfl ono knows bis own wants and desires bofter thau any ono olse ; yet you . sdvoeath the doctnne ths QGovernmoot should step in and ey what industrios should bo sncouraged, nnd what should not. You claind tha right for yoursolt to doll in tho doarost markot and buy-in tho chuaptsti but you aseort that Goveromont should cvmpo‘ the people to buy in tho dearost.- You beloug to tho school that says, Wo aro ou- tlehod by what we cxporty but ara impoverished by, whiat wo fuiport. B 5 ' iIaving 1atd the ground.wark for a rejaindor to ¥m|:,ndlll:xm toply, I will now procead to ox- amino somo of tho fallsdios that you have thero- I sounciated. In your ** Answer1" you havelcitod four casos to proyo that “'Tliomost effective uionopolios In oxiatonco do not depond ac all upou *reatricted legislation.' miid never die.” Aro you sure that tariff-tegislation had notbing to do with theso mouopolles, oven indirectlys If thoro woro no rostriotions upon the {mportation of tweods from othur countries, Btowart & Co, could uot kdop their pricoh higher than thoso ab which other imporfdts could ecll. If other Grms do mnot evgage ju’ thia busioees, sven under prokent condltlond, it. iy Dbogausb thoy cin find, mors profitable smploy- mont for their camital. ‘iolics, Btewart & Co. haye nb monopoly as sgdiust other importers; lm{ they have o far consumers ara cdn- cortiod,; tho stago, Thay conteuded for the oxerciss of a right called krcedom. Wo aro contendiug for the exoreise of a right, and 1t {8 also called Free- dom~—TFReE-TBADE. : A. G & SDPWSMS OF PROTECTION. To the Editor of Ihe Clizago T'ribune : Currcago, Fob, 4.—~The much-noeded attempt to roduce tho moat opprossive and deatructiva tarilf in the world has, =8 might ba oxpected, provoked n goneral howl from the Protictionist organs. Tue Taihosy I8 doing excellent sorvics ip ox- posing, in the most convineing and slriking manner, tho ophiams and fallacies of falsely- eniled Protection, as wolt as the doadly injury it hag fnficted, and Is miicting, on tho Indus- {rios and genoral intoreats of tho country. Tho wideaproad complaiut of hard times, with that wyatem for the last ton years lu full operation, i a motancholy but sufiiclont proof of ity die- antrous offects, sggravated by a viclous cur- rouoy, 'l‘h’e atalo ery of Europesu panper labor, which is again hoard in the land, showa Low bndl; off Proteotionists are for rational argnments. It iy & gross—probably witllful—misstatoment of facts. The working classes of Groat Britain and Iraland liave fur years bosn rocetving big wagos,—higher in purchasiog power—tho only 10al test of valuo - ‘)nn what tlia a0 clasees got in the Unlted Btatos. Their dally working hontaaroalao fewer: yot thoy have Hk«ul{. continuons om;nlnymanl all the year through., Thero winter doos not uocoksnrily put large masses out of em- ploymont for throe or four mouths, al- though it doos put_out s fow occastonally in sovore wosthor. High wages and eteady work have made money plontiful with them, By thelr profuso buying of all kihda of moat and fish (hey have run up the prices of all such to a heigli far boyond what thoy usod to bo. Unfortuuatoly, some of {hem havé not turned their prosperity to good account, but biava spent thelr money 1 drhlklnfi and othor ezccases. ‘Tiore hiss consoquentiv boon & largs incroazo in the quantity and price of liquors consutnod. heso are facl mitting of no diupitoy and, ‘Ih facts admittl 14 dlrl a lul ‘llm 1ace “:7! Illx,um. '.Pm{t also nm} delusive 1 0 rotoctlonial cry_ o Kfimul\lcglm br:]up:'lu.;m Iuto tho country freo of |’l“£§r labor . acroms tho Atlantic, ~ Dlany probibliory du ot g0 mouopalists maintain | erkingmen who had_fmmigrated to thia conn- oth in Lats country and {u Canada. As poor Canadian, why shoul Protection- o aty Bympathy for bim? **Charity be- giug at_homb," If thoro was only ouo aagar- rofinery in the country, and ons houso controtled the rofinod’ Bugar it produced, would thara 8va tlien bhave beon a monopolybad othors boen freg td go futd tho bhsinesa by imposting that Ul moosn 2 'But yo lnd & monopoly right lu our midi d Doss the Ohicago tirin ¢l ahawls #6 chehp ad fmporting firma woilld do wore they Iy sppears that try, baving found themaolves worse off hero tholi bold by ¥irtuo of contracta iada with tho | tF, Lasiog BiAnafacturar, And . eViwose contracts are | than st Lomo, bave retutnod to Groat Dritaln and Trsland, to Germany aud theit other native eountrioy, - whero they have seitled down for good. 3lany athera would do so, but havo not tho means, having ‘Jm“ all tholr monoy hera in onforced idleneys. Bo Jong sd the law practicsl- 1y prolubits our manufaoturers {rom #blling out- 4ide of their own country, {hoy cannat give their workmen constant employmant or. good wagos, The soouer Much s Chiuoso wall of barbarista fo kuocked down, the sooner will ** hard times conto mode beeauso 4 rosponatble firm ,will pay prices that will keept 'hm works employed constantls.” 18 wot this n bad corhinshtary on tho busiuess- character of ong, merchaunta? 1f thero wero more:* responuible * firme, thon one firm would not have the monopoly, For inatance, wnpld tho Rabing imanufscturers mako o contract’ {0 curlch 8 cortaln llxm, shon they could, by sup- FI"h(“ wany firma, onable compotition: to comp hand lawer tho price of shawls, and thorovy in- ' Tteapoctfully, sFéaup tho domand, which would beustic tho wijla | #BAR B0 Fore o . by ssimenting Lo saios? “then it mus bo ousd Soutvssidy, EAUKO walt of rospons ty, OF & pro- Tostiyo Tacil, " Aw ,{hira are mO ’.}'xouna-ptnn VOILA L cunrglng it to the formor, wo must conclndo that you aro misjaken, aud that ottior Grma aro provoiited from engaging fo tho shawl. Susfuess by the lalter, Could shawla o fm- pogtad lrmi of duly, iy would broak down lho Haclno Mills, aud, 2s a consequénce, the wmonopoly in this city, Dut this la troason! snd wa bioar the clarion” volce of the Protectionlst calliog upont bravo wmcn io rally around our * home-fudastilos,” so thst their Ialr wives and d gh\erq_m-y uot be roptoached for wearing atiafvla mabufabtured by the deteutablo forelguer. They must wear thess snawly, not for comitort, but to help support this mnnunulr. Our fore. matliors worp homa-produced artlolos of oloth- iug to avold & tax. Our women now wear lia- cinh bhiunls to enconrage s tax. Your, fourth casa i§ mors fulricste, sud you uso it w3 nlhnlmot (3 ,luymloudl ::xunfi:m ulx?t appoary pla o, no that will roadi ofog tha wind uf the rea Hord is au Am«ry 14 Earth gets ita price for what Parth giveaus; "Thio bepgar {8 taxed for s corncr (o d{s fn, Tho priest hatl his fe6 whocomes and shirives ud, \¥a barisia for the graves we lla b ¢ At the devil's booth a1 ¥ach ounce of (ross costs Ith oul Bubbles wo buy with s whols 80 “Tiu Heaven aloue that u given awas, *T4s only God may be had for the askiug; No price 18 sot on the lavish sumnier, Juge nisy be hed by the poprest comer.” —Ths Viaon of Sir Launsal. Messienrs ¢ lors Tribuns: Now briog out the fellow <l e:iributed thia to Tupper, and sealp hi 8, — € Mr, Hrche “apived in Liverpool hich have bithorto Mr, Dirch, tho fean firm copupiring mih luriu:nm nufsoturs % by the AMalay tfl kopp up,thuprico of tu-plaro, Ta bresk s ‘10471 befora i this miotiopoly, you propoamto produce, » v t ~r are probs *‘antagonistio elements tHAt ephuot . tleudioh monized.” TWa s tg ba dons by v~ W Birch l‘auibln tor the American mainitact - ' 1aoudet ty s Meisl us, place An the market with { - fogk. YRl Guto bat's his e hy you “do Mot bulleva i Yo ante, TUlEr 10T Mt L ta Wl ray 0 tintatied two tiph, btic td faople &% omeo Ebrd hath dostn agatp, swhoronpon ha retfitped 0 \t, Tireh to axk what hoshasl { do, Tho fat- ter told Wim to put thom up &e fast as they wore torn down, and thia the Interprater did wntil he 118d poted no lons thaa sevan, when ha 1et his tompor and atruck one of tho ophlives with & cano. Mo wag Imndedistely killed, dnl the fii- tives {hon rdn In s body fo Mr. Dirch's bath- room, ahich waa built on two floating logs. His arderly, who wad st thé ohtrance, presented his gun., but sesing Ito eonld not atop Lhete, ho erled ofit tb Mr, Ditch to_savd himsolf, and jumoed into the river. Mr, Birch dlved dpstn botwest the tito heams, did on toming up, fost foramaat, on the other nide, thoe fore part of both his fact wera cus off by tho tnutop. He dived agairt and tried to awlm back to his boat, bt ho wad atrack again, dud both heols wars tut off witl d grord atroke from ouo of tho natives. o wad then eapttred, taken on ahoro, snd Apekted througl tho nock to tho gronnd, after which he wau atabbed about s dozeu timea in various parta of tho body. Even sfter this horribls tottarg hé lived #omo homed. Noxt day Odpt. Tonis and lKo othar officoty, and o atmall” Lody of fuen of the Tenth Roglmént, went ap to try Lo rocover the body of Ar. Birch, togother with his docu- ments, ote, In atlacking a stockade Capt, Innia wan killod, and tha tvo- other ofitcsrs with eight mon weto woundod. 'The party then to to¢ tirs and wait for rélnforcathonts." i A LITERARY NIGHTMARE, ‘Tuo Xorrible Kiifterings 6f o Wenry Pligrim—Tho Sequel to Mark’s Sad s Exporience, 7o the Editor of The Chicagn Tribune: 0OsAar, 1a,, Jin, 29, —Yestorday I gently esun- tored down town, and, dropping into the offica of a friend, took up a copy of Baturdag's TRIBCNE, and road its varfogated varieties, until my eyed wero arrosted by— . Condugtor, when you tecee n farey Tmnch In the presence of tho passenjars A'bluo trip Wip for xr elglit-cont face, A LfT trip shp for 8 alxcent fate, A pluk lfl[l slip for & LLreo-cent 2, P.iueh in he yrestnce of the prsenjorel Punch, Lrothers, punch with care . Tuncli'tn the présence of tho passenjare | Iread bn through tho attiels, and, thodgh & vory soper-faced gontloman, I indalged in & food laugl, and then eaid, * Charley, 1 gueea I'll put your Trnuse: in my pockot aud (ke it Liome.” Al right,” responded my friond, and with that T waa off to dinnor, At the door I was met, ng usual, by my loving epouse,—my wife Is still *my gle),"—who di- vosted me of my ovofcost, and dived into fta pockets, Out camo Tnk Tminuse, **Oh!" gald I, " Bunbeam, you will find s funny pieco in that papor by Mark Twaln." o commences, # Conddctor, when you receivo n fare.” While sbo is unfolding tho paper, I will explain that my wito in & cultivated littla woman, who writes pootry sud musle, and of whoso sccomplishmonts I am vory proud. 1 seatod mysolf in my eady chalt, and was 4000 busied fn & loarned atiiclo 1n tho Aorfh American Retiew, but was in a short timo swak- encd from that by & regalar sonnd like danciog, and looked up to seo my olegant little lady waltzing around the room liko ond pos- aotsed. ‘Thonght L doftly, *IMoesd me, how light- hearted the little croature is, I am glad Iodn mnko lier 80 happy. Dut, as sho came whirling near me, aho muimmg. “Panch with carot Punch in tho prosence of tho pasacojsre ;" and on sho glided.to another part of the rooml + Plous mo 1" I soliloquized, ** how free ffom card ia tho lifo of woman, when ro amall o tinte can move tbom so Btrongly.” By thls time I begdu to foel asaf I ad [n the midit of e Bpivilual seanco, aud a stormy one tuo: for-tho flylug of 16rg tha arrlval 6f tho Alglo. Thé Emperor ral- lied hi'n upon lis doas atesp, and he roplind that b bad pot slept 1 soundiy £t eventy yoars, Do Loasspe’ housa in full of spleudid gifta” from gtest porsons. Thero ia s gold cup givoo by the Emptoss worth £8,000. All the Hovorelgna presont of reprasonted at tha oponiug of tho ¢anal moné him ribbons, and he {a_well nigh the most deoorated man in Enrope. e now. desiren to make & railway through the Eaptratds Valloy, Iis I8 not anzioud to be Hapidly and cnarmon-l; tich, Ilosayd: *‘I do notcaro for riches, and have no wentd: all I wish fs that my children may grow ur and prosper. [ aatisfy mysolf with tha lopn that lhez will gat on In life, proud of thoir father and bappyto continne his work, which fa that of humauity aud civilization.” e S A GRAND PROJECT. Crenting fiu ininnd Sen, nnd ‘it Mafking Arnble Over (10,000,000 Acres of Land, To tne Hiilér of The Chicano Tribune : ‘Thors fa & moat tomarkable, aud oven wonder- ful, ctiin of low valloys lying somewhint paraliel +rith tho great Celorado Rivet of tho Woat, ox- tonding from hear tho Gulf of Califorois in s diroction woaé of notih, passing through the Btate of California and into tho Btate of Novads, s distance of neatly 700 miles from tho Guif of Calitatnis. Tho fitet is adjscont to the Gulf of California, and tho mouth or outlot of Colorado Ltivor, and is knowt s the (ireat Colarado Dosort, ombracing the immense aroa of 8,400,- 000 acres of agriculturaltand, It la well adapted to oultivation, sud for the producing of tho frapelitne, lomon, orange, and, i fact, all tho tropical fruits. 'The climatain tbo largor por- tlon of this valley is very uniform, tho ther- mometer ranging from 80 to 105 deg., which would bo slightly modifled by tho inttoduction of water 1uto a valloy which is, st tho present timo, dry, and svon without & sprinkle of rain, and possibly has boen mo sinea the croation, Tho shight excoptions that I would make to tho fimits of waters of this valley are as follows: In {imos of extrome bigh water or great overflows of tha Colorado River, the water lLas set Lack into tho centré of thia great Colorado Dosert a diatance of 260 miles. At its wostern border,~» mineral rauge of the Blarrn Navada Mountains, —there nro & fow smsll salt aprings, comliog ont ‘below the groat shore line, which is traceable by tho oyo at a distance of 15 miles. It was made by the water provions to the draining of thia valley, snd at & time when tho dewert was a part of tho Pacific Oceatn upon ite esatern bonrur; and At tho fool of the minoral range aro found & fow small hot springs, imbregnatad with salphar vory strongly, and, In 8oma cases, axgall as the watos of tho Atlantic, Theso waters disappear i tho roil at a sbort distance from thelr fountain. . They are clostered with the beantiful loug-leafed palm-tres, Tho Eden which this valley could bo mado can gcarcoly bo imagined, American tourimte. and admirers of tho workmsusbip of God and of Nature, read of tho Alps, tha Andes, anad Italy, and Jong to feel an Italian zophyr; wihen their souls and minds shouid rosiize tho fact that our own native land is tlie chiof of all of earth's brigtest and purost jowels, 1 go back to tho desort, and the time, on tho Oth day of January. 1873,—tho coldost mouth of tho soason,—I found mysell at or noar a apring called tho Thionsand Palms, from the fact that thero was & grost number of palm-trees clustering about tho spring. I thore found o cotton tres which, from its immonse size, ovi- dently biad had s long peniad of growth, thongh ite pature i4 most tenderly sensitivo. It was rowing and laden with baogiug lint, and beau- ifui) whito and erimson biossoma dotted ita great sucface hero nnd thero, It is nota question tho. littto foct—Low 1 loved thom {—grew faster | 88 to tho grosih or rield of tha most and faster. Ovor wons iho clmiin; slam| | profitablo products of tno earth in thoso Lang! went the furniture. Ilers I’ becatue valless, Tho largor part of this valley Las boen imooriout - “Jans,” euld I, stornly, ‘‘it's | richoned by the riting, and the dbcay of roa- time to stop thia. Look ont therel foseils, of which the number Ia Immenso. From youll tip over that centre tablel | the mountain-tops Lheso sea-sliolls have the ap- pearanca of a light snowfell. . Having givon & byief degeription of the great Oolorade Dosert, I attompt & descriotion of Lawer _Hot Valloy, Hoda Lska or Vslley, and Death Valloy. ‘Thoso valleya abow no particniar varlance, axcept in 1umnarnlum and sltitudo, ‘Tho Colorado Desert s 400 fact below the non- lovel, ot Valiey, having o fow degrees groator uoat, is 850 feot below. Death Valloy bas n dopth of 500 fest bolow tho P'acific Oconu, ahd a temporaturs of from 90 to 130 deg. It may not bo emiss to givo the origin of that hocriblo name, Death Valley, It i4 more thau appropriate, and is derived " from the dismal, doathly twmm\nna 1t haw from the peaks of its Mineral-Mounlsin border, and tho fact that o largo numbor of nisu, women, and clildrén, aud stock Liavo perished {n this roast- ing vallos, They weroof tho early lromigrants 1c was too lata! On the floor lay books and cards, aud the romaina of two handsomo vases thav had ccat me £50 oach only last Christinas. Now I guosa you will bo ready to stop, said I, renronchfully hin timo, On siie_galloped. fast 48 an exprens-teain, shriekiog, Punch, brothord, punch with caral A trip slip blua for an oight- cout faral An eight-cont trip for a bluo slip farel A buft shp trip for o tra, I3, Ial A thrae- cout trip for a mnk trip fare! Punch in the preasnco of tho pnnmninro"' ““Morcy I" shricked L * I all the gods, this thing must stop,” . And up 1 jumpol sud startad in mad puranit. It was lu vain that I bauged my hend sgalnst the lamp, which lad beon dmwn down to Il and lofc so; in vatn that, in bwinglog sronnd ono cotner of the room, I lost my Lalance, aud atuck my elbow through tho window ; it vain that I kicked over tho stove. But thias dhiug must stop, * Thero, | 0 Bouthorn Cahfornia. Tho number of victitg I've slmost canght hor! Ha! Bho's goua and tholr suffering wore far groaler than thoso in 1" Tlore Iifung myndlt forward, and Just fovolved In’ tho torturing Mountain Meadow masdtcre. In tho summer of 1805, I wds with a arty (ot fitty-two, of whom forty-soven periali- gd) which crossod Death Valloy from the north- tvéat to tho aouthenst, 1t whs Intansely hot and Indescribably dry in the maln valloy. " Thero s nat the stightost indication that It evor has rained fu this valley, Tho tneauderings of the 8 caught & bit of ler dress s but sho daslad on, loaving tuat in mv haud, atd mo sprawling ofi the tloor, and firanced aver my proatrate form two or threotimes in Lef course, Dut at last Niture, shitirely oxbaustod. gave up, aud’ she foll down lu & fainting Ot, collapaing luto a littio hoap by my nide, T aroso, brased sud blooding, And silondly | crazy emiptantd previous to their doath, atood o moment in apecchiloss -tfpuhcllon. and | their tealls, thoir = wagou-tracks, which then callod & servant, who stopd etariug on the | had beou inado fourlotn to pixteon ucona, £ lonreoly ehoutad; * You blocthond| | yoars —provious, were ~plainly discora- A ivle, thers baving boeu no rain to obliterats them. I fouud wietkilio {mploments which tho party had Ieft, such ns monkoy-wronches, axes, wagon-tires, ote., with cliarcod altachments of what Lind beod wood, which bor ihat eamo Dright polish o8 whon drappod, ‘Tliers Lad not beon suflicient moisiure to corrods or rust them. Tlie minoral bolt to tho east of this chaiu of valloy I8 but & part of the groat mineral belt in which tho fabujous weaith of Novada is found. haven't you Auy souss P Got somo wator!" Haviog thus enorgabically deliverad mysolf, T bont over tho bowed formand applied the smell- ing-salts, and aprinkled hior face with wator, and luvoked her, with all the passionnte onireaties of love, to come back agaig to life nud to Paul. I openod tho clenchdd teoll aa bows L could, and gavélLor a faw drops of brandg, Boon her aya- ids trombled, thon lifted 8lowly, snd roveslod hor glorious aeyes, yot as mournful ts though i .. — 0 Tho Iocho aud Paratmigat Minos aro situated e Tl S bibrel 1 bor | ot tho head of Death Valloy. Immediately artfcnlate. gound. 1 bént my head | to tho west mnd wonthwost sre found tho dis- tiicta of Ivonpah, Now York, aud the distin- guished Panamint, in which Bouators Joues and Blowart have invosted 8700,000. Mauy moro large districts may bo foutd 1o thé oastern ranga ; but it 8 entirely unexploged, for waut of water., This would doubtless be moroe or lesa LonoNtod by tha crestiug of ou Inland eos,—tho opening-up of navigation to this romote and dormaut soction. Are not ita minotal and pgri- cultural resonrcos mozé than sufiiciont to tndoce national action aud an expsndituro of $1,000,000 to £9,000,000 ? fs it praciicable? [low canit be aceomylished ? It maynot bo out of place to give a briof deneription of tho slight impedimeht now pro- vouting » flow of tho frosh water of tho Cdl- orado or the salt water of tho Gall of California, A chiannol cmmmm-rr 6 Gulf with tho Groat Colorado Desort wounld be milch more expeneivo and Jess useful than a chaonel tukey out of the Colorado 60 miles above its month. The longth of channel, though kroat, ia vut a omell cone sideration. The obatrictlou is athileial—wlolty wade earth, It Js wh ombankment formed-— sediment doposited—by tho mavy overilows ot the Colorado, which Liss boen the work of mill- ions of years, ‘This obstraction Is of tho most dolicata componition of easth, principally quick- maud; henca it {s but s small cousideration to open & tanal, Itia my oplofon that, if tho arrow-wood and small willows wero trimmod off to & width of 30 foat, aud tho surfsco loosened with a plow, thero would not, in time of an over- flow, bo sufiicient power 1u mou to prevent the course of the waler alter Laing started. Mhe second csndl, connoctig the Colo- rado Desort with that of lLow or [Iot Valloy, would ba mioro oxpousive. Thero is posaibly threo-fourthd of a mllo of stone, and oarth one-quarter of which s stono, sequirlog tho spplication of powdor 1 whilo the remaining three-fourths ia driftod saud. The third canal, connecting Low or ot Yalloy with Soda Lako, witt ba of much less oxpenso and longth, bulng about halt & mile, one-sighth beiug steno, and saven-oighths sand. Thae fourth caual, cou- uectiog Hoda Lake with Death Valloy, would to the lenst oxponsivo, haviug but a hallow cut or chanoel to open through saud, a distance of half a mile,—theroby conucctibg tho waters of tho Gulf of Oaliforpld tith tho romate region of Doath Valley, sud extending & body of navigs- blo wator a distance of 700 miles lulsud. Would not this produce a rainy scason similar to that now sxpersnced on the opposito side of tho Blerray or tite Pacifio coast ? low to catch tho donr words, and sho murmured fajotly, "I‘ninuh-—hralhniu—puuch-pmxch-—ln—— iha—prenuncn—of—thu——‘mflun]nra. " Horrorof horrorn! must this thing last forever? 1 gontly rainod her, and supported hor drooplug forin. Sho Iald her head foebly an my shoulder, languid- 1y cloged her oyos, aud’ topoatéd ovor atd dver, a8 if to heraoil: * A pluk tnp nllr for a throc- cont firal Punch, brothers, puncii with caro!" wiy darling,” said I, soothingly, *'do try and” control your thoughts,” “Ihe divine croaturs raisod hier ming for a moment, I presasd my lips to bora; Aud, whon I rowoved them, sho ropliod, gaziug at mo with & couliding look, * Punch ju tho prasonco of tho passovfara " What conld I do# 1hethought mo that™ musle was my wifo's passion, and, whon nothing elso could aoothe her, that did. I led lor to tho Hmw' and sald, * Ploine ulnq. mo that fasy unufi y Ilayoa." Blo sat down, Ilor flogors mave lavgnidly over the koye, At last & wild look iilted bor eyes, Hor body trewmbled. Bhe eat otect, with’ parted lips. “Then rapidly moved hor fingers over the ivory keyboard, snd her voice rose wild, yet cléar ¢ Conductar; Wlien you recelvé & fars, Tuncl fn the preserico of the passeijatel A bluo telp ailp for an sight-cent fare, By Jove and sll the Olympian heroon! she had improvised 4 molody for the accursod worda! I falt niy reason giving way. . I could eudure no moro, aud, rushing madly from the room, [ vbized niy pen to warn huébands tho have niar- ried pootio ang musical women, loat thoy lave some wuch fato, _From the depths of diro diatrobs, yout sorrow- log brother, PAur Oravronn. ——————— Tho IBullder of tho Kuez Catint Laidon Corresponidee Neloark Ad vérbiser, _Daton Fardihand do Léssapa {8 gous Lo Egypl sgain, ‘Though 70 yosra old Lo (a abill youvg, sud utitl coutemplates grand designs. = With binck oyabrows and mustacls, bat whito board, he ig 0'most noticeable man. and thoss who do not know him take him to be &4 Berpeaut in tho (lardes. At 70 hb has two babes at the breaat, and anothor ou Ité way. He bripgs his children up in the host Spartan—or shall I sa) Egyptisn—way, Thay ygo about barefooted, and althongh’ Mudame only bslr likoa this, ko ia able to boust that their yonng ones, of whom ‘they hinve a small regitmont, are never ill: llo tolls & llurl of tho openibg of tho caual, whicl: 18 well worth gopoating, Just beforo the great coromony whon tho Empress Eugenio was to pasd through on board the Aigle, do Lenseps wan 1wformed that s great rock bad fallen into the caual and that & great tire had brokbn ot In ono of the villages on the banks of the canal, an titat in this villago & li\l htity of gunpowder way stored gullislont fo bléw pp the whole neigh- borkood. Hoe, leu‘ mplorod to postpong the forwal oponing, bui ho refused, saying: ** You have theé powder to blow up tho rock, and water to put out the tire.” ilo ordered st & gunboit rhould tome and meot the Atgle, aud that noth- iug sbeuld bp emd rhumnnh.ur,mnuth. but a msu IhTIN _he stutioned at the bow wilh his army ostonded If the causl was navigable, aud with IhomEnndnnl!npu e was impoasible, As the gunboat appeared do Liosacps took a toi- escape snd was icady to drop with digust when Exccution ok Waomon in France. Crreapandencs London Tetegraph, Pants, Jan. 6,—Bophis GauthieR whose mar- risd name was Boyou, and who was con- dewned to desth for Kilting soven of her children by pticking pive and boodles iuto thelr hoads, was oxecuted yaaterday at Baurg, in {he preseuce of 4,000 porag I'be unfortunaie sroman ro- mainod vory caim o the iast. Bho had rather oxpocted a commutation of hior sentouce, and unover seomad fully to comprehiend the harrivle nature of lier crinied. Ou Ler way o the scal- 1ald the domonsttations pf the crowd wore very hostile, wany wopon shakiug their fats st the criminal, and oxclaiming, **You wretah | you are about todie, and you witl be well recelved in tho next world Ll“ yout children ars watting for hwo saw the man with his aimd dowo. Elo taok s | you.” Ho‘srl o Gauthlsr went through hiorordosl wecond look sud saw then that ¢! r Wworo now | almost without atiy suppept, suyd sppeased quite extouded. On this lo turow himself down, aud | remgued to tha fato sho to well des . 1 Tho death of thin revolting eriminal recallaa few 1nterauting facts connectsd with the execu- tiou of women ia Frauco, Biuce 1810 uia wow- was fsut sslosp 10 & mowmoent, :ud his slumber 80 profaund that Lo did not awhke uatil ke was aroused by the buzzas of the people greot- onhave bron excentod, and they all mef their Aaath with great firmners, f'en yeara ax0, A man nnil mon:an wara exeenied ut Chartfas for finving murdered their paronte. In thoso dats tho guiilntine was not tho horribly neat and compact littla inastrmment that it s now; thero were stapa to ascand Leforé coming Into contact with tho executioner, Whén thocriminal couple roached tha foot of the scaffold, tne woman eaid, **1 anould lixo to emlraco my hnaband bofora dying. Pray untio my handa: you can tin them Again Immu«llltnl{ Bftorwar ‘This supremo wish was roluctantly fiuntnd. for It wan contrary to the regulations. ~ Hor handa wero no soaner freo thon aha gathéred up all her strongth, snd gave her hueband a tinglog hox uo the ear, Aec- gording to cuntom, sho was tho firat tosufor the axtremo penalty of the law. Befors the man tiad recavored from tho atunning blow aho had dealt him, her head bad fallon fnto the sawdunt, Anothier woman, who croated groat nansation at tho time, was Virginia Dazon. who bad mur- derod ber busband and two children, Hho was only 23 years of age, wondorfully beautiful, and holonged to one of thn best families of France. Sho had not fho slightest foar of death, and the moment L acnfonco wae paxsed sho sent. a lot- ter to tho Emperor, begglog thara might he no delay tn éarrying it out. Prison-lifoand tho loss of hior foup blsck hair prodaced a mnch more dixagreoanio Imptossion apon ths dlicdte wom- an than tho eight of the bideous chopping-block and knifo. Houy wummary esecutions of women took Iaco whon the rogular troops entered Parls durs ng tho inaurrection, | remember nesing ono of tho advauced Republican ladiea placod against a wall bebind the (reat Northern Kailway atation, Sho lind Just boon tsken with a recontly-fired rifle in hor hand and atanding by tho ptde of a dyving sentry. *Did you shoot this mani" in- quired the officer, polnting to the writhing body of the sentry. “1 did,” was the reply, “'and 1 am only sorey that I did not ses you before, a8 you srero bettor tvorth the troable.” Two minutes aftarsvard shio was Ivlog on her faco with twelve bullets in her body, Dedth hiad been tnatau taneous; hor victim, the golaier, lived two hours after hier, aud expited in borrible pain. ! confory with Antenalhg or ot M the uite of tite (herman Empuror, pass already.) discourden {n Parliament in order to make ideas known to the world. desiren to maks known to the world. . , . may connocted with the Trilnme, s who, havin heard rown timo uince of gravo abuses whic witnosaed." e M ASTORM AT SEA. Mnrk ‘The Power of cnee. individual threa pears doo, but aftericards abandoned,] distaut bowd, was suflicient to onable n meu to S el s CARDINAL BOSAPARTE. e ('JOI\'?’! on |:a %lilller sido there is go‘i:: dlu':)e o rouble—au while every creature hel s My “’""".‘.',",‘fi:"l'“,’,;';'e,f"“'””cn"" breatt, shio quivered o momont, and down abe went! And with bor wonf everybody, 'The cable Atates that Cardinal Bonsparta has been ealled to tha high post of Cardinsl Camer- lengo of tho Holy Bee. The appointment can acarcoly ho regarded as anyiling less than & formal adoption by tho Vatlean of the Bona- pattes a8 the troo eldest sons of the Church in France, Commenting on this appointmont, tho Now York World says: This ought to meau that the Chureh party in France haye imade up thair mindy to deal with the Princo Imperial ‘as the only mouarcbical retender in France wuo is atall likely to be rought to tho front by any future convulsions in, the political condilion of fLat country, Alt ‘pérties In France, oicopt tho extrem- ists, “appoar mow to bove maae up tleir miods to bear gwith the Marshal-I'resident through tho femaindoer of bis term of oflice; and it Is very probable that if this stato of things continues, and tho Cooseryatise Re- publicans play their cards wisely, the Lepublia may got itsell no strongly flsed before 1880 as to defy thio perils which will then aessil it. Stilt, + Nothing bappons except the unforescen,” aud the Church parly is no doubt beharing nrudont- ly in proparing ‘itaslf for tho oyvemtuality of a monatcbical restoration. ‘The Orlennists novor lavo had auy real hola on. public opiulon tn France and the Legitimists have bej sacrificed by the obstinacy of thair cuief, tfi"’ Count of Chiambord. The Count’s idelity to the swhito flag ia called chivalrons and high-souled by his adbetents, but in their hearts tho claver- ot of thom no doubt repsrd it as Quixotic and abwird, If the preat ancestor of fHenry the Fiftt could think * Parls wortl a masas,” good believers in the Bourbon ;dynasty may bo for- given for thinking that his deecendant ought to have congidercd France as worth o tricolor. Howavor, what bas been done lins boon dune, 4na tho young Prince Imperial alene remalus really in tho tield, DBy making bia kinsman Cardinal Camerlongo, the Valican puts the most important otfice iu tho Ghurch after tlis Papacy virtually into tuo hands of tue Freaich [mperialists. The Cardinal Cam- erlengo, down to very recent times, was really, ovenin the lifetimo of a Pore, the second per- sonage inthe Papal States, Ho traditioually roprosents the diguitdry who, in the earlior day of tho Papacy, waa called tho Festiarius, and Lield tu stewardsiitp the property of the Church, Within_ his atiributes fell whatever etood oven romotoly connected with tho interests of tho Papal Exctiequer, and Le bad immodinte jaris- dictioh aver aver all gocular_cases in the district aud in the Cily of Roms. 8ince tha centralizing process Legan, which has gradually vested tho ofticial control of Papal afairs in‘the Pope and the Cardinsl Secretary of $tate,—a process mainly pustied forwatd by Cardinal Antoneli,— tho Cardinal Camerlengo haa lost much of thy reality of his power during o P'apal reign, Nol is he now, as ounca Le was, & compiste Dic- tator or rosl King of flome dunng tho wterregnum _which intarvenes betwoen tho dokith of one Poutiff and the eloction of hissuc- ceasor. Trofn the mowent, howover, that a Do;6 breaths hia faat, the Cardinal Camerlengo will still bocoma the firet than in the Roman o8- tablishmont. and, whon tho couclave is assem- bling which fs to elett tho now Pops, L will bo tho diroot réprosentativo of the Papacy, The coromonial by \vhhih the Cardinal Camerlengo opens hls period of autliorlly is g striking Em of tho symbolical organization of the Church. As Boon a8 the death of PPopa Fius shall bo roportad, Cardinal Bona parte, being the Camerlengo; will hanton, at the hoad of the clorical hounehold, to tho doathi-chambior, and strike the door with n gilt mailet, calling upon tho I’opo by namo, On recoivihg po reply, ho will suter tho cham- ber, and, going up to the corpso, tap it thrice on the forehead with another mallet of silver, and then, falling on Lis knees .beside .tho motionloss body, proclaim in a loud voice thal tho Pope is wndeod no moro. Ho will then crash, as if eho atruck the rock of dibralt and in that inatant & sea went bodily over hei tho thick bard of an iron feuca till thoy cutvo other aido of the vesncl, riddlo with one of its wreat iron davitgl our deck 1t mashed in_ tho starhonrd bulwarkas, door and came pouriog sloug the carpets, hring- whisky bottlos all sround! on that gide, littla or no concern. crash that had ossailed our care, I pot. of aetion to purau only a thirts-fifth or when a stalwart young tan at my cleimad = We'ro gone, we'ro goua!” mind tho pian, I'll get 8 life-proserver. thers now. bed thrown them out through tho ventilator. both of his, aud savo some women with tho extra one, At the time, it did not occur to mo that that would be a little ungouosoun to the Giant . maméant that ha was in—dnd just ¢ room, liead first. A volca said : 4+ Iallo—what's wanted 7" ing on to something—I peored through tho his foet I never cared of my errand, Ho #aid: thing waunting? " 4 No," L naid mateh."! votify the Bousto of liomg that tho [ WAke thom blush.] Pope hbas passed away. If tho Popo 1 got & matcn (hsd abont a thousand io my were il Prince of Itome, the Bonata | Pocket), and camo out thinkig to mysell that would then csuse La Palernia, the | It could not bo much of » atorm after oll. 'Thus, oli communal bell of Viterbo, which bangs in tho Capitol, to be tolled. This part of tie core- moiy il élmbnhly now bo omitted, Tho Macutro oi Camera af the dead Popo will next hand to (he Cardinal Camoricngo Lho Popo’s wring of the fisheruan,” nsed in soaling all Papal briefs, to be braken eolomnly tho noxt day iu the presanee of a first goneral meoting of tho Bacred College. The Cawmerlongo will then tako possession of tho Vatican, and remal {here whilo an fuventory Is mado of all thas i contalns,—n custom which dates from tbe old ahys when it was sn established practico for the Ttoman mob slwavs to break o and rifla tho Papal palaco after the demise of & Lope, Tha Papsl (nardla Noblio attend tho Cardinal Cam- erlango from this tima till tho olection of the new Pope, All edicts in this intereal run in e namo, sud all colus Alruck by the Papal Mint bear lLis privato arme. At soon ad the Cob- clave opous, fhreo Cardinats, cslied Capi @' Ordine, are chosen for a throo days’ torm, o bo msaociatod with tho Cardinal Camorieugo as the suprewo oxocutiye authority of tho Chutch. 'Tlus brief sketeh of tho functio s nnd the position of tho Camerlengo will plainly onough show now preat an futtueuco A clover and ambitious personaze inthat ligh oflice can oxert 3 And how signifieant, therefore, it ta that the ropresontativo of (ho Douapartes in tho Bncrod College should have boen called to than a took atd s word. outslds influence men aral smashod tho saloon doors, and with s bright, cheery glance, and a breezy word or two had awopt thelr terrors away almost as complotely as if ho had brought sunshino n Lis faco, aud summer zophyrs In bia breath, And yet, that moment, tho ship was in tho preatcst bravo, tranqml face wrouzht ity miracle. commanding oflicer, na from n roservolr, clse over many was happily illustrated in one of tuo groat batties of our Civil War. For months less difll, 'Tho mavual Lnd becomo so nochani- Onca well inito a battle, soldicrs will fight stea nition gives oub liko ntricken thingy, gl it. Whon we take mlao into considora- | was face lo face with tho sucniy, ou & notabla tion the roported fact (that the Buffet -mymnurhulnrvvland_lug-ndflrluuwuhmlxm Clovernment has fust thought it worth and maiv,—the oppusing guus almost touch- ing. rut down tho Jino,—experionca told the ammunttion twas out. In one [nstsut moro thero would be & wild stampedo, tho rear masses would take it up, tio day would be Jost. Ho would ;"‘ivu the world for s eaving espodi- ent. 'Tho bappy thought fashed upon him— thoanll! He ross in i stirrups, and his voico peatod out above the clamor of tlie guus: s Atteution] Order—anusl" [Lown cama tha muskots,) **Bhoulder—anys!” [Usp they wont syai.] * Dark time—by the lef¢ flank— torward—atanci " . Aud with druws boating, acd colors fiying, they stepped away as yallautly through the sturin of fire, aud wmoko, and thuuder, asif they Lad boon on droks-parada. They arrived i safety i tho roar, without brealdng ranhg. To thst man realiy bclongs the honor of the groat victory that wag won that dey. MAsk TwaIN, while to do the Imperisliats In Frauco tho groat sorvice of cashiering four pMicora of the srmy for attending & fouersl service in bonor of the memory of _tha late Emperor Napoleon 111, to whow tho Marshal-Presidont himself owos his military rank and bis Ducal titlo, it must be ad- mittod that the events of the Jast fow days have givon tho causo of Lho Ilonspartos a sudden aud »ml‘oun pronuuenco fa tbe flold of European politica, Estimate ns Romo of the American Keporter, Itome Correapanderice New York Tribune, Horo is an approciation of Amorican journale {sm which way atuazs sowo of our readers, and which L tako from tho Oplnions of this moru- ing. T'ho Opinione, #8 you aro prabably awary, 18 tho wost tmportant’'of our Minlsteral or- Where Winulow U io Without Dane gur of Arrest, an8 . g *'Phe nowepaper reporler is a new product of Lllm Amflgunhm“ g lA:ullOllll’l I‘w“ulld x&ub: say that they wers not unacquaintod with the ou’e- at homo. yllul the lmmnlwmnr probatily | ‘Treatlos of extradition oxist botweon (la moana that tho geuus has boen produced ;on ( United Htatea and Ureat Britain, France, Ger- your #ide of tho water in a previ- | many, Hweden, sud Norway, t| wiss Uoufeder- ously uuknown porfection.) ** Ludowed with | ation, Venezuels, tho Downnican Republio, Nica. sn extraordinary activity and au unliwited { raugus, Austris, ltaly, Mexico, Huyti, and Bel- curiosity, he possosscs & mind rapld | gium. Winsiow thorefare will have short ropa in comprehonding an ovent in all on thio Contineut of Europo, if no wants to leave varied relatious and the mastery of an artist Holland, Mo caunot go into Belgium or Qor- deachibing 1t. 1o has instinctive presciouce of [ nauy without liavihty to arrest; but Lo cau ureat fucts, and & capacity for nding bimsell travel at his leisure in Deumark, Hus ‘Whorover wuch aro about to bappon, To-dsv at | Bpsin it he chooses, Thoro are wbuudant steam- New Yotk, to-marrow st Washington or Chica- er conniecliony betwoon Nottordam and Amater- R0, next duy Lib 1n at Ban Francwoo. You think | duti, and sll European ports, Morcover, thure £ I8 fully occupied in axplainiog the policyof | is n Sreokly lino of stusaiors from Hatterduu to Urant, or lu describing tba minea of Califorula, the East Tudied by way of thoSuez Caual, 1f ho when ha suddenly appears at Parls, at London, Lastaken plonty 0f money with bim, the skill and or at Borlis, Ho disgusscs thio Eaatern question | daring which ho has thua far shows u his wis- with Gladstone and ‘Disvseli; o Scrufin de deods witl very hkely load him to contibus his Liste with ‘Thisra aud Buffot; the protonsious of tight. He will find as soon as lie lands in Rot- tila Valican or the rovelations of Count Araim | terdam that Lo i kuown aud watobod. The ox- At itonio bie has onecon- 1ih Minalhintti aud anathor makes 1 en'ry in It matters goon at this rato, the reporter will tuko tho placo or the diplomatiat, when privata dispateh- es will Lo suporredod by his reports nddressed 1o the publie.” (Tho Opinions hardly roems to bo awaro to how groat 8 degrae thin han eamo to *"Tho gtatrsman of the future wil) no longor need to wrlta dispatches or make 4 1t will anfiica to bava half an heur's conversation with an Amorican reporter ta divulgo from ono pols to tho otuer with the celerity of the electria spark all that ho miny cito a8 o finé axamplo of the energy of an Amierican reportor tho caso of & apirited young touk placa [n a cortain mad-iouss in the city, feigued niadness in ordor that ho might bo con- fined ju the ha<pital and exporlonco in hia own Dergon tha horribio treatmont 1n question, 1o did mo, and aftor & fow dagn oamo for:h to da- uouuce to publio onimon the cruel inatitution by the narration of thie hotrors he had guffercd and 'Ewains Recolloctions of Tt— Infia- [Beang an exiraet from Chaster 11T, of @ book begun « For the uext hotr or two thera was a coustant augmentation of tbho storm. Nobody did any- thing but cling to the bench-backs undor the dismal glimmer of tho lamps (thors was hio aujer Iight, although the morning was well nd- Vagced), and listen to tho deop booming of the roaa ns they hurled themaelves aganat the ship'a By half-past 9 lmdxz any suppork cep bis feet, At this hour one of thoee sickening lulls, ono af thoso droad suspenzions of all motion which telis that the, ship's centta is pinuacled on a watery Alp, and that when she topples over snd plunges aprasling to tho floor, “There was a territic Broking n sky-light on tho upper deck, bending like bore, solitting in two and carryiog away half of 2 slort board 8 inches thick,” that was laslied lugh away upon the Lndge, and passing into the ocenn agaiu from the nppec deck on the » strong life~ boat to aplinters, and mwept it overboard, along And down oo flooded the deck waint-deep, outered thn galley, soized the smoking ot Lroaltfant, washed syory vestige of ib overboard, ctushod in the saloon ing with it (with n floal crash) tho bar stores, und sproading a 1uin of champagne and Irish Andin tho next ju- stant apother sea cawo avor the port slde, bring- ing & btoad specimen of tho bulwarks aloug with it, stoya in the pore door of the maloon, aud set the luggsge afloas in sl the state-rocme #Welll"” {1t was the ooly remark that camo into my ming, and it did uot sppear to meot tho case, efther.] Up to that momont I uad felt But, judging bv)hunflghk,v et nlinost sure that tho ship's sides had been erushed in, and, possibly, by & collision with_snother sbip; nod, therefors, a6 ours was an iron vessel, sho must go down with the prompt facility of an Iron 1 tried to make np my mind 43 10 what plao and was petting aloug very well with it (covmidering that I had beov at it a fortioth par of & second), ide of- “We're gong! . . . O, my God! . . . 1le wearad me, and so I said to mysell, A‘l"e; 05 A secn a couplo on tho tloor, but thoy wero not Iwent into my room, saw though these iad been mitue,—tne plnugiag of tho ship Theu I thooght I would go and borrow oue of the Card:ff (ifant (a4 wo callod Lim); and I will do myself the credit to say that Lineant to got and evén now Iam not sorry forit, becauss it was such s splendid unconscious compli- mout to that big Englishman's manhood,--it ignored the possibility of any dificulty of any peril which ho could not extricate himaell from Dby bis own stcougtls and hia owu cour- A3 I fought my precarions way nlong the careoning floor, dismay eat upon almost every face oncotntered : and 1f 1 bad beou tho spirit of thostorm, I could not have resiatod thie ap- pealing looks that apoke from eowmo of those eyes. I ehnll alwass remembor the sorrowful pictaro tho dim ghostliness of the lamps revealod at that moment. I putmy hrnd ov the Giant's door withont knocking—not mp[;;cmg for & on & mighty Inngo of the ship ot mo clear across bhis stato- 1 looked up from tho floor, whers 1 was hold- loom, and, as I am & sinuoor, that calm, genial coberg was standing up on his hind legs shav- g ! "fiow bic contd san snything, ar how he kept o tnquire. . ATl that T thought of was that I was unspeakably ashamed +Sorry you fell, Did you hurt yourselt? Any- I only camo to borrow a—a (L boliove some people will e even in the vory presence of thoe grave, 1f to tell tho trutk would one man had scared mo, when the sea failed to do il, aod now another had completely reetored my trauquility—and neither kiad omploged wmora What docile glaves of And now camn anather specimen : Capt, Mo- tand had followod ono of those seas in, that er. When the Glant camo out, whorevor ho wumi_hln ‘The reinforcemonts of the couraga that savss waver- 1ng arwiies, and wing battlos, is drawn from the ‘Tho miluouce which one iudividual way exer- A cortain Colonet had subjectod his mon to coase- eal with them that no order delivored in tho martial usic of bls eplendid volca conld tako them by surprise,.—thstr bands justantly exe- cuted {{ oven it their thonghits woro mites lfls. {ly on, oblivious to everyshing,—tll the ammu- Then thoy wilt Into a panio s particular roginent All at ouce the Colonel saw a quiver hin — 3 | rodiont wbiet wht natiiratly dtgaont tedeit o bie mind will be to fleo to xome nfinqmu country, Ht can fako n Dutch vessel to eny of the Datch Cole ontes, or he can' go to Chias or Japan, of Brazll, or to Groeca or Ligypt, for with none of thes¢ countries l1avs we extraditior trébtfor. It ill b eocn that, i tho world is not sl * befors him whern to choose,” a very Iargo part of it {a open od a9 ho canuot ba apprétionded on; in Rotterdnm, hs may still scatler forgeriea Iit & dozen sommtnds, TinDia. ‘The P'ristce of Waled’ Visits Dispatchea to London Tymes, Cawsrong, Jan. 1%.-~Thero s every reason ts bo satised with the favorable impreasion pro- dueod on the Talookdars and tho poople by the Prinoe's visit to Lucknow. . At noon his Royaf Highnoss presented colors totbe First Battalion of the Fourtoentt Regle ment of the Line, After the coromony, Lisuts. Lo Grico and Taylot's Battaries, with the Sixty« fifth, Fourteentl, Bixth, and Forty-firat Native Infantry, marched past. The match past of the Zluh lv:n mach Admired. Thoy wetit by like the anrdd, At 2:30 the Privcs bade good-by. Thé spedial train to Cawnpore serived at "4, +The Princs thauked Bir Goorgo Couper for the reception at Oude. He drove to the Memorisi Charchi with a guard of bonor of tho Buffs and & cavairy escors. ‘Lheto was an artillery salute. B, Prinsen, Qo Maudo, thocivil and military suthorities, an: multitades of natives wore prasent. The Prined spant eome timo exdmining the chdrch and road< hy the maral itneriptions. Then théy pro¢ded- edto the fatal well and thé fnclosure, whieh atand 1o s fair patk, with flower-beds, Thd Prince remaided insido & quarter of da hour, and walked to tho cemotory close st hand. It il ‘beantifully kept, and forms a sirong contrast (4 the Crimean graveyard. the cemetary the Princo proceeded lo Mr. Prinsop'a, there, loaving at 9:30 by epecial train to Delht. Droi, Jan. 11.—The Prince of Wales entered Delbi ot 9 this morning, Lord Napier of Mag- «ald was present, and {hn Generals and an im- mensa mouuted staff rédo with thé suite through the lines of rtillery, cavalry, and. {afantry ftom the station through the city” eu¢ By thd Lahors Gats over tha ridge for 4 miles to the camp, whers the Prince held & leves of Europsaa gnd native officern, Issting two hours. The Pridcd dil;mfl with Lord Napior, who la ot yet sbio ¢d ride. Crowds of natises are liniog the routs. Ex¢ traordioary triumphsl arches bave been erectea with wneriptions, The genersl attitude of the popnlation is very respoctful and conrteons, The Prince rocoived an address from the Delbi Manic- ipalivy. His Royal Higliness was mnch ioter- ested 1o passiog thie memorable sites, sarroundod 88 Lio was by many who had borne n shate in the great giege. Dxrut, Jan. 12.—Tho Prince of Walea lef¢ hia camp st 9:30 this forenoon, and drova to Daheor- pore. He thore mounted on horsaback, and rode aver to tho plain north of Delhl, where twenty. four battalions of iufautry, thirteen remmenta af eavalry, twolvo batteries, and a pontoon and enginosr train wesa drawn up in four linos, the infantry io front, extandlnfi over_a distance ot 1mlle. Tord Napler and his staff and the for- eign officors joined, The Prince's staff and bis Buite rodo down tha lines, Afterwards the troops marched past, Tha roviow lasted ona hour snd ten minutes, Tho sppearance of tha troops was excellent, 1L is difiicnlt to say whethet thio British or the nm tive regiments wors best. On the right of the Prince wera Beindis, the Rajah of Bhurtporo; and Holkar's hoir ; on his laft Lord Napier an general stafl ; on the left of Lord Napier, out nigo tho ssluting inclosure, {n tho rear of the Prioce, the Duké of Butherland, Lord Cariog: tom, and othors. Tho Prince's etafl wero drawx up at the opposite side of the ground, on thd tight of the bands., Guns and cavalry went by at s gallop; afterwards the same natlve regle ments, very good—fanter than British ariitiery. 1t was magnificant. The Princo next presshted colors to tho Eleventh Regiment and inapectad the famous native Sappors, who roceivsd dls« tinctive honors from the Quecn for their bo- Liavior at tho siego, Thore was an immense eon« coursa of natives and Earopoans, ‘Tho Prince lunchod with the Eleventh Hus. aara, and aftorsyards retarned to headquarters, He wont ont ruling befors dining al the hesds unrters with the civil and military authorities, ord Napler, the' Divisional and Btigade G orals, atafl, ete. At 10 a'clock rovo to city. ‘There was a grand ball in the Palaca ot the Mognla. The Dawan I Khas, whors was the famons Peracock Throne. waa brilliantly lightod and converted into an exquitito ballroom. Largo crowds iad assombled to sse $he Prinde anter Sclim Gulir, tha citadel. Drtwl, Jan. 18.—1he Prince drove to the FKootob at 12 o'clock, ascended to tho summit, and saw tho *wonderful dlvers” jn tho well He visited nmayun's_tomb, whore the Dolb! Princes surrondered, Fo returnnd to catap tog Into to pans through Dalhl, whith was illumic nated. Ho dined with the Hiflo Brigado. Detnt Oaxr, Jan, 15,~At 10 o'clock thls mornlng an attacking force, under Nsj.-Gen. Hardinge, moved from positiond north of Delhl, covering tiio Kurnaui road, and tho Major-Gen- oral, mounting infantry on gun-carriages, gainad the bridgae over thocanal withoot oppoaition. Ho (here Iaid pontoons nd occnpied positions extending across the main trunk road, 8 miles from Delhi, at 4 o'clock: the dofending force, under M4).-Gon, Sir 0. Roid, making uo esriods resistancy, and concontrating upon the rldge, ‘Tho great plalns favorabis for cavalry, or for a defeusivo forco, wore apparently noglected, but Gen. Hoid's plans aco not yot davolaped, ‘Che Prince snd his suite Jaft tho camp doon after 2 p. m., but found Hardingo's movement had beon effected esrllor than was axpectsd, and tho operatiora for tho day wore nearly torminatod. Tho forces are oqual on both afdoa, and offar & very Inforresting situstion, Thero is great oxcitemont among the natives, and crowds are collocted at avery point. The weather iavéry cold at night, end noarly &t freezing potnt outslds tho tents. THR PRINCE A8 A GOD, London Athancum, It will be remombered tuat Botoro tiio Princs departed far Indin it wad Jocularly eaid that ha wonld ba worshiped bv fhe natives ssa god, and even bafora he hid falrly arrived in Bombay it was found that Hinda poots were apostro« hizing bim sd an Avatar, &t Incirnation of the eity. . But the fores of Orieutal folly conld fio' nd has gous, furtber atill, A docnmont Liaf eou formarded to London fof publication, and will soon bo printed, which in lta way is a cu- riostty. It is & pcem in louor of the Prince’s visit to Indis, written by & Csuarasa scholar, It would doubtioss have been pressnted to the Prince Ly tho suthor personally, bsd his Royal Tiighoess vimtod Mygore, a8 bo at first intended, A sliort specimen of what this poam ia_like may perhiapa startle the roligious reader. We give & freo traosiation of tho opouing verse: Om1 Invoration to the God, the Prince of Waled? Whiat 1a tho uee of the rain and the sun? What {s the uieed of tho land and the sea, the af dsd food? Why shiould any other God be waruhiped? God 1s b mougat us, sud {o hia ouly will & be- Ide the Tyomurtt, n, the Princo wiit ghve it: the Prines will sinile. 18 bo not omnfscieut, omuipresens, wmighty, the cauence of verfection? 1 wilt broathe him, and ho shall bs my food.__ . O may 1 live fn him, snd bo distotved In his gredtnees, s o rirer ot 00 AAL 3 1 bavo no used now (o doul ¢ my tiow Fellglod B e of sight and KEWISARo. i 1 hevo soen the flower-faco of foy God! And no on, for a goupla of hindred linea, Thus tho I'ninco mecins to bave foundod » now fetiy- fon, without mny doairo or 6ffort oa hid bwn part--tho worship of himselt! ‘Cha bdes part of it ju, thut the writers of this produblion proba- Dbly did not see tha “ flower-face of bis God," aw thie demons of cliofomm provanted his deity from golng to lllltngllnm u:i‘u llymnk. Iowaver, the new couvort may, perkiaps, make 8 pligrimmage to Londou, to offer pocya to the gm‘rJa;n de ‘Lbros Plumes! I £ Lity, dear Lily, aweet Lily, I pray." Queen Lily swayed likv & wind Houendd reed : *+Who speaks 7" ahe satl, Au sha bent hee hesd. 4 Only s lonaly, worthlcss Weed 1" 444 Lanely and worthlzes,’ what wonld you of mé 1" 4 16l 0 gut nearer you,—aearer the aky, Could 1 bub taiich (1 lova you vo pauch) 2 The hém of your garment, confented I dis. # For (his bright, bright worl! of beantiful things Of u vins o humbla can have no nced, And bird aid beo Caro naghy for me. Lot ino kiss you and die 1" naid the desolato Weed, #Nay, talk not of dyiog," Quean Lily ropUed. Al e o b for delght: Upw your shul fowers Tu sunshive and ahowars, And fn thoir freeh besuty grow bappy and bright, +0flmb by my s # Louk towa No mora Dear Littla vine, Bluce you love tg sy dearly, T faln must love you !* Fiiled with new Life, 1t climbed to her alde; ‘Aud wopn {ts blua buds from their bondago waie fried ) And never louked Quecn Bo lovely, I woan, 8 As Quoc Lily decked with the blooms af the Weeld —Murgurd Eyluwe (n epdnidapendends o e ot s A