Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 20, 1876, Page 11

L e + FAMILIAR TALK. @ Mopy Arrows in the Quiver e Lemarkable Human Feeundity. B Scotchman Who Had Sixty- two Chlldren by One Wife. erican Journallsm a Ceniury Agosss Splcery in Grent Britain, MANY ARROWS IN THE QUIVER, Under tho ahove title, o wriler in All the Year 1 hos collocted from Notes and Querdes, and gurfous other publications, an amazing list of pascs answering to thequeation, % Aro there any well-authentiented examples of a father or a ‘motlier having had two dozen children or orel”. Beginning with the lowest number mentioned In the query, the writer cltes slx In- ptancos proving the afllrmative of the question, Among tho most curlous of theso Is that of Col. John Turner, which Is recovered from & volumo lot celcbrated trials, While the sult was In rogress in which this gentleman was involved, Bio gave In the following casunl bit of testimony concerning bis wifo: “8he sat down, belng gomowhat fat and weary, poor heart! T have Bad twenty-seven ebildren by ber,—fiftecn sons gnd twelve daughtors.”” Amnother Interesting examplo fa that of a publican's wifo at Chester, ‘who wns living twenty years ngo, and had borno twenty-six chlldren within sixteen years, There ‘were o number of twins fneluded In theso pirths, A third casc notable is that of o woman /| who, at tho beginniog of the present century, yeslded at Now Road, and had been the mother of tiventy-elght children, all of whom had been single Lirths and had liyed scveral months, al- though trot mors thaun ten were surviving at any lgno time. \ Passing on to & still higher number, nine fn- gances are recorded where thirty or mora chil- dren were born of thesame parent. An eld capy of the Gentleman's Magazlne contalns the ‘obitunry motfce of Mra. Agnes Melbourne, who died at the nge of 106, and had borne thirty ehlldren.s A wornan in Essox Is ment{oned who tied fifteen boys In succession, and then, to make the thing cven, had fiftcen girls In the pane unbroken mequence, It 18 stated that, when Clarles . V. entered Ghent in state 3 the | Count 't of Flanders, one Oliver illnjuu, whose wife had brought him twenty-ons boys end tem pirls, pro- sented Dimself fiefore the Emreror at the hiead of hfs corps of boys, all In uniform. Of course the marvelous spectacle sectred a penaion for thie prosperous_father. But the final fate of {his nunicrous (nmllr was most tragieal. Tho whole thirty-one children were destroyed by the Black-Death which prevalled in 1626, and tho bereft parents followed thelr oftspring to the rave soon after, Ghent erected a memorlal to his extraordinary family, which is still in pres- ervation. Towards the close of the last century a re- markable sight was wituessed at Kiston-le-Mooar, In Cumberland, viz.: a procession unmlsunfio man and his wife and thirty children marching o church to attend tho baptisns of the last and thlrty-tirst ouufislurm\dm to the rnmfiygruu oI yelated that: when the Emperor Lienry 15, wna once travellng through Germany, the Count of Abendsbug gave over to his sovercign his thirty-two chiidren, as tho most precious jewels he could offer to the Crown. Ina numberof ths Gentlemen’a Alagazine for the yeur 1758, there pecurs this terse notice under the head of Bletha: “A woman in Vere strect, of the thirty- Bith child by ono husband.’* Advancing to u yet higher figure, our authori- |3 givcs four cxnmsflcu of upwards of thirty-five :fll [dren of one nnd the same mother. Early In tho sixteenth century, Thomas and Helen Urqu- hart, of Cromanrty Custle, were the proud paronta of twenty-five sona who grew up to manhood, and of cleven daughterk who lived to bemarried and manyof them themathersof Inrge familles, Towardsthe close of the saventeenfh century, Thomas Greenbfll, a surgeon and author of a treatise on the Art of Embalming, addressed o Pct(uunw the Duke of Norfolk, then Earl Marshal of England, in which lio prayed: “ That, in consideration of your otitioner belng the seventh son and thirty- Blntll chfld of one father and mother, your Grace would be pleased to signalize by somne particular motto or augmentation in his cont-of- armor, 1o transmit to posterity so uncommon n thing. Tho ugpucnm on was granted,—the addition to the Greenhill cont-of-nrms being “a ?ina;;grunu, powdered with thirty-nine mul otg.! Ono of tho most remarkable instances of fertility fs afforded Ly tho Bathurst family. The youngest brother of thelate Lord Bathurst had fwenty-two children by his first wife, and fourteen by his second ; wiille two brothers and aalster of his had, during thelr masried ltves, sixty-four childron,—making in all just 100 us the progeny of tho four coitples. Troceeding to the incredible nuinber of fort, children, theéro nre five cases clted. Ponnan transcribes, in his_Tour In Wales, tho following l:i)ll.nph: “Ilero Iycth the body of Nicholas Tiocker, of Cnum?', Fm“‘ who \l\,s the forty- fest child of bis fatlier, "Willant Hocker, Dy Allce his wife, and tho father of twenty-seven ehildren, 1687.7 An inscription on u tomb- stone [n Heydon elurchyard, Yorkshire, states that Willlwin Stratton was burled in 174 at the nge of 07, und that he lind had forty-five ehil- dren,—twenty-cight by his firat wife and_seven- teen by her successor. It Is anfd that n Floren- tine noble, the Marchiese Fescobaldl, possvsses the ponmh of an ancestress, Dionorn Salviato, on which {8 fnseribed the decluration that the lady “Jind had fifty-two children,—nover lcsa hun three ab a birth, and on one ovcasion six at 2 Dirth.” A still more marvelous story s tuken from the Collcetunea ’l‘u‘u raphica, i the fiarliean collection, whera 1t {8 recorded that o Beotclt weayer had by one wifu sixty-two chil- Eren, alt of whom Tived to he bopiized, aud ferty-six of whom grew to manhood and four to womanhood. y But wae have horrowed ns riiany cases from the - Wondrous store of our informant as tho uverage \ | | | | \ s a): teader will care to o over. ‘The original writer doca not vouch for the sutficutlclty of ull of them, but simply repeats thiem as they wero ven to hitm; Lhiorefore, those which most tasic ho credullty may well be taken with u grain of sllowancs, *Novertheless, there arofnthellst we- ave quoted o sufficient number of unqucstion able exmnples of remarkablo fecundity to create “our spectnl wonder.” As a fittlng elimax to ho serlvs of natonishing storles, wo copy ver- Latim the closinge parngraph of the articlo from Which tho whole huvn been extructed: “*Horuco Walpale speaka of an ancient lady whom o vis- Hted, one Mrs, Godfrey; sho hid a daughter, Who had n (daughter ({.ady Waldegrave), who had a son l.mfivmdugmvc) who had a daugh- ler (Lady Turrlet licard), who had u daughter (Gountess Downger of Powls), who had adaugh- or (Lady Cllncz. who hnd aninfantsonl Iloruco alpole saw all the cight generations at differ- 1ot perloda of his life. " Tho sceret bers was— Jaly wurrlages, one atter another.” —— JOURNALISM A CENTURY AGO. Whon our forefathers signed the Declaration of Independence, Just a hundred years ago, 0 wWas o feeblo weekly press extsting in the tountry, but as yet not s dafly newspaper had been established.” Of all the veutures in jour- Dallsm ¢hot hod been undertaken by enterpris- Ing printers, tho most nctive had been fssucd only seml-weekly, und the remainder were leb- domadul publications, Onco or twlco! In the seven days was quits ns often as the puny 8lcts could Lo filled with news-matter gleaned from near and far, There were no telegraphs i thoss days, no raflronds, no steamboats; and Intelligenco traveled by tho slow coach or the horsernun, or wven tho pedestrian, who con- ¥ayed from mouth to mouth rumors, and gos- &1p, and facts, In n curfous and often wexplle- ks mediey, Communfeations wero two months coming from England and six months om: Constantinople; aud, under theso trying conditions, the most energetie journalists were tompelled to manufacture much of thelr ma- teral from mera hearsay, or *ovolve It out of thelr {nnor consciousncss.” The columns ,of o best papers of tho time were matnly filed ¥ith ancedotes, sntircs, and lampoona, + There {s a singlo copy—tho only ono cxtant— the collection of thu Brittsh Colonlal papers, o u newspaper that wus started in Boston, in a“l‘lcmher, 1000, with the fntentlon of appear- fug monthly, 1ts title wos Publick Occurrences, Wi Forctyn and Domestick; but this wus- :Dflmd sluply onde, thu authorities suppress- g the publfcation "befors s second number mfll&l o brought out. 'Tho table of contents of h uslque alicut coutained, among other mat- % &0 aecount of the retreut of Winthrop's Toreo from Loke Chumplain, Fourteen ycirs ater thiy, the Dououph’nwt.cmr—mnyflru Amcrican journal. that wus ablo to malntain an | Exlstenco—carno futo betog,. ‘Tho luitfal number {yjaa ssucd April 91, 1701 1t was printed by Wartholomew ¢ snd o by John Camp- o Poatuaster of tho town. - ¥or elglitosn belng, . in Fears the last-named {ndividual hald tha position of proprictor of the publieation, which can have brought: Iim_but Uitle profit, na, recarding to I8 -own declaration, when it was seven years old he: could not ‘‘vend 250 covles of one In- presaton.” HThe earllest numbers," says Palfrey, “were printed on ahalf-sheetof pot paper. Alicrwards, when thero was a special press of matter, ko what. now enlis ferth o supplement, a white sheet waaused, In the flrst humber thero was one advertisenent, and two {n the sceond. Tho pa- per introduced ftsclf to tio_public s follows: This News-Letier 18 Lo be contlnucd weekly, and all persons who have any houses, Jutids, tone- ments, farms, ships, veesels, goods, wares or merchandlses, &e., to bhe he sold or Ict, or Rer- vants run awny, or gooda stolen ur‘oul, may lave tho samc nserterd, nt arcasonable rate from twelve pence Lo five alxfill||gn, and not to exceed, who mnny ngree with Nicholas Bourne for the same at’his shop, next door to Major Davis’, npulhecm:{ n ston, near the olil meeting- nonso! The News-Letler wia contiied il the cvacuntion of Doston by the Britiah troops, in 1776, bc|;uznln its Intest years the organ of the T nrty. In 7lU|ythe Ttoston Gazette entered the field of Journallam, hitherto mmml‘mllzcll hy the News- Letler, Inthe samo year, the Amerlean Weekly Mercurie was cstablisfied in Philudelphin, Two runr& later, tho New England Conrant appeared n Boston, In 1725, U New-York (Jazelte was started; in 1735, the Vh}/mfa Gnzelle wus jssucd at Withamaburg; in 1773, the Koyal Gazeltecame out in New York; and, in 1775, thn Massachu- actts Spy, which fa sl jublished at Woreoster, hnuet{’#l initial number, These grethe mosl, fmportant and long-lved of the muny journals that were vatablished prior to the year 1770, In all, som fifty different newspapers were found- cd between 1748 and 1783, and but threo were in existence nt the close of the Revolutlon, “Bly many of them,” remarks Edwand Abbolt, *tho Jargest liberty of discussion was nlluwu‘; and there wero notleeablo tendencles tothe freest sort of speeulatlon. Of journal- Iz In the modern sense of the term, elaborated, cnterprising, competitive, lavish in outluy, and presenting a fleld for the highest attaltments and most carcfully-nequired professional skill, there waos absolutely nothing, And yet we must accord to the Jolirnals of the Revolution— small, frregular, straggling shcets that they were—tho eredit of a gencrally lerole spirit, and a very noble achlevement in shaplug the putrlotic temper of the times," Tho newspaper-press of Eogland had antiel- pated that of Americea by Jess than a century. The first publication of the kind appeared tur- ing tho reign of James I, 1622, It was entitled the London Weekly Courant, DurlllF the Lo Parliament, newspapers mulll(\lml reely; and, in 1743,~the perlod of the Clvil War,—ns mub, a8 twenty wero in circulatfon. Among their fanelful titles we note the Country’s Complaiit, the Weekly Accounts, tho Parllament's Scout, the Scot's Dove, the Secret Owl, nnd the Smoking Nocturnal. Tho carllest English newapaper de- acrvmg of the namng was the Public Irmll:{/mur, ecstablfshed by 8ir Robert L'Estrange, in 1603, A TAMED WILD-BOAR. Thera 18 o great variety of guine in the foress lands of France, but there ars no efflcient laws for its prescrvation. A system of poaching fs practiced with skill, and with fmpunity, by a cluss of professtonal hunters and trappers catled Draconuiers, who supply the markets regularly, at tho expense of the land-owners, and to the gradual extermination of game of all sorte, The wild-boar is u very common inhabitant of tho dense woods, affording exciting sport for huntsmen. Flerce as fs the nature of this anl- mal, it s snid to bo enally tamed when eaptured young, and to display inuch fonduess for its unmn companions. Hamerton mentlons the case of one “* which re InrHlullowul ita master to tho village-churclt, aud would not be ex- cluded, but came ot last, by the toleration of tho Cure, to bear miass 1ike o Chrlstian; (il finally it grew to an alarming size, and was sold to a traveling Imenagerie for the sum of 70 fruues. . <. As for the future fatcof the beast, its owner adiitted with sorrow that the time must ulthnately arrive when it would be necessary to have him ‘bled’; but, when that duy came, ho hoped bo might be at o distance, and not be o witness of the sacrifice.” - —— A SCOTCI POETASTER. Among the -youthful friends of the Inte Dr. Norman Macteod, was Dugald M—; a poct of loeal celobrity. The bard was not destitute of talent, aud some of his verses imprisoned sparks of the divine fire; yet his excesslve con- ceit and pomposity made bim the frequent laughing-stock of the gay set to which he be- longed, On one oceaslon, it is related of him by the biographer of Dr. Macleod, that, fn an- swer to a tonst In which the pocts of, Beotlnnd were mentfoned rather disparagingly, the rate and excited Dugald sprang to s feét, and fn u loud volee exclalmed: “T will tell the gentle- man what poetry {s. Poctry s the language of the fempest when it roars through the “crashing forest. “The waves of ocean tessing thefr fonm=- ing crests under the Insh of the hurrcanc— they, sir, speak In poctry, Poctry, sir! poctr) waa the vofee fu which the Almighty thunderci through the nwiul Fuuks of Sinal; and I my- sclf, sir, have publishied five volumes of pootry, and tho lust, in ita third edition, can be had for thie price of Ave shillings and sixpence,” SPICERY. That Great Britaln does not suffer from want of splcery to scason its ples ‘and puddings is certified by the following statistics, taken from tho British TradeJournal : The annual import of ciunamaon fs abont 1,000,000 1bs,; of cloves, ahout the same; of nutmegs, from 500,000 to® 700,000 1bs.5 of pepper, 20,000,000 1bs, (three- foutths of Which fs resbipped to'the Continont) of plmento, or u%\lco, 20,000 to 80,000 cwt, § of vanlitn, 600 to 700 Ibs.; und of glnger, nearly 84,000 ewt. RELICS OF THE MOUND-BUILDERS. To the Editor af The Tribune, BeruviLLe, Ricilund Co., 0., Moy 16.—The letter of Prof, Gunuing which appeared In Tur Tninune a few weeks ogo, giving a deseription of the opening of a mound near Spoonville Sta- tion, on Grand River, in which e nade varlous important discoveries, Interested ino In ap un- usunl degree. In deseribing one of the cranin he found, which belonged to » Mound-Builder, he saya: ‘“The frontal boue [above the cycs] “slopes baclk at an angle alnost s low os In the orang, making o forchead alinost as low as that of theanfmal, The parietal platesarefiat. Placing the skull with orbits faclug you, you are (m- pressed with the nurrow, low, nnd receding fore- licad, the ubsenve of frontul eminences, and the flattening of thoe parictal hones, which: make tho cranfum, not, as in us, small from the base to the apex on a rounded out- line; but taper up nto a form approaching the pyramid. A human skull more uyu-liko than that which I took from Bpoonville Mound, on tho hauks of Grand River, has not been found." ‘This dlscovery of Prof. Gumning, In connce- tlon with an audent relle I have i my archmo- logleal collection, may help materially to clucl- dute a very importaut point in regard to the general form of the heads of this prehistoric race, The rolle montloned I8 & mammoth sand- atono pipe, with o humau efigy on the front sido, carved unt in bold rellet, reprosunted In a aliting nusture, na though lttlug on the ground, with the cnocw drawn up rathor closely nenr the lower part of the brenst, with a hand clasped hold of o ey, & ttlo below tho knce. Flvo orsix, oither arrgw- heads ur spear-heads, are marked on the Drast, and bands ufo represonted on the arme.” Tho faco of tho Oguro. Iv con- siderably uptnrned, and nnd sorrowful expresaton. faco weyeral Jines aro carved. One commencos at tho outor anzlo of the cye, and runs obliquely acrora thowide of tho face; tho other begina at tho ‘middlo of thelower margin of tie eyo, and possca down by the sido of the noss and tho corner of the mouth,” torminating at theend of thachifn, The head liaw n **top-knot,"" "My own viow fs, that this efilgy was Inicnded to répresent a capiive or prisoner-of-war. The differeut pointaof theefligy, a8 havo been deaignated, indicatu that this pipo was symbollcal of war, —was used In war-councils, For arude people it 18 very wel) execnted, Tho figure {n B inches high, and aboutd inchos acroes tho Droat: welght, 3% pounds, It was found in Peru Township, Morrow County, Ohfo, From the timo I firat camo {uto posseaslon of this remarkablu relic of antlquity, Ihiave been fully of the opinfon thot it was the work of the Mound- Dullders, and that tho form of ho budy ond wshapo of thu head of tho ofigy wera probably fair represontatlon, in the partlenlars mentloned, of the peos lo who made it. Tho figure, In'form and i its eading features, is very unliko that of an Indfan. Jrof, Gunning''deseription of the principal skull hie found struck mo on account uf s almost por- fect corrospondency {nshapo with tho head of the ofligy which has been describod, ‘Tho latter- iy aléo n form most strikingly liko the akull of an apoororang. As beforo quated, Prof. U. says of hlv discovery, **A humag skull wora ‘ape-like than that which 1 took from Kpponvitle Mound, ou the banks of Grand Kiver, caniot bo found. " 1 cau Justly appropiiate Uiu styls of Lix Isugusis by soylig that u wors ape-like Leud, carved by Ly ari of man, than that represented on tho body of this pipo-eligy, picked up In Olio, could not well m Thure is certalnly a wonderful corre- poudenice tu the shapy of this Mound-Bulider's anjuwm an oty -t latlor hlli has “a hesceching On_cach sldo of tho d tho head of thiv ef all probubility, the akillful handiwork o thc same race uf peoplo to which the cranlum belanged. There, in akense, the worker and his wurk aro brought {ogcther. Tho two Ip conjunce tion bave, I {bink, real welght fo holyfng 1o sulve amos' iwportaus polnt Lo arshwology, In respch u to the cranlolagy of the Mound.Bullders, All that can be learned uf thia ancient peurls can of conrse rmlrv bo gathered from thelr dlfferent re-: malns, An nn antiquarlan 1 fske & deep and profound Intereat in fearning all that can bo gleaned concerning this raca lon mince prescd away, and, #o faras Iam able, visl {0 cantribute, if only a fiitle, to the i\:nerni fund of information wpon the subject of prehistoric man on this Continent. I wilt mentinn, Incidentally, that I have also an- other mammoth sandstone plpe, which reprosents, nat man, but areptle, or bull-frog. Thia in also, 1 preaunie, the work of the Mound-Bullders. Jis welght In 23¢ pouds, and it wos found in Trenton Township, Delawara Connty, Ohlo, T would 1lke to learn the Post-Office addresa of Prof, (innmine, na I wish Uy open a correspondenco with him, If io shanld sce thls, will he plense drop a line to my regular Post-Ofice, Bellville, Richland Counly, Ohio? W. VAR Yizck. —— ROCKFORD. Those Whater- Warlia---Aldermanic Voto Agninst Itepudiations--Death of Ex-Mayor ‘Willlama---Decorntion Day—-A Dolinguent ‘Trennurar--=Tho Liquor Qunstion, Rpectat Correspondence af TAe Tribune, TRockronp, Ill., May 18.—There has heen considerable speculation this week relative to the position the new Council would take in thic matter of the Water-Works debt. 1t will be remembered that, two years ago, the Ifolly System of Water-Works wos put In lere, nt o cost of £260,000, At the time, the city was owing a bonded indehteidness of nearly $£100,- 0005 und henee n portlon of the Water-Works indebtedness was fllegal according to the new State law. Inorder to evade this law, the Al- dermen fesued tiine-orders, An Injunction was then served by Elfsha Kirk, which put a stop to the fssulng of any more time- orders, and nlso to the completion of the Warks, though ahout 250,000 had at that timo been expended, The tnjunction s slowly work- Ing [ta way through the Courts, but no decision las Leen reached. Some of our citizens, but hiappily only a few, nre in favor of the repudin- tion of n portion of the Indebtedness,—I belleve about $90,000. Lnat Mondny, 810,000 worth of Yme-ordets camo dug. Boma hellevo the new Councdl, who ure all Antl-Water-Works, ua well n8 Anti-License men, would repudinte.’ But to tho lionor of our falr city be it sald, aftern heat- ed dlscussfon l.lm{ pald ihe $10,000. On consult- ing with Mayor ihoades, your correspondent as- certalned that it 18 not "the Intentlon of tho Rockdford_ Council to repudints 1ts debt, unless eompelled to do 8o by luw. This will bu quite n rellef to persons in Chicago and elsewhere who hold the tine-orders. DEATH OF BX-MAYOR WILLIAMS, Tho death of ex-Mayor Charles inms, fn the B88th year of place here on Mon uncrnl serylces were i \"VHI’; iis agn, _tool fy morning, and his ield_ yesterday. Thers were few men who posscsscd“so many sterling unlitics as this ol Hfintlnmnu. who_ was five tlmes elected to the oflice of Mayor of Rockford, He was born in_Brimficld, Mass., and was upon the streets a few days before his death. He ro- tained his facultles untlf the laat, and he was, at tha time of his death, Chafrman of the Commit- teo nm}olntcd on tho extenston of the Rockford, Rock Inland & Bt. Louls Rallrond. He was also a Director ot the Rockford Insurance Cém- any. P, n fiopy ov EvarNE nover FOUND. The body of Eugene C. Boyse, the missing oy, wns found In the race, nturday. At the Coroner's inquest, his conipanion, Rennle Peake, admitted to having scen Eugenc fall into the water, but denfed that he pushed him fn, As there was no aetual proof againat hin, the jury guve Peake the beneflt of the doubt, and ré- turned o verdict of aceidental drowning. A MUTILATED CORPSB POUND ON A PARM. P, 8. Doullttle, residing n few miles from Rock- ford, at a place called Iurlom, found the dead hody of a inan, about 50 years of age, in u Jonely spot on his farm. Tho Dody was 'in a terrible Fhato of decomposition, and Uifo bad evidently been extinet several weeks. 1is clothes woulil Indieats that ho was fn good clrcumstances. Nothing was found on his person to fdentify him, and the whole affalr i & mystery. The Coroner's jury have as yet been unablo {o agree upon a verdict, £ DECORATION-DAY IN ROCKFORD. Great. prc‘mmtlun! are helng made by the G. A. . and the varlons temperance soclotica to decorate the graves of tho soldiers on_the 80th fost. The Hon. John Budlong, of Rockford; Gen. Fellows, of Wisconain; and the Rev. Fathier Butler, D. D,, of Rackford, will he the orators of the day. The general programmne fs ueh the smne s Jast yeir. A DELINQUENT TREASURER. ...Judge Van Dyke, the defaulting Townshij Trensurer, was again put on trinl last weels, and, after nuur'yuwcuk'a consideration of the case, the jury returncd n verdict of $11,330.85 against theJudgze und bis two bondsmen, Jocob M. 1iam- Iiton and R. IL SBanders. It is soid thut thero are still other charges against Van Dyke, who was for nearly twenty years County Judge and Township Trensurer. ANCIENT ORDER OF UNITED WORKMEN. ‘The above Onler organized a branch of their Soclety In this city lust Saturdsy night. There were twenty-live charter members and elght o) licants. The ofticers elected are ns follows: A. Y’v Hill, P, M. W.; B, A, Weber, M, W.; R, 1L Roee, G. F.; John Hommill, O.; E. Clom- monk, R.; iL. D, Witson, F.y L R.; W. L. Nevious, 8.3 M.'Blomnquist, O, W. 'IIIE LICESSH QUESTION, The Prohibitionists are 1ol quite so sure, af- ter all, that they have cfluclunll_}' “squelehed the pestiferous shebanzs?'; and it 18 belfeved that, before muny months after tho suloous are closed, the festive wddfl-sllulln will aguin re- sound, and the Jager will again fonmn high fn the glusses. The Rockford lquor-lealers, hncked by alarge numberof Hquor-nien through- ont the State, will {ight the e th on o pround that the Drum-8hop luw of 180+ is unconstitu- tlonal. In wddition to this, the Bloomington liquor-men, backed by thelr friends in Chivago, propose Lo talio up”a, case to the Supreine l}oun on the plen that the law did not legally paes the Scnate., - 8750 ¥YOR MITTING A LAWYER, The readers of Tiis TibuNg wers informed, some thne ngo, that o Chieago luwyer named Duyid M. Kelton ind one of our Ieading lum- bermen, E. L. Woor nrrested for abrilking Lim oyl shoving Tm_ through the plate-glass window of “HI" Waldo's book-store. The {rate wood-dealer has efnco becoms one of our Prohibitlon Aldermen, the ladies thinking com- buuwuuuum;;l recommendation for such an ofliee. But, while Mr. Woodrull has been re- warded by the smiles of the ludics, ho has heen followed from Court to Court by thu tenaclons Kelton, who, u few duya opo, obtalued o verdict i the Vinuébngo Clreutt Court, for 8760 dam- ages, which makes Kelton feel very good and Woadrult rlullomd, a8 the little jamboree hus now cost hiin nearly $1,000. Moral: It does {mt puy to strike u lawyer—especially a Chicago wwycer. A, Weyburn, o I Lake, T. W.; L. — CROPS. To the Editor of TAe Tridune. Lopa, 1iL., May 15.~1 wish to correct somo statements medo by tho Chicago Zimes in re- gard to crop-prospocts. As to corn In the Couns ties of Iroquols, Ford, and Vermillon, there cannat be over ono-lalf the number of acres put in that thero was last yoor, and that very late, and with the ground in very bad condition, Thero s not ono acre planted now where there were fifty Jast year at this time; fn fact, I know of but one man that hosa Ml planted. Lost week was o week of dead loss to the farmers, for they ull had to llo still for tho ground todry, What few did try to plow just Jost thelr time, for they oaly turned the mud over to hake lika brickbats. I Jmve not u bushal of corn to sl or huy, but I do llke to have things copresentod ns the . ll{umuflulv SratioN, May 17.—Wo have had splendid growing weather “for soveral duys, the trlenuumelcr ranging from 00 degrees at § ot to 80 degrees at 2 p.om. Early-planted corn {8 up, Most of the corn will have been planted by the end of the week. Low lands aru stlll wet, und cannot bo worked till they are drier. Oats never looked better. Fruit-trees nre In full bloom, and glye promise of an abun- dant crop. Cattla now get u full supply of grass. Wo have had scverul fine showers this weeks and yesterday there was o hall-storm, with hall-stones as lurgo as hickory-nutd, UNSUNG, As sweot as the breath that goes ' From the 1ips of tho white rose, As welrd as the olfin lights That gllmmer of {roaty nighta, Anwl thie winda that tear The curled rod luaf In the nir, 13 tho song 1 have never sung. In stumber, 4 hundrod times 1'vo suld tho enchantad rhymcs, But ere L open my eyos "This ghost of 8 pogu Hlas; Of the interiluent straing Not even 4 noto rumatns: 1 know by m{ pulscs’ buat 15 waa ponicthing wild and sweet, And nuy heart fu strangely stirred By ou unremembered word! 1 strive, but I strivo In vala, T recall tho loat rofraln. Qn some mlraculous day Porbiaps 1t will como and sta; In soio unlmagined Bpring 1 may find my valco, and slng 2. e e " MY, BALLOON-ADVENTURE. “You, and you alone, Ned, can save me. It's iny bread, the balloon is, and not mine only, but that of little Polly at school, far away in England there, And they'll make ne moro of ripping tho Deflance to ribbone than [ would of chipping tho shell of an cgg at breakfast, these peppery Maratillafs." . The situation was, to say the least of it, ex- cecdingly awkward, It was the evening of a fete day, In brilllant, sultry autumn wenther, such a8 may be looked for In the south of France, and tha Ducasse, or local fustival of St. Maure, o village lying on the const some two leagues eantward of Marscliles, had drawn thither o swarin of the population of the old Phmecan city. There was dancing In progress,—the merry twang of thoe fiddles floattng upwards through the vine-tendrils that hung acrosa the open win- dow, reached my ears na I stood beslde the bed, —hut. the great uttraction of the evening's entertafnnent was to be a balloon-ascent in the mldat of Greworks, on the part of an English neronaut, who, In the glowing language of the handbills and posters that bad for ten days past advertlsed the trip, was deseribed ns % the famous, the Intrepld Oliver Killick, le ot der Alrs?? As for myself, I was simply a young English artist, Edward Holmes by name, not long since returned from a protracted course of art-study in Rome, und who found It hard ehough, by totch- ing up photographn, * finfshing ** tiie sketele of amateurs, and taking, at the lowest rate of re- muneratlon, the portrait of whoever favored ni wmxnahung, to procure the wherewlthal tolive, T bad beéen aceldentally thrown a deal in the company of Mr. Killlck, who™ had for gome: thue heen exbibitiog his halloon In varfous towns of the South, and who hadshown mepome kindticss, 03 o fellow-countryian; while T on my part had o regard for the old man, whoso quaint ancedotes of his experence ns o traveling balloonlst were often amusing, and Lalf of whose carniugs, ns I knew, were nfrlllt‘hume for the benefit of his little grand- chfld, And now a serfous difliculty had, ot the last moment, nrisen. There, in the garden of the village Inn, fenced oft :R' ropces and stakes from the preasure of the cralvd that surged sround, was the Deflance, fnlly inflated, straining at the conls that fastened it to earth, and reidy for uage, while on his bed lay the unlucky “King ot thic'Alr,'" groaning and’ disabled. 1Te had sent for 1o to visit hini In his roomn shortly after the accurrence of the aceident,—it was amers stum- blo over a looae plank, and a fal dowt-stalrs,— and, lhougih I nymput‘h]wl with him most sin- cerely, I Dad Deen quite at o loss for nn ex- pedient, Mr, Killick yas a heavy, elderly man, and n the fall ind severely spratned his right wrlst and Injured his thumb, besldes reeelving a cut on the left temple, from which the bleod slowly trickled. “That's nothing,’ he sald, half querulously, o8 I cxamined L' hurt; % ive il woree In touching ground many’a the day. It's the thumb that does siguify, the thumb and’ the wrist, Ican'tlandle tlie valve-ropes with this m-lptlcd urm any more then s school-girl could doit. And what's to happen now My first idea was that the sccident and tho consequent {nability of the balloonist to give the promised exhibitlon Bhould be notéfied, and an npol?fy made to the public; but the veteran decidedly negatived this u{-purcnny ohvious proceeding, ~ Ile reminded " me of the {raselble character of u mob cve?h where, and above all of a S8outhern French mob, and assured me of what I could readily bellove, that mo cxcuse would bo nccepted by the fery Marselllals, baulled of the long-looked-for treat of anascent. They would certuinly destroy the baloon, and not improbably executo lynch luw in some form ou the acronaut, while the very loss of the Deflance would be a serfous disaster to its owner. 'Then, too, ar nded proprie- torof the nelghborhood—a va ung man, with o tuste for notorlety—had offered 15 louls-d’or to be taken up ns i passenger; and to dh\r}x& ;mht M. Victor de Villeueuve and losc rancs was an unweleome contingency. To_my great surprise Mr. Killlelt proposed that 1 should go tpln Iis stead, and undertake for the oceaslon the offic of meronaut. 1 had indeed necompanied him, while we were both at Nice, in two short asceats, and had learncd from ldin to manage the valyes sud baliast, tho rudi- ments of theart of ballooning. Iwas young, aetive, and had a steady hend, and the owner ol the Deflance was quite \\'Illln{,; to ntrust_her to me, il 1 would but 8o far vblige bim. I have nuver been quite nble satisfactorlly to explain to wyself how It was that I was atartled or ca- Joled Into nosenting. Perhaps the novelty of the notlon, acting on n romewhat adventurous (uncy, mude e yield more readily to the old aw's entreaty than would otherwlse have been the :1:.\61'4 Isafd “ Yee,” und was held to my word. “Hist! walls have cars, and certainly arbors have,' whispered the landlord of the inn, a8 e led me cautfously ‘round by the back door into the partiatly Bluininated space without, * Wrap your overeout well about you, and hide your face with this red handkerchlef, We musn’t et thae people see us_yot {’s a raw hiand that’s to go aloft. Tronde P airl once up, wo can Inugh it off.’* This was all very well for the lnn‘fiueper, whose only wish wad to keep the rubble ju_good humor and avold a riot, which might lead to the plilage of his eellur and the demolition of -his furniture, but I began fn- wlur;ll_y to question the wisdom of my own cholee. However, it was too Iate to withdraw. There was nothing for b but to carry out, as best T might, the madeap enterprise on which I had cmbarked, 5 $ Come, you had better grot into the car, and be ready,” suld the landlord, still than nnder- tone, an ho passed e through the cordon of [mlh-e that kept back the foremost of the spee- ators, ** Dot talk, but, if anybody spenks to you, wave a fln;;—dmb does aa well. M, de Villeneuve writes me word he'll not arrive il the last moment, when wo start tho firework: As soon as he's beside you up you go, re- member,” A I wns now in the rocking, swaging car, and, stooplng down, I nscertained that” the bags ol Lallnst, Uhe coll of spare rope, the flgs, aia tel- eseopo were ot my feet; then 1 assured myself that the grapnel was provided with its tough “cord, and thoe whizz of a rocket and a descend- ings shower of colored spangles of flre gave o warning note of preparation, Morg rockets ‘now soared aloft, amiidst the huzzas of the crowd, and then, springing from the ilrlvln¥-sent of ulight open carrjage drawn be' a gray horae, there appeared Lhe fizuro of o slout, well-dresscd mun, who elbowed his w‘xx so quickly through the lhmnfi that I had scarcely thne to cnu‘}ecturo that this must be the volunteer companion of iy aerfal vosne M. Victor de Villencuve, hefore he seramb) ml into tho car, and wus at my side. " Allmln,'lul o, mes braves!™ hocried, In sharp, imperious tone, to the men who held the ropes. “*Bas les cordes! do you hour (™ A voleo ralsed i aceents of command selidlom falls of ts cifect, however questionable may bo the right of lim who uplifts it, aud the men ad- dressed, in thelr astonishoient, mechanieally oboyed. 'The balloun rose a little, nothing now reauululng fte upward flight save tho trigger- cond, finnly moorud to a post below, the spring l)clu‘: {n my grasp. - “ Montois, cunarado! Off we go!” exclalmed tho pussenger, with a jovial laugh that had scarcely the ring of honeat mirth in it, Porhups M. do Villeneuve, for all his swagger- Ing deportment, was Ul at ease na to tho results of our voyage, and strove to m"f 1t off gayly; spch werd niy thoughts us the Catherlne whedls began to revolve [ cascadus of whirling fire and the crowd to cheer. It waa tho motneint for our start, but I hesltated to pull the trigger, for now & strange bustlo and coufusion below at- tracted my attention. # A mouited geudarme, his sabro and carbino clanklng, had ridden up at the full galop of his recking horse, followed at some distance by threo others, who spurred furlously forward, There wero n few hurrled questions, then a simothered outery, a roar of volees, and a sway- lulg backwards and forwardy of tho excited pop- uliice, P 1 looked down at the crowd of upturned nces. “Btop! stop! Au nom dela loll Engllsh- "ml?' stay " cried out the brigadier of the foot- police. ! *Lot go, fool 1" thundored tho man who sat besitio nie In the car, “Hut {t i tho polico that—"" I hegan, think- Ing that M. de Vitlencuyo had suddenly taken leave of his senscs. “Come down! stop—hau] the rope!! wastho shout from below; but as the words reached my car, m{ companion bont_forward, Something flashed in his hand,—o_dagger-knlfe,—and tho cord was cut, and the balleon durted upwards, “In the nwno of tho law—uhl you won'tl Tieus!™ cried a gendarme, dlachnr%n his car- biie, an cxamplo that was followed by Tis com- rdes; but the ball whistled {dly by, whilo wo rose and ruso until the fnn and the gurdens and the shouting erowd and the sputtering lireworks had diminished to plgmy size, und presently dise appesred altogether, und the balfvon rode on, sulitary, through the Helds of alr. ** A nous deux, maintenant ! sald 3, do Ville- neuve, with u chuckle that was fucomprehensts ble tome. * A slugular suluto our friends gaye ug, ch, when they budo us bon voyugei® lhe moon, halt full, bad now rlsen, and I could sco tho faco of my companion—~the swarthy, keen focw of o man 40 years of age, witls short dark bair, siightly grizzled, fic black ealu, and vory \\'\I“fiy strong, shayp-polui-, ed teofh, which gave him, when ho smlled, - Offfcial Je somewhat the.expression. of o laughing woll. He was s man of qowur{ul frame, and the fin- gers of the gloved iand which ho now Jald upon Iny arm werc as strong and supple as stecl. * Avow,” sald thia strange pasacnger, witha grin that anogro might have envied, * avow that Yyou take me for a tlnccr q‘mdmm of the French rro\'lmln) gentry, heinl But first, how comes t that the perc Killick fs absent, and ‘o blanc-’ bee of 5’““ zge has the honor to be my pllot 1" 1 toli him bricfly and in offended tones what had occurred, and how ft was that he and I found oursclves together so far above terra firma, at the same tine caul.lnnlng'hlm not, aa e Iiad dane before, to take It on Limsclf Lo n- terfere with the management of the balloon. “Wa must now,” 1 added, *look out for a V‘flf‘! Lt:vdulccnd, for the wind in freshening, and— ¥ Lot it freshen!” rudely interrupted M. de Villeneuve, *Seta falr for Spaln, does it noti!’ “Fur Spaln?” 1 cchoed In surprise. Coutd this self-conceited country gentleman really deem that we were hound on sitch a journey as that] I could not lielp laughing as I sald, © Why for B{]mln, mnnalcufi[" “Well, lu\l{ would have served me as well had thie wind been o westerly one. I talk both languages w!nall{, and know every wine-shop in Cudlz ua well as I do those of Genon,! answered M. deo Villeneuve, awaln chuckling.” * Ha, lml, what are you about that you finger that ropet’ “Tam opening the valve above,”” T anawered enldly, “beeause it s thne now tosink to o lower level aml deseend—rt * Descend, eh? hriskly smt in my fellow- voysger. ‘“Wemay as well understand each other at once. Ilunds off tho rn&m I may, It you would keep the roof on your sl u\l," hé ad- ded threateningly, as hie dreiw s revolver from -within his waistcoat, and deltberately pointed the barrel at iny head, ' I'll show you who's Captaln up here.” My brain reeled and my blood ran‘cold ns the horrible thought flashed u?on me that [ was, at that fearful hedght above the carth, In company with n inadman. Nothing surcly save Insanity eould account for the extruordinary behayior of M. do Villeneuve, But 1 nu{ypum Iputs Lolernb}y good counte- nance on the matier, for my forimldablo comn- thllc:l luughed agaln, but Icss {Il-naturedly, as ic enfd: g “You face it out well, boy. IMken youngster who shows a heart somewhat bipger than o chifcken’s, And I'm not so bad us I look— uever do this!?—le drew his Itand as he spoke elgewnys, with o meaning gestare, across his throat—‘‘when I can get my little profits by quicter means. But you stare st mons if were & mountebank sclllng quack medicines. Can you gucas why those gendarmes were so pereinptory an bour ago? Hecause they wanted the plumlre of my company back of Toulon, that's all, Did Jou never hear, Anglals, of Risque-gon-cou 1" "y n"ms pe-gon-con 11 T repeated in perplexity. “* Ay, Picrre Paul Grincheux, if you please, it Risque-son-cou,” sald the mau, with an odd sort. of pride, *it's a name, If you read the reports of our Lrlbunnlhtlm you may have met with, Toulon, Brest, Lambessw,—I kilow every one of these chiarming retreats like my pocket. ™ I have had enough sca alr for one while, so I gave my- self leave of absence," And then T remembered to have scen a para- anh in .n"local paper announcing the escape rom Toulon of o criminal of the worst and nost dangerous Ly{)e, who had not as_yet been recaptured, and whose grotesque nicknamo of Ncuf&-or-Nomlng had bocn earned by tlfty Prb- on-breakinge and bair-breadth evaslons from justice. And lerc waos I, Edward Ifolmes, artist, voyuging by night in a balloon, in com- pany with & ninaway galley-slaye, well armed with knlfe and pistol, and more than a mateh in a;:len h-for me, even hod he been less well pro- vide My terriblo companion was only too much disposed to he talkatlve; and 0s we ewept on- wards before the freshening wind, he was kind enough to faver me with o few brief ancedotes of his past carcer, in which the jocose and hor- rible scemed to mingle in eynic confuston. The onc point oirwhich he was uncommunieatiye was the manner of his recent escape from Toulon; er how—probably owing to the com- plicity of others—le_becime posseased of his weapons. But he told grapbieally of tho ten doys of hardeldp and lunger which he Ind endared while skulking smong the rocky hills by night, -and -~ lying hidden among thorny bralkes by day, until at last he broke {nto u prean of triumpl ju relating how he liad encountered and rob the true M, de Villencuve on his way to the village fefe, “Twenty shining naps in his puree, the [dot 1" ho rald exultingly, *and three thousand francs bosldes fn notes. ° Well, welll I Ieft him gag- {;ul and hound to a tree, ufter 1 had taken ‘the reedom to chiange clothes with hims and there he stauds, bo doubt, trewbling, but fortunato to keep a whole skin, ~And I found in his packet the letter of M. Killl rownising to take him nssenger in the balloon here, and po—=" And so the deahad presented liself to_thta: daring and ready-witted ruflian to personate tho victim of his rceent robbery, and thus to procure the menns of filght in” what was cer- tainly on unexampled fashion, while 1 was the luckicas reapegoat of his nudacious enterprisc. Meauwhilo the wind, as 1 hiave sald, wus ris- ing, and 86 we burried on I looked downwards, ani saw by the shimmering of the moonlight o the tremulous waves that the sea was below us. I could not forbear from an exclamation of dismny. ‘The desperado at my side also looked down, “Dah! sea or land—what matters 1t he sald recklesaly. ‘“Throw out ballast; do you hear wei” and unwillingly I complied, The balloon instantly rose, and it. presently beeame pereeptibly colder, so that I shivered, and had to chafe 1ty hands together to provent them from stiffeuing. My compaulon's {ron frame showed no sirns of “sudzring from the abrupt lowering of the tetnperature but after n thme the Dellunice scemed to be nearer to the sen, for I lreard the low roar of the waves; and then Risque-son-cou -fmpatiently flung out an- other bag of ballast, and we roe. Vague, 1ike the vislons of a dream, are my recollectlons of the voyage of that miscrable night, epent thus, and I such company. I suf- fered much from cold and fatigue, and it was mechanfeally that T obeyed the dircetions of the creapedd galfey-slave, who had now sssumed the ccmmnnfi. ‘Ihoro was no doubt abaut the fixity of his detennination to cuntinue the desperate fight uutl_wo should be across the French frontier. Iow long our serfal . journey might prove, undertaken as it was without warin cloth- n{.: provisious, or brandy, Ieould not conjecture, witlle §t wos certuin that we we hurrylng along at ‘o swift Encu-—how swift 1 hod no eans o ('allc‘lllluullg‘-— efore the pressure of the strong wind. 8o far as 1 could tell, thedirection of the wind was a uniform one, amnthl‘l’y from northenst-hy- cnst. - The son which I lind econ beneath us was, no doubt, a part of the Gulfy, lylne samewhers betsoen the mouths of tho iver Rhone and the Spanish border, but the renminder of our routs was, in theory, mere guesswork, A slight shift. i the wind rajght cause us to bo earricd out nt the broad Mediterranean—even, did webut drift beyond the 8traits, into the bronder Atlantle to perish, as many n balloon vovagzer has died, without a record of his fate. Whereabouts wo were I could not tell. The dark, blurred out- lincs of what loy beneath scemed to lndleato nills and woods, not se. “l& we come down fn France, my youn friend,* said the strident volee of tho’ escaped convict, ns we floated through musses of st vopor, the condensed molsture of which wetted mo to the skin, “you may bid ndiew to whatover _homo' tfen und Dritfsh affec- tlons fusular heart ma our cherdsh, {u no fault of yours, you will “f" t the wind carrica.thlg flappiig gae-bag to Polto or the Nivernals, No, but is Risquo-son<cou to walt whils the young Eugllshiu erawls to the nearest brignde of gendurmerio to give notico that his lalnw-lnwa-lcr was Peter Panl Grin- cheux, forcat en rupture de ban? Thank you. I prefer to keep my own counsel. 8o sure ns wo drap where Napoleon I8 Ewmperor, and tho ournal ]mhxl on the walls of the Posto du Police, I prove that ano can keep a scerct better than two.!” “ Ther's something wronf: with tho valyes,”? sald my companion roughly, an hour later; “the gus, diuble! Is comliug l‘lo"n. and wu are sinking, It's for you, seronaut, to uscend tho netting and m?n the escapo of gus.” I was very reluctant to obey, To elimb the netting of ‘w batoon, when at a great'helght nbove “tho euwrth, is nover & very ploase ant task; but to do so, leaviug be- hind e s quffan who might at any mament plstol or stab me g I descended, thua rolleving himself from on inconvenignt wit- ness, was indeed {rksome. Tlowever, Rlisque- son-cou evinced such vehement pertinacity, and swore ko many grisly oaths, that at last 1 com- plied; and, having adjusted the valve, cropt buck a the car, sick and glddy, but unhurt, ‘Thoinoon hod faded gway. There were palo crimson streaks in what I took to be the eas! #ky, und bolow lay plled-up glwmty blick cloud, throagh which gléamed at futervals something whito and lustrous, like the marble pinascles of tho Cathedral at Afilun. * We're ateering stralght. Fatality, for once, befriends me,” exclalmed the desperato sharer of my Juurnu{. “ for, millo bombes! those are the pesks of the Eastern Pyrenecs, Chug ballast, boy, don't let us ground on them We werg, In reality, flosting amongst the ser- Tated swinmits and snow-clud mountaln-tops of the huge chain of mountaina that forms a natu- ul barler between Gaul and 8pain. Below, the sullen cloud-banks mendeod elemental war, aml already low-muttering growls of thunder rover- ratod among the scrrated ridges bencath us. 4 Throw over more ballast,”? commuanded sy ryftianly coupanion. 1 fluu&:ut, with some misglyings, the remaln. Qgr.of tho last bag of aand aad small pebblcs, n masses of but the Deflance - diil- not- rise with -ita formor buoyancy., Much had_been lost. The once rmaoth ‘surface of the silk, palnted in mmdz Ktripes of pink and blne, was wrinkled now, an fluttered Toodely in frregular fostoons. Aoro than once [t scemed as” thongh wo must be dashed agalnet some one of tha towering peaks shove which the balloon slowly revolved. Crash after crash, upon_peal, rang ont the deep dinpason of the thundor, echoed from glen to glen, and from ridgo to flx‘gu ‘while far and wide tho lghining sent, its fiaming arrows ncross the darkenlng sky, How strango it was 1o sce heneath us tlxrmnlyor‘kcd shafta of dazzlin IIFM‘ 1o licar from benenth us those awful rolls of hicaven's own terribla artfliery, nud to float helplorsly above tha raging tempunL ny il broken; the sun was ristng, red and ancry, in the stormy castern sky, and, as o cur- rent of afr wafted the balloon rapidly forward, I could dimly distingmish forest, and meadow, and apurs of wood-clothed hills, Iylng to the southward of us. The snowy penkn, rosy-pink in the morning radlence, were Eflng gradually lugll, ;alchllfi l|l!‘ urralil as you say, you other islanders,” eried out the gjlnyal«vu triwinphantly, ns he too, scanned “the Tandscape. @ Viva o fole We'ro well across the froutler now, and_Plerre Paul Grinclicux 1s as safe s any other French- man from the odlous summons to trudgoe back to the chali-gang and the rattan of the gardo-~ chfourme! -Thank |ymn- stars, Englishuing——" A stunning peal of thunder cut short hig honattul lscourse, and aa it did so the Deflanca heeled overy and was driven ke a dead Ieaf be- fore the gale by the sudden rush of n mighty wind that Lore ua nlmost to the surface of tho ground, and hurried us nlun§ with headlong ra- pldity. ~ Flelds, woodiands, Tiouses, reemed to pass us by with feverlsh bhaste, and atill we sped onwards, #o necar now to the carth that I mo- tnentarily expected thiat we should become en- um:;llcd among the trees that loomed o nearus, ‘What was that, liko a river of glancing water, on the dusty high road beneath “us, the yellow rond like a ribbon winding amid rocks and thick- etai Troops on the march, no doubt, the sun- lizht glinting on thelr bayonets. I could see ull“l:. we approached they came confusedly to o halt, **Agaln, hurrah!" shonted the galley-slave. “ A cheer, noble E)mnlnrdn, for your guest, Plerre Pauf, now safel (y—" As he spoke I saw the carth very near ue, saw the soldlers ruu to right and left, as thouih to clear the way for our” puasage, and then, with a slckening erash, the balloon and the car scemed to atrike n&mlmt a rock, and o thousand sparks of nmlnnl? my bewildered eyes, and then all ew dark. “*Ho'll live, this one, never fear," sald a cheer; volce, as\cnkln in the Spanlsh Innguage, which rtinlly understood, as I'awoke to find my- self lying upon a truckic-bed fn a_wayslde cot- toge, surrounded by a group of officers, while a regimental surgeon was fecling my pulse, “Glve him a few more draps of Grandy! ~ Only acouple of riha the worse, I think."! “And—and the man who wus with mei" [ asked, feebly. ‘The doctor shook lis head, “Not your father or your brothor, T trust, Ca- ballero'" o suid, %Al then, I nay tell you lbnvl.‘ma b‘eml lmu du‘l'lcd‘:ngfllnst [ mcl:i nmlul’\ln neck—n tough one, by the by—very cffectuull; distocated > 2 v And so It was. Risqueson-cou had shared the proverbial fate of the pltcher that goes too often to the well. Strange to say, my fortune was, to a qualified extent, made by the aceldent which hiad so nenr- l{ put an end altogether to my worldly anxic- tles. The kind protectors whio had picked me up, & wayworn stranger, with two ribs broken, by tho roadside, lind e conveyed along with them on o lltter to the arrisun town of Girona, whither they were Lound, and in the inllitary hoepital “of this place I was cared for, “until “youth and a robust car- stitutlon cnabled "me to get the better of tho fever that ensued, My story was noised abroad, and a1l Barcclona seemed eager to sit for its portralt to the young English artist who had visited Spain in so dingular o manner; and thence, with good professionsl recommens dntions, I pasaed on to Mudrid, Paris, and Lon- don, and hiave never since known the actual pressure of want. I nfterwards heard that o subecription sct on foot nt Marscillcs compensated 3Mr. Killlck for tho loss of his balloun, but be and I never met again.-~~English Magasine, ——— LE MOYNE-FARWELL, To the Editor of The Tribune, Wasnmeron, D. C., May 15—y attentlon has been called toaletterof Mr. Farwell's fu your paper, In which he apologlzes to his con- rtituency for allowing them to be misrepresent~ ¢d by so:ng one clse, This letter only shows that Mr. Farwell could not have understood his own case. 1 made my prindpal attack ou the First Precinctof the Twentleth Ward, and four-fifths of the whole testimony taken was in regard to this precinet, I charging fraud, he denying it In my brief, submitted to the Committee, I pamed each fraudulent vote that T oeked to have thrown out. Mr. Merrick, for Mr.-Farwell, first argned the case upon the same theory that the fraudulent votes (not the precinet) should be thrown oat. Headmitted ularge number of fraudulent votes, but claftned 08 an oftect that 41 votes for me In the :Eighteenth Ward should be deducted onaccount of an informality in the ailidaylts; also that the vote from the Poor-House should be r«?ccwd. In roply, I showed that by a mistake of his, he bnd omitted to deduct ‘In the first precinet H fraudulent votes proved. Also, by suthorltics cited, that the aflidavits objected to were quite sufliviont. Bome time after the case had been submitted to the Committee, it wos &' covered that they hoad agreed ununimously taat the afldavits were good, and these votes coulid not ‘be rejected. Then 1t was necessary, to save Mr. Farwell, not only to throw aiit the Poor-llouse vote, but also to throw out the whole vote of the First Preciuct of the Twon- tleth Ward, Mr. Merrick then eent abrie! to the members of the Committee,in which he Emlmml to thrav out the whole previnct. s 1 hod al- ways objected to, and if Mr. Farwell had heard my argument or read my brief, le could not Lave skl that 7 clabined " it should be thrown out, This proposition that all the fraudulent votes sbuuh{ bo thrown out, and not the pre- cluet, scemed to-mo 5o plainly right, and as it disposed of the whole cnse, In arguine the case to the Committee, 1 spent no tme on the Poor-Housy vole. In tho minority report, made by Mr. Farwell's friends, the fraud in the First Preciuet of the Twentieth Ward fa severely denounced, und they propose to throw out the whole precinet because there was su maceh fraud, all on bis bo- half. In the majority report, ouc of the strong- est reasons given for not throwing out the pre- clnct was that it should not be thrown out at the roquest, and Jor the advantageof' the party who comumiited the fraud. All the talkk about the Poor-Iouse vote was fntended to conceal the real fssue, und to dis-- tract attention from the gross frauds proved, AMr. Farwell's remurks ubout Ws belug dected, iny wearing the Confederato collar, ete., 1 do not eco 1t to notice; he hus evidently lost his temper; ho hos scemed to feel this a personal contest between - him und mes T have ouly con- sldered myself us o rcpveecnm\lvu. and do not wish to he led (nto any fecliug of personal hos- tility, 1o suys, *Chiengo's three Represent- tives will vote to turn tho Government over to Jell Davis aud Ben IHLLY - I will not. When ho was taking |l|!LII!!1(H|0I1¥, he called asnwitness fifs fricnd *Buifalo” Miller to prove that wyy_father was an old Abolitfonlet, candidute for Vice-President with Blrnoy, ete., aud this I hear was urged by hls friends hero; 08 he got twa .or threo Southern Democrutie ‘Yotea It nay hiave had some effect. I never de- nied or made auy excuss for it. Some of his witnesses testificd thut ho was tho better Dem- ocrat, ote. The oul¥ opportunity he had this seaaon to show what he would do’ was fn \'nlln;i on theJelt Duvis Amnesty bill, when ho voted with tho other Represcutatives from Chl«ufl&rmlv' 3 with the “unrcpentant and unreconstruet and ‘egainst the Republicans. FPerhaps he has grown wiser since. ‘When ho was rising to explaln ft was quite ’mllnum o state to his constituepts whether he hud drawn from tho Treasury over §6,000 o8 tho salary, ete., of an ofilca to which by the de- clsion of the tribunal fixed by lnw L “was not. elected. He might also expluin whether he went to the Bergeant-at-Arms, before the vote was taken fn his cise, snd before the regular uydn{ which ta tho 4tb, oud drow his pay u{n ro the 4h of Way,~he wua ousted on the 8d. ‘Tho Sergeant eays ho told A, F., when e ap- lfed fur this xfi.llhnt ho might be out before i hodth. Wil s money Do repaid to the Treasury? This §s *bustness.” Thetalk about turniug'tho Govorument aver to Juff Duvis and Ben HI llh hosh," nli;l ev“ybudy knows ft,— exeOpt, of course, Mr. Farwell, 2 i J. V. Ln Mox, ———— Moody Among the x-Robels, The revival work of Mr. Moody In Aupgusta, @n., has met with & drawback, When he first begun holding bis open-ndr cetings, the nes grocs mingled so fudlseriminately” with tho audience that it becamo disagreenble to the whitcs, Amlndlvldm&'l:nnw Wus put up, Mr, Moody did not Hko this, and spoke of it, when ono of the )nmum informed "Lim that it wus fipossible for the blacks and whites to mingle even fn w religlous mecting, Mr, Moody then eald, T sce you bave nm,fiuuen over your re- bolllous feolings yet.” “No, gald the minis- ter, 41 win proud of my rebelllous feellngs, sud will bos Rebel unlil I dic.h A corres of tho Atlants (Qu) Constitution d bes the adent . Incident d a8 4§ ”“hfi,fl,g“ that - 23 1§ - becom: lLiavo . yo among tha white Y ’rp_luv —— A WAR-INCIDENT, 70 ¢he Bdlior of The Zribund,. 1 s Lanamxantng, N, 0., Moy 13,—In TFebruary, * 1805, the corps of cadets from Hillsboro Military Academy had chargo of a batch of, prisoners at Camps Mangum and Holmes, neas, Raleigh, N, C, "Thoro wers. abont 600 offiars ats Oamp' /. lolmes, and 800 privates at Camp -Mangum, . These prisonerahad boen carrled to Wilmington td be exchianged, but, for some TTIRON, Wera ro- tarmod. -Alout the.lst-of ' March: they. wete ;.* again sont down, and finally turned over td tho ** Federal nuthorities at Northesst Capo Fear. Tho last car-load delivered were of sfek; - - and, n8 onc poor private was befng 1ift- ¢ ed from: n liiter, . upon ctho i flag fiy "fi from the near, Guaing at i€ with a look which can never be fore - potten, his oye 1it up for a moment, the old fire showing the soul within, and in deop tones ha sald: “Thank God! I have sccn the old fI once moro!t™ Qolng iomo ftor & long prison-lifc, almost dead from sickness and snforing, ho way asaing from our gnards to his_friends, and under Hie old flag once more. With his words, his hoad dropped upon bis ‘breast, and he was dellvered to thal fiag—n corpee, wishod to traco this man, For some time [ bare that his family might know whata man ho was, and his country hia name: bnt-I:know nothin more than that somo of the men were from ] Weat,—ono, E. A. Smith, from Dotrolt, Mich. hava written to this address, and recelyed no ane awer, Tecently, Mr. M. A, Torroy, of your clty, msnggestod that o lotter to -yon would ho treatod with prompt _consideration, Doubtlens your paper would sreach .some wha might remember the clrcomstance, andso trace the'hamo and placo of ono whoss memory should he cherlstied by all who clalm thnt flag. 0 devo. - ! tlon to one's conntry snd love for that fing, thus cvidenced by this poor private, challenge tha ade ‘ miration of foe nn wall ac friend; and heroes Jika i thisare too few for theirnames to bo lost. Tt fa ; time that the bltter feclinga of the past should b fargotten, and only brave and noble deeds cherlshe ed 0s our cominon ca\mlr(‘n. If you will publish thir, and sek Information from sume one who ean give it, you will 1ay under obligation to r{m‘ all who can appreciate 8 greaf and noble spirit. Posaibly, rone- of the prisonors inay rememiber one they “sometimes calfed ** the Little Sergcant,™ though not my name. o ing #00n {0 hear from one of them, 1 am, - respectfully Yours, Brain BunweLt, T — *'BE SURE YOU'RE RIGHT.” 7o the Edltor of The Tribune. -‘Moxnor County, Ill., My 10.—With your permireion I desire to correct a statement o1 two Inacommunleation, slgned “M. C, M.,” pub- lished fn Tiz TRIDUNE of & recent date. The matter to which I refer {s ehiefiy In ref to Logan and Morrlson, more especlally thie 1atter. Your writer says of those gactlemen: “They were both prominent artors from the first in the Unlon army;" which fs not true, ns the report of the Adjatant-General of our State will show. Mentioning an incldent of the battle of Fort Donclson (in which sanguinm ry contest both Logan and Morrison were cone * £picuously brave), “M. C. M.” states that Col. Morrison was “fenrfully wounded through the resplratory orguns® fn that struggle. This Is not carrect, as hamitredn of peopla Inthis and St. Clalr County well know. Col. Morrison was quite severely, thonzh not dangeronsly, wounded in the upper part of the thigh, of, to be a little tnoro pre- cire, near the place” where Gen. Jobn Popa onea hind hin ** hendquarters, * to-wit: fn the saddle. “This wonnd, which lasted Col. M. some time, oce ourred st the buttle of ¥ort Donclson, as men. tioned. Nobody in Southern Tilinnin ever heard of Col. M. being wounded ** through™ or about the lungs until wuch statemnent was first published fn the New York Zrenlag Poat laat winter. Tho *¢ I'lf trv, oir, " story of **M. C. X, " {8 good; but In Hales Hietory of the United Stated i mentioned a similng Incident atthe battle of Bridgewater, Jaly 25, 18144 and, If_the neme of stipley ho substitated for thal of MeCleruand, and Col. Miller for Ezra Taylor, . and Drtil for ** Rebels, * the Fort Donclson ator; would uot seem 8o new by nearly half a :unmrfl THE ORPHAN'S CLAIM, A Togal Judze sat on his thrane,— Great Alfrcd wae hin name, — That whom na wier, nobler King Tina honored England's famo; In war, in peaco, in daily life, 1l virtue waa'the same. One dnv. hia palace, rich and gran Wan fited with priest aud Thane, 2 Who, knowing well that Justico ruled, Preecnted euch his claim, And by the wisdom of the Judga Liach dld bis right obtatn, Of nl the hoat that gathered thore, Of warrlom great and bravo, Of hierous ofd aud battie-scarred (With here and there 8 kuave), The King obecrved ane Knight was gons, — The bravest of the brave. iy heart was smote with manly grics, A warrlor Wulf thx spake: *“The Earl of Holdornees is dead, And, ‘loss I do mistake, 11is nobie xpoure hias alva gona Her peace with God to make.* A rtorm of sorrow raged within King Alfrcd’s warlike breast, = For well he yel remembered hosy, By Danleh fous pppressed, e, through the ald of 1lulderness, 1y victory wus blessed. Bt ero his grlef conld bo exprossed, Or oulogy was spoken, Tho deathiiike ilence of the throng Tiy volce of Wulf was braken: “¢cront King rowand o falthfol Knlght, Who, both by deed sud tokeu, Aud by his prowess on th feld, Tlas proved bis faltl unbroken. ““Thn inany sears my bronet doth bear Tell how T'vo fonght fof thoo! . 3 Amd will you not confer, just King, Tho Eafl's estalo on mer " *!Nay, King, " broke forth Lord Thursten now, ++ A dtrougor elnfm fw minot "Twad 1 thut crosscd tho raging sca, And In that forcign climo, At _Danish Court, my wisdom wronght Greaut good for theo and thiue, " Bat, while theso men, Inurod to war, Reliearso thelr gallunt deeds, A toll-worn women enters in, — A lovoly bu{ sho leads, — And, bowing low at Alfred's foet, I'hin sorvant lady pleads: 440 gracious King, Trak of theo Tt Justice way bo done To thix poor child, now parentiess, Whose fatber bravely won The grent catatos, and houors too, . Iiu left hils only son. . *!There 18 no father to defend, No mothor to carses; And now, becauso they eannot . 14 th' arphan's claini the less?" Dut hiero u baughty Thane broke ferth, In tones of angry strasa: **1tis claim, forsooth! What! dostthon (hinh The King wauts babes like that, 0 When Danfsh fova aro on all sides, s battles to combat? But grant ho v the lawfal helr, Thoe lands to him be Tvvn. Whut could bie do to uld the flln’f’ ‘e d'd pray (o God in Heaven!® Chirped in tho blue-cyed orphan-boy, Who yet was scarco balf soven. Tho noble King and upright Judge Smillcd on the ttlo boy For i1 those pleading baby-eyos Wan truth withont alloy t Then spake tho Monarch to his Thanes, plhoguickly et lhelrnrl,r:ud' ‘0 have tholr salfish hopes now Or e confirined thelr fonta: +4Tho King will gladly give alt pretsy And dus roward to those Bowt faithful Kolzhts who served so well Agulust our Northern foes, Aud tuught the Danes, on many flalds, That, for our nany woes, Wo could return o natlun's wrath. 2 In heroes® stalwart blows, & #Tut, of tho claima on Moldernces, The orphan's is the first} And, it yonr Judge were baso enongh ‘I'hu bonds of right to burst, 4 . Tic'd tear that God wmight raiso the doad, Aud (hen, whon faco to faco, & ‘Thoy'd luok on ma the vilcst wref ‘Thatever ruled 8 race.” - ‘Wa thus bohold from Alfrod's heard Tho love of Juatico flow, - ‘ Avfii, gm dn p«uuhnug flv'l“ In war, 4y hoeds an orphan's wo & And sends a Tigh through Mist'ry's night X That will forover glow ; | B In ‘Ulme’s dark pit, Whers it was 1t 1 A thourand yvard ago, Fostonia, 0., May, 1878, Tax AaIwar, ———— . Ttusaln and Austria, London B ner, iy In the present strained conditlon of affairs be tween Hussia and Austria, 1t 1w o notable fach thy - Austrisn 'Lioutenant, Baron ‘Eri), has befs condoainud to ten years' (mprisunmont 'for . having . © kuld to tho Luseian wiltary attachoof (he Embrasy at Ve, Col. Moloatyolt, a umbet of plags o fortresicy, and othor fmportaut documents./ Thy i saa pali fo Ketl by Moloatolt was 80,000 fable. - Ertl liad led » dissolute lifo, snd i ardor to,bo ablc disentanglo himself from his embarraminente - und ta contluue bis lify of dissipation, dudscted ad |, , u spy for tho bonellt of the Rtussian "Governmunt, * * Among the plaus furnished . by Mm o « Moloatwofi - * Wore sovora) of tho castorn fortresses -of » ‘Thly ovcurzence bag creatod great soption L