Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 20, 1877, Page 7

“COUNTY PRINTING. dr Hesing Arpears Eefore the Com- e ;\itlco of the Board. enio Lich and 2r. Yeager Make o Lame Fs.. of Their Bills. A Controversy s to What Constitutes o fquare, o the Strals-Zeitung preferred fnst tle eoncerns which had pecn wrinting the provecdings of the County sourd undder vontract, el as the offidal organs of the “Ring " peciaioss of the pmblic Tre iy, Gene Lich was ong of the parties the (iarges applicd to, el Bie called on the Board toinvestigate the eharges, which wero in sul- stance that white the priul should Dave cost ahout $1,760 it had cost $000), ete. The inves tization was vrdered, and the whale malter was turned wver to the Committee on I'rint- . A weele Jater (be Commitice ot tosether and letenad to long and torwey Jaramptes on the part of the accused, i which they tried 1o % Lz the case out of court.” and dter several houra' seesion weie no wiser thun before Some weeke shiarges of [raud o THPR MFFTING wo 1 have been of nee of Me, A, yens lield yesterlug, wi the ame urder bt for e C Ho-Inz. who came, us T saldy 1o back up the Larwes the Aeituny,” It 43 searcel L erary to sy that he was an’ umwekome v wor, eaperdally to Livhy who nt the former Jicetine had ueen deffant wml Jowd i casting aspersioms wpon the Zeitung and its manager, Carroll did ot want to do anvtbing hecsuse of the abaenve of Mc oy amd Cleary, who, he core dodiging the guestion, Bat” olfmann par were whline to wrestic with the sub- 1, andd e lad to ve way to their preference. As roon as the Committee had been cullal to wrdery M, nEsING arose and eald he Wanted to take a etatement, gl thiat he v esent Lo nal ot traud which bk heen wadv, Tk been first called to the printing matl tie pubiication in the columns of Tue Uanuse that the amount paid for the printing for about uime months azgregated 39,000, He was sur- prisesd at the muount, for ke hnd done far more work fur the City Council ot the same order, and had charged fav less, e took the paing to examine the contract umler which the work Liad been done, und also some of the bills, and bevame satletied that the county had been ont- rageously swindled, and that it had palil twice ns much for the work as It ought to have done, e found that the contract was tull of Joup-holes, and to b appeared us if it had Leen drawn with no other purpose than to onen the do 1o corrnption and traud. It provide e85 cents nsquare or printing 1 asy but fwled (o designate what constltuted o quare, ur what type wh.ald sed. In the Zeitungy seven lines nonpancl or cight e nzate a square, and the e wus teue Tor ol the ‘¥ pupers, Lich's paper hadat the head of 1 ecditorial pige that sach was ius rule, yet he {Lich) hod set “the matter ju brevier type and weasuted It as agate, sllowing but four agato fines to the squure, The matter should Lave feen set i nonparlel type, and i measured as sther ndveritsenonts 1L woulil have cost about balf tie nmount {t had. Mr. Heslag then produced lutters from ull the city dailies, shuw- wg that the rule with them “was to allow seven lines nonputell or eight lnes agate spuce to square, While the contract did not specily the type to be uced or the Tines to the square, custom and usage, he eaid, lhad made cizht llnea wgate o square, and the fact was s oggnized by the business public i sdvertising, Wit had been sald of Lich und his paper conld Le safit of the other paper,—koth papers had the une rates, It was courazeons i them, 10t a3 frue that they bad {1t at hiberty to charge what they pleased, as had been said. " Thelr bills { been shamefully tnane out, and he had Tafled to sen suy uuinber of squares stated 1w them, or any indieation about them that the printloe had ever beenmeasured, The Printing Commlitee hid been guilty of gros C8ae ness, Loo, I nudithns the bills, for cvery one of them hal been paid without a sindle line teiuzs meanred. Amd fu the swindle there was wiotier feature which not been noted, When dven e contract he said Uit he was to publist the % proposals™ ab the sane rate thiat he did the procecdiues, ete, sl lie Kuew that thds was used as an ancument fn favor of antract. amone some of the ot Lieh's Lills eliowed, however, torall * proposals,” it Le mensured any matter atall, hie tad charred S1 o square - steud of Lhirty-five ¢ Dudd no daubt hut there was a big steal in this branch ol the cuse witlt both of the papers At the completion uf Mr. Heslng's statement HOUGE 1. YEAGLR, onc ol the a il touk the floor. e eald i thre lind be swindling the Committee had been U lers, of A party to the #windle, dor they had audited the bitls, e continued by readivg over alist of country—pntent fnside-—papers w hicl gave from elzht o twelve lnes to the squire, i tesputise Lo Mr. Hesiug's showlmr of waoat constitnted e reforred, hn tie couree ol further Ay o the Lact that mueh ot the printing done lizd been tabutar work, for which be was cntitled to two pr Tutgetling, however, nis cuBlract 1ur S5 venis per sqtiarc, Mr. HofDuann iaterrupted him with; “ How many Hues ol azate do you allow to the square to business men (" Mr. Yenger—idieht Hnes of ugate type. it to have d the Com- of the charees, but did nut. Mr. He L enlled attention to ™ TION BETURNN, h had been printed by both Lieb and er. He rald that there “was no authority fur duing tiat woris, ud that the job bt Leen given them that they might draw S50 or § (00 apleve (rom the public Treasury, whils the sume awiatter had been published §i' the other city papers - anuch Letter shape tn 0 matter of news, Inreference to the question of huw the work done hud been tessured, he said that an cmploye ol Licb' bl totd his that be lad ul- wiays gone to Yeuger's pajer to know what b Wis gomg to churgs befor Lieh's bl was mady out. " Thia mun bud tald bim that all “straighe? matter had been measure 8 of four linea ngate to the fgure-work two liues agute to th i Yeager had used minfon and Lieb brevier type, and meusured it ugate. Mr. Yeager replled that he could throw a locomotive through the contract, and had o rlght to charge what he pleased, L LIEN was next heard from. 'Ile question, he thought, wus what constituted o square, Tners was na Taw aking o square, and he thousht he had righit Lo X the bize of the squares on all gpecisl work, The proceedings ware speelal woris, uud he hud a rigit to elanee for their pablication without regard to lix published pates or the rules coverning other wavertis: e had scut to ‘cagger for his bitls, but, wnen fulormed that he measured four Hues szate to the aqare, e eubl hist wus not eroth, and 1 e lid nosasured that ain the county woulil ows about #21.5 yet. Jie fafted fo imdleate, howeyer, wpon wiat 1s D1 bk seasnged, but expressei i swilding- nesa to remcasitre the work on e lasls of Mx lines agate 1o the square, and give or takie, usthe result imlght be. My, Hesdi—1 want to ask o question, T have already stated to the Committes that Livh urlvertfsed o ryuare i ki baper to be seven Hines nonvarell, which 13 equal tu elzht lines of agate type— - Gen, Licb,—That Is true, [lien why i3 [t you inslst on only 0 county sl flues of gzate to the .llel) ur custom has been to give the elght Hnesd e, Lich—1 do not lustat; T elmply offer, Mr, Coilot, an adyertisiuz azent, stated that e had done advertising with Lieb, unid lind been Eiven the same spaco that uther papess i and that when he seat gu advertisetaent to any ot the clty papers und sked for ten squares Lig got elghey lnea. At this juncture tho Committec manifested a dlsposition to wijourn, but Yeager dissuaded them for & moment Inw piteous uppeal Lo dis- sy the chure He was tired 0! belng at- tacked, and thought the chatiees had voue far envugh, The Committee tually sdjourncd untii Wednedtay, Alter the adjournment M measure the table ot the prnting of which he Lili amounting 1o over §:40, Hesing had Yeager the lonretdrns, fo ger) had rendere . 1Els medsurcuent trured out a LN of 309, whils un ex- pert, ou the samo basis ol mewsurement, made It sbout §240, or, on the basls of il agate lnes Lo the squure, ubout #8120, The vro- ceedingy published Feb. 8, 1576, fu Lleh's paper, Were put Lun like test, and it fuuml that ke had charged for 13) squures, when by correct measurement he shuuld have charged for fity- six puares, ‘Tl fuvestigation ean searcely bo sald to bo any pearer o vonclusion than ft wus several weeka ugo 1t 13 predicted that ft wiil termnate in u whitewash, huwever glurimg the abuses iy be made to uppe e —— Teliglous Hatred (n tho Ioly Clty. Pl Mall Gasette, A wall-informed corrcspondent writcs to us: “The prescat atute uf Jerusalun sbows oo s rmall geals what thot of ‘Yurkev fn Furops woulid be It Russia occupied Buinaria, and niso proves the elicency ns n police furce of the repubar Taricda xrm?u. In the Holy City itis the tolerant protection of the Turkish roldiers ofticers which alonehiolds in e rival froo emunling Lo blows, and protects 3 1or the commaon hateed of a Jeow by rival Chitistiaus i3 not simaller than fhat of lew gnbde whom T employed o sure Lo be Killed I e wera o nto the Courchof the Moly retulebres and hiz unmistalasle terror when T urged him to enterwith me showed that he was fn carnest, Anv one who has been i the suered bailding ter knows how wolt ths Turks fulfil cir tevimg duty. The Reselans have, undee the g vent, bt n forfress outshie the wulls of Jeruzalen, und this commands the v, Allow LB i and sl will In_timo 1k Constantinople, When the * 8 thelr furtress wives s power over Jerusalem, anid then wou by tidde their rival Chrl-thans and the Jews! Would 1t be wtherwizo ns to thouse inhabitiug Turkey in Europet” e PERPETUAL MOTION. A Private Exhibition of Willlam Glassey's Machine, Detyalt Free Iyese, Baturday afternnon n private exhibition was given at No, 135 JetTerson avenue, by Willlam Glassey, of Lis so-called perpetunl-motion macaine. The machine stood In the middle of the room, Just where it was put together, and entirely open to fuspection. That operation was thoroughly performed before the exbibit wad made, Mr. Glassey, meanwhile, walking and pulllng bis pine nervousty and repeatedly sayIng to limscllz “Look earefully, gentlemen, and it's there, It you find It vou will say I liej if Jou, don't find It, but sec Ity you'li say 1 don't e, Atlnateverything wasready,and thiegreat Glns- ey walked up to his work confidently and with pewine dlguity. il subil Tie nolnting to 4 sinatl iron fork, whose prongs clasped L side of the fly whel, #4a the agent, 18, 1 muay say, deatine Placing s iy upon tie handie of the tork Lo lited It from the fly wheel, the ¢ poutd pendulus beldw besan Lo tate, e semi-creular pulleys nhove rockel 1o and I, th p eune i, tie balanceswheel clicked with o 1h i 1 avound cach othey and forthy and tie mach Fliere Tl been nu push, ot even o scrow T been funned, o spring Jud been touelied, il no lever diad teen puiled, and £l the thin 5 in uperation by the shople Jifting of a plete of Irom about elizht imches ong, with two pronzs about one-vighth of an inen thick. After the machine Lad been moving about five ndnntes, lm‘ lum: venturing to say auything, Mr, Glassey Bail: “As T remarked, this Is death ™ agatn point- Ing to the fork, *As mau lives so my ma- chine lives. Duath touctes mau and he “stop Death touches iy machine and it stops." Liin e fowesed tho frle il L wheals stapind moving inabout thirty seconds, Agun le lHted the forle, amd nguln the wachine worked, aul a it worked Glasaey discoieed about us fotlows: Wit fs eald perptual motion I8 sguluet the fundamental princples of suience, “ Who gays sol #Mun, “ How does man know? e luvestigates. “joud! “Jlus man carried investigation as far as possihlut “Na. “ond! ¢ lence, T eny, and my wark proves, that, so far ay mun had investiguted, the Mumlamentai rncdples of sclence, or, In other worde, Luclid, bius the construction of a relf-acting power. clid Jived centwies ago and Glassey still es, What 1s to foriid Investigation by 'y to disprove Bueld Thie reporter aaked if equal power applied by n person’s hamd Loany pact of the balnpee-whedl would not sop the inachine, nt which Mr. Glussey snkl: “Not quite, my boy, you're wroug. To prove his ussertiv, the ftventor usked any of the spectators to try Lo stop the machine, A gentlemen fully slx feet high and welghin about Y6 pounds secepted the fnvitation, and putting on a palr ot ;ixm'cs huncded bim by Mr. Millery plazed libs hand wpon the wheel, Grals ually he closed his fugers until he suddenly put forth al is strengsth, and althourrh ho stopped thy machine he (lf«l nut do o untll be had been nearly Tilted from his feet and was fairly purple witl excrtlon, As soun s bie loosened his hiold the waeel agaln began fts revolutions, sud the uudlence luone:d on 1o amszement, * Ol ves, L can be stopped,” said Mr, Glassey. 480 can you, by o muchine which has more strenztin than you, And when you ure releaseid your urafie will sturt you wzain. So will my inachine, It can be stopped, amd when relvased its rulns—polnting to tne sem-clrenlar pulleys —will start it nguin.” ‘Fhe exhibition continued for an hour or more, aml betore dismissing bis triends Me, Glassey +aid he should tnvite i comutitice of selentists and mechanies to cxumine the muchine, after which it should be allowed to start ftsclf, amd that the commities could thne with watches, and, 1 1t Just n seeond of tine during its move- ment of oue week, hie would acknowledye. that it wus wrongly constracted, and wonld begin oves agaln in the hope of remedylng the defect, o — CALL '* THE RESERVES,"” 70 tne Kditor of The Tribune, EvANsTON, Jan. 18,.—*“Now that the cancer of carruption Is cating {ts way so near to the vita) orguns of the body-politie, it were well, at whatever expense of persounal pain and party futerest, to submit to the shurp knlfe of reform, The surgean may not be o pleasant visitor, but most people prefer bin to grim death, Lot us call in the operator.—Chicago Tribune, Jan, 1, 1577, When I read these sentences of the able, dls- passfunate editorfal entitled * Loss of Faith in the Ballot” my refofelng thought was, * Here 5 w foeman worthy of our steel.”? Accordling to the usages of the press tourney, he will allow me to enter the lsts and tilt o free lance; henee Leome boldly, willlng to he worsted [n the come bat if 1 flichit not on theshde of Liberty, Country, and Lruth Hud the experiment of a genuine Republic ever been tried, It would then by in order to question whgther or no such w form of govern- ment was the best, or to dechdo that the ballot. wus o failure. Buch n government never yet existed,—* u government of the people, for the people, by the people During the past hundred years’ wo have been testing o govern- ment of the men, for the men, by the men, und some of us are resigned (o the fact that ihany are shout ready to say anen Lo it, With astrong tuith In_republicantsm, do we 1oL reeugnize some unmet want b onr Governe ment,—soie moral foree,—sotue Americn ele- ent to nentralize the forelun element,—soime peacetul element to neutralize the war-lke spirite 18w careful study of the Listories of vas ried natfons shall aceny 10 discluse such un ele- ent, ehail wo through prejudice refuse tosee | . History, sacred and protane, suctent and mnd- ety b conelisive on two polits: fieet, that the veaidiarly femlmno churacteristle fva talent for Rovernments sccond, thut all nations il wed {u cwvilization fn propurtion 0 the fice- v duin of woman, Doulitless, iny frst uroposition will be promptly disnated; but I:]xl Futo hisgors .:"'M ineut, Al through Lis wees womer and Fadthiutly istructed i i u)'x'.’.'é'fl'? and yet e y UvCr composed i great ohera oF orie torio, or tuken rank with tho old Iumu-rn Tn pulnting or seutpture; white, without specinl fius rtiuction I political teonothy or the selenee of wovernment, all througn thi azes she has dis- played great skill us u ruler—whethor it o Dedbworah fadging Isracl, and thereby fusuring to the war-scourged’ tribes * peace amd | rest for furty Cyears, or ous zaheth or Victorta In Evzland, Catherine of bren K Russfa, Ixabella of Custile (Wha placed her jow- clan tho ulmost discourgud ireo o and, b the name of wian, bade Colyibus i to the world Columblu), or tho fons Jie oL 1t wents b Ludia, Chiltia, and dapan, the whore remariuble reigns fs s coucleely und suggestively presented by John Sturt, Mil] from the Queen mother to the mother-Queen, women seem to bave governed the uatlonal faaitlies with perfect case, witile the lead of the how e Liold Was ubsent, Hizhting Lis batties, Luildiug bis temples, und eompusing s musie, X W hlult lu; l»cm(ghu. rul p'uh", of the states- mauship of our Governmentd Savery, W, 1 woman's revard un this susatingy C Wust Firat, Lowever, turn to her record fn England, Tu the' article Upon % Slavere ™ fo the. New Awerican Cyclopiedia wo teads In 1523 o So- ciety was forined for the mitization snd gradual abulition ot _stuvery througnoay the “British domiulont. The brincipad leade s in this new movernt were M. Cliekso, Se. Wilberforye, 4 Mr. Buxton About thby G upoeared & pamipblt, written by Elfzabeth ey, Quaher, snd entitied, “Twmedlate, Not Grad. ual, Abolithun.® Her views did nob ub firet com- mand the wssent of those Wha coutrolted tho operations uf the Society, Lut subscquent re flection aud discussion, usid the restatance of the Cutonlal autkoritics to cvery schome of amcliore ativn j1008¢d Ly Farllamcut, Soally led them almost ninanimously to the conclusion that she was richt, and they abandoned the doztrines of fir:dunuum to thuse of imincdiate emancipa- I ‘Turning to woman's record in otir own coun- try, we hnd that fn 838 four women we preaching and prophexving to this nation upon the evils of slavery, Frances Wrizht, Frne Ine L. ftose (a nativeof Poland), addressud larze nudicnces in € C.y ete, on “The Selence of Much rddienle way afmed at ber fn advanee of her coming, tnt wherever she cnine ghe conquered, aml our ableat stateainen were the first to conzratulate Dier and recognize the teuth, In May, 1587, & Natlonal Wouen's Anti-Slavery Conventlon was cailed o D York, in which elght States were represenied by seventy-one delegat In this ivention Angelina Grimke sppoiuted to prepare an appeal to the peo- Seof the Freb States, and u letter to Jobn lzuhwy Adams, thanking him for his rervices in defending the rlght of petition fur women. qualified with the regret that by expre himscll “adverse to the abolltion of slavery 1n the Distriet of Columbia,” he dld not sustain the eautsa of freedom and of God, *Eo finportant n part had women plared In the anti-rlavery cause that, when & world's conven- tion was called to meet In London, ainous the = regular delegates seot from the United States were Lucretia Mott, Mary Gresw, Klizabeth Cady Stanton, Alb Kimber, Ellzabeth Necle, Baral Pugh, Emily Window, Abby Southwick, and Anno Ureenc Phillips, But upon arriving in England theso women were senled seats in the Convention. The de- bate fn regard to thelr admission lasted an en- tire day. Danfel O'Connetl, Dr. Bowring, leonry B. Stanton, George Thomipson, and \Wendell Pislitps argued in valn for thelr almisslon, while Willlun Lloyd Garrison, althuugh the vast awlience were walting Lo greet him the gieat dion of the dny, sot dumb and silent, re- using to take his seat while women were thus frnorad. From that day untfi this American women, from Lydla Marfa Child to Harrlet Beecher Stowe fnclusive, have lbeen eafe counselors nFun thfs question, and the end is nnt yet. Men and women hase ridicaled; Presbyteries and Conferenees have protested; Bupreme Courts have {znored: and yet, turning neither to the right hand nor the left, the “coming womnan'' hus stcadily approached the ballut-hox. Even now the sty doors of old Harvard awing from thelr moorings; politial conyen tions weleome her to thelr platforms, while Euglishmen are_roused to enthusinsm when candldates for positions on thelr She s a recognized power in tLe temperance retorm, while thoughtful mien, who recognize the tnfitence of fmmoral women In Washinzton and the lobby, are reflecting upon the latent intluence of our good women as tbe only unrepresented fores in our Gouyv- croment. Not to plend the fustice of our clalm, not cven reminding you of the lesron learned from your, thut *‘tuxation without representation s tyrunny,' {n the name of liberty and country we plead with you to call in the reserves tefore agaln we are called to eacrifice the firat born of every houschold beeause you will not let His peaple go. Meanwhile we walt and_watch while our earnest prayers ascend to God for home and native land, Etizaserit BorSToN HARBERT. e— THE UTH'ERS]TY OF _I'ARIS. An Inetitutlon of {he Thirteanth Century--- Internutional Squabbles=-Tho Revival of Clussieal Learning, Lmion Saturday Reriew, The University of Varls comprised three hizh- er Faculities—those of Theolozy, Canon Law, and Medicine—and a fourth, whivh rankedlower, and was considered Introductory to the others, the Faculty of Arts. This was divided fnto four “natfons,"—=French, Norman, Picard, and En- gtish,—cach of whicli. with the exception of the Norman, was subdivided fnto ** provinces, and of theee, every one comprised a number of dio- ceses, The French pation Included the Provin- «en of Paris, Rbeims, Sens, Tours, ana Bourges, the Jast comprehiending all foreigners from the couth of Europe and all Orlentats, The English natlon had two ]u'nvlnru, of which ong was as- saned exclusively to the English, the other to all tho students Trom the north and east of Eurvpe. 1n the {l’nr 1331 an alteration took place, and the divialon of theEngifsh nation was nto three provinces—the Iigher Uerma tncluded not only the Germans of th and Blave, but, stran 0 £ the Swedes and Danes; the Lower German, which embraced Lothringen, 8axony, North Germany, aud a part, of the Setherianda]and the English, which was conflned to the present Grest ritain and Ireland, with the lslands thereto appertain- Ing. Toward the middlo of thetifteenth century tho cutire natlun was called German, and the dexhenation % Engllsh* diesppeared from the register, ‘That international squabbles were not merely nominal was a matterof course, and the year 1291 was rendered notable by a fizht for briority of rank between ths Plearus and the English, the latter Lasing thoir clatm vn ther aliegred higgher antiquity: the lortaer on the fact that thiey were onx‘uurny placed higher fn the 1st of nativus, and that they partially helonged to art in the strife, in which the lish were victorlous, Killing many Pleards and wtorminz theirhouses, An unonymous chronicler, lovking back un the cvent, gravely and judiclously remarks, *Sien it Uostude noult “empeschiee.”” Emcounters be- tween the studentsand dtizens weremuch more frequent, and one which oceurred earller in the thirteenth century than the battle above record- cd almost resulteil fn consequences fatal to the University, ‘Thia grand bistorial drama was in two aets.” In 1235 the Cardinal Legate, who was then residingln Parfs, and had decldedacontro- petween the University aud the Chupt heCathedral fu favor of tie Litter, was attackod by the students fu the Episcopal Valace, o the highest story of which be s comypellcd o seeis shelter, anid he would have suffured per- fonnl fil-treatinent had not an anmed foree: fi- terposed dn time, and arrested u consiverablo munber of the rieters. Four years afterward o party of students had an slicreatlon with the Keeper of o wine shop in the suburbs, in which they had the warst of it, belug put to fight by muie lhost and s neighbors, Returning, how- ever, on the lolluwluy day thev took the plue by storm, staved fu the barrels, broke whats ever caine within reach, and, disiersing about tho sticets, attacked whomsoever they met, without distiuction of sex, and wounded muny, This gave the lewent-Queen Blanche, who wits muchi (as seandalous v:wnm Lints too much) attachied to the Canviinal Legate, an opportunity of punlshing Lwo ottrages togethier.and she dls- patched the Provost to the scene of uctlon, who, Instead of fuvestigating the case, made an on- slauzht on the students, wherehy many lives were lo ‘The Universlty msel the cause of her ehitdren, and attempted to obtaln re- dresa but, ull effurts proving valn an extreme measure was ndopted; teachiors angd etudents alile seattered themeelves all over France, even migrated to Oxford and Cambridge, high reputation of their own Unlversity socurnng for them a waria reception curl\'\\lmre. After (he lapse of two years o recouclliution’ was ef- fected through the fnterposition of Pope Greg- ory 1X., and it may be remarked that the opes generally wero extremely fricndly to the nstitution. Asthe revival of classteal Tenrntug reached its hreight, the world-wile renown ol the Universlty of Paris faded oway, Puris Latin waa reparded as @ barbarous Jargon by cnthu- stastle students of autique Jore, and scholars of a new type were heard to complaln of the fgno- rance that prevalled throushout France, As thy central seat of scholustic tacology, the Univer- sity had, os we have seen, ativacted studenta from all Europe; and, when othier branches of learning had taken the plave of this, monopuly as gone. Even in its proudest days it ow Its fuine Jess to Freuchmen th: — e ——. PALMER'S RECORD To tha Kdltor of The Tridune, BroomiNutoy, IlL,Jan. 16.—1 did not think it possible, until witlin the last few days, tuat there was danger that Illinofs might be repre- teutedIn the United Btates Senate by such a mun as Falmer,~a man who, If the ecurrent urtny reports at the time were true, for Jealousy thwarted ay fmportant movetment of the Cnlon armics before Atlanta, aua thereby delayed the capture of that important polnt for a month. The circumstauces uf this casc were aa follows: Ou a certain day in 1564 (the exact date cav be ven If required), when Uen. Sliermun wus hefore Athunta, Gen. Schotleld was fu command of the Seventeenth Army Corps, forming the right wm‘: of the Union army. Pultaer was In command of the Fourteeuth Arny Corpe, on Senotleld’s left. Puluser, although ranking Gen, Schotield, was ordered to report to hin, that there might be w combined attack from these two corps upon the Rebel left, with the full ex- ln:s:uulun of the vaptury aud occupation of At- unta that doy, as the result of this combined attack, Although Paliner was ou the grouud desiguated ut 9 u. m., bo retused to report Lo Gen. Bchotleld, aud the 1wo army corps cuiise quently reamiued ftle during the duy, ond so lurt the golden opportunity thea f!l’tltlllfll of taking Atlauty, asé by evening the Hebels were fully prepurad to repulse the faint sud uscless LUK then wade. ‘Tl jealuusy and disobedicuco of orders (in the opiulun uf the arwy ut the time), aud conse- quent fallure to capture Atlanta, caused the loss of thousauds of betler patrivts than this won Palmer. That this statcmient and the army re- m of the timy sre true, is proved Ly the fuct afew days alter the occurences inentioncd which South, France. ‘The Profensors took 1 tu forelguers. Palmer was relleved ot hia command hy Jefl C. Davis, and was never heard of again as'a (ienc- ral of the Union army. Comnment {8 unncoes- sas. If thesc reports were Lruc, and they wero given full currency In the army at time, then Palmer, if he kad received his fust descrts, wotkl have been conrt-martmled aml prohibited from ever again hobling an oflice ol hotor o profit under this Goveenment, Glve us Lowan, who xtuck Ly the old flag as pel dicart coakd be viens grive us Ine I, whose fntellet would illuminat: the test pacee of our history: o, i ne Repub- ey give us Davie, Marrion, or whe will not Letey his”eounty for randizement. Thise facts are vouchd forby a AT OF CoMPANY 1, Une Hundred Fourth Tilinom Veluntecrs, st tlendidls THE STORY OF 'AI.NT- ZITA. Iinw & Genoess Kitehen-3nld Became the FPatron Stint of Cools, New York World. Tn the Itallan calendar—martyrologs, bead- roll, wlatever you please to call ft—there fan Balut Zita, and Saint Zita s the patron saint of conks and kitehen-malds, alnt Zita was a Genoese cook, devatad to her master and nistrcss,—stlil mare devoted to Hleaven and heavenly thingn, The peopleof the honse were hindly “fulk, Luldly well-to-do, aml not fuclived to meddie or i Tault with Zita co g a3 dinuer wos seady at the apholnted hour, tw wus an & complished cook, provably In vie- tue of her application to splritusi things, for the coukery of Genoa fs simply heliish, It {4, however, writtenthat we cannot sorve two masters, and so Zita, while servinz as falth- fully us shie inlhit Lier cartly Jords, sunctimes nugfcclctl lier Kitelien's carcs fur the care of her soul. She attended chirel as we might eay jne vetorately, awd with ail her siill and atte it sometlines happened that dinner was a few minutes late, or the roust was a trifle hurned, She promised not to offend agaby, aml was arain reinatated; besides then, &y now, gaod In Gu casily be repiaced noa, und’ sbo could” not Oue day Zita’s master and mistress gave n dinner, a rare, amemorable, s monusental thing i Genuuy aud she was commande] 10 surpas herzelf. Mising wt dawn, she went to market brought back two huge basketsof sl fleal, fowl, and fruit; then,—forit was so varly,—belore even kludifug o fire, bastened to the charch to #ay o prayer. Wiils on her knees, absorbed in tuedl- tation, ehe fell futo an cesta Masy was con- clutded, moon canie, hour aft hour she retnac) il kueding befure the altar witlh no thougat of tine, the carth, diner. Wien at last Zita, with a sizh, returned to herself and stepped from thie church, what her horror and sUrprise to sce the sun—sctil 1t was dimner-tine, and the v Lles were no even washed and'pared! She would be Igis- minfouely dilveu trom the bouse, and her ino- cent mauster would suffer dor Ler fault, Do cause, look you. they do not give dinner-partics without du¢ provocation at tieuvd, A dimner i3 agrave, an’ baportant, affaie for those who scive it, and lnteresting, unisual,and carious for those who eee it glven. What would the nefih- Lors say when, the guests befng asscmblud, there would be no dinner waiting for them ! ‘The hosts woull be sncered at, lampuoned, polnted ot in the streets, anl driven from socicty. She, too, woull be rulned, for huw could she ever find snotkier pla e alter leaving oue under such eircumstancest The humble and plous woman would not have minded loslue her plae—that was onlya just expration of her crime—,but tlat she” should have fuvolved fn the ealunity her cmployers (ki people, though Jax in ubserviuz tie status tory furts of the Church) this was terrible. Ar- rlved at the deor, shie was inclinedto tly, lut remembered ft was cowardly and unehri, to avold @ punishnicnt fo jus hiere was Do patron gant of coolis at ¢ and, being unable tu sclect one, she comy herrelf to leaven, viug for strength fo ble her to bear berafilictions, This done, shic humbly but resolutely entered the houee. On the kitchen step she pansed site odor of vooklng came 1o her nostribs, It cannot be, and it must," shie said to herzelf} “liner s In cotrse ot preparation. ‘The mistresy has snissed e aud given mic up—then sent for another miel, None the fess shiall T he dismiboe cd, but my funocent eiipluyers will not snifer,” Blie wlvanced a few steps turthes, aud drans n ggain thy perfect perfume, e anthor of thut stew,” ehe sald, * s up in_hev bu: 1hougnt m{.ul unapproa_bable,” elie ed, witha Nttle outhurst ot human fruflty, which was promptly represced, “hat that coolt is my equal.’” 8o saying she entered the hlichen. ‘Anshe did 80 slie heard a roft eound like the rustling of wings, Lut, sceinz no o, concinded that It was the dress o1 Lot ascomplishod st cessor, who was doubtiess niovinz about {n the pantry. The was lit, the stewpans were all at'work: frot cavh escaped un fneilable ira- grance, She Hited the Jids and tasted, 1 was wrongz,” she said, *in thinking that this cuols was 4 couk of my class. Slicisone the strings of whose apron I nm nut worthy to unloose, L never thought that wy art could have been carrled to such perfection. But where i the covk! How canruch nnartist expose such u Inner to befnz overdonel’t She gently fet the slmmeriug meats back from the fire, and then observed that the fire was neither red nor tlerce —It waos a lambent blue flame, with o fuint odor of Incense, More and more nmnazed, sho went up to the dining-room. The table was sct with cxquisite neatness, Well, Zita,” suld her mistress kindly, con- te llal'lng the table with pride, *is dlvoer ready (" 14 [x, Slgnora,” repliedithe mald; “dinner {s ready t serve, but I do nut sce anybody.” o see anylody! No, of course tiot, The eets are ot on the ter with your master, You and I are alone ju the houwe” ZIta pioched herself to bo quite sure she was not dreamirg., She served the dinner, It was o dinner that 11 They sl speak of 10 with cestasy and awe [n the 1amilies of thoee descended froiy the guests, where have been fatthtully preserved the traditions of jttor more tha two cens turles, Zatw had iad only to render thanks to Heaven, for, ax you will huve readily wuessed, the ungels had tutien poscsslon of the” plous wirl's KMtehen While she was in her rapture betore the ltar, What a pretty pretare it must lave been Lo zeo the dimpled chierubs (such as Murillo drew, without a doubt) hovering from Imu o poty with little aprons amd walte u}m, fintshilug the sauce: nlmll tastitis the dishes from the tips ut nk fing th 3! ) I8 the Story of Eaint Zito, as told to this day by the pions cooks of Genoa, whom, ulust no ungels ever aasiat, it AN e Br. Lincoln's Aurestry, Lasien Adeertiver, The Ton. Gidean Welles contributes to the January nimber of the Galary an article ou the Admlulstration of Abralian Lincoln, contafis sume futeresting and Dlitkerto unpite lished fnfornation about Lincoln's ancestr, Flils was n subject of which Lincoln cont his own lruoranc 0 10ah there died in Belle fonte, i, 1 Mrs. Luey Potter, who was o ereat- aunt of Prestdent Lincoln, HMer father, William Winters, was born fn 1925 and diedin 1 He emleratea dfrom Berks Couuty in Penn vanla to Ni herland, Bow Lyconing Co 1y, In 17, lud by two wives minet children, und there was aii Interval of forty-two yeurs bebween the birth of th thut of the youngest, Hia st wife, whotn be wmarried n 1545 1 the then Provinee of Virsink, { Col, Danulel Boone, By ber he had four ‘The_clde-t danzh. was Ann Boonie, 4 sister o the Kentucky pluncer, sons und Eoyen danehiters. ter, Hunmaly, married Abrabam Lineeln, grand- father of the Presitent, In Rockingham Count Virrinfs, e endgated th Koot fr whit It State he made n visit to his father-b-law in Pennsylvanty, and when he returned took with im i brother-fn-la 3 Nut Jongafterwand Lincoln was killed by the Dudiar Jeaving u gon § yeur old, v o becoine the fathe ot the Prestdent. Me, Willkun Wind niarsied hiy second wife, Ellen Cauphe from this unfun were born i daughters, of whom Livy, wh LWO yuars 50, wus the’ younwe After the death of Willtlam Winters Lis widuw wus licenred to keep o “house of entontuinment’ where Willtamsport now Is. “Bhere shie, lived and reared her own faree family and several of her step children. Her doughters eeem fo have been very fortunate in thar mian ’ kusbands of two of them became Ju Supreme Court of the State, and Lucy, the youngest, was the wite of W2 W. Potter,’ who dled while a member of Conzress fn 1833, She survived him thirty-sceven years, 1uin; widow. What £y néw fn these et ne- tion of the Winters fumily withthe Li which was not known to the Preside Welles says that he lias no doulit of tledty of the relation, aud that ancestry i this country, ps —Linceln, Boone and Winte to the County of Berks in Py FOIt SALE Woudidellvered b. Care i Citeoin or at Lhrec ditis, Mt duo Mtnixan. 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