Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 3, 1877, Page 12

THE CHICAGO iUROPE. The Republican Victory in the French Elec- tions, A Royal Mesalliance - Dra- matic and Musical Gos- sip of Paris, Terrible Sform in Great Britain --Death of *Champagne Charlie.” The London Rough at Tietjens' Fu- neral-—Commutation of Sen- tenoe in the Pengo Oases, The Musee at Berlin-==Prevalence of the Military Spirit in Germany. A Review by the Emperor---Bnl- let at the Opern-Houses-= Gocethe’s “ Faust.” Tho Orkneys--Life in an Out.of-the. ‘Way Corner of the World, TARIS. TIIE BLECTIONS OF OCT. 14 Specral Correspomience of The Tribune. Pants, France, Ucts 17.~0n the 9th of Octo- ber the Marshal Prestdent thought fit to lssue a second mansfesto, fn which he safd: * French- men, you wiil vote tor the candidates whom [ recommenid to vour tree suilrazes, Answer my apy favorably, and L, who am placed by the Constitution in a position which duty forods me toabandon, will answer for order and peace.” Well, nls call has been answered, and not ex- actly n the way he scems to have anticipated, By an immense majority France has proclalmed ancw that ST WILL HAVE A REPUDLIC, and that henceforth Dictators have no power over her free will, She has {otimated clearly and unmistakably that she witl bé triled by u knot of ambitious in- trizuerd, clerienl or not clerfeal; mod MM, de Broglie and Fourtou, who luve tor the last six months so brilltantly Hustrated Moral Imimorality and Onderly Disorder, have recelved the natfonal commard to decamp, #bag and baggage,” and to cumber the political ground no more. The principle of Coustitu- tluual as uppused to Personal Governmunt has been victoriously defended. Universal Sutleuve has been proved not only safe, hut consistent, Officlal candidature has been struck ut the very Licart, priestly Interference rebuked, Honapart~ f=m checked, and the foundations of true politie cul Hverty perhaps (ad enduriugly. Al this in the one clorious day of Oct. 14, when the ‘natlon, summoned After tive feverish months of agitation to ducide the fasuc of & wicked and needless quarrel, once more intrusted fts destinies to e very representatives whom Marshul MreNuhon, ins mumnent of foolish in- futuatien, had dismissed aud denounced as its encintes. Althoush the élection returus are still incom- vlete, o fulr estimate of the composition of the new Chamber tay now be hazarded. It will probably eontain about 3% Republicans of all shalesy 110 Bunapartists, 75 Royallsts, and 17 or 18 socalled Constitutionslists, who hover between the hostile parties, and make common cause with the one that seems to offer them the most profit. Thers 18, according to the above fimires, an upparent Joss of &t Republican scats; Lut, when the flouse ncets to control and de- vile ns to the validity of the rcturns, it is’ certain thut thirty or forty officiat s will be UNSHATED FOIL CORRUITION, In 1876 the majorlty of the Republicans was at first smaller tuan it vow is. ,The number 863 was ouly reached by the gradual cllunnatlon of Monarchists convicted of having secured thelr Tection by unfalr practices. In their present per, the Republicans are uot likely to be more tender thim in 1830, There I8 & report abroad (1 attach little fmportance to it) that I} olve on [nvalidating the return of t Deputies en masse, and, by pro- el sl clectlons, give thelr coustitu- enclen anntlier chunce of expressing Lheir fres will, undeterred by the oflicial inluences that have Jately ven at work, For iy part, 1 be- Yeve that the Repulitieans are too senaible to attempt aueh a thing, however strong be the ruasous they conld advance to justily it. Cer. tutn prominent eriminals—such as M. de Fourtou and a few uthers—inay be enlled tosoeotnt but the victurs will not persecute. dlnee May they b learnt o preat deal,- smongst other thingw, the wisilom of maderation. TRouuhly speaking, then, it i growing clear that the nmnerical “proportions of parties will remain ALMOST, I¥ NOT QUITE, THE SAMER as before the intemperate uet of Mayv 10, There Wik, however, be w mviked change fn the tone und feelivez ot the new Chamber, and & consid- evable difference of the morul wolzhit of the opponents, The Ytepublicans are enormotsly stremgethened by the hably of united wctlon} aud the menmory of bitter persecutiun will not tend to inake them yielding in unv watter thay gy sct thefr minds upon, On the ofier hand, the supvorters of the Prestdent, who were at the beat only bound together by the hatred of the common foe, will~must, in the natural caurse of politlcal L “be apeedily split up wgzuln intotheir component pusts of Hunapart ists, HRoyaliste,und * Constitutionsl Orleautsts, Nay, the process of disintegration has begun already, Each of Ue beaten parties in fayiug the blame o the others, ur consoling (tself tur its own de- feat by the thought of its allies’ discomtiture, “Rweet are the uses of adversity,” ‘The day of the clections, which, sconrding to sotne Lmorous and dishouest pruphiets, was Lo bave been warked by storim wnd bloodshed (4 good wany weak-minded tolks actustly fied Lo uvold them), pussed away Iu THE MOST HUMURUM PASUION, Most o the P'uris voters went to the urns early {0 the wornfuy, and, haviog thus dons their duty a3 pood citizens, hastened jute the country Lo cnjoy e warn stinebine and bright-bluo sky of 4 glorious October day. In the morbid hope of discovering traces of popular effervescenc suil- ul to “picturesque reporting,” 1 undertook su afternoun vovage of discovery in the working quarters of Sellevitle and Lavillette. 1 made myself very hot und very dusty, aiscovered a amallnrui bad swclls, but nothing particular esidva, ‘Towards cvening, large crowds begun to #atlier on the boulevards, and lu front of the chiel newspaper-oftices, at which the resuits of the elections were posted up ay lw.uthe’y catne tn There was & goud deal of # larking 7 Indulged w, but nothing whatever in the shape of disurder. A pumber of studouts from the (iuarllcr Latin_ assembled outside the ollice of the HMigarv, aud sang sarcastic choruses of de- Fisiot ‘us each Republican victory was tele- pravbied. M. Bucheroy, allaa 8t. Uenest, und othier yentlemen ou the Fygaro statl who have wiade themselves uupobular, were chatled most uuwercitully; but there was no attempt st wal- Feating thein whien they uiado thelr appearance at the wiudows. Late fn the eveuing, & strong body of police was told off to GUALD TUE UNUAFPY XDITORS, and cireulation fo the Rue Drouot was probiblt- «d. Perhiaps Lhe greatest crowd was in trout of 1he oltice of the Nouveau Journul,—a hull-penuy paper lutely started in the Conservative inter- The tirat Lelegrum recelved brought the ol Grevy's returo 1w the Ninth Arron. heseiuent, by 123,800 voles ugalust 5,500 given 10 Lis sutagoubst, M. Duguim, Ju 1970 M. Thiers, when opposed to this same Daguin (who 1s an ea-President ot the 'Inbuu:E“ul ‘ouierce), wuly polied sbout 10,000 votes, Thls makes thiy suciuss of M. Grevy peculiarly siznificant, 1t by as vet doubttul whether be will ™ elect to alt for Paris, or whether he will Krcrur Lis old cou- stituency oI the Jurs, where he hns also bren reiutbed. With the slugle exeeption of Ad- 1oirul Touchurd, fu the Entbtlh Arroudissewment, the Deputies elected fur Paris are Republicans, Aduural Touchasd fs 8 Royulist. Tu the Seventn Arrondbscuent, Dr, Frebault, whose seut scetge el rather sluky, dedeated M. Bartholow, o Bouas moral) ehmm(o TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1877-TWELVE PAGES. partiat. M. Gambetta had sn immense majord. ty over another sudacious Bonapartist, M. Pe ron, in the Twentieth Arrondicsement (Bel ville); aud in all the others the Repubilcans teiumphed easily. The abstentiona in Paris are fewer than in 1570, and the Republicans polled {:rnbnhly almost G0,000 votes mors than at the nst elections, There are no more INCONRIGINLE *'CLAQUEBURS "'— Anglice, **fokers”—than the Parisfans. All sorts of malicious fun was poked at the poor Marshal while the crawd waited for the news. Every now and then a’unuzman anxfous to get out uf an ““ugly rush '’ would be heard exclaim- Ing, * Alions, Messienys! DPas de pression!”—the famous line In MacMahon's first manlfesto, [ heard an (reeverent gamin, who had man: to «limb to a postof vantage inthe top of atree, an- swerthe request to**Getdown out of there "' by a dignificd *J'y suis, 'y vestefusqu' au boul,' —that still mure fanious device of the Presi- dent’s, adupted as » war-cry by his partisans. But the greatest bugueof all we owed to Emile de Glrardin. At about miduteht he Informed the pubide, at the villce of Zat France, that MM, de Fourtou, Decazes, Cassagnac, and Rouber had all been defeated. The news created the ntmost enthugiasm on the Boulevart, and sent the sale of the France uplike a rocket. A desperate rush was made at the kiosks to get caples of the paper. & saw numbersof it selllng for the must fancy prices, U centimes, 60 centlmes, in A few cuscs even 73 centimes were rnl(l unthinkingly by the publie, who, soon after his scnsational uews, began to seck their vir tuans pallets. At 2 the boulevands had resum- el something like thcle normal aspect, aud tn the morning we awoke to tind, wath much re-. et and some {ndiguation, that Emile de Girar- n had played as an iexcusable trivk., MAL de Fourtou, Rouler, Decazes, nnd Cassagnac hal all been elected, and (not to put too five a point on it} we were shametully ** sold,"” TUE NEW CHAMBER will misa several uf (ts best-known members when it assembles. On the Republican side, MM. Naquet, Prince Jerone Bonaparte, and ueaux have not been re-elected. These 1 8 ure {n W micasure counterbalanced by the returns of M. Bonnet-Duverdier at Lyons, M, Goblet at Amtens, amd M. Lalanne at uibourne. ‘The Bounapartists also lose scveral [amillar Deputies,—notably, M. Raoul Duval and Trstan Lambert, To the honor of the Depa wment of the Bar, M, de Maupas, the shan agent of the 21 of Decemlier, has been also sent tu the right-sbout. Unfortunately, the two Cassagnacs, father and son, will be free 10 wag their seurrilous tongues at Versallles again. Doubtless, though, gentle * Popul*! will be soou luvited to take up bisquarters inthe prison which he s dodzed g0 elfectually since lifs con- demnation in May. It s not yet possible to risk predictions as to what the luture reserves for us. Tle papers are quite at sea on the subject, and du not ven- ture on more than mutuul "recrimination. The ‘uwn und Undtera rejoice 1n thecheck sustained by the Bonapartists, and protess to cunsider the elections a4 satisactory to the Churchl The Ordre Is very wroth with tbe Rovalists, but affects eutislaction at the shight addiion to the Bouapartlst ranks. As to the Svieit and Moni- teur, they tind sume comfort (o the victory of Admiral “Touchard, but, ou the whole, contusel compromise. 0 Lays continues stupidl malignant; and the Franeaw, which 15 a comic paper . nly when M, de Broglie deigns to insplre ity declares that the 14th of October has given Mac)ahon a great mora) triumph]l To be sure, M. de Broglie has attached a ‘very peculir meaning tv the word * nioral ' lateiy | 1 wncline still to the bettef that the President will tey to PATCH UP A TRUCE with the Republicans by dismissing bis present advisers,—with the exception ot Uen. Berthawt, maybe,—and choosinie 2 Minlstry coupbsed of sucii ten s MM, Dutaure and Leou Renaul It 18 questiunable whether the exasperate jonity will sgree to stch a compromme, ‘They muy, however. I two munths there wonld, 1 thut cus, be u fresh crisis. 1t sounds fucredible thut, in the face of such # verdict as has been prouounced by the couns try, there ahiould stitl be men here who counsel resistance. Such s tho case, however, Nt onty does the Fays advise i, but, indirectly, so docs the Figaro, All danger of a coup d’etat Lua, therefore, not pussed uway even yet, nor wul it till the Presldent breaks with the schem- lug circle that puys interested court to bitn and his wilu in the salons of the Elysee. The evil must be killed at the root. 1118 PANTABTIC MAJESTY OF IT—) whose impending wmarrlage with o frall (but not tutr} deml-mendalne has kept tongues gossiping lately in soclety, high and low, has just invested 600,000 fruues (o a splendid hotel near the Pare Monceau, where it Is supposed that, after the liappy event, the ** Royal pale ™ will reside for sume time, This will give his Mujesty's leal hjects at homo some time to discuss the sub- Jjectof future supplics, aud allow . him to tide over tho lirst moments of disgust which might In the casa of leas phlegmatic Tolk have led to unpleasantness. 1 beliese I told you lna re- cent letter that the Queen Apparent, Mile. A—, was ouce & second-rate singer. A svoll- ng coutributor to the tJaulois tho other day re- marked that, as rezurded her volce, Mile, A——, might fitly be lkened to the rose; asto ler beauty, to'the nightingale. What will scandal- mougers not say ! DUAMATIC AND MUSICAL, ‘There is nothing very Important to chronlele in the way of theatrlcal uews set, The season will not fairly coinmence fora month. They sre play(ng the * Ftrangere’ at the Francals, with the original cast. At the Opera-Comlque, the latest novelty s the revival of Auber's sparkling * Damnts de fa Couronne,” with a debutante, Mme. Duprez, in the role of Cath- erine, Muie, Duprez'ls a relative of the great tonor. 8he has had but & qualiied success. A vevised and considerably sugmented edition of Qounod’s last work, *“Cing-Mars,” {8 promniesd for this weok or uext, Uounud has expauded the short but beauttful mtroduction into a reg- ular overture, Part of the bullet-mmusic is sup- pressed, together with the hunting-chorus st the end of Act I1L; und several airs, ditos, and uartets arcadded. To ke the transforma- tion romplete, the époken dinlogue has wiven place ta recitative. Thus altered, * Cing-Murs may have s better chance of succeedivg than on Ita lirat presentation In April. ‘The Lyrique hiaa revived Balvayre's ** Bravo,” also much ro- vised and cut. * Paul and Virzinia " reapoeared an the bills of the wune theatre yesterday, with Cavonl and Hellbronn in the title roles, Mdile. Ritrer, the original Viryiule, goes to tho Uperas Comlrsua We have just lesrnt the sad news that Theo- doro Barriere, the poct xnd druwnatlst, is dead, His “Filles de Marbres " and * Faux Bonw- hiommes" are amoug the most popular plays of the trench stage: and at this moment his last work, a side-splitting comedy-farce, enti- tied, * Lea Demolsclies de Montferinel! ale tructiog erowds to the Palals Royal, For some time betare Lis deatly, Theodure Barriers was aillicted with & painfu! {nfrmity of the eyes, which threstened to lave bliuded him had he lived. In hlm Paris loses ona of ber foremost drswatists, Hanny 8r. Micase. LONDON, A GRBAT sTORM, From Qur Own Oorrvapondent. Lonnay, Eng., Oct 18.—The sunimer is over. It was brief sud joyous. 'The culd winds came up 16w thoe ocesn, und witheral the leaves o the trees by (be roalside and in the parks. Last Sunday nlizht the stmosphere was struuge- Iy turbulent. The duy itsel! had beou excep- tionally fino,—~s mild sud tender wutumn-day,— but towards eveolug an wrmy uf dull, gray «louds began to gather on the cdge of the eky. The wind ruie, and they hurrded. When dark- uess wus sctting in, they bud spread thetr Wwings, and were sweeplug alons: in a mad fizht ‘Iie streets of Locdon were deserted; for peo- la here huve hud expertence, and know that, wheu the Btaro-Kiug 1s abroad, be rutties the tiles and chimuey-pots upon the hesds of his g subjecta with s total fmpartiality. [ stald indoors, but, s 1 heard the volee of the Rale, and Tooked out on the black mnight, 1 could nol bhelp & [eeling of uneasiness; for | winded me of un October Bunday night lu Chicsgo a fow years ago, wheo there wag the same disturbauca of the elements, only accompanied by the disaster of conflagration. But there was no fire-alarm through the watches of the night. Culy astrong wind, And it swept over this little fslsnd up. thl relegraphi-wires were luid low, uutil rilway- tracks were toro up, until church-steeplea fn- nuncrable were toppled over, and, w1 fact, uo- il a vast deal of daniage bad becu accowptlsh- ed. All the week the papers have been receiv. ing reports from different quarters of loss of 1ife and destructibo of property, ‘' CHAMPAGNS CHARLIE ™ {sdead. Itiwafuct. Not manyof your read- ers, [ nagine, who have beard the once-popular alr ground out of w!m.-x{ band-urgsus on every strect-coroer, of whistled by the matutinal uewsboy under their windows, bave supposed that the words of the song described a charucter i real 1ite. But lhei did, aud [ would like to speuk for him a few kiud words,—for bim who, in bils brief summer of extstence, but kind words ou bis lips, and whose fauits, awoug thoae wiio kuew m. were uore than tounterbalanced by bis many awiable qualities. Charles Thorpe came {nto this worl thisty- Tour years ago, being bor, as the uld kossios would asy, with a gold spoou in bis mouth, I his cme - was 8 pasticulasly had never any large spoon, too; dying, Te(t nlm fa_possesson of an Income of L£10,00—or, 1 American money, £ year. Of course he havd guantinns and truste to take care of his property untt! he came of nze, and to attend to the tazk of educating him for his profession in life, which in Enelaml s that of Leinir a gentleman, and In Amerlca of hcin?l rentleman-of-letsure. He was anapt puptl,—only a trifle too elever and sharp-witted, perhaps, for that particular brofessivn as it ls ag present practiced [n this country. As he grew older, this peculiarity of braln devetoped into an eccentricity swwhich caused him to prefer the rociety ot talented men to that of stupid men, He concefved a Mking for literature, aud fre- quented the well-known haunts of literary peo- ple un Fleet strect and the Strand for oftencr than the aristocratic drawing-rooms of the West End, The former are much maore ex- clusive than the latter, but Charlic's rocial qual- ities secured him admission to the charined uireles to which bis wealth alune would have Ueen ho passport, and to-day he has no sincerer mourncres than the artists, uctors, and suthors of London. The failing of this young man wae, that he had no self-control. Liking o sutial glass, he wasg too spt to _carry drinking to an extreme, and, his purse being unlimited, HI GENERALLY CHOSR CILAMPAGNE. Mence, a few ycars azo, when his exploita had beentold so often astomake him acomparatively well-known character about London, some one embalined bim in verse, and ** Charapagne Char- He” was long a favorite song st the music-lialls, He never likeq (t, and slways repudiated the idea that he was the original of the song, and his friends deny it to-day, in deference to his memory, Butit is true, nevertheless, and 1do not think there s any narm o telling it to you AcTOss the water, Well, he died a8 week,—died at the age of 3,—leaving no enemics. That can be safd of him: it eannot often be said uf people. Uf course, {t somebody (nfurcs vou und afterwards dies, vou ean say, ** Ile Is dead: I forzive him." ‘I'iat iden {8 frequently expres: But to have no encinles at when one dles Is bot~ fer yet. How much better than to hiave ‘them ‘come troopiug about onc's grave with pick and spade, and digging down until they tind some ol! animusity, sume unkind word, some petty malice or envy, and then to carry it ol reluctantly, saying, * Thero, tow, I'il take it back bechuse bo's dead and out of the way." I hisven't heard Just how ** Champagne Char- e came to his untimely end. A friend of his, to whom | propouaded the question, answere: me by tossing off 3 number ol {mozinary bum ers, lrmmlnnnyum the gestures by a melancholy nn-klutzu the head, Idid pot ask foran cx- planation. The papers have lately been talking again about that strange erenture, TilR LONDON ROUGM,— liaving for thelr text some of his latest exploits. A tew nights ago, he (b.f which pronoun | mean ope of hiw) eet upon a defenseless old man, out of pure playfulness, knocked hini down, kicked himy Inscnsible, and cheeefully pursued his evening-promenade, There was not the stight- et provocation for this act,--not even the hope of getting money from the old man, who was wretchedly poor. It was simply one of those spontancous nutbursts of enthustasm which are 0 characteristic of the London rough. [ had oc caslon to observe hitin closely—niore closely than [ desired—at Tietiens' Iuncral. The arrange- ments for the obsequics of the ereat singer were scamlalously fucomplete. Tickets were fssued, it I true;’but of what use were the tickets when every avatlable corner of the churchyard wus pre-empted by the populace. Only two or three policemen were present, and they hnd a very bazy notfon of what . their duties “should be. It ‘'was with ditficulty that the cortege made its way (nto the cemetery, and mourners and triends were jostled aguinst and mixed u) with the offscourings of the nelghbortwod. Muuy {ntimate friends of the deceased were quite unable to get within sizht of the grave, und wreaths that had been destined to llc on the cotlin were crished or plucked to pleces by the mob. Meanwiile the London rough peeched himeelf on gravestones, on the wall, on the for his father, palings of tombs, and eyed the scene with leclings of great Joy and grat- Afication. bave often thonuht, when reading of the deeds of the Bashi-Bazouks and Circussluns in the Russo-Turkish war, that, if England would let loose the London rough upon_any Continental cnumr{, his exploits would pale the lustre of the Moslem savayves. As has been accurstely pointed out by sume newstupers, the rough is not a person of fixed vccupation, Helisa Bedoutn, o tramp, It 1s but nutural that London, with its 4,000,000 of fuliabitants, (ts 09,000 paupers, should have s largo cinss of idlers and loafers. ‘They can live with lttlo exertion, | at a lodging. Toeir be: touse costa them a peuny: thelr clothing may be set down as nil, so far as regards cost themnselves: and, as to food, they take their chances,—one of the three ciances koown as Begy Borrow, or Steal. THE VENGE CASE has at Inst reached a Hefinito fssue. convivts, who were all sentenced to be hung, are to be imprisoued for life. There have been murder-trials before nuw which have excited un ual degreo of interest In the public mind, but ver has the vendiet of a jury received so much outapoken condenitiation. Public meetings bave bevn beld, and, for the past fortnleht, people who cared wothing for the Penge cuse have been Lothered by having had buge petitions thrust in thelr fuces at every restaurant and club, witha request for their signatures, Public oplujon is umtoubtedly a great lever with otliclals.of Gov- eruuent, and Mr. Cross, the Home-Secretary, was not slothful in heeding ita call, Probably more than to suy other single Individual the four courlcts owe thelr lives to Mz, Chatles Reade, who has interested himself in them to s degree that 18 extraordinary even for that very eceentric novellst. e has written a succession of able letters Lo the ’l'«q)m{zh, fuulur forth every Imaginable plea {n behalf of the Staun- tovs. You imay cxpect to hear soon that be is enguged upun » oew novel with the Penge cuse lur a basis, é The four TIHE OLD WORLD, GLEANINGS OF AN MLDER WOMAN FIEREM, Bpectal Correspendence of The ne, Beari, October, 1877.—Back to Berlin by sleeping-carriage. A German conductor, quite a8 tabby and puss-like as our Pallman Iricuds at home. Tollet-arraugements and towels, as in our own curs; and offers of early breakfast, which we do not accept, Arriving in Berlin, wescttle ourselves in u anug room at the Thler- xarten Hotel, aud busy ourselves with the sights of the city, First among these comes TUK MUSKE, or collection of paiutinis and sculpture,~richer n tho lutter thun in the former departmeny. The Dutch aud early Ttsllan pletures are (nter esting. Amung the former are several Rem- bruudts, Holbelns, snd Quentln Matsys. But the Berlin gallery does not mnk with those wa have already seen and describei ‘Tne halls of sculpture possess s miore unique intervet, and inciude s great variety of genuine works of sll periods,—Assyrian, Greck, Egyptisu, and Homan, A bronze figuro of a youth iu the wttitude of sdomtlon, found (o the ‘Iber, was purchased by Frederick the Great for 10,000 thaters. It 15 cousidered the fluest statue In the collection. A head of Jullus Casar In bronze, with eyes of bluck and white warble, (s very striking, and makes an iu- pression not easlly forgutien. Aad tliera aro Assyriap slubs, with thelr stallow rellefs, and Inscrtptions {u wrowhead churscter; aud KEgypt- tan gods und guddesses, fo all thelr moustrosd ty. There are sume worlderful casts of wmarbles found st Olywupts, in 1575, In excavations ouder taken by the Uerman Governwment. The most jmportaut of thess s a headless and armless fzure of Nike, or Victory, which stands vna lofty trilateral pedestal. The Luoyant, sprug ing effcct of this statue {s very remarkable, Its druped and wutilated form 18 of the cxiremest beauty. It bears, too, the uatne of tha (ireek artist who gave it iife and form, Paionos of Mende, thie sasistaut of Flidias, THE BUILDINU o which thelr treasures ure displayed is spa- «cious, and imagnificent both lu architécture and adornment. Eruul One Of ity greal stuircases you see Kaulbach's famous picture of the thine of the Refurination, whuie powerful drawing aud groupiug are kyown to mauy in Americs through the cartoon exbibited w Boston. In Wi uew Musce, which 1s au extension of the old, maoy sutiquitics are preserved, Among these ure & nusaber of articles which formed the camp-equipage of 8 Romun General, and which were excavated, uot lung since, from a tield near Hildesbui, where s battle 1s known to bave taken place between the Teutous and the Ro- wans. These urticles are all o sliver; they cun- sixt of dishies, plates, cups, sud two large ves- sels,—oue probubly @ winecooler, the otber for soume culinary purpose, There ure 250 severul sllver s3ucepaus winck a modern cordon-Wew woulduot depise. The plates are long and nur- row jushape; there are Uiree of euch set. The dnuking-cups are Gucly wrought, ‘The gallery of modern pictures §s very Intor- csting. Que i3 klad to see this protest of the Besutiful in anilitary Beribn, whers hearts ale ost secin 1o beat Lo the rhivibm uf the martia) drum. The gallery, 1t 18 true, is sumewhat de, formed by Whe cudicss pictures of the Gerwau® trivupbis “lu the ware of the last decude, sud especially of the defeats which cost Fruuco Al- sace uud Lorralpe, But, besides tbese, which are glaring sod losoleuts thuse wre wauy plot ures which should give the German sehool an honorable place In the art-records of our tine.’ To a strancer, the tone of hich soclety (n Uer- many to-day seems bristling with the SPIRIT OF OFFENIIVE WARPARE. The Immensc srmy, with its great and un- roductive expense, scems to be the chief ob- ect of interest and source of confldence. Na- polcon once said that an army (s an animal which walks uporf its belly. lie did not say that {t 18 an animal which muast cither devastate forsign conntries or derour fts own. The Ger: man army to<iay ts oblzed to content ftself with the latter course. One easily under- stands, however, that a very small pre- texst would be welcomea U it should render possible the former. ermany e, therefore, a bad neighbor ta the great European family, Its chief spite. of course, Is agatnss the enemy_which [t has the most cruelly de- spofted, Exposed by ner torm of government, ond enfecbled by her great losses, France scems to Germany the essiest and most legitimate prer. Does any one tops that any couutry in Furope would artae to help her In her need ! The sclfish fear leat Germany should grow too great might operate In her favor; never the gencrous fear lest Frauce might grow too small. During the laat twenty-five years, Germany has had important military successes, Let her con- sider whether these do not tmply moral fallures. The phrase * United liermany I8 thought to suversede the need of all turther apology, But it becomes Europe to ask * How united t—for ood or for evill” When every creature In lermany capable of expressing an opinfon shricks that France must be crushed for the vomfort of Germany, one's mind nammllg re- fers to all those historic acta of violence which, however succesaful at the tine, recoil tu the end to allict the devastator with the desolation which he himself has caused. But let us turn from speculation to observa- tlon, We were spectators of A GREAT REVIEW which took place just outside of Berlin, A friend had procured us tickets admitting us to the grounils, but, In order to profit by these, we were obliged to leave our hotel at 8 o'cluck in the morning. Oo arriving st the place desiz- nated, we found a mounted pulles charged with the vusiness of ranging the carrtages into line. As ours was one of the tirst, an excellent place was ussigued us, Thers we waited long and bunerily, having bad time ounly to take a cup of collee before our departure, After an hour, or something more, the troops began to arrive. The men did not march. but sralked together without rhythm of auy kind. The varicties of upiform would be endiess to mention. The handsomest, perliaps, was that of the Guards of the f{uusehold, which was blue with a good desl of white and silver, surmounted by a sliver Lelmet with wings at top. A party of’ Gerinan ladies in our Immediate neighborbood pointed out to us the varfous regiments as thes arrived upon the feld. The chicl officers made thelr appearance @ Mttle later, ev- ery regiment saluting its Col- onet with & “Guten Sorgen,"~"Good worniog,"—wllich had a bearty and friendly sound. The Interest of our German fricuds in thescene seemed futense. Grenadiers, dragoons, culrassiers, horse and (oot soldiers,—they knew the name of every department of this great military display. ¢ The Red Uhlans, there they are; but where are the Yeliow Uhlansi™ * Why does Col, 8o-aud-s0 ride alone?” “Ah! there fa Uen, ="' These phruses wive an fdea of thelr conversation. Many stalwart cousius, uncles, aud nm‘xjmlnlnncu rrayed ‘In every color of the rainbow, rode up on well-groomed horses to exchange greetings with their fair relatives, We saw a boy of 10 years alight from a handsome barouchs. Severul attendants were with him, of whom oue siuve him his chupeau, another fastened on his sword, s third admin- istered the (nishing touch. This lm{ was & young Prince, already officer in a certain regi- ment, and this toilet prepared him for mlrchxng with his . command. This spectacle reminde. one of certain pletures which represent Cupld sharpeniug hils arrows, But toe Uerman Cupid of to-dny tis four syllables to his aame, and shiould be catled * Cuplidity,” In tbe midst of this excitement THR EMPEHOR CAME, on boreeback, in full uniform, and galloping yery gallantly for s man of s advanced age, With hln rode the Crown-Princess, Victoria's daughter, clud, except as to the skirt, In the uniform of a Hussar regiment of which she s the Colonel, Her cav und jacket were exceed- ingly becoming, as was o broad sear! or badge which sho wore acroes the corsage of her dresa, The Empress inade her appearance in an open carringe, druwn by six lorses, As suon as the Tmperial party had taken up their position, the various rows of carrlages, under tho direction of the mounted pollce, executed u sort of volte-face and lunk movement, which presently brought ud, with the rest, into s much nearer proximity to the spot where these wreat people sat _on thelr borses and In thelr fll"‘immll. Now came the glitter and bravery of the review, Hewiment alter regi- ment, horse aud foot, each with its staff of ofll- vers and {ts Land, marched in turn before the Emperor. The military wuasle was exceedingly good, The buande of the cavalry reglmenta were mounted, of vourse, und wa wers amuscd to abserve the kettle<lrummer, holding a drum- stick in cither band, the horse’s relus bely passed over the nder’s fect, and the anim zuided fn Lhis way, ‘The lg:chlcle of the march- e aud taneuyres soon became very mototo- pous. The motley colurs wearled our eyes, the loud and Interrupted harmonles our cars. — We were glad when the last regiment had made Its mdvement, aud when we were at liberty to go. TILB DRESS-REQUISITIONS of the German arny are, wo are told, very se- vere, Ollcers must never appear otherwise thun In untforn, sud MUt never carry an Wm- brella, ‘They must vever bo seen in any gare went which looks at all the worse for wear, In consequenve of these ordinances aud customs, then Flm. Lecumes very costly in proportion to thelr pay. They often run in debt, und cunnot murry utiless they pussess a fortune of thelr uwy, or thud for themselves u wife with a sufll- cient dower, [t secins & coosistent feature In this Mun's country that so much inoney shonld be devoted to the brilliant clothing of the wen, leaving less thun in other countrics for the adorunient of the women, A well-known feature of the Govermuent 1a the oblipation fm. posed upon every abie-bodled wale citizen to eu- ter the army ut the age of 13, and tu continue in It three years, Soule exceutions, we ticur, ure mado t0 this rulls; but even with these, it atfects by fur the greater vufl. ol the wmale populativu, 8o the chalu of inllitary despotisin (s complete 1o Prussta, 'The result is o burburous and cruel society, iu which dueting Is encouraged, and in which the savage wvusures which Christendom to-duy repels as inhuimun ars upheld as worer aud salutary, Prussian otficers boast of Laving burned whole villuges fu the Frunco-Prussian war, Lo avengo a single shot fired by a frame tireur In defouse of his nutive soll. You will a5k whether the volve of the women is never Talsed fu protest againet this state of thimee, We may answer that i UGerinauy the women have po volce. A womlan trous s free wuwd peace-loving country can unly shaKe ber head wadly, sud ask, **O Lord! tow loug!" Un the iicllh"ll{ of the duy appuinted for the Teview, a special entertalnment wus vrdered by the Emrcrur st the Opara-House, fur the amuso went of s oisny offivers. Thls consisted of a ballet, in wbich rauch besutiful scenery wus dis- pl:ved togethier with wuch effective grouplin, und toferuble dunciog. ‘e Louse was tlled with men 1o uniforn. The Emperor wml Eupress attended, not in thefr wtate, but iu thels private box, We wers preseut ob this wceaslon, aud bad & reasonubly good view of their Malesties, aud slav of Uei. Vuu Moltke, The Fispress was dressed fu light-blue sutin, with as elaburste cuiffure of fowers and feath. cru, Blie hus beeu hsudsouie, hut peopls secin 10 wish that alie would furget (6 A VEKFURMANCE OF GORINE'S * rausST at the principal theatre s the only thing left for us tu chronlcle to Merlin, This, though very tedlous tu the first act, un secuunt ol 1ts endleds munologue, was yot » most complete and iuter- estiug performai The stue-ariuugerment were pemiarhkuble,—-the shoitest sceues Lo miven with entlre Hdelity, ‘The tality of w great soul uade Ml fely throughout the varied diwng, und Grech- ea’s deatls without further appearsive was fur better than the opers upotheusis 16 which she i» varried up to Heaven Uuetbie einds Lie story this slmple, sinmng wench with thy sentence, Vie sl yerellel,’—*Bho 13 saved.”" Aud this drops a curtabin oferescrve und inyalery vver her sud ashes which i at once deeper sud mure de- cent than the usual shallow gloriication. Alter somu severe, but lnevitable, eriticiam of wanners and customs tuthe Germany of to-day, oue s glad to o buck to the literary glories which are uow obscured by the Husiug torch of wilitary enthtustasm. Far above this red, no- vertain hehit, in her cultn depths of thought, Faust, llorhhlo, wnd retchen remaln, o tine tritogy of linman passion, Lo endusre su luug us Poetry bersell-whall eudure. JuLta Wasp Hows. THE ORKNEYS, LIFRIN AN OURORTUR WAT CORNER OF B Bpecias Corrempondence of Ths Tridime. Haway, Urkuey, September, 1877.—Many times duriog these cool days, as I have sat by the fireslde, or roamed about thickly clad, have my thoughits turued towards friends in Awer- lca, who, § koew, werv sweltering ta the * dog- day" beat. Nothiog of the kind fs kuown bere. There is ever & bruciog aud fuvigorating com- binatton of Jand sud sea Lrecze, which readers sumuer in Orkuey yuite charwiog to ons wishe fug to avold the enervatiog heat of Coutluvental citles. 1t istoy privilege to be the guest of an old Urkuey family, asd, i thelr qulet, com- fortable, well-regulated house, every oppor- tunity ta afforded wme for learning Orcadian ways. Thelr hospitality is unbounded, both tn oarlor and kitchen; snd wot a person gocs trom their doors either cold or hungry, [t seems to me (mpossible that the word * hur- ry" can be included in hefr vocabulary,— everything, both on the farm and (n she house, being done n THE MOST MODERATS MANNER POSSIDLA, Still, there 18 no neglect; all comes out imor- der, and At the right time. This cool, quiet manuer ia characteristic of all the tnhabitants, and ts, 1 suppose, chiefly owing to their climate, —there being nothing in it to impart nervous. ness. In this house threa servants are required sor work which ane would do in America, and not because they Are 1dle, but simply because ot their moaeration, and the same 18 the case with the farm-hande. 1t 18 the delight of these good people to show to thetr visitors the anttquitics and curtositicsof thetr tsland-home, and not a day passes in which wedonot explore some (nteresting locality. The post-roads are of the same excellent order a8 all those of Britain; and over them we drive 1n & comfortable carriage. But often our sxcur- ston leads us where carriages cannot go, sad at such times a common (arm-cart, with bundles of straw arpanged for seats;{s brought into requisition, and we pass most comfortably over the raugh places. This i8 not an uucommon way of travellng here.—such equ'pages being often seen on_a narket-day wending their way to Kirkwall. ‘The low rate” of speed iight ba au objection to some, but one has one's own legs to fall back upon when (n baste, The tong twilight of the summer-eventugs, which extends to midnight, and mineles with that of the coming dJay, adids another charm here, and renders It quite necdlessto hasten our return from our various trips. But, of the re- turn to the bright, clicerful Gre of tne fumily dining-room, the cordial welcome snd the good cheer awaiting us, how can I give your readers an nlequate kleat They must turn to Sir Wal- ter Scott's descriptions of such vccastons, and DELIEVE TIIEM NOT OVERDRAWN, ‘There are in Haway several lairds ttke my tost, cultivating thelt own farms and living 1 comf{ortable Independence. Thelr houses are large, square, stone structures, built rather with an idea to the sweeping winds of winter than to beauty: there are, however, seversl which are really elegant, One, which stands quite prominently out to view near Kirkwall,is & reproduction of * Abbotsford,” The cottagers and laborers still live as of old In emall, primt- tive, miserable huts. Peat-stacks and pour out- houses are huddled together before them, and not unfrequently cows and calves aro guartered with the famlly. In manvof these wretctied abodes of man and beast, the peat-Ure 18 built in the middicof the uay Buor, and the smoke escapes through s liole fu the thatehed roof, which serves afso for sdmitting Jight. There are gever more than two apartménts, like the Sbut ' and the **ben " of the poor httle housea of laborers in Sevtland. Uoun . entering une of these huts, I was uvablo to distinguish a single object for scveral seconds, until my e{u becans somewhat accustomed to the dim, smoky lght.. The inmate of the dwelling was the plcture of coutentuent, and looked upon her visitor **from America ™ witn apparent in- terest aud curionity, This old woman and her teoo M live u‘rnn terms of it Iriendling The large landbolders havo In some instances attempted to improve the state of these people by building them comfortable houses, but they tind them quite unwilling to give up the old hunes. These pnor abodes are not In the -lesst an In- dlcation of poverty, for the peasantry are A PRUGAL, TURIPTY PEQPLE, and * look out well fur a_rainy day.” Most of those who live in the wretched way L have de- scribed, and who hardly over eat any other food than what they make (rom oatmeal, have, [ am assurcd, snug sus deposited in the banks of Kirkwall and Stromuess, Theyare rarely un- able to read and write, and are rooted and erounded In the hlsu:rr atd doctrines of the Bible. Sunday 18 kept In the strictest manner, No matter what the weather, troops of men, women, and children are to be ecen coming up from bill and dale, with faces set church. ward, wnd, once they have entered upon the services of the sanctuary, the deepest Iuterest (s manifestud. They are a lmrlc cone tented people, and know bue little o what ts golng ot in the world; neither do they care to estend thelr knowledge. There are many old people, it 18 sald, who have never been Into clther of the chiel towns, although within easy walking distance. Within the lust thirty years, farming has un- dergone s great change; the old-fashioned im. plements bave been vanlshed, to a great extent, and upon oearly all tho farms work {s done In the most modera and approved style. [n sume cuses, they sre so [ar advanced ‘as to employ steam, ‘The bardler kinds of graln are ralsed tn great abundance, Gruzing Is carried vn guite extensively, and cattle to the number of 10,000 head are annuaily exported, and they are most- ly of a superior class of stock. [u the little matter of ecys, s business to the amount of £20,000 sterling a year |s done, Steam conununication with England and Scot- land bas wrought - A MIOOTY COANGE in the business-allalrs of the (slands, Time was when 80 little was known of therest of the Kingdun, that, for three months after James 11, was settled at Bt. (iermain’s, the good peo~ plo bere continned to put up In their churches the usual prayer for bis Majeaty! During the summer mounths there is & bi- weukly stesier from Edinburie and Aberdeen; also o littlo mail-steamer Slylng dally between the north of Scotland aud Stromness,” (o win- ter, It often bappens that (or duys the Peutland {s linpassable for the little steaner; and then, wo to the man who depends upon his dally Landon or Edinburg paper. No news frow ths outer world, aud ho {s dull eoough, A fow years sluce, when gale saceceded gale for three Weeks, not one word was recelved from the south during the whole time; sud, at the end, there came to a friend here his London Times for the lust twenty-vne dsys, and he pladly sat down to the reading of them! The winters are not extreinely cold, aa we arc wont to imagine; for the stwosphere fs temper- ed by the intluences of the Gulf Stream; but wlm(n rage to such ai extent that out-of-door employment Is nearly ltnpussible, and il things wiust O securety unchored, or blown uway. The picture must be disinal, indeed, when the hills anu luid aside their royal purple wmautle of heather, and Luve taken on the black cost which they wear in winter, when the sun riscs past O o'clock and sets « little ufter 3, and shows his lface even thew but varely; and when the wind ruurs 2 1f all.the artiliery of both hieaven aud carth were bropght into actlun. Burely, sothiog but the brightost lireaide, and the best of com- pany {u the way of peoply or buuks, can make It endurable. The bare thought of Iife in the cote tages is enough to give vna the horrors. het ¢ yet many things of great (oterest ce. There ard Druldical rewaius, and rulus of the castles of the Vikings, on several of the lalands, Orkuey 18 far vicher ln such curiodlties thau is generally supposed, and for the sutiquerian therw are rarg treats 11 Lese torthern lales, Ossanynn. THE STORY. ‘They mel each other i th g lifled up ber ayes: Aluck the day! alack the maidi Hhie biushed with swift surprise. Alual aias) the wo that coines from Hiing up the ayce The pat) was full, the path wa He reached Lo ber his hand: 8he felt her warun young pulses leap, Jiut did not uudurstand. Alsal alae! the wo Llst cumes from clssping hand with baud. 8ha eat beslde him in the woou—~ lie woued with words snd sighs: . A1 luve 1n Bpriug sesius sweel snd good, And wiatdeus are uul wise. Alaal I.‘h.:. t the wo thal cumnes from Listing lover's #ig! The Summer-sun shooe tuirly down, ‘Tae wind blew frous the Soutb: As bius eyes gased 13 eyes Of brown, Jus kins feil v bes uivuth. Alsst .lu'lm\hn wu thet comes from kisses on \be wouth, cakly ite the ung day, Alus! slus! fus breaking hearts when lovers tove »way, Eiis Wassiza. _ THE PRESENT. ‘Tell me not of Life's xlad Spnogtime, For It causes toars Lo tlow; 18 bas yanisved, sud furever—- Died with Wove, O lvagsgol Bygone days to e were Hesven; ut § w o Ui Wit 1ts woes, were leit bohiud. O tbe dreary, dreaty Present, Wih m"c'lmln?nnlh #o reall Lift, O life the veil of Fulure, And its secruts we revesl. 1t tho Futare—God forgive mel— 18 to be as life is Bow, Then 1 would the dread destroyer Boon would strike the facal blow. T A, Oazonxs, WASHINGTON CITY. How the City Has Been Improved in the Last Few < Years. Public Improvemonts that Are Comprehensive and Ex- cellent. Evidences, However, that the Pat- tern Was Larger than the Cloth. \What the People of the City Think of Ex-**Boss” Slepherd. The Political Atmosphera of Washington Decidedly Oloudy.* Thruumd‘ Opposition to the Policy of the President, An Attempt to Analyze the Ele- ments of Opposition, Spectal Correspondenee af The Tribune, New Yorg, Oct. 31.—I have recently been spending some time In Washington, a city which I had not previously visited in seven years, The marked improvement to be observed 1n all ddirections s something wonderful. \Washing- ton has suddenly developed Into one of the most beautiful atles in the country, abounding in wide, besutiful, and well-paved streets, lined with elcgant and costly residences of varied and attractive styles of architecture. Tne growthof the city under this liberal system of city Im- provement has been remarkable. Gentlemen of wealth, culture, and refinement bave selected Washington for -their winter-nomes, anyd have erected for themselves residences correspond- ing with the positions which they occupy. Many of thesa gentlemen are Senators or Representatives In Congress, others are copnected with the Administration In some of {ts depurtments, while others are fnduced to make that city their homea be- cause of ity clegant soclety and the fucilities it atfords for uningilng with “the refined and culs tured foretiruers who are atiracted, um\-lullx or s 3 -otherwise, to the seat of Government, consequelice, \WWashington can probubly boastaf more olegant and custly residences than any other city in the Unton. * But, nevertheless, a stranger driving about tts streets, while favora- bly impressed with wost tbat he aees, cannot {atl to observe that TUR CITY 18 OVENGROWN to a very considerable extent. ‘That is to say, the public improvements were projected on too extensive a scale, the growth of the city in pop- ulation not baving kept pace with the improve- ments, For instance. he will observe that some of the broad, beautiful avenues, paved with the costly asphalt pavemnent, ars projected beyond the lines of flne residences, in some instances running lnote the beart of % cheap® pelghbors hovds where the squalld dwellings of the middle and poor classes arc in dectdod contrast to the city improvements, In other [nstauces these broad avenues vomo to an abrupt terminas tion in & mudivle, while In others thev aro rmjecm-l far into the suburbs, where vacant ots, many of them below the grade, hino the strect fnstead of the fine reshleuces which sboutd adorn them, 1n fact, in the matter of public Improvements, \Washington, in some respects, has becu overdone, as Chilcazo was In bullding vperations alter the great fire. (b other reapects the city bus been neglected. For fustance, while some of the avenues, paved with the smooth, slmoat nolscless, asphalt pave- ment, form some B! the most delightful drives nnywlnem to be found, yct many of the side streets are ¢0 badly paved and are so VULL OF RUTS AND PITCH-BOLES that ono who attempts to drive through them at a galt faster than a walk docs vo at the risk of smashing his carriage or tnjuriug his horses. But in this matter of strect pavemcats Wash- Ington has hud & costly experience, as indeed Lisve most other citica, Various kiods of wood pavement were tried, tbe expense of laying them being very great, yet every kind experi- mented with has proved o mest costly faflure. In the much used streets, {t has been worn or rotted Into decp ruts and holes, while In the streets but little used they huve gone to decay with equsl rapldity from ‘vatursl causes, Un- fortunately some of the maln residence streets were thus paved, and now, Inconsequence of thelr being sbsolutely dangerous to drive over, they tavo fallen into comparative disuse. Buf {n the matter of ssphalt pavement, Washlngton bas at last, and after many costly experiments, succeeded In obtuining the right thing, FRNNSTLVANIA AVENUE, the most used thorouchfare in the city, is thus paved, and thus far the asphait has proved equal to the rough wearaud tear to which it hus been subjected. But it required sevaral experiments to et it just right. In other American cities where It has been tried It has ususlly proved to be o solt in the hot weather of summer, sud too brittle In winter, The Washington usphal! lowever, scems to be of that happy inedtum ol conslstency which makes it w duruble pavement as well us Lhe pleasantest to drive over of s that Is knuwo, lo New York, uear the Fift Avenue Hotel, thera isa s pateh of this saine aspha't paveutent, about hall a block In width, wiich was latd as an expertment, 1t has withstood for two or threg years the wear of ull the immense amount of driviug oo Fifth ave oue, touludiug the dally pussage of buudreds to heavy stages ™ PARIS tals aspbalt payement ts much used, and has boen found both durable and economfeal. But there it (s 1ald with care and preclulon, under ntslligent Uovernment superintendence. Inour ¢ltics the practice 1a to give paving coatrscts to thelowest, ruthier than to the most lonesi, bidder, 4Dd, &8 & cunsequence, the contractor is forced te slight bis work, or steal somewhere In pruse- cutiug, tn order tosave himeelf from loss. But Washingtons hus demonstrated that the asphalt pavouteut, s0 much used and so pupular in (umlfin «itles, cau baeatlsfacturily and ecovowni- cally laid 1u thls country. While that :\\i hus wasted aullious of dollars upus various kinds ol paveisent, the unly oud which has given sutis- Iaction is the asphalt. | douot know who s re- spousible for it, o | cannot Le accused of hav- Iug an a3 to grind, but | du kuow that the asphalt pavewent {s as smouth as & toor, s easl- ly kept clean, thst it 1s s luxury to drive uver I{. aud that it possesscs elasticlly, so that horses wiy truvel on it for yeurs without xestiug *stove up " In the kuees und fect ua they do o travellng on stooe pavementa. The old BOSS SUBFUNRD RINO has been necused of plunderfug the Treasury af the District of Columbis sfter the manuer io which Tweed, Bwseny & Co. plundered New York. - But fow, If any, uld presidents of Wash- Ington bellevo that Gov. Bhepherd himsell ever prutited s dollar by the Ring steallogs. Qo the contrury, they s, of bim 10 the inost sffe tiouuts terma s the only wmsn who ever bad braios envugh to cumprehend the wants of the Natioual Capital, or to coucelve public huprovencuts oo 8 acale commensurats with fts lmportance or jts future prospects His Improvemeuts lave added willions of dol- Jurs to the tuxable value of sty property, aud brought millious more to the availstle fuids of the city through the tew and wealthy citizeus who have been lnduced to take up their resi- dence there. Wushingloniuns adwit " big steals " by contrwctors employed t do thi: work plavned by Gov. Shashe but they repudiate theinsinuativn that he was in auy way know- fugg to them. On the coutrary, they attlrm that if be bad becn let aluus be would ‘have recov- ered from the voudsinen ol such contractors full vatue for the wwount of thelr wwindles. When the bard times destroyed the value of & large part of ** Boss " Shepherd’s reat estute, ad it did that of everybody else who owned wuy, aud brought bim to grief, it was biscreqitory who expressed the most sympathy with his wis- fortunes, aud who voluntarily gave binn all the thue hie wantod to work out bils pecuniary salva- tion. Whateyer way be said of the *“Boss,” certaln it is that, ju the public lmprovements be projected, be laid tho foundation for & lastivg mobument 10 bis memory, and that be s beld 10 the highest esteem by s majority uf the sesl- deuta of Washivgton. TOE POLITICAL ATMOSPHERE 1a decidedly overcast and threatenlng. A great amount of dissatisfaction with the President is expressed both by metabers of Congress and by the outside **flosting population.’ Tius * foat. g population ' conslats wainly of office-susks about our esrs hefore the' War; that his Ciryy. e e e e e e era and thelr frlends, who haunt the hotey tallc mysterfonsly atout “the situaztig," veying the vague Impresston that there 'y A sis fupending, The exact nature of e @ plaluts avaioat the President it 18 ity 1o rive at, but certain It ta that the nfr iy (o) nurmurines, threatentugs, and conde: It reniinds one of the mysterious Whiagerie, aud forebodings of coming evil which werc pie when Andrew Johnsou was threatened wit, h.' peachment, The exatement bas ot ey o the height {t d{d while his trial was in Drozres. bt esen that is promised “when tha e Dreaks with the President.! It is imposeiyfe o ascertain trom there disyruntled Republicing Just what thetr grievauce la. They reply, wiien pressed, that be Ls breaking ug the It Uuoihag party; that 18 SOUTHERY POLICY fs bringing 1o the front the same old ex-slqy, holding oligarchy that used to crack jts iy full o tonations, g Ip Service policy 13 rusn to the party at the North because [Fexctudes from partisan action e ofilccholders of the land; that he has flle jyg Cabinet with impracticable theorists and starey. nen [nstend of active and prn;ucal voliticlans, Nothing but disaster to the Darty Is predicteq from theso causes. Wherein they have thus far uperated to the prejudice of the wellare of ty, country at Jarge, or of the people, 18 not iniiear. ed, but that *‘the party®' haa heen stahbed 1 ita yery vitals by the President's course {s stoyg. Iy malntained by the disappointed ones, piy them down k‘v‘y asking if 1t 18 not better that fhe South should be broughit Into harmontous jelg. tiong. with the North, If sucn harmony {s not calctilated to promote the beat interestsof 1)e whole people; If Jocal government s not gy wnnch a constitutional right fu Misslselpp) op Georgiasalu Massachusettsor 1linols, theiran)y teply 18 a0 evasive * yes, but then the Presideng I8 tlestroying the party. Ask them if they are not tired ' of aceing officchollers controlling nominating conventions and enwinecring gp. Jectionnble eandidates, they cannot hul reply, *Yes, but then 1t weakens'the party.” | have sougbt 10 analyze THE MOSTILITY 7O TAY PRESIDENT, and my solutlon of It amounts to this; First, there was very great disappolotment at My, Tayes’ nomination, and the followers of Blaine, Conkling, and other Presidentlal aspirants, 1ak. Ing their cue from thefr sevcral leaders, werg never in hearty sympathy with his candidacy, Second, his letter of acceptance startled somg of them, who, knowing that he had the reputg. tlon of being o mon of ks word, from thay moment entertained a susplclon that he would be a rebeltious subject in their hande, and not g tool which could be used to work out thelr politicat schetnes, That they gave him a lnke. warm mupport {n the campaizn was demon. strated on electlon-day, - The formation of his Cabinet, without consulting the alleved Jeaders ol the party, confirmed thelr suspicion thay he was u man Wwith o mind of his own, and that be intended honestly to fullill the promises coutalned in his letter of acceptance, Third, his Southery policy has given alart to some of the alncere radlcals of the party, who fear that,in givingthe Bouth *local government,” he has consizned thie colored race to politival oblivion. Fourtn, Civil-8ervice reform s the principal rock on which the grumblers have split. A new Ad. nministration, having some 60,000 oflices at its disposal, waa looked forward to with cagerness by the great politival army of “outs.’ ‘They wanted & complete revolution amons the office. Lolders, a generul turning out of the “ins," ps. ardless of titness and abliity, to make room for the * vuts," alsu rcflrdlen ol tho same qualiil- catlona. The verv lirst weckof Lhe new Ailmin. istration convinced these that they were doomed to bitter disappointment; that the oustings would be few ludecd, and that, consequently, the vbtaining of au ayvallable position (rom wlilch to feed at the publie erib wonld be at. tended with unususl difticulty. How numerous this army of office-acekers wua, and still is, ma; be inferred from the fact thut there are, as am reliably infurined, ovey 7,000 applications un ttle juo the State Department for positions in our forelgn diplomatic snd commercial scrvice, This, 0o, It lace of the fact that, outside of forrign ministers, the places to which a sulagy is attached sufliclont to make them desirable may be counted on one's tingers, Of the Con- sulsnips, there are scarcely a dozen that pay more than $2,500 a year, and_the appointes st provide his own vutiit and pay his own ex. fullwfi to nud from his polnt of “destination, a the uther departients THE PRESSUNR YOR OPFICR i equally great, whilo desirable positiona wre equally scarco, (ood enlaries arc remarkably searce In Govermnont positions, There must, therefore, be an impression latent la the public wmind that there is 8 wonderful amotint of per- qulsites or **plckings aud steallngs ™ luscpars. ble from office-holdivg. On no other theory can ono account for the desire 50 many bave to give up private business to take au office whers the salary 1s $2,000 & year or less. DBut there can be no doubt but the refusalof the present Adminlstration to turn out the present ollice- helders i3 the maiu reason for the hoatility dis- played towards It, All other reasons are wec- mufnrym this. It aifects Senatars, Members of the House, and the outsids pudlic in the same manner. hnny predict thut the Senate will Iuaugurate a war un the Clyll-Service polley by refusing to conlirm some of the Presldent's ap- pointments. Thoe removal of Mr, Cornetl tron the New York Naval Otlice, and the appolntment of Mr, Prinve us hls sucvessur, will ulford the Henate abundaut opportuuty to displuy its hostility i {t 18 so fuclived.” ‘This chauge i3 enpectally obnoxlous to Senutor Conklivg, Mr. Coruell was his especial friend, aud ts removal solely because he has fnsisted, In the luterests of the Senator, in disobeying the President Civil-Service order, and continuing to hold Elm;g tu the National nod State Republican Cowmittees, MR, PRINCE, uamed as his successor, I an old and outspoken vpponeot of Mr. Coukling, and js appoluted on the recommendation of ex-Senator Fenton, Conkliug's bitter euemy, It Is, therefore, con: fidently expected by many that Benator Conk: Nug will oppuse the contirmation of Mr. Prince, and thus opeo thy ball fn the Senate which shall eventually cutupel the President 1o retire from tils Civtl-Service polley. Wushingtou is full of would-be viliceolders, who are dulug what they cau to urge Beuators to make Lhis wseuc Whether they will do it or not remains to be acen. Hut supposing they do defeat the nomi- nutions made by the Dresidentt That by ue mcaps accures thie defeat of his policy, What Congress wauts Is, that the President shall leave the matter of selecting Federal uiticehold ers Lo 18 micwbers, euch controlling the appolut- uients I bis own district. This the Present 18 uot fikely todo, 11 the Secoate rejects une of DLis nominiees, he will sslect anotlier. e will La #t 00 loss for wutenad, for bis Sceretaries have thousands of applicatious on Hie. lu to cevent 8 bLe likely to ssk Scuaturd or mcmbers to nominate cundidates. By coutinu: ing to reject his pomluees, the Seuate will aimiply be respousible for the continuauco " office of the preseut Incuwbents, The *outs galu nothing by thiv policy, while the rejected candidates become the sworn (ues of the Sen- ate, aod more sealous than ever In thei of the Preaident. It s lmpossible to Cougress s to gain avything by a present :luur rel with the Admistration. 10t shuuld 1@ sist upon quarreling, It becomes respoustbie for ereatiug disseusions withiu the party, Al vres et there s dissatisfaction, but' no break 8uould thera umm;ulr be & split, Congreas oot the Presdent, will be responsible for it Thore has Lecn » fiun amount ol guesip ovs the alleged probability of the sppolutment ol CanzoLle e am———— SONG OF THE MONTENEGRINS. Whea down the stormy creacent £oes, A (gDl before mie Awims. — Zennyica. Prom mountain-clefts and hidden dells, The ragiog battle-bugle swells, And welcome 1811 ¢ Forgetting uot eur woes and needs, Fach earneat Christisn wermly pleads Tual 'sound our Provinco, ay it blesds, Westand as (ron walls, ‘Though Europe, mercenary grows, ‘Unheediog hears the Christlan's moan— ‘Fhough Yankees ald the Turk, In shat lht¥ sell bim guos for gld— ‘The love of right hus miade us bold, 8o thal each soul bas bero's mold Yor Lattle's ceimson work. When, olndlnf by.our mountain-rocks, ‘We dare the grim fanatics’ shocks, And use the proven gun, ‘What uspiratious 1o us rise, Twplauled there Ly Faradise | Huw steruly blaze the hero's eyes A4 v'sr toe sights they run. O Christlsas| for the aake of Him Whose Word rebukes the despos Arise, out cause 1o 8id. O fresweu of the wauly Weatl Would you sce each berolc bress By feel uf brutleh tyrauts pross’ A bome for sakulsh wade? ‘What trifies aro onr woes and painal Bebold the Turkish standard wanesl Aucw liates ev'ry bearts ‘The Christiau world must heed our ¢17. Lash Gercely forward! Do oc diel