Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 11, 1877, Page 3

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 1j, 1877—SIXTEEN PAGES. 3 —_— Lynching of the Brutal Murderer~ Strahl at Columbia, 1l He Confesses to the Murder of Farmer Goetz and Wife, And Relates the Horrible Man- ner of Their Taking-Off. A Circuit Judge of Tlinois Said to Have Witnessed the Hanging. Yesterday's Record of Miscellaneons Murders. SUMMARILY LYNCITED. Special Disnateh to The Chirago Tritune. . Lovis. Mo., Nov. 10.—As prophesicd by our corresnondent, the citizens in the neigh- Jorhood of Columbia, TIL, this moming tonk into their own hands the law, and administered aewift and summary justice to Carl Staali, for the murder of Henry Gocetz and his wife, the Getails of which were given in to-day’s TRia- rxe. This morning the prisoner was taken to the sceme of the murder, where an ioguest Was at once inaupnrated. .The news of the horrible tracedy 1ad etronely excited the community. and a hun- @red farmers on_horseback witnessed the pro- ceedings. Their horses were picketed at an ad- joining fence. Their faces were pale and deter- mined. and there was a frequent exchange of mysterious whispers. All this was sienificant. Several witnesses were examined, and then the prisones_ was induced to make a confes- sion. He made it with trembling Tps His short o=nd equat fizmre shook with excitement. fis broad shoulders, massive arms. and sturdy less spoke ot great streneth. but were subdued now by terror. His Jow and beetling forebead overhung a pair of erreedy, bright. and cruel eyes. - His thick and eensual lips were parted and tremMling. His paturally repulsive face was even more repul- sive from its deatlly pallor. Te spoke slowly snd with frequent glances at the crowd. ‘The substance of his confession was as follows: Calling on Goetz Wednesday morninz the lat- ter urred him to make restitution for a piece of petit Jarceny be had recently committed. Strahi refused. Goetz picked up arifle, and threat- coed. Strahl took it away from him after a se- vere strueale. Goetz then seized a shot-zun. Strhl ran. They ran throush the 1woods, evamp, ond underbrush a quarter of amile. Strahl theo stopoed and told Goetz to quit. as hie would shoot. Goctz turned to run 2nd Stralil shot, the rifle-ball entering Goetz's bead in the rear, piercivg the brain, and ho fell in his tracks. Strahl took the bodv into g vicce of thick, almost impenetradle, underbrush, and covered it with leaves. No ere would have seen it in that lomcly spot, eveu if within a yard. Goinz thence to the house Strahl determined 10 add robbery to murder. At the door he met Mrs. Goetz, a fair-haired, blue-cyed youre woman of 22. He informed her that he had Tilled herhusband. She screamed and turned tofiy. He scized anax and buried it in her ekull. &be repeated the alarm in a faint voice. He beat in the side of her head with the ax. Still moaning she was'drazzed to the little cellar, whenee ke threw her to the foot of the steps. and piled on top of her the wash- tubs and buckets, a rouzh beneh, and a wheel- barrow. He then robbed the house, after tak- inz 2 pin from her breast. and takine the herse and wazon drove rapidly through the night to $§t. Louis, distant about fiftcen miles. At the Coroner’s sucgestion Strahil took the jury 10 the epot where the murdered husband Jay. Turniog up the leaves. the body was found muddy and covered with biood. Thev then went back to the scene of the inguest. ‘on having been completed, the ed Strahl to sin it. It was read over to him, and he affixed his signature in a scholarly and rapid bandwntine, Strabl wasa well-edueated Swiss, and had only been two years in this country. During this whole proceeding there was such fotense excitement amone the crowd that not a word was spoken. A few significant slances As Strahl resumed his seat m, a man stenped forward from the crowd. From underneath bis coat e drew arope halter and threw it over Strahl’s head. As it clinched around his ne: 2 man further off in the crowd drew a rope that had Leen stretched along the ground. Strahi fell from his seat. drawn by the rove ‘The Coroner cxpostulated. A voice sa “Dry up: you bave bave doné vour duty. Now we_will do ours.” Strah] sira; in Sain, anda few steps on_he resained his fect and attempted ta resist, hlding the rope with Dis hands. Tfe was felled tothe gronud by a duh. Strugeling, and twisting, and bezging for life he was dragzed a distance of filty vards. and then the rope was thrown over the branch of a sycamore. In o eccond Strahl was swinging in the air. at a distance of fifteen fret from the ground. The spot was a beauti- ful one, thouzh touche with a sense of gloom and sorraw by the fallen Jeaves that were etrewn around by the wintry wind. Hardly aword was spoken from first to last. Twenty minutes, half an bour, forty-five min- utes, passed, and it was cvident that Strah) was a corpse, and then the crowd, whicl pumhered nearly a hundred, rode awar. The corpee swung back and forth in the wind for pearly two hours. The clotbing was muddy i being drageed in the mud. A serateh over bis left eve showed where a branch had fiesh. The bloga had covered the leit (ace. banging took place a hittle before roon, and about 2 o’closk the body was cut down and buricd in an aajacent pit dus for the purjosc. It is eafe to prophesy that the perpetrators of this act of wild mob justice will veverte t to answer. It is rumored that thc rope was thrown sround Strabl’s neek by Goetz’s brother. and that among the spectatars and participants was one of the Circniz Judges of 1lirois. but of all this there can necessarily be no confirmation. The affair has created intense excitement herein St. Louir. and a judicial investization is demanded. Ou the other hand, it is generally delt that Strahl only met_kis deserts, aud that such an in-uisition would he worse than uscless, It is zeneralls conceded that if there ever was a case in which justice and common scuse de- :flb-;:‘dcd the services of Judge Lynek, it was Spectat Dispatch to The Chicags Trihune. Bostoy, Nov. 10.—The blackmailing case gainst Dr. Damon resulted in a fiasco. Tt was before the Municipal Committee yesterday and today, and this afternoon the Judge deciled that Miss Ward was not connected with any Procecdings subsequent to the reception of the Ietter asking for damages for seduction by the Doctor. No evidence was given showing any eriminality between Miss Ward and Dr. Damon, the Court ruling that testimony ot this character was not in tae case. The witnesses called to-aay showed that they had Dr. Damon’s interest at heart, aud_that in ad- Yisiog bim they were workine for his interests. The result was that the defendants werc dis- ehareed. Nothing was adduced showing the conncetion of Barry MacFarline or others of the defendants with the charge presented by Dr. Damon of blackmail. The case, which has causcd a ereat deal of excitement, will probably %ome before the upper courts. ALLEGED FRAUD. Soectal Dispatch tn The Chicngo Tribune. Aprias, Mich., Nov. 10.—Horace R. Gardner, ®0e of the wanaging partners in’ the lately baakrupt Jonesville woolen-mills, was arrcsted at Paw Paw yesterday and brought here, charg- ed with obtaining 4,000 pounds of wool. worth $16.000, of S. O. Merritt, a_farmer of this coun- ty, knowing at the time the Company was in- solvent. He to-day gave $2,000 bail to appear Tor trial Dee. 20. CONSPIRACY- Special Dicpatch tn Tre Chicago Tribune. ForT WAYNE, Ind., Nov. 10.—Edward Down- ex, Jolm Peters, and Edward Schoaff were ar- v2sted Jast night on the charge of conspirioz to bduct the infant child of Mrs: John Peterson Zram the residence of her father, S. K. Ruick,a ;)rcmlnent and_wealthy citizen of LaGrange. 't appears that Mrs. Peferson had recently scp- arated from ber husband, and the latter had determined toget the custody of his child tarough the ahove-nemed parties, who also formed a conspiracy to rob Ruick's honse at the time of the abduction. A preliminary ex- amination took place at Lagrange this morning, when Downey was discharged, and Shoaff and Peters were sent to in” defanlt of security for their appearance to answer to a charge of couspiracy. ’ WANT A REHEARING. Special Divvatck to The Chicage Tribune. Axx Anvon, Mich., Nov, 10.~Levi Bishop, of Detroit, attorney for Rose, Beal, et al., in the University chancery suit, presented a new peti- tion this morning for a rehearing on the ground of newly-discovered evidence. This consists of claimed inconsistencies in Douglas’ testimony as given before the Legislative Investizating Commitice and in court: aleo the discovery of evidence that Rosc never paid the chocks to Louslas except at settlements, as Dr. Dougr- Jas hias claimed that there is new evidence that certain red Tines could not have_been forwed as Dongias claimed, and that. Dr. Douglss at one time testified that what are known as wrappers were not full settlements with Rose, and in the trial had testified that they were. ~Arguments on thie petition will be hieard on Thulsday next. STIOOTING AFFRAY. Snecial Mspaich to The Chicago Tribune. BLoowiNGTON, NI, Nov. 10.—This evening, Mark Tulley, proprietorof a saloon and hilliard- room, and & railroad man, of the Chicago & Alton, named Morwrer, had 2 quarrel in Tulley’s saloon, in which Tullev drew a revolver and shiot Mowrer in the left. cheek, the ball breaking sey- erul teeth and lodwing deep in the flesh of the k. producing a wound which the doctors fear The quarrei was the result of day’s election. Tulley will prave a dispute over last was releasewt on §1,.200 bai MONEY MISSING. Crxeixyar, 0., Nov. 10.~It. was discavered abont noon ro-day that the County Treasury at RBatavin, Clearmont Co., O., had been rohbed of S24.000. T4 is mot yer sscertained when the robbery ocetirred. MATL ROBBERY. CovNety, BLurrs, Ta., Nov. 10.—The mail on the branch of the Northwestern Road from Tda to. Carroll was robbed yesterday. The thief has becu captured, and is now in ‘ail at Carroll. SMALLS® CASE. CoLumta, Nov. 10.—The case of Coneress- man Smalls went to the jury to-day. The de- fense did not call witnesses, Winiting ftsel to theargument of counsel. LOCAL CRIMINAL NEWS, Remington’s gun store, No. 237 State street, was burelarized early yesterdav morning. The theft was perpetrated by breaking u corner out of apuneof glassin one of the front show- windows and abstracting the valuable contents, is about $800, as follows: Pane of 50; Creedmore rifle, §103: two double- shot muns, $§160; fifteen revolvers, barrcled 214: two Remington rifes, 870. Two years on’s store was robbed three times azo Remi within two weeks. Two of the Evanacline Combination, Charles Rosenc and Seth M. Crane, whoare stopping at the Sands House, corner of Wabash avenue and Madison strect, were robbed early Friday morn- ing. They went to bed, leaving the door of the room unloeied, and a thiel slipned in while they were osleep and took their watches and chains and 1 revalyer. the value of the property being $160. 'The Jock on the trunk of another menm- ber of the troune was tampered with carlier in the weck, and other boarders have been losingr small articles. such ascufls, cte. Servants prob ably captared the latter, but a_protessional ho- tel-thief undoubtedly g0t the jewelry, and tried to open the trunk. Deputy-Corover Korn yesterday held an in- upon the fetus which was claimed to he resuit of an abortion performed unon Elizabeth Gerlach by Dr. C. . Henry. The mazin witness, Leuis Iitbert, refused to speak atall, by advice of Adolph Moses, his lawyer, conscquently _the testimony swas limited. Morcover ~ Henry's fricnds were gath- cred in fall force, and with them were several phvsiclans, Mr. Korn had his hands full, and” despite his efiorts to preserve decorum, several t 3 were detected beekoning to jurors while wit- nesses were being examined. A desperate cifort was made to elear ail the parties concer ed. and the jury joiued in the efiort by disagres ing. Mr. Korn was, Rowever, unwitli that the facts show n the contrarv cither Dr. T nad committed " an abortion, of must have been copmizant, and be very wisely determued to impanel another jury an the next We . The ttiree par- ties were relcased until that time upon their own i nd fu the meantime, in view ot crate ciiorts of Hem fricudg, the should make every éffort to find the PLDERAL LAW-IREAKERS. Judze Blo tender, ce faws. s was one Joseph Poulin, an operator ou the Roard of Trade, who testified that,_ be hail scea Sauve onemoruing last July, ar MeVickes's Theatre, open'a e to Prouls, and afterward tear it in picces e throw the frasments ont. of the door. The wimess pzhed up some of the picces, read them, and produced them in_ Court. Sauve, in defense, produced half a lozen wWitnesses who swore they would not believe Poulin under oath, and one who testilicd that the barkeeper had said that it was all a put-up job, or_iwords to that cfiect. Thomson, the Assistant District- Atrorney, in view of this slicht reflecti Poulin’s reputation, said he did not thir nevessary 1o push the ¢ Judze Blodgett oo Thedann opinion, directed the jury to return a verdict of not gailty, which they did immediately. The Judge, however, cautioned the pullic in gencral and the audicace in par- ticalar, that private correspondence was sacred and would be protected by the Government. Poukin was immediately after arrested on some chare. Lo s 2 Beujamin Bernstein, indicted in the Tnited States. Ihstrict Court for forgery, failed to make hi nce_ Saturday. before Judze B nted, and a defautt was taken against him and his sureties, Isaac Bernstein and Williain Libby. A Qefanlt’ was also taken against Moses Pereistcin and his suretics, and against_joseph Lonergan, the b ion man, indicted for violation of the Post-Oflice laws. ) John 1L McCormick, indicted for violation of the Bankrupt act, sppeared in court Saturday and recomnized in the sum of $1,500, with Mary V. A. Reasan as sureties. TAl, ASSAULT. Last erening Jobn Dowling, a well-knowu snart er, was followed into the “3 Street by the three Garrity bros el, Hugh, and Jobn. Without an provo.ation, and thout speaking a word, Hugh scized severzl bottles apd plassts, and smashed them over Dow- fing’s head in succession, and Jobn jumped upon the prostrate man aud bit him Loveral times n the Toce. The cause of this most brutal outrage—an outraze that noncbut the Garrity boys could commit—is an old fend, and the “Store ™ was selected for the affray. out of * pure cussedness " because they havenot been altowed fo loaf around there. Some yuars ano Dowling was robbed after heavy " wine nings ut the mambling table by John Gar- nty, who at onc¢ skipped out to emphis. MeCauslaud was sent after him, and brousht back, after narrowly cseaping “The Cl John's fricnds begged him off, but the: r dropped the feud, and it s said (hat it was recently ereatly increased by Dowling throwing a ‘wliss of wine mto Garrity’s face. -Dowling’s injarics, though of a painful and severe mature, are not considered dangerous, and will not prove 50 unless per- chance the skuil is fractured. The Garritvs were Jocked up by Uetectives Ryan, Riordan, and Matoney. Evarts' Advice to an Ofiice-Sceker. timar g Suis Wushington Corre-pondence, Ao Sew Torker called on Scereiary Ey- arts the other day with a letter irom a_promi- nent citizen of New York reconmending him fora Consulate. There were s number of per- sons prescu: at the time. The Secretary read the letter and then glanced at the youns man, who presented the appearance of on in the full glow of health. The Secretarysaid: * Well, really, I should like to oblige Mr. ——, but you do ot seem delicate: you do not Jook as if you needed to 20 abroad tor your lhealth. I donat like to sec able-bodied young men go out of the country. There 18 such ap inviting fleld here for young men of cnerzy and ambition. Mr. —— says you are acivil enginecr. That isagood professon and offers abundant opportuni- or distinction: why not o to work at it?” AIl this was suid in 2 tone ofgvoice sufficiently foud to be heard by every ondin the room. The oung New Yorker showed very painful em- armssment, and, with bis face covered with blushes, backed out of the room, He will not. be apt to importune Mr. Evarts forthat Con- s ulate. STUDIO AND EASEL. A Notable Picture by Charles G. _Dyer, of This City. David Neal Quietly Engaged on Por- traiture at Drary’s Studio. The Kémnel Collection of Line Engrav- ings at Jansen, McClurg & Co.’s. Ta the Editor of The Tribune. Crxcaco, 1., Nov. 10.—Near the close of the Iate Art Exposition, held in connection with the Inter-State Industrial Exposition, there was re- ceived by the managers from Munmich 2 very notable picture, about which a few words de- serve to be said. The young artist who has achieved this worl is well known fo many in this city, bis birthplace. His carly devotion to art, and his fine talents, many people have for some time known and recognized, but owing to 2 number of unfriendly circumstances, prin- cipal among which has been his ill-healt, the outcome of his labors beretofore has been not all that could be desired. Ttis of Mr. Charles G. Dyer that Ispeak; and for the reason that he is one of Chicazo’s own eandidates for fame, all our citizens who care fos naturally would take special interest inhim it is much to be re- gretted that the picture did not arrivein time to be exhibited fairiy to the throngs who Qaily visited the Exposition. Its great merits could not but have been at once recognized by the ex- perienced gentlemen who had chargeof that en- terprize; but owing to the preoceupation of the walls, it was at the Jast hour given a place al- most to kill it, in the small room, above the line, in the most imperfect and damaging light. Very few people, probably, ever saw it there at ail, and of those who did see it, probably no one looked a second time. From the pains and study that were evident- 15 expended upgn this picture, it must be infer~ red that the artist desianed it to be his certifi- cate and patentof rank. It is not such a picture as every arfist of talent has painted. or coulii paint, Iresh from his Xnnil-ae. and with, per- dly aid of his master. It s a fe subject. His choice of subject gives mp of honesty. 1f he had been less confident of his abilities,—if he had doubted the aceuracy of his eye or the steadiness of_his Dand,—and had sought to produce an cffect by trick, hie would have chosen to paint a pretty 1ace and a launting costume, relyine on fmau ana not on truth. “After all, is it not a mistake to suppose that still-life painting is less worlhy of the artist than much of the fizure-painting now in vogue! To imitate a chair, or a bronze plate, or a piece of ching, f5 as difficult, surely, s to imitate a dimpled cheek or a pair of whis- kers. ~ How large a part of most pictures, t0o, —whatever else they may contait,—is sfill-life, aud often the mast aitractive, though mot, it may be, thar which - the instructed most admire. All who have seen the best pictures will remember some Dutch cabinet- picce, or some Epglish or Awmerican inte- rior, in which all the articles of furniture, or Lousehold utensils, and the shapes and finish of the tooms, are so_ accurately rendered as to stand for something better than even historleat or poctic description. Figures there are none. But what does it matter? As I write, my eye is on a picture of this description, and I can faney that I hear the good lady lightly moving about in the next room,'or the merry voicesof children at play. Tndeed. i I were to question an artist, I'should expect him to unswer that it is casier to produce a comparatively great, work, with lanian fizures for a subject, than to produc areat work with still-life for 2a subject. 1 will here sav (thouzh I cannot pretend to be a verv intellizent judwze) that, seen in all the kights any knowledze and observation I may have enable me to throw upon it, the present picture by Mr. Dyer is exceptionally and emphatically zood. XNeither do 1 doubt but that any one with knowl- edge enough 10 speak positively wonld give it more unqualified praise still. This further may be gaid: It any one looking at this picture does not concede {ts merits because of its subject. such a oneis not cducated up to the artist’s standard. Let no ope thus hindered flatter himself that he has a bigher idea in bis own mind. It will be found much more difficult to ana- Iyze this picture and apportion due praisc to its several parts than to characterize it s a whole. Itis a perfect victure in its arrane- ment. The size of the canvas is large, without being unwicldy, and every inch of the space is made to vontribute its full share to the main design. Even here, too, TIE ARTIST'S INFLEXIDLE IONESTY is shown. The objects are selected most nat- urally, and brouzht together in a way not to disturb their naturaines: The side walls of what is certainly a mavnificent room are not represented at afl, aud the back wall is in deep shade,—some fine paneling is ratber to be imagined than seen, and some rich old tapes- try.. Near the wall stands a table, with a’Turkish cover, which in folds over one side reaches the floor. This is wonderful in texture and color. Back ?f and a little above tiis table, on what is dim! nantel, are various articles of brica-brac, and 8 jewol case that slitters and dazzles in gems and ‘sil tracery. A bronze plate . Which is metaltself. On the table, vesides a beantifu bluc aud white. vase, are fruits, flowers, and an open book, and a single glass of wine. | The treatment of these objects Is so different from what in most recent forcign pletures is the case, that it must be remarked to the artist’s eredit. For, since so many of cven the most distinguished artists have taken to painting **broad,” it is often next to impossible to s: with auny degrec of certainty of what species a particular tree fs, | its leaves are go little distinzaished from the leaves of everyother kindof tree. 1 not excessively realistic—nothing is slighted, nothing is in & half-finished state, each object las its'own distinet form, color, and texture. A rosc leal is biere a rose leaf, and not a muilen. The leal of the grape is hiere the leaf of the grape, and not of a cabbaze. The pale pink Toses on the table, and the close, moist, yet crisp, rose buds, are painted with a delicacy and tenderness us rare as true. A bunch of grape a peach und a pear. lie ahniost hid, nud yet t cye is sure not 1o imiss them, so finuly are they bhndled. A single rose that has dropoed on tie floor was auaccidental but a happy thouzht of the artist. I pass the glass’ of wine! One of the trucet things in the picturc 15 the open book, face upwards, and showing a stecl plate aud the printed paze. The paper fs fine linen, sure enouch, and the covers are old calf, that'bave been used until_they shine, In the middle stands a stout-built, substantially- upholstered chair of a common pattern, whick ives solidity to the design. It fs made of the lardest wood, a fringe of veritabie leather is fastened with undoubted brass nails, and the gray plush of the seat and back, though it been sat on for years, is' compacted, not in- jured, and good for othér years still. | Over the arm of this chair that is firthest from the eyve is thrown uecgligently a velvet cloak tuat lacks nothing in the texture or color (it is of a dark purple) and on _this cloak s a poir of leathern gauntlets, drab, £oft, aud tempting to the hand. Over the back of the chair is swung a hunting-bouck, its leathern straps with buckles hanging down the side. Al this is_admirable; but perhaps the wost remarkable piece of painting in this mge- nious composition is a sword that rests is pomt on the floor and its hilt against the chair. This weapon is of the shape that 1s usually car- vied on the stage, but larger, as if fatended for actual service. Iere oue can, in very truth, 1ook on “cold stecl.”” It isasimpossivlc to mis- take its quality as the Weapon jtse -2 thing Tiard to mateh'in {ts way. The elaboration and ornamentation of the sword’s hift had cvident-, 1y the artist’s closest care. In this part of the work he took delight. The metal was polished and deadened, polished and deadened, and again polished, meny and many a time, il he wrought 1t into its present satisfactory state. All that has now been described, and ‘some things that Tave been omitted, or perhaps forgotten, have for the foundation a floor of hard inlaid wood, that one could chop at, but not_into, so real is it, and yet of an iron hardness. Let it be adided that, besides the exquisite gradations of- colar in this work, the distribution of lizht and shade is managed a5 by one who soon will be, 1f e s’ ot already, 2 mast-r of bis art, If any are inclined to deem the foregoing re- marks estravagant, lev them see the pict- ure. I conceive the value of it to be very consic ble, and have frankly said so. The artist has done himself and his city bonor. But if 1 have, throush ignorance or cathusi: laced the picture in tovglowing a ligh, the fact that Mr. Dyerisa youilg man belongine to Chicago will atone for the iault. It is known that he has at times struggled with discouragements of friends, which arc now over- come. If there ever was a time when his father (Dr. C. V. Dyer) thouzht bis son had better be * doing something,”—those who know the Doctor will not believe that he ever, with Haz- litt's father, thought his son had better write a “sermon than paint like Rembrandt or Raphacl,"—that time has now happily passed. Merit has manfully asserted itself. “Lhe reader will be ;.gm 1o knaw that this pict- ure is to remain in this city. In the goodly company of o lfealy and an Inness. a Gifford S Ad and a Neal, it is to bang on the walls of Mr. | anything, and who was an ordinary Heury W. King’s checrful mansion. ME. DAVID NEAL. * Isit not true that no man of wide and_estab- lished fame has any right to come to Chicamo unheraldedl, or remain here long in seclusion? Anyhow, if I am in danger of violating the pro- pritties in what is to follow, I shall sin no oth- erwise than others before me have Gone, and- as all should be pan ished for not doing who have a chance. Well, then, Mr. David Neal, the artist, is present and at work in this city.” He has been forhere someweeks. and will remain some weelks Joner. Many of our citizens are famiiliar with bis worky indced, a number of choice examples of it are owned here. Mr. S. ML Nickerson has a noble one of Westminster Abbey; Mr. P. V. Kelloge has a fine on2, a scene in Venice; Mp. John M. Durand has the highly-finished study of his great picture of last yéar, Maric Stuart and Rizzio; and, as mentioned above, Mr. Ki also has a pieture by this artist. Would he but malke Chicazo his_ home, or onc of his homes, nodoubt he would very soon be- come as popufar here as Iatelt, according 1o th newspapers, hewas shownto be in Lowell, Mass., his birth-placc. On +his arrival there from Europe the people turned ot in large numbers to receive him, and be was obliged to mect many thousands of admiring friends in a public hull, and listen to their congratulatory greetings. While here, he paints u Mr. Drury’s ¢lezant and commodious studio, in_ the North Division. It will probably leak'ont thac he is enzased at present on thic heads of a mother and children (mewmbers of acultitated family in the same scetion of the city), but as Tam not authorized to say 50, I will~hold my pen. F. A. EASTVAN, GALLERY AND STUDIO. The Kenpel coflection of line engravings now on exhibition at Jansen, McClurs & Co.’s book- store is one of _the most promiuent attractions Jdn the city. It cmbraces prools and e: pressions of the best works of the engravers of France, Germany, Italy, and England during the past 200 years. Among the engrayers rep- resented are Sharp, of London, whose *Diage- nes in Search of an Honest Man,» after te celcbrated painting by Salvator Rosa, and the “Doctors of the Church,” a reproduction in form. and almost of color, of Guido Reni’s well-known canvas, are resarded by connoisseurs as being among the most per- fect of the examples of the gravers’ art, Mas- sou’s “ White-Haired Man,” a._portrait of Brisa- cier after_au oil painting by Mignard, is re- markable for the realistic manner in which the hair is treated. Succeeding artists have profited from it, and it is n matter of record that Longhe, the srreat Roman artist, constantly made us¢ ofit while engazea in engraving the head of Washington. “The Madoniia of the Stars,” by Mendel, after the painting by Dolcl, is_remark- able for the tender feclng with which the balf shadows are treated. Two scencs from childhood’s days—the “Smile” and *Frown” ace of iffe schoolmaster—are reproduced effect by Tavlor and Sharp from the original picture, by Webster, an English artist of the past century. Muller, a German cn- graver, s reoresentéd by a full-length portrait of Louis XVL, after tlic histotical painting by Tihe manner in which the texturcy of sills, velvet, ermine, and lace are reproduced in Dlack and white is simply wonderful. Longhe’s masterpiece, fullleugit por- trait of * Eucene Napolcon, who for a short time was King of italy, is a worthy companion-plece to Gerard's Napoleou, fu’ lis coronation robes, after the well-known portrut of Desnoyers, now i the Louvre. Wille's “Satin Gown,” s the pieture is commonly called, js a reproduction of a cele- brated painting by Ferburgh, and is remarkaole for the exquisite manner in which the texcure of thut fabric is handled in black and white, Guido's “Sewing Women,” Beryic’s * Achilles Taught by the Centaur™ and “Dezanira Car- ried OFF by the Centaurs.”” Turners ** Venice ¥ and “Ancicot and Modern Iialy,” Vasseur's “Fish Girl,” Denon's etchinzs of cat- tle ~after ~ Paul Potter, Forster's por- trait of Raphael at the ame of 13, and works by Wille, Raimbach, Volpoto, Tiranesi, Drevst, and others of their contemporarics, are ineluded in the collection, There is nothing new at 0'Brien's Gallery this week. Early next month the manazement expect a consiemment of landscape and fizure icc t from the easels of well-known New York artists. Mr, Frauk P. Knott Is a voung artist who has recently come to this city and infends to make o specialty of cravon portraits. He has located himself” for ‘the present at 635 Falton street. Hr was formeriy a resident of Boston, where he gaitied some distinction, and the work tie has aone in Chicaco thus far evinees 2 pecu- liar aptitude for drawing a true likenc. A erayon portrait from the studio of Mrs, I1. Graves, uow on exhibition at Welcott’s, tracts cousiderable attention, consequent upon the hold manuer o which the subject is treated. Most of the loeal artists have returned from their sketching tours, and are now setthog down 1o work. SUMNER'S EARLY LIFE. WWhat He Wrote About Lord Rrouzham, Harriet Martinean, Lord Jeffrey, Curlyle, and Jounna Baillie. ‘From Pierce's Li fe of Sumner. After six months in Paris, which we will pags over, Sumner crossed the Chaunel to England. In Parishe bad seen Brougham, who was one e his acquain nt_up into North to visit him at Brougham Castle. Here we will quote Sumner's own words, written Sept. 6, 1835, to Georae 8. Thilla & [ was thorouzhly wet and covered with mud when Larrived. OR my mentioning my tion to his Lordshi ko kindly received me in the hall, he_himself at once showed me to my bedroom, where | enjoyed the comfort of a complete change of dress. After I came down- stairs, he left me in the library and went about writing letiers, which were to leave by the mail before — Jinner: Ife wrote wore than the uumber which he could {rank,—that is, ten,—and at 6 o’clock was in the library dressed 1or dinner. ¢ only person be- sides myself was an ol 1 familiar frictd, a clerzy~ man (who brought with him as a present to the ex-Chancelor a bottle of rum upward of fifty years old), though Lord Chief Justice Tindal and Lord Moncreiff (the latter the great Scotel o Judge aud lawyer) were expected. The truly vencrable and intercsting mother of his = Lordship—now 8 years old—was in: the dining room when we entered, and presided at the table. Never dld 1 see a person who bore her years so well, She secined a it mother for a distinguished son. Her manvers were casy and even eracelul, with very litiie of the constraint of aze. She refused my proflered ssistance in hel ing the soun, thouzh she afterwards condescended to allow me to mangde o partridge. She is_tall, has sharp feavures, and an aquiline nose. tler countenance i much more refined and intellectual thay her som’s. You doubtless know that she is the niece of the historian Robertson. Lady Brous- ham and her dunghter 2re at a watering-place at the South. Durine the dinner, Lis Lordsbip was constant in | ttentions to his mother, ad- dressing her os * Mother,” and urging her to eat of particular dishes. 1heard Mrs. Broushiani ad- dress her son as “Lord Brougham.! Lcould bard- lee up my mind and m¥ tongue to addruss venerable woman as” ¢ Mirs. Brougham,’ v is all that belongs o her, and then speak to hier son as *My Lord.’ At table the conver- sation turned onlight matfers,—the ereat scarci- ty of game, the merits of some old Madcira (the wift of Cutlar Fergusson), of a black gock (the gilt of Lord Auglesey), and of the ruw (the val- uable contribution of the clergyman). Besides hese there was a variety ol toples arising from familiarity with the parson, and reminiscences of common acquaintances. Mrs. Brougham re- tired very soou after the cloth was removed, His Lordship took very little wine, less than | have scen auy centlewan take at thé head of his table in_ Encland: but it he have not that vice, which has been attributed to him—and 1 fally believe that he has avother which is, perbaps, a5 bad; certaiuly it is bad and vulgar beyond ox- pression, I mean swearing, 1 have "dincd in compavy nearly cosry day siuce I have been in England, and Ido not_rémember to have met a Bl m who swore -half so much as Lord rougham, and all this in conversation with un aged clergyinan! 1is ianuerwas rapid, hurried, and his voice very loud. He scemed uneasy and restless, and of course made me feel the same. 1lis Janzuage, as you wmay well suopose, was vizgorous and to the point. le told some capital _storics of King Willlam, from which I snould infer, notwithstending all the reports to the contrary, that he was on #ood terms with that monarch. You remember Den- man's famous appeal on_the Queen's irial, alluding to the slanders of the Duke of Clar- cnce, ‘ Come forth, thou slanderer!’ Brough- am said that the Duke of York. sitting in one corner of the house, snid to a Peer near him, *There is my brother Willlam! he is always in some serape,’ while the Duke of Clarence, sit- ting on the otber side of the house, whispered to his triend, .* My brother Frederick is always saying some d—d absurd thing,’—each sappos- ing the other referred to by Denman! After dinner the conversation turned upon politics, and upon Canaaian affairs in particular. His Lordship scemedtoexult over Lord Durham, and to think that he had him ‘on the hip.' Ie praised Roebuck as a person of great talent, and spoke of Erskine as a yery grcat man. When I asked who at the Bar now were most like him, besaid: ‘Nobody; there isn degemerate ruce nows; there are no zood speakers at the Bar, ex- cept Rir William Follette ana Mr. Pemberton.’ He spoke of Lord Lavgdale as a person whohad never done anvthine, and who never would do man. H sald that Mr. and Mrs, John Austiy, are 1y just returncd from Malta, where Mr. Arstin went to reform the law,—would probably cease to be reformers, baving experienced the practi~ cal difliculties of reform, and would retire dis- heartencd from the cause. In making this re. mark, Le obviously intended to allude 1o a sup- posed Want of perscverance and. secoiim on the part of these persons. A din- ner at Lansdowne louse, he said, was a great cure for radicalism. Ie thousht Ballantvoe Iud refuted Lockhart, and that the lauter as well as Scott would suffer iu reputation. Money affairs were Scott’s weak point. Lh llnees of L(:rdchrbyh of which we T intelligence to-day, and his expecte death, hie_ churacterized 93 preat news.mf?er(% said he, ‘Ned Stanley goes 7o the Lords. It was thus that he vassed from topic to topic, expressing himself always with force, correct: nss, and Tacility warivaled; but, I must say, with 2 manner not only far from refined, but even vultcar. fle had no gentleness or suaity: ncither did he show any of the delicate atten: tions of the past. He professed an interest in America, but dia not seem to care to speak about it. He said that he should certainly visit us, for, with the present facilities of “inter- course, it were a shame jn an Enelishman to be ignorant of the practical working of our fustitu. ons. I am a republican,’ said lie, ‘or rather Lam for intrusting tothe peoplethe largest pos- sibledegrec of power.? Tdoubt if he knows much alibut our affairs or our public men. When { mentioned Webster’s name, he said, *Yes, 1 have understood that Webster is a clever man,’ and Clay’s did ot seem to eall up any particy- lur idea. He did not speaks of the law, though, when L saw Lim at his bouse in Belzrave squarc, he had said, ‘Come and sce me, and we witl talk avout codilication and the law,'—though T bad wever opened my mouth to im about cither. . .. I think that ie is about throwing Limself again among the people, and accepting their lcadership. - He spoke to e in the most disparaging terms of tue aristoeracys but I shall be afraid that be will not speak s0 much for truti’s sake as to promote his own fame and power, or to gratify a personal pique. Centainly, in the society in which I have maved, 1 huve heard but one opinion expressed with re- gard'to the dishouesty and malevolence which have characterized hislate conduct: aud hisspite :oward Lord Durbum is represented as diabol- feal. Lust winter it was supposcd for awhile that an inveution bud been found out whi would supersede the use of coal, upon which Lord Durhiaw’s fmmense fncome - depends, Brougham is sald to have zone about_telling of it, avd rubbing bis hauds, saying: ‘Old Dur- bam is & beggar! Ofd Durham is a beergar!? Perhaps all these idiosynerasics may be better understood and more charitably viewed, when it is known, as it is not generally in Eugland, that Brougham’s father dicd fnsate, and that he has a sister whois so stlll. 1 am disposed to believe that there is in him a nervousness and immense activity which is near akin to insanity, aud which at Dresent jangles the otherwise oven measures of his character.” This is the most favoradle expfanation of Brougham’s conduct, which Macaulay aud Ifar- riet Martincau have denounced in much stronger terms than the amiable and moderate Yyoung American felt at liberty to use. Miss Martineau, in writing to Mrs. Chapman after Sumner's death in 1574, suid that, My mother and [ had the pléasure of introducinir Charles Sumner into some of the best society that he saw,” naming especially Lord Carlisle. Sumner reached Londyn June 1, 1835, and_ within a month (s parently without seeing Miss Marsincan at al) Lad been admitted to the *Garrick,” the “Travelers',” and the “Alfred” Clubs, had breakfasted with Lord Denman, dined withh Lord Lansdowne, and_ sttended a great ball at Lord Fitzwilliams’. Lord Lansdowne had sent him a ticket to Queen Victoria’s corouation, he had been invited tosit on the beneh with the Judges, and had met-most of the Prominent liternrv men, including Landor, Macaulay, Talfourd, Hallam, Milman, aud Carlyle. He was, indeed, oyer- whelmed with attentions and had to deciine half Lis invitations. Lord Carlisle” was then Lord Morpeth, aud instead of being “ Viceroy of Ire- land,” as Miss Martincau calls him, and as he was atalater period, was Chief Secrctary forIreland. Sumuer met him in London early in the sum- mer of 1335, and was his guest in Dublin in October of that vear. A yearafterward Sum- ner introduced Daniol Webster to Lord Mor- ]x:éh‘whu wrote toSwinner at Viennathat he was wflich struck with Webster,—* there_scems to be u colossal wncldity about him.” Webster at that time spoke 10 Lord Morpeth “with great respect of Sumner,” byt was **very reserved and solemn,”” In Jannars, 1839, Sumner wrote from London: “Rogers says the most ill-natured things, and docs the best. He came up to me at Miss Mar- tineau’s, where there was a little party of very cever people, and_said: ¢ Mr. Sumnér, it is 8 great piece of bunevoleuce in youto come bere.! Determined not to be drawn into a shur upon my host, I replied: *Yes, Mr. Rogers, of ben~ cvolence to myself.’” As we were comingz away, Rogers, Babbage, Tlorne, and mysel! were walle- ine together duwn the narrow Street in which Miss Martineau lives, when the poet said: * Who but the Martineau could have drawn us into such a hole?’ And yet L doubt not he bas a sincere liking for for I have met her ac his house, and he afterwards spoke of her with the sreatest kindness. . . . Brougham abused Miss Martincau most_heartily (at a din- ner at Bellenden Kerr's, January, 1839). He thought that she excelied in sfories and in nothing clse; and that she Wwas ‘u great ass’ for pronouncing so dogmatically on questions of policy and Government.” Lord Durham, with whom Sumuer dined, along with Charles Buller, told him that he had never seen Lockbart, but from all he had heard of Sir Walter Scott’s sow-in-law, *“he thought bim one of the greatest blackemards in En- » " Buller told Sumner thiat Calboun was iking public man he had met when cn,—*‘remurkable for bis cuse, simplicity, and the readiness with which be un- folded himscl.’ Van Buren, said Buller, **had the handsomest shoes and stotkings I eversaw.! Lord Jeffrey told Swmner that Georze Cabot, wham he saw iu Boston in 1514, was 1 shirewd, owerful man,” and so was John Lowell. Soth incliued against republics to such a degres 7 that Jeflrey * thouglit it his duty, in conversation, to say somctbing in behalf of them.” Jeffrey thought IL G. Otis “quite a superticial man,” and_mentionad another Bos- ton person, “with a very baudsome wife, who, Be would venture to say, ws quite u fool.” “f supplied the pame at once, and his lordship ‘recognized it,” says Sgmuer to Hillard, Happy the town whose fools are soeasily distinguished at 3,000 miles distance ! *“1 observed to Lord Jeffrey that I thought Carlyle (in 1335) had changed his style very much since e wrote the article on Burns. “Not at all, e said: <1 will tell you why this is different from his other articles; 7 altered it Carlyle was quite vexed at this interference. “ retirement—I riyle lives in great - foar _shmost o poverty. To him Gn 188) London = and fits mightv ninzo of sociely are nothing: neitber ho nor his writings are known. Carlyle said the strangest thing in_the history ot literature was his recent receint of £30 from Amcerica, on _ac- count of his <French Kevolution,” which had never vielded Dim a farthing in Europe, and orobubly never would. “I went to Iamp- stead to junch with Joanna Baillie. [ place her nest after Lord Brougham’s mother. She - Is 1, meat, tidv, de- lightful in her personal appearance: and in conversation simple, interesting, and ngrecable. She affected me in the same way as did Words- worth. I thought that Providence should have brouyht them together as man and wife. Was it not strange that I shorld be put to inquire at a dozen doors in that viliaze to know where Miss Baillfe lived? In my vesation I told one person, who lived within a stone’s ttrow of what 1 afterwards found to be the simple roof of the poctess, that he did not know the rc's‘- dence of tue greatest ornaryent of lis town.” e e Minlsters s Deadheads—A Curious Lawsult, Correspondence Cineinnatl Gazette. VEva¥, lud., Nov. 5.—A remarkable trial oc- cupicd the attention of the Circuit Court Friday and Saturday. One of our physicians sued one of the ministers for medical scrv(n'es rendered the family of ihe latter. The defense was sct up that it was the cnsl,om_o_f the "'fi'{‘.‘;fi"im'?;, e::— he families of ministers withe 3 - e and thnt the Doctor had stated that. b would make no charge in this instance. The testimony disclosed pretty clearly that the plain- ff had not intended to make any charge at the time, and that the entries of his charwes were all madeon the same day, Jong after the services were rendered. It was gencrally understood that the Doctor, who had been divorced Imlel a former wife, was paying his addresses to the dauzhter of the defendant, aud upon her rc[us:\! to marry him he resolved (o take his revenge by compeliing_her_father to pay s doctor’s bill amounting to 305, The attempt was a failuze. The jury brouzht in a verdict for the defendant on Saturday vight. The contending partieswere members of the Presbytericn cburch of this place. *The trial attracted much attention, and cansed considerable gossip that was caieulated {o brine discredit upon both parties. —————— DIdn’t Want to Spoil His Luck. Austin (Nec) Rerellle. A poor man applied to a citizen for relief to- day and was referred to the woodpile. The un- fortunate individual declined to tackle the saw and ax, on the ;imumi that Friday is an un- Jucky day. and_that he would rather starve to death than tuke chances of spoiling his luck. He said he bad a rich aunt back in the States, and would cut off bis finger-nails or wash his face before ke would risk losing her fortune at ber death by commending sn industrial enter- prise on suunlucky das. EURCPEAN GOSSIP. Theodore Barriere, the Noted French Dramatic Author. Swindling in Germany—The Ezploits of Rascals in Berlin, Pie,? or Ko Pie—~Field-Yarshat Wrangel---The ‘Kaiser Smong Iis Peaple. BARRIERE. Lucy Hooper in Philgdrlubia Telegrapn. Paris, Oct. 19.—Theodore Barricre, the well- known dramatic author, died in Paris the other dav of inflammition of the lunzs; au untimely end, ashe vasbat 54 years of age.~ He com- menced his carcer as a dramatic author at the age of 17 with a vauderille, en- titled “ The Pages of Louis XIL,” which was successfully produced at the Renaissance, He was just 30 when he wrote bis * Filles de Marbre," so well known to our stage under the title of *Marble Heart.” Few persons remem- ber under what circamstances or for what rurp\)sn that piece was composed. It was writ- ot tocombat the false but fascinating sentiment- ality of “La Dame aux Cameliae The s ter of “Desgeorais” soon became immensely popular, and"the piece enjoved a vomie equal with that which it was written to combat. It is said that in “Desecorias,” witty, cynical, sar. castic, and disagreeable, Theodore Barriere hd drawn bis own trat. Cettain it is that b was never among his confreres. His gloomy temperament, sharp, sarcastic speech, and tendency to envy the sucecss of others, made bim anything but a genial or pleasant companion.~ Notwithstanding his carly and bnlliant successs in his profession, Iie always took u very morbid and dismal view of life.” The success of Surdou was one thorn In his pathway; his. faiture to obt the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor (he did get the ordivary decoratiun) was another, I the “last year of his life more real trouble fell ~upon - him. He was threat cned with blivdness, bavinz been aof tacked with cataract, but the mat bad assumed a favorublc type, and the ocnlis who uttended him zave him every hope that an oncration would completely restore his sight, Under the dim twilight of this approachine night he wrote the merry comedy of * Leg Demoiselles de Montfermiel,” now béing plaged ot the Palals Royal, ome of the mayest and most’ | laugbter-inspiring of " his works. sparkliny th wit and abounding in mirthful incidents. A mclo- drama from bis pen, entitled “The One Hun- dredth Night of Hamlct,” is now under rehear- salat the Theaire Historique. Ilis greatest work was undoubtedly his comedy of * Les Faux Bonnshomumes,” originally produced at the Vaudesille, at whieh. on the night of its first. representation, fairly carried the house by storm. - When the leading actor came out, at the conclusion of the play, to vame the au- thor, according to cnstom, he was. greeted by the cry “Say Moliere~it is by Moliere!” Proba. bly the ercatest compliment that ever was paid to s French dramatist. . Tonce met M. Barriere at the American Con- sulate, whither he had zone to sien some papers relative to his charming comedy Les Scandales QHicr.” - He was 0 tall, spare, erect, soldierly-looking gentleman, 'with keen dark cyes and o heavy black mustache, just touched with gray, courteous and refined in manner, and lookine, Wwith bis martial carriage and the red ribbon at his _button-hole, morc like a retired army officer than a successful dramatist. It s sincular that that pure and brilliat comedy, Les Scandales 4’ Hier;” with its strong fomi: nine interest - and irreproachable moral, should never have been travsferred to our boards. In fact, Barriere’s bes: works are not known to our stage. Two melodramas, %The House on the Bridze of Notre Dame” and’ the ‘Angel ot Midnight,” both originally iven at the Ambigu, and ‘the play of “* Alixe,” written for the Vauderille under the title of “La Com- tesse de Sommerive,” make up, with *Marhle Heart,” a list of such of his pleces as bave been successfully performed in the United States, One of Barriere’s most - marked peeuliaritics was his fondness for animals, particularly cats. Tt has been plaintively remarked by onc of his fricnds that Barriere never kept- more than seven cats,—that is, at one time. He was the terror of all the hackmen and carters in the neighborhood of bis dwelling, 50 fiercely did hie resent_cruelty ou their parts towards their horses. Respectine his love for cats, it is said that the shyest and wildest of the race could never withstand a. peculiar call which he was wont to utter, and which always lured the scariest of pussies to his feet, Ilis funeral was a rezular procession of ail the dramatic authors. the celebrated actors, the leading crities of France. is wife, who for o year past bas de- voted herself tobimwith untiring affection, sery- ing him as reader and _amanuensis, as well as slek nurse, insisted upon accompanying his body to the arave. The funcral discourse was pronounced by the ared Auzruste Maquet, friend and collaborator of the elder Dumas, himself a novelist of no meau renown. It is said that the Comedie Francaise, according to custom, will now lay claim to his chef d’aiuvre, “Les Faux Bonshommes.” SWINDLING IN GERMANY. Ina recent number of the Berlin Vossiche Zeitung four new and inct forms of swindle arcreported. They characterize so strikinaly some of the conditions of life in the German Capital that we condense ind reproduce them. No. 1iscalled by the writer “the swindling practice of a number of merchants,”~n phrase which stamps the affair a5 an extended system, not an isolated case. The legal term which the Public Prosecutor hopes to affix to it is “fraudulent bankruptey.” The steps in the process are simple enough. A business firm procure all the advances pe i and ward off When the s seems inevitable, they suddenly register at the Court of Commerce the dissolu- tion of the firm, at once orzanize a new com- pany under a new name, and with perhaps one new member, and thentransfer toit all the goods and other property of the old establishment. Under the law this property is secure against the first creditors. When new embarrassment arises the same manipulation is repeated, and tiie ingenious ‘‘merchants? thus batlle their crecitors indfinitely. [t has at length been dis- covered by the Public Prosecutor that there are in such transuctions two clements of fraud,— the ‘transfer of the oods on the.eve of bank- ruptey; and the irregular organization of the new firm. Accordingly, some of the parties witl be tried, but the final interpretation of the law belougs, of course, to the courts. The next class of swindlers fs cailed “house- butchers.” The term sugeests portly persons with white aprons snecked with biood, for whom hungry dogs have a keen affection. These are a species of butchers, but tne “ house- butchers” belonz to a different category. They are dealers in real estate, and attera peculiar method. One of them hears uf a iouse which stands half vacant, buried under mort- gaces and taxes, and which the owner is anxious tosell on almost avy terms,often without any ad- vance, ana on the promise of future quarterly payments. As 6oon as the sale is perfected the “Butchery™ bemins. The new owner hastens to i ¥ lings—the reader will un- are speaking of the Conti- nental apartment_ houses—ot everything mov- able, duors, windows, stoves, bath-room, fix- tures, cte., and converts them into money. Next bie procures from tevants prepayment of rent for half a year or mare for a large reduction. Perhaps he is able to make a new loan or two on the property. But very soon, of course, the mortgagees become alarmed and proceed to the reclosure. The formalities require time, and cfore they are completcd and the notive served n the “proprictor? e transfers the bouse by 0 new sale to somebody clse, generally a.co Sederate. The judicial proceedings of the mort- fragees are therefore without result. They must be renewed ogaiust the new owner; but in the meantime he, too, has been discounting Dis rents in advance, and otherwise utilizing hi3 property, and at the right moment he, too, “sells.” Thus the property is tossed about from hand t¢ hand, and becomes about worth- less by the time the mortgagees come finally into possession. This, t0o, I8 & system perhaps not pecutiar to Berlin, but apparently carried to greater perfection there than elsewhere. The third fraud is in the traffic in woolens. This is no insignincant branch of Berhn trade, reiatively less flourishing indecd thau in the Anddle Ages, when the Mark of Brandenburz distributed clothes all over North Germany, yet still one of the industries on which Berliu rests her commercial prosperity. But the army speculators and swindlers have invaded cven this. trade, to the scandal ana injury - of honorable manufacturers - and dealers. Oue of their tricks is to double the thickness, and therefore to the eye the warmth and value, of their cloths, by clue- ing woolen ‘‘shearings ¥ to one side of them. So skillfully {s this done that cven tailors are sometimes deceived. It is declsred by the technical organ of the Toolen manufacturers that some_of the swindlers actually convert their unsold stock of summer cloths into winter cloths by this simple means. They preserve “their appearance fcr & week or two, and then the *shearings begin to wear off. “Che pur- = chaser of a winter overcoat Is left with only & toin and ruther seedy summer paletat. Finally, the foarth, and tor this time the last, trick of the Berlin swinalers: It 15 a more humble but_perhaps not Iess Jucrative one, making up in the numberof victims and the ageregate returns for the petty amounts real ized from cach. It is practiced by the keepers of itelligence offices. One of these worthics reads or hears of a vacant place for which o cudidate is sought, and he under- takes to 6ll it Tfrom his suoply. He sends his victims thither - by scores, having first collected acommission from them, and perbaps something more. They of course find that the position has already been. filied, or that their patron never had becn authorized 1o send applicants, sometimes even that no vacancy has existed. As a rule they are 100 poor and too dependent on the swinaler to prosecute himn. Finaily, a gentleman in the snburbs, upon whom the poor wretches came down one like a swarm of locusts, took the watter up, lal it before the police, and one of the swindlers is in a fair way to be pumished. The police found in his ““oflice " a number of addresses to which Be lad intended to send fresh victims. These are 2 few of the methods by which the more fn- eenius spirits of Berlin relieve the monotony of Bonorable business. *PIE ” OR *NO PIE.” Dundee (Scaland) decertiser. The last ordinary meeting of che municipay year was held by Selkirk Town Council on Mon- day night, when a pre-clection pie Scene was re-enacted. Junior Bailic Millar occupied the chair. Au the close of the business Bailic Millar asked—By the by, isa't this the nicht tas speak about, the piet Mr. Smith—Let us have use and wont; let us bave our pie and porter; it tends to promote 2ood feeline and harmony and chit-chat, Bailic Millar—In the old way? The Clerk—Out of the funds? Baitie Millar—Yes. [ would like if some of %e would propose °t. Mir. Scott—I feel very il to 4o away with an oldcL_fom, and I move that we 20 back to the pie andSoorter, and Lave t on the Moaday night efore the election. Mr. Coutts (after a prolonged silence)l—There’s 10 seconder; the business is dunc; there’s nas use sitlin’ here. Mr. Smith—Mr. Coutts, you're not Chairman. Mr. Coutte—I know that. The Clerk—It’s for the Chairman to decide. Mr. Coutts—Let him dae't. thin, Dean of Guild Trotter—I second the motion M. Coutts—I move that there be o pies and porter taen 6ol 0’ the busgh funds. Tl thine was dune away wi' in 1874, cfter bein’a hert- breck forten year, an’ it’s fuilish _tav brine 't back again. beeu lauched at up an’ doon. through toon sn’ country. Mr. Yellowlees—I second Mr. Coutts’ motion that there be no pies or porter paid for out of the funds of the burzh. . Mr. Smith—I would like to understand the motion. s it ple, or no pie from the funds, or Is every one to pay for it! Mr. Scott—I mean that it be paid ont of the burgh fun: ‘The Clerk: be minuted thie time. “Pfe™ or “No Pie.”” The roll was then called. amid the tittering of the public—Baiflie Millar. Dean of Guild Trotter, Treasurer Henderson. Mr. Scott, and Mr. Bond answerlne “pie!” And Mr. Coutts, Mr. Smith, Mr. Clapperton, Mr. Hall, Mr. Sliah, and Mr. Yellowlees, “* No pic!?” The Cierk (atter running up the division-list) —Five for #Pie " and six for “No Pic; "—ma. Jority for * No Pie,” one. The result was received with shouts of laughter. hen the motions will require to The motions will be THE KAISER AMONG THE PEOPLE. Rertin Correspondence Philadelphia Press, Last month crowds assembled in Rudesheim, on the oceasion of his laying the first stane of a nitional monument in honor of the victorles of 1870-'71. On the evening of the 15th the woods and the gardens were illuminated with Chinese lanterus and Bengal lights. Next day the Emperor, with his eldest <on and nephew, reached Rudesleim, and with no delay and lit- tle formality laid the firsi stone. The band played the * Wacht am Rhein,” and an im- ln‘l'ense,urawd joiued in singing ““God Save the ing. On his way back to Rudeshelm for breakfast Emperor William had to puss under several triumphal arches. Onc of these, novel in de- sitn and construction, was formed cntirely o Rudesheimer wine barrels, each stamped with the date of some famous vintage, and labeled with doggerel lines in praise of wineand loyalty. **Dem edlen weine gleich Sich Dentehland fortgestalte, Tnd sloklich in dem Reich Der Kaiser lange walte (meaning * As good wine gets better with age, £0 does our Emperor ') may suflice as 4 speci- meu. On the top of the arch, seated astride of a wine-barrel, was a plump and rudds representa- tive of Bacelius, erowned with vine-leaves, with a_gigantic hock-efass in his hand. On’ cach side of this wortby were three wine-drawers, holding ~the implements of their office, Down ~ below. on the roadwav, were others, each with - bis bottle and glass. When the Raiser reached the arch the carriage stopped, and_he drank to the prosperi- tyof the town. It was the wine of some cele- Urated vintage, and the Emperor held out. his 2lass tg be replenistied more than once, chatfus - all the” tiue with the wine-drawer on the date of that vintage, and tho prospect of the " present year. The man complimented the Emperor on bis bale and ruddy ap- pearance, and the crowd admired the gusto with which he put the “ wine under s belt.” Since the time of “Old King Cole™ Royalty has not <o unostentatiously enjoyeditself. ~ At least the Crown Prince, probably” thinking that the scene was becoming a little too Familiur, ma- tioned for the carriaze to advance. How the multitude cnioxed that very familiarity! Wi among that crowd swould not have fousht to the death for King and Fatherland ¢ A TURKISH ARMY AT PRAYERS. Correspondence London Nets. Each man takes his place in the ranks, his bands hanging close by his sides. Then he lfte them to bis ears as if to shut out all worldly sounds. Then he lays them on his knees, and bowing his body forwvard seems lost in contem~ plation. After a few secouds he sinks to his knees, and leans back upon his hecls, and then, botwing with his forehead tothe carth, exclaims,or rather chants: © Allah Akhbar” (God Is great). Three times b thus bows and. chants, and then he stands up, bowing forward, chanting three times, * La Allah il Allah " (there is no God but God). The remainder of the somewhat tedious prayers which follow consists principally, as far as I can make out, of lon® verses of the '“Koran.” In all his simple religious exerc: the Turkish soldier is devoutness and attention itsel, and it Is per- haps most in privacy that this Is most apparent. 1 have Imlucntl_v come urexpectedly upon some rugted soldier in_cne of the wild, lonely ravines that gash the hillsides around, standing before the ragged overcoat which served him for a_prayine carpet, and going through his rather actiye relizions motions with a zeal which would do credit to the most self-conscions Pharisee. “Ihie stranger who for the first time witnesses the united prayer of soldiers incamp Is considerably puzzled e " selection of heteromenouns articles ¥ brought forward to the place of Wurship® when the Muezzin’s call has corcluded. Re- lizious custom requires that each man be provided with 1 praying carpet of one deserip- tion or another, and that he take off his shoes as well. Obe man brings a jagzed shecp- skin, ansther a_gont-bide, a third the saddle- cloth of his horse, u fourth, mayhap, his jacket; every une lias something or another on which he may kneel. To see some hundred men thus burrying to the spot where the bluc-robed white-turbaned Imaun stands, one might be casily led to imzgine them 80 many iersons eager to dispose of supertluous garments. ——— FINANCIAL, MONTREAL, Nov. 10.—W. P. Bartley & Co., fron-founders, have failed. Liabilities, $150,000. Their suspension is due to the fallure of the hardware firm of Mulholiand & Baker. Steciat Dispateh &0 Ths Chleagn Trizune. GRASD Rarips, Mich, Nov. 10.—Dr. A. K. McMullen, a druggrist in this city, one of the leading retall dealers, made an sssignment last night, recelving Enos Patnam as bis Assignee. X cures of the assets and labilities are not ’rrehps)f':‘tll yet, but it is staved that the faliure i3 a bad une, and the creditors will et but a small dividend. 2 MEN'S PANTS. JMen’s Pants §1.75, $2.25, $3.50, £c., at Nutting’s . iCheapest place to bty To; «The Fair w el el BRI 10 . msglxm&.!. &, &, It’s been a diserace the way e'se .