Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 24, 1877, Page 7

bflxe Cnso to Bhortly Come to Trinl on : THE CHICAGO THIBUNE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1877. kK — e e THE LAW COURTS. | Judge Booth's Labors in Clearing the Toohnicalitics from the Cass of Wright vs. the North western Railroad. . Its Merltse«-Other Conrt and Davkroptey Proccedings Saturday, Judge Booth Baturday decided the demurrers to the sccond, third, fourth, and fifth vleas in the case of Wright Brothers vs. The Chicago & Northwestern Ratlroad Company, The suit was brought to rccover the valueof the con- tentsof the plaintiffa’ iivery stable, which was destroyed in the great fire, They claimed that the Company at the time- of the fire had storea in thelr dopot a large quantity of inflammable ofl, contrary to the city ordinance, and that the explosion of this ofl sct their stables on fire and Acstroyed thelr property, which otherwise they would have been able to save, Thofourth speclal plea was In offect the general fasue, and the de- murrer thereto was sustalned on that account. The second plea sct up that the plaintifls, at the time of the fire, had stored In thelr stablc a Iarge quantity of bar ond straw, contrary to the city ordinance on the subject, and that the burbing of this materially contrlbuted to the loss of thelr property, and was such an act of tontributory neglizence s precluded them from recovering, Tho detnurrer to this plea was on the ground that It amonunted to the general tasue. 'Tho Judge hcld that though the ques- ton was not free from doubt ns to whether it smounted to tho gencral fssue, yet he would ovarruls the dewnurrer. It was not the law that Beeauso the plaintiffs were at the time violating a positivo Jaw that they could not recover. The question as to whether It was coutributory neg- ligence was one far the }urr. = Tho third plea was of tlic etatnto of limita- tions, and the demurrer thereto was sustained, This ends the techinical objections to the vlead- ings, and the case standa for trinl on the ques- tion firat whether the Company was in any man. ner to blame for the firing of plaintifMa’ premiscs, and sccond whether the plaintiffs had materially contributed thereto so ns to preclude them from recovering. 'The cascis an interest- Ing one, fuvolviniz over 8100,000. It will pron- ably be sot for trial soon, DIVORCES, 1t was rather raking up old sores for Jano Pecd to ask for a alvoreo ut this Jate day, but she s apparently entitled toit. Bho was mar- ried In’ Wisbeach, Enfilnnd. iu_ 1845, and lived with her husband until 1857, when he left ber; and now, after twenty ycars living along, she asks for a legal separation, ‘Altred Pattorson flicd o bill agatnst his wife, Earah E. Patterson, asking for a divorce on ac- count of her unfaithlulness to him. 1TRMSE, A “The motion_for injunction in the law-book eascof E, B. Myers va. Callaghan & Co., was postponed to Jaik. 8, the dofendants agreelng to gf nothing in the meantjme to the prejudico of yers, “UNITED BTATES COURTS, William 8. Wadsworth filed a bill Baturday l{ulnn William Titley, C. W. Titley, Denntson Horton,jand Jolin Kiggs to forecloso o trust- deed for £5,000, on the W, 3¢ of Lot 11, Block 8, in Bawyer's Additlon to Chieago, DANRRUPTCY, In the caso of Henry Greencbaum & Co,, tho Provisional Assignee, Mark Kimball, was au- thorlzed to sell the fixtures and aflice furniture, In the cass of William Ogden, Jr., the Pro- vislonal Assignee was allowed to keepopen the ltm‘(:‘l:nd contluuo buslucss for tho nezt threo wecl R. E. Jeokins was appofnted Provislonal As- signeo of 8anford B, Parkhurst, A composition meeting will bo held Jan, 8, 1678, in tha casc of La Victorio & Tavlor. Charles D, Lusk was appolnted Assignee of Francls A, Eastiman, Tho meotiog for election of an Assignes in tho caso of tho Lakeside Pubilshing Company was adjourned to Jan. 11, 1878, A composition « of 10 por cent was offered aud accepted, payablo Ju threo equal Installmenta {n three, six, and bine months, sccurcd by the notes of the bank- Iu{_t guaranteed t:‘v Donnelicy, Loyd & Co, ho flual dividend eeting {in tho ease of Joseph Kirkland was adjourned to 3 o'clock to- ay. X composition meeting in the case of Joyco & Cunningham will bg held at 10 a. n. to-day, and third general mectlog in the cass of Newton tappleyo at £ o'clock. BUI'ERION COUNT IN DRIEZY, Peter Maydon et al. broughbt sult for 81,200 sealust John N. Babeoek, and_another for tho sane amount against Charles O, Ten Broeke. CIRCUIT COURT. George Rappes and Henry Eggors commenced sult in trespuss against the Georgo E. White ard-wood Lumger Company and George E. WYhito to recover $10,000 damuges, James E. Graham began a suit for $7,000 against Jobn ¥, Nichols and Nathan 1\ Fitch, JUDOMENTS, SupEnion Coynt—CoxrrssioM—Stearas, Dana & Co. vs, John Minga, $101, J o, Il ve, John Cuddy, Ganr— G leily torn ve, John V¥, and Joseph 0. —Btmon Taakell, $105.05. Junas JaMEsoN—1L J. Osborne ct ol. va, Rich- srd Gregy, 855, Cincuit Count—Jopo® Rookns—Isaac Greens. flelder vs. Otto Schounoman, $180,—iret Nation- 8l Jlank of Chicago va, Ienry Wolf, $184.10.— Sarah AL, Wheaton va, Hiram aod Charles Haste ;':'x‘x';'b.?“"c"hm"“ Allls va. Charles Letman, Jupas Doorn—Elizabeth Jolnson va, Ellen Ora- ham; verdict, $30. SPRINGFIELD APPELLATE. &pecial Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, BSramxormip, Ill, Dec. 22.—In tho Appollate Court for the Third District to-day, oplulons ‘wers filed and casca decided as follows: 2. George Wilson et als va. Edward P, Kirby ot al.t error to Morgany sfirmed, Ip this case an order was fled. slkned by llth!nzl’Mh, allows 1ng an appes to the Suprotas Court, 10, Herman Schroder _ve, Virginia F. Crawford; appeal {rom Mclean: allemed. This case (nyoly: e the conatitutionallty of that clauso of the Stato dquor law which makes landiords responsible for injuries n!ulnnfi from tho sale of liquor by their tenants, and tho docision to-day afiirma the conatis tutionality of that provislon, 42. Tho People’s Bavk of Bloomington va, Asa. Bet Gridley et al. ; appeal from McLean; affirmad, 44, George Armatrong ot al. va. 1, T, Whitu et ali appeal srom DeWilt: afirmed, Judgo Lacy dia not sit in this case, bLaviug trled it a tha court elow, 48, Ell Ullu{l‘". Clalborne Jones; sppeal from Macon: afliruie 47, The Chicago & Alton Hallroad Company vs. appesl from Morgan; af- ‘Thomas J. Hsulo firmed. 15, Arthur Farrar et al. va, Willlam Price ot al. ; appoal from Champalgn: teversed and rowanded. Opinton flod. i 53, ‘Clarlos Gritip ve. Gaorge W, Worts, Aairuior; appeal frow Vermilfon; roversed and re- manded'and oplaion fled. Judge Davis, having tried tho caso in the court below, tuok mo' part in tho helrlui‘ 23, Willlam .. Howitt va. Willlam Wal peal from Christian County; reversed and remaud- ed, sad oplnion fled, 28, John J, Fletcher va. George I, Kramo, peal’ from Mason; afirmed. Judgo Lacy did not 814 in this case, baviog tried it below, 4 Joha Cisrk vs. Joho and Willlam Dalej sp- veal from Ford; atirmed. ‘The following cases were taken under advise- ment: 47, Chicaza & Alton Railtoad Company ve. Richard Langley: dopeal from Mavon, - ' 35, The Indianapolis & 5t Luuly liallroad Com- pany ve, the Feoplo et al,, elc., w 7.’ The Town uf Paua vé. O, B. errar to Christian, The Court sufourned untii the next regular term, the third Fuceday in May, ——— CARE OF CHILDREN'S TEETH, 70 ths Editor of The Tribuna. Ergmart, Ind, Dee. 29.—Too much Im- portance cannot be_ placed upon the prescrva- tion of the temporary tecth, Parents are spt to thlnk the first, or temporary, teeth are of minor {mportauce, siuce they are io a few years ¥epluced by the permancnt ones. But these are Just as fmportant in thelr tlme =3 those by which they are followed. They make the same domand for cleanlivess, sud nearly the same for Ruarding against the ravages of decay. A well- preserved temporary sct almost invariably in- sures & sound and regular permauent set. I Tegularity of the pernanent teeth is generally the result of the too carly loss of the tempora- 7y. The crowns of the temporary tecth, when 8oL too far decoyed, way by flled and pro- served & while Jooger with great cowmfort to the patieut und positive advantago to the per- manent ones, Nuturally the roots of the tew- vorary teeth should be absorbed, and the crown shiiiply vushed away by the protrusion of the secoud tooth. Seldom, U ever, abould tho firet teeth be extracted, exvepl for iwo reasouss Wien they becoms badly decuyed and of courss Palutul, or when by remaiutng they crowd their $ucceasors out of their places. Thelr prematuro Temovul allows of s0 much coutructlon of the aamin- ho sue. ippincott et al, § - Jaw that the second testh are crowded and ir- Tegulur, and ousequently more Hablo 1o decay, FEvery child’s mouth after dentition shonld be cxamined by the dentist as oftcn as once In six months, and as a rule the same frequency might be profitably followed by those of mature ears. i The first temporary {ecth are twenty In nnm- bery—elght {nclrors, fonr canincs, and clght molara, and make thelr appenranca nearly (n the order of time {ndleated in the following table: Anthral Inctsars, from f Lo § manths after hirth, Lateral Incisors, from 7 to 10 months after hirtl Firat molarn, from 12 to 16 montha after hirth. Canines, from 14 Lo 20 montbs after birth, Becond molars, from 20 o ) mouths after birth, In what has preceded I have not reverted to the sufferlng endured by young children during the perind of tecthing, the alleviating of which properly comnes within the province of the dentist, l’lhall treat of this subject (Leothing) at another time. 8. M. Cusssine, MRS, PRESIDENT HAYES. A Couple of Interesting Ancedotes About the DMistreas of tho White 1fouso—Tha Uon, A. G, Rtiddie’s First Vislt to the Ex- ecntive Manslon—fiow Jim Saunders Got His louss Mended, . Bpecial Correspondencs of The Trihune. Creveruaxp, 0., Dee. 22.—Much bas been said of late of Ars. Ilayes as the first lady of the lnnd, snd from the accounts of thoss who have known her longest and best it would scem that the story has even yet only half been tolid. Bhe was the same unassuming, Intslligent, sen- siblg woman while plaln Mrs. Hayes, of Fre- mont, and while thewlife of ““our dear Colonel ™ of the Twenty-third Ohlo Volunteer Infantry in the carly stages of the War, that she now Is ns mistross of tho White Iouse. In the present Tetter 1 proposa to relato an fncldent that bap- pencd last sumnmer, and anotber that cccurred during the carly part of tho War, to show that what I havo sald ia correct. ‘The Hon. A. G. Rlddle, the novellst-lawyer of Whashington, made several speeches fn this Btato during the campalgn last - fall upon the Republican side. In each of theso he referred to Mrs, 1ayes intho most flattering and compll- mentary terws, calling her the most porfect specimen ol the American lady sluce Martla Wishington. a It struck me a8 rather unique that a lady shauld thus be referred to fn a political apocch, and at the closeof one of bis eforts I remarked as much to Mr. Riddle. He responded as [fol- lowst T am well aware that it is an unnsual thing to epeak of alady, even though sho ba the Prest- dent’s wife, In a political speech; and the difti- culty attending the vase (s much fucreased on that account; but I felt constraived to do it. ‘To one who has lived ainid the cold conventlon- alittes of Washington soclety for any length of thite, and observed the sad lack of almost every- thing except formalily and atyle there, It _ls ro- freshing to observo a lady ‘like Mrs. Hayes, who casts it ol astde and 15 mak- fug a revolution {n tho very Tmrler that it fa wost needed, Talk about Clvil-Scrvice reform; ves, that is all right, and the President fa bring- Ingit sbout fn bis own rood way, Bpcak of conciliating the 8outh; that Is right ton, and as 8 Northern-Southern man Iam glad to scolt golng on; but in making up tho excellences of the Administration It {s oll_wrong to forget the great Influence which Mrs. Haycs is excrting. 1 never shall forget my fIrst mcquaintance with Mra, Hayes. It was last June, Tlio weather was very warm, and I had come home in the cvening, and, as s my custom aftor taking sup- per, seated m;u.-l! on the veranda in front of the house. I'resently a Irfond, who stands high with the Administration, came slong in his carriage and nsked me to take o short ride. Owlog to the great icat [ was simply dreased {n shirt, linen pants, and slippers, and was not expecting to o out anywhere, Itold mIv friend that if i would excuse my appearance [ wonld uot object to the ride, 1o insisted that I was dressed _all right, so, hastily drawlvg on a duster, I took o scat beside b “Wag bad proceeded but s short distance when he told me fhat Jio hod started for a call at tho White House. I insisted upon getting out and returning, saying that I had mover called upon the President, and could not think of making 1y first appearanco io this dishabille fashion. But it was of no use. Even while wo were nx;mlnlz the matter, we had arrived at tho Executive Mansion, aud almd8t as in a dream 1 heard my naing aunounced, and folt that I was possing &ruugh tho forin of introduction. I made the best stamnmer of an excuse that I could, under the clrcumstances, and then ft was all done. Mrs. lHaves, 1o a fow well-choson words, told me that nothing 11ko cxeuse was necessary; that in such weather as that the most comfort- abie way of dressing was the most proper; and then, in on Instant, just how I did not knaw, the subject was changed to matters in which I had the greatest fnterest. We chatted of Oblo and Ollo peoplo with whom we wera both acqualut- cd, and when the call was crled there had been a lialf lour In which I had entirely furgotten my coltarless neck and bootless feot, and was o3 much at home as thongh I had made tho most claborats tollet of broadeloth before making my first call upon the President. ‘This simple lln{{v {llustrates tho character of the President's wifo completely." Yesterday I was talking with a member of the Twenty-thfrd Ohfo who went out with the vegiment at tho beginning, He related a num- ‘ber of ancedates of Mr. and Mrs. Haycs, but the followlng 18 so_good and nearly coiucides o character with*Mr, Ridd} tory that I can- not refrain from relating 1t 4]t was during the first months of our belng out when wo liad as yet knowu but little of the bardships of war, Onc doy Mra. [Iayes arrived in umg, but the fact waa not generally known. James Naunders was a member of my company. Jim—ns hio was called—was a tall, lank, uusus- ting, awkward country boy,—a good soldiecr, ut not overly smart in detecting a joke. Cone sequently, tho boys used frequently. to [ him quite bnlll{, but he took it all in good aod was entirely rendy. the next time a scl caing along to *bite’ atft. ¥ For some time thero had been sad nced of somc ineans of mending ourclothes, Thisneed ‘was belug discussed the nexs day after Mrs. Hayes' arrival, and Jém was especlally stroo, in his expresaions of heed for some one to men Dis blouse, which really was in & very unpre- sontable coudition, ++Why, Jim,’ said one of the boys, ‘didn't 'you kuow that thero is o woman Iu camp whose business It s to mend the l)ofll' tlothes! “I"No,' sald Jim In astonishment; *whera s she #4(0p at the Colonel’s tont,’ sald tha other; 41 was thero and her x my coat ;‘utnnuy, une sha did & smackin’ good ‘lluh, too.! 4 Golly,' sald Jhm, * 1] o up, then, this very aftornoon, and glt my Llouse doctored. Thut I8 very hnud‘: indeod. “True o fls word, Jim_called around at the Colonel's tent, and, with his hat ynder his arm, resented himself, with his awkwardest bow, at ho entrance. 1le was received with marked po- litencss by the Coloncl, and the boys who were lurking ahout appreciating the joke waited de- velopinents. Ina few momeuts Jim agaln ap peared outslde ln bilsshirt-sleeves, and theradiant amile that Jitup his honest features showod that hio hud not boen rebutled, at least, Calling bl sslde, where a group of the ho{l were guthered, the followlug conversation tock place: 4 Wel, Jim, dig you find your woman?? 440 course I dld. She was just a settin’ there, and sho's & molghty good lookin’ woman, toa.’ 4+ What did you say1? all chuckling. 4 4Why, when I went inItold tho Colonst that I heered thero was a woman there to do sowing for the bo; d a8 my blouse necded mendin’ aud buttond sewed on, I bad cowe to et it dons, ‘Io kind of swiled, sud turned to the woman sottin' there and asked her if sho could fix the bloucs for me, and she sald sho could as well as nos, as she had nn(hluzh spocial on hand. 8o I took 1t ofl and left ft, tho Colo- nel tellin' me to'call 'round this afternoon and gitit. You all seem to lauzh, but Idon't sce anything funuy. {fshsis heretodo the sowin’, why not do minat? *'This was too much. Tho boy: out futo a loud chorus of- laughter, as 1t stbslded one of thery sald : ‘4dim, dou't you kuow that that woman s “‘fl F[olfinvl": witel? i i s=xi on't care; she's & anyhow,! as though that didu't follows ‘and T s gola’ €6 git my blouse, {ust as sbie told me to.! WAbd be di lgo, and was agsin recelved In that maoner which made Bim forget himself sud bl uwkwardness, and she restorod his blouse fo bim in perfoct repalr. (s ltle incldent was all that was needed to fix the affections of all the boys upon tho Colonel's wife, sud whencver sbe apoeared ayzain fo camp she was certaln torecelve the wurmest wolcoin: 4 Poor Jim died in & Bouthern hospital, and bis name may now be scen upon the monwmens standing fn_the village-squarc at Mesopotamia, Trumbull County, 1o thls State; and we have often wondered if the President and his '%: ever think of mendiug his blouse rather than parties 10 8 sell upon an fonocent soldler-boy."? ¥ e SOFT WEATHER IN IOWA. To the Edller of Ths Tribune. QaBpEx GROYS, Decatur Co., Ia., Dec. 24— Weatler very warm; mercury 65 in the sbade; wlld geeso golng north; frogs singlog; cherry- buds swelling; good flu weather. Thiok our fruit-crop will bo killed. Nearly balf of the -in the first elements of sculpture from tho artist cotn Loo soft to crib; feeding caftle and hogs; dotng well; somo sickness, owing to the un- timely warm weather, CURRENT GOSSIP. SONU. Town In the fieids, in hilthesome May, A mald and youth tozgather; 8 An In customnry witn prisoners who have heen long confined, fic has his hobbhies, one of which s an Iden that he fs a_harometer. e also pos- acanes a remarkablo hankering for short-caki WhY- guestioned as tn is health he answered: g fecls well emmxh. but It's gwine to raln to- morrow, as my old bones begina to ache. Ikin always tell. flow de do, Mr, Perkins{” (to the Bupcrintendent). The least favor done him 18 treasured (n his miud, as he reverted to ‘“dat and demanded that the offenslve words be with- drawn, Non-compliance hrougtit out a brand-new rawhide from nnder her shawl, with which the clergyman was struck several times with all the power of the arm which wiclded {t. A bystander interfered, and the lml( fell to the ground, whenre #be arose quickly and plfed her whip azgin upon the object of her vengeance. Final- 1y the trouble ceased, leaving a very donbiful victory fn the hands of the attacking party. ———— Hesrxanlgiid the livclang day Roro ton "or (heles yelra sen, Fir goirdioe. X P s o St Dat was g0 aweet. Yoit rememaber, dfn't—Uh LAMP-LIGHTING. 10 windunog 10w Ly mnalsemwents wwith asich), 1'Ml never forget dat 'possum.’” s Of al) the aentons going, ile spent most of his time in reading, and | The Gas-Lamps of London to Da Lighted by Bpring in the time yonng Jovers meet, often made partienlar Inquiry about **dat Elertricity, When leaves and flowers are growing. " Town inthe Aelds, benida a atream Through waving meadowa flowlng, They sat and dreamed a lovers® dream Of 1ifa and sanahine glowing. The wind sanz low: **Rejofen! refaical T.ove nevor hraoke dslaving™': It sounded fike a young nnn's voics At matins gently praying. They ieard 1ta music all the 0'er hill and valley hlowin, 440 1ife In 1ike & aunbeam's ray ‘While Tove its arcds are sowing. ™ And there, beshile the riopling stream Throngh waving meadowa flowing, They satand dreamed a lovers' dresm, Whileleaves and flowers were growing. Derroir. Jauzs Lavastan, saller-kivered almanac amd Dr. Franklin's almanac with the green back.” fle hay faint lea about the iate war, asexpressed In these worda: [ didn't know ders wasa war untlt I lovked ont'n my window on the sccond flogh and sce’d lots of soljers a standin’ ont- slide, when 1 thought they was a gwine to break Inthe prison: but when I looked at dem nzain I maw dey wasw't Philadelfy soljors, as they wna most boys. ey was from Ohlo, wasn't dey, Mr. Perkinst 1 thought some of them ought’r be at home with their mam- mies. And den 8 heard the biz gitng bang down at the Navy Yard, and 1 got down in the cell, ‘eause I didn’t know but dere mougzht be o bat- tle & gwine on, and a hall mought come scootin® into mv cell. Now, Il de other side was sharp, why didn't dey builil hoats anid come up de Del aware and take Philadel(s, and then the war was ober? But dey dldn't. Yes, all de colored people am free but this one. When naked how he wanld tike to be transe ferret aver the river to the Almshouse, whero he would have more freedom (he was in igno- raice of the action of the PrisonInspectors),tha tears welled u. in hie cyes, and, with falterin; Isandon Times," Dee. B, Buch I8 the progress the science of electricity i makingin the handg of its practical exponents that we have now to fecord the fact that any number of strect-lamps can be dealt with,~that 15, London or any other towncan have the whole of its public gas-lamps turned on, lighted, and turned off instantapeously, with easo and, sofarna at present his heen secen, with certalnty. The highly fngenious fnven- tion by which thia Is accomplished fs due to Mr. 8t. George Lane Fox, and ison trial at the atlon of the Gas-Light and Coke Compsny at Fulham, where wo recently Inapected its orac- tical working. The arrangementa by which & revolution {n our publie lamp-lighting promises to bo clected conslst, in the first place, in connecting tho lamps togcther by con- ductors, conslsting of fusulated metallle wircs. By this means an electric current, generated at a station or central point, operates GUSTAVE BRION. (Translated from the French af Rene Menard, for The Tvidune, by Emma Stanley. ) This distinguished artist, who recently dled | yolce, he said: *ivonld 1 Hke 161 Okl God | simultancously upon every lamp through the in Parls, was born in the Department of the | knows how I would hress de day when 1 could | instrumentality of an apparatus attached to Votgos, In 183, e belonzred by birth to Lor- | sce do preen fleids, de fibber, and de [ cach Jamp. The apparatus constitutes the raine; by his artistic education, to Alsace. In | 2ky onte mmhh and feel as though I was special feature of Mr. Fox's {nvention. Itis free, free, free! ' Iere he broke down utterly, and sobbed na though his heart was breaking. “Docsa bird feel happy when it sinzs in its eagral Nol Well, it's ae same happiness dat I have felt for twenty-five long yeurs wilont hopo for de future. DIs summal, when 1 was out in de prison yard de fleat tima since I have beena prisonce, £ could not epeak as I felt de sunlight fall on me whilout fron bars or stone wails to ;m{.“un beams. It was de first bright day [ i, When the probabliity of an carly relcase was made known to him lnst week the old fellow brightened up wonderfully. Yesterday after- noon Mr. Perkins went Into the cell and related the goud news, Q) thank de Lort!" sata he, bursting into tears, and 8 few minutes later when be walked out be threw unwonted activity into his thin limbs. e will be detained at the prison until suitable provision is made for his support. 1831, his family baving removed to Btrasbourg, lic entercd the atelier of the painter Gabriel Uuerin, at the samo tima recelving Instruction difflcult without. drawings to describo precisely hls tngentous ptece of mechanism, but broadly it may bo stated to consist malnly of a soft tron core,around which Is acoil of tnsnlated wirs, thus formivg an electro magnet. The wire of this clectro magnet forms part of the eiectric clreuit by which thie lamps are connected, and constitutesin Itsell a primary coll. Around this nrimary cotl Is wound a secomslary coll of fine wire of much greater length, We thus have an induction colt and a fixed magnet, which can Le magnetized 80 a8 to render Its poles reversibla at pleasure. Abore this fixed magnet is & per- manent steel magnet, whick, bowever, s movablae, being free to turn oo a neadle polnt forming @ vertical axis, thus affording it the means of develuping a reciprocating horizontal motlon when actuated, These magnets are carried {n a small metal framing. having a pas- sage through 1t for the gas tn pass to the burner at tho top, aud being provided with a stop-cack, which {s actuated by the reciprocating magoet. ‘The whole of this apparatus is inclosed fn an alr-ticht metalllc case, and Is only about 2i¢ inches high and 214 Inches wide ot lts greatest width, and is screwed on to the supply-pipe in the lamp, the conductor being carrled down the interlor of tne lamp-nost and lald underzround, excent whero an overhead line 1s admlssible, This apparatus has two functlons, one belng to turn thegas onand ofl. and the other to HNeht it at the polnt of the burver. The former is atcomptished by opening and closing the stopcock by means of what ‘may be called an electrie nee Ie-u?, and the latter by the fnduc- tion cofl, the whole, however, belng In combina- tlon. -'The plug of this ncedle-tap Is cylindrical, about three-clghts of an Inch In dlameter, and is carricd in & socket, which {t fits rathier loosely, It {s made to turn fo this sovket by the action of the reelprocating mag- net, & couple of studs, on which are brouzht into contact with a small pin connected with Friedrich, Obliged to provide for bimaclf early In life, ho scon commenced alving lessons in drawing nnd vortraitire, snd also dealgned llustrations for books,—at the same time pur- sulog his studies under his masters with great ardor, s Grst plcturs exhibited at tho Balon waa In 1847, and clalmed much admiration. In 1853 he obtained = sccond medal with hia ““Sehlitters de 1a Forest Noire,"—a picture, wlich was purchased by the Muscum of Btras- bourg, and destroyed in 1870 by the Germans, The *“Train de Bols sur le Rbin" and the “Enterrement dans los Vosges, exhibited in 1853, placed Brion In the highest rank of artists. Standing on the raft which foated 1lke an fin- mense serpent on tho groen watcrs of the Rhine, tha mariners who conducted the “traln de bols" were soundiuyg the depth of the river with long poles, or struggliog with the cur- rent by means of oars, Theso rafts of trecs from the mountains of Bwitzerland, with their Loatmen's cabing, wero veritable flonting fsl- ands; snd, as the strango life of this fluvial population unrolled befors the view, tho raft soemed & world sufliclent for beings thus Inured 10 the chilly dampness of such au atmorplicre. ‘The sccnes {n this plcture already belong to his- tory, as the mavigation of tho Rhine has been mm{:)nl.oly chauged for some time. * L'Enterremont dans les Vosges " hfll!loomx subject presented fu s picturesque lght. molintaln 1s covered with snow, and on & rough declivity a coflln s carrled towards the grave which {8 about to swallow it. The black bicr ? QuIrs. Two buttio kids—A young goat-fight, Favorite Hibernian toy—The top of the mora- fog. v A Western editor returned a tailor's bil), in- doracd, * Declined; handwritfng flicgible.” The difference hetween a car-conductor and a tippler is that while one hates to punch s pass tho other hates to pass & punch, P * Boflingz hair in a solution of tea will darken it,"" $ays an cxchanee: but some folksdon't like to have thelr tea darkened n that way, A chemist out West claims to have discov- ered a.preparation which wil muako leather b\lxl:ebpruo ‘We guess it must be an ox hido of Iron. The old muxlm‘h“na chaste and you'll b hnrnr," 1s contradicted palnt blank by a Black Hills'man, who was reccntly chased tenmiles by produces an improssive cflect. Fhe relativess| g party of redskins. the plug, and forming, in fact, the handle of the ond friends follow the dead, and thelr corteze stop-co The annular space between tho plug forms a sombro and striking contrast with the [ Emma Balley and Emma Colby are billed to | and the socket—which Is about the onc-thou- suowy landscape. At 'the same exhibitfon Brion displayed the “Fote-Dieu.” A Christ stretchel on a marble cross was surrounded by peasants in hollday- attire, who were covoring 1L with crowns aud wreaths of bluets, Flora's belts, and eglantine. Al {8 full of anclent buildings, and tho towns and villages, In many instances, rotain thelr old plivslognomy. In painting hls cele- brated plcture, “Les Baltimbanques au Moyen Age," tho artist has displayed the old houses of lls ccuntry, with the porulntlnu who Inbabited them, {n tlie most graphic manner. Notwithstanding lils tasto for Alsatian man< ners and custors., Brion niade inany excursions to other provinces, particularly to Dritanny, to which we owe “Lu Broton Causant ayvea la Bretonne.” and the *Porte d’Eglise Pendant Ia Mesgo,""—a charming pleture, full of life, This represcnts peassuts knceling- before a little country-church which canunot contain them all, snd wiio aro performing the rites without which are bolug celebrated within the chapel. In visiting the lowercouutries, Brion mado an excuralon into Spain, from which he brought tha 1Quate au Loup,"—an nmusiog rustic scone. ‘Two mendlcants are represented leanlng agafust a wall, gazing at the skin of u wolf which thoy have mounted on four stakes, in the posture 05 a live salnal. Thoy have rla the country of one of thoso cneinles of tho shepherd, aua ars walting for public generosity to bestow tho whic fs thelr due. ted Venice, Naples, Rome, and il in Venlco hisattentlion was ar- rested by o stranga yet plcturesque scone, which he forclbly presunted to the view on canvas, This waos a burfal. It appears that in Vonice scarlot inatead of black 1s the badgo of mourn- ing; and tho artist shows us a gondol. drlpgd Y Tun a foot race In Virginia City on Christinns. Day. This will Lo, we suppose, What tho printers call o two-cm dash, Beggars should not be choosers, Lalrd (con- descendingly)—"* Do you think you could carry home o liaro, Sandy (" Sandy—t Weol, Laird, 1 dinna doot but a could {( s had a pair o’ rabbits tae bulance it Wi —Judy. Prosident In Polit. Economy Class—* You Mr, 8., that there was a fall in the prics y & year or 80 ago.'' Mr. 8. (unxious to remove suspicion)—'* Oly, no, Mr. Presfdent! I didn't kuow anyibing about 1L1"—Columbla Spectator, (dth part of an incli—is filled with oll, which 1a retalned by caoillary attraction between the two surfaces. the jolnt being thus rendered per- fectly gus-tight, 'The oll of bitter alinonds uscd, on account of its non-oxydizable character and from the power it posscsses of resisting the actfon of very low temnperature, Buch s the apparatus deafgned by Mr. For, {n which it will be seen that o very special feature s the Intro- duction of a flxed core which can he magnetized 80 as to render its poles reversible at pleasure, and, in coujunction with it, a movable magnot, the polarity of which, however, is perinancot. Wo bavo now to deseribe the means wherehy this apparatus s renderedactive and the method of operating wjth It as wituessed by us on our viee to the Fulkam Btation. Assuming a group or serics of gas-lamps to be connected by & con- ducting wire, theends of the wire from this circuit are connected with a switch, which s slmply a little piect of mechanlsin for placing -the circult in_communlcation with, or discos uecting it from, tho battery, An electrie o rent {8 first scut through the ctreuit from an or- dinary powerful telegraph battery. The result 1s that the soft fron vore {n cach “apparatus be- comes converted fnta 4 temporary lmuinel. and tho permancnt reciprocating mnaguet above It is made to turn upon its axis. In perforningapar- tlalrevolutlonthe projections upon flenguge with the pin or handloot {he stop-cock, and turning that round open the cock and admit the 2as to tho burner. ~ The battery Is then disconnested from the circult, aod a condenacr ls ehnrgiled by means of & Rumkorfl coll, and then discharg through the clrcuit. ~ The result {s that au in- dopaudent olectric discharge is Induced at the burner of crery lamp at the same moment, aud the gas Is ignited by means of a palr of metallic points, which are connected with the secondar) e Mamma, where dothe cowa get the milki" asked Willle, looking up from the fonming pan of_milk which he bad been (ntontly regarding, “Whero do you get your tcarsi" was the answer. After a thoughtful slience he agaln broke out, *Mamma, do thocows have to bo epankey} b T Tomm "home trom school, to his father thateacher’s report on his progress during the mouth, ** This Is very unsatisfactory, Tom; you've a very small pumber of good marks, I'm not at all pleased with {t.” I told the teacher you woulda't by, but he wouldn't alter {t." Alnegro waos seatenced in Floyd, Ga., to be hanged 1o Boptember, sl he asked the' Judge to appoiot au carlier day. His Honor remarked that propricty prevenicd a change. **Nover mind the proprioty, Judwe, sald the prisoner, “I'm the man that's going to be hlnzod’ and ought to have somcthing to say about it." 4 \What did the Russian soldicrs scud some hot nm‘fms to tne Turks for, flnml" asked a 8- year-old, who had been spelling out s news- In'red, gliding silently on a canal borderod ¥ coil, and which deliver the spark. To extloguis| majeatls paluses, ‘The cotn 1 Ted, and those | PAPST Tarsampli “ilot erapas, my deaclh | (RoYiche tho wires aro roconnected with too who accompauy it are dressed in red. threw grapes-hot K:r t&o Liours.”” The diffors | Dattery by means of the switch, but 1o such a Brion exercised his geuius o every style of manuer as that a roverse currcut ls obtained. between fruit and grapeshot had to be ex- | 2 afoting. A born enoiny of the confused thoo- | TR08 i The pormanct magnet of each lamp fs thus L o stbeticn, Lo aluited without troubling | Plained for 8 small space.—Loaton Builetin. causcd to_rotarn to its normat position, and in himsclf about the vexations thess coused to 41 want to go and sca the base-ball mateh,” | go doing it sgain acts on the pln of the stop- those founders of clasaitications who are often | sald tho sub-editor. **Well,”" askod thechlef, | coex aud thus turns off the gas, “are you through your work for the day! Have ou reslgned Behurzl™ ¢Yes. “ Hayve you dentified Osman Pashal" © Yes." 4 And killed off some more RHussianal’’ Yes.” ' And located Sitting Bulll” #Yee" ‘I don't seu that thero's anything moro to do. You can go." at a loes to kuow fu what category they oughit to rank. The uru&ulu betwoun the real and [deal nover troubled him in any manner; but, nevertheless, a plcturesque conception pers vades all his works, evon whon they treat of roligious subjects. Thus, in lls “8aint Plerre Marchaut sur lcs Esux,” it 18 not Chrut in IHis omnipotence which has Insplired tho artist; tue evangelical subject has only been for him apre- text to paint tho mighty grandour of tua sca. 'l‘;hf sama remark may be apptied to “La Flu du oluge. An unexpectod circumstance suddenly threw tho artist in the midst of Koman archicology. Tha Emperor Napolecon I1I. was writing the Life of Ciesar, and, being desirous of obtuiniug a vorrect idea of the weans of defonse and at- tack of tho aucient Rom: li Brion was ciarged Thia system was introduced by Mr. Fox at the Fulhsm Station aboul elght months since, and altogether forty lamps scattered about in varf- ous partsof the Company's exteusion premiscs have been used to test'tha principle. About two months ago the number connected up was reduced to twenty-thres, in_order to enable tho Company's engineer, Mr. F. McMinn, to make an ofticial trial of the system by direction of tho Governor and Directors of the Company. s trinl rangud over six weuks, und i {te results ennbled “r. McMinn to report most fuvorably upon the merits of the systom. For all practi- cal purposcs, however, {ho {nventlon may beo safd to bave bad an eight mouths' trial. "Tha Company Intend continuing the trial through the winter mounths, when, I it 1sfound tosuswer thelr expectations, the; IORACE GREELKY’S TASTES. Hudson River Chronicls. The philosopher of tue Tribuns was a grast gourmand, not an eplcurs, and would eat, {n scason and out of season, whatever pleased his palate. Aud this, although bo was s professed Grabamite, ur 2 bellover lu a yogotable or coreal diot, Wo have known bim to walk several blocks foraloaf of Graham bread, which ho = may perhaps apply It with the military eplsodes of an anciont sicge, | would consumo with an accompanimant of two | for the lighiting and extinction of public Lmn-. After profound study o comploted onark- | dozen large tried oveters, and to eat s midnfght | In the meantimo Mr. Fox is negotiating with able pleture, *“Le Bloga d'uno Vil Romalns sous Jules Cesar,’ which great seasation at tho Expocition of .1803, Brlon's fucurslons luto the domain of history roved most success(ul; but hosiways returned Fn rofereuce to Alsatlan subjects. Lot us then folliow bim, for he is going to unroll all the e of the Alsatlan peasants; and now we will st at the ¢ Mariage Protestant,” whers we the varous parochial suthurities in London sud the provinces tho adoption of his lnveution. e — CURRENT OPINION. Blalne and Conkling.—*' And the sams dny Pllato and B sre made Irlends togather; for meal of beelsteak and hot butsersd blscult thut the Kentucky glant or o half-clviized ostrick would have sbrunk from. But Mr. Greeley never drank llquor of sn kind,—nelther malt, wine, nur spirits. e did not know the taste of -rlrfll. and woald not use them even as medicines. In the coursa of forty vears that we knew bhim iuti- mately,” we never but once kuew of his | boforethay we onwily betwean thomselves.” sc0 the pastor uuiting the Lappy couple In | gagting’ anythlog that cuntalned llquors, snd | —LZuke, zolil., 12, Becalléd by Devout Murijord presence of the famnily and witnosses. The { ghenhe did 1k unwittingly, For years {t had Courand, painter then laads us to the ** Ropas do Nocus, and thence to ** Le Jour des Rols," d grand fets i1 Alsace. Ierewe behold an Alsatian farmer, with bis wife and calidren, celobrating tho feass of the Eplphany. ‘Turee chiluren, dressod in roysl robos, represent the Sagt, and enter with thulr tributes Lo the infaat Juaus; which, with other appropriato ceremonialy, add a charm to thls Alsat(an scenc, with italocal characteristics. “La Lecture de la Bible " obtalned a medal of honor at the Salon of 1803, s 1s & chariing composition of rustic uaivete. Nextin routing comes the ** Burlal on thusRbing," Motionloss on the shores the rolatives and friends gazoun the basque which is to bear away the corpes, Tho been his custom to eat his Thanksalving dioner at the bones of a lady friend who had Drought with her from her natlve Vermont the traditional Now Eniland custum of celebrating Thanksgiving. The late Mr. Heary J. y- mond and John F. Cloveland (Mr. Greeley's broth -law), also now deccased, were gon- erally among the guests, On ono of thess occaslons plates of brandy peaches were placed for each guest, Greeley, standing on no ceremony, tasted of the peaches, aud Andip; thetn palatable, quickly disposed of the alioted portion, aud was hsoding up his plate for another supply, when Cleveland—who was on ‘The fact remaina that Patterson {s not the actaal cholcs of the people of Calorado, and thiy ought to bave boen & suliciont reason for & Domo« cratio louse of Ropreseutatives o refuse bim ad- musion.~Bufalo Courler (Dem. ). .« “Avote for the Blind bill is » vote for says the Now York Tviduas, Cor- t It ‘*vole for repudiation® of the scaliost lcglalative iricks ever performoed In the Unlted States. —UempAls Avalanche (Ind.), 1t is yoported that, as the groat New York Senator thiogers over his tollst-table of & morn- the opposite 4ide of the table—Interrupte f 4 Bosuman doparta with the dead, acoowpauied by. | b, witn ~ the. question: Printer (a1l | hdy bahiper 244 Bummlag, 1a 4a beent weeping Iriends; and thus ends Brion's repre- | b old assoclates called him printer) Brare ot hee soutation of Alsatian sceues. what are you eatingl? * Nomething 4, "t fah-ab-vadly dreamiog, Nothing pleases in tho pictures of Brion more than his Koneny. While lookiog en Lis tu- terjors, with the slmple and aubstantial furni- ture b Joved to paiot, we fosl that those who peoplo bis canvases lead calia wod peaceful lives, and luwlv'; Do exlst¢nce smoug the tumults of tho world. RELEASED AFPTER TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS' IMPRISONMENT, Pailadphia Times, — ° ‘The Timss latcly called attention to the fact that {n Moyamensing Prison was an occupant who bad been confined in° that lnstitution for pearly twenty-seven years, but who was about to be released. Edward J. Ford, the prisoner, s acolored man, who was seulenced to death on the 81st of May, 1851, for killing his brother- in-law, Owen Cook, by stabblng him with a butcher-knife. For some reafop Willlam F. Johnson, then Qovernor of the Btate, falled to auswered Greeley, with that pecullur drawling out of the last world which was his habit when he was particularly satlstled, *\Well," contloued Cloveland, *you have been govblloz down brandy peaches like an old toper.” There w & look—a stranze miugling of diszust, sudne: and dismay—came vver Mr. Ureeley's face, & mournfully saylug, ** What did you tell e that fori " he pushed ashle thu replenished plate, sud the gratitied palate was hustily cleansed with a bounteous draughit of Croton. We ars cou- fident that never before that bad Mr. Ureeley kuown thwe taate of liquor, and wo are equally countident that never alter—elther kuowlngly or {uadvertently—did ho uass it in any shape. Weo know that.ever after when at his annual visit he was particular to usk, * Mother —, have you been poisoning these peaclies with that infernal brandy?' ~Cincinnati Times (Bep.). " L:r.l Oon‘llllng"-‘:hdom Is }{kf hlll:‘n o‘fa c‘l;. sricy in paraalt of the ‘possum that had got Lo the eud of & pwiogiog )imb. When the darky had cllmbed l‘l troe, aod found 1bat ha coaldn'v get 8t the "possuin, Do cab O the limb. Thers was o dowufall, " And the yabesqueat procpedians interssted Bim B0 o1 —Hoston Salurday Gaselle. Thie condition of thinge cannot be pro. longed through four yesrs. The Presidens cannnt surrender unqualidedly to bis Senatoria) assailarts withuat _subjecting hiusell bondage more morufying than suything he has yet endured. But it Is 0ot possible for bl to remaln whera he'ls snd aa b fe he retreat or advancat Will ho Ogit ate teruis? Thess are the queations to Snewered, and that mast be answervd soon. — Ve York Tunea (Rep.). K ‘Fho suocess of the Presideat's effort to carry ouf e eform padressad the reformpledos 51" 1Le “opubtican Rational Convention. depeads = —————— A Priest Cowhided by un Irate Womaa, 8. Crartas (Wo.) News. An affalr of & very disagrecable nature oc- thie death-warrant, and no succeeding Goy- | curred st tho depot in Bi. Peiors last Monduy | apon the support glven him by the people. ~Alona :Iri‘::r felt it lucumbent upon himself to do any- | moraiug. Father Rotter, the Cathollc clergy- ;:'- g: noum;:%.ixa:?g’n: ; .m: fx‘la A’.; ':cv.\:d zslzn;:: thing in matter. Ford has cver sinco re- | mun, sald some rather severs words about cer- s LT ceri Bl L erking rocey m Uov. Hartrantt the long. | St- stlers. ? | tak trouble to aphiold & man who s mal delayed pandon. 8" | Nlian Eohea Koubl, aslsterinaw of Dr. Gossow, | ke the trouble 1o aptold s man who ls meking It is wald that the clencyman reforred to Miss Koch! on scveral occastons lu terns wiolly in- excasable it the facts are as stated to us, and hardiy to be excused under clreuwstanced. The lady, likoa woinan scorned, becawme very augry: she wrotea letter to the u:'rg‘ymm fa- wistlug upon s witbdrawal of the words spoken but thers was uo susponse. Then sho adopled @ sumwary weans of vengeance. Koowlug thas Fatber Rotter was golug to St. Louts Monday wurulng, sho weut to the dvpot, met bim there, Ford's long confinement has told on him, his 1eft side belog parsially paralyzed. His balr is gny and very busby. “Ho wears his beard full, ut closely cropped, aud 88 bo peered through the burs with his clear, Lright cyes hie prescoted s welnd appearance. He rarely meations bis crime, and {f approacticd on the subjest veverly turos to snother topie. When he was finit cou- fiued ho was vermuucml and threateued tho witocsses who testified aguinst him, bu* theso fecliugs passed from Lis miud yeurs sgv tul fallure. —Lar(ford Post (Bep.). 1t ia undoubtedly the President’s duty to remove ao oficer whom he considers to bo unft; sud If the Beuate shoald rvfusy Lo confina & suc- cessor whom he uominates, because it considercd bim aleo to be undt, ik would Lo & rightlul exer- clsoof its power, and it would s tho Freslicot's duty ta gumlgate suother pereon. But that ta not s case. Dy voting to sustaln Mr. Coskling, ltor his speech, the Scnalo declarcd that 16 bu- Ueved the lncumbent (o b s 4 olices, not that thy perton nomloated was onft. The decislon prac- tically nettles the matter. The President, ballev- 1078 change to be desirable, In the interests of the pnnlic marvice, practically exhansta his con- atltntional power whery he attempts to effect & change, and {s told by the Senate that it will nat consent to s chanze, 1t is a desd lock, And the responnaibility rests with the Senate.—liarper's Weelly (liep.). The best freetrada argnment that can be addnced—at least the best arzument In favorof aboliahing all Castom-ifonnes—is the everizating tronbie concerning the appolntment of Cu House officers. MANY YOATA D becn a qnestion whether the New York Custom- ITouse was & part of the Governmant or the Gove ernment & paet of the Custom-ilonse. If the Prestdent can faenjeh 8 ratisfactory and laating so- lation of the question, he will havs performed a z;llnsv;la puablic service, — Indianapolie Journal {lep.). 'The Naw York Tribune saya: atent factin tho present political situation ts, that the Republican party Is not oniy stronger to-day than atany time sincn the Inanguration of Prestdent Hayea, Lt stronger then {te most sanguine friends enild have hoped aix months sgo.™ This is trre, ‘There nave heen atasensions; bat they have seemed o prodnce & party reawakening, With the mani- feetationaof Southern and Deniocratic temper, the country sees mare clearly tnat the [epublican par- 3 1 ita only security.—Alany Ecening Journal fle; ‘Tha road to conciliation s in the reorga zation of the Cabinet. The present take that ction, Cabi neceasartly forimed with great baste: the elementa 103t are Inconzrunns, and & majority of the men compnuing it do not care a whit whether the party 11 coneiliated or not. “More than one of them gave Do rordial support to the election of President Hages. 1f the i'resident is as ansiona to maintain the harmony of the party as he profesaes to be, iet ue haves new deal, Let men be called a¢ his con- fidential advisers who are sound Hepublicans, opposition to tis palicy will melt as the snow fora the rising sun. 1f th ot done a distru tion {s fnevita e Journal (Rep. Administrations and Presidents change, hnt principles porsist. and If the Civil-Bervice pol- icy of the Governmant is once placed on sound rinciules, it in safe to say It will stand, and no 'resident will return to th corrupt and cor- rupting spolls system when it is once completely overthrown, Smule lovk to the Presidunt to procesd boldly nne fenarievaly to the logical cons snmmation of” the good work he has bezan, and they witl zustain hiin azainst all the oppasition of tha old-achoni politicians. But tuey will nut sas- tain him In 8 mero arbitrary ase of his Ko"" of removal, In discagard of the principles the main- tenance of which s Indispensable tu sny proper syatem of Clvil-Sorvice reform. —St. Paul Pionter- freas (Ind. Rep.), Thara is the gront naed, however, of good mannersand conseientions econduct in Congrees, atatives, Conger, of Mich. nce to Irritate and offend pone is Lo provoke of the Suuthern hot-heads into wrath, Ho keops it up constantly, and has a dozen backers who isck tho courage aod wit ta coine openly (o the front as he doen, “Now, Conzer §s & good deat of & wit, and 18 as ngly as i1 posritie, and when he aayn & thing It stings. If wo Araovor 10 liavu pesco and uaion, thinwort of thing must stop. Even If tnero sre great wrunze aithe Soath, which must in some way be reciifled, that {s not the way to do Il A whola people sncers, ridicule, 1t in 100 evi- dent that the purposo of 8 fow itadicals In the House 18 to keep up & quafrel with thio Snuth. They want the fssae open for faturc electinns. — Waghinnton Correspondence Springfield (Maes.) Bepublican (Ind. ). * Univeraal suffrago can, if it likos, repndi- ate the whole deht. It can, if it likes, decrec soft- 208D to be currency, At present, very luckily for s all, it {s ot 20 exclted e those who hold the debt, ‘and consenuently It s ander some rostraint. ‘The debtor 1s anxions now to be hogent for hi 0 and the country's sake. 5 He wants irly,~but be cannot setile on tho hard terme demanded without wiping himself oul, and tist ho will not do. The East had’ bet- ter understand the case, Its nole chagce (s a parly, an agreement, reanlt- ing fu a measure which will remove the question from politics altogether. Lessona from ofhier na- tions are not applicatle. They are absurd, The one liem of nniversal suffrige kuockd the props from under enlightened theorizing of every surt, The bonded debt, like slavery, twin monsters both, evila of madern civilization, is o be made safe by cuinprowive, . In the one cass, as in the otlier,.extromism fs¥ar, and war fs the rain_of the bonduolder, We mean to pay our delte. We mean to stand by the credit of our conntry and the honor of the flag: and. when Lhe boor faols who are berating us shatl have spont their breath, we shall b foand the sole outlyiug line belween' the nandlolders and repudiation. Hut **a stitch in time saves nine. ** and o word to the wiso ouunt tn ba enough. and the statesmen of the East wiil make a Lopeless mistake If they don't procure o satisfactory adjustment now, whilst tuoy can, and fora the dovll i loosel~Louistille Courlers Journat (Dem. ). Machina men die hard; bnt, nnder the sustained aftacks of the Presfdent's letter of ac- ceptance, hta inwngural, and tho last messags, they vvidentiy berin to feae that thele days are numbered. The machine men, Anding thelr chancen to gather accustomed poile ms-upamnz. call out tnat tho Prusident hasabandone liia party. Flonrishing thalr wespons, . they eall npon. the party to foln In an attack on the man wha wiil not do thelr bidding. Aud whon bis friends polut out 10 bl that thero {n 8 courazcons and huncst ele ment within the party which hulds the balance of power agalnst the machine, and which I anxians to stand aronnd him and extend wmost enthusiastio support, these zentlamen of the road, who are try- ing 10 fnduce more huncst men to Join with them in driyinghlm from tho party, cry out that the President d bijs friends are form{ug & new parly—forsooth, an Administration party. Did ticec gentlemen auppose that when ther withdrew the President would stand ntferly fsolated from all mankind? 1o they suppose that st thelr command the Presis dent would remaln without & party, until he secy At to surrender and retura to tuem?' Do they fat- tor thomaelves that there can be no Hepublicun arty which does uot acknowledgo them av its eaders? Then do thoy mlsjudge tho tewber of the reat army of men within the prty who Liats ben rue Lo 1t from the dret, sud who ftend to make it both night and victorious in the next national csm+ plun, The prosent solld streagth of thls element « the hanawrltiag on the wall to those mon of the uachine. Thoy wee clearly that If tho Presldent entors Into cordlal allisnce with this practical re- form element of the party thelr l:u{m’nwlll 1all, d the kingdom pass from thom. In the day of ach an_siliance, encers aaid ridicule will e effecilvo weapons, —Cincinnalt not aselts THE BONDS. Tow nn& Are Payablo—An Essmiuiilon of the Recnrd—Gold Nover Promised— A Uollday Beslon for Congressmen, Cuncinnast Times (Rep.). It may woll repay such Congressmon as doubt the corructuess of Scnator Matthows’ proposi- tion,—that, under tho dozlaratory act of March 18, 1609, passed to strengthen the publie crodit, and under the Funding law of 1870, which Is based upon that act and in nowlse modides it, this Governmont fs Jegally and_oquitably enti- tled to pay it bonds In gold and aier cotn,—1t may, we say, well repay those who disputo this vroposition to examine that act, {ts history, and what was sald about it at the time it was up. It was Introduced (nto the Fortieth Congress, discussed at grest length, passod by both Houscs, and, in the last hours of the session, put tuto the pocket of that Intoresting lndivid- ual, Andrew Johnson, Itwag brought up again in the very frst days of "tho Korty. first Congress, discussed again, and again passed by Yoth IHouses, With all this dlscussion,—and the bill was very sharply fought by thoss who thought it, even as It stoud, too great 8 concession to the bondholders, ~—it ought to have been proity clear to the world what It meant. Tt was clear, It meant, and was understood to mean, fust whyt iL sald that the bonds and the gruenbacks were Lo bs d In coln—nothiug waa to be pald In “olher old and sliver currency,’ uuless expressly provided by law, We shall proceed to call afew witnesses to that understanding, from the mauny at haud, in- dicating the source where thelr testimony may be found i full. One of the most vigorous oppoucnts of the moasure—oua of thoss who thought it too hard on the debtor, aud too sweet for the bandholder —was Uarrett Davis, Bonator from Keotucky. In l,l‘lz n:}lll))?ux.::e 'n"lwlhflo‘)mbhbf 1509 (Cunie ress ro 1,u50), he sald: & ‘There are lmup‘:wdu of dealing with the Na- tiona! debt by Congresy: 1. To pay ihe nowinal amount of the bonds in gold and suleer coin. Hiu other three methods wera raspectively: 2. To pay iu grecnbacks. 8. To pay prescit ‘coln'value In cofn (that is dlscount the boads). 4. To repudiate, He was fu favor of the third ethod. 3io did not dream, nor did sny one else, nntil lately, of a tifth method of paying in cvin alons, None of the oppoucnts of the 11), Beuntor Morton included, badl gathered any fdea of & propused exclusion of silver. But perhops witnesscs from the other side will be of greater weight; snd certainly nove could be more 80 than Lhal great statesman aud fiuancier, at ono time Secretary of the Treasury, snd oue of tho best' wo ever had, Scuator Feaseuden. Oentlemen from e, who now look untavorably upou tho gilver dolfar, would do well to read bhis speech of Feb, 97, 1509 ‘uhba, page L,671), from which wu oxtract the ollowlug: . #iir, 1 meant what T said. and the Congress of the Uuited States mueant what I sald, that it -anlf‘l »0 wauy dollars. WAat was a dollur? s i cad Defnad by atatute. 18 viaa goid or.aile Ver-coin. Turulug&lm to the oppoueats of the bill, we nd Senator Bayerd, whg fs now so hot azainst the sliver dotlar, but who thourht tuen that eveu Zold and silver was oo hard on the deblor uud tog wuch for the bondbolder, Hure 1 far 'tr{ instructive extract from his speech of y March Therefore, sir, 5, 1360 (Glods, page T0): whilo T am not, and nerer pro- 0¢ {9 Le, Interested In pafiing the price of United tates demand and creat! ‘honds for the purpoee of creating a foreign ing 8 still grenter outflow of Loin into foreign countries from the hard-wrang toll and labor of my countrymen, for that readon, if mfinu other, should I withhold my,assent to this Tho argument that woe must Increase the amount of our indebtedness by limiting that in which ft can be the market for our tle force with Mr. Bayard them, W have now? nn!d‘,)éun in order to Increas 'hy shouid 1% But what_better witness could we have than Mr. John Bh ernian, then Senator from Omof head of the Finance Committes, in charze of this very hitl, and its warmest advocatel He ia now Becretary of the Treasury, and his judg- ment in this matter ought to be conclusive. On Feb, 27, 1469, exalnln!nr to the listening Benato thisbili—a bl carefally drawn, under his own direction, to express, in tho most accurate terms, the solemn putnose of the Governinent with eogard 1o pae 1,657): the public debt—he said (Globe, 1 100k tpan tha fret section [of this bill] ae s declaration that the United States onght not to pay any portinn of ita debts except in <oin, uniess the r mulrI! reserved. 1 ive-twenty boun to p ver, Ight to pay it otherwise Is ex- A® Lo the strict conatraction of act, I sgreed with (ho Henator we had 2 rignt to pay in lawfal money, but we and onght to o ny that lalr{ul [aney have paid ft Jong before ihis time in gold and s~ Agaln, in another speech, later in the same day, which wi :m jb(unmx on What 13 the fiest section of this bill? 1t 1 called out by an attack of Bena- the bill, ho said (Glode, page Imrly & tolemn pledqe of the United States that ull tha ohli, itions of the United States, note hall be pald tn gold and silver coin, il bonde, xcept only 1hote whero tho law_expressly provides that they shail be pald In wial money, . . o Dot wi ray that with rezird o all other obligations lhe; #Liall be paid fn zold and sllcer coln, - Anil still further on In thesame speech (Glode, nza 1,168), as §f: that there might be no possis tlity for mistakd In this matter, he sal ‘The honot of the country, the 00d faith of the nation, the public Intcrest of the labores, the rich and the poor, all’ tinsacs, demand that we shonid coln. We agree with e spocis, payments s early an possiblc 0 he obiirations of the people of thy ed ales upon the solld basis of gold an, d it licer Mr, Sherma . - A Reply to the Recent Letter of Congress. man ’age to the Prasident. New York Meruld. ‘The following communication, in reply to s recent letter of Representative Page on the Chie ness question, has been sent to the President: New York, Dec, 17.—7u the President—Sing Inthe consideration of any question of public o private concern it is well to have facts for ground- work, and as the Hon. A, F. Page, from Placer- Illlllc. Cal., member of the ‘Houss of liepresentas 2 *'on behal ha d your consideration of ** £ of tho peoplo of that Slate, ' he question of Chinete immigration, * for reasons sct forth in nls communlcation of the 10th, as published in the New York tleralid, permit me to suggest your at- tention to the extraordinary errors In the fizaren volunteered for your guidance and the means so 1onocently supplied for a partial correction. Mr, f'aze had cver read the report profered for your gnldance. he must. have experlonced pe< culiar emotions in | 6 asdortion **you are donbr- less aware that {hera are now In the Biate of Cali- fornia mors than 150,000 of these people, about one-Afth of whom are females, brouzhi here for fmmoral po oscs,”’ without iring to Qoprive the timid, virtuous Callfornians of your syopathy in their danger, [ beg of you o extend one mo- ment's eonaideration to that the ** ltaport of rtion: (prite 14) of jenate Committee, ' the- Stata which representa the number of these peaple n Calltornia, and you cannat fail to nonerye that the two “‘pages” differ widely, and that while ho adds £0 per cent (0,000) tu the whole Mungollan popuiation, as given by the Committes, he magni- tlea to 31, 000 the 3, , 000 macalate females who are given sach Iinportance. Au such infated ropreaentations form the basla of bl appeal, 1 have ventured to ask your observae tlon of thelr marked Inconshtency and exag tion ne compsred with the stzongly in_many respects errorcona reporl Senate Committee. H rofudiced and of tle State Unleas 1t the peraistent imputinz of all Caucasian iniquity to the Mongo~ 1ian nothing can ba inoro_ ridicalons than the oft- repealed maudlin sppeais of gallanl Callfornis stateamen to the United States, to rolleve a Blats with 1,000,000 of veople from & few simond-oyes cyprians, more m ber of a like cla odest than the much larger ndm- s of other mationalittes. Tha( **diviston of opinlon** does exist in California i¢ evident from the fact that tho best mists. and thoss prosperit Iitical econt _most directly interested In thi of the State, sseociale general bank ruptcy withi o forced of rapid exodus of the Mo golisn, servant, I bave the honor to be, your obedien Josern 0. O. Kexwxor, ———— B, F. ALLEN. Bpectal Correspondence of The Tridune, Dxs Moixes, In., Dec. 22.—As might be em pected, Mr. B. F. Allen expresses very declaed, and emphatic objections tothe statements mada In my report of the T.. rown, Cook-County- Bank-stock matter, in Tus Tnibunsof Wednes- day. While he dous not deny the statoments made, he says the head-lines are alls, and the {uferences given of stock to T. E. falso. He claims that the fssug Brown was a straightforward busiucas-transaction, which ueltber the Cooke County Nativnal Bauk nor the public had any- thing to do with j that tha stock waa his, and ho put it in Brown's name, as he had a_right to doj that Brown's notes were paid in full by him al maturity, and tho stock returnod to Mr., Allen hy Watson, the broker; that Mr. Watson's sitestation was in cood faith, and only ke that common {n bLusiness-transactionss Burloy, funding this stock on the bank,” and that Mr. ks of the as Receiver, declded that the only weans to got it out of the way was to test it ia murtj that the crediors of the bank, and his Mr, 1len’s), hiad no intercat In it whatoyer, and. urley had no neceasity to bring the sult. AMUSENCNTS. McVICKER'S TUEATRE, MERRY CHRISTMAS! Low Pricest Double Attraction? ADMISSION 5§, |18 58 | MATINEEY, 25 cts. & 80 otss CURISTMAS AND BATULBDAY Brery night during the week, TUESDAY---(hrisimss and Saturdsy Matines SIMPSON & CO., and the Grand Falry Ratravaganza, BEAUTY s sod place onr srilss from flights uf fanay. amoug whi i R R Ot A ROADSIDR VIEW .. HE DEAST: HE PUMES,S o Jiougor OME OF TH purt the Extravai Bongst Afi"fi.&‘fib‘fr@"‘”"“ and Finalo, AND THE BEAST ! of wilch fs mythologloally a5 oppurtualiy Lo prel ah wil Anzh, 3, nimble and dy-i 'M’WNX% an orlgiasl, emdtional comedy-drama, NEW CHICAGO THEATRE, Clark-st., opposite Sherman House, MINSTRELSY_ E ORIGINALL TO-NIGNT, CARIBTAAS MATINEE TO-MORRUW, CALLENDER'S ““They far excol thelr whits imitstors."—¥. ¥. Herald UPRROARIOUM. NOVELTIES] Beals of Prices~7%, 50, snd 33 couts, HOOLEY’S THEATRE, Prices to Buts the Milion—5¢, 80c, 736, and 81, ONRISTMAS WEEK. Nondar, Dac.at, Nihufon fo Wetn s0cents. Grand 1ol of the famo: ouse 18 1r{ah Come JUSERIL MURPLY, supportod any and hls own talented coinvany, succesaful Irish Drama, BAVERLY’'S THEATRE. 3 H IAVBI\LY..(L“‘“d 1. o 03 l‘h QK. The favorll 80, Efi :I‘lflll and Ursad Elzsllll lmhl Nat W Linces Christo: ererg aignt end THNPR MATL e 1y Mis e Ward P M TRy EBERRY GOW. Mozt week—MADM CKE, Vrossetor sad Msaager, s Tlolldays, Shakspesre's LR EA L, ..éa.-g;y ik ne diasingut cd ver 150 a3, Wednesdsy and Saturday, 2:30. 1 noiiay st ous burlesque, COLISEUM, ery Bveula, .fl,&l&#mfl#&r&&fi#filflmflm umoze \ Masonry Exposed! A saperd Ollo, Including TUE FIELDINGS. CHRISTM. FARWELL HALL, 8 MATINEE. Briltiant Entertainmeat Christmas Eve tuite 1t 'y Frmivthragy v F Farwoll Hall Mugisy. Des #4. w, of, S wriiiuat reader. Wil maks Ber debut ot hite by v Erincat pisd s My Nella P, “Tus Coig Cushandh ¥ averl VT aald 4l Lovi & Boas 134 iuu‘u o nds Abrmdvhld very lit-