Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 7, 1878, Page 5

THE CIIICAGO TRIBUNE: —__’_'__::_.————-——‘——“——___—b—-——‘—_'_—"—*_“—_ —— e e i MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1878, Broadway, and then go down DBrowdway three nd r you'll come to Ann street, Ask ::l‘;e::e for tho Herald building.—it's on the ANOTHER MEXICAN RAID. Aetfasers * shuro Theinnz in that same, but | This Time by a Chicago Tribune landed, T had not got the weo- ::‘fiflf;:flfi, ul;‘“l'!’ compass In o mofnd's Correspondent. oye. Faix [hope I reach it fn time, for I've He Crosses the Border in got to writo n lader on the nashinal sitchua- o Quest of News, on Jetter annotnces that Mr, Bennetr mfi :y‘;::hly soon bring out 8 London llerald. The fdea fs an old one, and has already been | And Gots at the True-Inwardness described at length in Tun Trinuxe, Mr, Ben- of All the Itaids, xxrr's original plan, which will unquestfonably pot suffer much modification at present, con- slsted In making each paper feed the other with nows, tha New York oftice telegraphing to Lon- don the cream of the newe on thls continent, thus maoking the’ Loudon Jferald espechally sought after by the ereat number of Amertcans restdent In Europe, while the London offlie would collect thenewsof tlie Old World and send it here, The eaving would ue considerable in the ftewns of telegrapbic tolls and correspond- chts' salarics and expenscs. Most of That Rind of Business Done by Americans, How Gon. Rip Ford, of Brownsville, **Qets In His Work." Four Regiments of Uniformse--~= . A New Recruiting Dodge. S — Dr, Laupear, the New York Life-Insurance President who has just been sentenced for for- gery, used to be n member of the RRadfenl Club, and s great advocate of *brainial food.” e will have an opportunity in the next five years, less the customary deduction for good behavior, . to seo preciacly how much phospliorus there fs {n mush, soup, and molasees. Bpeciat Correspondence of The Tridune. PriDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico, Dec, 20, 1877.—0w- ng to the bonler troubles, I felt it necessary for ma to cross tho border from Fort Duncan and take a look at tho Mexican question from the south stdo of theriver. I 1eft San Autonlo on the 21st, and hurrled through to Duucan to intercept Mal. Bates, Pagmaster, who had been two weeks alicad of me, to make his paymeuts at Fort Clark and the pulnts west of there, and Democratie than the World, says: ** According had then turncd southeast for Fort Duncan, to Mr. CHANDLEN'S standard, Mr. HATesfsnot [ It ruined evory day after I left Cos awise or bonorable man.” We should like to | terville until I reached Fort Clark, 120 Xnow It according to Mr. DANA'S standard M. | miles distant, but owing to the pecullar CHANDLER I8 8 W0 and honorable man, rocky character of tha soll, and the absence of e —— fences throughout the cuuntry, a horseman is ‘We have pleasuro in correcting an crroncous | not confined to tho rond. With the exception announcement which appeared in our columns | of theriver bottome, the wlhole country {rom Jan. 1, based upon a statement by the New York | 8an Antonio ta Clark isa rolling pralrie, covered Sun, that MARK TWAIN had nssumed the cdi- [ witha growth of mesquite, Interspersed here torlal conduct of the Hartford Courant, There | and there with groves of pust and live osk. Las been no chango in the management of af- | On the Cypress Jtiver, 100 iniles west of falrs on that vaper. San Antonlo, there is a flnc growth of cypress timber, the erowth being large cnough to make excellent lumber, mauy of the trees belng ihreo fect in diameter, But the whole country fa underluid with limestone, whilo the sofl Is fu- termixed with u limestone gravel, or perhaps It would be proper to sny there Ia a little yellow and red sofl mixed with the gravel. The grass 1s n short, scatlering growth, which is sald to Le quite nutritions. The plekly pear, cactus, and many other vareties, graw quite thickly, and seem to bo the principal feed for TUB TIIOUSANDS O BIEEP which are graziow ull over this sectlun, Except near the ranches along the rivers, which are dry most of the year, there are but fow cattle in Western Texas. [ came over the road, opencd by 8t. Dennls 140 years ngo, and Iam of the opinion that no materfal udvance of any kind has been mode aince the original planting of the settlements, Fully nine-tenths of tho popula- tion njong the route are Mexlcaus, or properly eat— The New York Sun, a paper which {s more Republiean than the New York 7 Jiu-Jaurs BENNETT'S newspaper experiment in London wili be watchied with Interest by all toncerned fn the future of the lrish language. It 18 to be hoped that it may appear In time for the marrlaze of King Arroxso. **A Rogal Hotocaust " would look well for a head-ine. A 8t. Louls belle wished her laver happy new. ‘ears, without any idea of offending his feclings, but the too aenaitive youth, kinly endeavoring to bide his indiguant blushes #ith them, shuok oft tho dust from hiscaraasa testiifony agalnst her and departed. Happy thought—8eeing ns we are having no end of trouble with Indians to north of us and Ureasers tosouth of us, would it not bo ns well toavold complications by doing away with our borders entirely ! | About this time of year the country editor Intermits for a space discussions of Mr. HarTes' Mexionn:spoaidig ,A :nnrlnm‘ lndh""’] u‘ o policy to gibe his reptils contemporary for bring- :'!"“‘B":‘clx':m ‘)[nru 1] l?udh::l re i &L;:D“ n p:; i v ” i 4 E’::::fl;;:“ fnsuo‘with the year 11577 tn ple aro fgnorant, kind-hesrted, and harmless. The fact that Col Shafter, with n handful of men, scattered ovér hundreds of miles of territory, Lins been pernltted to roam at his own sweet will all over this part of the country, ond make little oxcursions of 200 or 200 miles into Mexico, should prove the entire harmlessness of theso people. True, Col. Shaf- ter 18 & brave, generous ofiicer, and these people know that they will receive mo wrong at his honds, and all have tho most implicit faith In 1ils promises. I did not meet It Little BiLLER CIANDLER {8 only left alono X LIEUT. DULLIS, for o ttle whilo longer, ZAcH moy come to bo'| who was out on ascout with his command of regarded as having reflected singular credit and | Semifiole negroes, but I found that every Mex- honor un the name, fean knew bim, and that when the Indtaus (tho Apaches) heard of Lim on their tratls they abandoned everything and hurrled to thelr mountain retreats, When 1 reached Eoglo Pass T learncd that Mnj. Bates had gone sixty miles down tho river to pay Capt. Kennedy's company. I acconding- 1y followed, leaving Duncan at 9 o'clock in the afternoon, Tho road follows the line of the riv- er, though at tho dlstanco of nbout threo infles from ft. I had occasional glimpses of it from eminences, but the rain kept pouring down in such torrents that I felt but lttle futerest in any other water-vourse, About cighteen miles from Duncan I came upon a party of Moxican teamatora who had camped near a poud, and, by slius, nformed them I wonld ke to cump with them. As thoy spolke Mexican, and I the una- dulterated Castillan, wo could uot make cach other understand to any great extent, couse- quertly I galued but little information from them, though wo did a great deal of talking and gesticulating. Fearing the tcamsters might think I was loaded down with money, I toolt the precaution to open my rubber saddle- %% ¢l bags, and carelessly exhibit the letter copy- PERSONAL. S fng-book which I carrled as the most conven- s fent wav of transporting a large amount of B ' Jamos Gordon Bennott is hunting in En. | statfonary fn small bulk, But they took no in- f gland terost in sy actions, and Iawoke in the morn- Mr, Spurgeon is o great sufforor from [ Ing to vartake of thelr breakfast of chilo- the gout, concame, or weat stewed with red-pepper. N Leavlug them, T pushed on down the river, 1 3:2:&:%&“&?&?:{3&:&:‘ Mr, Mackay and about 10 o'clock had tho pleasuro of ncet- A witty French writor maye: * Men only ing Ma). Bates on Lis return trip. But, I ho remember women who forget themuelves,' had no funds, he had A 10 NONANZA Tho Anncke Jons caso hes just boon ap- | gn tho shapoof Mr. Braden, a stock man, who m‘ed aguin to the goneral term of tho courtat | jyus resided In the nclghborhood of Eaglo Puss i since 1852, Mr, Bradon hud camped the wight 1t is estimated that tho holders of stock in | uefure alone un the pralrle, belng on his way to Boston will recelve dunug tble month, in divi- | Corpus Christi, but his pony-being of dfercnt dends, $10,000,000, nclination Lad returned bomo u the night, 1 + A Chinese court in Bacramento - recently | found Braden tobaa wan of intelligence, and sentenced o Chinmn to be hangcd for'debt, and | fully conversant with all' tho incldents of the put the sentence jnto exocution forthwlith, border since 1852, or at loast that portion of tho Gov, Connor, of Maine, oncourages the | Lorder between El Paso and Rloggold Barracks. opponents of capltal puntshment by showing toat | When Iexpressedmystonishnentat nlssttempt ainco tho abolition of tha death pevaliy Iu that | to travel alono from one slde of Texus to the Htate thero has been only ono murdere other, and along the border at that, ho lsugh. The fourteenth aununl dinner of tho Yalo | iugly threw upen bis coat, showiug his clothiug, Alumat ot Clncionat! oo Thursdsy was saccessfal, | 884 said, “*Ilero urcall tho arms 1 havo over About 100 persuns wero prescnt, among thom | carried amouw Mexicans,'* le thun gave mo Prots, Sumner, Northrop, and Whesler, lisview of the * ralding business,” which was Evary opltaph befors being disployed in n that Texas had suffered largely from Amerl- '"“hr{.mm;w 1a submitted wg““, Eeu{urn: thta | cans, and Awerican (or United Btates) Indiuns, omalprescnt bady baw declined, ** llere llow Y, X,, | 80 that tho border Mexicans Lad often been who 18 visited every Tuvsday by hls brother,” sufferers with them, Stopelon Fiske, Jr., died ut Now York on In explavation, Mr. Braden said that during Wedussda, the Infant child of the well-known | the War no ruids were over heard of, and yet theatrical manager and Mary I, Flake, formorly | tho cattle wera st largs witliout Lerders, o in- Mra, Burnbam, the M. I, I." of cerlaly Weate | déed auy attontlon ot aay klud except the aa- efu nowapspers of a couple of years sgo, nua! branding of calves. Dr, Belliewaun recontly delivered a leot- YUEN TR WA RRDED wre in London iu regard to tho facliity of learning | the whole of Western Texas waa overrun with Greek and other dead languages from Jorivatives, | Wild cattle, and thousands of them without o remarked that 8 moudern Greck can read the | owners. Thecattlenien returned from the War, text of Thucydides os ducntly us @ Dutchmanreads | and Western Toxas was soou lllled by the class Abe German of Gostho st alght, of men who always tnfest the frontier, and, A correspondent dusires to know whether a | baturally. cuough, they weut futo the cattle man born on the 1stof January, 1800, 1s born in | Lusincss, the elghteonth or nincteen century. Inthe eighte Driving to Kansas and polots fn Missouri eenth, Itouxhtto beplain tothe dullest mind | came into practice, and theso fcllows vegan hat 1,800 years, or efghteen fall poriods of 100 | takiog just such cattlo as were convenlent, Joars each, are yoqulsite 10 make up ‘efghicon | without regard to brands or owncrship. This Seatuties, thing was carrled to such an extent that in H. B. Kollogg, *nuthor” of the poem | 1560 thesa fellows held,a convention at Fort plagiarized from Eidney Dabell. and putllshed inn | Clark, at which it was sgreed that whenever a Fecout number of Scribuer's MontAly, rises to ox- | stock-owaer wanted to drive, he sbould plsin. He asiorts that the posm was banded to | “youud .up® sbout- what ho thought was Rim by & youog man, who prtcuded to be the | the number that bolonged to him, sud sutbor, and who gave hin pormlssion o wo It | yhar when ho reached. the placs of pel over Lis own siymatare, Tho story is hardly sstte | o) 0 reache place of sale be tactory, A :I;:‘vl:d nl::o n::' ::’x::nl :( ll:ntha hnuu:- in l:h ¢y u owner the smount recely- gy ooy mark of ceusorship fn Victor | ed, less 43 per head for driviog, Tho result al,* as recently produced at the | yay that every fellow drove out all the cattle b Theatre ¥rancals, o Parls, was tho 1d Ona, and g dstieadab el the **J'y ule, " utterred by Don Carlos on heanug | S00 el vald for avy. Conso- ©f his clection as Ewperor. The partesse, liow- ‘(‘“n "‘ 1873, the cattlo had all disappoarcd ever. missed the words (they are part of o memory- | 50U Westorn Texas, aud the most of tho driv- Ula spcech recently attributed to MacMabon) sad | &r9 bad dussipated thelr fll-gotten guins, and shoated them oul. Wwere roaming arouud the country » Do Broglio wrote a lotte a5 HOBOING INDISCUIMINATELY, temantingis o wrote lottertn Edmond About | nevee besitatiog at imurderor uny oiher crimo * ‘The reason why WASIINGTON was ncver scen 1o amilo was probably because hie kept tho bottle out fn tho bagn, and went out alone whenever ‘e had an exposition of thirst upun him, On the silver question tho late Demoeratie tcket for the Presidency may be described as one havingat tbe top a gold-bug and at the bottom a straddle-bug. . | B RRDG Tomes wa O@mvmiBd s v # It was ovidently tho telephone that the poct 4 bad in mind when ho spoke of wafting ‘o slzh % Irom Indus to the pole, audthe polewas a telo- graph one. i The befrs of tho latc Commodore VANDER- BILT aro convinced that ho was wicked but In will, but fear that thoy may be of meaus bereft. ————— - FdSascskmarea Mrs, Hicks, “the Golden Bphlnx,! ns they used to call her fn London, kas married o Lokp, though not an English one. 4 - JaY Gourp undertakes to make out in the New York Zribuns that there aro mo * Wall strcet sharks,”? f GORTECHAKOYF 10 BeAcONsFIELD—* What Q'ye soy?” i Mr, Bexcnzn hath sald in bis beart, * There 15 no hell? i i ‘The Pope's motto—**Never say diel" ay Liftmandlog » correction osod i it “*L | which would enuble tbem to get sowetbiug for i } the wWord ++ ot tn hia sommeiion was deeracd | BoLbvE. They raldea Mexko when they i : loaulilug, aud About suewsred 1n 8 uoty addressod | thOUPLL the poverty-stricken Lubsbitants on i j 8o **Mr. Ete.," closing with the phrase: ** 1 bayo [ that side Lad anything, and, fn fact, opeued a ok | the Lonoe to cxpress the cic. dus to 3ou, oud ro- | #ort uf dreebooting busivess on botb sides of w WAl youts, elc., About.” the Lo, At the same time they stood ready i truth of between Davis, foment or join any Mexican revolutfon, and when any bandit from the south slde of the river was removed only to cross into Texas with bis fricuds and retainers, and the scoundrels on this side would flock to him, for they ki rald zod robbery of a town, would geta few of these seoundrels toad dash would be mnde nernss the niver, w fordable at any polut ahove Ringreld Barra: and after sefzing overy valuable which ti could carry would make thelr escape to this slde ageln. This whole country Is now c with sheop, and yet no one ever lears of a sheep ranch belug reason ia that shieep cannot be driven to Kansas, 1t they hadl any valug fn Mexieo, these feliowa would drive them, Of course many of these thicves aro Mexlenns, but o falr. majority are Amerleans. One of the most active men in this business, ninl the vie who bas done the most to foment there troubles, 18 from aflics he bat It weant a When the Tellow red ralded, and the Ratding, hawever, has plaged out. GRN, NP POHD, of Brownsyilte, who lins been a buceanceron tho border ever since the War. I1is own party wonld drive off nlot of eattlc, and while they were en route for Monterey he would hurry to Browns- ville and scnd s special telegram to the New York Herald, which special would be pald for by himself, glving account of “another Mexivan rald.” . Buch 18 substantially tha statement of Mr, Braden, and it don’t require a very extended trlp out hers to sutlsfy any one of tue it. Every few weeks the stages San Antoulo and Fort Clark, or Concho _sre robled, and that, too, by American,—1 ton’t say Texans,— and nover yet has one of our stages or merchin- dlse trains been molested by a party of Mexi- cans, Paymasters earry large amounts of money all over this frontier, and yet nune of them ure ever molested by Mealeana, THR PACT 18 JUST THIS: The border fs infested with outlawa, the bands Lefug mude up of Mexicans, Amerieans, and Indians, The Indlan elementon both sldes of the river does fta ralding nlone, a8 o rule, hu®they belong to the samocluss that makes up tho other gangs. Aud the facts will vrove that these ralds areabout astand-off as between Texas and Mexico. It ia the verlest lolly for the Government of the United States to de- mand of Mexieo that she prohibit theso ralds frow her side, while they are llablo to goon fromn ours, The presence of alarze forco of Mexican troops along the border has rafsed.n howlof Indignation among the class who have been nost intereated in the ralds, for it puts a - stop to thelr business, Af the Government of the United Statcs wants tostop all this ralding business, and avert the cost of a war, they can do 80 Ly constructing n rujtway to the Rlo Graude. The entirc cost would probably belesathan the annual outlay for the malntenauceof troops along the border, aint would not exceed the nmounts paid out in cach flye years for wagon transportation alone. But °I dou't thiuk a road shuuld be Lullt to this point, There fs nothing hetween San Antonio aud Eagle Paes which Is especally worth defending, and west of here, In Mexleo, is tho uncxplored and lmpassible mountatn reglon, which s Inbnbited by o few Mescale, Lipan, and Kickapoo Indtane. Tho trade with Chihuabuo all goes by El Paso, 520 miles north- west of heres The ralway is a elvilizer, and that §s what the Rlo Grande reglon nceus, This place is the HEADQUARTERS OF OEN, PALCON, commauding the Army of the, North, The General has not calied on e yet,—possibly his modesty prevents hn, It may be that ha dves not know that I aus here, or it he dous, that he suspects me of belng on o ratd, and he destres to keep n safe distance. Ilo no doubt heard of the rafd of the Chieago excursloulsts ony San Antonld; how they carried away the issions, churches, aud the Alamo, aud he may think 1 am after his town. Pledras Negras §3 an adobe and glone built town; the streets are crooked, nurrow, and fr- regrular, and the houses are one low story in helght. There sro sald to be five houdes In the place which have glass windows. The fnhub- ftants eccm to subsist on dogs, Jackazses, und cactusy ot least, I sce but MNttle else that they could live upon. From obscervation, 1 ‘should ‘think n carzo of finc-tooth combs would find an instant market hore it tho owner wonld tuke pay I chiliren and dogs, Soap 1s an unknown factor fu the lives of tho people. When I read in the Zwo Nepublles, n month ago, thut Uen, Trovino had beun ordered north with " FOUN REGIMENTS OP UNIPONNS, I thourht that & strange way of moving an army, but I understand it now. o bos ouly to an- nwounce here that ho has 4,000 sufts of clothes which will Dho glven to volun- teers, and his Quartermnster cannot unpack them fast enough, 1 think if he had prociaimed that he had a supply of rations ho vould have been rufded too quick, ‘hristmas Is just over, und the vatives have hardly yot recovered from the cffects of the feast they enjoyed, In truth, tho moss of the population seei to have had asurfeit, as they do nothiug but »it on the sunny elde of their houses und (§ was potng to_write think) look at each other's heads,—us thuugh they exnect- cd to flud sumething in thele halr, “But they do_ have s much fun et Christmas, and that of an exciting kind, There are about 00 Mexivan soldiers here, and they have helped to make the oceaslon very lively, ‘They have but tztle money to spend, but what they have ous o Jung way—exeept ut monte. To use un Auericanlsu, TURY “HUCK AGAIYST THE GAME." Monte means wountaiy an appropriate name for thu gume, as the tellow wha bucks mukes about as hittte leadway as he would (£ tiehting a mountstn, It is the mountam which stumds between the average Mexican und wealth. ‘the Mexican Government has u Custom- llouss here, but 1 think [t Is ueed nowasa stable or soma sort of o storchousc for the sul- diery, The Collector s safd to get some woney every onee i u while, but he usuutly gambles it away, ‘Thu peoplu ut preseut are nut heavy tm- parters—at any rate not through the Custom- ilonlc. ‘This Is & wild cHinute, and the averuge citizun never has piore than one sult per year, When he wants to wash his slurt liv walks luto the river and walks gut and stonds Ih the sun until his garments ure dry, und thon with o shrug of the shoulders remarks, * \What luxury a cleun shivt al" W, e —— e TEMPERANCE. Speetal Dispatch ta Ths Chicago Tridune, Dunvqus, la., Jan. T,—Saveral days aizo Capt. D. 1L Curtis, of Waterloo, a tenperance advo- cate, undertook to do some temperance work In thoclty. 1L first lecture was inalnly to cmpty Lenches, but on tho second night ho was grécted with a full house. Siuco thut thne an futerest has becu taken fu tho movement by several promiuent persous, und this afternoou & rous- ing meeting was beld i the Methodist Church, which wus addressed by o nuwber of dtizens, and a choir composcd of tho best slngers fn the city bLos' been formed, which will sing at every meeting, and from present Indications Capt. Curtly, with tho asslstance of bis frlends wil 6oon huve King Alcoliol by the throat and throttie bim here in Dubuque.” A meoting will be held st thu Operu-llouse to-ulght, when Capt. Curtis will present bls pledy for signa. tures. fruly, Dubuque is & ripe feld for temperanco work. | Sveclal Diaputeh to The Chicado Tribune, BroomiyetoN, Jif, Jan. G.—Temperance work wus uever carcled o with greater vigor sud earuvstiices fu Bioomington than now, The Washingtonlan Soctety, with o membel over 2,000, coutinues {ta weekly mectings Euos- day nights, with Bunday-aiterivon lectures, To- day the lecture was dellvered by Fdmund O’éouncll. a talented young Irish lawyer of Bloounngiuy, a wember ot the Fathier Matthow Total Abstineuce Soclety. Mr. Whitney, of Virginla. u well-known tewperancs orator, and s reforwed wmag, lectured at Durley all Friday, Saturday nleht, snd to-night,”to im- nionse audlences, and Ling wrought bis listeuers up to the highest pitch of excitement wnd ou- thusiasim. —— Gov. Vance's Address to tho Negrocs, ‘The Raleigh (N. C;KUMI‘WI’ priuts as follows the remarks of Gov. Vaucs to tho tolured tl- litta, who were celcbrating 1n that city ou New Year's Day thelr candpation: My Fusyus: 1apuear tn vour meeting to-day slwply to sckuowledse th et you have vhown w0 by fuviting me ox the, ruor of the State tw Visib YOUr acaciubluge. Yod canuol of couree, ex- pect we Lo Jolu with you fu eluratl o suuiversary of that cwancipation which Latrug w0 long to orevent, and which I In common with alnsast all the people of _my race in the Sonth, ra- garded nv an net of uneonstitntional violence of the one party nnd ns an fnjuey to the other. Lut con have o riZht to expect that, havinz acqitles tee peopie of the entiro Huuth fu the resnlfs li=hed vy the revolotion, £ ahoald, s Governor of Yoy Carelina, tecozilze you as cltizens, and shontid ot all the Tights with which tse laws has e fuy o son, This 1 cheorfally do, alwaye ave done, 1 always sliall do. | bedess that every promiee contained in oy Innuzera addrea in thi<reqpect hias been oheerved during the past year of my Admintstration; and now that we are enterime upon & wew year | have nothing to add 10 o¢ take fromn my former utteeances. It in & matter of congratulation that the past year has heen one of yoime prozress to the colored rice in Sorth Carotlna, The canse of 1dncition han recelved s erable Impitlee; thelr indnetry hae, on the been commendable: ne riotoas or disorder- b m hus becn reported Lo me, o kit feeling toward the white peuple has man- ieatly nereancd, 'Vle training of your ehildren to A honeety 5 now your great doty, I you yuit may reet assared hatall other temnors oo whi' follow Indue time, Assuring you un of tho propie ever wham 1 am tected by the liw 1 cly auslouy to aanking you for the 1 wish you all & new " prozaote your weflare, ey you hnve nanwn yuur of prosperity anil peac ——— CRIME. ANNIE HOLLINGSWORTIIL. Secial Dikn ek to 1ne Chtcuyn Tribune, 87, Pave, M., Jan, Friday evening's traln for Milwaukee carried Jobn Eshjornson, o Litchfield wrain Jobher, in custody of the Mil- waukee Sherilf, for trial on a charge of procur- Inz abortion on the person of Annle Holllngs. worth, The tralo to-night cunried Annie Hol- lingaworth, sulxenacd as o witness, whose story is as followa: A yearago last 4th of July Jobn and Annle were engoged to be married. In June lust he took her to Milwaukee and placed herat the Kirby House, where Dr. Me- Danuld. of Fond du Lae, was calied to perform nn operation on hiery of which ahe knowes noth- ing except that John applied chloraform, and what she saw antl Deard afterward, When she had recovered, John sent her back to Litchfield, bearing nn order for board at a hotel there, and having his promise to full thelr murriace agrecment, But ho runatued in Milwaukee wntli she beeamne fmpatient und returned there, wtien ho fled back to Litenficll, teaving her penniless, Obtalning assistance from o prom- fnent graln-dealer of Milwaukee, for whom dottn hud been operatie in graln, she camne to Litchiield, and, at first sleht, com- wenced thooting, iHng threo shots aud hitting nimonce in the leg, Her sister and mother were present. Her sister struck ‘him several blows with & whlp, and o drew a pistol; hut, the wmother rtarting for him with claws extended. he flede In his fllgbt he enconnterea Annic's father, who knocked him down, blacking his It with intent cve. Annie was fulicted 1 to kil ozearrence, X covered corroborative eviden 1 eated the Jacts to the Proscenting Attorney, and Esbjorusun and De, MeDouald were fndict- ed. Wrhen the Miwankee Sherifl appearcd, with u requivition for Esbjornson, ut Litehfleld, the latter's frieinds snid it wus a trivk to prevent his by present ot Annie's trial, the Hth, and persuaded her bondsmen tu surrender oer. 8he was hurrled to jall fn o Bt Tuul Friday night, but her' counsel got up new honds, which the Courc Clerk at Litehtleld refured to approve, but which Judge Brown, at Willmar, didapprove, and thercupon fssued on omler of release, which was served Tust night on the Jallor here. Annle {s Euglish by birth, with a pleasant slight old-country ac- cent, about 187 yenrs obd, uneducated, but Bryzht, aid wus o hundsome girl, Her l'mnlly are very poor, and not popular, Esbjorson Is a Swede by birth, came to Litehficld “ten years nze, wenring o leather apron, saved money when o laborer, and prospered In a business sturted on his savings, Litchtleld s torn up with exeitement on the subject, une party want- iz the Mliwaukes Court to finprison John for Ilie, and the other wanting it surely to return Atde in thue for the Meeker County Court to puniah here @ a5 Apecstt (Havateh to The Chicage Tridune, MILWAUKRRE, Wity Jdune th—Dr. Mcionald, f Fond du y and John Esbjorusson, of Litehtield, Minn., were brought tiere yesterday on a charize of commiiting abortlon on Annle Hollingaworth i this city Inst ramuler, she elaiming that Esblornsson seduced her. The prisonera claim blackmall, avd that they can prove thelr fnnovens there and dis- g NEEDLLES KICKING AGAINST THE TRICK! Spectal Diavatich 1o The Caleagn Tyibune, Spusarieny, 1L, Jon. G—Stato Auditor Needleo went up to Chicago to-night to look into thematter of the indictment of bis Exame Iner, Woud, sud Actuary Kellogg on o churge of collusion with the officers of the defunct Protection Life. Tho Auditor asserts the full- est contidence that his subordinates will by uble o vomplutely estublish theke funocence. WIIY NOT THE FOURTII DEGREE?- Sceciat Dinpateh to The Chicuga Tridune. Miwauvize, Jun, 0.—=The Sentinel's Sparta speclal suys the Jury in the case_of Plelmhug, charged with wurdering Mrs. Van Voorhees and three cnldren, returned a verdict of gullty of murder In the jthird degree, o A CLEVER ROGUERE. #Avecial Disvatch 10 The Chicago Tribune. Ispnanarorts, Indy, Jan, G—Iarry C. Thomas, under seuteace to the Northern Prison for alx years, escaped from Jail to-day by blacking bis face and passing out witha lot of discharged darke; —— WHITE PEOPLE GETTING THEIR DUE. 81. Louts, Ma., Jan. G.—A special from the West eays: A bloody fzht took place some duys ago on the south side of the Red River. In the Pan Iundle of Toxgs, between hunttng partics of Cheyenne, Palvnee, and Arrapahoe Indfaus, Thirty Choyennes and twelve Pawnees aru sald to have been Killed, The loss of the Arrapuhioes was not stated. ‘The causo of the Digiit was the, treepass of Pawnees on the hunt- g ground of the Chieyennes, ™ e THE INDIANA INSANE. Suectat Dapaieh tu The Chicayn Tribune, Ixpranavonts, Ind,, Jau. 6.~The annual re- port of the Comnissioners und Superintendent of tho Insane Hospital for the year ending Oct. 31 hus been submitted to the Governor, The expenditures wmount to E149,412. recelpts to §HYAAS0.L), The expe overdraft on the appropristion for tho year of F8U3.33 ——e OCEAN STEANSHIP NEWS. Toutr Eans, La, Jun, S.—3ailed, the steam- shipt Nurnbesjs, for Bremen, and Mewplils, for Liverpool. Lospox, Jun. 6,—Tho stecamships Canada, from New York, asd Ontarly, from Portland, have arrlved vut. PLystouri, Jan, O.—Arrived,lhe stcamship Frisia, from Sew York, - —— . TRAVELING MEN. 87. Loms, Mo, Jun, 6.—An organization of commercial travelers, to be auxillary to the Northwestern Travellng Men's Assoclation of Chicugo, was cffected here yesterday, and the {mllhmurhhwry of the Boclety put foto opera- ———— SOME QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED, To the Editor of Ths Tritune, Taxa City, la., Jun. 5.—No cvced but truth, no politics but right, justice, and the grestest 2o0d of the greatest nuiber. 1f vur wrlters and locturers upon politics and fnauce would make these their mottocs, thelr cardinat poluts, there would ba better hopes of reaching wise aud Just couclusious; but wo are all so llable to bo swayed by our previous (deas und prejudice, when we enter futo minute con- sideration of such wmatters, that our judgmcents uro too often spiced with our vld, erroncous no- ‘They, the prowptings of our. own in- or the futerest of the cluss by which we surrounded, nay, and often does, powerful - welght o warp- iog our fudgments. It 16 now perfect- lrv legitimate to tnske the inguiry how ar our standand text-books o palitical ccono- 1y and tiuauces ere colored aud vontrolled by such {ntluences, Pluusible but erroncous theo- rles huve obtalned u fuotlug 1n the text-books of our lgher fustitutivus of lesrning, und have beevme so fixed {0 the minds of our writ- et Jecturers, and politicians that nothiug short of practlcal demonstration ol thelr workinge Wwill estublish their error. Nearly all our'stavd- ard works upon these wubjects are gut ub 1o the Eust. s thore not a fulr chaoce thut thelr au- thors stiape thelr ouintons iy the interest of the wealthy, to court thelr putronage and supportd Of whay value uton the question of a double or stoele standurd s the oplufon of such u wan even s Ho W, Beeehier when it Is known, a3 wo Ao all know, taat were It uot for the support of the wealthy clads to whoee fulerests Le pauders arg bave @& — ———— ho would have to “step down and out” of ! Unlted States may spend milllons o the valn and absurd eflort to teach Indians to work, Piymouth Churehl tia well to welgh well these influences at work to verpetuate the gigantie fraud of the stiver mwindie upon the country, Your Chicazo monometalllsts, unable to stem the pre ring upon them, hate, 1 see, | 2 Kumtncr, the voung Professor of Yale e, Lo give a free siver lecture t week to help them out of their dilemma. 1t I3 maid Jav Gould I8 makiog out o binck 1ist 8 o Chicao merchants who favor the Silyer blll. Qught not our country merehants atd all our small dealers to retaliate In the same coln, and preserve o list of the signers to this invitation, that they may avold them In thelr future busfnese transactions! Mr. Summer be. Ing a 2lih aud Muent talker, and swell versed in scholnstic theorles of nance, witl much obliec the writer by gising answers to the following questions: Question First—Is n Government or private bank po -.-nrmw{ redecmable fu colu un de- mand neeessars to business prosperity? Yes or no. Queatlon Second—Is it not of prime necessity that the supply of the redeaming basls stiould e a4 permanent and as little Navle to fluctua- tion a8 1t I possible In the nuture of the case to muke it! Yes orno, ucstion Third—With golilalone as the fhosis to the extent of 820,000,000, nnd - with a circu- lation of threw paper dollars for oug wold, In the event uf our balauce of trade b cing aguinst us tor £100,000,0C0, will not the forced contraction fncident to the withdrawal of that amount of voin be certain to produce a commerdal punfet Yes or no. Questlon Fourth—With silver and gold as the basis, does not the fuct that other countrica have detnonetlzed siiver udd to the certainty of our belng able to retaln a constant aupply, sud 80 keep wur currency at n uniform degree of fuliness! Yesor no. Questlon Fifth—Witn sliver remonetized and our totds for sale fur sllver or gold, und paya- ble In silver or gold, would not Germany and other monometalllc countries become purchos- ers of our bonds ot lower rates of interest than f only tor eale tor goldf Yes or no. Quistion Sixth—How do we compare as o debtor und creditor nation with Frauce, En- land, aud Uermany—Gevernment, individual, and corporatel ‘These questions answered, and sotisfuclory reasons belng given that the single standard of rold whl best conducee to the general goud, anid there will not be o corporal’s gusrd to sustain the Stived bill; but where ure' your focts 1o sus- tain such an auswer, where your logic to make us helleve black 18 white! We of the West be- lleve the abandommnent of the use of sfiver was done for the purpose of enbauncng the value of the dullur, cunutugly und surreptitiously obtained; that 28 @ positive fraud prac- ticed upon debtor cluss in fuvor of the moncyed, ss rectlons: against tue South and West In favor of the East, Is nut the differ- once between the rich and poor widening fast enough withouu the wealthy drawiie fnto thelr aid the power of direct Goverminent interven- Hont Fifty years ago §10,000 to 220,000 was a Hbernd fortune. Now Jess than $1,000,000 1s scareely regarded, I catlates are to be relied on, we have several infllionalres with over 100« 000,000 each, Why, by lesislation; fuvor wealth that 18 making such” gluantle strides towurds wobbling up the whole land! Our Govertment eaunot stand as republican if it Jends itselfl 1o cluss legislation ™ and favoritiem much louger. Alreudy one of our movotetalllc papers, the 2Ymes, mdvoeuies a chonge in ovur Coustitution making the Presidentiul terin fifteen years (Ciesarlsm, o rapid chunge), and in Friduy's paper nublishes an Enclish arti- cle favorimz the rulmg of a country by a moneyed aristocrucy, This {8 consistent. ‘This is ! the same plece of cloth thet has demotie- Uzed ilver, that has held the uncertain rod of resumption with no adequote provision over the busincss and ‘mluslnnl Iiterests of the couns try Ul we are®in the midst of the most wide- soread snd contintous ses of bankriptey the country has ever known. Who was right,.—~Jlohn Shevman and his weak avd deluded followers, who predicted that every thing would be lovely and would work out all rizht, or, ns some of the canvarsers for ofllee last fall sald, everything jwas fovely sod the goose hung bigh.—or thuse who ralsed the warnfug of breakers uicad ! Uentlemen of the monomeraine manin, the atorin you have raleed Is howllug around you. No log.e nor loziclans that Yale produces can bifnd our peopie tu the stern Jozle of the facts thioy feel aid see. Be wise and repent bhetore It is oo late; und. gentlemen of the tme-honored Republican purts, i you do not wish the history of thut party written fn full ot the close of Hayes' term,” change your tactiecs sud rleld gracefully to the behiest of your musturs,—the rank undfile, | 1, C, a1, THE RED'MAN. Mrs.Swissholm's Viesa as to How Ile Bhould Be Treated. Spectat Correspondence of The Trilune, BwissvaLg, Pa., Jun. 2—The ludiun ques- tion, which has been * draggine its slow length along " throngh Ameriean pollthes ever sluce Columbus landed ju the New World, has re- cently been the main feature of the Army propriution debates fu Congress, From the time und woney spent on Indfans one might conclude that they are the staple of this Gov- ernment, und ul) other folks thelr attuches, ere- ated for their benetit and exlsting by thelr per- wisslon, Certatnly thelr position s au anom- aly. Nothlng ke 1t has been known on this green carth sfncs Adam ate apples in Eden; and, If we leaye out of the account the amount of monvy invotved, it would be unazcountable, We resd with wonder of the diplumacy of natlons {n the olden thue, nud the narvels of shrewdness ascribed to Jesuits; but none ot these have exceeded in adroltness the tactice which keep the real fssuc out of sighs, in the pgreat war of words which ene compasses the red man {n smoke and dust. The fden 1s industrionely created und dreulated, that a large body of respectable follis are bent upon the extermination of the Indian, and ure only prevented from pursulng them with iro and sworkby the oppuslug party, who are cone stautly throwing themscives between them and this fmaginury foe. Now, this 14 o falso assump- tlon. ‘There is no one, of auy fufluence, in faver of making war upon these people; st those who wish to hand Indiau affiirs over to the munagement of the War Department have no more {des of declaring war upon them than o tha fuhabitants of the Sandwich Islands, On the contrary, it fs held that the officers of the army, belng appohied for lfe on good beha- vior, and having had aspecial trmutng culeulated to fuster & senve of wegsonal honer, would be mors likely to deal honestly with the Iudiun than are thuse incu who are sppolnted by an Admlnlatration for political services, and who can have no ussurauce of retaiuing place after thy next electiou. Therefore, according to thetr theory, to restors the fndiun o hls old guardian would b to apply to Lis taso the yery nriulcwlu fur which Clvil-Seevive reformers cou- teud, ‘There can bo nu doubt that we have hiave had more sud bloodler fudiun wans,more and meaner Tudien frauds, underthe munagwnent of the Iuterlor Depurtineat, than ever occurred in the suie longth of thne umier the manwgenient of the War Depurtments but the perslstence with whitch the frlends of the Indian plead his eanse against vuch wen us Grant, Bhermat, Bheridan, and Joward, und insist upon Keeplng hiu the pn?‘ of epheamcral politichius, I8 ouly over- watetied m folly u?- the whole palicy of setting hbm upurt as aspecinl subject of legialation unh futerferenceby the General Governineut, Tha real questiun, aud Lthe vig Kupt out of slght, s thlst Way stioutd Jndians cat white man’s beef! This question can be Hlustruted by othera: Why should white men be taved to aupply Iudlavs with tour wud bnd meat at $1 per pound, whils thoes udluus haye plenty of oo land on which (o ralse their own bread, and plenty of muscle with which to do ftf Why showd wg send Agents aL cnornous cost to teach them oyrls culture, when they kucw cnough of e urt 16 et o Mving out or the groumd long wfore they saw a whits nuant - \Way should we make ourselyes the ubject of thelr ridicule und von- tempt by clearing land, fencng, plowing, plaut- {ug, buifling, aur L:\‘hn'lhu: for them, while they e in the abadv, gambling gruntiug sud erine uiug, fecling wud understa g by absurdity of tha aituationt Wiy shwuid wo foster thelr fusulent contempt for lubor, by dolng sl fu our power to rehievs thous of 1te ueceasity! Why should ae foster oud becowe @ party to Slavery, Pulygaiy, Communian, and all other savage vices, by malotalulug the eribal l{ilcm awoug then, while ubolbling, or secking to ubullsh, the s orguatzed crtines among the Southern people and Mormous ! 1 ahort, why jebould wo not pay the Tudfan what we owe hiu, i we ure dn Lis debt, aud Jet him paddle bis own canoe,—work or starye, just ua white mendof Why {3 be not left 1o the Govermnent of the States and Territorics o which be Is found, to be protected by the laws which protect while wen, und punishicd us white wen are punished when thoy commit crime! Early Western settlers iutermarry with thent, und are ever ready to llve on terms of £ whborboud s wud from them auy lus dan cun jearn ull tho srts of clvilization, with- out the cost of ouw dollar (o auy Goveramieut Why wre those goud ollices spurued, tuab thy while fee for 11, ernnent have a direet and Iives toward pauperizing Inciand, ever exterminate them more Quaker plan, 'gnml clothing them as o reward 4 All the Tudian rollc(un f“ tried by the (Gov- sistible tendeney and gm0 war can surely than the Where are the Iinlians of Peninsylvanial (tons to the New il s while tue red happy hunting-gronnds, ‘with those of men of Cauda, who were left to get tirelr own Yving or die of want,who were imprisoned for thelt and hanged for murder, have hecome an in tegral part of the population, and successtully pursuc the arts of cisiiized 1ife, The Eritish Government did not attempt’ to keep up the farce of maintaining and arming fn- tiependent natlonson its eoil, that it mlzht have Indinn contracts for political favorites, to sup- ply sal citizens, politiclans, to supuly men aml to pretend to punish the ceimes It exelted. s with sealplog-knives t then urmy contracts for Instelier its sother set of manitions of \"}r t did not make treattes with the men who voted at all its electic sented Jo the con Al this we have doae, and d Peace Comamlssloners arin our most deadly weapous: o play ot punishing themn for weanons. and were rexalarly repro- 18 of the nation. one persistently. savages with Lhie 1 then wesend soldiers the use of thelr We make treatfes with them, repudl- ate them, and treat them ad wards ot the nation, all in one breath. Minnesuta maintained a Democratic delega- tion In Coneress, nud clucted hor last Deno- cratie (luvernor, by the voteao! of those very Indians who afterwa treaty-Indians,— 8 massacred 1,000 of her'white eftizens; who were trivd and condernned to death by her laws for these mur- dert, and then roxcued and Unlted States Uovermnent, as rewarded by the not belng under the Jurisdiction of tha State which, by its nu- thority, hud extended to them of citizenship, the dearest rights Agnin: that same Government spent $200,- 000 to hang Copt. Jack, a treaty-Indian, usa ward of the Nation, Was ever before any clvilized ation guilty of such montebank tricks, thut & ring of corrupt puliticlans might rob the people under color of Chrlstunizlig ‘savages, by nll[;por“m.' them in i fdieness, ad fn the “exercise o il gavage cus- toms! Could the real Issuc inall this [ndian fuestion be concealed withoul oll Satan, backed by Iundiwg When will the Ameslean peopl L the cunnlng of fe learn that the only way it which justice can,be doneto the Indian is to treat him as we do other men: nrake him ouey the laws, and take hischolce be twewn work and starvation, JANE Uner SwissueLM, e —— s FRANCE. The Census of 1870, London Times, Dec. The results of the last eensu s of France, tak- en Dec. 81, 1870, huve now been published by thie GGovernment. The previous cnumeration of the population was taken at the eud of May, 1572, su that the intervening period Is of four years and seven months. France has taken stock of tlon the first census ocenrring ' 1501 tit 1821 the enu Like England, her populge sinee the bezinning of the century, in 1801 merations From were held at frregular futervala; but after the latter date they were taken at rewular quinquennial perlods—namely, 1820, in 1831, In 1836, fn 1841, in 1840, in 1851, in 1850, In 1841, and in 1804, The uext followlng census should have been taken fn 1371, bug the war put tlonul stocktaking, which bad {ts veto upon ua- to he postponed for a yenr, tl 1572, To restore regularty to the periods it was ordered, by a decree, dated Aug, 24, 137, that the vext ceusus should be taken on the 81t ot December, and henecfor- ward ot the end of every five ¥ At the census of May, 1872, France numbered 35,102,021, and at ears. tha population of the enumcration taken lnst December it was fouml to be 5,005,783, the increase In the four. vears and reven months amounting to 802,867, vqual to 217 per cent, ferior to the average of former more s0 as belng partly due It fs an inerease fu itself in- periods, and the o imuigration, Tuils is stated by M. de Furtou, In his “#Repory tathe President of thy Republle,” dated Oct. #1, 187, w which he polita out iz tinetly that the inereaso of population comnprises Sles Alsaciens-Lorraing Fraace” ul womt venns a2 fizer en Nothing is said about the awount of such fuynizration, but 1t muy be esthnated at nbdut 100,600, seeing that thy Jutng the uld Provinees of Duportients nd- Alsace-Lorralne, or Elsnss-Lothringen as they ougnt now to be culled, are almost the only ones which, with the distriet of the camtal, show a notable ln- creuse of population betweed w1872 and 1570, 1In the Departtuent of Meurthe-et-Muselle ulone the fnerease of population mincunted to S94T the chiet town, Nauey, Tnitsnts by 30 per cent. Ar suzmenting its ine L 18 probable that most of th fmmicrunts from Alsace-Lorralug setiled clther in the aijoinfuy Frasce or mule their way to bess may be npproximately e Devartiwents of Puris, their num- fealuted, and the eatlmate of 100,000 fs, perhaps, ratner under than over the murk. The tnevense ol populatlon was not_spread over all the Frauce, buz 1 no less than or one-fourth, there was a largest in tha Ofse, which Jost 18,190 population of the chief town, Tuo Departments fn which, Beine-et-Olse, there was 45 Ornic, which lost 57245 4 tha habitants during tho perl suffered Toss 18 to the thirteen, whicn lation. ~ The M. de Fourtou decrease, Department the Republic as having ocenired somes hat complicated number of eauscs, from 1873 to 1670 Departments of twenty ol them, 1t wos ol Beine-et- inhabltautd, the Versailles, sinke ing Lrom 61,630 to 49,87—a decline of 11,53, next to the _the greatest do- crenss of population, wers Vaucluse, which Jost which lost Lot, Stunche, which lost 4,8503 Yonne, nd Eur&whlch lust from 1873 to 1870, Al these depurtments, With the exe tue first, represent purely agricultural districts, and of the same character “are the remaiuing ption of n loss of popu- explained by Uresident of from o As the * principal vauses the late Minlater of the Interfor sots down **tue decrease fn the nume ber ot marrlyy the exesy birthss the cultivation af the lnmli the population of rurul distric of deaths over ticatlons tutroduced iuto the and the cmigration of 18 towurds the {n- dustrisl centres;, which attract themn by an cusler imode of lHfe and the allurement (Cappat) of hig| clearly the etnfzration of rural indutricls.” The salurivs,” ‘The unplu plo (d centres ovs that M, de Fourtou docs asant word appat ik tnto the certaluly tres proved very deeldedly in thie recent clection that veitier ike M. de Fourton, doubt that {n France, as fu tide uf populution tlowlng tro the towns, With um{ live exs Versalllew, Moutpellier, pupulation betweon the two ce; the Capital, the rate of great as previvialy, was Yulluhluun rixdug - from \ngs. Paris, therefore, tw have, In round tnbabitauts, Next to Parls, th Us3. ‘Thosy great ‘‘een Lyous und 8t l.'vinu slslng trom 325,417 Lo 84 ol frontler, flow of funygration passed. Inerease noue was eyual to tha the popntation of which yos Srum K075 L0 G303, Denuz ut 18,5525, KratiLa. forcib i 1582 10 bERN 1 LSiu. of 5,035 aud the jucreass In (erman boundagy and thence the hifizh road to Purls, Inull the Departments of Leing four towns of ilie, culng, sud Dunkerque. larizer towns fnreased thelr taore tha elr female, while er the '+ atlurement,” there can bo no Europeun countries, there s an ever-lnereasing Augurs, C Aviuon—ull the towms of Frauce contalmns more thay 80,000 {uhabltauts fucre use, thougl: not so uumbery, of pupulation wus I Bordeaux, the popsiativn of whitch rose from 193,05 10 215,140, un increase Etfenne, follow next in rank, une trom 1081 to 126,010, Noue of the vther towns the exveptioy ot few uljuitiug the ne juto which the already-mentioned mmably “all, or uearly alt, lomi- Rueuns, the ol cathedral town, telt the satae fow of huotzration, thoush not s v, betng farther uway from the frentier, its pupulatiou increastor vily Y&, trom Besancon lkewise ruit from “.'[l‘" futabitants to 51,404, & growth the same causes way be traced nearly all otwer the country futo tious—~uatnely, netly uinl wd thelr nRus perlods, 1n conahlurable, the 1,551,743 way be 2,000,000 0 largzest fucrease tres fndustriels," 2,513, g fierease In proportlonal t ol quict Naucy, n the four years ungmentation of 100 pupulution from Wl ulowy the to the towns un France fn which thers was uu ducrease of pouvulution ft way sulely in the towus, Thy largest fucrease, that of the Departmeut of the delue, FXLTE), was wbsurbed by the Capital, togetier with surround- Iy winall towus, aud the samie was thu cas all uver the country, Next to the Department of the Betng, the reatest rise fn population was In the muunfuctunnsg dbtrcts of the north. It was largest fu_the Department of the Nord, which galued T1A2L suuls, the auguentation spreal in even proportious over the Roubalx, ‘Tour- luthe Loire, the ln- creast, 40,072, was to the prolit ot St. Etleuug aud surrounding bigb-chlmneyed towns; wod tuthe Gironde the rise, 80,008, way closcly ropresented by thaut ot Bordeaux, Mostol tbe wiale vopulation the contrary wis the result tor the wholcol France, AL the cens sus of 1572 the povulation vi Frauce was found 1o wonsbt o JT,90418 wales und LAERAAS los, white 10 Deceml st vowprized 13 13it, tae pop- wales sud D4, 32,149 females, between ) pprapriutionss Thus tho total increase tho census perinds was made up of 303,165 males, and 400,704 fomales. Not withstanding thls increase, France has still a comparativelv emaller femalo population than almust all the other States of Enrope, While the number of women to every 1,0 men s but 1,007 in France, {t s 1,018 b1 Bpalp, 1,022 10 the Nethicriands, 1,035 in Austria, 1,030 in Dene mark, 1037 In Genmany, 1,065 1 Switzertand, 1,053 In Sweden aml Norway, and 1,067 In Greal Britain. 1t Is n question whether the abnormal- 1y low proportton of women to men in France has not romething to do with tho cqnally ab- normal low increase of population, In regard to the firat two **principal causcs” to which M. de, Fortou, In his rcport to the President af the Repablie, ascribes the decrease of population In twenty Departments since the former census,—namely, & - low marrage and hich death rate.—~it may be interesting to nose how far thiey nre borne out by the vital stat's. ties of France, The latest “pibifshed by the UGovernment go down to 18515, In which year there were in France U500 birtha, 85, 062 deaths, and 305427 narrazes. Ay to the marrlages, ~they were more numerous n - 1935 than during ihe pre- vious two years; hat, taking the averare of fiteen years, the number waa all bt statlm- ary, There were B, marriages In 1551, Leing only 224 Tess than 1875, The numbee of Dirtha decreased steadily In the fiiteen yeorn fromn 1861 to 1830, atanding at over a milon rurluuum 11 1367, and then sinking, under it hut during Lie sams perfod the death-rate Itke- wise decreased, cepeclally i the year fne mediately preceding tho war, The surplis of Uirths over deatlis was 135,481 in 1861, and ruse 1o 182,180 fn 1862, "Then the surpius fell gradu- aily down to SLE60 In 1805, and, alter anotlier rise, sank to 64102 In 1868, In the fatal years 1570 and 1871 the balanco could mot but go n the opposite direction; there was un excess of deaths over births of 103,334 in 1870, and of 444,850 In 1871 The recovered surplus of births over deaths underwent somo fluctuations In the next four years, but no {mprove- ment, fht surplus ‘smuunted to 173 037 In 1872, and fell to 101,736 In 1872 It rose acaln to 173043 fn 1874, and foll szain to 105,913 In 1875, Taking all the facts to- getlier, tho late Minister of the Interior was not strletly correct In referring the decrcaso of pop- ulation tn_many of the Departmeats to “the excess of deaths over births” It would havo bren truer to say that the cause was In *tha deticiency of births." It is nsad’ fact for “la 5"""“ natlon” that its birth-rate is at present jower than that of any country {n Europe, and, 80 [lln'; as is kuown, of ‘any State In the civilized world. g ————— Willlam Black's Embaraasinent, New York Tribune, ilere Is o pathetic atory, which appears to be told in gowd faith, concerning Mr, Willlam Black, the novellst. ~ Whila staylog at Obau laxt sumsmer, he felt inclined for a swim one mornivg, and, sciceting the quietest nook ho could tind along the beach, bo lald his clothea carefully under a rock and proceeded to enfoy Uifs sea-Dath, Presently uf‘uunz lady, with one of his own novels In hand, came walking along the beach, and, absorbed and unconscious. sat herself nown close by the unseen garments. Poor Mr, Willlam Bluck did not know” what to do, Ie made a nolse with the water, bobbed up and down, and tried by every modest gmeans in his power to indleate that he was In the sicinity, and mnot in full He was “ashamed tu natand up shout, and hardly ventured, Indecd, , to sliow more than the ton of his bead. Ho'abs sorbing, however, was his own storv that he could not attruct attention. He bad never be- fore wished that his literary power was less, but at that mowment his fondest hove was that he had written at_tcast one dull chapter in his volume. ‘That wish becamis un insplration, o desire begot in agony, when presently thero catne along that way a short-sighted sportsmn carry/ng a gun, who, seelng somcthiog stranwe- 1y acting in the water near ot hand, thought it must be game of some kind or other, and pre- sented hisizun tostoot. Mr. Black could not etand this, Forgutting the lady, with one of his own novels in haud, he starthed both her and the sportsman, a3, iinging 1t bolt upticht, he lfted his arm above his head, und cried with putaetic rapidity, ** Pray don’t shoots pleace hoot!{ I'm a mun! I'mamanl 'ma The Indy by the scashore took the hint and dlsappeared, e ———— A Feagrant Bireath and Perrly Teeth are eamly aitafned, and thoro who fail to themeelves of the means should ot compflatn, accured of grose neglect, Thu Kozw hiat speedtly eradicate tho cause of a (ol heeat beautifylug and préserving the tecth to the old. b age. L.a Pere De Aubricl, of the French Chusch, a1 Twunty-third street, New York, dovotes v'e e 1o ¥imiing the poor anil the atlicted, and o bt only glven the conmolation of religim, li o weribes the use of Giles' Linlment wl Ao wmonla, fur lnetant reliel 18 experenced. e — - To prevent gout and rheumatlsn, taze Sanfard® Jumnales Glnger, g AEDICAL. CATARRE . IS IT CURABLE? FIVIOSE who hess suflered from tho varlazs and complicated farms of disears assuned by Cas turrh, and have tried many plgeici Toite fiiea without reltef ur eire, uwait the suswerfo this Qquestion witli considerablo anxlety, And wellthe Thiy § fUr O disoasotling can be insntioned fa so unf- Yerkally'pravaient o 3o destrictive to Lusith a3 1, Bronchit 2, Couglis, and serjous s of (he Tings follow, npla but eglecte thor aympat foctions, such a3 cafuess, Impatred esesight, and loss nen of smnll, in4y ha referredto ae minor but navertiieleis scrious remlts of Neglected Catsrrh, bad enough Hut &% nothing comparmd with the ctlons of thie turoat aad lungs likely dsngerous Lo fallow. T CAN BE CURED, e cnrad, Piereisnodoubtabont it, The fumediate rolief afiorde by SAXFORD'S RADI ATARRI L8 co o CAL CURK Fo ut A sligtit e B what may follow & perslstent uso of this remedy. 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