Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 30, 1878, Page 3

DRSSy S— ST G R SR st : . . 45 e i S T3 0 8 S Mmoo ++reermerememetrmak e e ") e T THE B CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAX; JUNE 30, 1878~SIXTEEN PAGES _JUNE 30, 187&-SIXTEEN PAGES 3 — e PARIS. Pleasure-Haunts Near the French Capital---Places that Are Worth Seeing. Yersailles and St. Cloud: Trianon and ItsRoyal Dairymaid---Racketty N Bougival: The Place for an Aquatic Spree. Robinson and Its Denkeys—XMontnterency and Jean Jacgnes Rousseau—Sen- lis, Enghien, Foutaine. bleau. Speetal Correspondence of The Tribune. PARIS, June 12.—7 bave often wondered, and wondered much, at the persisteut preference which foreimers new to Paris, and even Paris- jaus themeeives (who should know better), show for Versatlles and St. Cloud when a holiday or a0 anusually fine summer-afternoon tempts shem to cxchange these hot aud dusty streets Sor the eountry. No stranger secms content to leave them uuvisited. i ST. CLOUD is a little town, or village, on the borders of the Seine, some five miles, only, as tae crow fies, from the towers of Notre Dame, though the ranad-ibout roud followed by the rail ana boat makes it seem 8 good «deal fartbher. It has a handsowe park, very picturesque aud very rus- tic in parts; the great, sad ruin of an lm- perial chateau; a pretty bridge spaoning the Seme; and (in the autumn) 3 fete. or fair,— which is perhaps the largest aud most famous o the neighborbood. The village, lke the chateau, is still in part a ruin. Duriog the war of 1570, French and Prussians combined to Gestroy the flourishing little place only too suc- cessfully. What a jealous spirit. of patriotism failed to accomplish tboroughly was doné by the invader. The precipitous streets were tilled with crumbling walls; the pleasaut slleys echoed the sounds of wo and lsmentation. How the coquettish church upon the bhill escaped destruction, S a mystery to me; put it dia escape,—almost alone rearing jts graceful spire the Emoress Eugenie) above the relics of what had been the brigatest, néwest, gayest of Imperial suburbs. St. Cloud, in point of fact, is rather 100 new and suburban for my taste evennow; but it is interesting enough in its way. The cascade fn the park puts the sretchedjofTairon the Trocadero quite to shame. Inthe quiet September evenings, the traveier way find plenty of amusement in watching the poisy merriment of the annual fair; or, if that be 100 vulgar, mnay get « noble view over a wide sud fertile plain, with the great eity In the dis- 1auce, for the trouble of climbing a grassy bill. VERSAILLES' 1never loved, Let who will praise the wonders of the perk and chateaw. Both have ever secmed to we stifl and unlovable. The wealth of tue one—its stately chambers, its long, weary gallaries, filled with battle-scenes and portraits—leaves me as untouched as the rerular and pedantic avenues of the other. .All fs too artful, too artificial, and studied. You cannot forget that you are in a park. ‘the memory of the *Roi Soleil” pursues you in 1le remotest corner, and memories of him who was miscalled tte Great Louis can hardly be sereeable to free men or pure women, unless ey should happen t6 be French Lesitimists. csides, Versailles is too much known. Our Benators aud Deputies have made it common. It bas been the scene of $o many muserable quarrels since the German legions witndrex Beross the Rbine that the tragic interest with Wwhich it was tor a_oment invested has beca swallowed up in commonvlaces. Thep to think of those hopeless boulevards is in itselfl enough 0 give one a hearty abliorence of the place. I canpot couceive a town which unites more hap- pily the lotticst -pretensions with the most utcerly and perfectly dismal realizatfon of mag- nificence. 'To make things worse, Versailles is, next to Havre, perbaps the damipest, rainiest towy in France. Each time I buve visited it in the spring or winter, I believe it has been wet. 1o the summer and sutuwy itis insufferably Lt A tourist, as he drags himself across the 1mmense solitude of the Place ¢’Armes on an Augost afternoon, is 8s fitting an object for pity and amazement as any you could fiud in s day's wulk. There nay-be a personal reason for the peculiar dispuise with which Versailles insvires most jourualists. Visions of long, avgry debates ip the 1wo Cliambers trouble vur enjoyment of jts trees aud jountains. However that may be, I am sure st eandid travelers will ugree with me that it is terribly overpraised. But what of TIE TRIANONS, great and smail! Ab! They, I sdmit, are worth a visit, especially le Petit Trianon, where poor Marie Antomnette sooiten sound bappivess fo shaking off the grgudeur sud tiresome splendor of tiw Royal chateau. You may still sce the pretty farm (murrored in the placid ‘waters of the artiticial lake) in which that ill- fated Princess anaher Maids of Honor were wont 10 play at poverty, milking cows, with jeweled fingers, or making butter aud chcesc with s charming affectation of simplicity; while the real poor, the sulien and wretched populace of Yars and the porvinees, grew daily more fierce and pitiless, till the crasn came, aud the Royal dairy-10aid (poor woman'!), with her weak, well- mesning busband, and the tower of Freuch nobility, penshed, hated and despised, upon the scaffold. When he has “*done” Versailles and St. Cloud, the average tourist shuts bis guide-book snd fancies he has seen everything that is worth se ing. The tnure adventurous will run down to St Gérmain; but how many take thetrouble wo visit BOUGIVAL.~ that graceless, lovely, merry Paradise of bathers and boating-folk,—the most, Parisian of Parisian pleasure-haunts (vet s0 naturully charning that 1ot even the periodic invasion "of Freuch cock- neysm can wholiy spoil it)! Bougival is a vil- lage on the Scibe, lying close to the foot of Mont Valerien, and within an_hour's watk of Et. Germain or Marly-fe-Roi. The river at this polnt is_cxquisitely beauuful, bordered with woudy hiils, aud gray old manors. Etmile As per sud- Sardon live quite close 1o Bougivaly and 1t was there that ‘*‘La Dame asux Camelias,” in Alexandre Dumas’ novel, Iived with ber infatuated lover. Between the Villaze aud Revil, a litzle way down the river, is the celebrated bathing establishment kuown as _the renoutlicre, or Fromgery. Ou a warm Sun- day afternocn in the sumuwer, you may see hun- dreds of men and women bathing there pro- miscuously, or sipplog coffee aud_beer on_the floating restaurant. I peed not say that Bouki- valis *‘igst.”” Fast is npot the word for it. Racketty is insuflicient. Roystering might do, People who go 10 Bougeval o with the deliber- ate and eettied intention of enjoying thein- selves, regardless of decorun: o LEC Yom afrald. The costumes sou ece on the Svarer-side sometimes ure of the most eccentric, Man; ladies *? walk aboutin tlannel jers d inexpressibles without exciting any _surprise. The men affect an_casy Bantical -get-up, wener- auly including & 6traw bat Of eXuberant pro- vortions, Towards b or ¢ o'clock therefs a great rush towards the restaurunts,—~the best (snd noisiest) of which is Souvin's, close o the bridee. The fun grows loud and furious. Champazne~carks fiy about in all directions, and the viands disappear with startling rapidi- The boatine-mcn tell long tales of iheir aquatic_exploits, and the 1air bathers of the Grevowillere sing slangy €oraps of mu gichail melodies. There Is *a sound of_revelry by night.”? Betore long, ' soft eyes ook lote to eyes that speak agam,” and *all 2oés merry as 2 marriage-bell.” * Aiter divver, 1hose who are so minded strollinto the neighbor- fug. ‘Bal des Camoliers, which Lmost decidedly protlai the wildest, jolliest, and most reckiess Thing of the kind jn'or out of Paris. Buelier fiself; the ball of the students, is quiet be- side it. - “ind how many tourists, I wonder, bave 50 much as Leard of ROBINSON,~— as pleasant a place, alwiost, as_Bougival, but of 2 different character Robinson takes its sin- guiar_pame from 3 far-famed reswauract. its Chiiel “attraction. This -restaurant {5 not.as other restaurants. _It-lies ou the brow of a bitl and fs- surrounded by a laree garden, fille Wit Age old trees. . It 1§ the custom to dine in the open wir at Robinsen.: Up i the air, I ought to sayz-for, if you arrve early, you may be gerved in the arbors which have been constrict- cd m the 1opmost branches of a Jeafy chestout. The view trom your post of Yantave' is delight- ful. . You have quite thrty myles of country be- “tween you and the horizon. -Parls can’just be o gleaminy white when the £un shines on its distant houses. At your feet is the fair Valley of Aulnay, and the princely mansion of the Due de Trefise.—a fine building * in the Rengissance style. Abuve and around (once "0 dear to | you the swect-scented fohaze rustlesin the breeze. Looking upward, you micht faney )'u: were a bird, aod’ the arbor « nest. I know no pluce {?h:hlx.'h one ean dine more comfortabl - OV, More cheaply (a S cr;:(d)i.llx;\u ay kubinsun.pl" S ames b abiuson, like Moutmorency, b - traction. Tt is eclobrated ror " 5, “POthoT 2t TS DONKEYS. You would no more drésm of of leaving 1t with- out a donkey-ride than you would leave Puris without sceing the Louvre. Yet honesty fii{{‘,"“’ me 10 declare . that the inson donkeys are the lazlest, dullest, MOst obstinate, obstreperous asinine frauds I ever met—out' of Moutmorency. But, at auy ratc, they sre better than the horses. Well I remember how one of these pitiful brutes over- whelmed me with confusion, and meds me an object of public derision. 1 rather pique my- lst:l{ on my horsemanship. Withont being atisos utely a Ducrow or a Comanche Iudian, I flaiter myself that I know sometbing of horsefesh. Inan evil hour I wagonce foolish envugn to liire a Kobinson steed for an hour. The sport- i beust carried me weil enouzh for a time, auswerme to wmy frequent calls with a docile aluarity that charmed uo less than it astonished me. When I endeavored to direct i towards a railway-station at which I purposed dismounting, it suddenly took it into its head hot 1o budiee. s-like, it refused to pass its whiich, vy iil luck, chanced to be on the nvain’ I strug “The whip was as powerless as the spur,—persuasion s vain as force. Aund, to fill the cup ol my humiliation, a rutbless velocipedist, sceing my iisfortune, had the callous cruelty to ride round and round me ©Ou his wretchied bicycle, to the buge deligki of the spectators (buppily not nuwerous). . ENGHIEN, too, on the Northern Railway, is well worth a visit. Were it a hundred wiles from Paris, in- stead of half-a-dozen, it would be considered beautiful. 1t is a therma) station, a3 well as bleasure-tesort, aud its baths and sulphur- springs are olten recommended in cases of ob- stinate asthma and blood-diseases. Enghien boasts a tiny lake. studded with pretty islands, and surrounded by fanaful villas of every con- ceivable form, jrom an Euglish cottageton Swiss_chulet. 1t has a casino and a public gar- den, just like any watering-place iu the Pyr- ences or the Vosges, and several capital hotéls, whose only fault is their custlivess. t)w Eughien 13 the very picturesque Village o - MONTMORENCY, immortslized by the **Cunfessions” of Jean Jacques Rousseau. They still show you the remnants of the house bie tnbabited (the Her- mituge), and some vlants plauted by Jean Jacques’ own haud over a hundred years ago. Quite apart fromn the interest attaching to its associution wuh the seutiméutal author of “La Nourelte Heloise and * Enule,” Moutoreucy deserves to be kuown to every strauger. The forest of Moutwercy may sliost becompared with that of Fontamebleau, though it lacks the weeuliur grandeur which Foutaigsblean owes to its wild and rugged rocks. lna Iew davs we shalt be celebrating the centennial of Rousseau, and Moutmorency will becomea place of pi- grimage. “Len there is ) SENLIS, with the lovelest Gothic cathedral noar Parls; Senlis, with its Romau amphitheatre, sod its fine old Ruman arches ana iateways,—its beau- tiful Chureh of the Carmes, now used (sueri- lege!) us barrack, and auother, which au im- pious coal-merchant bas converted mto a coal- shed: Senlis, 8 city of cties, with beauty coough and variety eooush to give a paiot® er or an autiquanan profitable oceupation for half a lifetiwe. Who goes to seeitf Itis ut- terly neglected. Chantilly, 1ts next-door uneighbor, is occasionally fuvored.—on race duys; but_ few suspect what a mine of interest pledsure they could find within an hour’s pleas- ant walk through the wood. % But £ would give all these and a dozen more or FONTAINEBLEAD. On some future occaslon I may devote a letter to thatrieht glorious soot. To-day dare not. 1 should need more space thau_you could spare to unbosom myzell of a tithe of ~ the passionate adpiration I have for it. There is but one Fontalneblesu in the world. Other furests there may be as beautiful, but the forest of Footaiuebleau has a fascination and a glory all its own. Other palaces there be, but few so interesting as the Chateau de Fontainebleau. Its praises have been cefebrated by Mucrser und by Michelet, who foved if. Yet even thiey have scarcely done it justice. If travelers only knew all that lies hid within the recources of the uoble wood, they would rather wiss sceing wwenty Versailleses aud @ity St. Clouds than brough France witaout giving one day, at least, to Fontainebleau. HArny ST. MICHEL. THE HOSTILES. Latest Advices from Their Huaunts In Oregon. Sax Fraxeisco, June 20.—A Yreka dispatch says: John Hendricks arrivid here this after- noon direct from the Klameth Ageucy, baving left there on Thursday morning. Ile savs that the report that the Kiamath: ure on the war- path is incorrect, They have been off the reservation lhunting und digging roots. The Agent semt out runners to order them to return to the reservation, aud they. were all coming fn. OId Ocho’s band of Snakes, who left the reservation three years azo, are on the war-patb, and supposed to be the Indians who killed the men in Warner Valiey. Capt. Adams wes intending to start this morning with twenty-four men from Fort Klamathon 2 scout through Summer Lake. Sitver Lake, Chican, sod Chewapean Vaileys to look ‘after the interest of scttlers and stockmen. Hendricks gives his opinion, lLowever, from conversations with the Indiaus, that if the bosfiles now in Warner Valley are victorlous, and drive the settlers from those valleys, the Klamaths will undouttedly eventu- ally join them. There is much excitement in Lake View, Sprague River, and Largells Valley, and the settlers are all endeavoring to get arms. All the familics in Sprague River and Lake View have come {uto Linicville uud vicinity. Sax Fraxcisco, June 20.—A Silver City dis- pateh s The Jatest from.the front indi- cates the probability that the hostiles will leave Canon and go in the direction of the Cotumbia River, through the Yakima Valley, in Washinzton Territory, aud, passing along w the Npokame countrs, get to Koo- teoal. They will meet with little or D0 opposition on_this route, there being no troops and but few volunteers to mect, except of the latter such as mizht puesibly be sent out from Walla-Walla. 1f they take the route here Indicated they will pass torough a fine stock countrs and commit heavy depredations, and probably murder may settlers. THE RING. Two of Gotham's Elite Engaze In an Hour's ‘Argument—Few Telling Points Made. Special Dispatch to The Tribune. New Youk, June 20.—John Reilley, of New York, and Yank King, of, Troy, fought witbout gloves to-night in a building near Ludlow- Street Jail. King was trained by Mike Dono- Van, hence much sas expected of bim, ‘There was a large attendance of sports, who were dis~ inted by as tame an exhibition as has been here fn the regular rioy. The ending was hé culy telling feature. The men-apoeared iu the ring at 9:40, both in full costume. After hand-shaking time was cailed, and the meu be- an to spar for an _ opening. King got in the first Ulow, snd then Reilley forced bim into a corner and pounded him. Three or four 1ame rounus were fought, Reilley drawing first blaod. Up to the fitcenth round there was uo he pitting, and licilley had it all bis own way apparently. Ruddenly King cent o hard biow and Reilley ihrew up his heuds and screamed. Kiue bit again, and bronght bim to the fuor, mination g“!zfiwd his Wi _This gave tne fightto King. The sports were disgusted with the tame aifoir and its end. The men fought a little over s nour. Neiber suffesed much. e DAKOTA ITEMS. - YANKTON, D. T., Julr 23.—Two horse thieves who eave their names as:Morris & Smith, ar- rested in Minpesota a fé days ago, haviug fa their possession fourteen horses stolen from Chouteau Creck, forty milesabove Yankton, had their examination to-day, and were beld for trial in the sum of §1,000 cach. They failed to put up, gnd Went to jail: These men are mem- bers of the gang which operates between Mippes ick Hilis, aud has head- guarters at. Washington Hill They hare Stolen from the Indiaus in the past six mouzhs abous 150 bead of. norses. i O eoter's sury to-day decided that Hans Oleson, whose, half-onsumed remains were sound in toe ases of bis house near Yankton o the 13th, was murdered. Suspicion is _di- rected aguinst his illegitimate son, Carl Jolan Olcson, and be has been arrested. it was found that Reilley bad | A CRIMINAL’S STORY. A Long Caresr of Alternating Crime and Punishment. Prison Experience in France, England, Cuba, Canada, and the United A States. Different Modes of Torture—Suggestions Regarding Prison-Reform. Tniphistowen. /nd.) Gurresponidence Indianagoits na. Your correspordent attended a mecting of the Eed-Ribbou Club in this city o few evenings since, apd listened to rn address by Charles D. Hildcbrand, a reformed drunkard. At the cou- clusion of the addre. ~ the speaker promised his audience, if tiey wousd ouly come to hear hun the next evening, tiat they would learn some- thing in relation to the close councction of whisky to crime, the iuner, history of peniten- tiaries, and the punisieent received there, which ‘would astonish them. Tue bro face, the uervous glance of the ere, 50 often scen in crimivals, aud the peeuliar bitter tone of the speaker when he referred to prisons, attracted my sttention, aud au inde- tinable something in his general appearance led me to believe that Lis Jife had been 3 supremely bad one. Su, after Le resumed his seat, 1 handed him wy card aud invited him to accom- pauy me to my room at the Shipman House. Tle consented, and, after we were comfortably scated. be “did a tule unfold,” which, if true, entitfes him to u prace 1o tie annals of crime alongside of Claude Duval and Dick Turpic. TILDLCBRAND'S STORY. I was born fu Detroit, Mich. When only 7 months o1t 1 was stolen from my mothier’s bosom by a neighboring woman, who, with her husband, joined a tribe of I[ndians living in the viclnitg. 1 remember little or nothing of my childhood, except that when I was 7 years old woman whom I had calied mother, on ber death-bed confessed to her attendant, an old bag, that shz had stolen me, and gave the name aud address of my parents. Slic also obtained from the nurse her promise to see that I was seut bome. This promise was never kept. 1 theu fell into the hands of two profussional thieves and was taken to Paris. Stoce that time 1 have served iu eleven penitenthuries, cighteen years closo confinement, not including short confinements 1 numerous station-houses, city prisons, and county jalls. My first sentence Frande, two_years_in_brison for Docket-pieki after tiree months' contiucment on account of extreme youth, being then only 9 years old. Was scotemced uexi to six months' imprisonment _in Bailey Prison, London. for the same offense. There I learned the als, phabet for the first time. I then went to Can- ads, und was sentenced to one vear's confine- ment iu the Kingston Peaitenuary for burglary, and for retusing to obey prisbn orders was con- fined durmy the whole term of my sentence in a dungeou, aud for_nearly 363 days I did not sce the light of day. When I was releasud from Canada [ bezan my regular occupation, viz: bank and county treasurs work. Tiis wus my particular line of business, and I seldom did auy work outside of this, which is decidedly the best branch of the profession. From 1852 to 1354 I served fo Allegheny, Pa., where [ learned to read aud weil Went then to Havana, and receved a_sentence of twenty- one years fora red-not bank robbery; was re- leased after three menths, through'the inter- cession of the American Consul. Tn 1855 I was sentenced elght years to the Nashville, Tenn., State Pris- on, but I was “flush,” had sume pow- erful fricnds and good” lawyers, ana served auly thirty days. 1n 18571 was sentenced four vears to the Louisians State Prison at Baton Rouge,but the sume influences which secured vy release from Nashville were used with sike ef~ foct in Buaton Ruuge, and 1 saw the inside of the walis only two months. My vext sectence wus in 1838, for three years, in the lilinols State Prisou st Alton: 1 was afterwards traosferred to Joliet, and iL took me seven years to serve my sentence. 1 escaped “lour separate times ana was rerapiured each time. My partner, {Georze Clinse, was hung at Jotiet for kil Deputy-Wardzn Clarke. Clarke was o brutal officer, and tyranuizcd unmerc:fully over Ca: Yor some trtdmg disotedieuce, Clarke under- o0k to whip Lim, and when e ook hold of b.m 1o lead him to the winpping-pust, the convice e a shung-<hot, whick he hua made of 2 stone and some leather, and killed Clarle with u sy blow. I was released from Joliet Fe. 13, 1 In May, 1566, | made v escape from the I dianapolis Jail, where I had ueen locked up on churize of a bank Tobbery, aod the Iuaianapolis City Coi-t was the only place where [ ever saye my Lrue name. . In the fall of 1550 1 was sentenced for five vears to the Wisconsin State Prison at Waupuu, aud for refusal to work I was confined u a cell four feet by seven, witn a ball aud chain to my foot, for four years, four months, aud seventeen days. \Was released March 4, 1 In 18741 was sentenced at Terre Haute to four years’ continement in the Induna State Prison ot Jetiersonville, but bad the sentence cuctuiled four months on account ot zood be- havior. Was released Oct. 23, 1877, I was arrested in - Indianapolis fn 1872 on chargo of complicity in the Meridian Street Buuk robbers, but no evidence was of- fered which could hold we. I was im- mediately taken 1o St. Juseph Count Michizun, on charge of robblug the Couu Treasurer's safe. | trumped a charge uguinst tny captor, Detective Joun Funday, got him fn jail, und cleared myself. I was never sentenced Tivite under the saine uane, and the segrewate amount of my sentences reaches sixty-three ears. T Aiter he bad told me his hm")'xk Oildebrand e nsked me: “Would you to see 2 sketeh of some of our tools, und some of the wmodes of torture use in the various Peniteutiaries?” I auswered af- firmatively, and, askiug to be excused, he went to his ruofis at n_private boarding-homse, and Teturned after o few winutes with s lurge roll of papers; each about nine by twelve inches. He then showed me thirty pages of sketches of cvery tool koown to ihe profession, and es- pluned their uses, and five pages of cipher used by burglars, . “Hilaebrand states that the flnest picce of swork ever executed jo the United States (of course he was not engaged fn it) was the rob- bery of the Falls City Bauk in Lowsville. The burgzlars gained an eutrance Saturday nigat foto an insurance office immediately above the vault, o0k up the carpet, sawed out the floor, took up the bricks ~until they reached the vault: them, from 4 o'clock, Sunday morn- ing, until 1 o’clock Mooday inorning, they suc- ceeded, but not witbout the hardest knd of hard work. in drilling 194 holes through the chilled steel top, turee-quartersjof an fuch thick, and Jifted the plate out. Theu they Lad noth- ing to encounter except plaster-of-paris cement and soft iron. The haul realized them 3325,000 1in currency, bonds, and disuionds, Hildebrand furtber states that in the cases of county treasury robberfes, Where comblua- tions have been opened, Trensurers are often unjustly accused of complicity. Men can be found, and without much difliculty, who wul diselose combinations for a eertain’ percentawe of the *swaw.” In the case of the recent Cler- mout County, O., robbery, at Batavia, the com- Dbination was giventothe thieves by an out- eider, well-known to Hildebrand. e then showed e over 100 sketches, ex- hibiting the different modes of torture used in tne various Penitentiarivs in which be has heen confined. Some of the tortures are inhuman beyond beli ’}'m:se sketcheswere made by Hildevrand dur- fng his sohtary contineinent in_Waupun, Wis., and evinee no Jittle degiee of skill in drawing. In addition t> the common _modes of pumsh- ment, such as the cat-o-nine-tails, the woipping post, the duckmeg-tub, the shower-bathy the fread-mill, the ball aud chain, tying up by the thumbs, ete., which sre cowmonly known, he showed a sxeteh of tbe iron yoke used in New Jersey. A mag is placed over the mouth, 1ron Yokes placed around the neck aud aukles, and fastened to the walls of the cell. The prisoner is tben chained, so to speak. agaiust the wall. without being.able to muove a muscle, for periods varsing from six to wenty-four hours, Then, azaiu, prisoners are fustened to the floor in the same manner, fuce downward. Anotaer eketch showed a sampie of punishment of fe- inales in Aliegbeny, Pa. An iron yoke weizh- ing ubout twenty pounds i5 fastened round the neck, u baud of iron round the swaist, to which were attached seven- pound bulls conmécted by’ chains six teet Jong. With these’ weights the prisoner must walk backward aod forward in her cell. In Caba besaw a_female prisouer bearing an irou voke around“her ueck, with beams about two fect long ou eitner side, exteading over and supported by the shoulders. An' iron ball was suspended 1o each ¢ud of the beam, and the prisoner madeto carry the burden, wetghmy fifuy pounds, as long as six bours. in Jolier, Ik, be saw & woman suspended in an outstrelched | position tive feet above the ground by her hanis and fect, which were tied to two posts standing eieht feet arhrt. She was kept in this situation until ghe; became black in the face, was then taken down and whipped and carried to the hospital, where she died within t hours. 5 Another punishment_dsed fn Sing Stog con- sfsts of u large vat fiticd with water and u treud- mill combined. The prisoner must walk, with- out cessation, neck-deep in water, and a single second’s rest wouid cause death by drowning. L order to make the panishment more hellish, a. stream of cold water falls. steadily on the von- viet's head. V. Probabiy the mest korrible orutality, howev- er, ever shown towards a_prisoner was what he saw iu Cuba, and which has been practiced a few times in New Jerscy,” The prisoner, nearly naked, is made to stand against o block sbout toree feet bugh, and bent forward so that the body is at right angles with the lower limbs, Ropes are then tied around his wrists and wound around an uxle, and the axle turned by # crank until the shoulders cr: Then he is whipped until the flesh I8 raw, then alcohol poured v and set fire to. ildevrand showed sketches of all these aif- ferent modes of torture. - and over o hundred others. Il Isnow lecturing on prison-reforin in connection with temperance, and he certatuly speaks from expericuce. fle regards cyery officer, from the Warden down, with few ‘exceptions. in all the prisons in which he has been coufined, 4 paid thief. They muke swmall fortuses every vear in-the way of bribes from con- trictors, to bent prisouers in order to get more work from them, and in woprovriating to their own use food paid for by the State for the use of prisoners. 7 The foliowing, which came under his observa- tion at Jeflersonville, is & fair sample of their work. The puards have the privileuc of buyivg provisions for family use from the State at cost price. A lot of coffees came in. One of the guards took a suck, dumped it fu u bar- rel, poured a few npotatoes over it, and chureed himself with one barrel potatoes. If o prisoner would report such a steal, he wouid be charged with some offense by the guard and swnmarily punished. Hildebrand states that if the wardens were forbiaden by Jaw to huve finaucial interests in pemtentiaries, if they woild receive larger sala- ries. aud treat prisoners like men instead of brates, that everv State prison_in the United States would become self-sustaining u less than ayear. Hildebrand is a trifle above medium size, well- built, has a clear brown eye, which is constant- lous black mustache, and spiendid He hus ¢ fn Ciuncinnati In delicate health, and three children. He scems (o be in earnest u this matter of prison reform. and if _experience can furnish wisdom he ought certaiuly to be well-posted on the subject. BRADLEY’S EXPEDITION. Incldents of tho March to the Little Mis- souri~The Prospects of an Indlun War Discussed. \Special DIspateh to The Trivune. GEN. BravLey’s EXPEDITION, CAMP ON THE LirrLe Missourr, June 23, via Deadwood, D. T., June 20.—The vicinity of our permauneut camping ground is reacned to-day. We have pre-gupted one of the old homesteads of Sitting Bull'aud Cruzy Morse, a peaceful occupation of thie Territory, but one showing sure progress to n peaceful ending of the Iudfan troubles afterthis summer’s work. Evidences of former Sioux cumps are seen on all hands, abandoned,~teoee poles.old boues, dilapidated moceasins, relics, and weird Indlan graves on high koolls. This was their garden spot, and that Bradley camps his soldiers here without o fight proves the tempora snores mutantur of hard marches, hard fights, Custér massacres, the indomitable pluck of miners in search of gold. Ruwors rench us of Indians at various points, and if our plucky General was one of the stamped- ing kind we would be looking for Dbattles on each day’s arch, bat he has fought his way forward against more dificulties ol untraversed mountain ‘passes, swollen rivers, alkali flats, aud deep canons— alaborfous task for officers and men—to a peace- ful victory, but one which most of the men would trade for a skirmish. On the 2lst we butted upagainst Belle-Fourche, with swollen banks, high, aud uusafe for the mules of the train. The men could swim it. but the mules. could not, and pull the wagons. Thus we camped a day. In the meantime Capt. Morton, of the Thira Cavalry, was sent out with his company ona reconpoissance to explote to the westward for & road aud another crossing higherup. He returoed with an unfavorable report, but had found our Arrapahoe allies, whoni we bad ex- pected to wmeet further out. These Indians come from Fort McKinney, joining us as scouts. They reportno signs of Sitting Bull sod bhis hostile warriors. Wae crossud the Belle Fourche fon the 24th without accident, and iu two marches north- westward reached here. The immediate locality for the cantonment has not heen selected. [t may be further to the north, down the Little Missouri, or up stream. Much deoends on Capt. Smeed, who is out scouting with bis company; to tind the most fayorable location for woad, water, and grass. ‘The Arraphoe lndians who joined us on tne Belle Fourche say thers areno signs of Sioux as far as they have seen, bub they are very reti- cent what may be the state of things a mouth from now. . - Hostile Indians bave been reported ou Oak Creck, aud beiween them and the minegs borse s bave been run off, shots exchanged, but, in the opinion of your correspondent, that don’t prove anything &5 to an Indian war. Iu sn fnterview with the Arranaboe warrior, Arrow Quiver; ufter an extreme applieation of the interviewing thumb-screw sald the Sioux: 4Not here; maybe come fight maybe not; who knows In a few days Capt. Munson with his com- pany of the Nirich) Infantry returns to Fort Lara mie for supplics, taiing our entire wagon trans portation. He will explore the mew route from here, probably soing directly _south for one mare, sud thence towards Sun-Dance Hill, or Bear Lodge Butte. If there are any hostile Sioux in this remon Capt. Munson's commaud will bave an engagement. I[he Indians Kuow by their admirable system of espivnage the weak points. 1t he is raided it will only be for the stock. So far Surgeon Starrow, Medleal Director, reports the bealth of the commana good. No accidents, save that a bull-whacker was run over by two wagons, carrying 5,000 pounds each, which madu” him grunt, but he was a bull-whacker, - aud experienced in the inconveniences of the plains. e CHACE, OF FALL RIVER. Springfield (Masx.) Revublican. June 25. Samuel Angier Chace, the defaulting Union Mills Treasurer, at Fall River, pleaded guilty yesterday 1 the Superior Court at New Bed- ford to drawlnz and embezzling the money on a $25,000 note belonging to the Union Mills Com- pauy in Jaouary, 1575, 2 $5,000 note in July 1876, and 2 $15,522 note in August, 1877, and was sentenced to twelve yearsin State Prison and two days ot solitary confluement. The other counts on which be was indicted were dis- continued by Disttict Attorney Marston. A, Rauney, counsel for Chuce, said that the latter pleadea guilty on the advice of his Iawyers, and argued that the degree of woral forpitude conuected with the case was not a8 great A3 might be thought, for Chace had not used any of the money embezzled to curich himself, but to_ relieve embvarrassed cir- cumstances inte which he found himgell plunged, thioking that they «ould be only tem- porary. He bad offended in issuing notes-of e corporation, on which he raised the funds he needed, but he did:thiz to save the interests ot his creditors and of the estate of which he was exccutor, and tue punishment he had ul- read¢ suffcred was as great as any the Court could impose. District-Attorney Marston re- plied that Chace was a thorongh business maun, and understood exactly whut he was duing, and what the results -would be. He dis- regarded the -dutics be-. assumed, in- volved - the stockholders und. Directors of the Company with which be was connected, and, worse than all, he wus thie first.to stan Fall River's fair name. Aun example should -be set for, hundreds ol voung men battling with temptatic the offense is of a character to call for the bizhest penalty, ana jt could not be properly metwith a lizht punishment. Judge Dewey azreed tnat, the crime wus one of the most dangerous to the weliare of the commu nity, a8 it could "be obly committed by persons hoiding it trusts, and such conduct is most demoralizing to those in lower positions. prisouer might have undergone all_the pnnish- Iment, necessary to himself, he £ad, but” some thin had to dune to deter otuers from such of- Sen: 5 e received his_sentence without cwdtion, Eiving his ‘responses in « clear tone, and seemini to reward the-proceediugs with the least interest of any oné present. e ———— ‘There I+ a custom in Scotland which forbids & man's father-in-law frow visiting him, without srigien permission, . but the mother-in-law can junip in at auy moment, The* THE TRADES, Preparations for the Grand Demons stration To-Day. An Interview with Mr. George E. MoNeill, of Massachusetts, 1t Was extremely warm about the headquar- ters, No. 7 Clark street, last night. A crowd was congreguted about the door outside, in the centre of whien stood a man with a bundle of newspapers in bis hand, who called at the topof his voice, * Here’s your workingman's paver, only five cents! Ou the second floor of No. 7 the Agftation Comamittee held forth, und the hall on thethird floor wag crowded with mem, mem- bers of the Dakers' Bencvolent Soviety,- who had been called together by the President, Matz Schinclinger, to listen to a speech from Herr Grottkan, a few weeks siuce from Germany, and to discuss the labor question. The speaker's address was made in German, and be received close attention trom s audience, being rencatedly applauded® He was declared by the President to be the * strong- est kind of 2 Communtst,” and it is quite hkely that Le was a representative Socialist in tbe Old as he was President of the Bricklayers? Society at Berlin, 5 THE “PICNIC COMMITTEE™ held & session in the saloon, aud made some final arrangements for the grand picnic of the Amalgamated Trades-Unions to-day at Ogden’s Grove. [t is intended to be on deck exrly fn the morning, at the hay market, on Randolph street. in order to be in readiuess to start at precisely 10 o’clock. Between forty and dfty Societtes are to be represented, amony which are the following: The Sennetelder Bencvolent Society Shoemakers' Union, the Coupers’ Socict Colonization Aid Society, tie Garden City nerchor, the Clothing Cutters, the Huckuien, the Silver Gilders, the Lathers’ Protection Union, the Cizar-Packers, the English section ot the Novialistic Labor Party, the Carvers’ Union, the oternational Labor Union, he Cabinetinai- ers' Labor Union, the Amalzamnated Uunton, the General Agitztion Committee, the Machinists' and Blacksmiths' Society, the Framemukers’ Society, the Wood Turners’ So- ciety, the Coniectioners’ Society, the Iron- Molders, snd the Cooks. It is expected to turf out in the neighborhood of 8,000 men in the procession. anid_there wiil _be numerous flags, devices, and bands of musie. There are to be seven wagous bearing different representations. The procession will be formed as follow: The vanguurd of the Lebr und Webr Vereln, Nevags und Dean’s Band, Trades’ Council, car- Tiages with speakers, main body of toe Lebr uud Wehr Verein, Turners' Verein, Typowraphical Union, Cizarmakers’ Union, Band, Shocwmakers Union, Furniture-Workers’ Univn, Upholsterers’ Unian, Carvers’ Union, Iron-Moulders, Lathers’ Union, Coopers’ Union, Baud, Siver-Gilders' Uniou, Labor Uniou, Piciure-Framemakers’ and Benevolent Associations, Seamen's Unfon, . Twlors' Union, ~ Clothing-Cut- ters' Upiou, Blacksmiths' and Machi ist? Union, Morse-Shoers' Union, Bo mukers’ Union, Bukers' and Confectioners’ Unlon, Brick and Stoue-Masons' Uniou. Band, Lumber-Shovers’ Union, Socialistic Labor Party, Hackmen’s Union. All organizations not assigned a position here will be provided for this morning on apolication to the Marshal. The First Division will form on the North Side of Randolph sireet, east of Halsted. The Second Division will form on the soutl side of Randolph, east of Halsted. Tbe ‘I'hird Division will form on Randolph, east of Union street. All vebicles will forn on Union street, north of Kaodolpb, riedt resting on Randolph. ‘The Jine of march will be east on Randolph strect to Clark, nurth to Chicuzo avenue, west to Wells, northi to_ Division, west to Ciybourn avenue, north to Ogden’s Grove. Charles R. Fugate will act as Chief Marshal. At the grove speeches are to be made by George E. MeNeill, of Bostoy, President of the Internationai Labor Union of America, who has come to Chicago’ for this express object, and other prominent wen, It has aiso been ex- pected that Dennis Kearney, the distinenished anti-Chinese agitator of California, wus to make 3 speech upon the occasion, but up to & late hour Jast night he had not arrived from San Francisco. - MR. GEORGE E. M'NEILL represents the morc thoughttul element of the Jabor reformers. 1le was bornin Massachusetts, of Scotch und Trish parentage. For some years hie was at the bead of the Massachusetts Bareau of Statistics, and at. pre is President ot the Boston Eigbt-Hour League and the Interna- tional Lavor Union. He is 2 man of apparently medium age, of somewhat sober mien, and his 1alk on the objects and aits of the party with which he is laboring s very diflerent from mucl that has come from the teaders m Chicago. * What does your party propusc¢” a reporter asked him last evenming at Socislistic Head- quarters, No. 7 Clark street. “Qur movemeut {s _republican, in the real sense of the word. We stpiy propose to per- fect the principles 0f republican justitutivns. We bave no thougiit of forve, and we don’t pro- pose to disiurb & cent of the past accumuli- tions of wealth. Wedestre a better distribation ot wealth through different proce ol pro- duectivo. We claim that « larze part of the prod- ucts of labor o to otlier hands thau the labor- er's, and it is necessarily so under the pre system. Our purpose is, throngh paturai fo to getmore for the value of our different prod- uets, so that we shall reeeive more of what we produce, until_the happy dar shall come whea Profit upon labor shall cease, and co-operation shail come in asa natural result. It will first.prob- ably, be the co-operation of capital and labor in productive enterorises, and finslivan elimiva- tion of the capitulistic workivg classes as classes.” * tow do you look on etrikes?” 4Strikes are a crude methad, and the result either of no orwanization or of bad orzaniza- tion. A perfect orgavization of the working classes in trades-unions would result, first in co-operation aud finally fa co-opuration. But strikes are justifiable as a means, just as wars are justifiable. Weclaim that there isa war between capital and lavor,—a war that we don’t like, but which is the result of the seoarate and’ distinet interests of the two cl 1 have sud publidly m my speeches, *Dou’t strike,’ but strikes are_sowectimes” better than submisston. Personally, L am o firm advocate ot ‘Frades-Union “How would your co-operative work " + Under that system—which 1 don't believe practicable at present, for the reason that the people are ot ready for it auvmore thau sume couutries are ready for republican forms of government—there would be no such thing as o wage labor class or 2 capitalistic class. Know the criticism is made agaiust us twg we are reducing people fo 8 dead level. Now, the llustration Y make of that mastter is tuis: in the most ienorant amd abject races therc is less difference in physical aud 1oental characteristics than iu the most civilized. 1t is said you can’t tell one negro from another, or one Chinawan from avother. We befieve that, instead of reducing people to a dead level under the co-operative system, there will be greaterdiverzences and differences than under the present svstem. But there won't be differences of wealth,—10 vast aceu- mulations on the one haud, aud extreme pover- tv on the other. There would be the differences that rise from different physical and moral conditions. lnstead of thiere being a dead level of thought, under the 'system we adso- cate, or of oppurtunity for advancement, there would be a greatér diversity. The distribution of wealth that we propose wili be like the dis- tribution of educational advaniages, no one s worse ol for them, but all are better ofl.” “\What dv you propose to do with the Scotts and the Vanderbifts,—the menwho have hoarded inilltons and control so many thousands of the 1aboriny classes (7 4 “Let them aloue. That class will dle out, just as did those monstrosities, the m: dons. e latter performed a_certain functio in the civilization of the world, as this class is now pre- paring tie world for man. ‘They represent the Thassive jaws that crush up the crude forms of vegetable and reptile Hfe. We believe, thoush, that thes to-duy really represent the Commian- fats. and are smost to be feared. The Jowing up the suall cavizalisty, justas the b fish eat up the hittle ouoa; they are - crowding the widdle clssses down, and -are & daniger and 2 thireat to republican institutions.”” I concluision, Mr. MeNeill expresced hie warm sdmiratiop for the German titizeus of tais and deprecated - the --uitemots system country, - c Tade fn | cortams vagers to . misreo- fosent them aml their @ attitude - to- Wards - the labor question. Speaking of Communtsm, which was wilsreprescnted to be destetictive instead of constructive, be sald e knew of no'séutence which better expressed, to his thinking, the real object of Communism than the statement ‘that it was au fstitution which, fnstead of desiring ‘destruction, really reorgsnlzation: s ta d‘f\lrfilm AL will be one of theprincipal speak- ers at the Trades-Cniou picmec:to-day THE AQITATION COMMITTEE G of the Sacialistic Labur party met last eveninz at No. 7 Claric_street. Mr.T. J. Morzun chosen to preside. Awong the guests prescut weee Mr. George E. McNeill, of West Somer- ville, Mass., President of the Boston Eight- Hour League and of the Iuternational Labor Uulon, and Mr. George Gunton. of Fall Kiver, Mass., President of a braveh of the Intern: tional Lavor Union. Mir. Behloradsky, of s Committee appointed to eonfer with the Mayorin regurd to bolding open- air meetiows, reported that he had seen Mavor Heath, who had_ stated that he would aliow ihe holdingz of such meetiugs in all places except ln the purks. Mr. Paulsen didn’t see why the Soclallsts should be probibited from meeting in the park: Preachers were allowed to use the parks when- ever they chose, and drew crowds thereto, sud be couldn’t see how a peaceable Socialistic meeting would be at all out of a place. Mr. Stahl held the same views, and moved to reeommit the matter. ‘the motion prevailed. After hearing Teports from the ward clubs and euditinz a pumber of bills, & communica- tion wae peceived from Philip Van Patten, Cin- cinnati, stat at a Mr. Luebker, of that ilwaukee to-duy, and that o Monday evening. sentiment of the meeting was that Monday evening was too soon after the Trades-Union Dicnje to-day, and that 1o hold a weeting then would scem ke trying 1o overdo thiat demon- stration. ~ After some little talk. the wmatter was left to the discretion of the Orgamzer, Mr. Morizan, who announced a meeting for Wednes- day evening, ac which speeches would be made by Mr. Lucbker, it agrceable 1o that rmentle- mag, and by Messrs. MeNeill, Guaton, sud otliers. Mr. Stahl moved the appointment of a cow- mittee to draw up and renort e list of the of- tices to ed st the next election. The mo- tion. iled, and Messrs. Stahl ued Behlo- railsky appointed as such & committee. ‘The meeting then adjourned. 3 FIRES. IN ST, LOUIS. Special Dispateh to The Tridune. 8. Louts, June 20.—At eight wisutes to 5 @clock this eveniog the tall tower of the mag- nificent structure on the corner of Fourtin and Chestout streets, known as the McLean Build- ing, was discovered to be on fire. The algrm was at once turned fu, and within four minutes two engines had arrived =nd were rapidly uu- reeling their hose and puflive away preparatory to fighting the terrific fire thut was _evidently raging at the top of the building, Withm two minutes after the discovery, black volumes of smoke® were rolling from the tow- er und the heavens were dnrkened as if by 2 huge dense cloud. Before the firemen could get to work the flames bewan to burst through the tower, leaping fifty feet iuto the air, aod sendivg burning sparks aud cnders 100 yards uway. Examination proved that the lire was coutined to the upper floor of the tower, but, beivg at the hefght of 180 feet from the eround, consid- erable delay was experienced in pettinz the Those withiu workinic distauce. In the top of the tower was a huge clock, and just as tue bell begun to strike the bour of 5 the fuces of the clock gave way aud rolled down the sides of the bullding to the pavements. By this time fiveengines were on the ground, sod a number of firemen, hose i baud, had wade their way 10 the Hifth story of the building, snd had begau to play ou the flames. The doors leading to the upper portion of the tower were found to be locked, and it was mecessary to burst them open belore the fircmen could guin ingress. The fire was making such headway that it was soon seen that it would be necessary for & hose to be con- Qucted to the outside of the tower, so that fair play might be had on toe flames. This perilons task wus undertaken by Phelim O"Fuole, the famous hero of the Southern Hotel conflugra- gration, who climbed up the interior of the tower, broke oue of the eluss windows, and cfimbed out upoa the jutting coruic From this tatl eyrie he lowered a rope, to which a hiose was qaickly attached and bauled aloft. Mean: time other fireen had reached the roof of the adjoming bufldivy on the north. Hose-pines were drawn up and huge streams of water let loose upon tbe flaming cupola. Oo the south side two engmes were at work, but {t was futly fltcen mioutes before they succeeded fn reachiug the bigh elevatiou: Fully 10,000 peoole had gatheved iu the vicin- ity, and the streets were 80 crowded for blucks in every direction that street traflle was entlrely stopued. Before work could be fairly inauru- rated at any point, the tower was alost com- pletely wrapned fu smes und the pinnacle with the flag-stail thereon had fullen, erashivg to the pavement. For a long time it looked asif the entire building and all the adjoining structures were dooted, but when the firemen got tull play on the fames it 000 becatue upparent that there would be bo serious ditticulty iu cuntroliluz 4.0 five Toses within aud wittout were hurling streams of water upon the fames, and i ten minutes the fire was cowpletely extin- guished. e scene was thrilling fo the extreme, and the greatest excitement - prevailed among the vast multitide assemblel. The fact that the McLean buoilding is situated in the midst of & wealthy, busy centre, rrounded by a lurze numbers of splendid , created u stroug feeling of alarm that the fire would be generni. Had it not been for the promptness of the Fire Department und the herolc conduct of the firemen, there s little doubt that the fire would have been of the most destructive character. The futerpidity of Puclim O’*Toole -and two or three ol bis cou- rades in reaching the outside of the tower when heavy deorls wus falling on all siaes, . and carrying the hosepipes to strategic points, excited universal adunra- tion and vvoked deafenivg applause from the crowd below. A lamentable accident bappened to Chief Clay Sexton just as he bua reached the scene, the veteran falliug upon the pavement with such violence as to break his left arm. He touk no notice of the vaiuful acuident, und re- mained incommand of bis men’until they,were masters of the situstion. Nuthing is known a3 to the origin of the lire. The bullding was erected about four years azo at o cost of $130,000. The tower wae built ul- most entirely of wood aud gluss, windows being laced at short fotervals srouud the exterior. Yh‘ many it is supposed that the fire hud its origin in the futense heat reflected from some of these windows upon the tizht wood material, Anothier theory of the fire is placed to the fact that some workmen were in the tower this morning to fix the clock, which was out oforder, and the supposition is that in making some re- pairs they used a_small furgace, from which Sparks fell upon (nt floor. The loss fs esti- mated at, $20,000, aistributed among thirty-five cowmpanies, located in almost every city ol the United States. he insurance on the buflding is as folloy Kentoo, of Kentucky, $2,500; Rocoester Ger- man,of New Yori, §2,500; New Humpsbire, $2,- ‘Standard, of New Jersey, $2,500; Securit; of Connecticut, $2,500; Trade, of New Jersey, $2,500; Germunia, of New Orleaus, $2,500; New Yorko City, $2,500; Insurance Company of the tate of Pennsylvania, $2,500; P N Jersey. $2.500 ’ $2,500; Atlantic Underwriters, of P 500; Kinws County, of New Y Uniun, of Texas, §2,500; ¥ Firemen’s, of- Newark, $2,500; Merchants® aud Mechavicy’, of Virginia, $2500; Etoa, of New irginia Fire & Marine, $2,500; of Ruode Island, 35,0003 ik, $2,500; Fairfleld, of of Pennsylvania, e ,500: Couper, of Dayton, §2,500; Franklin, of Columbus, $2,500; Granite, of Jichmond, Va., $2500; Gerinan, of Pittsbusg, $2,500; Mercantile, of Cieveland, O., 52,5001 City, of Bittsburs, I'a., S1,250; Lacasse Generale, of Paris, §1,230; Comwercial, of New York, $3.500; Tradesmen's, of New York, £2,500; Mississtop! Valley. of Mempbis, 32.500; Globe, of Cincinnatl, $2,500. Total, $30,000. QO ti:e plate-glass there was $2,300 Insurance in the Lucasse Generale. The building is owned by Dr. McLean, the patent pill and notion man. He is strongly censured for constructing his wwer of suca light sud combustible material. - AT MASSILLON, O, '~ MissiLcoN, O.. Juge 29—The Tremont House of this city was red tobeon fire I a vacans,room ot the third floor about 2 o'clock this morging, and was almost totally destroyed. Thie walls dloge remain standing. Al the guests escaped With* facir effects. ' J. E. MeCloskey, the Jandlord, had an fpsurance of §L.200.0u bill- fard-tables and bar fistyres in the the Home In- surance Company, of Celumbus. J. G. Bucher, owner of the building, bas a¥atal insarance of §0.000 iu_the following compunies: Richland County _Mutual, $3,000; Mansguld’. Mutual, §1.500% Forest City ‘Mutaul, $1,508;-Cotumbus Mutual, 23,000, ‘The fire is supposed to bave been the work of an incendiars. : _ UP IN A BALLOOXN. M. Godard's Adventure with a Bloodthirsty Madman. [Transtated frem the French of Jean Rosseay, (nlths Puris p1gare, for the CAlcago Tribune.) I. There happened, not loug ago, fa one of the last ascensions of the very celebrated and for~ tunate seronuut, M. Godard, the, following in- tensely dramatic incident. This recitul is abso- lutely true from the first word to the last: On the day, three weeks since, M. Godard had but one traveling companion,—a wealthy private ientleman, who. for his half in the perils of the excursion, paid 1,000 francs. The weather could not have been more auspiciol From the start the bailoon rose rapidiv toa modente ke “\What is the effect upon you" asked M. Godard ol ais cumpanion. *Nove,” laconically. “f compliment you" said the seromaut. “You are the tirst I have ever koown to reach this hight without ehutiou.” *Continue to ascend,” waved the traveler with maniticent phicgm. Ballast was thrown out. 160 yards. “ Aud now,” asked Godard, heart throb *Not the slightest,” with au air that wa3 born of impaticnce. jiabe! my dear {riend, you have the quali- ties of a real arcouaut.” ‘The balloon roso “docs your 1L The balloon continued to rise. Godard again interrozates bis strange compunion : “And'uow « Nothlur.—nothing. Nor the shade of any fear whatsoever,” wds the reply, ina tone of pusitive discoutent, such s one would expect. from a2 man whe hsd been profoundly de- ceived. = On g word, so much the worse,” sald the balloowmst, lsughing; “but I must rencunce making you atraid, for the balloon bas resctied au altitude quite suflicient, snd wo must de- scend.” “Descend! " i-Certalaly; it would be perilous to go hizh- er.” - Well, it’s ull the same to mie; it is not wy pleasure to descend.” *What did you suyi? asked Godard, taken aback. “1suy that 1 intend to go higber, far, far, above! I luve given a thousand francs to bave emotions, aud L' must bave thew; and imvera- tively we'wul not chunge our direction before T Lliave experienced them " Godard laughed carelesslv. He was amused L what he Ltubuzht was a ool joke. “Once mure. will vou ascend, [ ask(” the traveler grasped him by the throut uod shook hun violeatly. * When am I to have the sengativns T " The neronaut, awazed, felt Mmseit lost. A sudden and terrible lizht broke upon hiae. In lookig ut the strapgely-dilated eyes of bis us- saflant he perceived be muat deal with o wads man. T y fn wid-air to reason with a madman! Cry tor help v the widst of the douds! 10 ne bl bud but s weapon,—Tfor it was 4 guestion ot lile or death. But people vislting ‘the clowds do not furnish themselves with pistols. Tuey scarce dreaw of deadly encounter amougst thy stars. “The earth below was 1,500 metres. A hor- rible fall! The least move of the maniae migne upset the car. M. Godard, with the sang frofd which he had acquired years of sudaeious enterprise, re- flected thus {o the space of a second. “AL! yon are ridicullng me, my brave aeronant,” and the lunatic tightened his erasn, ot take my thousand francs. Lt i3 well Iuis now my turn to laugh. [tis you v, Thie stranwe passenwer wus gifted with pro- ous muscular power. M. Godard did not eveu attempt to defeud himself. * ¥hat do voil waut with _we?” he asked, in acalm tone: of Voice, and with o submissive uir. 1 s woing to amuse tysell by seeinz you turn » snmmersault,” was the Teply, with w jebring lnupn. > But fiest L have wy' plan. { Wish to scek emotions up there. I must sic astride che hall-cirele.” "T'lie mauide poitted to the higher part of, the balfoou. While speaks be was alreadvelimb- inz the cords which attuch the car to the sreo- stat. M. Godard, who had trembled for hin self, could not help trewbling for the miserable man, But youware gome to kill yourself. You will be attacked By vertizo.” “ Nu remarke,” came from the ropes; and the foo! clumbered faty the ring. I wil burl you into space.” © *+ At leadt, permit mo to put a cord around your body, 5o that you may remain attached to the batloun.” “Asyou like,” repiied he to M. Godard, seemm to undérstaud the utility of the pre- cautiol 1t wus dove. With the szility of a squirrel he climed up the netting. He reached the body of the ballon. He placed himself unconcern- cdly on the haif+ircle, us he haa declared be would. Once thiere he gave o vell of trinmph, and drew u Kife from bis pocket. “ What do you intend?" shouted the arco- naut, fearing that he was goiug to slit the reservoir. “ First, to put myself at my ease."” The words were hardly uttéred when quickl the malman severad the sulety-cord which M. Godard bad attached to bim. Should a current of wind strike the balloon, the unfortunate wan woald be lost in mid-alr. The ballooust closed his eyes pot to witness the sight. The wanlac clanped Lis hands. e was beside him- self witn joy. He knocked his heels together to spur on the balloon in its course. “Aud now,” sbouted he, brandishing bis knife, *let us laugh. Ah! brigrand, you wished 1ae long 1go t6 descend ! Now 1t 13 Fou who ls to caper. And justantly." M. Godard bad no time to make a movement or sava word before hie had divined the luternal inteutions of the lunatic. The latter had cut three or four of the cords which supported the car, und it now beut Lorribly to_oue side. But two cables of the support remained,—bardly of more account thau u thread! It would all Luve been over with the brave balloonist hud. i not clung desperately to these. The madman’s knife touched the two cords. A moment more and all would be ended. “Que word only,"” cried Godard. “No3 no merey!* vociferated the lunatic. 1 do not ask for mercy. On the contrary.” “Then what do you want1" astonished. 4 At this moment weare at a hight of 1,50 metres.” “ Indeed, it will be jolly to tumble from such an altitude.” . “ I is yet too Jow," continued Mr. Gedard. “ How so!” asked the lunatic, stupitied. “Yes, my experience as an acronaut has tdught me that, in falling from auch a hight, people risk not befugz killed. Fall for fall, I prefer death to mangling. Do me the kinduess cipitate me only at the bight of 3,000 *That suits me," said the madmag, and le laughed ecstatically at the thought of the now fearful descent. Vi At aoce M. Goaard held his prowmtre herofe- ally. He threw out all the ballast. Azaly the r-ship darts heavenwards, aud rises 200 metres 1 a few sceonds. Only, while the possessed man was watchinz the operation with a menacing air, the aeronaut accomplished another of qulte an opposite pas ture. He bad noticed that among tie ropes spared was the valve-cscape. Mis plans were formed in au iustant. He pulled this cond, Dluced at the uoper part of the bailoon. ‘The hoped-for result was obtained. Little by little the munlac grew drowsy, and beot for- ward, luscusibly asphyxisted by the escaplug hydrogen. Now . that he was completely overpowered M. Godard cautiously allowed his balioon to descend to the earth. ” The drama ‘was finished. He was saved. The acrunaut did not bear the lunatic any #pite, and hastened to bring him - back 1o 1ife, then gave Lim in charge of the athoritics. ——— Seat to the Gallows on His Father's Evi- dence. Greentlile {ALe) Adzocat: In the Circuit Cour: of this district of Ala- bama, during the pust week, Ginscow Beil was seutenced to be hanged vo the 25th of July Gor the murder of Sam Blair, A singular feature ta the case was that the only witness to the killing ‘was the father of the murderer, whose evidence wus. given with striking truth and clearness. Blair vwed Bell for labor, and they had soms diillenlty about it. Hell weat to Mauuingnaut and bought ammunition sud lowded bis gun, saying that he was goine to kill Biair if he did not pay him. He then went iuto the ticld where ouly bis fattier and Blair were, and, after afe words, shot Blair, who was unarmed. - v, And { { | B S e SN 1 i i i i { i i |