Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 7, 1878, Page 2

a 2 THE CHICAGC TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JULY 7, 1878—SIXTEEN PAGES. st WASHINGTON. A Few More Hints Looking to Early Specie-Resumption. Two Hundred Millions in Coin Avail- gble for the Purpose. Chairman Pofter Addresses Another Open Letter to Secretary Sherman. Taots Showing the Extent of the Log- Thieving Business in Louisiana, The Government Kot Taclined fo Push Belations with Mexico to Extremes, RESUMPTION. TO RESUME. Spectal Dispatch to The Tritune. Wasmnerox, D. C., July G.—~Reports that the Secretary of the Treasury contemplates re- suming specie-pasments at an earlier date than Jan. 1next appear to be well founded. The agsrerate amount of coin available for resump- tion purposes to-day is $200,000,000, and green- ‘backs are redeemabic in silver. 1% s said not to be the policy df the Department to attempt to materially fncrease this amount before. resump- tion, althongh it is not clearly understood how Sherman expects to begin resumption with that smount. He also insisted, however, that re- sumption would be practical with even §100,- 000,000, For the first sixty days after resump- tion, the Treasury people say # s not’ expected that the Government wiil be called upon to redeem more than $10,000,000. Secretary Sherman does not posi- tively say to<Isy whether he contemplates at- tempting resumption Aug. 1 or not, but another Cabinet officer said there was no doubt that the report of -resuming Lefore Congress asscmbles *15 WELL FOUNDED, and he thought Aug. 1 might be chosen. Secre- tary Sherman has lone held that under the Re-, sumption zct he has almost uulimited powers, and can even receivo greenbacks for customs dues. By attempting resumption early in the fall, the Treasury Department would have the advantage of the fact that the moving of the crops would require the use of the great bulk of the greecbacks. PERTALS. To the Western Associated Press. ‘WASHINGTON, .July 6.—Secrctary Sherman s3ys he has not decided to announce the te- sumption of specie-pavments in advance of the 1st of January pext, the time fized by law. He Eave, however, resumption may come “before that time Ly natural causes, or when the premium on_specie shall disappears shat we are now approaching that point, aud thatitis the duty of the Government to employ all legiti- mate means to produce such results. The coin balapce in the Treasury is abour #200,000.000, and steadily increasing. As there is no idea the balance will fall below the present fizure, this, with the present low premium on gold, form a basis of ceneral anticipetion here that resumption will oceur pefore the 1st of January. POTTER TO SHERMAN. | IN REPLY TO SHEEMAN’S RECENT NOTE. WasamGrox, Dy C., July 6.—The following Jetter has been sent. by Representativo Potter, Chairmau of the Loulsiana and Floride inves- tigating Comumittee, to Secretary Shermas Houst oF REPRESENTATIVES, July 1, 1678.—Si: Your Jast letter, which is without date, was hand- ed to me on the 24th ultimo by Gov. Cox. First—Asto tne sllczed Weber azrcement tho witnesses yon desired calfed—Kellozg, P Jenks. and Weber~bave all been cailed avd have ali testificd except Weber and Kellogn, Weber is summoncd, and has siatedhe would attend at the next sestion of_the Committee, and Gor. Kellogz e 10 Chicaco, 10 return after some daye, ond~As to tc legality of the protestof An- derson. Pitcinand Anderson have been called as you devired. 7’rd~25 to Mr. Stoughton, the Committee will £1¥¢ Ton an opportunity, after the testimony is r taker, vither to call him or submit inter- a8 may then be decided. e witn 0 frand and fnthnidation na which you propose to_have, 1 under- I testified e<fore the former Committee of tais ‘lonse and, of the Semate, and have been ulso contradicied: oo Committeo are unu- ble now to devide whether it will be proper to take that evidence. That can only be_determined after the mgoiry now in progréss in Louisians has furiher proceeded. They have, therefore, Dot yet geted upon the ol To your' letter breyiared by ir. Morrison. o cony of which was made pablic by bim, as the communication from yoti to the Commiitce bad been Dby . yon. Should it Sopear nter that sy testmony g io wrong or violence before the _election wouid Te proper 1o the inquiry pending into frands and wrongs in the returns after the elec- tion. or o the conspiracy referred 1o in the reso- fution_appointing the Commnttee, they will con-, sider whether it may be practicable fo take the testimony yoa propose, and that ln contradiction. or whether the reports of the testimony taken by the former Commitices of the Senate and House may not be ufed. Any application from you in this reepect will bo duly considered. -Respect- fully, your obedient servant, % Cranksox N. Porren, Chairman. To the Hon. John Sherman. s NOTES AND NEWS. THE LOG-THIEVES. " Epectal Diapatch to The Tribune, Wasmneron, D. C., July G.—Government agents recently returned from the Parish of Caleasien, in Acklen’s district, Lonisiana, rep- resent the actual facts about the depredations upon the Government timber there as being more astounding than avything that has been published. In one place there were sixteen smw-mills whose solc occupation was the manu- facture of timber from logs cuit from the Govern- ment reservation. One old timberman testified that parties hud beeu enzazed in cutting Limber from the Government reservation for ity years. Very few mill-owners have taken the trouble to enter or purchase any timber-lands, and depend exclusively upon logs -stolen from the Government. The Government. azents were followed everywhere by spies of the thicves, were shot at, und both of them came back very much impaired n health on account of the climate. UNDERYALUATION: The Custom-Houge Comnission in New York will at jeast result in stimulating the Govern- ment to discover the causes of undervaluations. The testimouy taken by the Comuission with reward to the Appraisers’ Department at New York is sala to be of a vers startling character, and to show at Jeast prima facie that there has been an extended system of corruption. 3 NO SUCH THING. People about the White Houre to-day were quite imdiznant with the reports from Wyoming to the New York Sun aud /lerald representing that Secretary Sherman bad been interrupted bis speech by criesof * How is Mrs. Jenks?? uud the like, and that the Administration had generally been treated with disrespect. Persons attached o the Presidential party at Wyomina sy that the only interruption of Sceretary Shernan was with regard to Wright's inflation bili, and that there was much enthusiasm to- wards the President. MEXICO. Persous holding intimate relations with tbe Administrution say 1hat the Government, is not. inciined to make trouble with Mexico, aud that rumors 85 to impending complications originate largely with adventurers and speculators. LOCISIANA POLITICAL SEDIMENT. Returning-Board Anderson s still here, set- tling bis account as acting Collector. M Jents and bier busband are also here, and it is £2id do not contemplate returning to Loaisiana. They still mauitest great interest fu the investi- gZation. TREASURY STATEMENT. . Tolhe Iestern Assactated Press., WasmiNcrox, D. C., July 6.—The Trezsury now holds £349,320.900 in United States bonds 10 secure National ' Bank _circulation, and 19,- S33,000 1o secure pubiie deposits. Gnited States bonds _ deposited for _circulation for the week ending to-day, $569,000; amount wizhdrawn, $574,500; National Bank circulation outstanding, currency notes, $322,654,300; gold notes, $1,452,120. Internal revente receints to- day, $255.793; customs receipts. §613,661: re- ceipts of Natfonal-Bank notes for redemption for the week ending July 6, 1575, compared with The corresponding period Iast year, 1877, §3.305,- 000; 1575, §3,153,000; receints to-day, $564,000. ‘The appropriations made by Congress at the session recently closed, jucluding the various deficiency bills, 15 $172,¢ 0. COMMISSIONED. The President has commissioned the follow- ing Postmasters: Theodore C. Hacker, Browns- ville, Neb. ; Mrs. Jenule Blisk. Aradelphita, Ark.; and George B. Huoter, Newton, Ia. CGRRENCIES OF CHIN. The Department of State has received a very {nteresting mewmorandum_on the currency of Cliina from Alr. Seward, United States Minister at Peking. ¢ Clincse GoviFament issues no eold or silver coins. The vieces called by the uatives “ch’fen,” by the Enelist “dash,” and by the French * sapeque,” from the Portuguese sapeca, are of copper, varfously afloyed. Tbciy are cast, not minted, and are cireular, with square hLoles in the centre, used in stringing them together. Their standard vaiue is the 1,000th part of a tael of silver, according ta the Chinese Treasury scale. Uy a curious fiction cach piece of casi fs called two (cash). Their actual value in circulation, as compared with silver, varies at the several posts,® thus: 009 cash are ~vequired fo purchase a tael’s weight of silver at Newchwang, and but 1,668 at Swatou. Their value has fluctuated in fourteen years as much as 33} per centumn. Counterfeits of the copper tokens abound. _Their purchasing poswer Is very uni- form, and they prusticaliy constitute the stand- ard currengy of the Empire. Great abuses have Deen practiced in their coinaye. In the Sung dynasty (360 to1127 A. D.) they were mude * 50 small that they were cullud geese-eves and so thin that they would swim upon the water.” Silver passes by weight, but the staudard of the tacl varies appreciably in the different provinces and ports. The Kuping tael is the most geuer- al standard 1 use, but the Hollwan tael i used in colleeting customs dutles. The relation of silverand gold is very variable. The lowest quotation Tor_thirty years pastis 1to 12.8 (at Shanghai in 1855):"the ~ highest, 1 to 17.5(at Po- king in August, 18 WAGES .IN GEHSMANT. The Department of State has received from the United States Consul at Bremen a yery full report on labor aud wages in his district.” For agricultural labor the pay varics greatly, ac- cording to the proximity to or remotencss from manufacturing centres, and ranges from 50 cents a day in the neighborhood of Bremen to 3lcents a day in the Lower Rbine Valley, and as low as 1S cents in parts of Silesia. At Bremen, Crefeld, and Dusseldorf carpenters, coppersmiths, phimbers, machinists, aud waz- onsmiths earn from 51 to 75_cents daily? sad- dlers and shoemakers from 47 to 52 cents daily; bakers and brewers, with board and lofging, from §1.42 to 52.14 weekly, aud without board trom G0 cents a day to $4.23 a_week; farm hands are paid from $107 to $215 yearly, with mafotenance; railway laborers from 56 to 83 cents per day, and as high as 6 cents daily for piece-work on tunnel: silk-weavers can earn from $2.15 to $2.85 a we per loom; factory women, 32.15, and chbildren $1aweek. Busitess and wages arc very low. Ingood tfmes wages are 80 per cent higher. The cost of the necessaries of life hus increased some 5 per vent in thirteen years, although mow it is but little higher than five years ago. A man and wife, with two or three children, canlive fntwo or three roomsinsa poor and comfortless manuer for $273 a year, uad to sup- port such sn cstablishment all tbe members have to work ten or twelve hours duily. Fora family of six persous the cost is nflom $7a week—an amount that few families can earn, as the depression of trade and the reduction ot time allows few'to doa full week's work, al- though wages are nominally a trile higher than five yeurs azo. The state of trade isdeplorable. Factories are run and _sales made at & 10ss, ex- ceot, perhaps, the silk and button industries. Retail trade is somewhat more prosperous, THE RAILROADS. MICAIGAN ITEMS. &peciat Dispatch to The Tribune. DeTROMT, Mich., July 6.—The General Man- agers of the Michigan Central apd Michigan Southern & Lake Shore Roads received instruc- tions from Vanderbilt to agreeona joint tariff and to save money wherever there is a chance. Where the two roads have each a station they will be made into one, and saturies be saved that way. Mr. Vanderbilt evidently intends to make money out of bis Western provinees. A num- ber of Detroit & Milwaukee cars have been fitted up withnew reclining chairs, and when the system is perfected the management expect to be able to dispense with the more expensive sleeping-cars. A trial trip to Pontisc of one of the new cars will take place Monduay. There is a clearly-detined, well-settled feeling among promivent business-men and citizens that some movement should be made to secure 2 permencot railway crossing between the city and Windsor. The. sentiment is decidedly in 1favor of a tunnel, atd it is koown that a party of gentlemen interested in the matter have re- onetied correspoucence with Gen. Sooy Smith on the subject. There are gome hopes that if the proper representations and inducements are made Vanderbilt may be induced to take the project iuto consideration, instead of secking adircet course of through tratlic to Grosse Isle crossing. INDIANAPOLIS & ST. LOUIS. INDIANAPOLIS, July G.—Thomas A. Scott and H. B. Hurlbut, Trustees of the third mortgsge tonds of the Indianavolis & St. Louis Rallway, have to-day filed a Uill in the United States Court asking the foreclosure of a mortzage and apoointment of H. B. Hurlbut, the present President, and W. C. Quincy, of Newark, O., as Receivers. Theyzetate that the diminution of business on the road has caused a flosting debt of £200,000, aud that they are also unable to meet the Julv interest on said bonds. Judge Gresham refused to appoint two Receivers, and, the parties being unable to agree upon one, the application was luid over for further considera- tiou. K QUICK TIME. LouisviuLg, Ky., July 6.—By the recent ad- justment of the schedule the Louisville & Great Southern Railroad line makes quicker time than any other route between the Southern aud Eastern citiex by running a through train for through passengers, cutting out il locul stops, und making this unprecedented time with the Easi THE ELGIN ASYLUAML. Additional Concerning the Ferguson Case— A Slight Misapprehension. Spectal Disvatch t0 The Tribune. Every, 11, July 6.—An article appeared in Toe Tuinvse of Thursday, in relation to the case of Victor Ferzuson, an inmate of the Asy- lum, In which the allezations of his mother avainst the management of this institution seem to be of a somewhut grave character. A represeptutive of Tne TrisUSE visited the Asylum yesterday, and, upon a careful exan- ination ot the facts inthe cuse, it was discoy- ercd that the statement of Mrs. Ferguson is drawn largely from an excited imnugivation. Vicior uppears stronz, in excellent heaith, and freely stutes that bis treatment has been unitormiy kind spd his diet generous. Mis clothes were removed, but no hruises nor marks of barsh treatment were found upon his person. Owing to 1he peculiar naturc of his malady, he is cowpeljed to weartnuffs upon his bands, aud bis frst night in the Asylum he resisted, and, being strong and active, three sttendants were required to overcome his musculer objections. He is said to have kicked the sttendants daring the strugzgle. Since thut first night Victor has been quitc geatle and bus been treated kind), Mrs. F erzuson visited ber son on Saturday 1ast,and applied for the privilege amain on Sunday, but this beiny contrary to the rules st was refused, heuce ler spiteful manifesta- ons. — THE WEATHER. 3 Orrice oF Tue Cuizr SiGNAL OFFICER, Wasmixatox, D. C., July 7—1 2. m.—lndica- tlons—ror the Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri Valleys and Upper Lake region, warmer south ana cast winds, partly cloudy weather, ¢ fulling barometer, nossibly foltowed at the Western stations by cooler northweste Iy winds and rising barometer. 3 For the Lower L: Tenuessee and Ohio Valleys, northeast winds, partly cloudy, slight- Iy warmer Weather, statfonary barometer, and possibly local rain in the latter district. ‘The rivers will generally fall 1LOCAL OBSERVATIONS. Chicaso, July 5. Vel.i Gin.: Teaiher Time._ Gar. | Tor B, Win Taffximum. 79: minimum, o7, GENERAL OBNERVATIONS. Cutoavo. July 6-Midotght. Wind. Stations. | Bar. OBITUARY. Special Dispatch tu The Tridure. SPRINGFIELD, M., July 6.—Prof. Hugo Von Elsner, fatner of Murie Vou Elsner, the famed American songstres, now starring in Paris, died at St. John’s Hospitai, in this city, this evening, where Le was an invalid with consumtion for some wonths. The remains will be sent to Bloomington, where the family have lived since leaving Springfield. NEW ALuaNY, Ind., July t.—Augustus M. Jacksou, the vetcran editor of the Ledger-Stand- ard, died at 2 o'clock this morning of liver- complaint. He had been a resdent for filty vears, and cditor of the Ledyer and Ledger- Standard twenty sears, He has been an editor about thirty Special Dispatch to The Tridune. KROKUK, fa., July 6.—Mrs. Matilda McCrary, motlier of the Secretary of War, dled at her residence in Vernon, Van RBuren Couuty, owi, last night, at un advanced age. Secretary Me- Crary lefi_Boston ut moon to-day, and” will arrive on .\I?ndal::', mln h; time 1o attend the fuperal, which takes place to-morrow. PHILADELPRIA, Pu., July U.—Bloomfield H. Moore, of the firm of Jessup & Moure, dicd of pucumonia last evening, aged 40 years. FIRES. CIITICAGO. The alarm from Box 913 at 1:50 yesterday morning was caused by 3 fire in tho wooashed inrear of No. 25+ Church street, owned by Nicliolas Grosch: Damage, $35, fully covered by a policy tn the German Mutual. Cause un- Kknown. The alarm from Box 277 at 6:50 yesterday afternoon was caused by g fire at No. 59 West, Adams street, owned by F. Weigel aud occupied by Charles Ubrath. Dawage, $25. Cause un- Eknown. IN MICIIIGAN. DEeTROIT, July 6.—Stephens’ saw-mill at Fish Lake, near Laper, burned this morning early. Loss estimated at $30,000. Insurance, $15, Supposcd to lpve been incendiary. J. D. Bothwell’s bouse at Columnbiaville burned last night. One son, aged 8, perished in the flames. Another was dangerously burned, Other members of the family barely escaped with their lives. All were asléep when the fire oroke out. NEAR WATERTOWN, WIS. Special Dispateh to The Tribune. Watsrtows, Wis., July 6.—G. R. Talbott’s cheese factory, five miles north of this city, in the town of Emmet. was destrovea by fire last night, towether with: the entire contents. Loss on building ana machinery, $1,000, and on stock of cheese, §3,000. Insured for $2,500. Cause of flre uninown. AT NEWTON CEXNTRE, MASS. Bostoy, July 6.—The residence of the late J. Wyle Edmunds, at Newton Cantre, burned to- day. Loss, $35,000; fully insured. sttty AREANSAS DEHOCRATS. ‘Their Sentiments. Lirree Rocx, July 6.—The Demoeratic State Convention ndjourned at 12 o’clock to-day. The fotlowing piatform was adoptel: 1. We are in favor of makiug Cnited States Teeasury-notes a fall legal-tender for all ducs when the terms of the orieinal debt or contract are not expresaly to the contrary. and that toey shall Do recgivable for ol duties and intercst on the public debt. . That National-Bank notes should be retired, their further fssue_prohibited, and United States Treasury-notes substituted therefor. 3. The nower to tssue paper moncy and colu us 3 1égal-tendor s only vested in the National Gov- crument, and this power should be exercised from time to time =0 a5 10 accommodate the necessitles of trude, Jabor, and general wauts of the people of a growing country. 4. We arc opposed to any plan of fanding the delit of the country by which an unijust contrac- tion of the curtency bolow the necessities of the whole people can be established. and which bas not for its object the funding of the debt at home. 5. We are opposed to any increate of the mter- ext-bearing part of the publicdebt forany purpose. 4, W believe the right of the Statc to taz property in fhe State i3 inviolavle, cnd that United States bonds should bear the burden ‘of the Government cqually with all other property, and any levisia- tion that attempts the contrary is -unjust and op- ve. We are in favor of the remonet 2 it the same lo; nd that its comage sh fon of sil- der qualitics 1l be free and un- 8. We favor the equalizatiou of the status of the greenback, silver, and vold dollars for ali pur- nat a national dollar shall be a dollar 22 oll our people, and fn overy dopurtment of our Goyernment. 9. We demand the nnqualitied and unconditional repeal of the odions Ttesumption act. 10. We demoud by Congress sach legislation as shall prevent the intervention of Federal Courts by mandamus of otherwise between the Courts of States and the countics oud citica of the States, such Interference being hostile to the theory of our Government, and leads to centralization, and also deprives the State of a free and rightful’ excrcire of its suvereigmty. 11 We favor money aid on the part of the Gen- eral Government. on full sccoritiy, for the con- , struction of a Sonthern Pacific Ratlway. 2. Tliat we favor an appropriation by the Gen- erul Government to aid in the construction of levees upon the Mississipoi and its tribntaries. 13. We are ooposed to uny 1arifl except for the purposo of revenue alone, believing that the same tenas o build up particular ndustries at the ex- pensc of all others. 14. Wearc opposed to any settiement of our State dedt which waunld involve « comvromise of any portion of that which is just. in order t0 pay anytoing upon that which 18 unjust or frananlent. The following additioual resolutions were also adopted: 19. We favor a wholosale 6ystem of pablic schools, to the end that every facility may be af- Torded for educatlon consisteut with the ability of the people. 20. We favor and vite immigration 1o onr State from any and all quarters, § . That |18 the sense of this Convention thal the colored population of Arkansas sre identified in interest witl the great Democratic party of the State, and, fully recomnizing the fmportance of harmonious feoline between them, we embrace this apportunlty of inviting them, the cotored men of the Staie, to co-operation with 38 In furtheri our compion iaterests. The following was also adapted : JResolved, ‘That we fully indorse the action of the House of Representatives in investizating the fruuds by which men not clected to oflice were in- #talled in the offices of Prexident nnd Vice-Pres dent of the United States. . We msfst that fhe crimo be exposed und the criminals punished. to the end thrt'such erimes may never be attempted hereaf- ter. s e A TRAMP IN TROUBLE. Shortly after midnight the sentries about the battery In the ngsth end of the Exposition Building found a man wandering about inside the lines. Upon being ordered to halt he ran off, and running out upon Michigan avenue was pursued by Officer Wol- ters. Failing to halt, the officer fired one shot, which hit bim in the calf of the leg, end bronght 2 bim 0 o staid just as he was round- ing fue Gardner Tiouse block, on the comer of Jackson strect. ‘It was suspected ut first that the feliow was a Com. wnist spy, but in reality he is only & poor un- fpriunate” member of the army of tramps. -} However, he oueht to have halted when order- cdto do so. He gives the name of William Jessey. —_— OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS, New Yonr, July G.—Arrived: Steamships City of Berlin, from Liverpool: Mosel, from Bremen; Maas, from Rotterd: arraday, from London; Romulus, from Sunderland. Eus]‘rox, July 6.~Arrived Nllyrian, from Liv- erpoal. FARTIER POINT, July 6. —Ipward boond: Sar- dinfau. from Liverpo Loxnoy, July G.—Steamships Adriatic snd Angust Andre, from New York, an Bohemiax, from Boston, have arrived out. 3 dodicoky 3 FATAL EXPLOSION. N5w ORLEANS, July 6.—The Galveston News' special from Queen City, Tex., says: “The boiler in Sewell’s suw-mill, three miles east of bere, exploded this morning, killing three men and wounding another. The killed men were thrown 200 fect away.” i O A Woman with a Temper, A woman was arraigned in 3 Rochester police- courf, recently, who bad been arrested more than 135 times,—nearly all her offenses yhaving. been committed, however, in Belfast, Ircland, Her vame is Ellen McCandless, and hief troubles apnear to bave their origin in an ungovernable temper. Amont her arious crimes were felon- ious wounding, for which she served five years twenty-six assaults on the police, obtaining goods under false flrclcnscs. and attempting to commit suicide. Her last sentence in Ireland cexpired in September, and she at once came to America to rejoin her husband, whom sho had deserted twenty-two years azo. Here she has continued her lawless career. Her husband, yhom. she frequently assnults, soems to like er. ————— That wild-mannered manise, Mr. Trask, of Otsezo County, N. Y., whose letters concerning bhis aliczed wonderful ware, Ledy Grant, were published in these columns o year or go ago, is out with another communication, in which. he reports the mare to be able to beat any horse in the country “fourteen seconds to the mile.” Here's a chance for Smuggler. THE HOSTILES. . Their Number in Oregon Believed to Be Fast Increasing. Skirmishes Between Scouting Parties and Numerous Scat- tered Bands. Stage Stock Stolen - and the Vehicles Burned. Saw Fraxci=oo, July 6.~—A Portland dispatch says that news from Dallas states that James Clark and a party of fourteenmen were out last Sunday on a scouting ‘expedition up the south fork of the John Day River, and when about twelve miles from its mouth, at Murderer’s Creek, they came upon Indians supposed to be sbout 1,400 strons, who endeavored to cut off the line of retrent of Ciurk’s party, and nearly succeeded in the attempt. The whites defended themselves. ‘Ono man was kitled and two others seriously wounded before the command made thelr escape. Clark and two of his men were cut off by the death of their horses. As ‘soon u§ the mews reached Canyon City that Clark was missing, a party of twelve men went to their assistance, coming across Clark at Cuminings’ ranch, about two miles from the fork of John Day River, to which point Clark Iind succeeded in naking bis escape. While at. this place the Indians made 2n attack on them and drove them from the rauch, wounding one Schulz. The hostiles took the stage stock aud burned the vehicle and all the buildings on the ranch. Ustatitea, July 5.—Four men arrived early this morning from Pendletou, and report a fight with Indwns at Campos Prairie. They killed one Indian and think they woutdea two others. They captured the sealp and head-dress of the Inalan they killed. It is behieved the Indians will not come out of the mountains if they can stay there. There were no Umatilla Indians fo this fight. Civiro. July 5.—The following dispatch has been recelved by Gov. Chadwick, now here on his way up the river: Warta-Waits, W. T.. July 5 —Nothing has been herrd from Gen. Howard slnce the 20th. Reyort from Baker City of tho 2d stute that the General's advance cavaley was in, Jobn Day's Valloy. pursoing the hostiles. . Schuting parties hiave been ecnconntered seventy-fiva miles from here. To-morrow night T expect to have force enough nt Pendleton to prevent the hostiles from crossing the Columbia Kiver near the mouth of Snako’ River. Thero is a great deul of necdless alarm here, though there are few troops here and further north. ‘VANCODVER, July 5.—News from the Indian war created great cxcitement and stir bere. At 4 o'clock every ayailable man was _under orders tomove. At §:30 to-night Maj. J. A. Kress left on the steamer Welcome, with twenty-five wmen, oue Gatling wun, and o howitzer. having voluntcered to serve as a river patrol mnear Waijluia. Gov. Ferry arrived to-nfuht and went up on the same boat with 200 stunds of arms for citizens. WALLA-WALLA, July 5.—A letter received by Gen. Wheaton from” M: Throckmorton. at Penaleton, reports everything quict there. Fol- lowing is au extract from a letter from E. K. Turk Caxyoy City, July 1.—I have just returned from carrylug disvatches to Col. Grover's command. Everything is disorganized. Indians arc ail aronnd us. We have been fightmfi(!or the lnst three days, 't tell Low many are Kflled, but we know of en of our men killed. We want helo. 1 bave All' bosiness el oeen in the saddle for three nigats. Louses are closed. 23115670, D. C., July 6.—The Commis- sioner of the Goneral Land-Oflice to-day re- cefved this Ietter from the Registerand Receiver at the Walla-Walls, 3Washington Terrltory, Land-Office: . *Can we close the office to fight the Indians, forty miles awag?" _Commissioner Witliamson promptiy replicd: * Yes, but only 5o long a» may be absolutely necessary.” VICTOR HUGO. A Pencil Sketch of Mim ns an Orator. Sualley’s Paris Letter to New York Trebune, Victor Hugo came on the stage, entering from the left wing, and walking &lowly to the table in the centre behind the footlights. The house rose and cheered him again and again.. He stands while the applause lasts, his hands rest- ing on the table, the shoulders stooping, bend- ing the noble head, whose crown of snow-white thick hair is the luminous centre to which all eyes are turned. Ile bas certainly grown old. The figure is less creet; the step less sure; the lnes are cat deeper in the face; the museles of the neck seem weaker; the indefinable impress ot extreme age is upon him. Tho thea- tro is lizhted with zas, not very brilliantly, but he looks five years older than when I last saw him in publiv, at the funeral of Thiersin Sep- tember. Tle abropt energy of movement once so characteristic of Lim has growna little languid. Whea the applause died away he sat down almost sleepily. His figure is short and bulky, though comict, and Fou can’t se¢ mucl of hitn behind the table. He is dressed in black; the white tie, which fills all the space between collar and the nurrow openjng of bis waistcoat, is scarcely whiter than the full white beard which rests on 1t. A few people come up and ake hands with himj when that is over, he muounces, without rising, that the meeting is fonen and that M. Edmond About will speak. M. Edmond Abvut is gray-haired, bigh-col- ored, thick-set, delicate-handed, with one ot the shrewdest pairs of twinkling black eyes ever set in a buman face. Onc of the cleverest brains in France is stowed away behind them. M. Jules Stmon remarked, a little later, that you could ot say whether his wit was more remarkable than his good sense or his good sense than his wit. * When Victor Huzo rose to speak, the five vears of added aze fell easily off hus shoulders. He stood stralzht and square. The eyes which hud been half-masked beneath drooping lids, Legan to dilate und glow. he fires which you thought extinguished blazed up;_ the Huzo who stood before you was the Hugo of ** Hernani,”” of *Lecs Orient: fresh, vizorous, alert, fn all the imperishaole youthfulness of genius, The first word he ut- tered rang throuzh tbe vast amphitheatre, szrave, sonorous, and powerful. There was not a trace of effort.. From berinning to end the note first struck was maintained but never mo- notonous. 1 culled bim an orator just now, hut an orator he is not, in the large sense of a word oo often and too carclessly used. His speech was written, every word. and read from a man- useript; and what a manuscript! Sheets of paper two feet square, covered with writing so Jarge and free that you conld almost read it from the balcony fifty feei off; full of corrections, of crasures done as il with a painters brush, or with the pen of a giaut, as be Is. Two candelabra, cach of six lights, stood on either side of him. Heput them togetler on his right, sdded two large Tumps from the table in frout, sud fioally sent 10 borrow u third from the Secretary, who sat hard by, and thenceforward wus in darkness. He held his manuscript close under this cluster of tight. When he wished to use his rizht hand for a zesture, he dropped the vaper on the table or transterred it to his left. e never parted company with it for two seutences in succession. Orator or not, uo speaker ever felt more strongly what he was saviug, or made it felt more strongly by Dis sudience. He read elowly, iwith singular distinctness and purity of articulation, and Victor Hugo's is a'style which mains rather thau loses bya spoken délivery. Read, the recurrences of antithesis is too frequent, the ornament some- times overdone; the intense sincerity of the man scems artilleial because it Is so Intense, 1t is only when you liear bim, when he himscif ad- Jjusts and regulates the movement of his peri- ous, that the duc effect of each is iven in due succession.” Ile did what he liked with his hear- ers, but it was not by the meenificent current which the true orator establishes between him- 1f and his audience; nor by ay@lmuuy, nor by action and reaction; rathier by th¥ shuer suprem- y of intellect, by force of will, by force of his own nuyuestioning and absolute conviction, and by the jarze-hearted Aumanity of the man, He tuok possession of you whether you would or not; uo personality, no hostliity was strong cnough to stand up ‘agginst the torrent that swept down upon you, Isat next an English friend, uo admirer of Hugo, who heard him aud saw bim for the first time in her life, whose as- sociativns lic mostly amoug Royatists and pricsts, who came to sec Huro as a curiosity— 1o adopt one of his éwn comparisons which moss shocked the classivists at the uime—as a lion from the desert, caged if not tamed. Be- fore he had spoken five minutes, she wasap- plauding; before he had finished, she pro- nounced him maenificent. = Itis a hopeless thing to trafsiate Huzol Louis Blanc once said he thought it strange the ZEnglish appreciated Hugo so imperiectly when his zenius was _in somé points more English than French. Louis Blanc is a consuminate judge of both literatures, but Le hardly took into account, perhaps, the immeuse ditlicalty of so renderine Hugo’s French fnto Enelish oS to preserve & flavor of the original without per- petually violatine, if not the idioms,at least the usages” of the borrowing tongue. I must re- peat, moreover, that the speech, even us printed from the author’s manuseript, losca mucb of its effect. ‘The spcll of the speaker Is no lonzer upon you. Youreadin cold biood what you heard umid tho hurrabs and the many indescrib- able expressions by which a Freuch andienco manifests its emotions, and imparts them. MORGAN PRUSSIA. The Irishmsn Who Outwitted n Monarch. English Magasire. George the Fourth, who was remarkable for s dexterity in telling a story, when Prince Regent was fond of collecting instances of the wit and humor of the Irish peasantry. Oune of thase was the history of Morgan Prussfa. Morgan, the gay and 2handsome sou of & low Irish farmer, tired of bLome, went to take the chances of the world and seek his fortune. By swhat means ne traversed England, or made his way to France, is not told. But be at length crossed France, and, probably without much kuowledge or much care whether he was moving to the North or the South Pole, found himself in the Prusstan territory. This was iu theday of the first Frederick, father o Frederick the Great, famous for bLis tall regiment of guards, and for nothing elsc—exeept his. being the most dangerous compound of fool and madman among the crowned heads of the Contincot. Hle had but one nmbition,—that of inspectini twice o day n regiment of a thousand greaa- diers, not one of Whom was less than six feet and a half high. Morgan was an Irish wiaut, and was justantly scized by the Prussian re- cruiting Serzeants, who forced him to volunteer into the tall buttalion. This turn of fate was totally out of the Irishman’s calculation, and the prospect of carrying a musket till bis dying duy on the Potslam parade, after baving made up his mind to live by his wits and rove the world, more than once tempted him to think of leaving_his musket and his honor be- Bhind bim, and fairly trying his chance for¢scape. But the attempt wasalivays found impructicuble; the frontier was tooclosely watclied.and Morgan still marched up and_down the V'otsdamn parade with & disconsolate heart, when one evening a Turkish recruit was brought juj but Frederick looked to nothing but the thews and sinews of aman, aud_the Turk was fully seven fect high. “How much did his Majesty give for catching that heathen?? snid Morgan to his Corporal. * Four hundred dollurs,” was the answer. He burst. out into an exclamation of aston- ishment at this waste of Royul treasure upon o Turk. 4 1Why, they cannot be got for less, said the corporal. “ \Vhat a pity my five brothers caunot hear of it!” said Morgan. *“I am adwarf to any one of them, and the sound of half thewoney would bring thew all over immediately.” As the discovery of o tall recruit was the well-known _road to favoritism, five were worth at least a pair of colors to the Corporal. The conversation was immediately carried to the Sermeant, and from him, through the gradation of officers, to the Colonel, who took the first opportunity of mentioning it to the Kinz. The Colonel was instantly ordered to question Mor- gan: but be at oace lost all recollection of the subject. “Hy had no brother; he had inade the regi- ment_his father and mother and relations, ang there he hoped to live and die.” But be was still uryed more strongly, and at leugth confessed that he had brothers, even ahove the regimental standard, but that noth- ing on earth could stir them from their spades. “After some time the Kine inquired for the five recruits, and was indignant When he was told of the fmpossibility of enlisting them. “Sena the fellow himself,” he excluimeq, sand let him bring them back.” "Tho order was given; but Morgan was broken- liearted at the idea of solong an absence from the reeiment.” He applied to the Colonel to nave the order revoked. or at least given to some one_clse. But tbls wos ous of the ques- tio, for Frederick’s word was always irrevoca- Dle; and Morean, with u_disconsolate face, pre- pored to set out upon his mission. But a new diflienlty struck him. * How washe to make his Drothers come unicss he showed temn the recruit- inzmoney?” Thisobjection was at last obviated by the advance of a sum equal to about £300 sterling, as o first installment for the purchas: of his family. Like a loyal grenadier the Irish- man was now ready to attempt anything for his Colouel or_his: King, and Morgan bezan his journcy._ But, as he was steppiug out of the gates at Potsdam, anotber ditiicuity oceurred: and e returned to tell the Colonel that of ali people existivg the Irish were the most apt to doubt a traveler’s story, tiey being in the habit of a good deal of exercise in that style themselves; and that wheu he spould go back to his own country, and tell them of the capital treatment and sure promotion that o soldier met with in the zuards, the probability was that they, would laugh in his face. As to the money, “there were some who would not scruple 1o say that he stole it, or tricked some ane out of it. But, undoubtedly, when they saw him walking back only as & common soldier, hie was sure they would not believe a_syliable, let bim say what he would about rising in the service.” The objection was futelligible enough, and the Colonel represented it to Frederick, who, doubly outrageous at the deiay, swore a grena- dier oath, ordered Morgan to be made Sous- Oflicier, or Upper Sergeant, and, with a sword and cpaulet, sent him instaotly across the Rhine to convince his five brothers of the rapidity of Prussian promoting. Morgaa flew to his nome in the County Corlow, delizhted the firesides for many a mile ‘round with " tis having outwit- ted a King and a whole battalion of erenadiers, Taid ont bis recruiting money on land, and_be- came a man of estate at the expense of the Prussian Treasury, One ceremouny remains to be recorded. Once a year, ou the auniversary of the dav on which he left Potsdamn and its giants behind, he climb- ed a hill within a short distauce of his house, turned himeelf in the dircction of Prussia, and, with the most_contemptuous gesture which he could contrive, bade ood-by to his Majes The ruse was long s great souree of amusement, and its hero, like other heroes. bore through lifo the name earnen by his exploit—Morgan Prussta. 0LD HICKORY. Androw Jackson as & Dancer and Practleal Joker—A Story from Tennessee, Phutadeiphia B ess. Col. John B. Brownlow, in a friendly letter to the cditor of the Press, contributes the fol- lowing rather apocryplsl reminiscences of Andrew Jackson. We may remark, for instance, that *“0Id Hickory ' was berdly the man to quote Latin phrase to a backwoods cabin. The contribution is fnteresting, however, us sbowing the class of legends which is current at this day in Tennessee, and which keeps there the mem- ory of the old bero fre: 1In the days of our fathers thers lived in Vir- ginia an old planter, Maj. Hanley, ¥ho was an oddity in his way. Some snid he was erazy, while others aeclared that only an inordinate Jove ot fun rave rise to his quaint doings. He mient ne called & practical joker, and it was id he never allowed a stranger tocome and o ithout playing upon him ove or 1more of his ridicnlous trick One chilly, drizzly autwanal evening a horse- man pulled up at the Mujor'sdoor, ana request- ed hospitality for the night. He had wandered Trom his way, aud it Was now too late to rectify Dils mistak i He was warmly welcomed, and when hishorse bad been taken in charge by a competent serv- ant, and his saddlc-bags removed, he was ushered into the great Mving-room, where a cheerful fire ed In the enormous firc-place, and where indles were lighted. - The Major was a large, strongly-built man, of middls bald-beaded, rather red in the face, and with an eye deep-set and twinkling. ‘The guest was also of middle aze, tall and spare, but compact and muscular, with features of u decided leonive cast, strongly marked, heavy brows, and a shock of thick, crisp bair, that stood up on his large head hike the mane of a lion. Supver was anuounced, and after that the cvening passed on pleasantly. As the clock struck 9 the host arose and excused himself for a few minutes. When he returned he was ac- compamed by a negro, who carried s fiddle and bow, and the Major himzelf had a large horse- pistol in his hand. My dear fricnd,” sald the host, with a bow and a ‘smile, *we must not let the evening pass without a little amusement. From your looks 1 know you can dai I have one of the best fiddlersin the world; he learned to play in New Orleans, where music and doneing are cultivat- ed. So, sir. you will take your place upon the floor, and dance us a reel. "Let it be a Scotch recl. You look like a Scotchmau. Come,— make no delay. Strike up, Pomp.” ‘The guest protested that he could not dance. He had not done such a thing since his boyhood. But Maj. Hanley wonld not take no for an un- swer. l%e did not make many words, e cock- ed the pistol, and swore that he would shoot the guest if he did pot dance. The negro had begun 1o tremble, aud once or twice he seemed upon the point of crying out,but fear of his master withheld him. ¥ The guest scemed to consider the matter. He looked at the Major and at the pistol. 'The man ‘might be really insune, though, if e was, there was much method in it. However, he was there aloue,—none to beliold his discomfiture,—and mayhap, he thought, the tables might yet be turned. * Come, come! Dance, or 1 fire.” ‘The guest arose and stood in the middle of the room, and there began to dance to the ne- £ro’s music, but the music was wretched,—so wretched that the Major more thay once threat- :ncd to shoot the negro if he did fiot play bet- er. ‘The poor wayfarer danced until he was fairly tired, and then stopped. The host was upon the point of urging him on, when a horses tramp was heard at the [anding, and presently a serv- ant put his head iuto the room and called the master out. Whether he forgot what he was doing, or he cared not to be seen outside with the pistol, we cannot say, but he left it on the table when he weat out.” As soon 25 the door was closed the guest went to the table and took the pistol fn his hand. As he hud balf sus- pected, it was not joaded; it was a3 fnnocent a3 a horse-shoe. But the traveler had his pistol ammunition in his pocket,and he quickly loaded the weapon with powder sud ball, callinig upon thie darkey to witness. g Shortly the Major returned, and his first movement was to look for his pistol, which he found missing. “ My dear sir,”” said the zuest, with a low bow, and ose of the blandest of smiles,—a smile, howcver.uflulckl y followed by a look that might have maden héro quail, ““I found your pistol sadly deficient; but 1 have rectified all that. You see 1 have my powder-flask and ball-pouch. The pistol is loaaed, sir, secundum artem. We will continue the amusement by a dance executed by the master of the house; and let me assure you that Ican use a pistol much better than I can dance & reel. Dance, sir. or, by the Eternal, Ill put o bullet through your legs. if not through your head.” The Major was startled. There was some- thing in the man’s volce that always lifted him from his feet and took away his breath, and, it the look was a command, he could no more have disobeyed than he could have hushed the throbbing of his own heart. Ile danced. The neero played wow with unction,—pfayed ina manner to reflect credit upon his New Orlenns teaching. More than once the dancer begged to be allowed 1o stop, but that pistol, held by an iron hand, kept him moving. Had the weapon been aimed at his head or lLieart, be might have run a risk of the man firing, but he really belicved the irate traveler would as lef break his legs as not. At length the visitor went to the fireplace and discharged the pistol up the chimuey, aud the Major was suffered to sit down. As old Pom- pey passed him he stopped, and bent over and wliispered into his mastep’s car: *For the Lor’ a massy's sake, mas’r, don’t ye 2o for to cut up no more. 1tell ye I knows de man! Whoush! who'd cbber forzot 'im! He's Gen'r’l Jackson—der rale Oid Hickory, an’ no mistake! Maj. Hanley opened his eyes wide. There is no knowing what be might have done, but, as hie was starting up, pale and affrighted, his visitor, who heard Pompey's revelatfon, put out his hand and sald, with a smile: “ Hold on, Major. Nota word. If you can be satisfied, T can. Let us have & bit of repose, ~a bit of punch with it." The panch was brought, and as soon 2s the lixmsl could regrain his™ spirits jollity ruled the our. Of course the Major had to tell the story of the coming of his iliustrious visitor, and sut of uoise and disturbance. Tacre s - pleasant metullic taste in his mouth and oy aching sensation in the saliva elands. The sight of the chair in which he waswont £ smoke, of the pipes and other parupbernalia | on the table, exasperates his shirpencd apprekensions 3 he will take g lougy walk and strive for a while to forrer it all. Forth he sallies accordingly; but iy would seem that he is under rhe wdidance of Some malignant demon, who persists in leading i past every tobaeco 'shop in the neizhbore hood, and poloting out to bith fn the windows thercof his favorite brand of ciggars, nis choicess cizarettes, his awectest tobaccos. Heurc-wring. ing temptatlons beset him; his mind is assaiied Dy subtle and sophistical arguments: once and all the difference between Heas ryéo o iven and Purgato- ome again to more dreary strugsle, an dine. He positively abliors the food that %n‘ln supplies hi with strenzth to undervo fr sufferinz. His entire faculties sre concentrated in the one grim effort to bold bis own; but the more he holds it the further be is from sercaity. Is life, be asks himself, worth spending in this way! Are the gratiiications of existence 3o nu- merous and so” cloying as to render voluntary selt-immolation other than folly? Why, why did he embark in soinsane an enterorize? Couid Le more wisely compensate himself for that in- sanity than by leeping overboard and flounder. .ing to the shore againl But-bis judgment iz (paralyzed because he can o longer smoke oyer. the propositions submitted to it. We will not follow this unfortunate hero tell what paugs he underzocs from the chanca inhalation of somebody else’s smoke,—how the genial excitement of social Intercourse reviyes in pungent freshness the desircs that days of struzgle nad a little deadeued; how, in those ungarded moments which are incident even to the strongzest souls, his will falters and well-nizh yields; how he maintalns its inteerity by lttls Detter than aceldent, and rearets his victory rath- er thaarejoices in it. The physical discomforts were hard enoush to overcome; but wfinitely more dangerous, when these are pust, are -the sly assaulis of imagination and association. At- length—for all things must have an end—the afternoon arrives when he takes duwn a volume of Thackcray’s ** Vireinians from the book- shelf and reads therein how Warrington Emer- son lit bis pipe of sweet Vircinia. Like the lovers of Dante’s poem, bie is conquered by the book. Inamomentle has sprung to his fee zrasped his tobacco-jar and meerschanm, loade ¢d, firod—und sgnk back in his arm-chalr fy immortal bliss. He is not _ashamed, be i3 pat orry, 23 the bine wreaths circleceiling wards ha can only be happy and murmur between Dults, hat ai ass 1 have beent e COST OF ROYALTY. Salaries of Yorelgn Potentates, Potladelphia Press. In this country, where the Exceutive is con~ sidered tobe “passing rich"™ ona salary of §30,000 2 year, with the Whitc House as a gen- eral and the Soldiers’ Home as 2 sum- mer residence, there may be some natural curlosity regarding the pecuniary allowance paid to foreign potentates. It is.to be remem- bered, however, that the majority of these rulers also possess inberited property, real and personal, of considerable value, and that the through the weakness of old Pompey the rest of the'scene leaked ou GIVING UP SMOHING. The Woes of the Abstainer, and How tho Abstension Resuits, Zondon Wortd, The smoking of the last cigar is a somewhat solemn process. In this world all final partings are solemn, aud the burning of this weed as- sumes the dianity of a sacrificial rite. The white ash lengtnens, the butt diminishes; it is tossed away, and only one man knows how much is surrendered alony with it. I rises thoughtfully and leaus against the mante picce. His mood is tinged with a gentle sadness, tempered, however, by 8 sentiment of manty and modest triumph, which causes himto adopt an attitude suggestive of firmness and heroism, His head is up, hls shoulders squared, his foor solidly olanted on the hearth-rug. For the first time he comprehends the loveliness of self- denial. Why bas he never thought of doing this before? It is not, afterall, so difficultas was protended. And hoi inviorating to feel the vic torious will quelling the rebeilious appetite! He may now acknowledge, too, witha gush of candor that refreshes his heart—his tobacco- stained but repentant and regenerate heart— that swokiug has been dofng him a good deal of harm. TFor years past he has uot been up to his own highest mark, His brain has lacked that clearness, his pulse that steadiness, his stomach that serenity and power that they were wont to huve. And he has been led into deny- Ing all these traths from an fznoble reluctance to confess that bis indulgence was anindulxence merely, and not primarily a measure of wisdom. How ‘often has hLe declared with vehemence that tobacco soothes trouble, assists thought, and aids digestion? TIn the fervor of his new enthusiasm he will now confess (to himself: that it does nothing of the kind. He is glad—unaf- fectedly giad—that he i3 to smoke no more, He regrets only that the effort has not been greater thao it wus in order that the victory might seem more worth. To sufferinso good a ciuse as this would nave been a privileze. Yet be will not repine; it is scarcely half an hour, indeed, since his Tast clgar was ative and smoking. In the hope that he may fecl his sacrifice more palpadly on the morrow, he zoes to bed. Awaking the next morninz, forgetful of what has passed in the study overnight, he lays hauds upon his cigaretie~paper and proceeds to man- ufactare his morning whill. ~ But in the act of rolling the first cizarette ne pauses. Memory resumes her throue, and in a kind of panic he steps to the fireplace and dashes the half- formed temptation into it. The danger is past, and it is to be presumed that our hero feels properly elated. evertheless, that tirst fra- rant puil, taken before breakfast, while the palate was cool and sevsitive, was perhaps the bleasontest bit of smokivz tn the whols day. It camnot be belped now: but i is really o pity that be had - wot bezun to leave off after Lreakfast {nstead of after supper. He makes his toilet rather sloom- ily, and appears at table not in bis most light- gome humor. It is unfortunate, he thinks, that he should have committed himself to an ordeal e as this at a time when, his bealth was ; and impaired it is, tabugh he has only just perceived it One needs oue's fail vigor for such an effort. As breakfust procceds, however, his zood humor partially returns, and after a bearty meal he starts up with an appe- tite for tobaceo such as he has not felt for many aday. Now fora good smoke,—the pleasan est :nl:d 1most unfailing solace of all annoyance! Alas! The one annoyance that smoking cannot miti- gate is—givivg up smokivg. It isat this mo- ment that our friend is visited by a full sense of the bitterness of iis deprivation. How shail man console himself for his own wilful aban- doument of the means of consolatifoni He wanted that carly cigarette more than Le wants most things, but he wants this cizar more toau tweoty times as much as he wanted that cigar- ette. If his wantis to go on inteusifying in this ratio it Is questionable how long human uature can hold ont agalnst it. Say he has been in the habit of ~consuming ~ fifteen ci- mrs per day. If he fecl So motent fongings for the first one, how intoler- ably way be expeet to yearn for the fifteenth! The retlection appals him. Still, he is a man and an Eneclisbman, and altbough these facts do not prevent his feeting that the odds arc against him, he will yet battle on wwhile strength remuins. He is glad, meanwhile, that he kept the matter a sccret,—it is so disagreable to Kuow that one is being watebed while in the thick of an uncqual contest, He dreads lest his wife or friend remark the absence of the accus- tomed incense, and when they do not remark it be is piquea at their indifference to what*is to i of such desperate moment. Thus the fore- noon dragrs on. Between breakfast and luncheon five or six cigars have been his usual “stint™; bt it mast be admitted that the loss of the first was after all the least endurable. loss so far. It isim- mediately after eating tnat the longing is most voracious; later, there rewmains only a dull pain of vacancy. Our hero has for sears past never put food in his mouth without, o to speak, having a cigar in his eve; if he ate heavily it was In order to smoke profusely; but all that must be changed now. The less ie eats the better it will be for him. If he could manaze to starve himself altozether it would perhaps be best of all. Anything like comfort is for the future out of the question. He suffers from a de- pression of spirits lightened by no horizon dawn of hape. Ah, were i but possible to smoke without smoking, to solace himself for the cruelty of kis vow without breaking it, it were not so erucl! At luncheon the champion of self-denial feeds cautiously and malevoleatly, with an cye cver fixed on the strugzle which i3 to follow the swallowing of the last mouctnful. He is cynically distrustful of the blandisn- ments of victuals, and anxiously on bis zuard against another momenzary lavse of mewmory. be leaves the tablo with cheerless steps: be wanders restlessly about ithe house; he can settle bimsell to no oceupation; he is inloler- Tespectise ralers are also allowed magnificent palaces, chateaux, and rural residences, repaired and furnished out of the publicreveaue. Taking most of our figures from Frederick Morton’s “Statesman’s Year-Book,” a very'reliable work,. revised after official returns, and now in its fifteenth year, we shall proceed with the poten- tates. Francis Joseph, Emperor of Austri2 and King . of Hunzary. born in Angust 1330, bas a civil list {as his salary is commoniy called) of $4,650,000 ayear. Jeopold IL., King of Belzium, born fn April, 1835, has a civil list of $660,000 a year. Christlan IX., King of Denmark, born in April, 1518, hias a civil fist of 300,000 rigsdalezs, or $2i7,775. His eldest son has an annual al- lowance of $33,333. Marshal MacMabon, President of the French Repubiic, hes an annual salary of $120.000, with an extra §60,000 for household expenses. Pre ident Thiers bad the same salary, with $77, for housekeeping. Napolcon IIL had the largest civil list in the world. It amounted to $5,000,000 a year, in addition to which he received the income of the Crown domains, amounting to $2,400,00, aod the free possession of & number of palaces, parks, forests, and mansions, kept at the ex- penscof the State. His total income reached the sum of §7,800,000. Neversneless on the Iraperial civil list were stated fn 1867 to amount to $16,000,000. William L., born'in Mareh, 1797, receives no salary as German Emperor. : as King of Prussia, is 33,019,760. Most of the expenditure of the Royal family and the Court I3 defraved out of the Sovereign’s immense pri- vate property. Ludwie IL. King of Bavaria, born In ‘Aurust, 1845, has a civil list of $1.378,565. Karl L., King of Wurtembere, born in March. 1823, 'has a civil list of §391,685, with an adaitional annual prant of $1,357.855 for the other members of the Royal family. Albert L, King of Saxony,. born April, 1825, bas a civil list of $635,000, with an additional 3127,050 a year for the Princess and Princesses. ‘This latter erant miy be justitiable, a3 in 1830 the reigning monarch sur- rendered bis domains to become the property of the State. The Grand Duke of Baden hasa civil list of. $374,655 for himself and the members of his family. The hereditary ianded proverty of this dynasty, vatued at $20,830,000, has_besn_made over to the State. The Grand Duko of Meck- lenburg-Sehewerin, who claims to be the only European govereizn of Slavonic origin, pretends that he can trace his descent to Genseric, Kinz of the Vandals, who conquered Spain in the fifth ceotury, und. golng over to Africa, took Carthage in* 439 A. D. In kis full tile hy styles himself Priuce of the Vandals.” fe has no civil Hst, but is absvlut: owner of one- fifth of the whole ares of the Liliputian Duchy, which he zoverns. The Grand Duke of Hesse, son-in-law of Queen Victoriu, has a civil list of $325,710 tor the support of humself, his near relations, and is little court ut Darmstadt, The civil st of the Grand Duke of Olden- burg is #125,000; of Brunswick, §250,000; of Saxe-Weimer, $200,000; of Suxc-Weiningen, $00,0003 of Anhalt, §145, 0005 of Suxe-Coburz- Gotha, $100,000; of Saxe-Autenburg, $iU7,2507 of Walaeck, 5133, i 8300007 of Schwarzburz-Rudoldstadt, burir-Sondershausen, $1{0,0005 Lippe, $125,000. The Gi R l¢iz, and Reuss-Greiz - absolu mostof the States which tli . It is full Lime for the wholeof these peity severelzn- ties to be absurbed under ove ruler, so as 10 constitute & real German Empire. Victoria, Queen of Enziaud, bora in May, 1819, bas a civil list of $1,925,000, with £300,000 more from the Duchy of Lancuster, one of the Crown lands which ‘she did not surrender, ac- cording to contract with Parllament. to the State. Thus her annual income is 52,2 year. To her childres and to the D i‘ldiuburz is paid_a furtner sum of F3%30,000, making a total of $3,105,000 to British rovalty. George L. Ring of Gre: 1845, bus n civil list of $200.800 2 yea bert, ot Italy, burn 1544, has not e large civil list (¥3.250,000) granted to his father. Williawm 111, Kine of the'Netherlands, born in February, 1819, has a salary - of 250,000, with “an zddition of bhall a3 much more for mewmbers of the Rogal family. He and the King of Wurtembers are be- lieved to be the richest govereizns in Europe. The whole grants to Louis L, of Portuzai. born in 153, aud bis family anount, to 350,000 ayear. Alexander IL, of Russia. born in April, 1818, possesses the revenue Trom the imme: crown domalus equal to 10,050,090 a year. ~ Alfonso XIL, of Spain, born in Nuvember, 1857, bas a civil Hat of $2,000,000. Oscar IL., Kinz of Swe~ den and Norway, bora January, 132), bas 3 civil Hist of $335.330" from Sweden and ot §ILHI from Norway. He also has an anouity of $53,330, voted many years azo to to Carl XIV. (Bernadatte) and his Successors on the throne of Sweden. The total is $316,105 per annum. ‘The President of the Swiss Republic, who has only a,single year term, receives $3,000 per nnnu&fl. Nevertheless, Switzerland is well gov- erned. 5 “There Is no knowing what is the salary or in- come of Abdul Hamid, Sultan of Tarkey, born September, 1842. The civil Hst of Abdul A Schaumburg- 1y own who was almost his immediste prudecessor, - varied from $4,557,530 in 3, to £5,351,020 in 1875, but it has been calcututed on good au- thority that fn the latter years of his reicn, which” closed in May, 1575, Abdul Aziz soend $22.500,020 a year. 03 not mear that amount just now. Tord Letton raceives £25,000a year salary *and £12.000 for “allowances,” as Viceroy 6¢ India. The Duke of Marlborouzn eets £20,000 a vear as Lord Lieutenant of Ircland. The Earl of Duferin has £10,000 salary as Viceroy of Canada. —e———— K 1t is about time the proper autnority took steps to see that the anuual diszraceful exhi- bitlons, dignified by the name of trotting meet~ ings, which take piace over the Detroit track, arc aholished. Accordingto the dispatches of ‘TuE TriBUsE's soecial correspondent, the most unblushing and atrovious frauds -Were perpe trated in nearly every race, the judges sittiog by like owls und winking at them. agzatn he wavers,—one little whifl would make - throuzh all the course of his woes; we will not * the debts His annuai salary, 000; of Sewarz = O O P S o R RS a8 T R T 5 R a