Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 6, 1878, Page 5

THE CIIICAGO TRIBUNE FRIDAY, DECEMBER o, 1878 <on has written to Collector Smith stating cta. e s1OTE IO o op Tk DRLAT. ason why Senator Daine has delayed his resolution to Investigate the loctions fa thnt some four or five Agublicsn Benatora mra abscnt, and ba does iem an the resolution to u voie unless there ::'n lccrlu!my of ita passage. NOTES AND NEWS, BMUGALING, " Foecial Dispatch to The Tridune, wasmyaroN, D. C, Dee. 5.—Complaints me from New York merchants that all trade :men the United Btates and Mexico {s now affering severely from the wholesale smiug- 'lm! of our goods across the border. They 'lnlmllmt the Mexiean Custom-House ofiicers :):cmy arsist, and that they sre cunstantly Lribed. o such an cxtent (s this legal trade cmed on that regular exporters from Enstern sris, a8 well as* those dealers who acnd goods P ey of the Weatorn rivers, are finding 1t fm- oeslble to rompete, and are gradually reducing their ventures in that direction. TIE GOLD FIAND, The Treasury has information that several g combinations are forming to put ap the the price of rold at the time resumptlon ts an- pounved. There fsno fear of theso efforts at (be Depariment, and the Secretary feels per- fectly confident of his abllity to defeat them all, whatever shape they take. YOTTER'S COMMITTRR. The Democratic members of the Potler Com- aittee have had & conference, and have decided togend 1 Sub-Committee ngain to New Orleans. here 13 reluctauce on the part of some to go South. bt it f5'the purpose of the Committes tosend the same Sub-Committee that was there {3 the carly summer, It fs the intentlon to have this Qub-Committee leave as soon as the treas- ury of the Committee shall be replenlahed. The Tepubilcans will make no objection to votlne any sum needed, but when the request for moner {3 made thero will be Inquiries to ascer- tain how the $20,000 alreadv voted has been ex- nded, and whetner the expendituro has been Jortiao benefit of the conntry, CANAL PURCRASR. i Itis eafd that Gen, Thowmas Fwing and Sena- tor Jones, of Nevada. bave completed the pur. ctase of the James River & Kanawha Caoal fo Virzinda, The stock of the Company has re- cently been two cents on the dollar. TR LOVIRIANA ELECTION DISTURBANCRS. Frivate_advices from New Orleans state that Gov. Nicholls will disappolnt his opponents by soowine them that he intends to keep his prom- fies. These advices state that Gov. Nichiolls, scompanied only by an Adjutant, 18 now mak- mea tour of rll the parishes where there were eletlon disturbances, or auy vharzzes of violence orfeaud 3 that he 8 giving his careful attention 19 Ity collecting all the evidenco possibie, and thathe is determined that no gfuln.y man shall escape, whatever polltical conslderations may ba forolved. ‘The_ writer, who is very gear to (ov. Nicholls, says il the laws wre not enforced in Louisfana_the Couservative Mministration will be regarded as responsible for #t, and 1f there wero political murders the nurderces would find thelr way to the gallows. NARRED OUT. Glover's champlon expert, Prof. Wilcox, a pearcd at the Treasury to-day, and afterwards atthe Capitol, to the dismay of the Democratic iide. Hetook o letter from Secrotary Sherman wkine authority to begin his winter rescarclics inthe Register’s oflice. [he Secretary indorsed toe applieation ovor ta Schofleld, and the Intter Informed tho great fraud detector that he sbhould ot fatten in that offire. % GEN. ORART. A private lotier sutely received here from Gen. Grant states that ft is still lus YIH'DD!B to travel Fastward lhmui:h India and Ching, and thence home by way of the Paclfic and San Francisco Inabout a ycar, 1 ‘NOMINATIONS, . Tothe Western Ausociated Press. WasuiNuTON, D, C,, Dec. 5.—The Dresident uent o the Benato the followlng nominations: Robert M. Dourlas, Marshal for Lhe Western District of North Carolina; Joshus B. Iilll, Marstal of the Enstern District of North Care- Jisa.,; Green U, Chandler, Attorney ot the Northern District of Misstasippi G. C. Moodr, Ausoclate Justice of the Bupreme Court of Dskota; and 8 number of minor nominations. APPROPRIATION RECOMMENDED, Bceretary Evarta has sent the House Commit- tee on Forelpn Aflairs & communication recom- mending the restoration of the wpmflr&mun of 3,000 for the salary of the Charge nirs for Greece. One e sction o Southiern ¢ TR OMAIA BRIDGE, A bill was futroduced in the House to-day by Mr. Finley proposine to prohibit the Unlon Pa- cfe Rallroad Company, under the penalty of beavy flnes, from charging any additional sum for the transportatlon of freizht or pusseugers orer the bridge st Omaha in excess of the mount now allowed by law for similar trans- partation over any other portion of the road. THE POTTEN COMMITTER beld no sesslon to-day, and will probably not ssemvle for business before nexs Tucsday, CUTTING DOWN, - - The Consular and Diploniatic Appropriation Wl as presented to the House, nroposes to re- duce tne salariea of our Ministers to Great Diritaln, France, Germany, and Russia, from 317,500 to 15,000 per annuw ;. thoss of tho Min- fsters to Bpain, Austrin, Italy, Bragll, Mexico, Jaan, an@China from $12,000 to 810,000, and those of our Ministers to Chili nod Peru from $10,000 to §4,000 per annum. Tho blll omits any proviston for United States Minlsters Rest- dent at Beletum and tho Netherlands or for ]Chalrwn @'Affaircs to Denmark and Switzer- 10d, NATURALIZATION, The bills introduced tu terminate the Bancroft treaty with the North German Cunfederation ¥erereferred to B snub-committee conststing of Meesrs, Cox (N, Y.), Schleicher, and Williams, TIE NAVAL APFHROPHIATION DIUL. The Naval Appropriation bl provides for the sppointment of visitors to the Naval Academy asumacter of Jaw instead of custom and usago asberotofore, Its total 18 about $125,000 less 1tan that of the appropriations for the current facal year, TIIE RECORD. BENATE, Wismxoron, D. C., Dec. 8.—The Vice-Prest- dent auncunced aa the Bpeclal Commulttee on Yellow-Faver Investigation Messrs, Harrls, Mattbews, Lamar, Poduock, Conover, Garlang, ad Eustls, Mr. Morrill submitted a resolution calling Wpou the Becrotary of the Treasury for infor hition as to the wmount of depositsin the Treasury to the credit of tho Freedmen's Bav- Iore and Trust Compauy; whether Intorest hould bo allowed thereon; the expenses of the Lommlssion tg sottlo the affairsof that Com- tany, and what legislation is necessary to close Spthe affulrs of the Cowpany aud haye the Commissioners retire. Ho mnia that bo under- Hood the Commissloners were willing to retiro, butcould not do wo undor tho law, In his opinton, e arigloal managees of the lmatitution showid l:::u. ;»le:‘n:l fi?mlnllly vrosccoted, ‘Tho reaclution Tho followiig changes In the Standing Commit. #4 were made by unaulmonse consvat r. Kalon 18 o retire from the Cominiitee on )flfl"m‘“" snd Mr, Wallace s ta tako his Az, Morgau 1a ta retiro from the Commity Patents, xnd M. Eaton 1s 1o taka hls prasere® P Mr, Wallaco Jo retite from the Commlitos on 7;fil¢n Relations, and Mr, Morgan s to take bis 7. Ferry was excused from service on the Come Rlitee to luquire as (v Senator Conover's conncos Uon with he owision of the Hot Bpringe cla -fom the Sundry Civil Appropriation biil st the 1t session, hl‘lr. Cameron (Wis.), from the Committee on viiegeg and Elcctious, reported resolutions to riut for the use of the Conunitteo 100 copios of {8 feport mada to the Comuaitiea by Mr, Cameron 8 the watter of tho clatm of David T, Coroiu for 4 n the body, as Senator from Bouth Carolina. v:n to. . Ferry submitted tho followlng: vesolced, That the Freelduol be requested to {nnmn 10 the Senate sny fnformation which way ite been received by the depariments conco: i Ppostal aud cammerclal futorcourse botween b Lulted States aud Soutl Amorican countrips, elher with sny recommendations desirable to bo 1bwlitea or weasures to bo adopted for facllitat- Aud lmproving sach iutercourse, Ayrced to, fier au exacutlve scasion the Senato sdjourued Monday, HOUSH, Xt. Biogleton, from the Commitiee on Appra. §fattons, revorted the Consulsr sad Dipiowatic Abbropriation Ll Heforred to the Comiuittep of bus Vhole, and wade the speciul order fur Tussday Mr. Clymor, from thy same Comuiitiee, reported :_,ie Naval Appropriation bill. Referrcd &o the SDuittce of the Whols, & ¥ b4 resolution for tic sppolotment of & Yellow- ver Conmission pusscd. {; Breutano. sisiug to & personal explanation, eut o the Clerk's desk a0d bud read un _extract Vom the Washiuzton Fost of July 24, 1878, in oica it was fuuinsted that & Vermont membor fecalved §25, 00U 8nd s Chloayo sud Marylsnd Tember $12,260 cach for uiding lu the pas “:(u ol thy BNl directine (be Socretary te ‘Do Treasuryt pay the olerest of ah kU3 District bouds. He stated that, $4bo wus the valy Chicagy wermber wha bad vored S W Ll e extract tertaaily Lefetied b b - deep-seated cough, which obstls 84 he ald not deaira to have such an Imnnt. tation remaining on hix character, hn offered o res- olutlon directing the Committee on Clyil-Service Xieform o inquire Into satd charees, Adopted, Mr. Cox, from the (ammittes on Foreign Allatrs, reported back the resolation enlilng on the Preai- dent for all the correapanaence hetween the United Etates and the termnn Empire relative to the ex- ulsion of Jallus_Haumer, a citizen of Chicago, rom the (letman Empire. Adopted. Mr. Harrison (111,) offcred & resolntion calling on the Secretary of the Treasnry for information regarding the namen, salary, and daties of all the employos appo:nted in tan Chicago Custom-toues rince fhe appointment of the present Collector, A{?vufl M., ( cld, from the Commiltee on Rnles, re- ported & canenrrent resolution for the thMh!lm"nl of 8 Yellaw- Fever Commiasion, anit satd the Com. mittee had not conwidered the power of Congress In the matter farther than to recognize the fact that, under even the siriciest constmetion of the Con. AMiftation, Congress had the rleatest poeniblo right 10 take ‘enre of the quarantife rezniations along the harbors and navigable rivers, In this lnstance the men of all partics and scctions wers abnalately in accord, and any light that conld bo thrown on the history of the preatilence, and in direction of the # )emlfd rencrositica and sympathies of the penple, onght to be ahed upon It for futnre nne. Me. flooker was snre the remarks of tho gentle- man fzom Ohlo would find s reaponse tn every heart in every portlon of tha conntry. ‘The recent aMiction which bad visited the Sonth swith virn- Jenca pever before known hadcatied forth ferling which made manking akin, [t had broken down all partterd of pride, had prostrated all Loundaries of section, and hail made the peaple of the North and the puoplo of the South feed inat they were in- tieed hono of one-bune, and of the sane hlood and lineage. In that terrible afliction, when tne hand of the fell destroyer wason tha peopls of the San the North and\Weat had gone 1o their rescue wit! Inrge-hearted benevolence which would never be foryosten by the aflicted people whose gratitade conttd not Nnd wurds to exuress itselfl, Mr, Cox (N, Y.). while favorine the resolution, hoped the Comini wouhl it 1o way tnlerfere with Jocal quarantin ‘Tho respintion was adopted, and the Ilonse ad- Journcd 1ill Monday, SPORTING. BAST-BALIL. . Syeetal Dispateh to Tae Tridure, Creveiasn, 0., Dec, 5,~The Leazuo Con- vention completed its labors to-day, and the result of its dellberations wives promise of & successful season next year. ‘The vlaving-rules were taken up for amendment where they had been left off the day before. The following Is o auwnmary of tho most Important changes: Empowering the umpire to siminister a fine of not leas than 810 nor more than 850 when the pitcher, In tho delivery of o ball, Intentionally hits the batter; vroviding that, if the contend- e clubs cannot mutually azree upon an um- pire, then the Captains shall toss for the tlght to choose; giving the umpire the power ta finc disohedicnt plavers from $3 to §50 fn each instauce, instead of 810 to 820, ns here- tofure; to remove from position and place unacr the same disabilities auy umpire who shall be convicted of sclling, or offeriug ta sell, & gamo of which he {s the umpire. This comnpleted the 1ist of amendments, and next eaine the election of the followlug Lengue umplres for 1870: Sum- ner, Cross, and_Hodges, of Boston; Morgan, Fountain, and Faber, of Cleveland: Young, @Geer, sud Dunn, of Byracuse; Wheeler, of Cin- cinnatl; Btanibaugh and Bredburg, of Chieazo; Urouton and Gillean, of London} McLean, of Philadelphia; Dauicls, of Harttord Walsh, of Louisville; Furlong, of Milwaukee; Wilbur, of Hochester; Seward, of St. Louts; Will- fams, of Colunwbus, The following ofllcers wera elected fur the ensulng year: President, \. A. Hulbert, ot Chicago; Directors, J. M. W, Noft, of Cincinnatl, J. ¥, Evaus, of_ Cleveland, Heury T, Roob, of Providence, Howard . White, ot S8yracuse. [t was dectded to hold the special necting nexe spring, to adopt a sched- ule, at the Title House, Buffulo, avd thae next sntual meeting ot the Grand Hotel n Clucin- natl, After passing resolutions of respeet to the Iste Luwls Mcacham, of Chivago, the League adjournca. To the Wastern Associated Press. CreveLaxp, 0., Dec, 5.—The Nattonal League of Protesstonal Dase-latt Players, which has been in scssion the Inst two davs, adjourned this afternoon to meet at Cluclunat! next year, Beveral amendments were adopted to the play- Ing rules, the most important of which waa tha dispensing with foul-bound catclies. Reralutions of respece to tho memory of tho late Lewls Muacham, of Tux Cincaco TRinoxe, wera passed, The publication of the League book was agaln placed in the hands of Sccretary Youne, Mr. W, A, flulbert was unanimously re-elect- cd President, and was tendered a voto of thanks for the able and impartial manner with which he Ixu oresided over the deliberations of tha Lediouertho past 8e880m, v 0 de 0t ot Messrs, Neft, White, Roob, and Evans were elected, with the Iresident, to constitute a Bosrd of Dircctors. A lengthy and exciting discnsalon took place in relation to the adoption of & uniform ball to be uscd by the League clubs, which resulted in the adoption of the Spalding League Ball, Special Dipatch (o The Tribuna CLRVELAND, O, Dec, B,—AL the meeting of tho Natlonal Basc-Ball leazue to-day, the Sopolding League ball, mauufactured by A. G. Bpaldwe & Bro., of Chicage, was adopted for all mme:*ln_wd by Leagucclubs for tho season of 1570, This celebrated ball has been in con- stant use by tho leading clubs of tho country for tha pasi three years, and alwuys given perfect satlalaction. The League could not ave made a better cholcee, TIIE TURF. Hpecial Dispaich to The Tribune. Nzw Yonx, Doc. 5.~The Board of Review of the Natioual Trotting Associntion held’ fts closiug scssions to-day, In the cusc of the Utlea meeting the Board agreed upon tha follow- ing statement: *'We find much to cause great concern that siuch a grievous fraud should have been successfully perpetrated on one of the leadini tracks in the vountry, Thst the race was & fraud {a evident from the vroofs alrcady submitted, as {s also probuble the guilt of sowo of tho suspected persons; but, In or- der that ell parties fo guilt may, it posslble, be renchied, the case {s contlnued until our uext meotlng, and, meanwhile, tbo Beeretary {8 fnstructed to uso any detective farce proper and necessary to bring out ail the Incts,” The actlos of the Beach Grove Driving Park, at Madison, Ind., in expelling Jerome Rowley, of Motut Veroon, Olio, and the bay gelding George 11, Mitcholl, alias Hay Fran, wus coufirmied, and application from Rowiey for reinstatement was rojected. The applicas tion ot ohn . Hatchelder, of Chicago, for relief from orders of expulsion was granted, At a Iste bour the Bourd ad- Journed its open scesions, after appoiuting & committes of six members to prepure cascs to ba submitted at the next meeting, which will be held at Chicago the second Mondsy in May next. DOG BUOW, NasuviLLy, Tenn,, Doc, 5,~In the champlon stako of the Teuncssco Sportsmen’s Associatiouy tinlshed to-day, Campbell’s “ Jo," of Tennessee, ond Adams®' * Drake,” of Boston, divided the first. honors; Brysou's * Whip," of Memphls, hivd, ! l‘r}'mt Dupont brace-stake, Adams’® * Drake ** and ** Dasb, Third,” of Boston, won the first money; Jo Druw's *Liucoln® and rysou's “iladstoue,! of Tenncssce, the ucoudi and Bmith, of Cauada, third, with “lans” aud W lipen ! PEDESTRIANISM, PmLADELFAIA, Dec, 8.—At 10 p. m, O'Leary had completed 208 wiles. ——————— THE CARBON PRESCRIPTION, ' To the Editor of Ths Tribuns. Broouiveron, Iit., Dec, 4.—While testimo- nlals are appearlog o your columus proving the merits of Dr, U'Unger's clochona remedy for Intemperanco (which, God graut, may uever fall in its guod work, but grow in favor and extent until all that will may be curcd of this 1carful discasn), 1 wish too add sincere thanks for tho varbon prescription for incipiens consumption and severs coughs, which lic yave throuzh ‘Iun 'TRIBUNE {0 May last. In several instances of tely refused Lo yield to other treatments of varied kiods, this alone vaused a cumpleto cure, sud 1 hove it will become more extensivelv known and tried than WETE UOWSPIPLT F ary apt o be, H, HEART-DISEASE, Spectal Dispaleh to Tas Triduns, Dxn EaLy, 11, Dee. B.—Mrs, Beisy Howard, oged 63, and for the last thirty-mx yearsn resldent of this place, fell dead of neart-diseass at the (lidden Housa this afterncon. She was r of the Hon. J, F. Glidden, s member o! fauily, sud was biguly respected, and has been for many years & wenber of the Uniyersals Ivs Church, - ———— SUICIDE, JegserviiLs, Ill, Dec. 6.—Barbars Degrass commiited sujerds by bouging hierself Jast ulght I & bazo lu the nortbera vart of this city. The Curoner has been notiled. The deceased was arrested and coutined fu our County Jail vn tbe 10th of Bevtember for child murder, but was re- Jeused va agevunl of tusanity. .town, NORMANDY. Wandering Notes on the Beauti- ful 8sino---A Rival of : the Rhine, From Ionfleur to Rouen by Boat---Pleiurcsque Views cn Route. Ia the City of the Painted Gables and the Pointed Gothio—Rouennais Ohurches and Oelobrities. Bpeetal Corresvandence of The Tridune. Ox BoArD iR Criasiols, Normandy, Beptem- ber, 1873.—The autumn-sun is sctiing bebind the Joug line of weatern hills. On board the trim little Chamols, & few passenzers (English chiefly), who have kept us company from Hon- flevr, are sitting about luzily on folding-stools and colis of rope, enjoying the harmony of earth, and alr, and river, The young married couvle are dresmlly watching the lights and shadows play upon the preen trees. They look #0 well ocenpfed that it would be a pity to dis- turb thom. Another pair—£ fancy aleo in the interesting honeymoon state—have retired into the depths of a bugze Doedoker or Murras, Tha only person on the boat who ecems to have, or to whh to have, anythlog to do, Is your humble rcrvant, who rouscs himself from a reverie with an effort, and draws a bottle of fuk from his pocket,~looking as if he lad been suddenly gefzed with a more than usually violent fit of the oft-quoted cacocthes scribendl. Well, 1 any ane cver had an excuse for pultiug pen to paper, it s tho writer. 1{ov bas been DRINKING IN BRAUTY for tha Inst six hours, cver since the Lold coast of Havre Iaded out of sight, till now, when the lovely City of Rouen, with ita countleds chureh- esand ite falr sctting of lofty Lill, is just be- coming visible. I have never seen the Rhine. The confesaton may appear humiliating; perhaps it {s; but ‘whatever ba the attractlons of Drachentels and Ehrenbreitstein, Heldelberg or Bingen, I ques- tion whether they sre greater than thoso I have discovered to-<lay hore, on the too often-neglect- ed Beine,—a river which {with the confidencs of one-slded knowledge) I boldly venture to pro- nounce equal, and for that matter superior, to 1ts boastful rival over the fronticr. How many miles, atter all, docs the much-cxaited Rhuine scenery cxtend ! Tho whole valley of the Scine now, from tha mouth—where it joins the filimitadle occan at MHontleur—to Rouen; from Rouen nagaln to Porls; from thero to the skirts of the Forest of Fontainebleau (at BuuAle-llu?,— ns farns I have traced it,—nll, or nearly all, Is lovely, If the Amerlean travelers by the French Transatiantic packete, who rush ‘un by traln rom Havre to Paris, knew what a wealth of in- tereat they miss by thelr haste, more of them, I am convinced. would think 1t worth their whilo 10 break their journey for & little, and follow wy exam le. R From Honfleur to Roucn by the river Is o dls- tance of about sixty or seventy miles,—a triflo ogpr maybe. { st NPLEUR HO! {tsolf faa delightful spot,—odd, old, pleturesquo, qulot,—the very pluco for a weary traveler or city-sick tourist to rest in for a weck orso. It stands at the very engle st which river aud ocean meet. On the right roll the norrow wuters of the Beine. Un tha left stretches the Chauncl. —The hotels are comfortable, though pot of the cheapest. There is a Casino, which nobody visits: an insaue church, that looks ltke a skoting-rin n fnsaner theatre, that looks like a church; another church,—1'Eglise 8t. Leou- ard, which 1 venture to pronounce unique,— cxquisite sixtcenth-century Gothic at the base, crowned by a hideous eighteenth-contury tower; and any number of "those tortuous, gnbleti old streets which refoice tho hearts of palnters and arouse the scorn of ~our practical men, Aru these not enoughi There is also o greater attraction for lovers of land-and-sca- scape. If you mount the woody clifls that over- hang the sea and beach, fect above the you wiil come to u bhigh woouen crosg, with the usual gitded efficy of the dying Savior: and from this puint of vantage you wet so wido and glorious a prospect that cold would be the nan who, seeing the works of the Lord aroand, ‘would pass that solemn memento of Divine ago- ny without o thankiul swellinz in bis heart, ’l{munh he werea Baptist, he might do worse tlinn doff Lis bat and cross himsell, Did not Noaman bow down unrebuked in the house of Rimmon? Nanman's motives were fess ungues- tlonable than those which would proicpt him to o transient ** idolatry,”—if {dolatry it be. (Cau any manitestation ot puro_gratitude for Divine guoducss be Llolatrous, O gudly mant) The viow embruces flfty mliles of carth and ses. s BAVIE, with its O great docks, bristling with masts, is opposite, ten wiles removed, Thanks to the old gentleman who keops tho telescope you can sco every detail of the port. In tho “oasin of the Transatiantic Company are plainly dis- tiogulshable, the huge, dusky hulls and red tunnels of the American packets, Ships, great and small, French and foreign, pass and repass. You see before you sll the bustlo and lifeof & rich ond rising town. Aud thew, turning ab- ruptly to snuthicr side, you behold ionfleur, Insignificant aod sleopy, if you will, bo- side 1ts big brother = Havre, but much moro intercsting t2 oll scusible people,—by whom, of course, 1 mean preciscly those whoars accounted least sensible by their nelghbors,~ and the long, windine Selne, Lordered with atecp banks, greenand whito; and many a pretty Norman village, of sober hues, burled in thick, tufted orcharGs (heavy with fruit invisible); an beyond a dlm cxpanse of ficld and wood, and then more wood and ticlds agein, to tho very lfno of the horizon. The troubled sca below and the vauited Leaveuabave, all apotted ond striped with innumerable forms of fteecy cloud, bring you into the prescuce of the Iuflnfie, ‘fhesc French pensauts choose tho places for thew crucifixes well. ‘The Rouen boat left Honflenr to-day at about half-past 12, 1t 18 close upon 7 now that we are spprosching the end of our journey; and, for all these 81X JIOURS OF UNALLOYED DELIGUT, ~seventy miles of loveliness,~—1 have only haa to pay the comparatively nbsurd sum of 6 fravcs and 60 centtmes, Who Would not be happy 4t that pricy, $f ha couldi Tho Seluo ls very brosd s few mlles sfter you leave IHonfleur, sud for o moment appears slightly dis- appolating, But patlenve! You ars soon at Taocarville, where, the river suddenly benda to the left, aud, ceaslng to bo a channel, all at once cbauges toa narrow stream, ‘The picturesque ciitfa of Tancarvalle, aud the frag- nent of the old Conteau of Tancarville, side by sijo with the uew clateat, lash uvou tho charm ed ¢yo as you round the polnt, From thers on- wards there s s hardly broken auccussion of splenald scenery. Hlalf-way to Rouen you coma to Villequier,—a delightful village, bulls ou the wntcml&u at the foul of noble, woody hills ris- ug full 800 feet above. Villequicr 'was years ago tho scene of m sad acvident which scot the familles of two Rreat writers~Victor Hugo aod Auguste Vacqueris— futo wournivg, (I do notbr ridiculous 1n coupling A:ho 1wo nawes, though oue s so little kuown. Auguste Vmiuerlc. evite of some faults of style an terrible tendency (o paradox, Is someibin, gevius, as Bwinburne sa)ys. of o Read hu‘“rroflu et Urimaces.”) MHore Yac- uerie, who had lately marricd Mile. Hugo, auubter of Lhe poct, 10st at u blow his youuy wife and child. TUKY WERE DROWNED, as well as an old sallor sud o yuunug man, one night a8 Vacquerio was returning with thewm fron a visit to sowe fricnds, Caudebec-¢n-Caux—another beautlful village, roncued ol & remarkuble Gothic church, highe ly ornamented snd estremiely curious i many {8 uulte close, The sevnery thered- ot uulike that at Villequier,—a tritle sotter, lvaa grand sud wild. Ou azain, and rescutly, after msuy a serpeutine iwistivg of ts sbining body, tbe Beine bears you oo to the tuwnlet of Jumieges, whiers staud the remaios of a wigbty abbey, boary with oge, but too vroud of its glnrlout past 1o lower its tures stupeudous towers,—very lwoges of Komish power aod Romish powp. o was founded tu the Seyenth Century, and, scvording 0 the locul curoulcles, wus su linportast strovg- hold af the Cutholic Church vearly a thousaud yearsagy. Lo Mauleraye, Ls Boutlle,—the lat- ter espectally,—proseul cxqubsite Lits of scenery; such datnty, hapoy, siullug pictures, brigbt-green hills, wavipg vioods, sult-hued villiges, chalky cutl, gray churchios cruwblivg peacelully away! Aund just & nilpute sgo, as the sun began to sink, tbo character of the river chauged. Ver- daot lslands stud the waterall the way to Rouen. Tue chitls grow bolder and higher; the shaduws have becowws decper, wmore myslerious, Too glory of the day Ls departivr. And fiere, at luse, is the end! KOUEN: the oty of gabled rovls aud Gothie cathuedralss the deathplace of Joan the immartal; the birt! vince of Corncllle,~tmmortaiized hs sotne,— s of Doleldien the composer,—immortal in no way {o any hat his enthusiastle frllow-citl- rens. [ can wee the great steeple of the Cathe- dral, #0 hideous 2 blot on the nonie pile,—200 feet of {ron ugliness, like a fool’s cap, atop of 200 feet of the grandest (othic ever desien 3 the geulus and patience of the old monks, And Bt, Quen, that incomparabie abbey, 50O fret in Tength, far more perfect altogether than the Cathedral.—tho most perfect Gothic temple in the world, perhaps, handly excepting Milan, and putting the unfinished Dom of Cologne out of the qiestion for the nonce, Be- sond behold the slopes of Bt. Catherine, whence you get a view of unuticrable heauty (L cannot look for & synonym here, nud the word—I have used 1t too often—de-crbes the thinzfith )3 aid farofl the Cha, elof Notre Damg vie Tion Seconrs, anid the pretty comctery (both on tae hill), are visble to my eye by falth and (n memury, thoueh the increasing dr=ikneas hides nd finally thie rhipping, the eusoension the ancient houses, the anays, the lonuging crowds of flicondittoned porters and officials, 'We have arrived, HAmnY MarT2RR. AMUSEMENTS. THE APOLLO CLUB CONCPRT. ‘The Apollo Club zava its first euncert of the season Jast evening st McCormick Ilall to an Immense nudience that moure than tested its seating capacity, and with an extremely inter- cating programme, The Soclety apucared as a mixed chorus of nearly 150 volces, combining in It ranks much of the best talent of tho eity, re. Inforved by orchestra and sopporting four pro- fessional artists for the solo work. In these respects the ensemble was complete, and the Cinb placed iteelf upon n proper basis as n choral organleation, The programme was wortny of tlie oceaslon. It embraced but two oumbers, but they were dlgn!fiecd and repre- sentative works, the * Acis and Galatea® of Handet and the Firet Part of Mendelssohn's “8t. Panl," which Is conplete in iteell, so far as cllmax Is concerned, without the Second Part. ‘The two numbers, the one representing tho pastoral besuty snd meludiousness and sbarply-defined forms of the old time, and the other the fuller bsrmony, greater dramatic color, and more ample instrumenta- tion of the modern period, are [n admirable con- trast, Irrespective of the merit of the per formance, it could not help beinz interesting from uvery point of view, Tho novelty ol the programme was the ser- cnata, or pestoral opera, * Acls and Galates,'” which bas uever Leen given ers before, aud but ouce before fn this country, we belleve,—by the Cecllia Boclety of Boston.” For this reasoui, tho history of it nay be mors interesting than ony critidam upon ‘It performance. In 1708 Man- del wrote In Naples an Italian serensta, * Acl, Galatea e Polifeme,” upon the same theme as the English *Acts and Gnlates.” It wos with- out choruaes, overture, or divi was in reality a cantata for three solo vulces, The existence of this cantata is of Intercst n the presént conncction, because hie borrowed from It to ada te the Eoylish Acls.” ‘The latter ~was composed fo 170 for the Duke of Chaodos, st Cane nons, in whose scrvice, 88 Chapel Master, landel wrote the Cbandos anthems and the Water muale, It was first F“‘“““’y verformed at Canuons In 1521, but it was not Riven in a theatrical way until 1732, Lrought out st the Haymarket. iandel’s ow, advertisoment of June 10 in that year ss **On June 10 will be performed the * Acls and Galatea * of Mr, Ilandel, n serensta, revised with severnl additlons, at the Opera-flouse, by 8 great nutnber of the ‘best volces and Instru- ments, There will Le no actlon on the stage, bue the sceue will represent in a picturesque manncr a rural prospect with rocks, groves, fountains, and grottos, amang which will be dlsocrsed a chorus of nymphs and shepherds; the habits and every other decoration suited to tho subject.” At this time it was also beinz performed at a rival establishment, bat to draw patranage to his owu theatee Handel insertod tho new characters of Zumon and Corydon, ndded three choruses, besides some of the airs from the Ieallun sercoata, and in 1789 still further enriched it with the beautiful chorus, *Ilappy, Happy Me,” that now closes the first part. Tho work was given for several years with grest success, and was finally rele- ¢ated to Englishopera, and as such was brought out by Macready at Drury Lane {n 1842, aod ten years ago by Hutton at the Prinecas’ Tneatre. Tho instrumentation of the work, as given last evening, follows te origigal scoring, which does not call for full urchedtra, but only the strings, oboes, and flutes, In all Handel's works the accompanimeuts are.subordinate, and he quvo so little attention to wind Instruments that there wera not wanting in his dav many rivals aud critics who ruade the absurd charge that bo waa not acouainted with thelr value or capabllitl The organ was largely used by *him in his orchestens, to support the voive and add fullnces and richness to the instramenta- tion. In 1788 Mozart filled up the harmony for “Aclsand Galates,” ho did for the * Messiah,” ** Alexander’ 3 (which, by the wne", Is to be given this week by the New York Oratorio Soclety), and the “Ode for 8t. Cectlla’s Day," and, later, Mendelssohn did the same grateful work for the * Acis.” Tt was owing to the fact, we belleve, that the Club was unable to secure the full score from London In time that the old scorc was used. Consideriug the cuastoniary vociferous industry of our brmbll perhapa this s not to bo regretted, while, from anotber point of vlew, the perform- ouce was interesting as contrasted with the full harmony of the **St. Paul " score, that fol- lowed It. The work waa given entire, with the cxception of the Zamon music'and two or threo choruses, the excision of which does not mar the continuity of the musical text. The cast cmbaced Miss Fanny Kellueg as Galatea, Mr. Barves an Acls, and Mr. Whitney as Po yphemus, ‘The Apollo Club tmes = post Los introduced to the Chicage public several fine srilsts, nmon{) them Miss Drasdll, Muss Thursby, and Mre, Osgood. and It is now to be credited with giving us anothier excellent siner, Miss Kellogz, Her singiug fs not so much characterized by breadth or robustness as it fs by a rcfined taste, cxquisith fintsh, intelligence in dellvery abd p\uume. aud {utcnsity o ex- vression, ~ Both her orincipal solus fu tho “Acis” were delightlully sung, aua were re- celved with enthustastic appluuse. Mr, Barues, aithough weak and soinewhat uncertain 1o the duet with Miss Kellovy, sane bis solos admie rabiy, with broader sud wore sple voice toap usual, and {n excellent taste. With the excens tion ~of recitative, Mr. Whitney, the “roaring giant " Polyphemus, has but oue Bulo, the pigantle love. song, 0 Rudaler thon the Cherry,” which Le bas sung hiere often, und which ho always sious with rich gusto and unction. 1iks floe deuvery of it was grected with an frresistiblo eucore, The churuses were oxcellently sung, und the delighe- ful work mosde a yery strone tmpress| T trausition 1roin the ielodious * Acls” to “Bt, Puul with {ts swple orchestration, its stately chorals, its dramatic power, and its ex- alted ‘religlous sensiment, wus s pleasant oue. 1u this work, Mls Kellozw sang with the intel- sigence aud Jeeliug of & truc artist, Her prinel- pal arta, “Jerusalem,” wos ox?ulmuly wng, not only so far s tho wusleal requirements are concerned, but 1n the expression of religious feeling. It 1s to bo reiretted that a more fo ble alto _could nut bave been secured, for, though Miss Clark has & very agreeable v ber “ldeas of oratorlo mule wra Very scanty, it her singing of the aria “Huot the Lord Is Mindful" (s any test of herabllities, Mir. Fessenden did hls recitative work excel- lently, and o the death of Stephen delivered tue mutle with great pathos and beauty, Mr., Whitucy was in good volce, but has gons better singlog than he gave us tu “8t. Paul.” With regand Lo 100 olhier sololsty, the Fa.ae Witncsss, they were as usual very false, ‘L chiorue is a graud one,—full, strong, vich, andsteady, aod adinirably bulaneed,—uud iu buth works stowed solendid” trulolug, Tas closing massive churua tu the * 5t Faul® was fo ull respects the best pleca of churus-siugiug thut lascen heard in Chicago for & long thue, and the balugers deserved the ovation ums e ceived. Apollo Clubd Las started off with & success that warruuts 1ts ciembers i lookiug furward to its future work witt pleus- urable suticipation, and sceures for it 8 reogwed lease of i 4 po swall part of this credit belupgs to fts hard-workiog couductor, Mr. ‘Towlins, THE WHITNEY+ST, CECILIA-COU- TI1QUI COMBINATION, ‘The entertainwent projected for tho especial enjoyment of the West-Siders, to be given to- worrow night fu the Union Purk Cburch, prom.-, fs¢3 L0 be the most decided wuusical success of the scason o that divislon of tuecity. Niuc very superior ariists are announced to sppear, and the programme contalis every element of m:ulnmy. The cotirs Whitney company sud 8t. Cecllia Lading' Vocal Quartette, togethe er with the popular reader, Jessle Coutioud, ap- ear fu tho evenlug’s cotertainment; and, with suLd attractlons, it fs Lot strauge tuag Lbe sale of seats, which began yesterday, Indicates that the full capacity of the church will be required tu accommodate those desiring to attend. THE CHARITY CONCERT. The grand charlty coucert to bo given thls evenlug by the Jochanoab Lodge at the Sinal ‘Fewvle calls vut & Wwost ubUaULL drray of tolent, and offers one of the best dnd most legitimate concert programmes that have been presented for a long time. Adding to this attraction the excellent charity which the concert fs Intended to benefit, namely, the providing of clothing for poor children, It onght to eall: ont a larze sudience. The programme will be aa follow: 1. Drgln—"f;n;xld Solemn March ™........ 2. Cavatine from HMrs. Clara Jinct, 3. Arls from ** Meese Solenal] JMra. Watr 4 Plano—{J: 5 Plense Hize Eta Manlerr 5. Arls from ** Judas Maceabwns . Tran Morauait, 6, Violin—Psntasle, **Salsvia Alrs ™, Vieastemps ir. Ad Rosenbacker, j 7o Arla—'"Colll Natlva ..... oo se sercArditi Jirx, Jennie May Jewett, 8. Plano—Coneerto in E minor, ».Chopin Atre. lartraft, Baillad........ Belected 10, Bong—**What Are Ther to Dot re. Jennie May Jeuet 11, Violn—Caratinge.. oo, oo soee AMr, Rosendecker, 12, Bong—*'Tothe Rosa",..,, Sra, Clara Huck, 13, Bong—*‘Belaved Meart ™. .. Alr. Iran Movawski, ot Ateboit-aded el HONEY. dpectal Dispateh fo The Tyibune. GrAND Rartps, Mich., Dec. 5.—The Michi- fan Bee-Kecpers'. Associatioheld fts annual Cunventlon here to-day. About a burndred del- egates were in attendance, and the Couventlon was the most interesting and profitable the As- soclation ever ield. The papers and discusslons were all of great usefulaess toaplariats, acd wero exceedingly practical. . The Boclety elected the lollowing offlcers for the engulng year: Pres dent, the Hon. A. B. Cheney, of Sparta Cent; Vice-Prestdents, Geo, F. Steel of Elk Rapid W. 8. Southard of Kalamazoo, and James Hed- den of Downgiac; Becretary, T, F. Bingham, of Abronfa; Treasurer, O. F. Hetherington, of Kast Baginaw. The next meeting will ho held Jackson the second Wedoes- day of Uecembor .next. The Soclsty represents one of the tnost. successful and Important of the growing intercsts of the State, d publlc attention Is being drawn to_ft more d more every year, as Michigan hoaey fis hera regarded as the finest In the country, The Brate Boclety I dofng much to improve the quolity of the bees kept, the quality of food given them. the method of keeping them, and of putting thefr product on the market. E ——— NAIL COMMUNISM. Bpectal Dizpatch (o The Tridune, Prrrapuro, Pa,, Dec. 5.—The proceedines of the Western Nall Association yesterday and last night were recret, but it hasleaked out to<lay that, in addition to establishing a $2.15 card- rate, with a rebate of 10 cents in favor of Chi- cago and Bt. Louls, the Association discussed Gen, Powell's schcme for poolng the products of the mills. A commities was aopointed to vestiqute and report uoon it, or any other feasi- ole scheme, at a meeting on the 18th, His plan contemplates a8 pool arrangement somewhat ¢imilar to that of the Ohio Balt Com- pany. The detalls of t have not yet been worked out, but they will inelude agencies at such principal points as Cincinnat!, Chicago, 8t. Louis, Cleveland, Baltimore, New York, and New Orleans, tbrough which a1l patts wiil De #old on & cash basis, The mills will be classl- fied and assigned to their most natural flelds of operation, All travellng will be superseded, and that expense cut of. The pool will be so arranged that eath will reap whatever advan- tare ft possesscs for making nails, and yet all will be sold without preference. ———— ADMITTED TO THE BAR. Zpecial Diwated 1o The Tridune. 8rriNarizLp, Ill, Dec. 5.~The Examining Committee which conducted the examioation of applicants for admission to the Bar in the Ap- pellate Court will report to the Court next Tues- day, recommending the sdmission of fifteen candidates out of tho seventesn examined, whose examination and standing aru as follows: W. I1. Booth, Sprinfield, 89; Louls H, Cralg, Hitlsboro, 84; J. G. Dennan, Taylorville, 075 William Edwards, Pekin, 70; 8. V. Ghrist, For County, 95: Jay.G. Hastings, Galesbure, 80; Witliam T, Hinston, Christian County, 79; Al- fred L. [lnuhrul Mattoon, 62; D. C [ 2. Kennedy, Dceatur, B7: M. R. L. Myer, Centraila, 80; W. E. Purcell, Bpriogfield, 3 W. D. Staplin, Free- furt. 83: John Stapleton, Bloomingtop, 8Y; larry M. Waggoner, Lewlstown, 95; Thowas W.'Wampler, Mattoon, 82, THE WOMEN. Hvecial Dirpateh {0 The Tribune, New Youx, Dec. 5.—The women are still after Judge Hilton. At alarge meeting of the New York Woman's Buffraze Boclety to-night, Edwanl 4, Becring, of the Investigating Com- mittea appointed In Juune last, at the Cooper 1n- stitute, to protest against the closing of the Btewart flotel for Workingwomen, pre- sented & voluminous repart oo the closing of tho hotel, discussing the question of legal tneans of redress azainst Judge Hilton. Action was deferred until a public meeting, to be held during the present munth. The report argues that there are means of redress open to the women, Later, Mra. Cyntlia Leonard, of Chi- :‘fia‘, read 80 essay on *“The Woman Ques- on s soo Bateford ———— LAKE NAVIGATION, &pecial Dispoteh 10 The Tridune. Miwavies. Dec, 5.—The stoam barge Darnunm arrived from Bufialo during Isat night. To-day she, an well aa the stesm-barges Kershaw and lantine, wore charierod for wheat to Erle on througzh ratee. All thiree witl be loaded and met away to-morrow. ‘Theso are the latest through delivery chartors by lake and rall erer recorded, and this {a alao the longest sesson of navigstion ever known in the Wistory of avigstion, [t tveald the Dallantine's consort, the schr Moore, would have been lgeded alaw, hut Lhe underwriters agents refusod (0 tako riak e e p—— FINANCIAL. Provipexce, R. 1., Dec. 5. —8ackett, Davis & Co., one of the oldest aud hcavicst wauulactur- fug jewelry houses In this city, have made & trust conyeyauce of the firm and Individual members for the benetit of thelr creditors, Lia- bilitics about $220,000. The firm estimates their property ot threo tines that amount Lo this ¢itv, Chicago, Newsek, N. Jo, Jersey Clty, aud other places, Unayatlable real estato (s sald tobe the calef cause of the emburrassment, —— LIBEL SUIT. &pectat Mapaleh io The Tribune. K JANESVILLE, Wis,, Dec. 5.—The libel sult of Btate-Baperintendent Whitford v, Ezm Good: rich was concluded last vight, Arguments will be made to-morrow. The case bas been s pro- longed and vury expensive obe, occupying some twenty days, and pearly uinecy wituesses were cxaminod. ———— RADES-UNIONS. Puruapxrraia, Dec. 5.—One hundred and elght delezates, claimlag to represent Trades Unlous [n all parts of the couutry, met to- nighe to form & nationsl polivical organization. ‘They decided w call a Nutiunal Conventlon to meet ubout tho middle of uext wouth citber in 5t. Louls or Cblcayo. - ——— FRATERNIZING. QaLveaToN, Dec. 5.—The News® Eaglo Pass special says: **Gen. Trevino, the Mexican come mander, yisited Fort Duucan thbis sfternoon. Ilo wes recelved st the river by a company of cavalry and escorted Lo tho Post with musleund salvos of srtlllery, A vail s giveu to-night in houor ot Uew. Frevine' : ———— . HYMENEAL, Spacial Dispatch to The Tridune. % BLoowINGTON, TIL., Dec, 8.—Afr. Wesley En- glish, & well-known youug farmer, and Miss Clara. Lealld, of this c1ty, were married this ovening.. e — BORN BEFORE NAPOLEON! - Bax Frasciico, Dec. 8.~Dicd to-day, E, D. White, 111 ’A.%—l! old. et — An Kaglishmas ou America. Euglish writers on Awerica bave not alwass becu wunt to express themselyes with as miuch frecdow 88 the author of & receat bouk cnutled “Notes of, aTour iu Aweniea” He fraokly says be thi; the Hudsou [Uver far fiuer than tho Jucst purtaof the Nbiue. The curriugues built tu this couulry he terus mostorpleces, and in prulsing the New York ferey-buatu hesugizests tuat It would by well, before mors bridees ure buiit acruss the Thawmes. o sce whetber simflar buats would not snswer the purpose. Walle be apcuks tu the strougest tenus of the bope pitality of Awericaus, of their great polite- Uesa, aud of wuny other goud socl Gusattea, Lo dues Lot KL the Awmenneeu hotels. The cost Is great, and the cooking bad. He alwasy lived at the heat hotels, and can only recall teo where the cooking was reslly good. He went to Waahington while Congress was in sesslon. The Speaker ot the House, he thinks, lacks dignity, springs up with rapid sction, and bangs his hammer down with alarming vigor. * But the practices,” he adds, * which appeared o me moust subvyersive of quiet deliberation are the reading, writing, and_standing of members fn the gangways and on the floor of the House, and more especially the ranping about ol errand-boss, who lounge near the Bpesker's chatr, and, when sammoned by a member clap- ng bis bands, rush to him ac top speed, This mont unsecmly interruption is constantly going on,' . et— THE WHEAT DEAL. Rafos Match Tolisves It Ta » Dig Thing. A slaggish feeling generally pervaded the wheat market vesterday, and prices for present and Jan- nary delivery ranged & trifle Jower than' on the day previoms, The fine Weather and the conae- quent large recefpts bave had & very depreswing i fluence on 1be Keene combioation, and tuey have been compelled 10 change their tacties. Yesterday they were fren srllers for Jannary delivery at the declinine fignres, with the hope of indacing the bears to pat ont &' tine of shorts, but In this they were mistaken, The boys wonid bite no further than was necessary for thelr own preservation. and the atte npt to indace them (o follow suit was & melancholy faltare. The fact in, the bonanziste have been beaten by the weather and the rezeiuts. ‘Thoy expectos to flnd 1he roads mmow-botnd and a dearth of arrivais, The boya nre happy, snd prapoen to watch the game from the other side of the fanee, There arrived at the Palmer lomee yesterdsy & ant-mannered zentleman from New autograph on the recister showed him 4 man of genlus,—nothl; fact, " of 8 a1 rince ' of the yal, or & king In Wall Sfrcet. The genial and withal Jovial stranger was no leas » per- .ronsge than Rufun Hatch, the New Yorc hroker, abont whose lack thev tell all sorta of extravagunt stoties. They say, for Instance. that Rtufun—they call ‘him **ftuf™ for shurt—wan In that pecalinr condition Inst soring whieh men denominate +*desd pruke.™ 1ia clear, long head saw s good thing in B 'zul stock, and, with Jim Keene to stand Sna spansor (o the schame, he or- ganired cheme which brought fa no less than 750,000, of which amount, Ao the slory gocs, cens gencrourly turned him over 10 per cent. Tniaret him on bis Auancial pins agsin, and when TYerry . Smith made bls lacky ririke Iast snmmer in Northwestern, ftufox (6 fala ta have ndded no Incopiderable anm to his plle. Hls arrival in this city wae suppored to have some connectlon, neat of remote, with the Keene wheat deal, As the natory went, Keene furnlshed the money whilo Rufus supplied what ia often still petler—the brain: Jul street talk went a little farther. whispora 10 the effect that the iieene combinni an above stated. had been compelicd tochange thelr tactics, to altempt to unload, as it were, nnd that Rufus, wiser in bis day and ration than the child of money,— hKeene,—~had sud out his lntarest in the deal, and wan chuckling at his fortunate withdrawal from what portonded dise forses, A representative of this paper paid his respects to Mr, Hatch last evening, found Lim in his mont genial mood, and sat down to hava a galet chat with him. With a definess which must have been born of long experience with the interviewer, Mr, Ilatch warded oft the reporter's attacks, talking a1l sround, ovel. under, throuyh, and st the sub- {ecl. matter, and never bot once coming down to 't {n anything like a satiafactory manner, Just why he bad come to Chicago be would not tell, but his’ coming had nathing to do with Mr. Keene. 1Iad he heard of Keene's wheat-deal?! No, except from the papers. Did he fmngine there was any corner hidden away 1n tho thing? Oh, no; not at oll. Did be know anything abuut Keene's busi- nesst No, agaln—excent from the pupers. What did be know? Well, that wheat waslow now,— say down, tn fact,—2G or 50 cents a bushel lower thas it had been for the last ten years, ‘more than thi and the Contf He knew or rather he argied it. England ent of Eorope were going 1o necd fally 100,000,000 Lushels of wheat more this sea- son than thev did last. The price wonld gonp, Whest ‘would be & good thing—wasa thing now for a Tan 10 Inveat his muney 1o and store it 1] spring. Dot as to this 1alk "of & corner—why, it was the merest bosh, mothing but froth, sir, gas, elc., efe, And 8 to the story thet he—Rufus—was in it, and had sold ont~ why that was so infinitely llll‘. that anybody who took stock in it onght to go back to wiiere people hoed corn, That wheat wounld go up, however, he was certain—so certaln, {n fact, hat be waa willing to bet four conta to ope, Dug, safor his belng interestad tn Keene, and al thy why he hasn’t coma here on any such buain whatever, and what ho had come here to do was— well, not fc enbnunm. . This was the nearest to anything bearing the faintest resemblance to ioformation that the rov porrer coold get, and even this was obtalned in oiminutive chunks. sandwiched between certain attempts on the partof Mr. Hatch to turn (he tables d Interview tne reportar, The latter, however, haa the sublime satiufaction that comes trom a te- lef that his contributions ta Mr. Hatch's fund of knowledge were aliout un & par with Mr, Jiatch's responses to his vibitors interrogatory efforts. Among toe flosting rmmors yesterday thero was one Lo the effecs thatJ. V., Plsher, Keene's head broker, bad bought 850,000 wurth of tue cereal in 1ho interest of the deal. Anather was to the effect st tbe Humeeys were sclling, or trying to sell, i the sfort to unioad gradually, —— THE DOG AS A GUARDIAN, To the Editer af The Tvibune. Cnicaao, Dec. 5.—In these days of deeds of vio- lence, when one eannot taks up a paper without reading of some helpless woman violated, or some house burzlarlzed when the men were ont, 1t strikes me with profound astonishment that the Amarican people do not place upon the dog, the noble and faithfal friend of man, the value which 1s nabtly his, 1 kpow thls, that T wanld never dream of leaving my wifeslons in hoaso or cottage for honrs at o time, nor would she for s thoment consent to stay unptolecied, without hier dog. Nevers tramp or peddicr ever dare put his nose {uside my door dur- ing my sdaence. I had a mongrel, & cross betwoen Newfoundland and Dalmation, which my wife faund starving in a bLack street, ana brought home and fed snd cared for, .and which nover would leave her alde while ba liven. From proper care and freding hio goi to be & big dog, with & bark. 1ika the roar of & lion, and & aet of teoth he would nut hieaitate (o use on’ & saspicious chasacter, and 1 could 1t0 to work in the motulng, leaving my wire ontlrely alone untll evening, without the sifghtest misnving, for I could trust. hee fafthful guardian better than 1 counld ¢ done & hired pollcoman eveu, And ko 41 h lways Leen, The conse- quence [s, my wife hos never been munoyed by tramps or other loose chatacters, and my honsg, slbeit T often resided a good dintance out of tha city proper, bas never been enterrd or robibed. Now, woy coes 1ot every home fn Amnenics Ita dog? Not s marving cur, chained np In s ke; nel where be can be of uouse, buta well us dog, always In the houso daytimies, hing uutside alehte (when not o cold), wre thou-ands of dope wandering about the reots of Chicugo, and prosumably overy city fu America, starvingiind homeless, which, If taken to tne people's houson aud ted, would amply ropay the smu.l expenditire for thers food; and then we *hould bear no wore of thls hvdrophobys nonsenso, It s from ne strving and tormonted bomelous canines tiat ony dauger of Lvdrophovia need | mlone be ‘tesred. Thcy wandor acnund, full of dledase, kicked by men who onzht o know bitter, stuncd und toruented Ly ch.idren whe ought 4o e tauubt botter, driven 04 by hunyer, and pain, and thiest, and (heu they aro at last mercifully shot and thoir suilenn, ended., ‘ake them honie, feed them un coolied meat(which 18 cheap enoukh nuw, goadni kuows) to give them coursye, and they will gourd the homes that give them shelter and sacrifice thrtr ives an defenes of tholr benelactors. 1 toll you thore Is nothinz a tramn feurs so much 85 8 good, obg, wall-fed dows and It every hume tn Anierica had one we whould tesr of no more uf wiich deeds av aro now dally snd_ hourly occurriny, and shoald wot have our bearta mude 10 sche by seeiny the nlitable objects which tnfoat uur wircets to our elernal disgrace. Mrruwsto, e —— WHY IS IT? To the Editor of The Tribune. Cutcano, Dee, 5.—Why s the *‘Fai-Btock Bhow" a success 1u Chicsgo, white the varled, rare, and {ntoresting collection of artistic oblects in the Loan Extitit at No. 85 Washlogton street 16 passcd unheedea by? e it only big cattle, big babies, and other abuorinal developmonts that in- torust our peoplel Or fs it that the **hard times* allects ouly the class supposed to have artistic tastes, so LLal they must bo careful of their quarture, tliere no wuch clasxd 17 you €an Auswer these quenies you will cunfor a fuver upon AX ArvueciaTive Visitos ¥rofessienal Ignorance of Yellow Fever. Nero Ovleuns Times. After the eluquent and conclusive evidence furpished by the Richinond Yellow-Fever Con- ress, we trust the country will abundon all 5000 of reachine practical results through the wedium of the ductors. The tame sud luaig- nifivaut wud ussless record of that body oaght 10 be caough to satisfy its wost ssuguloe ad- snlrers that wu must look lo some vther source for su avallable sulution of the dilliculties cone fronting us and for 8 practicable pluu for wect- Ing thewm, It secsas quite out of the questlon that the doctors will ever alford us the smallest relief, Dr, Cuoppin sxia, {n bis remurks to the Buard of Heaith lust summer, that the prafes- slou didu’s know uuch sbout yellow fever, uud the Richmood Health Cougress haa formaily sud sulemnly vontirmud the statemcut. Now that tuis pofut 1s svttled, wo ueedu’s worry with the doctors auy longer, ————— Giving Women Stockholders Procedonce, Phdadalubia felegraph. < ‘fo-day the Peuusvivanis Hailroad Company commeured the payment of the scmianoual dividend of 3 per ceut, or §1 8 whare, Upon it stock, sud, a3 1 customary, the firee day was Ziven over to the exvlusive acconstoodation of tie ludiva who have thelr means tuvested fn the ereat mltroad, Wheu the Fourth street oflice Wus Lpeued Lhls worulug tho lises were torw- ed, one to » desk for. the first half of the alphae bet, and the nther Lo another deak for -the' Ieet hall, and fn a little while that ling extended clear out of the ‘reasurer’s office and 'sack into the large hallwey on tho Orst fopr. Brvery clsms of' female, from the womrn of wealth, With her laces and diamonds, to 'v:'un;(nn ';nrkrn"m!flema dm‘:mnunm. with her arket-basket flung oves her arm, was forwand, s el the moner would ba forthehmlog. Perfect quiet refened in the Treasury Department dur- Ing the day. ‘[hiey were 4Il bent upon ons mission,~~one which for some time back they have unfortunately not been called npon to per form, an@ thero was no wrangliog. whatever, 8eate wera placed along the line for co H fence. Tho wotmen walked to the dividend desk, showed their credentials, obtained an onler upon the Cashler, and at once recelved thelr cash. The Assistant Treasnrer of the Company atates that probably £500,000 will be pald out to<iay, white the payment of this 2-Pcr- ttle cent dividend will altogether set afloat a I oer $1,500,000, & e—— An Elaborata Swindle, An ingenjona frand has been committed upon 2 wealthy merchant residing near Parts. A few days ozo he recelved 3 letter informing bim that the writer had ascertained that & box con- talning treasure was duried In his garden, and offering to Indicate the exact apotif he would agree to divide the spoll. The merchsnt was at firat Inclined to treat the letter us & hoax, but upon recelving a second and more pressing ono he sent an snawer sgreeing to the proposal. ‘The next day he was waited upon by & gentle- man of agrecable manners, and {4 was arrangea that the search should be made at night, to prevent the naignbora from talking. The box— a very welgnty unc—was duly unearthed aud, when taken into the house and opencd, was foind to contain 8,000 france in silver jieces of b franca each. The merchant, much pleased at the result of the search, at once handed over the half whiclshe had promised 1o his informer, who romarked that it wasa rather heavy lump to carry to the rallway station, distant about s mile, and that perhaps the werchant could ublige him with notes or zoid {nstead. Thin the merchant was very happy to do; but he regret- ted it bittariy the nest nrorning, as he saw that ho 5-franc pleces were spurions. —————— A A Bright Girl, clever little passage at the expense of & member of the Belglan Legatfon {s carrent fn Washington. A youog attache recently reached thers freah from London, his last station, and zmnll{' vexed over what he was pleased to eall his exile. ‘At all events,' he was 1n the hobit of saying, and the remark came to be widely quoted, ** I shall spesk no Eoglish in Washing- ton. 1learned it iu London, and 1 don't intend to spoll my accent,” Time passed. The attache wns at a reception. Some friend of bis asked a bright young Ameriean woman to permit him to vresent the attacha to her, “Oh, dear, den't,” Wwas the reply,—and it bas_ traveled over Wash- {ugton,—* T'coutdn't think of sach s thive, [ learnod my French {o Paris, and & would rain iy accent to talk with a Belalan.” —— Sagaclous Dog, Two gentlemen who were passing a Nouse In Worcester, Mass., recently, were atteetod b{ s ning large Newfouudland dog which kept run: toward them, and then returning in the dirces tion of s pond 10 the grove, whero sombtbing wss evidently wrong. Tney followed the dog to the pond, whero they found another dog In the water and unabie to wetout. His front paws were on the curbstone, but be could not get suflicient hold to draw bimsel? ng. e was uearly exhausted, and would probably have ::::,n dTrgwncd hgd n?!'.l;:ulyenn»‘me;m( d him, c dogs showed thelr titude 1o mistakable slgns. 5 ——— There 18 no sweetness {n a kiss, Unlees your teeth are just 1ike pearls, Then would you ahara lis trembling Tse Sozodon! st oace. sweet gir] For 1t alone gives to the mouth, White teeth nd fragrance of the South, —e e BUSINESS NOTICES, Tse “ Mra, Winslaw's Soothing & " children wniletecthing. It cares dvfel:l’:flplllfl';.lr Arrhora, wind colic. and regalates the bowofs. 23 cts e e 0 Oy ut- LACE GOODS. Clas. Gossage - & Co. Lace Dep't. LARGE SALE CHOICE LACES, Tmported Expressly ¥OR OUR Holiday Trade! Comprising every known Novelty in the New and fing Old Laces, ’ Entirely now designs in Real Laco Lockets, Scarfs, Noeuds, Hdkfs,, Barbes, Cuj)s, Vests, gnd Col- larettes, Several lines of this LARGE IM- PORTATION were purchased at an iminense sacrifics to the manutac- turgr, and will be sold BY US at LRICES pot mora than : 1-4 to 12 BRETONNE LACES, Bows, Scarfs, and Hdkfs., In Large Variety. The finest and largest line of Ladies’ Silk Bows, Ties, and Emb'd Sets Ever shown in this market, at the lowest prices, STATE-ST.---WASIINGTON-ST, ESTAULINIED 1800, RANDAL I, FOOTE, BANKER, O BROADWAY, NEW YORK. lllvln‘ 0 for Lwelve years & meiubes New York Btock kxchange and Vice-Presidea of Guld livand. the Lighicst characterand exparieaca iaguarsuteed. Slocka Gulg, end Bondsy Buock contracis such ps *'atral. diea ™ ** puta, " aiid ** calls ™ ou large ur sinall amouD L, buught and +a1d vn regulir comissiug sud woderais wa rgine. Pamphlet eotitied ** Wall direct, * sud stock u«?l:l\?)‘nlduhlt valusble luforinatios, walled 03 re- £elbt uf = DISSOLUTION NOFIUE, DISSOLUTION., Ths Ann of Underwoud & Co., conaiatias of Phineas 1. Underwood and Juha C. Dore, s Lils day dissolved by wutual copseat., PIINEAS L. UNDERWOOW, HE. Jouy ¢. po! Tho underaigned will coutioue the packiog sad we- vistoa buslucss on bls ludividuel accuunt. sader tas® nawe of Underwood & Loo P L Ustishword Chicasu Doc. & duise the . with evidence of their ldentity, 8 cor - tificale of stock. npon the presentation of which -