Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 8, 1879, Page 8

: : THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 8, I879—TWELVE PAGES. 3 e 5 ' Hostllity of the Mexican 'Congress . it has alwayi - e MEXICOQ, Senor Zamacona's Raply to Minis- ter Foster's Letter. A Refatatior. o, ome u.f.ibg Stitemonh . of the Mexican Réfpe. i sentative, 5 "‘Cowards Everything © o e-Ameriean, B Ration, Tue Coreramest, of Hexleo” Ripkrapt, Conntry Withent Sem)u to Life or Property.”’ ! Bpectal Correrpondencs of The Tridune, ° City or Mexico, Dec. 26, 1873.—Minfster Foster's letter to the Northwestern Manufsc’ facturers’ Association of Chicago, after having: attracted cunsiderableattention In the United States, has Teached here, and Is the general sub- Ject of conversation -among the politieal and commercidl ¢ladsed’of socloty, and, I may say witbiout fear of. contradiction, is:unreservedly indorsed by every American or other forelgner in this city not interested in jobs with the Mex. fean Government. Although It {s uot to be nitpposed that Mexicans fec) flattered by the picture of the sltuation which Mr. Foster has so graphically drawn, such 1s its .fruth that it s invuloerable to attack here, wherethe real stato of affaits canuot be concealéd; hence, but one Mexican paper has combated It, and that before the writer of the article hud even seen a synop- elsof the letter. But In the United Sjates, where but little {a known of the'real condition of Mdxico, Mr. Zamacona has’ ‘ventured to at- tempt ® refutation of some of the polnts mode by Mr.. Foster. As’ Mr. Zamacooa’s long aefouss, published In Tnx TRIDUNE, bas reached here your correspondent ‘was anxtous to lay befors the American publle mny comments Mr, Foster should make thereon, ‘To this end tie mide a vielt to the United States Legation, and 'solicited an Interview™ with the Amcrican Minlster, which, he Is sorry tosay, ‘was refusod him, . . Mr, Foster ¥ DECLINED TO BN INTERVIZWED for-two reanons: First—Mr. Zamacona's long statement in TiE TRIDUNE recognized that Mr. Foster's report was exhaustive,—that it pro- rented the real difficultiess 'and fo it he con- fesses that thero wero a great many obstacles to a largo trade with Mexico, Mr. Zamacous does not deny Mr. Foster’s facts and figures, but only seeks to explain away thelr effects. 8ocond —Mr. Foster says his report was scat to his Government; and by tho. latter made public. Te thinks there is an impropriety fn his rushing into the nowspapers, even to defend bimself ngalnst tho. Mexican Minister. £ he had any statement to make, the proper channel would be through the Btats Department. It is contra- ry to his idcas of Aiplomatic propricty to got into = newspajier-controversy, and, during s official residenco fn Mexico, hio had carefully pbstained from wrillog for the newspapéts, or beeomine the .subject of foterviews.. His re- port was a plain statement of oflicial facts and figures, and be ssys ho Is willing to rest upon them. . ¥, .. As much ss s to"be rearotted Mr: Foster's resolution in this respect, It must bo cobfessed that It reflects honor upon him, and isin strik- i contrast to tho course’ pursued by Mr. Zamacons, whoss dclight appears to be In supeallng to the American people againat thelr Uovernment through the pro Binca Mr. Foster refuses to notice 3Mr, Zamacona’s mis- B ments, it s evidont that they are of uo greut importance, for otherwise bo might ad- dress himself agala to the Northwestern. Manu- Iacturers’ Association througn the Stato artinent. Howaver, thers -are volnts o, M. Zamucona’s matoment so notoriously-incorrect that I eanpot refeain from briefly . s POINTING TURM OUT, i Mr. Zamacoua is mistakon in attributing the faiture uf American railrosd-conceasions to the companies. The trouble was,-first, that the condl imposed In the churters by the Mexi- ©an Governinent were 8¢ Onerousa that no capl- talists or rallrood-incn woull cobork in the en- terpriseas. and, sccond, becnuse there was no OB Ce in the bankrupt condision of the National Treasury, that Mexico could pay the subsldies promised. The nction of .the last Mexican Congress, I refusing to approve the concession applied for by Gen. Palmer for an Interuational fatlroald to the American frontier, and the Tehuantepee Roliway pruject, confirms all that Mr. Foster states {n his-reports In order to kill the Palmer contract, which had been signed by Gen, Dlaz, thu Executiva sent futo Conaress, while it was under dlscussion, a coutract purportiug to have been made with the Lugish bondoolders for the cunstruction of & 1allroad over the same route, when there is no probability that the contract will ever boap- 1‘»‘n ed eituer by Congrossor the bondholders, lils bad faith oh tho part of Gen. Diax wa necessary, as the hostility of Congress towards everythilug Suerlean s well known, Mr. ZamacOba's statcment, that the Govern- meut has reqularly pald the subsidy to the Vera Cruz Rallroa until recontly, s the' OFFOSITE OF TR TRUTH, a3 hie and every well-Informed peraon in Moxico kuows that, at the vc{] breaking-out of Gen. Diaz's revolution, In Fobruary, 1870, the pay- meut was suspended, nnd hus” cantinued: 8o for nearly thres ycurs, nod that the Guvernment now um:‘l_'l.hn rallrosd on thls sccouut near o< 1, 32, . . 4 Mr. Zumbcona defends the conduct of Mexlco in regard to its furcign deot, and maintaius that tiown s spirit of justico towards 18 creditors. He' secms to have very vaguy knowledge of the bonds held i the “Unfied Btates. With Ll bousted jutimate knowicdge of his country he uufi‘l..wla be well informed of the sale of Mexican bonds in the United States 4n 1565 and '8, to ralse means to carey on the conteat with the Maximilien Empire, Thuse bouds are secured by the pledge of G0 per cent ol the revenues of six leadiue Custom-Houres aud of the Federal and Btate taxes of the Siates of Tamaulipas aud San Luls ~Potosh 'Ibese -houds, principal sod Interest, smount to between $3.500,000 and $3,000,000, and wery s0ld o Awericau, titizens, Nota sigte semi- sunual dividead of futerest hus beeo pald oa them sluca they were hsucd fu 1803 up to to- day, and all the revenuca solemnly pledged for thelr payment have been | DIVERTAD TO OTHER Uixs, {exican fuith and_justics, of which Mr, n Tus TRIgUNE, defense ol the Aoancial con- n’ of the Mexicun Governwmeut goes for nothing when we louk at the ollictal facts ‘g‘d tlzurez. It s a matterof public notoriety tipg the dovernment 18 not receiviur money sutiicien to wmeet Its ordinury dofly expenses; that to-day 1t vau pay anly the army with promptness, au that siniply because, If it did not, the arny would *pronounce; that the Judzes of the Courts, and ail other civil ofclalgand employes, ure unpatd; and that all public ‘hme I;m"mm"' even the most . inslenificant, aye been suspended, because the Treasus is empty. 3Mr. Rowmero, the Minister of Fi veut lns estimates for the Next flscal Lo Congress ten days sagu, aod that stalement visces the annual expenditures at 823,300,000, und the reecipts at ! i aud Do one be- lieves that the last-uancd emouut can be col- lected by 83,000,000 uwxt yepr Mr, Z-mm.-unnfilm Hallriog promises of Im- rtaut moditications In theTariit aud Custom- House regulations to, be ‘made by Cungreas, thien fu session. But Congiess bas” sinco th dato adjourncd, without. suking a singlyjm- provemcnt. Iln even refused to act on the recomwendpions made bythe Miulster of Fi- watice, to sbolsh the “Aleabalas,” or loter Biate Castom-Houses, or o repeal tho 5 per cent evpuilt tax oo stlver. | Ju rugerd to the £ STATH OF OENENAL INWUuITY about which Mr, Zamaco: tacReAlr, Foster's report 80 Bercely, 1t 13 sutlicient 18 Jpcloss - to You un editorial frum the Mun-tor B0 wbe 20tk luet., which nowspaper 3r. Zamacona Maply - dorses o Tus Trisune. It will be secu™ tnat thia papcr eays that “Public sttgugion can ouly be uwakened by some- crime’ of extraorduuey magultude | that erimes * o unpunisied” ; and that ** thoredoes uot exist thy ucstrenote probability that victims will éyer he indenuttled for dawages sustalved.” “Daily ueeourts are glven ¥—J still quote from thy Yompr—" ot robbenes, of wurders, o, . o Lulies found In a atate uf decomposition,— the plics beiug uuable to disgover the wuthors of Uese wysterlous gines.® Thoy briog forty ¥¢¥ Wiss reflections coscernlng” public inse- - gt 7 L cuBity, the finpotence of the pulice, and the in- eQeacy of our ‘faws W puashing crimfnals " Wit “no fndicaflons arc acen of a probable im: provement In tye situation of a nativo In which it appears that ail the clementa of dissolution have been unchatned in order 1o bary it in com- Plc}u rmin the Moniln goes on to say: * Functionaries of high postiion take the lives of their political suversarics, , . . without those crimes réceiting’ tne slighteat chastise- mrent.’; and that *{he General Gorernment Is POWERLPSS TO REATRAIR BUCH CRIMRS, etc. I nope you can find roam for thearticle, as 1t I8 Mexican authority, indorert by the Mexican Ministor,"on a point abont whith ~ Mr. Foster's letter s reverely critlcisen, . Mr. Zamacona makes veliement protestations, fn his defenss™ In- Tire Trinusz, of his candor ond sincere dealre to give a correct atatement of the Internal ondition of Mexico; and frequent- Jy refers to the * ducettful ** wav tn which aflairs ars represented in Mr. Foster's letter. Unlor- tely for Mr, Zamacona’s reputation, he has thia role before with forelgn natfous, In 1801-'2 ha was Minister of Foreizn Affairs of tha duarer. “Government ; and, when Enzland was complaining of the outrages tnfiicted upon hee subjocts, and the Iityle effort the Mexican Gov- ernment. .making 1o protect them, Mr. Zsmacon representing about such a atat of aflairs aa h preseuts to-day to the American y“hllc. ‘The fallowing {s the judgment of Lord ol Ruesell, late ’remier of' Great Britaln, of his conduct, to be found in aletter to the Brit- iah Minlster In- Mexico: EAHL RUSSTLL TO 8IR C. WIKS, | (H, Ex. Do¢, 100, 37th Cona,, 2d Sers,, p.'301.) Fonxiax Orrgee, Sept, 10, 1801 —Bin: I have recelyed your dispatches. of ‘the 26th and 28th of July, and [ bave to convey fo you the entire ap. proval of her Majesty's Uovernment of your con- duct as therein reported. Thoe suspeneion for, Lo years of ail paymenta In discharge of debt, 4l a" time when the Mexican Government cann orif to expend 86,000,000 in mix monthy, isashameless brencn of faith which cannot /be 10 1he slightent degree oxcuscd by the pretenses pit forwant by Senor Zamacona In {tadefense, Senor Zawacana asserin that the present Uareen- ment of Mexico are actively emploved in mainiain ing 1nternal and social order, 0 rearganizing tho sdmipistrutjon of the llopublic, in - introducing rigid economy m the branciies of the public nd in vigorously putting an end to tie d restoring riternal peace to itio coun- Butit ia notarlous that every one of these s feand pruperty nrenowhore safe, rects of the Capltal; that the Ad- ministration i corruvt, and as reckless of any lnteresta but their own personal advantage, as uny that has heretofore governed In Mexicos and Uiat great anarchy and disorder provail in ail the de- partments of Jjie Guvernment, . . . [am,elc., elen, RUANELY. Joux 8. CLARK., | try. le’ldm 18 alrectiy the reverse of the truth. wellknown thaf not &ven 1o th THN KVILS WIHCI AFPLICT MEXICO—AN INTER- MINATILE LIST.OF CRISUES OF ALL KINDS. an the Alnmitor Reublicano, Der. 20, 1878, W’c’ilvn fuan epach in which evils of uvery class liave become. Iicarnated fo such a manner 1n our moae of - being thut puolic attention can only bo awakened In the presence of some crime of .extraordinary magaitnde; avd even theo, atfer the Japso of a fow duys, the samo state of indi{Terdnce |a resumed, 1nasmuch na crimes ro- mon unpuplshedy aod there docs not cxist the most remota . probability that tne victims will ever be fndemnified for the damages sustained. Dally accounts are-given of robberies, of mur- ders, accompanied- by circumstances wore or Tess ropugnant and " monstrous; of corpscs found In a stata of decompositton,—the pollce being unable to discover the authors of those myaterious erimes.” The press speaks, urges the authoritica to comply with their dutlea; but the imoression made 1a. cffeced yery Soon, because new crimes and new horrora come to attract the attention of o soclety- whish- appears to b sur- fefied with those- natratives which constitute the clironiclant this- epochy the saddest and gluomicat of our: history, ‘The recent robbery at Baranca Handa—that sudacious ¢rime conmitted with notable dex- terily—has bad the privitee of occupying pub- 1lc attention within the tust few days, produc ing throughout the Republic a loud echo, which will be re-¢chived In foreign louds to the dis- wrave and dishonor of the good name of the conntrs.’ The comments made bave been in- pumerable; feminlscences have Leen called uj regarding what happened some timo aco at Tul- petiuc and Bata:. very wise reflections havebeen emitted concoruing the public lnsecurity, the impotence of toe police, and tho ineflleacy of our Jaws In punishing criminals, All this, how- evor, doea not diminish n the Jeast the gravity of the crline commltted, nor tndemnily to the oxtont of a single cent the victima' of the rob- bery. A In view of thls, the only truth that can ba de- duced i, that the situation could not be worse; that the evils that nttack the very foundations of society nro dally taking more” frighttul pro- portions, and, what'ls yet more ternvle, no fa- dicatlon scun of a Proliavle fmproyemnent in the situation ofa natlon fu whica it appears that all the clements of dissolution lavy Leen ‘unchalued {u order.to sink it th-cotal ruin, - In vases of thia - unturs, each pulliical party hasteus to forinulate -argumenta tn favor of its respeetive doctrines, whose practice would be tha infallible paneces for tho cure of all ruclal orils. The Conscryatives of thepld school find the cawse of thu misiortuncs fered by the countryin tho laws of reform,—atwve all, in the separation of tho Church und Btate: the best means 1or the Ropublic to enter the happy era of security and sbundance would be to recog- oize nn oflicial rebgion, and return to the clergy their anclent predominance, The parti- sans of strongz governuient potut out as the orlrin of wvur calamities the representative eystein, the, slowness ol onr tribunals, and. above all, thoru guorantees miven fu our funda- mental law, which are frequontly trampled upon by despotic authoritics, Leeauso they only servo toshiicld crimindle against tho prompt and expeditious nction of the severe lnws. As far as we aro_concerned, und at the risk of Leinge called “vislonaries, wo liave no faith in thoso solutions which only effect the politicat forms, and whiclh, even il they should be again Jut to the experiment, with serious dsuger (o the public peace, would leave oxisting In thelr entirety the evils1hac affect thecauntry, becanse they would not dry up the envenom fuuutnly tuat produces them., Our Governmunts commence by divorelug their Interests from those of soclety, by which thoy place themacives in o pusition “of real nntagoutsin. . Avcording totheir narrow eriterion, guod or evil {s ot maeasured by the convens iencon of the people of whom they call thew- scives the representatives, but by that which clfects thelr own prescrvat.on,—that being good Jwhich 18 of use, aiid bad everythiug that might injure them. (iuarantees, olliciaily speaklug, coine to inéan an Mlberty for the” purtisan,— systematic oppression for those who do not bend to Governwental cavrices, Frequeutly wo bave scen functionaries of high vosition take the lives of thelr political adver- saries, with tha moat augravating cireumstances, withiout up -to the prescut our baviug near of the nauthurs of those crimes recelving Lo slightest cbastisement, The Geuerul Govern- ment i powerleas to restraln such crlmes, and 1ts rale bs reduced to informmg tell of what passes, aud translerring to thae publc the re- ports received. The retatives of the victims, on thelr part, take 2ood -care not to muke tbeir complalpta-o thoss who might be abls to apply the remedy, inasinuch as they kuow beforenund thut hnounity is assured to the butchers, whose rago becuruks fearful ugalust Lhose who ars so simple 08 t9 appeal 1o leeal weasures, which never prevoll agalust the powerful, Itis v8s, therofare, to expuct of our Gov- ernmentany of thoss saving micasures in o great crista. Thu sacial questivn 18 every duy becom- lu{: In0TO pressing; poverty and corruption are advancing with gigantic strides, invading every clasa of socletyy wobody, nevertheluss, thinks of putting’n dike in trunt of the torrent that siready cuvelops the Keoublie fn fis black waves. The fountains of jabor—the indispensably baso of publle morslity—remam obstinutely closeds pubdlle instruction continues to be adminisiered in homeopathie doses; our jails are scbools of crime; and It appes nat utentionaily amoug the people are scattered all those germs that cuntribate to their degra- datfun, their debasement, their most complete vhysical aud morat rum., 'fo base, under such clrcumstances, the reme- dy for tbe lotinite misfortuncs which the Re- pubhié sutfers, ou Draconlsn laws, which would wultiply scalfolds snd sued buwmau bloog fn vrotuaion, 18 to be cutirely goorant of the de- als ofthe Mtustion,—to make war on thg rauches of a large tree, aud jeavo untuuched tho trunk and roots which noursh it, Justics can never by Incumpatidle with the welfars of nations; on the coutrary, it Is thelr fundamentsl base;: a3 & celebruted putlosopher has sald, Goy- erumnenty which are not fuuuded v justice are great rotberics, £ Very well, then; justico Is a complex idea whichi'ducs not consist In deuling blows to tue right aud tothe lett, in an empiric und absurd mauter, 0 tie belef that the greater rectituda cousists Iu the wost cruet and unmercitul pun- fsbmeuts. Justics tends to the repression ot crime, whatever may be the form ib (akes or the pretextunder which iy 18 comwmitied. Rapidity 10 the proceediugy is Decessary aud convenieut, but on the condition that reason and truth are Lot wade to sutler,—otherwise Justice luses lts bizh characger, ceases tu Lo what it s, to be- cowo converted jwto un lustrument of ven- goauce, managed by awkward hands, which outy succeed fo despentug the wounds fu the social A Let us, then, leave fo peace the Reform and the Comstitution; they sre not respuumble for the evila which we suffer, nor will their sacri- fice bring the sluzbitest reliel Lo the borribly elt- Uativa through which tho muuufiv Is passing. Wuilo Governineuts profess the Slacbiaveidian aziin, that the cud Justites the wesue; wtlu policied wro fuspired” 10 brutal uddifies, only coosidenog a8 guod scrvices tuose which con- Hneetoawiven end; while the general foterestsof the country are secn with cynlcal disdain, noth- Ing belng done that the peapln may improve thelr situation ny means of iabor, of morality and education,—all declamations arainst tna form of government which ruics us sre use- less,—blows in the ilark which do not adyance a single step the golution of the grest problem upon which depenils our soclal and palitical cx- fstence. ‘The audacity of the malefactors will each dar become greater, and we will give to the world thie sad spectacle of & nation power- less to overcoma the evils which oppress It, be- cause, when the head aches, all the members of the body nche,—~as has been sard with truth by the old Hypocrates. NoTe.—~The .Honitor Republicans 1s by far the ablest and most popular paper published In Mexico; and Mr. Vieil, the nmhor’::l the above article, is ascholar and politician of bigh stand- ino, having at ona time becn a member of the Sapremo Cnnrt of the nation.) —— NIAGARA IN WINTER. ‘The Falls In the Clutches of the FPont-King ~The Kiver Spanned by m Hridgn of Ice, Hufaln Courler, Jan. 2. ‘The Frost-Klug has won a elorious (rinmph at Nlagara Falls, and England and America are linked together by & new bpnd—a chain of fce— which owes nothing for Its exlstenco to the help- ing bieod of mav. A Courler reporter was sent tothe Falls yestorday,and learved that the ice- bridge became an ssafbed fact on Sanday s, It is really a child of the great snow-storm of lass week, which accounts for s uncommonly carly formation. For somedays a Jarge amount. of snow-cavered ice from Lake Eris bas beeu passing. over the falls, and about the beginning of the present week old {nlabitants began to look expectantly for an fce-bridee, thuugh It was at least & month carller than the usual appear- ance of this phonomenon, At 8 o'clock Bunday morning tho accumulsted mass of ice vame to & stand-still beneath the new suspension bridge, and the watchers began to hope that there would be a bridge with & smooth surfscc—a thing unprecedented aa far ms history or tradl- tiou bear record, But the hope was scon dis- pelled, for the huge dam of ice suddenly begsn ta heave, grind, and break up iuto fragments with a loud noise, which s described as belng exceedingly trying to the nerves. At 10 o’clock there was & second standatill, and it scemed cer- taln that the brikige had besn formed, bhut at 3. in the afternoon there was a thinl and moro severe distusbanco s the prisoned waters ex- cried thele giant streogth in av effort to be free. ‘The battle was a grand ope. Vast quantities of fce and snow wero caught {n tho water's arins and tossed hither and thither like nl-‘lhlnn‘l fghting and struggling with one another, an grinding themselves to fragments fu the flerce engagetnent, Great nummocks welghing hun- dreds of tans wera pushed foto tho air and re- mained there as monuments of the feraful bat- tle.: Lurge boulders werc torn from tho shore and swept (oto the stream, nud the soli- tary fir which was wont to mark the Janding- place of thae ferry became a victim to the wure ring elements, though ordinanly it stands threo fect nbove bigh water. Tho slow, awful streugth ot tho infuriated Waters was #o apparent that {t seemed as {( they must rend the great gorge in twain and escape from thelr thralldom by sume new road; but there was only one Enlcmv for them, and, ns they could not hreak the mile- wide dam in two, they litted 1t up bodily and swept away beneath, still raging, but com- vletely conquered by the armies of the Frost- King.” Havinu thus succumbed to this fnevita- ble bumiliation, the water allowed the fce to rest above it, sccepting the yoke which it conld not brend despite its bossted atrength, And now the victor rests quictly, torn and ragged it 18 vrue, but fovincible: and so it. will remaln until the mightier beams of tne spring sun dc- rive It of {ts strength and once moro rostore Niagara to 18 sccustomed frecdom. 'The bridea | is nearly o mile In length, extending from a lino arawn perpendicularly to Polnt Lookous [n the American Park half way to the raitroad bridge, and filllog the gorgo from shore to shore, ‘The firat viow of tho Falls brings tho heartup Into the mouth with a shovk that is - almost !mluful in Its suddenness and forve, Everything s 80 changed—so translured. lco evérywhero! lce upoh the rocks, upon the trees, encrouching upon the cataract ftacl! and deadenlng . its roar, —even steallng away a_large portion of its power to all seeming. The story of Samson and Delllsh cotnes to miud os one secs how the {co has shorn the waters of their strengih, = As the speetator atands upon this polnt, tho wind blows thie apray futo bis fave, and. 500D . covers him s) over with fce jewels: but what carus tio for the spray in the enthusiasm- of the glonous viewl .Jn park the lcs has- beun as- destructive as it s beautiful, and shough 1t bas robedd the trees and bulldings Ju snowy Whauty, it has torn down huge limbs Ly its uverpowering welght. Looking over to the Canadian shora the observer can see huga Icicles of nuny tons' welght hanging Mka the ropey tocks un the forencade of giants fn 'thy story- bouks, But these aights are as notbing when compared to the brond sheet of wrinkled snow- fco which lies ut his feet. There is fs,~tho cun- querer of Niagara,—sovarkllng in the suolight us valinly and peacefully as o patch of snow. There 18 soicthiog majeatic, sublime, in its wulet Indifference to the influcaces of the water- power, Al traces of the batties of Bunday have departed, save n the rough surface whicn from the lnght of the point {a not aoticvable to any great degrec. At ils upper cod the swiit cur- rent may be seen sweeping forcoly against it then creeping booeath with a defested nir, and commy up uguln ut the lower vnd quiie meckly, Our reporter stood and watched this wondrous speetacle untll his u{u were well-nigh blinded by tho glars and his noto-book leaves were quite still with Irozen spray, snd then desceud- ed fu she fuclined plane to get a nearcr ac- quaintance of the Fi King’s handiwork. Verily Klug Jack has turaed bis thne to good nceotint on this oceusion, and proved that he fs 08 good nn artlst oo & prand seale. on a mliuts oune. Lealde the rotunds, which stands ot thie basa of the Awerican fall, tnountain of snuwy spray ice tawers up eighty feet high, and s each day climbing higher towards Lhe summit. The doint of tha rotunda bears an ice ceeding benutv, and’ aloolr the roof esslug-shicd ure curious fce formations which nothing less thuo tha nhomsz'ribhw came- ra can adequately plcture. - Giant. feleles hang from tho clifls, and cvery onco in & while & buge fragment comes tumbling down, The fee in pertectly white and secinioely quite porous, but excesstvely hara-frozen, As It warms in the mouth It assumes a gun-like conlllu:nrrv which tempts one to chow it, though he tinds ft ‘n littlo too brittle for that purpuse, Its appear ance 18 exactly that of spun isss, and could it be mude indestructiblo und retain its presont (‘\lfllllll.'nca 1t would maxke very superior billiard balls. 1t {s sald that the spray which formed this fee was perfectly ’mm. aud that it & ton of 1t wers melted i would fmdum no npln ble quantity of sediment, The lee mountaln fa stiil 1 1ts comparatfve fnfancy, but If the wind, ang mereury are davurable it will soon be lu a coud!- tlon toTorm a coasting bill for the people a3 it did guriug the winter of 1875, The great fve-bridge ftseli ls a counterpart in miniati oo Alpine glacier, and 1ully sa {o- ue as seasickoess wero a essury preliming etug it. You have the rough, broken surface, the bummocks reach- JugeLen, liteen, and twenty feet It the starthing flssurea gaping perl th of thirty Teet into the solid ice; sva you dtsoll fu s miilion strange apes; but there s sn asso- clation of terror fu this place which does tot be- loog to the genuine giavier, sod which tha 4l roar of the waterfall, perchance the thouwnt of 3 feet of water secth- g und bolling bencath your feet, Muny of our readers Lave atood ou'she buuk biside” the whirlgool-rauids and scch th wratsful waters mouut uowsrd toward the sky Iu e thousaud contending currents as tbey buttle to escape from their prisoning walls. Imaglue this agitated surface suddeuly becoming petri- fled, wnd every broken wavs balting just whers L was, and this 1 glve an (des of tho lee- bridge. Figurcs are poor makeslil(is for asalst- 1og tho fmaxivatius to wurk, but they will per. hiups asalsy a little in giviug an ides oi the rusig nitude ot this structure. In thickucss it s probabiy sbuut sixty fest, wiile the surface of e feo 1o ut Jeast bulf that distance frum the surfacy of the water. ‘There are crevasses twenty-five or thirty feet in depth, sud yet thoy shuw Do slgns of water, "As we have suld Le- fare, the suriace of the lée-bridge (ur lce-tleld, forft s really toat) lu exceedingly rough, sud the work of crussing {s very fatiguing, Betors lung, however, a road will be coustructed from. tho Anerican to the Cauadian shore, sud it Wil be quite su easy matter Lo cross. The fes formation of the bridge is curlously disstnliar on the ditfercnt sides of the river, Qu tos American sids 1% §s chlefly composed of snow-ee, formed foto rounded . boulder sbapes, sud louking exactly ke white coral. As you nedr tho centru of the river the ics frazmcnts krow larger; and waen- you ucar the Cunadion shore vou flud larzo cakes of water-ive aial- grautated Into & solid inuss. The surfece ol the Lrideo 18 rouglicst upus tho American side, aud ft would seets as I tho greater pressury was hiere cxerted, though (be wildest disturbauce evideutly touk placa at thia, lower «nd of tue bridge, fur tbe bucimocks .ary very large sod frequent there, .. - . i Of course the Courler reporter, lke evervhody clue, munt cross tus bridge, woether the Ouers- tiou coutadned suy good wod sutliclent cause or uot. 8o b siraiavled down aud began to crevd out Jke a Polur bear toward the Cauadian shore, I1ia teet alipped around upon the rouxh fee, aud bis eyes glageed (easiully as the geplug cracks 2 which he wae oblized to cross, Flowever, by earefully. pleking his wav, he sutceeded In resch- Ing the mldd)e of the stream, st which point he used to cxamine the jrospect. The view ooking down the goize was wery fine. On elthes side roso sheer fnto the air hilgn walls of stone, ficicle-fringed, and trimmed- with trees that ‘were heavily Jaden wiih: glistening fee. Down the gorge lay a vast [ce.ficld, tightly packed in between the walls Af the canon, an nncouth mass of rucged splendor, and far away against o eky exquusitely clear fn ita tender cincrald hues, was vutlined the old suspension bridgs, and ‘s tiov train of cars slowly sp- ronching the Amcrican shore. The contrast tween the cold and pitiless fce-fleld and the warmer sky lormed a dromatic pletare which can never be forgotten, [t was & new phase of Niagars Falis, and one which coulil not he sur- passed. Looking up the stream the panorama wan not 5o striking, for tho falls were only dim- P- scen through the ?mr( fog, aud, indeed, the !l must play sccond fiddle now; they are but a background for the plcture. ‘Che first man who trossed the bridge was Me. Tom Conroy, the well-known guila who saved a man from the raplds & year or twopve, On Bunday night Mr. Conroy vowed by his right haud and by the moon that Zs would never cross the bridze, and on Monday merning he kept his vow by crossing to his work just.’ the way ho sald he would not come. As Mr. Conroy welghs ahout 200 pounds, he demonstrated to the satls- lon of the good fotks of Ntagara the entire salety of the hridee for purposes of locomotion. ‘Those who douht its anfety are at liberty to at- tempt the breaking of it ty feet of nolld [ce. THE ELEMENTS. What 3ir. Lockyer 1fas Discovered, and the Deductions lie Draws Therefrom, . Boston Aotertiser, Not long ago wa reférred to the reported dis- covery made by Mr. J.. Norman Lockyer, that some of the substances which chemists have been accustomed to style ‘“élements ' are not elementary but compouod.in.thelr nature. Bince then, on the 12th of, Decomber Jast, Mr, Lockyer has commumicated to the Royal Boclety the results of Lis researches. Inasmuch as we may presume that every person who fs fo- terested in any degree fa aclence will be exger to know just what {s thenature of Mr. Lockver's discoveries, it is proper to correct the original report and explaln exactly what he has done, and_what he thinks the result teaches, We assnme that tho geveral principles of spectrosconie science aro known, and particular- ly this—for discovering and defining whicn Mr. ckyer deserves tho chie! credit: that the spectrum of an Impurs or mixed substance furnishes the lines belonging to cach of the simple aubstances of walcb it s made, and that thess lines vary in number, leugth, brightness, and thickn:as according to the amount uf the substance giving thoae lines. Thus an alloy in which the proportiou of ‘onc’ metal greatly ox- ceeds that of the other will give only a few of the niors characteristic lincs of the ‘metal of which s small amount only. f&” uscd, and those lines will be sbiort, narraw, and faiot, 1f the proportion of the metal is. [ncreased now liucs appear, and thuse which wete before seen be- come larger and more distinet. - Mr. Lockvyer, lo his studiea with the spectrostope, endeavored to eliminato all the nes dae to Impurities In tho substancs under exnwiuation, In this work he became persuaded that certain coincldences of lines in the spectra of different metals could ot bo the result of mutual hnuurities, and thls polot he has demonstrateds + it remummcd then to gscartain the real causa of the constant ap- pearance of theee cofncient Hues, Ha was siated In his lnvestigation By tho known fact that the spectra of tho brightist, and therefors oresumably tha hottest, s{srs, ace more simple than those of the dimoier. and .covler suns. Sirus shows very thick hydrogenand a few thin metallic lincs; our sun, “which {s -cooler, fur- nishes numerous motallic lines: some of the coolest stars add to these the lines of gome non- metalifc bodles. The hyputhesis that in the hottest statc all bodies ar'd bioken up into thelr most ;imple forins, aud that as tho tewperature diminishes compounds 1gerg.and. more refrac- tory arc made, woukd fully explalu the obscrved phepomens. '+ . %o Assuming, however, only .what Is known, that heat does break -up and-dissociate ronie com- pounds, Mr. Lockyor reasoia fu this way: su?‘- pose that In thio substunce A the substance 3 present, elther’ as'a vonatjtMeut or as an im- purity, In the latter case the spectrum will re- veal the lihes' of B. in thecorder of thelr im- partance, and in size” aud “brightocss propor- tioned to the smount presont, On the other hand, if B{s acomooncnt part of A, and it heat will set B free from its ugton with othor'sub- ‘stanien in A, then upon anlincrease of tempera- ture the characteristic featurcs of the spectrum ,0f A will disippear, aud those of B will become ‘more vrominent. - 1n other.wonls, If A Ia & sim- plo body, but not quite pure, its spectrum . will romuin constunt as long as the provurtion of impurity 1s unchanged; If it s compound its spectrum will not bo conatant, but g8 the sub. = stanve Is wroken wup tho lines of -its compononts wlil become more proml- ‘nent. . This principle Mr. Lockyer fllus. trates by dealing with tho salta of cal- clum, Each of ~ these salts bas fts own deflnite apectrum, Asthe temperature is ratsed this fades away graduaily, and the lines of. the motal, caleiuw tself, uppear {n detlnite order. Now, fn cxamining the spectra of calcium, lithium, fron, and other metals, at differcut lemperstures, chauges analogous to thosc ob- served when lieat §a oreaking up known come vounds, are seen; sud theso changea aro in somu cases cven preater than those brought ubout when known compounds are under ex- amitnatfon. Certuln strong lises of enleluin are rarely soen In the eliromosphere, though oiwavs resent when the spectrum s obtatued in the aboratory; other llues, faint and short 1o the laboratory, are greatly futensfled in the spees trum of"solar storms. Oue hydrogen line, which is never scen in tho laboratory except un- der very high temperatures, was wiiolly ubsout from the solar prutuberances duting tiie celipse of 1875, though the otner Mies were seens and this line i concldent with the strongest line in tha spectrum of fridlumn, ‘The above are merely specimens of a large number of facts which Mr. Lockyer has collect- cd. It need not be sald that they do not singly or unitedly prove the compound nature of what we have beon nceustomed to ieen elemunts ba- yond guestion. They certainly make the sup- pusition that they are compound not unreason- able, and no other supposition _yet brought for-- Wi secounts ‘so fully as does this for the changes obacrved, A mere’argument from snalos fiy I3 Mr. Lockyer's tlicory. Certuln substanees nown to be compuund’ yield changed spectra under chianged conditions, Other substances, heretofore sunposed to beelementary, uct nthe saing way when subjected to the'sains treat- ment, There i the fast which cliemists must explalu, And we may add thst it s the ouly fact that requires explanation, for the previous aunouncement that the spectrum of one metal hus been obtained by the use of another wetal was wholly Incorrect, Nothing at all re- sumbling o trousmuturion of metals bas been accomplished, even i it sbould prova that they ura more nearly related to each other than modern science hos taught. But Mr, Lackyer'a discovories have opeusidl s nighly ateresting {xlfllldl for rescarch, and the future {3 fuli of possi- tics. e — Why Bender Dissolved 1% Brown, Any shentleman vot vill o around your face, aad talk b1 front of your back about sometings, s a shvindler. 1 hear dot Brown s [ fura next apout we, I vas o henah-packed hus- baud. Dot vas & Hla! De proot of do eating vas In do vuddings; 1 am imurried tweaty year already, uud [ vus not yet baldbeaded. 1 don't vas oconder some peltyRuals Ruvernineots; shtfll 1 vinks it vas better it a felier viil fusu it vife, und got Ler advices apout sometings or oder, Daws Awerican vomaos don't know somctings nefer apout her huspand’s pecsuess, und veu tnerahip with dem hart times comes, und Dot 80 much money voines fn de bouse, dot mak nat some tfference e her, Btilh sbe moust have one of dot bullback In de front hoop-skire petivuevats, it ofvey kind of trimmnings, Pooly suon dot huspand get bavk- rupted all to pleces, They seud fur the doctor, uud vhen do doctor comes do man dics, Den dot voman vas ophiged to marry mit anodur wan vat she don't maypu tike wit four slx chit- eng, on secount of bis st viie alr vossibly ong or two wudders by law—vyoue sece- oud-batded, und de oder.n step mudder. oute Jaw. Den sho says mit hursctl, I offen viah 1 vas dead liutle.! Now if & Cherinons goes dead dot makes vo tillerevee. Nopody voulu hardly know it, ceps hlmsell. s vife yoes ou wit do pevsnces sbuxt llke notings has bappeucd to somebudy, Awerizan vomans und Ceruian vomutis va tillercat Kind of beepies. For instiuct, dot saine feiler goes nut we in de butcher peesi Keiher. fo vas an Aucekeud men—so vas his wife. Ved, mang s, veu clesy peoples gut de panle pooty” bud, dut voman couics to ber uuspaod und says sbe moost bave woney. Uen st goes out ridiug wit o carrluze. Voure upon a tune Browy to e, 4 Beuder, I wouldn't by bensy L? B0 no weut olf und got blasell 112l shust because bls vife tells bim blese don’t dult. Den he sty down mit bis buck on de loor, aud It [ sw vot dere dot tiwe be never woutlal got bome, Vell, dot uight, me snd wiue vif bad a xt day [ & 3 Nittle tulk apuut svitcllius uud thy savato Browu: *Look biero voust. By vifs sbe wmukes ssusages uod yoris- fn 'de stiore; slio mine taughter, she vurks in de shiore uud suakes bead 1 und’ your vife vas wolug vield much Lo rome of his relations who have recently become needy. - . ALECK Il STEPRRNS inone of the faw survivors of Mr. Cushings early days hera at Washiogton, and one of the most remarkable Congressmen fn personal ap- pesrauce. le occupics an invatid's chair which out rding all de tims mitde horse carunda patent tled-Lack cardinal-atriped stockings. Now otr vife must go vork In de sahtore und rut efsteaks und make samerkraut, or else ve diyide not equally any more dot profits.’” Vell, Brown goes home und he tells his vife about dot. Den sho comes pooty quick mit Brown aronnd, und had misunderstanding | he wheels about in the area before the Speaker's apout mrnetl'nm. fn vich eferybody | chair, and to aee his emall, pale, beardless face, took a _part, Including my littie dor | his attenuated figurs, and the shape of tha Katsor, Pooty soun up comes a boliceman, und | almost withered limbs visible throueh his gar- ments, a stranger would set him down as some overwrought theologlcal student who had somehow obtained perminsion to wheel his chalr into the midst of debate. \ere this the case, and should be live to graduate (the stranger wonld say), no parish would ever give him o ;mlll.—un)en upon the old Egyptian principle of aving arrested us for breeches of promise to kee{! the teces, und assaulting de battery, or sometings. Bcn de firm Bender & Brown was broke up. I &0 about my peesnces, und Brown goes mit his peesncas. My sifc she belps in de shtore. His vito gocs riding mit de horse-car, und efery night she vas by de theatre. Vot's de gonsequences! Alone comes dot Centenntal panic, Dot knocks Brown higher as two kites, hy cimminy! My income is atill more 88 my outcome. But” Drown. he goes around de shtrects mit his hands out of his pockets, und be don't gof ent to his pack. LIFE IN WASHINGTON, New-Year's Tleceptions=The Chinese Pleni- potentiary—inpanesa Diplomats—Tomper- ance the Order of thn Day~A Tady Lohby~ Ist—dirs, Senator Bruce—The (iay Seasonm “The Late Caleb Cushing—Atephens of Geor- gia—Hannibal Hamlin—toliday Amuse- ments—Amatour Thoatricals at Ars. Lan- ders'=The Kulght Templiars-Chat ana Goselp, Special Correspondence of The Tritune, Wasmnixaton, D. C., Jan, 5.~This is the “winter of our discontent, for the Congress- men are away for the holldage, money is scarce, the stafl officers drcad being placed on there- tired list, and a cold wave has come swecplog down from the northwest, adding to the misery of the poor, For thesc and other reasons TAR NXW-TEAR'A RECKETIONA were mot equal to those of the flush times ten years ago, when our Repub- lican Court was in its glory.” Even at the White-House there wus ‘e mwmanifest falllng-oll fu finery, although Mra, Hages wos rebly yet proverly sttired, and the Jadies who msaisted her in recelviog were also handsomely arrayed. But the Diplomatic Corps was sadly belifod former years, Sir Edward Thornton and the other members of his Legation having abaented themrelves on account of the death of the Princeas Alice, while the other Legntions were thitly ropresented, excepting the almond- eyed, slik-gowned CELENTIAL REPRESENTATIVES, His Excellency Chen Lag Pin, who s the High Cockolorumof the crowd, wore a studding head- Bear, with a waving {eather, and appeared ready to posc lor bis portrait on a fan, Iels about to measurc lances {in the shape of pens) with Mr. Evarts, on the great aucstion of Mongolian fmmigration, and the adrolt New York Inwyer will have to be on the alert, or C. L, Pin will get tho advantage of htm. The sinlling little JAFANESR DIPLOMATS are also playlng there litle gaine, and trying to lobby through Congress a bill repaying to Jopan an fudemnity extorted from her ot the cannon’s mouth for damages Mflicted upon our merchantmen, Thero 18 no eartily reason’ why this ahould bo done, but & strong lobby will receive o larga contingent, and it witl be difcult for Congressmeneto withstand their nppeals. Mexuwhile rome foolish adviser has prompted the little Jups to stand on thelr dignity and soy that they don't want the money unless it can be freely refunded. This after four years of persistent lobbying is cool, even with the ther- inometer at zerv, - TO NETURN TO TN IMCEITIONS, it was noticeable how few went *‘the grand rouuds,” outstds of the scores of nobodies Renernlly youngsters,—excent those old Turvey- drops wbo imagined that thelr officlal positlons required them to array thumselves gorgeously, and {Humicate soclely by the light of their countenances. As for the young ufficers, they wers wonderfully gotten up, with every feather aud sbred of goid Jace purmitted by tho regu- lations, but the snow-storm whicn sct in mudo 1t ditticult fur them to go sbout, and they bad to retreat to the rotundas of the hotels, <" THMPERANC! was tho order of the tay. Hayes followed the examole sat by Audrew Jacksun when e discoutivued the scrving of punch on New- Year’s Day, and, ns o general thing, coffes und chocolats wero the only buverages offered to* callers, ‘Thero -wora some exveptioos, atmong them the housy ol - Benator Bherman, whers the democrutic maenates -were fuvited into tny dinlng-ruom to drink “the health of our next Presidenc fn.woxectiens whisky, Another huuse, which had a bountifally-svread table and a slie- bl(‘m{d t'mu ceiipsed ninuy u tirst-clsss bar, was that ol A A e X6 A SKELETON BEFORE THEM, to remind them of the nneer?lnl.y of human cxisteuce. Yet this fraction of humanity has, during the past quarter of & century and more, been s leader of politicia ‘The dissolution of the old \Whig parly, with which he had long acted, thraw him among the Seceeioniste, but the comet-like light of his powerful mind ahone brightly at Richmond ss it hacdl at Washington. Iic never faila to command attention when his shrill voice clatms the floor, althouch the tones of that voice are anyiline Lut agreeable; nor s it plensaut to witneas the gesticilations which sccompany them, and which aro st times so nervously. frantic as to create spprehensions that he will shake himsclf to picces. Yet he never Iafls Lo fascinate the imaglnation of his bearers by the maguificcuce of his declamation and tho beauty of his language. fiis style of vratory s decidedly florid, with occasional bursts of keen satire, though these acintiila- tlons of wit are lost In the metcor-like blaze of his eloquence. Evidently seeking to electrify by brilliant argument rather than to impress by solld reasonfor, he speaks with great NMuency, lnaslnz from tople to topfe with (mpullnne«i haste. Mis s TIE Z0UAVE STTLE OF ORATORT, now skirmisning on the ontskirta of his appo- nent's positfon, then rallving on some strong point, pouribg in a rattting fire, standing firm 2galost a caargre, and ever displaying that pers fect indevendence of action aud disregard ot partisan drill that the Zou Zous so nuughtily de- light fn. Every wurd las been su carefully studted that no'traca of study ls perceptible as hie dashes along, apparcatly ‘discovering (by a giace »o rapid as to seemn [ntuition) new views of the subject shich common capacities strug- gle lsborlously to cumpreniend, and hringing iorward those whicl fuvor his cause lu £o strony & light that tho illuimination of his thetoric casts unfsvoratie truths into & shadow of oblivion. .. HANNIBAL HAMLIY, who Is another veterau Congre an, is polnted uut to strancers wha visit the Souate Chamber us baving tilled the Vice-Presldent's chalr dur- ing the tirst administration ot Lincoln. The old egentleman, whose *features appear to have been arved trom Kennehec white uak and smoked into a light-browh " tint, 8Ll dfspenses with an uvercout, and goes about in a plack dress-coat and pants, lookiug ws end #s an undertaker. Ho Is ove of the few leading Democrats who weut {noto the Republicaun ranks after the Kavsas-Neoraska outrage, and have not crawled back under the Democratle Ilnq but with bim chiange when principle s in- volved is an impossibility.. An evident admjrer ol the sententious vigor o1 Smilust, Father Ham- 1In never apeaks untcas ho has something B say, and he says it with o correctness io arrungement of thought and language that does credit tu his carly training printing-offlce. as a compositor in 8 vountry le 18 thoroughly alnte with the utricac f parlismentary faw and therules of the It d often gets the body out of a bad snarl, Althuueh decldedly Paritan- fcal 10 appearsnce, no ove cnjoys more thol oughly a social gnme of euchrs or a conutry- danee, and be is to be seen with his young wife at all prominent gutherings. POR HIOLIDAY AXUSEMENTS we have bad Strakoact, . with Kelloge, Litta, Cary, Pantalcond, Lazarini, and other minur lers, Kellozg was not In the best of bu- mor, and it wos evident: that hicr populsrity ‘with our gpera-goes is on the wane. But Litta was birililantiy sacceasfal, espetially in * Luciu.” Sue is n native of Bloowiugton, ill, but has passcd much of her lifu st Cleveland, Ohlo, where her mother sud sisters now live; und after studingy avruad sbo made Ler debut at Chi in Noveiober, 1878, It was the unl- yersul opiolon of music-lovers here that s brilliant future awaits her. TUAT TRAGEDY QUEEN OF OTHER DAY Jean Muria Davenport, who married Gen, I'red Luuder just betore ie recelved his death-wound 1u the War for the suppression of the Rebellion, now resides on Capicol Hall, Bhe has abandoued the stage, hut this wintershe has orzanized for miusewent und chanty & litle compeny ol cumedlans, and they certalnly reflecteredit upon her bistrioufe skill. A dauehterot Mr. Spofford, tho Coungressional Librarlaw, is vne of the per- loriners, sad promiuent in the sclect sudience ossombled to see themact was Mrs. KotuCbasg Spruguc, who resldes at % Edzewoud,” the rural home purchased by the Chicf Justice, berfather, where she_superlutends the “education of ler children. Bprugue remalns in Rhode Island, try- Iog to pateh up his shattered fortunes, * THE KNIGHT TENPLAKS are to have a QL nd gatherlng next week, when the ofilcers of Columbla Cotnandery, No. 2, are to Yo tustalled by Benator Withers, of Virginla, who is Grand Benfor Warden of the Grang En- campment of the United States, and Represcut- ative b of Mussachusctts, who 18 Urand Gonralissimo, ‘There will ba o lorwo attendance of the Sir Knlghts of this district at Clnlm;iu In hAwn:!t. 1850, when the tricootal conclave Is to e held, @ A LADY LOTBYIAT, who had amontt her callers mauy men of note, Sbe {8 the widow of an urmy offlcer, and man- nges L0 huug vn to soclety by her eye-lushes, her tuct audl assuragee sccuring her positlon. She surewdly uever compromises her reputution, as to doso would close imany duors urainat er, s tu hrve @ “contingent™ on ney bill which s betors Con- But whils elis increases hor investments every year, thicre wre othoer PABCINATING CREATUNKS, who are less successiul, and who really deservo pley. They ocvasfonslly make sueky “hits, but ard often ko short of bimetailies that taey are obliged to resort to disreputablo means to Keep Np appearances, ‘Iisy borrow witn the certaln Knowledge that they can never pay, and they Incur dents winch they know they can never dis- charge unless by the happening of a miracle. This year they have great expectations of suce cess, uud 1L a combimnution can be formed wnong the enciucers of the steatnsbip-suteidics, South- cru Pacitte Raltrood, lund-gronts, and otaer schemes for depleting the Public I'reasury, those who nave contingent luterests thorein will ot be dissppolnut, 3K, SENATOR DRUCE was beyond douht (@ wunne ot the Now Year's reception, and the parlors temporarlly vecupled 1{ the Sonator in Vrof. Langston's hotse, un miversity 1ill, were crowded, | Bome ot tie vallers wiro doahtlcss prompted by mer eurios- UL aly Were sincerely suxious (o sliow Lhul-they Wero not deterred Dy the prejusives of caste from paying thele rexpeets to the bride ot » Unitea Btates Seuator, Irue, thero s o shade CHAT TOPICY. 8ir Edward and Ludy Thoruton liave buen in- vited to visit the Governor General of Canada, ut Ottawn, and witl leave for there next werek, Umatlo'King has revived his Saturday nigat literary reuntons, with uo refrestimoita but ‘*the teast of reason” Rlepresentlve Conger's son will marry Miss Lottls Brown, wue ot our belles, un the 10tk nat., and Lieat, 8nelder will murry Miss Walawnght. Seautor Spencer pro- poses Lo locate amone the Black 1ilis siter the expiration of his Benatorial term, Judge Nher- man's death will vrevent proposed eutertaln- ments at the house ot hs brother, Becretary Sberman, aml of bis deughter, Mrs. Beunator Dol Cameron, MisaGiencvieve Wabllng, adunghter of Presiaent Weiling ol the Coltmbian Univeraity, s returned trom 8 protracted vhit in Europe to takoa promiuent position I Washmgton soclety, Adnural Porter fs not pleased by the publication ot portlous of his corresponloace witn Mrs, Weumore, Raconteen. —— ¢ FLUNKEYIZING ? THE NEW WORLD Prof. Goldwin S Noolnl Rey Letter 40 Manchester Erurniner, of - the ‘wurn Uiood of the troolcs Bimultaneously with the conquest of Afgan- visible on her handsome countensnce, al- | Istan, another Jlugu enterpriaé ot great plth though many ol - tho Spanisn, Cabon, | and moment fa o progress—tho atiempt o nud Cedtral Amertean Tnafes who have gvaced sucietyytiere bave been nuch darker, Mres, Mruce was cleguntly attired fu 8 bluck velvet dreas, with sweeptng tratu, made for her by Waortn when stie was 10 Parls last sutimor, ani hier dlamond carnngs tdteated gowd erops of cotton on the Serutor's plantution 1o Missialp- l)l. Bhe converses with caxe, BIOWIng Lhat she s well educated und well rewd, and no other Benator's wile surpnsses her fu external evi- dences of culture or rellnenient., TUE QAY BLEASON wan to have been Inauguraicd yesterduy by an ulternoun veception st the White House, bt 1t was 5o bitter coll that Mrs. Haves pleaded in- dlgposition, und 1t was atundoned, To-tnorrow another wttenpt whil be made by the wives of the Judees of tne :urr\'mu Court, wito have au- nounced'that Lhey will uil be *at Lome," ex- mpm.j, Mrw. Clitford, whuso, health 1s ot eood, Each dutdige—tnere aro nine o then—Iw geeoure pauted by s wife this winter, Judges Waite, Bwuyue, Miller, Strong, Bradley, and Hartay ulso uave theie doughters with them, and at several of the Jualelul restdences younz ludy visitors add to the uttructions, This Bupweie Coure “efrec® |x potent hiere ut Washington, as was vvideur when 3t succeeded in proventlog the contirmatlon, as Chiof Justice, of THE LATE UALES CUallING. ‘Thelr Uonora bt kicked mnitdly againat the nomination of Williauts, but when his 1m0 was withdrawn snd that ol Caleb Cushing wus sent 1u, thewr wruth was greal. Every oue, eapecial- ly those who biad hopes of gromotion tw tue Culet Justlcesnlp, worked Hko u beaver aafust Cushing, snd when tho uolucky leiter to Jeft Davis was uncurthed, they were furmshed with wu otfective weapon. Lushivg never recuvered trom the wortltiestion of bis virtual rejectlon, st a8 lic Wis abous to Laku his seat as Chief usticy for e un the Buprews Beu Aund naw this lesrned wud brlitiant wau, skilled fn political lte, uud fuspired by un awbitivn mors powurful thun his wmenta) adilitics, has gone Leuce, laviug no moudiuent to bear bis namy ubuse the Litter tood of thue, Culd-bearted, scitish, uuscruptlous, uud acvold of princlple; lig chsnged bis politieal s aud aceepled re- taduers on both shitcy, urged ou lorever, like the Jew wlo ts Jubled to wander until Chirlst cuines. uyuin, by un wbition wolcl pever slept uutil 1y waa drugged by deatli ko will be missed hero ot Wasniugton, cspeclally ut the divucr-tables, where his couversajioual povwers twade im weleome, and by those lu suthornity who bave caiployed his facile pon 10 writd "State papers which they bave skibed. At last his scetnlog flunkeyize the New World, ‘The new Governor- Giencral bas fssued, theowrh his Milltary Secre- tary, ths followiny proclamation: TUE VICE-REGAL DRAWISG-RO0M, e Excellency the Marquis of Lurne and her Toyul Higatess o Princest Lovise will lold s dravanig-ruom at U330 v, m, Lo-day (n the Windsor 1 o 1o wear low-necked dremign, without and gentivaien are 10 ve b fall dress, ¢ bealin will not uduilt uf thelr weace cked drenses mur. vn farwarding to tne Wattlng a medicsl certificats 10 taut cllecl, Wedr mquare-cut deeswes, iresscs fuatens L 1D 140 Kl LIFUIL ke DOL L0 b Wort . Lahes gnd enticnien ure 1o brng with them two caris exco, With Duwes leglbly writen thercon, — one to be Jort at the duor, the uther Lo be given to the A, D, .eineWalting., R, G. P Lartikvox, Governar-Gereral's Mlitary Becretury, At Hallfux, o uksse wus put forth prohilbiting the appearance of any vehicles excepting lau- daus, barouchies, sud brouchamas, with pairs of hurees, and property attired drivers, fo the pro- cedslon that was to cacort the Governor-General through the efty, Comment on these two edicts Is needless it your readers kuow anything about Canudlan so- clety, the Canadlan climate, Cavadian incomes, pind Canadian equipagzes. Bome one proposed 1hat in the vase of ludics desiring u dispensation fram wewrlng low-necked dreeses, the cortilcate of aclergyiouu shoulg Vo received as woll oy that of a medical inan, ‘f'o prevare the inbubitauts of the New World for the warship of Mutibo-Jumnbo, a littlo tress tisu on “Court Etlquette” wus seasunably drawn up by Prof. ‘Tauutng, of this city, who duscribes Bimsell ou the titlu pago as a ** feacher ot fasulouable asuclug, . under the hnmnediate taquulw Of thelr Exceien:ics the Earl and sountess of Dutlerin,” cte. Pral. Tunuing de- Yotcs the lrst'part of ity work to court presentus tious, und the tiret section fs ou *the special etiquetie of tho bow, the truin, and the glave.” Tho vpeulug parugrapli breatbes the spirit of the whole: ‘The Arat ure but of u fashion bility uud geutry ativa bu generally the formal de- lte. “Llhe weinbers of the no- lwiye tuaiiaye 1o gt theie duughters presented, cod it 1 rexarded as a pateot of social reuk vy the latter. What un this eartlly spheru Is wore enchaulivgly exclusivo thay bor ajeetly’s Court? The lmpression nade by the de- butsate e & lastlug oue i Euland, und couss- uently art is brougnt tw bear; sod (he courtesies, the walk, the exteodiog of the arm for the traiu, braiu 1s stilh—tuo focxhausubly encrgy thub | aud cact pbysical museawnt are practiced rupoate swstalned bis rams through wsearly seveuty- | cdly beforo somu combetent teachor of deport- piue years of turinoll and clsuze lickered s (et | nient, wao cbarges well for the lusson, | Lnt iu tbe socket, aud then b ligbt ou life weus ovub Uk the tame of a canale ag -doyoreak. Bome thiuk that be died & oablivnaire,~otbers that while ba bas left landed possvasions in oir- fereat parta of the country, his estate will not wouey 18 1o vojeet to tho urlstociacy of Bugland Wi it comes L paesontation lewsony, }’un of the treatise s fu the form of a cate- s Q- —8bould & lady o visitiug her Loyal Highneas the Princess of Wales I:rpvar Rloved of 0 A, -=1Vith the vight-annd gloce of. fhonld & gentleman appenr ® 8 fachibe, right. ve ruie be ad| T ared to of the the Marchionoar of Lotne, for instanca¥'* A, &~ Yek Q, —Wnon one af the Royhl family holda & repre- one giove off! A.—Yes; one of equally amusing, If smusement can be dertyed {from sceink himmanity in such & posture, The object of the aristocracy and the Court in Bat will oovious enough, e manly and Republic, and thereby sow the seeds atonce of fure camity hetween the opie ot the United Hiates and themaelves. ours faithfuliy, GoupwiN BT, P, 8.—A Canadian lourns! of unimpeachsble Tosalty has an editorlal on Lhe appointment af Larid Lorne, from which [ take the (ollowing extract, which will alsu give you an {okling of the truth ssto tho real effects of Lord Dufferin’a *administration : Batthers fa one serfons danger accompanylog the appointment which It would be blindness not to eee and foalishnees not to point out, Thero & & good deal of snotbery, more or less nssertive, among Canadians, and it only requires the pitron- agoof Hojaity {6 giva it oflenniva. propartions, While Lord and Lady Duflerfn studled fopar. tinlity and did much lo ajsconragn its growth, their' lavish snd costly entertalnments ate forded it considerable nlay, It s no secret that there are not a few famiiles in Ottaws miiza ralned by their endénvors to imitate the ¢ splandors of Vice-liogaity: and if a stmilar re; of extravagauce follows, thers s no telling depth of acbing rocial dintreas which wiil ene ‘Thero are wumen, nnhappily, who cere not what nleery they plunge their nustiands and fathers Inte no long as ihey can gratify thair craze for drees or Jewels: ana_there are soit-headed young men who ould rather oe given a card of invitstion to Gor- emment Hotso and atare st _jtoyalty than be mado s present of & haodsome library, Thie phase of Canading soclety was given & striking yrominonce by Lord Dafferin‘s (ancy drees oall two or three years ago, whon some women whoss busbancs are not soapected 3of belng wealthy were caparisoned 1liza Duchesses, snu seesionul cierks on 200 or 300 A vear strutted about in gorgeous gear as if thelr fatters were Lukes with p or as buitousiess as Monie “lirirto’ e — ELECTRIC ILLUMINATION, A Catholic Priest’s Experiments on the Pa- ciflc Co Ran Franciseo Coll, Yesterday afternoon experiments with a new electrle-light apparatus, the Invention of John L. Boone, of tuls city, took plack at the labora- tory of Father Nerd, in 8t. Igoatius Collegs, in the presence of a largo uumber of persons who ary {nterested in the progreas of this new means of fllumination. ‘fne Jablochkofl apparatus was also tested and the comparative merits ot the two Inventions hrought out. Mr. Booue's Invention consists of three car- hon bars, two beiug solld. and one lisving an I\ sulator through the centre; two ore piaced ot rlght angles in a holder prepared for the pur- pose, meetiog at the top. while tho third stauds uprigbt, and touches underneath the ppex made by the other two. To this lust is attached a magnes and armature, and when tho cureeat 1 applied the magoet attracts the armature and forces the centro bar of carbon up thruugh the other Lwo ponts, thus forming the are, breaking the circult, and igniting all threo bars. By the slmplo twist of n screw the current s stopped, the magnet Is demagnetized, the centre bar fulls, and the light is extinguished, Altbough at ihe exhibition yesterdsy Mr. Boune's npparatus vas cruds and his carbon manlfestly bad, Falher Neri's **miliatice™ gen- erator, runnlog at o spoed of L0 revolutions per minute, operated his invention very well, und producing a llght equal to that of 1,000 candles, The work of lightine and extinguish- ing was satlsfactorily accommplished. The priocipal differcace between Mr. Boone's and tho French apparatus is tuat his fs more bulky, which {s owing fn some measure to the preson: finperfect cundition of his machine,_ Oo un vx- perimeut belug tried with the Jablochkoil candluy, it was found to flicker conslifcrably,— much more, perhaps, than Mr. Boouo's light,~ond somio difflcully was expe- rlenced In lighting, Father Nerl, who Is orobably one of the best clectricans on this cosst, pronounces Mr. Booune's fu- vention u great “improvement ou the ¥reoch ar- raugeinent, und belleves 1t will eventually ba mude to superecde all otber thines for the pur- pose of lllumination. Thowas A. Edi eelebrated working on duced Ly hieating iron or steel nna formlug an ure for ‘rhe pessagu of the sparkj -but Father Neri thiukstoat this plan is less pructicable than elther of the Inventlons uxolbited yesterday, Milton 8. Latham, the well-known banker of thwn eity, who roturned frum Earopo recenily, brought with im the right o introducs oue or two clectrie candles ol late inventlon, founded on the principle ubuve explaioed i but, as nearly all this syiecies of electnis reseurcl fa 8 you ex- vernnental, what success witl attend bis enter- Pprise remains Lo be scen. Bri ’s Electrieal Light, Cloteland Leader, Notwithstanding sl the talk by Edison and othersus to what they were ‘“soon golng 1o do™ with thelr vlectric lights, the feld fn belug actuslly ocenpled almost exclusively by the Cleveland light—~the Brush. A wlauco ot the orer-book uf the Télezraph Sunply Company slaws some very Inporant orders receotly re- ceved, some of which have .been exeeuted, | othera fu process of execution, already completed and fh use ¢ notieod twent-four hgnts for ths immense store of Jdohn Wannamaker, oceapying tne entire square bounded by Market, Cicstuut, Twellih, und “Tuirteentn strects, Pifladeiphin} aixeeen Hents tor the MerchnacR Miil at Lowell, Masa. ;'six- teon lights for the Patace fotel, Ban Francisco, owned by Scnator Sharuni et hebts Coinpauy, Edies Dels four liguta for the Hose Musie-{tali; i ‘lighta for the Cone tal Clothing-House, Buston; six lezhts tar Dry-toovs Paluce, Brooklyu, N, Y.3 Sour dlents for the sulls of the Washburn & Muen Musulacturing — Company, Worcester, Muss, Onders now being filed urs for the fituin- fuution of the Assembly Ctomber of thy New 1 Ntate Lopitol at Aluun{' the composing- rouius and oflicys of the New York Tr.tnine, tae mitly ot Park Brothers’ Btoel Works, Pittbure, | utl several others of Jess Wnpottance, ‘P vountry seema to look to Ollo for Presdents, tieneruls of the arny, Culel Justices, atid vari- ons tueh oflicers. Why not comn bera aloo tor, }Iu:l Iatest sensatlou—ibe wounderful electriy st !, ‘Tne Telewraph Bupply Comdany, on Friday afternoan and evenini, as thar vouteibubion t the Vinduet celebration, and 1o sddition to the regulur phizhely fllumination of thelr Iactory on Bt Clalr street, srrungod un additional light fn o fieadhghit petlector, aud throw a flood of light up Unturio street sl into the park, Theeflect uoon the fukes of snow geatly talling at tha tuo wus beautitul, aud crowds wers drawn to Observo the gty which mada that portlon of he clt, nwnur n‘umfl.udu. ‘e questlon )9 saked: “Why could not th Viaduet be it up by thts Neht! "The effect would ho wmaguflicent, aud the expenss inconsiderable,” 9 ——— Winter In the Frenoh Capital, Parls is transformed. ‘Tho wuycties of the suminer are gone, wud bleak winter {a upon the boulerards aud suow-llakes buve whitehed parks anud gurde The brouze ligures, nymphs ana ‘Tritons, lu the fountains on tha Palace du 14 Cotcurde aro half-bidden by mouster felvles, und the trees In the Chmnps Elysecs aod [y the Buls de Boulogue wre tipped with santillutiog stoms ol suuw., Axawriter fn the Giube (Lon- don) bins seen 1t, the ruce-courss at Longelhistsps, witi its oicturcequo stauds and oid wind-ihl, looks Itke a picture, as the Laplanders, who are vow staying lu the Jardin d'Acclinatization, race and tear about fu thelr sledies drawn by relndeer or Joyous, barking dogs, the cchuoes vl whosy voices resuund over the snow-covervd plain. Ju the vty the heavy fall of suow hug mads locomotion extremely ditticun, nibuses bave tuken o third Lorae, uud baudle four-in-hands. The carts of wen aud butchers can only just get be strects ure quiet, snd the hoals of horoes snd the wooden shocs of the workinen no luoger resound from tue puveusent. Vug only uoises heurd wra the sbouts aud crivs uf tas vamin who dellzhts v braviog pulice rexuts- tious, aud snow-balling feleud or tue Amwvoyg thuse lor the Edgemore Irun nure, ——— v Whea to Eat Frujte Frult Kecorder, The Spanlsh proverd bas it * Frult Is goldea In the mornivg, siiver st poon, buglvad at wight.” Americana do uot scem tu have byani of ihily proverd, Lor to tuyo ong of thelr vwi ex- penience, Mostly Shey cat fruit st night, snd bence bave pot the suverchz Wes of 18 that they would Lave If they kud cuten 16 4t mors prober times. Tuey eat {t os dessert st diover. ‘This uay bo thy fuoet pioper time to eat dried fruits, bub itis vot the right time to eal juicy one: ‘Tue Spavish pevple learoed thelr proverd froi eating the very juiey frults, ilke ersoges. The stiould bu estéu in the wornbig, a little before divoer.—not later thau nonu. Earlv i ¢he day ey will, I eaten, prove to be the beat possible © for the billous. ¢ a d ag any Prinicets’ receptiona, her: Royaj Highncss sentativa reception, shonld lhnml- fex npoear with [ might Ml your columns with quotationa trying to Introduce these ““nfl-mw Canada is scnsible portiun of the English people abet this attempt to corrapt a8 young civilization? * It is a still morg eerlous question for them whether they will encourage the policy of Intensifylng the uolitical Antagonism between Canada and the American future disturbance on this continent and of fu~ e as long ae Lotbale's, |