Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 11, 1879, Page 7

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SBATURDAY, JANUARY li, 1879—-8BIXTEEN PAGES. » ¢ FOREIGN. The British Troops in Afghanis- tan Concentrating for Safety. A Considerable Offensive Move- ment Threatened by the Mongols, Debate on the Public-Worship Esti. mates in the Prussian Parliament. \ Ootiines of the Repnblican Mlnll‘t_erlnl Programume In France, COlericals to Be Bhorn of Thefr Predsnt Power in the Universities, | s Fone ' An English View of Russia's Aslatlie Conquests, . A BIG STORM IN GREAT BRITAIN AND ON THE CONTINENT. Ry Cable 10 Neww York iernld, Loxnoy, Jnu. 10.—There has bLeen little abatement of the storm during the pnst twenty-four hours, To-day's raport from Aberdeen says the snow bagan to fall at mid. night, sud hina continued over singf. Atshort intervols & fierco sontheastorly galo springs up, whiol threatens to demolish:averything that lics in ita way. The sen is tramendously Iugh along the consts, aud there) s fear thiat many disastors will be found-to have oc- curred nfter the tempest subsides, Thers is # total suspension of communication by rail betweon Aberdeen and the Nosth on account of the heavy snowdrifts, A At - Dundee thers : have baen very heavy snow and sleet showars, accompanied by & strong sogtheasterly gale, ‘The snowdritts are the largest scon in many yesrs. Communication Lias'-been ontirely cot off betwaon the mainland and Lewia, On tho Thames travel had to bo entirely suspended. Ico is coming down tho river in such quantitles as to render navigation perilons. By Cadle to New York Mrrald, Pants, Jun, 10~The siorm hias mot de- creased, the wind Leing strong as when the disturbance arrived on our coast. Traflo on *all railroads has Dboen suspended. 'The Llockading of tracks by snow Lss inconven. ienced business people throughout the conn. try, there being no way of reaching large business contres other than by rail, The DBritfah bark, from New York for Bayoane, for seven days off the const at Bayoune, not being ablo to mako port, hps Jjuss arrived at Sacoa Roads, baving had fo put into the noarcst shelter in order to save the ship and crow. AFGHANISTAN, CONFIRMED, Towpox, Jau. 10.—The Vicoroy of Egypt tolegraphs confirming the news of Gon. TRoborta' victory aver the hostile tribes, but says that, owing to ramors of threatenad at- tacks by the Mongols, Gen. Roborts intends to return to Koorum, concentrating his forces, - which are now muoh scattorsd. Friendly lottors have boen rcceived from several Birdars of Oabul. The general foel. ing in Afghanistan is very strong against the Ameer and Ruosala, CANDAMAR, Carcorra, Jan, 10,—Mayor Sandeman re- ports that authentio intelligence has boon re. coived that Afzahi Khan has disbanded his army end left for Candshar. Gon. Stowart wag one day's march from Candahsr on the ?.(“‘ of Janusry, Ho cxpected no opposi- on, THE ENENY'S STRENOTIL Tho enomy opposing Gen. Roberts in tha fight of Tuesdsy numbered 6.000. GAVALRY FlOIT, Loxpon, Jan. 10,—A correspondont with the Quettah column telographsfrom Sifoodin, Tuesday, as follows: One hundred and forty Lritish cavalry yesterdny dofented a body of Afghans, killing twenty-four and capturing nime. Twelve hundred Afghan cavalry were subsequently foroed to Rbandon tho heights by cannonade, Boven British wore wounded. It fs thought this skirmish will cause tho Afghans to decide not to de- fend Candahar, GREAT BRITAIN. CATTLE LOST. Livenroow, Jon, 10,—The steamer Bpeke, from oston, lost 140 head of cattle on her Yoyage, BEACONSFIELD, Loxpow, Jan, 10.—Lord' Boaconsfield is atill improviog. STORMY AND COLD, Loxnox, Jan, 10,—Dispatclies from Boot- land report great snow-storms and severs Holea, . "Tolegrams from Crookhaven, Iraland, slate] that a foarful wtorm has pravailed thoro sluce yestorday afternoon, increasing 10 o hurricane lato lust evening., Many ves. sols in the harbor dragged their anchors. ‘The fco 1s flowing down the Thames In great quantitics, and steambogt trafiic bo- tween Chelson and Woolwich islentirely sus-’ pendod. Many bargea slong the river aro frozen in, 2 EX-PRESIDENT GRANT laft here for Paris this moruing, FAILURE, J. D, Fairman, & prominent maltster, of Bishops, Stortford, has failed, with liablli- ties from £100,000 to £150,000 sterling. BCHOUVALOVP. Loxoow, Jan. 10,~Count Bchouvaloff had an fnterviaw with Lord Salisbury yesterday, Aud the latter immediately sfterwards wrote to Lords Beaconsfield and Cranbrooke, ¢ — GERMANY, h TUE RETIMATES FOIt PUBLIC WOISHIP, Benwy, Jau, 10,—In the Lower fduse of the Landing today tha debate was opened on (he second reading of the cstimates for Public Worship, The Ultramontana, arr Windthorst, spoke at length on the'confliot Lotwaen the Churoh snd Btate, Hg consld. orod the negotiations with the Vatican had failed, and added that the Emporor desires ke people to continus in religion, but the forthcoming debates would show how bLis: Majesty’s words wero [utorpreted by the Miuistry of Pnblic Worship. - Dr. Falk, Minister of Ecclestastical Affairs, replied that at o later stage of the deobates hie would make this repronch the subject of serfous consideration, carefully examining the squrces of scma of Herr Windthorst's omplaiuts with & view to finding a remedy wherever necedsary. But relative to the great quostion of principle, thers would be no modification of his recent doclarations, Tho yuestion of peace was in the hands of the Uuntre party, The Government desired besce, which would bo obtained if the Centre, trusting to the Governient, would Obey the Btate. Lat the Centre securs the welfuro of thy Church by promoting its ex- tetnal: intorests instoad of embitlering the stciggle witll the Fatherland. 5 ,“ m,‘fi RIGNAL CODE. A - Lownon, Jan, 10,—A dispatch from Berlin sayn -Kegotfationa rolative to the provintion of o U:rg‘:fi at sea havo resulted {n'the” com- pilationiof & code of regulations which have bedn atiroved by the mnllogfl*di the Powera infgrepted, snd which, ji{y éxpected, will ba lb'rlp embodied in sn’intornational Conven. tféi, 7 o il DISMATICK'S LAST MOVE, ,,I}nnnx, Jai. 10.—A Berlin correspondent telographs that some persons boliave the W)lkiving tho Relchstag power to punish ifs.jown members for improper utterances bug: been introdnced jso-that its rejection may give Bismarck an etcuso for dissolution. The: bill is: exceedingly unpopular, The National Liberal organ suggests that it would be bistter to establish a Dictatoralip at once. It is generally belisved that the bill will be passed {1 modifled form., - TUE SOCTALISTS. Hismarck apd the Emperor William aro favorably considering the project of inviting the Furopean sovéreigns to Borlin to con- cort common action against the Bocialiats, < FRANCE. MINISTEMIAL PROGRAMME, Tasiy, ., Jan. 10.—The Ministers' pro- gramme, it is said, will be the oblation of clarical influonce in universitics, and the .power to grant degreos; o declaration in favor of compulsory education; mssurance agalnst protectionism, and the promise of tho dismissal of reactionary members of the Magistracy in the Foroign Oflce, ILeon Say will ponounce the intentions of the Govorn- ment relative to the conversion of 5 per cent rentes. IMPEACHMENT. Pants, Jan. 10,—The Sub.Committee on tho acts of the Broglie-Fourton Ministry, the Miniatry of the 16th of May, have arrived at o deoision in favor of impeachment. MORR GAHLES PROJECTRD, Lonpow, Jan. 10, —The now I'rench Oabla Company proposes to Iny two cables, one from Brest to Cape Cod, and the other from Land's End to Nova Sootia, both by way of Halat Plerre, QRANT IN PAWIR, Pant, Jan, 10.—Gen, Grunt arrived this ovemng. WEALTH OF FRANCE—AN ENORMOUS AGGRE- GATE, Ptt Hatl tineette. Mr. Giftew's valuable paper on recent accumu- lations of capltal fu the United Kingdown has exercaed a very marked lufluence upon econoun« feal specufation throughout Europe. The ase tonishing resulta which it brought out eo im- pressed the lmagination of forelgners, gave such deflulte form to the vague {dea of British resources previously entertufued, that several cminent statisticluns have been atirred up to endenvor to nacertaiu, each for his own-country, its realized wenlih, ond the rate st which 1t 1s wrowlog. M. Vacher, fur cxample, Depm, of the Correze, and Vice-Presiaent of Lhe Parfs Statistical Bociety, has just prepured a wemalre upon the public” and private wealth of France, which we desira to bring to the knowledge of our readers, Wa may, howover, polut out that M. Vacher's fuquirics are necessarily much wore covjectural that Mr. Giffen's, Up to o certain point there can be wo dount at &ll concerping Mr. Giffen’s valuations, Tho income-tax returns afford incontestable evideuca that the fncome upon which the tax has bpeen paid doea nut oxist. However we may diffor in our estimates of the amount of mcoms that es- capes the tax, wo are all agreed ds 10 the reality of that which 1s assesscd. But fu France there s no income-faz. M. Vacher therefore has no trustworthy fuldu in naking his conjectures. ‘Without farther prefsco wo pass on to his cal- culations, We begin with the public wealth. 1o this branch of his subject M. Vacher has a deelded advantago over English inquirers. Wa aro ab- solutely without statistics in referonce to tho vroporty of the 8tate. ‘Ulis income of the prop- erty managed by the Woods and Forests is ac- counted for every year, but whbo cau tell the value of Portawouth Dock-yard and of the other dock-yards and naval establishments of the Kingdom, of tho thv.hnumn and coast- guard statlons, of the barracks and fortifica. tions and military atores, of the navy ftsclf} The original. cost of acveral of these {tems might possibly be dug out of the Parlimnentary papers by the Inbor of yeara; but ships duterio- rato, guhs and works become obsolete, Tho value of the public buildings, sgain, {s an un- known quantity. 8till moro absolute is our ig- norunce regpectiog the poascssions of tha local authorities, Even tho ‘arca of the lands be- longing to them §s undetermined. Respectiug sragcnlu in mortmain we are equally in the ark. On ali these points M. Vacher s able to produce officfal figures. The property of the Btate—that 1s, tha palaces, tho oflices of the aeyeral ministrics, with all their appurtenances, and the pavy, but mot the reconstructed war naleriel, as to which M. Vacher thinks it best to givo no fuformation, and not the paintings, statues, and ather objects of art fo tho Louyro and cfscwhero, which of course can- ot be valued—is stated Lo be worth £171,120,~ 000, M. Vacher's noxt Item is one which finds nn placa In Blr, Gitfen's puper; it s the high- ways of France. M. Vacher argues that they ought to be included, that they are as necessary as rafiways, that without them, In fact, very 1ittle wealth could be produced, nnd that their constraction fuvoived o vast outlay, Thelr valua ho catiinates at the enormous sum of mmgw.eoo. The property in mortmoln, fu hich is fncluded the immovable propert; of the thorlties, hospitals, charitable institu- d religious bodic estimated at £122,- 445 ‘Thus tho toti ublle L‘mucny enu- merated 18 yulaed at 675,818, say 41500, (00,000 sterling. Mr. (IifTen's conjecture for the correspundiug ftems in this country Is £400,- Hassing now to private property, wo find that Fontimatod at £0,0hi 000 10; lJands are eatimated at £0,; houses at £037,000,0005 mineral watera at 24,800, erles, £1,840,000; ""Kl’."fib 21,200,005 Indus- trial husinesses st £352,89G,000; money, £240,- 000,000 gold and sliver ornainents, £30,000,000; Btock Excliangu sccitice, 210,000,000 lvin o tolal of 120,000, Adding !l.npllbllé property, we arrive, sccording to M. Vacher, at £0,320,000,000 (46 bfillons of dulinra) us the gross total of the capltal value of all kinds of French wealth, public and private. Mr, Giffen, it may Le remembered, arrived at £8,500,000,000 as tho roes total for (ircat Britafn, It would follow, f M, Vaclier is right, thet France Ia o richer vountry tkan Ureat Hritaln. But, as we have vointed out already, M. Vacher tucludes ftems of which Mr. Giffe cs no accaunt, ‘The busis of his calculatious may well be catledd {n queston fu most instances, And he appears, too, o capitadize st un excessively igh number of years. For lauds and housce he tpkes tho same figures us Mr. Gitfen,—thirteen and itcon years respectively. M. Vachier has taken ths Enilish figures as ho found them, chooalug the highvet when lumping together eatvgories. Vucher tests by the al of the leguey and s lon dutles the conclus alouy at which he has arrived, as Atr. (Hilen had done before him, Porter, {u Wis Zrogress of the Natlon, not baving the jucomesax to belp him, waa perforce vbliged to use those duties for thy purpose, Ha sscertalned through u series of Years the proportion borne by the properties subject to tho duties to the whols uumber of desibs, and he sssumed that the vroportion would bold in respect to the liviog, In the absence of better dala the sesults wero valuable, but it is evident that process (s very rough, Still, as a test, it has its value.” M. Vacher fnds, then, by this 1eans the capltal valua of the renl uroperty of Frauce 1o be £4,315.505,000, sud that ot the per- sonsl property £3.741,237,305—together, Ls,. 059,830,484, '« Mr, Gltfen found tnc respective totals for this pountry £4.130.720,000 and £4.- TI0,870,000,~together, £7,001,500,000 (about $40,000,000,000). Here uguln, e before, we us- rive at the conclusion thiat France is the ricker rfluulry of the two. 1y whl be poticed in par- ticular that the value ol realty tn France tar ex- ‘cecds the value lu Eogland; whereas pessonaliy 1 Fogle more valuable then iu France. In fact, the value of personal property in En. gland exceeds thut of realty i France; but real property In Englaod _{s worth less than the per- soualty'of Frouee, This latter result, if true, fa unespected, but the wreat prepopderancesof mypable wealth in Epglacd ts of dburse ln ue- cordanve with all our experience, Mr. Giffen showed ialne case of Eogland, s M. Vagher points out that thy grest fncrease of \reulilq'& Tatce bas ?Pn uce 1o4d, Pre- vious!¥¥o that year the accuwmiiiation of capital Wi VoPy slgw; wince then ft bas’ been facreuss ‘!‘5}’ Fadtd, The cause, as wis ""“S'”d by M Gifep, U the dlscuvery af vold tu Catiprula aud Australla; The vast production of xflh wetal hu“:hmpdru, snd thus swoilen values. No dotibt, to0; the coustruction of raliways and thy apPhcation ef steam to navigation gave an lm- 48 luipetus to commered, ‘The Opentng up oFipew countrigs, the vasb ewlralion from rope, the settlement of u)u Western States FAmerica, aui of Auatralid, the sdoptlon of rde-traae by Eugisud, wud cther sctfigruces have all tended in the e direction, Hut we need not dwell upon this point. What la tm- portant to conslder Is the enormous resources of which France disposes, When wo haye mado all dute allowance fur cxaggeration fn the ostimates wo haye been passing In review, it (s evident that France & litde behing this country In wealth, The fact explalos the rapldity with which she las recovered from her disnaters of eight years ago, and the casa with which she bears her financlal burdens, M. Vacher finds that In the last ten years ber wealth has Increased £1,500,000,000 “sterling, which would give au_ snnual sccumulation of £150,000,000. £t that bo so, the war Indetnnity anounted to no nore than the savings of six- teen months, Nor, it 3L Vacher's figures are approximately corract, Is there any room for supposing that the cxisting taxation preasca on the sprivgs of Industry, Our own taxation during aud immediately after the Napoleonic strugale was very far hcavier in proportion to our means fn those days. As regards the future, the hinmense Influcnce which nust be exercised by a country #o rich ls vbvioun. Her Emem. debt, anormous aa it fs, {f any trust can o placed in the estimates with which we liave been dealing. 18 only sbout oue-seyenth of her realized capital, It night be donbled, and {nt would be proportionately lghter than ho English debt tho year after Waterloo, And ber revenue is leas thin one-third of the incomes of her people derived frum capital. ‘Token un- l;rcpnml. ‘rance was struck down and disinem- hered; but when her army s reorganized, and she icels strong enough once more to have an active forelen policy, her word tnust carry weight with the moal powerful of States. 1t will bu that of & nation sccond only to Encland, if sccond even to her, in wealth, and consee quently with the ability to prolong hostilitics and wear out an enemy poorer than heraell. In llanco with England, indeed, she might fairly Jiope to exhaust any possible combination of enemies, On the other hand, the greatness of her wealth 1s a guarantee against the renewal of the pollcy of Adventure, She has too much to losu lightly to peril her fortunes again. 8he has, In {act, reached the stage of development when a urgclorclzn policy and conscrvatism at home may be expected. Bociallsm or Hed Re. ruhumnhm s hardly ilkely to commend ftsclf 0 4 peuple so prosperons and hardworking. TURKEY. THE ROUMELIAN COMMISSION. Vixxnwa, Jan, 10.—The Porte has asked that the Eastern Roumelian Commission be prolongad three months. It is stated that Russia s not averse to this, but doclares that she will continue the administration of the province until its Constitation has been pro- wmulgated. PODAORITZA. Loxnoy, Jan. 10,—A tolegram from Con. stantinople says matters relating to the cos. rion of Podgoritza have boen satisfactorily arranged, but, according to a Ragusa dis. patch, the Albanian noblea declared their intention to oppose tha cession by forco, ‘The Minister (of Finance throatoned to reslgn unless the Council of Ministers imme. diately takes measures for the relist of the financial difficulty. ROMT. THR ENCTCLICAL, Rose, Jan. 10.—The enoyclical latter of the Pope appeals to Governments to restors to the Ohurch the degree of liberty whicl would enablo her to eficaciously employ ber influence in favor of society. The Jtalie says the encyclieal letter {a the commencement of 8 crusade against modern inatitutions. ASTRAKHAN. EXAUUKRATD REPOKTS, 81, PerERsBuna, Jan, 10,—The Dirsctorof tho Ministry of tho Interior states tuat the roports respecting tho plaguo in Astrakhon are exaggerated. a ITALY, IN MEMOIIAM, . Rourx, Jan, 10.~Yesterday belng ths anni. versory of the death of Vietor Emmanuel, the people visited the Pantheon, and mavy wroaths wera doposited on his tomb. RUSSIAN CONQUIESTH. AN BNGLISIL VIEW OF KUSSIA—SIIN 13 PRESS- ING SOUTHYARD ON TURKEY AND BASTWAND ON 1NDIA. Pail. Mali Gasutte, Dec. 23, There (s now a practical unanimity nmong all Eunglish public men wh opinlous are worth consideration that Russlan designs against thy Indtan Empire are intho highest dexres danger- ous, and there [s a near approach tos unaul- mous belef that such desizns have long existed, and of Iate have Leen actively prosecated. The debate fuat ended has shown that this conclu- slon bas at 1ast been reachied, though it has not been reachied til) aftor uiore than two years of strenuous Internal dissension,—it might atmost ba sal, of convulalon. Yat tho existence of an {mpulse acting oy Russla slonz the whole line of her enormous serritory, and pressing her nle ways onwards to the south, might have been in- ferred from the most gencral and most familiar facts of Mstory, We sro not now speaking of the relatious of thamodern Russian Emplre tolts neighbors. Doubtleas, they strongly suggesttho action of some aucti force upon successive Ruestan Guvernments, Every slugle cqutermivous Btate hes been compelled to, surrender territory to Russfu; from some she las rent away great massea of it, aud whole clvilizatious of brilllant lustre have been Ingulfed in the process. Daoubtless, too, the pretexte of thesa annex: tfons have been so. varfous, and.bave so strik- ingly contradicted ous another, as to sugwest that something lies behind them stronger than micro contluulty of tradition and than mers vitality of nmbition. Butthe conclusion, from which, as wo have sald, there is practically no dissent, 1s established by historicsl facts nuch older than Russia hersolf, ‘Tha fact Is, that the It n people are the Inst of the preat collection of sem!-barbarous tribes which sbandou themselves to the frre- siutible impulss of tho moment from the north to thesouth, What we call ancient history 1s mado up of the atruggles and conguests of the communities surroundiog the Mediterranean, couquests which in the end carrled the * Greeks far to the east in Astu and tho lomans far to tue norsh amid the CGerwan forests. But all modern history begina with the pressure southwards of bar- barians just tnged with the arts of civilization, sud ilrllvulnrlv with the urte of sclentific wur* and just sulliviently informed of the nature of Bouthern lunds to he devoured with envy of thelr warmith, wealth, and luxuey, But for this pressuro England sid the English ueople would not huveexlsted, and nu European nation would Lave tuken its present forh . and traversed the coursg of its uctual bistory, 1t carried Germans into Nurthern Atrica, Slavonluus 1o tho furth- st aouthers end of Uregee, uad Seandinaviahs ioto bicily. Until Russia appesrcd onthe scens, tho movetent of the more barbarous socioties towards lands more fuvourcd by Bouthern vil- mate might be thought to have speot ftsel? in the ¢fforts of Freachinen snd Germans 1o pos- -8 thumselves of the country which, down to own day, atoned by her suffer- for the ‘‘fatal eift of besuty, Once, apd once only, has the di- rection of ihls progress been reversed, ‘Fhie Arabs, a thoroughly Southurn people, went VUry near towards mnqucrlulg the world' frum the Bouth, cisher by themsclves or by the races which were druwn Into the o\'rrlmwfllug cur- rent of conguest Which they set in wotlon. Here the (mpulse was stronger even thass the ed of the hall-barburians for Bouthern Jus- fanaticism, but it was nd wherever it has de- uth ugnin receides be- nny rom distiterestol Lstandors bo eae bion: o0y from disinterested bystunders ty fake Lim- self back to Arabla * bag ung I Agc for age the Rusaian Empire exactly re- rroduces tie great ‘Teutonie confederaiio which overran the Enpise of the Rowmans, Like them, It {8 compured of essentlally barbarous vnm‘)ulwul purts, Bus dke than, it s just touched with Bouthern elvihzation, and Jike thew It has made serlous progress ju the art - of war, chlefly throuih having been allowed, and fndecd sometimes invited, to cogace fu the quarrels of Boutnery nelghbors. Ve characterisile {6 vossesscy whiich wukes it wors dangerous than the cunfederacies of Gor- mavle tribes, siuce 1o 15 far more snwated by rehigious zoul. But ft obcys tho Impulse whie presses [t soutiwards,, even whers (§ makes no vretense uf serving the intovests of the Ortho- dox Lhurch. ‘Tho Russlaus do uot bope to con- vert tue Cafoese to Christiauhy, yet they are constaatly epuruprlating _cpormous glices of terrltory from the Chinese Empire. {n pleaging thelr frivndebip to Shure All we may presume that bis relizious ovinions do not eollst their svuiatly, tor gre thoy beut on protecting the Afzbzus o the Yokt of the Wddd Eigtisu, 5 Ings these dwellers on the borders of Sibes cannot keep theyr hands off the littie mountain- ous country which acrcens from them thosa plains of India which are perhidps hotter than they suppore. EAST-BOUND FREIGHTSH. ‘Tlhe New York Conference Results In n Gene eral Understanding—Uniform Rates for Through Frel Established on All the oads. EAST-BOUND FREIGHTS, Koecint Ingpateh tn The Teibune, New Yonk, Jan. 10.—~This moroing the Com- mittec appoinled to consiger the recent ton- nage dispute at St. Loufs, after a sesafon of several hours, reported that they had satisfac- torily adjusted sll differences In connection with the apportionment of tonnage st 8f, Louls. Details of the adjustment could not be obtained. The dlscussion of the maln question which brought the Conference together was continued by {the meni- members, and finaily resulted In an agreement to cstabilsh s bests and plan for making aud governing through ratea for freight from inland citles to the forcign porte. These rates arcto be the sum of the inland or rail ratessud the wcesn rates, and by tha terms of the ayreement are to be uniform from ull ports; that is, the rate {s to be the same via. Nes York, Baltimore, Boston, etc. The rates, of courss, will vary from time to time, arcord- ing to current oceun fralght quotations, hut the uniformity ss regards the various shipping- ports is not to be violated. Commissioner Fink 2ald Jast evening that the Joint Cotnmittee had accompllehed the purpose for which It met, in the establishment of unl- form freight trom foland cities to foreign ports. ‘Tho conclusion reached wss favorable altke to tho railroads and abippers, and was heartily concurred in by all the representatives. The upiform rata established, {t should be nnderstood, extended only to through freight, and had mothing to do with freight shipped from Chicago or 8t. Louls to Baltimore, New York, or Boston, The object was to stop the cutting on through freight. which was dlsas- trous to tho rafiroads and destroyed the confl- denca of shipoers. In the schiedulo sgreed upon, Mr. Fiok sald, tho present raiiroad rates from Chicago to New York, 35 aud 40 cents per 100 pouuds on grain and freight of the fourth class, respactively, re- mained unchanged, and formed the land basis for through rate. To this was to be added the ocean freight rate, as it was quoted in the New York markot. The fluctustions in ocean rates would cause corresponding variations in through rates, and the occan rate would be telegraphed to Chicago and other inland cities dafly. Under this arrangement there would be but one rate from Chlcago to sny of the European ports by whatever line or through whatever home part the shipper chose to send his freight. 8o from every other loland polnt where bills of through lading were Issued there would be but one rate proportionate to the distance of that point from the seaboard. As In the case of Chicapo, the present freight rates from ne otlier citles will probabdly remals unchanged, these rates huving bren carelully fixed. There are many points of delail to ba ar- ranged, but the main polot had been made, and there wps every reason 1o belleve the aclual workings of the new systein would prove as successiul _as had “those of the pool in West-bound freights, and that ralirosd companles would find 1t for thelr futerests 1o maintsin the sgreement luviclate. As tothe oullng interests ingencral, which are centered Fn his hands, Mr, Fink safd harmony prevailed, and there werc no sizns of bhad feeling or bad faith, There were still & uum- ber of svecial contracts to be fllled, and this fact probably eive rise to recent rumors that culting was gotuz on. The ronds agreed to abollsh speclal contracts last Decem- ber, and, when those not yet corried out were disposed of, there would be thorough uniformity of ratcs, 'The uniform rate places oli acuboara cities upon equal basts, and allowed sli com- pelitors an aqual chance. L 1 I‘Edfm' General Manager of the Mich- fzan Contral, says the through freleht business from the West la now placed on & basis tkethat established long since §n West-bound freights. The members of the Committee wero hichly eatisficd - with the “result of thele Beasions. ‘This res was of ereat fmportancs to shippers. The through freighting woull now be done on ccrtainty, and the shipper wonld krnow ho was gettiug exactly the same [relghit as every other shlpper would eet, A differenco of five cents on 100 vounds . was often enough to ruln a man, and under the special-contract system there was nho certulnty possible in bustness trangactioos, Mr. Ledyard had no doubt the unifarm rate would bo maintained, as hie believea all the roads rogurded ¢t to thelr foterest to thus combiue. Only actual operation, of course, could ‘determino the s dom of the policy. As to the Chufeago pool, the only apparent aifficulty in the way of perfecting It had been removed by leav- oz the apoointment of an arbitrator {0 the teunk-liue mauagers, and ho had no doubt i ‘would be perfected, e —— KNEELING AT THE ALTAR. Hensationsl and Abrupt Postponement of & Wedding Cerauauy. Balt:more Corresvondance Cinclanati Lommercial, Tho resideuts of Upper Marlborough, a quict little town in Prinve George's County, almost under the shadow of the Natlonal Capitol, sre now engzaged in the discussion of a deloctable soclety seosstion in the matrtaionlat Nue, which recently oceurred in their midst. The fnterested persons are both membors of two of the oldest Marylang famjlles,~one of them being a dis- tant relativo of ex-Gov. Bowie, and the olher & granddaughter of Charles flil, who wus a well- kuown alaveholder, snd nkis day reputed to be the wealthlost man lu Washingtoa, fo which city Le spent bis winters, liviog in meguificent us‘la with his bandsome wife, who wus one of ihy leaders of socloty at the Capttal. From the firat settlement of Priuce George's County tho oldest fumilics have fntermurried, in spite of thelr Catholle faith aud the violation of tue Church'a tenots, untll it beconies 3 trudi- tion that the sristocratc sclons of the counsr) never sought wives and husbands Leyond thelr blood relstions, ‘This custom became so gen- eral that the futerference of the Church, often threatened, tinally was Juoked upon as never likely to b Interposed. A ehort tiae slnce the betrothal of Mr. Frank Bowiu and Miss 1da (1111, both well known In Marvlaod fashionable saciety, was aunounced. An carly celebrution of their uuptials was decided uton. Accord- fugly tuvitations wers lssucd to the slite of the couuty to attend the w«‘mimf. at the resideuce of tha bride, near Upper huraugh. ‘I'ha contracting partles are wecond couslus, but the froquency of such unions precluded commaent ~ upon tho proposed miarriage. Iu accordunce with the custom, bhow- cvor, permission for the celebratlon of the wed- ding ot the cousing was asked from b Arch- bishop of the diotess, Without walting for o reply the nreparations for the event were innde, and the formal application was soou forgotien. ‘the wedding doy came sud tho gucsty asscin- bled. At the appoiuted hour the young coupls took thair places bufore the priest. All was {u feadiness for the sorvice tu commence. Iu fecl- duig tonca tho tioly father, nstead of rumhxf the vedding ceremony, announced that be hed just eu orders from Archbishop Gibbons Lo re- {fusu bls tonsent to the union. A pajntul scepe followed, aud the party bruke up, leaving the disappointed coupte decply mortitliod ang erieved, ‘A‘nn{ are deterinined to hg united, Liowever, and have aupeaied fo the Pope for his sanction 1o thelr detorimination. ROsaip runs riot In the nelehborhood. et IMPORTANT SUIT, Bpacial Disarch lo Tha Triduns, 1nD1ANAPOLIS, Ind., Jau. 10.—~Bult has been entered In the United Stotes Court by the Chat- hum Natfons! Bauk and Mre, llannah B. Merritt to collect otes for $37,741.59 given by Willand Carpenter so Dovid Merritt, ceceased, sud fo fureclosy 8 mortgeyzs ou landavalued st $400,000, donated by Uurenur & year 810 to the City of Evensville tor the Librury Fund, Thoeayltis also to sct anfde & decd of ‘cunveyance of the luude to the ‘Trustees on tha alleiation of cow- Flunaut 8 Laviug & prior lon thervon, e e— Charlotte Corday’s Defonder, When Charlotto Conday ussassinated Marat in 1722, nons of the Pim lawyery dared defend ber, but Bux, 8 Mayenco lawyer, voluuteered to lead her cause. 16 coursiieous act coat bim {3 Jife—the gulllutine clinmed bluy soun after tho cxecution of bis clieut. He left two daugh- ters, the clder of whow drowued Lerself fu 1507 ob aceuuy of vurcedproveted effection. Thu youuger warrled a werchant of Havre, who slao Cumwitted suicide, sug bly wilow, who lived fur wiore than thisty yoors 10 8 garret, t4 reported to bave dicd 1" Darwstadt, Gerwany, & few Meanwhily D cois ugo, THE ESCURIAL. | A Brilliant Description of the Eighth Wonder of the World. Gen. Grant at the Grand and Gloomy flome of Philip 11, . Monument of n Dreary, Ormel, and Degrading Age. John Ruasell Young writes as follows to the New York Herald from Madrid, under date of Nov, 17: Qur party to-day Is composed of Gen. and Mrs, Grant, James Russell Lowell, our Minls- ter, and his wite, Col. Noeli, the 8panish solaler and gentfeman, in waiting on the General, aud your correspondent. We have learned certain farts shout the Escarial which may faterest the reader before we go further, Tho name *'Es- curfal # means fron dross, according to some authorities, based upon the mines of fron that are touad bers, Accordidg to others it mesvs the place of rocks, from the Arabic. Theboild- iIng was intended a8 a convent and a palace,— more capecially & convent. \When the King be- Ran to build be had been some years oo the throne, and had begun to learn the vanity of earthly ambitions. On April 83, 1%63, the first ftone was lald, and the lact stone on Bept. 13, 1584, As you pass Into the court- yurd the fgulde shows you this stone, mirked witha cross, on ooeof the eaver. The King came to lve here fa 1584, as soou as the build- ing was habitable, and here bo lived nutll his death fn 1508, The site of the palace is 2,700 feet above thie ses level, aud fts form is o rectangular parallelogram~744 feet {romn the notth to the south and 580 from eaet to west. There are courts and windows, with turrcts, A tradition has grown up that thess are made fo rebresent the gridiron on which 8t. Lawrence suflered inartyrdoin—that it you were to go up in a balloon and luok down on the Escurlul it would resemble a huge gridiron, with the feet turned upwanl. 1 would rather beliave this story than nut, for there Is something charming {n the faca of a great King tak- ing a gridiron as an_emblem of architeetural beauty and bullding therefrum oue of the tmost wonderful movuments o the world. There was so much of the gridiron in the character of this lamevted soverclgn~the desire to roast veople for the glury of God aud the grandeur of Hpaln—tht one hotes to sbandon the fable and 1 rather fancy that tradition 13 rignt, o that, whether the hing intended it or not, his nature asserted {tself, and we have a geidirm afterall, A statuo as you enter Is that of St. Lawrence, for whotn this convent s named and in whose lonor it wes bulit. The Saint hus & ridiron fn his hand as & token of his murtyr- o, The steel kuob tnat opens the door ol the ehurch In in the form of a gridiron. [u one of the rooms which wo shal) soonseeis & plcture of the tnartyrdom of the salnt, by Tittan—a tremendous picture, full of gloom knd power; one of the few martyrdoms which attract and do mot repel,’ s0 great s the genius of the artist. You observe, therefore, that the gridiron has inuch to do with the Es- curlal, In 1557, in the carlicat days of tne King's relpu—before his father fiad died, in fact—slthough he was among the mooks In Estramadura, Philip fought the French at St. Quentin, The battle golng badly with nlm, he called oo 8t. Lawrence, This eatnt was u Bpavlard, born ju the Aragun country, nesr the Pyrences, and was brolled on a_gridiron over o slow fire by one of the Roman Empuerors in 201, Bo Pullip called to ILawrence and vowed that ff e were only made free of the Freach or strengthened to defeat them he we ald buld & monumcut to the saiut su vast 1h,t the worll would ever Lold ft in nge, Bo nt took a hand fn the licht and ved the French, and Phitlp the destroy could lmve taken Paris had he been so minded. But out of this came the Escurial and the tradition of the gridiron. [ do uot see how one can resise the atory. it is the whim of a King, and what should wa hold more 1n reyer- once thau the whims of Kings! So were the Fyramide,—the only monwments that remind you of the Escurlal, 1t was the whim of Fred- vrick's father to have tall solajers, of Louls XV1. 1o tile locks, of George 1V. to work over the buttons and trousers of his soldfors, Lut us reverence the whims of Kingal How much more of » King, this Puillp, to put away soldiers, and locks, and trousers, and, rising to the dig- nity ot his gridiron, make it an emblem of beduty,—make ft, ¢ven ms you now sce fty o monument of the superstition, the tyranny, the arandour, and the nguomf pride of &y age wheu the clofeter swayed hLis sceptre and his sceptre rulea the world! TIE SIZB OF THE ESCURIAL. We are told, and 1 ropeat the information as o natbematical fact, thut the buildiog covers a halt million square feety that thore arm cighty- elght fountains, fifteen clofsters, elghty-six #tafrcases, alxteon court-yards, and 15,000 fevt of fresco, The court-yard Over which we arc pass- g {s the court of the Kinga. 1t ieads to the church, which Is surmounted by four Kings of Judsh, [ have fornotten thetr names, but ro- wember Melehizedek and Solomon. Thess siatnes are sevenieen foot high, cut out of cratdte, the head and hands of marble, the crowps of bronze. Thero 48 nothing striking about them cxcent their aize, In fact, you are not allowed to escape from the fmpression that came Upon you &y you wers tolling oyer the rall- way over the stony ridees, 1t |a al) stons, cold, sumbre, and opiressive. {t breathes the spirit of Phillp, snd £ails upou you hka » burden, MODEEN NUYAL HOMER, We were escorted Into tho Hoyal apartments, for Kings have Hved here, although not as in Pullip's dav. What we ses ore o serics of rooms, rocing running into roama, plalnly fur- nished, with soie exeeptions, The tnpestry §s worth studying, aud perbaps we ghould study it, but tico. Grant has no eye for tapestry, wutild be quite ns well vleased with wall-paper, and pushes on to the windows, where he can ses somothitug growing, sud beyond which you may not ouly sov the rocky hitls, but rden st has been ravmred from the rocka, As you look 1rom the window up aceinst tho hill, you are shown & rocess, two ur three rocks Tormed like & chair, whero Puilin was wont to sit and brood over his grdiron us {t grew into shape. We are reminded that ft would ba well worth clfmbine up the hitl and sitting In Yilitp's seat. But the way Is long and the mscent [s rough, and a culd wind fs blowing, aud ono can se¢ s much of the Escu- Tinl us wanta without epcountering pucu- monia. ‘Ihe tapestry represcnts plctures of Goyn and Tenlers, nud zoes back to the time of Charles 111, und Charles IV, Cuurles 111, waa alimost goud enongh as King to have becn 8 Jresldent of the Uuited States, und he 1s, peshapy, the only one siuce Courles V. who could have stoud the tests of vandidatura, and he did many things to fmprove Spam, to rustore her palaces sud ndo $o her prosperity, The only roows that rise to royal vslucares sulte of four chamburs in 8 vorner, which were veeupied by Isabella, I do not tnk there are four more “beautiful rooms in the world, The walls are intald with rare woods, the floors, 1h window-sills, cyery portion has been as care- fully decorstea a3 though they bad been the ssterpieces of Cetlnl, “I'nere was a table on which Isaliolla was wont Lo write her lettersand proclaniutivns, » gem of decoration, a8 perfvct asa piture. 'Tho whole {s in exquisito taste, and shows luvish expense and cxtreme cary in workmsuship, ‘The cost of the ruuins aloue {3 st down ot 31,404,000, 1 did not learn under which this King this was done, but presutie it was Churles IV, Uhilip never spent su iuch money un wood carving, e spent it forrelies sud stone. THR LIBKARY OF THE ESCURIAL We wera taken to the Norery. A polite st- tendant showed us somc of the gems of this room, which lookod wurm snd cozy, reaily tie ouly hiving-room tn thie Escorlat, There were pleturcs=—ailip, with tls anake eyca; Cliarles, with his droolivg, drooping jowl: Charles 1, ln arinor, &nd one of the tnird Philip, atmost as great u fool as Charies 11, with w weak but bu- tnan face. ‘Ylie Hoore of thia Hbrary are warble, sud the walls aru payly colored,and you observe that the edues of the books srs turied towsrd vou, and nut the backs, ‘Uhere secined to beno reason for thiy, but it had siways hocy thy cus- touw du the Escarlal. You observed, bow- ever, that the paumcs of thu bouky wers prnted on the edecs du light dcet- wnboznd 0 ) wsefu) tho books toward you. ‘Fho llurary bas shilted backwand und forivard, aud duriug oue of thes shittings, when the Jater Ferdiuanl was Khug, shout 10,00 volutnes were lust, Whiat becauie of thew no wne kuows. 1t v not polite lu 14k questions of a Kiug. It must bave begn a rare Libiary o its day, eepecrally ln works of chivairy and” theol- 0g¥. Lyunaivng sume of the sbelves, us our party Wua pattering about tho reom, but they suewed quoptly works of futhiers and comment- wiles on the sulth, Wewore suown goms prayer- books apd lesals—the resl busk Trom which Foilly sane aed pruyed—well thumbied, god the praver-bouks of “utbers of tho famidy. ‘Chere were also sume Arable manuscripls, suid to by of zluat value, bt not attructive b auy of qur party. TUE E2CURIAL CHVKCH, We open adoor, the naidle of which s of stec], shuged fike s ovldivon, snd we pausea womest Lo note huw vl the worktaan i L bit of wark. B or that matter and ghis, Jet it be said in passing, all the works In the Es- curisl has been well done,—well hammered, woil paved, well joined. It scems zs if the workmen had only left it; and yet for 180 years the sturins have heatenon theee walls, But the eye of the master was upon the workmen, and whoever, laboresd under that eye did honest work, We open o door_sud come (nto the church, the hesrt of the Escurlal, from which the bullding draws its life. There Is not much in the church, and the fmpression at first 1s one of disspoointment. We have heard so much of it,—and fs this alll Ve pass Into the Inclosure, snd ree only spnce, few worsbipers ars Knecling on the stone floor, ~We hear the volces of priesta chanting their officés§ The bell tipkles and we know that the mass 18 sayiog,—a Iate mass at & side altar for tardy Christians. In a few minutes tho priest passes us, carrying the sacred vessels in his hand, s couple of boya in surplices tugging after, The pricat bas 8 eyes partly shul snd mutters a Draver. A group of sssisting priests follow, tlao muttering prayers. ‘Tne mags is over, an they are hurrving to breakfast, The congrega- tiou, not more than a dozen, dissolves, one or iwoof them as they pass stopping to know il and of us would, for the sake of (God and tbe Virain, aud the saints, give thera alms. Al of tbig as we wander Iuto the church and try to work out the problem of its beauty, It is vust cnough; in fact, the Impres- slon §s of space. There scems room to have done so much more. We are told by our ruide that these aisles are 320 feet longr, and 230 feet wide, and 320 high, and that there are threo of them. But themind has becomo so sceus- tomed to other things Inthe way of churchen, to tho Gothle magnificencs of Durgos, and Neville, and Toledo, to the marvelous sweep of Bt. Paul's: we are so familiar with 1tallsu and other schools, to the high-vauited arch aud groined columns, that somethiug seems want- ing. Bo, as we are bidden, Wwe go up to the grand altar and study that, “Note thoss broad marble steps that we are ascending. That scereen, which 16 uearly 100 feet high, was the work of st Itallan, who gave sevon years Lo its fultilhinent. ‘Lhers are coluns of jasper snd bronze, medallfons and statues. * ‘The bropze tabernacle that was once 8 wonder of the world has @one, and what we sac is wood, Bome French soldfers eame here, and they were very much Inthe position of Blsmarck when before Varis,—they wanted moncy. Bla- marck ot his money vut of the suthiorities, but the Freuchmen bad only thelr axes, So they lummered at the bronze talernacle, su, posing it to ba silver, and naw only the fra tnents remain. [ suppose Blsmarck woula lisve hammered down every tabernacle in Paris if e bud not been vald his money, and the lesson { fearnea from this met of rapine was that jovad- «ars are about the same thing a1l the world over, and disposed 1o taks what they can get, It is a pity some one did not tell the Frenchinen that they were hamwmeriug down bronze, We tilght Lave the tabernacle to-day, THE TOMBS OF TR KINDS. The Escurlual I something niore than a palace. It 18 w school, & church, and & tomb. Wihen Utarles V., waa about to Jeave his thrope he tharired his son to build & Hoval tomb worthy of the Kings of Spain. 8o Philip combined two vows,0na to bia father aml the other to Nt. Lawrence of tho Gridiron, nad the result s the Eecurlal, Under the church—dtrectly undor the nitar, 80 that when the pricst ralses the host at the moment of the elovation he stands fmmed|- ately over the sopuichre—this tomb was bullt, Our way duwn wans over smouth steps of warble “and Jusuer, 50 smooth that we were warbed to walk warlly, The roou ls durk, aud the atlendants * corry tapurs, which throw u glwmering Hzht, It was Philip’s fdea to have tomb savervly plain 1 Kecplng with the Escartal, but hls sou sdded murbtes and bronzes aid other decoeations, snd you iute that the oot is one of splendor, It s an ortagon, thirty-six feet In du d thirty-etpht teet high. ndelier, brouze angels, o lurgro crucldx, quite Vic-size, and an altar before which o lumy burns, ‘Lhe monarchs rest In shelves, four shelves 1 o row, oue over the other, each range separated from the other by double colmuus {i baserellet, with Curluttian caps. ‘Fhie decoratinns ate eluburate, out of ke “‘i with the Escurial, awl not scemly in a tomb, Tlere are twenty-slx com- partments, all of them fitled with cotling, but muny of the cotliue wanting tn occupants, ‘The cofline are ready, and the monarchy losts there are cuough for genera- tions of IKings unhorn. Kings and Quecos retuniog, and the mothers of relgning sover cigns ulone ure aidmitted Tha cotlins ure ot black marble, with spu lowed out for the Ehclls of the dead s i Chrles V. 1hs name fs ¢ in plaln Roman letters, e resta o the top wompartment, on the left ol the eruciix, The Queens are rauged In ovter oo tae left, Here reg ose the ashes of all the Spanfali suvercizus slt te Charles, with the exception of Phulp V. and Ferdlvond VI Thoy preferred 1o sleep clsewnere, not carlng to have the company, cven In death, of the Austrian soverelgus, This remntug are not_brought here until some years after decense, The are kept in another part of the Escurial known as tha placa of putrefuce tlon, In this ploce, which we pussed as we came down, are the remnins of Don Carlos, of whum Hehiller wrote: Don Johin of Austria, who was fumous (n Lis day, aud the Duke of Vendome, whose name s tlven to the Napo- leon squars Iy Parfs, Within the present yoar two luve died whose place will be Ju this Puns theon—Ch g, Queen of Ferdiand VIL, grandmother of the King, snd grandmother, Lo, of the Lapless young Mervedus, Queen of Alonso, who sleeps up-staies 1 peacy aller & brief houeymoon. Durug the Republic a com- mission opened the collin of Charles V. The budy had been dead fur over thres centurles, Dut It wus s0 well preserved that even fn its de- vay you could truce the features which the pens ol of Titlau has made Wortal, Thls collin had beeo opened once betore, nearly & buu- Ared vears ofter death, Pulllp IV, was profapted to hold ghastly futercoarse with iy Kroat ancestor, lie found the budy well preserved,—s0 § found the story it priut,—and, after Jookiug for some thne, tunied to his courtiers, * Don Luts, u great manf” * Yos, my lord, very grest.”” |L was hero that Charles 1L camu attérlie tost his tair young Quean, He looked ut her thxed anl fadiag form, and rushed aut in tears, excishiog, s {s wone, shall soon be witn her” Very suon he was brought down the marble and jusoor steps, and idle stubtecers tup his collln, waere be s slent for 150 yeme, Mot long siuce, soys one of our attendants, o Spantard came fo und knelt at the ultar, asking to he slonu a Mitle while that he tght pray for the repose of the fustrions deasd about pini- In g few winutes the attendsnts seturned und found thot be had shot hiweclt with s pistol. He hud amad taney to div Iy toyal soclery, PUILIMS HOME AND DRATULED, But befure wo vay furewell to the E: uspay u vislt to the bume of the whe founded i, We puss up a statrway und enter o small cell paved with brick, “There 18 o largor room adjoiving, In one of theso cells P lived and” dled, fs the other attendanis awaited his will A whidew of the cell upens into the chureh, aud the King, s he lay on bls pullet, vould fix his eyes on the priest ut mass, ou the sacred host 88 it typliled the sct of explu- ton, ou the kuesling statue of his (ather, This is whut 1o uil camo to—this raler of many contt- nents~-nothing but this dingy cell, nto which Tirht cumes, un old man, {n sgouy, wod fear, aud sell-reprouct, dresdiog, wondering, trom- bling over the brink of bis fate, hoping that prayer, und song, wmd sorrow, and priostly intercessions mav save his soul. ‘Thu rovis ure as Pifp feft them, we excopt the necessury cieaning wnd seranbing, There §s & faded tapes- trv on the wall, In which sou trace the royal arms of Austria,—his luther's arma, There i3 g huslr o whicl Phillp sut to recelve An- o il Sinistersy (wo vialn, atulled, aire, where they coutd wit in s royal presenice 5t bo eo willud, "Thie Bours wre of plain urick, tratupled and worn. Hers wis the end of bis vovalty snd pomp. Hore he died lu wisery, and with him thy erestucss of Spaju, I 1t can Lo vallid greatness, whicn Lmuch question, Pailip was tho lust of the Spanwht Kings, In Lin wys embudied wil that went o make o Ring— awvine right, wbaulute power, Inaiffesence tu human osutlering, Tanaticlan, - bigute 1y, subserviency to the darkest forus of mediwval guperetition, fls woe the last of tus Kings, and §t scomu poctlc in its justice that b should dis us Lo gld—that by elioald lesye bebind hun this swupeudous trophy of Lis chay- acter ond hils uame. Gratetul bs the sunshine, grateful the growhng elins under which we walk bavk to our stupblug place, 1t s like comiug out of the seventecnth nro thy nincteenth cen- tury, And ua the truly tige back to Mudrid, wid we cast o Jast look ut shu Escurial thrutign by gruy, decpantug shaduws of thy combig izl tuo wonder 1hat we have fult at o work so unigug and stupendous gives plucy (o gratitude that tue aze which madve it possible hgs paasved away~that the power which [ embodicd hus £OUC {020 th depitliey With the crinies yud fullies of unigcedent gencrations, und that its only Vil now Is us the monuiment of o dreary, eriel, sud degrading age. The Trade of Loadon Textile Goods ju Awerloa, Londan Warehousensan. A lew Americay buyers have visited thy Lone don murkets latety, “Theso 1or the ost part muke their purchasus i 1o mauulaeturing dise tricts, but there ute somctines lots aud weea- mulations to bo found in Loudon wure. housis that { unswers tho purpose of o own- ers Lo ciear out, aut lor thew Lo buy, which they uften get otu low prive, Dresd goods, showly, und siantlar gomds urs the kindy most fu requeat LY tuciy, 06 well us truveling rave, ete, A vreal Cange Lus taken piaes of lete Years fu the class of goods #old to the American market, At one time men's mercery sold very freely, particnlarly such goods as neckties, which ars now largelv made up in the Btates, Thousands of dozens of ribbon neck-ties, made at Coventry, wouid fina purchascrs amougat tha American hu‘gn; hut such geoda are now manufactared at Paterson, near New York, as well as maoy other kinds, which causs Americana to he mors independent of English productfons thea for- taerly,—the make-up ties, *cit-ups,” as they are cailed, being manufactured in the plece by the (ierman makers mostly, w10 are nr{_deur in this claes of production, with whom English manufacturers stand no chance at allin the market, the dircctlon of trade having changed very much of late years. e ———— German Frenchmen. Ocrman Puper, The names of the Marshals ‘and Generals as- sociated with the moat brillant victorles ot the French arms are, for the most part, German— 88, for |nstance, kellnrmnnn.mwm Ney, the son of the Snarloute cooper; Kleber, the Bon of the Strashaurg masan, ete.; or, whera this fs not the case, the hieroes of the French military his- tory were born in German Alsace, or in the neizhborlng province of Lotratoe,—as, for In- stance, Lefcvre, the son of a mason in (:o]mn; Drauot, s native of Naacy; Gerard and Victor, natives of Lorraine, ete, Jow stronely the Uerman element fs_even at the present time represented fn tha Franch srmy may be gath- erod from an examination of the last Freach Army List. A glance at ths Index will show whole rows of purely German pames, such as Mayer, Schmitt, Wagner, Weber, Schneider and Muoller, ,'rhero are tvunty‘lln Bergers, soventeen Wolfls, scventeen Klems, elght Uross, ten Langs, fourtcen Kollers, ten Hoff- nans, efght Flschers, tha same number of Bcliltzs, ten liochs, six Lehmanns, and stx Ban- manns. Thoroughly German alto are_such 28 Armbruster, Thewkaufl, Zentaraff, Baum- g:""“‘ Enrenofort, Kustenbolz, Zurlinden, chunisuh, Heiox snd Uildobrandt, Betsband and Birhaus, Funfrock and Kleinpeter, all of whichi, with dozens ol others of equally unmise takable natlonality, aro to be rml — e —— A Cat In Love, Frederick 11, Balfour, an Englishman, writes to the London Spectator that ho has seen & cat give evidence of being In love with a terrler, and that the “spooning' polug on between thetn was very comie. On one occasion, be says, in my presence, the dog (who was et 00 8 Tndy’s 1ap), feelingz dissatisfied or azpeioved at souiething or other that was taking place, vent- od hls fcellags in & long, low whining or haw). .The cat, who was on tho hearth-ruy, turned her Lead, and gazed with n wistful, sympathetl: ox- reasion at her euffering friend for aome sec- s at last, unable to Haten to eeping any lunger, she sprang upon the lagy's kuee,, put hee mel around tio dog’s neek, und kissed hia cheeks with bier lips, “Tnis occurred twice, the dog 1esponding to her carcsses by leking ber baek fu the tenderest waunor conceivable. et oSt ot Lol p SECURE rzs vorNinaSE ATS G R A c FORTHR WILL Ocetn TUeSDAY EVENING, KESLRVED SEATS, 81, Eale lewiny TS MORNING, JAN. 14, When will appear for the fint thne 1 Chicego duripg four years America’s great Concert Contralto, ADELAIDE " casy s PHILLIPPS KARL ““¥3ihocssn . ST. CECELJA iy MR F, G, HALL. QUARTET MADANE REMTTOSN, And the Amateye Hlim elAs, 9 HAINES, iis, BOBERT CLARK, PIANO QUARTET MIES LOU STAREI, Miad FANNY PARSONS, ‘Who have kindly yolanteered thel salat e M T AR e R Bliss Clara D. Stacy, Mr. Fritz Foltz, Prof, Adolph Bammbach, IWhen abw the Celebrated Eloeutlontst, MR WAL ITAWLEY SMITIL, Wil make Lin first appearance in Chicago. and LOPUIAT wiid enortalntng hester, MIS4 LANRA B o DAINTY, Wit make hor only appearance In this ety during the prenntaenson, y b Thosair of ftescrvad koa NG, at Janaen, - Mellur hold 1o b namiteaion 1ic! GEO, . CALD CIERLY R AN HER MAJESTY'S OPERA COMPANY, COMMENCING . 1879, MONDAY, JAN. ondny, Jan. 13--Bizet's ro- ral peyfo) ICapers, CA hetut of Madeinolsehl Mine LA NAMDULA-Debat of Madama Y—NOZZE DI FIOAIO-Madums Itote and Sphie. ifauk. (Thirsday = LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOIS - Madaua Gerster, ROV ATORE—Madamy Hozo, Friday -1, 3 fasurday Matlace -LA - BONNAMBULA = Madsria vEsler, baturdar Nighit—CARMEN -Mle, Hauk, e grier of exrviugos will e publishied ta unday's i l_louf.i:\' ) Sacurday, Jan. 11, LAST IPAY of the brilfant engaze- ment of EMMA ABBOTT, ANDTHE HERS ENGLIZIL O COMEANY, LASE ANDOTT MATINKE, MARITAIVA. Emma ALott, Miss Randall, Messrs. Castle, Bal, Soa utn, & ho cait, To-uleht farewell performanca of the OHIMES OF NORMANDY, Stise Randalt, Me. lirskan, Mr, . Huury Faaks ss Gispard 81 tonud bualun, $1 Lieen, ook, 7ic, wid 81 vorie Lomsdian, 301X With Misa Mot urner, &c.,in Gullgry, Jilc. A a3 Anseric s y Satlace snd Night. The New York Park Theatre Company, Heary K. Abbey, l'wnr‘lydmr. % Tha wild farcical Come i JAMPACKE AND OYBTERS, . : JAvERLYS T10 HER MAJESTY'S OPERA. Althoug tho advanco sale stands uoprocedented in tho annals of Opara in Chicago, there yot remain & groat many choice seats for osch night of the season, 'The regular salo will cortinue, commonoing st 10 o’clocks cach da; SMOKE IF YOU LIKE. 18, 95, 36, and 50 oonta. ¥auuy blerrisg's Drasm, RED 1AND, T Greas Bt 1\" vi( ‘Ureat Succew of the Row Drams by Wl 7. Sage, SRS CPRBEATRE. DESTINY. . Next Week—(raud levival of ROSEDALB. AEW_PUBL 10N, "CARMEN, ™ Buy (e stury of CARSIEN, upow which the opers L mut;iru“l‘umyuhm lspho L-k:fl;x. I.Af}mif e U ans yonr Bew slesler tor i < it BINIEINSS LIRS piee b ud